MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lefstathiou | 2026-01-22 14:40:00+00:00
My two cents as a 20 year product manager with +10 enterprise applications under my belt (and having read several of these):

# "Don't make me think" is a seminal work on design thinking for online services. I've yet to come across a book with as much relevance and substance even though
it was written for the dot com era.

# "Positioning" by Al Reis is a book I wish I read 15 years ago when I started my company... your product's strategic positioning will greatly inform and shape design decisions (typography, colors, tones, copy, etc)

# "Ogilvy on Advertising" - written by the legend himself, once you read this book, it will change the way you see all ads in any medium
by alephnerd | 2026-01-22 14:40:13+00:00
1. Pakistan is at a different stage of development than India. If India is 10-15 years behind China, then Pakistan is 10-15 years behind India as well.

2. Pakistan's solar uptick is primarily affluent households [0] looking to diversify from an unstable grid and rising electricity taxed, not a formalized strategy by Pakistan to switch to greentech.

3. The Pakistani government is doubling down on fossil fuels extraction and utilization [1]

4. Even Nigeria (a similarly sized country to Pakistan that is attempting to use the China and India model to industrialize) is leveraging both a solar strategy [2] as well as climbing up the fossil fuel value chain [3] in order to build domestic capacity in both technologies.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/pakistans-solar-revo...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/pakistans-ogdc-ramps...

[2] - https://energytransition.gov.ng/

[3] - https://engineersindia.com/dangote-refinery-and-petrochemica...
by b112 | 2026-01-22 14:40:17+00:00
Examples:

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/23/nyregion/us-offers-dairym...

https://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/1_2_overview_brow...

The PDF has some data showing how much post-market intervention costs.

It's particularly infuriating how US politicians will stated "we have a free market". whilst intervention happens, and then get upset that Canada does it differently.

Even more bizarre, is Canada has only 1/10th the population of the US. Both countries carve out exclusions, but the US side goes bananas that we don't have completely open markets on the agricultural side. So? We can both exclude each others markets, for agriculture, who cares?

With 1/10th of the population, if you manages to get 10% of the Canadian market, that's one hundredth of the whole US market. It's such a tiny amount.

Everyone here suspects the US just wants to drive all Canadian agriculture to bankruptcy, making us entirely dependent upon the US. No way. Not going to happen. That's madness.

In terms of market intervention, we can't afford to do it the way the US does. We don't have billions to buy up excess milk, or buy out farmers to reduce supply. It's immensely wasteful to the taxpayer.

Which is very strange, because it's often parties on the right in the US, which do buyouts.
by perching_aix | 2026-01-22 14:40:28+00:00
> (...) that's a you thing. You have to be tougher than that.

They really don't, lol

If a community is full of assholes, walk away! Don't contribute to what you don't want to support. It's just like voting with your wallet.

All contingent on whether you can actually afford to do so though, as usual, but I have a hard time believing that interacting on Reddit would be so essential, especially these days.
by sarchertech | 2026-01-22 14:40:31+00:00
I think it could just be that America is a much bigger market with much higher production values in TV and Film, so British people get their fill of competent, triumphant heroes from American media.

America has plenty of beloved sad sacks too. Charlie Brown, Donald Duck, Goofy, George Costanza, Eeyore (originally British but very popular in America and popularized by Disney) to name a few.

British media has carved out a bit of a niche for itself, but British people are also consuming other English language media.

And you also have plenty of British media where the hero is competent, triumphant, masterful, and autonomous with (frequent if not ubiquitous) standard happy endings. Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Who.
by lenerdenator | 2026-01-22 14:41:28+00:00
> But I never had the impression that gaming was a particularly important focus of the project.

> ReactOS is mostly about the reimplementation of an older NT kernel, with a focus on driver compatibility. Their ultimate goal is to be a drop-in replacement for Windows XP such that any driver written for XP would work. That's much more relevant to industrial applications where some device is controlled by an ancient computer because the vendor originally provided drivers for NT 5.0 or 5.1 which don't work on anything modern.

