MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-01-02 08:08:44+00:00
Love the idea but it still isn’t easy enough for normies to host a blog or a website.

I think there’s a way though.

Modern self-hosted open source is easy to run for semi-experts, so what if communities banded together to host stuff at the local library?

A bunch of enthusiastic teens could form a volunteer core that runs a bunch of services for their community and teaches anyone interested, giving kids a chance to learn how to host stuff online. There’d be high trust if it’s all locals providing services to locals. Host it on a cheap VPS so the library doesn’t even need infra; just a very small budget for the initiative.

It’d be super decentralized. And the teams running these services would provide high quality feedback to the developers on features & operating of their services.

Seems win-win.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-02 08:09:12+00:00
> Russia has directly asked the US to leave the ship alone

Yes. I am aware. Flags are being painted, registries updated and sternely-worded letters sent. The ship sails on. So do its pursuers.

> It’s going to be hard to duck this one

It really shouldn't be.

Just board the ship. Putin makes noises about international law. A D.C. lawyer insists that no, the vessel was stateless when found. And assuming there isn't like fissile material or a senior IRGC liaison on board, everyone grumbles and moves on.

Trump and Putin have a complicated relationship. But about the single thing that this will not depend on will be what maritime law says the U.S. should do. (And I think the legal arguments for seizure are on America's side on this one.)
by eapotapov | 2026-01-02 08:11:11+00:00
For those who have the issue.

I reported the issue in discussions some time ago, but had no reaction/response.

I was able to reproduce the leak consistently. Finally I've got all the reports done by me, Ghostty sources and Claude Code and tried to fix it.

For the first couple of weeks there were no leaks at all, now it started again but only 1/10 of the times it was before.

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/9786
There are some logs and a Claude Code review md file that might be useful.

Hope it will help someone investigate further.
by renewiltord | 2026-01-02 08:12:26+00:00
I know the OP. He's actually a compulsive liar. We had to fire him from our team at Big Food Delivery because he'd keep saying he was done with his tickets but then he'd be blocked on someone, and when the code showed up it would be crap and very verbose. Finally, one day someone said "Dude, can you at least review your own code?" and he flipped out and said he was suffering from trauma and needed time off, and that our company policy allowed Claude Code. It does, but you can't just post the output like that.

Then he went online and posted this and told us that we were screwed. Internally we're following the process to get him fired, but because he's technically hired out of Italy we can't do it without 3 months notice.

Anyway, I made that whole thing up but don't let that one small phrase discredit the rest of the claims.
by d13z | 2026-01-02 08:12:53+00:00
I wrote my first program on an Atari 150XR from a book of write your own adventure at 7y/o, but I have to say I didn't learn to program until much later.
At 13 I started doing my own websites with Netscape and I studied from ages 14-18 to be an accountant. At that time we have to do all calculations and reports by hand and I my teacher allowed me to make the assignments in excel 97.
Fast forward a couple of years I started to "patch" and install different bulletin boards such as VBulletin, PhpBB, InvisionBB. I think it was maintaining this that I learned how to code.
Show HN: Vect AI – Turning AI plans into marketing workflows that run
by afrafgf | 2026-01-02 08:12:59+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been experimenting with AI tools for marketing and noticed a recurring failure mode:

AI is good at generating ideas and plans,
but once the plan exists, execution still breaks down into manual steps, tool hopping, and half-finished workflows.

I’m building Vect AI to explore a different approach:
treat AI as an execution layer, not just a reasoning layer.

Instead of “what should I do next?”, the focus is on:

turning decisions into workflows

reducing manual handoffs after planning

making execution boring, repeatable, and observable

This is still early and evolving, and I’m sharing it to get honest feedback from builders.

Project: https://vect.pro

(Index status for transparency: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:vect.pro
)

I’d love input on:

where execution breaks most often after AI planning

whether this problem resonates in your own workflow

what would make an execution-first AI genuinely useful

Thanks for reading — happy to answer questions.
by Kwpolska | 2026-01-02 08:13:05+00:00
There is no single established framework/language for backend Web development. There are many options, all valid, differing in popularity based on their qualities (or sometimes just hype).

