MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by elp62 | 2026-01-01 18:17:39+00:00
In the vibrant capitalist society envisioned by Joseph Schumpeter, all boats are lifted because better businesses replace incumbents, both improving products for the larger society and continually redistributing wealth. In my view, since 2008 my country (the US) has distanced itself from this policy, instead focusing on protecting incumbents for fear of loss of employment. The unpopular policy of bailouts pursued in 2008-2009 and then again during the pandemic has led to a stagnant, top-heavy economy with most of the disadvantages of capitalism and less and less of the upside.

I don't think degrowth is necessary to solve this problem, although I'm sure it has its merits. But I think growth can still occur without the trend toward oligarchic or feudal society, and in fact a society with a vibrant economy would have more growth than we do today.
by oarfish | 2026-01-01 18:17:54+00:00
Depends, its also an indicator of novelty, and that by itself isnt useful. Once you are used to a movement and training volume, getting sore is difficult unless you ramp up the volume continuosly.

id say, never being sore at all is maybe a sign you dont do enough for optimum results, but frequently being sore means the load is too high. And for health outcomes it probably matters less.
by pallar | 2026-01-01 18:18:04+00:00
A bunch of this stuff is already there in Windows and in Visual Studio. It has been for decades.

But it’s legacy tech. Nobody actually cares about IPC to this degree. I suspect because nobody’s mental model works to this level of abstraction and who the hell is going to waste time doing all the plumbing.

Kudos for suffering on JVM I guess. Some people have a higher pain threshold.

Ideal IDE? As long as I have a reflow oven I’m not complaining.
by trinix912 | 2026-01-01 18:18:30+00:00
It's usually not just one chapter but the style of the entire book. Whenever something relatively advanced comes up it's just briefly mentioned and skipped over to the next topic, which once again starts by explaining the basics that would be better suited for a beginner level book.

I find it quite difficult to find quality programming books that actually deal with the details and waste no pages explaining the basics that can be found in literally any other book about a specific language/technology.

When it was mentioned that the publisher demanded the book be "dumbed down" it wasn't a surprise to me at all. I also think it's hurting sales of programming/SWE books at large as beginners are more likely to just use up-to-date Internet tutorials than books, but those more experienced who would benefit from in-depth books can only find the dumbed-down ones.
by helge9210 | 2026-01-01 18:18:35+00:00
https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2006773495066464580

> Seeing as this has made the orange site, let it be known this person is a model security researcher.

> The issue was not in any FFmpeg release, and a report was sent three days after a new code was added to FFmpeg Git.

> There was no big CVE ADVISORY "MUH SECURITEH" "you need to fix this now or you will be hacked and the world will end" associated with the report.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-01-01 18:19:05+00:00
Peaceful??

No. The attacks were normal, not news. Think Jim Crow.

And the "Nakba" is mostly illusion. Lots of Arabs left at Arab behest, getting out of the way of the intended destruction of Israel. Oops, didn't work. Israel didn't ethnically cleanse Israel, most of it's neighbors did ethnically cleanse their areas.

And where you go wrong is thinking it was forceful. They bought land and moved to it.

And the root cause is that the Jews threw off centuries of oppression and the Muslims can't stand that. They considered the land conquered. As normal, when a victim throws off the abuser the level of violence goes way up.
by nunez | 2026-01-01 18:19:15+00:00
It definitely can be a chore.

I organized a large (600+-person at its peak) Meetup in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY during Meetup's hayday (2010-ish).

Meeting heaps of different people from all walks of life was interesting at first. But like a previous poster stated, connections like these are fleeting and take a lot of work to maintain (especially if you're a man, which I am; see the end of this post for more on that).

Consequently, the process of meeting people eventually became very same-y after a short while, and knowing that these conversations usually won't amount to anything other than nice, fleeting moments got old.

There was also the drama of managing "interesting" personalities in a free Meetup group. I passed the baton in 2012 or so, but that's another post for another day.

I'll conclude this post with some unsolicited advice: try to learn what people do for work without asking them directly.

