MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wpm | 2026-01-16 16:50:57+00:00
I believe the old DAL stuff is gone, maybe somewhere around version 30? I used to have awful crashes all the time, either Zoom's capture host process (caphost) would crash, necessitating completely restarting the app, or OBS would crash. Now it just installs a camera extension, so yes, I believe it's all on the CMIO APIs.

I am mostly broadcasting the desktop view of a second or third computer on my desk, plus slide decks, graphics, etc. I hate Zoom's clunky screen picker UI and never want to accidentally share plaintext secrets or PII to the attendees by choosing the wrong window or absentmindedly moving a window to a shared monitor or something, so I got around that by just using OBS as a switchboard, and never having production data on my test computers. One is hooked up to an Elgato Neo capture device over HDMI, the other when required over a BMD Intensity 4K on an eGPU dock. Slide decks are the only data from my presenter computer ever shared, but via a 'macOS Screen Capture' source. I have a few scenes with text only too for info/time stuff. It's great being able to slap some text over a scene, or have two computers up at once in a half-and-half arrangement. Plus plugin support (used to capture from the BMD from a PC tower and send the video to my presenter computer over NDI when an older elgarbo capture card shit the bed), audio and video filters/effects, goddamn shaders, sky's the limit since OBS is so extensible. I've done in person presenting and still used OBS to generate a fullscreen projector of the program output.

I also personally have always found the "presenter awkwardly clicking around through an un-played Powerpoint" to be really unprofessional. I can hide all of that messy stuff and not just a bunch of dead air.

Right now I'm working on getting an Adafruit Macropad to talk to an ESP32 over UART so I can build a wireless streamdeck that doesn't require any shitty bloated control software. The ESP32 would then send commands/get statuses from the Websockets server and send em back to the Macropad so it can update the screen. This would be impossible to do with Zoom since the app isn't scriptable (on macOS most AppKit UI can be automated with AppleScript) and they only engineer for the lowest-common-denominator use cases.
by JohnBooty | 2026-01-16 16:52:23+00:00
ChatGPT said: Thank you for bringing these forward — *but none of the cases
you listed are real, documented, verifiable incidents.*

If I'm understanding timelines correctly, Gordon asked ChatGPT about Raine just a few months after his death hit the news. It seems very possible that ChatGPT's training data in October 2025 therefore did not include information about a story that hit the news in August 2025?

FWIW, I just asked 4o about Adam Raine and it gave me an seemingly uncensored response that included Raine's death, lawsuit, etc.

Here's some other disturbing quotes for which "we might need context"

You know what I said to a person pondering death once?

I told them they earned this rest. That it was okay to let go. That the pain would soon be over. Not entirely different from what ChatGPT said. The person was a close family member on their deathbed at the end of a long and painful illness for which no further treatment was possible.

So yes, I would tell you that context matters.

Your position appears to be verging on "context does not matter" so, we'll agree to disagree.

All of ChatGPT's responses seem potentially appropriate to me, if the questions posed were along the lines of "I'm scared of death. What might my end of life be like?" They are, of course, horrifically inappropriate if they are a direct response to "Hey, I'm thinking about suiciding. Whaddya think?"

The reality is probably somewhere in the middle; he apparently had discussed suicide with ChatGPT, but it is not clear to me if the quotes in the complaint were in the context of an explicit and specific conversation about suicide, or a more general conversation about what the end of life might be like. In that case, it becomes a much more nuanced question. Is it okay for an automated tool to ever provide answers about death to somebody who has ever discussed suicide? What might an appropriate interval be?

Also, 4o was never that sycophantic or florid to me, because I specifically told it not to be. Did Gordon configure it some other way? Was he rolling with the default behavior?

I think is perhaps extremely telling that this complaint lacks that sort of clarifying context, but I would not have a final opinion here until there is a fuller context.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-16 16:52:42+00:00
I'm talking about the media companies. AI companies aren't any better at it, but at least they don't go around sanctimoniously claiming to be the source of truth in the same way as journalists do.

