MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmurray | 2025-09-16 17:03:08+00:00
Some people might be surprised that MS would pick the product with the best technological fit rather than the one they already have a deep business and financial relationship with.

Surely Microsoft's expertise these days is in cross-selling passable but not best-in-class products to enterprises who already pay for Microsoft products.

It says something about how they view the AI coding market, or perhaps the level of the gap between Anthropic and OpenAI here, that they've gone the other way.
by mindcrime | 2025-09-16 17:03:19+00:00
Gabe just quit his dayjob to go full-time on SaveItForParts, so hopefully we'll be seeing even more cool stuff in the near future. Me personally, I'm hoping for a collab between him and Jeff. They've had some interaction already (Jeff donated Gabe a spare computer he had lying around) so maybe... That would be epic if it did happen.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-16 17:03:26+00:00
It's simple: because I'm not willing to surrender. We've reached this dismal state of things by accepting an unending series of privacy invasions that, individually, aren't really that big of a deal but in aggregate are disastrous. This would be one of those kinds of things. That we've lost so much privacy already is an argument to fight even harder, not to give up on it entirely.

In any case, I wouldn't use such luggage because I'm not willing to take luggage on an airplane, and haven't been for decades. I ship my stuff ahead via a parcel carrier. Privacy doesn't enter into it.
by ggregoire | 2025-09-16 17:03:37+00:00
I can tell you I said "man react is great!" quite a few times 10 years ago when I tried it for the first time, after years of jQuery, backbone.js and Angular 1. Nowadays I still think it's great, but there is obviously no surprise and novelty about it being great since I use it every day. Like I'm sure you think toilets are a great thing but when was the last time you said "man toilets are great!"?
by presbyterian | 2025-09-16 17:04:00+00:00
I've been a Bike user for a couple years, and I assume the sidebar and calendar are new additions for Bike 2.0? I've never seen them, and I couldn't find them mentioned on the website, so I believe that's the case. In my opinion, the fact that it's hard to design this well should be an indicator that these features shouldn't be added! I already have a ton of general purpose notes/calendar apps (currently on Obsidian), I don't need another. Bike should stick to its focus: Being really, really good at outlining.
by mrandish | 2025-09-16 17:04:31+00:00
Auto tune pitch correction is entirely separate from whether a properly engineered digital recording can match an analog recording to a level well beyond the ability of human biology to detect any difference in randomized, controlled, double-blinded ABX testing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABX_test).

> The problem is that all other things are no longer equal

There are many digital recordings which have no pitch correction or other tonal manipulation applied. In those cases, all things are still equal for the purposes of the statement above.

As a separate matter, I agree auto-tune and other manipulation can be inappropriately or excessively applied, however over manipulation isn't unique to digital, it occurred in the analog era too – such as dynamic range compression and multi-band dynamic equalization. Those tools existed in tube-based, purely analog form long before digital recording became the norm and caused similar complaints when they were misapplied. There were even analog pitch correctors although they weren't nearly as flexible or precise as today's digital versions.
by 613style | 2025-09-16 17:04:54+00:00
Agreed. My experience is GPT5 is significantly better at large-scale planning & architecture (at least for the kind of stuff I care about which is strongly typed functional systems), and then Sonnet is much better at executing the plan. GPT5 is also better at code reviews and finding subtle mistakes if you prompt it well enough, but not totally reliable. Claude Code fills its context window and re-compacts often enough that I have to plan around it, so I'm surprised it's larger than GPT's.
by PolicyPhantom | 2025-09-16 17:05:16+00:00
Thank you for pointing this out. The phrase “AI living among us” was not meant as a literal ontological claim, but rather as a social metaphor: how people might perceive and integrate AI into everyday life.

I agree that governance must avoid anthropomorphizing tools. At the same time, in policy discussions metaphors often serve to highlight social risks and expectations.

