MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-10-29 05:48:06+00:00
Next time you take a step outside, look around. Obesity, skyrocketing rates of all forms of mental illness (one of the most relevant being autism), rapidly declining IQs [1], plummeting testosterone levels (even for people in otherwise good physical shape), and much more.

Why? Nobody knows. So the answer is most likely that we're doing what we've endlessly done countless times dating back to at least the era of the Roman Empire, and are accidentally poisoning ourselves with something (or some things) that we are convinced is completely safe. I'm not saying that Kennedy is right, but I am saying that "we" are wrong. And so walking down a different path on occasion is not only okay, but a very good idea.

[1] - https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-...
by pertymcpert | 2025-10-29 05:49:03+00:00
Are you just making up numbers? Power efficiency is relative, and the argument about Apple Silicon efficiency was a thing since M1 and you have to compare it to the competitors at the time. Of course Intel have caught up a lot of ground.

But even if your numbers weren't pulled out of your ass, a 3hr vs 1.5hr difference is a *100%* improvement. In what multiverse is that not absolutely phenomenal?
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-29 05:49:44+00:00
The problem is for developers. Abandoning Android for Linux is not viable for software developers who need to eat. Sure, we can use Linux smartphones ourselves, but if the software we make has a grand total of three people who ever lay eyes on it, that's less than ideal. And given how The Year of the Linux Desktop has gone, I think it'd be strongly preferable if we managed to stave off the tightening of control over Android rather than placing bets on the future Year of the Linux Smartphone.
by bruce511 | 2025-10-29 05:50:09+00:00
I applaud you for your principled stance. And of course this change in Chrome changes nothing wrt your ability to continue doing this.

Equally your preference for HTTP should not stand in the way of a more secure default for the average person.

Honestly I'd prefer that my mom didn't browse any http sites, it's just safer that way. But that doesn't detract from your ability to serve unencrypted pages which can easily be intercepted or modified by an ISP (or worse.)
by labrador | 2025-10-29 05:51:41+00:00
I tested Google Search, Google Gemini and Claude with "Taylor Swift showgirl". Gemini and Claude gave me a description plus some links. Both were organized better than the Google search page. If I didn't like the description that Claude or Google gave me I could click on the Wikipedia link. Claude gave me a link to Spotify to listen while Gemini gave me a link to YouTube to watch and lisen.

The complaint about the OpenAI browser seems to be it didn't show any links. I agree, that is a big problem. If you are just getting error prone AI output then it's pretty worthless.
by weitendorf | 2025-10-29 05:51:48+00:00
You say that, but sufficiently advanced automated formatting and fixing can be its own kind of footgun. The unsung heroes behind making absolutely sure my code passed Go linting also enabled an automatic formatter that would constantly remove imports immediately after adding them, because they were now imported and not used.

However a normal person might actually handle auto formatting in their CICD still requires spending a decent amount of upfront time and ongoing maintenance on running scripts/containers that convert true tabs into 4-spaces tabs. Most of the time, anything that’s fully automatically formattable into something that passes linting is so trivially superficial like reordering or replacing or spacing out things, so if it’s necessary for anything more important than that I’d be questioning things.

I can actually see value in encouraging explicit types for most of the kind of stuff I work on, but I’d never choose Python for them to begin with because of that. LLMs make some of this stuff a lot easier to handle in one shot, but the ceremony and constant implication that you can’t be trusted to good work without being forced to wear a monkey backpack with a leash just wear you down when you run into them consistently over long periods of time.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-29 05:51:52+00:00
It technically is in California. If your position is posted in a job ad in California is needs to disclose wage.

If we're on wish mode: I sure wish worker would come together and proper unionize rather than do anything else to grovel to the company. These are not new problems, and blood was spilt to get where we are today, follow by decades of disestablishment to claw it back.
by casualscience | 2025-10-29 05:52:01+00:00
Just went through that thread, I can't believe this wasn't a team of like 20 people.

