MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by troupo | 2025-10-29 07:04:04+00:00
> research works on grasping at the possible but not quite knowing how

If these are public money, you want to reduce the blind grasping

> Slop has stumbled into accidental success on a number of occasions.

So, show me these occasions where AI slop led to "transformative potential by driving adoption of AI across strategic and public sectors including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy, mobility, manufacturing, construction, agri-food, defence, communications and culture."
by philippta | 2025-10-29 07:04:25+00:00
While this is great for end users, this just shows again what kind of monopoly Google has over the web by owning Chrome.

I work at a company that also happens to run a CDN and the sheer amount of layers Google forces everyone to put onto their stack, which was a very simple text based protocol, is mind boggling.

First there was simple TCP+HTTP. Then HTTPS came around, adding a lot of CPU load onto servers. Then they invented SPDY which became HTTP2, because websites exploded in asset use (mostly JS). Then they reinvented the layer 4 with QUIC (in-house first), which resulted in HTTP3. Now this.

Each of them adding more complexity and data framing onto, what used to be a simple message/file exchange protocol.

And you can not opt out, because customers put their websites into a website checker and want to see all green traffic lights.
by omnicognate | 2025-10-29 07:05:47+00:00
Indeed, including a cave aged one actually made in Cheddar (which is amazing). Godminster and Black Bomber are both very nice, and are wax sealed so might be similar to the canned stuff. And that's before you get into the unpasteurised stuff you're not even allowed to sell in the states. (Edit: I'm wrong about that - you can if it's aged more than 60 days.)

I'd really like to try this Cougar Gold, though. People get nationalistic about cheese, but good is good wherever it's made. If England can have the best brie I know of (Baron Bigod) there's no reason in principle the US couldn't have the best cheddar. Canada makes rather nice cheddar too, which you can buy in UK supermarkets.

The US terminology is odd, though. Sharp isn't how I'd characterise most extra mature cheddar.
by r4victor | 2025-10-29 07:07:51+00:00
So far I prefer the Hashimoto's solution to this that "AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44976568

I use it like this: If a PR is LLM-generated, you as a maintainer either merge it if it's good or close if it's not. If it's human-written, you may spend some time reviewing the code and iterating on the PR as you used to.

Saves your time without discarding LLM PRs completely.
by gitaarik | 2025-10-29 07:09:14+00:00
It was the first thing I also thought, but then I thought that would be ridiculous. But now I watched this video. And in fact, it's actually currently completely operated remotely. With the idea that they'll collect the human operated movements as training data for de AI. But right now they say the robot can autonomously only open a door.

So if you get the product now, then when the robot is operating, there's basically an extra person in your home.

You can apparentlty choose when it operates, and you can also block certain spaces in your house from the robot able to reach it. But it does feel to me like a recipe for disasters.
by unraveller | 2025-10-29 07:09:23+00:00
Weirdness itself is no personal virtue to be admired, there is already an epidemic of Quirk Chungus type personalities to avoid. This guy too offers an erratic yet safe gish gallop article blaming no one for the loss of our something.

Johnathan Bi explains [1] the stagnant output of deviant/contrarian creatives better as a lack of respect for artistic foundations after being influenced by the rabid 3rd or 4th generation in whatever artistic movement.

[1] https://youtu.be/YfLj1pHGfT4?t=1358
by jb1991 | 2025-10-29 07:09:51+00:00
I don’t know what it was like back then but in today’s world you do not need to pay Apple any fees if all you’re doing is writing software in Xcode and deploy it to your own device. You do need a developer account, the free version of one, but you only need to pay the fee if you’re going to publish on the App Store.
by juris | 2025-10-29 07:10:48+00:00
gonna say: the pinephone has been hell over the last few weeks. Phone auto-boots whenever power is applied (either by their keyboard case or via USB-C), then the battery dies very quickly, and you need a minimum charge to boot the phone, so that means you have to swap an SD card in there with JumpDrive just to charge the darn thing. There are some mitigating factors (larger battery, Tow-Boot + loading OS from SD card, potentially some SMT soldering shenanigans), but I genuinely feel like this is a fire hazard. I -do not- recommend inflicting this on others.

someone suggested (I can't lost the link) flipping the script with a GLiNet Mudi hotspot with SMS forwarding (to e-mail); I really like this idea. It would be suuuper neat to play around with the tethered model: make SIP calls with a hacked Switch with Android installed / dedicated ruggedized VoIP phone for emergencies, or justify making and carrying a cyberdeck.

