MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-12-19 06:39:06+00:00
Apple Newton had a way to drag/copy things around, a visual clipboard of sorts. They used a stilus, so it's similar. You drag an object to a side of the screen, where it turns into a visible but small handle and stucks. I think it could stay there any time and you could have several objects arranged this way. Then you can go anyplace, including a different application. Once you're in the right place, you could drag an object back and put it where you wanted to put it.
by 9dev | 2025-12-19 06:40:43+00:00
You, and OP, are taking an analogy way too far. Yes, humans have the mental capability to predict words similar to autocomplete, but obviously this is just one out of a myriad of mental capabilities typical humans have, which work regardless of text. You can predict where a ball will go if you throw it, you can reason about gravity, and so much more. It’s not just apples to oranges, not even apples to boats, it’s apples to intersubjective realities.
by pkulak | 2025-12-19 06:40:47+00:00
Making batteries for $80/kWh IS the next gen tech. I’m pretty sure China invented lipo (EDIT: I meant lfp) (at least they’re the only ones making it) and they’re currently pushing ahead on sodium ion. They are also the ones who have pushed lithium ion to the point it is today. My first EV was a Nissan Leaf that cost 40 grand and could drive 80 miles. Now you can buy 300-mile cars for about that. That was all China’s doing and nearly every EV on the road today uses their batteries.

They have done to the battery market exactly what Taiwan did to the chip market. You can buy an EV made anywhere the same way you can buy a laptop made anywhere. But guess where the chips and batteries were made.
by slow_typist | 2025-12-19 06:41:09+00:00
It isn’t, but to get a full professorship, you need to publish in higher ranked journals. APC-Open-Access is just another iteration of the parasitic business model of the few big publishers. In the end, universities pay the same amounts to the publishers as before, or even more. This business model can only be overcome if and when academia changes the rules for assessment of application to higher ranked academic positions. There are journals that are entirely run by scientists and scientific libraries. Only in this model the peer review and publishing platform becomes a commodity.
by overfeed | 2025-12-19 06:42:32+00:00
> Well, Valve got seriously concerned about the Windows Store, like, a decade ago, since that could have reduced the stranglehold of Steam on the gaming marketplace

Microsoft telegraphed its intention to kill Steam. The plan was a hermetically sealed ecosystem where only cryptographically signed code could run on Windows computers, from UEFI boot to application launch. This meant users would only run software Microsoft let them, and there was no room for the Steam store in Microsoft's vision of the future then.
by sgentle | 2025-12-19 06:43:29+00:00
Only time I've ever been successfully phished was the App Store. I have an Android phone but I wanted to try the ChatGPT app on my iPad and naively clicked the first result, which was of course a scummy clone. I have since wised up and understand the App Store search results to be roughly torrent search levels of trustworthy.

I guess the bar for user trust has now dropped enough across the board to sell more off without losing customers? Pretty sorry state of affairs.
by btschaegg | 2025-12-19 06:44:18+00:00
It might not be the OS, but just statistical inevitability. If you're talking about CPU utilization on Linux, for example, it's not all that unlikely that the number you're staring at isn't "time spent by CPU doing things" but "average CPU run queue length". "100%" then doesn't only mean the CPU gets no rest, but "there's always someone waiting for a CPU to become free". It likely pays off to understand where the load numbers in your tooling actually come from.

Even if that weren't the case, lead times for tasks will always increase with more utilization; see e.g. [1]: If you push a system from 80% to 95% utilization, you have to expect a ~4.75x increase in lead time for each task _on average_: (0.95/0.05) / (0.8/0.2)

Note that all except the term containing ρ in the formula are defined by your system/software/clientele, so you can drop them for a purely relative comparison.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingman%27s_formula

Edit: Or, to try to picture the issue more intuitively: If you're on a highway nearing 100% utilization, you're likely standing in a traffic jam. And if that's not (yet) strictly the case, the probabilty of a small hiccup creating one increases exponentially.
by magic_hamster | 2025-12-19 06:44:37+00:00
China, Russia, Iran, have shared interests and are known to help each other out, in some cases finding ways to go around sanctions. It's wrong to look at it as one country "vs the west". It's two sets of countries. Even if you don't fully agree with the US, a western country will have much more disagreement with countries from the other group.
by digitaltrees | 2025-12-19 06:45:26+00:00
I did not like this as is and found it confusing, but think it has potential and with a few adjustments could be great. I am sure you might have been planning them, and so congratulations on getting something out for comment rather than over building.

