MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pixl97 | 2026-01-11 20:45:23+00:00
Environmental factors can be very picky on what gets attacked and what doesn't.

In one of the oddest losses of a pair of shoes, I had fire ants break into my closet and eat the foam rubber out of one pair of extra lite running shoes. Turned the damned things to swiss cheese. Nothing else was messed with. They didn't want leather or rubber, just whatever those shoes were made of.
by IceHegel | 2026-01-11 20:45:23+00:00
I despise Facebook and all that it stands for, but if the surplus value that it has extracted from humanity over the last two decades is reinvested intelligently into nuclear energy, I'm actually okay with it.

Despite the hype that you see on Twitter, the hard tech startup scene is actually incapable of large-scale engineering coordination on the level needed for a nuclear power plant, or even a gas turbine.

If any innovation on fission reactors is going to be successfully commercialized, we will need to see billions of dollars of investment over medium to long time horizons.

Of course, the millstone around the neck of nuclear power is that it's a dual-use technology. There's probably a lot more behind the scenes that's been done to stifle the industry effectively for non-proliferation reasons, but masquerading as cost, regulatory problems, environmental concerns, etc.
by AlienRobot | 2026-01-11 20:45:42+00:00
>desktop Linux still has rough edges for some use cases, hardware support isn’t always perfect, and niche professional software may lack native support or require workarounds

Personally, I believe the REAL problem is the rough edges WITH Linux.

Hardware support? You can blame manufacturers for not supporting Linux. Software support? Same.

But if you use a Linux software made for Linux by Linux users and it just feels inconvenient, non-intuitive, buggy, and mentally painful to use, you're going to think that Linux is full of bad software. Because it doesn't matter if you use X11 or Wayland under the hood, you try to drag and drop an icon from the start menu to the desktop or vice-versa and that only works in some DEs. You try to drag and drop an image from Chrome to the file manager, and that doesn't always work. You try to click the close button and sometimes there is a few pixels of padding at the top so you can't close the window on first try.

This isn't Nvidia's fault, or Adobe's fault, or Microsoft's fault. It's just Linux.
by macbem | 2026-01-11 20:45:51+00:00
I had an XPS 9560 / 9570 or something like that. Top of the line spec, mind you.

It had a Killer WLAN network card that would frequently disconnect from wifi on any OS - so much that I had to switch it out to a different one. The speakers blew up within the first year and the cooling system had to be replaced too - thankfully warranty covered that.

I bought the XPS only because I couldn't justify the cost of a Macbook Pro back then (easily 30% more expensive and the XPS was already a stretch), but I regretted that since the first day I've had it. Bulky, unpleasant to use, frequent hardware issues. Never again.
by osigurdson | 2026-01-11 20:46:02+00:00
Thanks! Is it that you can't see the graph view at all? It uses DeckGL which might be a bit too fancy and may not work on all browsers possibly. It works on Chrome/Safari on my iPhone and Chrome on Arch.

I didn't realize that you actually could provide a working link back to Hacker News but it seems HN does support that. Thanks, I will give that a try!
by rgovostes | 2026-01-11 20:46:37+00:00
> Slow motion videos are also not proprietary, they’re just a plain video file.

I haven't looked into the implementation details, but Photos lets you adjust the section of the video that is played back in slow motion. I thought if you share a slow-mo video, it gets re-encoded to bake this in (i.e., one second at 240fps gets exported as four seconds at 60fps).
by straumat | 2026-01-11 20:46:49+00:00
I’m building a Java stack for the x402 protocol. I believe today’s payment systems are unnecessarily broken and overly complex. I really like the idea of a protocol that could simplify this space while remaining truly open and not “owned” by anyone—meaning anyone can use it without needing authorization from the protocol’s creator.

It’s fully open source: https://mogami.tech
by epistasis | 2026-01-11 20:47:22+00:00
Since you say ALARA made things expensive, maybe you can tell me how you foresee cheaper designs without it?

There's a lot of talk and some very shady science about getting rid of ALARA but nobody says what will change on the build that is causing the cost. Meanwhile China has adopted the same designs as in the West, without abandoning ALARA.

