MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JimmyBiscuit | 2025-10-03 11:10:42+00:00
All the things you listed arent things you interact with by pressing on them thousands of times in a day. Its a hard problem to make a keyboard that feels nice, looks nice and is waterproof. Its even harder if you know that the payoff isnt that marketable, I dont think I have ever seen a mainstream laptop advertisment talking about that you can spill stuff on it. Phones barely have buttons or holes anymore and it took us quite a while for the flagship-phones to be water-resistant.
by soapdog | 2025-10-03 11:11:19+00:00
You very seldon need to deal with it, most of your iterators are `pairs()` or `ipairs()` anyway. I like 1-based indexing and can deal with 0-based ones without any wart. I don't really get it why people make so much fuss, but then again if you feel it is a big problem, then there are plenty of other options that will suit you better.
by ben_w | 2025-10-03 11:11:23+00:00
That depends if you're asking as an investor, or if you're asking as someone who wants to use the tools.

If you want to use the tools, and you don't mind that they're behaving like someone who has only recently graduated and therefore still needs a lot of handholding (i.e. not actually "agentic") for anything above junior-grade, they are absolutely worth it, being much cheaper than any human anywhere in the world.

But the limit is they act like juniors, and will say "yes certainly" in a naïve-looking or fawning fashion to social-engineering-pattern attacks. You can replace juniors, but only juniors.

If you want investment advice: it's a massive bubble, and there's no obvious way for any company to make money by selling these capabilities because (1) there's no monopoly on supply so they're fighing on who can have the lowest profit margin, and (2) even without that, we're not very many years away from fancy models running on (normal) local hardware.
by Ygg2 | 2025-10-03 11:11:30+00:00
> C++ is much more safe than C

The issue Mozilla faced wasn't that it wasn't safer than C. It's that it was not safe enough for their needs. A chainsaw is safer than a saw blade; you still don't want to trim your beard with it.

And the C++ working group, to this day, hasn't even moved one inch to accommodate those needs. As another commenter noted, they added a feature for C++26 that Rust abandoned circa 2019.

They couldn't multithread the components like compositor and renderer as much as they would have liked, even with all the caveats.
Show HN: iOS App Time Atlas, Private, Automatic Activity Tracker. Feedback Plz
by heidisuutari | 2025-10-03 11:11:46+00:00
Hey everyone,

We just launched an app called Time Atlas. It’s a lightweight journaling-style tool that helps you: – Track where your time actually goes – Reflect on how different activities affect your energy and mood – Spot patterns over time to help prioritize what really matters

The idea came from frustration, I’d finish a week feeling exhausted, but I couldn’t pinpoint why. With Time Atlas, you can quickly log what you did and how it felt, without having to keep long diary entries.

I’d love your thoughts on: – What features would make this more useful to you? – Do you prefer minimal design vs. richer data/analytics? – How do you currently track (if at all) your time or journaling habits?

We are early in the process, so any feedback is super appreciated, bugs, UX, feature ideas, or just general impressions. Thanks!
by int_19h | 2025-10-03 11:14:00+00:00
Phonemic spelling does not require a syllabary, though. Several European languages are also written "as spoken" using the Latin alphabet, usually with a few extra digraphs or letter variants. Or you can make the syllabary itself compose regularly, like in Hangul.

Indian languages are generally rich in phonemes though. My mind boggles at the notion of [n] [ɳ] [ɲ] [ŋ] all being distinct. I mean, I can reproduce each one of them on its own, but doing that in rapid speech, and worse yet, recognizing the same in others' speech...
by perching_aix | 2025-10-03 11:14:08+00:00
I find this to be misguided tech-nostalgia. What you control this way is the way information is brokered to you. It only controls the information reaching you itself to the extent that is reflected in the delivery method.

This is significant if you're a staunch subscriber to the idea that everything, and I really do mean everything, wrong with social and mass media is the "algorithms" (formerly: capitalism, sensationalism, etc.), but I'm not. I find that to be at most half the story.

In the end, you're consuming something someone else produced for you to consume. That's why it's available. So you're relying on that information to be something you don't find inherently objectionable, or at least be filterable in that regard, which is not a given. We consume arbitrary and natural language content. Most you can do is feed it through AI to pre-digest it for you, which can and will fail in numerous ways. And this is to say nothing about content that wasn't produced and/or didn't reach you.

