MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adastra22 | 2025-10-29 04:23:47+00:00
Yeah, I literally just bought an M4 device mere weeks before the M5 came out. The performance jump is nontrivial for my use case. Am I worried about it? Nah. In another year there will be another jump, and then the year after. I’m just on a different upgrade cadence, that’s all.

Meanwhile back in the pre-M1 days I remember stalking Mac rumors for moths trying to make sure I wasn’t going to buy right before their once-in-blue-moon product refresh. You could buy a Mac and get most of its useful life before they upgrade the chip, if you timed it right, so an upgrade right after you bought was a real kick in the pants.
by sharts | 2025-10-29 04:23:58+00:00
i like tailscale but i notice that i get more weird network blippy latency issues when using it. i used to always have my phone connected to my tailnet so i could use my dns, etc. but always occasionally something won’t load right and i have to refresh again couple of times.

It tended to happen a lot more when switching between wifi / cellular when leaving and entering buildings, etc.

Now I just don’t use it
by godelski | 2025-10-29 04:24:08+00:00
> The most likely vector was that her phone was out of date

No one is talking about stopping security patches. Your computer works fine, gets security patches, and you aren't restricted from installing any software on it.

Perhaps, as a fellow developer and a HACKER News user, you can understand that the underlying problem is the device security. Amplifying the problem is the surveillance capitalism ecosystem. Your data is valuable, to the trillion dollar companies and to hackers. Which means they need to collect that data and try to drive a fine line of giving them access but no one else. I thought we were all aware that trying to make backdoors is a foolish endeavor.

> Prior to smart phones ... to remove malware and viruses from personal computers.

Your desktop computer is still a desktop computer. The smart phone didn't change anything there. If you're getting fewer viruses it is because either 1) the user is becoming more proficient, 2) the hackers are becoming less proficient, or 3) (the actual answer) security is getting stronger. Critical to #3 is noting that this has happened without the requirement of app stores.

I also want to stress, the enforcement of app stores is the death of phones and general purpose computers.

What makes computers (phones included) so great is that they are an ecosystem. You can't make a product for everyone, but you can make an ecosystem that can be adapted to anyone. Without programs these things aren't very useful. We're back in the old days like with the IBMs. Just remember, it took Google and Apple years before they put a flashlight app on their phones, but it only took weeks for developers. If we wait for them to build everything we're going to wait forever and won't get half the stuff we need.

>>> You have the right to install whatever you want on your computer, regardless of whether that computer is on your desk or in your pocket. That's a hill I'll die on

It is a hill I'll die on too
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-10-29 04:24:28+00:00
Its just a pattern I see repeated. The innovators find a playground, its cool for a while, then it succumbs to grift of some kind or another, and the innovators move on.

There was a time when "pamphlets" were an edgy new social medium, now its just a certain kind of ad. Same thing happened with radio. And now it has happened to the web also.

Why should this be the last time?

As for threatening the existing powers... I don't see what power they have if all they're guarding is a pile of stuff that nobody wants anymore.

It may be a bit inconvenient, but if you really need a device with radios that you can run arbitrary code on, you can get one for something like $4 and you can use your existing phone to drive it over something generic like http (There are plenty of people on meshtastic doing this).

I don't have the answers re: next steps but I know that its far more difficult to prevent people from communicating in novel ways than it is to come up with novel ways to communicate. I figure we've been playing this cat and mouse game with authority for millennia: they always win eventually and we always find a new way to make that victory irrelevant.

We lost. OK. What's left to do but invent the next battleground? We're hackers, its what we do.
by rtpg | 2025-10-29 04:26:10+00:00
> Right, but how is that worth your time? It's not worth my time. There are still plenty much more trustworthy sources out there.

Very good point, you don't _need_ to read this stuff, and you can go towards things that are "better".

I find that Wapo has decently comprehensive coverage on some issues. The journalists draw "wrong" conclusions, and I just no-op that, but I've found it helpful, and there's often more detail than provided in other places. But I generally do some subsequent research after reading most of their articles. But maybe there's something else I could be reading instead.
by tolerance | 2025-10-29 04:26:42+00:00
People are deeply concerned over their own wellbeing and that of their others’ while being bombarded by a collage of choices that indicate how to either preserve or compromise their lives and the associated consequences and as a result of this they are either reaching for things safe and familiar or leaping toward new ideals to a rough jingle of outcome and in truth there is such a surplus of “weird” going around and no one with the guts to determine the “good kinds of weirdness” from the bad kinds and all this guy has to offer us is countless links, fourteen footnotes and a glib call to action.
by weitendorf | 2025-10-29 04:27:00+00:00
Code can be art but not all code should or even could be art. Like there is just zero utility or elegance in formatting your bash script with pretty comments and some elegant data model if it’s just something you run to manually pull metrics from a staging environment or whatever.

