MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bayart | 2026-01-27 12:40:56+00:00
Having worked extensively with OVH and Scaleway, I find it to be a far cry from what American hyperscalers offers. The cloud offering is just too thin and brittle as of now, though I think they will eventually get there because of the CLOUD Act which in the long term might prove to be a gigantic own-goal on the part of the US.
by andrepd | 2026-01-27 12:41:10+00:00
That not true. Drunk driving is not remotely the biggest cause, let alone the "vast majority". Speeding is.

And also: note you're only considering the pov of a person inside a car. In the last decade deaths among pedestrians and cyclists have skyrocketed, courtesy of society willingly accepting that it is normal and rational to have 4000kg vehicles with 180bhp being used ubiquitously to move 70kg humans to the grocery store. Since public infrastructure is completely designed around cars, with pedestrians and cyclists pushed to the edges or protected from cars by lines of white paint, it's no wonder this is happening.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-27 12:41:38+00:00
Whether they are allowed or not, probably depends on the place.

In Germany, at Frankfurt, I had to dump in a garbage bin a smaller Swiss army knife, to be allowed to pass.

I had it because my high-speed train of Deutsche Bahn had arrived more than one hour late, so there was no time to check in my luggage.

After losing the knife, I ran through the airport towards my gate, but I arrived there a few seconds after the gate was closed. Thus I had to spend the night at a hotel and fly next day, despite losing my knife in the failed attempt to catch the plane. Thanks Deutsche Bahn !
by atonse | 2026-01-27 12:41:53+00:00
Spending 4 years evaluating something that’s changing every month means almost nothing, sorry.

Almost every post exalting these models’ capabilities talks about how good they’ve gotten since November 2025. That’s barely 90 days ago.

So it’s not about “you’re doing it wrong”. It’s about “if you last tried it more than 3 months ago, your information is already outdated”
Why are there no recent books with software engineer protagonists?
by yedidmh | 2026-01-27 12:42:16+00:00
I don't know why this is so hard to find.

I'm just looking for recent fiction where the protagonist is someone like me, having a regular software development job, just doing normal dev stuff.

I've scoured Amazon and dug up just a bare handful. In Berlin, Annie Bot and God! Oh God!. All great, but there has to be more.

Any recommendations?
by 627467 | 2026-01-27 12:43:06+00:00
It will mean little if the infrastructure is still dependent on volatile partners (and I'm bundling allies and adversaries in this).

The core problem is Europe has been very successful betting and building upon though choices made by others (eg. Cheap manufacture in China, cheap energy in Russia, cheap defense/capital from US, cheap manpower/migrants from developing countries...).

Europe from its high ground flaunts this model to the whole world ("look at our development metrics! Our social spending") while completely ignoring the sustainability and the costs bore by others and neglecting its own responsibilities.

And now everything is crashing down simultaneously.
by FjordWarden | 2026-01-27 12:43:42+00:00
No, it is a hypothesis I formulated here after reading the article. I did a quick check on google scholar but I didn't hit any result. The more interesting question is, if true, what can you do with this information. Maybe it can be a way to evaluate a complete program or specific heap allocator, as in "how fast does this program reach universality". Maybe this is something very obvious and has been done before, dunno, heap algos are not my area of expertise.
by Bender | 2026-01-27 12:43:49+00:00
LLM's seem like the wrong platform to operate a drone in my opinion. I would expect that to be something more like a gaming engine. It should be small, simple, low latency and maybe based on a first person shooter running on insane difficulty. Small enough to fit in a tiny firmware space. It should boot so fast the firmware could be upgraded mid-flight without missing a beat. Give it simple friend or foe and obliterate anything not green.
by Balinares | 2026-01-27 12:46:33+00:00
Speculating: there are two connected businesses here, creating the models, and serving the models. Outside of a few moneyed outliers, no one is going to run this at home. So at worst opening this model allows mid-sized competitors to serve it to customers from their own infra -- which helps Kimi gain mindshare, particularly against the large incumbents who are definitely not going to be serving Kimi and so don't benefit from its openness.

