MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2026-01-10 18:28:18+00:00
Declining service revenue has been a problem for car dealerships for a long time. EVs are only making it even harder as their maintenance needs are reduced further.

This is another topic where people look back on the past with rose colored glasses. At the risk of downvotes, this happens a lot on HN like in threads where people speak about their pre-SSD era computers as being faster and snappier than modern machines. I recently found my old laptop in storage and booted it up. I remember loving how fast it was at the time and being glad I spent extra for the fastest model at the time, but oh boy was it slow relative to anything I use today.
by kyboren | 2026-01-10 18:29:04+00:00
I've been pretty much exclusively Linux-based for over a decade now, but I used every version of Windows from 3.11 to Windows 7, so I still have some muscle memory from the good ol' days.

Recently I was helping a relative do something on their Windows 11 machine and I asked them to press Windows key + R, type calc, press Enter. And I was astonished at the result. Literally: Mouth agape, frozen in astonishment for about 10 seconds.

I knew about the ads and tracking and the local account bullshit, but I didn't realize just how bad the Windows experience has become.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2026-01-10 18:30:16+00:00
"But framing it as a “myth [of] perfect attention and treatment” sounds a bit like delegitimizing the entire healthcare industry in a way that makes me raise my eyebrow."

It doesn't delegitimize the whole industry. It points out real problems. A lot of patients are not given enough attention and don't get the correct treatment because the doctors didn't listen but rushed through things.
by culi | 2026-01-10 18:30:50+00:00
And also EFF's attempt to track all printers that do or do not display tracking dots which they eventually prepended with

> (Added 2015) Some of the documents that we previously received through FOIA suggested that all major manufacturers of color laser printers entered a secret agreement with governments to ensure that the output of those printers is forensically traceable.

> This list is no longer being updated.

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2026-01-10 18:30:54+00:00
So we are censoring comments we don't like? Iran? No, right here in the West

Comment in question:

It's ironic to watch the contradictions unfold

On one hand, nobody actually knows what's happening in Iran, yet everyone has a rock solid opinion, complete with intricate details, as if they'd just left a classified briefing

On the other hand, those same confident voices all want the same thing: a leader who'll privatize Iran's oil for Western companies, align with US policy, open markets to Western finance, and prioritize defense contracts over local development

Funny how that works

Some random farmer from Ohio is obsessed with Iran for some reason
by user____name | 2026-01-10 18:30:55+00:00
This kind of "epistemic collapse" via propaganda is an established method of subverting nation states, Russia has been doing it for decades.

Democracy relies on having a reasobaly well informed population. The problem today is that it takes ten times more effort to refute bullshit than to spread it. Information hygiene is becoming a very big problem in this anything-goes social media environment.

Traditional mass media had journalistic norms and standards, nowadays anyone can claim anything with no quality control.

It's the same age old story: there simply is no substitute for good governance, Italy doesn't have it and hasn't had it for decades, and "freedom of speech absolutists" wouldn't know what it looks like in the first place.
by immutable000 | 2026-01-10 18:31:29+00:00
I built a small macOS cache-cleanup tool that runs as a TUI and focuses on
a review-first workflow: you see exactly what will be removed before
deciding to delete anything.

On my dev machines (Docker, browsers, various dev tools),
cache and app data often grow to 30–40% of disk usage.
Most existing cleaners either auto-delete or obscure how items are grouped,
which made them hard for me to trust.

This tool intentionally avoids automation.
You inspect categories, sizes, and paths, then choose what to remove.

Repo: https://github.com/2ykwang/mac-cleanup-go

I’m curious what kind of cleanup tools people tend to prefer.
feedback is welcome
by clickety_clack | 2026-01-10 18:31:48+00:00
Na, it’s the people. Money attracts people who want money. It’s very hard to argue consistently for quality and ethics against these guys without something slipping through, and once that happens it’s impossible to argue to the business that they should forego a revenue source for ethics reasons. They only have to be convincing once, good engineers have to be convincing every time.
by imcritic | 2026-01-10 18:31:52+00:00
I hate this stupid style of writing. So did they find out anything new besides the fact that a shark supposedly still sees the light? Did this particular shark get a parasite on its eyes or not? Not a single word about DNA repair mechanisms except for in the baity title. Awful.

