MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by queenkjuul | 2026-01-23 08:00:32+00:00
I will say though, for a beginner, the breadth-first approach isn't bad--they don't know a good phaser from a bad phaser, but they know a phaser from a not-phaser; let them learn what a phaser is from a cheap DSP pedal, and if they like the sound, they can buy a real one.

This is more or less how i learned guitar effects, using cheap digital multi units from ~2005-2010; adding a natural language interface to that doesn't have to be bad, though I'd obviously prefer it explain what it's doing and not just presenting an un-investigable final output. Regardless, there is and always will be a market for beginner guitarists, and at the right price point, i could see this being good for them.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-23 08:00:46+00:00
The person you interview isn't paying you.

The farm of servers that decided by probably some vibe-coded mess to ban account is actively being paid for by customer that banned it.

Like, there is some reasons to not disclose much to free users like making people trying to get around limits have more work etc. but that's (well) paid user, the least they deserve is a reason, and any system like that should probably throw a warning first anyway.
by storystarling | 2026-01-23 08:01:41+00:00
I've been wrestling with this exact state management problem in a LangGraph implementation recently. Relying on a flat CLAUDE.md file feels like a pragmatic hack to avoid shipping a local database, but the token economics seem rough. If the agent has to re-ingest that entire context file on every turn of the gather-act-verify loop, you are going to burn through input tokens incredibly fast, especially with Opus. I eventually moved my context store to Postgres just to keep the margins viable.
by neilv | 2026-01-23 08:01:56+00:00
> Typically just enough goes towards the share purchase to make investors happy, and the rest is structured as incentives for founders and key execs with milestone payouts.

So they're getting the employees' shares without compensating the employees?

And there's incentives paid to the people who approved the deal, separate from their shares?

(I've heard of liquidation preferences, but never by the person making a job offer with stock options. Bribery also never came up.)
by tehjoker | 2026-01-23 08:01:58+00:00
I'm not so sure. The stimulation can also self-medicate for people with attention issues. I've tried quitting coffee before for weeks and I get so spacey it is difficult to work on major projects. I try coffee again and suddenly I feel quite capable. Perhaps I didn't quit long enough, but at this point after multiple attempts quitting with similar results, I've just accepted it.
by jmaker | 2026-01-23 08:02:01+00:00
I loved my Pixel 10 Pro until it broke just a week after purchase (screen went unresponsive all of a sudden and I needed to learn to factory reset it).

Pixel Android doesn’t support disabling the control center when locked in lock screen, and widgets are also available.

I saw all of that reported just recently too, so obviously not a single issue. The screen issues are known across several Pixel generations. The screen lock since 2013.

I don’t know whether I’m going to touch anything Pixel in the next couple of years, it’s not mature enough yet.
by Aldipower | 2026-01-23 08:02:24+00:00
I was recently kicked out from ChatGPT because I wrote "a*hole" in a context where ChatGPT constantly kept repeating nonsense! I find the ban by OpenAI to be very intrusive. Remember, ChatGPT is a machine! And I did not hurt any sentient being with my statement, nor was the GPT chat public. As long as I do not hurt any feeling beings with my thoughts, I can do whatever I want, can't I? After all, as the saying goes, "Thoughts are free." Now, one could argue that the repeated use of swear words, even in private, negatively influences one's behavior. However, there is no repeated use here. I don't run around the flat all day swearing. Anyone who basically insinuates such a thing, like OpenAI, is, as I said, intrusive. I want to be able to use a machine the way I want to! As long as no one else is harmed, of course...
by crote | 2026-01-23 08:03:04+00:00
Easy: the GOP doesn't care about future competitiveness.

They are currently getting lobbied by oil executives, who are trying to maximize short-term profit while they still can. The wider industry doesn't have the long-term vision to preemptively outlobby them, so the GOP is doing what oil wants.

Dealing with competition in a post-oil world is a problem left for the next generation: the current GOP will be long-dead by then and will have enjoyed the fruits of accepting decades of oil bribes.
by bayindirh | 2026-01-23 08:03:16+00:00
I believe this is combined with something I call "asymmetry blindness". They may say "but we send an single e-mail per month, this can't be bad".

