MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-28 22:23:03+00:00
I lived in Switzerland a couple of years so I know how it goes. I thoroughly enjoyed by Sundays, even if I couldn't do my laundry, and had a nice routine setup where I would go do some coding work in Lausanne's museum cafe that was open from 11 to 4, with some croissants and drinks bought from the local Coop Pronto. Then after a run along the lake, maybe buy an economist at the train station and have a meal at McDonalds next to the train station (train stations of course had an exemption and the businesses around it could be open).

The lack of options creates new options, I guess.

That being said, after leaving Switzerland I was in China for 9 years where I could barely tell it was Sunday at all.
by OldMatey | 2026-01-28 22:23:58+00:00
My Huawei P20 Pro did this in 2018. It was fabulous, turned the OS into a mini-computer with a taskbar, desktop, icons, browser etc. It was still the best phone Ive ever owned (and I used to work at Google). It was no wonder Google killed with GSM. It was light years ahead even back then and they really hate competition.
by Izikiel43 | 2026-01-28 22:24:04+00:00
Convenience?

Set up once with the CC with rewards for groceries, hover hand 2 seconds, done.

Apple Pay in the phone or watch are super convenient as well, but they take just a tad bit more of time between selecting the menus in the touch screen for pay options, and then selecting the matching CC.

I save like 30s? Possibly.
Is this tech overkill? Most likely.
by rdtsc | 2026-01-28 22:24:29+00:00
> Notice that in the Skylake Client microarchitecture the RDTSC instruction counts at the machine’s guaranteed P1 frequency independently of the current processor clock (see the INVARIANT TSC property), and therefore, when running in Intel® Turbo-Boost-enabled mode, the delay will remain constant, but the number of instructions that could have been executed will change.

rdtsc may execute out of order, so sometimes an lfence (previously cpuid) can be used and there is also rdtscp

See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/inclu...

And just because rdtsc is constant doesn't mean the processor clock will be constant that could be fluctuating.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-01-28 22:24:40+00:00
Same here. The story for windows, IME, is that my work Logitech BT keyboard works fine, but neither my sony nor shure headphones work at all. Windows says connected, but then disconnects right away. On the same PC which dual-boots linux, they both work fine, with LDAC for the sony and apt-x hd for the shure.

At work, we have BT Jabra headsets. I specifically asked for a corded version, I hate the latency for calls. My windows-using colleagues, for some reason, love wearing a wireless headset and talking through the laptop microphone.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-28 22:24:41+00:00
Mirecast (when done properly) is basically a video stream over a peer-to-peer WiFi Direct connection. H.264+AAC/AC3/PCM audio sent over RTSP/RTP using a standard IPv4 stack. Better codecs are available on newer devices. Two modern WiFi 6 devices can stream gigabits per second that way if configured right, there's no need for the typical low FPS, lag, and desynchronised audio from a protocol standpoint.

For some reason, a lot of implementations (especially on the receiving end) suck at this. The latency seems to be terrible and TVs and displays seem to care more about reassembling old frames than about showing the latest good signal. However, it's not all that different from what Apple is doing.

Miracast over ethernet/via an access point is something different (something I've never really seen used myself).
by irishcoffee | 2026-01-28 22:24:54+00:00
> The narrative shifted from 'abundance for all' to 'the pie is only so big' (that is, unless you're a favored incumbent, like defense contractors).

It would surprise you to know that Booz Allen laid off 3k people last month then, huh?

Or Boeing laid off 3200 people in September 2025.

You should look these things up before you pop off like that. Three minutes of research is all it takes.
by ekidd | 2026-01-28 22:25:07+00:00
As I keep pointing out, if the model ever stops needing you to complete ambitious goals, then what does the model actually need you for?

People somehow imagine an agent that can crush the competition with minimal human oversight. And then they somehow think that they'll be in charge, and not Sam Altman, a government, or possibly the model itself.

If the model's that good, nobody's going to sell it to you.
by Quarrelsome | 2026-01-28 22:25:36+00:00
best reasoning I've heard for this is that English is subtext heavy, like Japanese due to the history of the aristocracy. The populace were in thrall to their feudal lords and the aristocracy as serfs and servant classes for so long, that being indirect has been embedded into the language as a defense mechanism to not upset the pay masters. We get the subtext but people new to our culture might not.

