MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stetrain | 2026-01-13 19:54:24+00:00
You missed a few:

"So I realized, as you know I've been identify as Black for a while, years now, because I like to be on the winning team"

"But as of today I'm going to re-identify as White, because I don't want to be a member of a hate group, I'd accidentally joined a hate group."

"The best advice I would give to White people is to get away hell away from Black people, just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there's no fixing this, this can't be fixed, you just have to escape. So that's what I did, I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low Black population"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6TnAn7qV1s
by globular-toast | 2026-01-13 19:54:43+00:00
> Rebase has a reputation for destroying work, and the warnings you see online don’t help.

Everyone using git needs to accept the following. Say it out aloud if you have to: no command in git can ever modify or delete a commit.

After a botched rebase your old work is one simple reset away using the reflog. Then you can have another go or reach out for help.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-13 19:55:02+00:00
Shamir's secret sharing. In that scenario, capturing me alone isn't going to get you anything even if I divulge my piece of the secret. You'd still need to find out who has the other pieces, find them, and convince them to divulge as well.

Maybe there's 3 of us, and the 4th part of the password/secret/private key is on a server of mine somewhere. If I don't check in for x duration, it wipes itself.

Yeah it means my Monero is gone now, but at least my attacker didn't get it.
by Archio | 2026-01-13 19:55:26+00:00
It's a fair point to say that the counterfactual is hard to draw up.

I will point out the main reason it's hard to come up with, is the fact that American aid, weapons sales, and diplomatic support for Israel has been so constant and unchallenged over the past several decades that we don't have many good examples of what Israel would do without impunity.
by umvi | 2026-01-13 19:55:38+00:00
> Well designed security models don't sell computers/operating systems, apparently.

Well more like it's hard to design software that is both secure-by-default and non-onerous to the end users (including devs). Every time I've tried to deploy non-trivial software systems to highly secure setups it's been a tedious nightmare. Nothing can talk to each other by default. Sometimes the filesystem is immutable and executables can't run by default. Every hole through every layer must be meticulously punched, miss one layer and things don't work and you have to trace calls through the stack, across sockets and networks, etc. to see where the holdup is. And that's not even including all the certificate/CA baggage that comes with deploying TLS-based systems.
by hamzaawan | 2026-01-13 19:56:15+00:00
I wanted to keep the latency as low as possible, ideally much faster than the typical "enterprise" email APIs. To do that, I built the backend in Go using gRPC and ConnectRPC (Buf).

Because it's built on gRPC instead of just standard REST, you get much better performance and fully typed SDKs. Right now, I have a TypeScript SDK live, and a Go SDK is in the works. But since I’m using Buf, you can basically generate a fully typed client for any language they support.

On Performance & Modes: I’ve implemented two ways to send:

Async (p50 ~34ms): This is for when you just want to fire and forget. You get an instant response, and our infrastructure handles the retries, queuing, and delivery in the background.

Sync: This is for when you need the Message-ID immediately (useful for threading replies or specific logging). You wait for the full handoff, but you get all the data you need for complex inbound flows.

The Plumbing: I’m using Amazon SES for the actual mail delivery to ensure high deliverability from day one. On top of that, I’ve built the logic to automatically handle reputation management, bounces, and complaints. You just add a domain, drop in two lines of code, and you’re done.

I really tried to strip away the "over-engineered" parts of email. No complex CRM-style contact syncing—just a high-performance pipe to send and receive mail.

Happy to answer any questions about the setup!
by tomovo | 2026-01-13 19:56:25+00:00
I guess it depends a lot on the use cases. I've used both the original Pixelmator app and the "Pro" may have been a rewrite internally but it didn't feel like a significant step up for me at the time, more like a rebrand and a way to charge for it again. And so many bugs. The development team did respond to a few of my bug reports, which was nice.
by arjie | 2026-01-13 19:56:27+00:00
This kind of limited device is something I've been thinking about with respect to what interactions I want my children to have with computers. I remember when I was 9 years old and we got these computers at the lab at school and we wrote some LOGO and BASIC and it was a mind-blowing experience. We were drawing SQUARES! And we were making TRIANGLES of ASTERISKS! Hahaha, what a glorious thing that felt like.

