MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jerf | 2026-01-15 19:43:29+00:00
You will need the CEO to watch over the AI and ensure that the interests of the company are being pursued and not the interests of the owners of the AI.

That's probably the biggest threat to the long-term success of the AI industry; the inevitable pull towards encroaching more and more of their own interests into the AI themselves, driven by that Harvard Business School mentality we're all so familiar with, trying to "capture" more and more of the value being generated and leaving less and less for their customers, until their customer's full time job is ensuring the AIs are actually generating some value for them and not just the AI owner.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-15 19:43:38+00:00
If they are not adding any value, then the content companies can decline to be indexed. They have always had that right, but they do not exercise it which is a clear signal that indexing adds value. So they are getting a service that adds value for free, and not only are they not grateful for that, they are actually so greedy that they want Google to pay them.
by techblueberry | 2026-01-15 19:43:47+00:00
This is a boring an answer, because you can't make any money off of it, but I've started to read the classics and listen to classical music. It's a weird process because it's hard to measure (which is probably what makes it effective). But I sort of assume getting some of this back means slowing down, trying to focus on things that are hard to focus on, and trusting the process.
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-15 19:43:50+00:00
> 4. (experimental) I don't drink, which does curtail my social opportunities. I'm considering updating my drinking policy this year. My hypothesis is that the benefits of having a strong community out-weigh the health benefits of abstinence.

This is a very mature, balanced take. If I may advise: Try some experiments on yourself. You already know how you feel and how you socialise without drinking. Try drinking various amounts in different social settings. How does it feel? Do you like yourself and your life more before? Then go back. Else, continue experimenting until you find a sweet spot.
by broken-kebab | 2026-01-15 19:44:01+00:00
In this context "journalism" usually refers not to a crowd of Mothers Teresas seeking to improve society in voluntary contradiction to their own market (or guild/class/whatever) interests, but a bunch of business entities which were born out of printed newspapers, feeling uncertain about their revenues after changes in technology of information delivery ruined their niche. And trying to leverage their established relations with politicians to extract more profit. It's not like Google is offending little pixies here. After all, there are youtube channels which have a societal role too, and search engines too I guess can make a similar claim.

Other commenter's note about national security issue is more on point but then I doubt that bailing out failing news platforms would make them as influential as they used to be in the bygone era.
by theYipster | 2026-01-15 19:44:02+00:00
Leveraging Claude Code in a Linux shell to do all sorts of stuff has been an amazing superpower for me, and I think for many others. Cowork is a promising next step to democratize this superpower for others.

If Microsoft, in creating their next gen agentic OS, wants to replace Windows with the Linux kernal, Claude Code, and bash shell (turning Windows into a distribution of sorts,) more power to them. However, I doubt this is the direction they'll go.
by philipkglass | 2026-01-15 19:44:04+00:00
I would like to be able to pull content out of the Wayback Machine with a proper API [1]. I'd even be willing to pay a combination of per-request and per-gigabyte fees to do it. But then I think about the Archive's special status as a non-profit library, and I'm not sure that offering paid API access (even just to cover costs) is compatible with the organization as it exists.

[1] It looks like this might exist at some level, e.g. https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader, but I've been trying to use this for a couple of weeks and every day I try I get a 5xx error or "connection refused".
by _bohm | 2026-01-15 19:44:42+00:00
I'm sorry, but if you still have any expectation that this administration will engage in good faith in any democratic process, you either haven't been paying attention or are engaging in willful self-delusion. They do not believe in democracy. They care about free speech only insofar as they can use it to claim they are being victimized, but will gleefully take it away from their opponents. They laugh in your face while they pardon the J6 insurrectionists. The presidential election is not and ought not be a referendum on whether or not we all get to have our rights trampled by gun-toting masked goons. At a certain point you have to stand up for what's right--that is, a reclamation of democracy.
by ssully | 2026-01-15 19:44:46+00:00
Sounds neat! Also kind of funny, because I already use Fly machines as a bit of a playground for some personal projects and really like it for that purpose. I have minor issues, some of which this blog post directly talks about, but nothing that has held me back.

