MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rtkwe | 2026-01-06 19:00:05+00:00
Even with those conveniences IMO that only dulls the tedium of the flight and no matter how comfy the travel is I'm still losing about a whole day at least of just flying across the Atlantic going from the US to Europe and back for a vacation which is pretty valuable with US leave allowances. At the very least there's the market for business travel where workers don't lose whole days to travel.
by thenewnewguy | 2026-01-06 19:00:05+00:00
Obviously, if you could just delete the ads without changing anything else the world would be better, but that's not how it works.

Lots of businesses sustain themselves on ad revenue - would the world be a better place if we had no ads, but

- TV was twice the cost

- Google, YouTube, etc. (insert your favorite ad-supported website here) didn't exist or cost a monthly subscription

- All news was paywalled

- Any ad-supported website providing basic information (e.g. the weather) was paywalled or didn't exist

- etc etc
by taraharris | 2026-01-06 19:00:25+00:00
A few weeks ago I got into our car. Without touching any controls other than the screen, it backed out of our garage and driveway, drove me to the grocery store, found a parking spot and parked. On the way back, it did the same thing.

Last night my spouse was "driving," and she got frustrated by the slowing traffic ahead, so she grabbed the wheel away from the car, and in a microsecond we were nearly sideswiped. We were both so terrified! But it only reinforces the takeaway: this car drives better than we do. No human can see as far and as well as the car's cameras can!
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-06 19:01:04+00:00
I used to take the train from Orlando down to Miami (well... Ft Lauderdale) and it was about 3 hours, vs a simple 1 hour flight, or a 3 hour drive. The train ride was worse on holidays though, sometimes it took 6 hours or even way longer. I think I'd much rather be on the plane overall.
by woah | 2026-01-06 19:01:13+00:00
> Ideally, codebases would grow by adding data (e.g. a json describing endpoints, UIs, etc), not repetitive code.

The problem with this configuration based approach is that now the actual code that executes has to be able to change its functionality arbitrarily in response to new configuration, and the code (and configuration language) needs to be extremely abstracted and become comprehensible. In the real world, someone figures out that things get way easier if you just put a few programming language concepts into the configuration format, and now you're back where you started but with a much worse programming language than you were using before.

Boilerplate may be cumbersome, but it effectively gives you a very large number of places to "hook into" the framework to make it do what you need. AI makes boilerplate much less painful to write.
by 6177c40f | 2026-01-06 19:01:17+00:00
More indirection in the sense that's a layer between you and the code, sure. Less in that the code doesn't really matter as such and you're not having to think hard about the minutiae of programming in order to make something you want. It's very possible that "AI-oriented" programming languages will become the standard eventually (at least for new projects).
by awakeasleep | 2026-01-06 19:01:20+00:00
> the new product range is causing unease among play experts, who say it risks undermining what makes Lego special for children in an increasingly digital world.

I second that concern, but feel like the ship has already sailed. With my kids, at least anything except the basic “brick collection” classic series sets really limits the longevity of play and creativity they bring to it. It’s something about the disappointment of a model that needs to be right and can be
“broken”. But also maybe the difference between the perfect model designed by a professional and what they can create themselves.
by randerson | 2026-01-06 19:01:30+00:00
IMHO digital entertainment doesn't make up for being stuck in a cramped cabin for up to 19 hours (the longest international flight) around people (with varying levels of considerateness, contagiousness, and personal hygiene). Not to mention the increased risks of DVT and radiation exposure.

I travel each year to see family abroad, a minimum 2-leg trip totaling at least 27 hours. I can't sleep on planes so I arrive exhausted and am useless and cranky for the first 2 days after this trip. I would happily pay 2x the fare to cut that trip in half.
by oncallthrow | 2026-01-06 19:01:36+00:00
Yeah Opus 4.5 is a massive step change in my experience. I feel like I’m working with a peer, not a junior I’m having to direct. I can give it highly ambiguous and poorly specified tasks and it… just does it.

I will note that my experience varies slightly by language though. I’ve found it’s not as good at typescript.
by kelnos | 2026-01-06 19:02:07+00:00
If I need a photographer, I'm going to go and search for one. If no one is allowed to advertise to me, then both the small and large players in the space are on an even playing field. Your photography website or Facebook page will be just as searchable or indexable as before, as will business directory sites that can help people find services they need, along with reviews and testimonials.

