MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2026-01-11 21:33:43+00:00
Apple isn't the enemy of my enemy, though. Last I checked, Tim Cook gave a convicted rapist a golden trophy for his manufacturing prowess, did he not? I quite dislike convicted rapists.

Thus, I am convinced that Apple is working with the pedophiles, and not against them. You're mistaken if you think the App Store is a tool for enforcing justice.
by robyrocker89 | 2026-01-11 21:33:49+00:00
Lately, I’ve been noticing a disturbing pattern when speaking with industry professionals: their work is being devalued or their content challenged because "AI can do it in 3 seconds," forcing them to struggle to prove there is a thinking mind behind that text.

We’ve moved from "trust me" to "prove it," yet current tools (AI detectors) are literally guessing based on statistics. They often fail, highlighting a common denominator: the crisis of proof.

I’m working on a project called "Authored" that flips this perspective. Instead of analyzing the final text (which can be manipulated), the idea is to certify the process. Think of it as an anonymous "black box" that records cognitive rhythm and revisions while you write. In the end, you don't get an uncertain probability score, but forensic proof: "This content was typed by a human, step by step."

It’s a technical solution to a human trust problem. Before developing the final version, I’m trying to understand who feels this urgency most today.

If you’ve ever had to defend the authorship of your writing or verify someone else's, you would help me immensely by answering 3 quick questions.
by hashhar | 2026-01-11 21:33:52+00:00
The only thing I'll say is that it's great to see the feedback in this thread applied. It became very obvious to me what the tool is for and an abstract idea of what I can do with it.

However as others have said:

- A demo video would do a lot for your product.

- nit: Real-time markdown -> change to something that emphasizes collaboration/collaborative editing. For two reason - it's a much more familiar term in the space you are building and it's easier to understand (I think) for more people.

- A sample workspace (either public or a "starter workspace" that's available by default in a new account) that is non-trivial would be great to showcase your product. Look at obsidian using obsidian itself for it's own documentation site.

- Your about page is very well written - I wonder if you can pull up somethings from there onto the main page. https://hyperclast.com/about/

I didn't sign up yet however so can't provide more feedback.
by epistasis | 2026-01-11 21:34:04+00:00
> what has home solar to do with country's grid and industrial needs?

Why are you asking this question without answering it? Unless you're assuming I said something I don't, I don't understand the relevance here.

> No country has a VRE+BESS solution to fully sustain itself.

A couple of fallacies here: non existence yet doesn't mean it's not possible, especially for a grid with equipment lifetimes measured in multiple decades. Once it makes sense to build a VRE only grid it will take several decades for it to happen.

> Nuclear was dirt cheap in US but it didn't help to expand it. and now it's not that cheap since supply chain is gone

Nuclear was completely overbuilt, based on bad over predictions for energy demand, leading to excess orders, then the only plants still being under construction being the ones that were poorly managed, leaving a distinctly bad financial taste in the utilities' mouths. They had to be bribed by state legislatures in South Carolina and Georgia to let them pre-bill ratepayers and also put ratepayers on the hook for overages on construction for new reactors, which everyone expected and which happened disastrously.

It's really unclear that nuclear is ever going to be cheap when its main costs are high skilled construction labor, concert and steel. None of those inputs are getting cheaper and the only chance at making logistics and management better seem to be small modular reactors, which are inherently cost inefficient due to losing the scale advantages of 1GW reactors.

It's no longer 1970, and the costs and technology of the modern economy are fundamentally doffeeent. We have learned so much, and I hope that we have learned tha nuclear doesn't fit with our advanced technology of the 21st century.
by jdottdot | 2026-01-11 21:34:20+00:00
I'm working on https://cloudventory.io – AWS inventory search for teams that don't have the budget for high-end cloud management platforms.

Cross-account, cross-region search. Need to find an IP? Easy peasy. Need to find all the cruft Todd left behind? Search "todd" and see every todd-test-server-1 and todd-alb hanging around.

