MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imtringued | 2026-01-25 10:20:11+00:00
YAML is meant to be written by humans. If some lunatic insists on some expression evaluation system, then it should be ${expression} where the YAML file is parsed as is without a template, and the software that reads the YAML file interprets the expression.

If you hate YAML instead of Helm for their insane choices, then enjoy barking at the wrong tree for the rest of your life.

I've been using application.yml files for 9 years without experiencing a single YAML related issue and I see no reason to switch to any other format.

https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-yaml-vs-properties
by vixen99 | 2026-01-25 10:20:42+00:00
There is an interesting transcript of what Putin said to US President Bush in 2001.

"Let me return to NATO enlargement. .... Russia is European and multi-ethnic. I can imagine us becoming allies. Only dire need could make us allied with others. Bit we feel left out of NATO. IF Russia is not part of this of course it feels left out. Why is NATO enlargement needed? In 1954 Russia applied to join NATO. I have the document. [ Bush: "that's interesting" ] NATO gave a negative answer with four specific reasons. Lack of an Austrian settlement. The totalitarian grip on Eastern Europe. And the need for Russia to cooperate with the UN disarmament process. Now all these conditions have been met.Perhaps Russia could be an ally."
Show HN: Stack Photos – Capture the same place over time and create timelapses
by NeroWolfe | 2026-01-25 10:20:54+00:00
I built an iOS app for taking photos of the same location from the same angle over extended periods.

The technical approach:
- First shot captures GPS + compass bearing + device tilt as the reference
- Frame Lock uses CoreLocation + CMMotionManager to guide return visits
- Ghost Overlay composites the previous shot for manual alignment
- Backend uses SuperPoint + SuperGlue for ML-powered sub-pixel alignment
- Async job system for alignment and timelapse generation

Offline-first architecture with SwiftData. Photos capture locally, sync when online.

Public stacks are collaborative—anyone can contribute shots to document a place together.

Landing page: https://stack.photos
TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/YfqCPu6w
API docs: https://api.stack.photos/docs
by squirrellous | 2026-01-25 10:20:59+00:00
Not a direct answer to your question, but I’m recently trying to adopt the mindset of letting Claude “prove” to me with very high confidence that what they did works. The bar for this would be much higher than what I’d require for a human engineer. For example it can be near 100% test coverage, combined with advanced testing techniques like property-based tests and fuzz tests, and benchmarks if performance is a concern. I’d still have to skim through both the implementation and tests, but it doesn’t have to be a line by line review. This also forces me to establish a verifiable success criteria which is quite useful.

Results will vary depending on how automatically checkable a problem is, but I expect a lot of problems are amenable to some variation of this.
by yetihehe | 2026-01-25 10:22:20+00:00
Fortunately Russia in their benevolence tries to limit the damage, so that we don't feel the destruction all at once. This means some people will be annoyed for day or two and everyone is reminded to increase security pretty constantly. Just recently we got news about ONE furnace (from several in that heating plant) being probably hacked. The furnace shut down. Operator didn't notice, because the display on furnace was already malfunctioning and operator just restarted it. They checked everything only after our "cybersecurity" forces notified them.

That was in local news this weekend. I know about it because I'm responsible for another city heating network, we take security pretty seriously. All devices are in vpn and if someone outside needs to login remotely, he is granted access only for the time needed, so window for actually worming the network through vendors is very small. All staff accessing the system has computer security training. But not every heat provider operates like this, some small ones (like the one affected) are a little more sloppy.
by trimethylpurine | 2026-01-25 10:22:39+00:00
Is every single survey you're aware of conducted by actual scientists? Are you sure? I'm asking honestly. How is it that every day people like yourself without a science degree are so sure of that fact?

You should be ashamed. How are you so sure that you know what science looks like? Are you trained in the field?

Be honest. How do you know that the articles you're subscribed to are provided by actual scientists and not funded by political efforts geared towards profiteering?

As an expert in the field, I'm trying to tell you that you're wrong. The "science" you're pedaling doesn't withstand basic scientific rigour. And I'm so excited to show you how stupid the article that you listed is.

But before I do that, are you really willing to accept that you're about to be dunked on? Or are you going to recoil into a politically media made safe space where your argument is immediately infallible because you don't actually believe in science?

Let me know before I proceed because if you actually can't be convinced then just admit you're not a scientist and recuse yourself.

Are you a scientist or a politician?
by jodrellblank | 2026-01-25 10:22:43+00:00
That’s not true, that’s your mental gymnastics to try to defend the ideology you have taken on.

While there are no alternatives with similar funding and societal support to driving, car dependency forces many people to drive even for trivial things. Most car journeys are less than three miles. That’s a bonkers state of affairs for the planet and for human history.