Banning advertising could actually make it easier for new entrants.
by vablings | 2026-01-06 19:02:07+00:00
Usually in the sophisticated thieves, it's the case that they buy a VIN from a car that was exported and not recorded as such. They then get a new copy of the title for a car that is no longer in the country and can request new factory stamped vin parts such as the suspension pillar.
The car looks completely legitimate to your average person with matching VINs it's just there are now two cars in two different places
by mellosouls | 2026-01-06 19:02:33+00:00
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by 9rx | 2026-01-06 19:02:44+00:00
> The benefit of switching from C/C++ to Rust is higher than switching from C++ to Go

Ten years ago the memory model was a compelling benefit, sure, but nowadays we have Fil-C, that C++ static analyzer posted here yesterday, etc. There is some remaining marginal benefit that C and C++ still haven't quite caught up with yet, but is that significantly smaller and continually shrinking gap sufficient to explain things as they stand today?

You are right that the aforementioned assumption did not play out in the end. It turns out that C++ developers did, in fact, choose C++ because of C++ and would have never selected Python even if Python was the fastest language out there. Although, funnily enough, a "faster Python" ended up being appealing to Python developers so Go does ultimately have the same story, except around Python (and Ruby) instead of C++.

> Another argument offered for Rust is that it's high-level enough that you can also use it for the web

It was able to do that ten years ago just as well. That doesn't really explain things either.
by horsawlarway | 2026-01-06 19:02:45+00:00
You still use word?

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As a more serious response - The last time I purchased MS office (decade+ ago) I paid once for a product license I could use forever. That felt fair - I buy a tool, I use it.

Plex had that payment model and got a lot less pushback from the community - but this whole "we're a SaaS now!" thing is just not going to fly.

I just don't trust the company anymore, and Jellyfin is absolutely great.
by strogonoff | 2026-01-06 19:02:48+00:00
Arguably, the advertiser is not merely a third party whose interests the service provider must consider, but rather the actual paying customer (and much more of the second party) whose interests the service provider must satisfy to make revenue. That to me puts into perspective the absurdity of this business model: the user is not the customer, the product or service itself is not the product but only a means to keep offering the actual product to the paying customer.
by ffsm8 | 2026-01-06 19:03:08+00:00
I don't think anyone would've had an issue with buy to use, that's not their business model however.

As a matter of fact, I paid them 150€ for a "lifetime license" - because a long time ago, that was their business model.

I too left for jellyfin because of their pivot to being "Netflix" as paxys phrased it.

They just decided to throw away the market they established themselves into previously. Saltines should be expected at that.
by alistairSH | 2026-01-06 19:03:10+00:00
They might feel differently if they actually _used_ the thing

That has to be a big part of it... especially if the customers' reference point is modern touchscreen cell phones (high quality displays, fast, etc).

But, the touch screen in my Honda is NOTHING like my iPhone. It's slow. It's not a good display. The software package is lackluster. It has a "apps" page, but there's no app store for crying out loud!!!

At least the screen is only for radio stuff and a few car monitoring things. The HVAC is still manual buttons.
by driggs | 2026-01-06 19:03:21+00:00
This website is a useless exercise, but the idea in the submission title "using fewer syllables to express numbers" has utility.

As a musician, I frequently need to count to a rhythm, and the pesky number seven's two syllables throws my cadence off. So I count a bar of 8 like this:

> one, two, three, four, five, six, sev, eight

Occasionally I'll need to count up to as high as 16, which is especially tricky. It'd be easiest to do it in hexadecimal-style, but somehow I can't bring myself to count a part out as:

> one, two, three, four, five, six, sev, eight, nine, a, b, c, d, e, f, g

If only I could convince musicians to use zero-based indexing instead of one-based.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-06 19:03:26+00:00
Notably Boom's big pivot a month ago was to start selling their supersonic designed engines to data centers for power.

I struggle to imagine this is a very efficient design, that something designed for going mach 1.something breathing significant air is ideally suited for being at sea level not moving running a generator. Just feels like the stupid timeline having it laughs at us all again. https://boomsupersonic.com/press-release/boom-supersonic-to-...
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by eleventyseven | 2026-01-06 19:03:38+00:00
> I

You are not the only consumer of air travel. Supersonic is not for you, it is for elites willing to spend 4x the ticket price for half the flight time. Concorde tickets were $6000 for D.C. to London in the mid 1990s, so about $12,500 today, and that was for an economy-style seat. It was very popular among a certain segment.

East Coast US to Europe in 3-4 hours versus 7-8, West Coast US to Asia in 5-6 hours versus 10-12.... makes it more like a domestic flight.
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-06 19:04:03+00:00
I don't want any buttons on the steering wheel, except the horn.

I don't want a screen at all, but reversing cameras are now mandatory so that one is probably not going away.

I like the "return to real buttons" trend but it's less about buttons and more about the appropriate physical controls for the operation being performed. The control itself should both indicate current status and provide for changing it. For example, things that are "on" or "off" should have a switch with distinct "on" and "off" positions, not a single pushbutton that toggles. Temperature or volume or blower speed should be dials or sliders that move between two physical end points. If you have to repeatedly push or hold an "up" or "down" button and look at a display to set the temperature that's suboptimal. Moving a slider or dial where the physical position corresponds to the actual setting is so much better.
by flumpcakes | 2026-01-06 19:04:07+00:00
At least the European laws are debated, and more often than not will then be voted down. America has the similar laws for the state, they're just secret and do not help the average person.

