MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-28 15:44:59+00:00
The control is both a blessing and a curse. It’s really easy to accidentally screw things up when e.g. trying to polish some of the rough edges or otherwise make the system function as desired. It also may not be of any help if the issue you’re facing is too esoteric for anybody else to have posted about it online (or for LLMs to be of any assistance).

It would help a lot if there were a distro that was polished and complete enough that most people – even those of us who are more technical and are more demanding – rarely if ever have any need to dive under the hood. Then the control becomes purely an asset.
by NetMageSCW | 2026-01-28 15:45:01+00:00
> outside of industry, people don't share ideas and software remains in corporate silos with no/low interoptability unless a business decides to form a strategic partnership.

Computer science and computing was taught and done at universities long before Stallman and GNU came along. I was using C++ Release E at college before GNU started, provided by Bell Labs at no cost.
by azan_ | 2026-01-28 15:45:07+00:00
You must have no idea how scientific publishing works. Typical acceptance rate for ok/good journal is 10-20% (and it was like that even before LLMs). Also it's a great idea to make business of scientific publishing even more predatory - now sciencists writing articles for free, reviewing for free and then having to pay for publication will also have to pay to even submit something, with 90% chance of rejection. Also think what kind of incentives it will create.
by Levitating | 2026-01-28 15:45:09+00:00
> idk why Arch doesn't invest in whats standard in every other major distro

Simplicity, among other reasons. Installers force the users hand and need maintenance. Having no installer but rather a detailed installation guide offers unlimited freedom to users. Installation isn't difficult either, you just pacstrap a root filesystem and configure the bootloader, mounts and locale.

ArchLinux does now have an installer called archinstall, but it's described more as a library than a tool. It allows you to automate the installation using profiles.
by Cyph0n | 2026-01-28 15:45:16+00:00
Similar journey, different distro! I wanted a Linux gaming machine, but given my recent admission into the cult of NixOS, I went with Jovian.

Jovian is a NixOS module that sets up a SteamOS-like experience on top of your existing NixOS config. I was able to build & tweak the config before even building my PC. It booted first try and has since been working without hiccups. Now I am setting up emulators, which is relatively straightforward with nixpkgs :)
by hanez | 2026-01-28 15:45:24+00:00
• We default to isolates for safety and scaling.

• Zero‑copy sharing is done with fun_shared_buffer, an off‑heap, GC‑untracked, pointer‑free block that’s immutable from the VM’s point of view.

• Lifetime is managed with plain reference counting (retain/release).

• For hot paths, we also support an adoption (ownership‑transfer) pattern during message passing so the sender can drop its ref without copying.
by data-ottawa | 2026-01-28 15:45:37+00:00
No other modern language will compete with R on ergonomics because of how it allows functions to read the context they’re called in, and S expressions are incredibly flexibly. The R manual is great.

To say pandas just copied it but worse is overly dismissive. The core of pandas has always been indexing/reindexing, split-apply-combine, and slicing views.

It’s a different approach than R’s data tables or frames.
by al_borland | 2026-01-28 15:45:38+00:00
> mac os is absolutely awful. I have no idea how people use mac.

I hear this from a lot of people when they get their first Mac. When they get specific about what their issues are, it tends to be that macOS doesn't do a thing how they are used to doing it, which is more of a learning curve issue, or rigid thinking. Apple software can be quite opinionated, those who fight against those opinions tend to have a hard time. This is true of any opinionated software.
by jsheard | 2026-01-28 15:46:45+00:00
> Wayland has fractional scaling as a sort-of workaround if you can tolerate the entire screen being blurry. Every other major OS can deal with this.

I think Windows is the only other one which really does this properly, macOS also does the hack where they simulate fractional scales by rendering with an integer scale at a non-native resolution then scaling it down.
by jakereps | 2026-01-28 15:47:05+00:00
It’s one of those types you have to be the person that likes that style. It’s my friends favorite rotator but I think it’s a decent try-it-once beer, that is only around for a little while at a time.

