MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-28 19:46:53+00:00
What generation had CarPlay disabled? It works very nicely in 95B.2 and .3, and the pre-facelift 95B models with PCM 3 didn't support CarPlay at all without an adapter, did they?

I know full-screen CarPlay isn't supported without a jailbreak, but I don't care about that myself so haven't done it.
TermoSlack – A Terminal Based Slack Client
by adhyys | 2025-11-28 19:47:01+00:00
Hey HN,

I built TermoSlack, a fully terminal-based Slack client written in Node.js, with real-time updates using Socket Mode and OAuth user login.

Why I built it - good question! ================================ Can be several answers: 1) uses way less ram than original slack client 2) doesn't require electron 3) very fast ngl and more more...

What features are in there ??? ================================ --Real-time Slack messages via Socket Mode (xapp + xoxb)

--User login with OAuth (no shared bot identity)

--Multiple workspaces

--Channel list, message view, message sending

--Terminal UI built with neo-blessed

--Works fully offline besides Slack API calls

--Packaged as a single Windows/Linux executable

What I used to build this project ?? ==================================== --Node.js (ESM)

--@slack/web-api & @slack/socket-mode

--neo-blessed TUI

--express (local OAuth callback server)

--pkg (for producing a standalone executable)

Earlier I was thinking python to implement this but I switched over to node.js as it would make this project more challenging

Work in progress: ================= --DMs + private channels

--Threaded conversations

--Message reactions

--File uploads

--User presence indicators

--Keybindings

--Multi-workspace switching

--Custom Themes

Your feedback will be precious to me and for my project. I would love to hear your feedback for improving this project more and more !

Thanks HN

github link : github.com/adhyys07/TermoSlack
by Retric | 2025-11-28 19:47:22+00:00
I mean if your benchmark was “at the time of the accident” then you’re off by more than a factor of a million. The often quoted 80 to 100 grays per hour was eight months after formation and it had gotten way less radioactive by then. Decay heat which all comes from radioactivity was ~1% of full reactor output for a few days. ~10,000 kW or so from a fairly compact object which is why it was still melting through concrete.

As to a point source, if you’re making an approximation use the center of the object and your 100m distance calculation would be corrected by about 25x. Though obviously the building itself provides shielding.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-28 19:47:34+00:00
But it doesn't, does it?

If I have $300K on my mortgage and a monthly payment of $2000, and I pay an extra $100K, that 100K reduces the principal of the mortgage by $100K, and so the mortgage will run for several years less than it would have. But my monthly payment is still $2000 for the years I have left on it.

There are other ways to structure it - you can pay ahead, paying next month's payment this month so that you don't have to pay anything next month if you don't want to. Can you pay $100K so that you don't have to pay the next 50 months' payments? I don't know, but probably. You have to be clear with them what you are trying to do, though.
by efitz | 2025-11-28 19:47:53+00:00
I don’t like the clickbait title.

Many people today find LLMs useful, as evidenced by willingness to pay to use them. That alone IMO largely demolishes the “wasted” argument; markets will find the right price vs cost vs value trade-off when necessary.

The author presupposes that the only goal of all the LLM investment that has been done is to achieve AGI.

Certainly the big players are seeking AGI but they’re also businesses trying to make money, or at least not lose huge amounts of money. So we see a lot of market experiments trying to figure out where and how LLMs can provide value for paying customers.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-28 19:48:00+00:00
It's not so much that sexual behavior is inherently scandalous, the issue is with the broader context where a formalized hierarchy of power and a potential for intimidation are quite antithetical to any kind of genuine, consensual connection. The potential for borderline-abusive behavior in the workplace (not necessarily criminal, either) is orders of magnitude greater than any concern about "naming and shaming".
by slurrpurr | 2025-11-28 19:48:14+00:00
Sounds to me more like the author has weird friends and never had a stable relationship in her life. Relationship sharing is awesome if you have a stable relationship. And people usually don't talk about their kinks in this weird fashion.

