MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-06 19:39:34+00:00
I did something similar back in the day to support block-move for an editor running on a memory constrained 8-bit micro (BBC Micro). It had to be done in-place since there was no guarantee you'd have enough spare memory to use a temporary buffer, and also more efficient to move each byte once rather than twice (in/out of temp buffer).
by AlexandrB | 2026-01-06 19:39:49+00:00
Yup, it's a bad pitch. Let's say the economy airplane without the business seats can now accommodate 400 economy seats. You now need two air crews and twice as much maintenance (or more) to transport 480 people (~60% increase) with a smaller percentage of those passengers being business class fares.

What really kills this though is the value proposition for the business class passengers. I think I'd rather pay extra to sit in a comfortable seat for 16 hours, where wifi is now a standard feature, than cram into a smaller (likely noisier) seat for 8 hours. The cases where that 8 hours matters - especially when you can work from the seat if you have to - are fleetingly few. In the 70s, you couldn't do much in an airplane seat so it was wasted time. This is no longer the case and is steadily getting better.
by sudobash1 | 2026-01-06 19:39:54+00:00
For those who want to disable middle-click paste, KDE already has this as a setting (of course it does, everything is a setting in KDE). Under "General Behavior" there is a checkbox for "Middle-click pastes selected text".

Personally, I find middle-click primary selection paste one of the nicest conveniences in Linux, along with Alt (or Meta) dragging of windows. But if GNOME made it a default-off option that wouldn't be the end of the world. Those of us who love it would quickly seek out the option to enable it. But I get the impression that GNOME tends to value opinionated simplicity, and I wouldn't be surprised if that default-off option just disappeared after a while.
by arandomsapien | 2026-01-06 19:40:08+00:00
> there needs to be a serious reckoning about modified cars and road noise. At least 5-10x daily people drive through the city centre near my home with cars modified with unbelievably loud pop and bang ECU tunes and exhaust noise

I live in Portland and we have the same issue all over the city. They are much louder and more frequent than gas power leaf blowers. There are supposedly laws against them, but they are not enforced.
by lopis | 2026-01-06 19:40:20+00:00
But that's exactly why this "bubble" is so hard to predict, isn't it? The dot com bubble was simple. All companies were jumping the gun to make websites. Most were not useful, but the Internet was useful so it survived. LLMs are useful, but how much of its current use is actually valuable? If 95% is useful while 5% is memes, we're fine. But if 95% is useless, the industry will collapse hard. Who can tell what is useful when LLM companies sell the service to everyone?
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2026-01-06 19:40:38+00:00
> I'd love to know what the justification for replacing them in the first place was. I can't think of any device, appliance, etc. I own whose UX is _better_ for not having physical, dedicated buttons or switches and instead having a touch interface or buttons which require a complex series of presses or chords.

I can't speak for other manufacturers, but having lived with a Tesla I can say these are some justifications, beyond cost:

- Standardization. With some exceptions where hardware is different, once you've driven one Tesla you can drive any Tesla. I love physical buttons too, but I don't love finding the drive mode buttons in a different place every time I rent a car, or trying to figure out how this one does the windshield wipers, or headlights, or radio tuning, or parking brake, or whatever.

- Simplification. Along with the mandate to reduce physical controls, Tesla also pushed toward making everything automatic. I never have to think about my headlights (and they dim in a circle around any detected vehicle in front of me), and I don't have to think much about drive modes either. It does a good job of automatically picking the correct direction when you tap the brake, and has a good mechanism for auto-switching between forward and reverse as you manipulate the brake and wheel.

- OTA updates. When something isn't working out for people they can make adjustments. They can also add new features (AI assistant, more automation) without mounting new buttons.

There are some silly choices, like the glove box (which is tiny and not very useful anyway) requiring a voice command or the touchscreen. And some people don't like the touchscreen vents (I do, surprise surprise). But most of it makes good sense.
by nospice | 2026-01-06 19:40:57+00:00
> You don't get tech without negativity.

This is something we tell ourselves to rationalize bad behavior. How come that 3D printing forums or woodworking forums or car maintenance forums can exist without toxicity, but tech somehow can't? There are people pushing products everywhere. You can ban marketing content or set ground rules for it.

