MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexgotoi | 2026-01-26 07:36:14+00:00
There were several cheaper than programmers options to automate things, Robot Processing Automation being probably the most known, but it never get the expected traction.

Why (imo)? Senior leaders still like to say: I run a 500 headcount finance EMEA organization for Siemens, I am the Chief People Officer of Meta anf I lead an org of 1000 smart HR pros. Most of their status is still tight to the org headcount.
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-26 07:37:14+00:00
Sure, but the claim that "Apple only implemented USB-C due to pressure from the EU." is simply ridiculous.

Apple implemented USB-C at a steady pace across their entire product lineup, as is demonstrated by the timeline below:

2015: 12in MacBook with USB-C released
2016: MacBook pro switches to USB-C
2018: iPad Pro switches to USB-C
2020: iPad Air switches to USB-C
2021: iPad Mini switches to USB-C
2022: iPad switches to USB-C
2023: iPhone switches to USB-C

If Apple only implemented USB-C because of pressure from the EU, you'd presumably be able to see a gap in that list during the period of Apple allegedly not implementing USB-C. There is no gap, because Apple was steadily moving users to USB-C since 2015.

It feels really silly to be spending time defending Apple over this, but the EU certainly does not deserve credit for iPhones having USB-C. I'm sure there are politicians who'd love for you to believe that, but it's simply dishonest propaganda.
by gempir | 2026-01-26 07:39:18+00:00
Kind of weird way to put it. Turbopack was not a real product for years. It was forever stuck in weird beta/alpha stage and only recently went and became the default for NextJS.

Vite has been stable for years at least 5 years now and is built-upon because it's fast, stable, reliable and a bit less complicated than Webpack.
by quacked | 2026-01-26 07:40:53+00:00
What ICE is doing is naked incompetent fascism and the entity needs to be disbanded with hostility.

With that said, no, it's not evil to deport people who entered a country illegally. If I sneak into China, and China finds out, they are morally and legally clear to send me back, whether or not I've had children in China.
by Antibabelic | 2026-01-26 07:42:04+00:00
> Once one has learned ‘to see like a factory’, and the risks and benefits of this vision, Factorio is done as an artwork. The artwork has achieved its goal. You can keep playing, but now it is just entertainment, and a toolkit.

I think this 'artistic essence' of Factorio that makes it art and not 'just entertainment' is entirely accidental.

I like Gwern's writing otherwise, but I think that this essay is titanically wrong-headed and unconvincing. I think that Gwern takes the idea of 'art' too much for granted and tries to figure out a way to jam video games into his idea of what art is because games are 'obviously art'.
by trimethylpurine | 2026-01-26 07:42:43+00:00
No warmup here. I've stated that much of the research favoring "clean" energy makes extremely generous assumptions about the validity of the data and allows for overly confident assertions mainly used for marketing. We know a lot less about the environment than you think, and even with what we do know, we can say for sure that when you include supply, manufacture, transduction, etc. you really can't call any method for power generation "clean" with current tech. It's all empty promises of new potential tech to be seen if we milk the tax payer. Just people with degrees in the field making money on selling pipe dreams to the public, and helping officials pump taxes into their investments. That's "clean" energy in a paragraph. It doesn't exist.
by roenxi | 2026-01-26 07:43:23+00:00
The people complaining probably live in the UK or are related to it somehow. Then it would make sense that they are more worried about authoritarianism in the UK rather than in South America.

And even if the man was wearing a proper "Palestine Action" shirt that'd still be pretty concerning. It is an insane stretch to say that wearing a shirt represents a matter for police action. How far the world has moved on from when the UK could be considered a forward-thinking bastion of liberalism.
by 4gotunameagain | 2026-01-26 07:44:00+00:00
> probably much easier to jam

Definitely much easier to jam. Much higher orbits for gnss satellites, much lower signal intensity.

Also, starlink uses phased arrays with beamforming, effectively creating an electronically steerable directional antenna. It is harder to jam two directional antennas talking to each other, as your jammers are on the sides, where the lobes of the antenna radiation pattern are smaller.

