MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ksec | 2026-02-06 18:31:48+00:00
>At what point did the old Apple cross the threshold to "modern" Apple?

The simple answer would be when SJ passed away. The long answer is there wasn't a turning point, but a long period of cultural shift, due to Tim Cook being CEO.

Tim Cook not immediately taking a CEO stand and left a power vacuum was a mistake. He said himself he thought everything would continue as normal, which obviously did not happen. Firing Scott Forstall was a mistake. Ive taking over software design was a mistake. Not listening to the advice of Katie Cotton and manage a new PR direction was a mistake. Following Phill Schiller advice of firing long time Marketing Firm for Apple was a mistake. Tim Cook not understanding his weakness which is his judgement of character was a big big mistakes, as it leads to Dixon CEO and Burberry CEO taking helms of Apple Retail, ultimately stoping if not reversed the momentum of Apple Retails improvement and expansion by 10 years. Giving Ive the power to play around with Retail Design because Apple Retail Store is somehow a "social place" was a big mistake. Prioritising Operational and Supply Chain Decisions over Design was a mistake after around iPhone 8 Plus. Too focused on sales metric and bottom line was a big mistake. Shifting to Services Revenue, which should have been AppleCare, iCloud or even iPhone Subscription model, instead they got Apple TV+, in my option is a mistake. They were too scared to hurt the relationship with Carriers. Eddy Cue taking over a lot of decisions? Apple going to Davos? Merging of different iOS and macOS team where it used to be teams per product but later became functions per team structure. Trusting China and didn't diversify their production when Trump was first time in Office. ( They said they will but they didn't. Literally every single media lied on behalf of Apple ). I mean the list goes on and on.

I really like someone on HN said about Apple. Ever since Steve Jobs passed away Apple has been left on auto pilot mode for most of its time.
by llbbdd | 2026-02-06 18:32:05+00:00
I concede that repetition is a valuable part of learning and that there's no easy answer, but they way Duolingo does it seems pretty intentional given the level of polish they have in the app generally. When prior lessons reset, it can interrupt your progress on your current lesson and will actively block you from making further progress until you go back and do those lessons again, unless you "skip" them, which they use their weird sad owl to discourage. Often the lessons haven't changed very much and redoing it is just busywork, seeing the first couple words of a question you've seen before and remembering what the answer is before its even finished writing it out, which doesn't seem like it reinforces learning the language, just learning how to salivate when Duo rings the bell.

I haven't used Anki either and I'm not suggesting anybody ban either one, though I would be curious how Anki's spaced repetition implementation differs from Duos. In general I don't think bans usually have the intended effect, and trying to ban or discourage dark user patterns seems almost impossible to define usefully, let alone enforce even if it were the right thing to do. I'm not much of a gambler, but I live in one of the holdout US states that doesn't allow sports betting apps, which is an entire ecosystem of human-hacking dark patterns, and it bothers me that I'm disallowed from participating in the name of protecting other people from their own poor self-control. Duolingo has all the time in the world to defeat that kind of thing with loopholes and it would make it even harder for an alternative service to compete with them.
by sharadov | 2026-02-06 18:32:13+00:00
It depends - construction workers in the US especially look like shit, given the crap that they eat - fast food, sodas and then beers after the job.

Go look at construction workers elsewhere, especially Asia, they're ripped.
Because the food they eat is most likely home cooked and not the fast food garbage we get here. Even the food at kiosks is pretty good, since it's freshly cooked.
by bastard_op | 2026-02-06 18:32:16+00:00
Brave was found to be mostly different adware years ago I thought. It's a degoogle'd chrome essentially, but replaced with their adware instead of google's.

