MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tipst | 2025-11-02 09:11:36+00:00
Ah, SailfishOS; the zombie of mobile device OS. Even longtime supporters (endusers) turned away b/c of little supported HW. And even if, then not all features. It's Maemo and webOS all over again.

> The main thing to me is that SailfishOS is a Linux on your pocket. You can ssh into it, sync stuff with rsync or syncthing, edit your stuff with vim, have cron do stuff, or what ever you like. My old phones I use as remote sensors now.

I don't use the cron part, but you can deffo do all things w/o hassle on a regular Android thingy. These arguments for "Linux in your pockets" have long, umm, sailed?

> There was a point that I tried to switch to iPhone. I struggled for a long time to get on par with the usability that I had with SFOS. I came pretty close, but the card house of different apps I had to build was pretty unreliable.

IMHO iOS is for mongos / simpletons that just use apps casually. Just look at their keyboard implementation, the cursor positioning and where characters / digits are accessed drives me crazy! Don't know if Apple permits 3rd party keyboards to be installed, i have to live with this shitbox as-is as it's a company device.
by spidersouris | 2025-11-02 09:11:41+00:00
What we also learned after GPT-3.5 is that, to circumvent the need for new training data, we could simply resort to existing LLMs to generate new, synthetic data. I would not be surprised if the em dash is the product of synthetically generated data (perhaps forced to be present in this data) used for the training of newer models.
by asim | 2025-11-02 09:12:00+00:00
Yes also huge problems and many other industries to speak of. Unfortunately as technology dominates and the most valuable company in the world is producing GPUs we know where it's all headed. I think while gambling and narcotics are very addictive and terrible we have overlooked technology and it's crept up on us in a bad way. Screens are horribly addictive. Maybe even worse than those things mentioned because you can be indoctrinated from birth. Because the cost is almost zero and continuous and the advancements are only trying to drive further addiction e.g Meta's heavy investment in AR and VR. AR/VR plus AI is basically the recipe for virtual worlds which people will prefer over real life. So we'll become even more disillusioned to the worlds problems because we'll prefer to escape to some virtual reality where all our desires are serviced.
by scosman | 2025-11-02 09:13:01+00:00
There are guarantees from several providers that they don’t train on, or even retain, a copy of your data. You are right they could be lying, but some are big enough that would be catastrophic to them from a liability point of view.

Re:creative competition - that’s interesting. I open source much of my creative work so I guess that’s never been a concern of mine.
by L1nefeed | 2025-11-02 09:14:41+00:00
After spending 30 years in IT doing everything from coding to enterprise architecture, I quit the consulting world this year to get back to what I enjoy most: building.

I'm working on Brain Hurricane (brainhurricane.ai). It's the kind of structured tool I wish I'd had in my career. I was tired of unstructured brainstorming sessions that recycled the same ideas and the passive waiting for a "great idea" that never arrives.

My goal was to create a systematic process. It uses AI to help you generate ideas with proven methods like SCAMPER and Six Thinking Hats, then immediately analyze them with frameworks like SWOT, PESTEL, and the Business Model Canvas. It's about moving from a fuzzy concept to a validated idea with more confidence and clarity.

On a personal level, this project was my way of diving headfirst into modern AI development. I'm building it with Next.js, TypeScript, Python, and Linux, which has been a fun and humbling experience coming from a more traditional enterprise stack.

It's still early, but the core features are live. I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback from the HN community, especially from those who have struggled to turn abstract ideas into something concrete.
by plastic3169 | 2025-11-02 09:15:14+00:00
> This is the one thing that puzzles me most about dating apps: where do all these pictures come from?