Given the shallowness of moats in the LLM market, optimizing for mindshare would not be the worst move.
by askldfhalkdfh | 2026-01-27 12:47:11+00:00
Are they planning to merge Vimeo’s and Brightcove’s underlying technology, even if the brands and product lines remain distinct? In theory, that could deliver a true best-of-both-worlds outcome. Each platform has strengths that could fill the other’s gaps. In practice, though, it would almost certainly be messy, with non-trivial integrations and some painful migrations and breaking changes for at least some of the customers.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-27 12:47:28+00:00
This is the correct question to be asking, but maybe not for the reason you thought. AI is an incredible tool for shifting liability and manufacturing plausible deniability, which appears to be exceedingly useful for authoritarian regimes around the world. Not just externally (i.e. in media), but internally as well (Ender’s Game: shoot the guy the computer says is bad, never give mind to whether or why he’s bad).
by shevy-java | 2026-01-27 12:48:36+00:00
That liquid limit never made any real sense to me; it always seemed arbitrary.

Now - I don't think I was ever affected by it in any way, shape or form, though I also rarely use(d) the plane. But to me it seemed more as if it was an attempt to meta-engineer the opinion of people, e. g. to make them fearful of danger xyz. When I look at the current US administration and how the ICE deathsquads operate (two US citizens shot dead already), with that administration instantly defending them without even any trial, then this also seems more a propaganda operation - that one being more reminiscent of the 1930s supposedly, but we had this wave of propaganda before (e. g. both Bush presidents; Noriega capture is somewhat similar to Maduro, though the latter situation seems more as if the other officials in Venezuela purposefully gave him up - watch how the sanctions will be removed in a short while).
Show HN: Oauth2-Proxy-Injector
by spacemule | 2026-01-27 12:48:53+00:00
A few weeks ago I could barely code in python, and I could not code a single line of go. After seeing claude handle a work project impressively, I decided to try using it to teach me to code. I asked it to scaffold projects, write todos above the functions, and tell me a reasonable order to work in. This doesn't teach software design, but it really helps get over the hump of learning the ecosystem and standard libraries.

Now, I still can't program unassisted, but I feel confident enough to read others' code and maybe even submit a small PR to fix a bug.

This is my first attempt at a generally useful project. It's a mutating admission webhook. This is still a WIP, but it's working and I'm using it on my own k3s cluster. It adds oauth2-proxy to pods that need authentication. On the cluster, I replaced Authentik with Zitadel, and I needed something to fill in the role of Authentik's proxy provider.

Since so many people are using and becoming frustrated with AI now, I hope this can be some inspiration to use AI as a tool to learn something new instead of as an assistant. Hopefully the more experienced programmers here can let me know what about this looks like slop (I assume it does). I'm afraid if I keep this up, I'll learn to program too much like claude.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-27 12:48:55+00:00
I consider it a tool. Tool multiplies performance. Tho from research it appears that multiplication is nonlinear, from "a complete greenhorn makes an app that would otherwise take them weeks to just learn skill", thru "low double digits improvements just from saving time on writing boilerplate/looking up common problems libs" all the way to "the time wasted on trying to make LLM do it is more than just doing it".

If you can't use your tools properly (i.e. in this case, have backups) you will hurt yourself. And trying to blame it on tools that have NO guarantee in the first place

> However, my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind.

is frankly unprofessional.
by Beretta_Vexee | 2026-01-27 12:49:41+00:00
French report:
The project presented is not new; it is a continuation of the Tixeo project (https://www.tixeo.com/en/secure-video-conferencing-solutions... video-conferencing-service-tixeocloud/trial-tixeocloud/), which was already the recommended solution for French government officials, public companies and all large companies required to process confidential or classified data via video conferencing.

Tixeo was fairly limited in its use and imposed on critical businesses (defence, nuclear, transport, energy, etc.).
The aim is to extend the service to more areas, such as SMEs, universities, NGOs, etc., for all sensitive communications.

