MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kstrauser | 2025-10-10 22:48:15+00:00
Sure have, within the last 2 weeks when I helped a coworker migrate to a new machine! Both were November 2024 MacBook Pros, so Apple's current top-of-the-line laptops.

Running over Wi-Fi dragged on interminably and we gave up several hours in. When we scrounged up a could of USB Ethernet dongles and started over, it took about an hour.

So yeah, my own personal experience confirms exactly what I'd expect: Wi-Fi is slow and high-latency compared to Ethernet, and you should always use hardwired connections when you care about stability and performance more than portability. By all means, use Wi-Fi for routine laptop mobility. If you have the option, definitely run a cable to your stationary desktop computers, game consoles, set-top boxes, NASes, and everything else within reach of a switch.
by jychang | 2025-10-10 22:48:56+00:00
> Emperically, we have plenty of participation by the public in prediction markets without a prohibition on insider trading.

That's not true. As mentioned in this thread, the UK has laws in general against this (for betting). The USA also already has laws against specifically insider financial disclosures (Regulation FD) for corporations, that also applies to betting on prediction markets (Dirks vs SEC ruling in the general case). I'm not sure if Regulation FD applies to Nobel prizes, though, as that's not regulated by the SEC, and I'm not sure if the USA has general laws on illegal betting. But therefore, I do not think you can claim that "there is no prohibition on insider trading", as that's already clearly mostly illegal and thus already priced in for the public participation in prediction markets.

> It's exactly the opposite. Banning insider trading in prediction markets would be a nearsighted way to increase volume (by encouraging more public participation) at the cost of long term value (accuracy, because insiders have the accurate information).

Again, the current laws already ban insider trading from corporate sources, so the status quo is already what I propose; you don't see insiders trade on predictions like "would OpenAI release GPT-5 in 2025" as that's against the law.

> Prediction markets can only be an "information value source" to the extent that they are accurate.

This is also not true. Bayes Theorem! The information does not need to be fully accurate, just more accurate, enough to update from P(A) to P(A|B) given P(B), where P(B) is the prediction market's price on a certain prediction! That means an inaccurate prediction market can still inform your knowledge updates, if you can derive information from it.
by jakub_g | 2025-10-10 22:48:57+00:00
I started my first full time job out of college a bit over a decade ago, in an old-school boring EU "midtech" company.

I didn't know this back then, but I was very lucky to have landed in a damn strong team.

Fast-forward to today, most of the team members now work for FAANG and other bigtechs... except the guy who was IMO the best of all of us. Still same team, same company, no LinkedIn account etc.
by judge2020 | 2025-10-10 22:49:26+00:00
This is a fine mentality when it takes a certain amount of "Internet street smarts" (a term used in the article) to access the internet - at least beyond AOL etc.

But over half of the world has internet access, mostly via Chrome (largely via Android inclusion). At least some frontline protection (that can be turned off) is warranted when you need to cater to at least the millions of people who just started accessing the internet today, and the billions who don't/can't/won't put the effort in to learn those "Internet street smarts".
Show HN: I created an AI Assistant for language teachers
by gabceboli | 2025-10-10 22:49:30+00:00
I built an AI assistant for language teachers.

It automates the repetitive parts of teaching a language:

- Creating lesson plans. - Creating and correcting homework and language learning activities (listening, writing, multiple choice, and soon adding speaking exercises!). - Teachers get personalised feedback of the weaknesses and strengths of their students.

The goal wasn’t to “replace” teachers but to shorten the feedback loop so learning happens faster. In our pilot, feedback that used to take days now reaches students in minutes.

It’s live for ESL right now.

Sharing because I’m curious how others have handled:

1) Privacy-first design when using GenAI in public-sector education.

2) Evaluating language accuracy with LLMs without over-fitting on prompt engineering.

3) Deploying AI tools under real institutional constraints (e.g., procurement, ethics guidelines).