People actually curate the profile and copywrite the text. It’s not real authentic life documented by accident. Once you put your profile there for others to judge you soon figure out that it needs to be manufactured. That’s when you start asking for others to snap a photo while your out doing the thing you maybe wouldn’t even do if it was not for the show.
by locallost | 2025-11-02 09:15:34+00:00
I like these types of opinions that challenge entrenched beliefs, i.e. network effects etc. But in the end I don't think there's a contradiction -- if you have 30 people in the room speed dating, you have 30 people in the room. If you have 30 people on your app, you have 0 people on the app because most of them are there at different times and then they give up because nobody's there except them. People gravitate towards where everyone else is, in the case of a dating app it's where thousands of people in your area are, and for speed dating it's where 30 people per event are.
by brailsafe | 2025-11-02 09:16:51+00:00
Meh, I've been a mac user for 15 years professionally, usually alongside some desktop pc for gaming, and I upgrade when I damn well please, which is typically when they have a notable leap in performance, my laptop gets stolen, or my needs change, which should hardly be surprising in terms of progression through a career.

Their recent hardware is proving much more capable as tools than the budget i5 I had before, so I upgraded. In terms of machinery expenses, it's more than I'd like to spend on RAM and ssd than I'd prefer (their pricing ladder is comical) but the product is amazing. I'm going to wait as long as possible before I upgrade to Tahoe though, seems almost DoA
by galaxyLogic | 2025-11-02 09:16:53+00:00
This is what I've been pondering, people are using Claude etc. to produce software. Do they think about this copyright issue at all? Basically whatever they produce with Claude should be not copyrightable.

But what happens if they MIX some of their own code with AI-generated code, is that combination then their copyright? With such combined output it would be very difficult to determine which part was created by human, which by AI, and which by AI but slightly modified by human.

In the domain of graphics the AI could put in some markers which tells the graphic is AI-generated, but with code that is probabaly not possible, code is code and can always be edited by humans.

A separate question is that if I use Claude to generate some code but then stamp the output with my copyright notice, am I doing something illegal?
by frontbackgeek | 2025-11-02 09:17:33+00:00
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) staged a historic rally in October 2025, with shares surging more than 60%, marking the company’s best monthly performance since 2001. The surge was fueled by a groundbreaking AI chip-supply partnership with OpenAI, which instantly became one of the most significant deals in semiconductor history. However, investor euphoria cooled slightly following AMD’s third-quarter earnings report, which—despite record revenue—fell just short of Wall Street’s sky-high expectations.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-02 09:17:57+00:00
If you happen to be using MSSQL or Postgres, the Redgate tools are a game changer for schema management. I was a big fan of using things like EF and custom code to handle schema migrations until I tried SQL Compare. These tools make normalizing a large number of instances significantly easier. If you've got a multi tenant setup where everything should have the same schema, you could fix the whole fleet in an afternoon.

For SQLite, I still vastly prefer using custom code to run migrations. Something about the ownership model makes manual external tooling feel inappropriate.
by mesrik | 2025-11-02 09:18:14+00:00
Hah, what a coincidence this post is.

Just last week I had to open first time alarm clock with green 7-segment display. Because I accidentally dropped it while vacuuming and antenna cord broke as it was so firmly under picture frame holding nail. And while open cleaned interior from dust, used greasy PRF to lubricate pots, switches and tuning wheel. If I recall correctly it did have that LM8560 chip in int and with display looked almost exactly what was in subject article inside.

Label on bottom claims: -----------------------------

Luxor CR 9016 NOKIA Consumer Electronics International S.A (FI)(N)(S)[x] 230V ~ 50Hz Battery 9 V MADE FOR NOKIA IN CHINA -----------------------------

And another smaller sticker

SERIAL NO. 9302-00106

I bought -85 before christmas because my then girlfriend told that alarm clock that I've built myself using standalone clock module purchased from a local electronics component store was too ugly for us and had to go. Sure, I took that old one to summer cottage and once I saw this better looking to make her happy. What couldn't a young man do to make is becoming fiancé happy, right.

Q: But why the device is branded Luxor and it's made for NOKIA? A: Because NOKIA bought bit earlier that year (1985) Swedish Luxor consumer electronics. And I guess they did not had yet time redo chassis with NOKIA printed on and this was a still products transition period.

