MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codingdave | 2026-01-18 18:21:50+00:00
Yeah... stop. Just stop. Check the guidelines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Specifically, self-promotion is not the reason to be on HN, though it is allowed in small doses. Pimping your product on most every comment is not the way. Likewise, most of your comments read as straight copy/paste from ChatGPT, which is also frowned upon/banned.

You'll find that HN is welcoming of people and their ideas and products, so long as you engage as a community member instead of treating us like a marketing channel.
by cornell-grad | 2026-01-18 18:21:56+00:00
Cornell grad here, comp-sci department. The big problem with foreign grad students who cannot speak english is they then have a tendency to jump into their native language during office hours.

At Cornell, we'd have office hours discussions evolve partially or wholly into chinese or russian -- and all the english students were scratching their heads. This should never happen.

office hours are not a private discussion -- they are group discussions with 1 TA and 5-6 students all trying to use a very precious timeslot to figure something out. All convos should be in English.
by LTL_FTC | 2026-01-18 18:22:00+00:00
Just yesterday I was reading through this five year old post on triton by its creator. Triton was their PHD thesis and they coined the name before the inference server was renamed to it… if this is what you are referring to?

Here is the Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_i...
by shevy-java | 2026-01-18 18:22:06+00:00
The whole Nobel Peace Prize has already been sabotaged by the committee in the past - I don't disagree with their current opinion, but quite frankly, they invalidated the peace prize idea numerous times before. You can look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Peac... - ignore the ones in the decades ago, but have a look in the last 30 years or so. Many people simply should not have gotten that price, including Obama; and neither Trump. And that's just a factual observation really - the committee politicized the price.
by jeffbee | 2026-01-18 18:22:17+00:00
That only works if you take it at face value that buying either of them is a rational transportation choice, which I reject. Even if I accept the people need a weird truck-shaped thing with a useless 4.5-foot bed, a far better choice on emissions grounds would be the Ford Maverick XL, which has a battery 1% as massive as the R1T's battery, yet this tiny battery cuts the per-mile GHG emissions in half. The embodied carbon payback distance of an R1T versus a Maverick XL is over 100,000 miles.

My kid races mountain bikes so I have become extremely familiar with Rivian (and Cybertruck) MTB Dad, and I think they are a joke. With only a little planning I can get three bikes and three riders in a Honda Insight, while R1T Dad needs an optional accessory to get even one bike in the bed. People choosing these things are, 99% of the time, not behaving rationally. They are buying luxury goods that they believe signal their environmental credentials.
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-18 18:22:33+00:00
Because it means that you don't get areas of extremes. (well not as much.)

It also means that local services can't be compartmentalised so that only rich people get decent services.

For example, southwark uses the same police force to cover the southbank (cultural centre) the £5m apartment blocks, as well as the shithole council estates (well they aren't shitholes anymore.)

TLDR: you don't get no-go areas.
by diffs | 2026-01-18 18:23:18+00:00
I feel strongly about this issue. I don't feel it's divisive, it might be dismissive but my point in the comment is factual.

Edit: Take a look at The Intercept as an example. Protests began three weeks ago. The only posts TI has on Iran basically amount to "Israel bad" and "Son of Shah likes Israel and Israel is bad, therefore son of Shah is bad". That's it. This is a moral failure of the highest order and it underscores, for me at least, that most of these faux-progressives' activism is purely performative.
by k1m | 2026-01-18 18:23:36+00:00
I think the criminal complaint in Sweden route is the only path that has had some success in the past in trying to make these organisations accountable for the peace prize. Swedes like to wash their hands of Nobel Peace Prize responsibility, pointing to Norway instead (it's the only prize where the comittee deciding is in Norway and not Sweden). But the foundation that pays all the winners, including the peace prize winner is in Sweden. And in 2012 the Stockholm County Administrative Board ruled that the Swedish Nobel Foundation is legally responsible for ensuring the Norwegian committee follows Alfred Nobel's will.

