MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mxmzb | 2025-10-15 13:50:03+00:00
So I have been building quite a few apps and n8n workflows that were using a lot of LLM requests. I was building pretty much in the dark, just getting some (partly delayed) usage stats from each provider separately. From that arose a need for some proper request logging, stats, filtering, scoping the requests to the various workflows, and rate limiting. So I've built that for myself (see link). Bottom line here how it helps me is:

1. Helps me understand my requests from various apps and workflows (e.g. prompting, revisiting past requests, scoping the requests, any meta data stored, charts to visualize metrics). It's completely provider agnostic, too.

2. Gives me an understanding of how much I spend exactly on single requests, any workflow or parts of a workflow, apps, which provider I spend how much on, etc.

3. It gives me the ability to rate-limit my requests, and that can be done even by grouping requests from different providers. Essentially, I'm tagging every request, so if I make one to Gemini and one to OpenAI and give them the same tag, I can put a rate limit on the tag that will stop further requests to any of the used providers once the limit is hit.

4. It gives me an understanding how profitable a request or a group of requests is (for example, I can attach a stripe customer or sale id to the requests I make. Then I create a payout and attach it the same tag, matching requests with the income and calculating income / expense ratio).

Not yet sure if I want to take it further in terms of making it accessible to others, but I've put up a waitlist for now and recorded a demo video. Maybe there is some interest.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-15 13:50:09+00:00
I think the past bit people, but unlike the PS4 transition or gaming consoles in the past (which were rarely backwards compatible), there wasn't enough cultural momentum to plow through it... leaving "don't support Apple" as a bit of a institutional memory at this point, even though the odds of another transition seem almost nonexistent. What would it even be? 128 bit? Back to x86? Notarization++? Metal 4 incompatible with Metal 1?
by wat10000 | 2025-10-15 13:50:13+00:00
I did that comparison and they make the vast majority of their money on hardware. Half of their revenue is iPhone, a quarter is services, and the remaining quarter is divided up among the other hardware products.

Regardless of revenue, Apple isn't a hardware company or a software company. It's a product company. The hardware doesn't exist merely to run the software, nor does the software exist merely to give functionality to the hardware. Both exist to create the product. Neither side is the "main" one, they're both parts of what ultimately ships.
by notatallshaw | 2025-10-15 13:50:39+00:00
> You let people make the mistake and have the library throw an exception if they do that, not through type checking but just through something eventually calling a method that doesn't exist.

Exceptions or crashes would be annoying, but yes, are manageable, although try telling that to new users of the language that their code doesn't work because they didn't understand the transitive dependency tree of their install and it automatically vendored different versions of a library for different dependencies, and how did they not know that from some random exception occurring in a dependency.

But as I explain in my example, the real problem is that one version of the library reads the data in a different layout from the other, so instead you end of with subtle data errors. Now your code is working but your getting the wrong output, good luck debugging that.
by pfdietz | 2025-10-15 13:50:42+00:00
> You can't put coal in a pipeline.

Yes you can!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_pipeline

A slurry is transported in one variety of these. The trick is to induce a swirl in the flow, so even though particles are constantly falling out of suspension, they stay suspended. It's mathematically analogous to how putting a twist in magnetic field lines in a tokamak (or stellarator) prevents ExB effects from driving the plasma into the wall, as they would in just a plain toroidal magnetic field.

Lots of water is needed and drying the coal before burning it adds cost.
by Aunche | 2025-10-15 13:50:43+00:00
There is no such thing as "the absence of eligibility testing." Otherwise, I'd be signing up for UBI for my 100 imaginary friends. Too much administrative overhead has always been a concern troll argument against welfare anyways. Even the most bureaucratic welfare programs have a administrative burden of less than 10%. With a fraction of that, you could easily screen out the top 10% of income earners from basic income.
by achierius | 2025-10-15 13:50:45+00:00
> Compare their hardware revenues with that of the app store and icloud subscriptions, you will see where they make most of their money.

