MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by egorfine | 2026-01-15 11:38:58+00:00
I can see two problems with this.

1) It's hard to imagine AWS "EU" not complying with requests from the US administration. Even if we exclude clandestine requests based on the fact that the US doesn't respect sovereignty, imagine they ban, say, the export of cloud orchestration technologies just like they restricted GPU exports, including to the EU.

2) It's easy to imagine AWS "EU" trying to comply with all local EU laws and regulations which either brings the cloud to a halt or makes the usage of it impractical. Say, no AI models deployed until seven-years mandatory Environmental Impact Study has been performed. Or something along these lines.
by lapcat | 2026-01-15 11:39:00+00:00
Yes, but your initial comment was kind of a strange way to phrase a cost complaint. After all, Google insists that extensions be published in the Chrome Web Store, and that requires Google's approval, a process that can often take much longer than App Store approval.

I suspect that the difference in extension availability is mostly due to desktop market share, since Safari is nonexistent on Windows and Linux.
by raducu | 2026-01-15 11:39:32+00:00
> Unfortunately this does not stop many from exaggerating claims in order to (maybe become) be internet famous

I've been thinking about this a lot lately in another context -- vira priests being anti-vax and realized it's the other way around: their motivation doesn't matter, but the viewers don't want to see moderate content, they want to see highly polarized and controversial topics.

The same with the claims about AI. Nobody wants to hear AI boosts productivity in nuanced way, people either want to hear about 10X or -10X so the market dictates the content/meme.
by latexr | 2026-01-15 11:39:58+00:00
I also use Safari as my main browser, but do have some gripes.

The one that bites me every day is how I cannot pick an arbitrary search engine. The ones they have are very few and awful.

One that bites me on occasion is the inability to selectively disable JavaScript per website.

Another is the atrocious permissions management for extensions. On iOS you can’t even deny access to a specific website until you allow it once first.

One that bites me rarely is AppleScript support being slightly worse than in Chromium, specifically there being no way (other than GUI automation) to make a new Private Window.

One that hasn’t bitten me yet is the ugly pill-shaped tabs in Tahoe, together with the removal of the unified tab layout.

The most frustrating part is these are very easy to fix. Note also that this isn’t an endorsement of Chromium, there’s a reason those browsers aren’t my main. Right now there isn’t a single web browser I like and that does everything I want acceptably. But Safari is the least bad.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-15 11:40:30+00:00
I live in a condo complex in Florida where the onsite staff at the front desk know me well and they are mostly bilingual and know I’m learning Spanish.

I went up to ask then something and jokingly said “no hablo inglés, ¿Hablas español?” and I was able to carry on a more or less complete conversation with them in Spanish and ask for what I needed without pre rehearsing lines for the first time.

So I found out within the past 24 hours that I can carry on a simple conversation in “survival Spanish”
by mlrtime | 2026-01-15 11:40:40+00:00
>Brother, people are scraping by right now

Yes some are, but not everyone with a big truck. I'm in truck country and most people can afford their big trucks no problem at all. It's not virtue signaling, they are do-everything cars. Nothing else beats them.

You can go to a off-road work site during the day, and take it downtown for dinner after. Lots of people are making good money and can easily afford them.
by tanepiper | 2026-01-15 11:41:21+00:00
In 1999/2000 I worked on my own Thief levels using the dromed editor - it was both really fun to work with, and utterly frustrating - in a time before open source engines - there were so many small annoying bugs in the editor that would cause it to crash, so you SAVED often and even learned to version files as it was easy to screw up.

But the geometry that could be created was stunning - from courtyards to cathedrals, levels allowed clever use of light and shadow.
by systemtest | 2026-01-15 11:42:29+00:00
In The Netherlands the first generation RPi was only sold to users with a Chambers of Commerce registration, I figured this was always the typical end user for it. Like schools, universities, prototyping for companies. Was the RPi in the rest of the world targeted towards home users?

* https://tweakers.net/nieuws/80350/verkoop-goedkoop-arm-syste...
by abc123abc123 | 2026-01-15 11:44:05+00:00
Every son of a farmer I ever met, _never_ want to go back to that crappy life of sleepless nights and hard toil.