It's crazy to me that apple would put one guy on a project this important. At my company (another faang), I would have the ceo asking me for updates and roadmaps and everything. I know that stuff slows me down, but even without that, I don't think I could ever do something like this... I feel like I do when I watch guitar youtubers, just terrible

I hope you were at least compensated like a team of 20 engineers :P
by johnohara | 2025-10-29 05:52:06+00:00
I tried to search for what the acronym "Neo" is based on but no luck. Maybe it's a cinematic reference that got assigned in development and stuck. I don't know.

But it did remind me of my friend Ben Skora and his robot AROK. Fabricated in his garage using sheet metal (Ben rebuilt cars), power window motors, dryer vent pipe for arms, a Richard Nixon halloween mask inside a motorcycle helmet, two car batteries and wheels as shoes, bicycle brake clamps covered with rubber gloves as hands, a front panel of lights that blinked, and miles of wiring that never worked 100%.

The whole system was analog. Tones from two princess phone keypads controlled the motors and he could talk and listen remotely (20 ft away) using a hacked set of walkie-talkies. Don't ask me how.

AROK was built in ~1971-1973 and now resides inside a glass case at the Moraine Valley Community College Technology Building. [1]

He built AROK to help around the house, do chores, walk the dog, etc.

[0] https://cyberneticzoo.com/robots/1975-arok-ben-skora-america...

[1] https://www.morainevalley.edu/news-story/arok-the-robot-roll...
by scott_w | 2025-10-29 05:53:07+00:00
Absolutely the right choice. I do triathlons and your comment makes me think of all the people who turn up, do an Ironman and leave the sport after. Or people who sign up for a marathon, do it, then never run again.

Meanwhile there are shorter events you can do on much less training and cheaper equipment to see if you’ll like it before investing in the extreme end of the sport. If you run a 10k and hate every step, you’ve saved yourself a lot of time, pain and money.
by broodbucket | 2025-10-29 05:54:20+00:00
The Year of the Linux Desktop is kind of happening. Not at the scale that the meme implies, but I've never seen anywhere near as much adoption of the Linux desktop as this year. The combination of Valve's efforts, more usage of Linux gaming handhelds, distributions like Bazzite that have strong selling points for Windows gamers, and Microsoft pissing everyone off with everything that is Windows 11, the Linux desktop has some legitimate momentum for once
by petre | 2025-10-29 05:54:26+00:00
Don't worry. Sillicon Valley will fix it with AI. /s

We'll just have to give up perpetual growth and do more with less. The world population was always smaller than what it is now. What will happen is people from other, more crowded places, are going to move in and no amount of deportations is going to stop that.

https://youtu.be/APo2p4-WXsc
by LetMeLogin | 2025-10-29 05:54:36+00:00
I have experienced this as well. However, I wasn't sure where I should report it. Warranty? Bug?

I'm fairly new to the Apple ecosystem, so it's quite confusing. I've tried raising an issue with warranty, but I could absolutely not find a place to do it(I had a few tries, installed some app, but I wasn't able to create anything that wouldn't be visited in the shop, just a support request)
by nbk_2000 | 2025-10-29 05:54:42+00:00
Other zines have filled the void left by 2600, one of my favorites being PoC||GTFO. (pocorgtfo.hacke.rs)

I think the author isn't considering that people's bubbles have gotten smaller and more opaque. There's still plenty of weird hackers innovating, they just do it with their chosen peers, not in mass-culture.

As predicted "The revolutions are not being televised."
by gnarlouse | 2025-10-29 05:55:09+00:00
No he definitely tinkered. Yes, his primary tinkering mechanism was "having others execute his vision," but like if that's not tinkering then neither is editing config files like the article author mentions, because you're directing other peoples code into configuration.

There's one story from Macintosh era where he spent weeks harassing one engineer over the calculator app: "it looks too bloated, it looks afwul, these lines are terrible.." until the engineer got fed up and said "here this is the Macintosh Calculator App: Steve Edition. You get to pick your font, your layout, your color theme." And Steve sat there for hours literally tinkering on a calculator app until he got what he wanted.

He tried to get Paul Rand to change the colors on the NeXT logo--who promptly directed Steve to go have s*x with himself.