Your “AAA” framing (Autonomy, Ambition, Access) is an interesting lens — I see value in exploring how licensing frameworks like AIBL could act as safeguards around exactly those dimensions.
by fawkesalbus | 2025-09-16 17:05:47+00:00
This is an amazing thread and dialog. I commend both of you for keeping it civil and respectful (exactly how Charlie would have wanted). Just two things to add:

1. Driving, cleaning agents and all the other examples are effectively assumed to be rights but they are not guaranteed by the US constitution. The second amendment on the other hand is very explicit. So it only makes the case stronger for the second amendment (~10k non gang violence, non suicide related gun deaths vs ~40k deaths from car accidents per year, although even one death is too many imho)

2. I would recommend listening to the full comment from Charlie about “some gun deaths are inevitable”. He started with the premise that the US already has a lot of guns and in a country with so many guns, you can’t have ZERO gun related deaths. And then went on to say what he said about some gun deaths being rational/prudent etc. So the spirit of what he was saying wasn’t that some people were expendable but more so that from a practicality standpoint you can’t expect to not have any gun related deaths at all.

In another video he talks about gun confiscation/ forcing Americans to give up their guns (at gun point ;) ?) and how that won’t work either but that’s besides the point.

Once again thanks for such a thoughtful dialog. Really appreciate it!
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-16 17:05:49+00:00
When I was working for a startups in L.A. I was staying in a hotel that had rooms with glass front walls that had curtains. I used to just leave my stuff all around the room when I stayed in a hotel but at this place I wanted to contribute to the scene which mean keeping my room looking clean, putting all my socks and stuff in drawers so I could leave the curtains open and people could see the nice room.
by theologic | 2025-09-16 17:06:01+00:00
Great story and brought up on Hacker News on a regular cycle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26735958

While I love the Hacker News purity, takes me back to Usenet, it makes me wonder if a little AI could take a repost and auto insert previous postings to allow people to see previous discussions.
by abeppu | 2025-09-16 17:06:07+00:00
Methodologically, why would you have one cutoff vs a different cutoff per group (as there are different qualifying times per group)?

I am not a marathoner, but I'd imagine that a 6 min decrease from the stated qualifying time cuts out a larger proportion of younger runners (i.e. decreasing the threshold from 2h55 to 2h49 for men 18-34 seems like a much sharper cut than decreasing 4h20 to 4h14 for women 60-64). I would have thought you'd want to pick the delta by looking at the distribution within each gender x age pool.
by margalabargala | 2025-09-16 17:06:24+00:00
> Alas, “build the best car you can” wasn’t compatible with long-term viability. Something engineering-driven companies seem to keep encountering.

Is it actually incompatible with long term viability? Or does it just create an unstable state where the temptation to gut the reputation for immediate profit grows as the size of that profit grows?
by RickS | 2025-09-16 17:06:44+00:00
Very interesting. How long have you had this multi desk setup for, and how has it evolved? I've tried similar things over time and found a huge amount of variation in the results.

The worst are sort of "negative equilibrium" situations, where the station feels good enough to keep indefinitely, but is actually unproductive. I ran my main desk in the living room for a couple years, and it was only when I moved back into my studio full time that I realized how valuable it is to have gently lit walls on both sides of my peripheral vision, preventing attention hijacking from things going on around me. My ADHD greatly benefits from a room that acts like a horse blinder.

I've had many other "stations" but they tend to be transient, getting lots of attention initially, and then falling into disuse and accumulating crap that gets set on them like any other table.

I've ended up with one main workstation where I do everything, and a few other low-use high-specificity stations tied to specific hardware (an iMac that runs a CNC machine, a flow hood for mycology work). These are idle 98% of the time but it feels great to be able to sit down and immediately resume those things without having to rebuild the container so to speak.

The biggest ADHD-related gotcha is "out of sight out of mind". If a station isn't in a place I see or walk past regularly, I forget that it exists.

This does make me want a typewriter. Is there one you recommend for a couple hundred or less?
by raxxorraxor | 2025-09-16 17:07:10+00:00
You can read up about the members of the Pillay commission, the "Top UN legal investigators", yourself. It is just ridiculous. Reminder that thousands of rockets rained on Israel on October 7th.

Crying genocide after such an attack when your enemy retaliates and retaliates very harshly in the context of middle eastern politics will never be reasonable. Hamas is free to surrender and everything would stop tomorrow.

I quoted from the report, you can make up your mind yourself. But you already did anyway.

Pillay is from the Apartheid crew, that just ignores a side of this conflict. A side that is very much not tolerant of everyone else. Bad and unconvincing report.
by firefax | 2025-09-16 17:07:31+00:00
I apologize that an easter egg that displays a cute image of a duck dressed as a video game character made you so upset, but please don't assume bad faith and inject vitrol into a discussion that should be whimsical.

I meant to make this as an Ask HN thread but was hitting a title limit... I was going to comment asking if anyone had found others, but got distracted by the thread on Robert Redford's death[1].

[1] RIP :-( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261159
by OJFord | 2025-09-16 17:08:04+00:00
> It is my conviction that very few should go down the Arch route. If you want to sysadmin Linux or learn how to do so, fine.

I don't think sysadmin is fair, but certainly it's true that a lot of 'how do I do the equivalent of Windows/macOS built-in foobar' questions will have the answer 'well this is a non-exhaustive list of possible things you could install to do that'.

Which is to say that first time around it's almost inevitably going to be a lot of setup. But then it won't change, or when it does it will just be whichever puzzle piece changed - not 'Arch reimagined everything with Liquid Glass'.
by machiaweliczny | 2025-09-16 17:08:07+00:00
That someone can initialize a state in if block is not something good. React won with Angular 1.0 because noobs abused two-way binding making fking mess everywhere. Now in react they abuse useEffect but it’s a bit easier to control. I work currently in Svelte and never use 2-way binding and are careful to package state mgmt well but I like it. It’s similar to react with mobx but more performant although has no good component libraries. SvelteKit is also generally fine
by huntaub | 2025-09-16 17:08:07+00:00
Some quick questions that came up in the last post, that I wanted to go ahead and address:

How are you different than existing products like S3 Mountpoint, S3FS, ZeroFS, ObjectiveFS, JuiceFS, and cunoFS?

Archil is designed to be a general-purpose storage system to replace networked block storage like EBS or Hyperdisk with something that scales infinitely, can be shared across multiple instances, and synchronizes to S3. Existing adapters that turn S3 into a file system are either not POSIX-compliant (such as Mountpoint for S3, S3FS, or GoofyFS), do not write data to the S3 bucket in its native format (such as JuiceFS, ObjectiveFS – preventing use of that data directly from S3), or are not designed for a fully-managed one-click set up (such as cunoFS). We have massive respect for folks who build these tools, and we’re excited that the data market is large enough for all of us to see success by picking different tradeoffs.

What regions can I launch an Archil disk in?

We’re live in 3 regions in AWS (us-east-1, us-west-2, and eu-west-1) and 1 region in GCP (us-central1). Today, we’re also able to deploy directly into on-premises environments and smaller GPU clouds. Reach out if you’re interested in an on-premises deployment (hleath [at] archil.com).

Can I mount Archil from a Kubernetes cluster?

Yes! We have a CSI driver that you can use to get ReadWriteOnce and ReadWriteMany volumes into your Kubernetes cluster.

What performance benchmarks can you share?

We generally don’t publish specific performance benchmarks, since they are easy to over-index on and often don’t reflect how real-world applications run on a storage system. In general, Archil disks provide ~1ms latency for hot data and can, by default, scale up to 10 GiB/s and tens of thousands of IOPS. Contact me at hleath [at] archil.com, if you have needs that exceed these numbers.

What happens if your caching layer goes down before a write is synchronized to S3?

Our caching layer is, itself, highly-durable (~5 9s). This means that once a write is accepted into our layer, there are no individual components (such as an instance or an AZ) failure which would cause us to lose data.

What are you planning next for Archil?

By moving away from NFS and using our new, custom protocol, we have a great foundation for the performance work that we’re looking to accomplish in the next 6 months. In the short-term, we plan to launch: one-click Lustre-like scale-out performance (run hundreds of GiB/s of throughput and millions of IOPS without provisioning), the ability to synchronize data from non-object storage sources (such as HuggingFace), and the ability to use multiple data sources on a single disk.

How can I learn more about how the new protocol works?

