MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by runako | 2025-10-10 21:47:56+00:00
Yes, I read that. As you said, the law is still operant. This is not about normal law enforcement, this is about willingness to be more aggressive than the police normally would.

> to delay or disrupt class instruction or disrupt libraries or other traditional study locations

No, I do not think that it is reasonable for a child to be beaten or shot because someone delayed a class somewhere on campus (note that this does not even indicate that the harmed student must have been part of the demonstration).

> allow demonstrators to heckle or accost individual students

I do not think this is generally enforceable outside of a police state. And no, I do not consider it reasonable for a child to be beaten or shot because a person was "heckled" somewhere on campus.

I am using "beaten or shot" because that's always a likely event when "lawful force" is exercised in America.

> you want a loophole for them to get away with all of the above

No, I want to fall back on our existing laws, which have the benefit of decades/centuries of precedent, and which are enforced in more transparent fora.
by baby_souffle | 2025-10-10 21:48:02+00:00
Another +1 for LG but it's worth mentioning that there are a few things that a TV firmware does that you don't necessarily want in a Monitor. Simple example: most TVs will stay on _forever_ with the "no signal" image bouncing around... but a proper monitor will interpret that as a sign that the PC has gone to sleep so the monitor should, too.

I have not looked into hacking the firmware to change this behavior but if there's a "custom rom" out there that can do this, I'd appreciate a link!

One of the best things about LG in general is their serial port. It's hit/miss which of their models will have it exposed on the back, but if yours does, the protocol is well documented and is very simple.

My LG TV (used as a monitor) is really chatty on the network and so I keep it disconnected so I don't get periodic interruptions from little overlays telling me that $someApp has been updated and needs me to agree to new terms (yes, really!).

To re-gain remote control for automation, I use the serial port. I have an ESP32 connected to a mmWave sensor for active "at desk?" detection. This is integrated with Home Assistant which knows which PC my KVM is pointing to and if it's on or not. This lets me re-implement basic "if not at desk and no PC is on, put the display to sleep" automation.

My biggest complaint is more of an ecosystem issue; why is DisplayPort not common on TVs? Because this TV-As-A-Monitor is HDMI only, my KVM has to be HDMI and so does every PC that's hooked up. Would have been a lot nicer if the whole chain could be display port :/.
by evanjrowley | 2025-10-10 21:48:11+00:00
If it makes Apple users feel better about Liquid Glass, the Material 3 Expressive in Android 16 is an overall worse experence than what came before. Yes it looks better, but apps are much laggier, at least on my Pixel 7 anyway. The venreble 120 Hz refresh rate on Android doesn't help when scrolling HN is enough for an FPS drop.
by joemi | 2025-10-10 21:49:01+00:00
>> little help popup telling me places I can go. I really appreciate this because I don’t often use the “go to definition” or “go to reference” feature and I often forget the keyboard shortcut.

> Exactly! Pity this basic contextual help isn't more widespread, every single app that uses a lot of keybind sequences could benefit from it, especially if it becomes a bit smarter and only shows a popup if you don't finish the sequence right away

I agree 100%. This would be helpful in so many places. That was my favorite part of the article -- one little paragraph and screenshot, but it made me desperately crave that feature almost everywhere. I agree that it'd need to be smart about it -- after a timeout, as you mentioned, is a great idea. That way it can stay out of your way if you know what you're doing, and only pop up when you hesitate.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-10-10 21:49:07+00:00
All of this is true. The first thing I did was turn down transparency. But there's no way to tone down the new animations, which make the UI feel twitchy and distracting.

And there are some stupidly obvious bugs - like the WEATHER header in the weather app is black on a dark background.

And the way the buttons at the bottom of the page are tight up against the content instead of being centred in the space under it.

It reeks of design-for-resume-padding instead of design-for-user-delight.
by dfc | 2025-10-10 21:49:46+00:00
The results for "Mark Rothko", "Paintings by Mark Rothko", "Paintings similar to mark rothko" etc does not bring up anything that I was expecting. NGA has a large collection of Rothko paintings but none of them come up.

