MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-05 16:24:05+00:00
Yeah I’m saying drop the concern for another country conquering the supply chain. Let China dominate.

Europe is unconcerned. And they benefit from that. I mean real benefits like work life balance not benefits like talking points about which country has the bigger dick.

Do you really want America to be number 1 while you’re slaving away at your job 996 in pollution infested cities?
by psunavy03 | 2026-01-05 16:24:17+00:00
. . . so other devices are required to have the same interface? No, they're not. Just because you want to share enough design cues to make people understand they're dealing with the same brand doesn't mean you have to hammer square pegs into round holes.

Not to mention the fact that first, you have to get to a point where AR wearables are commercially viable, and we don't seem to have hit that point yet.
by ecb_penguin | 2026-01-05 16:24:24+00:00
This is a different problem and disciplin. I'm not an artist. I can't design anything pretty. But I can learn a programming language (or CSS) well enough that I can replicate something an artist designs.

We have an entire design org that produces pretty UIs. FE developers are then expected to know the CSS rules to build that design.

The very first thing I teach new FE developers is how to build from Figma designs.
by servercobra | 2026-01-05 16:24:27+00:00
I think the odds are better if it's not a random guy who also already has a bunch of power (e.g. Bezos with his considerable influence buying up and weaponizing WaPo). I personally think that consolidation of power is a reasonable thing to prevent. I'm not sure how you could block someone like Zuckerberg who started his own new media, other than the government, which as you pointed out has its own issues.
by mvkel | 2026-01-05 16:24:29+00:00
Punishing in public; managing via Slack; being a speed bump just because, all in service of preventing the "scope creep" bogeyman.

This is good management?

You can almost see how a toxic workplace experience seeped into OP's world model.

People just want to feel heard. Show up to listen, zoom out to be strategic, think about the mission.
Ask HN: Why don't sci-fi interfaces ever turn into real products?
by krschacht | 2026-01-05 16:24:39+00:00
Is there a good reason why the UI we see in sci-fi don't make it into actual products?

Maybe there is some true limitation inherent in this style UI which causes them to stay as mere experiments / novelty?

I'm thinking about demos like this which I've seen go by HN over the years (I'm not involved in any of these):

LCARS demo: https://www.mewho.com/ritos/

Tron-like terminal: https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui

Sci-fi UI components: https://github.com/arwes/arwes

And I've long been a fan of designers like gmunk doing UI work for film: https://gmunk.com/Oblivion-GFX

But I'm genuinely confused why the actual UIs we all use on a daily basis are all so derivative of one another when the space of UI possibilities is so vast.
by Artgor | 2026-01-05 16:24:44+00:00
I sympathise. I did ~200k reviews in Anki and no idea how many in Renshuu in 2025 for language learning: German, Spanish and Japanese... and I think I got into Anki hell.
For a long time, Anki was really useful for me, it pushed my Spanish and German forward, but now I plan to decrease the number of reviews significantly. I hope to spend no more than 30 minutes per day of flashcards, and the rest of time on immersion.
by SauciestGNU | 2026-01-05 16:25:09+00:00
I think we're finally seeing the culture that's been present in law enforcement forever playing out to its logical end. The solution is pretty close to "all law enforcement is bad". We're seeing that the people most prone to violence and abuse seek out positions of power in law enforcement. Basically anyone who wants to be a cop should not be allowed to be a cop.

We can blame autocrats while also blaming the complicit tools. In Grand Rapids, Michigan yesterday the local police arrested the organizer of a protest against the invasion of Venezuela while she was on camera interviewing with the local news for "obstructing a roadway" (marching in a lane with other lanes open to traffic) and "disobeying a lawful command".

