MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dust42 | 2026-01-14 12:52:22+00:00
I used 700W per H200 = 11.2 per 16 GPUs. I didn't include CPU and rest of the rack. So yours is a better approximation.

One has to keep in mind that the benchmark that was done is synthetic. This makes sense because it makes it reproducible but real world usage may differ - i.e. by the amount of context and the number of concurrent users. Also there are use cases where smaller models or smaller quants will do.

The key take away for me for this type of back of the envelope calculation is to get a good idea where we stand long term, i.e. when VC money stops subsidizing.

So for me $0.3 per 1M tokens for a decent model looks pretty good too. Seeing that OpenAI API charges $21 per 1M tokens for GPT-5.2 pro I was wondering what the real sustainable pricing is.
by Storment33 | 2026-01-14 12:52:36+00:00
> For the love of all that is holy, don’t let GitHub Actions
> manage your logic. Keep your scripts under your own damn
> control and just make the Actions call them!

I mean your problem was not `build.rs` here and Makefiles did not solve it, was your logic not already in `build.rs` which was called by Cargo via GitHub Actions?

The problem was the environment setup? You couldn't get CUE on Linux ARM and I am assuming when you moved to Makefiles you removed the need for CUE or something? So really the solution was something like Nix or Mise to install the tooling, so you have the same tooling/version locally & on CI?
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-14 12:52:40+00:00
I am going to push back here. I follow a variety of YouTubers, and I'm pretty sure that I have a parasocial relationship with most of them. I never heard the term before I watched a Tom Scott video about it. It made perfect sense me, and I saw it in myself. Literally, sometimes I talk to the screen, like we're in the room together. But it's only entertainment, and it's a fun way to "escape" after a long day at the office. I don't take it too seriously. Am I being exploited by a channel of funny people in their 20/30s who fix cars, or lift weights, or talk about relationship problems? I don't think so.
by romshark | 2026-01-14 12:52:58+00:00
> Is there something I'm missing? Why does this workstation need a ~$1000 motherboard and a ~$1000 Xeon CPU? Those two components alone cost more than either of my computers and seem like severe overkill.

Yes, as stated in the article, it probably could have been cheaper. But this setup is supposed to:

1. Run simulations and benchmarks of/on entire SCION topologies with multiple ASes.

2. Potentially grow beyond 25 Gbit/s into the 200 Gbit/s ranges (and more?).

3. Be available to me ASAP (can't wait months for it to arrive from China).

4. Potentially be used for CI/CD performance regression testing in the future.

The budget allowed a bit of headroom for the future.
by user34283 | 2026-01-14 12:53:03+00:00
To me it's completely baffling how people imagine that with human labor largely going obsolete, we will just stick with capitalism and all workers go hungry in some dystopian fantasy.

Many cynics seem to believe rich people are demons with zero consideration for their fellow humans.

Rich and powerful persons are still people just like you, and they have an interest in keeping the general population happy. Not to mention that we have democratic mechanisms that give power to the masses.

We will obviously transition to a system where most of us can live a comfortable life without working a full time job, and it's going to be great.
by pousada | 2026-01-14 12:53:16+00:00
Coca-Cola advertises itself as a “happiness machine” as something that brings people together, builds communities, creates love and friendship.

The latest slogan i can remember is “open happiness”.

I like fizzy sugar drinks as much as the next guy but Coca-Cola is not liquid happiness.

