MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-09-12 04:24:30+00:00
If an LLM, apple or otherwise, runs on a phone, with audio input and output, then airpods and AliExpress five dollar earbuds should both be able to perform the I/O. I don't see a technical reason the latter is impossible. Indeed, it seems like it should work with the phone mic and speaker and no headset, too.

This isn't rocket science: audio goes into mic => STT engine => translation model => TTS engine => audio comes out of speaker. As a fellow hacker here, you could piece together something like this in a weekend on your computer for fun.

As for your question though: they can charge a subscription for using their LLM if they want, or charge for this specific app/feature of iOS. Or just be like me: whenever I'm about to execute on a business plan, I ask myself: "Is this business plan economically feasible without breaking the law?" And if it is not, then I do not do that plan. So far I haven't been cited for illegal conduct by any unions of dozens of countries, so it appears this tactic works.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-12 04:24:50+00:00
The US experiences these situations regularly due to its somewhat unique exposure to a dizzying array of severe natural disasters.

Having survived an above average number of these in my life myself where basic services were down for many days, I have a pretty good idea of what happens. Having cash versus digital doesn’t matter. No one is keeping track, people just take care of people. Everyone writes it off, moves on, and the community becomes stronger.

This is pretty wired into the culture. No one will accept your money in these scenarios even if you have it.
by user_7832 | 2025-09-12 04:25:38+00:00
> a very high focus on adherence

Don't know if it's the same for others, but my issue with Nano Banana has been the opposite. Ask it to make x significant change, and it spits out what I would've sworn is the same image. Sometimes randomly and inexplicably it spits our the expected result.

Anyone else experiencing this or have solutions for avoiding this?
by freddie_mercury | 2025-09-12 04:26:08+00:00
To push back slightly, Discord says they have 19 million weekly active servers, which almost certainly outstrips the number of forums back in the day.

It just feels like there's been a shift away from the super public phpbb forum style, with distinct posts and threads of conversation.

But I'm not sure that's quite the same thing as all the communities going away.

As some examples from my own Discord:

A server for fans of pretty obscure, self published author Victoria Goddard.

A server for fans of Reiner Knizia, the world's most prolific and famous boardgame designer.

A server for fans of the Lancer RPG.

A server for people who play modern (primarily) Japanese card games.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-12 04:28:17+00:00
Apple can revoke the entitlement if it's abused, as they've done many times in the past with signed apps. Nobody (including the EU) is demanding that it be an zero-auth free-for-all API, only that competitors can use it. It's not an absurd demand and there is absolutely precedent for Apple individually trusting competitors in this regard.

If you're astounded by hackers asking practical questions, maybe you should stop carrying water for corps and see how your back feels. Let's talk shop, what are the roadblocks Apple faces here?
by dmix | 2025-09-12 04:29:02+00:00
The better question is will it seriously increase the number of people’s access to goods during an emergency. Or is it just an extra stop for the panic buyers buying up everything in bulk on the way back home on the first day or two before the rest of the people start taking it seriously.

IRL market demands are massive for a western country so it’d require a lot more than a single chain of grocers staying open late. Or more accurately a huge devastating emergency to kill off essential industry like food production/distribution.
by jiqiren | 2025-09-12 04:32:49+00:00
I had two friends that said the same thing and now both have iPhones. They got sick of constantly sending in their phones to be replaced for screen failures. One had a pixel other had a Samsung.

The one with a pixel final break was when he landed in Belize to start a vacation and the screen died. Entire vacation he had to borrow wife’s iPad mini to read.
by subtlesoftware | 2025-09-12 04:34:18+00:00
An operating system UI solves a specific problem: presenting all of your files and applications in a GUI that's flexible enough to support a wide range of fundamental activities.

A company landing page basically has two jobs: (1) sell the product and (2) let existing users access the product.

Applying the OS UI to a company landing page applies the wrong tool to the wrong problem.

The author writes:

> You can multitask, open a few articles simultaneously, and move them around as you please.

