MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-31 18:43:03+00:00
I had the OG iPod Touch, which had the same software (minus the phone, camera, and GPS parts).

It did web browsing very well.

And it came with Maps (which, at that time, used Google's data).

It was initially amusing back then when the world was commonly filled with wide-open 802.11 networks to pull out that little pocket computer, connect to a nearby network (if it hadn't already connected to "Linksys"), and browse an online map -- from about anywhere with a building nearby.

Wifi-based geolocation was also spooky-good at that time.

Anyway, it didn't do much else that I found useful. It was generally lacking features that I'd been using for years with a Handspring Visor (which itself ran on a pair of alkaline batteries for months).

Early IOS didn't even have a clipboard to cut and paste with.

So I jailbroke it. I added multitasking, an app "store," a clipboard and a bunch of other fun stuff long before Apple allowed those functions.

I think I even had a good bit of the Debian userland installed at one point.

After that, I used it all the time for stuff (until the OG Motorola Droid replaced it in 2009, which was easy as pie to root: just dump a special su on there and run it).
by accrual | 2025-10-31 18:44:02+00:00
To me, the wild part is the Vision Pro has the hardware to be something people could potentially use daily, especially with the new M4 update. Someone might prefer working in a virtual space rather than on a physical display depending on their situation.

But it seems high cost, the walled garden, and inability to compute directly on the headset limits its appeal. It needs a Mac tethered to it despite its powerful SoC.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-31 18:44:13+00:00
I never liked the word "debate" in that, in one sense, a debate is a competitive sport practiced in academic settings. You get assigned a position which you may or may not agree and you "win" or "lose" based on what a third party thinks about your performance. It's not about resolving disagreements.

Last time I was in that kind of debate my partner was up in Syracuse supporting a friend who'd gotten stabbed when he tried to break up a fight. I ended up presenting his argument with his slides along with my own -- it was easy because we'd prepared together and attended a great lecture on the topic together. My actual position, as opposed to my assigned position, was that we were arguing about an artificial dichotomy.

See also

https://depts.washington.edu/fammed/wp-content/uploads/2018/...
by klipklop | 2025-10-31 18:44:47+00:00
We are already pretty much there. Only probably a few percent can buy homes now in areas that have good job markets. The SF bay is firmly a 1%'er area now to buy a single family home. You need to now have two L5 incomes or so to even consider it...and somehow make that wage for 30 years... Yeah, no.
by consumer451 | 2025-10-31 18:45:15+00:00
EU federalism would solve this issue, and likely cause others.

The concept of European federalism is extremely interesting to me. The first I heard about it was at a house party in Prague, from a group of very excited young people. It feels both impossible and inevitable.

Here is a subreddit on the topic: https://old.reddit.com/r/EuropeanFederalists/
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-31 18:45:27+00:00
Exactly. I think the difference is that we've developed a cadre of people are think 24x7 about capturing value in a way that makes dotcom era moguls look naive.

AI is a powerful and compelling technology, full stop. The sausage making process where the entire financial economy is pivoting around it is a different matter, and can only end in disaster.
by W0WL0LXD | 2025-10-31 18:46:03+00:00
not a Cursor employee but still a researcher, it’s Zhipu/Z.ai GLM-4.6/4.5. there’s traces of Chinese in the reasoning output + its the only model that would make sense to do this with RL, and is a model that already delivers near SOTA performance + is open-source/open-weight.

Cursor Composer and Windsurf SWE 1.5 are both finetuned versions of GLM.
by westurner | 2025-10-31 18:46:11+00:00
"Gentoo x86-64-v3 binary packages available" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39255458

"Changes/Optimized Binaries for the AMD64 Architecture v2" (2025) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Optimized_Binaries_fo... :

> Note that other distributions use higher microarchitecture levels. For example RHEL 9 uses x86-64-v2 as the baseline, RHEL 10 uses x86-64-v3, and other distros provide optimized variants (OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, Ubuntu).
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-31 18:46:24+00:00
> The advisory, which was issued by the Air Traffic Control System Command Center, said “users can expect a period of time later in the evening when no arrivals will be able to land as there will be no certified air traffic controllers available (Thursday night) at MCO.

