MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lenerdenator | 2025-09-30 17:51:47+00:00
It's not surprising given specialization typically leads to better outcomes.

I guess this is a small step forward, if nothing else, to the day when I can actually teach a model something in situ on my personal machine (notice I said machine, not "machines") in a very short amount of time. I feel that until then, LLMs and similar technologies won't be maximally helpful. They're very useful, but not maximally helpful.
by wlesieutre | 2025-09-30 17:51:50+00:00
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/1968249865940709538

> @mingchikuo

> MacBook models will feature a touch panel for the first time, further blurring the line with the iPad. This shift appears to reflect Apple’s long-term observation of iPad user behavior, indicating that in certain scenarios, touch controls can enhance both productivity and the overall user experience.

> 1. The OLED MacBook Pro, expected to enter mass production by late 2026, will incorporate a touch panel using on-cell touch technology.

> 2. The more affordable MacBook model powered by an iPhone processor, slated for mass production in 4Q25, will not support a touch panel. Specifications for its second-generation version, anticipated in 2027, remain under discussion and could include touch support.
by rsingel | 2025-09-30 17:52:14+00:00
Looks like yet another aggregator that will send almost no referral traffic to the folks who actually put labor into writing.

Parasitic by definition.

And embracing the news from nowhere perspective.

So both a parasite and boring at the same time.

I wish more tech folks who want to "fix the news" would learn from Gabe Rivera's Techmeme, Memeorandum, and Mediagazer.

He's done aggregation right for 20 years
by sieve | 2025-09-30 17:52:21+00:00
I started using this a couple of days ago. It is a fully functional replacement for what I have been doing with WhatsApp. About 30-40% of my n/w is on it now and I have also created our Sanskrit channel on it.

What it is missing:

- E2E encryption for text messages

- Communities as a container for groups

- Chat exports

- UPI payment integration

Also, the servers are under pressure so messages can get delayed sometimes.

But Vembu has promised continuous development. So let's see.

I am using it regularly and do hundreds of messages every day across groups and contacts.
by lordkrandel | 2025-09-30 17:52:24+00:00
If I want to say fascism I say fascism, and I didn't. Pretending bullies don't exist os not only hypocritical, but it doesn't work. He will dig his hole but he is bringing so many people in because "oh, he is a winner". Instead, showing people that his discourse makes no sense, that works in showing people who care that they are not alone.
by hadlock | 2025-09-30 17:52:25+00:00
Publishing once a day to remove the "slot machine dopamine hit" is worth it for that alone. I have forever been looking for a peer/replacement to Google News, I was about to pony up for a Ground News subscription but I'll probably hold off for a couple more months. Alternatives to google news have been sorely lacking for over a decade, especially since google news got their mobile-first redesign which significantly and permanently weakened the product to meet some product manager's bonus-linked KPI. One more product to wean off the google mothership. Gmail is gonna be real hard though.
by munificent | 2025-09-30 17:52:53+00:00
> the culture of not prioritizing correctness in computation.

In a language with pervasive use of generic methods, I don't know what actually means. If I write a function like:

function add3(x, y, z) x + y + z end

Is it correct or not? What does "correct" even mean here? If you call it with values where `+` is defined on them and does what you expect, then my function probably does what you expect too. But if you pass values where `+` does something weird, then `add3()` does something weird too.

Is that correct? What expectations should someone have about a function whose behavior is defined in terms of calls to other open-ended generic functions?
by mattmaroon | 2025-09-30 17:53:05+00:00
I now throw public festivals and it happens in meatspace too if you don’t actively prevent it. One minute that brand new themed festival is all vendors making cool clocks out of old vinyl, local glassblowers, local apiarists.

Three years later there are 18 guys selling the same glass bongs from Temu.

Curation is the answer.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-30 17:53:12+00:00
There's an enormous amount to discuss about "open source," and it's neglected enough that the bro generation of programmers doesn't even understand it, or the difference between it and Free software, and what those differences materially mean to developers and the public at large.

