MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rsynnott | 2025-10-15 14:32:41+00:00
… Eh? It was neither. It was due to a design defect in a particular model; if voltage fell into a range that was perfectly possible with an aging but still functional battery, the SoC would shut off. The only viable software fix was to clock it down instead (there was an option to decline that and risk the abrupt shutoffs).

Not really sure what else they could have done there.
by structural | 2025-10-15 14:33:10+00:00
These things are amazing for maintenance programming on very large codebases (think, 50-100million lines of code or more, the people who wrote the code no longer work there, it's not open source so "just google it or check stack overflow" isn't even an option at all.)

A huge amount of effort goes into just searching for what relevant APIs are meant to be used without reinventing things that already exist in other parts of the codebase. I can send ten different instantiations of an agent off to go find me patterns already in use in code that should be applied to this spot but aren't yet. It can also search through a bug database quite well and look for the exact kinds of mistakes that the last ten years of people just like me made solving problems just like the one I'm currently working on. And it finds a lot.

Is this better than having the engineer who wrote the code and knows it very well? Hell no. But you don't always have that. And at the largest scale you really can't, because it's too large to fit in any one person's memory. So it certainly does devolve to searching and reading and summarizing for a lot of the time.
by CalRobert | 2025-10-15 14:33:15+00:00
My experience as an immigrant to Europe (Ireland, specifically) was that I had no recourse to public funds, and when I first arrived, needed to pay for my own private health insurance. In addition, while you _can_ avail of public welfare (if you're on stamp 4, which you can get after 2 years of employment on a critical skills employment permit), doing so will negatively impact any application for naturalisation or permanent residency.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-10-15 14:33:51+00:00
>I am so tired of these "they are all bad anyway" stances.

What evidence do you have they are not all bad? I can't think of too many major high level EU leaders that people would consider to be a net positive.

>Hungary suspected of spying for Russia

Are you aware that former German and Austrian politicians are on the payroll of Russian oil and gas companies and Putin even came to the wedding s of some of them? Are you aware Austrian banks still operate in Russia profiting?

Yet I never hear anyone blaming Austrian every 5 minutes the same way they do Hungary.

Why the double standards where all the blame in on Hungary yet other EU members fly under the radar for much more pro-Russia cooperation and profiteering?

>Also, I do not think she is actively criticizing the EU whenever she has the opportunity while pocketing as much money from it as she can.

Then why did she delete her messages with Pfizer? You're right, she's not profiteering, she's just helping her puppet masters profiteer. Big difference.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-15 14:34:09+00:00
>If you literally go to the grocery store on your own dime, bag lunches, and donate them for poor kids to eat I don't see how anyone could rationally oppose that.

The health department will accuse you of running an unlicensed food pantry and threaten you with hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. The useful idiots will endorse this action becase "it's not ideal, but we can't have unlicensed restaurants can we".

Source: happened in a city near me.
by simonask | 2025-10-15 14:34:43+00:00
As the other person pointed out, these are two different things. Sanitizers add runtime checks (with zero consideration for performance - don’t use these in productions). Static analysis runs at compile time, and while both GCC and Clang are doing amazing jobs of it, it’s still very easy to run into trouble. The mostly catch the low-hanging fruit.

The technical reason is that Rust-the-language gives the compiler much more information to work with, and it doesn’t look like it is possible to add this information to the C or C++ languages.
by thefz | 2025-10-15 14:34:45+00:00
You:

> EU does not foster any form of framework for growing any industry

Also you:

> did you notice that not even a single company you've mentioned is something new

K, but that was not your point since they did indeed "grow as an industry". Aren't you saying that auotomotive hasn't grown as an industry in the EU, I hope. Also,

> Pharma is miles behind US,

Source?

> Financial central was mostly London due to favorable local laws.