When we have local beat cops colluding with national secret police and suppressing dissent, we have a very serious problem and are running out of options very quickly.
by jamesd_comelang | 2026-01-05 16:25:12+00:00
I am coming up with a new Language called Come ;) It’s 2026. Yes, AI writes code now. This is still happening. Come(C Object and Module Extensions) is a systems programming language inspired by C. It preserves C’s mental model while removing common pitfalls. I’m sharing one demo file (come_demo.co), no spec. If the language needs a manual to be readable, that’s already a failure. What you’ll see in the demo: Explicit module , no hidden globals Grouped const / import / export / alias const enum with auto-increment (and explicit starts) C-style functions with multiple return values var for local type inference (still static) switch with no accidental fallthrough UTF-8 strings that are just… strings map , array, string, struct, union composite type etc method support for struct/union No pointer No malloc , use ubyte array.resize() instead Goal: C-like performance so we burn fewer watts in the AI era instead of throwing more GPUs at problems we could’ve solved in C and hopefully save some head-scratching along the way. Demo attached. If this makes sense without docs, that’s a win. If not—tell me where it falls apart. come_demo.co
by monerozcash | 2026-01-05 16:25:26+00:00
I'm not 100% sure I understand what you're saying, but I guess you're asking how this could be censored?

> you would have to extract the keys from the malware

Yeah? That happens all the time. If you're designing mechanisms like this, it's presumably specifically against adversaries which are doing exactly that.

> you would then have to implement the logic and announce it - then rely on blockchain exploreres actually using that data to block addresses in real time.

Someone would only have to do this once and all your bots would be gone.

Usually the whole point of these mechanisms is C&C resilience, and usually that only matters for really big botnets which face co-ordinated attacks.

Any good C&C system for a bigger botnet would seek to eliminate all meaningful external points of failure for C&C. Using a block explorer, or HN comments, does not achieve that.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-05 16:25:27+00:00
Random example: In my last job I would point out JS language features that would have made my coworker's code more concise and canonical.

I hadn't done any JS coding beyond a few examples from a tutorial.

There's no way I would have retained that knowledge otherwise.

There are many such examples. In general it's extremely useful for retaining things you are not going to develop muscle memory for.

"Memorizing by doing" is great if you're doing often. What if you're not?
by Pxtl | 2026-01-05 16:25:46+00:00
Imho there are 3 separate classes of notifications

1) Ads - these should not exist, really, or at worst should be flagged in the app store as an anti-feature isolateable from other notifications.

2) "Recommendations" - that is, stuff you didn't subscribe to but are things the app offers that they "think you would like". These are defensible but should never ever be mixed with...

3) Stuff I actually explicitly subscribed to.

Breaking these rules should be rejection from the app store. Especially now that Google is legally required to allow 3rd-party app stores, they have much greater grounds to properly curate the Play Store. Let the filth live on 3rd-party stores.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-05 16:25:50+00:00
After spending quite a long time on this thread writing my thoughts etc, I feel like this is the most correct explaination of the situation

Distribution of wealth is the biggest issue and In my opinion, the most tangible way to solve things but then again, this is the core of the issue

Either you need a really anti corrupt body which can do their work and fight against such issues

But with causes like lobbying etc., those get washed up

Or we can have new people (like Zohran etc.) who try not to take lobbying money and then America can have new people who genuinely want to help and not be corrupt

But I am not sure what would happen, perhaps more people follow the example of zohran perhaps not. People are keeping an keen eye of the progress and what can happen. But one of the things which we saw was that although zohran won, I just didn't expect so much competition in the first place when Cuomo got around 40% I think?

it's wild because zohran's message was so well put out and received and this is the state then, I doubt that the voters might replicate it or not

It really depends ultimately on the voters. The truest form of responsibility but its also the lack of options and the two party system which is really bad in America ultimately causing the problems to exist even further.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-05 16:25:52+00:00
> Here's an example: panes, tabs, windows, apps, spaces. These things all fight against each other, have their own little silos, get treated differently by every single app, etc, etc.

Disagree. The fact that these are independent is a huge organizational boon for those who know how to apply some combination of them.

Example: I set up spaces (virtual desktops) to have themes: one of general web, one for iOS dev, one for Android dev, etc. within that, it’s useful to be able to further organize with windows and tabs — windows can represent projects for example, and tabs can represent files. These work together to prevent a Cambrian explosion of windows that would be impossible to manage no matter how your environment works.

