MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dcrimp | 2026-01-06 19:22:38+00:00
If you have to advertise - shove your product in people's faces - to keep sales, your product is not supplying enough real value, does not have staying power, and you should lose.

"Just being a bit better or a little cheaper isn't necessarily going to win over a lot of people if they never bother trying it due to existing brand loyalties"

This is a feature, not a bug. Brand loyalties are built when products are reliable and good. Your product should be enough of an improvement to make people move of their own accord.

If your new product solves frustrations present in an incumbent, on a long enough timescale, your product will come out on top.

If both products are presented equally in a marketplace, the better one will win. If your company does not survive because you can't shove it in people's faces, this is a good thing.
by abanana | 2026-01-06 19:22:39+00:00
VW's head of design announced this months ago, and spun it as listening to customer feedback, choosing to return to features people "love". I remember at the time being a bit annoyed by the level of spin.

In reality, for Europe at least, their hand was forced by Euro NCAP via their safety tests. They announced it a couple of years ago but it starts now. No car that has just a touchscreen, instead of physical controls, will be awarded a 5-star rating. I don't really know to what extent people take note of the NCAP ratings these days, but they certainly used to be a very big deal to car buyers (for example, in the late 90s, the rating given to the Rover 100 effectively killed it overnight).

The NCAP ratings make physical controls essential for the most basic functions (e.g. indicators) and strongly encouraged for others (e.g. climate control).

So obviously the same goes for other manufacturers shouting about doing the same thing - don't swallow their hype about how much they love your feedback.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-06 19:23:03+00:00
This became the most toxic part of web development... the tech stack. Its why I went to go do something else.

Holy fuck, all you need is a server application, a database, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to make a CRUD app. Seriously, that is really all you need. The problem though is that nobody trains developers any more and so you get a little bit of helpers to help the developers along, which turns out to be a mountain of bullshit that developers use to line their resumes like notes on toilet paper.

As a counter point I wrote a large single page app and then adapted it into removable modules that can be turned off from a JSON file. So, its modular, which then solves for the design goal of most modern JavaScript browser frameworks. But, it's just vanilla TypeScript. It is stupid simple to scale, extensions from one of two TypeScript interfaces without tech debt. The best part is that its fast... like completing all initial execution, rendering, and garbage collection in less than 130ms.

https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio/blob/screenshots/paper...

So, in practice it seems you could easily replace 10 React/Angular developers with a single TypeScript developer and a series of small TypeScript interfaces. The bonus is that you get faster releases, 100% accessibility (because its mostly raw HTML instead of compiled templates), and a substantially faster product.
by washedDeveloper | 2026-01-06 19:23:22+00:00
The org I work on develops HTCondor. We have a lot of scientists that end up running alphafold and other bio related models on our pool of GPUs and CPUs. I am curious to know how and why your team implemented yet another job scheduler. HTCondor is agnostic to the software being ran, so maybe there is more clever scheduling you can come up with. That being said, HTCondor also has pretty high flexibility with regards to policy.
by peteforde | 2026-01-06 19:23:42+00:00
There's a small but seemingly tireless brigade of "you're not actually moving faster, you're just fooling yourself" pundits on this site that feel compelled to chime in every time someone mentions that they get any benefit from AI coding tools. I'm just not going to engage with them anymore.

That said... I jumped to a few random moments in your video and had an "oh my god" reaction because you really were not kidding when you said that you were pasting code.

I'm pretty much begging you to install and use Cursor. Whatever boost you're getting from your current workflow, you will see triple through use of their Agent/Plan/Debug modes, especially when using Opus 4.5. I promise you: it's a before electricity vs after electricity scenario. I'm actually excited for you.

A lot of folks will tell you to use Claude Code. I personally find that it doesn't make sense for the sorts of projects I work on; I would 100% start with Cursor either way.
by tavavex | 2026-01-06 19:23:47+00:00
Honestly, to me the only thing that differentiates Western white supremacists and similar fascist-adjacent groups from Middle Eastern extreme fundamentalists is that the latter had enough power to exercise total control over entire nations, shaping them to their whims. But this is just an outcome of circumstance, if the far-rightists are allowed to reshape a country to their liking (which we are increasingly allowing to happen) the results wouldn't be so different.

