MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hyperadvanced | 2026-01-06 07:05:07+00:00
I’m strictly talking about “Agentic” coding here:

They are not a silver bullet or truly “you don’t need to know how to code anymore” tools. I’ve done a ton of work with Claude code this year. I’ve gone from a “maybe one ticket a week” tier React developer to someone who’s shipped entire new frontend feature sets, while also managing a team. I’ve used LLM to prototype these features rapidly and tear down the barrier to entry on a lot of simple problems that are historically too big to be a single-dev item, and clear out the backlog of “nice to haves” that compete with the real meat and bread of my business. This prototyping and “good enough” development has been massively impactful in my small org, where the hard problems come from complex interactions between distributed systems, monitoring across services, and lots of low-level machine traffic. LLM’s let me solve easy problems and spend my most productive hours working with people to break down the hard problems into easy problems that I can solve later or pass off to someone on my team to help.

I’ve also used LLM to get into other people’s codebases, refactor ancient tech debt, shore up test suites from years ago that are filled with garbage and copy/paste. On testing alone, LLM are super valuable for throwing edge cases at your code and seeing what you assumed vs. what an entropy machine would throw at it.

LLM absolutely are not a 10x improvement in productivity on their own. They 100% cannot solve some problems in a sensible, tractable way, and they frequently do stupid things that waste time and would ruin a poor developer’s attempts at software engineering. However, they absolutely also lower the barrier to entry and dethrone “pure single tech” (ie backend only, frontend only, “I don’t know Kubernetes”, or other limited scope) software engineers who’ve previously benefited from super specialized knowledge guarding their place in the business.

Software as a discipline has shifted so far from “build functional, safe systems that solve problems” to “I make 200k bike shedding JIRA tickets that require an army of product people to come up with and manage” that LLM can be valuable if only for their capabilities to role-compress and give people with a sense of ownership the tools they need to operate like a whole team would 10 years ago.
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-06 07:05:14+00:00
The system you’re proposing wouldn’t work, because without additional effort in the compiler and linker (which AFAIK doesn’t exist) there won’t be perfectly identical pages for the same static library linked into the same executable. And once you can update them independently, you have all the drawbacks of dynamic libraries again.

Outside of embedded, this kind of reuse is a very marginal memory savings for the overall system to begin with. The key benefit of dynamic libraries for a system with gigabytes of RAM is that you can update a common dependency (e.g. OpenSSL) without redownloading every binary on your system.
by wild_egg | 2026-01-06 07:06:13+00:00
Ah I don't delete these or really look at the `.tickets/` directory. I have about 1900 tickets in one project and navigate them through VS Code. Ctrl+t does fuzzy finding across all markdown headers and I Crtl+Click in the terminal quite a lot to jump to ticket files.

But yes, dependencies are everything here. I use `tk dep tree` regularly to visualize the graph and click on the things I want details on. Typically I don't have too crazy of a list of open tickets so it's easy enough to find things by running `tk ready` and `tk blocked` and clicking what I'm looking for. For historical things, I just search in the `git log` pager.

If it'd be useful though, I can look at a `tk delete` command that deletes a given ticket and all of its dependencies to clean up a whole tree in one shot. Not sure I'd ever use it myself though.
by temporallobe | 2026-01-06 07:07:10+00:00
I tried switching to Zed, and was even able to get it use identical themes and key mappings as my preferred ones in VSC, but ultimately I switched back due to lack of plugins that I’ve really come to depend on, not to mention some key feature differences. I didn’t notice that much of a performance boost over VSC (given that I was on an M4 with 32GB of memory), so in the end, the switch wasn’t worth it. I really want to like Zed, so I will be sure to occasionally check out any new releases. By the way, I did indeed notice that Zed was a heck of a lot faster than VSC on an old Intel-based MBP!
by 9dev | 2026-01-06 07:07:12+00:00
After eighty years of collaboration, I’m not surprised people don’t take lightly when the USA do a 180 on their entire history of diplomacy and turn to autocratic regimes like Russia instead of liberal democracies.

