MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-24 15:00:17+00:00
I used to use a feature phone and I genuinely didn't miss any of the same things.

my commute is a really long ride and I just don't like using my phone in it.

My dumb phone had music system and sd card (I finally managed to have that sd card fixed after an year of using that dumbphone without even an sd card for music)

I just used to stare into nothingness / surrounding and think. (Yes I have edited it because I didn't used to think, I used to overthink just as I am doing right now lol)

Not that productive, but my current phone is so slow that I can't even tell you guys or start telling you. It takes me 1/2 a minute just to unlock it and the only thing its truly good at is having a music player run and some occasional hackernews or pokemon showdown or youtube scrolling.

But tbh, I don't have any banking apps etc. so to me there isn't thaaat much of a difference. I feel like a macbook is genuinely nice as it has that less friction and a pc is great too as compared to a phone for the most part when I am at home.

My screentime is usually just some shorts that I occassionaly watch on phone when I am extremelyyy bored.

I am sad that my dumb phone was in my bag one day and then it just stopped (working??) , I swear I kinda regret having my dad's old phone. I am not sure how he was even using it.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-24 15:01:12+00:00
I fly a lot and let me put in context one of the “protections” as far as parents being seated with children or at least how it works on Delta.

If you buy their lowest fare - which they try their best to steer you away from and they say prominently in big bold type avive where you order your ticket that you will not be able to choose your seat - you cannot in fact choose your seat. Then parents complain and people who did pay to choose their seat are forced to move so kids can sit with their parents.

The rest of the items that the airline wants to roll back are foot guns for infrequent travelers.
Ask HN: Similar-named company's issues flooding our support – what to do?
by punkpeye | 2025-09-24 15:01:16+00:00
I'm the founder of Glama. Another company "Glam" (one letter off) appears to be running hard to cancel subscription.

Every other morning I wake up to angry support emails from their customers demanding refunds. It's eating up time and damaging our reputation.

I've tried auto-responses and even creating easy to discover SEO resources, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/glama/comments/1mm5r4u/how_to_cancel_glam_ai_subscription/

Has anyone dealt with this? Looking for creative solutions.
by whstl | 2025-09-24 15:01:32+00:00
I already asked below, how and where does it break?

Hacker News is fully selectable, and still fully useable with the keyboard.

> it's not that onerous to type it.

Yes it is, if I don't even know what the letters are. Not every country uses the latin alphabet. And not every people coming to latin-alphabet countries know what those letters are.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-24 15:02:04+00:00
Oh, God yes.

I've often thought that this is actually a fundamental failure in mouse-and-screen based UI that we sadly didn't catch early enough in the design of the desktop. One of the mouse buttons should be dedicated to text selection and able to select any text. Document contents, browser contents, the text in an error message or a button... It should all be selectable and there should be a dedicated button for it. That frees up the other buttons to only ever mean "interact with something interactable."

(No suggestions for how we'd do this in touch; touch just has a different metaphor).
by huntaub | 2025-09-24 15:02:21+00:00
Woah buddy, I worked with Andy for years and this is not my experience. Moving a large product like S3 around is really, really difficult, and I've always thought highly of Andy's ability to: (a) predict where he thought the product should go, (b) come up with novel ways of getting there, and (c) trimming down the product to get something in the hands of customers.

Also, did you create this account for the express purpose of bashing Andy? That's not cool.
by pjmorris | 2025-09-24 15:02:26+00:00
I've posted this before, but I think it will be a perennial comment and concern:

Excerpted from Tony Hoare's 1980 Turing Award speech, 'The Emperor's Old Clothes'... "At last, there breezed into my office the most senior manager of all, a general manager of our parent company, Andrew St. Johnston. I was surprised that he had even heard of me. "You know what went wrong?" he shouted--he always shouted-- "You let your programmers do things which you yourself do not understand." I stared in astonishment. He was obviously out of touch with present day realities. How could one person ever understand the whole of a modern software product like the Elliott 503 Mark II software system? I realized later that he was absolutely right; he had diagnosed the true cause of the problem and he had planted the seed of its later solution."

My interpretation is that whether shifting from delegation to programmers, or to compilers, or to LLMs, the invariant is that we will always have to understand the consequences of our choices, or suffer the consequences.

Applied to your specific example, yes, LLMs can be a good assistants for learning. I would add that triangulation against other sources and against empirical evidence is always necessary before one can trust that learning.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-24 15:02:31+00:00
>They have the clear First Amendment right to do so on their own time.

They don't have a right to a government job.

Are you fine with CPS employees espousing absurd opinions about the fitness of homosexuals to be parents? Because that's the door this opens. Think a few steps ahead.