> You can be reading the latest newsletter from Product for Engineers while watching a demo video in the corner and also playing Hedgehog Mode, the game.

My browser has tabs – I can open multiple blog posts and read them separately. I don't want to read them while playing a random novelty video game on a SaaS company website.

I commend the author of this website because it is cool and well-designed, but this is not an effective product.

The caveat to this is that the design is thought-provoking. So maybe Posthog gets some buzz and leads because of the discussion among technical people about its new website.
by FrazStew90 | 2025-09-12 04:36:56+00:00
"Four advanced AI systems (Brave AI, Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini) just produced a bipartisan legislative proposal to fix critical gaps in presidential accountability—through iterative dialogue, critique, and simulation.

The Presidential Accountability and Judicial Integrity Act of 2029 addresses:

The "re-election shield" loophole (DOJ policy + Trump v. US) Politicized DOJ investigations Vague immunity standards Key innovations:

Immunity limited to demonstrable constitutional duties Independent Oversight Board (judiciary + bipartisan members) Special counsel reforms (bipartisan confirmation/removal) Sunset review (GAO 2035) All materials (bill text, case study, process docs) are permanently archived as CC0 public domain: [https://archive.org/details/presidential-accountability-and-...]

This is a first-of-its-kind test of multi-agent AI collaboration in governance. Implications for democracy, AI ethics, and institutional innovation are massive.

Questions for HN:

Could this model scale to other policy crises? What are the risks of AI-assisted legislation? How should credit/attribution work in AI-human collaborations?"
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-12 04:37:23+00:00
I can see I my head with ~80% the level as seeing with my eyes. It's a little tunnel visiony and fine details can be blurry, but I can definitely see it. A honeycrisp apple on a red woven placemat on a wooden counter top. The blue dots are the size of peas, they are stickers in a triangle.

It not just images either, it's short videos.

What's interesting though is that the "video" can be missing details that I will "hallucinate" back in that will be incorrect. So I cannot always fully trust these. Like cutting the apple in half lead to a ~1/8th slice missing from one of the halves. It's weird.
by vunderba | 2025-09-12 04:37:48+00:00
Yeah I've definitely seen this. You can actually see evidence of this problem in some of the trickier prompts (the straightened Tower of Pisa and the giraffe for example).

Most models (gpt-image-1, Kontext, etc) typically fail by doing the wrong thing.

From my testing this seems to be a Nano-Banana issue. I've found you can occasionally work around it by adding far more explicit directives to the prompt but there's no guarantee.
by larusso | 2025-09-12 04:38:00+00:00
Ok this answers my question to the nature of the page. As in: Are these examples that show results you get when using certain inputs and prompts. Or are these impressive lucky on offs.

I was a bit surprised to see quality. Last time I played around with image generation is a few months back and I’m more in the frustration camp. Not to say that I believe some people with more time and dedication at their hand can tickle better results.
by koverstreet | 2025-09-12 04:40:23+00:00
the btrfs devs are also famous for being unresponsive to these sorts of issues.

there's a feedback effect: if users know that a filesystem takes these kinds of issues seriously and will drop what they're doing and jump on them, a lot of users will very happily spend the time reporting bugs and working with devs to get it resolved.

people don't like wasting their time on bug reports that go into the void. they do like contributing their time when they know it's going to get their issue fixed and make things better for everyone.

this is why I regularly tell people "FEED ME YOUR BUG REPORTS! I WANT THEM ALL!"

it's just what you have to do if you want your code to be truly bulletproof.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-12 04:40:28+00:00
3 days is a pretty long time unless the damage is catastrophic and very broad based. Extended preparations come with an overhead cost that must be offset by the benefit.

Denmark specifically is not a populous country. You could probably keep the entire country fed with just the capacity of e.g. the US military airlift capability, which has been used in these situations. The emergency reserves mostly only need to exist until supply chains are established. It is a balancing act.
A New Type of Computing
by amazedsaint | 2025-09-12 04:41:56+00:00
I’m waiting to get some patents through for a new type of computing paradigm we are building - but would like to share few learnings and insights anyway

Can a computer compute any algorithm in this universe? Is that even true once we remember the universe has a finite memory and every irreversible bit flip turns into heat?

