MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pokoleo | 2025-11-18 18:11:29+00:00
Summarizing the dispute, for anyone interested:

Rebble's "one red line" is "there has to be a future for Rebble in there." They fear being replaced/made irrelevant after Core builds their own infrastructure using Rebble's work. They want guarantees that if they give Core access to the app store data, Core won't build a proprietary/walled garden that cuts Rebble out. There's also emphasis on "our work," "we built this," "we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars." They feel Eric isn't acknowledging where his infrastructure came from.

Core Devices' thing is explicitly stating concern about relying on a third party (Rebble) for "critical services" his customers depend on. If "Rebble leadership changes their mind," they can't guarantee customer experience. They wants the app store archive to be "freely available" and "not controlled by one organization." They don't want to need "permission from Rebble" before building features (like free weather, voice-to-text) that might compete with Rebble's paid services. The fundamental fear seems to be business risk: being at the mercy of a nonprofit's decisions when his company has customers and obligations.

Neither side seems to trust the other's long-term intentions, creating an impasse where both feel existentially threatened by the other's preferred arrangement.

My take: I bought a watch in 2014. After the pebble 2 duo black fiasco (they ran out of stock, offered a white instead which I accepted 2 weeks ago, never shipped, and have ghosted my emails asking for shipping timelines.) I had high hopes, but given the messy interaction with the OSS world I'm considering cancelling my order for the duo and time two.
by lynndotpy | 2025-11-18 18:11:31+00:00
Yes, that's roughly what I said in my post. If we're doing a controlled economy and triaging for the health of the ecosystem, we'd start with feed for cattle, and almonds wouldn't be much further down on the list.

The contention with AI water use is that something like this is currently happening as local water supplies are being diverted for data-centers.
by w10-1 | 2025-11-18 18:11:49+00:00
> More useful words are "negligible" and "problematic".

Yes, thank you! Worth emulating.

By comparison:

> A characteristic of these systems spanning so many orders of magnitude is that it is very frequently the case that one of the things your system will be doing is in fact head-and-shoulders completely above everything else your system should be doing, and if you have a good sense of your rough orders of magnitudes from experience, it should be generally obvious to you where you need to focus at least a bit of thought about optimization, and where you can neglect it until it becomes an actual problem.
by xyzzy_plugh | 2025-11-18 18:11:52+00:00
I view this entire thing through an extremely simple, reductive lens:

Rebble effectively had free reign on this ecosystem for years, and could have at any time decided to try and capitalize on it further. They still can! But instead they're apparently interested in rent seeking while Core makes real headway.

It's clear that Eric and Core want to make something now. It's not clear what Rebble wants, but it's clear they are feeling left out. That obviously sucks but it's clear from what both sides are saying that Core has been trying to involve Rebble in their efforts. That's certainly noble and I'm not sure others would do the same.

Would Eric be able to do this all without Rebble? Lots of commenters have been saying "no" but I'm skeptic. I was an early Pebble user. I stopped using it before they went bust, and while I was aware of Rebble, there was nothing compelling there for me. It's neat that they have maintained a copy of the original watchfaces but beyond that I don't perceive a ton of value. I don't like the subscription fee. I'm sad they never took a serious crack at making a Rebble watch.

I hope everyone finds a way forward, together, but I'm not optimistic.
by phasmantistes | 2025-11-18 18:12:27+00:00
(Disclaimer: I am tech lead of Let's Encrypt software engineering)

I'm also concerned about LE being a single point of failure for the internet! I really wish there were other free and open CAs out there. Our goal is to encrypt the web, not to perpetuate ourselves.

That said, I'm not sure the line of reasoning here really holds up? There's a big difference between this three-hour outage and the multi-day outage that would be necessary to prevent certificate renewal, even with 6-day certs. And there's an even bigger difference between this sort of network disruption and the kind of compromise that would be necessary to take LE out permanently.