Every Web 3.0, leftist, tech bro I ever met, idolize the farmin lifestyle and see before them a hippy commune where free love is practiced.

I never ever seen that, or heard about the leftist tech bro who actually did it.
by Lio | 2026-01-15 11:44:30+00:00
I've seen the AI-8850 LLM Acceleration M.2 Module advertised as an alternative RPi accellorator (you need an M.2 hat for it).

That's also limited to 8Gb RAM so again you might be better off with a larger 16Gb Pi and using the CPU but at least the space is heating up.

With a lot of this stuff it seems to come down to how good the software support is. Raspberry Pis generally beat everything else for that.
by matja | 2026-01-15 11:44:30+00:00
It's more about demonstrating what's possible on a Pi than expecting GPT-4 level performance. It's designed for LLMs that specialize in tiny, incredibly specific tasks. Like, "What's the weather in my ant farm?" ;)

The vision processing boost is notable, but not enough to justify the price over existing HATs. The lack of reliable mixed-mode functionality and sparse software support are significant red flags.

(This reply generated by an LLM smaller than 8GB, for ants, using the article and comment as context).
by alexfoo | 2026-01-15 11:44:35+00:00
Hadn't noticed that before.

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

SW2 to SW9 are in alphabetical order: Brixton, Chelsea, Clapham, Earls Court, Fulham, South Ken, South Lambeth, Stockwell.

But then it starts again and you have to squint a bit for SW10-SW20: Brompton, Battersea, Balham, Barnes, Mortlake, Putney, Streatham, Tooting, Wandsworth, Wimbledon, West Wimbledon.

Looking at a few others (SE, etc) I see that the first chunk of them are in alphabetical order, but then they've added some extra ones later that break the ordering (e.g. SE19 onwards) but they have tried to add the extra ones in mostly alphabetical order too.
by oliveiracwb | 2026-01-15 11:45:16+00:00
We handle ~300k customer interactions per day, so latency and precision really matter. We built an internal RAG-based portal on top of our knowledge base (basically a much better FAQ).

On the retrieval side, I built a custom search/indexing layer (Node) specifically for service traceability and discovery. It uses a hybrid approach — embeddings + full-text search + IVF-HNSW — to index and cross-reference our APIs, services, proxies and orchestration repos. The RAG pipelines sit on top of this layer, which gives us reasonable recall and predictable latency.

Compliance and observability are still a problem. Every year new vendors show up promising audits, data lineage and observability, but none of them really handle the informational sprawl of ~600 distributed systems. The entropy keeps increasing.

Lately I’ve been experimenting with a more semantic/logical KAG approach on top of knowledge graphs to map business rules scattered across those systems. The goal is to answer higher-level questions about how things actually work — Palantir-like outcomes, but with explicit logic instead of magic.

Curious if others are moving beyond “pure RAG” toward graph-based or hybrid reasoning setups.
by 05 | 2026-01-15 11:45:43+00:00
You can run Klipper on any Linux SBC with a USB port, RPi works but so does an old router that supports OpenWRT, a cheap Android TV box that could be flashed to run Linux, or any of the OrangePi/Banana Pi/Alliwinner H3 boards. You don't really need hardware UART because most of the printer boards you'd be using have either native USB or USB to UART converters. For that pedal, would an old Android tablet that supports USB OTG work? Because that's got to be much cheaper, and with much better SDK.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-15 11:45:56+00:00
> Weight is a lot harder to use than volume. If I'm measuring a cup of flour (for example), I dip my measuring cup in, level it off, and I'm done.

You can have huge variance variance with flour or sugar depending on how hard it is packed and even humidity:

> I weighed each cup on its own, tared the scale, then scooped it into a bucket of granular sugar and bulldozed the top with the flat side of a butter knife (I figured that there's less divergence in sugar-measurement technique, and it's composed of fine granules that settle fairly evenly).

> The results ranged from 6.81 ounces (193 grams) to 8.08 ounces (230 grams).

* https://food52.com/story/16497-the-truth-about-your-measurin...