I see code more like rocks, nails, planks, tape, shards of broken glass, and a pile of signs that say things like RADIOACTIVE - DO NOT ENTER. If you need to do something cool with that stuff you probably do need to create something that looks pretty interesting and elegant in spite of your choice in building materials. But sometimes you just need to take a NO TRESPASSING sign and tape it to a plank that you jam into a pile of rocks. Don’t need to find a hammer if you don’t use nails, only need it up for a day, just one of a hundred things on your plate to do something of bigger scope and impact - just make sure the rocks are big enough to keep the plank standing, leave and forget about it.
by tomhow | 2025-10-29 04:27:23+00:00
Personal abuse like this is not allowed on HN, regardless of who it's about. You may not owe GPU company CEOs better, but you owe this community better if you want to participate here. Please take a moment to remind yourself of the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by scuff3d | 2025-10-29 04:27:23+00:00
The comparison with Zork and the later comment about having to "guess" what to input to get a CLI to work we're also bizarre. He's obviously stretching really hard to make the analogy work.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing that expansion of GUI based interfaces wasn't a good thing. There's plenty of things I prefer to interact with that way, and the majority of people wouldn't use computers if CLIs were still the default method. But what he's describing is literally not how any ever used the commandline.
by hattmall | 2025-10-29 04:27:37+00:00
Yes, Halloween.

>You mean standing with a glass of champagne in hand, smiling, and talking for the sake of talking?

Bruh, you literally just asked how to meet people. Is that not what "talking for the sake of talking" is? What else are you doing when you "meet" people but talking? Do you want to jump straight into helping them move or change a tire or something, I'm sure that's possible, but it's unconventional.

Also yeah, with out the alcohol, it's not the same. Alcohol is the foundation of society, so yes, I mean champagne sucks, but drink something enjoyable. You don't even have to actually talk to people that much, just go drink and hang out. It's not hard.
by jquery | 2025-10-29 04:27:46+00:00
IMO, the rules haven't changed at all, shit has always been bad. Ask any Black American. The silver lining to all this open corruption is that even the most milquetoast centrists of 2020 are turning into people calling for actual consequences for the corruption going on in our government.

As unpopular as Bush was in 2008, not very many people seriously thought he would be or even should be arrested. I think the patience of good people is getting severely tested in 2025 though, I think by 2028, or sooner, people will be demanding scalps.
by cyberax | 2025-10-29 04:28:57+00:00
Arduino is kinda both. You have full control over the execution flow, but then you have to actually exercise the full control over the execution flow. The only major wrinkle are the hardware interrupts.

One interesting feature is that there might be some synergy there. The GC safepoints can be used to implement cooperative multitasking, with capabilities making it safe.
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-29 04:29:14+00:00
The SV playbook is to create a product, make it indispensable and monopolise it. Microsoft did it with office software. Payment companies want to be monopolies. Social media are of course the ultimate monopolies - network effects mean there is only one winner.

So I guess the only logical next step for Big AI is to destroy the web, once they have squeezed every last bit out of it. Or at least make it dependent on them. Who needs news sites when OpenAI can do it? Why blog - just prompt your BlogLLM with an idea. Why comment on blogs - your agent will do it for you. All while avoid child porn with 97% accuracy - somerhing human curated content surely cannot be trusted to do.

So I am 0% surprised.
by snorbleck | 2025-10-29 04:31:02+00:00
This is amazing. My entire web browser session state for every private and personal website I sign onto every day will be used for training data. It's great! I love this. This is exactly the direction humans should be going in to not self-destruct. The future is looking bright, while the light in our brains dims to eventual darkness. Slowly. Tragically. And for what purpose exactly. So cool.
by kccqzy | 2025-10-29 04:31:08+00:00
I use Arc which I've recommended on HN a few times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38662095 As a power user I find that it could be buggy but the developer behind it responds quickly on the forum. The developer also made another app with fewer features but FOSS: https://github.com/sobri909/ArcMini and it's been on my TODO list to use that as the basis to create my own location tracking app (I have some UI ideas for such an app in my mind).