You mean like Paribas, MPS, Allianz... none of which are in the UK?
by dannyfritz07 | 2025-10-15 14:34:50+00:00
The approach I like the most is to first design a CLI that has the functionality you need. Then move that functionality to a lib and have the CLI now be a frontend for the lib. Then make a GUI frontend too.

Allows for a GUI for tasks that need that better context or hand holding. But then the CLI is there when there is a workflow the GUI doesn't support comes up. Bonus of scripting being possible with the CLI too.

Challenges this approach has is that you have to have a test suite that exercises both workflows or due diligence to make sure they both work as development continues.

Also not all programs can be done acceptably with a CLI. Real time 3d games are an easy example of a GUI only task.
by letmetweakit | 2025-10-15 14:34:52+00:00
Apparently, in Europe, the box will not contain a charger [1]. This is absolutely mind-blowing to me.

edit: suggested retail price also dropped with EUR 100. Mind is less blown now. It seems like a good thing in fact.

edit2: in Belgium, the combined price of the 70W adapter and 2m USB-C to MagSafe is EUR 120.

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-macbook-pro-does-no...
Show HN: Dsu (daily stand-up gem)
by gangelo | 2025-10-15 14:34:57+00:00
As featured in RubyWeekly https://rubyweekly.com/issues/687 dsu is a ruby gem that enables anyone practicing Agile methodology to record, keep track of and manage their daily standup (DSU) activities. Give it a download and a GitHub star. Lots of fun to use - whether or not you hate daily stand-ups :)

- dsu uses no network connections whatsoever. - dsu stores all of its data locally, in .json files. - dsu is a simple (but powerful) command-line tool for users who love to work within the terminal. - dsu versioning follows the semantic versioning standard (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH).

- View the wiki: https://github.com/gangelo/dsu/wiki
by dathinab | 2025-10-15 14:35:08+00:00
> "they are all bad anyway" stances

I agree van der Leyen is a corrupt, lobby friendly politician with some strange ideas (in my opinion).

But she isn't "evil" or someone who would commit treason or anything like that.

She also isn't incompetent in the way a lot of media in German loves to paint here. Actually she even seem quite competent wrt. some of the core skills of politicians. This doesn't mean I don't think a lot of here decisions are supper misguided, but that is a clash of beliefs and ideals which is not the same as incompetence.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-10-15 14:35:17+00:00
personally I'm a little concerned about meeting alien life. If the universe is incredibly diverse with many different types of lifeform then how might an arbitrary one of those view us?

We proliferate incredibly quickly, we have limited care for our environments, but most importantly our primary means of sustinance is to consume other forms of life. To the point that we consider it an art form, we spend vast amounts of energy perfecting, discussing or advertising the means of cooking and eating the flesh of other life forms. To us its normal but surely to an alien who gains sustinance by some other means; we're absolutely terrifying. Akin to a devouring swarm.
by dbspin | 2025-10-15 14:35:18+00:00
I don't know... I agree that they're no longer innovative in terms of UI and original categories of devices. But the M1 chips have been enormously innovative in terms of performance per watt. One reason essentially every 'creative' (bar 3d designers) uses Macs is that unplugged they run as fast as plugged in. There's literally no PC laptop you can build or buy with integrated graphics powerful enough to compete - while on the move and away from power. Perhaps the new AMD Strix Halo devices will change this, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
by dagss | 2025-10-15 14:35:20+00:00
You say you should "never trust the client". Well trust has to be established somehow right, otherwise you simply cannot allow any actions at all (airgap).

Then, CSRF is preventing a class of attacks directed against a client you actually have decided to trust, in order to fool the client to do bad stuff.

All the things you say about auth: Already done, already checked. CSRF is the next step, protecting against clients you have decided to trust.

You could say that someone makes a CSRF attack that manages to change these headers of an unwitting client, but at that point absolutely all bets are off you can invent hypothetical attacks to all current CSRF protection mechanisms too. Which are all based on data the client sends.

