MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Are guided tooltip onboarding working in 2025?
by athulsuresh123 | 2025-10-11 10:22:49+00:00
I've been working with couple of SaaS companies for the last few years as product designer and I’ve noticed that designers and product managers often go straight for tooltip guided tours as their go to option for onboarding.

Personally I hate them. I see it, I hit next-next-next and somehow end the tour. But later to be stuck on how to get something done in a new software.

Is it just me or your adoption rates that great, just by using these tooltip?
by Alifatisk | 2025-10-11 10:23:06+00:00
Glad to see the Avo project live and well!

I previously used Opensearch for my Rails project, it was quite heavy piece of service to run in the docker compose environment. I said to my myself that on the next project, I will eitber use Typesense or Meilisearch. I'll bookmark this guide for when the time comes

Regarding the command to create the Rails app, I would have done this for the playground project

rails new typesense -d sqlite3 -c tailwind -j esbuild --skip-test --skip-jbuilder --skip-action-mailbox --skip-action-text
by thrance | 2025-10-11 10:24:35+00:00
> I don't even think there's a party on either side of the spectrum that's like "fuck disabled people".

Trump said to her niece about her disabled son: "maybe he should just die". The right is ableist, you can see it most everywhere, in their rhetoric, in their policies... They cut billions from healthcare programs in their big bill, that disproportionately benefited the physically diabled. Now a lot of these people will most likely die, as a direct result. This was a desired outcome.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-10-11 10:25:10+00:00
>Sony have shown they are willing to make esoteric gaming hardware in the past (cell architecture)

Just so we’re clear, you’re talking about a decision that didn’t really pan out made over 20 years ago.

PS6 will be an upgraded PS5 without question. You aren’t ever going to see a massive divergence away from the PC everyone took the last twenty years working towards.

The landscape favors Microsoft, but they’ll drop the ball, again.
by uyzstvqs | 2025-10-11 10:25:26+00:00
Files with the .av1 extension are for raw AV1 data. For AV2 this should become .av2, yes. That's by design, as they're two different incompatible formats. Typically you use a container like Matroska (.mkv, video/x-matroska), WebM or MP4 which contains your video stream with a type code specifying the codec (av01, av02).

AVIF is also a container format, and I believe should be adaptable to AV2, even if the name stands for "AV1 image format". It could simply just be renamed to AOMedia Video Image Format for correctness.
by pas | 2025-10-11 10:26:48+00:00
why not both?

it's exactly NIMBYism which makes the installation of the very small inefficient gas turbines make economic sense.

because it would take too fucking long to get a transmission wire set up to the grid, not to mention about the fight required for starting a new power plant somewhere else.

(that said I think it's unethical to run those turbines there)
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-11 10:28:18+00:00
I'm not sure accumulated average grade metrics are actually very useful. Just the difficulty variation between courses means you can game those metrics with careful choice anyway, Or studying in ways that benefit the tests more than the subject.

Choosing difficult courses and passing is more valuable to the student. (well, a 4.0 on a paper is also valuable in a way, but more in a charade way)

What concerns me is not grade inflation, its difficulty and deapth deflation. I had plenty of courses that bored me but that had plenty of fun depth and difficulty that could have been covered with a bit more effort of students and teacher.

But we cannot measure courses difficulty and deapth, so we measure grade inflation instead. Which then lead us to false conclusions about how to solve it. (making the metrics more accurate at the cost of time and resources fir teaching the subjects)

i think less emphasis on grade and more emphasis on covered subjects could mabie shift the incentive. Its difficult to actually implement through because humans love maximising metrics... so it will remain my fantasy.
by aidos | 2025-10-11 10:29:54+00:00
Yeah that’s fair - and to be clear, I’m not really defending the CEO in this case. As a founder, I was just imagining a scenario where one of our team did something similar and how I might react to it. My thoughts (and point) drifted a bit.

Serves more as a reminder to the youngsters out there that potential future hirers will use things like this to inform hiring decisions. Legal or not, your history follows you around (I’m old enough to be lucky to not have the stupid stuff I did early in my career available online). Be free, go build stuff for fun but keep clear of your employers space.
by danabramov | 2025-10-11 10:30:14+00:00
Yes.

