MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MandieD | 2026-01-16 07:22:32+00:00
Let’s say you’re a person of questionable immigration status who has lived in the US for a couple of decades, achieved some modest success - your own home, mostly paid for, a car or two, maybe even a small business.

Sure, just walk away for not even a month’s pay, back to a country you’ve not lived in for decades.

Oh, and there’s a good chance some roided-up high school dropout is going to snatch you and stuff you in a van when you go to the immigration office to begin this nice, civilized process so that he can make quota.

Yeah, I’d be uninterested in drawing the attention of the immigration enforcement machinery right now, too.

If the government wanted people to take the carrot, they shouldn’t be so quick with the stick, even at immigration courts where people were doing their best to follow the laws.
by lubujackson | 2026-01-16 07:22:46+00:00
Based on the trajectory of LLMs I bet a good tech writer will soon be a more valuable engineer than a "leetcode-hard" engineer for most teams.

Obviously we still need people to oil the machine, but... a person who deeply understands the product, can communicate shortcomings in process or user flows, can quickly and effectively organize their thoughts and communicate them, can navigate up and down abstraction levels and dive into details when necessary - these are the skills LLMs require.
by crakhamster01 | 2026-01-16 07:23:31+00:00
I think this advice is pretty apt for small to medium sized companies. We're all invested in the company succeeding, but you don't want to become known as the person that always says "no".

At large companies, I've rarely found a reason to speak out on a project. Unless it has a considerable effect on my team/work (read: peace of mind), it just doesn't make sense to be the person casting doubt. There's not much ROI for being "right".

If you manage to kill the project before it starts, no one will ever know how bad of a disaster you prevented. If the project succeeds despite your objections, you look like an idiot. And if it fails - as the author notes, that doesn't get remembered either.

As a senior IC, the only real ROI I've found in these situations is when you can have a solution handy if things fail. People love a fixer. Even if you only manage to pull this off once or twice, your perception in the org/company gets a massive boost. "Wow, so-and-so is always thinking ahead."

A basic example I saw at my last company was automated E2E testing in production. My teammate had suggested this to improve our ability to detect regressions, but it was ultimately shot down as not being worth the investment over other features.

A few months later, we had seen multiple instances of users hitting significant issues before we could catch them. My teammate was able to whip out the test framework they had been building on the side, and was immediately showered with praise/organizational support (and I'm sure a great review as well).
by andhuman | 2026-01-16 07:24:43+00:00
I’ve tried the voice clinking and it works great. I added a 9s clip and it captured the speaker pretty well.

But don’t do the fake mistake I did and use a hf token that doesn’t have access to read from repos! The error message said that I had to request access to the repo, but I’ve had already done that, so I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Turns out my HF token only had access to inference.
by mbgerring | 2026-01-16 07:24:48+00:00
I built an art practice after volunteering on Burning Man projects for a few years. I’m now a competent art fabricator and engineer in carpentry, lighting, electronics, and power systems. It’s fun, and it keeps me connected to lots of different communities. You meet a lot of people who like to get together and nerd out, host parties, and make cool things.

When people talk about the loneliness epidemic, I realize how lucky I am to be in community with people who want to get together to do cool things just for fun. I know these kinds of art communities also exist in places outside the Bay Area, and it seems like a good model for creating excuses for people to gather anywhere.

“Get a hobby and find the others” seems like its too simple to be the answer here, but that’s what it is for me.
by globular-toast | 2026-01-16 07:24:58+00:00
I noticed the "bicycle tree" in Scotland which has encapsulated a bicycle amongst other things as it has grown. It reminded me of a very old graveyard I would play in as a kid. The oldest side was all old trees and one day I noticed one of the trees had a couple of gravestones up in its boughs. I always wondered if these were really lifted up there by the tree and if so whether that's unusual.
by RandallBrown | 2026-01-16 07:25:23+00:00
I have an older neighbor who just absolutely loves dogs. He sits by his window all day long and runs outside every time a dog comes by to give them a treat. On hot days he has bowls filled with ice water and a kiddy pool for them to splash in.