Yes, it's $70B a year from iPhones alone and $23B from the totality of the Services org. (including all app store / subscription proceeds). Significantly more than 50% of the company's total profits come from hardware sales.
by righthand | 2025-10-15 13:50:46+00:00
I love Halloy and it inspired me to make more software in iced_rs, which is a fantastic simple to use UI framework. [0]

The project is even often cited as a good iced_rs code reference repo.

What I like about iced_rs over Qt is that you can write all your code in a single language in whichever style you like. As opposed to Qt which requires you learn an obtuse scripting language (qml) ontop of Cpp and locks performance improvements behind commercial license.

[0] https://iced.rs/
by Noaidi | 2025-10-15 13:51:08+00:00
This right here is moving me back to GrapheneOS and Linux. I was lucky enough to be able to uninstall Liquid glAss before the embargo. I will miss the power efficiency of my M1, but the trade off keep looking better and better.

being poor, I need to sell my Macbook to get money to pay of my 16e, then sell the 16e and use that money to but a Pixel 9, then probably a but a Thinkpad Carbon X1. Just saying all that to show you the lengths I am going through to boycott/battle the enshitification.
by cudgy | 2025-10-15 13:51:13+00:00
“For example defining what "fair use" is for AI training, that's a clearly new area.”

I am not a patent attorney, but it seems like a clear violation of copyright. Based on your comment above regarding the breath and focus of laws and the fact that you feel the copyright law was not well specified for the AI situation. How could the current law have been written such that it would’ve handled the AI situation and avoided this mess that we’re in now?

My guess is none of it matters because now the AI is so important and so critical in the minds of many government leaders and business leaders that any violation of copyright will be excused, making the original law, meaningless in this situation, and undercutting this entire discussion.
by knotimpressed | 2025-10-15 13:51:40+00:00
Assuming you've read https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversa... or the longer full essay/related works, could you elaborate on why you don't use Apple Intelligence?

I totally understand why someone would refuse to use it due to environmental reasons (amongst others) but I'm curious to hear your opinions on it.
by CalRobert | 2025-10-15 13:51:54+00:00
The program was championed by the greens, who would be generally well-liked by artists (and myself, even though I dislike this policy personally).

Though they're somewhat less-liked since going in to coalition with FF/FG.

The benefit was greater than the cost if you consider the psychological well-being aspect of it, but it was not self-supporting economically (i.e. it's difficult to see how this is scalable).
by WolfeReader | 2025-10-15 13:51:56+00:00
You're making three distinctions here and lumping them all into one. Let me check my understanding here. To you, for a book to be worthwhile, it must satisfy 3 criteria:

1. It must be "complex".

2. It must be over 100 years old.

3. The reader must seek it out for reasons other than entertainment.

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"?

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. I don't think we're going to create a culture of literacy by rejecting everything modern.

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. You claim to want a culture of literacy, but you've spent more words bashing the fiction of Sanderson and Scalzi and King (and the readers thereof) than on the increasing number of non-readers this topic is about.

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?

You want to create a "literate society" which treats reading as an exercise in self-flagellation. Like giving yourself homework. I don't think this will work.

Say what you will about Rowling (and I will: she sucks!) but she got kids reading, and interested in mythology, for a good number of years. Notably before the rise of social media.
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-15 13:52:16+00:00
Horizontal drilling is already part of the plan in many places - Elon Musk isn't the first person to think of it. It still costs loads to do it per mile - by the looks of it you'd have six bores with three cables each (or one or two much larger bores). And a deep, concrete-sheathed cable is a huge pain to maintain compared to cables around 1-3m underground.

Which is not to say they don't use TBMs - they do, but it costs a lot - this is a 200+ million project to put 3km of cables underground: https://www.nationalgrid.com/media-centre/press-releases/tun...
by Retric | 2025-10-15 13:52:25+00:00
The point isn’t excluding buckets, the point is to have multiple points of comparison.

