MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by donatj | 2026-01-15 10:21:50+00:00
Same general experience. I have seen friends and former coworkers who I know are mediocre devs but good at talking themselves up get placed multiple times this year.

I've secured a single interview, company seemed like a great fit. System level Go apps, my bread and butter. No longer have to split my time with frontend? The dream.

On round 2 their CTO basically shut me down 2 minutes in saying they're unwilling to do any sort of training and only looking for existing experts in their very specific niche. In round 1 the interviewer told me I seemed like a very good candidate, very positive about my experience. Said they'd been looking for a long while and I was one of the most experienced Go backend developers they'd interviewed. Round 1 was frankly one of the most positive interviews I'd ever had. Got extreme whiplash as round 2 was cut short at about the ten minute mark.

I don't know for sure but I think a lot of companies are looking for an absolute Cinderella given the glut in applications. I don't think that guys going to find her.

It's been a couple months now, their job posting is still up. I'd have been well up to speed and making meaningful contributions by now.
by t43562 | 2026-01-15 10:21:51+00:00
In the UK I've never seen the hailo hats (which are quite old BTW) advertised for LLMs. The presented usecase has been object detection from lots of video cameras in realtime.

They seem very fast and I certainly want to use that kind of thing in my house and garden - spotting when foxes and cats arrive and dig up my compost pit, or if people come over when I'm away to water the plants etc.

[edit: I've just seen the updated version in Pimonori and it does claim usefulness for LLMs but also for VLMs and I suspect this is the best way to use it].
by roryirvine | 2026-01-15 10:22:21+00:00
Agreed. Currently it reckons that the most-fucked pub in my area is the largest pub within walking distance from a major premier league football stadium.

But it's always busy even out of season, and absolutely heaving on match days. I'd be surprised if a single match day's profits weren't sufficient to cover the additional tax for the year.

Personally, I'll continue to offer my enthusiastic support to my much smaller, friendlier local even though it's facing only a tiny tax increase by comparison.
by Tade0 | 2026-01-15 10:23:37+00:00
Thing is, I couldn't hear anything at all from the turbine and the only noise I could pick up was the road.

At approx 256m attenuation is 21dB. Road noise reaches 85dB, which means I was hearing it at 64dB at most.

I should have heard something, anything from the turbine, yet I didn't.
Ask HN: Why does it still make sense to review stupid bugs at PR time?
by moshetanzer | 2026-01-15 10:24:50+00:00
Ask HN,

Code reviews are essential, but I keep seeing the same pattern: PR reviews are full of comments about trivial bugs, lint issues, and convention mismatches that could have been caught before the code ever left the developer’s machine.

With AI-assisted coding becoming the norm, this seems worse, not better. AI is fast, but it happily produces subtle bugs, inconsistent patterns, and sloppy edge cases. By the time a PR is up, reviewers are debugging noise instead of reviewing architecture, correctness, or intent.

Why isn’t pre-commit review (automated or otherwise) the default place to catch these issues?
Is there a real downside, or is this just inertia?

I built a small pre-commit review tool to experiment with this idea and genuinely can’t imagine going back, but I’m curious why this isn’t already standard practice.

Would love to hear how others think about this.
by applemelonjuice | 2026-01-15 10:25:38+00:00
I really want to belive this: That it's somehow possible to work around such a kind of digital meltdown when the US really, really want to cause some real damage using zerodays, backdoors and so on. I can't imagine that it's possible, but I also don't think it'll come this: There'll just be a call from Trump to ${SOME_HEAD_OF_STATE} stating that if they don't shut up regarding greenland at this very second, they're looking at deleting the entire nation's mail, data, have no iPhones, Androids and so on. No one will even consider taking such a kind of risk. And that's just one factor besides tariffs and everything else.
by moring | 2026-01-15 10:26:22+00:00
> why don't OSS maintainers just charge for their work?

What if we turn this from a rhetorical question to an actual question?

My totally unverified take:

1. Missing transaction / Payment infrastructure. The same reason why paid music streaming services were successful depite piracy being a thing.

