MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reactordev | 2026-01-12 02:38:13+00:00
Combined with stack traces of the events, this is the way.

If you have a memory leak, wrap the suspect code in more instrumentation. Write unit tests that exercise that suspect code. Load test that suspect code. Fix that suspect code.

I’ll also add that while I build clusters and throw away the ssh keys, there are still ways to gain access to a specific container to view the raw logs and execute commands but like all container environments, it’s ephemeral. There’s spice access.
by anileated | 2026-01-12 02:38:20+00:00
> From purely business and career perspective, being anti-AI will be a self-own

From purely business and career perspective being anti-blockchain/NFT/online gambling/adtech/fascism (at least for now in US)/etc. is a self-own, too.

I'm sure everybody making a choice against that knows it.

Thankfully purely business and career perspectives don't dictate everything.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-12 02:38:23+00:00
Right! With a non-fascist politician, what you're describing would be extremely abnormal; the median Biden supporter, Obama supporter, or Bush supporter would routinely take positions their guy didn't agree with even though they supported him overall. But the range of Trump supporter opinions stretches only from "politely support everything he wants to do" to "be performatively mean about everything he wants to do".
by cyberax | 2026-01-12 02:38:49+00:00
This is a bit of a stereotype. The most popular cars in the US are now SUVs and CUVs, probably because a lot of Americans are well-approximated by spheres.

BYD Dolphin is right on the edge of being a CUV. They can trivially scale it up a bit. It'll be more expensive, but not by much.
by pixelatedindex | 2026-01-12 02:39:40+00:00
I’m a little shocked to see the quality of some comments here - I would expect a more grounded discussion. This is like Reddit / YouTube comment history. Someone please tell me this is a Wendy’s.

Sure the Fed isn’t perfect. But we don’t really have a better solution as of now because our financial systems are extremely powerful and anyone in office would love to abuse it if they can.

Sure, the renovations are ridiculous. But it’s not like this administration is austere in the slightest, so that’s a bit rich. Not to mention the cronyism prevalent across the cabinet.
by nntwozz | 2026-01-12 02:40:00+00:00
This was added in iOS 26.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/08/ios-26-new-airpods-setting-ca...

In iOS 26, you can keep audio playing with your headphones by enabling the new "Keep Audio with Headphones" setting, found in Settings > General > AirPlay & Continuity, which stops audio from automatically switching to nearby devices like car stereos or Bluetooth speakers when you're already connected to your headphones.

This setting, which is off by default, ensures your music, calls, or podcasts stay with your AirPods or wireless headphones, preventing frustrating interruptions when you start your car or enter a room with another speaker.
by mat_b | 2026-01-12 02:40:04+00:00
I'll back this up. I've also been a dev for over 20 years, my agentic workflow sounds the same or similar to yours (I'm using an agentic IDE) and I am finishing tasks significantly faster than before I adapted to using the agent. In fact people have noticed to the point that I have been asked to show team members what I am doing. I don't really understand why it seems like the majority of HN believes this is impossible.
by ajross | 2026-01-12 02:40:18+00:00
AI is a bubble; well, the stock market as a whole is, being led by an AI boom. At the end of a bubble (and it's not clear if we're there yet) markets find ways to self-finance. A crash means not just that the value is lower, but that the leveraged bets are now due, and those have to be paid by selling more.

When it crashes (and it's not clear when that will be), it will crash back to a cash-value baseline. And, sigh, it's not clear where that is. But it won't magically start going back up. The cyclic reinvestment engine needs to be reinvented every time.
by nine_k | 2026-01-12 02:40:37+00:00
Ah, I get it. I don't like integration of this sort, because it quietly screams "lock in", but do I see how it can be very convenient. So I make do with my own, likely inferior, using Syncthing, and Google Photos for browsing. My music is mostly CD rips, Bandcamp, and some YouTube, and I don't do TV, so it's just easier for me than for normal folks. I can listen to my collection anywhere over a Wireguard connection on my laptop or my phone.

It's a different set of trade-offs; less polish, more control.
by svieira | 2026-01-12 02:40:42+00:00
> My favorite definition of “legacy code” is “code that is not tested” because no matter who writes code, it turns into a minefield quickly if it doesn’t have tests.

