MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-09-05 20:57:38+00:00
IME it's the exact opposite. That iOS undo action is more or less theoretical - the apps that support that are some of Apples... And that's it.

The android back action is universally supported. Its literally a button, still, to this day, persistent on your screen by the OS.

Also, the "swipe back" action on iOS is more or less fake. Its applied so inconsistently it might as well not exist.

In my head "back" and "undo" are usually the same thing. iOS has a good interface, but this is one glaring blind spot they missed to Android and browsers. It actually makes iOS quiet frustrating to use.

Also, barely related: but the "shaking your device is like shaking your head no" thing is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. I'm sure Apple thinks its very intuitive and good design, but it's really, really not. That's one of the least discoverable things I've ever heard. Apple please don't do that.
by perihelions | 2025-09-05 20:57:42+00:00
> "On the surface it's the difference between a few thousand people pirating a shared link to learn a new thing vs a billion dollar company stealing books to make more of a profit. That's the disconnect."

If Anthropic has ~20 million[a] users, this money they're freely gifting to copyright cartels is $75 per user. Real humans are ultimately paying for this.

[a] https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/29/Anthropic-trainin...
by SlowTao | 2025-09-05 20:58:05+00:00
Here in southern Australia we would endlessly see this one guy with his broken down leaf on the side of the road. If I recall it was one of the very first generation models and they did not handle our summers well at all. To be fair to Nissan a lot of their issues did get resolved in come generations but it was funny to see that, yeah, they didn't do too great on those first few rounds.

As to your Tesla *. I do endless tire of folks who are like "But what if you want to circle the planet!?! Check mate EV dorks!". For 99% of the time they are absolutely fine.

A friend of mine had one as a work car and drove the 940km (580 miles)from Melbourne to Sydney with only a single charge up of $20 half way through, got lunch at the same time. I mean yes if you really stretch it, you could do it on a single tank of fuel on a combustion engine but it would be a tight run. Also to the recharge time, that drive takes about 9 hours if you do not stop. I have never done it in less than 12 hours because you end up having a lot of down time on trips like that. There is plenty of time to charge if needed. Like you say, for the most part these are solved issues.
by hunter2_ | 2025-09-05 20:58:11+00:00
Would we be able to insulate sufficiently for a new generation of DC fast charging where voltage is so much higher that current is so much lower that the cable isn't thick enough to be worth stealing? Could eliminate active cable cooling, as well.

I guess the problem would be stepping it back down inside the car to match the battery voltage, which is an AC endeavor, at which point it might as well just be AC grid power delivered to the car (albeit high/primary voltage, not residential/secondary voltage), and we're back to the car having enormous equipment on board that ought to be stationed, so no.
by nostrademons | 2025-09-05 20:59:42+00:00
I actually made plenty of friends commenting, in the early days of the Internet, but it wasn't just commenting. It was that a comment on a message board would lead to following them on LiveJournal, which would lead to AIM chats, which would lead to volunteer positions and real-life meetups and being invited to their weddings and a job referral to Google in the late-00s.

I've got plenty of friends now. Most are not the ones I met online; that was a phase of our life that has largely passed us by, though I keep up with a couple. I still comment on things, but it leads to more shallow relationships if any, but perhaps that's because I'm not really looking for friends anymore.

But I think that the bigger reason I'm reconsidering commenting online is: I can never be sure if the other person is real anymore. And even if they are, it often doesn't feel like they're debating in good faith. A lot of recent Reddit comment threads have really felt like I'm arguing with an AI or Russian troll farm. Social media now feels like a propaganda cesspool rather than something where people come together to share disparate views.
by tomxor | 2025-09-05 21:00:06+00:00
> Could the user have trouble perceiving the change in state that just occurred? If so, then use an animation to help them visualize what happened

I think this is the only justified use of animation in UI, however I wasn't satisfied with the dilemma of increasing perceived transition while increasing perceived UI latency.

I found it's possible to get the best of both for event triggered state changes i.e clicking on stuff, by sticking to ease-out based transitions, where the start of the transition is instant and the end decelerates.