I lived here almost 6 years before doing much more than a smile and nod to him, but my next door neighbors with a dog befriended him almost as soon as they moved in.

It wasn't until our son started walking and would stop and try and play in the dog water that we ever really talked to him.
by cedws | 2026-01-16 07:25:30+00:00
It is a ratchet though. South Korea's birth rate has been at an existential level for at least a decade and shows no sign of improving. Things won't improve while technology and tech companies are warping what it means to be human.

Now there's chatter about AI companions. If they take off and substitute real relationships it's game over. Swathes of the population will bed rot because they have no incentive to go outside for anything other than work.
by kewun | 2026-01-16 07:26:29+00:00
I wonder if most "Susan in Accounting" even know what Claude is. They then have to know to get Claude desktop, get the max plan in order to get Cowork. Most people live on the cloud, so they'll need to get the Claude browser plugin as well to integrate with Cowork.

I'm curious to see if Anthropic can actually win over these non-technical folks as there's still quite a few hurdles for them to get over.
by lovich | 2026-01-16 07:27:37+00:00
>I don't think it's wrong to go back that far.

I think in a discussion about the effect of immigration on the current state of an area, in this case Silicon Valley, you can totally reference its history if you are making a claim about a chain of events. If instead, you skip over 50 years of history which includes multiple generations of how the industry worked and multiple generations of immigration policy, to start talking about

> The highly selective immigration policy that prevailed from 1924-1965 is likely a key reason why so many Silicon Valley companies were founded by immigrants

then you are making a narrative that has nothing to do with the point, and I am unwilling to accept your framing.
by verisimi | 2026-01-16 07:27:45+00:00
I don't believe in a 'loneliness epidemic'. Where is it? What do these words mean to individuals?

I do think there is a 'false expectation' ie delusion. Ie, after years of forced hyper-socialisation (school, work) and cultural ideas of friendship (Friends), architecture that stacks and packs people, the expectation that people hold of themselves and their relationships bears little relation to their natural, untrained selves. I could even argue that the loneliness expectation is the reverse - there is no meaningful quiet space for individuals. The very idea of being introspective is a problem to be addressed.

What I think we have is 'broken socialisation'. Nothing about human socialisation is natural.
by prmoustache | 2026-01-16 07:28:53+00:00
> 'Making friends' doesn't occur by just being in proximity to people. [...] Quite likely at the end of the night they'll return to their lives and you won't be invited to interact with them again until the next meeting.

Yes because sharing an activity involves greetings, interactions, group laughs which break the glass before more conversations starts and making friends becomes naturally a possibility.

Friendship is something that grow, not something that gets created in all its deepness from nowhere.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-16 07:29:05+00:00
After watching the below video, it's the excess bearing play and thus no-longer-constrained force directions that would seem to be the issue.

With a proper tolerance bearing in place, the force is constrained so that other parts are only stressed in directions they're well suited to handle (because the bearing takes the load).

Once the bearing develops excess tolerance, you've got a bucking engine that (to your point) is directly loading other parts in unexpected ways/directions, eventually causing failure.

The fact that Boeing supposedly modeled this and came up with non-safety critical in the event of bearing breakage... curious how that will turn out.
by Fezzik | 2026-01-16 07:29:30+00:00
Sonicare Electric Toothbrush. My grandmother bought me my first one in the 90s. I’m on my third, and that’s only because I take them backpacking. It’s my 1 luxury item on the trail. I know much of it is genetics, but a morning and evening cleaning make my teeth feel amazing and have helped me stay cavity free.
by adastra22 | 2026-01-16 07:29:45+00:00
What's the point? The frequencies being listened to on these radio telescopes aren't affected by the atmosphere. Arecibo in space doesn't get you anything that Arecibo on the ground didn't (except hurricane resistance, I guess).

