MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yurishimo | 2026-01-23 11:44:36+00:00
Credit card companies make money from interest on debt. That is undisputed. To pay out your rewards, they need to make a profit above and beyond what it takes to run the business such that they can afford to give you 2% back. This leads to higher interest rates for everyone that are approaching usurious (imo). Your circular argument about costing the evil company money therefore makes your purchases justified, doesn't make sense.

I agree that the US financial system does not currently operate in a manner that is secure for consumers. I am not naive to that reality (I'm also American and have had various amounts of credit card debt throughout my life, and also times when I paid off balances for years). However, that does not diminish the societal responsibility to advocate for a financial system that is more secure by default. The fact that I need to expose myself to more financial risk in one area to circumvent a shortcoming in another area of the market is a bad thing, in my opinion.

Again, I think if we capped interest rates at something reasonable (12% maybe?), it would force credit card companies to more seriously evaluate if their customers can afford the debt they are incurring and this entire problem would disappear overnight. Sure, there would be less rewards programs as revenue would be decreased, but we would make society better as whole by not incentivising a financial instrument that ruins millions of lives annually. We tried doing it this way for almost 50 years and it doesn't seem to be working out for society if you believe the debt/income ratios as a percentage of GDP in the United States.

As to your last point, I'm much happier living in a reality where I own the things I purchase. Nobody is ever going to repo my car if I lose my job. A sheriff/the state is never going to come to my home and take things to pay off a creditor because I hit the unlucky lottery and was injured in a freak accident or Act of God. Please try to engage my arguments in good faith and not make personal attacks about my separation from reality. The rest of the western world is proof that you do not need debt to participate fully in society.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-23 11:45:22+00:00
> It lines up with 0F, which in most of the US is about as cold as it gets.

"most of the US" . And yet you think that a group of aliens looking at planet Earth would anchor on that region. This makes no sense. It is what I meant by "parochial".

> The specific number is irrelevant.

Lets set the zero point to an irrelevant number, it's be great!

> does mean that there are objective advantages to it for some purposes.

Sure, I agree. In some places.

> If you can’t sit down and analyze

I can. But if you don't know better than to avoid focussing on that, you're missing the mere familiarity that was emphasised repeatedly.
by Ekaros | 2026-01-23 11:45:36+00:00
40k is weird. The scales are often entirely off. Considering the stated populations and areas involved. Or the amount of equipment fielded.

This comes from it fundamentally being small scale skirmish game. So realistic army sizes are not possible. And on other hand you need some level of game balance. You can't expect one side to have dozen models and other to field thousands or tens of thousands.

And even there. Considering stated population of any reasonably build world to be in billions and more populated to go to hundreds of billions. Number of normal humans you could stick a weapon in hands and told to shoot at that direction would still be in at least millions if not billions. A few thousand whatever can do very little against that.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-23 11:45:47+00:00
Is it? Just tried it in Safari, Firefox and Chrome on a iPhone 12 Mini and I can read all the text? Obviously it isn't formatted, as it's raw markdown, just like what parent's recommended 3rd party platform does, but nothing is cut off or missing for me.

Actually, trying to load that previous platform on my phone makes it worse for readability, seems there is ~10% less width and not as efficient use of vertical space. Together with both being unformatted markdown, I think the raw GitHub URL seems to render better on mobile, at least small ones like my mini.
by LemonWho | 2026-01-23 11:46:00+00:00
I think the researcher (and probably a lot of the people engaging in this challenge) are missing one of the major benefits of these do nothing challenges. 4+ hours is excessive, but the main point is that modern life is just constant stimulation. From the moment I wake up to the moment I fall asleep it's just "input", news articles, social media content, TV shows. There is always something to consume.

Doing nothing for even just 15 minutes is a way to conciously stop consuming for a little bit.