Also I like a lot of what you get built-in with Fly machines(ex:Grafana). So I am curious how this would fit in my workflow. Maybe Sprites for rapid development and toy projects, and move to a Fly machine when I need something a little more beefy?

Looking forward to checking this out.
by bflesch | 2026-01-15 19:45:08+00:00
Why you feel the need to discuss a "far right" in Europe while US tech leadership is performing roman salutes in front of live cameras?

Muslim refugees are not responsible for Epstein, Greenland, US import duties, US ignoring Minsk agreement or Facebook actively supporting fake news with engineering resources embedded into political campaigns. The vast majority of muslim refugees integrates extremely well and perform shitty jobs that help our society, all while being traumatized from wars they were born into.

The social media accounts of the "far right" sit in st. petersburg propaganda mills and their advertisement account managers sit in san francisco. Workers at US-tech companies are responsible for the unchecked bombardment of our citizens with propaganda and fake news.
by philistine | 2026-01-15 19:45:22+00:00
Apple has used both Samsung and TSMC for its chips in the past. Until the A7 it was Samsung, A8 was TSMC, and the A9 was dual-sourced by both! Apple is used to switching between suppliers fairly often for a tech company; it's not that it's too hard for them to switch fab, it's that TSMC is the only competitive fab right now.

There are rumours that Intel might have won some business from them in 2 years. I could totally see Apple turning to Intel for the Mac chips, since they're much lower volume. I know it sounds crazy, we just got rid of Intel, but I'm talking using Intel as a fab, not going back to x86. Those are done.
by realityfactchex | 2026-01-15 19:45:53+00:00
Isn't the easy way just a development VM? As in:

Install your OS of choice in a virtual machine, e.g. even hosted on your main machine.

Install the AI coding tool in the virtual machine.

Set up a shared folder between host+guest OS.

Only let the VM access files that are "safe" for it to access. Its own repo, in its own folder.

If you want to give the AI tool and VM internet access and tool access, just limit what it can reach to things it is allowed to go haywire on. All the internet and all OS tools are ok. But don't let this AI do "real things" on "real platforms" -- limit the scope of what it "works on" to development assets.

When deploying to staging or prod, copy/sync files out of the shared folder that the AI develops on, and run them. But check them first for subterfuge.

So, don't give the AI access to "prod" configs/files/services/secrets, or general personal/work data, etc. Manage those in other "folders" entirely, not accessible by the development VM at all.

Is that close?
by 9rx | 2026-01-15 19:45:54+00:00
> crappy life of sleepless nights and hard toil.

I went back. Sleepless nights in the tractor is my favourite time of year.

But you're still ultimately just siting there staring at a screen — albeit a screen on wheels. Same as software development (minus the wheels).

If that's hard toil, I'm not sure what you think is easy?
by pixelready | 2026-01-15 19:46:01+00:00
Yeah, I don’t have any evidence for this but it certainly would make sense. It seems likely that the US government was catching wise to the data brokering loophole around the same time as the PayPal mafia was cashing out and Thiel would have been in the right circles to run into any well-connected gov’t types sniffing around for the most morally flexible big names in the valley. But it seems equally likely that Thiel just wanted to continue accumulating wealth and power to pursue his other authoritarian projects and the government had the biggest bag of cash around so he worked backwards from that.

If next I hear he’s planning to build a fabulous underwater city in international waters, I won’t be surprised. He enjoys his biblical themes, perhaps he can name it Rapture.
by nailer | 2026-01-15 19:46:18+00:00
Jimmy Wales talked about the pages to do with Gaza before he locked them due to his concerns: https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/business/wikipedia-co-founder-... or https://gizmodo.com/wikipedia-gaza-genocide-locked-200068099...