Personally, I'm hoping to revive my 3DS because I fell in love with the darn thing again (and its near infinite battery life). I heard you can make calls on the original DS with SvSIP, so suuurely that can work on the 3DS too. As a fellow gamer and android dev I'm sure you'd appreciate the idea.

I don't want a phone owned and controlled and spied on by governments and mega corporations. I want a Gibson-Neuromancer style obelisk disk blob thing that does Internet, Telephony, and Computer stuff and uses whatever I tether it to as the human interface.
by djtango | 2025-10-29 07:10:48+00:00
Years ago I was a convert to open ear bone conduction by Shokz (then Aftershokz) but the band was a little annoying and now I use the Huawei Freeclips which I am very happy with. Bose also have an open ear product.

My priority with exercise is peripheral awareness so I would never compromise that with in-ears anymore
by 9rx | 2025-10-29 07:11:02+00:00
Maybe in some magical AGI future computers can do the work, but until then where else is the effort going to come from? It isn't going to randomly appear out of thin air, that is for sure. There is nothing else to "blame" but them.

It's not the "corporations"[1] keeping you from that six pack, nor it is it keeping you from building a single payer healthcare system. Not wanting to put in the toil to make it happen will certainly get in the way, though. We all understand why nobody really wants to put in the hard work and suffering to make the necessary changes, but that doesn't change the fact that it won't happen until you do it.

[1] Which, in this context, is just another way to say people. And in this case often the very same people. ~40% of US corporate stock is held by Average Joe retirements savings account (IRA, 401k, etc.). Ask these people if they'd like a single payer healthcare system and the answer would almost certainly be "Yes!". But if you then ask them to do the work to see it through: "Never mind. What we have will do.".
by billllll | 2025-10-29 07:11:19+00:00
Nothing that you talked about pertains to art. Writing good code does not mean you're making art.

You shouldn't strive for internal consistency with yourself, you should strive for external consistency with the other developers in your team. If someone reads your code and immediately knows it was you, you probably aren't doing a good job.

And that's the difference. If you are doing a good job as a software engineer, no one should notice you. If you're making good art, everyone should see you. And that is the difference between devs who think they're good, and devs who are truly good.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-29 07:11:28+00:00
Waydroid does surprisingly well at running Android apps on Linux.

Sure some apps won't work for whatever reason & HN commenters will have incredibly scathing things to say about that, but I bet there's a lot of folks who'd be cool with missing an app here or there.

It sucks to be losing Android, but IMO it's an ecosystem in free-fall. Bootloaders are locked more and more, there's literally zero AOSP hardware buyable now, and the roms scene has diminished not grown over time.

I totally think theres a Steam Deck moment waiting around a corner, where what seemed impossible a year ago shows up and is dead obvious & direct, and we all wonder why there were so many doubts before.
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-29 07:11:42+00:00
No one has managed to explain what future outcomes are going to validate their valuation. Presumably every robot is going to need intelligence & OpenAI is somehow going to be in the pipeline taking a cut but what evidence is there to suggest this is going to become a reality b/c every research report on LLM use in robotics paints a completely different picture about their actual value & utility (essentially being either inadequate in the best case & outright harmful in the worst case).
by baq | 2025-10-29 07:12:59+00:00
> The new reality us programmers need to face is that code itself has an exact value of $0.

This is not new at all. Code has always been a liability. It having $0 value would be a great improvement IMHO.

