MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lcfreis | 2025-12-09 17:21:20+00:00
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by ramses0 | 2025-12-09 17:21:30+00:00
Waterproofing, tiny batteries, yadda yadda... it's either "charge it weekly", or "recycle" every year or two (eg: $9.99/mo)

Thinking through: many people in the pebble-verse (back in the day) were super-hot about wanting the voice-control stuff/microphone responses to text messages. Instead of thinking about this as a standalone "ring", think of this as a "remote button + mic" for the pebble watch.

As a (former) avid biker, being able to spam: "How much longer until sunset (and how far away am I from home [and will I get home before sunset])?" and having a rough answer "on the wrist" is super useful.

On the Home Assistant front, the Apple ecosystem is waaaay too universal for Siri-isms. We have 3-4 home pod's (upstairs, downstairs, kids bedroom, guest room), along with phones (car-play), and airpods. All of them can be used as "Hey Siri, set a timer, turn on/off the lights, what's the weather, etc".

Looking at the HA voice controls, it's utter garbage trash (unfortunately) until The Hackers(tm) get around to fixing things up, BUUUT we're still screwed b/c HA speakers/mic's will be worse than Apple's, and HA will never come out with AirPods or CarPlay integration (and likely: Apple will never support a "non-Siri" voice connection via their microphone relationships).

This ring is an incredibly interesting way to sidestep all of that!

You have the ring (mic input, 2yr battery), you have the watch (text display, 1 month battery), and your phone (cellular + storage + compute, 1 day battery), all of which are nominally "every day carry" items.

In the home automation world, having your star-trek communicator pin (quite literally!) on your finger at all times w/ a 2yr battery life is VERY VERY intriguing!
by concinds | 2025-12-09 17:21:39+00:00
The human brain works with nonrepresentative shapes perfectly fine, otherwise companies wouldn't emphasize logos so much, often without even their actual name next to the logo.

Again, you don't even need to know what a floppy is or that it exists; its consistency and omnipresence, alongside the "Save" label most of the time, is enough to create meaning, such that most people will recognize it without the label.
by angiolillo | 2025-12-09 17:21:44+00:00
> Why not just optimize for removing the gesture entirely? The microphone has to be better on a full size watch on your wrist vs the tiny ring further away on your finger.

Agreed, let the ring just be a button that can trigger recording on a watch or phone (among other tasks) rather than squeezing in a microphone and audio transmitter.

> I wonder if you could even make it perpetually powered by body heat + buffer battery if it's ONLY job was to emit a couple packets over BLE...

Neat! Or maybe a tiny solar cell? Perhaps the button itself is piezoelectric, like a wearable version of the EnOcean Nodon line of battery-free wireless switches -- a BLE advertising event costs less than 100 microjoules which a button press should be able to provide, though ensuring 100% reliability over BLE with such a tiny energy budget would be hard.

Alternately it could communicate with the watch using IR, but the knuckles might occlude line of sight. The button press could mechanically emit an ultrasonic tone, but that requires an always-on mic in the watch/phone and would be susceptible to shenanigans. Maybe pressing the button causes a specific vibration that a watch accelerometer can reliably recognize?

Now I want someone to find a way to make this work... but long term I expect that the real solution will be making hand gestures work reliably 100% of the time with no ring at all.
by allforJesse | 2025-12-09 17:22:08+00:00
This could be such a delightful upgrade for my hybrid digital/analog personal task management system. Right now I use an apple watch to capture tasks which then hackily route through a series of apps/endpoints to get to a thermal label printer, but that's just about the only thing I use the apple watch for.

Having an affordable single purpose device like this could be much better -- how straightforward will it be to post transcriptions of the recorded messages to a webhook via the Index 01?
by fragmede | 2025-12-09 17:22:33+00:00
Can humans though? There's a reason we don't just lump everything into one giant file and singleton class named DoIt(). Who hasn't come back around to some bit of code in a project and wondered what dumbass wrote this, only for the logs to tell you that it was you that wrote it, years ago. If AI is resulting in code that's more modular, in smaller digestible and understandable chunks, I'm not hearing that as a bad thing!
Ask HN: How difficult will resuming a SWE career be after a sabbatical?
by justchad | 2025-12-09 17:22:37+00:00
I am at a crossroads, and I'm thinking about taking some extended time off for a sabbatical for like a year or so. I want to know if that will hurt my chances of resuming a career as a software engineer since things are changing so rapidly with AI. For context, I am a Founding Engineer of a successful startup. I have been an engineer for 15 years and plan to continue writing software while on sabbatical but obviously not as much as I currently do day to day. Do you think I will have a hard time returning to the field should I choose to do so?
by UniverseHacker | 2025-12-09 17:23:00+00:00
I took the article as meaning white collar tech jobs that will go away, so those people will need to pivot their career, not humans.

