MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Tell HN: The insane price hike of internal SSDs
by malshe | 2026-01-13 20:46:56+00:00
I missed buying a 4TB Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD for around $250 on Amazon during the Black Friday sale. I thought maybe there will be a Christmas discount. But the price started going up and hasn't stopped until now. Today it is priced at $477. What gives? I thought there was a shortage of RAM.
by noahbp | 2026-01-13 20:47:03+00:00
>That includes determining the rental price, and imposing fines for empty units.

We already have a fine for empty units. They're called property taxes, and they're the strongest and easiest-to-use tool that local governments have for reducing vacancies.

>I would argue a 1 bedroom apartment should have its rent capped at less than 40% of the monthly take home of someone on minimum wage.

Then you're making it de facto illegal to build new housing. No bank is going to lend money to anyone to build more housing if they can't charge enough rent to cover the loan.

>In what US city can someone on minimum wage raise two children? On the US federal minimum wage?!

Maybe not the US federal minimum wage, but Austin has become the second-most affordable city in America (median rent price to median household income ratio), just by permitting a huge number of apartments.

https://x.com/nickgerli1/status/2006872715316121750
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-13 20:47:03+00:00
This Cray version isn't so bad - it just requires that if the callee itself calls other subroutines, then it has to save/restore this B00 return address register. You could still support re-entrant routines with this as long as you saved/restored the return address to a software stack rather than a fixed location, but I wonder if Cray compilers typically supported that?

Apparently the reason for using a register vs stack for return address was because memory access (stack) was so much slower.

I'm kinda tempted to use this for the VM I'm designing, which will run on the 6502 8-bit micro. The 6502 doesn't have any 16-bit operations, so pushing and popping using a software defined 16-bit stack pointer is slow, and saving return address to zero page would certainly be faster. It'd mean that rather than always pushing/popping the SP, you only do it in the callee if needed. It's an interesting idea!
by mlindner | 2026-01-13 20:47:14+00:00
RIP to Scott Adams, I'm much younger than most here talking about his work (I didn't enter the work force until the 2010s) but I still found Dilbert interesting.

I saw him most as a victim of cancel culture with people attacking him for things he wasn't and exaggerating his minor issues into much larger ones. There are billions of people in the world with views that are probably worse than Scott Adams' but people always feel the need to attack the nail that sticks out.
by eZinc | 2026-01-13 20:47:19+00:00
It's either that, or you are 100X slower for not using Claude Code. The manpower per hour savings are most likely more worth it than protecting some inputs.

You could also always run a local LLM like GLM for sensitive documents or information on a separate computer, and never expose that to third party LLMs.

You also need to remember that if you hire regular employees that they are still untrustworthy at a base level. There needs to be some obfuscation anyway since they can steal your data/info too as a human. Very common case especially when they run off to China or something to clone your company where IP laws don't matter.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-01-13 20:47:24+00:00
> Sometimes you can get something usable in 1 or 2 prompts, and it almost feels like magic/cheating. Other times you spend tons of time going over prompts repeatedly trying to get it to do something, and are never successful.

That's normal for any kind of creative work. Some days it just happens quickly, other days you keep trying and trying and nothing works.

I spent some of the 90s and 00s making digital art. There was a lot of hostility to Photoshop then, and a lot of "That's not really art."

But I found that if I allowed myself to experiment, the output still had a unique personality and flavour which wasn't defined by the tool.

AI is the same.

The requirement for interesting art is producing something that's unique. AI makes that harder, but there's a lot of hand-made art - especially on fan sites like Deviant Art - which has some basic craft skill but scores very low on original imagination, unusual mood, or unique personality.

The reality is that most hand-made art is an unconscious mash-up of learned signifiers mediated by some kind of technique. AI-made art mechanises the mash-up, but it's still up to the creator to steer the process to somewhere interesting.

Some people are better at that than others, and more willing to dig deep into the medium and not take it at face value.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-13 20:47:27+00:00
Wow, as someone who has always heard he's a raging racist, that (with context in other comment) is just.... not super racist? It's much less bad than I expected.

I am Korean-American. If 47% of any group of people were unsure if it's "okay to be Asian" I would sure as hell avoid that group of people.
by EGreg | 2026-01-13 20:47:37+00:00
Because it has a lot of potential for abuse.

BUT, notice the absolutely opposite approach to AI and Web3 on HN. Things that highlight Web3 scams are upvoted and celebrated. But AI deepfakes and scams at scale are always downvoted, flagged and minimized with a version of the comment:

“This has always been the case. AI doesn’t do anything new. This is a nothingburger, move on.”