If you want a clean chrome, use ungoogled-chromium. Like IE6, some stuff just doesn't work in librewolf (less scummy firefox), so I use ungoogled-chromium when so, and I just don't do anything googleish on it that it latches onto google again.
by advisedwang | 2026-02-06 18:32:18+00:00
The reason that "the left" is rolling eyes at the fuss being made over this fraud is:

1. The fraud is in fact being investigated, people are being charged and convicted. Despite this, rightwing media institutions are acting as if fraud is being ignored and maybe even covered up and encouraged because

2. This is just another example of the decades long project by those who have lots of money and don't want to see it go to takes to paint social programs as a money-pipe from good hardworking people to fraud and waste.
by antonyh | 2026-02-06 18:32:21+00:00
Apple News+ is so bad, it's literally unusable. Unfortunately I can't unsubscribe without paying MORE. I use all the other services on a family subscription except this one, but if I remove it the total cost goes up. I hate that I'm supporting something that is this bad, and the quantity of ads is the main factor - not only am I a paying customer, it's still filled with the worst kind of promoted 'content'.
by comboy | 2026-02-06 18:32:28+00:00
I'm too late but I'm surprised HN crowd treats tiktok as some weaponized addiction machine. Youtube used to have a working recommendation system and it was usable too. Is it really bad to give me woodworking and learning chinese videos if that's what I'm interested in at the moment? If somebody is not interested in anything specific and just want to zone out, is it really different if he scrolls through tiktok or watches the same thing put into longer videos on TV or some other site? I see zero rational argument being made here. Should we ban bikes if they are the most efficient transportation mode in given area because people get addicted to them?
by jedberg | 2026-02-06 18:32:50+00:00
When I moved reddit from one datacenter to another, about 70% of the traffic shifted within the TTL. Another 20% moved within a week. Took till the end of a month after the change to get to about 98%

But after two months, about 1% was still going to the old server (I had set it up as a proxy for the cutover). Most of that traffic looked like crawlers that were written in things like Python or Ruby and had probably hard coded the IP or done something where it just didn't know what a TTL was.

So at that point I just shut down the old server.

You're probably right about API clients using better resolvers though. I was talking about consumer facing things where a lot of people would be on ISP DNS.
by neilv | 2026-02-06 18:33:27+00:00
> Any news content created using generative AI must also be reviewed by a human employee “with editorial control” before publication.

To emphasize this: it's important that the organization assume responsibility, just as they would with traditional human-generated 'content'.

What we don't want is for these disclaimers to be used like the disclaimers of tech companies deploying AI: to try to weasel out of responsibility.

"Oh no, it's 'AI', who could have ever foreseen the possibility that it would make stuff up, and lie about it confidently, with terrible effects. Aw, shucks: AI, what can ya do. We only designed and deployed this system, and are totally innocent of any behavior of the system."

Also don't turn this into a compliance theatre game, like we have with information security.

"We paid for these compliance products, and got our certifications, and have our processes, so who ever could have thought we'd be compromised."

(Other than anyone who knows anything about these systems, and knows that the stacks and implementation and processes are mostly a load of performative poo, chosen by people who really don't care about security.)

Hold the news orgs responsible for 'AI' use. The first time a news report wrongly defames someone, or gets someone killed, a good lawsuit should wipe out all their savings on staffing.
by quickthrowman | 2026-02-06 18:33:55+00:00
If one of my electricians accidentally bangs a sprinkler head and thousands of gallons of water dump into the building, my company is responsible for any damages. Obviously we’re insured against these risks, but we’re liable.

There’s almost always a contract that spells it out, but in the situation where there is no explicit contract, I’d expect that we’re still liable.

My electricians are W2 employees and not contractors, and it’s possible that construction has different laws regarding liability than a ride share company that uses contractors, so they’re not equivalent, and I am not a lawyer.
by dispersed | 2026-02-06 18:34:09+00:00
First: assuming your goal is to stop the fraud, does making deliberately inflammatory YouTube videos get you closer to that goal? I think the government's response clearly shows that they're more interested in the optics of "blue state full of scammer immigrants" than any actual resolution.

