MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-15 21:12:04+00:00
Their fees for cryptocurrency are small (between 1.5% - 2.5% depending on amounts, higher amounts have a lower fee), but they take it on both the buying and selling end. So if the amounts you're moving require a 1.8% fee, then for both buying and selling you end up with 3.6% in fees. Coinbase and most other CEXes charge this and they claim part of the fee is due to instability in the price, so this fee acts as a spread they can use to not lose money.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-15 21:12:12+00:00
> a strong enough rideshare union will eventually force autonomous vehicles out of the state

Zero chance. What we may see is the legacy rideshare providers ceding the market to autonomously native providers.

But even then, this is ringfenced to California. If the unions go Luddite, one can contain the problem the way California’s home insurance market is segregated.
by 827a | 2025-09-15 21:12:52+00:00
React is winning because its really good. Even if the cost is an extra few milliseconds of render time and few extra hours of dev time figuring out things like hook dependencies.

If React starts taking a backseat, it'll be because its no longer really good. And, to be fair: I've started to see this happen. Next & Vercel have totally taken over the React world, and they've proven to make quite poor architectural decisions. All great empires are destroyed from the inside, not out, and I think its possible Vercel could do this to React. But, also, even as Next seppukus itself, people will likely just fall back to React on Vite (or, there's Remix 3 that's I think still under development, but might end up being big).
by buraktamturk | 2025-09-15 21:13:59+00:00
This settings turns reduce transparency and it turns makes the menu bar gray, which looks horrible on a display on notch.

Is there any way to make it black? Like it appears on full screen applications? (apart from enabling the transparency together with a black wallpaper)

Currently even on dark mode it doesn't have a black background while reduce transparency is toggled on.
by simonw | 2025-09-15 21:14:14+00:00
I posted some notes here that might be useful: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/15/gpt-5-codex/

Even shorter version:

- New coding-specialist model called GPT-5-Codex, coming soon to the API but for now available in their Codex CLI, VS Code and Codex Cloud products

- New code review product (part of Codex Cloud) that can review PRs for you

- New model promises better code review, less pointless comments and can vary its reasoning effort for simple vs complex tasks
by SpicyUme | 2025-09-15 21:14:28+00:00
I wonder if he would describe himself as a construction worker, or maybe he would say he's a surfer who does construction to make a living? Sometimes you can see a struggle to define a person independent of their jobs, why does it matter here?

I see the headline here changed, it used to be: [Calif. construction worker unofficially broke a fabled world record]
by rvrb | 2025-09-15 21:15:03+00:00
It was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. After trying out the preview for a month, the writing was on the wall, and I began the process of switching to a Thinkpad with Linux. I am now fully off macOS for the first time in 20 years of being an Apple die hard. I could use a lot of emotionally loaded words to describe how I feel about this release, but the long and short of it is that I am no longer the target audience for Apple.
by tom_ | 2025-09-15 21:15:23+00:00
Apple have always seemed to drop support for hardware after 5-7 years, and then it's just a question of the last supported OS becoming itself unsupported too. My early 2015 Macbook Pro (new in April 2015) got as far as macOS Monterey (released October 2021) - and they stopped updating that in October 2024.

(I'm not digging through Wikipedia to double check but my previous 2 Macbooks Pro felt like they lasted about as long.)

