MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tenemo | 2026-01-06 18:02:27+00:00
I'm not the person you replied to, but yes, I've been using RiF since the API changes ...with a small 4-month l break last year when I was automatically flagged as bot API traffic and instantly permabanned with no warning. Reddit's built-in appeals went unanswered and ignored. Luckily I live in the EU, I appealed under DSA and they unbanned me after actual human review right before the 1-month deadline.

Could have I created a new account instead? Maybe. Did I want to check if DSA actually works in practice and can get me back my u/Tenemo nickname that I use everywhere, not just on Reddit? I sure did! Turns out Reddit cannot legally ban me from their platform without a valid reason, no matter what is in the ToS. Pretty cool!

Back to using RiF with a fresh API key after that and haven't had any issues since.
by vikingerik | 2026-01-06 18:02:57+00:00
Clarification: only Magic Kingdom has that extra step of train/ferry/bus transportation from the parking lot. For all the other parks at Disney World, you can drive in and walk to the entrance. (There are trams if you're far out, but you can also walk.)

Yes, Walt did want that extra step of separation from the real world. Then Disney realized the logistical problems with it and didn't repeat it for the other parks, but they're stuck with it at Magic Kingdom. (And it also acts as an upsell for the premium resorts that are positioned right next to Magic Kingdom in walking distance.)
by Aachen | 2026-01-06 18:03:08+00:00
> ads make available a huge amount of media and services to people who would otherwise be unable to afford it.

They don't. Follow the money: why do ads power free services? The advertiser needs to expect to make more money in the scenario where they run the ad as compared to where they don't. The viewer must be spending more money in response to having seen it

If the viewer doesn't have the money to pay the first party fair and straight (say, a video website), they also don't have money to splurge on that fancy vacuum cleaner in addition to the website and advertisement broker getting paid, no matter how many ads you throw at them

Ads are useful for honest products, like if I were to start a company and believe that I've made a vacuum cleaner that's genuinely better (more or better cleaning at a lower or equal cost) but nobody knows about it yet. However, I don't see the point in money redirection schemes where affluent people inefficiently pay for public services (if they're indistinguishable and the company shows ads to both, thereby funding the poor people's usage). Let's do that through taxes please
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-06 18:03:16+00:00
> Relatives of the President / Prime Minister also have influence on the government.

Not necessarily, in a properly working system it wouldn't happen. When it does happen, it's a sign that the elected official isn't up to par, which in turn, is a sign that the pool of candidates wasn't either. And guess who exerts the most influence on selecting the candidates and electing the leaders - it's not their relatives.

Follow the money, first and foremost - any deviation from that leads to errors and waste of time.
by driverdan | 2026-01-06 18:04:08+00:00
I have a lifetime subscription to Plex. I hate everything they've been doing over the past few years. They're completely ignoring their existing users in the quest for growth.

* Social sharing stuff that shows what you watch to others by default.

* Adding their streaming services and other paid services.

* Changing the UI layout to hide self hosted content, promote paid services, with poor UX for changing it back.

* Ignoring bugs that have been known and unfixed for years.

* Ignoring user feedback, doubling down on their poor decisions.
by arghwhat | 2026-01-06 18:04:19+00:00
I don't agree.

First of all, Java isn't a platform. Kotlin and Java are both just languages, and Kotlin has explicit interoperability with Java exactly to make it easy for Java devs to "upgrade".

The JVM is a common target for both Java and Kotlin, where the two are intentionally interoperable - from the Kotlin-side, by virtue of explicit annotation. Both languages have other targets through other compilers, e.g., Kotlin's native backend and GraalVM.

The widening gap is not at all moving Kotlin further away from Java developers, but is just increasing the reasons to migrate. It is crucially not making interoperability with existing, legacy Java harder, just giving you more toys. Stuff like suspend functions vs. virtual threads only affects decision making in new application code, and you can for all intents and purposes use either depending on whether you're writing new Kotlin libs for a legacy Java app or a Kotlin app using legacy Java libs.

The C → Rust migrations that happen a lot these days underline how differences in features isn't at all a problem (quite the opposite when there's new features), but that interoperability allowing partial work is by far the most important thing.