We the users get a barrage of e-mails everyday because every marketing team is thinking we only get their mail, and it makes our lonely and cold mailbox merrier.

No, users are in constant "Tsunami warning!" mode and these teams are not helping.
by seec | 2026-01-23 08:04:26+00:00
If you answer a call on the watch and have AirPods on, it can figure out to switch the audio in/out to AirPods for the call; it just gets handled by the watch.
Then you have to awkwardly lean into the watch and listen very carefully because if there is any noise, you won't understand much because of the tiny speaker.
Completely defeat the ecosystem argument, and I think the speaker in the watch is largely useless.

The Apple Watch is popular but not very good at anything, really. All the apps are more cumbersome to use than they are worth; you can't properly make a real custom watch face, and sports tracking is extremely basic without additional software.
by Kon5ole | 2026-01-23 08:04:33+00:00
>I don't understand why it always has to be one or the other? Why can't we have both?

I basically agree with you but I think the other point here is valid too. Solar (and some other renewables) are so cheap they basically make it impossible to operate expensive powerplants, and then it kinda becomes a "one thing or the other".

To me it seems that this is a problem with the current business model, which should be adjusted. We should not expect to make money from producing electricity, but instead from consuming electricity.

Basically electricity should eventually be free, since we are in fact being sent orders of magnitude more energy than we need every day.

We have recently discovered how to harness this free energy very cheaply, but are stuck in business models from the time when producing energy was expensive.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-23 08:04:48+00:00
We are close to a 1983 kind of crash, it has never been easier to produce games, the amount of shovelware is non stopping, additionally with emulators and existing working hardware there are plenty of games to play since Pong.

Graphics isn't everything, gameplay is.

As such there are more games to play than most of us care about in our lifetimes still, and not everyone suffers from FOMO, thus it is unsustainable to keep producing games that require hours of investment in double digits, new hardware all the time, 60 euros on average, with a userbase that is generaly speaking stable (e.g. there is no exponential growth of new customers).

Unfortunely MBAs don't get this, and the curve has to always go up, except it usually doesn't.
by elaus | 2026-01-23 08:05:14+00:00
Not an iOS user but I can totally see why this is an issue: Users read from top to bottom and once they think they found what they search they click it without analyzing the remainder of the screen.

So in this case you find a button that looks like it changes the payment method (because in earlier versions it did and it's a common UI pattern) and don't even see the button below that acually does this.
by littlecranky67 | 2026-01-23 08:06:19+00:00
This. We must change laws that the above field is not considered as given consent. And while we are at it, we must change "silence is agreement" to "silence is disagreement". This applies to change of ToS, price increases etc. That means if I don't click a link with a button "I agree", the ToS change is not accepted - that means they have to cancel/delete my account.
by Moldoteck | 2026-01-23 08:06:24+00:00
You need to read precisely what's happening. Ontario wants to front finance all refurbs and SMRs instead of spreading the financing over years like it's usually done.

BWRX is expensive for sure. It'll cost more per GW than the failed french FLA3 or Vogtle. To me this seems a mistake considering Canada had Candus, an own authentic design that doesn't rely on enriched fuel and they did some very serious refurbs recently on time and on budget. On the other hand, bwrx is american tech and needs enriched fuel and SMRs will always have worse economics than large units, there's a reason humanity scales everything up, be it nuclear, be it wind turbines or solar fields

Again. Refurbs are extremely cheap. At 1-3bn/unit you get 1GW of firm power. That would be vastly cheaper vs deploying say solar, that would have the same TWh/y averaged even with China's costs. And this doesn't even account for firming.

