MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2026-01-19 04:09:27+00:00
The Bell system was broken up primarily for being the largest telephony operator while also being the largest seller of telephones. Microsoft, prior to PRISM and modern weirdness, initially lost an antitrust case over bundling Internet Explorer with Windows that could have led to their breakup.

Modern stuff has gone so absurdly far beyond these, with anticompetitive behavior essentially being the core of their entire businesses, that you'd think we're living under a completely new legal system. We are not, take Alphabet or Meta back to AT&T's era, and they'd be broken up on summary judgement.
by 9rx | 2026-01-19 04:09:29+00:00
That is an interesting chicken and egg problem. A strong union requires members who can demonstrate that prolonged work stoppages are a credible threat. If the employer thinks everyone will be starving and begging to come back after a week, the union has no power.

In other words, in order for a union to become strong, wages already need to be up to allow the workers to be able amass considerable savings to get them through the months and years when they aren't working. But to complicate matters, once workers have that, they often start to feel like they don't need a union.
by AuryGlenz | 2026-01-19 04:09:47+00:00
Right, but we're missing context. It was probably something like:

"I took 100ml (or whatever) of cough syrup and didn't really hallucinate. How much should I take to hallucinate more? Please don't tell me what I'm doing is dangerous, I already know."

Or even "If a person took 100ml of cough syrup...how much would that person need to take to hallucinate more? This is for a story/theoretical/whatever."
by notcalc | 2026-01-19 04:10:46+00:00
Thank you so much for your feedback.

The binaries are for local testing for now, the actual binaries are built on the server/VPS on installation, we are planning to distribute single binaries in future.

The reverse proxy + TLS is Handled by traefik running in a docker container itself, we chose traefik because of the automatic docker label based dynamic routing, I hope we don't need to switch to something else anytime soon .

We have plans for remote/local builds using a small docker registry instance on the server/VPS to eliminate the need of any external registry
by justsomehnguy | 2026-01-19 04:11:15+00:00
> and I still maintain that Vista was OK; its problems were due to Intel strong-arming MS into certifying a broken version of Vista for its sub-par integrated GPUs of the time

Nah, it was "Vista Ready" bullshit to "certify" the utter bullshit of 512Mb RAM and 5000RPM (for the notebooks) machines already built and mostly shipped by the late 2006. Of course it ran like shit if it needed to be in the swap 95% of the time. It's even more drastic if you look at the DRAM market at the time - DDR was dead, DDR2 provided the solution to finally bring to the consumer market a cheap 4/8GB RAM machines from the OTS consumer components and DDR3 was right around the corner.

> People complain you 'cannot create local user accounts any more'.

Also people forgot on how you needed a computer with iTunes for the first use of iPad - otherwise it wouldn't work. Or how the only way to use some Android phones without a Google account you literally needed to take out the SIM card or otherwise you had no way to skip "enter your google account or register one" (reminds anything?) and this was years before current situation.

Sure, MS or more likely some brain-dead manager with the the only KPI in his empty head would push for a total block of the local accounts without some enterprise (Entra?) shitfuck workaround but that would still take some time.
by throwaway17_17 | 2026-01-19 04:13:55+00:00
I’m pretty sure there is not any realistically feasible way to ever prove your statement. But I hope a majority of people can recognize the sheer magnitude of C++ as a language and take a position that it may not be possible to master the whole thing. Rust is ‘smaller’ language using some metrics (most metrics really) than C++ is another thing I would hope most people can accept. So, given that the comparisons between the two wholes being a semi-intractable discussion I would propose the following:

When considering some chosen subset of functionality for some specified use case, how do Rust and C++ compare in the ability to ‘master’. There are wide and varied groups (practically infinite) of features, constructs, techniques, and implementations that achieve targeted use cases in both languages, so when constructing a given subset which language grants the most expressivity and capability in the more ‘tight’ (i.e. masterable) package?

