MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by llm_nerd | 2025-11-27 12:41:24+00:00
Well sure, they're iterating between models. But in many cases they're quite literally copy/pasting designs. Any imagined separation between the hardware teams is fantasy based. The comment I replied to is nonsensical.

"They're different even between A19 Pro in an iPhone Air and the one in 17 Pros"

The SoC and I/O blocks are quite literally identical. An A19 Pro is an A19 Pro, aside from binning for core disables. The difference is in the wiring and physical connector on the device which puts a ceiling on the features supported, one of which is 10Gbps. The Air famously includes some new "3D printed" super thin Titanium USB-C port, using the 4 pins rather than the "pro" 9 pin 10Gbps capable connector. The SoC is identical, they just only wired it up for USB 2.0.
by HugoTea | 2025-11-27 12:41:34+00:00
There are many things they do which Apple argues benefits their users, but end up benefitting themselves in suspiciously manipulative ways. I'm not shocked they entered a 10 year contractual agreement, and that just so happened to allow them to make a lot of profit by using a proprietary cable.

They lock down individual parts to device serial numbers, this helps prevent fraudulent repair services with poor quality parts, it also ensures Apple is always involved in the repair process and they can make a lot of money on that.

They use a proprietary RAM design, this significantly improves hardware speeds but also stops you replacing or upgrading the modules yourself. They also just happen to charge a serious premium on RAM capacity, and don't sell the modules on their own. Even if a third-party did manufacture the modules and sell them separately, they are also locked down to serial numbers.

This is Apple's bread and butter, enforcing consumer hostile practices and spinning it into a benefit, usually filled with half-truths to muddy the waters. In all of these situations, it's possible to do better by the consumer but why would they? At the end of the day they're here to make money, as much as they possibly can, and they're uncontested in their own vender hardware, doesn't mean we shouldn't call them out for their awful practices every time they appear.
by throw10920 | 2025-11-27 12:42:16+00:00
Your assumption is equally incorrect, because the poster factually did not say anything like that. You can be upset at the EU for making performative regulation without addressing "real issues" or writing the regulation well, and yet still support strong regulation. The implication that criticizing the EU is equivalent to being a "hyper-capitalist" is such an insane belief that it borders on being farcical.

Assumptions like this are what lead to political polarization. Don't do it. Read what the poster wrote, don't try to read their mind, and use your brain responding.
by flohofwoe | 2025-11-27 12:42:33+00:00
Github was great at the time when it replaced Sourceforge. But that was a long time ago and actually better alternatives are popping up left and right. And that's even without Microsoft's recent-ish enshittifaction process (e.g. letting everything rot that's not AI related). Githubs entire management and development process is simply broken beyond repair, monkeys at the wheel or not.

PS: also Gitlab CI is so much better than GH Actions that they are not even in the same league. It is very apparent that Gitlab is actually dogfooding their stuff, which is not the impression I get from any Github feature.
by theredknight11 | 2025-11-27 12:42:39+00:00
For my work, I spoke with OpenAI representatives directly and we talked about privacy. They assured me and my colleague no one could see your chats, something like "you don't have to worry that your boss can read your chats and think you're dumb."

My colleague (data scientist) asked "what if we wanted to study peoples prompts to teach them better prompt methods?" And they did a 180 without even needing to ask. "Oh yeah, we can get you that. No problem."

Of course this was for enterprise chatgpt but my experience was very much they are run like a startup, tell the customer whatever you need to to make money since they're burning through so much.
by Archelaos | 2025-11-27 12:44:20+00:00
Etymonline states: "The meaning 'pad of writing or blotting paper' is by 1880".[1] Also see the variety of meanings listed it the Webster 1913 edition, including: "1. A small table or flat surface. 2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture. 3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.] 4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book. [...]".[2] -- No information on the frequency of use, though.

