MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by modeless | 2026-01-28 22:04:57+00:00
They ought to put the status bar at the bottom. All the designers using Macs probably forgot, but Chrome's tab interface was designed for Windows where it could be all the way at the top of the screen. And in general it's more common for desktop apps designed for mouse and keyboard to have frequently accessed UI elements at the top of the window than the bottom. So desktop apps would benefit from being able to use that real estate at the very top of the screen.

This is what you lose when you take a team developing a desktop OS and move it under a team doing a mobile OS.
by ChristianJacobs | 2026-01-28 22:05:31+00:00
This seems fair, tbh. And I fully agree on the policy for issues/discussions/PRs.

I know there will probably be a whole host of people from non-English-speaking countries who will complain that they are only using AI to translate because English is not their first (or maybe even second) language. To those I will just say: I would much rather read your non-native English, knowing you put thought and care into what you wrote, rather than reading an AIs (poor) interpretation of what you hoped to convey.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-01-28 22:05:37+00:00
You can have automatic unlock with tpm2, with or without a pin, in addition to passphrase, file, fido2, pkcs#11 cert, or whatever else is supported by luks.

I've been using this for a few years now, and never had an issue.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-cryptenroll

> Imagine a motherboard failure and boom there goes my entire disk.

You can also set a long-ass key in addition to the other methods, and back it up somewhere safe. It works the same as bitlocker: you have key which can decrypt the drive without external help from a TPM in case something goes wrong.
by ericmcer | 2026-01-28 22:05:53+00:00
We might just keep making more jobs and coming up with more busy work to keep people grinding away for 40 hours a week.

If you look at 1940, women were ~24% of the workforce. Now in 2025 they are ~48%. The numbers are probably similar with immigrant workers having increased greatly in the last 80 years.

If you view AI workers as just more labor flooding the workforce it might have a similar affect. If we flooded the 1940s economy with 10s of millions of qualified women and immigrant laborers people would have viewed it as devastating to the economy, but introduced gradually over time we arrive at a point now where we fear what would happen if they went away.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-28 22:06:04+00:00
I’m talking about actual public fraudulent lies. These are weeded out quickly. Think flat earth.

> I have been a part of this industry for 10+ years at this point, at companies you have heard of.

I’ve been at it longer. And at companies where you use the products everyday.

> I mean a lot -- of people who will do and say anything if they think it'll get them something.

You’re not that bright are you? Of course they will. I’m talking about public fraud. Like the flat earth movement. These things don’t last long. I’m not talking about human nature and people predilection for lying.

Your brain is somehow fixated into thinking your some 10 year veteran (oooooh your so great) who’s seen it all and you’re talking to a greenhorn when really you’re just not smart enough to understand what’s being said. Bro wake up. You missed the point and went off on a tangent.

> You do need to be street smart.

This is next level. Let me spell it out for you: you’re not street smart. You’re not smart. You don’t look at things critically you don’t self examine your own judgements. You just approach everything with a sort of cocky confidence and you get shit wrong. Constantly. You “clocked” me in completely wrong, your comments all over HN are wildly and factually off base.
by sunshine-o | 2026-01-28 22:06:21+00:00
I agree the market is incredibly inefficient.

I have been on both side and the problem is really:

- 1. To be able to filter the incredible amount of fake/very low quality candidates and offers.

- 2. Dealing with the incredibly incompetent HR/Talent function which is dominant even in small companies.

The result is the recruitment process is very long and sometimes openly sadistic.

I have been sometimes motivated to go through it just to stick a big "NO" in their face at the end. Because by the end you know there is no way you want to have to deal with that crazy HR department for years and the whole company is probably disfunctional.

So there is no supply or demand shortage, just an inability to do basic matchmaking.

Only the LinkedIn, SaaS All-in-one-HR recruitment tools and consulting companies win in this market.
But LinkedIn is Tinder for corporations, in the end only sociopaths enjoy it.
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-28 22:06:38+00:00
This is why I just roll my eyes when people are like "i'm building things I just didn't have time for before"

Ever stop to wonder that maybe the reason you didn't build it and didn't MAKE the time to build it is...because the idea sucks?

