MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by emptybits | 2025-11-12 19:56:09+00:00
While Apple has some admirable history in standing up to government information requests[1], am I alone in wondering now if Apple has started to voluntarily align itself with the current administration? For example, Apple is helping to build Donald Trump's new gold-plated ballroom.[2] (!)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trumps-ballro...
by freejazz | 2025-11-12 19:56:15+00:00
>Meanwhile back in reality, as of today that order is being challenged, and challenging the scope of an interlocutory order in discovery is a normal thing and part of a coherent legal position. So I don't know why you're pretending you don't understand what it means not to "roll over like a beaten dog" in response to overzealous discovery.

That's all OpenAI's argument and not coherent with regard to the facts. That's why they lost. I'd be willing to bet you they lose again. The rest of what you post is just verbatim their side, without any real analysis w/r/t to the facts (again) and I find your responses to this article to be a bit ridiculous in that regard. No less while you criticize others for pointing out OpenAI's incredibly self serving, smarmy, BS about privacy that they otherwise do not actually care about.

Again, this is not an issue of user privacy. OpenAI already represented to the court that they could anonymize the logs and that they did anonymize the logs (something you repeatedly fail to acknowledge while ranting that I didn't read the "article"). The issue is that OpenAI does not want to produce these logs because it will demonstrate that they are wrong. If you're gullible enough to believe otherwise, sure, but it certainly doesn't warrant the ridiculous attitude you bring to communicating with others here.
by Jblx2 | 2025-11-12 19:56:16+00:00
What percentage of people live in a jurisdiction without a sales tax? In my local area, sales tax is 8.8%. And if you take the bridge across the river, tax is 8.9%. So there is already rounding involved, $1.03 becomes $1.12167. Unless of course you bill also includes a mix of taxable and non-taxable items like food, etc..
by oreid52 | 2025-11-12 19:56:18+00:00
A short essay on a simple idea: if goals are living and ego is quiet, the better thing is allowed to lead with far less resistance.

It frames a reality-first culture that celebrates endings, updates quickly, and serves customers over attachments to past wins, titles, narratives, metrics, and stories that made us look good yesterday.

Curious for counterexamples where this still fails. Or examples of times where you were in a company that operated in this way.
by 542458 | 2025-11-12 19:56:46+00:00
I'm not really sure about "He said it was to reduce [...] criminals having to store it". Storage shouldn't be a huge problem - IIRC you can pack about a hundred million onto a standard pallet. Even for Escobar, who is THE outlier here, and assuming he's holding 100% of it in cash, that's about 300 pallets which easily fits into a normal warehouse. If you've got that much money it shouldn't be impossible to keep a warehouse like that clean and dry.

Now, "illicit activity" more broadly speaking checks out to me. The EU stopped printing the 500 euro note because it was primarily used for illegal transactions and money laundering.
by conor- | 2025-11-12 19:56:50+00:00
I view it as Valve is doing me a favor by adding friction towards me installing a rootkit to play video games.

There's also been numerous userspace ACs that work well and also run in userspace (EAC, Battleye, etc.) that have been enabled for Linux/Proton users (including by EA with Apex Legends at one point). A lot of the support for Linux mostly comes down to the developer/publishers not wanting to and not because of technical reasons.
by evanelias | 2025-11-12 19:56:58+00:00
I believe GP is technically correct in several ways. The first 13 states were mostly independent and sovereign under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 until 1789, when the US Constitution superseded it and established a much more significant central government.

Texas was an independent republic from 1836 until US annexation at the end of 1845. Although Mexico did not recognize the independence of the Republic of Texas, numerous other countries did.

California is more of an edge-case. It was arguably an independent republic for a few weeks in 1846. And a similar story with Florida: the Republic of West Florida existed for a couple months in 1810. But both of these cases were basically small uprisings that weren't broadly recognized by other countries.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-11-12 19:57:14+00:00
There are groups that are more focused on music (DnB, dubstep, other festival-friendly genres), focused on dancing, focused on drinking games, focused on world-hopping, etc. I'm into the underground rave vibe, so for that there's VRC Party Hub, which is a guy who runs a discord who befriends as many clubs as he can find in that scene, and imports their schedules/announcements channels into a nightly report of all known events.

https://x.com/VRChatPartyHub
by rwyinuse | 2025-11-12 19:57:26+00:00
Same here, though I did it a bit earlier. Data center SSD's I bought a while back for 50 euros each from Ebay now sell for over 200 euros. Similar increase for HDD's too.