If you wanna spew politics and keep your LEO or teaching job get elected sheriff or school board.
by setgree | 2025-09-24 15:02:33+00:00
I wonder if Bumble/Hinge/etc. set profiles to be non-searchable as a kind of minimum barrier to doxxing. I have many objections to modern dating apps [0], but there's an actual tradeoff/problem here that they're trying to deal with. I don't think that uploading a screenshot to ChatGPT/Claude to figure out the translation is an unreasonable ask.

[0] https://setharielgreen.com/blog/date-me-docs-obviously/
by distances | 2025-09-24 15:03:13+00:00
> - Bars, pubs and other public establishments have to pay around 200€/month in order to show football on their TVs while the household package goes between 10 and 30€/month.

This is common in Europe in general, also for copyrighted music. If your establishment wants to play recorded music, even just playing the radio or Spotify on the background, a copyright royalty fee has to be paid.

Applies to all venues and events. Bars, restaurants, grocery shops, barbers, sports events, concerts, taxis, lounges, everything with an audience.

I don't want to say it's the same everywhere in the EU, but I have always assumed it's a common concept in most western countries at least.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-09-24 15:03:46+00:00
Yeah, I'm feeling this. I'm almost 40 and I'm really not interested in continuing the AI slop treadmill that I'm seeing stretching before me

I am my own agent in the world. I don't get any satisfaction from using AI to do my work and offloading my responsibility and my skills to a computer. Computers are tools for me to use, not partners or subordinates

Strongly thinking about going back to school to retrain into something else aside from software. The only thing stopping me at the moment is that I think AI is making every industry and job similarly stupid and fruitless right now so changing lanes will still land me in the "AI pilot" career path

What a shitty time to be alive. I used to love technology. Now I'm coming to loathe it. It is diminishing what it means to be human
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-24 15:04:11+00:00
Waydroid on linux comes to mind. It sort of semi worked out of the box on archlinux but I can't try to imagine setting up somewhere else..

Wait a minute, while writing this comment, I realized that there was a guy who sort of packaged waydroid into flatpak-ish to run android apps in flatpak.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.newpipe.NewPipe

(It uses android translation layer??)

I am not an EU citizen but if somebody is & they want this age verification app on desktop, maybe the best way might be to support this android translation layer to convert this EU app into something that can run through flatpak and then use linux I suppose.

I mean, some of y'all are so talented that I feel like surely someone would do it if things do go this way! So not too much to be worried about I suppose :>
by GordonS | 2025-09-24 15:04:17+00:00
Well, for one thing, the project would be gifted to one of the usual gravy-train companies, Fujitsu/TCS/Cognizant/Accenture. They will spend untold tens of billions on a half-baked bag of crap, beg for yet more money to fix it (blaming gov in the process). Eventually it'll be rolled out several years late and many billions over budget. And of course, there'll be board positions for those in gov that play along.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-24 15:04:24+00:00
Among other major problems, the logic in your comment implicitly assumes that the worst a badly-run (incompetent, malevolent, or some combination) central authority can be is equal to the effect of no central authority.

Another important error is the implicit assumption that public health risks are constant, and do not vary with changing time and conditions, so that the public health risk profile today is essentially the same as in the first century of the US’s existence.
by catapart | 2025-09-24 15:04:27+00:00
Use a mouse to click inside of a word link (like "threads") in the HN header. Try to drag to highlight. Note that the link tries to drag instead of highlighting. This is default behavior for anchors because of the issues that it would otherwise cause with the whole selection API.

Alternatively, set your cursor at the end of the header in the empty space, and drag your mouse backward to highlight the items. At that point, you can highlight the text, because you started in a non-user-select-limited area.

Note that this is default browser behavior. Inspect the styles and see that they have applied no selection styling to those anchors. This is the thing I'm advocating for. Make the web work like the web works, and disregard people telling you that "everything must be selectable" not because it shouldn't be, but because there are features that expect certain functionality to work well with the other features of the web.
by pron | 2025-09-24 15:04:57+00:00
I agree with your observations about the differences between HotSpot and V8, but my general point is precisely that where you want to focus for security is complicated and application-specific, and that the relative risk of different vulnerability causes does matter.

As to your last point, I certainly accept that that could be the case for some, but the opposite is also likely: if UAF is not an outsized cause of problems, then a simpler language that, hopefully, can make catching/debugging all bugs easier could be more attractive than one that could be tilting too much in favour of eliminating UAF possibly at the expense of other problems. My point being that it seems like there are fine reasons to prefer a Rust-like approach over a Zig-like approach and vice-versa in different situations, but we simply don't yet know enough to tell which one - if any - is universally or even more commonly superior to the other.
by rebeccaskinner | 2025-09-24 15:05:02+00:00
I’ve had similar experiences where AI saved me a ton of time when I knew what I wanted and understood the language or library well enough to review but poorly enough that I’d gave been slow writing it because I’d have spent a lot of time looking things up.