Fifteen years ago, they could have focused on both the industrial and consumer use cases. There were a lot of people who really didn't want to leave Windows XP in 2010-11, even just for their personal use.

Admittedly, FLOSS wasn't nearly as big of a thing back then like it is now. A larger share of GNU/Linux and BSD installs were on servers at the time, so it was a community mainly focused on commercial and industrial applications. Maybe that's what drove their focus.
by lproven | 2026-01-22 14:41:56+00:00
I ran it in 1MB. :-)

And it was fast and responsive, too.

Soon afterwards I bought a Psion 3 which ran a multitasking GUI OS on an 8086 in 256 kB of RAM.

That space was shared with file storage in a RAMdisc.

https://phonedb.net/index.php?m=device&id=826&c=psion_series...

It was perfectly viable to have multiple apps open and flip between them. It ran for weeks on a pair of AA batteries.
by K0balt | 2026-01-22 14:42:26+00:00
Systemic? It goes way beyond that.

Nature itself ensures that life is short, brutal, violent, and punctuated with horrors. Happiness is a transient state that loses its power if it is present more than part of the time, and joy can only exist in a backdrop of disappointment, or it just becomes another day in the life. We are wired for a life of failure, disappointment, trauma, tragedy, and loss.

That we have wrested a comfortable civilization from these dire circumstances is a great testament to the resolve and resourcefulness of men and women.

We have the great privilege and responsibility of living in this elevated plane, with a long (as biologicaly possible) life lived in relative comfort, and even insulated from the horrors of life by the drapery of civil machinery.

Even so, the only justice in this world is the justice we create ourselves.

The universe owes us nothing, and sometimes collects its debt for the entropy we take from it.
by HumblyTossed | 2026-01-22 14:42:41+00:00
I feel like we are at the crescendo point with "AI". Happens with every tech pushed here. 3DTV? You have those people who will shout you down and say every movie from now on will be 3D. Oh yeah? Hmmm... Or the people who see Apple's goggles and yell that everyone will be wearing them and that's just going to be the new norm now. Oh yeah? Hmmm...

Truth is, for "AI" to get markedly better than it is now (0) will take vastly more money than anyone is willing to put into it.

(0) Markedly, meaning it will truly take over the majority of dev (and other "thought worker") roles.
by huntergemmer | 2026-01-22 14:42:49+00:00
Absolute gold comment here :)

This comment was buried yesterday. I'm sorry for the late response!

I was thinking about a pro tier for this kind of specialized stuff. Core stays MIT forever, but fintech tooling could be paid.

Of the chart types you listed, is there a preference for what gets done first?

Order Book Heatmaps first?
by Munksgaard | 2026-01-22 14:43:24+00:00
Mirroring this divide, Denmark has a TV-show called "Klovn", which is basically a copy of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (down to the , except that while the main character in Curb is the cause of a lot of cringe moments, he always ends up getting his redemption and being the hero (at least to the viewer). In "Klovn", the main character ("Frank") causes a lot of cringe moments in the same way, but he is a tragicomic character and is almost always in the wrong.
by scrumper | 2026-01-22 14:43:28+00:00
That's a very interesting observation. You see it a lot in "tradesy" videos on YouTube, machinists* and welders and woodworkers and the like. The humor and self deprecation - far more apparent than in most other genres of American media - is really quite close to feeling British. As a transplanted Brit, it's pretty comforting stuff to watch.

*This Old Tony's channel is a particularly good illustration of this point, among many.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-22 14:44:30+00:00
>In nearly every form of entertainment over the past 2 years

I mean, it really was on a huge downward trend before two years ago, and you hit on much of that.

Social media and the online advertising age had really destroyed a lot of entertainment well before AI was an issue. Bot-like humans would just copy and mish-mash existing media poorly and attempt to gather the ad dollars for themselves.

Honestly a lot of the enjoyable content I watch these days is from individuals/groups that aren't chasing ad views, but doing more 'donation begging' from their own audience which means they must maintain some level of quality for continued patronage.

