MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by notarobot123 | 2025-12-19 07:20:50+00:00
Yet "peer review" would absolutely scale if it were actually the review of peers (and not just an editorial board). A large number of publications where submissions are reviewed by previous and prospective authors would be much like how open source peer review works, though not without its own set of issues.

Discovery is a search problem and its pretty clear that we have the technical capacity to solve that problem if there is enough of a signal from wide-spread peer review.

Major journals become those that re-publish and report on the big debates and discoveries of the actually peer-reviewed journals and this would be the work of "journalists".
by godelski | 2025-12-19 07:21:04+00:00
> I’d rather pay an extra $100 for the phone than have ads all over it.

Wasn't that part of the deal with iPhones in the first place? You pay more for less but you get a "more premium" experience.

Though lately I feel like Apple is just really bad at being... Apple

It's like they are dumping all the good parts and doubling down on all the bad parts. Things are far from "just working", have more glitches/bugs, but at the same time they're increasing hostility towards developers and walled garden. At least with Android (or linux) I can fix any issues but with Apple it's more "fuck you, deal with it." This was frustrating but passable when it was more streamlined but now? God fucking damnit I swiped one word just fine but when swiping the second word you decide the first word wasn't correct and none of the suggestions are what I'm intending to type but pressing delete deletes both words and now I can't swipe the original word because you already decided I'm not trying to type that word because I pressed delete? This is version of Apple is just rotten... When literally typing on a phone is a daily frustrating experience you know you fucked up. I mean how long have they even failed to capitalize a singular "i"? What the fuck is going on over there?

Side note:

Try searching "Claude" in the iPhone app store. For me I get a half page ad for Gemini, a small result for Claude, and then a larger result for Grok. Literally the thing I searched for, and has an unambiguous result, is the smallest thing on the page! This is some bullshit dark patterns that is very anti-user.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-12-19 07:21:15+00:00
I saw someone using an app that's 'ad-supported' recently, and it reminded me of the vastly better internet/device experience I have as a result of my not-insignificant efforts at ad-blocking at various layers.

It took them 20 seconds and a number of very specific button presses (sometimes mis-clicked because the size of the 'correct area' to dismiss the ad is so small and this was an adult male with our sausage-sized fingers) before they could show me the thing they were intending to show me. And that 20 seconds was after the ad had finished playing.

How do people settle for such an experience?
by 7bees | 2025-12-19 07:22:43+00:00
It has pretty much always been the case that you need to make sure the motherboard supports the specific chip you want to use, and that you can't rely on just the physical socket as an indicator of compatibility (true for AMD as well). For motherboards sold at retail the manufacturer's site will normally have a list, and they may provide some BIOS updates over time that extend compatibility to newer chips. OEM stuff like this can be more of a crapshoot.

All things considered I actually kind of respect the relatively straightforward naming of this and several of Intel's other sockets. LGA to indicate it's land grid array (CPU has flat "lands" on it, pins are on the motherboard), 2011 because it has 2011 pins. FC because it's flip chip packaging.
by entropy47 | 2025-12-19 07:22:59+00:00
> I know so many people who made that same argument, if you can call it that, about smartphones.

Sure, but people also told me I'd be using crypto for everything now and (at least for me) it has faded into total obscurity.

The biggest difference for me is that nobody (the companies making things, the companies I worked for...) had to jam smartphones down my throat. It made my life better so I went out of my way to use it. If you took it away, I would be sad.

I haven't had that moment yet for any AI product / feature.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-12-19 07:23:41+00:00
I don't like ACR at all.. but after reading all the raging about ads on TVs I thought they would be terrible. Then I got one recently - the ads are literally just links to watch movies & TV series I might be interested in, on my TV? Like yes I do want my TV to show me some things I might be interested in watching, the same way Youtube does. I don't like the increasing privacy violations like ACR being used to tune those "ads", but seeing recommendations on my TV is a feature I like..