TL;DR: we think sharks eyes can still see light even if the sharks a centuries old, please fund us for further research!
by duxup | 2026-01-10 18:31:56+00:00
My experience:

I came from windows to MacOS so despite what folks bemoan about MacOS ... I still love it and it is problem free enough that I don't feel the need to do the lifting to go to Linux.

I think that's a common thing for those of who maybe haven't ridden MacOS for so long.

Windows for me is on a whole several levels of worse when I have to dive back into it. Windows feels like an OS POINTED AT ME rather than for me.
by throwaday0451 | 2026-01-10 18:32:00+00:00
I don't understand why the accuser is depicted first in a bikini, then in a dress with a lot of exposed skin, while Schmidt is shown in a suit. Ritter has plenty of professional photos that they could have used, or I'm sure they could have found a casual photo of Schmidt.

The pictures are completely unnecessary, they distract from the allegations and evidence, which are what really matter. It feels like The New York Post is doing this deliberately for sensationalistic purposes.
by nineteen999 | 2026-01-10 18:32:12+00:00
I guess i've never really "switched" - I've always used Linux desktops together with Windows desktops - each to the strengths that they are good at it. And this goes back to the late 1990's. There are times I've used more than the other.

But yes Fedora - I have traditionally worked on "Enterprise" Linux where RHEL is the standard, so I track Fedora for bleeding edge development work and target EL for "production".

Don't get me wrong I'm just as comfortable on Debian systems or even building Linux-from-scratch type systems but I really don't have a day to day use case for Linux distributions outside of Fedora/Redhat, they cover all my needs.
by tibbydudeza | 2026-01-10 18:32:15+00:00
The other day I got tired of using mRemoteNG for RDP it takes ages to start up.

So I went back to Microsoft's own RDP client - they deprecated it and now only support the new Windows App but you need to login with your corporate email and it does not even support RDP but Azure !!!!.

You need to go to the stone age and use the RDP client they shipped with Windows NT 4.0.

Say what you want about Balmer but Satya is now worse - he needs to go.
by ewoodrich | 2026-01-10 18:32:29+00:00
FYI, nearly all of that UI/app garbage can be removed (or re-enabled like the Start/context menu) in <5 minutes with:

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

It persists across updates, can be customized with extremely granular control over what is removed/re-enabled, or using the default mode which works fantastically for most users with minimal risk of disabling something many people might prefer to keep (e.g Xbox app).

I’ve been using it for years on every machine/VM with Windows 11 installed. The OS gets out of my way completely both in terms of functionality and distractions like ads.

I cannot recommend it enough, I am eternally grateful to the maintainers for making Windows 11 feel like a modernized Windows 7 experience.
by necovek | 2026-01-10 18:32:46+00:00
As someone who has gone through these phases already, we are endlessly optimizing around a non-problem: how about you instead focus on local development instead?

Whatever the problem is with it (picking up system Python? drop /usr/bin from path... picking up system libraries? take full control of PYTHONPATH and sys.path) can be more trivially resolved than monkeypatching your running Python environment and would allow you to get back to that extremely fast feedback loop we used to have in SW dev 20+ years ago.

Yes, your software needs to not be tightly coupled to your infra: but that's just good, old clean architecture, right?

I sometimes wonder if I am a minority, but I think the modern "let's stick it in a container" bunch is just more vocal. And like all the other historical abstraction layer cakes (thin-clients, VMs, only-runs-deployed-to-the-cloud...), sooner or later, we still realise only local-first can get us that (almost) zero latency for development and debugging with no additional effort if we do all the right things anyway.
by jimnotgym | 2026-01-10 18:32:46+00:00
I'm going to add what I have found to answer my own question. I have found that this appears to be so divisive a subject that an internet discussion is impossible without immediate mud-slinging. The articles I have found are overtly biased in one direction or another. So I turned to wikipedia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Khatami

Read for yourself and decide 1) was Khatami a reformer, helping to make Iran a better place. I mean relatively better of course!