In fact, I think the Internet has increased eroticism manyfold. Look at porn apps, games and websites. People are more open about their sexuality than ever, but anonymously.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-28 19:48:18+00:00
>It means they take their problems and assume that they are problems that others have.

Well, it's the internet and no one's singular experienc truly unique. So yes, that is a safe assumption. I doubt the author is the only person in the world with a friendship broken over some relatively benign story.

>GP is suggesting that the authors is assuming society has certain attributes, when in reality its likely just attributes of theirself.

Could be both. Or neither. It's a blog, not a study, so I don't see much point dissenting an anecdote. The point is to share ideas to the world. And given the nature of the internet, some will resonate.
by lmf4lol | 2025-11-28 19:48:49+00:00
The number of use cases for which I use AI is actually rapidly decreasing. I don't use it anymore for coding, I don't use it anymore for writing, I don't use it anymore for talking about philosophy, etc. And I use 0 agents. even though I am (was) the author of multiple MCP servers. It's just all too brittle and too annoying. I feel exhausted when talking to much to those "things".... I am also so bored of all those crap papers being published about LLM. Sometimes, there are some gems but its all so low-effort. LLM papers bore the hell out of me...

Anyway, By cutting out AI for most of my stuff, I really improved my well-being. I found the joy back in manual programming, because I am one of the few soon that will actually understand stuff :-). I found the joy in writing with a fountain pen in a notebook and since then, I retain so much more information. Also a great opportunity for the future, when the majority will be dumbed down even more. And for philosophical interaction. I joined an online University and just read the actual books of the great thinkers and discuss them with people and knowledgable teachers.

For what I use AI still is to correct my sentences (sometimes) :-).

It's kinda the same than when I cut all(!) Social Media a while ago. It was such a great feeling to finally get rid ot all those mind-screwing algorithms.

I don't blame anyone if they use AI. Do what you like.
by anonzzzies | 2025-11-28 19:49:48+00:00
The problem is , there are very few Europeans or EUans. There are French and Germans and Spanish etc; they all want their country first and sure open markets but their country first. That is how they vote (certainly these days). Most people do not feel EU unfortunately. Language is one thing: it is getting better but having language not unified (English, Spanish, Mandarin; pick one) is a massive and real issue keeping people's minds and efforts local instead of, at least EU wide. It is slowly getting better but the EU should made easier accessible and far higher funds for pan EU projects. Currently it is a serious pain to get access to EU funds and many just get eaten by the few massive consultancy corps who have dedicated teams going for any funding and tender in any locality and language.
by downrightmike | 2025-11-28 19:50:23+00:00
No, keep Intel afloat by any means, because USA is planning on attacking Venezuela and China. Maybe VZ is used to gear up production for the Taiwan war.

There are a few ways to save the economy,

hyperinflation (pay massive 38T debt with worthless paper),

Jubilee (erase all debts like the fall of Rome)

or war and mass death and destruction (WW2 and the Black Death).
by rmah | 2025-11-28 19:50:27+00:00
That is, IMO, arguable. Entertainment has always been valued by humans. It is just the non-physical equivalent of fancy clothing or jewelry. And clothing/jewelry is most certainly a form of wealth. So, it can be argued that things that you can buy that make you feel better emotionally or increase your social status are forms of wealth.

That some forms of entertainment may be detrimental if abused in the long-term is an orthogonal topic.
by ryukoposting | 2025-11-28 19:50:41+00:00
The crux of this article is that they won't treat Meta's debt as debt, because Meta intentionally structured this debt to circumvent the agencies' definition of "debt." Should they change their definition of "debt?" Maybe, but what incentive do they have to do that, is any formal definition bulletproof to circumvention, etc.

What's very interesting to me is what happens when Meta doesn't exercise those lease options. If there isn't some kind of penalty for declining the option, well...
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-28 19:51:00+00:00
> Renewables, and for that matter nuclear power as well, cannot materially slow, let alone reverse, the relentless rise in ECoEs caused by the depletion of oil, natural gas and coal. Neither can technology halt this trend, since the potential of technology, far from being infinite, is bounded by the limits imposed by the laws of physics.

