MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arter45 | 2026-01-10 20:16:21+00:00
Pretty solid arguments, I’d say, except the one about meetings. Meetings are a way to coordinate synchronously and, typically, by talking. You could also coordinate tasks by writing documents and following a merge review-like process, where your contributions get approved or not without meetings. Of course, this could be a Word document, some slides, whatever, but it should still be possible, as long as (of course) some calls are still allowed for quick clarifications or other short interactions.
by novaleaf | 2026-01-10 20:16:33+00:00
I see you were fortunate enough to not use notepad aprox 5 months ago, when they were running the rich formatting preview. It was on by default, and would drop around 5% of the characters you type. Literally failing at the only thing it's supposed to do. I repro'd this on 2 out of 2 machines.

Maybe they fixed it, maybe they haven't. I both turned off formatting and am using vscode for notes now.
by chrneu | 2026-01-10 20:16:52+00:00
Yup. Garmin battery life is insane. I keep seeing people comment how they charge their watches on a near daily basis and that's just insane to me.

I charge my fenix 7 solar maybe once a month. My use case is about 10 hours a week of activity tracking, usually trail runs. This goes up to about 20 hours a week in the summer but i dont recharge much more often. I use garmin pay and occasionally listen to podcasts on my watch while running. I also use the on-watch maps quite a bit on my trail runs.
by sammiej | 2026-01-10 20:16:58+00:00
Thanks for your reply. I hear you, but those solve different problems:

WhatsApp/Telegram groups = messaging (chat interface)
Google Photos = photo sharing (no social features)
This = social feed (posts with photos/videos, comments, reactions, chronological timeline)

The gap: If I want my family across 3 countries to see updates (like Facebook), but don't trust Meta with the data, what do I use?

WhatsApp groups scroll too fast, Google Photos has no conversation features, Telegram isn't E2E by default.

But if you're saying "the market doesn't care about that gap," that's exactly what I'm trying to validate.
by znnajdla | 2026-01-10 20:17:32+00:00
I’m been meaning to build something like this myself. Seems like this was designed to be run on a server, however. What if I want to run it locally on a laptop that’s not always on? Does it recover gracefully from restarts and such? Is it a SQLite database I can query myself? Does it have an immutable archive/backup mode with trash recovery?
by sbondaryev | 2026-01-10 20:18:24+00:00
Great idea, thanks for sharing!
Tried your prompts with ChatGPT and Claude than iterated on it. The ASCII doesn't render perfectly in the web interface but looks good when copy/pasted into a text editor.
Key benefit: I used to iterate on layout by generating HTML+Tailwind directly, which burns tokens fast. This ASCII approach lets you nail the structure first without the token cost. Much better for free tier usage.
Appreciate the writeup!
by lukev | 2026-01-10 20:18:38+00:00
I really wish I could see the results of this without RLHF / alignment tuning.

LLMs actually have real potential as a research tool for measuring the general linguistic zeitgeist.

But the alignment tuning totally dominates the results, as is obvious looking at the answers for "who would you vote for in 2024" question. (Only Grok said Trump, with an answer that indicated it had clearly been fine-tuned in that direction.)
by azangru | 2026-01-10 20:19:27+00:00
> If suddenly CSS became pleasant to use, Tailwind would be in a rough spot.

CSS is pleasant to use. I know I find it pleasant to use; and I know there are quite a few frontend developers who do too. I didn't pay much attention to tailwind, until suddenly I realized that it has spread like wildfire and now is everywhere. What drove that growth? Which groups were the first adopters of tailwind; how did they grow; when did the growth skyrocket? Why did it not stay as niche as, say, htmx?
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-10 20:19:47+00:00
> shifting the whole demographic towards them is not looking good for retirement, social constructs, and more

I'm genuinely not seeing the problem. Longer lives means more productive lives. (A massive fraction of healthcare costs are related to obesity and aging. A minority of medicine is in trauma.)

> Immortality would bring this even further, especially when meant literally

We don't have a path to entropy-defying immortality. Not aging doesn't mean literal immortality.

> you can still suffer horribly, physically or otherwise, for a variety of reasons

The fact that you're levying this argument should seal the case. It's an argument that can be made against anything good.
by st3fan | 2026-01-10 20:22:16+00:00
Cray X-MP .. 128 MB RAM, 38.4 GB Disk, 4-CPU, 800 Mega FLOPS - $15 Million USD

iPhone 16 .. 8GB RAM, 256GB+ Disk, 1 CPU, 6-Core, 2 TeraFLOPS - $699+ USD
by concinds | 2026-01-10 20:23:00+00:00
> To trust these AI models with decisions that impact our lives and livelihoods, we want the AI models’ opinions and beliefs to closely and reliably match with our opinions and beliefs.

No, I don't. It's a fun demo, but for the examples they give ("who gets a job, who gets a loan"), you have to run them on the actual task, gather a big sample size of their outputs and judgments, and measure them against well-defined objective criteria.

Who they would vote for is supremely irrelevant. If you want to assess a carpenter's competence you don't ask him whether he prefers cats or dogs.
by danans | 2026-01-10 20:23:19+00:00
> Nevertheless, the average private school applicant had only a 18.3% chance of admission, well below the 25.8% average for public school applicants.

As a parent of a student in a private school, this is how it should be. For the amount of support and resources that private school students receive vs their public school peers, the standards should be higher. My child understands this, and knows that they will have to achieve more to get admission to a UC than a kid at a low income public school.

There should be exceptions, for example: very low SES student attending a private school on scholarship - although such students are usually exceptional or else they would not have qualified for private school scholarship.

The working class shouldn't be subsidizing the higher education of the wealthy.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-10 20:23:36+00:00
> What’s this “it” are you talking about, exactly?

Orion's code.

LLMs facilitate the attribution-free pillaging of open-source code. This creates a prisoner's dilemma for anyone in a competitive context. Anything you build will be used by others at your cost. This was technically true in the past. But humans tried to honor open-source licenses, and open-source projects maintained license credibiilty by occasionally suing to enforce their terms. LLMs make no such attempt. And the AI companies have not been given an incentive to prevent vibe coders from violating licenses.

It's a dilemma I'm glad Kagi is taking seriously, and one the open-source community needs to start litigating around before it gets fully normalised. (It may already be too late. I could see this Congress legislating in favour of the AI companies over open source organisations.)

> Most code is just some complicated plumbing, not some valuable algorithmic novelty. And this plumbing is all about context it lives in

Sure. In this case, it's a WebKit browser running on Linux. Kagi is eating the cost to build that. It makes no sense for them to do that if, as soon as they have a stable build, (a) some rando uses Claude to copy their code and sell it as a competitor or (b) Perplexity straight up steals it and repackages it as their own.
by blindriver | 2026-01-10 20:23:39+00:00
Every school has increased tuition without substantially increasing the number of students. What you are seeing is that schools are getting thousands of students that are exactly the same which is why admissions is turning into a lottery system. It's basically like a CPU maxed out at 100%. There's nothing you can do except build more schools and increase the number of students otherwise it will continue to be a lottery.
by SR2Z | 2026-01-10 20:23:50+00:00
Once upon a time, the SAT an IQ test, and it was a real achievement to score a 1600. That achievement has been hollowed out in tandem with the value of most college degrees.

We know how to test for merit. The greatest tragedy in this college admissions racket isn't the shadowy affirmative action policies, the mountains of student loan debt, or the entire college admission-industrial complex that's sprung up.

It's that even the tools we've used to use to measure if someone was _ready_ for college have been annihilated.
by aziaziazi | 2026-01-10 20:24:17+00:00
> They don't copy and paste or clone the code

That’s not how I understand his post, instead "read-only filesystem" seems to reference the LLM working directory and not it’s outpost directory. He’s asking what’s the licences of the code sample which is fair.

It’s forbidden for Toyota to use a process protected by BID even if they only sell the result of that process (the car) and not the process itself.

I might have misunderstood the original article or themafia message though.
by arglebarnacle | 2026-01-10 20:24:21+00:00
A really interesting article, and I'm likely to give it a shot a work. I'm grateful for it, and yet I found it difficult to get through because of a sense of "LLM style" in the prose.

I won't speculate on whether the post is AI-written or whether the author has adopted quirks from LLM outputs into their own way of writing because it doesn't really matter. Something about this "feeling" in the writing causes me discomfort, and I don't even really know why. It's almost like a tightness in my jaw or a slight ache in my molars.

Every time I read something like, "Not as an aesthetic choice. Not as nostalgia. *But as a thinking tool*" in an article I had until then taken on faith was produced in the voice of a human being feels like a let down. Maybe it's just the sense that I believed I was connecting with another person, albeit indirectly, and then I feel the loss of that. But that's not entirely convincing, because I genuinely found the points this article was making interesting, and no doubt they came originally from the author's mind.

Since this is happening more and more, I'd be interested to hear what others' experiences with encountering LLM-seeming blog posts (especially of inherently interesting underlying content) has been like.
by ehsanu1 | 2026-01-10 20:24:23+00:00
It kind of makes sense if you relate it to ASCII art, which is very often not ASCII for similar reasons. The naming evokes that concept for me at least. Naming is hard in general, I'm sure they tried to find a name that they thought worked best.

I agree that "TUI" is a better fit though. But not TUI-driven-development, more like TUI-driven-design, followed by using the textual design as a spec (i.e. spec-driven development) to drive GUI implementation via coding agents.
by userulluipeste | 2026-01-10 20:24:53+00:00
Besides what you said, it is also in landlords' interest to maintain (but admittedly with as little cost/involvement as possible) the perception that the real estate goods they're renting are (quality wise) reasonable options for their prospective clients. That means that they (may go to lengths to) fend off troublesome tenants and thus contribute to the overall quality of life for the community in the neighborhood.
by aseipp | 2026-01-10 20:26:09+00:00
Mesa already has initial support for Adreno 8xx[1] and the DRM side was already merged into the kernel back in November.[2]

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38...
[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ff3bf272156615d6c...
by venndeezl | 2026-01-10 20:26:51+00:00
In my opinion information wants to be free. It's wild to me seeing the tech world veer into hyper-capitalism and IP protectionism. Complete 180 from the 00s.

IMO copyright laws should be rewritten to bring copyright inline with the rest of the economy.

Plumbers are not claiming use fees from the pipes they installed a decade ago. Doctor isn't getting paid by a 70 year old for saving the 70 year old when they were in a car accident at age 50.

Why should intellectual property authors be given extreme ownership over behavior then?

In the Constitution Congress is allowed to protect with copyright "for a limited time".

The status quo of life of author + 99 years means works can be copyrighted for many peoples entire lives. In effect unlimited protection.

Why is society on the hook to preserve a political norm that materially benefits so few?

Because the screen tells us the end is nigh! and giant foot will crush us! if we move on from old America. Sad and pathetic acquiescence to propaganda.

My fellow Americans; must we be such unserious people all the time?

This hypernormalized finance engineered, "I am my job! We make line go up here!" culture is a joke.
by bccdee | 2026-01-10 20:27:28+00:00
Trouble with this is, it's pretty much LLM-only. I don't want to type out a request for Clause to draw a box for me and describe where, and I don't want to be pasting box-drawing characters. I want to click & drag. This is just boxes, arrows, and labels, which are all WAY faster to make by hand.
by 999900000999 | 2026-01-10 20:28:30+00:00
Community colleges are the real heroes of California's higher education.

Unless you get a full ride you probably should start at community college. You can then transfer later and generally you'll have a better variety to choose from.

The UC system is sorta weird though. Maybe the top 2 , UCLA and Berkeley compete nationally. After that you're paying UC tuition for an average school. Out of state that's around 50k, 16k in state.

You then get an unholy fraken monster patch work of different financial aid programs. Make over 160k as a family ? No aid for you!

It's a different welfare cliff. Parents get a paper divorce, live with the less affluent one, college is going to be free.

I'm still very very pissed I couldn't get my parents income info and had to drop out. I was making around 100k when I came back to finish. I paid out if pocket at a Cal State.
by ehsanu1 | 2026-01-10 20:29:23+00:00
It has to be suited for human consumption too though.

I wonder if this has any real benefits over just doing very simple html wireframing with highly constrained css, which is readily renderable for human consumption. I guess pure text makes it easier to ignore many stylistic factors as they are harder to represent if not impossible. But I'm sure that LLMs have a lot more training data on html/css, and I'd expect them to easily follow instructions to produce html/css for a mockup/wireframe.
by arendtio | 2026-01-10 20:29:47+00:00
Just tried Starship, even though it wasn't the first time I'd heard about it. I would not say it is a 'drop-in and go' experience. Let me explain.

After installing and adding it to my bashrc, I was wondering was those version numbers and cloud symbols meant. Turns out: Since NodeJS and Python were installed, it found a good idea to print the respective versions. I could not care less about those versions. The other part was that it thought that I would like to see my AWS region. Well, I mean, I have built something with AWS a few years back, and the config file for that still exists, but no, I don't want to see that region every time I open a shell. Finally, the default is to have the prompt in a new line. I think when you have a long prompt that makes sense, and it might also be a taste thing. However, the documentation has this example at the beginning about newlines:

# Inserts a blank line between shell prompts
add_newline = true

So I thought `add_newline = false` should do the trick, but it didn't.

Luckily, the AI (GPT-5.2) was pretty good at explaining and giving instructions for changing things. So after 30 minutes, everything was understood and configured to my liking. I like the result, but the default was pretty weird.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-10 20:29:47+00:00
It's quite interesting to see all these people switching to Linux on the desktop and realizing it works. Some of us are using Linux on the desktop since more than ... a quarter of a century.

Everytime I read such an article I'm thinking "duh, of course it works" but apparently people still think it's not the case.

I do really, really, really wonder what's going to happen once battery usage is more efficient on Linux than on Windows. For in every thread about Linux on the desktop, there seems to be an endless flow of comments saying "I can get 11 hours of battery time on Windows, but I only get 10h40 minutes on Linux".

Linux powers billions, if not tens of billions of devices by now: trust me, it can power your desktop/laptop just fine.
by V__ | 2026-01-10 20:31:00+00:00
A small warning for anyone wanting to use this in a setting with legal requirements:

> Please note that the term “sync” in Bichon may be misleading—“download” might be more accurate. [1]

If an email is deleted before bichon can download it, then it may not get archived. Most of the time the legal requirements are, that all emails hitting an inbox have to be archived, regardless of user action.

For those cases, a solution like mailpiler is better. Just BCC any incoming and outgoing mail to mailpiler and that is it.

[1] https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon/wiki/FAQ-(Frequently-As...
by Rendello | 2026-01-10 20:31:36+00:00
Being from rural Canada, I prefer the truck and snowmobile sizes of the 90s (but not their emissions, it's hard to breath when they drive by). All the options are so big now.

Also, you may be married to Medjed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medjed#/media/File:Medjed.svg
by dust42 | 2026-01-10 20:31:44+00:00
That's right, they all give a variant of that, for example Qwen says: I am Qwen, a large-scale language model developed by Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Lab.

Now given that Deepseek, Qwen and Kimi are open source models while GPT-5 is not, it is more than likely the opposite - OpenAI definitely will have a look into their models. But the other way around is not possible due to the closed nature of GPT-5.
by constantcrying | 2026-01-10 20:32:45+00:00
>They have no ECU to brick, no adblue sensors to fail and put the car into limp mode

Which means they are some of the most polluting and wasteful cars available. ECUs are good. They make cars safer, more reliable and more efficient. Car manufacturers had to be dragged kicking and screaming to add adblue, because the Diesel engines are pretty toxic otherwise.

The apologia for old cars is just insane, they are not what you think they are.

>If your C15 breaks down in a field, you can fix it with a wrench.

This is just delusional.
by arter45 | 2026-01-10 20:32:57+00:00
Yes, of course it can be made against anything good, but what I mean is… is death truly the worst thing? Isn’t it better to focus on other ways to reduce suffering? Unexpected death is of course tragic, but everything eventually stops. I understand looking into ways to treat diseases, reduce other unpleasant events and possibly reduce pain (physical or otherwise), but immortality to me looks like something you (a generic you) just for the sake of it. Also because, when you think about it, you only die once, but you experience suffering in a variety of ways. In addition, death is a way to “enforce” change. Sometimes it’s bad, other times it’s good.

> Longer lives means more productive lives.

When you work until you’re, say, 80, what happens? You have less time to enjoy some rest, you still do your work (which means, if everything else stays equal, that there is less room for people taking your job and gaining experience because you are as productive as always).
by layer8 | 2026-01-10 20:33:19+00:00
File systems aren’t databases; they manage flat files, not structured data. You also can’t just insert/remove random amounts of bytes in RAM. The considerations here are actually quite similar, like fragmentation. If you make a hundred small edits to a file, you might end up with the file taking up ten times as much space due to fragmentation, and then you’d need the file system to do some sort of defragmentation pass to rewrite the file more contiguously again.

In addition, it’s generally nontrivial for a program to map changes to an in-memory object structure back to surgical edits of a flat file. It’s much easier to always just serialize the whole thing, or if the file format allows it, appending the serialized changes to the file.
by tennysont | 2026-01-10 20:33:47+00:00
Based on the :/ emoticon, I now understand that you were asking this question for yourself. In that case, I will express anger at the article. I believe that it was vague and leaned into fear mongering. This explains the vagueness of your question (emphasis mind):

> I know this may seem trivial for many here but how can regular people easily check and debug their network for stuff like this?

"Stuff like this" is very vague.

- If there is a device on your network that is occasionally sending requests to the internet, then it generally isn't hurting you. That's why security is weak here, because the person buying the device is not harmed.

- If you're worried about the device sniffing your local network, then "normal people" are typically safe. Computers that you use are typically safe from malicious devices on the network, and you're in no more danger than working at a coffee shop, hotel, or university network.

- If you're knowledgeable enough to be a danger to yourself, and need the local network to be safe to protect yourself, then there is definitely a longer conversation to be had.

Responding point by point (before I realized that you were asking for yourself, and not the average person):

> Regular people download shit all the time though?

This is fair, though on macOS, most people download apps from the App Store (macOS makes it difficult to run apps downloaded from the internet and not signed by a registered developer).

> Especially now with GPT, everyone is a programmer pasting code into command line.

I am trying to reference a group of "regular people" who definitely do not fit this description---something like "the average citizen in the developed world". My parents definitely are not writing code with AI and pasting it into the command line. Although this was not crystal clear in this comment chain.

> And how many people have IoT devices that they have to connect to WiFi? That’s total blind trust.

My point was these devices do not endanger things that regular people care about. Their computers are still just as secure as when they visit a coffee shop or connect to their university wifi.

> Every time I ask this question nobody is able to give me a solid answer :/

for stuff like this?
by alephnerd | 2026-01-10 20:34:22+00:00
It's treated as "good enough", and now the the second generation of SWEs, PMs, and AEs are getting hired I've seen their parents (a large number of whom are now mid-level leadership in most tech companies here in the Bay) increasingly lobby to include these "lower tier" UCs to the recruiting pool.

My point is, for the younger generation a university's societal eliteness just isn't a strong predictor for success, and I strongly believe data will back up this observation within the next decade (there's usually a 5-7 year delay on data gathering in the social sciences, eg. Data from 2018-22 is only now starting to be analyzed).
Show HN: Persistent Memory for Claude Code (MCP)
by AttentionBlock | 2026-01-10 20:34:38+00:00
This is my attempt in building a memory that evolves and persist for claude code.

My approach is inspired from Zettelkasten method, memories are atomic, connected and dynamic. Existing memories can evolve based on newer memories. In the background it uses LLM to handle linking and evolution.

I have only used it with claude code so far, it works well with me but still early stage, so rough edges likely. I'm planning to extend it to other coding agents as I use several different agents during development.

Looking for feedbacks!