MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-16 06:47:13+00:00
The HN bubble is real. Most developers are boring old enterprise developers who toil away at writing LOB apps spending their entire career in corp dev if they don’t move onto management.

They live in second tier cities and retire at the same time everyone else retires.

If you are 40 years old and still competing with 20 something’s based on your ability to reverse a b tree on the whiteboard, you have made some poor life choices.
by maxglute | 2026-01-16 06:47:25+00:00
Retarded reasoning. Of course companies care about their bottom line foremost, but if their business model for business segment incidentally aligns with providing consumers solid, repairable, or cheap 2nd hand, products then that's worth validating. I haven't owned a laptop for 5 years, but all my previous laptops were new thinkpads (Ts/Ws) and it was always relatively easy to find a sale, stack with some sort of education/work discount, get a pretty solid warranty for very competitive prices.
by Agent_Builder | 2026-01-16 06:48:00+00:00
We ran into similar reliability issues while building GTWY. What surprised us was that most failures weren’t about model quality, but about agents being allowed to run too long without clear boundaries.

What helped was treating agents less like “always-on brains” and more like short-lived executors. Each step had an explicit goal, explicit inputs, and a defined end. Once the step finished, the agent stopped and context was rebuilt deliberately.

Harnesses like this feel important because they shift the problem from “make the model smarter” to “make the system more predictable.” In our experience, reliability came more from reducing degrees of freedom than from adding intelligence.
by solatic | 2026-01-16 06:48:21+00:00
Oh we definitely had diverse and vibrant characters, and that was part of what made living there fun. I also find it strange that in a page about solutions to loneliness, you reject one that, by your own admission, would introduce someone lonely to a wide variety of new people.

But if you're trying to use it as a euphemism for drug addicts, I think you'll often find that they end up homeless, despite there being SROs, because they spend their SRO rent on drugs instead, and they get evicted. If you're trying to use a euphemism for sex workers, the successful SROs usually had strict rules around the Single Resident part.

Basically it's just like hotels, in the sense that there are both seedy, run-down, crummy hotels and there are upscale hotels. That there are some crummy hotels is not an indictment of hotels in general. If you make the category legal, you will find worse and better examples, and lonely people would have their choice of establishment that would help put them back into close proximity with others.
by prvt | 2026-01-16 06:48:25+00:00
Criticism is definitely welcome!

You are likely right that I over-rotated on the "storytelling" aspect there. My curiosity about the "100 segments" stemmed from wondering if there was a deeper statistical reason for that specific granularity (e.g., optimal binning relative to average video length) versus it just being a "nice round number."

That said, I can see how dedicating two paragraphs to it felt like over-dramatizing a constant. I will try to tighten the pacing on the next one. Thanks for reading despite the irritation!
Ask HN: Share Your Personal Website
by SRMohitkr | 2026-01-16 06:48:44+00:00
Hello HN!
I recently launched Promper, a -AI prompt saver: https://promper.vercel.app/
More details and contribution info are available here: [https://github.com/SRMohitkr/Promper].

The directory is still early and has only a few entries so far. I’d really appreciate help from the community to grow it.

If you have a [type of website / content you’re collecting], please share it in the comments. If it’s a site you control end-to-end and it’s been appreciated in previous discussions, I’ll happily consider adding it.

This is meant to be an open, community-maintained project. If you’d like to help maintain, curate, or improve it, feel free to reach out via [sr.mohitkr@gmail.com] or open a PR.

Related inspiration: [https://github.com/SRMohitkr/arche-resizer] — unlike that thread, this project focuses on to save your multi hundred hours.

Update: Adding submissions will take some time. If you’d like to help with review or curation, PRs are welcome at: [https://github.com/SRMohitkr/Promper].

I waiting to your's comment that's really helpful for me
by jabl | 2026-01-16 06:48:48+00:00
> The writer is always finished before the reader starts in these scenarios. The issue is reads on one machine aren't guaranteed to be ordered after writes on a different machine due to write caching.