Edit: Dropbox marketing slogan is “for all things worth saving”
by downsplat | 2026-01-14 12:54:42+00:00
That sounds like the worst of possible worlds! At $WORK we're also on mysql, but I don't know what I would do without engine-specific queries.
For one, on complex JOINs, mysql sometimes gets the query plan spectacularly wrong, and even if it doesn't now, you can't be sure it won't in the future. So for many important queries I put the tables in the intended order and add a STRAIGHT_JOIN to future-proof it and skip query planner complexity.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-14 12:54:43+00:00
Would have been more inspirational if they kept nuclear and didn't sabotage the French initiatives. I'm in germany and paying close to 40ct a kwh, that's 2+ times what you'd pay in nuclear first countries like france or slovakia. And no matter how fast germany switches to renewable, it'll never make up for the past 50 years of fuck ups in term of CO2 emissions
Ask HN: What's your opinion on a VR/XR business?
by izwasm | 2026-01-14 12:55:43+00:00
A friend suggested that I join them in a VR/XR business, It’s not actually a formal business yet, the company hasn’t even been legally established, but they have developed a solution. He told me that three people have contacted him about buying the solution (though they didn’t want to pay all the fees), and one wanted a partnership. They haven’t done any marketing yet, but users are finding the website online.

I’ll join anyway, but I want to know what the market value is and what really makes a VR/XR business successful, one that could allow me to quit my job.
by wluer | 2026-01-14 12:55:44+00:00
I've been working on Moments (textmoments.com). It's a journaling app that you text instead of open.

I always had the same problem with journaling. My best thoughts always came to me at inconvenient times like when I was on the subway or with friends.

So about a year and a half ago I hacked together a journaling solution for myself. I set up a Twilio phone number, a server to receive the messages, logged the message to a txt file, and committed it to a GitHub repo. It was extremely simple, but it worked surprisingly well for me. The friction was low enough that I actually used it every day... and I had perfectly timestamped journal entries with full version control.

Over time I wanted photos and voice notes, plus a better way to visualize everything. So I rebuilt this it into something more robust that other people can actually use.
by Fsen | 2026-01-14 12:55:45+00:00
AI Hairstyle Changer is a web-based virtual hairstyle try-on tool.

Upload a clear selfie, pick a hairstyle preset, and generate a realistic result in seconds — before you commit to a haircut.

If you don’t want to upload your photo yet, you can start with built-in model images to preview styles and understand the prompt format.

Why it’s useful
- Avoid haircut regret by previewing styles on a face similar to yours.
- Explore a growing library of curated hairstyles without needing Photoshop skills.
- Keep results private by default — publish is optional.

How it works
1) Upload a selfie (or use built-in models).
2) Choose a hairstyle preset — it fills a strong default prompt.
3) Edit the prompt if you want — then click Generate.

Getting started
Sign in to get 3 free try-ons (no credit card required).

We’d love feedback from the community: which hairstyles should we add next, and what makes results feel the most realistic?
by acdha | 2026-01-14 12:56:13+00:00
> If their output is as a tech lead then even a 2x can provide an overall 10x increase through second order impact via their team.

This is something the 10x mythology tends to leave out: there are a vanishingly few people who are significantly above the 90th percentile in terms of individual productivity but if the discussion shifted to team dynamics, that’s where you can actually see really big gains by helping a larger group be more productive.
by kundan_s__r | 2026-01-14 12:56:15+00:00
A helpful way to learn this is to separate models, machines, and practice.

For computation models, the circuit model and measurement-based computation cover most real work. Aaronson’s Quantum Computing Since Democritus and Nielsen & Chuang explain why quantum differs from classical (interference, amplitudes, complexity limits).

For computers/architecture, think of qubits as noisy analog components and error correction as how digital reliability is built on top. Preskill’s NISQ notes are very clear here.

For programming, most work is circuit construction and simulation on classical hardware (Qiskit, Cirq). That’s normal and expected.

Beyond Shor, look at Grover, phase estimation, and variational algorithms—they show how quantum advantage might appear, even if it’s limited today.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-14 12:57:23+00:00
I think home made cottage production of tech (similar to Open source) might be an interesting proposition though. Like we as a community should support small tech more favourably than big tech and I think in many cases small tech is even more price competitive (while remaining sensibly and not burning/having VC money of course) as compared to large big tech which sometimes might be profitable in short term but they lock in.

