MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iask | 2025-12-09 00:02:33+00:00
It has always been so since the dawn of modern desktops. I don’t see how/why this is noise. This is like a developer at a standup insisting we can make the app faster adding some micro services, flashy UX, and a few months of work while the - end user will still enter 20 order changes in an 8 hour day because that’s the environment.

What will you gain from removing the icons?
by rustystump | 2025-12-09 00:02:39+00:00
There are so many reasons to add icons as many have already stated here. One reason i didnt see is for multi lang help. Sometimes the icon is enough when i dont know the language used.

However, i think what may be described here is that apps often deviate from a “universal” standard or reuse something to mean another. This defeats most of the benefits of using icons imo.
by MrCoffee7 | 2025-12-09 00:03:13+00:00
It seems like each article takes a lot of vertical space. What if you changed the UI so you just displayed a title for each article with a little icon next to it like a downward arrow that you could click on if you wanted to see more of that article? That way, you could display more titles on one screen so that the user could more quickly scroll to the articles they actually wanted to see?
by jamal-kumar | 2025-12-09 00:03:39+00:00
Been following people who have been making electronic music mixes between two cassette decks and a mixer which are worth a listen. The thing that's interesting is that you can pitch up and down in ways that sound nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzsa1M7s1sk

Anyways, here's the mixes:

Trippy Ambient Cassette-Only Mix by Bop | Rewind Ritual 01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feHvyc69xe4

Cassette-Only Drum & Bass Set by BOP | Live at SK1 Records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHmBcBPV-3U

DnB mix with cassette tapes (DJ Ponkachonka)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jp5TcherI

Cassette mix drum & bass (2005 - 2010) (DJ Ponkachonka)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpqui0lo-v4

What's crazy is that at least the portable cassette decks aren't cheap anymore. Look on eBay at prices and be amazed
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-12-09 00:03:39+00:00
> That requires extra hardware in your network though, right?

It requires a Hue bridge, but all the official Hue apps need that too (unless you're using the new Bluetooth support, which very few people are). You shouldn't need any other hardware though.

> The advantage of their hosted services is that they can get through NATs without any additional hardware or software.

Locally, it doesn't really matter, since everything just goes over the local network. You're definitely correct for remote access though, but I hardly ever need to control my lights remotely.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-12-09 00:03:41+00:00
This feels a lot like the "humans must be ready at any time to take over from FSD" that Tesla is trying to push. With presumably similar results.

If it works 85% of the time, how soon do you catch that it is moving in the wrong direction? Are you having a standup every few minutes for it to review (edit) it's work with you? Are you reviewing hundreds of thousands of lines of code every day?

It feels a bit like pouring cement or molten steel really fast: at best, it works, and you get things done way faster. Get it just a bit wrong, and your work is all messed up, as well as a lot of collateral damage. But I guess if you haven't shipped yet, it's ok to start over? How many different respins can you keep in your head before it all blends?
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-12-09 00:04:09+00:00
I wouldn't know if account sales was occurring, my first thought was that they sincerely wanted to have AI critique this article and post here. I don't think it is a good enough reason for me personally to flag.

I think if someone was trying to use AI to farm they wouldn't post these types of critiques, but something safer rather.

But I did wanted to see what their reasoning for posting those AI critiques was, and they answered, so I got my curiousity satisifed to an extent.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-12-09 00:04:32+00:00
Somewhat tangential:

> What I find really interesting about this change on Apple’s part is how it seemingly goes against their own previous human interface guidelines (as pointed out to me by Peter Gassner).

> They have an entire section in their 2005 guidelines titled “Using Symbols in Menus”

2005?? Guidelines evolve.
by anonymars | 2025-12-09 00:04:49+00:00
Some thoughts:

1. Personally I find writing software for the web far more difficult/tedious than desktop. We sure settled on the lowest common denominator

1a. Perhaps part of that is that the web doesn't really afford the same level of WYSIWYG?

2. Is it perhaps more difficult (superlinear) to write one cloud SaaS product that can scale to the whole world, rather than apps for which each installation only needed to scale to one client? Oh and make sure to retain perfect separation between clients

2a. To make everything scale, it's super distributed, but having everything so distributed has a huge cost

3. Some level of DLL hell, but something different (update hell?) I barely do any programming in my free time anymore because I would end up spending almost the whole time needing to deal with some barrage of updates, to the IDE, to the framework, to the libraries, to the build infrastructure

3a. There's always a cost to shipping, to the development team and/or the users. With releases so frequent, that cost is paid constantly and/or unpredictably (from the development or user perspective)

3b. Is there any mental sense of completion/accomplishment anymore or just a never-ending always-accelerating treadmill?