EVERYONE expects this question, and it can be a conversation killer if your occupations don't intersect (less likely) or if the person you're conversing with hates their job (more likely). Everyone ALSO loves talking about themselves. Finding out how someone spends the largest part of their day without asking point-blank adds interesting twists and turns that can really liven up a conversation. It also makes you a better listener and better at asking questions.

I lied; I have more unsolicited advice. The easiest way to give a shit about what someone does for work is to ask lots of questions! Unless they hate their job, in which case, you'll want to ask questions that get them talking about what they do enjoy!

Typing that last paragraph reminded me of another reason why I got burned out on socializing with people. I'm a man. Most men only like sports and video games; two things I couldn't care less about. Socializing with other men as a man who dislikes these things is extremely difficult, especially in the US South, where I live. I blame the suburban lifestyle, but that, too, is another post for another day.
by Haukfa | 2026-01-01 18:19:27+00:00
I worked with Stewart for several years on a play on Gary Kildall. He would drive down from the Bay Area and I would drive up from the Monterey Peninsula and we would meet in inbetween towns such as Watsonville, Morgan Hill or Gilroy, and work on the manuscript. We did this until Covid struck, then stopped because of Stewart's health, connecting mainly through the internet or phone. . I had written the play first on my own, and he saw it and contacted me and after we met a couple times I asked him if he wanted co-authorship and he said he did. I had called the play A Mild Concussion, because that's what Gary had been diagnosed with after the fall in the Franklin Street Bar and Grill in Monterey. Also, I didn't use real names. Stewart wanted to, so we did, and changed the title to The Forgotten Computer Genius, a title he liked. I have emails from Stewart discussing the play. It is set in the final few days of his life, as he nurses his injury and tries to recall to a friend, a woman, all that has happened. The play, which was praised, after reading, by Sir Harold Evans, the late author of They Made America, which includes an incisive chapter on Kildall, and is ready for production - Steve Hauk.
by LTL_FTC | 2026-01-01 18:20:20+00:00
To second the other commenter, just go for it! Music doesn’t have to be blaring to be enjoyed. Just buy some turntable and begin enjoying your collection. Heck, you could even use headphones. I have a pair of open back headphones with a cable that is like 15 feet in length. So I can easily connect to my receiver and sit back and listen on the couch.
by mrob | 2026-01-01 18:20:40+00:00
The only additional data that (some) vinyl has over CDs is inaudible ultrasound. Ultrasound is intentionally omitted from CDs because they're intended for humans to listen to. In all audible aspects a correctly mastered CD release is closer to the original sound than any vinyl. And if you really want ultrasound (perhaps your dog enjoys it), you can get digital releases at higher sample rates.
by orliesaurus | 2026-01-01 18:21:40+00:00
Good to see this! Cloudflare's cool, but those locked-in things (KV, D1, etc.) always made it hard to switch.
Offering open-source alternatives is always good, but maintainign them is on the community. Even without super-secure multi-tenancy, being able to run the same code on your own stuff or a small VPS without changing the storage is a huge dev experience boost.
Show HN: I built a tool to save and version-control my thinking from ChatGPT
by paragarora | 2026-01-01 18:21:57+00:00
I was frustrated with how I share ideas online.

LinkedIn/X forces you to compress everything into hot takes. Research papers require months of work. And posting on social media increasingly feels like trying on outfits in ChatGPT until you find one that "fits" – performance over genuine thinking.

I wanted something in between. A place where:

- Half-formed ideas are okay

- Thinking evolves over time (with revision history)

- Garbage gets pruned naturally through format itself and status tracking (exploring → resolved → abandoned)

So I built Kwegg.

How it works:

1. You're in ChatGPT or Claude, working through an idea

2. Say "save this to Kwegg" – it saves your thought with assumptions, evidence, and uncertainties

3. Continue the conversation days later, update your thinking

4. Your thought page shows the full evolution: what you believed, what changed, and why

It uses MCP to connect with ChatGPT and Anthropic Claude. The connector fetches your thoughts and saves updates directly from the conversation. You can even take your ChatGPT thought to Claude and vice versa.

