MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-27 14:14:53+00:00
> But you don't know what kind of dissenting opinions they're deleting, because you're not looking at it! How do you know they don't just leave the "accepted" dissent, and delete anything that goes beyond that? This would completely change whether the subreddit is representative, and you would have no idea. And again: that is exactly what I've seen.

Well, this is where our experiences differ, because I've been observing that sub for years, and I've seen the threads and comments that get deleted, and I don't think it changes much in the way you do.

If they only deleted comments from comments on the left, I think the sub would still be representative, maybe less so, but still so.

> Not only do those mods explicitly state that they delete comments by Trump supporters that show strong dissent, multiple long-time TS there have eventually admitted to playing a role, trying to make conservatives look as bad as possible.

Do you think any subs are representative? Do you think all the numerous people defending the murder of Renee Good and defending ICE were bots? What about X, or Gab, where it's easy to find mass opinions mirroring those subs?
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-27 14:15:01+00:00
You're assuming officers have the time to rationalize all this thought process in the split second when another officer shouts "GUN!" and then one starts shooting leading to everyone shooting out of inertia.

People got shot from police mistakes like these all the time. It's an accident, a bad one, but not an execution, as everyone on the left calls it.
by okamiueru | 2026-01-27 14:15:23+00:00
I was somewhat surprised to find that the differentiator isn't being smart or not, but the ability to accurately assess when they know something.

From my own observations, the types of people I previously observed to be sloppy in their thought processes and otherwise work, correlates almost perfectly with those that seem most eager to praise LLMs.

It's almost as if the ability to identify bullshit, makes you critical of the ultimate bullshit generator.
by 20wenty | 2026-01-27 14:15:24+00:00
I second this -- I just found the Ben Eater series a month or so ago and put together his computer clock over the holidays. It really helps you understand clock cycles, logic chips, etc, and is a good foundation for the 6502 kit you build later in the course. And learning Assembly before BASIC is the right learning path IMO, if only to understand how CPU registers work at the electron level.
by zrn900 | 2026-01-27 14:15:32+00:00
> I don't think children should be watching any genocide videos.

Not watching any genocide videos means not seeing anything related to the genocide either. And that provides the basis for propaganda to make the genocide disappear, or turn it around by inventing realities. That was how the Iraqi WMDs were made happen.

This is happening for no apparent reason, other than Netanyahu personally requesting it at the start of 2025.
by ben_w | 2026-01-27 14:15:34+00:00
This is inherently the stupidest idea I've heard from the US administration since… ugh, only last week, I guess.

Given all the news, I'd expect them to read signs saying "Il vero caffè non ha ICE" and try to deport the nearest person to Mexico for "speaking Spanish". (For those who miss the joke, that's Italian).

And I'm saying this as a Brit, remembering news stories where people living in London apartment sued the government for putting SAMs on their rooftops, and others were kept out of their homes by BBC security blocking their staircases.
by Schmerika | 2026-01-27 14:15:42+00:00
And there are people who own and run this website with extremely aligned interests.

Altman and Thiel have long had YC connections (obv); and for the last year or so Garry Tan and PG have been full-throatedly cheerleading Musk and DOGE on their Twitter pages.

Then there's the many connections between YC and the 'defense' industry; you know, the one making billions of dollars from wars that people speak out about on social media.

It's very easy to explain why posts get flagged here. It's a lot harder to digest why they don't get unflagged. Especially when all the posts about it are quickly removed, every single one.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-27 14:15:59+00:00
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the screen memory of the Commodore machines (ViC-20, Commodore 64) were the most straight-forward. As opposed to the more janky Apple II memory map.

You could do a lot worse than picking up a new Commodore 64 Ultimate [1]. They're a more or less faithful remake of the Commodore 64 but have an HDMI port, SD card instead of disk drive, etc. You could learn BASIC, should be able move to assembly as well—a quick search pulled up a YouTube course on 6502 assembly for the Commodore [2].

(I realize I am not contributing "books"—but others have done well in this regard. I did want to share what I think is a pragmatic way to learn 6502.)

[1] https://www.commodore.net

[2] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1o_YShTPgoA7_nZ0PutqaPD...
by wongarsu | 2026-01-27 14:16:10+00:00
Which should be expected, since the same is true for humans. The "adding numbers digit by digit with carry" works well on paper, but it's not an effective method for doing math in your head, and is certainly not how I calculate 14+17. In fact I can't really tell you how I calculate 14+17 since that's not in the "inner monologue" part of my brain, and I have little introspection in any of the other parts

Still, feeding humans their completely made-up self-reflection back can be an effective strategy
by GreenWatermelon | 2026-01-27 14:16:22+00:00
I believe programming languages are the better language for planning architecture, the algorithms, the domain model, etc... compared to English.

The way I develop mirrors the process of creating said design document. I start with a high level overview, define what Entities the program should represent, define their attributes, etc... only now I'm using a more specific language than English. By creating a class or a TS interface with some code documentation I can use my IDEs capabilities to discover connections between entities.

I can then give the code to an LLM to produce a technical document for managers or something. It'll be a throwaway document because such documents are rarely used for actual decision making.

> Obviously, before starting writing, you could sit down and write a software design document that worked out the architecture, the algorithms, the domain model, the concurrency, the data flow, the goals, the steps to achieve it and so on;

I do this with code, and the IDE is much better than MS Word or whatevah at detecting my logical inconsistencies.
by dre85 | 2026-01-27 14:16:22+00:00
For whatever it's worth I have a personal counter-story to airtag usefulness. Not to get into the debate of indoor vs outdoor cats, we had a cat a few years ago that liked to roam around outside and one time it got spooked and disappeared for two weeks. It came back all skinny and hurt and after that we bought an air tag collar for peace of mind. The airtag worked just fine for a few months until the cat disappeared again. That very day the airtag stopped working so when we actually need it, the signal was permanently lost. We never found out why. I could imagine perhaps a car hit it or a coyote ate it, but there's certainly edge cases where an airtag would fail immediately. Battery life is highly unlikely to be the culprit in my opinion as it was fairly new, working recently before that day and the timing was too perfect.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-27 14:16:43+00:00
Cleanup isn't the problem. Clean code doesn't really matter so much anymore, agents can be guided with tools and orchestration to "clean up" bad code: https://sibylline.dev/articles/2026-01-14-digital-alchemy-tu...

The bottleneck is validating that the software does everything it says that it does correctly: https://sibylline.dev/articles/2026-01-27-stop-orchestrating...

Right now most vibe coders are trying to hype semi-broken software and foist validation on early adopters. This is unsustainable.
by billy99k | 2026-01-27 14:16:45+00:00
The same could be said about the mass adoption of open source.

Why hire an experienced coder to create project X, when you can just use an open source project and hire cheaper and less experienced coders to make updates? I've been part of many of these conversations with business leaders and management over the years.

Developers have been giving away their work and devaluing their profession for decades and has basically turned it into digital factory work.

It's why I stopped writing software professionally almost a decade ago.

AI is using all of this open source to train and will eventually put you out of a job.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-01-27 14:17:27+00:00
>If you want a lubricant, just buy the correct one for the job.

I use WD-40 exclusively as the lube to mount rubber tires onto wheels. I've found it's the best choice for that task. The wax paste tire lube is inferior. I'm just reaching for the WD-40 anyway to remove the wax paste residue on the wheel rim.
by dcminter | 2026-01-27 14:17:56+00:00
I roo am trying to curate my RSS feed to be doom-scrolling free. These largely achieve that for me. You'll find a smattering of political posts in them, but that's an inevitable side effect of living in abnormal political times.

https://scrollprize.org/ - The Vesuvius Challenge: Using high intensity X-ray scans and computation to attempt to retrieve lost scrolls from Pompei; real uplifting Sci-Fi stuff! Possibly the most heartwarming thing I know of on the internet; snatching ancient knowledge from the flames of history! What could be more poetic?

https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline - In the Pipeline: The blog of Derek Lowe (pharmaceutical chemist), (in)famous for articles like "Sand Won't Save You This Time" Always interesting, though a lot of the chemistry goes way way over my head. Some political stuff lately, unavoidably given the current secretary of health.

https://blog.dshr.org/ - David Rostenthal: Digital preservationist.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com - Jeff Geerling: Raspberry Pi, Arm, digital radio, and other nerdery. I enjoy his videos, but I love that he does a plaintext version (first?) that's not just a transcript.

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/ - Rob Pike: Programming luminary (Go, UTF-8, Unix, etc.)

https://fasterthanli.me - Faster than Lime: Amos's blog leaning heavily towards Rust. I'm a beginner in Rust, but I love this guy's style of writing even when the stuff he's writing about is beyond my current skill level.

Anyway, those are my go-tos at the moment. I look forward to trying a bunch of the others recommended here. Oh and I currently use Feeder under Android as my RSS reader; it's unexciting, which is what I look for in an app these days :D

A last recommendation - as part of trying to avoid doom-scrolling, I have a paper subscription to The Economist and I'm trying to train myself to read that instead of going to news sites. The lack of immediacy helps keep the emotional reaction in check (it's not as addictive of course).
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-27 14:18:09+00:00
> Never heard anything about "driver stabilization" before, and couldn't find anything confirming that it exists.

I don't know that it's a known phrase, I find it odd you searched for it as I would have thought the meaning would have been obvious. Bugs are found generally within the developer mandated lifespan of the device, more bugs are found closer to release with less being found over time.

There might still be vulnerabilities, but that would be just as true for open source ones, because in both cases no one is really looking for them.

Can you find any unpatched vulnerabilities for any of the OnePlus devices that PMOS runs on? I doubt it. They may exist, but they may exist i your Librem also.
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by mystraline | 2026-01-27 14:18:52+00:00
> copyright is still a tax on the whole of society for the benefit of rich people and corporations. it opposes innovation, evolution and progress

The original reason for copyright, patents, and trademarks made sense.

We want people to create and share. And unlike the old guild solutions from Europe, copyright and patents were a tradeoff to encourage the arts and science.

But what's a good tradeoff? Thats a big copyright question. 17 years? 34 years? Life of author? 75 years? How about individual non-commercial use? Or abandoned works?

And patents aren't even in scope, but we see similar abuses against the raison d'etra of them. Patents were supposed to entail a full reproduction of invention. Now, its a game of how incomplete can we make the filing while still getting protection. Or worse yet, really dumb shit has been patented like 1 click or the XOR patent, or that asshole Chakrabarty who patented living organisms.

There were good reasons for a fair copyright and patent law for furtherance of the art and sciences. That narrative was lost long ago. Now, only the violators can really push ahead. And they can't talk about it.

(Trademark law has never really had much complaints, aside trademarking a color. If you buy from XYZ company, you want to buy from them, not a counterfeit. And it relates back to coats of arms, again, representing a family or a charge.)
Show HN: Printable Thinking Templates – Mental Models You Fill Out by Hand
by _1tan | 2026-01-27 14:19:02+00:00
I built a collection of one-page printable templates for decisions, prioritization, and reflection. The twist: they're designed to be filled out with pen and paper, not digitally.

Why paper? Writing by hand is slow—and that's the point. When I type, I can outpace my thinking. When I write, I catch myself mid-sentence realizing "wait, that's not actually true." The friction is a feature.

What's included:
- Decision Canvas (pros/cons + second-order effects + cognitive bias check)
- Eisenhower Matrix (urgent vs. important)
- Stop/Start/Continue audit
- Rubber Band Model (what's pulling me forward vs. holding me back)
- Cognitive Bias Checklist (pre-flight check before any big decision)

Tech: All templates are written in Typst. GitHub Actions compiles to PDF, generates PNG thumbnails, and auto-generates the README from metadata comments in each .typ file. Zero manual release process.

Philosophy: If a decision is easily reversible, don't use a template—just move. These are for the choices that keep you up at night.

GitHub: https://github.com/philippnagel/thinkingtemplates

I'd love feedback on which templates are actually useful vs. overthinking-theater, and ideas for new ones.
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-01-27 14:19:07+00:00
What part? NGO/thinktanks operating within a 30 minute drive to the nation's capital?

One such example is James Leibold, a scholar of Xinjiang ethnic policy. He would report on Xiajiang and the claimed genocide. He is an australian. He worked for the Jamestown Foundation based in DC.

On the Board of Directors for the Jamestown Foundation is a man named Michael G Vickers, who was previously the Under Secretary of Defense for intelligence, and worked at the CIA during the Soviet-Afghan War(The one where the US funded the Mujahadeen who immediately began throwing grenades into schools for girls).

Vickers was even featured in the book, "Charlie Wilson's War", about Operation Cyclone and the events which would eventually lead to blowback via 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, and the second Iraq war.

This is just one example. Any time you see articles like this, follow the sources. They either wont cite anything, or will cite a thinktank/NGO staffed by career intelligence workers and funded by similar groups.

https://jamestown.org/analyst/james-leibold/

https://jamestown.org/our-team/?department=board

https://jamestown.org/analyst/michael-vickers/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_G._Vickers
by rwmj | 2026-01-27 14:19:14+00:00
Assuming that your distro is, say, Debian, then you'll know the answer to that is always libssl-dev, and if you cannot find it then there's a handy search tool (both CLI and web page: https://packages.debian.org) to help you.

I'm not very familiar with MySQL, but for C (which is what we're talking about here) I typed mysql here and it gave me a bunch of suggestions: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all... Debian doesn't ship binary blobs, so I guess that's not a problem.

"I have to build something on 10 different distros" is not actually a problem that many people have.

Also, let the distros package your software. If you're not doing that, or if you're working against the distros, then you're storing up trouble.
by hu3 | 2026-01-27 14:19:26+00:00
I've been using Xfce as a daily driver in one machine for about a decade now.

Great to know there's work on the wayland support front.

Also, writing it in Rust should help bring more contributors to the project.

If you use Xfce I urge you to donate to their Open Collective:

https://opencollective.com/xfce

https://opencollective.com/xfce-eu
by pshirshov | 2026-01-27 14:19:27+00:00
How can that be that during any single administration there always are bipartisan votes in favor of digital surveillance and censorship, oh, I mean online protection for kids and puppies? Pure coincidence I think.

Boden's good, Grump's bad, simple as that. Or Grump's good, Boden's bad doesn't matter.
by infecto | 2026-01-27 14:19:53+00:00
I am not sure why this was flagged but I don’t think it’s wrong. I am not sure if it’s a uniquely American thing but the internet has caused an unfortunate case of brigading for almost anything. I like to think I sit fairly middle in a lot of American topics I lean left on some items, taxes, healthcare, free school lunches and right on others but I remember how easy it was a number of years ago to be labeled a racist. You really cannot have an opinion about much these days without someone labeling you something unfavorably. It’s unfortunate.
by techblueberry | 2026-01-27 14:20:10+00:00
I don’t think the job is done, but I do suspect it’s going to turn into something similar to like medicine, finance and law. Much more competitive, bigger separation between like top salaries and median salaries. Harder requirements. The days of going to code school and getting a $150k salary are done.

Interestingly we’ll probably never be as credentialed as those industries, but it will probably be like the environment described in dramas. Relatively “easy” to get a job if you’re smart, but oppressive up or out riff days every six months.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-27 14:20:22+00:00
> instead of building reliable software, managers seem to push people to use AI more, as long as they ship products.

That can work for some things. Some things don't actually need reliability. That automated tool that's going to help a dozen people in accounting? Yeah, it's got a buffer overflow, which also can be used for a DOS attack, but who cares? (Unless someone like an AI exposes it to the internet...)

For things where reliability does matter, AIs may be a fad for a couple of years, but it won't last, for exactly the reasons you mention. For a bunch of things, reliability really matters. For those places, you cannot be replaced by AI. Migrate to those places.

That leaves the problem of the next couple years. You may need to look for places that understand, today, that reliability matters more than fast slop.

> Why read a book, when you can just get AI summary of it?

I mean... for books (and movies) that I'm mildly interested in but don't want to take N hours to wade through, I've been reading the Wikipedia summaries for a while. AI is here now, but I still go to Wikipedia, because I actually trust it more than the AI summary.
by felixgallo | 2026-01-27 14:20:40+00:00
the right wing furor about deplatforming and media bias was always just a bad faith rhetorical tactic. When Musk bought Twitter, it became clear that there was no conspiratorial algorithmic suppression -- in fact, the code showed that the only thumb on the scales was to promote Musk's own account. The right wing owned essentially all the media before, and within the last few years they also own Twitter, Facebook, The Washington Post, TikTok, Paramount, CBS, and are trying to grab CNN.

There isn't an all-sides argument here; there's one side in almost total control of the entire discourse, whining about being victims, and promotingly increasingly insane viewpoints.
by ppeetteerr | 2026-01-27 14:21:02+00:00
Not quite systems programming but this might give you some insight. Swift is memory efficient, and runs stable backend services. I've seen benchmarks showing that it's slightly more performant than typescript but twice as memory efficient (but not as efficient when it comes to memory management compared to Rust, C, and C++).

The other point I've seen is that its string library is slow and very accurate.

Besides that, the C-interop means you have quite a bit of flexibility in leveraging existing libraries.
by em3s | 2026-01-27 14:21:05+00:00
You might be right! Kafka + KV store + Redis can definitely work for this.

Our teams typically started with MySQL, then added Kafka and Redis as they scaled. The pain wasn't the initial build—it was what happened after: every team implemented forward/reverse lists, counts, and indexes slightly differently. Retries and out-of-order events caused subtle drift. Migrations became error-prone because the "rules" for derived data lived in application code scattered across services.

That's what Actionbase does: versioned state transitions, pre-computed indexes, idempotent mutations—all in one place. If your current setup is working and correctness isn't drifting, you probably don't need this.

I wrote more about this trade-off in https://github.com/kakao/actionbase/discussions/32 —genuinely asking whether we overbuilt.
by LoveMortuus | 2026-01-27 14:22:05+00:00
I would love that, as long as the lifespan didn't change. If everyone turned into mice we'd have a lot more space for other stuff, we'd need less food, less resources in general, since we'd be physically smaller, this thought is one of the reasons I like the movie arthur and the minimoys, where the main character gets shrunk to like 2mm in size!
by seanieb | 2026-01-27 14:22:22+00:00
Anecdotal: uploading a video of original songs with political/protest lyrics will have random background noises added to the audio track, making the songs audio seem amateurish.

Edit: here’s a link to an example
https://bsky.app/profile/seaniebyrne.bsky.social/post/3mby7j...
by netsharc | 2026-01-27 14:22:56+00:00
But this blatant move shows "We're no different to the Chinese ruling party now"... If it's a slow descent, people might accept the madness (imagine if a bombshell report showed Biden had links to Epstein, sexually assaulted 20+ women, and was moaning about the Nobel Peace Prize to the prime minister of Norway)...

Somehow I'm optimistic that this means the Trump Regime is on its last legs. But well, what's the quote about underestimating the stupidity of the American public?