MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jraph | 2026-01-25 05:16:29+00:00
Okay, at least I haven't dreamed it: [1]

> Although Microsoft claimed Windows 10 would be the last Windows version, eventually a new major release, Windows 11, was announced in 2021.

Where does the misconception come from? Do you know where I could read about it?

edit: it seems you are right, a dev said Windows 10 was the "last version of Windows" which was true but was interpreted as being an absolute statement when he really probably meant "at this time".

Thanks for correcting me!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_version_hist...
by shakna | 2026-01-25 05:17:19+00:00
Nah, I wouldn't call it outsourcing. They have AI usage KPIs. [1]

> "We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication..."

> "We need to make deliberate choices on how we diffuse this technology in the world as a solution to the challenges of people and planet," Nadella says. "For AI to have societal permission it must have real world eval impact."

> https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-ceo-satya...

[1] https://adoption.microsoft.com/files/copilot/Unlocking-AIs-I...
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-25 05:17:55+00:00
My mother moved into a retirement village a while back and I was pleasantly surprised to find Ethernet jacks in every room, in some cases more than one. There was no patch panel or anything which was a bit odd, maybe hidden in a service cupboard, but initially I just needed to get a connection from the router to the bedroom and established that these two jacks there were connected. Hooked it up, nothing worked no matter what I did.

On the next visit, with diagnostic gear to look at the wiring map, I found out that the Ethernet jacks were wired up for phone lines. Some genius had decided to run Ethernet to every room, with RJ45 wall sockets, but wired it up for phone lines, so it was simultaneously unusable for either phones or networking.
by chii | 2026-01-25 05:18:19+00:00
a project is a dictatorship, not a democracy.

The dictator could be benevolent - as is most, because it's the most beneficial to be one. However, there's no rules that says they must be. They could run it with an iron fist. The contributors do so knowing this - or at least, should have known this.

Look at wordpress's fiasco, for example.

You are under the illusion that the owner is doing the project for the betterment of the community. They _might_ be, but it's not a requirement.

I personally behave as if everyone is selfish, and will be out to screw you if given the opportunity and reason. Assume the worst and plan for that; if it turns out they are nice, then all the better.
by DonHopkins | 2026-01-25 05:19:32+00:00
I really don't get the point. An LLM can easily, flexibly, and masterfully track commented hierarchal yaml todo lists without breaking a sweat, with zero lines of code.

It's like writing a 275k line C++ program just to printf("You are absolutely correct!") when ChatGPT can do that for you with a one line prompt in just one shot.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-25 05:20:22+00:00
And you're lucky with that build time, if it was more recent it'd probably be CCA or even CCS. When we redid our place a few years ago I went and bought a drum of plenum cable and told the electricians to use that, so I know what went in there. Overprovisioned slightly but who cares, I had a whole drum of cable and a 48-port switch so may as well use it all.
by NimS12 | 2026-01-25 05:21:04+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’m building DoitZo, a simple planning tool focused on doing, not overcomplicating things.

Right now, DoitZo is just one feature of a larger app I’m working on. This current version is intentionally minimal — a way to test the core idea before scaling further.

The goal is simple:
You can plan anything —
learning Java, cooking chicken biryani, creating YouTube videos, getting fit, or just organizing daily life — all in one place, without forcing you into a “student-only” or “work-only” box.

This is an early experiment, launched quickly to understand:

Does this idea make sense?

Is it actually useful?

What feels missing or unnecessary?

Soon, the full app will launch with additional features, based heavily on real feedback (not assumptions).

I’d really appreciate:

Your honest thoughts

What feels confusing or pointless

What you’d expect from a planner like this

Thanks for checking it out — and feel free to be brutally honest.
That’s the whole point of this stage.
by mpyne | 2026-01-25 05:22:39+00:00
> Oil not used in ICE cars is just used someplace else.

That's simply not true. Oil used someplace else would have been used someplace else either way.

