MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dlcarrier | 2026-01-28 04:29:42+00:00
I don't think this will be a quick transition.

Wayland has lots of potential, but it's far from ready to replace X11, especially in multitasking environments. XFCE is taking their time, because their community is more very concerned stability.

I predict that XFCE will default to X11 until Wayland has reached broad feature parity, then default to Wayland but keep X11 support until the last vestages of incompatibility are delt with.

There's no reason that this wouldn't be accepted by their community, and it should be lighter weight, in the end.
by fafac | 2026-01-28 04:29:55+00:00
I see that you later backed down from "no such EVs are currently manufactured", but for the record I've only driven 2 electric vehicles for a significant amount of time and they both have modes where you can absolutely coast with no regen. Polestar 2 and Mustang Mach-E. Perhaps you haven't driven enough vehicles yet to make such claims.
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by yasoob | 2026-01-28 04:30:47+00:00
Another personal example. I spent around a month last year in January on this application: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/salam-prayer-qibla-quran/id674...

I had never used Swift before that and was able to use AI to whip up a fairly full-featured and complex application with a decent amount of code. I had to make some cross-cutting changes along the way as well that impacted quite a few files and things mostly worked fine with me guiding the AI. Mind you this was a year ago so I can only imagine how much better I would fare now with even better AI models. That whole month was spent not only on coding but on learning Swift enough to fix problems when AI started running into circles and then learning about Xcode profiler to optimize the application for speed and improving perf.
by bsimpson | 2026-01-28 04:30:55+00:00
I wonder what adoption would actually look like.

It reminds me of Google Dart, which was originally pitched as an alternate language that enabled web programming in the style Google likes (strong types etc.). There was a loud cry of scope creep from implementors and undo market influence in places like Hacker News. It was so poorly received that Google rescinded the proposal to make it a peer language to JavaScript.

Granted, the interests point in different directions for security software v.s. a mainstream platform. Still, audiences are quick to question the motives of companies that have the scale to invest in something like making a net-new security runtime.
by CMay | 2026-01-28 04:32:44+00:00
You probably linked the wrong video, because the video you linked is not relevant.

> Nothing illegal about that at all.

The first thing I said is that it's not illegal.

> No reasonable court would find that the activists did anything wrong, while they certainly would find two federal employees ("officers") are culpable in the murder of one of those activists.

The videos don't show all the events leading up to the moment he was shot, but multiple federal laws were broken just in the videos we do have. Murder has a specific definition and nothing here suggests murder.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-28 04:32:50+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 quotemstr | 2026-01-28 04:35:13+00:00
People demonize attestation. They should keep in mind that far from enslaving users, attestation actually enables some interesting, user-beneficial software shapes that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Hear me out.

Imagine you're using a program hosted on some cloud service S. You send packets over the network; gears churn; you get some results back. What are the problems with such a service? You have no idea what S is doing with your data. You incur latency, transmission time, and complexity costs using S remotely. You pay, one way or another, for the infrastructure running S. You can't use S offline.

Now imagine instead of S running on somebody else's computer over a network, you run S on your computer instead. Now, you can interact with S with zero latency, don't have to pay for S's infrastructure, and you can supervise S's interaction with the outside world.

But why would the author of S agree to let you run it? S might contain secrets. S might enforce business rules S's author is afraid you'll break. Ordinarily, S's authors wouldn't consider shipping you S instead of S's outputs.

However --- if S's author could run S on your computer in such a way that he could prove you haven't tampered with S or haven't observed its secrets, he can let you run S on your computer without giving up control over S. Attestation, secure enclaves, and other technologies create ways to distribute software that otherwise wouldn't exist. How many things are in the cloud solely to enforce access control? What if they didn't have to be?

Sure, in this deployment model, just like in the cloud world, you wouldn't be able to run a custom S: but so what? You don't get to run your custom S either way, and this way, relative to cloud deployment, you get better performance and even a little bit more control.

Also, the same thing works in reverse. You get to run your code remotely in a such a way that you can trust its remote execution just as much as you can trust that code executing on your own machine. There are tons of applications for this capability that we're not even imagining because, since the dawn of time, we've equated locality with trust and can now, in principle, decouple the two.