(If HN comments cannot convince you why you are wrong I encourage you to take the thread to ChatGPT or similar as a neutral judge of sorts and ask it why you may be wrong here.)
by w-m | 2025-10-15 14:35:22+00:00
The A10X processor in my 2017 iPad Pro has always felt ridiculously overpowered for a couch machine. Recently it had gotten sluggish, hot, hung for times and lost battery quite quickly and I thought its time had finally come.. but no, after resetting the OS, it's as fast as ever. So hopefully it'll last me til Apple finally gives the iPad Air a 120Hz display.
by finghin | 2025-10-15 14:35:35+00:00
> [for] a large number of them money is a secondary need to their main problem.

This is true, but there is plenty of evidence in the disability sphere that it's more cost-effective to give people with disabilities money up front because they can spend it on their own needs better than government programmes.

Think of it like a business that wants to make sure WFH is comfortable for its employees. Many companies now just give a grant up front for monitors, chairs, etc.

If they don't do that they need someone to admin/spreadsheet what monitor is best value for the company, what chairs, and investigate perhaps all the accessibility needs that might need to become a matter of policy for the firm. Updates to employee contracts. List goes on. And at the end, people will still complain because they think the company chose the wrong chair for them.
by wqaatwt | 2025-10-15 14:35:47+00:00
I’m hypothetically a self employed Twitch streamer who has 0.5 viewers.

How is that different than being an “artist” whose art isn’t consumed by anyone willing to pay for it.

I kind of see the reasoning to some extent but then also e.g. “full time gardeners” if their yards are visible from the sidewalk should be paid.
by troyvit | 2025-10-15 14:36:02+00:00
> and Pages seems to be on the way out, leaving me with Workers Assets that are painful to migrate.

According to this community post CF isn't going to deprecate pages until workers achieve parity: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/static-web-site-in-worker...

That said I can't actually find a place where CF says pages are deprecated. pages.cloudflare.com seems all-in on it, as does developer.cloudflare.com/pages. I see a reddit post where somebody implies they're deprecating pages, but the page they link to [1] doesn't mention anything about pages going away.

That doesn't take away from the rest of what you're saying, it's just the part that made my heart skip a beat.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1mme85y/cloudflare_...
by markus_zhang | 2025-10-15 14:36:08+00:00
I have to admit, every time I looked into screenshots of earlier Macs, like the 68K and PPC ones, I felt I loved the UI and such. I even bought a PPC laptop (I think it's a maxed out iBook with 1.5GB of RAM) to tinker with PPC assembly.

But I could be wrong. Maybe the earlier Macs didn't have great software either -- but at least the UI is better.
by cutlilacs | 2025-10-15 14:36:18+00:00
Why are we assuming that the top of a hierarchy must dress better and eat better than everyone else? They could just be leaders who command everyone, but still an assumption of equality when it comes to good.

Also hierarchy doesn't mean that there is a single individual that's at the top. There could be a series of caste hierarchies, where groups of people were considered "better" than others.

We don't know if everyone from the tribe was in the common grave or a select group of people.

You're building a narrative based on your knowledge of other civilizations histories and understanding of modern day social structures, and assuming those traits must apply to this civilization. The truth is, we don't, and likely won't ever, know how their social hierarchy was built. Anything said is speculation. This isn't the case where you can be 80% confident something is true, more like 2% confident based on the discovered evidence.
by cudgy | 2025-10-15 14:36:58+00:00
Serious question. What should people retrain in? What jobs or training will provide long-term income potential? You don’t want to spend four years retraining for a job or career that only lasts for two years or seven years. My point is that let’s say a new technology comes out or new occupation. How long will it take for the AI and the robots to be able to perform that occupation? Can people train and actually work in that career before the robots take it over?