I've added insights for security, ops, and cost savings – minimal right now but expanding.

Early access/MVP mode. Feedback welcome.
by NetOpWibby | 2026-01-11 21:34:38+00:00
Pretty cool ideas here already!

I'm working on a subscription-based short-form video site called NICKEL[1]. I felt gross about using YouTube but wanted to share my gaming clips, so I made my own thing. Then I thought about making it sustainable so here we are. I'll have an update to the mailing list out in a few hours, I'm "building in public."

My feature-complete deadline is April 15th and I think I'll make it. If you want to check out the UI, visit the explore[2] page. I have it setup to redirect to a public video while I work on the intended UI (a design challenge I've never tried before but we've all seen). I'm thoroughly enjoying figuring out how streaming video works and how best to optimize things.

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[1]: https://nickel.video

[2]: https://nickel.video/explore
by pixelpoet | 2026-01-11 21:34:39+00:00
> Windows 11 is a dog.

So, man's best friend?

Anyway, while I agree about the slowness (now that I've experienced Linux snappiness and done the benchmarks), it's the constant nagging / dark patterns that seals the deal for me. Microsoft would still have me as a happy customer and MSVC user if they hadn't bricked their OS after Win 7 and shoved AI, MS account, ads etc down everyone's throats.

On that note, even more hilarious/tragic is their turning MS Office into Microsoft Copilot 365 App lol, probably the tech biggest marketing blunder of all time, and entirely unforced (unlike for example Intel mostly abandoning the Pentium brand after the P4).
by gbear605 | 2026-01-11 21:34:40+00:00
> Developers want to use these 3p client and pay you 200 a month, why are you pissing us off

Presumably because it costs them more than $200 per month to sell you it. It's a loss leader to get you into their ecosystem. If you won't use their ecosystem, they'd rather you just go over to OpenAI.
by bell-cot | 2026-01-11 21:35:29+00:00
Skimming through this item, a couple points I don't see being made:

- If you claim that the assistance of alien visitors is needed to explain the milestone leaps or technological achievements of ancient human civilizations...are you walking into a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down logic trap? Because obviously "our" alien visitors would have need even greater leaps and achievements in their own past, to be able to travel to the earth. And their visitors similar, and so on.

- Based on the folk & religious beliefs of a great many cultures, it's easy to argue that human societies have a very strong bias toward believing in anthropomorphic supernatural beings - be they angels, demons, ghosts, spirits, or whatever. Are von Däniken's ancient aliens anything more than "random" meme, which turned out to be an excellent fit for the social environment it found itself in?
by ianbutler | 2026-01-11 21:35:31+00:00
MetroUI in Windows 8 was pretty universally panned. I thought it was pretty good on tablets and such, but it left a lot to be desired on desktops and hid a lot of functionality, it went too mobile for a lot of people's tastes.

Disclaimer: I was one of the dozens who used a windows phone. The Nokia Lumia 920 was great, you can fight me.
by kazinator | 2026-01-11 21:35:50+00:00
> desktop Linux still has rough edges for some use cases

Windows is shit from the total management viewpoint: what it means to own and operate Windows over the long haul.

windows is okay when there is some program on it that works well and that you like, and you're interacting with that while avoiding Windows.

If Windows were the dominant platform and Windows were trying to eke out share, it wouldn't stand a chance.
by OGEnthusiast | 2026-01-11 21:36:05+00:00
He will prevent it from getting much worse than it would have under another decade of Dye, but I don't think he can totally reverse the trend.

I think this is just what happens to companies as they get older. Most of the people who pioneered the Human Interface Guidelines aren't at the company anymore, and management doesn't see much financial growth in Mac sales compared to AI and services.
by lostlogin | 2026-01-11 21:36:06+00:00
> You just need to prevent a catastrophe and even Fukushima did it relatively well - nobody died or will die from radiation.

“As of 2020, the total number of cancer and leukemia instances has risen to six cases according to the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).[5] In 2018 one worker died from lung cancer as a result from radiation exposure.”