Of course the Nobel groups were not happy about that decision so it's rarely talked about. But it's probably a reason Assange went the route he went with the criminal complaint.
by atmosx | 2026-01-18 18:23:44+00:00
> I think people tend to forget how shit things were even 30 years ago.

About thirty years ago a European family could survive on a single salary and get by decently. Now they can't. So, I'm not sure what are you talking about.

> It is crippled because nation states want to retain control, it is one of the main reasons.

IMO it's crippled by the amount of poor decisions making and complete inability to handle even small-scale crisis somewhat successfully.

> Only federalization would resolve this issue.

On this, I agree. But given the decision making the last 15-20 years, that option is dead on arrival.
by faxmeyourcode | 2026-01-18 18:23:47+00:00
I ran a T450s all through college. My late grandmother gifted me the money after high school graduation to buy my first laptop. I'd learned to code on the old gateway pentium 4 (Windows XP) machine with 512 MB of RAM from the factory. I'd resurrected it as a teenager and completely gutted it. I scoured the web endlessly looking for something that was _not_ touchscreen (hard to find at the time), linux-compatible, and rugged enough for the neglect of a college student's backpack.

It was a linux user's dream. I swapped out the spinny HDD with an SSD. It had hotswappable batteries, a spill resistant keyboard with a drain system, and I ran every linux distribution I could get my hands on, eventually settling on the xfce flavor of Ubuntu.

I still have that machine, and will keep it for my son when he's older. I plan to replace the battery and SSD with something more reliable. These days I use an m2 macbook air for portability... but that thinkpad is still something I will treasure for years.
by d--b | 2026-01-18 18:23:52+00:00
These prizes were such a bad ideas to start with. Most recipients either think it’s stupid that they got it and not their peers, or they develop Nobel Prize syndrome. Many non recipients become sour for not getting them.

Plus the selection process is actually pretty random at best and biased at worse. I mean how do you select one person every year, without some completely arbitrary factor?
by WaxProlix | 2026-01-18 18:24:15+00:00
He was asking you to try to 'steelman', or take seriously the strongest version of, the arguments of your counterparts, rather than being dismissive.

"Plants like CO2" is not a counterargument to "Increased atmoospheric CO2 will have a number of outcomes that are net negative for humanity", so I presume they're asking you to actually think about the argument being made and respond to it, not some other, made up one.
by keernan | 2026-01-18 18:25:21+00:00
We have recently witnessed the invasion and capture of the President of Venezuela; the over threats to attack Greenland; invade Mexico; threats to Cuba and Columbia; the DOJ/FBI opening investigations of the Mayor of Minneapolis and Governor of MN; escalating illegal violence by ICE against protestors; threats to invoke the Insurrection Act to silence those same protests.

Meanwhile yesterday Trump filed a motion in Federal Court objecting to efforts by Congress to force the release of more than 2 million Epstein records still not produced.
by neogeno | 2026-01-18 18:25:32+00:00
I built this while working as an AWS Solutions Architect. I kept seeing the same problem - DevOps teams would hand over architecture diagrams that were months out of date, or worse, just wrong compared to what was actually deployed.

They were maintaining diagrams manually in draw.io, updating them whenever infrastructure changed. Which meant they were perpetually out of date. That's not a good use of anyone's time.

When I explored what auto diagramming tools were out there, they either needed access to state files or cloud accounts (not always possible in security-conscious environments), or produced basic dependency graphs rather than proper diagrams with VPC and subnet groupings.

Terravision reads your Terraform HCL directly, runs entirely client-side with no credentials required, and can slot into a CI/CD pipeline so your docs update themselves after every deployment.

Feedback welcome - what would make this more useful?
by samiv | 2026-01-18 18:25:36+00:00
The "or else" is actually on rather shaky grounds considering the national debt. For the sake of argument if certain countries decided to stop buying US treasury bonds the federal state would be insolvent about 5s later. Certainly a default of that size would destroy the economy in every single country pretty much except maybe Cuba and North Korea.

