MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blindriver | 2026-01-16 18:11:40+00:00
I'm the same age as you and most of my friends are remote, on the other side of the country or in different countries, etc, and I maintain contact all the time, for decades. I still have friends from elementary school, middle school, high school, university, and from most of my jobs going back 30 years. I can pick up my phone and call some of my coworkers from 25 years ago without hesitation and we will go for lunch at the next opportune time.

> most of my friends have dropped off or gone crazy

If you find yourself to be the one who is isolated, then I think you need to look inward. My best friends and I share completely polar opposite politics. We have known each other for almost 50 years now. We have had yelling matches over politics, especially during the Pandemic. We have now stopped talking... about politics. We still chat every single day throughout the day. I laugh heartily at least once a day over some extremely offensive joke that one of us sends, usually at each other's expense. But we never, ever talk about politics anymore and we are happier for it.

Maybe you need to rekindle those friendships and see if you can avoid politics. If you can't then I think it's more on you than them and you should reflect on that.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-16 18:12:06+00:00
I know the writing has been on the wall for a while but as a former fanboy, I just didn't see it. When SIP was released, it was my first "ah ha" wake-up call that Apple is no longer building software for me. Ten years later, it's still getting worse. This idea that the owner of the computer is not the ultimate authority over what is running on that computer is slowly seeping its way into macOS and with every release it seems to get worse. That and the ecosystem of apps that abandon you if you're running N minus 3 or earlier macOS.

I'm finally starting to de-Applify my home computing and slowly removing my and my family's dependence on the Apple ecosystem. Replacing an old Mac Mini here, replacing an old MacBook there. It's been a long time coming, but I'm out.

I'm not even mentioning Tahoe which is a disaster but doesn't bother me because I don't have a single machine that can run anything past Ventura anyway.
by christalwang | 2026-01-16 18:12:22+00:00
Thanks, appreciate you! Agree that some folks here likely have put together their own systems too, so I was also hoping to get some inspiration from what folks have done and what's working for them! And I also know this group will be the most critical (in a good way) so it's always helpful for us to launch here as it makes our product and systems better.

If there's anyone in your life who's earlier on in their journey, do send Indy their way!

re: Non-medical use, Indy doesn't give advice, diagnose, treat, or interpret symptoms. We don’t tell people what they SHOULD do. We focus on reflection, structuring thoughts, noticing patterns, and helping users orient themselves, so that they build autonomy and capacity over time. E.g. generic LLMs don't often have tight guardrails and they can drift into prescriptive or quasi-clinical territory simply because that’s what users ask for.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-16 18:12:38+00:00
> They can't really build a cheap enough crossover/suv to compete directly with ICE RAV4, and virtually anything they do at >$50k

Doesn't the Model Y start at 40K? That's more expensive than the base model RAV4, but the Tesla is probably aimed at a slightly different market segment too. My guess is they could compete head-to-head on price if they needed to, but they don't think the math works out better that direction yet.
by bahmboo | 2026-01-16 18:12:46+00:00
That's always been true. Perhaps even more so as Astro constantly faced an existential battle for a working business. Now they don't have to do that and Cloudflare makes their money on their infra business. Locking Astro up now or in the future gains them very little compared to how much they make with hosted upsell services. [edit: clarity]
by cweagans | 2026-01-16 18:12:53+00:00
There used to be a commercially-made tv-b-gone device. Not sure if it's made anymore, but there's a DIY kit that appears to do the same thing: https://www.adafruit.com/product/73

I used to carry one with me everywhere (it was small enough to fit on a keychain). One night at a sports bar, I showed it to a friend. Before I could stop him, he pushed the button and every TV in the place went black, right in the middle of some PPV sports event. Anyway, he bought one on the spot.
by fwip | 2026-01-16 18:12:59+00:00
You could find, for example, a journal entry attesting that it was his first painting he'd ever done. (Either his own, or by somebody who knew him). While that's not proof, it's at least reason to believe that it is his first.