There was one point in the Apple Store's inception where they had basically reached done, and Steve decides that he didn't like a certain aspect of it, which was essentially going to require them to redo the entire thing. So he did, and they started from scratch. I think it might have been the Carrara marble floors but I can't remember for certain.

I'm not saying I have immense respect for the guy as a human being, but he was absolutely a notorious tinkerer--a complete menace of one.
by vga42 | 2025-10-29 05:56:15+00:00
What percentage of Windows games runs on Windows? I'm not trying to be funny; it's clearly less than 100%.

I've been personally running Linux on my gaming box for 2-3 years I think. AMD hardware, obviously. BF6 doesn't work (and perhaps never can work) because of its quite invasive anti-cheat, but there are so many games out there that it's not a big deal. Insurgency: Sandstorm is a vastly better game anyway.

I realize that this is probably a big deal for many people, though, but perhaps those people are better off with a Playstation anyway.
by frm88 | 2025-10-29 05:57:12+00:00
Larry Sanger, the person who accuses Wikipedia of "smear campaigns against conservatives" [0] and begs Elon Musk to investigate whether members of the administration are contributing to Wikipedia [1] and to immediately defund them. That Larry Sanger.

[0] https://larrysanger.org/2023/06/how-wikipedia-smears-conserv...

[1] https://nypost.com/2025/03/07/media/wikipedia-co-founder-cal...
by lettuceconstant | 2025-10-29 05:57:38+00:00
I do the same, although my reasoning probably slightly differs. I hate the idea that I'll mangle a pastime as "primitive" as hiking or biking into some technology optimization problem. People did this stuff way back with perfectly simple gear and were entirely happy enough.

Sure, I could probably be a bit faster or go on a bit longer if I had better gear. But I could also achieve that by just getting into a better shape. With this level of commitment the gear is not the limiting factor. If I can't go faster with this bike, then I don't deserve to go faster with a fancier one, god dammit.

My work is very complicated and technical, so I get some satisfaction from keeping my hobbies ascetic.
by the_pwner224 | 2025-10-29 05:57:51+00:00
Yeah I get that, but it still feels really unpleasant from the side of a regular customer. Sure, Apple is targeting the software industry and media industry who'll pay $5k for a fully kitted out MBP for all of their employees. And the regular normies who don't need much RAM/storage get amazing hardware at a good price point - good for them.

But as a regular guy who just has a lot of files and tends to keep tons of browser tabs open... it really sucks that I'm in the situation of getting extorted for $3k of pure profit for Apple, or have to settle for subpar hardware from other companies (but at a reasonable price). Wasn't an issue when the RAM & SSD weren't soldered on, but now you can't upgrade them yourself.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-29 05:59:06+00:00
You think governments should have a full integration team full time for potential software deployments of bought on the shelf solution?

That doesn’t make much sense. Governments don’t have that much software integration to do. Especially when you consider that these projects generally require specific knowledge of what’s integrated. What will these people do the rest of the time? Are you suggesting hiring specialists of every piece of software the government is likely to use full time?

I mean when faced with something you completely fail to understand there are two solutions: it’s all a scam or you are missing something fundamental. Here I think a lot of people are completely misunderstanding what integration is about.

Consider that these are not IT issues which push all these departments to ask for different feature sets and customisations leading to every integration being different and these are not problems programmers will solve.

Consider also what happens if projects fail. With an integrator, you sue them or breach with penalties and move on to a competitor. No harm, no foul. If it’s internal, you have a full on restructuration on your hand for something that is not even your core responsibility.

Anyway, I would like to see the face of some you when you learn that it’s highly likely that’s the people managing the integrators from the customer side were probably mostly consultants for a big consulting firm because that’s another thing government agencies don’t know how to do.
by oreally | 2025-10-29 05:59:55+00:00
> Besides, the gaming industry keeps shooting themselves in the foot by only supporting Windows (Mac is a thing too). That is slowly changing, but so many game devs are drinking the Microsoft koolaid they don't even consider using another graphics API other than DirectX. Many other decisions like that as well.

