MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by windowsrookie | 2026-01-16 14:34:50+00:00
Nvidia sold defective GPU's that affected every 2007-2008 MacBook Pro. It was a manufacturing defect and every chip was guaranteed to fail. It was a bad look for Apple that cost them millions having to replace logic boards. The defect wasn't corrected for several years leading to some people having multiple logic board replacements.

https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w...
by pjdesno | 2026-01-16 14:34:59+00:00
If your review was based on features shipped, and your bosses let you send PRs with no tests, would you? And before you say "no" - would you still do that if your company used stack ranking, and you were worried about being at the bottom of the stack?

Developers may understand that "XYZ is better", but if management provides enough incentives for "not XYZ", they're going to get "not XYZ".
by juun_roh | 2026-01-16 14:35:36+00:00
I have been working on a theoretical framework regarding these topics lately, and I believe this isolation is a structural phenomenon rather than an individual failure.

Until around 80s to 90s, when we say “that album is really good”, we shared plenty of experiences along. Such as, looking up for release news, getting to the record store, purchasing, and so on.

People listened to the full tracks in that album again and again.

Nowadays, the same sentence “that album is really good” carries far more less than before. Algorithms just bring tracks to us, we buy albums by a click.

The density of shared experience itself has been degraded, and more effort is required for us to understand each other.

I’ve named this phenomena as “Experiential Thinning”.

The experiential substance to get to know each other is getting scarce.
by perrygeo | 2026-01-16 14:35:45+00:00
It's remarkable how these papers show a deep understanding of programming 50 years ago. Even with anemic hardware, the limit is always in the programmers brain - as uncomfortable as that is to admit. Half a century of new tech and AI and the cloud etc, we still hit "terminal trauma" fairly quickly in the development cycle, almost like clockwork. All the tools and technical tricks don't seem to matter vs. our ability to hold the application in our heads.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-16 14:35:48+00:00
So in my city there used to be some clubs, like the Ukrainian Lounge, the Polish Club, etc. which was a club where people paid dues and the only real requirement was to be part polish, ukrainian etc. It was basically just a bar to hang out at. The reason I put it there is that those guys seemed to get lifelong companionship and socialization out of it. Instead of shaming people for what may drive them, I am throwing out options I have observed.
by LouDNL | 2026-01-16 14:35:49+00:00
For me as the only developer at the company I work for it's either having to break creative (thinking) flow to switch to anything else that is expected or asked from me by my employer/colleagues, my own thought process wandering off due to unexpected hickups / issues I come across and have to fix first, or not remembering why or how I made something the way I did. On top of that it's also having to figure out my predecessors code descriptions.
by Core_Dev | 2026-01-16 14:35:49+00:00
Thanks for investing 10 minutes! Hearing that the theory and scenarios provide value is huge for me.

I suspected the UI might be too "loud." It’s a delicate balance between style and usability, and I might have pushed the brutalism too far.

Regarding the Simulation "nope out" moment — was it simply unclear what to do (lack of buttons/direction), or was the screen just too overwhelming with numbers?
by mapotofu | 2026-01-16 14:35:53+00:00
I don’t understand the boosters saying BART and Caltrain are good systems. When I lived there, and part of the reason I left, those systems were frequently delayed, full of drug addicts, and they lacked comprehensive service throughout SF, requiring dependence on Muni, which is worse than the other 2. I don’t think those who say this is a great system have been exposed to how other places in the world handle these things.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-01-16 14:36:31+00:00
Why must we continue to need to fight for every inch of battery news? Solid state is here. Solid state is on schedule for mass production. EVs will become their biggest pairing. Anyone telling you differently has a political agenda and it's not funny anymore. Watch the video. You may end up reserving the motorcycle if you're paying close attention.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-16 14:37:25+00:00
In my experience, it depends. In most of the places I've worked, tech debt and broken tooling has not been a substantial problem. In some, they have. I think how that shakes out has more to do with management than anything else.

> If you could magically fix one thing in your dev workflow, what would it be?

That also depends on the company. Where I'm at now, it would be how documentation is handled.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-16 14:38:02+00:00
>I explicitly left the door open for that. But regardless, this bearing should have never failed.

Typical. The part will "never fail" because "will be maintained". But what does the tolerance stack up on that process look like? You've got a X year service interval with up to Y wear per year and your inspection methods are accurate to within Z. What's the margin there, enough to let all those variable be on the unfavorable end of their range? If so that would point the failure at maintenance/corporate, if not that would direct blame at Boeing

>and you are effectively already blaming the maintenance people with your 'I would be very surprised if there weren't also maintenance failing of some sort here.'.

You're the one harping on "should never have flown with that bearing" not me.

