MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kingstnap | 2025-10-15 14:04:54+00:00
You can't just "ignore" fraudulent clicks as though those aren't baked into the original price. The only thing you should care about is your own sales vs your own ad spend.

Your calculations make as much sense as pouring out 90% of a can of beer, claiming you have just made vodka, and simultaneously trying to pay only for the 10% of beer that is left.
by lelandfe | 2025-10-15 14:04:58+00:00
As a UI/UX nerd, it’s a coin flip on intentionality. I’ve been noticing so many rough edges to Apple’s software when it used to astound. iOS Settings search will flash “No Results” as you begin to type which is comically amateurish. The macOS menu bar control panels can’t be keyboard navigated... It’s just silly.

I’ve been debating making a Tumblr-style blog, something like “dumbapple.com,” to catalogue all the dumb crap I notice.
by scrlk | 2025-10-15 14:05:04+00:00
Yes, that what I was trying to aim for.

Some further thoughts: two of the use cases AVP was pitched for are content consumption (streaming + offline) and spatial video/photo production. IMO the base storage should reflect that.

Given that AVP sales are struggling, I’m not sure why Apple isn’t trying to throw people a bone and offer a more reasonable amount of storage in the base config.
by MichealCodes | 2025-10-15 14:05:11+00:00
The basics are not rock solid. Even a core feature such as remote management crashes and freezes every 5 minutes when you connect from a non-apple machine, many have reported this over years but Apple just does Apple. Safari is still atrocious when it comes to web api supports. The worst part is, with Apple, we do not know if these are intentional anti-competitive barriers or actual software bugs. I purchased a mac mini simply to compile apps via xcode and can say the core experience is MUCH more buggy than a fresh Windows or Ubuntu install.

Edit: Hard to call intentionally preventing support for web apis a power user thing. This creates more friction for basic users trying to use any web app.

Edit2: lol Apple PR must be all over this, went from +5 to -1 in a single refresh. Flagged for even criticizing what they intentionally break.
by wizee | 2025-10-15 14:05:18+00:00
153 GB/s is not bad at all for a base model; the Nvidia DGX Spark has only 273 GB/s memory bandwidth despite being billed as a desktop "AI supercomputer".

Models like Qwen 3 30B-A3B and GPT-OSS 20B, both quite decent, should be able to run at 30+ tokens/sec at typical (4-bit) quantizations.
by m000 | 2025-10-15 14:05:25+00:00
> My objection to this is that you're taking money away from teachers, waiters, taxi drivers, etc and giving it to artists, as though artists are somehow more virtuous people. It doesn't seem fair.

Why do people remember fairness and frugality only when money are spent to directly help those in need?

I didn't see anyone complaining when money are funnelled to industries (e.g. Big Ag) instead of individuals.
by karmakaze | 2025-10-15 14:05:43+00:00
It seemed silly to me, but then I remembered how Apple works. Create something that you can't have. Oh an M5 chip in something I won't buy. It would be great if we had M5's in MacBooks -> want. Apple manufactures desire first before satisfying that created 'new' market. Last time I recall was the iPad Pro's even before they started getting useful as very few people buy these. Scarcity sells.

The math isn't how many people will buy Vision Pro M5, it's how many have nots can be created by putting it in the Vision Pro.
by pxc | 2025-10-15 14:06:03+00:00
Fully supported Linux + proper suspend-to-RAM are the two things I want out of Apple Silicon and may never quite get. Better online low power states are fine, but I want suspend-to-RAM and suspend-then-hibernate.

If I close my laptop for a few days, I don't want significant battery drain. If I don't use it for two weeks, I want it to still have life left. And I don't want to write tens of gigabytes to disk every time I close the lid, either!
by FumblingBear | 2025-10-15 14:06:11+00:00
I won't be upgrading from the M2 model, but I still get a lot of value out of mine simply using the Mac Virtual Display with my Macbook Pro. Of course there are other benefits (gaming w/ ALVR and a PC, watching movies, reading comics) but it makes video editing workflows much nicer for me because I can set the resolution to ultrawide and have much more real estate for Davinci Resolve.