In such a case it should be sufficient to rely on NFS close-to-open consistency as explained in the RFC I linked to in the previous message. Closing a file forces a flush of any dirty data to the server, and opening a file forces a revalidation of any cached content.

If that doesn't work, your NFS is broken. ;-)

And if you need 'proper' cache coherency, something like Lustre is an option.
by goku12 | 2026-01-16 06:49:21+00:00
> would you be open to changing your mind on either the absurd sounding statistics of the rate of Somalians using welfare

I'm never completely closed to changing my mind on anything. I don't have any confidence that anything that I know is set in stone. I only have a reasonable confidence in anything I say. You can see that in my original comment too. Those weren't my judgments, those were my assessments based on available evidence that I quoted.

However, this debate started with the quoting of a source with extreme conflicts of interest and bias that wasn't declared. That's academic dishonesty, if you know how reaserch is evaluated. The proper way to debate this was to either quote a reputable source or at least give a heads up about the data and the source. Once that trust is breached, the readers have every justification to be very skeptical and prejudiced about any further claims. That's how debates work. Resorting to these tiring meta debates about the source instead is just shifting the goal posts and inverting the responsibility again.

And as for the counter evidence, I hope you see what others have been saying. Statistics can be used to lie about reality. I don't know who said this, but 'there are lies, damned lies and statistics'. It takes extra context to interpret it properly - a fact that's persistently used by some to spread lies. Because of this, these claims are now going to need a lengthy scrutiny.

> or the reputation of CIS in general?

CIS was started by a eugenicist and they still are a hate group connected to a hate movement. Their motive isn't even in question here. The simplest trick in the book they can use is to cherry pick data that supports their claims from a valid research and neglect everything else. So even if their data turns out to be true in however narrow sense, I don't see how that should give them any more legitimacy.
by vetrom | 2026-01-16 06:49:24+00:00
The illegal side of hosting, sharing, and mirroring technology, as it were, is much more free to chase technical excellence at all costs.

There are lessons to be learned in that. For example, for that population, bandwidth efficiency and information leakage control invite solutions that are suboptimal for an organization that would build market share on licensing deals and growth maximization.

Without an overriding commercial growth directive you also align development incentives differently.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-16 06:50:35+00:00
It can have challenges, but triangulation can be done with signals that have recognizable patterns or features -- even in a sea of other co-channel noise sources.

If you can observe the signal strength of your neighbor's home router while standing next to your own even if the signals differ in strength by some orders of magnitude (which is easy on Android; no idea bout iOS), then anyone else can also do the same.
by remus | 2026-01-16 06:52:03+00:00
The "100 panels per second" number sounded a little high so I did a bit more reading. Apparently this was the peak pace of installation around May 2025, when there was a change in pricing structures associated with solar power so developers were rushing to finish projects so they could get in on the old structure.

Average pace across 2024 was closer to 25-30 panels / second (which is still incredibly high!)
by numpad0 | 2026-01-16 06:52:13+00:00
If you don't speak the local language anyway, you can't decode pronounced spoken local language names anyway. Your speech sub-systems can't lock and sync to the audio track containing languages you don't speak. Let alone transliterate or pronounce.

Multilingual doesn't mean language agnostic. We humans are always monolingual, just multi-language hot-swappable if trained. It's more like you can make;make install docker, after which you can attach/detach into/out of alternate environments while on terminal to do things or take in/out notes.

People sometimes picture multilingualism as owning a single joined-together super-language in the brain. That usually doesn't happen. Attempting this especially at young age could lead a person into a "semi-lingual" or "double-limited" state where they are not so fluent or intelligent in any particular languages.

