MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Aesthetics Bento microsites with built-in analytics
by sendnow | 2026-01-18 06:05:02+00:00
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by undeveloper | 2026-01-18 06:05:44+00:00
From DEF CON 32.
Particularly stuck out to me:

> Think about Amazon. Warehouse workers have to piss in bottles and have the highest rate of on the job injuries of any comparable company in the industry, whereas Amazon coders get to show up for work with facial piercings, green Mohawks, and black t-shirts that say things their bosses don't understand. They can piss whenever they want to. That's not because Jeff Bezos loves Tech workers, it's because they're scared you'll quit and they won't be able to replace you. Another William Gibson quote:

> The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.

> You know who lives in the future? Amazon warehouse workers. They are living in your future. Drivers whose eyeballs are monitored by AI cameras that do phenology on their faces to figure out when went to dock their pay and warehouse workers whose bodies are ruined in a matter of months. As tech bosses beef up this Reserve Army of unemployed skilled Tech workers, those Tech workers --- you folks --- will arrive at the same future as them.

> Look, I know you spent your careers explaining in words so small your boss could understand them that you refuse to enshittify your company's products and I thank you for your service but if you want to go on fighting for the user you need power that's better than scarcity --- you need a union.

https://techworkerscoalition.org/ is suggested right after this. Maybe of interest to some. There was no chapter local to me.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-18 06:06:28+00:00
Well it's a bit of an identity crisis. As a developer on HN my entire identity is wrapped around my skill as a programmer. It's a badge of honor I wear and it's a career and I get paid a lot of money to do this.

All of that is going away so the best way to deal with it is to call it a stochastic parrot and deny reality.
by grayhatter | 2026-01-18 06:06:37+00:00
> It is not hard to win this game. If you spent a whole day playing it, shame on you. But what if you did not know that you are playing a game? I dug up this toy when I saw people talking about generating 'random' numbers for cryptography by mashing keys or shouting into microphones. It is meant to educate you regarding the folly of such methods.

I wouldn't trust a human to generate enough entropy for any kind of key material. But I'd happily feed their output, and more importantly, the metadata around said output (like the ns delay between key presses) into the seed of a CSPRNG, (much more importantly, along with plenty of other sources of entropy).

The primary characteristic of a CSPRNG, is the inability to predict the next output, from the previous output. Once you get sufficient entropy to seed a CSPRNG, nothing you (correctly) mix into the state, can decrease it's security.

There is no folly in using human interactions to help seed a random number generator. Assuming you dont use the characters they type as the only seed input.
by ttul | 2026-01-18 06:07:20+00:00
I had ChatGPT spend a few kWh coming up with Algorithmo­startupo­venturecapito­open­sourco­licensio­privacy­securito­rustigo­golo­kuberneto­cloudio­saaso­distributedo­databaso­latencyphobo­showhn­askhn­commento­pedanto­longformo­ai­llmo­promptomancy­ethico­regulatio­controversio­burnoutikon, which apparently describes the vibe here on HN.
by famouswaffles | 2026-01-18 06:07:32+00:00
>Pretty vague and not really quantifiable. You would think an article making a bold claim would contain more than a single, hand-wavy quote from an actual scientist.

Why? What purpose would quotes serve better than a paper with numbers and code? Just seems like nitpicking here. The article could have gone without a single quote (or had several more) and it wouldn't really change anything. And that quote is not really vague in the context of the article.
by qaboutthat | 2026-01-18 06:07:35+00:00
If I tell Claude to "revert that last change, it isn't right, try this instead" and Claude hasn't committed recently it will happily `git checkout ...` and blow away all recent changes instead of reverting the "last change".

(Which, it's not wrong or anything -- I did say "revert that change" -- it's just annoying. And telling `CLAUDE.md` to commit more often doesn't work consistently, because Claude is a dummy sometimes).
by crazygringo | 2026-01-18 06:08:01+00:00
> Offtop: but is this the right question to ask?

Seeing as I'm not involved with developing macOS, I think it is?

> This is the first time I encounter a MacOS user who at least acknowledges the problem

Complaints about the menu bar icons are practically as old as the Mac itself. I don't know who doesn't acknowledge the problem. People have been complaining for decades now about having to buy Bartender to get around the problem.
by barrell | 2026-01-18 06:09:29+00:00
I’m not convinced the pen pot needs any more learning than anything else. Even the ones with the paper - is it a word processor, emailing tool, something about newsletters? Maybe a PDF or markup tool? Or a layout tool for print media? Or just a signature tool?

At some point, the user has to find out, in the same manner they find out about the pen pot.

I think users could easily associate the “pen and poison potion” with word processing for years until someone says “click on the pen and ink” and then they have a lightbulb moment.

