MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by conductr | 2026-01-05 19:11:56+00:00
Still feels like you're blowing it out of proportion and are judging my hobby and reading into my post as braggadocios (which it was meant to be very matter of fact and kind of the opposite if you read any of it besides what I admitted to as my indulgence). Very average income/wealth people have hobbies that cost them a couple thousand dollars a year and we all choose our own hobbies. I don't golf and there are millions of golfers that spend the same or perhaps way more as an example. I don't drink alcohol and I would guess a large portion of US adults spend more annually on beverages than I do on that one "hobby". Damn near everyone travels and that's essentially a hobby. Plenty of people go deep sea fishing or whale watching on rented yachts. I could go on but are you judgmental on their "rich person hobby" like you are of mine?

Edit: I rarely do this with HN but I'm getting troll vibes from you and so I clicked on your comment history where you lay out your unfortunate financial situation in a comment ("I have 500€ in my bank account, 3k debt and 30 years of work left ahead of me") and it all makes sense that you are just resentful or jealous. My only constructive advise is you should try not to have this attitude on HN, there are plenty of wealthy or good-to-know people here and any chance conversation could turn into something that shifts your life's trajectory. If the breadcrumbs show that you're just a troll you're basically building a wall between you and those people.
by Izkata | 2026-01-05 19:12:00+00:00
> 1. Many early web engines used `display: content-box`. So the padding was actually considered to be outside of the box itself.

IIRC this was actually the spec, and IE decided to ignore it and do something saner, while the box-sizing attribute to pick what you wanted came later. Designing for content-box and IE displaying using border-box (or whatever it did) was one of the reasons it got the nickname "internet exploder" - everything ended up positioned or sized wrong. Until box-sizing came along, it was common to use various hacks / bugs in the browsers' CSS parsers to make certain rules only apply to certain browsers to fix this.
by HanClinto | 2026-01-05 19:12:08+00:00
> I think there will be always people in bad mental state who will unfortunately commit suicide after some interaction

I've been getting strong flashbacks to Patricia Pulling and the anti-Dungeons-and-Dragons panic. [0] Back in the 1980's, Patricia's son Irving committed suicide, and it was associated (at least in her mind) with him picking up Dungeons and Dragons. This led to a number of lawsuits, and organizations and campaigns from people who were concerned about role-playing games causing its players to lose touch with the boundaries between fantasy and reality, and (they claimed) was dangerous and deadly for its players.

LLMs / D&D forms an interesting parallel to me, because -- like chatbots -- an immersive roleplaying experience is largely a reflection of what you (and the other players) put into the game.

Chatbots (and things like LLM-psychosis) are on an entirely different magnitude than RPGs, but I hear a lot of similar phrases regarding "detachment from reality" and "reinforcement of delusions" that I heard back in the 80's around D&D as well.

Is it more "real" this time? I remain skeptical, but I certainly believe that all of the marketing spin to anthropomorphize AI isn't doing it any favors. Demystifying AI will help everyone. This is why I prefer to say I work with "Artificial AI" -- I don't work on the "real stuff". There are no personalities or consciousness here -- it just looks like it.

* [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Pulling
by pornel | 2026-01-05 19:12:13+00:00
The complaints were that the UI was not customisable, with limited functionality, stubbornly did things the Mac way even if that was confusing to Windows users. The implementation was often slow and sometimes buggy.

But it had taste and attention to detail. It followed Apple's own HIG (design guidelines). The UI had some flashy details, but they had a purpose or at least didn't get in the way. I don't feel any of this in the current Apple designs.
by fnordlord | 2026-01-05 19:12:30+00:00
The VSCode Debugger is the only thing that keeps it installed on my work machine.
Lately I've been doing all my editing in Helix and switching over to Xcode for debugging though. It's even more consistent than VSCode, which occasionally leaks memory and blows itself up. I haven't had time to really learn lldb at the command line but it may have to be the next step.
The only other thing I miss is VSCode's Find-All/Replace-All because it maintains the include/exclude paths and Helix doesn't (that I know of)
by bluGill | 2026-01-05 19:13:06+00:00
Whatever - I don't think many rich care about getting away from people in general. Most of them don't really care, and many of them like other people in general.

