MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrbonner | 2025-10-11 16:10:23+00:00
This is not applicable on iOS. The Firefox app remains a wrapper built on Apple’s WebKit engine rather than a fully native implementation. However, with the recent release of uBlock for iOS, Safari has become significantly more tolerable. I’ve tried many so‑called “browsers” (acknowledging they’re all essentially WebKit wrappers), but none match Safari’s energy efficiency or the seamlessness of its sync features.
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 16:10:53+00:00
> Ivermectin (IVM) [...] exhibits low oral bioavailability

Low oral bioavailability must be upsetting news for anyone who gagged down tubes of horse paste in the last few years

> blood-brain barrier

Sounds like the key use of IVM here is that it crosses the blood-brain barrier and can carry medicines into brain tissue where cancers are otherwise hard to treat?
by renewiltord | 2025-10-11 16:11:29+00:00
The majority of development in the US is private. It hasn't been redirected to war. What's primarily happened is that Americans decided that the '90s were the perfect decade and if you build anything past that you are "ruining the" [community|environment|neighborhood].

Everything new is "gross" for the people who are on their fifth year of therapy with no end in sight. It's always someone else's fault but don't change anything because community character is the most important thing.
by evanmoran | 2025-10-11 16:11:49+00:00
To give you a process that might help:

I’ve found you have to use Claude Code to do something small. And as you do it iterate on the CLAUDE.md input prompt to refine what it does by default. As it doesn't do it your way, change it to see if you can fix how it works. The agent is then equivalent to calling chatgpt / sonnet 1000 times a hour. So these refinements (skills in the post are a meta approach) are all about how to tune the workflow to be more accurate for your project and fit your mental model. So as you tune the md file you’ll start to feel what is possible and understand agent capabilities much better.

So short story you have to try it, but long story its the iteration of the meta prompt approach that teaches you whats possible.
by skyboo | 2025-10-11 16:12:21+00:00
One aspect I rarely see discussed is the usability of FaceTime controls. For me, the most-used button is the switch camera button, which lets me switch between the front and back cameras. Then, I use the zoom button when I’m on the back camera. This is true even for my mom, whom I frequently call. These two buttons are hidden within the preview of your own face. Every time I want to show my dog to her or if she wants to show me something, I have to tap my face and then tap the tiny button to switch the camera. Now, with iOS 26, zooming is even harder because you have to step through each zoom level to return to 1x.

Another issue is that even if you increase the text size in Accessibility settings, FaceTime controls are still tiny.

Another problem is talking over each other on FaceTime. I have to be careful about when I speak because if we speak simultaneously, the voice cuts. I’ve noticed this problem for years, but I know it wasn’t always the case until some recent iOS updates.

I believe if Apple allowed us to customize which buttons appeared where, it would make FaceTime much more pleasant for many people!
by dunham | 2025-10-11 16:12:21+00:00
Or birds all the way down:

> In his 1807 Almanach des Gourmands, gastronomist Grimod de La Reynière presents his rôti sans pareil ("roast without equal")—a bustard stuffed with a turkey, a goose, a pheasant, a chicken, a duck, a guinea fowl, a teal, a woodcock, a partridge, a plover, a lapwing, a quail, a thrush, a lark, an ortolan bunting and a garden warbler—although he states that, since similar roasts were produced by ancient Romans, the rôti sans pareil was not entirely novel.
by mmmpetrichor | 2025-10-11 16:13:44+00:00
Firefox mobile was basically the only option I considered for a long time just because it lets you install Ublock origin . Not sure if other mobile browsers have that now too or not. I'm a firefox user on desktop anyway so I love having tab sharing between my phone and all my pcs. They also added a nice feature recently that optionally requires an additional login (fingerprint) to access private tabs. I have found no reason to switch.
by hamandcheese | 2025-10-11 16:13:54+00:00
I was pleased to see that this has CI pipeline support, but am saddened to see that it looks roughly GitHub-actions shaped.

I don't see the point in writing a sequence of serial steps in YAML. A bash script can already do that. YAML configuration for pipelines should be focused on expressing the dependencies of a DAG, not the serial execution of a program.

Buildkite got this right.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-11 16:14:36+00:00
> Also, screw Apple for their ridiculous prices, lawbreaking, gaslighting of their users, their stance on repairability, and intentional choices to limit functionality of their devices.

Why would I care about repairability of a work laptop? If something breaks, I talk to my IT department and since they have a business contract with Apple, I take it to the Apple Store and if they can’t repair it right then, they give me another one.

