MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anthonyskipper | 2025-10-15 14:49:11+00:00
I can see why that sounds sensible, but my personal obsevations are that heavy duty power users almost universally prefer the bigger screens, and those people also want the highest level settings. Most people I know who want smaller screens are not serious power users.

I can see an overlap with people who want smaller computers who also want max power, but I just would not believe that is a significant group. (again, all personal observations)
by Pxtl | 2025-10-15 14:49:21+00:00
The government takedown requests that happened during the COVID pandemic peak were the government flagging disinformation and lies.

This is the a government flagging truths that they dislike.

Also, there's a big difference when one government has a proven track-record of abusing its power to punish dissenting media. AFAIK, the Biden admin never threatened to block mergers and similar business deals over speech they disliked. Yes, government requests always have the color of authority, but I don't know of any cases where there was any even implied threat behind it.

Well, other than the possibility of legislation that would make an official legal requirement of "no, you do have a responsibility to police your platform of disinfo where constitutionally legal (eg if it's foreign-government-funded propaganda)".

But an act of congress to elevate an policy into law if self-policing doesn't work is very different from abusing executive powers to punish people without any involvement normal due process of law.

https://x.com/dril/status/473265809079693312?lang=en
by dolin_ch | 2025-10-15 14:49:33+00:00
I built a deliberately useless site: it measures how far you scroll and lets you save your “feat”.

Why: • a playful take on our scroll addiction • tiny, fast, no ads; just scroll

Tech: • vanilla JS (infinite scroll + iOS momentum fixes) • simple PHP backend + JSON leaderboards • FR/EN versions, mobile-first

If you try it: best on a phone, save your distance, and tell me what broke or felt off. Ideas for new milestones/punchlines welcome!
by snozolli | 2025-10-15 14:49:35+00:00
At any time, in any location, under any circumstances, if there’s a human present then that’s the scariest motherfucker in the woods.

This guy has clearly never bumped into a grizzly bear momma, a moose in rut, a hippo, or loads of other animals.

Personally, I'm not even worried about AI itself, I'm worried about the people wielding it. MBAs are the scariest monsters in the woods.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-15 14:49:38+00:00
If you make the same argument for flight it looks really weak.

Cognition is (to me) not even the most impressive and out-of-reach achievement: That would be how (our) and animals bodies are self-assembling, self-repairing and self-replicating, with an impressive array of sensors and actors in a highly integrated package.

I honestly believe our current technology is much closer to emulating a human brain than it is to building a (non-intelligent) cat.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-10-15 14:49:58+00:00
> Does person A have a home?

Maybe but either way, person A CANNOT set the price of anything because a house is not a productive asset, it does NOT produce anything that you can attach a new price to. The rich asset owners can, they can drive prices up and gain from both ends of the inflation scam.

> The home value inflates but your mortgage payments stay the same for decades.

Literally untrue for variable mortgages that are now the rule. More importantly, it's absolutely irrelevant at any scale for the reasons cited above and because inflating house prices don't protect from inflation - you pay a huge tax on housing for just being there, which isn't the case for the rich asset owners. Sales taxes are separate.

Then if the house goes up in price and you sell it, old and depreciated, you will have to buy another one at an inflated price, or go homeless, or live in an moldy old hose again that'll cost you a lot more for medical bills.

> The inability of people, even otherwise smart HN commenters, to reason about how inflation been really shocking to me.

The inability of people, who otherwise think themselves smart at economics, to reason about anything has never been shocking to me, it goes way back in history. Their "reasoning" amounts only to lame gaslighting attempts and they can never get out of that mode of thinking.

You never mentioned anything about the income curves by decile - inflation is a redistribution tool, it results in increasing income inequality which we observe. I gave you the explanation for that correlation.
by cudgy | 2025-10-15 14:50:01+00:00
They want to speed up the process of getting laws written to protect them and AI. One way to do that is to appear like you’re looking for a solution while at the same time mentioning how urgent things are and how we need to pass laws quickly. You can guess how those laws will be focused, but my guess is it will be focused on benefiting the AI companies and companies that plan to use AI companies to build their companies.