Why would this be the case? Are fossil fuels uniquely low cost in terms of energy in? I can't imagine them beating the ECoE of "put this magic panel on your roof and get free energy whenever the sun is out, for decades". If the problem is that you don't get solar during the night, then that's a question of battery technology. And that's not even a problem with nuclear reactors!

And saying that technology is "bounded by the limits [of physics]" is not useful. That doesn't say where the limits are, only that there are limits. Yes, at some point, we'll have almost 100% efficient solar panels being fed into batteries with the highest practical energy density. But we're nowhere near that.

Insamuch as the western world is being hit with increasing ECoEs, it's from people who either can't or won't switch from chemical fuels to something with a lower ECoE. It would be more useful to identify those industries and show any evidence of cost disease in those industries brought about by the dependence on diminishing reserves of fossil fuels.
by GeekyBear | 2025-11-28 19:51:21+00:00
TSMC and Apple have a long standing partnership, and I doubt TSMC is dumb enough to throw a massive amount of long term business away in exchange for short term AI bubble gains.

TSMC has even been cutting Apple special terms they don't give others:

> every time TSMC introduces a major upgrade, called an advanced process node, to its chipmaking, the defect rates of the dies stay relatively high until it can iron out the kinks. For 3 nm, the most cutting-edge node launching this year, the yield on wafers has recently been in the range of 70% to 80%, according to analysts, as well as one person with direct knowledge of the process.

That number would be a tough pill to swallow for TSMC’s customers, which typically pay for the wafer and all of the dies on it—including the bad ones. But in a break from standard practice, the Taiwanese manufacturer has only been charging Apple for dies that work—“known good dies,” in industry parlance—these people said.

https://archive.ph/yfGLp
by hagbard_c | 2025-11-28 19:51:42+00:00
Can you explain what is creepy about not wanting to be bombarded with sexualised imagery in the service of peddling wares? Do you consider sexuality - our species most basic drive, hard-wired into both sexes and manipulable by those unscrupulous enough to do so - as just another 'expression of personality' that you want people to 'un-closet' their sexual proclivities instead of keeping them where they are traditionally kept, always a bit in tension with 'polite' society but for that all the more exiting?
by jnurmine | 2025-11-28 19:51:43+00:00
Yes, of course I need to buy new blades... What I don't have to do is to buy a new sharpener because the old one made of "stainless steel" rusted.

Yes, Chinese companies CAN do high quality products. Of course they can, they're not lazy or stupid. But if the price difference isn't too big, I'd rather buy something made close-by, to keep the money in the local economy (my country or Europe), instead of bleeding it into some faraway place.

Some people do not consider that aspect, they only look at the price in numbers and think that's the end-all, which it isn't. There is an "invisible cost" added. On the surface it might be cheaper for me, but it ends up hurting the local industry, it will create unemployment, at some point social problems, and so forth; in short: it will harm the place I call my home.

For this reason, to me a Chinese (or US, whatever) product would have to be vastly cheaper than something made close-by, yet have a parity in quality to be worthwhile at all. And the equation of vastly superior quality for a substantially cheaper price is rare.

As for the car industry and cheaper Chinese cars: I don't see the how German industry is "dying", as it's not really a level playing field. It's easy for Chinese producers to be cheaper when the Chinese government subsidizes the exports. I'm sure Germany could do higher quality cars cheaper than the Chinese, if the German government were to subsidize a large part of each produced car. Would government subsidies then mean that the industry is "not-dying"? I don't think so.
by turtletontine | 2025-11-28 19:52:24+00:00
I think what’s clear is many people feel much more productive coding with LLMs, but perceived and actual productivity don’t necessarily correlate. I’m sure results vary quite a bit.