All 110 billion humans who ever lived couldn’t possibly be considered “not free” because they didn’t have cars to get to the nearest stream or nut tree. Wild animals aren’t considered to have “no freedom” because they don’t own cars.
by arter45 | 2026-01-25 10:22:51+00:00
>And instead of throwing code “over the wall” to operations, we say: “You build it, you run it.”

>But we still tell people that they must write code in Java, or write their data to MS SQL Server.

>Or, much worse: that they must hit a specific internal deadline, with no stakes except a manager’s pride.

These things are not equivalent.

If your software team builds and runs software, it can autonomously decide the framework, database and so on, but deadlines, even internal deadlines, are not necessarily arbitrary.

Let's say you're building a tool to, I don't know, help your sales teams do some data analysis which can improve sales margins. If you deliver the product 6 months or 1 year late, you're effectively limiting profits, which costs money. It's not arbitrary even if the customer is internal.

Another example. You're evaluating two third-party products. You like product A and you decide to run a proof of concept. You spend too much time with the proof of concept without getting any result (positive or negative). At some point, though, you have to decide (maybe because you need a product for your own team!), and you end up making a less informed choice.
by wiseowise | 2026-01-25 10:23:53+00:00
> The Android ecosystem literally became the Kotlin ecosystem it was so successful.

The Android ecosystem became Kotlin ecosystem because Google said so, not because it was successful. There was a small hype around Kotlin during 2016, because: cool lambdas! type inference! extension functions! null-aware by default! And all the other small improvements, but ultimately it was Google pushing Kotlin down the throat of everyone that made it "official".

Oracle v Google beef, Java moving at a snails pace, lack of mobile focus, all of this were far more major contributors than Kotlin's language features. And of course those who were screaming at the top of their lungs that Java will catch up and overtake Kotlin were right.

> The multiplatform stuff came out of organic demand for re-using code at first between JVM backend and browser (Kotlin/JS), and then for re-using code between JVM, JS, Android and sharing the business logic on iOS, and then finally for being able to reuse UI code on iOS too for cases where native Swift UI can't be justified (obscure apps, etc).

The multiplatform stuff came out because JetBrains understood that being Android-only is a death march for their language. And you can't monetize Android developers, they use free Android Studio. Kotlin/JS is dead in the water, there's literally no reason to use it and even JetBrains themselves scaled down their investment dramatically into it. The only main target they set for themselves was capturing iOS market when they saw Flutter literally consuming the niche with outstanding dev experience despite mediocre language at the time (Dart).

> Seems to me like Kotlin Multiplatform has been quite successful actually.

By which metric?

> where they could have just used GraalVM Native Image

On iOS?
by wesselbindt | 2026-01-25 10:23:54+00:00
https://thestory.is/en/journal/chaos-report/

^ This report from 2020 analyzed about 50,000 IT projects in a wide range of market segments, and they found that 50% exceeded their deadline. This seems to suggest that your conclusion holds more generally than just your specific context.

On a personal level, I hardly ever see a developer's estimate turn out to be right, on whatever scale. I'm wondering what the pro estimate folks in this thread work on that they're able to estimate accurately.
by trinix912 | 2026-01-25 10:24:04+00:00
> Look at the latest Xiaomi, Oppo and other Chinese manufacturers, Apple would love to have the hardware they are shipping right now.

This is true, but their phones don't ship with Google services out of box (at least the last time I checked). So in reality, "Google's Android" is really mostly Samsungs and Pixels.
by itsprobablyok | 2026-01-25 10:24:08+00:00
What a hilarious post.

Buddy, the world is a bigger place than the 4 square miles around your downtown studio. How do you plan on visiting without entering one of these claustrophobic compartments, be it plane, train or automobile? The fact that you think you're "free" because you can walk around a little bit...well that's as brainwashed as it gets.
by IrishTechie | 2026-01-25 10:24:16+00:00
I was giving the Leaf as an example of a worse warranty offering from 15 years ago sorry. Toyota now have the longer warranty compared to all the others, and even as a fairly poor EV they’re hugely popular with taxi drivers etc.

I’m a bit EV obsessed so spend a lot of time answering questions about them online, the longer warranty is 100% impacting buying choices.
by xandrius | 2026-01-25 10:25:19+00:00
I take the opportunity to let people know that there are alternatives to Google/Apple duopoly on mobile. Link: https://www.ubuntu-touch.io/

Sure, GrapheneOS is often suggested but Ubuntu Touch is a really interesting alternative, their own store and ecosystem.