Further, performative cynicism really isn't that helpful. It's not insightful to hear that every company is evil and greedy, every personal project sucks, every scientific study is wrong, and every blogger is incompetent.
by kevstev | 2026-01-06 19:40:59+00:00
I kind of hear you on this- its not super necessary, but it can be convenient. I use Synology VideoStation which is a part of their NAS Suite. We keep a small library of often rewatched stuff- holiday movies, a few of the wifes favorites, etc... and the nice thing is I can play it on any TV in my house from an app on my phone. I can also stream to say my local laptop when I am away if I wanted to as well, though I think I have done that exactly once.

What is a little nicer about it is that we can hear about something, have it downloaded to the folder that gets indexed, and have it available to play near instantaneously. My NAS also does transcoding if necessary, so that eliminates a lot of hassles around codecs and such as well.

A lot of people take this a step further and avoid all paid services and just use tools like radarr and sonarr to get whatever content they are interested automatically off the high seas and play it when they want to.

The network share is the hard part- well really having the always on server that hosts it- plex/jellyfin/emby etc are just a little bit of sugar on top that make it a nicer experience. And IME, you install once and you are done, there is no maintenance to deal with afterwards so there is little downside.
by Twirrim | 2026-01-06 19:41:26+00:00
> Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients

FWIW these kinds of claims have been a cyclical thing constantly throughout my nearly 3 decades long career. We're always on the verge of thin clients replacing desktops, and then we're suddenly not and things calm down for a couple of years before, oops back again!

Every time there's arguments about saving on cost of hardware, etc. but the reality never seems to line up with the dream.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-06 19:41:36+00:00
There's no single agreed upon definition. Many of them include ethnic cleansing as a form, using wording like "the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_definitions

> if you want to see how ethnic cleansing actually looks, i'll suggest to take a look at what azeri did a while ago.

Gaza saw 90% displaced, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Nagorno-Karabakh_... says 99%. With 288 deaths, versus at least 60k in Gaza. I'm inclined to see them both as ethnic cleansing? And shitty?
by QuantumNomad_ | 2026-01-06 19:41:42+00:00
They use those videos on the lock screen for example.

Not saying it’s a good idea that they ship all of those big video files. Believe me, my MBP M1 with 256GB SSD barely has space left even when I go and clean up various files I no longer need.

Foolish as I was, I believed that doubling the amount of storage compared to the MacBook Air I had before it would leave me with plenty of space for years to come. In reality it did not take much time before I was using most of the storage available.

So when I bought my latest iPhone not long after I bought that MBP, I opted for the iPhone model that has 1TB storage. And at least on my phone I consistently have a good amount of space left. Every couple of months I move pictures and videos from the phone to an external hard drive. So since it was only a week or so since last I moved pictures and videos from the phone, I am currently using 350 GB of storage on the phone.

Out of those currently used 350 GB, just under 40GB is accounted for by music I have downloaded in the SoundCloud app, which is ok even though maybe a little bit silly on my part. I have it set to download all songs that I favourite, and I sometimes manually download whole albums and whole playlists. Not because I want to listen to all of it offline but so that when I am offline I still have a wide selection to choose from. For example on the occasion that I fly by plane once or twice a year.

Another 20GB of storage space is used by maps I’ve downloaded in the Organic Maps app to have locally saved maps for various places I’ve been to or want to go to. Again, a little bit silly to keep that much map data even for the places that I am not going to visit for at least 6-12 months, and which will need to be updated again when I do go there to ensure I have up to date maps. But all in all, I can “afford it” with a terabyte total storage. And both the songs in SoundCloud and the map data is data that I could manually go through and delete as much of as I’d like to if I ever were in a pinch and needed to free up space.

At times I will hoover around 700 GB of storage used on the phone if it’s been a while since I moved pictures and videos and I have filmed some longer videos.

My phone being a few years old now however, it doesn’t have USB-C. So it takes a bit of time to move pictures and videos from it. Even if I transfer over the network it doesn’t seem much faster than USB 2.0, weirdly.
by _fzslm | 2026-01-06 19:41:43+00:00
Is it me, or has every major operating system (macOS, iOS, Windows and now Android) variously shot itself in the foot in some spectacular way over the last year?

macOS and iOS 26 are the most unstable, unpolished operating systems I've used from Apple since the early 2000s. Windows has had a set of baffling bugs, like the crashing File Explorer – seemingly the result of overzealous layoffs in favour of AI development. And on Android, restrictions to APK installations and now this – which, yes, general consumers are unlikely to care all that much about – but it all signals something deeper going on in management across the board.