But by now, the big wheels sure are turning for good in the EU. I’m (we’re, probably) just bitter for everything that was destroyed so need- and carelessly.
by dangus | 2026-01-06 07:08:07+00:00
Intel marketing isn’t the best but I am struggling to understand what issue you’re taking with this.

It’s an AI PC platform. It can do AI. It has an NPU and integrated GPU. That’s pretty straightforward. Competitors include Apple silicon and AMD Ryzen AI.

They’re predicting it’ll sell well, and they have a huge distribution network with a large number of partner products launching. Basically they’re saying every laptop and similar device manufacturer out there is going to stuff these chips in their systems. I think they just have some well-placed confidence in the laptop segment, because it’s supposed to combine the strong efficiency of the 200 series with the kind of strong performance that can keep up with or exceed competition from AMD’s current laptop product lineup.

Their naming sucks but nobody’s really a saint on that.
by Parameswar | 2026-01-06 07:08:11+00:00
I’m a solo founder building an AI app builder that lets people generate web apps and websites from a prompt, then visually edit the output.

People are signing up. They’re building things. Usage looks healthy.

But almost no one converts to paid.

I’m trying to understand what’s actually stopping people from paying in cases like this.

Is it trust in AI-generated code? Fear of using it in production? Too much value in the free tier? Or the tool feeling useful but not yet “mission critical”?

For those who’ve built or paid for similar tools:
What finally pushed you to upgrade — or what kept you from doing it?
by pu_pe | 2026-01-06 07:08:52+00:00
> If the EU repeals Article 6 of the Copyright Directive, some smart geeks in Finland could reverse-engineer Apple's bootloaders and make a hardware dongle that jailbreaks phones so that they can use alternative app stores

Apple could easily block this, and in the situation described here of a complete rupture with the US, they would no longer operate and sell phones in the EU. If Google decided to do the same, that essentially leaves Europeans without smartphones. Microsoft could "brick" the rest of the EU's digital infrastructure overnight if they so wished, or were compelled to do so.

This makes the transition described in the article much more difficult. Although likely more urgent, from an European perspective.
by avazhi | 2026-01-06 07:09:04+00:00
Brave also installed a VPN an a VPN service without permission on my Windows machine, and then didn’t disable or remove 3 separate scheduled tasks in Windows Scheduler once I’d uninstalled it. The VPN issue was open for like 8+ months on GitHub too - and at first they denied doing it at all. For all I know it still installs it, but I removed this malware-type shit when this all happened so I couldn’t tell you.

I’ll never trust them again after that.
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-06 07:09:30+00:00
The best tool for your median software-producing organization, who can’t just hire a team of engineers to do this, is update embargoes. You block updating packages until they’ve been on the registry for a month or whatever by default, allowing explicit exceptions if needed. It would protect you from all the major supply-chain attacks that have been caught in the wild.

> The popular Javascript React framework has 15K direct and 2K indirect dependencies - https://deps.dev/npm/react/19.2.3

You’re looking a dependents. The core React package has no dependencies.
by bjackman | 2026-01-06 07:10:29+00:00
Zed is faster and less annoying than VSCode, I hope to switch to it permanently sooner or later.

Annoyingly the only hard blocker I have right now is lack of a call-graph navigation widget. In VSCode you can bring up an expandable tree of callers for a function. Somehow I am completely dependent on this tiny little feature for reading complex code!

The annoying thing is: "can't you just use an extension for this?" No, Zed extensions are much more constrained, Zed is not a web browser. And I like it this way! But... My widget...

I also have some performance issues with searching large remote repos, but I'm pretty confident that will get fixed.
by Quothling | 2026-01-06 07:11:18+00:00
I've spent a couple of decades in the Danish public sector of digitalisation and in the private sector for global green energy. 10 years ago people would've laughed if you talked about leaving Microsoft and iOS in enterprise. Now we all have contingency plans for just that, and a lot of organisations are already actually doing it. So I would argue that there is more of a crack, but I'm not sure the post-american internet is going to be all that great. Because unlike the open source and decentralised platforms which are taking the place of US tech, the EU is going to regulate the internet. There is a saying about how us citizens trust companies but not their government, and how Europeans trust their governments but not their companies. Which obviously doesn't apply to everyone, but it's how you can view the EU. With one hand they do so much to protect consumer rights for us citizens, but with the other hand they build a survailance state.

