MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by londons_explore | 2026-01-23 10:14:37+00:00
When sharded, anything crossing a shard boundary becomes non-transactional.

Ie. if you shard by userId, then a "share" feature which allows a user to share data with another user by having a "SharedDocuments" table cannot be consistent.

That in turn means you're probably going to have to rewrite the application to handle cases like a shared document having one or other user attached to it disappear or reappear. There are loads of bugs that can happen with weak consistency like this, and at scale every very rare bug is going to happen and need dealing with.
by jaynamburi | 2026-01-23 10:14:39+00:00
We went through a similar arc. Kubernetes gave us a lot of theoretical upside, but for a small team with predictable workloads it mostly translated into operational drag: YAML sprawl, slow feedback loops, and time spent maintaining the platform instead of the product. Moving back to Docker Compose didn’t mean giving up discipline we still version configs, monitor aggressively, and automate deployments it just meant choosing a tool whose complexity matched our needs. The 60 hours saved isn’t surprising; it’s the compound effect of fewer abstractions, faster debugging, and less cognitive overhead. K8s is great when you actually need orchestration at scale, but it’s often adopted as a default rather than a requirement. This is a good reminder that “simpler” is sometimes the more senior engineering choice.
by kensai | 2026-01-23 10:15:00+00:00
Your best friend or sibling or partner can possibly understand whatever you mumble without being offended, but it adds to ambiguity and errors or misunderstandings. That's why learning to write in bulletproof structured English decreases this danger. Thankfully, the same is desired for LLMs, even if they can catch most unimportant (spelling) errors.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-23 10:15:16+00:00
> - You're nuking the ground-based command & control centers for those satellites. Again, nothing like 10,000 missiles needed.

With Starlink's peer-to-peer capabilities, hitting every single ground station and keeping the satellites from working through new ground stations may actually be quite difficult.

Starlink orbits close enough that they're looking into offering LTE coverage from "space". You don't need a giant dish to access the satellites, which means building new ground stations and reprogramming the network from an unassuming-looking ground device to use them is quite feasible.

The paths of the satellites are rather predictable, though, so your shrapnel attack executed with some precision should clear out enough of them.

The moment you launch a nuke (even if just to set off an EMP), you can expect nukes to come your way in retaliation before your nuke even detonates. Unless whatever war is going on has already gone full nuclear, I don't think nuclear weaponry is a viable move to take out satellites.
by yurishimo | 2026-01-23 10:15:18+00:00
Morally, they're also quite problematic, imo. Even if you aren't paying interest because you pay off the balance every month, CC companies can only offer points and cash back and all of that other stuff on the backs of the customers who aren't able to pay it off every month. It's a subsidy of the financially illiterate to those who are. If the predatory 20%+ interest rates were banned, the points and rewards programs would disappear overnight.

I know this isn't popular in the USA, but when compared to the rest of the western world, consumer debt is off the charts insane in America and it doesn't have to be that way. I've lived on both sides of the pond and I much prefer a society where people buy things that they can afford instead of financing everything on the back of a hope and dream that they will for sure pay off the balance this month.

As for the "but muh security!!" argument that I can hear someone typing, having a credit card for security is a terrible argument. You should be lobbying your politicians to regulate financial institutions to build better systems that are not susceptible to such obvious exploits and fraud. Again, much of the world has solved this problem to the point where I can post my bank account number on my business website and nothing bad ever happens. Customers can wire me money directly without approval and I have to manually approve all outgoing transactions at least once (scheduled transfers are still possible); it's not rocket science!
by 1313ed01 | 2026-01-23 10:15:40+00:00
They also aggressively went after fan-made variants and other content posted online, unlike almost any other miniatures/boardgame publisher. Lot of (ex-)fans upset about that.

