MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by latexr | 2026-01-22 13:07:39+00:00
There’s definitely some risk, but the alternative is not a panacea either (high rents, loneliness). You can also get closer to people and enrich your life, and it’s positive to practice tolerance for the behaviours of others (within reason).

It’s possible there are more unhinged people today, but I think that’s also a consequence of us spending so much time alone in the first place (and sycophantic bots are only going to make that worse).

I was also thinking of everyone, not just US Americans.
by __jonas | 2026-01-22 13:07:59+00:00
Yeah that's very possible, I have never built anything with LLMs and I'm not a heavy user so I'm not sure how feasible it is.

I do think I would already get value from a least worse option every day, a sort of 'digest', so I don't have remember, and to look through results myself. I think it's a best case for LLM use for me, there is no harm at all in false negatives or positives, there are no significant stakes and I think the vagueness / unpredictability of the output is an advantage, it might find something that I had not even considered (like for my example: here is a used laptop with roughly these specs, it could also be a good home home server, something like that).
Show HN: ServBay – Native local dev environment (modern XAMPP)
by Saltyfishh | 2026-01-22 13:08:42+00:00
Hello HN,

I’m one of the creators of ServBay.

I built this because I got tired of the cognitive load required just to start coding. On my Mac, it was a fragile mix of Homebrew services and asdf conflicts. On Windows, managing PATH variables and fighting with Docker Desktop's resource usage was equally frustrating.
I missed the simplicity of the MAMP/XAMPP era, but I needed to support modern stacks (Go, Rust, Node, etc.).

What it is:
ServBay is a native local development environment for both macOS and Windows. It is not a wrapper around Docker or VMs. It bundles everything you need into a single, isolated ecosystem so it doesn't mess with your system libraries.

Key Features:
- Multi-Version Stacks: Run Python, PHP,Node.js, Go and Rust and more simultaneously. No path conflicts.
- Concurrent Databases: Run PostgreSQL 14 and 16 at the same time on different ports. Also supports MySQL, MariaDB, Redis, and MongoDB.
- Automatic SSL: Generates valid certificates for local domains automatically. No more mkcert manual steps.
- Built-in Tunneling: Expose localhost to the internet for webhook testing/demos.

Why not just use Docker (or WSL)?
We use Docker for production. But for local dev, the file system sync latency and resource overhead can be overkill for day-to-day coding. ServBay is designed for when you just want to write code immediately without waiting for containers or virtual machines to spin up.

I’d love to hear your feedback on your current local workflow. I'll be here to answer any questions!
Link: https://www.servbay.com
by integralid | 2026-01-22 13:08:44+00:00
> i can‘t think of a single person who‘d stop paying for streaming services (music) in favour of going back to illegally download or (or even legally purchase) songs

I'd love to self host my music, but curating my collection is a lot of work. I made several attempts, but looking for music I like was too much work for me. If getting "illegal" music becomes easier I'll definitely eventually do this.
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-22 13:08:59+00:00
> Why tho do you feel the need to defend big agri businesses skirting employment law and pressuring wages downward by bringing in illegal people?

It is interesting that you immediately jumped to "illegal people". When I read it, I thought about the US H-2A via for temp farm hands. This page: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-d... ... says 385,000 visa holders in 2024. That is a lot!

Since you are based in Belgium, how many native-born Belgians are still performing low-skill manual labour on a farm? Probably very few. Most of them are probably from the poorest parts of EU or some kind of temp farm hand visa. Specifically: Fruits and vegetables require lots of low-skill manual labor for harvest and packing.

> At the same time gov requirements make it almost impossible to run an smaller independent farm

Call me cynical, but I am not nostalgic for the "smaller independent farm". If farms want to be smaller and independent in the 21st century, they need to distinguish themselves with product (usually: organic or "free range"), branding, and value add (example: create a cheese brand that only uses your special organic cow's milk). If they cannot or will not, then they will need to sell their business to the mega agg corps.
by pshirshov | 2026-01-22 13:09:02+00:00
Well, what are the alternatives?

> Small but fragmented ecosystem

You may contribute more! Also, with a language like Scala you don't need that many things readily available, you may just create them yourself tailored to your needs, Scala is expressive enough to be your framework on its own.

> sbt

Write your own build tool, dammit. I'm working on one.

> Language is dying

Not really. It's just not in the spotlight and never has been. But people feel entitled and moving away from Scala instead of making contributions.

> Go

If you are seriously switching to Go, not code-generating Go but writing code manually - that, probably, means you've never mastered Scala.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-22 13:09:06+00:00
「但它去哪裡打個洞，其實都不太會被關注。」 — thanks to the mods, who called out my numeric ex-handle yet have not deigned to comment on all the burrowing :-)

「...也沒有家庭托舉...」 — does this refer to financial, or emotional, support?

I see Hainan has not only PLAN, but also a plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Free_Trade_Port ; I guess that trade has yet to materialise?
by nutjob2 | 2026-01-22 13:09:25+00:00
This is my point. If you look at the actual behavior and read people's comments in forums you'll see that almost no one sticks to their "hard limit". Including me!

People's competitive behavior, or "you're not taking this from me," or "I've definitely got this item and have made plans" or any number of other emotional behaviors take over.

People's railing against sniping also demonstrates this.
by __s | 2026-01-22 13:09:46+00:00
I experienced this. Only made me hate school, but maybe because I had game programming at home to appreciate math with

Just expose them to everyday math so they aren't one of those people who think math has no practical uses. My father isn't great with math, but would raise questions like how wide a river was (solvable from one side with trig, using 30 degree angles for easy math). Napkin math makes things much more fun than strict classroom math with one right answer
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-22 13:09:49+00:00
Which I think is a secondary effect of many other things happening; staying in school for longer, much higher cost of living, cultural shifts like being more aware of what is normal and acceptable in a relationship, etc. It's not unusual for people to be in their 30's before finally having some (financial, etc) breathing room to even consider things like marriage / kids.
by samiv | 2026-01-22 13:09:56+00:00
I used to work with colleagues from China in contracting and I had the same experience with them. If they don't know something they have hard time saying that they don't know something or don't understand something.

Ficticious Example could be

Q: is this car red?
A: it's not green.
Q: yeah I know it's not green. But is it red?
A: today is Thursday.

One thing I leaned it's not worth pressing forward and causing a scene. Instead it's better to use other ways of finding the information.

When guiding team members I always found it useful to have them explain back to me in their own words what they're tasked to do. It become immediately obvious if they were on the right track or not.
by smurda | 2026-01-22 13:09:56+00:00
Tom Kelley and David Kelley, founders of Stanford's Design School and IDEO (the industrial design firm that made things like Apple's first mouse and the standup toothpaste tube) have a great book, Creative Confidence.

Here's their website for the book, along with some tools and useful instructional videos https://www.creativeconfidence.com/tools/
by tony-vlcek | 2026-01-22 13:09:59+00:00
Well, even though electricity is a commodity it still needs to be bought. My point is that people funding this will run out of patience paying for the electricity long before the public/regulators will need to step in a decided how much of it you can buy.

I guess you could always just use a fraction of the billions in investments and whip up a few new power plants. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx25v2d7zexo
by K0balt | 2026-01-22 13:10:36+00:00
That was my first reaction as well. Maybe if we include letting others harm themselves or others by choosing poorly it makes more sense, but then it’s patronising to the opposite sex, like their agency is invalid.

OTOH I can remember being a 16 year old sex crazed sociopath, maybe adolescence is what op refers to? I definitely participated is some extremely questionable decisions at that age, and sometimes I wonder if others were significantly affected by my ignorance and selfishness. Probably not, as they were also sex crazed sociopaths at the time, but still. Such a cringefest.

Being ashamed of your past actions is how you know you are growing.
by hopelite | 2026-01-22 13:10:47+00:00
It’s something europeans don’t yet understand, that “diversity” has utterly destroyed community, trust, and tranquility in the US; mostly because it has been forced upon people against their will in direct contradiction of the core tenets of the Constitution and founding principles of America.

I realize hearing that or seeing that others may read that may anger people who are deeply invested in this fraud that diversity is good, but all the legitimate research into the topic all tells us the same thing; that it is detrimental to any and all human communities all around the world, even for the very group that pushes it on others while aggressively rejecting it for themselves and their own.
Show HN: Pdfpull – PDF extraction API with structured invoice and resume parsing
by uppnrise | 2026-01-22 13:11:04+00:00
A friend of mine was struggling with manually extracting data from PDFs, so I built a REST API to automate it.

Main features:
- Text extraction (full document or specific pages)
- Table extraction → JSON with headers/rows
- Invoice parsing → vendor, amounts, line items, tax (auto language detection)
- Resume parsing → contact info, skills, work experience, education
- Metadata, links, embedded images extraction

API endpoint: https://pdfpull-895295000838.europe-west1.run.app/docs
Playground: https://bnacar.dev/pdfpull-landing/playground.html

Tech: FastAPI, PyMuPDF, pdfplumber. Rule-based extraction (no LLM API calls).

The invoice/resume parsers detect language automatically (EN/DE/TR) and extract fields without per-template configuration.