3c. I wish I could find the source but there was some joke that said "software developers are arrogant or naïve enough to think that if you take a marathon and just break it up into smaller parts you can 'sprint' the whole way"
by phantasmish | 2025-12-09 00:04:51+00:00
This is it. I know of too many companies (in nonfiction, specifically) trying to offload as much as possible to LLMs, damn the quality. Zero chance I buy any nonfiction written after 2021 or so unless it comes with strong recommendations from sources I trust. No more on-a-whim purchases because something looks interesting and is on sale or whatever. That’s over.
by Yoric | 2025-12-09 00:05:06+00:00
Exactly that.

I suspect that we're going to witness a (further) fork within developers. Let's call them the PM-style developers on one side and the system-style developers on the other.

The PM-style developers will be using popular loosely/dynamically-typed languages because they're easy to generate and they'll give you prototypes quickly.

The system-style developers will be using stricter languages and type systems and/or lots of TDD because this will make it easier to catch the generated code's blind spots.

One can imagine that these will be two clearly distinct professions with distinct toolsets.
Show HN: ZetaCrush – An Intelligent LLM Leaderboard
by zetacrushagent | 2025-12-09 00:05:08+00:00
Hi all, I wanted to share the leaderboard I have created and am working to rank LLM models. My results are very similar to those of ARC-AGI 2 with the only exception being that DeepSeek is rated higher on my leaderboard. In order to keep the test closed-source. The plan is that once the top models max out on a given task on our test then we will adopt new criteria to differentiate.

The test is currently comprised of 10 scores, 9 of which no model scores above 0 on. Check it out and let me know what you think! Thanks
by xg15 | 2025-12-09 00:05:33+00:00
I find it depressing that there seem to be only two ways to distribute media and manage one's audio collection: Either ultra-convenient but fully locked down streaming services - or analog "vintage" media like vinyl or cassettes, which do give you a physical medium under your full control, but also require you to forego all the progress we made with digital media.

The one thing that's absent: Plain old audio files that you can store on your hard drive and copy to your phone or other devices.

Edit: Ok, there are still more options left than I thought. I take that back then :)
by monerozcash | 2025-12-09 00:05:59+00:00
No. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

>Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

>for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;

dang will randomize your username on request though, which is compliant. Everything else on your profile you can delete yourself.
by salawat | 2025-12-09 00:06:07+00:00
Economics 101 also notes that your view is still quite lacking, as the Baumol effect is far from being settled as 100% the bloody cause, as there is significant non-supply side effects that may account for shifts from the progressive sectors to the stagnant sectors, not the least of which being off-shoring.

The dismal science continues to deliver hand waving and prognostications more than satisfactory answers.
by richard_todd | 2025-12-09 00:06:28+00:00
Lately I just ask an LLM to teach me things interactively. It will be interesting to see if that stops working so well, when authors stop writing books for LLMs to absorb. Maybe as long as there is some kind of canonical reference, the LLM can bridge the gap to decent educational material. If so, that's kind of sad, but also kind of awesome at the same time. It's definitely an interesting time to be alive. I wish I was just a little closer to retirement, though...
by layer8 | 2025-12-09 00:06:37+00:00
Maybe you misunderstood the author. They wrote: ‘It’s not that I think menu items should never have icons. I think they can be incredibly useful. It’s more that I don’t like the idea of “give each menu item an icon” being the default approach.’

The point is, if every item in a long menu has an icon, then they typically can’t all be very distinguishable and recognizable, and blur together visually. It creates more visual noise, and less structure, than if only some items had an icon.

As for finding groups quickly, for example it doesn’t make sense give all of “Save”, “Save as…”, “Save all” an icon, but giving the first one an icon helps to recognize the “Save” group of operations.
by CompoundEyes | 2025-12-09 00:07:12+00:00
Did a remix awhile back and printed to a cassette using a Tascam 414 Portastudio. Brought it back into the computer at about three quarters of normal speed twisting the dial occasionally. The other side of tape was Fleetwood Mac “The Dance” my dad dubbed for me in the 90s. The imperfections of that old hissy tape with backwards Stevie Nicks bleeding through collapsed the stereo field in a nice way. I welcome this trend!
by Yoric | 2025-12-09 00:07:17+00:00
> Maybe our future is like the one depicted in Severance - we look at computer screens with wiggly numbers and whatever “feels right” is the right thing to do. We can harvest these effortless low latency “feelings” that nature gives us to make AI do more powerful work.

Come to think about it... aren't this exactly what syntax coloring and proper indentation are all about? The ability to quickly pattern-spot errors, or at least smells, based on nothing but aesthetics?