I think that has in particular bothered older players, as traditionally, pre-GW, miniatures gaming was all very DIY, dominated by amateurs. GW turning it into big business and throwing lawyers around did not make many friends from that hobby old guard. There are still niches of the hobby where GW are not very popular, or just never talked about.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-23 10:16:19+00:00
This is not a good idea at all.

Government should not be in a position to directly and pervasively shape people’s understanding of the world.

That would be the infinite regress opposite of a free (in a completely different sense) press.

A non-profit providing an open data and training regime for an open WikiBrain would be nice. With standard pricing for scaled up use.
by cess11 | 2026-01-23 10:16:33+00:00
I had the same thought. In high school around the turn of the millenium the warhammerers either got a few injections per year to their collections, as presents from relatives or from saved up allowances, unless they made a small business out of painting and selling figures.

Ten-fifteen years later they've started making big monies compared to a kid, and nostalgia is a powerful marketing tool.

Once the iPad generations take over I suspect Games Workshop will have it tougher.
by jcmp | 2026-01-23 10:17:24+00:00
at the end of the article they made a clear distinction between flawed and hallucinated cititations. I feels its hard to argue that through a mistake a hallucinated citation emerge:

>
Real Citation
Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton. Deep learning. nature, 521:436-444, 2015.

Flawed Citation

Y. LeCun, Y. Bengio, and Geoff Hinton. Deep leaning. nature, 521(7553):436-444, 2015.

Hallucinated Citation

Samuel LeCun Jackson. Deep learning. Science & Nature: 23-45, 2021.
by echelon | 2026-01-23 10:18:42+00:00
No wonder Kagi is angry.

Google is a monopoly across several broad categories. They're also a taxation enterprise.

Google Search took over as the URL bar for 91% of all web users across all devices.

Since this intercepts trademarks and brand names, Google gets to tax all businesses unfairly.

Tell your legislators in the US and the EU that Google shouldn't be able to sell ads against registered trademarks (+/- some edit distance). They re-engineered the web to be a taxation system for all businesses across all categories.

Searching for Claude -> Ads in first place

Searching for ChatGPT -> Ads in first place

Searching for iPhone -> Ads in first place

This is inexcusable.

Only searches for "ChatGPT versus", "iPhone reviews", or "Nintendo game comparison" should allow ads. And one could argue that the "URL Bar" shouldn't auto suggest these either when a trademark is in the URL bar.

If Google won't play fair, we have to kill 50% of their search revenue for being egregiously evil.

If you own a trademark, Google shouldn't be able to sell ads against you.

--

Google's really bad. Ideally we'd get an antitrust breakup. They're worse than Ma Bell. I wouldn't even split Google into multiple companies by division - I'd force them to be multiple copies of the same exact entity that then have to compete with each other:

Bell Systems -> {BellSouth, Bell Atlantic, Southwestern Bell, ...}

Google -> {GoogleA, GoogleB, GoogleC, ...}

They'd each have cloud, search, browser, and YouTube. But new brand names for new parent companies. That would create all-out war and lead to incredible consumer wins.
by ben_w | 2026-01-23 10:19:25+00:00
If that's the only risk, sure. But there's modelling and observation that suggest the required number of ASAT weapons to cause a Kessler cascade is currently zero, i.e. we're already in the early stages of one.

Because physics of orbital dynamics is less dramatic than shown in film, lowering orbits of satelites is an effective way to mitigate this.
by KronisLV | 2026-01-23 10:19:25+00:00
> I can’t reimplement it in $30 of tokens or $30 of my time.

Probably not.

I also paid for FreeFileSync (the donation version) instead of rolling my own local backups (across drives), as well as MobaXTerm because I really like their UI/UX and so on. Software that others have developed and supported for multiple years, which has been already tested by a lot of folks thoroughly across their usecases is probably a good bet, doubly so if you can buy it (or I guess choose to support the devs) instead of renting it, the difference being that in the latter case you're not in control.

