MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by c0nsumer | 2026-01-14 11:16:13+00:00
Yeah, and I'm not terribly interested in getting into the details of how everything renders... I just want a display that works and doesn't make my eyes feel funny.

The PA27JCV (which I don't expect to have back from warranty repair for 3+ weeks) looked fine, and I'm now at day 5 of using the U3223QE and it's fine. So this is my solution to the problem I guess.
by iNic | 2026-01-14 11:16:22+00:00
If you've never seen it then you haven't been paying attention. For example Anthropic (the biggest AI org which is "safety" aligned) released a big report last year on metal well being [1]. Also here is their page on societal impacts [2]. Here is PauseAI's list of risks [3], it has deepfakes as its second issue!

The problem is not that no one is trying to solve the issues that you mentioned, but that it is really hard to solve them. You will probably have to bring large class action law suits, which is expensive and risky (if it fails it will be harder to sue again). Anthropic can make their own models safe, and PauseAI can organize some protests, but neither can easily stop grok from producing endless CSAM.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/protecting-well-being-of-user...

[2] https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/societal-impacts

[3] https://pauseai.info/risks
by pcblues | 2026-01-14 11:16:29+00:00
Tried to play a free-for-all card game with blank cards with friends in a bar thirty years ago. It was too far out for the group. Writing the rules for a game during your own turn is pretty great. But if there isn't an improv idea of "and then" among the group the game won't work. It's certainly not about winning :)
by poulpy123 | 2026-01-14 11:16:55+00:00
I'm using AI for 2 things: as a very good autocompleter, and as a partial replacement for a now crap google search.

I regularly try the agent mode (recently google's antigravity), but I was two issue that always come back. The first one is technical: if I'm always amazed the first 10-15mn, after a while the agent get stuck, and I would spend more time trying to make it to the job properly than looking directly and making changes myself. The second one is practical: I don't like to not know and understand what the LLM did, so I have to spend a lot of time trying to understand the code
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-14 11:17:42+00:00
Look at the entirety of this thread. You are trying to reason with reptiles. The more you try to appeal to their humanity or decency, the harder they will double down on their psychotic behaviour.

René Girard explained this mechanism in his mimetic theory and the scapegoat mechanism. People here on hacker news are generally not fully formed human beings, and they instinctively believe that the more they group together in hate against different individuals, the more they will personally benefit. You see it here in every thread, no matter what subject.
by menaerus | 2026-01-14 11:19:21+00:00
How did you arrive to $10,000 electricity costs figure?

8xH200 enclosed in DGX H200 system power draw is ~14kW in its peak (CTS) configuration/utilization. Over one year, and assuming maximum utilization, this is 123,480 kWh per single DGX H200 unit. We need 2x such units for 16xH200 system configuration under subject so it's 246,960 kWh/year. This is ~$25,000 at 10cts per kWh and ~$74,000 at 30cts per kWh. At ~1,110,000 1M batches this gives us: (1) ~$0.02 - $0.07 per 1M of energy cost and (2) ~$0.25 per 1M assuming the same HW depreciation rate. In total, this is ~$0.3 per 1M tokens.

Seems sustainable?
by myrmidon | 2026-01-14 11:20:15+00:00
Agree completely with your position.

I do think though that lack of online learning is a bigger drawback than a lot of people believe, because it can often be hidden/obfuscated by training for the benchmarks, basically.

This becomes very visible when you compare performance on more specialized tasks that LLMs were not trained for specifically, e.g. playing games like Pokemon or Factorio: General purpose LLMs are lagging behind a lot in those compared to humans.

But it's only a matter of time until we solve this IMO.
by lproven | 2026-01-14 11:20:23+00:00
> I really think GNOME is good at making an interface that works well on both,

I agree with the comment from @zak on this.

I have to disagree.

I have used GNOME (both GNOME Mobile and Phosh) on phones, and it makes more sense there, but it's still a bit clunky and fiddly.