Ruby used to be cool around 2010, but it lost to better options. Ruby has strange syntax, and Rails abuses magic, so I guess the viability of TypeScript for development made Ruby less popular.
by gste | 2026-01-02 08:13:24+00:00
Now that Microsoft are removing support for Windows 10, which is still running on many not-that-old devices that don't support Windows 11, I think the correct, mainstream advice HAS to be to install Linux on those machines. Those are still perfectly usable machines that can be used for productivity or enjoy a massive catalog of games.

We've reached a point where Microsoft greed and carelessness is degrading Windows from all angles. With the constant forced Copilot, forced sign-ups, annoying pop-ups and ads, it is figuratively unusable; in the case of machines stuck on Windows 10 it is literally unusable.

They are now banking entirely on a captive market of Enterprise customers who have invested too much to quit. The enshittification is feature complete.
by bartread | 2026-01-02 08:13:54+00:00
> I usually find artwork that accompanies a text to be distracting. I love reading work that can stand on its own, invoking images in the mind.

But the images are a part of the work, not separate from it, no?[0]

You might have a preference against that, which is absolutely fine, but I think you're making an artificial distinction.

[0] There's obviously a separate conversation to be had about how much that part contributes or detracts with any such work, but the point stands that I tend to view such works as all of a piece including all constituent parts.
by bananadonkey | 2026-01-02 08:14:01+00:00
Regarding wanting to preserve the current version of a page: I use Karakeep to archive those pages. I am sure there are other similar solutions such as downloading an offline version, but this works well for me.

I do this mostly for blog posts etc I might not get around to reading for weeks or months from now, and don't want them to disappear in the meantime.

Everything else is either a pinned tab (<5) or a bookmark (themselves shared when necessary on e.g a Slack canvas so the whole team has easy access, not just me).

While browsing the rest of my tabs are transient and don't really grow. I even mostly use private browsing for research, and only bookmark (or otherwise save) pages I deem to be of high quality. I might have a private window with multiple tabs for a given task, but it is quickly reduced to the minimum necessary pages and the the whole private window is thrown away once the initial source material gathering is done. This lets me turn off address bar search engines and instead search only saved history and bookmarks.

I often see colleagues with the same many browser windows of many tabs each open struggling to find what they need, and ponder their methods.
by kouteiheika | 2026-01-02 08:14:38+00:00
> building something on your desktop that’ll run on data center hardware in production, the DGX Spark is your answer

It isn't, because it's a different architecture than the datacenter hardware. They're both called "Blackwell", but that's a lie[1] and you still need "real" datacenter Blackwell card for development work. (For example, you can't configure/tune vLLM on Spark, and then move it into a B200 and even expect it to work, etc.)

[1] -- https://github.com/NVIDIA/dgx-spark-playbooks/issues/22
by _mig5 | 2026-01-02 08:14:47+00:00
It does! There are several sort of 'catch-alls' in place:

1) stuff in /etc that doesn't belong to any obvious package, ends up in an 'etc_custom' role

2) stuff in /usr/local ends up in a 'usr_local_custom' role

3) Anything you include with --include will end up in a special 'extra_paths' role.

Here's a demo (which is good, helped me spot a small bug, the role is included twice in the playbook :) I'll get that fixed!) https://asciinema.org/a/765385

Thanks for your interest!
by nxtfari | 2026-01-02 08:16:42+00:00
Believability aside (I do think it’s believable personally) this is pretty much how “evil” (from outsider perspective) is done at every company, including mine. Inside it’s all sprint meetings, KPIs and terminology that are either intentionally or unintentionally designed to keep engineers far from thinking about impact on real people. It’s easy to convince a 25 year old whiz kid to optimize human assets, it’s just like Factorio and it feels good to see the number go up. In-jokes and dark humor fly and it all feels not real and just like a game. Sometimes on purpose by management, sometimes automatic as a coping mechanism. Defense (my field) is very much the same way.
by Cort3z | 2026-01-02 08:16:57+00:00
I have been working professionally on Linux for many years. But about once a year I have to reinstall the os because it craps out for various reasons. The same story goes for most of my team, but for some reason they seem ok with this. My issue with Linux is this: I don’t feel like a consumer, but a janitor. I don’t want this. Yes you can do whatever you want, but I don’t want to do those things. I want to write code and play games, not maintain the intricacies of a running computer.