It'll be interesting to see if they change this with the (presumably cleaner slate) Apple Silicon-based hardware.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-15 21:15:40+00:00
Voting third party in a first-past-the-post electoral system is a coordination problem. If I, as an individual, have some grab-bag of political stances, with varying weights of importance to me, it is likely that some issues will become a matter of "I am willing to cast my vote in any direction that minimizes the chances that someone with the opposing view does not take power". For example, for people who strongly oppose a backslide into Facism in the US, the only real choice in the last presidential election was voting Democrat, because while there might have been third party candidates that would have been better, the Dems were the most likely opposition to that to win. Absent extremely effective widespread coordination, a vote for a third party increases the probability of an unacceptable outcome.
by belorn | 2025-09-15 21:15:49+00:00
There is no 1$ in electric production, unless you are selling and buying simultaneous at the exact same date and time, and from the same location. A fair price would be the current market price at the point in time, subtracted with the cost of operate transmission, facilitating the sale, and the predicted reduction in market price by increased supply. Depending on where you live the price difference between the average day of selling and average day of buying may very well be quite different. It is not uncommon in Europe to see negative market prices, where overproduction is not going to benefit the electric company at all.
by Kon5ole | 2025-09-15 21:16:04+00:00
You may be right about the ROI in a strict sense, I just question why it matters.

A communal solar farm is not the same product as personal home solar anyway. When someone with surplus money decides to pay for their own solar it might be suboptimal ROI for them, but the rest of us get a little bit of solar benefits for 0 money.

And more importantly, solar starts replacing fossil fuels rightaway. No waiting for a communal, optimal ROI initiative to get started.

But of course, we should do those as well.
by miki123211 | 2025-09-15 21:16:09+00:00
> I'd argue that vibe-coded rust can be better than just "written-rust

I never thought about it this way, but it actually makes sense. It's just like how Rust / Go / Java / C# can sometimes be orders of magnitude faster than C, only because they're more expressive languages. If you have a limited amount of time, it may be possible to write an efficient, optimal and concurrent algorithm in Java, while in C, all you can do is the simplest possible solution. Linked list versus slices (which are much more cache-friendly) is the perfect example here.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-15 21:16:34+00:00
> Also no matter how technical you are, it's almost impossible for you to detect zero-click 0days for which you are more vulnerable to than people without root privileges. You running rooted OS actually become easier and less costly target than people without rooted OS.

I doubt that user-controlled root access is a significant variable in the face of zero-days; LineageOS+Magisk is more likely to resist attack than vendor ROMs that are lagging security updates by months.
by maeln | 2025-09-15 21:16:44+00:00
In terms of pure compression ratio AV1 compete mostly with h265/HVEC in most cases. It does perform pretty well for low bitrate and specific situation like synthetic noise, but h265 is usually better for higher bitrate situations. Hopefully, AV2 will be able to compete with the future H267.

But to be honest, video codec have gotten so good these days, I just hope that we get a reasonably fast open-source encoder. AV1 and HVEC can already turn a 50Go bluray into an almost visually lossless 5~3Go file.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-15 21:16:57+00:00
> This is either an epic troll

That wasn't my intention. :-) I just wanted to point out that it is not "sheer stupidity and obliviousness", but a useful distinction.

> It once was just a mostly fun little word

I think part of that issue is, that the term didn't exist here when it only meant that. Was it a "in black subgroup" thing? Or was this known to a wider audience?

> excellent bit of evidence in favor of my point

Can you explain this to counteract my obliviousness? So you see ziml77 as an example of left and me of right, or what?
by glxxyz | 2025-09-15 21:16:59+00:00
The 15oz (pre-shrinkflation) Betty Crocker mix weighs 432g, 2/3 the weight of your recipe's flour and sugar alone, so your recipe is for a much larger cake.

Wal-Mart's own brand flour is about (Canadian) $C0.15/kg if buying 2.5kg, cake & pastry flour more like 24 cents/kg. Granulated Sugar is C$0.15/kg. I'm not sure where you're buying flour & sugar.

Your most expensive ingredient is butter but you could have easily chosen a recipe without butter. I reckon the cake with butter will be much better than BC's version though.

Other advantages of baking with a recipe are being able to scale the recipe up or down as needed, and always having the ingredients for many different recipes on hand without having to buy a vanilla cake mix, a brownie mix, a pancake mix, a waffle mix etc.

The main advantage of a recipe is tweakability. I find most commercial cakes far too sweet, and when I bake from a recipe I can find the point to which I can reduce the sugar without it becoming too bland.