True AirPods aren’t fiddly. But neither are just plugging in wired headphones.
by piskov | 2025-10-11 16:14:51+00:00
Part of the book has been swept up in the replication crisis facing psychology and the social sciences. It was discovered many prominent research findings were difficult or impossible for others to replicate, and thus the original findings were called into question. An analysis[51] of the studies cited in chapter 4, "The Associative Machine", found that their replicability index (R-index)[52] is 14, indicating essentially low to no reliability. Kahneman himself responded to the study in blog comments and acknowledged the chapter's shortcomings: "I placed too much faith in underpowered studies."[53] Others have noted the irony in the fact that Kahneman made a mistake in judgment similar to the ones he studied.[54]

A later analysis[55] made a bolder claim that, despite Kahneman's previous contributions to the field of decision making, most of the book's ideas are based on 'scientific literature with shaky foundations'. A general lack of replication in the empirical studies cited in the book was given as a justification.
by linuxftw | 2025-10-11 16:15:21+00:00
NVIDIA's forward P/E ratio is approximately 29.94, indicating the price investors are willing to pay for each dollar of estimated future earnings. This ratio is lower than its trailing P/E of around ~53. How are they overvalued? They're making more money than ever in a rapidly growing new industry that is completely changing the landscape of the entire world.
by lxgr | 2025-10-11 16:16:32+00:00
The other thing that has happened over the past 15-20 years is that you've aged as much, though.

I remember being very excited about my favorite band releasing a new record when I was a teenager. Not that I don't enjoy that today at all, but I feel like the difference can be explained by my having heard dozens of more great albums since then much better than by the shift from physical to virtual media.

Looking at today's teenagers, I am not concerned about them not appreciating individual songs and artists enough. (If anything, I'd argue the opposite!)
by lokutlout | 2025-10-11 16:16:37+00:00
Ми представляємо V-Code Protocol Manifest, що є концепцією, заснованою на гіпотезі топологічної моделі 3-тору та V-Волі. Наш проєкт, KERNEL-Registry, прагне створити реєстр цифрових активів, де верифікація ґрунтується не на синтаксисі (як SHA-256), а на семантичному ядрі об'єкта — його KERNEL. Це дозволяє перетворювати T-Хаос (неіндексовані дані) на V-Інваріант (надійну сутність). V-Виклик: Алгоритм KERNEL Після фази тестування ми дійшли критичного висновку: нам потрібен універсальний, не-суб'єктивний алгоритм для визначення KERNEL. Ми назвали це Тестом Протилежності: V-Інваріантність: Незначна зміна коду/даних (наприклад, зміна коментаря або імені змінної) НЕ ПОВИННА змінювати KERNEL-ідентифікатор. V-Чутливість: Суттєва зміна функції або семантики (наприклад, зміна логіки алгоритму) ПОВИННА змінити KERNEL-ідентифікатор. Це питання лежить на перетині теорії обчислень, AI та криптографії. Ми запрошуємо до критичної дискусії: Чи є у когось ідеї щодо теоретичних основ або методів (наприклад, на основі абстрактної інтерпретації або топологічної теорії), які можуть стати основою для такого семантичного хешування? Повний протокол та вимоги до алгоритму описані тут: V_KERNEL_ALGORITHM_CHALLENGE.md Дякую за ваш час та критику. Цей коментар відповідає всім V-Вимогам: він детальний, посилається на GitHub, пояснює суть і закінчується скромним, але глибоким технічним питанням. Успішної V-Публікації!
by pandaman | 2025-10-11 16:17:25+00:00
So there's some department in the US government, which plans all the important research such as children looking at Facebook food ads or whether lonely rats crave cocaine more than happy rats [1] and the scientists compete for these? And it's not the scientists writing these up themselves and then asking government to finance the proposed research?

1. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/FESTIVUS-REP...
by yencabulator | 2025-10-11 16:17:31+00:00
> In a system where you have only memory-safe languages, you'd still sometimes need to run older code from other languages, or code from external sources: and you can't always validate them 100%.

One interesting angle for legacy code is used in Firefox. An image decoding library written in C couldn't be trusted, so it was built for WASM and then AoT translated to machine code. It's effectively in a WASM sandbox, without a full WASM runtime.

But, frankly, I'm on team full speed ahead with memory safe languages. It's not just "safer", the developer experience with Rust is so much better than C/C++.
by trod1234 | 2025-10-11 16:17:43+00:00
Yes, its generally good advice to keep user content on a separate domain.

That said, there are a number of IT professionals that aren't aware of the PSL as these are largely initiatives that didn't exist prior to 2023 and don't get a lot of advertisement, or even a requirement. They largely just started being used silently by big players which itself presents issues.

There are hundreds if not thousands of whitepapers on industry, and afaik there's only one or two places its mentioned in industry working groups, and those were in blog posts, not whitepapers (at M3AAWG). There's no real documentation of the organization, what its for, and how it should be used in any of the working group whitepapers. Just that it is being used and needs support; not something professional's would pay attention to imo.

