MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-18 11:12:16+00:00
I agree but trust me when I say this, its not gonna happen.

I see people so entrenched in American politics who cant believe that there can be independents atleast in how the current voting works

They probably need better voting mechanisms... but for which they are gonna have to vote and no republican or democrat is gonna propose this ( i really don't think so) and the people can probably only vote for republican or democrat (independents very few) in the current system...

So its doomed and this is the reason why. A lot of American politics in the end feels like this or that, not knowing the nuances and polarization (in some sense) from both parties while still bieng the same (corruption stemming from lobbyists)

It's just really sad to see because to me its like not just Trump being a hostile takeover (which he is) but rather that both parties and the system failed the people so that someone like trump could spin up in the first place and now this is even happening.

If I were to tell you even 2 years ago all the things happening in America, you would believe we are in a black mirror episode or Its a bad dream but its reality now & we (non Americans) just gotta deal with America impeaching on other countries sovereignity trying to buy things outright and all escalations and the final one remaining is war and they haven't put it off the table as well

Like, I just want to take a moment here man

Like what the fuck is happening.
by armcat | 2026-01-18 11:13:52+00:00
I've been working in legaltech space and can definitely echo the sentiments there. There are some major legaltech/legal AI companies but after speaking to dozens of law firms, none of them are finding these tools very valuable. But they have signed contracts with many seats, they are busy people, and tech is not intrinsic to them, so they are not in the business of just changing tools and building things in-house (a handful of them are). And the problem is despite massive amount of internal data, all the solutions fail on the relevance and precision scale. When I sit down with actual legal associates, I can see how immensely complex these workflows are, and to fully utilize this data moat you need: (1) multi-step agentic retrieval, (2) a set of rules/heuristics to ground and steer everything per transaction/case "type", (3) adaptation/fine-tuning towards the "house language/style", (4) integration towards many different data sources and tools; and you need to wrap all this with real-world evals (where LLM-as-a-judge technique often fail).
by paranoidrobot | 2026-01-18 11:14:03+00:00
A selection of times it's been previously posted:

(2018, 222 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17135841

(2022, 166 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30595026

(2024, 139 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39136472 - by the same submitter as this post.
by jruohonen | 2026-01-18 11:15:03+00:00
A funny read with a grain of wisdom too, I suppose. Is the following the future of open source, I wonder? And will GitHub face the same slop-destiny as mainstream social media?

> I'm not sure how we will go ahead here, but it’s pretty clear that in projects that don’t submit themselves to the slop loop, it’s going to be a nightmare to deal with all the AI-generated noise.

> Some projects no longer accept human contributions until they have vetted the people completely.

Also reminds of the following recent piece that talked about increasing (or exploding?) verification debt:

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/verification-debt-when-generat...
by notahacker | 2026-01-18 11:15:33+00:00
He obviously always held the normie billionaire libertarian "taxes bad, regulations bad, unions bad" right positions, enjoyed "politically incorrect" jokes and had some weird preconceptions like obsession with male heirs that might not be overtly political but line up with certain more fringe right views. Maybe he chose to hide some spicier views about the apartheid era.

But there's also definitely been a change. He publicly endorsed Democrat candidates on numerous occasions, including against normie business-friendly Republicans. Think his metamorphosis in actual unfiltered views is best shifted from the "I absolutely support trans but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare" to his current campaigns...
by vjerancrnjak | 2026-01-18 11:16:18+00:00
https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/12/how-scylla-scaled-to-one...

I like this one where they put a dataset on 80 machines only then for someone to put the same dataset on 1 Intel NUC and outperform in query time.

https://altinity.com/blog/2020-1-1-clickhouse-cost-efficienc...

Datasets never become big enough…
by defrost | 2026-01-18 11:17:17+00:00
Fiji less so than the US . . .

