MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ggm | 2026-01-07 00:04:39+00:00
Graeber is controversial. Archeologists hate how he argues by ad hominem and does not appear to understand the works he cites, to make his argument.

I can't speak to his work on finance as a whole. Regarding deep time, his claims about pre-literate society from archeology are not widely supported, they use thin evidence to argue badly.

His anarcho-socialism isn't the concern. It's his lack of historicity, and inability to bring his peers with him on radical ideas which concerns me.

He's dead, he can't defend himself. So there's that.
by shepherdjerred | 2026-01-07 00:04:53+00:00
I've been working on something similar: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/monorepo/tree/main/package...

Essentially you run a server on some machine. Sessions are created in Docker containers, K8s pods, or via Zellij (an app similar to tmux).

You can:

- Directly attach to sessions via Docker attach (built-in via a TUI). You get a normal Claude Code experience, but multiplexed. The switcher/UI shows you the status of Claude and the PR (pushed, merge conflicts, CI status, review status, etc.)

- Manage sessions via a web UI. Connect to Claude Code directly via your browser. You have access to the usual Claude Code terminal or a native chat view.

- Manage sessions via an app. You have access to a native chat view.

It achieves isolation via Git worktrees + a proxy so that containers have access to zero credentials (there aren't even any Claude code creds in the container), which allows you to more safely use bypass all permissions mode.

This works better for me that Claude Code on Web because I have control over the environment Claude is running in. I can give it any Docker image I want, I can have it connect to my local network, etc.

It's still a WIP (the core bits are there, but it's not polished yet), but I'm hoping it provides a friendlier UX with a similar goal for what the OP has in mind.
by elemdos | 2026-01-07 00:04:57+00:00
Being able to “code” from your phone really feels like a huge change; it never took before because coding from your phone was miserable, but if you’re just coding by having a conversation then it might even be better to do it from your phone. I don’t know what that leads to, but it’s let me fix bugs from bed and build an MVP while moving, so I can’t complain.

For anyone looking for a more integrated and smaller approach, I built an open source app builder + runtime: https://github.com/tinykit-studio/tinykit

Basically gives you a Lovable-like app builder with built-in services (database/files/auth/email/payments/etc), content and design fields, and a code editor. Code is a single Svelte 5 file, and you can build/host unlimited apps on one server. And the server is just node + PocketBase, so runs easy on a $2 VPS. And LLM is BYOKey.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-07 00:05:28+00:00
> IIRC the fed said that narrow banking threatens the stability of the banking system since private credit expansion (and ultimately, the risks that come with that) is in their estimation desirable. Regulators want nothing but to crush the idea.

But why? I don't understand, I feel like certain exceptions like (credit cards?) or house loans can be built or some personal loans but we all see a disaster which will be billed by govt. thus impacting everybody

The govt itself can then buy ETF's once again / invest money from one way or other via pension funds or other funds (sovereign funds?) to the stock markets themselves or other avenues.

banks basically arbitrage the fact that they are FDIC insured and loans. Nothing wrong with it except the fact that most banks would keep most of the money with themselves and only give chump change to average person or even 0%. If that's the case, why isn't there a bank which can just provide 3% treasury funds or similar or (gold?) and then just help the average person.

I saw a lot of points I agreed upon the narrow banking website on and I'd love to discuss more about the harms of narrow banking compared to fractional and why regulators shot it down/just comparing the two of them.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-07 00:05:28+00:00
My 2012 Honda (which is quite old by some measures) is somewhat similar.

It's got buttons. Lots of buttons. It has no touch screen(s).

Some of the buttons include: Multi-tap button to change HVAC vent configuration manually. Dedicated, separate buttons for front and rear defrost (with an LED on the button for each).

And the PWM control for the fan loves slow ramping, apparently as a design intent, which is dumb: It could provide immediate audible feedback to input but instead tends to just loaf around in response to user inputs.

But! It has an automatic mode that really does work pretty well almost always, maintaining comfort for different zones based on a temperature setting for each. So usually, I don't mess with it at all. When that doesn't work optimally (too hot? too cold?), the temperature is adjusted by knobs.