You can probably see multiple versions in this thread or the sibling post just next to it on HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603535

It comes up so often as to be systematic. Both downvoting Web3 and upvoting AI. Almost like there is brigading, or even automation.

Why?

I kept saying for years that AI has far larger downsides than Web3, because in Web3 you can only lose what you volunarily put in, but AI can cause many, many, many people to lose their jobs, their reputations, etc. and even lives if weaponized. Web3 and blockchain can… enforce integrity?
by gjm11 | 2026-01-13 20:47:42+00:00
> there's zero reason

The comment you are replying to articulated, I think rather clearly, one reason why maybe we should.

I think what you actually mean is that the reasons not to ("sex work is unsavory") outweigh the reasons to ("sex work is going to happen anyway and if some of the people doing it move to the US then they will spend their money and pay their taxes in the US and contribute to the economy there").

Maybe you're right, maybe you're not, but I don't think you should say "there's zero reason" when in fact there obviously are reasons and you just think other countervailing reasons matter more.
by aristofun | 2026-01-13 20:47:42+00:00
If you live in a modern 1st world country and have a family, at least 1 child or some old relatives and at least minimal ambition to eat good food and have okay level of life - 10M is not much at all.

It’ll get you okayish to allright property (depending on the region), will cover all basic expenses and (if you don’t have anyone with serious illness or financial problems) some non basic ones. For up to 10 years max.

Then what?

If you want to hear people’s passions I suggest using vague “F U money” term instead of a pretty small specific number.
by Aloisius | 2026-01-13 20:47:52+00:00
The PM wasn't democratically elected.

Iran wasn't in era of peace and tranquility 75 years ago.

The PM was not popular in 1953 after his failed land reforms pissed off pretty much everyone, the oil industry had ground to a halt from sanctions, he jailed his political enemies and was ruling Iran as a dictator.

It's unfortunate that Iran's propaganda around Mossadegh has been so effective at rewriting history, but people just like simplistic stories about good vs. evil.
by notnullorvoid | 2026-01-13 20:47:54+00:00
There are some problems where this becomes a game of whack-a-mole either way you approach it (restart or modify with existing context). I end up writing more prompts than the code I could've written myself.

This isn't to say I don't think LLMs are an asset, they have helped me solve problems and grow in domains where I lack experience.
by bpt3 | 2026-01-13 20:48:16+00:00
They are pandering to the portion of the population that does lean in a specific direction and wants to participate in an echo chamber, which seems like it should be a tiny number of people to me but organizations like Fox News (and all the knockoffs that sprung up to reach people who feel like Fox News is too "fair and balanced") continue to prove me wrong.

Given what I said above, my point was that a significant portion of the local population will remember the negative articles about their side from that outlet and avoid it, leaving them with the depressingly small number of people who either don't consider themselves to be aligned with either party or actually want to read unbiased reporting.

In addition to just writing about what they believe personally, the business case is that you can capture more subscribers pandering to one side than you can pandering to no one.
by zahlman | 2026-01-13 20:48:20+00:00
All of this happens in a split second. It's simply not possible, in the evidenced time frame, to fire one shot in self defense and then realign and fire two more with murderous intent. It is also not at all plausible that the position of the two individuals could have changed that much in between the shots. It's also very clear in other video that the officer has been struck and his balance severely disturbed; it takes considerable time for him to recover and he has very clearly fired all three shots before he has properly stood up.

In short, other video evidence clearly rules out any possibility that "he had stepped aside". And we can see the relative timing of when the SUV's wheels start to spin, too, even in the video from behind the SUV where Good is obscured from view by the other officer.
by neom | 2026-01-13 20:48:24+00:00
The dean of the art school I went to regularly used to say "The most creative people simply to the best job of hiding the source of their creativity". - in fact he invoked it once directly to me when I protested about how one of my peers went about their final assignment, and again when the whole program revolted over a submission that won honors. I learned a lot about art in that art program, but mostly I learned art wasn't that I thought it was. :)
by lurk2 | 2026-01-13 20:48:32+00:00
> other videos of live firing at crowds as well as testimonials

I haven’t seen any of these and I have been looking.

> morgues

I did find this one: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/jan/12/bodies-l...

It doesn’t appear to be anywhere near thousands, but covered bodies have been put out onto the street, so something is going on there.
by Yapping7880 | 2026-01-13 20:48:36+00:00
Unfortunately my wife has a terminal illness, and while $10m would be quite a lot, when facing the bills of ALS without proper health insurance, that could run out very quickly. With $10m, I'd work, but do all of the things that I don't have the guts to ask for now: Go fully remote all the time (something that I'll likely have to do within the next few years to be a partial caretaker). When the bad times come, which they will, if I had $10m in the bank I'd walk away from the job and focus entirely on being the most present father that I can be.

