MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by veunes | 2026-01-19 11:00:35+00:00
The only way to be bulletproof is to be the person who takes ownership. AI can generate an app, but it can't answer to a court, clients, or the CTO when the database crashes on Black Friday.
Shift from writing code to risk management. Architecture, security, complex legacy integrations, and distributed systems debugging are zones where the cost of error is high, and where AI still operates like a random number generator. You need to be the one who knows why the system works, not just the one who writes the syntax
by yaris | 2026-01-19 11:00:37+00:00
The Internet is _not_ for talking to people across the globe. The Internet allows that, but not only that - one can have a Whatsapp chat with someone in the same bus, this is both legal and technically possible.
The bitchat app serves the niche where talking face to face is not an option and talking across the globe is not needed. And the app explicitly states "infrastructure independence" as one of its design goals: "the network remains functional during internet outages", which cannot be served by internet-based apps by design.
by yorwba | 2026-01-19 11:00:51+00:00
Identifiers correspond to nodes and a mention of an identifier in the definition of another corresponds to a directed edge. The resulting graph won't necessarily be acyclic, but you can still use it to inform the order in which you present definitions, e.g. newspaper style starts with the most high-level function and puts the low-level details at the end: https://pypi.org/project/flake8-newspaper-style/
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-19 11:01:06+00:00
This is the problem. I'm skeptical of all our sides of government, they haven't done a lot for us to trust them, and keep chucking our trust into the bin.

But that doesn't mean we should resolve into skipping nuance, not understanding situations and critically evaluate what everyone is claiming. Mixing together two networks in order to score some cheap internet points, when the point doesn't even hold up to the most basic scrutiny, does the opposite of helping the case of proving how shit the government is.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-19 11:01:48+00:00
Yeah, one thing the EU could do that wouldn't hurt them/us (much) would be to stop bringing up fake replacements for the data sharing agreements that get shot down.

The damage would mostly hit the top performers of the US stock market (amongst others) while not damaging the EU as much.

It'll probably be tariffs first though, followed by the ACI if things get really bad.
by cge | 2026-01-19 11:03:04+00:00
If it is like my usual experience with European academia, it may be intended to more heavily push use of Microsoft 365 services, which tend to somewhat assume phone availability. I think that usually universities cannot force the use of personal devices for work, so providing mobile phones on request is one way of moving to more a more purely Microsoft service infrastructure. It looks like Radboud is a Microsoft shop, so I would not be surprised.

My university, for example, is gradually removing all office phones (already voip) and replacing them with Teams voip as the only phone system for the university, encouraging personal phone use of Teams, but having computer-based use as the option for people who refuse. As they don't provide mobile phones, however, they can't require Microsoft Authenticator, and so at least officially will still give hardware keys on request (and fortunately still allow TOTP, even if they don't advertise it).
by AdrianB1 | 2026-01-19 11:03:20+00:00
>> Is it possible to create a social network (or "discussion community", if you prefer) that doesn't have any incentive except human-to-human interaction?

Yes, it is possible. Like anything worth, it is not easy. I am a member of a small forum of around 20-25 active users for 20 years. We talk all kind of stuff, it was initially just IT-related, but we also touch motorcycles (at least 5 of us do or did ride, I used to go ride with a couple of them in the past), some social aspects, tend to avoid politics (too divisive) and religion (I think none is religious enough to debate). We were initially in the same country and some were meeting IRL from time to time, but now we are spread in many places around Europe (one in US), so the forum is what keeps us in contact. Even the ones in the same country, probably a minority these days, are spread too thin, but the forum is there.