There is a supply/demand effect where reduced oil demand would lower its price and therefore arrest the loss of oil demand from cars by other consumers of oil, but the net effect would still be that less oil is burned and used.
by chii | 2026-01-25 05:23:12+00:00
> But that is marketing not coding.

it's the network effect.

If normies who don't care for things (which is most people tbh) don't decide to switch, do you, as a techie/early adopter, just turn off whatsapp and disconnect with your normie friends? You are unlikely to be important enough in the friend group to force a switch, not to mention that this needs to happen enmass for a swing in the network effect to happen.
by AG25 | 2026-01-25 05:23:20+00:00
This technical report delineates the formal architecture and longitudinal evolution of the *Elastic Pattern Neural Network (EPNN)*, a non-linear topological framework for sequence representation. Over six iterative cycles, the architecture has transitioned from a discrete, frequentist directed-graph model to a *Resonant Sparse Manifold (RSM)*. By synthesizing mechanistic circuit disentanglement with stochastic latent state oscillation, EPNN V6 addresses the fundamental limitations of traditional dense attention mechanisms (quadratic complexity) and earlier sparse models (semantic drift and dimensional collapse). We demonstrate through systematic benchmarking that V6 achieves a *99.2% Logical Consistency Score*, virtually eliminating hallucination loops via *Inhibitory Entropy* and *RHS Gating*.
by NoteyComplexity | 2026-01-25 05:23:59+00:00
What is the point of using short form content platforms as a consumer really?

Just put the political stuff aside, they are often too short for any details over any topics if not straightly brainrot, ending up making people get distracted and lost patience easily. I never a fan of YouTube shorts and instagram reels either because of the same reason.

Perhaps they are good for promotion, but as a user perspective, can anyone really point out one good reason to use these platforms?
by iamnothere | 2026-01-25 05:24:36+00:00
This concept is sophistry when deployed against Democrats just as much as it was when deployed against Republicans.

“Stochastic terrorism” is free speech.

I get it, you don’t like your enemies and you want to find a way to punish them. Maybe even to prevent them from saying things that seem to be increasing their base of support. So you find a few dangerous whackos who also happened to articulate the same points that you’re trying to suppress. Boom, instant justification to suppress that speech! Even if the speech isn’t per se illegal, maybe the fact that both your target and the whackos said the same thing makes it ok to suppress that speech anyway!

No, that doesn’t make it ok. Free speech is free speech. Stop trying to unconstitutionally suppress the rights of your opponents.
by deaux | 2026-01-25 05:27:18+00:00
Correct. Neither do Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Apple - realistically they're even more dangerous, see the ICC. Ironically the first three being the main hosts of.. you guessed it, Palantir.

Picking and choosing US big tech in this context is pointless, they're all as much of a risk as each other. And don't come with "you have to start somewhere", because you do, but then the place to start is slowly step-by-step getting off of the most critical ones, which are the first four I mentioned.
by Shank | 2026-01-25 05:28:53+00:00
It seems like what this will basically entail is a US algorithm and moderation system, while the core app remains with ByteDance.

> The Joint Venture will secure U.S. apps through software assurance protocols, and review and validate source code on an ongoing basis, assisted by its Trusted Security Partner, Oracle.

So the new team will be in charge of content moderation, training, and "review and validat[ion]" of source code. Not actually a new app.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-25 05:29:23+00:00
I had this discussion once before, I don't remember where, with I taking your position. The other guy seemed to think that entertainment was fungible, and so the entertainment of short form video was objectively better than long form, since it could theoretically be turned off at any point unlike a movie, and since it had infinite variety. Which I guess makes sense if you believe the fungibility, but I can't imagine associating in real life with such a person.
by cyode | 2026-01-25 05:30:11+00:00
I have several young cousins (gen z) who use TikTok as their Google. Recipes, travel ideas, news, fashion, shopping, how-to videos. While of course a lot of their usage is passive scrolling that trains their algorithm, they're very adept at using search to find the same things I find in my browser.

It's bonkers to me, but I guess my patterns of information lookup have just calcified with age.
by solaire_oa | 2026-01-25 05:30:13+00:00
You're being downvoted, I think unfairly, because this is a completely valid point to bring up.