I don't think the project is intended to replace Zoom and Teams for the general public. Most public ministries use Teams and the Office suite.

French industries have been the target of quite a few cases of espionage by ‘advanced North American actors’. They have therefore been trying to distance themselves from US services for some time now (Google Tchap and Olvide).
by sgjohnson | 2026-01-27 12:49:45+00:00
The funniest part about Windows Server licensing that I find is the requirement to have CALs (Client Access Licenses) - $5/mo a pop for each device using _any_ service provided by the Windows Server.

You run your Windows Server as a DHCP server? That's $5/mo for the clients to get a DHCP lease.

Of course, one CAL covers all services for the entire client, but it's still funny to me.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-27 12:49:47+00:00
> It would be great if governments were more explicit about precisely what all of this theater is intended to prevent.

That is a good statement. It IS a theater. So, the point for it IS the theater. The "evil terrorists" is just the scapegoat wrapper, similar to how officials in the EU constantly try to extend mass surveillance and claim it is to "protect children".
by dudefeliciano | 2026-01-27 12:49:59+00:00
these topics are controversial for people who support the current US government, they don't want to see it on their tech-news website (even though it's called hacker news, the spirit of the hacker manifesto is not alive here).

Funnily enough, these flagged topics seem to spark a lot of conversation, and the voices of the government supporters are not heard here...So they just flag and move on, not even trying to defend their position
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-01-27 12:50:36+00:00
After seeing the 180 of people like Chamath and Sacks I feel like historians and people who are curious to understand what went through the heads of apical figures at Siemens, VW, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Bayer etc during the rise of Hitler...well the ideal would be to get a time machine but the closest thing to that is to tune in their All_in podcast weekly

All the others starting from Zuck and Musk too of course but their media apps are more scattered and tweets don't have the same impact as a weekly podcast.
by JodieBenitez | 2026-01-27 12:52:47+00:00
I made my own web app using boring technology(). It's not available anywhere since it's completely tailored to my own needs so probably not useful to anyone else. Also some parts of the code need cleanup and there is no documentation.

() SQLite/Django/Bootstrap5/Unpoly app. SQLite is used for all the data and the full text search. Huey is used for background tasks. Tinytags gets metadata from audio files. LastFM API provides similar artists functionality. YT-DLP is used to fetch music that is not easy (for me) to get (no bandcamp, only on streaming, old stuff not easy to find...). Bootstrap provides a clean look and the usual responsive stuff. Dropbox API is used to maintain a copy of the music files in my dropbox account. The app currently handles a collection of 70k files and runs on a raspberrypi behind the caddy web server.
by apothegm | 2026-01-27 12:53:02+00:00
Unit tests are super useful when first writing a function or class to confirm it does what you think it does.

Then throw away the unit tests and write integration or E2E tests instead. Then you can refactor under the hood while ensuring overall system behavior is as expected.

There are some exceptions where you might want to hang on to a small subset of unit tests. They can be useful for demonstrating how to use an interface or class. They can help support particularly complex bits of logic. If a certain part of your codebase is fragile and regression prone, unit test coverage can help.

Otherwise, they just calcify the code.
by thewhitetulip | 2026-01-27 12:53:04+00:00
I use Cursor daily, I have worked on Agents using LangChain. Maybe we are doing something wrong but even ysing SOTA models unless we explicitly give which mcp tool to call, it uses anything - sometimes - while other times it can do a passavle job. So now our mandate is to spell everything out to LLM so it doesn't add a non existent column like created at or updated at to our queries

I've used every SOTA for day to day work, and at best they save some effort. They can't do everything yet
by xtiansimon | 2026-01-27 12:53:11+00:00
> “… value whipping stuff out the door more highly.”

Could we also call this making “improvements” for the sake of making improvements? Because it’s expected (else why are we paying you so much money—sort of thing?)

I guess users can’t know for sure why a change is underway. I suspect some change is tacking away from tech-debt, trends in the workforce, adjustments to the tech stack.