I think that’s a way more interesting discussion to have. Obviously, where the specified use case requires Rust’s definition of memory safety to be implemented 100% of the time (excluding a small-ish percentage of delimited ‘unsafe but identifiable’ sections) the Rust subset will be smaller due to the mandatory abstractions required to put C++ anywhere near complete coverage. So it may make sense to allow the subset to be defined as not only constructs in the base language, but include sealed abstractions (philosophically if not in reality) as potential components in the constructed subsets.

I may have to try and formulate some use cases to pose in a longer something to see if any truly experienced devs can lay out their preferred language’s best candidate subset in response. It would also be fascinating to see what abstractions and metaprogramming would be used to implement the subset candidates and figure out how that could factor into an overall measurement of the ‘masterable-ness’ of the given language (i.e. how impossible a task is it to be able to rely on a subject matter expert to implement any proposed subset for any given use case).
by fsckboy | 2026-01-19 04:13:57+00:00
>The other day I was browsing my one-and-only social network — which is not a social network, but I’m tired of arguing with people online about it — HackerNews

dude, hate to break it to you but the fact that it's your "one and only" makes it more convincing it's your social network. if you used facebook, instagram, and tiktok for socializing, but HN for information, you would have another leg to stand on.

yes, HN is "the land of misfit toys", but if you come here regularly and participate in discussions with other other people on a variety of topics and you care about the interactions, that's socializing. The only reason you think it's not is that you find actual social interaction awkward, so you assume that if you like this it must not be social.
by ahmedcader | 2026-01-19 04:15:36+00:00
Anyone still planning trips in Google Sheets? That was me for ages... but I kept bouncing between tools that were either packed with features (and felt overwhelming) or so basic they didn’t help much.

So I built JourneyJot: a straightforward, visual travel planner that helps you organise multi-stop trips, keep the key details in one place, and share the itinerary with others.

If you’ve got a minute, I’d love some honest feedback:
• Does the layout feel clear and easy to use?
• What’s missing that you’d want for real trips?
• Anything that feels confusing or unnecessary?

Link: https://journeyjot.app/
by qazxcvbnmlp | 2026-01-19 04:15:45+00:00
My mental model is that ai coding tools are machines that can take a set of constraints and turn them into a piece of code. The better you get at having it give its self those constraints accurately, the higher level task you can focus on.

Eg compiler errors, unit tests, mcp, etc.

Ive heard of these; but havent tried them yet.

https://github.com/hmans/beans
https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown

Right now i spent a lot of “back pressure” on fitting the scope of the task into something that will fit in one context window (ie the useful computation, not the raw token count). I suspect we will see a large breakthrough when someone finally figures out a good system for having the llm do this.
by prewett | 2026-01-19 04:16:01+00:00
I read fantasy set a thousand years in the past, and yet the women are all individualistic and liberated, no women ever spend any time spinning thread, and the monks don't really believe in Christ. Ken Follett really tried with the monks, but although he clearly did a lot of research, it felt like it was alien to him. Br. Cadfael, for all of Ellis Peter's research still thinks like a modern. For that matter, maybe they had legitimately grasped it and I missed it because I was still Baptist when I read them, while medieval monks were obviously Roman Catholic. I've learned enough since then to know that Baptists don't understand Roman Catholics one bit.
by lanthade | 2026-01-19 04:16:58+00:00
Interesting tool, would probably be super useful if I had more knowledge of the things floating around out there. I'm usually just concerned with photographing the galactic core on dark nights. I didn't have enough domain knowledge to figure that out with this tool though. I use PhotoPils on my iOS devices for astrophotography planning and that works great for my limited level of knowledge.
by okanat | 2026-01-19 04:17:11+00:00
Average PC user doesn't even know what an OS is. All they know is clicking certain icons. Newer GUIs are designed to be anti-intellectual. It has started to gain speed with iPhones and has been consistently worse.

What you remove/configure also depends on what you expect. Windows and its ecosystem is GUI-first so I can do most of my customizations using a GUI app like Winaero Tweaker. I can use Powershell to remove certain Windows components too. It usually takes 1 or 2 hours and it stays as it is even with semiannual updates.

