MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by atrettel | 2026-01-02 19:54:09+00:00
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by tooltalk | 2026-01-02 19:55:00+00:00
>> They now make a product that it turns out people want (reliable/economy)

Sure, Ford has always made cars that their customers want, F-150 for instance, for an unbroken streak of nearly 50 years. Again,

>> One big one to consumers is the focus on long term reliability.

Sure, I don't doubt the Japanese automakers' reliability, but, in the cheap, small vehicle segments they compete with the Japanese import, the American automakers are now more or less wiped out. Most of GM and Ford small vehicles are made in either Mexico or South Korea. So where is their "competitiveness" that otherwise wouldn't exist without the foreign imports?

In other word, the Japanese imports did not prevent the "loss of competitiveness in the future." And if the America's competitiveness is doomed either way, why allow Chinese EV imports to accelerate the industry's doom?

>> Rent seeking is industry suicide.

If it's as bad as you say it is, why turn a blind to China's rent seeking past 15 year and promote their industry, again which benefited tremendously from forced joint venture/tech transfer, local content rules, local sourcing, local production, high-tariffs, etc?
by simoncion | 2026-01-02 19:55:13+00:00
> In almost ALL context IPv6 is seen as optional, additional, additional configuration and is NEVER the default.

Weird. The past two ISPs I've had (Comcast and Monkeybrains) both had IPv6 enabled by default. I've looked at a bunch of SOHO networking gear and IPv6 is on by default. On every Linux and Windows system I've touched in the past ten, fifteen years you have to go significantly out of your way to disable IPv6.

> Some programs do not handle IPv6 at all. Game servers for instance, do not support it...

Depends on the game server. Many I run absolutely do.

Your complaints smell like you tried to run an IPv6-only client network, which would be an absolute nightmare. That's just a stupid thing for a SOHO network (and the networks that serve most corporate client hosts) to do. IPv4-only Internet hosts exist, so it's a no-brainer to provide IPv4 connectivity to clients.

On the other hand, running IPv6-only infrastructure networks can make a ton of sense. One very large such operator is Comcast, a US ISP.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-02 19:55:21+00:00
Parental controls and accessibility both suffer from the fact that they are good features to add but fundamentally do not drive revenue. They only exist in the average as much as is required by regulation.

No business would build wheelchair ramps unless they were made to, that's why we make them. There's no reason to not do the same for parental controls.
by gruez | 2026-01-02 19:55:21+00:00
>Things like automated order kiosks, automatic fry machines, or bots that restock pre-packed inventory.

>On the physical side of jobs, robotics definitely has heavy investment and I think it will continuously and slowly eat away at some of these physical tasks. Look at a modern warehouse for example.

None of those are "AI", though. At best it's "tech".
by lausingh | 2026-01-02 19:55:35+00:00
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by MBCook | 2026-01-02 19:55:42+00:00
> at least 75% of the Internet traffic is IPv6.

> Nobody cares about [that]. What matters is if my device has an IPv6 address assigned.

This seems to be the weird dichotomy in these comments. Some people are arguing from the position that is absolutely everywhere and is doing great.

Others are saying since their machine doesn’t show it it’s dead and no one cares.

Is there a term for this? A successful failure? A failed success?

Kind of odd.
by doodlesdev | 2026-01-02 19:56:21+00:00
Well-written, succinct.

This small document shows what computer science looked like to me when I was just getting started: a way to make computers more efficient and smarter, to solve real problems. I wish more people who claim to be "computer scientists" or "engineers" would actually work on real problems like this (efficient file sync) instead of having to spend time learning how to use the new React API or patching the f-up NextJS CVE that's affecting a multitude of services.
by hypeatei | 2026-01-02 19:56:22+00:00
> A much better solution here would have been an incredibly conservative change to ipv4 to expand the number of available address space

"And what do you base this belief on?

Fact is you'd run into exactly the same problems as with IPv6. Sure, network-enabled software might be easier to rewrite to support 40-bit IPv4+, but any hardware-accelerated products (routers, switches, network cards, etc.) would still need replacement (just as with IPv6), and you'd still need everyone to be assigned unique IPv4+ addresses in order to communicate with each other (just as with IPv6)."[0]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37120422
by Arodex | 2026-01-02 19:56:34+00:00
>As an aside, I'm surprised oral exams aren't possible at 36 students.

It depends on how frequent and how in-depth you want the exams to be. How much knowledge can you test in an oral exam that would be similar to a two-hour written exam? (Especially when I remember my own experience where I would have to sketch ideas for 3/4th of the time alloted before spending the last 1/4th writing frenetically the answer I found _in extremis_).