However, it does seem like time for humanity to collectively think hard about our values and goals, and what type of world and lives we want to have in an age where human thought, and perhaps even human physical labor are economically worthless. Unfortunately this could not come at a worse time with humanity seemingly experiencing a widespread rejection of ideals like ethics, human rights, and integrity and embracing fascism and ruthless blind financial self interest as if they were high minded ideals.

Ironically, I think tech people could learn a lot here from groups like the Amish- they have clearly decided what their values and goals are, and ruthlessly make tech serve them, instead of the other way around. Despite stereotypes, Amish are often actually heavy users of, and competent with modern tech in service of making a living, but in a way that enforces firm boundaries about not letting the tech usurp their values and chosen way of life.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-09 17:23:10+00:00
> India is not going to partner militarily with anyone, European or not...

India will partner with those nations that align with reducing India's biggest security threat - a two-front war against Pakistan and China.

This is why India has been building close defense and economic ties with Greece [0] and Cyprus [1], because it allows India to put pressure on Turkiye which has increasingly armed Pakistan and now-ambivalent Bangladesh. It also gives India two additional vetoes in the European Council on top of the French and Italian vetoes due to economic and MIC ties. It's also why Israel is also building close defense ties with Greece+Cyprus [2][3] as well.

And this is why the EU is becoming increasingly dysfunctional - individual nations like the US, China, Russia, the Gulf States, Israel, Turkiye, India, and others are using state-level ties to either steamroll their strategic goals through the EU or block those of their competitors.

[0] - https://www.eliamep.gr/en/syndeontas-efkairies-o-stratigikos...

[1] - https://m.kathimerini.com.cy/gr/politiki/ptb-endeixi-dynamik...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/turkey-mo...

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/greek-par...
by glenstein | 2025-12-09 17:24:06+00:00
The problem is not that it fails to be cheeky, but that "its funny" is depressing in a context where there was a live question of whether it's a sincere attempt at prediction.

When I see "yeah but it's funny" it feels like a retrofitted repair job, patching up a first pass mental impression that accepted it at face value and wants to preserve a kind of sense of psychological endorsement of the creative product.
by ls612 | 2025-12-09 17:24:19+00:00
And if the US doesn't jump to your aid? If in 2028 Trump goes "you guys had six years to prepare and pissed it away, why should we bail you out?" what can Europe do? They could certainly try putting together a multinational European army and taking it into combat but I doubt there is much political will for that in France or Britain, who crucially possess a lot of the air and seapower.
by infecto | 2025-12-09 17:24:22+00:00
At least for me. I buy fresh food via online ordering because I hate wasting time these days. Driving even to a nearby store takes 10mins round trip. Then having to walk through the store and fine what I need and checkout. I would much rather order online and get it delivered. Produce can still be a gamble, pickers have no incentive to pick the best produce but for the average meal, that’s fine.
by bgwalter | 2025-12-09 17:24:48+00:00
Bitcoin has had the fortune of being one of the settlement methods for sanctions evasion. Its price has almost certainly profited from the Ukraine war.

Renewed interest by the Trump clan with Lutnick's Cantor & Fitzgerald handling Tether collateral in Nayib Bukele's paradise wasn't easy to predict either.

Neither was the recent selloff. It would be hilarious if it was for a slush fund for Venezuelan rebels or army generals (bribing the military was the method of choice in Syria before the fall of Assad).
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-09 17:25:01+00:00
Sending all the useless horses to glue factories in that time was so prevalent it was a cartoon trope. The other trope being men living in flop houses, and towns having entire sections for unemployable people called skid row.

The AI people point to post 1950s style employment and say 'people recovered after industrial advance' and ignore the 1880s through the 1940s. We actually have zero idea if the buggy whip manufacturer ever recovered or just lasted a year in skid row before giving up completely, or lived through the 2 world wars spurred by mechanisation.
by tptacek | 2025-12-09 17:26:06+00:00
This literally doesn't say anything. It's a lot of words, but you've managed to reproduce the exact position the author of the article has. For those wondering what the trick was here: this comment forwards the 40-80% h2 numbers from twin studies, then says "molecular genetics show real, replicable genetic signal for intelligence", rather than showing the 10-30% h2 numbers those studies generate.

It's practically nobody's position that there's no linkage between genetics and intelligence (that would be weird indeed), but it's important for this comment for you to believe that's the counterargument --- otherwise the comment doesn't make sense.
by Delk | 2025-12-09 17:26:16+00:00
I can't think of any official documents I'd be getting in Office file formats. Forms are mostly web ones or in some cases PDF, read-only documents are PDF. Maybe you can submit some documents or attachments in the Word format as a citizen but I wouldn't be surprised if PDF is already required anyway, or an image format for scans.