Still, we're talking about signals coming from space, so maybe it is just enough to sprinkle more jammers in an urban setting.. I'm curious as well.
Show HN: Bytepiper – turn .txt files into live APIs
by DhirajKadam27 | 2026-01-26 07:45:55+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small tool that converts API logic written in plain .txt files into real, executable PHP API endpoints.

The motivation was personal: I can design and ship frontends quickly, but backend APIs (setup, boilerplate, deployment) always slowed down small projects and MVPs. I wanted a way to describe inputs, rules, and responses in text and get a working endpoint without worrying about infrastructure.

This is early and opinionated. I’m especially interested in feedback around:

trust and security concerns

where this breaks down

whether this is useful beyond prototypes

Happy to answer questions about how it works.
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-26 07:46:26+00:00
> I really like the offering that Cloudflare has with workers, but for me they just seem to be lacking some DX tooling/solutions.

Cloudflare in general is a DX mess. Sometimes it's dashboard doesn't even work at all, and is peppered with error messages. Workers + Wrangler + it's tooling doesn't even manage to put together a usable or coherent change log, which makes it very hard to even track how and why their versioning scheme should be managed.

Cloudflare is a poster child of why product managers matter. They should study AWS.
by silisili | 2026-01-26 07:47:24+00:00
I was an old school SRE before the days of containerization and such. Today, we have one who is a YAML wizard and I won't even pretend to begin to understand the entire architecture between all the moving pieces(kube, flux, helm, etc).

That said, Claude has absolutely no problem not only answering questions, but finding bugs and adding new features to it.

In short, I feel they're just as screwed as us devs.
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-26 07:48:31+00:00
> Most people won't care because the extent of their debugging skills is console.log, echo, print. repeat 5000 times.

I don't agree. The first thing any developer does when starting out a project is setting up their development environment, which includes being able to debug locally. Stdout is the absolute last option on the table, used when all else fails.
by businessmate | 2026-01-26 07:48:57+00:00
The meeting is routine.

The agenda is familiar.
Material influences.
External inputs.
Decision context.

Near the end, a question is raised. Not as an accusation. Not as a concern. As a checkbox.

“Was any external AI-generated analysis relied upon, directly or indirectly, in forming this view?”

No one speaks.

Not because the answer is controversial.
Because no one knows how to answer it.
by nroets | 2026-01-26 07:48:57+00:00
Here's crazy idea: Instead of the US spending all this money on restraining the Iranian government through military build ups and sanctions,

rather drop hundreds of thousands of Starlink kits by drones.

Then Iranians will be reminded how peaceful and prosperous the most other Muslim countries are.

One of the reasons the Berlin wall fell was that East Europeans saw on TV that how prosperous Western Europe became.
by hexbin010 | 2026-01-26 07:50:23+00:00
Spain having built 20x more HSR than Switzerland in absolute terms, and much more HSR in terms proportional to country size, does actually does give them the right not to be lectured on HSR by a tiny country with a well-known superiority complex - especially when it's a cheap, incoherent shot soon after a tragedy.

I could make a cheap shot about fires in bars...but I won't.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-26 07:50:37+00:00
Disagree with the "jobs for life" part for management. Only managers who are there thanks to connection, nepotism or cronyism, are there for life as long as those shielding them also stay in place. THose who got in or got promoted to management meritocratically don't have that protection and are the first to be let go.

At all large MNCs I worked at, management got hired and fired mostly on their (or lack thereof) connections and less on what they actually did. Once they got let go, they had near impossible time finding another job without connections in other places.
by TheRoque | 2026-01-26 07:51:15+00:00
Maybe you can have a look at RadDbg [0], as I understand the project has been bought by Epic Games recently. The goal is to make a performant debugger, from what I understand its target audience is mostly game developers, but you can use it for other programs obviously. You can see a talk of the core developer and his vision here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9_bK_WjuYY

Sadly it's windows only yet, but they have plans to port it to other platforms.