Example: you only get half the tiny screen for your app launcher. So it fills up fast. So, you put apps in groups. BUT you can't pin groups to the fast-launch bar thing.

On the desktop, IMHO it does not work well. It works minimally, in a way that's only acceptable if you don't know your way around a more full-featured desktop. It feels like trying to use a computer with one hand tied behind my back. Yes, it's there, it's usable, but it breaks lots of assumptions and is missing commonplace core features.

Simple features: desktop icons are handy.

GNOME: ew, how ugly and untidy! We're taking them off you.

Obvious but complex features: menu bars go back to the 1970s and by the mid-1980s were standardised, with standard shortcut keys, with standardised entries in standardised places. They work well with a mouse, they work well with a keyboard, they work well with screenreaders for people with vision disabilities.

GNOME: Yeah, screw all those guys. Rips them out.

Non-obvious but core features: for over 30 years in Linux GUIs, you could middle-click on a title bar to send it to the back of the window stack.

GNOME: screw those guys. Eliminates title bars.

No, GNOME does not work _well_ on both. It is sort of minimally usable.

On both, it's minimally functional if you are not fussy, don't want to customise, don't have ingrained habits, and don't use keyboards and keyboard shortcuts much.
by lachiflippi | 2026-01-14 11:20:51+00:00
Refillable vapes used to be the standard around a decade ago, back when a liter of vape base (without nicotine) cost 30€ at max. Disposable vapes pretty much didn't exist. Now the same liter of vape base (still without nicotine) is a "tobacco product" and costs 400€+ due to taxes thanks to decade-long lobbying efforts by big tobacco, turning refillable vapes into a massive niche product due to single-use vapes costing the same or less, without any of the hassle of mixing your own liquids or having to refill them.
by ACCount37 | 2026-01-14 11:21:10+00:00
"Just replace management and execs with AI" is an elaborate wagie cope. "Management and execs" are quite resistant to today's AI automation - and mostly for technical reasons.

The main reason being: even SOTA AIs of today are subhuman at highly agentic tasks and long-horizon tasks - which are exactly the kind of tasks the management has to handle. See: "AI plays Pokemon", AccountingBench, Vending-Bench and its "real life" test runs, etc.

The performance at long-horizon tasks keeps going up, mind - "you're just training them wrong" is in full force. But that doesn't change that the systems available today aren't there yet. They don't have the executive function to be execs.
by iammjm | 2026-01-14 11:21:42+00:00
If you want a fighting chance of being a functional, productive and a happy human being with ADHD:

1. Sleep well: have stable schedule & sleep enough

2. Meditate: practice to control your focus and withstand distractions

3. Move: run, lift-weights, bike, swim, just keep moving regularly

4. Avoid cheap dopamine: stop anything that gives you short, easy bursts of dopamine (such as doom-scrolling, binge watching, online-gaming, etc)

5. Write: keep notes, lists, events, to externalize your thoughts and keep track of things
by voidUpdate | 2026-01-14 11:22:18+00:00
There's a british comedy radio show called "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" that plays a game called "Mornington Crescent", which can be viewed as a similar sort of game, but it only really works in the specific context of the radio show. In theory, it's just comedians listing off london tube stations until one says "Mornington Crescent", and then they "win". In practice, it's played as though there is a vastly complex rulebook of secret rules, and players will react as though the current player may have made a clever play or a mistake or something

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)

EDIT: I've also just remembered "Numberwang", which is a similar game with supposedly complex hidden rules from the comedy TV show "That Mitchell and Webb Look", where the players have to pick a number until they choose one that is "Numberwang"
by em-bee | 2026-01-14 11:22:26+00:00
violence never helps. if you think violence helps, you already lost. fascism in germany wasn't stopped with violence either. i don't mean the war, but before that, so we can't rally argue that it would have been possible to prevent fascism from coming to power with a violent response. we don't know. didn't fascists in germany even incite violence in order to have an excuse to take power?

the only answer to fascism is global and local unity. the majority of people need to be against fascism. violence will always come from a minority position and will never have majority support. a majority does not need violence.

sadly the sister comment is dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612742

it links to a good video arguing against violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGdF9pKMOAA
by bigfatkitten | 2026-01-14 11:22:36+00:00
Secure boot is desirable for a lot of reasons including design protection (stopping your product being cloned), supply chain security, preventing malicious updates etc.