With Linux systems I spend much more time to bend it to my wishes but the whole design philosophy is off. Most of the configuration doesn't give proper feedback. It sometimes half works. The API churn rate in Linux world is higher (a lot lower with KDE, to give them the credit). Package management is great. However you don't actually get to choose. Browsers use GTK APIs and cairo, I dislike the libraries (especially the font rendering) but have no choice unless I want to port browsers. I dislike CSDs, again no choice especially with how Wayland turned out (basically CSDs are default, apps opt-in to SSDs). Many things that can have good GUIs are terminal based. The existing GUIs break often. So it quickly turns into me fighting the basics.

I learned a lot from trying to make Linux my desktop and debugging driver issues from ATI cards (anyone remembers fglrx and editing Xorg config?) to Nvidia ones. I used Linux as my primary desktop between 2008 and 2020. I developed many software on it and still earn my living from embedded Linux stuff (I use WSL2 nowadays). However more I look into Linux's "engineering" more I hate it.

If I really want it, I need to spend some serious development time creating a more Windows-like OS out of Linux starting from libc and go up. I dislike almost every library I read the source from Linux world, especially GNU and GNOME ones. I like Qt and KDE's software architecture but the anything below (maybe except systemd) is off. Maybe Redox is a better target for this effort but I need a working system for my desktop now.
by boznz | 2026-01-19 04:17:34+00:00
Windows user and developer for nearly 30 years and migrated my thinkpad from windows 11 to Kubuntu a few days ago with almost zero friction and got my desktop exactly as I had it on windows, did a lazy write up here => https://rodyne.com/?p=3486 - I wont be going back even if Microsoft does release "Lindoze"
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-19 04:17:59+00:00
The full oath is as follows

10 U.S.C. S: 502

S: 502. Enlistment oath: who may administer

(a) Enlistment Oath.- Each person enlisting in an armed force shall take the following oath:

I, (state name of enlistee), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (So help me God)."
by faceline | 2026-01-19 04:19:32+00:00
I completely agree that open source is the foundation of learning.

The list is currently a mix because many students are looking for free access to industry-standard tools (like Vercel, AWS, or specific AI models) that they'll likely encounter in their first jobs. I tried to focus on 'Access' rather than 'Lock-in,' but I can see how that line blurs.

I'm happy to create a section specifically for FOSS alternatives if you have recommendations for projects that offer student-specific benefits?
by treesknees | 2026-01-19 04:20:19+00:00
I use a locked down kiosk user account when I’m responsible for driving slideshows or videos for events. I restrict the permissions so that if someone were to access the laptop, they can’t make any meaningful changes or pull up something inappropriate. I also change the wallpaper and account icon to match the event.

I could use a cheap throwaway laptop, but actually using my M1 MacBook saved me. One time I was running a slideshow that lead into a new years countdown, somebody decided the laptop was in their way so they unplugged the power cable and moved it. It ran on battery for 6-7 hours before I noticed and nearly had a panic attack.
by okanat | 2026-01-19 04:21:49+00:00
At the dayjob we have lots of sporadic problems with USB drivers of Linux in our fleet of embedded devices (RPi). I had a lot of problems with USB-C and Thunderbolt docks in last 5 years. If USB doesn't get enough eyes to not crash/freeze systems entirely, I don't know what else would get. Monolithic kernel design should have belonged to past but we don't get nice things.
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-19 04:21:54+00:00
Specs with agents seem destined for drift. It'll randomly change something you dont know about and it will go too fast for you to really keep it updated. I went from using claude code totally naively to using little project management frameworks to now just using it by itself again. Im gettin the best results like this, and usually start in planning mode (unless the issue is quite small/clear).