So while yes, I share your fear about the internet-wide impact of total Let's Encrypt collapse, I don't think that these situations are particularly analogous.
Show HN: Explore 2200+ games with Zero reviews on Steam
by AmbroseBierce | 2025-11-18 18:13:04+00:00
To get all this data first I tried using Google's Custom Search JSON API but it was too expensive that way, later I found a Kaggle dataset that has info about 110K games -including number of positive and negative reviews- so I used that instead. That amount should be almost half all the games Steam has, (according to an article on Backlinko, Steam's US library "contains 239,558 titles across all categories -including DLC, soundtracks, mods, etc.-"). SteamDB estimates that there must be around ~118,000 full games on Steam so far.

In the process of scrapping I discovered that a few hundred of the games that used to have zero reviews don't exist anymore (or at least, not on Steam), I also discovered there are a handful of companies generating dozens of those hidden-objects games using generative AI for their images, a bit shady if you ask me. I also discovered 24 that are selling for $50 or more, I created a URL just for that in case you are curious: https://www.gameswithnoreviews.com/?show_expensive_games_onl...

To confirm that the reviews count is still zero (since the data was scraped) and to fetch the trailer videos' URLs among other info I did scrape the Steam store page of each game (yeah I'm hotlinking the videos but I don't think Akamai/Steam minds too much). All NSFW games have been pruned.

Be aware you can filter by tag and by price, also be aware Steam allows you to ask for a refund as long as you have less than 2 hours playing it (but don't ask for refund if you had fun or completed the game, that's not nice)

Any feedback or questions I am more than happy to answer.
by barbazoo | 2025-11-18 18:13:04+00:00
> Being a human safety driver in an autonomous car is a relatively hard task, and Waymo insists on a lot of training before letting its employees loose in its cars on the road. It’s possible that Tesla is being far less diligent in this regard.

Less diligent or maybe just a shitty employer not giving the folks that work for them enough time or enough money.
by mNovak | 2025-11-18 18:13:54+00:00
Maybe you ignore it, but Google has stated in the past that click-through rates with AI overviews are way down. To me, that implies the 'user' read the summary and got what they needed, such that they didn't feel the need to dig into a further site (ignoring whether that's a good thing or not).

I'd be comfortable calling a 'user' anyone who clicked to expand the little summary. Not sure what else you'd call them.
by abound | 2025-11-18 18:13:55+00:00
I hesitate to lump this into the "every new technology" bucket. There are few things that exist today that, similar to what GP said, would have been literal voodoo black magic a few years ago. LLMs are pretty singular in a lot of ways, and you can do powerful things with them that were quite literally impossible a few short years ago. One is free to discount that, but it seems more useful to understand them and their strengths, and use them where appropriate.

Even tools like Claude Code have only been fully released for six months, and they've already had a pretty dramatic impact on how many developers work.
by MaxL93 | 2025-11-18 18:14:14+00:00
> It seems very US centric in its thinking

I'm not surprised. I'm French and one thing I've consistently seen with Gemini is that it loves to use Title Case (Everything is Capitalized Except the Prepositions) even in French or other languages where there is no such thing. A 100% american thing getting applied to other languages by the sheer power of statistical correlation (and probably being overtrained on USA-centric data). At the very least it makes it easy to tell when someone is just copypasting LLM output into some other website.
by juancn | 2025-11-18 18:14:16+00:00
I like some communities more than others. Hacker News I enjoy a lot for example.

A whole lot of super smart people interacting in mainly civilized fashion? I'm in, even when there's the occasional disagreement.

Curiously, I find the ArsTechnica forums a tad toxic, although I would have expected a similar audience.

I gravitate to the forums that have that usenet feel, there are some, although many are sadly behind Discord (which is great, but it feels much like a walled garden to me).
by bartvk | 2025-11-18 18:14:49+00:00
Can you explain something?

I did a lot of iOS development. The layout of elements was done with Auto Layout, and I really had the hang of it. It was replaced by how SwiftUI does it, and I knew it would take me a couple of weeks to get the hang of it.

I often felt what I'd call frustration. Lots of times, I knew I could easily express solutions in the old framework. But I knew I needed to learn the new one.

Are you saying that's not called frustration?
by syspec | 2025-11-18 18:14:51+00:00
I have "unlimited" access to both Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4.5 Sonnet through work.