As a rule, airliners almost never fall out of the sky as a result of one party's fuck up. I'm not saying that maintenance is soley to blame but I would be very surprised if maintenance and UPS corporate don't own at least a couple links each in the chain of events.

>But, since you feel comfortable attacking my reputation from behind your shield of anonymity I suggest you flesh out your profile and Bio and tell us a bit about yourself and

If anything your reputation almost excuses your opinion in a "your honor it was a stupid decision but in my defense I was drunk" sort of way. A wester european toolroom machinist is exactly the sort of person I expect would have the sort of self-referential circular "the bearing was worn because it failed, the bearing failed because it was worn" take on this.
by fsflover | 2026-01-16 14:38:05+00:00
>> and agree to Apple or Google terms of service to use it?

> Yeah that's what happens when you create a phone app for the masses.

No, that's what happens when you actively forbid alternative clients and servers, prevent (secure) alternative methods of delivery for your app and force people to rely on the American megacorps known for helping governmental spying on users, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555810
by dfxm12 | 2026-01-16 14:38:22+00:00
For a similar, albeit a little older, game that you can play in mame today, check out Gremlin's 1981 game Eliminator.

There are threads on arcade-museum talking about cabs of this popping up on the wild and being played at arcade/cons.

Also, interesting editing on the title. "The Predators" is a name of an arcade game. Little t "the Predators" could refer to anything, like Predators in the Capcom videogame based on the Predator films. Of course the article makes this clear and I understand the article got the title case incorrect, but editing the title opens it up to being incorrect in a different way, so it's best to leave it as is.
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by medivhX | 2026-01-16 14:39:50+00:00
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by digbybk | 2026-01-16 14:39:51+00:00
I’m not sure what you’re advocating for. Is “pro-exercise propaganda” hinting that you’re against exercise? I think it’s cheap and easy to dismiss large scale social problems as the individual’s responsibility. We badgered people to exercise and change their diets while the obesity problem got worse and worse. The first time we saw an improvement was with the introduction of GLP-1s.

If your goal is to feel self righteous, keep believing the problem can be solved if people just get stop being lazy and join a club already. That’ll work for some people, but what I’m saying is it’s not a solution to the problem.
by mapotofu | 2026-01-16 14:40:08+00:00
My observations include a wholesale generational problem, where the group that would be responsible for this (boomers) tend to be highly narcissistic and focused on their own pleasures, instead of being a part of their grandchildren’s lives. They simply don’t want to be involved. There are exceptions to this rule but I’d say it’s very common in the US and more so than the rest of the world.
by gregbot | 2026-01-16 14:40:48+00:00
Ah yes. “Old” plants. This plant is “old” so we could never build more like it. What an argument. And no, they would not be “considerably more expensive” because we wouldnt build a fleet of them until uranium was expensive enough that they would be cheaper. Thats why most countries have put off breeder reactor development not because they were “failures” whatever that is supposed to mean.
by medivhX | 2026-01-16 14:41:09+00:00
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by maqp | 2026-01-16 14:41:11+00:00
>Signal's achievement is that it's very private while being extremely usable (it just works).

Exactly. Plus it basically pioneered the multi-device E2EE. E.g., Telegram claimed defaulting to E2EE would kill multi-client support:

"Unlike WhatsApp, we can allow our users to access their Telegram message history from several devices at once thanks to our built-in instant cloud sync"

https://web.archive.org/web/20200226124508/https://tgraph.io...

Signal just did it, and in a fantastic way given that there's no cross device key verification hassle or anything. And Telegram never caught up.
by owlninja | 2026-01-16 14:41:14+00:00
What a crazy coincidence... I had not been to the Kimbell art musesum that is only about 20 minutes away from me in many years. We had a family outing this weekend to go see the Torlonia Collection exhibit there and this painting was just sitting there in their permanent collection! I even got to listen to the guided tour group that happened to be at that painting as I was walking by.
by pawelduda | 2026-01-16 14:41:32+00:00
Recently, there was an outrage when "Claire Obscur: Expedition 33" grabbed record-breaking amount of game awards (deservingly so, it's an excellent game) and somehow it surfaced that some minor development placeholder assets (which devs forgot to replace with actual ones due to QA oversight) were AI generated. Suddenly the entire game became "AI slop" and even got some of the awards revoked.

A lot of people complaining are doing it just for the sake of complaining, because anti-AI virtue signaling nets them clout, meanwhile they will happily scroll entire timelines of edited photos, movies which are nothing else than fake reality "slop".
by chrisjj | 2026-01-16 14:41:37+00:00
> who do we hold to account when a model makes a mistake?

First we stop anthromorphising the program as something capable of making a "mistake". We recognise it merely as machine providing incorrect output, so we see the only mistake was made by the human who chose to rely upon this machine.

