MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-27 02:07:13+00:00
I write native apps.

They can "fingerprint" devices more easily. They have access to all kinds of subsystems, like Bluetooth, NFC, gestures (at low level), etc. Many require the user to give permission, but the first thing the app does, is ask for permission. As long as the statement in the request passes Apple muster, the app won't fail review, I seriously doubt that Apple will test after the app has shipped, to make sure that they stick to their word.

Some of this can be caught by the App Review process, if they do things like access private APIs, but we keep reading about clever app developers (and there are a lot of really smart crooks out there) that can fool the App Review testers. I read about a dodgy app that detected when it was in review, and modified its behavior (ala Volkswagen).

Really, I am not sure if there's a way to ensure the app works the same after review, than during. I would probably put a 4-day timer on it, starting the day of submission. After the timer expires, the app starts accessing private APIs via a hand-coded assembly interface. I would hope that Apple has already thought about this (It wouldn't be too difficult to test -just run it on a device with an advanced clock).
by mseaworthy | 2025-11-27 02:07:50+00:00
Maybe this is an interesting problem for you to work on...I think Dyson made it a touch point. Sound. I spent $1,000 on my robot vacuum and I think it does good enough cleaning but I can't stand to run it because it runs for hours and makes a droning noise that drives me crazy.

Related, I spent $400 on a Dyson hair dryer for me wife only because it is so much more quiet. Maybe their is enough value add in less noise. I don't need it to be any more clean and I don't think I need any more automation.
by devilbunny | 2025-11-27 02:09:00+00:00
Mine is as well. So far the only way I have found to locate such increasingly-rare rooms is booking.com followed by calling the hotel. For all their sins, Booking at least lets you search for hotels that have bathtubs in any rooms at all.

Aside from rinsing off after a pool or ocean swim, or when she is actually dirty (e.g., after yard work), I think I have known her to voluntarily take three or four showers in 25 years together.
by rickcarlino | 2025-11-27 02:10:04+00:00
I’m not endorsing the device. It might be mediocre, and the company might be too. What I like is the direction. Most of the criticism in this thread focuses on the marketing, but that’s actually the part I find interesting: it’s explicitly aimed at Linux-centric desktop users without pretending to be “just like Windows” or trying to hide the fact that it’s Linux.

Plenty of people are frustrated with the current Windows ecosystem (Microsoft account login really bothers me for a lot of reasons). The market usually responds with one of two things: a Windows laptop you can convert into a Linux machine, or a Linux machine that tries very hard not to act like one. This is at least purporting to be neither (maybe they are full of shit, who knows). It’s trying to sell a finished, opinionated product for power users on Linux. Even if this particular device ends up turning into the next juicero/Rabbit R100, I’m glad to see someone treating that segment as worth designing for.

So yeah computer vendors, go ahead and do this more I like the vibes here even if I have no intention on buying right now.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-27 02:10:05+00:00
> way too contemptuous of craftsmen using AI

We need to find such craftsmen first. A true craftmaan should be able to let the code speak for itself. And ideally they'd be able to teach well enough to have other adapt such a workflow, which inevitably includes constraints and methodologies.

That's the things I don't see enough of in these discussions. We're very afraid to talk about what AI is bad at, as if it's some sort of pampered child we need to keep pleasing. That's not how we attain progress in the craft. Maybe in the stock market, but at that point it's clear what the focus is.
by toast0 | 2025-11-27 02:10:12+00:00
> Marriot,Hilton,IGT,Hyatt own almost all hotels in any area you want to go to.

Best Western, Choice, Wyndham, IHG (typo?), Accor, Blackstone (Motel6), Radisson, Red Lion, Red Roof. Etc. There's lots of choices.

Many (most?) hotels are franchises and the name on the hotel can change. I haven't run into a hotel with no bathroom door yet, but I only have 2-3 stays a year and one is usually in the same hotel every year. I have noticed housekeeping creeping back up to mostly every day though.
by aurareturn | 2025-11-27 02:10:32+00:00
The $200b is 2025 for all of Meta worldwide.

