MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by robingchan | 2026-01-02 14:41:21+00:00
order by personal rank:

Sandstorm JP-8000 sawtooth DSP reversing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_q5T7wTpQ

Washing machines hacking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1S-PVo3GlA

AMD (ps5 sorta) security:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVJZYT8kYsI

cool demo for the BT headphones talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK5Tz4Bt94Y

precise time syncing with PTP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOt-zRIG5co

x86 > arm with intermediate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yDXyW1WERg
by SirMaster | 2026-01-02 14:41:32+00:00
I mean I feel like this can all keep extending. Those who are deicing to run the AI agents are vouching for them, so they should be held accountable.

I guess that is what this is about, and those who are deploying them will feel confident enough in them if they feel they have the resources and environments in which they are running in locked down tight enough.

But as the models get "smarter and smarter" I am not sure we are going to be able to keep environments locked down well enough against exploits that they will apparently try to use to bypass things.

It seems a bit strange to me that we can generally ask these models moral questions and I think they would largely get things right as far as what most humans would deem right and wrong, such as performing an exploit to bypass some environment restrictions, yet the same model will still choose to perform the exploit to bypass. I wonder, what gives?
by stephenr | 2026-01-02 14:42:02+00:00
On the rare occasion I plug in a usb flash drive (I assume that's what you mean by "stick") I use the usb-c end. On the even rarer occasion I use it with some device that doesn't have usb-c (this is actually just hypothetical I've never done this in practice) I turn the flash drive around and use the usb-a end.

It's been clear that usb-c is the future for a decade now. How on earth do you still have flash drives that are usb-a only?

I probably use the power button once a month, and I'd say this is the norm for most developers/similar people. It's no harder than accessing the menu button/toggle stick on the back of my dell display.
by evanjrowley | 2026-01-02 14:42:19+00:00
Prices on MacBooks have gone down significantly, but compared to a Windows laptop with comparable storage, you've payed more for Apple up until recently. Things have tilted in Apple's favor after RAM price increases have led to all consumer PC RAM reaching Apple-like prices.

I made my comment as I someone with two MacBooks and the point still stands that most of an iPhone's potential is forever locked away by Apple.
by CalRobert | 2026-01-02 14:42:20+00:00
The weird thing is all these people commenting who seem opposed to vaccination so that people are afraid to have sex.

I mean if you support lifelong monogamy or similar sure, you do you, but I don’t think more dead people is a good thing to advocate to promote your lifestyle choice.

I used to know a lot more people like that and I swear half of them left the church and had a hoe phase despite earlier professed beliefs.
by sxg | 2026-01-02 14:42:21+00:00
This sounds super cool and useful to me, but how does this work with a partner who's non-technical? Managing personal finances is something that we do together and having a nice clean UI that makes sense to her is important. Is there a way to achieve that with beancount? Currently we're using YNAB, which is mostly great although sometimes unstable and limited in ways.
by ben_w | 2026-01-02 14:42:52+00:00
Your reply suggests you're thinking inside a very strange (to me) box.

Have you considered… not rationing housing?

As in, you can actually pay people to build more houses, houses are not a fixed resource. Likewise roads, schools, shopping centres etc., they're all things you can just pay to get built. Only thing a little harder amongst the usual talking points is hospitals, but that's because medical qualifications take so long, not because you can't do it.
by toyg | 2026-01-02 14:43:04+00:00
It's not just that, it's that the topic was extremely actual. Between the Russian Revolution and the general state of European countries at the beginning of the XX century, a lot of intellectuals were working hard on the concepts of "fully rational" societies, fair governance, social efficiency, just social order, and so on.

Somewhat ironically, what seems to have survived in the public consciousness is actually the critique of all those efforts (1984, We, etc). The Western mainstream seems to have abandoned any attempt to create a rational, enduring order from social chaos. Somehow we just accepted that things are fucked up and there is no hope of meaningfully unfuck them.
by zkmon | 2026-01-02 14:43:22+00:00
Everyone is just looking the stage to understand what's going on. No one has a script in hand that tells you what role you are going to play on that stage. The stage is full of smoke and fog. Hardly anything is visible. The entire play is being constantly re-scripted, redesigned, new pactors jumping in from nowhere, actors suddenly growing up to be monsters and filling up entire stage.

Nope we just reading HN and getting amazed. Seriously, any serious commitment requires g9od enough visibility into future prospects. You can't simply throw half a million into a garage project and then struggle to keep up with the fast changing scene on the stage.
by daviddever23box | 2026-01-02 14:43:55+00:00
Domain-specific knowledge, having no relation to software engineering per se, is a necessary skill set.

The best analogy I can find, if not a tired one, is the equivalence of software engineering to tool-and-die making.

In prior generations where manufacturing was king, it was a necessary operational skill set in order to produce things at scale, yet is much less (if no longer) relevant in the age of additive or subtractive manufacturing, where quantities can be varied according to immediate requirements.

Along the same lines, a skill set in traditional software engineering is less enamored in the age of AI agents that can better regurgitate boilerplate code.

The corresponding next-level-up analogy is the tool-and-die maker that learns 3D modeling + additive manufacturing, with FE analysis and CNC skills as a fallback. For software engineers, it's AI agent prompt engineering and data modeling, according to use cases defined by business needs.

You need to put on your entrepreneurial hat and figure out how to do things faster, with greater accuracy, relevant to business needs - not navel-gazing at package management and build automation exclusively.

This is, of course, an extremely naïve view of the state of things, though I cannot imagine, as a generalist, how one could survive with increasingly niche skills that, a decade ago, would have commanded six-figure salaries.

Good luck!
by vintermann | 2026-01-02 14:43:58+00:00
Isn't that the opposite of being opinionated? In software I've heard "opinionated" about programs that limit configurability in favor of one fits all default. I believe it was Ruby on Rails which popularized the term.

For cars, I guess Henry Ford's anecdotal comment that "you can have any color you like as long as it's black" was a form of opinionated design. If BYDs cars are all different, surely they're less opinionated?
by nottorp | 2026-01-02 14:44:11+00:00
> I'm genuinely curious as to how someone might have missed scrolling down to see the summary.

Pretty simple. On my laptop the video fits 100% in the browser tab and there is no indication that there is more content under it. There is no text except the video title in the portion that I see when the page loads. And the link is marked [video] on HN.

So I simply closed it.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-02 14:44:13+00:00
Indeed, that's why I say "keep charge", i.e. be in a steady state such as always leaving at 80% charge. Not charging from zero, and not necessarily charging to 100%.

People who charge electric vehicles at home emphasise that you plug it in as a matter of routine every night (ABC: Always Be Charging) and since it's software-controlled, you can e.g. tell it to charge up to 80%, and figure out the most cost-effective way to do that by 8am.

The ABC of such a ship, is that it would be plugged whenever it is docked, during the turnarounds. And there is enough time in that turnaround to keep charge. It likely also has some downtime at night as well, but that matters less in this case.
by elric | 2026-01-02 14:44:59+00:00
> 1) if you've ever been exposed to HPV already, then the vaccine is useless

This is patently incorrect. The vaccine protects against 9 variants. Having been exposed to all 9 before vaccination sounds like really bad luck.

> 2) there is no test to determine if a male has been exposed, although there is one for females

The female HPV tests, as I understand, only test for the presence of HPV in the cervix. It can be present in many other areas. No one is testing women for the presence of HPV on their hands or in their throats.

Most places now offer HPV vaccines to young boys as well. People over 40 more or less missed the boat, but they can still get vaccinated. How useful it is depends entirely on their personal circumstances and risk profiles.
by dceddia | 2026-01-02 14:44:59+00:00
Is it possible for Ghostty to figure out how much memory its child processes (or tabs) are using? If so maybe it would help to surface this number on or near the tab itself, similar to how Chrome started doing this if you hover over a tab. It seems like many of these stem from people misinterpreting the memory number in Activity Monitor, and maybe having memory numbers on the tabs would help avoid that.
by JulianWasTaken | 2026-01-02 14:45:06+00:00
Fun, thanks for letting me know, will remove it :)

(I'll still stick with "I never really have run into a version issue for things I use Homebrew for, for places where it matters, I have whatever-programming-language-lockfile-for-the-project-I-am-developing" for cases where I need to be sure the setup is reproducible, which is why I've clearly never noticed this file was useless).
by kwar13 | 2026-01-02 14:45:30+00:00
We must be using different Windows 11 then. Last I booted up Windows instead of shoving Cortana everywhere now it's shoving Copilot. The telemetry sent would make spyware jealous.

The "current" state does not matter. What matters is that MS can shittify your experience at any time. Your machine can stop working if you don't agree to MS "updates". On Linux you have the assurance that the state of your machine can be preserved and you know exactly what's being installed on it.
by bronco21016 | 2026-01-02 14:45:47+00:00
I was really into this idea a few years ago. Even started logging.

However, I just cannot bring myself to constantly pull the transactions down manually from multiple banks.

Many suggest automating. How is this working in practice? Are there providers like Plaid you can use? Build web scrapers? Build PDF statement parsers?

I ended up just paying YNAB the $130/year or whatever they’re at now. High wife approval factor and everything just connects. They also have an API. In theory I could just constantly backup YNAB with PTA by pulling down transactions from the API.
by lesuorac | 2026-01-02 14:45:47+00:00
If you don't read all of it then how would you know you're abiding by it or that it's a collection of works that you agree with and want to associate with?

It's like commenting on the book Abundance without having read it.

Or talking about the Death Panels in ObamaCare.

I haven't read Mein Kampf / The Communist Manifesto but I would bet some pages if not chapters are agreeable to a lay-person while the overall theme wasn't.

This is how we end with the Dunning-Kruger effect meaning worse performers rate their own performance than high performers rate their own performance. (The actual effect found was that low-performers could not distinguish between a high or low performance; and although they rated themselves higher than they were it was still lower than the self-ratings of high performers for all tasks but Humor).
by chrisweekly | 2026-01-02 14:46:08+00:00
I have no experience w/ PTA, but was a Mint user for a couple years before it got killed, and recently discovered Monarch which has similar features. But just this week I got set up w/ eMoney thanks to a friend who works in wealth management. It provides a centralized dashboard (like Monarch), but also the ability to run forecasts / projections, which will be helpful as things have gotten more complicated for us as a couple (running two S-Corps, paying for daughters' college tuitions, etc).
by gavinray | 2026-01-02 14:46:26+00:00
Tangential question:

I've never owned a home and would like to try to buy one in the next year or two. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of API's/software tools that let you analyze historical data and prices of listings in specific areas.

How can I get my hands on the right information to make sure I don't get ripped off?
by cogman10 | 2026-01-02 14:46:57+00:00
The US could have had a competitive manufacturing industry, but we traded it for cheap offshore labor.

That destruction has been ongoing since the 90s. We've hollowed out our ability to make things.

We basically focused on the exact wrong things which has put us in a pretty vulnerable geopolitical position. Rather than trying to bring resources into the US to aid manufacturing, we tried to bring finished goods into the US at a lower price.

China has done basically the opposite. They've focused on bring raw resources into china while centralizing manufacturing. That's what has turned them into the global powerhouse they are when it comes to producing everything.

For the US to turn this around, tariffs would have been in order, but they needed to be pretty focused and with internal plans on building out the industries we wanted to grow.

Doing tariffs first without building manufacturing was just dumb.
by Parae | 2026-01-02 14:47:26+00:00
> pretty much NO game becomes less fun with even a 30% FPS drop

I mostly play fighting games. A 7% drop in FPS is more than enough to break the whole game experience as combo rely on frame data. For example Street Fighter 6 is locked at 60 fps. A low punch needs 4 frames to launch and leaves a 4-frames window to land another hit.
If there was a 7% drop in FPS, you would miss your combo. Even the tiniest drop in FPS makes the game unplayable.

It's the same for almost every fighting games. I know it's a niche genre, but I'm quite sure it's the same for other genres. It's a complete dealbreaker for competitive play.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-02 14:48:11+00:00
It seems really weirdly written. It's written with a lot of authority, like saying "Don't use VLC" and "Don't use Y" yet provides no reasoning for those things. Just putting "Trust me, just don't" doesn't suddenly mean I trust the author more, it probably has the opposite effect. Some sections seem to differ based on if the reader knows/doesn't know something, but I thought the article was supposed to be for the latter.

Would have been nice if these "MUST KNOW BEFORE" advises were structured in a way so one could easily come back and use it as a reference, like just a list, but instead it's like a over-dinner conversation with your "expert and correct but socially-annoying" work colleague, who refuses to elaborate on the how's and why's, but still have very strong opinions.
by throw4847285 | 2026-01-02 14:48:18+00:00
Let's apply Occam's Razor. Which is more likely? Every person you've ever met and will meet thinks you are terrible, or, you think you are terrible?

I'm not erasing the existence of the many people you've encountered who don't like you. But what if negative experiences in your past have eroded your distress tolerance and you now cannot distinguish normal human conflict from an affront to you, personally? Or, what if you have given up on human contact because, subconsciously, you made a calculation that simulacra of human contact might be unsatisfying but, like methadone, they give you just enough to avoid the real stuff?

I don't think any of the psychological pictures I have painted are necessarily correct. But I do know that what you're telling me is BS.
by Waterluvian | 2026-01-02 14:48:18+00:00
Making such a bold, unsubstantiated claim is a curious item in an otherwise detailed document. I went looking for other explanations and found this gem: https://www.reddit.com/r/mpv/comments/m1sxjo/it_is_better_mp...

I think it might be one of those classic “everyone should just get good like me” style opinions you find polluting some subject matter communities.
by TuringNYC | 2026-01-02 14:48:30+00:00
>>>>> HPVs are extremely common: 80% of men and 90% of women will have at least one strain in their lives.
>> This statistic seems to be used by some people to avoid the vaccine - they figure they've already had it at some point. The biggest problem with that logic is that not all strains are as dangerous and they probably have not contracted 16 or 18 specifically. The other problem is there's still a good number of people who have never had it and shouldn't assume they have because its common.

As people cite these statistics, it would be useful to distinguish exposure to HPV causing foot warts, etc from the much more dangerous variants. I rarely see any statistics do this sort of segmentation.
by mt_ | 2026-01-02 14:48:32+00:00
Four critique points:

- Who wants to drive across town to inspect a €50 item for a small fee (we can draw comparison to Uber Eats like platforms fees economies)?

- Can a random broker validate a luxury watch? Do we need another blockchain tech for broker validator skill reputation?

- Physical validation adds days to trades, in online economy, the faster the merrier

- Fees might price out low-value items

Let's see how this plays out.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-02 14:48:36+00:00
And how many men get throat and penile cancers vs other cancers and health issues? There's a reason old men crack jokes about prostate health, erectile dysfunction and incontinence rather than their dicks falling off and are way more worried about colon cancer than rectal cancer.

I didn't say it wasn't a significant source of cancer. I said that nobody knows a guy who knows a guy who's dick fell off or some other extreme outcome. You need to be honest with people, not try and scare them like it's 1990 and DARE is the new hotness.

The public messaging you're trying to engage in could perhaps have skated by in a less critical time but in the current environment it will be counterproductive.

I don't want my kid or my grandkid to get measles or some other "of immediate consequence" disease because you people sullied the reputation of public health chasing a rounding error.
by GaryBluto | 2026-01-02 14:49:01+00:00
It says, on the Gabb app directory the author linked, "Communication with Strangers" in a warning bubble directly below the "GroupMe" listing title. Not to forget the giant box saying "However, some apps allow user-shared content or access to mature material. Apps enabling contact with strangers also pose risks. Families should discuss app usage regularly." right below the app search bar.

Regarding the games console, his problem seems to mainly be the two conflicting account systems offered by two separate vendors, not the parental controls themselves. A quick Google search also directed me to an easy step by step guide to doing many of the things (such as the restriction of purchases and free downloads on the Nintendo game store) that he claimed to be impossible.[2]

[1] https://gabb.com/app-guide/

[2] https://industrywired.com/gaming/how-to-set-up-parental-cont...
by objclxt | 2026-01-02 14:49:03+00:00
> What kind of control would Chrome have over the web? Adding APIs doesn't force the billions of websites to adopt them.

You are assuming adding APIs is a net positive, and the debacle that was Chrome’s privacy sandbox initiative suggests that’s not the case

> why are we all dependent on Apple, alone, to save us from ~60% Chrome?

How’s Firefox doing now? They’re literally dependent upon Chrome to exist. Without Google they have no money to fund development.

The only viable non-Chromium browser engine today that is not funded by Google is WebKit.
by JulianWasTaken | 2026-01-02 14:49:04+00:00
Nice! That sounds really useful; in my case the KWH usage (and price/KWH) I pull directly out of the ConEd bill, so my only chance to notice those sorts of things would be post hoc looking back in time for big jumps in rate or usage I think.

But good to hear the positive story side for this.
by teeray | 2026-01-02 14:49:36+00:00
Surprised they missed follow! It’s a bit odd to use, but once you get used to it it’s better than tail in many circumstances IMO. `less +F` starts less following stdin or whatever file argument you’ve provided. <C-c> breaks following, allowing you to search around a business-as-usual `less` session. Hitting `F` (that’s uppercase) starts following again. Yes, you can just start following within a session with `F` too if you forgot to add +F to the `less` invocation.
by awpeofia | 2026-01-02 14:50:24+00:00
Right, don't let decision paralysis prevent tracking.

I just put "Groceries" account based on the total that gets charged to my card. If there's a substantial item that doesn't fall into groceries then I can split that out on a case-by-case basis (e.g. I go to Costco and buy both a bunch of cereal and a dehumidifier).
by mfro | 2026-01-02 14:50:30+00:00
I have looked at beancount and a few other double entry systems several times over the years. None of the applications I've found except for Microsoft My Money (Sunset Deluxe) has felt intuitive and not wasted my time. One of my accounts can't be imported via csv but other than that it is painless. I recommend it to people who just want a quick, free program for simple reporting.
by fhsm | 2026-01-02 14:50:35+00:00
I don’t follow it but your last suggestion (use single income not household) was new to me and interesting in as much as it seems like an obvious extension of “The Two-Income Trap” thinking.

To some extent seems like it would also provide a margin of safety given homogeneity effects eg https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/working-pa...
by Spooky23 | 2026-01-02 14:50:35+00:00
The Ford thing is bizarre. My brother has an F-150 Lightning. It’s an amazing vehicle that they just couldn’t market in this gonzo social landscape.

He is literally the walking version of the stereotype of a rural cowboy type. He runs a small hobby farm, leases pasture to local farms. He works in financial management for a regional company and his wife is a procurement officer for a state government.

They produce most of their electricity with solar. Replaced some tractor use cases with oxen. They literally don’t pay to operate their daily drivers. (A lightning and a Volt now Bolt)

The lightning replaced their emergent generator when that reached its end of life.

He got into this stuff after doing the numbers for the company. It’s cheaper and better to operate. Last year they bought a dozen Silverado EV pickups for their field people. They work fine where they deployed them. The workers love them and the opex is better.

The self described rednecks hate it because the internet told them to. He almost removed the branding because he gets approached by people warning him about all of the terrible things that will happen.
by hijackd_rc | 2026-01-02 14:50:39+00:00
Did they move to Texas and spend $300m getting Trump elected?

Did they pander disrespectfully and partisanly?

Is that selling electric cars to Republicans?

Did they build a "cyber" puss-APC product for the wider market and then piss it away on the largest steel stamping machine in Texas, nay the world (which is a single point of failure for production and maintenance)?

Someone should explain to them that there are less hazardous batteries than Lithium Ion.

It's like there's a freeloading pandering narcissist who's assumed Elon's identity (because they were such a risk to other operations where there is not such accountability to a board and to the people).