MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-31 16:16:08+00:00
Your chances are much more higher building your own game than playing the lottery endlessly. You forget that guy who made Stardew Valley had to self-teach everything he knew, till he got to the point he quit his full time job. I don't see in what universe you have a better chance to win the lottery, than to build a successful indie game if you truly put your heart into it. Some of the greatest inventions didn't come to us because someone won the lottery, they experimented and kept going. Look at Duck Duck Go, he had 30 other projects that 'failed' before Duck Duck Go succeeded.
Ask HN: What 2026 changes are journalists missing when covering new costs laws?
by criticalmathq | 2025-12-31 16:16:25+00:00
I’m trying to build a citeable “2026 budget reset” reference that only includes items with published tables/schedules (so you can convert them into dollars with transparent math), and I’m trying to avoid turning it into an endless “every law in every state” list.

So far I’ve covered items like:

ACA Marketplace premium cap sensitivity if enhanced subsidies aren’t extended for plan year 2026

NYC congestion pricing (daily rate + annualized commute math)

Hawaiʻi lodging tax rate change (rate delta → $ per $1,000) + cruise timing

Illinois grocery tax repeal vs local replacement mechanics

EV registration fee examples + verification sources

Federal baseline: indexed tax parameters (context, not a “new fee”)

Question: What big 2026 household cost changes have official schedules (fee tables, thresholds, indexed parameters, published rates) that you think should be included? Links to primary sources (agency PDF, statute page, official announcement) especially appreciated.

Current draft (for reference): https://www.thepricer.org/how-much-will-new-2026-laws-cost-you/
by edent | 2025-12-31 16:16:50+00:00
Of the purchase price that the end-user pays, the retailer has to pay tax. That knocks off a variable percentage. It would be 20% in the UK.

There's also the cost of selling through Steam / Google Play / Whatever - typically 30%.

I assume the developer has some professional expenses - an accountant at a minimum, probably a lawyer, certainly insurance. Maybe they also have a PR team, advertising, and the like. I don't know whether they pay for testers, translators, and things like that.

Then we get on to things like buying a new development machine, going to tech conferences, taking an educational course, backups, and all the other things that a business needs to spend on in order to be effective.

Maybe a profit margin of 10% is unrealistically low - but developing software has legitimate costs. The margin is never going to be 100%.
by Y-bar | 2025-12-31 16:18:03+00:00
You don’t need to convert it to coal. Use it to build houses, furniture, and other things.

I am currently building a wooden house this way. Wooden frame, wooden exterior, wooden floors, even wood-based insulation (https://huntonfiber.co.uk/). The isolation has the shortest life span and it is expected to last at least 60 years.
by boulos | 2025-12-31 16:18:18+00:00
Disclosure: I used to work on GCE.

Nice write up and very clever work. I'm surprised by the AWS response that you linked to though (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/ec2-defenses-against-l...).

While I was sure they'd note that Nitro doesn't have this vulnerability due to its design, it seems weird not to talk about Firecracker and Lambda and so on. Maybe those are always on Cascadelake+ hardware? (I also haven't followed this space for 5 years, so maybe I'm asking the wrong question)
by kccqzy | 2025-12-31 16:18:30+00:00
And you can also argue how much time and energy is being wasted by committing to a stable ABI such that the library cannot meaningfully improve. Remember that even struct sizes are part of the ABI; so you either cannot add new fields to a struct, or you expose pointers only and have to resort to dynamic allocation rather than stack allocation most of the time.

Opinions could differ but personally I think a stable ABI wastes more time and energy than an unstable ABI because it forces code to be inefficient. Code is run more often than they are compiled. It’s better to allow code to run faster than to avoid extra compilations.
by bluerooibos | 2025-12-31 16:18:35+00:00
I used an Awair Element after wondering if Co2 buildup was causing my groggieness in the morning and an ever so slight dull headache.

My bedroom was quite small at the time, but I measured the same effect of buildup in a larger bedroom, just the Co2 level took a little longer to reach it's peak.

In the small room it took about 45 mins to climb to about 1400 after I closed the door and went to sleep.

