MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wiether | 2025-12-16 18:57:22+00:00
I'm genuinely curious about the changes you are talking about?

Keep in mind, thirty years ago, I was a kid. I thought that fast food was awesome. My parents would allow me a fast food meal at best once a month, and my "privileged" friends had a fast food meal a week.

Now, I'd rather starve than eat something coming from a fast food.

But around me, normies at eating at least once a day from a fast food.

We have at least ten big franchises in the country, and at every corner there's a kebab/tacos/weird place selling trash.

So, from my POV, I'd thought that, in general, people are eating much more fast food than thirty years ago.
by MarkusWandel | 2025-12-16 18:57:37+00:00
But the happiness at the right end of the graph will never go back to 100 (as in 100% of the pre-smartphone happiness, I think they mean).

There are instinctive good feelings about interacting face-to-face with people, especially while doing an enjoyable shared activity like eating. There are provable health benefits from spending time near, or on bodies of water and I'm guessing also just from spending time in the woods. There's something about staying out just a little longer to be able to watch the sunset.

No matter what that phone screen allows you to interact with, it can't provide that stuff. So yes, happiness rebound. But not to 100%.
by r_lee | 2025-12-16 18:58:20+00:00
I don't know your setup but I only use Claude Code w/ Sonnet and basically tell it to type low caps, drop the formatting (it seemingly makes it type out confident statements causing it to go deeper into hallucinations)

and best is when you have e.g. some scripts that you want a new variant of, e.g. to generate the same thing but for X

you have to give it your wishes, otherwise it'll go to whatever median training thing it had in mind

I don't know what your requirements here were, if it was some kind of custom format then I don't know how well it'd perform

for those kind of situations, leaning on its bash capabilities (Claude Code) to test its sed / awk whatever is a good idea before just telling it to go write the thing

I think for super novel strange things you want to be in the loop first, solve the main problem and them kind of tell it to make it into a script you can call with args or whatever that'd otherwise be a pain to write manually

And that's kind of one of my main uses for it, writing scripts I'd otherwise hate to write, e.g. a bunch of just parsing, args, ifs, error handling, duplicate behavior etc..
by fkorotkov | 2025-12-16 18:58:23+00:00
IMO it's long time coming. Streaming logs and other supporting functionality is not free. We at Cirrus Runners provide runners as a service for a fixed monthly price with unlimited usage. We target large entrerprises that save $100K+ yearly by switching to us (10-25 times). In our calculations the new per-minute fee is roughly ~0.1% of the effective per-minute cost our customers avoid by using our fixed-price model. Over providers with the traditional per-minute pricing will have bigger impact.
by whamlastxmas | 2025-12-16 18:58:25+00:00
Strongly disagree. I find the materials in Teslas to be perfectly fine, and the aesthetic itself is basically unsurpassed, but I'm a big fan of minimalism and hate the 8 million buttons and dials some cars have, which I think is really just driving home (hah) that these are all subjective opinions and not of it is fact so we maybe shouldn't state it as such
by n8cpdx | 2025-12-16 18:58:48+00:00
Android is definitely the superior choice as long as you have no expectation of privacy and never need to dial 911 in an emergency. [1]

More serious problems blocking a transition to Android: instead of developing Health Connect in 2015 or before when Apple made HealthKit, Android waited until the mid-2020s, and many apps do not support it. And the implementation is busted if you use multiple devices. Meanwhile on iOS, I have a perfect database of all my health information going back years, and all the apps interpolate nicely - my nutrition tracking app can see my exercise and blood glucose, my glucose tracking app can show exercise on the timeline, my training readiness app can read my sleep data and HRV/RHR from the watch.

And as far as I know Android still doesn’t have Focus Modes, which I rely on to customize my phone and watch. It works really well, integrates with apps, and is easily automatable.

