MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm | 2026-01-29 10:43:13+00:00
This is generally how it is. For the entry level market you have a realistic choice of 5 companies like Barclays, BT, Amazon, SKY for limited positions while competing against the world for them. A fresh linkedin job post for tech even for no-name companies gets a 100+ applicants in under an hour starting at 30k salaries. I'm not even sure which startups are hiring graduates except maybe from Oxbridge. It is obvious a lot of people commenting particularly in this thread are ultra-privileged expats where "London" is just zone 1 for them and are well connected in the industry. They probably don't even know what Morley's is. Living costs along with the high tax rates alone will eat up your income and I know British people who work in international bank's at senior positions complaining about these things and about mass immigration all the time.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-29 10:43:14+00:00
However, given we've seen how flagrantly they violated the first injunction, it's easy to believe they will take the liberty to interpret this one as maliciously as possible as well. Sure, if the fees are too high they'll end up back in court to attempt to prove costs, and maybe something will happen years later after bouncing around in appeals and violating new injunctions, or maybe it won't.
by spacebanana7 | 2026-01-29 10:43:40+00:00
> If Apple can legally claim 30% of your salary then a doctor using an iPad to demonstrate results of a scan to a patient has to pay Apple 30% of their consultation fee.

Apple could absolutely do this. They could say that professional medical use of macOS requires a commercial license, and the price of that commercial licence could be linked to revenue.

Doctors - or rather their hospital IT/procurement departments - would be held to the terms of service they agree to. Far more rigorously than ordinary consumers.
by account42 | 2026-01-29 10:43:47+00:00
I don't think GP claimed that everyone copied everything about Gnome, just that every toolkit/program has to implement Gnomes way of doing things even if they continue to support others so you have that as a common (but often bad) interface. CSD is a good example of that - implementations of it have reached libraries like SDL that would rather not care about the desktop user interface at all but because of Gnome they have to.
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-29 10:43:52+00:00
What don't you get?

They are greedy because Apple fans would by a turd in a box if it had an Apple logo.

If I was in charge of Apple I would do the same thing. In fact, I would likely increase the Apple cut to 40%. People would pay, they like their slick toys.

The developers will continue to make apps for their ecosystem regardless.
by 15155 | 2026-01-29 10:44:04+00:00
Why does this matter? The government spends X dollars each fiscal year, divided by the number (N) of people. Most people aren't paying X/N.

The government would not be able to fund every social program or services if it weren't for these receipts, which, most people cannot afford to pay. Even 100% of the majority of salaries can't cover this amount.

Pretty cut and dry.
by albertsikkema | 2026-01-29 10:44:32+00:00
Interesting that you feel this is necessary. Why would a disclaimer be needed? If I read the technical docs for a library and use that in my code, should I explicitly mention that I got this from the docs? I know a lot, but am happy to admit I do not know everything, so I am happy to use tools that help me. And I got what I wanted in the end: being able to continue with my real work: helping a client.
by nusl | 2026-01-29 10:47:27+00:00
Many games do that, yes, though with varying degrees of success and often they get beaten by cheat tools. That's not to say that kernel-level anticheat can't get beaten, though there is a reason why games like Valorant have fewer such incidents. The cost/effort required to bypass the anticheat is way higher than some client-side checks.

Some games do choose to go the route of server-side authority, only showing what the client should be able to see, though I understand that's super compute heavy. Final Fantasy XIV does something akin to this, but players still develop client-side plugins to make their lives easier (higher-than-allowed camera zoom-out, displaying hidden boss mechanics when the client receives them, etc)

Cheats are also financially supported, specially in higher-profile games like Fortnite, Valorant, League of Legends, or similar, so the incentive to produce higher quality cheats exists.

People have been caught by pretending to play but actually screensharing the view of a pro player on their account, so I suppose that won't cover this :P
by torginus | 2026-01-29 10:49:55+00:00
It didn't fail imo - it was intended a low-volume product for next-gen Tesla tech - Ethernet based fieldbus, 48V systems, area controllers etc. The philosophy is the same like other high-end cars - you field test your latest experimental tech first in a car with lower sales but high margins - if your fancy stuff has a 1% failure rate, in a 100k production run, that's 1000 vehicles - high but manageable.