The goal isn't polished content. It's a public record of how thinking actually happens – messy, iterative, and transparent.

All thoughts have:

- Question/Claim – what you're exploring

- Current Position – where you currently stand

- Assumptions – what you're taking for granted

- Evidence – sources and data

- Uncertainties – what you're still unsure about

- Status – exploring, uncertain, resolved, or abandoned

Would love feedback from HN. What's missing? What would make this useful for you?

To use, you can click Learn icon from top, connect with ChatGPT or Claude ( you need paid accounts to add custom MCPs. I have submitted to both and waiting for approval )
by patall | 2026-01-01 18:22:39+00:00
While that may be true, there are exceptions. And hence I think parents comment is more inclusive to say: some people (that are overwhelmingly male) need activities to bond, while others (majority female) do not need that. (May not be the best example here but helps i.e criticising certain toxic behaviours that are somehow more linked to one sex without blaming everyone of that sex)
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-01 18:22:47+00:00
I don’t think you’re alone. I have had the same feeling about W. I think the current lunge towards the far right feels far less “contained” and I’m not sure where it will eventually take this country. And then there are the damaged relationships with other countries. I couldn’t have imagined having a broken relationship with Canada. What is America’s place in the future world after this administration?
by api | 2026-01-01 18:23:36+00:00
You need the cloud for vendor lock in and spying.

That being said, most users can’t set up home assistant. But the reason for that is that HA lacks the funding to do the insane amount of work required to offer a near zero touch setup process, and other vendors have no incentive to play ball with them much either. (Computers are very hard to use and making them easy is a giant tar pit of grueling work.)

Going full circle, this is because the lock in and double dipping via surveillance is what subsidizes all these other products so they have the funding to make themselves this polished.

This is why ad and spyware encrusted smart TVs are so cheap, sometimes even sold as loss leaders.

It’s very hard for privacy respecting user empowering products to compete with the gigantic subsidy you get from being user hostile and privacy invasive. If consumers actually cared about privacy and companies that are not user hostile and were willing to pay anywhere from 2X to 10X more for these things, this would be different.

This economic dynamic is why we can’t have nice things in consumer tech.

It’s a variation on a well known economic issue with hidden subsides. Let’s say there are two pizza places. One sells pizza. The other sells pizza and meth under the table with a code word, like Los Pollos Hermanos from Breaking Bad.. Which one dominates the local pizza market? Obviously the one selling meth. They have a hidden subsidy, so they can either undercut everyone else or offer a superior product at the same price point. It’s almost impossible to compete with this.
by asa400 | 2026-01-01 18:23:56+00:00
> Did they ever learn to compete then? The only thing that protected them then was that Japan was a US “ally” and could be “persuaded” to go along with protectionism. China has no such need.

Oh, indeed. I was attempting to be generous, but it's arguable whether they deserve that generosity.

> I would argue that the 70s were a trial run for whats happening today but instead of becoming more competitive the automakers focused on lobbying for Government help; a playbook that won’t help them today.

We're still paying for this today with the so-called "Chicken Tax" (and all of the other crash and emissions regulations) that has deprived us so many good Japanese trucks over the years.
by UniverseHacker | 2026-01-01 18:24:09+00:00
I'm using a desktop CO2 meter, they're cheap and accurate, and can be tested by just putting them outdoors and confirming that they read known outdoor levels correctly. What you are saying is not unlike doubting that it's possible to measure temperature with a thermometer- CO2 measurement is extremely reliable, cheap, and mature technology.

This is the meter I am using, costs $39, and is a calibrated instrument with +/- 3% accuracy. I have an academic colleague that uses these same devices for scientific research on plant metabolism, and they are highly accurate and are optionally self calibrating just by opening a window or putting them outdoors.

https://www.co2meter.com/collections/indoor-air-quality/prod...
by specproc | 2026-01-01 18:24:15+00:00
The core issue is that most major businesses are ultimately owned directly or indirectly abroad, largely in America, with some tapping by London-based intermediaries.