I'd be more worried about document interoperability between government agencies and other organizations such as companies that do work for the government. The government could of course mandate contractors to use an open source office suite which would extend the need for training to those companies.

Also, I've seen some orgs make heavy use of Office formats in terms of e.g. surprisingly elaborate formatting, document history and comments, and although I haven't tried to use those in LibreOffice, I wouldn't be sure it supports all of those in the same extent some people have learned to use them in Office.
by henwfan | 2025-12-09 17:26:16+00:00
Thanks for taking the time to try it and write this up.

You are right that the current check still leans too much toward my reference solution. It already ignores formatting and whitespace, but it is still quite literal about structure and identifiers, which nudges you toward writing my version instead of your own. There are many valid ways to express the same idea and I do not want to lock people into only mine.

Where I want to take it is two clear modes. One mode tracks the editorial solution for people who want to learn that exact version for an interview, while still allowing harmless changes like different variable names and small structural tweaks. Another mode is more flexible and is meant to accept your own code as long as it is doing the same job. Over time the checker should be able to recognise your solution and adapt its objectives and feedback to what you actually wrote, instead of pushing you into my template. It should care more about whether you applied the right logic under time pressure than whether you matched my phrasing.

There is also a small escape hatch already in the ui. If you completely blank or realise you have missed something, you can press the Stuck button to reveal the reference line and a short explanation, so you still move forward instead of getting blocked by one detail.

You are pushing exactly on the area I plan to invest in most. The first version is intentionally literal so the feedback is never vague, but the goal is for the checker to become more adaptive over time rather than rigid, so it can meet people where they are instead of forcing everyone through one exact solution.
by edent | 2025-12-09 17:26:17+00:00
You'll notice that the author (me) didn't actually credit the invention of the computer to Turing's sexuality.

But it is an undeniable fact that he was gay.

If the British government had banned him from working at Bletchly Park because of that, would the computer still have been developed? Certainly he wasn't the only one working on it, but historians and computer scientists seem to agree that he was a key figure.

The health of a technical community depends on its ability to attract contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds.

We agree that the result of the work is what is important. I'm arguing that Stephen Hawking can't participate unless you install wheelchair ramps.
by Fnoord | 2025-12-09 17:27:12+00:00
Stop using your phone less in front of your kids.

Start using your ring/watch/whatever_else more in front of your kids.

Honestly, it isn't about what you use (that is just hype). You can read the paper all day if you want. I grew up with a father who was listening to radio and watching TV all the time (to be fair: he was disabled, including legally blind). It isn't about using your phone less in front of your kids. It is about being there for your kids when they need you; showing genuine interest in your kids; interacting with them. Right now, as I am writing this to you, my kids are watching Peppa Pig before bedtime. Instead of writing this, I could sit next to them and watch an episode with them.

As for cycling, with a ring you'd have to move your hand towards you or not, but it isn't much different compared to a watch, except perhaps when you'd wear a sweater over your watch.

It is also very typical that in-ear buds are expensive, small, yet hard to repair because the battery isn't user replaceable. And guess what, exactly the same for this device.

Apart from the yet another device with microphone (24/7 on, I suppose) and Bluetooth (the wireless spaghetti protocol) and it not being user serviceable the device costs 100 USD. For such a price, I expect it to last longer than two years. I mean, I'm sick of devices lasting only a few years. I wouldn't need yet another one.

TL;DR hard pass, do better.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-12-09 17:27:20+00:00
Does Google still follow robots.txt? I think so. Should be easy to exclude Google Crawlers if that's what you're after. But of course everyone wants to profit off of Google's reach so excluding them won't work for most either.

We've had ~20+ years to come up with something better than copyright with nothing to show for. First it was the plebs ignoring copyrights, then it was the search engines and social networks and their knowledge graphs and now it's the billionaires and their AI companies that hoover up the web.
by QuantumNomad_ | 2025-12-09 17:27:26+00:00
ziggy42 is both a submitter of a story on the actual front page at the moment, and also in the AI generated future one.

See other comment where OP shared the prompt. They included a current copy of the front page for context. So it’s not so surprising that ziggy42 for example is in the generated page.

And for other usernames that are real but not currently on the home page, the LLM definitely has plenty occurrences of HN comments and stories in its training data so it’s not really surprising that it is able to include real usernames of people that post a lot. Their names will be occurring over and over in the training data.
by badsectoracula | 2025-12-09 17:27:41+00:00
These are not permissively licensed though, the terms "permissive license" has connotations that pretty much everyone who is into FLOSS understands (same with "open source").

