MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mittermayr | 2026-01-26 10:07:06+00:00
Just be super careful to understand what CPU time means before you go ahead and waste time on this. They don't immediately flag this, but once you go past a very, very very small time threshold on used CPU time, they'll start aborting requests. This does not happen (as harshly) on fully paid accounts, of course.

But since many are comfortably being dragged into the Cloudflare vortex through their otherwise generously free offers, you'll find that the Cloudflare Worker CPU time limitation can turn into a huge waste of time, after the fact, once you realize the worker code you converted a few days ago and you're all joyful about suddenly starts failing a few days later.

Addendum: Just to illustrate the moment where you'll trip over it: here it casually mentions the default minimum being 30s, without being clear that this *only* applies to paid accounts. Only further down somewhere there's a tiny mention of 10ms!
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/#c...

Here is the only other mention of it:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/

So, if your script can get by with a max of 10 milliseconds of CPU time per invocation (not runtime), you'll be fine. You will, however, and this is crucial, only realize this a few days in. They're taking the average and eventually cap you and it stops responding.
by nottorp | 2026-01-26 10:07:18+00:00
> Apple has not forced me

Not for lack of trying. Heard the wife scream that they updated her to 26 2 days ago. And she had been warned. Not by me, she may not trust the conservative geek, but by our daughter who is cursing at iOS 26 right and left.

So far I've managed to protect all my iOS and MacOS devices, but who knows what they sneak in next...

By the way, ages ago I had to pull over on a road and wait for an iOS upgrade because Apple deemed to display the "upgrade now" dialogue over my navigation app and of course i touched the screen in the wrong place to get rid of it because i was driving.
by graemep | 2026-01-26 10:07:27+00:00
Steve Jobs was a founder of the company. He expected to remain CEO for many years (until his illness). I do not know whether he still have a large stake but its likely he did, and he certainly formed his approach when he did.

That motivated him to look at the long term as he expected to benefit from increases in the value of the business over the long term.

A regular CEO looks more at the short term. The value when the next options vest or the next bonus or whatever.
by daversa | 2026-01-26 10:08:02+00:00
Great catch! It turns out there is a tiny village in Gloucestershire also named Cambridge (pop. 394) that was trying to steal the spotlight from the University town. Because they were both labeled as 'Cambridge, England,' our system was getting them mixed up.

I've just pushed a fix that includes the County for international cities to keep them distinct (e.g., 'Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK'). I also cleared our database cache so the correct data is ready for you.

If you already have Cambridge in your comparison grid, just remove it and add it back to see the fresh data. Thanks for the heads-up.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-26 10:08:05+00:00
> How do you make a p2p app that can handle hundreds of millions of posts per day without beefy servers helping?

Presumably by fusing the P2P and federated models together. There's no particular reason those two models can't coexist within the same protocol. It just hasn't been created yet.

Similar to how a good mesh networking implementation will make use a high bandwidth backhaul such as the internet if it's available.
by veqq | 2026-01-26 10:08:15+00:00
Do not immediately jump to such disgusting accusations:

> Astroturfing much?

I have been involved in antiregime activities for years. You can easily find many posts of mine evangelizing the cause in the oddest places e.g.: https://www.themotte.org/post/2196/culture-war-roundup-for-t...

> I just want the regime to change

I run one of the biggest defense forums where I post about it a lot: https://www.reddit.com/r/CredibleDefense/comments/1q09y6q/ac...
by Gibbon1 | 2026-01-26 10:08:17+00:00
There is a legal principal that comes into play when people are locked up for contempt of court. You can be locked up indefinitely or until the issue is moot. The the reasoning behind that is you hole the keys to your own cell.

The Israeli's demand was returning the hostages and the bodies of the people Hamas murdered. Hamas refused to do that for a year and a half.
by hereisSwapnil | 2026-01-26 10:08:24+00:00
This is interesting. I’m curious how the text becomes an execution boundary works in practice.

Is the .txt parsed into a constrained schema, or is it closer to free-form instructions that get interpreted at runtime?

Related to that, how are security boundaries enforced? For example, preventing arbitrary code execution, file access, or unintended side effects if the text is malformed or malicious.

Feels potentially very useful for prototyping, but I’m trying to understand where the hard limits are.
by sdoering | 2026-01-26 10:08:35+00:00
If you mean capturing click metadata (coordinates, timestamps, target elements) rather than actual pixel recording - yes, that's what tools like Hotjar/FullStory do. They record DOM mutations + interaction events and replay them.

