MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mekdoonggi | 2026-01-28 17:45:38+00:00
Hilarious. If you picked a person at random off the street and gave them the job, what are the odds that they would have done this?

I feel like over 80% of people, if asked, "Is it okay to upload government documents to ChatGPT" would say, "Are you crazy?".

What I'm saying is that this is impressive levels of incompetence.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-01-28 17:45:43+00:00
These were probably written against the old-school Win32. It's pretty easy to fix.

Right-click on the `.exe`
Properties
Compatibility tab
Change settings for all users
Change high DPI settings
Under 'High DPI scaling override' section, tick box for 'Override high DPI scaling behaviour. Scaling performed by'
In the drop-down box below, select 'Application'

Done.

For MMC snap-ins like `diskmgmt.msc`, `services.msc`, or `devmgr.msc`, there's a Registry key you can set. See this ServerFault question: https://serverfault.com/q/570785/535358
by guluarte | 2026-01-28 17:46:01+00:00
More food chains keep opening up even when there is plenty of food available. The pie just gets bigger. Every tech shift was supposed to "end work" and yet here we are, busy with jobs that didn't exist 20 years ago.

The real issue isn't jobs dying. It's who gets the money from all this and whether new needs show up fast enough to give people something to do. With software we don't really know the limit yet, unlike food where your stomach tells you when to stop.
by rayiner | 2026-01-28 17:46:17+00:00
David Shor's Blue Rose Research, which is a top polling firm that works for Democrats, found that if everyone had voted, Trump would have won the 2024 election by 4.8 points: https://data.blueroseresearch.org/hubfs/2024%20Blue%20Rose%2... (page 6). Pew separately found a smaller, but significant 3 point margin: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-elec....

Independents almost by definition have less trust in institutions, and that includes voting. They're also quite unpredictable in what issues they'll find salient. For example, I suspect that in 2026, there will be a lot of independents who are directionally aligned with Trump on immigration, DEI, etc., but who will vote Democrat because Trump hasn't brought down grocery store prices like he promised.
by saysjonathan | 2026-01-28 17:46:21+00:00
For me, personally, the value was in have something similar to a window manager for the terminal. As I was constantly spawning, killing, and reorganizing panes, a tiling-based approach gave me more control over my terminal and allowed me to perform complex operations without having to memorize or execute multiple commands. My use of a terminal is not static and therefore having a more dynamic option made my life easier.

This is really just a personal project that I wanted to share in case others might like to try it.

I will add that, especially at the time of creation, I was heavily in the 'unix is my IDE' camp. A terminal window manager was a logical next step to that notion. As someone called out below, I even used `ed` as my main editor for a while (which was as bad as it sounds).
by BobaFloutist | 2026-01-28 17:46:27+00:00
To be fair, that's atoms in the observable universe.

The total size of the universe is unknown, and could (and likely does) have way more atoms than that.

Actually, that's a fun thought: assuming homogenuity of matter between the observable and unobservable universe, how much bigger would the unobservable universe need to be to render some of these claims no longer true?

Because you're right to point out that factorials grow absurdly quickly. It's entirely possible my caveat straight up doesn't matter.
by mmkns | 2026-01-28 17:46:32+00:00
I was hand-editing SVG path elements (who doesn't?), and I figured a turtle language could calculate coordinates for me, but those only do straight lines. So I made my own, with commands for SVG arcs and bezier curves, and other things like reusable user-defined shapes, and now it's a useful command-line tool (it calculates 'd' attribute path data).

I've called it SvgPathTurtle. It's a programming language, but only for drawing (it's not general purpose like Logo). Emit whole SVG files for experimenting, or merge path data into conventionally-authored SVG, for true web development.

At the link: examples, tutorials, full docs, and quick-start build instructions for Linux & Windows. MIT License. Source-only (for now).

Tech details: it's a simple-to-use, fully declarative domain-specific language, with user-defined functions, closures, anonymous lambdas, modules, transforms, and even user-defined shapes that can be placed, scaled, and rotated.

