MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mdasen | 2026-01-19 17:27:00+00:00
This is what basically everyone else has done over the past decade. Google used to put a different background behind ads in its search (https://www.fsedigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Google...). It made it really easy to tell what was an ad and skip over it quickly. Now it's a lot harder to quickly notice what's an ad and what isn't.

Sites used to have banner ads. Now they show posts that look exactly like the organic posts in your feed, just with a small "sponsored", "promoted", or "ad" mark somewhere. Half the time the post is large enough that it takes up my entire screen and the "sponsored" mark is below and off-screen.

If you go on Amazon, the "sponsored" text is much smaller and light gray rgb(87,89,89) while the product text is near-black rgb(15,17,17). They want to make the sponsored text less visible. Sometimes it's even unclear if the sponsored tag applies to a single product or a group of products.

It's shocking that Apple hasn't done this trick yet when everyone else started doing it years ago.
by im_down_w_otp | 2026-01-19 17:27:02+00:00
This makes absolutely no sense as a policy.

First, there have been huge numbers of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. that Americans simply didn’t want to do, so adding more manufacturing jobs they also don’t want to do isn’t going to help the economy. It’s the proverbial, “Americans don’t want to screw tiny screws into iPhones.” situation.

Second, for there to be any prayer of the tariffs working to boost local production (whether staffed or automated), they both cannot be capricious nor can they be applied to the goods and services necessary to acquire and deploy in service of increasing that productive capacity. If the tariffs can be waved around randomly like a threat of grounding a child, then they work only as an instrument of short-term extortion, not as a mechanism to expand an economic base. If the goods and services required for expansion are tariffed, then there’s a giant margin and time-to-ROI disincentive to make the investment as well.

Third, there is absolutely no good reason to apply tariffs to goods and services for which you have no plausible domestic substitute. There’s no point in putting tariffs on bananas and coffee in the U.S. unless what you want is to basically put the equivalent of a “sin tax” on bananas and coffee because you’re weirdly morally opposed to people eating bananas and drinking coffee or something.

Fourth, tariffs don’t ever make domestic equivalents cheaper or more affordable for consumers relative to comparable foreign imports. They just drive the price of all available options up to or near the baseline cost of goods plus the tariff. In the absolute best case scenario where everything about tariffs works out as perfectly as possible, you’re just adding margin for producers.

Trying to be globally competitive economically by using tariffs makes no sense. Trying to improve domestic economic conditions by using tariffs makes no sense. It’s a ridiculously shallow, nonsensical approach to attempting to do either of those things even when they’re used carefully and responsibly, but they were never going to be used carefully and responsibly.

The point of them was always going to be to use them as a means of paying for indulgences and dispensations.

Though perhaps that’s a preferable policy than to re-shore sweatshops and child labor to the U.S. as you’re implicitly suggesting should be done?
by nixgeek | 2026-01-19 17:27:14+00:00
Just as a heads up to the author, some of the commits against Luxury Yacht aren’t attributed to a GitHub account because Git wasn’t configured to use an email that’s associated —

https://github.com/luxury-yacht/app/commit/62953f68b94e55259...

From 62953f68b94e552596a149474c632c0ea0a05bf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Jeffers <john@jbook-fusionauth.localdomain>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:07:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add linux troubleshooting info
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-19 17:27:19+00:00
I think Altium tried to do something similar. A bunch of common blocks being able to just plop on the PCB, (auto) route few tracks and done. Failed because there was always something some client wanted to do, move, change or optimize for production run.

Module based design is cool for getting the prototype going but once you get into production you want to optimize everything so it falls apart quickly when you need to move the parts (not blocks, parts) to fit the least possible amount of space, cut components that could be shared (do 8 blocks on one board each with its own decoupling caps need entire set of them? Probably not). Fine for prototyping/hobby stuff/one off but falls apart quickly in production.

Still, having working prototype quickly that can then be optimized in more traditional way can still be very valuable.

> It's the same insight that made software dependencies work. You don't ask ChatGPT to write you a JSON parser from scratch, you ask it which library to use. Hardware should work the same way.

hardware optimising gets you far more money faster than software, because the cost of software not being optimal is mostly cost on the consumer (burning more CPU than it would if it was optimized), while for hardware each chip less is more money left in your pocket and there are actual size constraints that can be pretty hard edged vs software's "well the user will have to download extra MB more"
by tmp10423288442 | 2026-01-19 17:27:30+00:00
"The 2025 US tariffs are an own goal"

Without an opinion on the actual claim here (although I'm skeptical of a claim of 96%, given the relatively moderate inflation in the US in 2025), I think this quote by itself (first bullet point of the abstract) should disqualify this as a serious analysis - no academic paper uses this language, only biased think tanks, and the fact that it's a German think tank doesn't change that.
by vdupras | 2026-01-19 17:27:58+00:00
You're not wrong, but at the same time, any discussion around this subject that remotely resembles a truth bombshell promptly gets flagged, so the only way you're going to see anything about this subject is if it states the obvious in the most bland way possible.

