MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0x457 | 2025-10-15 20:11:45+00:00
My limited experience:

2.4Ghz is pretty much only used by IoT, you generally don't care about channel width there. When your client device (laptop, phone) downgrades to 2.4Ghz it might as well disconnect because it's unusable.

5Ghz get stopped by a drywall, so unless your walls are just right to bounce off single, you need AP in every room. Ceiling mounting is pretty much required and you're pretty much free to use channels as wide as your device support and local laws allow.

6Ghz get stopped by a piece of paper, so the same as 5Ghz except you won't get 6Ghz unless you have haev direct line of sight to the AP.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-15 20:11:54+00:00
Windows 8+ UI is just plain incompetence.

You may like or may not like the new settings panels, but making them incomplete and redirecting you to the old ones for the missing features is just wrong. Even worse, they have been gradually adding the missing features for more than 10 years, breaking all familiarity, and they still didn't manage to finish the job.

I don't know what happened internally but Microsoft went from being arguably the best in the world to something that is objectively terrible. You may not like liquid glass, but at least, there is intent behind it. With Microsoft today, it looks like a collection of internship projects.
by gs17 | 2025-10-15 20:12:11+00:00
> but I remember my Chinese visa being sort of a headache to deal with 10 years back from the US

I got one recently and it's not bad, except that it needs to be done in-person at an embassy based on the state you live in, so there's a 90% chance you'll have to trust a third party business next door to the embassy to walk your documents over and mail them back to you after. I would much rather be visa-free though, it was expensive and time consuming for no real reason.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-10-15 20:12:27+00:00
> A lot of Apple hardware is impressive on paper, but I will never buy a Mac that can't run Linux.

They run Linux actually very well, have you ever tried Parallels or VMware Fusion? Especially Parallels ships with good softwaer drivers for 2d/3d/video acceleration, suspend, and integration into the host OS. If that is not your thing, the new native container solution in Tahoe can run container from dockerhub and co.

> I simply don't want to live in Apple's walled garden.

And what walled garden would that be on macOS? You can install what you want, and there is homebrew at your fingertips with all the open and non-open software you can ask for.
by ferd | 2025-10-15 20:12:39+00:00
No... the best way is to use the same color for all occurrences of the same identifier. So, on the last example, all instances of say "audio" should be of the same color, and those of "filename" of another color.

Original idea from here: https://medium.com/@evnbr/coding-in-color-3a6db2743a1e

One impl for Emacs: https://github.com/ankurdave/color-identifiers-mode

I still admire you Niki.
by hopelite | 2025-10-15 20:12:46+00:00
Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten all about that. Is yet another point as to why effectively the USA does not even actually exist anymore more is the Constitution valid.

Some may be confused by reading that or even scoff at it, but it’s really not any different than any other kind of fraud by deception where, e.g., you think you have a certain amount of assets with Bernie Madoff that make you rich, but in reality it’s all just fake and does not actually exist at all.

It’s just that Americans haven’t realized that their country has being defrauded out from under them, much like how the EU just snuck in and went from standardizing trade to co-opting democratic self-determination and just swiping national sovereignty out from under the people of Europe because the ruling class said “no take backs” and that’s just how it’s going to be now.
by foxandmouse | 2025-10-15 20:12:47+00:00
I thought the same thing when I saw the M5 in the news today. It’s not that I hate macOS 26, hate implies passion.. what I feel is closer to disappointment.

The problem is their philosophy. Somewhere along the way, Apple decided users should be protected from themselves. My laptop now feels like a leased car with the hood welded shut. Forget hardware upgrades, I can’t even speed up animations without disabling SIP. You shouldn’t have to jailbreak your own computer just to make it feel responsive.

Their first-party apps have taken a nosedive too. They’ve stopped being products and started being pipelines, each one a beautifully designed toll booth for a subscription. What used to feel like craftsmanship now feels like conversion-rate optimization.