Heck, even Barakah built as new by Korea is competitive vs renewables in the west. And it's understandable considering they spent per unit 1/3 of what FLA3 did cost... In under half of the time

The question is rather why they want front financing. But I have some clues considering who is their current head of govt
by 0xdeafbeef | 2026-01-23 08:06:50+00:00
It was 1 year ago. Around 15 tikv serves, 32 cpu, 128 ram each, 4 tb nvme. In this case latency matters a lot. When i had load server in different region with ping of 3ms I got 70k inserts, when moved to the same region with sub ms ping it went to thousands
by jmaker | 2026-01-23 08:06:57+00:00
With Graphene, something financial won’t work anymore. I believe either banking apps or Google Wallet, a known issue. Graphene didn’t support Pixel 10 yet last time I checked. That said, I’ve been just too occupied with reading on how to fix the Pixel bugs that bit me that I couldn’t get to the point of reading on Graphene and I don’t exactly remember anymore what was wrong with it.
by queenkjuul | 2026-01-23 08:07:10+00:00
Well, the raw price of parts to build a simple delay circuit might be ~$3, but the hardware to build it into an actual pedal is another ~$10--nobody sells one for less then ~$20.

The real question is: do they have a real-time DSP implementing the AI FX? If not, it's worthless: if you want lag, just use any of the ten million VSTs with your computer; if it is real time, then it's basically a natural language interface on top of an FPGA/DSP -- in which case it could be useful, if it's got reliable presets and pro-grade durability.

I still think most people would take an IR-2, though
by vanviegen | 2026-01-23 08:07:14+00:00
If you're using vim as an IDE (which is if course perfectly doable), then why does it matter if startup time is 50 or 1000 ms. You typically leave them running.

> Yet I'm doing the same thing instantly or near instantly.

Does vim somehow allow LSP servers to index faster? Or are you not actually doing the same thing?
by p0w3n3d | 2026-01-23 08:08:24+00:00
It took me 4hrs or more to register an account for my child on ipad. It was spread across several days...

When got my work macbook I had to register an account on apple to download some app from the store, and it wouldn't send me sms to activate. I had to do it the next day.

I wonder what happens there, but it seems like a very unprofessional web development or a lousy A B testing
by hattmall | 2026-01-23 08:08:43+00:00
The really strange thing is that so much of it doesn't work. Like I get that the SOTA models perform some tasks quite well and have some real value. But the AI being implemented in every corner creates a lot of really bad results. The Shopify code assistant will completely wreck your site and basically gets nothing correct. It will write 100 lines to change a color of a single DIV. The Amazon product Q&A will give you wrong information more frequently than not.

In what mind frame is it logical or necessary to put these extremely poorly functioning products in to the wild?
by brazzy | 2026-01-23 08:09:03+00:00
It's not revisionist to point outthat a LOT of ancient texts, especially those describing particularly horrifying actions, were propaganda written by the enemies of the cultures in question - or embellishments written hundreds of years later.

I'm not saying that "torture for sport" of children never existed, just that any account should be treated with skepticism, and that it was far rarer than you would think if you just take every text at face value, especially since it's the kind of thing that gets repeated (and embellished for shock value) far more than other historical accounts.
by enaaem | 2026-01-23 08:09:45+00:00
One example I can think of is armour. In movies armour don’t seem to do anything at all. You see fully cladded soldiers getting killed by single sword blows, but people in armour are actually really hard to kill. There is a lot of story potential by treating armour like super suits, where characters get stronger with armour upgrades and elite soldiers are like Space Marines.
by TheChelsUK | 2026-01-23 08:10:28+00:00
In April 2025, Probely announced that the Security Headers API will discontinued in April 2026. As far as we know, the free website service will remain available for the foreseeable future.

If you were using it for anything below, you now need an alternative:

CI/CD checks
Automated estate scanning
Compliance evidence
Repeated audits without manual effort
That’s why I am really excited to announce that alongside our existing services, we’ve released an endpoint to serve as a replacement for the Security Headers API.
by belatwing | 2026-01-23 08:10:39+00:00
Traveling to South America offers a vibrant mix of culture, stunning landscapes, and unforgettable experiences. From the Andes mountains to the Amazon rainforest, and bustling cities to serene beaches, the continent has something for every traveler. Finding affordable airfare is often the first step in making your South American adventure a reality. With careful planning, savvy booking strategies, and knowledge of must-visit destinations, you can enjoy an incredible journey without breaking the bank.
by cantalopes | 2026-01-23 08:10:50+00:00
I also get pretty pissed of just ignoring gdpr, i just started to downright threaten them on support channels reminding that ignoring gdpr may cost them 2% of annual company turnover or 2 mil. eur, whichever is higher.

