MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hydrogen7800 | 2026-01-04 05:07:54+00:00
>Rappers loved Scarface and mob movies back in the 90s/00s and used to imitate those aesthetics all the time

This has always bothered me, and I don't think it's some subtle aesthetic/ironic/contrarian take either. People who I asked at the time (00s) usually had something to say about him being "self made", or something else similar. Did you (royal you) actually watch the whole movie?
by alwillis | 2026-01-04 05:08:00+00:00
A great summary why Atom is better [1].

Here's an oldie but a goodie regarding RSS vs Atom [2]

[1]: https://ittavern.com/difference-between-rss-and-atom/

[2]: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared
by satvikpendem | 2026-01-04 05:08:08+00:00
Well, the library is literally 3 months old, and it's made by one person as an OSS package, so yes, I'm sure you can spot those wrong details. Still, it'll get there, especially once Flutter gets official support for Liquid Glass, as they are planning on working on it later this year or into next year, currently they are refactoring their current design library code.

> and would never want those liquid components on platforms like Android or Windows anyway.

That's where we disagree then, I like the design itself but don't like it stuck on only one platform. I make apps with wholly custom UI designs, not following any particular OS' "native" design, and that's why Flutter is so powerful, because I am not constrained to what pixels I can render to a screen, nor should I be.
by yongjik | 2026-01-04 05:09:03+00:00
For fun, let's say you have a 20-ton container, and you raise it up the rail by 100m. The stored gravitational energy is about 5.5 kWh.

According to Wikipedia, Tesla Powerwall 3 has 13.5 kWh of capacity: more than two 20-ton containers raised to 100m, assuming perfect efficiency. It costs $7,300, small enough to put in your house, and also (more or less) safe enough to put in your house, unlike a 20-ton container on a rail barreling down a slope, which probably needs professional hard-hat maintenance crew.

So consider me skeptical.
by culi | 2026-01-04 05:09:29+00:00
The most good we can do is allowing Venezuela to live without sanctions

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/05775132.2019.16...

> This article analyzes the consequences of the economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the U.S. government since August of 2017. The authors find that most of the impact of these sanctions has not been on the government but on the civilian population. The sanctions reduced the public’s caloric intake, increased disease and mortality (for both adults and infants), and displaced millions of Venezuelans who fled the country as a result of the worsening economic depression and hyperinflation. They made it nearly impossible to stabilize Venezuela’s economic crisis. These impacts disproportionately harmed the poorest and most vulnerable Venezuelans.
by KPGv2 | 2026-01-04 05:09:54+00:00
Gatsby isn't supposed to be bad. He's supposed to be tragic.

The bad guys in Gatsby are Tom Buchanan and, to a lesser extent, Daisy. One might make a case that Nick is not a good person, but he's telling the story as a salve for his guilt. He's mostly just a hypocrite who doesn't want to admit he's the same kind of wealth that grinds non-wealthy people up for pleasure.

But Gatsby is a man who became obsessed with a woman and did everything he could to win her heart, including fraud. Yes, that's not good behavior, but he's not meant to be taken as a bad guy so much as someone who made some mistakes because of higher emotions.

Tom OTOH is just toxic masculinity. Fucks other women, can't stand any other guy getting attention, doesn't give a crap about people who die, etc.
by nuuuwan | 2026-01-04 05:10:04+00:00
REBUILDING SRI LANKA'S RAILWAYS

Me: “I’m going to rebuild Sri Lanka’s Railway Network. From scratch.”

You: “That’s nice. What lines would you build into it? And where would be the stations?”

This is a thought experiment I did back in 2023: https://medium.com/on-technology/how-to-build-a-railway-dbc7...

It would be interesting to revisit, post-#Ditwah.

A redesigned system would not be too different to what we have now. But it would have some interested differences.
by csomar | 2026-01-04 05:10:30+00:00
You had me looking through my history. Here is an example from 12 years ago: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15626760/does-an-idle-my...