If we want to know which system you should copy, you want understand the factors that make that system more challenging. America doesn’t need to deal with severe malnutrition, but we may want to copy elements from countries dealing with such issues.

Unless of course the goal is a hit piece for whatever emotionally agenda you you’re pushing.
by leshokunin | 2025-10-15 13:52:46+00:00
I love my first gen Apple Vision Pro. I find that most of the criticism isn’t addressed at the product and technology, but at the price and Apple’s strategy.

Price will go down in five years, once the tech mature la. For now this is a bit like how the Oculus DK1 was. An early device to explore what the overall vision is about, and figure out the apps.
by dahart | 2025-10-15 13:53:14+00:00
That paper seems interesting. Why are you implying it’s pointless? What is your expertise in Mammalian or evolutionary biology? How do you know this won’t contribute or lead to something useful in veterinary or human medicine, or bioengineering, or anything else?

Have you heard of the Golden Goose Awards? The first paragraph on their history page (https://www.goldengooseaward.org/history) can be applied directly to your comment:

“From 1975 to 1988, Senator William Proxmire issued monthly “Golden Fleece Awards,” which targeted federal spending Proxmire considered wasteful. Unfortunately, the awards often targeted federally-funded scientific research for ridicule. Science that sounded odd or obscure was easily singled out, but the awards reflected fundamental misunderstanding of how science works, and how such research can turn out to be extremely important regardless of whether it makes sense to non-scientists. Indeed, such research can have a major impact on society. The nature of scientific research is that its impact is hard to predict.”

Don’t be a Proxmire.
by Sammi | 2025-10-15 13:53:54+00:00
Funny you should say so because I actually made an effort _not_ to use corporate business terms, because open source project definitely do compete with each other both for developer and user attention and for general prestige, which in turn may be leveraged to get access to funding and other development resources in various ways. And in an even funnier turn of events Sqlite development is actually funded by a for-profit company that sells Sqlite support contracts: https://www.sqlite.org/consortium.html
by Lio | 2025-10-15 13:53:56+00:00
Yep I've just joined, via aquisition, a company that runs remote Windows desktops you have to access using whatever Remote Desktop is now called.

I've not seen a professional desktop operating system show you adverts and click bait during worktime before and I am not impressed.

I'm taking it as an alarm bell that I should get out as soon as I can. For me and what I do, macOS or Linux are my platforms of choice.
by mothballed | 2025-10-15 13:54:31+00:00
No I am.

Envision for a moment a society where most of the most attractive women want to date the richest guys. And the way to become the richest is to produce things. Conceivably a large group of men would still work despite UBI so they can get with the "hottest" women.

Put this at grand scale and you have why a lot of men bother with anything more than living in a tent by the river. If that production is high enough to actually produce enough necessities it might work, but would require some insanely efficient production.
by dimgl | 2025-10-15 13:54:44+00:00
Yeah I agree. If it weren't for gaming I would have already uninstalled Windows permanently. It's really unfortunate because it sticks out as the one product in my house that I truly despise but I can't get rid of, due to gaming.

I've been trying to get Unreal Engine to work on my Macbook but Unity is an order of magnitude easier to run. So I'm also stuck doing game development on my PC. The Metal APIs exist and apparently they're quite good... it's a shame that more engines don't support it.
by galad87 | 2025-10-15 13:55:02+00:00
Game developers make most of the money shortly after a game release, so having a 15 years old game not working anymore shouldn't make much difference in term of revenues.

Anyway, the whole situation was quite bad. Many games were still 32-bit, even if macOS itself had been mainly 64-bit for almost 10 years or more. And Valve didn't help either, the Steam store is full of 64-bit mislabeled as 32-bit. They could have written a simple script to check whether a game is actually 64-bit or not, instead they decided to do nothing and keep their chaos.