1. It will be more intuitive if you can long press or click on the item rather than have to click the "pick" link. That behavior is too deeply ingrained from drag and drop at this point.

2. It would help to show place locations where it will be inserted between objects. I found myself instinctively scrolling up and down to line it up perfectly because it just didnt feel likely to succeed if it wasnt properly placed in the middle, and the absence of visual cues make it seem like I needed to me more accurate with my placement.

Overall cool concept and good work. Keep it up.
by scotty79 | 2025-12-19 06:45:31+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization_in_Ca...

Give China 50 years and I'm sure they are gonna be properly sad about what happened to Uyghurs, western style.

Or not. Measures applied to Uyghurs were done under the banner of fight with terror, which the West waved fervently as well. Although US decided to direct their zeal outside, bombing several countries and killing countless "enemies" which were defined as everybody within the blast radius. Were attempts of China at controlling their islamist minority so uncomparably worse?

Especially when we compare them to how they approached the problem of pandemics. They obviously have no qualms about attempting sweeping solutions regardless of religion and ethnicity of those affected.
by 20after4 | 2025-12-19 06:45:43+00:00
Smells a little bit like the Kids for Cash¹ corruption scandal from a few years ago. Just last year, President Biden commuted the sentence of one of the corrupt judges who had been convicted for sending kids to a private detention center in exchange for kick-backs from the owner of the facility. For some reason presidents love to pardon despicable evil people, way more often than they ever seem to pardon people who genuinely deserve mercy. Trump is the worst offender of all in this regard, it seems like he's selling pardons to anyone who will pay the price²³.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

2. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L8oj3-vdJ-8

3. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2023/05/16/giulian...
by bigyabai | 2025-12-19 06:46:12+00:00
The iBrain is a confident next step in your computing experience, priced at the $699 bracket we know consumers love. The headlining feature is it's ability to record visual sensation and memories through a proprietary Spatial Aperature located at the front and rear of the device. It runs all of your favorite apps in a secure environment; if anyone ever attempts to compromise or steal the iBrain, it enters a lockdown mode until a trusted technician can restore your unit. It's just another part of why consumers love the iBrain ecosystem.

Of course, recording your thoughts is only a fraction of the power we could be harnessing with iBrain. When you log in, your most-recent memories will get synchronized with the cloud, and are catalogued on-device in a trusted compute environment. This makes it simple to collect and share your thoughts, whether it's with your iPad or friends online. Your ideas go places, and we want to appreciate that with the architecture of iBrain.

We just know that consumers will love the iBrain. Our focus groups can't get enough of it, and we can't wait to open for pre-orders this September.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-12-19 06:46:21+00:00
I wish they had graphs like this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_methods_for_ordinary...

I'm vaguely familiar with explicit and implicit Euler from game physics, but I'd rather just see the graphs of the top 10 most popular integrators, with a small description of how they work, then see the equations and try to reconstruct the graphs in my head.
by Someone | 2025-12-19 06:46:23+00:00
FTA#1: “Hashmaps do not (efficiently) support range queries. Since the keys are stored in pseudorandom order”

FTA#2: “Object keys (think JSON) are hashed to a 4-byte digest and stored inside B-tree nodes”

It still will likely be faster because of better cache locality, but doesn’t that means this also does not (efficiently) support range queries?

That page also says

“tree traversal inside the critical path can be satisfied entirely using fixed 4-byte word comparisons, never actually requiring string comparisons except for detection of hash collisions. This design choice alone contributes to much of the runtime performance of Lite³.”