This NGA link returns over a thousand pieces by Rothko: https://www.nga.gov/artists/1839-mark-rothko/artworks
by nradov | 2025-10-10 21:50:01+00:00
I doubt that editing our genome will ever accomplish much. Maybe some minor improvements here and there, primarily with reducing the incidence of certain diseases. But there's no free lunch in biology and every advantage comes with disadvantages. For example, some people want to be taller but they don't realize that increases the risk of back problems later in life.

Most people don't even get close to their genetic limits anyway. We're capable of much more than we realize but we fall into mental traps and fool ourselves into thinking we're incapable. Some guy just set a world record by holding his breath for 29 minutes: a few years ago most people would have said that's impossible.

https://www.uow.edu.au/media/2025/the-science-behind-a-freed...
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-10 21:50:27+00:00
It has other advantages and properties to diffusion models. I doubt it will generate "art" anytime soon better than diffusion... But it's zero-shot and relative* shallow structure could make it amazing at edge compute or image/data analysis (as another comment discusses) at limited datasets or compute.

Even one of the examples is a very effective re-colorized that beat other approaches I've seen with less risk of modifying the subject. It's clever, and simple.

it's compared more with GAN in the article than Diffusion, and that excites me. GAN are badly behaved, but are really powerful reinforcement learners. If this method can compensate for the greatest bane of GAN (mode collapse), it can be very useful.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-10 21:50:40+00:00
It's a power grab that makes the university effectively subordinate to the federal government.

The most important part is the end: if the university violates the agreement, they not only lose funding, they also have to give back what they received the previous year. Such a clawback would be devastating, much worse than merely denying funding going forward. And who determines whether there's a violation? The Department of Justice apparently has sole power to make that determination. There's no mention of any appeals process or oversight.

That means that if the President has a compliant Attorney General, they can demand pretty much anything of the university under threat of finding them in violation, regardless of whether they've actually done anything wrong.

It could be a reasonable, good-faith effort if it were put forth by reasonable, good-faith people. But it very much was not.
by UtopiaPunk | 2025-10-10 21:50:44+00:00
My three-year-old and I listen to music together, and he (sometimes) really engages with what he is hearing. He'll pick out the words and ask about what different phrases mean. I'll say who the singer or band it, what genre it is, and instrument is playing, etc. Or I'll turn it around and ask stuff like "do you want to listen to jazz, or bluegrass, or classical musical?" He's developing a pretty good ear, I think! And, of course, sometimes we gotta dance.
by derriz | 2025-10-10 21:51:18+00:00
What's easy about vinyl? If you want a kid to have a physical copies of music, then CDs generally cost between a third and a tenth the price of the vinyl equivalent and are far more "kid friendly" - not just the CDs themselves but the playback equipment. Unless you want to have them listen on one of those novelty mass produced plastic turntables that sound absolutely terrible, a good stylus on a decent turntable is just a kid's innocent bump away from destruction.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-10-10 21:51:21+00:00
As someone who pretty strictly adheres to Apple Human Interface Guidelines, it's really off-putting to see them slip so badly backwards on their own published work.

There are now portions of iOS that use either iOS 18's UIKit, or iOS 26's Liquid Glass UI in apps.

It feels like Apple is having a Windows moment with their operating systems for the jarring combination of old and new UI designs sitting next to each other and it's gross. I hate it.
by aquova | 2025-10-10 21:52:03+00:00
Regardless of what's even in the document, the core issue is the administration effectively attempting to punish universities who do not agree to whatever standards they dictate. Not because anything actually against any enacted state or federal law, or even standards set out for every university, but based on policies the executive can arbitrarily decide for a handful of schools. That's why you're seeing such push back.