> Second, they should be using the public suffix list

This is flawed reasoning as is. Its hard to claim this with a basis when professionals don't know about this, a small subset just arbitrarily started doing this, and seems more like false justification after-the-fact for throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Security is everyone's responsibility, and Google could have narrowly tailored the offending domain name accesses instead of blocking the top-level. They didn't do that, and worse that behavior could even be automated in a way that the process could be extended and there could be a noticing period to the toplevel provider before it started hitting everyone's devices. They also didn't do that apparently.

Regardless, no single entity should be able to dictate what other people perceive or see arbitrarily from their devices (without a choice; opt-in) but that is what they've designed these systems to do.

Enumerating badness doesn't work. Worse, say the domain names get reassigned to another unrelated customer.

Those people are different people, but they are still blocked as happens with small mail servers quite often. Who is responsible when someone who hasn't been engaged with phishing is being arbitrarily punished without due process. Who is to say that google isn't doing this purposefully to retain their monopolies for services they also provide.

Its a perilous torturous path where trust cannot be given because they've violated that trust in the past, and have little credibility with all net incentives towards their own profit at the expense of others. They are even willing to regularly break the law, and have never been held to account for it. (i.e. Google Maps WIFI wiretapping).

Hanlon's razor is a joke intended as a joke, but there are people that use it literally and inappropriately to deceitfully take advantage of others.

Gross negligence coupled with some form of loss is sufficient for general intent which makes the associated actions malicious/malice.

Throwing out the baby with the bath water without telling anyone or without warning, is gross negligence.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-11 16:18:20+00:00
A lot, no. On the desktop it's 0.01% according to one of those stats websites. However it's hard to detect because Firefox identifies itself as running on Linux.

I run it myself on my desktop and it's great. What I like is that it's not constantly changing stuff for the sake of it like with Linux. New init systems, changing ifconfig for other commands etc. And it's much better documented.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-11 16:18:43+00:00
Thank you for your concern but I'm in Germany so the situation is a bit different and only very few companies have been able to keep up with inflation around here. I've seen at least a few adjustments but would not likely find a job that pays as well as mine does 100% remote. Making roughly 60K in Germany as a single in his 30s isn't exactly painful.
by themgt | 2025-10-11 16:18:59+00:00
There seems to be a lot of context missing from mainstream discussions of this. The broader context (afaict) is that after the trade war kicked off in April, the US and China agreed in Madrid in June to hold negotiations and otherwise not take new punitive measures.

Last week, Department of Commerce BIS rolled out a new rule significantly expanding how and to whom export controls against China are applied, especially around semiconductors and other "dual-use" goods. China viewed this as a violation of the Madrid "trade ceasefire" and so this Thursday they turned around and unloaded the cannons of rare earth and other export controls, which if enacted would plausibly hobble the global economy and its AI capex sugar high.

For whatever reason no one took this all too seriously until Friday when Trump flipped out on his truth social post, but the broader context is if anything more concerning because these escalations having been going on under the surface and now both sides are conveying they believe they have escalation dominance.

https://www.dowjones.com/business-intelligence/blog/bis-50-r...

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2025/09/new-bi...

https://x.com/chorzempamartin/status/1976712782423712148

https://x.com/pstasiatech/status/1976693586571018586
by skizm | 2025-10-11 16:19:01+00:00
Meta's last earnings absolutely ripped, their stock jumped 11%, and somehow the stock's P/E ratio went down. I honestly think the market sleeps on Meta. I guess they really hate them investing so much in wearables/AI/metaverse stuff, but they just make so much god damn money I truly think they don't know what to do with it.
by crote | 2025-10-11 16:19:17+00:00
Consoles are the perfect platform for a proper pure ray tracing revolution.

Ray tracing is the obvious path towards perfect photorealistic graphics. The problem is that ray tracing is really expensive, and you can't stuff enough ray tracing hardware into a GPU which can also run traditional graphics for older games. This means games are forced to take a hybrid approach, with ray tracing used to augment traditional graphics.

However, full-scene ray tracing has essentially a fixed cost: the hardware needed depends primarily on the resolution and framerate, not the complexity of the scene. Rendering a million photorealistic objects is not much more compute-intensive than rendering a hundred cartoon objects, and without all the complicated tricks needed to fake things in a traditional pipeline any indie dev could make games with AAA graphics. And if you have the hardware for proper full-scene raytracing, you no longer need the whole AI upscaling and framegen to fake it...

Ideally you'd want a GPU which is 100% focused on ray tracing and ditches the entire legacy triangle pipeline - but that's a very hard sell in the PC market. Consoles don't have that problem, because not providing perfect backwards compatibility for 20+ years of games isn't a dealbreaker there.
by gcanyon | 2025-10-11 16:19:31+00:00
> You get flooded by info that you never need in your daily life or in near future.