As far as I can tell, nobody in this case is claiming that it is or even might be the first, except the headline, which makes the headline misleading.
by observationist | 2026-01-16 18:15:23+00:00
https://www.ebay.com/itm/257059686708

Since you mentioned Mosaic, this came to mind. There are also a handful of OReilly books. I think it'd be funny because you gave us basically nothing to work with, so for her to pluck the exact right one from the thousands of possibilities would be impressive, lol.
by dleslie | 2026-01-16 18:16:01+00:00
> You can only really buy full-sized long box trucks if you're part of a fleet program.

This is why the folks I know personally who are actually in the position to need to haul dimensional for work all seem to drive white pickup trucks that they bought from resales of leased fleets.

The _useless_ short bed trucks are driven mostly by young men who were too eager to pile on the personal debt in a show of vanity.
by mmooss | 2026-01-16 18:16:29+00:00
> "we knew someone would eventually die, but we realized that paying the damages in case this happens is cheaper than preventing the disaster in the first place".

The fundamental reality is, we can always spend more to prevent another death; and we must draw the line somewhere.

People don't like it, but your latter example is the risk management I'm talking about, and it's unavoidable. Nobody can make airplanes that have no risk of killing people - the only answer would be no airplanes at all (which would result in more automobile deaths, more deaths because life-saving resources are unavailable, etc.). The calculation of cost per death prevented is a real one, and is done by manufacturers of planes, cars, etc.

The problem with your wording is the criteria of paying damages, rather than the industry-standard value for human life. Again, that is awful to think about but there's no way around it.

Edit: And I'm not saying, at all, that Boeing made the right decision here. I don't know enough to say, and Boeing's safety reputation is poor.
by zzzeek | 2026-01-16 18:16:52+00:00
I came here to agree with you but then I had the good sense to read the original page which is at the Met (https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2009/michelan...), and has a lot of background on this painting, including that it WAS actually painted from an existing image (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temptation_of_St_Anthony_(... - worth a look to compare), so my primary skepticism "how could a kid even come up with that" makes a lot more sense that he had an existing image he was copying.

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2009/michelan...
by kleene_op | 2026-01-16 18:16:56+00:00
First the fact that she received the price when a ton of people where far more deserving of it in terms of raw achievements toward peace.
Then the fact that she would sell the price and what it represents for a slim (read inexistent)k shot at being instated as the president of Venezuella, where I read that the majority of people have a very unfavorable opinion of her.
And finally the fact that she would sell away the Peace price to Donald Trump, the very same person considering invading Greenland for aura farming purposes!

I think they have to shut down the Noble peace price at this point, there's no recovering from such an embarrassing turn of events.
by sebastiennight | 2026-01-16 18:17:13+00:00
> No one is making serious threats to invade Canada, that's ridiculous

Would you care to share a few actual quotes that show the obvious facetiousness of the US executive comments that have been made about invading Canada, and comparing them with the obvious seriousness of comments from the same administration about invading Venezuela?

This would be very helpful for foreigners who might have difficulties reading the difference between very public statements that seem quite similar from abroad.
by switchbak | 2026-01-16 18:17:16+00:00
You'd be surprised the stink people can put up with when you have a leader to the south of us that is engaged in the kind of regressive behaviour that he/his administration is.

Not that I'm condoning this at all, I think China is a very concerning actor on the world stage. But I can certainly understand the mindset of many Canadians to reflexively seek out alternatives to more USA interdependence, short sighted as some of that may be.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-16 18:17:26+00:00
Exactly. The control needs to have both an intentional and major motor movement from the driver. Modern steering wheels have the same benefit as the original iPod wheel. Easy for small movements, even accidental ones; possible for big movements.