One exception is the far side of the moon to get away from radio noise. But other than that, there's no reason to put a radio telescope in space.
by wjholden | 2026-01-16 07:29:51+00:00
YouTube is actually one of my very first places to go for new concepts. For example, one of the recent Advent of Code puzzles was solvable with "coordinate compression," a technique I had never heard of before. I didn't find much, and what I did find wasn't an especially high-quality presentation, but it did teach me a magical new concept that helped me to finish the puzzle.

I have also benefited so much from MIT OCW lectures. The quality of their teaching is so high that it showed me that when my children go to college, it will be worth it to send them to a much more expensive elite school.
by solid_fuel | 2026-01-16 07:30:41+00:00
> There are many cases in which I already understand the code before it is written. In these cases AI writing the code is pure gain.

That's only true if the LLM understands the code in the same way you do - that is, it shares your expectations about architecture and structure. In my experience, once the architecture or design of an application diverges from the average path extracted from training data, performance seriously degrades.

You wind up with the LLM creating duplicate functions to do things that are already handled in code, or using different libraries than your code already does.
by zingar | 2026-01-16 07:30:44+00:00
We have 30 hours of free childcare in the UK (for nursery, schooling in older years is free) if both parents are working and neither earn more than £100k. It has the interesting impact that a salary of £99.9k is worth more to me than £130k, give or take some extra contributions to pension.

It’s interesting to me that the threshold is so much higher in San Francisco given that SF is only 8.7% more expensive than London, at least according to numbeo.

Maybe healthcare makes up some of that difference?
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2026-01-16 07:31:25+00:00
write it to a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC or something similar and put it somewhere safe, like a bank, with a reader. why do you need to host it if it is for your kids? maybe a real answer is to pay someone or make some elaborate rube goldberg redundancy apparatus on some p2p mesh network or whatever.
by prmoustache | 2026-01-16 07:32:16+00:00
> I think the real cause of the loneliness epidemic is that the older generation never taught us how to socialise and make friends.

That is false. First because most of the social learning is done by mimicking what others do and we certainly all saw our parents invite and get invited to stuff.

Plus there is school which is the #1 place where your learn to socialize and make friends.
by MrDresden | 2026-01-16 07:32:22+00:00
I have a group of people who play boardgames in a turned based fashion over at boardgamearena. This solves the flakiness issue. The lack of direct social interaction is then made slightly better by having a chat channel where we chat about ongoing games.

We've been having ongoing games (around 2 going at every one time) since about a year now I think.

Still do in person games as well, but this at least keeps that group going through in-perwon drought periods.
by buu700 | 2026-01-16 07:32:29+00:00
Do multiple or all of the things mentioned in the other comments for redundancy, then set up a Delaware non-charitable purpose trust with a reasonably large endowment. Make sure your lawyers plan the trust carefully with reliable enforcement and position it to be well defended against "capriciousness"[0] claims.

0: https://lawprof.co/flashcard/what-is-capriciousness
by bradlys | 2026-01-16 07:32:59+00:00
I don’t think it’s this. I’ve lived in NYC recently and people there don’t have tolerance for shit behaviors either and you’re surrounded by people all the time.

It’s due to people having higher standards than before and being bifurcated on every issue. There is deep polarization and tribalism within American culture.

Everyone consumes different content and there’s very little homogeneity within our culture. Like… Americans are more diverse than ever in terms of their thoughts and behaviors. They genuinely have little in common compared to many other cultures.
by pastage | 2026-01-16 07:33:46+00:00
The thing about Wikipedia is that no one cares what you have done outside Wikipedia. It is like showing up at a new work place and saying something that is factually correct, it can go any way.

I have a fair amount of edits on Wikipedia and the wikis that preceded it. Whenever I read this sentiment here I never really understand what the problem is. I never have it myself. The only fight I have been involved in was if Wikipedia should have an article on Bitcoin. Which was not obvious in the beginning.