The question is one of how you can hand control to the user without endangering your legitimate commercial interests as well as the security of the rest of the fleet, exactly how you tackle that will depend on the product.
by kotaKat | 2026-01-14 11:23:08+00:00
I concur on this one.

Here in NY as a cannabis user, one of the brands available that offers vapes (Fernway) offers a recycling program at dispensaries. I get 10% back off my next vape/cart if I return the old one to the recycling dropbox. My dispensary also keeps how many I've returned on file if I return extras, so I keep a 'balance' of disposables returned for the discounts.
by likethejade87 | 2026-01-14 11:23:30+00:00
HolyShift is a market-truth engine that converts real signals from real people into execution-ready materials.

It doesn't just tell you if your idea is worth building but it gives you the raw material to build investor decks, GTM messaging, positioning, cold email copy, sales scripts, ad hooks and product direction based on the words that the market speaks.
by __jonas | 2026-01-14 11:23:41+00:00
> If anyone has experience in this language, what is the mindset with gleam? How you guys debug?

There is the echo keyword now, which is comparable to elixir's dbg(), I use that a lot.

Lacking a REPL, what I normally do is make a dev module, like 'dev/playground.gleam' where I'm testing things out (this is something that the gleam compiler supports, /dev is similar to /test) and then run it with 'gleam run -m playground'.

Sometimes I also use the Erlang shell. You can get an Erlang shell with all the gleam modules from your project loaded in with the 'gleam shell' command. You just need to know the Erlang syntax, and how Gleam modules are named when compiled to Erlang (they use an '@' separator, so gleam/json becomes 'gleam@json').
by KptMarchewa | 2026-01-14 11:23:59+00:00
>10 years ago I bought into the idea of hiring for nerdy interests and hobbies as a proxy for motivation. I will say I met some excellent people during this time, but looking back those same people would have been hired anyway due to their accomplishments at companies.

>Nerdy interests and hobbies is not a good proxy for work ability.

Aren't you actually describing a great proxy?
by falloutx | 2026-01-14 11:25:04+00:00
Did you need it though? Like most projects I see being done by people with Claude Code are just their personal projects, which they wouldn't have wasted their time on in the past but now they will get pulled into the terminal thinking its only gonna take 20 mins and they end up burning 100s of subscription dollars on it. If there is no other maintainer & the project is all yours, I dont see any harm in doing it.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-14 11:26:21+00:00
> Where was that claim made? I don't see it in any Typescript docs, or in the book.

In the article, you know, linked in this submission, which my original comment quoted verbatim. Again:

> > Some of the benefits of TypeScript:

> > Access to ES6 and ES7 features

I'm saying that these are not "benefits of TypeScript" but benefits of doing transpiling in general with a tool that can "downcast" features like that, which is in no way exclusive to TypeScript nor even began with TypeScript, but AFAIK with Browserify.

When I talk about "benefits of language X" I try to keep it to things that are actually about the language, not particular implementation details also broadly available and used by others, because I feel like it'd be misleading.
by emilburzo | 2026-01-14 11:26:41+00:00
Good point. For me, that was intentional, since all my projects are in git I don't care if it messes something up. Then you get the benefit of being able to use your regular git tooling/flows/whatever, without having to add credentials to the VM.

But if you need something more strict, 'config.vm.synced_folder' also supports 'type rsync', which will copy the source folder at startup to the VM, but then it's on you to sync it back or whatever.
by lproven | 2026-01-14 11:26:49+00:00
> The Windows 8 start menu is no different from Launchpad on macOS

Launchpad appeared for the first time in Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" in July 2011.

Windows 8.0 launched August 2012.

