MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kokada | 2025-10-15 14:57:29+00:00
I keep my applications pretty much up-to-date but I didn't check the release notes for each Electron application that I have to make sure they're updated. I still think this is a failure of macOS, since one misbehaving application shouldn't bring the whole environment to slow to a crawl.

What I can say is that while the situation is much better than at Day 1, the whole Tahoe experience is not as fluid as Sequoia.

Also, it doesn't really matter to me if this was a private function or not, if this was Windows or Gnome/KDE people would blame the developers of the desktop instead.
by devy | 2025-10-15 14:57:33+00:00
The pseudonym "Mykola Yanchii" on LinkedIn [1] doesn't look real at all.

Click "More" button -> "About this profile", RED FLAGS ALL OVER.

-> Joined May 2025 -> Contact information Updated less than 6 months ago -> Profile photo Updated less than 6 months ago

Funny things, this profile has the LinkedIn Verified Checkmark and was verified by Persona ?!?! -> This might be a red flag for Persona service itself as it might contain serious flaws and security vulnerabilities that Cyber criminals are relying on that checkmark to scam more people.

Basically, don't trust any profile who's been less than 1yr history even though their work history dated way back, who has Personal checkmark, that should do it.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mykola-yanchii-430883368/overlay...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-15 14:57:40+00:00
How is it checked that you're eligible? Asking because the system in the Netherlands could be defrauded, people registering to be living in the country, registering X amount of children, then going back to live in a cheaper country. Not sure if their children were actually real either.

(this was a relatively isolated incident but as these things go, they overreacted, set up software that over-eagerly identified families as defrauding the system and taking their benefits away, causing widespread chaos and a still-running compensation program that's costing the government years tens of billions to set right (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...)).
by koakuma-chan | 2025-10-15 14:57:58+00:00
I think it's a real company.

https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchRe...

~~Scammers probably got access to the guy's account.~~ (how to make strikethrough...)

He changed his LinkedIn to a different company. I guess check verifications when you get messages from "recruiters."
Show HN: Xona.ai 2.0 – create beautiful interiors in seconds
by tevlon | 2025-10-15 14:58:07+00:00
Hi there, Enes here, first-time founder, and I am excited to share Xona.ai with you!

We've been working on this project for the past several months and launched our beta in April. Since then, we have attracted over 10,000 users, and I couldn't be happier with the results.

Xona.ai makes it incredibly easy to generate beautiful redesigns of your home within seconds. Our focus is on usability and design. We collaborate with experienced interior designers, and our customers love the handcrafted design styles we offer. We've invested countless hours in prompt engineering to get the most out of our models. Of course, you can also create your own prompts.

At Xona, we are aware that AI-generated images are not always perfect. To address this, we've developed a set of tools to improve the results. Our features include:

Magic Eraser: Erase small mistakes (similar to cleanup.pictures). Creative Upscaling: Enhance generated images by upscaling them (thanks to clirityai.co). Find and Replace: Easily change materials or colors of items, like flooring or couches. Google Lens Integration: Love the generated sofa? Find similar furniture with Google Lens. Feeling overwhelmed by the options? Don't worry, we provide short tutorials to help you get the most out of Xona.

And we're not stopping here. We are currently experimenting with Virtual Staging. After evaluating competitors' offerings, we believe we have a solution that will surpass everything currently available on the market.

One last note: we dislike subscriptions as much as you do. You can get 4 credits for free, and a single purchase unlocks all the extra features (Magic Eraser, Find and Replace, Upscaling) for a lifetime.

Thank you for your attention, and we hope to see you at https://xona.ai!
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-15 14:58:38+00:00
The additional GPU performance will be very helpful for the upcoming Blender port to iPad.

> The M5 chip is built on TSMC's N3P node and has a faster GPU that can deliver 1.6x more FPS in games, 20% faster multi-core CPU performance, and 1.7x quicker render times in Blender — all versus the M4.

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/macbooks/apple-launches...
by bzzzt | 2025-10-15 14:58:56+00:00
Would it even be possible to create today's software ecosystems by mandating all libraries are maintained and supported to the strictest standards?

That would be the end of open source, hobbyists and startup companies because you'd have to pay up just to have a basic C library (or hope some companies would have reasonable licensing and support fees).

Remember one of the first GNU projects was GCC because a compiler was an expensive, optional piece of software on the UNIX systems in those days.
by moi2388 | 2025-10-15 14:59:23+00:00
There is special guidance, so usually you can just do the level you “ought” to be in.

If it’s really severe there is special education as a last resort.

More commonly modified lesson plans, or teachers will be instructed to let you out of the classroom for a bit, or give you tasks like “fetch this item from the front desk” in between.