Without going into a diatribe about how governments necessitate coercion and violence, enforcing such a "law" would indeed be counterproductive and hard to enforce, like you're indicating.

That said, mutual agreement by businesses and citizenry to make efforts to identify federal agents, then refuse to conduct business seems like it should already be entering discussions (if it isn't). (More, allied) State violence doesn't need to enter the equation of civil disobedience.
by mrcsharp | 2026-01-25 05:30:15+00:00
Using React in core parts of the Windows Shell, Microsof's inability to design and release an application using non-web technologies, and the sluggishness and lagginess and bloat of Windows in general has finally pushed me to dual boot Fedora on a separate drive.

It is very nice having an Operating system that respects the Hardware I own and makes efficient use of it. My experience has been very good so far. Every device in my custom built desktop PC worked immediately. The only driver I had to build and install was for my XBOX Wireless dongle.

Gaming has been really damn good. I installed Steam and my games just worked. No fiddling around with configs or anything. Even installing a custom Proton version to try it out is very simple.

I've been on Fedora now for nearly a month and only boot into Windows for work. Eventually, I might get rid of Windows entirely. It'll take a massive U-turn from Microsoft on the philosophy for Windows for me to change my opinion now.
by nawgz | 2026-01-25 05:32:03+00:00
A tank is designed for war. Infrastructure is designed to serve some other utility. Claiming it should also be hardened against (cyber) war is acknowledging that there is an aggressor performing an attack of war, not that the infrastructure is failing the utility it was designed for.

It's fine to have this view that software should be defect free and hardened against sophisticated nation-state attackers, but it stretches the meaning of "defect" to me. A defect would be serving to fulfill that utility it had been designed for, not succumbing to malicious attackers.
by nostrebored | 2026-01-25 05:32:14+00:00
Hi, I’m indeed the same person. I also hate oversized trucks. I’m generally against things that make the world worse for marginal benefits.

The cybertruck clocks in at around the same weight as oversized trucks. Whenever I see people alone in either, I’m pretty annoyed.

Semis for long haul are also annoying and we should substantially increase rail infra in the US
by tombert | 2026-01-25 05:33:23+00:00
Tangential, but recently I dove down the ColdFusion rabbit hole again.

My first job after dropping out of college was working with Flash and ColdFusion in 2012. Even by that time it was dated, but it was my first real dive into network and server programming so I do look at those days rather fondly.

CFML is one of those things that is simultaneously a brilliant and terrible product. The terrible part is obvious: it's a bloated language that doesn't lend itself terribly well to structure and historically has been very slow (though my understanding is that Lucee actually fixes that somewhat). The "brilliant" parts are less obvious but still cool. For example the cfquery blocks are really neat, and I say that without any sarcasm. Not only does it make it easy to write SQL directly, but there are nice built-in features to avoid injections with cfqueryparam that are easy to use, and you can simply add an attribute to the cfquery to specify caching. That's actually a really cool; I've seen people haphazardly reinvent different SQL caching heuristics and screw them up. The cfquery stuff makes it trivial and it has the advantage of doing it correctly.

Things like that are all over the language (though I haven't used it in awhile so I'd have to dig through notes to find specific examples); pages and pages of ugliness mixed with occasional spots of cleverness.

While I don't want to say I "miss" writing it, because I don't, I do have a bit of gratitude for its existence. If I hadn't picked up ColdFusion because of an, umm, "alternatively licensed" version of Dreamweaver when I was a teenager, my career would likely be very very different.
by nirui | 2026-01-25 05:34:48+00:00
Why so self-defecting? Even some of the job could be out-sourced, some positions just cannot. If those people can unionize, it might starts to grow from there.

It's like planting the seeds, it might not work from time to time and from places to places, but sometime the result might surprise you. But you'll never know if you don't give it a try.

It's like... (maybe an inappropriate example) how NRA brainlessly defending gun rights. They don't first spend 500 billions on gun safety research trying to prove gun is safe, no, they want guns, and then they come up reasons why guns are good.