Nevertheless I can’t help but feel baffled by some changes (what’s this SaaS trend making UIs swimming in white space, five rows of visible data when the real estate used to show 2-2.5x more data on screen??)
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-01-27 12:53:39+00:00
I still think the ultimate puzzle is the Sunday crossword (followed closely by Thur-Sat), though Connections is great. And definitely difficult (but never feels unfair).

I cancelled my subscription a few years back due to the way NYT was covering the current administration. At the time, I believed they'd never offer a "puzzles only" subscription because then they'd lose a large part of their subs. But, I was wrong. And now they offer a puzzle-only subscription.

There's a great documentary about the Crossword with Will Shortz that came out about a decade ago that's interesting.

Spelling bee is also pretty consistent.
by smallerfish | 2026-01-27 12:54:02+00:00
> But none of them predicted my Covid infection days in advance. Oura did.

It actually warned you, or retrospectively looking at the metrics you could see that there was a pattern in advance of symptoms? (If the latter, same here with my Garmin watch - precipitous HRV decline in the 7 days before symptoms. But no actual warning.)
by noduerme | 2026-01-27 12:54:04+00:00
I don't know about a standalone Flex player, I don't think such a thing existed. Maybe you mean standalone Flash player. I didn't use Flex components. I coded in pure AS3. I had critical business code that ran nonstop for years on end in AIR on dozens of deployments without memory leaks. Again, I think that badly written AS3 code (or bad components) could definitely take down a player fairly quickly. Garbage collection required you to track and clean up weak references, but it's the same thing in Javascript. You had to know the lifecycle of your components and what you were doing.
by eej71 | 2026-01-27 12:54:17+00:00
Two books for consideration.

Randy Hyde the creator of the Lisa assembler.

https://archive.org/details/A2_Hyde_6502_Asm_Lang/mode/1up

Ken Williams of Sierra OnLine fame.

https://vintageapple.org/apple_ii/pdf/Apple_II_Computer_Grap...
by shevy-java | 2026-01-27 12:54:28+00:00
"It is a source run by expatriate Iranians of the diaspora.. the fact that so many people just discount their point of view it's pretty frustrating. If you speak to Iranians that you work with it's pretty illuminating"

Well - the data they publish can be correct; or it can be a made-up lie. We simply don't know.

So why should we assume the data they publish should be correct? How did they reach that number? And why is that number more precise than earlier reported numbers? And, why is that number so different to the other numbers told before?

What if they say tomorrow it is 50.000 suddenly?
by pjc50 | 2026-01-27 12:54:35+00:00
Many, many years ago I was the first non-founder employee at a UK startup. That meant hearing quite a lot (but not all) of the corporate discussions about finance, company structure etc. Fairly early on in the fundraising process we settled on "Delaware parent company, 100% owner of UK private limited company". This meant that US investors could invest in the Delaware entity happily, while the tax and employment aspects were handled locally in the UK. Stock grants were made from the US entity (under US law), but also eligible for UK tax relief (since the options were being assigned to UK residents).

While I think this was obviously more complicated than a single entity and probably required two sets of specialists rather than just one, it certainly worked and I would expect something similar is possible with Canada?

The founders were not required to move to the US, but ended up doing so anyway.
by sensanaty | 2026-01-27 12:54:50+00:00
Realistically, what's the threat to me if I don't patch Win10? I know in theory if there's some big vulnerability discovered my system would be in danger of getting pwned, but realistically what are the chances of that happening? And if it does, how likely am I to even be affected by it if I'm not doing anything crazy, I don't even do much banking on my PC other than the online shopping.

I think the more realistic danger is that software eventually stops supporting Win10, but I'm still playing XP and Vista games here, so even that seems far fetched.
by Balinares | 2026-01-27 12:55:07+00:00
I replaced Opus with Gemini Pro and it's just plain a better coder IMO. It'll restructure code to enable support for new requirements where Opus seems to just pile on more indirection layers by default, when it doesn't outright hardcode special cases inside existing functions, or drop the cases it's failing to support from the requirements while smugly informing you you don't need that anyway.
by logicprog | 2026-01-27 12:55:28+00:00
Yeah, I think this is the fundamental thing I'm trying to get at.