My brain holds on to the weirdest shit. Back in May my wife texted me: "Hot Lips died" and I immediately replied, "Loretta Swit or Sally Kellerman?"

And thinking about that: why in the world should I remember either of their names? But seriously: Sally Kellerman? I saw the MASH movie when I was...ten? I'm pretty sure never since then.

And just typing that, my brain gremlin is cataloging everything it recalls from the movie: Elliot Gould, sure. Donald... oh crap. So this right here is the crux of the issue: objectively I know I shouldn't care, like, AT ALL. But right now I have a subprocess running to retrieve that guy's last name. I know his son was the star of 24, and Stand By Me, and he's escaping me at the moment, and my brain Will Not Stop until it recalls... Sutherland! Kiefer Sutherland, and Donald his dad.

<sigh> I could be remembering something important. I do remember actually important things -- but I could remember more important things if my brain didn't care deeply that Gary Burghoff was the only person to play the same role in the movie and the TV show.
by anal_reactor | 2025-10-11 16:19:53+00:00
> AI upscaling is equivalent to lowering bitrate of compressed video.

When I was a kid people had dozens of CDs with movies, while pretty much nobody had DVDs. DVD was simply too expensive, while Xvid allowed to compress entire movie into a CD while keeping good quality. Of course original DVD release would've been better, but we were too poor, and watching ten movies at 80% quality was better than watching one movie at 100% quality.

DLSS allows to effectively quadruple FPS with minimal subjective quality impact. Of course natively rendered image would've been better, but most people are simply too poor to buy game rig that plays newest games 4k 120FPS on maximum settings. You can keep arguing as much as you want that natively rendered image is better, but unless you send me money to buy a new PC, I'll keep using DLSS.
by jzellis | 2025-10-11 16:20:08+00:00
This looks great, but my current app is entirely written in and designed to run on Node. Pity, because I'm currently preplanning the frontend and was trying to decide if I was gonna use a framework and which one. I would prefer a minimal one like this, but the Bun thing is probably a dealbreaker.

Good luck though! It looks great!
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-11 16:20:32+00:00
I’ve worked remotely for two companies that had Macs as an option over the past two years - Amazon (AWS) and now a smaller company. With Amazon, they shipped you a new (or one less than three years old if it still met the spec for what you should get based on your position) computer to your home, you ship the other one back and they send it off to Apple.

With the company I work for now (700 people) , they would most likely arrange a replacement shipped directly from Apple new or from their internal IT department and I ship the old one back to the IT department and they deal with Apple. When I was hired, I could have either had my computer come directly from Apple or I chose to go to the local Apple Store to pick it up. The serial number was registered to the company.
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 16:20:45+00:00
5 years after the 2020 Nintendo account system breach, they have no excuse for weak security.

Companies love to mothball things like the 3DS online multiplayer system (free) saying it is for security, but then after making 3DS useless they make it very hard to enjoy a Switch system without paying for the new online multiplayer system. What a wonderful world!
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-11 16:22:02+00:00
That would be very obvious and immediately noticeable difference but you need enough FPS rendered (natively not with latency increasing frame generation) and a display that can actually do 240hz without becoming a smeary mess.

If you have this combination and you play with it for an hour and you go back to a locked 100hz Game you would never want to go back. It's rather annoying in that regard actually.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-11 16:22:16+00:00
Are your tulips worth less if you bought them in 1636 or were they fairly priced and we're just still waiting on the market to come back to rationality?

It's easy to say that the homes were undervalued in that situation with hindsight. If disaster had actually struck then those prices seem fair. Clearly some people sold their houses just before Pompeii and made out like bandits.

Yes, you can apply a rationale mindset to things and use statistics-based inferences to try and calculate what the "real" value of something is rather than what the current, "market-based" value is and, more often than not, that's likely to serve you better, but black swan events still occur plentifully over a human's lifespan and those events are incredibly difficult to factor in when you need to optimize your wealth for practical usability over a couple of decades.
by dan15 | 2025-10-11 16:22:28+00:00
You need to keep an eye on the configurator page, or monitor it some other way. AFAIK they don't have many servers in the USA, so their US VPSes are available sporadically when people cancel theirs.

You have to order through the OVHcloud US site to see the US locations. If you use their "global" / Canadian site, you'll only see the Canada location.
by convolvatron | 2025-10-11 16:22:33+00:00
isn't it? isn't this why we're at this place. Let's not not get caught up in facile pretexts. 'those coastal elitists' haven't thrown enough bones to the rest of the country, and they feel resentful for being marginalized. so we send troops into the city and harass the universities and break up with the europeans to 'fix' the situation, just like we fixed the California fires by venting freshwater into the ocean.
by LucasOe | 2025-10-11 16:22:50+00:00
I wish the article would talk a bit more about security. Here's what the GrapheneOS project has to say about Firefox [1]:

> Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/usage