MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bawolff | 2025-09-10 05:01:51+00:00
I disagree, the internet is full of websites who were on the top of the world until they weren't. Its easy for content creators to post their content on multiple sites. The main moat is the critical mass of users.

/. Used to be the goto tech forum, but now we are all at hn. Digg was the place to be, now its reddit. Audiences can shift surprisingly suddenly.
by apparent | 2025-09-10 05:02:17+00:00
According to this page, [1] it reduces unwanted noise 4x as much as the original AirPods Pro and 2x as much as the AirPods Pro 2.

Though I do wonder, given the logarithmic nature of sound perception, are these numbers deceptive in terms of what the user will perceive?

1: https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/
by wltr | 2025-09-10 05:02:46+00:00
True, also mini phones are usually of an incredible value, you can buy them very cheap. Because, surprise, actually not everyone wants them. And they are seen as crippled gimp phones. E.g. a child had this phone, then pressed their parents to buy them a normal phone. That’s how I ended up having my mini, for basically bananas. Was upgrading from SE1, so it was still a bigger phone. Yet, I’m not willing to go back, modern iPhone is still better than an obsolete one. Almost. Some bugs aren’t there in the old one.
by margalabargala | 2025-09-10 05:03:08+00:00
There's definitely some very large critical mass necessary for the network effects to kick in. Is that mass such that there can only be one? Or could there be three or four, like other social media? Arguably Instagram is as large a video platform, though obviously very different. Same with tiktok; the individual videos might be shorter but the bandwidth costs scale with watch time.
by nerdsniper | 2025-09-10 05:04:07+00:00
The examples you mention are all of someone stealing from the rich. But otherwise, even the most blatant obstruction of justice goes unanswered.

“Greyball”: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...

My uncle went to jail for picking up someone in an airport in his taxi. He didnt have the airport permit (could only drop off, not pick up). Travis Kalanick industrialized that crime on a grand scale and got billions of dollars instead of jail.
by goku12 | 2025-09-10 05:04:12+00:00
The people at FCC are just government officials. They'd be foolish to antagonize the leadership of the executive branch based on just principles (I know how unscrupulous this sounds. But such are times). Besides, they are up against one of the most heavily funded rogue forces in the world that is also known to go after people outside their jurisdiction (citizens) with impunity.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-10 05:04:39+00:00
TikTok is the most prominent one, for a number of reasons, but other platforms that pioneered or copied the format also reached considerable prominence. Instagram Reels, Snapchat Stories, etc. And tellingly, when YouTube wanted to compete, they needed to build an experience quite separate from the rest of the site. There is a qualitative difference in how people perceive and consume this type of content. It's not just "vertical YouTube".

Of course each one of these platforms was backed by VC or stock market money, but that's the nature of the industry. Over the years, VCs ended up throwing a lot of money at Google and YouTube killers and that didn't get them anywhere, so that in itself isn't the winning formula.
by Meekro | 2025-09-10 05:05:02+00:00
"Poverty blended with hopelessness" sounds about right. I'd like to emphasize that it's not just poverty, since there are plenty of recent immigrant families who live in poverty but the kids are at the top of their class. Unfortunately, though, there's a certain kind of degeneracy some families live in: the parents have largely failed in their every endeavor, and they'll become absolutely furious if they see the kids starting to rise above that, get their lives together, and accomplish things. If you live in communities like that, it's part of the deal: no one is allowed to escape, lest they make the rest of them look bad.
by ysnp | 2025-09-10 05:05:59+00:00
MTE is only available in hardware on Pixel 8 and later https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/11/first-handset.... GrapheneOS supports all the Pixel 8 and 9 series phones. They plan to support Pixel 10 once Google stop delaying their open-source releases of AOSP.
by cik | 2025-09-10 05:06:00+00:00
Absolutely. My current role involves literally chasing down all these integration point issues - and they keep changing! Not everything has the luxury of being built on a stable, well tested base.

I'm having the most fun I've had in ages. It's like being Sherlock Holmes, and construction worker all at once.

Print statements, debuggers, memory analyzers, power meters, tracers, tcpump - everything has a place, and the problem space helps dictate what and when.
by QuiEgo | 2025-09-10 05:06:26+00:00
Personal observations:

- There are times when in-person collaboration is invaluable.

- There are times when having quiet focus time alone is invaluable.

- Every team and job is different. Sitting on Zoom all day in an open office full of strangers doesn't make sense. Getting blocked because I bricked my proto board and I need a tech to rework it but I'm wfh and the tech is wfh and now we have to do a mail dance and burn a week for something that used to take a 5 min walk down the hall to deal with doesn't make sense. YMMV.