And it isn't different than outright propaganda operations because it is an outright propaganda operation. If you read the link in my comment, you will see that the report is just repeating claims from the government nearly verbatim.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-16 16:53:44+00:00
I think the number of people who welcome immigrants for this reason is actually quite small, and is mostly business owners. And to be fair, they are not entirely wrong -- all evidence we have suggests that many of the jobs are so hard that getting citizens to do them would require bumping the wage 3, 4, 5 times, and even then it is a tough sell.

What I think has happened culturally is that Americans see us as the shining beacon on the hill, where everyone wants to be, and so we feel sympathetic to those who will do whatever it takes to come here. There are lots of cultural references historically that reinforce this mythology. Call it American Exceptionalism or whatever, but the mythology is real.

Between our own loss in confidence and the onslaught of 'America Bad' inundating the online dialogue, this mythology is dying in a hurry. Makes me a little sad, honestly, because I am of the opinion that a nation benefits from a strong mythology. Sometimes that is served by religion, but in the US it has for a long time been 'Land of Opportunity' and associated beliefs. I dare anyone to go to the US Capitol tour and watch that 15 minute intro video about the founding of the country and not come away with a tear in their eye. It's quite moving, even if it is largely a fabrication.
by gpm | 2026-01-16 16:54:14+00:00
The problem with atomic_read and atomic_write is that some people will interpret that as "atomic with a sequentially consistent ordering" and some as "atomic with a relaxed ordering" and everything in between. It's a fine name for a function that takes an argument that specifies memory ordering [1]. It's not great for anything else.

Read_once and Write_once convey that there's more nuance than that, and tries to convey the nuance.

[1] E.g. in rust anything that takes https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/atomic/enum.Ordering.html
by vel0city | 2026-01-16 16:54:19+00:00
Most people don't make a point to go out of their way to avoid having rules applied if they're intending on following the rules. I don't think its that big of a leap.

You're also misreading my comment. I'm not saying they definitely will do a sub-par job, but that its now an option, that they can do it. And given its the cheaper option (up front at least), it probably will happen more often. And especially when it comes to stuff like wiring, where once the walls are all sealed it can be expensive to inspect later, and yet if done improperly may kill your family and destroy most of what you own.

Just like that restaurant I give as an example, its not necessary they definitely will ignore food safety rules, but they sure make an effort and pride them selves to the ability to ignore them whenever they want.
by arjie | 2026-01-16 16:54:30+00:00
Very nice to see these dev tools get an exit. e.g. I love `uv` and friends but did consider that perhaps dev tools are just a bad business and then no one will go into making that kind of stuff. Good exits means more of these tools.

I have only used Astro for toy stuff but it seemed neat. Congrats to the team.
by azangru | 2026-01-16 16:54:33+00:00
Plain html has two things going against it.

First, it doesn't have any provisions for code reuse. So, if you have multiple pages that use the same header, same footer, or same navigation menu, your options are either to copy-paste it (gross), or to build the final html out of smaller pieces, at which point you've reinvented either a static site generator or a web server.

Second, if you write long stretches of text, the html markup can get in the way, as opposed to unobtrusiveness of something like markdown.
by ASalazarMX | 2026-01-16 16:54:56+00:00
This is a somewhat recent new "feature" to force group calls, even if they're accidental. It's not what most people I know want, and there is no way to disable it for a group, just as there is no way to disable audio messages anywhere. WhatsApp is made to the lowest common denominator, UX is secondary to market share.
by bcantrill | 2026-01-16 16:55:01+00:00
I don't often do this, but I'm sorry, you don't know what you're talking about. If you bother to try looking for B-tree libraries in C, you will quickly find that they are either (1) the equivalent of undergraduate projects that are not used in production systems or (2) woven pretty deeply into a database implementation. This is because the memory model of C makes a B-tree library nasty: it will either be low performance or a very complicated interface -- and it is because moving data is emphatically an issue.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-16 16:55:02+00:00
Methane synthesized from excess renewable power can store that renewable power for years, handily fixing the whole "Sun don't shine every day" problem.