NOKIA was still at that time making also TV sets and was about to bring two years later its first completely new way of implementing analog TV using digital processing chips, which allowed quite nice fieatures like PIP which was great help making VHS recording without ads. I had one of those TV-sets (M-model) and used it about 10 years.

But that alarmclock radio from -85 is still going strong, good shape and it definitely was good purchase about 40 years ago.

e: Sorry about formatting, I tried to find how to format literally, but couldn't find. OK, good enough now.
by whynotmakealt | 2025-11-02 09:18:34+00:00
As a kid in final days of high school. This is so true.

I was talking to this about this to my mum just a few days ago and she said that no it didn't impact, but I was so shocked because honestly I feel like its just not even the kids but everyone which got impacted but I genuinely feel like that there was this sense of loneliness in covid

I am not sure but before covid everyone was friends with everybody else kind of things, I was in 6th grade and I would honestly consider it one of the best periods of my life, I remember how one of my friends had prepared covid as a general knowledge fact for an exam and he spoke it in class and we didn't think much of it untill it started spreading and then our 7th class became purely online due to lockdowns etc.

I do feel like that there is a lost year or more and that has impacted people in a lot of ways.

Personally, the one thing I noticed was the fact that a lot of the times, we felt like being watched by others and what not to a bigger degree.

Like, I remember just talking to girls as friends when I was in 6th grade, It wasn't that much of a big deal but later in covid and even after covid, when the school re-opened. I found that girls used to sit seperately and we boys used to sit seperately in completely seperate rows, not even on the same rows or the same benches.

Before covid this wasn't the case and we were sort of forced by our teachers to sit whether with boys or girls randomly and there were some good interactions that I deeply miss.

I am not sure if this is just something that naturally tansitions from 6th to 7th grade thing or something, We boys and girls used to talk but there was clearly this disconnect of 1 year between us, boys used to talk so frequently in boys group and girls in the girls but whenever a girl talked to us, it was most likely in public chats and I mean, you could never just small talk to somebody, I think I loved small talks so I used to create personal groups with my homies just chatting but the mere act of adding a girl to talk personally online felt really making a big deal I guess.

I personally noticed so many smaller things which I have felt as if have somewhat radicalized both girls and boys even in small mannerisms.

There became a us vs them mentality at a younger age which really got radical in 9th grade for sure.
by rixed | 2025-11-02 09:18:54+00:00
The original comment may be phrased clumsily. I believe the idea was that they do not want to make money by competing on a pizza market. That's the contradiction as old as the modern economy that it both relies on free market in principle, yet evolves naturally toward monopolies/walled gardens/fiefdoms.

Another contradiction at play here is that of inovation vs standardisation. Indeed, you could argue that dominoes' website is also a place where thay can inovate (bring your own recipes! delivery by drone! pay with tokens! wtv!) whereas a pizza protocol would slow down or prevent some inovation. And that LLMs are used to circumvent and therefore standardize the process of ordering a pizza (like you had user maintained APIs to query various incompatible banq websites; these days they probably use LLMs as well).
by scotty79 | 2025-11-02 09:19:24+00:00
It's more like "I'm making so much bread and have so much money already. You are making clothes but don't have enough money to buy bread from me to feed your workers so you can't grow. I think our village population will soon explode and there's going to be huge need for your clothing. So how about I give you money to buy bread from me in exchange for partial ownership of your business and its future profits?" It's a perfectly reasonable thing a rich miller could do for a poor but growing village businesses.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-11-02 09:20:49+00:00
For those, like me, that didn’t know what Fil-C is:

> Fil-C is a fanatically compatible memory-safe implementation of C and C++. Lots of software compiles and runs with Fil-C with zero or minimal changes. All memory safety errors are caught as Fil-C panics. Fil-C achieves this using a combination of concurrent garbage collection and invisible capabilities (InvisiCaps). Every possibly-unsafe C and C++ operation is checked. Fil-C has no unsafe statement and only limited FFI to unsafe code.