Those who advocate for changing ALARA see to be mostly trying to shift the Overton window on the public opinion of radiation rather than trying to pursue engineering and cost goals. I hope I am wrong on that!
by Aurornis | 2026-01-11 20:47:37+00:00
> We were seeing average 88% memory usage

My 64GB MacBook Pro sits around that level after using it for a while, too. So do my Windows and Linux machines even with different amounts of RAM.

There's a popular page explaining it for Linux, but it's applicable to every OS: https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

Isolated RAM usage numbers aren't useful because spare memory is used for caching. Even if you are using 88% of the RAM, that's not indicative of a problem unless you're encountering a lot of swapping. Even swapping a little bit isn't bad if it's not stalling the machine out. You have to look at actual performance, not RAM usage percentages.
by mannanj | 2026-01-11 20:47:41+00:00
In regards to the space ship that people see, I've seen photos of some Egyptian pyramid hieroglyphs myself, I hear this often "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"

This stupendous gaslighting mirrors what I took away early in this article. It used several Appeal to Authority and Epistemic Invalidation and is quite clearly pathetic. Hard to read the clearly biased claims.
by oblio | 2026-01-11 20:47:56+00:00
LOL, that's so much worse than I imagined.

I know we want to turn everything into a rental economy aka the financialization of everything, but this is just super silly.

I hope we're 2-3 years away, at most, from fully open source and open weights models that can run on hardware you can buy with $2000 and that can complete most things Opus 4.5 can do today, even if slower or that needs a bit more handholding.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-11 20:48:00+00:00
I'd be willing to shell out for a new license if they need that for making a Linux version... I guess next step is to fund some FOSS developer to actually add support for it to Wine, by force if must be :P Wonder if there is some way for developers to raise money for adding support for specific software to Wine? Might not be such a a bad idea.
by willmarch | 2026-01-11 20:48:28+00:00
Just so HN can see what was later edited out, here’s the earlier “mask off” version you posted:

> Congratulations, you saw my earlier versions. They were much less kind, because you're frankly rather a dishonest and unlikable human being of a particular sort that I think our country and society would be better without, and my lesser nature originally won out. Post the screenshots if you like, I can't imagine why you think I'd care.

> Violence isn't criticism. And yes, if you try to run over law enforcement, that's violence by which one will absolutely ‘FAFO’.

> Dress up your extremism however you like. We're not engaging in debate on the battlefield of your choosing, we're enacting and enforcing the law on our terms. If you don't like it, vote.

> If you choose to instead support the kind of hysteria and lawless violence that led to that women's death, the obvious and natural consequences are on your head.

For the record: I’m not advocating violence against anyone. What I’m pointing out is that “society would be better without people like you” and “we’re not engaging in debate… enforcing the law on our terms” is not a defense of the rule of law, it’s contempt for pluralism dressed up as seriousness.

The American project (very explicitly influenced by Enlightenment liberalism) doesn’t rest on “our terms,” loyalty tests, or treating dissent as culpable. It rests on the opposite: argument, equal rights, due process, and state power constrained by transparent rules and oversight. When someone’s instinct is to skip debate and sanctify enforcement, that isn’t “law and order.” It’s the anti-Enlightenment impulse the Constitution was designed to restrain.

If you want to defend policy, do that: cite the authority and justify the scope. If you want to argue that disagreement itself is illegitimate and that enforcement answers to “our terms,” then you’re not defending America, you’re arguing against the principles it was founded to protect.
by araes | 2026-01-11 20:48:56+00:00
After reading through the Shopify website, this story's confusing. This is kind of what Shopify advertises. Like, it's basically their service.

Initially read this, and thought they were some other retailer with quasi-direct sales, and Amazon was scraping, and then listing stuff like it was on Amazon. Yet, Shopify from [1] and [2]:

[1] https://www.shopify.com/marketing

[2] https://www.shopify.com/channels

Their spiel is "Unify your marketing ... all from one place." and then they go on to list Target, Walmart, eBay, and ... "Amazon". (also Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat) "Sell everywhere people scroll, search, and shop"

It's literally their business. That's what you pay them to do. "Sync your product catalog to the leading marketplaces, then easily manage and fulfill every order in one central place."