Everything combined, I feel like its the time for a movement/ genuine support towards indie web or small tech (passionate people making software that they themselves want/wanted)
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-14 12:58:07+00:00
The best CI platforms let you "Rebuild with SSH" or something similar, and instead of having the cycle of "change > commit > push > wait > see results" (when you're testing CI specific stuff, not iterating on Makefiles or whatever, assuming most of it is scripts you can run both locally and in CI), you get a URL to connect to while the job is running, so you can effectively ensure manually it works, then just copy-paste whatever you did to your local sources.
by vintermann | 2026-01-14 12:58:13+00:00
Yeah, I have another horror story there. An old classmate of mine became a nationally well known jazz guitarist in my country (she regularly makes various foreign top ten lists in niche publications too.) Her albums were on Bandcamp, but I thought something seemed fishy so I asked her if that was really her. "I haven't heard of that but I have to ask the record company". It wasn't them.

It had been there for years and hundreds of people had paid for it.
by bodge5000 | 2026-01-14 12:58:21+00:00
> even SOTA AIs of today are subhuman at highly agentic tasks and long-horizon tasks

This sounds like a lot of the work engineers do as well, we're not perfect at it (though execs aren't either), but the work you produce is expected to survive long term, thats why we spend time accounting for edge cases and so on.

Case in point; the popularity of docker/containerization. "It works on my machine" is generally fine in the short term, you can replicate the conditions of the local machine relatively easily, but doing that again and again becomes a problem, so we prepare for that (a long-horizon task) by using containers.
by tim333 | 2026-01-14 12:58:31+00:00
I kind of agree with you but it's more complicated with the UK as Iran used to have a democratic government but in 1953 it was

>...overthrown in a coup d'état orchestrated by the United States (CIA) and the United Kingdom (MI6). A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran...(wikipedia)

Not our finest hour really.
by aurareturn | 2026-01-14 12:58:34+00:00
Sky-high credit card interest rates do not reflect supply and demand. Instead, they mostly reflect business practices that victimize consumers. As research reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York documents, credit card companies spend vast sums on marketing. Once they have pulled customers in, they then use their market power to charge exorbitant interest rates.

So why don't businesses offer an alternative with far lower interest rates and why haven't they replaced high credit card interest rates? It seems like a slam dunk business case if Paul Krugman is right here. No one wants to pay 20% credit card interest rates if they have a viable alternative that charges 7%.

My sense is that it is driven by supply and demand. There's are probably reasons why no other mainstream business can offer lower rates. Credit card interest payers are likely very risky borrowers so credit card companies need to have high interest rates.
by sensanaty | 2026-01-14 12:58:34+00:00
Yeah, I can't wait to buy some RAM for my PC! Oh, wait, the AI companies are buying up all the RAM sticks on the planet and driving up their prices to comical highs, surely these beacons of ethics and morality won't do the same with their services that are actively hemorrhaging Billions of dollars, they're providing these services to us out of the goodness of their black hearts and not any kind of monetary incentive after all!
by Fiveplus | 2026-01-14 12:58:35+00:00
Incredible! That contributor stat going to 146 people is super validating for the rust ecosystem. considering servo was the original "rewrite it in rust" project that basically birthed the language. Since memory safety is the bottleneck for every other legacy engine right now, is there any actual reason for embedded devices to keep using stripped-down webkit instead of switching to servo at this point?

ps: Those 2023 vs 2025 Google render screenshots are the best advertisement for Servo's parallel layout architecture I've seen in a while.
by babycheetahbite | 2026-01-14 12:58:43+00:00
This may be the most meaningful comment out of 1500+ currently.

No, they will go ahead and speak for an entire group of people...but at least you are safe from downvote into oblivion. The virtue signal meter is fully maxed on this one. To the credit of HN I am not seeing comments stating things in response like "I'm going to get a haircut and grab some dinner" that you find on Reddit.
by brabel | 2026-01-14 12:58:51+00:00
The differences you mentioned are advantageous for Gleam depending on what you want. Like, having to namespace symbols instead of implicitly importing symbols makes it explicit where things come from which is good. Needing main, same thing. But the big differences are that Gleam is both functional, so everything is immutable, and fully typed safe. Completely the opposite of Perl/Haku so comparing these languages makes zero sense. If you don’t need types or functional programming you probably would just never use Gleam.
by N-Krause | 2026-01-14 12:59:12+00:00
But the question still remains, why did Igalia pick up a dead project?