https://fil-c.org/

The posted article has a detailed explanation of djb successfully compiling a bunch of C and C++ codebases.
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-02 09:21:06+00:00
- Australia: 10 years

- Singapore: 5 years

- Belgium: 5 years

- Germany: 3 years

- Switzerland: 3 years

- Japan: 3 years

- France: 3 years

- UAE: 3 years

- Italy: 2 years

- Spain: 1 year

We are not alone
by defrost | 2025-11-02 09:21:50+00:00
Only if

* blade length greater than 3 inches, and

* you lack any reasonable response as to why you are carry it, and

* this happens repeatedly.

Once all the above occurs, you might be charged, you then have the opportunity to present your case and defend your actions, but only if a prosecutor looks at the details of the charge and decides to carry it forward.

To be sent to prison for four years (maximum) you would have also used that knife in a clearly threatening way that cannot be explained away by your defence lawyer. Even so, that is still unlikely to be awarded the maximum sentence, actual lunging and swiping with intent would probably be required.

Many people carry knives in the UK - Chefs frequently carry knife sets to and from work, for example.
by larusso | 2025-11-02 09:22:03+00:00
I feel or have the fear that the world will tumble and crack under the sheer amount of code we produce and can’t be maintained because at one point no one human can understand all the stuff that was written.

At the moment though I also code on and off with an agent. I’m not ready or willing to only vibe code my projects. For one is the fact that I had tons of examples where the agent gaslighted me only to turn around at the last stage. And in some cases the code output was to result focused and didn’t think about the broader general usage. And sure that’s in part because I hold it wrong. Don’t specify 10million markdown files etc. But it’s a feedback loop system. If I don’t trust the results I don’t jump in deeper. And I feel a lot of developers have no issue with jumping ever deeper. Write MCPs now CLIs and describe projects with custom markdown files. But I think we really need both camps. Otherwise we don’t move forward.
by topaz0 | 2025-11-02 09:25:03+00:00
Part of it is the guilt-by-association with the other bad writing habits of LLMs, but I think a lot of it is just that LLMs genuinely overuse them, and that homogeneity is grating just like it's grating when you notice a text reuses a particular noticeable word or whatever. As a fellow em-dash user, I have sometimes noticed myself overusing them too, and revised accordingly, starting well before the proliferation of this particular cancer.

So I think you can keep using em-dashes without being associated with LLMs as long as you reserve them for particularly effective/tasteful occasions.
by otherme123 | 2025-11-02 09:25:48+00:00
>useful if you want to do more than poach food at 120c

Slow cooking almost always gives you excellent results with vegetables, meat or fish. There is already a market of crokpots, sous vide and steamers, that I wouldn't dismiss as "poach food".

And for things like a pizza or crispiness in general, that need higher temperatures, I doubt you can get decent results with a microwave.

The usual 180°C / 350°F set has more to do with convenience (highest temperatures that doesn't burn the outside before the core is cooked) for cooking things as quick as possible, than tastiness of the food.
by antegamisou | 2025-11-02 09:26:36+00:00
> I think there are certain basic psychological facts that are anti-standard-economics that nerds (and therefore tech companies) almost always tend to be completely blind to. This is one of them.

I believe it's the opposite, they're exactly aware of this and have taken advantage of it to maximize engagement and profit, of course with the accompanying insanity, emotional burnout and further division/culture wars fuelling.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-11-02 09:27:20+00:00
Agreed. My only MCP is a code interpreter. I also recently started experimenting with making an MCP “proxy” which acts a better harness that lets the agent call MCP from within a code interpreter [1]

But in general I still don’t really use MCP. Agents are just so good at solving problems themselves. I wish MCP would mostly focus at the auth part instead of the tool part. Getting an agent access to an API with credentials usually gives them enough power to solve problems on their own.