It seemed neat that the turtle might become useful, so I'm sharing. I'd love your feedback!
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-28 17:47:53+00:00
Where can one read the source code of setup.exe

That's, e.g., how I would determine what these commands do

I have had HN replies in the past that argued Windows is open source and thus comparable to UNIX-like OS projects where _the public_ can read the source code and make modifications, _for free_

Absent the source code, we can read Microsoft's documentation

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...

It seems like WinPE is the most useful version of Windows

How does one quickly and easily download and install a copy of WinPE, preferably on removable media
by simoncion | 2026-01-28 17:48:14+00:00
> I started using Linux in like 2007 but the GPU was always an issue.

Were you running Nvidia hardware? I've been running Linux since like 2000-ish, have always run ATi/AMD hardware on my desktop machines, and (aside from overheat issues brought on by the undersized replacement fan attached with bread ties to that one board) haven't had troubles. On the other hand, I don't suspend my desktop or servers to RAM or disk, so maybe that has intermittently or always been broken... I'd never know.

I've only had Intel hardware in my laptops, and I can't remember ever having trouble suspending those to RAM or disk.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-28 17:48:26+00:00
> A grainy image of your palm

I really doubt getting a reasonably good image of my hand is tough for Amazon. But they don't really need my palm at all; most of the point of that was probably that it'd be much freakier to normies if the self-checkout just said "hi Bob!" when you got close via facial recognition.

> Then tying that to your identity is very hard and takes manhours…

That seems deeply unlikely. I'm probably on 50 different cameras at a Whole Foods, some of which I'd never notice, and at some point I have to check out, which ties all that footage to a credit card and my Prime account if I don't want to pay the non-deal prices for everything.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-01-28 17:48:43+00:00
For rate rises that are enacted to slow inflation (which slows stock market growth as you said) i think you have the cause and effect reversed.

The best way to see how inflation and stocks are linked is to look at economies where inflation is not intentionally slowed by rate rises. The stocks go up more or less with inflation (and some small % of gains they may have on top as you say). When you have rate rises that slow inflation you do indeed slow stock growth. But this is also inline with the link between inflation and stock price.
by kreetx | 2026-01-28 17:48:55+00:00
If you approve of interfering with police work then we won't be finding middle ground here. Perhaps the special ingredient in the US is the popularity of carrying weapons, it's know to cause other shootings as well.

As for approval ratings, I'm sure you know elections work: they happen periodically and the approval ratings don't have a direct effect on current events. Also, deporting illegals (what these protests are against) was on the campaign platform, so it's nowhere near "whatever the f. you want".

As you, I also have "eyes to see" which still makes the basis I'm coming from. And I'm also not American.
by reconnecting | 2026-01-28 17:49:04+00:00
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LOL!
Show HN: Subatix – your local-first consulting team in an AI-workspace
by AlxBrks | 2026-01-28 17:49:14+00:00
Hello HN!

We, a team of 2, built Subatix after one of us spent almost 6 years in big consulting and at certain point came to a thought like «90% of what consulting is usually data-analysis related, why not make smth so any business get same level of insights without externals and 6-figure+ checks and fast?!». Based the experience during every project everyone wants - fast answers from their data, but real ops/business data is messy, sensitive, and hard to outsource to generic AI tools due to security and output quality reasons. Most analysis still ends up in Excel, SQL notebooks and then slide decks are stitched together manually. When AI tools appeared, they helped with text and ideas, but fell apart once real business data, traceability, or auditability mattered.

Subatix is an attempt to bridge that gap. It’s a desktop workspace (macOS and Windows already available) where you open your own business or operational data locally and ask about what bothers + pre-cooked structured multi stage business diagnostic flow. The system breaks the request into analysis steps, applies standard consulting-style methodologies (KPIs, variance analysis, loss trees, scenario logic, etc.), runs the calculations, and produces quantified findings and prioritized actions. All intermediate steps, assumptions, and calculations remain visible - so everything is traceable and can be verified + users’ raw data stays local, all calculations/analysis done on the machine.