Heck if I had strong guarantees that the data generated by ACR was used only to tune recommendations/ads using an anonymous advertising ID like IDFA and not linked to any personally identifying information, I would want that too. But sadly there is no privacy and no way of ensuring that now.
by nine_k | 2025-12-19 07:24:05+00:00
This looks like enshittification :(

When a company that sits on enormous reams of cash, and positions itself as a premium brand, goes for a fistful of dollars more per customer by showing them ads, it can mean two things. One is that it's a cold calculated move, another, that it's clueless enthusiastic "brilliant idea". In either case, the company is going to burn a lot of its customers' goodwill, and much of its longer-term prospects, in exchange for some more immediate revenue, and higher stock valuation.

What looks like stupidity in doing such a move is more likely cynicism. The corporate officers who will reap the benefits will have retired by the time when their successors would have to handle the fallout. It's not stupidity, it's rot at the highest echelons.

This would explain the really poor recent software decisions, and the general decline of its quality.

But at least Apple still has amazing, best-in-class hardware! Well, like Nokia did. And like Blackberry did. Like Boeing used to.

Sad :(
Ask HN: How are you choosing between Sora 2, Veo 2, and Kling?
by thenextechtrade | 2025-12-19 07:25:45+00:00
While experimenting with AI video generation, I kept switching between Sora 2, Sora 2 Pro, Veo 2, and Kling.

They’re all strong, but optimized for different things: •Sora 2 → balanced, reliable •Sora 2 Pro → higher realism and temporal consistency •Veo 2 → cinematic camera and composition •Kling → structured, controllable outputs

What slowed me down wasn’t model quality — it was context switching: rewriting prompts, managing multiple dashboards, and comparing results manually.

So I built a developer-focused site that lets you use all of these models in one place, with the same input format and workflow, purely to make experimentation easier.

Not claiming it solves everything — just trying to remove friction when choosing the right model for a given task. Feedback from other devs would be very welcome.
by christoph | 2025-12-19 07:25:53+00:00
Other than all the scammy & microtransaction BS for the kids I’m always confused about this as well. I can count on one hand how many “new” apps I’ve installed in 2025 - one - the Bambu app for talking to the 3D printer.

I’ve got my banking apps, business apps, Strava, etc. the same now, for years. It would take a monumental effort from Apple for me to feel like “cruising” the App store, the idea is so patently ridiculous to me, I actually LOL’d thinking about it. Literally any other portable device is better to play games on - Switch, Steamdeck, 3DS, Atari Lynx, etc.

I have Apple Arcade as well (included with something else), I can’t even remember the last time I could be bothered to scroll that…

If Apple thinks more ads is a solution to some of their problems, things must be way worse than imagined over there.
by al_borland | 2025-12-19 07:26:05+00:00
Apple spent a lot of time already doing a lot of this with Siri instead of focusing on external knowledge. This didn’t replace their UI people. Voice commands aren’t always appropriate and a UI is still needed.

The UI for setting up a daily alarm is a little clunky, since it requires individually selecting each day. I needed to setup alarms for pills every 12 hours. Instead of doing this manually, I asked Siri to do it and it was much easier.

As an easter egg, you can even use some Harry Potter spells. “Lumos” will turn the flashlight on, “nox” will turn it off.

Not everything needs a bunch of AI. Most OS operations and settings are probably better without it, other than maybe for helping to process intent if it’s unclear.
by EmilStenstrom | 2025-12-19 07:26:06+00:00
Hi! The expected errors are not standardized enough for it to make sense to enable --check-errors by default. If you look at the readme, you'll see that the only thing they're checking is that the _numbers of errors_ are correct.

That said, the example you are pulling our out does not match that either. I'll make sure to fix this bug and other like it! https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/issues/20
by zx8080 | 2025-12-19 07:26:10+00:00
I've noticed that GAN PD's 100w and 65w adapters output is actually less (both do not charge my laptop) than lenovo 65w charger (the one with a non-detachable usbc cable). Cable does not matter, tried with many of them including ones providing power from other chargers.