For a server there is no better choice than Linux, but for my desktop/laptop, I find other alternatives better. Perhaps I haven’t found «the right distro», if so let me know, but until Linux is as low maintenance as windows or macos, it will be for those with an interest in doing that maintenance.

I realize I have a love-hate relationship with Linux. It is perfect, but flawed.
by Sesse__ | 2026-01-02 08:17:24+00:00
> Additionally, the console had been selling at a profit, at least in the US, by 2009, before they removed the other os feature.

Also, there is no evidence that the PS3 clusters were particularly widespread. The largest single PS3 cluster I know of was the USAF 1760-machine cluster; the second largest was about 200 machines at EPFL. With 87M+ PS3s sold, that's a drop in the ocean. The PS3 just wasn't very good as a general-purpose server, and it also didn't have good interconnect at all (people struggled to even reach 100Mbit/sec on it, so it's also not a very good general HPC server); if you didn't have a problem that mapped really well to Cell, it just wasn't for you. There's no evidence any significant amount of companies bought tens of thousands of PS3s for their datacenters.

So even if Sony _did_ lose money on each sold PS3 used for servers, there simply can't have been a lot of money in all.
by manuelmoreale | 2026-01-02 08:17:40+00:00
> In other words, I see this not a special greed of this particular company, but a logical conclusion of the economic system it operates in.
(I'm not saying it is good either. Only that raging against the symptom is a bit misplaced, and instead you should focus attention at the causes).

I think this is conceptually sound take but at the same time it's way too kind towards the people who are on the field making these decisions. Accepting to behave like a despicable human being and justify it with "well this is the system I operate in" is not acceptable for me from a moral standpoint.

The economic system is awful, sure. But deciding to go along and play the same awful game and drag everybody else down with it is a personal choice.

There is no such thing as "corporations". It's people. From top to bottom. And people are responsible for their own actions.
by ergocoder | 2026-01-02 08:17:43+00:00
> I don't know or care what the DA of a city with less than 1M people said about a crime

Ok, let me get it straight. You don't care about the DA not wanting to prosecute a brutal murder?

Wow.

Not caring about the justice of a brutal murder is quite ... insane. And you said that out loud. Holy shit.

> It is in the very first link

It is not. But maybe I missed it. Can you quote?
by RealCodingOtaku | 2026-01-02 08:18:47+00:00
Not backing up the claims, but,

You don't need to know the account or account number, just need to know the transaction logic, which most backend developer will know of as long as they work in that area.

If the product managers keep boasting about their new strategy (which I have seen in almost all companies I have worked for), even the juniors will know what's going on.
by loktarogar | 2026-01-02 08:21:38+00:00
When I choose priority delivery in Uber, I can see the driver go to the store, pick up my order and drive directly to my place. I also see the driver usually have 1-2 stops on the way if I don't select that. If there's enough gap between myself and the restaurant, priority is absolutely a time save.

If this is Uber then it's not legitimate.
by rumplecat | 2026-01-02 08:21:42+00:00
The german trains, even at their worst, are so much better than anything in the US. Complaining can also be a sport in Germany. Take a ride on Njtransit or the NYC subway to appreciate the difference. Or try to get anywhere in New Jersey without a car. In many parts of Germany, you can get almost anywhere conveniently with only public transportation.
by alibarber | 2026-01-02 08:22:39+00:00
Huh, you’ve got me thinking now.

Here in Finland at least there are a lot of completely unattended pumps that once you exit the road it’s basically just a patch of land and you pull up in whatever direction you want to match the side of your tank to a free pump.