Personally I think both are inspired by the full-screen launchers of iOS and Android, and not by one another.
by cykros | 2026-01-14 11:27:00+00:00
There are people on IRC who I've maintained contact with for longer than anyone I can think of off the top of my head aside from family members. Many now through other channels (thanks to the Discord wrecking ball), though some still on IRC.

Hard to say how many intellectual rabbit holes I've gone down as a result.

I can say for sure life would have looked very, very different without it.
by eagleal | 2026-01-14 11:27:15+00:00
> And you create music without ever having heard music before? Or are you also extracting other artist’s work and using it as inspiration for what you do?

The volumes of production are really scales of magnitude of difference between a human producing music, and a computer.

With a script and generator 1 individual could oversaturate the whole marketplace overnight rendering it impossible for other individuals to be found let alone extract any value.

Also, I don't know if you've ever done music production for fun but you don't really just setup only a prompt. It takes a significant amount of time to actually produce something. Time setting up a DAW system and export an empty track, and submitting it. An empty track.

Let alone actually doing all the microoptimizations by ear and trial to produce any catchy tune. Meanwhile a statistical approach doesn't even have to understand what's it's doing, could as well be white noise for all it matters.
by rsd79 | 2026-01-14 11:27:19+00:00
I have ADHD, diagnosed in my 40s. 2 sons, a struggling business. Your experience seems familiar, so get diagnosed. If you do have ADHD then I don't think you should expect of yourself to be "fixed" to match the "average" norm. You will still be thinking about random stuff ("be creative"), it just will be a bit less of an issue in doing what is important.

What seems to work for me:

* meds

* writing everything down. This is not ADHD specific advice, I got it from GTD and it decreased anxiety. Just get used to the feeling that you will pull it out when you need it. I keep looking around for better solutions, but I no longer expect to have one that is perfect. Currently peeking back into Obsidian, for how flexible it is, but not abandoning OmniFocus and other tools I use.

* I prioritize regular sleep, but I allow myself digging deep in a subject that interests me from time to time

* physical work is surprisingly relaxing

* AI is becoming very important to me in completing tasks which are complex enough for me to get bored/tired/overwhelmed before reaching the finish line. A micro idea is great if you can tell Claude to implement it and come back to you. Even better when it succeeds :) The shorter time from starting to reward of completing is great for delivering.

* schedule some time for learning new stuff, otherwise you will become tired that it's all work and no fun

* delegate taking into account where you struggle the most. You might feel bad since you are delegating the most difficult work, but it might actually by trivial to people with brains with no such issues.

* not everything needs to be done, prioritize and don't worry about the less important stuff your brain throws at you

* it's more about setting time blocks to focus on something than reaching a specific goal. An hour scheduled in the calendar for support emails, for development, for reading...

* cheer up, we're entering the best period so far for people having ideas and you will have plenty

* [BONUS EDIT] noise-cancelling headphones :)
by latexr | 2026-01-14 11:28:23+00:00
No, that is not true. Coca-Cola doesn’t advertise itself as a cure for cancer. Dropbox doesn’t advertise itself as a tax-filing application.

Theranos on the other hand… That was a con and the founder was prosecuted.

And again, Sam Altman has a history of deceit.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
by andypants | 2026-01-14 11:28:25+00:00
While I don't agree with the OP about type systems, I understand what they mean about erlang. When an erlang node joins a cluster, it can't make any assumptions about the other nodes, because there is no guarantee that the other nodes are running the same code. That's perfectly fine in erlang, and the language is written in a way that makes that situation possible to deal with (using pattern matching).
by isodev | 2026-01-14 11:28:37+00:00
My “intro to gleam” was a lustre form for my blog, where people could submit feedback. So I was able to create a neatly separated client module in Gleam and compile it to JavaScript so I can insert it in my static blog page. The server part was a separate gleam module with erlang as a target. They shared models and some constants with a “shared” module - just like the tutorial.