The battery life impact is quite large. The iOS battery tool reports on the order of 5% to 10% but I think subjectively it feels much more than that. Getting GPS signals itself is IMO a bigger power draw than the app writing some time series data into a SQLite database (it defers expensive processing until the app enters the foreground).
by runako | 2025-10-29 04:31:43+00:00
> While the outcome was horrible, all of those people need to get paid for the services rendered somehow if we want folks in the US to continue receiving this standard of care.

Food for thought:

- this approach produces systemic outcomes that are worse and cost more than other approaches

- there are lots of ways for people to get paid to provide medical care. Medical professionals do not work for free in other countries, and they buy the same equipment and drugs from the same suppliers as Americans do.

- we are allowed to look at how other countries have solved this problem without hitting people with giant medical bills. We are allowed to apply those solutions here.

- the US standard of care is overall not particularly high in the global rankings. We may decide that we don't want to continue providing this standard of care, we may decide we want to be in the top 10 globally.
by tayo42 | 2025-10-29 04:33:42+00:00
Ehh I got fired once, the new hiring manager would have to know the manager I reported to be able to find out. I actually had a different manager at the same company ask me if I was interested in coming back becasue he didn't know a different manager fired me.

You need to be memorable enough too.

Backchanel is not really a real concern unless you did something really fucked up.

Otherwise who do you think knows?
by renewiltord | 2025-10-29 04:33:50+00:00
This is an interesting set of observations. One curious thing I've noticed is the moving thing. Frequently people online will say things like "You expect me to pick up my entire life and leave my friends and family behind to go somewhere just to find a job? People should be able to live where they want" or something of the sort. Leaving out the housing affordability part of that, I found the sentiment odd when reading it but with the context of this article I see it was that I was a blind man trying to figure out an elephant by holding his tail.

I've moved across continents so many times now in search of making it, and I feel like I have made it now. I could not have imagined the other way of doing things. But I suppose kids these days can make it wherever they are.

Some of these things do make sense, though, just out of accessibility. Once everyone can access everything, most will likely go watch 'the best'. That tends to a power-law now that access is cheap.

In some sense, web forums have also trended towards this. You'll get the exact same commentary on HN as on Reddit as on Digg. That kind of uniformity was hard in the old web forum days. We are all part of the same big community: the once hilariously-named 'netizen' is now real.
by sophrosyne42 | 2025-10-29 04:33:51+00:00
You're assuming that the drawbacks of Google's peddled response are worth the alleged fix. Given that the primary malware vector for your mom's phone is the play store, this has all the hallmarks of a nonsolution: no benefit, only drawbacks.

It is the equivalent of restricting car use to paved roads only as a "solution" to car crashes.
by mjbale116 | 2025-10-29 04:35:22+00:00
> A big part of this IMO is that “money won”, for lack of a better phrase. There is no real concept of selling out anymore. Being shamelessly focused on wealth accumulation seems to be socially acceptable in a way it wasn’t fifty years ago.

Fifty years ago you had Soviet Union.

An entity which provided an alternative to the US and Western Europe vassals freemarketeering shenanigans.

With the Soviet Union gone, and the communists in retreat, the Capitalists can shove their ideologies down the populace's collective throat.

It has already been established that "what we have here is the best system" and any failure to ascend in said system is a failure of the individual rather than the system's.

"Here is a feel good story of an immigrant that learned python and made it big in America, why can't you do the same?"
by advisedwang | 2025-10-29 04:35:41+00:00
So that means the case has been referred to a prosecutor who has already started the criminal case, right? So why the hell is the police having a back and forth with the defendant about the case?

Why is she talking to the police and not the prosecutor, who at that point is needed for a dismissal on the law enforcement side?

It just all seems weird and contrary to my understanding of the system
by linjian556688 | 2025-10-29 04:36:19+00:00
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Show HN: Fantail SLMs for Coding Agents
by igorpcosta | 2025-10-29 04:36:38+00:00
We’re releasing Fantail, small language models tuned for coding agents with schema‑first prompting and constrained decoding. On Terminal‑Bench: 0.5B 28.4%, 1.3B 34.7%, 3B 41.3% vs GPT‑5 mini 39.8% and Sonnet 4.5 45.7% (3 seeds, no web). Reproducible runs + CSV→figure script included.

PS: we will release the weights and details later this week.

