MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akhil08agrawal | 2026-01-14 18:02:38+00:00
As a PM trying to understand what was happening, it took me a minute. Turning this into an analogy so that it might benefit other non-too-techies:

Original plan: You have an oven in another building that automatically bakes your cake. But the oven needs a mixer, and every time you bake, it has to wait 2-3 minutes for someone to bring the mixer from storage.

Problem: For one specific oven (Linux ARM), the mixer never arrives. So your cake fails. You keep trying different ways to get the mixer delivered. Each attempt: 2-3 minutes wait.

What you finally do: Stop waiting for the mixer to be delivered. Just mix the batter at home where you already have a mixer. Send the pre-mixed batter to the other building. Now the oven just bakes it - no waiting for the mixer.

Translation: Stop trying to generate files in GitHub Actions (where it takes 2-3 minutes each time). Generate them locally on your computer where you already have the tools. Upload the finished files. GitHub Actions just uses them.

Sometimes "pre-mix the batter at home" beats "wait for the mixer every single time."
by groundzeros2015 | 2026-01-14 18:02:43+00:00
And yet despite that theoretical limit C compiles faster than any other language. Even C++ is very fast if you are not using header-only style.

What’s better? Rust? Haskell? Swift?

It’s very hard to do multithreading at a more granular level without hitting amdahl’s law and synchronization traps.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-14 18:02:49+00:00
Certainly one of the benefits of my "Fuck Off Fund" is that for a good many years now it has enabled me to be unburdened by concerns about whether I might get fired for saying what I think to management.

I'm at much lower risk than the imagined target of the "Fuck Off Fund" concept for things like inappropriate sexual contact or coercive control, but I find it really does lift a weight off you to know that actually I don't have to figure out whether I can say Fuck Off. The answer to that is always "Yes" which leaves only the question of whether I should say that. Sometimes I do.

And you know, on zero occasions so far have I been fired as a consequence of telling management to fuck off. But also, I had to think hard about that because, thanks to the fund, I had never worried about it. I've been fired (well, given garden leave, same thing) but I have no reason to think it's connected to telling anybody to fuck off.
by fwip | 2026-01-14 18:03:04+00:00
Could be. But also, ice cream manufacturers buy their ingredients more cheaply than consumers do. It is very possible that the cost of milk/butter/sugar at Walmart reflect Walmart deciding to lower their profit margins on these items, even if the cost to Walmart has increased.

Or - Walmart is a big enough supplier that they have stable contracts with manufacturers, and are able to purchase their ingredients for the same cost as always, while Turkey Hill et al is competing over what's left. (Like Apple, buying up TSMC runs.)
by dakom | 2026-01-14 18:03:09+00:00
Yeah, I split the crates so `renderer-core` deals with the web-sys part, `renderer` is pretty much plain Rust (and wgsl with Askama templates)

I prefer this for 100% browser-only, but that's a niche. I do think wgpu makes more sense when you like the WebGPU headspace but want to target other backends (native, mobile, VR, etc.)
by tracker1 | 2026-01-14 18:03:13+00:00
Most likely securing information/evidence about the leaker, who likely did break the law or connected to someone who did... the first party leaking classified materials broke the law, while other intermediaries may not have. In an investigative process, this isn't at all inappropriate... Journalists aren't sacrosanct, though policies may have varied as to the level investigations will go.
by pembrook | 2026-01-14 18:03:14+00:00
While I don't agree with the haphazard and seemingly random policy changes coming from the US lately -- this is a bad take.

You do realize that discrimination by citizenship is conducted by basically every government on earth in the context of visas and tourism and residency?

In fact, what made the US so bizarre up until about 1914 was that they were the only major country that effectively had open borders. There was no welfare state to take advantage of back then, and you literally did have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

This only started to shift after the US began constructing its welfare state (welfare state expansion correlates with increasingly closed immigration policy, hence where we find ourselves today).
by gck1 | 2026-01-14 18:03:27+00:00
The most frequent argument I've seen, even here on HN against illegal immigration in US always was "use legal ways!".