Couple things that are "maybe" honestly wrong. Maybe opted out of Amazon as a partner, inside Shopify? Also, inventory not actually being updated and communicated to Shopify / Amazon correctly?

The way this site reads it seems like you could find out you have some influencer spokesperson and your products are on Walmart shelves somewhere and not even realize it.
by tombert | 2026-01-11 20:48:59+00:00
And I'm saying that that hasn't historically been the case.

There are plenty of quarries that effectively condemned land that destroyed entire ecosystems because of greedy mineral companies. Pretty much anyone using this forum is using a product that was produced by unethical and/or child labor. We're already seeing negative effects from climate change, effecting many, many people, and it's likely to get worse before it gets better.

You could argue that these systems benefit some people; I certainly benefit from having cheap electronics, but of course you can always cherry pick good examples from pretty much anything. This is with the current system that we built.

Now sure, there might be some hypothetical system that maybe fixes these problems, but due to the use of the word "evidence" in the comment I was responding to I didn't think we were talking political theory.
by mbullington | 2026-01-11 20:49:15+00:00
Go Mike! Been seeing his progress for a while on Bluesky, I knew exactly (and who) what this was when I saw it on HN.

I was rendering-curious when we overlapped together at Figma. Mike was super patient and giving with his time, answering all my dumb questions and aiding with my Maker Week projects. Excited to see him take on something so ambitious next.
by faust201 | 2026-01-11 20:49:21+00:00
This is only for people that know choices.

We at out Uni provide default Ubuntu installs on laptops. Most people just live with whatever UI.

I have a feeling that many have stopped configuring, themeing etc. those only from 80s to 2000 were just spending lots of time building and creating many themes like matrix etc.

Also people are so addicted to smartphone. That is the main place for their heart.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-01-11 20:50:04+00:00
Your own link says

Survival rates for ESRD are higher in Europe than the U.S. This could be explained by the inferiority of national standards of care, a higher prevalence of patients with diabetes and differences in practice patterns.

Let's look at actual journals

For those with ESKD onset from 2004 to 2008, unadjusted 5-year survival of all patients with ESKD (treated with dialysis or transplantation) was 41% in the USA, 48% in Europe, and 60% in Japan, despite patients being 2–3 years older on average in Europe and Japan than in the USA, and Japan having very few transplant patients.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

The US had a much higher KRT incidence, prevalence, and mortality compared to Europe, and despite a higher kidney transplantation rate, a lower proportion of prevalent patients with a functioning graft.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38439701/
by GrowingSideways | 2026-01-11 20:50:17+00:00
Eh. Most costs that matter scale to relative wealth, and inequality scales accordingly, and we have more homeless people than any rich country on earth, and we have no community worth mentioning. This is, in most ways, the worst country on earth to be poor in. If i were poor I'd kill myself too.

Perhaps there's another place where poverty is a greater curse, though. But I would rather be poor in Burundi or Tajikistan or Haiti than Ohio.
by accidentallfact | 2026-01-11 20:50:28+00:00
Pretty much all such claims can be easily dismissed by pointing out that such advances

1. Can obviously be made

2. Can be made very fast

There is simply no reason why major advancements in metallurgy couldn't have been made between 4453 and 4382BC, completely unknown to us, and later forgotten.

If fact, it's a mystery why we can't see more of such ancient artifacts, if anything.

The article doesn't even go far enough by blaming the oiling on some accidental dumb ritual, while it used to be common knowledge that iron can be protected from rusting by oiling it, and it was done completely on purpose.
by dpark | 2026-01-11 20:50:28+00:00
I feel like this is a forest for the trees kind of thing.

It is implied that the code being created is for “capabilities”. If your AI is churning out needless code, then sure, that’s a bad thing. Why would you be asking the AI for code you don’t need, though? You should be asking it for critical features, bug fixes, the things you would be coding up regardless.