The USofA in particular

* has been the largest cummulative emmitter of CO2,

* has "outsourced" much of the emissions due to its current consumption levels to offshore manufacturers such as China,

* was an early recognizer of the serious implications of CO2 emmissions causing AGW, going back to the 1970s,

* was and still is home to some of the largest fossil fuel companies that have been activly gaslighting the world about the realities of AGW since the 1970,

* is, or at least was, a global leader that was admired with an aspiration lifestyle that has set the tone for lifestyle globally - a lifestyle with consumption and emission attributes that have disasterous side effects if attained globally.

There are some 190+ countries about the globe, it's very much the case that not all countries are equal actors in this issue.
by mrtksn | 2026-01-18 11:17:36+00:00
AFAIK countries that turn totalitarian often end up having alternative force directly under the regime control because the military is very strict in following rules and often non-partisan due to its composition and claim of high moral ground.

To enforce an ideology you need people whom identity is based around the ideology, they need to be losers, goons who don't have anything else for them going on.

Therefore the proper military can indeed be an attempt to de-escalate the situation.
by bjackman | 2026-01-18 11:21:05+00:00
I believe that lets the compiler reorder the accesses. So this would be fine for my second example but it would be broken for my first example.

({READ,WRITE}_ONCE() only lets the compiler reorder the accesses if they happen in the same C statement).

I think C++ doesn't have an equivalent because it just doesn't make sense as a primitive in very many environments.
by imtringued | 2026-01-18 11:21:06+00:00
>It'd be mostly unsafe anyway, so what's the point?

The vast majority of the code that will be tagged "unsafe", will be done so because you're doing the equivalent of FFI, but implemented in hardware. If there was a way to automatically generate the binding from a register map, the only purpose of the unsafe keyword would be to warn you that the effect of the ffi call you are doing is unknown. In other words, the unsafe marker isn't some kind of admission of defeat. It marks the potentially unsafe sections of the code where additional care might be required.

This means you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
by vladms | 2026-01-18 11:22:29+00:00
> The article talks about how they’re doing better now, but it’s filled with so many admissions that they think a full-time job would have been a better path in general that it’s hard to unsee it.

My personal experiences taught me that things generally do no play out as one imagines neither for "startup" nor for "full-time job". There are advantages and disadvantages for each, best is to try (a bit) both and decide for yourself. Of course I get that for some this is not possible, just saying what I think it would be the ideal.

I think some discontent with one's current situation is healthy - to allow for progress - but I always find strange when people strongly project that "something else would be better" without having experience with it.
by joomy | 2026-01-18 11:22:35+00:00
(bu tam-sayının) mutlak-değeri,
(bunun 0'dan büyüklüğü) doğruysa,
bu,
değilse,
bunun -1'le çarpımıdır.

(5'in mutlak-değerini) yaz.

(-5'in mutlak-değerini) yaz.

You can try it in the playground.
by mezyt | 2026-01-18 11:23:51+00:00
Remind me of a recent discussion we had among Stackoverflow moderator:

> “Think about it,” he continued. “Who discovers the edge cases the docs don’t mention? Who answers the questions that haven’t been asked before? It can’t be people trained only to repeat canonical answers. Somewhere, it has to stop. Somewhere, someone has to think.”

> “Yes,” said the Moderator.

> He leaned back. For a moment, restlessness flickered in his eyes.

> “So why wasn’t I told this at the start?”

> “If we told everyone,” said the Moderator gently, “we’d destroy the system. Most contributors must believe the goal is to fix their CRUD apps. They need closure. They need certainty. They need to get to be a Registered Something—Frontend, Backend, DevOps, Full stack. Only someone who suffered through the abuse of another moderator closing their novel question as a duplicate can be trusted to put enough effort to make an actual contribution”
by robin_reala | 2026-01-18 11:24:17+00:00
I don’t think you do recall correctly. Electrek has European EV sales at +33% in 2025 over 2024. It’s not possible for Norway to turn a negative in the rest of Europe into an overall positive. https://electrek.co/2025/12/11/global-ev-sales-jump-21-in-20...
by Lord-Jobo | 2026-01-18 11:25:33+00:00
The red scare famously effected social groups from the very wealthy to the poorest immigrant. Civil rights before it. Social-political exclusion is not new in the U.S, but how big the “I ignore politics and politics ignores me” group is, is highly variable.
In good times, when people are generally happy, political representatives have a fewer differences and the “happily apolitical” group is very large. This aligns with the Clinton-Bush JR era.