It’s useful for apps to be distinct from windows, too. This allows things like moving all windows belonging to a particular app between screens, or minimizing/maximizing them all, hiding them all, etc. Panes in most circumstances are an entirely different beast than tabs and windows… it wouldn’t be useful to turn an inspector palette into a tab.

They work together as long as one’s mental model isn’t overly simplistic.
by stillworks | 2026-01-05 16:25:55+00:00
Do we (or someone better informed) understand the impact of re-shoring ?

In my mind, the reason (or the original intent) for off-shoring was to reduce costs to be able to sell more X (because cheaper is easier to sell) and selling more X means more profit and better market capitalisation (if the company selling X was public)

If re-shoring is adopted, my assumption/understanding is that X will retail at a higher price. Oversimplification maybe, but higher retail price means lower sales means lower profit (means lower stock price if the company selling X was public)

The solution to that would be higher/more automation i.e. less (or minimal) manufacturing related jobs I think ?

And now the situation would be that while there was capital-return-to-shore happening but went into automation and the jobs recovery was not what someone would have expected (both in terms of scale and skill)

But because the jobs were virtually re-shored the off shore labour market now suffers ?

Thoughts... ?
by metalman | 2026-01-05 16:26:04+00:00
once, years ago in front of the public library on spring garden rd, in sight of the huge bronze statue of churhill, striding, a man spoke up saying " when I get my check Ican buy any kind of drugs I want and listen to my hate music", direct quote.
wonder how he's doing this fine day?, most assuredly getting the kind of validation that would be impossible in a world without AI.
by shadowgovt | 2026-01-05 16:26:06+00:00
The thing that makes me most anxious about CSS is the lack of composability in the language itself (in the sense that every selector is more-or-less globally applicable). This is both a feature and a bug; it makes it much easier to style the entire site coherently, but at the same time much trickier to release individual modular components of UI as libraries and be able to drop them into the world for consumers to use without those consumers worrying about name collisions in a global symbol space of class names.

Web components have helped here, but in practice I don't ever use them; I either use one global style.css file (for personal projects that fit in my brain alone) or I use a system that supports local CSS classes via a compilation-and-name-mangling step.
Ask HN: Leaving at 5pm in Europe, flagged as "uncommitted" by US management
by NLthrowaway | 2026-01-05 16:26:30+00:00
Hi HN,

I work for the European office of a large US BigTech company. Recently got a new manager based in New York, and within weeks I was told I’m showing a “lack of commitment” because I log off at 5:00pm.

Apparently, my Slack going quiet after 5 is “concerning.”
Not responding to emails sent late at night is “not being available.”
Declining meetings scheduled for my evening is “not being a team player.”

This genuinely surprised me. Where I live, working hours are… working hours. If someone regularly needs evenings and weekends to keep things moving, the assumption isn’t heroism—it’s that something is broken: planning, staffing, or expectations. Staying late to prove you care isn’t admired; it’s usually seen as poor boundaries or bad management.

My manager framed this as “going the extra mile” and said that if I want to grow, I need to be more flexible with my time. From my perspective, that sounds less like flexibility and more like an expectation that Europe should quietly align its life around US time zones.

So I’m honestly curious (and maybe a little confused):
Is this actually normal in American tech culture? Is commitment measured by visible availability rather than results? Is staying late a signal of ambition, even if nothing is actively on fire?

From this side of the Atlantic, the idea that leaving on time is suspicious, and that having a life outside of work needs to be justified, feels pretty alien.

Would love to hear if this is just one manager, or if this is simply how things work in the US.
by rich_sasha | 2026-01-05 16:26:35+00:00
I'm not anti LLM, but the stock MS Copilot is just so hilariously bad. We have it at work, and based on my expectations of ChatGPT and Claude I thought it'd be able to do the following:

- fix formatting in a Word table (make fonts consistent, fix background colours according to a pattern)

- do better with email search than picking random words in my answer, then using the independently-broken Outlook search and give up

- when looking for internal webpages it can absolutely access it went to a web search, found nothing (surprise) and gave back some generic nonsense how I can ask colleagues instead

It is so, so, SO bad. And if Office is going more down this way, MS is pissing away its lockin - as these things are just unusable.
by oblio | 2026-01-05 16:26:57+00:00
> That's a polite way of phrasing "they've stolen a mountain of information and overwhelmed resources that humans would use to other find answers."