You can use a hammer to break your own toes or you can use it to put a roof on your house. Using a tool poorly reflects on the craftsman, not the tool.
by k_bx | 2026-01-11 20:50:36+00:00
Main priority would be the editor itself to be similar to Obsidian (with links etc.) but maybe better, Obsidian is annoying for example when you edit a TODO list (which is 99% of the time for me), go to the beginning of the line, then press down to go to the next item -- Obsidian jumps into position between "- [ ] " and "item text", instead of staying at line beginning. Long story short, many small details to make this right.
Show HN: Chr2 – consensus for side effects (exactly-once is a lie)
by yousef06 | 2026-01-11 20:50:39+00:00
Most consensus libraries (Raft, Paxos) treat the state machine as a pure black box. This is fine until your state machine needs to actually do something, like charge a credit card, fire a webhook, or send an email.

If a leader crashes after the side effect but before committing it, you get duplicates. This is my attempt at fixing this problem from first principles ish: build chr2 to make crash-safe side effects first-class citizens.

mechanism:

Replicated Outbox: Side effects are stored as "pending" in replicated state. Only the leader executes them under a fencing token.

Durable Fencing: A manifest persists the highest view using atomic tmp+fsync+rename. This ensures a "zombie" leader can't wake up and double-execute stale effects.

Deterministic Context: Application code receives a deterministic RNG seed and block_time from the log, ensuring 1:1 state transitions during replay.

Strict WAL: Entries are CRC’d and hash chained. it is designed to prefer halting on mid-log corruption over guessing.

The Trade-offs: Side effects are intentionally at-least-once; "exactly-once" requires stable effect IDs for sink-side deduplication. It’s a CP system safety over availability.

Repo: https://github.com/abokhalill/chr2

if you’ve ever had “exactly once” collapse the first time a leader died mid flight, you know exactly why I built this.
by notme43 | 2026-01-11 20:50:43+00:00
Yes - still use emerge on the Thinkpad like I would on the host, like emerge -avuDN @world and such. This is the wiki article [1] I used to set up most the portage side of things, it covers NFS as well.

I use NFS to mount the container's /etc/portage to /mnt/portage and symlink the files to the Thinkpad's /etc/portage so I can cherry pick the files I want to keep in sync with the build container. Don't have to mess with repos.conf either because portage will look to /var/cache/binpkgs by default.

make.conf is a directory on both machines and has files like 01-common-flags.conf and 02-binhost-flags.conf. The Thinkpad has 01-common-flags.conf and 03-target-flags.conf with EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=n --usepkgonly" set, so running emerge -avuDN on the Thinkpad will only update with binaries from the mounted /var/cache/binpkgs. I keep the software in sync by using /etc/portage/sets instead of the world file. Then all the package.* dirs are symlinks as well.

The Thinkpad binhost is a znver3, so the build container has CFLAGS="--march=x86-64-v3 --mtune=alderlake" set. There's some SIMD extensions that two don't have in common and it has to build code that runs on both machines, otherwise you could use the target architecture in --march. Using the --mtune option in my case apparently sets the L2 cache size of the produced code to that of the Intel chip.

Systemd-nspawn containers are super easy to spin up, as you basically install Gentoo from stage3 and it works like a chroot but with a full init. I run updates irregularly, there's still some manual effort for maintenance, but it's mostly just kicking off emerge and letting it build in a tmux session.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide
by gary_0 | 2026-01-11 20:51:11+00:00
Early to mid 00's was peak Moore's Law. Every year left last year's computers on the curb. Graphics hardware acceleration and programmable shaders were expanding their capabilities in ungainly leaps and bounds. Every new piece of popular hardware wasn't just the marketing number going up, it was Christmas for software. You didn't need 100+ devs to compete in the big leagues. And yeah there were a lot of moody FPS games, but I can't describe the delight of first seeing a Katamari Damacy or a Portal. It was a time of untilled earth and unplucked fruit.
by whydoineedthis | 2026-01-11 20:51:17+00:00
They started slapping my kids hands, forcibly shoving him back in his chair, and grabbing my kids face and torquing his neck. Jon Paul Saunders, a leader in ABA, swore up and down 'this is the best in ABA'. When I looked at the data, my kid had all but stopped screaming/crying with other RBT's, but was more than double the crying/screaming with the rbt's doing the slap, push, face yank teqnique.

At this point, my son had done 18 months of ABA and was being used to train new RBT's (high turnover field of course). The prescribed hitting was creating behavioral problems at home, but was being used to justify extensive hours of ABA.

I dont think a profit driven model is great for these kids.
by satisfice | 2026-01-11 20:51:22+00:00
1. It does not necessarily provide any feedback that you understand as such. You can THINK you are pushing of the door perfectly straight, while it is actually SILENTLY re-aligning the force along the plane of the slot. The only feedback you are getting is that the door is opening or not opening, you aren't getting feedback about the how the slot is "making judgements."

2. It seems to me you have arbitrarily used applied the word "judgement" here rather than basing your usage on a rigorous operational definition. You don't define "raw intent", either, or what it means to "override" it. I suggest you read The Shape of Actions, if you haven't already. It is an example of how to make clean distinctions. Harry Collins distinguishes between mimeomorphic and polimorphic actions in a way that clarifies what can and cannot be automated.

3. You haven't defined "ontological deception" and the term does not make sense to me on its face. It's not a term of art that is in common use. Remaining sovereign simply has to do with having a operating mental model. I don't see what you mean by "whispering" or why I should care.

You should really try to explain more of your jargon if you care to be understood. Also, cite your sources.
by acdha | 2026-01-11 20:51:37+00:00
I’ve known a few people like that, and it had a darker undercurrent: they didn’t disbelieve that, say, the Greek or Roman monuments were built by those civilizations because they viewed those as predecessors of their own, but they considered the pacific or Central/South American cultures inferior and didn’t want to believe they were capable of great engineering.

Beyond the strong whiff of racism, I think there was also this idea that civilization went on a single path (grain, the wheel and domesticated horses/oxen/mules, bronze, iron, guns, steam, etc.) and so anyone which didn’t follow that path was basically developmentally challenged. This definitely did not consider the possibility that not every region had the prerequisites to follow the same path.
by lencastre | 2026-01-11 20:51:55+00:00
I don’t fully trust iCloud Drive / Photos therefore I use FSViewer to download all photos from my iOS device du jour (making sure to keep the HEIF formats), this way I get the Edited (slo-mo, live, portrait, usw) and pristine versions as Jobs intended. All kidding aside, after the gray area gate of 2017-2021 I had to find a more reliable backup workflow. As of today I only use iCloud Drive / Photos to extract some RAW photos that for some reason some picky apps don’t save to the photo album (looking at you ProCam 8.0). I made several tests including hash comparisons and imagemagick diffs and I am quite pleased.
by boringg | 2026-01-11 20:52:01+00:00
I will be very surprised if Oklo makes it. Insiders have been selling a fair bit over the last couple years because my speculative guess is they know that they cant possible meet the expectations in the market for their product.

They essentially got a ton of traction because Altman was on the board (but since left) but most (not all) tech people don’t understand deep energy problems.
by lostlogin | 2026-01-11 20:52:14+00:00
> They are 20% faster, have 2x the battery life, and 8 more gb of RAM.

I thought the minimum spec was 16gb ram as of a while ago?

> Mac mini

If you’re paying for power, it would be interesting to see what effect that change to Mac’s has.

I went from a nuc 9 to a mini and use less than 10% the power on the mini, and it’s more powerful.
by foobarchu | 2026-01-11 20:52:45+00:00
To the average person, no. If you ask a regular user, you'll find that there is no alternative what Excel can do, the PowerPoint alternatives are missing loads of features, etc. Additionally, files created in MS Office still cannot reliably be used in the open source alternatives without something breaking. Until a non-technical user can open my PowerPoint presentation in LibreOffice and not have to apologize for the formatting, they aren't equivalent.

A huge part of this is fonts. Users prefer proprietary fonts, and when you open files using them in the alternatives it tends to look like terrible. You will not convince users that this is on them to fix, and to be honest they're right, it's not their problem.