It never really leaves the house, and I get why a lot of people don't like it, but personally, it's one of the coolest pieces of tech I own and I get a ton of value out of it. The value is just tied to being integrated into the apple ecosystem more than it being a standalone device, which is a very Apple thing to do.

I have lots of criticisms too, but overall I really like it. Also converting photos to spatial photos and looking through old memories in 3D is truly incredible. Can't overstate how much I love that feature.

The thing I'm most excited about from this release is the backwards compatible Dual Knit Band, which I'm definitely buying.
by sojsurf | 2025-10-15 14:06:12+00:00
Interesting idea. What are your thoughts on the following questions:

- Who decides who gets the valuable land (high rent value) and who gets the land no one wants to use?

- What happens when the population changes due to birth/death/immigration? Do you rebalance every 10 years? Can children inherit their parents' land?

- If we rebalance regularly, how do we protect people who built a business on land they had been renting but which is no longer available?
by righthand | 2025-10-15 14:06:59+00:00
Rust produces a single binary. Developers appreciate this when shipping an app. For Python based apps you usually need your user to have Python installed and then ship a bunch of Python files with interop to some non-Python UI library. So you probably need to ship the UI library as a dependency too.

Or you can just build it in Rust and learn what .unwrap() does.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-15 14:07:06+00:00
I've felt the opposite for more than a decade. On Linux, it's relatively easy for me to choose a set of applications which all use the same UI toolkit. Additionally, the web browser is often called "Web Browser" in the application launcher, LibreOffice Writer "Word Processor", and so on. In general there is far less branding and advertisement and more focus on function. Linux was the first OS with an "app store" (the package manager). CLI utilities available tend to be the full fat versions with all the useful options, rather than minimalist versions there to satisfy posix compatibility. I could go on.

On Linux there is variety and choice, which some folks dislike.

But on the Mac I get whatever Apple gives me, and that is often subject to the limitations of corporate attention spans and development budgets.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-15 14:07:34+00:00
I'm pretty sure they said they're partnering with everybody that they possibly can. I also don't know what you mean by "just partner with postmarketOS." It's basically a project to create a fully-free Android-compatible distribution (or rather the fully-free low-level elements that would support this), and postmarketOS is not Android. I also don't have any idea why you think that they wouldn't be talking to everybody who is reverse engineering phones to get OSes on them.

I really do not understand this comment at all. I don't understand the weird judgemental tone, and I don't understand that people have reacted to it like there is content there.
by lynndotpy | 2025-10-15 14:07:35+00:00
Yes, and it's one of the best headsets for Linux :) But this is a tethered headset and the text rendering isn't good enough to justify one over a monitor (reportedly-- I haven't bought one yet). Especially because it's tethered.

But Valve is reliably rumored to be releasing an untethered successor within the next year for a third of the cost of the AVP. The appeal is having a dozen monitors anywhere.
by Retric | 2025-10-15 14:08:22+00:00
I edited for clarity, but an apples to apples comparison means to compare like to like not to compare everything.

I can weigh a bag of groceries, that’s a metric I can collect on everything you’re buying but it doesn’t tell me if you’re making healthy choices at the grocery store.

Similarly I can look at the test grades of everyone in Ukraine right now, but that tells me more about society in general than the countries school system.
by jonathanlydall | 2025-10-15 14:08:32+00:00
They don't accept delegated subdomains, at least not for .net and .com domains (I haven't tried others).

I don't see how it's "intrinsic to how CF works" that they need to host your DNS records, especially when they don't require it on more expensive plans.

That being said, I don't mind them hosting my DNS records, but it would have been nice if they supported importing zone files from Azure DNS.
by NoGravitas | 2025-10-15 14:08:33+00:00
Banking apps will work on Graphene if you have sandboxed Google Play Services installed, and if the banking app requires only a basic level of Play Integrity attestation. I got the same level of support with my previous LineageOS for MicroG phone as I have with my current GrapheneOS phone, it just required a lot more tinkering (and was a lot less secure).