I find this kind of explicit separation very powerful. It also removes some of the anxiety if something will end up in a client bundle when it’s supposed to be server only.
by dragandj | 2026-01-14 11:29:23+00:00
IMHO, it would be solved by just making AI "art" un-copyrightable. Fine, make "AI art" as much as you wish. Sell and buy it as much as you please if you find it to your taste. BUT, you can NOT participate in organizations that take royalties from radio stations, TVs, movies, records, etc. for publishing, performance, etc.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-14 11:29:48+00:00
There's no pressure to make a good product because nobody making this decision has to use the machine. Everywhere I've worked purchase decisions are made by somebody with no direct contact to the actual usage, maybe if you're lucky they at least asked the people who need the product what the requirements are, otherwise it's just whatever they (who don't use this product) thought would be good.

"Key presses are 15x slower than they should be" gets labelled P5 low priority bug report, whereas "New AI integration to predict lot income" is P0 must-fix because on Tuesday a sales guy told a potential customer that it'd be in the next version and apparently the lead looked interested so we're doing it.
by darhl | 2026-01-14 11:30:25+00:00
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by librasteve | 2026-01-14 11:30:41+00:00
I love coding in Raku - and I am sure that Gleam is nice too. But I get the feeling that Raku is underappreciated / dismissed by many due to the perl5 / perl6 history. So my thinking is, when I see a new language showcase an example on their website, presumably a carefully chosen snippet that showcases their language at its best, I like to see how Raku compares to that.

You know the take-aways from the comparison are quite instructive:

- do I need to import the io lib? (shouldn't this just be included)

- do I need a main() in every script? (does this rule out one liners like `> raku -e "say 'hi'"`)

- is `io.println` quite an awkward way to spell `print`?

I am not making the case that these are right or wrong language design decisions, but I do think that they are instructive of the goals of the designers. In the case of raku its "batteries included" and a push for "baby raku" to be as gentle on new coders as eg. Python.
by fennecfoxy | 2026-01-14 11:30:48+00:00
Nah natural language interfaces are great. What shit is most implementations.

Natural language MUST be mixed with traditional UIs. Our world is filled with new software, new features, new concepts every day even for a regular person and certainly much more for developers than almost anyone else.

The thing I find most helpful with this sort of thing is "where the fuck is that settings" and "how do I get it to/I want to do x" navigating complex UX that is so feature filled that even the very best UX designers just can't hack it.

I feel like in many of these cases sure, let me use the regular UI. But also being able to ask "Hey, can I set my background to an image, where do I do that?" and being presented with the dedicated UI, or behind the scenes tool calls if no UI available.

Anecdotally: things I use ALL the time are, Help->Search on MacOS toolbar, cmd+shift+P menu in VSC, the search in Android settings, etc.
by qsera | 2026-01-14 11:30:58+00:00
It is the imitation of intelligence.

It works because people have answered similar questions a million times on the internet and the LLMs are trained on it.

So it will work for a while. When the human generated stuff stops appearing online, then LLMs ll quickly fall in usefulness.

But that is enough time for the people who might think that it going to last for ever to make huge investments into it, and the AI companies to get away with the loot.

Actually it is the best kind of scam...
by pjc50 | 2026-01-14 11:30:58+00:00
Generally good news; about the price, 9p/unit is lower than retail prices but higher than current spot prices from https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/news-and-insight/data/data-portal/w...

No discussion of what grid upgrades are required, although increasing production near England should reduce that.

(by comparison, ongoing nuclear project Hinkley Point C is currently scheduled to come online some time around 2030, assuming no further delays)
by ACCount37 | 2026-01-14 11:30:59+00:00
Because it's just a vessel for the puritans and the usual "cares more about feeling righteous than about being right" political activists. I have no love for either.

The whole thing with "AI polluting the neighborhoods" falls apart on a closer examination. Because, as it turns out, xAI put its cluster in an industrial area that already has: a defunct coal power plant, an operational steel plant, and an operational 1 GW grid-scale natural gas power plant that powers the steel plant - that one being across the road from xAI's cluster.

It's quite hard for me to imagine a world where it's the AI cluster that moves the needle on local pollution.