I'm currently trying to install some above-door vents to improve circulation but this is a topic most people don't consider at all, even though studies have shown the effects of classrooms having high Co2 concentrations on exam results and cognition.
by tonfa | 2025-12-31 16:18:52+00:00
Yes, you might need approval, but if there's regular secondary sale does it matter?

> OpenAI has finalized a secondary share sale totaling $6.6 billion, allowing current and former employees to sell stock at a record $500 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the transaction.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/openai-share-sale-500-billio...
by PTOB | 2025-12-31 16:19:12+00:00
Interesting. I don't find the TC to be ugly; I find it to be dissonant. It hurts my brain like missed harmonics in a musical performance do. Here are my reasons:

First thing I noticed on reveal day: it looks like a star ship from the the 1985 game, Elite.[0] It's a 3D model of a space ship for a computer that could barely keep up.[1] This design was a great starting point for a child's imagination, but even as a kid it was always assumed that this was the best we can do for now. The future would be far less disappointing. Verdict: this design isn't futuristic; it's nostalgic.

Looking down, I saw that its beautiful, shining, crystalline, space-going shuttlecraft aesthetic sits on matte, round, rubber wheels tied to the ground. It wants to fly, but it can't, and that is sad.

A few months later, I saw the unfortunate resemblance to industrial garbage receptacles usually kept out of site behind decorative enclosures. I realized that while designing one of those enclosures. Then the memes came.

I actually prefer a version I saw that was mounted on tracks for arctic environments.[2] It says, "I am a raw shard of ice carved from a massive glacier," and it pulls it off quite well.

[0] https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/File:EliteShipIdentificationCh...
[1] https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/File:Elite_Animation.gif
[2] https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/world-s...
by cmenge | 2025-12-31 16:19:17+00:00
Happy New Year everyone!

2025

- Visited/lived in: Austria, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, UAE
- Started (too many) side-projects
- Managed to grow a number of projects / startups
- Almost back to PRs: deadlift 155k, squat 90k, bench 80k

Ideas for 2026

- Focus on getting things done / releasing stuff rather than starting / release an app (iOS/Android)
- Triple revenue
- Visit 12 countries I haven't visited before (Morocco, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Malta, Cyprus, Brazil, Peru, Chile)
- Deadlift 200k, squat 120k, bench 100k; lose 10k BW
- Learn formatting on HN :)
by sublinear | 2025-12-31 16:20:43+00:00
I might be misunderstanding what you're saying, but I'm pretty sure print and web were already more popular than anything Apple did. The need to be aware of output size and scale pixels was not at all uncommon by the time retina displays came out.

From what I recall only Microsoft had problems with this, and specifically on Windows. You might be right about software that was exclusive to desktop Windows. I don't remember having scaling issues even on other Microsoft products such as Windows Mobile.
by begueradj | 2025-12-31 16:20:46+00:00
> Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 350 branded medications including vaccines against COVID, RSV and shingles and blockbuster cancer treatment Ibrance, even as the Trump administration pressures them for cuts

Few days ago, Donald Trump pressured Emmanuel Macron to raise the prices of all medicines. The pressure was made with unspoken threats [1].

[1]: https://www.tf1info.fr/international/trump-se-vante-d-avoir-...
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-12-31 16:21:00+00:00
Taiwan isn't a threat to China in the military sense. Taiwan is not going to wake up tomorrow and decide to invade China.

But Taiwan is a threat indirectly. Chinese people, but with much more political freedom than in the mainland, and with more prosperity - that's a threat to the Communist Party's legitimacy as ruler of China, in the same way that Ukraine is a threat to Putin's rule of Russia. It's somebody just next door, with approximately the same people, who's doing much better and is much more free. It makes the Chinese and Russians start to get ideas that maybe they could have that, too.

And Taiwan is more directly a threat, because Xi has explicitly made reunification with Taiwan a measure of the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party. Xi's mouth made that problem, and now he can't back down without losing face.

> Are they willing to kill millions of people just to protect their own pride?

