MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HearthByte | 2026-01-01 23:58:31+00:00
I built ChaosFlow because every Kanban tool I tried felt noisy, bloated, or tied to an account I didn’t want. I wanted something calm, local, and intentional — a board that feels more like a personal workspace than a cloud service.
ChaosFlow is a fully offline‑first Kanban board with a cozy, minimal UI. It saves everything locally, loads instantly, and doesn’t require an account, sync, or internet connection. It’s meant for solo creators, artists, devs, and anyone who wants a quiet place to organize their thoughts without friction. Features:
- Offline‑first (no accounts, no servers, no tracking)
- Clean, cozy UI with soft animations
- Multiple boards
- Drag‑and‑drop workflow
- Keyboard‑friendly
- Portable ZIP — runs locally
I’d love feedback from the community — especially around UX, performance, and what features you’d expect from a simple, local-first tool like this
by cbmuser | 2026-01-01 23:58:50+00:00
You are contradicting yourself.

On the on hand you claim that a government-run railway company is better off than a privately run (Japan tends to disagree here).

On the other hand you admit that the problems of Deutsche Bahn stem from the fact that politicians have had too much influence on it.

Guess how you can keep politicians out of companies? By keeping them private.

I will never understand why so many people think that companies are magically doing better because the government is running them. That’s just a myth.

Both the government and private entities can be good or bad at running companies. However, the huge advantage with private companies is that customers have options thanks to competition.

Anyone who still has memories of telephone companies run by the government knows what I’m talking about.

As for Deutsche Bahn, the government has full control over it meaning the company is run by the government. Whether it’s officially a German Aktiengesellschaft or not, doesn’t matter at all.

Your argument is often brought up by proponents of a government-run railway so that they don’t have to admit that Deutsche Bahn isn’t doing well despite being run by the government.
by legerdemain | 2026-01-01 23:58:54+00:00
This suggestion is common to the point of banality, but it really does benefit hugely from having "a mailing list of several dozen friends and acquaintances" to bootstrap it.

I've been trying something very similar to the author's approach for three years now: a casual tech meetup. My results are way worse despite putting hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars into the endeavor.

The people you attract might themselves have no local friends. That's why they're showing up to your meetup! But it also means that they won't help to expand it.

The people you attract might not be alcohol-drinkers. A lot of people who suggest organizing casual meetups usually have a pub in mind as the venue. Bringing 12-15 people to a restaurant takes a lot more planning. Getting 12-15 people to agree on a restaurant that meets their diet and budget needs is, well...

You might attract people who are much younger or much older than you. The average author of this kind of article is 36. Do they like the company of people who are within ±20 years of age from them? And do those people like each other's company?

Long story short, you might end up like me, having invested years of your life and a surprising amount of money, to make 3 casual acquaintances who you're sort-of-but-not-super-friendly with.
by quotemstr | 2026-01-01 23:59:29+00:00
I agree that bytecode compilation (and caching to pyc files) seldom has a meaningful impact, but it's nevertheless unfair to tout it as an advantage of uv over pip, because by doing so you've constructed an apples to oranges comparison.

You could argue that uv has a better default behavior than pip, but that's not an engineering advantage: it's just a different choice of default setting. If you turned off eager bytecode compilation in pip you'd get the same result.
by nl | 2026-01-02 00:00:01+00:00
They have $5.6B in debt, around the same as Mazda and Polestar and roughly half Tesla's $13B.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/automakers/automakers-with-th...

And vast parking lots full of cars isn't dumping, it where they put them before sending them to dealers:

> its parking areas are still brimming with new BYDs fresh from arriving at nearby Port Kembla ahead of their delivery to BYD dealers.
by pandaman | 2026-01-02 00:00:18+00:00
I responded to this:

>If someone is here long enough to obtain a state id, there's no reason to detain them on suspicion of their status having expired

It seems like you believe that if somebody had been long enough in a state to obtain a state id then their status in the country is legal forever. In the few states where I've got id it took about a month to get an id - you need to lease some housing and get two bills. But even if it took 50 years to get a state id it would not change anything - a state id is not a proof of legal status in the country. Immigration officers can detain people on reasonable suspicion, which is the same standard that is needed for a traffic stop.
by andai | 2026-01-02 00:00:30+00:00
The one I noticed the most was import openai and import numpy.