The reasons for that will be proposed as protecting the citizens from the evil other country that’s building AI. “Without strong AI, we can’t build weapons to defend the country.” and “without strong AI, our companies won’t be able to compete in the world marketplace.”
by graemep | 2025-10-15 14:50:11+00:00
> Has this guy not heard of the Bengal tigers of the Sundarban forests, which kill ~50 humans per year?

How many tigers have been killed by humans? How many would be killed if humans did not restrain each other from killing tigers because we have killed so many that they are endangered. That population could be entirely wiped out by humans in the area.

Mosquitoes kill far more people than tigers. So do venomous snakes. The fact is that when a human faces either of these they are far more likely to end up dead than the human.
by lazystar | 2025-10-15 14:50:24+00:00
have you tried... talking to them, instead of permanently hirting their chances of staying employed in a shit economy?

its great for you principles - perfect job security, sitting up on your thrones casting judgement on entry level staffers that are forced to use LLM code to make a fast impact. maybe try teaching your juniors how to do it the right way, rather than passive aggressively impacting someones physical safety net. shame on all of you assholes.
by f4uCL9dNSnQm | 2025-10-15 14:50:25+00:00
It is the website owners that commit click fraud. It has been that way for the last 25 years. I mean the first thing I did as a kid was checking what will happen if I keep clicking on ad on my newly created homepage.

> just name them Does Adsense even gives you information where exactly your ad is getting published?
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-15 14:50:49+00:00
It depends on whether the ad engagement / views were real people or bots - if you're a competitor, then using bots to use up your competitor's ad budget is a strategy.

If you display ads on your website, then sure, it doesn't matter if a bot or real person viewed/clicked on your ad if you get paid regardless - to the point where there's a big industry of putting ads on sites then having bots engage with the site and its ads.

Billboards are a bit different because that's paid per week / month, but internet ads are paid per impression or click.
by lelandfe | 2025-10-15 14:51:13+00:00
You can turn on "Full Keyboard Access," which paints a hideous rectangle around anything you focus but does allow keyboard access to everything.

But, like, man - why can't I just use the arrow keys to select my WiFi network anymore? I was able to for a decade.

And the answer, of course, is the same for so much of macOS' present rough edges. Apple took some iPadOS interface elements, rammed them into the macOS UI, and still have yet to sand the welds. For how much we complain on HN about Electron, we really need to be pissed about Catalyst/Marzipan.

Why does the iCloud sign in field have me type on the right side of an input? Why does that field have an iPadOS cursor? Why can't I use Esc to close its help sheet? Why aren't that sheet's buttons focusable?

Why does the Stocks app have a Done button appear when I focus its search field? Why does its focus ring lag behind the search field's animated size?

Where in the HIG does it sign off on unfocusable text-only bolded buttons, like Maps uses? https://imgur.com/a/e7PB5jm

...Anyway.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-10-15 14:51:22+00:00
Looks wonderful but I have an old iPad Pro with an M1 and 16G memory and I already feel my old iPad Pro is powerful enough to run local LLMs, write books, use SSH/Mosh to my servers, etc.

EDIT: oh, the prices are much lower now than what I paid 3+ hears ago, that’s nice.
by jll29 | 2025-10-15 14:51:29+00:00
You are right in saying that discoverability has suffered much, by hiding scrollbar and similar changes. Also, you need to move the mouse precisely to a particular spot to re-enable the scrollbars, there is little wiggle room, which may may things harder for handicapped people, older users, or people on the move (e.g. me on a train).
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-10-15 14:51:41+00:00
> The Broadcom WiFi support 320Mhz while N1 is stuck with 160Mhz.

I was at a Wi-Fi vendor presentation a while back and they said that 160 Mhz is pretty improbable unless you're leaving alone and no wireless networks around you. And 320 Mhz even less so.

In real life probably the best you can get is 80 Mhz in a really good wireless environment.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-15 14:51:58+00:00
>only way to make something that is "us".