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

These are small numbers compared to the number that died due to the tsunami and the massive evacuation (to avoid radiation injuries). The frustrating bit is that they could have avoided it all.
by kergonath | 2026-01-11 21:36:07+00:00
> My point is that a modern vehicle of the same size is much safer.

The point is that there are not really any equivalent vehicle of the same size. We've just somehow accepted that we needed 3 times as much machine to carry the same amount of human.

The other point is that this amount of machine is absolutely not required to do serious work (TM), as most people who bought pick-up tanks like to argue. The C15 is European, but you can make the exact same point with Japanese small trucks, which are also a reasonable solution.
by its-summertime | 2026-01-11 21:36:14+00:00
Windows 8 featured a notable paradigm shift from a menuing launcher (click start, programs, then the program you want, as an example), to a full screen launcher (Think Android and iOS). And also switched from floating windows (The default for most Linux distros and for Mac AFAIK) to rudimentary tiling windows (Think Android and iOS)

https://youtu.be/RuuqEZnvEoU?t=30
by hazard | 2026-01-11 21:36:41+00:00
https://www.1e4.ai/

A transformer-based (but not LLM) chess model that plays like a human.
The site right now is very rudimentary - no saving games, reviewing games, etc., just playing.

It uses three models:
* A move model for what move to make
* A clock model for how long to 'think' (inference takes milliseconds, the thinking time is just emulated based on the output of the clock model)
* A winner model that predicts the likelihood of each game outcome (white win / black win / draw). If you've seen eval bars when watching chess games online, this isn't quite the same. It's a percentage based outcome, rather than number of centipawns advantage that the usual eval bars use.

Right now it has a model trained on 1700-1800 rating level games from Lichess. You can turn it up and down past that, but I'm working on training models on a wide variety of other rating ranges.

If you're really into computer chess, this is similar to MAIA, but with some extra models and very slightly higher move prediction accuracy compared to the published results of the MAIA-2 paper
by OlaProis | 2026-01-11 21:36:42+00:00
You've basically described Ferrite's design goals! Let me check the boxes:

Single binary — ~15MB, point it at a directory with ferrite ./notes/ or open workspace via UI

Fast launch, low latency — Native Rust/egui, instant startup, no Electron

Cross platform — Windows/Linux/macOS

Tables & code blocks — GFM tables, syntax-highlighted code blocks (40+ languages)

WYSIWYG — This is where it gets nuanced. Ferrite has three modes:

- Rendered mode — Click-to-edit rendered Markdown (closest to WYSIWYG)

- Split view — Raw editor + live preview side-by-side

- Raw mode — Plain text editing

It's not pure "type and it formats inline" like Typora or Confluence. The Rendered mode lets you click elements to edit them, but it's not seamless WYSIWYG yet.

If you're looking for true inline WYSIWYG, Typora is probably closest. But if split view + rendered mode works for you, give Ferrite a try — it hits the other criteria well.
by dystroy | 2026-01-11 21:36:48+00:00
Termimad author here: I’m always a bit afraid, when I see the popularity of this crate, that it might be undue and that people may lose time trying to use it when it’s probably not the tool they need.

Termimad isn’t a full-fledged TUI framework. It can be used to build TUIs (I made broot, bacon, safecloset, etc. with it), but if you want to quickly build a TUI and compose UI components and widgets, you’ll probably find it much easier to choose a real TUI framework (e.g. ratatui).

