MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by senko | 2026-01-11 16:42:57+00:00
1. Will people stop buying your books if LLMs have the information from them?

2. Will people stop buying your books if they can get them from the library? Is a library ripping you off?

3. Assuming your books are non-fiction (otherwise the answer to (1) would be a clear "no"), am I ripping you off if I read your books, create a course that teaches the same things (that you tought me through your book) and earn mega-money because I'm mega-skilled at marketing?

4. How about if I lend my copy to dozens of my friends, who are all very interested in the stuff you write but don't want to pay themselves?

5. Did OpenAI go to the bookstore, buy your book and scan it? Or did Amazon or any other ebook retailer just gave them the book PDF when they asked nicely? How did the rip off happen?

6. If an Anthropic employee buys your book in a bookstore, scans it and destroys the physical copy, and the digital equivalent is only used to train Claude, is that a ripoff?

This stuff is complex and as a society we're just starting to grapple with the consequences. Cory's making the case against copyright being used as a tool much more eloquently than I am - I encourage you to read it if you haven't already.

BTW in your particular case, I'd say you're pretty safe. Nobody stops buying books because they can get the same info from LLMs. If that's your concern, you might as well be mad at the Internet at large.
by Juliate | 2026-01-11 16:43:11+00:00
Of course not. But that's only the raw tech.

The tech will still be there. As much as blockchains, crypto, NFTs and such, whose bubbles have not yet burst (well, the NFT one did, it was fast).

But (Gen)AI today is much less about the tech, and much more about the illegal actions (harvesting copyrighted works) that permit it to run and the disastrous impact it has on ... everything (resources, jobs, mistaken prospectives, distorted IT markets, culture, politics) because it is not (yet) regulated to the extent it should.
Leads Acquisition
by xxxxxikke | 2026-01-11 16:43:44+00:00
Would you pay once for lead-generation software instead of monthly API fees?

Most Google Maps lead tools seem to charge per request or per lead.
That works… until you run volume.

I’m testing a one-time-purchase model (no subscriptions) and wondering:
Is recurring pricing actually preferred in B2B SaaS, or is ownership undervalued?

Would love honest feedback from people doing outbound or market research.

Also would like to know if somebody is interested in a purchase of my customer leads acquisition for about 39 usd (unlimited leads). Normal goolge places API costs 17USD/1000 leads
by ghm2180 | 2026-01-11 16:43:49+00:00
> Let me put this in simpler terms: std::move is like putting a sign on your object “I’m done with this, you can take its stuff.”

and later:

> Specifically, that ‘sign’ (the rvalue reference type) tells the compiler to
select the Move Constructor instead of the Copy Constructor.

This is the best conceptual definition of what `std::move` is. I feel that is how every book should explain these concepts in C++ because its not a trivial language to get into for programmers who have worked with differently opiniated languages like python and java.

If you read Effective Modern C++ right Item 23 on this, it takes quite a bit to figure out what its really for.
by Larrikin | 2026-01-11 16:44:20+00:00
I too would like this study because thin crust is objectively worse than all the other popular styles of pizza in the US and it always felt like there was something else going on when I would see it at events, never at parties or on tables.

Deep dish is unique and has a legitimate claim to being one of the better forms of pizza. Nothing about cracker crust thin crust can compete with NY style, Italian styles, or any of the other styles of pizza. It basically competes with the rectangle pizzas from school lunches and is cut and served similarly.

The thin crust is better crowd came across to me when I lived there as a few different groups.

Gaslighting food b/vloggers on the internet looking for something to write about because so much has already been said about the actual best food in the city, the same as the ones that say Cheesesteaks are worse than Brocolli Rabes in Philadelphia for example. Or the recent trend of saying that American cheese is not the worst cheese created because it melts, which all deli cheeses also do. Smash burgers at home are better simply because you can use a different type of cheese.

Suburbanites trying to show they were better than people actually from Chicago and tourists.

Event planners who were cheaping out because they could order 3 crappy thin crust pizzas for the price of one deep dish pizza. Thin crust was basically the only type of pizza you would see at tech events unless the company was trying to show off how much money they had.

