MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ikidd | 2026-01-19 17:08:41+00:00
That's all blown way out of proportion. I have a stack of 10k page manuals for diagnosing and repairing every piece of green iron on the place. Honestly, I've been considering training an LLM so I can make better use of the manuals, they're so incredibly detailed it's hard to find the thing you're looking for.

The only thing Deere "locks down" is that some of the parts have a CANbus address that you need to get a tech over to program the controller to recognize the part, and do the same if you replace a controller.

It's not some nefarious anti-farmer thing, it's because of the way the controller network works. In fact, I've used a CANbus sniffer on the bus and everything on there is in the clear, they don't even encrypt the messages.

The only things I've sent to town to get fixed was because I didn't have time to diagnose it, or it was an insurance claim and I wanted warranty. Blowing $80,000 worth of innards out the back of a combine wasn't a job I wanted to tackle right then (but I probably should have, I wasn't happy with the attention to detail in the repair).

So the upshot is, don't believe every terrible story about Deere you hear. Just the one where they charge too goddamn much for parts.
by webstrand | 2026-01-19 17:09:05+00:00
I've tried simple whetstones, and haven't yet got the knack of not dulling knives on it. The bizarre sharpening contraptions take the knack out of it, same as the pull-through knife mutilators. It may not be the best, but it is better than it was. Unlike a whetstone where you may very well end up with a knife duller than when you started, if you don't have the knack for keeping an angle or removing the burr or any number of other ways to mess up.
by jakeasmith | 2026-01-19 17:09:12+00:00
I've been running Ollama in my home lab for awhile now but I wanted to experiment with running something a little more "low level". I saw a ton of posts about Llama.cpp, which looked interesting, but there wasn't a lot specifically about running vLLM on Proxmox, so I thought I'd give it a try. Setting up vLLM in an LXC wasn’t necessarily difficult but, even after doing it several times, it was still tedious. These are the notes I’ve taken along the way, if only for my own reference next weekend.

Feel free to tell me what I got wrong :)
by brunoborges | 2026-01-19 17:09:27+00:00
> Nobody is voluntarily booking a flight with their Alexa.

Rich people use voice because they have disposable income and they don't care if a flight is $800 or $4,000. They are likely buying business/first class anyways.

Tony Stark certainly doesn't care.
Elon Musk certainly uses voice to talk to his management team to book his flights.

The average person doesn't have the privilege of using voice because it doesn't have enough fuck-you-money to not care for prices.
by DrScientist | 2026-01-19 17:09:40+00:00
What that view ignores is the opposite which is what happens if sellers can easily switch to new alternatives?

ie what happens if global demand exceeds supply and a lot of companies have never tried to find other markets because of the inertia required to do so - but if they are pushed by tariffs they find there are alternative customers out there.

As an example - Canada appear to replaced trading food for cars with the US, to food for cars with China.

https://www.facebook.com/TechXnew/posts/canada-has-made-a-de...
by wyck | 2026-01-19 17:09:51+00:00
They are funding alternatives to ASML. ASML has hit a wall and it co-insides with a new innovation based policy, to bring America back to a tech leadership role. This is a critical economic and security policy, they are pouring billions into this tech as we speak. To think that ASML will continue to have a monopoly would be the actual insane thing.
by greenavocado | 2026-01-19 17:10:07+00:00
Chinese exporters and the Beijing government absorb most US tariffs rather than passing them fully to American consumers.

Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick: “The model is clear: 10% tariffs or less are paid by the manufacturers, the distributors, the businesses,” he said. “The consumer doesn’t pay. The consumer doesn’t pay because the seller doesn’t want to raise prices, because if they could, they would, but they don’t want to sell less. So they eat it.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/lutnick-beijing-eating-maj...
by theozero | 2026-01-19 17:10:23+00:00
A proxy is a good solution although a bit more involved. A great first step is just getting any secrets - both the ones the AI actually needs access to and your application secrets - out of plaintext .env files.