They're both about a full second on my old laptop.

I ended up writing my own simple LLM library just so I wouldn't have to import OpenAI anymore for my interactive scripts.

(It's just some wrapper functions around the equivalent of a curl request, which is honestly basically everything I used the OpenAI library for anyway.)
by AngryData | 2026-01-02 00:00:32+00:00
Why not? We allow pretty much everything else. Appliances, consumer electronics, car parts, batteries, etc.

The one and only reason to not allow Chinese cars is to try and protect domestic auto industry, but considering how expensive and mismanaged domestic auto production is I don't see that as a good excuse. They won't die because they can't possibly compete, they will die for refusing to compete because they want higher profit margins now rather than bulk sales and good public perception 10 years down the line. They would rather fuck their future and bet on a bail-out than dare try making bulk cheap cars again with a bit lower margin.

Hell GM paid Toyota to come teach them how to make cars cheaper and better and build matrix platform cars in their factory. And what did they do when that happened and cars started rolling off the line? They complained that Toyota didn't produce them them in the same manner they would have, and then closed the plant down. Meanwhile Matrix platform cars like the Vibe are highly sought after on the used car market because they were known for reliability and ease of maintenance.

If we were actually worried about security, we would be doing FAR more than merely disallowing HuaWei products. Its like living next to an active volcano in a forest fire prone areas inside a log cabin and then screaming about how dangerous it would be to allow matches be sold in stores due to arsonists.
by lossolo | 2026-01-02 00:00:47+00:00
From what I can see, Tesla did not passed every test scenario, but it passed most of them (so it won): 5/6 in the first table (highway test) and 8/9 for the Tesla Model X in the second table (urban test), the two Chinese cars placed second and third with one less passed test than Tesla (7/9), while the Tesla Model 3 passed only 5/9. Interestingly, both Chinese cars passed the test that Tesla failed. Considering Tesla has millions more miles of driving data and more years of development, it seems like it's only a matter of time (with more data and iteration) before the Chinese cars pass the rest of remaining tests, which is great because competition is healthy.
by dalyons | 2026-01-02 00:00:51+00:00
Legacy automakers EVs are just ICE cars with the engine swapped out. Whereas BYDs, teslas etc are a ground up rethink, vertically integrated with battery manufacturing and software.

Classic innovators dilemma - it seems to be almost impossible to align incentives inside legacy auto to do the necessary revolutionary change. Every individual and sub group are internally invested in their legacy frames, drivetrains, layouts, electronics, software and supply chains. That’s why you keep getting offered the same car, but now as a sub par EV. So they will lose, because they can’t adapt.
by barishnamazov | 2026-01-02 00:01:03+00:00
Why is Bun marked as no on node_modules (I assume it means NodeJS compatibility)? I have large applications and never had NodeJS compatibility issues (it has worked even when Bun wasn't officially supported).

For benchmarks, I'd try to compare Bun's speed using its own Bun.serve instead of Express or Fastify.
by apublicfrog | 2026-01-02 00:01:55+00:00
People who were not technical then and are not now made it work with Myspace, Neopets and Geocities. There are a number of free microhosts out there. And the big social media sites also allow you to post a lot more crap.

I think bringing back websites like hawkee etc and providing an easy way to host is the right way forward, but it needs a catalyst (like most things) to become a trend.
by pron | 2026-01-02 00:02:20+00:00
Except, as you say, all those factors always exist, so we can compare things against each other. No language to date has grown its market share by a factor of ten at such an advanced age [1]. Despite all the hurdles, successful languages have succeeded faster. Of course, it's possible that Rust will somehow manage to grow a lot, yet significantly slower than all other languages, but there's no reason to expect that as the likely outcome. Yes, it certainly has significant adoption, but that adoption is significantly lower than all languages that ended up where C++ is or higher.