Unfortunately, "tests" don't do it, they have to be "good tests". I know, because I work on a codebase that has a lot of tests and some modules have good tests and some might as well not have tests because the tests just tell you that you changed something.
by luxuryballs | 2026-01-12 02:41:00+00:00
The defense is that the status quo has become archaic and self-serving instead of serving the public so the current operations people doing some house cleaning and tossing a few rooms to see what’s going on in there is overdue, changes need to happen and power structures need to be shaken out a bit to make sure they are not getting in the way of the people they were created to act on behalf of, and scatter the ones who are “helping themselves” to the public coffers.

This just needs to happen every across all government, it’s like brushing your teeth to kick out the bacteria, but each individual institution needs a different kind of “floss” depending on the nature of the ways they have strayed from their original purposes.
by Kina | 2026-01-12 02:41:12+00:00
Apple is on the record as being neutral at worst on the matter and at best weakly supportive. I think there was an article when the M1 came out where it was reported that the Asahi Linux folks met with some Apple developers where they were encouraged to explore the system and report bugs, but that Apple was not going to offer any support.

Apple has also done things such as adding a raw image mode to prevent macOS updates from breaking the boot process for third-party operating systems. Which is only useful for 3rd party operating system development.
by afavour | 2026-01-12 02:42:00+00:00
I think the test beyond that is how willing the next government will be to codify meaningful changes into law. After Trump’s first time it’s as if there was a big sigh of relief and a notion of “well, we just won’t do that again”.

It’s very clear now that we need a lot more regulation of what presidents can and cannot do. Not to mention judicial reform. But if you’re a democrat theoretically getting power in 2028 you’re going to have immense pressure to move forwards, focus on kitchen table issues, yadda yadda.
by fluoridation | 2026-01-12 02:42:38+00:00
>"goyslop" was specifically referring to vapes, processed food and tiktok

That doesn't sound very specific, that sounds quite broad. Looking around posts up to 2023 I can see the word used for just about anything, including HDMI and Disney. Honestly, this says to me it's just used as synonymous with "slop" in the broad sense, with no added meaning.

>I think its a stretch to declare there is zero relation considering how much internet language originates from 4chan.

There's no zero relation. The relation between the two terms is just not parent-child, but fraternal. Both simply inherit their meaning from "slop". "Slop" already has connotations of cheapness, low quality, high quantity, and cattle feed, and is a word that has existed since Old English. There's literally no reason to think "AI slop" is descended from "goyslop". At best someone heard the latter and by analogy coined the former, but given that "goyslop" had already been coined by simply prepending a modifier to "slop", there's not even any need for that explanation.
by sodapopcan | 2026-01-12 02:43:16+00:00
> the analogy might be writing in assembler vs writing in your high level language of choice.

If it were deterministic, yes, but it's not. When I write in a high level language, I never have to check the compiled code, so this comparison makes no sense.

If we see new kinds of languages, or compile targets, that would be different.
by srcreigh | 2026-01-12 02:43:56+00:00
I'm building an SQLite alternative for readonly bulk point lookup workloads like this:

-- Batch job runs nightly/weekly/etc.
INSERT INTO table(key, value) VALUES (...);
-- Prod code does:
SELECT key, value FROM table WHERE key IN (...);

At the same time, it's also kind of like a modern, Zstd-based Zip file format supporting dictionaries, chunk compressing multiple small items together, etc.

The tool can produce a queryable file that is around the same size as `zstd -19 sqlite.db` (only 10-20% larger), but queries are 2-4x faster than SQLite. Eg 310MB sqlite file takes 1.187ms to load 500 results (250KiB), whereas my tool can produce a 20MB queryable file which takes 0.291ms to load the same data, and the fully compressed SQLite DB is only 17MB.

My tool uses less memory in its benchmark compared to the SQLite benchmark too — not to say SQLite isn't memory efficient, but just to say my tool isn't trading memory for speed. It's actually just really efficient and optimized for the specific workload.
by lelandbatey | 2026-01-12 02:43:57+00:00
If Plex is "just file sharing" then I guarantee you'd find Tailscale "just WireGuard".