I take the abstract claim of universality as a guiding ideal, then ask what survives contact with Landauer and Bekenstein. Only computations that fit the energy and memory budget actually happen, so the winning style must squeeze meaning per bit and minimize erasure.

That pushed me to a simple lens. Computation rides on connectivity, not on coordinates. If I draw a circuit on a rubber sheet and stretch or crumple the sheet without cutting a wire, the program does not change. Only rewiring changes behavior. In other words, logic lives in topological classes of the wiring, while geometry is costume.

Once constraints are encoded as topological invariants, energy based model predictive flows on graphs beat stepwise generation.

Think a ball rolling on a landscape carved by the network itself. The search does not waste bits exploring directions the wiring already forbids. Guidance replaces guesswork, so you move less entropy to reach the same answer.

Thermodynamics also agrees. Coz we only pay when we erase information, so I organize computations to be mostly reversible, push entropy to the boundary, and erase only when learning truly demands forgetting. Throughput then scales with boundary more than with bulk, echoing holography.

With a finite cosmic memory, the smart move is to store structure rather than raw state, compressing meaning into invariants that a boundary can carry.

Message passing turns out to be gauge transport in plain clothes. Treat edges as connections and cycles as holonomy loops. The accumulated phase around a loop enforces global consistency without a global overseer. Small perturbations do not matter unless they jump the system to a different topological class, which is why robustness emerges from the wiring itself.

So can a computer compute any algorithm in this universe? In the abstract sense yes. In the physical sense it can compute the subclass that fits within time, energy, and memory, and it does best when it leans on topology. I now see useful computation as homotopy search - start in the right class, deform within it, and rewire only when you choose a different class.

That respects the information limit of the universe and trades costly bits for conserved structure, which is why I believe it is true.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-09-12 04:44:07+00:00
Slightly off-topic but as a fairly serious backyard astronomer I almost never look at the full moon with my telescope because it's boring. Full moons are like cloudy skies: The viewing will be shitty tonight so best not to even set up the 'scope.

But looking at the terminator during a partial moon -- especially a new moon -- is quite spectacular.
by argomo | 2025-09-12 04:45:39+00:00
There's a general principal in regulated businesses that it's best to be above suspicion and below the radar at all times. You don't want to give regulators or opponents (such as competitors or advocacy groups) any ammunition.

This is how you minimize headaches and your legal bill. And on the day that people come after you for some unforeseeable tragedy or perhaps genuine wrongdoing (covered up by unscrupulous employees or less-than-honest vendors), you'll be better positioned to deflect legal repercussions and bad press.

The unnecessary cookie banner is a no-brainer: it costs you nothing and poses but a minimal irritant to users.
by flowerthoughts | 2025-09-12 04:46:38+00:00
Probably in large part because all after WW2, German has been used exclusively when making fun of a certain dictator, in English. You've been taught that it's funny, if you're in the Western world.

Of course, before the radio, making fun of languages couldn't spread that quickly, so German was probably the first language to lose a war (or two) after globalization had started.
by tryauuum | 2025-09-12 04:49:33+00:00
Comparing it to the physical thing is not fair. Murder is slow, and for mass murder at least there are people who will have to agree and do it. Compare it to automatically blocking a website after a button is pressed

And murder is transparent, you cannot murder many people without a public reaction. With the internet though... They can block thousands of IPS and no one will know. And you cannot access the database of the blocked resources because, who are you, a pedophile?