If you think game devs are drinking koolaid, do note that there's always loud minority of linux advocates on forums like these, saying 'it works' and when expanding further it turns out they had to do a ton of tweaking and setup. Just look at the comments on getting Overwatch2 to work on linux for an example.

Fact of the matter is most of the game dev's audience is on windows, and for a time it had good tools/documentation for graphics debugging as well. That momentum carried over. It made practical sense to have main development be on windows.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-10-29 05:59:58+00:00
I'm wondering about teleoperation. Many housekeeping activities require an incredible level of attention to detail, precision, and real-time awareness. For example, consider manual dishwashing, small sewing jobs, knife operation, or repotting houseplants. Even if latency were not an issue, the operator would need to excel at all these tasks.

By the way, we've had robotic surgery [1] for years. These machines are very expensive, and it takes months, if not years, to learn to operate them flawlessly.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_surgery
by r_singh | 2025-10-29 06:00:05+00:00
At this point, my adoption of AI tools is motivated by fear of missing out or being left behind. I’m a self-taught programmer running my own SaaS.

I have memory and training enabled. What I can objectively say about Atlas is that I’ve been using it and I’m hooked. It’s made me roughly twice as productive — I solved a particular problem in half the time because Atlas made it easy to discover relevant information and make it actionable. That said, affording so much control to a single company does make me uneasy.
by zharknado | 2025-10-29 06:01:00+00:00
Fwiw sometimes I wear my APP2 inside my cheap passive 3M earmuffs haha. For an hour or two of use it’s been comfortable enough that I can listen and also attenuate loud tool noise e.g. a weed trimmer.

Of course you don’t get any speech boost to enable conversation with this setup. But no one else around me has passthrough either so I turn off my tools to talk the old fashioned way. :)
by some_guy_nobel | 2025-10-29 06:01:53+00:00
From the outside looking in, if your "last resort" comment truly was a guess to their reasoning, then I'm rather shocked. We're both on HN, so I have to assume we both work in tech and have access to the same information regarding why Amazon has earned its awful reputation.

Beyond that, I agree with your larger point, with an asterisk on "overpaying", as I do think an American company should have an incentive to prevent laying off workers just to refill them with offshoring and hiring H1Bs, especially at Amazon's scale of profitability.
by yardstick | 2025-10-29 06:02:08+00:00
> HTTPS doesn't have mandatory key rotation every 90 days. LetsEncrypt does for reasons that they document, but you can go elsewhere if you'd prefer.

A lot of this discussion is about how the browsers define their security requirements on top of HTTPS/TLS/etc.

Such as what CAs they trust by default, and what’s the maximum lifetime of a certificate before they won’t trust it. I believe it is now 2 years? Going even lower soon.
by kragen | 2025-10-29 06:03:06+00:00
Hopefully Pizlo will correct me if I get this wrong, but I don't think Fil-C's pointer tagging enforces constness, which isn't needed for C in any case. This C code compiles with no warnings and outputs "Howlong\n" with GCC 12.2.0-14 -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wextra:

#include <stdio.h> int main() { const char c[] = "Howling\n"; char *p = (char*)c; p[4] = 'o'; printf("%s", c); return 0; }

Somewhat to my surprise, it still compiles successfully with no warnings as C++ (renaming to deconst.cc and compiling with g++). I don't know C++ that well, since I've only been using it for 35 years, which isn't nearly long enough to learn the whole language unless you write a compiler for it.

Same results with Debian clang (and clang++) version 14.0.6 with the same options.

Of course, if you change c[] to *c, it will segfault. But it still compiles successfully without warnings.

Laundering your pointer through an integer is evidently not necessary.
by hekkle | 2025-10-29 06:03:38+00:00
I think you are better off making a complaint to the Australian Australian Consumers’ Association (CHOICE) https://accounts.choice.com.au/contact-us/ than to the ACCC

Tell them to lodge a designated complaint to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC).

ACCC complaints are designed for individual grievances while a designated complaint from a designated complainer is supposed to address "significant or systemic market issues that affect consumers in Australia".
by chemotaxis | 2025-10-29 06:03:42+00:00
> To me, that seems to be a requirement for the computing industry for a long time.