The best solution would have been a lightweight VM to run old 32-bit games, nowadays computer are powerful enough to do so.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-10-15 13:55:12+00:00
It's a generic problem with using CVSS to score library vulnerabilities. CVSS is designed around complete systems, so it's totally crap to apply it to libraries.

I see a lot of critical (9+) supposed JavaScript "remote code execution with no authentication" CVEs being posted...

Right, if you are running it in an NPM server exposed to malicious user input with no authentication. Actually it runs client side in the browser and at best it's a prototype pollution vuln with a much lower score.
by mumber_typhoon | 2025-10-15 13:55:15+00:00
What I have seen with iPhones is that the ram has gone from 4gb to 12gb very quickly compared to how it went from 1gb to 3gb.

Apps used to use less ram but over the years apps have become big and more complicated. This is probably why iPhones feel sluggish because new iPhones have more memory and apps snap back faster as newer iPhones which also have faster storage and memory bandwidth to reduce latency of reading more data from the flash.

Batteries are also a problem as maintaining voltage is difficult for a 2-3 year old battery. An official battery swap at apple service for a 3 year old iPhone will make it run much better.

I used to believe (and sometimes I still do) that apple intentionally makes everything heavier to make old phones and devices feel slower but I don't think thats the case.

I think that more things are happening on newer phones and devices and that same task feels slower on older device. This happens are lot faster on iPhones and phones in general (a year or two) as opposed to Macs/computers which can show signs of aging in 4-5 years.

My 2018 intel computer feels very slow in 2025 running Gnome. No one slowed it down. It's just that the 2025 world of software is a lot heavier and 2026 will be even more and so on.
by shivasurya | 2025-10-15 13:55:21+00:00
I would say this is a nice & clever attack vector by calculating from rendering time aka side channeling. Kudos to the researchers though it would take lot of time and capture pixels even for Google authenticator. My worry is now how much of this could be reproduced to steal OTP from messages.

Given to rise of well defined templates (accurately vibe coding design for example: GitHub notification emails) phishing via email, I have literally stopped clicking links email and now I have stop launching apps from intent directly (say open with). Better to open manually and perform such operation + remove useless apps but people underestimate the attack surface (it can come through sdk, web page intents)
by throwawaygmbno | 2025-10-15 13:55:27+00:00
>But then, let's not pretend that Brendan was a bad person or that he did something wrong

A majority of people in the US at one time felt slavery was perfectly fine. A majority of people in the southern US that could vote supported the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow laws at some point too.

Would you have supported these positions and justified it with other people think the same way too? Being in the majority can make you a bad person.

Robert E Lee was a traitor to the country that fought for slavery. The rewriting of history and spin from the Lost Cause to talk about how reluctant he was, how he went to church, and how nice he was to other white people that supported slavery does not mean he wasn't a bad person.

Discrimination against gay people is usually justified by religion in "polite" conversation, but slavery often was too during its time. In actuality its usually just a hatred with the justification made after the fact.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-15 13:55:36+00:00
I think the meaning was meant more as a `Nobody would intend to buy a new sports car with 14" wheels, but they sure love to advertise the price lower prices for sports cars by making a trim that way` type statement than "gee, $3,500 for an SSD!". Edit: the clarity edit of the original seems to agree.

Apple's SSDs are actually priced a bit silly though, but I think that's a different discussion. It was significantly cheaper/GB to upgrade my M4 Mac Mini's internal SSD via 3rd party despite the performance being the same (if not better) than 1st party.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-15 13:55:43+00:00
It sounds like there’s some sort of rule in the UK where al of the suppliers have to charge the same price per watt (or something), and they’ve named this rule “marginal pricing”? So, it is not entirely the same as a market based pricing.

Whether it is better or not, I have no idea. One could probably see an argument for allowing renewables to price themselves below the sustainable rate for petrochemical based fuels—let them outcompete based on price. Of course that gives them less money to reinvest.