I’m not anti-Apple. I just miss when their devices felt like instruments, not appliances. When you bought a Mac because it let you create, not because it let Apple curate.
by _wire_ | 2025-10-15 20:12:48+00:00
"The problem with Magic 8-ball is lack of context specific confidence in its answers"

This article and attendant comments reveal the AI sector is turning to co-dependent excuse making for a technology that clearly can't live up to its hype.

Get ready for phrenology of AI...

"I am going to need to visit your data center to lay hands on the subject."
by fair_enough | 2025-10-15 20:13:15+00:00
"I would like C++ would be a little more "batteries included" in some ways, like having a basic standard for signals, networking (just handling sockets would be a huge thing), and some basic system calls."

Besides basic handling of TCP sockets and the Unix-style "Ctrl-c" keyboard interrupt, none of the stuff you're asking for is portable across different platforms. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just that there is no one single universal standard for what an OS should do and what knobs and levers it should expose, or at least one that everybody follows.

Linux has non-trivial deviations from the POSIX spec, and even FreeBSD and OpenBSD have deviations. POSIX has its own compliance test suite that it runs to award certification of compliance, but it's not open source and it you need to pay a fee for it.

All of that however, is a drop in the bucket compared to making an API that exposes all the knobs and levers you want in a way that behaves exactly the same on Windows which barely has any architectural resemblance to UNIX. For exmaple, NTFS is case-insensitive by default and has nothing resembling the UNIX style of file permissions. Or more importantly, signals do not exist on Windows; something resembling signals for keyboard interrupts exists, but stuff like SIGHUP and SIGBUS does not. I'm talking the kind of known caveats that come with using a POSIX-compatibility layer on Windows, e.g. Cygwin.

I think if I get much deeper than that I'm just being pedantic, but even Python code behaves differently on Windows than it does on all the POSIX-like OSes out there.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-15 20:13:20+00:00
I'll be honest I haven't tried DXO Photo Lab yet. I've tried CaptureOne but could never get used to it, although I do prefer it's far more advanced color tools. Lightroom is really basic in comparison.

But I'm going to end up with a subscription anyway because of Photoshop so I've just always stuck with LR. That, and I used a LUT I built using Davinci Resolve, blended with the Camera Standard profile that I use as a slider in Lightroom (Classic) and I haven't found a way to do something similar in any other program yet (you can create these creative profiles in photoshop too but Davinci's color grading tools are so far superior). It's a key part of my look.

Also FWIW M1 and newer iPad Pros have thunderbolt 4
by kelas | 2025-10-15 20:14:28+00:00
ok, you have a point there. all 53 PDP-1s were "cheap" computers compared to IBM stuff (only $1M, adjusted) and used paper drum instead of punch cards. that was a nightmare to deal with, so people were buying IBM M typewriters to punch stuff in. Although Deutsch and Berkeley's LISP was in large part a copycat of IBM's LISP, people were indeed typing in LISP expressions in a REPL'ish manner. But if you ever saw a line of LISP, you can imagine what kind of "REPL" that was. "Miss one paren" comes to mind :)

APL\360 used a much more advanced selectric with a dedicated typeball, was designed for a machine of a totally different class, and could not be compared to literally kilometers of paper containing mostly mistyped parentheses. it was TRULY terse, expressive and interactive.

but yeah, PDP-1 hackers technically got there first - they had no choice :) check this out:

https://s3data.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/DEC.pdp_1.1964.1026...

6-7 Input and Output, System Operation is where the READ-EVAL-PRINT is indeed mentioned. but if you read the entire paragraph, and the next one ("if the system drops dead" lol) you'll agree that PDP-1 "REPL" was hell on earth, at the very end of the manual there are some really juicy REPL expressions :)

LISP was a torture compared to short and powerful APL notation.

less code less bug.
by taariqlewis | 2025-10-15 20:14:52+00:00
Our small team at Seren just launched a landing page and chatbot to talk about agentic databases and see what developers are thinking about them. There is a feature request button that pushes feature ideas to github. Give it a shot if you got a few minutes. We are building on an OpenSource Postgres version for AI agents and are curious what HN is thinking about features.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-15 20:15:11+00:00
I learned to code back when there was no syntax highlighting. You had one face, one font, one color on your 80x25 terminal. It might have been green, or amber, or white(ish) but that was it.