I don't know whether they're harmful but I'm quite happy to cook a cake without Propylene glycol, Xanthan gum, cellulose gum, sodium stearoyl lactylate, monoglycerides, and monoesters of fatty acids

I've always been baffled by the popularity of pre-made recipe boxes. Maybe useful if I was camping or something, but not when I have access to an actual kitchen.
by bangaroo | 2025-09-15 21:17:03+00:00
realistically i've worked at very few companies whose delivery is held back meaningfully by the framework something is built in.

when there's friction, it's much more likely to come from poor planning, or constantly adding more functionality without stopping to reconsider architecture, or one of a thousand more organizational issues.

the innovation delivered by basically anyone working in software is extremely rarely a function of the tools they use to build the software, and many extremely successful products effectively started as CRUD apps, just organized in a way that really served a specific use case well.

the stuff i recall that truly transformed the way i've experienced the web - (what was at the time) AJAX, webGL, the canvas tag, websockets - tend to be shipped in the browser, and function equally well in basically any framework. i don't really think that i can point to a single new framework that truly changed the way i experience the web meaningfully.

react is probably the closest i can recall, but primarily because it was the one that caught on and made building really rich SPAs fashionable after the long slushy period of knockout and angular and backbone and handlebars and the thousand other disparate things cobbled together by every company. it catching on and taking over most of the industry meant people could move between jobs easier, contribute more quickly, and take easier advantage of countless libraries because they were either natively made for react or there was plenty of documentation and support for integrating them.

having that broad a universe of support might actually be a main source of innovation, when you think about it. having it be effortless to integrate basically anything in the js universe into your project because it's well-documented and has been done a thousand times means you can focus more easily on the unique parts of your project.

i'm definitely a little jaded, and 20ish years into my career i'm more business-minded than i was when i started, but i struggle to imagine a framework so profoundly and uniquely enabling of new things, that would have such a meaningful impact on my bottom line, that i would choose it and the trouble of hiring experienced engineers comfortable with it (or training new ones) when i could just bring on literally anyone in the entire industry, because basically all front-end devs are comfortable in react.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-15 21:17:18+00:00
That credit cards exist didn't mean cash stopped existing. Likewise, just because CEXes and L2s exist doesn't mean L1 cryptocurrency doesn't exist. You can still grab a non-custodial wallet and still manage your own crypto. Today Coinbase has a debit card that can sell crypto at FMV, apply their spread (1.88% I think?), and immediately use that to pay off USD denominated bills. So if your crypto is in your wallet you can just send your Coinbase wallet the funds for the purchase and then swipe your debit card to pay.

Coinbase's spread isn't the worst thing to pay for the service of having a debit card and auto-selling, but if you also buy crypto using Coinbase, they double-dip on the fee.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-15 21:17:20+00:00
I was just in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, where, just like you'd expect in a museum, 30-40% of the space is devoted to signs explaining what you should think about current political issues. There was one "exhibit" devoted solely to convincing you to do more dark-sky activism.

Even in that context, they couldn't bring themselves to recommend against palm oil. Their sign on that topic remarked that palm oil requires much less land per unit of oil produced than other oils, making it a pro-environment product.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-15 21:17:24+00:00
I don't think "defaults to windows-like" is a bad choice for newcomers.

I don't customize it heavily either. Move tray, clock and menus to the top, a-la GNOME2, leave taskbar at the bottom, both auto-hidden and narrower than screen.

Add four desktops as a 2x2 grid, re-enable old CTRL+ALT+$ARROW keyboard shortcuts, add a couple of usability effects with custom key combinations and two active corners, and I'm done.

Some applications (Konsole, KATE) get custom fonts and themes, but everything else is bog standard. Setting it up takes 30-ish minutes, and it's the same config for decades now. Probably because of sharpening the same tool and optimizing without knowing.