Happy to answer questions or share architecture details!!
by glenngillen | 2025-10-10 22:49:41+00:00
I've been meaning to build a similar thing. I already have all the parts, but I was hoping to find a way to build something that simulated a small record player. Bonus points for a way to have a functioning turntable with the NFC reader + raspi hidden underneath it. If anyone has ideas or has seen a way to make that work please share some links!
by pfdietz | 2025-10-10 22:49:51+00:00
The powerlines, transformers, etc. have to be paid for. These are not new costs, they're existing, ongoing costs.

Previously, these were paid for by becoming part of the per-kWh price of electricity, under the assumption that all the electricity each consumer is using goes over the grid.

But with solar, consumers can largely (but not entirely) self-power, and use the grid only rarely. They are benefiting from the presence of the transmission/distribution infrastructure (and the power sources feeding it) but aren't paying the same amount for it.
by conartist6 | 2025-10-10 22:50:03+00:00
It feels slightly disingenuous. Many engineers do their work with a sense of personal duty and pride. Should a drive for self-improvement be neglected because it didn't happen outside of work hours?

For the years I had paid employment I'm very thankful that I didn't make programming my hobby in addition to being my work. For the last 5 years it's been both and I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone
by fishmicrowaver | 2025-10-10 22:51:11+00:00
He is following a very well worn path of writing histrionically about a bubble and making money off it. Point out the obvious that it's a bubble. Throw out a lot of figures supporting it. Get your emotional hooks in (prey on fears of job loss, hatred of corporate mismanagement/execs etc) and charge a subscription for it. I liked an article or two of his but he's basically meatGPTing The Information with cursing.
by chongli | 2025-10-10 22:51:27+00:00
I spent about a month trying to get used to Kakoune. It never clicked with me and I went back to vim.

My biggest beef with Kakoune’s editing philosophy is that it seems to emphasize “editing in the large” as its preferred mode of interaction. This is totally backwards to me. Editing in the large (making multiple identical edits throughout a buffer) is a rarity. Most edits in day to day use are single edits. So the fact that Kakoune likes to leave a bunch of extra cursors in your wake (like a trail of breadcrumbs) as you jump around a file to make single edits is extremely infuriating to me, like it’s trying too hard to be helpful.

The irony of Kakoune using a clippy-style contextual help window is not lost on me!
by zippyman55 | 2025-10-10 22:51:33+00:00
I fired people when I was in the gov't. And I gave tough reviews. And I sent NCIS to their homes to collect their CAC cards. There are some problems, but I think much of those problems also exist in industry. The problem I was frustrated with was it was sometimes sometimes hard to select the best qualified candidate for a position. An example: I had a candidate who wanted to come to my place because his girlfriend lived there. He was 100-percent unqualified. I was not able to reject him, and we needed to disqualify the entire job posting to avoid hiring him. It was also frustrating to "have to spend some residual money" at the end of the year. I would have had no problem returning the money to the treasury as opposed to "thinking of something creative" to spend the money. I was proud to work in the gov't and retire, but it was harder work than what I ever experienced in industry.
by hatthew | 2025-10-10 22:54:16+00:00
Super cool concept!

Looking at the examples below the abstract, there's several details that surprise me with how correct the model is. For examples: hairline in row 2 column 3; shirt color in row 2 columns 7, 8, 9, 11; lipstick throughout rows 4 and 6; face/hair position and shape in row 6 column 4. Of particular note is the red in the bottom left of row 6 column 4. It's a bit surprising—but still understandable—that the model realized there is something red there, but it's very surprising that it chose to put the red blob in exactly the right spot.

I think some of this can be explained by bias in the dataset (e.g. lipstick) and cherry picking on my part (I'm ignoring the ones it got wildly wrong), but I can't explain the red shoulder strap/blob. Is there any possibility of data leakage and/or overfitting of a biased dataset, or are these just coincidences?
by npunt | 2025-10-10 22:54:51+00:00
TLDR not all perspectives have optimal legibility, but if it's easy to change perspective to achieve optimal legibility, then it might be a good tradeoff if you get other value in return. And phones have gotten bigger, and this is a reset of default device expectation.