Reuters reported that ByteDance (TikTok parent) in Q1 2025 had $48b in revenue.[0] They should surpass $200b for 2025 which would make them bigger than Meta.

In other words, Tiktok has already caught up with Instagram in terms of revenue.

[0]https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/tiktok-owner-byteda...
by N_Lens | 2025-11-27 02:10:54+00:00
EFF and ACLU are woefully underfunded and under-resourced for the ever escalating challenges from both public and private sector overreach and encroachment on individual rights and freedoms.

I think the confluence of technologies is already in place to create an ever tightening panopticon, and we can only avoid that reality by consciously deciding against it, by rejecting it.
by aalhijawi | 2025-11-27 02:11:03+00:00
In the span of three weeks, the unthinkable happened. Three of the world’s largest cloud providers, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare, suffered major outages, nearly back-to-back.

The fallout was immediate and global:

Flights delayed as airline reservation systems froze mid-check-in. Banks halted transactions, leaving customers unable to pay or transfer money. Hospitals postponed elective procedures and slowed patient intake. SaaS platforms stalled, locking millions of remote workers out of critical apps. AI workloads collapsed, halting logistics, forecasting, automation, and more. These failures weren’t caused by a misconfigured update or an expired certificate. They were triggered by autonomous AI systems making decisions no human reviewed or approved.

This wasn’t an anomaly. It was a warning.
by mvkel | 2025-11-27 02:11:19+00:00
There is no example of a leading company that ships a world-changing product, yet somehow runs out of cash.

Maybe they lose relevance. Maybe they miss the breakthrough. That becomes the reason. So perplexity? Sure. Anthropic, even? Yep. Google? OpenAI? Nah.

Regardless, viewing the unit economics, there are very clear sight lines to profitability if they want it. Just like with Amazon, Tesla, Apple, etc., when you want to grow, hoarding cash is a bad play.
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-11-27 02:11:27+00:00
did you meet people who base buying a car off of who the car company owner supported in a foreign (to them) election?

or would you say these were ordinary people or more the kind of people paying attention to international events? (genuine question).

I get that to an american it's contentious, but imagine not buying a toyota car or samsung phone because the powerful head of that company gave huge amounts to a conservative politician in their country. That's how I look at elon/trump in the us, and given I never hear normal people (not reddit/hackernews/guardian) talking about ANY of this stuff, I'd guess I'm not alone.
by BirAdam | 2025-11-27 02:11:58+00:00
I am both a hardware and software enthusiast. Tons of DOS, Windows, and OS/2 software hanging around. While I don’t use them everyday, I do use them. From pre-Microsoft Visio to WordStar and MS Works for DOS, the applications are simple, powerful, and pleasing to use. While I don’t recommend anyone pull out Zenith 8bit and fire up COBOL-80 or LISP-80, they are interesting. Testing yourself in 64k is quite a challenge.

The retro community is huge and varied. If it exists, someone is really into it.
by archargelod | 2025-11-27 02:12:34+00:00
For me, AI slop is anything that was "vibed" with AI. If all it takes is writing a prompt and pressing a button - it's a sloppy, lazy and should not be the end product, period.

But, you can take what AI generates, refine it, change it or use only parts of it, fact check it, etc. etc. Now, it's still AI generated, but not a "slop".

AI can do 90% of your work, but the other 90% is still your job if you want someone else to care about it.
by bri3d | 2025-11-27 02:12:43+00:00
The competence and pricing of dealers along with the proclivities of a car’s customers have a lot to do with it, too. This ranking is basically “of the cars brought for the german federal safety inspection, what percentage were issued a note or failure about an item in a given category” Things like bent suspension linkage caused by driving into a curb, poorly maintained brake pads, or torn rubber boots left unaddressed would all count.

You can see this skew quite easily on these reports by looking for VW AG cars that are generally identical, and comparing their rankings, like Audi A1, VW Polo, Seat Ibiza and Skoda Fabia.

