MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hyperjeff | 2026-01-13 20:08:15+00:00
As a young engineer, I was once visited at my work desk by my CEO and the HR team because of all the Dilberts I had up on my cubicle wall. They felt they were harming morale. The engineers around me loved them, but they made fun of management, the real issue. I was surprised it merited the attention. I won a short battle over the issue and was allowed to keep them up. I still have a photo of that cubicle with them up.

Once, before the web existed, I emailed Scott and joked that perhaps he was someone at my company, looking over my shoulder. The comics were often absurd but also so accurate. He replied something friendly, I forget what.
by hybrid_study | 2026-01-13 20:08:25+00:00
[Obituary by ChatGPT]

He was the creator of Dilbert, a comic strip that became a cultural touchstone for corporate life in the 1990s and 2000s. Through satire, Adams articulated the frustrations of office workers and popularized ideas about systems thinking, incentives, and the gap between organizational rhetoric and reality. For many in the technology and business sectors, Dilbert functioned as a shared language for workplace dysfunction.

In later years, Adams became increasingly known for provocative and polarizing commentary. His public statements grew more strident over time, culminating in remarks in 2023 that led to the widespread removal of Dilbert from newspapers. These comments were widely criticized as racist and effectively ended the strip’s mainstream publication.

Adams’ legacy is a complicated one. His early work influenced how a generation understood corporate systems and personal habits, while his later conduct overshadowed those contributions. Assessing that full record requires holding both facts at once, without simplification.
by bluGill | 2026-01-13 20:08:30+00:00
That is fine if you always are swapping. However if you normally charge at home that becomes a big deal - if your current battery wears out/fails because it has 500,000k miles on it are you out a new one? Do you pay for the tow to get to a swap station? Again, if everyone always swapped this would be easy to amortize and not a problem but the mixed use.

Of course this isn't a new problem. I know people who own their own welding gas tank - but they always swap the tank out. The place they swap at somehow handles when the tank needs to be re-certified - and people don't ask questions.
by wibbily | 2026-01-13 20:08:55+00:00
I think I'm in love.

That it's built off Micropython is a huge deal. I've started using it by default for my hardware projects and it makes everything easier - writing drivers, playing with user interfaces, etc. Loads of regular Python libraries work and I can even grab them over the Internet. Like how I imagine it was running Forth or smth on embedded kits back in the day (ah maybe not the networking bit)
by jitbit | 2026-01-13 20:08:57+00:00
The title is misleading. It says “dominating” however no sources or percentages are provided. And later in the article it only says “increasingly applying”, with just two examples.

I do have a friend (very popular drummer-YouTuber who makes covers, has millions of subs) who did get an O visa because he actually is a, kinda, celebrity, so I guess this is indeed happening occasionally. But nothing is being “dominated” here.
by throw310822 | 2026-01-13 20:09:31+00:00
The first is a (totally legitimate) dig at DEI policies, has nothing to do with racism; the other two need to be put in context, as he was reacting to a poll according to which a sizeable proportion of black people disagreed with the statement "it's ok to be white".

Now, someone who disagrees with the statement "it's ok to belong to <ethnic group>" is usually called a racist. That's if we stick to the default meaning of words, without second and third guessing what people really mean to say when they deny it's ok to belong to an ethnic group. I think it's legitimate to be upset in this context and at the normalisation of such a thought, even to the point of reacting offensively.
by Stefan-H | 2026-01-13 20:09:40+00:00
The point of E2EE is that only the people/systems that need access to the data are able to do so. If the message is encrypted on the user's device and then is only decrypted in the TEE where the data is needed in order to process the request, and only lives there ephemerally, then in what way is it not end-to-end encrypted?
by atoav | 2026-01-13 20:09:46+00:00
No it is also not an OS problem, it is a problem of perverse incentives.

AI companies have to monetize what they are doing. And eventually they will figure out that knowing everything about everyone can be pretty lucrative if you leverage it right and ignore or work towards abolishing existing laws that would restrict that malpractice.

There are thousand utopian worlds where LLMs knowing a lot about you could be actually a good thing. In none of them the maker of that AI has to have the prime goal of extracting as much money as possible to become the next monopolist.

Sure, the OS is one tiny technical layer users could leverage to retain some level of control. But to say this is the source of the problem is like being in a world filled with arsonists and pointing at minor fire code violations. Sure it would help to fix that, but the problem has its root entirely elsewhere.
by LordDragonfang | 2026-01-13 20:09:46+00:00
> Advanced Passkey Features Required

> This application requires passkey with PRF extension support for secure encryption key storage. Your browser or device doesn't support these advanced features.

> Please use Chrome 116+, Firefox 139+, or Edge 141+ on a device with platform authentication (Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, etc.).