I'd prefer minimal-to-no syntax highlighting except for things that should NOT be there. Nonexisting keywords should be highlighted. Unclosed strings. Unbalanced parens or brackets.

I like making comments their own color so you can easily separate them from actual code but I'm otherwise in the minimal camp.
by cddotdotslash | 2025-10-15 20:15:14+00:00
It’s incredibly annoying to read. So many super short sentences with the “not just X. Also Y” format. Little hooks like “The attack vector?”

“Not fancy security tools. Not expensive antivirus software. Just asking my coding assistant…”

I actually feel like AI articles are becoming easier to spot. Maybe we’re all just collectively noticing the patterns.
by anthk | 2025-10-15 20:15:31+00:00
>keys

Under Emacs or X11 you can nearly map every key/keybinding to anything.

Also, on The Humane Interface, and the "Undo for everything"... Emacs has desktop-mode and for sure it could be set to save/restore nearly everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface
by alephnerd | 2025-10-15 20:15:38+00:00
I mean, a major reason the US fell in the ranks is because Brazil has stopped giving the US, Canada, and Australia visa-free access, Vietnam didn't include the US in the list of countries it chose to extend visa-free access to, Venezuela has extended visa-free access to a number of EU and EFTA members, and Papua New Guinea extended visa-free access to a number of nations recently. Also, the UK has begun enforcing the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) on all countries excluding Ireland, which means the UK is no longer visa free.

The UK's ranking fell for similar reasons as well.

If not having visa-free access to PNG or Venezuela is a metric, it's not a fairly relevant metric, or at least a very lossy metric.
by metabagel | 2025-10-15 20:15:45+00:00
> Mac OS trounces Linux in absolutely every way on the desktop it's not even funny: performance, battery life, apps, usability, innovation.

performance - I don't agree battery life - absolutely apps - absolutely usability - I don't agree innovation - I don't agree

One significant annoyance associated with Linux on a laptop is that configuring suspend-then-hibernate is an arduous task, whereas it just works on a Macbook.

But, the main thing is commercial application support.
by Herring | 2025-10-15 20:15:47+00:00
Reminds me of a speech by Putin (he would know)

>"Confident of their unlimited power, empires create unnecessary problems for themselves until they can no longer cope with them ... And the United States is now walking the Soviet Union's path, and its gait is confident and steady."

filibuster, gerrymandering, fptp, electoral college, supreme court, electric cars, J6, climate issues, Russia, aging congressmen, inequality, inflation ... each individually is (probably) solvable, but they just keep piling up like tetris.
by serial_dev | 2025-10-15 20:16:04+00:00
hey, I was almost hacked by someone pretending to be a legit person working for a legit looking company. They hid some stuff in the server side code.. could you turn this into a 10k words essay for my blog posts with hooks and building suspense and stuff? Thank you!

Probably how it went.

Edit: I see the author in the comments, it’s unfortunately pretty much how it went. The worst part is that the original document he linked would have been a better read than this AI slopified version.
by strcat | 2025-10-15 20:16:19+00:00
Each of the AOSP apps still present in GrapheneOS going to be replaced or overhauled. They're only there as basic bundled functionality. There's no point in improving some of those apps because there are either better open source apps to use as a starting point or we can make our own instead. It would be nice to have modern Compose apps instead of a slightly improved legacy code with modern features bolted onto it.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-15 20:16:29+00:00
> Mechanically the other problem would seem to be, if you listen to someone like Gary Stevenson, that it only works if you ratchet up taxes on the top end.

