MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by didip | 2026-01-17 22:28:21+00:00
When doing my own startup in the past, the biggest pain were: loneliness and inexplicable paranoia. Which then lead to anxiety.

This, when unchecked, can lead to self inflicted, unnecessary pressure on myself. And failure to meet the impossible deadlines, created downward spiral.

I think this is normal, everyone went through the same thing. That’s why some VCs filter for megalomaniacs, zealots, or people who have no idea what pain is, because the journey is insane arduous.

The pain magnifies if the startup is located in VHCOL. Every month a whale appears and eat a big chunk of your runway. Who wouldn’t have anxiety?
by wlonkly | 2026-01-17 22:28:50+00:00
I have the 27" from that series. In my experience, after I fixed the RGB issue, I also fixed the flickering issue. And to fix the RGB issue, I used BetterDisplay[1], controlled by a Hammerspoon[2] script[3] that calls its CLI on the appropriate display events.

The free version of BetterDisplay is sufficient, I really don't use any of its other features.

The flickering seems to be gamma related, and is triggered by Nightshift or Flux for me.

[1] https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay#readme
[2] https://www.hammerspoon.org/
[3] https://github.com/wlonkly/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.hammer...
by TheGRS | 2026-01-17 22:28:52+00:00
I can relate to the author. Really loved the strip when I was younger and before I actually worked anywhere. The TV show on UPN was pretty decent too, it's a shame it didn't catch on more. Adams seemed to have a smart everyman quality to him and was doling out nuggets of wisdom like candy. His later years really troubled me because it difficult to relate the earlier idea I had of Adams to the later. It's a lesson in mortality and how much a person can change (not that I knew Adams or anything, maybe he was always like that). There are many other examples out there.

One thing I think people make the mistake of is taking a look at a person as they are now and then retroactively applying that to their past persona. I think there is something more to learn from the idea that we all can change substantially over time, even without major life incidents. The mind is very complex and sometimes it can go down some dark paths.
Show HN: School/ಶಾಲೆ – Agentic Voice Tutor for Students
by gaganyatri | 2026-01-17 22:28:52+00:00
Do you think you can teach ?

Agentic Tutor for students with a text/voice interactions.

Try the demo at : https://school.dwani.ai

built school - ಶಾಲೆ at Agent Olympics Hackathon.

24 hours of non stop experiments alongside at Agent Olympics Hackathon

Built with dwani.ai for LLM/TTS/ASR for Indian languages,
OpenAI for leaderboard hacking with GPT-5.2 ,
ElevenLabs for German/English TTS/ASR

Demo Video - https://youtu.be/-DrabKfl0r0
by sdoering | 2026-01-17 22:30:16+00:00
I am always wondering, if initiatives like these are a way to get a system in place that enables governments (by proxy of these platforms) a way to ensure any online activity is tied to a governmental id.

Because if you want to use these platforms this would mean you would have to prove your age.

Then I ask myself if I am wearing my tinfoil hat?

Sadly, nowadays, I am just not sure anymore.
by zug_zug | 2026-01-17 22:30:36+00:00
"I think the entire DevOps movement was a mighty, ... it failed."

I'm so sick of this nonsense. "Devops" isn't failing, isn't an issue, you can rename it whatever you want, but throughout my career the devops engineers (the ones you don't skimp on) are the best, highest paid professionals at the company.

I don't know why I keep reading these completely crazy think-pieces hemming and hawing about a system (having a few engineers who master performance/backups/deployments/oncall/retros) that seems to be wildly successful. It would be nice if more engineers understood under-the-hood, but most companies choose not to exclusively hire at that caliber.
by Rochus | 2026-01-17 22:30:47+00:00
What are "Jazz Translations"?

Has there been an audio original which was uploaded, or were there overdups over the Suno track, or additional mastering? It sounds better (both musically and also the sound quality) than what Suno v5 can do from my experience.