[1]: edit - I thought this was old news, from years ago, but it turns out Android not being able to make emergency calls is an evergreen story. At one point it was Teams’ fault [2] - can you imagine that? Teams being so bad it can block your phone from calling 911? But really it’s android’s fault such a thing is possible. https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pixels-most-dangerous-b... [2]: https://medium.com/@mmrahman123/how-a-bug-in-android-and-mic...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-16 18:59:18+00:00
Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro

https://archive.today/0RiGK

https://news.mit.edu/2024/nuno-loureiro-named-director-mit-p...

https://nse.mit.edu/people/nuno-f-loureiro/

https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/nuno-gomes-loureiro/
by bad_haircut72 | 2025-12-16 18:59:19+00:00
Everyone who has Actions built into their workflow now has to go change it. Microsoft just conned a bunch more people with the same classic tech lock-in strategy they've always pursued, people are right to be pissed. The only learning to take away is never ever use anything from the big tech companies, even if it seems easier or cheaper right now to do so, because they're just waiting for the right moment to try and claw it back from you.
by palmotea | 2025-12-16 18:59:26+00:00
> What happens when there are no more entry-level humans to be promoted to mid-level, and so on?

No business cares about that question, just like the Onceler didn't care how many Truffula trees were left. It's not their problem. Business is business, and business must grow, regardless of crummies in tummies, you know.
by Centigonal | 2025-12-16 18:59:41+00:00
I thought you had to realize that comparing DC to a state like California wasn't going to be an apples-to-apples comparison, which is why I wrote, "and you know it." I'm sorry for making assumptions.

You're also right, I was sloppy with my citation. I looked into the source data, and I believe Wikipedia's second table may be wrong here. Here is B19301 from the 2010 census. The Bridgeport MSA is first: https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5YSPT2010.B19301?q=b19301...

Unfortunately, the table on Wikipedia is uncited (beyond the 2010 census) and was added by an anonymous IP address editor, so I don't know how they got their numbers. I'll double check my work and update the article if I don't find anything else.

Generally, though, my point is that if you compare the states and DC, you'll find that DC is an outlier on a lot of dimensions. If you compare the DC metro area with other MSAs, a lot of that exceptionalism goes away.
by naikrovek | 2025-12-16 18:59:45+00:00
Runners aren’t fragile, workflows are.

The runner software they provide is solid and I’ve never had an issue with it after administering self-hosted GitHub actions runners for 4 years. 100s of thousands of runners have taken jobs, done the work, destroyed themselves, and been replaced with clean runners, all without a single issue with the runners themselves.

Workflows on the other hand, they have problems. The whole design is a bit silly
by goopypoop | 2025-12-16 18:59:52+00:00
"You bet your ass we're all alike... We've been spoon fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... The bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert."
by reify | 2025-12-16 18:59:54+00:00
misguided = unreasonable or unsuitable because of being based on bad judgment or on wrong information or beliefs:

absolutely not!

from what I have read of his work, he seems very capable, competent and knows what he is talking about.

He has a huge Curriculum vitae of working in the tech industry.

he is qualified enough to offer opinions.

European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for four years, helping to establish the Open Rights Group, before leaving the EFF to pursue writing full-time in January 2006; Doctorow remained a Fellow of the EFF for some time after his departure from the EFF Staff.

He was named the 2006–2007 Canadian Fulbright Chair for Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, sponsored jointly by the Royal Fulbright Commission, the Integrated Media Systems Center, and the University of Southern California (USC) Center on Public Diplomacy. The professorship included a one-year writing and teaching residency at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, United States.

He then returned to London, but remained a frequent public speaker on copyright issues.
by lrvick | 2025-12-16 19:00:03+00:00
I suspect the people who have jobs that have made them capable of building and flashing their own firmware are exactly the sorts of people the NSA would be more likely to target and thus these tactics become all the more important.

Things like Intel ME are a straight up backdoor in consumer CPUs though, which is a bigger problem that is hard to disable. Government workers buy special laptops from Dell etc that disable this for security reasons, but difficult to get consumer laptop CPUs as a civilian that do not have ME or a similar technology enabled.

Thankfully ME Cleaner is a thing for many consumer CPUs to defang it, though you want this done at the firmware level, and that is where coreboot becomes all but a hard requirement.