And it also accepts voice commands. Which sounds silly, and perhaps is silly, and I certainly do feel silly using that.

But when the front window starts fogging a bit on the inside on a cold night, I can tap the voice command button on the steering wheel (which is easy to find by feel) and say a command like "Climate control defrost and floor" and it switches to that mode.

I very seldom look at the stupid LCD screen, with its small and nearly-inscrutable blue-backlit hieroglyphs. I change modes with my voice, and I give the temperature knob a twist using muscle memory (though I could use voice commands for that, instead).

It's still perhaps not ideal (and I do have ideas for hacking on the CAN-B network for some hands-off automations to make it work better with even less user input), but it's pretty good.

And if Honda could use voice commands starting ~15 years ago, then any automaker should be able to do so today. The physical parts (the microphone, the CPU grunt, the CAN controls) are broadly already in-place; the rest is just software that can be copied infinitely as new cars roll off the line.
by Aloisius | 2026-01-07 00:05:59+00:00
I just looked. In this case, it is just string translations.

In the version I'm looking at there are 27,470 .strings files totaling 69 MiB, but they take up 155.9 MiB of disk space due to the 4 KiB filesystem block size.

The keys for the strings take up 39% of the space while the values take up 61%. About 12% of translations are duplicated (the word "Cancel" is translated like 53 times)

So 55% of the space used for strings localization is just pure waste due to having so many small files. The long keys are rather wasteful too and about 12% of the translations are duplicated (i.e. the word "Cancel" is translated 50+ times per language).

Honestly, it just looks like no one cared.
by devilbunny | 2026-01-07 00:06:01+00:00
If you live in the right areas - mostly the western US - try JSX. Runs about equal to maybe 20% more than commercial domestic first class. Regional jets, all 1+1 seating, fly out of (effectively) an FBO, show up 20 minutes before domestic and 40 before international flights. Light screening, no terminal, no carryon (all bags brought off immediately at end of flight for collection planeside). Free WiFi on board and 120V power outlet at every seat.
by 1-more | 2026-01-07 00:06:42+00:00
I got flown out and put up at a hotel for a week for a PR emergency (it was the 5th anniversary of a merger no one cared about but the new CEO wanted to do something about it) ultimately to make a wordpress site. Everything on my expense report got marked up some percent and passed off to the hiring company. I maybe got a little bonus for the whole thing, so not terrible? Not great. I read Bullshit Jobs a little bit later and it hit a little close to home.
by hashhar | 2026-01-07 00:06:43+00:00
Codex for me behaves very junior engineer-ish. Claude is smarter and tries to think long term.

A great example of their behaviours for a problem that isn't 100% specified in detail (because detail would need iterations) is available at https://gist.github.com/hashhar/b1215035c19a31bbe4b58f44dbb4....

I gave both Codex (GPT5-ExHi) and Claude (Opus 4.5 Thinking) the exact same prompts and the end results were very different.

The most interesting bit was asking both of them to try to justify why there were differences and then critiquing each other's code. Claude was so good at this - took the best parts of GPTs code, fixed a bug there and ended up with a pretty nice implementation.

The Claude generated code was much more well-organised too (less script-like, more program like).
by EMM_386 | 2026-01-07 00:07:01+00:00
The context window isn't "crippled".

Create a markdown document of your task (or use CLAUDE.md), put it in "plan mode" which allows Claude to use tool calls to ask questions before it generates the plan.

When it finishes one part of the plan, have it create a another markdown document - "progress.md" or whatever with the whole plan and what is completed at that point.

Type /clear (no more context window), tell Claude to read the two documents.

Repeat until even a massive project is complete - with those 2 markdown documents and no context window issues.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-01-07 00:07:15+00:00
Extremely simplified:

When I deposit a dollar, the bank records a $1 deposit liability. If the bank makes a $1 loan, it creates a new $1 deposit for the borrower.

If that dollar is spent and redeposited, deposits increase even though the amount of base money has not. It looks like multiplication, but what’s really happening is that loans and deposits are expanding together on the balance sheet.