I got so much joy from computers and I'd like my kids to have that kind of experience too without accidentally detouring into social media (which has my mind in a vice grip).

Still a couple of years away, but I think I'd like to evaluate this kind of device then and see if it's the right model to use.
by TheAlchemist | 2026-01-13 19:56:30+00:00
I struggle to understand who pays for OF content and who follows them ? From what I've read 99% of OF is porn in some form or another. So there are millions of people who create accounts and pay for it - linking their personnal info to this thing ?

As for the visa, it's not surprising and obviously idiotic for the society, but from the 'merit' standpoints it feels about right - if somebody has 10M followers, it's not that different from a radio or tv star.
by estearum | 2026-01-13 19:56:33+00:00
The price of rent is set by local household wages.

If both partners typically work: rent rises to eat nearly all the gain.

If AI makes everyone 20% more productive: rent rises to eat nearly all the gain.

If minimum wages lift the bottom earners from $7.50/hr to $18.50/hr: rent rises to eat nearly all the gain.
by vivek-jain | 2026-01-13 19:56:37+00:00
Today, we are excited to announce the open sourcing of one of our most critical infrastructure components, Dicer: Databricks’ auto-sharder, a foundational system designed to build low latency, scalable, and highly reliable sharded services. It is behind the scenes of every major Databricks product, enabling us to deliver a consistently fast user experience while improving fleet efficiency and reducing cloud costs. Dicer achieves this by dynamically managing sharding assignments to keep services responsive and resilient even in the face of restarts, failures, and shifting workloads. As detailed in the linked blog post, Dicer is used for a variety of use cases including high-performance serving, work partitioning, batching pipelines, data aggregation, multi-tenancy, soft leader election, efficient GPU utilization for AI workloads, and more.

By making Dicer available to the broader community, we look forward to collaborating with industry and academia to advance the state of the art in building robust, efficient, and high-performance distributed systems. In the rest of this post, we discuss the motivation and design philosophy behind Dicer, share success stories from its use at Databricks, and provide a guide on how to install and experiment with the system yourself.
by neom | 2026-01-13 19:56:38+00:00
"If you gave me a one-click button to improve my skills, I’m not sure I would click it— I’d rather get there myself." - Me too! :) I use suno to gen vocals, I use my regular teenage engineering workflow + Abelton to mix and master, I'm WAY better in Abelton than I was even 6 months ago - people have always been able to download photoshop actions and filters etc, as you said, it's more about the creative journey.
by stetrain | 2026-01-13 19:56:48+00:00
I'm not sure I would describe this as "deciding to not actively ally":

"So I realized, as you know I've been identify as Black for a while, years now, because I like to be on the winning team"

"But as of today I'm going to re-identify as White, because I don't want to be a member of a hate group, I'd accidentally joined a hate group."

"The best advice I would give to White people is to get away hell away from Black people, just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there's no fixing this, this can't be fixed, you just have to escape. So that's what I did, I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low Black population"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6TnAn7qV1s
by graemep | 2026-01-13 19:56:54+00:00
> Experts are usually very good at differentiating between levels of evidence. The process of becoming an expert tends to thoroughly educate a person in just how little they actually know.

They know, and are clear about it with their peers but many are very bad at communicating it to the public. There are also experts who are overly attached to their pet theories, or biased, and communicate those things to the public as fact.

> The problem is that a bunch of talk about weak studies and probabilities and personal thoughts is not what grabs attention. The few overconfident loudmouths end up being the ones everybody hears from. And you don't even need to be an expert, you just need to sound like one.

All true, Which is why I blame the media as well.

> If you're a nutrition scientist who really knows their stuff and knows how to talk to people so that they understand just what is really known and how well it's known, how in the world do you compete with someone like RFK Jr.?

