MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vertnerd | 2025-10-03 10:57:12+00:00
I am convinced that someday, device manufacturers will realize that complicated, small touchscreen UIs are a horrible idea. They're even worse for seniors, because our fingers are losing dexterity, may be slightly swollen and stiff, and are prone to tremors. So, at a point in our lives when merely holding the phone can be a challenge, navigating some ambiguous UI while our fingers are obscuring the very thing we're trying to use is insanity.

But Apple is the worst because of its Apple ID requirement. I tried to resurrect an old iPhone of mine only to get stuck in a week-long perpetual ID recovery loop with Apple. Enter the new password wrong too many times, and you have to wait another week to try again. Want to create a new Apple ID? Nope. No duplicate IDs attached to the same phone number. I finally just recycled the phone. I'm old. I don't have time to waste on an iPhone.
by metalman | 2025-10-03 10:57:27+00:00
I have known a lot of smart critters, but to stay on topic, there was Lefty, a very large mackenzie husky who belonged ,heart and soul,to my girlfriend, and lived in terror of bumping into things and/or clearing off a table if he should wag his tail, lefty and I were strangers, except when in or near the water, and he would swim and dive with me, and on one particular day he began wading out into a small river and picking up rocks from the bottom and carrying the ashore, which he placed in two disticnct compact piles, one for large rocks, the size of his head, and another pile 20' away for small rocks he could hold completly in his mouth, the is whole procedure was spontainious, and went on for over an hour till he had two good sized neat piles, one of only large rocks carried precariously, and the other of small rocks gotten somewhat easier, but still his head was under water while getting all of them. There was another large dog in the household and we had a strict no leash, no tied dogs, no collar policy and for the most part they ate what we ate, and were generaly on there own recognisence, and so on the occasion of lefty's rock piling project, it was given due respect and we waited till he was done and he never did it again, and didn't have toys, or balls,play stick, or anything else, and was otherwise giant,reserved,quiet,except near water or in large open spaces around water.
by soapdog | 2025-10-03 10:58:07+00:00
It all depends on what you been exposed to in the past, right? I find Lua simple because it is a minimalist language in which there are very few things to learn. You can buy "Programming in Lua" for the version you want to use and with a single book you learn about basically all of the language and its internals. That is not the same with some other languages.
by card_zero | 2025-10-03 10:58:21+00:00
I think it's the same kind of idea, because it shuts down any duty to worry about whether you are right. You get to be a dogmatist, since dogmatists die eventually.

The second sentence deserves some response, but I don't know what to make of it. Mistakes are good, surely? More mistakes faster. Well, I suppose you mean something like life-ruining mistakes, but in the first place I'm not sure there really can be any - unless you have a low threshold for "ruined" - and in the second place, immortality gives you endless hope of staging a comeback.
by tpm | 2025-10-03 10:58:27+00:00
> which is artificially tying our energy price to gaz thanks to the shortsightedness of our neighboors.

There were plenty of opportunities to reform the price-setting mechanism of EU energy market, wonder why that never happened. There are several - frankly probably most - countries that are unhappy about it. I don't really understand why nobody makes it a top priority agenda.

> Devaluation would solve the issue of the population being politicaly unready to lower its standard of living to lower labour costs on top of helping with the debt burden.

Ah yes, make people poor in addition to making the state poor. How could that go wrong.
by Flundstrom2 | 2025-10-03 10:59:03+00:00
Three truths:

Most people at healthy sceptical of Ai quality and accuracy.

You don't want to pay your employees taking courses where they learn falsehoods or pure bad practices. Combine that with the above truth, and you're up for a big uphill in getting sales.

If you can't sell your product or service at a cost less than the €100-200 (usually the highest amount the lowest level manager can approve), you need to add a zero to compensate for the increaseing cost of obtaining a customer due to the overhead of getting the next level manager's approval. Since you did old fashioned courses for the military industry, you never had that level appear as a Blocker, since they are used to pay.

