MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dada216 | 2026-01-24 13:30:46+00:00
Embrace and use it to your advantage. Tell them nobody knows and understands how these things will actually work long term, that's why there's stuff like gas town, and that the way you see all of this is you can manage this process. What you bring to the table is making sure it will actually work if the tech is safe and sound, reaping the rewards, or protect the business if the tech fails, protecting the company from catastrophic tech failure, telll them that you are uniquely positioned to carry out the balancing act because you are deep in the tech itself. bonus if you explain the uncertainty framing in the business strategy: "because nobody really understands the tech nobody has an advantage, we are all playing on a leveled field, from the big boys at FAANGs to us peasants in normal non-tech enterprises: I am your advantage here if you give me the tools and leverage I need to make this work". if you play this right you'll get the fat bonus whether the tech actually works or not.
by Atreiden | 2026-01-24 13:31:15+00:00
Do you have a source for that?

Being a 503c, they're required to disclose their expenditures, among other things. CN gives them a perfect score, and the expense ratio section puts their program spend at 77.4% of the budget
https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/200049703#overall-ratin...

Worth mentioning that Wikipedia gets an order of magnitude more traffic than the Internet archive.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-24 13:31:39+00:00
What I did in all my rentals (in Germany) was to outright run new cable. All you need is a bunch of drills - if you want to pull Ethernet, a 10mm drill will be sufficient, if you want pre-fab LC fiber you'll need a 15mm drill (better 17mm), and if you want to pull pipe (which I prefer) a 27mm drill for a DN20 pipe. And when you move out, take out the pipe, put some plaster over, smooth and paint, and no one can ever tell what has been there.
by vansxxx | 2026-01-24 13:33:18+00:00
Big fan of the 'no login / local-only' philosophy. Too many simple tools demand an email just to spin a wheel.
Regarding your feature request for Shareable Links: Since you want to keep it backend-free, you could just serialize the list/settings (JSON) and base64 encode it into the URL hash or query parameters.
That way, I can configure a 'Daily Standup Order' list, bookmark the URL, and share it with my team, all while maintaining your zero-database architecture.
by lsaferite | 2026-01-24 13:33:37+00:00
Something I try to explain to people I'm getting up to speed on talking to an LLM is that specific word choices matter. Mostly it matters that you use the right jargon to orient the model. Sure, it's good and getting the semantics of what you said, but if you adjust and use the correct jargon the model gets closer faster. I also explain that they can learn the right jargon from the LLM and that sometimes it's better to start over once you've adjusted you vocabulary.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-01-24 13:34:09+00:00
Bottom line: Open Source is a *community* system built around a few flawed assumptions.

These inherent problems are not new or unique or unexpected --- they have all been faced by similar *community* constructs in the past.

The biggest impediments to success are some of the most fundamental, unavoidable characteristics of human nature. And the last ditch effort at maintaining similar systems has often involved forced labor.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-01-24 13:34:24+00:00
It seems that you have great difficulties with reading comprehension. I was mentioning Iran (Pre-Mullahs) where the UK and US overthrew a democratically elected president because of Oil. Leading to the current theocratic and oppressive government.

Also your reasons to invade Iraq were made up Lies about Weapons of Mass destruction, and the US propped up the Taliban against the Soviets in the first place.

Both were quite liberal states compared to today, after they were blessed with US intervention
by monsieurbanana | 2026-01-24 13:34:46+00:00
I do hope you comment the same thing on the pro-AI articles from people trying to sell you a product. Internet is now infested by those, and without these articles you might think everybody has collectively lost their mind and still think we will get replaced in the next 6 months.

I use AI, what I'm tired of is shills and post-apocalyptic prophets
by jrjeksjd8d | 2026-01-24 13:35:36+00:00
NIMBYism is a very obvious form of "number go up". Boomers were promised endless property value growth, and they've destroyed city planning to make sure it happens. If there was a market correction retirees would be furious.

> by regressing to a past that never was despite the costs

People assume that rejecting capitalism requires us to take a step backwards. Why would that be? If you woke up tomorrow and there was more public housing your iPhone wouldn't disappear.
by willis936 | 2026-01-24 13:36:59+00:00
I want to emphasize just how bad bridge is. It's so bad that they nuked the issues section on the repo. They didn't lock it, they removed all record of issues. I found out when trying to click on a useful/familiar issue that was cached by a search engine. Proton says to talk to their support directly, but that is a totally different solution for a totally different problem. The fact that they deleted public history of comments really flares my unsubscribe feelings.

https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge

As for the "why is bridge bad / why were you searching for issues": keeping it logged in on a headless server is an exercise in pain. It will latch onto whatever keyring it feels like then fail to integrate. Okay, capitulate and do it through the GUI. That works until the token expires. So you're expected to log in every few days for email backups? I only have so many weekend hours I am willing to waste troubleshooting with an llm before I say "fuck it, I'm going somewhere else".
by Leynos | 2026-01-24 13:37:39+00:00
I find some of it interesting. I'm very interested in understanding why others' experience of using genAI is so vastly different to my own.

