MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wtallis | 2025-12-25 19:32:26+00:00
In the US, Walmart is still selling the M1 MacBook Air new, for $599 (and has been discounted to $549 or better at times, such as Black Friday).

In general, I don't think it's reasonable to worry that Apple's products aren't thoroughly achieving economies of scale. The less expensive consumer-oriented products are extremely popular, various components are shared across product lines (eg. the same chip being used in Macs and iPads) and across multiple generations (except for the SoC itself, obviously), and Apple rather famously has a well-run supply chain.

From a strategic perspective, it seems likely that Apple's long history of annual iteration on their processors in the iPhone and their now well-established pattern of updating the Mac chips less often but still frequently is part of how Apple's chips have been so successful. Annual(ish) chip updates with small incremental improvements compounds over the years. Compare Apple's past decade of chip progress against Intel's troubled past decade of infrequent technology updates (when you look past the incrementing of the branding), uneven improvements and some outright regressions in important performance metrics.
by krish678 | 2025-12-25 19:33:27+00:00
That number is for a non-trivial software path (parsing, state updates, decision logic), not a minimal hot loop. Sub-100 ns in pure software usually means extremely constrained logic or offloading parts elsewhere. I agree there’s room to improve, and I’m working on reducing structural overheads, but this wasn’t meant to represent the absolute lower bound of what’s possible.
by mettamage | 2025-12-25 19:33:27+00:00
To me, game consoles were toys. Maybe they are a lot more now but the SNES and N64 felt like toys. The pc felt like a toy too.

I am very likely to be a father in the future. I am happy I have all my old consoles because it helps a bit with introducing kids to technology without them having access to all of it.

Soccer outside was fun too, there was a field nearby our house.
by Mackrey | 2025-12-25 19:33:43+00:00
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by throwup238 | 2025-12-25 19:33:44+00:00
> He is extremely productive in its specialty: the intersection of programming language and system programming.

Why do you say that specifically is his specialty? He also started QEMU and ffmpeg which are foundational pieces of software for several industries, and his day job is as founder of a company that makes software defined radio test equipment for cellular networks. There isn't one thing I could point at as a specialty.
by ChocolateGod | 2025-12-25 19:34:25+00:00
> making it a high bar

That high bar is GNOME having an uppity whenever a Wayland protocol is suggested they don't like, that even if is accepted, if Mutter doesn't implement it then its dead in the water given its the de facto default compositor on unfortunately what people consider "Linux", aka Ubuntu.

e.g. DRM leases that only got changed because Valve has the bigger underwear. Expecting games to implement DBUS (incl. when running under Wine) to access VR headsets just for GNOME is nuts.

The government model needs a change that stakeholders who ship devices to the end users that rely on them have more of a say, whether that's Google, Valve etc. Valve is now backing and pushing KDE into average joe end users is a telling.
by zenmac | 2025-12-25 19:35:07+00:00
>I am very impressed with how smooth and problem-free Asahi Linux is. It is incredibly responsive and feels even smoother than my Arch Linux desktop with a 16 core AMD Ryzen 7945HX and 64GB of RAM.

Hmmm still have issue with the battery in sleep mode on the m1. It drains a lot battery when it is in sleep mode compare to mac sleep mode.
by imiric | 2025-12-25 19:37:21+00:00
Exactly. This myth keeps being perpetuated, for some reason.

I'm typing this from a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 running Void Linux, and UPower is reporting 99% battery with ~15h left. I do have TLP installed and running, which is supposed to help. Realistically, I won't get around 15h with my usage patterns, but I do get around 10-12 hours. It's a new laptop with a fresh battery, so that plays a big role as well.

This might not be as good as the battery life on a Macbook, but it's pretty acceptable to me. The upcoming Intel chips also promise to be more power efficient, which should help even more.
by tclancy | 2025-12-25 19:38:09+00:00
I’ve happily lost hours to following links at the bottom of one story to the next. The new archive still feels a little clunky (search needs a fair bit of work and the OCR clearly struggled in places), but it’s fun to chase down old classics and they’ve done a great job of highlighting greatest hits from the past 100 years.