And so, trying to make an omnilingual TTS for criticizing someone not devoting significant resources at it, don't make much sense.
by onetimeusename | 2026-01-16 06:52:23+00:00
I don't think it's wrong to go back that far. I think SV is it what it is because of those companies but also the schools, some local charm and quirks, etc. and the same reasoning applies there. The tech companies begot more tech companies basically. Before Meta and Alphabet it was Microsoft and Yahoo and before MS it was Sun and Netscape and before that Oracle maybe and the list keeps going back and add in hacker culture in the Bay Area I guess which existed for a long time. It's a fair thing to point out.

Immigration to SV is probably a result of SV success not the other way around. Likewise, why would immigrants even come here if there was nothing for them before they arrived? I think the adulation of immigration is historical revisionism. Sure, immigrants now contribute but they did not build SV.
by p0w3n3d | 2026-01-16 06:53:34+00:00
This reminds me the way the software was distributed in eastern countries when there was no internet. People went to market to meet other people, and they were peddling/colporting (look up the term in French) cassettes with the software.

The same can happen now - people would walk down the streets to certain places, to become hubs of information, but with no physical contact. Of course those places would be were the jammers would head to.

Actually this sounds like a good theme for book... however as long as I live on this world, I've noticed that if I invent something, there are already two people on the internet who have invented it already, so... please give me the title :)
by TMWNN | 2026-01-16 06:54:24+00:00
> Some kind of tech hipsterism drives this. But a lot of these proponents were just suffering under inferior tech.

Well put. futuraperdita put it well in his reply, too.

According to said hipsters, the underdog is always superior, and *THEY* who use the "popular" tech are just too corrupt/stupid to realize it. No, the superior technology doesn't always win. But *every single time*?!?

I have been 100% Microsoft-free at home for 30 years. I write this on a MacBook connected via mosh and tmux to several Linux boxes. But I do not believe, and have never believed, that the teeming masses that use Windows are being deprived, are stupid or deluded, or were swindled, bamboozled, conned, misled, fooled, or deceived into choosing such over Linux or MacOS.
by Agent_Builder | 2026-01-16 06:56:33+00:00
We’ve seen similar issues while building GTWY. What mattered most for reliability wasn’t how smart the agent was, but how tightly its behavior was constrained at each step.

Policy enforcement feels most effective when it’s scoped to intent, not to the agent as a whole. If a step can only do one narrow thing, you don’t need heavy guardrails everywhere else. The system becomes predictable by construction.

Interesting to see this applied at the pipeline level. Feels like the ecosystem is converging on the idea that fewer degrees of freedom beats more clever models in production.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-16 06:57:00+00:00
I thought that originally, but I actually think it's more experiential/exposure-side.

Hypothesis: modern society (especially apps) has decreased the amount of realtime, face-to-face social interactions at all stages of life, which has eventually manifested into a decreased average (there are still some social people!) capability to deal with social awkwardness. And consequently a comfort/appetite for putting oneself in situations where it might happen.
by volleyball | 2026-01-16 06:57:56+00:00
Might as well because it was always meant as a tacit prize to Trump and the neocons/neoliberals anyway.

From October, 2025 : https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/16/how-trump-got-...

Machado was planning to do the same as what Trump did anyway. i.e. privatize and sell all the oil to American corporations, as she explained to Trump Junior in February, 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7pHmYUCMk

The Nobel committee were hoping for a more finessed approach where the cia would instigate a popular uprising in which the armed peaceful protestors would storm the government and overthrow Maduro. The Nobel-Peace-Prize winner would then liberate Venuezala's oil sector and head the transitional government with democratic elections planned for 2045. Instead, Trump went for a more quicker approach of straight up kidnapping the president, and stealing the oil.
by 827a | 2026-01-16 06:58:07+00:00
The scale Apple operates at is sometimes hard for people to grasp. To present a small window into it: Apple did $73B in hardware revenue in the most recent quarter; Nvidia did $57B in total revenue. Now, consider that most of nvidia’s revenue comes from selling $30,000+ GPUs to businesses, with only a small number of TSMC-fabricated chips; whereas Apple sells $1000 phones. The scale of Nvidia’s contracts with TSMC, while increasing, doesn’t even begin to approach Apple’s. That’s why when TSMC began to open shop in the US, they did it with Apple.