(For me it's been as transformational a change as discovering I could do my high school homework on a word processor in the 90s when what I suspect was undiagnosed dyspraxia made writing large volumes of text by hand very painful).

I'm also interested in understanding if the envisaged transformation of developers into orchestrators, supervisors, tastemakers and curators is realistic, desirable or possible. And if that is even the correct mental model.
by Lord-Jobo | 2026-01-24 13:37:51+00:00
Lots of “no shit” in these comments makes me wonder how many VP level managers you guys have interacted with.
Maybe it’s just my location, but this is one of those things that legitimately NEVER makes it through to upper managers.

When they tell their base managers to crack the whip and force them to give the whole “you are not working hard enough, tighten up. Shorter lunches, clock in 5 minutes early, etc” speech to the base employees, they will absolutely feel resentment and do LESS work, not more.

For more than one reason.

A quite small few will be pushed over the edge and spend their energy trying to find a new position altogether. But the impact of losing them and having an open position for months will have a huge impact. The impact of losing even a below average worker is nearly always underestimated by uppers who see their 200+ indirects as just numbers on an HR chart. And the employees who hop jobs over bad management are usually in the top half of performance, not bottom.

Another handful of over-achievers will realize that their “extra mile” approach is clearly being ignored or not having any effect, and simply become achievers. This alone can have an impact that outweighs any potential gain from whip cracking.

The one thing that nearly all employees will do when this happens though: talk to each other and bitch about it. This will tank morale yes, but it more literally just takes a bunch of time and energy. A very large distraction from the actual work.

I’ve seen this now at several jobs in a few fields. The negative impact is so much larger than I ever would have guessed starting out.

If you want to get more work out of the same workers, you cannot use negative reinforcement. It will backfire. Positive reinforcement is not bulletproof but rarely makes things WORSE.

Manage smarter not harder.
by ninkendo | 2026-01-24 13:38:01+00:00
I had the same thing in the house I bought, it was a nice surprise… there were 6 different phone jacks around the house in great locations for Ethernet (WiFi access points or just for a computer), and they all led down to the furnace room where they attached to a punch-down panel (basically they were all spliced into each other.)

To my surprise they were all cat5 cables. With the house being built in 2003 this was surprisingly forward-looking.

I capped all the cables that were on the punchdown panel and put a switch in there instead, and replaced all the wall jacks with RJ45, and bam, working gigabit around the house, including PoE for my WiFi access points. Still haven’t had to punch any holes in the walls.
by tetha | 2026-01-24 13:38:52+00:00
I'm now somewhat interested in the study to see how they accounted for possible hidden factors.

If a team lead or manager spent the time to track birthdays and took time out of their day to have a 10 minute chat with someone on their birthday, they probably exhibit a number of other behaviors that could be summarized as "treating their employees as humans". That's the boss people tend to like to work with and possibly go another mile for them.

If tolerating your boss during a normal day takes 9 of your 12 spoons of energy for the day, it takes very little further push to be spiteful. At worst, they may force you to find another workplace with a better boss.
by lateforwork | 2026-01-24 13:39:31+00:00
It is absolutely true for certain conditions. If you have insomnia and go to a doctor they want to put you on Ambien CR for the rest of your life. There aren't even any reliable tests for magnesium deficiency. Psyllium husk for cholesterol? Never heard a doctor mention that, all they recommend is statins. Your experience is clearly different from mine. The notion that Western doctors recommend natural medicines when possible is extraordinary. If they did, naturopathic doctors will not have jobs.
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-24 13:39:52+00:00
It's not a scam, there's no misrepresentation. This very clearly isn't marketed as an investment of any kind https://bags.fm

https://apps.apple.com/app/bags-financial-messenger/id647319...

The tagline of the app? "Buy & sell memecoins". Transparently advertised as a crowdfunding mechanism using memecoins.
by wpietri | 2026-01-24 13:39:59+00:00
Drive-by PRs don't come from people interested in participating in the community in question. They have infinite places to juke their stats.

I see plenty of nuance beyond the bold print. They clearly say they love to help junior developers. Your assumption that they will apply this without thought is, well, your assumption. I'd rather see what they actually do instead of getting wrapped up in your fantasies.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-24 13:40:02+00:00
I'm 100% in favor of people doing what they love, if that's hand coding, have a ball.

I'm sick to death of people trying to grandstand, flag wave and chest pound about "the evils of AI" and "the failings of AI." You hate billionaires and you're afraid of losing your job, I get it, stop trying to propagandize and just do the thing you love to do as if AI didn't exist.