I do appreciate the work the GrapheneOS team puts in toward compatibility, and especially the fact that they just got RCS messaging working. But any time Google or even an app vendor wants to tighten the noose, they can, just by requiring the higher, hardware-backed attestation level.
by Sammi | 2025-10-15 14:08:35+00:00
I often don't know what to make of DHH. He's a living contradiction. On one hand he will continually rant about how bad the overhead and waste of cloud services is, and on the other hand he will staunchly defend the most inefficient programming language that is regularly used for backend development, as well as defend the enourmous overfetching that active record leads to.

Really I think DHH just likes to tell others what he likes.
by hedora | 2025-10-15 14:08:53+00:00
I have a react native app, and can compile it to pwa mode. It runs well in a browser.

99% of the code runs fine in electron to. Index.tsx is the main exception.

I’m not saying you can automatically run software for one of these targets across all three. I’m saying it’s straightforward to write portable software that works on all of them.

Also, I can’t think of any apps I use that require any platform-specific APIs at this point. Even if they did, the phone I want would be able to surface those APIs to pwas.
by robinhood | 2025-10-15 14:08:57+00:00
For you. Not for many other users who definitely do not agree with this statement.

To me this will be the kind of computers I'll tell my parents to use as soon as their crappy laptops die. They do not need literally anything else: sending emails, write a few ones, check Youtube and browse the web. For this use case, it's the most useful machine. Never breaks, infinite battery, no support needed.

And I hate Apple. So this says a lot.
by hobofan | 2025-10-15 14:09:07+00:00
There is no mystery of what's the cause here. That is widely known and reported.

It's lack of maintenance / modernization on the rail lines. This is 100% a political failure. If the money would be allocated towards that, the problem could be fixed in a few (IIRC 5-10) years.

Of course in addition towards that there is the additional political failure of wrong incentives which creates mechanisms like the "Pofalla-Wende" (delayed trains turning around mid-journey, so that the back journey doesn't count as delay) to game the bad statistics.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-10-15 14:09:37+00:00
Another comment mentions how useful it is because it's integrated with Apple's ecosystem. I mean of course it is...Apple makes it.

I do wonder if that person had ever tried any of the myriad of VR device available a decade before beforehand and I do wonder how popular Apple's product would be if other companies were given the opportunity to integrate with the OS on the same level that Apple can (I feel like Apple is breaking anti-competitive laws constantly but nobody really cares about making them open up).
by CalRobert | 2025-10-15 14:09:38+00:00
Indeed, the problem is that Ireland makes it damn near impossible to build anything anywhere, still imposes parking minimums, still uses _their own_ failure to build infrastructure as a reason to deny people homes, still has many, many planners who almost seem personally insulted by the idea that you might want a house with "eaves" or literally anything different from what already exists (ironically they're hellbent on making sure nothing is as interesting as e.g. Eyeries village), and still despises anything that isn't sitting on a giant carbon-intensive blob of concrete.

The _excellent_ IrishVernacular.com had a great website showing how to build a modern, comfortable house for 25k (make it 50k now with inflation), but when I talked to planners in Offaly (yech) about the idea of a pier foundation or a metal roof they got visibly angry. (The site is gone but archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20210216212333/https://www.irish... ) Interestingly, metal roofs are cheaper and last longer (and can look perfectly nice, I'm not talking about tin roofs here). But planners are threatened by anything that makes housing more affordable.

As far as the "landscape" - the whole country is a giant meat factory swimming in cattle feces; the landscape was ruined centuries ago. If you're curious, the book "Whittled Away" is a really good examination of this, and how ecologically barren Ireland really is - https://iwt.ie/product/whittled-away/. And rural homes don't need to be car-dependent monstrosities, I made a video about how we could improve active transport in rural areas at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ba7xHUdeew (of course, even the greens think bikes are only toys outside the city, and my cllrs from FF/FG/SF practically laughed at me when I suggested bike infrastructure where we lived in the midlands).