The problem is, those eras are uncommon even in the U.S in the broader view of history, and depend entirely on being the right demographic. Such as being a Muslim American in the decade following 9/11. I can assure you, they did not experience the “friends of a different political party” effect at that time.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-18 11:26:08+00:00
I will have to agree you on this one even as a trump hater because i do feel like somehow people imagined that trump's gonna make all things affordable somehow (the same people now turning to mamdani see maga for mamdani movement no jokes)

i do feel like this is a pipeline

Disagree with some aspects of democrats? boom you are a republican

Disagree with some aspects of Republicans? boom you are a democrat

It's just picking the less worst candidate and media influence as such values a lot in the perception of "loss"

Obviously trump has been the more worst candidate in comparison and there were already tell tale signs of it

It's a shame that bernie sanders hasn't been an American president or the bias you see at democrats because of it regarding bernie or not pushing bernie at times.

That being said, what trump is doing so abhorent that Its literally killing the nation so I feel like some blame should be placed in its voters.

I genuinely just hope that you guys re-evaluate your two party system. You need a grass roots movement of independent to take on the system from within with the promise of changing the voting system to some better more independent or similar.

But looks like America's not gonna have mid term elections (Trump joked about it just as how he joked about greeland)

How does one fuck up a country that I used to admire a few years back into something that even I am comparing it to Iran & in many cases worse.

I do feel like Histories being written in front of our own eyes tho, Historians are also gonna analyze the average opinion on what's happening and we are gonna witness something in decades to come, "but why didn't they take action when all of this was happening, surely everyone could agree it was wrong" (this was my first thought reading about slavery/ pre-french revolution)

Now I understand how it feels like.

So right now's the perfect time to call bullshit on trump and impeach him or support the idea in the time being even you may've voted republican.

I do feel like America's gone to the point of no return but the only thing America can do right now is risk mitigation because chances are, war does feel more real now.

I am not american but first and foremost, whether or not if you are a democrat or republican, you all are american so why are some of you still defending a country which is breaching or trying to breach the sovereignity of another country and a guy who looks like hes all hell bent on breaking the ideas America was established on.

Cut the losses of the survivorship bias and do what's right. The world's watching.
by 0ckpuppet | 2026-01-18 11:26:12+00:00
Is it really scalping? I have more interest than knowledge of what makes a good cookung knife. I could pay him for his knowledge and get a good and useful knife, or I could guess my way through half a dozen trips to the flea market with weeks of trial and error usage. Yes, one is a solution and the other is a journey, but if I'm committed to this particular journey, surf's up at 5:30 a.m.
by port11 | 2026-01-18 11:26:50+00:00
There’s plenty of research about the fatigue and damage caused by displays, with brightness being a factor. Most displays I’ve used, at the lowest brightness, will still be fatiguing. The human eye has never been exposed to this much direct light at close quarters, lots of it being in the blue+ parts of the spectrum.

Needing light themes to offset display reflections seems like a very good case of form over function. Nano-texture Apple displays largely address that, but then they’re much more expensive. The idiocy of fashion-driven design…

Aside from the LG Ultrafine, I’ve never owned an external monitor with auto-brightness.

Example meta reviews:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12886-024-03721-1

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9434525/
by defrost | 2026-01-18 11:27:10+00:00
As a non American you have a semi reasonable chance of being to sit back, take a beat, and watch (maybe) Trump implode and self destruct within the US system and maybe some following rebuilding of the system "as intended" with better safeguards.