In a "face" culture? Yes, they may be.
by washedup | 2025-12-31 16:21:43+00:00
Happy NYE! Was a big one for me: went sober. Alcohol became my band-aid solution for everything, which ended up with me ignoring things that needed to be done and putting my relationships, job, and health at major risk. I am now 10 months sober and beyond relieved to not be where I was one year ago. I found my dream job in the process, and was able to transition out of an old job that felt stale and holding me back. There is still lot's of progress to be made.
by windexh8er | 2025-12-31 16:21:47+00:00
Are you sure they don't have a vested interest? At least ChatGPT gave me sources.

It doesn't matter who they are if there's nothing backing it up.

The entire article is predicated on the fact that this is profitable long term.

Again:
> An AI cloud can generate revenue of $10-12 billion dollars per gigawatt, annually.

Yet this simple fact isn't justified at all nor is it stated what "AI cloud" actually is or how they got to those numbers.
by mwpmaybe | 2025-12-31 16:22:11+00:00
> The Celeron 300A was the one most folks would go after for this.

Yes but they got hard to find in a hurry once word spread. I had two 366s in my BP6 overclocked to 550 but IIRC I had to buy a few to find two that were stable at this frequency.

> There was a whole cottage industry of folks modding these CPUs as a small side hustle for people who were not comfortable with soldering onto CPU pins if you wanted to put these into a SMP system.

No modifications necessary with the BP6.
by barrenko | 2025-12-31 16:22:16+00:00
A true Christmas story! Somewhat unrelated, could someone provide insight into the following -

"MonoGame is a "bring your own tools" kind of framework, which means that it provides the building blocks to build your own engine and tools, but it isn't quite an engine itself.

If you are expecting a scene editor (like Unity or Unreal), MonoGame is not that.

If you love coding and understanding how things work under the hood, MonoGame might be what you are looking for. And fear not, getting a game running with MonoGame only takes a few minutes."
by andy99 | 2025-12-31 16:22:30+00:00
I think if you took an LLM of today and showed it to someone 20 years ago, most people would probably say AGI has been achieved.

I’ve got to disagree with this. All past pop-culture AI was sentient and self-motivated, it was human like in that it had it’s own goals and autonomy.

Current AI is a transcript generator. It can do smart stuff but it has no goals, it just responds with text when you prompt it. It feels like magic, even compared to 4-5 years ago, but it doesn’t feel like what was classically understood as AI, certainly by the public.

Somewhere marketers changed AGI to mean “does predefined tasks with human level accuracy” or the like. This is more like the definition of a good function approximator (how appropriate) instead of what people think (or thought) about when considering intelligence.
by compsciphd | 2025-12-31 16:22:55+00:00
I'm responding to "being a mouthpiece of Hamas" that you reject. This is one case out of many where she parroted their line completely without any critical thinking. Hence, why I think its a fair statement.

With all that said, I doubt (be happy to be proven wrong) you complained at all when europe and the US "extra-judicially" sanctioned Israelis (I personally don't care that they got sanctioned). Heck, I'd hazard to say that you would welcome "extra-judicial" sanctions on many Israelis. You believe its a "genocide", so if the only available tool to stop the "genocide" is extra-judicial sanctions, would you really say "no, we can't do that!". I don't believe you would.

Or what about all the russian oligarchs that have been sanctioned. did that bother you to say anything? Again, doesn't bother me that they got sanctioned, but if you want to die on the "extra-judicial" hill, I believe you are going to get buried by all the bodies of all the sanctions you ignored that you tacitly supported.

as an aside your "obvious" explanation, was obviously not true in retrospect, so why was it so obvious that one had to make a statement that one in retrospect obviously did not have the information to make. to me its just as obvious that she doesn't care about the truth.
by physicsguy | 2025-12-31 16:22:58+00:00
Right but in this case, what might have taken me 2-3 days initially took me a day still with many many frustrating “no, I said I don’t want you to edit that file in that way” moments. So it’s faster but annoying.