Links

Paper/overview: We will be posting here the details later this week. Weights: https://huggingface.co/autohandai/models Code: https://github.com/autohandai/fantail
by AIorNot | 2025-10-29 04:37:13+00:00
Because 25+ years of experience in American Capitalism as its evolved and practiced today has taught me that C-Suite and upper management makes FOMO driven decisions on fear, politics and corporate quarterly returns, ie humans forced into a hunger games like culture of lowest common decency and hype driven cycles of management speak - 5 years ago it was Crypto and offshoring and now its AI more offshoring -paying only lip service to employee obligations with no attention to anything beyond that (forget pensions or decent healthcare of the 20 Century)

Ultimately even the most talented people are numbers on spreadsheet strewn aside at the end of the day as MBA capitalist hackers try to optimize every aspect of a short term numbers game to get ahead in stack ranking..

I’ve watched as incredibly talented and driven people are thrown by the wayside and ageism and lack of human decency or respect is has become the norm

Watching hardworking people and the middle class suffer because Billionaires, insane growth expectations, MBAs and Private Equity had burned this country to the ground…

And yes, don’t forget that those type As who worked on NASA missions - “Mission focused” as the article naively trumpets to get attention - once they get cancer, get a little past 50, have kids with needs ie suffer some through life - like all of us eventually do..they get on the chopping block - and are quickly forgotten trust me, I worked in Mission Control too once

Now, Amazon has never been an ethical company—and I’m sure its employees know that to one extent or another but they have indeed been a relentless one and that relentlessness and metric driven culture has driven the humanity out of the tech world (whatever little it had as Autistic or Nerdy edgelord billionaires fund ever more corrupt politics and misery for the masses) as our society is rewarded with even more shorter term thinking and an attention economy with the attention span of a Goldfish.. all these tech companies deserve worse than the skewering they got in HBOs Silicon Valley

Ok end of Rant.. hope some younger folks take heed and try to change up this shitty system
by ryukoposting | 2025-10-29 04:38:34+00:00
I have a similar dilemma with my car. I drive a 25-year old Lexus with a bizarre electrical glitch. The ABS sometimes goes off as you come to a stop, for no reason at all. It only ever happens below ~10mph, and only when decelerating gradually. Never happens under heavy braking. It's not a safety hazard, and honestly you get used to it. Yet, anyone who test drives this car will run for the hills because it feels spooky.

It's still a terrific car. Comfortable, well made, fast enough for all practical situations. Unusally low mileage for its age. An engine that's sought after in the tuner community. But, it's unsellable. I'm stuck with it, whether I like it or not.

The good news is that I like it. The funny news is that I took a new job that will move me to the Bay, and whatever my new employer is paying to move my car out there is definitely more than my car is worth.
by artisin | 2025-10-29 04:40:13+00:00
At long last, a personal robot that can shatter my Waterford glassware and then clean up all the pieces! Sure, it moves like something out of a nightmare, but it makes sense that much of its marketing is aimed at seniors. It's a large and growing market, and the need is undeniable, given that few can afford a full-time caregiver. And from that perspective, the $20,000 price tag almost feels like a steal.

A human-knitted marvel that does it all. From telling cayenne apart from paprika to cleaning your toilet.... well, maybe. From what I can tell, it can flush but not wipe, so you'll still want to budget for a bidet.

Technically, it makes Level-5 autonomy look straightforward. At least roads have rules and standards; household bathrooms, not so much. But let's gloss over that, because I want to know more about the legal agreement you'll have to sign. IANAL, but I expect something akin to a carpet-bombing of blanket disclaimers: no liability for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, or other damages—including injuries or loss of life—or really anything else that could go wrong, such as losing your mail, opening your door to assist in a robbery, setting your house on fire, flooding it, or sending your banking information to a Nigerian prince. Too bad iRobot never got around to explaining the legal side of things, but there's always hope for iRobot 2.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-29 04:40:37+00:00
>TVs (before 2020, maybe earlier) only did 25hz-ish

tell me your European without telling me.

> You can actually play pretty ridiculous tricks on the brain if you know this.

I do random persistence of vision tricks all the time. I can see flickering in cheap CFLs or old tubes with bad ballast, and now with LEDs seeing the cheaper controllers with slow blink rates. Once you know how, the brain is a dumb rube waiting to be tricked. Only believe half of what you hear and none of what you see.
by allenu | 2025-10-29 04:41:09+00:00
I wouldn't go so far as to say it was "never" about the graphics. There was definitely a sense of wonder when I first saw Wolfenstein 3D, then Doom, and later Quake. It was the graphics that got you first and made you think, "Oh wow, I can wander around this world?!" Thankfully, they were fun games as well.

I think what's getting people interested in this project is the sense of wonder they get from the visuals. Who knows if they can deliver, but there's something about how this looks that gives me a sense of wonder.