Is AI the proverbial apple in Adam and Eve? Are we justifying taking a bite of it just because it’s there? Are we helpless and unable to defend ourselves against it? My worry is that thoughts like these and questions like these are going through young people and their decisions about how to provide and proceed into a career. Are we headed towards learned helplessness?
by DanielHB | 2025-10-15 14:37:12+00:00
Yes, sorry I mis-explained the 16-year thing. I think one highlight of that is that the benefit shifts to being paid by the CSN (Sweden board of student finance, they are the ones who provide subsidized student loans as well) and it is tied to you being a student. So if you drop out of high school you stop getting this benefit.
by lunias | 2025-10-15 14:38:20+00:00
Preach. Architects need to get back to base principles, stop reading so many blog posts, start writing more code, and actually try things for themselves. Almost every system I work on is architecturally obese and while it "could scale" it has never and will realistically never need to. The first thing I'd do to claw back performance (and productivity) in most instances is make the system less distributed.
by abtinf | 2025-10-15 14:38:37+00:00
I’ve grown to depend on little snitch for this sort of thing. Always run in either Alert or Deny mode.

It is a little wild how many things expect to communicate with the internet, even if you tell them not to.

Example: the Cline plugin for vscode has an option to turn off telemetry, but even then it tries to talk to a server on every prompt, even when using local ollama.
by netsharc | 2025-10-15 14:38:48+00:00
I read somewhere that if all of online scamming was calculated as a country's production, it'd have the 3rd largest GDP in the world. Edit, link: https://sponsored.bloomberg.com/quicksight/check-point/the-w...

But then again, aren't there obviously scams, and scams that are deemed legal? Like promising a car today that will be updated "next year" to be able to drive itself? Or all the enshittified industry's dark patterns, preying on you to click the wrong button?
by cubefox | 2025-10-15 14:39:09+00:00
Desktop apps already survive standby, so CPU usage shouldn't be a problem. And if automatically killing Mac apps, to free up memory, isn't an option, they could add a permanent notification which says "Mac App XYZ still consumes a lot of memory, tap here to close." Or they move the offending Mac app from RAM to temporary SSD storage as long as the phone isn't plugged into a monitor.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-15 14:39:11+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'm not buying the whole "AI has no agency" line either; this might be true for now, but this is already being circumvented with current LLMs (by giving them web access etc).

As soon as profit can be made by transfering decision power into an AIs hand, some form of agency for them is just a matter of time, and we might simply not be willing to pull the plug until it is much too late.
by john-h-k | 2025-10-15 14:39:18+00:00
> generated nearly €80 million in total benefits to the Irish economy

Approximately 75% of the “benefits” is by the WELLBY framework, which considers each “wellbeing point” to be equivalent to €13,000 a year additional income. This could be a valid metric, but it feels a bit iffy, and without this evaluation it would be a significant cost to the Irish economy, so I do not think this UBI can be considered truly a positive return to the economy

[1] https://assets.gov.ie/static/documents/b87d2659/20250929_BIA... - goto ‘Results’
by hannesfur | 2025-10-15 14:39:21+00:00
> All the neural accelerators in the world won't make it competitive in speed with discrete GPUs that all have way more bandwidth.

That’s true for the on-GPU memory but I think there is some subtlety here. MoE models have slimmed the difference considerably in my opinion, because not all experts might fit into the GPU memory, but with a fast enough bus you can stream them into place when necessary.

But the key difference is the type of memory. While NVIDIA (Gaming) GPUs ship with HBM memory ship for a while now, the DGX Spark and the M4 use LPDDR5X which is the main source for their memory bottleneck. And unified memory chips with HBM memory are definitely possible (GH200, GB200), they are just less power efficient on low/idle load.

NVIDIA Grace sidestep: They actually use both HBM3e (GPU) and LPDDR5X (CPU) for that reason (load characteristics).

