MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by technothrasher | 2026-01-07 17:20:34+00:00
In a sort of reverse of that story, back when my teenage son was working at Target, my wife asked me to get a vacuum cleaner. So I went to the Target webpage and found a mid-range model, and texted my son to buy it and bring it home after his shift. He came home and said the only one left was the display model but that he got it for me.

The next day, security called him in to the office, which freaked him out a little, of course. They asked him why he had bought that vacuum cleaner. He said I'd asked for it. They then all laughed, and told him that it was a commonly stolen model and they were using it as a honey pot. When he walked over and took it off the shelf, they were concerned. When he then went up to the front and bought it, they were confused. They said now they understood. It was always the dad causing problems. And they sent him back to work.
by voidfunc | 2026-01-07 17:20:36+00:00
Also, what kind of AI tasks is the average person doing? The people thinking about this stuff are detached from reality. For most people a computer is a gateway to talking to friends and family, sharing pictures, browsing social media, and looking up recipes and how-to guides. Maybe they do some tracking of things as well in something like Excel or Google Sheets.

Consumer AI has never really made any sense. It's going to end up in the same category of things as 3D TV's, smart appliances, etc.
by deathanatos | 2026-01-07 17:20:39+00:00
… or there's just a lot of awkwardness for both parties in trying to communicate "are you on camera?" without the person who is potentially on camera revealing that communication to the stream.

The person entering has to make sure they're not on camera — if the room's architecture even allows for that — the person answering has to somehow communicate to that person without people looking at their video feed noticing. I've gestured things to my fiancée while on air, and while they were pretty clearly intended for "someone off camera", still managed to confuse the meeting participants.

Radio booths and other broadcasts have done this for ages with the "On Air" sign, which basically what TFA has made.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-07 17:21:04+00:00
The US service economy is ~83% of GDP. Manufacturing only makes up 8% of jobs in the US. Why do I care about US made products? Corporations are offshoring services and knowledge work, manufacturing has been gone for some time and will not be back. If it does come back, it'll be mostly automated, lights out facilities (like China).

So! I think it makes a lot of sense to impair the offshoring of these service and knowledge jobs when there isn't a labor shortage and we're likely in a recession. If you need more data, I can provide as much as you would like on this topic.

America’s missing manufacturing renaissance - https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/01/06/a... | https://archive.today/3qQUq - January 6th, 2026

The U.S. is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs, analysis finds - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jobs-manufacturing-trump-tariff... - October 1st, 2025

Trump’s Trade War Squeezes Middle-Class Manufacturing Employment - https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trumps-trade-war-sq... - September 5th, 2025

USA Facts: What does the US produce? - https://usafacts.org/articles/what-does-the-us-produce/ ("Over four-fifths (83.3%) of value added to the US economy in 2024 was via services, for a total of $24.3 trillion.")

USA Facts: The diminishing role of manufacturing in the American economy - https://usafacts.org/articles/diminishing-role-manufacturing... - October 16th, 2020

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
by 3rodents | 2026-01-07 17:21:43+00:00
The biggest miss from Tailwind is ignoring the rest of the ecosystem. Rightly or wrongly, everyone has moved on to using shadcn's system for components. Tailwind hasn't. Tailwind has excellent components available through Plus which are worth paying for but they're not available where people are, which pushes people towards other libraries built on top of Tailwind. I have paid for Tailwind Plus and I like their Catalyst UI and I have used it on a project but it's a pain to use compared to alternatives, so, I don't bother.

I'd go as far as to guess that their revenue isn't down due to AI but because of their lifetime access model combined with shadcn's registry system being much easier to use.

Prediction: Tailwind acquired by Vercel.
by swat535 | 2026-01-07 17:21:49+00:00
Users will not care about the quality of your code, or the backed architecture, or your perfectly strongly typed language.

They only care about their problems and treat their computers like an appliance. They don't care if it takes 10 seconds or 20 seconds.

They don't even care if it has ads, popups, and junk.
They are used to bloatware and will gladly open their wallets if the tool is helping them get by.

It's an unfortunately reality but there it is, software is about money and solving problems. Unless you are working on a mission critical system that affects people's health or financial data, none of those matter much.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-07 17:21:54+00:00
I'm with you... just with gesture input as it is, I hate using my phone for much beyond a quick comment or two. I can't imagine trying to do anything technical with a phone's onscreen keyboard. Even through an AI prompt... nope, just nope.

At worst, put your ideas into a notes app and then go back to where you are... this is just anti-social and borderline psychotic imo.
by otekengineering | 2026-01-07 17:22:08+00:00
This reminds me so much of my own experience with AI fueled dev mania. Rapidly build semi-functional wonders, then pivot to something shiny and new to avoid the QA trudge of polishing that wonderous turd.