If human interaction involves IRL, I met less that 10 forum members and I met frequently just 3 (2 on motorcycle trips, one worked for a few years in the same place as I), but that is not a metric that means much. It is the false sense of being close over internet while being geographically far, which works in a way but not really. For example my best friends all emigrated, most were childhood friends, communicating to them on the phone or Internet makes me never feel lonely, but seeing them every few years makes grows the distance between us. That is impacting human to human interaction, there is no way around it.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-19 11:03:40+00:00
There are British style manuals (e.g., the Guardian’s) that prefer em-dashes for roughly the same set of uses they tend to perferred for in US style guides, but it is mixed between em-dashes and en-dashes (both usually set open), while all the influential American style guides prefer em-dashes (but split, for digressive/parenthetical use, between setting them closed [e.g., Chicago Manual] and open [e.g., AP Style].)
by meetingthrower | 2026-01-19 11:05:22+00:00
Vibecoder here. I don't think so. I am a PE investor, and we are using it in our small portfolio companies to great effect. We can make small little mini-apps that do one thing right and help automate away extra work.

It's a miracle. Simply wouldn't have been done before. I think we'll see an explosion of software in small and midsize companies.

I admit it may be crappy software, but as long as the scope is small - who cares? It certainly is better than the janky manual paper processes, excel sheets, or just stuff in someone's head!
by mxfh | 2026-01-19 11:05:39+00:00
You're on HN, not reddit.
OP linked to a special interest blog, not an explainer piece.
The burden to catch up here is on the reader.

The search input is right at the bottom:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

but start here:

TUM AI Lecture Series - The 3D Gaussian Splatting Adventure: Past, Present, Futur (George Drettakis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjOqkVIlEGY

or here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkIJbpdTujE
by veunes | 2026-01-19 11:06:03+00:00
That's a dangerous distinction in the AI era. If you reduce your work to solving problems given a set of requirements, you put yourself in direct competition with agents. LLMs are perfect for taking a clear spec and outputting code. A "pure" engineer who refuses to understand the product and the user risks becoming just middleware between the PM and the AI. In the future, the lines between PM and Tech Lead will blur, and the engineers who survive will be those who can not only "do as told" but propose "how to do it better for the business"
by ryanjshaw | 2026-01-19 11:06:07+00:00
> You're training yourself with a very unreliable source of truth.

I don’t just look at the bot decision or accept every consensus blindly. I read the arguments.

If I watch a video and think it’s real and the comments point to the source, which has a description saying they use AI, how is that unreliable?

Alternatively, I watch a video and think it’s AI but a commenter points to a source like YT where the video was posted 5 years ago, or multiple similar videos/news articles about the weird subject of the video, how is that unreliable?
by mlrtime | 2026-01-19 11:06:11+00:00
I liked the article, anyone with a lot of experience in sysadmin/ops/devops/SRE should feel a connection.

"Yes, we should absolutely be treating our product developers like customers, and thinking critically about the interfaces we give them. Yes, there is a middle layer between infrastructure and product engineering, with patterns and footguns of its very own."

This particularly has gotten me thinking more about building chat interfaces as most of my work lately has been slack related. What I mean is instead of building UIs for CI/CD pipelines, have them done in slack through chat. (chatops or llm). This to be is what a LLM is best at, not coding. Just taking communications and simplifying it down to instructions.
by benterix | 2026-01-19 11:06:29+00:00
I don't get it, why is this on the front page? None of the arguments make any sense. The "Windows is getting terrible" aspect is not an accidental or uncontrollable phenomenon, it's a result of deliberate strategy to onboard all Windows users to Microsoft's cloud just like Apple and Google did. There is no single reason ditching Windows for Linux would help MS in any way.
by seper8 | 2026-01-19 11:07:01+00:00
You think tech is not going to be affected by this warmongering?

I think it's one of the biggest threats, if not the biggest, for US tech startups wanting to sell to customers outside of the US.

I don't consider myself very politically active, neither are my friends. But we are all looking to detach from the US and its companies. If you are a fledgling startup, in the coming weeks you might just lose out on many of your potential customers.
by simonw | 2026-01-19 11:07:10+00:00
Every six months I predict that "in the next six months there will be a headline-grabbing example of someone pulling off a prompt injection attack that causes real economic damage", and every six months it fails to happen.

That doesn't mean the risk isn't there - it means malicious actors have not yet started exploiting it.

Johann Rehberger calls this effect "The Normalization of Deviance in AI", borrowing terminology from the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster report: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/the-normalization-...

Short version: the longer a company or community gets away with behaving in an unsafe way without feeling the consequences, the more they are likely to ignore those risks.

I'm certain that's what is happening to us all today with coding agents. I use them in an unsafe way myself.
by brushfoot | 2026-01-19 11:07:30+00:00
It's a shame to find an AI-written ad so highly upvoted here.

The author even insists that AI was used because of their poor English, which is the standard excuse on Reddit as well. But clearly, this is not a translation:

> Curious if others have similar stories. Anyone else come back to building after stepping away?

This is bog-standard AI slop to increase engagement.

Look at the blog on their linked site as well. AI-generated posts.

This has been posted here for SEO. This is a business venture.

It's times like this when I think HN needs a post downvote button. Flagging might not be quite appropriate here, but I hate to see this content cluttering up the front page.
by danabramov | 2026-01-19 11:07:42+00:00
It’s a long road but the plan is to standardize AT. See https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf for ongoing first steps.

>I’m somewhat concerned that the “file system” or the storage where all of our things are supposed to be stored is now suddenly in the cloud. We actually have a real file system … it backs itself up on iPhone even.

I don’t know how this is related to what my article talks about. The data we’re taking about is already public and in the cloud, it’s just locked into specific app’s databases.

The point isn’t about some single specific app, but about creating an ecosystem where the things you create (StackOverflow posts, Reddit discussions, Instagram follows, Letterboxd recipes) are not tied to the fate of that particular app and the whims of its creators. Then, if a service shuts down or turns to shit, developers can compete without solving the cold start problem. You just need to make a better app for same data, not convince everyone to recreate everything on your app.
by progbits | 2026-01-19 11:08:56+00:00
The Sanderson wiki [1] has a time-travel feature where you read a snapshot just before a publication of a book, ensuring no spoilers.

I would like a similar pre-LLM Wikipedia snapshot. Sometimes I would prefer potentially stale or incomplete info rather than have to wade through slop.

1: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Coppermind:Welcome
by mlrtime | 2026-01-19 11:08:58+00:00
I knew this would come up so specifically searched for the comment. And I knew the death rate for cars would be >>>> than trains.

HOWEVER, there is something unique scary about a single incident that kills more people that fit in a typical car. Combined with the fact that you have 0 control over it is much more frightening (for lack of a better word) than car static deaths.

Just my opnion, may not be rational but I'd still rather be behind the wheel?
by whizzter | 2026-01-19 11:09:09+00:00
Kinda, it all depends on platforms and eras. As a demoscener I see more of techdemo, indiedev and "game-mods" vibes in much of it (especially certain kinds of jankiness feel of visuals in some parts that demosceners doing more high end in general try to avoid but is more meme-worthy in game-mods/indiedev circles). Demos often aim for a bit more clean visuals (and palettes), blurriness is often tuned in another way.

Sadly, much of the demoscene is in a bit of a navel-grazing retro computing phase, many active ones today are "returners" from the C64 and Amiga eras whilst PC sceners of the 90s either dropped off for money, games or kids.

It's also the sheer work-effort, demoscene in the 90s and early 00s could focus on rendering while visual art pipelines didn't matter as much, as graphics cards got better it was obvious that the scene was falling behind the cutting edge games (both in asset due to workload and hacks required for graphics cards to render realistically).

The introduction and early popularization of SDF rendering turned the scene a bit more relevant again, but it's also been masking a certain lack of good artists since programmers could create nice renderings without needing assets.

However, to match something like this video in creativity would require a lot of asset workload (and non-trival rendering), and that combo is not really that common today sadly.

