MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paulcole | 2026-01-28 17:52:27+00:00
> Marketing budgets can fund stuff whose authenticity is independent of who’s writing the check, right

I think “follow the money” is the cliche that applies here.

> Especially when their audience is extra-contrarian and sensitive to authenticity.

I think you mean that the audience likes to think of itself as extra-contrarian and sensitive to authenticity?

The audience will talk until they’re blue in the face about why this marketing project (HN) is so much different from and so much more authentic than other marketing projects.

The marketing seems to be working on this supposedly contrarian and sensitive to authentiity audience!
by jaydestro | 2026-01-28 17:52:34+00:00
This new blog post explains how to use GitHub Copilot CLI with the Azure Cosmos DB Agent Kit to bring Cosmos DB infrastructure best practices directly into your terminal. The approach helps teams review, generate, and optimize Terraform, Bicep, Docker, and CI/CD configurations with consistent, domain-specific guidance.

Written by Sajeetharan Sinnathurai, Azure Cosmos DB Principal Program Manager, the post provides a practical walkthrough for improving infrastructure quality and delivery speed when working with Azure Cosmos DB.
by mips_avatar | 2026-01-28 17:53:19+00:00
Outside of America people aren't really stressed about AI. Like you go to Vietnam or Vienna they mostly just think that they will have a good life with AI. It's uniquely American to believe that your life will end when AI takes your job.

The problem isn't the AI it's that your access to basic rights is intermediated by a corporate job. American's need to decenter their self worth from their jobs. Like when I quit Microsoft I literally thought I was dying, but that's all an illusion from the corporations.
by browningstreet | 2026-01-28 17:53:21+00:00
I've been using Linux for 20+ years, but I was fairly happy with Windows 11. At its core it did exactly what I needed it to do, and it allowed me to run some commercial software that is harder to install and run on Linux (Davinci Resolve).

But my Dell hardware drivers were flaky in Windows. My bluetooth had extremely variable availability. And then Windows rebooted itself, against my wishes, 3x in one week. And then there was the promise of Recall.

That's when I wiped Windows and installed Ubuntu. All my hardware issues went away (yes, I had to fiddle the sound driver a little so it didn't crack when it woke up from sleep, and I had to make one small change so suspend worked properly.. but both were easily solvable). My bluetooth has been flawless since and I was able to use my Logitech wireless mouse again.

I'm never going back.

I do a bit of napkin math on Apple Silicon single-threaded performance, GPU performance, and battery management against non-Macbook Air/Pro specs for same price. I follow DHH (who I otherwise object to) on his adventures with the Asus G14 machines.. but I'm not sure its GPU performance still matches the similarly priced Apple offering.

Less integrated OS, worse battery management, and weaker performance for more money? I'm not sure. But I'll probably still go that way.

The Intel/AMD laptop manufacturers need to get out from under Nvidia's hardware GPU thumb.
by MattGrommes | 2026-01-28 17:53:22+00:00
Here's the Slo Mo Guys teardown. Very impressive tech.

https://youtu.be/jW7M8H99x7Y?si=9xjafT2tCresYC9l

What was fun for me was the fact that when this thing came out everybody I knew thought it worked by shooting red lasers at your eyes. There was very little internet to use to look it up either so I was shocked when this video showed how it really worked.
by cbarrick | 2026-01-28 17:53:30+00:00
> [T]he war on general computing and computer ownership [...] It is exhausting to see the hatred some have for people just owning their hardware.

The integrity of a system being verified/verifiable doesn't imply that the owner of the system doesn't get to control it.

This sort of e2e attestation seems really useful for enterprise or public infrastructure. Like, it'd be great to know that the ATMs or transit systems in my city had this level of system integrity.

You argument correctly points out that attestation tech can be used to restrict software freedom, but it also assumes that this company is actively pursuing those use cases. I don't think that is a given.

