MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by accidentallfact | 2026-01-04 20:24:53+00:00
Not that I want to be necessarily contrarian, but just a few months ago I decided to stop worrying about using my phone, and it honestly feels like the most liberating decision of my life.

There is nothing wrong with it.

I think that many people feel like their lives suck in some way that they can't define or explain, and they want something to blame it on, and their phone is an excellent target. It's relatively new. Of course it's the source of recent problems. It's CONVENIENT. You can do something about it by simply not looking at it.

Your phone is not the source of any of your problems.
by etra0 | 2026-01-04 20:25:11+00:00
You have to realize, that some folks were born in the age of super-information and immediacy.

When I take a picture, I get the luxury of immadiately see what I got. When I wanted to hear some music, I can search it up, and hear an entire album in a question of seconds.

It's an incredible privilege to do that, but at the same time, we got so used to speed, that pausing can be new for us.

This year I had the opportunity to travel to Europe and just sit in a café, sipping coffee, just observing, and it also felt new and different for me.

I shot with an analogue camera because I enjoy the feeling of waiting for the results, not being able to see the results at the split of a second.

This blog resonates with me because I've been feeling I want to pause more, to create more memories, to be in the moment. I should go to a café without phones and a notepad.
by apothegm | 2026-01-04 20:25:46+00:00
When you grew up with 640x480 monitors, a modern 13” laptop has pretty decent space. I pin one app per virtual desktop, and use cmd-tab and cmd-~ heavily. I also don’t make heavy use of IDE panels. I’m accustomed to having a separate editor and terminal apps. I do wish that app UI would use more of the horizontal and less of the vertical real estate.

A 4K monitor is certainly an improvement, tbf. But I can be productive without one.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-04 20:25:58+00:00
Come to think of it, WJC signed the Rome Statute in 2000, but then GWB unsigned it in 2002, which, coincidentally or uncoincidentally, was followed by the first reports of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone... in 2003
by Kraji | 2026-01-04 20:26:01+00:00
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by pllbnk | 2026-01-04 20:26:02+00:00
Popular media likes to take this very simplistic view and turns the nations' economies into competition, forgetting that economies should work for the people, not vice versa. If it was a competition, then eventually someone would have to win (what is the definition of winning is unclear to me either) which so far doesn't seem possible. What actually matters is what a country does with the economy it has. Whether it translates into better lives, stability, and opportunity for its citizens. By that measure, "4th largest" tells us almost nothing. The more useful question isn't "how big" but "for whom".
by stevenwoo | 2026-01-04 20:26:05+00:00
On the one hand I can understand a little of the admiration for The Culture since it’s a post scarcity humanity and since Musk doesn’t lack for anything he cannot understand how that is different from reality for most of us but the fluidity of gender and sex is so in your face in most of the Culture books he could not have read them and liked them so much.
Show HN: Remember Me – O(1) Client-Side Memory (40x cheaper than Vector DBs)
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-04 20:27:02+00:00
Vector databases are overkill for 90% of agentic workflows. They introduce latency, drift, and massive costs. Remember Me AI is a client-side protocol that uses Coherent State Networks (CSNP) and Optimal Transport theory to achieve O(1) deterministic retrieval. It cuts memory costs by 40x compared to Pinecone and includes a Lean 4 formal verification for zero-hallucination guarantees.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-04 20:27:23+00:00
That's sad to hear. Unless the place is explicitly brining in live music, I consider cafes to be relatively quiet in general. Almost as a way to explicitly avoid that "bar culture" where i can barely hear my own thoughts.

And most thankfully are in my area (just don't go to the one near schools on weekdays). Really hope it stays that way.
by nine_k | 2026-01-04 20:27:27+00:00
Aerospace, automotive, and medical devices represent a strong demand. They sometimes use and run really interesting stuff, due to the lack of such a strong backwards-compatibility demand, and a very high cost of software malfunction. Your onboard engine control system can run an OS based on seL4 with software written using Ada SPARK, or something. Nobody would bat an eye, nobody needs to run 20-years-old third-party software on it.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-04 20:27:44+00:00
OP here. I built this because I was tired of paying $2,400/mo for vector storage just to have my agents hallucinate. The repository includes the full mathematical proof (Wasserstein-optimal memory) in the /papers directory. I am looking for someone to roast my compression algorithm—currently achieving 35x efficiency. Code is MIT licensed.
by franga2000 | 2026-01-04 20:28:24+00:00
Are you saying this doesn't do any kind of positioning? Just plays when the accelerometer shows movement and stops when it doesn't? I need to try this at some point because it really feels like that wouldn't work. People walk at different speeds so the video would desync, take a wrong turn or incorrectly recognise landmarks so the video would be completely wrong... What's the error recovery procedure here?

