MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lopis | 2025-12-09 15:57:38+00:00
Instead of a stand-alone piece of e-waste, how about this: a device with the same format (a ring and an button) but the only thing it does is trigger the pebble watch to start recording a message. This way the microphone isn't needed, just the radio (and much weaker radio at that), and the battery will last exponentially longer. Then just expose the charging terminals so that we can at least hack the device with custom made external charging controllers, or buy a charger separately.
by misswaterfairy | 2025-12-09 15:57:44+00:00
I want to begin by saying I love JetBrains IDEs. I go out of my way to personally pay for PyCharm Professional, DataGrip, Rider, and others, and have done so for years, so I can use it at work where the next best thing provided to us is VS Code, or Visual Studio...

Please, for the love of all things almighty, re-invest in your core IDEs. That's what you're known for, and that's what professional developers want.

I don't want a glorified text editor that does a few cheap tricks, and is 'AI first'. I know I'm going to piss off a few people here rubbishing VS Code, however people are blown away when I show them how much more powerful PyCharm is when debugging complex code.

Its embarrassing that there are many popular, numerously starred, issues across JetBrains' YouTrack that have been open for nearly a decade, that are already well integrated features in other, free, IDEs.

However all is not lost - you have a great suite of products that need much more tender love and care. They'll see you through.

You already have AI in the AI Assistant plugin. Make your core fleet of IDEs worth the investment, for new and existing JetBrains customers alike. AI, agentic or not, will only get programmers so far before it's time to toss the kids toys then break out the real tools that require human intuition, domain knowledge, and reasoning.

To pick up on one of the points in the article:

> Combining them in a single tool results in a disjointed experience, so the Fleet team chose to stop competing with IDEs and code editors and instead build a product focused on agentic workflows. This led to a pivot to a new product: an agentic development environment.

You don't need to develop an entire IDE/environment for this. Develop plugins/enhance the existing AI Assistant plugin for these workflows that integrate with your existing IDEs, 'the real tools' I was talking about above.

I feel like this new "agentic development environment" is making the Fleet mistake all over again, when you could be value-adding to your already great suite of IDEs directly by way of plugins, and also continue to refactor and improve your IDEs along the way.
by MindSpunk | 2025-12-09 15:57:45+00:00
Seems like a cool project.

I don't understand why they're calling out the FPS of an empty scene as a useful number compared to Unity though. Ignoring that this engine will have a fraction of the features of Unity (the likely reason for the FPS number in the first place), it's just a useless benchmark because it's an empty scene. `while (true) {}` will get you the same thing.

I'd wish they'd highlight how the engine helps you make a game rather than arbitrary performance numbers on microbenchmarks that don't generalize to a real game project. You can absolutely be faster than Unity, but "9 times faster than Unity out of the box" is not a number people should take seriously without the context of where the number comes from.

I wish them well though. I'm always interested to see more work in implementing engines in GC languages. I'm personally quite interested to see what can be done in modern GC languages like Go or (modern) C# which provide lots of tools to limit GC pressure. Being able to write C-like code where needed in an otherwise managed runtime is a really powerful tool that can provide a best-of-both-worlds environment.
by taylodl | 2025-12-09 15:57:58+00:00
I see two problems with the AI narrative at this point

1. You can generate whatever you want via a prompt. The biggest problem with this point is it's not true and it's not even how one wants to work with AI: in a collaborative manner. Sure, this might satisfy prosumer needs - and maybe there's a large market for that, but it's not going to satisfy professional needs. Professionals have a lot of expertise and experience they bring to the table and AI can't simply discard that.

2. This really reinforces point (1) - this whole notion that AI can "replace" people. AI by itself is lowering the bar - it's not capable of producing results that are as good as the best of humans can create. What we really want is to raise the bar, and that requires collaboration between experts and AI that goes way beyond today's prompts. The most important point of this is people are still needed to produce the best results. Experienced people.

AI and robotics will end up transforming nearly every job in existence, but that doesn't mean that every job should be eliminated.
by imtringued | 2025-12-09 15:58:14+00:00
I would have worded this slightly differently.

The store is the warehouse and the store owner is allowing self service inside the warehouse but not at checkout.

Having robots means you're automating something that your customers would have done for free. The automation is an additional expense and does not reduce your operating costs.

The online grocery business model only works for two types of customers: those who are willing to pay a premium for convenience and those who need some specialty products that local grocers don't sell.

The first market is a competitor to doordash, this either means automating the in-store pickup or the delivery itself.

The second market is actually a drag on your local grocery stores. You don't want to carry niche products that are only interesting to a tiny portion of your market e.g. products for rare food intolerances, groceries for expats. If you want to carry them in your store, you'd want the customer to preorder them themselves, so you know exactly how much you need and then make them pick them up.

