MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andruby | 2026-01-09 11:45:04+00:00
The question isn't "what is the lowest cost that a CSS library could be maintained for"

The question is rather, how can the most popular UI system (especially for AI models) have a healthy business model?

Think of the immense value that Tailwind is bringing to all the companies and developers using it. Surely there should be a way for the creators to capture a small slice of that in our economic system.
by misja111 | 2026-01-09 11:45:31+00:00
A while ago someone posted a claim like that on LinkedIn again.
And of course there was the usual herd of LinkedIn sheep who were full of compliments and wows about the claim he was making: a 10x speedup of his daily work.

The difference with the zillion others who did the same, is that he attached a link to a live stream where he was going to show his 10x speedup on a real life problem.
Credits to him for doing that! So I decided to go have a look.

What I then saw was him struggling for one hour with some simple extension to his project. He didn't manage to finish in the hour what he was planning to. And when I had some thought about how much time it would have cost me by hand, I found it would have taken me just as long.

So I answered him in his LinkedIn thread and asked where the 10x speed up was. What followed was complete denial. It had just been a hick up. Or he could have done other things in parallel while waiting 30 seconds for the AI to answer. Etc etc.

I admit I was sceptic at the start but I honestly had been hoping that my scepticism would be proven wrong. But not.
by lynx97 | 2026-01-09 11:45:38+00:00
> completely abandon the browser rendering path and have everything render into a canvas

Yeah, go ahead and trash the little bit of accessibility we still have. <canvas> by itself already asks webdevs to shit on people with visual disabilities. But getting rid of the DOM (for vague reasons) would really nail the coffin of these pesky blind users. After all, why should they be able to use anything on the internet?

This, and AI making webdevs consider to obfuscate things for scraping reasons, and Microsoft Recall making devs play with the idea of obfuscating OS-level access to their (privacy-sensitive) apps, which in essence would also trash accessibility, are the new nightmares that will haunt me for the next few years.
by sylware | 2026-01-09 11:45:43+00:00
I wish I could buy RP2350 with the ARM cores being hard-fused disabled, "cheaper" since no ARM royalties would have to be paid.

That said, I wonder how much they did improve their hazard3 design, because we all know the future is no PI locked ARM cores. I wonder if they are sharing part of the design of other open source RISC-V cores.

If those efforts are kept significant, the future is looking good and better there. Hopefully, all that will be a success (=latest silicon process, ultra-performant RISC-V implementation in mobile/embedded/desktop/server).
by pamcake | 2026-01-09 11:45:54+00:00
That you don't mention NAT punching or discovery as outstanding is encouraging - that seems to be the hard part where others fall so if that's in a workable state and the project resists the allure of centralizing control ("streamlining" updates for that contract, say), I'm sure the rest will follow! Even if it's months not weeks in the end.
by vidarh | 2026-01-09 11:45:55+00:00
I don't do this much because I really like Opus 4.5, and so far I haven't hit the limits on the $200 subscription much, but I do have some projects where I might need far higher limits.

As a matter of principle, I really would like the flexibility though, as while I love Opus now, who knows which model I will prefer next month.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-09 11:46:12+00:00
TIL there could be over a billion 川粉.

« N'interrompez jamais un ennemi qui est en train de faire une erreur » —N I

Poor Viktor! He should've just said no... https://images.prom.ua/4754852957_w640_h640_net-prikolnyj.jp...

(even Ivan the Terrible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7eIIIPBNUc&t=1735s doesn't drink without something to eat; he's not an alcoholic after all)

Dina's a bit boho; where are the oranges and shushki?

Santi? Barbara's the patroness of tunnelling; ܥܩܘܒ does fishermen and conquistadors? (I guess neither are known for paying much attention to sustainability?)
Ask HN: What do founders do to avoid getting blocked by competitor patents?
by wasiurrehman | 2026-01-09 11:46:18+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m researching how early-stage startups and tech teams handle IP risk
when they choose not to file patents.

In particular:
- Have you ever built something first, but worried someone else might patent it?
- Did cost, speed, or uncertainty keep you from filing?
- Have you used (or considered) defensive disclosures or prior art strategies?

I’m trying to understand real-world behavior, not sell anything.
I put together a short anonymous survey to collect structured data
from founders, engineers, and IP folks.

If you’re willing to share input, here’s the link:
https://forms.gle/8UAytkGNfge4GKrH8

Also very interested in hearing experiences directly in the comments.

Thanks!
by topocite | 2026-01-09 11:46:21+00:00
I just don't agree everything will look like Marvel or Star Wars.

Everything looks like that now because the loss of DVD sales has altered the economics of movies so drastically.

These tools should ultimately empower a golden age of experimentation and unique film making.

I know for myself, I will absolutely be into this some day but it is just far too early. For me, I can see the potential of AI generated video but that is something for the 2030s. Right now it is like the digital audio workstation in 1992. It needs another decade to mature.
by cowboylowrez | 2026-01-09 11:46:31+00:00
lol says you, its been my experience that reason.com does NOT post made-up stories, they simply have priorities aligned with their political biases which is relatively normal nowadays. AI agrees.

google:

"Reason.com is a reputable source that adheres to journalistic standards, but its content is filtered through a specific, consistent libertarian lens."
by the_mitsuhiko | 2026-01-09 11:46:33+00:00
> MCP allows any client (Claude, Cursor, IDEs) to dynamically discover and interact with any resource (Postgres, Slack) without custom glue code.

My agent writes its own glue code so the benefit does not seem to really exist in practice. Definitely not for coding agents and increasingly less for non coding agents too. Give it a file system and bash in a sandbox and you have a capable system. Give it some skills and it will write itself whatever is neeeded to connect to an API.

Every time I think I have a use case for MCP I discover that when I ask the agent to just write its own skill it works better, particularly because the agent can fix it up itself.
by Retric | 2026-01-09 11:47:02+00:00
> You can buy "into a market" by investing in a ETF following the MSCI EM or SP500.

Nope. A more accurate description is saying you’re buying into a specific subset of a Market by buying specific companies.

The MSCI EM, SP500, etc etc are simply a collection of public companies not the market of a given country.

Which is why index funds all behave in fundamentally different ways than the actual markets we’re talking about.
by lazyasciiart | 2026-01-09 11:47:05+00:00
Many industries have hit this without AI. One example is surveying: it used to be that you’d have a crew of survey techs moving around equipment and measuring reference points, a crew chief, and a licensed surveyor directing and signing off on them. Those techs and crew chief were the future surveyors, as licensed surveyor requires x years working under supervision.

Now there’s one or two guys out there with a total station and/or drone. You’ve gone from 10 techs/junior positions per surveyor to 1. The average surveyor is something like 60 years old and has no successor lined up.
by robertjpayne | 2026-01-09 11:47:05+00:00
Yes but Tailwind Plus has a flawed business model, AI was not really the reason nobody bought it, it's that it's a lifetime purchase and that shadcn + LLMs has eaten their cake left right and central.

If LLMs didn't exist but shadcn still did, do you think people would pay and use Tailwind+ or shadcn?
by mike_hearn | 2026-01-09 11:47:06+00:00
The open source community won't always find a way. Remote attestation isn't a new concept (it doesn't have to be hardware backed, the concept is general).

The industry has enough experience with this by now to know how it goes, and open source projects are always the first to drop out of the race. The time taken to keep up becomes much too high to justify doing on a voluntary basis or giving away the results, so as the difficulty of bypassing checks goes up the only people who can do it become SaaS providers.

BluRay BD+ was a good example of that back in the day. AACS was breakable by open source players. Once BD+ came along the open source doom9 crowd were immediately wiped out. For a long time the only breaks came from a company in Antigua that sold a commercial ripper, which was protected from US law enforcement by a WTO decision specific to that island.

You also see this with stuff like Google YouTube/SERP scraping. There currently aren't any open source solutions that don't get rapidly blocked server side, AFAIK. Companies that know how to beat it keep their solutions secret and sell bypasses as a service.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-09 11:47:13+00:00
> MCP allows any client (Claude, Cursor, IDEs) to dynamically discover and interact with any resource (Postgres, Slack) without custom glue code.

I don't think MCP is what actually enables that, it's LLMs that enable that. We already had the "HTTP API" movement, and it still didn't allow "without custom glue code", because someone still had to write the glue.

And even with MCP, something still has to glue things together, and it currently is the LLMs that do so. MCP probably makes this a bit easier, but OpenAPI or something else could have as easily have done that. The hard and shitty part is still being done by a LLM, and we don't need MCP for this.
by monooso | 2026-01-09 11:47:55+00:00
Simon Willison made many of the same points (without the technical deep dive) back in October 2025 [1], when Anthropic announced Skills.

A couple of choice quotes, which are echoed in this new article:

> I like to joke that one of the reasons it took off is that every company knew they needed an “AI strategy”, and building (or announcing) an MCP implementation was an easy way to tick that box.

> Almost everything I might achieve with an MCP can be handled by a CLI tool instead.

[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/
by reify | 2026-01-09 11:48:16+00:00
You must be joking.

"you cannot be serious", in classic John McEnroe Wimbledon tone

where is my app that I have been waiting for.

here we go, the written bullshit:

I’m excited to share my (record) fourth collaboration with the great Noam Segal, AI Insights Manager at Figma and former UXR leader at Zapier, Airbnb, Meta, Twitter, Intercom, and Wealthfront. Let’s get to it.

this statement is particularly galling

Author’s note: Names have been changed to preserve participant anonymity.

why anonymous????????????

maybe the figures are made up and complete bullshit

says it all really; shills, boosters and con men
by rahulbhalley | 2026-01-09 11:48:22+00:00
Hey! I am not good at ASO and don't want to spend any money ecause I don't have it. My app is showing some traction as some organic users are buying it $0.99.

I want someone to do ASO and free marketing and I will give away 20% of my sales to you. :)

I am a beginner and don't have job so this is not a big deal for me, in fact, it will be a huge achievement for me!!!!

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by menaerus | 2026-01-09 11:49:05+00:00
> Are you expecting these people to end up flush with cash, or what's the issue?

No, you cannot build a serious product to compete with globally established products only by using the 50k EUR grant since serious products of larger scale (impact) necessitates more than a single expert.

How do you build an alternative cloud or alternative database or alternative AI model with a 50k grant? Or how do you attract 10, 15 maybe 20 people to work on it? How much money do you consider would be enough for these people to be "financially safe".

> Because most of us experts actually care about what we work with, not how much we get paid.

Most? I believe not. Most experts in the field are working for a beyond average salary and not for the FOSS projects. You need a leverage to attract those people to leave their jobs to contribute to something bigger (in terms of society) and yet this leverage is, as you say, "experts care about what we work with, not how much we get paid". This is laughable and at the same time worrying because you're genuinely convinced that this is an attitude everyone should follow. Such an ignorant view, sorry.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-09 11:49:48+00:00
> - GDPR a good thing on paper; with some terrible side effects - cookie banners, data bureacracy, walled gardens between US-EU websites.

I was gonna reply to your comment in good faith, but I realize right here that you don't actually understand what you're talking about. Cookie banners have nothing to do with GDPR, at all, and thinking they're somehow connected, grossly misunderstands regulation in the EU. How am I supposed to take anything else you say about these topics with a straight face?

So with that said, I hope you have a continued nice day :)
by creata | 2026-01-09 11:50:03+00:00
> with a bunch of stuff renamed

And a capability system and a brand new IDL, although I'm not sure who the target audience is...

> it's basically just regular assembly language

This doesn't affect your point at all, but it's much closer to a high-level language than to regular assembly language, isn't it? Nonaddressable, automatically managed stack, mandatorily structured control flow, local variables instead of registers, etc.
by gghhzzgghhzz | 2026-01-09 11:51:35+00:00
"They have a video of people from this group attacking police with sledgehammers"

Do you have the name or names of the person accused of 'attacking police with sledgehammers'?

I've heard a lot about this, but it's difficult to get to actual sources about exactly what is alleged.

Even if this did happen as you say. attachking police with sledgehammers is assault, potentially even attempted murder. There's plenty of laws for that.

It's not terrorism.
by strangegecko | 2026-01-09 11:51:51+00:00
I can't speak for FB. But I know a local (non-US) real estate company which does crap like this (they also love to disable right click and detect when browser tools are open and programmatically close the tab/page when that happens), and they're not paying much. I'm guessing it's double of minimum wage, which isn't high here.
by DeusCodex | 2026-01-09 11:51:53+00:00
You know what, that might be a very good idea, if encoding speeds on my really crappy hard-drive weren't under a second. But no I do see where you're coming from, and for larger files that concept does apply, but blockframe wants to protect your files from circumstances that you can't control, and the concept is still, have the file as its own entity, and to keep it planted, we use RS to make sure nothing funky happens. Small files do tend to cause random access speeds, that's why they're not split up.
by lproven | 2026-01-09 11:52:11+00:00
I am glad I came back and reread this -- I misunderstood it as thumb to middle finger at first, and thought it incredibly tiny.