Deep dish is heavy so it was not always a go to food when I was hanging out in Chicago, but when people wanted pizza nobody I met from Chicago ever said "No don't get deep dish, get thin crust"

Personally I view Chicago dogs as the ultimate form of the hot dog and think they are pretty good. But a sausage with just mustard is still better. I usually would only get them when I was showing someone around from out of town.

Italian beefs are just a wet worse version of a cheesesteak. They aren't bad and people who never spent time in Philly might enjoy them, but they were just another confirmation point to me that sandwiches aren't that good in Chicago.

Actual Chicagoan's opinions weren't always better though. I wasted so much time going to different Harold's Chicken Shacks before realizing that it wasn't true that some are better than others, people just cover the bland chicken in the sugar sauce.
by MIL-STD | 2026-01-11 16:44:22+00:00
If only the PG34WCDN was actually available.. Asus appears to be very tight-lipped about when it will even go on sale.

There are three upcoming monitors that take advantage of this new Samsung ultrawide 360Hz V-Stripe QD-OLED monitor- the Asus ROG Swift PG34WCDN, MSI 341CQR X36, and the Gigabyte MO34WQC36. They are all roughly on-par, with the exception of MSI, who cheaped out on their DisplayPort 1.2a specification (UHBR13.5 instead of UHBR20) requiring the use of DSC to drive the 3440x1440 resolution at the full native refresh rate of 360Hz.

I have decided it is time to update my aging Asus PG348 34" Ultrawide (which has been one of the best monitors I've ever owned, and served me very well) - and will be replacing it with the PG34WCDN as soon as it is available.

The actual Samsung panel being used by these three monitors:
https://www.samsungdisplay.com/eng/media/news/detail/ssdsNew...
by buzzardbait | 2026-01-11 16:44:23+00:00
I still remember the first time I stumbled across Logic Pro X. For the price of $200 I got a complete package that contains about 200 plugins and instruments. The DAW itself was maybe 7% of the full contents of that package.

That is unbeatable value for money in the DAW market and that was before Logic Pro 11 came out and added a ton of new plugins.
by bisby | 2026-01-11 16:45:02+00:00
They shouldn't be ignored. but they can be ignored, is the problem. File permissions are not encryption or security: If I can't read a file on this machine, because I'm not root, I'll just move the drive to a different machine where I am root.

But I agree with you, they do have a use and to some use cases matter, and we shouldn't arbitrarily decide to ignore them.
by dangus | 2026-01-11 16:45:53+00:00
I both agree and disagree with you.

The thing is, copyright law is not really on your side. Viewing copyrighted material without paying for it is not generally something people get fined for. A lot of training falls under fair use that overrides whatever license you come up with. Disney can’t stop me from uploading clips of their movies alongside commentary and review because fair use allows that. LLMs generally aren’t redistributing code, which is the thing that copyright protects.

If I inspect some GPL code and get inspired by it and write something similar, the GPL license doesn’t apply to me.

It has always been the case that if you don’t want other people to apply fair use to your works, your only recourse is to keep those works private. I suspect that now individuals and companies that don’t want their code to be trained on will simply keep the code private.

Now, there have been times where LLMs have reproduced verbatim copyright material. The NYTimes sued OpenAI over this issue. I believe they’ve settled and come up with a licensing scheme unless I’m mixing up my news stories.

Second thing, your issue becomes moot if there exists a model that only trains off of MIT-licensed code, and there is a TON of that code out there.

Third thing, your issue becomes moot if users have agreed to submit their code for training, like what the GitHub ToS does for users who don’t change their settings, or if giant companies with giant code bases just use their own code to train LLMs.

Where I agree with you is that perhaps copyright law should evolve. Still, I think there’s a practical “cat is out of the bag” issue.
by immibis | 2026-01-11 16:46:02+00:00
I'm not sure you understood the GP comment. LLMs don't know and can't tell you why they write certain things. Asking it to tell you in a slightly different way doesn't fix that. It will not put the "why" in the comment, and therefore the "why" won't be in the future LLM's context, because there is no way to make it output the "why".