This means that to the subset of HN crowd that don't have alternate sources of political news, this indeed looks like a bombshell.
by intended | 2026-01-19 17:28:14+00:00
> What were you thinking? What was going through your heads? I'm genuinely curious.

I like the idea of reaching across the aisle. However the divide is no longer the gap of a few feet. It’s a different world, with different rules.

I just checked yougov, and Trump has an 88% approval rating amongst Republicans.

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/trackers/donald-tru...

Do check, since one hopes I erred in reading the chart.

The victory of Trump is mostly the same process that gave the UK Brexit.

Just people acting based on the information they are being provided. If the other side is filled with feckless buffoons, and every source of news you have is telling you the same thing, then what else will someone do?
by soraminazuki | 2026-01-19 17:28:19+00:00
> Not nearly to the depth and breth of NT. NT is async I/O throughout. Linux has a bunch of libs that ride on top of pretend async I/O with io_uring as a more recent bonus.

Is this a purity thing or does it have practical implications?

> NT won't randomly kill a process. That's the winning play.

Every OS will have to when it runs out of resources. No overcommitting means it's less resource-efficient too, so things aren't that simple.

> Until you've used them for non-marketing purposes, then they're invaluable. Personalities existed when virtualization didn't exist on x86.

When have OS personalities ever been a commercial success? Every product that built on it went nowhere.

> The only stable ABI on Linux is Win32.

Containers and Flatpaks prove otherwise. Static binaries exist, too.

Also, if you're extending this Linux / Windows comparison to include the userland, then Windows is no match for Linux. Not when Microsoft is actively sabotaging Windows.

> Having access to a ton of file systems is great, but the usage outside of ext4 is going to be comparatively low.

What on earth? There's more use to filesystems than mounting it at root. Are you really claiming that OS personalities are useful, but being able to mount any filesystem is not? That's absurd.

> FUSE is also on Win32 via https://winfsp.dev/rel/

Which doesn't mean much without an ecosystem of programs using WinFsp that's comparable to Linux. Moreover, the long-term development of WinFsp isn't guaranteed, and there remains the risk that Microsoft could introduce changes that might impede the functionality of third-party filesystems.

> It's an uninformed blog post.

Uninformed? While an official Windows-themed Linux distro doesn't make sense, the observation that Windows is declining and Microsoft no longer cares at all what users think is very much correct and obvious to anyone. The fact that Microsoft hasn't ceased development doesn't negate this fact.
by whodidntante | 2026-01-19 17:28:23+00:00
I feel that many of the reactions to this paper is misplaced. To be upfront, I am not a fan of tariffs because I am pro free trade, pro capitalist, and feel that tariffs do not promote good will between countries.

First of all, the summary of the article (I did not read the article) clearly states that foreign exporters did not eat the tariffs, instead they held their prices, American consumers paid for the tariffs, and that trade volumes collapsed.

"trade volumes collapsed" - so, Americans did not buy foreign goods that they did not need/want at those prices, or found an alternative (presumably American) product to substitute. American consumer spending increased in 2025 and inflation settled down to a reasonable level. It seems that consumption shifted to domestic products.

That does not appear to be a good outcome, economically.
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Second, tariff's are a tax. No sh-t. But so are VAT taxes, which are very high throughout many countries, and no one seems to believe they are the downfall of these countries. You can argue which is "better" or "fairer", but from the consumer point of view, VAT makes everything more expensive and tariffs make only foreign goods more expensive. You can say that VAT forces everyone, foreign and domestic to compete and be more efficient, while tariffs penalize foreign production and rewards domestic production, even if some domestic production is less efficient. But both are taxes, and at least the American consumer can choose whether or not to pay that tax.

While I disagree with tariffs, and especially disagree with how they are being wielded, the economic effect that they have had on Americans in 2025 is to shift away from foreign imports, buy more domestic products, and they have not increased inflation. Neither did the tariffs on Tr-mps first term on China.

If a 20% VAT was instituted, I would think that that would have had a much larger "tax" effect, and would have taken away peoples choice on whether or not to pay that tax. Yet, the VAT would be considered "good".

I think the biggest issue here is the serious negative impact on our relationships with our allies.
by etchalon | 2026-01-19 17:29:00+00:00
A handful of benefits:

1. Specificity - swim-line.buttons vs .swin-lines.buttons vs .buttons.swim-lanes.
2. Future pathing - Maybe you don't need a Web Component today, but you might need one tomorrow.
3. Cleaner - <swim-lane /> is just better than <div class="swim-lane" />
by incomingpain | 2026-01-19 17:29:01+00:00
I strongly believe in the dead internet theory.