Good question! The only real solution is better science education, and to keep on plugging away.The most harmful thing is the common perception that experts hand down the truth, rather than understanding the nature of scientific evidence.
by darth_avocado | 2026-01-13 19:56:58+00:00
Forget being single, having a housemate/roommate is so painful that I refused to have one once I was in my late 20s. I’d rather pay a fat chunk of my salary to the landlord than have to deal with someone who created a mold problem by running a humidifier 24x7 because they wanted better skin.
by distances | 2026-01-13 19:57:01+00:00
I've been reading about Spotify pushing generated music but haven't seen that myself so I'm interested to know in what context it happens. Is it certain music styles? Spotify's own playlists? That smart shuffle feature?

I listen mostly in the old school way, full albums of my favourite artists, so I suppose it would be quite unexpected to stumble into AI music this way.
by aib | 2026-01-13 19:57:19+00:00
My default pull is ff-only. I don't like merging or rebasing by default.

When working in a short-lived branch, I like to rebase. I usually get no or simply easy-to-solve conflicts. I like my small and numerous commits stacked on top of the current develop. Regardless or whether we squash or not.

For long-lived branches (and technically for hard merges, though I've been using rerere more and more) merge is a better option.

What kills bisect, IMO, is large commits or commits with multiple subjects/goals. That's the reason I don't like squashed PRs.
by ebbi | 2026-01-13 19:57:19+00:00
Depends what you mean by 'help'

Because the interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya didn't really help the citizens. Instead it created more instability, and created power vacuums for other sorts of violence and degeneracy to occur.

I'm not saying I know what's the best way for Iranians to get what they want. But recent history shows us that foreign interference doesn't work, especially because those countries that are intervening aren't merely doing it from the goodness of their own hearts.
by monocasa | 2026-01-13 19:57:22+00:00
He and been way off the rails for decades before that.

In fact, growing up in the very affluent part of my city, I saw a bunch of kids die using opiates to mentally escape the weird family fiefdoms where they [p/m]atriarch inexplicably wouldn't ever need for money, so went completely off the rails mentally. I was prescribed a bunch of opiates (including fent) after a bad ski accident, and can tell you that they basically work by turning down the volume on life around you. I can understand why someone would turn to them to mentally escape a bad family life.

About the only good thing I can say about recreational Xanax is that those kids are generally still alive in contrast to the ones who preferred opiates.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-13 19:57:23+00:00
Congratulations! It feels great, doesn't it? I was not quite pre-diabetic, but trending in that direction. Blood pressure elevated (but not quite 'high'), cholesterol and stuff in the sketchy zone. But now ... everything is really good! A1C was 4.9 at my most recent test. Cholesterol great, blood pressure ~115/70 every day now, etc. I went from what felt like a slow but steady decline through middle age and now I feel 20 years younger, the future looks not like decrepitude but way more active and exciting.
by stetrain | 2026-01-13 19:57:33+00:00
"So I realized, as you know I've been identify as Black for a while, years now, because I like to be on the winning team"

"But as of today I'm going to re-identify as White, because I don't want to be a member of a hate group, I'd accidentally joined a hate group."

"The best advice I would give to White people is to get away hell away from Black people, just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there's no fixing this, this can't be fixed, you just have to escape. So that's what I did, I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low Black population"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6TnAn7qV1s
by subdavis | 2026-01-13 19:57:41+00:00
Same for me! Switched to Bandcamp + Navidrome and have decided that one of my goals for the year is to find at least 2 albums per month I want to buy.

I will shamelessly promote the bandcampsync [1] CLI tool for automating downloads of your bandcamp library and bandcamp-sync-flask [2] wrapper that I built so I could invoke it from the web on my phone after I buy an album.

[1] https://github.com/meeb/bandcampsync

[2] https://github.com/subdavis/bandcamp-sync-flask
by lazarus01 | 2026-01-13 19:57:43+00:00
It is for this reason I am grateful to be a gen xr. I was at the end of my 20s when social media blew up, so it wasn’t a meaningful part of my personal development. I cannot bring myself to look at IG and the hot mess it serves up daily. A hyper focused lens on the potential of human desperation and stupidity.

