MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-21 20:16:23+00:00
> Has it been effective though?

At what specifically?

At preventing another European war? Up until very recently, pretty good. No more world wars as of yet, but 80 years has past since the last, everyone with memories of how horrible it was, are almost gone, so I guess we're building up to another one. I'm hoping that at least Europe sticks together if it gets down to it.

I'm not sure why GDP is such an important indicator to you, it's just the value of goods and services, what purpose is that supposed to serve?

USA keeps getting a larger GDP you say, yet the population at large seems to be getting poorer, education and health care gets worse, and people finding it harder and harder to find somewhere to live. So what good does a high GDP actually give you in the world today?
by jrm4 | 2026-01-21 20:16:30+00:00
What precisely is "better" about that?

It's more predictable over -- some things that you don't know how they're going to scale?

Again, the general thrust of "imperial" is better -- base your units on "utility of the most people using them the most for real life things"

Do whatever you want for distances between stars, but no, walking off a room in "feet" can't be beat.
by al_borland | 2026-01-21 20:17:39+00:00
It’s usually just a slightly faster web search. When I try to have it do more, I end up spinning my wheels and then doing a web search.

I’ll sometimes have it help read really long error messages as well.

I got it to help me fix a reported security vulnerability, but it was a long road and I had to constantly work to keep it from going off the rails and adding insane amounts of complexity and extra code. It likely would have been faster for me to read up on the specific vulnerability, take a walk, and come back to my desk to write something up.
by celsoazevedo | 2026-01-21 20:17:49+00:00
I don't use Windows a lot, but still have a desktop for gaming.

With Windows 10, I started using "O&O ShutUp10"[0], which lets me easily disable (and revert the changes if needed) most of the crap enabled by default. There's no OneDrive, CoPilot, weather, "news", etc, annoying me, which makes my Windows experience bearable. I just have to open the app once after each major update because Microsoft loves to re-enable features.

My upgrade to Windows 11 was smooth. I didn't have the issues reported in the article. But man, it sometimes feels like they forgot to optimized it. Opening/closing the start menu, viewing all apps, isn't that smooth for me. I have a powerful computer, with a fast GPU and one of the more recent AMD CPUs... and at times it's like it's running at 24fps.

I mainly use a Mac, which is better, but after seeing the "Liquid Glass" UI lag on M1 machines, I decided to stay on MacOS Sequoia. Is everyone ignoring performance now?

[0] https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-21 20:17:54+00:00
> Thank you for volunteering. I look forward to your results.

Sure can you wait a few weeks tho? I know nothing about benchmarking so gonna learn it first and I have a few tests to prepare for irl.

I do feel like someone else more passionate about the project should try to pick the benchmarking though.

I don't mind benchmarking it but I only know tools like hyper for benchmarks & I have played with my fair share of zip archives and their random access retrieval but I feel like even that would depend from source to source.

There are some experienced people in here who are really cool at what they do, I just wanted to say that if someone's interested and already has the Domain Specific knowledge to benchmark & they enjoy it in the first place, this having AI benchmark shouldn't be much of a problem in comparison.
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-21 20:18:33+00:00
The Inflation Reduction Act was a large piece of legislation that had huge programs for re-industrialization, which produced measurable improvements in employment in these sectors.

Zero GOP legislators voted for it. It was pilloried on right wing media constantly.

I do not believe that there is any large scale economically-focused legislation that the democrats could push that would not be controversial.
by grvbck | 2026-01-21 20:18:42+00:00
From a technical standpoint: amazing achievement, and the tech nerd in me is in awe. But it feels like a lot of people don't understand (or care?) how much these companies are polluting the space.

Before the "new wave", in 2010-2015 or so, Earth had around 1500 active satellites in orbit, and another 2,000-2,500 defunct ones.

Starlink now has almost 9,500 satellites in orbit, has approvals for 12,000 and long-term plans for up to 42,000. Blue Origin has added 5,500 to that. Amazon plans for 3,000. China has two megaconstellations under construction, for a total of 26,000, and has filed for even larger systems, up to 200,000 satellites.

We might be the last generation that is able to watch the stars.
by Denatonium | 2026-01-21 20:18:56+00:00
All the Linux routers I've used utilize Endpoint-Independent mapping with Address- and Port-Dependent _filtering_.

This means you can still establish direct P2P connectivity behind a Linux-based NAT device with users behind other Linux-based NAT devices. The only time it becomes an issue is when attempting to communicate with users behind NAT devices that do Address-Dependent _mapping_ or Address and Port-Dependent _mapping_. Some *BSD-based NAT implementations are this way.

Endpoint-independent _filtering_ is only a good idea for CGNAT implementations. Having an EIM/EIF NAT/firewall setup without additional firewalling makes it possible and easy for devices to run public-facing UDP-based servers without anyone's knowledge. With EIM/EIF, once you create a NAT mapping, so long as you send out periodic keepalives, _any_ IP address with _any_ source port can make unsolicited connections to a server that the NAT mapping points to. The best compromise is Endpoint-independent mapping with Address- (but not port-) dependent filtering.
by bcrosby95 | 2026-01-21 20:19:05+00:00
Imagine a world where you can't complain if something is directionally correct in what you want done.

Me: can you take out the trash? My kid: dumps trash on the front lawn.

Me: people are speeding a lot, can we do something about it? Cops: shoots anyone speeding in the face.

But I guess I can't say anything about it, because they're just doing what I want!
by nickjj | 2026-01-21 20:19:10+00:00
I haven't gone through this but now I really want to.

Moved to native Linux on the desktop a few weeks ago after 15+ years of using Linux on the server and spending a majority of my time in WSL in Windows for the last decade.

I've learned so many new things in this short period of time. Tracing down memory leaks with GPU processes, misbehaving GPU drivers, power saving modes, etc..
by janice1999 | 2026-01-21 20:19:32+00:00
That was obvious before even looking at the repo because the OP used "the core insight" in the intro. Other telltale signs of these type of AI projects:

- new account

- spamming the project to HN, reddit etc the moment the demo half works

- single contributor repo

- Huge commits minutes apart

- repo is less than a week old (sometimes literally hours)

- half the commits start with "Enhance"

- flashly demo that hides issues immediately obvious to experts in the field

- author has slop AI project(s)

OP uses more than one branch so he's more sophisticated than most.
by anileated | 2026-01-21 20:19:39+00:00
> It was the golden age of Science Fiction, and let's just say that the stereotype of programmers and hackers being nerds with sci-fi obsession actually had a good basis in reality.

At worst you are trying to disparage the entire idea of open source by painting the people who championed it as idiots who cannot tell fiction from reality. At best you are making a fool of yourself. If you say that free software philosophy means "also, potential sentient software that may become a reality in 100 years" everywhere it mentions "users" and "people" you better quote some sources.

> Also those ideas aren't crazy, they're obvious, and have already been obvious back then.

Fire-breathing dragons. Little green extraterrestrial humanoids. Telepathy. All of these ideas are obvious, and have been obvious for ages. None of these things exist. Sorry to break it to you, but even if an idea is obvious it doesn't make it real.

(I'll skip over the part where if you really think chatbots are sentient like humans then you might be defending an industry that is built on mass-scale abuse of sentient beings.)
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-21 20:20:10+00:00
This is interesting to me as someone who worked with Rails a good deal back in the day and has interest in picking it back up.

Any chance of some themes that bring in a little dimension? Doesn't have to be early 2010s Bootstrap or anything but some subtle, crisp drop shadows and gentle gradients would be welcome.

Additionally, is unused Tailwind CSS shaken out or does it all come along for the ride?
by gangelo | 2026-01-21 20:20:16+00:00
Hey, thanks brother .

Yes, you posted like 17 hours ago - App Store was broken for some at that time, should be fine now.

I’m not sure what you mean by “is that a good data source?”; if you mean whether or not those are good events to track in my app? Absolutely. BTW, there’s a free, fun easter egg game in there if you’re savvy enough to find it.

God bless you
Show HN: Sornic – Turn any article into a podcast in 10 seconds
by digi_wares | 2026-01-21 20:22:23+00:00
Hello HN folks- maker here,
I built Sornic because I have 100+ saved articles I never read. Now I listen to them while commuting.

How it works:
- Paste any article URL
- Mozilla Readability extracts content
- Claude Haiku cleans it up (removes "subscribe", ads, etc.)
- OpenAI TTS generates natural audio

Free to use, 5 articles/day, no signup.

Stack: Next.js, Upstash Redis, Vercel

What I'd love feedback on:
- Which sites don't work (so I can improve extraction)
- Voice quality preferences
- Would you pay for unlimited?

Thanks for trying it!
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-21 20:22:24+00:00
> And given you-know-what, the battle to establish a new search crawler will be harder than ever. Crawlers are now presumed guilty of scraping for AI services until proven innocent.

I have always wondered but how does wayback machine work, is there no way that we can use wayback archive and then run a index on top of every wayback archive somehow?
by dang | 2026-01-21 20:23:17+00:00
Related. Others?

Linux from Scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41747966 - Oct 2024 (159 comments)

Beyond Linux from Scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39547118 - Feb 2024 (17 comments)

Linux from Scratch Version 12.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37648808 - Sept 2023 (28 comments)

Linux from Scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33734685 - Nov 2022 (9 comments)

Linux from Scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30496018 - Feb 2022 (96 comments)

Linux from Scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29949311 - Jan 2022 (9 comments)

Linux from Scratch with Training Wheels - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28820602 - Oct 2021 (41 comments)

Linux from Scratch 10.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24350738 - Sept 2020 (49 comments)

Linux from Scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24238015 - Aug 2020 (86 comments)

Major Proposed Changes to Linux From Scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23787526 - July 2020 (93 comments)

Linux from Scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20168343 - June 2019 (15 comments)

Ask HN: Is the Linux From Scratch project still relevant? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20149111 - June 2019 (7 comments)

Linux from Scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16823110 - April 2018 (1 comment)

Linux from Scratch Version 8.2 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16510333 - March 2018 (2 comments)

Linux from Scratch – build your own Linux distro - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11829373 - June 2016 (57 comments)

Linux from Scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8392057 - Sept 2014 (1 comment)

Welcome to Linux From Scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488162 - Sept 2012 (71 comments)

Linux From Scratch 7.1 Published - 3.2.6 Kernel + GCC 4.6.2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3677350 - March 2012 (13 comments)

Linux From Scratch 7 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3171448 - Oct 2011 (27 comments)

Ask HN: Linux from Scratch.. Should I try it? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1779665 - Oct 2010 (58 comments)

How to build custom Linux from source code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=743843 - Aug 2009 (1 comment)
by JohnFen | 2026-01-21 20:23:26+00:00
> Is there a technical reason to prefer one over the other from a data security perspective?

The rule of thumb would be to prefer the OBD data. The most secure data is the data that is never even exposed, and OBD exposes less than a smartphone does.

> I'm curious if anyone has reverse-engineered the actual data packets these dongles send.

Yes, but you don't even have to do that. The OBD protocol is readily available, so you can see what data is surfaced, and you should just assume that anything that can be read through OBD will be sent to the insurance company.

If you want to really see what data your particular car surfaces through OBD, OBD readers are very inexpensive and readily available. Pick one up and explore.

From my personal perspective, I can't imagine a circumstance where I'd be OK sharing any of this data at all, particularly not with insurance companies.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-21 20:23:30+00:00
> Software is never "finished"

Software may never be finished (in your opinion) but the budget of any customer is finite. If you keep reinvesting your revenue forever into "engineering" the product there's going to be a time where a competitor comes in with a finished product matching your customers' requirements and snatches him from you by both charging less and making a profit.
by pc86 | 2026-01-21 20:23:37+00:00
They're not ignoring performance, they're ignoring experience on old machines or hardware outside of top tier. Part of it is laziness for sure but part of it is, I believe, intentional to push the refresh cycle as short as possible. I know people who count down the days to their 2 year phone upgrade just on the off chance the next update might slow their phone down a bit. Not even that they upgrade as soon as the phone gets slow - they proactively upgrade to prevent it from ever happening in the first place, even for a day or two. This is what these companies want.
by mjr00 | 2026-01-21 20:24:01+00:00
If I know what I want to code and it's a purely mechanical exercise to code it, I'll just tell Claude what to do and it does it. Pretty neat.

When I don't know what I want to do, I read existing code, think about it, and figure it out. Sometimes I'll sketch out ideas by writing code, then when I have something I like I'll get Claude to take my sketch as an example and having it go forward.

The big mistake I see people make is not knowing when to quit. Even with Opus 4.5 it still does weird things, and I've seen people end up arguing with Claude or trying to prompt engineer their way out of things when it would have been maybe 30 seconds of work to fix things manually. It's like people at shopping malls who spend 15 minutes driving in the parking lot to find a spot close to the door when they could have parked in the first spot they saw and walked to the door in less than a minute.

And as always, every line of code was written by me even if it wasn't written by me. I'm responsible for it, so I review all of it. If I wouldn't have written it on my own without AI assistance I don't commit it.
by midas89 | 2026-01-21 20:24:17+00:00
I think what you'll find is that most aren't happy with the current copyright law anyway (I include myself in that group) or don't understand it or don't agree with it, and thus will just shrug.

For example, copyright duration is far longer than most people think (life of author plus seventy (or plus ninety-five years if corporation). Corporations treat copyright as a way to create moats for themselves and freeze competitors than as a creative endeavor. Most creative works earn little to nothing anyway, while a tiny minority generate the most revenue. And it's not easy to get a copyright or atleast percieved to be easy, so again it incentivises those that can afford lawyers to navigate the legal environment. Also, enforcement of copyright law requires surviellance and censorship.

Truthfully I think there will be a time when people will look at current copyright law the same way we now look at guilds in the middleages.
by capitainenemo | 2026-01-21 20:24:27+00:00
Well, the article notes that it seemed effective on human tissue samples.

The researchers also tested cartilage taken from patients undergoing total knee replacement for osteoarthritis. After one week of treatment with the 15-PGDH inhibitor, the tissue showed fewer 15-PGDH-producing chondrocytes, reduced expression of cartilage degradation and fibrocartilage genes, and early signs of articular cartilage regeneration.

So, IMO that shows hope for once it goes to trials.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-01-21 20:24:27+00:00
yeah my folks live on an island off the coast and there are real concerns over things like tsunamis, flooding, or even just strong winds that knock out power for a while.

they live in a cul du sac and there are a bunch of community watch meetings where the folks get together and basically said "if shit goes down we need to be able to live together, so that means we need to 1) have trust, and 2) have the gear"

Of particular note are the few people with big trucks and boats, and the general gist of the planning was "live long enough on the island to be stable, and then use those boats to get off"
by justalever | 2026-01-21 20:24:56+00:00
Yes, it's on my radar to add more unique designs to the mix. Less typical, if that makes sense. For now, it's mostly a huge head start if you're building quickly.

And yes, unused Tailwind CSS is automatically extracted when it's built. For Rails, we use the tailwindcss-rails gem as a dependency for Rails UI, which JustWorks™.
by sjm-lbm | 2026-01-21 20:25:06+00:00
Pretty similar here. Another thing I keep thinking is a phrase pilots use when flying airplanes using FMSes and autopilot: "never fly your airplane to a place you haven't already been to in your mind" - that is, don't ever just sit back and let the automation work, stay a step ahead of the automation and drop down to less automation when you aren't certain that it is doing the right thing.

When you send Claude Code something and already have an idea for what an acceptable solution looks like, you're a massive step ahead when it's time to read the diff and decide what you think of it. This does mean that every so often my productivity drops to basically zero as I try to understand what is actually happening before I just put the AI on the job, but so far it seems to be a good rule to keep in mind that allows me to use AI effectively while generating a code base that I still understand.
by TMWNN | 2026-01-21 20:25:22+00:00
>We've got ours since 2018 and when we balked on the price they just waived the fees

You must be in the seven figures revenuewise or higher. I am not, and can't imagine getting the fee waved.

That said, what I've heard about having an Amazon account manager: It's just another layer of the same of the usual awful seller support. Since the "manager" can't actually do anything, having one is worse than not having one.
Show HN: I built an AI coach for introverted leaders
by chux52 | 2026-01-21 20:25:56+00:00
I spent 15 years in FP&A and corporate budgeting. For the first 10, I actively avoided management because the path to leadership seemed designed for extroverts. Be more visible. Speak up in meetings. Network at happy hours.

I eventually got promoted anyway, mostly by taking ownership of problems I cared about fixing more than I cared about avoiding meetings. Turns out if you run the meeting, you can keep it organized.

Recently I taught myself to code using AI tools (Cursor + Claude, mostly) and wanted to build something that would have helped my past self. The result is leadquiet.com an AI coaching tool specifically for introverts in leadership roles.

It's text-based (no video calls), focused on energy management and leveraging introvert strengths rather than "overcoming" them, and priced for individuals ($15/mo).

I'm not from tech. I still work full-time in finance. Built this nights and weekends. Would love feedback if you try it.
by torgoguys | 2026-01-21 20:26:12+00:00
That's also not a perfect recollection, but is what my recollection was until I was looking up this history in the past week and found this nugget and posted it elsewhere. Quoting myself:

>So we know these were originally called PCMCIA cards, then later PC Cards, right? Well, I think I might have found the first mention of PCMCIA in PC Magazine. It is in a Dec 1991 column by Dvorak where he "introduces" the "PCMCIA PC-Card". Here's a quote, "In fact, the card should be referred to as the PCMCIA PC-Card, or the PC-Card for short. PCMCIA is the Personal Computer Computer Memory Card International Association (Sunnyvale, Calif., 408-720-0107), and it's the governing body that has standardized the specifications for this card worldwide. JEIDA works with the PCMCIA; it's specifications are identical."

>So at least according this Dvorak column, these were ALWAYS properly called "PC-Cards" (he used a hyphen), but early on people definitely were calling them PCMCIA cards and I remember the shift to everyone later (much later than this 1991 column) calling them PC Cards.
by keeda | 2026-01-21 20:26:22+00:00
> Are they really late? Has everyone started using agents and paying $200 subscriptions?

If you rephrase the question as "Are most engineers already using AI?" -- because it transcends the specific modality (agents vs chat vs autocomplete) and $200 subscriptions (because so many tools are available for free) -- signs point to "yes."

Adoption seems to be all the way upto 85% - 90% in 2025, but there is a lot of variance in the frequency of use:

https://dora.dev/research/2025/

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-eng...

If there is FOMO, I'm not sure it's "weird."
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-21 20:27:55+00:00
Alright, so is vimeo finished product then?

Why not come out and say this?

Also another thing but other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707699#46709164 points out how Vimeo wants to replace SV engineers with Italian engineers to save money.

They are a first and foremost private equity company, Don't forget. There's no loyalty to any group.
by daemonologist | 2026-01-21 20:28:12+00:00
My read was that they're going to have 144 Gbps RF for both regular users and their ground station gateways, and 6 Tbps optical for satellite-satellite back haul, but then you can also buy direct ground-MEO access to a back haul link. (Presumably MEO-only because it's hard to maintain the link to a fast-moving LEO satellite?)

They don't seem to mention using optical for their own ground stations - maybe too unreliable?