I enjoy that relative "normies" can depend on it/integrate it without me having to go through annoying bits. I like that it "just works" without requiring loads of annoying networking.

For example, my aging mother just got a replacement computer and I am able to make it easy to access and remotely administer by just putting Tailscale on it, and have that work seamlessly with my other devices and connections. If one day I want to fully self-host, then I can run Headscale.
Show HN: LifeOps – Relationship intelligence for developers (local-first)
by seng | 2026-01-12 02:45:25+00:00
Side project that started as a joke: mapping all the ways "I'm fine" can be interpreted.

Ended up building a full relationship intelligence tool:
- Ambiguous message decoder (22 "fine" variants mapped)
- Communication pattern analysis
- RAG-powered response drafting
- Error types with severity and recovery suggestions

The architecture treats communication as a domain problem. Messages have context/tone/timing, patterns aggregate into signals, errors have root causes and recovery paths.

Tech: Effect-TS, SQLite, LanceDB. All local, privacy-first. No cloud.

Demo at lifeops.in

Curious what HN thinks about applying systems thinking to fuzzy human problems.
by binary132 | 2026-01-12 02:45:26+00:00
This is an interesting historic artifact. It seems this community effort must have gotten popular and attracted a lot of neophytes who didn’t know what they were doing. Otherwise why would the author feel it was necessary to specify that submissions should be of reasonably good quality, complete and lit, not broken, and have both an entrance and an exit? Seem like the subculture curse of popularity isn’t a new problem.
by rkj93 | 2026-01-12 02:45:34+00:00
Multiple products.. some in marketing and few WIP

InfoCaptor — https://my.infocaptor.com
[YouTube video insight extraction tool]

MockupTiger Wireframes — https://wireframes.org/ai-wireframes
AI wireframing software for product ideas

CrawlSpider — https://www.crawlspider.com/product/internal-link-building-w...
WordPress internal linking automation platform

Vizbull — https://www.vizbull.com
custom photo collages
(https://vizbull.com/collage-maker)
by switchbak | 2026-01-12 02:46:07+00:00
I would expect that we’ll end up compressing (or whatever term you would use) this at some point so many of those syntactical differences will not be as significant.

But I would love for more expressive and compact languages to do better, selfish as I am. But I think training data size is more of a factor, and we won’t be all moving up Clojure any time soon.
by HaZeust | 2026-01-12 02:46:08+00:00
What do you think the delta is between "general population", "pending charge", "charged", and "convicted" - while we're at it?

You can make a vast majority of the population "pending charge" at some point if you take into consideration they were - at one point - marked "pending bench warrant" during the time between getting a traffic ticket and (A) paying it; or (B) fighting it.

Let's see how far we can skew the datasets, with enough motivation. And the "benefit of the doubt" that you'd reflexively give someone on not stretching the truth simply CANNOT be afforded to these people.
by gruez | 2026-01-12 02:46:24+00:00
On a purely pedantic point, whatever he's advocating for isn't "political violence" any more than calling for the death penalty isn't "political violence". Yes, the death penalty plausibly could count as "violence", and the process of instituting it is political, but if you look at the questions in the first source, it's clear they're talking about stuff like politicians/activists getting killed, not the state doling "violence" as some sort of punishment.

Moving on to the actual video, if the implication is that someone says [absurd thing] on national TV, it must mean that the party (or its electorate) as a whole must support [absurd thing], then:

The guy end up apologizing, so what's the issue? I guess the expectation is that he should be canceled/fired or whatever? What about similarly absurd stuff from the left? It's not hard to find stuff like "racism = power + oppression" that's casually mentioned on npr or whatever without major pushback, even though most democrats don't believe in this type of stuff. Or is talking about killing people a special case? If so, what does that mean about discussions on the death penalty?
by OutOfHere | 2026-01-12 02:46:33+00:00
If data is not collected, it is missing. A decent algorithm will be robust to missing data.

How on earth do you think the Fed sets the rate? Each board member probably has a simple spreadsheet, although they use their gut feeling in the end. It's markedly less objective and completely un-transparent.