This makes it feel just as snappy as no animation, while still helping to communicate a transition, because we are more sensitive to the latency of the start of the transition when it's an event - since we are anticipating a reaction, which is satisfied as soon as it starts to react.
by noselasd | 2025-09-05 21:00:43+00:00
TikTok complied with their regulation last year. The regulations basically requires social media platforms with > 1 million nepalese accounts to get a license to operate in Nepal.

The bill and requirments doesn't seem unreasonable, atleast according to https://www.lawgandhi.com/social-media-bill-2081-2025/
by taminka | 2025-09-05 21:00:54+00:00
the macos switching between spaces/desktops is INFURIATING, because until the animation fully finishes, all the clicks/keys are registered on the last space, and the animation takes a while...

apple have completely lost the plot, and organisations of that size are incapable of producing good user experience w/o a de facto dictatorship person who has an idea what here doing (a la steve jobs)

this is worsened by the the fact that even on hn people have no idea what's they're doing in terms of design most of the time, because they fail to realise that the average person isn't like a fan of their product lol, they just see it as a utility that needs to perform a bare minimum of functions reliably, with a consistent ui, like thats literally it...

every time you want to change something, ask yourself, if I show this to my grandma, and unless her reaction is "omg yes this is a million times better, pls do that" DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING
by wilg | 2025-09-05 21:01:07+00:00
> So you're saying there's no right and wrong decision on whether to make your own OS because Meta has not decided whether it's a public corporation with fiduciary duty or a kindergarten for OS hobbyists to have unproductive wasteful but fun projects in?

No, because it's subjective whether your interpretation of "fiduciary duty" precludes them from developing an OS. I think it does not, for example.

> Unless your goal is to go splat.

Yeah, goals are subjective too.

> Otherwise words mean nothing

Words do mean nothing, they are pointers to ideas. And for you "objective" points to a different idea than it does for most people.
by password4321 | 2025-09-05 21:01:23+00:00
AFAIK Microsoft Font Maker still works (poorly?) for free with Windows Ink styluses. I don't remember what I used decades ago but I think it was a PowerToy for Windows Tablet PC.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n9209f8s3vc?hl=en-US&gl=U...
by adamddev1 | 2025-09-05 21:01:27+00:00
One of the things that drives me crazy is when people say with such brazen confidence, "we don't need type checking because our tests catch type errors." But even if your tests do catch a large amount of the errors (depending on how thorough your tests are that you've written), YOU STILL HAVE TO GO HUNT DOWN WHERE THAT ERROR CAME FROM when a test fails. Isn't it so much nicer to just have the type checker automatically show you exactly where the type error came from?
by accrual | 2025-09-05 21:01:29+00:00
I hope it makes a difference to someone somewhere. I know about healthcare interop and there is a lot of data flow. Whether or not it makes it to the patient is up to the organization, and rules/fines for not allowing it should be enforced.

I'm kind of curious to see what those approximately "less than 1 per day" reports of denied access consisted off. Were they really denied access or was it a bad password, crappy UI, or something else? At least in my experience I've been able to gather the details I need granted it's always through some banal interface.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-05 21:01:48+00:00
I'm gonna say one thing. If you agree that something was unfairly taken from book authors, then the same thing was taken from people publishing on the web, and on a larger scale.

Book authors may see some settlement checks down the line. So might newspapers and other parties that can organize and throw enough $$$ at the problem. But I'll eat my hat if your average blogger ever sees a single cent.
by gyomu | 2025-09-05 21:02:22+00:00
Notch, Carmack, Spolsky may have engineering in their skillsets, but they are also product (game) designers and executives (and world class ones at that). I don’t think that’s really what people want when they’re looking to hire an engineer for their startup.

As for Bill Atkinson… looking at his Wikipedia page, looks like he was indeed a top notch engineer in the 80s, but doesn’t seem like he worked on anything noteworthy after that? Definitely not in the same league as the other 3 IMO.
by Xenoamorphous | 2025-09-05 21:02:56+00:00
As an European, I wish you were right, but I’m afraid you aren’t.