I can only hope the time for Linux-all-the-things is slowly but surely arising – even if it remains a minority, seeing Linux emerge from 1-2% market rate and becoming a usable alternative for most people would be fantastic.
by scottbez1 | 2026-01-06 19:41:44+00:00
Similar for cooktops - I’ve seen IR-reflectance-based touch controls go haywire due to dimmable overhead lights, and heard of frustration with capacitive controls going haywire from liquid splatters.

There are some very real benefits to touch interfaces in cooking (primarily ease of cleaning a solid flat surface, and manufacturers don’t need to worry about moisture ingress), but it’s pretty hard to make one that actually consistently works in a way that won’t accidentally burn your house down when your cat walks across the cooktop in the middle of the night. I’m personally going to stick to knobs and buttons in the meantime.
by dwijpatel | 2026-01-06 19:41:54+00:00
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by zamadatix | 2026-01-06 19:41:59+00:00
Gmail started by giving 1 GB of free storage to users as a carrot. Over 2 decades later, how much does it really matter if the app goes from 70% of that down to even 10% of that, and would that outweigh what else people actually want to see done instead?

I mean, it's certainly not anything to boast about from a technical perspective. I just don't know whether it's really enough to warrant any shame for the product though.
by riversflow | 2026-01-06 19:42:00+00:00
Dashboard screens are so cringe, I’d be happy if they were banned outright. I want dials and dim indicator lights for the console, and knobs and buttons that have the dual purpose of interface and display on the dash. This is a machine, not a video game, everything should be in service of making the driver look out the windshield.

Modern cars are absolute shit, the UI on my 30 year old Camry feels amazing by comparison to any car that I’ve driven that has come out since 2010.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-06 19:42:11+00:00
So is it actually nazis and supremacists, or just whites that don't want to make themselves sexually available to non-whites? And followup question - are there any white dating sites that aren't nazis, by whatever standard, like there are many celebrated black and jewish [1] dating sites? Or the many black and jewish equivalents to WhiteDeal [2]? Or is it only wrong when whites do it?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509295

[2] For blacks:

https://cbecenter.org/

https://www.blackenterprise.com/

https://blacksinbusiness.org/

https://www.forbes.com/forbesblk/

https://foundation.blackeconomicalliance.org/cbe/

https://nbboa.org/

For jews:

https://tjenetwork.com/

https://www.jfenetwork.com/

https://finder.startupnationcentral.org/program_page/ittn-is...

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-jewish-entrepreneur

https://jeonetwork.org/

https://hfls.org/loan-programs/small-business-resources/

https://www.jewishtampa.com/Societies
by mnicky | 2026-01-06 19:42:19+00:00
Does it also have motion sensors to turn on the interior lamp? That's what I've found the most frustrating on some of their models.

You want to turn on the lamp? Try some waving gestures...

Also, I don't know whether this is a feature, a bug, or just a lack of skill on my side but I couldn't get the lamp to turn on with the engine turned off. VERY impractical.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-06 19:42:22+00:00
I think the benefit of a discrete optocoupler is in keeping the communication point-to-point, so no other device (malicious or otherwise) can "listen in". A low-power light signal won't penetrate a solid enclosure; it's much harder to prevent mechanical vibrations from leaking information beyond the coupler - you'd need to keep the speaker and microphone on some kind of suspension (springs and shock absorbers) acting as a low-pass filter.
by Zenst | 2026-01-06 19:42:35+00:00
Imagine, it's not just making sure your code is secure, but your also counting on all those libraries's being secure. Let alone all these frameworks as you say - payment, advertising, analytics... You could have the most secure code ever, but when it is just one link in a chain outside your control, best not overthink it or you won't sleep.

You can see why bug bounties get rewarded well. Though mindful, money is not what drives everyone. Then there are the greedy, in which such exploits value on the black market can be higher. Not forgetting government agencies level.

I wonder which email client will break the 1GB mark, and when we will see a resurgence in reducing bloat. I'm sure that phase will come, did for Microsoft once.
by peab | 2026-01-06 19:43:02+00:00
| Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and | all the power lies in subscription services?

arguably, we are already there. The majority of people don't use a computer anymore, they use their phone. The phone itself is just an interface to the cloud. If I lost my phone today, and got a new one, the only inconvenience would be the time it takes me to set up the new phone, and the cost of the new phone. I wouldn't lose anything because everything is on the cloud
by Snuggly73 | 2026-01-06 19:43:08+00:00
Ok, if its almighty, then why is not the benchmarks at 100%? If you look at the individual issues, those are somewhat small and trivial changes in existing codebases.

https://swe-rebench.com/

(note that if you look at individual slices, Opus is getting often outperformed by Sonnet).
by tonymet | 2026-01-06 19:43:26+00:00
excellent points. I'd also add that at slightly higher price you can include embedded TPUs /NPU like RyzenAI . With all of the lacking features you mentioned, and the AI features in mini PCs, Raspberry PI seems to be many years behind.