[1]: In a competitive field, with selection pressure, the speed at which technologies spread is related to their relative advantage, and while slow growth is possible, it's rare because competitive alternatives tend to come up.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-02 00:03:37+00:00
> If the Bay Area once had an impish side, it has gone the way of most hardware tinkerers and hippie communes.

Woz had that (still does). He was smart enough to take his winnings and bail. I think that many in SV can't fathom why, but I suspect I know exactly why.

I do remember the tech community as being full of humor and whimsy. I miss that.
by bakugo | 2026-01-02 00:03:53+00:00
Yes, but why can't both be true?

I don't get people who use "you say [thing] is getting worse but someone X years ago said the same!" as an argument that somehow proves [thing] isn't getting worse. Things can become progressively worse over long periods of time, it's not an instant change that can only happen once.

Another context where I often see this "argument" is major Windows versions. People rightfully say they want to stay on Windows 10 because 11 is objectively worse in many ways, and someone jumps in to say "you said the same about 7 to 10" as if it's some sort of gotcha. Both complaints can be right, each new version can be worse than the last.

Right now, we have at least one aspect in which HN has become objectively worse in the past years: AI-generated content. It didn't exist a decade ago, so good luck using that "argument" there. Thankfully, its prevalence is still nowhere near as bad as on Reddit (it's impossible to browse that site for 10 minutes without noticing bots posting blatant ChatGPT responses everywhere and getting hundreds of upvotes), but still.
by prescriptivist | 2026-01-02 00:03:55+00:00
> there _might be_ new bits but nothing meaningful as far as I know

If you didn't need backwards compatibility with older rubies you could use Ractors in lieu of forks and not have to IPC between the two and have cleaner communication channels. I can peg all the cores on my machine with a simple Ractor pool doing simple computation, which feels like a miracle as a Ruby old head. Bundler could get away with creating their own Ractor safe installer pool which would be cool as it'd be the first large scale use of Ractors that I know of.
by znpy | 2026-01-02 00:04:07+00:00
Maybe it's been "just" my bad experiences, but in volunteering i've always seen some social "power" dynamics that I don't really like.

Some person somehow gets to be the leader and bosses people around. Those people aren't always the brightest or the most compassionate. They often are pushy, they are somewhat totalitarian, they really don't like their ways to be questioned. Sometimes (not always) they are the most dedicated but only because they made volunteering their identity or their main source of self-esteem (this can either happen because they don't have anything else going on in their life OR because what goes on in their life do not satisfy them).

They are often "open to new people, ideas and contribution" only as long as anything new is very well aligned with their (personal) line of thinking and/or does not question their "authority" in any way.

Either way, I've seen that happen too many times to take volunteering any seriously.
by byroot | 2026-01-02 00:04:20+00:00
> My experience with GHA default caches is that it’s absolutely dog slow.

GHA is definitely far from the best, but it works:, e.g 1.4 seconds to restore 27 dependencies https://github.com/redis-rb/redis-client/actions/runs/205191...

> The only way docker caching works is if you have a persistent host.

You can pull the cache when the build host spawns, but yes, if you want to build efficiently, you can't use ephemeral builders.

But overall that discussion isn't very interesting because Buildkite is more a kit to build a CI than a CI, so it's on you to figure out caching.

So I'll just reiterate my main point: a CI system must provide a workable caching mechanism if it want to be both snappy and reliable.

I've worked for over a decade on one of the biggest Rails application in existence, and restoring the 800ish gems from cache was a matter of a handful of seconds. And when rubygems.org had to yank a critical gem for copyright reasons [0], we continued building and shipping without disruption while other companies with bad CIs were all sitting ducks for multiple days.