A few design decisions that make it different from most AI analytics tools:
* Local-first by default: raw data stays on your machine. There’s no requirement to upload raw operational or financial data to a cloud service. In fact, users don’t even upload it anywhere.
* Traceable outputs: every number is backed by explicit calculations, not just narrative summaries.
* Method-driven: instead of free-form chat, the system applies structured analysis patterns used by big-consulting business analysts/associates.
* Human-in-the-loop: today the goal isn’t to replace, but to make methodologies and frameworks widely accessible and to compress the repetitive, time-consuming parts so people can focus on judgment and decision-making.

The tool exists today and is usable. You can find out more and download it here: https://www.subatix.com/hn There is a trial available for all new users and also some copper production sample data available to play with - just hit the Analyze Sample Data once you configure Subatix on your machine.

We’re around in the comments and interested in feedback about both UI and UX - especially from people who do business analysis.

Happy to answer questions!
Thank you HN!

Alex and Vlad
=(^_^)=
by drdaeman | 2026-01-28 17:49:28+00:00
Well, maybe we're talking about different things, because I've asked from a regular GNU/Linux user perspective. That is, I have my computers and I'm concerned I would lose my freedoms to use them as I wish, because this attestation would be adopted and become de-facto mandatory if I ever want to do something online. Just like what happened to mobile, and what's currently slowly happening to other desktop OSes.

Production servers are a whole different story - it's usually not my hardware to begin with. But given how things are mostly immutable those days (shipped as images rather than installed the old-fashioned sysadmin way), I'm not really sure what to think of it...
by WillAdams | 2026-01-28 17:49:33+00:00
When I'm working out where to place hardware or otherwise proportion a woodworking project, if there isn't an obvious mechanical/physical aspect driving the placement, then I always turn to the Golden Ratio --- annoyingly, I don't get to hear the music or bell ring from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BqnN72OlqA

or the older black-and-white film which I was shown in school when I was young.
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-28 17:49:40+00:00
Sort of funny that Nadella quotes Steve Jobs from 35 years ago with the "bicycles for the mind" quip. Given enough time, MSFT's marketing will eventually catch up with NeXT's marketing.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/12/21/steve-jobs-bicycle...
by saysjonathan | 2026-01-28 17:49:48+00:00
Through this project I realized that there's just some limitations to a plain tmux config. I eventually had to switch over to calling out to shell in order to get around those issues.

Commit with the switch to shell here: https://github.com/saysjonathan/dwm.tmux/commit/c8752b978390...

I think there's a lot of potential to scripting terminal multiplexers in various ways and I would love to see more work exploring what's possible!
by LooseMarmoset | 2026-01-28 17:49:51+00:00
Everything else has moved in that direction:

* Literally every game console
* Literally every smartphone
* Microsoft, with their Win11 requirements, is moving there
* John Deere (read on their own hardware attestation efforts to block DIY)
* Car companies (require specialized tooling and software subscriptions to make certain repairs)
* Anything that requires a signed bootloader and signed software updates
* Snapdragon CPUs and e-fuses that burn when you use unsigned software, and brick
* Apple hardware, literally crypto-signed so you can't use aftermarket parts
* Google Chromecast
* Amazon Kindle, locked hardware
* IBM has locked hardware to their laptops for *years*. Ever try upgrading a wifi card in an IBM laptop? They're already invested in this

the list goes on...of course it's coming to PC.
by no_wizard | 2026-01-28 17:50:09+00:00
It would be far smarter to have invested in the workforce continually. A microcosm of this is how we mismanaged college education and is a symptom of a larger problem: As far as US policy goes, got complacent and extractive over innovative and additive. 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 doesn't stop here. Job training programs, continual education, robust workforce displacement services, proper social welfare programs. We lack all of this (and more).