My hunch is that long term value might be quite low: a few years into vibe coding huge projects, developers might hit a wall with a mountain of slop code they can no longer manage or understand. There was an article here recently titled “vibe code is legacy code” which made a similar argument. Again, results surely vary wildly
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-28 19:53:06+00:00
>Being sexually aroused is not art, it is an occurrence in the real world.

Based on the definition I shared, it's not about your feelings. It's the quality of what made you feel that way. An important bu subtle difference.

To take your example, it's less about the chatbot and more about how and what it responds with. If suddenly it's responding based on its remembered experiences and sense of the world, I. E. 'Sentience', we would start to wonder if its science fiction.
by antononcube | 2025-11-28 19:53:31+00:00
Interesting variant. I might program it for some of the «Rock-Paper-Scissors extensions» here:

https://rakuforprediction.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/rock-pape...

Some of the extensions would need polyhedral dices:

https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OpenDiceRolls/
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-28 19:53:57+00:00
> As someone who's been enthusiastic about Signal since it was TextSecure and RedPhone, the changes made over the years to broaden the userbase have been really exciting from an adoption perspective, and really depressing from a security perspective.

As always, it depends on your threat model.

I use signal because I value my privacy and don't trust Facebook. Not because I'm an activist. So I'm in the target group for Signal's new behavior and I welcome it (especially since to use it to share personal information that I don't want Facebook or advertisers to get, I need my parents and in-laws to use it as well, so it must be user friendly enough).

I wish they continue moving forward in that direction by the way and allow shared pictures to be stored directly on the phone's main memory (or at least add an opt-in setting for that), because the security I get from it not being is zero and the usability suffers significantly.
by bojan | 2025-11-28 19:54:28+00:00
We switched completely to Microsoft/Azure a couple of years ago. My previous employer as well.

There was no stopping it, I'd tried and they looked at me like I'm crazy. "Everybody else is doing it" is a very strong argument.

At the same time, a very popular open source security package that I wanted to use was deemed a security risk because the maintainer has placed Ukrainian and Palestinian flags in the readme.
by rmah | 2025-11-28 19:55:00+00:00
First, you are correct. However, the reason GDP is used as a proxy metric for economic growth because it's convenient. Doing so does make a few assumptions though, foremost of which is that the structure of the economy will change very little from year to year. If that is so, than a rise in GDP should correspond to a rise in economic prosperity (and by extension wealth). Thus, using GDP change to measure changes in prosperity works (more or less) year by year. but the longer the periods you compare (5 years, 10 years, 20 years), the less meaningful the number becomes.
by liamness | 2025-11-28 19:56:21+00:00
I suppose the issue is that it's a multiplier for bad actors. It has become so much easier to generate plausible-looking code (or any number of things that would've previously required a knowledgeable human to make something that at least passes the sniff test, let's say legal documents as another example) and just overwhelm the limited bandwidth of good actors.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-28 19:56:45+00:00
I mean it depends what kind of subsidy we're talking.

On contracts: Space X builds rockets for the government, fair enough, in a vacuum. Though I would ask why we're paying a private corporation to recycle NASA designs we wouldn't fund via NASA, rather than just having NASA or the Air Force do it.

On welfare: Corporations like Walmart benefit incredibly from the tattered remnants of America's social safety net, because if it didn't both exist and demand that people work to earn the benefits, nobody in their right mind would work for places like Walmart, because they wouldn't get paid enough to live. If nothing else, they would all die of starvation, which of course I don't want, but Walmart is also benefiting from that, albeit indirectly.

Misc: artificially low taxes, the ability for corporations to shelter revenue overseas to avoid taxes, temporary stays on property taxes to attract businesses to a given area, lax environmental regulations in some areas, and lots of other examples of all the little ways private industry gets money from the government they shouldn't have. Most of these not only don't "give something back" but detract from the society or the larger world.

And to emphasize, I'm not even arguing for or against here. I'm just saying Elon Musk doesn't want a small government, nor a large one. He wants a government he can puppet. As long as it benefits him and does not constrain him, he doesn't give a shit what else it does.

A short list of libertarian principles I'd bet a LOT of money Elon does not endorse:

- Abolition of Intellectual Property: Hardcore libertarians argue patents and copyrights are government-enforced monopolies that stifle innovation. Musk’s companies rely heavily on IP protections—Tesla’s battery tech, SpaceX’s designs, Neuralink’s research. Without IP law, his competitive moat collapses.

- No Government Subsidies: Libertarian principle: the market should stand on its own, no handouts. Musk’s empire thrives on subsidies: Tesla leaned on EV tax credits, SpaceX lives off NASA and DoD contracts, SolarCity was propped up by state incentives.

- Minimal Regulation: Libertarians want deregulation across the board. Musk benefits from regulation: environmental rules push consumers toward EVs, carbon credits generate revenue, and zoning laws often bend to his lobbying.

- Free Markets Without Favoritism is a Libertarian ideal: no special treatment, no cronyism. Musk actively lobbies for policies that tilt markets in his favor, from energy credits to space launch contracts. That is not free competition, it is government-backed advantage.

- Flat, Transparent Taxation: Libertarians often push for simple, low, flat taxes with no loopholes. Musk’s companies exploit tax shelters, property tax abatements, and complex accounting maneuvers to minimize liability. That is the opposite of transparent.
by upmostly | 2025-11-28 19:56:50+00:00
Great question! Postgres is supported right away because it behaves like a standard, direct database connection. But with services like Neon and Supabase, there are extra nuances we want to handle properly.

We want Neon, Supabase, and similar cloud providers to feel like first-class citizens inside DB Pro and not just “another Postgres connection”. Each of them has their own quirks, authentication flows, and connection requirements. For example, Supabase actually needs a paid IPv4 add-on if you want to connect to it in the traditional way, which isn’t obvious to most users.

So instead of lumping them in as generic Postgres connections, we’re building dedicated flows that understand these details and make the whole experience seamless. That’s why they’re marked as “coming soon”. We’re doing them properly.

It all goes back to our UX first philosophy to build the absolute best experience.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-11-28 19:56:51+00:00
The full study links:

The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2642

The late arrival of domestic cats in China via the Silk Road after 3,500 years of human-leopard cat commensalism

https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(25)00...
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-28 19:56:52+00:00
Fully agree with you on all points, but I fear this requires serious governmental interventions - simply due to the massive amounts of money involved. The "free market" obviously has failed, with - as you mentioned - massive dangers to national security.

Unfortunately, I also can't see any government willing to put the money on the table to establish a third party from scratch. All that seems to be available is handouts for TSMC to construct a fab in Arizona, and even that was widely criticized.
by rollulus | 2025-11-28 19:57:01+00:00
I used to believe that I was working with JSON schema through OpenAPI 3.0, but then I learned a hard lesson that it uses an “extended subset” of it. And what does that mean? It “means that some keywords are supported and some are not, some keywords have slightly different usage than in JSON Schema, and additional keywords are introduced.” [1]. Yes, that’s a bonkers way to say “this is not JSON schema although it looks similar enough to deceive you”. This word game and engineering choice is so bizarre that it’s almost funny.

[1]: https://swagger.io/docs/specification/v3_0/data-models/keywo...
by anonym29 | 2025-11-28 19:58:09+00:00
I mentioned some of the pragmatic constraints of fully trusting typical Android / iOS FDE to fully protect the confidentiality of Signal messages in another comment above that I would encourage you to read.

That said, Molly definitely isn't designed for the average person's threat model, that's totally true, but it's also worth noting that just because someone isn't aware of a certain risk in their threat model, that doesn't mean they will never benefit from taking steps to proactively protect themselves from that risk.

IMO, security and privacy are best conceptualized not as binary properties where you either have it or you don't, but rather as journeys, where every step in the right direction is a good one.

I'd always encourage everyone to question their own assumptions about security and never stop learning, it's good for your brain even if you ultimately decide that you don't want to accept the tradeoffs of an approach like the one Molly takes towards at-rest encryption.