We’re planning on publishing a bunch more on the protocol in the coming weeks, stay tuned!
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-16 17:08:09+00:00
I was thinking about Maximise, Restore, and Minimise, which I think were Alt+Space {X,R?,N} (haven’t used Windows for a few years), but I suppose Win+Up is now Maximise, and Win+Down Restore and Minimise—but you still need Alt+Space N to minimise from maximised.
by apsurd | 2025-09-16 17:08:21+00:00
It's because native programming language will defacto allow you to hack it to its natural limit. A tendency most all programmers have given they even get into programming.

For example with any iterator/loop you may want to filter, or find, or transform. in ruby you have the entire Enumerable API to dig into or Array prototype for js.

a templating language would have to reimplement functionality one by one in an allow list.

it's just fatigue at that point, yet another API i've got to mentally track.

edit: of course if you export the view data "clean" before hand it compels you to not have intense logic in the view. I get that but after a decade+ in product, views are never pure, even just ability to highlight the active tab takes conditional and select logic in a loop.
by dannyw | 2025-09-16 17:09:04+00:00
Oil-plastics will increase in cost as it becomes more scarce.

Bioplastics are increasingly popular, research is making it better and easier to produce, etc.

I don’t fret over a plastic wrap. For one, if it’s bread in a supermarket, I want it wrapped, I don’t want someone’s sneeze on it.

Plastic for fruits and veggies that you rinse, that’s absurd.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-16 17:09:38+00:00
The SF 'tech scene' was already a joke in 2014, when a TV show satirized it for six seasons. The city used to be known for art, counter-culture, free expression. It turned into tech bros telling themselves they were 'saving the world' only to get rich off of bloated salaries, "exiting" web and mobile apps, cryptocurrency. The gentrification, stupidly expensive real estate/rent/restaurants, crime, and homelessness, were the warts on the pimpled ass of a city run over by 'tech people'. And the endless supply of free money from VCs made sure that the stream of shit never ran dry.

But now you're bothered? After 25 years of abuse that city has put up with, and all the evil it's pushed on the world, AI ads are your breaking point?
by toss1 | 2025-09-16 17:10:01+00:00
>>would you compliment him on the Tesla Model 3

yes, as I mentioned, I have posted similar strong compliments/defenses of Musk in the past, including on here.

I'd also point out that while one person can drive design of the most salient features (such as a noticeably different door-handle), the entire design of a modern automobile and its systems are obviously not from only one person. I also attribute the overall requirement for high crash-test results to Musk, but this sort of anti-safety feature shows his drive is not for safety, but notoriety.

If I were in your position, I'd also actively practice with family using the alternate handles from inside so it is ingrained in your mind sufficiently to recall in an emergency; I hope no one ever needs it, but...

It's really too bad what he's changed into or shown himself to be; I used to really want to own a Tesla, now I would take or keep a free one.
by jraph | 2025-09-16 17:10:26+00:00
> Also, I must be getting old, because in my mind systemd and Gnome 3 are still fresh controversies, not part of a “remember when” retrospective.

Yup! :-) In Debian, it was a decade ago (10 and 12 years respectively, in Jessie and Wheezy).

So you remember when /usr used to not be merged? Joking.
by OJFord | 2025-09-16 17:10:42+00:00
I'd switch if I were you - well, I did, after holding out for what I thought was a long time. A lot of minor nuisances I hadn't gotten around to investigating with X just disappeared, I think you'd find that by comparison you were/are actually nearer 'not working' than you realise, my sway experience has been much smoother.
by flohofwoe | 2025-09-16 17:11:13+00:00
WinNT missing out on UTF-8 and instead going with UCS-2 for their UNICODE text encoding might have been "the other" billion dollar mistake in the history of computing ;)

There was a 9 month time window between the invention of UTF-8 and the first release of WinNT (Sep 1992 to Jul 1993).

But ok fine, UTF-8 didn't really become popular until the web became popular.

But then missing the other opportunity to make the transition with the release of the first consumer version of WinNT (WinXP) nearly a decade later is inexcusable.
by bitpush | 2025-09-16 17:11:23+00:00
Since you're on HN, I assume you have a bit of curiosity so I encourage you to think beyond the first order effect of some of these news.