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As an app developer I (generally) like liquid glass, it injects some much needed fun and freshness into our devices. It's still rough around the edges and some of these points are very valid, especially around not overdoing it to show off and some text-on-text issues.

However I do think some of the issues raised are based on a different goals around legibility.

I think NNgroup wants all interfaces to be optimally legible at any given moment. I think Apple wants all interfaces to have access to legibility at any given moment, typically by moving the screen a bit.

These are legitimate differences of opinion. A physical metaphor might be that you have a paper with a glass paperweight atop it. If one were to judge a photo of your perspective looking at it as though it were a UI, they might comment that the paper is hard to read in places because of the paperweight.

But in reality, it takes half a second to move that paperweight aside to read the paper, and the paperweight serves another valuable purpose keeping the paper from moving. This is akin to other purposes UI elements serve. It's a balance and a tradeoff.

Just like Steve Jobs pointed out to Round Rects Are Everywhere! [0], the physical world is full of content that obscures other content. What do we do? We turn our head a bit, or move a thing aside. We don't expect the physical world to have optimal legibility at all possible perspectives. While we can (and should) do better in the digital realm, there is a spectrum and the optimal point may not be where NNgroup wants it, especially as the capability of mobile devices reaches and exceeds that of the physical realm.

To address another point this article makes about touch targets:

Prior iOS versions made decisions about spacing between icons that were based on smaller devices (4.7-5.5", or 9.5-13 sq in). iPhones are larger these days (6.1-6.9", or 14-18 sq in), so the physical area of a touch target isn't actually that different, if at all. A big UI refresh is the time to update these kinds of assumptions.

[0] https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html
by noir_lord | 2025-10-10 22:54:54+00:00
It’s rapidly ending my deal with Microsoft.

I want windows to play games, for computing I use Linux but they keep foisting shite I don’t want on me just to play games, AI and sodding OneDrive can piss off.

I’ve kept windows around because it was less painful to game on than Linux but Linux is better than ever and windows is getting worse, at some point those lines are gonna cross and for the first time in 30 odd years I’ll not be running a single device with a Microsoft operating system on.

And they deserve it.
by nomel | 2025-10-10 22:55:09+00:00
I think this review is harsher than reality. Your scores are pretty close to the critic and audience rotten tomatoes scores [1].

You: 3/5 (60%) for general and 4/5 for (80%) for "interested".

Rotten tomatoes: 58% for critics and 86% for "interested enough to go watch it early".

[1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tron_ares
by adrianmonk | 2025-10-10 22:56:18+00:00
It will be a luxury item. Unless batteries become incredibly cheap and lightweight, economics will strongly favor a car that has just the right amount of range and no more.

However, some people have extra money to spend, and range is a meaningful upgrade. With gas vehicles, there are already people who get a much bigger vehicle than they really need and are willing to pay way more for the vehicle and for fuel. I don't see any reason not to expect the same with electric cars.
by mustaphah | 2025-10-10 22:56:39+00:00
RSS is my main source of news. I rarely open social media; mostly just to check notifications. It's simply the worst place to spend your time, and definitely not where I go for relevant news.

Here's a sample of what I’m currently following - maybe it'll help you build your own:

- Job listing (WWR [1], RemoteOK, etc.), because I'm looking for a job.

- Tech news: HN ≥ 100 pts [2], Github trends [3], TLDR AI & webdev [4], and r/technology [4], Product Hunt [6], Google devs [7].

- Science: r/science [4], ScienceDaily [8], and a couple few more.

- IMDb latest shows [4]: Sci-fi, Adventure, etc.

- And a lot of blogs!

RSS feeds are sometimes hidden - this tool can help: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder

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[1] https://weworkremotely.com/categories/remote-back-end-progra...

[2] https://hnrss.org/newest?points=100

[3] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhadidg/gh-trends/refs/hea...

[4] Using RSSible [5] - a small utility I built, turning webpages into an RSS feed.