Plus the (really high-quality) crossword puzzles often have an Easter egg where the big revealer is linked to an essay from the past.
by scarmig | 2025-12-25 19:40:18+00:00
If I were diagnosed with Alzheimer's, I would seek out assisted suicide. But I think it's more complicated than that: its existence incentivizes pushing people toward assisted suicide. The government finds a way to help with bloated medical care budgets; unscrupulous family members guilt trip the sick to choose the option to keep the inheritance intact.

The best solution allows it for severe cases, while still investing money in research and spending money for palliative care so it remains an option and not a demand. But that's a tricky line to maintain.
by watwut | 2025-12-25 19:42:05+00:00
Weightlifters use weight they can lift and feel good after the session. Literally. They may feel tired, but they feel good. They see weights go up and feel like progressing (unless they are in fact stagnating).

That is literal opposite of what OP describes. What OP describes is weight lifter taking on weight they cant lift and conatantly feeling like a failure after each training.
by bccdee | 2025-12-25 19:42:14+00:00
That's one thing I'll say for in-house "mini-frameworks": Real frameworks often try to present a smooth façade of abstraction which is hard to punch holes through. An in-house "mini-framework," though, is often just a hodgepodge of compostable abstractions which you can individually take or leave without too much hassle.

Of course, your hodgepodge ecosystem will eventually ends up a bit of a mess, but I'll take that over a flashy off-the-shelf framework that insists on handling everything itself.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-25 19:42:41+00:00
> it's possible that the beliefs and propositions of individual members of a greater body don't always align with the official stance

It is, and where they depart from or twist binding doctrine, it would be a matter of heresy.

But FWIW, the Catholic Church didn’t and doesn’t have a stance on the question of heliocentrism. Why would it? It is not a question with any religious importance. Who cares which orb rotates around which? Copernicus wasn’t doing anything forbidden (nor had he vindicated heliocentrism) and had high ranking friends and acquaintances in the clergy (including cardinals like Cardinal Schõnberg and Pope Clement VII) who took an interest in his work. De Revolutionibus was itself dedicated to Pope Paul III. If anything, Copernicus was wary of other academics who held to the Ptolemaic view at the time. Plus ça change…

No doubt, you have in mind the oft-repeated Galileo affair which has become one of those stubborn black legends that seems to stay afloat despite the lack of facts supporting it because of its instrumental value for sticking it to the Church. The Galileo affair was not about heliocentrism. It was about a clash of egos and personalities (Galileo’s being of them, as he liked to pick pointless fights, including some nasty personal attacks on his friend and benefactor Urban VIII) that spanned decades. It isn’t as piquant as the story as typically told would have you believe.
by anonym29 | 2025-12-25 19:44:24+00:00
You mentioned amyloid plaques. What about tau tangles? I thought Alzheimer's required both. If someone (or some dog, for that matter) has amyloid plaques but no tau tangles, is that Alzheimer's? If they have tau tangles but no amyloid plaques, what is it?

And what about the brains that show amyloid plaques, tau tangles, and Lewy bodies? Or plaques plus vascular lesions? At autopsy, most elderly brains show mixed pathology. Does that person have Alzheimer's plus Lewy body dementia plus vascular dementia? Three diseases? Or one brain failing in multiple correlated ways that we've artificially carved into separate categories?

It sounds like we have at least five different pathological markers that correlate with cognitive decline, often co-occurring, with inconsistent symptom mapping. What makes 'Alzheimer's' a disease rather than a region we've named in a high-dimensional space we don't really understand all that well?
by 7thaccount | 2025-12-25 19:45:19+00:00
Magnatiles are great for adults who want to play with their kids too.

The most fun my kid had was playing make believe games with me. Like I'd say "you're lost in a forest and you see a cabin up ahead and a trail that goes past it. What do you do"? And we'd go from there. Zero dollar cost and unlimited hours of fun until they grow up enough and don't want to play anymore.
Tell HN: Math academy and iPad and sleep issues solved = me learning math
by mettamage | 2025-12-25 19:45:19+00:00
Super casual post (typed on my phone, while lying on my bed), tried a lot of things but this is sticking. So I had to tell you because it may help some of you that are math curious like me.