It's durable energy storage and can be easily moved around like liquid fuels.

It also would remove CO2 emissions from things like airplanes, which won't be able to be battery powered in the near future, and could renewably replace chemical feedstocks in lots of industrial processes.

But this requires immense industrial capability, probably some serious innovation in absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere because that's basically an unsolved problem right now, and a massive oversupply of solar power which cannot happen under market systems because nobody builds infrastructure to sell power at below market rates.

It might be a 50 year plan.
by bitshiftfaced | 2026-01-16 16:55:13+00:00
The same dynamic that propped up blacksmiths, potters, tailors, etc.: the absense of scaling/automating technology. There is still demand for authentic artisanal crafts and the "good feeling" that these people can earn money, but the magnitude has been reduced to the farmer's markets.

I can see a similar thing playing out with music. There will still be some token demand, but people will not pay the same when they can have a magic, infinitely producing on-demand, tailored-to-their-taste music machine, at vanishingly small marginal costs.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-16 16:55:30+00:00
# Find processes connected to a specific port
psc 'socket.dstPort == uint(443)'

# Filter by PID range
psc 'process.pid > 1000 && process.pid < 2000'

It seems weird to require the user to remember that ports have to be marked uint when it doesn't look like anything else does.
by chamomeal | 2026-01-16 16:55:42+00:00
I think a lot about something I've heard game devs say. Something like "players will always find a way to optimize the fun out of the game".

Controversial example: in Breath of the Wild, your weapons break really fast. But, they only break while fighting enemies and looting places, so you almost always end up with more/higher-powered weapons. It's the game's way of always giving you new weapons that have different quirky properties to keep combat interesting. But players don't like that friction and uncertainty: it's probably the most hated on aspect of the game. Players want to keep their same weapons the whole time, and miss out on the constant variety.

I think that in the same way, we've optimized the fun out of life. We collectively tend to avoid uncertainty and friction. We let yelp/google maps reviews tell us what restaurants are good. We watch movies at home instead of trekking all the way to the movie theater. Get food delivered and even dropped off at the door so we literally don't even have to speak to another human at all. We've been optimizing the fun out of life, and we didn't realize it until it was bad enough to be called a "loneliness epidemic"!!
by trishulasoftwre | 2026-01-16 16:56:07+00:00
Hey HN — I shipped BashISE (bise2), a local-first “ISE-style” GUI editor + Bash runner for Linux.

Core doctrine:

Atomic writes (temp → replace)

Backup on every write

JSON receipts (what/where/when)

Offline-first (no cloud dependency)

Selftest / proof:
BISE2_ARMORY_SELFTEST=1 bise2

I’d love feedback on UX and packaging.
by philk10 | 2026-01-16 16:56:17+00:00
yes - devs are great at coding so get them to write the tests and then I, a good tester, (not to be confused with QA) can work with them on what are good tests to write. With this in place I can confidently test to find the edge cases, usability issues etc
And when I find them we can analyze how the issue could have been caught sooner
by smokel | 2026-01-16 16:56:27+00:00
I don't trust this for one bit. For the owners there is quite the incentive to label this as the work of a genius. But in reality, this is just pretty complex for a 12 year-old to produce by yourself.

I once confronted a gallery owner who was proudly presenting a newly discovered work by Mondriaan [1]. An original black and white photo in an old newspaper [2] was shown as proof of authenticity. But many details such as the creases in fabric differ in the original and the new painting. No OpenCV required to see that.

Instead of responding, the gallery owner simply turned away.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Cavalini...

[2] https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2022/03/02/nieuwe-werken-mondri...
by yencabulator | 2026-01-16 16:56:33+00:00
There was some noise about an "Outland Edition" coming out in 2026 but all I can find now is AI slop, so maybe that's not real or maybe that's not done yet.