You would be surprised how many ridiculous "oh sorry some error in system" excuses you're gonna get. Right, that email accidentally slipped INSERT INTO spam slop database on its own.

And since i started to not explicitly opting in anywhere i know that when i receive a marketing email its abuse of my personal information. Under gdpr you need to explicitly consent to marketing communication. When you register to a service and receive spam you need to opt out from - that's an abuse. Some company try to argue they do so under "legitimate interest" clausule but that's bs and would not hold in court. For example, purchasing a product is not a valid legitimate interest for sending out eshop spam, they would lose.

When the incident repeats or i just get really pissed i go full karen and report them to authorities. I know two busisses had legal troubles because of me because i received deeper follow up emails while solving the case and i am happy for it.

One company that abused my personal data that i ended up not reporting was Telekom: when i contacted their support about spam incident and asked them for log of personal data and all of my consent logs and physical signatures to prove my consent, after which they said "it was a db error" (lol), and when the incident repeated i told them i am about to report them and they offered me 1 year of free internet - i said ok and never received a single spam from them ever again.

Fight back, you have the screenshots, you have the logs, ask for proof, report.
by spupuz | 2026-01-23 08:11:09+00:00
Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on: VibeNVR. It’s a lightweight, self-hosted Network Video Recorder (NVR) born out of my own frustration with existing solutions that often feel bloated or stuck with UI/UX from the early 2000s.

A quick disclaimer on the development process: I’ll be upfront—this project was built experimenting with "Vibe Coding." I know this approach might raise some eyebrows among programming purists (and I totally get why), but it was the only way for me to bring this idea to life in a reasonable timeframe. To keep things grounded, I had a programmer friend do an informal code review to help me iron out the major kinks and ensure things make sense under the hood.

This isn't meant to be a "killer" of established professional software. It’s simply a lean alternative for those who, like me, enjoy self-hosting and want total control over their video streams without relying on the cloud.

Key Features:

Privacy-First: 100% local, no data sent to external servers.

Modern Stack: React-based frontend for a smooth, responsive UI.

Simple Deployment: Runs easily via Docker.

Resource Efficient: Designed to run on home servers without eating up all the RAM.

The project is still evolving, and there’s definitely room for improvement (especially regarding code optimization). If you’d like to give it a spin, check out the code, or even offer some constructive criticism, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/spupuz/VibeNVR

Looking forward to your feedback!
by pmyteh | 2026-01-23 08:11:23+00:00
The history curriculum is (like nearly everything else) nationally set. The content of the leaving exams is also not set by the school (but by the national boards). It's possible that one school has decided to do something daft, but honestly not likely.

The story reads like ragebait, TBH. Brits are absolutely as keen on extolling WW2 heroism as anyone else.
by Lerc | 2026-01-23 08:12:52+00:00
So you are saying their claim of

>GPTZero's analysis 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations

Is not true. [Edit - that sounds a bit harsh making it seem like you are accusing them, it's more that this is a logical conclusion of your(imo reasonable) interpretation.
by leokennis | 2026-01-23 08:13:09+00:00
Some of these bugs are more well known but for some like AirDrop not working or hotspot not connecting I always thought “well it’s probably because some power setting / DNS config / ad blocker / whatever” that I accidentally changed from the default years ago.

Nostalgia is real but I do remember a not so distant past (around iPhone 4S or so) where AirDrop worked, autocorrect worked, text selection was flawed but predictable, WiFi connected and stayed connected etc.

What happened?
by black_puppydog | 2026-01-23 08:13:43+00:00
Nice link, thanks!
Still, the renewables (I'm not counting nuclear and biofuels, but counting hydro and "other renewables") make up 21.1% of the total energy consumption as well, up from 13.3% in 2015. That's still quite marked.