Think of these as names of tables (or collections) in a distributed database. Or as type definitions. Or as app-defined data formats.

Each lexicon is a schema for a model. So you’re looking at a list of such “types” — a “repo”, a “follow”, a “star” etc.

There’s a “Tangled repo” lexicon, a “Bluesky post” lexicon, a “Leaflet publication” lexicon, and so on. Lexicons are specified and evolved by developers of each concrete application. Other apps can use those type definitions to read or write that kind of data.

See https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/why-not-rdf#lexicon for a short intro.

The UFO tool samples the global event stream and keeps stats on which lexicons are showing up in it (i.e. types of JSON that are being created on the network). You can expand the “samples” tab to show a few concrete JSON blobs so you get the idea of what the data represents.
by flohofwoe | 2025-10-11 10:31:50+00:00
Yeah but that doesn't mean that much of Mantle is recognizeable in Vulkan, because Vulkan wanted to cover the entire range of GPU architectures (including outdated and mobile GPUs) with a single API, while Mantle was designed for modern (at the time) desktop GPUs (and specifically AMD GPUs). Vulkan basically took an elegant design and "ruined" it with too much real-word pragmatism ;)
by 1dom | 2025-10-11 10:32:12+00:00
> Er… is that really a bad thing and is it as big a problem as you’re making it to be?

What were you trying to convey by starting with "Er...", and all the other rhetorical and dismissive tone and techniques?

Your entire post reads like you're quite offended, and you're dealing with that by being quite confrontational and dismissive towards someone who probably wasn't trying to offend or start a fight.
by lordnacho | 2025-10-11 10:35:11+00:00
I had an old teacher who died almost a year ago.

Great guy, very sociable, knew everyone in the little town he lived in. Kept in touch with a lot of students. Good neighbour, friendly guy who'd talk to everyone.

He got Alzheimers. He started forgetting stuff, and it frustrated him. He got caught driving dangerously, and cursed the doctor who took away his license.

He argued with me about the state of some chicken he wanted to cook. I told him "this is pink all over, you have to cook it more". He got angry. I understood he'd become like this to everyone.

He pissed off everyone on his street, and all police, medical and social workers sent to help him. The disease made him blow up every relationship he had with anyone that he didn't know well, like me and a couple of colleagues.

He got found in his house, having left the gas on, endangering the whole street. He ended up in a care home, not knowing who he was, or who I was.

If he'd been run over by a car, or died of a heart attack at the age of 80, people he knew would remember him as that nice old guy who had a dog and made a lot of art, and was friendly to everyone. Instead he was that 83 year old guy who pissed off everyone, nearly blew up the neighbourhood, and drove like a maniac.

You really don't want to end up with dementia and related illnesses, it totally sours everyone's view of you.
by desselc | 2025-10-11 10:35:26+00:00
Regarding Title IX, there are still cases working their way through the courts, so we will have to see.

I would be very surprised if colleges letting males enjoy women's locker rooms, and therefore not providing women any single-sex place to change, isn't ruled as being sex discrimination.

Keep in mind this issue is about privacy and dignity and safety for women, not about giving men whatever they want whenever they want.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-11 10:35:40+00:00
Can't find a pw bypass but the following slide from a recent talk somewhat summarizes (the author) Prof Baehr's stance on intellectual virtues & vices that underpins his entire(?) outlook

https://youtu.be/xBVtO0XnQNA?t=12m58s

Compare those 3+3 to Aristotle's 5: intuitive understanding (nous), scientific knowledge (episteme), wisdom (sophia), art/skill (techne), and practical wisdom (phronesis).

Or to Laozi's (n)one--- as popularized by Alan Watts, not r/Stoicism

https://old.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/comments/5rbyzl/superior_v...
by mdhb | 2025-10-11 10:36:23+00:00
I’m not trying to be rude in any way here but literally everything you have posted here is incorrect. I don’t know where you’re getting your information from.