People here are funny in that when I preach for transparency and objectivity, they preach for obscurity and individual board member bias.
Show HN: The Thiele Machine – Coq-Verified Computational Model Beyond Turing
by nwthiele | 2026-01-12 02:46:45+00:00
The Thiele Machine is a formally verified universal computational model the surpasses Turing machines in key ways. It's fully proven in Coq (including kernel theorems and universality containment), features a python implementation for simulation and includes hardware designs in Verilog for potential FPGA/ASIC builds. The core idea: a paradigm shift using μ-bits for stricter computation under real-world constraints, tying into physics (e.g., Noether’s theorem) and emergence in chaotic systems.

The repo includes a 13-chapter thesis (PDF and sources), proofs, and tools for exploration. It’s aimed at formal methods enthusiasts, AI researchers, and hardware devs interested in verifiable, adaptive reasoning beyond traditional limits. Feedback welcome on the proofs, emergence chapter, or hardware impl, let’s collaborate!
by OlaProis | 2026-01-12 02:47:33+00:00
I tried to add it for this release but hit a wall with the font rendering dependencies (freetype, fontconfig). GUI apps need these for text display, and they don't play well with fully static musl linking - the build system wants a musl C++ cross-compiler and static versions of system libraries that aren't readily available in CI.
We'll keep looking into options - possibly a Docker-based build with a proper musl toolchain, or investigating if we can make fontconfig use dlopen at runtime. For now the glibc build (Ubuntu 22.04) should run on most Linux distros.
If anyone has experience with static musl builds for Rust GUI apps, we'd love to hear what's worked!
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-12 02:47:35+00:00
This is actually quite correct. The Fed Funds policy interest rate is a clumsy instrument because it involves chasing the ever-shifting balancing point of an inherently unstable system. You "cut" rates to increase money creation, which actually pushes your long-term rates higher due to expected inflation and leads to even more money creation for a constant policy rate, and vice versa. This can all be fixed very simply by changing the instrument to a crawling exchange rate peg, which has an inherently stabilizing effect, as seen from the effectiveness of currency board systems - that system doesn't shift against you if you stick to a bad peg, whereas it very much does if you stick to a bad policy rate.

The long term policy goal (stability in the path of nominal incomes (prices + real activity) in the very short run, and prices in the medium-to-long run) would be unaffected, but the whole operational aspect would be simplified quite a bit.
by hilbert42 | 2026-01-12 02:47:35+00:00
That's my experience but I'm not much of a Coke drinker.

I recall some years ago Pepsi making the claim they could replicate Coke to the point of it being essentially indistinguishable but that's wasn't the point, their branding required Pepsi to be clearly differentiated from Coke—commercially that seems to make sense.

It's unclear how accurate Pepsi's claims are but they seemed to be based on tasting trials where people couldn't tell the 'clone' from the real thing.

Seems to me Pepsi was likely right, if we consider how close this formulation is to Coke and that it was produced with limited resources then one would expect Pepsi with its huge resources to grind their 'clone' as fine as they deemed necessary.

These days, Coke's 'secret' formula is more a publicity stunt than anything else.
by OutOfHere | 2026-01-12 02:47:44+00:00
That's just something they say to scare the children.

In any event, the point of a decent algorithm is that if the result isn't complying with the action, upcoming updates to the weights will fix it. Moreover, changes to the weight would be such that they optimize for maximum learning.

It is so weird seeing people preach for an obscure entity to do something so basic, and being shut down when asking for transparency. Today's AIs could write good model-development algorithms for tasks that are a hundred times more complicated.
by energy123 | 2026-01-12 02:48:24+00:00
> camera+LIDAR

It's like having 2 pilots instead of 1 pilot. If one pilot is unexpectedly defective (has a heart attack mid-flight), you still have the other pilot. Some errors between the 2 pilots aren't uncorrelated of course, but many of them are. So the chance of an at-fault crash goes from p and approaches p^2 in the best case. That's an unintuitively large improvement. Many laypeople's gut instinct would be more like p -> p/2 improvement from having 2 pilots (or 2 data streams in the case of camera+LIDAR).