Basically the correct business model is in-house doordash (or B2B doordash) combined with preorders.
by kilroy123 | 2025-12-09 15:58:49+00:00
Thank you. All these people applauding Apple for not jumping on the bandwagon.

When in reality, they _wanted_ to but have become so dysfunctional organization wise, they weren't able to. Kind of funny how that worked out.

I still think they're really dropping the ball. They could have local models running on devices, interfacing with a big cloud partner (Google, OpenAI, etc.) Make Siri awesome. But no.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-09 15:58:55+00:00
I love Warcraft II. My first ever RTS, and one of the all time greats even now. The game just has soul oozing out of every pore; you can feel the excitement of the Blizzard guys for the game as you play it. The expansion was great too.

I played the battle.net rerelease of the game, which came out after Starcraft did. The main feature was (obviously) online play, but I believe it had some other SC features backported as well. Had great times as a kid playing in comp stomp lobbies on battle.net!
by VLM | 2025-12-09 15:59:01+00:00
I've found two very general personality criteria for online ordering.

Planners. The people who have a meal plan in Google Calendar for the next week and rarely have to "grab one thing on the way home from the store". The people who literally have no idea what they're eating on Thursday will go to the store today or tomorrow, who knows what they'll buy.

Multitaskers. The people who do their grocery shopping on the couch while not really watching TV, or similar downtime when its job #2. I used to shop online while theoretically cooking. It'll be five minutes until this is done I'll spend a couple minutes looking in the fridge for eggs / milk / etc and add to next weeks order.

A specific criteria I've found is people in general don't trust the delivery services for non-hyperprocessed food. I can trust a sealed bag of oreos is like every other mass produced food-adjacent substance. I want to select my own roast from whats on the shelf or my own apples. So people who only eat processed food products that come in plastic tend to like online ordering, people who mostly eat more natural food tend to dislike online ordering.

You have to know people pretty well to determine their project management style and their diet.
by scblock | 2025-12-09 15:59:37+00:00
This feels cynical and ugly, and I am pretty disgusted by the way things are going in this space. I don't see any reason to trust Boom based on their history, and I am sick and tired of the "solution" to bad ideas being more bad ideas. We need renewables and grid infrastructure, not yet more fossil fuels.

Additionally,

1) Aeroderivative gas turbines have been around for decades. "Oh but we have supersonic engines" does not change the fundamental equation

2) They're proposing burning more fossil fuels dug up from the ground to feed a beast that in my opinion is destroying the entire world economy, and certainly harming freedom

3) Where are they even getting the fuel? Magic? Someone has to build the pipelines, and someone has to supply the fuel.

Note: edited for civility
by Chabsff | 2025-12-09 15:59:47+00:00
It's not just a pure matter of law, and looking at it from that perspective is naive.

Legacy publishers in general (and a few big ones in particular, like der Spiegel) have been lobbying hard for legislatures to redirect big tech revenue to their failing businesses.

The focus on AI here is really just the continuation of that ongoing fight that has been raging for over a decade now. If it wasn't that, it would be some other wedge.

I'm not saying Google is squeaky-clean here, far from it. However, it's important to keep in mind that the main drive here is to get publishers paid, not to force Google to be accountable to some specific standards.
by janice1999 | 2025-12-09 15:59:59+00:00
> but not if you just assume/pretend the worst-case scenario is real

Just want to point out that Canada weaponised war time powers to debank truckers protesting during COVID. The rubicon has already been crossed. While I didn't support their cause, the writing is on the wall about what governments want to be able to do to people it finds inconvenient.
by mlpro | 2025-12-09 16:00:09+00:00
I think its very surprising, although I would like the paper to show more experiments (they already have a lot, i know).

The ViT models are never really trained from scratch - they are always finetuned as they require large amounts of data to converge nicely. The pretraining just provides a nice initialization. Why would one expect two ViT's finetuned on two different things - image and text classification end up in the same subspace as they show? I think this is groundbreaking.

I don't really agree with the drift far from the parent model idea. I think they drift pretty far in terms of their norms. Even the small LoRA adapters drift pretty far from the base model.
by mamonster | 2025-12-09 16:00:30+00:00
>I'm in a position where I don't have enough years of experience to comfortably choose where I work. I'm basically forced to join a company as a junior and "climb the ladder". I still don't know why I would care to.

To earn more?

>In 5 years I will still earn the same and my boss will be sitting comfortably in his (already bought) yacht.

If you have no earnings progression in 5 years as someone who graduated in 2024 you must be doing something VERY wrong, no matter the field.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-12-09 16:00:30+00:00
If it keep me from having to take out my phone, which both a) I don't want to do for my own sanity and b) I don't want to do in many social situations out of respect for my companions, then it may be worth it. You could say "but Apple watch" however a big swath of society already hates those for the same reasons above
by zamadatix | 2025-12-09 16:00:41+00:00
> but it's entirely against their interests to have it default to off.

