MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coffinbirth | 2026-01-01 21:22:00+00:00
Preventing oil exports and increase insurance premiums for Russia's export economy, because Western sanctions clearly are unsuccessful in destroying the Russian economy.

My post history shows that I do support Russia's self defense against U.S./NATO threats. In my opinion Ukraine entering NATO is indeed an existential threat to Russia, because since (at least) the collapse of the UDSSR the U.S. and it's vassals openly communicated and pursued the goal of regime changing Russia (+ Belarus, Georgia).
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-01 21:22:05+00:00
Yea absolutely this. This is what I was saying, so like having a vps for starting out definitely makes sense. Like, I think when it starts making sense to build your own cloud is around the 500-1000$ mark per month

I searched hetzner and honestly at just around the 500 mark (506.04) seeing it on their refurbished auction for sale, I can get around 1024 GB of ram AMD EPYC 7502 2 x 1.92 TB Datacenter SSD

In this ramflation imagine getting so much ram would cost a bank.

Like I love homelabbing too and I think that an old laptop sometimes can be enough for basic things to even more modern things but I did some calculations and colocrossing or the professional renting model or even buying new hardware model in this ramflation would probably not work.

It's sad but like, the only place it might make sense is if you can get yourself a good firewall and have an old laptop or server and will do something like this but even then I have heard it be described as not worth it by many but I think its an interesting experiment.

Also regarding the 1024 GB of ram's, holy.. I wonder how many programs need so much ram. I will still do homelabbing and things but like, y'know I am kinda hard pressed in how much we can recommend if ramflation is so much and that's when I saw someone originally writing saying 100x I really wondered how much is enough and at what scale or what others think
by xp84 | 2026-01-01 21:22:09+00:00
This is true, however I think an App Store rule that to ship a browser engine, you have to be a browser, defined as having a browser that is maintained on MacOS, Linux, and/or Windows and which can be made the default browser on those platforms. Or even simpler, it has to present web browsing to the user as the primary function and not secondary to accessing content/shopping/gaming.

Seems either approach would rule out your Slack, Amazon app, etc. from shipping their own outdated 900MB Chromiums but allow Chrome, Firefox, K-Meleon, whatever.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-01 21:22:11+00:00
I have this device, it's exactly as you say. This is a device for AI research and development. My buddies mac ultra beats it squarely for inference workloads, but for real tinkering it can't be beat.

I've used it to fine tune 20+ models in the last couple of weeks. Neither a Mac or Strix Halo even try to compete.
by withinboredom | 2026-01-01 21:22:35+00:00
They globally reset the privacy settings for pretty entertaining reasons. Every few years a post goes around saying crazy privacy things that gives you instructions to change your privacy settings to only “share with yourself”. If you’re dumb enough to do it, you basically shadow-ban yourself. If enough people do it, they have to change the settings back because also those same people will complain about their aunt/neighbor/dad/sister whatever not being able to see their posts and have no idea why.
by max_lt | 2026-01-01 21:22:43+00:00
Thanks for that work! deno_core is a beautiful piece of work and is still an option for OpenWorkers: https://github.com/openworkers/openworkers-runtime-deno

We maintained it until we introduced bindings — at that point, we wanted more fine-grained control over the runtime internals, so we moved to raw rusty_v8 to iterate faster. We'll probably circle back and add the missing pieces to the deno runtime at some point.
by verzali | 2026-01-01 21:22:53+00:00
At 480km there will be increased drag, even as we get closer to the solar minimum. The trade-off may be between using propellant for collision avoidance vs using it to counter altitude loss and for station keeping.

Maybe it is also linked to the falling altitude of the ISS? 480km is about the upper bound of its altitude but they seem unlikely to actually raise it that high before it is deorbited.
by jbstack | 2026-01-01 21:23:02+00:00
You can also mitigate a lot of the "familiarity penalties" by planning ahead. For example, by the time I made the decision to switch from Windows around 15 years ago, I'd already been preferring multi-platform FOSS software for many years because I had in mind that I might switch one day. This meant that when it came time to switch, I was able to go through the list of all the software I was using and find that almost all of it was already available in Linux, leaving just a small handful of cases that I was able to easily find replacements for.