In the recent years I'm started to think maybe this NRA-style method is actually how to set things in motion (if it's not the only effective way), as any added prerequisite or cations may eventually bog things down to a stop. You all read the CIA sabotage manual right? There's a chapter detailed how you can stop a plan by adding complexity (i.e. bigger committees etc).
by WesBrownSQL | 2026-01-25 05:34:58+00:00
And that's why they call it a hot take. No, it isn't going to give rise to microservices. You absolutely can have your agent perform high-level decomposition while maintaining a monolith. A well-written, composable spec is awesome. This has been true for human and AI coders for a very, very long time. The hat trick has always been getting a well-written, composable spec. AI can help with that bit, and I find that is probably the best part of this whole tooling cycle. I can actually interact with an AI to build that spec iteratively. Have it be nice and mean. Have it iterate among many instances and other models, all that fun stuff. It still won't make your idea awesome or make anyone want to spend money on it, though.
by Rapzid | 2026-01-25 05:35:32+00:00
I'm also not sure anyone was even "under arrest"?

Also, it's known you can't physically assault someone or pepper spray someone without expecting them to become physically protective of their bodies and resistive to physical force. It's an involuntary reaction for most people, and bad police knowingly use this to escalate violence against people while shouting "stop resisting".
by jbullock35 | 2026-01-25 05:37:12+00:00
> I don't know if this is your intent or not, but by engaging in this kind of framing you're essentially saying that all violence[1] is excusable by default. We're supposed to live in a society where the opposite is true, I thought.

> [1] All violence by your allied authority figures, that is. We both know you wouldn't grant the same grace and charity to the intentions of the protestors.

This is a disgraceful ad hominem attack. The previous poster's comment is entirely sensible, and it takes a great deal of intellectual dishonesty to portray it as a defense of ICE in any way.
by stephenr | 2026-01-25 05:37:44+00:00
A few years ago it came out that one of the manufacturers (my hunch is Samsung but I don't remember the specifics) had their "smart" tvs aggressively try connecting to any and all networks it can find in range, if you didn't connect it to one.

I reluctantly bought an LG with webOS (least bad option available) a couple of years ago. For some reason they weren't content to let the TV menu/remote work with up/down/left/right buttons.

That's too fucking predictable, and anyone who's used a tv in the last 2 decades could use it....

Let's give it a fucking nipple, just like those horrific fucking IBM/Lenovo laptops.

Then of course it also tries to "help" by detecting HDR content and change view mode... while something is playing.... which makes the screen go black for several seconds.
by jorl17 | 2026-01-25 05:38:33+00:00
This is only very tangentially related, but I got flashbacks to a time where we had dozens of edge/IoT raspberry pi devices with completely unupgradeable kernels with a bug that would make the whole USB stack shut down after "roughly a week" (7-9 days) of uptime. Once it got shut down, the only way to fix it was to do a full restart, and, at the time, we couldn't really be restarting those devices (not even at night).

This means that every single device would seemingly randomly completely break: touchscreen, keyboard, modems, you name it. Everything broke. And since the modem was part of it, we would lose access to the device — very hard to solve because maintenance teams were sometimes hours (& flights!) away.

It seemed to happen at random, and it was very hard to trace it down because we were also gearing up for an absolutely massive (hundreds of devices, and then a couple of months later, thousands) launch, and had pretty much every conceivable issue thrown at us, from faulty USB hubs, broken modems (which would also kill the USB hub if they pulled too much power), and I'm sure I've forgotten a bunch of other issues.

Plus, since the problem took a week to manifest, we couldn't really iterate on fixes quickly - after deploying a "potential fix", we'd have to wait a whole week to actually see if it worked. I can vividly remember the joy I had when I managed to get the issue to consistently happen only in the span of 2 hours instead of a week. I had no idea _why_, but at least I could now get serviceable feedback loops.

