MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ebbi | 2025-10-11 00:52:46+00:00
I like Liquid Glass on the whole (I will state upfront I have no accessibility issues so I know I'm speaking from my little corner).

Putting aside the fact that, yes, there are a few issues with the way Liquid Glass is implemented currently (nothing that can't be iterated on over the next few releases), I will say that some of the critics use really silly examples to prove their point. The messages screenshot would have looked a proper mess on iOS 18! Some of the text on text blur screenshots is showing text where it's not even in the zone of focus. It's merely showing blurred text where previously it would have been obscured by the UI. To me it shows that there is more to scroll for content as opposed to trying to read from that part of the screen.

And on X I've seen many critics use screenshots where the animation is halfway complete to criticise the legibility (often seen screenshots of the Notification Centre being screenshotted when halfway down where the background isn't fully blurred).

I think there's a lot to criticise on Liquid Glass. Some of these examples just doesn't feel like a fair critique of it.
by raymondtana | 2025-10-11 00:53:10+00:00
Hi everyone, I'm the OP and wanted to share a few comments that might come as spoilers. So read with caution!

1. The default game has a simple winning strategy: the app begins with a 5x5 board under the "Same Row & Column" variant. Some here have already figured out how to get all reds: [Memorize all the white squares on the board at some fixed moment, and click those cells in any order.] Some of the info below helps see why.

2. The game is always winnable: the app is set up to secretly begin with all reds and then perform many random clicks to mess it up; it's always reversible.

3. The order of clicks doesn't matter: the click actions commute.

4. Every click is self-inverse: clicking a cell twice under any variant leads to the same board as before.

5. A winning strategy need only list out which cells to click once: Because of the properties of commutativity and self-inverse, any winning strategy could be freely shuffled in order and have any duplicate clicks cancel out, leading to a strategy of cells meant to be clicked just once---the rest ignored.

6. Suppose "n" is odd and play the "Same Row & Column" variant. Then, the n-by-n board is solvable by the strategy of "click all the cells that were white." But when "n" is even, then this strategy fails on the n-by-n board. However, there indeed is another strategy that solves those systematically.

7. Very little is known about the other variants, nor about other sizes and dimensions of boards. And it is not true in general that any random pattern of white-and-red can be turned into all-reds. Try to find a good heuristic for separating out winnable vs. unwinnable boards!

8. I did forget to mention other versions of Lights Out besides the handheld game. Other physical games and video games used the 5x5 "Adjacent" variant, too.

Bonus Questions:

1. Can you think of an interesting clicking-rule variant that would not be commutative?

2. Can you come up with the winning strategy for winning n-by-n boards when n is even under the "Same Row & Column" variant?

3. Can you figure out any winning strategy for the other variants? I haven't found any good way to proceed without just memorizing the solutions.

Thanks for the comments!
by shinycode | 2025-10-11 00:53:19+00:00
Yeah it grew on me over the beta phase, now when I hold an iPhone not updated it feels old and I really don’t like previous versions. Regardless of places where it’s not ideal implementations yet, I can’t see myself coming back to the previous style. Liquid Glass will get better and I really like it. I got wow moments sometimes when it shines on some occasions
by opan | 2025-10-11 00:53:34+00:00
It's like having a library you built up over the years based on your tastes and the era you grew up in that you can idly look through vs having a search bar to YouTube.

I hear the same argument a lot when it comes to game emulation. People will say you shouldn't put full ROM sets on your device because it makes it harder to decide what to play and to stick to a game. Compare that to browsing the 30 GameCube games you have in a cupboard from 20 years ago. You can kinda recreate that digitally by only putting a select amount of games on your device at a time and trying to spend more time per game. This particularly comes up when discussing emulation on handhelds.