I remember a technological mess being present at work and my team lead bringing out the classic:

> it's not ideal is it?

or the classic Jeeves and Wooster valet/aristocrat relationship with Jeeves giving it the:

> as you say sir

> very good sir

with both statements being flexible but often being delivered with the dripping subtext of "yeah that's complete bollocks".[0]

Obviously this doesn't apply to the real working classes but then those types are not the sort to gain a STEM education.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s03Fq1nsbng

(The full scene is around 11:30 in the first episode and I think its captures a conversation of subtext and indirectness quite well).
by Yizahi | 2026-01-28 22:25:43+00:00
I agree about wealth cap. I suspect that ultra-rich would rather pay higher taxes than have a hard cap. Or cap will be defined in such way as to become meaningless. This is why I advocate for high tax brackets, as being more realistic in practice.

As for proportionality - taxes are inherently unfair on the individual level. But they are fair on the large society level. All of our niceties are essentially funded from taxes. Current "free market" plus corruption mean that to finance growth more and more money is needed and part of them come from more and more taxes. But a lot of basic goods are fix price or low enough price, so that they make le and less percent of person expenses the more income rises. So to be more fair, it is fairer to increase tax on the ultra-rich class and spare tax increase on poorer classes, making average suffering lower. If we simply increase all taxes, then the lower the income the more tax a person would pay. It in kinda unfair and not productive to do it this way.
by g947o | 2026-01-28 22:25:49+00:00
I don't think nobody has solved the problem of mobile/desktop split so far.

Microsoft's Surface Pro line barely made any difference -- nobody buys it to use it as a tablet, and generally the touch experience is just bad if you have ever used a real tablet.

Apple pretends to try and market iPad as your next computer, but we all know how it works. (They also have this thing that allows phone apps to run natively on MacOS, but that has got near zero traction.)

Samsung tried as well, half-mindedly, and I can confidently say a Samsung phone doesn't work as well as a PC in DeX mode.

So now it's Google. I don't think they can come up with some magic solution to change this.
by gdilla | 2026-01-28 22:26:12+00:00
its agency model vs retail model. Recall - Amazon hated the agency model, where the publisher sets the price (and 30% cut goes to app store - Jobs sold this as amazing deal). Retail model the retailer sets the price, and the publisher is guaranteed the wholesale price. Amazon preferred the latter because they competed on dynamic price setting. this was so long ago we forget.
by kjellsbells | 2026-01-28 22:26:13+00:00
Is this really surprising? London picks up all the advantages of the UK (legal system is sound, eg in contract law, native speakers of English, the lingua franca of business, strong university tradition) and adds in its special sauce: access to the City, global-tier culture, excellent public transport (I know we moan about it, but it really is excellent), and a timezone location that easily serves the US and Asia markets.

The awkwardness for founders in London is that when they want to IPO, London doesnt have nearly as deep a pool of capital as the US, so they are potentially leaving a lot of money on the table.
by antirez | 2026-01-28 22:26:18+00:00
Can run with mmap() but it is slower. 4-bit quantized there is a decent ratio between the model size and the RAM, with a fast SSD one could try to see how it works. However when a model is 4-bit quantized there is often the doubt that it is not better than an 8-bit quantized model of 200B parameters, it depends on the model, on the use case, ... Unfortunately the street for local inference of SOTA model is being stopped by the RAM prices and the GPU request of the companies, leaving us with little. Probably today the best bet is to buy Mac Studio systems and then run distributed inference (MLX supports this for instance), or a 512 GB Mac Studio M4 that costs, like 13k$.
by axegon_ | 2026-01-28 22:26:36+00:00
Honestly? That claim seems a bit(read A LOT) exaggerated. I haven't had whatsapp in a decade and none of my friends(scattered all over Europe) or family uses it. Viber used to be a big deal and to an extent still is in some areas of Europe. Personally I think I've talked almost everyone into migrating to Signal.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-28 22:26:41+00:00
That's a very temporary solution to be fair. KDE and even, shudder, Gnome put mac os and windows to shame when it comes to responsiveness, performance, and resource usage.