How can that be true, given that this beats libraries that use hash maps, that also rarely require string comparisons, by a large margin?

Finally, https://lite3.io/design_and_limitations.html#autotoc_md37 says:

“Inserting a colliding key will not corrupt your data or have side effects. It will simply fail to insert.”

I also notice this uses the DJB2 hash function, which has hash collisions between short strings (http://dmytry.blogspot.com/2009/11/horrible-hashes.html), and those are more likely to be present in json documents. You get about 8 + 3 × 5 = 23 bits of hash for four-character strings, for example, increasing the risk of collisions to, ballpark, about one in three thousand.

=> I think that needs fixing before this can be widely used.
by dd8601fn | 2025-12-19 06:48:43+00:00
> They take an idea that’s already been worked out (like MP3 players) and then just out-execute the competition.

I’m inclined to think of that as innovation. To your point, not a single, earth shattering kind (inventing the first mp3 player), but by 100 lesser improvements in a single product.

But yeah, all their stuff is that way. They didn’t invent smartphones, or satellite messaging in a phone, or rich mobile messaging, or end to end encryption of data on your cloud services, or biometrics and secure enclaves, etc. They just usually execute better than others.
by sublinear | 2025-12-19 06:50:14+00:00
> A chatbot could replace a lot of this: just tell your phone what to do instead of clicking and swiping.

I'm confused by this take. We've had this for over a decade? Technology is not holding this idea back. It just sucks big time for every situation except driving. Talking to a computer is dumb, but Knight Rider nailed it.
by wiether | 2025-12-19 06:50:45+00:00
I completely agree!

But hiring a pentest firm is completely different than giving $50k a year to a guy, no questions asked.

The pentest firm is generally providing the whole package, from doing the actual pentest, with tools and workers of various experience and skill sets, giving you extended reports on what they did and the outcome, to providing guidance on how to fix their findings, how to make the necessary cultural changes to harden your apps, and also how to communicate that you have passed their audit.

You won't have all of that if you give free roam to a guy to _do what they do_.

This idea is more similar to patronage, which, imho, is a great idea, no matter the domain (arts or tech), but I doubt that there any company here that is willing to go this way.

Even the company that supposedly do actual patronage today are going to look at their ROI and stop as soon as they don't see the figures they're expecting.
by globular-toast | 2025-12-19 06:51:51+00:00
A free market would be great and perfectly capable of serving the public. The problem is free market is a theoretical concept and markets like electronics are nowhere near free. Collusion is something that happens in an oligopoly. The fact many markets degenerate into oligopolies and monopolies is why we need government. 30 years ago I feel like people understood this. Now it seems everyone thinks they know what free market means just because they heard the term one time.
by wvenable | 2025-12-19 06:53:01+00:00
> I use zero so-called "AI" features in my day to day life. None. Not one.

I know so many people who made that same argument, if you can call it that, about smartphones.

I recently listened to a podcast (probably The Verge) talking about how an author was suddenly getting more purchases from his personal website. He attributed it to AI chatbots giving his personal website as the best place to buy rather than Amazon, etc. An AI browser might be a way to take power away from all the big players.

> And it's not for a lack of trying, the results are just not what I need or want, and traditional browsing (and search engines, etc.) does do what I want.

I suspect I only Google for about 1/4 of things I used to (maybe less). Why search, wade through dubious results, etc when you can just instantly get the result you want in the format you want it?

While I am a techie and I do use Firefox -- that's not a growing niche. I think AI will become spectacularly better for non-techies because it can simply give them what they ask for. LLMs have solved the natural language query issue.
by dataflow | 2025-12-19 06:53:23+00:00
> The worst possible scenario is that the data/power standard supported by the physical connection isn't optimal. But it will always work.