Also after clicking the "settings" button to show absolute values, I was surprised to see that total energy consumption peaked in 2006 (hey, that's 20 years ago!) at ~18,900TWh, and is now at ~15,700TWh.

I'd guess that demand for Oil is so inflexible mostly due to its use in transportation? If that's the case, we should see this value drop as the adoption of EVs progresses, but clearly so far they haven't made a dent.

Edit: after clicking around a bit more, it seems that the EU energy use reduction might be mostly due to off-shoring energy intensive industries... ayayay. XD
by bijant | 2026-01-23 08:14:08+00:00
When I was a kid people told me I needed no Chess Computer - You can play chess in your head, you know ? I really tried, no luck. Got a mediocre device for Christmas, couldn't beat it for a while, couldn't lose against it soon after. Won some tournaments in my age group and beyond. Thought there must be more interesting problems to solve, got degrees in Math, Law and went into politics for a while. Friends from College call on your birthday, invite you to their weddings, they work on problems in medicine, economics, niches of math you've never heard of - you listen, a couple of days later, you wake up from a weird dream and wonder, ask Opus 4.5/Gemini 3.0 deepthink some questions, call them back: "did you try X ?" they tell you, that they always considered you a genius. You feel good about yourself for a moment before you remember that Von Neumann needed no LLMs and that José Raúl Capablanca died over half a decade before Turing wrote down the first algorithm for a Chess Computer. An Email from a client pops up, he isn't gonna pay your bill unless you make one more modification to that CRUD app. You want to eat and get back to work. Can't help but think about Eratosthenes who needed neither glasses nor telescopes to figure out the earths circumference. Would he have marvelled at the achievements of Newton and his successors at NASA or made fun of those nerds that needed polished pieces of glass not only to figure out the mysteries of the Universe but even for basic literacy.
by parentheses | 2026-01-23 08:14:27+00:00
I got some errors trying to run this on my MBP. Claude was able to one-shot a fix.

```
Loaded speech tokenizer from ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--Qwen--Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign/snapshots/0e711a1c0aa5aad30654426
e0d11f67716c1211e/speech_tokenizer
Fetching 11 files: 0%| | 0/11 [00:00<?, ?it/s]Fetching 11 files: 100%|| 11/11 [00:00<00:00, 125033.45it/s]
The tokenizer you are loading from
'!/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--Qwen--Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign/snapshots/0e711a1c0aa5aad30654426e0d11f67716c1211e' with an
incorrect regex pattern: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instr.... This will
lead to incorrect tokenization. You should set the `fix_mistral_regex=True` flag when loading this tokenizer to fix this issue.
```
by TonyStr | 2026-01-23 08:14:34+00:00
I think you are completely right about demand pull being a deciding factor in adoption of new inventions. Many question why Rome never entered the industrial revolution, especially considering that they invented a steam engine[0].

Although I would question if multiple hours of daily labor isn't itself a significant demand pull? I assume everyone wants to free up time spent on monotonous tasks, but maybe this is wrong.

[0] - https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Aeolipile
by bostik | 2026-01-23 08:14:56+00:00
If you use streaming replication (ie. WAL shipping over the replication connection), a single replica getting really far behind can eventually cause the primary to block writes. Some time back I commented on the behaviour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758543

You could use asynchronous WAL shipping, where the WAL files are uploaded to an object store (S3 / Azure Blob) and the streaming connections are only used to signal the position of WAL head to the replicas. The replicas will then fetch the WAL files from the object store and replay them independently. This is what wall-g does, for a real life example.

The tradeoffs when using that mechanism are pretty funky, though. For one, the strategy imposes a hard lower bound to replication delay because even the happy path is now "primary writes WAL file; primary updates WAL head position; primary uploads WAL file to object store; replica downloads WAL file from object store; replica replays WAL file". In case of unhappy write bursts the delay can go up significantly. You are also subject to any object store and/or API rate limits. The setup makes replication delays slightly more complex to monitor for, but for a competent engineering team that shouldn't be an issue.

But it is rather hilarious (in retrospect only) when an object store performance degdaration takes all your replicas effectively offline and the readers fail over to getting their up-to-date data from the single primary.