I'm a citizen of one of the listed countries. It's a safe country, all white (it's quite literally a Caucasian country). I was planning on using legal immigration, which already felt like I was trying to kill a 7 headed snake. Now that route is cut as well.

To me, this means US does not want me and I will not immigrate there. But that's me, I've got principles. For all the rest that simply means "use illegal ways".
by canucker2016 | 2026-01-14 18:03:35+00:00
Many Ethiopian cross-country runners were not able to participate in the recent World Cross Country Running championships in Tallahassee Florida due to rejected visas.

The USA is also supposed to host the World Track & Field Championships for under-20 in Eugene Oregon this summer.

see https://www.letsrun.com/news/2026/01/world-cross-country-cha...
by cons0le | 2026-01-14 18:03:43+00:00
>If Google can guess your age, you may never even see an age verification screen. Your Google account is typically connected to your YouTube account, so if (like mine) your YouTube account is old enough to vote, you may not need to verify your Google account at all.

This has been proven false a bunch of times, at least if the 1000s of people complaining online about it are to be believed. My google account is definitely old enough to vote, but I get the verification popup all the time on YouTube.

I think the truth is, they just want your face. The financial incentive is to get as much data as possible so they can hand it to 3rd parties. I don't believe for a second that these social networks aren't selling both the data and the meta data.
by dgacmu | 2026-01-14 18:03:54+00:00
I agree with you, but I do think we have a bit of a problem in which an open source creator makes something and then suddenly finds themselves accidentally having created a load-bearing component that is not only used by a lot of people and companies, but where people are demanding that bugs be fixed, etc., and we lack great models for helping transition it from "I do this for fun, might fix the bug if I ever feel like it" to " I respect that this has become a critical dependency and we will find a way to make it someone's job to make it more like a product".

I gather that the open source maintainers who have found themselves in this situation sometimes get very unhappy about it, and I can see why -- it's not like they woke up one day and suddenly had a critical component on their hands, it kind of evolved over time and after a while they're like "uhoh, I don't think this is what I signed up for"
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-14 18:04:02+00:00
Yes, you might be right. Still I feel like there are people who share some genuine info on products and other interesting projects for fun.

I think I can agree with you that perhaps sometimes comments might be getting barbs (first time I heard this phrase, I guess a still lot to learn xD) but also that this behaviour isn't rewarded in the context of an article or anything usually.

Most articles are about coding related software and the pretext around it thus makes comments mostly helpful, or atleast have genuine reasons that one can weigh against

And that behaviour is what's rewarded even in somewhat political posts on HN as compared to something like reddit which might not be helpful in a general stance and especially so in its political posts (or anything related to it)
by CursedSilicon | 2026-01-14 18:04:06+00:00
I'm sure the usual detractors will be here to whine "Electrek is biased against Tesla!"

To which I would ask: Is it "bias" because they simply report on Tesla frequently? Would it be "less biased" if they ignored Tesla? Obviously Electrek can't simply invent positive press for Tesla to report on.

Putting that aside though. The Cybertruck by all measures has been an abject failure. Its production run was so limited that insurance companies refused to cover it [1] and the NHTSA took something like two years just to crash test the thing due to how few of them there were on the road.

Combine that with 10 fucking recalls for absolutely horrific safety issues [2] and the company making the batteries taking a 99% slash in its $2.8 billion dollar contract [3] the thing is a complete travesty

[1] https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/insurance...

[2] https://www.cnet.com/home/electric-vehicles/every-tesla-cybe...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29/tesla-cyb...
by flir | 2026-01-14 18:04:06+00:00
Pubs are dying. Have been for years.

Many deaths were postponed because their taxes were reduced due to Covid. Those taxes are now returning to normal levels. This will result in a glut of deaths, as pubs that were just hanging on go under.