I do not mind having a license like that, my gripe is with using the terms "permissive" and "open source" like that because such use dilutes them. I cannot think of any reason to do that aside from trying to dilute the term (especially when some laws, like the EU AI Act, are less restrictive when it comes to open source AIs specifically).
by burningChrome | 2025-12-09 17:27:57+00:00
I agree that its a hard read, and seemingly never got to the point of the title of the article. I started reading it and by about the eighth or nineth paragraph the article was still ruminating on his gay love affair so I just skimmed the rest and I couldn't make heads or tails of the rest of it either.

Its shocking how bad some writers are these days.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-09 17:28:37+00:00
Nope. It's because we don't have to pay a digital service tax in any of those countries (except in Russia, where American companies no longer operate due to sanctions considerations). And it's always been about DST [0][1].

No one in the policy space who is able to reach a position to affect power gives a s### about ideology unless it is a deeply personal issue for that person, and for most policymakers (who are overwhelmingly non-technical in my experience), digital free speech absolutism just isn't something they care about at a personal level.

[0] - https://www.ey.com/en_gl/insights/tax/how-taxation-of-digita...

[1] - https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/tax/newsletters/tax-policy-bulleti...
by daliusd | 2025-12-09 17:29:14+00:00
I use AI successfully in two projects:

* My 5 years old project: monorepo with backend, 2 front-ends and 2 libraries

* 10+ years old company project: about 20 various packages in monorepo

In both cases I successfully give Claude Code or OpenCode instructions either at package level or monorepo level. Usually I prefer package level.

E.g. just now I gave instructions in my personal project: "Invoice styles in /app/settings/invoice should be localized". It figured out that unlocalized strings comes from library package, added strings to the code and messages files (added missing translations), however has not cleaned up hardcoded strings from library. As I know code I have written extra prompt "Maybe INVOICE_STYLE_CONFIGS can be cleaned-up in such case" and it cleaned-up what I have expected, ran tests and linting.
by thomastjeffery | 2025-12-09 17:29:23+00:00
I think the most absurd thing to come from the statistical AI boom is how incredibly often people describe a model doing precisely what it should be expected to do as a "pitfall" or a "limitation".

It amazes me that even with first-hand experience, so many people are convinced that "hallucination" exclusively describes what happens when the model generates something undesirable, and "bias" exclusively describes a tendency to generate fallacious reasoning.

These are not pitfalls. They are core features! An LLM is not sometimes biased, it is bias. An LLM does not sometimes hallucinate, it only hallucinates. An LLM is a statistical model that uses bias to hallucinate. No more, no less.
by colinplamondon | 2025-12-09 17:29:35+00:00
- A queryable semantic network of all human thought, navigable in pure language, capable of inhabiting any persona constructible from in-distribution concepts, generating high quality output across a breadth of domains.

- An ability to curve back into the past and analyze historical events from any perspective, and summon the sources that would be used to back that point of view up.

- A simulator for others, providing a rubber duck inhabit another person's point of view, allowing one to patiently poke at where you might be in the wrong.

- Deep research to aggregate thousands of websites into a highly structured output, with runtime filtering, providing a personalized search engine for any topic, at any time, with 30 seconds of speech.

- Amplification of intent, making it possible to send your thoughts and goals "forward" along many different vectors, seeing which bear fruit.

- Exploration of 4-5 variant designs for any concept, allowing rapid exploration of any design space, with style transfer for high-trust examples.

- Enablement of product craft in design, animation, and micro-interactions that were eliminated as tech boomed in the 2010's as "unprofitable".

It's a possibility space of pure potential, the scale of which is limited only by one's own wonder, industriousness, and curiosity.

People can use it badly - and engagement-aligned models like 4o are cognitive heroin - but the invention of LLMs is an absolute wonder.
by kldg | 2025-12-09 17:29:41+00:00
yes; I think it depends a lot on how accepted the icon is. Every few months when I have to open ST's CubeProgrammer, my brain substantially deteriorates because they don't use text and the icons for their main tabs are not always understandable to me. (and the thing's otherwise a relic from 20+ years ago)

X, volume & mute icon, disk icon, upload/download icon -- these are all fine and good; you don't need to spell those out for me because their use is so widespread that even if I didn't know what they meant, it'd be very useful to learn. I have no idea what a generic "integrated circuit" icon means, though, and I doubt anyone will use it elsewhere to mean the same thing, so I just click around randomly until I find what I'm looking for, like I'd do with the previously-unlabeled 6-switch panel in my living room where the positioning of the switches have no obvious relation to the physical placement of the ceiling lights.

I think Apple's menu actually shows exactly what I want and expect; show icons if it'll help me, don't show them if they wouldn't; though in come cases, I think Apple could apply some more icons (like for "Stop", there are a few good choices for that).