I doubt you'd invest that kind of money/time into a project without a good reason. I am not saying that ladybird or manifest v3 are the reason, I just notice a lot of new energy in the not-just-chrome category and wonder what the other reasons might be.

Andreas Kling is pretty open about his reasons to have started the ladybird project and I just know Servo from his monthly videos and a few other sidenotes, so I was surprised that it gained so much traction after being basically dead.
Show HN: Arche Resizer – a fast browser tool to resize images without uploads
by SRMohitkr | 2026-01-14 12:59:19+00:00
I built a small browser-based image resizer that runs entirely client-side, so images never leave your device.

It supports quick resizing, format conversion, and instant downloads with no signups or tracking.
Made mainly for

write the with -SR.Mohitkr
Show HN: Run LLMs in Docker for any language without prebuilding containers
by mheap | 2026-01-14 12:59:33+00:00
I've been looking for a way to run LLMs safely without needing to approve every command. There are plenty of projects out there that run the agent in docker, but they don't always contain the dependencies that I need.

Then it struck me. I already define project dependencies with mise. What if we could build a container on the fly for any project by reading the mise config?

I've been using agent-en-place for a couple of weeks now, and it's working great! I'd love to hear what y'all think
by theandrewbailey | 2026-01-14 12:59:53+00:00
> Bloom is a type of post processing (fullscreen) effect that makes the brightest objects on screen appear to glow. It can be a relatively expensive effect on lower-end hardware, such as VR headsets

Bloom was everywhere in games over 20 years ago. Is current VR hardware less powerful than what we had back then?
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-14 13:01:21+00:00
> How do you handle persistent state in your actions?

You shouldn't. Besides caching that is.

> All the options I could find for caching deps sounded so complicated.

In reality, it's fairly simple, as long as you leverage content-hashing. First, take your lock file, compute the sha256sum. Then check if the cache has an artifact with that hash as the ID. If it's found, download and extract, those are your dependencies. If not, you run the installation of the dependencies, then archive the results, with the ID set to the hash.

It really isn't more to it. I'm sure there are helpers/sub-actions/whatever Microsoft calls it, for doing all of this with 1-3 lines or something.
by Cheiree | 2026-01-14 13:02:41+00:00
You are not a failure. You are being dealt a bad hand, and that has happened to entire generations before you.

When external structure disappears, you must replace it with internal structure. Keep a fixed daily routine. Get up at the same time every day and go to bed at the same time every night, regardless of mood or circumstances. Plan for eight hours of sleep. Treat this as non-negotiable.

Take care of your body. Exercise regularly, even if it feels pointless at first. Eat properly. These are not self-help platitudes; they are basic maintenance requirements for keeping your mind functional under prolonged stress.

Be very strict with digital consumption. Doomscrolling and sulking are forms of digital procrastination and they actively worsen the situation. Before switching on the TV, unlocking your smartphone, or engaging with any social media, do 20 push-ups. Every time. If you cannot do push-ups, replace them with squats or another short physical exercise. The goal is to insert friction and break the automatic habit loop.

Do not lie to your friends about your situation. That usually makes things worse over time, not better. People talk, and they already know more than you think anyway.

If you cannot find a job in tech right now, apply to other jobs you can realistically get. Any job. Then become very good at it. Be dependable, knowledgeable, and reliable.

At the same time, actively look for better opportunities. Treat this as an ongoing process, not something that passively happens to you. Apply, network, learn, and reposition yourself continuously. Your loyalty is first to yourself, second to your family, and then to the people you care about, never to an employer. When you find a better opportunity, take it. Change jobs if needed. Repeat.

This is not a judgment on your abilities. It is a rational response to current conditions.
by geon | 2026-01-14 13:02:50+00:00
I moved because Ghostty feels just like the native terminal but allows me to set the color scheme. I have it set to match the vscode Monokai theme.