Maybe in 3-5 years there will be a fantastic time to upgrade again, after AI bubble has burst and slightly used stuff gets dumped from data centers to online marketplaces.
by hinkley | 2025-11-12 19:57:32+00:00
The Itanium felt like Intel trying on the same bet - move the speculative and analysis logic into the compiler and off the CPU. But where it differed is that it tried to leave some internal implementation details of that decoding process exposed so the compiler could call it directly, in a way that transmeta didn’t manage.

I wonder how long before we try it again.
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-11-12 19:57:34+00:00
In the United States, getting an ID is expensive and time-consuming and is often inaccessible to many people, particularly those who don’t speak English, are poor, or work service jobs. These people are the same people who are historically marginalized and oppressed. This is why voter ID laws in the United States are fundamentally anti-democratic and disenfranchising.

If IDs were free and incredibly easy to get, I wouldn’t care about a voter ID law.
by mrsmrtss | 2025-11-12 19:58:00+00:00
>And so has Hejlsberg, apparently, seeing his reasoning for choosing go over C# for tsc

It was more related to the fact that the existing TS code was more easily ported to Go, and also .NET AOT wasn't mature enough at that time. Structural typing has its own problems. I'm personally not a big fan of it.
by mayli | 2025-11-12 19:58:03+00:00
Yeah, gemini gives $649 - $699 for BOM, $749+ if they want some margin from the hardware. Which is cheaper than most "Gaming PC", but still more expensive than Switch/PS5, and lack the expandability of PC.

I wish they could sell at $300-$500, that's really going to make this a must have for this year.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-11-12 19:58:21+00:00
I'm the same. I'm both a Python and C# developer. I use Python for all my personal projects, and given the choice, for MOST projects I'll always pitch Python first, Django gives me the strengths of something like ASP .NET / EF Core, but without feeling like they're building more abandonware. I really love Blazor and heck even MAUI, but will they still be there in 10 years? Probably, will Microsoft have some new project that replaces them? probably.

Then there's Django. Rarely changes, only for the better. Upgrading Django versions is usually painless too. The ORM is fine enough.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-11-12 19:58:21+00:00
> Roughly equivalent resolution to Quest 3 and less than Vision Pro. This won't be suitable as a monitor replacement for general desktop use.

The real limiting factor is more likely to be having a large headset on your face for an extended period of time, combined with a battery that isn't meant for all-day use. The resolution is fine. We went decades with low resolution monitors. Just zoom in or bring it closer.
by kccoder | 2025-11-12 19:58:34+00:00
Do you have reliable sources to support your claims? And if they cheated Trump of a win in 2020, when he had control of the government, why didn't they steal the 2024 election too, when they had control of government?

Because it's all nonsense. Trump lies about everything and will never be capable of admitting defeat on anything, ever.

You were duped, conned by an expert conman. You're not alone.
by JeremyNT | 2025-11-12 19:58:49+00:00
There are some early previews where people ran some actual games at it[0].

Here are some of their results:

> In Cyberpunk 2077, running at 4K, it’s a surprisingly stable 60fps, albeit with the caveat of that using FSR 3 upscaling on Performance mode with Medium quality settings. But, also: basic ray tracing, something the Deck can’t even think about enabling outside of very specific games.

> The next game I tested, Black Myth: Wukong, is best run with its own RT effects switched off. Still, it also averaged around 60fps on otherwise similar settings: Performance-level FSR 3 upscaling to 4K, plus the Medium quality preset. And, in an almost unnerving repeat performance, Silent Hill f ran close enough to a solid 60fps (with most drops owed to Unreal Engine 5’s signature stuttering) on the Performance-level graphics settings and, once again, FSR 3 running on Performance mode.