Also funny that they had the ability to swap to the passenger to drive it. So acceleration/break for one person, steering for another? Really not a good idea.
by river_otter | 2026-01-16 18:17:30+00:00
Nathan here: Anushri and I wrote this after many discussion in our team here at mozilla.ai. Not only from experiences managing contributions in our own OSS code but also in extenral OSS codebases we contribute to ourselves: we've seen varied methods for handling AI usage when it comes to contributions.

Hopefully this post helps kickstart the discussion about what we should do to help keep OSS codebases a wonderful place to contribute and learn from each other.

Regardless of how you feel about AI generated code, we think it's crucial that we talk and learn from each other. AI Coding is a new world and it's here to stay, learning from each other about how to navigate learning and optimizing our new skill sets is important.
by dang | 2026-01-16 18:17:54+00:00
Agreed in principle, but replying to a concrete, personal, whimsical comment with a generic, ideological, denunciatory comment is not a good way to develop a thread on Hacker News. In fact it's the opposite. That's why the site guidelines say:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628204.)
by jjk166 | 2026-01-16 18:18:24+00:00
Which may have been a very reasonable conclusion based on what they knew of the issue. The letter sent out reported a split of the bearing race. A split bearing race won't prevent it from supporting the load. It's easily possible that Boeing's simulation of an aircraft operating with a split bearing race was fine.

The NTSB investigation found that for this crash, not only did the bearing race crack, but also that the bearing lugs, which hold the bearing in place, were fractured. I don't have access to the original text of the letter Boeing sent out, but based on the NTSB report, it sounds like only the issue with the bearing race was previously identified. The two may very well be related, but that doesn't mean that the lug fractures are an expected result of the race failure - perhaps some contributing factor made the lugs more susceptible than predicted. It also remains possible that the bearing damage is a red herring; the aircraft was nearing the end of its service life and had known structural issues in other parts of the pylon. The fact is that for more than a decade after the bearing race issue was reported, it didn't result in a safety of flight condition.

The insinuation that Boeing was deliberately trying to hide or downplay a known issue is simply unwarranted. It would be irresponsible for the NSTB not to mention a known issue that could have potentially been relevant, it's not evidence the issue was improperly handled.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-16 18:18:29+00:00
>When snail mail had a cost floor of $0.25 for the price of postage

Hence I suspect that quite a few of these interfaces that are now being spammed with AI crap will end up implementing something that represents a fee, a paywall, or a trustwall. That should keep armies of AI slop responses from being worthwhile.

How we do that without killing some communities is yet to be seen.
by victorbjorklund | 2026-01-16 18:18:56+00:00
Let’s hope you’re right. I think vendor lock in is possible if they focus on features tightly coupled to Cloudflare. Look at Next.js. In theory you can deploy it anywhere, but in practice it is harder outside Vercel because of tight coupling around things like caching. You do not have to use those features, but if the framework is built to expect them, it pushes people into that platform. I can imagine Astro becoming very attractive to use with Cloudflare Workers and slowly locking people into that model.
by ddrscott | 2026-01-16 18:19:14+00:00
New Year, New Album: The Language of Love by Copy Pasta

Every developer has a complicated relationship with their programming languages

Track list:
- QBasic: First crush, childhood wonder, the magic of making the screen respond
- HTML: Puppy love with an identity crisis
- JavaScript: The wild one you can't quit despite the drama
- CSS: Beautiful disaster, specificity nightmares
- PHP: Everyone's embarrassed ex that still powers half the web
- Java: Old reliable, verbose but faithful
- SQL: True love, queries of the heart
- Python: The easy one, smooth relationship everyone envies
- Ruby: The elegant one, developer happiness
- The C Family: Epic duet spanning three generations
- TypeScript: JavaScript grew up and found structure
- Bash: Pipes and dreams, terminal romance
- DOS Batch: Memory lane, autoexec.bat nostalgia
- Go: The simple one, opinionated and clear
- Kotlin: Java but actually fun
- Swift: The Apple of my eye
- Rust: The strict one who makes you better
- Assembly: The deepest connection, speaking directly to the machine
- POSIX: Who needs a language when you have stdin and stdout
- Every Language: They all have their place
by jfengel | 2026-01-16 18:19:19+00:00
I doubt it raises the costs of invasion very much. I don't expect the Danish to fight to the last man. If shooting starts, they will evacuate quickly.