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/tablet

[2] https://www.websters1913.com/words/Tablet
by kotaKat | 2025-11-27 12:44:36+00:00
As a Ford Fusion Hybrid owner I blow out my rear brakes a lot more often out of rust and lack of use due to regen too, so the TUV is just calling out people not getting their vehicles inspected and serviced as regularly as they should.

In other words... Tesla owners just don't pay attention to service intervals as dedicated and surefast as a VW owner would.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-11-27 12:46:52+00:00
You are right that 'npm install' can upgrade versions even when a lock file is present, but AFAIK this should only happen it the lock file is not compatible with the package.json. I haven't seen it in a long time, and AFAIK it can't happen without you changing the package.json.

But yes, it's a reason to pin dependencies and use npm ci / yarn immutable etc.

Updates of transitive dependencies are afaik not automatically installed when there is a working lock file: this is the thing that changed some versions ago I think (I mixed up Node and npm versions in my initial comment).

So yes, to be sure that you never install anything else, it's best to use 'npm ci' or 'yarn install --immutable', which will fail if the lock file is broken or not present.

But 'npm install' does not install the latest patch release compatible with your package.json with precedence over the lockfile.

What it does do is upgrade if you edit the version range by hand to be incompatible with the lock file, e.g. increase major version of a package.

But if you have, say, Typescript ^5 in your package.json, but 5.4 in your lock file, 'npm install' won't upgrade it.

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/commands/npm-install

> If the package has a package-lock, or an npm shrinkwrap file, or a yarn lock file, the installation of dependencies will be driven by that, respecting the following order of precedence:

> npm-shrinkwrap.json

> package-lock.json

> yarn.lock

'npm ci' and friends are safer as they will always fail when they can't install from lock file without any conflicts or changes, that's correct.

Don't know how other package managers behave in this regard, except for yarn and pnpm.

PHP composer AFAIK behaves similar to npm?
by ignoramous | 2025-11-27 12:47:56+00:00
> should be noted that Google doesn't really like apps abusing the VPN API like this

Not really.

Only apps that use the VpnService and have VPN as their core functionality can create a secure device-level tunnel to a remote server. Exceptions include apps that require a remote server for core functionality such as: - Parental control and enterprise management apps - App usage tracking - Device security apps (for example, anti-virus, mobile device management, firewall) - Network-related tools (for example, remote access) - Web browsing apps - Carrier apps that require the use of VPN functionality to provide telephony or connectivity services.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... / https://archive.vn/KY51z

> It should be noted that system applications (phone OS, Google, sometimes carrier apps) can bind to specific network interfaces bypassing this API entirely

Whilst this is true for Android (connectivity checks bypass VPNs, as do VoWiFi and Hotspot traffic) [0], other OSes are known to do the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816

[0] https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/224
by throwaway-0001 | 2025-11-27 12:48:09+00:00
> It's so common that the only logical explanation is that it is encouraged. It appears to be the norm and the non-slurper is the exception. I'm glad that your parents taught you to not slurp. You are an exceptional individual.

Anyway I’ve asked enough Chinese people about it to get the same answer. Not all do it, but some do it for these reasons.

I doubt you ever asked any Chinese.
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-27 12:48:32+00:00
> Elon was an enthusiastic reader of books, and had attributed his success in part to having read The Lord of the Rings, the Foundation series, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.[11][28] At age ten, he developed an interest in computing and video games, teaching himself how to program from the VIC-20 user manual.[29] At age twelve, Elon sold his BASIC-based game Blastar to PC and Office Technology magazine for approximately $500 (equivalent to $1,579 in 2024).[30][31]

I think it's fair to say he at least was a nerd. He was a dweeb getting beaten up in school, burying himself in books and computers at home. His skills are doubtlessly outdated now, but does that really mean much? Woz's skills (which to be perfectly clear, outclassed Musk's by miles) are doubtlessly out of date now too, but nobody would say Woz isn't a nerd.