It seems totally random, and you cannot rely on watts anymore.
by codebyaditya | 2025-12-19 07:26:10+00:00
Not just MI6 — USCIS and consular affairs have been doing this since ~2017. Many visa-fraud detection systems are now Python-based because the legacy mainframes can’t ingest the volume or velocity of data needed. The bigger change is that case officers are expected to interpret code output directly, not just read a summary from a tech team.
by nneonneo | 2025-12-19 07:28:07+00:00
Looking at the actual code (https://github.com/fastserial/lite3/blob/main/src/lite3.c#L2...), it seems like it performs up to 128 probes to find a target before failing, rather than bailing immediately if a collision is detected. It seems like maybe the documentation needs to be updated?

It's a bit unfortunate that the wire format is tied to a specific hash function. It also means that the spec will ossify around a specific hash function, which may not end up being the optimal choice. Neither JSON nor Protobuf have this limitation. One way around this would be to ditch the hashing and use the keys for the b-tree directly. It might be worth benchmarking - I don't think it's necessarily any slower, and an inline cache of key prefixes (basically a cheapo hash using the first N chars) should help preserve performance for common cases.
by vintermann | 2025-12-19 07:28:46+00:00
One thing I haven't seen anyone bring up yet in this thread, is that there's a big risk of leakage. If even big image models had CSAM sneak into their training material, how can we trust data from our time hasn't snuck into these historical models?

I've used Google books a lot in the past, and Google's time-filtering feature in searches too. Not to mention Spotify's search features targeting date of production. All had huge temporal mislabeling problems.
by godelski | 2025-12-19 07:28:52+00:00
> Yeah, but what about next quarter?

Apple was the first $1T company, the first $2T company, and the first $3T company. Okay, they weren't the first $4T company, but also Nvidia is an admittedly freak situation and isn't in direct competition with Apple.

Point being, why fuck with a strategy that is working? Is being #1 so important that you'll throw it all away because of an unpredictable and outlier event that isn't in competition with you? That seems incredibly irrational and a great way to lost your market advantage. It is incredibly myopic.
by teekert | 2025-12-19 07:28:58+00:00
When I switched to iOS from Android it took me a while to realize why App Store search was so bad compared to the Play store (and f-droid, at least back then). It was because the first option was never wat you wanted. The highlighted app at the top was always an ad, never relevant.

I immediately lost some respect for Apple “so this is the expensive luxury platform people talk about?”

I hate that “we” focus on the second derivative to determine value (not just growth but speed of growth). It’s just for the shareholders, meanwhile us customers are looking at a company that is rich beyond believe thinking: “Seriously??”
by thomassmith65 | 2025-12-19 07:29:23+00:00
Perhaps, but it exploded in the tech industry as soon as Steve Jobs died.

Whatever his faults, he had a high bar for user experience, a massive megaphone, and the respect of journalists, industry leaders, and the public.

Apple's market differentiator, under Steve Jobs, was that it wasn't shitty.

Jobs would regularly mock competitors publicly for the way in which they 'enshittified' their products (in words of the time, obviously). And his reputation was such that people listened.

We have a dearth of authority figures today; there's nobody around to shame bad actors.
by VerifiedReports | 2025-12-19 07:29:31+00:00
Instead of lashing out at people who respect themselves and others, why don't you blame your employer for making you the de-facto receptionist?

Your reaction betrays your embitteredness and naívete, calling others "boomerish" while missing the fact that your ways are in fact already the old ways. I'd say you're the one being mocked, except you're not even getting that much attention... you're hopelessly faffing at an AI firewall and never reaching a human eyeball. But hey, keep pecking that "auto-apply" button like a trained pigeon. Maybe someday you'll get a pellet.