There are many compounding factors but I experienced the live internet and what we have today is dead.

So I go on my province's subreddit. Politicswise, if there was an election today the incumbent politician would increase their majority and may even be looking at true majority. Hugely popular.

If you find a political thread, there will be 500 comments all agreeing with each other that the incumbent is evil, 50 comments downvoted and censored because they dare have an opinion that agrees with the incumbent, 100 comments deleted by anonymous mods banning people for what reason? Enjoy your echo chamber.

Anyone who experiences being censored a few times will just stop posting. Then when the election happens they have no idea at all why people would ever vote that way because they have never seen anyone do anything but agree with their opinion.

What an utterly dead subreddit.
by spacedcowboy | 2026-01-19 17:29:11+00:00
This take depends on the munificence of the local retailers deciding all on their own (because there's no external pressure apart from other retailers in the same position) to lower the price of their goods (and therefore reduce their profit) once the tariffs have forced the foreign goods off the market.

I don't believe it for a second.

Here's something that has happened before though. During the American War of Treasonous Aggression, the southern states decided to impose tariffs on the export of cotton to the UK. That caused massive hardship in the UK in the short term as it made the goods that the cotton was a raw material for impossible to sell. UK jobs were lost, UK workers starved etc.

So the local UK manufacturing companies found markets to supply them elsewhere in the world. They set up the supply lines, they reached agreements, and life went on. UK jobs were gained again, UK workers stopped starving. Life was good.

When the American War of Treasonous Aggression was over, the southern states wanted to drop their tariffs and start supplying the UK again. It didn't happen - there was no need to return to an unreliable partner when everything was set up just fine and dandy as it was, and the US cotton was essentially unsellable. US jobs were lost, US workers starved etc. The cotton industry never recovered from that.

Tariffs are a "fuck you, make me" slap in the face. Do it to people you don't like, but if you do it to people who are supposed to be "allies" (obviously not allies in the above case, but the consequences here were just as real), the consequences can be ... quite concerning for the tariffers.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-19 17:29:20+00:00
>Also, generating output is what these models are primarily trained for.

Yes but not generating illegal output. These models were trained with intent to generate legal output. The fact that it can generate illegal output is a side effect. That's my point.

If you use AI to generate illegal output, that act is illegal. If you use AI to generate legal output that act is not illegal. Thus the point of output is where the legal question lies. From inception up to training there is clear legal precedence for the existence of AI models.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-19 17:29:22+00:00
I sure as hell hope so. I cannot stand the private gardens that are the app stores. But, there are some problems to solve.

* Illusion of portability. Web apps need to be less of web sites and yet still appear as portable as phone apps. Commercial web site apps still feel like private gardens hoarding your private data. Seriously, is there is any real privacy benefit comparing Facebook versus the Apple App Store.

* Web apps tend to be shiny in appearance but heavy and clunky under the hood. We need to get away from this unnecessary abstraction layer framework bullshit. If you ask the developers about it you get back first person pronoun based answers like you are talking to autistic people or small children. This is a huge cause of complaint from everyone on the planet that isn’t a web developer.

* In the early days of the web the motto was “content is king”. This has not been true for a very long time, and yet the powers that be still try to force it. Most people just want better software, as in an application that accomplishes something more than saying something. This is what makes the app stores so dramatically better for most users, but web developers still haven’t gotten that memo.
by jakelazaroff | 2026-01-19 17:29:46+00:00
Using custom elements as the article suggests doesn't require JavaScript, so they are "pure" HTML and CSS (though whether they count as "web components" is up to you). More to the point, all of the technologies that the term "web components" includes — custom elements, <template> tags, shadow DOM — can be used without JavaScript.

<div> and <span> are semantically neutral, so I'm not sure what SEO and accessibility challenges custom elements would introduce?
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-19 17:30:00+00:00
The insurance company doesnt want a payout though -- they will ensure certain certifications.

Those certifications aren't worth as much as I thought they were. I just took apart a UL-certified power strip with scorched plastic, which is a significant fire hazard. It had an LED that was fed from the 120V line through a 15K 0.5-watt resistor.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-19 17:30:05+00:00
I didn't say "it's working" I said "you don't know that it's not working". It's a claim that your logic is faulty. I then proceeded to outline a plausible theory which conflicts with your claim.

The example fails for the same reason. There's no way to rule out the possibility that there would be more rights violations in said countries if people possessed fewer arms on average. There's also no reason to expect violations to go to zero, only for them to be deterred to some extent on average.

