MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bayarearefugee | 2026-01-14 20:41:49+00:00
> Similar around 2000-2001 or so. It sucked, a lot.

Was in the industry then and in 2008 and can confirm the suckage.

That said, I'd probably be a lot more concerned about the current situation than those previous times if I were an entry-level tech worker now, like the OP is.

While I don't think "AI" is likely to replace us all in the next couple of years, I do think it is playing a significant part in the near universal industry hiring freeze among employees with limited/no experience and I think its very difficult to try to predict when and if this might change regardless of other economic factors.

And to be clear, I don't think this situation is a rational long-term collective decision for companies (especially the many who are sitting on piles of cash) to make. Eventually a lack of hiring at the entry level will cause problems for everyone, but considering we now live in a world where market caps are pretty divorced from rationality and we have a labor market (in the US anyway) where both sides expect jobs to be relatively short term arrangements its easy to understand how we could have arrived here.
by mywittyname | 2026-01-14 20:41:49+00:00
> Wait a second friend, first you claim "basically no crime, no guns", then when confronted with the facts, instead of taking accountability and correcting, you move the goalposts to some high-crime US city.

OP is right, if those are the worst things to happen in the past 12 years, that's effectively 0 crime.

Especially when you consider that so much of what you listed were actually terrorists attacks conducted by an organization that hasn't conducted a foreign terror attack since winning control of their own territory from foreign occupiers.
by benbristow | 2026-01-14 20:41:56+00:00
Not my first rodeo, Wine is brilliant, especially recently with Valve's support for gaming (albeit hindered by games with incompatible anti-cheat), but it's not a one-size fits all solution.

You're going to struggle running professional apps on it. You might be able to scrape-by. There might be open-source alternatives (rarely as suitable).

Something always ends up bringing me back.

The only thing I haven't tried is the whole GPU-passthrough VM solution which seems the best, but then you need a nice rig and a decent amount of dough.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-14 20:41:59+00:00
Meanwhile he has been doing TV ads for "AI" for years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7W__UoPyh4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4JNLL7U8H8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7W__UoPyh4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-35QjvFEmhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvG41iEXFrU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZqmBcqDkyw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI2cBdo0XDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvKDYQJ1QwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-9IqXij9Xk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OHD4sqCE3w
by FrustratedMonky | 2026-01-14 20:42:13+00:00
Perhaps that is the real problem.

The Rebels were 'accelerationists', but the Empire was also wanting it to escalate. They played into each others hands.

Both sides wanted escalation, so it is positive feedback loop.

When societies get to the point where everyone is escalating, there isn't much to stop it. The cool heads are drowned out.
by alex43578 | 2026-01-14 20:42:38+00:00
China’s soft power play yielded returns: ports, minerals, oil, factories, customers for their exports.

The only Americans benefiting from the existing aid scheme are the network of lobbyists and NGOs.

As I said upthread, if you’re that motivated, donate $500 to a high-impact charity and you’ll do far more good for people on the ground than what your taxes were doing at USAID.
by cush | 2026-01-14 20:42:50+00:00
Everything you said is so true, but it doesn't negate the fact that Apple has been all-in on LLMs since GPT-3, but they've been struggling to integrate LLMs into Siri while being fully aware of market demand... Going so far as to sell an entire line of new AI iPhones without ever actually shipping core features from the keynote.

In your examples market demand from existing customers of iMacs wasn't pointed at Apple to create the iPod. iPod customers weren't demanding that Apple create the iPhone. And iPhone customers weren't seething over the lack of a first-party watch option. Apple customers are looking across the landscape and can see every other phone manufacturer running circles around Siri, and this integration with Gemini really feels like they're throwing in the towel.
by RickJWagner | 2026-01-14 20:42:56+00:00
Here’s Mike Pence on Trump:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/politics/video/src-pence-on-j...

Here’s Mitt Romney on Trump:
https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/newshour/mitt-romney-s-full-s...

Here’s George Bush:
https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_popover_shar...

So I don’t understand why you say Republicans don’t criticize Trump. As you can see, they criticize him very harshly, for a number of things. Please explain what you meant.

Now for the Democrats, please show me an article about a Democrat disowning Obama for his use of ICE. The bigger the politician, the better.
by simonsarris | 2026-01-14 20:43:02+00:00
I have about 7 acres. I kept geese once but they were killed when they ran off with a local 5K that ran by my house and they followed. They were never found.

I have kept ducks (meat) and chickens (eggs) at various times, but I ate all the ducks and I gave away the chickens just last month. Unfortunately free ranging chickens have been very destructive to my gardening, and I am trying to make the 2nd largest rose garden in NH, so that goal has priority.
by vladms | 2026-01-14 20:43:03+00:00
I would draw a line at user customized wall of content. All content on sites should be organized in a similar way for everybody (by date, by category, etc.). I think this would reduce a lot the problems that we see currently.