Granted when I look at that question today, it doesn't make much sense. But 12 years-back me didn't know much better. Let's just say the community was quite hostile to people trying to figure stuff out and learn.
by yatopifo | 2026-01-04 05:13:06+00:00
I’m going to argue the opposite. LLMs are fantastic at answering well posed questions. They are like chess machines evaluating a tonne of scenarios. But they aren’t that good at guessing what you actually have on your mind. So if you are a novice, you have to be very careful about framing your questions. Sometimes, it’s just easier to ask a human to point you in the right direction. But SO, despite being human, has always been awful to novices.

On the other hand, if you are experienced, it’s really not that difficult to get what you need from an LLM, and unlike on SO, you don’t need to worry about offending an overly sensitive user or a moderator. LLMs never get angry at you, they never complain about incorrect formatting or being too lax in your wording. They have infinite patience for you. This is why SO is destined to be reduced to a database of well structured questions and answers that are gradually going to become more and more irrelevant as time goes by.
by cryptica | 2026-01-04 05:13:50+00:00
> The more I think about it, the happier I am that AI is transforming the world of writing. In a way, I think it’ll make it even easier to stand out

I totally disagree with this point. It's a combination of wishful thinking and denial. LLMs do a very fine job at writing if you give them the right base of information/insights. I think it will totally obliterate 'writing' as a differentiable skill.

What will happen IMO is that people who have interesting ideas and experiences but suck at writing will have the upper hand. The market for content will be flooded by articles from people who would normally not write. They will feed the LLMs bullet points of interesting facts and observations and let the LLM fill in the gaps and actually make the article engaging. What matters is that the core points have to be interesting. The AI cannot come up with brilliant insights but it can convey brilliant insights really well.

I think even if, hypothetically, some people could tell apart AI-generated content from manually written content, some AI-generated content may actually be more interesting and valuable to read than the manually written one...

At the end of the day, writing by itself doesn't matter; it's just a communication medium. What matters are insights, ideas, concepts, perspectives... It was always about substance, not form. It's a flaw of the human mind that some people used form as a proxy for substance.

There are a lot of people who know a lot and have a lot to say but they were so busy experiencing and learning that they never had time to write before... And even if they did, they could not convey their ideas effectively before.

Now given that LLMs have mastered the superficial aspects of communication, those aspects are no longer valuable and substance is more valuable. But IMO nobody will care whether articles or books were written by AI in the future. It won't have much effect on quality or value of the book/article.

I think what will matter in the future are:

- Insights, ideas, perspectives.

- Media (the most important still); who intermediates content distribution gets to decide what people consume and can shape their perception of quality to a significant extent.

I'm hoping that as more people get involved in writing using LLMs, that it will force more people to confront the second point... People will be forced to pay more attention to substance as it will be the only real differentiator. I'm hoping people will begin to feel disgusted by the low level of substance that current media platforms purvey... It's already kind of happening; people invented the term "AI slop" but really it's not just AI which produces slop. The media has been guilty of spreading slop for quite some time and it kept getting worse. Now AI is just a convenient strawman to bash.
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-04 05:14:18+00:00
Editing text files (code), executing simple programs in the terminal (work is done on my Mac Studio, not my personal desktop), browsing the web with Firefox and playing the odd Steam game. I use the stock Opensuse Tumbleweed panel setup and don’t even tweak the animation speeds or configured effects.

So I don’t think I’m holding it wrong.

My hardware is old-ish (Ryzen 1800x and a Vega56) but I’ve had no issues in literally any other environment, use stock drivers with no customizations, no custom kernels or anything, and only with packages from the official repos, so I don’t believe I should have many major quirks. Heck, I don’t even have Bluetooth or wifi enabled.
by culi | 2026-01-04 05:14:22+00:00
The only reason China is the biggest buyer is because of crippling US sanctions since 2017 that have made it impossible for Venezuela to trade with any western nation

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/05775132.2019.16...