- The industry seems to be converging to hybrid. I feel like this is kind of like the debates over being mandated to use AI in dev - love it or hate it, it's happening, and there's no point trying to swim against a rip current.
by powersnail | 2025-09-10 05:06:50+00:00
I sincerely hope that apple will consider making a phone with a worse camera that is flatter. As someone who rarely takes photos, and never photos of importance, the bump is just a dead weight to me. My dream phone has a body like iPhone 12 mini (which I currently use) without the protruding camera. As long as it runs all the common communication apps reliably, I'm happy. I'll pay $100 more than the standard body version even. But it doesn't seem like apple (or any notable phone brand) thinks this is worth doing.

It's the peril of being a niche customer. I can and have voted with my wallet, but it doesn't nudge the needle anyway.
by unethical_ban | 2025-09-10 05:07:07+00:00
It's a thing right now.

I'm running Qwen 30B code on my framework laptop to ask questions about ruby vs. python syntax because I can, and because the internet was flaky.

At some point, more doesn't mean I need it. LLMs will certainly get "good enough" and they'll be lower latency, no subscription, and no internet required.
by bawolff | 2025-09-10 05:08:50+00:00
In 2005, sure.

Its a bit more mysterious now a days though. Video compression got way better (albeit video quality also went way up), hard drives got way cheaper. Bandwidth is really cheap at scale. People are way better selling ads now then they used to be. A lot of video serving infrastructure got standardized.

Don't get me wrong, its still hard and expensive, but i don't feel that is the moat it once was. Network effects is also a whole other conversation.
by mumber_typhoon | 2025-09-10 05:08:52+00:00
This might be an unpopular opinion but does anyone else think that phones are now targeted towards teenagers and young adults and not the general crowd anymore ? I feel Apple has completely made their phones a social tool and not a technology innovation product. Camera, colors and the ability to distinguish your phone from others in selfies (another social feature) and in public is what it seems to be about. Gaming on the phone is another aspect. The phones look different each year (on purpose) and they are increasingly targeted towards young adults who can spend 1000$ of their savings all year towards just looking cool on social media with better pictures and a social profile. I noticed this transition around iPhone X era where design language lost meaning as long as they could compete in the social media world. I feel Instagram and TikTok should thank apple for becoming more social.

I really like the 15 camera I have and feels really good for a casual photo person. I feel that the 16e is more than enough for 99% of those not into social media. Like the phone without social media is just keeping in touch with close friends and family and occasionally taking pictures and making payments. And once in a while a few apps that help you track something like maps or health apps.

The 16e feels like a really enough phone if you don't want to get into the rat race.
by willtemperley | 2025-09-10 05:09:02+00:00
This is refreshing. I get triggered by people writing "I don't use a debugger because I'm too smart to need one".

Some other things I'd add:

Some debuggers allow you to add actions. For example logging at the breakpoint is great if I can't modify the source, plus there's nothing to revert afterward. This just scratches the surface. Some debuggers allow you to see entire GPU workloads, view textures etc.

Debuggers are extremely useful for exploring and helping edit code. I can't be the only person that sprinkles breakpoints during development which helps me visualise code flow and quickly jump between source locations.

They're not just for debugging.
by nxobject | 2025-09-10 05:09:07+00:00
I think it's also misleading to call it people dying of health issues. But after years of knowing, under multiple administrations, that even the pre-Trump ICE detention regime killed detainees due to medical assessment delayed and care denied [0], the weight of the evidence points currently points to ICE being malicious, not ignorant: ICE currently knowingly detaining medically frail individuals, without care corresponding to their needs, knowing that a random subset would die due to circumstances that ICE could have chosen to change, but didn't.

Therefore, I think that what is happening does rise to extrajudicial killing - killing that ICE chose not to prevent but to maintain; and inevitable killing without any corresponding sentence.

Forgive me for not taking ICE at face value. I looked through the next four accounts – assuming that, at that point there would be sufficient independent reporting that would either complement or contradict ICE's accounts.

The next four individuals died preventable deaths due to care ignored (e.g. in the case of Nhon Nguyen, who was detained with dementia), or denied (e.g. in the case of Maksym Chernyak, who was unconscious after fainting for hours until detention guards provided medical attention too late.)

- Marie Ange Blaise's death (#7) was blamed by ICE on blood pressure medication noncompliance. The narrative stitched together from Broward County medical examiner reporting, along with detainee testimony, instead argues that she fainted after taking blood pressure medications, and it took at least 8 minutes for medical attention to arrive (after a guard walked away) [1].

- Nhon Nguyen (#8) was, according to his family, detained while living with advanced dementia, and according his death report, bounced backwards and forwards between hospitals and his detention processing center before dying of avoidable pneumonia [2].