It’s true that Nvidia has a more diverse set of end-customers than Apple’s silicon. But, the customers you’re describing were the ones they had in 2020 when their revenue was $3B, versus the $57B they do today. The vast, vast majority of that revenue growth has came from less-than ten customers; the usual suspects. Revenue growth is a proxy for their contracts with TSMC. If the hyperscaler revenue growth takes a hit, the scale of that hit would outpace their ability to just shuffle fulfillment around (though, I have no doubt they will try)

You’re also misunderstanding my initial claim, which might explain why you are baffled. I did not claim that SBCs make better economic sense than modular computers. I claimed that DIY computers rarely make economic sense over non-DIY computers today. Modular computers can be non-DIY; a quarter of every Best Buy is full of them, and it’s what most businesses in the HPC, CAD, etc spaces would buy their employees: a pre-build from Dell. Dell’s/etc relationships with suppliers grant them the same power laws that I explain fuel the SBC segment’s growth; power laws that the middlemen in the DIY space, like Corsair/etc, aren’t benefited from as strongly, and easily overwhelm with their own markup for sports car cooling fins and RGB.
by jsr0 | 2026-01-16 06:59:03+00:00
Interestingly, the reason American Airlines was removing the engines (and pylons) in the first place was to replace that same aft bearing. McDonnell-Douglas had found that the aft bearing could wear out sooner than expected and issued a service bulletin requiring replacement. There is mention of it in the AA191 NTSB report[1] and also at Admiral Cloudberg's article on the accident[2].

[1] https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...
[2] https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/rain-of-fire-falling-the...
Show HN: BrewBar – a native macOS menubar app to manage Homebrew services
by omkarkirpan | 2026-01-16 07:00:59+00:00
Hi HN,

I built BrewBar, a small native macOS menubar app that lets you view, start, stop, and restart Homebrew services without using the terminal.

It runs entirely locally, shells out to `brew services`, and is built with SwiftUI. No background daemons, no cloud, no telemetry.

Why I built it:
I often run multiple local services (Postgres, Redis, etc.) and wanted a quick way to see their status and control them without switching contexts.

Features:
– Shows all Homebrew services and their status
– Start / stop / restart individual services
– Start / stop all services
– Auto-refresh
– Optional launch at login

It’s open source and free:
https://github.com/omkarkirpan/BrewBar

I’d love feedback from people who use Homebrew heavily, especially around UX or edge cases I may have missed.
by iancmceachern | 2026-01-16 07:03:26+00:00
It means cybertrucks and similar are not usable as trucks. They're only usable as vehicles that you shouldn't buy a truck for that use case for. If you need a truck to do actual truck things you can't use these. See this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nS0Fdayj8Y

It's famous now...
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-16 07:03:51+00:00
No, I understood the point perfectly, I just think it's completely wrong.

It's always possible to find people. If someone is shooting down every idea for doing so, they may have issues with motivation, or being defeatist, or any number of things. Those need solving.

That doesn't mean finding perfection. It does mean actively doing something to find people you enjoy spending time with.

Life gets immensely happier when you spend time primarily with people you find fulfilling. You can absolutely make a conversation work with anyone, it's absolutely a skill, and it can be useful. But you will in your life have a certain amount of time and energy to interact with people. Spend it well.
by jurip | 2026-01-16 07:04:00+00:00
They could do it, but I wonder if it makes sense financially. It's probably easier for a neutral foundry like TSMC to recoup the costs by selling the capacity to whomever for years to come. Apple probably isn't interested in getting in the foundry business, so they'd be the ones who'd have to use all the capacity a production line has as long as it's running.
by volleyball | 2026-01-16 07:04:23+00:00
This is Trump who is the most transactional leader ever. It is obviously meant as a bribe from Machado and her backers. Venezuelan interests or people don't factor in this at all except that they are in the way. Trump couldn't make this any clearer. Nor Maria Machado, for that matter :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7pHmYUCMk
by Quothling | 2026-01-16 07:04:42+00:00
> Greenland is not a member of NATO

Greenland is a member of NATO because it's part of the Kingdom of Denmark, the same way they are a mebmer of the EU.