At the end of the day, as long as the owner of the hardware gets to control the keys, this seems like fantastic tech.
by drecked | 2026-01-28 17:54:04+00:00
All the conspiracies theories can be put to bed by walking into any engineering department (maybe outside of biomedical engineering…which makes me think this may be related to how Americans demonize math) and observing that the majority of students are foreign or maybe second generation immigrants.

This ratio gets worse because American students are disproportionately more likely to follow up their engineering undergrad with law or business school, so even if they may be engineers they’ll get into business and/or something like patent attorney going forward.
by BirAdam | 2026-01-28 17:54:11+00:00
If all jobs were taken by AI in a short time span, the companies owning and operating those AIs would go out of business as no one would be able to afford the products made by the AIs. This is an unlikely scenario. Not all things will be made/run by AIs in a short time. It is far more likely that specific jobs in specific industries will be taken by AI, and AI will slowly take the labor market. This will drive down prices on products, services, and labor. Once human labor's price is low, and once many product prices are low, the overall employment level of humans will rise. The effect of AI then is actually just deflationary pressure on all prices over time.

The really scary part is what happens to all of the newly unemployed people between the falling prices part and the rising employment part. My guess is, governments and markets won't move quickly enough and unrest is what happens.
by touisteur | 2026-01-28 17:54:21+00:00
I think they preserve timestamped I,Q data. Know some people looking at down-sampling, preselecting those signals for longer term storage and deeper reprocessing and they seem to have a 24h window to 'analyze and keep what you need'.

We're still in technological phase where ADCs are far more advanced than storage and online processing systems, which means throwing away a lot. But I have high hopes for a system where you upgrade computing, network, storage (and maybe ADCs...) and you get an improved sensor. Throw man-hours at some GPU kernel developers and you get new science. The limit seems more now about enough people and compute to fully exploit the data than technological...
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-28 17:54:22+00:00
Neither is murder. Just file it under "Something you'd be screaming to the moon about if Biden or Obama were doing it."

Of course, you've forgotten that it was a Republican who once told you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. These days, the Republicans recruit street gangs and order them to see how many rights they can violate at once. A whole different breed.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2026-01-28 17:54:29+00:00
Network effect is killer. "better" would include having more than 3 billion people already on it.

Maybe the EU or China will crack down on it. A single company shouldn't decide who gets to talk to half the world. If that company is American they will not tolerate it for long.

Personally DeltaChat is my new favorite Thing but it falls afoul of Zooko's Triangle - A WhatsApp number or POTS number is short because it's centrally controlled and you have to pay for each one. DeltaChat has public keys, so I have 20 of them, and nobody can control who gets one, but they're incredibly long... the QR codes are nightmares.
by ramesh31 | 2026-01-28 17:54:36+00:00
>Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.

I call this the Quark principle. On DS9, there are matter replicators that can perfectly recreate any possible drink imaginable instantly. And yet, the people of the station still gather at Quark's and pay him money to pour and mix their drinks from physical bottles. As long as we are human, some things will never go away no matter how advanced the technology becomes.
by seanwilson | 2026-01-28 17:54:43+00:00
I wish one of those regex libraries that replaces the regex symbols with human readable words would become standard. Or they don't work well?

Regex is one of those things where I have to look up to remind myself what the symbols are, and by the time I need this info again I've forgotten it all.

I can't think of anywhere else in general programming where we have something so terse and symbol heavy.
by lcolucci | 2026-01-28 17:54:57+00:00
This is good feedback thanks! The "not patient" feeling probably comes from our VAD being set to "eager mode" so that the latency is better. VAD (i.e. deciding when the human has actually stopped talking) is a tough problem in all of voice AI. It basically adds latency to whatever your pipeline's base latency is. Speech2Speech models are better at this.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-28 17:55:24+00:00
On the contrary, a hardware token will suffice to thwart both phising and MitM which covers ~everything for all practical threat and liability models. What exactly is the concern here? A widespread worm that no one is yet aware of that's dumping people's bank accounts into crypto? It might make for a decent Hollywood plot but is pulling that off actually easier than attacking the bank directly?