The brewery itself though is one of my favorites to this day with, in my opinion, the best food I've ever encountered at something that identifies itself first as a "brewery." I don't visit the area without making a stop there.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-28 15:47:08+00:00
> The benefit is you can easily scale the complexity of the file. An .sh file is great for simple commands, but with a .ts file with Deno you can pull in a complex dependency with one line and write logic more succinctly.

The use-case, as per the author's stated requirements, was to do away with pressing up arrow or searching history.

Exactly what benefit does Make.ts provide over Make.sh in this use-case? I mean, I didn't choose what the use-case it, the author did, and according to the use-case chosen by him, this is horrible over-engineered, horribly inefficient, much more fragile, etc.
by cong-or | 2026-01-28 15:47:20+00:00
Fair enough—I wasn’t imagining tiny compass-wielders. I was thinking more about whether the structure of a geometric construction might map to something computationally useful, like exact arithmetic systems (CGAL-style) that preserve geometric relationships and avoid floating-point degeneracies.

But for a constant like φ, you’re right—(1 + sqrt(5)) / 2 is trivial and stable. No clever construction needed.
by vibecodermcswag | 2026-01-28 15:47:29+00:00
Formalized the Sawhney-Sellke stability theorem for Erdős Problem #848 (squarefree products) in Lean 4.

~3800 lines, compiles with 0 errors, no sorries, no axioms.

The math was solved by Sawhney & Sellke (Nov 2025): https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16072

Only ~17 Erdős problems have full solutions formalized in Lean. If valid, this would be ~#18.

Done with multiple AI tools (Claude Opus 4.5, GPT-5.2, Gemini 3.0, Aristotle) + human orchestration.

Seeking review: Does this actually prove what it claims? The code is verbose and could be cleaner. Would appreciate expert eyes.
by bwg2000 | 2026-01-28 15:47:36+00:00
Every time an article like this pops up I think, damn I really must make the switch, fuck Microsoft! But then I reflect, and honestly I don’t exactly find windows bad? I use a local account, and guess I’ve disabled most of the ads, because I definitely don’t get all the ad crap everyone says as the first reason for why they moved. My start key opens fine! I use it mostly for .net development and browsing the web.

I’m definitely most productive building software with .net, which is kind of why I feel locked in. And although it’s cross platform now, visual studio definitly is the one and just feels like a good pair of jeans. I’ve tried Ryder/VS code for .net development but never really got along with them for .net stuff.

Maybe I should just learn python/django, grow a beard and install nix or something. And get into espressos.
by breezykoi | 2026-01-28 15:47:47+00:00
Joking aside, I often hear people say "they should" when talking about GNU/Linux (for example: "they should just standardize on one audio stack"), as if there were a central authority making those decisions. What many don't realize is that with FOSS comes freedom of choice... and inevitably, an abundance of choice. That diversity isn't a flaw, it's a consequence of how the ecosystem works.
by domo__knows | 2026-01-28 15:47:57+00:00
Just saw a video on YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDwt9AiItqU - starts at 3:25) that talked about the windows experience in the present day and I totally forgot about booting up and magically having software appear I never asked for due to some partnerships Microsoft made. I've been on Mac for 16 years/iPhone for 10 years and have never looked back. The most annoying thing about Apple is when the OS updates and suddenly you have a different experience like liquid glass. But like all things I usually get used to it after about a week and most of the times I see the benefits (in this case, even more screen real estate).
by alephnerd | 2026-01-28 15:48:03+00:00
This agreement is connected to the EU-India Defense Pact signed yesterday [0], as France has been working to act as a technology partner to both India and Vietnam [1][2][3] as part of it's Indo-Pacific Strategy [4] which went into overdrive after China and Azerbaijan attempted to destabilize Nouvelle Caledonia [5].

[0] - https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/security-and-defence-eu-and-...