The only exception is about job postings and react, I’m not making the argument in any way shape or form that that isn’t the overwhelming majority of jobs out there, but that wasn’t what I was talking about I was saying it’s an actively bad choice for a project in 2025.
by squigz | 2025-10-11 10:37:09+00:00
> Yes, and yes. As way of example, I’m familiar with a particular subreddit which is used to promote far-right ideology in a specific country. They do it by grabbing news from anywhere in the world in which an immigrant has done anything “wrong”, no matter how small, and use it to stoke xenophobia in the subreddit’s country. They are making it seem these events are more prevalent than they really are, when they aren’t even happening in that country. It is a transparent tactic which nonetheless works.

This isn't a symptom of global news dissemination though, it's a result of people being shitty and needing to grasp at any thread to justify their shitty position. Whether most of our news comes from local sources or not will not stop that. They'll just go seek out those local sources.
by hikerell | 2025-10-11 10:37:53+00:00
I'm not entirely sure about the cause, but here are some possibilities:

1. I run a SaaS browser extension that lets users export table data from any website. It can bypass some download restrictions, and I’m not sure if this has ever caused complaints.

2. A few months ago, I launched a free expired-domain valuation tool. It identified some high-value domains abandoned by governments and international organizations, as well as domains linked to gambling and scams. I’m not sure if any of this may have breached regulations.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-11 10:38:27+00:00
Daniel wrote one of my favorite books, Thinking: Fast and Slow (https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp...). If you haven't read it, and you're into economics, behavioral psychology, and thinking about thinking then I'd highly recommend it. The first half of the book is especially compelling.

You will be missed! Sad to hear he passed, but glad he was able to go out on his own terms.
by andix | 2025-10-11 10:38:53+00:00
I'm also pushing the upgrade of my Xs year after year now. It runs fine on iOS 18, and it still gets security updates (the newer models didn't get 18.7).

After more than a decade, I'm seriously considering to switch back to Android again. Also because Apple doesn't want to release some features in the EU, they prefer picking a fight with the regulators. Fine with me, but they have to be okay with us not buying Apple products anymore.
by ageitgey | 2025-10-11 10:39:37+00:00
This is more about two sides yelling past each other and playing team sports instead of being credible parties trying to improve society. And given how weaponized especially the right has become recently, I'm not sure how you can even attempt to make an argument in good faith anymore given how you will be treated, so I'm not pretending like I have the answers to any of this.

Obviously the right is super exaggerating the state of "blue" cities to justify political grandstanding, shows of power, and increased authoritarian control.

But it's also true that a lot of these cities have major, major problems in specific areas and are a sad representation of America in 2025 (the richest country in the history of the world). And these problems are not getting effectively addressed at scale, despite many efforts and resources spent by many different groups. This is why these attacks work - you can say "PORTLAND IS NOT BURNING" (it's not!) but you can't argue with the average tourist that they visit the core tourist parts of these cities, they see horrible things that they've never seen before in their suburban lives. Many areas don't feel safe. That's why these attacks are so effective.

The saddest part is we can't talk about this seriously in the current media. You have to be on a "side". Any attempt to have a real discussion is either ignored or lambasted from one side or the other. Both sides have elements of truth which they can use to push their view.

Cities are dynamic and constantly changing. Different people have different experiences living in different neighborhoods. My experiences might not match yours. But I can say some of the most visibly terrible places for human misery in the Western world that I have seen in the last 10 years have been:

- The obvious places in San Francisco, but also anywhere at any time in the financial district

- Downtown Seattle in various areas (between 4th and Pikes Place, around various 7-11s). You want walk from the water front back to your hotel, take the public elevator, it shows up and opens, and a couple is just fully living in it. What do you do with that?