Yes, bad actors can use attestation technology to do all sorts of user-hostile things. You can wield any sufficiently useful tool in a harmful way: it's the utility itself that creates the potential for harm. This potential shouldn't prevent our inventing new kinds of tool.
Ask HN: Reviewable Map Like Yelp
by NgoStudio | 2026-01-28 04:35:27+00:00
Do you guys think there is a point and usage for Map that help drivers and pedestrians to not only optimize routes, but they can also review the locations that they'd been to. For example, an Uber driver who makes only $3 per order got tip-baiting at an address known for doing that; or a homeowner with an aggressive dog; a homeowner who often neglected his driveway and lawn; or police records etc.
by dlcarrier | 2026-01-28 04:35:49+00:00
This bullet point from the reason to chose one library over another is a prime example of what I love about XFCE:

• smithay has great documentation.

Not only are they considering it, but they're expressly calling it out. I'm convinced that the publication of the Agile Manifesto was an exercise in Cunningham's Law, and to that end the XFCE team has produced something great by doing the opposite.
by amluto | 2026-01-28 04:35:58+00:00
I’ve actually found the tool that inspires the most worry about brain atrophy to be Copilot. Vscode is full of flashing suggestions all over. A couple days ago, I wanted to write a very quick program, and it was basically impossible to write any of it without Copilot suggesting a whole series of ways to do what it thought I was doing. And it seems that MS wants this: the obvious control to turn it off is actually just “snooze.”

I found the setting and turned it off for real. Good riddance. I’ll use the hotkey on occasion.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-28 04:36:21+00:00
Why do I want authors to keep writing commercially? Books get worse every year, and there is more than a lifetime of great literature even from 500 years ago. Lack of books is just about the last thing I'd consider a problem. This hasn't anything to do with your original point of summarizing books with AI, which is silly.

>I'm an average Joe, who wants to live an average Joe's life, but it's being taken away from me

Literally nothing has been taken from you. Go read the book.
by tombert | 2026-01-28 04:37:17+00:00
I'm far too lazy to go to a big protest or do anything terribly interesting, but at this point I'd be lying if I said I wasn't afraid publicly criticizing this administration. Palantir is weird and creepy and has infinite resources to aggregate anything that the government wants, and they could be building a registry of people who they're going to deem as "terrorist-leaning" or some such nonsense.

It's not hard to find long posts of me calling the people in the Trump administration "profoundly stupid", with both my "tombert" alias and my real name [1]. I'm not that worried because if Palantir has any value they would also be able to tell that I'm deeply unambitious with these things, but it's still something that concerns me a bit.

[1] Not that hard to find but I do ask you do not post it here publicly.
by collingreen | 2026-01-28 04:38:14+00:00
Omg no. Don't move clickable things suddenly under my mouse that weren't there when I picked where to put my cursor.

I absolutely detest systems like this that break my current mode because they guess I might want shovelin something else as a new mode. Even if you get it right 9 times out of 10 I find it so disruptive. Somehow it makes me feel like the system is -untrustworthy-.

Grain of salt though - I tend to take a power use stance on things and want my tools to augment what I'm trying to do instead of do things on my behalf.
by ithkuil | 2026-01-28 04:39:28+00:00
Don't worry. This will create the demand for even more powerful models that are able to untangle the mess created by previous models.

Once we realize the kind of mess _those_ models created, well, we'll need even more capable models.

It's a variation on the theme of Kernighan insight about the more "clever" you are while coding the harder it will be to debug.

EDIT: Simplicity is a way out but it's hard under normal circumstances, now with this kind of pressure to ship fast because the colleague with the AI chimp can outperform you, aiming at simplicity will require some widespread understanding
by nemothekid | 2026-01-28 04:39:41+00:00
>I had the thought that you ought be able to provide a cargo doc or rust-analyzer equivalent over MCP? This... must exist?

I've found that there are two issues that arise that I'm not sure how to solve. You can give it docs and point to it and it can generally figure out syntax, but the next issue I see is that without examples, it kind of just brute forces problems like a 14 year old.

For example, the input system originally just let you move left and right, and it popped it into an observer function. As I added more and more controls, it began to litter with more and more code, until it was ~600 line function responsible for a large chunk of game logic.

While trying to parse it I then had it refactor the code - but I don't know if the current code is idiomatic. What would be the cargo doc or rust-analyzer equivalent for good architecture?

Im running into this same problem when trying to claude code for internal projects. Some parts of the codebase just have really intuitive internal frameworks and claude code can rip through them and provide great idiomatic code. Others are bogged down by years of tech debt and performance hacks and claude code can't be trusted with anything other than multi-paragraph prompts.

>I'm also curious how you test if the game is, um... fun?

Lucky enough for me this is a learning exercise, so I'm not optimizing for fun. I guess you could ask claude code to inject more fun.
by al_borland | 2026-01-28 04:39:44+00:00
This isn’t Bill Gates’ ideas. Andrew Yang ran for president in 2020 with UBI funded by taxing AI as one of his primary campaign promises. No one seemed to care or understand, because it was still a couple years before ChatGPT launched.