I don't know what "always work" means here but I feel like I've had USB cables that transmit zero data because they're only for power, as well as ones that don't charge the device at all when the device expects more power than it can provide. The only thing I haven't seen is cables that transmit zero data on some devices but nonzero data on others.
by minitech | 2025-12-19 06:54:56+00:00
> What leaked was that I was a signal user, and that the person on the other side was a signal user.

Clearly, either this was before Signal had its username-lookup-only feature, or you opted into letting people find you by your phone number. At that point, the information is already effectively leaked in the same way (it’s easy for anyone to enumerate all phone numbers, let alone for you to enumerate your own contacts or vice versa), and if the notification surprised you then the absence of the notification would simply have been giving you a false sense of security.

Communication by non-phone-number identifiers is critically important, and I’m glad for recent Signal developments in that direction and hopeful for more in the future, but opting into phone-number-based communication and complaining that your contacts were merely notified about the communication option they would have been able to access anyway on a security or privacy basis is silly. The fact that this information (your contacts) passes through Signal is much more objectionable to me, even though they do the SGX thing, and I would never recommend allowing it access to your contacts for that reason.
by root_axis | 2025-12-19 06:55:16+00:00
There's no evidence for it, nor any explanation for why it should be the case from a biological perspective. Tokens are an artifact of computer science that have no reason to exist inside humans. Human minds don't need a discrete dictionary of reality in order to model it.

Prior to LLMs, there was never any suggestion that thoughts work like autocomplete, but now people are working backwards from that conclusion based on metaphorical parallels.
by dangus | 2025-12-19 06:55:55+00:00
I hate to break it to you, but it's been like this for YEARS now. The frog has been boiled. Line must go up and the market is saturated.

I watched an "Android user switched to iOS" YouTube video recently and it's interesting how much you don't see when you haven't been removed from an environment. This Android user was shocked at how much iOS advertises to you, which is not intuitively what any of us would think an Android user would be shocked by switching platforms. A lot of us iPhone users think that Android phones are like a used car sales lot with bloat apps and you can't delete Facebook and all that.

You know how when you haven't seen a friend for a long time and they've changed appearance? But if you see them every day you don't really notice the gradual changes as much. I think that's what's happening here: long time iOS users just don't see that Apple is using all the same tactics as Microsoft and Google in their OSes, but Windows especially is seen as hyper-commercial and ad-riddled.

iOS has what are effectively ads in the Settings page in exactly in the same way that you get critical updates which is crazy.

Every major OS update advertises some new feature that siphons up your personal data like Apple Intelligence. Heck, they suggest you turn analytics back on years after turning it off - every single major update! I know this is common practice but we have to pause and recognize that these things are advertisements.

You think Windows is bad with OneDrive and Copilot? At least you can uninstall those! Try removing Apple News on your Mac! You can't delete the app, not allowed!

Congratulations, you bought a piece of hardware from Apple, now you get a 3-month trial to [random service they run] and you will be notified about this in the settings page...again, right next to your critical security updates.

App Store? It's an ad platform, not a package manager. Sure, another industry standard, but it's not like Apple is some kind of unique premium company in this regard.

Apple TV is touted as having no ads, but it really does if you don't move Apples apps off the top row of the screen. For now, it's far less egregious than any other streaming box I can think of, but I imagine it's this way because the product is a bit of an afterthought that predates Apple's orange squeezing (we are the oranges).
by Towaway69 | 2025-12-19 06:56:05+00:00
How does market capitalism work again? Shareholders what higher ROI each quarter. Where does that come from? Profits.

Where do profits come from? Selling data, innovation, selling hardware, etc.

Biggest profit margins come from selling stuff you have to multiple buyers that costs you nothing to duplicate/produce.

My data can be sold to multiple buyers, multiple times to make that magic profit that shareholders want.

Just wait until everyone on this planet has apple devices, how will apple continue to grow ROI?
by mleroy | 2025-12-19 06:56:30+00:00
Ontologically, this historical model understands the categories of "Man" and "Woman" just as well as a modern model does. The difference lies entirely in the attributes attached to those categories. The sexism is a faithful map of that era's statistical distribution.

