MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by functional_dev | 2026-01-10 16:45:33+00:00
Author here. I’m a huge FP snob (Rust/Scala) so using Go for this project kinda hurt at first.

But as a solo founder, I needed speed. The main thing I learned is that LLMs write amazing Go code. It's so simple and boilerplate-heavy that the AI almost never hallucinates.

Ended up building a distributed audio ingestion system that undercuts Twilio by like 80%.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or other things.
by blacklion | 2026-01-10 16:45:46+00:00
TWAIN was not limited by PhotoShop, native (and naive) MS application "Scan & Fax" supported it too, and many other raster editors and document organizing applications too.

Also, TWAIN is not Windows-specific! It is (was?) supported on Windows, Linux and macOS. It was not invented by MS or Adobe, but by working group where MS and Adobe doesn't present!
by nephihaha | 2026-01-10 16:46:10+00:00
There are people who have been born and brought up in the Falkland Islands and have connections going back generations. They have been there longer than anyone else, and the islands had no previous indigenous population before France first colonised them.

As to whether they are native, that is a whole other can of worms, but they are more rooted to there than people who live in continental South America. Geographically they can't claim to be British but by sympathy they are. Things were shifting in Argentina's favour until the invasion.

By the way, this does apply to a certain percentage of Greenlanders. There are a few European Greenlanders, or people of recent mixed heritage so we could make similar arguments about them.
by mixel | 2026-01-10 16:46:11+00:00
It's not shocking they added even more bloatware to every microsoft program so even with the same OS kernel it would probably take longer. At this point it also got out of hand for Microsoft themselves if you have heard how they are going to speed up the explorer. Not by making it faster but by preloading it on startup so it feels snappier, there are 20 years of technical debt in I think you cannot save this anymore (but I am to inexperienced to know that for sure)
by devgoth | 2026-01-10 16:46:36+00:00
SWE is a demanding job in general so just be prepared to actually "work". as others have said look at large companies where tech is not the selling point. insurance, banks, aviation, large fortune 500 companies.

i've noticed that it is sometimes less about the type of company and more about the immediate manager and their mindset. a competent manager can set expectations with external stakeholders while not overloading their engineers. a good middle manager who can play politics with multiple stakeholders and becomes "liked" really leads to a chill job if they have the correct expectations of their career as well.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-10 16:47:11+00:00
Come back when I can run Linux on a laptop that has 12+ hours battery life, runs fast, that’s lightweight, quiet and doesn’t cause infertility from the heat when I put it on my lap….

Using an x86 laptop in 2025 is like using a flip phone 6 years after the iPhone came out.

Of course if you are a gamer, ignore everything I just wrote.
by andy99 | 2026-01-10 16:47:43+00:00
Better question is why would you want to? I’m not surprised given how modern tech seems to want to focus on telling us how to think instead of automating boring stuff. But would have thought optimization is for stuff you don’t enjoy. I guess it’s the same idea that you could eat Soylent or whatever to “optimize” your diet, but they you don’t get to enjoy food. Repeat across all life’s pleasures and then what?
by bryanlarsen | 2026-01-10 16:47:46+00:00
The sad thing is there's an obvious path forward if America wants to control Greenland.

1. Campaign for Greenland's independence, and apply pressure on Denmark to achieve that. Offer security agreements and trade deals to a newly independent Greenland.

A small majority of Greenlander's support independence today; this number would likely rise if they knew they had strong external support.

2. The trade agreements, security agreements and goodwill of Greenlanders for #1 would bring Greenland into the American sphere of influence.

3. Over time, use carrots and sticks to tie Greenland closer & closer to America.

This strategy has a high likelihood of success, has the moral high ground and would minimize the damage to America's alliances.

The only problem is that it would take multiple decades, and Trump won't be around that long.
by rayiner | 2026-01-10 16:47:50+00:00
From an American perspective, it’s not the “rhetoric,” it’s just “noticing.” My mom is an immigrant who was not brought up here to absorb the rhetoric. But when she went to Canada and Australia to visit family, she came back ranting about how poor everyone was and how small the houses were. (I take it you have fewer suburban McMansions and giant SUVs.) It’s hard not to notice our GDP per capita is 50% higher than yours. It’s big enough now where we notice it just going up there to visit family.