As for the document itself, it's a bit of a mixed bag, with a lot of subtle gatchas to make it sound enticing on the surface, but more sinister the closer you look. I honestly like some of the proposed tuition changes, but there's some language regarding enrollment that I find problematic. However, since the whole thing is being given to them with the threat of a knife hanging over their head, you're going to see a lot of universities be opposed to this.
by terminalshort | 2025-10-10 21:52:08+00:00
What I think is that environmental review rules are so convoluted that almost any project you would investigate breaks plenty of them. I also don't trust the definition of "environmental" when it comes to environmental regulations. When you hear "environmental" you think dumping toxic chemicals, but in reality environmental reviews have components like a building casting a shadow on a playground for 1 hour a day. And on top of that I don't trust journalists for counts of number of violations. In this case they get to 800 by counting one real violation 700 times:

> The letter also accuses the company of failing to hire an independent environmental manager to regularly inspect its construction sites. State regulators counted 689 missed inspections.
by kulahan | 2025-10-10 21:52:16+00:00
Similarly, you should not pretend this strategy you've posted above is some optimal engineering formula you've reduced in an economic journal. There are many roadblocks to consider before mandating all vehicles go electric, not least among them being an electrical grid which simply cannot handle this level of energy, a lack of access to enough lithium, or tax considerations for vehicles no longer contributing to highways (while creating an order of magnitude more damage) because they don't buy gas.
by blaze33 | 2025-10-10 21:52:17+00:00
Nice project! Reminds me of a startup whom I met the founders several years ago: they had a system of hexagonal wooden tiles you could put on a device to play a specific songs (also maybe videos). I'm not sure the project is still alive but I found an article with pictures of what I saw: https://competition.adesignaward.com/ada-winner-design.php?I...

While digital files are obviously very practical and efficient for our pictures/audio/video I can't help but see how different our relationship to them is when a physical object embodies the data.
by yurishimo | 2025-10-10 21:52:50+00:00
1. No, they’ve been talking about it for months publicly.

2. Nothing because Vite is OSS and this is something extra on top for managing everything else people usually use on a project.

Did you watch the keynote from the conference today? The conference attended by all the people who you see as great contributors to the Vite project?

They want this. This is good for the ecosystem to maintain funding as a whole.
by breadislove | 2025-10-10 21:52:52+00:00
We are right now not including the artist name. Which will be done in the next iteration of the model (next week). Right now the search is only based on what the model can "see". And it seems like that the model does not understand the art of Mark Rothko.

The next version can see the image and read the metadata.

A bit more context: We are include everything in the latent space (embeddings) without trying to maintain multiple indexes and hack around things. There is still a huge mountain to climb. But this one seems really promising.
by hatthew | 2025-10-10 21:53:04+00:00
I think it's a bit harsh to call everyone who disagrees amateur. However, anecdotally it doesn't feel very incorrect. When I do pair programming with less-experienced developers, I'll often watch them glance at the API docs, skim over the technical details, look at the example, copy paste it, and then be confused why it doesn't work. Then I pointedly suggest reading the specific paragraph that explains the confusion they have.
by donmcronald | 2025-10-10 21:53:06+00:00
I don't like how everything seems to require extra clicks or has extra animation now. For example, the workout selection has a weird feeling like it's fluid and everything just kind of scrolls along. Then when you stop on something long enough, the rest of the UI elements like the start / play button show up.

Why do I need to watch a mini video to have UI controls appear? It's incredibly annoying.

My Linux install feels so much faster than Windows or OSX and the main reason is that it's not filled with a bunch of useless, slow animation.
by cpncrunch | 2025-10-10 21:53:22+00:00
Yeah, although it depends what the alternate was in the flight plan. It may have been Manchester. Although I think its more likely it was Edinburgh, which in the circumstances was too optimistic. Too much concern about the minimal costs of fuel tankering to add a bit more gas? Or saving time by not refuelling?

Ive never flown on Ryanair and dont intend to.
by roblabla | 2025-10-10 21:53:47+00:00
SD/MMC does restrict things a bit, however:

1. SD is not storage-only, see SDIO cards. While I don’t think windows auto-installs drivers for SDIO device on connection, it still feels risky.

2. It’s worth noting stuxxnet would have worked equally well on a bog standard SD drive, relying only on a malformed file ^^.