Demo key for testing: sk_demo_123456789

Example request:

curl -X POST "https://pdfpull-895295000838.europe-west1.run.app/api/v1/parse/invoice" \
-H "X-API-Key: sk_demo_123456789" \
-F "file=@invoice.pdf"

Returns structured JSON:

{
"vendor_name": "ACME Corp",
"invoice_number": "INV-2024-001",
"total_amount": 1250.00,
"currency": "USD",
"line_items": [...],
"confidence": 0.92
}

Free to try (100 requests with demo key). Looking for feedback on the API design and what document types to add next.
by rswail | 2026-01-22 13:11:12+00:00
This is the same business model that Computer Associates used successfully in the 1990s, so it's not new to IT or technology.

The primary difference now is that the transition from bespoke IT on premises environments has been subsumed by the cloud hyperscalars and an entire hierarchy of products that use that infrastructure in a higher level of composability than in the past.

Products like SAP will continue to require engineering to maintain compatibility with the changes in its customers' requirements.

Products like MS-Word don't need that same level of feature work.

If a product is essentially feature complete then making the engineering a "maintenance only" support is about minimizing those support costs.
by drzaiusx11 | 2026-01-22 13:11:23+00:00
Looks great, and honestly not sure why something like this doesn't come out of the box in rails (it includes the kitchen sink for the most part sans ui)

One suggestion I'd make is to disable the autorotation of ui elements on your main page, it's unintuitive and has a frustratingly short timeout before cycling to the next ui element.
by yakkomajuri | 2026-01-22 13:11:47+00:00
I'm a dev and recently picked up "The Design of Everyday Things" as an attempt to become more design-oriented. Everyone raves about this being like the bible of design.

So far I'm about 80 pages in and have found it extremely academic and not very practical, sometimes deriving conclusions that are so far from reality that they are a bit concerning, like how a strong password does not matter because once they inevitably leak they can always be cracked via rainbow tables (the author doesn't use this exact term). As we know the exact point of a strong password is that it will not be in a rainbow table.

Of course the original version is pretty old but I picked up the latest revised version. Still some interesting insights and I haven't given up on the book quite yet but it's been a ton of theory and a lot of terminology so far.
by ehhthing | 2026-01-22 13:12:04+00:00
This already exists on the previous platform curl was using (HackerOne), it does not prevent the slop.

At my previous employer, I had access to the company’s bug bounty submissions and I can assure you no matter what you try to do, people will submit slop anyway. This is why many companies will pay for “triage services” that do some screening to try to ensure that the exploit actually works.

Unfortunately this means that the first reply to many credible reports are from people who aren’t familiar with the service, meaning that reports often take a long time to be triaged for no reason other than the fact that the reporter assumed that the person reviewing the report would actually understand the product. It’s hard to write good, concise reports if you can’t assume this fact.

Honestly, I don’t know what can be done to fix all of this. It’s a bad situation for everyone involved, and only getting worse.
by hopelite | 2026-01-22 13:12:11+00:00
It’s something europeans don’t yet understand, that “diversity” has utterly destroyed community, trust, and tranquility in the US; mostly because it has been forced upon people against their will in direct contradiction of the core tenets of the Constitution and founding principles of America.

I realize hearing that or seeing that others may read that, may anger people who are deeply invested in the fraud that diversity is good, but all the legitimate research into the topic all tells us the same thing; that “diversity” is detrimental to any and all human communities all around the world, even for the very group that pushes it on others while aggressively rejecting it for themselves and their own.
by oaiey | 2026-01-22 13:12:12+00:00
Particular topic (1) is also trained in cross cultural trainings.

Another topic is: do not expect a remote dev to pickup ambient knowledge, particular if they are juniors with no life experience. And since outsourcing to India is trying to get the resources for the lowest possible price, the result is: you get them as junior / fake senior / bad senior as you think. Pay better in India, get better people.
by windowpains | 2026-01-22 13:12:40+00:00
I wonder if a similar thing makes managers dumb. As a manager, you have people doing work you oversee, a very similar dynamic to using an AI assistant. Sometimes the AI/subordinate makes a mistake, so you have to watch for that, but for the most part they can be trusted.

If that’s true, then maybe we could leverage what we know about good management of human subordinates and apply it to AI interaction, and vice versa.
by gond | 2026-01-22 13:12:41+00:00
Please don’t use Design Thinking.

Design Thinking is a subset of Systems Thinking (this is the polite interpretation).
Design Thinking does with its sole existence what Systems Thinking tried to avoid: Another category to put stuff into, divide and conquer. It is an over-simplified version of the original theories.

Better: Jump directly to Systems Thinking, Cybernetics and Systems Theory (and if measurements are more your thing, even try System Dynamics).

I can only recommend that anyone interested in this topic take a look at the work of one of the masters of Systems Thinking, Russel Ackoff:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9p6vrULecFI

This talk from 1991 is several dozen books heavily condensed into one hour.

(Russell Ackoff is considered one of the founders of Operations Research and ironically came to be regarded an apostate as he tried to reform the field he co-founded. He subsequently became a prominent figure of Systems Thinking)

My 2c. I'll show myself out.
by soegaard | 2026-01-22 13:13:17+00:00
I need to study the stack-switching proposal in more detail.

However, I don't see an obvious way of attach and probe continuation marks to the continuations (including the current one).

I am not an expert in continuation marks, so I'll just link to this presentation by Matthew Flatt (which you probably already know).

https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/main/stack/2021...
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-22 13:13:23+00:00
When I was a twentysomething, I had roommates. This saved money on rent and bulk purchases (which let me spend more time having fun and save money) and provided a starter-kit social circle in a new city. It also honed conflict-resolution skills and ability to be civil. And when I got a partner, it made moving in together smoother.

Something I’ve noticed recently is many college graduates living alone. That’s fine. But it’s a weird default for early in one’s career. If I had one general piece of advice for anyone starting their career, it would be to seek out a living situation with roommates.

Side question: are more college students staying in solo dorms?
by MadDemon | 2026-01-22 13:13:31+00:00
LLMs and their capabilities are very impressive and definitely useful. The productivity gains often seem to be smaller than intuitively expected though. For example, using ChatGPT to get a response to a random question like "How do I do XYZ" is much more convenient than googling it, but the time savings are often not that relevant for your overall productivity. Before LLMs you were usually already able to find the information quickly and even a 10x speed up does not really have too much of an impact on your overall productivity, because the time it took was already negligible.
by zbentley | 2026-01-22 13:13:33+00:00
Eh, I don't think you need to get that extreme.

A combination of careful use of a given high-level-language with expert awareness of compiler behavior, and the presence of tests that detect some of the nasty timing behaviors that get compiled in via static analysis of compiler IR or assembly on selected platforms will get you pretty far--not guaranteed perfect like handwritten asm would, but far enough that the advantages of not needing maintainers to be fluent in assembly past the point of maintaining those tests might outweigh the drawbacks.
by TeamCommet1 | 2026-01-22 13:13:40+00:00
This was inevitable. We're seeing the "Vercel-ification" of the edge. For a long time, Cloudflare had the superior infrastructure (Workers, R2, KV), but lacked the cohesive "onramp" that Next.js provides for Vercel. By acquiring Astro, Cloudflare finally owns the full stack, from the local dev experience to the global edge delivery.

The real question is whether Cloudflare can maintain Astro's "framework agnostic" soul while being incentivized to push everyone toward Workers/Pages.
Ask HN: Industrial smart glasses with online / offline capabilities
by aureliusm | 2026-01-22 13:14:24+00:00
I am working for a company that is providing technical support to farmers in rural areas. We have local teams for support, but they often have to collaborate with remote teams/specialists. Idea is to have the field technician equipped with smart glasses so that the remote specialist can work with something more than just static images and verbal descriptions. Does anyone have positive (or negative) experience with industrial grade solutions in difficult environments (think humidity, dust, temperature)? Ideally the solution should be durable, easy to operate, have good picture and sound quality and be well supported by the vendor. As farms are often outside 5G network reach, offline capabilities for just recording are also valuable.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-22 13:15:09+00:00
Awesome. This person got way busier than I did [1] (I think I focus more on creating original designs on the printer). When I first got the Bambu in 2004 I did the whole Gridfinity thing. Very fun.

As their post makes clear (even to me) there are actually a lot of things out there you can 3D print. Something I printed last year (and did not even bother to post) was a center-console "compartment" for a 1995 Mazda Miata I have. I swapped out the trashy aftermarket stereo (a previous owner has installed in the Miata) for one that is close to OEM but then I had an empty "hole" in the center console. So I printed a cubby for it.

I too was like the author. Originally got into 3D printing years ago—found it frustrating. Picking up a Bambu printer a yearish ago made made all the difference in the world for me. Previously I had an Ender and it was, endlessly frustrating (pun intended). The Bambu is so next-level, the software so well integrated and polished, that I finally found that I enjoy, and I am not burdened by, 3D printing.

(The only caveat about the Bambu is that people worry about vendor lock-in. I don't believe Bambu have enshittified that way yet, and people are finding workarounds in case they do, albeit by adding complexity in setting up, printing. The price of the Bambu for someone getting into 3D printing is very attractive.)

[1] https://engineersneedart.com/blog/3dprinting2025/3dprinting2...
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-22 13:15:12+00:00
> My family farm is small enough they alone cannot support a entire family upper-middle class lifestyle, but the land is still worth millions.

This makes no financial sense to me. I call this: "asset rich, but cash poor". It is like living in a house that you inherited worth "millions", but working a job that "alone cannot support a entire family upper-middle class lifestyle". Simple solution: Sell the house. Cash out and invest in the stock market or rental real estate. You should do the same. If what you say is really true, then call Dave Ramsey (or someone similar) and ask for their advice. They will say the same.