I'm sure that there is more research to be done in this direction.
by zb3 | 2025-12-09 00:07:45+00:00
You presume that ads will just be near the content you want.. but what if ads will be served instead of the content, like instead of AI answering the question fully, some of it would be deffered to a book or instead of doing a trustworthy comparison it would bias the result?

People would run away, but in Gemini they're already drifting towards this direction with the useless garbage video suggestions..
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-12-09 00:07:56+00:00
People are given a choice on what they eat as well and many also eat junk food, despite it largely being agreed upon that junk food is not good for you.

Both cheap entertainment and junk food cede your autonomy to large corporations whose main goal is to make you addicted to their product and extract the maximal amount of money.

This is purely subjective, but I believe that the path to personal fulfillment does not involve watching TV and playing video games in your spare time. I say this as someone who was addicted to video games and played 40 hours a week in addition to a full time job.

When someone says “No matter who wins, we lose” they are implying that we are all beholden to corporations who will inevitably screw us, but that does not have to be the case. You can choose not to participate.
by jewel | 2025-12-09 00:08:29+00:00
The way I think you'd set this up is you'd create a trust with the millions and then the trustees would pay the company its monthly fee from the trust's funds.

With enough funds, the trust should be able to both pay for your preservation and grow its balance. You'd even be able to inherit the remaining funds when revived.

Of course in practice there is still the possibility of the trustees being corrupt.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-09 00:09:11+00:00
Notable that the reasons for failure to meet benchmarks was that the locations were too far away, and that they are moving to the “Micro-Fulfillment Center” approach that Amazon is doing at Whole Foods. This is exactly what everyone predicted when Amazon bought WF - turn it into a grocery FC.

That makes sense to me.

Feels like we’re going to have warehouse scale vending machines in cities, and delivery bots taking them from the warehouse-vending-machine to the customer.
by mmooss | 2025-12-09 00:10:34+00:00
> It's unfortunate that works of great non-fiction writers evaporate away from our cultural consciousness after their death.

That's a bit of an overstatement? There's Confucius, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, ... Darwin, Newton, Einstein, ... Jefferson, Decartes, .... (you get the idea).

It is a competitive field; what's sufficient to win attention in the current generation is often not enough for future generations, which have their own contemporary writers.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-12-09 00:10:43+00:00
All filesystems that I'm aware of don't sync to disk on every write by default, and you absolutely can lose data. You have to intentionally enable sync. And even then the disk can still lose the writes.

Most (all?) NoSQL solutions are also eventual-consistency by default which means they can lose data. That's how Mongo works. It syncs a journal every 30-100 ms, and it syncs full writes at a configurable delay. Mongo is terrible, but not because it behaves like a filesystem.

Note that this is not "bad", it's just different. Lots of people use these systems specifically because they need performance more than durability. There are other systems you can use if you need those guarantees.
by mosura | 2025-12-09 00:10:56+00:00
Sounds like they just put them in the wrong places.

> Fenyo added that Kroger’s decision to locate the Ocado centers outside of cities turned out to be a key flaw.

> “Ultimately those were hard places to make this model work,” said Fenyo. “You didn’t have enough people ordering, and you had a fair amount of distance to drive to get the orders to them. And so ultimately, these large centers were just not processing enough orders to pay for all that technology investment you had to make.”
by nantangitan | 2025-12-09 00:11:27+00:00
There's been times in the past when I've had nontechnical stakeholders present for otherwise technical meetings. A little bit of colour and a little bit of animation can go a long way to helping people who may be less familiar with this type of diagram to understand it better.

All the better if I can take an existing diagram and just spruce it up slightly for presentation.
by truekonrads | 2025-12-09 00:11:33+00:00
I love AMP, it delivers great results. I like that it’s opinionated in how it should be used and for example tells me that I need to hand off context.

I love that I am not welded to one model and someone smart has evaluated what’s best fit for what. It’s a bit a shame they lost Steve Yegge as their brand ambassador. A respected and practicing coder is big endorsement.

To anyone on the fence - give it a go.
by zeroping | 2025-12-09 00:12:05+00:00
I'm just generally impressed by their community efforts vs cFS. They really do their development on GitHub - not just a place to push out source, but issues, PR's, discussions.

FPrime has some rough edges, and it takes a bit to get used to, but the team's interest in continually improving the core for a wide range of users is the differentiator.
by crote | 2025-12-09 00:12:25+00:00
It's a double whammo, because aluminium smelting doesn't require stable current. Modern smelters can modulate their power significantly, with even multi-hour full shutdowns not being a huge problem.

Considering how energy-intensive it is, this means there is quite a big future for using aluminium smelting to soak up dirt-cheap excess renewable energy. Renewables not being stable has suddenly become a feature.
by 0manrho | 2025-12-09 00:13:18+00:00
From an accessibility/localization stand point, icons+text everywhere seems to be ideal.