It's been a long while since I've seen a cookie banner, but I always understood the law as that the user has to explicitly do something to opt-in which is why the customize options default to off and the "accept all" button is usually made the prevalent option instead. Not sure displaying non-essentials all default to on would really be in compliance, but to be honest I'm not sure anyone really cares enough about all of this anyways or the law would have been amended by now to block this kind of crap.

Just for fun I disabled my blocker to see the atrocity. They hid the "real" customize your choice in the bottom left, and (if you can ever find it) it's one of the better. The buttons do seem to be left is disabled/right is enabled on both pages. An impressive amount of work went into making this one as complex and confusing as can be, they should enter a competition!
by carlosalvarez91 | 2025-12-09 16:00:49+00:00
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Show HN: Zhok – A clean, minimal tool for managing AI prompts
by ArseniKipachu | 2025-12-09 16:00:52+00:00
I built Zhok as an internal tool because I couldn’t find a simple, clean way to organize the AI prompts I use daily. Most prompt managers felt cluttered or under-engineered, so I created something minimal and fast.

Zhok now runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, making it easy to manage prompts directly on desktop without grabbing your phone.

Would love feedback from the HN community — ideas, critiques, or suggestions for what to build next.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-09 16:01:07+00:00
But a normal user isn't going to setup AD either. This will be done by sysadmins anyway, so stuff like being able to put the configuration into version control is actually useful for them. The "normal business" has lots of employee databases anyways and integration is actually a feature instead of needing to sync it with bespoke Microsoft internals.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-12-09 16:01:18+00:00
> "Years of average use" is great until you realize that it actually means "Roughly 12 to 15 hours of recording".

Is that based on anything, or is that just a guess?

Anyway, 12 hours' worth of 30 second recordings is a total of 1440 recordings. I guess three a day for a year does seem a little low?

> Just hate Apple and love e-waste rings? Enlighten me.

What e-waste? You send it in for recycling; they might just replace the battery and send you a your existing ring back.
by boplicity | 2025-12-09 16:01:36+00:00
Google's AI summaries are actively harming quite a lot of people. They're regularly filled with misinformation, but they're presented as facts, complete with references. Many people do not understand the limitations of this technology, and simply believe what they're presented.

I'm not convinced that Google understands the limitations, to be honest. The most charitable interpretation I can give of their motivations is that they're terrified of competition from OpenAI, and are trying to present an alternative. Unfortunately, they're presenting a woefully inadequate product.

It goes further though, into legitimate questions of copyright, which the tech industry has always fought against. (Take first, deal with it later is the MO.)
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-09 16:01:39+00:00
There existed a well known path for reducing costs to orbit, and the market was non-competitive and highly non-optimized for decades. One single company made a single experiment in that path, and it was somewhere on the middle between success and failure.

That's not the case for drilling. The Boring Company has no clear proposition about how they would reduce their costs.
by ben_w | 2025-12-09 16:01:42+00:00
That felt right in the first term, but not this time around. Trump just straight up lies about whatever he doesn't want to be true, even when Trump's talking to a journalist and the journalist is asking Trump a question about something Trump said on camera the week before. (Reminds me of Boris Johnson in the UK, that).

I think the simple answer is he doesn't know that "objective truth" is a thing, it's all just words and power-play for him, whatever (seems to him will) work in the moment without any regard for long-term planning.

Like how current AI gets criticised for not really being smart despite appearing so when you don't pay close attention, modified by how biological nets get good with far fewer examples than ML requires.
by inanutshellus | 2025-12-09 16:01:46+00:00
This thing seems to stand alone though? As in - I don't have to have a watch, nor, it sounds like, do I have to have my phone within pairing range when I record something.

It's unlocked though, so maybe a software toggle will let you turn off the mic and just have it activate your watch's mic. This would presumably extend the battery, which seems to be a focus of discussion.
by fixpointflow | 2025-12-09 16:01:53+00:00
OP here — context

https://github.com/axis-foundation/axis-research/blob/main/p...

This is part of a research effort exploring what happens when a programming language is co-designed with AI, with the intent that AI becomes the primary user of the language.

The goal is not another syntax experiment but a semantics-first design:

a machine-provable core

deterministic semantics

safe parallelism without data races

a bridging layer to existing ecosystems

and language evolution guided by automated reasoning

Only the abstract is available right now; the full article is being drafted. Feedback — especially skeptical or technical feedback — is very welcome.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-09 16:02:11+00:00
To make this point crystal clear, “correcting” someone with “ackshually the US isn’t a democracy” is something poli sci departments break their freshmen of every single year.