Index to middle finger is 15cm for me, without stretching uncomfortably, and thumb to little finger ("pinky") is 26cm. Outside to outside of the fingers.

(For comparison I am a 1.88m -- 6'2" -- male.)

This is why I like large smartphones. The original tiny ones felt like using cocktail sticks as chopsticks to me: they were tiny and toylike and required superhuman precision.

6.5" phones are just about usable, especially with swipe-typing. Almost all Blackberry models were unusably small and cramped for me, but the Passport was OK.
by formerly_proven | 2026-01-09 11:52:39+00:00
MCP can wrap things which have stateful processes, debuggers for example. Agents will use batch mode but it is quite limited and due to tool calls always being implemented as synchronous invocations, non-batch mode doesn’t work for tool calls. MCP solves this by giving the agent a handle it can use to refer to in multiple invocations.

Burns a lot of tokens though and if you need more than batch-mode gdb to debug something the chances of an agent solving it today are very slim.
by akagusu | 2026-01-09 11:52:47+00:00
Big corp makes thousands of millions in profit, not revenue, but profit, layoff thousands of employees and nobody cares.

Small company making 1M in revenue, from where they need to pay taxes, wages, administrative expenses and other things before having any profit, needs to layoff 5 employees from 8 in order to keep the lights on, and is somewhat greedy?

Really!?

What kind of world are we living now?
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-09 11:53:01+00:00
> No, you cannot build a serious product to compete with globally established products only by using the 50k EUR grant

Who said you have to? Software is not a "winner takes all", you can solve a niche problem, get paid OK for it, and have a better standard of living than the average person in your country. This is widespread in Europe already, not sure why it's so foreign to so many.

I'm sorry, but that you and your peers seem to select professions and work positions solely based on monetary profits is what it is, but don't try to give the impression it's like that all over the world, because it isn't. It's probably more common than you think, but your environment might lead you to believe it isn't. For that, I feel pity for you.
by al_borland | 2026-01-09 11:53:28+00:00
My plan was to hold onto my 13 mini until it literally fell apart. I bought it as a replacement to my 12 mini the day the 14 was announced without a mini option.

However, I couldn’t take the bad battery life. The 13 seemed worse than the 12, even though on paper it was supposed to be better. I ended up getting a new phone when the 16 came out. I had also been wanting a telephoto lens, so I got the triple camera system with the 16 Pro. I really wish I could get this in the package of a mini.

I tried to see the bad battery life as a positive, and that’s all well and good while at home, but becomes a real problem when leaving the house and needing your phone for things like trains and taxis to get around. Having to carry an extra battery just incase, so you can get home isn’t a feature. Though to be fair, on my last trip with the 16 Pro I also carried an extra battery with me, because the 16 Pro will randomly burn through 80% of my battery for seemingly no reason some days. I can’t trust it.
by herval | 2026-01-09 11:53:29+00:00
We're at a point in the LLM curve where there's two huge, polarized groups of developers:

- the ones who don't see any value on AI for coding and dismiss it as a fad at every change they get

- the ones who are in love with the new tools and adopting as many as they can on their workflows

I know the arguments of the second bunch well. But very curious about what the "AI is a fad" bunch thinks will happen. Are we going to suddenly realize all these productivity gains people are claiming are all lies and go back to coding by typing characters on emacs and memorizing CS books? Will StackOverflow suddenly return as the most popular source of copy-paste code slop?
by afrafgf | 2026-01-09 11:53:34+00:00
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by lynx97 | 2026-01-09 11:54:42+00:00
You are probably right. What will happen is that ad-blocker people will indirectly kill accessibility. That would make a lot of sense in this world. Its a reoccuring pattern. Spam killed a part of accessibility indirectly via CAPTCHA. And "it is my god-given right to block ads of free services I use" people will indirectly finally kill accessibility for good, now that we have <canvas>.
by DavidPiper | 2026-01-09 11:55:12+00:00
I don't really think about this much, but your comment made me wonder:

If we do find another earth-like planet within travel distance (impossible afaik but let's suspend disbelief for a moment), how do we determine whether it's worth colonising? And how to we measure it?

"The resources on this planet will last 15.6B person-years which means if we send 5 million people there over time, we will have to prepare for their evacuation in ??? years"?

Obviously totally moot if Earth's resources aren't going to last that long, but just had that thought bubble up.