I am convinced it is critical for preservation of our basic freedoms that digital sovereignty becomes the norm.
by zephyrthenoble | 2025-12-16 19:00:05+00:00
I've felt this too as a person with ADHD, specifically difficulty processing information. Caveat: I don't vibe code much, partially because of the mental fatigue symptoms.

I've found that if an LLM writes too much code, even if I specified what it should be doing, I still have to do a lot of validation myself that would have been done while writing the code by hand. This turns the process from "generative" (haha) to "processing", which I struggle a lot more with.

Unfortunately, the reason I have to do so much processing on vibe code or large generated chunks of code is simply because it doesn't work. There is almost always an issue that is either immediately obvious, like the code not working, or becomes obvious later, like poorly structured code that the LLM then jams into future code generation, creating a house of cards that easily falls apart.

Many people will tell me that I'm not using the right model or tools or whatever but it's clear to me that the problem is that AI doesn't have any vision of where your code will need to organically head towards. It's great for one shots and rewrites, but it always always always chokes on larger/complicated projects, ESPECIALLY ones that are not written in common languages (like JavaScript) or common packages/patterns eventually, and then I have to go spelunking to find why things aren't working or why it can't generate code to do something I know is possible. It's almost always because the input for new code is my ask AND the poorly structured code, so the LLM will rarely clean up it's own crap as it goes. If anything, it keeps writing shoddy wrapper around shoddy wrappers.

Anyways, still helpful for writing boilerplate and segments of code, but I like to know what is happening and have control over how my code is structured. I can't trust the LLMs right now.
by iku | 2025-12-16 19:00:14+00:00
I have used a version of this called Qvwm, and even had branched it off at some point to fix some bugs... https://ahinea.com/en/tech/qvwm/ (I don't think github existed at the time or maybe I didn't know about it.)

P.S. Oh, there is the official Qvwm page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qvwm/files/qvwm/
by Teever | 2025-12-16 19:00:23+00:00
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

I agree with the person you're responding to. Decades of funding and they have zero savings to show for it.

Though it's questionable as to how much big players like Google would have continued to fund Mozilla if they had seen Mozilla making the financial moves that would have made it an independent and self-sufficient entity.
Show HN: WindMouse Algorithm in Python
by AsfhtgkDavid | 2025-12-16 19:00:28+00:00
Hi HN,

WindMouse is a fairly old and well-known algorithm for generating human-like mouse movements (curved paths, variable speed, natural deceleration). It’s often referenced in automation discussions, but surprisingly I couldn’t find a clean, well-tested, reusable implementation as a Python library.

So I decided to implement it myself.

The project is now released as WindMouse:

* Strong typing (NewType for coordinates, mypy-friendly)

* Two backends:

* PyAutoGUI (cross-platform) * AutoHotkey (Windows)

The algorithm itself is not new - the implementation is. My goal was to create something that could be downloaded and immediately used in projects.

I’m looking for help with:

* Testing on different OS setups (especially macOS edge cases) * New backends (e.g. native macOS, Wayland, low-level Windows APIs, game engines, remote desktops) * Feedback on API design and parameter defaults

Happy to answer questions about the algorithm, design decisions, or tradeoffs.
by 0_____0 | 2025-12-16 19:00:54+00:00
HW eng here.

If you need (emphasis on need - if it's not in the requirements, don't bother!) to make it smaller, you can fold the low power/compute section underneath the power section by putting it on another board and using either a mezzanine connector or FPC/FFC/ribbon cable to connect them.

You can also integrate the motor controllers directly onto your PCB and give them a combined thermal solution i.e. one heatsink with one fan if needed.

But likely your effort is better spent on making the rest of the printer rather than this :)
by kortex | 2025-12-16 19:00:56+00:00
Noted. But I'm trying to make people think about their cognitive dissonance.

I'm not a politician. I'm a systems thinker. If someone can't reason their way through what a "zero-crime world" actually entails, I doubt my other ideas will get through to them. Zero crime. Zero. No speeding, no IP infringement, no "just this one time". Zero.