A major selling point of mini PCs is the integrated cooling system, so they run silent. Pi's thermals are terrible, and the active cooling offerings are just garbage.
by rmoriz | 2026-01-06 19:43:50+00:00
1. Follow people who deliver. Deliver code, arts, thoughts, ideas, change.

2. Ignore the cultists of all sites, ignore the people who fall into every rage bait trap or just want to start a cult. Almost nobody is right or wrong all the time except people who outright hate all people and have no empathy.

3. Even when you follow a person, treat them with a big grain of salt. Everyone is an influencer, many have some underlying agenda or questionable views. Be reluctant to share, be reluctant of trusting in topics people are not known for. Your three letter guy sure knows A LOT about code, business and getting things done, however his view on politics may be dubious. You need to be able to accept that both at the same time.
by burkaman | 2026-01-06 19:44:12+00:00
My bike was stolen recently, and when I posted it on BikeIndex I almost immediately received emails from several different people who had been monitoring a known bike thief's Facebook Marketplace account.

I didn't end up recovering it, but I was still impressed with how well the site worked, and I realized it hasn't been discussed on HN except for some very dismissive comments when it originally launched (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6467431).
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by socalgal2 | 2026-01-06 19:44:32+00:00
I uninstall all games with any ad usage.

The latest was "I Love Hue". It let me play 10 levels (nice) and then put ads in. If they had just asked for $1 before showing the first ad I might have paid but as soon as I saw the ads I just uninstalled.

Note: IMO "I Love Hue" is a $1 game. I'm happy to pay $$ for bigger games and often do though on Switch/Steam, less on mobile.
by port11 | 2026-01-06 19:44:37+00:00
Very insightful, rather than unjustified speculation. Of course it doesn’t explain why many other apps are so big, e.g. Withings, Bunq (bank), and Albert Heijn (supermarket) together eat 1GB of my storage. All 3 are things I need to list data, but somehow are the size they are.
by masklinn | 2026-01-06 19:45:04+00:00
IIRC towing to and from the runway has two major issues:

- standard towing tractors are really slow when towing, nowhere near taxiing speed, so you need a fleet of heavier duty "fast tow", possibly dedicated (depending on price)

- more traffic around the runway, which creates more airport complexity

Taxibot does exist tho, and is certified, and used in a few airports. Though I think it's only hybrid not electric.
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-06 19:45:07+00:00
Yes, but also controls for things that should not even be controls. I can select---from the steering wheel---how many seconds the interior lights stay on after I close the door. Why? Just pick a reasonable number, and don't ask me to think about it. Or if you must, put that setting somewhere out of the way so I don't accidentally fall into it when I'm driving. Or better yet, give me a switch specifically for the interior lights that I can control manually. The cars back in the 1970s did a better job with this than today's cars do.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-06 19:45:25+00:00
My back-of-my-head benchmark is still my old Amiga. Here's[0] a full-blown GUI email app that was perfectly nice to use. The entire package, complete with all its custom GUI classes and 3 sets of icons, took 1.4MB uncompressed.

I know the thousand legitimate reasons why modern apps are larger. It's not all bloat and inefficiency, either, except in the harshest sense that old apps tended to use byte-optimized data structures like linked lists instead of faster, but less space-efficient structures like hash maps. They have to deal with higher resolutions, although the command to draw an empty white 320x200 square on the screen should be approximately the same size as to draw a 2000x1500 one. And yet, wow, it doesn't seem like it should need to be that much bigger.

[0] https://aminet.net/package/comm/yam/YAM20
by anon84873628 | 2026-01-06 19:45:27+00:00
Funny, for me it's the opposite. It's uniquely relaxing to be locked in with nothing but a book or some movies (I purposely avoid connecting to the internet during a flight.)

My biggest dilemma is whether to sit in the aisle or window. The former you can get up whenever you want but are bumped by passers by and neighbors exiting the row. Versus being the one doing the disturbing.

And if you can afford business class - where supersonic would be priced - then I mean... The meals are restaurant quality and the full recline?! I hardly want to disembark! The biggest discomfort is the dry sinuses.

But in getting to/from the plane you are cattle moving through a logistical labyrinth with countless possibilities for something to go wrong.