[0] https://github.com/rails/marcel/issues/23
by like_any_other | 2026-01-02 00:04:22+00:00
> Nazis

This is about a website for whites wanting to date other whites. That describes 96% of Americans in 1958 [1], i.e. the generation that actually fought Nazis. So the title should be re-worded to "Nazis and Allies".

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-mar...
by quotemstr | 2026-01-02 00:04:25+00:00
> Pip doesn't detect any ambiguities. In fact Pip's behaviour is a gaping security hole that they've refused to fix, and as far as I know the only way to avoid it is to use `uv`

Agreed the current behavior is stupid, FWIW. I hope PEPs 708 and 752 get implemented soon. I'm just pointing out that there's an important qualitative difference between

1. we do the same job, but much faster; and

2. we decided your job is stupid and so don't do it, realizing speedups.

uv presents itself as #1 but is actually #2, and that's a shame.
by throwaway_dang | 2026-01-02 00:04:47+00:00
Even the US state department doesn't recognize Taiwan as an independent country. Verify it if you don't believe me.

The official title of Taiwan is the Republic of China and it believes that mainland China and Taiwan are part of the same country. The People's Republic China believes the same.

The US wants to use Taiwan as a military base, similar to Imperial Japan prior to WW2.

There is no dispute between China and the US as to the territory, the US just doesn't like the PRC and would prefer the Chinese to be US puppets.
by econ | 2026-01-02 00:04:51+00:00
You vote with your feet. If you can only follow the world would be exactly as simple as you make it out to be.

If you write things for your own website you would make more of an effort and it would ideally find an audience that enjoys your world view or insights into your topics.

It would be great to lure you into that experience. HN is a terrible dating agency. Gathering down votes here is the opposite of making friends. It is however great for discovering authors like Henry.

He could have spend his time complaining on x how bad it is.
by jlarocco | 2026-01-02 00:04:52+00:00
The problem is that few people in "the west" wants EVs.

It's basic supply and demand - the sales are tanking, and without subsidies nobody will buy them, and the car companies are realizing that.

A few models (Teslas, for example) do okay with the upper class, but the lower and middle class can't afford them, don't have anywhere to charge them, and have to drive too much to depend on them.

Even in a trendy, wealthy city like Boulder, CO which is all about saving the environment and going green there isn't nearly enough charging capacity for everybody to use EVs.

An EV is better than no car at all, but they're a downgrade from an ICE in most cases.
by madeofpalk | 2026-01-02 00:04:57+00:00
I promise you Hacker News was exactly like this back in 2011.

> It has become political (toward the left)

I wonder what you're talking about - your definition of 'political' or 'left'.

Tech and politics are so deeply intrenched. More than just "is DEI evil and there's no such thing as algorithmic bias". Should Apple be restricted from collecting its Apple Tax and locking down its devices?? Should the EU be able to regulate American companies? Should governments demand encryption back doors in devices? Should Australia ban teens from social network? Should there be a Right to Repair for our devices?

Honestly one of my biggest gripes with HN is that it does seem to be a place where pretty regressive social viewpoints seem to flourish.
by quotemstr | 2026-01-02 00:05:44+00:00
My groceries are cheaper if I walk out of the store without paying for them too. Who's going to stop me?

While I agree that an optimistic optimization for the upper-bound-pass case makes sense, just ignoring the bounds just isn't correct either.

Common pattern in insurgent software is to violate a specification, demonstrate speedups, and then compare yourself favorably to older software that implements the spec (however stupid) faithfully.
by davidjade | 2026-01-02 00:05:51+00:00
I was just there this week and it has of course changed a lot. I was also there in either 73 or 74 as a kid - the visitor center has also grown a lot since then.

Well worth the visit (and you really need two days to see everything - we spent 10 hrs and felt rushed and saw only about 75%). Even with the Disney-ified aspects (a few movie rides/experiences and kids activities), it still seems a lot like a museum experience. The artifacts are amazing (like standing under a Saturn V, seeing equipment from the American first space walk, and then walking on the original (relocated) launch tower footbridge that the Apollo 11 astronauts used).