And you can say what you want about safety nets for poor people, but that doesn’t affect most Americans. My parents are on Medicare and they head down to the ER every time have a stomach ache and get a CAT scan. Meanwhile my family is convinced that Canadian healthcare nearly killed my aunt when she had a kidney issue because they didn’t immediately schedule her for a million tests and surgery. (I suspect that isn’t true and the Canadian system reasonably triaged the care.)

And to be clear, I like Canada (and I love Denmark). I’d rather have a more orderly society with an efficient and expansive government that’s focused on comprehensive outcomes across the population, in contrast to our system where you have McMansions but randomly you can fall through a giant crack. But Americans temperamentally are biased towards upside potential and they devalue downside risk. This is a cultural trait that seems very quickly absorbed even by immigrants. My immigrant family isn’t meaningfully American in many respects—they don’t have Anglo sensibilities about things like civic institutions and personal freedoms—but they’re indistinguishable from other americans in their materialistic optimism
by zdragnar | 2026-01-10 16:48:00+00:00
Yes, and that was years after the ACA took full effect and the rates did not decrease.

Most people get insurance through their employer, and most employer plans (at medium to large companies) are self funded by the company and merely administered by insurance companies.

That means the healthy participants had no effect on those plans whatsoever. Even at peak, the individual mandate had only cut the number of uninsured by half, and the effect on rates was negligible.
by abustamam | 2026-01-10 16:48:31+00:00
I grew up in the 90s during a time where the only way to get software was from the local computer store. Pop the disk into your computer and you're running the software, warts and all.

Now that physical media is all but gone, computer manufacturers (both personal computers and phones) found it behooved them to essentially control the market with regards to what can get installed on your computer. Oh, and conveniently, they charge a fee for developers to use this "service," and take a percentage of what the developer earns by selling software on their "service." And somehow in the late 2000s early 2010s, it just became normalized, and somehow the term for being able to install software on a device you supposedly own became a scary term, "jailbreak."

Granted, jailbreaking was often used for piracy, but the fact that there needed to be a process at all confounds me.

My mom has an iPhone and she manages to install a bunch of weird things on her phone, like anti-virus software that almost certainly don't scan for viruses, but are all too happy to take your money to make your phone more secure. These are things that the App Store "service" should have guarded against if they were indeed doing their jobs and protecting consumers from bad software.

And, I wouldn't be surprised if she'd be locked out of her banking app eventually because [insert entity here] deems her phone too old to update her banking app. She's "following the rules" and still getting screwed over.
by mrhappypappy | 2026-01-10 16:48:50+00:00
Measles is a highly contagious viral infection that primarily affects children, though unvaccinated adults can also contract it. Caused by the measles virus (a member of the paramyxovirus family), it spreads through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Despite being preventable, measles continues to pose a serious public health risk in many parts of the world.
by klum | 2026-01-10 16:48:52+00:00
I have a theory that these environmental regulations at least to some degree defeat themselves. They make engines more complicated, so more fragile and harder for an amateur (edit: or any professional who isn't their own brand repair shops) to service. They encourage smaller-block engines with turbos and compressors which makes the engine more short-lived. They produce stuff like throttle-hang and gear selection recommendations optimized for driving economy, not engine longevity (or driving experience, for that matter).

On the whole, they seem to be contributing to this movement of taking power away from the end consumer and making your product more and more like a subscription (this goes further than the car industry, of course). I do realize that it's important to cut down on pollution! And maybe this kind of stuff has been studied... although I imagine it would be very hard to do accurately.