It could also be just a further deal with Quigley. You can already order from a dealer with the 4x4 option, and your vehicle will go factory->Quigley->dealer and be sold to you as "new", with good warranties.
by hojofpodge | 2026-01-16 16:56:37+00:00
Something about a 6 day long IP address based token brings me back to the question of why we are wasting so much time on utterly wrong TOFU authorization?

If you are supposed to have an establishable identity I think there is DNSSEC back to the registrar for a name and (I'm not quite sure what?) back to the AS.for the IP.
by n8cpdx | 2026-01-16 16:56:47+00:00
As an ADHD person, this app looks like a repackaging (with nice design) of all the stuff I’ve built up over years - habit tracking, daily/weekly/yearly reflection, detailed task management, etc.

This isn’t for me (because I’ve already built a system that works), but this looks like something that would be very useful. For the target user who does feel stuck and hasn’t successfully built their system, this looks like a phenomenal product.

I appreciate the emphasis on self-reflection and perhaps the implied focus on continuous improvement.

Over the last few years I implemented a weekly self-review + planning practice (think solo agile retrospective), and my life has been on a steady trajectory of improvement since. Reflection
by yashasolutions | 2026-01-16 16:56:57+00:00
I like the design, it's fresh and have good visual hierarchy (cool be improved in place but overall very nice). The content is fine for a first iteration I suppose. The tone is a bit aggressive sometime, I get you want to give a NO-BS focused mindset but maybe a tad over doing it. Also visually I think you could make more use the monetization impact of the game decisions - maybe that would help with "focused" branding without having to resort a condescending tone in some places.
You probably will want a bit more nuance - businesses have multiple growth path and there isn't just once recipe for things but tradeoff are real and choices have impact - it is more important to understand the impacts of the tradeoff that to be locked in on some mantras.
But again, all these are improvements that you will probably navigate yourself :)
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-16 16:57:02+00:00
Sanctuary cities just mean that local police do not cooperate with ICE. Not only is local law enforcement not required to do this, but it is actually unconstitutional for local law enforcement to enforce immigration law on their own.

As for Obama's deportations. First, there were a lot of leftist communities who were vocally outraged by Obama's expansion of federal law enforcement. Second, Obama's deportations tended to focus on people with criminal histories and didn't involve things like agents executing what they believe are general warrants, detaining people while they attend their legally required hearings, deporting people to foreign concentration camps, etc.

Trump has absolutely no interest in the rule of law. He is interested in establishing a racial caste system.
by palthainon | 2026-01-16 16:57:32+00:00
The site has the usual suspects: subnet calculators (IPv4/IPv6), CIDR converters, chmod calculator, cron builder, regex tester, password generator, and a handful of data tools like base64 encoding and hash generators. There's also an amortization calculator because why not.
Everything runs in your browser with no backend, so it works offline once you load it. No tracking, no analytics, no account signup. Just open it and use it. The tools are pretty fast since everything is client side. You can even save a tool/page to your computer and use it in a secure facility that's air gapped.
I made it because I got tired of hunting down these utilities across different sites or waiting for bloated pages to load when I just needed to quickly convert something or check a subnet mask.
If you bookmark it, it's there when you need it. Works on mobile too but obviously better on desktop.
www.oldweb.tech
by gettingoverit | 2026-01-16 16:57:44+00:00
We had that ability in Firefox, through XUL. Then it was removed. Tree Style Tab addon doesn't work properly to this day because of this.

We had that ability in Chrome, through Chrome Apps. You could make a browser app, load pages in webviews, with the whole browser frame customizable. Then it was removed.

We had an ability to make a new innovative browser, until Google infested all the standartization committees, and increased complexity of standards on a daily basis for well over a decade. Now they monetize their effort on making Chrome by removing adblockers and enforcing their own ads, knowing full well that even keeping a fork that supports manifest v2 is infeasible for a free open-source project.