I’ve also had experiences where I started out well but the AI got confused, hallucinated, or otherwise got stuck. At least for me those cases have turned pathological because it always _feels_ like just one or two more tweaks to the prompt, a little cleanup, and you’ll be done, but you can end up far down that path before you realize that you need to step back and either write the thing yourself or, at the very least, be methodical enough with the AI that you can get it to help you debug the issue.

The latter case happens maybe 20% of the time for me, but the cost is high enough that it erases most of the time savings I’ve seen in the happy path scenario.

It’s theoretically easy to avoid by just being more thoughtful and active as a reviewer, but that reduces the efficiency gain in the happy path. More importantly, I think it’s hard to do for the same reason partially self driving cars are dangerous: humans are bad at paying attention well in “mostly safe and boring, occasionally disastrous” type settings.

My guess is that in the end we’ll see less of the problematic cases. In part because AI improves, and in part because we’ll develop better intuition for when we’ve stepped onto the unproductive path. I think a lot of it too will also be that we adopt ways of working that minimize the pathological “lost all day to weird LLM issues” problems by trying to keep humans in the loop more deeply engaged. That will necessarily also reduce the maximum size of the wins we get, but we’ll come away with a net positive gain in productivity.
by kumarsw | 2025-09-24 15:05:05+00:00
I was hoping that the pendulum would swing the other way with the scandal over too many passengers bringing out their bags on a recent AA evacuation caused by a burning tire. The push to eliminate checked bags has created a chaotic cabin environment that probably exacerbated the situation. There's no sign of it getting better either. The overcrowding of overhead bins creates a prisoners dilemma where flight attendants pressure passengers to put smaller bags under their seats, disincentivizing bringing anything but a big roller bag.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l2n-di3hJE
by KTibow | 2025-09-24 15:05:10+00:00
I can see this comment was downvoted because it doesn't address the main point but Circle to Search is genuinely a good, helpful feature. It allows you to copy or translate text in two or three taps, even faster than if you had selection power, and I hope more platforms add similar functionality (even if just to work around the current terrible state of text selection).
by grbsh | 2025-09-24 15:05:55+00:00
The fundamental frustration most engineers have with AI coding is that they are used to the act of _writing_ code being expensive, and the accumulation of _understanding_ happening for free during the former. AI makes the code free, but the understanding part is just as expensive as it always was (although, maybe the 'research' technique can help here).

But let's assume you're much better than average at understanding code by reviewing it -- you have another frustrating experience to get through with AI. Pre-AI, let's say 4 days of the week are spend writing new code, while 1 day is spent fixing unforseen issues (perhaps incorrect assumption) that came up after production integration or showing things to real users. Post-AI, someone might be able to write those 4 days worth of code in 1 day, but making decisions about unexpected issues after integration doesn't get compressed -- that still takes 1 day.

So post-AI, your time switches almost entirely from the fun, creative act of writing code to the more frustrating experience of figuring out what's wrong with a lot of code that is almost correct. But you're way ahead -- you've tested your assumptions much faster, but unfortunately that means nearly all of your time will now be spent in a state of feeling dumb and trying to figure out why your assumptions are wrong. If your assumptions were right, you'd just move forward without noticing.
by Jotalea | 2025-09-24 15:05:57+00:00
This is the exact definition of hypocrisy. Though it might be intentional and as a way of making fun of what OP is talking about.

Now to my actual response to this: there is a new official tool for Android devices that allows doing OCR, text selection (including copying), translation and even search, as well as reverse image search and music detection. I'm talking about the Circle to Search feature; it is a great thing wherever you look at it from. Especially for this exact situation.

I wish there were a similar tool for desktop OSes (Linux, windows, macOS) that is as easy to use as CTS.
Show HN: 100 Vibe Coding – From zero to your first project in 100 challenges
by rogarmu8 | 2025-09-24 15:06:20+00:00
Hi HN, I have been making side projects since I was 14, and my team mate (this is his very first side project! Congrats!) designed and implemented the UI. Over time, people kept asking me how they could start coding and turn ideas into reality.

So we had an idea. Coding is changing. With AI, the bottleneck is no longer writing every line by hand but knowing how to prompt effectively to reach a working outcome. Our objective is not to make people code better, or even learn to be a proficient software engineer, but just to keep it simple and start building. We want to remove fear and barriers so there are more builders.

That's why we developed https://100vibecoding.com, a platform with 100 vibe coding challenges that you can solve in natural language to get better at prompting.

- We created our own simplified vibe coding editor with 4 tabs: Preview, the actual code (That can be explained with comments using a button), a diff tab where version control is introduced and a console tab to see any errors if needed.