I can't offer advice, especially since the edu market is really saturated with very varying quality.
by SkiFire13 | 2025-10-03 11:00:15+00:00
Source? Not even your quoted Grok output is claiming that Apple removed the apps, just that the senators asked them to.

At least one source I found says that "Apple and Google did not give in" https://reason.com/2011/05/23/no-app-for-that/

I don't think a situation like this is impossible, quite the opposite, but let's try to not invent facts please.
by wjnc | 2025-10-03 11:00:38+00:00
This post is downvoted but intruiging to me. Because a large part of this thread is people explaining what their pet can do, has learned, has been willing to learn. The thing that came to my mind is that we are interpreting the dogs behaviour, but that the dogs are interpreting our behaviour as well. We like to play with dogs, but the dog has separate preferences as well. Some dogs not only can classify, but also have their humans act differently according to their preferences. And that is exactly the Uplift angle! Who uplifts whom?
by soapdog | 2025-10-03 11:00:42+00:00
I wrote about this in:

https://andregarzia.com/2021/01/lua-a-misunderstood-language...

I like 1 based indexes and the globals don't hurt me on my projects. It is like JS, it has its own bits that are different than other languages, once you learn them you see that it is mostly fine.
by int_19h | 2025-10-03 11:01:12+00:00
ᵹ has a clear line of development back to capital "G": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_script#/media/File:Evo...

And AFAIK Georgian alphabet predates Insular script by a few centuries.

It's not uncommon for otherwise unrelated alphabets to come with similar symbols simply because the trend over time is towards simplification of letter shapes, and there are only so many basic elements. So even originally quite different characters can end up looking very similar when reduced to a few squiggles.
by ezst | 2025-10-03 11:02:30+00:00
> For many of them, each branch has taken of its own life and could be considered its own completely different codebase.

Seems you have bigger process issues to tackle. There's nothing inherently wrong with having per-env branches (if one thing, it's made harder by git being so terrible at branching in the general/long lived case, but the VCS cannot alone be blamed for developers consistently pushing to inadequate branches).
by soapdog | 2025-10-03 11:03:24+00:00
I am extremelly biased against LLMs so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I opted to run a CGI script instead of spinning my own webserver cause webservers are tricky. I'd rather run something like nginx or caddy. I like nodejs (my preferred JS engine will always be Mozilla's and for the terminal I been favouring Bun) but part of using Lua on my own blog is cause of JS fatigue. I'm exhausted with the JS workflow these days.
by joenot443 | 2025-10-03 11:03:31+00:00
> Why does Apple want to feel so frickin special and require a working iPhone for 2FA and passkeys, instead of adopting standards?

Ever since the Great iCloud Hack of 2014, Apple dialed up their end user auth to the max. [1]

It was after that hack when bad actors from around the world realized getting into someone's Apple account could be as lucrative (or more) than their bank or email, and so here we are today.

I'm not sure what else Apple can do here. People have made it a habit to store their most sensitive and private secrets in iCloud, stuff which can't be refunded or bought back. I think having such an annoying, stringent, and walled-in auth system is probably the only way Apple PMs are able to move past the disaster of 2014.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/tim-cook-says-apple-to-add-secu...
by alroma90 | 2025-10-03 11:03:40+00:00
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by WhereIsTheTruth | 2025-10-03 11:04:26+00:00
Death holds profound significance, it acts as a mental reset

Accumulating traumas across an eternity would harm society

And I think it's unfair to reserve that for the wealthy, if anything, eugenics should determine who gains access, only the most genetically advantaged should be allowed, in an effort to protect and strengthen humankind

But I don't think our society is ready to have this discussion, hence why, aging and death should not be frowned upon
by ozzyjones | 2025-10-03 11:04:36+00:00
I figured then they would need to change in the song too right? But it would be great to do so... reckon it's possible to change the words in the song to match the user's name for example (in an automated way)?