I mean, KDE does 3x the stuff for 1/3 the cost. That's more memory and CPU for your IDE or, more likely, chrome tabs.
by thehacknews | 2026-01-28 22:26:48+00:00
TA584, a financially motivated threat actor, has significantly evolved its initial access operations by adopting rapid, short-lived phishing campaigns combined with ClickFix social engineering and PowerShell-based loaders. The group relies on disposable infrastructure, geofenced landing pages, and fileless execution to evade traditional detection. This analysis breaks down how TA584 operates as an initial access broker, why static indicators fail against its tactics, and what defenders should monitor to detect high-velocity intrusion campaigns.
by anjel | 2026-01-28 22:26:59+00:00
AIMP3[1] for windows is a fine Winamp style music player with many features beyond winamp, eg. Music library / excellent file format conversion.
It has a platinum rating on WineHQ[2] and anecdotally works completely for me on Arch Linux with wine including plugins and (old skool)visualizations.
AIMP3 also has a linux variant, but its got a much shorter feature list and is in a slow dev cycle, not ready for primetime.

[1] https://www.aimp.ru/?do=download&os=windows

[2] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...
by nobody9999 | 2026-01-28 22:27:23+00:00
>comments like that just make me thing people on the left are just good at violence

That's as may be, but it's not for a lack of trying by the right. In fact, the overwhelming majority of political violence comes from the right[0]:

"There were about 300 acts of political violence in the United States from the January 6 attack to the 2024 election.[46][45] According to the research, that was the largest surge since the 1970s.[45] Political violence during the 2024 election was also at its highest since the 1970s, and most recent violence came from right-wing assailants.[46][2]

As of 2023, political violence comes "overwhelmingly from the right", according to the Global Terrorism Database, FBI statistics, and other research.[3][41][48] The Anti-Defamation League found that all of the 61 political killings in the U.S. from 2022 through 2024 were committed by right-wing extremists.[49] A Princeton University study reported that the number of cases involving harassment and threats against local public officials had increased 74% in 2024 compared with 2022, totalling 600 cases.[50] Serious threats against federal judges doubled from 2021 to 2023 according to the U.S. Marshals Service.[25]"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_violence_in_the_Unit...
by BowBun | 2026-01-28 22:27:36+00:00
Appreciate the response, I'm learning some new things about the modern listening mechanisms for DBs which unlock more than I believed was possible.

For your first point - I would counter that a lot of data about my systems lives outside of the primary database. There is however an argument for adding a dependency, and for testing complexities. These are by and large solved problems at the scale I work with (not huge, not tiny).

I think both approaches work and I honestly just appreciate you guys holding Celery to task ;)
by walthamstow | 2026-01-28 22:27:39+00:00
I am completely biased but I think London is one of the best places to live in the world, everything considered.

There's a guy on Instagram who spins a wheel for a random country and goes to eat that cuisine somewhere in London. There are maybe 1 or 2 places in the world you can do that. It's an incredible feat of human diversity to pack hundreds of global cuisines into a 10 mile radius.
by Joe_Cool | 2026-01-28 22:27:43+00:00
You can't run X11 programs on Wayland without Xwayland.

Likewise you cannot run Wayland programs on X11 without a wayland compositor like Cage (a wayland kiosk) or Weston. Both run as a window on X11 inside of which Waydroid works just fine.

It's an odd complaint that incompatible software is incompatible.
by bjackman | 2026-01-28 22:28:01+00:00
I have lately taken to this approach when I raise bugs:

1. Fully human-written explanation of the issue with all the info I can add

2. As an attachment to the bug (not a PR), explicitly noted as such, an AI slop fix and a note that it makes my symptom go away.

I've been on the receiving end of one bug report in this format and I thought it was pretty helpful. Even though the AI fix was garbage, the fact that the patch made the bug go away was useful signal.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-28 22:28:02+00:00
Sorry to hear that.