Second: I think one of the points Patrick misses is that fraud did indisputably occur, but that doesn't mean we need to treat Shirley as a neutral observer who simply cares about fiscal responsibility. (If I'm wrong, I eagerly away his next video on red state fraud.)
by seydor | 2026-02-06 18:34:23+00:00
Again, the most problematic in this is how vague and handwavy the regulation is.

> The Commission's investigation preliminarily indicates that TikTok did not adequately assess how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including minors and vulnerable adults.

> For example, by constantly ‘rewarding' users with new content, certain design features of TikTok fuel the urge to keep scrolling and shift the brain of users into ‘autopilot mode'. Scientific research shows that this may lead to compulsive behaviour and reduce users' self-control.

> Additionally, in its assessment, TikTok disregarded important indicators of compulsive use of the app, such as the time that minors spend on TikTok at night, the frequency with which users open the app, and other potential indicators.

This is comically unscientific language. It's entirely subjective what is adequate when framed like that. This is another law aimed at suing megacorps to extract fines, although i m not sure how they hope to get those fines from China.
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-02-06 18:34:33+00:00
The funniest thing about this take, and I mean “laugh at you” funny, is that it’s so singularly focused on hating AI that in the process of doing so it takes a CEO soundbite at face value.
I’m sick to death of seeing this image and the million others like it. If you were sleeping on the fact that Microsoft was releasing third-rate software well before GPT-1 existed then that’s on you. That, or you’re simply too young, in which case, go to bed.
Show HN: Null0 – AI Clone; Open-source CLI that gives AI your personal context
by amaarc | 2026-02-06 18:34:50+00:00
null0 stores your personal context, and the goal is to have it inject relevant context automatically into Claude, Codex, Gemini, or even OpenClaw. I built null0 because I got tired of re-explaining myself to every AI session. My preferences, my tech stack, how I think, how I write -- gone every time the context window resets.

The goal is to create an actual AI clone that predicts your intent. Imagine a future where you open your laptop and your AI Jarvis already knows what you will likely want to do based on all of the context it has.

This could act as a central data provider once users’ have used it enough, enabling hyper-personalized experiences based on your custom persona and individualistic traits. I have a big vision for this.

It's similar to OpenClaw in the sense that it's simply using your Codex, Claude Code, or Gemini API key / accounts, meaning there is no additional cost. If using Gemini, I use Cognee for the vector search. I am trying to stay away from RAG and instead switch to document header encoding.
by michaelsbradley | 2026-02-06 18:35:02+00:00
People have different "aha" moments with monads. For me, it was realizing that something being a monad has to do with the type/class fitting the monad laws. If the monad laws hold for the type/class then you've got a monad, otherwise not.

So then when you look at List, Maybe, Either, et al. it's interesting to see how their conforming to the laws "unpacks" differently with respect to what they each do differently (what's happening to the data in your program), but the laws are just the same.

The reason this was an aha moment for me is that I struggled with wanting to understand a monad as another kind of thing — "I understand what a function is, I understand what objects and primitive values are, but I don't get that List and Maybe and Either are the same kind of thing, they seem like totally different things!"
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-06 18:35:15+00:00
Sure. But:

> Over three weeks, jurors weighed the harrowing personal account of Ms. Dean as well as testimony from Uber executives and thousands of pages of internal company documents, including some showing that Uber had flagged her ride as a higher risk for a serious safety incident moments before she was picked up.

Thus, civil liability. The rapist still goes down for the crime part.
by wolrah | 2026-02-06 18:35:21+00:00
> Always worth noting, human depth perception is not just based on stereoscopic vision, but also with focal distance

Also subtle head and eye movements, which is something a lot of people like to ignore when discussing camera-based autonomy. Your eyes are always moving around which changes the perspective and gives a much better view of depth as we observe parallax effects. If you need a better view in a given direction you can turn or move your head. Fixed cameras mounted to a car's windshield can't do either of those things, so you need many more of them at higher resolutions to even come close to the amount of data the human eye can gather.
by Zak | 2026-02-06 18:35:24+00:00
One of my unfavorite random car regulations is that as of some time in this millennium, cars sold in the USA may not have required lighting on movable bodywork.

