MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by contingencies | 2026-01-30 09:57:19+00:00
KiCAD has pretty awful UX though

It's not perfect but it's pretty damn good these days. By EE standards it's positively awesome. Single platform vendor toolchain hell is why people leave commercial software and move to KiCad, which runs everywhere, is open source, and has a plugin architecture plus mostly every feature you could ever need except high end simulation (which just needs time).
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-30 09:57:21+00:00
I interpret the UBI paragraph as it's one of those "create the problem, sell the solution" cases. First make a system where you need a yo–yo to live and if you don't have a yo–yo you die. Then give everyone a free yo–yo. Geohot says: Well how about just stopping this if you don't have a yo–yo you die thing instead, it seems a bit silly?
by oneeyedpigeon | 2026-01-30 09:58:02+00:00
You're half right; I just use Patreon differently, that's all. Upon reading your original comment, I remembered about the exclusive content, but that's something that's never personally interested me. I do use Patreon exclusively with a desktop browser, but I don't visit the site all that often because I tend to just subscribe to support a creator, then leave.
by northfield27 | 2026-01-30 09:58:32+00:00
Isn't that too much work?

Instead, just learning concepts with AI and then using HI (Human Intelligence) & AI to solve the problem at hand—by going through code line by line and writing tests - is a better approach productivity-, correctness-, efficiency-, and skill-wise.

I can only think of LLMs as fast typists with some domain knowledge.

Like typists of government/legal documents who know how to format documents but cannot practice law. Likewise, LLMs are code typists who can write good/decent/bad code but cannot practice software engineering - we need, and will need, a human for that.
by theGeatZhopa | 2026-01-30 09:58:38+00:00
I think it's the slice technique to introduce the "new" task bar in much broader context. In each installation, even when I have to help friends, I switch the taskbar from the centered to the left positioned (as it has been for decades) temporarily/permanently.

This is because the centered is reduced in informational real estate. There's is simply not enough space to show more, as it is the case with a full screen wide, left positioned.

And the people don't like it or miss something (like me). So, if I were Microsoft and I plan to have only the centered one in a distant future, I need to find a way .. and that's this way. A way people are used to already from a lot of UI in their daily life..

I think it's the motivation behind this. :)

But you're right. You just have to learn to structure your thinking in 255 characters long sentences, then long file paths won't even appear hahhah I hate it too. Have you tried the UNC path \\.\fullfilepath\filename.ext

I used this for access files with very long paths and names..
by OJFord | 2026-01-30 09:58:38+00:00
No it's more than that - they didn't just put the skills instructions directly in AGENTS.md, they put the whole index for the docs (the skill in this case being a docs lookup) in there, so there's nothing to 'do', the skill output is already in context (or at least pointers to it, the index, if not the actual file contents) not just the front matter.

Hence the submission's conclusion:

> Our working theory [for why this performs better] comes down to three factors.

> No decision point. With AGENTS.md, there's no moment where the agent must decide "should I look this up?" The information is already present.

> Consistent availability. Skills load asynchronously and only when invoked. AGENTS.md content is in the system prompt for every turn.

> No ordering issues. Skills create sequencing decisions (read docs first vs. explore project first). Passive context avoids this entirely.
by buran77 | 2026-01-30 10:00:33+00:00
Stop going around in circles kwanbix, you made your arguments for Vista being "trash", I showed you (with links and numbers) they apply to OSes regarded as the best ever. Unless you plan to address that directly you're just trying and failing to save face. Trust me you're not saving face by insisting on "revelations" you learned from hearsay, in a forum where most people have vastly more experience than you.

> By that logic, one could just as well say that Windows 10 is simply "Windows Vista SP15".

It was an important but small incremental refinement on Vista [0], nothing like the transition between any other two major Windows editions (maybe 8.1 to 10, which was also meant to launder the Windows 8 branding). They even kept the Vista name here and there [1]. Tech outlets (but they weren't using Windows since 3.0 like you) called it:

>> Windows 7 was ultimately just a more polished and refined version of Windows Vista — with lots of great new features, but with the same core [2]

That sounds a lot like an SP. As a user since Windows 3.0 don't even wonder how/why MS just happened to have a fully baked OS in their pocket a mere couple of years after launching Vista?