I'm definitely curious why so many people simultaneously hold the viewpoints where the second group has it coming for them and rightfully deserve to be bulldozed out of existence, but the first should be treated with understanding and compassion.
by superkuh | 2026-01-06 19:24:05+00:00
All the links between .onion sites broke when the relay and other infrastructure operators started running the broken (no Torv2 support) releases the Tor Project put out. All the writings of sites about each other. Everything that made it a web.

It doesn't matter that it was technical possible to try to manually reach out to random visitors of my sites and try to tell them that the entire domain name was changing. That didn't fix the web or links aspect at all.
by tonymet | 2026-01-06 19:24:16+00:00
There have been many cases of spy chips installed on reputable brands. A famous case was Elemental (transcoding company, purchased by AWS) , where AWS discovered espionage chips installed while they were integrating Elemental's Supermicro-based units into AWS datacenter

(AI summary for example)

https://bytegiest2.substack.com/p/grok-breaks-down-supermicr...

All of these boards are made in China, so it's no safer strategy to bet on name brands.

Only Apple and a few other brands may have tight enough supply chains to guarantee BOM security.
by tristor | 2026-01-06 19:24:21+00:00
Yeah, I also considered a Mini then, and just took my wife shopping for her new vehicle. She also likes smaller cars so we considered getting her a 2026 Mini Cooper S but they've gone the other way and done almost everything on a single center-screen, there's no actual instrument panel anymore, but there is a HUD at least in the higher trims. Ultimately this was a huge turn-off for her, and we ended up getting her a 2025 Lexus ES350 (which I realize is quite a bit larger vehicle than a Mini Cooper).

When I vehicle shop, my budget isn't endless, but it's fairly uninhibited because I keep cars for an average of 10+ years and I like driving and want it to be an experience I enjoy. That said, companies just aren't making cars I like much anymore. I /loathe/, utterly /detest/ crossovers, and that's the vast majority of new vehicles being brought to market. Even vehicle lines that I previously liked, such as the BMW 3 series, have become enshittified in weird ways that dilute the core concept of that particular vehicle line. I'd love an E92 M3 w/ DCT but made in 2025/2026, but that's not made anymore and I think the current G80 M3 is a much worse car in every way that matters to me, even though the S58 is in some ways a better engine.

It's really disappointing and frustrating trying to find a decent vehicle these days.

Ironically people are constantly surprised every time this comes up that I cross-shopped a Mazda 3 vs an Audi RS3, but if you put aside some of the cost difference (which isn't as large as you think, it's 50% more, not 2x the price), Mazda is trying to up its game and move into the Japanese Luxury space to compete with Lexus, Acura, and Infinity rather than the other Japanese brands. Some issues aside, I think the execution on the interior of the Mazda 3 Premium is pretty great, especially at its price point ($40k base).
by filleduchaos | 2026-01-06 19:24:44+00:00
1. The in-flight time from LA to Dubai is not 24 hours. A direct flight between the two cities is more like 15. If he was on a "24 hour flight", it was a flight with a stopover, which just goes to show the point about air travel time being bloated by non-flight time.

2. Concorde rather infamously could barely make the transatlantic trip from New York to London, because supersonic flight is expensive. Boom's currently nonexistent aircraft is planned to have about the same range. Neither could make the flight from LA to Dubai, which is a distance close to double their maximum ranges.
by dang | 2026-01-06 19:25:23+00:00
> We previously shared an early version of this project as ArchGW

Looks like these are the previous threads, if anyone's curious:

Show HN: ArchGW – An intelligent edge and service proxy for agents - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44546265 - July 2025 (15 comments)

Show HN: ArchGW – An open-source intelligent proxy server for prompts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43259862 - March 2025 (7 comments)

Show HN: archgw: open-source, intelligent proxy for AI agents, built on Envoy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187132 - Nov 2024 (14 comments)
by Pxtl | 2026-01-06 19:25:36+00:00
Well, that's a question for OS level. If the OS doesn't require the user to download the language and so language-switching to a new language is doable as an offline operation, I could see it being frustrating that switching to a new language must be done online.