Of course that is how democracy works. You'll have multiple factions working toward their own goals with very different ideologies, and the EU has a lot of that. For the most part what comes out is great, because compromise is how you get things done when there aren't just two sides. For survailance, however, there are really just two sides and the wrong one of them is winning.
by XenophileJKO | 2026-01-06 07:11:21+00:00
I've looked at Garmin, because I have the fitbit sense 2 and was looking for something with a reasonable battery life.

However, I think Garmin has made the flaw of overcomplicating their product offerings. I ended up pre-ordering a pebble because I implicitly don't like a company that tries to segment their market that hard on smart watches.
by spacemarine1 | 2026-01-06 07:11:41+00:00
I was just having some fun with the John Wick poster. I too have heard that Keanu is a good, honest human who works hard.

PG does say he actually looks for “naughty” founders as one of the key filtering traits. I link this essay in my post.

But you still have to be ethical and do what you say or it won’t be possible to grow your business long term.

The gamer in me wonders if the “ideal founder” can be described as “chaotic good”?
by eviks | 2026-01-06 07:11:50+00:00
Indeed, hackable is the solution: don't that one icon? Fn + Right click on it and select to hide it, also changing the menu description in the process.

But also do provide 15 different themes for the OS and make sharing themes trivial and built-in so that you can upvote a theme you like (or even a specific icon you like), downvote the one you don't, install the most popular theme in few clicks.
Show HN: HoldTheFile: A File Sharing Solution with Zero Login Required
by niyoseris | 2026-01-06 07:12:42+00:00
I've built *HoldTheFile* - a Flask-based secure file sharing application that prioritizes security and simplicity while solving the common problem of safe file distribution.

## The Problem
Most file sharing solutions either require complex authentication, alpha-numeric combinations or sacrifice security for convenience. I needed something that could handle flexible situations, provide real-time upload progress, and ensure files are always downloaded (never previewed in browser) while maintaining security.

## The Solution
HoldTheFile combines phrase+PIN authentication for security features:

### Key Features:
- *Zero Login Required*: Access via phrase + PIN only. You might think it's a security bottleneck but you can use any word combinations or sentences even paragraphs as phrase
- *Unlimited File Uploads*: No size restrictions
- *Real-time Progress Bar*: Live upload speed and percentage tracking
- *Forced Download*: All files download directly - no browser preview (critical for security)
- *Shareable Links*: Secure download links without authentication and without leaking your secure folder
- *Drag & Drop File Management*: Move files between folders intuitively
- *Double-Hash Security*: MD5 workspace + SHA256 file verification

### Security First:
- *XSS, RFI, Path Traversal Protection*: Comprehensive input sanitization
- *SQL Injection Prevention*: Full ORM implementation
- *Security Headers*: CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options
- *File Isolation*: MD5-based workspace separation
- *No Preview Execution*: HTML/JS files never run in browser

### Tech Stack:
- *Backend*: Flask + PostgreSQL
- *Security*: Werkzeug, custom sanitization utils
- *Frontend*: Vanilla JavaScript with real-time upload tracking

## Cost & Infrastructure
Currently running alongside my other projects on a VDS panel. Storage costs are manageable at this scale - the application is lightweight and PostgreSQL handles file metadata efficiently while actual files are stored directly on the filesystem. The unlimited upload feature hasn't caused storage issues yet, but I'm monitoring usage patterns.

## Real-World Use Cases
HoldTheFile solves everyday file sharing challenges:

- *Cross-Device Transfer*: Send files from phone to computer without cables or cloud accounts. Don't have to log in to your accounts on foreign computers.
- *Team Collaboration*: Share project files without setting up user accounts
- *Classroom Materials*: Teachers distribute course materials instantly
- *Event Photo Sharing*: Wedding guests upload/download photos using a shared phrase
- *Tech Support*: Share logs and screenshots with support teams instantly
- *Family File Vault*: Share important documents with family members securely

Would love to hear feedbacks.
by shdwapp | 2026-01-06 07:14:21+00:00
Every on-chain action is exposed by default. As usage scales, strategies leak, behaviour is indexed, and execution becomes exploitable. Privacy stops being a feature and becomes infrastructure.