This seems a bit more serious than the hourlong LAX and JFK ground stops. I imagine it won't be long before Congress has to start making some hard decisions. If you can call subsidizing healthcare and/or permitting the release of sex trafficking documents a hard decision.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-31 18:46:28+00:00
> "Music has been purchaseable now without DRM for quite a while. Why has music piracy essentially died but movies/TV shows/etc is still as hot as ever?"

If music piracy hadn't essentially died, how would you know?

You can go to several different streaming services right now and listen to the music of your choice. They'll send you the file and you pinky-swear that you aren't saving a local copy. But if you do save a local copy, that will look identical to you not saving one.

So we have several things going on:

1. You can purchase DRM-free mp3s from major vendors;

2. You can stream the music in a notionally non-lasting way, also from major vendors, for free;

3. If you pirate music directly from the major streaming platforms, that doesn't show up in the piracy statistics.

I suggest that points (2) and (3) are more significant than point (1). Point (2) depresses piracy because the benefit of having a copy of your music is lower when you can use someone else's copy for free whenever you want. Point (3) artifactually depresses piracy by not counting it when it happens.

Point (1)... doesn't do much to depress piracy.
by erikig | 2025-10-31 18:46:29+00:00
Hardware: MacBook Pro M4 Max, 128GB

Platform: LMStudio (primarily) & Ollama

Models:

- qwen/qwen3-coder-30b A3B Instruct 8-bit MLX

- mlx-community/gpt-oss-120b-MXFP4-Q8

For code generation especially for larger projects, these models aren't as good as the cutting edge foundation models. For summarizing local git repos/libraries, generating documentation and simple offline command-line tool-use they do a good job.

I find these communities quite vibrant and helpful too:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
by dlubarov | 2025-10-31 18:46:34+00:00
> You are doing so by fraudulently stealing/embezzling money from your employer

In this scenario Amazon is contractually obligated to pay Israel (unless they determine that they can't legally). If this employee is dutifully fulfilling that obligation in compliance with any relevant company approval process or other policies, then it's certainly not theft or embezzlement.

You seem to be adding a twist of "what if this is some random employee, not the one authorized to make the payments"? In that case sure, they might be defrauding their employer, but that has very little to do with the contract that this story was about.

It's like saying "what if instead of making the authorized payment to Israel, they keep the cash for themselves, then steal some monitors and assault some colleagues"? We've come up with a hypothetical where crimes are committed, yes, but it's hard to see how Israel would be to blame or would even be relevant.
by gregmac | 2025-10-31 18:46:37+00:00
When I first saw the iPhone I remember thinking how silly it was that a device calling itself a "phone" only had the phone function as of many apps. Other phones had internet and other features, sure, but their "home" screen, so to speak, was a phone UI. You had to hit "Menu" or something else to see the other apps, which were clearly secondary to the primary phone function.

The iPhone felt more like a general portable computing device that happened to also function as a phone.

Even the Blackberry up to that point still felt more like an "email/phone device" primarily (though funny enough, I never had a Blackberry myself until after the iPhone came out).

The irony now, and I suspect many people are like this, is my "phone" is barely ever used as an actual phone. It's a computer with a data plan. I am way more likely to use some kind of internet-based voice/video chat than make or take a phone call.

My phone icon is still on my home screen, but only because it is something I want to be able to get at quickly in an emergency. I'm certain it's the least-used icon on the screen, though.
by danielbln | 2025-10-31 18:46:55+00:00
I upgraded from M4 to M5 MBP because I broke my M4's screen and so my company ordered a replacement M5 while the M4 is being repaired. I can't really notice a difference at all. It's an absolute work horse, but so was the M4. I _did_ spring for the nano texture display this time around, and that is definitely nice (but nothing to do with the M5)
by pverheggen | 2025-10-31 18:47:08+00:00
> Yes, but often you have elements with taborder > 0.