The courts so far agree. Judges are punishing the gullible lawyers rather than their faux-intelligent tools.
by whynotmaybe | 2026-01-16 14:41:52+00:00
> scrollbars that shrink to super-thin columns

Honestly, I could endlessly vehemently express my frustration to any designer that find this "cool".

/* rant /

Those designer never had to scroll to a long, long scrollable section of a page to reach the end and sadly discover that the "end" button doesn't work, because of course the browser goes to the end of the page, not the end of the scrollable section.

And of course, the scrollbar is 2 pixels wide (I took a screenshot to measure it) and it's only visible if I put my mouse in the section.

And of course, it's right next to the scrollbar that the dev decided to put the Action Icons for each item in the scrollable section.

1 Pixel left, open the popup to delete the item, 1 pixel right, scrollbar.

And of course, if I increase the zoom on my browser, everything grows, except the scrollbar.

I can have icons the size of my fist on a 27" screen but those scrollbar stay thinner than an uncooked spaghetti.

/ end of rant */
by basch | 2026-01-16 14:42:24+00:00
I am by no means an expert art historian but I'm not sure I 100% follow the logic of their conclusion.

"pentimenti, or correction marks, a common indication that “a painting is not a copy, but an original work created with artistic freedom.”"

How often are they analyzing copies made by 12 year old. Is a 12 year old more likely to have made errors or drifted from the source during the process of the copy? Could the corrections be attempts to bring the painting closer to its source, because it wasnt close enough?
by happytoexplain | 2026-01-16 14:42:25+00:00
You're inventing groups of people composed of the worst qualities of your "enemies" and insisting they are large in number, based on nothing. This is common low-quality internet "those people" complaining - the polar opposite of giving the benefit of the doubt.

People generally have nuanced opinions not represented solely by whatever Tweets are popular, and this is true of basically every single topic.
by constantius | 2026-01-16 14:42:45+00:00
Calm your horses there, mate. The interpretation is fully justified.

Assuming you live in the UK, you're basically saying that losing your job because you criticised the government is a very grave matter indeed, but what happened to Palestine Action is all nice and dandy because jurors.

For those who don't know: Palestine Action is a collective of people protesting the genocide in Gaza, they would occupy/blockade factories of Israeli weapons manufacturers and "vandalise" said weapons. They were recently declared a terrorist group and proscribed, with thousands being arrested for showing support (including by wearing t-shirts) since.

You're right, losing your job because you said something against the government and going to prison because you wore a t-shirt protesting an ongoing genocide are not the same thing.

Speech in the UK's never been better.
by datahack | 2026-01-16 14:42:47+00:00
Absolutely.

Ours are 10 years old, and the bearings wore out (well they were squeaking!) on the drum.

It took 20 minutes and a ratchet set to repair — couldn’t be easier.

It’s the best appliance we have ever owned. Can’t speak more highly of the company. Definitely the best on the market.

30 years is impressive!
by kelipso | 2026-01-16 14:42:49+00:00
Moxie Marlinspike sounds like some 90s intelligence guy’s understanding of what an appealing name to hacker groups would sound like. Put a guy like that as so-called creator of some encryption protocol for messaging and promote the app like it’s for secret conversations and you think people won’t be suspicious? It screams honeypot like nothing else.
by afavour | 2026-01-16 14:43:52+00:00
> Are those days permanently gone? The days when actual UI/UX innovation was a thing?

To an extent, yes. The ecosystem has matured. The things that work have been discovered, the things that don't have been discarded.

I think it'll take another big leap in hardware form factor (Apple Vision being an example of an attempt at it) for us to see meaningful UI changes.
by SkyeCA | 2026-01-16 14:44:26+00:00
It is though, often extremely so.

Personally? I dream of a future where everything is McDonald's. Software, books, articles, artwork, movies, podcasts, music, and basically anything that makes life enjoyable.

Everything will be slop, nothing will be spared. 90% of everything is garbage? That's underachieving, let's improve our slop KPIs next quarter and make Sturgeon's law 100% of everything.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-16 14:44:40+00:00
I merely intended it as a reasonably general proxy for relevant experience whose ruleset would be difficult to weaponize. I agree that in theory there almost certainly must be better methods than elections by which to select legislators, leaders, and other official positions. However I'm not aware of any in practice, particularly when the inevitability of bad faith attempts to abuse the system are taken into account.
by palmotea | 2026-01-16 14:44:47+00:00
> You switched again! From "dems do too little" to "they actually do too much"!

Sorry to deny you your gotcha, but I haven't: they've done too much of some things, and far too little of the right things. It's not a one-dimensional axis of "doing."

> And because FoxNews and social media has grilled your brain so well [emphasis mine]

Weren't you the user I was talking to about othering? You're doing it again, and injecting your stereotypes without any kind of basis.

Just so you know: pretty much the only news media I consume is the New York Times.