"Taking advantage of someone's politeness?" Hahaha! It's pretty clear you have no idea what politeness is.
by sintax | 2025-12-19 07:29:42+00:00
How long until the AppleTV will look like your own in-home billboard? At least on the NVIDIA Shield you could just not install the update that changed the homescreen to incorporate ads (or install an alternative launcher). With the closed eco system of the AppleTV, the options are probably limited if/when Apple decides they need to extract more money from you by blastering ads all over the interface.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-19 07:29:59+00:00
Offtopic but this title makes me want to create an alternate-universe version of the HN front page where every title is shrill/spectacular/hysterical/urgent/clickbaity. Such as:

The Absolute State of the Kernel Rust Experiment Right Now

And every comment has its confidence/aggressiveness taken up to 11 (tho still within site rules).
by gorgoiler | 2025-12-19 07:30:46+00:00
”There are records of games played over radio, on telephone lines, satellite, … forums, and email.”

My father went to a boarding school. In defiance of his housemaster’s nightly curfew, he and his friend would play cross-dormitory chess using the heating pipes as a medium for Morse code tapped out on the radiators.

It was just the two of them playing through a wall. It would be a fun exercise to implement a fully manual pipe tapping protocol that implements addressing, collision avoidance, retransmission, and distributed consensus. So much fun in fact — and I think this site is definitely a safe space to admit one’s sense of “fun” being quite niche — that it surely must have been done already. TCP/IP/Ethernet: The board game (?)
by palmotea | 2025-12-19 07:31:16+00:00
> I would just be careful to discount the capitalist West.

I would. It's showing the weaknesses and limitations of its ideology.

> You’d have to be blind to ignore the massive overbuilding of property in China, which they are now demolishing. All of that wasted capital.

So what?

> Authoritarian regimes with controlled media always seem successful… Up until the USSR collapsed there were many prominent people in the West saying it was the superior system.

The West is literally de-industrializing and can't seem to built shit except slowly and expensively. Industry after industry gets hollowed out as China takes the lead.

Do not make the mistake of reasoning about US vs China from the experience of US vs USSR. China doesn't have a command economy, outproduces the US, and controls many key industries. The US is resting on its laurels, and its people cope by thinking of the few industries where it's still ahead, but those are dwindling.

> The market test - meaning floating prices and the response to them - is a superior way of allocating capital.

That's not truth, it's a dogmatic assumption.

China has been able to exploit a dogmatic belief in the free market to siphon the real capital out of the West and into itself (industry and know-how) in order to achieve dominance. The US elite is content to have paper. We'll see how that works out.

> We need to see how all of this plays out

If you're rooting for China. If you're rooting for the US, by then it will be too late to course correct.
by rendaw | 2025-12-19 07:31:51+00:00
I also hate drag and drop.

It'd be good if when you picked something it automatically added the border too - otherwise I think this won't work on short pages?

I have some hesitations though - relying on scroll as the positioning method means that if you don't have a fine-grained scroll method e.g. on desktop, if you have a non-continuous wheel, you'll need to rely on "drag and dropping" the scroll bar, which doesn't really improve things (and has its own issues if your page is very long).

I think I'd prefer something other than scroll-to-position. Like what about making gaps between items with a "drop" button? Or adding up/down arrow buttons to the "picked" element so that fine grained adjustments could be done?
by threatripper | 2025-12-19 07:32:20+00:00
The "increased opportunity" is for advertisers. For users it will mean more ads in their search results. Not sure if they provide users with a switch to turn off the opportunities. Apple doesn't like configuration options too much, i guess users will have to live with more ads and spend extra time to find what they were searching when using the shop search where you go to search for specific apps. Maybe Apple AI will present the user with their desired search result without first scrolling through more ads but i sense that there, too, might be new opportunities.
by sodafountan | 2025-12-19 07:33:10+00:00
It would be nice if we could get an LLM to simply say, "We (I) don't know."

I'll be the first to admit I don't know nearly enough about LLMs to make an educated comment, but perhaps someone here knows more than I do. Is that what a Hallucination is? When the AI model just sort of strings along an answer to the best of its ability. I'm mostly referring to ChatGPT and Gemini here, as I've seen that type of behavior with those tools in the past. Those are really the only tools I'm familiar with.
by nativeit | 2025-12-19 07:33:14+00:00
I’m not sure what relevance there is to other providers?

