MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hilbert42 | 2025-10-29 08:46:16+00:00
The idea of offering something for free then later deliberately restricting and or reducing its scope after securing enough takers to maximize benefits and advantages for those making the offer ought to be unlawful as they are knowingly and deliberately manipulating human nature. Those who accept such seemingly appealing offers often end up disadvantaged or harmed. And here with Google's latest Android edict we have yet another instance.

Manipulation and deception tactics are particularly relevant in internet age and they are Big Tech's standard modus operandi because its found them to be such financially successful business models. Laws need to enacted to prevent such exploitation as it is unreasonable and unacceptable for the psyche/reasoning of ordinary citizens to be pitched against such psychological might.

As so often happens with such authoritarian and manipulative dictates, this Google edict comes wrapped in the usual paltry excuse of security. Even Blind Freddy knows this excuse to be bullshit and that the real beneficiary is Google. The time has come for Android to be decoupled completely from Google.

It's tragic that despite a monopolistic finding against Google the Law didn't recognize the fact.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-10-29 08:47:46+00:00
> Why hasn't the kind of ferver that created Linux driven engineers to fix their phones? Is Android and iOS just good enough to keep us complacent and trapped forever?

I obviously can't speak for all "Linux driven engineers", but only about myself, as someone who's daily driven linux for a long time and who enjoys tinkering with computers.

I consider phones in the same category as a gaming console: a "single purpose" device.

I find they're not practical for much more than mindless scrolling and the occasional text (and even that's a pain, to the point I usually do it from my computer). I just hate staring at a tiny screen and obscuring half of it with my hand when I need to interact with it.

I'm all for geeking out on things, and love to tinker. But the phones are simply not attractive to me. I used to have Android phones with custom roms, but that was only because samsung had atrocious support for older devices. My current iphone is supported until it can't be used anymore and does everything I need.

Whenever I get the itch to tinker, I'll do it on a computer with a full keyboard and big screen.

> Is Android and iOS just good enough to keep us complacent and trapped forever?

I think they are, especially since us "linux driven engineers" are a tiny fraction of the market. Basically nobody but us cares about these things. Just like almost nobody wants a small phone, or thick phone. Even with regular computers, most people didn't tinker, they would just install a few programs, which would have been on an hypothetical app store anyway.
by close04 | 2025-10-29 08:47:53+00:00
> forces people to upgrade every year

People who upgrade every year don't do it for technical needs. We're long past the times when phones were inadequate and yearly improvements were big leaps that made them less unusable.

Yearly phone upgrades are just to sport the latest model, symbolizes status. Or if there's some deal where you can do it for close to no cost, better than long upgrade cycles, but I don't think "free upgrades" are common.
by PhilipRoman | 2025-10-29 08:48:34+00:00
When using vscode or its derivatives, I find the customizability is very limited. You have a couple of settings, but any new functionality basically requires writing a whole new extension and nobody really does that.

Meanwhile with vim I often add one or two lines to a local vimrc script which adds some project-specific command or keybind. For example - take ioctl name under the cursor, translate to the handler function name and open corresponding driver file in split view. It only saves a couple seconds but makes it so much more natural to analyze code. I have no clue how I would go about doing that in vscode.
by lutusp | 2025-10-29 08:48:37+00:00
You're all missing the point! This is not about whether an app can be installed on an Android device, it's about whether the device's owner has any say in the matter. It's about freedom of choice.

Over the decades, from the Apple II to the present, I've owned every imaginable kind of computer. And yes -- I owned all of them -- I had the right to use them as I saw fit. They were extensions of my intellectual creativity. I've written dozens of Android apps, including TankCalc, used in industries across the world to measure and control storage containers. TankCalc is useful, it's free, and it's about to die.

I tried meeting Google's demands, but over the years I realized that wasn't possible, because Google refused to take "yes" for an answer. This is true for all my Android apps -- all would require constant maintenance to meet Google's endless compliance demands.

We're witnessing an extinction of personal expression, of defending the rights of individuals, and the sideloading issue is a symptom of a deadly disease, one that shifts control away from individuals to giant corporations.

Sideloading is just an example. Samsung has updated its already-sold refrigerators to begin showing ads to powerless consumers. Car makers Mercedes-Benz and BMW have starting charging monthly subscription fees for access to features already present in people's cars. Farmers can no longer repair their John Deere tractors.

It's an unprecedented historical shift. Instead of being crushed by an army that invades and takes over, we pay for things that own us, body and soul.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-29 08:49:03+00:00
Yes, think of something like Inferno, but Limbo now is AOT compiled instead of JITed.