Might just need to try it if you say it works well. Hopefully I find some time to nuke the blockchain out of this and set up a test instance for our university.
by matsemann | 2026-01-04 20:28:42+00:00
> Having your SO question closed as off-topic or already answered isn’t believable to you?

It is believable. But it being a problem I don't see. If it's off-topic, that's sad for you but no reason to feel angry or it being "hostile" or something. It's just off-topic. Same if I started posting lots of local news from my city to HN. It's simply just off-topic and not what the site should contain. If it's already answered, being pointed to that answer by someone spending the time to digging it up is also not rude. Sure, you may feel bad because you feel someone "reprimanded" you or something. But that's on you.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-04 20:28:58+00:00
Hey I actually created something like this when I was once curious. Its called nanotimestamps

I found it when I realized that nano had 0 fees and I realized that by using a nano vanity address generator, I can embed data into a series of transactions and then basically embed data into the chain (for free) since there is 0 gas fees

Now I created it as a way of getting timestamps of any data onto the chain but you can embed any information and create c2c's on top of that

There is also a way that I vibe coded once to embed data directly into the vanity address and so you can lose 10^-32 nano or basically negligble which is more efficient as well

If you have any questions, I'd love to answer (also even if I like the tech, I think that crypto's fundamentally really really volatile and I prefer things like index funds being honest)
by antonvs | 2026-01-04 20:29:15+00:00
I like both the process and the product, and I like using LLMs.

You can use LLMs in whatever way works for you. Objections like the ones in this thread seem to assume that the LLM determines the process, but that’s not true at present.

Perhaps they’re worrying about what might happen in future, but more likely they’re just resisting change in the usual way of inventing objections against something they haven’t seriously tried. These objections serve more as emotional justifications to avoid changing, than rational positions.
by cmxch | 2026-01-04 20:29:23+00:00
With, or without the Chinese and Russian governments propping the remnants up?

I can’t imagine that the Maduro regime is being organically supported when two elections have passed (Guaidó, Machado) without legitimate, election backed leadership.

Or why there’s a big swell to support Maduro even he and his predecessor Chavez have caused more harm than what the US could give.
by bill3478 | 2026-01-04 20:29:42+00:00
> to properly articulate their problems using the jargon of mathematicians and programmers

I once distilled a real-life problem into mathematical language exactly like how the Introduction to Algorithms book would pose them only to have the quesiton immediately closed with the explanation "don't post your CS homework".

(My employer at the time was very sensitive about their IP and being able to access the Internet from the work computer was already a miracle. I once sat through a whole day of InfoSec and diciplinary meetings for posting completely dummy bug repoduction code on Github.
by digi_wares | 2026-01-04 20:30:05+00:00
I built Feelr because performance tools tell us what is slow,
but not what that slowness actually feels like to a user.

Paste a URL and Feelr replays the page load as a sensory experience:
DNS, TLS, TTFB, HTML parsing, JS execution, and third-party scripts
are expressed through timing, interaction resistance, and optional
sound / haptic cues.

The goal isn’t measurement accuracy or optimization advice — it’s
intuition. After using it, you start noticing where “heavy” actually
comes from.

There’s also a simple Compare mode to feel two sites back-to-back.

No signup. No accounts. Minimal data. Just a small experiment.

I’d love feedback from people who think a lot about performance.
by mgarfias | 2026-01-04 20:30:11+00:00
I f'd my knees running track in HS - i suspect some kind of structural problem that alters the way my knees move. Sr year wsa awful, i was just about crawling to class in the morning. MRIs showed nothing and I learned to live with it and eventually it got better when I stopped running.

10ish years later I had started riding my bike a lot during the dotcom explosion induced downtime, I kept it up after I was employed again. Knee pain came back. Went to the ortho again, this time was told "oh you have a torn meniscus, lets go fix it.

So I went under and woke up to be told that my meniscus was fine, and that I had worn grooves through the cartilage and into the bone - doc told me to never run, jump, ski, ride, etc. I was to sit on the couch.

Somehow I ended up taking karate, and the knees hurt for a bit, but the stretching we did helped loosen up my hams and quads. It didnt make the knee pain go away, but it made it tolerable in that it no longer affected my day to day.
by godelski | 2026-01-04 20:30:40+00:00
I think we're in agreement. Though I want to expand on something a bit subtle.

Perfect doesn't exist. There's no perfectly written code. If there were it wouldn't be perfect for long because the environment is constantly changing. After all, code rots.

I want to make that clear because it is why I said only a real novice gets roadblocked by perfection. They might have an idea of a perfect solution but anyone with any meaningful experience knows the real world is full of unknown unknowns. (Even with perfect information it's usually not traceable) What's the old joke? Theres two types of software: those with bugs and those nobody uses.