It’s certainly not perfect, but there is quite some guidance and individual measures possible.
by kobalsky | 2025-10-15 14:59:30+00:00
my tinfoil-hat theory is that on each OS iteration Apple adds a new feature that leverages the latest chips hardware acceleration features and for older chips they do software-only implementations.

they ship-of-thesseus the crap out of their OS but replacing with parts that need these new hardware features that run slow on older chips due to software-only implementations.

I got the first generation iPad Pro, which is e-waste now, but I use it as a screen for my CCTV, it cannot even display the virtual keyboard without stuttering like crazy, it lags switching apps, there's a delay for everything, this thing was smooth as butter on release.
by dddtech | 2025-10-15 14:59:30+00:00
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by lmeyerov | 2025-10-15 14:59:34+00:00
Senior engineers know process, including for what you described, and that maps to plan-driven AI engineering well:

1. Note the discussion of plan-driven development in the claude code sections (think: plan = granular task list, including goals & validation criteria, that the agent loops over and self-modifies). Plans are typically AI generated: I ask it to do initial steps of researching current patterns for x+y+z and include those in the steps and validations, and even have it re-audit a plan. Codex internally works the same, and multiple people are reporting it automates more of this plan flow.

2. Working with database for tasks like migrations is normal and even better. My two UIs are now the agent CLI (basically streaming AI chat for task list monitoring & editing) and GitHub PR viewer: if it wasn't smart enough to add and test migrations and you didn't put that into the plan, you see it in the PR review and tell it to fix that. Writing migrations is easy, but testing them is annoying, and I've found AI helping write mocks, integration tests, etc to be wonderful.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-15 15:00:04+00:00
We pretty much have those already. The long-term issue is that it's seen as a "states rights" issue and both the more extreme left and right wing political players are against ID for different reasons.

With specific relevance to voting, what happens to the exceptions? 1% of the US population is 3.5M people.

Birth certificate provenance and lack of procedure at birth is only one source of exception. Other examples:

- elderly people who lose access to records

- children whose parents fail to secure documents.

- non-custodial parents who refuse to provide documents to their children

- women whose names change from marriage/divorce

- native americans whose tribal papers

- minors who cannot get required identity documents because their social security card is lost and onerous to replace. (requires in-person appearance and takes 9-24 months)

Voting is a fundamental right. You can establish with high certainty the identity of a individual using easy to obtain proofs. The number of non-citizens voting illegally is a tiny number. This whole controversy is about suppressing the votes of the poor and infirm, as denying their rights has a clear ROI to one of the political parties.
by Chance-Device | 2025-10-15 15:00:13+00:00
The only thing I can come up with is that compressing several hundred million years of natural selection of animal nervous systems into another form, but optimised by gradient descent instead, just takes a lot of time.

Not that we can’t get there by artificial means, but that correctly simulating the environment interactions, the sequence of progression, getting the all the details right, might take hundreds to thousands of years of compute, rather than on the order of a few months.

And it might be that you can get functionally close, but hit a dead end, and maybe hit several dead ends along the way, all of which are close but no cigar. Perhaps LLMs are one such dead end.
by justonceokay | 2025-10-15 15:00:34+00:00
For perspective I have a 12 year old MacBook with 8 gigs of ram and it’s still perfectly usable for all the things I do on it. If you need more RAM because you are video encoding, compiling, or gaming (why!?) then you aren’t a basic consumer.

I’m not trying into be a fanboy and maybe it’s a little bit “cope”, but apple has always put as much RAM as is necessary for the computer to work—and not a lot more—in their base models.
by Insanity | 2025-10-15 15:00:49+00:00
In a 1-to-1 situation you are right, a single human is not the scariest. But humans (mostly) dominated the animal kingdom, and with enough time we could probably eradicate every other species if we wanted to.

I guess bacteria and viruses might have a stronger claim for being the 'scariest monster' though. I don't think there's a strong 'living' contender for wiping out humanity apart from those. (Viruses is a bit debatable on the 'living' part though).
by Noaidi | 2025-10-15 15:01:16+00:00
Some commenters already answered for me. To me there is no real use benefit. I am rather a simple user and it seems to take up space on the phone as well. I refuse to use iCloud so space is important to me since photography is what I do the most.

Also, I like researching things old school how I learned in college because I think it leads to unintended discoveries.

I do not trust the source you linked to. It is an organization buried under organizations for which I cannot seem to find their funding source after looking for a good 15 minutes this morning. It led me back to https://ev.org/ where I found out one guy used to work for "Bain and Company", a consulting firm, and was associated with FTX funding:

https://oxfordclarion.uk/wytham-abbey-and-the-end-of-the-eff...

Besides "Effective Altruism" makes no sense to me. Altruism is Altruism IMO.

Altruism: unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others

There is no way to be ineffective at altruism. The more you have to think about altruism the further you get from it.

But the organization stinks as some kind of tech propaganda arm to me.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-15 15:01:19+00:00
There has to be a whole different mindset with hardware though. Every change has to necessarily be more considered, cross-checked. And I don't say this in any way to disparage software engineers (hold up hand) but I suspect there's a discipline in hardware design that is ... less rigidly adhered to in software design. (And a software update containing a revert, though undesirable, is always a solution.)
by WolfeReader | 2025-10-15 15:01:24+00:00
Person A: "We need to tell adults that reading is a worthwhile endeavor, especially when reading complex material." Person B: "But how do you define complex?" Person A: "What a meaningless question. It does not matter at all."

Person A: "The distinction is the why; if you read it for entertainment it is slop." Person B: "If we read Poe or Homer for entertainment, is it slop?" Person A: "How did you even get the idea?"

I will admit that I misunderstood your "classics" argument. I thought you were saying a book has to be a classic AND complex (a term which, at this point in the thread, is literally meaningless) AND not read for entertainment, but really you're saying it can be ANY of those, right? Like, Doyle's Holmes stories are not always challenging literature, but they are classics, and thus worthy of attention. Whereas if we were speaking in 1925, they'd be "genre slop". I think I now CORRECTLY understand your arbitrary criteria.

So complexity is determined by the reader's intention, to either challenge themselves or to be entertained? I found Dan Brown difficult to read, due to my dislike of his prose style and incessant brand name usage; would reading Dan Brown be a worthy self-challenge by your standards?

Also, a note for your future discourses: the phrase "say what you will" does not imply that you already said a thing. It basically means "bash this person if you want, they're up for it, but I'm about to say something semi-favorable about them". Is this the first time you've seen that phrase?
by asdhtjkujh | 2025-10-15 15:01:39+00:00
Very few people are buying a new machine every year, even when the updates (like this year) are arguably more than incremental — selling outdated hardware that will become obsolete sooner is not more environmentally-friendly.

Hardware longevity and quality are probably the least valid criticisms of the current Macbook lineup. Most of the industry produces future landfill at an alarming rate.
by terminalshort | 2025-10-15 15:01:41+00:00
The TOS for Google Drive is nothing like social media. You maintain ownership and do not grant a license to use. Meta's TOS grants them a license to use and delete whenever they want. Instagram isn't a storage product in any sense of the word and Google Drive is. Whatever the details about ownership of the photos are, Internet Archive coppied them from Meta's domain, so Meta can order the takedown. Try knowing something about what you are talking about.
by vonneumannstan | 2025-10-15 15:01:58+00:00
As someone living in a city with a significant homelessness problem I think this comment misses the point. The vast majority of homelessness in the US is not people falling on hard times and needing a boost to get back into a home. They are drug addicts or the mentally ill. A completely different problem that also needs to be addressed. Few other nations that I can see allow blatantly mentally ill to roam their streets or let people do drugs openly on the streets...
by hermitcrab | 2025-10-15 15:02:14+00:00
So if I am running Facebook Ads and I get a load of fraudulent traffic, who is instructing these bots to make the fake clicks and why?

Facebook? They have the motivation. They are getting paid per click. But I don't think they would dare. They would get sued into oblivion if they got caught.

A competitor? They could be trying to burn up my marketing budget. But it seems it would require a bit more technical sophistication than most companies have. And are they really going to pay some shady outfit to do it for them? It seems unlikely?

An ad agency? It will quickly become obvious that you are getting crap return on your spend, so that seems unlikely as well.

Someone else? What is their motivation?
by gizmo686 | 2025-10-15 15:02:17+00:00
Also, the proposed garbage collector is still opt in. Only pointers that are specifically marked as GC are garbage collected. This means that most references are still cleaned up automatically when the owner goes out of scope. This greatly reduces the cost of GC compared to making all heap allocations garbage collected.

This isn't even a new concept in Rust. Rust already has a well accepted RC<T> type for reference counted pointers. From a usage perspective, GC<T> seems to fit in the same pattern.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-15 15:02:22+00:00
Seeing my wife have to deal with BSOD and tedious restarts for Windows updates and myriad just to use Teams/Excel makes me think the software issues are far worse on the Windows side.

Not once in 10 years have I had ti troubleshoot while she uses her personal macOS, but a Dell Latitude laptop in 2025 still can’t just “open lid, work, close lid”.

And it’s slower. And eats more battery.
by Juliate | 2025-10-15 15:02:56+00:00
That's why from my perspective, almost everything is f'd up in tech at this point.

Any update I may do to any project dependencies I have on my workstation? Either I bet, pray and hope that there's no malicious code in these.

Either I have an isolated VM for every single separate project.