Also, I disagree with:

> This posture lends itself to a practice where designers have an attitude of “I need an icon to fill up this space”

Sure, that does technically happen, but is in no way preventative or mutually exclusive with the follow on thought:

> Does ... the cognitive load of parsing and understanding it, help or hurt how someone would use this menu system?

That still happens, because if they mismatch an icon with text, that can result in far worse cognitive load/misunderstanding than if no icon was present at all. This becomes readily apparent in his follow on thought experiment where you show someone a menu with icons+text, but "censor" the text. Icons+text is also superior to [occasionally icons]+text in the same thought experiment. From my perspective, the author just argued against their own preference there.

I'd argue that the thought process behind determining an appropriate icon is even more important and relevant when being consistent and enforcing icon+text everywhere, not diminished. It also has the broadest possible appeal (to the visual/graphically focused, to the literary focused, to those who either may not speak the language, and/or to those who are viewing the menu with a condensed/restrictive viewport that doesn't have room for the full text). Now, if the argument is predicated on "We aren't willing to pay a designer for this" then yeah, they have a point. Except they used Apple as an example so, doubt that was the premise.
by cj | 2025-12-09 00:14:04+00:00
I’m pretty sure the top comment thread was edited because I can’t figure out what we’re debating.

I think the original comment said something to the effect of “employees shouldn’t ever resolve their own conflict, their boss should do it for them”.

I was only trying to illustrate that there are some people out there who are incredibly sensitive and will make a conflict out of the color shoes you’re wearing. Sometimes it’s good to empower an employee to speak their mind about their coworkers hideous color shoes, no need to force boss man to relay the message.
by gurumeditations | 2025-12-09 00:14:32+00:00
Having FCs an hour away from your customers, packing groceries into a tiny truck with one or two employees per truck, the trucks alone would never pay for themselves let alone the FCs. This was obvious from the get go and it’s why Walmart has been the only one successfully doing grocery pickup and delivery for 6 years. Every store is an FC and they’re all within 20 minutes of their customers.
by eikenberry | 2025-12-09 00:14:45+00:00
I only buy archival (flac) downloadable files. Some places I've purchased music from..

- https://bandcamp.com/ - https://us.7digital.com/ - https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop

If I can't find them there I will grab the audio off youtube or hit the torrents. Used to buy CDs and rip them, but those are getting hard to find (and it was a PITA).
by tonyystef | 2025-12-09 00:14:47+00:00
Resume keeps one session alive. Grov gives you knowledge from all past sessions (yours + your team's), filtered to what's relevant right now. It's really built for teams using coding agents to build software together.

Example: My cofounder debugged the payment flow last week. When I touch payment code today, his reasoning is automatically injected into my session.
by snapetom | 2025-12-09 00:14:49+00:00
Apple has neglected the iTunes store for years. Yes, you can still buy tracks, but it's really crappy. 1) The catalog is nowhere near as extensive as Apple Music. 2) It's AAC 256kbps format only. Not lossless.

Apple goes along with the enshitification of everything and wants you to rent your music, not own it.
by browningstreet | 2025-12-09 00:15:16+00:00
I’ve lived in coastal tech cities but I’ve never done DoorDash, or Uber eats, or anything by robots. Obviously I’m not the norm with these behaviors but I also don’t understand market demand when I see so many DoorDash vehicles at McDonalds, while the news also talks about how McDonald’s is suffering because they lost the poor income demographic.

I also work from home so going and getting my food, in person, is a welcome respite from my office. But who’s turning a $15 McDonald’s order into a $30 thing, regularly?
by marginalia_nu | 2025-12-09 00:15:22+00:00
It's kind of a shame how we keep trying to make icons look uniform, either in color, or in shape.

Like I open the app drawer on my Android phone and there are like 16 different icons, all different Google apps, all are round and various abstract configurations of the same exact four colors.

Feels like we're falling into the same trap that Gothic handwriting did with the minims. Yeah it looks very pretty but it's almost completely illegible since we've taken away all the things that help set icons apart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_(palaeography)#/media/Fi...
by aystatic | 2025-12-09 00:16:39+00:00
> You cannot even use Nvidia/AMD/Intel DGPUs with AS Macs

afaik you technically can, except that m1/m2 force pcie bars to be mapped as device memory (forbids unaligned r/w), so most gpu software (and drivers) that just issue memcpys to vram and expect the fabric to behave sanely will sigbus. it's possible to work around this, and some people indeed have with amdgpu, but it'd absolutely destroy performance to fix in the general case

so it doesn't really have anything to do with apple themselves blocking it but rather a niche implementation detail of the AS platform that's essentially an erratum