And you have to trust your measuring cups (>5% off) and spoons (>20% off):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Q21DWg0Fk&t=54s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEXLt4gz7lY&t=59s

* https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2014/11/03/your-measur...

Have you ever verified that your cups/spoons are actually accurate?

> Takes a few seconds. If I use a scale, I have to watch the scale carefully until I'm getting close, then slow down my rate of pouring into the bowl greatly so that I don't go over.

Yes, that's the point, especially in baking: to get an accurate quantity. (Though in cooking it's less important, relatively speaking.)
by clarionbell | 2026-01-15 11:46:18+00:00
China is has most of its population further south than either USA or Europe. Solar makes much more sense there than in those locations.

Furthermore, by stimulating production of solar and wind related products with domestic consumption, the Chinese state has effectively captured absolute majority share of production across the entire supply chain. This is incredibly useful, when developed countries roll out subsidies for clean power.

Since there are no manufacturers that can match those in China in both price and volume. The bulk of subsidies is used to buy Chinese produced equipment.

At the same time, China is also investing in nuclear technology, and deploying far faster than anywhere in the world.
by raincole | 2026-01-15 11:46:24+00:00
In 2025, > 90% of new energy capacity built in the US is from renewable [0]. So the US isn't building that much solar not because they're not building solar, but that the US has been generating and consuming so much energy per capita that there isn't that much incentive to increase energy capacity dramatically.

[0]: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/us-new-win...
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-15 11:46:46+00:00
> I think the best outcome would really be the US' current allies are just waiting until trump goes and he doesn't break too much and the new person goes back to a more stable posture.

This seems to be what most of the EU leaders think. However, it's not plausible that Trump is an aberration, given that he's been elected twice. Europe/EU/the West need to understand that the US populace doesn't seem to care about their alliances any more.

And this is fine, that's their total democratic right, but there's going to be really large downstream consequences over time.
by compressedgas | 2026-01-15 11:46:51+00:00
As a post script, I should add that I had a thought that the RS(1,3) was less redundant than copies=4 as I think that RS(1,3) requires more than 1 of its four symbols to be present.

Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor... which gives (n=1 - k=3)/2 is 1 as the answer to the question of the number of missing symbols that RS(1,3) can recover which means that RS(1,3) is not a worse way of storing four copies but a worse way of storing 2 copies. It takes the space of four copies to store what only has the redundancy of two copies.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-15 11:46:54+00:00
Also from last night, a father who had nothing to do with the protests leaving the area to get to somewhere safer. He had six kids in his car and they threw a flashbang at him, and now all six of his kids are in the hospital [1]. Incredibly barbaric shit.

I think they're getting real close to triggering armed riots in Minneapolis.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR9PetzoL2I&t=6s
by nicbou | 2026-01-15 11:47:27+00:00
You are right. We are seeing a transition from the user as a customer to the user as a resource. It's almost like a cartel of shitty treatment.

I don't work for the public transit company; I introduce immigrants to Berlin's public transit. To answer to the broader question, good documentation is one of the many little things that affect how you feel about a company. The BVG clearly cares about that, because their marketing department is famously competent. Good documentation also means that fewer people will queue at their service centre and waste an employee's time. Documentation is the cheaper form of customer service.

Besides, how people feels about the public transit company does matter, because their funding is partly a political question. No one will come to defend a much-hated, customer-hostile service.
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-15 11:47:40+00:00
For document processing in a side project, I've been using a local all-MiniLM model with FAISS. Works well enough for semantic matching against ~50k transaction descriptions.

The real challenge wasn't model quality - it was the chunking strategy. Financial data is weirdly structured and breaking it into sensible chunks that preserve context took more iteration than expected. Eventually settled on treating each complete record as a chunk rather than doing sliding windows over raw text. The "obvious" approaches from tutorials didn't work well at all for structured tabular-ish data.
by wooger | 2026-01-15 11:48:16+00:00
Do you not have services in the US to do this for you?
The problem: I have a pile of construction waste, household junk, garden waste etc. is solved by many businesses who'll come pick it up for a small fee.