[1] - https://www.intelligenceonline.fr/europe-russie/2024/12/18/l...

[2] - https://www.intelligenceonline.fr/europe-russie/2025/09/29/d...

[3] - https://www.intelligenceonline.fr/asie-pacifique/2025/09/12/...

[4] - https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/strate_gie_indopacifi...

[5] - https://www.lesechos.fr/politique-societe/regions/nouvelle-c...
by businessmate | 2026-01-28 15:48:03+00:00
This paper describes a structural property of AI-mediated information systems. Under decision-adjacent conditions, probabilistic systems produce authoritative narrative outputs that influence beliefs and actions while leaving no durable, attributable, or reconstructable record. This creates a reconstructability gap that becomes visible only after reliance has occurred. The phenomenon is independent of domain, correctness, or intent and arises from the interaction between conversational generation, uncertainty compression, and the absence of institutional recordkeeping.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-28 15:48:40+00:00
There was some 3D printer slicer software I needed that wouldnt run, when I finally figured out why it had to do with GLIBC being out of date. I have used Debian since like 2008, and Ubuntu since the mid 2010s so I am accustomed to doing PPA's and what not, but something in me broke and I wanted to finally try something more bleeding edge. I nearly went for Fedora but the version I wanted to try didn't even boot (I don't like to waste any time with command line incantations anymore) so I looked up EndeavourOS I don't remember how I found it, I think a friend said someone they knew used it (turns out they dont LOL) so I gave it a shot.

I had bad experiences with Arch before because of Manjaro, but in hindsight, I think the main issues I had were more to do with how Pacman can get insanely nuanced. When you update packages you have to know what you're doing, it will update all weird, its not like Debian or Ubuntu upgrades where it installs / uninstalls what you do and don't need unless you tell it to be that nuanced.
by kreetx | 2026-01-28 15:48:40+00:00
Well, exactly. My recommendation would be not to carry a gun where there is law enforcement already there. Or if you do, don't resist capture.

I.e, I maintain that this was an accident. The police didn't want to shoot this person, nor did the person want to use his gun. But it appeared like that to both sides which then caused the event that followed.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-28 15:48:43+00:00
I don't think that genAI will replace developers. I do think it's possible that it will change what being a developer means, though. The real question, I think, is "if this change happens, is it something you could be OK with?"

My personal answer to that is "no", but I'm close enough to retirement that I don't have to consider changing careers to avoid it. I'll be gone if/when it becomes a real issue. However, if I were closer to the front end of my career, I'd certainly be looking to change, perhaps to technical writing.
by kayson | 2026-01-28 15:48:50+00:00
Are there any pandas alternatives that offer stronger column typing? Ideally something where I can have the schema defined in advance, validate the data, then have the type checker be smart enough to know that df.foo exists and is float and df.bar doesn't.

I tried pandera and it left a lot to be desired. Static frame [1] seems promising but doesn't appear to be popular for some reason.

1. https://static-frame.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
by bediger4000 | 2026-01-28 15:48:56+00:00
I think this actually decreases the probability such a thing exists: well into his first term, Trump appeared to believe that people could not see stealth aircraft.

This article does talk about ADS, "Advanced Denial System", which sounds a good deal like a long range microwave oven, and it quotes someone that Trump wa conflating several weapons systems.

Articles like this raise questions of reporter's and mass media credulity. It looks like journalism's doctrines of objectivity and avoiding liberal bias lead them to publish quotes from known fabulists, and just not be very skeptical when reporting what members of certain political faction say.
by TehCorwiz | 2026-01-28 15:49:03+00:00
I had one at the time, got it for my birthday as a teen. It's terrible. It caused nausea, the "headset" was uncomfortable and if the stand broke or was lost you were screwed. The controller was clunky and hurt my knuckles. The screen wasn't an issue for me though. In fact I really loved the deep red, but then I used to spend hours in a darkroom printing pictures so the red felt like home. That said, some of the games were amazing especially because of the depth. Worth it? Not a chance. But it worked. It did what it said on the tin and the part that sucked wasn't the image, it was everything else related to interacting with that image.

I'd love to see someone take the lo-fi VR concept further with modern tech. It's proof that VR doesn't require color to be functional. There were ideas there we haven't fully explored.

The big question it opens up for me is:

- What happens if we ditch color and focus on clarity?

- lower memory and compute requirements.

- Dot pitch on screens can be smaller since no sub-pixels.

- Optics can be tuned to a specific wavelength instead of having to fight with chromatic aberration due to the compressed optical pathway.

So much of VR today is focused on veracity, reproducing vivid worldly images. But what if we look elsewhere, the artificial and abstract. I want to see the kinds of sci-fi UIs and VR experiences brought to life pulled from the minimalism and simplicity of a time when cpu budgets per frame counted in understandable integers of cycles and color palettes you could count on your fingers.
by LorenDB | 2026-01-28 15:49:36+00:00
I'll copy my comment on another article here:

2025 has had some of the biggest Linux hype in recent times:

- Windows 10 went EOL and triggered a wave of people moving to Linux to escape Windows 11

- DHH's adventures in Linux inspired a lot of people (including some popular coding streamers/YouTubers) to try Linux

- Pewdiepie made multiple videos about switching to Linux and selfhosting

- Bazzite reported serving 1 PB of downloads in one month

- Zorin reported 1M downloads of ZorinOS 18 in one month and crossed the 2M threshold in under 3 months

- I personally recall seeing a number of articles from various media outlets of writers trying Linux and being pretty impressed with how good it was

- And don't forget Valve announced the Steam Machine and Steam Frame, which will both run Linux and have a ton of hype around them

In fact, I think that we will look back in 5 or 10 years and point at 2025 as the turning point for Linux on the desktop.
by voidUpdate | 2026-01-28 15:49:43+00:00
> First thing I did was look at the raw bytes: xxd -l 4 "ClientApp.make"

I recommend using the linux "file" command, since it will generally be able to tell you these sorts of things straight away. I've been working on a long-term project to directly import figma design files into Unity, so I've ended up coming across a lot of these things myself
by NickC25 | 2026-01-28 15:50:49+00:00
Which god grants these rights? Krishna? Elohim? Muhammad? Jesus? Buddha? Allah? Ahura? Yahweh? The flying spaghetti monster?

Please provide real proof to such a claim.

And if it is indeed God who grants rights, why are such rights not universal to all of God's creations, and instead, only granted to white rural Americans when it is convenient to them?
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-28 15:51:08+00:00
I would say EndeavourOS is the "Ubuntu" to "Arch" if you will. The installer is easy, and it comes with "yay" out of the box which is a frontend to Pacman which holds your hand in just the right ways. If I want to update my OS I type "yay" into a terminal, hit enter and confirm the packages needing updating (or select which ones I want) and type my password, and that's it. In the past with Manjaro I did a system update with Pacman, and problems ensued.
by al_borland | 2026-01-28 15:51:33+00:00
> I wouldn’t be dual booting anyway

This tends to be better overall anyway, if you are really looking to switch. Dual booting is enough of a hassle that I've always ended up staying in whatever OS I felt required me to think I needed to dual boot, and the other aspirational OS gets forgotten.

Going all-in requires that you figure out new workflows, find new software, or in some cases change what you use the computer for and accept it.