The value was always in the product regardless of the amount of code in it and regardless of its quality. Customers don’t buy code. (Except of course when the code is the product, which is very unusual nowadays.)
by reverseindex | 2025-10-29 07:13:28+00:00
I used to use SQL very extensively, but then I moved into different roles, and now I always have to look up its syntax, stuff like "how did HAVING work again?", "how do I search for a date two days before today". With Text-to-SQL I can express my query in natural language. Because I have a very solid understanding of relational data models I can craft my prompt very precisely, but without constantly having to go back to the documentation. So at least for casual users it's very helpful.
by nailer | 2025-10-29 07:13:30+00:00
Yes. You can find his accusations of smear campaigns against conservatives and his evidence to support it in the link in the comment you just replied to.

Also:

“Wikipedia co-founder here. May I ask you to determine what branches of the U.S. government—if any!—have employees paid to edit, monitor, update, lobby, etc., WIkipedia?”

Is an excellent question.
by 0x0 | 2025-10-29 07:14:07+00:00
I'm guessing they don't want to maintain and build and test x86_64 versions of all the macos libraries like Appkit and UIKit (including large changes like liquid glass) when they are no longer shipping x86_64 macOS versions. Which is not entirely unreasonable as I'm sure it takes a lot of effort to keep the whole ui library stack working properly on multiple archs.

Perhaps that's what they're hinting about with the note about a "subset of Rosetta". So maybe there is hope that the core x86_64 binary translator will stick around for things like VM and emulation of generic (linux? wine?) binaries, but they don't want to maintain a whole x86_64 macOS userspace going forward.

Space savings from not shipping fat binaries for everything will probably also be not insignificant. Or make room for a new fat binary for a future "arm64v2" :)
by Timwi | 2025-10-29 07:14:18+00:00
As another commenter noted, it was loaned from Yiddish rather than German, although the two languages are very closely related. There are many Yiddish words in English that have come from the Jewish diaspora. Common ones I can think of are schlep (carry something heavy) and kvetch (complain loudly). Since this is Hacker News, the Yiddish word I think we use the most is glitch. Of course there are also words from Hebrew origin entering English the same way, like behemoth, kosher, messiah...
by pandemic_region | 2025-10-29 07:14:19+00:00
Did a 5000 piece once. The mini dopamine hit when you click a piece into place is what kept me going. Several strategies used to complete it, in the end it was just trial and error because everything looked the same. Make sure to have good lighting (no glare) or you'll ruin your eye sight.

What people may not realize also is that at this "scale", it can happen that a piece perfectly fits in more than one location. And I don't mean a couple of cm apart, complete opposite sides of the puzzle. Fun times figuring this out.

This is the one https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81C6LLOhsgL._AC_SL1500_....
by locknitpicker | 2025-10-29 07:14:26+00:00
> That advice has stuck with me, and I try to have the least taste I can. I use $20 headphones and a $200 TV because I can't tell what "good" is, and I enjoy music and movies as much as my friends with $600 headphones and $3k TVs do.

Thank you for sharing this observation. It resonated with me in a surprising way. Finding something that's "good enough" is such a blessing.
by rezonant | 2025-10-29 07:14:26+00:00
Free provisioning: If you do not pay the developer fee an app installed via Xcode will work for 7 days. Afterwards the app on your phone will *stop working*, and you must open Xcode on your Mac again, and push a new build to your phone if you want to keep using it.

Paid provisioning: If you have paid the developer fee, a build will expire based on the amount of time left before that payment renews, so if you build and install an app a month before your developer fee renews, that build of the app (that you installed via Xcode) will stop working in 1 month.
by andruby | 2025-10-29 07:14:45+00:00
I think that's mostly true above a certain threshold, but where that threshold lies, is probably different for different people.

The <1$ earphones you get on an airplane sound terrible. I can understand what the actors in movies are saying but that's about it. I can't hear or experience the music.

The $20 headphones my kids have are a good step up. For me headphones/speakers in the $100 range make me _feel_ more when listening to music. But I don't need to go more expensive. That's where my threshold is for music.
by LogicHound | 2025-10-29 07:15:32+00:00
> Yeah, which is easy to reason about because you're probably used to reason about stuff, sometimes even a lot.

I reason about the same amount as anyone else.

> But lots of the average person don't do much of that sort of reasoning, lots of people live life basically on impulses. They buy stuff based on their feelings, not based on "does this solve an actual problem I have that actually needs solving?".