Over the last couple years of her illness, I've become the sole caretaker of our young kids, and it's changed me dramatically. Being a parent can be exhausting, and I've always loved it, but I also loved logging into work and doing productive things, contributing to (what I thought were) important software projects, and working with my colleagues. I always loved the camaraderie of the work place and my colleagues. That's shifted entirely in the last 2 years. Other than the paycheck to maintain my kids' quality of life, other than the health insurance that we're now inextricably tethered to (something that I never had an appreciation for as a young, relatively healthy single or married-but-no-kids person), I just don't care about anything at work other than doing what I have to do to maintain those things.
by shimman | 2026-01-13 20:48:56+00:00
You should look at Vienna public housing then, rents there are typically less than 20% of the median monthly salary. Socialized housing works for the people that want to live and make a community with the limited time on this Earth they have.

It doesn't work for landlords that just want to extract wealth from others.

Relying on private developers that only want to build luxury housing is kinda how we're in this current mess. Expecting them to solve the problem we know, build more housing, is just silly. They didn't do it when money was the cheapest it ever was the last 15 years, they aren't going to start building it now.

This is why the government needs to step in and build more/better public housing.

It works for Vienna, this young chap even speaks about it at great length:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVuCZMLeWko

I sure hope he goes into politics, we need people with this type of imagination to better our society and give us hope for a better future which we can create now, not later.
by tptacek | 2026-01-13 20:49:23+00:00
I don't think there's really clear evidence. They're geopolitical adversaries, but Iran's ability to project force has been decimated over the last 2 years, to the point where Israel literally controls Iran's airspace. They have not much more to gain from further injury to the Iranian regime, and something to lose from regional instability.

(I don't think this analysis speaks well of Israel, for what it's worth, but I don't really think about countries in those terms anyways.)
by kube-system | 2026-01-13 20:49:29+00:00
> At no point have the hilux and Tacoma shared any parts. Not engines, transmissions, frames, breaks, axles, wiring or anything interior.

They are on different platforms and are significantly different vehicles but they absolutely have shared parts. There are no bespoke cars built anymore, it is no longer viable to build a mass produced car without using some parts off the shelf.

For example, both vehicles have used: 2TR-FE engine, RC60F manual transmission, AC60F automatic transmission, etc.
by Rohansi | 2026-01-13 20:49:34+00:00
Why? That's a decent amount of power for running one thing. It's also dual core! You can emulate early consoles on this microcontroller. Someone made a 3D game for the similar (but less performant) RP2040 running at 250 MHz -> https://github.com/bernhardstrobl/Pico3D
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-13 20:49:35+00:00
I feel like the thing like you can easily divide things along the lines of 'art' vs 'consumption'.

A lot of people including myself enjoy music because it's so intimately human, the flaws and all. It's someone putting a bit of themselves into every piece they create, and people look for things that resonate with them.

AI music however is purely about consumption. It's not something made to be remembered or cherished. And the more you integrate it into your music, the less and less of yourself you put into it and the less reason for anyone to bother. I could just ask whatever AI to generate generic rock music inspired by the beatles and remove you from the equation entirely and have the same experience. Everything gets amalgamated into the exact same thing with all of the imperfections sheared away.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-13 20:49:37+00:00
I did phrase it as "an attempt". In the end the protest probably wasn't as effective as protestors might have hoped, and it didn't get Reddit to change course on their enshittification decisions. I do think it was good that there was an attempt at pushback, at least, when most software users just accept enshittification as normal and continue tolerating whatever abuse their masters throw at them.
by gdulli | 2026-01-13 20:49:43+00:00
Would I keep showing up to the job I had in 2015? Yes, not forever, but at least for a time. It was enjoyable socially and practicing the craft is enjoyable. At jobs like that, the ability to enjoy the craft outweighed the downsides of having to manage a job/career.

Would I keep showing up to the most recent job I had? Or seek out a job in what the market has become, or take a job in what the field has become? And what has become of the craft? Absolutely not. I retired with much less money than $10m, my living expenses are low.
by troupo | 2026-01-13 20:50:18+00:00
That article is bandied around, and no one either reads or understands what's written there. Neither do article authors BTW.