So compression/deduplication is probably the better option. Rather than storing as 1 zip per language, though, you'd probably want a compression format that also eliminates duplication that may occur between languages if you're storing all languages compressed on the system. That means you'd need compression to handle the entire language complex being in one massive compressed blob and you'd just extract out the languages you needed. I assume there are some forms of zipping that do this better than others.
by everyone | 2026-01-06 19:25:43+00:00
There's a cultural thing also.. People from USA defo seem to have this "always be happy happy smile smile!!" thing going on. If you're not always outwardly positive and happy and smiling you're viewed as some kind of asshole there.

Even in terms of language, if a USian says "great!", they mean passable, and "ok" means bad.

Imo this is the result of corporate culture being so prevalent it has leaked out into general culture.. The corporate world of bullshit, just be really positive towards your boss and pretend everything is great, all that matters is the hype and getting more investment this quarter.

Also, engineering types tend to be a lot more "negative" relative to those corporate business guys.. If you want to engineer something, and make it work, and actually do a good job, then you need to appraise things realistically and objectively, and you certainly need to point out stupid decisions and bad design.
by kkfx | 2026-01-06 19:25:46+00:00
As usual Gnome do it's best to alienate users and have some who restore good behaviors as the can. Meanwhile the fraction of power users who still use Gnome are less and less. In few years if they keep going they'll earn a share of Windows expatriate newbies and lost all power users, becoming then irrelevant like many who have choose the same path.
by blowfish721 | 2026-01-06 19:25:59+00:00
I really like the infuse jellyfin setup.
Only two things that bugs me are
1: Choosing a movie and then cast member wont show all shows/movies for that casr member, only the cached ones. No big deal but a bit of a petpeeve.
2: And I think this might not be solvable from Jellyfin but more than one version/quality of a tv show episode shows up as a seperate show episode and not version of the same episode.
Might not be a Jellyfin issue since InFuse cant handle that in stand alone either. Havent tried the jellyfin clients to see the difference there.
by nomel | 2026-01-06 19:26:40+00:00
That's because there was a dumb ban in place, with an executive order [1] and bill that just cleared to lift it [2]. The ban was "dumb" because it's indirect, trying to control loudness by limiting speed, which is an incorrect [3] assumption based on old tech of the time.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/lead...

[2] https://www.govtech.com/transportation/bill-authorizing-supe...

[3] https://boomsupersonic.com/boomless-cruise
by conductr | 2026-01-06 19:26:42+00:00
> I love how this conveniently ignores the equity you acquired in this year and almost certainly the appreciation.

I love how I addressed both those things in my comment and you chose to ignore it or just didn't read

Appreciation is a gamble that you bought at the low or just plan on holding for a very long time and even then, most economists will tell your real estate should appreciate at the rate of inflation - so not a good investment. Rent can go up but that's a gamble too, or just takes a long time to become significant above your mortgage payment. Everything else goes up with time as well - tax, insurance, maintenance, etc. So it doesn't flow through to the bottom line like you think it does.

Equity is not very material either for the first decade or more. Most landlords have a mortgage to pay on that property and you should look into how an amortization schedule works. Your rent payment is mostly going to interest to the bank, not building equity for the landlord.

The landlord is mostly taking on a huge risk in hopes the stars will align and 1) appreciation will happen 2) equity will be built and 3) it's not all eroded by a high maintenance structure or bad tenants destroying the place. The main reason it is so prevalent in the US is, low interest rates for a long period of time allowed leverage (most landlords would not be if they had to pay cash) and shortage of housing inventory and housing cost more to build that many people can ever afford-aka-forced to rent.

Sure, there's plenty of regulations that could be done to falsely manipulate this market. But, so far, the only reason rentals continue to be developed is because of the investment opportunity. If that went away due to regulation, I for one wouldn't trust our government to solve the problem completely and also fund development, renters can't fund it or they wouldn't be renters, and so prices just go up even more because there is now a severely limited supply of rental housing and no ability for investors to deploy capital towards that problem. Like most things related to regulation, you can't just ban something without thinking the problem through more completely and having a holistic solution. If you do, you just are meddling and will screw it up worse than it already is.
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-06 19:26:53+00:00
Why would you ever expect or even want us to be 'swimming' in such emotionally activating content? The reality is that people will just get desensitized and there will be the same proportion of dreck and the same discoverability problems as ever. Your argument is dopamine junkie logic, sitting around waiting for a dealer to bring you something stronger instead of putting effort into searching out or making things that satisfy you.
by SR2Z | 2026-01-06 19:26:55+00:00
The point is that regardless of the size of the company, copyright is such a shitshow that there are only less bad ways of handling it. The only way for a company to guarantee that they never violate copyright law is to do a takedown every time there is a complaint.

Obviously, this is not something they can do, because offering random people the ability to take down random videos with only the courts as recourse would be a disaster. Neither do these companies want to be in the business of deciding if a complaint is valid or not, because if they decide one way and then a judge decides the other, they get screwed.

Google tries to take a measured stance and evaluate complaints for obvious issues, but otherwise they do generally just act on them, and if the other parties involved can't agree on whether or not there is infringement, they just throw their hands up and tell them to take it to court.

Copyright is so complicated and fraught that it's virtually impossible to manage it in a way that satisfies everyone, regardless of how big or small a player is.
by connorbrinton | 2026-01-06 19:26:55+00:00
100% agree on the better video hardware. I found out this weekend the Raspberry Pi 5 removes the dedicated video encoder present on the Pi 4B. I was getting 2-3 fps in OBS, which makes it unusable for my application. Any mini PC would do much better with dedicated encode capabilities.

To be fair, I haven't messed around with video encoding settings yet. I've seen claims the Pi 5 can do 1080p60 with 50% of the CPU. I could trade off quality for faster encoding, but with a mini PC I could get high quality encoding at real-time speeds.

I'm feeling some buyer's remorse with the Pi 5 right now...
by pan69 | 2026-01-06 19:27:05+00:00
Sure. I do that too. However, the article talks about something very different. What you describe is Stage 2 or 3 as listed in the article. I want to see a demonstration of Stage 8 in action.

> First, you should locate yourself on the chart. What stage are you in your AI-assisted coding journey?
> Stage 1: Zero or Near-Zero AI: maybe code completions, sometimes ask Chat questions
> Stage 2: Coding agent in IDE, permissions turned on. A narrow coding agent in a sidebar asks your permission to run tools.
> Stage 3: Agent in IDE, YOLO mode: Trust goes up. You turn off permissions, agent gets wider.
> Stage 4: In IDE, wide agent: Your agent gradually grows to fill the screen. Code is just for diffs.
> Stage 5: CLI, single agent. YOLO. Diffs scroll by. You may or may not look at them.
> Stage 6: CLI, multi-agent, YOLO. You regularly use 3 to 5 parallel instances. You are very fast.
> Stage 7: 10+ agents, hand-managed. You are starting to push the limits of hand-management.
> Stage 8: Building your own orchestrator. You are on the frontier, automating your workflow.
> *If you’re not at least Stage 7, or maybe Stage 6 and very brave, then you will not be able to use Gas Town. You aren’t ready yet.*
by bullen | 2026-01-06 19:27:18+00:00
To write this article without mentioning the 3588, is like writing about Venezuela without mentioning oil.

Pi 5 and N150 are completely meaningless since before they came into existence.

Also the price of 3588 increases by batch so you can still get them at almost launch price (4GB was $70 now $110, next batch probably ~$150 by now if nothing improves)
by crims0n | 2026-01-06 19:27:34+00:00
I too struggle with this. It's not like people can't publish things on the web without ads. If the author/artist wanted it to be free, the ads wouldn't be there. So people who use ad blockers are either making a moral choice to consume a paid service for free, or are ignorant of how the internet economy works.