2. Bureaucracy associated with earning money. In many countries, going from "unpaid" to "€1 per month" is a nightmare.

... and a suggestion to make both less dire: A transaction infrastructure that allows small projects (that wouldn't be a cash cow anyway) to forward all payments to another project of the project Author's choice.

Edit: See https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d2ic2e/krita_is_now_...
by MrBeanDean | 2026-01-15 10:27:02+00:00
Had my Nudie jeans for about 5 year wearing them probably 4 days a week averaged over the whole time. Indeed the frequent cycling killed them, but it took quite a while. Now I'm figuring out when to bring them to their free repair service to see if I can get a prolonged live for them.

Disclaimer: cycled probably only 15 minutes a day with them averaged over the whole time, but really hard to say, so your millage might vary
by vixen99 | 2026-01-15 10:27:09+00:00
While agreeing totally with your sentiment it's a fact that alcohol (the raison d'etre for pubs existing at present unless their business model changes) is classed as a Group 1 carcinogen. 'Consuming alcohol increases the risk of developing at least 7 types of cancer;, https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/reports-and-publications/... etc., We've all got to die but some ways are nastier than others.
by OgsyedIE | 2026-01-15 10:27:28+00:00
I'd be surprised if it's acceptable to give that question an honest answer.

Precise historical examples of specific acts of rebellion against legal systems perceived to be unjust, like the 1943 Amsterdam civil registry bombing (for which the Wikipedia page is illuminating alone) show the problems with such acts: even if everybody in a particular urban centre goes along with the rebellion, the long-term results are minor. As Kotkin says, successful revolutions need an ideological throughline that can produce coherence by itself.
by moron4hire | 2026-01-15 10:27:40+00:00
He loves you and only he can truly love you. And if you don't love him first, you're the problem and you're going to end up in a place of eternal torment. Don't make him do this to you. He doesn't want to send you to hell. Oh wait, no, he's not the one sending you to hell, he's just not going to save you from hell. Yeah, that's it. Only his love can save you from yourself, see.

It's a cult. If God were real, he'd be a sociopath.
Show HN: WinDaisy – Try retro Windows colors on an old-school LOB app UI
by ayi | 2026-01-15 10:27:44+00:00
Like many developers, my resolution for 2026 was to finally start my own blog. I managed to avoid the trap of spending weeks building a custom static site generator, but I fell into a different rabbit hole: finding the perfect retro Windows color scheme for the UI.

While searching, I found a gist with old Windows colors' RGB vales and wanted to see how those classic colors would look on a modern framework. I tried creating an old-school LOB application UI to test them out. What I thought would be a few hours of tinkering ended up taking over the first two weeks of 2026.

WinDaisy is a collection of 33 themes for daisyUI that replicate these classic Windows color themes.

Some details:

- 33 Available Themes: Includes classic 9x looks like classic, teal, and plum (which comes with plus pack), as well as later styles like luna, zune, and aero.

- Technical Stack: The project uses Bun for package management and Tailwind CSS with the daisyUI plugin. No React, no SPA.

- Simple Implementation: Themes are applied by setting the data-theme attribute on the <html> tag or specific elements. You can click any theme on sidebar and it will be applied. A single HTML file with CSS.

- Customizable: You can add new themes by defining CSS variables in a theme.css file and rebuilding the project. "bun run build" that's it.

Repository: https://github.com/cnkt/WinDaisy

Live Demo: https://cnkt.github.io/WinDaisy/

Disclaimer: No ai used for this project. I wanted to mention that because it might affect how you perceive the work.
by rsynnott | 2026-01-15 10:27:58+00:00
AIUI this was basically deliberate; the KJV was written in language that was a little archaic/faux-archaic even at the time it was written, to sound impressive.

It’s probably not a great thing for a modern English speaker to read if they want to actually understand it; in particular the meaning of certain English words has changed enough that they can give a false impression.
by l11career | 2026-01-15 10:28:44+00:00
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As one of our QA Engineers, you'll be the guardian of product excellence - thinking like a hacker, testing like a detective, and ensuring our complex systems work flawlessly in the wild. You'll go beyond finding bugs to anticipating the unexpected: edge cases, weird component interactions, and those "no user would ever do this... but what if?" scenarios that separate good products from great ones.