For your own implementation, document-level event listeners work, though cross-origin iframes are off-limits due to same-origin policy.
by phaser | 2026-01-26 10:08:51+00:00
I have the exact same problem. plus, I have usually surprised system processes eating up CPU like ‘suggestd’ and it’s hard to get information about what it does. I guess one could find out by reverse engineering, but that’s not the point. they could easily make it transparent and documented and the feeling of my own computer being a black box is constantly pissing me off. I regret all my investment in the Apple ecosystem and I wish I hadn’t locked me in as much.
by mopsi | 2026-01-26 10:09:36+00:00
Early this month, I was browsing the same sites I always do when Safari on my iPhone suddenly became very sluggish. I closed Safari and reopened it, and poof! Everything was gone: favorites, history, open tabs, everything.

This kind of BS has become very common with Apple. There's a very pretty happy path, and a very ugly muddy trail if you fall off the scenic route.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-26 10:10:06+00:00
Agree, been using Apple on-off for decades, seems to get worse every time.

> try to do my own manual photo backups

As a Linux desktop user but Apple phone user, I do the same thing, so I can save the photos to my NAS, using ipairdevice/libimobiledevice/ifuse et al. to do it. Best part? Apple still spams me that my photos aren't backed up, because I'm not using iCloud. Is there a way of disabling that? Nope, they'll forever bother me about this, thanks.

> It really does seem like nobody at Apple is actually using any of the software they're releasing. Its just such shoddy quality control!

I think this is the crux, there are no humans with brains doing QA anymore. Since I got my iPhone 12 Mini, up until yesterday when I last used it, CarPlay still feels like it's worth risking my life every time someone calls me while I use the navigation. Not a single person could have tried this at Apple, because who would think it's a great idea showing a large avatar across the screen, over the navigation, as soon as someone calls? Absolutely bananas the direction Apple went as soon as Jobs disappeared, shame really.
by 8fingerlouie | 2026-01-26 10:10:11+00:00
While we very rarely have temperatures below -20C in Denmark, i have yet to experience a "drop" in performance from it. Granted, it becomes a lot noisier in very low temperatures, but it "does the job".

I'll add that this being an older house (1970s) we have "other issues" that causes heat loss, so we usually run the log burner for supplementary heat during those few days of -20C. The heat pump can keep the house warm, but you can feel the cold "pushing in" from walls and windows (dual pane).

Sadly the heat pump has also kinda voided all attempts to renovate for saving energy. Our yearly heat cost (heating and warm water) is around €750, and adding insulation would cost around €3500, for a potential saving of around 10-20%, so a total of 20-30 years to earn itself back again.
by aathanor | 2026-01-26 10:10:18+00:00
I’m not a coder, but I’ve been working extensively on the philosophical aspects of AI. Many technical people are influenced by an algorithmic view of intelligence, primarily because this aligns with programming and the general understanding of reasoning. However, pattern recognition, which is fundamental to LLMs, is not algorithmic. Consider this: a LLM constructs a virtual textual world where landscapes and objects are represented as text, and words are the building blocks of these features. It’s a vast 700+D mathematical space, but visualizing it as a virtual reality environment can help us comprehend its workings. When you provide a prompt, you essentially direct the LLM’s attention to a specific region within this space, where an immense number of sentences exist in various shapes and forms (textual shapes). All potential answers generated by the LLM are contained within this immediate landscape, centered around your prompt’s position. They are all readily available to the LLM at once.

There are certain methods (I would describe them as less algorithmic and more akin to selection criteria or boundaries) that enable the LLM to identify a coherent sequence of sentences as a feature closer to your prompt within this landscape. These methods involve some level of noise (temperature) and other factors. As a result, the LLM generates your text answer. There’s no reasoning involved; it’s simply searching for patterns that align with your prompt. (It’s not at all based on statistics and probabilities; it’s an entirely different process, more akin to instantly recognizing an apple, not by analyzing its features or comparing it to a statistical construct of “apple.”)

When you request a mathematical result, the LLM doesn’t engage in reasoning. It simply navigates to the point in its model’s hyperspace where your prompt takes it and explores the surrounding area. Given the extensive amount of training text, it will immediately match your problem formulation with similar formulations, providing an answer that appears to mimic reasoning solely because the existing landscape around your prompt facilitates this.

A LLM operates more like a virtual reality environment for the entire body of human-created text. It doesn’t navigate the space independently; it merely renders what exists in different locations within it. If we were to label this as reasoning, it’s no more than reasoning by analogy or imitation. People are right to suspect LLMs do not reason, but I think the reason (pun intended) for that is not that they simply do some sort of statistical analysis. This "stochastic parrots" paradigm supported by Chomsky is actually blocking our understanding of LLMs. I also think that seeing them as formidable VR engines for textual knowledge clarifies why they are not the path to AGI. (There is also the embodiment problem which is not solvable by adding sensors and actuators, as people think, but for a different reason)
by retired | 2026-01-26 10:10:37+00:00
Apple needs a new CEO. Someone more visionary than Cook. The software needs more focus on making it "just work" and having significantly less bugs. The line-up needs to be cleaned up as well.