No, macos Terminal will not let you use whatever colors you like. It will helpfully adjust the colors you select to increase contrast. And it can't be disabled. It bugged me for years.
by clarionbell | 2026-01-14 13:03:06+00:00
That doesn't address the problem at all. Viking is connecting two grids together. This can help stabilize them in some scenarios. But much like in any other network, even if you have enough capacity almost everywhere, it doesn't matter, if you have a bottleneck on the path.

Existing grid has been built up with several high density sources, often very close to urban and industrial areas. Wind farms are, by their nature, neither of those.

There is enough material online about this issue. I'll gladly direct you to it.

https://electricalreview.co.uk/2024/09/20/survey-grid-connec...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp84yymxpjno

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68601354

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/ofgem-approves-37-bi...

As you can see, this isn't a new concern, and it isn't something I made up. Then something about delays:

https://www.thetimes.com/static/green-energy-net-zero-nation...
by upofadown | 2026-01-14 13:03:06+00:00
Classic Forth Dimensions article: Why Forth Isn't Slow

* https://www.forth.org/fd/FD-V06N5.pdf

Basically it is because Forth programs are fairly flat and don't go deep into subfunctions. So the interpreter overhead is not that great and the processor spends most of the time running the machine code that underlays the primitives that live at the bottom of the program.
by poulpy123 | 2026-01-14 13:03:39+00:00
Sorry but you misunderstand how things work.

Money is a tool that has no value by itself. Billionaires are billionaires because they get a much bigger part of the work their group is producing (the group can be one company, a region, a country or the whole world depending on how you see things). If AI does the work instead of people, it will change nothing for them.

You can be optimistic (it will self regulate and everyone will benefit from AI) or pessimistic (only the billionaire class will benefit from AI). But in any case, there will be no need to sell products or share if there is a class of artificial slaves that can replace workers
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-14 13:03:46+00:00
Another reason why US media is so dominant: It has the largest population of any English-majority speaking nation. Another thing: English is the second language for an large portion of people under 40 in the world.

I remember when I first learned about the size of the Japenese media market (TV, film, music). It is ENORMOUS. I could not understand how, as 99% of Japanese language speakers live in Japan. Then I realised that Japan is highly developed (wealthy) and has a huge internal market of ~120 million people.

> My daughter couldn't name a single actor even if she wanted to

I doubt it. You should ask her. If she is 10 years or older, she certainly has some favourites. If she has social media, ask her who she follows. I am sure there are a bunch of actors & actresses in her list. I'm not saying this to pass any judgement on you as a parent. Only that I doubt the authenticity of your statement.
by bob001 | 2026-01-14 13:03:48+00:00
"Senior". Looks like you've already made it a tenure and not output based pay system. Which I think proves exactly what people don't like about unions or those who push for them.

In an output based system the number of high level people is relatively small and terminal level is far from the top level. It doesn't take much for people to realize that there's little chance of them becoming an L8 so why shouldn't an L8 get paid less? Moreover in my experience people have little insight into the value those at higher levels provide so will consider them dead weight.
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-14 13:03:52+00:00
> It's rare for there to be little wind in the North Sea. It's only a couple days a month when it's below 1/3 capacity.

The expected load factor for offshore wind power is around 50%. Much better than onshore wind (~35%) but still far from perfect. You can compensate some part of it by installing more power than what you need, but then you must pay for the unused capacity (£1.5B paid last year).

> And it's negatively correlated with solar: a day that's both cloudy and low-wind is very rare.

A day maybe, but in winter night last up to 16 hours. And wind droughts can last more than two weeks.

> But it does happen, so you need backups. The good news is that natural gas backup generators are fairly cheap per peak megawatt

But they have limited flexibility: you can't turn it on and off easily and there's limited power modulation you can do. That's why France keeps its gas output relatively constant in winter and do the modulation with nuclear despite its marginal cost being lower than gas.

Renewable are an important leverage to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they are also really challenging to work with, far from the simplistic view people can have on the internet.