At the same time, 30 USD gets you about (assuming 85 input and 15 output split, which approximately matches my stats across months):

* Gemini 3 Pro: 8.57M tokens (7.29M input, 1.29M output)
* GPT 5.2: 8.36M tokens (7.11M input, 1.25M output)
* Sonnet 4.5: 6.25M tokens (5.31M input, 0.94M output)

From: https://pricepertoken.com/

(actual figures would change with the input/output proportion, it matters a lot, and also any caching)

Not really enough to build serious software, but definitely quite the bit of help along the way!

Or if you go with subscriptions, it can vary even more, even if will cap how much you can do per day.

For example, if you pay 50 USD for Cerebras Code, you get 24M tokens per day, so that'd be close to 730M tokens per month. They're running GLM 4.7 which isn't SOTA in my experience, but is somewhere around Sonnet 4 and therefore actually quite capable: https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.7 (my experience might not match the benchmarks, but either way it can be good enough for most stuff out there)

For a decent percentage of software development, maybe where you want a feature nobody else out there has, AI can help you get rid of enough friction and lend enough help along the way, to maybe make it worthwhile. The caveat there might be that you have to treat the expense of your own time as something you do for the enjoyment of it (building something, or the delayed gratification of benefitting from using the software).
by SunlightEdge | 2026-01-23 10:19:32+00:00
My take on Games workshop is:

1. In general I don't like their boardgames - but I like co-op Euro style board games while the majority of their games are pvp (apart from Warhammer Quest line and maybe 1-2 other ones).

2. In the early 2000s the CEO stated that they are a model company first rather than a boardgame company (and it shows in my view). They do have fantastic miniatures though.

3. Most of the cool lore was written in the 80s. Their lore is fantastic (if dated) and I do enjoy reading from the black library. To geek out, I'm not a fan of the lore change in Warhammer fantasy battle world to Age of Sigma around 2015- even if they did need to revise change the battle system the new lore sucks and come across as a money grab. I have no problem with them wanting to make money - but the new lore seems so lame (looking at you storm cast eternals). Still the AOS line seems to be doing well - I'd argue they could have had the same system in the old world.

4. The model building and painting is a healthy hobby and a nice hobby for an adult/child to do. I am about to have a child and I do want to introduce them to painting and modelling and playing boardgames - but I would be cautious about introducing them to a warhammer store - the models are very pricey, the staff are pushy, and I don't really rate the games. Maybe something like killzone or lord of the rings (but probably not).

5. Still I did pick up the new warhammer quest so they do have things in there even for me.
by phforms | 2026-01-23 10:19:34+00:00
Years ago, someone demonstrated an improved mobile text editing system called "Eloquent" [1] and I wish this would be the default today.

However, my biggest issue with mobile text selection is accidental scrolling or scrolling too fast/far while dragging on the screen to select longer text parts. This is especially annoying in landscape mode when there is just a tiny gap between the visible text and the touch keyboard. I don’t know how to solve this, but it just makes the text editing process feel incredibly insecure/slippy and annoying for me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9YPm0EghvU
by 1313ed01 | 2026-01-23 10:20:01+00:00
There are still many smaller publishers, and individual self-publishers, keeping small niches of miniatures gaming alive and well completely outside of the reach of GW or other big companies. I follow many old blogs and some forums where people discuss miniatures games and the mentions of GW or Warhammer are so rare I can forget they exist. Depends on what internet bubble you happen to live in of course.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-23 10:20:41+00:00
> How much space do you really need to raise a child?

It definitely depends on climate. I live in Ireland (in a relatively small house in the suburbs) and in the summer, there's absolutely no problem as we can take the kids out pretty regularly. However, in the winter when it's dark at 5pm and wet and windy, I definitely feel like we don't have enough space.

I do think the US houses seem absurdly large to me, but then lots of the more recent houses built in ireland are of a similar size.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-23 10:21:10+00:00
Just yesterday, I encountered a classic frustration.

I wanted to forward an image from one Messages conversation, to another one.

The “target” conversation was one that I’ve been having for a couple of years, with a friend.

In the “Forward” sheet, I select that friend’s Contacts card, and it moves to the ongoing (blue bubble) conversation.

I hit the Send button.

Green bubbles.

I get a failure to send message, saying it’s a bogus number.

Messages used my friend’s work landline, even though we’ve been communicating for years, on his iPhone line, and it put the bogus send into the iPhone conversation.
by lloeki | 2026-01-23 10:22:17+00:00
Oh my thanks for that, I thought I was going crazy.

The one that keeps getting to me is that iOS insists on putting periods instead of spaces when I only pressed the space bar once so.I.end.up.with.sentences.like.this. (when it starts doing it it can be extremely consistent); yes I know about the double space -> period shortcut but like in the video that's not it.

There was a time where the iOS keyboard just worked.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-23 10:22:20+00:00
This happened to me. Police did nothing. I was informed I had the legal right to break the door down to get my belongings. I did so.

The only reason a scummy landlord doesn't enact violence against you for money is that he can expect violence against him in return. So it supports the claim. Nonviolence can only happen when backed up by the possibility of violence.
by franga2000 | 2026-01-23 10:22:27+00:00
1. This was not a mitm attack, it was lawful mitm inspection of a user's own traffic. Mitm attacks are prevented by TLS and the system CA store already.

2. Please don't give people bad ideas. This is how we get bikeshare apps that don't work on rooted/old/GrapheneoOS/... devices and further entrench google's position in the Android ecosystem.

If your security depends on devices faithfully reporting their location, you've already lost. Get a whiteboard, start from scratch.
by jamesbelchamber | 2026-01-23 10:22:44+00:00
Are competing search indexes (Bing, Ecosia/Qwant, etc) objectively worse in significant ways, or is Google just so entrenched that people don't want to "risk it" with another provider (and/or preferences and/or inertia).

I suppose I'm asking whether this is actually a _good thing_ in that it will stimulate competition in the space, or if it's just a case that Google's index is now too good for anyone to reasonably catch up at this point.
by marginalia_nu | 2026-01-23 10:23:30+00:00
Yeah that's where I started out in 2021. Been at it for almost 5 years now, last three of which full time. I'm indexing about 1.1 billion documents now off a single server.

Hard part is doing it at any sort of scale and producing useful results. It's easy to build something that indexes a few million documents. Pushing into billions is a bigger challenge, as you start needing a lot of increasingly intricate bespoke solutions.

Devlog here:

https://www.marginalia.nu/tags/search-engine/

And search engine itself:

https://marginalia-search.com/

(... though it operates a bit sub-optimally now as I'm using a ton of CPU cores to migrate the index to use postings lists compression, will take about 4-5 days I think).
by jaynamburi | 2026-01-23 10:24:07+00:00
This is an interesting direction for “open” tooling. Combining containerization (Docker) with reproducible environments (Nix) addresses two of the biggest pain points in developer workflows: environment drift and opaque build/runtime assumptions. Running everything inside a container gives isolation and portability, while Nix provides declarative, deterministic dependency resolution that Docker alone doesn’t solve well. The result is closer to a truly reproducible dev and execution environment, which is especially valuable for CI, code review, and long lived projects. The real test will be how approachable the Nix layer is for non experts and whether the abstractions stay transparent rather than becoming another black box. If done right, this could reduce a lot of “works on my machine” overhead without requiring teams to fully buy into heavyweight orchestration or custom infra.
by Kovah | 2026-01-23 10:24:11+00:00
I have searched for a proper keyboard replacement. But there is not a single one that 1) works properly without major bugs, 2) adheres to privacy standards (because no way I am sending all keystrokes to Microslop) and 3) does not cost a fortune. Typewise came close, but seems abandoned now.

If anyone has a recommendation, please reply.
by benoitgaudin | 2026-01-23 10:24:29+00:00
We are investigating how to best leverage coding assistants to inject statement IDs into source code. So far, our experience is that there is no need for MCP tools in order to achieve it. A tool would make sense in order to report the (log statement, statement ID) mapping to backends though and this is something we are planning to add to our MCP server: https://github.com/brontoio/bronto-mcp-server
by BiteCode_dev | 2026-01-23 10:25:10+00:00
As usual, if both sides exist, it's because they both provide benefits. The guessers' benefits are just not obvious at first glance.

Taleb has a nice bit on that, explaining that if something exists for long, it must have enduring beneficial properties, and if you think it's stupid, you are the one having a blind spot.

Dawkins led to the same conclusion: stuff that works stays and multiplies. You may not like it, but nature doesn't care what you think.

It's true for entities, systems, traits, concepts...

Everyone mocks Karens, until your flight is delayed and that insufferable lady tires up the staff so much that everyone gets compensation.

I dislike lying but it works, and our entire society is based on it (but we call it advertising).

Don't like mysandry? Don't understand why nature didn't select out ugly people? Think circumcision is dumb?

All those things give some advantages in some context, to such an extend it still prospers today.

In fact, several things can be true. Something can be alienating, and yet give enough benefits that it stays around.

A huge number of things are immoral, create suffering, confusion, destruction, even to the practitioner themselves, and yet are still here because they bring something to the table that is just sufficient to justify their existence.

See your friend making yet again a terrible love choice, getting pregnant, and stuck with a baby and no father? From a natural selection standpoint, it could very well be a super successful strategy for both parties. The universe doesn't optimize for our happiness or morality.
by hinkley | 2026-01-23 10:25:14+00:00
Meh.

I decided shortly after becoming an atheist that one of the worst parts was the notion that there are magic words that can force one to feel certain things and I found that to be the same sort of thinking as saying that a woman’s short skirt “made” you attack her.

You’re a fucking adult, you can control your emotions around a little skin or a bad word.
by roryirvine | 2026-01-23 10:25:21+00:00
I think your partners were mistaken - the requirement for having a company seal and paper company register / minute book went away in both England & Wales and Scotland with the Companies Act 1985, and company formation has been done online UK-wide since the Companies Act 2006.

I'd guess the guy operating from his car was an artisan engraver who made the seal for you. They're easy to buy online too (I got one around 25 years ago), but they're mostly a curiosity rather than a necessity. I doubt more than one in a hundred new Ltd or LLP companies will bother with one.
by user34283 | 2026-01-23 10:25:31+00:00
Cross the line? It all seems a tad dramatic to me.

You've been subscribed to some new marketing mail list against your wishes, from an existing service.

Not great, but as long as the unsubscribe button is working and this does not occur repeatedly, it just seems like not such a big deal.

To me it seems like some users demand a way to block any messages about AI because the topic sends them over the edge for political reasons. That's not a reasonable expectation.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-23 10:25:37+00:00
> Ayurvedic and TCM largely refers to those things which haven't undergone clinical trials to understand their efficacy as prescribed medicines.

Interestingly enough, RCTs of acupuncture (with sham needles) show pretty large effect sizes for many treatments but only in China, which is super weird. The most likely explanation is that the blinding doesn't work (which is a perennial problem in basically all RCTs), but it's interesting nonetheless.
by happymellon | 2026-01-23 10:26:04+00:00
Most of the time large corporate CEOs appear to be just magic 8 balls, making decisions to ensure that the company doesn't end up with decision paralysis. AI reduces the amount they have to read before saying yes/no, so of course it makes their lives more efficient. Most of the time it doesn't even matter if they choose yes or no. Just that they pick something.
by imtringued | 2026-01-23 10:26:07+00:00
There is a strong incentive to displace the existing one, but if you're strong enough to do so, wouldn't you rather become the belligerent parasite rather than eliminate the idea of belligerent parasites? And so the cycle begins anew [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracks_emperor