[1]: https://x.com/mitsuhiko/status/1984756813850374578?s=46
by whynotmakealt | 2025-11-02 09:28:53+00:00
My personal philosphy is that dating is extremely hard in dating apps to the point that its not worth it

I personally just try to talk to people (girls) my age who have similar interests and maybe express if I feel any emotions to them and accept or embrace both rejections/acceptations.

That being said, there is this idea of desperation of constantly needing someone to love you or is it too much to ask for being loved etc. I had created a place even whose intentions was to help people struggling in finding relationships but that made me realize that people just used it to ship each other or have controversies or use it as a way to meet/date and I was none the wiser/ didn't think much of it as I was decently happy thinking that some people connected because of my efforts yet i personally felt really weird with my niche hobbies and my place felt so mainstream that I couldn't be myself in my own place or didn't feel like it so I quickly abandoned it and now its just abandonware really

I personally feel like dating irl is the best thing after all my experiences or talking to people in general online, Even in dating irl, I would consider for many reasons that dating apps are still net negative. As I said, personally the best thing I feel like doing right now is maybe working on myself to be more confident and if i find a girl attractive and want to know more, then to directly approach her. Atleast, that's my goal in dating to be confident enough and to work on. myself on being a better partner.
by socketcluster | 2025-11-02 09:29:37+00:00
Glad to see that other people have come to a similar conclusion as I did. I don't understand why the industry hasn't been able to form much consensus around this.

You look at electronics and vehicles, the components inside are generic, many devices use exactly the same internal components... All the internal components are chosen specifically for their ability to handle a wide range of conditions (pressure, heat, electromagnetic interference) and also based on how broadly compatible they are with other components and tools... But somehow, when it comes to software, we treat it as if it's completely different.

There is a lot of value in using generic components which can handle a wide range of use cases. You want to avoid changing dependencies as much as possible because it takes time and effort to write robust code. You want a solid foundation which can solve a well defined (but not necessarily narrow) range of problems. Some modules can be used to solve many different problems, in completely different business domains but they may have a very simple, well defined interface. Think of a screw... Very simple, well-defined interface, can be applied to a huge range of use cases.
by pkal | 2025-11-02 09:30:39+00:00
I am also not a fan, but since a recent discussion on HN I have been thinking about what I don't like about it.

The conclusion I have come to is more general: I just personally don't like nerd-culture. Having an anime girl (but the same would be the case for an star trek, my litte pony/furry, etc.-themed site) signifies a kind of personality that I don't feel comfortable about, mainly due to the oblivious social awkwardness, but also due to "personal" habits of some people you meet in nerdy spaces. I guess there is something about the fact of not distinguishing between a public presentation and personal interests that this is reminiscent of. For instance: A guy can enjoy model trains, sure, but he is your college at work and always just goes on about model trains (without considering if this interests you or not!), then the fact that this subsumes his personality becomes a bore or even just plain unpleasant. This is not to generalize that this is the case for everyone in these spaces, I am friends with nerdy-people on an individual basis, but I am painfully aware that I don't fit in perfectly like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle -- and increasingly have less of a desire to do so.

So for me at least this is not offence, but in addition to the above also some kind of reminder that there is a fundamental rift in how decency and intersocial relations are imagined between the people who share my interests and me, which does bother me. Having that cat-girl appear every time I open some site reminds me of this fact.

Does any of this make sense? The way you and others phrase objections to the objections makes it seem like anyone who dislikes this is some obsessive or bigoted weirdo, which I hope I don't make the impression of. (Hit me up, even privately off-HN if anyone wants to chat about this, especially if you disagree with me, this is a topic that I find interesting and want to better understand!)
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-11-02 09:31:27+00:00
What's wrong or odd about that? You can like a technology as a user and not want to delve into how it works (sentence written by a human despite use of "delve"). Everyone should have some notions on what LLMs can or cannot do, in order to use them successfully and not be misguided by their limitations, but we don't need everyone to understand what backpropagation is, just as most of us use cars without knowing much about how an internal combustion engine works.

And the issue you mention in the last paragraph is very relevant, since the scenario is plausible, so it is something we definitely should be discussing.