If you sell millions and its your main product, your company is over. This is the same playbook German manufacturers followed since forever.
I bet the next gen Model 3 and robotaxi will get the cybertruck tech.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-29 10:50:05+00:00
> This is a reward for achieving a place on the Olympic team.

Well, that makes it seem like this isn't a donation then at all, if you need to "achieve a place on the Olympic team"? I thought this was given for people to be able to better reach that, not as a "reward".

This is a "prize" it seems to me, not a "donation".
by zck | 2026-01-29 10:50:22+00:00
Your link includes this quote from Stevens:

> "The Olympic and Paralympic Games are the ultimate symbol of human excellence. I do not believe that financial insecurity should stop our nation's elite athletes from breaking through to new frontiers of excellence,” said Stevens.

And furthermore:

> By providing financial support for athletes so they can continue competing and by increasing that support for each Games in which they compete, the Stevens Awards will dramatically increase the likelihood that athletes will continue competing, and winning, for America.
by martypitt | 2026-01-29 10:51:08+00:00
I've lived in London for a decade, and feel incredibly lucky to have access to the transit here - having lived in Aus, NZ and Canada previously.

It's not perfect. It's late sometimes, pollution sucks, and often crowded - but people here who like to criticise it really don't recognise how much better they have it than lots of other places.

Same with travel from here to Europe (by train), is just awesome.
by WA | 2026-01-29 10:51:20+00:00
Yeah I heard this before, but no, it is mostly a processing fee. The reality is:

- Developers helped to make Apple the platform it is today.

- Apple had their 30% fee when the App Store was MUCH smaller. It's not like that fee came only after they had the audience.

- Apple will do zero marketing for you unless you are already successful.

- Apple doesn't earn money with the most popular free apps, but still hosts them. They could charge by traffic, by downloads, whatever, but they won't.

- Apple will charge you if you make money in the app. They will force you to use their payment processor if you want to make money.

So, it is 100% a processing fee and everything else either came later or isn't congruent with what they actually charge money for.
by ben_w | 2026-01-29 10:51:23+00:00
I think the S and X (and Roadster) sold less because they were expensive early models trying to create a "premium" halo-effect (if so, they succeeded).

For range, how much range is sufficient? This may be one area where the EU and US need fundamentally different vehicles, as per the saying "in America 100 years is a long time, in Europe 100 miles is a long way". Certainly the EU market supports B-segment with 44kWh @ 320 km / 199 miles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_C3#Europe_(2024)
by n4r9 | 2026-01-29 10:52:10+00:00
I'm not sure there's much real scientific research on preparation (at least when this was published in the 90s), especially as it can be quite subjective. There's a bit about factors affecting caffeine content on p.425:

> The quantity of caffeine that in fuses into a tea brew is determined by infusion time and by leaf style. Longer infusion times lead to greater quantities of caffeine in a tea beverage. Smaller sized tea leaves give a more rapid and stronger infusion, whereas larger leaves and uncut leaves lead to weaker infusions. This results in more or less caffeine extraction, respectively. The caffeine content of a typical tea beverage will range from 20 to 70 mg per 170 ml of infusion, with a typical infusion being prepared from about 2 to 2.5 g of tea leaves. Coffee brews typically contain from 40 to 155 mg caffeine per 170 ml beverage. There has been little research done on the pharmacology of tea-beverage caffeine. One study suggests a dose of caffeine from tea has a different physiological effect than a pure dose of caffeine (Das et ai., 1965). This has been attributed to the amino acid theanine, which is unique to tea. However, there are no well-designed clinical studies to support this position. The consensus among scientists today is that caffeine from all beverage sources has a similar physiological effect. The actual content of caffeine depends on many factors, particularly the method of brewing. A brew prepared by the Chinese "gong-fu" style is likely to have a different caffeine impact compared with the Western style of loose tea or to that from a tea bag (Hicks et ai., 1996). Some reports have suggested that green tea contains significantly less caffeine than black tea. This may be influenced by the clone of leaf used to produce the tea or by the impact of different brewing techniques. No significant differences have been found when brewing green and black teas under similar conditions (Hicks et ai., 1996), discrediting the theory that withering and fermentation have a significant impact on caffeine content (Sanderson, 1972).
by JamesTRexx | 2026-01-29 10:52:11+00:00
I see the same point when it comes to fiction writing. Tested (via duck.ai) a while ago with creating fiction stories in less than 500 characters and it came up with generics and repeats that even went above the limit.
Tried again just now with 5o mini, and although it waxed poetically, there were cracks and gaps, still felt rather generic, and certainly failed at twists and humour.

