MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-14 11:56:56+00:00
That's not true though, no one "Has their life ruined forever" because of one off-hand comment. Eventually, social media moves on, and people stop haunting you, if that's what you're encountering.

Great way of avoiding 99% of the harm with that, is literally getting off social media, if that ever happens to you. Most people around you in real-life won't know about it, nor recognize you, or anything else, unless you had a pattern of bad behavior for a longer period of time.

But you can still make mistakes, even online, and eventually people forget about it.
by graemep | 2026-01-14 11:56:58+00:00
> But I definitely feel a lot more comfortable when secrets are never written to persistent unencrypted files, and being aware of these leakage vectors is helpful to avoid that!

It is very common for people to set environment variables for a server process from a config file that is readable by the application which is a bigger problem. At least put them a file that is only root readable (and have the process started by root).
by ben_w | 2026-01-14 11:57:20+00:00
A lot of people are now struggling to detect which images are AI generated, and inferring reality from illusions.

To an extent, this was already the case with many other things, including stuff that was expressly labelled as fiction, but I recall an old quote, fooling all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, it is now easier to fool more people all the time and to fool all people an increasing fraction of the time.

This isn't only limited to fake pics of kids, but kids are weak and struggle to defend themselves, and in this context the tools faking them seems to me likely to increase rates of harm against them.
by 21asdffdsa12 | 2026-01-14 11:57:40+00:00
? What strange moral posturing is this? Of course there is good that can exists in parallel to bad deeds. Invent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process fertilizer that feeds the planet and your contributions to poison gas are forgotten. Not forgiven.

But science and progress are decoupled from whatever a person contributes. And even a disgusting person, while it should be kept from power, should be capable to contribute to science and progress. Even a insane nazi can feed half africa, while the most saint like person, may give humanity nothing.

The value society assigns is not the value a person has. The value is determined by the objective outcomes the person produces. Werner von Braun has done more for humanity then all of the socialist icons combined. He is still a disgusting person.

Imagine humanity like a spacestation. Science and Industry forming the hull, society on the interior, hard physics on the outside. The things a EVA worker contributes to all life inside the hull, can be substantial while he is a useless drunk on the inside. And somebody with a fishbowl over his head, cosplaying astronaut on the inside contributes nothing.
by Findecanor | 2026-01-14 11:58:11+00:00
Nicotine gets metabolised into several compounds within the human body which are carcinogenic, even if pure nicotine in itself isn't.

Cancer risk, is more complex than just carcinogens. Nicotine is known to promote the growth of existing cancer cells, and in multiple ways.
A big thing with cancer that not many people are aware of is that we all have cancer cells, and get new cancer cells all the time — but that the human immune system is normally effective at detecting and killing them before they have multiplied too much. Old cancer mutations can lay dormant or kept in check for many years, but if promoted and/or the immune system gets stressed or suppressed, they'd grow and you'd "get cancer".

Different types of E-juice also contain additives for flavour, and we still don't yet know the long-term effects of some of those — when ingested as vape — which is a different to being swallowed. And by long-term, I mean 20 years or more, which in some cases is the time a cancer cell can take from formation to detectable tumour.
by blitzar | 2026-01-14 11:59:17+00:00
> The government argues that wind projects are cheaper than new gas power stations and will "bring down bills for good", but the Conservatives have accused its climate targets of raising energy costs.

Those for it say it is cheaper electricity, those against it say it is more expensive electricity. The cult members of each side say these are indisputable facts.

All I know is that when the wind blows and the sun shines my electricity costs £0.00 (or less) - I expect this comes at some kind of cost however.
by tlb | 2026-01-14 11:59:58+00:00
It's rare for there to be little wind in the North Sea. It's only a couple days a month when it's below 1/3 capacity. And it's negatively correlated with solar: a day that's both cloudy and low-wind is very rare.

But it does happen, so you need backups. The good news is that natural gas backup generators are fairly cheap per peak megawatt. Most of the cost is drilling wells, liquifying gas, shipping it, unloading it, etc. All those other costs are much lower because the generators only run a small fraction of the time.

If you go to https://winderful.uk and set the date range to a year, you can get a sense of how many long dips there are.
by latexr | 2026-01-14 12:00:22+00:00
> Such claims are not cited in the article.

There you go, then.

https://youtu.be/l0K4XPu3Qhg?t=60

While I do agree conversation on an article should keep the article in mind, comments are also where we can expand on it, which is what makes them valuable. I’m sure not all the author’s opinions and nuances were written down in the article, that would be impossible.
by Palmik | 2026-01-14 12:01:26+00:00
I wish there were more open benchmarks comparing different setups and different engines. There are so many knobs to tune (TP / DP / PP / PD / spec. decoding / etc.) and while the optimal setup will be highly dependent on the model, the environment and the traffic, it's likely some useful conclusions could be drawn.