That’s not what I'd call a problem (its part of most concrete UBI proposals), but, yes, whether you look at it through a classic fiscal lens or a macroeconomic impact lens, you have to raise taxes concurrently if the UBI is significantly greater in aggregate payments than the means tested welfare it replaced (which it must be to maintain the same base benefit level, and many proposals would increase the base benefit level), and any sensible implementation will do it progressively starting somewhwere above the middle of the income distribution.
by fabianlindfors | 2025-10-15 20:16:40+00:00
> I think it's fair to say that you should highlight that upfront in your webpage because it's a more clear pain point than building other parts of backends.

Good point! We should do that :)

> My two cents: in my experience with integrations there are many issues that you can't control yourself because third-party APIs are buggy, incomplete, etc

Yes, I have actually spent a large portion of my career building such integrations and Specific has grown out of that. In my experience, working with specifications makes it much easier to focus on the behaviour of the API you are integrating with, instead of the code architecture or boilerplate behind your integration.
by strbean | 2025-10-15 20:17:03+00:00
Eh, it would be nice if there was a public title database in the US. Ideally government administered, but if we can't have that then maybe a distributed ledger would do the trick.

It's hilarious that title searches and title insurance exist. And even more ridiculous that there is just no way, period, to actually verify that a would-be landlord is actually authorized to lease you a place to live.
by unshavedyak | 2025-10-15 20:17:14+00:00
I'm just an ignorant bystander, but is the training dataset the ground truth?

Kind of feels like calling the fruit you put into the blender the ground truth, but the meaning of the apple is kinda lost in the soup.

Now i'm not a hater by any means. I am just not sure this is the correct way to define the structured "meaning" (for lack of a better word) that we see come out of LLM complexity. It is, i thought, a very lossy operation and so the structure of the inputs may or (more likely) may not provide a like-structured output.
by tagraves | 2025-10-15 20:17:44+00:00
I had the same experience -- it was way easier for me to find it with the rainbow highlighting (even though I already knew where to look when it came to the monochrome highlighting!).

The author later asks what color class definitions were. I think this fundamentally gets wrong how syntax highlighting helps humans. I don't have a clue what color anything is in my favored highlighting, but my brain does incredible pattern recognition to help me digest code in it without me consciously knowing what color does what.

So his arguments for why there's a problem don't hold up, but that doesn't mean there is not in fact a problem.
by zwnow | 2025-10-15 20:18:03+00:00
> Everything got one order of magnitude easier thanks to AI.

No. Not at all. Many things maybe got easier but a lot of things got magnitudes harder. Maintaining bug bounty programs for example, or checking the authenticity and validity of written content on blogs.

Calling LLMs are a huge win for humanity is incredibly naive given we dont know the long term effects these tools are having on creativity in online spaces, authenticity of user bases, etc etc.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-15 20:18:52+00:00
Total extinction of any dominant species is really hard. Very few post-apocalyptic settings suggest a full extinction and usually show some thousands of survivors struggling with the new norm. Humans in particular are very adaptable so thorough killing all 8 billion of us would be difficult no matter the scenario. I think only the Sun can do that and that's assuming we fail to find an exit strategy 5 billion years in (we're less than a thousandth of a percent into humanity if we measure on that scale).

As such, I'd say "extinction" is more of a colloquial use of "Massive point in history that kills off billions in short order".
by buellerbueller | 2025-10-15 20:19:13+00:00
I have no idea who OP is, but as someone who worked in the ad measurement pipeline, it tracks.

This is a thing that the R&D folks at my company had lots of evidence for, but since we wanted to partner with Meta and Google to be the measurement company of record for FB/Insta and YouTube CPG advertising, we weren't allowed to discuss.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-15 20:19:33+00:00
It's likely to work. It's the same dudes.

Scroll back through any AI evangelist's twitter (if they are still on Twitter, and they are) and it is better odds than a coin toss that you find they were an evangelist for either NFTs or crypto.

I mean the CEO of OpenAI is also the CEO of a shitcoin-for-your-iris-scans company, for one.