Of course, the real galling bit is that Ireland has peak "rules for thee and not for me" energy, by saying you can opt out of all that so long as you're a true native son and have parents from the area (the EU has rightly pointed out that this is discriminatory, but Ireland just... breaks the law. And nothing happens) - https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/locals-only-planning-r... . So apparently one-off houses are great, but only for culchies.
by cudgy | 2025-10-15 14:09:41+00:00
AI companies are in a difficult position right now. Anthropic is taking the lead by looking like they care and are concerned about the effects of the technology that their feverishly building.

I don’t trust them. Their strategy is to say “don’t worry about all your jobs being taken by our technology. We (AI companies) are going to be taxed so much that you are going to be living a wealthy and fruitful life making meme photos and looking at AI porn. Don’t be concerned about how you’ll pay your bills. We’ll work it all out. Trust us.”
by jmclnx | 2025-10-15 14:10:07+00:00
Well the "good" new is, OpenBSD and NetBSD still uses CVS, even for packages. So this will not work on those systems. I do not know about FreeBSD. Security by obscurity :)

But I have been seeing docs indication those projects are looking to go to git, will see if it really happens. In OpenBSD's case seems it will be based upon got(1).
by Supernaut | 2025-10-15 14:10:12+00:00
Well, the property tax that I pay on the house that I own in Dublin is decidedly not "a rounding error away from zero". It has also recently increased, in line with the increased value of properties in the locality.

Regarding your second assertion, the construction of local amenities is in fact often paid for by the property tax. And in any case, what has actually driven the strong increase in the prices of houses nationwide is their relative scarcity now that the population has swelled so dramatically.
by beAbU | 2025-10-15 14:10:15+00:00
The hard part is convincing investors that it's a good idea, so that they can drown you in gold. Or maybe that's the easy bit. I don't know.

The reason for failure here is lack of a killer app. Everyone is excited, then when they get it it's a glorified todo list and maybe it can read your texts. This failure mode is quite common and we've seen it with other devices like smart glasses, the Rabbit R1 pin, I suspect openAI's pin is going to be similar, and so on. Your average non-tech-enthusiast consumer will need a real good reason to carry around a front-facing camera full time.
by woodrowbarlow | 2025-10-15 14:10:25+00:00
i agree, except the web part.

Purism did a lot of work to build Phosh, based on Gnome, with GTK apps that had fluid layout. on a phone-size screen, the UI was suited for touch; but connect it to a screen and everything seamlessly switches to a standard Gnome UI.

i would rather see this get mainlined into Gnome, and for it to be common-practice to design desktop apps with a fluid layout that can adapt to phone screens.
by palmotea | 2025-10-15 14:10:26+00:00
> I feel bad for my friends that are married with kids working at places like microsoft, telling me how their copilot usage is tracked and they fear that if they don't hit some arbitrary weekly metric they will fall victim to the next wave of layoffs.

It's not just Microsoft. Other smaller employers are aping those guys.

My employer has an utterly ridiculous PowerBI dashboard tracking how much every employee uses LLM-based tools. Make sure to enable the Premium models, because otherwise you won't get credit! There are naughty lists for people whose usage is too low. Luckily the usage goals (for now) aren't very high.

However, they're also getting anal about tracking tasks, and the powers at be have asserted control over all aspects of story creation and work process. There's speculation they're going to start tracking story completion rates, and demanding measured productivity increases.
by mothballed | 2025-10-15 14:10:29+00:00
Government expenditures are ~30% of GDP in US. Theoretically you could just distribute ~30% of the gdp/capita (about $28,000) to every person in the USA, make them buy all government services on the private market (government now gone except to collect and distribute the single UBI), and you'd not have much tax effect on productive enterprise (or alternatively, distribute ~20% or almost $20,000 and return to pre-1913 non-wartime government services).
by woodruffw | 2025-10-15 14:10:34+00:00
This is a great example of why `pull_request_target` is fundamentally insecure, and why GitHub should (IMO) probably just remove it outright: conventional wisdom dictates that `pull_request_target` is "safe" as long as branch-controlled code is never executed in the context of the job, but these kinds of argument injections/local file inclusion vectors demonstrate that the vulnerability surface is significantly larger.