My first idea was that you could literally just have a chat with my computer and i'd give it certain basic personality traits which you could interact with, maybe a v2? Wouldn't know where to start though... but nor did I with this version so, luckily I have my good friend cursor to potentially help me on that next journey.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-10-03 11:04:45+00:00
Immich has documentation here: https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/

All relevant files are stored in your UPLOAD_LOCATION which you defined in your .env file (if you deployed immich via Docker Compose). The files you absolutely need to back up are in:

- UPLOAD_LOCATION/upload ← Contains your images

- UPLOAD_LOCATION/backups ← Contains your postgres dumps

You should also back up these two directories:

- UPLOAD_LOCATION/library

- UPLOAD_LOCATION/profile

They're not strictly necessary, but it makes it easier to restore the same setup.
by quantumcotton | 2025-10-03 11:05:39+00:00
But is it the profound autism or is there something else? I think we actually need to define the term a little differently for mental retardation and bring it back. Is he profoundly autistic with an average IQ? Or is he profoundly autistic and essentially incapable of communication? It's not the autism that's the problem. He might also be autistic but a lot of people started labeling retardation as autism. Which really tainted the term autistic for normal people. So I do actually agree with the shift. Not that they should take anything away from the profoundly autistic. They should offer them more. But there should be a program for that type of person. Assisting them greater than the autistic programs. Autistic help should be more about understanding the internal issues we face on a daily basis and how to deal with them. How does that help someone who can't communicate? The help he needs is probably different and more extreme than what an autistic person needs.

It's like saying I can't run. My arm hurts. Then you say. What do you mean? You're a quadriplegic!! He's like oh yea that too but I can feel a tingle in my arm. Treating the arm isn't fixing the problem lol. If that person was an advocate for treating tingles in their arm. You would think it's kind of silly because if they were to treat that. It doesn't really help the quadriplegic part. But he keeps saying it will. It's not that I don't believe he has a problem with his arm. I'm sure he does. But the problem on why he can't run isn't that.
by soapdog | 2025-10-03 11:05:39+00:00
I love JS, don't get me wrong, I absolutelly love Javascript. But I love the JS that the browser runs and understands. I hate the current ecosystem of bundlers, transpilers, typescript, npm modules and so on.

Yes, I could have picked a js runtime and done the same thing. The same thing could also have been done with literally any other language.

It is less of a "Only Lua Can Do This" situation and more of a "I Like Working with Lua" situation.
by mdhb | 2025-10-03 11:06:07+00:00
You’ve just completely made up something here to presumably make yourself feel smart? Literally tens of thousands of words have been published on this topic. Asking someone to read them isn’t some unreasonable request.

What is unreasonable is turning up in a discussion and saying either none of that pre-existing material counts for nothing or that I shouldn’t have to do any work here and instead you should “debate me bro”.
by its-kostya | 2025-10-03 11:06:57+00:00
> They don’t need passcodes, accounts, and a sea of information.

I would go further and make they case the don't need all the smart features either and all they need is to make calls and that an iPhone, or any touch phone, isn't the right tool for the job. One might argue "well I want to face time and send them pictures" or whatever. Print them favorite pictures. A missing product is a video calling devices, similar to a dumb phone, that all it does is take and receive video calls. But the issue you'll run into is Apple's closed protocols or having to support a slew of other applications, like Signal or WhatsApp.

Having elderly relatives in other countries, I've resorted to making a touchless video phone with a raspberry pi, a big screen, speakers, a mic and a camera. I made a similar one for all relatives that want to talk as well. The "dialer" is just buttons that connect to other relatives directly. The software on them connects through a server I set up. I spent near 1 grand, or a price of a modern iphone, and managed to get 4 households connected.
Show HN: Jsmn_Zig – Memory-Efficient JSON Tokenizer for Zig
by potom | 2025-10-03 11:07:25+00:00
Hello Zig community!