However there are also kernel like commercial projects in Go, and apparently the related TamaGo fork might eventually get upstreamed into the reference implementation.

https://www.withsecure.com/en/solutions/innovative-security-...
by frostyel | 2025-10-29 08:49:47+00:00
You bring up several important issues and I agree with you 100%. A lot of good application/utilities in the past were from engineers who needed the tools themselves, developed them, and then released it open source.

But I can also see the clutter argument. Windows app store has been and still is a nightmare to use.

It feels like we had a good system, but then lost it. I have no idea what it takes to get it back.
by pndy | 2025-10-29 08:50:03+00:00
Not mention the potential problems with devices being bricked due to failed software updates. And of course this whole thing of permanent connection: the manufacturer "sunsets" particular line because they decided it's time for their customers to get newer device. And you can't do anything because the device has a touch screen and proprietary software with no chances for opening it up due to patents and other "secrets".
by TrackerFF | 2025-10-29 08:50:19+00:00
If we take the total number of computer users globally, and look at who use GUI vs CLI, the latter will be a teeny tiny fraction.

But most of those will likely be developers, that use the CLI in a very particular way.

If we now subdivide further, and look at the people that use the CLI for things like browsing the web, that's going to be an even smaller number of people. Negligible, in the big picture.
by gf000 | 2025-10-29 08:50:46+00:00
> Still, I cannot Airdrop things without a 3rd party service

Well, it hardly works between Apple devices themselves to begin with (sending a bunch of pictures over to a 4 years old iphone works like 1 times out of 10 trial..). At least I can use regular old Bluetooth to send stuff to any kind of device from Android without the cruel gatekeeping of only Apple devices.

So yeah, both platforms have their own ways they suck in.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-29 08:51:44+00:00
This is great. I've been trying to generate diagrams for HDL hierarchies and neither Graphviz nor ELK can do a remotely good job. In fact I've never got good results from Graphviz for any graphs over a handful of nodes. I think it just isn't actually very good. But it has such huge mindshare even if there was a better option I wouldn't be able to find it.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-29 08:51:45+00:00
> Because the store gets spammed by million of bot applications ?

They're a search engine company. They can't figure out how to put real apps on page 1 and spam apps on page 500?

Also, then why are they charging the fee if you use someone else's store?

> the week long cert is annoying, they probably want to avoid people side-loading via this mechanism

It seems like you understand their underlying motives, so then why are you defending them?
Show HN: Zrc - a Unix shell without fi, esac or done
by edward_9x | 2025-10-29 08:51:54+00:00
Welp, second time posting this project! Bourne shell's ALGOL-inspired syntax seems a bit verbose, and while `rc` is quite nice, it lacks some features I'd prefer in a shell (this is probably by design). Though don't let the name I chose fool you, this shell is probably more related to `tcl` or `csh` than `rc`, except in some small places. It's been a while since my last post. Notable new features include a stack trace (via `caller`), `try`/`catch` (but only with user-supplied strings), `fc`, `disown`, login shell detection, and a shorter argv alias (`${argv number}` becomes `$number`). I'd love some feedback on the design. (Also yes, I'm aware the line editor can't wrap that well. Probably WONTFIX)
by nl | 2025-10-29 08:52:13+00:00
Triton is a very compelling alternative to CUDA for many applications. Many people know it from the outstanding Unsloth kernels.

https://triton-lang.org/main/python-api/triton.language.html

Mojo has support for Apple Silicon kernels: https://forum.modular.com/t/apple-silicon-gpu-support-in-moj...
by NaomiLehman | 2025-10-29 08:52:27+00:00
M silicon/SoC is the best thing to happen to computing, for me.

I have 64GBs of RAM in my Macbook Pro. I load a 48GB DuckDB to RAM and run real-time, split-second, complex, unique analysis using Polars and Superset. Nothing like this was possible before unless I had a supercomputer.
by blackcatsec | 2025-10-29 08:52:44+00:00
Nah screw it, it's late and I'm unable to sleep and gonna rant a little more.

Microsoft made changes to force consumer users to create Microsoft accounts to login to their PCs and you can go on Youtube and see 500 videos on how to use some bespoke tool to bypass this that has racked up thousands of views because some 'nerd' who literally walks around with a Macbook and an iPhone told them that it's the most evil thing Microsoft could make you do.

Meanwhile, once Google completes this transition on Android, you'll basically be forced to have a Google or Apple account to install any software on your devices, backup and restore the device, etc. And yet folks that dominate these boards are just like "yah that kinda sucks but like, ya know, ya know? ya know!?"

I agree that open software and even open hardware is a good thing. But both Apple and Google have done an incredible amount of damage to the open ecosystem of the web over the last 20 years in so many more ways than Microsoft could have ever dreamed of doing back in the 1990s.