> This article analyzes the consequences of the economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the U.S. government since August of 2017. The authors find that most of the impact of these sanctions has not been on the government but on the civilian population. The sanctions reduced the public’s caloric intake, increased disease and mortality (for both adults and infants), and displaced millions of Venezuelans who fled the country as a result of the worsening economic depression and hyperinflation. They made it nearly impossible to stabilize Venezuela’s economic crisis. These impacts disproportionately harmed the poorest and most vulnerable Venezuelans.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-04 05:14:45+00:00
Here are some actual statements from Vance:

>Now, I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election. He warned that if things don't go to plan, the very same thing could happen in Germany too.

>Now, these cavalier statements are shocking to American ears. For years, we've been told that everything we fund and support is in the name of our shared democratic values.

>Everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defense of democracy, but when we see European courts canceling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we're holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard. And I say "ourselves" because I fundamentally believe that we are on the same team. We must do more than talk about democratic values. We must live them.

>Now, within living memory of many of you in this room, the Cold War positioned defenders of democracy against much more tyrannical forces on this continent. And consider the side in that fight that censored dissidents, that closed churches, that canceled elections. Were they the good guys? Certainly not, and thank God they lost the Cold War.

>They lost because they neither valued nor respected all of the extraordinary blessings of liberty, the freedom to surprise, to make mistakes, to invent, to build.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-vice-p...

You are more than welcome to disagree with him, but it's hardly literal fascism advocacy.
by smaudet | 2026-01-04 05:14:56+00:00
No.

What will actually happen, likely, is a complete death of writing. Not just that the craft is gone, but that art is gone.

What is the point of creating anything if it has no meaning? And likewise, there is no economic value to it either.

So there will simply be no art, and paradoxically any true art will simply be so ridiculously expensive and unaffordable that nearly nobody will benefit from it any more...
It's 2026 now. Is Webpack 6.x going to happen?
by narukeu | 2026-01-04 05:15:49+00:00
Over the last couple of years, tools like Vite and Next.js(Turbopack based) have clearly taken the lead as the "default choice" when selecting tech stacks for new projects. From my own observation, it seems very rare for teams to prioritize Webpack as the bundler for a greenfield project nowadays.

However, looking at it from another angle, Webpack still maintains relatively active development on GitHub and hasn't officially entered "maintenance mode." The recent release of Babel 8 Beta also reminded me that these veteran infrastructure tools in the JS ecosystem are still capable of self-renewal and seeking breakthroughs.

I'd love to hear your thoughts:

1. Do you think Webpack will actually release a version 6.x? Or will they just continue evolving on 5.x for the long haul?

2. If they do release it, what major changes do you expect? Will they introduce Rust into the core?

3. Could the release of a 6.x version potentially restore Webpack as the "first choice" for new projects?
by zmgsabst | 2026-01-04 05:16:39+00:00
On average and in total, we pay more to teach children than we do on podcasts.

US podcasts have a total valuation of $8-9B with a revenue of $1.9B; total K-12 spending is $950B a year (about 500x higher). Education receives nearly three orders of magnitude more money per year.

Most people sitting on a couch smoking weed on camera make little to nothing, while 3.8M teachers are paid an average of $65,000 per year.

You’re comparing one-in-a-million outlier podcasts to the average case teacher in order to reverse the overwhelming amount more we put into education, both in total and on average.
by sodafountan | 2026-01-04 05:16:43+00:00
Ideally, you'd train them on the core documentation of the language or tool itself.

Hopefully, LLMs lead to more thorough documentation at the start of a new language, framework, or tool. Perhaps to the point of the documentation being specifically tailored to read well for the LLM that will parse and internalize it.

Most of what StackOverflow was was just a regurgitation of knowledge that people could acquire from documentation or research papers. It obviously became easier to ask on SO than dig through documentation. LLMs (in theory) should be able to do that digging for you at lightning speed.

What ended up happening was people would turn to the internet and Stack Overflow to get a quick answer and string those answers together to develop a solution, never reading or internalizing documentation. I was definitely guilty of this many times. I think in the long run it's probably good that Stack Overflow dies.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-04 05:16:49+00:00
>if there was an even mildly credible report of an underage girl performing oral sex on him, we'd all have heard about it by now.

We could have the entire epstein report unredacted and you'd still be arguing that the video evidence was Ai generated. There's no helping people like you at this point.

I guess this is what Germany feels like with holocaust deniers. Too bad our constitution makes it hard to prosecute this kind of denial.
by charcircuit | 2026-01-04 05:17:21+00:00
>Tracking is needed for mapping, not the other way around.

The term tracking is being used twice. The tracking data that OpenXR exposes comes from SLAM. SLAM is done doing sensor fusion including signals that come from tracking points.

>And it's definitely not needed for what they show in the video

The video shows 6 dof tracking which for a production implementation would do SLAM tracking.

>for associating things that go out of view and then come back

Having memory of what existed before implies you have a form of a map. You also want a map to be able to match together the views of the multiple cameras.

>Please don't shift goalposts.

The claim I am referring to is, "6DoF with spatial anchoring on a device this small and compute constrained is hard for any company to build, let alone Pickle."
by BoiledCabbage | 2026-01-04 05:18:43+00:00
> I just took delivery a few months ago of some handmade solid cherry bookshelves.

Was the seller of that furniture the number one furniture retailer in the world?

The majority of furniture purchased is flat pack. Which means the majority of furniture produced and sold is flat pack MDF. Saying that you bought something not flat pack means nothing really.

Yes, you very well could have bought a piece of furniture where the maker took the care to sand the wood with his tongue. But if you're looking to design furniture to be produced and sold, you should expect to be designing flat pack MDF.
by culi | 2026-01-04 05:18:47+00:00
None of this makes sense. Venezuela has faced crippling sanctions from the US since 2017 that have not allowed it to sell to any western nation. Only China, Russia, and Cuba are potential customers for it. I highly doubt this will have any immediate effect on oil prices. It is also crude oil which only a handful of countries are capable of processing (the US probably being the best equipped)

US corporations will be brought in to exploit oil the same way they did in Iraq where they actually had to amend the constitution to allow for foreign corporations in.
by yashasolutions | 2026-01-04 05:18:57+00:00
nice! I would love some insights how you identify the the meaningful clips (how to explain to the LLM what meaningful mean for a given content) - I have to build a similar tool internally and that's the question I am trying to find a good answer to right now.

Regarding your UI, it's nice. I would suggest adding some basic control for audio level in the player. Else. adding some search bar with auto complete or suggested query can make the interface more engaging for new users and more practical for returning users.

Then next level, you can try to make TikTok for audio with scrollable vertical view and animated audio waves (listening to audio while seeing something nice is a good way to hook people in) and generated subtitles. Viewing the text from what you're listening increases focus.
by brcmthrowaway | 2026-01-04 05:18:58+00:00
> This whole section is just wildly false. Tracking like shown in the video is easily done with just a camera, 1980s-era sparse optical flow, and basic fucking geometry. No IMU needed. People have been doing far more complex and stable motion tracking with no more input than single camera video for literally decades.

Not with imperceptible latency
by magneticnorth | 2026-01-04 05:19:51+00:00
If you're like me and wanted to know where the last 5 stores actually are:

- Coral Gables, Florida

- Orlando, Florida

- Braintree, Massachusetts

- Concord, California

- El Paso, Texas

According to another article I found (https://www.costar.com/article/1406528706/once-giant-sears-c...)
by m-schuetz | 2026-01-04 05:20:32+00:00
> I disagree with most comments that the brusque moderation is the cause of SO's problems

The moderation was precisely the reason I stopped using stackoverflow and started looking for answers and asking questions elsewhere. It was nearly impossible to ask anything without someone replying "Why would you even want to do that, do <something completely different that does not solve my problem> instead!". Or someone claiming it's a duplicate and you should use that ancient answer from another question that 1) barely fits and doesnt solve my problem and 2) is so outdated, it's no longer useful.

Whenever I had to ask something, I had to add a justification as to why I have to do it that way and why previous posts do not solve the issue, and that took more space than the question itself.

I certainly won't miss SO.
by KPGv2 | 2026-01-04 05:20:52+00:00
No one even talks about GOT anymore bc the ending was so bad.

> No ending was going to be good

Why do you say that? Plenty amazing shows have great endings. And GOT isn't some uniquely incredible story. Killing MCs is not new to GOT, either, and you give that show too much credit. Lost did it long before GOT. 24. Grey's Anatomy is SUPER famous for it. They killed off like half the original cast in a single helicopter crash.

ASOIAF wasn't original bc it killed MCs. It was original bc it treated fantasy as political first, fantasy second.
by kwindla | 2026-01-04 05:21:13+00:00
I'm a big Gatsby fan and recommend this recent Wesley Morris podcast about the book.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/our-last-chance-to-tal...

Morris has written some of my favorite long-form New York Times pieces, ("Willie Nelson's Long Encore", "Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It?", ), and he has the novelist Min Jin Lee and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, as guests on the podcast to talk about why they regularly re-read Gatsby.

Min Jin Lee talks about how amazing the craft of the novel is (beyond the obvious greatness of the sentence-by-sentence writing).

A couple of months ago I was in New York and found a new cyberpunk re-telling of Gatsby called Local Heavens. A fun read if you like Fitzgerald, or re-imaginings of famous novels, or cyberpunk.

https://kmfajardo.com/local-heavens/
by lvspiff | 2026-01-04 05:21:32+00:00
I took a jab at using github copilot to vibecode a static portfolio website for my wife. I wanted to get some better familiarity with terraform so seeing what it built for those files while linking up with my custom domain on cloudflare was pretty neat. Terraform S3, iam permissions, cloudfrpnt, dynamodb, secrets and certificates and even cloudflare dns settings. Everything done in vscode with github copilot chat allowing it to run cmd line.

Then i had it incorporate some lambda functions for editing and administrative functions for the site.Getting the github action figured out to allow me to use whatever codespace or whatever to edit. It gave me added practice breaking down projects into small agile tasks in essence. It’s like having a small team of jr. programmers, testers, and devops team at my disposal to create a POC

It all came together in a couple days, looks decent, processes files, and isnt costing me anything more than the domain registration. I now have a site that i can trigger a github action executing terraform to update the html or css or lambda files if need be. Yeah the code isnt perfect nor is it perfect architecture patterns but it was a fun way to spend a few hours over a weekend to see the power of the service now.
by culi | 2026-01-04 05:22:42+00:00
The linked answer seems like a valid guess for a relevant dupe. Like I said in my comment, "I understand a few eggs got cracked along the way to making this omelette" but I really don't think this was as widespread of a problem as people are making it out to be.

They also have Meta Stack Overflow to appeal if you think your question was unfairly marked as a dupe. From what I read, it seems that most mods back off readily
by JohnBooty | 2026-01-04 05:22:57+00:00
Well, they're pretty blunt and open about "get their oil" motives.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/us-will-look-tap-ven...

If they're lying... that's an awfully strange choice of lies. It makes them look rather thuggish. Usually you pick a lie that would make you look better, right?
by mellosouls | 2026-01-04 05:25:06+00:00
Use of GPT3 among programmers started 2021 with GitHub Copilot which preceded ChatGPT.

I agree the toxic moderation (and tone-deaf ownership!) initiated the slower decline earlier that then turned into the LLM landslide.

Tbf SO also suffered from its own success as a knowledgebase where the easy pickings were long gone by then.