I'm on my second agent orchestration framework, Omnispect - https://omnispect.dev/

Example created by Omnispect:

Oneshot - https://omnispect.dev/battleclone00.html

Polished - https://omnispect.dev/battleclone04.html
by lenerdenator | 2026-01-07 17:22:11+00:00
Understand something, though: many of those people making those decisions thought that the current administration would be a way to fix regulation.

We're learning why government shouldn't be run like a business. Corporate governance, at least in the view of these people, arguably benefits from tyranny in some ways. You have a management structure where people have the ability to cut off your income and health insurance for an indeterminate amount of time for almost any reason. The reasons they can't fire you for are very specific and it's often on you, the now-jobless person, to prove their maleficence. Sounds pretty tyrannical to me.

They thought if they had someone who was used to working within a system like that - and Trump absolutely was, having his name on the building he worked in his entire adult life - it'd allow them to get rid of roadblocks to productivity and increase the value created by their businesses.

Well, as it turns out, an economy is different than a business, and needs to be run according to rules that were deliberated upon by the society at large.

We had people warning about this ten years ago. They were ignored. We had him impeached five years ago. Didn't convict. We had him convicted of 34 felony counts less than two years ago. Didn't sentence.

This is hubris manifest.
by manfromchina1 | 2026-01-07 17:22:30+00:00
Moving from LA to SF will definitely give you a sticker shock. I used to buy nice large burritos in DTLA for $10 flat as recently as 2024. That's with tax. Later that year in SF a nice sandwich in random bodegas would cost well over $20(with tax). SF is probably the most eye wateringly expensive city in all of US. It definitely beats NYC.
by eevmanu | 2026-01-07 17:22:43+00:00
Six years old might be too early to incentivize screen use, though I'd encourage you to research this yourself rather than taking internet comments at face value.

That said, I think there's a distinction between screens and computing itself. You could introduce her to computing power through voice interfaces: a smart speaker connected to an LLM could let her search, learn, and interact with information hands-free. You'd have control over the system prompts for safety, and could whitelist reliable sources for her queries.

Yes, visual information density is higher than audio, but the downsides of early screen exposure might outweigh that efficiency gain. Voice-first computing could be a middle ground, she gets to explore what computers can do without the attention/addiction patterns that screens introduce.

Just one perspective, obviously. Worth doing your own research on the developmental tradeoffs.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-07 17:22:57+00:00
Labeling something as “libertarian” isn’t an argument. But a tariff is a tax. Which means you are proposing to take money from others to subsidize people who aren’t able to compete on their merit. Why should they be subsidized? If they can’t make it in STEM they are free to get a different job. But vilifying Indians and Chinese and other immigrants, who have made our companies and economy strong, all over a small 60k visas a year, is irrational.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-07 17:24:06+00:00
Dedicated mediators sometimes experience signs and symptoms of psychosis

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8380174/

In general psychosis-proneness is a quantity that people have more or less, some people have harmless hallucinations or "unusual experiences" but psychosis-prone people have more trouble when they are under more stress. Some researchers think that meditation practice could be protective

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-01856-y

Personally mindless use of the word "mindful" is a pet peeve of mine because I knew somebody who would talk about mindfulness just before he walked into an open pit. Also back when I was more anxious I always thought my mind was "full" by default and wanted to empty it, I found that many practices would just fill my mind up with more noise.
by ThinkBeat | 2026-01-07 17:24:22+00:00
At the top of the pyramid there are also vegetables.
For some reason that is left out in some of the media converge.

Kennedy said to avoid the sugary, processed foods that he
labels as poisonous to health.
(Does any sane person disagree with this?)

“My message is clear: Eat real food,” Mr. Kennedy said
(Does any sane person disagree with this?)
by toss1 | 2026-01-07 17:24:27+00:00
I can check out faster by rarely having to queue for the register, and I can scan things faster than a tired bored retail worker and know it's accurate. Self-checkout is also much less likely for me to catch a cold/flu/etc. as I'm neither in close proximity to the employee who was in close proximity to every other customer that week, and is touching every one of my items after touching every other customers' items. And, I can bag the goods the way I want them bagged, either for easier carrying, cold items together, or for how I want it organized to un-bag at home.

So, I consider self-checkout a real plus, not them stealing my labor. The exception is when the system is ill-designed or ill-tuned, so it halts and I'm effectively debugging it for them, except nothing is fixed b/c the employee just logs in and waves it through. With that exception, I still much prefer self-checkout.
by exographicskip | 2026-01-07 17:24:46+00:00
cachyos has been nearly flawless for a non-steam deck (gpd win mini 2). Upgrades broke my tv being set to the primary display under gamemode but that was an easy fix.

The other game changer (heh) was going all in on amd: cpu, integrated gpu, and discrete gpu via oculink.