And nerds not only let it happen, but embraced it, camped out in days-long lines wearing diapers to buy the latest shiny overpriced brick they could put in their pocket so they could look cool to all of their friends for a whole 12 months before the next one came out and made them look like a povo. And now walking around with a Macbook at college is like wearing the latest fashion trend because everyone has to show off that they're completely irresponsible with money and spend $2000 for something they could realistically get for under $1000 just so they can show off that they're in the same social class as everyone else.

It's the most infuriating thing to happen to the internet and technology.

Oh, and then to add on, they all get jobs in the tech industry and throw a fucking entitled childish hissy fit when their company hands them a $1000 Windows PC that's got monitoring and security software with no Admin rights on it instead of the $2500 Macbook Pro that they get root access to because mommy and daddy never told them no.
by user34283 | 2025-10-29 08:52:47+00:00
If the manufacturer wants to offer verification of developers, this should be an optional feature allowing the user to continue the installation of applications distributed by unverified developers in a convenient way.

Making this verification mandatory is an absolute non-starter, ridiculous overreach, and a spit in the face of regulators who are trying to break Google and Apple's monopoly on mobile app distribution.
by kuhsaft | 2025-10-29 08:52:48+00:00
> For streamed content the pirates only need one person to crack one device

Thus the push for locked devices.

> What it's nominally supposed to be for is so that a server can verify that the device is approved before providing some service.

Which is why Neflix wont work with a device failing Play Protect.

> The first is what makes it useless for copy protection

Not if you require a locked device to download the artifact in the first place to prevent copying.
by billpg | 2025-10-29 08:53:14+00:00
Thanks very much. That’s a generous offer. If you do find time to check, I’d be grateful. I’ve narrowed it down to eight issues that aren’t in the archive.org scans. My submission was mentioned near the end of Wilf’s column, just before the usual sign-off and the postal address in Bath.

(You might meet PaulRobinson while you're there, looking for the same issues!)

Thanks again for even considering it. Much appreciated! My email address is my HN username at gmail.
by pointlessone | 2025-10-29 08:54:05+00:00
I get the sentiment and it’s a fair shot at license cosplay but it ain’t gonna hold.

No definitions. What is AI for the purpose of this license? What is a natural person?

At some point the text makes distinction between AI, ML, and autonomous agents. Is my RSS reader an autonomous agent? It is an agent as defined by, say, HTTP spec or W3C. And it’s autonomous.

Author also mentions that any MIT software could use this instead. It most certainly could not. This is very much not an open source license and is not compatible with any FLOSS license.

I don’t see it taking off in any meaningful way given how much effort is required to ensure compliance. It also seems way to easy to sabotage deployment of such software by maliciously directing AI agents at such deployments. Heck, even at public source code. Say, OP publishes something under this license, an AI slurps it from the canonical repo. What OP’s gonna do?
by spockz | 2025-10-29 08:56:13+00:00
Exactly, understanding correctness of the code. But also understanding of a codebase what its purpose is and what it should be doing. Add to that how the codebase is layed out. By adding more cruft the details fade away in the background making it harder to understand the Crux of the application.

Measuring performance is relatively easy regardless of whether the code was generated by AI or not.
by seec | 2025-10-29 08:57:43+00:00
This is the real issue. Before they can think about putting Ads, they should try to make a competitive product. I used to use Apple Maps but I just don't bother anymore. It's alright for navigation but pretty bad for discovery and finding stuff.

In France it's just so much worse that it is a bit of a joke. When you search for stuff, not only is the information not necessarily correct but the way the information is displayed is not as good/useful and feels extremely neutered like an asepticized listing with no qualities. There are rarely pictures (both outside/inside), opening hours and distance are poorly displayed (when they exist in the first place) and functionally it is harder to use.

The whole thing reeks of rigid/psychotic thinking. It feels like a bureaucrat was tasked to fill in a form and he is not doing it with much enthusiasm.

Apple was supposedly the company for creatives, yet most of their software feels like you are operating in some modernized version of a Soviet system. It's not beautiful, it's barely functional and it's inefficient. They spend a ton of space on oversized UI buttons and useless informations that has to fit in dedicated box without overflowing.

Apple Maps is the perfect example of how bad Apple has become and their inability to build software for the most common use case of today's computing devices: organizing and accessing information.

Google is winning not just because of the monopoly; they became monopoly because the competitors got complacent and Apple is one of the few who could truly compete, yet they refuse to do so. Considering money isn't the problem, puttings Ads to get more money will only make thing worse.
by close04 | 2025-10-29 08:58:02+00:00
> and those struggled with thermal management of the chips

An ironic mirror of the PowerPC era when every version of the G5 was struggling with high power consumption and heat generation when operated at any competitive frequency/performance level. The top end models like the 2.5GHz quad-G5 needed water cooling, consumed 250W when idle, and needed a 1kW PSU.