- We simulate outcomes using iframes.

- For now, we’ve focused on single HTML file outcomes. This constraint makes it easier to grasp prompting and helps new users get used to “vibe coding” quickly.

- We built a similarity-score endpoint using AI to compare the output of a challenge with the reference solution. Importantly, we only care about outcome similarity (not identical code), which allows flexibility in how users solve challenges.

- We also released a free open-source template (MIT licensed, free for commercial use) so people can kickstart projects right away.

Our take: Anyone can build a side project if the path is simple and the tools are right. We’re not optimizing for production best practices. We’re focusing on rapid prototyping, removing barriers, and helping people actually ship something real.

We’d love your feedback! What would you add to make starting to build side projects less intimidating?
by lbarrow | 2025-09-24 15:06:30+00:00
My point is that with Google I don't have to learn any of this, it just works logically out of the box. Compare that to Microsoft, where I have to understand the history of their on-prem vs cloud products in order to know the right way to make a distribution list. Forcing this complexity onto users when it's irrelevant to the task they're trying to accomplish is bad design.
by rescbr | 2025-09-24 15:06:31+00:00
As a person who regularly flies international with just a carry-on bag, I very much prefer to get out of the airport with my bag in 20 minutes after I leave the plane vs waiting who knows how long for it to arrive and hope that somebody didn't break it/into it.

Newer planes/retrofitted ones with larger overhead bins with space for everybody are the solution.
by brainless | 2025-09-24 15:06:49+00:00
I tried a graph based approach in my previous product (1). I am on a new product now and I came back to SQLite. Initially it was because I just wanted a simple DB to enable creating cross-platform desktop apps.

I realized LLMs are really good at using sqlite3 and SQL statements. So in my current product (2) I am planning to keep all project data in SQLite. I am creating a self-hosted AI coding platform and I debated where to keep project state for LLMs. I thought of JSON/NDJSON files (3) but I am gravitating toward SQLite and figuring out the models at the moment (4).

1. Previous product with a graph data approach https://github.com/pixlie/PixlieAI 2. Current product with SQLite for its own and other projects data: https://github.com/brainless/nocodo 3. Github issue on JSON/NDJSON based data for project state for LLMs: https://github.com/brainless/nocodo/issues/114 4. Github issue on expanding the SQLite approach: https://github.com/brainless/nocodo/issues/141

Still work in progress, but I am heading toward SQLite for LLM state.
by matwood | 2025-09-24 15:07:10+00:00
EP is just economy with slightly more leg room. PE is closer to business than EP. The food is upgraded along with the service. The seats are more recliner like and you generally have more room. Additionally, the PE seats are often the quickest to deplane if that's important. I can also work in PE seat, whereas EP not so much.

The problem with PE is that it's often not that great of a deal. Unless it's a super busy route, you can usually keep shopping for an upgrade and just go all the way to lay flat business. Side note, when going business class, understand that not all plane layouts and seats are the same. Check seat guru.

Source - I fly back and forth to the EU quite a bit.
by wat10000 | 2025-09-24 15:07:24+00:00
It's the most obvious example, it's not the sole piece of evidence.

Let's pick through the official statement.

"In addition to carrying out anonymous telephonic threats, these devices could be used to conduct a wide range of telecommunications attacks. This includes disabling cell phone towers, enabling denial of services attacks and facilitating anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises."

This is a mix of bullshit and mundane. Disabling cell towers? I don't buy it. DoS attacks? Yeah, any collection of internet-connected devices can do that. Anonymous, encrypted communication? Everybody's smartphone qualifies for that. You could be talking about arresting a pickpocketer and be technically correct in saying that you siezed a device that could be used to facilitate anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises.

"While forensic examination of these devices is ongoing, early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement."

So some foreign government was using these services. You could say the same about AWS.

"The potential for disruption to our country’s telecommunications posed by this network of devices cannot be overstated"

A nice example of the genre of self-disproving statements.

"These devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the United Nations General Assembly now underway in New York City."

It bears repeating that "within 35 miles" of the UN includes the entire New York metro area and a large area beyond. In addition to that, the very concept of electronic equipment being "concentrated within" four thousand square miles doesn't make the least bit of sense.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-09-24 15:07:28+00:00
> Often enough I can never get the AI to give me something useful. The current products are shockingly bad relative to the level of hype being thrown about.

Yeah, I agree. This has been a big source of imposter syndrome for me lately, since all of this AI coding stuff has skyrocketed

People making wild claims about building these incredible things overnight, but meanwhile I can't get anything useful out of them at all

Something isn't adding up. Either I'm not a very good programmer, or others are lying about how much the AI is doing for them

And I'm pretty sure I'm a pretty good programmer