The reason older technologies felt better wasn't necessarily just because of them per se, but also because of their cultural context. These are interwoven of course, but I wouldn't necessarily trust that reverting back to old technology is what's going to steer back this ship to a better course. I'm afraid this is a lot more like undropping a mug than it is like applying negation.
by raddan | 2025-10-03 11:14:30+00:00
Not the least of which is the fact that infrastructure needs to be maintained. The US has a lot of infrastructure and we are in a phase now where we are having to make hard decisions about what to keep. In my neck of the woods, which is mountainous, many bridges have closed and it looks like they may not come back. Presumably China understands the long-term costs of infrastructure so I wonder what their analysis is. It would be kind of crazy to build something like this on spec…

Prior generations made these same decisions too. I’ve discovered that the area I live in used to have a fair number of electric trams. They all went away with the advent of the automobile.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-10-03 11:14:57+00:00
Dunno man, I have used Android phones and they are way worse than my iPhone in my opinion - I assume you have an Android phone, so it’s fun we both consider the other ecosystem more aggressively demanding of attention and naggy.

Ultimately I think they both suck and we’ve all gotten used to the one evil we’ve chosen.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-03 11:16:04+00:00
There is no evidence that RAG delivers equivalent performance to retraining on new data. Merely having information in the context window is very different from having it baked into the model weights. Relying solely on RAG to keep model results current would also degrade with time, as more and more information would have to be incorporated into the context window the longer it's been since the knowledge cutoff date.
by pol_avec | 2025-10-03 11:16:21+00:00
Solveit community is so nice and wholesome that I see many comments being dismissed as astroturfing, well maybe HN is not used to this but I can tell you all the people in there are for real.

You can take my case, I started writing and posting videos after taking the solveIT course because you are encouraged to do so. Many people on the community have started to do so, and that's why they might not have much of a history yet.

Moreover, the course is such a good experience that when there's a chance to share it publicly and invite more people to it (after a year of private beta), members go out of their way (into HN) to try to invite more people.

I have seen all the people you mention in the discord and chat with some of them so I can tell you they are real.

Because once again, my comment might sound like astroturfing, you can have a look at my youtube & X where I've been posting about this stuff for quite a while

www.youtube.com/@polavec7163 x.com/pol_avec
by whizzter | 2025-10-03 11:16:38+00:00
I think GP is referring to the 2.9 release (or was it 2.8 or 3.0?) that had a major UI overhaul a few years back, I would say that the real explosion of Blender usage co-incided with that release.

Coming from 3ds, 3dsmax and Lightwave mainly (some Maya), I had previously tried Blender a couple of times and usually rage-quite within 15 minutes due to the flaky-feeling UI.

After actually using that big UI release I went back to the previous major release to see what I had missed.

The general context (mesh mode->mesh edit->vertices) that in newer releases is placed somewhat in a sane order, was placed so that your major context was selected in the _middle of the screen_, then secondary was at the top and tertiary somewhere else.

That's just a big no-no in terms of UI design but had probably made some sense when Blender evolved and people who got used to Blender had probably internalized it (and staunchly defended it).
by alexey-salmin | 2025-10-03 11:17:03+00:00
I don't really see an issue with it either, though it depends on what exactly you mean by a dogmatist.

Literally everyone operates within some framework of unprovable dogmas to be able to tell good from evil and to decide how to act. Accepting that fact is a IMO a better path than striving for some sort of non-existent objective skepticism (but that's only better within my framework of what better is, of course).

And surely I worry whether I'm right, and all the time. It's just that when I worry and estimate the expected value of my decisions, I don't get NaNs and INFs. My life is not infinitely valuable to me, engaging in activities that involve possible loss of my life is often a good decision because the upside is good. That's largely true because I die anyway, I'm not sure the same calculations would hold if I were immortal.

UPD to respond to the second part that was added later

> 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.

It's remarkably easy to ruin your life by dying or getting a permanent disability. Would you climb a mountain with a risk of avalanches and rockfalls if you were otherwise immortal? Even commuting to work by bicycle becomes questionable, chances of getting hit by a car on a crossing are pretty high compared to taking the metro.
by CrulesAll | 2025-10-03 11:17:38+00:00
Never piss off engineers. So many software cartels went so far in ripping off their customer base that it caused a blistering clap-back. Companies like Maya were just taking the piss with their prices effectively pricing out all but big companies. A group of talented and, let's face it, awesome people built Blender into something not only as good as Maya, but better in most ways.

also see game engines e.g Unity(complete toss pots) and the evolution of Godot.

As for why people use Microscum's products like Excel, when LibreOffice is superior is beyond me.
by tasuki | 2025-10-03 11:17:53+00:00
If you're dedicated, commute does not reduce exercise time: commute is exercise time.

In my 20 working years, I never commuted other than self-powered: walking or cycling, depending on the distance. I understand not everyone has the luxury of this option, but the vast majority of people do, and yet decide to worsen the already bad traffic instead of a little exercise...
by agedclock | 2025-10-03 11:18:23+00:00
I understand this process that you outline can conceivable happen. However this scenarios is still extremely unlikely. Firstly the cost of a replacement Birth certificate is low.