The result was that from day 1 of using Linux I never looked back.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-01 21:23:07+00:00
The Aptera vehicle is vapourware and likely always will be. It's not a practical vehicle that is on sale.

Solar roof on Ioniq 5 and Prius is an option, not standard. And it's rare. In fact, I've never seen it or even heard of it until I looked up what you were saying. And for the Ioniq 5 solar roof, it seems that it's not even offered at all in some countries.

The Prius one is "Offered as an option on the range-topping XSE Premium trim". Far from standard. This roof literally adds up to 4 of miles of range on a good day. (1) So it's a high-end gimmick that has niche use at best on a car, when compared to a fixed solar / battery installation situated where the car is parked.

It won't be any more useful on a boat.

1) https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/13w5cb1/o...
Show HN: I'm student building best AI slide designer
by ihsanf | 2026-01-01 21:23:15+00:00
Existing slide generator can't follow exactly what you want because they are using pre-defined templates.

I'm building AI slide generator that actually follow your instruction 1 to 1. Our AI can do better because we're not using templates. This must be the best for : last-minute, perfectionist people. Giving you freedom to imagine and power to actually make it happen.

This is still MVP, I would love to hear your honest feedback:

- do you think this is the best AI slide generator?
- if yes, why?
- if not, why not?

and I will iterate this MVP until you say this is the best and you love it :))

HN people please do your magic, thanks!!
by matu3ba | 2026-01-01 21:23:21+00:00
The blog looks nice, especially having simple to understand numbers.
To me the memory subsystem articles are missing the more spicy pieces like platform semantics, barriers, de-virtualization (latter discussed in an article separate of the series).
In the other articles I'd also expect debugging format trade-offs (DWARF vs ORC vs alternatives), virtualization performance and relocation effects briefly discussed, but could not find them.
There are a few C++ article missing: 1. cache-friendly structures in C++, because standard std::map etc are unfortunately not written to be cache-friendly (only std::vector and std::deque<T> with high enough block_size), ideally with performance numbers, 2. what to use for destructive moves or how to roll your own (did not make it into c++26).
by apsurd | 2026-01-01 21:23:36+00:00
Agree it's not common to give unprompted background context within any given normal conversation. People usually default to the pull style which Id agree is ultimately less efficient.

All that said, even though AI prompting is forcing the issue, which is good, the takeaway should be that _intentionality_ is very high leverage. Less so that it's because of some given (prompt) structure.
by mikeckennedy | 2026-01-01 21:23:42+00:00
It is open source, you could just look. :) But here is a summary for you. It's not just one run and take the number:

Benchmark Iteration Process

Core Approach:

- Warmup Phase: 100 iterations to prepare the operation (default)

- Timing Runs: 5 repeated runs (default), each executing the operation a specified number of times

- Result: Median time per operation across the 5 runs

Iteration Counts by Operation Speed:
- Very fast ops (arithmetic): 100,000 iterations per run

- Fast ops (dict/list access): 10,000 iterations per run

- Medium ops (list membership): 1,000 iterations per run

- Slower ops (database, file I/O): 1,000-5,000 iterations per run

Quality Controls:

- Garbage collection is disabled during timing to prevent interference

- Warmup runs prevent cold-start bias

- Median of 5 runs reduces noise from outliers

- Results are captured to prevent compiler optimization elimination

Total Executions: For a typical benchmark with 1,000 iterations and 5 repeats, each operation runs 5,100 times (100 warmup + 5×1,000 timed) before reporting the median result.
by dredmorbius | 2026-01-01 21:23:55+00:00
RIR: Reps in reserve.

<https://blog.nasm.org/reps-in-reserve>

0RM: One rep max. This is the (actual or theoretical) maximum weight / resistance which can be moved on a given lift. ExRx has a good calculator as well as several tables for calculating resistance at specified reps:

<https://exrx.net/Calculators/OneRepMax>
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-01 21:24:04+00:00
> the fact that many new electric cars do have solar panels

Not true. Not many at all, in fact vanishingly few. Because it's not practical. See comment above.