I have a feeling I cannot explain how painful it is to live in a country destroying the internet. I wanted to leave the Russia even before the war because of that. Now I am extremely allergic to any government's censorship attempts
by ajanthanmani | 2025-09-12 04:50:01+00:00
What it is: Popular50 shows the top 50 YouTube Videos and shorts that are trending right now for each country and category. No login, No Ads

Try it: Open the site -> pick a country (top-right) (US is default) -> filter with category chips -> click a card to watch the video (embedded player)

Why I built it: YouTube's "Trending" is hard to browse by country x category in one place. And then YouTube decided to remove the Trending page from it's UI. I missed that overview for content discovery and know what's really trending everywhere.

How it works (tech) A task runner pulls YouTube's trending date from YouTube Data API into ElasticSearch. A simple python backend connects the front-end and ElasticSearch. Front-end Pages are SSR'd (Next.js + shadcn/ui). Data refreshes every 12 hours for now (quota-bound); I've applied for higher quota to reach 30-min refreshes.

What's different: * Country-scoped browsing with category chips * Up to Top 50 videos per category * Watch directly from Popular50.com instead of redirecting to YouTue website * No ads on the page

Roadmap (near-term) * Reduce refresh time to every 30 minutes * UI experiments on the watch page * MCP Server if anyone is interested. * Mobile app / Chrome Extension if anyone is interested

Looking for Feedback * IA/UX: navigation and overall UX * What would keep you coming back daily? * General Feedback, Suggestions and Recommendations!

Happy to answer questions and ship quick fixes today.
by coldfoundry | 2025-09-12 04:50:53+00:00
I agree that proper permission should be used for these examples, but I’m quite sure the image in question is AI generated. The quality is incredible these days as to what can be generated, and even to a trained eye it’s getting more difficult by the day to tell if its AI or not.

Source of artist: https://x.com/curry3_aiart/status/1947416300822638839
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-12 04:51:35+00:00
The shooter must have known what that rooftop, and especially the edge of the roof was like. There's no way that anyone will decide to dangle off the lip of the roof and drop at least 10 feet to the ground in the heat of the moment. Looked like the shooter was hustling, but had it figured out - no false moves, no oopsies. He had done this before.
by ttiurani | 2025-09-12 04:54:33+00:00
Exactly. If they indeed only use the cookie for essential functionality, this kind of joke banner only makes their choice to respect visitors' privacy equally annoying.

Even worse: because it makes it seem like the EU law is just meritless pestering of people, they are actually fighting for the right for worse sites to spy on their visitors.

It's baffling.
by dcsommer | 2025-09-12 04:54:59+00:00
It would be cool to build a "library clout" measure for all open source software. First collect for all deployed software systems measures of usage per platform and along other interesting dimensions like how that system relates to others (is it a common dependency or platform for other deployed software). Use this to generate "clout" at a deployed software unit level. Then detect all open source libraries compiled in it by binary signature matching or through the software's own build system if it is open. Then a library's "clout" is built from the clout of the projects that use it.

This clout score might be used to guide investments in a non-profit for funding critical OSS. Data collection would be challenging though, as would callibrating need.

Basically make a rigorous score to track some of the intuition from https://xkcd.com/2347/
by germandiago | 2025-09-12 04:56:03+00:00
> The death toll numbers I used are from a peer-reviewed UK publication that more or less corroborates the numbers reported by Gaza itself.

I am quite skeptical of that data to be totally honest. What I found over the years is falsification after falsification. It is a fact that this has happened. We all know. But it is also the common thing that those numbers are inflated.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-09-12 04:56:24+00:00
Well the question as to whether it’s a “cut-and-dried” violation depends on information Apple probably isn’t willing to share: is there a specific technical reason this technology can’t be enabled on third party headphones? If there’s a good reason (e.g. the AirPods have a chip in them that does processing on the signal without which it wouldn’t work), then it’s probably fine. If it’s just `if (headphones !== “AirPods)`, then that’s probably not
by onecommentman | 2025-09-12 04:57:39+00:00
Not just Islam. There have been decades of clashes between the ultra Orthodox Jews who comprise 70% of Lakewood NJ and the remaining 30% of Lakewood and the general surrounding area. In the 1980s there were complaints of ultra orthodox going around and attempting to buy non orthodox homes warning that the neighborhood would be changing and they should leave now. Assume such tactics have been common among all religious cults of all flavors for centuries. Much more glaring and unsightly when it happens in the USA.
by bruce511 | 2025-09-12 04:58:09+00:00
This is very creative, and I suspect would work.