- [0]: https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger
by kumarvvr | 2026-01-26 07:52:01+00:00
Good luck trying to take something back from the populace once already given for decades, even if it is in a limited form.

It's a desperate attempt, that really shows how cornered the administration is.

Any power that fears information, has to have a highly fine grained, high level control of information to maintain power. This is absolutely difficult, in a country as culturally diverse and with a long history as Iran.
by taurath | 2026-01-26 07:53:11+00:00
I wonder how those with multiple identities (DID), would affect this measurement. I know there are direct biomarkers in folk with it having to do with the frontal cortex and amygdala, and some neuroimaging being able to note vast differences in processing: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9045405/
by chime | 2026-01-26 07:53:44+00:00
> Sidenote: Flash's scripting language, ActionScript is also directly responsible for the generational design of Java-ahem-ECMAScript later on, also TypeScript too.

I feel like I am the only one who absolutely loved ActionScript, especially AS3. I wrote a video aggregator (chime.tv[1]) back in the day using AS3 and it was such a fun experience.

1. https://techcrunch.com/2007/06/12/chimetv-a-prettier-way-to-...
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-26 07:53:49+00:00
> You can do that with mental phenomenon too - eg, having memories, feelings, consciousness, thoughts.

But once you carry that reasoning to its full conclusion, the original argument for a "soul" or "self" that can be meaningfully called "I" vanishes entirely. There still is some sort of subjective awareness that's felt to be ontologically basic in some sense (just like the "soul") but now it's entirely impersonal (the traditional term is "spirit", or "the absolute") because anything that's still personal is no longer comprised in it; an ongoing phenomenon and perhaps an inherent feature of existence itself, not a "thing".
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-26 07:54:23+00:00
> I'm building my entire back-end on CF Workers. The DX was really frustrating starting out, but I'm using Rust/WASM, which means most of my issues get caught at compile time.

Cloudflare Workers support WASM, which is how they support any runtime beyond JavaScript. Cloudflare Worker's support for WASM is subpar, which is reflected even in things like the Terraform provider. Support for service bindings such as KV does not depend on WASM or anything like that: you specify your Wrangler config and you're done. I wonder what you are doing to end up making a series of suboptimal decisions.
by aequitas | 2026-01-26 07:55:00+00:00
Reminds me of that time I was taking climbing lessons in the Belgian Ardennes. Helmet on, in harness, hanging in the ropes, holding tight to not fall, we where climbing half way up the mountain, when a person out of nowhere ask if he can pass and just flew up the key section of the route. It was just a local, casual clothes, no harness, no helmet, no rope, maybe not even proper climbing shoes but I can't recall that. Just casually climbing the mountain like he was on a lunch stroll. Even now with years of experience I still don't have that confidence.
by bob1029 | 2026-01-26 07:55:35+00:00
> a robust sandbox for agents to operate in

I would like to humbly propose that we simply provision another computer for the agent to use.

I don't know why this needs to be complicated. A nano EC2 instance is like $5/m. I suspect many of us currently have the means to do this on prem without resorting to virtualization.
by tossandthrow | 2026-01-26 07:55:55+00:00
Thanks! Very valuable insights.

I have been through Karpathy's work - however, I don't find that it helps with large scale development.

Your tactics work successfully for me at smalle scale (at around 10klocs, etc) and starts to break down - especially when refactorings are involved.

Refactoring happens when I see that the LLM is stumbling over it's own decisions _and_ when I get a new idea. So the ability to refactor is a hard requirement.

Alternatively refactoring could be achieved by starting over? But I do have a hard time accepting that idea for projects > 100klocs.
by edg5000 | 2026-01-26 07:57:31+00:00
Not sure about Autodesk, but have you tried FreeCAD? I own a perpetual SolidWorks license but haven't even activated it. Used it quite lot on another license but I just prefer FreeCAD so much. It does choke on high primitive counts though. Probably has worse FEA (invokes external simulation tools) but that is an assumption, never did FEA. Mostly did parametric CAD, not much technical drawings either, can't say much about that.