It can write about a spark, but the content has no spark.
by simoncion | 2026-01-29 10:52:47+00:00
> Unfortunately I don't think Gentoo will keep X11 support in e.g. KDE once its dropped upstream...

IIRC, the only part that's dropping X11 support is Plasma. From [0]:

There are currently no plans to drop X11 support in KDE applications outside of Plasma.

This change only concerns Plasma’s X11 login session, which is what’s going away.

I don't really care about Plasma; a taskbar to house a system tray and clock is nice, as is desktop wallpaper, but I don't particularly care about that stuff. I use very little of KDE: kwin, krunner, kmix, kcalc, okular, dolphin (rarely), and whatever handles the global keyboard shortcuts.

Hell, on my ~twenty-year-old computer I don't use Plasma because it's a resource hog, but I still use KDE.

[0] <https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-f...>
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-01-29 10:53:50+00:00
it sounds like it does make sense because if they are making $Z profits then they are still making profits and are not non-profit.

there could also be cases where cutting back to $Z profits might be preferable in case not doing so were to prompt legislation causing someone to be forcibly cut to $Z-1 or even $0 profits from a particular profit source.

Which it has been my observation that when someone is saying "X could reduce price by $Y and still make $Z profits" it often coincides with saying therefore company X should be legislated on this particular profit source.

Note: $X didn't make much rhetorical sense.
by p_l | 2026-01-29 10:54:03+00:00
Except SpaceX "competing and replacing NASA" is ... also a meme.

SpaceX is essentially the same kind of commercial provider as always, except that they didn't sit on laurels of 1960s ICBM work, and among other things built their own additional infrastructure.

... But remember they were explicitly early financed to do that by DoD and NASA.
by defrost | 2026-01-29 10:55:47+00:00
* Fishing's not catching,

* I just pulled up a family video of several kids, mine, my siblings, friends, making commercial marbles for sale pulling glass from a furnace and rolling them on a bench, using optic moulds, canes for decoration, etc .. at the age of five.

Sure, we weren't running them like chimney sweeps or coal mine donkeys 24/7 - that's what they wanted to do for pocket money - make their own, how ever many, and sell them.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-29 10:56:08+00:00
> contrarian thinking which happens to be correct

Important qualifier there. There's a massive oversupply of contrarian thinking; it's cheap, popular (populist), and incorrect. All you have to do is take some piece of conventional wisdom and write the opposite. You don't have to supply evidence, or if you do then a single cherry-picked piece will suffice.

I'd say something more like "Chesterton's Fence Inspection Company": there are reasons why things are the way they are, but if you dig into them, maybe you will find that the assumptions are no longer true? Or they turn out to be still true and important.
by roryirvine | 2026-01-29 10:57:03+00:00
I've always found levels.fyi to be a little pessimistic for the UK when compared with commercially-available benchmarking services.

I suspect it's because people on PAYE tend to think of their basic salary + bonus + income tax, but disregard NICS, pension, paid holidays, and other benefits. They end up reporting a total package that's 10-20% lower than it actually is.
Show HN: A minimal control primitive between impulse and action (OP Gap)
by Vranasko | 2026-01-29 10:57:13+00:00
Hi HN,

I documented something I kept running into while debugging my own reactions under pressure.