What You'll Own:

* Design battle-tested strategies that catch issues before customers do

* Build automated test suites that scale with our ambitions

* Hunt down bugs across complex component interactions and configurations

* Partner with dev teams to ship quality at speed

* Be the voice of risk assessment when it matters most

You Should Have:

* Critical thinking that connects dots others miss

* Deep web tech knowledge (HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, SSL/TLS, CDN)

* Automation chops (Python, JavaScript, Bash)

* Experience with test methodologies and writing bulletproof test cases

* Debugging skills that turn logs into insights

* Communication skills that turn complex issues into clear actions

Why Join?

You'll be testing cybersecurity products that defend critical infrastructure against DDoS attacks – a single bug could mean the difference between stopping an attack in <10 seconds or watching a bank, power grid, or hospital go offline. This isn't just QA – it's cyber defense at the highest level.

If breaking unbreakable systems and ensuring bulletproof security for critical infrastructure sounds like your kind of challenge, come lead, code, and conquer with us: https://www.link11.com/en/jobs/qa-engineer-remote-first-f-m-...
Ran a 5k queries on 50k documents to understand the file vs. vector RAG debate
by gdad | 2026-01-15 10:28:47+00:00
title: Ran a 5k queries on 50k documents to understand the file vs vector rag debate

Was curious about the noise on file-based RAG as opposed to vector-RAG. So benchmarked Tantivy vs. Chroma to quantify the trade-offs in modern RAG pipelines. I used 5 datasets: CodeXGlue, MS MARCO, SQuAD, HotpotQA, and SciQ.

- Indexing/Embedding was 76x slower for Vectors ($O(s)$ vs $O(ms)$). Query latency was 11x slower

- In SciQ, keyword search outperformed vectors by 32% (MRR). Terms like "Mitochondria" are specific keys, not semantics. Vectors tended to drift toward semantically similar but factually incorrect answers.

- In HotpotQA, I noticed a trend where vectors find the "answer" document but miss the "bridge" document because it isn't semantically similar to the prompt. Finding the right document is not the same as having enough context to prove the answer.

The Data (MRR):

| Dataset | Domain | Keyword | Vector | Winner |

| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |

| CodeXGlue | Code | 0.29 | 0.91 | Vector (+213%) |

| SciQ | Science | 0.81 | 0.61 | Keyword (+32%) |

| HotpotQA | Reasoning | 0.55 | 0.50 | Keyword (+10%) |

Curious to learn if others have similar observations or views.
by oooyay | 2026-01-15 10:29:11+00:00
Yes that one. They definitely did. I know the people who were interviewed and I know what they said. That neighborhood meeting was because the neighborhood learned that the Mayors office had side stepped the public input process. The mayor admitted it that night. Reporting can be better but my point was that politics does not move East of 205 and for the first time I saw it. The reporter and the photojournalist both lived in Portland. The difference was local media regardless of who they're owned or operated by.

A lot of these comments are indexing on ownership. While I agree ownership plays a factor I think whether the actual journalist is from here plays a more outsized role in how they present and investigate the news.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-15 10:30:11+00:00
There are lots of very good relatively recent novels on the shelf at the bookstore. Certainly orders of magnitude more than there are movies.

The other thing to compare is the narrative quality. I find even middling books to be of much higher quality than blockbuster movies on average. Or rather I'm constantly appalled at what passes for a decent script. I assume that's due to needing to appeal to a broad swath of the population because production is so expensive, but understanding the (likely) reason behind it doesn't do anything to improve the end result.

So if "all" we get out of this is a 1000x reduction in production budgets which leads to a 100x increase in the amount of media available I expect it will be a huge win for the consumer.
by wooger | 2026-01-15 10:31:12+00:00
The view I get on tv watching stadium sports at least is vastly better than from any seat in the stadium, I'd never want to use this service for football or NFL etc. Not to mention that these sports are all wrapped up in exclusive broadcast rights by people who aren't Apple.

