MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by develoopest | 2026-01-03 00:36:18+00:00
I know someone working in Cyber Security, basically his job is to set a bunch of alerts for the client companies, all already predefined by a software, he basically sits, checks for new alerts from time to time and reports any issues, it does not require more than a 3 min investigation per alert or more work than to block the attacker IP in obvious cases.

I'm thinking of leaving my job and join the same company, it even pays decently.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-03 00:37:09+00:00
I'm not sure what you are saying. There are LLMs as exist today, and there are any number of changes one could propose to make to them.

The less you change, the more they stay the same. If you just add "more" RLVR (perhaps for a new domain - maybe chemistry vs math or programming?), then all you will get is an LLM that is better at acing chemistry reasoning benchmarks.
by boca_honey | 2026-01-03 00:38:06+00:00
You made it a joke but yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what the original poster did and his comment history backs it up. Edit: I just figured out you're not the same person.

I don't think he does that post by post, btw, I'm pretty sure it's automated.

Either that or he actually writes like 2023 Chat-GPT, which I know it's something that is happening to people.
by KronisLV | 2026-01-03 00:38:32+00:00
I’m not sure about that.

To me, Windows has been the best experience with gaming (yes, including the stupid bullshit anti-cheat software that shouldn’t exist in the way it does, the devs making it truly only support Windows), the desktop experience has been tolerable, especially with PowerToys and FancyZones in particular and that one registry change to restore classic context menu. Still feels like fighting against the OS but passable.

Linux has been the best experience for regular computing and software development, especially since a lot of the software I deploy runs in Docker containers, so getting more or less the same user land is nicer than subtle Windows incompatibilities (e.g. bind mount permissions, line endings, crap like that). Also package managers are just nice and some desktops out there are really good for daily driving (personally I like Cinnamon, but KDE and XFCE and others all have their place).

Apple stuff has been the best in regards to the hardware integration and coherence (e.g. the experience of using a MacBook or iPhone and everything working without any driver issues on other OSes), having a pretty polished desktop experience, but also super weird things such as no proper AA on generic external monitors (e.g. 1080p), limited hardware ports, oddly locked down ecosystem and odd support choices (e.g. the dance you gotta do to install development apps, the PWA situation) and just weird choices in regards to keyboard layout and how the mouse feels compared to both of the other OSes. Okay development, not great gaming situation, worse than Linux at this point.

I like my iPhone (reduced Liquid Glass transparency) and MacBook Air (great for notes or travel), but daily drive either Windows or Linux. Tried FreeBSD for one of my servers too but hardware support wasn’t wide enough, not sure what the desktop situation there is like.
by j95510246 | 2026-01-03 00:38:39+00:00
Location: Montréal, QC, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C, C++, Python (AI, computer vision, FastAPI, OCR), asmx86,TypeScript (Next.js), Javascript, NodeJS, Shell, Bash, Powershell, SQL, mysql, postgreSQL, Pentesting (red team, discovery, identification, exploitation, documentation), Ubuntu & Microsoft SQL servers, Docker, Github.
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-g0/
Email (available on CV or the following): j95510246 (at) gmail (dot) com
by Alupis | 2026-01-03 00:39:15+00:00
I've used Fedora on my laptop for over a decade. I switched my main home workstation to Fedora in 2023, and haven't looked back since.

My workstation runs Kinoite[1], an immutable/atomic version of Fedora. I started with Fedora 38, and now am running 43. Flawless major-release upgrades. I develop using distrobox[2] (pet containers) on podman. It "Just Works".

Nearly 99% of my Steam library is playable on Fedora too. Many games even have native Linux support these days - the rest run under Proton. The only games that won't play have windows-only kernel-level anti-cheat. For some of those games, it's a developer choice (there's apparently a checkbox to enable Linux support on EasyAntiCheat - and some don't "check" it).

I use Flatpaks to install many GUI apps, such as FreeCAD, KiCad, Darktable, Steam, Reaper, and a lot more.

It's a great, extremely stable system.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

[2] https://distrobox.it/
by krapp | 2026-01-03 00:39:41+00:00
Every industry that uses images and art in any way - entertainment, publishing, science, advertising, you name it - is already investing image and video generation. If any business in these fields isn't already exclusively using LLMs to generate their content, I promise you they're working on it as aggressively as they can afford to.

Grok is a novelty, but that's Grok.
by skyriser | 2026-01-03 00:39:52+00:00
SEEKING WORK - iOS/macOS Developer - Worldwide

Location: Montreal, Canada | Remote/Freelance/Contract
Technologies: iOS/macOS (SwiftUI/Swift/UIKit/AppKit/Objective-C), Stock/Forex/Crypto APIs
Web: http://chriscomeau.com
Resume/CV: http://chriscomeau.com/resume
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiancomeau
GitHub: https://github.com/chriscomeau
Languages: English, French
Email: chris.comeau@skyriser.com
by em500 | 2026-01-03 00:39:54+00:00
This is Unix V4 from 1973. The total number of installations world wide was around 20, all inside Bell Labs. There was no networking support at all, so security was mostly physical, i.e., office building security (though you could dial in with a modem). Multi-user support was a bunch of serial-line terminals. Pretty much everyone knew everyone else who was on the system.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-03 00:40:07+00:00
True, CSAM should be blocked by all means. That's clear as day.

However I think for Europe the regular sexual content moderation (even in text chat) is way over the top. I know the US is very prudish but here most people aren't.

If you mention something erotic to a mainstream AI it will immediately close down which is super annoying because it blocks using it for such discussion topics. It feels a bit like foreign morals are being forced upon us.

Limits on topics that aren't illegal should be selectable by the user. Not baked in hard to the most restricted standards. Similar to the way I can switch off safe search in Google.

However CSAM generation should obviously be blocked and it's very illegal here too.
by acbart | 2026-01-03 00:40:14+00:00
I'm afraid you misunderstand what it means to be "exempt" under the IRB. It doesn't mean "you don't have to talk to the IRB", it means "there's a little less oversight but you still need to file all the paperwork". Here's one university's explanation[1]:

> Exempt human subjects research is a specific sub-set of “research involving human subjects” that does not require ongoing IRB oversight. Research can qualify for an exemption if it is no more than minimal risk and all of the research procedures fit within one or more of the exemption categories in the federal IRB regulations. *Studies that qualify for exemption must be submitted to the IRB for review before starting the research. Pursuant to NU policy, investigators do not make their own determination as to whether a research study qualifies for an exemption — the IRB issues exemption determinations.* There is not a separate IRB application form for studies that could qualify for exemption – the appropriate protocol template for human subjects research should be filled out and submitted to the IRB in the eIRB+ system.

Most of my research is in CS Education, and I have often been able to get my studies under the Exempt status. This makes my life easier, but it's still a long arduous paperwork process. Often there are a few rounds to get the protocol right. I usually have to plan studies a whole semester in advance. The IRB does NOT like it when you decide, "Hey I just realized I collected a bunch of data, I wonder what I can do with it?" They want you to have a plan going in.

[1] https://irb.northwestern.edu/submitting-to-the-irb/types-of-...
by crawshaw | 2026-01-03 00:40:34+00:00
Something engineering appears to struggle with is reasonable retrospective analysis on "successful" projects. I can even find examples from different engineering disciplines: JWST went decades and billions over-budget, it was so obviously flawed to any observer while it was in development, but because it eventually launched and worked all is forgiven. We can say the same of the space shuttle. (I predict in 2060 or whenever it is California's high-speed rail opens, riders will consider it ridiculous we complained about multi-decade delays and a misspent $100B.)

IPv6 is in a similar category, being a technology that should have taken five years to get where it got in 30, costing unmeasured hundreds of thousands of hours of engineering opportunity cost in debugging dual-stack woes (I alone have personally burned hundreds of hours on bugs in the past 30 years). In ten years everyone will take it as a given that the only way to network is to pay the dual stack cost, that IP addresses are necessarily impossible to memorize, that the development cost was not that bad and unavoidable.

But the costs of IPv6 now bother me less than the fact it is unclear software engineering as a profession learned anything from it.
by estearum | 2026-01-03 00:40:35+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GzXEhkI-Y3k

This is not even remotely close to what I'd call "so obvious." The fact that to some people the button is even less obvious than the nearly-invisible "emergency" handle is not credit to your argument, I think.

There's a reason this video exists, and there is a reason many rideshare drivers with Teslas have stickers all over the place explaining how to use the thing. I suspect that's all related to the reason that Tesla is being investigated for trapping people.

You're right, it would require thorough analysis to fully bottom out (that's what investigations are for)
by foxfired | 2026-01-03 00:41:57+00:00
You are right, my statement may be a bit misleading or incomplete. The ~500 readers are not just local rss bots, but they include aggregate RSS bots. For example, I see the feedly reporting ~200 subscribers, newsreader reporting 50 subscribers, feedbin, etc. Each of those only have between 1 to 3 ip addresses. So for each RSS bot, there are an arbitrary number of actual users reading. I can't track those accurately.

However, users can click on an RSS feed article and read it directly on my blog. These have a URL param that tells me they are coming from the feed. When an article isn't on HNs frontpage, the majority of traffic is coming from those feeds.

By the way, thank you for sharing this tool. Very insightful.
by cdrnsf | 2026-01-03 00:42:39+00:00
I take this approach with everything I post, though I only syndicate to Mastodon. I have an RSS and JSON feed for each of the content types (they all have different schema) on my site: posts, links, books, movies, concerts, status updates and a combined feed. I also maintain an ICS calendar subscription of upcoming album releases.

These items, in turn, can be optionally syndicated to Mastodon when published. For status updates, I have a field that supports Mastodon-specific text (for mentions and so forth).

I also expose an oembed endpoint that returns the appropriate data for each content type for platforms that support it.

Everything I read is from RSS feeds I follow via freshRSS. Links are saved to linkding and are transformed into TTS "podcasts" that are sent to audiobookshelf.
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-01-03 00:43:01+00:00
>>> What is the alternative?

>> Don't expect to get a house from rubbing two pieces of sandpaper together?

> Fitting username, if nothing else.

Such is my lot in life I suppose...

Now for a reasoned position while acknowledging the flippant nature of my previous post.

The original metaphor centered around expectations. If best practice when using a s/w dev tool is to sandbox it so that potential damage can be limited, then there already exists the knowledge of its use going awry at any time. Hence the need for damage mitigation. The implication being an erosion of trust in whether the tool will perform as desired or perform as allowed each time it is used.

As for the "house" part of the metaphor, use of tools to build desired solutions assumes trust of said tools to achieve project goals. Much like using building construction tools are expected to result in a house. But if all construction workers have is sandpaper, then there's no way there's going to be a house at the end of construction.

It takes more than sandpaper to get (build) a house - people, hammers, saws, etc. along with the skills of all involved. And it takes more than an LLM to deliver an acceptable s/w solution, even if its per-invocation deleterious effects are mitigated via sandboxing.
by Alupis | 2026-01-03 00:43:20+00:00
GUI apps often come in Flatpak[1] these days - which are sandboxed[2] like you are expecting. Flathub[3] is the primary place to get GUI apps, but many distros also have their own app store too.

Flatseal[4] is a GUI that allows you to mange the sandboxes/permissions. You can also manage them via cli if you prefer.

For CLI apps, you can use distrobox[5] or toolbx[6].

[1] https://flatpak.org/

[2] https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/basic-concepts.html#sandb...

[3] https://flathub.org/en

[4] https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

[5] https://distrobox.it/

[6] https://containertoolbx.org/
by AceJohnny2 | 2026-01-03 00:43:53+00:00
Microsoft has a history of creating new UI frameworks. IMHO it's the result of Ballmer's "Developers, developers, developers!" attitude, which I think is a good thing at core (court the developers that add value to your platform!)

But this results in chasing a new paradigm every few years to elicit new excitement from the developers. It'll always be more newsworthy to bring in a new framework than add incremental fixes to the old one.

React has had tremendous success in the web world, so why not try and get those developers more comfortable producing apps for your platform?

(Tangentially, see also the mixed reaction to Mac native apps switching from AppKit to SwiftUI)
by gruez | 2026-01-03 00:44:19+00:00
>10 it's getting iffy due to Google restrictions

???

If you're talking about google delaying the release of android causing pixel 10 builds to get delayed, that's mostly fixed and there are experimental builds now. Moreover pixel 10 was released a few months ago and is already available on the latest android. Meanwhile this phone hasn't even been released and is supposedly (based on other comments) on Android 15, released a year ago.
by dspillett | 2026-01-03 00:44:24+00:00
Very observant of you. The comment you replied to mentioned “non-obtrusive ads at the bottom” so they noticed that too. IMO “non-obtrusive” is a fair description, given that it doesn't seem to be doing excessive tracking (I didn't spot any extra cookies or other storage, so it is presumably logging little, if any, more than web server logs did in the 90s/00s, which is better than the stalking done by most adtech these days).
by Johanx64 | 2026-01-03 00:44:25+00:00
>OS manufacturer can’t be bothered to interact with their own UI libraries to build native UIs something has gone horribly wrong.

I honestly think that has way less to do with Microsoft, more of a representation of "software engineering" practices these days.

For example, Gnome shell has bunch of javascript in it, GTK has layout and styling defined in some flavour of CSS, etc.

I'm of opinion if you start writing OS userland in either javascript or python (or both),
you should be fired on the spot, but I don't make the shots.

Most technical decisions aren't really driven by what makes a better end-user experience or a better product, it's mostly defined by convenience and familiarity of substandard software developers - with mostly and primarily web-slop background.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-03 00:44:26+00:00
> People just don't care.

But I think they ought to. I also suspect that the current state of affairs is largely due to lack of understanding.

> as long as it doesn't try to update its firmware

I agree. But that isn't what we're talking about here. Things that can't update their firmware generally don't need you to upload a binary blob to them on startup.
by tormeh | 2026-01-03 00:44:44+00:00
Very much this. I bet the Xbox/games division would be up in arms about it, but they got told to spend less money and also not to bother the important people. The Windows people might care, but with how bad they've been shepherding the OS I'm not so sure.

Nadella is focused on AI and Azure. Bet he could hardly care less.
Show HN: Browser in C and Lua for the Playdate Console
by remywang | 2026-01-03 00:44:59+00:00
ORBIT is a pretty unique web browser designed exclusively for the Playdate console [1]. First, the cursor is inspired by the spaceship in the classic ASTEROIDS game, and controlled by Playdate's famous crank. Second, it doesn't support arbitrary web pages. Instead it implements an architecture I call the "exo web browser": for HTML, there is custom code for rendering each specific site, making sure the site will look right on Playdate's tiny, monochrome screen; alternatively, there's also another backend directly rendering Markdown. I also made the cuniform font [2] used in the browser based on GNU unifont. It's still very barebones, but I already use it to read news everyday.

[1]: https://play.date
[2]: https://github.com/remysucre/cuniform
by cogman10 | 2026-01-03 00:45:56+00:00
I generally agree with you, but it does entirely depend on the type of application you want to make.

If you need a lot of graphical elements and customization to get a look and feel that matches what you want, then yeah, nothing really beats html/css/js for both it's flexibility and available ecosystem.

But if what you need is an application with a button that does magic things when you push it, or a text box or table that allows for customization of the text color, then all the other types of UX frameworks work just fine. You just can't expect to do something like make a pretty chart.
by sph | 2026-01-03 00:45:59+00:00
Haha I have the same feeling and goal, my friend.

20 years in this field, I’ve done a lot, I’ve learned a lot, but I haven’t given a real shit about the career part in half a decade now. Since early 2025 I have gone all in downsizing my life so I do not have to put up with this nonsense to have a roof over my head. I don’t care about AI, about cloud, about navigating the job market which has been utterly broken the past 5 years, React, Kubernetes. Right now I am being paid a lot to write software for a megacorp, that gets scrapped 6 months later without ever seeing production, without anyone appreciating the effort that went into it. Endless meeting, ever-changing specs that I somehow deliver on time because I am decent at this career, yet it’s all for naught. It’s so fucking soul crushing I want out.

I have gone from needing 4 grand/month to survive in London, to savings all I can so I can buy the cheapest house in a cheap country in mainland Europe, and live with 1/10th the cost. Then I can dedicate my time doing what I truly love (research into OS dev and language design), dedicating 3 months a year to prostit^Wselling myself cheaply as a consultant to fill the coffers again. Maybe my cost of living will be so small I can survive doing open source.

I can’t remember being this excited about not having to have a real job any more, especially not in software engineering.

Here is the advice for you, so obvious in hindsight, no one really pays attention to it: the difference between poverty and wealth is spending less than you earn. That’s literally all there is to it. Want to work less? Spend less. Move to a lower cost of living part of the world.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-03 00:45:59+00:00
No, Elon regularly posts Grok generated images of a sexualized female anime character, and has been doing so before the new feature Grok launched that lets everyone undress female users of X. The lapse is intentional to see what they can get away with. Just like when Musk recently suggested that remigration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration), also known as ethnic cleansing, is a good thing.

In both cases, they know better because they aren’t dumb. They see to be reigned in.
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-03 00:46:04+00:00
It keeps getting repeated precisely because it isn't gaslighting. And yet we still see people claiming that NAT is security.

The only reason those networks aren't exposed to the whole Internet on v4 is because they're using RFC1918, not because of NAT -- but that still leaves them exposed to some outside networks, so routers come with firewalls, which act as an actual security boundary.

And they won't be exposed on v6, because those exact same firewalls work their magic on v6 too.

NAT doesn't provide and isn't needed for security. Its main security contribution is to confuse people about how secure their network is.
by netsharc | 2026-01-03 00:47:04+00:00
Maybe it's my bubble, but a video format is a name given to the description of how the video is stored as a stream of bytes/how to get the video from the stream of bytes, and "codec" is the piece of software (more generally, logic) that handles that work.

It's not fine to say "oh those 2 things are the same", especially in an introduction, because then you're leading people astray instead of educating them.
by stoneman24 | 2026-01-03 00:47:08+00:00
If I remember correctly, the visa free travel (esta) asks about arrests as part of the information. Even if you were never charged, never trialled, declared innocent at trial. I would imagine that this would include a uk police caution as well. For all matters, even if under uk law, these are minor and spent (no longer needed to be declared within the uk).

Just mention the UK, but I am sure that other countries have thier own procedures but the US wants all the details for thier own examination.
by nulbyte | 2026-01-03 00:47:18+00:00
We replaced VHS with DVDs. It took 42 years before we gave up on VHS. DVDs have been around for 29 years but were mostly replaced with BDs before disappearing off the shelves in favor of streaming.

We replaced records with tapes, tapes with more tapes, and more tapes with CDs before they, too, disappeared from the shelves in favor of streaming. Except that some stalwarts have successfully resurrected vinyl.

We replaced AM with FM, and analog radio with digital radio, then streaming. We replaced broadcast analog TV with digital, then cable and satelite, then streaming. Mostly.

None of these changes were backwards compatible, and all of them were meant for the general public. They took a while. They were successful.