It is also getting harder to argue against descriptive laws on communications when Grok is churning out child pornography and X thinks that's just "the user's fault".

I wonder how hard it would be to get seat belts enshrined in law in the modern day if they never existed. Europe is already throwing out a bunch of safety standards because King Trump wants unsafe American vehicles to be sold in the EU. How about the US stops making crap cars? Oh sorry, that's the "ungrateful" European in me. Trump really is throwing out 80 years of shared progress and proving the anti-US stance that all of it's allies are just vassals.
by heathrow83829 | 2026-01-06 19:04:22+00:00
>> Ideally, codebases would grow by adding data (e.g. a json describing endpoints, UIs, etc), not repetitive code.

Be very careful with this approach. there are many ways it can go completely wrong. i've seen a codebase like this and it was a disaster to debug. because you can't set breakpoints in data. it was a disaster.

It may not look compact or elegant but I'd rather see debuggable and comprehensible boiler point even if it's repetitive rather than a mess
by manmal | 2026-01-06 19:04:23+00:00
I agree, codex is great at reviewing as well. I think that’s because code is the ideal description of what we want to achieve, and codex is good (only) when it knows what must be achieved, as verbosely as possible.

Currently I don’t let GLM or Opus near my codebases unsupervised because I’m convinced that the better the foundation, the better the end result will be. Is the first draft not pretty crappy with GLM?
by cruffle_duffle | 2026-01-06 19:04:37+00:00
One of the smarter product decisions they made was to tweak the algorithm to show different types of content based on time (and device). If it’s past 9:30pm and it’s the bedroom tv it suggests vastly different stuff than 6:30am on the living room tv. And for good reason! I’m not watching some slow “adventures through the milky way at light speed” video when I’m waking up!

It’s very smart about that stuff!
by Groxx | 2026-01-06 19:05:17+00:00
Every theorem prover tool I've used has been an absolute nightmare of UX¹ and flaky installs and random broken things, so yea. They definitely have bugs like that, and for some reason it's particularly frequent :|

It's not enough to make it not useful, not by a long shot. So everyone uses them. But it's a gigantic turn-off for anyone getting started or looking into it semi-casually, I suspect it's harming the field more than they think.

1: I don't mean like "ew everything's crammed together, give it some liquid glass and let the components breathe", that would be awful and TCL/TK components are plenty functional. I mean like "sometimes when you configure your initial axioms, the text field will not let you enter any text". Or "clicking 'save' will do nothing until you close and relaunch". Or on some OSes the cross-platform UI toolkit from two decades ago will overlap controls. Or it will simply crash 12% of the time when you view one settings section. Or "to get any syntax errors while trying to learn the system, you need to set up your initial axioms in a settings pane 3 layers deep with no field label, but nothing will tell you to do this, it will just act like a plain text field and the run button will be grayed out with no tooltip". The absolute bottom of the UX-barrel.
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by alisinabh | 2026-01-06 19:05:22+00:00
I have been trying Hyperliquid and even though it is a decentralized platform, the UI has geo restrictions which are annoying at best.

This extension modifies some requests that bypasses this geo-lock. Keep in mind that this extension can stop working if there are updates to how geo location restriction is implemented in the hyperliquid UI API.

Needless to say, this extension does not send any data to any third party servers and you have to install it manually as it is not (and most probably never will be) published on any stores.

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by masklinn | 2026-01-06 19:05:23+00:00
Yes, it sounds like the repetition of a mangled version of the SR71 stories. Burning 45 tonnes of fuel on the runway would be completely insane.

Checking various links on taxiing burn yields about 2 tonnes which is a lot more realistic and reasonable (a previous HN comment indicates the 767 burns about a tonne taxiing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283386 concorde burning twice that sounds fair)

The OP might have gotten confused reading articles like https://simpleflying.com/concorde-fuel-consumption/ stating concorde burned half its tank from the gate to cruise (mach 2 at FL600)
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-06 19:05:26+00:00
> I don't know how everyone arrives at that conclusion when the cost of the subscription services is also going up

Of course they will go up, that's the whole idea. The big providers stock on hardware, front-run the hardware market, starve it for products while causing the prices to rise sharply and at that point their services are cheaper because they are selling you the hardware they bought at low prices, the one they bought in bulk, under cheap long term contracts and, in many cases, kept dark for some time.

Result - at the time of high hardware prices in retail, the cloud prices are lower, the latter increase later to make more profits, and the game can continue with the cloud providers always one step ahead of retail in a game of hoarding and scalping.