Plus, considering that Android apps were responsible for a very significant portion of actively developed Java (I would assume quite a loand has with Android having gone full Kotlin, a quite significant portion of Java developers will either already have migrated or soon be migrating to follow suit. This will over time affect a quite significant portion of the available skill pool for hiring, which will add additional pressure on enterprise.

There will always be Java, but I'd expect a significant portion of actively developed applications (as opposed to maintenance-mode only applications) to slowly migrate to either Kotlin or something else entirely.
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-06 18:04:26+00:00
Ukraine might have some possible retaliatory options in that case though. Far from ideal, but they could for example load a big ship full of explosives and blow up much of St Petersburg.

Of course, other options such as biological weapons have been explored in the past. Ukraine wouldn't necessarily have to invest all that much to prepare retaliatory operations capable of killing millions of Russians in the case of a nuclear attack.

The only problem with such less orthodox means is that they're almost necessarily covert, and therefore can provide limited deterrence. "We have ways to impose immense costs if necessary" just doesn't sound that scary when the means are a secret.
by zihotki | 2026-01-06 18:04:26+00:00
And more to come! Physical buttons now are a part of European Transport Safety Council requirements to get a high safety rating, from https://etsc.eu/cars-will-need-buttons-not-just-touchscreens...:

"New Euro NCAP tests due in 2026 will encourage manufacturers to use separate, physical controls for basic functions in an intuitive manner, limiting eyes-off-road time and therefore promoting safer driving."
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-06 18:04:33+00:00
My biggest issue with line level managers is that they don’t control budgets or have any real authority - raises, promotions, etc.

I love managing initiatives - just not people. But anytime I have been bought into a company where I was responsible for major company wide strategy, I made sure I reported directly to someone with authority - a director or a CTO. It was mostly small companies.

Even now where as a staff level employee where I do report to a line level manager (who is at the same salary band as I am) who I like and respect very much, I am making sure I have visibility and the ear of my skip manager and my CTO about things I care about - without stepping on my managers toes.
by callumprentice | 2026-01-06 18:04:38+00:00
Phenomenal collection but like the parent of this message, I have many similar sites bookmarked but without a good bookmark manager (Chrome), it's hard to add meta data like "I really like this page's JSON formatter" etc.

I might have a go at a making meta-utility site when you enter names, descriptions, tags etc. of a utility and it lists relevant sites.

To the parent's point about a good DOT COM, I have one that might be perfect since I seem incapable of finishing the project I purchased it for decades ago.
by nikisil80 | 2026-01-06 18:04:43+00:00
lol I can't believe we're doing this again. None of this is innovation. None of this is new. These are all things that already exist. I understand it's impressive that Opus could go through the tedious process on its own, especially considering other LLMs failed. However, none of this is going to improve people's lives. It will simply add more and more and more and more and more slop apps to an already tetra-slopified universe of apps. Do people not see how useless this is? Re-building things that most probably already exist, simply with your own little special flavour? Where are we going...
by seniorThrowaway | 2026-01-06 18:04:45+00:00
You're being a bit obtuse here yourself. The original premise of Plex was to stream your own media on your own network. I was a very early user of it, before these additional "features" that were pushed more by the Plex team than by user demand were added. They made it so you had to hack the xml config file to be able to use it in the traditional no login way, that was a pretty hostile move in my opinion and was the first eyebrow raiser for me. They also made it so you had to have a paid account to use any of the mobile clients in a clear monetization move there is no technical reason why you can't open your plex server to the internet and connect a mobile app that way, that's what jellyfin allows. I worked around this for a while by connecting to my home network on a VPN and just using chrome mobile to stream but it was less than ideal, obviously. Yes then they offered the proxying service with dynamic TLS cert generation as another paid for service, I remember it, but having never had a plex account let alone a paid one it was no interest to me. Do you work for Plex? Because your post reads like you do, especially the attitude of people not knowing what features they want and needing Plex to tell (sell) them.
by text0404 | 2026-01-06 18:05:03+00:00
Because Mamdani is not "far far left" unless you live in the American echo chamber which treats anything not right-wing as a leftist threat [1]. On a global stage, where actual political systems exist beyond America's basic, captured two-party system, the words "left" and "right" have established political meaning.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/how-nspm-7-seeks...
by josephg | 2026-01-06 18:05:25+00:00
I love rust, but C does make it a lot easier to make certain kinds of container types. Eg, intrusive lists are trivial in C but very awkward in rust. Even if you use unsafe, rust’s noalias requirement can make a lot of code much harder to implement correctly. I’ve concluded for myself (after a writing a lot of code and a lot of soul searching) that the best way to implement certain data structures is quite different in rust from how you would do the same thing in C. I don’t think this is a bad thing - they’re different languages. Of course the best way to solve a problem in languages X and Y are different.