Another would be to remove burdens off companies that are better handled by the collective of society, via the government. Take universal healthcare. An often unnoticed benefit is how it would shift liabilities off the books of a huge number of companies, from the auto manufacturers to smaller businesses. A tax is a much easier and simplified expense to deal with over legacy healthcare costs that can weigh down a business. It also has a secondary knock off effect: employers can't use it as a pair of handcuffs. In all likelihood, an unintended side effect of universal healthcare would be an increase in entrepreneurship from the middle class. People who would otherwise be handcuffed to their job because of health insurance.

Somehow, the lesson everyone took away from the G.I. Bill was not that the government providing robust funding of social services (IE college, home ownership) works. That part is seemingly ignored by the vast majority of the conversation around the 'good times past' that many Americans romanticize.

Too many of my fellow citizens are prioritizing their own short term gains over the long term health of the community and society in which they were empowered by to get ahead in the first place. This will inevitably crater quite spectacularly bad.
by hajile | 2026-01-28 17:50:23+00:00
Everyone was trying to pretend the bottom of the market back in 2007 right up until they couldn't keep up the farce and everything collapsed.

I believe that's what we have today. The economic indicators are all worse than they were in 2008. Our economy is Wile E Coyote running at full speed in midair until he realizes the truth then falls.
by echelon | 2026-01-28 17:50:26+00:00
Shouldn't we all want H1B rather than offshoring?

That keeps the facilities here, the local employment options here, the growth here, the tax base here...

We should want more smart people moving to this country. More business creation, more capital, more labor, more output.

Immigration is total economic growth for America, non zero-sum. Offshoring is not only economic loss, but second order loss: we lose the capacity over an extended time frame.
by b1temy | 2026-01-28 17:50:35+00:00
A few years ago, I would have said that any game that uses such a level of anticheat that makes wine/proton unable to play it (ie: kernel level anticheat) is basically malware and you _shouldn't_ play it anyway, out of both principle, and also because if they had a bug in their code, you're just opening up your device to an unnecessary privilege escalation vector that other malware can abuse to escalate their privileges. (This is not theoretical, this has happened before, eg: with Genshin. Though I believe just the mere existence of a signed driver was enough, since malware can just "Bring your own Driver" (BYOD) and download the driver, at least before it was revoked)

Now, I still hold this belief in most regards. But I do see the appeal, especially if your friends and peers are gamers and actively play these sorts of games, and you feel that you're missing out on socialising or making new friends in that aspect. But there are plenty of other games and consoles, if you could just convince them to switch...
by georgemcbay | 2026-01-28 17:51:18+00:00
My experience matches pretty closely with FireBeyond's.

But I also think its worth noting that there's a difference between the group of people who are legitimately not political (don't really think or talk about politics) and the group of people who proactively identifies themselves as "independent" or "apolitical" when not specifically asked.

It is the latter group of people who (in my experience also) are very likely to be conservative.
by wackget | 2026-01-28 17:51:24+00:00
If we're talking about mass adoption of Linux then there really has to be no concept of even "picking a camp". The vast majority of users - even techy people - will not understand what a window manager is, never mind be capable of choosing one.

Yes, there are many UI implementations in Windows but they are almost totally transparent to the user (no pun intended), and they can all run on the same system at once.
I built a system that lets you ask NLP questions about live camera feeds
by omrifin | 2026-01-28 17:51:31+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a solo engineer working on a project that came out of frustration with traditional camera systems.

Most cameras answer one question well: “Did something move?”
But many practical needs are more semantic:

Is the door open?

Is someone inside the room?

Is a package still there?

Did the light turn off?

So I built a system where you define a natural-language question, connect a camera (webcam / RTSP / edge device), and get notified only when the answer becomes “yes.”