That's also why I like asking "why stop there?" We've basically solved surveilance. It's an engineering problem. We have the capacity to track everyone (who does not make a VERY concerted effort to stealth) all the time, almost everywhere.
by enragedcacti | 2025-12-16 19:01:06+00:00
I think the confusion stems from The Register mixing up two different sets of DMA cases against Apple. The March and August EU actions are regarding hardware and software interoperability under DMA Article 6(7). For these cases, the August specification decision has a number of different deadlines specified, and I don't think any of these have passed yet.

The April 2025 non-compliance decision the app devs reference is regarding the DMA anti-steering provisions (Article 5(4)). This decision was that Apple failed to meet their compliance obligations that were specified way back in June 2024, that they would be subject to a fine, and that they would have 60 days to comply before being subject to periodic fines [1].

The Coalition for App Fairness is saying that they don't believe Apple's App Store anti-steering remediation is compliant or timely and that the EU needs to take further action.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_...
by kyboren | 2025-12-16 19:01:13+00:00
No, the ability to know the current whereabouts and location history of practically all private vehicles is a new capability afforded by deployment of ALPR mass surveillance.

Previously, we had some balance between privacy and accountability. A bystander or a victim of a collision could remember license plate numbers and give them in a police report. The police could tail you (but only you, because $$$) to discover your movements. But government agents couldn't track the movements of all the people, all the time. Now they can.

The societal balance of power has shifted and is now seriously lopsided in favor of the rulers. And cheerleaders like you don't mind, as long as you can purchase a little temporary safety...
by phantasmish | 2025-12-16 19:01:14+00:00
Moreover: people’ve been crowing about LLM-enabled productivity for longer than it took a tiny team to conceive and build goddamn Doom. In a cave! With a box of scraps!

Isn’t the sales pitch that they greatly expand accessibility and reduce cost of a variety of valuable work? Ok, so where’s the output? Where’s the fucking beef? Shit’s looking all-bun at the moment, unless you’re into running scams, astroturfing, spammy blogs, or want to make ELIZA your waifu.
by levocardia | 2025-12-16 19:01:15+00:00
The real problem is that you very often don't have any idea about what your data are going to look like before you collect them; type 1/2 errors depend a lot on how big the sources of variance in your data are. Even a really simple case -- e.g. do students randomly assigned to AM vs PM sessions of a class score better on exams? -- has a lot of unknown parameters: variance of exam scores, variance in baseline student ability, variance of rate of change in score across the semester, can you approximate scores as gaussian or do you need beta, ordinal, or some other model, etc.

Usually you have to go collect data first, then analyze it, then (in an ideal world where science is well-incentivized) replicate your own analysis in a second wave of data collection doing everything exactly the same. Psychology has actually gotten to a point where this is mostly how it works; many other fields have not.
by LocalH | 2025-12-16 19:01:42+00:00
Downtime for the conscious brain is paramount in life, as that allows the sub-conscious to absorb and act on new information. I have no science to point to, but I believe wholeheartedly that the conscious and sub-conscious minds cannot access the same neurons at the same time, it's like single-ported RAM. More than one thing in my life has been improved by taking a conscious break and letting the subconscious churn
by unshavedyak | 2025-12-16 19:01:50+00:00
> There probably needs to be some settled discussion on what constitutes "vibe coding." I interpret this term as "I input text into $AI_MODEL, I look at the app to see my change was implemented. I iterate via text prompts alone, rarely or never looking at the code generated."

Agreed. I've seen some folks say that it requires absolute ignorance of the code being generated to be considered "vibe coded". Though i don't agree with that.

For me it's more nuanced. I consider a lack of review to be "vibed" related to how little you looked at it. Considering LLMs can do some crazy things, even a few ignored LOC might end up with a pretty "vibe coded" feelings, despite being mostly reviewed outside of those ignored lines.
by ignoramous | 2025-12-16 19:02:03+00:00
> So people can argue it doesn’t work, but so far we only have evidence to the contrary and Sentry is quite successful

So, RedHat has also been successful?