The EU (and Europe) will have to lean East until Germany remilitarizes. US will find itself alone with enemies on all sides.
by antonvs | 2026-01-18 18:25:50+00:00
> saves them 5k+ a week over all their compute

If you're willing and able to promote yourself internally, you can make people give a shit, or at least publicly claim they do. That's 260k+ per year, and even big businesses are going to care about that at some level, especially if it's something that can be replicated. Find 10 systems you can do that with, and it's 2.6m+ per year.

But, if you don't want to play the self-promotion game, yeah someone else is going to benefit from your work.
by acdha | 2026-01-18 18:26:05+00:00
I think you’d have a more fruitful discussion if you stopped trying to call people noobs when they don’t agree with you.

For example, I’ve been dealing with SysV since the early 90s and while it’s gotten better since we no longer have to support the really bizarre Unix variants, my problem with init scripts wasn’t “indignity” but the lack of consistency across distributions and versions, which affects anyone shipping software professionally (“can’t do this easily until $distro upgrades coreutils”), and from an operator’s perspective using Python doesn’t make that better because instead of supporting one consistent thing you’d end up with the subset of features each application team felt like implementing, consistent only to the extent that they care to follow other projects. One virtue of systemd is that having a single common way to specify dependencies, restarts, customization, etc. avoids the ops people having to learn dozens of different variations of the same ideas and especially how to deal with their gaps. A few years back, a data center power outage at one place I worked really highlighted that: the systemd-based servers recovered quickly because they actually had working retries; all of the older stuff using SysV had to be manually reviewed because there were all kinds of problems like races on dependencies like DNS or NFS, retry logic which failed hard after a short period of time, failures because a stale PID file wasn’t removed, or cases where a vendor had simply never implemented retries in their init scripts. While in theory you can handle all of those in SysV most people never did.

After a couple decades of that, a lot of us don’t want to spend time on problems Microsoft solved in Bill Clinton’s first term.
by ripe | 2026-01-18 18:26:08+00:00
Sure, and no one was more surprised than Obama, but he was self-aware in his graceful acceptance. You should read his speech [1]

In the context of Nobel's history of controversial awards, your complaint sounds like a petty grudge against Obama.

[1] https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remark...
by tombert | 2026-01-18 18:27:05+00:00
I’ve been on/off playing with 9front on an old laptop. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it, it’s fun to write code for, but i have had a hard time using it as anything but a toy.

I would love to use it as my main desktop, but ultimately (and kind of unsurprisingly), the blocker is the lack of a modern browser and a lack of video acceleration.

I’m sure I could hobble something together with virtualization for the former but I don’t see a fix for video acceleration coming.

Maybe I could install it on a server or something.
by bambax | 2026-01-18 18:27:06+00:00
Kissinger, one of the worst war criminals in history, got a Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 (and didn't steal it from someone else). Those prizes don't mean much. Time spent by Trump toying with medals is time not spent doing harm.

We should award him a medal every minute -- and, at the same time, stand firm against his aggressive stances. An eye for an eye, but a medal for everything else.
by gruez | 2026-01-18 18:27:07+00:00
>This is good policy. Chinese students in particular seem to have terrible english language skills. An American with the same communication skills would never be admitted to a flagship university for undergrad, let alone grad school.

Surely there are better ways of dealing with this than banning an entire country? A standardized English test doesn't seem too hard to administer, for instance, and would have the benefit of being applicable to other countries.

>I'm not sure how these Chinese students are gaming the system to get admitted, but I'm glad someone is finally doing something about it.