I work with a lot of small medical offices, and they do use consumer Smart TVs in some contexts. I typically limit their network access for other reasons, and displaying X-rays isn’t something I’ve personally facilitated, but it wouldn’t shock me to discover it’s being done in other clinics, and the popularity of cloud-based ePHR software has left a lot of smaller clinics with very limited internal I.T. services.

The destination isn’t relevant, if the image leaves the clinic at all without consent, that’s a HIPAA violation. Fortunately, I think it’s more likely that the images are sampled and/or hashed in a way that means the full image isn’t technically transmitted, but considering the consequences and costs of a data breach, I’d definitely be wary of it.
by syldarion | 2025-12-19 07:33:33+00:00
Like the other commenter, my mind also fixated on the mouse cursor. Great post on the fonts, but I spent most of my time seeing how the strange cursor behaved. I don't like it much, especially because there's some inconsistency once you're down hovering over the related posts.

However, there was one spot where I had to give it to them: when I hovered over the content about Google Sans Code, it expanded horizontally. For a second, I wondered what was going on, then it clicked that the content must be horizontally scrollable, which it was!

Of course, that could be shown with a much more obvious horizontal scroll bar...
by hnlmorg | 2025-12-19 07:34:13+00:00
I really don’t like this. It took me several attempts to figure out what was going on.

And even after I had finally figured it out, it still felt more like a rendering glitch than good UX.

If I struggled then I really can’t see this working for non-technical folk.

Worse yet, because people wouldn’t expect this behaviour coupled with the fact that scrolling shouldn’t have any changes to the website state, you’ll likely see people constantly making accidental changes to the ordering of the list.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-19 07:35:04+00:00
Rhetorical question, though; does Apple execute better? Or do they just sell it better?

Because there are many entirely-feasible things that Apple failed to execute well. Xserve, Airpower, Apple Car, all dead and buried in one way or another. Today, all their tentpole successes are difficult to distinguish from pervasive marketing influence. We can't logically use sales, customer satisfaction or user retention as metrics to measure how successful services iCloud or the App Store are. And, with integrated products like Airpods and Apple Watch, the iPhone nearly reaches similar levels of arbitrary lock-in.
by i_am_a_peasant | 2025-12-19 07:35:23+00:00
LLMs in China are gonna turn humans in the most reliable biological cogs ever.

It’s crazy how reliably you can get expected results from masses by just exposing them to specific types of content.

Even when I practice mindfulness while reading news. I still find myself feeling irrational things when I read something that was specifically designed to trigger me.

The level of awareness you have to maintain to resist brainwashing is really taking me increasing amount of effort as bots get more and more sophisticated. Most social media platforms nowadays might as well disable comments tbh.

We probably need to head towards a post comment internet if we’re to limit the mind controlling.
by al_borland | 2025-12-19 07:35:36+00:00
It’s not just money left on the table, it’s a way to differentiate from the competition. When someone is trying to decide iPhones vs Android for their next purchase, being able to say “our OS doesn’t have ads” is big. I hear people complain about ads more than just about anything else.

I think users should have 0 tolerance for ads in the OS. It’s the broken window theory. Once they start, if the users don’t revolt, they will keep pushing them.

I find I don’t use the App Store much anymore. I used to browse it all the time, but it feels like one giant advertisement now.
by zx8080 | 2025-12-19 07:35:54+00:00
AI needs more personal info (like iCloud is not enough yet). Ads provide more insights to user real needs than anything else, and there's inescapable sharing of user behaviour (otherwise ads business model does not work) that allows Apple to collect and process the user behaviour for its own AI training and to sell it to others.

Sitting on a tons of value (even though backed by users trust) gives no rest to Apple's managers who just does not connect the dots between users trust and profits.

Or they think they are a monopoly. Maybe Apple is?