> so my guess is something sort of deal where US has more influence there than it does now, perhaps as a protectorate, but falls short of all the “51st state” rhetoric.

I think Greenland will end up either being an unincorporated territory of USA or entering into a compact of free association with the US. Whether or not it'll be the end of NATO depends on how patient Trump is.

It won't be through a deal with Denmark though, but I guess we can call that semantics. I do think my own politicians are sort of hoping they can avoid "losing" Greenland by giving away the remaining restrictions on what the US military can do in Greenland, but I doubt they will succeed with that.

> I don’t think you are there yet.

I agree. In some ways Trump being the way he is, has been healthy for Europe. I'm personally more worried about tech. Most of my applications on my smartphone wouldn't work without either the Apple store or Google Play. It's sort of silly to have a national digital ID that I can't run on GrapheneOS after all, I do have the physical key thing though, but you get the point.

With our public sector dependence on Microsoft and to some degree Amazon, Trump could frankly order a complete shutdown of our entire society by telling Azure and AWS to shut down everything in Denmark.
by jaggederest | 2026-01-16 07:04:55+00:00
For high reliability, I think I would suggest engraving it into a low reactivity nonvaluable metal, perhaps titanium sheet would be a good choice. Couple that with a backup on printed archival paper using carbon toner or an art-grade ink or dye. Between the two of them they will probably resist damage for 100 years or so.

Brass or bronze would also be a decent option, but you'd have to make the text larger for it to be readable with corrosion. Perhaps braille would be an interesting choice there.

And ceramics are a great choice - clay tablets, when fired, can last millenia.

I think between the three of a metal sheet, clay tablet, and paper book, one of the three is almost certain to survive a century.
by defrost | 2026-01-16 07:05:10+00:00
> Sure, immigrants now contribute but they did not build SV.

"If you bulid it, they will come".

In the power curve growth of SV fortunes "home grown" second, third, fourth generation, and longer immigrants certainly built the groundwork, drawing upon education from schools founded upon Oxbridge and other offshore inspirations, absolutely as you say, all the same more recent first generation immigrants played a big part in inflating it sky high.

With no additional immigrants drawn to SV it's not hard to imagine SV stalling out at 1980s Microsoft levels, impressive but far short of where it is today.
by vintermann | 2026-01-16 07:05:34+00:00
Surely art is about more than impressing you with my investment of effort, though? Otherwise you might as well go watch people working out at the gym as going to a musical production.

I think putting in low effort to make something which previously would have taken effort, is at high risk for producing slop. It tries to use the effort investment signal to suggest that you have something worthwhile to say, but the signal is fake.

But there are also works of low-key brilliance in the world long before AI, stuff that didn't take a lot of effort (and didn't pretend to) but were great anyway.
by maxglute | 2026-01-16 07:05:35+00:00
No one reasonable is comparing budget model that cost 80% less is equivalent to a flagship model. The typical comparison is flagship to flagship where a PRC flagship cost 80% and generally has objectively superior hardware if you can live with the software, and tbf many people can't. Or a PRC midentry/flagship cost as much as an Apple/Pixel midentry/budget where the hardware difference is even more noticable. If you're not locked into the ecosystem, iPhone/Pixels are outright inferior, especially in regions where PRC brands have support.
by rdiddly | 2026-01-16 07:06:07+00:00
Slop is just the pejorative, and pejoratives always seize upon the biggest or most obvious weakness, which in the case of these models, IS in fact the quality of the results. But I agree that even if the quality somehow turns out great, the other major (and in my opinion more important) debate to be had is, at what point does technological assistance render the proximal human input irrelevant? And what is even the point of art if there was negligible human input?