There are many others though. The 'Solana_(blockchain_platform)' page is mainly a hit piece. When I used to edit Wikipedia, an admin told me that the amount of developers was not a relevant measure for the blockchain and that 'proof of history' (using verifiable delay functions to sync clocks then creating an equivalent of Time Division Multiple Access to coordinate a distributed system) was not real. At the time, the introduction to the page was mainly focused on FTX (who invested in Solana Lab's 5th round) and Melania Trump (who launched a token on the platform, amongst many more well known/more liked people and orgs that had done things on Solana, eg Def Jam, Lollapalooza, Insatgram, Stripe, Visa, etc) which apparently were not relevant.
by al_borland | 2026-01-15 19:46:44+00:00
This is a weak argument. I agree there there is a lot of value in stepping away from a problem to give your brain time to chew on it. That said, filling every moment with busy work doesn't produce these results nearly as well for me as taking a walk.

We need to get away from the idea that need to pretend to be actively working on something all the time. There is value in the white space between tasks, and we don't need to pretend to be working on boring nonsense. It's knowledge work, thinking is part of the work. Why do we have to look like we are doing something productive while thinking? It's all performative.
by michaelmrose | 2026-01-15 19:47:00+00:00
Number of immigrants has been slowly increasing or steady for decades. It's a fantasy that it's a crisis or that there is a risk of tens of millions flooding our shores. We mostly drastically benefit from products downstream from cheap labor while tacitly allowing those who don't get in trouble so we can continue to benefit from this.

We could have "solved" immigration decades ago with enough punative treatment of employers but didn't want to.

If you want to actually stop it you could just ramp up punative treatment of employers over the next 5 years while keeping other policies at Obama or Bush era.

Half the undocumented without us family members would self deport gradually whilst jobs dried up. Offer amnesty to productive people with family roots and no criminal record and you end up with a microscopic undocumented pop.

Meanwhile DSHS is tweeting a pic of an island paradise with the caption America after 100M deportations. There are around 12M undocumented but about 100M non-whites if you have trouble interpreting their meaning or intention.
by breuleux | 2026-01-15 19:47:08+00:00
It is also a courtesy that free countries respect US copyright. I wouldn't be surprised if EU countries have already started ramping up corporate espionage and are making contingency plans to seize all data and assets on their territory. If they manage to get ahold of source code and data, they may be able to keep some services running without US involvement.

Netflix is a good example: the functionality isn't difficult to reproduce, and the only thing that restricts its library is copyright, which the EU could just stop enforcing for American companies.
by fatbird | 2026-01-15 19:47:36+00:00
Whatever else you think of Bluesky, it's a place where trolling and doomerism are rejected. The nuclear block (and a culture of block, don't engage) does wonders for denying actual trolls an audience, and secondarily for permitting people to do the virtual equivalent of walking away from someone who's behaving badly. In particular, doomerism about Trump is minimized there the same way.
by ge96 | 2026-01-15 19:47:58+00:00
It's that thing though I'm pretty sure I was scammed by this couple at a gas station asking me for "gas money" even though they wanted cash then the lady said "your mother raised a good boy" lmao.

To me this is a gov problem not an individual problem. Yeah if someone was dying in front of me I would try to help them. But now I gotta go to a store and buy em a tent and what not? I guess I am an asshole. Also read up "do you give money to homeless" on reddit. Almost all of the answers are no.

I have to go there and face my fear. See if I do get assaulted, I'm a 6ft buff dude so I don't think so but I'm also not a trained fighter. I just hate this fear, that normal people like living in NYC deal with on a daily basis.

Getting jumped is real though, I've been jumped before by a group.

Might as well just give the $5 though and move on with my life.

Back to women, I have negative traits as demonstrated above, indecisiveness and low self-esteem/caring about what other people think of me too much.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-15 19:48:14+00:00
We are responsible for your nation's failure to be competitive in this industry? There are many European companies that operate freely in the US, so it is not our laws that are getting in your way. The only thing the US could do to help you here is to use force against your government to remove its self defeating policies, and I don't think you would actually like that very much. Actions have consequences. Every choice is a tradeoff. You will never get anywhere with that blame other people for your problems attitude.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-15 19:48:42+00:00
I'll say the same thing that I always do. For some reason, it's not popular, hereabouts, but it's worked for me, for over 45 years.

Get involved with volunteer/gratis work. Join an advocacy/charity group. Do stuff for free.

HN members have really valuable skills that can make an enormous difference.

Joining a volunteer organization brings together passionate, action-minded people that already share a common platform.

It can also teach us a lot. My personal career was significantly helped by what I learned, doing volunteer work.

Boom. Loneliness problem solved.
by nyrikki | 2026-01-15 19:48:45+00:00
I was looking at the PDF [0] and [1] and [0] calls out:

> In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.

``QN5:Personal Satisfaction is a binary question``, with a category for refused/didn't know that WAS NOT OFFERED IN THE QUESTION, with an additional question asking about very, sort of etc... They call out `QN5QN6COMBO: Personal Life Satisfaction`

I can't answer the HN sentiment straw man, the DELTA from previous results is what is important. Using it as an absolute scale would almost certainly be discouraged if you asked them via the email address in the PDF.

Basic statistics realities here, and Gallup knows the limits far better than the comment section here. And they understand that "81% are [somewhat] satisfied or very satisfied" especially when presented as two trivial properties, has limitations.

Once again they asked:

> In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in your personal life at this time?

Then followed up with:

> Are you very [satisfied/dissatisfied], or just somewhat [satisfied/dissatisfied]?

Note how both of those are binary, with a NULL being an option to mark down as an exception.

You do not have quintiles at all.

[0] https://carsey.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/2020/07/gal...

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1672/satisfaction-personal-life...
by pfortuny | 2026-01-15 19:49:05+00:00
Mmmmhhhhhh it depends on what the engineer knows about the realistic uses of the tool. As a sibling comments, fixing the railroads to Auswichz might me morally wrong.

Eichmann knew what he was doing and, in any case, forcing dozens of thousands of people to move with less than a week's notice does not soynd quite "amoral".
by Duanemclemore | 2026-01-15 19:49:09+00:00
Check out the History of the Germans season on the Hanseatic League [0]. The bulk goods trade was in the Baltic / Northern Europe was actually huge. The Hansa themselves traded all the way from London to Novgorod. Anyway, it's an absolutely fascinating subject and period.

[0] https://historyofthegermans.com/hanseatic-league/
by kmeisthax | 2026-01-15 19:49:47+00:00
Translation: "Die fighting in a civil war and maybe we'll grant you a visa".

This is, of course, stupid. You're arguing that if a tyrant king comes around, all of his neighbors should work tirelessly and for free to make sure the tyrant king's subjects remain under their control, so that the tyrant king still has materiel to invade you with. Most people are not in a position to individually resist or rebel against the system. Revolution is a collective concept, and the fish rots from the head. There's no causal link between denying someone a path to emigrate from their hellhole and them actually fixing their broke-ass society. They just wind up becoming a tool for that society to throw at you.

Think of every society like a building made of sentient bricks. If the bricks decide to leave, the building falls apart. But if the bricks are prohibited from leaving, then the building remains standing. Even if America doesn't actually restrict people from leaving (in fact, Trump kinda wants that), offering them no place to go is about the same thing as not letting them leave.

And, to be clear, the rot didn't start with Trump. It started with neoliberalism and the destruction of America's welfare system creating a permanent underclass of scammable peons. That same rot is present in much of the EU for the same reasons. America just succumbed to it first. You're watching a preview of what will happen in your country soon if you do not take immediate corrective action to fix the problem.
by IshKebab | 2026-01-15 19:50:23+00:00
Interesting. Would this be suitable as a replacement for NFS? In my experience literally everyone in the silicon design industry uses NFS on their compute grid and it sucks in numerous ways:

* poor locking support (this sounds like it works better)

* it's slow

* no manual fence support; a bad but common way of distributing workloads is e.g. to compile a test on one machine (on an NFS mount), and then use SLURM or SGE to run the test on other machines. You use NFS to let the other machines access the data... and this works... except that you either have to disable write caches or have horrible hacks to make the output of the first machine visible to the others. What you really want is a manual fence: "make all changes to this directory visible on the server"

* The bloody .nfs000000 files. I think this might be fixed by NFSv4 but it seems like nobody actually uses that. (Not helped by the fact that CentOS 7 is considered "modern" to EDA people.)
by f1shy | 2026-01-15 19:50:23+00:00
I prefer the real encyclopedias. Britannica or other. The quality was so much better. For me would be hard to believe, anybody with actual experience using britannica can prefer wiki from the explanation quality pov. Of course the wiki has many advantages too. Before LLM I used it for helping with translation, for example. The direct links to web resources, etc. I like having both. I do certainly not want a world where wikipedia has the monopoly of truth, or truth is something “democratic” please understand it correctly, democracy is good, just that in knowledge I’ve seen so often the most popular belief is sometimes wrong.
by foldr | 2026-01-15 19:50:35+00:00
They’re arrested and charged with appropriate offenses, e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyg3j2kvzdo.amp

Renee Nicole wasn’t driving a car at anyone, but regardless, it is stupid to shoot someone who’s driving a car at you as it won’t stop the car. What you need to do in that situation is get out of the way.
by blibble | 2026-01-15 19:50:41+00:00
> Like if gas is $5 and RE is $1 the RE folks get $5 instead?

yes

if there's 1mW of gas in the grid then everyone gets paid the gas price

this is called pay-as-clear, and has some positives (strongly encourages RE construction), and some disadvantages (zero long term planning, paying gas generators absurd rates if they can squeeze in at the top of the auction)

UK government is consulting on changes to this system at present
by yongjik | 2026-01-15 19:50:42+00:00
Just shows that the second amendment is an obsolete idea, and in today's real world it's more likely to oppress people's right to protest than help them fight tyranny.

ICE goons can shoot people because in America, law enforcement officers shooting citizens is thoroughly normalized. It's normalized because law enforcement officers getting shot is thoroughly normalized. It's normalized because the nation decided every village idiot can have a gun and the government can do nothing about it.
by simonw | 2026-01-15 19:50:46+00:00
I'm not entirely convinced by the anecdote here where Claude wrote "bad" React code:

> But in context, this was obviously insane. I knew that key and id came from the same upstream source. So the correct solution was to have the upstream source also pass id to the code that had key, to let it do a fast lookup.

I've seen Claude make mistakes like that too, but then the moment you say "you can modify the calling code as well" or even ask "any way we could do this better?" it suggests the optimal solution.

My guess is that Claude is trained to bias towards making minimal edits to solve problems. This is a desirable property, because six months ago a common complaint about LLMs is that you'd ask for a small change and they would rewrite dozens of additional lines of code.

I expect that adding a CLAUDE.md rule saying "always look for more efficient implementations that might involve larger changes and propose those to the user for their confirmation if appropriate" might solve the author's complaint here.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-15 19:50:47+00:00
As far as 2 goes: As far as churches go. The type of church matters a lot. If you go to a Universalist Unitarian, or progressive Lutheran Church, yeah itll probably be 80+. Evangelical/Baptist, Latter Day Saints, Orthodox, Catholic (more traditional parishes) all are significantly younger. The more conservative the denomination the younger the congregation. The more liberal, the older they are. With conservative/liberal being adherence to scripture. This also tracks to Judaism, with Reformed Synagogues being much older than Orthodox. I am not sure and haven't seen numbers of Islam, Buddhism, etc. i the US.

For 4: You don't really have to be good for like a rec league kickball, or beer league golf. Gyms are better if youre doing classes though I think, like BJJ or wrestling.