1. Spotify doesn't have "internally produced music"

2. There are companies that provide white-label ambient/white noise/similar music.

3. Spotify may have preferential licensing deals with some of them (as any company would seek preferential contract terms)

4. Some of that music is generated (AI or otherwise)
by machomaster | 2026-01-13 20:50:37+00:00
No they didn't. Militarily is was a clear and easy win. Politically it made no sense after a while and USSR decided to leave. Militarily they could have continued staying there for the eternity. The same situation as with the American/Nato forces, with the difference of Soviets controlling significantly more of the country than Nato (only major urban centers, a small part of the country).
by tunesmith | 2026-01-13 20:50:53+00:00
cultural problem too... like even before AI in recent years there's been more of a societal push that it's fair game to just lie to people. Not that it didn't always happen, but it's more shameless now. Like... I don't know, just to pick one, actors pretending to be romantically involved for pr of their upcoming movie. That's something that seems way more common than I remember in the past.
by game_the0ry | 2026-01-13 20:50:55+00:00
> Debugging from git history is a separate question from merge vs rebase.

But the main benefit proponents or rebase say its for keeping the history clean which also makes it easier to pinpoint and offending commit.

Personally, a clean commit history was never something that made my job easier.

> Other than that this workflow allows you to create a history of very small, easily testable, easily reviewable, easily revertible commits, which makes debugging easier. But that's a downstream effect.

I would agree that it is important for commits to go from working state to working state as you are working on a task, but this is an argument for atomic commits, not about commit history.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-13 20:51:03+00:00
> You need correctness, not determinism.

You need both. And there AI models where it's input+prompt+seed that are 100% deterministic.

It's really not much to ask that for the exact same input (data in/prompt/seed) we get the exact same output.

I'm willing to bet that it's going to be the exact same as 100% reproducible builds: people have complained for years "but timestamps about build time makes it impossible" and whatnots but in the end we got our reproducible builds. At some point logic is simply going to win and we'll get more and more models that are 100% deterministic.

And this has absolutely no relation whatsoever to correctness.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-13 20:51:12+00:00
There still is political will to do this, it happens all the time around the USA. Do you think all these neighborhoods with hundreds of new houses get built without water, power, waste, and supermarkets? See DR Horton/Lennar/Toll Brothers/etc websites, and they will all be connected to utilities and have retail mixed in or somewhere near.
by greyw | 2026-01-13 20:51:21+00:00
Banks are not taking huge losses because a huge fraction of loans to PE work out.

Imagine believing PEs are just constantly scamming banks out of their money. Yeah sure.

Its just that people have this carricature of PE in their head plus we are on HN where there are a huge fraction of Dunning-Krugers when it comes to topics about economy. Thats why you get these internally inconsistent arguments
by eZinc | 2026-01-13 20:51:27+00:00
I just mean people are just not excited about tech as they used to be.

I would expect, out of all the sites on the Internet, that people would say something like trying to lead some initiative that they never had the courage to do so before leaving the company if given no opportunity for the love of the industry.

Most of my neighbors who have well more than $10M in the bank (Tesla stock, houses, cash, etc.) and they all work because they enjoy it. The younger neighbors quit and just sit around doing nothing but collecting rent money from houses.

But of course, the only constant in life is that things will change. It isn't that surprising I suppose.
by genuser | 2026-01-13 20:51:33+00:00
In the flurry of feature announcements that accompanies every major iOS update, it’s easy for smaller. Utility-focused additions to be overshadowed by flashier AI integrations or interface overhauls. Such is the case with the Preview app, one of two new native applications introduced in iOS 26. For many users, it might have been immediately dismissed or forgotten. However, for anyone who regularly deals with digital documents, contracts, or forms on the go. The arrival of Preview on the iPhone represents a quietly transformative upgrade. It solves a long-standing, specific frustration: the inability to natively and seamlessly sign a PDF document directly on your iPhone. Without relying on third-party apps or workarounds. Finally bringing a key professional capability from the Mac directly into your pocket.
by mothballed | 2026-01-13 20:51:41+00:00
Not really, not for the air warfare context of drones.

SAM can't be bought for any tax and they come with lifetime in jail if you have them, even just for peaceful purposes.[]

Giving up air military supremacy isn't something the USA is going to yield to its citizens. The tax is reflective of the fact that machineguns and destructive devices can't be banned as they are "arms" that can merely be taxed, but the US doesn't considered air warfare weapons generally to be bearable arms.

As drones become a dominating form of air superiority I would expect they start to become more like SAMs -- not bearable arms but rather arms that merely having in your arms mean you go in a cage forever even if you have an NFA stamp affixed.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2332g
by epistasis | 2026-01-13 20:51:49+00:00
The US does this a bit, but even with that suppression of free speech, even with most mass media outlets being owned by oligarchs that are subservient to the President, the internet is still going. Europe has penalties for Nazi speech, yet the internet is still going there.

There's no comparison to what's going on in these countries to what's going on in Iran. Trying to "what about" with the US censorship of, say, the majority political opinion in a city by cutting off all federal funds that were previously flowing to the city is not very relevant. Yes, it's bad, but here we are talking about it on the Internet!