But the real killer for this proposed use is sharing with others. More that half the time I watch live sports (or the very occasional streamed live concert) it's in a party situation with other people.

No one else can see the game and even if they could, interacting with other people with a giant headset on is a non starter.
by laylower | 2026-01-15 10:31:19+00:00
Anything is better than nothing but the fact of the matter is that it's still Amazon. It's the same amazon than gives ring cameras unfettered warrantless access to people's home, literally pays homage to kings and is a US company through and through.

Go European if you can - there was an article not too long ago that described how it was actually cheaper to use a EU cloud provider than AWS.

Also I read the article and the term 'digital sovereignty' is used. I don't think it means what the author thinks it means...
by iso1631 | 2026-01-15 10:32:23+00:00
Most expensive pint I've paid round here was £6, so pubs are about 2x that - about half hour of adult minimum wage, same as spoons charged 25 years ago.

So how do spoons make a profit?

The main difference that I see is that they buy cheap properties and thus don't have crushing rents.

What this page doesn't show is the increase in rent for these buildings.
by Wilder7977 | 2026-01-15 10:32:28+00:00
A classic example would be build (container build) images instructions.
Of course, other examples are running a security static analysis, running tests, or whatever other standard practice is desidered for security.

Say that you build 100 images, each with its own repository where there is the code, there is the Dockerfile etc.
Now, if you build images with "make build", it means that ultimately the actual command line flags for the build command are going to be in the Makefile, inside each repository. These flags could include flags like --cache-from, build arguments, --add-host, or many other flags that may not be desirable in an organization.
Imagine what the workflow file would like for such a case: you have your in-repo CI file that clones the repo, and then executes make test, make build, make push, etc.
Do you know if make push sent the PCI registry secret somewhere else on the internet? Do you know what exactly flags were used to build? Not really, you need to trust the code inside the repo to at most collect this information, and how do you know it was not tampered or spoofed?

Compare it with the following scenario:
All 100 repos at some point in that CI invoke an external workflow, which contains instructions to build images, push them to the registry (and run tests before, whatever). This can obviously also be a combination or workflows, I am saying one for simplicity.
This workflow (or workflows) at the end produces an attestation, including provenance data and about what is run.
It can do so reliably, because the instructions of what had to be done are within its own context. There is no input that comes from outside (e.g., the repository) that determined build flags or instructions, outside of what the workflow exposed (e.g., few variables).

In the second case, I can then use a policy that restrict images that have attestation and that were built by my workflow(s) that contain standard and deterministic instructions. This way I know that no image was built using weird build flags, including strange dependencies, maybe tampering with network and DNS (in makefile I can write whatever) or local docker cache, etc.
I know this because a standard workflow was executed in a fresh, "sterile" environment with a standard set of instructions, that can't be changed or tampered by those controlling the repository content.

Note that all of the above is solely concerned with being able to make security statements on the build artifact produced, not on the context of the build (e.g., no network access).
by beklein | 2026-01-15 10:32:30+00:00
Most of my complex documents are, luckily, Markdown files.

I can recommend https://github.com/tobi/qmd/
. It’s a simple CLI tool for searching in these kinds of files. My previous workflow was based on fzf, but this tool gives better results and enables even more fuzzy queries. I don’t use it for code, though.
by phrotoma | 2026-01-15 10:33:40+00:00
Just taking this opportunity to point out (in case you haven't read it) that your project is very reminiscent of a fantastic scene from the classic cyberpunk novel Count Zero, in which the main charater Bobby catches a lift from Lucas, some kind of cybervoodoo shaman, in an autonomous limo named "Ahmed" equipped with advanced electronic countersurveilance.

---

"Lucas," Bobby said, his mouth half full of cold fried chicken, "how come it's taking us an hour and a half to get to New York? We aren't exactly crawling.

"Because," Lucas said, pausing for another sip of cold white wine, "that's how long it's taking us. Ahmed has all the factory options, including a first-rate countersurveillance system. On the road, rolling, Ahmed provides a remarkable degree of privacy, more than I'm ordinarily willing to pay for in New York. Ahmed, you get the feeling anybody's trying to get to us, listen in or anything?"