You could always link to the article and we can have a look. I have no clout on Wikipedia but I do understand why facts can be problematic in any text book. It once took me a week to correct an article about a Russian author.
by walthamstow | 2026-01-16 07:33:58+00:00
Income cliffs, even phased, are generally stupid. See Britain's 100k cliff for free childcare. If both parents make 99k, you get it. If one earns 101k and the other earns zero, you don't get it. The workaround (pension stuffing) is widely known and actually means the govt comes off worse than if they'd just given the childcare away.

There are all kinds of other perverse effects like people turning down promotions or dropping down to working 4 days a week. It's a government-sanctioned ceiling on ambition for high earners. Genius.
by futuraperdita | 2026-01-16 07:35:22+00:00
I don't see how the control and enforcement of "social media age verification" solves for the "people who are unable to stop... under their own willpower." My grandparents are more addicted to the phone than I am. Taking the superlative stance of social media being the "most advanced behavior modification schemes ever devised by humans" wouldn't the correct regulation be some sort of threshold of consumption (screen time limits per application), or rehabilitation for those that have crossed a line into psychological addiction? I imagine the easiest, assuming you see "the algorithm" as the problem, would be to ban selective algorithms and force timeline-based feeds or the like.
by Fh_ | 2026-01-16 07:36:20+00:00
I'll be working on a video walkthrough this weekend. Here are some screenshots of the dashboard.

It has 3 main features including auto fix which detects issues with your yard and generates solutions you can just click to apply, the smart fix and Preset tools which both support masking or brushing on the image to select areas to modify. The run with very context aware models to perform edits on the image.

Screenshots:
This is the preset tool, you can brush an area or apply a style to the whole image: https://hadaa.pro/public_assets/c9e09f9a-493a-4e71-9a91-6bca...

The smart fix tool allows to still mask the image and type your own prompts. You can switch off the Ai Assist mode to perform direct edits without prompt interpretation, https://hadaa.pro/public_assets/5cbd2810-789f-4cf2-8758-79fc...

And finally the auto fix mode which detects appropriate edits to your yard, you can just click fix and they are applied to your image, https://hadaa.pro/public_assets/657efbb5-c5d7-43c2-a2aa-ca1c...

Once you signup you receive free credits to use.
by rramadass | 2026-01-16 07:36:41+00:00
Not what i meant.

The idea is to make sure that you can guarantee (barring unforeseens) the absolute minimum that you need to live before anything else. Once this is done everything else becomes a choice and you can indulge (or not) as you please.

Life is all about Risk Management and given the uncertain world we live in, you need to ensure that you are not totally dependent on the future performance of the Economic System. "Enjoy Life Today/YOLO" etc. should not become an excuse to not think realistically and plan for your own/family's future with definite guarantees.

Nassim Taleb's ideas about Mediocristan vs. Extremistan, Power Laws/Pareto Distribution, Barbell investment strategy, Black Swan events etc. are all relevant here.

PS: Also see ideas from Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_movement
by __turbobrew__ | 2026-01-16 07:37:16+00:00
Yea, that is a big caveat to ZeroFS. Single point of failure. It is like saying I can write a faster etcd by only having a single node. Sure, that is possible, but the hard part of distributed systems is the coordination, and coordination always makes performance worse.

I personally have went with Ceph for distributed storage. I personally have a lot more confidence in Ceph over JuiceFS and ZeroFS, but realize building and running a ceph cluster is more complex, but with that complexity you get much cheaper S3, block storage, and cephfs.
by tarcon | 2026-01-16 07:37:29+00:00
macOS already has some great intrinsic TTS capability as the OS seems to include a naturally sounding voice. I recently built a similar tool to just run the "say" command as a background process. Had to wrap it in a Deno server. It works, but with Tahoe it's difficult to consistently configure using that one natural voice, and not the subpar voices downloadable in the settings. The good voice seems to be hidden somehow.
by mattlondon | 2026-01-16 07:38:10+00:00
Pay someone.

Seriously.

They'll be loads of unexpected things that come up that can't be anticipated.