The EU would use public funding to build some sort of Google alternative and it would take ages, would be mediocre and most money would go to waste. Instead of incentivising entrepreneurship, which is what they probably should do.

We live very well in the EU. We don’t have to have millions in savings in order to retire. Strong worker protection. Plenty of time off. Low crime rates. Most people fantasise with becoming rich, but as in, “I had a rich aunt that I didn’t even meet in my life and I was the sole heir” or “I won the lottery”, not as in “I grinded for the best 10 years of my life working 100 hours per week before I sold my company” that seems more prevalent in the US. Ordinary people here are super happy if they can buy a small place to live (not a humongous house) even if it takes 25 years to pay it in full, then finish work at 5 and take their kids to the park and have dinner at some restaurant on Saturday.

OTOH: I think the current US administration is the best think that could happen to the EU, a big wake up call. Suddenly there’s money to invest in Defense and that kind of thing.

Also, hopefully LLMs will diminish Google’s importance, and as long as there’s competitive models not from the US (Mistral, DeepSeek) we might be fine. But Google holds all the cards (data). With stuff like the Harvard animosity they might even stop attracting all the foreign talent.

Apple? There’s Samsung for phones at least. Amazon? They’ve become a Temu/Aliexpress. Facebook… huge win if they stopped doing business in Europe. MS? This is the year of Linux in desktop?

The Cloud is one of those things where the EU could build something competitive/alternative just with public funding. All running on Linux, of course.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-05 21:03:28+00:00
Distinction without a difference. Your SWE costs blow up because development velocity is low and labor is a fixed cost. You reduce costs by increasing velocity, which in this case is achieved by aiming your development better.

Move faster and move better (to move faster) are the same thing. You reduce costs by going faster, and with lean you go faster by avoiding time wasters.
by SlowTao | 2025-09-05 21:04:11+00:00
Yep. You occasionally see alarmist articles about the rate of metal theft in places like South Africa, but this is an issue every where. Different rates but it is there. I say alarmist because, they aren't done to inform but most to shock readers.

About a year back here in Australia, so a wealthy country, my local council had the issue where over night, 500 meters of copper water pipe was stolen over night. Have to admit I was kind of impressed at the scale of it.

What I did find interesting in OP's article was the mention of the US Tariffs. I didn't create the problem but it certainly will accelerate it. Interesting times.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-09-05 21:05:02+00:00
podman-compose [0] is a mostly drop-in replacement for local usage, but I have no idea if it works remotely. "podman image scp" [1] looks like it could be helpful though.

[0]: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose

[1]: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-image-scp.1...
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-05 21:05:03+00:00
I’m pretty sure it can’t process voice commands on-device other than whichever ones you use to activate it. The thin client architecture was the only option for most of its existence and the only one that works for older devices, which they’ve actually been great about supporting since the battery-life processor throttling bs like a decade ago. It also makes sense that they wouldn’t constantly update their architecture. Now that they’re putting their money on on-device NN stuff I imagine that will change. But let’s be real: using a smartphone without a network connection is an edge case to begin with. On-device processing makes sense for a lot of reasons, but optimizing for smartphone users without data only makes sense if you’ve got a hiking map app or something.
by nomel | 2025-09-05 21:05:08+00:00
Fair from the perspective of the person doing the work. I'm using the dictionary definition of "fair" here: A fair exchange is an interaction or agreement where both parties feel they are receiving something of equal value for what they give, resulting in satisfaction and balance rather than resentment or guilt. I'm not using the "living wage" definition, which is a phrase that's not related to the definition of the individual words that it uses.

If they didn't find the compensation fair, for their effort, they wouldn't do the work, and would do something else instead. You want to see positions that that are at the boundary of "fair"? They have incredibly high turnover rates, because people think "this isn't worth it" and quit. Where I am, fast food is a great example of this, where the companies weren't paying wages people wanted to work for, leading to unsustainable turnover, labor shortages, then pay increases.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-05 21:05:09+00:00
> Delight is overblown, in my opinion. I think most of the people truly delighted by fancy animation are just other designers.

