MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fragmede | 2026-01-23 02:07:50+00:00
> If they're worse value than my... password providers... who only charge me $5/mo

In that case, people who run Bitwarden for free are screwed. In fact, looking at how much I use the web browser Chrome, and how much I get out of that, and the fact that I pay $0 to Google to use it (inb4 I'm the product because I'm not paying for it), paying money for anything digital is terrible value!

What you've discovered is that prices are all made up. If we think about how to price a product, say a chair, from first principles, you'd take the cost of the raw materials, the time it takes you to turn those raw materials into the finished product, add a %age profit on top, and call it a day. In the real world though, that's not how pricing things works. You have a product, which costs $X in raw materials, and then you just... make up a number, $Y. Hopefully, $Y is much greater than $X, and you're able to make a great living off selling your chairs. Maybe you're called Eames and people will pay you $5,500 for your chair/lounger, maybe you're Office Depot and sell them for $129. Maybe you're not very good at chairs, so they're not level and then you can't give them away, not even to your friends.

Life is not an optimization problem. You can optimize for value, but then you'll find yourself in Walmart at 1am realizing that the 3-pack is cheaper per-roll than the 30-pack that night for some reason, and getting angry over that.
by bmurphy1976 | 2026-01-23 02:08:56+00:00
I've been hitting the limit a lot lately as well. The worst part is I try to compact things and check my limits using the / commands and can't make heads or tails how much I actually have left. It's not clear at all.

I've been using CC until I run out of credits and then switch to Cursor (my employer pays for both). I prefer Claude but I never hit any limits in Cursor.
by chongli | 2026-01-23 02:09:15+00:00
Women may have done half the labour but they didn't spend all their time weaving cloth and making clothing. You're forgetting about all the food preparation and preservation that women did. Women cooked meals, baked bread, preserved fruits and vegetables, and brewed beer, in addition to all the farm work they did (feeding chickens, collecting eggs, milking cows, working vegetable gardens, harvesting). Of course, women didn't do all of that work alone, they taught their children how to do it and supervised their labour. Large families were preferred because children are inexpensive (cheap to feed and clothe) relative to the labour they produce under proper supervision. Expensive entertainment and education for children was still centuries away.
by fragmede | 2026-01-23 02:09:41+00:00
> The money will be funneled into 401K

Only the money from Alphabet employees who put money into their 401k will end up there. Other parts go to taxes paid by Alphabet and taxes paid by the employees. The vast majority though will go into Alphabet's coffers and be used to pay back investors and make big bets on the future (ideally). Sundar gets a bunch, as does Sergey and Brin. Waymo's taken more than a decade to get this far (and it's not quite there yet). DARPA jump-started this with their Grand Challenge in 2004, so I think the government does deserve a bunch of tax revenue off of this.
by okanat | 2026-01-23 02:10:34+00:00
Yes, that's the part that Americans miss and the previous commenter missed. Charlie Brown is still optimistic.

To dig the English comedy you need to accept that you are or the protagonist is a failure. Your or their life will never significantly improve and they made peace with it. You covet and enjoy small moments of happiness. Happiness is not the winning big but returning home.
by alexpotato | 2026-01-23 02:10:49+00:00
I lived in NYC for 8 years and have worked there for almost 20 years.

Absolutely loved zooming around to see:

- my old apartment

- places I've worked

- restaurants and rooftop lounges I've been to etc

The explanation of how this was put together was even cooler: https://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc
by gus_massa | 2026-01-23 02:11:15+00:00
Autotranslating technical texts is very hard. After the translation, you muct check that all the technical words were translated correctly, instead of a fancy synonym that does not make sense.

(A friend has an old book translated a long time ago (by a human) from Russian to Spanish. Instead of "complex numbers", the book calls them "complicated numbers". :) )
by DaveParkCity | 2026-01-23 02:12:25+00:00
The news is not that they turned off this account. The news is that this user understands very little about the nature of zero sum context mathematics. The mentioned Claude.md is a totally useless mess. Anthropic is just saving themselves from the token waste of this strategy on a fixed billing rate plan.