But coming to this point, its absolutely unfathomable seeing the difference between these two types of things

On One hand we have cursor whose burning like 5-6 Million $ of money in trying to build a browser only for it to be riddled with bugs and literally just the money went into fire (read emsh's post and how he built better alternative)

I mean I guess I learnt something from them burning 5 million $ but I see a lot of Companies burn so much money.

My point is that all of these companies burn massive amounts of money in LLM's sometimes just for the sake of it and then some of these same companies go the other way and then fire people working.

I mean is there no way for a company to be reasonable. You worked there 8 years, You knew how things worked. Getting anyone new up and running would be hard especially given you had customer relations.

Tf they mean doing a great job but they have to lay you off? I mean, is the company doing really bad (I am considering something like tailwind happening here?) or what exactly.

But tailwind's situation was (unique?) because their business was eaten by AI itself. Not sure about your (former) company though but I hope that you can tell more specifics if possible.
by rekabis | 2026-01-28 22:28:09+00:00
Humans are fallible. Humans have egos. Humans can be intentionally dishonest.

But the Scientific Method is the only functional bullshit detection system we have. When it is allowed to work, science corrects itself and excises the falsehoods.

It’s a shame that outsized egos within The Lancet and other orgs are still very much in play.
by bodge5000 | 2026-01-28 22:28:14+00:00
I'd say the fact that you know theres some photoshop jobs you can't detect is proof enough that we're surviving it. It's not necessarily that we can identify it with 100% accuracy, but that we consider it a possibility with every image we see online

> What will we do when we'll realize we have no way of distinguishing man from bot on the internet?

The idea is this is a completely different scenario if we're aware of this being a potential problem versus not being at all aware of it. Maybe we won't be able to tell 100% of the time, but its something which we'll consider.
by mort96 | 2026-01-28 22:28:21+00:00
I'm not sure why you're counting the years of support for a version of the OS and not the years of support for a computer. The interesting thing is: if you bought a computer at year X, does it still receive updates at X+Y?

There's loads of relatively young computers which can't upgrade to Windows 11 and therefore aren't supported anymore. That's the problem, not how long Windows 10 was supported.
by Telaneo | 2026-01-28 22:28:23+00:00
Is that the original source? I've seen it a few different places, but what really sold me on it was a post Foone reposted on Bluesky.[1]

I've called them Microshaft before, but given their whole pivot into AI (might be a stretch to call it that, but close enough), Microslop certainly feels like a good name.

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/nanoraptor.danamania.com/post/3mbif...
by LudwigNagasena | 2026-01-28 22:28:25+00:00
I had to vibe code a proxy to hide tokens from agents (https://github.com/vladimirkras/prxlocal) because I haven’t found any good solution either. I planned to add genai otel stuff that could be piped into some tool to view dialogues and tool calls and so on, but I haven’t found any good setup that doesn’t require lots of manual coding yet. It’s really weird that there are no solutions in that space.
by robinhouston | 2026-01-28 22:28:26+00:00
> I’ve met plenty of thinky players who reject any help not contained within the game itself—I’ve been that person—but these days, with so much to play, I simply don’t have the heart to ironman a puzzle for hours and hours just to maintain a sense of pride. I’d rather see more of what a game has to offer. Sue me.

I’m not going to sue the author, obviously; but it sounds as though he enjoys puzzle games in a different way and for a different reason from me, and I find it hard to relate to his feelings about them.

If your plan is to cheat as soon as you get stuck, I can’t imagine why you would choose to play a puzzle game at all. For me, what I enjoy about puzzle games is precisely the immense satisfaction that comes from conquering a well-designed puzzle after a struggle.
by esperent | 2026-01-28 22:28:32+00:00
Eh, it's better. But it's still a mess unless you're using a device specifically designed for Linux like a Steamdeck or Framework. Expect to spend a lot of time messing around in the console if you install on an arbitrary laptop that came with Windows installed. Wifi problems, sleep problems, external monitor problems, laptop screen brightness problems, graphics card problems.
by int_19h | 2026-01-28 22:28:55+00:00
Linux can handle BitLocker & Secure Boot just fine. The problem with dual booting in that configuration is rather that every time Linux updates the boot loader, Windows will freak out and stop booting until you enter the recovery key for BitLocker. This can be prevented by first booting into Windows to disable BitLocker until the next reboot and then installing the Linux updates, but in practice I find that I forget about it all the time with my dual-boot laptop (which spends most of its time booted into Linux).
by bokohut | 2026-01-28 22:28:59+00:00
Yet again another failed attempt to move to biometric identification linked to a payment instrument thus allowing one not to need to carry that payment method on person.