The policy question is, basically, do we want to subsidize pubs because they're part of our national culture, even though we don't use them nearly as much as we used to?
by vunderba | 2026-01-14 18:04:07+00:00
I always break jobs down into four factors:

Knowledge – Am I building skills or knowledge that have value outside this specific company (algorithms, math, systems design, etc.), or am I just learning a bunch of internal trivia that won’t matter anywhere else?

Benefits – Financial compensation and benefits can make up for a surprising amount of dissatisfaction.

People – Do I like the people I work and interact with? Do we get along and have anything in common?

Laudability – Is the work noble, meaningful, or interesting? Highly dependent on the individual. For me, it’s education; for others, it might be science, healthcare, yadda yadda yada.

I'm usually reasonably satisfied if a job meets two out of the four.
by olieidel | 2026-01-14 18:04:27+00:00
Berlin is a great place to observe policies with good intentions, yet negative second-order effects.

Distributing free potatoes will likely cause waste somewhere else, as e.g. people will buy less potatoes in supermarkets. The waste just becomes less visible as supermarkets dispose of food every day.

Another current exhibit is the prohibition of using salt for removing snow and ice from the pavements because it's "bad for plants and the ground water". While that is true to some degree, the Berlin policy conveniently ignores all second-order effects: Sidewalks are more slippery, more people get hurt. I see people slipping on snow-compacted ice almost every day. How many trees have to be saved to make it worthwhile for more people breaking their bones?

You can apply for an exemption though, e.g. if you plan to use salt on a driveway to a hospital. Processing fees for such an exemption are up to 1.4k€ [1].

The rent cap is another one. But let's go there another day..

[1] https://www.berlin.de/umwelt/themen/natur-pflanzen-artenschu...
by g947o | 2026-01-14 18:04:34+00:00
> “The Trump administration will not tolerate illegal leaks of classified information that, when reported, pose a grave risk to our nation’s national security and the brave men and women who are serving our country.”

That's what the government said when Pentagon Papers were released. Guess what happened.

But I guess time is different now, and today's supreme court isn't the same as the one in those days.
by ArcHound | 2026-01-14 18:04:59+00:00
Honestly, Chess.com isn't the shining beacon of 99.9999 SLA - sometimes this just happens. Give it a break, take a drink, usually it's back up in couple minutes.

On a second read though - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46619539, it might be Verizon.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-14 18:05:02+00:00
Autotranslation of the first paragraph:

> Forty years ago, a daring feat saved a child's life when a German Air Force F-104 Starfighter flew medicine from Germany to Sardinia for a girl. Aviation journalist and author Andreas Fecker recounts this dramatic story.

Autotranlation for the lazy https://www-austrianwings-info.translate.goog/2022/01/der-fa...

Do you know a version in English? Post in other languages never got traction.
by coffeecoders | 2026-01-14 18:05:27+00:00
I am a big fan of https://blogs.hn/ (I visit it daily), your directory looks similar.

You should automate this, maybe drive all of these content from a json file and accept PRs.

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My blog: https://nabraj.com/

Most popular: Why is boarding a plane still a mess? (https://nabraj.com/blog/boarding-methods)
by roadside_picnic | 2026-01-14 18:05:28+00:00
> "it's a scam, just chuck it all in the garbage"

This sentiment is the case because very often that's where recycling ultimately ends, we just pay someone to move it far away from us so we don't have to see it when it happens.

Until 2018, when they finally stopped accepting it, one of the US largest exports to China was cardboard boxes sent over for "recycling". We burned tons of bunker fuel shipping back the boxes Chinese goods arrived in. The net environmental impact would likely have been less had we just kept the boxes at home.

It's strange to me how often people prefer a widely acknowledged lie than to simply admit the truth.

I always recycle though because the recycle bin in my city is larger than my trash bin, and I don't have enough room in my trash bin sometimes.
by ignaloidas | 2026-01-14 18:06:00+00:00
Incredible how Adafruit-sided this discussion is, having seen ptorrone serially creating alt accounts fediverse to harrass people who thought that his behavior was bad [1], going as far as to harrass people on their Etsy stores [2]. I do not expect anything he says to be truthful at all, after having seen how much abuse he spews out.