Nvidia may be the best overall performance for gaming and ai workloads, it still doesn't play nice with linux gaming
by sargstuff | 2026-01-07 17:24:53+00:00
So, perhaps figure out how to group the short videos to form a higher level composition. (or cohesive concatenation for an anthology) aka Lewis Carroll "Through the Looking Glass"
( No, sending it over fiber doesn't count) Just mind the terms of service on the short videos.

Without a study area/focus, kinda difficult to recommend "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"[0].

What about a trip to discipline of choice version of MIT's media lab[0].
Take the applied and deconstruct the theory. Use the theory deconstructed to build new applications.
Pal Alto's 'media lab' of the day worked for inspiration for Apple.

Tuning in to the music side, research history of The Beetles. "Now and Then" theme song for checking out what was innovative then vs. now. aka studio setup/figure out how to do what want vs. today's equivalent 'iPhone pocket studio'. Suppose with the relevant background, could research the friction between a music teacher instructing students with an electrical engineering background. Was that The Beetles downfall?

[0] : https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf
[1] : https://www.media.mit.edu/

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For less quantum mania, and more visual, go semiotics & architecture:

Semiotics as a Guide for Architectural Formation : https://www.be.unsw.edu.au/si
tes/default/files/upload/UtzonSymposium/FERWATI%20.pdf

Function and Sign: The Semiotics of Architecture : https://marywoodarchtheory.wo
rdpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/function-and-the-sign-the-semiotics-of-ar
ch_u-eco.pdf

Architectural Semiotics Decoding the Language of Space : https://www.re-thin
kingthefuture.com/architectural-community/a11019-architectural-semiotics-decodin
g-the-language-of-space/

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by scottLobster | 2026-01-07 17:25:29+00:00
I can, but I find the friction it induces to be extremely irritating. I have to memorize snippets of documentation before switching back instead of just having it open on the other monitor to reference at a glance. Plus the act of switching windows itself is extra keystrokes/touch gestures and tedium. Coding on a small touch screen sounds like absolute hell. Like being forced to drive in stop-and-go traffic with a manual shift.

I'll do it only if I have no other choice (i.e. logged into a remote terminal-only server at work). If I have some flash of inspiration I'll write it down in Google Keep and try it out when I get back to my 3-monitor workstation.

But hey, we're all wired different
by scotty79 | 2026-01-07 17:25:35+00:00
> LLMs have none of that, and every new session is rebuilding the world anew.

For LLMs long term memory is achieved by tooling. Which you discounted in your previous comments.

You also overstimate capacity of your short-term memory by few orders of magnitude:

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/short-term-me...
by aaronrobinson | 2026-01-07 17:26:04+00:00
This is a common misconception. I’m quite happy not being social and have absolutely no need to be needed.

I FIREd 3 years ago and don’t miss working one bit.

I think leaving work becomes more difficult for those who do need to feel valued and especially if they don’t have interests outside of it. There are many people like that.
by jonway | 2026-01-07 17:26:21+00:00
what? I'm reading this as: "We're gonna need oil for fuel when we go to war with china"

But south America is easily blockaded in times of war the oil (if we needed it) would be ours regardless. Second, we don't need it, we've been a net exporter for like over a decade now right?

Its been a few days. It turns out this was a simply capricious and erratic act on the part of Donald Trump, and we stand to essentially benefit not one iota as a country from it!
by nostrademons | 2026-01-07 17:26:29+00:00
It's hard to see how H-1B hiring could move meaningfully either up or down, given that the number of H-1Bs is capped at 65,000 [1] (+ 20,000 for advanced degrees), no company is going to pay for the process of getting an H-1B visa and not actually hire into it, and if a person on an H-1B loses their job they lose their visa in 60 days. You know exactly how many H-1Bs there are in the country: it's mandated by Congress.

What has changed is that they are or will soon be allocated by pay level instead of randomly. That's going to bias hiring toward Big Tech firms like Microsoft and Meta and away from body-shops like Infosys and Wipro.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...
by ux266478 | 2026-01-07 17:26:37+00:00
I specifically mentioned that population growth precedes fiat currency. Where's your confusion? I'm explicitly telling you to broaden your perspective and look at overarching political currents across the centuries succeeding the renaissance. For instance many countries also were not so extensively bureaucratized, particularly in how they interfaced with the public, until the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Political evolution is spread over many years and is structurally anisotropic. Metallism's death was inevitable by the 18th century at best, but don't misunderstand that to mean it was going to happen immediately. It's also just a symptom. The enlightenment's political revolution is a manifold spread across centuries. Don't just look at the symptoms, you won't understand anything and it will lead you to half-baked conclusions.
by labcomputer | 2026-01-07 17:26:48+00:00
> (Since there's a bunch of discussion about how to reduce taxiing consumption, I'll point out that one tonne of aviation fuel is about $700, so there's not much money to be saved by creating battery-powered tugs or whatnot.)