One particular problem we seem to have is that we see AI as 'the problem' and not just one issue in a problematic system. Why doesn't Reddit do anything about crap posts and content? They make money off of convincing advertisers that lots of views happen on their site and they should sell ads. Why doesn't Google improve their services? They are a near monopoly in online advertising and service improvement for the end user doesn't increase their revenue.

It's just a system where one group is trying to extract wealth from Google/Facebook whereas Google/Facebook have nearly perfected extracting wealth from you.
by jbs789 | 2026-01-22 14:44:33+00:00
The Norman door was a powerful example for me, as it emphasises that the user is not the problem but the push door with the handle is the problem.

And if you’re designing the door, it is your responsibility to think deeply and observe behaviour, to design an intuitive interface.

I do agree that it’s rather academic, but I did leave with that one takeaway.
by jasonlotito | 2026-01-22 14:45:41+00:00
> I think there are effectively universal moral standards, which essentially nobody disagrees with.

...

> I don't think you are using "torture" in the same sense as I am.

Just throwing this out here, you haven't even established "Universal Moral Standards", not to mention needing it to do that across all of human history. And we haven't even addressed the "nobody disagrees with" issue you haven't even addressed.

I for one can easily look back on the past 100 years and see why "universal moral standards, which essentially nobody disagrees with" is a bad argument to make.
Show HN: I built a JSON viewer that decodes Base64 media inline
by dassh | 2026-01-22 14:45:49+00:00
I built this for myself while debugging multimodal AI APIs.

The problem: I kept running into JSON responses stuffed with Base64-encoded images. Every time, I had to copy the string, find an online decoder, paste, preview. Repeat for each image. It got old fast.

So I made ViewJSON. Paste your JSON, and it automatically detects and renders Base64 media inline: images, audio, video, even PDFs. No more copy-paste decode loops.

Other things it does:
- Format/minify JSON
- Paste an image, get Base64 string (reverse direction)
- Build API requests, copy as cURL
- Variable substitution for testing
- Share JSON via URL

No login, completely free. Would love feedback on edge cases I might have missed!
by wtcactus | 2026-01-22 14:46:20+00:00
There’s absolutely no nihilism about Frodo. Not there isn’t any acceptance of pre determined fate when it comes to save Middle Heart.

LOTR is not empty, nor nihilist. It’s got many heroes, big and small, that fully embrace their part and fight against insurmountable odds with no expectation or any reward other than knowing they did the right thing.

The text is trying to tell us that English heroes are the exact opposite of that description.
by t_peersky | 2026-01-22 14:46:29+00:00
OP here.

Like many of you, I've watched the RAM prices in Jan 2026 (+440%) effectively kill the ability to run SOTA monolithic models (70B+) locally.

We spent the last year working on NSED, a protocol designed to switch from Tensor Parallelism (which requires high-bandwidth NVLink/Interconnects) to Semantic Parallelism (which allows for low-bandwidth PCIe/Ethernet).

The Core Idea: Instead of fitting a dense monolith into contiguous VRAM, we use a swarm of smaller, specialized agents that debate and verify answers via natural language. We found that by trading inference time for "deliberation" time, we can match GPT-5 performance (90% AIME) on disjointed consumer hardware (e.g., a stack of 4090s) rather than needing an H100 cluster.

Technical Report: https://zenodo.org/records/18338777

We are opening the waitlist for the binary today, but really looking for feedback on the topology and the "Efficiency-Fatigue" model described in the paper.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture.
by oefrha | 2026-01-22 14:46:29+00:00
I mean I never considered having GitHub projects as anything. If you have project(s) that seem useful and have let's say a hundred stars or more (rough signal assuming no foul play), I'll have a look. If you say you have meaningful contributions to projects with a thousand stars or more, I may have a look as well.

Now my bars are so massively higher, 99.95% of juniors who don't have pre-2024 work to show can forget about it.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-01-22 14:46:52+00:00
It's not just deprecation, it's systemic understatement. It drives non-British people insane because everyone is talking in code.

And some of the meaning is hidden in intonation.

If someone says "Interesting..." that can mean "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard" or "Might be worth a look, but not a priority right now." Or maybe "That's very suspicious."