Nobody wants your idea slop.

None of these vibe coded businesses are going to last long term because guess what - why would I pay you anything when I will be able to just vibe code the thing I want myself if I want it bad enough?

Project vomit is just for people that want to pad their github stats. It's programmer virtue signalling. Yawn.
by jdboyd | 2026-01-28 22:07:13+00:00
I think Windows 11 would have had much more consumer buy-in in the early days if they would have at least extended non-OEM support back to the Skylake generation, if not further, which it looks like it would have be easy to do, since it ran just fine on much older machines. I didn't object to them making TPM 2.0 mandatory for new OEM builds, just to the making it mandatory for people wanting to upgrade to it.

Of course, then the ads and other broken-ness got a lot worse. But people might put up with that more if they had upgraded to Windows 11 years ago instead of just looking at doing it now that Windows 10 support has ended.
by ilaksh | 2026-01-28 22:08:13+00:00
But that isn't nearly good enough, and it's much worse for people in many other countries.

And that is largely despite many structural aspects of our society. There have been some improvements to social structures, but almost all quality of life improvements have been from technology gains.

The social structures are fundamentally based on elitism and exploitation. The prevailing counterviews seem to be basically 1950s style centralized planning.

I'm not saying we should throw the baby out, but we need a more fair, refined, and technologically sound foundational worldview.

I don't think we should abandon money or centralize things. But we do need, for example, protocols and/or protocol registries enforced by government for sharing information effectively, such as about energy and resources. We also need the monetary systems to be integrated into truly democratic government in such a way that resources and power are distributed in a sane way.
by jajuuka | 2026-01-28 22:08:14+00:00
I agree that the early days when every app was a single purchase and the prices were much higher it made more sense. A lot of people got rich from the App Store. So 30% wasn't a huge piece when you were seeing consistent growth every year in the user base.

I think the most annoying thing is how unevenly the policy is applied. Some megacorps pay the 30% and others like Amazon get sweetheart deals. So it unfortunately comes down to who benefits more. If you have something Apple really wants then they will cut a deal. But if not then you pay the high tax. They've at least cut it down somewhat for smaller devs and teams, but the whole industry needs to change. IAP/Subscriptions shouldn't just inherit the pricing systems of old.

I have a feeling Tim is just going to tank the Trump stuff and then peace out next admin so he gets all the blame. Much like Ive and Dye have been.
by timschmidt | 2026-01-28 22:08:14+00:00
Even with MoE, holding the model in RAM while individual experts are evaluated in VRAM is a bit of a compromise. Experts can be swapped in and out of VRAM for each token. So RAM <-> VRAM bandwidth becomes important. With a model larger than RAM, that bandwidth bottleneck gets pushed to the SSD interface. At least it's read-only, and not read-write, but even the fastest of SSDs will be significantly slower than RAM.

That said, there are folks out there doing it. https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm is one example.
by anyonecancode | 2026-01-28 22:08:32+00:00
> There's this notion of software maintenance - that software which serves a purpose must be perennially updated and changed - which is a huge, rancid fallacy. If the software tool performs the task it's designed to perform, and the user gets utility out of it, it doesn't matter if the software is a decade old and hasn't been updated.

If what you are saying is that _maintenance_ is not the same as feature updates and changes, then I agree. If you are literally saying that you think software, once released, doesn't ever need any further changes for maintenance rather than feature reasons, I disagree.

For instance, you mention "security implications," but as a "might" not "will." I think this vastly underestimates security issues inherent in software. I'd go so far say that all software has two categories of security issues -- those that known today, and those that will be uncovered in the future.

Then there's the issue of the runtime environment changing. If it's web-based, changing browser capabilities, for instance. Or APIs it called changing or breaking. Etc.

Software may not be physical, but it's subject to entropy as much as roads, rails, and other good and infrastructure out in the non-digital world.
by alasr | 2026-01-28 22:09:03+00:00
> What exactly is the difference between lms and llmsterm?