Bringing the conversation back to music, while I do prefer digital, I've got albums in FLAC on my phone and I re-listen to the same 50 or so albums a lot, only occasionally adding/removing from what's on there.
by krisoft | 2025-10-11 00:53:36+00:00
That is exactly what a rollercoaster does and it doesn’t start “pedaling” after 20 feet. Of course real systems have losses and you can’t practically use all the energy.

But you don’t have to believe me. Look at the video of this glider doing an unlicensed airshow: https://youtu.be/QwK9wu8Cxeo?si=L-0Mfmu8wk1ZlQU7

It is a glider so it can’t “pedal”. You can see it steeply descending from 5:13 to 5:30 while it is speeding up and then the pilot picks up the nose and trades some of his speed for elevation again. And then he does it again around the 7 minutes mark.

You have two buckets of “water”. One bucket is kinetic energy and the other is potential energy. You can trade one for the other. You can also “lose” from the total volume of “water” due to drag (or friction in the case of the bike or roller coaster). Or you can add more “water” to your system by pedaling or thrusting with your engines. This is just simple physics 101. Also simple lived experience if you ever have the opportunity to fly an airplane.
by dsclough | 2025-10-11 00:53:58+00:00
I’ve recently been trying out the automations feature in the iOS shortcuts app to turn color filters off/on when opening/closing camera/photos/facetime so I can remove the triple click shortcut. It works well enough. Its disappointing but not surprising that in 2025 on an iPhone 15 pro this isn’t instant and takes a good half second for the color filters to turn off/on.
by macintux | 2025-10-11 00:54:09+00:00
I’m on a long, meandering road trip and I decided to start using the conversational feature in ChatGPT. Truly amazing stuff. Discussed some sights I’d want to see along the Natchez Trace (although perhaps unsurprisingly it did not anticipate that this time of year was not ideal for hearing and seeing waterfalls), told me about Meriwether Lewis’s bizarre death. Basically like holding a conversation with Wikipedia, which was perfect.

The only real problem was that in the middle of nowhere, I didn’t have a reliable enough data connection to keep the conversation going, but that’s hardly OpenAI’s fault.
by CoolGuySteve | 2025-10-11 00:54:26+00:00
It depends on your wiring but I've had pretty good success with AV2000 powerline ethernet. I get about 400Mbps and a reliable 2ms ping which is good enough for gaming and streaming from my media center.

The endpoint in my living room also has a wifi AP so signal is pretty good for laptops and whatnot.

In NYC every channel is congested, I can see like 25 access points at any time and half are poorly configured. Any wired medium is better than the air, I could probably propagate a signal through the drywall that's more reliable than wifi here.

So having something I can just plug into the wall is pretty nice compared to running cables even if it's a fraction of gigE standards.
by chrneu | 2025-10-11 00:54:31+00:00
Hardwire everything you can over ethernet to get them off Wifi.

Use a dedicated 2.4ghz AP for all IoT devices. Firewall this network and only allow the traffic those devices need. This greatly reduces congestion.

Use 5ghz for phones/laptops and keep IoT off that network.

That's really about it. If you have special circumstances there are other solutions, but generally the solution to bad wifi is to not use the wifi, lol.
by andix | 2025-10-11 00:55:27+00:00
It's crazy that they removed split view and slide over from the iPad. The new window management is still extremely fiddly. It takes now 7 steps to open another app next to the current one, and a few more steps to get them all full screen again.

I used split view quite often, but I never use the new window management. I just store away my iPad more often now and use my PC instead.
by Marsymars | 2025-10-11 00:55:37+00:00
> Ads get a bad wrap, but no one wants a bad ad.

This is weirdly tautological. Nobody wants an extra bad version of anything, regardless of whether it has a bad rap or not. Cigarettes get a bad rap, but smokers don't want cigarettes that got damp in transit and cigarette manufacturers and corner stores don't want to provide damp cigarettes to their customers.

> In contrast, a "good" ad is just a recommendation for something you haven't heard of, but you love and are glad you were told about it. There are tons of products and services out there you haven't heard of.