Most recently, scalping was big during the GPU shortages caused by crypto-mining. Scalpers would buy GPUs in bulk then sell them back to the starved market for a hefty margin.

Cloud providers buying up hardware at scale is basically the same, the only difference is they sell you back the services provided by the hardware, not the actual gear.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-06 19:05:43+00:00
> We all want consistency (probably to a degree greater than Apple is capable of delivering)

This thinking is the fatal poison of the tech industry. The further you repeat it, the faster the industry dies. Watch:

"We all want privacy, probably to a greater degree than Facebook is capable of providing."

"We all want browser competition, probably to a greater degree than Microsoft is willing to provide."

"We all want advertisement options, probably to a greater degree than Google can tolerate."

See what's happening here? You're not making a concession, you're flat-out accepting their failure. Apple can provide consistency, they're a trillion-dollar business that has every incentive to compete on their own merits. Instead they carve out arbitrary and harmful rules for each platform and then steelman it when any authority of any kind suggests that they're wrong.

This isn't a "perfect being the enemy of good" situation, it's degraded into "good being the enemy of intolerable defaults" instead.
by corysama | 2026-01-06 19:05:54+00:00
This is similar to the approach touted by Steve Yegge in this interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuJyJP517Uw

I really appreciate that he is up-front about "Yes. Vibe coding has lots of dangerous problems that you must learn to control if you are to go whole-hog like this."

Has anyone read his Vibe Coding book? The Amazon reviews make it sound like it's heavy on inspiration but light on techniques.
by tazjin | 2026-01-06 19:06:33+00:00
I regularly take the train between Moscow and Kazan. It's 12 hours, you can get on in the evening, have dinner on the train and then get a decent 8 hours of sleep before getting up, having some coffee and arriving.

It's much longer than the equivalent flight, but also much more comfortable. There's something annoying about airports - with the train I can get to the station 15-20 minutes before departure and it's fine.

Once the train rides get much longer than 12 hours it shifts, but there's a sweet spot right around there.
by hnburnsy | 2026-01-06 19:06:38+00:00
Sounds like the IIHS which has been imposing 'mandates' on car manufacturers with little proof that these mandates are effective. These mandates are costing us all millions in upfront and insurance rates but I never see any evidence that they are worth the cost they impose. Not opposed to the mandates specifically just the lack of cost benefit analysis.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-06 19:06:45+00:00
> For instance, suppose you run a competitor to Salesforce and you want to buy the Salesforce keyword because you provide a better product. I don't know how you would bootstrap that otherwise.

Why would you assume I'm providing a better product? Ads are predominantly needed by those providing worse products, because spending money on marketing has much better ROI than actually creating a good product.
by rtkwe | 2026-01-06 19:07:25+00:00
The math doesn't scan out on that, it sounds good for pitches and articles but is kind of nonsense once you think about it imo. It's going to cost way more than just 2x to run the supersonic jet along the same route per flight just in fuel and maintenance and you're cutting out all the low fare passengers they cram in the back so they need to make up even more money than just the fuel costs and running additional flights per day doesn't address the issue because the cost per trip is increasing so running more trips just keeps incurring those same costs.
by tensor | 2026-01-06 19:07:32+00:00
The fix is actually fairly simple IMO, though will never be implemented. Make all ads passive, e.g. require people to explicitly ask to see them. For example, when I want to see what new video games are around, I go to review sites and forums. It's opt-in.

Making all ads only legal in bazar-like environments, banning all other forms of "forced" ad viewing, and also banning personalized ads completely, would go a very long way to fixing the issues. Hell, we can start with simply banning personalized ads, that alone would effectively destroy the surveillance economy by making it illegal to use that data for anything other than providing the service the customer purchases.
by mlajtos | 2026-01-06 19:07:41+00:00
I have a project using tfjs and jax-js is very exciting alternative. However during porting I struggle a lot with `.ref` and `.dispose()` API. Coming from tfjs where you garbage collect with `tf.tidy(() => { ... })`, API in jax-js seems very low-level and error-prone. Is that something that can be improved or is it inherent to how jax-js works?

Would `using`[0] help here?

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
by BeetleB | 2026-01-06 19:07:56+00:00
> Almost every single user I've shown GNOME to was surprised or bothered by this being the default instead of the usual scrolling you'd see in Windows.

Would be good to see a well designed survey on this.

To me, middle click for pasting is not a power feature, but something I thought most Linux/UNIX users knew. It was one of the first things I learned on a UNIX DE.

Second, who cares what the Windows default behavior is? Why is GNOME changing a mainstay of UNIX to be more like Windows? For the last 15 years, I've used Linux and Windows both - very heavily. I've never used middle click for scrolling. Seems like an eye candy feature and not intended to be useful.

I'm on a MacOS right now, and middle clicking to scroll is absent.