If the OP really wants to waste tokens like this, they should use a metered API so they are the one paying for the ineffectiveness, not Anthropic.

(Posted by someone who has Claude Max and yet also uses $1500+ a month of metered rate Claude in Kilo Code)
by bluGill | 2026-01-23 02:14:50+00:00
Earthly colored clothing was not normal. Sometimes it might be forced on slaves, but humans like colors and dying clothing is a tiny part of what is needed to make a garment so anyone allowed to would do it.

of course we have a lot more colors available today, but there is every reason to think they would use all the color they could. Some of the colors decay fast (lasting longer than the garment if in use but not surviving to today if the garment was stored). Mostly this is something not written about in history so we have to guess but we have plenty of reason to think color was common.
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-23 02:15:18+00:00
I'm reasonably sure I do. I've done that exact test literally half a dozen times now due to people telling me that I'm wrong, and each time I test it turns out that I'm right. What other conclusion am I supposed to come to?

I think it's someone else's turn to do the test now.

> The inbound packets from the internet are to a public IP that belongs to the device performing NAT.

If the inbound packets are addressed to the router, they get delivered to the router. But you cannot just declare that that's where they'll be addressed. You aren't in control of what packets show up to your router, you're only in control of how you process them after they show up.
by Rochus | 2026-01-23 02:15:42+00:00
> the guy who played the CD 50 times would today need to stream it... 50 times.

In a standard record deal, the number is much higher than 50. Usually, the artist only keeps $0.0006 per song (15% of the payout). To earn $2.00, you would need ~280 full album listens.

In 1995, if you bought a CD for $15, the artist got their $2.00 even if you only listened once. In 2025, if you listen once, the artist gets $0.007.
by dmix | 2026-01-23 02:15:52+00:00
> compounding gains that didn't cause massive economic hardships along the way.

I’ve read multiple stories of European manufacturers saying they are struggling with high operating costs, with energy being a major factor making it difficult to compete with China who has invested in every sort of energy broadly. China doesn’t just compete on labour costs like people think, they figured out ways to make every part of operating there cheaper.

Just keeping the prices baseline to something else that’s already relatively expensive shouldn’t be the only goal. But it’s progress I guess.
by pteraspidomorph | 2026-01-23 02:16:52+00:00
RTS like Age of Empires were more geared towards combat, and base building existed only to supplement that. Whereas in games like Pharaoh and Caeser you could plan your city if you wanted to.

My iteration of The Settlers was The Settlers II (also its later 3D remake) which is very much designed around roads that units mostly had to use! This was found in other early instances of RTS but later discarded (including in The Settlers series).

It's true, however, that events like floods or the tax collector were missing. Those are more easily found in board games.
by gpm | 2026-01-23 02:17:57+00:00
> the description as "the next evolution of sqlite" is offensive

That marketing is really the one thing that keeps me from considering this as a serious option.

To callback to an article a few days ago, it's a signal of dishonest intent [1], and why in the world would I use the alternative built by apparently dishonest people when sqlite is right there and has one of the best track records in the industry.

[1] https://zanlib.dev/blog/reliable-signals-of-honest-intent/
by epsteingpt | 2026-01-23 02:19:14+00:00
I did read the essay. Thanks for the discussion!

"Those who use AI must always remember that it is psychologically designed to keep you typing and asking. It targets your vulnerabilities to achieve this end without any spiritual concern for your soul. To the creators of AI, your addiction to their platforms is a metric of their success.

Many have told us that AI chatbots give “good” spiritual answers that are “correct,” but as long as the underlying programming of the AI is to keep you directed onto itself, the behavior of AI is simply that of a false elder. A false elder may very well teach correctly and coat his words with a spiritual veneer, but ultimately, he wants you to focus more on himself than on Christ. Dealing with a false elder can cause a believer severe spiritual damage by distorting what should be a relationship with the divine to one of dependency with a person who seeks his own glory. Today, AI may share dogmatically correct spiritual answers, but its goal is not your salvation but for you to ceaselessly ask it more questions. The creators of AI want you to love their own creation, not the Lord Himself."

