MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-28 17:12:46+00:00
> I'd take balkanization over the "we force-migrate everyone to the hot new thing where nothing works".

The UI framework for macOS has not changed in any substantial design-update-requiring ways since OS X was first released. They did add stuff (animations as a core concept, most notably).

The UI framework for Windows has changed even less, though it's more of a mess because there are several different ones, with an unclear relationship to each other. win32 won't hurt though, and it hasn't changed in any significant ways since dinosaurs roamed the silicon savannahs.

The UI framework for Linux ... oh wait, there isn't one.
by parasubvert | 2026-01-28 17:13:00+00:00
> It's easy to build up a good lifestyle when you exploit foreign countries for resources and outsource your labor to poor people across the world because you're not the one paying the bill. But how do you sustain that when those people start demanding the same quality of life that you have? You don't, as we're seeing now.

That's quite an oversimplification of the prosperity of the US middle class, particularly given most of the gains happened prior to globalization.
by ChaosOp | 2026-01-28 17:13:11+00:00
Very cool! Opened a PR to add my local multiplayer game platform, Gaming Couch (https://gamingcouch.com), to the list of games :) Just recently posted a ShowHN post about it which hit the front page and generated so much great feedback and discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344573

In a nutshell its a web-based game platform where up to 8 players use their smartphones as controllers to play real-time action mini-games on a central browser screen. It takes a lot of inspiration from classic party games like Jackbox, Mario Party and Mario Kart.
by megous | 2026-01-28 17:13:23+00:00
I started with Slackware Linux—something arguably even more “hard-core” than Arch.

What mattered most at the beginning was good installation documentation, and both Arch and Slackware delivered on that front. Slackware, however, had an additional appeal: it was intentionally simple, largely because it was created and maintained by a single person at the time. That simplicity made it feel conceivable that the system could be fundamentally understood by a single human mind.

Whether a newcomer appreciates the Slackware/Arch approach depends heavily on learning style and goals. You can click through a GUI installer and end up with a working distro, but then what? From a beginner’s perspective, you’ve just installed something somehow—and it looks like a crippled Windows machine with fewer buttons.

Starting with Slackware gave me a completely different starting reference point. Installing the system piece by piece was genuinely exciting, because every step involved learning what each component was and how it fit into the whole. The realization that Linux is essentially a set of Lego bricks—and that I might actually master the entire structure, or even build my own pieces—was deeply motivating.

That mindset was strongly shaped by how Slackware and similar distros present themselves. Even the lack of automatic dependency management acted as an early nudge toward thinking seriously about complexity, trade-offs, and minimalism, which stayed with me forever.
by LTL_FTC | 2026-01-28 17:13:26+00:00
I started off using gpt-oss-120b on cpu. It uses about 60-65gb of memory or so but my workstation has 128gb of ram. If I had less ram, I would start off with the gpt-oss-20b model and go from there. Look for MoE models as they are more efficient to run.

My old threadripper pro was seeing about 15tps, which was quite acceptable for the background tasks I was running.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-28 17:13:43+00:00
Related:

Apple Workers Are Livid That Cook Saw "Melania" Hours After CBP Killed Pretti

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790365

Tech CEOs attend Amazon-funded "Melania" screening at White House

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761370
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-01-28 17:13:45+00:00
This is reductive and wrong. The billionares make money hand over fist either way. They own the companies. They don't care if the new campus or factory is in China or India. They skim their cut off it's productivity either way.

It's your fellow countrymen who are peddling the policies that, at the margin, push those investments overseas.
by radicalethics | 2026-01-28 17:13:47+00:00
No experience with Google yet. Amazon still has more work to do with making their tool-use calls bullet proof, but I've been able to search Youtube naturally and "open the first video" (this is still rudimentary, it's not perfect yet). Pretty good success moving around the Fire TV app with voice (open, exit), reasonably good at switching Live channels. Really fun with Amazon music, "pull up a Taylor Swift album, but acoustic only, from 2010s ...", stuff like that. It's great, and I expect it to become rather ... perfect in time.

Other things:

- Great for todo/reminders with timers

- "Hey Alexa, turn my lights on at 5 everyday, close them at 12"

- Not great at controlling Prime Video yet, can search it, but not great yet at all. Expecting this to be perfect at some point as well.

It's almost like a ... voice operating system.
by superkuh | 2026-01-28 17:13:50+00:00
False. Gambling disorder exists, but it is grandfathered in. It wouldn't be accepted today. Porn addiction has no entry in the DSMV or ICD10, it is purely a made up concept advanced by for-profit companies looking to exploit people (and authoritarian governments looking to control). The same kind of groups that used to run camps to "fix" gay people.

If you think a chemical directly manipulating the biochemistry of incentive salience, making you want something regardless of it's valance, is the same as eventually liking something you watch and hear that's actually rewarding, yes, there's not much conversation to be had. Lay interpretations of this field are not very useful.
by LTL_FTC | 2026-01-28 17:14:00+00:00
I started off using gpt-oss-120b on cpu. It uses about 60-65gb of memory or so but my workstation has 128gb of ram. If I had less ram, I would start off with the gpt-oss-20b model and go from there. Look for MoE models as they are more efficient to run.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-28 17:14:20+00:00
Well technically, the economy has tanked (sort of), people say that the economy's doing great but the figures that we see in (q4?) are extrapolated from the previous quaters in which the only thing (from what people tell me) is keeping the "illusion" of economy doing good is the spending within AI datacenters. But a huge part of that is shrouded within mystery as well (Stargate project is really suspicious in my honest opinion though I can be wrong)

Also wasn't there some BLS figure which was pushed by the Administration to try to have good numbers or similar. I mean speaking from a different countries pov, Personally I wouldn't trust the numbers the current administration gives.

I don't know if this is the same belief that Americans within America also hold though.
by manuelabeledo | 2026-01-28 17:14:38+00:00
> However, the Microsoft stack is sooooo much more. ID management. Device management. Uncountable number of little helpers in form of software and scripts that you cannot port to a Linux based stack without significant effort. Entire mail domains are managed by Office 265 - you own the domain and the DNS records, you get licenses for Office365 from MS, you point the DNS records to Microsoft, you are done.

Is there any bit of this that is not web based or does not support Linux nowadays? Office 365 runs on a browser, and even Intune supports some enterprise oriented distributions, like RH, so device management shouldn't be a problem. But even if none of that was true, there is certainly competition in the IT management space. Defaulting to Microsoft just because of a Windows based fleet doesn't sound like a great idea.

> The truth is, they keep continuously innovating and I can see it, little things just conveniently showing up, like that I now have a Teams button to create an AI script of my conversations, or that if more than one person opens an Office document that is stored in OneDrive we can see each other inside the document, cursor positions, and who has it open.

This is stuff other vendors have been offering for ages now.
by mrexcess | 2026-01-28 17:14:43+00:00
>Jobs fucked over a lot of people

Oft repeated, and not untrue, but very incomplete.

Jobs also made a lot of people. A lot of fortunes in SilVal only exist because of Steve Jobs.

He also virtually single handedly and without much fanfare at the time or credit in the history books created the employee compensation model that came to define SilVal success, with workaday employees and especially engineering contributors receiving stock options to reward them and keep them invested in the company's success.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-28 17:15:08+00:00
Except the problem is their UX more than the kernel itself. I don't see them keeping Gnome or KDE as a desktop UI even if they did fully adopt Linux for desktop usage.

MS should really just buckle down, finish simplifying the UI and make it consistent again... the last time it was mostly consistent was Windows 7, and even then.

I'm willing to bet that System76 gets COSMIC to the level that Win7 reached faster than MS can turn anything around in terms of Windows at this point.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-28 17:15:16+00:00
> There is something going on with people, like why do you want to write a browser with the help of AI?

Is there? Who else? I thought I was the only one, besides Cursor's half-hearted attempt :P Where are the rest of the AI-made browsers? Now I want to see them.

In my case, I saw Cursor's blog post bragging about using hundreds of agents producing millions of lines of code, and the results were underwhelming (not to mention broken until a human stepped in). Initially I tried to dig into their codebase to understand how it got to where it was, but gave up.

Instead, I changed my approach, and decided to build a browser using only OS libraries in order to show that millions of LOC for what they got, is very underwhelming.
by dzr0001 | 2026-01-28 17:15:16+00:00
I think there's a fundamental difference between programming language repos and package repositories like the official RPM, deb, and ports trees.

These (typically) operating system repos have oversight and are tested to work within a set of versions. Repositories with public contribution and publishing don't have any compatibility guarantees, so the cruft described in the article must be kept indefinitely.

Unfortunately, I don't think abstracting those repositories to work within the OS package ecosystem would solve that problem and I suspect the package manager SAT solvers would have a hard time calculating dependencies.
by browningstreet | 2026-01-28 17:15:17+00:00
To defend ICs against middle management a bit: a lot of IC work is dependent on decisions that need to be made by upper level managers. A 2 week contiguous workstream can take 2+ years easy once a few managers ask a few questions and need 10-20 meetings to get 5 bullet points clarified (so many projects can't even produce that). But if that person gets replaced their institutional knowledge and work readiness evaporates.

I've been on 10+ projects at big companies and have begged to do work. Mostly it was showing up to 3-5 meetings/week while managers try and figure things out, and their VPs reconfigure budgets, priorities, and resources. Sometimes I do the work and hold it until someone wants it.

There's usually no standard top-down view about what happens when 3 VPs change the scope on 5 projects. But in reality, that usually means 10-30 people downstream are paralyzed. This is also where the tension between "new work" and "scalable processes" comes into play (need a consultant?).

Add regulatory compliance and approval gates, and then..
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-28 17:15:37+00:00
Why should I need a separate device? Doesn't a hardware security token suffice? I wouldn't even mind bringing my own but my bank doesn't accept them last I checked. (Do any of them?)

If the bank can't be bothered to either implement support for U2F or else clearly articulate why U2F isn't sufficient then they don't have a valid position. Anything else they say on the matter should be disregarded.
by cmiles8 | 2026-01-28 17:15:49+00:00
Not a great example. Football doesn’t change much. You don’t need to actively play football to know how to lead a football team well.

Tech is very different… given the pace of change you quickly no longer have any clue what’s happening unless stay technical. Imagine being dropped in to manage an AI team in 2026 when you have no experience with LLMs and the last time you coded was Pascal. 1) Teams some respect you, and 2) You’ll have no clue what you’re doing. And yet there are tons of “tech leaders” that fit this profile.
by kindatrue | 2026-01-28 17:15:49+00:00
There were points in 2008 where there were bank runs.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-12-fi-indym...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/oct/11/banking-cri...

Italy had to buy 3% of Parmigiano Reggiano production.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/europe/rome-stage...
by maaydin | 2026-01-28 17:15:54+00:00
A new update for DanceJump for YouTube just dropped, with some long-requested features and important fixes. Huge thanks to everyone who’s been reporting bugs and sharing feedback.

What’s New

New: Download & share auto-generated charts

Updated: Keyboard controls updated

Select → B

Start → N

Updated: Start button now joins/leaves the game (instead of start/stop)

Fixed: Critical issue where scores reset after ads or when a player left

Fixed: Tap-to-beat bugs & countdown display issues

Fixed: Chart padding and metadata improvements

Plus: Various bug fixes and onboarding improvements

As always, feedback and bug reports are very welcome. Let me know what you think and what you’d love to see next.
by ColinWright | 2026-01-28 17:16:06+00:00
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by piva00 | 2026-01-28 17:16:51+00:00
Yup, that's my experience after 10+ years in Sweden. It's a double-edged sword in case its tenets are used to shut diverging opinions but overall, and again in my experience, I've seen it much more as a pervasive culture of listening to others, considering their opinions even if they are below in the totem pole, and even the "consensus building" culture that many despise I've experienced in the form of convincing others why your opinion is sound.

It feels to me a decent approach for equalising anything that could devolve into hierarchical thinking. As you mention it also has another edge which can indeed be a hindrance but I haven't experienced that side (at least not yet).
by arjie | 2026-01-28 17:16:56+00:00
This has been the worst downgrade for me. Response times have skyrocketed. The minimum time to response is now a few seconds slower and the responses continue to be low quality. The speaker seems to have even lost some functionality where it says "I can't do that yet" for a thing it mostly could already do previously. If I could tell anyone with Google Home devices one thing, it would be to not 'upgrade' to Gemini.
by everyday7732 | 2026-01-28 17:17:01+00:00
This already exists- there's a class of robot called "meltybrains" which spin the whole robot using one or more wheel, detect the speed of spinning with a gyro and modulate the speed of the wheels at different points in its' rotation in order to create translational movement. Since they effectively put all the weight allowance into the "weapon" they can be very effective. The additional complexity means that they are hard to get working reliably in chaotic combat conditions. A team called "Project liftoff" had some serious success though.
by KronisLV | 2026-01-28 17:17:01+00:00
> How did we get to the point where applications by default came with all of this shit?

Because when you give your clients instructions on how to setup the environment, they will ignore some of them and then they install OracleJDK while you have tested everything under OpenJDK and you have no idea why the application is performing so much worse in their environment: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/oracle-jdk-and-openjdk-compatib...

It's not always trivial to package your entire runtime environment unless you wanna push VM images (which is in many ways worse than Docker), so Docker is like the sweet spot for the real world that we live in - a bit more foolproof, the configuration can be ONE docker-compose.yml file, it lets you manage resource limits without having to think about cgroups, as well as storage and exposed ports, custom hosts records and all the other stuff the human factor in the process inevitably fucks up.

And in my experience, shipping a self-contained image that someone can just run with docker compose up is infinitely easier than trying to get a bunch of Ansible playbooks in place.

If your app can be packaged as an AppImage or Flatpak, or even a fully self contained .deb then great... unless someone also wants to run it on Windows or vice versa or any other environment that you didn't anticipate, or it has more dependencies than would be "normal" to include in a single bundle, in which case Docker still works at least somewhat.