The reason that HN is eaten up by LLMs is because it's eaten by any trendy topic that's in the mainstream news. HN used to be directed by an active and opinionated mind in pg, and it's been left to salaried, caretaking censors whose primary job is to make sure the site doesn't become an embarrassment. This mainly consists of artificially excluding discussions that may lead to energetic debate; debate that usually becomes swamped with low-quality comments by people speaking outside of their expertise, and can make the place look like a cesspool.

But energetic debate is where all of the energy is. The problem isn't those topics, the problem is that those topics also take a lot of energy to moderate the problems out of. We're experiencing an abandoned place, not a place driven by anything internal. It's an old barn that is kept clean just so it doesn't catch on fire.

We don't talk about FOSS because it isn't a general topic that is in the mainstream news, not because it isn't an important topic that is more vital to discuss than ever, in the face of monopoly, walled-gardens, verified signatures and centralization.

A positive editor like pg was aware of this, and treated the site as his personal playground. It partially revolved around what were essentially his journal entries. I only ever ended up on this site because he decided one day to have every front page article be about Erlang, of all things.

edit: and to add to the penultimate paragraph, an energetic discussion of FOSS that lead to productive projects and statements by people of influence would influence the mainstream. This place used to make stories, not just Digg them. The purpose of the site (other than to run something on Arc) seemed to me to be to juice new YC startups in a way that would leak into the general media. It doesn't even seem useful for YC any more.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-30 17:53:16+00:00
Current rumors point to the M6 generation of MBPs being a significant redesign and featuring an OLED touch panel screen.

I don't understand the appeal, even a little bit. Reaching up to touch the screen is awkward, and every large touchpanel I've used has had to trade off antiglare coating effectiveness to accomodate oleophobic coating. For me, this would be an objective downgrade — the touch capability would never get used, but poor antiglare would be a constant thorn in my side. I can only hope that it's an option and not mandatory, and I may upgrade once the M5 generation releases (which is supposedly just a spec bump) as insurance.
by EGreg | 2025-09-30 17:53:48+00:00
"Give us access to any information on your computer."

And who is "us"?

"Well, our agents, of course. We'll send the information down to our servers, because -- surprise -- we have the GPU infrastructure to run it, and you don't. Don't worry, it's secure."

"Alright, well--"

https://www.wiz.io/blog/38-terabytes-of-private-data-acciden...

"Oops! Well don't worry, it's not like we're the first ones to sell your usage data..."

https://ferrumit.com/resources/it-s-now-legal-for-isps-to-se...

"You see! Well, just send us your DNA we'll analyze it -- with science! I mean with AI..."

"Alright, here is--"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/business/regeneron-pharma...

"Oops! Well don't worry, it's not like the company that bought us will do anything with your data, that we wouldn't have done."

Here's my question...

1) How much can we feasibly run on a consumer-grade GPU today, on-board the computer, either the latest macbook or latest mobile iphone? Does Apple Metal + Silicon ship with any models that are on board the latest iOS 26?

2) How can we extend the security boundary to GPU servers that are attested black boxes that store data encrypted at rest, guaranteed not to train on it and are not owned by some corporation that can peek at the data?
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-30 17:54:29+00:00
No.

But there is the anti-marketing effect: some of us saw the “Apple intelligence” ads and laughed right away, others were disappointed when inevitably it was disappointing.

Google has a new “AI mode” search button which is brilliant, but if I try to advocate for it people will confuse it for the trash summaries that have been polluting the results although often when you ask a yes/no question the summary gives the wrong answer and AI Mode gives the right answer.

Shoving products that don’t work up people’s nostrils mean that they’ll reject products that do work! At this rate it will take a year for the average HNer to realize that they’ll never look at a Fandom site or Forbes or see another chumbox ever again.
Why is Linux still trash in 2025?
by coolThingsFirst | 2025-09-30 17:54:32+00:00
This is failure of an operating system. I am using Ubuntu and the mouse stutters, the MOUSE stutters in 2025. It has been in development for 30+ years and still core issues like mouse support isn't there.