This bans new cars from having clamshell bodywork like that found on classics like the Jaguar E-type and Ford GT40. I suspect it also results in many cars having narrower truck/hatch openings than they would have if they could put mandated lights on the trunk lid or rear hatch.

It's not hard to imagine the partially legitimate reason that on occasion, someone will drive with the trunk open, but do we really need a law about it?
by hu3 | 2026-02-06 18:35:36+00:00
The point is that Apple marketing positions themselves as premium. So most people generally expect better than "the norm" from them.

People use to say "I feel safe giving an iPhone to grandma because the wallet garden protects her".

Well that argument falls short when Apple allows Taboola of all scam ad networks the be present in their news app.

Or when app store search results is filled with misleading ads.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-02-06 18:36:08+00:00
The article lists a few reasons why. There were some ("some" meaning "thousands of pages", per the article) documents from the company

>....including some showing that Uber had flagged her ride as a higher risk for a serious safety incident moments before she was picked up. Uber never warned her, with an executive testifying that it would have been “impractical” to do so.

as well as some

>...suggesting that Uber resisted introducing safety features such as in-car cameras because it believed these measures would slow corporate growth.

I would probably have not been included on the jury because I think uber is run by some of the biggest scumbags in the corporate world but if the article is to be believed it's not an unreasonable verdict unless you think no company should be liable for anything that results from their choices and actions.
by llbbdd | 2026-02-06 18:36:15+00:00
There may be a very fine line between reward-hacking for the user's benefit vs. building a facsimile of language learning on top of a nuclear-powered Gacha loop. I've looked at other learning apps (including I think Anki but I haven't tried it) trying to help people out of the Duolingo pit and they do all seem much more clinical in comparison. Not automatically a bad thing for an educational tool but it's also not hard to see why they don't get the same traction.
by Analemma_ | 2026-02-06 18:36:29+00:00
Trump has pardoned literally dozens of Medicare fraudsters [0] (Lawrence Duran and Philip Esformes are two of the biggest ones, but there are a bunch more smaller ones), and also fired ~20 people who were attempting to investigate Medicare fraud.

I haven't seen any HN articles about this, never mind getting to the HN front page twice a day, so I'll take your retraction and apology now.

[0]: https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/04/02/trump-says-hell-stop...
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-02-06 18:36:35+00:00
> The real fix is paying money for everything, but as evidenced by the many attempts at this, no one actually wants to pay.

I mean, want is a strong word, but I'm very much okay with paying creators I follow. I have a patreon account with about 22 subscriptions from 1-50 dollars, because what they create enhances my life.

> For example, your average techy YouTuber just doing cool geeky stuff, 50% of viewers block ads and <1% become patreon/other paying subs. This comes under some kind of misplaced guise that if everyone blocks ads, geeky YouTuber will work for free.

First sentence is correct, the second is patently ridiculous. I don't block ads because I think people should work for free: I block ads because every virus I've ever gotten has been delivered to me via an ad network that's not properly vetting what's being pushed to it, and to save incredible amounts of mobile data, and to prevent my phone from getting (as) hot in my hand.

The creator who's page I'm looking at is not even a factor in this calculus. I don't care. If you put up your stuff and are monetizing via ads only and I bounce off that and you earn nothing, oh well. Put it behind a proper paywall then, just, not my problem boss.

> The Internet needs a level headed reconciliation with "the beast".

The Internet, collectively, has been in an abusive relationship with this beast since it's inception. And yeah we got a bunch of free-at-point-of-use services out of it. Okay? I didn't ask Facebook to exist. I didn't request Twitter, I wasn't simply dying of lack of Linked-In. In fact my life would be better if many of these things closed up shop tomorrow and fucked right off.