Right now you have the MacBook Air 13" and 15" in 3 variants and 4 colours, that makes for a total of 24 models. M4 processors only.

The MacBook Pro 14" can be purchased with the M5, M4 Pro, M4 Max in 2 colours for a total of 12 models. Then the 16" with the M4 Pro and M4 Max in 2 colours for a total of 8 models. That makes another 20 models.

That is 56 different models to pick from! And that is before customisation.

Why is there even a MacBook Pro without a Pro chip? And why are you selling M4 and M5 processors at the same time? Why release the M5 non-Pro in a Pro laptop and not put it in the Air, leaving it with an M4? The M5 is sometimes better than the M4 Pro, making it hard for the customer to decide to pick which one.

Don't even get me started on the convoluted mess of the iPhone. Apple sells the iPhone 16 (5 models), iPhone 16 Plus (10 models), iPhone 16e (6 models), iPhone 17 (10 models), iPhone Air (12 models), iPhone 17 Pro (9 models), iPhone 17 Pro Max (12 models). 64 models to pick from!

I remember Apple selling the iPhone 4. You would walk into the store, pick a Black or White model, 16 or 32 gigabyte. If you wanted colours, get a case.
by nottorp | 2026-01-26 10:10:59+00:00
DaisyDisk - the version you download from them, not the one from the app store which has to be sandboxed - helps with purging that crap.

But then you have to buy an extra app to fix Apple's mess.

Personally I don't mind because I use it to clear my personal crap and it's made its money back countless times already, but to get it just for the purge...
by mahdi7d1 | 2026-01-26 10:12:01+00:00
I use this same username everywhere and it's tied to my identity so let me keep it brief. I live in a small town and you wouldn't get much protesting or any political activity in those.

On the other hand, I'm currently serving in the police force (Which all able bodied men of age have to do and serve in one of the three armed forces of my country) and the bigger question since the start of the protests has been "What to do if I was put in a position against people?"

Thankfully that hasn't happened yet but still there is a feeling of being stuck between a rock and a hard place.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-26 10:12:31+00:00
Comes across as an ad hominem. Email is insecure due to being dated, having a massive amount of inertia, and being essentially impossible to upgrade in the necessary ways without breaking backwards compatibility. None of that has anything to do with federation vs p2p vs centralization.

If you want a fair comparison for reasoning about security related challenges and tradeoffs you should probably go with matrix.
by postalcoder | 2026-01-26 10:13:17+00:00
The lowest hanging fruit is to clear caches from whatever package manager you're using.

I highly recommend Daisy Disk[0], which shows a folder level breakdown of your disk space usage. Hyperspace[1] is pretty nice as well. It works well if you have a lot of duplicate files. It uses APFS clones to reclaim the disk space.

0: https://daisydiskapp.com

1: http://hypercritical.co/2025/02/25/hyperspace
by botacode | 2026-01-26 10:13:45+00:00
This is a great perspective, and one that I've come around to after years of being anxious about being perceived online.

The shift has been very rewarding and has opened up tons of opportunities and partnerships both personally and for my startup.

The snark:signal ratio section rings very true.

For the more LLM-pilled would also recommend reading the Gwern piece on writing online: https://gwern.net/llm-writing
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by joyhn | 2026-01-26 10:14:41+00:00
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Panda is perfect for beginners and experienced who want a tool that helps them focus on their practice, not on setting up complex apps.

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Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think! I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions for future updates.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-26 10:14:53+00:00
Yeah, if you're unable to read, I understand reaching such conclusion :) But no, this is about platforms/services:

> Amendment 92 (“Action to Prohibit the Provision of VPN Services to Children in the United Kingdom”) requires VPNs that are “offered or marketed to persons in the United Kingdom” or “provided to a significant number of persons” to implement age assurance for UK users.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-26 10:15:44+00:00
Are you being sincere with this comment? I’m in disbelief you could post this with good faith, but this forum requires me to respond to you with the assumption that you’re posting in good faith.

First of all, the investigation for the fraud had already wrapped up years ago, with many charged. You’re falling for the propaganda that this was ongoing and swept under the rug, as pretense that apparently an occupying force is necessary because Somalians are fraudulent criminals (racist AF), despite the incredible amount of fraud (including Medicare fraud!) within the ruling party at the moment.

Second of all, the ringleader was a white woman who was convicted for this fraud, presumably preying on desperate immigrants, maybe even convincing them that “fraud was the American way”, I mean look at the president - how could fraud not be the American way?

Third of all, that YouTuber has a less than room temperature IQ, and was going around to closed daycares to prove that… they weren’t open? The rightwing grift is so powerful and so lucrative that this absolute imbecile can make it big by giving other imbeciles a justification for their deep-seated racism. Honestly, go listen to interviews with this guy. It’s astounding that anyone trusts any content he puts out, because that’s just what it is - content, not investigative journalism.