So you're not even sure what the problem is, but you're okay with banning it? That dumber than banning them because they might be CCP spies or whatever. At least that vaguely makes sense and there are isn't really a mitigation (there's no standardized tests for non-CCP spies, for instance).
by promiseofbeans | 2026-01-18 18:27:23+00:00
The vast majority of website-gate captchas are served by cloudflare these days. You can use the privacy pass [0] browser extension to skip them. Privacy passes are an open standard [1], so you can re-implement it yourself if you don’t trust that extension.

[0]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/privacy-pass/
[1]: RFC 9576 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9576.html, RFC 9577 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9577.html, RFC 9578 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9578.html
by davekiss | 2026-01-18 18:28:30+00:00
hi! Dave here (a human, like you) — sometimes it's easy to forget there's a human on the other side, so I won't hold your thrashing too close.

1.) I've been writing both code and blogs for a long time. The feeling of having a skillset cultivated over a decade plus suddenly feel irrelevant is very real. Nothing about this post is unrepresentative of my perspective on what we're all going through. I don't think it's trash, but everyone is entitled to how they feel.

2.) I am shipping more code and words in the past month than I have in a long time, and yes, the process been AI-assisted — but _not_ AI derived. Anyone who has a personal blog can tell you first hand how it's the easiest channel to let slide, but I am of the camp that I'd rather have my thoughts exist in some form then die in the cavities of my head. This is true for both exploratory product ideas and recent personal writing.

3.) I'm no stranger to long-form articles. I can do it alone. Does that mean I should? I find it super interesting how those in tech are a-ok with AI-assisted programming, but other mediums are shunned. I'm a musician and write my music the old-fashioned way because I personally consider it my art. I probably wouldn't love listening to generative music. Some blogs I'd probably consider my art too. Others? I care more that the idea is represented in public than I do about the way it got there. My process has been dictate the idea -> work with Claude Opus 4.5 to structure it -> revise where the LLM misses the mark -> publish. It's been a force multiplier and I've had more traffic to my website in the past week than I had looking back at least 6 months. Clearly, the ideas resonate with others.

Does that mean I should stop? Is it more prudent that the idea dies due to its inability to climb the priority list? The whole point of these things are to use them as a tool. I'm not even defending this process, but I _am_ exploring what it means to use them effectively.

Good news; more on this will be posted soon, should you opt in(!) to read any further.
by roughly | 2026-01-18 18:29:04+00:00
Do you have an Indow? I’ve been eyeballing them for a while, but they’re pricy enough I haven’t been willing to call the shot yet.

I do have a pretty big bluetti and a couple panels for it - I also grabbed an RV fridge for storing food. Naturally, the capitalist gods smiled upon my financial offering and have blessed me with steady power since then.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-18 18:29:09+00:00
LLM's are not archives of information.

People seem to have this belief, or perhaps just general intuition, that LLMs are a google search on a training set with a fancy language engine on the front end. That's not what they are. The models (almost) self avoid copyright, because they never copy anything in the first place, hence why the model is a dense web of weight connections rather than an orderly bookshelf of copied training data.

Picture yourself contorting your hands under a spotlight to generate a shadow in the shape of a bird. The bird is not in your fingers, despite the shadow of the bird, and the shadow of your hand, looking very similar. Furthermore, your hand-shadow has no idea what a bird is.
by signatoremo | 2026-01-18 18:29:16+00:00
> Call me when a disinterested third-party says Call me when a disinterested third-party says so

Saying what? This describes three projects that use an Anthropic’s product. Do you need a third party to confirm that? Or do you need someone to tell you if they are legit?

There are hundreds of announcements by vendors ơn HN. Did you object to them all or only when your own belief is against them?
by lokar | 2026-01-18 18:29:44+00:00
For many Americans (on both sides) politics is not about policy.