There is an argument to be made that advertisements are so detrimental to the user experience and mental health of the recipient that they are morally justified in blocking them. However, that is debatable when you consider the alternative, which is that the medium you are consuming may not exist at all if not for the advertisements published along with it.
by tim333 | 2026-01-06 19:27:36+00:00
I wonder if HN posts are more negative than the internet they link to? Compaing the top three just now:

HN:

Vietnam banning ads, AI for drug discovery, geolocating vehicle pic - I'd say two positive one neutral

Google News (UK):

Trump wanting Greenland, Storm Goretti snow, hero could get posthumous award - I'd say two negative one neutral

So maybe HNers have a positive bias after all?
by patsplat | 2026-01-06 19:28:01+00:00
CSS does suck because of the globals. Class names, ids, z index values are all areas where one commonly bumps into other developers in sometimes confusing ways.

But to the point of the article, it’s a technology one has to learn. There are name spacing solutions in css (layers) and around css (css modules, panda, tailwind, etc).

I think another challenge folks may have with CSS is thinking visually. It’s not automatic. In art school one learns both how to see and how to render, and generally learning how to see clearly is a bigger challenge than learning how to render.

Practice your craft.
by ac29 | 2026-01-06 19:28:20+00:00
> What do you mean by "have it learn your conventions"?

I'll give you an example: I use ruff to format my python code, which has an opinionated way of formatting certain things. After an initial formatting, Opus 4.5, without prompting, will write code in this same style so that the ruff formatter almost never has anything to do on new commits. Sonnet 4.5 is actually pretty good at this too.
by burkaman | 2026-01-06 19:28:28+00:00
Tried that but I guess they got suspicious and didn't show up, or sold it to someone else before me.

PSA for anyone with a bike: register it on https://bikeindex.org/. I registered mine there the day it was stolen and almost immediately got emails from several people who were monitoring a known bike thief's Marketplace account and saw mine listed.
by legitster | 2026-01-06 19:28:52+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon

Keep in mind that the last US test was in 2008 using basic rocket weaponry. The targets were much bigger, deeper in space, and more maneuverable than the Starlink ones.

The only reason we don't do more "kinetic" satellite test strikes is precisely why they are so vulnerable - hitting one creates enough space debris to destroy many, many more other satellites in the same orbit. The only advantage starlink has is the sheer number, and low cost - but just a couple of strikes would be enough to effectively disable most of their network.
by strongpigeon | 2026-01-06 19:29:03+00:00
A lot of people seem to be thinking of this as a touch screen vs physical button issue, but in the case of VW it was actually much worse: they put capacitive buttons instead of physical ones everywhere. The worst of both worlds: a lack of tactile feedback and the inability to have a flexible interface.

I own an ID.4, the "car" part of the car is fine, but the controls inside are by far the most unpleasant I've ever used. 60% of the time I want to turn the fog lights on, it registers as "Defrost Max" that is right next to it. The worst offender by far though are the windows controls. Instead of four buttons like most sane cars, you have 2 buttons as well as a capacitive "Rear" toggle. That toggle is both incredibly easy to activate by accident and impossible to use with glove.

I can't fathom how someone designed these things and though, yep, this is a good experience. At least the car has wireless CarPlay so I can ignore the terrible VW software.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-06 19:29:35+00:00
There's a spectrum. Movie trailers are closer to the "not ads" portion of the spectrum, although when shown in theaters they are much more ad-like than when made available online.

There are probably a decent number of football fans who would use a "skip ads" button if they had one for the Super Bowl, so they're still some way toward the "ads" end of the spectrum. But they're certainly less objectionable than most TV ads.
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-06 19:29:35+00:00
> physical controls essential for the most basic functions (e.g. indicators) and strongly encouraged for others (e.g. climate control).

In what cars are indicators not a physical control?

Question aside, I definitely agree with the shift back to physical buttons. My new car has a touch screen for climate control and I loved it, for about a week. And now I hate it because it just adds confusion and distraction when driving