[1]: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115605021402124429
[2]: https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/115599931317645220
by 6510 | 2026-01-14 18:06:47+00:00
There is much going on in that exchange.

I don't even know what a Wordpress site is anymore.

> then maybe the latter is not a suitable choice.

But now it only takes days which makes it suitable?

There also is the paradoxical question if it is worth the time from someone who knows what they are doing? how would you even tell?
by jldugger | 2026-01-14 18:06:48+00:00
>Turns out you can compile tens of thousands of patterns and still match at line rate.

Well, yea, sort of the magic of the regular expression <-> NFA equality theorem. Any regex can be converted to a state machine. And since you can combine regexes (and NFAs!) procedurally, this is not a surprising result.

> I ran it against the first service: ~40% waste. Another: ~60%. Another: ~30%. On average, ~40% waste.

I'm surprised it's only 40%. Observability seems to be treated like fire suppression systems: all important in a crisis, but looks like waste during normal operations.

> The AI can't find the signal because there's too much garbage in the way.

There's surprisingly simple techniques to filter out much of the garbage: compare logs from known good to known bad, and look for the stuff thats' strongly associated with bad. The precise techniques seem bayesian in nature, as the more evidence (logs) you get the more strongly associated it will appear.

More sophisticated techniques will do dimensional analysis -- are these failed requests associated with a specific pod, availability zone, locale, software version, query string, or customer? etc. But you'd have to do so much pre-analysis, prompting and tool calls that the LLM that comprise today's AI won't provide any actual value.
by akhil08agrawal | 2026-01-14 18:06:51+00:00
The "finally got it working then realized Spotlight already does this" moment is brutal.

API design isn't just about functionality. it is about discoverability and if your right-click menu uses different models than your API and your error messages don't explain why, you are just creating friction for no reason.

Sometimes the "proper" solution isn't worth the super complicated maze.
by iancmceachern | 2026-01-14 18:07:03+00:00
This.

When the cyber truck was announced we decided to buy a Super Duty instead. That was 5 years ago. It's now paid off and driven us and our RV all over the country, and still worth more than half it's purchase price with many more miles to go, and no issues at all (knock on wood).

A lightning, cyber truck, or even rivian can't do those things.

Instead of waiting for a slate just buy a little gas pickup and GO USE IT, live you life!!!
by stuxnet79 | 2026-01-14 18:07:04+00:00
Rather than focus on brand, I'd recommend developing a better eye and learning how to identify durable, high quality fabrics.

While looking at the brand might be a good heuristic to rely on in the short term, the temptation is too high for vendors to take advantage of their brand power to offload cheaper fabrics for higher margins, I'm looking at you H&M and UNIQLO ...
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-14 18:07:17+00:00
I'm of two minds on this. As you say, renaming from War to Defense was a lie to tell Americans a more palatable story. However, renaming from Defense to War is actually the same thing in the current political context but for populace with different values. It is honest in a way but that was not the intention, nor is it the effective result. It's just a different lie.
by alsetmusic | 2026-01-14 18:07:38+00:00
> Is there any surprise that there's a dearth of armed citizens ready to stand up for them?

We may have the most armed citizenry in the world. If the second amendment advocates cared as much about our protected rights as they claim, they’d be all over this. All you’re saying is that our liberties only matter to them as regards people who agree with them politically. Which is absolutely true.
by sfink | 2026-01-14 18:07:50+00:00
It's complicated, though mostly that complication doesn't change the overall conclusion.

Much of the language's semantics can be boiled away before JIT compilation, because that flexibility isn't in use at that time, which can be proven by a quick check before entering the hot code. (Or in the extreme, the JIT code doesn't check it at all, and the runtime invalidates that code lazily when an operation is performed that violates those preconditions.) Which thwarts people who do simple-minded comparisons of "what language is fastest at `for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) x += 7`?", because the runtime is entirely dominated by the hot loop, and the machine code for the hot loop is identical across all languages tested.