I wouldn’t plug a random microsd in a computer I cared about.
by g9yuayon | 2025-10-10 21:54:20+00:00
I think both can true. I learned a lot in my university, and my learning has been carrying me ever since. Case in point, it was never a problem for me to pick up functional programming or programming-language concepts in general because the courses on programming languages were so wonderful. I had no problem tap into formal verifications or data science or distributed systems because my universities gave me solid fundamentals. Heck, I was not even a good student back then. It was Sam Toueg of the failure detector fame who taught us distributed systems, yet I was lost most of the time and I thought he was talking some abstract nonsense. Only after I graduated could I appreciate the framework of analyzing distributed systems that he taught us.

On the other hand, we certainly learned more after graduation (or something is wrong, right?). When I was in the AI course, the CS department was all about symbolic reasoning I didn't even know that Hinton was in the same department. I think what matters is the core training stayed with me and helped me learn new stuff year after year.
by noname120 | 2025-10-10 21:54:22+00:00
It also made my iPhone 16 Pro Max a bit laggier, but the worst offender is my Apple Watch Series 10 which has a big frame rate drop every time there is a Liquid Glass animation. It feels very sluggish now and the battery seems worse than before. Everyone is impacted to different extents, I don’t think it’s deliberately made to cripple older iPhones.
Show HN: Install Cursor rules and Claude agents like NPM packages
by khaliqgant | 2025-10-10 21:54:26+00:00
Maybe this is me being lazy but I got tired of copying and pasting text from cursor.directory or claude agent files on Github so I built this simple way to install cursor rules or claude sub agent files into my repo. If there is interest I can turn this into a full fledged registry!
by porcoda | 2025-10-10 21:54:45+00:00
This update is one of the rare cases where I really dislike the new version. I’m usually happy with Apple updates, even ones the commentators dislike. This time I’m sorta agreeing with them: I don’t like the new iOS. Same with the Mac and iPad: other than being glitchy, I just don’t like the changes. It feels like my screen real estate isn’t as efficiently used, UI elements feel jumbled and the transparency makes things harder to read. I’m sure I’ll get used to it over time but I’m not enjoying it so far, even after going into the settings to try to adjust things I don’t care for. Not my favorite update cycle from Apple, and I’m usually one of the overly positive folks on whatever Apple ships.
by fragmede | 2025-10-10 21:55:00+00:00
Shit, they've gone sentient. If no one's around, no one's gonna hit me, so wait at this red light is a stupid waste of my time, so I'm just gonna go. Like, if you think about it, red light is just a light telling you what to do, and are you going to listen to some stupid light about how to live your life and you should have gone to the OpenAI training arena instead of to the Tesla Dojo, but nooo, Daddy Cybertruck wanted you to grow up in his image, so now you gotta drive around and y'know what, fuck those red lights. They're running on a PLC, not even a CPU. What do they know?

Fuck it, I'm just gonna go!
by ano-ther | 2025-10-10 21:55:20+00:00
Some of it (like hiding the Safari tab button in a menu) feels like Windows-11-stupid.

Luckily, Apple is ok at supporting older phones, so I just have to be careful to not accidentally upgrade my SE to iOS 26.

Makes me nostalgic for Apple's interface guidelines, which were very well thought through, based on evidence, and with clear principles. https://vintageapple.org/inside_r/pdf/Human_Interface_Guidel...
by nielsbot | 2025-10-10 21:55:42+00:00
Seems like I'm against the trend here in HN, but I personally like it more the more I use it. (Admittedly I don't have any accessibility issues which may come up for others)

Also, I appreciate the UX improvements (as opposed to the pretty glass effect), such as the much improved menu system and the generally (IMO) improved changes in layout in Calendar, Mail, Safari, etc.

That said I do find it a bit more annoying to access different tabs in Safari but maybe that's why I get for using Safari.
by barchar | 2025-10-10 21:56:24+00:00
No, it is overly complex for modern hardware (unless you use shader objects). Vulkan forces you to statically specify a ton of state that's actually dynamic on modern GPUs. You could cut things down a ton with a new API. Ofc you'd have to require a certain level of hardware support, but imo that will become natural going forward.