Sure, but they have a market cap of 5 trillion. It's about 10x that of AMD, which also sells similar silicon (and isn't in any distress). It's more than Apple, Google, and Microsoft - and these companies historically found ways to make more money than the vendors they buy chips from.

The problem isn't that Nvidia doesn't have good fundamentals or good products, it's that the market is expecting miracles.

In the case of Nvidia, the funny thing is that their high valuations started not with AI, but with cryptocurrencies. Just never really came down - they coasted from a silly hype cycle to a more substantive one. Ten years ago, NVDA wasn't an interesting stock at all.
by weitendorf | 2025-10-29 06:03:51+00:00
I don’t dispute that. What I’m saying is that functional and even non-functional taste in software tends to be grounded in how it can more effectively serve our needs. In a way that’s actually a more profound kind of creativity and taste than something that tries to just look cool.

OTOH music and anything else snob-adjacent aren’t grounded in serving our direct needs to some other end the same way software tends to be, so to them “taste” could be reducible to just a favorite flavor or becomes a kind of status/value/oneupmanship. The products are consumed directly as ends unto themselves so people who have strong opinions on their comparative tastefulness care about that for different reasons than they do software.
by anonym29 | 2025-10-29 06:04:35+00:00
99% of all malware with real world consequences is caused by unverified developers, ergo, all unverified developers should be removed from app stores.

99% of all car accidents with real world consequences are caused by licensed human drivers, ergo, all licensed human drivers should be removed from roads.

Same argument. It's true, and simultaneously, it skips right past all of the ramifications of the proposal, even when the ramifications conceivably result in more harm than the original problem did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-29 06:04:41+00:00
> That's a weird way of putting it

France is offset by at least one hour from its actual time zone, Portugal by two. I don’t really see what’s weird here. It’s exactly the effect of year long DST. It goes all the way to two and three hours in summer.

Apparently people don’t really care about the winter mornings when they are used to it because approximately no one wants to get back to a normal time zone there. Some people are even arguing for keeping the even more extreme DST year long.

I will hazard that your stats from the 70s have everything to do with habits and very little to do with the actual effect of shifting time long term.
by codedokode | 2025-10-29 06:05:06+00:00
Before buying a smartphone I tried to find an inexpensive model that supports open source OS, but I couldn't. What open OS support is ether expensive Pixels, or outdated models.

The solution, I think, would be a regulation that forbids manufacturers of any chip or device CPU from making obstacles to reprogramming the device (using fuses, digital signatures, encryption etc). So if you buy a device with CPU and writable memory, you should be able to load your own program and manufacturer may not use technical measures to stop you. The goal of regulation would be preventing of creating digital waste, vendor locks and allow reusing the hardware.

Of course, features like theft prevention won't work, so the user should be able to waive this right.
by spockz | 2025-10-29 06:05:22+00:00
It depends. Mostly it is choosing the right base image architecture. For rust and golang we can trivially cross compile and just plunk the binary in the appropriate base image. For JVM based apps it is the same because we just need to have the jars in the right place. We can do this on either architecture.

The only hold out is GraalVM which doesn’t trivially support cross compilation (yet).
by kragen | 2025-10-29 06:09:34+00:00
Having a trustworthy channel for verified app loading is a vital security tool. F-Droid is such a channel; the Google Play Store is not. F-Droid inspects the source code of the applications they build, removes malware and other antifeatures from them, and compiles them from source to ensure that the binaries they deliver correspond to the source code they've inspected. The Google Play Store doesn't do any of those things. Consequently it's full of malware.

The topic here is Google nuking F-Droid from orbit, probably because it has NewPipe.
by benrutter | 2025-10-29 06:09:58+00:00
Climate change is so confusing to message about in this sense, because the future is not decided.

We're on track to warm the planet far past the point that of sustaining something you and I would recognise as human society. That said, we're also changing course which has the opportunity to mitigate things.

The meta part is, if everyone thinks we'll change course, that affects whether we do. There's no straight prediction that can be made.