If your local government doesn't offer this, there are many commercial operators that do this in the UK. Seems bizarre to buy a whole giant, inefficient, vehicle just for 'hauling' occasionally.
by ben_w | 2026-01-15 11:48:17+00:00
Last time I noted the four boxes, it was to point out the first three are all being simultaneously threatened by Trump, in a way that I (albeit as an outsider to US politics!) consider "credible".

Like pjc50, I'm British by birth, though I no longer live there. Like most Brits, the USA's 2nd Amendment isn't something we look up to, it's something we consider deeply weird. Even UK police are not routinely armed, and I've seen polls saying they don't want that to change.

And also like several commenters here, I don't think it's going to make much of a difference. Trump was actually fired at, albeit by an idiot, he still supports the 2nd Amendment. Either the armed forces step in on the side of the constitution, or they step in on the side of the administration, but either way the 2nd Amendment isn't going to make a difference: the guerrilla teams use AR-15s, the military can afford to respond with drone strikes.
by noodletheworld | 2026-01-15 11:48:35+00:00
> Can I run a local LLM that allows me to control Home Assistant with natural language? Some basic stuff like timers, to do/shopping lists etc would be nice etc.

No. Get the larger PI recommended by the article.

Quote from the article:

> So power holds it back, but the 8 gigs of RAM holds back the LLM use case (vs just running on the Pi's CPU) the most. The Pi 5 can be bought in up to a 16 GB configuration. That's as much as you get in decent consumer graphics cards1.

> Because of that, many quantized medium-size models target 10-12 GB of RAM usage (leaving space for context, which eats up another 2+ GB of RAM).

…

> 8 GB of RAM is useful, but it's not quite enough to give this HAT an advantage over just paying for the bigger 16GB Pi with more RAM, which will be more flexible and run models faster.

The model specs shown for this device in the article are small, and not fit for purpose even for the relatively trivial use case you mentioned.

I mean, look, lots of people have lots of opinions about this (many of them wrong); it’s cheap, you can buy one and try… but, look. The OP really gave it a shot, and results were kind of shit. The article is pretty clear.

Don’t bother.

You want a device with more memory to mess around with for what you want to do.
by ramon156 | 2026-01-15 11:49:12+00:00
> A long-running agent made video rendering 25x faster with an efficient Rust version.

Which is not an optimization. This is coming from a Rust dev; Rewriting it in Rust is not the optimization.

Also, I do not believe they actually reviewed the SolidJS->React PR. This PR is incredibly unrealistic and should've been done with either stacker PRs or incremental non-breaking changes.

None of this feels organic, can we stop pretending it is?

To continue the pessimistic tone, none of the writing went in-depth. I did not gain any knowledge, just a marketing post.
by d4rkp4ttern | 2026-01-15 11:49:15+00:00
I’ve tried several, including this one, and I’ve settled on VoiceInk (local, one-time payment), and with Parakeet V3 it’s stunningly fast (near-instant) and accurate enough to talk to LLMs/code-agents, in the sense that the slight drop in accuracy relative to Whisper Turbo3 is immaterial since they can “read between the lines” anyway.

My regular cycle is to talk informally to the CLI agent and ask it to “say back to me what you understood”, and it almost always produces a nice clean and clear version. This simultaneously works as confirmation of its understanding and also as a sort of spec which likely helps keep the agent on track.
Show HN: Leaftide – Garden planner with climate-aware scheduling (Django/Htmx)
by JoaoW | 2026-01-15 11:50:01+00:00
I'm a hobby gardener in the UK, and I got tired of garden planners telling me to plant tomatoes in March (when it's still freezing). Every app I found used generic USDA zones or assumed you lived in California.

So I built Leaftide - a garden planner that actually knows your local climate.

*What makes it different:*

- *Real frost dates* - Uses NOAA climate data for your exact location, not coarse hardiness zones
- *Growing Degree Days* - Calculates when plants will actually mature based on accumulated heat
- *Permanent plant tracking* - Track fruit trees, berry bushes, perennials across multiple years (this is what converts users to paid)
- *Visual plot designer* - SVG-based drag-and-drop for planning beds and spacing

*Tech stack:* Django + HTMX + vanilla JavaScript (for the plot designer) + PostgreSQL

Launched in October 2024. Currently 6 paid users (all from Reddit, not Product Hunt). £5/month or £45/year.