Imagine if a car manufacturer would provide service guides, easily-accessible part diagrams and competitively priced spare parts. Imagine if they optimized for longevity and if the handbook that came with the car had more technical details than it had warnings about how doing any kind of maintenance yourself will result in a) your death and b) a voided warranty. That would be pretty nice.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-10 16:49:18+00:00
The fact you same people the day prior said that Jan6 was peaceful shows you have zero moral integrity. Just the basic corruption creed of "for my friends everything, for my enemies, the law".

Why are you building a case for extrajudicial murder based on:

an American speaking sarcastically to an government employee.
an agent placing himself against training in potential danger, knowing the obligation is on the agent to keep the situation safe
the agent shakes the cell phone he is holding as he distarges his government issued weapon to murder a mother (who as you pointed out, used sarcasm). THis shows how little danger/how little contact if any was made against him. Ice ROUNTINELY makes more contact with their vehicles against protesters. Are you saying protestors now would be in the right to start shooting ICE when that occurs?

The only thing relevant is did the agent put himself in harms way and against training (yes)
Could the agent have handled the situation differently? Again yes, by the fact he was in so little danger he was able to continue filming holding his personal cellphone while murdering this mother.

You also leave out the part where he calls her a bitch after murdering you, showing that an agent of the United States murdered and American out of malice, not fear.

Edit: Downvoting instead of responding you are pathetic. If you have to write a paragraph of justification for the extra judicial murder of a mom, then the extra judicial murder isn't justified.
by mskasal | 2026-01-10 16:49:19+00:00
Got tired of glancing at my phone every 5 minutes at the gym or pool, wondering if someone would grab it. So I built Watch Over just for me: it watches for motion on your iPhone and pings your Apple Watch right away if anything moves. Simple, no subscription, one-time buy.
I never planned to put it out there, but it worked so well, I decided why not share it.
It's live now if anyone's interested: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/watch-over/id6755927643
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-10 16:49:26+00:00
Public advice should be as complete and accurate as possible. If there's a recommendation that is unlikely to be followed, then that can be indicated along with the alternate next best suggestion. e.g. "COVID prevention is best with a complete Hazmat suit, but just a mask may provide some benefit"

The job of experts is mainly to provide information and the job of the public is to pay attention to relevant information. If the public decides to ignore advice (e.g. "no level of alcohol consumption is safe"), then that doesn't change what the advice should be.
by hearsathought | 2026-01-10 16:49:26+00:00
The US officially took over greenland after denmark allied with nazi germany during ww2. People forget that the danes were nazi collaborators. We defended greenland against the nazis/danes during ww2 and the soviets during the cold war. I'd say greenland is more of a US territory than even puerto rico or american samoa is. All trump has to do is make it official.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-10 16:49:37+00:00
The guardian's historical overview is a bit lacking. The "Inuit" didn't exist in 2500BCE to inhabit Greenland. The Arctic small tool tradition did, but the branch which inhabited Greenland isn't the one that modern Inuit trace their ancestry to and it went extinct when the Dorset culture disappeared. The Thule culture that became modern Inuits arose in Alaska around 1000CE and spread eastward. Modern Greenlandics are related to those first inhabitants, they simply weren't Inuit.
by fipar | 2026-01-10 16:49:39+00:00
What if you're building a product for other people like you to use?

I think this is very common, like people building tools for trackers vs Ableton/Live/etc style DAWs, or those writing software only targeting the OS they use? Not every product is built with the goal of worldwide adoption.

Back to the specific case being discussed, I can easily export usable markdown from org. The people I share it with have never noticed it wasn't markdown since the start, so why wouldn't I continue to use org even when interacting with people who don't? It makes my private side of the exchange better for me, and it doesn't affect the public side negatively for others.
by antennafirepla | 2026-01-10 16:49:41+00:00
For not much prior research, he sure has done a lot of prior research to even know about desktop environments or bootloaders compared to your average windows user. This article read like every other promising Linux is user friendly and easy, then proceeding with the author fixing issues the average user wouldn’t be able to even diagnose.