For slicers I use PrusaSlicer on Linux (don't have a Prusa; it's really good for generic slicing). But I can see how Bambu stuff could be an issue if it's Win only and not Wineable.
by rcarmo | 2026-01-26 07:57:33+00:00
I don't buy it. It might be very useful for a few use cases, but despite all the desktop automation craze and "Claude for cooking" stuff that is inevitably to follow, our computing model for live business applications has, for maintainability, auditability, security, data access, etc. become cloud-centric to a point where running things locally is... kind of pointless for most "real" apps.

Not that I'm not excited about the possibilities in personal productivity, but I don't think this is the way--if it was, we wouldn't have lost, say, the ability to have proper desktop automation via AppleScript, COM, DDE (remember that?) across mainstream desktop operating systems.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-26 07:58:11+00:00
It could be a different story if OEMs would finally start selling properly supported laptops with GNU/Linux pre-installed on computer stores, those that normies visit, not the online ones HN members know where to find, or build themselves from PC parts.

And on the Apple side it isn't going much better, given that new devices come with Tahoe.

It is an overall failure of the system, and wrong incentives for computer companies.
by blagie | 2026-01-26 07:58:13+00:00
> Then Iranians will be reminded how peaceful and prosperous the most other Muslim countries are.

This is factually incorrect. Top 10 majority-Muslim countries, sorted by population:

Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia

Now, the majority of those have problems with seeds in Western Imperialism, but the point is (a) the majority of those have problems (b) Iran's problems also have seeds in US interventions.

The gap between how peaceful and educated most people are, and how bad governments are, is a phenomenon almost unique here. Figuring out how to bridge that gap is the major challenge. The trick would be establishing a collective caliphate -- where the caliph isn't an individual but an institution -- and which spans the Muslim world.
by nicbou | 2026-01-26 07:58:26+00:00
Every thread about US politics has this comment, and the same response: this is not the right outlet, and some people feel like this content does not fit the topic of the website.

If you are not American, it’s rather tiring to have every website and news outlet talk about it ad nauseum, and have it take over every subreddit and conversation. Americans get all uppity when you tell them that you don’t want that, as if their news are so important that they transcend categorisation.

I care. It’s important. It’s just not the right website.
by Flatterer3544 | 2026-01-26 07:59:46+00:00
If not for EU there would already be multiple states with privacy invasive systems seen in UK.. We are close of getting there and they keep on trying, but so far the blocking states are enough as majority.

Sure EU has some fkn horrible sides to it, such as the anonymous vote to get big stuff through when a majority should be enough as democracy depicts, but currently 2 states out of all EU states can block the big decisions...
by ijustlovemath | 2026-01-26 07:59:46+00:00
True, and they do indeed offer an additional layer of protection (but with some nontrivial costs). All (non-business killing) avenues should be used in pursuit of defense in depth when it comes to sandboxing. You could even throw a flatpak or firejail in, but that starts to degrade performance in noticeable ways (though I've found it's nice to strive for this in your CI).
by kristopolous | 2026-01-26 07:59:47+00:00
What on earth are you talking about?

The question is "why do people need fainting couches for this project and why are they pretending like 3 year old features of apis that already exist in thousands of projects are brand new innovations exclusive to this?"

The answer is: "the author is celebrity and some people are delusional screaming fanboys"

My response is: "that's bullshit. let's be adults"
Show HN: AI Compass:Daily AI Search Signals and Trends
by funcin | 2026-01-26 08:00:29+00:00
Hi Hacker Friends,

I’m sharing AI Compass, a daily AI signal brief built for builders who want facts over hype.

AI moves fast. We track real-time signals across Google Trends and web news, then use AI clustering, denoising, and source attribution to surface what actually matters: model launches, company moves, and emerging terms.

You get a structured daily brief with traceable sources and clear takeaways, so you can understand the landscape in minutes.

Our priorities：

1. High signal-to-noise: only accurate, relevant items. No hype.
2. Objective and transparent: conclusions backed by traceable evidence.
3. Fast to consume: built for developers, PMs, and indie builders.