The community is amazing and welcoming. If there are Android apps which you can't do without, they can be emulated and used anyway. Imagine switching to Linux and then using Wine for the apps you really still need.

Yes, it's not perfect but Linux isn't either. If you think you're sufficiently tech savvy and want to make a change, give Ubuntu Touch a try. Find a cheap second hand supported device and play around, make some fun apps. (devices currently supported: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/ )

To me it's like being back when there was only Windows and Macs as viable home computer OS, and people were getting their feet wet with Linux and all its flavours. Now, it's the same but for mobile.
by rcxdude | 2026-01-25 10:25:26+00:00
I haven't identified an outright fake one but in my experience (mainly in sensor development) most papers are at the very least optimistic or are glossing over some major limitations in the approach. They should be treated as a source of ideas to try instead of counted on.

I've also seen the resistance that results from trying to investigate or even correct an issue in a key result of a paper. Even before it's published the barrier can be quite high (and I must admit that since it's not my primary focus and my name was not on it, I did not push as hard as I could have on it)
by usr1106 | 2026-01-25 10:25:55+00:00
Reading a couple of pages of the full complaint, starting from page 15 is surprisingly accessible (assuming German is accessible at all to the reader).

They claim Telekom keeps their transit access points intentionally underdimensioned. In order to be reachable at decent speed by Telekom customers, internet services need a direct, paid contract with Telekom.

Edit: The section numbering is weird. Why does 2.2.0 come after 2.3? On my phone, don't have a good overview.
by mcuestamunoz | 2026-01-25 10:26:13+00:00
Hi HN, author here.
I've been struggling with the limitations of "prompt engineering" for complex strategic tasks. I found that no matter how much context I added to a single prompt, the reasoning often felt shallow or hallucinated because it lacked internal critique and state.
I wrote this piece to argue that we don't need better prompts, but better interfaces that allow for multi-agent loops (critique -> synthesis -> action).
I'm building a tool (SolveSphere) to test this "workspace over chat" hypothesis. Would love to hear your thoughts on how you handle complex reasoning tasks with current LLMs.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2026-01-25 10:26:14+00:00
In the technofeudal new world order, your smartphone is not just a device, it is your gov issued digital ID/wallet

The Apple/Google OS duopoly exists by design, they view bootloader unlocking and sideloading as threats because they break that control

They want to be able to define and/or revoke your existence in the system

No escape, because no alternative
by ifwinterco | 2026-01-25 10:26:32+00:00
It's definitely on a very long fuse, but if they lose control of the windows codebase to the point where bugs are regularly getting shipped to production that cause issues for corporate IT departments, and an increasing number of employees use MacOS or Linux at home and need training at work to learn how to use windows, it could change.

Short term no but long term these rotations do happen, otherwise we'd all still be using IBM
by xg15 | 2026-01-25 10:26:33+00:00
In normal times, yes. But I'm not sure if that still holds if there is a sense of urgency, because no one knows when Trump might get the next stupid idea.

Also I wonder if the rising gold price would interact with this, though I think this would make the "sell and re-buy" strategy actually more viable, at least if you buy first and then sell.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-25 10:26:56+00:00
> In fact, I think the lack of debate is really hurting today's left.

Moderate left voices are not featured in the current media landscape. The Democrat party is, at best, centrist, if not currently undergoing a conservative transformation parallel to the Republican party’s reactionary transformation. And for that reason:

> And he doesn’t seem to be going after employers, which would be more effective.

this is a complete nonstarter.

In any case, there are plenty of calls for reform from the left. “Abolish ICE” (like “Defund the police”) is not equivalent to “end immigration enforcement” (or likewise “end law enforcement”), even though the histrionics across the media landscape would have you believe that. It’s a core leftwing tenet (imho) that organizations that are rotten must be eliminated, and if appropriate, their leadership and members punished. New organizations can then step in to fulfill the role of the previous organization, sans rot.

In that sense, “Many people want deportations but don’t like how Trump is doing them.” see more eye-to-eye with the “Abolish ICE” people than the media wants them to believe.
by dotancohen | 2026-01-25 10:27:05+00:00
> Look at the latest Xiaomi, Oppo and other Chinese manufacturers, Apple would love to have the hardware they are shipping right now.

If any of these manufacturers decide to include an EMR pen in the body of the phone, like Samsung's S-Pen, they'll have me as a customer. The S-Pen so completely changes the experience that I am unwilling to go back.
by andreldm | 2026-01-25 10:28:34+00:00
I have a contract with a smaller German ISP (Pyur), they do throttling too, uploading to Backblaze quickly gets capped to a few hundred bytes, sometimes the connection gets aborted. Using Mullvad or Tor gets around that. I considered switching to Telekom or Vodafone, gave up because they are even more expensive and now this.
by speleding | 2026-01-25 10:29:02+00:00
Not sure whether you would call this technical, but the difficulty lies in allowing third party access and still prevent spam.