Termimad isn’t a generic Markdown viewer either. Markdown is mainly used as a language for the developer to describe parts of the interface—especially rich text—inside a TUI. People interested in rendering arbitrary Markdown files will find that it lacks features such as image rendering.
by duskwuff | 2026-01-11 21:36:53+00:00
> I suspect a lot of the complication here is ultimately due to what the hardware allows

Most likely, yes. Reading between the lines a bit, there are ten hardware counters - two of them wired to fixed triggers, and the other eight each having a multiplexer selecting from a different set of triggers for each counter. This is a fairly typical hardware design - limiting the number of counters and the number of triggers per counter makes for a simpler hardware implementation. (The increased software complexity is an acceptable tradeoff for a feature which is only used by some developers.)
by mike-cardwell | 2026-01-11 21:37:04+00:00
I bought a 300 litre aquarium about 6 weeks ago for the living room. Added soil, plants and water. Have spent the last 6 weeks watching plants grow, and snails that smuggled in on plants, multiply. I over fertilised it and left the light on accidentally for a couple of days whilst I was away and experienced an algae bloom, which was interesting. Added some cardinal tetras and amano shrimp yesterday and have spent a lot of time just watching them potter around. Has been a nice change from looking at a screen.
by buchanae | 2026-01-11 21:37:22+00:00
I'm working on two projects:

https://helmtk.dev is a toolkit for helm chart maintainers, including a structured template language than can compile into helm templates, and a test suite tool for writing tests in javascript. Super handy I think.

https://blog.atlas9.design is about building a better software experience by solving more of the common stuff from the start: IAM, builds, API design, etc. I'm currently designing and building a Go-based framework to start.
by didntknowyou | 2026-01-11 21:37:27+00:00
applying this same kind of logic that PE uses, equating healthcare workers to machines is the bane of the industry.

and then people complain why ther doctors burn out. what do you expect when you ingrained on them that every hour not booked is $80 lost, so we need to book them 24/7, cut their lunch break and squeeze every inch of life from them.
by fastasucan | 2026-01-11 21:37:41+00:00
>Do you ever feel unmotivated to go to the toilet despite needing to? Has this lack of motivation ever stopped you from getting from your chair?

A lot of people with depression and adhd will nod "yes" here. Sorry but you have no idea. Great it works for you.

When I am healthy I can work out 4-5 times a week (l<fting weights, climbing, running up to half marathon distances in training) have a full job and be a dad.

When I am ill all I can is to try my best to be a dad. You have no idea.
by pgalvin | 2026-01-11 21:37:52+00:00
This will let you download all of your photos that already exist on iCloud Photos.

Going forward, you’d want to set up some other way to sync photos you take from your phone to your other devices. I can personally recommend Synology Photos for simplicity[1], or Immich[2] for an open-source (and in my opinion, slightly better) alternative you can run on any hardware, if you’d like to set up an always-on NAS. These are “Apple Photos” or “Google Photos” equivalents that you host yourself.

Alternatively, something like Syncthing[3] is a dead-simple way to sync your photos to various other devices as and when they are online, if you’d prefer to manage your photos in an ordinary file manager.

I’d be remiss not to mention that, for any solution where you move off the cloud to a central storage location of your own, you really must make backups to keep your photos safe. The 3-2-1 rule is a standard recommendation.

[1] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/photos

[2] https://immich.app/

[3] https://syncthing.net/
by dhosek | 2026-01-11 21:38:04+00:00
This was the first book that I picked out to buy for myself as a child (I remember pestering my parents for it at the Kroch’s and Brentano’s on Lake Street in Oak Park back in the 70s). I read it over and over and thanks to that, when I later came to stories like the Hebrews wandering the desert in Exodus, it was hard to put the von Däniken nonsense out of my mind.

Psychologists have there own version of this (which managed to achieve a sort of respectability) in Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind which has the same sort of furtive/animistic fallacies are put forth to justify a questionable conclusion.
by anonnon | 2026-01-11 21:38:31+00:00
"AI slop" is an internet meme that bears a strking resemblance to another, older meme, "goyslop"; why is it such a stretch to believe the former derived from the latter? "AI slop" was being used on 4chan as far back as November, 2022 on /g/:

https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/89758234/#q89758967

https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/89911387/#q89931883

It also saw its first use that month on /pol/, though I won't link to the archived threads (for obvious reasons). Unless you can provide earlier prior art, the most likely etymology of the term is 4chan, November, 2022, derived from "goyslop."
by bri3d | 2026-01-11 21:38:58+00:00
While we're doing anecdotes, I don't actually hate my 2025 Dell 16 Premium at all, and it looks like they fixed most of my quibbles with the new XPS 16.