It almost feels like in the past year there is some unwritten agreement between the 3 main open-source engines (vLLM, sglang, TRT-LLM) to not compare to each other directly :) They used to publish benchmarks comparing against each other quite regularly.
by fennecfoxy | 2026-01-14 12:01:37+00:00
>These people shape the culture that the young people around you consume. They create the memes of six-seven-ification.

I'd disagree, six-seven-ification is caused by the human desire for clout and tribal motivations - I'd argue that social currency is the reason people pursue fiat currency; ask yourself this, if I have you $100 billion, but you could not interact with any human beings from then on, would that $100 billion still matter?

Rather than influencers forcing memes, "six-seven-ification" arises organically from the authors' pursuing of belonging/clout within a tribe. What I would say is more interesting is that the lifetime of such cultural outputs is becoming more and more fleeting.

For Millenials & gen X our memes seemed to have quite a bit of permanence over the years. For the boomers and silent generations before us, their cultures were even more static (and traditional) by comparison. For gen z/a it seems their cultural language changes month to month, sometimes week to week.

Memes aren't enjoyed for years now, they're enjoyed for a few months. Horizontally spinning rat, Coffin dance, etc are all ancient history now.

And you can see the reaction to this; there are spikes in search interest on a lot of classic (2005-2015) memes, Gen Z is desperately embracing retro tech like camcorders, polaroids and 90s/00s outfits in a snap back to reality. The gravity of this cannot be understated.

Mom's spaghetti.
by someuser484848 | 2026-01-14 12:01:49+00:00
What? The comparison to the confidence trick from 400 years ago already stops at the second point? Why call this article that way if you are not going to bring up any parallels beyond... the extremely weak link of "building trust".

You have not actually made clear how mechanical calculators were a scam.

Ironically, this article feels like it was written by an LLM. Just a baseless opinion.
by chasil | 2026-01-14 12:01:51+00:00
As pdksh has aged into memory, OpenBSD's version is now known as oksh.

Android selected another fork, mksh, as their system shell. This is also included in Red Hat, along with ksh93.

I had read that zsh has strict emulation modes for ksh and bash. Is it possible that zsh behavior changes when those are triggered?
by sjw987 | 2026-01-14 12:02:34+00:00
This is the most sensible attitude I've seen people express that has led to meaningful weight loss, maintenance and as far as we can see across large timespans, lifestyle change.

It's incredibly hard to gain weight by eating whole or minimally processed foods. The destruction and recombination of foods (and their food matrix) into ultra processed foods is one of the driving causes behind people eating more because the artificial textures and softness is one of the main drivers of over-eating, especially of high calorie foods.

I'd wager that people could replicate the same satiety induced weight loss (to a slower, but safer extent) through minimising ultra processed foods than GLP drugs.

It reduces your supermarket shop to about 10% of the store. Almost anything packed and transported is out of the question, as are entire rows of capitalism-driven junk food.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-14 12:03:49+00:00
What I really loved about the talk is that you got a good insight into the actual complexities of manufacturing and drew all the right conclusions from it, rather than to throw your hands up and ordering stuff from China after all.

Friends of mine - with a bit more practical experience - are doing something similar, they realize that if there ever is a real demand for their product it might be at a time when the cheap alternatives simply are no longer available and have set up from day #1 to do everything in Europe. They are - like you - quite talented but the difference is that they have access to a lot more funding and if they need a particular machine they will simply go get it rather than to make their own.

You are resource constrained and that brings out a lot of creativity, which in the longer term will turn into a competitive advantage.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-14 12:03:52+00:00
> How deranged would it be to have every nfs client establish a wireguard tunnel and only have nfs traffic go through the tunnel?

See perhaps NFS over TLS:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9289

* https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7079884

* https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-NFSD-RPC-With-TLS
by NoLinkToMe | 2026-01-14 12:04:00+00:00
Sure if you put a cash value on opportunity cost.

In that way hiring a cleaner to come clean your house is cheaper than cleaning yourself, because they're professionals and take less time than you would yourself.

But if you don't pay yourself an hourly wage to cook and clean (which is true for most people), then paying someone else to do it will require you to spend more cash.
by bob001 | 2026-01-14 12:05:51+00:00
There are those who can provide 10x output in certain kinds of problems. Either due to experience or however their minds work. If their output is as a tech lead then even a 2x can provide an overall 10x increase through second order impact via their team. There are also those who provide 0.5x and 0.1x output on a wide range of problems.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-14 12:06:14+00:00
>I’ve been doing Elixir for 9 years, 5 professionally. Nobody cares about ad-hoc polymorphism.