Probably the biggest win in aviation emissions would be converting all the ground support vehicles to electric. They’re currently classified as off-road vehicles, so don’t have to adhere to the same emission standards and normal cars and trucks. Additionally, they already spend a lot of time parked at the gate, which makes charging convenient and means that workers are never “waiting” for the vehicle to charge.
Show HN: Aukpad – open-source real-time collaboration notepad
by whatbackup | 2026-01-07 17:27:40+00:00
Aukpad is a simple online notepad for collaboration in your browser.

I've created aukpad for the following reasons:
- to have one synced notepad on various devices
- sharing and working on notes and configs live with colleagues
- notes can be created and downloaded via HTTP post request in any CLI (curl, etc)

There is no persistent storage and unused pads/notes are getting deleted after n hours.

It is a simple FastAPI application that uses Websockets for the sync and optional valkey/redis for caching. That is all.

An installation guide with Docker/Podman in the README and it is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004.

https://git.uphillsecurity.com/cf7/aukpad

Feedback is welcome.

Cheers.
by freedomben | 2026-01-07 17:28:09+00:00
Indeed, I've done this quite a few times myself. It's also a phenomenal way to be able to start poking at UI immediately without messing with build pipelines or anything besides just pointing your browser at `file:///...`. Then if the prototype is useful it's very easy to just delete the script tag and get it set up "properly" for a prod build and you know your prototype will pretty much "just work"
by frumper | 2026-01-07 17:28:20+00:00
Stackoverflow was never about getting the best code and neither are LLMs. People ask questions to figure out how to do something. If an LLM provides an answer that doesn't work, then they will just ask it to do it another way and hope that one works. Experts will always be in high demand, but on the other side there are a lot of jobs that just want a working product, even if it's not well made.
by RealityVoid | 2026-01-07 17:28:42+00:00
> We're talking about immigrants though, right? (If you don't want more of us in your country, I don't think you're a monster, btw. But entertain me anyway?)

I was more talking about the choice to remain in my home country vs move to the US. And I assure you, I personally don't care where you come from as long as you do your job, we can understand each other and you're not a raging asshole.

My only pet peeves with immigrants is the people who never bother to engage with the host culture at all. I find it a bit disrespectful, but that's a personal take.
by octaane | 2026-01-07 17:28:44+00:00
> They paid a total of 2 people $50,000 (edit: in 2016 dollars). That doesn't seem like enough to entirely shape worldwide discourse around nutrition and sugar.

You would be astonished at how little it takes to bribe, I mean donate, to a politician for example. For as little as $10-20k USD you can get a literal seat at a table with a sitting senator or congresscritter for several hours at a "charity" dinner, with results as expected.
by egorfine | 2026-01-07 17:28:46+00:00
> Why are you tracking when it's an undisputed evil?

Not that tracking. You know what I mean: tracking by ad networks and international corporations.

We are tracking events (users clicked on the button) in an anonymous fashion. We do not collect PII. We do not store IPs. We do not correlate behaviors with user ids. We simply track how many people clicked the button and on what page. This is hardly privacy invasive at all.

> Is getting consent interruptive? yes. Is that worse than not getting consent? Also yes.

I'm not entirely sure about the latter. First of all, I don't believe in the slightest that the site will respect my choice. Second, even if the site itself does, the ad network present on the site, definitely will track me no matter what.

In other words, consent banners are cargo cult, do not work in practice and are a net negative for the world.

> DNT

It was an obvious idea but didn't work, unfortunately due to the fact that ad network absolutely have to look down users' ass and they will not cease this practice.

> users that have it enabled can automatically opt out of your tracking

They can install adblock and wholesale opt out of all the bullshit, including insane cookie consent banners.

> Remember that in California you need

My business is not California or US based and thus I don't have to implement the vast variety of of cargo cult laws in existence.
by weitendorf | 2026-01-07 17:28:48+00:00
> Even if there is a "fully vibe-coded" product that has real customers, the fact that it's vibe-coded means that others can do the same.

I think you are strawmanning what "vibe coders" do when they build stuff. It's not simple one-shot generation of eg twitter clones, it's really just iterative product development through an inconsistently capable/spotty LLM developer. It's not really that different from a product manager hiring some cheap developer and feeding them tasks/feature requests. By the way, competitors can hire those and chip away at your moat too!

> Unless you have a secret LLM or some magical prompts that make the code better/more efficient than your competitions, your vibe coded product has no advantage over competition and no moat

This is just not true, and you kind of make my point in the next sentence: many companies competitive advantages come from distribution, trust, integration, regulatory, marketing/sales, network effects. But also, vibe coding is not really about prompts so much as it is product iteration. Anybody product can be copied already, yet people still make way more new products than direct product clones anyway, because it's usually more valuable to go to market with stronger, more focused, or more specialized/differentiated software than a copy.