The bank is not creating wealth out of nothing. It now has matching assets (loans owed to it) and liabilities (deposits owed to customers), backed by capital that absorbs risk.

With reserve ratios effectively zero, lending is constrained by capital requirements and risk management, not by reserves. Banks cannot recirculate a single dollar endlessly without sufficient capital.
by darjan_dev | 2026-01-07 00:07:30+00:00
Hi I'm Darjan!

Senior Frontend Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and scaling modern web applications.
Strong in React/Next.js, TypeScript, clean architecture, and UI/UX implementation.
Comfortable working across the stack when needed. Looking for remote roles on product-focused engineering teams.

Location: Europe ( Bosnia and Herzegovina )
Remote: Yes — only looking for globally remote positions
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: React, Next.js, Vue.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, UI/UX, Tailwind, Node.js, SQL
Résumé/CV: https://darjan.dev/
Email: darjan.developer@gmail.com

Let’s build something great together!
by yieldcrv | 2026-01-07 00:07:35+00:00
oh I noticed! I've begun doing that on my laptop. I just started going down all my list of sideprojects one by one, then two by two, a Claude Code instance in a terminal window for each folder. It's a bit mental

I'm finding that branding and graphic design is the most arduous part, that I'm hoping to accelerate soon. I'm heavily AI assisted there too and I'm evaluating MCP servers to help, but so far I do actually have to focus on just that part as opposed to babysit
by com2kid | 2026-01-07 00:07:40+00:00
Authors and publishers have written on this topic extensively. Blog posts about it periodically gets posted to HN.

Most of the cost to publish a book is upfront. Editing, laying, cover art, diagrams, etc.

It costs less than $2 to print a book in bulk quantities.

Margins suck. That is why publishers go out of business all the time. Margins aren't any better on ebooks. It costs money to maintain a digital store front.

For an example of the costs of digital distribution in another field, look at Good Old Games. They are a digital distribution platform and they barely break even / turn a profit. (A bit more complicated since they also do some of the porting work)

Digital distribution has super low per unit costs but huge upfront costs.
by tossaway0 | 2026-01-07 00:07:44+00:00
Someone who prints something for a third party isn’t selling ad space.

Everyone could self promote, they just couldn’t contract someone to do it for them. Employees could promote for their employer, but it couldn’t be subcontracted out. And you can’t pay a company to put up your ad on their billboard or their website, etc.

Ignoring how this might be enforced, would it be enough to let people express themselves while cutting out the impact of negative externalities of advertising?
Show HN: Dowser – Training Data Recommendation System
by zrmarine | 2026-01-07 00:09:40+00:00
Hi all,

Context:

I have been working on a recommender system to help find open source data for LLMs.

What it does:

This is an MVP that finds data to help models learn concepts based on a use case provided by the end-user. The MVP uses perplexity as a benchmark to demonstrate couterfactual performance.

The thesis:
Both small LLMs that are specialized and frontier models suffer from the same problems. The current state is to drag net data collection and train on vastnesses of the internet hoping for a marginial gain in performance. This is not sustainable for incremential gains.

By helping to help guide and prioritize which data should be learned, there should be a significant reduction in resources without a loss in capability.
Show HN: Julie update – local LLMs, CUA, installers and perf gains
by luthiraabeykoon | 2026-01-07 00:10:08+00:00
The biggest shift is that Julie now supports fully local LLMs and agentic workflows. It’s no longer limited to answering questions about what’s on screen. It can now run writing and coding agents, and optionally take concrete actions on your computer under supervision.

What’s new:

- Local LLM support. Julie can now run entirely on-device,

- Agentic computer use. I added a computer-use mode with demos showing multi-step actions like clicking, typing, and navigation.

- Writing and coding agents. Draft, refactor, and iterate in-place without moving into a separate workspace.

- Installers are now available, so setup is a lot simpler.

- Significant performance improvements across startup time, memory usage, and latency.