I disagree with this, as much as I want it to be true. Just ask an Apple/iPhone user to use an Android phone for a week and then ask them how the experience was, they'll tell you something felt off or janky about it, and a lot of it comes down to really well designed animations on iOS for everything you interact with.

Regular consumers may not use the word delight to describe the user experience, but they do notice it when faced with what is (to them) an inferior experience.
by BizarroLand | 2025-09-05 21:05:13+00:00
I've seen Leafs for $3k or less. The problem is their battery life is ~10 years max, and replacing the battery costs $5k-$15k. That old leaf may have a 30-50 mile max range.

Don't get me wrong, that would still cover 80% of my daily driving needs, but when I need to drive to the big town for work on a moments notice I may not have time to drive home and swap out for my ICE vehicle.

I have a pre-order in for the Slate, having 150 miles range would cover 99% of my driving needs, so I am not against EVs, just sharing the awareness that battery degradation is a thing to be concerned about.
by flerchin | 2025-09-05 21:05:43+00:00
Well I wasn't trying to be misleading. I do agree with what you've said wrt historical ridership, but it's been 6 years. BART docs imply that RTO is driving ridership back. We may be in a new normal wrt remote working patterns. Dropping emergency funding would, imo, lead to a death spiral of reduced maintenance and service which further reduces ridership. We can have nice things, paid for by taxes.
by HPsquared | 2025-09-05 21:05:58+00:00
I find highway acceleration is their main strength actually. Going from "just cruising" to max acceleration is basically instant, unlike a gearbox having to go down 2-3 gears (depending on how hard you press the pedal) and hope it chose the right gear, or manually downshifting (block shifts work with a proper manual gearbox but that's a pain the rest of the time; going down 3 gears sequentially on an automatic is usually not a good time).
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-05 21:06:02+00:00
My experience is pretty close to yours. I’ve gotten to know a few people via internet fora, and learn a lot. I got the opportunity to join a city commission as a direct result of participating on Nextdoor of all places.

There’s also another category — people like you! I usually stop and read your posts in the same way my dad would a columnist in the paper years ago.

I think the author of the post was looking for something in the wrong place. Which is all good!
by godelski | 2025-09-05 21:06:11+00:00
I think this is easier said than done. It pretty much sounds like you're suggesting there are pop-quizes. We've seen that style of teaching before. IME it isn't as effective. Though I'm quite suspect that a big part of that is simply coordination with other classes. All it takes is one teacher who thinks their class is the most important and not give enough wiggle room so that there is room for triage and expected life events. Just because there's theoretically enough time does not mean there is enough time. Think of it like lifeboats. Do you want enough lifeboats so that each person has a spot or do you want extra lifeboats so that in case one gets destroyed or in case a person is unable to make it to the other lifeboat that they will still survive? Over optimization ignores the noise inherent to reality.
by loeg | 2025-09-05 21:06:33+00:00
The coefficient isn't what matters; it's CdA (coefficient of drag times frontal area). (And what it matters for is efficiency at highway speeds.) Like, my Kia EV9 has a Cd of 0.28, but the frontal area of a schoolbus. My mi/kWh at highway speeds is much worse than what an electrified Camry with a 0.36 Cd would get.

Something the size of a Camry would be totally fine as an EV. Lucid Air is approximately this shape and is a great EV.

(And at lower speeds, drivetrain and tire friction become bigger factors.)
by dmix | 2025-09-05 21:06:38+00:00
Almost all the most famous anti-trust cases in America like against Microsoft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...

were not about monetary fines, they are first and foremost about changing practices (behavioural remedies). Microsoft didn't even pay any money, they had to change how they operated their business in the US.

Likewise with both the recent antitrust trials in the US against Google: In one government prosecutors wanted them to sell off Chrome, the other they are trying to break Google Ads monopoly by breaking it up.