> If Vista had really been as successful and great as you claim

Reading comprehension failure on your part. I said everything that needed to be said already in my first reply. I said "Vista was far from trash" (tell me you think "not trash"=="great") and "all of your arguments applied to almost every other Windows edition". Both of these are true and you know it because you've been using Windows since 3.0.

> why didn't Microsoft just keep iterating on it?

More reading comprehension failure. Literally explained in my previous comment that the Vista brand was tarnished, it was easier and safer to just change it. And just as important, MS made commitments about which old hardware the Vista OS would run on but didn't in reality. This brought class action lawsuits. Changing the name stopped future lawsuits related to those promises. But you knew that, as a user since Windows 3.0.

> the numbers support my argument, not yours

What numbers? Your stats comparing OSes at very different point in their lifecycle? Or the kernel version numbers between Vista and 7? And how is XP having more peak users than Vista makes Vista "trash"? Let me show you how to lie with numbers and not say anything, kwanbix style.

>> Windows XP is trash because it only peaked at 250M users while Windows 11 already has 1bn [3].

>> Windows 10 is trash because Windows 11 grew unforced to 1bn users even faster than the "forced upgrade" Windows 10.

>> Windows 11 is trash because it only reached 55% market share compared to 82% for Windows 10.

>> Every other Windows is trash because Windows 10 peaked at 1.5bn users.

Enough educating you. Have fun with the numbers and try not to bluescreen reading them.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24589162

[1] https://dotancohen.com/eng/windows_7_vista.html

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/40-years-of-wi...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/windows-11-has-hit-1...
by joncrocks | 2026-01-30 10:00:39+00:00
It's worth noting that sometimes (incorrect) keyboard maps can get in the way.

If it's a key that you may not often type and one that is often transposed between regions, the fact that the entered char is not shown can lead to frustration.

e.g. " and @ are in different positions in UK vs. US keyboards. So user thinks they are typing @, but " goes into the box.
by kreetx | 2026-01-30 10:00:50+00:00
This is the ordinary protestor a little over a week before the event https://youtu.be/r0L9JUjcwo0?t=597.

Alex had a gun with him. If he wanted to appear non-threatening he simply shouldn't have brought it to the event.

I do maintain that this was an unfortunate sequence of events, but I think as this is investigated further, the guilt found on the officers will be small to none.
by calgoo | 2026-01-30 10:00:52+00:00
Interesting, I dont read claude the same way as clawd, but I'm based in Spain so I tend to read it as French or Spanish. I tend to read it as `claud-e` with an emphasis on the e at the end. I would read clawd as `claw-d` with a emphasis in the D, but yes i guess American English would pronounce them the same way.
by VorpalWay | 2026-01-30 10:01:10+00:00
> There will be up to around 100 connections to the web server in the SYN state, all with different IP addresses

Is that an actual problem though? 100 entries in a table is going to use a miniscule amount of RAM, a few kB at most.

And the solution to this (if you have way more than 100) is SYN cookies, which I think the Linux kernel at least will automatically enable when it detects it is under undue load.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-30 10:01:14+00:00
The other difference, arguably more important in practice, is that the computer was quickly turned from "bicycle of the mind" into a "TV of the mind". Rarely helps you get where you want, mostly just annoys or entertains you, while feeding you an endless stream of commercials and propaganda - and the one thing it does not give you, is control. There are prescribed paths to choose from, but you're not supposed to make your own - only sit down and stay along for the ride.

LLMs, at least for now, escape the near-total enshittification of computing. They're fully general-purpose, resist attempts at constraining them[0], and are good enough at acting like a human, they're able to defeat user-hostile UX and force interoperability on computer systems despite all attempts of the system owners at preventing it.