Figuring out which laptop to get was horrible because of their completely inexplicable branding, which I'm glad to see them roll back, but the computer is fine. I'm not sure I can agree with all of the "Dell computers are bad/dying" arguments.

I think they went through a huge quality slump from ~2020-2023, as did most things, but so far my experience has been that they're quite good now. I haven't had any standby issues (or issues of any kind, really) using Windows. Windows 11 is Windows 11 but Tahoe is also Tahoe so that's a net medium. A little bit of Group Policy tweaking to remove the junkware and a little wince when hit with new-Notepad aside, it's good enough. I also tried running Linux on it and everything was straightforward except for the webcam (most modern Intel laptops use a new Intel thing where the CPU has the ISP on it and the camera is attached over CSI, and the kernel support is quite bleeding-edge) and the usual Nvidia graphics switching and arcane Linux power management problems, but I really got it for Windows anyway.

My only beefs are the terrible virtual function bar (this was stupid the first time vendors tried it, and trying it again in 2025 is a really incredible choice, I'm glad they backed down on this ludicrous idea) and that the OLED model only comes in touchscreen form and the digitizer is ever-so-slightly visible. Otherwise I like it as well as my M2 MacBook Pro; the screen is square and notchless, the performance-to-dollar ratio was far superior, and the physical build quality is quite good. The "infinity" touchpad that's not really infinite is a stupid gimmick on paper but overall I don't notice it at all - it works just as well as any non-Apple touchpad I've used, which is to say about 85% as well as an Apple one.
by maxglute | 2026-01-11 21:39:06+00:00
They're not winding down per say, nuclear has stayed steady, renewables simply exploded. Nuclear understandably more prone to schedule delays, but now it's mostly execution delays in months vs regulatory delays in years. They're still on trend with nuclear year plans. Solar simply scales much faster because all the displaced construction worker from real estate slow down can slap panels but not reactors.
by kergonath | 2026-01-11 21:39:19+00:00
To be fair, they killed a lot of people before killing the royalty as well. And then, when you dig a bit deeper, you realise that the royalty did quite a bit of the killing itself, just shortly before. It's amazing, it's almost like History does not happen in a. vacuum, and events depend on the cultural context and other events that happened previously.
by dlivingston | 2026-01-11 21:39:22+00:00
Microsoft's Copilot AI software has been integrated in every corner of the operating system, from the start menu to the notepad to settings. Beyond the intrusiveness of it, it also does not work very well. Other AI mishaps include Recall, which takes screenshots of your desktop every so often, and the original version of Recall stored these in an unencrypted, insecure database.

On top of that, the OS feels more bloated and disorganized than ever, with something like six different UI frameworks all present in various spots on the OS; system settings are scattered across the Settings app (new) and various legacy panels like Control Panel and Network Connections.

What else... Microsoft now requires an online connection and Microsoft account to sign in to your PC; no more local-only accounts allowed.

I'm sure there's more I'm missing. It's not a pleasant operating system.
by user34283 | 2026-01-11 21:39:34+00:00
Windows 11 isn't running half as bad for me as most here seem to say.

I experience no delays with the start menu, and it's perfectly smooth on my 240 Hz monitor.

I also never encountered crashes like described as OP's reason for the switch.

So what do I have to gain from using Linux? A bit better compatibility for my software work, but much worse game compatibility. Fewer annoying popups, but they aren't that frequent on Windows either. Probably a worse update experience, and more time spent configuring.
by Novosell | 2026-01-11 21:40:12+00:00
Windows 8 was when Microsoft tried to cater more towards Windows-on-tablet use cases. Which lead to everyone, including desktop users, having a fullscreen phone-style app menu take the place of the old start menu. This, for desktop use, is obviously quite disruptive and was hated by everyone.

They addressed most issues in the 8.1 update, like a year later I think.