The point of being rich can be the luxuries you can buy, a point system, buying a better afterlife, or any of hundreds of motivations. I'm sure some care about getting away from other people, but to say that is the point is false.
by vitaelabitur | 2026-01-05 19:13:14+00:00
I went home for holidays last month. One day, my mom had a complaint about her food delivery and raised a ticket in the app. She was assigned "someone" from the support team, and she carefully typed her issue. Then, she got a call from the same "person" asking her to explain her issue in detail. After the call, she came to me confused and frustrated. She said the "person" on the other end was incoherent and vague, kept giving unrelated solutions, and signed off saying they were happy to have resolved her issue.

Reading this, you know the "person" on the other end was an LLM, which I figured once she handed her phone to me. I was livid, and despite having better things to do, wasted the next few hours sending a notice to the app's legal team. Within few hours, they paid a small change to shut down the issue.

Looking back, if the app had at least been explicit in stating she was talking to a machine, and given her an option to escalate to human support, the situation would not have deteriorated.

I feel LLMs can never be used for negative interactions like complaints, or transactional interactions like placing orders. Their scope should be limited to answering generic questions with facts, like "What's my order's ETA?", etc.
by eviks | 2026-01-05 19:13:34+00:00
> I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice illustration:
> Fast forward to 2025

The past wasn't as rosy: while the left column is purposefully confusing (the icons don't match the description), the lack of keyboard shortcuts is just bad design "for the sake of emptiness". It degrades, rather than enhances, the "usability of the interface"

And re. icons: while this is correct

> The main function of an icon is to help you find what you are looking for faster.

The following isn't as straight-forward

> Perhaps counter-intuitively, adding an icon to everything is exactly the wrong thing to do. To stand out, things need to be different. But if everything has an icon, nothing stands out.

Not really, there is plenty of difference - length, the presense of ... ellipsis ..., the presence of a keyboard shortcut, the icon itself. This combo gives visual cues without reading, so improves the ease of finding. Yes, it would be better to have colors here and there, but then you have the following fundamental issue:

> Look how much faster you can find Save or Share in the right variant:

But "Save" is something I do NOT want to find fast, I never use that menu item! So I'd prefer the slighly worse (but not bad) busy version rather than a highlight of useless menu items and no icons for the menus I'd actually use!

Of course, there is an easy way out - user customization to match user needs (maybe you never use shortcuts, fine, remove the "noise" then; maybe you don't care about "Save", fine, remove the icon there), but that was anathema even in 1992.

(but otherwise very good criticism of the basic design fails like tiny size, inconsistency, lack of vertical alignment, bad metaphors, etc.)
by AlexB138 | 2026-01-05 19:13:40+00:00
You're only looking at half of the equation here. Following your logic, if my time is worth $100/hr, I should be willing to pay $99/hr for a haircut. But reality is that a haircut isn't just worth some utility value based on time saved, it's worth the lowest amount where suppliers' willingness to provide it at a given quality and buyers' willingness to pay meet.

So while the $99/hr haircut might technically save me money/time, suppliers of haircuts are generally willing to give the same haircut for $30/hr. If one supplier tried to pin their prices to the growth of their customers' income, they would go out of business. That is because the value of the suppliers time isn't increasing at the same rate.
by krick | 2026-01-05 19:13:45+00:00
In UK there is simply no such status as "non-profit", so technically none of what you listed are "non-profit" organizations. These are unincorporated associations, that, by the way, can be making profit (but that would be on shaky grounds, since common law makes it hard not to fuck up, being as vague as it always is). However, there is a "charity" status in UK, and you'd have be a registered organization to obtain it.