I think anyone technically savvy enough to follow the article is already aware Linux is a viable primary OS, the question is can you manage it without having to become a Linux nerd? I want to be able to tell normal people they can use Linux.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-01-10 16:49:42+00:00
Machado is young, fit and now has this prize that will last forever and will 'stand for all time' according to the OP.

Why would she genuflect to Trump to get in on the Venezuela transition government?

I think winning the first proper election is also far better optics than being installed by Trump.

I also think the Nobel comittee sealed Maduro's destiny with their choice back in November. All of a sudden Venezuela was on Trump's radar because it was signaled as 'the thing' to solve in order to receive the Nobel.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-10 16:49:53+00:00
Which aren't that great user experience for normal users anyway, with the apps and games everyone else on their friends circle is using, or needed for work.

Security not only matters, we are still far away from the same liability as in other industries.

GNU/Linux also had as baseline what other UNIXes were capable of, and even that had to grew for ACLs, NSA's LinuxSE, and containers.
by Defletter | 2026-01-10 16:50:20+00:00
> Elections really do happen in the UK and really do determine who is Prime Minister.

Different person, but while this is true, it's also true that the Prime Minister is not elected: they [ordinarily] emerge as being the leader of whichever party commands a majority in Parliament. It's how we've had so much Prime-Minister turnover since the Brexit referendum: those didn't happen because the electorate "determined" it.
by ramoz | 2026-01-10 16:50:37+00:00
Ive had fairly complex health issues and have never had issues with ChatGPT - other than I worry about the vast majority people in my scenario who do not understand AI.

AI can enable very misleading analysis and misinformation when a patient drives the conversation a certain way. Something I've observed in the community I'm a part of.

Not talking about acid reflux or back pain.
by vidarh | 2026-01-10 16:50:37+00:00
The CCP isn't Marxist and doesn't claim to be.

Deng basically copied parts of Lenins "New Economic Policy" of "limited capitalism" because he like Lenin realised they'd made a mistake in preempting dismantling of the market, in direct contradiction of the Marxist view that a socialist revolution requires a well developed capitalist economy, and Marx explicit warning against attempting socialism too soon. That's what I pointed to with the reference to the German Ideology. Because of course taking out profit enough to do meaningful redistribution will harm growth. That's not a "gotcha" - it's an inherent, core assumption of Marxist thinking that socialism only becomes possible because of capitalism.
by throw-qqqqq | 2026-01-10 16:51:26+00:00
> and at least I can fix it!

100% this!

I wrote this in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=46120975

> Openbox does everything I need it to. I don’t want Mac or Windows, they both suck in ways I can’t change.
Sure, Linux can be rougher, but at least I’m not helpless here. I can make the changes I need, and the software is generally less broken IME
by 9rx | 2026-01-10 16:51:47+00:00
> Knowing absolutely nothing about formal verification

Are you sure about that? That is what we've been talking about all along. After all, the thing that separates Rust from Python, with respect to our discussion here — the thing that allows code to be less fragile, is its type system. Which is formal verification! Rust is very limited in that regard, not allowing verification of much, but still very much lives on the formal verification spectrum.

The trouble when you can't verify much is that you end up in a situation where something like:

fn add(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32 {
a + b + 1
}

Is able to compile just fine despite being completely wrong. To deal with that you need to write tests (which is essentially runtime formal verification). But once you've written the tests, you've also largely covered the properties that are statically verified, leaving no real benefit to LLMs.

But I infer that you aren't writing tests either, and that Rust's type system is feeling advantageous as it at least provides some limited verification. You seem to be enjoying that workflow, which is why I mentioned that there are languages with way better types systems that you might enjoy even more. There are probably hundreds of languages between Rust and full verification on the spectrum, so if Rocq isn't the exact one for you, try some others! They're only a prompt away.
by freedomben | 2026-01-10 16:52:00+00:00
Yes exactly. When I had a Mac for work, I had to tinker with that thing just as much if not more so than I do Linux. To windows credit, it was the best of the three when it came to not having to tinker to get what I want, but the lack of ability to configure it in a way that was comfortable and preferable was more limited and difficult, so there were annoyances I had to just live with. The point at which they started injecting ads into my desktop experience was a dark day and the day I said goodbye
by nephihaha | 2026-01-10 16:52:07+00:00
Greenland, and Canada are in the Americas, as are Venezuela and Cuba. Three of these are independent nations while one is more or less a European colony. Venezuela and Cuba have strong ties with Russia that the USA resents.