(Prosaically: these things are usually spear-phishing of some kind anyway, are they not?)
by andai | 2025-10-15 20:20:30+00:00
I think it only really has that feel if you use GPT. I mean, all AIs produce output that sounds kinda like it was written by an AI. But I think GPT is the most notorious on that front. It's like ten times worse.

So really the feeling I get when I run into "obviously AI" writing isn't even, "I wish they had written this manually", but "dang, they couldn't even be bothered to use Claude!"

(I think the actual solution is base text models, which exist before the problem of mode collapse... But that's kind of a separate conversation.)
by jchw | 2025-10-15 20:20:44+00:00
I agree. I was baffled when I realized I was supposed to struggle with that example.

I do agree that it is harder to see the return misspelling with the more detailed syntax highlighting, but when I'm coding I'm mainly focused on the actual tokens I'm writing, and you better believe I pick up on if the syntax highlighting is showing my token as wrongly being a keyword rather than an identifier, or the wrong type of identifier. Even if I don't actually know what the colors are, it will look wrong.

Rainbow vomit syntax highlighting logically seems like a bad idea, but like many things, even though it's hard to prove that it's better, I think a lot of people will agree that it really is better. Especially with tree-sitter and LSPs giving more detailed syntax highlighting; I can feel the benefits of 'oh, that's the wrong identifier color, isn't it?' to the point where if I run into an edge case that breaks highlighting it becomes immediately noticeable.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-15 20:21:02+00:00
I've used Macs for 20 years starting on the day 32-bit Intel Macs were released, and agree with the GP. Linux and Plasma spoiled me, going back to macOS and its windowing system feels like a step backward, especially for development, where using multiple windows is a must. Task switching is.. not good? I don't get window previews I can switch through when I hover over the dock, but I do on Linux.

Yes, I know about Yabai and the other things that modify the existing window manager. The problem is the window manager itself.

Outside of the windowing system, running native Linux if you're deploying to Linux beats using an amalgamation of old BSD utils + stuff from Homebrew and hoping it works between platforms, or using VMs. The dev tools that are native to Linux are also nice.

When it comes to multiple monitors, I want a dock on each monitor. I can do that in Plasma, but I can't in macOS, unless I use some weird 3rd party software apparently.
by Topfi | 2025-10-15 20:21:20+00:00
Update, Haiku 4.5 is not just very targeted in terms of changes but also really fast. Averaging at 220token/sec is almost double most other models I'd consider comparable (though again, far to early to make a proper judgement) and if this can be kept up, that is a massive value add over other models. That is nearly Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite speed for context.

Yes, we got Groq and Cerebras getting up to 1000token/sec, but not with models that seem comparable (again, early, not a proper judgement). Anthropic has been historically the most consistent in outperforming personal benchmarks vs public benchmarks, for what that is worth so I am optimistic.

If speed, performance and pricing are something Anthropic can keep consistent long term (i.e. no regressions), Haiku 4.5 really is a great option for most coding tasks, with Sonnet something I'd tag in only for very specific scenarios. Past Claude models have had a deficiency in longer term chains of tasks. Beyond 7 minutes roughly, performance does appear to worsen with Sonnet 4.5, as an example. That could be an Achilles heel for Haiku 4.5 as well, if not this really is a solid step in terms of efficiency, but I have not done any longer task testing yet.

That being said, Anthropic once again has a rather severe issue it seems, casting a shadow upon this release. From what I am seeing and others are reporting, Claude Code currently does count Haiku 4.5 usage the same as Sonnet 4.5 usage, despite the latter being significantly more expensive. They also did not yet update the Claude Code support pages to reflect the new models usage limits [0]. I really think such information should be public by launch day and hope they can improve their tooling and overall testing, it really continues to throw a shadow over their impressive models.

[0] https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude...
by dismalaf | 2025-10-15 20:21:21+00:00
> The central tenet of ethnic nationalists is that nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry.

This is one sentence. The "central tenet" applies to what's written in this sentence.

> Those of other ethnicities may be classified as second-class citizens.

"May be"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/may

Try reading.