If UBI is the answer (and I’m not convinced that it is), it seems like it would have been a really good idea to get all the systems in place for taxing AI and distributing funds when it was very small. Trying to do it now that these companies have billions invested and people are already seeing job losses, will be a nightmare.
by CMay | 2026-01-28 04:40:39+00:00
They don't necessarily know that's the only gun he had and the officers aren't Neo, seeing every camera angle at once. What you see from your outside perspective is not what they see. They have to act based on the information they have, which is why it's important you listen to law enforcement for your own safety. All the whistles make that harder, which might be part of the point.
by ianburrell | 2026-01-28 04:40:39+00:00
That destroys any possibility of finding out if there was or is life on other planets. Life that would be better evolved to handle the conditions.

It is also unlikely to do anything. The conditions are well beyond anything on Earth. Mars is near vacuum; life has survived in vacuum but didn't grow. Titan has liquid organics, but is really cold and microorganisms don't really handle hydrocarbons.
by ch4s3 | 2026-01-28 04:41:03+00:00
I can make the same argument. Functional “medicine” quacks order loads of unnecessary blood tests with no diagnostic power to sell you supplements. I actually know someone who was was injured by one of those “supplements” after such a blood test.

No I’m saying for most people there’s more noise than signal and iatrogenesis is real. Pretending it’s not is foolish.
by snvzz | 2026-01-28 04:41:40+00:00
Instead of everybody switching to LibreSSL, we had the Linux Foundation reward OpenSSL's incompetence with funding.

We are still suffering from that mistake, and LibreSSL is well-maintained and easier to migrate to than it ever was.

What the hell are we waiting for?

Is nobody at Debian, Fedora or Ubuntu able to step forward and set the direction?
by MrToadMan | 2026-01-28 04:42:15+00:00
What if while you were eating a cheeseburger, McDonald’s was magically replenishing that burger so that no matter how much you kept eating there was still some left. Moreover you had little control over the ratios of fat and sugar used to replenish it and they earned more the longer you spent eating it. Would you consider them harming you if they were prioritising stuffing it with ingredients that maximised the amount you ate and ignored sensible limits on sugar and fat?
by snvzz | 2026-01-28 04:43:55+00:00
Instead of everybody switching to LibreSSL, we had the Linux Foundation reward OpenSSL's incompetence with funding.

We are still suffering from that mistake, and LibreSSL is well-maintained and easier to migrate to than it ever was.

What the hell are we waiting for?

Is nobody at Debian, Fedora or Ubuntu able to step forward and set the direction?
by mrandish | 2026-01-28 04:44:02+00:00
Unfortunately, the author confuses the broadcast Skycam with the All-22 views. They aren't the same thing and the All-22 cameras aren't even controlled by the television production (although they are available to it).

Per NFL league rules it is the responsibility of the home team to supply the All-22 camera feeds to the league. They are usually operated by the home team's stadium video crew. The All-22 viewpoints are from overhead and from each end zone. These cameras are also the source of the still frames sent wirelessly to the sideline tablets you see players and coaches referring to during games (by rule, there is no motion video or real-time imagery sent to these tablets, just two time-delayed stills for each play, showing the moment the ball is snapped and the moment the whistle is blown ending the play).

The Skycam(s) are moving remote cameras operated by the broadcast production and suspended on four wires. They are usually moving around, panning and zooming - which the All-22 cameras never do. There are sometimes two Skycams in major playoff games and the Super Bowl (high and low).

In the last year the NFL has added 32 4K and 8K fixed-view cameras to each league stadium to support enhanced replay review by referees. They provide fixed views down each sideline from either end and across the goal-line from each side. Their replay feeds are viewable by the replay referee who sits in a sky box above the field, as well as sent to the league's NYC broadcast center in real-time. They are also made available to the broadcast production team. They are also used for the new virtual measurement system and for skeletal tracking data which you may see in CGI replays during a game (https://www.sportsvideo.org/2025/11/20/nfl-deep-dive-how-32-...).
by germinalphrase | 2026-01-28 04:44:13+00:00
“ If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both”
by fulafel | 2026-01-28 04:44:43+00:00
We don't know how to secure C codebases by manual review. It's been well known to security engineering people for decades. And has been wider industry and academic consensus for a long time. It's like "is man-made climate change real".