From my experience, both are capable and can solve nearly all the same complex programming requests, but time and time again Gemini spits out reams and reams of code so over engineered, that totally works, but I would never want to have to interact with.

When looking at the code, you can't tell why it looks "gross", but then you ask Claude to do the same task in the same repo (I use Cline, it's just a dropdown change) and the code also works, but there's a lot less of it and it has a more "elegant" feeling to it.

I know that isn't easy to capture in benchmarks, but I hope Gemini 3.0 has improved in this regard
by okayestjoel | 2025-11-18 18:15:20+00:00
Every 5x5 Nonogram was a collaborative, realtime web game released earlier this year with the ambitious goal to (collectively) solve all ~25 million line-solvable nonogram puzzles.

This is Part 2 in a behind-the-scenes look at some of the challenges in creating a public web game that anyone could play.
by SXX | 2025-11-18 18:15:40+00:00
Static Pelican is boring. First attempt:

Generate SVG animation of following:

1 - There is High fantasy mage tower with a top window a dome

2 - Green goblin come in front of tower with a torch

3 - Grumpy old mage with beard appear in a tower window in high purple hat

4 - Mage sends fireball that burns goblin and all screen is covered in fire.

Camera view must be from behind of goblin back so we basically look at tower in front of us:

https://codepen.io/Runway/pen/WbwOXRO
by rayiner | 2025-11-18 18:16:13+00:00
> But the masked ICE agents openly defying the law struck a nerve.

The ICE agents are masked because people think they can violently interfere with federal law enforcement. People voted for the guy that promised mass deportations, and the government is entitled to carry out that policy and respond to violent resistance to those operations.

Nobody is “dismissing” Epstein’s crimes. Megyn is reacting to people trying to smear Trump as a “child rapist” and “pedophile” based on zero evidence.
by vineyardmike | 2025-11-18 18:16:25+00:00
I agree what you’ve listed makes sense as a product portfolio.

But AI Studio is getting vibe coding tools. AI Studio also has a API that competes with Vertex. They have IDE plugins for existing IDEs to expose Chat, Agents, etc. They also have Gemini CLI for when those don’t work. There is also Firebase Studio, a browser based IDE for vibe coding. Jules, a browser based code agent orchestration tool. Opal, a node-based tool to build AI… things? Stich, a tool to build UIs. Colab with AI for a different type of coding. Notebook LM for AI research (many features now available in Gemini App). AI Overviews and AI mode in search, which now feature a generic chat interface.

Thats just new stuff, and not including all the existing products (Gmail, Home) that have Gemini added.

This is the benefit of a big company vs startups. They can build out a product for every type of user and every user journey, at once.
by adastra22 | 2025-11-18 18:16:36+00:00
The last point is how it usually fails in my testing, fwiw. It usually ends up borking something up, and rather than back out and fix it, it does a 'git restore' on the file - wiping out thousands of lines of unrelated, unstaged code. It then somehow thinks it can recover this code by looking in the git history (??).

And yes, I have hooks to disable 'git reset', 'git checkout', etc., and warn the model not to use these commands and why. So it writes them to a bash script and calls that to circumvent the hook, successfully shooting itself in the foot.

Sonnet 4.5 will not follow directions. Because of this, you can't prevent it like you could with earlier models from doing something that destroys the worktree state. For longer-running tasks the probability of it doing this at some point approaches 100%.
by happytoexplain | 2025-11-18 18:17:07+00:00
Combining qualities you oppose into theoretical groups is a common, very human fallacy, but it will poison your mind against humanity. It's the origin of tribalism.

For example, I'm a white non-religious straight liberal US man with a hippy upbringing that I value dearly, and I think the opportunity to immigrate should be as available as possible to all good people. But I also recognize that it must be responsibly controlled, and the native culture and quality of life must be prioritized (for all nations, not just the West), and one piece of that is stopping illegal immigration. And it's not unreasonable to have an opinion that we are, to some degree, failing at all the pieces.
by majorchord | 2025-11-18 18:17:10+00:00
I can tell you exactly why people don't like you.