But in the UK where I’m from and just got back from this is maybe less common.
by indigodaddy | 2026-01-02 08:22:44+00:00
Nuts, I'm going to have to try this out. Pretty sure nothing like this exists, at least not for Ansible (?). This would certainly help converting chef cookbooks (we have a ton of custom applications along with system stuff of course) to Ansible (I guess it's not really converting in this scenario, just scanning the host(s), super neat!). We are still using chef, and use Ansible for one-off jobs/playbooks/remediations etc, but would like to pivot to Ansible for config mgmt of everything for deployments at some point. This definitely looks useful in that effort.
by written-beyond | 2026-01-02 08:23:08+00:00
These delivery apps are shady, maybe even outright fraudulent.

I had my credit card on one of Delivery Hero's apps. Everything looked fine until I went through my credit card statement, I had up to 5 $10 to $15 payments made to delivery hero which were refunded almost instantly. Those charges weren't associated with a single order on the app, no emails, nothing.

I assumed they were talking advantage of customers with credit cards on file to line their books. I removed my credit card from their apps, never going to save it in app for faster checkout.
by no-name-here | 2026-01-02 08:23:14+00:00
>> If people can easily satisfy their basic needs, they simply expands this concept until it ceases to be easily satisfied.

> Decent living standards for 8.5B people would require 30% of current resource use

That claims seems to be based on your first link.

1. They define decent living standards as including things like 1 cooking appliance, a mobile phone, and internet, but not things like a dishwasher/microwave/Netflix account, etc.

2. To achieve this, they specifically say that existing resource uses that are wasteful, such as buying extra clothing, wasteful entertainment, etc, should be “reallocated” to the basic needs of society, as without reallocation they explicitly point to how the basic needs like food and shelter become too expensive.

So in the context of the grandparent commenter’s argument, we would have to take away a lot of the luxuries (which is probably a fair description) that most Americans have like entertainment, buying more clothes than they need, etc and would not include things like any trips/travel, eating out, etc - and you believe people would react the opposite of what the grandparent claimed, that they would not consider those things to be “basic needs”? I guess if we were truly able to eliminate most inequality and all millionaires, etc, then maybe people would accept life without those existing things they have as basic needs? But I am not sure if your argument is meant to be a thing that could happen in real life, or merely a “If I was dictator I'd ensure peace on earth” type idea?
by Animats | 2026-01-02 08:23:43+00:00
Phonograph records tend to top out around 20,000 Hz. It's limited by groove and stylus size. CDs top out around 21KHz.

There's some audiophile content on Blu-Ray disks encoded at 24-bit/192 kHz, intended for people who subscribe to The Absolute Sound.[1]

(Typical TAS review: "Their Crystal Cable Infinity power cords markedly lower background noise; increase resolution, density of tone color, and dynamic contrast; and add a more substantial third dimension to images." US$34,000 for a 2 meter AC power cable.)

[1] https://www.theabsolutesound.com

[1]
by BrandoElFollito | 2026-01-02 08:24:24+00:00
I considered that but is is such a waste of resources in my case: I deliberately use a lighter laptop that just covers my dev needs.

But yes, this is a possibility, or accessing the windows via rdp. The loss would be with the "always-handy" kind of setup, where Outlook is a click away and pops up its calendar reminder
by coldtea | 2026-01-02 08:25:39+00:00
>It’s a lot of plastic. A lot of waste.

Compared to the plastic waste produced daily it's a drop in the ocean. And at least this is kept and collected.

>even though it arguably is the best and easiest income generator for artists

Digital is nowhere "the best and easiest income generator" for musicians. A common complain from musicians is how, with the advent of online music, sales craterred, and musicians despite having the same or more fans, and be able to fill the same venues, have lost the living they could make by selling even 50K records (with a favorable indie label split).
by lunar_rover | 2026-01-02 08:26:32+00:00
For single player gaming, probably. Actual desktops still suffer from significant technical and design issues.

Wayland spent a decade to be mostly usable with rough edges, Flatpak sandbox is really rough and most things are designed by amateurs.