If you don't think he was, exit now. Now assuming you think he was, the question is did the war on terror hinder him. I'm not an academic but when the sources are obviously biased it can be instructive to see what one side is prepared to concede about the other.

Here is paper written for the US National Intelligence Committee that warns this may be an outcome

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/warterror_2001.pdf

"Two tentative, and partly contradictory, projections suggest themselves: (a) the more
intense and widespread our counter-terror campaign within the Middle East, the more
ammunition will the conservatives have to stoke anti-US sentiment within Iran and siphon
support away from the reformist camp; "

And here is an article trying to refute that Khatami was hampered by the war on terror, by the Washington Institute for Near East policy which wikipedia says, "is a pro-Israel American think tank"

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/khatami-...

Which firmly establishes that American politicians and media people were pushing the line that the Axis of Evil speech had hampered Khatami in reforming Iran. Therefore I deduce that some people were indeed stating this as a truth at the time from within mainstream America, and it is not just an anti-american conspiracy. The article tries to refute it of course, but in doing so acknowledges that it is an opinion held at the time. You read, you decide.
by mrcwinn | 2026-01-10 18:33:21+00:00
Commercialization may be a net good for open source, in that it helps sustain the project’s investment, but I don’t think that means that you’re somehow entitled to a commercial business just because you contributed something to the community.

The moment Tailwind becomes a for-profit, commercial business, they have to duke it out just like anyone else. If the thing you sell is not defensible, it means you have a brittle business model. If I’m allowed to take Tailwind, the open source project, and build something commercial around it, I don’t see why OpenAI or Anthropic cannot.
by jl6 | 2026-01-10 18:33:37+00:00
Ah, an opportunity to call upon Hacker News, tech support of last resort…

Someone please tell me if there’s a trick to making the Windows snipping tool faster. I press Win+Shift+S to activate the tool for capturing a region. It takes about 2 seconds to load. I draw the rectangle. Then it takes about 2 seconds to finish capturing.

That is 4 infuriating seconds for something that should be (and I’m sure used to be!) virtually instant.

Now that text is easily recognized in images, screenshots are an important interoperability tool for garbage apps like Teams.
by uberman | 2026-01-10 18:34:02+00:00
Imho, yes.

Installing docker is generally simple. Docker desktop on windows or just follow the steps in the docks for linux.

Reading and using a simple dockerfile is also dead simple.

Understanding compose and port and volume mapping is a bit trickier but not daunting.

Once you have the basics of understanding a dockerfile you can switch to doing container based development in vscode and you will never go back to writing code on your host again.

Vscode is not the only ide that supports this, just the one I use most of the time. There are also docker alternatives like rancher and postman but I still use docker when doing dec work.

Good luck. Bit of beginner advice though. Take time to understand the differences between: build, up, down, stop, start
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-10 18:34:29+00:00
If you want an OS to simply do stuff Linux is now clearly superior.

However, I found Omarchy to be whatever the opposite of a sweet spot is. It brings all the complications of a tiling WM, so you still have to learn a complicated new way of using your system, but at the same time it is extremely opinionated so instead of ending with a tailored custom tiling WM that suits your needs at the end of the learning curve, you end up with a tiling WM that is suited for someone else’s needs.

On the flip side, the simplifications it does add, such as a supposedly easier way to add packages, does no such thing. It doesn’t simplify the process at all and in fact makes it harder to understand how to actually remove stuff.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-10 18:34:49+00:00
Even in the height of the revolution, the nobility largely retained it's control [0]. And at the end of the day, le Directorate, the Napoleon regime, the Louis Phillips regime, and the Napoleon III regime continued to maintain the power of the bourgeois.

If the bourgeois had been completely purged in the French Revolution, then the crackdown of the 1848 Revolution (and the subsequent exodus of French republicans and socialists), 18 Bumaire, the Bourbon Restoration, and other successful power grabs by the bourgeois following the French Revolution wouldn't have happened.