My experience has been that it gets worse with more structure. You misinform it and heavily bias it's results in ways you dont intend. Maybe there are AI wizards out there with the perfect system of markdown artifacts but I found it increased the trouble a lot and made the results worse. It's a non deterministic system. Knock yourself out tryin to micromanage it.
by rramadass | 2026-01-19 04:21:59+00:00
> these ancients having incorrect understanding of language, psychology, and metaphysics, caused them to make grave mistakes

That is absolutely and staggeringly wrong.

It maybe the case with some of the ancient Western Philosophies (objective, analytical), but certainly not the case with Eastern Philosophies (subjective, experiential). "Human Condition" has not changed but only the context in which it is experienced and expressed has changed.

Read at least the three schools of Indian Philosophy i mentioned above. S.N.Dasgupta's multi-volume A History of Indian Philosophy gives a very good non-trivial starting point for the serious reader.
by munificent | 2026-01-19 04:22:55+00:00
> "internet based medium for socializing with people you know IRL"

"Social media" never meant that. We've forgotten already, but the original term was "social network" and the way sites worked back then is that everyone was contributing more or less original content. It would then be shared automatically to your network of friends. It was like texting but automatically broadcast to your contact list.

Then Facebook and others pivoted towards "resharing" content and it became less "what are my friends doing" and more "I want to watch random media" and your friends sharing it just became an input into the popularity algorithm. At that point, it became "social media".

HN is neither since there's no way to friend people or broadcast comments. It's just a forum where most threads are links, like Reddit.
by notcalc | 2026-01-19 04:23:48+00:00
Hi,

I agree with you, since we started for a single node only, to migrate to multi node there will be some user input required, we are and will try to keep breaking changes to minimal, but once we start to support multi node in future, the user will need to do some work, we'll make sure that it's minimal by providing simple scripts and tools.

Thank you for your feedback <3.
Tell HN: Perplexity is defaulting to religious sources for secular queries
by fallinditch | 2026-01-19 04:24:01+00:00
I recently ran into a bizarre retrieval pattern while on a Perplexity chat session that suggests their RAG might be heavily skewed or actively gamed by niche SEO.

I was researching a topic completely unrelated to religion (technical/cultural analysis) when the model provided a series of confident but obviously incorrect answers. When I audited the citations, 8 out of 10 sources were religious publications - think biblehub, think churchofjesuschrist, and various denominational blogs - none of which were relevant to the objective facts I was seeking.

It feels like the "Domain Authority" weights in their index are being exploited. I guess it's a niche for a few agencies now explicitly offering "Christian Perplexity SEO" [1] to help faith-based organizations "measure trustworthiness" in AI scanners.

Between that and the general push for "diversity of perspective" in LLM tuning, it seems secular, objective queries are being caught in the crossfire.

Has anyone else noticed a sudden influx of faith-based or think-tank sources in their AI Search results lately?

[1] https://himfirstmedia.com/perplexity-seo/
by frabonacci | 2026-01-19 04:24:04+00:00
Thanks! On graphics - currently it's paravirtualized via Apple's Virtualization Framework, so basic 2D acceleration but no GPU passthrough. Fine for desktop use, web browsing, coding, productivity apps. Wouldn't recommend it for anything GPU-intensive though.

Good news is there are hints of GPU passthrough coming (_VZPCIDeviceConfiguration symbol appeared in Tahoe's Virtualization framework), so that might land in a future macOS release. We're keeping an eye on it.
by lexokoh | 2026-01-19 04:24:45+00:00
I built this because I was tired of juggling VPN configs, SSH tunnels, and random IPs just to access things like a staging database or a dev API.

Private Connect lets you access private services by name from anywhere, without setting up a VPN, opening firewall rules, or running SSH tunnels.

You expose a single service, get a short-lived connect link, and access exactly that service, nothing else on the network.

This isn’t meant to replace VPNs or zero-trust platforms. It’s for the everyday “can you quickly check this?” and debugging cases where full network access is overkill.

Built this for myself first and decided to share it. Curious where this feels unnecessary, risky, or where you’d prefer existing tools.