GP says that some companies don't find FSL aggressive enough, despite it having worked nicely for Sentry. And that's similar to the point Adam makes: That Open Source (per OSI not FSF) is a development model not a business model. Companies that don't want/need to prioritize collaboration tend to use FSL / BUSL / etc; but those licenses aren't really going to significantly change their development or business (other than prevent competition from using it as-is, but now the code is out there anyway [0][1]), and so they might as well go close source (and Lockdown the code, too).

> issue is these are mostly academic points of view

Both, commodotizing competition (through OSS) and using OSS as Go-To-Market aren't academic PoVs, I don't think.

[0] And trained on by LLMs, which makes cloning probably that much faster? https://x.com/paultoo/status/1999245292294803914 / https://archive.vn/kTiyZ

[1] Companies will deep pockets and technical expertise can/will anyway clone it: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2018/12/14/open-source-confront...
by doener | 2025-12-16 19:02:44+00:00
"The legendary QuickShot II makes a comeback: The classic retro joystick is being reissued with a USB connection and is aimed at fans of Amiga, C64, and other 8/16-bit systems who use the A500 mini or emulators, for example. The design is closely based on the original, including a robust housing and classic stick layout, but has been redesigned for today's requirements and offers, among other things, microswitches for stick movements and fire buttons, as well as plug-and-play functionality on the USB port. The joystick is being developed by Retro Games Ltd and will be available from January 30, 2026, at a price of €34.99 from selected retailers."

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-12-00077-EN.html
by observationist | 2025-12-16 19:02:52+00:00
Nope, it's just a repackaging of the same problem, except in this case, the problem is solved with APIs and CLI and not jumping through hoops in order to get the AI to do what humans do.

It's about accomplishing a task, not making a bot accomplish a task using the same tools and embodiment context as a human - there's no upside, unless the bot is actually using a humanoid embodiment, and even then, using a CLI and service API is going to be preferable to doing things with UI in nearly every possible case, except where you want to limit to human-ish capabilities, like with gaming, or you want to deceive any monitors into thinking that a human is operating.

It's going to be infinitely easier to wrap a json get/push wrapper around existing APIs or automation interfaces than to universalize some sort of GUI interactions, because LLM's don't have the realtime memory you need to adapt to all the edge cases on the fly. It's incredibly difficult for humans, and hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent trying to make software universally accessible and dumbed down for users, and still ends up being either stupidly limited, or fractally complex in the tail, and no developer can ever account for all the possible ways in which users interact with a feature for any moderately complex piece of software.

Just use existing automation patterns. This is one case where if an AI picks up this capability alongside other advances, then awesome, but any sort of middleware is going to be a huge hack that immediately gets obsoleted by frontier models as a matter of course.
by alwa | 2025-12-16 19:03:06+00:00
I sure do like the way the Supreme Court sets its type [0]. I’d always imagined it must be laid out in the way you describe, with a LaTeX transform or something—it sounds like it’s really a manual kind of affair?

Of course the first comment I find upon searching is another of Matthew Butterick’s [1], in which he agrees that it’s Real Nice, and points out that the Supreme Court does not allow documents using Times New Roman to be filed there at all!

I don’t even mind that he’s writing this in his capacity as a fontmonger: if all SEO-type writing were at this level of quality and obsession, I’d be much less grumpy about it.

[0] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-869_87ad.pdf

[1] https://typographyforlawyers.com/court-opinions.html
by cafebeen | 2025-12-16 19:03:15+00:00
This study was really highlighting a statistical issue which would occur with any imaging technique with noise (which is unavoidable). If you measure enough things, you'll inevitably find some false positives. The solution is to use procedures such as Bonferroni and FDR to correct for the multiple tests, now a standard part of such imaging experiments. It's a valid critique, but it's worth highlighting that it's not specific to fMRI or evidence of shaky science unless you skip those steps (other separate factors may indicate shakiness though).