Heck, much of the Council of 500 were themselves either mid-level aristocrats or the children of ancien regime enforcers as was seen with Talleyrand, Barras, Duke of Parma, Lebrun, and the Bonaparte family, along with members of the Directorate like Carnot, Barras, and Merlin.

There's a reason Marx termed the French Revolution as a "bourgeois revolution"

[0] - https://www.jstor.org/stable/650023
by faust201 | 2026-01-10 18:35:34+00:00
One good thing is choice. You are free to use macOS or even windows.

But this battery argument is bull shit

15 years ago it was so difficult to find charging points.

Not now. I have never ever been in a situation the I needed to be away from charging for > 6 hours. 6-10 hours is really possible.

If your working or life demands that then pity you. I have better life/work.

And again choice. You are free to use macOS or even windows.
by jancsika | 2026-01-10 18:36:22+00:00
> modern complexity is the enemy of reliability

There are years-long threads dozens of pages long on priuschat.com with data files posted by wizards just to figure out the 12v charging pattern.

The vehicle itself will probably stop running before any of these wizards ever figure that out, or even understand the algorithm it uses to occasionally run the engine in EV mode.

And yet, I speculate the total runtime of any year of that vehicle will match what you see for the much simpler Citroen C15-- essentially, bounded only by however long the wizard wants to drive it.

Edit: preemptively-- the Prius driver can drive their Prius on roads appropriate for that type of vehicle for as long as they want. Citroen obviously can go more places-- my upshot is just that the glaring complexity of a Prius doesn't seem to have gotten in the way of its reliability as the author assumes it should have.
by dandersch | 2026-01-10 18:36:22+00:00
> I always assumed there was more to Org mode than "Markdown for Emacs", but this post makes it sound exactly like that.

That is because the post focuses on org-mode: the markup language. But there is also org-mode: the agenda tracker, org-mode: the literate programming system, org-mode: the spreadsheet, org-mode: the website publishing system, org-mode: the document writing system, org-mode the time-tracking system, org-mode: the personal wiki, etc.
by m_fayer | 2026-01-10 18:36:24+00:00
This is awful in many ways. Among other things what really gets my goat is that Xbox something or other ads can have cartoony sexuality, violence, and so on. Those things don’t bother me, but there are plenty of elderly, conservative, religious, etc. people who would be taken aback by it.

There’s plenty of that content in our media, but those people don’t consume that media. A computer is a critical general purpose tool. Everyone needs it. This is like putting scantily clad elves on every refrigerator.
by tavavex | 2026-01-10 18:36:25+00:00
It's so funny that when people design vehicles that actually have a need to be big - big buses, commercial vans, fire trucks - one of their common features is that visibility is treated as something important, and often these types of vehicles have either a nearly flat, uniform front side, or they try to minimize the engine compartment hump as much as possible and make the windshield huge. But when we talk about cars that are made for the consumer, all sanity goes out the window, we get these near-caricatures that would be hilarious if they weren't real. The craziness can only be somewhat tamed by government restrictions, depending on where you live, but the peak of this design results in huge, elevated flat boxes for engine compartments, mounted as high as possible. It doesn't matter that the driver has a blind spot in every direction, what matters is showing off how HUGE your 18L V32 engine must surely be under that hood, how powerful it must be to draw air through that chrome grille that's half a person's height, and most importantly, how much of an imposing heroic warrior one must be to own that tank.
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-10 18:36:49+00:00
I've been on Mint for nearly 4 years now,. migrating from Windows.

The only hiccup I had was botched updates once, and the OS would error during boot.

The fix was easy, boot to terminal, fiddle with timeshift to restore to the point prior to update, then apply de updates carefully with a few reboots in between.

Now, was that easy? For someone well versed in the technicalities, yes. For a layman, probably not.

Now, that said, it was the only problem I had in 4 years. It has been very smooth sailing besides that.

My experience with Windows prior to that was always horrible. Yearly clean installs because after a while the computer felt extremely sluggish. Random blue screens for god knows what reason.
by noahjk | 2026-01-10 18:36:56+00:00
I'm surprised nobody else brought it up - what are the pros of left-hand driving? Is it about where the controls are in relation to handedness? Some sort of safety benefit? Better visibility in certain scenarios? And are postal carriers in America who drive LLVs getting the _best_ or the _worst_ of both worlds?

(I like to think about these sorts of things!)
by antirez | 2026-01-10 18:37:04+00:00
> You can't prompt 99.95% uptime on Black Friday. Neither can you prompt your way to keeping a site secure, updated, and running.

This is completely wrong. Agents will not just be able to write code, like they do now, but will also be able to handle operations, security, continuing to check, and improve the systems, tirelessly.
by hackyhacky | 2026-01-10 18:37:04+00:00
> How does this solve any tangible problems with LLMs regurgitating someone else's work?

I'm not the OP, but here's my from-the-hip answer: if weights are public, building and operating an LLM is no longer a business plan in and of itself, as anyone could operate the same LLM. Therefore companies like OpenAI will be disincentivized from simply redirecting web traffic to their own site.
by jonsoft | 2026-01-10 18:37:53+00:00
Actually, given this, we believe that 4 pawns must have been captured to reach 182 bits. So at least 4 pieces no longer need colors. If we store the color mask at the end, I think we can make it variable length, and truncate when no further pieces need colors assigned.

So then we need maximum 182 - 4 = 178 bits
by oceanplexian | 2026-01-10 18:38:01+00:00
I love small cars, in fact I owned a Fiat 500 for a number of years and a number of small VWs. With that said, it really grinds my gears (Pun intended) when Europeans want to lecture Americans about large cars.

Our roads are bigger, gas is dirt cheap, parking is plentiful and spacious outside dense metros, and the RAM 1500 I own is 100x more useful no mater how you want to try and spin the facts. I can tow a large trailer with my Jeep on it, a large RV, boats, etc. It is highly capable off roading on technical terrain here in Utah. It’s also insanely comfortable and luxurious on road trips and has enough room to lay on the rear bench seat as if it were a bed. I truly use all of the capabilities in a niche that almost no other vehicle besides a standard size truck occupies.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2026-01-10 18:38:03+00:00
"passing on such savings to consumers"

Absolutely not. They inflate prices by 200% and then give you 20% "savings" back. The whole idea of a health insurance company as publicly traded corporation is totally insane. They are designed to extract maximum profit from wherever they can get. The is no incentive to save money for patients. Any savings go to shareholders.
by avidphantasm | 2026-01-10 18:38:17+00:00
There is a lot of idiocy/stubbornness among middle managers. I worked for a large consulting firm for a few years and would see hiring managers pass by candidates with good aptitude whom they could’ve trained in 4-6 weeks. Instead, they had the position open for several months waiting for someone who knew the exact technologies they were using and still didn’t find anyone in some cases. Seemed to me that the middle managers need more tolerance for non-billable time. But when everyone is incentivized to meet quarterly goals, this is what you get.
by adityaathalye | 2026-01-10 18:38:18+00:00
Your wish is our command... I'd argue that Emacs package maintainers care a lot about usability, in general. This extends to when they craft a package for general use.

https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak "the complete audio desktop" by our blind and sight-impaired friends, for our blind and sight-impaired friends (and others who must necessarily use speech interfaces)

https://github.com/pprevos/emacs-writing-studio for writers at large

fountain-mode for screenwriting and playwriting https://fountain-mode.org/

https://chrismaiorana.com/emacs-guides/org-mode-syntax/ ("for writers and thinkers")

markdown beautification

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10h9jf0/beautify_mar...

https://oxal.org/blog/powerful-emacs-hacks-image-markdown/

general beautification

https://github.com/pretty-mode/pretty-mode

etc. etc. etc.

If there is a specific kind of person's specific kind of text editing need, there's probably an Emacs package for that.

The real tragedy is how poorly Emacs itself is conveyed to people. Mouse-pointing etc. works just fine out of the box. And as the emacspeak package demonstrates, at its core, it is a very usable and humane piece of technology.