Sleep issues is tough, it took me 5 years and a friend who is a doctor. The Dutch medical system failed me but my doctor friend saved me from a lifetime of insomnia. In my case it is: 0.3 mg melatonin + 7.5 mg mirtazapine (anti-histamine, it makes me drowsy) + meditation + sleep hygiene. Your experience may be different.

Math academy: I need to be told what to do. Designing my own curriculum is too much. Also, I need to pair it with a solid LLM because I have a lot of why questions and of course channels like 3B1B.

iPad: I tried pen and paper multiple times. The thing is: sometimes I just want to be in a slob and lie on my bed in weird ways and still do math. I found I need a pen, I can’t do it on pure memory. An iPad where I can do split screen: Math academy + MyScript (formerly Nebo) is nice. An Apple Pencil Pro is really nice because I don’t need to worry about connection issues.

I was doubting between: ipad vs pen and paper (the nth retry) vs Remarkable. I am happy I got a second hand ipad air. I can stick to this routine.

Low-key life changing.

I know this setup isn’t for everyone.
by nusl | 2025-12-25 19:46:07+00:00
What a business should do, sure. Businesses should - and do - do a lot of really shitty things because it benefits them but harms a lot of other things. I don't feel that it's a good justification to argue this way though.

In this case, removing a competitor, absorbing their IP, and maintain their ability to dictate the direction of an entire industry. They're hurting the industry itself by removing competition, since competition is good for consumers and also good for progression forward.

Businesses with a monopoly of some sort often stop innovating in the space and end up slowing the entire thing down. Often, they do their best to block anything and anyone that tries to do better, and effectively keep progress back in doing so, simply to maintain their position.

They're selfish self-preserving entities often driven by the same kinds of people, disregarding the harm they do in the name of profits and shareholder "value". Sure, until someone disrupts that (or they get bought out and dissolved).
by eightturn | 2025-12-25 19:46:31+00:00
If you grow them in the Vidalia region (20 counties around Vidalia, GA), you're aok... but if you grow them outside of that area, and call them a Vidalia, you'll get into hot water. The law mainly came into existence cause Texas farmers began growing regular yellow onions and slapping the 'Vidalia' name on it, and customers would get pissed. So all the Vidalia farmers got together and got a Federal law passed that says you can only call an onion a 'Vidalia' if it's grown in our special region down here where we have sandy, loamy soil that contributes to the mild, sweet taste.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-12-25 19:48:02+00:00
Thanks very much for your comment. I posted elsewhere that I felt like SameSite: Lax should be considered a primary defense, not just "Defense in depth" as OWASP calls it, but your rationale makes sense to me, while OWASP's does not.

That is, if you are using SameSite Lax and not performing state changes on GETs, there is no real attack vector, but like you say it means you need to be able to trust the security of all of your subdomains equally, which is rarely if ever the case.

I'm surprised browser vendors haven't thought of this. Like even SameSite: Strict will still send cookies when the request comes from a subdomain. Has there been any talk of adding something like a SameSite: SameOrigin or something like that? It seems weird to me that the Sec-Fetch-Site header has clear delineations between site and origin, but the SameSite header does not.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-25 19:48:05+00:00
> Idk if the quality has held up

I can vouch for the quality of modern magnatiles

The problem now is that there are a zillion knock-offs sold everywhere, both retail shops and online. We don’t buy them, but the kids get them as gifts. They all have something different, from the magnet positioning to the outer dimensions, presumably to try to dodge some patents. These become the weak point in bigger builds or throw off the dimensions in ways that add up and cause early collapse.

I’ve been quietly removing the gifted knock offs and replacing them with real ones because it makes the experience less frustrating.