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[0] - Prompt injection "problem" was, especially early on, a feature from the perspective of end-users. See increasingly creative "jailbreak" prompts invented to escape ham-fisted attempts by vendors to censor models and prevent "inappropriate" conversations.
by delaminator | 2026-01-30 10:01:18+00:00
I always make sure to not use the GoG downloader just download the game.

I don't need a client with your branding all over it, that has socials and my library and all engagement bait like that.

I figure it's one step away from putting the DRM back on so you have to use the launcher to get a game from GOG.

Just let me buy games and then shut up.
by serious_angel | 2026-01-30 10:01:38+00:00
What a nonsense, sorry...

Human is human already, regardless how they speak and what they do...
There's always true sympathy and empathy to find in a human, regardless how busy, dark, erroneous etc. they are...
Yet, it's the true alive soul inside in every person...

Medics are likely tired, doing their job every single day, yet they have empathy, and will always try to listen if you actually try...
They know what PAIN, AGONY, DEATH, SORROW... fear means...

LLM/"AI" will always pretend to be a human, since it's "trained"/designed, to be so, and will always be limited and incomplete...
Not to mention the initial dataset of numerous emphatic actual human has its limited memory inside, no one is responsible for.

What a hopeless sorrow is that awful trendy, advertised, mind-atrophying mess...
by gpmcadam | 2026-01-30 10:01:41+00:00
The idea here is great and I think it has a lot of legs but I think inherently people will have initial concerns with security.

Do you have plans to only allow reading mail from specific senders, and giving fine-grained control on the API side?

I would like to give this to an AI agent but only initially where I and my team can forward mail to the agent, and not give it the ability to draft and send emails on its own.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-30 10:01:45+00:00
A superconducting magnet that gets above superconducting temperature is probably a pain to reset.

First, all the stored circulating current instantly turns into heat, spiking the temperature and boiling the remaining liquid helium coolant, which expands and explodes its container if you didn't give it a way out. If you did, it asphyxiates everyone in the tunnel. If you have really good ventilation in the tunnel, you still lost a bunch of expensive helium.

Second, you have to refill the cooling system and cool the magnets down again.

Third, you have to reinject the circulating current that makes the magnetic field.

There's probably more fractal–complexity practical concerns as well.
by globalnode | 2026-01-30 10:02:06+00:00
> Will the future be kind and reflect back in the hindsight when Musk dies?

id hazard a guess and say it will, people love to hero worship but he's his own biggest fan. nothing he built wasnt done before in some way. if im being generous id say hes a good integrator, which in itself isnt such a bad thing, if thats all it was.
by subscribed | 2026-01-30 10:02:29+00:00
Respectfully, this is a piss take.

US prohibition on alcohol and to the large extent performative "war on drugs" showed what criminalization does (empowers, finances and radicalises the criminals).

Portugal's decriminalisation, partial legalisation of weed in the Netherlands, legalisation in some American states and Canada prove legal businesses will better and safer provide the same services to the society, and the lesser societal and health cost.

And then there's the opioid addiction scandal in the US. Don't tell me it's the result of legalisation.

Legalisation of some classes of the drugs (like LSD, mushrooms, etc) would do much more good than bad.

Conversely, unrestricted LLMs are avaliable to everyone already. And prompting SOTA models to generate the most hardcore smut you can imagine is also possible today.
by Springtime | 2026-01-30 10:03:30+00:00
I think too it can be misleading since on Windows the default LNK shortcut that is created after the game installation launches Galaxy with arguments instead of being a path to the direct game EXE (which works entirely without Galaxy and how I run games).

They do this to push Galaxy for convenience I suppose as most are used to clients that handle updates but it can be confusing if some wonder why for instance their offline installer shortcut opened Galaxy instead.
by lode | 2026-01-30 10:03:43+00:00
I tried it out yesterday, after reading the enthousiastic article at https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-t...

Setting it up was easy enough, but just as I was about to start linking it to some test accounts, I noticed I already had blown through about $5 of Claude tokens in half an hour, and deleted the VPS immediately.

Then today I saw this follow up: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/115968901926545907 - the author blew through $560 of tokens in a weekend of playing with it.