A great way to do that is either encrypting them or pulling them declaratively from a secure backend (1Pass, AWS Secrets Manager, etc). Additional protection is making sure that those secrets don't leak, either in outgoing server responses, or in logs.

https://varlock.dev (open source!) can help with the secure injection, log redaction, and provide a ton more tooling to simplify how you deal with config and secrets.
by dundarious | 2026-01-19 17:10:26+00:00
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/15326456/rangers-shoc...

It happens often enough in European football. Search "away fans ban uefa -maccabi" online. You can also look at official UEFA sites, but they often list partial bans (e.g., ban from a particular section of the stadium) in a way that I can't distinguish from complete bans.

https://www.uefa.com/running-competitions/disciplinary/stadi...
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-19 17:10:31+00:00
Relatable story. Stepped away from "proper" development for a few years to focus on other work, and AI assistants have genuinely changed how quickly you can go from idea to something that works.

The key shift for me: I used to spend hours stuck on syntax, fighting with build systems, or searching StackOverflow for obscure errors. Now that friction is mostly gone. The actual thinking - what to build, how the pieces fit together, what edge cases matter - is still entirely human. But the translation from "I know what I want this to do" to "working code" is dramatically faster.

The compound interest calculator is a good example of something that would've felt like a weekend project a few years ago but probably took you a couple of hours. That's the unlock - not that AI writes code for you, but that the tedious parts stop blocking the interesting parts.

What surprised me most was how much architectural intuition I'd retained even after years away. The fundamentals don't decay as fast as the syntax knowledge.
by dfadsadsf | 2026-01-19 17:10:39+00:00
Given the relatively low inflation in 2025, I’m skeptical of the claim that consumers bore 96% of the tariff burden. With CPI inflation at 2.7% and roughly $18,000 in goods consumption per person in US, total price increase in goods work out to ~160B. A $200 billion increase in customs revenues would exceed the total price increases attributable to inflation - which makes little sense if 96% of that was paid by consumers. Essentially tariffs did not increase inflation in any meaningful sense which means that somebody else paid the bill - not consumers.
by wasabi991011 | 2026-01-19 17:10:56+00:00
> There are many natural economic reasons for GDP-per-capita to vary between jurisdictions (e.g. places rich in oil and gas tend to have high GDP-per-capita figures). However, it is increasingly being recognized that tax havens, or corporate tax havens, have distorted economic data which produces artificially high, or inflated, GDP-per-capita figures.

> ...

> In 2017, Ireland's economic data became so distorted by U.S. multinational tax avoidance strategies (see leprechaun economics), also known as BEPS actions, that Ireland effectively abandoned GDP (and GNP) statistics as credible measures of its economy, and created a replacement statistic called modified gross national income (or GNI*)

Source: Wikipedia on GDP per capita, PPP

I don't think your conclusion about governance is warranted, given the important other factors you aren't accounting for in your list (also presence of large oil & gas natural resources).
by abalashov | 2026-01-19 17:10:58+00:00
> Companies are just setup in a way that incentivizes building organizations that create bad code. Most places would rather hire 100 bad engineers who can be easily replaced than 5 good engineers.

This is quite true, and it is this -- really, a special case of "the market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent" -- that has me worried about the implications for the labour economy more than anything else.
by 9rx | 2026-01-19 17:11:05+00:00
> Making up definitions on the spot and "getting to choose what a word means" is deliberately acting in bad faith.

Not quite. Not taking the time to understand what someone means when they use a word is acting in bad faith. Using a word as you understand it, even if that does not match how others understand it, before the word is contextually defined cannot be in bad faith. Nobody can read minds. It is impossible for one to predict how the reader thinks the word is defined. You can only work with what you know. Fundamentally, the onus must be on the reader to ensure that they have full knowledge of the author's intent.

> Rule #1 of logical debate is to agree on definitions

Agreed. The bad faith actor with the username antisthenes that I replied to earlier failed to do that, putting in absolutely no effort to find the necessary common ground. He assumed the definition and then came up with a ridiculous comment built up around that false assumption. Hence why I called him out on his bullshit.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2026-01-19 17:11:11+00:00
Change My Mind: At this point, Amazon is AliExpress with faster shipping and higher prices.