Failing that, there are other support mechanism in place provided by charities, family, friends and even the state itself, in the unlikely event they are that are completely destitute.

None of this says anything about whether I am privileged or not. You know nothing about my personal circumstances or family background. The only reason anyone uses this line of argument is an attempt to shut people up or as a shaming tactic. Neither of which will work with me.

It also doesn't make any of the checks "excessive". It merely means that they may cost a relatively small amount of money.

As for the ability to produce basic documents, there is nothing privileged about being able to produce basic documents. What you are showing is simply a "bigotry of low expectations".

> Read it again: they're skipping the checks and just using the one they know (passport) because they don't know if other legal forms of documentation are good enough. I know this is going to blow your mind but plenty of employers have no idea what the laws are. You might say "well that's on the employer," but it's the person who needs the job who suffers.

I read it fine the first time thank you.

What you are describing now I would imagine is discriminatory and thus illegal. However IANAL. In this scenario the problem is with the potential employer in this circumstance. That isn't a problem with the right to work checks, and is a problem with the employer.

TBH. It really feels as if you are inventing reasons why right to work checks should be considered "excessive" to shoehorn in your own personal politics.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 11:18:25+00:00
> explain to us who is armed and can loot a moving UN convoy in the Gaza region

That's not what the data say! "Intercepted" means what in retail one calls "shrinkage." It was there before. It isn't now.

A staffer could have stolen it. A security guard or driver could have been bribed. It could have been dropped off at the wrong location, or not tracked. It could have been ripped off a moving truck by unarmed, hungry people [1]. It could be non-militants who picked a gun off a dead combatant. Or it could be armed militants. Concluding that all shrinkage is the result of armed robbery is sort of like figuring everything a store's inventory system says was delivered to the store that isn't on the shelves and hasn't been sold was obviously robbed at gunpoint.

(I'm also not sure where you're getting the idea that these are armed convoys of UN assets being run through Gaza. Aid provisioning is generally much more rinky dink. And the "U.N. does not accept protection from Israeli forces, saying it would violate its rules of neutrality.")

[1] https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-aid-tru...
by pliny | 2025-10-03 11:18:44+00:00
There are already cheap, domestic robots for cleaning dishes, cleaning the floor, cleaning clothes, making coffee, heating and cooling food, turning screws, drilling holes and so on. All those robots represent a greater than 90 percent (and sometimes a greater than 99 percent) savings in time relative to doing the same tasks manually. You still have to move the objects they operate on around within your house but that's mostly the only part of the task you have to do.
by diggan | 2025-10-03 11:18:46+00:00
> CAD modeller are good at producing parametric 3d models

If that's the only thing they do better than Blender, then it sounds like their days are numbered. Has to be more benefits right? Blender exposes a pretty wide Python API, loading spreadsheets ends up pretty simple, and together with Geometry Nodes, you can even visualize it in a way that makes somewhat sense. Constraints been existing for a long time in Blender too.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-03 11:20:40+00:00
> ChatGPT has a phenomenal brand.

My observation is different: ChatGPT may be well-known, but does not have a really good reputation anymore (I'd claim that it is in average of equal dubious reputation as Google) in particular in consideration of

- a lot of public statements and actions of Sam Altman (in particular his involvement into Worldcoin (iris scanning) makes him untolerable for being the CEO of a company that is concerned about its reputation)

- the attempts to overthrow Sam Altman's throne

- most people know that OpenAI at least in the past collaborated a lot with Microsoft (not a company that is well-regarded). But the really bad thing is that the A"I" features that Microsoft introduced into basically every product are hated by users. Since people know that these at least originated in ChatGPT products, this stained OpenAI's reputation a lot. Lesson: choose carefully who you collaborate with.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 11:21:01+00:00
You leave me two things to address.

First, the easy one. The only exclusive roads are exclusive to Palestinians. There are no Jew-only roads, despite our enemies saying it again and again.

Second, the other easy one. Your question is predicated on the assumption that those building houses, towns, and farms are doing so against the will of the body which administrates the territory. Jews in the West Bank build in Area C - other than a tiny extremist minority whose structures are then wiped away by the Israeli authorities. I'm certain if you're partaking in this conversation then you are familiar enough with the administrative divisions of the West Bank to know that Area C was designated by agreement with the Palestinian Authority for Israeli civil development.

There's two ways you could counter my argument - I'm interested to see which one you choose! The Shabbat is coming in soon, so I'll answer you on Sunday or Monday. Shabbat Shalom.
by librasteve | 2025-10-03 11:21:54+00:00
I think that LeCun has correctly identified that LLM is only one type of intelligence and that AGI/AMI needs to combine multiple other types … hierarchical goal setting, attention/focus management, and so on.

Seems that he is able to garner support for his ideas and to make progress at the leading edge - yes a little bit hard to take the “I know better” style, but then many innovations are driven by narcissism.
by itissid | 2025-10-03 11:22:00+00:00
Most of the western world population is about to become a lot older and hence more % disabled in the next decade. Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone just asked the user what were the main features they used and configured only those services on the OS?

Settings could be super simplified. People using, for e.g. mail and browser only, could ask for an integrated UI/UX experience for both. There could be a remote assistance escape hatch as a permanent UX feature for the early days of use for someone you trusted to help you. Power users can ask for more stuff and add more features.

Another thing would be for a AI to do just one thing. e.g. you can configure it at set up to just help one how to do X. This is really not easy. e.g. an AI would need access to your windowing system and peripherals and then infer from your prompt where you are stuck to help you.

So many wonderful things could be done if they invested more into user research and figured out how to help people. It would boost adoption — and more importantly brand love — up the wazoo.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 11:22:40+00:00
> Groups of men with rifles tend to be belligerents in the conflict, even if we can't say definitively if they're with Hamas, PIJ or some smaller gang

Granted.

> Even if some of them are "civilian armed gangs" and not actual belligerents, the aid they steal still isn't getting to civilians

Sure. Now where is the evidence that most of the aid is being pilfered by armed anyones?
by int_19h | 2025-10-03 11:23:13+00:00
It plays out perfectly. E.g. Chinese is one of the least phonological scripts around, and this is precisely why old texts in it are more interpretable.

Korean Hangul is not ideographic (I think what you meant by pictorial?). It's a morphophonemic alphabet that just happens to organize the basic phonemic units into larger graphemes representing whole syllables - but in a completely predictable way. And it is another example of this playing out: the original Hangul was entirely phonemic, but over time pronunciation diverged from spelling, and today it's morpho-phonemic, and even then not perfectly so. So they preserved the history at the cost of some mismatch between the spelling and the sound.
by basisword | 2025-10-03 11:23:40+00:00
I had to setup one from scratch recently for the first time in years. The experience was terrible.

However, I can see why it might not be a concern for device manufacturers. We’ve had the iPhone for almost 20 years. The number of people setting up a phone from scratch who have never used a smartphone before must be minuscule at this point and will continue to dwindle. 80 year olds were still working when the iPhone was released. They will have experience using computers at the very least and more than likely have used smartphones for a long time.
by ezst | 2025-10-03 11:23:42+00:00
That's the kind of "compelling in theory, irrelevant in practice" comment I would make if I had no/obsolete experience with XMPP. It just works, with a healthy and thriving ecosystem of compatible client/server implementations developed independently by many organisations (small and large) around the world. At the user-level, it's just plug and play. As a developer, you don't even have to see any XML (you can deserialize your stanzas into whatever higher-level/prettier construct the programming language/stack your product depends on)
by TuxSH | 2025-10-03 11:24:13+00:00
> that's gonna be squashed

Isn't your interpretation backwards in some cases? What I mean, is that _because_ you see the intermediate commits are garbage, you _then_ decide not to review the individual commits (because you are interested in the contribution anyway).

I certainly do care for the hobby FOSS projects I maintain, and bad commit messages + mega-commits won't fly at my day job.

Squash-merging has the advantages of making 1 PR == one commit with the PR ID in the commit message, sure, but it's unfortunately promotes bad Git hygiene (and works around it)
by corimaith | 2025-10-03 11:25:07+00:00
>Christian Zionist support for Israel is 100% based off vibes. Hitler's plan to invade Russia & exterminate its people for living space was based off Master Race vibes. America's Manifest destiny was based off vibes. Anti-communist domino theory was based off vibes and 58k young American kids died in Vietnam for it, not counting the 153k maimed and injured. Japan's imperial delusions that got them nuked was based off vibes.

This is totally serious analysis that is reflective of mainstream analysis and not just the projection of highly partisan political views. Foreign Policy Analysts certainly will be going to be making decisions based on views like this!
by estearum | 2025-10-03 11:25:22+00:00
Actually it's quite possible that a state exists with Dominant Political Regime A at one point in time, then after an event, they transition to Dominant Political Regime B.

In fact this is what did happen, as is plainly obvious. October 7th effectively stripped the moderating forces in Israeli politics of their power.

Agreed the incentives are fucked up in every direction. For example, giving Israel impunity to respond to such attacks with extremely aggressive pursuit of related and unrelated geopolitical objectives actually creates an incentive for Israel to sustain such attacks from time to time.

This was actually Netanyahu's explicit strategy: allow Hamas to take power in Gaza so no credible government could achieve a second state in the region.

> “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"

Creating such perverse incentives is sort of the entire point of terrorism.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-chief-top-general-visit...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/netanyahu-israel-gaza-hamas...

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/netanyahu-money-...

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-09/ty-article/.p...