MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwuxiytayq | 2025-10-15 16:31:36+00:00
I have no words to express how profoundly disappointed I am to keep reading these boring, shallow, shorttermist, unimaginative takes that are invalidated by a model/arch upgrade next week, or - in this case - more like years ago, since pretty much all big LLM platforms are already augmented by RAG and memory systems. Do you seriously think you’re discussing a serious long term limitation here?
by pzo | 2025-10-15 16:32:02+00:00
This is quite weird move and confusing (probably on purpose). This chip M5 is released in Macbook PRO but previous macbook pro had M4 Pro or M4 Max so their more like macbook air series to even like ipad pro series.

They say "M5 offers unified memory bandwidth of 153GB/s, providing a nearly 30 percent increase over M4" but my old Macbook M2 Max have 400GB/s
by Aurornis | 2025-10-15 16:32:11+00:00
> to implement a true UBI. Of course, that's almost impossible to prove, but I just feel it in my bones that it's true.

It's actually easy to prove that this isn't true. Not even close.

What do you define as a "true UBI"? Take that annual number and multiply it by the population of the United States. That's how much a "true UBI" program would have to spend annually.

If we took a poverty-level wage of $15.5K annually and gave it to every person, that would require $5.4 Trillion, excluding any overhead of sending out the money.

That's more than all of the federal tax revenue combined. Even if we took every dollar paid in federal taxes and gave it to every person in the United States with 100% efficiency, divided evenly, it would still be below what's considered poverty-level wages.

I think a lot of people have "feel it in my bones" beliefs about UBI that they haven't stopped to check with some simple math. Actually giving everyone a lot of money is extremely expensive.
by probably_wrong | 2025-10-15 16:32:15+00:00
Since you got plenty of cheeky responses, I'll attempt a more serious one:

You are clearly employable - while not as amazing as it used to be, there is a clear market for software developers. Your job is not at risk of disappearing.

Musicians, though, have it tough - "we" as a society [1] accept that we want to have art but its economic value has been plummeting for a while. And while no one shed a tear when (for instance) stables had to close due to the scarcity of city horses, we do want to try and keep local artists around. And it's not like it's a waste either - if the program costed "€72 million to date but generated nearly €80 million in total benefits for the Irish economy", that's not even a bad deal.

There's of course an argument of "I bet software developers could generate more benefits than artists", which is probably true, but I'd argue artists need it more right now. And nothing stops the program from expanding eventually.

[1] Well, "they" - I'm not Irish.
by vessenes | 2025-10-15 16:32:36+00:00
For the haters here - Apple sells roughly 2x as many iPads as Macs (including MacBooks). Roughly as many iPad Pros as laptops.

I've cycled through using an iPad Pro as my main device on and off over the years - particularly the cellular modem has been a draw. For coding, they're terrible, as they are for longer form writing. I've ultimately shrunk down to the small size and use it as a kindle/gaming replacement. I think with a foldable iPhone I'd probably skip buying one.

All that said there's a large market for them. I use mine enough that every two cycles I update just for battery reasons.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-15 16:32:46+00:00
The company in general never really seemed that interested in Games, and that came right from Steve Jobs. John Carmack made a Facebook post[1] several years ago with some interesting insider insights about his advocacy of gaming to Steve Jobs, and the lukewarm response he received. They just never really seemed to be a priority at Apple.

1: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2146412825...
by jbstack | 2025-10-15 16:34:01+00:00
If you don't pay your debts or taxes then even items that you own and which are in your possession can be taken from you, thanks to the rule of law. Conversely, if someone comes along and takes it from you without legal justification, the rule of law allows you to claim it back. That same rule of law ensures that you are entitled to the gold you own that isn't in your possession.

Drawing the line at possession is arbitrary. Either way your ownership is governed by law, and is only as good as the strength of that law.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-15 16:34:05+00:00
Great work! I share Insta and Tiktok links to a Karakeep (https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/) instance, and any media links are consumed by a queue and worker that pipes the links to yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) to rip and package in an archive, which is uploaded to object storage. This is a great compliment to my workflow.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-15 16:34:12+00:00
Could you show me a serious post about anyone actually advocating for injecting bleach and not a misrepresentation of a question asked by the President?

Publishing a persons photos, with their home address and advocating for physical attacks is not "monitoring a police scanner" ... It's putting their families lives at risk. People aren't just peacefully protesting.. they're actively blocking legitimate arrests, throwing rocks and shooting at them. The fact that there hasn't been a bloodbath in and of itself mostly disproves the narratives.
Ask HN: Would you move to another state for a job?
by andrewstetsenko | 2025-10-15 16:34:38+00:00
I’m curious what the HN community thinks about moving for work these days.