1) There is no such thing as the "average" person.

2) There is nothing special about you, I or anyone else. The fact is that everyone makes lots of irrational decisions every single day without thinking about it.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-10-29 07:16:05+00:00
I for one hate https. Some html5 apis like location do not work without it and you get big fat warnings if you don‘t use it.

From having to pay for it in the past to now having to set up lets-encrypt, certbot, https-ingresses!

God, half my hobbyist and raw non-helm kubernetes config is https related. https-ingress.yaml is gigantic!

Is this really the best devex we could come up with?
by spockz | 2025-10-29 07:16:27+00:00
Yes that is how you arrange how the device can be reached through Tailscale.

What I was wondering was: In order to get the device to talk to Tailscale to be able to reach it you need to give it access to the internet to reach Tailscale. But now I understand your answer and it is to let the device sit somewhere in an enclosed network and then through another trusted Tailscale node route any traffic to it using subnet routing. Thanks!
by ngcazz | 2025-10-29 07:16:52+00:00
Tangentially, this was surprising

The system prevents you from mixing arm64 code and x86_64 code in the same process. Rosetta translation applies to an entire process, including all code modules that the process loads dynamically.

I've been using this VST from Arturia (Minimoog V) since they distributed it for free back in like 2011 or 2012, and it runs as well on my M1 Mac as it did on my previous Intel Macs.

I mean, it's literally the same DMG from way back when and there's no chance it doesn't run under Rosetta, but I run Ableton natively!
by Veserv | 2025-10-29 07:17:41+00:00
Is this just a cost efficiency thing? It only takes like 1 core to terminate 200 Gb/s of reliable bytestream using a software protocol with no hardware offload over regular old 1500-byte MTU ethernet.

If you want encrypted transport, then all you need is a parallel hardware crypto accelerator so you do not bottleneck on slow serial CPU encryption.

If you want to keep it off the memory bus, then all you need is a hardware copy/DMA engine so you do not bottleneck on slow CPU serial memcpy().

Doing a whole new bespoke network protocol in hardware seems like overkill if you are only going for 800 Gb/s.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-29 07:17:51+00:00
Incorrect. Hiring is not down despite mass layoffs in NA. Jobs aren't going way, they are shifting.

It is correct that we are due for a big crash. Prepare yourselves while you can.

>the true definition of AGI has been achieved i.e (30% increase in global unemployment by 2035)

I'll paraphrase something I heard from Twitter: "companies who really feel they are on the cusp of an AGI breakthrough to no then proceed to announce something like SORA". I don't think AGI is in the 10 year plan here.

as for 30% unenployment? I don't think we're getting to that point without other major conflicts first. I'm sure by 10% there will be all sorts of coups (as we are slowly seeing now). at 20% there will be full blown wars.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-29 07:17:54+00:00
(2018) makes me more than a bit sad. I have a OnePlus 6, and it was ok with the software I tried out ~3 years ago, and basically fast enough. But it's soul crushing how running mainline Linux is just so impossible for consumer mobile chips.

It felt at the time like there was positive progress, more bits getting mainlined at a trickle but at least steady trickle rate. But it feels dark now. At least the GPU drivers everywhere have been getting much better, but I get the impression Qualcomm couldn't even ship a desktop/laptop after years of delay, is barely getting that in order now. It feels impossible to hope for the mobile chips anywhere to find religion & get even basic drivers mainlined.
by pndy | 2025-10-29 07:18:31+00:00
> What if Samsung offered you a new fridge for free, as long as you were ok with passive ads?

I'd still buy a normal fridge from a different vendor. There's absolutely no reason why fridge needs a display screen nor any "smart" features. And no ad deal would convince me because next thing that would come after this would be the obvious "watch ads to unlock the fridge".

Household appliances are meant to work for years - sure, now lifespan is way shorter than used to be but these aren't phones we're replacing every 3 years or so. The fridge we once had lasted 25 up until cooling unit failed and there was no way to replace it or fix.