Which many people seem to neglect that instead of making us, we make an alien.

Hell, making us a is a good outcome. We at least somewhat understand us. Setting off a bunch of self learning, self organizing code to make an alien, you'll have no clue what comes out the other side.
by deadbabe | 2025-10-15 14:51:58+00:00
Language is only an end product. It is derived from intelligence.

The intelligence is everything that created the language and the training corpus in the first place.

When AI is able to create entire thoughts and ideas without any concept of language, then we will truly be closer to artificial intelligence. When we get to this point, we then use language as a way to let the AI communicate its thoughts naturally.

Such an AI would not be accused of “stealing” copyrighted work because it would pull its training data from direct observations about reality itself.

As you can imagine, we are no where near accomplishing the above. Everything an LLM is fed today is stuff that has been pre-processed by human minds for it to parrot off of. The fact that LLMs today are so good is a testament to human intelligence.
by Nasrudith | 2025-10-15 14:52:19+00:00
And corporations are ultimately just sock-puppets for humanity. People forget that and like to other them while simultaneously turning them into the scapegoats. See every idiot with the list of companies responsible for global warming that amounts to 'every oil company' and ignore that it was the customers were the ones burning their products.

It is to be expected really. Humans themselves hold little consideration to human welfare when fulfilling their goals. It is something ingrained by nature for survival and in no way limited to humans. Every drop of water you drink, every bite you eat, are ones which cannot go to the thirsty and the hungry. With few exceptions, only our children would even give us pause to forgo such things for the sake of others.

Also bit of a pet peeve of mine: society isn't a delicate bolt of laced silk. It isn't a fabric, much less one that is damaged by any little change that you don't like. It isn't even stable which makes the charges of anything as 'ruining' society especially bizarre when nobody can point to where it would go before the blamed change. So hold off on poisoning Socrates.

Even if we hold the current state as worthy of preservation we would ultimately fail to for reasons related to the central paradox of tradition. Why your forebearers first did something was not done because of obedience to tradition, so by trying to preserve it set in stone, you have already failed.
by Pxtl | 2025-10-15 14:52:30+00:00
Does the truth matter?

In certain contexts, harmful lies can be fraud, defamation, or perjury. It's reasonable for a social media company to have a policy that harmful lies are bad for their site, while still otherwise supporting free speech.

Trump claiming the election was stolen, vaccine disinfo - these are lies, and they're very destructive.

Meanwhile, the takedowns that are happening today are people being punished for stating the truth.
by pabs3 | 2025-10-15 14:52:36+00:00
One of the two processors (the ARM one) in the PinePhone modem runs a proprietary Linux distro, which can be replaced by a free distro. The code on the Hexagon processor can't be replaced yet though I think.

https://themodemdistro.com/ https://github.com/the-modem-distro/
by fnordpiglet | 2025-10-15 14:52:39+00:00
It’s more a statement on price and the assumption the more expensive one with the “more capable” chip like the MAX would be expected to not be less performant than any in the lineup. It would be a disappointment, especially for me as I’m about to buy a 16” in November regardless, to be a generation behind while paying more, and it would be not unusual for product reasons to nerf the lower prices chip to ensure it didn’t canabalize the more expensive models sales.

I have to say if I had any choice I would delay my purchase until the 16” catches up rather than buying a generation behind. If I see specs saying M5 14” is more performant for my workloads than my more expensive 16” I’m even more motivated to delay. Most product managers would be aware of these things.
by Rebelgecko | 2025-10-15 14:52:45+00:00
I've had my car for 2 years and I still love it, although a bit early to discuss longevity.

There are some minor annoyances with the software, but their infotainment system is better than most. I was surprised when I test drove some other brands and the UIs in NEW cars were visibly dropping frames.

