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585 points by lizhang · 121 comments
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avaer: I've worked on several projects where people looked at the site, which was simple and straight to the point, and people would straight up tell me they didn't take it seriously because it didn't have these performative UI things on it.
jdw64: The funny thing is, the techniques shown here are the ones that were once considered something only advanced front-end developers or publishers could do. Seeing that a former symbol of skill has now become a subject of satire makes me think that what we call 'high-level' ultimate...
prplfsh: I love how this is both hilarious and extremely well made. Great job! And I'm gonna be honest, I kind of want to use a few of these components for real (the ASCII art is fantastic).
padolsey: The most extreme virtue-signal is to go completely browser-default and have no styling whatsoever. Like lowercasing because your pinky can't be arsed to reach for the shift-key even though you've a billion dollars in series A.
428 points by bobbiechen · 169 comments
Stop launching the Music app whenever you press ▶ Play
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jxmorris12: > The app does absolutely no work in the background. It works by simply existing as a running process, thanks to having the same bundle identifier as the Music app. I love clever, low-or-no-code engineering solutions like this.
titzer: I still can't believe they killed iTunes. I used to have my entire digital music library in iTunes. Most of that was music I had ripped myself from CD, but I had a handful of albums I bought of iTunes and even some TV shows.
riazrizvi: It's very sad to see Apple using these lowbrow Microsoft tactics. Press ganging your users into launching your other shit product is brand cannibalism.
hmokiguess: for me it's when I open an audio file and it automatically launches it AND adds it to my music library, the adding to library is what I hate, then I have to delete it and specifically choose "Keep file"
425 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 343 comments
Social media platforms used to be about communication between friends. The business model is to increase the time people spend on their apps and increase ad revenue.
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everdrive: Social media is now exactly what cable television used to be, but worse; it exists solely to coerce you. You make you feel insecure, you leverage your emotions for someone else's aims.
torben-friis: If you're on Android, you can use revanced to patch social network apps, to, among other things, remove content from non-friends (and ads). It's scary how empty the feed is once you do this. It can be full days with the same post at the top.
Aurornis: This article has struck a nerve in the comment section. It's describing how traditional social media sites like Facebook and Instagram are not used for social features anymore, but for content discovery.
twodave: Yes, the game is over, the corps have won. Where the Internet used to be a forum for creativity, it's now a weapon of influence. Where we used to have an anonymous (or at least pseudonymous) playground, we are now monitored more than anywhere else.
390 points by gainsurier · 272 comments
MiMo, in collaboration with TileRT, releases the UltraSpeed mode of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro — breaking 1000 tokens/s generation speed on a 1T-parameter model for the first time on commodity GPUs through extreme model-system codesign.
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goyozi: Fast AI seems genuinely exciting and somewhat unsettling to me. Right now Claude is faster than me on some tasks but we’re at least close. I have a prompt to clean up a PR that’s been running for 1h now and I expect it to take another few.
dakiol: So, regarding the productivity argument: I don't get it. It doesn't really matter (for regular employees) that you can do now in 2h what before it took 2 days. Why? Because it's not that you have the rest of the day for yourself. You still have to work 8h/day as usual.
amunozo: These price and speed optimization from Chinese providers, combined with the raising prices from American ones will change the game sooner than later. Many companies are finding issues with the AI bills already.
kingstnap: Given that MiMo is as cheap as Deepseek ( previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282814 ) multiplying that by 3x for ultra speed is still shockingly cheap.
354 points by mhrmsn · 77 comments
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atlas1j: My first, second, and third instinct here is to say this is pretty obvious and sloppy fraud. But it did remind me of the famous case discovered by David Kriesel where Xerox scanners changed documents in surprising ways.
FL33TW00D: The guy who uncovered this, Sholto David, is basically just awesome? Watch him cycle from Wales -> China in 90 days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdgHZPfivVA This isn't his first fraud rodeo either.
chromatin: We noticed this years ago when looking at -- IIRC -- ikaros antibodies. They were clearly faked. Lacking any sort of platform to gain attention we moved on to Abcam and our lab just sort of maintained a mental map of who not to purchase ANYTHING immuno- from.
pu_pe: This is systematic fraud, and anyone trying those antibodies with falsified data will waste money and time. A lot of papers have been retracted for similar issues. Thermo Fisher is a major worldwide supplier of antibodies, so this has quite a big practical impact.
309 points by yu3zhou4 · 91 comments
A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.