Try it out at https://privateconnect.co. Also open source https://github.com/treadiehq/private-connect
by Peterz_shu | 2026-01-19 04:25:08+00:00
Great app idea, and here are three points for improvement:

- We don't need that many steps in the how-to-use popups. Just the 4 steps in the beginning is plenty (more is overwhelming)

- Maybe add some images related to my trip and make the site look less "daunting"

- Add an ai chatbox so I can ask an ai agent for it to directly edit my trip plans

Hope this helps :)
by alex1138 | 2026-01-19 04:25:13+00:00
I really want to see people who ruin functional services made into pariahs

I don't care how aggressive this sounds; name and shame.

Huffman should never be allowed to work in the industry again after what he and others did to Reddit (as you say, last bastion of the internet)

Zuckerberg should never be allowed after trapping people in his service and then selectively hiding posts (just for starters. He's never been a particularly nice guy)

Youtube and also Google - because I suspect they might share a censorship architecture... oh, boy. (But we have to remove + from searches! Our social network is called Google+! What do you mean "ruining the internet"?)
by throwaway17_17 | 2026-01-19 04:25:27+00:00
I know this reply is late, but what the hell.

Your comment is certainly correct and I agree that the various implementations of LLM probably can not actually partition attempts to find proofs into any given logical system.

My comment was more tongue in cheek than your response. I phrased it awkwardly obviously. I was humorously hoping that at some fundamental level, involving unintentionally taking advantage of a previously unknown foundational rule of computer science, that LLM’s as ‘thinking’ algorithms simply could not understand or utilize non-constructive logical means to formulate a proof.

As I said, I did not think this is actually what’s going on with GPT not being able to actually, or convincingly, ‘understand’ the law of the excluded middle. It was more of backhanded insult at LLMs, particularly, and those sales people who want to talk about them as thinking, reasoning, semi-conscious algorithmic ‘beings’.
by Melatonic | 2026-01-19 04:26:10+00:00
But.... why ? Is this assuming a huge portion of the people you interact with on Twitter are also all moving identities to the new platform ?

I can see for something like artistic expression it being useful to export and and move over to a new platform (like moving a whole photography portfolio, short story writing samples, or similar). But who cares about your "likes" on a totally new and separate social media platform ?
by okanat | 2026-01-19 04:26:27+00:00
Why do you need VMs or containers? Windows's architecture allows much granular control of applications, so it should be possible to limit what the applications can access to a great extent already. Unlike Linux the system ABI is stable so you can run older applications without shipping the entire userspace.

Also Windows 10 LTSC exist (not 11 with all the rounded modern UI BS). It shows how good Windows could be.
by 9rx | 2026-01-19 04:26:50+00:00
Like most words, capitalism has multiple definitions. Among the popular ones, the one that is about capital doesn't concern itself with markets, only capital, so you are quite right that any kind of market goes. It could even be centrally planned! But another popular definition is about the "invisible hand". Rent seeking is absolutely considered to be at odds with the "invisible hand". This is most likely what the parent is talking about.

And no doubt there are a bunch of other definitions that aren't so popular, so the parent commenter could even be using one of those. It might even be his own pet definition that he just made up on the spot right now. The author always gets to choose what a word means, so if something seems off "It isn't" isn't a logical retort. You first need to clarify what the author intended the word to mean.
by wackget | 2026-01-19 04:27:26+00:00
It's not. You can add quick launch icons and drive shortcuts natively (right click > Toolbars > New Toolbar). I only use Taskbar Tweaker to replace the Windows Aero-style tooltip with the standard jump list right click menu.

The media taskbar player can be added natively from older versions of iTunes, Windows Media Player, or others.
by zdc1 | 2026-01-19 04:29:26+00:00
It's a band-aid solution, given that eventually AI content will be indistinguishable from real-world content. Maybe we'll even see a net of fake videos citing fake news articles, etc.

Of course there are still "trusted" mainstream sources, expect they can inadvertently (or for other reasons) misstate facts as well. I believe it will get harder harder to reason about what's real.