The surprising lesson: I thought climate-aware scheduling would be the killer feature, but permanent plant tracking is what people actually pay for. Turns out people want ongoing tracking tools, not one-time lookups.

*Try it:* https://leaftide.com

Happy to answer questions about the climate calculations, the HTMX/JS hybrid approach, or the journey from side project to (tiny) business.
by graemep | 2026-01-15 11:50:02+00:00
Thanks, that is really interesting. I know Sri Lanka well but the people I know/have known over the years in other Asian countries are not a good sample. For one thing they are mostly people I met in the UK (mostly in London at that).

I have seen people not fully understanding the differences in quality of British universities and the less good universities do make use of it. Its not entirely successful - Oxford is able to charge £60k a year in tuition fees for computer science, whereas Oxford Brookes charges £17k and I think that reflects people knowing its not worth paying the former for the latter.

The UK can also be quite an expensive place to live so the total cost can be quite a bit more. Some subjects can be a lot more expensive, especially at the better universities.

I do not think the immigration backlash in the UK has much to do with students as its almost entirely focused on illegal immigrants and very little is coming from students who tend to be liberal on immigration.

> The same thing happened in China a decade ago as well.

A lot of Chinese students still coming here. That may just reflect the huge numbers studying abroad.

I also think many people study abroad and miss the opportunity to get to know another culture - a lot stick to mostly socialising with people from their home country.

> Absolutely! Though comfort would be rated much higher than safety.

Yes, I can see that would be true! Safety can also be an excuse for buying a more expensive car without admitting your motive is prestige!
by whamsy | 2026-01-15 11:50:12+00:00
This is a great read, and, no offense to others, not one I expected to find here.

I think that this path is best; one where you recognize the problem and solve it. He knew he was lost in an occupation that was not good, so he dropped that and found his purpose.

Not everyone can pack up their family and be a farmer in Greece, and even if you can, this path is still not easy. Many others may assume you’ve become lost. Life may seem great like this post and later be difficult.

But it’s great that this person found their purpose and know who they are.

I associate being stuck in the Level 5 or 6 trough that Richard Rohr describes. There is purpose waiting, but I don’t have the guts to do anything more than pretend I’m a good servant while being miserable with what I feel I must do.

It doesn’t matter if I attempt to be stoic and sometimes pull off looking that way, I’m self-obsessed since I wallow in self pity while having a martyr complex, and I can hate myself and diminuate myself as much as I want, to believe that I’m nothing and only God exists, but I couldn’t be more lost than I am and am only fooling myself to believe otherwise.
by codesparkle | 2026-01-15 11:50:26+00:00
It’s not so much that AI is replacing “tech writers”; with all due respect to the individuals in those roles, it was never a good title to identify as.

Technical writing is part of the job of software engineering. Just like “tester” or “DBA”, it was always going to go the way of the dodo.

If you’re a technical writer, now’s the time to reinvent yourself.
by astinashler | 2026-01-15 11:51:15+00:00
Most market hours sites are cluttered with ads and news, and don't directly answer the simple question: "What markets are open right now?"
So I built a site that does exactly that:

UTC and your local time
Which major markets are open/closed
Countdown to next open or close

Markets included: NYSE, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Frankfurt, Sydney. Also handles lunch breaks and holidays.
That's it. No ads, no news, no clutter.
by aniou | 2026-01-15 11:52:22+00:00
First, we've fallen into a nomenclature trap, as so-called "AI" has nothing to do with "intelligence." Even its creators admit this, hence the name "AGI," since the appropriate acronym has already been used.

But when we use "AI," our brains still recognize "intelligence" and tend to perceive LLMs as more powerful than they actually are.

Current models are like trained parrots that can draw colored blocks and insert them into the appropriate slots. Sure, much faster and with incomparably more data. But they're still parrots.

This story and the discussions remind me of reports and articles about the first computers. People were so impressed by the speed of their mathematical calculations that they called them "electronic brains" and considered, even feared, "robot intelligence."

Now we're so impressed by the speed of pattern matching that we called them "artificial intelligence," and we're back to where we are.