- Many parts of downtown Los Angeles

- The eastern side of downtown San Diego, around the new library and baseball stadium

- Any MacDonalds in the southern part of downtown Chicago

- The area in and around the Taco Bell on the main tourist strip in Denver

- Many parts of Manhattan

- Almost any form of public transit in any city in the US that has one, from a bus in St. Loius to the BART in SF

You probably don't live in these neighborhoods. You'll think "yeah, don't live in the bad parts - my neighborhood is delighful". But I don't think any rational person can pretend like the policies in any of these cities are working effectively, at scale.
by desselc | 2025-10-11 10:39:37+00:00
Those already very rare instances will become even rarer when males stop insisting they have a right to access women's spaces based on supposedly womenly thoughts in their minds.

Thankfully, this fad is on the way out, and with it, the overvigilance that has led to unfortunate misunderstandings like you mention in your comment - none of which are justification for males to impose themselves on female spaces.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-11 10:41:12+00:00
Worse, I've seen people say they are waiting for hydrogen cars. I've seen them write op-eds to that effect.

Which the Japanese government and Toyota have also been pushing hard for reasons that don't appear to make any logical sense.

The classic examples of "groupthink" used to be the Japanese Navy in WW2 but I think we have a new contender.
by xpe | 2025-10-11 10:42:35+00:00
Related, a 5 page page PDF, freely downloadable:

Should assisted dying be legalised?

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine volume 9, Article number: 3 (2014)

Thomas D G Frost, Devan Sinha & Barnabas J Gilbert

https://peh-med.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1747-5341...

Abstract

When an individual facing intractable pain is given an estimate of a few months to live, does hastening death become a viable and legitimate alternative for willing patients? Has the time come for physicians to do away with the traditional notion of healthcare as maintaining or improving physical and mental health, and instead accept their own limitations by facilitating death when requested? The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge held the 2013 Varsity Medical Debate on the motion “This House Would Legalise Assisted Dying”. This article summarises the key arguments developed over the course of the debate. We will explore how assisted dying can affect both the patient and doctor; the nature of consent and limits of autonomy; the effects on society; the viability of a proposed model; and, perhaps most importantly, the potential need for the practice within our current medico-legal framework.
by imiric | 2025-10-11 10:44:07+00:00
> the only people who seem to be truly bothered by any of this are people who don't use datastar.

Yeah, those silly people who were previously interested in Datastar, and are criticizing the hostility of how this was handled. Who cares what they think?

> Don't use it. We don't care. In fact, I suspect that the datastar maintainers would prefer that you, specifically, don't use it.

Too bad. I'll use it to spite all of you!

> I also retract my statement about you having good intentions/communicating in good faith.

Oh, no.
by shash | 2025-10-11 10:47:52+00:00
Yeah, the point here is nuanced, but let's do an argumentum ad absurdum instead /s

Probably the _best_ advice I got from the entire startup community is, "don't scale without PMF". The saving grace here is that they didn't scale beyond 140 people, so the damage is limited. And they didn't double down on something that would have dropped the whole thing down.

But as a founder, I'd consider it a failure of planning on my part if I had to lay off 50% of my workforce (a failure nobody is immune to, but a failure nonetheless).
by Freak_NL | 2025-10-11 10:48:18+00:00
It doesn't seem pleasant for the person themself either. Constant frustration, gaps in your memory growing ever larger, disorientation, loss — periodically augmented by brief flickers of recollection of what you used to be — and yet no one can legally end your misery, because you can likely no longer unequivocally consent to euthanasia or assisted suicide, even if you explicitly signed a declaration that you did not want to end up like this — legally, the current husk of your former self must consent, and it can't.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-10-11 10:48:21+00:00
> Update 7 Oct 2025: Some screen readers have been found not to announce updates to the tag, so explicitly emphasising the role attribute might be worthwhile for now until support improves: <output role="status">.

Maybe it's because like most things html/css related, it's a semi-broken implementation of a half-feature?
by flohofwoe | 2025-10-11 10:48:44+00:00
Exploding production cost is pretty much the only reason (eg we hit diminishing returns in overall game asset quality vs production cost at least a decade ago) plus on the tech side a brain drain from rendering tech to AI tech (or whatever the current best-paid mega-hype is). Also, working in gamedev simply isn't "sexy" anymore since it has been industrialized to essentially assembly line jobs.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-11 10:50:28+00:00
> The point here is that, until Rust came along, you had the choice between wildly risky (but fast) C and C++ code, or completely safe (but slow) garbage collected languages with heavy runtimes and significant deployment challenges.