[5] https://rssible.hadid.dev/

[6] https://www.producthunt.com/feed

[7] https://developers.googleblog.com/rss/

[8] https://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/top/science.xml
by alan-stark | 2025-10-10 22:56:54+00:00
While John talks about the period before Google, this quote brings up a remarkable déjà-vu:

[~14:30] Although the search companies were having great success, they were turning into something quite different than what they started out to be. They lost the sight of what brought users to them in the first place: The need to find things. The search engine companies stopped caring about search.

When it came to actually locating relevant information on the web, Yahoo, Excite, and the rest of the so called search companies, frankly, stunk. You could spend all day typing various combinations of keywords that you were looking for. Most of the results were links to sites trying to sell you something you didn't want. The world was hungry for a radically better way of searching the web.
by benjiro | 2025-10-10 22:58:11+00:00
> its not bait and switch, its main has features we are willing to continue to support given we did a whole rewrite and this is what we think you should use. Don't like it? Fork it, code is still there. I hope your version is better!

It sounds like your are the dev of Datastar...

Let me give one piece of advice. Drop the attitude because this is not how you interact in public as the developers of a paid piece of software.

You can get away with a lot when its free/hobby project, but the moment you request payment, there is a requirement for more professionalism. These reactions that i am reading, will trigger responses that will hurt your future paycheck. Your already off on a bad start with this "bait and switch", do not make it worse.

I really question your future client interactions, if they criticize your product(s) or practices.

> I hope your version is better!

No need for Datastar, my HTMX "alternative" has been in production (with different rewrites) over 20 years. So thank you for offering, but no need.
by hamburglar | 2025-10-10 22:58:13+00:00
For what it’s worth, I upgraded to 26 on a 3rd gen SE and perf is totally fine. I do hate most of the UI changes though. I really hope they do a dot release that lets me turn off the “safari viewport is big but we draw crap on top of it” stuff. I keep cursing at the title bar and url bar obscuring important things.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-10 22:58:58+00:00
> OpenAI needs 1 trillion dollars in next four years just to keep existing. That's more than all currently available capital, together, from all private equity.

Recent estimates I've seen of uninvested private equity capital are ~$1.5 trillion and total private equity $5+ trillion, with several hundred million in new pricate equity funds raised annually, so this simply seems incorrect even assuming either only currrent “dry powder" is considered, or only new funds available over the next four years, much less both and/or the rest of private equity.
by layer8 | 2025-10-10 22:59:04+00:00
> Luckily, Apple is ok at supporting older phones, so I just have to be careful to not accidentally upgrade my SE to iOS 26.

You won’t be receiving any updates for iOS 18 after December or so, if your device supports iOS 26. Only the iPhone XR and XS will be receiving further iOS 18 updates, because they don’t support iOS 26. That has been Apple’s policy for many years now. Only devices that dropped out of major iOS updates receive minor updates to older iOS versions. The same minor updates are not made available to iPhone models that support a newer major version.
by npunt | 2025-10-10 22:59:07+00:00
iOS .0 releases tend to be this way, even on brand new devices. I noticed some big perf improvements on the 26.0.1 release. If I were you I'd wait til 26.1 or 26.2 and reassess then. It still may not be optimal for a mini tho for non-perf reasons, as iOS26 assumes a larger average device size.
by alan-stark | 2025-10-10 22:59:26+00:00
At ~9:50 Michael Moritz talks how the 100-year media history tells us that if you can gather a large audience in one place, you will be able to sell them advertising.