It does have the side effect of wasting the time of 1+n engineers for that hour. I might be able to rustle up a few in month 1, but I'm not going to ba able to do it monthly.

Frankly, as long as the builder has a "support contract" option, that should be sufficient.

I will add that understanding how business works is a huge help to them to get you paid. I advocated for supporting a project (they have a "sponsored by" marketing on their web page, so we could take it out the marketing budget.) But they could only be paid via PayPal (which unfortunately we can't do) do the deal fell through.

It didn't help that the home page in question contained lot of sarcasm, and was antagonistic in tone, likely (I suspect) because of the nonsense the maintainer had to wade through. Ultimately no money got sent.

I'm happy to support OSS, but I can only spend so much social capital on doing so. My advice to maintainers, if you want sponsorship, put some effort into making that channel professional. It really helps.
by xp84 | 2025-09-12 04:59:35+00:00
> EU law is just meritless pestering of people

It is that. It has done literally nothing to improve anything whatsoever, in any country. And most of the "cookie management" scripts that people use, barely even work. Both the law and the way it's complied with in practice are a dumb solution to a problem that the EU should have forced browser vendors to solve. Only the user's browser can choose not to send back cookies, and it would be trivial for the user to be shown a dialog when they navigate to a previously-visited site in a new session saying:

Last time you were here, the site stored information that may help them recognize you or remember your previous actions here. < I want to be recognized > / < Forget Everything > [ ] Also keep these third-party cookies <Details...> [x] Remember my choice and don't ask again for ycombinator.com
by somenameforme | 2025-09-12 05:00:08+00:00
The Institute for Family Studies doesn't independently carry out studies. It just provides an objective review of the studies available while providing links to each study for each and every point they make, so that you can easily verify what they say. The paper you linked to, by contrast, is being actively disingenuous. For instance they claim that:

> "Other reported benefits of attendance at high-quality child care include less impulsivity, more advanced expressive vocabulary, and greater reported social competence (Belsky et al. 2007)."

You probably thought they were comparing high quality daycare to parental care, because that's certainly what they're implying. Here [1] is the paper they're referencing, which unsurprisingly they chose to not provide a link to. They are comparing high quality daycare care against poor quality daycare! Both had overall negative effects relative to parental care! In particular all non-parental childcare was directly associated with lower social competence, poorer work habits, conflicted relationships with teachers (and their mother!), and so on.

That paper itself is based on the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development series. You can find a more casual overview of that study's findings here. [2] And an opinion piece, 'daycare - yes or no', based on an overview of the available evidence (including the NICHD study) here. [3]

[1] - https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007....

[2] - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/going-beyond-intelli...

[3] - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/parenting-matters/20...
by amarant | 2025-09-12 05:01:39+00:00
Technically North America! But people don't tend to think of Mexico that way.

It's not trouble free, not by a long shot. I have family connection to here though and I recon Mexico is not very likely to partake in WW3 in any meaningful way, so should be safe from what I worry is coming soon for Europe.

For now tho, I'm definitely less safe than my friends and family back in Sweden. In the short term at least. I don't think Putin is going to change that this year, and probably not next year either, but honestly who knows.
by jolmg | 2025-09-12 05:01:49+00:00
> i have two dozen tmux windows in half a dozen sessions locally.

> i have yet to find a window manager that lets me group so many terminals into sessions all on the same workspace.

Locally-speaking, I don't really see the point of mixing tmux sessions and tmux windows. I wonder if you mean "sessions" -> tmux windows and "windows" -> tmux panes.

What about i3/sway? You can have a tabbed container (functions like tmux windows) with split containers inside (functions like tmux panes). You can even float the tabbed container with all windows organized inside.