If you want to be bold and imaginative, although doubt this would ever pass, any platform that focuses or allows user content, should not be allowed to show advertisements. Then the incentive to have people stay more to watch more ads would disappear.
by nobody9999 | 2026-01-14 20:43:06+00:00
>Strongly worded letters to one's Congressperson are the equivalent to "thoughts and prayers". It doesn't matter how just (you think) your cause is; it will never achieve anything.

Your assertion isn't supported by, well, anything. The problem is that constituents think they can't affect their representatives' positions. They can.[0][1] Especially if there's a concerted effort to do so.

For every constituent who writes/calls/emails, there are at least a half-dozen more who feel the same way.

The problem isn't that contacting your representatives isn't effective, it's that by not doing so, you're ceding power to those that do.

[0] https://act.represent.us/sign/does-calling-congress-really-w...

[1] https://americansofconscience.com/calling-congress-still-mat...
by nunobrito | 2026-01-14 20:43:22+00:00
Anyone giving you sincere advice will get downvoted and that will keep in ignorance, so I'll bite the bullet because it is more important you understand what can be happening.

There are a lot of cheap immigrants (mostly from India) that are super-motivated and more aggressive than you to find a job. This happens because of the open doors policy of previous years and now they are on a bad visa situation, likely got fired from other large companies and now need to send money back home or get settled. So competition is fierce, has more experience and cheaper than you.

Most women like yourself never went beyond the minimum curriculum at MIT. Never applied for mentorship from professors and specialization on relevant tech topics.

I'm also guessing you have never developed open source projects on your own and the CV has literally zero practical experience. You had a year, and yet remain without practical experience on open source projects. Guys have an advantage over you because they tend to write tools and tech even (and mostly) whenever they have free time. Maybe software just isn't the thing for you, especially when times are hard and engineers are more needed than managers.

Does this mean you'll never get out of there?

Nope. Join the weekly/monthly meetups in the bigger cities next to you. The key thing is networking when the CV/experience doesn't do the talking for you. As others mentioned here: either create a startup or join one that exists. You need to show initiative, energy and if possible, passion, for topics that you choose in tech.

As others also said: maybe tech isn't the thing for you. Try to ask yourself what is really in deep of your heart that you want to do. Just note that there are computers and tech everywhere, so even on the topics you love best might be a good chance that you find an area where your tech knowledge can be useful. What matters is that you do it motivated. Even if there is no salary involved, do it as a volunteer, offer to be there for two months so they see how it goes. Other here also volunteered to see your CV and provide honest advice, they will also help.

Depression on this situation needs to be kept at distance. You need to remember yourself through actions that you have value, that you know how to do things. Good luck, and all the best.
by tdeck | 2026-01-14 20:43:22+00:00
Sorry, your country potentially being annexed just doesn't spark curious discussion. We've seen this with the other 5 countries that were annexed: just a lot of tiresome complaints and people flagging each other in the comments.

When I'm hiding in my basement from the Patriot Press Gangs, I want to read about the difference between TCP Reno and TCP Tahoe, not about some boring politics.
by vinyl7 | 2026-01-14 20:43:23+00:00
The thing with inflation is that a product's individual components may cost the same or less over time, but the cost of everything else...like housing...doubles every couple of years. So you need to increase prices to support higher salaries, increasing minimum wage, etc. It's rides the line of becoming run away inflation since everyone needs to raise prices to support COL, then everything gets more expensive, then they need to raise prices again to support everything else getting more expensive. It's a loop that will never be closed
by keybored | 2026-01-14 20:43:43+00:00
Every day, millions go to work because they have to eat. Every day, thousands (?) go to their computers in their free time and make OSS software. Not because they have to eat but because [?]. Then they or others complain that people take their work that they do for free under no duress for free.

Maybe economists could do what is ostensibly their job and try to prevent the “tetris game of software depending on the OSS maintained by one guy in Nebraska...” situation. In the meanwhile people who do things under no duress for free could stop doing it.

(Not that OSS is all hobby activities. There are many who are paid to do it. But these appeals only talk about the former.)
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-14 20:43:53+00:00
>OP is right, if those are the worst things to happen in the past 12 years, that's effectively 0 crime.

If that's "zero crime" to you, what are the cities that have actual zero crime? -100 crime?

I'm also curious, if you or a family member would have been a victim in one of those violent incidents that don't happen in other EU cities, if you'd still have considered it "zero crime".

Is it one of those cases where people see violent crime as just a statistic and they had waive it easily? Because I can't.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-14 20:43:53+00:00
ChatGPT can very well be an upgrade compared to the "engineering" capability of a lot of telcos (they have very little, are hell-bent on outsourcing as much as possible and are even proud of that). But don't take it from me, here's a more reliable source: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/
by sejje | 2026-01-14 20:43:54+00:00
I think mostly you know it when you see it.

Infinite scrolling, algorithm based (not timestamp-based), "stories" (short videos), public (non-friend) accounts make up most of the feed, ads selling views and therefore companies trying to capture attention.

A car enthusiast forum is not doing this. phpBB sites get a pass. YouTube is, though. I think YouTube is part of the brain rot, although not the comments section.

FB, Instagram, X, tiktok, YouTube, Snapchat, etc.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-01-14 20:43:55+00:00
One day when I'm not being lazy I might publish a point by point refutation of the usual nonsense anti-string theory memes. Until then, here's what I said on this point 25 days ago, specifically the first paragraph starting with "like another commenter".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336655
by joshvm | 2026-01-14 20:44:09+00:00
> its not really about uptime for the homelab, its about graceful shutdown/restart.

These are different requirements. The issue I described was not a power outage and having a well managed UPS wouldn't have made a difference. Nothing shut down, but we lost 5G in the area and T-Mobile's modem is janky. My point is that it's another edge case that you need to consider when self hosting, because all the remote management and PDUs in the world can't save you if you can't log into the system.

Of course there's all you need is a smart plug and a script/Home Assistant routine which pings every now and again. There are enterprise versions of this, but simple and cheap works for me.
by joecool1029 | 2026-01-14 20:44:27+00:00
T-Mobile had this issue 5 years or so ago where the IMS core went down due to fiber issues at one of their major backbone providers (pretty sure it was zayo).

As I've said elsewhere, never underestimate Verizon's incompetence. A couple years ago they shut down vtext service which also happened to host their UAprof's for most Android phones. Without a working link to these descriptors, those devices would download any MMS (pre-RCS picture messages) in compatibility mode at the lowest resolution.
by keithwinstein | 2026-01-14 20:44:35+00:00
I'm sorry you're going through this! But also a little suspicious because a nearly word-for-word message was posted four days ago on Reddit with some of the details different, including the major and presence of a master's degree, but most of the same phrasing (https://www.reddit.com/r/mit/comments/1q9gdff/unemployed_alm...). If these rants are somehow from the same person (maybe you did both majors and only discussed one in each post?), fair enough and I really am sorry, but I do wonder if we're being experimented upon. :-(
by Animats | 2026-01-14 20:44:49+00:00
> Penrose book...

That's from 2003, when the string theory theorists were riding high and attacking string theory was bad for a physicist's career. Now, "with string theorists now virtually unemployable unless they can figure out how to rebrand as machine learning experts...", the situation has reversed.

String theorists understand high-dimensional math, so maybe they can do something for machine learning theory. Probably not, but we can hope. It's frustrating how much of a black box machine learning systems are.
by huydotnet | 2026-01-14 20:44:55+00:00
Unrelated to the conversation, but the post title was something like "Starlink roam 50GB is now 100GB and unlimited slow speed after that", then a minute later it's now "Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB".

Was this change made by a mod or OP, and why would someone making that change? I do think the original title was more descriptive, and the new title was completely out of context, or it's imply that everyone is using Starlink and know what's Roam 50GB is.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-14 20:44:57+00:00
Welcome to ADHD

ADHD people drink coffee as a form of self medication. Caffeine is an absolutely terrible and barely working stimulant for that purpose, so we end up drinking a lot to get some effect, or at least trick ourselves.

A cup of coffee is 6oz. I drink like 6-8 a day. I do however stick to average roasts, rather than robustas or light "breakfast" roasts.

My brother has that brain worm (that I used to have) where using a medication is "bad" so instead he drinks like 5 giant energy drinks a day.

My father drinks a similar amount of coffee as I do per day, and often drinks coffee as a late night relaxation aide. Stimulants can be "calming" to some people who have a certain genetic mutation and often have ADHD

The first dose of Ritalin I took, I immediately fell asleep and took a 2 hour nap.
by JeremyNT | 2026-01-14 20:45:02+00:00
I mean as with most "product" things related to Musk, it's more about the meme stock than any fundamental coupling to finances in the real world.

Ford is a car company. They sell cars. The Lightning was a poorly selling car, so they stopped selling it. Pretty simple!

Tesla is a lifestyle company. They make line go up by owning the libs, catering to edgelord identity, and triggering speculation. The Cybertruck probably gained the company more memetic shareholder value than it lost as a real product.
by camboo | 2026-01-14 20:45:17+00:00
Tl;dr you don’t give your llm ssh access. You give it tools that have individual access to particular executions.

—-

Yes, easily. This isn’t a problem when using a proxy system with built in safeguards and guardrails.

‘An interface for your agents.’

Or, simply, if you have a list of available tools the agent has access to.

Tool not present? Will never execute.

Tool present? Will reason when to use it based on tool instructions.

It’s exceptionally easy to create an agent with access to limited tools.

Lots of advice in this thread, did we forget that ithe age of AI, anything is possible?

Have you taken a look at tools such as Xano?

Your agent will only execute whichever tool you give it access to. Chain of command is factored in.

This is akin to architecting for the Rule of Two, and similarly is the concept of Domain Trusts (fancy way of saying scopes and permissions).
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-14 20:45:20+00:00
> A lot of the internet is built on trust.

Yes. In this context, the problem is that you cannot trust websites to provide a standardized bulk download options. Most of them have (often pretty selfish or user-abusive) reasons not to provide any bulk download, much less proactively conform to some bottom-up standards. As a result, unless one is only targeting one or few very specific sites, even thinking about making the scrapper support anything but the standard crawling approach costs more in developer time than the benefit it brings.
by DiabloD3 | 2026-01-14 20:45:42+00:00
You know there are other kinds of diffs, right?

Its common to change git's diff to things like difftastic, so formatting slop doesn't trigger false diff lines.

You're probably better off, FWIW, just avoiding LLMs. LLMs cannot produce working code, and they're the wrong tool for this. They're just predicting tokens around other tokens, they do not ascribe meaning to them, just statistical likelihood.

LLM weights themselves would be far more useful if we used them to indicate statistical likelihood (ie, perplexity) of the code that has been written; ie, strange looking code is likely to be buggy, but nobody has written this tool yet.
by sleepybrett | 2026-01-14 20:45:57+00:00
Exactly, designing a 'third place' that isn't alcohol focused seems to be a tough nut to crack. Alcohol greases the wheels for socialization and is a highly profitable item for a place to sell that keeps the lights on (people may have several drinks an hour, drinking leads to more drinking both in the long and shot terms, etc). Meanwhile a typical coffeeshop here in seattle is, aside from the espresso machines, is a near silent library-like space. Many people heads down in a book or a laptop. Instead of having a few drinks per hour you instead may have a single coffee and maybe a pastry or sandwich.

If someone opened a social space with maybe a kitchen that let you pay by the hour to hang out, credit for kitchen orders. All the other bar/pub accoutrements gaming (darts, pool, shuffleboard, pinball, whatnot), sports on the tv, whatever .. I still don't think people will go for it.

I think the only non-boozy option that comes to mind is the small town diner but those are thin on the ground.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-14 20:45:58+00:00
She's an MIT Course 6 grad. She can literally cold message any VC on LinkedIn and she will get an opportunity to pitch [0] despite having 0 revenue or customers because our heuristic is "if you can get into MIT you are smart enough to be molded or deployed as an operator".

YC also runs startup session specifically for Harvard and MIT students when you can have a personal chat with partners. Same with A16Z SpeedRun.

Additonally, MIT students and alums have access to Engine@MIT [1] and the Harvard I-Lab [2] who help connect students and alums to angels and VCs.

Just being an MIT alum, saying you started "ideating" a year ago, joining Engine or I-Lab, and building a basic prototype will 99% guarantee you a YC interview (especially based on what I've seen in the YC 2025 classes - honestly very lackluster for the valuations being asked, but hey you gotta deploy dry-powder somewhere).

[0] - Am a VC and did CS in the other side of Cambridge

[1] - https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/

[2] - https://engine.xyz/
by manuelmoreale | 2026-01-14 20:46:00+00:00
> The reality is that "we" as an open-source community suck at taking money and I believe this is partially on us.

More broadly people suck at giving money for things they can get for free. That’s just the reality of how most people out there behave.

The only “solution” is to educate people but that is completely unfeasible.
by schmuckonwheels | 2026-01-14 20:46:01+00:00
>Your tone also implies that large, complex systems, even if designed well, don't normally require a lot of maintenance from many people.

That's correct.

In the case of Twitter, it was disclosed that many of their systems were running out of date EOL software, to the point of being a security liability, which raises the question: if the systems weren't being maintained, wtf were all those people doing? Taste-testing the free food and cappuccinos?
by jacobgadek | 2026-01-14 20:46:04+00:00
Hey HN, I built this because I was tired of writing login scripts that break constantly.

The problem: AI agents need to authenticate to websites, but login flows are fragile — 2FA, CAPTCHAs, session expiration.

My solution: Just grab your existing Chrome session.

romek grab linkedin.com

Then your agent uses those cookies. No passwords in code, no login scripts.

v0.4.0 adds:
- romek init / sync / doctor for team workflows
- export/import for headless servers
- session health checks

Open source, MIT licensed. Feedback welcome.
by kderikson | 2026-01-14 20:46:07+00:00
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