It's about tribalism and nihilism. Decades of political disfunction (defined by the failure of elected leaders to enact policy broadly supported by voters) has lead to a loss of faith in the ability of government (as currently structured) to deliver anything. If government (and other institutions) have failed to deliver anything to someone, it's understand why they may not care about its destruction.
by vzaliva | 2026-01-18 18:30:10+00:00
Quote: "Knut Hamsun (Literature Prize 1920): In 1943, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun travelled to Germany and met with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After returning to Norway, he sent his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a gesture of thanks for the meeting. Goebbels was honoured by the gift. The present whereabouts of the medal are unknown."
by tombert | 2026-01-18 18:30:14+00:00
I didn’t really see the appeal until I learned how to use FUSE.

There’s something elegant about filesystems. Even more than pipes, filesystems can be used to glue programs together. Want to control your webcam with Vim? Expose a writable file. Want to share a device across the network? Expose it as a file system, mount that filesystem on your computer.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-18 18:31:24+00:00
As a reminder, Machado:

1. promised to privatize various companies, particularly in the oil extraction business to the benefit of, primarily, American oil companies [1]; and

2. is very pro-israel and thinks it's important that Venezuela moves their embassy to Jerusalem [2].

Either Machado is a CIA-backed puppet or wants to be. Trump has now joined a club with Joesph Goebbels of being gifted a Nobel prize [3] (also in article).

It makes a complete mockery of the Peace prize to hand it someone who is either an American puppet or a grifter and the Nobel committe should rightly be lambasted for this.

[1]: https://fortune.com/2026/01/03/maria-corina-machado-nobel-pr...

[2]: https://en.royanews.tv/news/66321

[3]: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/from-giving-it-to-nazis-to-s...
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-18 18:31:40+00:00
> it's ridiculous framing to call this Europe escalating

Shredding a trade agreement outright is absolutely an escalation relative to tariffs. It’s both more comprehensive and includes raising tariffs.

> The US has been escalating non-stop for a year. This would be Europe responding for once

Sure. By escalating.

> Constraining Washington is in their interest

Agree. But there are smart and stupid ways to do it. It’s in America’s interest to constrain China. Nuking its own oil production to raise oil prices, as an extreme example, would be a stupid way to do it. Ends not justifying the means is more than just a moral argument.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-18 18:31:48+00:00
This is a good exploration of the algorithm. In my experience, Lobsters has much more active moderator involvement in a more opinionated way than HN. Much of what’s referred to as moderation here is user-driven via flagging and votes, whereas on Lobsters the moderators are injecting more of an opinionated style into the site. For example, requiring the “vibecoding” tag on all stories about AI even though very few of them are about vibecoding.

In theory the Lobsters moderation log is also public, but in practice when someone gets banned if you try to find the post that triggered the banned it will have been edited away by the mods and replaced with their opinion of what was said in a follow up comment. I stopped visiting as much after watching someone get banned for a rather benign comment which the mods edited away and then claimed it said something egregious about a culture war topic, which it did not.

The site also puts up a banner at the top of your page if you receive enough negative votes. The banner invites you to delete your account as the last sentence (or it did in the past). In practice, if you comment something that isn’t the popular and accepted opinion on the site, no matter how diplomatically, you could end up with the banner stuck on your page views for a while. There have been some high profile and valuable contributors to the site who abandoned it after getting stuck with this banner for posting informative content that nevertheless triggered some downvotes.

It’s an interesting site, but in my experience the algorithms are only a small part of it. The experience there is more heavily aligned toward groupthink and the “right” opinions than even HN and differing opinions are much less welcomed.
by noman-land | 2026-01-18 18:32:05+00:00
Really amazing video. Unfortunately this article is like 60% over my head. Regardless, I actually love reading jargon-filled statements like this that are totally normal to the initiated but are completely inscrutable to outsiders.

"That data was then brought into Houdini, where the post production team used CG Nomads GSOPs for manipulation and sequencing, and OTOY’s OctaneRender for final rendering. Thanks to this combination, the production team was also able to relight the splats."
by gerikson | 2026-01-18 18:32:07+00:00
Disregard sibling comment

From the about page

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Chat: https://lobste.rs/chat

I used to be active in chat and invited many users but I'm not that active now.