If you think through a problem as you're writing the code for it, you're going to end up the wrong creek because you'll have been furiously head down rowing the entire time, paying attention to whatever local problem you were solving or whatever piece of syntax or library trivia or compiler satisfaction game you were doing instead of the bigger picture.

Obviously, before starting writing, you could sit down and write a software design document that worked out the architecture, the algorithms, the domain model, the concurrency, the data flow, the goals, the steps to achieve it and so on; but the problem with doing that without an agent is then it becomes boring. You've basically laid out a plan ahead of time and now you've just got to execute on the plan, which means (even though you might even fairly often revise the plan as you learn unknown unknowns or iterate on the design) that you've kind of sucked all the fun and discovery out of the code rights process. And it sort of means that you've essentially implemented the whole thing twice.

Meanwhile, with a coding agent, you can spend all the time you like building up that initial software design document, or specification, and then you can have it implement that. Basically, you can spend all the time in your hammock thinking through things and looking ahead, but then have that immediately directly translated into pull requests you can accept or iterate on instead of then having to do an intermediate step that repeats the effort of the hammock time.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-27 12:55:51+00:00
Probably waterfall stuff that have actual clear functions and integrations (if you can extract all that system gets and what it does with it there is no reason to agile it) then slowly get thru the current mess, documenting it at each step while trying to replace it with something better.

Replacing existing system (and especially one you didn't write) is pretty much always the hardest case.
by andytratt | 2026-01-27 12:55:54+00:00
woah this is amazing, 10x upvotes!! love the example of bus spy.

yes at this point we can confidently say, even though academia won't admit it ever -- and in case people don't know, YC killed replaced beat Harvard so institutions predating America are dead and truth is decentralized internet culture -- the universe is a computer and both Friston's Free Energy as well as ComputerFuture.substack.com are simply correct.

Quantum confusion and all probability theory is Godel incomplete in that a deterministic universe is the unifying theory physics will never grasp. Seth Lloyd articulated it in Turing Test for Free Will paper. People who don't understand me or disagree happen to have P vs NP baked into their brains. Also a false dichotomy.

PG has mentioned the insufficient resolution of English recently, and confused people will see why he's so obsessed with Lisp shortly as Terry Tao will confirm all this within 10 years. Or he won't and we'll wait another 10-20 for the ASI.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-01-27 12:56:30+00:00
There are, admittedly, layers do this post I don't think I have time to properly analyze, but I will do my best to be brief.

<< Who is most responsible for stopping Trump from doing horrible shit?

First, note that I did not mention anyone specific, but the poster chose to read my words that described a generic state of propaganda wielded by various power centers specifically as related to Trump.

Apart from the obvious that it now forces us to read the remaining posts with that lens, it also suggests that the poster is oblivious to other sources of propaganda.

<< Surely that must be his base, yes?

I am not particularly certain where that incessant need to end each sentence with a question demanding approval/acknowledgement comes from, but I did see it pop up in other languages suggesting it is not exactly an organic growth.

That said, as phrased, if it is his base, then the answer seems to be that his base is ok with it. But, and it is not a small but, base is not an individual and I would like you to carefully consider whether applying the same lens based on political leaning is.. well.. smart. Things tend go awry with group punishments.

<< and hold them at least morally responsible

In your own words, what does that mean.. exactly?
by LunaSea | 2026-01-27 12:56:38+00:00
> Well for one thing, call me a sell-out or accuse me of lacking craftsmanship, but I like my databases managed.

I had the same worries and then we moved to OVH and Hetzner and had no issues.

AWS RDS is about 10x more expensive than bare metal with maybe 1/4th the disk performance.

Regarding operations I simply setup a primary and read replica together with a PGBackRest continuous archiving and backup solution to a S3 compatible storage service.

Has worked like a charm in the last two years and recreating the database is a breeze.

Our database is ~8 TB large.