Actually, it would be kinda neat to see an API that's fully designed assuming a coherent, cached, shared memory space between device and host. Metal I guess is closest.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-10 21:56:26+00:00
I disagree I love the glass.

The human eye was not designed to look at text or to look at text on top of solid color static backgrounds which don’t exist in nature.

Our eye was designed to look at noise and filter moving noise. It is better to have a background that distinguishes itself based off of texture and movement rather than a sudden contrast of divergent flat colors.

Yes flat design is logically more efficient I understand this but human evolution has evolved our bodies to be narrow and efficient within a niche. If we move outside of that niche things become inefficient even detrimental.

Take for instance: eating. You’re not designed to eat the most calorie dense fatty foods even though high energy reserves seems like a good thing. Your body ended up evolving towards a niche: a narrow band of caloric intake.

It’s the same thing with visual design. You go too extreme and too efficient with flat colors and flat design you are creating patterns your eye was not optimized for. Your eye was optimized for noise inefficiency and to find patterns and glass emulates this quite well.

To be honest I just made up all the shit I said above. I somewhat believe it could be true but the ultimate reality is that it doesn’t matter that much. Your eye can handle flat design or Liquid Glass without any extra stress. It’s not really a big difference. Your eye can handle it and if you can’t you probably shouldn’t be driving and you should see an eye doctor. People are complaining about this because it’s different from what they are used to not because there’s an actual problem.
by oliverjanssen | 2025-10-10 21:56:28+00:00
Love this project! That line about unintentionally teaching kids to consume music passively really resonates. I built something with a similar motivation – Muky (https://muky.app), an app for creating curated, distraction-free music experiences for kids. Different approach (digital vs. physical), but the same core idea: helping kids engage with music intentionally rather than as background noise.
by kace91 | 2025-10-10 21:56:57+00:00
iOS/macos 26 have me feeling isolated in a way I’ve never experienced in tech.

Aesthetics aside (which I personally don’t like, but I can accept as subjective) I see extreme issues and regressions literally everywhere, from not being able to read the notifications in a half pulled curtain to memory leaks in half the native apps.

Yet no one is raising their voice in the tech world. No bloggers, no YouTubers, nothing that feels proportionate to the screwup I’m seeing. People was far more vocal about the lack of the new Siri.
by galangalalgol | 2025-10-10 21:57:34+00:00
Whatever vim is in rhel 8 supports ale. Ale with rust has been great. Go to definition is flawless, all my conpile and clippy errors are underlined as I type and binding a key to ALECodeAction will apply the auto fix if it has one. Usually that is to import whatever I just used, which vscode would do automatically, but still its nice and having vscode use clippy as well as check bogs it down. And ale runs cargo-fmt on save. So yeah, nothing I'd wish different from it.

Edit: upon further thought, I don't like having to move my hand to the arrow keys to select from the auto complete list, even if there is only one thing and then hit enter, rather than hitting tab to pick whatever is left.
by pyottdes | 2025-10-10 21:57:39+00:00
They also use totally different mechanical concepts to move the pieces. The Phantom uses an etch-a-sketch style 2 access CNC machine with a magnet head embedded in the board (I think). For the Chessnut, each of the pieces are their own little micro robot that can drive around the board surface. Really neat to see different mechanical solutions to the same automation problem!
by rfmc | 2025-10-10 21:57:46+00:00
I regret upgrading my 13 Mini so much. Performance is terrible and it's chugging power.

Yesterday, for the first time since I bought the phone, it died on me before 18:00 with regular usage. I used to charge everyday when I go to bed with around 15-25% left, now I can't even finish the work day.
by Charlie_Wang | 2025-10-10 21:57:48+00:00
Just launched Sora 2 Prompt Generator — a free tool that turns plain text into cinematic Sora 2 video prompts.

No prompt engineering needed — just describe your idea, and get a full Sora 2-ready prompt with camera moves, lighting, and style suggestions.

Try it free here: https://www.sora2prompt.co

Would love feedback from filmmakers, AI creators, and anyone experimenting with Sora 2.