Or the software updater failing randomly. Or drivers causing to system to blank out. If it had been an MVP would've been better than this pile of garbage. Hours and hours wasted fixing issues which just don't exist elsewhere.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-30 17:54:33+00:00
> As far as I know, ZFS is either for smart people who want to do something sophisticated or trendy people who want to do something unwise.

Or people who want data checksums.

> Anybody using ZFS or ZFS-like to do some trivial standard RAID setup (unless they are used to and comfortable with ZFS, which is an entirely different story) is just begging to lose data.

How? You just... hand it some devices, and it makes a pool. Drive replacement is a single command.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-09-30 17:54:34+00:00
I almost never look at full images in 1:1, either, but I find very often that I have the wrong lens for an application and/or the wrong exposure.

You don't have to go very far before you've cropped a 20 MP source image into a 4K or 2K image, and if that part of the image that you've wanted to highlight is not well-lit, well, exposure is logarithmic and I want all of that RAW color depth that the camera can find if I'm going to turn black or white into perceptually accurate colors.

It's true that when my framing and exposure are great out of the box, I probably wouldn't notice or care if JPEG compression cut my file size by a factor of 4...but that's not always the case.
by arjie | 2025-09-30 17:55:01+00:00
However, after a day of using Crush with Qwen-3-480B-coder I am disappointed and will be canceling my Cerebras subscription. The model + agent pair is substantially worse than Claude Code with Sonnet 4 and I am going to have return to the latter. Qwen-3 in my workflow requires a lot of handholding and review and the gains from rapid generation are ruined by the number of errors in generated code.

Crush is also not a good assistant. It does not integrate scrollback with iTerm2 so I can't look at what the assistant did. The pane that shows the diff side by side is cool but in practice I want to go see the diff + reasoning afterwards so I can alter sections of it more easily and I can't do that.
by nicbou | 2025-09-30 17:55:09+00:00
I monitor 404 errors on my website. ChatGPT frequently sends traffic to pages that never existed. Sometimes the information they refer to has never existed on my website.

For example: "/glossary/love-parade" - There is no mention of this on my website. "/guides/blue-card-germany" has always been at "/guides/blue-card". I don't know what "/guides/cost-of-beer-distribution" even refers to.
by BizarroLand | 2025-09-30 17:55:17+00:00
For comparison sake, a 20 inch box fan, which many CR filters are made from, consume 60-85 watts depending on their speed, which is 50-100% more electricity.

This could be improved by finding more efficient fans, but if you're going for the cheap $25 fans at your local big-box store, you'll pay more for it over time in electricity costs.

I have one as well, but I live in a geodesic dome home and use it in the largest open portion of my house.

The ceiling at its highest point from the lowest point is 18 feet up, and the open section is about 1/2 of my entire home, so the one 20" fan keeps air circulating and being filtered for an enormous portion of my home.

If you live in a more typical home, the 20 inch box fan CR filter might be overkill.
by fuzztester | 2025-09-30 17:55:20+00:00
Partly related:

The process of bootstrapping a compiler (not an operating system) is really interesting and the method used is ingenious.

I had read about it some years back.

Basically, at high level, it's a kind of chicken and egg situation:

After writing a compiler for language A (in language A), where A is a new language, how can you compile that compiler to an executable, so that you can compile application programs written in A?

Because there is not yet any runnable compiler for A.

I might not have described the issue very well.

And the concept of cross-compiling also comes into the picture, depending on the situation.

I don't remember the details perfectly now.

If somebody else who knows, describes it, I think it would be interesting for many people here.