It's likely that Google will not be the last search company. What business model could a successor use to generate revenue without falling into the ad trap? Why didn't early search engines choose other models like subscription, revenue sharing with telecom companies, or turning queries into marketing signals for manufacturers/merchandisers?
by viraptor | 2025-10-10 23:00:26+00:00
Yeah, yoto works really nice for the same purpose. My kid's got lots of custom music on the blanks now. Both soundtracks from movies and custom playlists. I suspect it's going to transform into more of albums in the next years. Whether purchased or DIY, it's also a great solution to giving agency to a 3yo without something like "have an ipad with the whole spotify".
by skopje | 2025-10-10 23:00:42+00:00
Thanks for listing these, this is really an impressive compilation. I see how naive I was. I assumed everyone agreed that Dodd-Frank was a great bill, and protection of FCC from being carved up by billionaires was also a good thing. Same goes for keeping drones from filling the skies, and putting guardrails on AI billionaires from running wild and breaking big important things. But clearly political alignment determines what is considered innovation. I think almost all but a few of these regulations are spectacular (except for the broadband one) and don't stifle innovation: they protect us from centibillionaires' greedy, vile nature to take more for themselves at our expense while providing a net negative (e.g., Amazon, Facebook, Oracle, megabanks, cryptobros, Private Equity for medical and insurance, etc.). I can see we are on opposite sides of the political spectrum here.
by graemefawcett | 2025-10-10 23:00:51+00:00
I used to do it all in org-mode, but then institutional laziness got the better of me.

Now we solve detective cases together, craft intent through a talking teddy bear.

This is how I try to keep it all together - one REST endpoint coordinating human and AI attention. One simple pattern that solves the problem of focus. When you pattern match, you're not really reasoning as you work through a problem. You're collecting data. That's why I build systems to do that for me, an executable markdown "casebook" that renders to my talking teddy bear view port, reaches out into my infrastructure and gives it a voice. A real time view "through the portal" into the graph that is our delivery infrastructure in all its glory, and all the events its producing flowing back into a nest of pattern addicts.

This new world we live in is fun for people like me.

Give me all the data, we'll look through it together. Make it beautiful and we'll stare at it together until we find the shape of the problem and its solution together. Make it easy and we'll do anything.

The funnel is the point, the attractor anchors the funnel. We're not solving a problem by reasoning about it. We're solving a problem by collecting enough context about it until the solution can't help but become apparent.

This is how I do that, with a simple REST endpoint and a bit of detective work.

Come find out
by hinkley | 2025-10-10 23:02:52+00:00
One of those YouTube channels where a professional pilot evaluates flying incidents had a similar incident when the pilot started yelling at the tower when they tried to make him go around again. He essentially said he would declare an emergency if he didn’t hear different instructions. I think he had 10-15 minutes when he touched down.

One of the things the reserve is for is if the plane immediately in front of you fucks up the runway, you now have to divert to the next airport. You need at least enough fuel to get there and for the tower to shove everyone else out of the way so you can make an emergency landing.

There are other reasons someone could abort a landing and have to go around again, besides debris in the runway. And sometimes two of them can happen consecutively.

In the case I’m referencing, it was pointed out that p the pilot made things worse by going faster than he was told to fly, using up fuel and also making him too close to a previous plane which forced him to go around the previous time, so it wasn’t all the tower.
by scelerat | 2025-10-10 23:03:18+00:00
I suppose an upvote should be sufficient, but I am so unhappy with the new UI I am actually holding off switching to a new M4 MBP and sticking to my old M1 still on Sequoia 15.7.1. I also try to give these things time and I am usually ok with the changes eventually, but the new UI elements are so incredibly distracting it's actually affecting my ability to focus on what I'm actually doing.
by samrus | 2025-10-10 23:03:32+00:00
This is one reason startups can be so successfull. A founder who knows that they're doing will have a team of such illegible (and so undervalued) talent scouted out ahead of time and poach them for their venture. Basically talent arbitrage

But talent arbitrage, like any arbitrage closes as its utilized. Basically these people can be rescued by their former coworkers so as long as you make sure to work with people who know talent when they see it in action daily, you will be good
by sfourdrinier | 2025-10-10 23:05:17+00:00
Oh yes, I've been actually looking at integrating this and other mmwave research into my startup https://trackourhearts.com

Non-intrusive technology which can work at home to monitor people' vitals is a game changer, there are so many applications to this. Research is at the beginning.

Indeed there are privacy issues with big providers doing this, but then this really opens up so many possibilities if done well.