Funnily enough, I was actually discussing just Gaussian Splatting as a solution for more "asset heavy" demos about a year ago with another scener friend, but sadly there's a tad of a stigma culturally as NN/"AI" methods has been fairly controversial within the scene, aside from programmers there are both visual and music artists, and among those camps it's not really a popular thing.

It's still mostly a method though, and SDF rendering + GS could in the end be a saviour in disguise for the scene to go beyond just rendering and bring back a bit more story-telling to the scene.
by timschmidt | 2026-01-19 11:09:12+00:00
It seems like you think that some shadowy cabal somewhere decided to differentiate systems languages from managed languages and keep them divided. That is not the case. The distinction describes how the language has been implemented, which is based on the choices of the language authors alone, and is usually down to practical considerations about how to implement the thing at all.

Saying "There should be no such difference." is a bit like saying bicycles should be allowed on the highway and semi trucks should be accepted on walking paths. The difference is inherent in the thing. A result of how they were built. And what they can and can't accomplish as a result.
by imtringued | 2026-01-19 11:09:25+00:00
You know what's weird? You being late by 3 days and not bothering to read the comments on reddit [0], then going ahead and trying a Wine 10 patch on Wine 11. Like, what exactly did you expect?

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1qdgd73/i_mad...

Edit: Even worse, other people are finding it easier to get creative cloud to run on older wine versions [1], meaning that there are regressions in Wine that aren't being spotted.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1qg9wgz/creat...

Edit 2: Worse yet, people aren't pirating Photoshop, they copy the files of a working activated Photoshop installation from Windows so they can run it under Wine [2].

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20251105052117/https://forum.mat...

Seems like all you did is misrepresent basically everyone involved?
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by microtonal | 2026-01-19 11:10:22+00:00
There is a movement in Dutch academia to move away from Microsoft/Google services. E.g. SURF (the IT cooperative of Dutch education and research institutions) are extending their NextCloud pilot to all Dutch edu/research instututions:

https://tweakers.net/nieuws/241846/surf-biedt-opensource-nex...

Many individual universities are also making decisions to reduce dependence on US tech, see e.g.:

https://rug.my-meeting.nl/Documenten/Keuzevrijheid-IT-oploss...

(Apologies for the Dutch links.)
by ben_w | 2026-01-19 11:10:44+00:00
Mm.

I'd agree, the code "isn’t necessarily broadly coherent but is locally impressive".

However, I've seen some totally successful, even award-winning, human-written projects where I could say the same.

Ages back, I heard a woodworking analogy:

LLM code is like MDF. Really useful for cheap furniture, massively cheaper than solid wood, but it would be a mistake to use it as a structural element in a house.

Now, I've never made anything more complex than furniture, so I don't know how well that fit the previous models let alone the current ones… but I've absolutely seen success coming out of bigger balls of mud than the balls of mud I got from letting Claude loose for a bit without oversight.

Still, just because you can get success even with sloppy code, doesn't mean I think this is true everywhere. It's not like the award was for industrial equipment or anything, the closest I've come to life-critical code is helping to find and schedule video calls with GPs.
by 4bpp | 2026-01-19 11:10:46+00:00
Environmentalism has always been a "weight of our sins" sort of issue. Plastic straws are a rounding error relative to all the capricious uses of plastic and fossil fuels in our economy, but few things feel as frivolous as using once and then throwing away a piece of plastic for personal convenience while engaging in an already-kinda-sinful feeling activity like indulging in a soft drink, while simultaneously the paper straw that turns to cardboard mash in your mouth is perfectly calibrated to make you feel like you are doing real penance without encumbering anything economically important.

So plastic straw bans (instead of plastic slipper bans, plastic food packaging bans, taxes on plastic clothes fibres...) are what we get. And because the structure of the cause/problem is the same, the language of environmentalism naturally attaches itself and gives form to the vague sense of moral unease surrounding AI. Governments are surely already building tomorrow's tightly integrated thought police drone swarm complexes, but a crusade against those who simulate a zoo of programming weasels in our midst is much easier and morally no less fulfilling.
by easyThrowaway | 2026-01-19 11:10:47+00:00
Very unclear about the reasoning behind CDPR decision. Unless he was redistributing code or assets from the game, how is this any different from any library emulation/wrapper like Wine/Proton or the multitudes of libraries like DK3D? Are they gonna sue Valve once their game works on the Steam Frame?

(I can only assume they're planning a specific version for the Frame and they fear this mod would offer a superior experience for a lower price)
by meetingthrower | 2026-01-19 11:10:56+00:00
100% this. This is the new age of software - but it will be tiny little apps like this for each little user. They don't need to be mega apps, etc. Bespoke little apps that help your own little business or corner of the world.

I'm teaching my kid what I consider the AI dev stack: AI IDE (Antigravity for us), database (Supabase for us with a nice MCP server), and deployment (Github and Vercel for us). You can make wonderful little integrated apps with this in hours.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-19 11:11:13+00:00
> That's rather naïve.

No, its factual.

> How do you propose to enforce the law when the offender possesses the greatest military/economic/technological might, even compared to the rest of the (law-biding) world combined?

Had you read the entire comment you were responding to, you would note that as well as pointing out that international law has enforcement mechanisms, that I pointed out how the executive part of those differs from what many national criminal law systems use (which is a real difference), and moreover the problem they have with conflicts of interests between any of the available executive agents with many important enforcement issues (a situation which also happens with national criminal law systems even where, unlike international law, they have a nominally-dedicated executive body for enforcement purposes rather than relying on the adjudicative/determinative body calling for an ad hoc posse the way that international law generally works.)
by arghwhat | 2026-01-19 11:11:22+00:00
They are very different. ioctl's on a file take an operation and arguments that are often userspace pointers as the kernel can freely access any process's memory space. ctl files on the other hand are merely human-readable strings that are parsed.

Say, imagine an API where you need to provide an 1KiB string. The plan9 version would have to process the input byte for byte to sort out what the command was, then read the string to a dynamic buffer while unescaping it until it finds, say, the newline character.

The ioctl would just have an integer for the operation, and if it wanted to it could set the source page up for CoW so it didn't even have to read or copy the data at all.

Then we have to add the consideration of context switches: The traditional ioctl approach is just calling process, kernel and back. Under plan9, you must switch from calling process, to kernel, to fileserver process, to kernel, to fileserver process (repeat multiple times for multiple read calls), to kernel, and finally to calling process to complete the write. Now if you need a result you need to read a file, and so you get to repeat the entire process for the read operation!

Under Linux we're upset with the cost of the ioctl approach, and for some APIs plan to let io_uring batch up ioctls - the plan9 approach would be considered unfathomably expensive.

> The `ctl` approach is at least a proper generalization.

ioctl is already a proper generalization of "call operation on file with arguments", but because it was frowned upon originally it never really got the beauty-treatment it needed to not just be a lot of header file defines.

However, ioctl'ing a magic define is no different than writing a magic string.
by sublimefire | 2026-01-19 11:13:01+00:00
IMO the idea of providing more in OSS usually stems from various third parties who use that code in production but do not really contribute back to it. The only sensible thing the person publishing code online needs to do is to protect their copyright and add a license. This weird idea that somehow you become responsible for the code to the point that you need to patch every vulnerability and bug, and now identify the use of AI is wrong on so many levels. For the record I’ve been publishing OSS for years.
by spockz | 2026-01-19 11:13:05+00:00
That is awesome to hear. I noticed that mine does fine sub 0, but when it is moist and around 1-4 degrees Celsius a lot of ice forms and it needs the resistive heating.

I didn’t see it reverse cycle yet. But I have air-air with one outside unit connected to three inside units. It’s a Mitsubishi Heavy from 2023.