Some links:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler
by jrowen | 2025-09-30 17:55:42+00:00
This doesn’t really seem to touch on the problem I have with news, which is that it is all doom and gloom, FUD and outrage. The headlines I saw:

Trump, Congress deadlock as shutdown deadline nears

Taliban cuts internet nationwide, flights grounded in Afghanistan

Indonesia school collapse leaves 38 missing, 77 hurt

YouTube settles Trump suspension lawsuit for $24.5m

German court jails AfD aide for China spying

US deports 120 Iranians after deal

Russian drone strike kills family of four

Is this really what I need to know in the world? Am I saying “informed”? This is not helping the anxiety from reading news described in the article. This is not good for people.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-30 17:55:46+00:00
Off-putting? I think skepticism over marketing-hype from workers in a field is how things are supposed to work, especially for a group that spends lots of time plotting things out looking for edge-cases and ways for it to fail.

I'd be far more disturbed by the opposite, where everybody on HN is expected to gush over the thing-du-jour.

As aptly-put for a prior hype-cycle:

> Tech Enthusiasts: "Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via Alexa! I love the future!"

> Programmers/Engineers: "The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise."
by gorgoiler | 2025-09-30 17:55:47+00:00
Impressively high level of continuity. The only errors I could really call out are:

1/ 0m23s: The moon polo players begin with the red coat rider putting on a pair of gloves, but they are not wearing gloves in the left-vs-right charge-down.

2/ 1m05s: The dragon flies up the coast with the cliffs on one side, but then the close-up has the direction of flight reversed. Also, the person speaking seemingly has their back to the direction of flight. (And a stripy instead of plain shirt and a harness that wasn’t visible before.)

3/ 1m45s: The ducks aren't taking the right hand corner into the straightaway. They are heading into the wall.

I do wonder what the workflow will be for fixing any more challenging continuity errors.
by jvanderbot | 2025-09-30 17:55:48+00:00
Over time. But for a given instant, specialization will always win. That message is for researchers, who seek to have long term impact and it's bitter because it goes against their desire to provide long term impact from their own clever abstraction or insights.

But it's informative for the engineers that need something right now, because it means taking the best general purpose tool and specializing it will outperform the general tool, and you can sustain that if you are willing to always hop tools and respecialize. As we may.
by 1dom | 2025-09-30 17:56:00+00:00
Interesting, thanks! I feel like that kind of confirms my position: you're not someone who has the same passion for coding, you have a stronger passion for building, leading and selling tech companies, which is why you've done that multiple times.

I've never been a founding engineer, but typically a direct report to founding engineers.

The people I worked with in your position were either like you (e.g. enjoyed programming but clearly got a big rush from the business and money side too) or they were genuinely just pure passionate programmers and miserable, as their role takes them away from that.
by fsckboy | 2025-09-30 17:56:05+00:00
just a quibble, a lemon market is not a stage of a market, it's a market with information asymmetry which affects prices which affects market participation.

the Amazon mixing of products from separately sourced vendor inventories or luxury goods with counterfeiting competitors, or buying jewelry from a jeweler creates lemon markets for those products.

used markets do have the nature of lemon markets, and once you discovered that you have been ripped off on a purchase, you have an incentive to unload what you bought, and you could call that a lifecycle stage of a product, but "descending into lemonhood" is not a progression of markets.

also, the term lemon refers to the slang "lemon cars", cars with defects, and has nothing to do with a market for lemons where people seek the sour taste.
by AstroJetson | 2025-09-30 17:56:18+00:00
Yes, you can pick a better word if you want.

Positive spin: consolidation, efficiency, right-sizing, focus, sustainability Negative spin: downsizing, austerity, retrenchment, contraction, gutting

I would say that for something that is good for the public, that cutting it back is not a good thing.

Remember, they are not making land any more, so once it's no longer forest / public areas, it's gone.
by jacobolus | 2025-09-30 17:56:31+00:00
If you were playing chess, and you could do whatever you wanted, you might want to, e.g., set up a beautiful mating combination using the minor pieces, set a brilliant trap with forced mate in 10 moves and then trick the opponent into falling into it, keep control of the center all game and make the opponent play in a cramped and crippled style, promote a pawn to a knight for a win, skewer the queen and king, or turn a hopelessly lost position into a draw. The constraint is: you need to take turns and the opponent wants to win / doesn't want to let you win.
by acdha | 2025-09-30 17:57:14+00:00
> I know chrome tabs are a memory hog but my God this thing slowed to a crawl with even lightweight usage despite being weeks old. I told him to return it immediately.

Wouldn’t it be easier to use Firefox or Safari? Chrome is a hog but it’s not like we don’t have multiple great alternatives which also use something like half of the battery and don’t oppose privacy measures.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-30 17:57:21+00:00
> Anyone who uses zfs out of the box in a way substitutable with xfs, shouldn't.

Substitutable how? Like, I'm typing this on a laptop with a single disk with a single zpool, because I want 1. compression, 2. data checksums, 3. to not break (previous experiments with btrfs ended poorly). Obviously I could run xfs, but then I'd miss important features.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-09-30 17:57:25+00:00
I sorta think the issue is that what LLMs do in and of themselves is extend text in a coherent way, while only a small subset of applications are directly textual. It’s incredibly generally applicable yet also difficult to apply to anything that isn’t a glorified text editor. Say you wanted to have it help you edit videos. You might provide it with a scripting language to control the editor , but now you have to maintain parity between a scripting language and the editor’s user-accessible functionality. If you’re adobe, is that really worth the manpower? If you’re a small startup trying to unseat adobe, you have to compete with decades of features and user lock in. The only way this makes sense for either party is if the LLM is crazy good at it, but the LLM can’t watch its video output and it’s also probably just okay to begin with.
by GavinAnderegg | 2025-09-30 17:57:36+00:00
I really need to give Deno another shot. Supply-chain attacks terrify me, and any Node project these days comes with dozens or hundreds of dependancies. It's basically impossible to vet them all, and I don't think this problem is going to go away. The Deno solution here seems like a nice way to handle this. Almost none of my dependancies need to touch my filesystem or directly access the network.
Show HN: AI tools for high lvl researchers who need assistance – not answers
by ieuanking | 2025-09-30 17:58:01+00:00
High-level researchers and published academics don't want hallucinated work and already have the skills to complete their tasks. Current AI platforms and agents are both untrustworthy (hallucinating) or ineffective due to low PDF interactivity (cannot edit drafts, insert quotes, or highlight text in files), which means AI tools become useless at the highest level. We are sad to see academic databases flooded with LLM-assisted papers and an apparent decrease in creativity at the highest level of discovery (we suspect through over-reliance on AI oracles like ChatGPT).

We do not believe that Vibing is productive and hope to help minimize Vibe anything. Research is not disposable and should not be treated as another thing to automate; instead, we should build AI tools that help build critical thinking and creativity in humans.

So what is Ubik?

Ubik is the first AI Research Environment (AiRE): just like an IDE (coding) or a DAW (music production), Ubik is an environment for high-level research and deep knowledge work. Rather than quick/vague generation, Ubik agents can be contextually locked into PDFs added to chat. Like Cursor, all files and AI items can be referenced while prompting using the @ symbol. Search, analyze, and cite papers found in ArXiv and Semantic Scholar. Generate text with citation, and build a knowledge base that amplifies human intelligence instead of replacing it.

If you think this sounds like a helpful tool, go check it out and lmk what you think - Ubik will be free until 2026 :3

We are testing our custom-built EVAL suite and currently scoring above 90% on standard PDF EVALs and will be publishing soon <3
by kjs3 | 2025-09-30 17:58:18+00:00
We are going to have to change the way we interact with video.

I doubt it will be for the better. The ubiquity of AI deepfakes just reenforces entrenchment around "If the message reinforces my preconceived notion, I believe it and think anyone who calls it fake is stupid/my enemy/pushing an agenda. If the message contradicts my preconceived notion, it's obviously fake and anyone who believes it is stupid/my enemy/pushing an agenda.". People don't even take the time to think "is this even plausible", much less do the intellectual work to verify.