With lms, LM Studio's frontend GUI/desktop application and its backend LLM API server (for OpenAI compatibility API endpoints) are tightly coupled: stopping LM Studio's GUI/desktop application will trigger stopping of LM Studio's backend LLM API server.

With llmsterm, they're decoupled now; it allows one, as LM Studio announcement says, to "deploy on servers, deploy in CI, deploy anywhere" (where having a GUI/desktop application doesn't make any sense).
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2026-01-28 22:09:06+00:00
I can solve this problem if I have to. Right now, I don't.

But I think you miss my core point. If "Ask an LLM" is the answer to this, Microsoft are doing an unforgivably shit job of maintaining Windows. Why on earth should that be necessary? Surely they can provide the minimum of information about why they think the upgrade isn't possible.
by FanaHOVA | 2026-01-28 22:09:15+00:00
People can write horrible PRs manually just as well as they do with AI (see Hacktoberfest drama, etc).

"LLM Code Contributions to Official Projects" would read exactly the same if it just said "Code Contributions to Official Projects": Write concise PRs, test your code, explain your changes and handle review feedback. None of this is different whether the code is written manually or with an LLM. Just looks like a long virtue signaling post.
by fasterik | 2026-01-28 22:09:16+00:00
It's not even about quality. I consider films like There Will Be Blood or TV shows like Deadwood to be comparable in quality to the greatest works of world literature. I've also gotten a lot of joy and entertainment out of reading crappy books.

My problem is with statements like "paper is an inferior entertainment platform". To me, this is assuming that these different media are fundamentally providing the same kind of experience, which I disagree with.

I see your point about the cognitive effort of reading, though. I guess it depends on how fluently one can read, which depends on how much exposure to books one got as a kid.
by runarberg | 2026-01-28 22:09:23+00:00
I’m not making a Malthusian doomsday prediction, and neither was Socrates for that matter. Jobs need to be done, and there will always be somebody willing and able to acquire the relevant skills, and do the job. And in the worst case scenario, society will change it self before it is allowed to fail.

Unlike Malthus, for whom it was easier to imagine the end of the world then the end of Mercantilism, I can easily imagine a world which simply replaces capitalism as its institutions start producing existential threats for humanity.

However, I don‘t think LLMs are even that, for me they are an annoyance which I personally want gone, but next to climate change and the stagnation of population growth, they wont make a dent in upending capitalism, despite how much they suck.

But just because they are not an existential threat, that doesn’t make them harmless. Plenty of people will be harmed by this technology. Like Socrates predicted people will lose skills, this includes skilled programmers, and where previously we were getting some quality software, instead we will get less of it, replaced with a bunch of AI slop. That is my prediction at least.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-28 22:09:23+00:00
Runit (not RUnit) seems pretty cool.

It uses a folder with a subfolder for every service. Each subfolder contains a script called run. The system runs the run script. If it exits, it waits two seconds and runs it again. Repeatedly. It's very worse–is–better.

There are commands to control the services and check their status. For example, if a file called down exists next to the run script, it won't run it. This is how you disable a service.

It checks for service folders being created and deleted. New folders are started, and deleted ones are stopped cleanly. They can also be symlinks, so you don't need to worry about deleting a running service folder and you can remove a service from init without erasing the scripts you wrote.

The whole system is useful in many situations and not only as pid 1.

Maybe one day I'll invent a runit–based distribution.
by adastra22 | 2026-01-28 22:09:34+00:00
I’m glad they have a carve out for using LLMs to translate to, or fix up English communications. LLMs are a great accessibility tool that is making open source development truly global. Translation and grammar fix up is something LLMs are very, very good at!

But that is translation, not “please generate a pull request message for these changes.”
by _ache_ | 2026-01-28 22:09:42+00:00
Impressive. Kudos.

You realise that it's only a toy implementation aimed at learning and not a full implementation.
The parsing of HTML alone is way more complex than your actual implementation not mentioning at lot of things like the rendering or network (outsourced to Qt).