> Now, should you run out of charge during your drive, you simply have to wait a while and you'll have enough to get you to a charging station

Or not, as it adds a few miles of range per day of charging. You're far better off using the V2L capability of another EV to bring the charge to you.

> As solar panels advance and the wattage increases, this will be more and more important

No, it won't. Even at perfect panel efficiency , there just isn't enough room on a car roof to charge a car in reasonable time. Solar panel improvements won't do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454978

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455027

> Like the solar LSA plane "Solar Impulse" that can fly indefinitely.

You can already drive an EV indefinitely, by mounting a much larger surface area
of solar panels on your house, and charging your car from that regularly, with or without an intermediate battery that allows you to charge the car overnight. This is proven and practical, unlike solar panels on the car. For solar panels on a car, the math is that it just never will be practical.
by 3A2D50 | 2026-01-01 21:24:12+00:00
AI has risen the barrier to all but the top and is threatening many peoples' livelihood. It has significantly increase the cost of computer hardware and is projected to increase the cost of electricity. I can definitely see why there is a tone shift! I'm still rooting for AI in general. Would love to see the end of a lot of diseases. I don't think we humans can cure all disease on our own in any of our lifetimes. Of course there all sorts of dystopian consequences that may derive from AI fully comprehending biology. I'm going to continue being naive and hope for the best!
by desireco42 | 2026-01-01 21:24:20+00:00
I get people are tired of Year of Linux on Desktop, but I feel like last year it actually started happening for real. Mostly due to Arch which is not what I ever expected.

On one hand we have Steam that will make 1000s of games become available on easy to use platform based on Arch.

For developers, we have Omarchy, which makes experience much more streamlined and very pleasant and productive. I moved both my desktop and laptop to Omarchy and have one Mac laptop, this is really good experience, not everything is perfect, but when I switch to Mac after Omarchy, I often discover how not easy is to use Mac, how many clicks it takes to do something simple.

I think both Microsoft and Apple need some serious competition and again, came from Arch who turned out to be more stable and serious then Ubuntu.
by system2 | 2026-01-01 21:24:49+00:00
Linux is not suitable for the average user. I use Xubuntu on all my old computers, but I am 100% sure a normie would not tolerate the tedium of it. People want shiny icons with animations and a bunch of garbage on their computers to make them feel they are doing something. Linux is too static for that.

If I have an issue with an application or if I want an application, I must use the terminal. I can't imagine a Mac user bothering to learn it. Linux is for people who want to maximize the use of their computer without being spied on and without weird background processes. Linux won't die, but it won't catch Windows or Mac in the next 5 decades. People are too lazy for it. Forget about learning. I bet you $100, 99% of the people in the street didn't even see Linux in their lives, nor even heard of it. It is not because of marketing, it is because people who tried it returned to Windows or Mac after deciding it is too hard to learn for them to install a driver or an application.
by Paracompact | 2026-01-01 21:24:50+00:00
I just switched to Linux. It's a great gig, and I'm actively encouraging everyone I know still infected with the malware known as Windows 11 to switch.

But some of the drawbacks really aren't edge cases. Apparently there is still no way for me to have access to most creative apps (e.g. Adobe, Affinity) with GPU acceleration. It's irritating that so few Linux install processes are turnkey the way they are for Windows/Mac, with errors and caveats that cost less-than-expert users hours of experimenting and mucking with documentation.

I could go on, but it really feels like a bad time to be a casual PC user these days, because Windows is an inhospitable swamp, and Linux still has some sharp edges.
by nodesocket | 2026-01-01 21:25:12+00:00
I have a Windows 11 PC strictly for gaming. Nearly every-time I interact with Windows it infuriates me with garbage code, Microsoft business BS and anti-privacy. I’d love to switch but has Linux gaming solved the anti-cheat requirement issue? Do Epic and EA games work on Linux?

I also play a decent amount of Flight Simulator 2024 and losing that is almost a non-starter for switching.
by kasey_junk | 2026-01-01 21:25:24+00:00
I’m a weirdo I know, but when I designed our kitchen remodel I didn’t even put a traditional oven in (there’s the hook ups for it for property value purposes). We use a mix of a countertop convection and induction hot plates.