On high-performance chains like Solana, this isn’t about slowing things down, it’s about protecting users at scale. SHDW is building native privacy tooling where execution stays fair and users remain sovereign.
by kristopolous | 2026-01-06 07:14:28+00:00
https://9ol.es/buttons/index.html a while back I did some archival scraping for these (using things like last modified dates, looking for meta generator tags... I forget how I wrote it exactly, it's probably somewhere) ... these are all the md5 unique ones I could find.

There's a bunch of very identical looking ones I know.

I did some research in icon packs but as far as I can find, a bunch of these are just independent creations.
by avazhi | 2026-01-06 07:15:17+00:00
Maybe not for crypto, but they did spend a year or two surreptitiously installing their own VPN service on your Widows machine without any opt-out ability, and then failed to remove it, its Windows service, or multiple scheduled tasks once the brave uninstaller had been run.

The best part was this whole scam sitting as an unresolved issue on GitHub for months after they finally acknowledged it (after first denying it lol).

Closest browser I’ve seen to an actual virus in maybe ever.

And it’s a good lesson for developers that once you lose trust there are many of us who will never make the same mistake again purely out principle.
Show HN: Feato – Real-time feature flags without polling
by iromanika | 2026-01-06 07:16:12+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building Feato, a developer-first feature flag service focused on real-time delivery without polling.

The core idea is simple:
applications establish a persistent connection and receive configuration changes as events, instead of repeatedly fetching flags on an interval.

Why I built this:
In many projects I’ve seen feature flags implemented via polling, which adds latency and unnecessary traffic.
At the same time, most mature real-time solutions are optimised for large enterprises and can be hard to justify for small teams or solo founders.
I wanted something simpler: real-time delivery, predictable behaviour, and pricing that makes sense for early-stage products.

What Feato does:
- Real-time flag updates via Server-Sent Events (no polling)
- Environment-scoped flags (dev / staging / prod)
- Lightweight SDKs (React and Angular so far)
- Fail-safe behaviour: if a project is blocked or connectivity is lost, flags resolve predictably

What it does not try to be:
- Not an experimentation platform
- Not an analytics product
- No fake demos or client-side simulations

The landing page explains the delivery model step by step and shows real console screenshots:
https://feato.io/

Docs:
https://feato.io/docs/getting-started

Pricing is transparent and intentionally simple.

I’d really appreciate feedback on:
- The real-time delivery approach
- Whether this solves a real pain point for you
- What would block you from using this in production

Happy to answer any technical questions.
by izzdwizz | 2026-01-06 07:17:21+00:00
Location: Open to Remote (Global)
Remote: Yes (preferred)
Willing to relocate: Open to discussion

Technologies:
TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Docker, TailwindCSS, Chakra UI, Ant Design, ShadCN, WebSockets, REST APIs, CI/CD, AWS (S3, basic infra)

Résumé / Portfolio: https://linkedin.com/in/izuchukwu-uchendu
GitHub: https://github.com/izzdwizz

Experience: ~4+ years (professional), full-stack focus

I’m a software engineer with a strong frontend bias and solid backend experience
by jeffrallen | 2026-01-06 07:17:29+00:00
The Cybertruck was a bold vision of the future. Like Daft Punk.

F-150 buyers are not bold visionaries, and that's ok. They are more Kelly Clarkson.

The Ford customers Tesla could have targeted are the ones who never tow anything, want to know they could put a 4x8 sheet of plywood in it (but never do), and who want lane following, good cupholders and seat heaters. That was probably 5% of the F-150 market, which is such an enormous market that even a 5% slice would have been bigger than what the Cybertruck market turned out to be.
Shopify 3D Product Configurator
by krcweb | 2026-01-06 07:18:21+00:00
A Shopify 3D product configurator helps customers create products their own way. With KR Customizer, the process feels easy and clear. Shoppers don’t have to imagine the final result. They can see the changes instantly. Colors update, styles switch, and Options feel real.