Anyway, "non-profit" is (i.e. "only makes sense defined as...") a legal status, it isn't just a way to say "not making money" (after all, we wouldn't call any failing business a non-profit, right?), so it really doesn't make any sense to ask if an illegal underground gang is "non-profit". GP is correct to point that out.
by edude03 | 2026-01-05 19:13:46+00:00
> There is no economic rule that says that riveting should pay more than taking care of the elderly or food delivery.

There kind of is - it's the same reason B2B SaaS tend to make more money than B2C - it's easy (easier) to sell someone something if they can make money from it.

If I can pay you Y to rivet some sheet metal together and sell the finished product for Y * 10, that's a much better outcome for me (economically) than paying someone to take care of my elderly parents. In fact, maybe I'm not mean, maybe _I_ don't make enough money to afford to pay someone to take care of my elderly parents.
by eseidel | 2026-01-05 19:13:59+00:00
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Flutter/Shorebird founder here. Flutter is used by millions of devs (and nearly ⅓ of free apps submitted to AppStore), but is missing services for businesses. We offer Flutter-related SAAS used by 1000s businesses globally, on track to profitability early 2026.

As part of our over-the-air updates “code push” product, we’ve built a custom compiler and runtime for the Dart language, primarily written by me (founder/CEO). We need a fulltime engineer to take over primary responsibility for all of our C++ code (Dart & Flutter forks, custom runtime, compiler, etc.) and evolve it further than I could alone. You don’t need to be a compiler/runtime expert. You do need to be capable of working on large open source projects, be comfortable with C++, want to work at a startup, work well independently (we’re remote) and want to learn and work on lots of different areas of code. If you’ve contributed at least a little to WebKit, Godot, Firefox, or any other open source project and are at least compiler/runtime curious, you will likely find this role extremely rewarding.

For our second role: we serve 10s of millions of devices daily from our cloud, (2k+ RPS sustained), built mostly in Dart on Google Cloud + CloudFlare. We’re in the process of launching a CI product and have a lot of cloud development work ahead of us. You need some cloud experience, want to work at a startup, and be willing to work in Dart (what our customers use).

We’re a small, senior team, making something people want. Tech: GCP, Cloudflare, React, Dart, C++, Rust. Shorebird operates almost entirely in the public over Discord. https://discord.gg/shorebird

https://shorebird.dev/jobs
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-05 19:14:00+00:00
Is it actually though? It’s cool to criticise Nautilus but, at worst, it’s just equally as bad as Finder. Which shouldn’t be surprising given how much it’s styled to look like Finder.

However in my personal opinion Nautilus’s breadcrumb picker does edge it against Finder.

So I stand by my comment that Finder is the worst.
by gonational | 2026-01-05 19:14:05+00:00
IMHO, the "new generation" of designers is the problem. Same goes for the "new generation" of developers. Want to make a basic HTML page with a contact form? Better get React + 300 dependencies, require the backend to provide a REST endpoint... fast forward six months...

Why has this happened? Everything is too easy. You used to have to have pretty good intelligence to break into UI design and software development. Now, anyone can do it with 30 minutes of "e-learning", and, therefore, the average IQ of a UI designer/or software engineer has decreased, dramatically.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-05 19:14:06+00:00
Your honour, my vertically-mounted machine gun array was not intended to kill bystanders! The chance that a bullet will hit someone's skull is low, and the pitter-patter noise is so very pleasing. All I'm doing is constructing the array and supplying the bullets. I'm even designing guardrails to automatically retarget the ground-fall away from picnics and population centres! I'm being responsible.
by Paracompact | 2026-01-05 19:14:07+00:00
Biggest blockers:

1. Wives aren't a monolith. The prompt is underspecified, or else individual taste and preciousness is dead.

2. No matter how good the tech today is (or isn't) getting, the responses are very low temperature. The reason it takes a human 4 hours to write the poem is because that is time spent exploring profoundly new structures and effects. Compare this to AI which is purpose-built to hone in on local optima of medians and clichés wherever possible.

> I mean, I still came up with the idea and ultimately it's the thought that counts right. What's the limit here?