Yes, I'm aware of the US attempts on Canada. I think US pop culture, and TV has done a better job of Americanising Canada than the military... Same with Europe.
by hsin003 | 2026-01-10 16:52:14+00:00
Good questions — yes, Containarium relies heavily on *user namespaces*. Here’s how it works:

- We enable `security.nesting=true` on unprivileged LXC containers, so Docker can run inside (rootless).

- *User namespace isolation* ensures that even if a user is “root” inside the container, they are mapped to an unprivileged UID on the host (e.g., UID 100000), preventing access to host files or devices.

This setup allows developers to run Docker and do almost anything inside their sandbox, while keeping the host safe.
by duskdozer | 2026-01-10 16:52:26+00:00
>In the vast majority of cases, car headlights are blinding simply because they're aimed too high.

No, it's almost always true that the light output is far, far too bright. Adjusting headlight aim is good and should be done, but it does not solve the problem, and notably is not effective in road conditions other than smooth (bumps cause lights to go up and down), flat (inclines cause the harmful light level to change), and dry (water or ice on the ground cause reflective glare).
by Kapura | 2026-01-10 16:53:00+00:00
I installed a dual boot on my gaming machine last year when the Win10 support ended, and I have also had basically no issues. Something something HDR in certain video games is the biggest complaint I have, which is not all that important and will be higher priority for developers in future as more gamers leave the sinking Windows ship.

Microsoft has really, really fucked up windows 11, and ultimately abandoning it is the only recourse the consumers have.
by imiric | 2026-01-10 16:53:02+00:00
Changing modes is a single key stroke away. That's hardly a reason to be slow.

Readline settings depend on what you're already used to. If you're comfortable with vi key bindings, then being in normal mode, navigating with `w`/`b`, deleting a word with `dw`, deleting up to a quote with `dt"`, etc., are all done with muscle memory, and should be much faster than learning the equivalent Emacs bindings, pressing unintuitive key chords, or opening the command in an editor. I don't like opening an editor since it's an interruption, and it hides the output of the previous command.

I wish I could have the full power of Vim in my shells. For example, I miss the delete between characters binding. `di"` or `di'` are great for modifying argument values.
by teemur | 2026-01-10 16:53:10+00:00
I'm too lazy, but I hope someone is less lazy and would set up a Kickstarter and collect funds to be given to every resident of US Virgin Islands once they rejoined[1] Denmark. Would happily chip in a hundred or two for a good cause.

[1] Just learned that US Virgin islands are ex Danish colony US bought from Denmark about a century ago. In that agreement United States recognized Denmark's control over Greenland. Funny that.
by Bridged7756 | 2026-01-10 16:53:11+00:00
Enforcing immigration law by kidnapping or shooting US Citizens in the face, recruiting neo nazis, racial profiling, abusing authority (who would've guessed). You support this and equal this to "enforcing immigration law"? Are you implying that all of these are part of what "enforcing immigration law"? Why so nonchalantly support the dehumanization of people different to you?

What's really pathetic is seeing people brainwashed by political conglomerates. Believing any crap they're peddled on TV or by their oligarch of choice. So politics driven yet so politically ignorant, willingly being the peons, to their detriment.
by Legend2440 | 2026-01-10 16:53:25+00:00
> The timing is unfortunate. Tired of content vanishing from streaming services or disappearing into algorithmic feeds, consumers are returning to physical media like CDs.

Vinyl is having a resurgence. CDs are not.

Vinyl sale revenue is now 4.5x higher than CD sales, and CD sales are still dropping: https://www.riaa.com/reports/2025-mid-year-music-industry-re...