Visit us:- https://www.kusheldigi.com/technology-partner/krcustomizer/shopify-product-configurator
by bjackman | 2026-01-06 07:18:35+00:00
Why should we want prediction markets to be fair? I want them to reveal facts about the world.

They only need to be fair inasmuch as it serves that goal. I don't think it wouldn serve that goal to forbid insider trading?

(Why do we forbid insider trading in the stock market? Not because it's unfair. Because it makes the market worse at doing what we want it to do, which is funding the most productive enterprises).
by samiv | 2026-01-06 07:18:45+00:00
Same here. I'm "happy" that I'm old "enough" to be able to wrap up my career in a few years time and likely be able to get out of this mess before this "agentic AI slop" becomes the expected workflow.

On my personal project I do sometimes chat with ChatGPT and it works as a rubber duck. I explain, put my thoughts into words and typically I already solve it when I'm thinking it through while expressing it in words. But I must also admit that ChatGPT is very good at producing prose and I often use it for recommending names of modules, functions, enums etc. So there's some value there.

But when it comes to code I want to understand everything that goes into my project. So in the end of the day I'm always going to be the "bottle neck", whether I think through the problem myself and write the code or I review and try to understand the AI generated code slop.

It seems to me that using the AI slop generation workflow is a great fit for the industry though, more quantity rather quality and continuous churn. Make it cheaper to replace code so that the replacement can be replaced a week later with another vibe-coded slop. Quality might drop, bugs might proliferate but who cares?

And to be fair, code itself has no value, it's ephemeral, data and its transformations are what matter. Maybe at some point we can just throw out the code and just use the chatbots to transform the data directly!
by friendzis | 2026-01-06 07:18:47+00:00
> But they did use early builds of liquid glass

Is this known to be true or speculated? I don't know how this process is handled at Apple specifically, however, generally decision-makers are highly detached from UX. One would think that, especially for an overhaul initiative, "important" people would daily-drive dev/nightly builds to wear off the cool factor and experience the not so pleasant annoyances, but generally they shield themselves from that and mostly look at the "cool demos".

Regardless, as far as I am aware Apple has a tight product release cadence and ties feature gates to that. Obviously hardware readiness gates are much earlier than software, but I can easily imagine situations where "yes men" report "good enough" at gates relevant for marketing, feature gets greenlit, but then gets half-assed for the actual release. Recall iphones crashing at the initial release demo? Might as well be history rhyming.
by zapnuk | 2026-01-06 07:19:42+00:00
I assume its still x86-64?

What actually makes it an AI platform? Some tight integration of an intel ARC GPU, similar to the Apple M series processors?

They claim 2-5x performance for soem AI workloads. But aren't they still limited by memory? The same limitation as always in consumer hardware?

I don't think it matters much if you're limited by a nvidia gpu with ~max 16gb or some new intel processor with similar memory.

Nice to have more options though. Kinda wish the intel arc gpu would be developed into an alternative for self hosted LLMs. 70b models can be quite good but still difficult / slow to use self-hosted.
by Nathanba | 2026-01-06 07:20:39+00:00
The thing about schemaless is that it's great for usability and I like it with JSON but as with JSON when we develop applications in reality at the end of the day you always have some kind of schema, whether it's written down or not. Like you alluded with pydantic, the application is going to rely on the data being in some sort of shape, even if it's very defensively written and practically everything is optional, you still end up relying something. That would be the informal schema so in my mind if I have a schema anyway no matter what... then maybe this should be supported in the serialization format/library to give me the benefit of size reductions.
by sbinnee | 2026-01-06 07:20:44+00:00
I will wait for the actual reviews from users. But I lost faith in Intel chips.

I was in CES2024 and saw snapdragon X elite chip running a local LLM (llama I believe). How did it turn out? Users cannot use that laptop except for running an LLM. They had no plans for translation layer like Apple Rosetta. Intel would be different for sure in that regard, but I just don't think that it will fly against Ryzen AI chips or Apple silicon.