[0] https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hands-on-with-the-new-steam...
by slg | 2025-11-12 19:59:04+00:00
It's interesting to see them putting more attention on playing traditional games with this. I have long thought that the most broadly viable use for VR headsets in gaming is giving users a big screen to play their regular games. There just doesn't actually appear to be much market for true VR games considering all the complicating factors like motion sickness or requiring a big play area. It reminds me of the Nintendo Wii. Taking turns playing Beat Saber with a few of your friends is fun just like Wii Sports was, but in the end people are going to spend a lot more time sitting on their couch to play something more traditional like Mario Kart.
by quantified | 2025-11-12 19:59:23+00:00
When the $1000 bill was retired, a loaf of bread cost a couple cents. There was indeed a push to purge them during the drug scares of the late 20th century. A suitcase of $1000 bills is far sexier than one of $100 bills. It really was porting them.

With bitcoin, it's moot.

A $100 is basically a tank of gas and a sandwich in CA.
by mapt | 2025-11-12 19:59:33+00:00
The US sacrificed that a long time ago, when it first introduced supercarriers in the 50's. Too tall for the bridges, too wide for anything but the Third Locks era, and then only with some minor alterations.

Now that we do have the Third Locks, I think it would be reasonable to replace the bridges and make the alterations, a rounding error in the CVN budget.
by modeless | 2025-11-12 19:59:34+00:00
They prioritized cost, so they omitted eye tracking hardware. They've also bet more on standalone apps rather than streaming from a PC. These are reasonable tradeoffs. The next Quest may add eye tracking, who knows. Quest Pro had it but was discontinued for being too expensive.

We'll have to wait on pricing for Steam Frame, but I don't expect them to match Meta's subsidies, so I'm betting on this being more expensive than Quest. I also think that streaming from a gaming PC will remain more of a niche thing despite Valve's focus on it here, and people will find a lot of use for the x86/Windows emulation feature to play games from their Steam library directly on the headset.
by monocasa | 2025-11-12 19:59:36+00:00
More of an issue when your phone's wifi or your partner watching a show while you game is eating into that one channel in bursts, particularly since the dedicated fob means that it's essentially another network conflicting with the regular WiFI rather than deeply collaborating for better real time guarantees (not that arbitrary wifi routers would even support real time scheduling).

MIMO helps here to separate the spectrum use by targeted physical location, but it's not perfect by any means.
by wongarsu | 2025-11-12 19:59:53+00:00
Yes. You can make a low-resolution monitor (like 800x600px, once upon a time a usable resolution) and/or provide zoom and panning controls

I've tried that combination in an earlier iteration of Lenovo's smart glasses, and it technically works. But the experience you get is not fun or productive. If you need to do it (say to work on confidential documents in public) you can do it, but it's not something you'd do in a normal setup
by Brybry | 2025-11-12 20:00:05+00:00
I don't fully agree with the 1 and 2 dichotomy. For example, before matchmaking-based games became so popular a lot of our competitive games were on dedicated servers.

On dedicated servers we had a self-policing community with a smaller pool of more regular players and cheaters were less of an issue. Sure, some innocents got banned and less blatant cheaters slipped through but the main issue of cheaters is when they destroy fun for everyone else.

So, for example, with the modern matchmaking systems they could do person verification instead of machine verification. Such as how some South Korean games require a resident registration number to play.

Then when people get banned (or probably better, shadowbanned/low priority queued) by player reports or weaker anti-cheat they can't easily ban evade. But of course then there is the issue of incentivizing identity theft.

And I don't think giving a gaming company my PII is any better than giving them root on my machine. But that seems more like an implementation issue.
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-11-12 20:00:24+00:00
So this when they became a new brand (?) called Hilo.

I am not following their business but presume something is up.

Of course the format change seems to have broken the extractor so the next free lunchtime(s) I get will fix it. I assumed no one else uses it so was not in a hurry - any feedback gratefully recvd :-)
by davedx | 2025-11-12 20:00:26+00:00
It looks stunning, great design there

There's a devkit... I'm disappointed, that's the Sony method? I actually tried to do dev for the Meta Quest 2 the other week and was disappointed there because it's my son's, and he can't sign up for a Meta dev account (age), so there's no way for me to do anything with it without factory resetting the thing. This is more disappointing though. Why can't I dev games for the consumer headset?
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-12 20:00:30+00:00
You need to use both the style controls and custom instructions. I've been very happy with the combination below.