And safe abstractions mean this stuff usually only matters if you’re implementing new, complex collection types. Like an ECS, b-tree, or Fenwick tree. Most code can just use the standard collection types. (Vec, HashMap, etc). And then you don’t have to think about any of this.
Show HN: I automated 69 marketing roles into a single AI Operating System
by MMAFRAZ | 2026-01-06 18:05:46+00:00
I am a developer, not a marketer.

Like many of you, I can build products, but I hate the manual grind of "growth" (writing SEO blogs, scripting videos, cold emailing). It feels inefficient.

So I spent the last few months building Vect AI (vect.pro).

Instead of hiring a marketing team, I built 69 Autonomous Agents to do the work for me.

The Search Link above (site:vect.pro) lists every single agent I've built so far.

What it does: You don't "chat" with it. You run it like a function.

run(viral_video_script) -> It analyzes trends and outputs a script.
run(competitor_analysis) -> It scrapes their landing page and finds gaps.
run(seo_strategy) -> It builds a keyword map.
The Tech:

Built on Next.js & TypeScript.
Uses specialized prompts (not generic LLM chat).
Designed for high-velocity execution.
You can try the actual dashboard here: https://vect.pro

Feedback on the agent logic is welcome.
by manuelmoreale | 2026-01-06 18:05:58+00:00
> My personal preference would be a network recommendation system.

Random question: do you have a personal site where you write about things you recommend? Because that's the solution IMO. And that's the network you're talking about: it's the web. You find enough people you trust and you see what they recommend. The issue is that in modern society 99% of the people consume and 1% are fucking influencers getting paid to promote crap.
by tramcaseht | 2026-01-06 18:06:03+00:00
Hiring Tech Lead and SRE – REMOTE LATAM - We build AI tools that help high-volume law firms manage their caseloads more efficiently. Our first product—an AI assistant that transcribes and classifies inbound calls—is in production. We’re now expanding into case tracking, follow-ups, and full workflow automation.

Looking for:

Tech Lead: Lead a senior team, shape product and tech, work closely with founders.

Tech Stack: Python, TypeScript, Postgres, Kubernetes, GCP Languages: Spanish + English for leadership. English only OK for engineers.

SRE: DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer // CI/CD and Kubernetes

Apply here: tramcase.com
by goatlover | 2026-01-06 18:06:07+00:00
Bad ideas in politics should be argued about, particularly if they are gaining traction and have backing, because then there's a decent chance they will become policy. People who tune out of politics because of polarization and toxicity are letting the bad ideas win.

Bad ideas in fields of expertise need to be discussed to the extent of keeping the field free of bad ideas as much as possible. Biologists will sometimes point out why intelligent design is not a good scientific theory for example.
by boxed | 2026-01-06 18:06:25+00:00
Playing without the net is what Sam Harris calls this kind of logic. I must say I agree.

Your statement is only true if:

- collateral damage in war is the same thing as "murder"
- you only count dead if a jew killed them
- of course you never count anyone who dies by being killed by a non-jew
- or if you do count them, claim that it's a false flag by jews

Russia is literally waging a full scale war against Ukraine, China has concentration camps and forced sterilizations, Iran is executing and disappearing people by the hundreds as we speak, etc, etc. But of course, none of that counts or it's the jews fault anyway.
by biotinker | 2026-01-06 18:06:32+00:00
No, we wanted full EVs. Mazda doesn't make any, only hybrids. We wound up going with Chevrolet in both instances.