In the camera+LIDAR case, you conceptually require AND(x.ok for all x) before you accelerate. If only one of those systems says there's a white truck in front of you, then you hit the brakes, instead of requiring both of them to flag it. False negatives are what you're trying to avoid because the confusion matrix shouldn't be equally weighted given the additional downside of a catastrophic crash. That's where two somewhat independent data streams becomes so powerful at reducing crashes, you really benefit from those ~uncorrelated errors.
by tombert | 2026-01-12 02:48:35+00:00
I believe that.

FUSE makes me think that the Plan 9 people were on to something. Filesystems actually can be a really nice abstraction; sort of surreal that I could make an application so accessible that I could seriously have it directly linked with Vim or something.

I feel like building a FUSE driver would be a pretty interesting way to provide a "library" for a service I write. I have no idea how I'd pitch this to a boss to pay me to do it, but pretending that I could, I could see it being pretty interesting to do a message broker or something that worked entirely by "writing a file to a folder". That way you could easily use that broker from basically anything that has file IO, even something like bash.

I always have a dozen projects going on concurrently, so maybe I should add that one to the queue.
by bryanhogan | 2026-01-12 02:48:54+00:00
Recently on my blog: https://bryanhogan.com/blog

Wrote an introduction to Obsidian referencing other relevant posts, but also keeping it simple.

And the post before that was about creating an app using SvelteKit + Capacitor.

Currently working on some posts about AI coding and my life in Osaka after 3 months here.

Other things I'm working on:

- https://dailyselftrack.com/ - Got into working on it again, mainly solving some UX problems currently.

- https://game.tolearnkorean.com/ - Learn Korean words quickly, words go from easy tasks (e.g.) matchings pairs) to more difficult ones (writting it), currently still needs some slight adjustments, and then I'll release an Android version.

- https://app.tolearnjapanese.com/ - Wanted to learn Hiragana quickly, used my existing project as a base to build this. Needs some adjustments as well, feedback is highly welcome.

- https://tolearnkorean.com/ - Since I'm learning Korean, and also working on an app to better learn Korean, I also want to make a guide on learning Korean, improving my own skills by teaching others.
by bilbo0s | 2026-01-12 02:49:30+00:00
I'm not sure?

Some things, it just doesn't matter what the next administration does. The people of the US may, at any time, elect an administration that continues the course of breaking norms. The fact is that businesses, industries, banks, and nations have to guard against that possibility more than they need to cooperate with the next administration.

I think it's a bit fanciful to think you can take all the policies back to normal and have, Europe for instance, say "Oh good! Everything's back to normal!" I could be wrong, but I think that ship has sailed. Europe will work towards a new normal that looks their own interests. And no action the next administration can take will change Europe's determination in this regard.

I think this will be as true of actors in the financial and industrial spheres as it will be of Europe in the security sphere.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-12 02:49:46+00:00
The issue with spent fuel has to do with the long term (essentially permanent) storage part and is purely political. It's a solved problem except for getting approval for the solution.

The other fuel issues you mention are already dealt with today as a matter of course. It's just the final part that remains up in the air.

You are the one hand waving about failure modes. As with aircraft, as failures have happened we've learned from them. New designs aren't vulnerable to the same things old ones were. All the mishaps have happened with old designs.

Personally I think the anti-nuclear FUD that the climate activists push is unfortunate. We would likely have been close to carbon neutral by now if we'd started building it out in the late 90s.

That said, I'm inclined to agree that solar might be a better option at this point in environments that are suited to it. The batteries still aren't entirely solved but seem to be getting close. In particular, the research into seasonal storage using iron ore looks quite promising to me.
by pixelatedindex | 2026-01-12 02:49:51+00:00
I’m not saying I’m against an algorithm. I’m saying that I’m against _only_ an algorithm. And we do want transparency and objectivity - nobody is denying this. I’ve worked with enough data to know that there are implicit biases, and just because data exists doesn’t mean it’s good. Let’s just say I’m skeptical that an algorithm alone can replace the Fed.

> although they use their gut feeling in the end.

That gut feeling check is pretty crucial, I think. Why not just work to make the Fed a more transparent org? And let’s say it is by an algorithm - will it be open sourced so it can be vetted?

Edit: also more crucially, who’s responsible when the algorithm fucks up?