To me it feels like when doing it’s like when you’re pair programming (which is quite intense anyway) with a frustrating newby who can program but misses the big picture no matter how many times you try. It works better for certain types of software - web it’s great, I have had much worse results when doing data pipeline stuff at work.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-31 16:24:04+00:00
No I've seen that error too, on Safari. I think it's related to the wasm being sent with wrong headers. CF pages _headers file should be ensuring correctness. Can you try busting your cache (or wait for a new Dec 29 Data dump version coming in a couple minutes), or from incognito to see if that fixes the issue? It's possible an earlier version had stale headers or sth. Idk.
by ileonichwiesz | 2025-12-31 16:24:05+00:00
Very true! As I remember, Google+ was a step towards figuring out this issue - instead of a general Facebook-style „Friends” that includes all sorts of different people you know (or once knew), the idea was that you’d have multiple „circles” of acquaintances that you could post to separately: family, college friends, coworkers, etc.

Of course that didn’t really pan out, and the social network itself collapsed under its own weight within a couple years without ever reaching widespread adoption. It’s interesting though, because I think it really was ahead of its time - these days I just have multiple different groupchats that I text, and that’s basically the same thing.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-31 16:24:18+00:00
And out of the 800 new indie games a month, how many are breakout successes and sell even 10k copies? That's what is rare, not that indie games are rare, but having a success (like winning the lottery) is relatively rare.

At 10k new indie games a year, maybe a dozen gross over a million. A larger studio can't afford those kind of odds. That said, they should be able to make more games with a better focus on gameplay and a bit less on leading tech graphics.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-31 16:24:45+00:00
> For this kind of thinking to work in practice you would need to kill the people that AI makes redundant.

That is certainly not a logical leap I'm making. AI doesn't make anybody redundant, the same way mechanized farming didn't. It just frees them up to do more productive things.

Now consider whether LLM's will ultimately speed up the technological advancements necessary to reduce CO2? It's certainly plausible.
by ahartmetz | 2025-12-31 16:25:05+00:00
QSG_VISUALIZE=overdraw, and the other options described here help with rendering performance well: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtquick-visualcanvas-scenegraph-rende...

For another perspective and more details, RenderDoc (or another frame debugger if you have one) is a nice tool as well.

Also don't use Rectangle { color: "transparent" }, use Item {}. An Item has geometry, but doesn't render anything. A transparent Rectangle probably also doesn't render, but it's still (at least slightly) more resource-intensive and makes you look like you don't know what you're doing.

Use Loader, StackView and visible liberally to disable stuff that isn't currently relevant. If unloading causes trouble with lost state, you may be carrying too much state on the QML side.
by ctoth | 2025-12-31 16:25:08+00:00
> If we don't have the political will to reduce the amount going into the air then what makes anyone think we would have the political will to build out some system to capture and sequester?

Because political will requires coordination, building systems and turning them on doesn't have to!

> We need to focus more on not putting CO2 into the air and less on trying to take it out.

What part of the "we" in this coordination problem doesn't require political will?
by duxup | 2025-12-31 16:25:17+00:00
I also wonder about the process.

I've worked for a lot of people involved in the process happily request their software get turned into spaghetti. Often because some business process "can't" be changed, but mostly because decision makers do not know / understand what they're asking in a larger scheme of things.

A good engineer can help mitigate that, but only so much. So you end up with industrial sludge to some extent anyway if people in the process are not thoughtful.
by wcoenen | 2025-12-31 16:26:20+00:00
> Noticeable cognitive impairment starts in the 700-1000ppm range

The US navy failed to detect such effects in submarine crew, even at much higher levels like 10,000 ppm.

Another reason to be skeptical is that exhaled breath is 4% CO2 (40,000 ppm!). Therefore a few thousand extra ppm in the inhaled air should not make much of a difference to the homeostasis mechanisms in our bodies.
by mittensc | 2025-12-31 16:26:50+00:00
Taiwan is a rich country (23M people 1T GDP country)

Taiwan has critical tech and industry that is hard to replicate which china doesnt have access to but the west relies on.

So, if they take it peacefully they both grow in strength and weaken the rest of the world.

If they take it by force then they don't really lose much (barring nuclear exchanges) and cripple the rest of the world.