I think the part where he grew into an unstable dirtbag might be influencing the way people see him now. Saying that is is, or at least was, a genuine nerd shouldn't be seen as any sort of excuse for his scamming, lying, etc.
by rickdeckard | 2025-11-27 12:48:50+00:00
Or, legally require vendors of general compute devices to provide a common SW-layer with respective documentation, to allow utilization of underlying hardware (not explicitly within the shipped OS, it can also be a separate maintained platform disconnecting the device from the shipped ecosystem).

This would prevent e-waste and put this old hardware to better use. A community OS could then be built on top of this common SW-layer and be maintained for a wider range of devices.

I would e.g. LOVE a "Browser on everything" OS which just provides a Browser OS for outdated hardware, but the only way this could work on scale would be if the device-vendor would be mandated to provide and document the lower layer...

Someone would have to make the economic case for such a regulation as well, i.e. demonstrate the benefit for society and reduction of e-waste if such a law is in place. But the chances for this are razor-thin, especially in today's public/political climate.
by yetihehe | 2025-11-27 12:50:12+00:00
> Yes, I picked those examples deliberately, but I don't see why any of the qualitatively good ones are 'manly'.

What was your goal? What was your argument? I said that we need men to be more manly (strong and able to do things that are historically considered to be done by men) and you said that those can be also done by women? I would consider woman able to change a tire, play cards and start fire without matches to be manly. If she wants to, she can of course.

Currently the problem is that we indirectly say to men that being strong is for women and not for men. We say to women "be more manly" and to men "be more womanly", which just perpetuates old cliches, but in reverse.
by cbeach | 2025-11-27 12:51:09+00:00
This is a fascinating read, and it sounds plausible that we can achieve hugely more powerful rockets.

However, what about the problem of space dust - where encountering a single grain of sand at speed would yield the force of a nuclear detonation?

And how might the fragile human body withstand the forces of antimatter propulsion?

I'm interested to learn about our progress towards building Star Trek's "deflector" and "inertial dampner" if anyone has insight?
by kierandeeptrace | 2025-11-27 12:51:24+00:00
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by flohofwoe | 2025-11-27 12:51:42+00:00
Github has been entirely integrated into Microsoft's AI division since the last Github CEO left a couple of months ago (not much of a loss since he was responsible for Githubs AI enshittifaction). Those org-changes alone are plenty of reason to lose trust in Github's future. IMHO things can only get worse with an "AI first" division in charge and now is probably the best time to jump ship, at least it's the responsible thing to do for sufficiently large and professional projects (and I bet that ziglang is only one of many to follow).

> But they'd have to undermine whoever is running github actions

I'm not sure if anybody is running the GH Actions project at the moment beyond bare maintenance work and trying to keep the whole thing from collapsing into a pile of rubble. There is also no separate Github entity anymore within Microsoft, so nothing to "undermine".
by lazide | 2025-11-27 12:51:56+00:00
If you are under attack, vulnerability is bad.

Historic ‘stoic male’ personas existed for a reason. Because in many situations, it works. Despite the complaining.

And being less ‘emotionally connected’ is valuable when people use that connection to exploit or hurt you. A very common experience for many men.

That people (especially women) then complain you won’t open up to them is a riot in those situations because it’s like someone complaining you keep putting on your bullet proof vest - while they keep shooting at you.

Historic male mental health issues also resulted. But notably, folks depending on the stoic persona for their own wellbeing would typically throw you under the bus for those issues too.

“How dare you get mad! You’re a dangerous threat!” says the person constantly harassing the person, or the boss putting you in worse and worse work conditions while pretending they are doing you a favor, etc.

They do that, of course, because mad people actually fight back. But if you need the job or are dependent on the relationship…

As many men have experienced, the only way to ‘win’ is shut off caring about what people say on that front - among other emotions.
by cr3ative | 2025-11-27 12:52:34+00:00
> Bom's spokesperson told the BBC it had received about 400,000 items of feedback on the new site, which accounted for less than 1% of the 55 million visits in the past month.

