MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DrewADesign | 2025-10-15 02:10:52+00:00
I guarantee that a) they can get a hell of a lot more phone than that with carrier incentives, and b) if you compare Android phones released when that phone was released, you’re not going to see anything more than a hundred or two cheaper. And as much as I miss my salary, which was comparatively meager by standards here, I haven’t worked in the software business in years. I’m in my early career in a blue collar manufacturing trade, and not even in a major metropolitan area. I’ve been accepted into means-tested low-income programs within the past 6 months. I’ve got a pretty grounded understanding of what people outside of the Silicon Valley cultural sphere consider reasonable to spend on a phone, and what features they’d expect for it.
by nozzlegear | 2025-10-15 02:12:04+00:00
I installed Tahoe on my desktop and laptop the day it came out. I really stopped noticing it after the first day or two, there aren't a lot of places that have overwhelming, liquid glassy-blur/transparency on macOS that you run into often. I think the only time I'm reminded that Liquid Glass is "a thing" is in the Apple Music app where they went ham with it.
by userbinator | 2025-10-15 02:13:07+00:00
Indeed, binary blobs are not much of a problem; it's anti-user "security" that has to be attacked. Otherwise we'll end up with user-hostile systems that we can see the source code of but can't modify, in contrast to systems that we can't see the source code of but can modify. The Windows modding scene of the late 90s/early 2000s is a good example of the latter (and I've joked that every power user was a novice reverse-engineer), while Android is turning out to be a good example of the former.

Stallman had a good idea for free (as in freedom) software, but then "missed the forest for the trees" by focusing on the source code.
by intended | 2025-10-15 02:13:41+00:00
There are no think tanks mentioned in that article though.

The accord also appears to contradict the stated goals:

> Miran proposes a modern equivalent of the 1985 Plaza Accord, which he refers to as the Mar-a-Lago Accord. The goal would be coordinated currency appreciation among U.S. trading partners to address the dollar's overvaluation
by nkurz | 2025-10-15 02:13:47+00:00
Not that it's definitive, but here's a link to Hegseth's Harvard Kennedy School thesis that he wrote for his Master in Public Policy:

https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/26184649-hegseth

I haven't read it closely, but at a glance, it does look like someone much more capable of thought than the persona he's adopted today.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-10-15 02:16:18+00:00
Wow, I'm not deaf, but almost everything you mentioned applies to me too. I've never met anyone else who has experienced this before, yet all of your following points apply exactly to me:

> standard Canadian English is my native language

> Most native English speakers claim my speech is unmarked

> Non-native speakers of English often think I have a foreign accent, too. Often they guess at English or Australian. Like I must have been born there and moved here when I was younger, right?

> They sometimes recognize that I have a speech impediment but there's something about how I talk that is recognized with confidence as a native accent.

At least 2 or 3 times a year, someone asks me if I'm British, but me and my parents were born in Canada, and I've never even been to England, so I'm not really sure why some people think that I have a British accent. Interestingly, the accent checker guesses that my accent is

American English 89% Australian English 3% French 3%

which is pretty close to correct.
by YouAreWRONGtoo | 2025-10-15 02:16:41+00:00
Not sure what kind of idiotic website this is that people more qualifed than the average idiot here are "flagged". Thompson is completely irrelevant to computer science. Any idiot can write a program, but only some people can make an actual contribution. Knuth actually did something useful in comparison. Also, Knuth was able to articulate.

You are the nobody here.
by muzani | 2025-10-15 02:17:40+00:00
My theory is media is biased towards anything that can result in political change.

Shark attacks and lightning strikes are dramatic but they don't seem to bias as much. Rare diseases have the potential to be sensationalist too.

Terrorism almost never makes the news where I live; the closest is assassinations, especially linked to political figures.

If there was a movement against some sugar tycoon, I bet diabetes deaths would suddenly top the news. I'd be interested in how often Tesla accidents are covered by the news.
by oskarkk | 2025-10-15 02:18:41+00:00
They surely had some cash, but I think it was a small contribution compared to Musk's. Given that Musk was $6.5M out of $7.5M series A, and something like $9-10M out of $13M series B, I think it's not possible they contributed more than Musk, unless they put big money into it right at the start (unlikely). I count find any concrete information about how much money the two actual founders contributed (which I consider as evidence that it wasn't much). Do you have some sources on how much they invested?
by varispeed | 2025-10-15 02:19:33+00:00
Monzo bank in the UK doesn't have a web access (apart from very basic page where you can block your card and do nothing else, not even see your balance). They also retired support for older Android phones, so if you happen to use it on an old phone, you are out of banking. I, for security, refuse to install bank apps on my phone that I carry, but I have them on a separate phone that I have in safe place.
by Nasrudith | 2025-10-15 02:19:44+00:00
I highly doubt there is ever going to be "effective governance" of technology for multiple reasons. It would require impossible foreknowledge of the impacts of every possible tech and dystopian levels of control to prevent new ideas from coming into play. We cannot even get the direction of impact right a-priori. Even if they had that this dystopia would have to remain both stable and unmutated over generations. All the while their control creates their own counterforce, incentivized to invent tech outside of their control to topple the forces of stagnation.
by Mars008 | 2025-10-15 02:21:06+00:00
So far there is no 'plateau' in the nearest future. 'AI' as a science and its applications should develop further for the next several years. Models will get more efficient, but still the bigger the better. This is obvious. Even if models don't scale up well, they can be used collectively in parallel 'brainstorming'. This will still create demand for hardware. Stagnation is still possible in case of recession. In this case even stable businesses will suffer.

As for efficiency, replacing one programmer in group of 10 with AI already will increase productivity and lower the price. In most cases. In reality adding AI accounts to existing group works better. This is _now_, not hopes or sci-fi.

That's why I'm saying there is no way back. 'AI winter' is as likely as smartphones winter.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-15 02:21:21+00:00
To me:

Open Source Firmware signed by OS > Firmware blob signed by device manufacturer > Firmware blob hardcoded by device Manufacturer

The FSF treats hardcoded firmware blobs as "free" and updatable firmware blobs as nonfree despite there not being a big difference between them in practice. And practical differences like being able to fix security issues benefits users.
by mgerdts | 2025-10-15 02:21:35+00:00
Corn fields have already killed biodiversity. Get rid of the ethanol mandate, replace gas cars with electric, replace corn fields with solar fields with an understory of native plants. The electrified car fleet will use no fossil fuels and about a third of the generated electricity.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/04/25/ethanol-corn-uses-far...

> U.S. corn growth for fuel – not food occupies 29.7 million acres. A study from Cornell University finds that corn grown for ethanol fuel requires 31 times as much land as solar per unit of energy.

> Moreover, the researchers found that if 46% of the land currently used to farm corn for ethanol was converted to solar, the projects would generate enough electricity for the United States to decarbonize its electricity system by its 2050 goal.
by hshdhdhehd | 2025-10-15 02:23:05+00:00
I am new to this low level, but am I right in understanding this works because he uses a linked list but often it is contiguous in memory so you guess the next element is contiguous and if it is the branch predictor predicts you are right and saves going to cache and breaking the pipeline.

However I imagine you'd also get the same great performance using an array?
by spaqin | 2025-10-15 02:23:53+00:00
Or root with Magisk and hide the developer mode from the offending app. Unfortunately it's always a cat and mouse game, so for some apps it's probably easiest to have a cheap, outdated (and by some metrics thus unsafe) device in a drawer at home.

Your money is far more at risk with scams and phishing than it is with whatever boogeyman spyware you may try to think of that does not exist in real life.
by Ancapistani | 2025-10-15 02:24:04+00:00
I agree with pretty much all of this, and suspect I’m a bit closer to the right in a couple of those areas :)

I’ll add that the murder of Charlie Kirk and the widely-publicized reactions form many on the left has seriously shifted the Overton window to the right. Trump and his admin are emboldened, and what little resistance there was to domestic actions just… dissolved.
by hedora | 2025-10-15 02:24:17+00:00
There is one solution to this problem that many people reading this message can contribute to:

Make sure your app has a progressive web app version that has feature parity with the store apps. That way, the app will work on phones like the librephone, and, if Apple or Google decide to kick you off the store, you and your users have some recourse. As a bonus, it’s compatible with open source — users can modify the app and install it without jailbreaks, root or (for now) sideloading.