Supermarkets and shopping centres, national assets (e.g., water) the story is the same. Then there's Amazon et al.

Profit generated in this country is by and large not spent here, and is certainly not taxed adequately.

This causes inequality by short-circuiting redistributive measures, either local economic multipliers or government spending.

What gains are felt are concentrated in service sectors which facilitate global capital, concentrated in London. See OP's thoughts on legalistic societies.

It compares to inequality in England before the US was a thing, in the same way. Small elite benefiting from global plunder, vast inequality internally.

The British Empire didn't actually end. There was a hostile takeover by Washington at the end of WW2.
by ceuk | 2026-01-01 18:24:28+00:00
As a Brit, I struggled to get much interesting out of this considering how many times he mentions "Europe" (in that condescendingly general way that only US folks seem to manage).

He talks about "European" prospects and his trip to Denmark but then cites London as a representative example?

This almost broke my brain it felt so incoherent.

Never mind that (despite my personal wishes) we're not even part of the EU (which I assume is what he means by "Europe"). Surely he knows what an anomaly London is? It's not representative of anything except itself.

Referencing the extreme wage dispersion and severe housing pressure of London in a rant about Europe in general is a completely pointless endeavour.

He did say one thing I agree with. If you like good food, rich culture and great surroundings, "Europe" is indeed a lovely place to be for the most part.

Maybe I'll just keep that as my takeaway. It's too early in the year for doom and gloom anyway
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-01 18:24:38+00:00
Exactly. Blatant scam ads are reported to no avail, and I see them still multiple times a day.

After reading Careless People, it became much more tangible. "Yes people are motivated by money", but Zuck and others at the top of FB actively make a point of expending significant effort to avoid fixing things. It's not that they don't know, or care, it's that they know and care about keeping the gravy train at full speed while they pat themselves on the back for being masters of the universe, so to speak.
by Spooky23 | 2026-01-01 18:25:04+00:00
It’s minor but can improve user experience if implemented well. I know several people who scoffed at the “need” for automation in car locking and unlocking. It just feels like the obvious way now.

Another use case would be access control in buildings. There are millions of insecure iClass type cards securing doors and elevators that would be easily and securely replaced by tech like this.

Another scenario is getting census/surveillance capability for security and evacuation.

Another is emergency response. If the tech was in a phone, integrate with 911 to find where a cell call originated within a campus or facility. I worked a project in an office complex where we worked with the fire department to improve response time. The Fire Department response was 5 minutes, but locating a caller in our facility could take 7-10 without a guide. In some cardiac scenarios, every minute without treatment reduces survival probability by 10%. You can easily cut that time by 50-75% if you know exactly where you are going.

In the case of that project, we deployed AED devices, created and drilled procedures for reporting emergencies (with a bias for using house or desk phones) we also required a buddy system for most after hours access. I think it lowered the average drilled response by 30-40%. That paid off when a vendor CE had a heart attack during a service event. Without that system, he would have almost certainly died. Very few companies have that kind of safety culture and budget so tech can have a huge impact.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-01 18:25:12+00:00
> Tesla is not supported by subsidies significantly more than any other car company

Tesla was saved by a DOE loan [1]. Tesla was kept afloat with carbon tax credits. Yes, the Big Three got bailouts in 2008. And now, most importantly, import barriers are the only thing keeping Tesla afloat.

[1]: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/573148-dept-o...
by victorbjorklund | 2026-01-01 18:25:24+00:00
Yea, but admit that I am right that it is not that much harder to manage 100 nodes vs 10 nodes. (At least you can agree you don’t need 10x more staff to manage 100 nodes instead of 10)

That’s the key. If you need one person or 3 persons doesn’t matter. The point is the salaries are fixed costs.
by danenania | 2026-01-01 18:25:54+00:00
I definitely see your point. I'd just say though that it can put a lot of pressure on the romantic relationship. Some can handle it; others might not. And also it makes it much more difficult to recover if things don't work out.