The product is going to be coming from a Chinese manufacturer anyways, the minimal level of quality control that used to be implied by buying from companies with an European presence is gone.

My experience on AliExpress is that there are few outright scams and more of a "buyer beware to the extreme" (e.g. fine print saying that a 20mm item has 5mm tolerance -> you're getting 15mm, part not saying original BRANDNAME -> you're getting a "compatible" part). They seem to have a "Brand+/Certified Original" program - any idea how trustworthy that is? Probably more than Amazon with commingling, but in absolute terms?
by johnj-hn | 2026-01-19 17:11:18+00:00
Hey there. I didn’t submit this post but I am the author of the app. I didn’t know about Headlamp when I started working on Luxury Yacht. I only discovered it a few weeks ago. Headlamp is great, and of course having CNCF’s backing means a lot.

I’m not trying to sell Luxury Yacht. It’s free to use. I’m not going to try to convince anyone to choose it over Headlamp, or any other tool. Of course I’m flattered if people like what I built, but that’s the extent of my investment.

I like Luxury Yacht better than Headlamp, but of course I do, because I built it to work exactly the way I want it to.
by neogodless | 2026-01-19 17:11:24+00:00
Elections are kind of an "average" / pulse of the ~236 million eligible voters.

The reasons people vote a certain way or can't be bothered to show up at the polls are going to vary significantly across the nearly quarter billion humans making those choices.

So any attempt to "single issue" explain election results are going to be wrong, particularly in a close election like this one. (49.8% vs 48.3%, and Electoral Votes in battleground states often in the tens of thousands of voters, out of tens of millions.

But many of the issues certainly contribute to flipping voters between one candidate, another, or staying home.

So sure, totally, gender and race played a role.

The economy (and steep inflation) played a role.

Biden being an increasingly disliked incumbent, staying in the race too long, and Harris being too conservative to distance herself from him played a role.

News and propaganda played a role (and I suspect this is a big one. Remember when Trump was all like Deep State, Democrats and Epstein, let's get those files released! And then it came time to do it, and for some reason he was like... oh that's a bad idea?)

No doubt individual state politics play a role, too - an unpopular governor might give the opposing party a boost.

But yeah, if the Democratic nominee was a) nominated, and b) a white male, the odds probably would've shifted in their favor enough to flip those few battleground states.
by LeifCarrotson | 2026-01-19 17:11:29+00:00
I'm a little confused by the "Yes" versus "No" asymmetry.

For example, one of the top trending ~~bets~~ markets right now is on whether Miami or Indiana will win the NCAA football championship tonight. You can either take "Yes" on Indiana at 74c, or "No" at 27c, or you can take "Yes" on Miami at 27c or "No" at 74c. Or, there's another potential outcome - you can also bet on a tie at 10c yes/91c no.

Is this research suggesting that an optimistic Miami fan can somehow get a better return by buying "No" on Indiana than a "Yes" on Miami?

Why is Kalshi structured with these yes vs. no options for all outcomes?
Show HN: I built a tool for free PDF Resume (CV) hosting – wanna test it?
by alexandru84 | 2026-01-19 17:11:35+00:00
If you are job hunting and you need to host your PDF resume in a professional way, without ads or weird limits, I built Resume.hr .
You can upload a resume and write or upload a cover letter. You can add links from other social media profiles, and a QR code is generated automatically.
The design is clean and you can even add credentials Linkedin style.
You can share your resume in a subdomain like your-name.resume.hr/resume an example I created is https://alexdumi.resume.hr/sample-resume-alex .

We added a tool inside call Activities that you can use to track job-hunting activities, like to whom you sent the resume and follow-ups, and mostly track interaction to help with the job finding.
Why I built this? We have another tool where users can share PDF files online but that is made for documents mostly, and the design is for that. Even so, users upload and share their resumes there, so I belive there is a place for such a tool.

We are still figuring out how we can make this better, but maybe with your help and suggestions we can build a better version.
by nick_g | 2026-01-19 17:11:50+00:00
The GameTank is an incredibly cool project. I first saw an ultra early model with only sound capabilities before the covid pandemic, so seeing it finally live on CrowdSupply is a testament to the hard work and dedication of its creator, Agumander.