I hope you rolled some really low bait here because if you really think like that then... I sincerely feel sorry for you.
by billllll | 2025-10-29 07:18:35+00:00
Unreadable slop and "tasteful" choices are independent of each other. You can make "tasteful choices" that makes code unreadable (I know from experience).

Readability also has some level of objectiveness to it. There's only so many ways you can abstract a concept, and so many ways you can express logic.

In that sense, readability has way more to do with skill in abstraction, than taste. In fact picking bad abstraction layers or expressing logic in odd manners because of taste is a great way to write unreadable slop.
by SteveVeilStream | 2025-10-29 07:18:39+00:00
That's a fair point. I do think what's most interesting this time is the potential for new use-cases (users) vs the replacement of existing ones. I agree that there are better ways for serious developers to work than to be using Claude Code on the web. On the other hand, you can now set up someone in the marketing or product management departments with the tools in an afternoon and then they can create widgets, perform custom analysis on data, experiment with prototype ideas, etc. and they don't even need a laptop. All you need is a mobile phone with a browser. It could be neat for students as well. "Build me an app to help me study for X". Time will tell exactly how people use it.
Ask HN: What difficulties have you encountered when obtaining AI information?
by yeeyang | 2025-10-29 07:18:43+00:00
I see tons of AI news every day. Either this model got updated, or that product just launched.

But what I really need is depth.

Take Claude Skills, for example. You'll see it mentioned countless times on Twitter, but what I actually care about is the best practices around Skills, public insights from Anthropic team members, or discussions on Reddit where people share their real experiences using it.

I need feedback from people who've actually put these tools into practice, not just sensational headlines.

I follow a lot of leaders at AI companies because their hard-earned lessons help me truly understand the relationship between AI and engineering.

I wonder if others have this same need. If there are enough people like me, I think I could build an information platform specifically for this kind of reading experience.
by swiftcoder | 2025-10-29 07:19:22+00:00
> In most times and places, I'd guess the military had many more guns than civilians

My understanding is that the mobilisation for the Civil War is the only time in US history that military stockpiles of firearms have outnumbered civilian gun ownership (although possibly also at the height of WWII).

Though large standing militaries (versus recruiting large numbers of civilians into militias) is a fairly recent phenomenon, so the calculation is often not as cut and dried as one might expect.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-29 07:19:24+00:00
There are aptitude tests of some kind and quotas for all good universities everywhere in the world. Harvard won't admit 100k students in a year if they randomly decide to join, nor will they accept a student without a stellar record (apart from legacy admissions, of course). And I would bet you whatever you want that you'll get a much better salary fresh out of college in Europe with a bachelor's from the Technical University of Munich (total cost: around $2000 if you're a citizen of an EU country), or TU Delft in the Netherlands (total cost: around $9000) than you will in the states with a degree from a random college that doesn't even have to bother with admissions tests.

Sure, if you're a brilliant young mind and can get into Harvard and qualify for assistance with your tuition, you're set for life, basically, in a way no EU university can match. But for the vast majority of the population, the outcomes are significantly better with the EU system.

Also note that the gigantic tuitions at US universities are actually a relatively recent phenomenon (and a similar thing happened in the UK). Even in the 50s and 60s, tuitions were much closer to the current EU norm.
by seydor | 2025-10-29 07:19:32+00:00
My theory is it all has todo with immigration, or rather the way we treat immigration since the 2000s. In order to accomodate everyone the culture gained new sensibilities, and the bubble burst. But idiosyncratic cultures can only grow in bubbles.

We ve seen that in Europe before the US, where the german, french, English culture lost their influence and originality, becoming touristic products being sold by people of all colors and cultures.

Words like 'spirit' and 'soul' have been replaced with 'content and money, and the media is being driven by people with a generic "global" culture and outlook
by spockz | 2025-10-29 07:19:58+00:00
Telemetry for me is table stakes. We have been doing forms of tracing (first home grown) since 2012. Strictly speaking only the edge gateway needs to know about it.

Tracing is trivial to add with OTel. It is trivial with Spring Boot (since v3). At least on technical endpoint level. Adding tracing to business logic obviously requires work, but simple propagation is table stakes.