(We don't know how to secure other codebases either, but C is harder since its memory safety story is like a chainsaw juggling act so code has classes of vulnerabilities that other languages don't and this eats a lot of the attention).
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-28 04:44:53+00:00
My comment was not a personal attack. But I can rephrase it if you want it more in the spirit of the guidelines. Here we go:

I'm interested in what Amutable is building, but I'm personally uneasy about Lennart Poettering being involved. This isn't about denying his technical ability or past impact. My concern is more about the social/maintenance dynamics that have repeatedly shown up around some of the projects he's led in the Linux ecosystem - highly centralizing designs, big changes quickly landing in core technology, and the kind of communication/governance style that at times left downstream maintainers and parts of the community feeling steamrolled rather than brought along. I've watched enough of those cycles to be wary when the same leadership style shows up again, especially in something that might become infrastructure people depend on.

To keep this constructive: for folks who've followed his work more closely than I have, do you think those past community frictions were mostly a function of the environment (big distro politics, legacy constraints, etc), or are they intrinsic to how he approaches projects? And for people evaluating Amutable today, what signals would you look for to distinguish "strong technical leadership" from "future maintenance and ecosystem headaches" ?

If anyone from the company is reading, I'd be genuinely reassured by specifics like:
- a clear governance/decision process (who can say "no", how major changes are reviewed)
- a commitment to compatibility and migration paths (not just "it's better, switch")
- transparent security and disclosure practices
- a plan for collaboration with downstream parties and competitors (standards, APIs, interop)

I realize this is partly subjective. I’m posting because I expect I'm not the only one weighing "technical upside" against "community cost," and I'd like to hear how others are thinking about it.

If you don't think that's a community opinion, it's at least an AI's opinion, since all I prompted it with was "rewrite my comment to follow the HN guidelines"
by snvzz | 2026-01-28 04:45:02+00:00
Instead of everybody switching to LibreSSL, we had the Linux Foundation reward OpenSSL's incompetence with funding.

We are still suffering from that mistake, and LibreSSL is well-maintained and easier to migrate to than it ever was.

What the hell are we waiting for?

Is nobody at Debian, Fedora or Ubuntu able to step forward and set the direction?
by fy20 | 2026-01-28 04:45:18+00:00
At my dayjob my team uses it on our main dashboard, which is a pretty large CRUD application. The frontend (Vue) is a horrible mess, as it was originally built by people who know just enough to be dangerous. Over time people have introduced new standards without cleaning up the old code - for example, we have three or four different state management techologies.

For this the LLM struggles a bit, but so does a human. The main issues are it messes up some state that it didnt realise was used elsewhere, and out test coverage is not great. We've seen humans make exactly the same kind of mistakes. We use MCP for Figma so most of the time it can get a UI 95% done, just a few tweaks needed by the operator.

On the backend (Typescript + Node, good test coverage) it can pretty much one-shot - from a plan - whatever feature you give it.

We use opus-4.5 mostly, and sometimes gpt-5.2-codex, through Cursor. You aren't going to get ChatGPT (the web interface) to do anything useful, switch to Cursor, Codex or Claude Code. And right now it is worth paying for the subscription, you don't get the same quality from cheaper or free models (although they are starting to catch up, I've had promising results from GLM-4.7).
by rurp | 2026-01-28 04:45:20+00:00
I have deliberately moderated my use of AI in large part for this reason. For a solid two years now I've been constantly seeing claims of "this model/IDE/Agent/approach/etc is the future of writing code! It makes me 50x more productive, and will do the same for you!" And inevitabely those have all fallen by the wayside and been replaced by some new shiny thing. As someone who doesn't get intrinsic joy out of chasing the latest tech fad I usually move along and wait to see if whatever is being hyped really starts to take over the world.

This isn't to say LLMs won't change software development forever, I think they will. But I doubt anyone has any idea what kind of tools and approaches everyone will be using 5 or 10 years from now, except that I really doubt it will be whatever is being hyped up at this exact moment.
by yojat661 | 2026-01-28 04:45:47+00:00
With the llm, it might work or it might not. If it doesn't work, then you have to keep iterating and hand holding it to make it work. Sometimes that process is less optimal than writing the code manually. With a calculator, you can be sure that the first attempt will work. An idiot with a calculator can still produce correct results. An idiot with an llm often cannot outside trivial solutions.
by scheeseman486 | 2026-01-28 04:46:03+00:00
It isn't equivelent in the sense that the progressive scanout on CRTs resulted in near-zero latency and with minimal image persistance, versus flat panels which are global refresh adding latency and worsening motion clarity. So it isn't really a "but", it's a "made even better by being rendered only one pixel/dot at a time".