This is a new launch. Feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas are welcome.
by scrapheap | 2026-01-26 08:01:05+00:00
My personal opinion is that if a team couldn't write something before AI then they should be very careful about writing it with the help of AI.

For example a team that couldn't write a new encrypted messaging app without AI, gets an AI to write them one. How do they check that the code is actually secure? Writing encryption code is very hard to get correct, in fact most humans can't get it right, and if you don't understand the intricacies of cryptography then you'll never pick up the mistakes the AI makes.
by dh2022 | 2026-01-26 08:01:31+00:00
If you are going to play this game you also need to adjust for taxes. I lived a few years in Montreal, then a few years in Toronto and after that I moved to US. During this years my perception of income taxes went from “they are pretty high” in Montreal to “Wow, they are much lower” in Toronto to “how are public services funded? Taxes are almost 0” in the states..
by Melatonic | 2026-01-26 08:01:37+00:00
Starry is great here in California - they connect to ISP backbones and then put point to point WiFi on rooftops of apartment buildings. I get 300 down and 200 up (real world) with no throttling or BS. 50$ a month no contract. Very rare goes down and that's in extreme weather (and briefly). Probably better uptime than cable
by JonathanFly | 2026-01-26 08:02:06+00:00
Is there no way to play Doom with just the earbuds? There's a mod that adds audio cues to make Doom playable for the blind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtoAo__2kYo

Adding high quality binaural audio to Doom would make this even more viable. Earbuds have accelerometers which could also be incorporated to add additional queues.
by rcarmo | 2026-01-26 08:02:15+00:00
As someone who's been blogging since 2002, I can tell you first hand that you get a fair amount of outreach. But I even though I have had to put Simon's feed through a summarizer to be able to keep up, I don't see any bias there--just _a lot_ of writing about whatever he's interested in, and either our own perceptions of what is interesting and the law of averages inevitably kick in and there are a few duds here and there.
by fedeb95 | 2026-01-26 08:02:38+00:00
seems is the key word. 3.5% - or any other % - actively engaging doesn't mean that if you cast a vote, 3.5% would support. Probably an order of magnitude more. People tend to be inert, even when they agree with something.

However, sometimes it is true that small minorities can hassle everyone until they get their way. This usually happens through lobbying, corruption and misinformation though, way easier than a peaceful protest if you are a small minority; with the added benefit of appearing to have a big majority of the population in your favor. See what populist far right movements are doing right now throughout the world.
by tombert | 2026-01-26 08:03:22+00:00
I use Cloudflare Pages for my blog, and I really like it, but my static blog generator (Quartz) only supports Giscus, which requires signing in with a GitHub account.

I was thinking I might be able to hobble together a vibe-coded straightforward thing with Rust-> WASM to make an embeddable comment system, using Cloudflare Workers.

I gotta say that Workers are shockingly pleasant to use. I think I might end up using them for a bigger project.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-26 08:04:04+00:00
Even if that is the case, as per my comments, Windows is my main OS driver despite its flaws, and I have not found any ARM laptop that I would bother buying.

On the GNU/Linux side, the only thing has been Chromebooks, which aren't worth their money for the usual 4/8 GB, 126 GB, average SOC, most devices have.
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-26 08:04:31+00:00
https://people.cs.umass.edu/~amir/papers/parrot.pdf

Here's an overview. Be warned, the conclusion is:

> We enumerate the requirements that a censorship-resistant
system must satisfy to successfully mimic another protocol and
conclude that “unobservability by imitation” is a fundamentally
flawed approach.
by prophesi | 2026-01-26 08:05:36+00:00
Let the flagging process be automated on what should be removed and wipe your hands of any wrong doing. I do understand that anything ICE-related at this current time will inevitably lead to heated political discussions that run counter to the HN ethos but it is unfortunate. It seems we can continue upvoting older EFF/Wired posts on ICE tech to keep the situation on the front page, though. Also seems increasingly bipartisan in the US that Alex Pretti's execution was not justified.