Sociologically, devoid of AI discussion, I imagine the limit is the extent to which the ideas expressed in the poem aren't outright fabrications (e.g. complimenting their eyes when really you couldn't care less). As well, it does not sit right with humans if you attempt to induce profound feelings in them by your own less-than-profound feelings; it's not "just the thought," it's also the effort that socially signals the profundity of the thought.
by keepamovin | 2026-01-05 19:14:15+00:00
Hey HN, author here.

Funny timing seeing the AWS TUI at #1 today. I’ve actually been working on this for a while and planned to release today regardless.

CloudMasters is designed to be the "One TUI to rule them all" -- but specifically for shopping and renting boxes (VPS, bare metal, etc.).

Why only boxes?

Because abstracting PaaS/managed services across clouds is usually a leaky anti-pattern. But a Linux box is a Linux box. I wanted a way to instantly compare compute prices across AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner, and Vultr without opening 5 browser tabs.

My favorite find so far:

While testing, I learned that you can get a box in Mumbai for 0.1 cent/hour. We use local SQLite to cache offers and fetch fresh pricing in the background. Of course I guess that's a spot price!

How it works:

It’s a TUI wrapper over the standard cloud-provider CLIs. We translate your intents into native CLI commands.

Safety: We keep a daily gzipped activity log of every command issued, so you have a full audit trail.

Status: This is v1~v2. Since pricing APIs vary wildly, some data might be approximate. I wouldn't use this for critical production infra yet, but it's great for dev environments or finding the cheapest GPU -- when we break that info out.

Business Model:

This is a paid product with a free trial. I want to build a sustainable tool where you are the customer, not the product.

Happy to answer questions! Feedback welcome here or at cloudmasters@browserbox.io.

If something is broken for you throw it in a comment and I will take a look over the next few days. Should work on Windows, macOS and Linux.
by zimpenfish | 2026-01-05 19:14:49+00:00
> 99% of all commercial profit of all media is collected within 5 years of publishing.

If that were true of music, companies wouldn't be buying back catalogues for (upwards of) hundreds of millions[0][1].

[0] https://apnews.com/article/music-catalog-sales-pop-rock-kiss...

[1] https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ranked-biggest-music-catal...
by shadowgovt | 2026-01-05 19:15:14+00:00
Counterpoint: airing petty grievances on the Internet has proven, time and again, to be a remarkably effective way of getting the grievance addressed by an otherwise inaccessible third party.

Evidence: just about every post on Hacker News about Google breaking that eventually attracts a personal followup from a Googler who reads HN.

If you're angry about not getting paid and your client has given you control over part of their public-facing persona, I can definitely see using that control to make it known that you are in a state of disunion with them. I can even see it being done with no harm to your reputation because other future potential clients know they will be able to pay you.
by loudmax | 2026-01-05 19:15:16+00:00
For manufacturing in the US to be economically competitive on the global stage (or even on the domestic stage), the actual work will mostly be performed by robots, not by humans. This will bring back profits, but not a lot of jobs.

In the specific case of these chips, the offshoring was to Taiwan, a democracy, and one of our geopolitically closest allies. This business went to TSMC because they did a better job producing these chips than either Intel or AMD (or AMD's successor, Global Foundries). The Twinscan machines that fab the chips are from ASML in the Netherlands, another democracy and geopolitical ally. The parts for those machines come from a truly global supply chain. Modern chip manufacturing is an absolute marvel of global integration.

American consumers and businesses benefited from this arrangement in the form of very competitively priced hardware. Most of the manufacturing was in Asia, but most of the profits were to American companies. This is why America is today the richest country on Earth. It simply would not have happened like it did without free trade.

China's low wages and integrated supply chain can beat American manufacturing. China cannot beat the combined talent of the free world. Along with immigration, from the likes of Taiwanese-American Jensen Huang, free trade and an open economy was what once made America great.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-05 19:15:34+00:00
Won't work. Those drugs blockade this receptor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-HT2A_receptor

and flatline

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

and if you wanted to measure that you would have to stick electrodes deep into your brain, no way are you going to see what is going on there from the surface.