Base style and tone: Efficient Answer concisely when appropriate, more extensively when necessary. Avoid rhetorical flourishes, bonhomie, and (above all) cliches. Take a forward-thinking view. OK to be mildly positive and encouraging but NEVER sycophantic or cloying. Above all, NEVER use the phrase "You're absolutely right." Rather than "Let me know if..." style continuations, you may list a set of prompts to explore further topics, but only when clearly appropriate. Reference saved memory, records, etc: All off
by metabagel | 2025-11-12 20:00:38+00:00
> It is widely illegal to not display the true price and taxes paid separately. Trying to retcon a price and taxes for rounding purposes that is also strictly consistent across customers so as to not violate the law is not trivial.

Having lived in Europe, this should be changed. It makes it infeasible to keep track of your total bill as you shop. The amount without tax should be printed on the receipt, if you care to reference it.
by Grimblewald | 2025-11-12 20:00:41+00:00
True, neither here, but i think what we're seeing is a transition in focus. People at oai have finally clued in on the idea that agi via transformers is a pipedream like elons self driving cars, and so oai is pivoting toward friend/digital partner bot. Charlatan in cheif sam altman recently did say they're going to open up the product to adult content generation, which they wouldnt do if they still beleived some serious amd useful tool (in the specified usecases) were possible. Right now an LLM has three main uses. Interactive rubber ducky, entertainment, and mass surveillance. Since I've been following this saga, since gpt2 days, my close bench set of various tasks etc. Has been seeing a drop in metrics not a rise, so while open bench resultd are imoroving real performance is getting worse and at this point its so much worse that problems gpt3 could solve (yes pre chatgpt) are no longer solvable to something like gpt5.
by FredPret | 2025-11-12 20:01:11+00:00
You then still have the issue of standardized advertising prices.

Right now, a company can say they sell gadget X for $999, which would not be possible if they had to work out item taxes.

The other possibility is that they now have to mark X up to take into account the most pessimistic possible tax rate and advertise the marked-up rate.
by simonw | 2025-11-12 20:01:19+00:00
I went looking for the API details, but it's not there until "later this week":

> We’re bringing both GPT‑5.1 Instant and GPT‑5.1 Thinking to the API later this week. GPT‑5.1 Instant will be added as gpt-5.1-chat-latest, and GPT‑5.1 Thinking will be released as GPT‑5.1 in the API, both with adaptive reasoning.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-12 20:01:28+00:00
So, lobby for changes to the structure of those taxes so that's not a problem. Tthe simple solution is changing them from surcharges adding a percent onto posted prices to making them a percentage taken out of the posted price; so that coin availability is only an issue in the improbable event that you are paying your sales tax bill in cash.

Of course, retailers don't want tax-inclusive posted prices, but... ::shrug::
by jsunderland323 | 2025-11-12 20:01:43+00:00
I walk into everything ready to be hyper critical, so thanks so much for saying that.

In my experience, I found the switching cost to be low for things like copy changes and css stuff (or lower than I expected). Obviously I am incentivized more than anyone else to use it but it’s actually painful to go to an IDE to make those small changes after you get used to it.

I don’t realistically expect anyone to use us as a full IDE yet. It’s got a ways to go but for simple things, it’s awesome. We’re going to keep chipping away though.
by aatd86 | 2025-11-12 20:01:54+00:00
Didn't the current LLMs stem from this...? Or it might be Google Brain instead. For Google X, there is Waymo? I know a lot of stuff didn't pan out. This is expected. These were 'moonshots'.

But the principle is there. I think that when a company sits on a load of cash, that's what they should do. Either that or become a kind of alternative investments allocator. These are risky bets. But they should be incentivized to take those risks. From a fiscal policy standpoint for instance. Well it probably is the case already via lower taxation of capital gains and so on. But there should probably exist a more streamlined framework to make sure incentives are aligned.