Still: you have to spend time JIT compiling. You have to do some dynamic checks in all but the innermost hot code. You have to materialize data in memory, even if just as a fallback, and you have to garbage collect periodically.

So I agree with your conclusion, except for perhaps un-nuanced use of the term "performance floor" -- there's really no elevated JS floor, at least not a global one; simple JS can generate the same or nearly the same machine code as equivalent C/C++/Rust, will use no more memory, and will never GC. But that floor only applies to a small subset of code (which can be the bulk of the runtime!), and the higher floor does kick in for everything else. So generally speaking, JS can only "be as fast" as non-managed languages for simple programs.

(I'll ignore the situations where the JIT can depend on stricter constraints at runtime than AOT-compiled languages, because I've never seen a real-world situation where it helps enough to counterbalance everything else.)
by senordevnyc | 2026-01-14 18:08:13+00:00
I generally don't think I'd care, but I don't put most music (or most of any art) up on a pedestal and imbue it with all sorts of stories and meaning about how it's a dialogue or relationship between me and the artist. If I enjoy it, I generally don't care where it came from or how it was made.

BUT I also recognize that is NOT how most people feel, and that's fine.
by billti | 2026-01-14 18:08:15+00:00
I think the timing of the Cybertruck starting deliveries roughly aligning with when Elon got heavily involved in politics hurt it quite a bit. It is such a distinctive vehicle with a strong association with Elon, that there was an immediate brand association. It may have had poor sales anyway, but it certainly didn't help that many folks on the left, who are typically the most 'pro EV', had a large 'anti-Elon' shift around its launch.

That said, even though it's not to my taste, I do admire that they dared to do something different and took a big gamble on it. So many vehicles, especially in the truck space, are almost indistinguishable and lack any kind of imagination. Kudos to Tesla for trying to break the mold and push the category somewhere new.
by ASalazarMX | 2026-01-14 18:08:17+00:00
> I also personally witnessed multiple friends who dropped out of college due to IRC addiction in the early 1990s.

I think there's always a segment of any population that will get addicted to anything, to the point of dropping family, friends, school, or work. Blame it on culture, nurture, genetics, unfulfillment, or simply lack of self control, but it always happens.

Blaming IRC, which is a pretty neutral outlet, is unfair. This is specially true today, as we have things designed and constantly honed to be as addictive as possible.
by Aerroon | 2026-01-14 18:08:43+00:00
The figures are a bit misleading. First you've got to understand what food security is:

>"at the household level, food security is defined as access to food that is adequate in terms of quality, quantity, safety and cultural acceptability for all household members." (Gillespie, and Mason, 1991).[0]

These potatoes being given away might not meet all the criteria for food security either. Eg they might not have all the things that are considered a nutritious meal (but I'm unsure).

Second, the website might say "1 in 7 people face daily challenges", but it's probably based on this stat:

>An estimated 86.3 percent of U.S. households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2024, with access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (13.7 percent) were food insecure at least some time during the year.

Ie for the vast majority of these people it's not a daily thing, but something that happens sometimes (but even sometimes is too much imo).

And from the report summary:

>Children are usually shielded from the conditions that characterize very low food security. However, in 2024, children, along with adults, experienced instances of very low food security in 0.9 percent of households with children, statistically similar to the 1.0 percent in both 2023 and 2022. These 318,000 households with very low food security among children reported that, at times in 2024, children were hungry, skipped a meal, or did not eat for a whole day because there was not enough money for food.

I'm not saying food insecurity isn't a thing, but these headlines often paint a different picture than what's really happening.

That said, perhaps the reason why food insecurity is relatively low is because these advocacies say what they say. Food security is a bit like server up-time - it's relatively easy to get 99% uptime, but getting to 99.999% uptime is very hard. With food security the numbers are lower though - relatively easy to get 80-90% food security in a developed country but the last 10% are very hard (or at least that's what it seems to me).

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[0] https://www.fao.org/4/x0172e/x0172e01.htm

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details?pubid=1136...