Eventually, after trying to mess with every variable we could, and isolating this specific issue from the other ones, we somehow figured out that the issue was indeed a bug in the kernel, or at least in one of its drivers: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/5088 . We had many serial ports and a pattern of opening and closing them which triggered the issue. Upgrading the kernel was impossible due to a specific vendor lock-in, and we had to fix live devices and ship hundreds of them in less than a month.

In the end, we managed to build several layers on top of this unpatchable ever-growing USB-incapacitating bug: (i) we changed our serial port access patterns to significantly reduce the frequency of crashes; (ii) we adjusted boot parameters to make it much harder to trigger (aka "throw more memory at the memory leak"); (iii) we built a system that proactively detected the issue and triggered a USB reset in a very controlled fashion (this effectively killed the network of the device for a while, but we had no choice!); (iv) if, for some reason, all else failed, a watchdog would still reboot the system (but we really _really_ _reaaaally_ didn't want this to happen).

In a way, even though these issues suck, it's when we are faced with them that we really grow. We need to grab our whole troubleshooting arsenal, do things that would otherwise feel "wrong" or "inelegant", and push through the issues. Just thinking back to that period, I'm engulfed by a mix of gratitude for how much I learned, and an uneasy sense of dread (what if next time I won't be able to figure it out)?
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-25 05:38:35+00:00
EVs use 12V for standby just like ICEs. I guess it could occasionally recharge it from the main battery, but needing a jump is a thing for EVs also in theory. I’ve also had issues with the 12V disabling remote systems because of abnormal discharge (well, BMW has an issue with their lock on weak away in that it keeps drawing power if the fob gets near even if the car is locked).
by syabro | 2026-01-25 05:38:54+00:00
Sounds really cool.

A few things I think should be considered:

1. Global state management? Props drilling really sucks...

2. How to deal with network? API is a must...

3. React/vue/svelte have a huge components database. Do we have to write our own? E.g. react-select...

PS Two-way data-binding was a thing once in the first Angular. But it turned out that most of developers used it everywhere and it dealt more harm than good

UPD: Found Fetch in API https://github.com/io-eric/coi/blob/main/docs/api-reference....
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-25 05:40:15+00:00
You fundamentally don't understand America or Americans. You fundamentally don't understand the Constitution or the rights we by nature have, and that it protects (not grants).

Continue to disparage a man murdered by our government. Continue to point out he was murdered for exercising his constitutional rights. Maybe at some point you will piece it together instead of saying it was justified because he dared exercise his rights. Probably not, you seem pretty set in your ways. But maybe, just maybe you will understand that no American is justified to be murdered by their government for exercising their constitutional rights. And that down the path you lay out lies only bondage and government oppression.
by oger | 2026-01-25 05:40:48+00:00
Aperture is dearly missed even today.
And to make matters worse: you cannot even import Aperture libraries into Photos any more. Essentially leaving you with picking out the raw images from the package. And don’t get me started on excellent support for tethered shooting in a studio setting.
And I could go on and on.
The only thing I really missed in Aperture was first level support for Nik tools which are cool for their adaptive and non destructive masks.
by maximinus_thrax | 2026-01-25 05:41:07+00:00
I don't really understand why Tesla is part of the MIC. They don't do anything for the military and has no strategic value. In terms of foreign policy, considering the US has soft-power due to Tesla, the company continues to under perform year-by-year while European and Chinese companies are gaining market share.

I am not a fan of Elon Musk, I've been skeptical of his accomplishments way before his involvement in politics so I may be a little biased. But it seems to me that Tesla is a failure. The last new model launched was a flop and a subject of general ridicule, they've stopped innovating, the existing models are last in reliability scores and no promises were kept wrt to self-driving, robotaxis, hyperloop or whatever other sci-fi scam was talked about at every shareholder meeting.

I really don't understand how in other areas (such as Enterprise AI or cloud computing in the past) investors want to see actual growth and huge returns and they threaten to pull their money constantly. But when it comes to Tesla in particular, the company keeps getting years and years of leeway while it's failing and failing.

Perhaps the hope is that it will get nationalized or be in some sort of public-private partnership that would ensure perpetual bailouts and it's just a way of sucking off money from the taxpayer?