Either I just unplug the thing, throw it in the bin, and go make something truly lucrative and sustainable in the near future (plumber, electrician, carpenter) that let's me sleep at night.
by dmitshur | 2025-10-15 15:03:07+00:00
A random recent example off the top of my head: view photos in AVIF format. It does work in Photos app, but not in Preview app nor in Messages app somehow. At least this the case on iOS 26 and so I suspect iPadOS 26 too. It works on macOS 26.

Edit: I realize that ordinary people might not yet care about exporting to AVIF, but they may receive such photos from other people.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-15 15:03:09+00:00
A lot of rugged individualists seem to neglect talking about the human super organism. That the vast majority of our strength comes from sharing knowledge, making tools, and working together.

And on that same note it should be mentioned that exchange of information between humans is relatively slow and guarded. A group of entities that could exchange knowledge quickly and efficiently would represent an extreme challenge for us.
by SCdF | 2025-10-15 15:03:10+00:00
I don't think it's the modern Apple, I think that's just Apple.

I remember using iTunes when fixing the name of an album was a modal blocking function that had to write to each and every MP3, one by one, in the slowest write I have ever experienced in updating file metadata. Give me a magnetised needle and a steady hand and I could have done it faster.

A long time ago they had some pretty cool design guides, and the visual design has often been nice, but other than that I don't think their software has been notable for its quality.
by btilly | 2025-10-15 15:03:27+00:00
Yes, Erlang demonstrates that "crash and restart with a supervisor" is a potentially viable strategy to reliability.

But the choice is not just political. There are very meaningful technical differences for code that potentially winds up embedded in other software, and could be inside of literal embedded software.

The first is memory. It takes memory to run whatever is responsible for detecting the crash, relaunching, and starting up a supervisor. This memory is not free. Which is one of the reasons why Erlang requires at a minimum 10 MB or so of memory. By contrast the overhead of SQLite is something like half a MB. This difference is very significant for people putting software into medical devices, automotive controllers, and so on. All of which are places where SQLite is found, but Erlang isn't.

The second is concurrency. Erlang's concurrency model leaks - you can't embed it in software without having to find a way to fit Erlang concurrency in. This isn't a problem if Erlang already is in your software stack. But that's an architectural constraint that would be a problem in many of the contexts that SQLite is actually used in.

Remember, SQLite is not optimized for your use case. It is optimized for embedded software that needs to try to keep running when things go wrong. It just happens to be so good that it is useful for you.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-15 15:03:51+00:00
This isn't correct though; in the Netherlands, you cannot get a residence permit unless you have a sponsor, income, family, or whatever. If you have a residence permit, you can lose it if you apply for welfare [0]. I do believe you're entitled to child benefits, but that's about it.

If you're an asylum seeker / refugee, you're entitled to housing in an aslyum seeker center and a weekly budget of E60 a week (for which you need to pay food, clothes, etc yourself - and which gets cut if you misbehave) while your application is being processed.

Human dignity is inalienable on paper, but in practice you get the bare minimum until you nationalize.

[0] https://ind.nl/en/benefits-from-public-funds
by rdtsc | 2025-10-15 15:04:28+00:00
> Not everyone has the same priorities, so you'd have to mandate compliance to see the benefits.

I think it could have been left to individual small teams or smaller units. After some time it would have been obvious that teams who went to the office delivered better results. If the benefits are really that obvious as they are usually touted, it shouldn't take long (a year or two).

> It's 2025 and people will have adamantly used vim for 25 years

But if they are productive and delivers results they can still use vim. I can see controlling the APIs used, the programming languages allowed etc. But if they are productive with vim, let them use vim.

> I think the assumption that people will choose to boost their own productivity is questionable, especially in the face of their own comfort or enjoyment,

That's fair. I guess it depends on the types of people. I had in mind motivated people who would be glad to be more productive and deliver results quicker. Yeah, if people are not like that and are trying to do the least amount of work and just coast then it's a bigger issue. Office or not office, AI or no AI probably won't shift the needle by much.
by ViktorRay | 2025-10-15 15:04:31+00:00
Steve Jobs himself said that Apple sees itself as a software company

https://youtu.be/dEeyaAUCyZs

The above link is a video where he mentions that.

It is true that Apple’s major software products like iOS and MacOS are only available on Apple’s own hardware. But the Steve Jobs justification for this (which he said in a different interview I can’t find right now so I will paraphrase) is that he felt Apple made the best hardware and software in the world so he wanted Apple’s customers to experience the best software on the best hardware possible which he felt only Apple could provide. (I wish I could find the exact quote.)

Anyway according to Steve Jobs Apple is a software first company.
by elgrantomate | 2025-10-15 15:04:36+00:00
Nothing new here, nothing surprising.

Wayyyy back in 2000 I ran ad ops for Lycos which included a ton of other sites that they had acquired. We did an audit that uncovered the fact that 25-75% of traffic/pageviews/visitors/ad impressions were due to bots. We did our best at the moment to block some more of them, but it was losing game then, as now.

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.