I would also be interested to know about the researcher's relationship with their phone. If they aren't prone to doomscrolling it would probably be pretty hard to relate to the need/want to do nothing.
Show HN: Carlton × CMP Signature AR NUME
by aroheir | 2026-01-23 11:46:11+00:00
(a) Unfamiliar voice detection+pitch shift (b) Database evaluator triggers MFA enforcement for all sessions.

TIMESTAMP: Pushkey 'unusual peer,endpoint:175.45.176.1.51820, allowed_ips:"10.0.0.100|32","geo KP","bandwidth_mb":1253 LOG/Kcat-b Kafka security:9092-t wireguard connection.log-p-T
by sgt | 2026-01-23 11:46:34+00:00
I think a lot of these are just hard to reproduce. Take the AirDrop one, it's been 5 years probably since I had an issue with it, and I use it quite a bit.

Auto correct? No idea, I switch that off by default anyway since I switch between languages.

Most of the others - I haven't seen that at all. With the exception of a couple, like the macOS 26 resizing. That happened to me once. But I keep trying to reproduce it and I simply can't.
by Lucasoato | 2026-01-23 11:46:36+00:00
> Bad AI drivers will be banned and ridiculed in public. You've been warned. We love to help junior developers learn and grow, but if you're interested in that then don't use AI, and we'll help you. I'm sorry that bad AI drivers have ruined this for you.

Finally an AI policy I can agree with :) jokes aside, it might sound a bit too agressive but it's also true that some people have really no shame into overloading you with AI generated shit. You need to protect your attention as much as you can, it's becoming the new currency.
by sarchertech | 2026-01-23 11:47:31+00:00
I’m not defending anything. I admit that Celsius is superior to Fahrenheit overall if we are going to adopt one temperature scale for all temperatures.

What I’m saying is that a scale where most most values on most days fall between 0-100 is objectively better than a scale where they fall between -17 and 37.

There are only 2 states in the country where the average winter lows are below 0 and they have tiny populations. So 0 isn’t set at a perfect temperature for the purpose of air temperature in the US, but it’s not too far off from it.

> But you miss the context - you will defend whichever one you grew up with. You look for reasons to defend what you know. It is mere familiarity, nothing more.

I didn’t grow up using metric, but I use grams for baking and generally use mm for designing things. Despite the difficulties (most recipes in the US aren’t metric).

And there are several people in this thread who report that they grew up with Celsius and have never used Fahrenheit, but they agree that for air temperature it’s a nice scale.
by fragmede | 2026-01-23 11:47:37+00:00
Now be the teenager with no college degree that you were before you ever made $100/hr. Most of your options then paid < $10/hr, if that. The calculus looks a lot different then.

The vibecoded threat isn't from Devin, the threat is from 15 year old nerds who no mortgage, partner, or responsibilities. Powered by insecurity, pride, and spite, plus a generous amount of teenage hormones. I would love to see What I could have built if I had Claude back when my reflexes were still powered by youth.

Plus, if you made an app that other people were paying $1/month for. Sell yours to people for $2/month (or $0.50/month, you decide!) and you'd recoup your money much faster than 51 months.
by trilogic | 2026-01-23 11:48:08+00:00
Today we added in our repo (hugston.com) this tiny impressive model. Even quantized to q4 it runs lightning fast and no loops.

Is just 600mb and it really works for general tasks. The creators of the model have also a 1.6b vision model which can process images quite accurately.

It was tested in cpu/gpu and flash attention with a max speed in one of our servers of 342 tokens per second.

Definitely worth using and having in the repo.

Original weights: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

Backup: https://hugston.com/uploads/llm_models/LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking-...

Enjoy
by mlrtime | 2026-01-23 11:48:20+00:00
This whole thread (up and down) is why a lot of people like me don't do any of this mental gymnastics to 'lower my footprint'. It's exhausting, I mean if I bike to work today, that offsets that steak I ate. Just no (just an example).

When we are serious about this issue, we'll price it all in. The only way to affect change for most humans is incentive based decisions right in your face.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-23 11:48:31+00:00
From my own observations with OpenAI's bots, it seems like there's nuanced levels.

"Don't do that" is one level. It's weak, but it is directive. It often gets ignored.

"DON'T DO THAT" is another. It may have stronger impact, but it's not much better -- the enhanced capitalization probably tokenizes about the same as the previous mixed-case command, and seems to get about the same result. It can feel good to HAMMER THAT OUT when frustrated, but the caps don't really seem to add much value even though our intent may for it to be interpreted as very deliberate shouting.

"Don't do that, fuckface" is another. The addition of an emphatic and profane quip of an insult seems to generally improve compliance, and produce less occurrence of the undesired behavior. No extra caps required.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-23 11:48:47+00:00
The answer to why is almost always because that is the limit of talent available to the organization at the time with the given technology options available. Its really that simple.

In some cases there are many options and great talent is readily working on the problem for the given organization. Its nice to have options, but this is an exceedingly rare scenario. For example there are tons of options available today, but from reading HN job posts it looks like a the answer is still a CRUD app that does some SAAS solution with React, AI, and Python. I could guess that and be right more than 60% of the time, which is extraordinary considering these business have thousands of technology combinations and unlimited ideas to pick from. Its all about the talent available, but when I say talent I just mean people because when you are that restricted it isn't very talented.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-23 11:49:01+00:00
I guess that's where we part ways: just as the US is the world's richest 3rd* world country, I'd call ERM the richest upper-middle-class person in the US, but not exactly upper-class...

(just as a datum point: ERM is the opposite of an éminence grise, in just about any of its senses)

* in the economic sense. In the political sense, by definition the US is 1st world [after what happened to Yugoslavia (former leader of the non-aligned movement) I'm surprised Carney is brave enough to attempt to revive a "2nd World" ... surprised; but pleased!].
by ninkendo | 2026-01-23 11:49:23+00:00
> It’s also common to find long-running idle queries in PostgreSQL. Configuring timeouts like idle_in_transaction_session_timeout is essential to prevent them from blocking autovacuum.

Idle transactions have been a huge footgun at $DAYJOB… our code base is full of “connect, start a transaction, do work, if successful, commit.” It means you’re consuming a connection slot for all work, even while you’re not using the database, and not releasing it until you’re done. We had to bump the Postgres connection limits by an order of magnitude, multiple times, and before you know it Postgres takes up more RAM than anything else just to support the number of connections we need.

The problem permeated enough of our (rust) codebase that I had to come up with a compile time check that makes sure you’re not awaiting any async functions while a Postgres connection is in your scope. Using the .await keyword on an async function call, but not passing the pg connection to that function, ends up being a nearly perfect proxy for “doing unrelated work while not releasing a connection”. It worked extremely well, the compiler now just straight up tells us where we’re doing it wrong (in 100+ places in fact.)

Actually getting away from that pattern has been the hard part, but we’re almost rid of every place we’re doing it, and I can now run with a 32-connection pool in load testing instead of a 10,000 connection pool and there’s no real slowdowns. (Not that we’d go that low in production but it’s nice to know we can!)

Just decreasing the timeout for idle transactions would have probably been the backup option, but some of the code that holds long transactions is very rarely hit, and it would have taken a lot of testing to eliminate all of it if we didn’t have the static check.
by jfim | 2026-01-23 11:49:58+00:00
You'd be surprised how shoddy human translations can be, and it's not necessarily because of the translators themselves.

Typically what happens is that translators are given an Excel sheet with the original text in a column, and the translated text must be put into the next column. Because there's no context, it's not necessarily clear to the translator whether the translation for plane should be avion (airplane) or plan (geometric plane). The translator might not ever see the actual software with their translated text.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-23 11:50:12+00:00
short answer: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/268809-alpha-children-wear-...

longer answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitus_(sociology)

can you spot the castes in the lagniappe videos of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720851 ?
How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?)
by b_mutea | 2026-01-23 11:50:40+00:00
I’m trying to figure out how to make around $10k, but honestly, I’m stuck on where to even start. I see people pulling things off and I genuinely want to understand how you’re doing it.

Up until last year, I was working as a technical writer in ML/AI. Those roles basically 'disappeared', so I spent most of last year upskilling and trying to pivot. I’ve attempted a few app MVPs, but none of them really stuck, and now I’m at a point where I can’t even afford tokens to keep experimenting properly.

I’m broke, no way around it, but I still want to build something, or at least get involved in a project or startup where people are building things that actually make sense. I’m not looking for handouts (but that would help), just momentum and a place where I can contribute and grow.

I’m six months behind on rent, just managed to buy time after my first eviction notice, and I’m trying to get back into building without constantly worrying about when the next one shows up.

So yeah, what are you guys building? If there’s something interesting going on and you need help, I’d love to get involved.
by ketzu | 2026-01-23 11:50:45+00:00
> Looking forward to the NALs responding why this is terrible.

My NAL guess is that it will go a little like this:

* Candidate makes disparaging post on reddit/HN.
* Gets many responses rallying behind him.
* Company (if they notice at all) sues him for breach of Non-Disparagement-Agreement.
* Candidate makes followup post/edit/comment about being sued for their post.
* Gets even more responses rallying behind him.

Result: Company gets $10.000 and even more damage to their image.

(Of course it might discourage some people from making that post to begin with, which would have been the goal. You might never try to enforce the NDA to prevent the above situation. Then it's just a question of: Is the effort to draft the NDA worth the reduction in risk of negative exposure, when you can simply avoid all of it by not providing feedback.)
by rikschennink | 2026-01-23 11:50:52+00:00
> No AI-generated media is allowed (art, images, videos, audio, etc.). Text and code are the only acceptable AI-generated content, per the other rules in this policy.

I find this distinction between media and text/code so interesting. To me it sounds like "text and code" are free from the controversy surrounding AI-generated media.

But judging from how AI companies grabbed all the art, images, videos, and audio they could get their hands on to train their LLMs it's naive to think that they didn't do the same with text and code.
by awesan | 2026-01-23 11:51:07+00:00
If the AI generated most of the code based on these prompts, it's definitely valuable to review the prompts before even looking at the code. Especially in the case where contributions come from a wide range of devs at different experience levels.

At a minimum it will help you to be skeptical at specific parts of the diff so you can look at those more closely in your review. But it can inform test scenarios etc.
by podgorniy | 2026-01-23 11:51:18+00:00
Level of absurditiy of this is amazing.

WT actual F? They invested so much into something what is not obvious brings value? Will there be consequences on them? Or they take the bonus and hide in New Zealand bunker?

It's big money betting on narratives from wanna-be-big money how AI is transformative for the future. Public takes all the risks with hardware and energy inflation or bailing out banks out of investments which require pruductivity growth from AI which we don't yet see in statistics.

We took the wrong turn somewhere. And responsible people don't seem to be capable or willing to change the course. Too much power in too few weak minds. Nothing good will come from this.
by FrostViper8 | 2026-01-23 11:51:52+00:00
There is so much wrong here I don't really know where to start. There is a bunch of the usual flawed assumptions on things that haven't been relevant in decades. So I am going to pick the most egregious examples.

> But the big point is, it's there. I'd rather have confusing customisation (as Xfce can be) than no customisation like GNOME.

Those gnome plugins I install and extensions I must have imagined.

https://extensions.gnome.org/

> Some do, yes. But I avoid dedicated GPUs for my hardware, and most of the time, I run in VMs where GPU acceleration is flakey. So I'd rather tools that don't need hardware for performance to tools that require it.

Gnome works fine through in a VM, Remote Desktop and Citrix. I used it that way at work for about 2 years. I know that this isn't true today. I don't care about what the situation 13 years ago (I doubt it was true then).