You can just as easily apply the same tabindex to a div though.

> Only if document order is sane. Usually with modern websites it isn't...

Well that's the real problem, all your non-interactive content (like text) is going to be out of order too. You're just adding to the confusion if buttons and other inputs are in a different order from the content they're associated with.

> Otherwise, he will pointlessly tab through search, menus, cookie bars and a ton of other pointless stuff first.

The proper way of dealing with this is a "Skip to Main Content" element:

https://webaim.org/techniques/skipnav/
Show HN: Cursor for files like word, ppt, CSV using existing CLIs(codex, Claude)
by vysakh0 | 2025-10-31 18:47:15+00:00
This is a free, no signup desktop app that uses the clis like claude code, codex, gemini that are there in your system. It is less than 25mb for mac, linux, windows. Reason to start this: I had seen plenty of youtube videos where there "Cursor for marketers" or twitter threads on how to use claude code for managers or non-technical people in general. So I set out to make an editor that is preview first and that supports pptx, docx, csv, xlsx, markdown -- view, edit, and also interact with AI. And pdf, image, video with preview support. I wanted this to be one place for managers or people who work with multiple different file types. This is just the first alpha version of the product. Hope to get some feedback and thoughts so I could improve the product.
by pksebben | 2025-10-31 18:47:47+00:00
It's about time I started using a dotfile manager that I didn't make entirely myself - thanks for the recommendation.

For more and more of the cross-platform headaches, I've actually found myself treating the OS as more of a virtual host, and spending the plurality of my time configuring layers that run in it (modify .zshrc where it can do the work of iterm/wezterm, if it can be done in .emacs then do it there).

I get the feeling that I'm not far off shipping personal nix containers around, but there's still a little too much friction between having containers work and working on the OS itself.
by angiolillo | 2025-10-31 18:48:16+00:00
> People who can barely read and are scared by anything advanced will get the interface they can use best the first time they open the app

It's certainly possible they can't read. But more likely they're perfectly intelligent and simply don't appreciate being forced to deal with unnecessary complexity to complete a simple task.

(Someone else's comment reminded me of the CHI video of Allen Newell and Ron Kaplan, two brilliant AI pioneers, struggling with a poorly-designed copy machine https://athinkingperson.com/2010/06/02/where-the-big-green-c...)
by ryandrake | 2025-10-31 18:48:40+00:00
Practically, though, the UX in that demo was terrible. The frame rate was entirely insufficient. The latency between tapping and action taking place was too long. The idea was absolutely great and way ahead of its time, but it was also way ahead of the hardware's capabilities.

We saw a lot of great ideas in the 90s, but either the hardware performance wasn't ready, or the software effort fell short of the polish needed for mass adoption. We had to wait for the iPhone to be one of those rare products where they used capable hardware AND actually finished the software.
by SmartHypercube | 2025-10-31 18:49:04+00:00
I got bitten by this: user agent stylesheet contains "button {align-items: flex-start}" (at least in Chrome). The default behavior is "stretch". Spent an hour debugging why my flexboxs' sizes are wrong. I still want to use correct HTML elements as much as possible, but I do think using <div>s everywhere makes my small side projects so much easier, since I don't have to remember all the non-default behaviors.
by accrual | 2025-10-31 18:49:14+00:00
> My ideal MacBook would probably be a MacBook Air, but with the nano-texture display! :)

I agree on the nano-texture display having used one in person for a little bit. It's sort of like an ultra fine matte texture that isn't noticable while using it, but is noticable compared to other devices in the same room. I hope it becomes a more standard option on future devices.

That said, I've used Thinkpads with matte displays and while not as fine, they mostly have the same benefit.
by krapp | 2025-10-31 18:50:32+00:00
>As a British man myself and interested in Ancient Egyptian mythology, I would be just as much heartbroken of ancient items being destroyed. You don't have to be an Egyptian who's lineage traces back to this historical times.

That's none of Britain's concern. How would you feel if Americans showed up and started breaking the angels off of Westminster Abbey or carting off Stonehenge because they didn't trust you to keep them SAFE? You'd probably riot.