Yes, but I can't stop them, can you?

> But I'm glad you're able to have your fun.

Unfortunately I have to be practical.

> Doubtful. As the arms race continues AI DDoS bots will have less and less recent "training" material. Not a day goes by that I don't discover another site employing anti-AI bot software.

Almost all these BigCos are using their internal code bases as material for their own LLMs. They're also increasingly instructing their devs to code primarily using LLMs.

The hope that they'll run out of relevant material is slim.

Oh, and at this point it's less about the core/kernel/LLMs than it is about building ol' fashioned procedural tooling aka code around the LLM, so that it can just REPL like a human. Turns out a lot of regular coding and debugging is what a machine would do, READ-EVAL-PRINT.

I have no idea how far they're going to go, but the current iteration of Claude Code can generate average or better code, which is an improvement in many places.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-05 16:27:28+00:00
This is the "but iPhones and avocado toast" argument.

Calories and consumer goods are cheaper than ever. Housing, education and healthcare are more expensive than they've ever been. There has been a marked decrease in the amount of personal and economic autonomy available to the middle class and below over the past 40yr. Look at how medium skill level workers lived in the 1980s. It's basically a foreign country compared to today.

Having a robot vacuum to smear your dog's shit all around doesn't actually make you wealthier if you can't afford a house for the dog to shit in and apartments don't allow dogs.

What people want is a comfortable and fulfilling life. The modern economy has given them a rat race and shitty highs. Happy pills don't make depressed people happy. They just make them not depressed.
by andrehacker | 2026-01-05 16:27:29+00:00
That is my impression too. From my experience, the fact that I used it early on makes me use it in the "wrong" way as the fundamental concepts have changed a few times.

This is how it works for me:

https://media1.tenor.com/m/QWdPngpHxZ8AAAAd/family-guy-css.g...
by ecb_penguin | 2026-01-05 16:27:31+00:00
There's nothing wrong with using something before learning it. In fact, I'd argue most people can't learn something without first using it.

You can read all the programming books in the world. Actually writing a hello world program will teach you far more.

If you want to learn to play guitar, you need to start practicing simple chords long before you ever learn theory.
by i80and | 2026-01-05 16:27:36+00:00
The author is right that AI video is being used to propagandize and rot minds at scale in a way sort of unthinkable a couple years ago. Short-form video content wasn't good for us beforehand, but any balance has been fully upturned.

(I think that's all intrinsic to genAI in a way the author doesn't want to confront, but there is a crisis)
by throwawayffffas | 2026-01-05 16:27:43+00:00
> There's no easy solution to this crisis.

Put down the phone, close that youtube, tik tok or whatever tab.

Don't try to explain to your relatives which video is AI and which is not, explain to them that everything on the internet is bullshit and trolling, AI or not it does not matter it's all bullshit to sell ads.

Tell them they are better off watching TV, even Fox news.
by motbus3 | 2026-01-05 16:27:49+00:00
I think the scenario is correct, the analysis for each choice seems to be realistic but this dialog would be finished after a couple of interactions for sure.

(I think 1.9 USD is more realistic than 19 USD for now. I don't want to say the product is bad, it is hard to evaluate it at 19 USD for this simple interaction. For a QA simulation with multiple choices seems quite pricey)
by rickcarlino | 2026-01-05 16:28:06+00:00
Check out Newswaffle on Gemini:// protocol.

The web could in theory support text-first content, but it won't. The Gemini protocol, though not perfect, was built to avoid extensibility that inevitably leads us away from text. I long for the day more bloggers make their content available on Gemspace, the way we see RSS as an option on some blogs.