I also wrote a full walkthrough and demos covering how the agents work and where the boundaries are:
https://tryjulie.vercel.app/

Repo + installers:
https://github.com/Luthiraa/julie

Thanks for all the support and feedback. From the bottom of my heart, I really appreciate it. I’ve loved building this, and it’s been one of the fastest things I’ve taken from idea to something real that people are actually using. I really love this community.

If you enjoyed checking it out, a star on the repo would mean a lot and helps more people find it.
by com2kid | 2026-01-07 00:10:58+00:00
Newspapers always made their money from commercial and classified ads. Craigslist killed journalism decades ago, LinkedIn and Facebook Marketplace are the modern successors to CL. Google adwords finished the job.

Newspapers subscription prices only ever covered a small % of the overall costs.

Spotify is a complicated racket, there are some very good video essays exploring who is making money off of Spotify (it isn't Spotify and it isn't the artists!), a but the rabbit hole there goes deep.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-07 00:11:11+00:00
When did we have a functioning economy without ads? Was it the 1980's when some of the most classic children's shows were 30 minute commercials for toys? Was it the 1960s when Charles Schultz was lamenting the commercialization of Christmas in the Charlier Brown special? Maybe the 1910's when Uncle Sam famously wanted you to join the army? Was it the 1890's when Montgomery Ward and Sears were sending out mail order catalogs? Was it the 1860's when you could learn that "The Best Glass of Ale In the Globe" was available at Isabella Nesbitt's Inn[1]? Town criers and traveling medicine shows date back to at least the 1700's.

Less intrusive ads? Less frequent ads? Sure I can get behind that (though, I can turn off a TV, can't turn off the town crier). But ads have been a part of us since the first person with something to sell wanted to sell it.

[1]: https://bailiffgatecollections.co.uk/gallery-category/victor...
by nec4b | 2026-01-07 00:11:11+00:00
The toy one can still be as highly concurrent as the the real one. The amount of drivers written for it doesn't matter.

The point is if it were much easier, then they would overtake existing ones easily, just by adding features and iterating so much faster and that is clearly not the case.

>>difficulty of building safe, fast and highly-concurrent C

This was the original claim. The answer is, there is a tonne of C code out there that is safe, fast and concurrent. Isn't it logical? We have been using C for the last 50 years to build stuff with it and there is a lot of it. There doesn't seem to be a big jump in productivity with the newer generation of low level languages, even though they have many improvements over C.

This is anecdotal, I used to do a lot of low level C and C++ development. And C++ is a much bigger language then C. And honestly I don't think I was ever more productive with it. Maybe the code looked more organized and extendable, but it took the same or larger amount of time to write it. On the other hand when I develop with Javascript or C#, I'm easily 10 times more productive then I would be with either C or C++. This is a bit of apples and oranges comparison, but what I'm trying to say is that new low level languages don't bring huge gains in productivity.
by ern | 2026-01-07 00:11:19+00:00
I have been out of the loop for a couple of months (vacation). I tried Claude Opus 4.5 at the end of November 2025 with the corporate Github Copilot subscription and it was awful: basically ignoring code and hallucinating.

My team is using it with Claude Code and say it works brilliantly, so I'll be giving it another go.

How much of the value comes from Opus 4.5, how much comes from Claude Code, and how much comes from the combination?
by hdgvhicv | 2026-01-07 00:12:35+00:00
So if you wanted to attack the US you wouldn’t do a conventional “red dawn” style attack. You’d attack like bin laden. And then keep quiet.

Normally I’d say the most effective way to attack a western country would be to target kids in school playgrounds, but the US seems that regularly anyway so it would be lost in noise. Perhaps target Amazon delivery centres with drones will strike fear into the true heart of America.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-01-07 00:13:31+00:00
That’s a take!

The modern world would collapse in about a week if banks were not allowed to loan out deposits.

The ability to satisfy needs now and pay for them in the future is why you can have a house, why governments can build infrastructure, etc. That’s the only reason that banks really exist. Keeping your deposit safe for you while providing convenient access via cards, checks and other rails is just a wonderful side effect.

After a few thousand years of civilization we don’t have anything better that could allow you to satisfy current needs with future income. Direct loans are just vendors acting as de facto banks, at much higher risk.

A bank product that doesn’t loan out your deposits is called a safe deposit box. There’s your solution.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-07 00:14:31+00:00
This seems like a big (but superficially boring) advance for large industrial plants. Using waste heat to generate power isn’t new, but if the efficiency numbers are to be believed then this should save a lot of energy. We should do this here.

More on the history in an article linked from TFA. It looks like this wasn’t a new idea but was only theoretical before: https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/co2-can-generate-energy-c...
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2026-01-07 00:14:40+00:00
I think that second issue is definitely a thing with kitchen appliances, where having a touch interface, or phone app, is initially seen as "oh hey this is the next generation cool thing" when consumers are buying.

Then they get it home and find the app is crapware full of ads and nags, or the touch screen is impossible to use unless your fingers are as dry as the sahara or such.
by SergeAx | 2026-01-07 00:15:13+00:00
Can you remember the last 3 times when ads showed you products that solved your problem? I cannot.

The closest experience I have had was with ads for new restaurants, of which two turned out good and one - not good. Also, twice last year, I saw trailers of new movies I wasn't aware of at the moment. However, I am sure I would later discover it via reviews or word of mouth.

And mind that it was not problem solving, just an entertainment suggestion. I can live comfortably without new restaurants, or I will eventually discover them via other channels.
by blibble | 2026-01-07 00:15:58+00:00
> I would not expect the value increase in my stock options to overcome my loss of income

I guess that means you've not passed Microslop Operating Thetan Level 8 yet then?

I mean, look at the author's !twitter feed

https://bsky.app/profile/burkeholland.bsky.social

true believer, corporate stooge, or grifter?
by smoe | 2026-01-07 00:16:52+00:00
In my experience with a combo of Claude Code and Gemini Pro (and having added Codex to the mix about a week ago as well), it matters less whether it’s CLI, backend, frontend, DB queries, etc. but more how cookiecutter the thing you’re building is. For building CRUD views or common web application flows, it crushes it, especially if you can point it to a folder and just tell it to do more of the same, adapted to a new use case.

But yes, the more specific you get and the more moving pieces you have, the more you need to break things down into baby steps. If you don’t just need it to make A work, but to make it work together with B and C. Especially given how eager Claude is to find cheap workarounds and escape hatches, botching things together in any way seemingly to please the prompter as fast as possible.
by elemdos | 2026-01-07 00:17:08+00:00
I feel like there’s something special about connecting to a server to build and deploying on the same server. Claude Code on the web lets you connect to a repo, test the code, and deploy it, but then you have to host the app and data somewhere else to take it live. IMO the ideal is doing everything in one place and it seems like a lot of dev tools are going in that direction too (v0, val town, deno deploy).
by everdrive | 2026-01-07 00:17:30+00:00
Algorithmic curation is something I'm trying to avoid in all cases. I think it's not highlighted enough. The fact that youtube shows an infinite number of videos to choose from does its own sort of harm in a way that the specifics of the content cannot.

When the internet was brand new, it was very novel that I had to go out seeking the content and could look at it any time I wanted. It was different than TV. TV was enjoyed passively and you just watched what they showed you. The early internet was so much better it's hard to describe. It was a purely active experience. Algorithmic curation is a return to the TV model. Someone else decides what you should watch, and you passively observe it materialize in front of you. Try this for an experience. log out of youtube, install some filters in uBlock Origin which prevent all algorithmic results (even on the home page and in search results) and then try to think of what you'd like to watch. For some of you out there, I'll bet this feels like exercising an old, unused muscle. You used to do this kind of querying all the time. But scan your mind. What possibilities are there to view? It feels emptier than it should.
by tptacek | 2026-01-07 00:17:39+00:00
Honestly I'm just trying to be nice about it. I don't know that I can tell you a story about the 90% ceiling that makes any sense, especially since you can task 3 different high-caliber teams of senior software security people on an app and get 3 different (overlapping, but different) sets of vulnerabilities back. By the end of 2027, if you did a triangle test, 2:1 agents/humans or vice/versa, I don't think you'd be able to distinguish.

Just registering the prediction.