> The best-selling single model range of computers since the Commodore 64 is the Raspberry Pi range, and the bulk of the tens of millions of them they've sold have 1GB RAM -- or less. There is no way to upgrade.

I guarantee you people aren't using these as desktops. They are using this for things like a Pi Hole, Home Assistant, 3d printer stuff or something else specialised.

I know this because this is what I've seen other people using them for.

> I always hear this. I had to sit down with a colleague pumping this BS when I worked for SUSE and step by step, function by function, prove to him that Xfce could do every single function he could come up with in KDE and GNOME put together.

I was quite obviously talking about HiDPI support. You didn't read what I said.

This stuff works properly on gnome and not on Xfce.

> Don't care. I am 58. I can't see the difference. So I do not own any HiDPI monitors. Features that only young people with excellent eyesight can even see is is ageist junk.

I do fucking care. I use a HiDPI monitor. Fonts are rendered better. My games look better than I run on my desktop. I like it.

I am 42. I can see the difference. While I am younger. I am not that young.

Why you are bringing ageism into what is essentially more pixels on a screen I have no idea.

> It is not even similar.

It is exactly what you described. I literally read what you said and compared to what I could do on my Gnome Desktop. So I can only assume that you can't actually the describe the issue properly. That isn't my issue, that is yours.

> So you are happy with it. Good for you. Can you at least understand that others hate it and have strong valid reasons for hating it and that it cripples us?

No. You literally repeated all the usual drivel that isn't convincing in the slightest, because I've actually tested on my own hardware which isn't that unique. Most of the hardware I have is very bog standard PC stuff.

It the usual "I like to bitch about gnome" complaints that I am quite frankly tired of reading.
by croon | 2026-01-23 11:52:05+00:00
Its current state is worse than a year ago and even worse than 10 years ago, etc. As a fellow European, it's a fact that the US for many decades have attracted global top talent for both universities and industry. That definitely hit a hard reversal during the current term with the war on universities/education as well as immigration policies though.

I'm not sure you're disagreeing with GP.
by mlrtime | 2026-01-23 11:53:09+00:00
>What’s wild to me is how the US is leaving itself in the dust. How the GOP imagines we’ll be competitive when the rest of the world can produce electricity 10x cheaper than we can is a wonder in itself

I almost paid < $1USD/gal gas a couple months ago ($1.20 89 octane). My electric is ~ $.12USD/kwh. Gas is just as inexpensive.

Where in the EU can I get energy for 10x cheaper?
by prmoustache | 2026-01-23 11:53:26+00:00
I mean I used it in the past but the difference is minor in my experience.

It is a case of grabbing your card vs grabbing your smartphone and fiddling with it. That card could even be carried in one of those phones cases with a card holder.

The only major difference is in case of stolen phone vs stolen card. But every system has its drawback. It could be super annoying if you get your account suspended unexpectedly while you are away from home.

In my particular case I don't want a google account anymore and would hate relying on google to manage my payments so it is a no go for a start.
by lproven | 2026-01-23 11:53:30+00:00
> I still don't see GNU/Linux desktops on sale

Oh come on. Play fair. You are perhaps the single HN commentator whose input I most respect, because so many of your opinions overlap my own...

But that is not fair or right.

GNU/Linux desktops (and laptops) on sale:

https://itsfoss.com/get-linux-laptops/

Fairly prominent Linux-only hardware vendors doing R&D:

https://system76.com/

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en

A pure Linux-only consumer PC on mainstream sale:

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

A compatible 3rd party machine of the same design:

https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/handheld/legion-go-series/leg...

And of course retail GNU/Linux machines that cost 1/4 of a cheap Apple Mac and yet have outsold them by revenue not number of units for nearly a decade now:

https://www.google.com/chromebook/shop-chromebooks/

Yes this is absolutely happening. This is a real international market with sales in the hundreds of millions of units. This is not some tiny obscure niche that can be skipped over.