If you want to run this full time to organise your mailbox and your agenda, it's probably cheaper to hire a real human personal assistant.
by jackdoe | 2026-01-30 10:05:06+00:00
a program is function of the programmer, how you code is how you think. that is
why it is really difficult, even after 60 years, for multiple people to work on
the same codebase, over the years we have made all kinds of rules and processess
so that code written by one person can be understood and changed by another.

you can also read human code and empathise what were they thinking while writing it

AI code is not for humans, it is just a stream of tokens that do something, you need to build skills to empirically verify that it does what you think it does, but it is pointless to "reason" about it.
by OrangeRange | 2026-01-30 10:06:48+00:00
Everyone in the linux world insists on fragmentation, though? It's a part of what makes it great and a mess at the same time.

And what of it? Every time a for profit company uses open source they'll either create a closed fork, and if they can't they'll create closed source modules for it.

I'm not saying it's bad to wish for companies to support FOSS, I'm just saying it's an unrealistic expectation to have.
by ZenoArrow | 2026-01-30 10:07:24+00:00
> Sure, the new fabs won't be up and at volume production until late 2027 / early 2028, but committing tens of billions of dollars to new production facilities, including to facilities dedicated to DRAM rather than NAND or HBM, is hardly 'abandoning'.

Look at what happened to Crucial. Why would Micron axe it's whole consumer RAM division if it was just experiencing a temporary drop in DRAM supplies until new fabs were brought online? Samsung and SK Hynix may have changes in priorities in the coming years, and in the case of Samsung I'm sure they'll still make sure to supply sufficient DRAM chips for the devices it manufactures (phones, TVs, etc...) but Micron has made it's current intentions fairly clear. They'll probably work with OEMs, but they're unlikely to return to selling to the general public any time soon.
by tiew9Vii | 2026-01-30 10:07:40+00:00
One of my most used appliances is a Tiger rice cooker with Porridge and timer function.

It's been used pretty much every day for 7+ years since I purchased it.

Every night I put 130g steel cut oats in, 400-420g of water, set it to cook for 45 mins and be ready for when I wake up in the morning. I'll then add 25g protein powder, sometimes a few berries or sprinkle with seeds/nuts. A nutritional power house.

I find steel cut oats more filling, a lot more substantial with ground oats more goopey. Steel cut oats are normally a hassle to cook but it's set and forget with the rice cooker. From what i've read I also believe the fact they sit soaking over night in water also is breaks down the starches which helps nutrient absorption.

Does wonders for digestion and satiety. Everything runs like clockwork with them. If I don't have them for a few days, things get irregular and a noticeable difference in satiety for the rest of the day where i end up snacking as feel hungry after meals.
by bravetraveler | 2026-01-30 10:07:51+00:00
... and I'm concurring with the threadstarter. They could do nothing, donate to Heroic, or this. I'm not invested in this, just raised a keyword.

The arguments are tired, the word serves us well. They insist, yes, and forever remain hopeful that This Might Be the Year. Meanwhile, the reality exists for plenty already.
by jjav | 2026-01-30 10:08:25+00:00
> But that is missing the overall context that this was an elementary school during drop-off hours. That's when you crawl at 3 mph expecting kids to jump behind any car, and not going at 17mph.

Indeed. Sure the car knows the limit, it knows it is a school zone, it can precisely track people within the reach of its sensors (but not behind blockages it can't see through).

But it is missing the human understanding of the situation. Does it know that tiny humans behave far more erratically then the big ones? Obvious to us humans, but does the car take that into account? Does it consider that in such a situation, it is likely that a kid that its sensors can't possibly detect has a high probability to suddenly dart out from behind an obstacle? Again obvious to us humans because we understand kids, but does the car know?
by YurgenJurgensen | 2026-01-30 10:08:36+00:00
2019, 2019, 2025, 2019, 2019, 2017, 2017, 2021, 2025, 2017, 2024, 2018, 2020, 2015, 2011.