I’ve created jsmn_zig - a Zig port of the minimal JSMN JSON parser with significant improvements:

Key Features:

Hybrid memory: stack for small JSON, heap for large (auto-switch)

Compact tokens: 4 bytes vs 20+ in standard tokens (80% memory savings) Zero-copy streaming with proper state management

SIMD-ready optimizations for x86/ARM Comptime-configurable for embedded use

Perfect for:

Embedded systems where every byte matters

High-performance servers needing low-latency parsing

Network protocol implementations Configuration file parsing

GitHub: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/jsmn_zig
by int_19h | 2025-10-03 11:08:16+00:00
That is indeed a problem with English, but even then it is possible to come up with a morpho-somewhat-phonemic spelling that would be far more consistent than modern English - because the bar set by the standard orthography is really that low.

And OTOH even modern English spelling often doesn't distinguish differences that are there in most dialects (e.g. "bear" vs "near"), so this isn't even a new problem. Realistically I suspect there's some "minimal reasonable set" of phonemes that need to be distinguished to reflect the most prominently distinct pairs in all major dialects, even if some subtle dialectal distinctions might not be reflected in spelling.
by giordafrancis | 2025-10-03 11:08:41+00:00
Upfront : As a member of the first student cohort and a non-user of Hacker News this is my opinion. I've relied on this tool consistently over the past year. While it's not the only AI I use, it's the only one that provides a comfortable and effective workflow. The core strengt, for me, lies on my agency. I control the decision-making and discuss the implementation steps. while I may generate fewer lines of code than my peers, the work is solid, well-explained, and easily iterable. Also I knwo the code i just wrote, the ability to articulate the function of every line of code is a crucial benefit that I deeply value. It it's the sweet spot for me and i fell more productive.
by modderation | 2025-10-03 11:08:57+00:00
Ceph storage uses a hierarchical consistent hashing scheme called "CRUSH" to handle hierarchical data placement and replication across failure domains. Given an object ID, its location can be calculated, and the expected service queried.

As a side effect, it's possible to define a logical topology that reflects the physical layout, spreading data across hosts, racks, or by other arbitrary criteria. Things are exactly where you expect them to be, and there's very little searching involved. Combined with a consistent view of the cluster state, this avoids the need for centralized lookups.

The original paper is a surprisingly short read: https://ceph.com/assets/pdfs/weil-crush-sc06.pdf DOI: 10.1109/SC.2006.19
by justAnotherHero | 2025-10-03 11:09:19+00:00
The endgame is to become the ultimate source of truth regarding the quality of a sports game.

Dreaming big with hopes of becoming a household name similar to imdb or letterboxd.

Looking at your site I think you would like to hear that when rating games you can mark a game as 'attended', 'watched' or other categories to show others how you experienced the game or just for your own personal log.

Other than that we are light on classic sports stats and our stats are more focused on the user ratings of the games rather than the game stats.
by acjohnson55 | 2025-10-03 11:09:26+00:00
Often times, educational programs are put in place without rigorous study, based on opinion. And the program design space is so large that it is hard to have a clear conclusion on an entire concept, like early gifted and talented programs.

My perspective is that the mos important thing in the early grades are that kids are engaged and not being held back. But there are many ways to address this.
Show HN: Mention.click – a tool for searches relevant Reddit discussions
by lenvl | 2025-10-03 11:09:38+00:00
I built mention.click to help founders and marketers find real business leads, feedback, and opportunities by uncovering the right discussions on Reddit, without the hassle of keyword research.

Backstory I was trying to prove ideas and products, I didn't like existing tools like ReplyGuy, Gummy search, while being cool, didn't work for me. I needed a specialized solution to find conversations where I could speak about my project, driven by AI (Not really) just filtering out extra noise.

How it works

You give a link to the website.

mention.click uses AI to extract keywords and context. It then searches for relevant threads and conversations across Reddit.