I think we went from icons being “visually distinct” to “visually descriptive” to “visually uniform”. Personally I prefer the visually distinct. I’m not convinced we gained some massive leap forward in usability moving away from it; I know I struggle substantially more to find an app or tab that I’m looking for nowadays than when I first got a Mac.
by mkleczek | 2026-01-18 06:11:03+00:00
At least in case of the kitchen contractor, you can trust all the electrical equipment, plumbing etc. is going to be connected in such a way that disasters won't happen. And if it is not, at least you can sue the contractor.

The problem with LLMs is that it is not only the "irrelevant details" that are hallucinated. It is also "very relevant details" which either make the whole system inconsistent or full of security vulnerabilities.
by Alupis | 2026-01-18 06:12:22+00:00
It is, however, unfortunate that a single statement on the Gleam homepage generates this exact conversation every time Gleam trends somewhere.

It's your project, and your community, of course, and I fully respect that. However it doesn't seem good that this statement creates so much friction and controversy for Gleam over and over.

After all, none of the statement's topics would be "on-topic" for any of the Gleam community hangouts. For instance, it would be equally off-topic for someone to discuss supporting or hating Nazis.

Perhaps moving the statement to a formal Code of Conduct page would be a "have cake and eat it too" type thing.

The Gleam community is wonderful, and you've done an incredible job building it. But I don't suspect the homepage statement had anything to do with that.
by simoncion | 2026-01-18 06:12:41+00:00
> I don't understand why Anna's Archive has such a convoluted donation system.

What? It's one page with a bunch of very clear options.

> At first glance it looks like it's trying to push a subscription on you...

On the one hand, fair. On the other hand, this is prominently displayed on the donation page:

Be aware that while the memberships on this page are “per month”, they are one-time donations (non-recurring). See the Donation FAQ.

Additionally, Q&A #1 on the Donations FAQ page are:

Do memberships automatically renew?
Memberships do not automatically renew. You can join for as long or short as you want.

Even if we're too busy to read, we can think about how they would manage to set up a recurring cryptocurrency payment without possession of one's wallet keys and become enlightened.

> I found no convenient single-link crypto donate button where I could just send some money whenever I want.

From their Donation FAQ:

Can I make a donation without becoming a member?
Sure thing. We accept donations of any amount on this Monero (XMR) address: 88gS7a8aHj5EYhCfYnkhEmYXX3MtR35r3YhWdWXwGLyS4fkXYjkupcif6RY5oj9xkNR8VVmoRXh1kQKQrZBRRc8PHLWMgUR.
by blakewatson | 2026-01-18 06:12:49+00:00
Related: This is a nice write-up of how to write reactive jQuery. It's presented as an alternative to jQuery spaghetti code, in the context of being in a legacy codebase where you might not have access to newer frameworks.

https://css-tricks.com/reactive-jquery-for-spaghetti-fied-le...
by robocat | 2026-01-18 06:14:17+00:00
> My friend, you have no idea what you’re missing out on

Being left handed has its advantages, however smearing wet ink over the page as you write doesn't endear one to nibbed pens.

And leaked ink truely sucks (although I would guess modern technology is better at avoiding that).

Is a fountain pen good for illustration? The very very small amount of writing I do these days is usually mixed words with images/symbols/lines.

To me out in the colonies, fountain pen culture appears to be more about either signaling pretentiousness (what is Montblanc) or designer hipsterism.

I wonder how many practical engineers use a fountain pen?
by ttttransformer | 2026-01-18 06:15:00+00:00
Hey HN

We just crossed a threshold we've been building toward for just under a year now: Full autonomy on Google Ads campaigns with performance that consistently beats human managers.

Not "AI-assisted." Not "helps your team work faster." The AI runs campaigns end-to-end with zero human intervention—and outperforms the humans it replaced.

Why this was possible now:
The best human media buyer in the world evaluates maybe 50 data points before making a decision. Budget, CTR, CPC, a few audience signals, some historical trends, gut feeling. groas now processes 100,000+ data points per campaign per day. Every query, every impression, every micro-conversion signal, every competitor movement, every time-of-day pattern, every device/location/intent intersection—synthesized in real-time. Humans physically cannot process information at this density. It's not a skill gap. It's a hardware limitation.

The data moat:
Our Conversion Copy Agents were trained on $500B+ in profitable Google Ads spend. Not scraped data but actual campaign performance data across thousands of accounts, every vertical, every budget size. When the system writes ad copy or generates a landing page variant, it's drawing on pattern recognition across half a trillion dollars of what actually converts. No human has that reference library.