Intel's offering at the time was as revolutionary as the M-series chips.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-29 08:58:20+00:00
Sounds like a great argument for keeping js disabled in my browser. Because "httpS://" does nothing whatever to sanitize the js that it delivers. And one perfectly legit site may pull in js from two dozen or more different servers. Zero of which are magically guaranteed to only deliver benevolent code.

Vs. `traceroute` suggests that would-be on-path attackers are up against a vastly smaller attack surface.
by adornKey | 2025-10-29 08:58:25+00:00
People in jigsaw forums usually recommend using transparent latex binder for glue. This is easy to use on top (use transparent binder!) and works great. I glued Educas Borras Life with it (24.000 pieces). Applying the glue on top is best. Anything on the backside is too much work.

As a warning I'd recommend to stay away from most commercial puzzle glues. Some of them are water based - and this doesn't go well with cardboard. Anything bigger than 1000 pieces will start to warp a lot.
by FinnKuhn | 2025-10-29 08:59:02+00:00
When you ask an LLM (in German) without further clarifying your location I expect it to refer to German (or Austrian/Swiss) laws.

For most questions it does this pretty well (e.g. asking for the legal age to drink). However once the answer becomes more complex it starts to halucinate very quickly. The fact that some of the hallucinations are just translated US laws makes me think that the knowledge transfer between languages is probably not helping in instances like this.
Show HN: AI PM Evaluation Framework (Open Source)
by abediaz | 2025-10-29 08:59:33+00:00
Why I Built This [This conversation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcz39Y0qFxw) between [Aakash Gupta](https://x.com/aakashg0) and [Jaclyn Konzelmann](https://x.com/jacalulu) (Google's Director of AI Product, on his [podcast](https://www.news.aakashg.com/s/product-growth-podcast)) truly inspired me. Jaclyn's AI PM evaluation framework was so clear and rigorous that I immediately thought: "I need to measure myself against this." "In disaster relief, you don't map safe routes and hide them. You share them." I started outlining her criteria as a self-assessment. But then I realized: this shouldn't be a private checklist. So this became a framework with a specific purpose: give everyone, especially people from non-traditional backgrounds, an actionable guide on what to build, where to focus, and how to position themselves for AI PM roles. If you have edits or ideas on how to improve please submit them on [GitHub](https://github.com/abe238/aipm-resume-analyzer).
by nosianu | 2025-10-29 08:59:42+00:00
Misrepresenting???

The costs DID increase.

I did not try to make a political statement, what happened here, anyway???

I have no idea what there is to defend - even if you assume they will all get high-paying jobs some ay, for the first few years costs will increase while they either learn the language, are not allowed to work (status pending), or get minimum wage jobs (food delivery and parcel services at least in my city now is dominated by immigrants).

Even with your most positive outlook, initially there will be lots more people and the same system (number of doctors), and the numbers of payers increases slowly.

I even wrote "but more so aging population", conveniently overlooked in this strange politicized discussion.

I am NOT against immigration!!! Don't make stuff up people.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-10-29 09:00:35+00:00
> the current official 21st century literature doesn't read anything like the historic literature

Does modern English read like historical English?

> Native speakers have complained that official documents and signage in Ulster-Scots are incomprehensible to them.

Sure, there are tonnes of issues with the "officialisation" of any language but the fact that there are "native speakers" involved in the debate strongly suggests it wasn't all just made up for political reasons, which was the point I was responding to.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-29 09:00:40+00:00
I feel like you're not understanding the problem:

> Which is why Neflix wont work with a device failing Play Protect.

And yet the pirates still have all of their content, because DRM doesn't work. One pirate cracks one locked device and can download their entire catalog with it. That one pirate needs to know something about computer security and side channel attacks etc., but none of the people downloading it do.

It can't prevent the first copy from being made because the devices are only secure against amateurs but not professionals, and it can't prevent any of the subsequent copies because the pirates aren't using any DRM to distribute them.
by xlii | 2025-10-29 09:00:51+00:00
The Piano chart on prototype is an example, that's for discussing piano keys and chords on basic level.

I already implemented (in other prototype) diagram for event calculus (i.e. consideration of event stream through addition of new events like rollback, modify etc.)

On paper I have designs for point-in-time designs, scenario divergence and also some fun ones like a bingo card template. Diagrams are one thing, but there's also a design for collaboration and play-replay capabilities.

That being said, that's only a design right now with a simple prototype on the website :)
by cy1414569 | 2025-10-29 09:00:58+00:00
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by jsmailes | 2025-10-29 09:01:38+00:00
Fun art style and I'm sure there's some interesting tech behind the renderer/shader - to my eye it looks like the pixels don't shift much as the camera pans, which would naturally happen a fair bit if you're simply doing nearest-neighbour sampling. I'd like to see some gameplay though; so far it's just a tech demo, albeit a very pretty one.