It can output something that looks like the "why" and that's probably good enough in a large percentage of cases.
by danaris | 2026-01-11 16:46:15+00:00
Did I say this was a legal argument? I don't see that anywhere.

And there's absolutely zero chance the current administration is going to take any positive antitrust steps unless the target just happens to be one that seriously pisses off Trump.

"Monopolies shouldn't be allowed to control everything" is a practical, economic, and moral argument before it is a legal one. If there is no legal framework to protect small brands from a company like Amazon coming in and doing these things, then perhaps there should be. (It's possible, though unlikely, that there's no practical way to do so without sufficient negative side effects that it harms more than it helps: I haven't sat down and tried to work out the second- and third-order effects.)

In case it's not abundantly clear, one very likely endgame of this for Amazon is picking the products within this subset that do the best, ripping them off itself (either fully legally, for simple manufactured goods, or questionably or outright illegally for things one buys because of the design—like shirts with particular art on them), and selling those under the cost the original creators need to be profitable. Those creators then go out of business. Then Amazon can, if they wish, raise the prices to whatever the market will bear.

The creators lose. The consumers lose. Even the wholesalers and manufacturers likely lose, if they're still involved, because Amazon is going to be paying them less for the same product due to economies of scale.

The only one that wins is Amazon. By design.
by ChicagoDave | 2026-01-11 16:46:57+00:00
I'm the developer. I'm aware that posting Ledga in beta status is risky, but at some point you have to take the training wheels off.

I built Ledga mostly for myself, but as I moved through the development of it, I realized it might be useful to others as well. I had always managed my personal budget with Excel with occasional jumps into Mint, Monarch, Quicken, MS Money, and I forget what else.

Those tools serve a purpose and I liked all of them for many good reasons, but I have always wanted an application that specifically focused on what I did in the last month, what is happening this week, and what's coming up in the next month. I wanted to be able to do What-Ifs easily for vacations or large purchases. I also have five Gen-Z kids I still support in varying ways and I wanted to track that.

Ledga has all of these features, including a mobile web app that's mostly meant to be a snapshot of your current cash flow.

I do need to purchase a Windows Code Signing certificate, so if you download the Windows version now, you have to deal with the warnings. The MacOS Zip is notarized (Apple is horrible about notarizing apps in a timely manner and I rarely get the dmg through the process). I have not fully tested the Linux installers, so feedback there would be awesome.

Please treat this as a launch/beta and _try_ to be kind. I put a lot of work into this (though I did leverage Claude Code).

Cheers,

David Cornelson
by seec | 2026-01-11 16:47:02+00:00
I think you are right because people who bought minis got them for a specific reason and now there is just nothing in the market that can pretend to replace it.

My own mini has not been upgraded to latest iOS but I know it is in short probation before it gets really unusuable. It's pretty bad with swapping already because Apple was so stingy with the godamn RAM (it's insane how much modern apps use for not much more utility).

The problem is that I have really no clue what to buy, even if I were to go Android.
I just can't find a phone that I think merit the tradeoffs of form factor, I just don't have much use for all the modern gimmicks. A better battery life would be nice but it's not even a big deal in my case.

The problem is basically the same as for cars. People are buying larger phones with many useless features for social status reasons or aspirational/fashion statement.

The smartphone as a tool was a finished product a long time ago but now they keep adding all kind of extra stuff that even manage to kill the initial feature of conveniently fitting in an average pocket.

I would compare that to Victorinox Swiss knifes: there are a handfull or reasonably sized models with all the tools you are likely to need for small tasks and there are monstrosities that have 100+ tools that are so large, even using them as a knife is inconvenient.
If people would buy Victorinox Swiss knifes like they buy smartphones, most would get the largely useless bigger ones.