It feels harder to land a good job locally, especially if you’re not in a big tech hub. Remote roles still exist, but they seem fewer than before, and more employers want people back in the office at least a few days a week.

On the other hand, moving for a promising opportunity opens up a bigger job market.

So it’s a trade-off: - You risk uprooting your life for a new job. - But if you stick only to local or fully remote roles, you may be closing doors.

Would you move to another state for a job right now? Or stay put and wait for something local/remote?
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-10-15 16:34:49+00:00
>on a serious note, APL (and, by proxy, its descendants) invented REPL (dubbed "dialogue approach") long before the people who coined "REPL" even came to be.

While I have enjoyed learning array languages, and think they are still underrated, Wikipedia seems to disagree with this statement above.

According to wikiepdia, REPL seems to have been coined after Iverson created his notation, but before the first APL was ever written.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93prin...
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-15 16:34:58+00:00
> Blockchain

Okay, I stopped reading here. This is a notorious vector in the web3 space for years.

Another way this occurs if you are in that space is you'll get DMs on X about testing out a game because of your experience in the space, or being eligible for an airdrop by being an earliest contributor, and its all about running some alpha code base.
by MichealCodes | 2025-10-15 16:35:04+00:00
Nice strawman. The core of webapis is about opening up lower level functionality from the sandbox/accessibility of the web. Beyond audio and video IO, there's great stuff coming with webgpu and webNN. Web apps are much safer and much more convenient than downloading an app, well in theory they could be if support wasn't regularly sabotaged to protect a corporate interest in walled gardens.
by toast0 | 2025-10-15 16:35:09+00:00
> Advertising, especially online advertising, is a largely a waste of money. Overall, it's obsolete and while it may generate what seems like economic activity, it's a net loss as a use of our time and money.

Advertisement has always been largely a waste of money, the problem is always trying to figure out what part is a waste and what part is effective. Internet advertising promised to be more specifically targeted and attributable than previous advertising models, but I don't think that really turned out well.

As an advertiser, you really have to work hard to know how things are working. Ask customers to tell you how they found you, but know that customers don't always know and don't always share what they know. Adjust advertising campaigns (including turning them off) and see how things change, but changes take a while to filter though. And you've got to do all the other things too --- a lot of new or smaller companies make the mistake of spending a lot on advertisements to drive traffic to them when they can't service the traffic: coupon campaigns that get too many people in, or sending you to a page that's unclear or difficult to use so people bail out, etc.

The article claims 50k visitors, 47 sales, $4000 in ad spend; it's not really clear if that's overall visitor numbers or just from the traffic attributed to advertising. Measuring success by visitor numbers or sales counts was never the right way to measure success; the numeric measure of success for a business should be an accounting measure of net income [1], which is only somewhat related to visitor and sales count. If this business generates $500 of net income for every sale (excluding advertising costs), then $4000 in ad spend to generate 47 sales seems reasonable; if they generate $1 of net income for every sale, then $4000 in ad spend is highly problematic.

[1] GAAP or adjusted as appropriate to the business
by IAmGraydon | 2025-10-15 16:35:09+00:00
>I struggle to understand how people can just dismiss the possibility of artificial intelligence.Human cognition was basically bruteforced by evolution-- why would it be impossible to achieve the exact same result in silicon, especially after we already demonstrated some parts of those results (e.g. use of language) that critically set us apart from other animals?

I haven't seen many people saying it's impossible. Just that the current technology (LLMs) is not the way, and is really not even close. I'm sure humanity will make the idiotic mistake of creating something more intelligent than itself eventually, but I don't believe that's something that the current crop of AI technology is going to evolve into any time soon.
by delichon | 2025-10-15 16:35:31+00:00
> But why does that feel like anything?

Consciousness is an attention mechanism. That inward regard, evaluating how the self reacts to the world, is attention being payed to the body's feelings. The outward regard then maps those feelings on to local space. Consciousness is watching your feelings as a kind of HUD on the world. It correlates feels to things.
by jlund-molfese | 2025-10-15 16:35:53+00:00
From JetBrains:

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If you received such an email, we strongly advise you not to click any links and to delete the message immediately.

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by mediaman | 2025-10-15 16:36:01+00:00
In Context Learning (ICL) is already a rapidly advancing area. You do not need to modify their weights for LLMs to persist state.

The human brain is not that different. Our long-term memories are stored separately from our executive function (prefrontal cortex), and specialist brain functions such as the hippocampus serve to route, store, and retrieve those long term memories to support executive function. Much of the PFC can only retain working memory briefly without intermediate memory systems to support it.

If you squint a bit, the structure starts looking like it has some similarities to what's being engineered now in LLM systems.