If I were a teacher, my experience would be to sample the students. Maybe bias the sample towards students who give wrong answers, but then it could start either a good feedback loop ("I'll study because I don't want to be interrogated again in front of the class") or a bad feedback loop ("I am being picked on, it is getting worse than I can improve, I hate this and I give up")
by ramraj07 | 2026-01-02 19:56:50+00:00
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by exceptione | 2026-01-02 19:57:17+00:00
It happens with more authors. Blogging and self-promotion on social media easily leads to fast and sensational "insights". It is fast food: feels good, easily digestible, way better than a thorough study involving the required ifs-and-buts and the hard work of trying to find blind spots in one's own perspective.

The latter profile isn't suitable for short content bites and doesn't sell to a large audience. The former does, but comes with a cost only the uninformed aren't aware of.

I can sympathize with that though. Non-fiction in general is a hard sell.
by osmsucks | 2026-01-02 19:57:36+00:00
I came here to suggest the same! It's incredibly handy and I use it all the time at work: there's a process that runs for a very long time and I can't be sure ahead of time if the output it generates is going to be useful or not, but if it's useful I want to capture it. I usually just pipe it into `less` and then examine the contents once it's done running, and if needed I will use `s` to save it to a file.

(I suppose I could `tee`, but then I would always dump to a file even if it ends up being useless output.)
by potluri | 2026-01-02 19:58:30+00:00
Location: Richmond, VA
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Hi, my name is Alec and I build infrastructure and glue systems together. I have completed projects ranging from writing backend application code to building out idempotent infrastructure. I'm looking to branch out into more formal SRE roles as well.

If you're worried about the state of your infrastructure, or your developers spend too much time mucking with infrastructure versus feature work, OR if you have no idea what I'm even talking about, then I am certainly going to be a help on your team.
by ycombinary | 2026-01-02 19:58:36+00:00
Hirst v United Kingdom (No 2) (2005) ECHR 681 is a European Court of Human Rights case, where the court ruled that a blanket ban on British prisoners exercising the right to vote is contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights. The court did not state that all prisoners should be given voting rights. Rather, it held that if the franchise was to be removed, then the measure needed to be compatible with Article 3 of the First Protocol, thus putting the onus upon the UK to justify its departure from the principle of universal suffrage.

There are numerous examples of citizens winning court cases against the government.

Take the just the uk, three examples:

Anti‑protest regulations (Liberty v Home Secretary)

Air pollution litigation (ClientEarth v UK Government)

Rwanda asylum plan (AAA & Others v Secretary of State

Windrush - Members of the Windrush have repeatedly challenged the Home Office over wrongful detention, removal, and denial of rights, leading to government admissions of unlawfulness and an official apology in 2018.

Your claim is false. The world is not the same the world over, civil liberties are better in some places than in others.
by benwerd | 2026-01-02 19:58:44+00:00
ProPublica | Director of Product Engineering | Remote (US only) or NYC | Full-time

ProPublica is a non-profit newsroom that investigates abuses of trust in the public interest. Journalism we published last year shed light on the impact of DOGE and ICE, investigated right-wing militias, told stories about the US medical system, and more. Here were our most-read stories in 2025: https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-most-read-stor...

I'm the Senior Director of Technology. I'm hiring a pragmatic, mission-driven Director of Product Engineering, who will report to me, in order to provide more support for our product engineers who work on our publishing and data products. (This is not a reporting position.) You'll directly lead and manage a small team of engineers and help us to create and maintain great engineering processes.

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by z3ugma | 2026-01-02 20:00:29+00:00
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EnsoData uses machine learning, integration with pulse oximeter hardware, mobile apps, and clinician review UIs to automate sleep study scoring and give sleep clinicians tools to find and help patients with sleep disorders.

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by dfee | 2026-01-02 20:00:33+00:00
For transactions: you spot fraud, mischarges or subs to cancel. Really a watchdog service would be good here. High effort, low return. IMO. (And a bit of tracking around reimbursements)

For savings: helps you keep an eye on where you’re at by forcing you to reconcile.

It’s totally worth it for a low value of invested time. But, it’s not going to be low effort.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-02 20:00:48+00:00
Just let students use whatever tool they want and make them compete for top grades. Distribution curving is already normal in education. If an AI answer is the grading floor, whatever they add will be visible signal. People who just copy and paste a lame prompt will rank at the bottom and fail without any cheating gymnastics. Plus this is more like how people work.

https://sibylline.dev/articles/2025-12-31-how-agent-evals-ca...
by viccis | 2026-01-02 20:00:57+00:00
And then they complain when they gain no knowledge, can't pass the simplest of coding interviews despite their near 4.0 GPA, and blame it all on AI or whatever.

In reality, they cheat when a culture of cheating makes it no longer humiliating to admit you do it, and when the punishments are so lax that it becomes a risk assessment rather than an ethical judgment. Same reason companies decide to break the law when the expected cost of any law enforcement is low enough to be worth it. When I was in college, overt cheating would be expulsion with 2 (and sometimes even 1 if it was bad enough) offenses. Absolutely not worth even giving the impression of any misconduct. Now there are colleges that let student tribunals decide how to punish their classmates who cheat (with the absolutely predictable outcome)
by xml | 2026-01-02 20:01:01+00:00
> Next steps are bone conduction microphones, smart glasses, earrings...

There are quite a lot of Amazon reviews that suggest that this is already common practice.

The current strategy is to first scan the exam with a tiny wireless shirt button camera, wait for someone on the other end to solve the exam, and then write down the solution whispered into your ear over in-ear inductive loop earphones.
by conradev | 2026-01-02 20:01:21+00:00
This really hinges on whether you let state accumulate, and where you let it do so. NixOS generally creates a dedicated user and data directory for its services, for example. I make some of my XDG config directories symlinks to the nix store because I want those configurations to be read-only. home-manager it should not make destructive modifications outside of the nix store (it will ask first or make a backup).

This is not only a Nix problem, fwiw, I first encountered this with, say, running ZNC in Docker. It will happily write logs and configs to a temporary directory in the container and get blown away on restart unless you mount persistent volumes in just the right spots, etc. Syncthing can be configured to manage its own config or it can be configured fully by Nix, etc.
by mpyne | 2026-01-02 20:01:43+00:00
Yeah, before we picked up YNAB more than a decade ago we never had issues with $3k of candles disappearing in the budget, but we still struggled to save money.

When we started using YNAB and entering our spending into it, it was like a hockey-stick diagram on our household net worth.

And this isn't even double-entry accounting (which I've adopted for my own personal spending). One thing I'll say is that the way we use YNAB seems different from most other people: we hand-enter every transaction, we don't import it afterwards from the bank. Then we reconcile what we thought we spent vs. what the bank says we spent.

In this way we have to be a bit more intentional about what we're spending money on since there's not some kind of big monthly exercise to make the numbers line up and then a "we'll try to be better next month". Instead it's more like an envelope system where we are tracking budget categories as the month goes by.
by Kuyawa | 2026-01-02 20:01:45+00:00
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by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-02 20:02:06+00:00
> The spec rarely has enough detail to deterministically create a product, so current vibecoding is a lottery.

How is that different from how it worked without LLMs? The only difference is that we can now get a failing product faster and iterate.

> If we keep starting fresh from the spec, but keep adding detail after detail, regenerating from scratch each time..

This sounds like the worst way to use AI. LLMs can work existing code, whether it was generated by an LLM or written by human. It can even work on code that has been edited by a human, there is no good reason to not be iterative when using an LLM to develop code, and plenty of good reasons to be iterative.
by doodlesdev | 2026-01-02 20:02:07+00:00
This strategy is an alternative to PESOS (Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site) [0]. I really like this read on the indieweb website, it explains well why adopt this strategy for federation and emphasizes that "Friends are more important than federation", something a lot of nerds and hackers forget when defending their ideals.

[0]: https://indieweb.org/PESOS
by xp84 | 2026-01-02 20:02:53+00:00
Indeed. I am highly skeptical of kickstarters (and their ilk) outside of a small subset which is mainly forms of art. Art is something you ought to know for sure if you can achieve it before launching your kickstarter. (And even if the album/photo book/whatever doesn't turn out exactly how you imagined it, you can still give the backers some art of equivalent value.)

Electronics are the exact opposite. Coming up with an idea and getting some renders done is at least 1,000x easier than the remaining work from idea to shipping 10,000 units, therefore it's reasonable to expect that at least 90% of kickstarters for such products will fail to deliver, leaving backers holding the bag, since all our money has been spent already on the failed attempts.

Furthermore, I tend to think that if, due to some combination of their existing reputation + the amount of the work they've already completely finished, the project were a safe bet, then they'd be able to get investors to front them any further needed startup funds the normal way.
Portabase: Agent-Based Database Operations Platform (Backup/Restoration)
by rambokdev | 2026-01-02 20:02:58+00:00
I recently discovered Portabase, a database administration platform for systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL. The name itself is explicit: Portabase = Port (from Portainer) + Database. The project is clearly inspired by Portainer’s operational model, but applied to database workloads.

Portabase provides core operational capabilities: backup and restore, job scheduling, retention policies, notifications, and support for multiple storage backends. It targets day-to-day database operations rather than schema design or query tooling.

What differentiates Portabase from comparable solutions is its headless agent architecture. Agents run directly on the target infrastructure and are attached to one or more database instances. The central server is restricted to orchestration, configuration, and metadata management. Credentials are never centralized: access remains local to the execution environment. This significantly reduces the attack surface and aligns with security-by-design principles.

Although the project is still under active development, its architecture is coherent and deliberately scalable. It favors distributed execution over a monolithic, server-centric model, which makes it suitable for both on-premise and heterogeneous environments. The community is still forming, but the technical foundations are solid.

GitHub: https://github.com/Portabase/portabase