Are there? Do "good" ads actually exist? I avoid ads as much as possible, but don't find that my life is improved by the instances where I am unavoidably exposed to them, and think it's unlikely that my life would be improved if I deliberately exposed myself to more ads.

> People might not believe this, think that if they would really love it, they would have searched for it, found it through organic means, etc. But if that were true, these companies wouldn't be bringing in $100B+ each, and generating $1T+ spend each

This is an ironic response given you're responding to a comparison of the advertising industry to the gambling industry; the conclusion that a company is providing a valuable service to society doesn't follow from the premise that the company is making a lot of money.
by danpalmer | 2025-10-11 00:56:07+00:00
The bubble is going to burst, if only because the growth in these numbers is obviously unsustainable – we just don't have trillions – and if the growth slows the hype dies. Maybe the current level can be stable, maybe the market will shrink, but the growth cannot continue.

When the bubble bursts who will survive? The existing, profitable, big tech companies will, if not without pain. The startup ecosystem will likely be decimated. But what about the in-betweens, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc? My guess is that Anthropic will sell to (or merge with) another profitable company and live on because they'll be relatively cheap for some excellent technology, but OpenAI might be too big for that, too expensive.
by roenxi | 2025-10-11 00:56:22+00:00
If we look at a map of places where Socialist Democratic parties are active [0, 1] it actually looks like a map of people who generally have pretty terrible living conditions for the poorest in society. Mainly because it covers most of the known world so it'd reflect the normal living conditions for poor people. And is an ideology that is well integrated with capitalism, I happen to note.

It is pretty hard to say that the social democracy is free from a bloody history vs capitalism when people like the US Dems claim to be part of the social democrats. They're pretty blood-spattered. They're part of the governing system of the largest and most aggressive military in the world.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_International

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Alliance
by baggy_trough | 2025-10-11 00:56:26+00:00
In general it's not as bad as people say. I like the playful aspect of it and sometimes I just scroll around to see the beautiful glass effects. The two things I don't like about it and hope are improved:

- the padding is kind of ridiculous and wastes a lot of space

- it gets in the way of my content a lot, which is the opposite of the proclaimed intention
by protocolture | 2025-10-11 00:56:35+00:00
Kinda crazy the arc that 60GHz has taken over the years.

Like ages ago it was going to be Intels docking station standard (WiGig). It died, companies like IgniteNet bought up all the Dell wigig chips, and used them to prototype P2P wireless radios, ultimately building out a new class of metro p2p wireless used by every major vendor. Then it became a component of 5G, mostly used for backhaul but still capable in a lot of Massive MIMO handsets. Some handsets trialling it for in home wifi. And now the chips are probably going back into your laptops/Homes to detect your biometrics.
by amluto | 2025-10-11 00:57:00+00:00
I wish the Wi-Fi developers would put some serious effort into improving range and contention. Forgot 40 MHz vs 80 MHz — how about some 5 MHz channels? How about some modulations designed to work at low received power and/or low SNR? How about improving the stack to get better performance when a device has mediocre signal quality to multiple APs at the same time?

There are are these cool new features like MLO, but maybe devices could mostly use narrow channels and only use more RF bandwidth when they actually need it.
by DiscourseFan | 2025-10-11 00:57:43+00:00
The point of crypto is not "breaking the rules." Bitcoin might be inefficient but its mostly used as a reserve currency these days. Crypto in general, however, is the first currency that is backed neither by its cult value (gold) nor the military and economic strength of the country that prints it (USD), but entirely by technological foundations itself. It is revolutionary, if also very power inefficient. It is effectively reducing the role of the state to an intermediary regulatory body as technology continues to advance to the point where such civil laws are not required. Of course the corporation, as an entity, will come to dominate the world, but that is the natural progression of history and can also be overcome through social and political movements. But not before the state itself, as a political entity, is effectively dissolved.
by shivhere | 2025-10-11 00:58:28+00:00
Hi HN, author Shivam Singh here. I was formerly the Head of Gen AI Marketing at AWS and wanted to share some hard-won lessons about what enterprises actually need from AI, which is often very different from the public hype. These insights are what led me to leave and start my fintech company, Cent Capital.