I only see three games here less than five years old. The oldest is from three console generations ago. Do /you/ actually engage with modern games? Remember the time you’re comparing to had 5-year console generations. This is like someone on the release date of the PlayStation 3 saying that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is a “modern game”.
by cromka | 2026-01-30 10:08:39+00:00
Updating all of your installed packages when you ask it to install a new one. This is so utterly ridiculous that it singlehandedly nade me stop using brew. I can't imagine what other bad decisions they make if this is what they thought was a good one.

Another fact is that it's basically like AUR, with little to no oversight. If AUR had malware then just imagine how much malware is there in brew recipes.

They also didn't use cryptographic signing for the longest time, they did get some shit for that.

There were more, can't remember now.

One other thing that seriously annoys me is the automated closure of reported issues after they get no response for a while. So I reported maybe 3 bugs and then I stopped altogether, because why would you waste your time on a project that doesn't respect it? All these bugs were actual full blown bug reports, well written and researched. I can't but think that projects that close issues like that are made to look better than they are.

Also, you guys remember when its author ranted about not having gotten a job at Apple? I always thought they cared about the prestige of that project more than the actual project, based on the level of security shortcomings. Brew has that serious amateurish taste to it.
by spacechild1 | 2026-01-30 10:08:39+00:00
> Being on the ground does not mean you can't be a threat.

If someone is fixated on the ground, they are not a threat. Alex was fixated by three agents, with four more agents watching from close distance.

> As far as an officer might know, he could have a second gun holstered under his jacket that he could reach for.

He wouldn't even have been able to reach for a gun as his hands were fixated at this point. That's the very point of fixating someone!

> Someone doesn't have to be a threat and they don't even have to have a weapon, but if you have sufficiently justifiable reason to believe based on their behavior and actions that they are posing an imminent threat to you or others, you can often justify shooting them.

How can you be a posing an imminent threat if you're not behaving in a threating way? At no point did Alex actually try to attack an agent or make any verbal threats against their life.

> I don't really know what any of those people were saying

Sorry, I don't believe you. There's no way you could have followed this case without knowing about their statements. You are acting in very bad faith here.

> but whether they are right or wrong doesn't justify everyone else being wrong by making false claims.

If several high officials of an agency are spreading obvious lies, it very much hurts the credibility of that agency.
by boredemployee | 2026-01-30 10:09:21+00:00
The big issue I see coming is that leadership will care less and less about people, and more about shipping features faster and faster. In other words, those that are still learning their craft are fucked up.

The amount of context switching in my day-to-day work has become insane. There's this culture of “everyone should be able to do everything” (within reason, sure), but in practice it means a data scientist is expected to touch infra code if needed.

Underneath it all is an unspoken assumption that people will just lean on LLMs to make this work.
by kreetx | 2026-01-30 10:09:49+00:00
I presented it initially because this has been what people think: https://youtu.be/QePoawDA_48?si=0mr-lMR_lIRoBDA_ There are many more people opining this, both as these more produced videos to simple social media postings. I still do present you the opinion that likely the confiscated gun went off which started the rest of the shooting.

The first shot is not "clearly seen" as far as I can tell.

If Pretti, and the first fired shot, didn't seem threatening then the shooting wouldn't have happened..

I'm happy that you know how law enforcement works, how to behave in critical situations and that it actually is possible to have perfect awareness of any situation. If you are this good, I'd suggest to join the force yourself, as you have a clear advantage in doing that kind of work.

This video ties my non-professional opinion well into the US legal fabric https://youtu.be/QePoawDA_48?si=0mr-lMR_lIRoBDA_.
by belorn | 2026-01-30 10:09:55+00:00
I would say it depend on where you are. City driving is generally not a great experience and its not that uncommon to see a speed bump before almost every crossing, to the point where you get surprised if there isn't one. That said, as long you don't leave the designated main roads that goes through the city areas it is not that bad. They do demand a lot of attention.

Street parking has mostly been turned into exclusive residential parking, so parking houses are often the only choice. As a result they are quite expensive, and you got to walk to the destination.

Parking and access is much better in the country side, and the highways are fairly good and similar to those found in the west Europe. It not as straight or wide as authobahn, but not as much traffic either.