Not really, I have been mostly coding in managed languages for the last couple of decades, and this has been not really true for quite some time.

Yes if we go down language benchmark games, they won't win every little micro benchmark, however for like 99% of commercial use cases, what they deliver is fast enough for project requirements in execution time, and hardware resources.

Now where they fail is in human perception and urban myths, of where they are suitable to be adopted.

Languages like Rust overcome this, with their type system approach to resource management, the naysayers have run out of excuses.
by keyringlight | 2025-10-11 10:51:39+00:00
I think one of the challenges is that game designers have trained up so well at working within the non-RT constraints (and pushing back those constraints) that it's a tall order to make paying the performance cost (and new quirks of rendering) be paid back by RT improvements. There's also how a huge majority of companies wouldn't want to cut off potential customers in terms of whether their hardware can do RT at all or performance while doing so. The other big one is whether they're trying to recreate a similar environment with RT, or if they're taking advantage of what is only possible on the new technique, such as dynamic lighting and whether that's important to the game they want to make.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-10-11 10:52:25+00:00
If you have to use `role=status` to make it work with screenreaders, I'm not sure I see the point.

Maybe I'm jaded, I was all in on semantic xhtml and microformats before we got HTML5, but this seems like being overly-pedantic for the sake of pedantry rather than for a11y.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-11 10:52:43+00:00
It's impressive for an article about how bad cars are to directly address their impact on human health yet and magically not mention the pollution from combustion or even brake dust.

How does that even happen without the article being intended as an EV hit piece?

Replace cars and busses and motorbikes with electric equivalents. It's cheaper, cleaner, greener, quieter, safer.

You can do other things in parallel too. Anyone suggesting you can't is at best an idiot.
by randyrand | 2025-10-11 10:54:46+00:00
And what about online tutorials, marketing, user manuals, customer support? You probably want your app to look consistent with that too, right? Do you really expect or even want to sift through multiple different versions of tutorials and guides?

As long as an app is easy to use, people prefer a single look. No one cares about "looking like the OS", except maybe 0.1% of users.
by kstenerud | 2025-10-11 10:57:03+00:00
The article is railing against how things are without offering even a glimpse of what could be improved in an alternate design (other than some nebulous talk about message passing - which I'm assuming he's meaning to be something akin to FPGAs?)

The alternatives are niche because they're not compelling replacements. A Colemak keyboard isn't going to improve my productivity enough to matter.

A DSP improves performance enough to matter. A hardware video decoding circuit improves performance enough to matter. A GPU improves performance enough to matter. Thus, they exist and are mainstream.

When we've found better abstractions that actually make a compelling difference, we've implemented them. Modern programming languages like Kotlin have advanced enough abstractions that they could actually be applied in exotically architectured CPUs. And yet such things are not used.

Big players with with their own silicon like Apple and Google aren't sticking to the current general CPU architecture out of stubbornness. They look at the bottom line.

And the bottom line is that modern CPUs are efficient enough at their tasks that no alternative has disrupted them yet.
by basisword | 2025-10-11 10:57:38+00:00
>> You really don't want to end up with dementia and related illnesses, it totally sours everyone's view of you.

I don't think this is fair. I know several people who died with Alzheimer's and although their final years were very difficult for them nobody has a bad opinion of them. It's certainly a strain on the family but intimating that if you have dementia you better kill yourself or your legacy will be ruined is not ok.
by jebarker | 2025-10-11 10:58:18+00:00
> …and has more computing power than the machines that sent humans to the moon.

We’ve all read this comparison many times. Is there any reason to think of sending people to the moon as a difficult computational problem though? Conversely, just because relatively little computation was needed to send someone to the moon does that necessarily mean that more computational power is a necessary path to doing something we’d all agree is more impressive, e.g. sending someone to Mars?