But it meant that the US will have fired shots at NATO soldiers, rather than just walking in and declaring themselves in charge. That raises the political and economic stakes, if not the military ones.

It's making absolutely clear that this means the end of NATO, and puts all EU/US relationships in doubt. It could even mean that we were automatically at war. They're hoping that somebody around the President will consider that too high a price to pay. Which is a long shot, but is probably the least-worst option.
by spijdar | 2026-01-16 18:19:32+00:00
Yes, this is true! I was thinking about "disabling SIP" in the sense of being able to modify the system to e.g. disable the Spotlight launchd service. My mistake.

But still -- you can't "unlock" the system (in this sense) without disabling SSV, which requires disabling FileVault.

(Unless I'm wrong about that too, and there is a way to disable Spotlight without disabling SSV)
by piva00 | 2026-01-16 18:20:02+00:00
Just to note that the Peace Prize committee is a completely different one than the other prizes.

The five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament while the Swedish Nobel Committee is composed of institutions proposing laureates and a larger body of experts to choose the recipients. The Norwegian part does both: selecting candidates and choosing the winner.

I think it's important to know so the Peace Prize process doesn't diminish the achievements of the other prizes.

Henry fucking Kissinger got a Peace Prize...
by christalwang | 2026-01-16 18:20:05+00:00
Appreciate the thought behind this comment, and the willingness to help with the questions we asked! We actually just came out of beta last week, so the data is skewed. Beta users have really high usage & retention rates (probably due to the accountability that they knew they'd be talking to me on the phone at the end, and since they applied and committed to testing).

Interesting thought behind using 1) force and 2) consequences to get tasks done. I think those are definitely 2 useful levers, but there are other levers to get these things done too (of course, without context to what tasks you're referring to). On Indy, we use positive motivation & emotional salience to help users connect their current task to future goals, we help them explore if there's a gap of [capability], [opportunity], or [motivation] to get something done (COM-B model), and help them draw on past strategies that have worked for them that they may have forgot (non-exhaustive). Indy is intentionally not a to-do list, there's actually no lists in there, as lists get overwhelming, but instead helps the users cut down and reflect on what's really important today or this week to get to your life goals (existential productivity vs. traditional productivity).

I like your line of thinking at the end there. A lot of our members come in thinking they want better organization / productivity / habits, or in general just MORE, but we know through research that that doesn't actually yield a more fruitful life. And yes haha, no shortcuts in life, but I try to enjoy the process :)
by yubblegum | 2026-01-16 18:20:11+00:00
> Governments usually switch off the internet when they have a risk of being overthrown. Thats' why it's happening in Iran. They want to disrupt the co-ordination of a coup

You are, possibly innocently, carrying propaganda water for a repressive autocratic regime that has killed thousands of its own citizens in the past week alone.

IRI desposts, starting fro Ali Khamenei down to the rest of their ideological "brothers and sisters" in the regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (note no "Iran" in that name ..) are scared shitless that a Mussolini style future awaits them and their parasitical clans.

IRI has cut off internet and phone networks for days now because they know that before they can yet again reach "a deal" with the despicable Western elite who were instrumental in their rise to power (and staying there for all these years) need Media Cover from the audiances in the rest of the civilized world who would be exposed to numerous images and videos of bodies piled in streets and morgues, ARAB ISIS Style goons on pickup trucks with machine guns, and scenes of Iranian men and women of all shapes and ages loudly expressing their utter hatred of this EVIL REGIME from all corners of Iran, and they would not be able to "make a deal".