(Running Chrome 143)

So... does this just not support desktops without overpriced webcams, or am I missing something?
by torginus | 2026-01-13 20:09:48+00:00
A small thing I want to remark is that at that price, a Model 3 costs less than 3x, and has more than 3x the battery capacity.

Considering DC connectors on EVs provide a direct electrical connection to the battery terminal, and the charge-discharge circuitry in residential hybrid solar inverters can handle them just fine (provided it supports the voltage ranges, but people did this).

I think it's an enormous missed opportunity, that the most common charger standards don't support this (CCS2 doesn't, Chademo does, no idea about NACS)

If this was a thing, I think it would completely reshuffle the EV market, I don't know how used residential batteries depreciate, but I doubt they lose more than half of their value in 5 years like EVS do.
by throw_m239339 | 2026-01-13 20:10:10+00:00
Good. Although It's gonna be tough to enforce.

> Our guidelines for generative AI in music and audio are as follows:

> Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp.

> Any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.

Which is balanced. It means that you can still use Illugen to generate a drum sample for instance, but you can't just generate a whole track on SUNO and just upload it on Bandcamp.
by legitster | 2026-01-13 20:10:22+00:00
Here is the actual statement from the shareholder letter:

> AI
> A very broad topic and to be honest I’m not an expert on it. We do have a few senior managers that are: none are that excited about it yet. We have agreed an internal policy to guide us all, which is currently very cautious e.g. we do not allow AI generated content or AI to be used in our design processes or its unauthorised use outside of GW including in any of our competitions. We also have to monitor and protect ourselves from a data compliance, security and governance perspective, the AI or machine learning engines seem to be automatically included on our phones or laptops whether we like it or not.

> We are allowing those few senior managers to continue to be inquisitive about the technology. We have also agreed we will be maintaining a strong commitment to protect our intellectual property and respect our human creators. In the period reported, we continued to invest in our Warhammer Studio - hiring more creatives in multiple disciplines from concepting and art to writing and sculpting. Talented and passionate individuals that make Warhammer the rich, evocative IP that our hobbyists and we all love.

Keep in mind GW is an extremely old fashioned (and somewhat exploitative) company - so this seems more to do with them trying to develop and protect their very valuable IP at all costs.
by lgregg | 2026-01-13 20:10:39+00:00
They are still around but less common. Some progressive cities like Austin calls them a "Boarding House"[0] I'm not sure if there is a unit cap where something like your historical tenement housing could happen like in Manhattan. It's the same idea just a different format.

[0] https://www.austintexas.gov/department/get-boarding-house-li...
by marcusverus | 2026-01-13 20:10:59+00:00
> You're joking right? People got arrested and jailed for posting a Kirk meme https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/retired-cop-jail

How are the actions of the Perry County Police Department relevant to this conversation?

> Let's not even talk about all the other rhetoric of arresting and even killing people who voiced different opinions coming from the current regime.

Hysterical nonsense.
by susam | 2026-01-13 20:11:22+00:00
This is a nice post. Thanks for sharing it here. The only thing I would like to add to this fine article is that it is perfectly fine for a personal website to simply be a loose collection of pages arranged in an arbitrary manner. Not every personal website needs to be a blog.

Very often I see aspiring website authors quickly make life complicated for themselves by deciding they need a blog, which then leads to numerous questions about tools and processes that can easily draw anyone into busywork. That time could otherwise have been spent on actually writing posts, articles, games, demos, etc. for their website that one can look back with joy months or years later.

Website busywork is probably fine for people who genuinely want to spend their time thinking about tools and processes. But if you just want to put your thoughts out there, it can be more fruitful to simply publish HTML, written directly or converted from your favourite text format such Markdown, AsciiDoc, etc.

This is a topic I care about quite a bit and my complete thoughts about this would be too long for an HN comment, so I will just share a link to a post I wrote on this recently, in case someone finds value in it: https://susam.net/writing-first-tooling-second.html

I would genuinely like to see more personal websites, because they make the Web more diverse and more interesting.
Show HN: Ask your repos what shipped in plain English
by inferno22 | 2026-01-13 20:11:26+00:00
Gitmore (https://gitmore.io) – makes Git activity accessible to people who don't use Git.

Every commit has a message. Every PR has a title and description. The status update already exists. It's just locked in GitHub.

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- Anyone who asks "what shipped?" and waits for an engineer to respond

*What it does:*

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- "What shipped this month?"
- "Who worked on the billing feature?"
- "Which PRs are stuck?"

Or schedule automated reports to Slack or email. Weekly, monthly, whatever.

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We register webhooks. Git platforms push event metadata – commit messages, PR titles, descriptions, authors, timestamps, file counts.

Every event gets normalized into a structured schema. The AI queries structure, not raw text.

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How do non-technical people at your company stay informed on dev progress?
by YougOtricked | 2026-01-13 20:11:32+00:00
Are you talking about quantum boolean logical operators? && is for boolean, and & will be for single bit, &&& is for quantum booleans, such as qtrue &&& both = both. the logic operators with 3 symbols are qbool, !! is for qbool, and ^^ is qbool xor, then && || ! == != are bool, and & | will be bitwise logic for singular bits.
by chasd00 | 2026-01-13 20:11:38+00:00
"licensed electrician" is also timewalled behind a lengthy apprenticeship.

From google's llm "..requiring 8,000 hours of on-the-job training (OJT) under a Master Electrician .."

so even if you could pass the test you still don't get to become licensed until you've paid your dues in terms of time.
by room271 | 2026-01-13 20:11:38+00:00
Thanks for your considered reply, and I do appreciate my initial post was somewhat exaggerated and done in frustration.

Your own evidence, however -- albeit expressed less polemically -- seems indeed to support my conclusion, namely that on a range of measures the UK is indeed more 'free' than the US. Moreover, it is somewhat a large sleight of hand for you to say 'Trump and his oligarchs aside' when Trump is the President and Congress does not seem interested in curtailing his executive power.

Re inequality, I completely agree that the UK does poorly on inequality measures but the data is somewhat ambiguous here. E.g. the OECD picture is closer to what you describe, but the World Bank (which uses the Luxembourg Income Study) paints a different picture:

France: 31.8
Germany: 32.4
UK: 32.4
USA: 41.4

(https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI)

By this measure, the UK is not at all an outlier among the largest EU economies, while the USA is. Moreover, inequality is falling in the UK but rising in the USA so the trend further excacerbates the difference. You can explore many other inequality measures across the USA/UK at https://pip.worldbank.org/# and the picture is very consistent: the USA is less 'equal' across all measures.

I would have to dive into things more to attempt to explain the discrepancy in the two data sources. The Parliamentary report you cite does hint at a partial explanation; the family survey they use doesn't correct for many benefits, which results in an overstatement of inequality. It may also be that the World Bank is total income rather than disposable income but it's not easy to determine their precise methodology (though see https://datanalytics.worldbank.org/PIP-Methodology/surveyest...).

Re so-called pre-crime. All police organisations monitor high risk individuals through increased patrols in hotspots, targeted surveillance, etc. My point I guess is that there is not some binary scale between Minority-Report style precrime units and an hypothesised modern police form that is indifferent to risk factors. It is a scale. The 'precrime' project referred to in the article does not facilitate pre-emptive arrest but appears to provide additional risk data when allocating police resources (and probably helps with parole and rehabilitation strategies too). A touch of suspicion towards the rhetoric of the article is warranted too given the source. In any case, the UK has a long tradition of policing by consent and while there have been some regressions on policing of protest (which I deeply oppose) in general policing in the UK is good and crime is falling.
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-13 20:11:39+00:00
He has ... very problematic ... perspectives on females. "If you take away my ability to hug, I will kill people. I'm deadly serious and I won't apologize for it. I like hugging more than killing, but I will become a suicide bomber."

and "Learning hypnotism has been my Jedi mind trick to sleep with more women".
by microdrum | 2026-01-13 20:11:46+00:00
Yup, Growatt is the Chinese OEM that Base Power white labels to pretend it does US manufacturing. In fact this stuff is low quality. You need to be careful. There are gradations of quality at cell, pack, inverter, control levels. You will be crushed if you realize you AliExpressed your way to a home power "solution" only to have it fail young.
by WCSTombs | 2026-01-13 20:11:53+00:00
It sounds to me like you just need to try creating electronic music, not using generative AI. If you really have an exact idea of what the music should sound like, you should be able to realize your vision this way, and you can use realistic instrument samples if you want. It may not sound the way a person would have played it, since you can't fully replace a human performer, but it can still sound really good, and there's a huge body of video game music from the last 30 years or so to vouch for that.
by dfe | 2026-01-13 20:11:55+00:00
How long does the breakdown take?

Coke used to be mixed, bottled, and shipped out in an extremely quick timeframe. Inventory turned over fast.

I suspect the separated components wind up being equal to what a stale soda has, one that has been on the shelf. It’s like buying a soda whose sugar component has already gone stale.

Sure, the rest of the flavors are there and still fresh, unaffected by the carbonated water, but the sweetness one is off.
by zaptrem | 2026-01-13 20:12:15+00:00
See here for a truly random sample of human music: https://0xbeef.co.uk/random/soundcloud

Thankfully, most of it doesn't reach your Spotify feed. I think most of it is garbage, but I'd fight for the right of people to continue posting it. All things algorithmic have this exploration/exploitation, diversity/fidelity tradeoff and Spotify has theirs tuned very heavily toward exploitation/fidelity. I think there is a cool opportunity for someone to put the tradeoff dial into users hands.
by HiPhish | 2026-01-13 20:12:15+00:00
"Hey, you know that thing no one understands how it works and has no guarantee of not going off the rails? Let's give it unrestricted access over everything!" Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

I can see the value of agentic AI, but only if it has been fenced in, can only delegate actions to deterministic mechanisms, and if ever destructive decision has to be confirmed. A good example I once read about was an AI to parse customer requests: if it detects a request that the user is entitle to (e.g. cancel subscription) it will send a message like "Our AI thinks you want to cancel your subscription, is this correct?" and only after confirmation by the user will the action be carried out. To be reliable the AI itself must not determine whether the user is entitled to cancelling, it may only guess the the user's intention and then pass a message to a non-AI deterministic service. This way users don't have to wait until a human gets around to reading the message.

There is still the problem of human psychology though. If you have an AI that's 90% accurate and you have a human confirm each decision, the human's mind will start drifting off and treat 90% as if it's 100%.
by nextos | 2026-01-13 20:12:21+00:00
A classic way to bridge the gap is to put a great academic brand on your CV. For example, you could work as a research assistant in CS for a famous university (e.g. Cambridge, Imperial, ETH).

Since the salaries they offer are low, the competition won't be so intense, and they will offer support to relocate. Once you have a foot in the ground, you can apply to great industry jobs.

A more elaborate plan would be to obtain a PhD at one of those institutions, but that is quite time-consuming and the benefits might not offset the costs.
by throw_m239339 | 2026-01-13 20:12:52+00:00
> its just creative prompting,

Sure, you just can't upload the resulting track directly on Bandcamp, but you're free to "creatively prompt" on SUNO all you want, they'll even host your "music".

It's also a matter of resources. People uploading gigabites of AI generated slop a day isn't really what Bandcamp is about.
by drdeca | 2026-01-13 20:12:53+00:00
This comment I'm making is mostly useless nitpicking, and I overall agree with your point. Now I will commence my nitpicking:

I suspect that it may merely be infeasible, not strictly impossible. There has been work on automatically proving that an ANN satisfies certain properties (iirc e.g. some kinds of robustness to some kinds of adversarial inputs, for handling images).

It might be possible (though infeasible) to have an effective LLM along with a proof that e.g. it won't do anything irreversible when interacting with the operating system (given some formal specification of how the operating system behaves).

But, yeah, in practice I think you are correct.

It makes more sense to put the LLM+harness in an environment which ensures you can undo whatever it does if it messes things up, than to try to make the LLM be such that it certainly won't produce outputs that would mess things up in a way that isn't easily revertible, even if it does turn out that the latter is in principle possible.
by bastardoperator | 2026-01-13 20:12:55+00:00
Which is the entire point of it. Why should I look at ten commits when I can look at one and get the same exact data? Why should I pollute my production history for what a is likely a bunch of debugging commits? The branch is a scratchpad, you should feel empowered within your own branch, rebase allows you to be lazy in the development cycle while presenting a nice clean set of changes at the end of it.
Show HN: MiniatureSelf – Transform your selfie into a miniature figure
by pelmenibenni | 2026-01-13 20:13:10+00:00
I made a site to generate these Mini Figures!
I saw a post, where someone made them with AI and just wanted to make a site for it to make them myself.
Yes it's just a wrapper, but feel free to use it!
https://v0-miniatureself.vercel.app/

Thank you!!

They guy on the picture also has a shop for this beanie if anyone is interested!
https://walkwithgod.shop/
by c-hendricks | 2026-01-13 20:13:13+00:00
I'm glad you brought up "in the age of the internet" because there's a part of "separate the art from the artist" that I don't see discussed enough:

In the internet age, simply consuming an artists media funds the artist. Get as philosophical as you'd like while separating the art from the artist, but if they're still alive you're still basically saying "look you're a piece of shit but here's a couple of bucks anyways".
by wibbily | 2026-01-13 20:13:45+00:00
An immediate benefit I see is that they're cheap enough to use once - you could make/find/buy a software instrument that you like, then put it in your gear bag and never reflash it. Now it's just like any other synth. Then you can get a second Tulip and do the same thing later if you like. You could do this with laptops of course but it starts to get expensive.

The Pocket Operators have something similar (the KO at least, maybe the others). If you've written samples into them you want to preserve for playing live, you can snap a tab off and then they're read-only - no surprises on gig night.
by raffael_de | 2026-01-13 20:13:48+00:00
The realization of emerging emotions by cultivating mindfulness. I mean this is basically also what various practices/exercises in (Zen) Buddhism aim at. But I'd argue that the practical methodology advertised by Stoicism is too ratio based to be effective beyond a basic . I would rather put my money on more indirect approaches like classic mindfulness exercises and meditation. They are less goal oriented by design, but the axiom (which I accept from experience and observation) is that a healthy mind will be expressing stoic virtues naturally without knowing how to call it.