We’re starting to have the same problem with LEGO now
by imiric | 2025-12-25 19:48:16+00:00
The thing is that I'm not experiencing this clipboard issue on Plasma, but on a fresh installation of Void Linux with niri. There are reports of this issue all over[1][2][3], so it's clearly not an isolated problem. The frustrating thing is that I wouldn't even know which project to report it to. What a clusterfuck.

I can't go back to X11 since the community is deliberately killing it. And relying on a fork maintained by a single person is insane to me.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/hyprland/comments/1d4s9bw/ctrlc_ctr...

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/tuxedocomputers/comments/1i9v0n7/co...

[3]: https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1jl6zv7/why_does_copyp...
by Certhas | 2025-12-25 19:48:44+00:00
FF is plenty competitive on the technical and feature front. It's market share is not a reflection of technical merit.

What's more, next to Linux itself it is maybe the only case I can see where a major piece of user facing software is kept competitive with the Apple/Google/MS tools.

LibreOffice or Nextcloud are technically far further behind Office and Google's online offerings.

Which therefore begs the question: Who else is in a position to do this?

At first glance, Moz with Firefox + a suite of self-hosted team and productivity stuff that works well in Firefox would make a ton of sense...
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-25 19:49:16+00:00
I have two female cousins who are divorced and whose children are grown or nearly so. They are both in their late 40s, early 50s. They still live in my hometown. Guess how much they hate it here (I’m home for the holidays)?

I would be fine here as a married man. But I can’t imagine being single here instead of my two times being a single adult in Atlanta (22-28 and 32 through 35).

I “retired my wife” at 46 halfway so we could travel more (I work remotely) and halfway so she could pursue her hobbies. I would be okay here because most of what I do is on the weekend and there is an airport here that has two flights a day back and forth to the Atlanta Delta hub. She would absolutely hate it.

My resources were far from constrained making even $150K before 2020 living in a 3200 square foot house I had built in the northern burbs of Atlanta for $335K in 2016.

They are a lot less constrained now though making in the low $200s in state tax free Florida living outside of Orlando. That 200K is nothing to brag about in tech. As o said before that’s what a former intern I mentored at AWS is making as a mid level SA
by throwup238 | 2025-12-25 19:49:58+00:00
Normally when laymen say "digitized" they mean one of two things: scanned images in a PDF or fully transcribed (and possible formatted) text extracted from the scan. The Complete New Yorker you're thinking of was mostly the former, with a bit of indexing (table of contents pointing to the PDFs if I remember correctly).

This latest digitization project does the latter, transcribing the text into their existing content management system and as far as I can tell, preserving much of the formatting. This comes with full text search, allows cross linking between articles, and all that good stuff.

I suspect that since they include an LLM summary and started this digitization project in early 2024, this was enabled by LLMs.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-25 19:50:27+00:00
My grandmother's case ended up bankrupting my grandfather and seriously straining the rest of the family. Which ultimately put my grandfather in a pennyless position when he was in his 90's, and poor state care when he was declining - not what he or my grandmother worked their entire lives for. Our family couldn't replace what was lost in the years of care for my grandmother's body, long after she herself was gone.

Never something she would have wanted, but you don't really have a choice and dignified death is never given as an option.
by zuspotirko | 2025-12-25 19:50:45+00:00
Basically there is an entity between Annas Archive and the torrents: hosters. AA has searchable metadata and a hash value. The hosters keep track of hash values, the cached files and in which torrents they are backed up, and take up almost the entire legal liability. Users search on AA what they are looking for but ultimately download it from a hoster.
by irreal_s | 2025-12-25 19:51:36+00:00
this looks like an entirely AI built project from start to finish. there's 10 emoji filled commits and two obvisouly ai PRs. I think the description of the first commit reflects the prompt it was given:

- High-performance Redis-compatible cache with REST API
- 30-50% faster than Redis using Go's concurrency
- RESTful API with HTTP/JSON interface
- Pub/Sub messaging with WebSocket support
- Complex data types: String, List, Set, Hash
- Token-based authentication and security
- YAML-based configuration management
- Docker and Kubernetes support
- Comprehensive documentation and examples
- Postman collection and interactive web client
Ask HN: What do you consider fun?
by IndySun | 2025-12-25 19:51:50+00:00
If you're inordinately in front of a computer screen for a living, day in day out, week after week, when you've finally had enough and need a break, what works for you to counter it?