You speak as if you are an expert on everything in the universe at all times. Way too much black-and-white thinking. And many people often strongly disagree with your statements... a great deal of your comments are quite often downvoted and/or flagged.

There is a reason you have been banned from several different platforms now. Disagreeing/arguing with their actions is not how you improve yourself, and you can't explain your way out of it, you have to want to change how you act, and work hard at it. You have to be ok with being wrong. Your weaponization of logic has destroyed your empathy. You are craving validation through technical dominance, but this just further isolates you/alienates others.

I think real intelligence by definition requires empathy and humility, which is typically the opposite of such dogmatism in my opinion. "As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding."

The Dunning-Kruger effect also applies to smart people. You don't stop when you are estimating your ability correctly. As you learn more, you gain more awareness of your ignorance and continue being conservative with your self estimates.

Also you seem to like to claim that almost everything is illegal and then not back up your claims with any useful sources, instead telling people to look it up themselves or give vague non-answers like "it's in the German law code". That and most of your comments are just plain negative in general, and I think this ultimately stems from some kind of childhood trauma that you have not dealt with.
by aerhardt | 2025-11-18 18:17:53+00:00
Codex has been good enough to me and it’s much cheaper.

I code non-trivial stuff with it like multi-threaded code and at least for my style of AI coding which is to do fairly small units of work with multiple revisions it is good enough for me to not to even consider the competition.

Just giving you a perspective on how the benchmarks might not be important at all for some people and how Claude may have a difficult time being the definitive coding model.
by koiueo | 2025-11-18 18:18:03+00:00
I'd like to retract my critique.

I just opened the app to see what else I can bring up, and while clicking through UI I noticed I had some crappy key bindings extension installed, which apparently caused many of my annoyances.

I've probably installed it very long ago, or even by accident.

For example, I was always annoyed that open file/directory shortcut (one of most common operations) is not assigned and requires mouse interaction -- fixed by disabling the extension. Go to file shortcuts does something completely different -- fixed by disabling the extensions.

I likely won't adopt Cursor as my main IDE/Editor, but it's miles better than I thought just an hour ago.

Thanks for your question :D
by syspec | 2025-11-18 18:18:04+00:00
2.5 flash and 2.5 Pro were just sitting back and watching?

The problem with Google is that someone had to show them how to make a product out of the thing, which Open AI did.

Then Anthropic taught them to make a more specific product out of there models

In every aspect, they're just playing catch up, and playing me too.

Models are only part of the solution
by bitpush | 2025-11-18 18:18:11+00:00
> Google injects AI Overviews directly into search, X pushes Grok into the feed, Apple wraps "intelligence" into Maps and on-device workflows, and Microsoft is quietly doing the same with Copilot across Windows and Office.

One of them isnt the same as others (hint: It is Apple). The only thing Apple is doing with Maps is, is adding ads https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/26/apple-moving-ahead-with...
by paddy_m | 2025-11-18 18:18:22+00:00
Blame the obama CAFE regulations that accounted for wheelbase and car volume, giving manufacturers lower fuel economy standards for larger cars. Then the CAFE standards that hold trucks/SUVs to a lower standard.

The economically efficient way to get the fuel economy result would have been to increase gasoline taxes, but that's a non starter politically. Higher gas prices would allow people to choose to keep a cheap gas guzzling truck/car, buy a new more efficient and expensive car, or buy a new slightly more efficient slightly more expensive car. It would have been simpler though and given consumers more choice.
by zahlman | 2025-11-18 18:18:34+00:00
It's a shame that this Java culture left its mark on the Python standard library (notably, in `unittest` and `logging`; the framework for text encodings is also highly boilerplate-y) and a fair bit of the ecosystem (pip has some classes like `class ConfiguredBuildBackendHookCaller(BuildBackendHookCaller)` in its own code, to say nothing of what's vendored) already, though.
by ryancarson | 2025-11-18 18:18:35+00:00
We spent a lot of time testing and discussing if it was the right call to make Gemini 3 our default model in Amp. We've never chosen a new model on launch day before, however we were very impressed with the performance and intelligence. There are some pretty low lows however, so it's not a perfect experience. We're monitoring it very closely.
by cynicalkane | 2025-11-18 18:18:47+00:00
The rich do not, in general, possess Scrooge McDuck vaults full of "prior government backed currency". The assets of the wealthy are generally real assets and business investments.