Most people are not very rational and make purchasing decision not on their needs but because of trends, marketing, social status, peer pressure, etc...
When a market becomes very large and target the whole population at once, products tends to get pretty bad because they are not focused on specific use case and try to please everyone, really pleasing no one in the end. Since there is not much other choices than to follow, people deal with it and that's that.
by delaminator | 2026-01-11 16:47:51+00:00
She was just trying to turn around, and she didn’t even hit him. He shot her for no reason.

Okay she belonged to an anti-ICE organization that trained her to do this, but she was just on her way home from dropping her son off at school, and she didn’t know the masked men were officers. She waved for them to pass! Then an agent shot her through the driver’s side window for no reason!

Okay fine. She moved to Minnesota for the sole purpose of impeding ICE operations, and her and her wife were blocking traffic for several minutes while heckling the agents, but she was turning the car away when she hit him, because she was scared and he called her a bitch!

Alright alright, she was fleeing the scene of a protest she was leading and knowingly blocked the road during an ICE operation, and when a law enforcement officer told her repeatedly to exit the vehicle, she instead angled the SUV toward one of the ICE agents and accelerated abruptly, hit him, and then he said “bitch” after he shot her in self defense, but the real reason he shot her was because she wasn’t afraid of him and that hurt his ego! He could’ve just let her run him over and then shot her tires out like in a movie!
by willtemperley | 2026-01-11 16:48:05+00:00
My computer is my work environment and often an entertainment device. As such it affects my quality of life. It affects my mental health as well as my eye health.

Suffering can be real with a bad screen, an overheating laptop or difficult to use software.

My mental health definitely suffers if I'm forced to use software that enriches companies I dislike for good reason.
by AlecSchueler | 2026-01-11 16:48:05+00:00
Not that there aren't trust issues with bigger projects but don't folks worry that the further down the "branch of a flavour of of a branch of a flavour" chain they go the higher and higher the risk of someone sneaking nefarious code through becomes? I guess there's a natural barrier in that the lesser known code bases become less of a target.

Sometimes I just find it wild with how much we talk about containers and sandboxes for the user space code we run that there's still regular recommendations for the random distro of the week published by who knows who.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-01-11 16:48:07+00:00
I don't own a starlink dish, but I assume one can log in and configure some things. It would be a nobrainer to have a way to enter coordinates and system time. Also the manual could have sane advice like recommendation to use "peace time" to establish the locations GPS coordinates and write them down on some sticker or so.

If it can serve a basic web page with a world map, it may be justifiable to include it for the price of the dish (yes will require some flash storage).
by ryandrake | 2026-01-11 16:48:19+00:00
Here's a perfect example of this: Using a Mac trackpad on macOS, you can two-finger scroll as fast or slow as you want. If you go slow enough (you might have to "roll" your fingers instead of moving them down), you can scroll your browser pixel-by-pixel. This behavior carries through every app on the system. Scrolling basically does exactly what your fingers do.

Now, run Linux (say, Ubuntu) on that exact same hardware and try scrolling in Firefox or something. Instead of the content moving exactly as your fingers are moving, it does this weird jumpy "page up / page down" like thing as your fingers move. Even moving your fingers as slowly as you can will make the content jump to the next "page" 20 pixels down. This is not just Firefox's behavior: it carries through to every application.

Yes, there's probably some obscure GNOME configuration I need to add to fix this behavior, and if you search online you'll find forum after forum of people asking for logs and responding with "I dunno, try this." For something that should work out of the box.
by diego_moita | 2026-01-11 16:48:36+00:00
China is Marxist, as much as South Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, USSR, Khmer Rouge, Laos, etc. This is objective history. These are the "objective conditions", as Marxists say. These are facts and nothing else exists besides that.

Your idealistic, romantic version of Marxism only exists in your head. In 140 years of history, Marxism only generated the Marxist states I listed above.
by jcelerier | 2026-01-11 16:48:37+00:00
> This makes you wonder: How hard it could be for a business that already has a 80% working application via Wine to patch the application/Wine to make it work 99+%, and then bundle the application with Wine and say that it has "native Linux support"?