"That's quite good" usually means "Very good, I like it!"
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-22 14:46:59+00:00
India is adding 2GW of solar every month, with 105GW currently in development pipelines. Of course it remains to be seen if they maintain that pace or accelerate.

Clean energy will continue to decline in cost, fossil fuels will not. Bookmark this subthread for a year from now :)

India adds record 35GW+ solar PV in 2025 - https://www.pv-tech.org/india-adds-record-35gw-solar-pv-in-2... - January 5th, 2026
by overfeed | 2026-01-22 14:47:01+00:00
> Which of course is a lot less polite and causes a lot of friction.

Most cultures have this, but it goes mostly unnoticed from the inside because one can read between the lines. "How are you?" can be asked just to be polite, and can cause friction when answered truthfully (rather than the politely, as the cultural dance requires). An Eastern European may not appreciate the insincerity of such a question.
by andai | 2026-01-22 14:47:21+00:00
Yesterday I asked ChatGPT to riff on a humorous Pompeii graffiti. It said it couldn't do that because it violated the policy.

But it was happy to tell me all sorts of extremely vulgar historical graffitis, or to translate my own attempts.

What was illegal here, it seemed, was not the sexual content, but creativity in a sexual context, which I found very interesting. (I think this is designed to stop sexual roleplay. Although I think OpenAI is preparing to release a "porn mode" for exactly that scenario, but I digress.)

Anyway, I was annoyed because I wasn't trying to make porn, I was just trying to make my friend laugh (he is learning Latin). I switched to Claude and had the opposite experience: shocked by how vulgar the responses were! That's exactly what I asked for, of course, and that's how it should be imo, but I was still taken aback because every other AI had trained me to expect "pg-13" stuff. (GPT literally started its response to my request for humorous sexual graffiti with "I'll keep it PG-13...")

I was a little worried that if I published the results, Anthropic might change that policy though ;)

Anyway, my experience with Claude's ethics is that it's heavily guided by common sense and context. For example, much of what I discuss with it (spirituality and unusual experiences in meditation) get the "user is going insane, initiate condescending lecture" mode from GPT. Whereas Claude says "yeah I can tell from context that you're approaching this stuff in a sensible way" and doesn't need to treat me like an infant.

And if I was actually going nuts, I think as far as harm reduction goes, Claude's approach of actually meeting people where they are makes more sense. You can't help someone navigate an unusual worldview by rejecting an entirely. That just causes more alienation.

Whereas blanket bans on anything borderline, comes across not as harm reduction, but as a cheap way to cover your own ass.

So I think Anthropic is moving even further in the right direction with this one. Focusing on deeper underlying principles, rather than a bunch of surface level rules. Just for my experience so far interacting with the two approaches, that definitely seems like the right way to go.

Just my two cents.

(Amusingly, Claude and GPT have changed places here — time was when for years I wanted to use Claude but it shut down most conversations I wanted to have with it! Whereas ChatGPT was happy to engage on all sorts of weird subjects. At some point they switched sides.)
by andsoitis | 2026-01-22 14:47:23+00:00
From: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/01/21/a...

"The fund’s managers stressed that the decision was not a reaction to America’s territorial threats to Greenland, a Danish territory, but a judgment on Washington’s rampant overspending.

The fund is certainly not ditching American stocks, which make up 60% of its holdings of listed equity. Its private-equity assets tilt similarly heavily to America. Of its high-yield bonds, American issuers account for an even larger share, almost 80%."

and

"Despite the Danish sale, foreigners own more American government bonds than ever."

and

"Even after the s&p 500 slid by 2% on January 20th, following another tariff threat from Donald Trump over Greenland (since withdrawn), American assets continue to attract investors."
by _bent | 2026-01-22 14:48:03+00:00
I think it would be better to defer the Workspace trust popup and immediately open in restricted mode; maybe add an icon for it in the bottom info bar & have certain actions notify the user that they'd have to opt in before they'd work.

Because right now you are triggering the cookie banner reflex where a user just instinctively dismisses any warnings, because they want to get on with their work / prevent having their flow state broken.

There should also probably be some more context in the warning text on what a malicious repo could do, because clearly people don't understand why are you are asking if you trust the authors.

And while you're at it, maybe add some "virus scanner" that can read through the repo and flag malicious looking tasks & scripts to warn the user. This would be "AI" based so surely someone could even get a job promotion out of this for leading the initiative :)
by cogman10 | 2026-01-22 14:48:12+00:00
I think the fact that the kids are alone and unsupervised basically all the time is what makes it so unsettling. You never see adults in the show. It's always just the same small group of kids. About the only adult interaction with the kids is through sticky notes.

I think that need and loneliness is also expressed in the show. Which is different from other kids shows which are more cartoony (Dexter's Laboratory, for example, though the adults do make appearances)
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-22 14:48:17+00:00
They didn't say "it's affordable so it's okay". They said "if it made it very affordable, then one could make an argument for it". And they're right. If you could reduce poverty by providing food at 1/2 or 1/5th the price of European-quality food, that would absolutely be worth having an argument over. Of course, this isn't actually the case, which is why they then said it's the worst of both worlds - American food manages to be both unhealthy and expensive rather than only one or the other.
by amirhirsch | 2026-01-22 14:48:35+00:00
I think I can hit #1. sub 900 not possible though.

Let me put down my thought process: You have to start to think of designing a 6-slot x8-len vector pipeline doing 48 hashes in parallel first which needs at least 10 steps —- if you convert three stages to multiply adds and do parallel XORs for the other three) —- the problem with 10 cycle hashing is you need to cram 96 scalar xors along side your vector pipeline, so that will use all 12 ALUs for 8 of those cycles. Leaving you only 24 more scalar ops per hash cycle which isn’t enough for the 48 tree value xors..

so you must use at least 11 steps per hash, with 96 xors (including the tree value xor) done in the scalar alus using 8 steps, and giving 3*12 Alu ops per hash cycle. You need 12 more ops per hash to do odd/even, so you must be 12 stages, and just do all of the hash ops in valu, 4 cycles of 12 alus doing modulo, 8 cycles x 12 alus free

With 12 steps and 48 parallel you’re absolute minimum could be 4096/48 x 12 = 1,024 cycles, since stage 10 can be optimized (you don’t need the odd/even modulo cycle, and can use some of those extra scalar cycles to pre-xor the constant can save you ~10 cycles. 1024 gonna be real hard, but I can imagine shenanigans to get it down to 1014 maybe sub-1000 possoble throwing more xor to the scalar alus.
by ETH_start | 2026-01-22 14:49:05+00:00
It takes real effort to maintain a solid understanding of the subject matter when using AI. That is the core takeaway of the study to me, and it lines up with something I have vaguely noticed over time. What makes this especially tricky is that the downside is very stealthy. You do not feel yourself learning less in the moment. Performance stays high, things feel easy, and nothing obviously breaks. So unless someone is actively monitoring their own understanding, it is very easy to drift into a state where you are producing decent-looking work without actually having a deep grasp of what you are doing. That is dangerous in the long run, because if you do not really understand a subject, it will limit the quality and range of work you can produce later. This means people need to be made explicitly aware of this effect, and individually they need to put real effort into checking whether they actually understand what they are producing when they use AI.

That said, I also think it is important to not get an overly negative takeaway from the study. Many of the findings are exactly what you would expect if AI is functioning as a form of cognitive augmentation. Over time, you externalize more of the work to the tool. That is not automatically a bad thing. Externalization is precisely why tools increase productivity. When you use AI, you can often get more done because you are spending less cognitive effort per unit of output.

And this gets to what I see as the study's main limitation. It compares different groups on a fixed unit of output, which implicitly assumes that AI users will produce the same amount of work as non-AI users. But that is not how AI is actually used in the real world. In practice, people often use AI to produce much more output, not the same output with less effort. If you hold output constant, of course the AI group will show lower cognitive engagement. A more realistic scenario is that AI users increase their output until their cognitive load is similar to before, just spread across more work. That dimension is not captured by the experimental design.