This is not the worlds first biometric payments failure, as that belongs to PayByTouch, nor will it be the last. Having been deeply involved in the technology systems around the worlds first attempt at PayByTouch I do wonder why the "easy" is not embraced by more? I think I know however as it is likely religious in nature and the beliefs around such things. I can vividly recall being told to hide my employee badge while walking through the crowd of protesters holding signage about "Mark of the beast" and more in my attempts to enter the PayByTouch headquarters which used to reside at 1 Market in San Fran CA many years ago.

Wash, rinse, repeat : Everything old is new again. Just give it time as biometric payments will come around once again for absolute, third times a charm?
by zeeZ | 2026-01-28 22:29:08+00:00
To expand on that, those websites mostly operate on random volunteers self hosting a (starting price) fairly cheap receiver and antenna with an open source stack that feeds the ADS-B data to the website operator in exchange for nothing or free "premium" benefits.

The spoofer could have just sent them fake location information drawing an image using latitude, longitude and altitude for color (in the default view flight paths have different colors based on the altitude of the plane at that point in time).

They could have built an antenna and actually broadcast this data, but that would be a lot more effort and most likely some form of crime.
by jmpavlec | 2026-01-28 22:29:29+00:00
Great idea! I added a github issue for my game platform https://gametje.com. It currently has 8 multiplayer party games. Play on your smart TV, laptop. phone to phone, or directly within Discord.

I made a Show HN post back in November: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887709 but I've added two games since then.

Thanks for creating this.
by badsectoracula | 2026-01-28 22:29:51+00:00
ChatGPT is instructed to roleplay a cheesy cheery bot and so it responds accordingly, but it (and almost any LLM) can be instructed to roleplay any sort of character, none of which mean anything about the system itself.

Of course an AGI system could also be instructed to roleplay such a character, but that doesn't mean it'd be an inherent attribute of the system itself.
by irishcoffee | 2026-01-28 22:30:02+00:00
> Then why are half the websites I use broken? Why is my hospital's billing estimate system broken? Why did my FSA provider send a request of documentation to the wrong e-mail address? Why is my bank's website always broken? Why did Equifax leak data? Why did Doordash mis-charge me?

Well… you may be answering your own question if you think about it really, really hard.
by jcgl | 2026-01-28 22:30:11+00:00
I don't know all the ins and outs, but because of the Machine Owner Key (MOK) mechanism in shim, it should be possible to boot arbitrary OSes without MS signing anything.

Your step of removing the MS keys works of course :) Although I've heard that can be risky on various systems that need to load MS-signed EEPROMS. Also I think that firmware updates can be problematic?
by vunderba | 2026-01-28 22:30:25+00:00
> The problem with AI is that it's giving these people hyper-ADHD

Shouldn't be a problem - I've seen AT LEAST half a dozen almost-assuredly vibe coded projects related to dealing with ADHD in the last month...

Show HN: I gamified a productivity app to help my ADHD friends get things done
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797212

Show HN: built a 24h-clock based radial planner to help with ADHD time blindness
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668890

Show HN: DayZen: Visual day planner for ADHD brains
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46742799

Show HN: ADHD Focus Light
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537708

Show HN: I built Focusmo – a focus app for ADHD time-blindness
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695618

Show HN: Local-First ADHD Planner for Windows and Android
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646188
by mort96 | 2026-01-28 22:30:52+00:00
Why would you want to use a chat bot to translate? Either you know the source and destination language, in which case you'll almost certainly do a better job (certainly a more trustworthy job), or you don't, in which case you shouldn't be handling translations for that language anyway.

Same with grammar fixes. If you don't know the language, why are you submitting grammar changes??