This is a _remarkably_ bad attempt to make the complaints look reduced in comparison to usage. Amazing that any organisation would try this line.
by rdtsc | 2025-11-27 12:52:43+00:00
My favorite of his https://x.com/joelreymont/status/1990981118783352952

> Claude discovered a bug in the Zig compiler and is in the process of fixing it!

...a few minutes later...

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/25974

I can see a future job interview scenario:

- "What would you say is your biggest professional accomplishment, Joel?"

- "Well, I almost single-highhandedly drove Zig away from Github"
by salawat | 2025-11-27 12:53:23+00:00
You realize you can redline the default IP assignment clauses, right? It should never have been normalized that an employer gets blanket claim to all mental output on your part. Especially things done in your off hours on equipment the company doesn't own.

It's just another example of how contract law, lawyers, and legal fictions represent a bottom up funnel of value extraction from the populace in which they exist. Can't even just work and get paid without some arsehole driving/hiding behind a legal fiction strip mining you for all the law will let them get away with.
by sach1 | 2025-11-27 12:54:01+00:00
So why would it take off there instead of in a larger city with more resources?

I'm not disagreeing with you completely, but I would like to know more about what other factors you would consider to have been more impactful. I don't know that you really need hippies around to get that kind of 'california capitalist' mentality either tbf.
by citrin_ru | 2025-11-27 12:54:34+00:00
I have an impression that both noise level and power consumption are not a priority for home network equipment manufactures. After moving to a new house and connecting to another ISP I've got an ISP modem-router which: 1. has a fan and while it's quiet it's not silent 2. consumes around 20 Wt, not much but working 24x7 it would cost around £45/year at current electricity rates.

I think it's technically possible to make a modem which will consume less power and use passive coiling but I don't think they (ISP and device manufacturer) care.
by mvdwoord | 2025-11-27 12:54:52+00:00
I get the point, but myself have no intention of ever sharing a hotel room with anyone I am not comfortable to concurrently use a bathroom with, i.e. my gf/wife. I would much rather see an initiative to show me if a hotel shower has a proper way to keep the water in, so I do not have to use three towels to provide some sort of spot where I can properly dry off whilst not standing ankle deep in water. Never understood why this is the case in so many hotels, it does nt seem to aid cleaning staff either. That, and a proper filter for on premises parking (not the "public parking is plentiful around the hotel" in the fine print bs), and for wifi, show me the speedtest results please.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-11-27 12:55:35+00:00
Not sure if they have gotten dimmer. Possibly the opposite: I don't remember having noticed it recently (but I've also travelled a lot less), but I do remember being very annoyed by this many years ago.

No idea why hotels were doing it, neither LEDs nor the electricity for them are that expensive and I doubt anyone wants to be stuck in a dark cave.
by MrBuddyCasino | 2025-11-27 12:56:38+00:00
Charlie Kirk was shot by a center-right guy on September 10, 2025?

Luigi Mangione shot the UnitedHealthcare CEO December 4, 2024 and had an anti-capitalist manifesto, was he center right?

What about Elias Rodriguez (leftist activist, Israeli Embassy Staff Shooting)?

Michael Reinoehl (antifa) who shot Aaron Danielson?

"No Kings" Vance Boelter who shot two politicians?

"Anti-ICE" Joshua Jahn who killed two detainees and wounding an agent in the Dallas ICE Facility Sniper Attack?

US leftists are the same murderous closeted communists as they are everywhere else.

They assassinate people (see recent cases), perform terrorist attacks (peaking at ~500 (!) bombings in 1971), form mobs to socially ostracise people they don't agree with, distribute brazen propaganda in mass media and subvert every organisation they join.
by aenis | 2025-11-27 12:57:14+00:00
I have long standardised the way I do hotel reviews:

- bullshit wifi connectivity (e.g. captive wifi + OTP)? - normal wifi but with very long password? - is there a place to put toiletries in the shower? - clean? - time to check in and check out?