Focusing on whether the model's weights change is myopic. The question is: does the system learn and adapt? And ICL is showing us that it can; these are not the stateless systems of two years ago, nor is it the simplistic approach of "feeding old context back to it."
by cj | 2025-10-15 16:36:03+00:00
I’m not sure I see the disconnect.

At our company we used to buy everyone MacBook Pros by default.

After the M-series chip, the MBPs are just too powerful and no longer necessary for the average white collar worker (they seem like “actual” pro machines, now) to the point where we now order MacBook Airs for new employees.

I feel like until recently, you really needed a MBP to get a decent UX (even just using chrome). But now there doesn’t seem to be a major compromise when buying an Air for half the price, at least compared to 3-5 years ago.
by bsimpson | 2025-10-15 16:36:10+00:00
I have original copies of a lot of these on CD, but even if it was easy to read CDs in 2025, that doesn't mean they're still in readable condition.

A lot of abandonware games have ISOs posted on the Internet Archive. There's a glimmer of worry in the back of my head about the safety of downloading random executables, but it seems like they're usually the real deal.
by yodon | 2025-10-15 16:36:37+00:00
Offering frontier models for free at a Claude Code Max or ChatGPT Pro levels isn't going to happen for very long with a $5.7M raise.

Assuming 100% of that raise goes to LLM costs (almost certainly unrealistic because of needs to pay salaries, etc), and assuming a conservative $100/month in frontier model LLM charges when doing serious coding, that raise amounts to $5.7M / $100 = 57,000 user-months, or less than 5,000 users for a year.

It's hard to imagine a scenario where this raise isn't completely burned through in a couple of months, tops.
by jaen | 2025-10-15 16:36:53+00:00
Error handling patterns very much depend on the domain with possibly completely opposite recommendations, and any principles should specify in which domain it is a good approach.

Pure and deterministic algorithms can have the luxury of having much more strict and concrete error handling strategies.

On the other hand, "promptly handling errors" sounds naive for large distributed systems where almost every call can fail for reasons unknown. Experience has already shown that exactly the opposite approach - just panic and restart the "service" (process in Erlang terms, but it's got nothing to do with Unix processes and is far more granular) can build extremely reliable systems. In conventional programming languages, that roughly corresponds to adding top-mid-level error boundaries (exception/panic handlers) at critical junctures.

But perhaps that's what you mean by "error bubbling nests shallowly"? No idea, since it's not exactly clear.
by stavros | 2025-10-15 16:36:54+00:00
I wrote something small the other day to make commands that will run in Docker, maybe this will help you:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/dox

You could have a command like "python3.14" that will run that version of Python in a Docker container, mounting the current directory, and exposing whatever ports you want.

This way you can specify the version of the OS you want, which should let you run things a bit more easily. I think these attacks rely largely on how much friction it is to sandbox something (even remembering the cli flags for Docker, for example) over just running one command that will sandbox by default.
by jandrese | 2025-10-15 16:37:14+00:00
The original low cost SDR was a European TV tuner USB stick. A driver developer noticed that it was possible to turn off the built-in vertical and horizontal blank suppression to get a raw I/Q dump from a device that was available for $20 retail. This revolutionized the hobbyist SDR community as the purpose built devices cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.

The "RTL" came from the company that built the hackable chip: Realtek.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-15 16:37:14+00:00
> ...and it's super weird how much anti-ANE rhetoric there is on this site, as if there can only be one tool for an infinite selection of needs

That seems like a strange comment. I've remarked in this thread (and other threads on this site) about what's known re: low-level ANE capabilities, and it seems to have significant potential overall, even for some part of LLM processing. I'm not expecting it to be best-in-class at everything, though. Just like most other NPUs that are also showing up on recent laptop hardware.
by masto | 2025-10-15 16:37:15+00:00
On rare occasions, I use it for the virtual display; it's actually usable to sit outside and work with a giant display on the deck, or to dial myself onto the beach. But it's not exactly comfortable for extended use, and most of the time I'd rather sit at my nice desktop with multiple monitors etc.

I also have a Quest 3 and if I could only own one device, I'd take the Q3 hands-down. The games are fun, they get you up and moving, and although I'm not going to argue that the quality of the screens is the same or anything, it's more than good enough. I'll happily give up the virtual laptop screen in exchange for the library of VR games on the Quest.

I'm not much for consuming media so that aspect is lost on me. Unfortunately, that seems to be the primary use case Apple has focused on, if you can call the anemic dribble of content they've put out focus.
by leakycap | 2025-10-15 16:37:24+00:00
My MacBook M1 Pro w/ 441 cycles started doing a fun thing where if the battery gets under about 50% and you put it to sleep, the ONLY way to power on the device is to use the exact charger it came with. Higher powered Apple Studio Display PD, or even good 3rd party chargers, do not bring it back to life. This occurs even when the battery has 40-60% remaining if the laptop goes to sleep.