If the US intervenes then it's another discussion but depends on their military strenght calculations... They might want to fight conventionally the US outside their borders and get the US to give up like vietnam and win over their region by force...

That and historical reasons. If Xi pulls it off he's comparable to Mao.
by eptcyka | 2025-12-31 16:26:50+00:00
Do you believe that the deals they make are unprofitable given the discount? Do you think the other countries are keeping guns to their heads or what?
The discounts are there because they can be, not because other countries want to pay below the break-even price.
It is in the US where the drug companies can invest in the government just enough to recoup that with massive premiums in the convoluted medical system.
by armchairhacker | 2025-12-31 16:27:12+00:00
Both should be "false advertising", which may not be considered "fraud", but the main point stands that both should be illegal in some contexts.

But not all contexts. People are allowed to lie: e.g., I can tell my friend that a bag of Lay's chips has 0 calories and 100g protein, or (relevant here) that I'm Dua Lipa. People specifically aren't allowed to lie "officially": e.g., I can't sell Lay's chips with inaccurate nutrition facts, or present a fake ID that says I'm Dua Lipa to board a flight.

I think online should work roughly similarly. On the open web, using an AI-generated persona is like lying about your A/S/L, which is like other forms of lying: immoral, but not illegal. However, there should be "authentic" sites, where posting "inauthentic" content gets you banned by the site and maybe (if you're subverting bans) fined.

In fact, this is what we have today: sites have "terms of service", and although breaking them usually only gets you banned, I believe in most places you can technically be sued. The problem here is that popular social media sites don't enforce authenticity, and whoever's making these videos (if they're subverting bans) isn't getting fined.
by norir | 2025-12-31 16:27:29+00:00
This is weirdly confident and defensive at the same time. If c++ is so great, why does it need to be so ardently defended and its very obvious problems handwaved away?

I take a very different view about the trajectory of languages given the current trends in software development. The more people rely upon agentic coding processes, the more they will demand faster compilation which will increasingly become a significant bottleneck on product velocity. The faster the llms get, the more important it is for the tools they use to be fast. Right now, I still think we are in an uncanny valley where llms are still slow enough that slow tooling does not seem that bad, but this is likely to change. People will no longer be satisfied asking their agent to make a change and come back in a minute or an hour. They will expect the result nearly instantaneously. C++ (and rust) compile times are too slow for the agent to iterate in the human reaction window so I believe that one of two things will happen over the next few years: llm progress will stall out or c++ and rust will nosedive in popularity.
by giantg2 | 2025-12-31 16:27:59+00:00
"And everybody would get the same price. This whole business with PBMs that are owned by the insurance companies, discount cards and other shenanigans just invites corruption."

It's hard to say that it isn't racketeering at this point.

"Specifically, a racket was defined by this coinage as being a service that calls forth its own demand, and would not have been needed otherwise."

There's demand for the meds, but the demand for discount cards, forcing people to use specific services/companies, and related programs is all invented by the companies themselves.
by acdha | 2025-12-31 16:28:40+00:00
There are a lot of bad health outcomes built into our society, yes, but by the time people are confronted with the health impacts of cars, agriculture subsidies, for-profit healthcare, etc. it is likely that drugs will be necessary to treat the very real, immediate problems which any given patient has. Reversing the subsidies for things like car-dependency would positively benefit millions of people but it’s a generational change, not something most individuals can do.
Show HN: Open-source FFmpeg video optimizer built with v0 and AI
by ivanglpz | 2025-12-31 16:29:11+00:00
I built a video optimization app using Next.js, React, and Electron, with FFmpeg as the backend. All processing runs locally; FFmpeg must be installed.

The app exposes an explicit, deterministic pipeline instead of presets. You can control speed (with proper setpts / chained atempo), codec, CRF/quality, bitrate, FPS, resolution, and output format.

Electron handles filesystem access and FFmpeg execution via a minimal IPC bridge, while the UI focuses purely on configuration and orchestration.

The project is open source, with the code available on GitHub.

https://github.com/ivanglpz/v0-video-optimizer