There appears to be a tiny runtime gap between incoming signal (trigger) and outgoing action.

If that gap collapses, behavior executes automatically.
If it stays open even briefly, explicit choice becomes available.

I formalized it as a minimal behavioral control primitive:

Origin → Signal → OP Gap → Zero Point → Operator Point → Choice → Action → Return

No beliefs, no mindset, no therapy framing.
Just a control discontinuity observable in real time.

OP Gap itself doesn’t decide anything.
It simply exposes a control surface.
Without it: reflex.
With it: authored action.

The model includes explicit failure modes:
- gap collapse (autopilot)
- operator unavailable
- missing return (residual accumulation)

And a recovery mechanism (Return Frame).

I wrote a short technical book describing the closed loop.

I’m not trying to sell anything here — I’m interested in pressure-testing the architecture.

If you think this already exists under another name, or see structural flaws, I’d genuinely appreciate feedback.

Thanks.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-29 10:57:26+00:00
Even without OneDrive, ever tried to delete a directory with millions of small files? Even sharded, takes like 30 minutes, on fast SSDs...

> The other thing is that both Git and OneDrive are in some sense fiddling with your file system at once.

Why would .git be fiddling with your file system? It writes into .git, and changes files, but shouldn't do more than that.
by Arkhaine_kupo | 2026-01-29 10:57:29+00:00
Isn't there pretty good indications that the chinese llms have been trained on top of the expensive models?

Their cost is not real.

Plus you have things like MCP or agents that are mostly being spearheaded by companies like Anthropic. So if it is "the future" and you believe in it, then you should pay a premium to spearhead it.

You want to bet on the first Boeing not the cheapest copy of a Wright brother plane.

(Full disclosure, I dont think its the future and I think we are over leveraging on AI to a degree that is, no pun intended, misanthropic)
by vasco | 2026-01-29 10:57:55+00:00
When parts of a market become dominated by one or few companies operating in a limited choice environment, consumers can't just opt to not use both Apple and Play store. You need to choose one in practice.

At this point the regulators should investigate what the barriers are to new entrants and if it's too costly and nobody has managed to cut in the last few years, establishing some rules is probably a good thing. This happens as industries mature and become critical, it happened in transportation (most bus, train companies), energy, water supply, trash, etc, depending on the country and market conditions.
by sorenone | 2026-01-29 10:58:57+00:00
How many people tried to pitch their own tool in this thread? We love that the article, discussions and the process has taught us more about what might need to be incorporated into the OSS version for Py. Once a feature is out there you can't retract it. It's v0.5 for this reason!

Free is good. We choose better. Free waits or competes with initial work priorities. We strive for zero open issues and real humans responding when you can't ship.
by awesan | 2026-01-29 10:58:59+00:00
It does make sense to highlight, because this kind of statistic is a very strong indicator that the market is not competitive. This is not a normal kind of profit margin and basically everyone except for Apple would benefit from them lowering the margins.

In normal markets there are competitors who force each other to keep reasonable profit margins and to improve their product as opposed to milking other people's hard work at the expense of the consumer.
by fuzzy2 | 2026-01-29 10:59:01+00:00
What I've seen so far from Chinese car makers (BYD and MG, to be precise) is, to put it bluntly, the bare minimum. Build quality so-so, design is… unconventional and software is just bad. It drives, but only just.

Maybe the more recent models, like the Xiaomi thing, are better. But at the moment, Tesla is at least on par, if not better. The brand being tainted is very relevant though.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-29 10:59:42+00:00
Let me preface this with that my experience comes from Sweden in the 90s and 00s, and is a correct and truthful lived experience of my life. Seemingly, things were different were you lived, and that's fine, but that's not how it worked all across Europe, so at least we can agree on that :)

The initial claim of "WhatsApp happened at a time when, in Europe, you paid for SMS." maybe was true in parts of Europe, but clearly not everywhere.