The three core lessons are: enterprises buy solutions not spectacles, the ecosystem is your growth engine, and your data flywheel is your real moat. Happy to answer any questions about my time at AWS, building/marketing enterprise AI, or making the leap to founding a startup.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-11 00:58:29+00:00
Well put and I concur with your points (for what that is worth :-)).

And thanks for referencing "Naur's theory of programming". For those like myself previously unaware of this paper, it can be found below and is well worth a read:

https://pablo.rauzy.name/dev/naur1985programming.pdf
by bigyabai | 2025-10-11 01:00:00+00:00
If you're starting from the perspective of a native app developer, you're absolutely correct. However, most startups are going to be websites/Electron/CEF apps. It's much easier and cheaper to write-once-ship-everywhere with an ugly React UI than it is to jump through the hoops of writing special-snowflake versions for every OS under the sun.

It's basically negligent to insist on native apps, if profitability is your goal. I love native interfaces too, but the staunch belief in businesses being a "good native citizen" is a dead meme. It's cart-before-horse logic, we don't ever see anyone commit to the idea and reap real rewards. Native platforms punish you for playing by the rules.
by escapedmoose | 2025-10-11 01:00:05+00:00
Loneliness sucks man, I’m sorry. :(

It’s really interesting that lack of connection is what you jump to immediately as the cause of your sense of meaninglessness. I wonder what “thriving in society” looks like to you?

And you may have tried this already, but personally I’ve found group hobbies to improve my sense of connectedness. I’m part of a group that meets regularly to sketch on street corners and in coffee shops. I’m not best friends with anyone there, but it’s very fulfilling just to sit with people in the same space for a couple hours, listen to them talk, and share our sketches. There might be drawing, hiking, photography, dance, etc. groups near you…?

You’re certainly not alone in feeling lonely these days though. Modern society is so isolating, connecting feels like such a challenge.
by hansvm | 2025-10-11 01:00:33+00:00
That depends on how fine-grained the matrix multiplication is (and if that's actually the core workload). Past a certain scale you can't get away with brute force (and Moore's law doesn't fix that insofar as orders of magnitude of difference will exist no matter where you are in that progression, allowing for qualitatively different capabilities between better algorithms and worse) examining every parameter every time, which could push the world to something where the branchy nature of CPUs and their better amenability to true random-access memory makes them win out.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-11 01:00:51+00:00
I've encountered maybe 5 people who are happy and or optimistic about AI - and 3 of those I'm just guessing. For everyone else, their opinions land somewhere between wary and weary and resentful.

For the negative response I've heard, maybe 5% of it is due to actual performance of the LLM. They've run into substandard or unpredictable or unhelpful responses.

The other 95% is squarely due to deployment. It's the heavy-handed, pushy, obnoxious, deceitful, non-consensual, creepy coercion that platforms use to subvert you into their AI glue traps.¹

In short, biggest tech has turned AI of every quality into unwanted foistware.

From the article:

We’re angry that we don’t have choices to use AI. Companies are shoving it into our video calls, email software, digital assistants, shopping websites and our Google search results. Some corporate bosses demand their workers use AI or else. With other new waves of technology, such as smartphones and social media, “you had to opt in,” said Yam. “Now there’s a lot of ambient exposure to AI that I don’t necessarily choose.” Even Harbath, who uses AI fairly enthusiastically, felt angry when a publishing company ran her book manuscript through AI software to identify repetition in her writing and to help identify effective marketing strategies. The feedback was helpful, but it took Harbath time to realize why she was mad: She wasn’t told AI was going to be used in this way, and she had no information about it. And she said “both things can be true” — you can want AI to help you and resent when it’s used in ways that you don’t want or expect.
by andix | 2025-10-11 01:00:58+00:00
The recently presented ChatGPT apps are what Apple Intelligence (and Siri) should've been. Some chat/voice interface, that can access data from installed apps and trigger actions.

It should've been a home run for Apple. ChatGPT starts with zero existing apps, Apple has one of the biggest app ecosystem, and with (Siri) Shortcuts they already have most of the necessary interfaces available for years.
by cheema33 | 2025-10-11 01:02:00+00:00
I have an iphone 13 pro max. On many screens, the UI now stutters when it was smooth before. I have a very strong dislike for the new transparency changes. It absolutely makes things harder to read. And it comes at a cost of making the UI stutter. For example I just scrolled down the notifications, they are all a little harder to read because the the phone is trying to show the background through the notification area?

Why would anybody want that?
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-11 01:02:33+00:00
> I'm not very familiar with the situation in Venezuela.

You should have stopped there.

> Do you know how many atrocities western militaries have inflicted in countries that they invaded in the name of liberating them?

Tell that to the Ukrainians who I'm sure would love USAF air support and for the 101st to come help out. I'm certain that no matter what the US does, you will complain about it. We could walk top the water and bring democracy and prosperity to Venezuela using the power of love you would still find a reason to complain.

One thing you will never do is actually think of the people on the ground (unless they agree with your specific political ideology). The rest of the world is getting tired of your obnoxious ideological rhetoric. We know you are only complaining because you don't want yet another far left failure out of power.
by StillBored | 2025-10-11 01:02:41+00:00
A lot has changed in the 25 years since gbit wired ethernet was rolled out. While wired ethernet stagnated due to greed.

Got powerlines? Well then you can get gbit+ to a few outlets in your house.

Got old CATV cables? Then you can use them at multiple gbit with MoCA.

Got old phone lines? Then its possible to run ethernet over them with SPE and maybe get a gbit.

And frankly just calling someone who wires houses and getting a quote will tell you if its true. The vast majority of houses arent that hard, even old ones. Attic drops through the walls, cables below in the crawlspace, behind the baseboards. Hell just about every house in the USA had cable/dish at one point, and all they did was nail it to the soffit and punch it right through the walls.

Most people don't need a drop every 6 feet, one near the TV, one in a study, maybe a couple in a closet/ceiling/etc. Then those drops get used to put a little POE 8 port switch in place and drive an AP, TV, whatever.
by JSR_FDED | 2025-10-11 01:02:41+00:00
Datastar is run by some principled (and opinionated) guys who are immensely generous with their time and supportive to newcomers.

What’s getting lost in the whole kerfufflw over the Pro version is that this is NOT a monetization strategy. There is no intent to hook you - in fact they go out of their way to tell your you don’t need it. And the company is a registered non-profit.

Based on their own extensive experience they know which tiny set of features are likely to appeal to a very small group of people and at the same time are likely to incur the vast majority of support burden. By keeping these features out of the core they keep the base product simple and universal.

It is in fact an innovative and fair way of (a) signaling that these features are likely footguns, (b) getting just some of their costs covered by the people who either need the most support or are getting so much value from Datastar that they’re paying, (c) thereby freeing up their time to spend on the larger community.
by TrainedMonkey | 2025-10-11 01:02:55+00:00
I think argument here is that anyone can build a business that converts $2 capital into $1 of revenue. Concur on enormous TAM, but given similar performance of competing models their only moat is ChatGPT brand*. This leaves building a God as the killer app... maybe that can work.

Note: owning a brand associated with the thing worked out pretty well for Google, so maybe it's enough.
by k310 | 2025-10-11 01:06:21+00:00
People are chasing AI stocks like 'dogs chase cars' — and a crash looks certain, veteran investor Bill Smead says [0]

> Smead said the problem isn't whether AI companies realize the technology's potential benefits, but that "whatever success they might have has already been massively overcapitalized."

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-stocks-bubble-crash-smead...