The three astronaut memorials were a bit of an emotional to see in person - pieces of Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia as well as tributes to all those who have sacrificed their lives in this pursuit.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-02 00:05:57+00:00
Yeah sorry, I don't really have an Iphone so I was just going on a wild hunch.

I would love to discuss about it and how Orion works then.

My question to you is, how is Orion possible to get firefox/chromium extensions working in webkit then, Because I know that Orion's core itself is built on top of webkit but I am wondering what other additions they did to make it possible to have firefox extensions as an example on the Ios

Can you please walk me through how this is possible? I see no other being able to do such a thing. Like how do they make it work then while the engine bundles in Ios.

I also want to ask if possible is that since I can just go to firefox mozilla addon store and get any extension and use it in Orion. Isn't this sort of really similar to an app store itself with 0 restrictions considering that firefox extensions are very unrestricted usually and similar to PWA (not sure)

This is already possible with Orion so I am wondering why more discoveries are not being done in this space. I would love seeing an open source alternative to Orion as well for Iphone perhaps.

Thank you for telling me that browsers work at an operating system level in Ios but can you please tell me how Orion's then able to do such stuff? And can certain more discoveries be made on that front regarding PWA support , extension support similar to orion etc. as well then?
by thot_experiment | 2026-01-02 00:06:24+00:00
great move, we're continually about 2 days away from kessler if we lost maneuvering control on a constellation like starlink (ofc that's vanishingly unlikely, but it's important to understand that continual maneuvering is what keeps space accessible to humanity)

anything we can do to lower that risk is a good move, and dropping 70km of elevation for the largest satellite constellation is definitely going to make a dent in the risk profile

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09643

i hope to see progress with air breathing ion engine satellites in the coming years to further lower the minimum altitudes that these constellations can operate at
by makeitdouble | 2026-01-02 00:06:27+00:00
> German podcast

There was a Planet Money episode touching on Maritime law:

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5577076/shadow-fleet-ru...

It was about Russian tankers breaking the sanctions, but with a well put explanation of why we can't just stop these ships even with extreme confidence in their fraudulency.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-02 00:06:30+00:00
I'd be less antianticheat if I could just select the handcuffs at boot time for the rare occasion where I need them.

Although even then I'd still have qualms about paying for the creation of something that might pave the path for hardware vendors to work with authoritarian governments to restrict users to approved kernel builds. The potential harms are just not in the same league as whatever problems it might solve for gamers.
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-02 00:08:21+00:00
I could have guessed you would say that :) but METR is not an unbiased study either. Maybe you mean that METR is less likely to intentionally inflate their numbers?

If you insist or believe in a conspiracy I don’t think there’s really anything I or others will be able to say or show you that would assuage you, all I can say is I’ve seen the raw data. It’s a mess and again we’re stuck with proxies (which are bad since you start conflating the change in the proxy-latent relationship with the treatment effect). And it’s also hard and arguably irresponsible to run RCTs.

All I will say is: there are flaws everywhere. METR results are far from conclusive. Totally understandable if there is a mismatch between perception and performance. But also consider: even if task takes the same or even slightly more time, one big advantage for me is that it substantially reduces cognitive load so I can work in parallel sessions on two completely different issues.
by mmooss | 2026-01-02 00:08:36+00:00
> modern society has made it pretty clear that older men aren't actually needed and are more of a burden

The mistake - which leads to disaster - is more fundamental. Modern society isn't an actual thing with needs, just an abstract concept. Individual people are real, and we all have real rights and needs. 'Goverments exist to protect rights' - society exists to serve the individual, not vice versa. Almost all morality includes protecting and helping the vulnerable.

Who decides who is a burden? Infants and children are also a 'burden' as are people with all sorts of illnesses (and people spreading disinformation). Only the cruelest fascists have suggested they should die to help society, as if that's a reasonable discussion.

> Just look at how triggered the GP

Ad hominem is against HN guidelines. Just stick to the issues instead of trying to change the subject by attacking and characterizing people who don't agree with you.