You could RAG-feed this model the facts of WWII, and it would technically "know" about Hitler. But it wouldn't share the modern sentiment or gravity. In its latent space, the vector for "Hitler" has no semantic proximity to "Evil".
by Aloha | 2025-12-19 06:56:32+00:00
I'm T2D - I've come to believe obesity is a side effect of diabetes, if I'm not on my medications, I can fast for 2-3 days before my blood sugar comes down, because my liver is constantly pumping out glucose into my system.

There is no doubt that hyper processed foods make this condition more likely, but its not just "you have weak willpower and got fat and sick" - I know a ton of fat people who do not have and will likely will never develop T2D.
by heavyset_go | 2025-12-19 06:57:09+00:00
Imagine paying $100 a year for the privilege to develop apps, only to have your revenue confiscated to the tune of 15% - 30% and for the same entity to spam users who are looking for your apps, on the only place they can look for apps, with ads for your competitors, or with scummy ads that make you look bad by association.
by rumpelstiel | 2025-12-19 06:57:45+00:00
I see, It could be less brain blocking to just explain or tell the llm your story, and whule it codes you can move on thinking, but seeing my juniors... it is also less brain blocking.. so they dont think anymore.. its just a rainbow of thougts and features, and nice ideas (like brainstorming), but working in healthcare it, this could be deadly.
by gzaal | 2025-12-19 06:58:39+00:00
Highlights

MetaScope 1.2.0 is a foundational release that rebuilds the metadata architecture for long-term extensibility while delivering powerful new features for professional workflows.

- *Unified Template Manager*: Single registry-driven template system replaces fragmented IPTC and EXIF templates with automatic migration - *MetadataFieldRegistry*: 102 metadata fields (69 base + 33 struct sub-fields) across 7 categories as single source of truth for all metadata operations - *Metadata Favorites*: Star frequently used fields for quick access with inline editing, group organization, and persistent preferences - *Enhanced Location Tab*: Manual GPS coordinate entry, address search with autocomplete, recent locations, and reverse geocoding - *Keyword-Driven Metadata (Pro)*: Rule-based automatic population of IPTC/XMP fields from keywords with preview and batch application - *Finder Metadata Visibility*: View macOS Finder tags and comments alongside photo metadata - *5-Tab Info Panel*: Reorganized interface with Favorites, Essentials, Editor, Location, and Advanced tabs - *Keyboard Architecture*: Modernized 2-layer keyboard event handling for reliable shortcuts across all windows - *Search Registry Alignment*: Expanded search filters (63→102 fields), schema v10, category-grouped filter UI - *v10 Schema Ingest Pipeline*: 58 IPTC Extension fields added to search index with 129 total columns and 92 FTS searchable fields - *Video/Image Editor Parity*: Video Editor Modal restructured with 5-section layout; Image Essentials fields now support star buttons for Favorites
by godelski | 2025-12-19 06:58:52+00:00
Confirming what ekjhgkejhgk is saying.

It really just is Firefox with more privacy tuning. As far as I'm aware all the add-ons work as expected. I've used it as a trial and can confirm ublock works perfectly fine but that's the only add-on I tested.

Also, it is bundled with a mullvad add-on, but it is easy to remove.

You should also go to the Privacy and Security tab in the browser. By default it is set to Max Protection with Mullvad DNS by default. Even their lowest security is better than Firefox. But I would suggest editing this the "Mullvad (Ad-blocking)" option. I believe this is the same DNS as adblock.dns.mullvad.net (194.242.2.3)[0], which (base.dns.mullvad.net (194.242.2.4) is better) will be pretty similar to PiHole style ad-blocking.

I haven't tested in browser (I did test when setting up my PiHole) but Mullvad DNS can be a little slower compared to quad9 or cloudflare. But I don't think those two have ad blocking (and DNS ad blocking can be better in a lot of ways because it is not being blocked user side)

Btw, you can do this DNS stuff in vanilla Firefox too.

[0] https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls