MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by middayc | 2026-01-12 10:10:01+00:00
He has good points about languages.

But it reminds me of the SEO guys optimizing for search engines. At the end of the day, the real long term strategy is to just "make good content", or in this case, "make a good language".

In the futuristic :) long term, in "post programming-language world" I predict each big llm provider will have its own propertiary compiler/vm/runtime. Why basically do transpiling if you can own the experience and result 100% and compete on that with other llm providers.
by spacebanana7 | 2026-01-12 10:11:02+00:00
Generally the demand for software engineers has increased as their productivity has increased, looking back over the past few decades. There seems to be effectively infinite demand for software from consumers and enterprises so the cheaper it gets the more they buy.

If we doubled agricultural productivity globally we'd need to have fewer farmers because there's no way we can all eat twice as much food. But we can absolutely consume twice as much CSS, try to play call of duty on our smart fridge or use a new SaaS to pay our taxes.
by netsharc | 2026-01-12 10:11:03+00:00
These Japanese YouTubers decided to play a game, they got off a station earlier than their home and to walk home from there, but whenever they pass a Conbini they'd have to pick 6 items and roll a dice and buy that item from the 6. There's a lot of stores...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yT32QAyv6s
by Fnoord | 2026-01-12 10:11:47+00:00
You could make a similar case for Victor Lustig or Ferdinand Waldo Demara. Or, more recently: Lance Armstrong or Donald Trump.

Or for an organization such as the Flat Earth Society (with 'members all around the globe').

> A quite unique and interesting person departed this planet yesterday.

Any decent conspiracy theorist could've introduced you to this idea. In fact, any marketeer could've, too. I was introduced to this idea at the age of five. Yes, five years old. We had these fairytales in class, stories from the bible. All I did was asking questions, and it didn't take long to figure adults were believing in unproven nonsense. I don't remember who it was, but eventually I got convinced the stories were figurally meant, as lessons. I still value them as such these days, but I am convinced many people who call themselves religious do not follow these teachings at a decent level.

The practice from what we call con artists (in the form of conspiracy theories) is rather common these days, I'm afraid. As in: con artists are able to organize cons on massive levels. Before, if the ground got too hot they'd flee law enforcement and try their luck elsewhere. Just have a look at the lives of Victor Lustig and Ferdinand Waldo Demara, for example.

Either way, the whole conspiracy movement is arguably where MAGA stemmed from. That is how large they've become.

Like Trump, von Däniken had a criminal record, btw.

Everything you wrote, could also apply to say L. Ron Hubbard. Because we should factor in cults work similar, too.

The works themselves aren't the problem. The specific issue is that fiction, lies are sold as non-fiction, truth. You can add force, manipulation, terror, financial gains, and other forms of intimidation on top of that. A person like Lance Armstrong destructiveness was that his web of lies was kept intact while everyone around him was a fraud, too. He achieved this with matters of terror and manipulation. A person like Madoff was as destructive as he was because of the sheer volume of the (financial) scam.
by nickdothutton | 2026-01-12 10:11:49+00:00
On the one hand, self-hosting, even at home, is more accessible than it has ever been. Hardware, software, and agents to help with setup and maintenance. While at the same time ISPs, the big email providers, and even (in the UK) government legislation makes it more difficult or risky than it has ever been. We have gained much but also lost much since the mid 1990s.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-12 10:11:49+00:00
This is exactly the double standard, or bias when talking operating systems.

When it's macOS/Windows, it's someone else's fault; when it's Linux, it's Linux fault.

When you have to tinker on macOS/Windows that's just what has to be done, no biggie; when you have to tinker on Linux, it's a burden nobody should be subjected to.

People are blind to the work they've grown accustomed to. There are many things that are much, much easier on Linux than macOS or Windows.
by consp | 2026-01-12 10:11:54+00:00
The scrollbar thing is a more widespread mess. I've seen plenty of apps (cross platform) which hide the scrollbar as a tiny grey bar only visible when scrolling. Which on some TN panels is neigh invisible... If I can't see the scrollbar there is no additional stuff to read. I'm now pretty sure this is apple's bad design leaking though to the rest of the world.
by cyberax | 2026-01-12 10:12:33+00:00
Both HW versions have problems (and I have both). FSD has been "really good since VVV" for the last 6 major versions or so.

> Red hands of death would be sunglare due to your windshield not being clean. I haven't had red hands since 14 came out.

My windshield is completely normal. Not unusually dirty or anything. It's also Seattle. What is the "sunglare"?
by nothrabannosir | 2026-01-12 10:13:05+00:00
Pretty nice I guess. Cool even. Impressive! And I only say this , just in case, for someone else maybe, ehh—is that it? Because that’s totally fine with me, same experience actually funny that, really impressive tech btw! Very nice. Just, maybe, do the CEOs know that? When people talk of “not having to code anymore”—do they know that this is how it’s described by one of its most prominent champions today?

Not that I mind, of course. As you said: amazing!

Maybe someone just check in with the CEOs who were in the news recently talking about their work force…
by johnisgood | 2026-01-12 10:13:11+00:00
It seems like we do agree. :)

For a homeserver:

- SSH with key-only auth, exposed directly. This has worked for decades. Consider non-standard port to reduce log noise (not security, just quieter logs), fail2ban if you want

- Access internal services via SSH tunnels or just work on the box directly

- If exposing HTTP(S): reverse proxy (nginx/caddy) with TLS, rate limiting

- Databases, admin panels, monitoring - access via SSH, not public (ideally)

You do not need a VPN layer if you are comfortable with SSH. It has been battle-tested longer than most alternatives.

The fun part of tinkering is also learning what is actually necessary vs. cargo-culted advice. You will find most "security hardening" guides are overkill for a homeserver with sensible defaults.
by j4cobgarby | 2026-01-12 10:13:12+00:00
I just tried it out, nice! It's a useful tool, but the installation process didn't work for me following the steps as written. As it stands:

* The shellock directory must be in ~/Downloads, otherwise the shellock_bindings.fish fails to source it.

* The installation script in the repo didn't work because it tried to symlink shellock_bindings.fish without specifying an absolute path (`~/.config/fish/conf.d/shellock_bindings.fish -> ./shellock_bindings.fish`) -> caused a recursive symlink which broke.

Now I got it working by making sure to place shellock in Downloads (not ideal long term, I often clear my Downloads folder), and manually symlinking the bindings explicitly. It seems to work pretty well!
by pacija | 2026-01-12 10:13:40+00:00
Of course. A port is a door. If service listening on a port is secure and properly configured (e.g. ssh), whole Internet can bang on it all day every day, they won't let through without proper key. Same for imap, xmpp or any othet service.

But what can you expect from people who provide services but won't even try to understand how they work and how they are configured as it's 'not fun enough', expecting claude code to do it right for them.

Asking AI to do thing you did 100 times before is OK I guess. Asking AI to do thing you never did and have no idea how it's properly done - not so much I'd say. But this guy obviously does not signal his sysadmin skills but his AI skills. I hope it brings him the result he aimed for.
by rasengan0 | 2026-01-12 10:13:52+00:00
I like my shiny local gewgaw as much as the next person https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/

but I find it curious that the many will always pay for the few https://youtu.be/y12yZ7bQizk?si=Mbgg-F7IP8HJXJPz

and at what cost ? https://youtu.be/-sNKfRq1oKg?si=6m8pVM9tvawohUbm

Why not just mechanical turk the codebase? Lotsa jobs even with LLM augmentation at current state.

Where is the long term thinking of utility vs cost?

Until AI can solve its own energy generation issues, the hype is gross.

Thankfully I'll be long dead (hopefully) before a local AQI > 500 is considered the new normal common good trade for high fidelity personalized deep fake pr0n

or the cure for cancer at US healthcare billable rates.
Google's Universal Commerce Protocol aims to make shopping AI-native
by kddsingh | 2026-01-12 10:13:52+00:00
Google just published details about its Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard aimed at making shopping work natively with AI agents instead of websites. The idea is to standardize the entire commerce flow—product discovery, pricing, checkout, payment, and post-purchase—so an AI agent can complete purchases directly without custom integrations for every merchant. Merchants remain the seller of record, but expose capabilities through a common protocol, letting agents compare options and execute checkout across many stores. If this takes off, it weakens marketplace lock-in (including Amazon’s) by shifting discovery and checkout out of proprietary UIs and into AI-driven intent flows, similar to how open web protocols reduced the power of early internet portals.
by fauigerzigerk | 2026-01-12 10:14:10+00:00
There's a bunch of hyperactive people in those Apple "support" forums who don't actually help anyone. They respond to almost every discussion thread aggressively deflecting any criticism directed at Apple.

They pretend to offer "solutions" so their posts don't come across as unconstructive, but their solutions are always essentially the same, often culminating in a factory reset. There is never any attempt to get to the bottom of anything or diagnose what the actual issue is.

They are volunteering their time to make people shut up, bow their head in shame and go away. I don't think this is what you want in an open source project.
by yunohn | 2026-01-12 10:15:34+00:00
> I wish LLMs were good at search

The entire situation of web search for LLMs is a mess. None of the existing providers return good or usable results; and Google refuses to provide general access to theirs. As a result, all LLMs (except maybe Gemini) are severely gimped forever until someone solves this.

I seriously believe that the only real new breakthrough for LLM research can be achieved by a clean, trustworthy, comprehensive search index. Maybe someone will build that? Otherwise we’re stuck with subpar results indefinitely.
by motbus3 | 2026-01-12 10:15:54+00:00
Years ago, one of the most intelligent and brightest guys I worked with was using xfce

His setup was almost non existent apart from few customisations.

I remember he told me that xfce was the best one could get, while not being unpolite, he implied the problem was that people liked too much too have bells and blinking lights.

I kept using for a while what I was using, but after giving a try, yeah, that was all I needed.
by rsynnott | 2026-01-12 10:16:35+00:00
Also, the ‘leader’ in a parliamentary system is simply a lot less powerful. The executive is the cabinet, not the PM. The PM usually appoints it, but the ministers don’t get to fall back on ‘just following orders’; they are very much using their own authority. And again there’s always the threat of replacement of PM and re-alignment. Realistically, the threat is more important than the thing itself.
by j4cobgarby | 2026-01-12 10:16:38+00:00
Playing around with a bit more, I think the tool might not be suitable for my use cases. If I try it with the command `gcc -Wall` it thinks that each of W, a, l, (and l), are separate single-character arguments, and therefore fails badly:

```
> gcc -Wall
-W Unknown flag
-a Unknown flag
-l Search the library named library when linking. (The second alternative with the library as a separate argument is only for POSIX compliance and is not recom...
```

Additionally, it is really slow, I suppose because gcc has a huge man page? It is really useful for lots of small commands like ls and find, and things where I often forget parameters. Maybe it could be changed so that I can whitelist only certain commands to trigger the hints?
by solid_fuel | 2026-01-12 10:16:39+00:00
It’s not “economizing” if I have to verify every test myself. To actually validate that tests are good I need to understand the system under test, and at that point I might as well just write the damn thing myself.

This is the fundamental problem with this “AI” mirage. If I have to be an expert to validate that the LLM actually did the task I set out, and isn’t just cheating on tests, then I might as well code the solution myself.
Show HN: Realwork – Prove you didn't use AI
by Anuranjan_Vikas | 2026-01-12 10:16:39+00:00
Creators are getting accused of using AI when they didn't. Artists banned from platforms, students flagged by detectors, freelancers losing clients.

The problem: there's no good way to prove your innocence.

Realwork is a macOS app that records your creative process and generates cryptographic proof. Keystrokes, pauses, revisions - the messy human parts that AI skips. You get a shareable timelapse with SHA256 hashes proving the work happened over time on your machine.

Not a detector (those don't work). Just receipts.

Built with Swift/SwiftUI + ScreenCaptureKit. Free while in early access.

https://realwork.app
by emanuer | 2026-01-12 10:18:11+00:00
Subscribed!

As a layperson, I find this an approachable way to get an overview of a topic. However, I am only interested in a few select topics, and I was not able to find a way to subscribe to specific ones, such as #insulin-resistance (topic request ;-)

Another thing I really value in science YouTubers (e.g., youtube.com/@Physionic) is the deep dives they offer into the research—highlighting conflicting results, paying special attention to meta-analyses, etc. That would be amazing, although I realize it may be too much to ask.
by never_inline | 2026-01-12 10:18:39+00:00
To play devil's advocate: all the people using AI are not being significantly more productive on brownfield applications. If GP manages to find a Big Co (tech or non tech) which doesn't precisely bother about AI usage and just delivering features, and the bottleneck is not software dev (as is the case in majority of old school companies), he/she would be fine.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-12 10:19:06+00:00
'Oh gramps, for once, stop talking about the war'.

People really don't want to hear those stories because it makes them uncomfortable. I'm in an absolute minority in that I wanted to hear the stories even if they made me uncomfortable. But the vast majority of the people would love to get through life without learning history's lessons and as a result are much more likely to repeat them.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-12 10:19:21+00:00
> I have a very old android tablet (Nexus 7, 2013).

Yeah, Nexus and being old, that's the thing. Everyone else other than Nexus, you gotta be lucky if you even get kernel sources and device trees that you can compile, but the code quality will usually be so rotten there's no hope of mainstreaming it to the Linux kernel.

> Apple devices turn into useless e-waste bricks

Only the iDevice lineup though. The Intel and M series devices all can be made to run Linux.
by skerit | 2026-01-12 10:20:11+00:00
I agree, I started doing something like that a while ago.

I've had great success using Claude Opus 4.5, as long as I hold its hand very tightly.

Constantly updating the CLAUDE.md file, adding an FAQ to my prompts, making sure it remembers what it tried before and what the outcome was. It became a lot more productive after I started doing this.

Using the "main" agent as an orchestrator, and making it do any useful work or research in subagents, has also really helped to make useful sessions last much longer, because as soon as that context fills up you have to start over.

Compaction is fucking useless. It tries to condense +/- 160.000 tokens into a few thousand tokens, and for anything a bit complex this won't work. So my "compaction" is very manual: I keep track of most of the things it has said during the session and what resulted from that. So it reads a lot more like a transcript of the session, without _any_ of the actual tool call results. And this has worked surprisingly well.

In the past I've tried various ways of automating this process, but it's never really turned out great. And none of the LLMs are good at writing _truly_ useful notes.
by mnau | 2026-01-12 10:20:43+00:00
My country is going to require a recyclable plastic bottles. That means bringing empty plastic bottles full of air into a shop, so a machine can squash them and send somewhere.

This will bring down marketshare significantly. It's incredibly hassle, which is likely the point.
I am looking for good and cheap sodastream cola syrup, but they are very expensive.
by ZebraOtoko | 2026-01-12 10:20:57+00:00
>Windows is strictly quite a bit less configurable than Linux.

I wish I could agree, but I just can't: the OP may be correct, depending on which Linux desktop environment he's talking about.

*My* Linux is indeed much more configurable than Windows, but I'm using KDE. However, that's only promoted by a few distros like openSUSE. Most users are going to get GNOME shoved in their faces whether they like it or not, and no, GNOME is *NOT* more configurable than Windows. GNOME needs to be used exactly as the GNOME devs want you to use it, because otherwise it'll just break on the next update. For many users who are not Linux experts, and perhaps use Linux at work where their IT departments only allow them to use GNOME, they think GNOME==Linux because that's what most distros push so strongly, so I can see why OP would make such a claim.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-12 10:20:58+00:00
> Supply-shock imply that something was done and it worked, but that the problem solved itself is not as palatable for someone politically motivated like an administration.

Problem solving itself by killing the users is also not palatable because the conclusion is that the users are expendable in pursuit of solving the problem.

Since neither conclusion is going to be politically acceptable, why is your default hypothesis that the paper must be wrong because your political conclusion is better than the paper's political conclusion?
by gofreddygo | 2026-01-12 10:21:12+00:00
Not my experience at all. The very notable engineers I know didn't do their most notable work because of engineering or coding skills. Instead it was finding interesting problems and making a start or thinking a bit differently about something and doing something about it and being approachable and available all along that made a difference.

If all they did was code all the time, write code for fun and interacted mostly with other similar people, they probably wouldn't be the first choice for these projects.
by yunohn | 2026-01-12 10:21:46+00:00
From the OPs comment section:

> Sociologist Judy Wajcman wrote about the concept of how tech is speeding up tasks precisely like this article describes, however she observed that it has never quite manifested as more free time for the laborer.

Every time I read blogs or tweets or posts like this, this point becomes more and more apparent. The authors are constantly explaining how they were busy with all their work, without time to implement the less important or side-project like things. The point of the post is often that now they can invest whatever free time they had into doing so, thus doing more work than they did before. I have literally never read such a post where the author explains how they have automated away their job and are now working less than before they started using AI.

I think this is a great point to ponder as we continue on this path of overworking and labor value destruction, and not the naive benevolent socialism that the authors all assume will occur magically.
by mr-karan | 2026-01-12 10:21:46+00:00
I've landed on a similar philosophy but with a slightly different approach to orchestration. Instead of managing everything interactively, I built a lightweight bash-based deployment system that uses rsync + docker compose across multiple machines.

The structure is dead simple: `machines/<hostname>/stacks/<service>/` with a `config.sh` per machine defining SSH settings and optional pre/post deploy hooks. One command syncs files and runs `docker compose up -d`.

I could see Claude Code being useful for debugging compose files or generating new stack configs, but having the deployment itself be a single `./deploy.sh homeserver media` keeps the feedback loop tight and auditable.
by bratwurst3000 | 2026-01-12 10:22:06+00:00
i was looking it up and the 12th biggest pcb manufacture is in austria. which is europa afaik. Its not that dead

"In Leoben befindet sich das weltweite Headquarter von AT&S. Derzeit gibt es drei Produktionslinien, die eine Reihe von verschiedenen ML/HDI Highend-Leiterplatten, Embedded Lösungen für Power Applikationen vor allem im Server Bereich und Cores für die IC-Substratwerke herstellen. Weiteres werden spezielle Technologien für Aviation & Satellites, Industrie, Automotive und den IC-Markt entwickelt und gefertigt.

Mitarbeiter: 1.759
Eröffnung: 1982
Fokus:
Automotive, Aviation, Industrial, Medical, Communication, Consumer, Computer, Semicon
Ein neues Werk, das derzeit gebaut wird, wird auch die Produktion von IC-Substraten nach Leoben bringen, einschließlich bedeutsamer Kapazitäten für Forschung und Entwicklung. Mit dem neuen Werk werden rund 700 neue Arbeitsplätze geschaffen, wodurch sich die Zahl der Mitarbeiter:innen nahezu verdoppeln wird.

Fabriksgasse 13, 8700 Leoben, Österreich"

https://ats.net/
by anthk | 2026-01-12 10:23:15+00:00
Kim-I emulator and assemler written in T3X/0:

https://t3x.org/t3x/0/sim65kit.html

Calculator:

https://t3x.org/kimuno/kimcalc.html

If you can get microchess and know a little of 6502, you can trivially adapt
the ACIA serial code to the I/O of the simulator from T3X.

Also, T3X/0 itself:

https://t3x.org/t3x/0/index.html
by tomasz-tomczyk | 2026-01-12 10:23:39+00:00
I've been consistently pushing updates to my intermittent fasting & mindful eating companion app - https://www.fastpause.app/ - offline first PWA with no tracking.

It helped me stay more consistent with IF - added visual indicator of previous fasts in a little calendar widget on the dashboard so every time I open it, I see my streak visually, which has been a great motivator to continue.

I also added a BMI calculator, as the NHS one I had to enter all my values from scratch each time I went, so got a bit annoyed :)

I think I'm still the only user, but it's given me a lot of value as I beat my plateau!
by gherkinnn | 2026-01-12 10:23:46+00:00
Tahoe is a bit shit, yes. But I was there for both Vista and Windows 8 and they were both utterly unusable.

Vista ate every bit of RAM it could find, had severe driver issues and riddled with instabilities. It would not run on half the hardware at the time. I faintly remember a DX10 shitshow as well. And 8 hopelessly tried to apply Metro to the desktop and added a third (or was it forth?) settings panel. Also killed the Start menu.