Still a nice achievement that get you to understand why making a browser is a very complex task.
by jibal | 2026-01-28 22:10:00+00:00
> One argument could be that maybe entrepreneurial personality traits aren't normally distributed

That's not an argument, it's a completely counterfactual assertion ... or rather, the assertion that this is the cause of uneven distribution of wealth.

> Then you might ask, if that's true, do you I want to enforce equality, potentially dragging down the economy to mediocracy (for example many stagnating European economies) or maybe accept that current nature does not meet our societal desire for equality.

But of course it's not true, it's just an attempt to justify a morally bankrupt sociopathic ideology.
by monkeydust | 2026-01-28 22:10:29+00:00
London and UK for that matter is great and seeding Startups...high quality universities, entrepreneurialism and attractive tax benefits for angels but for real growth capital it lags massively behind US and has forever.

The Kraken story is one to follow to see if this changes...https://www.british-business-bank.co.uk/news-and-events/news...
by lores | 2026-01-28 22:11:01+00:00
People should not be allowed to accumulate capital beyond $X, yes. What natural law means they should? Society created the conditions for that person to be so successful; in fact, the person only had the minor part in that success. Once you reach $X, you get a certificate saying you won at life and society is really grateful, and society gets the rest of the rewards while they dedicate their life to philanthropy or torturing kittens or whatever it is they do as a hobby.
by florkbork | 2026-01-28 22:11:15+00:00
One model for this type of behaviour/response in reaction to feelings of shame is known as the "Compass of Shame" (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233600755_Investiga...)

Here's a 3 minute explainer from the researcher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1fSW7zevE

This model defines a few different categories of how people respond - "Withdrawal","Attack-Self" and "Avoidance", "Attack-Other".

If you were to look at your comments through the threads here, would you be able to classify your responses as matching any of the categories above?

As a hint, you may be surprised to learn the person with multiple comments in question I was referring to isn't you. Yet you've sought this out and decided the most suitable response to why are two groups posting responses at different rates is to attempt to relitigate an imagined argument.
by vel0city | 2026-01-28 22:11:15+00:00
> None of the argument has to do with "harassment"

The guy I replied to literally said:

> Harassment (and that's the most generous interpretation) is not free speech.

> Better communication between officers might, for example, have led to Pretti not getting shot

You know what would have also led to the officers not murdering Pretti? The officers not being heavily armed, having the officers be better trained, have the officers not treat everyone as a threat to be handled, have the officers not assaulting people on the streets.

ICE is supposed to be serving civil infractions. They shouldn't be this armed to do so.

> There is speculation that the first shot may have come from an accidental discharge of Pretti's gun

There's zero evidence of this, and the video evidence shows the officer that actually shot Pretti experienced recoil in the hand holding his gun at the sound of the first shot. Meanwhile the officer holding Pretti's gun experienced no recoil at all, and instead of looking at the gun in his hands that supposedly misfired he turned to look at the guy who actually fired the first shot. If it was really Pretti's gun that misfired, wouldn't the guy holding it react by at least looking at it? I don't know about you, but if I'm holding a gun that suddenly goes off I'm not looking around elsewhere I'm looking at the gun that's unreliably going off!

Please don't continue pushing the false narrative (lie? slander? misinformation?) that it was some accidental discharge of Pretti's gun. It is not supported by reality.
by Shocka1 | 2026-01-28 22:11:18+00:00
IMO, this is one of the better takes in this thread. I'm a big fan of Hazlitt's book Economics in One Lesson, which gives a very condensed version of some economic ideas - one of them being automation, with really good examples in the past of labor saving machines like the printing press being created. When I first read it a decade ago I didn't think my profession might be like the printing press, but it's definitely in the crosshairs now.

If I lost my software engineering job tomorrow and was unable to find work within a few months, I have a repurposing plan ready to go. Yes it would be terrible for me economically and I'm sure there would be some sad days, but sometimes bad things happen and we have to make the best of them and move on.
by toraway | 2026-01-28 22:11:40+00:00
Well he literally confirms it was from ChatGPT in a later reply, so there's that.

And his original draft is conspicuously missing the telltale "it's not X -- it's Y" and overall breathless dramatic flair that people like the poster you're replying to (correctly) picked up on.

https://xcancel.com/PlumbNick/status/2016590894485385347#m
by rafa_rrayes | 2026-01-28 22:12:08+00:00
That is a very interesting idea! Tbh, I have been thinking about something along those lines. I was messing around with gemini 3.0 back when it came out and made this program called Logic Lab (https://logiclab-227111532364.us-west1.run.app/). I was thinking of exporting/importing the components as SHDL, but as of rn they are just exported in some generic format gemini made.
by renewiltord | 2026-01-28 22:12:15+00:00
So, why use a tracking pixel for that? Just send an email. e.g.

$ head -n 100 /dev/random | md5sum
a6cc1b7c09ccb122cb066c89e16b3140 -

And that yields an instantaneous error message https://i.imgur.com/twHhIU3.png that reads "Address not found. Your message to a6cc1b7c09ccb122cb066c89e16b3140@gmail.com was not delivered because the address could not be found".
by readthenotes1 | 2026-01-28 22:12:53+00:00
Even Georgism style taxes will face the problem that if the tax is high enough, it will be worth hiring some really smart person to figure out how to work around it.

Of course, you're also going to have to face the problem that representative democracy includes the ability to buy loopholes.

And then, there are unintended consequences because representatives aren't necessarily the most financially savvy. I'm thinking about the 401k program that disproportionately advantages high income people when it was touted as a savings route for middle class people.
by wan23 | 2026-01-28 22:13:11+00:00
I like that store but it's not exactly convenient. I'm a New Yorker - my apartment is small and I've never had a driver's license in my life. I need to buy small amounts of food frequently rather than load up, so going to a place that has kind of middling versions of everything isn't super useful compared to places that have smaller selections of good things. I spend a lot of time at Trader Joe's for example, though I buy bread from a bakery, tea from a tea shop, meat and cheese from a specialty shop, etc.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-01-28 22:13:18+00:00
Swiss franc is strongest of fiats — but still fiat.

Many historians of many generations contend that debased currencies fail first slowly, then fast.

Watching gold has been eye-opening to all living generations. Just a few months ago my lawyer didn't believe me when I told him "gold just broke four thousand dollars!" [day of this post gold hit ATH of $5400]
by alephnerd | 2026-01-28 22:13:51+00:00
This.

Also UK contract law is well established and it's easy to find experienced transatlantic lawyers and firms (there's a reason UK lawyers can practice in NY and why both Hong Kong and the Emirate of Dubai kept poaching judges with contract dispute into their business judiciary).

In most cases when we'd invest in a startup abroad, the founder would often structure their startup as a subsidiary of a US, UK, Singapore (especially Indian/Chinese startups), or Cayman Islands (it's a BOT so you basically get it for free) corporation.

Ironically, this ease of financial access is what makes it difficult to seed a lasting DeepTech startup in the UK because capital would often be deployed to invest in other startup ecosystems. I wrote about this before on HN as well [0][1][2]

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42768018

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42767986

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42763734
by jibal | 2026-01-28 22:13:52+00:00
That there is more wealth now than in the past does not even remotely imply that there is infinite wealth.

> Making a company and having it valued at whatever value, does not remove that amount of wealth from other people.

This is a strawman. The ability of people to accumulate wealth is affected by every aspect of the economic system, including the means by which those companies are acquiring wealth.
by SteveChurch | 2026-01-28 22:14:02+00:00
Love this. I've lost so many cool Show HN games to the void of "I'll check that out later." Finally a cure for my bookmark graveyard.

I've submitted to add my SciFi Space MMO Game (https://play.delve-online.com) - Run mission, fly with friends, kill rats, pvp etc etc :D

Thanks and have fun :D