Just look at some of the websites that were abandoned in the early 2000-2010s but which are still actively hosted today but that are broken now due to modern browsers refusing to load cross-origin resources, or the server's ciphers are no longer accepted etc. They're still online, you just can't see the content with today's computers. You need a human (...or potentially an AI?) there to intervene and resolve those problems to keep it going.

Sure you might say well my writings are not using HTTPS or I don't make cross-origin requests, but that totally misses the point. Who knows in 50 years you may not even be able to read ASCII text in consumer browsers any more without specialist archival/library tools, just like we can't use what we're at the time totally legitimate SSL ciphers.

I think that archiving your writings is different from having your site active and casually available.
Show HN: CheerAd – Web3 ad slot widgets for regions that Stripe doesn't work
by niyoseris | 2026-01-16 07:38:18+00:00
Hi HN,

There are lots of developers based in a regions where Stripe and PayPal are not available. This is a massive bottleneck for indie hackers who are living there; They can build products, but monetizing them usually involves setting up complex LLCs abroad or relying on unreliable intermediaries.

To solve this for my own projects, I built a native web3 widget, and since I built CheerAd, here's an idea: why don't combine them to help makers.

It’s a lightweight ad-slot widget that allows any website owner to sell advertising space directly via crypto, bypassing the restrictions entirely.

The Tech Stack:

Backend: Written in Rust using Actix-web. I chose Rust for its memory safety and low footprint, which is crucial since I'm running this on minimal resources.

Frontend: Vanilla JavaScript (ES Modules). I avoided React/Vue intentionally to ensure the embed script remains tiny (<10kb) and doesn't conflict with the host site's frameworks.

Payments: Direct on-chain integration using @solana/web3.js.

The Logic: Instead of a traditional SaaS subscription, I implemented a mechanism called "Cheerpool." The protocol takes a 5% transaction fee, but instead of keeping it as profit, it redistributes it back to the ecosystem participants based on a set of smart contract rules. It turns the fee model into a retention mechanism.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the architecture or how you handle monetization in banking-restricted regions.

Thanks!
by avhception | 2026-01-16 07:38:33+00:00
Maybe it's not wise to comment on this while living in Germany and never having been to SF.

But my first thought was: Are they gonna shuttle the kids in and out of the city in order to provide said childcare? Or the staff? How would the staff afford housing in SF on a "normal" salary? Where would they build the required buildings when land costs an arm and a leg?
by josefrichter | 2026-01-16 07:38:41+00:00
You can organize things. It's surprisingly easy. You just put up a FB event.

When I was younger and moved to a new (foreign) city, The first thing I did was to create a "picnic" for people coming from my country. No agenda, no nothing, let's just hang out and have some wine, cheese and chat while sitting on the grass. You'd be surprised how successful this was, and some of them keep running regularly without me for over a decade now.
by northfield27 | 2026-01-16 07:39:13+00:00
One thing this blog probably misses is what happens when we suggest something to fix a project’s trajectory, they ignore it, but eventually they silently adopt the suggestion and improve the project.

This results in a net loss of ROI: we risk being seen as a negative person, while no one acknowledges our goodwill or instincts, because the project lead presents the improvement as their own win through a strategic change of plan.
Show HN: AIfacefy Photo to Video
by AIFacefy | 2026-01-16 07:39:42+00:00
AI Facefy's Photo to Video AI Generator is a cutting-edge tool designed to breathe life into your static photographs, turning them into captivating, cinematic videos complete with dynamic animations, special effects, and audio support. Whether you're reliving cherished family moments, crafting engaging content for social platforms, or producing professional promotional materials, this AI-driven solution allows you to upload photos, customize with music and text, and generate high-resolution videos quickly and effortlessly.
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-16 07:39:44+00:00
Meshtastic works on commercial frequencies. If they block those then a good number of non-wifi/bluetooth devices will just stop working.

Including, but not limited to: garage door openers, some (older) car key fobs, some RC equipment, wireless weather sensors, remotely readable metering devices (electricity, water) and a crapton of other things.