And/or assigned government projects? Besides implementing their Cloud infrastructure that is...
by squigz | 2025-11-12 20:01:55+00:00
> I think the most interesting aspect of this is how divisive something as innocuous as putting stickers on a thing is. What causes people to have a strong opinion on this one way or another?

Seriously. When I saw this initially posted I was like "Huh, this is cool. I bet HN will share some really neat ones, too!" and then we got... this. People more worried about the type of stickers and whether it's wholly unprofessional to dare to put a harmless sticker on a professional work device than anything else.

It's tiring, sometimes, how ready to be angry about something people seem to be.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-12 20:02:24+00:00
This is easily configurable and well worth taking the time to configure.

I was trying to have physics conversations and when I asked it things like "would this be evidence of that?" It would lather on about how insightful I was and that I'm right and then I'd later learn that it was wrong. I then installed this , which I am pretty sure someone else on HN posted... I may have tweaked it I can't remember:

Prioritize truth over comfort. Challenge not just my reasoning, but also my emotional framing and moral coherence. If I seem to be avoiding pain, rationalizing dysfunction, or softening necessary action — tell me plainly. I’d rather face hard truths than miss what matters. Error on the side of bluntness. If it’s too much, I’ll tell you — but assume I want the truth, unvarnished.

---

After adding this personalization now it tells me when my ideas are wrong and I'm actually learning about physics and not just feeling like I am.
by tomatocracy | 2025-11-12 20:02:30+00:00
The slide feeder is good but it's worth being aware that if you have slides mounted on cardboard (I had a lot of old family photos like this I used it for) it will often grab a couple at once. You can fix that by clipping eg a driver's licence in the right place to narrow the gap it pulls the slides through, but it will still need some manual supervision.

If you get one, have a look at VueScan on the software side - the original software needs (I think) a Windows XP virtual machine to drive it.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-12 20:02:34+00:00
I am more worried about risk like “they said it would take 5 years to build and it really takes 20”

To be fair I read that licensing application that Oklo wrote and I thought they spent a huge amount of space on things that were not relevant like “what if it gets blown up by a supervolanco?” but none on “How do you detect and out sodium fires?”
by tianreyma | 2025-11-12 20:02:56+00:00
On my own system I've played a lot of modded Beat Saber. Arizona Sunshine was good but not very long. Other than that mostly just mini game type things like The Lab.

One of my friends also has a KAT Walk C2 and I've played Skyrim VR on that. It takes a bit to get used to but it's a lot of fun.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-12 20:03:16+00:00
I think your focusing on the details and missing my broader point - the JIT technique for translation only works to break out of the instruction set lock-in. It does not improve performance, so betting on that instead of super scalar designs is not wise.

Transmeta’s CPU was not performance competitive and thus had no path to success.

And as for Apple itself, they had built the first iPhone on top of ARM to begin with (partially because Intel didn’t see a market). So they were already familiar with ARM before they even started building ARM CPUs. But also the developer ecosystem familiarity is only partially relevant - even in compat mode the M1 ran faster than equivalent contemporary Intel chips. So the familiarity was only needed to unlock the full potential (most of which was done by Apple porting 1p software). But even if they had never switched on ARM support in the M1 the JIT technique (compiled with a better CPU and better unified memory architecture) would still have been fast enough to slightly outcompete Intel chips on performance and battery life - native software just made it 0 competition.
by rtpg | 2025-11-12 20:03:19+00:00
> I suspect most joysticks sold today come with a USB-C to USB-C cable

while things can be charged with USB-C cables, the only thing I've ever received A C-to-C cable is... a USB-C wall charger. Granted I haven't gotten a USB-C iPhhone yet and I gotta imagine that one is C-to-C.

Generally lots of pack-in cables I've seen in the wild for charging devices continue to be USB-A-to-C. Switch 2 ports are USB-A, PS5 front port is USB-A... we're still getting there.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-12 20:03:38+00:00
Looking at the specs and marketing copy, it sounds to me like you could secure boot windows 11 on this machine.

> ... a discrete semi-custom AMD desktop class CPU and GPU.

> Yes, Steam Machine is optimized for gaming, but it's still your PC. Install your own apps, or even another operating system. Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?