The moat of the memory makers is just so underrated…
by forgetfulness | 2025-10-15 14:39:46+00:00
That reminds me of the “paper clip maximizer” thought experiment about rogue AI fulfilling a particular goal, without being held to any consideration of human welfare

I thought it was a very novel idea at first, until I realized that this describes all manners of human groups, notably corporations and lobbying groups, they will turn the world into a stove, subvert democracy, (try to) disrupt the economic and social fiber of society, anything to eg maximize shareholder value
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-15 14:39:47+00:00
I'm always skeptical about these carbon neutral pledges because in practice it's a lot of administrative magic, like paying a company that says they will plant trees or whatever which will sign some official looking paper saying 'ye apple totaly compensated three morbillion tonnes of carbon emissions'.

And it's things like not including a charger, cable, headphones anymore to reduce package size, which sure, will save a little on emissions but it's moot because people will still need those things.
by mirekrusin | 2025-10-15 14:39:52+00:00
Being late in AI race or not entering it from training side is not necessarily bad, others have burned tons of money, if Apple enters with their hardware first (only?) it may disrupt status quo from consumer side. It's not impossible that they'll produce hardware everybody will want to run local models that will be on par with closed ones. If this happens it may change real money flow (as opposed to investor based on imaginary evaluation money that can evaporate).
by martinvonz | 2025-10-15 14:40:06+00:00
We don't have --committer-date-is-author-date. I don't think we've had a single request for it until now.

That flag seems a bit weird, though. Wouldn't you want to keep whatever the committer date already was? Why would you want to reset it to the author date? Of course, after you have passed the flag once, any subsequent uses will have the same effect as keeping the committer date, so maybe that's why it's good enough. Maybe it works the way it does for historical reasons (I happened to see that it used to be passed to `git am` back when `git rebase` was based on that).
by pabs3 | 2025-10-15 14:40:13+00:00
I see "... and permitting our official release signing keys" there, which means you are swapping Google Android for GrapheneOS Android, and you can't use bogwog Android if you wanted to.

There is a list of apps banning GrapheneOS keys here, including govt apps, ticket apps, and McDonalds for some reason:

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...
by azdle | 2025-10-15 14:40:14+00:00
Oh, interesting! Thanks for that link, I hadn't managed to come across that when I was looking for existing alternatives.

I'm not sure I would have actually started building this if I knew that was an option. Hopefully their existence is telling me "there's a market, go for it" and not "there's already a better alternative, don't do it", heh. Though their pricing tiers really tells me I need to optimize my sandboxing. I don't think I can match those request limits at those prices just from the CPU cost of my per-request sandboxing overhead.
by Sindisil | 2025-10-15 14:40:20+00:00
> They do affect the future population count and this will affect the pension of everyone. They also will result in persons not being born.

So does abstention.

By your logic, then, if sodomy and homosexuality were illegal, then adults of child bearing age would be legally required to have sex.

Likewise, those unable to participate in conception would be prohibited from having sex.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-10-15 14:40:33+00:00
>is it still really the only headset with twin 4K resolution

There are quite a few others, even some with near or at 4k res per eye released before the Apple product. Even just the Pimax 8k being the world's first dual native 4k headset early 2019.

The problem with alternative sets is, as always, a software/ecosystem one which for gaming Valve helped massively by getting everyone onto one platform (SteamVR). It's tough to do similar with Apple as they lock everything down for "security" with the added benefit of preventing competitors from creating competing products. They're happy to interoperate with Wifi and Bluetooth standards etc, though (before someone claims that doing what they want with their platform is Apple's choice - the same people who grin when MS got hammered for anti-competition with IE Windows bundling, something Apple regularly escapes).
by petsfed | 2025-10-15 14:40:36+00:00
A nit: There's a subtle distinction between an individual human and the power of human organization and civilization that is implied by the article, but never outright stated.

One-for-one, there are many creatures that are individually more dangerous to humans, and a decent number of people are killed by such animals every year. Indeed, a naked human in the wild is going to be quite fragile and easy to kill until they can bring some technology to bear. But there are no animals or even set of animals that could conceivably wipe out all of humanity at any of our technological peaks from the last 100,000 years. Even the number one killer of humans, the mosquito, is gradually being defeated, going from a vector for disease to just an annoyance, just like the flea.