The web will continue to stray from text-first content because it is too easy to add things that are not text.
by chrsw | 2026-01-05 16:28:13+00:00
AI generated videos are being used in more and more ads. To cut costs I’m sure. The result is that ads that were just annoying are now terrible and jarring.

When I hear talk about AI risks I mostly hear things like runaway super intelligence doing whatever it wants and leaving humanity in the lurch. But what about more realistic concerns, like accelerating the race to the bottom by cheaply and poorly ripping off other people’s work and forcing everyone else to do the same just to keep up?
by cbeach | 2026-01-05 16:28:28+00:00
> Punishing in public

The junior dev is watching, and got the benefit of seeing that you value his time

> managing via Slack

Far preferable to arranging a face to face meeting over this low impact, simple procedural issue

> being a speed bump just because

Defending your team's finite attention and time from random direct requests from the business is a major part of your job as an EM.

> "scope creep" bogeyman

There's good reason scopes are defined and communicated, and deadlines and expectations are managed.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-05 16:28:29+00:00
Anyone that actually works with CSS will tell you it is the platform specific standards mess that made it a problem. Try something fancy, and it will likely become a bug later.

It gets painfully clear if you want pixel-perfect layout on every desktop screen, mobile screen, and browser. YMMV, and PDFs will be around forever now... =3
by foobarian | 2026-01-05 16:28:38+00:00
I think it's hard to overstate how big of a deal "Labour needs to be empowered globally" is.

Think of it as two huge reservoirs of water, one of which is at a higher altitude. If you connect them with a pipe, they will inevitably tend to equalize - this is what is happening with globalization. It's good for the developing world but bad for the developed. The labor class not only needs to demand better working conditions, but also standards of living, environment regulations, housing, etc. etc. until equilibrium is reached. The owner class will be exploiting the difference until that happens.
by yieldcrv | 2026-01-05 16:29:10+00:00
> The eventual incremental improvement of the core model intelligence always blows away whatever capabilities improvements can be obtained with advanced agent orchestration systems.

Yep. I'm watching 5 month old youtube videos about all these MCP servers you can add to Claude Code and subsequently how to manage the context window bloat, and I'm like ".... all these problems they're describing are solved out of the box?"

and that's when I realize its 5 months old and therefore not using Opus 4.5
Show HN: UI and MCP server for analyzing Claude Code history. No more lost ideas
by tad-hq | 2026-01-05 16:29:12+00:00
When I ask Claude about something I built last week, it has no memory of it. I have to dig through sessions manually and paste context back in.

I built an MCP server that solves this. It gives Claude access to all your past Claude Code sessions.

UI also enables Claude powered AI summarization of past conversations for more concise insights.

Now I can ask: "What authentication approach did I use in that API project?" and Claude searches my session history directly.

5 MCP tools: list_sessions, search_sessions, get_session, get_session_content, search_content.

Also has a desktop UI (Electron + React) to browse sessions visually.

Built with Go + SQLite. Open source (AGPL-3.0). Tested on Mac and Linux.

GitHub: https://github.com/tad-hq/universal-session-viewer

Looking for feedback from other Claude Code users.

Still a WIP, I have been using it daily in my workflows. Contributions much appreciated.
by zipy124 | 2026-01-05 16:29:16+00:00
Whilst this is true, there is some distortion to that statement with measuring by value. If I produce a screw for the US military (a scenario where supply chains are highly regulated and thus may be unable to buy cheap from a foreign country) and sell it for $1, I have produced a dollar of manufacturing by value, but If I produce exactly the same product in China for $0.1, I've only made 10 cents by value, despite the fact I have made exactly the same product.

There is a reason why for instance ships and raw materials output is measured in tonnage, since that is the actual thing produced, the value is secondary to that. That is you would want to measure the actual amount of goods produced rather than what they sold for, obviously only amongst comparable categories.
by spaceribs | 2026-01-05 16:29:53+00:00
It bothers me that we're comparing logical languages versus compositional, and I think it's based on a clear misunderstanding of what CSS is supposed to do versus something like C++.

It's like saying Rego[1] should just be done in a procedural language when in fact it also wouldn't be useful in that context.

[1] https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/policy-language