The colloquial, broad sense of “democracy” is also how political scientists employ the term in most contexts. That is: the people who study this for a living are entirely OK with that usage. If they didn’t use that sense of the word they’d need another one to mean the same thing, because it’s very useful.
by Daneel_ | 2025-12-09 16:02:27+00:00
I almost never want to take a note though, I usually want to perform an action.

Recording a note isn’t high friction in my opinion though: “Hey siri make a note XYZ”. Admittedly I don’t create or use notes like this, but I use reminders a lot and I’ve never felt like there was friction: “hey siri remind me to call Dave when I get home”
Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-09 16:02:37+00:00
As various LLMs become more and more popular, so does comments with "I asked Gemini, and Gemini said ....".

While the guidelines were written (and iterated on) during a different time, it seems like it might be time to have a discussion about if those sort of comments should be welcomed on HN or not.

Some examples:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164360

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46200460

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080064

Personally, I'm on HN for the human conversation, and large LLM-generated texts just get in the way of reading real text from real humans (assumed, at least).

What do you think? Should responses that basically boil down to "I asked $LLM about $X, and here is what $LLM said:" be allowed on HN, and the guidelines updated to state that people shouldn't critique it (similar to other guidelines currently), or should a new guideline be added to ask people from refrain from copy-pasting large LLM responses into the comments, or something else completely?
by rkagerer | 2025-12-09 16:02:50+00:00
I still would have preferred it to be serviceable. I know I'll be able to buy new batteries in 6 years, 10 years, etc. I'm suspect as to whether you'll still be able to buy this device in that time ("this device" meaning same comfortable fit, no new onboard bloat, compatible with my other ancient but beloved devices, similar focus on doing one simple thing well, privacy characteristics, etc). Apropros of nothing, is repebblering.com available?
by NewsaHackO | 2025-12-09 16:03:01+00:00
This is what I don't get. I feel as though the people complaining about this are not the primary source of the information anyway. I wonder if Google already has a way for websites to opt out of the AI mode results (of course, since their sites are not adding any actual new information, there will not be a loss to them). From the search results, it seems like Google has constructed a "Knowledge Graph" LLM which it uses to answer questions in the search results and provide links to sources. How is that different from how every other LLM works?

There also seems to be a second issue about Google using YouTuber videos without their consent to train AI, which may be the more pertinent issue the EU is investigating.
Show HN: Freedom Graph – FI calculator that models sequence-of-returns risk
by Nathanadian | 2025-12-09 16:03:16+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Freedom Graph because I wanted an FI calculator that modeled market variability and flexible spending more realistically. Lots of calculators assume constant returns, fixed withdrawal rules, and the "real = nominal – inflation" approximation. That’s fine for ballpark numbers, but not great when you care about sequence risk or decisions like, "should I spend another year working?"

These are the real-world factors I wanted to model explicitly:

* Sequence of Returns Risk: Optional market randomness (mix of positive/negative years, long-run ~10% CAGR) to show how early retirement plans can fail even when the long-term average looks fine

* Correct real-return math: Uses the Fisher equation instead of the linear approximation, which compounds differently over long time horizons

* Adaptive strategies: Model “one more year” scenarios and spending flexibility to see how behavior affects success probabilities

Other QoL things:

* Built with React + Vite; no input data is sent anywhere

* Local storage persists inputs between browser sessions

* FI income automatically adjusts when you hit your target

* Dark/light mode

I’d really appreciate feedback on both the UX and assumption/behavior levers. If you think something’s wrong or misleading, please tell me.

Thanks!
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-09 16:03:28+00:00
It's notoriously hard/expensive to get a car/standard bike parking space. Even at home, and probably wherever you go if the place has any popularity. Think about parking car in Shibuya.

So a small vehicle has a real intrinsic value, not as simple as a parking a bicycle, but pretty close.

PS: Honda also makes the Monkey, which is ultra cute and pretty popular

https://www.honda.co.jp/Monkey125/
by thw_9a83c | 2025-12-09 16:03:30+00:00
> ...it doesn't fit because it does not, in fact, serve the same purpose.

For many people and purposes, it does indeed serve the same purpose. I use it all the time for coding, which is still very tricky, and for writing emails. For writing emails in particular, it is already a life-changing technology. I have always wanted my own secretary to dictate and finalize various letters. But, for some reason, companies don't provide secretaries anymore. Now, I can finally have an LLM instead. I guess there's no discussion that a good secretary must have always been quite intelligent.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-12-09 16:03:36+00:00
UX probably not as good in that case. I am thinking about how buggy my voice-remote is for the TV. 1/3 of the time it works, 1/3 of the time there is some lag before it starts working (and requires waiting for feedback i.e. the listening tone before I can speak) and 1/3 of the time it doesn't work at all (never hears me due to lag or booting up or whatever else).