> Many people were not mostly texting free in 2009

Most people I knew definitively were mostly texting for free even before 2009, again, at least in Sweden.
by vegancap | 2026-01-29 11:00:47+00:00
I found this to be the case. Tried Sertraline for a while, gave me headaches and made me feel sick. Then as part of a new gym plan, started taking Omega 3+VitD daily, and I just felt a sense of calm and peace after a few weeks. The massive uptick in exercise probably also helped. I also felt quite an extreme uptick because I was a vegan for 10 years, and found out I had basically zero Omega 3 in my blood. I suspect one of the main reasons my mental health declined was due to the lack of Omega 3.

Disclaimer, not saying vegans should stop being vegans, just make sure you find a good supplement, and make sure you understand the difference between EPA/DHA Omega 3.
Show HN: LibPDF – The PDF library for TypeScript that I needed
by xenni | 2026-01-29 11:01:04+00:00
Hey HN! I'm one of the folks behind Documenso (open-source document signing).

We spent years combining pdf-lib with a custom Rust signing library. It worked, but real-world PDFs kept finding edge cases.

Instead of waiting for a better library to appear, we wrote our own.

LibPDF:

- Lenient parsing with brute-force recovery (inspired by Apache PDFBox)
- Digital signatures with no native bindings and full PAdES support
- Incremental saves that preserve existing signatures
- Encryption (AES-256, AES-128, RC4)
- TTF/OTF font subsetting (ported from PDFBox's fontbox)

API inspired by pdf-lib.

Still in beta, but we use it in production at Documenso already. You might hit a few bugs that we haven't yet, if you do let us know!

https://documenso.com/blog/introducing-libpdf-the-pdf-librar...
https://github.com/libpdf-js/core
https://libpdf.dev
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-29 11:01:18+00:00
> It would be great if all games after a certain period of time were opensourced

I would settle for simple copyright expiration in a reasonable amount of time. 70 years after death of author is so wholly unreasonable. Even though so many IPs are now part of the collective cultural consciousness, people can't explore their creativity using them without threat of getting Nintendo'd (even for non-commercial projects!), and entire generations that grew up experiencing them will be dead and gone by the time they enter public domain. It is a travesty that we impose such heavy shackles on human creativity.
by lisdexan | 2026-01-29 11:02:02+00:00
>Tesla is leading and succeeding. People have faith in Musk as a leader. Nobody trusts CCP EVs, just like nobody trusts Huawei or Xiaomi phones.

That sounds literally like a religious mantra. Do rational investors have 'faith' in the Costco CEO? Do they even know his name on top of their head?
by Recursing | 2026-01-29 11:02:04+00:00
I work on a website that doesn't have any mobile-specific features, new users ask me all the time why we don't have an app.

My sister and my parents basically ~only read newspapers from their apps, despite it being static text with some images.

I don't know how, but Google and Apple are really good at nudging people to use apps instead of websites.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-29 11:02:32+00:00
> when you develop an app for iOS or macOS, using Apple's APIs, platform and app store tech, it's reasonable to pay Apple something

Is it?

We spent several decades of the PC world, MSDOS and Windows, with zero platform license fees or approvals. This was hugely beneficial for innovation, and this is why everyone hates the sudden rise of platform landlordism.
by graemep | 2026-01-29 11:03:34+00:00
> Curious what extra protection this gives you, considering the environment variables are, well, in the environment, and can be read by process.

Look at it this way. What does putting things in a .env file get you over putting them in a local settings file? Both are readable by any process running as a user that can read those files, both are within the project directory and might be accidentally committed.

It also makes it easier to have a setup where secrets cannot be read by other software - e.g. this: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/28/claude_code_ai_secret...
by radu_floricica | 2026-01-29 11:03:57+00:00
People are very pessimistic here in the comments, but I see no fundamental, long term reason why AI generated code can't be refactored, maintained and tested by AI just as well (or better) than average-quality human generated code. Especially because things are evolving - by the time the projects will need to be maintained, there will likely already be better tools to do that. So while I wouldn't vibecode drivers for life support systems yet, there is significant runway of tech debt for most use cases.