Anyway, I guess since some Somalians were involved in fraud we get to occupy cities, tearing anyone brown with an accent away from their family, maybe allowing them to prove citizenship (maybe not), and begin shooting anyone who adds friction to that process (civil disobedience)? That’s the implication of your comment.

Tell me when we can start prosecuting fraud when it’s attached to an (R), by the way.
by getmoheb | 2026-01-26 10:16:43+00:00
I'm in the same position - holding out for a year in the hope that things change direction.

I've been in the apple ecosystem for 20 years at this point, because the ecosystem delivered real value for me. But that value has declined sharply - hardware is still good, but software quality has cratered while the drive for services revenue has become so relentless that I've now got one foot out the door.
by casey2 | 2026-01-26 10:17:58+00:00
Every political group hates every other one. Every time "anti-hate" groups come to power there is a purge often followed by genocide. Singling out one specific emotion is irrational.

If Palestine had full US backing they would push Israelis in to the ocean and claiming otherwise is dishonest.
UAE is the largest backer of Palestine, they have no qualms backing genocide in Sudan. So it's just as reasonable to claim jihadism has no respect for property or for life.

This isn't whataboutism, if this money wasn't flowing you wouldn't hear about it.
by orthoxerox | 2026-01-26 10:17:58+00:00
> macOS is still the best OS I'd want to use IMO

Linux has low-key become a very valid choice for a desktop OS. You can thank a lot of people for that.

Apple and Microsoft for sandbagging.

NixOS for pioneering the immutable Linux concept.

Valve for heavily investing into making games run well.

GitHub for inventing Electron, the eater of RAM and the great equalizer of UX.

Lots and lots of Linux and distro maintainers and contributors, achieving the opposite of the death of a thousand cuts.

There are some still unsolved problems, like power management and device drivers, but I feel like we're over the hump. There's a critical mass of regular people using Linux as their primary desktop OS on modern hardware, so trying to make Linux work on a 2025 laptop no longer feels like empty struggle.
by mike_hearn | 2026-01-26 10:18:09+00:00
By walked back, what I meant is his conclusion starts by demanding an apology, saying reading the paper was a waste of time and that Ioannidis "screwed up", that he didn't "look too carefully", that Stanford has "paid a price" for being associated with him, etc.

But then in the P.P.P.S sections he's saying things like "I’m not saying that the claims in the above-linked paper are wrong." (then he has to repeat that twice because in fact that's exactly what it sounds like he's saying), and "When I wrote that the authors of the article owe us all an apology, I didn’t mean they owed us an apology for doing the study" but given he wrote extensively about how he would not have published the study, I think he did mean that.

Also bear in mind there was a followup where Ioannidis's team went the extra mile to satisfy people like Gellman and:

They added more tests of known samples. Before, their reported specificity was 399/401; now it’s 3308/3324. If you’re willing to treat these as independent samples with a common probability, then this is good evidence that the specificity is more than 99.2%. I can do the full Bayesian analysis to be sure, but, roughly, under the assumption of independent sampling, we can now say with confidence that the true infection rate was more than 0.5%.

After taking into account the revised paper, which raised the standard from high to very high, there's not much of Gellman's critique left tbh. I would respect this kind of critique more if he had mentioned the garbage-tier quality of the rest of the literature. Ioannidis' standards were still much higher than everyone else's at that time.
by valleyer | 2026-01-26 10:18:14+00:00
I disagree. A lot of the problems come down to part A of the system not coordinating well with part B. Take the brouhaha about the Tahoe window corners: obviously there wasn't enough communication between folks designing the window frame art and the folks implementing the window resize logic.

You can hire the best, but coordination among a group of people scales quadratically.
by tymonPartyLate | 2026-01-26 10:18:26+00:00
The worst crime for me is liquid glass on the apple watch.
All the menus are now lagging on the watch ultra gen2. Where previously it was smooth to interact with, the random lags now make it annoying and inconvenient to interact with. (I need to focus my attention on the Ui state instead of following an automatic procedure from muscle memory)

The battery sometimes randomly drains within less than a day.
There are absolutely no benefits of the new visual effects.

The watch was my favorite apple device because it helps me to reduce screen time on the phone. Now it is a source of anger.
by ndkap | 2026-01-26 10:18:47+00:00
In Nepal, on Sep 8, teenagers and GenZ organized peaceful protests. They were there on school uniform -- but 21+ were killed on a single day of peaceful protest. The next day, all 3 branches of the government were burned -- the legislative, the executive and the judiciary too. Even the Fox News equivalent (Kantipur) was burned.

I think people always opt for peaceful protest at first, but when that is made impossible, people go for the violent one. MLK was successful because there was the threat of Malcolm X. Same thing with Gandhi.