Social life is a bit like SEO. To get the full benefits, you needed to start on it years ago. Trying to do it just-in-time is generally a very frustrating experience. I think there's wisdom in doing casual cultivation when you don't feel you need it. It's like keeping your skills/résumé up-to-date just in case.
by oarfish | 2026-01-01 18:26:14+00:00
> Volume itself is meaningless. The only thing that matters is the intensity of the workout

Not true at all, its well documented that volume is the biggest predictor of progress. there is obviously an intensity floor, and when its not feasible logistically to stack on more volume, intensity is your other knob. But to say volume doesnt matter is an odd claim, maybe i misunderstand.

> you want the maximum intensity with minimum volume to have less wear and tear

Not a helpful way of thinking about exercise induced adaptations. unless you are doing pro athlete amounts of training, would ignore this completely.
by SapporoChris | 2026-01-01 18:26:20+00:00
regarding: "Meanwhile they are dumping thousands of cars in public parking lots"
Sure you can post a speculative article, but this link is far more informative.
https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/byd-car-park-mystery-s...

It doesn't really appear to be anything of grand significance.
by nradov | 2026-01-01 18:27:28+00:00
China has very limited internal natural resources. Much of their growth has been enabled by massive imports of raw materials including soybeans, fertilizer, fossil fuels, iron ore, copper ore, etc. Their prosperity and even their survival is heavily dependent on the post-WWII global free trade system. Ironically, China's expansionist foreign policy is one of several factors now causing that system to fray. In another decade they might find it's not so easy to import soybeans from Brazil and crude oil from Saudi Arabia and ores from Australia.

I share your concerns over effective loss of freedom of expression in western countries. In the USA at least cancel culture seems to be dying out and people no longer feel as obligated to be politically correct or self-censor. But the UK may be permanently lost.
by nineteen999 | 2026-01-01 18:27:36+00:00
Capn Proto and QUIC are are layer 6 and 7 (presentation and application protocols respectively). Quic is built on top of UDP.

Layers 3-4 (network, transport) are both big-endian - IP packet headers and TCP/UDP headers use big-endian format.

This means you can't have an IP stack (let alone TCP/UDP, Quic, Capn Proto) that's little-endian all the way through without breaking the internet.

Outside the webdev bubble, it's pretty much QUIC that is irrelevant - it's just another UDP based application protocol.
by fph | 2026-01-01 18:27:50+00:00
This writeup suggests the question: are there operating systems that support un-forgeable password requests? That is, these requests have a certain color, window detail, or UI feature that can be produced only by a system dialog, not emulated by a malicious app.

I suppose it is hard to design this feature in a system where applications can go full-screen and draw what they want on the screen, pixel by pixel.

Maybe something like the system asking you to press ctrl+alt+del before entering your password, where ctrl+alt+del is a key combination that cannot be intercepted by an application.
by amosWeiskopf | 2026-01-01 18:29:03+00:00
I do, because the 120ms latency that CDN solves is a drop in the bucket compared to the 2.5 seconds (desktop) or 8 seconds (mobile) it takes for the average website to load almost entirely due to un-optimized images and poor code (based on https://www.hostinger.com/in/tutorials/website-load-time-sta...)
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-01 18:29:21+00:00
> This means there is great opportunity for Linux users to control their Bluetooth headsets, which for example is quite nice in an office setting to toggle "hearthrough" when toggling volume "mute" on your machine.

Fun fact: There are at least two applications that reverse engineered AirPods' communication protocol for custom controls - AndroPods from 2020 [1] and LibrePods from 2024 [2].

But... mainstream Android has a bug open in their Bluetooth stack for well over a year now that prevents issuing the commands, meaning to actually use the app you need root rights [3].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pro.vitalii.an...

[2] https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods/tree/main

[3] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/371713238
by quesera | 2026-01-01 18:29:30+00:00
This generalizes to "Oh, I see you're running JavaScript. Let me harass you in all the ways I can think of until you relent and act according to my will instead of your own".

... and should be treated with exactly the amount of respect or deference it would be in real life -- avoid (don't follow links to sketchy sites), de-escalate or ignore (close the tab and walk away), or defend (block JavaScript).