MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apparent | 2026-01-11 03:00:01+00:00
Most of the time, no one knows. But if you're from a nice part of LA or SD but you went to a HS in a bad part of town, people might wonder why you went there, or figure it out for themselves.

I think in most cases fellow undergrads would see it as just playing the game, but some might see it as "cheating" or like you didn't earn your spot as much as they did (if they were from a HS that was from a good part of town).
by antonvs | 2026-01-11 03:00:26+00:00
> we lost visibility into production systems that depend fundamentally on continuous observability signals to operate safely.

The Datadog message implies that Deductive wasn't paying for any service from Datadog: "We've noticed you're actively evaluating Datadog" and "our Master Subscription Agreement that you accepted by using our service".

And Deductive apparently did this from Feb to Dec 2025. Quite a long time for a free evaluation, but perhaps they were just using the very limited free tier?

It's a little strange to be relying on a free tier or evaluation for "production systems that depend fundamentally on continuous observability". Presumably it couldn't have been that important to Deductive, otherwise they would have paid for the service they were "depending fundamentally" on.
by baubino | 2026-01-11 03:01:00+00:00
At the risk of sounding old (which, arguably, I am), things have actually gotten worse culturally speaking over the last decade or so. The ongoing relentless monetization of culture continues to accelerate and is one of the prime examples of not just stagnation but decline. Enshittification is not just about poorly performing software extracting dollars from our wallets but about how that imbalance between cost and value seems to have extended to nearly all realms of culture.

This doesn’t mean things weren’t bad in the 90s though. Or that stagnation/decline is new. All of this can be and is true at once —- culture is declining, it has been for a long time, AND we (just me?) are old.
by j-bos | 2026-01-11 03:01:47+00:00
Just a driveby speculator but my guess is PE dillutes interest in and responsibility for the businesses.

Individuals or family holdings are more likely to have concern for their reputations in addition to finances, public companies are more likely to scrutinized offsetting what would be their much lower reputational concerns. But PE is diffuse and often distant enough to eliminate human reputational concerns while being held to far lower stadards than public companies.
Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
by amadeuswoo | 2026-01-11 03:02:39+00:00
Recently built something where simple domain-specific heuristics crushed a fancy ML approach I assumed would win. This has me thinking about how often we reach for complex tools when simpler ones would work better. Occam's razor moments.

Anyone have similar stories? Curious about cases where knowing your domain beat throwing compute at the problem.
by orbital-decay | 2026-01-11 03:02:48+00:00
It's all pretty obvious to anyone who tried a similar experiment just out of curiosity. Big models remember a lot. And all non-local models have regurgitation filters in place due to this fact, with the entire dataset indexed (e.g. Gemini will even cite the source of the regurgitated text as it gives the RECITATION error). You'll eventually trip those filters if you force the model to repeat some copyrighted text. Interesting that they don't even try to circumvent those, they simply repeat the request from the interruption point, as the match needs some runway to trigger and by that time a part of the response is already streamed in.
by vlovich123 | 2026-01-11 03:03:16+00:00
The issue isn’t linked list vs dequeue but type confusion about what was in the container. They didn’t forget to drop it - they got confused about which type was in the list when popping and returned it to the pool instead of munmap.

The way to solve this in Rust would be to put this logic in the drop and hide each page type in an enum. That way you can’t ever confuse the types or what happens when you drop.
by sshine | 2026-01-11 03:03:28+00:00
> Claude Code makes it very fast and trivial to personalize, adapt, automate

I used Claude to define some CS exam computers using NixOS; it was just GNOME, but with a few tweaks made via dconf. For example, add a maximize icon next to the X (close) in the menubar, make the dashbar behave like a dock with smart autohiding. On a Tailscale VPN so I can service them. And with a few programs preinstalled, preconfigured and pinned to the dock. System users for every student. And with mirroring the screen at a certain resolution by default.