Still Windows destroying itself made the gap closer than ever, right now is a great chance to gain market share and funding and professionals.
by fragmede | 2026-01-02 08:27:00+00:00
It's all optional if you have enough mechanical empathy. No speedo, oil light, odo, gas gauge. You just get a feel for how fast you're going. You haven't really lived until you've ridden a salvage titled motorcycle with zero instrument cluster across 17 without headlights after the sun's gone down. Sometimes I'm surprised I made it this long.
by medimikka | 2026-01-02 08:27:25+00:00
FWIW, this domain posted mostly AI generated or otherwise falsified "proof" of "Israel's Massacre in Gaza" which were not rarely debunked as either not even in the area, "Gazawood" stories (a child supposedly killed in Israeli strikes appeared many times as different children and was proven to be an actor), and is largely funded by a shadowy entity with its roots in Qatar.

I am not a fan of domain name cessation or any kind of blocking access to data, but I'd imagine NameCheap did have a particularly high amount of complaints and legal inquiries (one comes to mind, where the site posted pictures of a Hamas hostage in a tunnel as "Israel starves teacher and forces him to dig his own grave" that is in litigation), that at some point beg the question if $5/year is worth it.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-02 08:27:33+00:00
> they will never behave in a submissive fashion to the US.

What does this have to do with both of them repeatedly instigating territorial disputes with their neighbors? Granted the US certainly isn't a saint in that regard but its been quite a while since the Mexico stuff.

Annexing pieces of neighbors and defying US economic interests seem like fairly disjoint activities to me.
by nl | 2026-01-02 08:27:45+00:00
> After some point increasing income didn’t increase life satisfaction. Usually somewhere in the low upper-middle class region.

That's the common assumption that this research repudiates.

> These findings are counter to a widely covered 2010 study that found happiness rises with income, but plateaus at around $75,000.

He studied much richer people:

> Killingsworth also used data from the ultra-wealthy (people with a median net worth between $3m and $7.9m), which is often lacking and difficult to obtain.

> The data showed the happiness gap between wealthy and middle-income participants was wider than between middle- and low-income participants.

> His study also found wealthy individuals were “substantially and statistically significantly happier than people earning over $500,000 each year”.
by coldtea | 2026-01-02 08:29:17+00:00
>And I’ve been wondering why would anyone buy the cassette or CD?

Many people I know buy the CD because they prefer owning a physical medium, and the CDs they actually play and have a collection of them.

As for cassette, I don't know about buying regular releases on it, but there's a small but very passionate music community around cassette releases for experimental and indie music (same as a demoscene using old computers or people making new 8bit games).
by Terr_ | 2026-01-02 08:29:41+00:00
> Researchers cautioned that more real-world data was needed to show whether the tool could detect enough early-stage cases to outweigh the risks of false positives and unnecessary testing.

Yep, as always, the devil is in the [false|true]-[positive|negative] rate details. These are often downplayed in order to have an attention-grabbing headline.

To illustrate, consider that the following algorithm has a 100% success rate at finding deadly tumors that doctors might miss:

has_tumor(scan): return True
by whatever1 | 2026-01-02 08:29:55+00:00
I believe taxi companies own the license (which is super expensive) as well as the car. They also pay maintenance and gas costs. So 35% cut to just drive equipment is not that bad. The issue with uber/lyft is that you also need to bring your vehicle, pay maintenance, gas, insurance and depreciation.

I think that poor guy made less than 15% (assuming an 80 cent per mile cost for the vehicle).
by codeflo | 2026-01-02 08:30:04+00:00
The author mentions in the article text (and re-emphasizes in a footnote) that you will want to use platform-specific APIs for improved accessibility even when this limits extensibility:

> you will want to support font fallback, input methods and screen readers, all of which require interacting with platform specific APIs and are thus much less customizable

May I ask the heretical question why of these two situations:

(a) you have one editor that makes compromises between extensibility and accessibility

(b) you have one non-accessible editor that goes all-in on extensibility, and one not-fully customizable editor that goes all-in on accessibility

one would prefer (a) over (b)? Situation (a) sounds like strictly more total effort for a worse outcome, as you have one much more complex system that tries to navigate both purposes.