I don’t hate on the younger generation, I feel bad they grew up with this shit and try to be a positive influence.

I see people of legit talent from doctors, to chemists and musicians dedicate themselves to posting content. What people don’t understand is survivor bias. For every success story you read about, how many people are going in reverse and not experiencing social mobility (and get depressed from it).
by whaleofatw2022 | 2026-01-13 19:58:13+00:00
> A streamer / OF worker is not like that as far as I know (but e-sports is).

Well Streamer vs Influencer can be different potentially, that said I can think of one example even for video game streamers, that being the AGDQ charity event where speedrunners/streamers do stuff live for charity at the event space.
by klibertp | 2026-01-13 19:58:14+00:00
Some people will answer without being asked. The most we will get out of that is that the word "saboteur" will get a more modern synonym (not sure what it will be, but the inventor of cheap EMP granades will have the biggest say in that). The future will, of course, steamroll over such answers, as it always did, but we'll all feel the bumps on the way.
by webjunkie | 2026-01-13 19:58:14+00:00
A word of caution:
It's worth factoring in battery depreciation. That 7p→15p arbitrage isn’t "free" profit: you pay round-trip losses and you burn cycle life. If you assume ~£X installed, ~Y usable kWh, ~Z cycles to 70–80% capacity, the wear cost alone is often several pence per kWh throughput, which can wipe out most of the spread.
by yogthos | 2026-01-13 19:58:15+00:00
In my view, this is the exact right approach. LLMs aren’t going anywhere, these tools are here to stay. The only question is how they will be developed going forward, and who controls them. Boycotting AI is a really naive idea that’s just a way for people to signal group membership.

Saying I hate AI and I’m not going to use it is really trending and makes people feel like they’re doing something meaningful, but it’s just another version of trying to vote the problem away. It doesn’t work. The real solution is to roll up the sleeves and built an a version of this technology that’s open, transparent, and community driven.
by don-code | 2026-01-13 19:58:30+00:00
A few months ago I spoke with the frontman of a local Boston band from the 1980s, who recently re-released a single with the help of AI. The source material was a compact cassette tape from a demo, found in a drawer. He used AI to isolate what would've been individual tracks from the recording, then cleaned them up individually, without AI's help.

Does that constitute "wholly or in substantial part"? Would the track have existed were it not for having that easy route into re-mastering?

I understand what Bandcamp's trying to do here, and I generally am in support of removing what we'd recognize as "fully AI-generated music", but there are legitimate creative uses of AI that might come to wholly or substantially encompass the output. It's difficult to draw any lines line on a creative work, by just by nature of the work being creative.

(For those interested - check out O Positive's "With You" on the WERS Live at 75 album!)
by foldr | 2026-01-13 19:58:37+00:00
Ok, so we can either listen to

(i) people who live in London, or

(ii) people who left London because they were victims of a crime.

I'm genuinely sorry that you were the victim of a crime, but people in group (ii) are obviously likely to have a negative perception of London regardless of how much or how little crime London actually has.

By way of analogy, consider that there are people who experienced a traumatic air accident and who have never flown again. I don't blame them. But their experiences don't countervail the statistics showing that flying is safe.
by eykanal | 2026-01-13 19:58:45+00:00
Agree with the above. As someone who has never heard of this before, the description of "a portable programmable device for music, graphics, code and writing" reads to me as "a computer". I'm kind of unsure why I would want to use this instead of the computer I'm typing on right now.

This seems to be targeting the market of users with the following intersecting interests:
* DIY hardware enthusiast
* musician
* python developer
* maybe also wants graphics...?
Seems a small segment to me, but I assume I'm missing something here.
by khuey | 2026-01-13 19:59:16+00:00
Huh? In the US the married filing jointly tax brackets are exactly double the single tax brackets for every rate except the top 37% rate. A single person making 100k definitely pays a lot more in tax than than a married couple making 100k together. It's generally advantageous to be married filing jointly unless you're at the absolute top 37% rate, at the very bottom (where means tested benefits phase out), or both spouses make roughly equal incomes (in which case MFJ vs two single filers works out around the same).
by ArtificeAccount | 2026-01-13 19:59:22+00:00
I'm still working on my websites. Having some problems with JavaScript precision on my calculator: https://calculateconversion.com/

Here is a quote repository pet project that I'm having fun with: https://crucialquote.com/

And a writing prompt generator from years ago that I resurrected and still love: https://writecomfy.com/

Thanks for checking it out.
by noahbp | 2026-01-13 19:59:27+00:00
It's frustrating that the problem is acknowledged (Housing prices are too high) but the solution seems to evade the author and nearly everyone involved in setting housing policy; not because of a lack of rent control.

Housing is too expensive because it's illegal to build enough of it.

No, multi-generation households will not save us. We should not make it impossible for young people to move to cities where high-paying jobs are, or force anyone to stay in abusive homes because we have made it impossible to live on your own.
by prisenco | 2026-01-13 19:59:34+00:00
With regard to Etsy, hand-made crafts don't scale so a VC-backed startup around them was never going to be able to resist this. Only hope would be a highly moderated and curated Craigslist-style website that was happy to pay the bills, pay some salaries and keep the lights on while maintaining integrity.

Craft fairs, though, no excuse or reason. There should not be profit maximizing at local craft fairs. They're a bellwether for the degradation of culture.
by mpweiher | 2026-01-13 20:00:06+00:00
Hmm...but people claimed he was crazy for saying these things about Trump...and he was right.

(The same) people also call him crazy (or "toxic") for those other writings. Maybe those other writings were right as well?

Seems at least plausible.

And yeah, I also thought it was completely impossible for Trump to get elected even once. Never mind twice. I was wrong.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-13 20:00:21+00:00
> Looks like Confer is hosting its own inference

Even so, you're still exposing your data to Confer, and so you have to trust them that they'll behave as you want. That's a security problem that Confer doesn't help with.

I'm not saying Confer isn't useful, though. e2ee is very useful. But it isn't enough to make me feel comfortable.
by torginus | 2026-01-13 20:00:26+00:00
In my experience, financially savvy/well-off young people usually get an apartment before they get married - they either get it (or a large downpayment) from their parents or they buy one some time in their 20s - but don't get married until their late 20s to 30s.

People of my parents' generation got married way earlier, typically in early to mid 20s, so it was natural for them to build a life together.
by 2bitencryption | 2026-01-13 20:00:26+00:00
if (big if) you trust the execution environment, which is apparently auditable, and if (big if) you trust the TEE merkle hash used to sign the response is computer based on the TEE as claimed (and not a malicious actor spoofing a TEE that lives within an evil environment) and also if you trust the inference engine (vllm / sglanf, what have you) then I guess you can be confident the system is private.

Lots of ifs there, though. I do trust Moxie in terms of execution though. Doesn’t seem like the type of person to take half measures.
by ramoz | 2026-01-13 20:00:52+00:00
Recall itself is absolutely ridiculous. And any solution like it is as well.

Meanwhile, Anthropic is openly pushing the ability to ingest our entire professional lives into their model which ChatGPT would happily consume as well (they're scraping up our healthcare data now).

Sandboxing is the big buzzword early 2026. I think we need to press harder for verified privacy at inference. Any data of mine or my company's going over the wire to these models needs to stay verifiably private.
by jatora | 2026-01-13 20:01:08+00:00
and that is why policies like this will turn platforms into dinosaurs. no need to care. large behemoths always thrash a lot as they die. as do the people who see this as a positive thing.

ai music will be the future and create curated music for every user, specific to their tastes at that moment, for pennies.

suno already matches 99% of music in quality and creativity. the last 1% and beyond will come soon enough.