The Equinox EV is one of the better EVs to offer AWD out there right now, matching the range of a Model 3 at a decently better price and obviously massively better UI. Slower charging is the only real downside.

And a used pre-2020s Bolt is a really excellent value, because they are insanely cheap (under $15k) and due to the whole catching-on-fire thing they all had their batteries replaced in the last few years, which means you get a much newer battery than the mileage/age of the car would suggest. The Bolt is replacing a much older Leaf, so bumping the range up to ~200 miles from ~70 is a huge upgrade for us.
by Molitor5901 | 2026-01-06 18:06:35+00:00
I am happy to see this and hope it spreads. A lot of us, IMO, would pay more for physical buttons - which is really a way to go about this, even though logistically it's problematic. If you want physical buttons, pay for it, if not, go with digital capacitive touch. I think cars should be like airplanes - physical controls, able to be felt and pushed without taking eyes off the road. The digital buttons far too often require my attention to be diverted, or pull over.
by altairprime | 2026-01-06 18:06:42+00:00
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a60583398/nyc-noise-camera...

NYC installed these. Turns out with a city noise limit of 76 and ticketing those in excess of 84dBa, that you’ll ticket certain street ‘legal’ cars whose noise levels can reach into the 90s (!) if driven improperly in-city. Always glad to see technology progressing; I hope it spreads elsewhere.
by 0x3444ac53 | 2026-01-06 18:06:50+00:00
Ehhhh, that's a bit of a false equivalence. Most communist/anarchist/etc are "for the people", and the people in question are often marginalized or oppressed groups with little to no institutional power.

Fascists, on the other hand are "for our people", and the "our people" bit often means White, rich, me and mine type thing. A good example is how the American right-wing often talks about immigration. They'll talk about a mythical "good immigrant" from a south American country, we can let them in because they're "one of the good ones". Not like those other brown people, of course.
by tarentel | 2026-01-06 18:06:54+00:00
Frameworks from other companies. A lot of it is analytics/tracking, some payment processing, etc. There are a few open source libraries we're using as well but those probably are <5mb if I had to guess although I never checked.

Again, a lot of these companies have also been around so if my app has a ton of bloat from years of work, we're bringing in frameworks from other companies who have been around for years as well and probably have a similar amount of crap in their code. Plus they probably want to track everything we're doing so they're bringing in their own third party libraries. It's kind of ridiculous but that's where we're at.

Bigger companies won't have as many third party libraries as they can afford to do it in house but they're still bringing in similar sized libraries to do the same things.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-06 18:07:16+00:00
I saw footage someone captured when they modified their Canon 1D to use a PL mount. They then mounted a 17mm, iirc, that in a slow shutter could capture as many photons as my shitty 20mm EF mount could do in a 5s long exposure in bulb mode. The front piece of glass on that 17mm was ginormous. I really wish I could remember the guy's name to find a link. He mounted that camera to the front of a fishing boat down the canyon river pushed by the current navigating in the dark with night vision goggles. The resulting timelapse was glorious.

There was something specific to the body of the 1D that allowed for the proper flange depth of PL lenses that the other Canon bodies did not work for this mod.
by samdk | 2026-01-06 18:07:34+00:00
Most of that stuff isn't necessary just to replace Plex, the OP's saying them Jellyfin started them on a journey they're presumably enjoying, not that they needed everything there to replace it.

I think you're right the bar is still too high for most folks, although I will note that I think it's dramatically lower than it used to be. A lot of the tools are all-around way easier to deal with, tailscale makes a lot of "personal cloud" use-cases much more feasible, and then coding agents (I'm using claude code) dramatically reduce the labor costs of getting this stuff all working and fixing it when something goes wrong.
by titzer | 2026-01-06 18:07:43+00:00
> I literally never need ads. I just search for the solution to the problem I’m having. No push needed (or wanted).