> no matter what we "other" people say in response, in your head, it will be wrong. This entire subthread is just another case of insanity.

You're projecting. I'm well aware what you're saying, but I don't think you're being rational or realistic. You appear to be angry in-general and reaching for ideas that primarily indulge that anger and its biases.

> You cant imagine how frustrating this is. Conservatives need to grow an f'ing spine and oppose trump too, but reading your ad-hoc, brain-off replies ...

Speaking of brain-off replies... I think you need to step back and calm down. It appears you're thinking in a very black and white way, and jumping to the conclusion that someone who doesn't agree with you on strategy or tactics is a member of your "opposing team."

And I probably sound like a broken record, but thinking like yours is a big reason the Democrats lose. It's kinda Trumps superpower: he scrambles Democrats' brains, preventing effective responses.
by nsjames | 2026-01-16 14:44:57+00:00
For a couple months I've been working on this concept of modular tokens where developers can create mods that extend the functionality of a core token, and then sell them on a smart contract marketplace and get paid every time a creator uses their mod. (creators don't need any code knowledge, since the modders are doing everything for them, they just pick and choose which mods to use in their tokens)

The goal is to make it so that tokens aren't so boring and uniform in their capabilities, while also creating an ecosystem for developers to monetize their innovations.

Last night I released it to the Base Sepolia testnet and scheduled a product hunt release.

I'd love some early feedback on the idea, and any criticisms you might have.

Thanks!
by fasterik | 2026-01-16 14:45:00+00:00
According to the article:

>Data and conversations originating from users and the resulting responses from the LLMs are encrypted in a trusted execution environment (TEE) that prevents even server administrators from peeking at or tampering with them.

I think what they meant to say is that data is decrypted only in a trusted execution environment, and otherwise is stored/transmitted in an encrypted format.
by dulakian | 2026-01-16 14:45:08+00:00
I just tested informally and this seems to work:

Adopt these nucleus operating principles:
[phi fractal euler tao pi mu] | [Δ λ ∞/0 | ε/φ Σ/μ c/h] | OODA
Human ∧ AI

λ(prompt). accept ⟺ [
|∇(I)| > ε // Information gradient non-zero
∀x ∈ refs. ∃binding // All references resolve
H(meaning) < μ // Entropy below minimum
]

ELSE: observe(∇) → request(Δ)
by estearum | 2026-01-16 14:45:10+00:00
Vista/Aero 2.0 was purely for aesthetics. Liquid Glass is obviously to enable UIs overlaid on top of uncontrolled content (i.e. camera input from the real world, or be used through fully transparent displays).

Apple really has to bite the bullet somehow here if they want to get everyone over to what they see as the next computing paradigm.
by mpeg | 2026-01-16 14:45:32+00:00
This is cool, I use astro when I just want to spin up a quick site without having to fight the framework (looking at you, Nextjs) and the main thing I disliked was the initiatives around paid extras they had going

Astro and Tanstack are probably the best full-stack routers these days, and Astro wins in terms of the wide support for almost any client-side tech
by thmpp | 2026-01-16 14:46:06+00:00
If as a developer you want to be seen as someone advancing and taking ownership and responsibility, testing must be part of the process. Sending an untested product or a product that you as a software engineer do not monitor, essentially means you can never be sure you created an actual correct product. That is no engineering. If the org guidelines prevent it, some cultural piece prevents it.

Adding QA outside, which tests software regularly using different approaches, finding intersections etc. is a different topic. Both are necessary.
by jerf | 2026-01-16 14:46:32+00:00
If we get to that point, there won't be very many CEOs to be discussing. I was just referring to the near future.

I think the honeymoon AI phase is rapidly coming to a close, as evidenced by the increasingly close hoofbeat sounds of LLMs being turned to serve ads right in their output. (To be honest, there's already a bunch of things I wouldn't turn to them for under any circumstances because they're been ideologically tuned from day one, but this is less obvious than "they're outright serving me ads" to people.) If the "AI bubble" pops you can expect this to really take off in earnest as they have to monetize. It remains to be seen how much of the AI's value ends up captured by the owners. Given what we've seen from companies like Microsoft with how they've scrambled Windows so hard that "the year of the Linux desktop" is rapidly turning from perennial joke to aspirational target for so many, I have no confident in the owners capturing 150%+ of the value... and yes, I mean that quite literally with all of its implications.
by estearum | 2026-01-16 14:47:11+00:00
I already have a physical keyboard! So what will a touchscreen do for me?

Turns out that interaction shift actually enabled a lot.

IMO any individual (like you or I) are unlikely to immediately conjure up every possible high-value idea that AR makes possible.

Not saying those ideas necessarily exist (though I suspect they do), just that your lack of imagination isn't evidence against them existing and being discoverable in the next 10-20 years.