Cash is such a poor investment that the word "investment" typically means trying to find something more productive than holding cash. Neither do alternatives to cash have a reliable history of benefitting the poor. In the US there's been lots of attempts at local currencies; they tend to fail naturally without government interference. Recently, cryptographic alternatives to cash have mostly served to benefit crypto barons and scammers.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-11-18 18:19:09+00:00
Why is Rebble so set on protecting this code that would have an incredibly limited shelf life if not for the new Pebble devices? It seems like an incredibly short-sighted fight against someone who (legally) owes them 0 unless they can substantiate the allegation that Pebble stole their code (theirs not being code they themselves scraped after Pebble's initial failure).
by devsda | 2025-11-18 18:19:44+00:00
There are city workers and occasionally homeless people who pickup trash (to salvage or sell). I'm not sure how this opinion of theirs is formed but I can assure you nobody is throwing around trash with anything remotely caste related in their mind. It isn't even in consideration.

Its plain old apathy and no sense of responsibility or shared ownership. Outside is just something you share with other 1.4 billion people of the country.

The cycle usually goes like one idiot starts throwing trash, other idiots start adding their trash too, few weeks/months govt workers do a bare minimum job of clean-up, repeat.
by Delk | 2025-11-18 18:20:10+00:00
Now that we're ranting, I wonder what's up with the right-click context menu in Windows 11 on my machines. It literally takes a noticeable fraction of a second (in the order of several hundred ms) for the menu with fewer than ten items to appear. (The first time might take around a second, I'd suppose due to disk I/O. But subsequent clicks also have a noticeable delay.)

All the computers with Windows 11 that are available to me are fairly similar so I don't know if it's just these particular software/hardware setups. But it seems absurd that a device capable of billions of operations per second even on a single core somehow takes hundreds of milliseconds to display a few menu items.
by qayxc | 2025-11-18 18:20:55+00:00
Especially since:

There is currently no support for: Paid tiers with guaranteed quotas and rate limits Bring-your-own-key or bring-your-own-endpoint for additional rate limits Organizational tiers (self-serve or via contract)

So basically just another case of vendor lock-in. No matter whether the IDE is any good - this kills it for me.
by havblue | 2025-11-18 18:21:06+00:00
I just finished Blood Meridian and consulted AI as-needed to cover the many, many metaphors. The funny thing was that Google AI got a lot of the book wrong, getting the fate of some characters mixed up as well as confusing some faceless deaths with others. Too much wanton violence to keep track of.

The book definitely covers evil and nihilism thoroughly, so why would you want to read something like that? Well, for every bad decision someone makes in the book, the reader has the opposite response of, "oh crap, don't do that!" So reading about nihilism doesn't make you more nihilistic. While I thought it was a great book it isn't something you should just read without consulting outside sources.
Why Prediction Markets Are Heating Up (280% YTD)
by prophex | 2025-11-18 18:22:01+00:00
Prediction markets have seen unexpected acceleration in 2025: - Sector up ~280% YTD - Weekly volume ≈ $3B - Growth rate ~7× faster than perp DEXs - Some forecasts project a $100B market by 2035

The interesting part isn’t the trading activity but the information-theory aspect: people appear to be using markets as a way to resolve uncertainty in an environment of institutional distrust and signal overload. Are prediction markets finally crossing the threshold frm niche to mainstream? Or is this just another cyclical spike?
by aw1621107 | 2025-11-18 18:22:14+00:00
> and rustc could include malicious code that isn’t obvious to an outside auditor.

I believe mrustc [0] is generally considered the current defense against a trusting trust attack, and IIRC it has verified the lack of such an attack up to rustc 1.74, which is the latest version it currently supports. Presumably whenever gccrs comes online that will be yet another defensive layer.

[0]: https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc