MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pavlus | 2026-01-02 00:27:22+00:00
I've read your comment before visiting the site, and it got me wondering -- how bad can it be? Can it be worse than those acid green on red sites of the 90s-00s?

Imagine my surprise, when I opened the site and it looked and felt just like a museum or art exhibit. This was the literal feeling I had -- being at an art gallery, but online.

I guess, these comments tell more about the commenters, than TFA. We should remind ourselves to be more critical to the content we consume, regardless where it comes from.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-02 00:27:35+00:00
> the core rhetorical tactic of the progressive left in a nutshell

I live in Wyoming and have MAGA and ultra-progressive friends.

Multiple messaging is a hallmark of all elites. Sometimes it’s functional: being able to say something sharp that, if repeated, is ambiguous is a skill anyone who has any power or authority wields, a universality that starts to suggest necessity. Other times, it lets one apologise in a public setting without making things awkward.

In many respects, it’s an essential feature of commanding language. Compressing multiple meanings into fewer words is the essence of poetry and literature.
by asa400 | 2026-01-02 00:27:57+00:00
> Man, it's easy to be fast when you're wrong. But of course it is fast because Rust not because it just skips the hard parts of dependency constraint solving and hopes people don't notice.

What's underhanded about this? What are the observable effects of this choice that make it wrong? They reformulated the a problem into a different problem that they could solve faster, and then solved that, and got away with it. Sounds like creative problem solving to me.
by jemmyw | 2026-01-02 00:29:16+00:00
I agree and I would similarly reconsider any purchase if I saw an ad for the product or company online. At this stage it's almost like if you have to advertise then you're not worth it.

How do we find what's worth buying then? Word of mouth, trying things in stores, reviews where they buy the products and are not given them.

I've blocked ads from my online experience for 20 years now, and I don't watch broadcast TV or radio, I live in a small town so I don't see much visual advertising. I feel like I'm at close to ad free as you can be in our ad saturated world. I don't feel that much is different between myself and our neighbours except that their house is full of shite they buy and throw out. None of it qol improving things. And we still have lots of material things, it's not like I spend no money. I guess my point is: what is the actual point of all this advertising anyway if you could remove it and not much changes. Make the world better, give us back our attention by default, we'll still buy stuff!
by maccard | 2026-01-02 00:29:21+00:00
> So I'll just reiterate my main point: a CI system must provide a workable caching mechanism if it want to be both snappy and reliable.

The problem is that none of the providers really do this out of the box. GHA kind of does it, but unless you run the runners yourself you’re still pulling it from somewhere remotely.

> I've worked for over a decade on one of the biggest Rails application in existence, and restoring the 800ish gems from cache was a matter of a handful of seconds.

I kind of suspected - the vast majority of orgs don’t have a team of people who can run this kind of a system. Most places with 10-20 devs (which was roughly the size of the team that ran the builds at our last org) have some sort of script, running on cheap as hell runners and they’re not running mirrors and baking base images on dependency changes.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-02 00:29:29+00:00
I am the youngster in this case and I am going to tell you something but we really need to move off of spotify.

I never really got onto spotify. I was always the youtube kind of guy, although I recently started listening to youtube music when I realized that my youtube feed was being impacted and youtube music's a better way to listen I guess

We really need to get to pen-drives first before CD as well I guess. Like downloading songs from youtube to run them in pen-drive or just listen to locally would show us youngsters something

I have been recently thinking of downloading all of my songs and uploading it to some vps so that I can listen to from anywhere. I feel like steps like these with media ownership would gradually help rediscovery of CD perhaps as well as we people would really love supporting the artists then as well and buying their CD might be the way if we end up downloading their musics.

Pen-drives are ubiquotus as well so perhaps we might need the pen-drive era in between

Also computers are absolutely removing the CD port. Even my desktop doesn't have it. I think it has the slot but I had my PC built in the store so they didnt really add it but literally no devices have CD except perhaps our car but I think even some new Cars might not have any CD's

If someone is forced to buy a CD player just to play CD's, it just adds more friction and I would argue that Vinyl is much more so for the aesthetics itself as well which I feel like CD's aren't really that much for.

So my point is, People aren't really using Vinyl for quality, they are using it for aesthetics. If CD's have a chance, they really need to get more on the ease of starting and pen-drives can help start the local-music movement.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-02 00:29:44+00:00
This sounds like you're just repeating the same claim again. It reminds me a little bit of https://xkcd.com/1122/

We get it, if you squint hard at the numbers you can imagine you're seeing a pattern, and if you're wrong well, just squint harder and a new pattern emerges, it's fool proof.
by 65 | 2026-01-02 00:29:49+00:00
Oh great, another one of these dumb posts about how social media is so terrible and RSS, blogs, and HTML are so awesome. I'm getting sick of Hacker News people upvoting stuff like this all the time since it's just the same damn idea presented over and over again. Perhaps this site has grown too large and is attracting the Reddit hive mind crowd.
by blamestross | 2026-01-02 00:30:07+00:00
I've called things shaped like this "polyentendre".

In my head I think of it has just really high linguistic compression. Minus intent, it is just superimposing multiple true statements into a small set of glyphs/phonemes.

Its always really context sensitive. Context is the shared dictionary of linguistic compression, and you need to hijack it to get more meanings out of words.

Places to get more compression in:

- Ambiguity of subject/object with vague pronouns (and membership in plural pronouns)

- Ambiguity of English word-meaning collisions

- Lack of specificity in word choice.

- Ambiguity of emphasis in written language or delivery. They can come out a bit flat verbally.

A group people in a situation:

- A is ill

- B poisoned A

- C is horrified about the situation but too afraid to say anything

- D thinks A is faking it.

- E is just really cool

"They really are sick" is uttered by an observer and we don't know how much of the above they have insight into.

I just get a kick out of finding statements like this for fun in my life. Doing it with intent is more complicated.

What the author describes seems more like strategic ambiguity but slightly more specific.
I don't think it is a useful label they try to cast here.
by lovich | 2026-01-02 00:30:49+00:00
Russia is already in a state of armed aggression against Ukraine, and committing sabotage against other countries throughout Europe.

Cooler heads in this case are idiotic heads. It doesn’t take two partners to start a war, it only takes one and Russia already decided.

Someone in the other comments linked an article stating that Europe was doing the “unthinkable” of planning to retaliate and I was agog reading it if true. Not because Europe was going to retaliate but that they hadn’t even come up with plans over the past decade of increasing aggression from Russia.

You don’t have war plans for every crazy situation your analysts and strategists can conceive of because you’re excited to use them. You have them so your state apparatus is prepared and ready to go in an unlikely emergency instead of needing to take the months to years that any large bureaucracy needs to be ready to take action.
by EnPissant | 2026-01-02 00:31:25+00:00
I don’t think your problem is RGB instead of BGR. That’s just the compositor’s work area and your monitor never sees it (it includes an alpha channel). Have you tried KDE Plasma? It sounds like KWin uses 10-bit planes by default when available. Maybe Ubuntu’s compositor (Gnome?) doesn’t support 30 bit color or must be configured? I actually think this is the most likely cause: that Gnome’s compositor has worse support or is fragile with 30-bit color.

One other thing of note is I am using a 120hz refresh which requires no DSC with 4k / 30-bit color / HDMI 2.1.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-02 00:31:55+00:00
> why we can't just stop these ships

To be clear, why we don’t want to. Freedom of navigation makes all of us tremendously richer, even if it permits such fuckery.

Every great power has, at this point, rejected the notion in limited contexts. And if you’re not concerned about trashing trade, there is no incoherence to ignoring these rules.
by Balgair | 2026-01-02 00:32:25+00:00
Not OP, but similar issue.

I have an in law that has severe autism issues that had a career and children. They never advanced in jobs, couldn't hold friendships, got neglected at work and kinda abused, got bad assignments. They were a lawyer for a long time, so the law itself was useful to them and their autism, but clients were hard. Their marriage was clearly strained the entire time before their spouse passed. It's been years and they still can't grieve or process the loss, likely due to the autism. Their children don't have these autistic issues, afaict, and those relationships are strained now that the grandkids are here and the children have leaned more about the issues of the grandparent.

Still, made a successful career of it, saved well enough into 401ks, and is now a millionaire.

In those days, their autism was just a quirk, one most people didn't like. And if they had help and strategies when younger, they would have been more successful and had a much better life.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-02 00:32:29+00:00
NixOS is really a profound experience, once you embrace it. I used Arch for ~3 years and ended up reinstalling it maybe 15 times on my desktop alone. Switched to NixOS and I've used the same installation for 3 years, synced with my laptop and server, switching from x11 to Wayland to KDE to GNOME then back again with no problem.

It doesn't feel real sometimes. My dotfiles are modularized, backed up in Github and versioned with UEFI rollback when I update. I might be using this for the rest of my life, now.
by matt_s | 2026-01-02 00:32:46+00:00
If its a 737 delivering pallets of dog food or humans in seats, the safety concerns are the same. They take off and land at the same airports and can collide with other airplanes. The stuff on the plane doesn't mean there are different safety checks.

Auto pilot can be used for nearly everything after take-off and before landing, so I think you'll need to define "AI" here. I see people using "AI" almost interchangeably these days for things that plain old computers have been doing for a while now. Auto-pilot is not AI, its just a set of instructions (aka programming) given to a computer.

Airports have designed approaches, large airports have multiple and there is a need for communication with other humans, reacting to dynamic environments including weather, other aircraft (both airborne and on taxiways) and having actual vision out the cockpit to see things.
by zerocool86 | 2026-01-02 00:32:50+00:00
The "local models got good, but cloud models got even better" section nails the current paradox. Simon's observation that coding agents need reliable tool calling that local models can't yet deliver is accurate - but it frames the problem purely as a capability gap.

There's a philosophical angle being missed: do we actually want our coding agents making hundreds of tool calls through someone else's infrastructure? The more capable these systems become, the more intimate access they have to our codebases, credentials, and workflows. Every token of context we send to a frontier model is data we've permanently given up control of.

I've been working on something addressing this directly - LocalGhost.ai (https://www.localghost.ai/manifesto) - hardware designed around the premise that "sovereign AI" isn't just about capability parity but about the principle that your AI should be yours. The manifesto articulates why I think this matters beyond the technical arguments.

Simon mentions his next laptop will have 128GB RAM hoping 2026 models close the gap. I'm betting we'll need purpose-built local inference hardware that treats privacy as a first-class constraint, not an afterthought. The YOLO mode section and "normalization of deviance" concerns only strengthen this case - running agents in insecure ways becomes less terrifying when "insecure" means "my local machine" rather than "the cloud plus whoever's listening."

The capability gap will close. The trust gap won't unless we build for it.
by ryandv | 2026-01-02 00:32:59+00:00
> In many respects, it’s an essential feature of commanding language. Compressing multiple meanings into fewer words is the essence of poetry and literature.

Aye, perhaps prompting is the be-all-end-all skill, after all: the ability to distill out an idea into its most concentrated, compressed essence, so it can be diluted, expanded, and reworded ad infinitum by the LLMs.

brb while I search for the word prompt that generated the universe...
by jimbokun | 2026-01-02 00:33:06+00:00
It's useless without describing concrete, practical solutions to those problems.

What do the voters want? Zero taxes, no crime, world peace and infinite benefits.

It's easy to identify things as shitty because the above doesn't describe the world yet and thus it's a banal observation. Implementing real, practical improvements is really hard and requires much more thought and consideration and introduces the possibility of failure. Which is why that part isn't discussed as much.
by GaryBluto | 2026-01-02 00:33:12+00:00
Whenever I see something I like, I vote it. It feels awkward to me to type a bland show of praise when many other users have already done (and will continue to do) the same*. When I see something I dislike or disagree with, I feel it easier to go into more detail as to why, as I rarely see people sharing similar criticisms.

* As a sidenote, people who just say "This." and "Cool." irk me, and I don't want to elicit the same annoyed reaction in others.
by pregnenolone | 2026-01-02 00:33:21+00:00
You've largely ignored everything I’ve said. Instead, you proposed workarounds – which is precisely what most people want to avoid. Who distributes applications as fat jars? What is this? 2004? You’re supposed to distribute your application as executables. I’ve brought up numerous complaint regarding jpackage and jlink, and none of them have been addressed by jbang. Furthermore, you accuse me of not having used Java in the last five years, which is frankly ridiculous; I've spent almost two decades developing software on the JVM. Funnily enough, I had to write my own sbt plugins because jlink and jpackage are so painful to use.

Regarding UpX: it simply doesn’t work with Windows binaries generated by Graal – see this issue: https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/7605. They've been ignoring this for three years instead of fixing it. Meanwhile, it works perfectly with Go binaries or .NET’s AOT compiler. I’m not trying to bash your project, but the reality is that no one with little to no Java experience is going to discover and install jbang. Features like this should be included with Java out of the box.
Show HN: Stealth and Browsers and Solvers in Rust
by ccheshirecat | 2026-01-02 00:33:55+00:00
hey guys what's up, happy new year to all of you!

so basically the link above is a fork of the chromiumoxide crate but with stealth patches implemented using rebrowser as a reference. it plugs runtime.enable and common automation flags, enforces some hardware consistency through profiles and has some convenience features and it's still early but for starters it can pass most of the common detection tests

i prefer writing my applications in compiled languages but recently been needing to go into browser automation more and more and always felt that the space for rust didn't have much of the variety that the node/python counterparts had, so this is my attempt to give some life to it, well to solve my needs at least, but i hope someone else finds it useful too!

i needed a stealth browser in rust because my need was mostly around captcha solving, so there's a turnstile solver here too and yeah i know there's a lot of them around but having it in rust allows me to integrate it into my application so much better and avoid the mess of so many external services

and yeah my use case required not only cloudflare but geetest too so i ported xkiann's python solver to rust too, with some modifications to make it deobfuscate automatically and added support for multi turn verification and user_info parameters for sites that need it

both solvers have C FFI bindings for integration with other languages!

https://github.com/ccheshirecat/chaser-oxide - chromiumoxide stealth fork
https://github.com/ccheshirecat/chaser-cf - cloudflare solver
https://github.com/ccheshirecat/chaser-gt - geetest solver

more details on the github repo, im falling asleep so goodnight HN and happy new year again much love to you all!
by AdrianB1 | 2026-01-02 00:34:19+00:00
Sorry, but I read the article and also another of his articles linked in this one and I found that logic is lacking seriously from both. It is so bad it will take the length of the entire article to explain point by point and I am not in the business of correcting people on Internet, but I think raising some concern and making people pay more attention to the logic of the article than the emotions it creates, will help some.
by webstrand | 2026-01-02 00:35:55+00:00
I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and I've never had trouble running a game that's rated gold or above. I've even gotten an Easy AntiCheat game to work correctly.

I've been gaming on linux exclusively for about 8 years now and have had very few issues running windows games. Sometimes the windows version, run through proton, runs better than the native port. I don't tend to be playing AAA games right after launch day, though. So it could be taste is affecting my experience.
by mopsi | 2026-01-02 00:36:09+00:00
> Part of the Silicon Valley ethos (and techie ethos in general) is the rejection of fashion. Comfort over style. Casual over classy.

This has always seemed like a fear of failure to me. Trying to dress well means exposing yourself to evaluation, comparison and the possibility of getting it wrong. The traditions and standards of fashion have accumulated over centuries and are fairly resistant to being redefined (especially by rookies), which makes success depend on external criteria and not on personal rules. Rejecting fashion altogether removes the risk of failure.

I think this is reflected in how techies are drawn to the safety of techwear, where fit and color matter less and clothing can be chosen and justified through objective criteria like weather resistance parameters.
by legerdemain | 2026-01-02 00:36:17+00:00
A different take: joining one of these spaces (in the bay area) has exposed me to a weird and unpleasant underbelly of society that I barely knew existed. It's like the worst of Reddit, but in real life. People who want you to work on their projects "for the exposure," crypto scammers and people who are very naive and enthusiastic about crypto, depressed unemployable people, people who secretly live on the lobby couches, elderly people just watching videos all day, get-rich-quick people, people who are always "starting to learn" for years at a time, it's quite an array.
by evil-olive | 2026-01-02 00:36:18+00:00
the initial commit [0] is from 3 days ago, and contains ~45k lines of Rust "Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>"

in the last three days, if the readme is to be believed, it's grown to 92K lines of Rust.

so it seems like this is somewhere between 99% and 100% vibe-coded?

it might be worth mentioning that in the readme, possibly instead of the "not a proof-of-concept" claim.

the architecture diagram in the readme seems like it describes ZFS, including identical terminology (ARC, RAID-Z, etc). so that's either inaccurate, or it reveals that the prompt given to Claude was basically "write a clone of ZFS but in Rust".

0: https://github.com/artst3in/lcpfs/commit/dd0678e24f1f98b121a...
by urban_strike | 2026-01-02 00:36:42+00:00
Yeah, I've been trying to wrap my head around this recently. I always get a bit irked by the inevitable comments confidently asserting things like "humans are social animals, if you think you don't need tight social connections you're just hurting yourself". And then pointing to these results averaged out over the entire population as "proof".

It seems like there's got to be some statistical fallacy being made, like asserting "all humans need visual stimulation to survive" and then all the blind people on earth shrug at the data and realize they're not human I guess? On average it's true, "all humans" would go crazy if deprived of their sight, but it turns out some people do it just fine and can have rich, human lives.

I wonder if it's just when people live very social lives, the idea of deriving satisfaction in life internally, to be able to self regulate and maintain a health sense of identity without frequent input from others, is just too alien to consider. To not dislike people, or lack social skills, but just be as disinterested in socializing as I am in starting a coin collection. Or maybe all that is just extremely uncommon and experiences like mine are just a true rounding error.
by astout55555 | 2026-01-02 00:36:56+00:00
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by triceratops | 2026-01-02 00:37:15+00:00
It's ok to be mean if you're constructive. You aren't. Your comment violates site guidelines. But here we are in 2026 so instead of flagging you, let me be nice.

Give me a reason why my idea is "garbage" that hasn't already been covered in the comments. I'll summarize the current comments and my responses:

1. "Age verification is censorship and evil"/"This is the parents' job, not the state's" - That's a valid point of view, and I understand where it's coming from. But IMO it's increasingly a losing one.

2. "It's not perfect/it can be circumvented by ..." - All of the same circumventions also apply to tobacco and alcohol. Everyone accepts that and the world goes on. We prosecute people who break those laws. Whatever the harms of social media and adult content, they aren't worse than literal poisons that cause car accidents and cancer.

3. "It doesn't preserve privacy because they record ID where I live" - Fix the law. Ban scanning ID where you live. I can't believe you ever accepted that for tobacco or alcohol but now's your chance.

4. "Why do I have to pay? This should be provided by the government" - Then we're back to ZKPs (not comprehensible to laypeople) and paranoia that governments are tracking you anyway. But hey, I'm not a policy or crypto expert, so I'll defer to people who are. Maybe this aspect can be improved.

5. "This requires a lot of new legislation" - Yes. Governments are already at work writing legislation for age verification. Do you want to be proactive to make it privacy forward or sit passively while they decide for us?