I strongly suggest, specially if you in anyway believe in any sort of Cosmic Judgment (Karmic or Abrahamic), to not stick your ignorant nose into the Iranian Revolution.

The people of Iran want to remove the yoke of this EVIL REGIME masqurading as God's Government on Earth. Let that outlandish and ludicrous pretention sink in before you get up to be a useful idiot for the Islamic Republic occupying Iran, ok?
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-16 18:20:26+00:00
There was a guy who sold a chip for that which you fitted to a car keyfob. In the olden days of the late 80s, Valeo used a pretty insecure not-rolling-code infrared thing for central locking systems.

Anyway you'd get a handful of old Rover, Peugeot, Renault, or Citroën (and a bunch of others) fobs from the scrapyard and fit this pre-programmed PIC microcontroller, and when you pressed the button it would cycle through a bunch of volume down, mute, and power off commands for most common brands of TV.

However the real genius one - and it was about 20 quid - was this. Remember Furbies? They would chatter away to each other, using infrared to communicate so they'd go in sync. Well, this one that transmitted the "GO TO SLEEP RIGHT NOW" command to any Furby in the room. Relatively expensive but worth it.
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by zaizz | 2026-01-16 18:20:29+00:00
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Hi HN,

I’m building *StudyBuddy.rest*, an AI-powered study platform aimed at helping students study more effectively, especially during exams and last-minute prep.

The idea came from my own experience as a CS student struggling to organize notes, revise quickly, and stay consistent.

Current features include:

* AI-generated structured notes from topics or text
* Note summarization into concise bullet points
* Last-minute revision kits (overview, flashcards, MCQs, formulas, tips)
* Q&A from uploaded files or manual input with difficulty control
* Weekly AI-generated study planner
* Quizzes and basic progress tracking

Tech stack:

* Next.js (App Router)
* PostgreSQL (Neon)
* NextAuth
* Deployed on Vercel (planning AWS later)

The product is still early and evolving, and I’m trying to validate:

* Whether this actually solves real problems for students
* Which features are genuinely useful vs unnecessary
* UX issues or missing workflows
* Thoughts on pricing / subscription expectations for a student-focused SaaS

I’d really appreciate any honest feedback, criticism, or ideas.
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by Waterluvian | 2026-01-16 18:20:38+00:00
A few assorted thoughts:

- I'm still not over how great it feels to have confidence that Carney has a strong understanding of the economics of these political manouvers. Not only is he not a !@#$ing moron, he's a deeply experience economist more than he's a politician.

- Stratification of trading partners is nothing but good.

- This feels like safe toe-dip. Both sides have agreed to terms that are temporary, meaning there is no surprise rug-pull moment. Which is something the Americans are using more and more to keep everyone so !@#$ing wound up.

- This could be a long-term play for China: establish a presence in the North American auto market. The U.S. is right there. (Watch the Americans ban Chinese EVs from border crossing)

- Even better long-term play: establish North American manufacturing. How about Ontario builds Japanese and Chinese cars, turns CAMI and others into a Roshel or other military vehicle plant, and says good riddance to the American auto makers that have been rug-pulling long before Trump got into politics.

- A great opportunity to start improving trade lines for Canola. Possibly a trial balloon for other primary and secondary resources?

- Canada cannot stand on its own geopolitically. We must be closely tied to a major power. Intuitively that choice is the EU But I fear that China can move much faster and we'll find ourselves de-facto in their sphere while the EU is still debating this and that.
by mullingitover | 2026-01-16 18:21:17+00:00
In the case of the Xiaomi SU7[1]: you name it. Pretty much every conceivable way. Performance, comfort, electronics, styling, build quality. Xiaomi is on par with Apple for electronics and they actually followed through on making the car Apple wishes they made. Sells for around 40k, so on par with a Model 3, but absolutely embarrasses anything Tesla makes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdSusCDZcDg