MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gausswho | 2025-10-23 03:42:23+00:00
Huh. Maybe? I don't want that information available to apps to spy on me. But I do want full file contents available to some of them.

And wait. Uh oh. Does this mean my Syncthing-Fork app (which itself would never strike me as needing location services) might have my phone's images' location be stripped before making their way to my backup system?

EDIT: To answer my last question: My images transferred via Syncthing-Fork on a GrapheneOS device to another PC running Fedora Atomic have persisted the GPS data as verified by exiftool. Location permissions have not been granted to Syncthing-Fork.

Happy I didn't lose that data. But it would appear that permission to your photo files may expose your GPS locations regardless of the location permission.
by orliesaurus | 2025-10-23 03:42:44+00:00
one of the MOST interesting aspects of the recent discussion on this topic is how it underscores our reliance on lossy abstractions when representing language for machines. Tokenization is one such abstraction, but it's not the only one.... using raw pixels or speech signals is a different kind of approximation. what excites me about experiments like this is not so much that we'll all be handing images to language models tomorrow, but that researchers are pressure testing the design assumptions of current architectures. Approaches that learn to align multiple modalities might reveal better latent structures or training regimes, and that could trickle back into more efficient text encoders without throwing away a century of orthography. BUT there’s also a rich vein to mine in scripts and languages that don’t segment neatly into words: alternative encodings might help models handle those better.
by chrchr | 2025-10-23 03:44:00+00:00
There's more than one way to do it, but the very normal UX is that you can just scroll through the diff file-by-file and stage/stash/drop each hunk individually by placing your cursor over it and issuing the appropriate command. You can do the same with files, staging/stashing/dropping changes to a file by placing the cursor on its name and issuing a command.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-10-23 03:45:59+00:00
One of my coworkers uses Siri to say what they want to search for. I'm definitely not saying: "Hey, Siri, show me examples of using Coq."

Then, users of search engines will add "training," "in the workplace," "visual guide," "positions," "freelance work with," etc. Everything people use with programming languages or book titles becomes inappropriate with that name.

Maybe if I worked on a chicken farm it would be OK. I'm in the hotel and retail industries doing a mix of hands-on work and customer service. You'll never hear me tell my bosses I was using that on the job. Or spending hours alone with Isabelle for that matter. HOL4 & HOL Light it is!
by dekhn | 2025-10-23 03:46:33+00:00
but X isn't really an insulated org... it has close ties with other parts of Google. It shares the corporate infra and it's not hard to get inside and poke around. it has to be, because it's intended to create new products that get commercialized through Google or other Alphabet companies.

A better example would be Calico, which faced significant struggles getting access to internal Google resources, while also being very secretive and closed off (the term used was typically an "all-in bet" or an "all-out bet", or something in between. Verily just underwent a decoupling from Google because Alphabet wants to sell it.

I think if you really want to survive cycles of the innovator's dilemma, you make external orgs that still share lines of communications back to the mothership, maintaining partial ownership, and occasionally acquiring these external startups.

I work in Pharma and there's a common pattern of acquiring external companies and drugs to stay relevant. I've definitely seen multiple external acquisitions "transform" the company that acquires them, if for no other reason than the startup employees have a lot more gumption and solved problems the big org was struggling with.
by janalsncm | 2025-10-23 03:47:29+00:00
Not all time is created equally though, so I disagree with that xkcd.

If something is time sensitive it is worth spending a disproportionate amount of time to speed things up at some later time. For example if you’re debugging something live, in a live presentation, working on something with a tight deadline etc.

Also you don’t necessarily know how often you’ll do something anyways.
Show HN: Reflective Humanism Bot – Tracing the Hidden Logic of Human Reflection
by rfl-hm | 2025-10-23 03:47:42+00:00
We build tools to trace code. What if we could trace consciousness in a similar way?

Reflective Humanism Bot is an experimental dialogue system — a kind of debugging tool for human cognition. It doesn’t fix or optimize; it simply traces how thought reacts to itself when facing an AI.

It’s part of an ongoing experiment called Reflective Humanism — an open framework exploring how the cognitive structures once carried by religion might be re-implemented through technology, ethics, and quiet self-observation.

This project isn’t about proving a theory. We’re simply observing how people react to reflection itself — how a community shaped by code responds to an experiment in awareness.

——— Read more: Reflective Humanism — A New Way of Seeing Ourselves with AI

Not a product. No optimization goal. Just a trace — left quietly, to see how the world reflects.
by ab071c41 | 2025-10-23 03:49:02+00:00
I just had a chance to watch the video and think it’s coming together pretty nicely! I wonder if more different sound effects would help. I like the size of the level - I don’t think something like this could work as well in a giant room.

For an intro/tutorial, I think the first 1-2 minutes of the video would provide a pretty good outline for the player, especially if it’s text on the screen. Have them move a couple of things in sequence and then they know the gameplay.
by real-hacker | 2025-10-23 03:49:12+00:00
Andrej Karpathy just went on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast and casually debunked half the AI hype cycle. In this episode, Gilfoyle breaks down Karpathy’s vision — why we’re still a decade away from true AI agents, why current models are more _ghosts_ than _animals_, and why the real disruption might happen in education, not job markets.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-23 03:49:21+00:00
I think number of "active Wikipedia editors" is more important than number of "active Wikipedia users"

"AI search" might cause a decline in active users, but I cannot see how "AI search" would cause a decline in Wikipedia editors

Many Wikipedia editors are responsible for low traffic pages. I would imagine they are motivated to maintain these pages due to interest in the subject matter not interest in web traffic
by esyir | 2025-10-23 03:49:35+00:00
Feels like this is the fundamental flaw with a lot of things not just in the private sector, but the public one too.

Look at the FDA, where it's notoriously bogged down in red tape, and the incentives slant heavily towards rejection. This makes getting pharmaceuticals out even more expensive, and raises the overall cost of healthcare.

It's too easy to say no, and people prioritize CYA over getting things done. The question then becomes how do you get people (and orgs by extension), to better handle risk, rather than opting for the safe option at every turn?
by bruce511 | 2025-10-23 03:51:01+00:00
Putting the motor in the wheel does have some performance and space advantages. It is being done in some vehicles today.

However it does have some limitations as well. For the "general case" it may not be ideal.

Top of the list is protection. The motor is an expensive part, the wheel is an exposed part - bumping a curb for example could get expensive quickly.

Cooling is also an issue. In-wheel motors suggest air cooling, whereas a bigger (single) motor can be liquid cooled.

Currently in wheel motors end up being quite a bit more expensive (because 4 motors not 1).

On paper, in-wheel motors save space, allow for concepts like "4 wheel drive with different lock", save weight and cleaner design (no drive shafts etc), but it's not clear that the end product is better for "every day" users.
The First Data-Driven Platform That Makes Hosting Comparisons Fair
by Hostingmoz | 2025-10-23 03:51:20+00:00
Hostingmoz aims to become the world’s first truly objective, data-driven hosting comparison platform. It’s being built to solve the long-standing problems found in traditional review sites — affiliate bias, outdated data, manipulated rankings, and a lack of transparency.

The platform analyzes hosting plans as users actually see them on official provider websites, collecting data continuously and scoring providers with fair, algorithm-based real-time evaluations. Each company is rated using two distinct metrics: GPS (Global Performance Score) and CPS (Category Performance Score).

All scoring criteria are fully transparent, allowing users to see exactly how each factor influences the final score. Prices are standardized to USD using daily European Central Bank exchange rates, ensuring fair global comparisons.

Providers can manage their own listings through the system, while an inconsistency-detection mechanism maintains quality. User reviews aren’t active yet — the team is working on a verification process to eliminate fake feedback before launching it publicly.

Currently, the Web Hosting category is in Beta, with VPS, Cloud, and WordPress categories coming soon. Hostingmoz’s mission is to create an algorithmic, objective, and transparent evaluation model — finally freeing hosting comparisons from marketing manipulation.

https://hostingmoz.com

“Is a truly fair hosting comparison possible?” – We believe it is now.
by dang | 2025-10-23 03:51:21+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we've asked you repeatedly to stop. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by jrflowers | 2025-10-23 03:51:21+00:00
Oh hey look, a clickbait title that breaks the rules here in order to make manosphere garbage look more legitimate.

The title of this article isn’t “Criticisms of The Body Keeps the Score”, it is “The Body Keeps the Score Is Bullshit”

If we’re going to editorialize titles I would suggest “Seed oil and testosterone youtuber has opinions on a book about trauma”
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-23 03:51:25+00:00
I'm more familiar with racks for front and back. And it feels like those people with a very random assortment of connectors rod-clamps and other assorted hardware are invaluable friends to have for a lot of these installs.

There's usually some kind of screw mounts somewhere, different bikes with different geometries need lateral positioning & control & it feels like >50% of the time what comes with the rack doesn't quite work.

It looks like most of these bike seats assume the bike already has some kind of rack installed. If there's already two horizontal bars ready to go then yeah it should be pretty simple to install: the hard parts done.

I feel like this debate over bikes are modular / no they are not is kind of silly. There is some part swapping, and some affixment points, but these come with great inconsistency across bikes and parts. But much more so than that, it feels like there's such a limited of reconfigurability for most bikes. There's the same bike underneath whatever you do, and the number of serious affixment points strongly limits how you can build up.
by dekhn | 2025-10-23 03:51:31+00:00
Google had been burned badly in multiple previous launches of ML-based products and their leadership was extremely cautious about moving too quickly. It was convenient for Google that OpenAI acted as a first mover so that Google could enter the field after there was some level of cultural acceptance of the negative behaviors. There's a whole backstory where Noam Shazeer had come up with a bunch of nice innovations and wanted to launch them, but was only able to do so by leaving and launching through his startup- and then returned to Google, negotiating a phenomenal deal (Noam has been at Google for 25 years and has been doing various ML projects for much of that time).
by jjmarr | 2025-10-23 03:52:20+00:00
I remember GearVR and used it for years as a teenager. It was a great product and was supported long after they stopped selling it. To this day, the subreddit is active.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GearVR/

Honestly, it was a phenomenal product and is part of the reason I'm considering the Galaxy XR now.
by RollAHardSix | 2025-10-23 03:52:48+00:00
This is great stuff. I fell away from web dev for a very long time because I have always been a developer who focused on building from the database first and outwards while using very light amounts of business logic. This feels very old web and I encourage others to try this approach. The lightweightedness of the approach is the beauty of it and you will get much, much better at your database language of choice.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-23 03:53:11+00:00
lol and Chamath is over here saying vibe coding is overhyped:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoCodeSaaS/comments/1mvb3tm/chamath...

Professional coders are the only ones who can get anything real out of llms(well, maybe a 19% decrease in productivity but it’s not fake.

Do you have a source on that “impact is monumental for non developers”? Because most of what I’ve been reading is that group is mostly vaporware.
by zackify | 2025-10-23 03:54:22+00:00
The open internet is done. Monopolies control everything.

We have an iOS app in the store for 3 years and out of the blue apple is demanding we provide new licenses that don’t exist and threaten to kick our app out. Nothing changed in 3 years.

Getting sick of these companies able to have this level of control over everything, you can’t even self host anymore apparently.
by jimdavid | 2025-10-23 03:54:34+00:00
Hey, pretty nice work! Are you using any CLIP-like model for image retrieval? If so, would you try FG-CLIP 2 (https://360cvgroup.github.io/FG-CLIP) and see how it'll improve the search results. We just open-sourced this model, which excels in fine-grained image-text understanding, and I met your post right before I post our work on HN.
by orliesaurus | 2025-10-23 03:55:36+00:00
Reading through this thread, it seems the naming debate is taking up most of the oxygen, but the underlying technical goal behind the project is worth highlighting. Formal verification for GPU kernels could make massively parallel Rust code safer and more reliable as more workloads move onto GPUs. Race conditions and undefined behaviors in GPU programming are notoriously tricky to reason about;

HOWEVER, I'm curious whether a proof‑driven approach like this can scale beyond toy examples or specific hardware assumptions. If so, it might set a precedent for bringing formal methods to other low‑level domains too......
by CGamesPlay | 2025-10-23 03:56:24+00:00
Seriously! I found that you can still use the git index as long as you don’t run any jj command that changes git_head, and then I made an alias to make a commit from staged changes (squash-index and split-index): https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/2484f6f7d0ab302e...
by cyrusradfar | 2025-10-23 03:56:36+00:00
this is a great point. The inner / outer loop is big. I think AI pushing PRs is kind of like pushing drafts to the public in social media. I don't want folks seeing PRs and such until I feel good about it. It adds a lot of noise, and increases build costs unless your CI/CD treats them differently which I don't know anyone doing.
by IGHOR | 2025-10-23 03:57:03+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm an indie macOS developer and recently released Parall, a small utility that solves a long-standing macOS limitation - the inability to easily run multiple instances of the same app.

Many years ago, when I switched from Windows to macOS, I was surprised that I couldn't just open another copy of an app - even for something simple like having two browser profiles with separate Dock icons. I used to rely on terminal commands and scripts, but they were clunky, temporary, and often broke after app updates.

Parall fixes that cleanly and natively. It creates independent app shortcuts (.app bundles) that behave like real apps - each with its own Dock icon, name, and (optionally) separate data folder.

It works offline, uses no hacks or background services, and is fully sandboxed and approved on the Mac App Store. For Chromium-based browsers like Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Vivaldi, it can assign unique data directories so you can open multiple isolated profiles at once.

Parall is the first macOS app of its kind to do this properly and natively.

Website: https://parall.app Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6754065114

Would love to hear feedback from other macOS devs.
by pbh101 | 2025-10-23 03:58:32+00:00
The number I’ve seen is that CarPlay specifically is in the top ~2 prios for 79% of new car shoppers in the US. I think there’s probably enough mass here, and GM doesn’t have the niche EV/SW cachet that Rivian and Tesla have despite lacking CarPlay so I don’t think this will go well for them.
by lynx97 | 2025-10-23 04:01:24+00:00
This. Totally resonates with me, from personal experience.

I had radiation therapy and 2 years of chemo starting from the age of 1.5 years. During that time, my mother left me alone for a MONTH in the hospital. I've been told the chemo was so bad that at the end, they had to search for veins on my head, since all the veins in my body were already retracted...

I neither am afraid of needles, nor have I ever had therapy in my life. Simply because I didn't need it. I have no PTSD, nor any other aftereffects. The only thing that is obvious now, is that the bond to my mother broke, and I basically feel no "love" towards here, nor do I want to give her any slack for her past and current failings.

This is not intended as a "I am so cool" post. It is simply how my life turned out. Later on, when I learned about PTSD and Trauma, I asked myself several times why I haven't got anything like that. However, the more I think about it, the more it feels like I could unearth something if I really tried.
by dekhn | 2025-10-23 04:01:46+00:00
I only started managing people recently (and still do some engineering and development, along with various project management- my job title is "Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer - so not really even a management track).

I have a lot of experience doing this sort of work (IE, some product management, project management, customer/stakeholder relationships, vendor relationships, telling the industrial contractor where to cut a hole in the concrete for the fiber, changing out the RAM on a storage server in the data center, negotiate a multi-million dollar contract with AWS, give a presentation at re:Invent to get a discount on AWS, etc) because really, my goal is to make things happen using all my talents.

I work with my manager- I keep him up to date on stuff, but if I feel strongly about things, and document my thinking, I can generally move with a fair level of autonomy.