That’s true for Elixir as practiced, but it’s the wrong conclusion for Gleam.

Elixir doesn’t care about ad-hoc polymorphism because in Elixir it’s a runtime convention, not a compile-time guarantee. Protocols don’t give you universal quantification, exhaustiveness, coherence, or refactoring safety. Missing cases become production crashes, not compiler errors. So teams sensibly avoid building architecture on top of them.

In a statically typed language, ad-hoc polymorphism is a different beast entirely. It’s one of the primary ways you encode abstraction safely. The compiler enforces that implementations exist, pushes back on missing cases, and lets you refactor without widening everything into explicit pattern matches.

That’s exactly why people who like static types do care about it.

Pointing to Elixir community norms and concluding “nobody cares” is mixing up ecosystem habits with language design. Elixir doesn’t reward those abstractions, so people don’t use them. Gleam is explicitly targeting people who want the compiler to carry more of the burden.

If Gleam is “Elixir with types,” fine, lack of ad-hoc polymorphism is consistent.
If it’s “a serious statically typed language on the BEAM,” then the absence is a real limitation, not bikeshedding.

Static types aren’t about catching typos. They’re about moving failure from runtime to compile time. Ad-hoc polymorphism is one of the main tools for doing that without collapsing everything into concrete types.

That’s why the criticism exists, regardless of how Elixir codebases look today.
by mbesto | 2026-01-14 12:06:16+00:00
You keep throwing out specifications without understanding their real life installation use cases and then go as far as to make claims like "EG4 support is bad for DIY'r" which is so far from the truth it's hard to take anything you say seriously. There are hundreds of thousands of forums and YouTube videos from DIY who rave about EG4. In fact Sol-ark has a sketchy support track record (source - several installers I work with)

> The original comment is all within your framework of 3 Powerwalls vs one EG4 18K with 3 batteries. That's 12kw AC for the EG4, and 34.5kw on 3 Powerwalls.

And for the last time, you do not need 34.5kW continuous AC output for a house that is averaging 2 kW per hour per day. Yes, they have two EVs, but also these do not need to charge at their full potential if you plug them in every night. The author isn't generating enough energy from solar of their battery bank so it's pulling from the grid anyway for those loads, so a grid bypass (which EG4 supports up to 200A) means you don't need the inverter to pump out 34.5 kW to loads anyway.

The thing you keep glossing over is that the fundamental problem with a powerwall for scaling systems is that each battery bank you purchase requires you to purchase a built in inverter. The same nearly identical system from EG4 is an 18k + 15 kWh battery which costs $8k, and powerwalls cost $12k+. Thats a 50% premium to get you 185 LRA but 8 kWh less capacity. For an extra $250 you get an AC soft start and a 185 LRA is completed unnecessary and irrelevant.

> Yes, 48 amps at 240 is 11.5kw.

You keep saying these things like I don't understand the math.

> You don't know how to use an amp clamp and don't understand the American split phase power grid.

Lol. And you don't even understand that specifications ratings because they very explicitly say the amps at VAC ratings (120/240) because while it's entirely possible to reach the full potential of wattage... in real life, it's unlikely you will due to how split phase works with inverters. Inverters are rated by amps per leg because your loads on one 120v leg could be higher than the other one (unless all of your loads are 240v in which you would always be using the same amps on both legs).

So to conclude:

1. An identical system is $53k (Powerwall) versus $31k (EG4), which is still hilariously overpriced.

The only measurable differences are:

EG4 gets 6 more continuous AC amps (up to 1.44 kW more)

Powerwall gets much higher surge capacity (555A vs 195A)

EG4 gets 8 kWh more capacity

2. If you need more than 195A surge, you put a soft start in or just let the inverter bypass temporarily to grid.

3. You would never size this system with 3 inverters for someone averaging 48 kWh/day, so the author spent £7k on an additional battery and got an unnecessary inverter purchase which is now directly eating into his ROI.
Show HN: Hirebetter.io – AI tools to reduce manual recruiter work
by tomgreef | 2026-01-14 12:06:23+00:00
Hi HN! I, Tom, am a founder of hirebetter and I’d love to share what we’ve been working on and get feedback from the community.

hirebetter is a set of AI-driven tools designed to take over repetitive manual tasks that recruiters and solo founders often face when hiring. At a high level, it helps with things like drafting outreach messages, filtering candidate profiles, and generating tailored interview prompts, all with the goal of saving time and making the hiring process consistent across candidates.

My co-founders have spent years in recruiting and hiring for small teams, and found themselves constantly doing the same manual work — customizing templates, digging through resumes, juggling tabs and tools. A lot of that felt like busy work that could be automated intelligently, so I started building hirebetter to fill that gap.