If I meet someone who hand carves stuff, if it's good I'm into it. If they start to rave about the evils of machines I nope tf out and never return.
by daitangio | 2026-01-24 13:40:13+00:00
I am using SQLite on paperless-ngx (an app to manage pdf [4]).
It is quite difficult to beat SQLite if you do not have a very huge parallelism factor in writes.

SQLite is an embedded database: no socket to open, you directly access to it via file system.

If you do not plan to use BigData with high number of writers, you will have an hard time beating SQLite on modern hardware, on average use cases.

I have written a super simple search engine [1] using python asyncio and SQLite is not the bottleneck so far.

If you are hitting the SQLite limit, I have an happy news: PostgreSQL upgrade will be enough for a lot of use cases [2]: you can use it to play with a schemaless mongo-like database, a simple queue system [3] or a search engine with stemming. After a while you can decide if you need a specialized component (i.e. Kafka, Elastic Search, etc) for one of your services.

[1]: https://github.com/daitangio/find

[2]: https://gioorgi.com/2025/postgres-all/

[3]: https://github.com/daitangio/pque

[4]: https://docs.paperless-ngx.com
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-24 13:40:29+00:00
Yes, us who use AI yet aren't shills nor hypers and also still have our critical thinking receptors left in our brains, are tired of both sides exaggerating and hyping/dooming.

People would do much better if they just stopped listening so much and started thinking and doing a bit more. But as a lazy person, I definitely understand why it's hard, it requires effort.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2026-01-24 13:41:26+00:00
>This is a practical policy allowing me to maintain my own professional standards and remain employable in a difficult economy.

I'm interested to hear more about the rationale behind the "remain employable" part of this line.

All things equal, we would normally expect someone deliberately saying they won't use a certain tool to perform a certain job as limiting their employment opportunities, not expanding it. The classic example is people who refuse to drive for work; there are good non-employment reasons for this (driving is the most dangerous thing many people do on a daily basis) but it's hard to argue that it doesn't restrict where one can work.

I think the most likely rationale is that the author thinks that posting a no-AI policy for professional work is itself seen as a signal of certain things about them, their skill level, etc., and that wins out for the kinds of clients they wish to take on. This doesn't have to be a long- or even medium-run bet to make, given that it's cheap to backtrack on such a policy down the line. Either way it's clear from reading the measured prose that there's an iceberg of thinking behind what's visible here and they are probably smarter than I am.
by andrewstuart | 2026-01-24 13:41:45+00:00
I just can’t get my head around why a developer wouldn’t want to use AI assisted programming.

It’s an absolute joy to be able to achieve essentially anything (within reason), things that previously I’d have known how to design but not build in any reasonable timeframe.

Who are these anti AI programmers? Computing and programming has just been unlocked and they’re not interested.

I’ve always had far more ideas than I’d ever be able to build and now I can get at least some of them built very quickly. I just don’t understand why this would t be exciting to a developer.

20 years ahead it will be completely taken for granted that computers can program themselves and we will look back on that painful era when every line of code had to be hand written by wizards and it will look ancient and quaint.

Join the party, join the revolution it’s incredible fun to be able to create beyond your hand coding skills.
by WillAdams | 2026-01-24 13:42:50+00:00
The big concept which needs to be included in this discussion is "payslope" --- for an excellent article on this, and an example of a company which handles this well, see:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/h...

I have never regretted a purchase from Lee Valley, and highly recommend all of their products.
by rubyfan | 2026-01-24 13:43:02+00:00
I’m actually more sick of hearing about AI like literally all the time in all forms of media. I’m also sick of seeing AI created content which is so obviously low quality and often unchecked and just thrown out into the world.

Also when I hear another human suggest using AI for ____, my perception of them is that they are an unserious person.

So in my opinion AI has had a net negative effect on the world so far. Reading through this persons AI policy resonates with me. It tells me they are a thoughtful individual who cares about their work and the broader implications of using AI.
by jraph | 2026-01-24 13:43:02+00:00
In the linked article:

> you should master the HTML programming¹ language

The footnote reads:

> 1. This is a common debate - but for simplicity sake I'm just calling it this.

It's not really a debate, HTML is a markup language [1], not a programming language: you annotate a document with its structure and its formatting. You are not really programming when you write HTML (the markup is not procedural) (and this is not gatekeeping, there's nothing wrong about this and doesn't make HTML a lesser language).

To avoid the issue completely, you can phrase this as: "you should master HTML" and remove the footnote. Simple, clean, concise, clear. By the way, ML already means "Markup Language", so any "HTML .* language" phrasing can feel a bit off.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language
by growse | 2026-01-24 13:43:43+00:00
The subtext here is that there's a difference between someone saying "I don't like this community, I'm going to make my own" and "I don't like this community, I'm going to change it".