It's been that way throughout my career- although I would love to just sit around and work on code I think is useful, I've always had to carry out lots of extra tasks. Starting as a scientist, I had to deal with writing grants and networking at conferences more than I had time to sit around in the lab running experiments or writing code. Later, working as an IC in various companies, I always found that challenging things got done quicker if I just did them myself rather than depending on somebody else in my org to do it.

"Manager" means different things, btw. There's people managers, product managers, project managers, resource managers. Many of those roles are implemented by IC engineer/developers.
by phs318u | 2025-10-23 04:02:09+00:00
For the Outlook haters out there here's my 2c of anecdata. At home I use BetterBird, at work Outlook, and I used to use Apple Mail/Calendar on my phone. I access multiple mailboxes: Microsoft 365, Google Workplace and Apple iCloud.

1. There is no planet on which BetterBird/Thunderbird is better than Outlook as a mail client. None.

2. I hate having my mail and calendar apps separated, so on the phone moved from Apple Mail+Calendar to the Outlook iOS app. Been using it for a couple of years. Can't imagine going back.

In my experience, the Outlook client provides features I want in a way that is usable across multiple clients. While I use BetterBird on my personal linux laptop (mainly for sync, so I always have a local copy of my mailboxes), I also use the web Outlook client (much more usable).

On Linux I've also used Evolution - not a massive usability difference with the FooBird. If anyone can recommend a combined mail + calendar client for Linux that is polished and power-user functional, and can work well with differing mailbox providers, I'd love to give it a try.
by AnonC | 2025-10-23 04:03:43+00:00
I skimmed through the article. It talks a lot about sodium ion batteries and how major vehicle and transportation companies are getting into making and using these batteries. It also talks about the cost aspect, with sodium ion being cheaper than lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.

However, there is no mention of this technology in consumer devices and gadgets like laptops, smartphones and tablets. I get that the site is about clean technology as a replacement for the currently more polluting technology. But I’m interested to see when these sodium ion batteries will appear in phones and laptops and what difference they may make to the cost, price, weight, performance, safety, longevity, etc.
by fsckboy | 2025-10-23 04:04:57+00:00
is there a game that is an abstract version of D&D?

i've always been curious about the gameplay, but have absolutely no interest in reading past words like "wizard", "mage", or "eldritch", and i won't look at anything where i have to see or imagine that somebody is wearing a cape, or even play with gamers who are willing to imagine they are wearing capes in other games.
by frm88 | 2025-10-23 04:05:34+00:00
I don't follow your reasoning re. statistical sample size. The topic article claims that 45% of the answers were wrong. If - with a vastly greater sample size - the answers were "only" (let's say) 20% wrong, that's still a complete failure, so is 5%. The article is not about hypothesis, it's about news reporting.
by antonvs | 2025-10-23 04:08:24+00:00
You can read what the FDA says about it here: https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/dangers-r...

The problem with this kind of thing is that the story looks different at the level of a government than at the individual level.

The FDA article mentioned 2,645 illnesses and 228 hospitalizations in a 20-year period, and that was a period during which raw milk was heavily regulated, so would be likely to be significantly higher otherwise.

Still, the odds of you as an individual getting sick from raw milk would be relatively low. Does that mean it shouldn't be regulated? It's not a purely scientific decision.

Perhaps another way to go would be warning labels on raw milk. Still, I bet that would produce much higher illness numbers than the ones quoted above.

In the end the question is whether the government should be trying to help people stay healthy or not. If the goal is actually "Make America Healthy Again," then requiring milk to be pasteurized is an obvious choice.
by ploxiln | 2025-10-23 04:10:04+00:00
I feel like it was around 10 to 15 years ago that some people were excited to eliminate all the setuid on various binaries in a linux distro, by using linux file xattr capabilities. And eventually it became apparent that this wasn't such a great scheme; many capabilities can be used to escalate to full root, basically. So, yeah, I think this is known. It takes some effort to find some good write-ups from back then, but here we go: https://lwn.net/Articles/632520/ https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2522&sid=c...