Ok, the sound of the piano in track 2 is pretty typical for Suno, and there is some aliasing on the hi-hat, but the overall quality is still better than what Suno directly generates.
by thech6newshound | 2026-01-17 22:31:55+00:00
Quite amazing breakdown, thank you!

I'm hoping people who harness ASCII for stuff like this consider using Code Page 437, or similar. Extended ASCII sets comprising Foreign Chars are for staid business machines, and sort of familiar but out of place accented chars have a bit of a distracting quality.

437 and so on taps the nostalgia for BBS Art, DOS, TUIs scene NFOs, 8 bit micros.... Everything pre Code Page 1252, in other words. Whilst it was a pragmatic decision for MS, it's also true that marketing needs demanded all text interfaces disappeared because they looked old. Text graphics, doubly so. That design space was now reserved for functional icons. A bit of creativity went from (home) computing right there and then. Stuffing it all into a separate font ensured it died.

But, that stuff is genuinely cool to a lot of people in a way VIM, (for example) has never been and nor will it ever. This is a case of Form Over Function. Foreign chars are not as friendly or fun as hearts, building blocks, smileys, musical notes, etc.
by allreduce | 2026-01-17 22:31:55+00:00
> if AI truly becomes what was promised

I mean they are promising AGI.

Of course in that case it will not happen this time. However, in that case software dev getting automated would concern me less than the risk of getting turned into some manner of office supply.

Imo as long as we do NOT have AGI, software-focused professional will stay a viable career path. Someone will have to design software systems on some level of abstraction.
by shrubby | 2026-01-17 22:32:20+00:00
The same root cause everywhere
. The zillionaires threatening to flee from the taxes. Annex Greenlands, Ukraines...

Taking children to pedo islands.

Once we'll wake up to the fact that almost every human becomes corrupt when treated with enough power we'll grok this.

And provide mental health services to the zillionaires and also they'll be happier.

Nobody wants the future we're getting.
by reincarnate0x14 | 2026-01-17 22:32:53+00:00
I mean this kindly, but if you're still using net-netlmv1 on anything that matters, you need to pay much more mind to your own business because even the original vendor of it has been telling you to get off that since 1999 because it is not safe.

If you're using it on something that doesn't matter, then it also doesn't matter that rainbow tables any attacker could have already had for a decade are slightly more available.
by jbreckmckye | 2026-01-17 22:33:03+00:00
Because the idea you can have all aspects of maintaining a complex piece of technology, maintained by a single cross-skilled team of interchangeable cogs, is utopian and unworkable past any reasonable level of scale

DevOps, shift left, full stack dev, all reminds me of the Futurama episode where Hermes Conrad successfully reorgs the slave camp he's sent to, so that all physical labour is done by a single Australian man

Speaking darker, there is a kind of - well, perhaps not misanthropy, but certainly a not-so-well-meaning dismissiveness, to the "silo breaking" philosophy that looks at complex fields and says "well these should all just be lumped together as one thing, the important stuff is simple, I don't know why you're making all these siloes, man" - assuming that ops specialists, sysadmins, programmers, DBAs, frontend devs, mobile devs, data engineers and testers have just invented the breadth and depth and subtleties of their entire fields, only as a way of keeping everybody else out

But modern systems are complex, they are only getting more so, and the further you buy into the shift-left everyone-is-everything computer-jobs-are-all-the-same philosophy the harder and harder it will get to find employees who can straddle the exhausting range of knowledge to master
by alphazard | 2026-01-17 22:34:04+00:00
DevOps only works when the developers are always right. What usually happens is the DevOps team thinks they know best (they are developers too, just not the ones using the tools), and they build a lot of garbage that no one wants to use, often making things more complicated than they were before.

Eventually a bureaucrat becomes the manager of the team, and seeks to expand the set of things under DevOps' control.
This makes the team a single point of failure for more and more things, while driving more and more developer processes towards mediocrity.
Velocity slows, while the DevOps bottlenecks are used as a reason to hire.