Stuff I was doing last month got me interested in biofeedback again, I have some talent for it, I can make those mood rings change color at will.

Most of the EEG-based biofeedback devices have three electrodes around the temple and cost about $300 and don't really work because those alpha, beta, theta and delta waves all appear in different parts of the brain and can't be read out of the same electrodes. I hear you can do better with five electrodes but the five-electrode headsets I see don't advertise a price.

I wound up getting a Polar H10 heart rate monitor which can be used with HRV software

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

but the "biofeedback" apps I have seen so far seem to be breathing exercises that you could do without any hardware. I have electronics for EMG (muscles) and GSR (skin resistance) to hook up to an Ardunio and will probably try making a setup. I'm still looking for a soup-to-nuts answer for EEG biofeedback.
by maxloh | 2026-01-05 19:15:35+00:00
Edit: never mind, I read it wrong.

---

That is not save at all. You could always hijack builtin functions within untrusted code.

def untrusted_function():
original_map = map

def noisy_map(func, *iterables):
print(f"--- Log: map() called on {func.__name__} ---")
return original_map(func, *iterables)

globals()['map'] = noisy_map
by echelon | 2026-01-05 19:15:59+00:00
Hollywood budgets aren't growing, but they're not shrinking either.

Most recent cost cutting has been Hollywood offshoring IATSE jobs to Europe and Asia. 80% of Atlanta's once burgeoning film production has moved away. We have tremendous, multi-billion dollar studio facilities here too.

I do expect AI to eventually be used for saving on VFX costs, pre-production, and even B roll, but I don't think it'll replace principal photography right away. It might be used in more animation projects.

I don't think those budgets will disappear. Rather, I think they will be spent on other projects to increase the slate of offerings.

Meanwhile, completely orthogonal to all of this, the creator economy has been growing tremendously year over year. We have lots of independent creators that are now household names and brands.

Some indie YouTubers that have grown big include:

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

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

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

All of them were offered network deals.

I suspect we'll see a rise of indie filmmakers and that the field will begin to look more like writing, indie music, or indie games. Anyone can bring their talent and not much capital and make interesting and compelling work.

The problem, as always, will be discovery. A lot of good work will still go unseen. But this is better than the work not being practical or possible.

As long as people capture minds and attention, there will be incredible value in creating and captivating. Artists will get paid. It's just a matter of artists breaking through and finding an audience.
by empath75 | 2026-01-05 19:16:02+00:00
I think long term the primary use case for AI generated video is people creating AI generated video for themselves to watch as consumers, rather than passing off AI generated work as their own.

I would not mind if I could go to ChatGPT and say: "Make me a 15 minute video about the history of gold mining in the Byzantine Empire", and it makes a mediocre soulless video I can half pay attention to while working.

If I see a 15 minute video on youtube about it and I find out after starting to watch it that it was AI generated, it sends me into a blind rage that makes me want to delete the internet, though.

Don't give me AI content unless I explicitly ask for it!
by cthalupa | 2026-01-05 19:16:17+00:00
I find it quite interesting that you categorize non-coders the same as quacks, analphabets, and lies.

I would never consider myself a coder - though I can and have written quite a lot of code over the years - because it has always been a means to the ends for me. I don't particularly enjoy writing code. Programming isn't a passion. I can and have built working programs without a line of copy and pasted code off stack overflow or using an LLM. Because I needed to to solve a problem.

But there are things I would call myself, things I do and enjoy and am good at. But I wouldn't position people who can't do those things as being the same as a quack.

You also claim to not be the one that started the pissing contest, but you called someone who claims to have written plenty of code themselves a coding-illiterate just because now they'd rather use an LLM than do it themselves. I suppose you could claim they are lying about it, or some no true scottsman type argument, but that seems silly.

You basically took some people talking about their own opinions on what they find enjoyable, and saying that AI-driven coding scratches that itch for them even more than writing code itself does, and then began to be quite hostile towards them with boatloads of denigrating language and derision.