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phyzix5761: If anyone is curious, like me, what Cypherpunk means: "A cypherpunk is one who advocates the widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a means of effecting social and political change."[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk
drannex: This is a very pretty layout and all, but the site itself needs more of a mission statement, to stand for something other than a dozen or two direct sources. Perhaps it can grow (and it should!) But, if anyone here is serious about this, and our hacker histories, please see the C...
ricksunny: The crypto-oriented 4Seas coworking in Chiang Mai set up a very nice exhibit to cypherpunks as laid against the history of cryptography. I took pictures as the exhibit is supposed to have been taken down by now: https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/113373898014727437041/pl...
raffael_de: Privacy for the citizens and transparency for the government. Sadly, all democracies are right in the middle of establishing the polar opposite.
212 points by martinald · 163 comments
xAI is renting huge amounts of GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google. Financial engineering ahead of the SpaceX IPO, a real compute shortage, or a genuine datacentre advantage? Probably all three.
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TSiege: > And Google is a major shareholder in SpaceX, so they certainly have incentive to juice the valuation of the IPO. Google own 5-6% of the shares of SpaceX. SpaceX is seeking a valuation of $1.77T which means Google's shares would be worth $88.5B-$106.2B.
nonethewiser: Weren't we just talking about how SpaceX is valued based on some profits from starlink + tons of speculation? Yet when we learn of this new $26B in yearly revenue (2.2B/month from Google and Anthropic)the conversation does not return to that discussion.
hawkice: They have developed an LLM, so they are an AI lab, but the quality of that model suggests they're not a frontier anything.
9cb14c1ec0: So we know what they are renting these GPUs for. I'm really curious about the input costs of their power generation. Is there actually enough margin in these deals for xAI to cover their depreciation cost? Edit: from the footnotes: > Colossus actually runs largely on its own o...
204 points by crescit_eundo · 237 comments
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putzdown: One of the "smells" that gives away a quacky ranter is they speak in impassioned, "Why doesn't everyone understand this?" tones, but in fact their argument just doesn't flow.
jollyllama: Lots of dismissive comments ITT, very few tackling the substance of the article. > AI Cannot Afford To Slow Down — It Needs $3 Trillion Or More In Revenue By End Of 2030 To Sustain Its Existence Is this true? With the total 2024 wages being 11.
dkobia: Zitron is begging for a collapse at this point. Yes, his macro analysis correctly identifies a massive financial risk but his incessant pessimism completely misses the incredible ground-level utility that many of us on HN celebrate every day through undeniable, massive productivi...
dofm: Today Apple launched its revamped AI offering. Judging by several reports, Apple pays Google a mere billion dollars a year to operate it. If you are a consumer and you have a Mac or an iPhone, what do you need from AI that Apple's new offering won't provide? Why would you pay for...
201 points by dariubs · 97 comments
Zig by example. Contribute to boringcollege/zig-by-example development by creating an account on GitHub.
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yrds96: This is outdated and AI generated. If you want a good source of zig learning material interactive and by examples please check out ziglings: https://codeberg.org/ziglings It's writen and tested by humans, which is essential for learning purposes.
code-blooded: I just looked this up yesterday so sharing some more up-to-date resources for those interested in Zig: - Learning Zig by Karl Seguin: https://www.openmymind.net/learning_zig/ - https://zig.
shaftoe444: Examples target Zig 0.14. Been some significant changes since then, not least to printing and formatting (see writergate).
jdw64: Is Zig just a trend, or will it become a solidly established language? After all, learning something is an investment of time. With Zig, it doesn't seem to have the same kind of industry pressure as Rust.
178 points by nextstep · 348 comments
Discover all-new Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence and helpful features across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27.
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WoodenChair: Apple very rarely admits mistakes. The fact they're rolling back some of the extremeness in Liquid Glass and actively mentioned in the keynote that they very seriously took the user feedback shows just how bad it was, at least initially.
antirez: They try so hard to do a polished presentation that everything is kinda fake and unauthentic. I don't understand how this attitude survived so many years.
kettlez: "Siri AI will not be available in E.U. until we figure out privacy" Funny to hear that after they mentioned how seriously they are taking privacy every 37 seconds.
slg: I think the potentially most impactful singular feature mentioned in all this is being able to conversationally describe Shortcuts for AI to create. That feels like the type of thing that if done right can change how we all use our phones in a way that things like Siri becoming...
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