So given that, everything else is actually an argument of "what is good enough." Take perfection off the table, it isn't useful here [0]

In other words, we're looking for locally optimal solutions, not global. Because global likely doesn't exist[1]. My interpretation of what you said here is the same. We could write down all the (known) conditions of that problem and still not get a perfect solution that works every time. There are good practices, but those aren't bulletproof algorithms to success. They still require interpretation[2].

So the job of the engineer isn't to be a robot that follows instructions to the letter. It is the job you interpret, explore, and discover. It's to implement suboptimal solutions and iterate on them to find better suboptimal solutions. You have to balance short term and long term benefits, such as your hot patch scenario. There's always some trade being made. And that's why the thought terminating cliché is so detrimental, because it at best sidesteps the trade-off conversation and at worst creates willful ignorance of them.

[0] perfection is a good target to help align but it is also fundamentally unobtainable. We could say that same thing about utopias. But similarly the inverse (e.g. shit code/dystopia) is easily obtainable. This, I think, is a subtle difference in how we're using the term "perfection". I think you're using it as a guide rather than a literal objective that can be achieved in finite time. Do I have that right?

[1] real world problems are very high dimensional and we usually project them into lower dimensions to make solving more tractable.

[2] no rule can be so well written that there are no exceptions. (Including this rule)
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-04 20:31:40+00:00
> But Kamala's position was not that it wouldn't cost very much. She backed the ideology, and the vast majority of Americans disagree with that ideology.

I don't think that's really accurate. Most Americans are deeply misinformed on the issue, and a fair percentage of them think it's something like men making excuses to go in women's prisons.

A lot of those voters got their info specifically from misinformation sources like Fox News or those ads.

> Many Americans saw this issue as yet another one (like the Biden competence one) where Dems were telling them to ignore what appear to be plainly obvious facts, like "men cannot become women". Some voters decided that they could not support a candidate who appeared to live in a different reality, on the thinking that "if she's willing to lie to me about such basic facts, what won't she lie to me about?"

This is why I've said elsewhere democracy doesn't work when you have such an uneducated population. Those voters are not informed on issues of transgender health of gender dysphoria, and so were taken advantage of and misled by a party that created/stoked fears and spread misinformation to win an election.
by nine_k | 2026-01-04 20:32:22+00:00
Indeed. Also, TLB as it exists on x64 is not free, nor is very large. A multi-level "TLB", such that a process might pick an upper level of a large stretch of lower-level pages and e.g. allocate a disjoint micro-page for each stack frame, would be cool. But it takes a rather different CPU design.
by linsomniac | 2026-01-04 20:32:46+00:00
These are the ones: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2gS8RYc9lus

"Frog Mobility" -- Get on hands and knees, spread knees but keep your feet closer together, rock back towards your heels and forward.

"Frog Cat/Cow" -- Same position as above, but tilt your pelvis; curve your back up then down.

"Tactical Frog" -- I haven't done this one yet, but it is frog mobility but with each rocking forward twist one of your feet up into the air; IOW rock back then as you rock forward keep one knee locked so that your calf/foot stays in the same relative position as you move forward.
by franga2000 | 2026-01-04 20:33:27+00:00
Well yes, that's kind of my point. I understood "just use a peertube instance and the web geolocation api" to mean using GPS for location. Outdoor navigation is more or less solved, but indoor doesn't benefit from GPS at all, so you need some other positioning system. I've worked on a few deployments of different systems and yeah, expensive, annoying, and usually still unreliable.

Like I said in the other comment, if you can make it good without any indoor positioning, that's a killer feature. I just...have my doubts...
by WheelsAtLarge | 2026-01-04 20:33:32+00:00
Of course, she is. The whole government is made of people that supported Maduro and his policies. People that opposed him were ousted a long time ago. It's the way he stayed in power.

It's going to be hard to change the county's trajectory since it's top heavy with socialists AND the country's people were not the ones that cause the change in government. Think about afghanistan and how decades of US occupation did little to change the country since the people there were not willing to embrace what the US had to offer.
by ZeWaren | 2026-01-04 20:33:54+00:00
I use wireguard as my main VPN to connect to my homelab from my phone and my laptops.

I also have an OpenVPN as a backup option, running behind sslh.
My same port on my router (443) serves both a webserver hosting photos, and that OpenVPN instance. This allows me to VPN into my home in most firewalled office networks.
by fancyfredbot | 2026-01-04 20:34:00+00:00
Windows 11 usage is declining. The Xbox is selling vastly less than Sony/Nintendo. PC gamers are moving to SteamOS and Linux. The billions poured into OpenAI no longer look so smart given very competitive offerings elsewhere.

Despite all this they still have a hugely profitable business, a pretty decent OS under all the adware, and a defacto monopoly on business productivity software.
by musicale | 2026-01-04 20:34:05+00:00
The PL/I stack growing up rather than down reduced potential impact of stack overflows in Multics (and PL/I already had better memory safety, with bounded strings, etc.) TFA's author would probably have appreciated the segmented memory architecture as well.