The platform tracks new posts, comments, and leads based on true relevance, not just the number of mentions.

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We focus on real conversation fit, not just "mentions" or analytics dashboards.

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We offer multiple plans (Demo, Indie, Pro), which include team sharing and multi-user options.

Give it a try → https://mention.click Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/mention-click

I’m looking for feedback on:

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Any suggestions regarding privacy, user experience, or coverage.

Ideas for expanding to other platforms beyond Reddit.

Feel free to ask any tech or product questions—thank you!
by plaidfuji | 2025-10-03 11:09:40+00:00
I’m also curious about your last question. Cost of goods sold would not fall into R&D or sales as far as I know.

So curious, in fact, that I asked Gemini to reconstruct their income statement from the info in this article :)

There seems to be an assumption that the 20% payment to MS is the cost of compute for inference. I would bet that’s at a significant discount - but who knows how much…

Line Item | Amount (USD) | Calculation / Note

Revenue $4.3 Billion Given.

Cost of Revenue (COGS) ($0.86 Billion) Assumed to be the 20% of revenue paid to Microsoft ($4.3B * 0.20) for compute/cloud services to run inference.

Gross Profit $3.44 Billion Revenue - Cost of Revenue. This 80% gross margin is strong, typical of a software-like business.

Operating Expenses

Research & Development ($6.7 Billion) Given. This is the largest expense, focused on training new models.

Sales & Ads ($2.0 Billion) Given. Reflects an aggressive push for customer acquisition.

Stock-Based Compensation ($2.5 Billion) Given. A non-cash expense for employee equity.

General & Administrative ($0.04 Billion) Implied figure to balance the reported operating loss.

Total Operating Expenses ($11.24 Billion) Sum of all operating expenses.

Operating Loss ($7.8 Billion) Confirmed. Gross Profit - Total Operating Expenses.

Other (Non-Operating) Income / Expenses ($5.7 Billion) Calculated as Net Loss - Operating Loss. This is primarily the non-cash loss from the "remeasurement of convertible interest rights."

Net Loss ($13.5 Billion) Given. The final "bottom line" loss.
by corimaith | 2025-10-03 11:09:47+00:00
>America's voting demographic for the next 40 years has begun to see Israel as a genocidal terrorist state. They will be voting for the next 50 years, while the boomer evangelicals die off.

The pro-palestine progressives are rapidly loosing political power, if not being targeted right now by the Trumpian administration. The National Conservatives may be isolationist regarding free funding, but they certainly aren't going to sanctioning Israel or ending arms sales, while Pro-Palestine is pretty much a useful proxy as is for them to signify "un-americans".

Furthermore, the sanctions on South Africa occurred within the context of the Liberal International Era where one could afford to alienate a state in a region with little importance. But it's posters like you that have been calling for the so-called multipolar world, which is where NGOs and Human Rights will be sidelined in favour of a Westphalian-Type Sovereignity whereby hard interests decide foreign policy, not human rights concerns. In that Realist context, it is virtually within complete interests for the Gulf States and other actors to align with Israel over Iran, the former which has proven itself militairly and acts accordingly to economic interest, whereas the latter is bordering on a failed state still motivated by irrational hegemonic concerns. In the same context, a Palestinian states that takes over Israel basically will likely be detrimental to the other actors.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 11:10:20+00:00
> Not sure this is defined the same way

It's not.

According to the IPC, "acute malnutrition is a form of malnutrition that occurs when an individual suffers from current, severe nutritional restrictions, a recent bout of illness, inappropriate childcare practices or, more often, a combination of these factors. It is characterised by extreme weight loss, resulting in low weight for height, and/or bilateral oedema, and, in its severe form, can lead to death." [1].

Your chart measures undernourishment, which the FAO defines relative to "how many calories [one] need[s] to maintain a healthy life" [2].

[1] https://www.nutritioncluster.net/sites/nutritioncluster.com/...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/undernourishment-definition