The belief that you're entitled to another culture's knowledge and artifacts is colonialist thinking. They have the right to destroy their own culture if they want, you only have the right to ask and negotiate with them as peers. What Britain did in many cases wrt these artifacts was clearly theft.

And Europeans stripped the Colosseum for parts and the Church destroyed the artifacts of European pagan culture. You people really have no moral high ground to stand on.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-10-31 18:50:34+00:00
The core store layer is quite small, and I am trying to thoroughly document it, with all 3 of:

- a more "academic" spec of what it does

- nuts-and-bolts JSON schema for many data types

- JSON golden tests instead of C++ literals in the unit tests as often as possible.

I hope this will make additional store layer easy to churn out.

(The "hash derivation modulo" that is so fiddly described in this blog post can be dropped in a world where we no longer have input addressing, and just have content-addressing. Or, in a world where we have a new, simpler type of input-addressing instead.)
by efsavage | 2025-10-31 18:51:05+00:00
Early in my career (which started in civil engineering) I was working with a man at the very end of his, which started in the 1950s. I was the young tech-focused intern who found a way to use a computer for everything even when printed and sometimes hand-drawn plans were the standard of the day. He asked me once if I knew how to use a slide rule, which I didn't.

"Well, what do you do when the power goes out?", he asked.

"I go home, just like you would.", I said with a smile.

He paused for a moment and nodded, "you know, you're absolutely right".
by jcelerier | 2025-10-31 18:51:14+00:00
> They could have done instead with a simple window which said “Drop File Here”, and if it’s an HEIC, convert to JPEG

But then you have to remember the names of 200 distinct software that all do this one thing, so you make a meta-software to manage and organize them, and you're back to square one only with more indirection
by cassepipe | 2025-10-31 18:51:26+00:00
Maintaining an empire has a cost and History has taught that isolationism is not kind to empires. You want to deal with problems before they arise not when you can't ignore them anymore. That was the lesson WWII taught the US and that it has now forgotten. Basically great power, great responsibility.

You will regret that n% tax rebate when you children have to go fight overseas.

It seems unfair that the US had both a great political foundation and the best geography and sometimes I feel like the US is too big too fail but you people sure are trying to test how robust the whole thing is.

(I know the US is not exactly an empire but an alliance system where it has the dominant role but please don't interrupt during the class)
by ryandrake | 2025-10-31 18:52:06+00:00
Hardware companies treat software as if it were just another line item on the BOM: Like a screw or gasket. Just source this "software thing" from the cheapest bidder, and spoon it into the product on the assembly line somewhere towards the end. That's all hardware companies see. They don't see a software as an ecosystem, as an enabler, as a future way to deliver more and more value. It's just a costly part number that you assemble onto the product.
by westurner | 2025-10-31 18:52:23+00:00
There are pydantic schemas for all of the Schema.org Linked Data RDFS vocabulary; that could also work in Rust: https://github.com/lexiq-legal/pydantic_schemaorg

A PR to add support for pydantic v2: https://github.com/lexiq-legal/pydantic_schemaorg/pull/14/fi...
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-31 18:52:30+00:00
Kind of weird that nobody's talking about getting rid of the hardware? An ESP32 that streams compressed audio over a mobile connection is all you should need to replace the "smarts" in a cellphone. Have a remote server do it all, and the local device is just a glorified mic and earbud. Give me a clickwheel and an audible user interface and I can do 90% of what I use a computer for.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-10-31 18:52:35+00:00
But to change these things within the past 7 or 8 months would have been impossible. I get what you guys are saying but there's so much of this stuff that is very entrenched and there's decades of inertia to push against, it can't just happen overnight. The story isn't that no one uses American services anymore, it's that fewer and fewer of us feel comfortable doing so and are open to or actively seeking alternatives in a way we never expected to be.
by Lio | 2025-10-31 18:52:41+00:00
> Belgian Techno > UK Acid House is not a natural progression

I had to laugh at the idea of Technotronic being a big influence, that just makes me think of Philomena Cunk.