No matter the weather (UK, its grey and dank), or locale, a timer and an enforced outdoor solo walk generally perks me up.
Show HN: I made a privacy-first personal finance app
by dimos851 | 2025-12-25 19:53:42+00:00
I'm a solo dev who got frustrated with finance apps that are either too expensive or don't take privacy seriously. So I built something simple that I actually use myself. It tries to do 2 things well: sync with your banks (not using Plaid!) and encrypt your data end-to-end (I cannot read it)

I'm more than happy to answer any questions, and welcome any feedback
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-25 19:55:04+00:00
If Trump tells Apple to put his face on everyone's lock screen, Apple laughs and says no. Trump can push but the courts will shoot it down.

If Xi tells Xiaomi to put his face one every xiaomi phone, tomorrow everyone with a xiaomi phone wakes up to Xi.

China is an authoritarian regime, through and through.

America is an authoritarian regime if you just read reddit comments all day.
by dllu | 2025-12-25 19:55:46+00:00
Apple does tons of optimizations for every component to improve battery life.
Asahi Linux, which is reverse engineered, doesn't have the resources to figure out each of those tricks, especially for undocumented proprietary hardware, so it's a "death by a thousand cuts" as each of the various components is always drawing a couple of milliwatts more than on macOS.
by irreal_s | 2025-12-25 19:55:46+00:00
The brilliant author of this game changing key value store is also listed on his linked in profile as a frontend developer and has this brilliant little nugget to share in his latest post: "500 is an internal server error. It is very critical. It means something has exploded. If the client has encountered 500; "We are sorry to encounter this error. Please excuse us, we are interested."

But we see that; There are developers who use 500 even when giving validation messages.

You cannot take refuge in excuses such as time was limited or the budget was low. Typing 400 instead of 500 is not a very difficult thing!

Anyone who doesn't know where to use which status code is a teapot."
by Terretta | 2025-12-25 19:57:33+00:00
Joyeux Noel!

Showed a friend on his way back to Africa how to set up his iPhone to share his name and photo in Messages.

// TY, politicians, for forcing the iPhone's "Phone" settings to hide under the "Apps" sub-category — making tech e̵a̵s̵i̵e̵r̵ harder one casual at a time!
by throw1ahs | 2025-12-25 19:58:33+00:00
The project was first suggested by Mark Shannon. Van Rossum inserted himself into the project. Faster CPython people have been fired by Microsoft last year.

Generally not that much has happened in 5 years, sometimes 10-15% improvements are posted that are later offset by bloat.

I think the project started in 3.10, so 3.9 is the last version to compare to. The improvements aren't that great, I don't think any other language would get so much positive feedback for so little.
by dllu | 2025-12-25 19:59:34+00:00
Marcan (Hector Martin) resigned from Asahi Linux early this year [0].

Asahi Lina, who also did tons of work on the Asahi Linux GPU development, also quit as she doesn't feel safe doing Linux GPU work anymore [1].

[0] https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-l...

[1] https://asahilina.net/luna-abuse/
by Jolter | 2025-12-25 19:59:45+00:00
I live in Sweden, and almost every year I discover someone I work with or have friends in common with, who has a friend or relative in Italy, or Greece who farms oranges/olives/cheese or what have you. And this friend in Sweden is selling their produce by word of mouth.

So once a year at harvest, the relative has someone drives a truck full of olive oil 2000 kilometers north, and dozens of Swedes turn up at an appointed time on a Tuesday afternoon in a parking lot to pick up their order of six bottles of oil. The prices are no better than in the supermarket, but ostensibly you’d get a high quality product.

It’s a funny way to do business in 2025, completely without Internet infrastructure. Somehow, I don’t think it would work as a web shop.