I won't go into technical details of the console here. You can find more information about it on it's website [0] or it's github repo[1]. You can check the console out with its emulator[2], which can run in your browser with the game listed here[3]. I also wrote a post about developing a game for the GameTank[4], which might give an idea of what it's like to make a game for the system.

[0] https://gametank.zone/
[1] https://github.com/clydeshaffer/gametank
[2] https://github.com/clydeshaffer/GameTankEmulator/
[3] https://gametank.zone/games
[4] https://nickgirardo.com/posts/avhg-thoughts.html
by psychoslave | 2026-01-19 17:11:57+00:00
Having right vote when you belong to some category doesn’t mean having possibility to elect someone in that category. It could be that legally the category of people is not illegible, or are bared from being elected by other practical considerations.

Also being part of a social category doesn’t mean one will be immune to bias against this very category if it’s heavily pushed in the dominant social constructs.

Actually women able to reach top level political function in a patriarchal system will more likely do so by being doubly virulent against feminist standpoints. Look at Tatcher or Takaichi for a more recent example.
by randycupertino | 2026-01-19 17:12:11+00:00
Just last week I got a fake Tony Moly skin lotion from Amazon. So frustrating. It had 1200 positive reviews, which I read and looked good so I ordered. Only when I got it and the bottle different than my last order and the lotion smelled weird I went into the reviews and actually keyword searched "fake' did 18 new reviews come up talking about how it is not the actual branded product. Initially I searched in the "ask Rufus" AI bot field and got some gaslighting slop about how there are no fake products on Amazon as the response!

> Have gotten fake products twice
> First things first, I love this moisturizer. I’ve used this as my primary since the product line was released. I use a lot of skin care and the chok chok cream is the best. They used to have a gel version for summer and a thick version for winter. I loved those too.

> Problem: Twice now I have ordered and have gotten fakes. How do I know? Packaging not correct, texture of cream not correct and no correct date stamp on bottom. The container was actually strangely big next to my authentic version. You can see in the photo that the stamp on the container is not similar. The one on the left is the real deal and the one on the right is the fake I have gotten twice.
by kvnhn | 2026-01-19 17:12:30+00:00
I made a simple web UI[1] for generating images like this. It uses a Go library by Michael Fogleman[2] for all the heavy lifting—hat’s off to him.

For Bézier curves in particular, iteratively constraining the search around initial matches seems key to retaining detail (see the “rep” argument in Fogleman’s work), for example in the eyes of the Vermeer portrait in the OP.

[1]: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/primitive-web-ui

[2]: https://github.com/fogleman/primitive
by gpm | 2026-01-19 17:12:53+00:00
> So unless they have big money to wager, they don't have big money to gain.

It requires that they put down collateral (the purchase of the the yes bets) that they lose if they don't meet the contract, so they do have to have starting capital.

> because other people have to take the opposite side.

That is to say that there must be people offering the bounty.

The size of the bounty isn't defined by the price of the contract, but the total upside available in the order book.

> and as the odds move, they make less money.

They have to put up more collateral for the remainder of the contract if they want that upside - but they make all the money that they already put up collateral for.
by brandonmb | 2026-01-19 17:13:34+00:00
I’ve found it to be quite good at Python, JS (Next + Tailwind + TS type of things), and PHP. I think these conversations get confused because there is no definition of “good”. So I’m defining “good” as it can do 50-80% of the work for me, even in a giant code base where call sites are scattered and ever changing. I still have to do some clean up or ask it to do something different, but many times I don’t need to do anything.

As someone else mentions, the best working mode is to think through your problem, write some instructions, and let it do it’s thing while you do other work. Then come back and treat that as a starting point.
by johnj-hn | 2026-01-19 17:13:49+00:00
Author of the app here. That’s one of the reasons I picked the name. When I was trying to come up with a name for this thing, I didn’t want another “k” name, but I did want something that tied in with the nautical theme of kubernetes. Luxury Yacht ticked that box and the Monty Python connection was a sweet bonus.
by rpdillon | 2026-01-19 17:14:01+00:00
I see this sentiment posted quite a bit, but have the publishers made any products available that would allow AI training on their works for payment? A naive approach would be to go to an online bookstore and pay $15 for every book, but then you have copyrighted content that is encrypted, that it's a violation of the DMCA to decrypt.

I assume you're expecting that they'll reach out and cut a deal with each publishing house separately, and then those publishing houses will have to somehow transfer their data over to NVIDIA. But that's a very custom set of discussions and deals that have to be struck.

I think they're going to the pirate libraries because the product they want doesn't exist.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-01-19 17:14:02+00:00
is the acting against Russia and against American interest, in a way that helps Russian interests, of equivocal effect?

For example if I shoot Batman in the back when he's fighting The Joker (because Batman is a vigilante so that's illegal, gotta take him down), and later make a statement to the press after Joker has been sent to Arkham "You know I think Arkham is a good place for that guy, he got what he deserved", I have acted for and against The Joker's interest, which is a good cover for me as an agent of The Joker.

I have often seen Trump doing stuff that is counter Russia's interests, but stuff that seems extremely weak sauce in contrast to weakening Nato, as just one example. It is spycraft 101 that you give your assets some simple stuff they can do against you, to make them seem trustworthy.
by senfiaj | 2026-01-19 17:14:15+00:00
I'm not a fan of these custom elements. Unless you do something really interactive, dynamic and reusable (an element with complex behavior), I don't think it's worth to use them. The SEO / accessibility becomes more challenging. Also, worth to noting, web components require JS, so they are not pure "CSS" web components. Web components are useful for isolation, when used with shadow DOM.
by bilbo0s | 2026-01-19 17:14:22+00:00
>You know what’s interesting though is I think that a Republican woman would be unbeatable

Not anymore.

Three more years to climb out of the dumpster fire though. Then, maybe?

But right now? No.

In this moment, the political reality in the US is that Democrats would have to lose. Republicans, male or female, can't really win without that help. Especially in light of MAGA.

I would have thought Wisconsin would have been a wake up call for Republicans. But it hasn't happened yet.

So far both of these parties are sleepwalking into disaster and the world outside the US will pay a portion of that cost. Which is sad.
by Sharlin | 2026-01-19 17:14:23+00:00
Back in the 00s or early 10s a friend and I played with the idea of using genetic programming and random line segments to approximate images (ie. maintain a population of candidates, take the best n percent, "breed" them to create the next generation, add some "mutations", repeat). This implementation seems to use a basic hill-climbing algorithm to reach a local optimum – something like simulated annealing might improve both quality and speed of convergence.
by yodsanklai | 2026-01-19 17:14:32+00:00
Same for me... fortunately, I'm reaching the end of my career anyway. But let see how it goes. LLMs are a very recent development so it's too soon to take such drastic decisions.

On the positive side, I have some old personal projects I couldn't complete because it was too much work for me alone. I think LLMs will help for menial tasks, while I can still work on improving the design and adding features.
by mylifeandtimes | 2026-01-19 17:14:45+00:00
One thing that is interesting to me:

In Europe, prices show the price INCLUDING sales tax (VAT, typically 20%). What you see is what you pay at the register.

In the US, prices show the price BEFORE sales tax (national average circa 7%). You pay 7% more at the register than what you saw.

I wonder if we could update US pricing so that the tariff was collected at the cash register, just like sales tax is, so that people could see that they were the one paying the tax.

yes, I see the obvious practical difficulties with this. It is a though experiment, nothing more.
by Glyptodon | 2026-01-19 17:14:57+00:00
Much like I think if any Dem other than Hillary Clinton ran against Trump for his winning term 1, I think if the Dems had a proper primary process for this last election they'd probably have picked somebody who'd also have won.

That said, I'm not sure being a woman was worse than being from CA or black with a solid chunk of the electorate. (I'm reminded of how some of my own relatives seemed to want to avoid visiting us in CA growing up because they had such a strong notion of how "communist," "liberal," and dangerous it ostensibly was.)

In some ways this also illustrates that propaganda likely had a significant role, too, IMO.