In time immemorial, it was normal to host VBulletin forums, your own static website, run a BBS, an ICQ server or TeamSpeak server, or whatever for literally nobody. We had no idea if any damn one was reading what we wrote back then, but we wrote anyway because as most people do in one way or another, we felt the drive to create and to share, and then as the internet evolved and the tools became more successful, we built communities, we built forums, we built email lists, all kinds of decentralized, albiet limited, ways to remain in contact with likeminded people.

It was the monoliths who came onto the scene, stuffed to the gills with VC money, who suddenly gave us Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, all the rest of the websites of which there are like 6 now that everything is on. They showed up, and provided free services in exchange for our data. We didn't ask for that, they gave it freely. And now a couple decades on-ish they're finding out that monetizing user data, which has been the go-to excuse for all that time, doesn't really pay the bills and most of them are either losing money or are selling their souls to anyone who will purchase ad space, which is why ads are basically all scams now.

Ad companies have spent the better part of my life digging their own graves and I'm very excited to watch them lay down in them. Rest in piss. The Internet lived before the Platforms, and it will survive them.
by faalbane | 2026-02-06 18:36:37+00:00
Thanks, really appreciate the detailed feedback!

The "last command" preview in quick switcher is a great idea – I hadn't thought of that. Right now you just see the subwindow/tab name, but showing something like "last: npm run dev" or "last: ssh prod-server" would definitely help with context when coming back later. Adding that to my list.

And yes, I'd love to take you up on the user test offer – seeing a first-time visitor's reaction to the landing page would be super valuable, especially since there's no App Store safety net. I'll reach out via testbyhuman.com.
by ktallett | 2026-02-06 18:36:50+00:00
Drivers are only independent contractors due to poor employment policy from Uber. They work for Uber, therefore Uber do have a duty of care to the users of their service. Now some may say that they only provide the platform similar to Silkroad, however the key difference is that the drivers are representing Uber, in Silkroad's case the sellers were not representing silkroad.

If Uber wish to be seperate from those drivers, they need to provide the customer the chance to choose the driver, and have an appropriate review system.
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-06 18:37:16+00:00
> This is setting up Cardinal Richlieu's ideal tyranny: "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."

It's a good thing, then, that most criminal convictions require a jury of our peers, and not just the word of a tyrant. And that appeals exist, etc etc.

> With a panopticon of all public spaces, any petty tyrant can find enough evidence in six minutes to imprison anyone.

This is a blatant strawman. Said "panopticon" already exists in major areas, and this kind of abuse of power still rarely happens. It's possible to have increased surveillance come with stricter rules and increased oversight, you know.

For example, it's pretty telling that Mandani, largely seen as a promising progressive candidate, has opted to change so little about the NYPD, which conducts massive city-wide surveillance, on the level of your "panopticon". Perhaps it's because he understands the benefits it provides to public safety, and is implicitly voting in confidence of its current level of oversight?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-06 18:37:47+00:00
The same thing happens when I have a project that I’m leading where I have 3-4 other developers. It’s not deterministic that they will follow my specs completely, correctly and not have subtle bugs.

If they are junior developers working in Java they may just as well build an AbstractFactoryConcurrentSingletonBean because that’s what they learned in school as an LLM would be from training on code it found on the Internet.
by billy99k | 2026-02-06 18:38:31+00:00
"The wealth available in the world right now is completely unfathomable, and its mostly going to ads, privacy invasion, burning massive amounts of energy to make fake videos and articles and more adware, etc. Its not wrong to think "is something wrong with having droves of poor people wading through our shit so they don't starve?""

Why is the sole blame on countries other than India. We should be focusing on the government of India and why the system there creates a society with a much larger percentage of poverty than many other parts of the world.

"Similar to how the coal mining companies were happy to watch miners die in the mines from blacklung, and their services were indeed useful, and they were quite proud of it."

How is this similar? Nobody is dying from looking at terrible content.

"why aren't they using a clearly better alternative for those people?"

This article is about the better alternative. They aren't physically risking their lives every day to make a living.