Had a similar issue with my 2018 MBP Intel - the 86/87 Watt Apple charger was the only thing it would come to life with as the battery aged if the device got too low.
by jmmv | 2025-10-15 16:37:26+00:00
BSDs do not break backwards compatibility (at least from what I know from FreeBSD and NetBSD). You _can_ disable backwards compatibility via kernel-level options and by not installing certain distribution sets -- but the default is to remain backwards compatible.

What being a kernel+userland helps with is in implementing features end-to-end: if you have to change how a certain aspect of the network configuration happens, you can do the kernel changes and the userlevel changes in unison. Which explains why you have a unique set of network tools, great documentation, a simple build system that can upgrade the machine...
by autoexec | 2025-10-15 16:37:28+00:00
If anything covid deaths are under-counted. While you can't give a single example of someone dying after jumping out of a plane and it being called a covid death there are actual examples of covid deaths and infections being suppressed and hidden from the public. There's also a huge jump in excess deaths unaccounted for by official numbers and some suspicious spikes in flu and pneumonia deaths.
by kakacik | 2025-10-15 16:37:32+00:00
You are wrong in few ways, ie pharma - check where your ozempic comes from, that mostly US money has become a significant factor in Denmark's economy.

I get it, its easy to throw various statements around to feel oneself' good, but can you please back them up with some hard facts to have a healthy discussion? This site strives for a better behavior.
Ask HN: Is Orchestration Solving the Wrong Problem in Data Pipelines?
by immortan_dag | 2025-10-15 16:37:44+00:00
I have spent most of my career in data integration (StreamSets was my last company), and I keep running into the same pattern:

* When pipelines break, we reach for more orchestration.

* When semantics get lost, we bolt on a catalog.

* When trust disappears, we add observability layers.

Each of these layers feels like a workaround. The real issue seems to be that our data lifecycle is fragmented. Context, ownership, and meaning tend to disappear along the way.

What if we made tables the core unit of data flow? What if teams could publish, transform, and subscribe to versioned tables directly?

That's the idea behind Tabsdata. It is:

* Built around immutable, versioned tables

* Declarative instead of orchestrated

* Based on free-form Python transformations in a controlled environment

* Open core, implemented in Rust with Python bindings

* Delivered with both a UI and a full CLI

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCZIRC9khmA

Website: https://tabsdata.com

I would love your feedback:

* Have orchestration tools become a crutch in your data stack?

* What would a table-first approach need to earn your trust?

* Are there better ways to preserve semantics and metadata across teams?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts or pushback.
by broken-kebab | 2025-10-15 16:38:07+00:00
I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to disprove. My claim is that sex i.e. biological distinction is valuable enough bit of information to not to be ignored in IDs. If what you want to tell is that everything is relative to the culture, and there's no neutral biology, I wouldn't agree, but would notice that it makes all the outrage here even less logical.
by hearsathought | 2025-10-15 16:38:47+00:00
What a load of mindless and brainwashed regurgitation.

> if we’re looking for a single foundational principle that undergirds both democracy, the best candidate is probably individual freedom.

Must be why slave owning ancient greece invented democracy. Right? Because of the love of individual freedom by these slave owning greeks? Must be why slave owning US brought democracy back from the ash heap of history. Because of the love of individual freedom. Has nothing to do with the moral and practical value of individual autonomy. It actually relies on the opposite of moral and practical value of individual autonomy. Democracy was born out of ancient greek theater for a reason.

> and capitalism

Capitalism is fundamentally the idea that people who has/controls/creates capital ( aka the "invisible" hand of the market ) should run the economy. Has nothing to do with "individual freedom".
by hermitcrab | 2025-10-15 16:38:50+00:00
>dark patters that get people to click on ads in the middle of content, where the user instantly backs out once they realize.

I'm sure that is at least part of it. And if they can be creative about how they get the page to draw, they can get you to click on something unintentionally. The shitty website of my local paper is good at this.
by mft_ | 2025-10-15 16:38:57+00:00
They are the leader in manufacturing consumer systems with sufficient high-bandwidth memory to enable decent-sized LLMs to be run locally with reasonable performance. If you want to run something that needs >=32GB of memory (which is frankly bottom-end for a somewhat capable LLM) they're your only widely-available choice (otherwise you've got the rare Strix Halo AI Max+ 395 chip, or you need multiple GPUs, or maybe a self-build based around a Threadripper.)

This might not be widely recognised, as the proportion of people wanting to run capable LLMs locally is likely a rounding error versus the people who use ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini regularly. It's also not something that Apple market on, as they can't monetize it. However, as time goes on and memory and compute power gradually decrease in price, and also maybe as local LLMs continue to increase in ability (?) it may become more and more relevant.