Anything I hadn’t tried before, I just asked it to make. The dconf tweaking in particular was so much easier than when I tried to do this manually.
by casparvitch | 2026-01-11 03:04:42+00:00
> A possibly complementary take is that maybe mediums also just... have shelf lives? Like, if there's been no innovation in radio dramas or still life paintings of flowers or superhero comics over the past thirty years, it's not because we as a culture have lost the collective spark, you know?

I think this is a useful point! I was chatting to a french individual in aus recently, about the lack of culture in Brisbane. He responded that there was lots of great ballet, opera, ... - they used the word 'culture' for what I might call 'high culture'. I think this is indicative of the above point: a boomer has a certain concept of what culture is, from their experiences. A zoomer who interacts mostly with a digital world has a very different concept.
by solid_fuel | 2026-01-11 03:05:03+00:00
> otherwise they would have paid for the service they were "depending fundamentally" on.

It's a "*.ai" company. Deductive probably spent more human time on their fancy animated landing page than engineering their actual system. If they vibe coded most of their product, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even know they were using Datadog until they got the email.
by valinator | 2026-01-11 03:05:38+00:00
> Two things, however, were consistently true throughout our usage. First, our Datadog bills were steep, roughly 2-3x of what we would otherwise expect to pay for equivalent telemetry storage and retention. Second, despite the richness of the platform, we rarely used Datadog for anything beyond being a reliable system of record for logs, metrics, and traces. We were paying for workflows we almost never touched.

This paragraph from the article makes it clear otherwise.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-11 03:06:59+00:00
Autism is not a personality trait. Many people are severely disabled by it and are essentially non-functional.

Only about 15-20% have full time jobs. The suicide rate is incredibly, almost unbelievably, high. I think it was something like 80% have attempted suicide.

Personally I think we need more subtypes again. Its weird to lump high functioning aspergers folks like the richest man in the world into the same category as those who have to wear helmets and be physically prevented from harming themselves.
by halfcat | 2026-01-11 03:07:51+00:00
You're talking about separation of concerns (SOC), as opposed to locality of behavior (LOB).

This is the insight that Tailwind and others like HTMX made clear: Separation of concerns is not a universal virtue. It comes with a cognitive cost. Most notably when you have a growing inheritance hierarchy, and you either need 12 files open or tooling that helps you understand which of the 482 classes are in play for the specific case you’re troubleshooting. Vanilla CSS can be like that, especially when it’s not one’s primary skillset. With Tailwind you say ”this button needs to be blue”, and consolidate stuff into CSS later once the right patterns of abstraction become clear. Tailwind makes exploratory building way faster when we’re not CSS experts.

SOC is usually a virtue when teams are split (frontend/bavkend, etc), but LOB is a virtue when teams are small, full stack, or working on monoliths (this is basically Conway’s law, the shape of the codebase mirrors the shape of the team).
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-11 03:09:39+00:00
# Enable Powerlevel10k instant prompt. Should stay close to the top of ~/.zshrc.
# Initialization code that may require console input (password prompts, [y/n]
# confirmations, etc.) must go above this block; everything else may go below.
if [[ -r "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/p10k-instant-prompt-${(%):-%n}.zsh" ]]; then
source "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/p10k-instant-prompt-${(%):-%n}.zsh"
fi
by WillAdams | 2026-01-11 03:09:50+00:00
Doesn't seem to have a very compleat dataset --- the first book I thought to lok for, Hal Clement's _Space Lash_ (originally published as _Small Changes_) is absent, and I didn't see the later collection _Music of Many Sphere_ either:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939760.Music_of_Many_Sph...
by echelon | 2026-01-11 03:10:22+00:00
Logging, tracing, observability, and control plane (flags, etc.) should be open.

We built 100% in-house pieces for all of this at a major fintech a decade ago. Everything worked and single teams could manage these systems.

Someone in leadership said we had to get rid of all "weirdware". Open solutions weren't robust, so we went commerical.

SignalFX got acquired, immediately 10x'd our prices and put all hands on deck to migrate. Unscheduled, stressful, bullshit. We missed the migration date and had to pay anyway.

