MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by japhyr | 2026-01-05 15:00:51+00:00
I've been frustrated by the constant nudges to use specific AI tools from within VS Code, but I made a different change. Rather than moving to a different editor altogether, I started using VS Codium. If you're unfamiliar, it's the open core of VS Code, without the Microsoft-branded features that make up VS Code.

I believe Microsoft builds VS Code releases by building VS Codium, and then adding in their own branded features, including al the AI pushes. If you like VS Code except for the Microsoft bits, consider VS Codium alongside other modern choices.

https://vscodium.com
by r4victor | 2026-01-05 15:01:00+00:00
Hi, I'm the author of the post. I hope it resonates with many who got tired of VSCode and found Zed.

I'd also like to add there are many small features I miss in Zed that I don't go over in the post, e.g. autodetect and respect file's indentation (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4681). But I see Zed is actively shipping the missing features, so I believe they'll improve significantly over the next year.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-05 15:01:01+00:00
And yet the timeframe Huang mentions does not go beyond 20 years ago, indicating his statement is little more than political posturing.

Also, last I saw, he wasn’t prevented from speaking at any point in those past 2 decades and I don’t remember any mention from him about these issues despite the fact that there’s been bipartisan concerns about manufacturing in China for at least a decade.

It’s almost like he’s trying to position his company’s profit growing enterprises as a part of helping the poorest Americans to justify the U.S. taxpayer paying for a lot of it, or at least assuming all downside risk…
by TimorousBestie | 2026-01-05 15:01:13+00:00
> the rise of "body positivity" coincided with a massive increase in child obesity

This is yet another instance of “What changed in America in 1971?” that can’t be attributed to body positivity, a movement that didn’t really get nationwide traction until the 90s.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10815706/
by JaggerJo | 2026-01-05 15:01:29+00:00
> ..Jobs would've crucified a few people

And rightfully so. Tahoe is not just a step back, but it throws away so many good design elements that have been there for ages - and for no good reason.

I really hope they revert most of the design changes in macOS 27. I don't mind the Liquid Glass - the other changes they made to expose/highlight Liquid Glass are the real issue.

IMO we reached peak design in 2013 with Mavericks.
by baal80spam | 2026-01-05 15:02:18+00:00
Asking as not an American - $10k per year, how much % of a yearly salary is it?

In Europe (here: Germany example), which is frequently seen here as the ideal example of healthcare spending:

Employees and employers typically split around 14.6% of gross salary for public health insurance. [1]

[1] https://feather-insurance.com/blog/germany-healthcare-statis...
by gosub100 | 2026-01-05 15:02:21+00:00
It's a terrible manual. Doesn't explain how to export via NFS, SMB. For instance, when to use zfs set vs /etc/exports

Doesn't explain why zfs list sometimes shows datasets that have no mountpoint, but doesn't allow you to set a mountpoint (because it's not mountable).

ZFS is a great technology but it's documentation is terrible.
by walthamstow | 2026-01-05 15:02:53+00:00
Yes, I have 'reduce transparency' set to true. Overnight after upgrade the UI became noticably sluggish.

The outstanding example is Spotlight. For years since the M1 release I have been able to bring the bar up and type C-H-R then Enter, in ~500ms I guess, and I would always get Chrome.

Now, I have to wait another 1-2 seconds for it to think. If I hit enter before it has finished thinking, Spotlight goes away and nothing else happens!

The UI and Spotlight are still fine on my 2020 M1 Air running Sequioa
by suspended_state | 2026-01-05 15:03:40+00:00
What I meant, and indeed it was poorly explained, is that an address shouldn't be just an integer freely manipulable by any instruction. The microcode will obviously know how to an manipulate an address, but the ISA as a whole doesn't have to, and in fact shouldn't, with the exception of a few specific instructions. What I am advocating is that addresses should constitute a separate type, which isn't a simple alias to integers. I think that this is what capabilities are about.
by qwertfisch | 2026-01-05 15:04:00+00:00
Yes, very old DOS-based games from before 2000 can be emulated perfectly. If you have a modern computer, even the later SVGA 3D games running in protected mode are no problem (using 100–200k cycles/ms in DOSBox).

In fact, today’s graphic possibilities and available monitor resolutions make it possible to accurately and aesthetically simulate an analog CRT monitor with its scanlines and aspect correction (DOSBox Staging). But of course you can just use big sharp pixels.
by r4victor | 2026-01-05 15:04:27+00:00
That's a good idea. I considered VSCodium but the issue is that I used VSCode's proprietary extensions such as Pylance. So it would require to switch to OSS replacements at which point I decided why wouldn't give Zed a try – it has a better feeling by not being an Electron app.

I think VSCodium is a good option if you need extensions not available in Zed.
by xpe | 2026-01-05 15:04:36+00:00
This is high praise coming from an Emacs user :) I also formerly used Emacs with much joy, but I'm even happier with Zed now.

Zed has a lot of issues in flight; maybe these are useful to you? Here are the issues that have been filed under the label "area:parity/emacs". Some also have the label "state:needs repro" (needs reproduction). I wonder if any of them scratch your itch? Weighing in might help get your pain points resolved a bit faster?

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20...
by supermatt | 2026-01-05 15:04:37+00:00
I’m not aware of any laypeople who use nostr either.

But if you are going to build some nostr-based “resolver” into a browser you could instead use any of the other protocols - 2 of which are designed specifically for resolution, and the other already having a robust resolver implementation built on top of it?

I quite like nostr, but let’s not pretend it solves every problem.
by the__alchemist | 2026-01-05 15:04:50+00:00
Which microcontrollers? Of interest, I program STM32, ESP32 (Risc-V) and Nordic chips, and do everything in RustRover. The compiling is decoupled from the editor. (You do cargo run to build and flash with debugging, or click the Run IDE button; works just like any program) The editor is for the code structure, and should reflect that, vs the chip. There is Cube IDE which is useful for configuring clocks, memory layout data, and other periph info as a supplement to the RMs and User Manuals, but it's not required to write code.
by bee_rider | 2026-01-05 15:04:59+00:00
If we had some tariffs that somehow just canceled out the exploitation (of people and the environment), that could be interesting. “Stop sending jobs overseas” is too blunt, create a fair international market and let winners win.

But, I don’t think anyone is naive enough to propose such a thing seriously. It is impossible to believe that some administration wouldn’t use it for political favors.
by throwaw12 | 2026-01-05 15:05:06+00:00
it would.

Some options why it should happen:

1. Assuming Elon is curious person, he will still build it out of curiosity.

2. Assuming Elon is not curios person, just power hungry, he will probably think its not worth building it, but someone else who is curious will build it eventually. This is even better, because when power hungry person owns such thing, they might use it for bad things as well (e.g. to gain more power, eventually interfering with elections, oh wait, it did already happen)

3. Government will build, because government will have more money now, but then we should be even more careful who gets to the top. Assuming people won't have more than 1B, maybe there will be less lobbying? because its not worth as much as it was before?
by yep32 | 2026-01-05 15:05:22+00:00
Here is an interesting discussion about low-weight springs old.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/ojk0em/experiences\_with\_very\_low\_weight\_8\_to\_25g\_spring/. It has a link to rndkbd.com /products /sprit-springs?variant=43822770782442, where I purchased my springs. They have a full range starting from 12g, but they are currently out of stock. You can ask about the next restock on their Discord server.

One thing I discovered about lightweight springs is that lubing the switch doesn't work at all, it just stops resetting. I also think that with traditional MX-style switches going with weight less than 20g might not work out well because even with 20g springs some of my keys are not resetting properly, they remain stuck when I lift my finger, and I get "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"s instead of just "a" for example.

As for removing keycaps, my keyboard looks like this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=647FeK3\_Bek, except I left the spacebar keycap on, and I have a small piece of adhesive plaster tape on top of the plastic parts that resembles a plus sign "+" on every switch to increase friction. But I don't think removing keycaps works for switches box type switches with stems that look like [+]. I also had to open the space bar switch and add a little aluminum foil ring inside where the spring is located because it consistently wouldn’t reset.

Lightweight springs also slightly reduce the key travel distance, and the actuation point becomes very high, practically no actuation point. It produces a keystroke the moment you touch it. This is now possible with harder springs too with the advent of Hall effect keyboards, but the lightest spring available for that type of keyboard is 28g, which is a bit too heavy.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-05 15:05:24+00:00
News from almost a year ago now.

Some discussion last January: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751726

And the bigger discussion shortly after, setting a tone somewhat for the rest of the year:

The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831281
by altmanaltman | 2026-01-05 15:05:34+00:00
> That was my initial understanding as someone who has had these discussions before. I don't think I'm adding any arguments, my first point is pretty much universally accepted and known. The author is just assuming a certain level of industry knowledge.

Or they're just bad at communicating and likely decision-making as well. I would say you're giving the author too much credit to be honest but I get your point. It's a poorly-written article in general imo.
by Matl | 2026-01-05 15:05:39+00:00
Neoliberal as in prominent decision makers/editors etc, such as Jimmy Wales express the sort of free market and foreign policy philosophy that has been mainstream since about the 80s.

It means that entries on individuals, countries etc. are broadly in line with what you'd read in any mainstream media outlet and so is its outlook on 'Western civilization'.

That doesn't mean it's not a good project, or that it has some great power, just that its 'gatekeepers' are not exactly dissidents of any sort.
by miroljub | 2026-01-05 15:05:58+00:00
> Linking to illegal services can be illegal, that’s why.

What is illegal in one country can be illegal everywhere.

I don't remember Wikipedia removing LGBTIAQ++ articles just because that's illegal in Iran.

If a government thinks Wikipedia is illegal in their country, they can force local ISP providers to block it, but it's not Wikipedia's responsibility [1] to censor itself.

[1] at least should not be
by vintagedave | 2026-01-05 15:05:58+00:00
No. I also feel very worried on the 787 (the new fiberglass one.) Since the fiberglass body is entirely new tech, I don't trust that it will remain strong over time and I fear unknown and unexpected structural failures.

They have also made user-hostile choices. The new windows don't have window shades, and are very slow to change from light to dark (it's electricly dimmed.) But what is worse is the captain can, and does in my experience, dim them against your choice: for example, I've been in flights near storms and wanted to see the lightning, and been unable to; I've also wanted to see mountains, and been unable to. It made me feel very claustrophobic: I was not even allowed to look out the window. In all other flights on other aircraft, at night passengers were allowed to open their window shades: there is no light outside that would bother other passengers. This control felt arbitrary and, well, controlling.

I feel if that level of control is exerted I don't know what other decisions they've made that are not with the passenger interests in mind.

I try to avoid Boeing where possible, and look for Airbus flights. Where I can't, I try to avoid the 737 Max (earlier ones are ok) or the newer models.
by volkercraig | 2026-01-05 15:06:08+00:00
Why are you writing off eliminating obesity as something purely cosmetic? Obesity itself is the most costly affliction by far in the west. It increases all cause mortality, increases healthcare cost, and reduces outcomes for surgeries and rehabilitation after accidents. It reduces work efficiency, reduces lifespan, increases public infrastructure cost by requiring design for things like seatbelt extenders, large corridors for parking mobility scooters etc etc. It promotes food waste, increases energy usage... I could go on and on, but the general idea is that bigger people = bigger costs for everything.

Im not sure why theres such a diataste for just letting fat people take a pill/injection to lose weight. The current advice of telling them "lose weight fatty" is clearly not working on a societal level. When GLPs and naltrexone therapies become ubiquitous we are looking at vastly reduced healthcare costs.

There is also a good possibility that GLPs will kill the fast food industry, which means less fat kids, which means less fat adults.
by bargainbin | 2026-01-05 15:06:18+00:00
My main gripe is that the visual shenanigans alone were enough of a change, why rearrange the buttons?! In the early iOS beta, the new tab button was at the top of Safari, as far away from your thumbs as it could be.

Genuinely believe Apple’s design team are rudderless or have unintentionally been forced to produce something to justify someone’s career, because this whole thing is disastrous.
by bell-cot | 2026-01-05 15:06:23+00:00
> actor says ‘almost every area in my brain is functioning at a decreased capacity’ after she fainted and fell face-first into a boulder

> She explained how she had experienced fainting spells since she was a child, with doctors initially believing it was due to hypoglycemia, which was later ruled out.

IANAMD - but at what point would it be prudent for someone with such medical issues to default-wear head protection?
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-01-05 15:06:25+00:00
I'll assume that Robotics means efficient Manufacturing Systems. I might be wrong, but it seems fine.

There must be something to manufacture (planning / markets & inputs)

There must be capacity (planning / finance & operations)

There must be markets (planning / economics & re-investment)

The through line is planning. That probably means industrial policy, however that's effected. China has a better grip on that. There's no point in being the smartest when you can't make lunch and someone else can, and they're eating yours too.

Yes, Robotics should be on the top and data-centers on the bottom. Start there, build capacity, consolidate an advantage, and then work toward the rest.
by ghaff | 2026-01-05 15:07:01+00:00
Certainly. The 2.4 kernel and IBM embracing Linux at around that time pretty much made all proprietary Unix legacy.

The desktop took longer with less well-defined transition points and, arguably, MacOS with its BSD foundations (and command line option) ended up being a good alternative for a lot of the non-Windows crowd--though Windows is still dominant as a desktop/laptop OS. (Windows/Azure are, of course, still major in backend corporate environments as well.)
by louthy | 2026-01-05 15:07:13+00:00
In C# you can implement SelectMany for a type and that gives this:

from id in ParseId(inputId)
from user in FindUser(id)
from posts in FindPostsByUserId(id)
from res in DeactivateDecision(user, posts)
select res;

It is the equivalent to do-notation (was directly inspired by it). Here's an example from the language-ext Samples [1], it's a game of 21/pontoon.

> I wrote what you might call an acid test for monad implementations a while back: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2928/ It's phrased in terms of tutorials but it works for implementations as well; you should be able to transliterate the example into your monad implementation, and it ought to look at least halfway decent if it's going to be usable.

If I try to implement the test from your blog with Seq type in language-ext (using C#), then I get:

Seq<(int, string)> minimal(bool b) =>
from x in b ? Seq(1, 2) : Seq(3, 4)
from r in x % 2 == 0
? from y in Seq("a", "b")
select (x, y)
: from y in Seq("y", "z")
select (x, y)
select r;

It yields:

[(1, y), (1, z), (2, a), (2, b)]
[(3, y), (3, z), (4, a), (4, b)]

Which I think passes your test.

[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/blob/main/Samples/Car...
by javcasas | 2026-01-05 15:07:22+00:00
> An adult typically removes approximately 0.8 to 0.9 kilograms (840 to 900 grams) of CO2 from the body each day.

https://biologyinsights.com/how-much-carbon-dioxide-do-we-ex...

Ok, that is way more than the dozen grams per day I thought it was.
by jerf | 2026-01-05 15:07:44+00:00
The press love to write this "gee whiz" sort of story where nobody knows anything and everyone is baffled about everything isn't that just so amazing, but I'm sure the reason why the honey itself is purple is not a mystery and someone has tested it. The question is how the purple got into the honey, not what it is. It doesn't fit into the mystery storyline they want to write.

Any sort of science reporting is shot through with this sort of thing.
by immibis | 2026-01-05 15:07:45+00:00
When Trump pressures RIPE NCC or APNIC to deregister an IP address block, that's the end of the internet as we know it, and the return to national networks with very limited interconnection. Even Russia still has address registrations despite being sanctioned.

Alternatively they pressure USA ISPs to block the addresses. That's already regularly done but it probably won't be enough to satisfy the extortion industrial complex which is out for blood.
by Nihilartikel | 2026-01-05 15:08:03+00:00
Seconding Roborock - we have a mid range one and it's effective and a huge step up in smartness from my old Samsung. I love being able to dispatch it to one or two different rooms and walk away knowing that it will get the job done.

As a bonus, there are open source drop in replacements for the mfg's cloud service so you can self host your floor maps and stats, if that's your jam. (this isn't roborock exclusive though).
by intended | 2026-01-05 15:08:07+00:00
Sadly, even the offshoring centers are losing to automation. I’ve personally seen even modest tools automate away 10s of jobs in a factory in the 2010s in India. Cutting, Punching, bending and moving metal sheets just done by 1 machine.

Today We have lights out manufacturing.

One thing I would highlight, is that the issue with offshoring wasn’t the loss of jobs as much as it was underemployment.

Going from factory foreman to burger flipper is what hollowed out that class of workers.

The Root cause failure for the offshoring model for the offshoring nation is retraining difficulty.

If people could be magically retrained into new roles, then offshoring would always work.
by Homefront | 2026-01-05 15:09:37+00:00
Hello everyone,

We just launched Homefront, a ghost office app for home service businesses (plumbing, HVAC, electrical, cleaning, landscaping, etc.).

Most service companies don’t need more staff — they need the work handled. Calls get missed. Scheduling breaks. Invoices go out late. Follow-ups don’t happen. Hiring admins fixes it temporarily, but costs pile up fast.

Homefront works like a virtual back office:

Answers customer calls 24/7

Captures leads and books jobs automatically

Handles scheduling and dispatching

Sends estimates and invoices

Follows up with customers without manual input

Think of it as replacing reception, scheduling, and admin tasks with software — not dashboards.

We’re live on Product Hunt today and looking for brutally honest feedback:

Where does this fall short?

What would make you trust a ghost office with real customer calls?

What would stop you from using it?

Happy to answer questions and discuss what worked (and didn’t) building this.
Show HN: DoNotNotify – log and intelligently block notifications on Android
by awaaz | 2026-01-05 15:10:47+00:00
Why - I got sick of apps abusing notifications on my Android phone. While the OS does give you the ability to switch off notifications based on channels, most apps either don't use it or abuse it intentionally. In my case, I live in a gated society that uses an app called MyGate to allow visitors, and the app intentionally pushes ads through the same channels since you cannot block them.

What - DoNotNotify is an app that logs all incoming notifications, and displays them grouped by app. It also captures the action behind the notification, which can be triggered from the app itself. From this log, you can create rules to whitelist/blacklist notifications from apps depending on their notification content. These filters can even be regex expressions, which allows for more complicated use-cases. The app ships with some pre-defined rules for popular apps like Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, Netflix, TikTok, Reddit etc.

Where - The website is at https://donotnotify.com/.

Would also like to call out that the app runs purely on your device, never communicates with anything on the Internet, and only requires notifications access to work. It is completely free, and there is no advertising or hidden gotchas.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-01-05 15:11:56+00:00
agreed. the "lump of labour" fallacy is a thing -- the idea that there are always more bodies and that it's trivially easy to hire, train / get up to speed, and work them.

in practice hiring and firing is expensive and often very risky. Bjorn the office worker may now be redundant and have a room temperature IQ but he's shown he'll show up on time, sober, and is liked by his coworkers enough, so throwing $5k to retrain him may be a far, far smarter investment then blowing $7k to hire a rando for another position...
by cxr | 2026-01-05 15:12:04+00:00
> I’m a private citizen asking friends for their thoughts. One of them fixed the grammar in something wrote years ago. Would those edits need to be copied to a public ledger and identified?

It wouldn't hurt, but it also wouldn't be necessary.

> I’m sure as hell not getting all of them to sign their names to a draft measure. Yet every single one of them have added value to the discussion and project.

"Added value" is not the same as being the author of a draft that gets merged (in whole or in part, and with or without edits by the person who's integrating it).

> I’m sure we could prosecute private citizens and NGOs for not using the sanctioned reporting system.

I don't know what that means. As I said before, if you send your draft (or just the parts that you wish to "patch", i.e. a suggested change) to a public official (no matter what form, e.g. an email, even) who then chooses to integrate your suggestion, and they record both the provenance of the revision and what precisely is being revised, then that would satisfy the conditions of what constitutes version control.

> You’ve argued this well

I don't think so. I see this subthread as being tedious and unnecessary, and there's nothing particularly insightful in the things I've written here. It should have ended with the first commenter who explained that nothing about any of this is incompatible with version control, but it sounds—not just based on the remarks here, but similarly timed comments elsewhere—that you still don't grok what that really means.