(note that this isn’t really to defend Teslas, which are clearly behind on this metric in Germany for some reason. Just; the reason could be “their service is overpriced and nobody wants to take the car in” rather than “the car is junk.”)
by apatheticonion | 2025-11-27 02:12:59+00:00
> slack clones

As an anecdote - I really want to see consolidation here. All my chat services under one parent application. WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Messenger.

I really don't care about the vendor for chat services, just exhausted of installing multiple clients and many of the clients being pretty garbage.

I would also like to say the same for many services. Online banking is top of mind for me right now as I have several bank accounts chasing competitive savings rates.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-27 02:13:55+00:00
well that's the issue. The table saw is a tool, we can very clearly agree it's good at cutting a giant plank of wood but horrible at screwing a bolt in. A carpenter can do both, but not a table saw. We never try to say the table saw IS the carpenter.

All this hype and especially the AGI talks want to treat the AI as an engineer itself. Even an assuredly senior engineer above is saying that it's better than them. So I think it's valid to ask "well can it do [thing a senior engineer does on the daily]" if we're suggesting that it can replace an engineer.
by amunicio | 2025-11-27 02:14:24+00:00
Investors have a lot of faith in Elan because of his track record of achieving very unlikely challenges (design and mass produce electric cars, design and launch rockets, ...).

The problem is that a lot of its supporters and investors cannot distinguish between solving complicated problems (the ones Elon Musk excels at) and complex problems (the ones Elon Musk is trying solve now: FSD, robotics, etc...).

For reference, a complicated problem is one that you can break down into pieces and solve each individual piece within some tolerance and as a result solve the whole problem. For example, how do I build a rocket that can get X kg of load at a given orbit or how do I design an electric car to transport 4 people 200 miles.

Complex problems are problems you cannot break into pieces and plan for before hand, usually because you have unknown unknows and you have a lot of feedback loops (when you change something it changes something else you though you had already solved). This are the types of challenges Elon is taking on now: FSD, robotics, etc...
by amiga386 | 2025-11-27 02:15:03+00:00
This doesn't make any sense.

In what way would it discourage you and your friend(s) from booking a standard twin room, if they don't tell you there's no bathroom door?

Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?

Here are the options:

1. You offer double, twin and single rooms. Friends book twin rooms.

2. You offer only double and single rooms, in the hope that non-romantically engaged pairs of people will book two single rooms. Friends book some other hotel's twin rooms.

3. You offer double, twin and single rooms and you tell people before booking there's no toilet door. Friends book some other hotel's twin rooms.

4. You offer double, twin and single rooms but surprise! there are no toilet doors. Friends who've booked a twin room either demand a cancellation immediately upon seeing the room, demand a room with a toilet door, or they demand you offer some kind of ersatz privacy screen, and no matter what you do they're going to rain fury on every review site they can think of, tanking your reputation.

In which of these situations does the hotel get extra money?
by thrdbndndn | 2025-11-27 02:15:23+00:00
Yeah, that's definitely a perk of living in the US / Americas. Hummingbirds were one of the most often mentioned birds in the pop-science books I read as a kid because of how unique and interesting they are, but since I grew up in Asia, they stayed "exotic" to me until I moved to the US and started seeing them regularly.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-27 02:15:40+00:00
With hotels you're playing the lottery but there is generally a baseline consistent with the brand of the hotel.

With those two you're also playing the lottery but there is no baseline.

With a hotel, you're also generally paying when you check-in and can thus refuse a subpar room and argue with a real, mostly-reasonable person.

With those two, you get charged before you even enter the place and any arguments will be with a bot or a call center drone in a third-world country pretending to be one.
by joshdavham | 2025-11-27 02:15:47+00:00
You actually might be on to something... AI aside, it's often a good idea to include visuals in a PR such as diagrams.

But having something like a comic where it's both visual and communicative in a more conversational/narrative way could prove pretty effective. Also if you can throw some humour in there, it could potentially add even more comprehensibility, etc.

Thanks for sharing!
by vincenthwt | 2025-11-27 02:16:03+00:00
Thank you for your perspective. As a machine vision engineer in the semiconductor industry, I have seen a lot of hype around deep learning and AI for vision applications. From my experience, deep learning works well for OCR but less so for classification tasks.