On the other hand, power grids are never entirely market based; the grid needs some dispatchable power for stability sake, and it is hard to get consumers to express their tolerance of power outages in terms of how much extra they’ll pay to keep unused plants in reserve…
by pessimizer | 2025-10-15 13:55:49+00:00
There was a neural net paper like this that generated a lot of discussion on HN, but that I haven't been able to find since (I probably downloaded it, but that teaches me to always remember to use Zotero because academic paper filenames are terrible.)

It was about replacing backprop with a mechanism that checked outcomes against predictions, and just adjusted parameters that deviated from the predictions rather than the entire path. It wasn't suitable for digital machines (because it isn't any more efficient on digital machines) but it worked on analog models. If anybody remembers this, I'd appreciate the link.

I might be garbling the paper because it's from memory and I'm not an expert, but hopefully it's recognizable.
by palmotea | 2025-10-15 13:55:58+00:00
> I don’t think I support UBI but one thing I like about the concept is the absence of eligibility testing that does away with the related bureaucracy. If the bureaucratic overhead stays it’s basically just another government welfare program.

I don't support UBI, because it's the smallest possible sop to the masses, designed so the billionaires' can collect maximum profits from their hoped-for AI wealth machine without them being disrupted by discontent from mass unemployment.

Much better to nationalize the sector, and spread the profits around equally. Give Sam Altman a billion dollars and a pat on the back then show him the door.
by akamaka | 2025-10-15 13:56:07+00:00
> With M5, Apple Vision Pro renders 10 percent more pixels with the micro-OLED displays

I found this little piece of information interesting. Apparently the display on the Vision Pro has such high resolution that they reduce the detail of the rendering. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that reported before. It means that an even higher quality display is still far in the future, since the silicon to push that many pixels isn’t quite ready.
by nsteel | 2025-10-15 13:56:09+00:00
M3: same time

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/apple-unveils-m3-m3-p...

M2: June 2022

M2 pro/max: Jan 2023

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/06/apple-unveils-m2-with...

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/01/apple-unveils-m2-pro-...
by NickC25 | 2025-10-15 13:56:13+00:00
It doesn't make sense, until it does - because Mark's shares are quite literally a separate class from all other shares and IIRC have 10x the voting power as common class A stock.

If he announced he is selling them all at once, I have no doubt in my mind he could get someone (or a group of investors, or a bank) to purchase all those class B shares almost immediately at a VERY healthy premium. Meta shares are currently around USD $715. There's absolutely zero doubt in my mind that if he was to sell them in a block, with the outsized voting power, he could command roughly USD $950-1100 per share with ease.
Show HN: AI Travel Hacker in iOS Store
by skyler1537 | 2025-10-15 13:56:37+00:00
Hey - Co-Founder of Gondola.ai here. We just released our iOS app that puts a travel hacker in your pocket. It works 24/7 to organize your points, find price drops on your existing reservations, and books you directly with hotels (no third party).

It’s free and live on the App Store. We’d love feedback from the HN community on how we can make agentic travel even better!
by samwillis | 2025-10-15 13:56:53+00:00
Software is very easy to bloat, expand scope, and grow to do more than really needed, or just to release apps that are then forgotten about.

Hardware is naturally limited in scope due to manufacturing costs, and doesn't "grow" in the same way. You replace features and components rather than constantly add to them.

Apple needs someone to come in and aggressively cut scope in the software, removing features and products that are not needed. Pair it down to something manageable and sustainable.
by eptcyka | 2025-10-15 13:57:59+00:00
Open firmware is but one part of the equation. The evolutionary pressure of state actors trying to deploy malware on iOS and Android forces those platforms to develop vulnerability mitigations and security architectures that currently just are not matched by anything in FOSS. Desktop linux is woefully insecure compared to these platforms. I don't want it to be, but it seems that, unless you are ready to use Qubes, no one has the time and effort to further the security of desktop linux in any meaningful way.