The reason Whatsapp won out over competing services in the first place (over here at least) was that they managed to be both free and relatively spam free. All free alternatives quickly got subsumed by spam (even non-free SMS has a spam problem nowadays).
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-25 10:29:15+00:00
> Excel is really good for the wizards and for that one spreadsheet full of macros written by a wizard, which thus can't be ported over to Libreoffice or anything else. Many of those probably should Just™ be made into actual databases, but Excel is a lot more approachable than those, so you end up with giant spreadsheets instead.

Yes!! Misusing Excel as a database is really part of the problem. It also causes so many issues. Having multiple data elements within one cell. Someone overtyping a formula in a column of 200.000 values leading to one cell no longer being updated. Needing 32GB of RAM just to edit a spreadsheet with a measly 500.000 rows.

All stuff that never would happen with a real database. Microsoft never really put much effort into making Access approachable.
by luckys | 2026-01-25 10:29:27+00:00
Because this is HN, (in Allo Allo's Michelle Dubois voice...) "I shall say this only wonce": If you're curious, have a look at Earth's historical temperature and co2 data going back millions of years. What you'll notice is that there's always been oscillations, like a more or less predictable wave. Human activity is polluting the Earth, yes, but this fixation on co2 and other gases (cow farts, really?) is unhealthy to put it mildly.

I'd like to see the same attention being given to plastics (so much single-use crap and how much of it can be recycled?), synthetic clothing, and all kinds of other chemicals including the ones we put in ourselves (pharma, food) and the environment, like fertilizers or the byproducts of mining today's fashionable minerals like lithium. Not to mention the explosion in electromagnetic frequencies activity, which somehow is taken as normal and ok by the same scientific establishment which accepts thousands(?) of fake papers every year for publication. You just have to love the irony when something like Science is deemed 'settled'-- in that regard, it's almost as if we went back a few centuries.

There's certainly a lot to be said for humans needing to take better care of the planet. Co2 just gets a little too much attention for my taste. And don't take from this that I love oil. I find fracking to be abominable and another big factor in polluting the land and the water tables.
by roryirvine | 2026-01-25 10:29:48+00:00
That sparked a memory of rewritefs, which I used when rationalising a few hundred thousand legacy mod_rewrite rules at a web hosting company in the early 2010s: https://github.com/sloonz/rewritefs

Looks like it was based on a mid-2000s system called libetc, which did a similar job but had to be LD_PRELOADed: https://ordiluc.net/fs/libetc/
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-25 10:30:00+00:00
> providers install their own Glass Fiber modem

It's the same in the US. The ISP fiber network falls inside their security boundary in my experience - you can't BYOD. They install a modem (these days often including an integrated router, switch, and AP) and you receive either ethernet or wifi from them.

I think the only major change in that regard has been that coaxial cable providers here will often let you bring your own docsis modem these days.

I never found any of this concerning until quite recently. With the advent of ISPs providing public wifi service out of consumer endpoints as well as wifi based radar I'm no longer comfortable having vendor controlled wireless equipment in my home.
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by Terr_ | 2026-01-25 10:31:51+00:00
Yeah, and--assuming Pretti was indeed carrying and that the object taken from him was his gun and not something else--he did everything perfectly, never brandishing or even touching it.

I wager the ICE thugs didn't even know he was armed at all, not until they had already (A) shoved him (B) pepper-sprayed his face and (C) thrown the blinded Pretti to the ground on his knees and both hands.

At that point (~1:01 in this video [0]) one of the ICE agents detaches the gun(?) from Pretti's back belt... and then his partner instantly murders the restrained and unarmed victim with ~4 point-blank gunshots to the back.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/witness-videos-cbp-kill...
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-25 10:32:00+00:00
No, the last thing we should do is transform Europe into a neoliberal stronghold like America. It's not all about making money. It's about creating a civilisation for citizens, not business. Business is just a means to an end.

The current polarisation in America is a direct result of billionaires controlling policy, and the anger of a huge disadvantaged minority being taken advantage of by populists (which ironically are mostly oligarchs)
by srmarm | 2026-01-25 10:32:07+00:00
My city is covered by a low emissions zone so the odd van polluting sticks out. I was in Athens recently and the pollution from so many old rough cars was so noticeable (and quite unpleasant).

Reminds me of how I didn't really notice cigarettes until they were banned from public spaces and the base level of normal was recalibrated.