However, (off the top of my head) LFO, Orbital and Luke Slater have all listed Belgian EBM acts like Front 242 as inspiration.

Front 242 list Kraftwerk as an inflence so there is a lineage.
by 10000truths | 2025-10-31 18:52:48+00:00
This only applies in perfectly elastic systems, where the bodies can convert kinetic energy to potential energy and back with perfect restitution. Which, thanks to the second law of thermodynamics, doesn't exist in reality. It's only a question of how much energy is lost. (Unless, of course, you include the medium into which the energy dissipates as heat into the system itself. But such a model is not useful in almost all practical scenarios.)
by pdabbadabba | 2025-10-31 18:52:50+00:00
Probably so. I imagine the U.K. has laws that make such artifacts the formal property of the state. Was this true for 19th century Egypt?

I think it was true, on some level, at the time the bust of Nefertiti was taken in the 1920s. Supposedly, the Germans nominally followed some sort of legal process for removing the artifact -- though perhaps with less-than-full transparency.

Perhaps there are other reasons to claim that Egyptian artifacts were 'stolen.' But I'm trying to have a conversation about what those might be since the subject is not as obvious to me as others seem to think it is.
by Calavar | 2025-10-31 18:53:57+00:00
I agree. It always surprises me when people are indignant about scrapers ignoring robots.txt and throw around words like "theft" and "abuse."

robots.txt is a polite request to please not scrape these pages because it's probably not going to be productive. It was never meant to be a binding agreement, otherwise there would be a stricter protocol around it.

It's kind of like leaving a note for the deliveryman saying please don't leave packages on the porch. It's fine for low stakes situations, but if package security is of utmost importance to you, you should arrange to get it certified or to pick it up at the delivery center. Likewise if enforcing a rule of no scraping is of utmost importance you need to require an API token or some other form of authentication before you serve the pages.
by JohnMakin | 2025-10-31 18:54:37+00:00
People are already scared - being rounded up (or threatened to be) on the street, military deployed to civilian neighborhoods, privacy overreaches that people are beginning to become aware of, stretching credit way beyond the point it should be stretched, barely making rent, sick - now you take away food? It's almost like this administration is trying to provoke a reaction. I can't think of an easier way to spark mass revolt, although I guess most snap recipients aren't probably of fighting age/fitness.
by brabel | 2025-10-31 18:55:32+00:00
I have 3 different keyboard layouts installed. As I live in Sweden, my keyboard shows the Swedish layout, but I also use both English and Brazilian ABNT layouts and know them by heart.

I have a single key shortcut to switch between them.

Accents work as if I was using a native keyboard, so they're not too bad (unless you're on mobile, there it sucks), except the keys do not show the right symbols. If you don't know the mappings by heart, you can get your OS to show you the layout... maybe leave that on the side and look up when you forget something.
by Herring | 2025-10-31 18:55:47+00:00
Yeah multiply this situation x1M and you understand why a balance of power is unstable. To make a civilized society work, people can't pull out guns when they disagree. You sue, or you figure out how to communicate/negotiate, or you just live with it. Any of those are better than war, and a good setup will have plenty of avenues like that.
by adrian_b | 2025-10-31 18:55:52+00:00
Obviously, that was not intended to be a full-functionality test, but it would detect any frequently-encountered display defect (or keyboard defect).

Calculator displays are multiplexed, so the usual defects are either one digit that never displays anything, or one segment that stays blank on all digits.

The defect mentioned by you is frequent only on displays with independent digits (like some digital clocks), not on calculators.

I do not know whether on calculator LCD displays there are frequent cases when a single segment can become defect.

At the time about which I am talking, calculators had either green vacuum fluorescent displays (like mine) or red LED displays. With such displays, the normal defects were either in the driving circuits or in the connections to the multiplexed display, so they affected either all segments of a digit or the same segment in all digits. I have never seen a case when the actual light-emitting segment of a digit of a VFD or LED display was defect.