There is no reason why the C/C++ stack can't grow up rather than down. On paged hardware, both the stack and heap could (and probably should) grow up. "C's stack should grow up", one might say.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-04 20:34:25+00:00
> But I don't think we should redefine words based on the lowest common denominator of understanding/usage.

No one is redefining anything. Merriam-Webster and Oxford both have a definition for majority meaning most, and that's the more common definition that is used in everyday speech.

Context matters.

> And in this case, it's especially important not to redefine "majority" because if we do then there's no word left to refer to an actual majority.

In this context, talking about the popular vote, no information is lost, nothing is miscommunicated by using the word majority and understanding how people are using it. Which, by the way, they are using correctly as per dictionary definitions.

> That's not the same thing as JFK conspiracy theories.

No, but it's the same as per my example in that you are being pedantic about a word in a way that serves no purpose, except maybe to try and make people feel stupid.
by jtbayly | 2026-01-04 20:35:06+00:00
Exactly. And I was never particularly good at coding, either. Pairings with Gemini to finally figure out how to decompile an old Java app so I can make little changes to my user profile and some action files? That was fun! And I was never going to be able to figure out how to do it on my own. I had tried!
by blitz_skull | 2026-01-04 20:35:11+00:00
This 1000x!

I had a bit of an identity crisis with AI first landed and started producing good code. “If I’m not the man who can type quickly, accurately, and build working programs… WHO AM I?”

But as you pointed out, I quickly realized I was never that guy. I was the guy who made problems go away, usually with code.

Now I can make so many problems go away, it feels like cheating. As it turns out, writing code isn’t super useful. It’s the application of the code, the judgement of which problems to solve and how to solve them, that truly mattered.

And that sparks a LOT of joy.
by ChicagoDave | 2026-01-04 20:35:16+00:00
I haven’t been in front of engineering deliverables for 10+ years. I certainly was never productive with modern web development. I stuck to backend work and managing a team of developers, interfacing with clients and stakeholders.

Claude Code has turned me into a 40x productive developer without limitations. I can orchestrate AWS backend services just be describing functionality. I can orchestrate front-end web development as long as no graphic design is required.

Claude Code and similar tools have changed software development forever.
by yomismoaqui | 2026-01-04 20:35:18+00:00
Lately I'm thinking about which could be the tech stack that enables a project that will keep running for 10-20 years with the least amount of maintenance.

Right now it's this:

- HTML/CSS/vanilla JS for the UI. If it renders on a browser now I expect it to render almost the same in 20 years.

- SQLite: It's a library that sure will be alive, maintained and API compatible in the future.

- Go: The Go 1 compatibility promise applies here. Also, trying to reduce external dependencies as much as possible (SQLite lib should use standard DB api)

Sure you can use C or Java, but Go strikes the right balance for me (also personal preference for its philosophy and ecosystem)

It's a nice thought experiment in a time when you leave a NextJS project for a year and it ages like milk.
by nicbou | 2026-01-04 20:35:34+00:00
Is this a post I'm too European to understand? That writing style is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

I love lingering in cafés. In the summer, I bike from café to café, catching up with my reading and slowly getting to a productive state. I'll do a bit of reading for work, maybe annotate some articles, eventually open my laptop, and if I'm lucky meet friends along the way. I often leave at 9 and come home at around midnight.

If I'm feeling lazy, I just do it on my balcony. Spending the first hour of the day just gathering your thoughts does wonders for your wellbeing. This winter, I created a space for this inside too. I recently got a nice stereo and I put easy listening music on it while I have my morning coffee. No phone, no emails, just me, my thoughts and a warm drink.

When I travel, I do the same. I sketch and make watercolours on the go. I've done this in dozens of countries, and not once have I got the impression that being on your own in a café was odd. What a weird take.

Very related: https://tomaguir.substack.com/p/how-to-waste-a-morning-prope...
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-04 20:35:55+00:00
>I think that many people feel like their lives suck in some way that they can't define or explain, and they want something to blame it on, and their phone is an excellent target.

They will blame anything but the billionaires.

But to be a devil's advocate: I think most phone issues arise from a child's use of them. They don't have the discipline to put a phone down, and then it enshrines habits that last into adult hood. Gen Z is the testing grounds for such a phenomenon.

Sadly, working adults who need to chat with work, get calls for interviews, schedule and get updates on appointments, and check on family do need to have their phone on the ready. I don't think anyone is condemning the people here. Just the system.
by largbae | 2026-01-04 20:35:55+00:00
I don't do the year thing, I just keep a single, ever-growing playlist of any song that triggers a memory. I use it as the default while driving, and take "phoned in" requests like a radio station to allow my kids to override. Some days they do that a lot, other days they ask questions about what memory each song means to me. I love it either way.