It's an organizational problem, not a talent or knowledge problem.
Allowing a group to hire and grow within an organization, which is not directly accountable for the success of the other parts of the organization that it was intended to support, is creating a cancer, definitionally.
by glemion43 | 2026-01-17 22:34:43+00:00
At the end of the day Dilbert was entertainment...

And SA was weird as f who made money bye filling a niche.

His political views and other snippets made that quite clear.

And let's be honest just creating cartoons about our corporate capitalistic shit hole was easy enough hit a nerve but more than a chuckle was Dilbert never.

It became cultural because it was printed everywhere and it was fun enough for it's format
by blutoot | 2026-01-17 22:35:14+00:00
My message to the CTO of Honeycomb.io (who apparently wrote this post): please avoid getting philosophical and controversial to gin up curiosity about your AI platform. If you want to highlight the benefits of your platform then do so earnestly and objectively. Please don't mask marketing with an excoriation of a profession that has never been well-defined (or has always been defined to fit into an organization's political landscape for the most part). And you guys (like every other SRE/Ops platform) capitalized on that structural divide and deservedly got rich by selling licenses to these teams. I don't think you can come in now with this holier-than-thou best practice messaging just because platforms like yours have zero moat in this post-CC/Codex world.

Hence my vitriol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662287.
by 827a | 2026-01-17 22:35:44+00:00
You're right, but only half-way to the most realistic conclusion. Canada is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The US is increasingly hostile, because the US wants control over the warming arctic naval routes and higher border security. Greenland is just a softer target for now. However, turning away from the US (~85% of Canadian trade) to China (~8%) weakens Canada and gives political cover for the US to take further hostile action.

There's a game being played that, once you see it, it becomes clear that some world leaders are thinking about 2035, and other world leaders are still in 2015. I don't like it, and I genuinely feel for Canadians; they're a small, inconveniently positioned pawn that is getting caught up in something so much bigger than their country and leadership has the resources to deal with.
by dsifry | 2026-01-17 22:36:03+00:00
Just to be clear - the hook is deterministic, but the subagent running with an mcp server loaded is not - and for medium/large PRs, it can run out of context window or just forget what it is trying to do and get lazy and say 'Everything is good, ready to merge!' when in fact tests are failing or there are still unaddressed PR comments.
by mise_en_place | 2026-01-17 22:38:22+00:00
Regardless of how you feel about him, a good litmus test to go by is how Jews perceived him. This is the second article by a Jew throwing shade at the man.

We've had almost 100 years of the Talmudic dialectic, culturally speaking. Tiresome is not even the word for it anymore, it's time to give it a rest. We get it.
by joomy | 2026-01-17 22:38:35+00:00
Hi all, Kip's developer here! I was going to wait until we had finished the playground and landing page before posting about the project more, but here's the browser-based playground we have so far (thanks to Alperen Keles) for anyone who wants to play with the language: https://alpaylan.github.io/kip/

(The work on JavaScript transpilation just started today and currently doesn't work, but running the language should mostly work, though it probably has bugs, which I'd love to hear about in the repo's issues!)
by insane_dreamer | 2026-01-17 22:39:17+00:00
All this Greenland stupidity could be an ongoing distraction from the Epstein files, Wag the Dog style. The attack on Venezuela coincidentally was the day that the DOJ was supposed to explain their redactions to Congress, which they didn't do and there hasn't been a peep since. I don't know what's in those files but I do know that Trump fought tooth and nail against Congress voting to release them, and he wouldn't have done that if they weren't damming.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-17 22:39:24+00:00
Don't you see how this kind of thinking is the problem? The UK was in 1900, and remains today, a prosperous country where almost all citizens can live happy and fulfilling lives. That's what makes a country great, not territorial claims or everyone else in the world doing worse. The people who support Trump wrecking the world order are doing so precisely because they aren't willing to accept that.
by jolmg | 2026-01-17 22:39:27+00:00
Except it's not a bug that found use. It's intentional behavior. From https://specifications.freedesktop.org/clipboard/latest/:

> The rationale for this behavior is mostly that [having a unified clipboard] has a lot of problems, namely:

> - inconsistent with Mac/Windows

> - confusingly, selecting anything overwrites the clipboard

> - not efficient with a tool such as xclipboard [(tool that maintains a history of specifically CLIPBOARD; it would be messy to keep a history of all selections)]

> - you should be able to select text, then paste the clipboard over it, but that doesn’t work if the selection and clipboard are the same

> - the Copy menu item is useless and does nothing, which is confusing

> - if you think of PRIMARY as the current selection, Cut doesn’t make any sense since the selection simultaneously disappears and becomes the current selection
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-01-17 22:39:47+00:00
> …but the engineering team struggles to adopt them…

I have no way of knowing the answer to this question I wonder about: Does leadership consider AI adoption as being synonymous with vibe coding?

My knowledge of vibe coding is informed more or less completely by this one video I discovered this past summer [1]

The approach to coding I'm seeing in that video is impressive! No question! But it's also what I call the epitome of tech debt multiplying.

If vibe coding is what leadership expects the engineering team to be adopting, then there's a saying that goes, "Be careful what you ask for…"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/live/Pv5DU1nwp6U?si=4ic-HQvHWmVTyFIA
by yawniek | 2026-01-17 22:39:58+00:00
Its an incredible story and way another time. As my cousin put it while i was last in ivrea: those factory buildings where like spaceships at that time.
Partialy very bad luck, but with all the nostalgia i think adriano was also partialy a bit dreamy and that ultimately came at a cost.
On the other side and what rarely gets mentioned: olivetti had a really good and massive sales crew. And that allowed them to spend money on these things.

Ps.Adriano is my biological grandfather.
Pps.i posted the link before, but didnt get much traction.
by altacc | 2026-01-17 22:41:14+00:00
The problem with "let the parents decide" is that so many parents take the option of least resistance and currently that's a terrible option. From what I see of my childrens' peers, it's not parents are deciding to let their children run wild on social media, it's that they don't even think about it, they just hand over a phone or tablet, often with their own login, and don't think much about it.

One way of solving this is if the default was everything locked down, then effort needed to give the children anything, forcing parents to consider each permission.

However I also see that parents are addicted to their devices and social media, so don't see the problem.
by nomel | 2026-01-17 22:42:18+00:00
I think this is the cause for the division in the perception of how useful AI is.

If you work in a field with mostly proprietary implementations of solutions, the top model aren't going to be all that helpful. The models won't have the domain knowledge, because open source code doesn't exist for most domains, because there's very real competitive advantage in keepings code/processes, that aren't trivially implemented, a secret!

I think proprietary data is the new moat, because that's where the vast majority of useful domain knowledge exists.
by born-jre | 2026-01-17 22:42:50+00:00
PotatoVerse is a small app platform that hosts web applications with server-side code and frontend assets. Think of it as a hybrid between a CMS and Heroku-like PaaS, all in one binary.

https://github.com/blue-monads/potatoverse

DEMO:
https://tubersalltheway.top/zz/pages/auth/login
by joshuamorton | 2026-01-17 22:42:56+00:00
> * Defining directly responsible individuals / single-threaded leaders so that every choice doesn't involve massive coordination

Obviously doing this makes sense when possible, but in cases where you see it, it's usually due to a fair amount of work to have made this possible.

To give a simple example, I work on a class of problems that require a VP level approval for new instances of $thing. I've gotten this down to a pretty straightforward process where I can work with folks who are proposing a new instance, get things working, and then the VP usually is happy to stamp the work we've already done. Though in some cases they aren't, and they have (good, probing) questions or changes they'd like us to make. But that's only possible because I have a longstanding relationship with the set of folks who ultimately approve this kind of thing, I have worked with them on a process that they like, and I have the experience to shepherd things effectively, and their trust and buy-in. And I'd argue that my case is pretty simple, because while there are a handful of responsible people that I could go to, there's rarely any individual concerned.