This is not a system extracting billions of the dollar for the 4th time in a couple years. Especially as others have mentioned that this commission is also the one inventing the rules, so it can keep doing it indefinitely for new reasons.
by gooodvibes | 2025-09-05 21:06:46+00:00
> That scares me. All of that social activity with zero ROI.

We really don't need to assign ROI to every single thing we do.

And I don't think comment culture takes away from any of the activites that lead to more meaningful relationships. Like, how do you imagine this works - "I'm not going to comment on this tech blog post while I'm having my cofee this morning so that later this week I can meet with people at a local book club"? One has nothing to do with the other.
by mrexroad | 2025-09-05 21:06:47+00:00
Yeah, I’m rather surprised rather they’re AL.

Related: I recently had a few hundred lbs of clean galvanized steel to dispose of and looked into selling to scrap yard. I would have spent more on gas, one way, taking it up there than I’d have gotten for it. Luckily my local recycling yard (2-3mi away) was happy to take it for free. Ironically, I also took a few half-full trash bags of AL cans and got ~$35 for them.
by yesfitz | 2025-09-05 21:07:12+00:00
> All of that social activity with zero ROI. At first, I thought that I needed to change my commenting habits, and, you know, try to make connections. But the more I considered how to make friends in comment culture, the more I realized that it wasn’t just my own social ineptitude. Comment culture has a problem. Systemically, it produces an internet of strangers.

I can't tell if Hacker News is less affected by this, or if it lends itself to parasocial relationships, but I've started to recognize a few other users who seem to frequently read and comment on the same topics that I do.

I don't think these will blossom into friendships, but many friendships of mine have started with frequenting the same location or event until you see who else is usually there, and then introducing yourself.

If this kind of comment-acquaintance is common on HN though, it probably comes back (as always) to the self-selecting user base, the text-only interface, and of course, the moderation. Because I certainly haven't experienced it on Reddit, Twitter, or Meta platforms.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-05 21:07:38+00:00
It's hard. When I was younger and on certain forums and chatrooms my comments made me friends. My closest friends are from a chatroom I was invited to by a friend of a friend in a subculture. 80% of that chatroom was invited to my wedding and 2 of them were my Best Men. But I find that the internet has gotten too big and everyone online just feels so angry and hurt all the time.

This might be me; I am older and have less time. The bar to novelty in my life was a lot lower in my late teens than it is now. But I can't shake the feeling that "something" has changed in the world around me. Every social medium, from the follower-only Mastodons to the heavily algorithmicized Twitter FYP is angry at something or dunking on someone.

(N.B. Sometimes I wonder if this is the nugget of truth behind the wisdom of having kids. That at some point humans become inflexible and recalcitrant but the act of having kids ties your own mood and outlook to the future of humanity as a whole rather than your own crotchety self.)
by kragen | 2025-09-05 21:08:27+00:00
You're writing the compiler, though, so you can define the stack layout. If the stack-scanning linked-list walk were the long pole, it wouldn't be hard to eliminate the pointer chasing: your procedure prologue could add a pointer to each newly pushed stack frame to something like a std::deque, then pop it off in the epilogue.

I don't know, maybe the fact that I'm disagreeing with someone who knows a lot more than I do about the issue should be a warning sign that I'm probably wrong?
by afiori | 2025-09-05 21:08:38+00:00
Running a database with no liquidity does not allow you to actually transfer funds.

When A sends money to B both have an expectation that B is able to access such money through normal monetary systems like: seeing their bank balance go up, withdraw it as cash, or transfer it again to C which will have a similar recursive set of expectations.

Unless your database is the de facto central banck for the currency A and B use you will have to convice B's monetary system to believe B now has more money. The simples and almost only way to do that is to pay the appropriate price in a currency they like.

Which requires liquidity.

As an example if you wanted to install a bitcoin ATM with withdrawl* in a train station (or anywhere else) you would need liquidity in whatever currency the user want to withdraw.

* I suppose you could withdrawn bitcoin by giving out fresh wallets with the sum or by simply transfering it.