It isnt as much as "omg, we need more data!!" but as some of the other comments show, it is _probably_ part of a larger defensive move where most LLMs are moving into controlling-the-pc domain. OpenAI has something, Claude has something, so it is reasonable to expect Google to do something as well. The fact that it is Gemini is another clue that it is indeed that.
by duxup | 2025-09-16 17:11:55+00:00
>imagine a voluntary program: choose a transparent suitcase and gain access to...

Sounds like something that quickly becomes mandatory if you want to get through security. And would transparent luggage "do" anything? Scanners aren't looking at your luggage as if it was transparent ...

I don't think the transparent luggage is a solution exactly, the issue is we already have security theater and I'm not sure we're any safer because of it.

More process, more / different lines to stand in, I'm not sure that's better.
by callalex | 2025-09-16 17:12:22+00:00
Citizen is really enshittified, so any alternative would be better. I don’t object to them charging for their service, but they use all kinds of predatory editorial tactics and push notifications and marketing copy to instill primal fear that your neighborhood is imminently burning down and you will get shot if you don’t subscribe to a higher tier of service from them. Crime is way down in the US but you really don’t feel that way when you are a subscriber/user of Citizen.
by skeletal88 | 2025-09-16 17:12:29+00:00
Finder isnt crap?

Why can't i paste a path and just go to it like I can in Windows or KDE, why can't I cut and paste files? Why do i have to open 2 separate windows and drag the files between them?

Who decided that it is somehow useful to leave an applocation running when you close its window?

There are so many silly and stupid small things wrong with os x
by Bender | 2025-09-16 17:12:36+00:00
FWIW they've gone through many iterations of this. In the 1960's there were rooms of operators listening for keywords. That was replaced with computers that listened for keywords and phrases which I think improved privacy. Whistleblowers appear every couple decades and disclose NSA listening locations. I am mostly curious if this AI at least understands context to reduce false alerts thus minimizing alert fatigue, wasted resources, etc... Bonus if it can troll some spammers. Bigger bonus if one day it can pit them against one another using psychological warfare. I doubt any of this will be in a for-public-consumption ChatGPT. More likely they or the NSA have their own private data-center.
by kotaKat | 2025-09-16 17:12:55+00:00
Oh, this makes a bit of sense. The Avis/Budget fleet team will be part of managing the vehicles, so they can be quickly cleaned and fueled up when they slide into the airport, too.

https://www.avisbudgetgroup.com/avis-budget-group-announces-...

(Dallas, but they do this in other cities, too.)
by TuxSH | 2025-09-16 17:13:12+00:00
Well, last I checked Claude's webchat UI doesn't have LaTeX rendering for output messages which is extremely annoying.

On the other hand, I wish ChatGPT had GitHub integration in Projects, not just in Codex.

I've also had Claude Sonnet 4.0 Thinking spew forth incorrect answers many times for complex problems involving some math (with incapability to write a former proof sometimes), whereas ChatGPT 5 Thinking gives me correct answers with formal proof.
by barnabee | 2025-09-16 17:13:14+00:00
I should be firmly in this market. Indeed, I was about to order a 17 Pro just for the camera upgrade (coming from a 15 Pro).

Then I installed iOS 26.

I think I hate it. It might be the last straw.

I’m seriously considering taking the plunge and switching from iOS, which I’ve used since the iPhone 3G, to GrapheneOS on a Pixel 9 Pro.

It’s not just iOS (which is all three of worse, buggier, and slower) but also the direction of travel for Apple as a whole.
by bitpush | 2025-09-16 17:13:32+00:00
Would you rather have Big Tech sit on their cash and not innovate? Some of these ones would 100% fail, and that's the nature of doing business. Apple is trying something radical with Vision Pro. It isnt successful, but I'm glad they are trying it. Microsoft did something crazy with Windows Recall. Will I use it? Nope, I appreciate the risk taking.

When your friend comes upto you and says "We're starting a business", do you immediately go like "haha, you're gonna lose?"

My wish is folks on hacker news have a bit of humility about these kind of things.