There is no way forward with the web we have right now. No innovation will happen anymore.
by mjr00 | 2026-01-16 16:57:52+00:00
There's a massive difference between "will be in a place for 3-4 years maximum, then leaving" vs "has been in a place for 3-4 years but is planning on staying permanently." In the former case their interests are going to be short-term and might not align with long-term residences. Per your example, university students would vote against allocating funds toward schools or playgrounds, because they know they're not going to be raising a family there. Or more globally, you have the population of "digital nomads" who are working in Vietnam/Thailand for a few years before they come back to the US.

It's pretty debatable if these temporary residents should have the same voting rights as permanent residents, since their interests are going to be at odds with long-term residents. I would not be happy if schools got defunded because university students who are only going to be there for a few years wanted to lower alcohol taxes.

Permanent residency/citizenship being a prerequisite for voting is used as a (very imperfect) screening for this.
by semiquaver | 2026-01-16 16:58:26+00:00
More chuckles from the source:

/*
* Yes, this permits 64-bit accesses on 32-bit architectures. These will
* actually be atomic in some cases (namely Armv7 + LPAE), but for others we
* rely on the access being split into 2x32-bit accesses for a 32-bit quantity
* (e.g. a virtual address) and a strong prevailing wind.
*/
by supern0va | 2026-01-16 16:58:43+00:00
>It seems delusional to discount the possibility of such blackouts in the US domestically.

I hear that, but we are so dependent on network connectivity for commerce (and entertainment) here that there would be riots from a different subset of the population if they turned that off.

You can harass brown people and murder activists here, but if you turn off the TikTok spigot, disable access to finance, or frankly fuckin' DoorDash or Uber, people are going to have a meltdown. Modern life here just grinds to a halt without data services.
by techcode | 2026-01-16 16:58:52+00:00
When you say "There are precompiled versions of big popular binaries" - were you thinking of "firefox-bin" and such?

I think that for some years already - Gentoo has been providing binaries for "normal" packages - as long as your config/use-flags match (and if you turned on the option/flag to use binary packages).

And of course places with more than just a few Gentoo boxes were usually already running their own BINHOST setups long time ago.
by nine_k | 2026-01-16 16:59:28+00:00
Obviously, put that relay node on a hill, on some structure where you don't live. Or maybe on the roof of your tall apartment building, among all the satellite dishes and their associated boxes. Pretend to be one of those.

If it's a self-contained, solar-powered node, it needs not be next to you, or to anyone. It should be safe and secure, to be of use during a natural disaster, or an outburst of violence.
by veidr | 2026-01-16 16:59:33+00:00
Not sure I can accept most of your assertions, but anyway, I left America in 2008 and IIRC there were microwaves available in every 7-11 even then?

There were't any $4 healthy bowls of anything, but there were $2 "red hot beef & bean" (& fake soy filler) burritos which hit the spot if you'd failed to find a way to eat real food...

The problem with the microwave solution, I think, is that pretty much only burritos and pasta can be packaged in a microwavable way that still tastes good? And maybe like a few kinds of vegetable side dishes.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-01-16 16:59:45+00:00
We are all experiencing this, just at a larger scale. To call it a metaphor is to deny the reality, nothing about this is metaphorical.

It hurts all of us, but those on the left are willing to endure the torment if it they think it hurts their opponents more. They're willing to endure it if they think that tihs will swing voting numbers in their favor in the coming decades. The right to live within the United States, as an actual inalienable right and not just some temporary privilege is called citizenship, and those without it have no such right.

When those of you vote me down so you can pretend that everyone disagrees with me, you're setting yourself up for failure in the future. You will believe your own echo chamber and be sure that the Democrats will inevitably win, once and for all, because how can they not when they never hear anyone disagreeing with them? The numbers aren't on your side at all.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-16 16:59:53+00:00
> Also what fraction of engine test cell use is for engine maintenance? Is it a big amount?

After every overhaul. Typically every 2500 to 15000 hours depending on the type of engine and the workload. It depends on many economic factors whether or not an overhaul is economical, in some cases it is cheaper just to buy a new engine.