The current tools are: Job Description, Candidate Summary, Interview Questions, Job Ad Rewriter, Position Benchmarking, Social Media Job Posts (with Image), Outreach Messages, Infopack, Hiring Process, Boolean Search, Candidate Persona, Job Board Suggestions & Rejection Letter.

We’re thinking of working on a Google Chrome extension so you can use hirebetter's tools directly while browsing LinkedIn, job boards, or applicant trackers, without switching tabs. The extension will bring this functionality right where you already work.

The product is live at the link above. We’d love to hear:

- What’s confusing or unclear?
- What tasks in hiring do you hate the most?
- How would you use something like this in your workflow?

Happy to answer any questions and iterate based on your feedback!
by joenot443 | 2026-01-14 12:06:40+00:00
In this case, I meant accountability to the municipal tax payer.

Most people just don't have the time or motivation to read town council notes or attend meetings, just having one person in town who's willing to bring these topics to the public square (Facebook, usually) is often a net positive.

Totally agree though, this mechanism is far from foolproof.
Ask HN: Did Glassdoor figure out your identity?
by penguin_booze | 2026-01-14 12:07:18+00:00
AFAIR, I never submitted my real identity with my contributions to Glassdoor. I even used a different email with Glassdoor account than my primary. Yet, it looks to me like Glassdoor sniffed out my real name and job somehow, and is now linked against my account, with no way to remove or amend it.

In the age of surveillance, the fact that they were able to resolve my identity doesn't surprise me. If I'm correctly recalling that I never volunteered this information myself, I feel queasy about how they did that behind my back, especially on a platform that's supposedly anonymous.

Anyone else find themselves on the same boat w.r.t. their real identity having been fished out?
Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant
by TimGubth | 2026-01-14 12:10:03+00:00
(This is not a problem-solving rant this is a I need to release my thoughts cuz no one in my life understands rant)

Not sure where else to turn to but I'm extremely embarrassed to say we're nearing the 1 year anniversary of my Feb graduation (*course 6*) and I'm still unemployed, to the dismay of me and my family. I've applied to hundreds of jobs, tailored my resume with tech folks who regularly hire, tailored cover letters, gotten referrals, spoken to relevant connections in my network, done really well in interviews, all to no avail. The feedback I've received from asking employers who rejected me is never something wrong about me, just that they found someone else with pre-existing experience in that particular industry or tech stack. How am I supposed to compete with that at an entry level? And the longer I go without work, the worse it gets in the eyes of employers. I have two internships from back in undergrad as my "work experience" but that's it, one at a known company and one at a startup. My personal projects were not super intensive unfortunately, but I'm not sure how much that's affecting me at this point. Given the way things are going in the world, I remove certain tech sectors from consideration, but I really don't think that should be a handicap.

I knew the job market was bad going into it, but recently, I've genuinely fallen into depression. It feels like I was sold this lie that the MIT name would open doors previously inaccessible to me, but nothing seems to be helping me land a job. Sucks more when I run into old friends who can't even hide their shock that I'm still unemployed. So I have to pretend this is just a gap year and all part of the plan. I'm starting to come to terms with the fact that I might never work in industry as a *software engineer or in tech*, and that sucks! Maybe it's already time for a career change, I don't know to what. I never felt too good about myself at MIT compared to others and so this all feels like proof that I'm not skilled enough to work in my chosen field.

I can't even do my hobbies with all this free time because I spend a lot of it applying to jobs, doomscrolling, and sulking. I am really grateful that I was able to move back home with my parents. I think they were happy to have me back for a bit. But now I'm starting to feel like a drag and burden, especially as the *middle child sister* who’s just… there. I feel like a firework that exploded in bursts of color (everyone ooed and ah-ed), and then... nothing. I'm considering starting some volunteer/side projects, but persistently, in the back of my mind, is this voice telling me I'm worthless because I can't make any money. I am a failure.
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-14 12:10:07+00:00
> An OnlyFans worker may make the bulk of her money by meeting fans in person for dates.

I don't believe it. Do you have any evidence? As I understand, the money is made two ways: (1) regular subscriptions and (2) whales that pay for extra content. Also, most of them have private chat and email, which I assume is serviced offshore from somewhere like the Philippines where it is cheap and easy to hire English speakers.
by doublerabbit | 2026-01-14 12:10:08+00:00
It was one of those rush laws. They are still for sale, I walk past a "BULK OUTLET FOR ELF-BAR" shop sign when I walk to work.

It's one of those UK laws of "we are doing something!" but not actually do anything. These companies either pay backhand or know how to skirt around the rule. Who's enforcing it?