I often achieve better results by focusing on good lighting and using classical computer vision techniques.

I agree with your point about the politics of technology adoption. To protect my career, I usually promote hybrid approaches that combine deep learning and traditional computer vision methods. In reality, many deep learning solutions still rely heavily on classical techniques. Your comments on political challenges and decision-making in technology are very relevant to my experience.
by JimDabell | 2025-11-27 02:16:07+00:00
You think Apple is going to make the user experience on iPhones – a product that makes them hundreds of billions of dollars a year – to sell more cables‽ How much profit do you think they can possibly make with those cables?

Apple came under fire when they moved from 30-pin connectors to Lightning because people wanted to keep their 30-pin connectors. At the time, Apple said that they wouldn’t make people switch for another decade. They switched to USB-C eleven years later.
by Fnoord | 2025-11-27 02:16:34+00:00
wasd is that, and then 1-9 (tho 9 and such is hard to reach) for the weapons/spells/tools, with keys near wasd for other binds, and the mouse for free look, autorun, shoot, and alt with scrollwheel for swapping weapon, too. This way, you use practically only the left side of the keyboard, but that is because keyboards aren't even an ideal input device for gaming. Something like an Azeron device (think: Orbweaver) would be far better.

BG3 has F5 for quick save and F8 for quick restore. Like the old ways.

As for game engine, who cares how things look in-game? Just make it theme-able and mod-able. Cheaters gonna cheat anyway, no way to hold that back on the client-side.
by tech234a | 2025-11-27 02:16:37+00:00
An implementation of AWDL on Linux requires a Wi-Fi card that supports "active monitor mode with frame injection". [1] I looked into using it with an Intel Wi-Fi card I had and it appeared mine wasn't supported. I'm guessing the situation is similar on Android in terms of SoC support.

[1]: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/owl?tab=readme-ov-file#require...
by Nathanba | 2025-11-27 02:16:53+00:00
that's pretty vague, I mean are there no real licensing terms somewhere? What am I truly signing up for when I try to use this engine? I have to publish my game on steam but in what form? Same price as I do on my own website/store? Same exact form as on other stores? Same exact time, I can't publish first on epic and only later on steam?
by SoKamil | 2025-11-27 02:16:53+00:00
> As a bonus, we look forward to fewer violations (exhibit A, B, C) of our strict no LLM / no AI policy, which I believe are at least in part due to GitHub aggressively pushing the “file an issue with Copilot” feature in everyone’s face.

Also, the big part of that issue is people are incentivized to make their GitHub profile look good to have a higher chance of getting hired. Any non-mainstream platform is not as compelling to get social credits.
by o11c | 2025-11-27 02:17:25+00:00
Crashes of the now-merged display server / window manager / whatever. Why does everybody keep talking about "applications" like they're the problem people have with Wayland? Our problem is the Wayland server itself.

Both window manager and shell were historically extremely likely to crash, whereas the display server was very resilient (and the session script would restart the WM and shell as needed). I'm not sure how separate the shell is nowadays, but more than just the traditional duties of a WM have been embugged into the display server.
by sunrunner | 2025-11-27 02:17:41+00:00
At about 6:00 into this Numberphile video ‘Look-and-Say Numbers’ [1] Conway says that there’s ‘No connection whatsoever’.

Myself, I find this highly suspicious. The pattern is the pattern. There are no coincidences. Or maybe there are, who knows.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=ea7lJkEhytA
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-27 02:17:50+00:00
Glass box bathrooms are common in lower end Chinese hotels. So they don’t really have a door, and you are separated from the rest of the room by a glass pane. Weird, but not the worst I’ve experienced. The worst is when the shower straddles the squat toilet.

I really prefer bathrooms with a separate door for the separate toilet from the rest of it. And the shower has to be a walk in, but bathtubs are really only common in North America outside of higher end resorts that have both a separate walk in shower and a bathtub.
by N_Lens | 2025-11-27 02:18:28+00:00
If the subsidies were removed from fossil fuels and applied to solar it would transform the US energy landscape.