Where I travel the hotels without bathroom doors have not proliferated yet. I've been in a few, even when I am alone I hate the experience.
by wltr | 2025-11-27 12:57:36+00:00
From the user perspective Figma is great, and I might say it’s even better. However, all that came from throwing more money into the problem, I believe. Figma just won because they invested unlimited money into this, while Sketch might be self-funding, if I’m correct here. To me this is rather ‘money is a very nice asset to have’ kind of thing.
by Leftium | 2025-11-27 12:58:12+00:00
Kagi maintains an update-to-date list of bangs[1]:

- Kagi redirects bang searches even if you are not a member/logged in

- ChatGPT: https://kagi.com/search?q=!chatgpt+test

- Grok: https://kagi.com/search?q=!grok+test

- Copilot (sadly copilot no longer accepts queries from the url params): https://kagi.com/search?q=!copilot+test

- there are internal Kagi bangs for Gemini: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Akagisearch%2Fbangs+gemini...

- no redirect bang yet for Gemini; you can open an issue and/or pull request

---

[1]: https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs
by kg | 2025-11-27 12:58:37+00:00
AFAIK (I have a similar soft shadows system based on SDFs) the reason the noise issues occur in small gaps is that the distance values become small there so the steps become small and you start ending up in artifact land. The workaround for this is to enforce a minimum step size of perhaps 0.5 - 2.0 pixels (depending on the quality of your SDF) so you don't get trapped like that - the author probably knows but it's not done by their sample code.

Small step sizes are doubly bad because low-spec shader models like WebGL and D3D9 have a limitation on the number of loop iterations, so no matter how powerful your GPU is the step loop will terminate somewhat early and produce results that don't resemble the ground truth.
by Lerc | 2025-11-27 12:59:20+00:00
When I watch Ex-machina the degree to which I loathed Oscar Isaac's character surprised me. While much of it was because the character was objectively loathsome, part of it was because I felt the type of person he represented was infecting the tech world.

The thing that seemed really inconguous to me was that he actually made the amazing tech. I don't think I have ever encountered a personality like that who actually made things. Certainly I've seen them talking about how great the thing they made is, but invariably, to them, I made means 'my employees made'

Which is not to say that there aren't toxic people who do actually make things. They exist, but it presents somewhat differently to the 'Tech bro' archetype.
Show HN: MkSlides – Markdown to slides with a similar workflow to MkDocs
by MartenBE | 2025-11-27 13:00:17+00:00
As a teacher, we keep our slides as markdown files in git repos and want to build these automatically so they can be viewed online (or offline if needed). To achieve this, I have created MkSlides. This tool converts all markdown in a folder to slides generated with Reveal.js. The workflow is very similar to MkDocs.

Install: `pip install mkslides`

Building slides: `mkslides build`

Live preview during editing: `mkslides serve`

Comparison with other tools like marp, slidev, ...:

- This tool is a single command and easy to integrate in CI/CD pipelines.

- It only needs Python.

- The workflow is also very similar to MkDocs, which makes it easy to combine the two in a single GitHub/GitLab repo.

- Generates an index landing page for multiple slideshows in a folder which is really convenient if you have e.g. a slideshow per chapter.

- It is lightweight.

- Everything is IaC.
by saubeidl | 2025-11-27 13:00:34+00:00
Speaking of a nation's constitution, how do you feel about Article 23 of the German Grundgesetz?

> (1) With a view to establishing a united Europe, the Federal Republic of Germany shall participate in the development of the European Union that is committed to democratic, social and federal principles, to the rule of law and to the principle of subsidiarity and that guarantees a level of protection of basic rights essentially comparable to that afforded by this Basic Law. To this end the Federation may transfer sovereign powers by a law with the consent of the Bundesrat. The establishment of the European Union, as well as changes in its treaty foundations and comparable regulations that amend or supplement this Basic Law or make such amendments or supplements possible, shall be subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) of Article 79.

I would hope the people, politicians and cops of Germany follow their constitution.