Then, I can just concentrate and fly on that environment.

Also, they have improved a lot in the small areas where it was lacking. You can use your system without a terminal if you want, plus Baloo works really well.
by etempleton | 2025-09-15 21:17:32+00:00
I have been running the beta from the beginning and they have improved quite a bit, but I am actually shocked they didn't delay Mac OS 26, because the design is so rough around the edges. Some of the larger aesthetic changes, such as the menu bar and the dock look good, but there is so much more that looks objectively awful.

1. the way window UI elements float in bubbles on the top over a white background is horrible. It looks amateurish.

2. Icons look low detail and blurry. At first I thought they were using low resolution placeholder icons, but no, the layered diffused glass effect just kind of translates to blurriness on many app icons.

3. The side bar, such as on Finder, just kind of floats there. That is fine and looks kind of neat on the Maps app as you can see some of the maps behind it, but on the Finder it is just a white bubble over top of a white background, which... is a choice.

4. The app launcher is gone, and replaced by Spotlight, which is worse.

I could go on. The point is it is bad and Apple should be embarrassed. I say that as someone who likes Apple products alot.
by bullen | 2025-09-15 21:17:37+00:00
I just downloaded and thought maybe 80MB... why is it taking so long... hm

Edit: Made a 30MB png with linear interpolation (because I don't have all day): http://move.rupy.se/file/turgot.png

Here's another map of Paris (this time with interpolation): http://move.rupy.se/file/eau_paris_3.png
by theologic | 2025-09-15 21:18:06+00:00
I don't think this was what the external post was about. The Blue Tax was put on everybody, and was a requirement for a business model. The external post said nobody really wanted to sell the PC and "antibodies" made sure that the the IBM PC company would be rejected.

This is pretty well understood about defining your business model, and is not an antibody issue.

The real threat was Microsoft, which we understood at the time. Our biggest problem is not the OS, it was the apps.

I have made a part of fable on this here: https://theologic.substack.com/p/the-fable-continues-microso...
by runjake | 2025-09-15 21:18:25+00:00
Can you post screenshots of what you mean?

I see grossly rounded corners in some apps, but I don't see the other stuff like gaps in window corners for full screen apps. I may have some config bit flipped that has disabled those.

Yeah, the new corner radius is ugly but by and large, it's not much different than before, from what I see so far.
by timr | 2025-09-15 21:18:37+00:00
Yeah, calling something "fascistic" is at least more honest that a metaphor is being invoked. I still think it's lazy, because most of the time, the people using the word have no idea what specific thing they're talking about is "fascistic", nor could they name a specific "fascistic" trait if you challenged them to do so. Again, it's mostly a lazy way of saying "I think this person is evil, but I cannot articulate precisely why!"

I personally think the laws against calling someone a "Nazi" are antithetical to free speech -- and invocation of "Nazi" is always useful to quickly illustrate that you're arguing with an idiot -- but lately my eyes are getting sore from rolling so much, so I have sympathy for such a law.
by jgalt212 | 2025-09-15 21:18:56+00:00
These of accounts do have read access so you can send all your childrens' phone calls straight to voicemail. :)

Also, you can have complete separation if your accounts are at Bank A, and the dependents are at Bank B.

I'm not trying to convince you, but moreso keep others from making parenting harder than it already is.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-15 21:18:57+00:00
This is what happens when designers are treated as royalty and are told that their new "clothes" are "awesome" all the time.

It's also a symptom of consumption addiction where there is demand/motivation for drastic, superficial changes that don't really offer any value except to those who are consumed by the need for constant change for change's sake.