I tried building a gaming PC, but I hated PC gaming. It felt like it was half sys admin work, half gaming... if the sys admin work went well that day. I dual booted it for a while, then ran straight Linux on it, and eventually sold it. I liked the idea of one box that did everything, but the reality of it wasn't so great. I now have computers I don't care about gaming on, and have consoles that require 0 effort and let me play games when I feel like playing games.
by oldandboring | 2026-01-28 15:51:40+00:00
And yet many the same people who lament the tooling bloat of today will, in a heartbeat, make lame jokes about PHP. Most of them aren't even old enough to have ever done anything serious with it, or seen it in action beyond Wordpress or some spaghetti-code one-pager they had to refactor at their first job. Then they show up on HN with a vibe-coded side project or blog post about how they achieved a 15x performance boost by inventing server-side rendering.
by reconnecting | 2026-01-28 15:51:56+00:00
Oh, I must be clear here: I'm not considering M1 Macs or later, since Apple closed the ecosystem with Apple Silicon.

What you did is a downgrade in what's called the supported OS.

However, if you decide to downgrade to Catalina on an M1 Mac, it's not possible — Big Sur is the earliest version that runs on Apple Silicon.

Anyway, you cannot downgrade to a macOS version older than what your Mac originally came with. So if you buy a Mac now, Tahoe will be the minimum option.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-28 15:52:06+00:00
> carried a gun.

legally. Also the gun he visibly did not reach for. And the very same gun that was carried out of the scene seconds before the first shot was fired.

> I don't think it's wise to interfere with police work

So what? If they were trained for anything other than escalation nothing would have happened, they're ""professional"" ""law enforcement officers"" from a federal agency, not a biker gang

> I'm sure the officers to whom this happened aren't happy either as this turned out

One of them literally claps his hands, it's on video, lmao, you can't make that shit up

> Similar with the woman who was shot: should you be doing any police getaways or even driving towards any police officer?

The one who got killed by a shot to the temple which basically proves the officer was completely out of the way at that time. The one where the officer then illegally fled the scene, packed up his house and then later pretended to be heavily injured and have "internal bleeding" despite being seen totally unharmed multiple times earlier.

What do you think of these sub 80iq ICE retards who just tried to break in the Ecuadorian consulate? Just doing their job I assume? Come on, keep on gargling these balls, idk if you expect to get a medal or something...
by zener79 | 2026-01-28 15:52:11+00:00
Hi HN,

I built LastSignal because I was uncomfortable trusting a third party with extremely sensitive information (final messages, recovery instructions, etc.).

LastSignal is a self-hosted dead man's switch: you prepare encrypted messages that are automatically delivered to chosen recipients if you stop responding to periodic check-ins.

Security-wise, the server is treated as untrusted by design:

- messages are encrypted client-side

- the server never sees plaintext

- the operator cannot decrypt stored data

I've documented the security model, threat assumptions, and known limitations here:

https://lastsignal.app/security/

Source code:

https://github.com/giovantenne/lastsignal

This is an early but usable version. I'm especially interested in feedback on the threat model, edge cases, and assumptions around liveness and delivery.

Happy to answer questions.
by Lex-2008 | 2026-01-28 15:52:17+00:00
not OP, but for some it might be availability of latest versions packages (say, you've heard about new major version of Bash or Vim being released today, and wondering how soon it might be available in your distro packages), and, as someone else mentioned, less update stress due to lack of "major version bumps" - just remember to subscribe to https://archlinux.org/news/ and watch out for entries requiring "manual intervention".
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-28 15:52:52+00:00
I doubt the dual boot issue was due to UEFI. It's more likely, Windows was clobbering over GRUB and overwriting your bootloader, as it likes to do. Windows really wants to be the only OS on your drive.

Most reliable way I've ran dual boot systems is to have each OS on it's own separate drive, and then choose with the UEFI boot menu which one to boot instead of choosing in GRUB off a single drive.

As for games, plug them into protondb (https://www.protondb.com) to see compatibility & read through the comments
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-28 15:53:17+00:00
AI doesn’t replace developers, it just allows developers to write more code. Now more code per developer, but there is still a lot of software that isn’t written due to a skilled developer shortage, so you’ll probably be fine if you competent. It does limit growth, and a lot of younger kids are going to have to pick new fields to pursue, but many were just in programming for the money, so maybe they can follow their passion instead?