At the moment, the only legitimate uses of `pull_request_target` are for things like labeling and auto-commenting on third-party PRs. But there's no reason for these actions to have default write access to the repository; GitHub can and should be able to grant fine-grained or (even better) single-use tokens that enable those exact operations.

(This is why zizmor blanket-flags all use of `pull_request_target` and other dangerous triggers[1]).

[1]: https://docs.zizmor.sh/audits/#dangerous-triggers
by constantcrying | 2025-10-15 14:10:44+00:00
Let me be honest, I despise your post. All your arguments are just made up and are totally disconnected from anything I said.

According to you I bashed certain authors, but I did not name any author at all. Nor did I even say that you should not read genres fiction, in fact I said it is a perfectly fine thing to do and that I was an avid reader of genre fiction myself. How you went from my words, to your claims about me is baffling.

>The first one sounds good on paper, but I ask again (and observe how you tried to dodge the question): WHO defines which books are considered "complex"?

What a meaningless question. It does not matter at all. What matters is that the reader is challenging himself.

>The second one is baffling. Certainly if a book is still sought out centuries after being read, it is probably good! But this also rejects the idea that anyone writing in the 21st century - or most of the 20th, for that matter - is at all worthy of consideration.

This is just false. A totally nonsensical arguments. Classics can exist and good authors can exist as well. There is no contradiction.

>And the third, the real bee in your bonnet, the idea that people would seek out a book for entertainment, read it, and be entertained.

What a convincing argument. Except I said the exact opposite.

>If Sanderson recommended that his fans read The Odyssey, or King recommended Poe, their readers would surely seek them out to be entertained, right? Does that eliminate Homer and Poe from your consideration?

No. How did you even get the idea?

>You want to create a "literate society" which treats reading as an exercise in self-flagellation.

Just another made up argument.

>Say what you will about Rowling

But I did not say anything about Rowling. Not a single word.

Genuinely. I hate your post. You are responding to an argument which does not exist. I hate talking to you. If you are the average genre fiction reader than illiteracy is truly preferable.
by jason_zig | 2025-10-15 14:10:53+00:00
I run a survey product for ecommerce stores [1]

A lot of our customers use post purchase surveys and on-site surveys to help with this sort of thing. For example a really common use-case is an attribution survey which appears after a sale is made. The survey will ask something like "how did you hear about us?" which helps determine what actually drove the sale so they can get some clear insights outside of Google and Meta. It's not perfectly reliable but it's an additional data point that helps with the mess out there...

[1] https://www.zigpoll.com/
by jbentley1 | 2025-10-15 14:11:21+00:00
We built a tool to use Git Worktrees to manage all of our in-progress agents. It's expanded from just Claude Code to having Codex support, and I'm loving running them side by side. They see things from different angles, make different UX choices, find bugs the other one doesn't, etc.

Just having the model variety is helpful, it is my default way to work now for every prompt I submit.
by 827a | 2025-10-15 14:11:31+00:00
Yeah; IMO Docker was our last universal improvement to productivity, in 2013, and very little we've invented since then can be said to have had such a wide-ranging positive impact, with such few drawbacks. Some systems are helpful for some companies, but then try to get applied to other companies where they don't make sense and things fall apart or productivity suffers. Cloudflare and others are trying to make v8 isolates a thing, and while they are awesome for some workloads, people want them to be the "next docker", and they aren't.

The model "give me docker image, we put it on internet" is staggeringly powerful. It'll probably still be the most OP way to host applications in 2040.