LaunchDarkly promised us the moon to replace the system my team built. It didn't work with Ruby, Go, and the Java client sucked. It couldn't sync online changes at runtime like our five nines distributed and fault tolerant system could. We had to upstream a ton of code. And their system still sucked by the time I left the project.

These systems need to be open and owned by us. Managed is okay, but they shouldn't be proprietary offerings.

I could extend that one step further to cloud itself, but that's an argument for another day.
by krater23 | 2026-01-11 03:10:57+00:00
When Amazon can buy stuff on your own website thats out of stock for wholesale prices without your knowledge, it's time to get your shit together.
Your shop software is at least misconfigured.

When you really lose trust from your partners because officially announced things Amazon does, like adding your products to their shop system, then your partners have no trust in you at all.

When you don't want that Amazon sells your products, cancel the orders you get from them. Add a link to the real shop and a explaination why to the cancel mail.

It could all be so easy.
And this are just the things everyone could do. Delivering doubled prices to AI crawlers would be a advanced thing.
by jdboyd | 2026-01-11 03:11:15+00:00
In quite a few areas you mention (control of congresses, senates, president) the system has been optimized to allow less densely populated areas to have outsized control. Less densely populated areas historically were the ones that wanted slavery and currently are the areas dominated by Republicans for a number of reasons. The majority it the supreme Court reflects who was in power when people died it retired, not an actual reflection of the people. If a state has a Democrat governor it probably means most of the state is left wing. If that same state has a Republican Senate and a Democrat governor (like mine does) it means that more people are left, but the right has disproportionate control do to low population areas getting disproportionate control

I think for law enforcement and corporations, there is more money and power to be found in supporting the right, so it requires strong leadership to try to do what is best for the population instead of themselves. On the corporate side, this isn't helped by the view pushed into the legal system that corporations only social responsibility is to make the most money for their shareholders in the short term.

We seem to have a system of democracy that may be inferior to many other countries and the cracks are showing. On the not so positive other hand, countries that I would have said have a more robust system are also starting to show cracks, and I don't think it is only because of the influence of foreign big money.
by Retric | 2026-01-11 03:12:57+00:00
Dogs packs also do persistence hunting by having the animal pass back and forth. As long as the prey is forced to travel further than any individual dog it works fine.

In the wider context there are other examples of cross species hunting with octopus and fish for example. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-octopuses-te... So, completely wild wolves doing something similar with humans seems extremely plausible.
by defrost | 2026-01-11 03:13:18+00:00
It's been submitted and will remain empty of comments until a HN user comments.

I see a post with 13 points (upvotes / positive reactions) and [flagged] (meaning the title alone upset a few people given there's been no time to read the content yet).

As with all HN submissions, YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
by vivzkestrel | 2026-01-11 03:13:26+00:00
- as a guy not familiar or in loop with all these sandbox products, i have a quick question for anyone reading this

- what is the difference between docker and modal?

- what does modal do that docker doesnt?

- what is the cold start time comparison between both?

- how do both of these differ from something called "Firecracker VM"?
by callc | 2026-01-11 03:14:26+00:00
I have hope that the newer generations don’t align with “big bad guvmit”, and there’s been enough negative experiences (direct and indirect) with healthcare that people will vote for alternatives.

Also, I am saddened by the shared anxiety of healthcare in US (availability while jobless, f*** by big bills, lack of care, etc). The raw amount of shared mental stress must contribute to lower lifespans :(
by aldonius | 2026-01-11 03:15:03+00:00
I drive a 20-year-old Civic.

On a trip about 18 months ago I had some Kia soft-roader hire car. I bloody hated the lane keeping (unfamiliar narrow twisty roads are bad enough without the car tugging on the steering wheel).

Conversely the auto-distance thing with cruise control is fantastic - it makes CC usable at way higher traffic densities.
by culi | 2026-01-11 03:15:16+00:00
I find WikiData to be perfect for aggregating identifiers. I mostly work with species names and it's perfect for getting the iNaturalist, GBIF, Open Tree of Life, Catalogue of Life, etc identities all in one query

I haven't tried it for books. I imagine it's not sufficiently complete to serve as a backbone but a quick look at an example book gives me the ids for OpenLibrary, Librarything, Goodreads, Bing, and even niche stuff like the National Library of Poland MMS ID.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108922801
by rendaw | 2026-01-11 03:16:33+00:00
You keep straying from the question. The question was: who has access to google searches? RTB isn't google searches. Background screening isn't google searches. Social media isn't google searches. Cookies aren't google searches. etc etc

Every link you provided is for tangential things. They're bad, yes, but they're not google searches. Provide a link where some individual says "Yes, I know what so-and-so searched for last wednesday."
by tacticalturtle | 2026-01-11 03:18:09+00:00
Half of these items can be attributed to the fact that low density, rural states have a structural advantage in representation in federal governments, and in the current political era these states lean conservative.

Some of these are just wrong - unions generally lean democratic:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/17/key-facts...

I’m also skeptical of the media organization claim.

And it should surprise no one that purely profit driven corporations switch their professed values with different administrations - see the rapid adoption of DEI programs during the Biden administration, then subsequent abandonment in the Trump era.
by bastawhiz | 2026-01-11 03:20:21+00:00
I'm not 100%, but my understanding was that the non standard pages are always larger than the standard pages. If you need more than a standard page, you always get a freshly allocated non standard page. But when one was released, it was being treated as though it was standard sized. The pool would then reuse that memory, but only at a standard size. So every released non standard page leaked the difference between what was allocated and what was standard.

Which is to say, I don't think it was actually being resized. I think it was the metadata for the page saying it had the (incorrect) standard size (and the incorrect handling after the metadata was changed).
by teruakohatu | 2026-01-11 03:22:01+00:00
Nothing any of us have ever done is “from scratch”. Even a carpenter who planted an acorn and waited 80 years to harvest the wood to make a chair probably didn’t mine the iron ore used to make her axe.

Here is how you install SDL2 on a Mac (copy and pasted from Google):

brew install sdl2 sdl2_image sdl2_mixer sdl2_ttf
by nwienert | 2026-01-11 03:23:25+00:00
A lot going on in your statement.

Postpartum, childcare is good but I doubt correlated much with vaccine need.

Denmark doesn’t do anything to “catch” disease early in regards to vaccines at least.

There’s data thing is too broad to even discuss really, there’s a whole ton of data and on the specific ones taken off recommendation the data I’ve seen looks not too controversial.

And US healthcare isn’t so bad as people want to make it out to be, we have easy access to vaccines, top tier hospitals, medicine, and low wait times. It’s expensive and overpriced, and unevenly distributed, but also better in many ways than anywhere else.
by hirsin | 2026-01-11 03:23:38+00:00
"Amazon announced it" in some back alley press report and certainly not in a proactive outreach way to tell these folks they were listing their products. At the very least there's a trademark issue here because these sellers in no way gave Amazon permission to reuse the images and descriptions of their products.

If I announce in my local paper (you get to guess which one) that you'll be throwing a party outside your house, I don't think you'll be on the side of "just tell them to go away and my neighbors will totally understand it wasn't really me"
by jrflowers | 2026-01-11 03:24:09+00:00
> Additionally, landlords don't benefit from the higher prices (ie. market rate rent) either, since that also pushes house prices up.

I like this thinking. If you buy a house on the cheap and rent spikes and your profit increases dramatically, you’re not benefiting because somebody will kick in your front door and force you to buy a crazy expensive house.
by attqqq | 2026-01-11 03:25:40+00:00
Baffling that male genital mutilation persists to this day due to momentum, misinformation, and a small religious niche alone. Really makes me think there’s an empathy gap between gendered issues. 1996 we got rid of FGM, yet 30 years later baby boys still get their tips of their penis cut off, often incorrectly/too far.

Humbling reminder we really are a bunch of well dressed apes playing house, I forget that sometimes
by andrekandre | 2026-01-11 03:25:41+00:00
> if you are growing and you found AI efficiency then that's great (e.g. FB) but if you're not growing and only thing AI could do for you is "efficiency" then there is a fundamental problem no AI can fix.

exactly, "efficiency" nice to say in a vacuum but what you really need is quality (all-round) and understanding your customer/market
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-11 03:25:41+00:00
An individual likely (hopefully) has a moral compass.

A family introduces some perverse financial incentives but you also get long term (ie multi generation) planning and reputation concerns.

A group of practicing professionals who own the operation will hopefully exhibit some shared pride and professionalism.

A co-op or similar arrangement ties the interests directly to the local community.

The larger the public company the less overlap there will be with the customer's interests. At least they might worry about reputation and stock price though.

Pretty much the only concern PE has is avoiding litigation. Their primary motivation is maximizing value extraction over the short or medium term.
by VerifiedReports | 2026-01-11 03:26:02+00:00
Hahaha, I know, right? Someone might seriously float this argument.

Gee, here's a Markdown file on my computer that I'd like to read (formatted as intended). Since I don't have a lightweight reader for Markdown, let me just...

1. Open it up in a text editor

2. Launch a browser

3. Navigate to some page that allows Markdown comments.

4. Log in to comment.

5. Find something to comment on.

6. Create and paste into a comment.

7. Post the comment.

8. Read.

SO EASY!
by eddythompson80 | 2026-01-11 03:26:43+00:00
SRE agents are the worst agents. I totally get why business and management will demand them and love them. After all, they are the n+1 of customer support chat bot that you get frustrated talking to before you find the magic way to get to a person.

We have been using few different SRE agents and they all fucking suck. The way they are promoted and run always makes them eager to “please” by inventing processes, services, and work-arounds that don’t exist or make no sense. Giving examples will always sound pity or “dumb”. Every time I have to explain to management where SRE agent failed they just hand wave it and assume it’s a small problem. And the problem is, I totally get it. When the SRE agent says “DNS propagation issues are common. I recommend flushing dns cache or trying again later” or “The edge proxy held a bad cache entry. Cache will eventually get purged and the issue should be solved eventually” sounds so reasonable and “smart”. The issue was in DNS or in the proxy configuration. How smart was the SRE agent to get there? They think it’s phenomenal and it may be. But I know that the “DNS issue” isn’t gonna resolve itself because we have a bug in how we update DNS. I know the edge proxy cache issue is always gonna cause a particular use case to fail because the way cache invalidation is implemented has a bug. Everyone loves deflection (including me) and “self correcting” systems. But it just means that a certain class of bugs will forever be “fine” and maybe that’s fine. I don’t know anymore.
by VerifiedReports | 2026-01-11 03:27:16+00:00
Again, the point is not to launch an EDITOR and then open up a "preview." The point is to double-click and start reading the document as formatted. You know... like we can do with even the maligned PDF.

Think about the word "preview." If you're "previewing" the Markdown file, what are you previewing its appearance in?
by baubino | 2026-01-11 03:29:15+00:00
> There would be no additional classes, instead each school and department within the university would build AI guidelines into the current curriculum.

I had assumed the new requirement would be some kind of tech course or expanding the offerings for more AI-resilient majors. This instead sounds like someone up top decided that AI should be in the curriculum and now each department needs include chatgpt in its classes.
by matthberg | 2026-01-11 03:30:35+00:00
Quick summary for those confused:

In 1970 a massive project crowdsourced thousands of photographs of everywhere in Paris (nearly every single grid square on each letter sized page, a rare few have no photos).

To see the photos, click on a map section to go to the subgrid page. Then find the square grid number that corresponds to where you want to see and click the corresponding numbered link from the list at the top.

Some cool example locations:

By the Eiffel Tower: https://paris1970.jeantho.eu/carres/718.html

The Arc de Triomphe: https://paris1970.jeantho.eu/carres/427.html

Gare du Nord (urban area train station, less touristy): https://paris1970.jeantho.eu/carres/268.html

Random southern Paris neighborhood (many photos of streets, people, more suburban): https://paris1970.jeantho.eu/carres/1296.html

Random central Paris neighborhood (lots of photos, mainly of the urban architecture): https://paris1970.jeantho.eu/carres/507.html