I want to agree with you, but you only think you're not seeing ads. Obviously, the SEO corruption has made everything you search for distorted by irresistible economic incentives of tilting the search results and search engine in favor of promoters.
by marcosdumay | 2026-01-06 18:08:06+00:00
> Are we playing word games here?

No. A single process can have several allocators, switch between them, or use temporary low limits to enforce some kind of safety. None of that has any relation to your system running out of memory.

You won't see any of that in a desktop or a server. In fact, I haven't seen people even discuss that in decades. But it exists, and there are real reasons to use it.
by elevation | 2026-01-06 18:08:11+00:00
These number seem off. A single head of cattle may contain 300kg of edible beef with a hanging weight of roughly twice that. In what world does raising a single bovine consume of 4.5 million liters of water?

Neither the cow nor the cow's food retains much water; the water is merely delayed a little in its journey to the local watershed, and in vast parts of the US, local rainfall is adequate for this purpose (power irrigation isn't required for the crops, and cattle may drink from a pond.) Even if a cow drinks pumped well water, the majority of its nourishment will have been itself sustained by local natural rainfall.

A datacenter's use of water over any timescale can hardly be compared with a cow's.
ProjectCLI: The Swiss Army Knife CLI for bootstrapping any project
by dawitworku | 2026-01-06 18:08:26+00:00
Hi HN,

I built ProjectCLI (@dawitworku/projectcli) — a universal interactive CLI for developers who are tired of juggling multiple project generators.

Problem:
Setting up a new project often requires learning dozens of commands: create-react-app, cargo new, poetry new, laravel new, etc. It’s tedious, error-prone, and repetitive.

Solution:
ProjectCLI lets you scaffold *any project in minutes*:
- Multi-language support: JS, TS, Python, Rust, Go, Java, PHP, C#, Dart, Swift, Ruby.
- Multi-framework support: React, Next.js, Vue, NestJS, Express, Django, Flask, Actix, Axum, Rocket, Laravel, Symfony, Spring Boot, etc.
- Interactive CLI with fuzzy search, smart defaults, and context awareness.
- Preflight checks for missing tools.
- Remote templates: clone any GitHub starter kit for instant scaffolding.
- One-click CI/CD & Docker setup.
- Non-interactive mode for automation or scripts.

Quick Start:
```bash
npx @dawitworku/projectcli@latest
# or globally
npm install -g @dawitworku/projectcli
projectcli
Why I built it:
I wanted a single tool that works across languages and frameworks, saves hours, and makes project bootstrapping fun and reliable.

GitHub: https://github.com/Dawaman43/projectcli

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@dawitworku/projectcli
by hoherd | 2026-01-06 18:08:33+00:00
This could turn into the online video equivalent of the Burma Shave road signs.

> Typically, six consecutive small signs would be posted along the edge of highways, spaced for sequential reading by passing motorists. The last sign was almost always the name of the product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave#Roadside_billboard...
by AuryGlenz | 2026-01-06 18:08:44+00:00
There are also ads for services. I used to be a photographer, and without my little Facebook/Instagram ads people would have had to largely rely on word of mouth, meaning the more established photographers would absolutely dominate my little rural market even when their photography was worse.

Also, I'm not sure we want a world where only the largest corporations get to sell things. That's what would happen if people could only find things through stores and catalogs, especially pre-internet.
by mjr00 | 2026-01-06 18:08:51+00:00
> The HN culture used to be almost exclusively a ton of nerds thinking that tech and the free market would be the answer for everything - but the last few years have served as a brutal, but very effective reality check for a lot of people.

IMO it's more the HN userbase has expanded, a lot, and now includes a lot of people who aren't the same tech enthusiasts the site had historically. Yeah, I know, eternal September and all that, but to put it into perspective: Trump's first election victory got 2215 comments[0], his second election victory got 9275 comments[1]. There are some mitigating factors here--iirc HN was having downtime issues due to the traffic in 2016--but HN was already pretty popular among tech enthusiasts 9 years ago, and it's grown 400% from that!

I'm sure some people have changed their minds, but any shifts (perceived or real) in politics on HN are more likely due to changes in the userbase over time, IMO.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907201

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057647