More flexible for our small place, more control, more efficient and more capable other than for oven roasting a large whole turkey. Which no one should do.
by Zanfa | 2026-01-01 21:25:41+00:00
> Yep, if Russia wants to expand its conflict against Europe, Narva in Estonia is most likely place for it. Over 90% of its population is ethnic Russian, and it's located right next to the Russian border. It's the perfect place to send some armed "separatists" to see how NATO responds.

Fortunately while close, the border runs along a fairly wide river with just a single bridge across, so logistically somewhat complicated to supply with heavy equipment from the Russian side. At least covertly.

But definitely a scenario that needs to be considered.
by xp84 | 2026-01-01 21:25:44+00:00
It’s not that confusing. To a user it could be the same as an app, just one you can be prompted to “install” instantly without a download and without wasting space on your device.

If Apple weren’t incentivized to block PWA use, they’d allow them to be “installed” with the same type of little top banner that prompts you to get/open an App Store app. Instead they relegate it to some obscure buried option inside the Safari Share menu.
by notahacker | 2026-01-01 21:25:48+00:00
Also, thin film solar panels that can be stuck to a flat roof likely weigh less than the small portion of the battery capacity (250 tonnes of batteries total) they could theoretically substitute for.

If you were optimising for mass rather than ease of maintenance you'd probably put them on (despite the relative lack of surface area meaning you still needed to recharge at each end)
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-01 21:25:59+00:00
> Look at the person who selects the target. What do they believe is at that point?

We rarely have access to or even knowledge of who this person is, let alone their mens rea.

Any metric based solely on intent is (a) impossible to objectively adjudicate and (b) corrupted by the crazy, who will legitimately believe in fantasies if it serves their ends.

I don’t think you’re wrong. Just that this metric is inadequate. (For what it’s worth, I don’t have a good alternative. My takeaways from the last couple years is that the civilian-military boundary has been irretrievably blurred by hybrid war and non-state actors; the term genocide irreversibly blurred by activists; and the term warm crime rendered irrelevant by the world’s great and regions powers—without exception— explicitly rejecting it as a constraint on themselves. All of this means that the vocabulary we once relied on to make sense of the moral aspect of geopolitics no longer works, which makes discussion a bit confusing.
by lysace | 2026-01-01 21:26:14+00:00
ChatGPT managed the following given the submitted source URL. Now let the mass downvoting of this comment begin, because several gods apparently forbid that we use computation to automate drudgery.

Deutschlandticket fraud stemmed from decentralization and weak controls: tickets were issued instantly on unverified SEPA debits, and a leaked or mismanaged signing key let attackers mint valid tickets at scale. Poor revocation and fragmented verification meant many fraudulent tickets still scanned as valid, enabling mass resale and huge losses.
by sylens | 2026-01-01 21:26:59+00:00
I've been really enjoying my experience using CachyOS on my (formerly Windows) gaming PC. I chose to use Limine and btrfs so now if it gets borked by a bad package install/uninstall I can roll back pretty easily. My next step is to replace my Nvidia GPU with an AMD one so I can stop worrying about that aspect in the future.
by pandaman | 2026-01-01 21:27:27+00:00
The US does not have "legal after being a certain time in the country by any means" laws like some other countries. It's the opposite: the longer you are in the country illegally, the more penalty you accrue. There had been one-off amnesties when people were indeed given legal status for being in the country illegally long enough, but there were only two of those: in 1929 and 1986.
by Tiktaalik | 2026-01-01 21:27:36+00:00
The explanation that I'm finding more and more compelling is that this is because there's actual competition in China, whereas in the west conglomerates have been able to carve up the market into fiefdoms and feast, with increasing amounts of cash that they can funnel into dividends and buybacks.

From the NA vehicle POV it doesn't look healthy. Stocks of the major auto makers have done well this year, while product gets more and more expensive and limited. Barely seems possible to buy anything but a F150like anymore.
by kelthuzad | 2026-01-01 21:27:49+00:00
>Funny how you agree that Firefox opposes these non-standards, and how Google rushes things. And immediately turn around and basically say "no-no-no, Apple is to blame and Safari (and, by extension Firefox) must absolutely implement these non-standard features from Chrome".

There is nothing "funny" about me acknowledging facts, that's what a reasonable person should always do, try it. What's not funny though, is how you're butchering and misrepresenting my arguments to such a gross degree. I've never stated that everybody "must implement these non-standard features from Chrome", instead I've made a much more nuanced argument about how Apple's conflict of interest is motivating them to reject entire feature sets for competing technology instead of helping to implement a safe standard, which is indicative of their bad faith motivations. That anti-competitive strategy has been essential for Apple in collecting billions in app taxes by systematically hobbling any competition before it can emerge.

>BTW literally the moment Firefox relented and implemented WebMIDI they had originally opposed, they immediately ran into tracking/fingerprinting attempts using WebMIDI that Chrome just couldn't care less about.

So? Just as native apps give users certain freedoms that can have problematic aspects, web apps should have _equal rights_ and be able to play on a level playing field. The choice and freedom should be the users' and not that of Apple's finance division. None of this gives Apple the right to uphold its anti-competitive strategy with its corporate double speak. And the fact that you're so hyperfocused on specifics while failing to grasp the broader argument, so you can cheerlead for Apple's anti-competitive behavior, is revealing a clear bias.
by GaryBluto | 2026-01-01 21:27:59+00:00
> it wasn’t always like this.

I agree. I remember when you could read pages without requiring JavaScript enabled, and when enabled it was enabled it wouldn't cause things to constantly float about as you scroll.

One of the biggest reasons you'll never get the "old web" back, is because the culture of the "independent" world wide web morphed into something entirely different from what it was (or more aptly was outright replaced with general "weirdos" rather than model train hobbyists and the like[1]). Ironically all of the people complaining about "capitalism and corporations killing the internet" as they scroll their federated social media feeds and start their "indie" initiatives[2] don't realize that they are part of the problem.

[1] https://www.girr.org/girr/

[2] https://indieweb.org/
by hazrmard | 2026-01-01 21:28:14+00:00
I can vouch for this with my experience.

Back in grad school, I was out making new friends. I was playing tennis 4-5 times a week. I'd invite players for post-game coffees (in the morning) and dinner (evenings) at every game. Consistency mattered. I'd ask every time. Slowly we had our regulars. Our coffee times became an institution in and of themselves.

People are busy, yes. But, people also want to be in demand. People also don't want to be rejected. And, people also don't want to be left out.

Asking around, I was exposing myself to rejection. Some folks appreciated their time being demanded. More still joined because they didn't want to be left out.
by regularfry | 2026-01-01 21:28:22+00:00
KDE has phone and laptop integrated well enough for me. It's worth giving it a try but the more devices you want integrated the more of a risk it is in case it doesn't quite work right. But I've got enough other devices in the house which I can't put KDE on (work laptop, Windows machine I need for some specific software) that I can recommend https://github.com/9001/copyparty over thumb drives.
by sho_hn | 2026-01-01 21:28:41+00:00
I've been working on the Linux desktop for 20 years, and I've been using it on the desktop since 1999, so I lived through the infamous "Year of the Linux Desktop" era.

I've not seen anything like the current level of momentum, ever, nor this level of mainstream exposure. Gaming has changed the equation, and 2026 will be wild.
by delaminator | 2026-01-01 21:28:42+00:00
I switched in 1999. I've never really had any problems in all that time.

Although it was to BSDi then, and then FreeBSD and then OpenBSD for 5 years or so. I can't remember why I switched to Debian but I've been there ever since.

I'm sat here now playing Oxygen Not Included.
by Geste | 2026-01-01 21:29:08+00:00
Working 8 years to get to more than 100,000,000 $ and saying no to that...Maybe I'm just too poor to understand that.
Sure, this is hackernews, so the hustle mindset is stronger here, but the difference you could make in others people lives just with 10 % of that...

I mean, you could house, feed or educate people and you chose to...not do that ? To have more ? Is there a endgame you are not sharing with us, a special number that would make it OK to sell ?