I've had cases where running an app under wine worked better than the native linux port :/
by bicx | 2026-01-11 16:48:41+00:00
Let go of any specific expectations of how you spend your days as an engineer. It’s likely going to be less and less coding by hand, a lot more code review, more taste-making (what code and features _should_ or _should not_ exist in a well-build system) a lot more opportunity to deepen adjacent skills. Personally, as a startup-oriented engineer, I am expanding my impact beyond traditional engineering and into broader product design, deeper UX experimentation, and adaptive architecture. I’m expanding my skills a bit into what used to only be the domain of PMs and designers. I also expect that PMs and designers will begin expanding their boundaries as well.
by redeeman | 2026-01-11 16:49:01+00:00
gcc 3.3 to 3.4 was a big thing, and could cause some issues if people didnt follow the upgrade procedures, and also many c++ codebases would need minor adjustments.. this has been much much less of a problem since.

Additionally gentoo has become way more strict with use flag dependencies, and it also checks if binaries are depending on old libs, and doesnt remove them when updating a package, such that the "app depends on old libstdc++" doesnt happen anymore. It then automatically removes the old when nothing needs it anymore

I have been running gentoo since before 04, continously, and things pretty much just work. I would be willing to put money that I spend less time "managing my OS" than most who run other systems such as osx, windows, debian etc. Sure, my cpu gets to compile a lot, but thats about it.

And yes, the "--omg-optimize" was never really the selling point, but rather the useflags, where theres complete control. Pretty much nothing else comes close, and it is why gentoo is awesome
by fenwick67 | 2026-01-11 16:49:02+00:00
> I want to make films that look like Denis Villeneuve's Dune. (Just to cite one example, not that I'm interested in replicating his style.) How am I supposed to do that?

As an artist you should know that being able to achieve whatever you want with whatever level of effort you want and get the reception you want is often not achievable
by jgrahamc | 2026-01-11 16:50:03+00:00
Couple of blogs about my KIM-1:

1. My 1976 KIM-1
https://blog.jgc.org/2023/11/my-1976-kim-1.html

2. Getting the KIM-1 to talk to my Mac
https://blog.jgc.org/2025/02/getting-kim-1-to-talk-to-my-mac...
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-11 16:50:35+00:00
Bunch of people explaining this based on voting representation structures but I think they're missing the forest for the trees.

It comes down to power and money. In any capitalist economy with large highly profitable corporate entities, the part(ies) that represent their interests most strongly are simply going to have more leverage and power.

Biden and Harris made the "mistake" of starting to go after Silly Valley for tax evasion and for social/communal issues and so on.

They made the "mistake" of trying to actually advance, modestly, some climate change policy that hurt the oil industry. They made the "mistake" of harming the same global energy industry by heavily sanctioning energy superpower Russia and trying to defeat it in a proxy war.

They made the "mistake" of trying to regulate the cancer that is the cryptocurrency "industry."

And they were completely buried for it. "Allies" in the tech industry just completely abandoned them, and put Vance up as their sock puppet. Musk went scorched earth.

It doesn't matter that centrist opinions might accord with the majority of US society. At least to some degree.

It doesn't match with those who hold real effective power -- monetary, capital power -- need.

Capitalism and democracy only sometimes overlap. They only do so when people keep corporate interests in check through mass action and opposition and unionization and having an active social democratic party, etc. Something the US entirely lacks.
by ChicagoDave | 2026-01-11 16:51:14+00:00
What we "want" and what businesses will demand are very different things. I can tell you from 40 years build software, all companies care about is functional software. They don't care about code quality, maintainability, or tech debt. Never seen a single CTO say, "Let's carve out 20% of our sprints for tech debt," even though as architects we recommend something like that all the time.

The motto has always been, "Make it work."

Not, "Make it perfect."
by WD-42 | 2026-01-11 16:52:48+00:00
This is just false. Amdgpu is an in tree kernel module and has been forever.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/gpu/amdgpu/index.html

If you are installing via an outside method, again, you are going agasint the grain for no good reason and making problems for yourself.

Nobody is suggesting installing LTS on brand new hardware.