"No, sir," the voice said. "Eight minutes ago our identification panel was infra-scanned by a Tactical helicopter. The helicopter's number was MH-dash-3-dash-848, piloted by Corporal Roberto

"Okay, okay," Lucas said. "Fine. Never mind You see? Ahmed got more on those Tacs than they got on us."
by Mashimo | 2026-01-15 10:34:22+00:00
Yeah, Pi 5 2gb is ~20% more expensive compared to pi3b on release, factoring in inflation (Both in including VAT and local prices)

It's 10 bucks more. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Still half the price that I see intel NUCs for sale. Which of course are way more capable. But still, I don't mind the price that much.

I could go with a cheaper alternative, but then AFAIK you might have to fiddle with images, kernel and documentation. For me that is worth 10 bucks.
by seriocomic | 2026-01-15 10:34:55+00:00
What came to my mind when I saw this at 625 points and 1743 comments, was "I'd love to run all these sites through my own tool that analyses websites (for tech issues)" and comment with a link to the commentor/site-owner with their own personal link for them - sort of like a technical 'mirror'). If I don't get down-voted I might just do that...
by jiehong | 2026-01-15 10:35:19+00:00
Safari is a fine browser, just as Firefox and Chrome are [0].

Regarding CSS Grid Lanes, I find it to be a better name than "masonry".

I'm not sure how often I'd actually reach for grid lanes, but I guess not often.

What good use cases would you see for grid lanes today?

[0]: <out of topic>If anything, Chrome is the new IE: is a monopoly imposing its quirks and "standards" on others.</out of topic>
by jijijijij | 2026-01-15 10:35:24+00:00
Assuming you are who you say you are, thanks for the feedback.

> All that said, the post does not actually dox anyone (as far as I can tell, every name mentioned is an alias or red herring)

Well, you clearly do have struck a nerve. And the article at least comes off as the attempt to dox someone. Curiosity is one thing, publishing these findings (where the original sources may fade in time) is another. It's quite evident the person behind archive.today does not want the attention. Just saying, your post doesn't exactly say respect privacy. Would you not have published, if you were actually confident to have found the guy? I got the impression, you would have published regardless.

> the "investigation" was basically punching things into my favorite search engine and seeing what came up.

I think that's what doxxing is, for the most part. You did the work, so everyone else doesn't have to. Nation state threat actors and "the copyright cabal" also got other stuff to do, technical feasibility isn't really a valid argument. Nation state actors could also hack, extort, or kill someone. Ethically, that's of no consequence regarding your own actions against someone.

Not saying you are the worst person ever, but I can totally see why you attracted someone's anger.
by sitharus | 2026-01-15 10:35:34+00:00
For viscose most rayon a gentle cycle in a front loading washing machine is generally fine, though the more silk-like variants are less resilient. You might want to put it in a garment washing bag to make sure it doesn't get stretched while wet. If you don't have that it's dry-clean only.

Varieties like modal and Lyocell are machine washable.
by wongarsu | 2026-01-15 10:36:31+00:00
The audio/video version is in the works [1]. I imagine geolocation just got to this stage first because it's far simpler.

And IP-based geolocation is really unreliable beyond the country level. It depends on ISPs using a different pool of IP addresses for each city. That seems to be the norm in the US, but is not how every ISP runs their operation

1: https://developer.chrome.com/origintrials/#/view_trial/37362...
by LiamPowell | 2026-01-15 10:37:58+00:00
> "It's a compiler bug" is more of a joke than a real issue

It's a very real issue, people just seem to assume their code is wrong rather than the compiler. I've personally reported 12 GCC bugs over the last 2 years and there's 1239 open wrong-code bugs currently.

Here's an example of a simple one in the C frontend that has existed since GCC 4.7: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105180
by murderfs | 2026-01-15 10:38:03+00:00
I don't think I've ever seen documentation from tech writers that was worth reading: if a tech writer can read code and understand it, why are they making half or less of what they would as an engineer? The post complains about AI making things up in subtle ways, but I've seen exactly the same thing happen with tech writers hired to document code: they documented what they thought should happen instead of what actually happened.