This is true with any technology, and often, in many cases many human spiritual leader.

My agreement is not to downplay the risk or natural 'amorality' of such a technology--it's clear with Grok e.g. AI can truly do evil. But LLM's are not internet porn or gambling.

Just because the current version and incentives of technology are arranged in such a way doesn't mean you can't counteract it.

The enemy will find and use new ways to enslave us - we can't reject progress because of that.

So yes, I do 100% agree with the current mission and technology. But unlike the author, I personally believe the ultimate work of Christianity in humanity is to turn us all to repentance and bring us closer to God, not to reject the sinners.
by spike021 | 2026-01-23 02:20:56+00:00
I probably didn't market it enough but I specifically made an iOS game last year to be premium, $2.99, as a one time purchase to try and get around the obsession with subscription and freemium/ad-supported models but pretty much didn't get any more than a handful of sales.

At least for games I think it's much too late for the one time purchase model unless you're part of a pro studio making relatively big games.
by andrewbastin | 2026-01-23 02:21:48+00:00
I run NixOS within VMWare Fusion (Mitchell Hashimoto has posted something similar https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config) in my M4 Max MBP. It runs pretty well but may hit the battery life sometimes. There are some weird stuff that happens with their GPU accelaration and random Fusion crashes sometimes. I patched Hyprland locally in my config due to a weird (but documented) issue with their GPU accelaration implementation https://github.com/AndrewBastin/nixos-config/blob/main/modul...

I have tested Fusion, Parallels and UTM and Fusion seemed to be the most stable for me.
by eli_gottlieb | 2026-01-23 02:22:07+00:00
"Anti-patriotism" doesn't really sum up the sense that many among Europe's owning and intellectual classes would prefer to "dissolve the people and elect another" via immigration. The example that shocked me, as an American, was when a story came out that certain schools in the UK had stopped teaching about World War II and the Holocaust because (second-generation, in many cases) immigrant parents objected to their kids being preached-at about the history of someone else's country. This was presented by, IIRC, the Guardian or the BBC, as a fairly reasonable objection.

To my American mind, for everything wrong with our country, come on, if you're an immigrant to the USA, it's your country. Taking on American history as your history is what it means to be part of the common civic project, and insisting that "the Allies beat Hitler and built the liberal international order and then we saw off Stalinism too" is somehow insulting to your family because those Allied soldiers weren't your blood ancestors sounds outright treasonous.
by brendangregg | 2026-01-23 02:22:36+00:00
Funny to see this fixed in 2023 and the side effects. Back in 2004, before I focused on performance, I did some security work including inter-keystroke latency analysis of captured SSH sessions to estimate the commands typed:

https://www.brendangregg.com/sshanalysis.html

The 2023 patch should finally fix that 2004 issue.
by aalhijawi | 2026-01-23 02:22:49+00:00
Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are quietly becoming one of the biggest identity risks in 2026.

We’ve built strong guardrails for human access (MFA, SSO, awareness).

But the most powerful “users” in our environments are often machines: service accounts, API keys, cloud roles, CI/CD tokens, Kubernetes service accounts, integrations.

Attackers love NHIs because they don’t need to break in. They can operate as the system.

So I built a simple infographic and framework to make NHI governance practical:

1) Discover: continuous inventory across cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD and SaaS
2) Attribute: add context (type, environment, data touched, privilege tier)
3) Own: named accountability (no owner, no identity)
4) Minimize: least privilege and drift control
5) Replace: move to short-lived or secretless patterns
6) Detect: behavior-based monitoring (not just weird logins)

If your org has ever asked “Who created this key?” or “What uses this token?” you’ve felt the governance gap.

How are you managing NHIs today?
by Guestmodinfo | 2026-01-23 02:23:54+00:00
Purely as an architectural thing: concrete seems to hold you forever in its unchanging form while bamboo, wood and metal sheets hold promises of changing the design whenever you feel like and the repairibility the DIYness the modularity is unmatched. I have lived in both houses so that's my experience. I'm thinking these days to make a house out of these materials and use concrete very less. I wish govts allow us to grow our own wood farms so that we can cut trees anytime we want if we have planted them. I know govts do allow but I have a bit less knowledge on this.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-23 02:25:21+00:00
There's a whole lot of pictorial evidence from medieval times and it typically shows quite a bit of fancy colored clothing. Even traditional "folk" attire, that would've been restricted to cheaper choices, is not really all that brownish. Modern chemical dyes were only around starting in the mid-19th c. or so, hence prior to that you got a somewhat poorer color selection, but some variety was absolutely available.
by betty_staples | 2026-01-23 02:25:56+00:00
>I have seen more than once our local vet using this technique to treat cats with large wounds -- with great results by the way.

I'm not surprised, a lot of vets I know from Iraq and Afghanistan had used Tilapias for battlefield dressing. Worst case there was a Tilapia MRE people kept around for this purpose. Honestly it's great to see them taking those skills from war and translating them into helping street animals such as cats.
by bee_rider | 2026-01-23 02:26:20+00:00
In a zombie setting the fact that agriculture takes up a lot of space could be really useful from a story-telling point of view. It provides a reason to expand past the walls of the settlement.

It’s weird because in these settings a successful settlement is usually portrayed as basically impossible for the zombies to break into. Then, somebody has to do something stupid to let them in. Movies where things fall apart despite nobody making an obviously stupid mistake are a lot more satisfying IMO.
by andrewflnr | 2026-01-23 02:26:28+00:00
Let's say that every unit of time spent driving a vehicle is of equal utility for every person, and that the utility scales linearly with the absolute length of a given stretch of driving or time between. Let's say everyone uses their car to go basically the same distances to the same kinds of places carrying the same cargo and passengers, with basically the same costs for needing an alternative. Let's also say that cows are frictonless spheres in a vacuum.

Or we could just not pretend that "utility" is a concept that can be applied uniformly across all car-shaper objects.
by eieio | 2026-01-23 02:26:42+00:00
> Or you could use anycasting to terminate SSH sessions on the moral equivalent of one of a number of geography based reverse proxies and then forward the packet over an internal network to the app server over a link tuned for low latency.

I've been thinking about some stuff like this! Not being able to put my game behind Cloudflare[1] is a bummer. Substantial architectural overhead though.

> The idea of letting Claude loose on my crypto[graphy] implementation is about the most frightening thing I've heard of in a while [though libnss is so craptastic, I can't see how it would hurt in that case.]

I hear you, but FWIW the patch I was reverting was trivial (and it's also in the go crypto library, which is pretty easy to read). It's a couple-of-line change[2], and Claude did almost exactly what I would have done (I was tired and would have forgotten to shrink the handshake payload).

[1] This isn't strictly true, Cloudflare spectrum exists, but its pricing is an insane $1/GB last I checked.

[2] https://cs.opensource.google/go/x/crypto/+/833695f0a57b30373...
by ashton314 | 2026-01-23 02:27:55+00:00
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by avelino | 2026-01-23 02:27:56+00:00
I built a tool to solve a problem I kept hitting: deploying Clojure apps without requiring Java on the target machine.23:20:00 [3/101]

The usual answer is GraalVM native-image, but in practice it means dealing with reflection configs, library incompatibilities, long build times, and a complex toolchain. For many projects it's more friction than it's worth.

clj-pack takes a different approach: it bundles a minimal JVM runtime (via jlink) with your uberjar into a single executable. The result is a binary that runs anywhere with zero external dependencies and full JVM compatibility — no reflection configs, no unsupported libraries, your app runs exactly as it does in development.

clj-pack build --input ./my-project --output ./dist/my-app
./dist/my-app # no Java needed
How it works:

Detects your build system (deps.edn or project.clj)

Compiles the uberjar

Downloads a JDK from Adoptium (cached locally)

Uses jdeps + jlink to create a minimal runtime (~30-50 MB)

Packs everything into a single binary

The binary extracts on first run (cached by content hash), subsequent runs are instant.

Trade-off is honest: binaries are slightly larger than GraalVM output (~30-50 MB vs ~20-40 MB), and first execution has extraction overhead. But you get full compatibility and a simple build process in return.

Written in Rust, supports Linux and macOS (x64/aarch64).

Feedback and contributions welcome
by hexbin010 | 2026-01-23 02:28:30+00:00
In business I find Americans oversell their achievements and I constantly have to decode "the absolute best", "knocked it out the park", "most amazing X" and figure out what has been redefined this month for that to be true. They use incredible contortions in language too to mislead and cover up and make themselves look good

Colleagues also managed to have the most amazing coffee or literally — literally — the best taco ever, every week. It's quite something!

We also get self deprecating in front of Americans because they're purposefully intimidating. Big characters, loud voices, huge military they're not afraid to use etc. UK is often bullied by the US Gov. It's deference too
by minimaltom | 2026-01-23 02:29:30+00:00
There are attestation mechanisms, but huge portions of a public user-base (especially android) don't pass that check because their device is too old, or their OEM sucked, or something something mediatek SOC, or <insert esoteric detail within the attested data that fails check in opaque way>

In my experience, all forms of attestation start to become impractical at scale unless you have a fairly homogeneous, well-patched fleet. This is particularly heinous for TPMs, where I've observed TPMs coming off one STM line having invalid EK certs, but other STM TPMs of the same model are fine. Or the platform firmware stamped out onto the motherboard has a bug in how it extends PCR0 and the event log is just borked forever, and so on... Totally unworkable.
by cvhc | 2026-01-23 02:29:37+00:00
I agree with your point on surviving the market, but I also suspect vibe coding give rise to lemon [1] projects that only intend to get quick money and don't care about recurring revenue.

My wife was preparing for a specific exam and found an AI-powered mock exam app. The trial version was polished, but after she paid for full access she realized most contents are of low quality and some basic functionalities are broken. I imagine with LLM one might easily create such lemon products in infinite niche markets even without much domain knowledge, scam out some money from new users, and care not about survival.

[1] As in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(automobile)
by reaperducer | 2026-01-23 02:29:54+00:00
fraudulent withdrawal from your checking account, and weeks of waiting to get it back

I've had this happen to me twice in about 25 years. Neither bank made me wait weeks.

The most recent one (with a giant megabank) issued a provisional credit in under an hour.

There seem to be a lot of people in this thread who have never actually been through this and are just apeing what other people say online.

U.S. banks largely give debit cards the same protections as credit cards for at least the last 15 years.
by emsti | 2026-01-23 02:30:13+00:00
For 40 years, we’ve been carefully adding "invisible stuff" to our equations to make the universe make sense. We have built an entire cosmology on a ghost that refuses to show itself. But what if the error isn’t in what we see, but in the very foundation of what we think Space and Time are?
The idea is simple, yet radical:
Spacetime isn’t a stage where things happen. It is a secondary structure—the "exhaust smoke" of information flow.

Most modern physics tries to "quantize" gravity, assuming space is a fundamental fabric. But we should be asking a different question:
"If information flow is fundamentally irreversible, what kind of geometry must emerge from that loss?"
In this new and full math and physic framework (EMSTI - https://zenodo.org/records/17911993):
* Space and Time are not fundamental: They are emergent statistical solutions.
* Gravity is not a force: It is a manifestation of information dissipation (entropy production).
* Dark Matter disappears: It is replaced by an "entropic acceleration" that arises naturally when systems are out of equilibrium.

How do you see the "stage" of the universe? Premise or consequence?