- Brayan Garzón-Rayo (#9) died by suicide after repeatedly being denied a mental health evaluation - once due to short-staffing, next due to contracting COVID-19. [3]

- Maksym Chernyak (#10) fainted - possibly due to overdose - but was denied care for hours despite attempts by others detained with him to draw attention; his death was attributed to a stroke. [4]

[0] https://phr.org/our-work/resources/deadly-failures-preventab... [1] https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2025-08-01/haitian-ice-deat... [2] https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_7519bc08-a416-4275-a... [3] https://www.kcur.org/news/2025-05-13/missouri-man-who-died-b... [4] https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/04/24/as-immigrant-arrest...
by Hobadee | 2025-09-10 05:09:27+00:00
There is a catch-22 that helps YouTube keep it's monopoly. Nobody will jump to another platform until all their favorite creators/majority of media is there, but no other platform is able to attract a significant portion of creators/media until they have a large base.

Systems that enable multi-platform natively are the answer to change the calculus on this problem. End-user clients such as Grayjay that enable users to view videos from multiple platforms at once can give much-needed views to creators on alternate platforms. A similar solution for creators (not sure if one exists or not) would lower the barrier to upload to all platforms at once.
by itake | 2025-09-10 05:09:47+00:00
> we have plenty of free space

Where? SF and Manhattan are surrounded by water on 3 sides. Seattle has water on 2 sides. Other areas: LA, Boston, Miami, Portland, Denver, Chicago, have similar geographic limitations.

If you were to flatten cities out (see Atlanta), jobs will still concentrate downtown. If jobs concentrate in one area, home prices in that area will also elevate (downtown, buckhead, etc).

> You're not getting a barista to commute 2 hours because the only alternative is living with 6 roommates

Personally, I wish I had 6 roommates. People aren't getting married in their 20s, so if they aren't living with their wife/husband, why shouldn't they want to live with friends?
by FreakLegion | 2025-09-10 05:10:20+00:00
If you just want a different source, I can vouch for what cybergreg is saying.

Cybersecurity companies aren't passive data collectors like, say, Dropbox. They actively hunt for attacks in the data. To be clear, this goes way beyond MDR or EDR. The email security companies are hunting in your email, the network security companies are hunting in your network logs, so on. When they find things, they pick up the phone, and sometimes save you from wiring a million dollars to a bad guy or whatever.

The customer likes this very much, even if individual employees don't.
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by somenameforme | 2025-09-10 05:11:36+00:00
There was a famous study that tried to test this - the Perry Preschool Study. [1] Basically they enlisted a number of high risk children - black, low iq, low income children. Half were placed into a high quality specialized preschool program (that lasted two years for 2.5 hours a day) with small class sizes, half were not, and they followed what happened over the next 40 years. The results were definitely impactful, but not the sort of major turn around one might hope for.

So for instance 55% of the control group ended up being arrested 5+ times by age 40, while 'only' 36% of the experiment group did. I think the thing this demonstrates is that intervention can help, but is also insufficient alone. Students who are in a sufficiently high risk scenario need ongoing support and treatment that they're not going to receive at a normal public institution. And not only that but they will remain disproportionately disruptive to other student's educations at normal institutions, even with years of ongoing care.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HighScope (overview)

[1] - https://highscope.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/perry-presc... (detailed paper)
by robotresearcher | 2025-09-10 05:11:38+00:00
My wife had Crohn's disease since a teenager, and was diagnosed with metastatic gallbladder cancer aged 52. A death sentence. She chose to do aggressive chemo to prolong her life from a few weeks to a few months. She suffered a great deal before she died.

An immunotherapy treatment was discussed, and it could possibly have helped a lot, but it carried a somewhat high risk of causing a disastrous Crohn's flare that would kill her immediately. The doctor was unwilling to try this because it might kill her. So she died inevitably without it.

It was a classic medical ethics case right there in our crisis. We did a lot of interesting and intense things in those months before she died. Fuck.
by Schnitz | 2025-09-10 05:12:16+00:00
Just how software engineers are in the hacker news thought bubble you have the VC and CEO thought bubble. It roughly goes like this: Someone has some productivity or whatever problem and RTOs. That costs money, they lose people, so they can’t later admit it was a wash or a net negative. So they go on Twitter or LinkedIn and trumpet how great their hardcore 996 RTO is going. Now others see this and fomo kicks in. They start their own RTO which they are then again highly incentivized to report as successful. Rinse and repeat.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-10 05:13:30+00:00
Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing the LE leadership at that particular, ah, event, plus maybe many of the other law enforcement folks present, subjected to some... consequences. Whatever the victims' parents want, really, I'd be pretty open to anything. I have ideas but I'd not suggest my preferences matter here, and would rather leave it to them, even if they settled on "nothing".

And ACAB, yeah, sure. Basically true, I agree.

That's still your best first move if there's a mass shooting. Anyone you call's just going to call 911 anyway (god, I hope). You do want hospitals on alert and calling in trauma surgeons, and ambulances on the way. And usually the police aren't that astoundingly useless in these cases, even if their outcomes are mixed.