The only bummer is that they're more oldschool than brands like Tesla/Rivian when it comes to software updates. When a new generation of the vehicle comes out, older cars don't get feature parity with the new software, just maintenance updates. There's a few inexplicable bugs that have never been fixed in my car and most likely never will. None of them are show stoppers, just irritating.
by ge96 | 2025-10-15 14:52:54+00:00
I used to be obsessed with rc ornithopters but I always thought the main problem was that hulking gear ratio/mechanism and the oscillation making it not really great for flight compared to fixed wing/propeller driven.

This one (servo driven) is really light compared to the usual RC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuOw6BUOo78

This guy does great work, it's like his obsession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrB1pKInIu0
by billyjmc | 2025-10-15 14:53:26+00:00
Computers have been making decisions for a while now. As a specific personal example from 2008, I found out that my lender would make home loan offers based on an inscrutable (to me and the banker I was speaking to) heuristic. If the loan was denied by the heuristic, then a human could review the decision, but had strict criteria that they would have to follow. Basically, a computer could “exercise judgement” a make offers that a human could not.
by pverheggen | 2025-10-15 14:53:31+00:00
Well they did have a valid reason for a rename, .NET 5.0's announcement coincided with discontinuing Mono and Xamarin, and uniting the non-Windows .NET flavors under a single platform. They also planned to iterate more rapidly and add APIs beyond .NET Standard.

But yes, choosing ".NET" as the new name was a bad idea, since now when someone says .NET you have no idea if they are referring to the modern runtime, or its various generations collectively.
by whstl | 2025-10-15 14:53:35+00:00
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but:

DIY Anycast is probably beyond most people’s reach, as you need to deal with BGP directly.

One cool trick is using GeoDNS to route the same domain to a different IP depending on the location of the user, but there are some caveats of course due to caching and TTL.

EDIT: Back to Anycast, there are also some providers who allow you BGP configuration, like those: https://www.virtua.cloud/features/your-ip-space - https://us.ovhcloud.com/network/byoip - https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/colocation/pricing/ ... However you still need to get the IPs by yourself, by dealing with your Regional Registry (RIPE in my case, in Europe)
by epistasis | 2025-10-15 14:54:13+00:00
The price response in secondary markets (refurbished drives here) can be much bigger than the direct effects caused by increases in price for newly produced goods, I think? If the price goes up for new drives, purchasers of new drives hold on to current product for longer, and they are the suppliers to the secondary market. Also, more people might buy from the secondary market than from the primary market due to the price increase, creating a greater supply pressure and price response than is seen in the primary market. I guess it all depends on the shape of the demand curve.
by fidotron | 2025-10-15 14:54:59+00:00
Something that good.

It was coherent, (relatively) bug free, and lacked the idiot level iOSification and nagging that is creeping in all over MacOS today.

I haven't had to restart Finder until recently, but now even that has trouble with things like network drives.

I'm positive there are many internals today that are far better than in Snow Leopard, but it's outweighed by user visible problems.

It shouldn't surprise you I think that Android Jelly Bean was the best phone OS ever made as well, and they went completely in the wrong direction after that.
by jncfhnb | 2025-10-15 14:55:02+00:00
I think you could make AGI right now tbh. It’s not a function of intelligence. It’s just a function of stateful system mechanics.

LLMs are just a big matrix. But what about a four line of code loop that looks like:

```while true: update_sensory_inputs() narrate_response() update_emotional_state() ```

LLMs don’t experience continuous time and they don’t have an explicit decision making framework for having any agency even if they can imply one probabilistically. But the above feels like the core loop required for a shitty system to leverage LLMs to create an AGI. Maybe not a particularly capable or scary AGI, but I think the goalpost is pedantically closer than we give credit.
by bogwog | 2025-10-15 14:55:30+00:00
> you are swapping Google Android for GrapheneOS Android

No? You're adding support for Graphene's keys, not replacing Google's. Obviously, the main barrier is convincing developers of these apps to add support for Graphene's keys. However, this is only a problem for apps that opted to implement the Play Integrity API at all, which doesn't seem to be very common. All the recent monopoly rulings against Google may be deterring devs from implementing this obviously anti-competitive feature, and that's not to mention Google's new responsibility to offer the Play store app catalog to competing stores, thanks to the Epic case.

> The injunction issued last year by U.S. District Judge James Donato requires Google to allow users to download rival app stores within its Play store and make Play's app catalog available to competitors. Those provisions do not take effect until July 2026.

(source: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...)

Maybe they'll get away with requiring competing stores to implement Play Integrity API, maybe (probably) not.

Also, that list of incompatible apps is probably out of date since I use the ebay app all the time with no issues.
by cantrevealname | 2025-10-15 14:55:31+00:00
> "Everyone knows. But if we filtered it all out properly, our revenue would drop 40% overnight, and investors would have a meltdown."

The word "revenue" above doesn't sound right. Did you mean "ad impressions", "clicks", "visits", or something else?

If the bot traffic is giving you 40% more revenue, well that's excellent news, right? If it's revenue, then keep doing it.
by overgard | 2025-10-15 14:55:37+00:00
I get the impression they're trying to market this to laptop users. I'm still very skeptical of iPads as a productivity device. The problem isn't the hardware, it's the OS, the app store and the model for selling apps. Apple's app store policies make it hard to sell expensive software (which most productivity apps are somewhat expensive), it also makes it hard to distribute free software (as in open source -- because someone has to pony up for a developer account and deal with the app store feedback), and the App-centric focus of the OS itself is a problem (most projects need to be file centric)
by runjake | 2025-10-15 14:55:43+00:00
Point noted. For me, I find too much friction and distraction using the iPad for creative. Sure, I'll do something in a pinch, but there's just something about it where I can't focus on non-consumption activities.

I'm not sure what it is about the iPad -- maybe the physical ergonomics? It's kinda hard to position comfortably for focus.
by franjo_mindek | 2025-10-15 14:56:11+00:00
We recently did explore Phoenix as an inspiration, and we really liked how docs work in the Elixir ecosystem. We can't really copy everything, but we could copy e.g. automatic docs generation for the API (and JS/TS has solutions for that that even Phoenix uses e.g. https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/js/index.html). I love the fact that API docs and code comments can't get out of sync that way.

Still parts of the docs have to be handmade, and those are usually not supported directly by the ecosystem, so you have to build your own solutions.
by xnorswap | 2025-10-15 14:56:24+00:00
It's actually "ASP .NET Core", which can run on .NET Framework.

Listed as affected at the top in the github post is ASP .NET Core 2.3

ASP .NET Core 2.3 is a .NET Framework package, as explained by https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/servicing-release-advi...

It was released in February 2025, for those who think framework isn't supported.
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-15 14:56:51+00:00
> Although IQ differences between individuals have been shown to have a hereditary component, it does not follow that disparities in IQ between groups have a genetic basis.

This is just about race & IQ and already cedes the genetic argument that you were refusing to believe - because the evidence is so overwhelming.

> Contrary to popular belief, two parents of higher IQ will not necessarily produce offspring of equal or higher intelligence.

Not necessarily is load-bearing here in an extremely misleading way. Two parents of higher IQ are much more likely to produce an offspring of higher IQ than median.

You’re basically just cherrypicking arguments that support your incorrect supposition when compared to a mountain of evidence on the other side.

Nobody here brought up race but you/wikipedia.
by Pxtl | 2025-10-15 14:57:02+00:00
Bluesky is very easy to get into, although it's basically just "Twitter without as many Nazis" right now - its federation capabilities are barely used. Its starter-packs and algorithmic feeds are very good at quickly onboarding you.

Mastodon/Fediverse, on the other hand, is truly grassroots and federated instead of being a VC-funded cathedral, but it's just not nearly as successful and the usability barriers are higher.
by woeirua | 2025-10-15 14:57:13+00:00
There's this weird disconnect in tech circles, where everyone is deathly afraid of AGI, but totally asleep on the very real possibility of thermonuclear war breaking out in Europe or Asia over the next 10 years. There's already credible evidence that we came perilously close to the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine which likely would've spiraled out of control. AGI might happen, but the threat of nuclear war keeps me up at night.