Software packaging and dependency management sucks, unless we all want to move over to statically compiled executables (which I'm all for). Desktop GUI software is another can of worms entirely, too.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-28 17:17:05+00:00
If you use the regression-suite I already setup (https://github.com/embedding-shapes/one-agent-one-browser/bl...) for my tiny toy browser experiment, I bet you could build it by just adding more and more "HTML > .png" examples and prompt something like "Make regression suite pass by fixing the implementation, refactor as needed", and end up with something usable.
by scottLobster | 2026-01-28 17:17:07+00:00
If you're a contractor, it's often preferable to keep qualified people on staff even if they have nothing to do because it makes bidding for future contracts easier. You can say "I have X people qualified in Y ready to go" instead of "we'll have to hire X people to do Y".

But there's also just bad hires who can get through interviews, they won't just leave, and building a case to fire those people takes time and management that gives a shit. At a large enough program at a large enough company with uninvolved management (and they can afford to be uninvolved because the program's doing well on all tracked metrics), you can get away with being negligible deadweight for a shocking amount of time. I wouldn't recommend it because your team will hate you, you'll build no skills or relationships, and you'll be the first to go when cuts happen, but some people are fine with that trade for whatever reason.
by mrexcess | 2026-01-28 17:17:10+00:00
Everybody makes mistakes, and this is definitely a huge one to have made, and a sad aspect of his legacy, but if this is all you know about Steve Jobs, you don't know anything about Steve Jobs.

He made up with Lisa - to the extent one can after all that - in the end. And he raised three other kids, after becoming older and wiser as a dad.
by chimprich | 2026-01-28 17:17:51+00:00
> get in between a federal officer and a suspect, and hope you don't get shot

Sometimes standing up to tyranny does require bravery. Like the protestor in Tienanmen Square. Did he get shot? We don't know.

> Comments like your only serve to incite more violence.

How so? We are clearly talking about the Pretti case. All the violence was from the paramilitary operatives. All Pretti did was film and stand in front of a woman who was being beaten and pepper sprayed.

Are you saying that the populace needs to learn to submit or else more violence will be inflicted on them? And that I should stop posting my opinion in case it angers the authorities or inspires more people into nonviolent resistance? If not, please clarify.
by HendrikHensen | 2026-01-28 17:18:02+00:00
More and more desktop apps are just becoming websites. More and more desktop apps are using Electron rather than some native app. Windows is slowly becoming a dumpster fire in terms of usability and issues. Most games these days Just Work on Linux without any tinkering.

While I hardly think that this year will be "the year of the Linux desktop" or whatever, but if these trends keep going, I really foresee Linux market share growing, slowly, each year, until it's not so microscopic anymore.
by kreetx | 2026-01-28 17:18:05+00:00
The people involved can't recreate the past, now with better information. But I can tell you that showing up in a protest with a gun, and also putting your hands on a law enforcement officer aren't good ideas.

Overall, restricting police work but calling these protests, aren't a good strategy either. The presidential vote is over, the majority wants this. It's you who's subject to the losing side's propaganda.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-28 17:18:07+00:00
I just scan the QR code from the Whole Foods app on my phone. Then tap the button to pay with the credit card linked to the account.

For security reasons, it makes sense that if you use your phone number rather than the QR code, of course you don't have the option to utilize the linked card.

Meant to register the palm thing but just never got around to it, wasn't even really sure how/where? That was the main blocker for me -- was never prompted to do it as part of checkout, and didn't want to waste time going over to customer service to ask how.
by observationist | 2026-01-28 17:18:16+00:00
It's fascinating that you can get to the level of atomic material properties as a spinning top hacker. Diamond seems like it'd be the obvious winner, if you could somehow get a perfectly polished and smooth surface.

I'd love to see a small Prince Rupert's drop for a tip and a ruby/sapphire spinning surface - you'd need to make a ton of drops, probably, but having a round, nearly spherical contact geometry and super smooth surface seems like a winning combo.
by GoatInGrey | 2026-01-28 17:18:22+00:00
Many of these announcements are bluffs as many users here have pointed out. But real LLM-driven layoffs do happen, and from what I have anecdotally seen, they follow a pattern: leadership assumes the new LLM service will make human workers redundant. They then make cuts before the evidence is in. What this means is that today, there are many LLM service deployments that replaced humans while their actual impact remains a mystery. Though it won't be a mystery to leadership forever.

One example client that shouldn't dox me: Odom Corporation, a beverage distributor. They purchased an LLM-driven purchasing solution and immediately laid off their entire purchasing team, save for a few members who exist on the periphery. A follow-up with them showed that the system was ordering summer beverages coming into the winter (among many other bad purchasing decisions) and causing a dramatic increase in unsold inventory. Since they believe that LLMs will exponentially improve, they're dismissing it as a one-off because this year's models "will be so much better". We attempted to advise differently, but stakeholders got extremely emotional at even small suggestions that there was a fundamental problem. Good luck to them.