It's similar to the MAD doctrine. That doesn't predict no war, just less war and smaller wars in general. It doesn't even predict no use of nuclear weapons, merely that any use is rarer, more judicious, and more deliberate.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-19 17:30:27+00:00
I'm just pointing out hypocrisy and double standard of politics. The left is no more righteous than the right as they both want the same thing when it comes to social media, see the social media and big tech censorship of the Biden administration[1][2][3], to control the narrative in their favor as control over social media means the difference between winning and losing the next elections.

But of course you are unable to objectively see such non partisan issues, so you can only resort to calling everyone who has a different option than you on the left's actions as "defending" the right wing.

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/aug/27/mark-zucker...

[2] https://itif.org/publications/2025/12/16/political-pressure-...

[3] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/zuckerberg-meta-whi...
by milos-mandic | 2026-01-19 17:30:29+00:00
I’ve been working as a Forward Deployed Engineer at an AI startup, embedded directly with customers. Last week I juggled 10 clients: parallel builds, Cloudflare outages, pre‑sales calls, and a 50/50 split between meetings and “real” building.
This post is a blow‑by‑blow of that week: planning, context switching across Slack/Teams and internal tools, prompt‑tuning an insurance pipeline, firefighting when upstream infra breaks, and feeding patterns back into the product. It’s meant as the honest version of what this role actually looks like, not a recruiting brochure.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-19 17:30:31+00:00
Astrology is probably far more apt than you might think, because most don't know the history of astrology. For centuries it was taught as a scholarly proper and real 'science.' Think of something like e.g. modern psychology. Various fields like social psychology have something like a 20% replication rate among top journals which means the entire field is pretty dodgy, but plenty of people keep on repeating the latest headlines, which even end up shared on here fairly frequently, and treating it like any other science.

Astrology only really fell out of fashion due to a perfect storm of a bunch of different factors. The Church defacto banned aspects of it that implied external forces driving human behavior as that would contradict free will, and that happened just about the Renaissance was kicking off and all sorts of new astronomical discoveries led to no greater precision in astrological predictions, along with a more broadly skeptical shift in society, which gradually left it relegated to where it remains to this day.

"My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth." - Carl Jung to Sigmund Freud, 1911

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It's a great example of how what is deemed proper and scientific at one point in time is still heavily influenced by things that, in the future, will be considered 'obviously' nonsense. Even in far more modern times, it wasn't long ago that lobotomization was considered an appropriate psychological treatment. No less than JFK's sister [1] was lobotomized as a 'cure' for her irritability.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
by oasisbob | 2026-01-19 17:30:38+00:00
> AI is perfectly suited to fixing this problem. I recently spent several hours rewriting a somewhat important article. I did not add or subtract information from the article, I simply made it clearer and more concise.

I'm confused by this. Is this written by an AI?

> Repetition and redundancy, ambiguity, illogical ordering of content, rambling sentences, opaque grammar.

This pile of words is missing a verb.

"You" (whoever that is, human or not) edited a single article, and that experience convinced you that "AI is perfectly suited to fixing this problem"?

Ironically, the lack of evidence to support such a strong assertion is one of the key problems with AI writing in general.

The idea that you could edit an article extensively without adding or subtracting information is facile. I would love to see this edit.
by milos-mandic | 2026-01-19 17:31:27+00:00
Author here.
I’ve been a software engineer for about 12 years, but only more recently in a Forward Deployed–style role embedded with customers. This post is a diary of a typical week from a few weeks ago at an AI startup, working with 10 active clients.

The week included:
– Roughly a 50/50 split between meetings and building (coding, prompt work, debugging)
– Heavy context switching across Slack/Teams, Linear, Notion, docs, etc.
– Unplanned firefighting when an upstream provider (Cloudflare) went down and all our client systems felt it

Happy to answer questions about:
– How this work compares to “classic” SWE, solutions engineering, or consulting
– What skills actually matter day to day in this kind of role
– Tradeoffs: chaos, context switching, and owning both scoping and delivery
– When it makes sense for a company to introduce an FDE‑type role at all
by Glyptodon | 2026-01-19 17:31:31+00:00
I don't know, it seems like there has been a fair amount of reporting about closing or struggling SMBs and farms, and there's also the economy changing to make more and more of the spending come from upper income, which will be less price sensitive and the question of whether various things could have gone down in price otherwise.

The popular zeitgeist seems to reject the inflation numbers because of perceiving it to be higher, too.

I do agree it's probably not inventory, but the frequent changes to the policies may also be part of it too.
by riskassessment | 2026-01-19 17:31:34+00:00
Not that I necessarily think that tarifs are good policy, but isn't increased profit/inflated prices by existing local manufacturers precisely what incentivizes competition eventually leading to an expansion of local industry and more jobs? The problem of course is that this process takes years, and if the tarifs are reversed before competitors exist then yeah it was all just ended up being a handout to existing local manufacturers.