Apple used to care more about disabled people because of how the Accessibility APIs worked and were required for most apps.
by krrishd | 2025-09-15 21:19:04+00:00
>why people who actually like crypto would want paypal

this snippet is everything: "to PayPal, Venmo, as well a rapidly growing number of digital wallets across the world that support crypto and stablecoins"

this is effectively PayPal taking its "closed-loop" payment network, and opening it up to any wallet capable of receiving crypto/stablecoins - which is still a big deal.

your counterparty no longer has to have a PayPal account for you to pay them via PayPal - they can have any crypto wallet and get paid by you - which is in line with much of the crypto vision around global interoperability/payment acceptance/etc. you could compare to Visa/card acceptance as another global payment rail - but the difference here is closer to the difference between global card payments (easy) and global bank transfers (hard)
by dsego | 2025-09-15 21:19:06+00:00
Notice how on the menu bar, when you click File and then the dropdown appears, you can move the mouse arrow to the right (without clicking) over Edit and now the Edit menu shows up. But the same doesn't work on the status menu icons, if I click on the volume icon and move the mouse, nothing happens, the volume menu stays open, even if hover over the battery indicator. So many little things like this that never worked consistently.
Show HN: Cut AI API costs 90% with intelligent model routing
by bytecounter | 2025-09-15 21:19:06+00:00
We were hemorrhaging 8k/month on OpenAI APIs before realizing most calls didn't need GPT-5.

The problem: every request was hitting our most expensive model, even simple formatting tasks that GPT-4o-mini handles perfectly. According to recent data, enterprises are spending an average of $85k/month on AI with 75% year-over-year growth, but 80% aren't seeing meaningful ROI.

APICrusher routes requests automatically based on complexity analysis: - Basic tasks → GPT-4o-mini ($0.15/1M tokens) - Standard queries → GPT-4o ($2.50/1M tokens) - Complex reasoning → GPT-5 ($15/1M tokens)

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by crowfunder | 2025-09-15 21:19:17+00:00
> The device should ideally have some kind of secret material derived per device, like a passphrase generated from an MCU serial number or provisioned into EEPROM and printed on a label on the device.

It is better than simple secret like 12345678 but it can go wrong too, like in the case of UPC UBEE routers where the list of potential passwords can be narrowed down to like ~60 possibilities using a googled generator [1] whilst knowing only the SSID.

It did require firmware reverse engineering to figure out [2][3] but applies to most devices I've encountered. User should ideally always change the default password regardless.

[1] https://upcwifikeys.com/UPC1236567

[2] https://deadcode.me/blog/2016/07/01/UPC-UBEE-EVW3226-WPA2-Re...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20161127232750/http://haxx.in/up...
by Ecco | 2025-09-15 21:20:29+00:00
I feel like we’ve gone full circle. For decades Apple hardware sucked and was badly overpriced, but you paid the price to enjoy running Mac OS X. Now Apple makes amazing hardware (especially laptops) but the drawback is that you have to run macOS on them.

I really wish Asahi Linux had more support, I would have bought a couple M4 Minis.
by const_cast | 2025-09-15 21:20:33+00:00
For most places in the US rent is lower than a mortgage. Primarily because:

- multi-unit buildings are significantly more efficient in cost per-unit.

The cost of a 1500 sqft apt and 1500 sqft home is not the same, the home is going to cost a few times more. Because it's on its own lot, with its own land, and it's on the ground, and it gets its only municipalities (gas, water, steam, electricity), and then it also has its own road requirements.

Basically with, say, a 12 story block you can get hundreds of units for the same amount amount of land (and associate cost) as a few homes. And then you can spread the cost of municipalities, too.

Even with just a duplex or dingbat you're looking at the same land costs and the equivalent accomodations as a few homes. But it doesn't scale linearly, meaning a duplex != the cost of 2 homes.

Also large landlords (corps) can spread the cost of price across all their units. Meaning, like Walmart, some are loss leaders for competitive reasons and some make more money than they need to.

Interestingly, the cost per unit continues to go down until about 12 stories. Then it goes back up, because of building requirements. Which is why commie blocks were historically 8 to 12 stories tall, it's the cheapest way to build housing.