React Native supports this (and can mostly be bundled with electron for mac/win/linux support).

Are there other stacks people can recommend?
by dathinab | 2025-10-15 02:25:22+00:00
different goals

the rust version packaged in distros is for compiling rust code shipped as part of the distro. This means it

- is normally not the newest version (which , to be clear, is not bad per see, but not necessary what you need)

- might not have all optional components (e.g. no clippy)

but if you idk. write a server deployed by you company

- you likely want all components

- you don't need to care what version the distro pinned

- you have little reason not to use the latest rust compiler

for other use cases you have other reasons, some need nightly rust, some want to test against beta releases, some want to be able to test against different rust versions etc. etc.

rustup exist (today) for the same reason why a lot of dev projects use project specific copies of all kinds of tooling and libraries which do not match whatever their distro ships: The distro use-case and generic dev-use case have diverging requirements! (Other examples nvm(node), flutter, java etc.).

Also some distros are notorious for shipping outdated software (debian "stable").

And not everything is Linux, rustup works on OSX.
by asacrowflies | 2025-10-15 02:25:29+00:00
The coward traitor once again needs to pipe up to defend other traitors lol. I think you just troll these threads like a Russian bot to rile people up . Last reply to me it's like you didn't even read my comment and just had anti usa LLM reply to me. Going off about the 1950s even tho my first sentence said civil rights act. And the 1800s even tho I quoted Patrick Henry 1776.... At least that comment got flagged and killed before I could be baited into engagement with a bot ..... But here we are.
by nimih | 2025-10-15 02:25:35+00:00
> If you’re convinced the code branch can’t ever be taken, you also should be confident that it doesn’t need to be tested.

I don't think I would (personally) ever be comfortable asserting that a code branch in the machine instructions emitted by a compiler can't ever be taken, no matter what, with 100% confidence, during a large fraction of situations in realistic application or library development, as to do so would require a type system powerful enough to express such an invariant, and in that case, surely the compiler would not emit the branch code in the first place.

One exception might be the presence of some external formal verification scheme which certifies that the branch code can't ever be executed, which is presumably what the article authors are gesturing towards in item D on their list of preconditions.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-15 02:25:38+00:00
> There must be a contradiction somewhere though.

Yes, nobody said anything that you had to be a couch potato stoner person. We don't live in the world of Star Trek Federation, so we all have to do whatever job we do so we can afford the basic things we need. However, we get paid for 40 hours, so I'm not giving them 45, 50, or 60 hours. I'm not working 5 days a week, and then donating a 6th. My time is my time. I give you what you pay me for, and then I take my time back. My favorite quote from a coworker when I was very young, "I give them what they give me, 40 hours."

During my time, I can do whatever I want to do while not stressing about the J.O.B. Whatever I left on Friday will still be there on Monday. I'm not a doctor, so nobody is going to die because I didn't check my email or slack. The rat race ended for me a long time ago
by HocusLocus | 2025-10-15 02:26:54+00:00
Some things are just too cool for their shirt. Check out Dymaxion ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map ).

"Outside a globe, with a a dymaxion projection humans will see the true shapes of their world. Inside a globe, it's too dark to see."

~Apologies to Groucho Marx
by munchlax | 2025-10-15 02:27:26+00:00
You can trust hardware and software that's easy to inspect.

If you can't be sure what's going on and unable to inspect or debug the hardware and software, how can you trust it's doing what you want?

Proprietary hardware and software is already known to work against the interests of the user. Not knowing exactly what's going on is being taken advantage of at large scale.

Let's put it this way: if you can choose between making your own lasagna with a good recipe vs ready-made microwave lasagna. What would you choose? How about your suit? And would you trust an open known to work well pacemaker vs the latest Motorola or Samsung pacemaker? Would you rather verify the device independently or pay up for an SLA?
by kube-system | 2025-10-15 02:27:29+00:00
This is the big barrier here, and unfortunately, it is legally impossible to open source.

In most countries, the spectrum that cell phone carriers use is licensed to the carrier, under the condition they only connect devices that are guaranteed to comply with the requirements of using that spectrum. The end user (i.e. the person with the phone) has no license to use the spectrum. So in order to get regulatory certification, basically every modem has to be locked down so that the end user cannot operate it in a way that would violate any rules or regulations for using that spectrum.

So basically, it's illegal to have open source modem firmware. At least, as long as cell phones are operating on spectrum that isn't open for public use.

Ultimately, if you want to open source a modem, you first need to build your own cell phone network.
by breadwinner | 2025-10-15 02:27:45+00:00
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has bragged he had Jared Kushner "in his pocket." Oil-producing middle-eastern countries, having made significant contributions to Trump family's wealth, have enormous influence over him. If you were the ruler of an oil-producing country and have enormous influence over Trump, what would you have him do for your country?

If it was me, this is what I would have him do: Pull out of the Paris climate accord, cancel renewable energy projects, cancel EV tax credits. Trump has done all that.

In fact Trump went a step further:

Trump is using tariffs to pressure other countries to relax their pledges to fight climate change and instead burn more oil, gas and coal. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/climate/trump-internation...
by eigen | 2025-10-15 02:28:21+00:00
> The two options are reach over all else, or control of its customers and overcharging them at every turn over all else.

do you have an example of "overcharging them at every turn"? looking at the Google One [1] vs Apple iCloud [2] pricing it seems pretty similar.

------ Google Apple

5 GB: free free

50 GB: N/A $0.99

100 GB:$1.99 N/A

2 TB: $9.99 $9.99

6 TB: N/A $29.99

[1] https://one.google.com/about/plans?hl=en&g1_landing_page=0

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/108047
by efitz | 2025-10-15 02:28:54+00:00
+1000

I should not have to vote on judges and dog catchers and stuff. I like officials being accountable, but voting for an unopposed “nonpartisan” candidate has negative value - it wastes time and resources and lends legitimacy to an essentially non democratic process with uninformed voting. Better to have an easy recall mechanism.

At the very least, put the federal stuff on a federal ballot, the state stuff on a state ballot, and the local stuff on a local ballot, and have them 4 months apart. Then we can get back to hand counting and election night results.
by dathinab | 2025-10-15 02:30:35+00:00
even OOM isn't that different

like there are some things you can well in C

and this things you can do in rust too, through with a bit of pain and limitations to how you write rust

and then there is the rest which looks "hard but doable" in C, but the more you learn about it the more it's a "uh wtf. nightmare" case where "let's kill+restart and have robustness even in presence of the process/error kernel dying" is nearly always the right answer.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-15 02:31:07+00:00
Before anyone jumps the gun and says this is a political move, this is quite likely just economics.

Peak coal was in 2007, and has been falling rapidly since. We are currently generating about 1/3 the electricity from coal in 2023 vs 2007[0].

[0] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
by braebo | 2025-10-15 02:33:18+00:00
Thanks for this! I just signed up for Fasmail for the first time yesterday, and was bummed they had no Desktop app.. crazy timing.

Tauri is much less horrendous than Electron, but I’m fortunate enough to have a MacBook that’s happy to run 100 Electron apps without breaking a sweat, and it’s much easier for me to hack on a browser or web view than a native app.
by jasonlotito | 2025-10-15 02:33:31+00:00
You are making some assumptions here.

He is dead. Any backups he might have made might be long gone, or otherwise, unknown. What we do know is that the IG posts AND the backups done via the Internet Archive are gone.

So, my question to you is: where can you set a backup for no cost, available from Gaza, and that won't be taken down 3rd parties. Note, anything online has the potential to have data removed, and even then, we don't know what other backup locations he might have been using. We just know what was available now to the public.

In addition, let's say he had hardware backups (which are now gone after he was killed), or let's say just a random S3 bucket. We have to know about it. Know how to get access to it. And hope that AWS doesn't nuke it because someone asks them to do it.

It's a big mess, and blaming him for not having more backups than an entire country is incredible.
by kay_dev | 2025-10-15 02:34:37+00:00
Location: Richmond, VA

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Languages - Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, HTML/CSS

Frameworks/Libraries - FastAPI, React.js, Next.js, Express, Sinatra, Tailwind, Vite

Databases - PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB

DevOps & Infrastructure - Terraform, Docker, AWS, CI/CD

Other - Kafka, Grafana

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Email: miyasatoka@gmail.com

Hello, I'm Kana! I'm a software engineer with 3+ years of fullstack development, complemented by a strong focus on DevOps practices and architecting cloud infrastructure in AWS using Terraform for data-centric applications.

Most recently I co-created Aurora, a real-time data analytics platform for natural language queries and visualizations of Kafka streams with AI, ClickHouse, and Grafana. Check it out here: https://auroraplatform.github.io/

I've enjoyed the process of solving complex problems that involve architecting distributed systems in order for them to work seamlessly together, and I'm excited to bring my expertise, eye for detail, and love for collaboration to your team. Open to full-time and contract roles.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-10-15 02:36:11+00:00
Like most AI products it feels like they started with a solution first and went searching for the problems. Text messages being too long wasn't a real problem to begin with.

There are some good parts to Apple Intelligence though. I find the priority notifications feature works pretty well, and the photo cleanup tool works pretty well for small things like removing your finger from the corner of a photo, though it's not going to work on huge tasks like removing a whole person from a photo.
by brookst | 2025-10-15 02:38:36+00:00
No, this is not what happened.

What any reasonable person expects in "count occurrences of [letter] in [word]" is for a meta-language skill to kick in and actually look at the symbols, not the semantic word. It should count the e's in thee and the w's in willow.

LLMs that use multi-symbol tokenization won't ever be able to do this. The information is lost in the conversion to embeddings. It's like giving you a 2x2 GIF and asking you to count the flowers: 2x2 is sufficient to determine dominant colors, but not fine detail.

Instead, LLMs have been trained on the semantic facts that "strawberry has three r's" and other common tests, just like they're trained that the US has 50 states or motorcycles have two wheels. It's a fact stored in intrinsic knowledge, not a reasoning capability over the symbols the user input (which the actual LLM never sees).

It's not a question of intent or adaptation, it's an information theory principle just like the Nyquist frequency.
by tintor | 2025-10-15 02:39:23+00:00
'main hard part of making a capable robot is the AI part'

Robots are far behind.

Mechanical hands with human equivalent performance is as hard as the AI part.

Strong, fast, durable, tough, touch and temp sensitive, dexterous, light, water-proof, energy efficient, non-overheating.

Muscles and tendons in human hands and forearms self-heal and grow stronger with more use.

Mechanical tendons stretch and break. Small motors have plenty of issues of their own.
by anupsingh123 | 2025-10-15 02:39:25+00:00
As a founder, I’m constantly tempted to build new developer infrastructure (“Layer 2”), but at JustCopy.ai we’re laser-focused on making agent orchestration (Layer 1) truly reliable. Instead of reinventing containers/cloud, our agents integrate with AWS, Vercel, etc.—and hand off work like a mesh network, not a linear pipeline.

This post shares honest lessons on agent reliability, context engineering, and avoiding “buzzword” distraction. Posting for feedback and real debate—are we missing something by not building Layer 2, or is this the right call?
by seba_dos1 | 2025-10-15 02:40:17+00:00
etnaviv doesn't do GLES3 yet, so no, but the work to support it (mostly done by Christian Gmeiner) is ongoing and progressing. I'm using Epiphany though, it's pretty snappy these days and I make extensive use of its webapp feature. I don't even remember when was the last time I had to fallback to Firefox because of some incompatibility, but it did happen at least once.