However this is a difficult proposition as solar is inherently a grassroots energy source that can be deployed by people at their homes, it's democratizing and distributes power, capital and control away from central power structures.

The fossil fuel industrial complex is the opposite.
by treetalker | 2025-11-27 02:18:31+00:00
This could be a fun way to educate the judge about why my opposing counsel's position is laughably wrong.

Sadly, the fun would end with a reprimand or sanctions order. Cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43866303 ("Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits").

Might work for bringing associate attorneys up to speed in a new case, or for teaching concepts to law students, though!
by wowamit | 2025-11-27 02:19:28+00:00
> I haven't tried complex coding tasks using Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview yet. I reckon it won't be materially different.

In my limited testing, I found that Gemini 3 Pro struggles with even simple coding tasks. Sure, I haven't tested complex scenarios yet and have only done so via Antigravity. But it is very difficult to do that with the limited quota it provides. Impressions here - https://dev.amitgawande.com/2025/antigravity-problem
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-27 02:22:22+00:00
Higher end apartments will. Even newer apartments in Beijing will have wet rooms at some price point. Remember that the apartments are built in China unrenovated, and even new owners of second-hand properties are expected to redo everything from a concrete box, so it is 100% up to the landlord/owner on how the bathroom is done, and I’ve seen it done many many different ways.
by fluoridation | 2025-11-27 02:22:36+00:00
What do you mean? The MAC address is used to identify the device within the same network segment. A program running on the device cannot derive location information just from the MAC address. It's a meaningless number. What the MAC address can do is make you visible to other devices in the same network segment. So for example, a wireless router can know you're nearby because your known MAC address has joined the network, but this is a problem regardless of what apps your phone is running.
by tmsh | 2025-11-27 02:22:44+00:00
“In which some stereotypes are resoundingly confirmed” - so the post is confirming stereotypes of differences between women and men by highlighting the extremes in difference (not the actual counts)? It’s misleading. The gender differences are less stark if you use better charts and don’t include activities that men literally can’t do (that’s not a “stereotype” that’s human anatomy).
by sharkweek | 2025-11-27 02:22:57+00:00
My friend and I have started tinkering on our cars together.

He’s got an early 90s 525i BMW and I’ve got a 2000 SR5 Toyota 4Runner.

The engineering of my Toyota is so much simpler and easier to work on than his BMW. But his BMW has given us a lot more practice, if you know what I mean ^_^
by rkomorn | 2025-11-27 02:23:29+00:00
I'm in Portugal and I have definitely met people outside of tech who talk about Musk in ways that I'm pretty sure mean they would not consider buying Teslas.

Same applies to some friends in France.

I assume the topic comes up more with me because I lived in the US for a long time before moving back to Europe, but I'm guessing their opinions are there even if the topic doesn't come up as often in conversations with other locals, for example.
by nibab | 2025-11-27 02:23:55+00:00
fabulous work. ive been following you since danswer. you certainly create a lot of value and have been successful in getting the community to cover the long tail of integrations.

its interesting to see how "lock-in" is the main pitch here. all things considered, i don't think "lock-in" is relevant at all unless the activity performed with the tool is highly strategic to the company.

you could argue that some orgs may not want openai/anthropic to have their sensitive data leave the parameter, but im also here to tell you that even the most privacy sensitive companies in the world probably resolve this by having a proxy in between the users and the LLM APIs from the labs.

so where does this leave you ? cost savings from OSS? maybe, but its hard to imagine that we are in the phase of the adoption cycle where companies have become as acutely aware of costs as you think they are.

my 2c - focus on the integrations and see which one gets most traction. that will be your value capture mechanism long-term.
by satvikpendem | 2025-11-27 02:24:31+00:00
It can be equally soul destroying once you move there too. I know it can feel hopeless currently but for most people the solution isn't to move to a new place but to actually fix the issues they're having at home, as it's often more personal than governmental, unless you're in some active warzone.

There are posts there like this that make the point better than I can: https://www.reddit.com/r/IWantOut/s/g7L2i4OKyI