Building communities is hard. It's not obvious why someone who wants a community on their terms gets to piggyback on an existing community rather than putting the effort in to make their own.

The point of "just fork it" is that if your ideas are popular, then sustainability shouldn't be a problem.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-24 13:44:01+00:00
The current discussion is about the US, where that is very much the case.

https://thefederalnewswire.com/stories/673148305-fbi-announc...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/fbi-agent-ice-shooting...
by wpietri | 2026-01-24 13:44:09+00:00
Ooh, this is gold: "The slogan pretends to be anti-authority, but in practice it is used to protect informal power."

Spot on. I almost never see "just fork it" brought up in a context that acknowledges what that would actually take. It mostly shows up as a way of shutting down discussion, and often has a flavor of victim-blaming to me.
by MITfather | 2026-01-24 13:44:16+00:00
That’s a fair caution, and I agree with the broader point. For what it’s worth, this is a human-written account that I edited for clarity and length before posting. Tools like GPTZero tend to flag any structured, carefully written text—especially summaries of emotional events—regardless of authorship.

I think the more important question isn’t whether the prose sounds polished, but whether the situation described is plausible and whether the discussion that follows is useful. People are free to be skeptical; I’m mainly here to hear from those with relevant experience or practical advice.

Being careful about narratives cuts both ways, including being careful not to dismiss difficult stories solely because they’re uncomfortable or well-articulated.
by pinnochio | 2026-01-24 13:44:17+00:00
There's a lot of jeering, I suspect at the headline more than anything, but having documented research can be helpful in changing management behavior. The changes in employee behavior documented here are not ones that managers would easily connect to their past behavior, such as a late birthday recognition.

When you train a dog, you have to give a reward very soon after the desired behavior, otherwise the dog won't associate the reward with the behavior. Likewise, a manager is not going to associate a slight towards an employee with an increase in absenteeism or lower productivity that happens days and weeks later.
by MiddleEndian | 2026-01-24 13:44:35+00:00
Bazzite. It's KDE, it's easy, it's immutable so you can update and it's unlikely to break shit. It comes with Steam already. Keyboard shortcuts very similar to Windows. Dolphin (File Explorer equivalent) responds as quickly as one would expect File Explorer to respond if it were developed by sane people. You also get an Android-style permission system with Flatseal, so you can disable permissions for various applications.

One warning: keep in mind that if your desktop PC motherboard has a mediatek wifi+bluetooth chip, that chip will not work on any version Linux (AFAIK). I don't use wifi on my desktop but I do use bluetooth game controllers. You can replace the chip (which is what I did, with https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MJLPZPL), get a USB+bluetooth dongle (my friend recommends https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Wireless-External-Receiver-...), or get a PCIe one.
by bflesch | 2026-01-24 13:45:55+00:00
Don't be so sure that the next generation automatically gets less indoctrinated.

Facebook at least documented content interactions out in the open. With tiktok you don't notice what kind of content someone consumes.

There are tens of thousands of people working a full time job just to influence people in democratic countries to act/vote against their interests. Then we have hundreds of thousands more in advertisement industry with their own interests, mainly in line with goals of US companies.

There is reason for optimism because if everyone is on tiktok it becomes "uncool" again but still it is a very dangerous tool.
by phrotoma | 2026-01-24 13:46:03+00:00
Perhaps you're thinking of Bunnie Huang, who wrote a book about reversing the xbox. I love Bunnie because he seems to be in it for the joy and the sharing of information.

Geohot (IIUC) hacked the iphone because apple didn't allow devs to run their own code at launch, and the playstation because sony removed the ability to run linux on the console. I love geohot because he seems to be in it to stick it to the man.
by kranner | 2026-01-24 13:46:24+00:00
It is still a technical thing though. AI generated code is outright buggy when it’s not mediocre but the pro AI crowd is pretending you can guardrail and test suite your way to good generated code. As if painting a picture in negative space is somehow less work than painting it directly. And that’s when you know all the requirements (the picture) upfront.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-01-24 13:46:31+00:00
Luckily, current AI technology is still in its infancy and not good enough. That being said, none of this will matter in the long run. I just don't see a way how AI could not completely replace most jobs done in front of a computer. For example, there is no reason why programs wouldn't be created and modified on the fly in the future. It's just logical to offer this functionality once agentive AI has gotten good enough.

However, nothing indicates that this will happen soon, we're talking about a timeline of a decade and longer. Maybe pricing as well as a hardware and energy shortage will further slow down the transition. Right now, AI doesn't seem to be profitable for the companies offering it.

Feel free to downvote this comment but make sure you re-visit this post in 10 years from now.