Some high-level design choices:

The system evaluates questions rather than raw motion

It avoids continuous video streaming and processes frames only when needed

Processing can run on edge devices for privacy

The cloud side only sees what’s required to answer the question

This is still early but technically functional. What I’m trying to understand now is where this is genuinely useful, beyond obvious demos.

I’d really appreciate feedback on:

Real-world use cases where this would actually be trusted

Failure modes you’d expect in non-ideal environments

Whether this feels more like infra, a product, or a developer tool

Anything that seems fundamentally flawed in the approach

Happy to answer technical questions if appropriate.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-28 17:51:43+00:00
AMD drivers are now open and in the mainline kernel. They dropped their proprietary driver and now use the upstream MESA stack. Nvidia also still suffers from a 20-30% performance drop on DX12 games on Linux, while AMD does not.

It used to be the reverse as you stated, but that hasn't been true since about 2015.
by arjie | 2026-01-28 17:51:48+00:00
I would love that, but it doesn't seem to happen for me if I use the credit card that I have linked to my Amazon Prime membership as the payment method. When I tap it doesn't recognize my Prime membership. Do you have the Amazon Prime credit card perhaps?

The reason why I did the QR code and watch tap thing prior to the palm thing is that I didn't want to carry a single-use credit card.

I'd love the functionality you're talking about. Do you remember how you set it up to get that? Would love to have my grocery card automatically recognized as being linked to a Prime membership.
by jama211 | 2026-01-28 17:51:52+00:00
You can bypass the warning really easily, I googled it the moment I saw it and it was very easy. A keyboard shortcut to open the command window during the install and one cheeky command. I agree though that it’s silly they don’t offer it officially.

But I get the feeling you were on the edge of transitioning anyway, which is fine! Sounds more like the straw that broke the camels back.
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-28 17:51:56+00:00
Fwiw... I've been doing Leenucks since '92. Back when you had to install BSD first, compile the kernel and reverse engineer how to boot into the new kernel you just built with gcc. But it was cheaper than SunOS, and the developers mailing list was more active than the BSD lists. I still miss my 3B1.

Anyway... welcome to the party. We saved you a beer. Doesn't matter you came later than other people. It just matters you made it here eventually.
by lxgr | 2026-01-28 17:52:05+00:00
I don't think human players memorize tables in the same way that they memorize opening lines. The number of possible endgame position values is astronomical; "Syzygy" for 7 pieces is a few TB of data, for example.

Heuristics get them very close, but I vaguely remember hearing that sometimes the tables will find an obscure move sequence to turn around a draw to a win 15 or 20 moves in that a human has no chance of spotting.

These tablebases do have something eerie to them, as they represent the phase transition from heuristics to the "solved" part of chess. Lichess will automatically swap to them once it's feasible, and instead of a position evaluation, you'll just instantly see whether it's winning, losing, or drawing. Ken Thompson called it "playing chess with God": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_tablebase#%22Play_ches...

That said, this can happen with chess engines as well; if a position can be exhaustively analyzed, it'll show you "winning/losing/drawing in n moves" just like the tablebases. The tablebases just guarantee that they'll find that solution in constant time.
by erratic_chargi | 2026-01-28 17:52:16+00:00
It was stupid decision to close the store at like 8Pm. Amazon Go would have succeeded if it capitalized on drunk people.

I mean a drunk person at 3AM would love to enter a full grocery store.

He would be confident enough to walk out and easing out the person with the new technology, and would be hungry enough to stock on some food.

But no, making people sign up for a store and a not-so-impressive selection, would much rather just go to a bodega, especially in the city.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-28 17:52:24+00:00
> I would pair that with the WhatWG HTML spec

I placed some specifications + WPT into the repository the agent had access to! https://github.com/embedding-shapes/one-agent-one-browser/tr...

But judging by the session logs, it doesn't seem like the agent saw them, I never pointed it there, and seems none of the searches returned anything from there.

I'm slightly curious in doing it from scratch again, but this time explicitly point it to the specifications, and see if it gets better or worse.