I do think more often than not police are, in general, a net-benefit and force for "good", if you will, when called in for a mass shooting, and I don't think it's a particularly close call. Though yeah sometimes they are pretty bad even for that purpose (and they're often bad for other purposes, sure), and in the case of Uvalde they were disgustingly bad, and I here employ "disgustingly" with its full force and not flippantly.

Still, like... probably call 911 first if someone's shooting up a school?
by unholytd | 2025-09-10 05:13:53+00:00
I built checkpac because I was tired of the package search fragmentation in Arch Linux. The Problem: Want to know what packages you have installed that match "wine"? Which ones have updates? What else is available? Good luck - you'll need to run 4-5 different commands and piece together the results: pacman -Q (shows installed), pacman -Ss (searches repos but mixes everything together), yay -Ss (searches everything but the output is chaos), checkupdates (only shows updates).

There's no simple way to answer "show me everything about packages matching X" without juggling multiple tools. What checkpac does: One command gives you everything, clearly categorized. Run "checkpac firefox" to see what you have installed with update status. Add -r like "checkpac -r wine" to also see what's available to install. Use -d to search descriptions like "checkpac -rd compression". The terminal output is designed to be instantly readable. Green checkmarks for installed packages, red X's for not installed. Package names are color-coded by source (red for core, green for extra, cyan for multilib, yellow for AUR). Version numbers appear in cyan. Most importantly, outdated packages get a yellow warning triangle with an update arrow showing "v1.2.3 → v1.2.4" so you can immediately spot what needs updating. Each package shows its description in dim text for context.

It separates and organizes results by source and status: Official Installed (packages from core/extra/multilib with update status), AUR Installed (your AUR packages also with update checks), Official Available (what's in the repos you could install, shown with -r), and AUR Available (what's in the AUR you could grab, also shown with -r).

Every package shows its version number and checkpac actually compares your installed versions against the remote repositories in real-time - not just cached data. The color highlighting and visual indicators make it obvious at a glance what's installed, what's outdated, and what's available. No more parsing walls of text or guessing package states.

The technical approach: Uses bash associative arrays (hashmaps) for O(1) package lookups instead of searching through lists repeatedly. One expac call grabs all package metadata upfront rather than querying repeatedly. Caches everything in memory to avoid repeated disk hits. Makes parallel AUR API calls when checking for updates against live AUR data. The whole thing is about 400 lines of bash plus expac, curl, and jq.

Other useful features: The -e flag for exact name matches only. Use --exclude-aur or --exclude-arch if you want to filter by source. Handles both installed and available packages in a single search. Shows real-time update status for everything including AUR packages by checking against remote sources. Get it from GitHub at https://github.com/zeroz41/checkpac or install from the AUR at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/checkpac
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-10 05:14:40+00:00
Yeah, I’m saying that theoretically it’s a good idea because it’s food. However, that doesn’t matter because we as a society decided that our food supply is less important for feeding people than as money plumbing for rich people. The money plumbing is supposed to get the food created and allocated as efficiently as possible by rewarding innovation and competition among food businesses; unfortunately, in many instances, efficiency and innovation in plumbing hacking is as profitable or more profitable than being better food producers.

The subsidies would be fine if they were helping farmers working in good faith efficiently produce food for people to eat.
by Hackbraten | 2025-09-10 05:15:05+00:00
Could it be related to mandatory Widevine encryption?

On my phone, the mobile site (m.youtube.com) has introduced Widevine a couple of weeks ago (last week of August IIRC). No idea if I’m just unlucky and part of a shitty A/B experiment, but I definitely had to recompile libc (being on Linux) with patches from Chromium and install Widevine so I could watch videos again.

Whenever I replace my patched libc with the unpatched original, then the Widevine plugin crashes everytime I try to play back a video on m.youtube.com. And it used to work before.
by Meekro | 2025-09-10 05:15:11+00:00
There's one slow-motion conservative victory happening that's getting relatively little news coverage (and that's a good thing, lest there be more pushback): allowing more alternatives to public schools, funded by taxpayer dollars. Charter schools are the most obvious example, but I expect this to eventually be expanded further. If 10 homeschooler families want to get together and hire a professional teacher, there's no reason why the state shouldn't pay for it (provided the kids pass grade-level standardized tests).

Like you said, 99% of what makes a "good" school good is the quality of the other kids who go there. Since there's absolutely no political will for expelling the troublemakers (even in most conservative districts), the only remaining option is to build more lifeboats.
by 9rx | 2025-09-10 05:16:17+00:00
> to grow all that shit Monsanto roundup-ready corn/soy/alfalfa/etc.

Corn and soybean seed generally has a viable period of around 2-3 years. Monsanto hasn't been in business for seven years now. Who, exactly, do you think stored their seed for so long and is now planting all that 7+ year old seed which, at this point, has a low chance of germination?