Consider a different, relatively common case, of a client and a server that are owned by different teams. The client wants a feature in the server, and perhaps is willing to do some development and loan headcount to implement the feature. Who is the single responsible party here?

It should probably be either the manager of the client server team or the mutual manager of both if the teams are fairly close in the wider org, but then you have multiple indirect layers between the people doing the work (client team members) and the accountable person (server team manager), and that's the state you get to after you've done a bunch of coordination work and gotten everyone to agree to that division of labor and accountability.
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-17 22:43:45+00:00
>Good enough that choosing to focus on the fundamentals seems rather foolish.[...]but most of the time it sticks the landing. At this point, learning Awk seems about as sane as mastering the loom

The joy aspect aside, if you're writing code professionally obviously that is no substitute for knowing how Awk works because you still need to make sure that what it produced is correct, because I sincerely hope that you're not pushing code into production, in particular not a piece of code some tool got wrong for 20 minutes, without understanding what it does.

If that were an intern rather than a machine and you as the programmer don't know how the code works you're not doing your job. AI systems have not freed people from acquiring "arcane knowledge" it makes that knowledge more important than ever, the only thing it does is type faster than you do.
by pibaker | 2026-01-17 22:44:03+00:00
If you look at the news in a democratic country vs an authoritarian one, you may easily walk away with the impression that the former is in a state of perpetual chaos, because of all the scandals, protests, resignations and snap elections. The authoritarian country will look like a paragon of stability in contrast. New infrastructure projects, record economic growth, seditious officials swiftly trialed and imprisoned. There is barely any conflict and the ones that do exist get solved quickly.

But unless you are a total mark, you should know that the stability is just a facade. That infrastructure project only went through because locals who opposed got beaten up by the cops, the economics data was cooked up by statisticians who fear the consequence of telling the truth and the seditious officials are only at the receiving end of justice because they lost the power struggle within the party. But of course you don’t know any of that, because why would the state let you?

Wikipedia, like democracies, run on transparency. This is why you get to read the editing history and talk page of any Wikipedia page and walk away with the impression that Wikipedia is uniquely full of drama. You never feel the same about the New York Times or the BBC because they run more like autocracies and keep everything inside. If we get a chance to read the internal emails of establishment media we will walk away with a very different impression.
by zoin | 2026-01-17 22:44:29+00:00
I currently work on a 11 year code base with around ~20 developer who make changes to it daily/weekly.

how does that work for you when working on a massive established codebase, with hundreds of engineers committing daily?
Its unlikely that I will understand everything but each time I add a feature or fix a bug I understand part of the system better. I currently have mental models of the different systems that make up the code base and over time the more I work on it the more refined my models gets. Some section of the code base I know that really well even though didn't write it myself.

do you still keep track of everything in your head?
Like I said, for parts I haven't looked deeply into I have mental models, think a white board with a bunch of boxes and arrows between them.

do you carve your sandbox and only work within it?
some parts of our code base are well written so you don't have to understand everything to work in it just the class and methods your call. The same way you don't have to know how fastAPI classes and methods are actually code just how to use them. That being said there are time where I have to look into the actual implementation but its not the worst thing in the world.

yes some human written code is bad but I find that its bad because its quirky and doesn't follow a familiar flow. On the other hand LLM's are pretty good at following patterns of a code base but i find that they do more than what is necessary.
by anonymars | 2026-01-17 22:44:31+00:00
Am I the only one who remembers when DevOps meant "developers are responsible for dealing with the operational part of their software too, so that they don't just throw stuff over the wall for another team to deal with the 3AM pages"?

It seems to have become: "we turned ops into coding too, so now the ops team needs to be good at software engineering"
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-17 22:45:28+00:00
We could have replaced tons of developers if only employers were selective in their hiring and invested in training. Instead there are a ton of hardly marginal developers in employment.

Case in point: web frameworks as mentioned in the article. These frameworks do not exist to increase productivity for either the developer or the employer. They exist to mitigate training and lower the bar so the employer has a wider pool of candidates to select from.