Keep in mind that the businesses pushing this stuff still don't support U2F by and large. When I can go down in person to enroll a hardware token I might maybe consider listening to what they have to say on the subject. Maybe. (But probably not.)
Show HN: Built an open-source iOS gPodder / Nextcloud compatible podcast client
by andrewjneumann | 2026-01-28 17:56:10+00:00
Couldn't find an iOS client that supported gpodder or Nexcloud (NextPod), so I built one. While it's flutter/dart built the focus of development is iOS and ecosystem features eg WatchOS support, CarPlay, AirPlay streaming, etc. You can download it from the Apple App store (iOS/iPadOS/macOS) for a few bucks (TestFlight is also available) or compile yourself from repo (tested on iOS & Linux, should work elsewhere too).

Adding podcast search next and thinking about adding standalone account support (keeping podcast data local and not requiring gpodder sync).

What features is it missing? What do you want to see from your perfect podcast app? What do you wish your current podcast app didn't do?

https://asecretcompany.com/yourpods/ has more market-y details.
by thenoblesunfish | 2026-01-28 17:56:21+00:00
He doesn't get into why he didn't switch to Apple. Kind of a middle ground - it's still got the maddening things about being from a corporate behemoth, but it's closer to Unix and you can run your audio software there. (I would be using Linux instead of Apple yesterday if it weren't for a single music program I can't live without).
by rvnx | 2026-01-28 17:56:28+00:00
Prism in tech is very well-known to be a surveillance program.

Coming from a company involved with sharing data to intelligence services (it's the law you can't escape it) this is not wise at all. Unless nobody in OpenAI heard of it.

It was one of the biggest scandal in tech 10 years ago.

They could call it "Workspace". More clear, more useful, no need to use a code-word, that would have been fine for internal use.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-28 17:56:35+00:00
Related:

Apple Workers Are Livid That Cook Saw "Melania" Hours After CBP Killed Pretti

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790365

Tech CEOs attend Amazon-funded "Melania" screening at White House

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761370
by godelski | 2026-01-28 17:56:47+00:00
There's another way. Only a small portion of friends need to change to pull the rest of the group. Pull them to a game that runs on Linux.

Don't do it like "let's play this game because it runs on Linux" do it like "let's play this game because it's fun".

If you want to be the one to lead this change you have to do extra work. Dual boot Linux and find a game that's fun that you can do online. Find the other friend or two in your group that will do the same (at least play the game, Linux is optional but encouraged for this subset). Just play together for a bit, give it a trial run. Then when playing the other game with the larger group say "hey, so and so and I have been playing this game, you guys should play with us sometime". They don't have to install Linux, just play a new game that their friends are already playing. That's why they're there, to play games with their friends. Don't try to get them to switch to Linux, just play games with your friends. You might have a holdout but if most people move then everyone will. But if you want to do that move you have to find what works and at least one other friend to give it a trial (who won't need to do as much work as you). That's how you do it. No crazy scheme and honestly not massive amounts of work either. Just the normal process of finding new games to play with one constraint. It just seems complicated because I stated the process explicitly.
by Arubis | 2026-01-28 17:57:10+00:00
While this is a Cool Thing To See, I do wish things would go the other way—and have all the BI/ML/DS pipelines and workflows folks are building in Python and have them come to Elixir (and, as would follow, Elixir). I get where the momentum is, but having something functional, fault-tolerant, and concurrent underpinning work that’s naturally highly concurrent and error-prone feels like a _much_ more natural fit.
by easton | 2026-01-28 17:57:27+00:00
I run into that too. Someone sends me a Postman, and I sit there fiddling with the UI five or ten times instead of just putting it into a loop in a real program. then realize how much time i spent fiddling and pull it into a program, then spend some copying the auth or whatever over, then realize i should've been doing real work.

People like Postman because it's easy to share credentials and config, and easy(ish) to give to less technical people, but the cliff for pulling that stuff into code is often annoying.

"Postman but actually it's a jupyter-style notebook with your credentials" would be cool, although I don't know exactly what that would look like.
by RamRodification | 2026-01-28 17:57:29+00:00
As a competitive old school arena FPS guy, I have also had a very hard time getting the same smoothness and low latency (input, output, whatever it is) on Linux. The games I play are very fast and twitchy, and milliseconds matter.

There seems to be too many layers and variables to ever get to the bottom of it. Is it the distro itself? Is it a Wayland vs. X11 thing? Is it the driver? The Proton version? Some G-SYNC thing? Some specific tweak that games based on this game engine needs?
by rich_sasha | 2026-01-28 17:57:30+00:00
US real GDP is racing ahead: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1 . Inflation is fine, even if you don't fully believe the official numbers: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA . Unemployment is increasing but below long term mean: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE . Interest rates are at a reasonably business-friendly level.

This is all the USofA. Elsewhere, China is allegedly also printing GDP growth like crazy. Europe is maybe a little stagnant but also not, on the whole, awful.

At the face of it, it's at least a C+ if not better. So if you'd claim it's terrible, there's some explaining to do.
by k310 | 2026-01-28 17:57:45+00:00
That's impressive and good luck. So sorry your dad is no longer with us.

I had an Altair and disk drives which I loaned to a friend for safe keeping, no doubt in a landfill long ago.

But I still have the IMSAI, less disk drives, and boxes full of S-100 cards and original documentation. It might actually be operational with some ribbon cable replacement. No correspondence, but I do have a copy of Midnight Engineering, signed by the OTHER Bill Gates.

No plans.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2026-01-28 17:57:52+00:00
I heard the convincing argument that AI CSAM is bad because it means you can pass off real CSAM as "Oh maybe it's AI though". They don't want to let GenAI give cover for something bad.

So maybe the strong argument against NCII is the same - It doesn't matter how you got an image of someone, if it's non-consensual then it's wrong.

Hopefully cartoons can still be the exception since they're obviously not photographic in style. Political cartoons and satire would never be mistaken for photos.
by no_wizard | 2026-01-28 17:58:02+00:00
Amazon's MGM subsidiary spent 75 million dollars thus far on the Melania Trump documentary that by all accounts, is looking like its going to be a box office bomb. Reportedly, 30 million of that 75 went directly to Melania[0]

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/28/melania-trump-d...
by arjie | 2026-01-28 17:58:32+00:00
I like linking to the Amazon account because apart from the discounts (which are nice), it puts the receipt in my Amazon orders list. Yes, at Gus's there's no such linking feature or discount and I just tap my watch after selecting the appropriate card.

Amazon's app is just like what you describe. It is extraordinarily slow and needs a high-speed data network.
by Rochus | 2026-01-28 17:58:46+00:00
This is unexpected. According to the article, research across 80 countries suggests that when schools introduce digital technology, student performance drops significantly. Students who use computers about five hours per day for learning score lower than those who rarely use technology in school, and they struggle with concentration, self-esteem, and mental health. Most countries (beside Denmark which removed computers and phones from class rooms) have responded by lowering standards, which is incredible.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-28 17:58:53+00:00
I think you do have a point here, but I should like to point out that, since you mentioned Vienna, barely anyone here sees AI being tightly integrated into anything. Sure, smartphone users may use it; and exams at universities may say "don't use AI", so people use it - but for most everyday stuff it is really barely noticeable here. This is why I also disagree with "they will have a good life with AI", because it assumes that AI plays a huge role here, which it really does not.

The AI hype is definitely much bigger in the USA - on that part we concur.
by Joe_Cool | 2026-01-28 17:58:59+00:00
Has happened:

Core2Duo, Opteron64 and Athlon64 can run W11 RTM

They will bluescreen booting after an update to 24H2 because they are missing the POPCNT instruction.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/windows-11-24h2-goes...
by throwway120385 | 2026-01-28 17:58:59+00:00
The whole point of it seems to be to dismiss the entire economic system in favor of something that almost nobody has bought in to like bullion or cryptocurrency or somesuch for the benefit of the speaker. Currency, even paper currency, is one of the most pervasive societal "grand illusions" that we share. But that isn't necessarily a bad thing as it greases the entire system of exchange for literally everyone everywhere.
by abracadaniel | 2026-01-28 17:59:05+00:00
From my experience it seems to happen all the time. Settings reset, uninstalled apps reinstalled, firewall settings erased. I went looking for the Windows 10 patch that deleted the Documents folder if you had remapped it to another drive, and it was hard to find an article due to all the other times their updates have also deleted people's Documents folder. This was the first time I recall it happening: https://www.engadget.com/2018-10-09-windows-10-october-updat...
by GaggiX | 2026-01-28 17:59:22+00:00
Maybe you can divide the task into verifiable environments like an HTML5 parser environment where an agent is going to build the parser and also check the progress against a test suites (the https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-tests in this case) and then write the API into a .md, the job of the human is going to be at the beginning to create the various environments where the agents are going to build the components from (and also how much it can be divided into standalone components).
Show HN: Chaos_to_the_rescue – Ruby gem for runtime-defined behavior
by codenamev | 2026-01-28 17:59:26+00:00
I built this as an experiment in how much uncertainty Ruby code can tolerate before it stops feeling deterministic. The gem introduces controlled randomness and can define methods at runtime, allowing behavior to emerge dynamically rather than being fully designed ahead of time.

It's early and intentionally exploratory, NOT production-ready. Sometimes it feels like a creative tool. Other times it feels like you're giving your code permission to make decisions you didn't explicitly authorize.

I'm curious where people think that line should be.
by ajam1507 | 2026-01-28 17:59:26+00:00
What I am saying is that if you want to regulate social media companies, pass a law, don't punish companies for breaking a law that isn't on the books.

The harm from cigarette use is direct, and there is no level of cigarette use that can be considered safe and healthy. Additionally, it would be very difficult for parents to prevent their children from buying them if they could walk into any convenience store and buy them. On the other side, social media use can be harmful, but it is possible to use social media in a healthy way.

I'm curious where it ends when you start banning kids from things that are only potentially addictive or harmful. Should parents be able to let their children watch TV, play video games, or have a phone or tablet?

What's the distinction between those things and social media for you?
by jama211 | 2026-01-28 17:59:43+00:00
There’s a lot of odd things said in this article. Like “no more file explorer hanging”, “no more waiting for the start menu to open” - is this something that actually happens to people? Perhaps on very old hardware I could see it, but it’s not my experience at all. Lots of weird emotional and very biased parts to this article.

But it’s just gonna take off here anyway because it’s a switching to Linux article which is like offering HN users free coke.
by jerryjobrien | 2026-01-28 18:00:18+00:00
130 installs a year with ~5–15% converting and basically no churn is solid for a dev tool. That tells me the product works and people who use it get it. This feels much more like a “wrong eyeballs” problem than a product or pricing problem.

A couple thoughts that might help:

You might be aiming too broadly at “developers.” The people who really feel this pain are usually platform / infra / DevOps leads — especially teams sharing staging, CI runners, GPUs, test environments, etc. They’re the ones dealing with collisions weekly.

The value isn’t “resource coordination,” it’s avoiding the mess: overwritten envs, broken deploys, Slack arguments about who touched what. That framing tends to spread internally way faster.

Ads are tough here. Most of these tools grow by internal forwarding (“hey, we should use this”) rather than clicks. Communities, word-of-mouth, and very specific infra-heavy teams usually work better.

If it helps, I’m happy to chat or give feedback from the platform/infra angle.
If you’ve ever had two people step on the same environment and cause chaos, you’re exactly who I’d like to talk to — feel free to reply here or DM me.
by autokad | 2026-01-28 18:00:34+00:00
I am not so sure on that. They raise inflation, home prices, etc. The locals see no real benefit except having to pay more for everything. While more taxes are collected, most of that goes to offsetting just some of the economic pain induced by the people living there.

and it is in fact zero sum. every spot filled in university or company is a spot not taken by a local, as its obvious by the numbers, more local people are not getting admitted into CS programs nor are they being hired. its 100% zero sum when we are looking at these numbers and %s.