Dynamic landing pages per search query:
This is where the performance gap widens. groas doesn't send traffic to static landing pages. It generates dynamic variations matched to every search query.
Someone searches "arm hair trimmer" → they land on a page with arm-specific copy and imagery.
Someone searches "chest hair trimmer" → different page, matched to that intent.
Same product. Thousands of personalized entry points. Continuously tested and optimized.
Human teams build 5-10 landing pages. groas builds thousands—automatically—and optimizes them 24/7.

What full autonomy looks like:
- You connect your Google Ads account (one click)
- You paste our script on your site
- groas maps your site, identifies what content to personalize
- Autonomous agents take over: ad copy, bids, budgets, keywords, negatives, landing page variations—everything
- You get a dedicated Slack channel where a human is there to assist you if need be
- Weekly performance & action reports land in your inbox

The uncomfortable part:
Your agency is probably already using us but they just haven't told you. We decided to make the system available directly to everybody now.

Happy to talk architecture, answer questions, or take shots. This is a genuinely new capability—first in category to hit full autonomy with superhuman performance so I expect skepticism. Bring it.

https://groas.ai
by sublinear | 2026-01-18 06:16:39+00:00
On the flip side, if a user expects too much from a fitness tracker it can lead to unreasonable health anxieties.

A user trying to determine an accurate heart rate or blood oxygen level during exercise (not at rest) will find that the guidelines are too broad and the tracker data is too slow and noisy to get the feedback they want. They can get a rough idea of how hard they exercised and for how long, but a fitness tracker isn't necessary just for that.
by tempodox | 2026-01-18 06:20:09+00:00
> … pretending that some cognitive labor is safe in a world where they do succeed is wishful thinking.

That’s the fundamental point I don’t understand. If the believers’ dreams were to be fulfilled, it would ruin society and economy. How do people who think they’re so smart not see that? Do they think they will be the sole survivors, doing well while the world around them breaks down?
by fsiefken | 2026-01-18 06:20:16+00:00
xous is under active development:
https://github.com/betrusted-io

recent talk by bunnie, sean "xobs" cross

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/xous...

https://app.media.ccc.de/v/39c3-xous-a-pure-rust-rethink-of-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaWkfSmIgRs
by Nevermark | 2026-01-18 06:20:31+00:00
After several lifetimes of intentionally exposing myself to black/colored text on white, I switched to dark mode last week and haven't looked back.

With such an extensive time study, highly unlikely to be usurped any time soon, and the result being quite the opposite of what I set out to prove, we can all safely put this debate to rest.

A contributing factor is my keratoconus has had some kind of remission. Which is a good thing. At one point I had so many focal points in both eyes, without corrective lenses and before surgery, more than a dozen overlapping versions of text produced unreadable spaghetti. Unless it was a very tiny font from a distance, and then the glyphs only partially occluded each other, and I could I decode them.

Looking at one of those small bright electronics power LED dots across a dark room, I could see all my focal points in each eye, and focal webs meandering between them.

So I feel quite privileged to be able to use dark mode with unaided eyes now.
by austinallegro | 2026-01-18 06:21:38+00:00
Well observed, sir. I’m felicitous, since, during the
course of the penultimate solar sojourn, I terminated my uninterrupted
categorisation of the vocabulary of our post-Norman tongue.

I hope you will not object if I also offer my most enthusiastic contrafribularities.

Thus, I’m anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulations.

May I offer you a pendigestatery
interludicule? Anything I can do to facilitate your velocitous
extramuralisation.
by MaskRay | 2026-01-18 06:22:51+00:00
Open source project maintenance follows a similar model, but with a different set of stakes.

The "price tag" of voicing concerns is lower, yet raise them too often and you still earn a reputation as obstructionist. Meanwhile, the cost of accepting problematic changes can be higher—you may end up maintaining that code long after changing jobs. And unlike corporate politics, the "influence bank account" is public: communications are archived indefinitely.

There is a fascinating shift in how "withdrawals" are calculated:
In a corporate hierarchy, the cost of dissent feels exponential: something like `cost = exp(their_level - your_level)`.
Say, as a Google L3/L4/L5 engineer, opposing L6-L8 feels like trying to make a massive withdrawal with a tiny balance. In contrast, in OSS the cost almost stays constant despite the corporate level difference.

This created a paradox for me: leaving Google means less time for LLVM maintenance, but it also lets me voice objections more freely, without the shadow of internal performance ratings or hierarchical friction.

That said, I know I've been "withdrawing" heavily, including from a lot of previous colleagues.
In a recent LLVM Project Council meeting:

> There is a pattern of behavior here of blocking contributions due to concerns about maintenance cost and design simplicity.

(I appreciate the transparency of making these meetings public, by the way.)

I had to respond at https://discourse.llvm.org/t/llvm-project-council-meeting-no...
by Klaster_1 | 2026-01-18 06:23:04+00:00
I used this approach before and it indeed works better than the 2010-style jQuery mess. A good fit for userscripts too, where the problem you attempt to solve is fairly limited and having dependencies, especially with a build steps, is a pain. Note that you don't need jQuery for this at all, unless you are somehow stuck with ancient browser support as a requirement - querySelector, addEventListener, innerHtml - the basic building blocks of the approach - have been available and stable for a long time.
by rurban | 2026-01-18 06:24:29+00:00
"Can we get a big one in the first five minutes?"

That's in screenwriter circles called the hook, not the plot. You don't reiterate the whole plot for the innate viewers, you just deepen the hook, usually by giving wrong hooks, which are then replaced by better hooks.

It's not that Netflix invented TV scripting. Even with festival movies you turn it off within the first 5 minutes if you have to judge 200 to 2000 admissions in a month. Same with distributors. They certainly don't watch the whole movie if it starts bad. It usually doesn't get better in the third act.
by jacobgor502 | 2026-01-18 06:24:35+00:00
Hi HN! I built FragCut to solve a problem I had as a streamer: spending hours editing highlight clips from my gaming sessions.
FragCut uses AI (Gemini 2.5 Flash) to analyze your gaming videos and automatically:
- Detect highlight moments (clutches, multi-kills, funny moments)
- Convert them to 9:16 vertical format for TikTok/Shorts/Reels
- Add auto-generated captions and hashtags
- Process everything in the cloud (no software to install)
Upload a video, and get 5-6 viral-ready clips in about 15 minutes.
Currently focused on FPS games (Valorant, CS2, Apex) but works with any gaming content.
Would love feedback from the HN community!
by akulbe | 2026-01-18 06:25:02+00:00
Absolutely not. Total waste. Nothing but regret about it. I graduated 13 years ago, and I'm still paying on it.

The valuable "education" came after, wasn't related to the school curriculum, and was mostly learned on the job.

Some professions require the pedigree, in those cases, you have no choice but to play the game.

If you want to get educated, take the courses that align with your chosen vocation, don't bother with following a degree track. It's not worth the money/hassle. Also, and this is key, marry what you learn with hands-on doing of the stuff you're covering in class.

Get into an internship/apprenticeship. Learn a trade.

The "you have to go to college to be successful" mantra is a lie. And we've saddled ourselves (and our kids) with this idea and the horrendous debt that comes with it.

It's a terrible, terrible idea.

"I have never let schooling interfere with my education" - Mark Twain
by gtowey | 2026-01-18 06:26:29+00:00
You kitchen contractor will never cook in your kitchen. If you leave the decisions to them, you'll get something that's quick and easy to build, but it for sure won't have all the details that make a great kitchen. It will be average.

Which seems like an apt analogy for software. I see people all the time who build systems and they don't care about the details. The results are always mediocre.
by utopiah | 2026-01-18 06:26:43+00:00
That's the first warning from the wiki : <<Erdős problems vary widely in difficulty (by several orders of magnitude), with a core of very interesting, but extremely difficult problems at one end of the spectrum, and a "long tail" of under-explored problems at the other, many of which are "low hanging fruit" that are very suitable for being attacked by current AI tools.>> https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contribution...
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-18 06:28:24+00:00
Would it be like returning to that time when all of the podcast people were trying to tell me about the same quirky thing and I had to decide between letting them down or pretending I hadn't already heard it from the other podcast people?

Maybe the content was better in those days, but as an outsider I'm not too keen on going back. I prefer my friends as separate people.
Show HN: Travel itinerary manager (passion project)
by bufferout | 2026-01-18 06:29:04+00:00
Hi HN,

Basically tripit for the modern age. Scratching my own itch, so this is free until it hurts.

Forward any booking email for any travel related event to it and get a nice linear timeline with considerate information heirarchy plus a bunch of bonus features such as flight delay notifications, packing guide (based on weather forecasts), jetlag timeline, etc, etc.

Welcome your most brutal feedback :)
by frabonacci | 2026-01-18 06:29:05+00:00
Growing up in Italy in the 90s, Olivetti was already fading but still everywhere. My grandmother had a Lettera that I swear will outlive us all.

Reading these comments is interesting—for most of you it's nostalgia for nice hardware. In Italy it hits different. We grew up hearing about Olivetti as this national wound. Adriano dies in 1960, Tchou in a car crash a year later, electronics division sold to GE. It gets brought up whenever people complain about "cervelli in fuga" (brain drain)—look, we once had this company that attracted top talent and led the world, and we let it slip away.

I've been living abroad for 10 years now and the irony isn't lost on me. The machines were great. But in Italy what stings is the what-could-have-been.