Trump’s triumphant narrative is not working at home, either. A new CNN poll released Friday shows that fifty-eight percent of Americans believe that Trump’s first year in office has been a failure. Americans worry most about the economy, but concerns about democracy come in second. The numbers beyond that continue to be bad for Trump. Sixty-six percent of Americans think Trump doesn’t care about people like them. Fifty-three percent think he doesn’t have the stamina and sharpness to serve effectively as president.

Sixty-five percent of Americans say Trump is not someone they are proud to have as president.

~ Jan 17th, 2026 - https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-17-2026

See also: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-16-2026 etc.
by jruohonen | 2026-01-18 11:27:29+00:00
> "Research found that although using coding assistants made programmers think that they were working faster, the truth is that debugging the bots' code slowed the humans down by as much as they thought it sped up the process. The implications of this for code quality are obvious."

So I suppose the jury is still out there regarding whether there are actually any savings or productivity boosts.
by nasretdinov | 2026-01-18 11:27:36+00:00
And now with things like DuckDB and clickhouse-local you won't have to worry about data processing performance ever again. Just kidding, but especially with ClickHouse it's so much better to handle the large data volume compared to the past, and even a single beefy server is often enough to satisfy all data analytics needs for a moderate-to-large company.
by rl3 | 2026-01-18 11:28:58+00:00
YouTube has turned into a trash spigot of AI-generated garbage, especially the ads. Platforms used to care about their advertisers meeting some type of minimum quality bar. It's just trashy.

To be fair, said trashiness started prior to AI when video thumbnails began competing in this race to the bottom on who could be the best clickbait.

If there's ever an Idiocracy sequel, they won't need any computer graphics; the actors just browsing a live computer on YouTube's main page should suffice.
by peo1306 | 2026-01-18 11:31:50+00:00
I redesigned the protocol by which the Mercurial DVCS discovers the common DAG subset between the client and the server.

Firstly, my approach ("set discovery") was simply to take relatively dumb samples of nodes from the leaves towards roots and ask the other party if they knew these nodes, and then iteratively refine with more roundtrips. In practice, this by far beat the previous sophisticated approach ("tree discovery") which tries to use the structure of the DAG to cleverly select "highly informative" nodes.

Secondly, I had a symmetric setup where the client sent samples to the server, and the server responded with information about those samples, and samples of its own. It worked great, saving sometimes 100-eds of network roundtrips. However, computing the samples is relatively expensive. Another contributor suggested that it would work almost as well if the server was kept dumb and would just respond for each sample node whether it knew it or not. This massively reduced server load and kept the protocol much simpler.

https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/file/tip/mercurial/setdisc...
https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/rev/cb98fed52495
by seanhunter | 2026-01-18 11:31:58+00:00
A famous example of this is the “lego batch scheduler” that is the stuff of hacker legend, but I’m struggling to find a writeup about it online.

The story goes some company/university/whatever in the early days of computing wanted a batch scheduler[1] to run jobs at specific times on their big IBM mainframe. They spoke to IBM who quoted them an eye-watering amount for it and said it would take months to implement. The main system operator told them to just hold fire and he’d see what he could come up with. The next day they had a working batch scheduler for zero dollars. He had set up the jobs so they would run on a keypress on a particular keyboard, then taken some of his kids’ lego and made a long finger on a hinge. He wrapped some string around the winder of a wind-up alarm clock then attached it to the lego and set the alarm clock to go off at the time they wanted to run the job. This had the effect of unwinding the string, lowering the finger that then pressed the key on the keyboard, running the job.

Not only that, but the jobs had a problem if you tried to run them twice, so he made it so the lego brick snapped off when pressing the key, making the job idempotent.

[1] Think “cron”, but for a mainframe
by bigpeopleareold | 2026-01-18 11:32:28+00:00
I appreciate all the innovations that him and his team brought to the ThinkPad, since this is my main set of laptops.

Lenovo, on the other hand, has been a hit or miss for awhile. I had a T570, which was horrible; one problem after the next. It's just a source of parts now. There are some design issues with the T480 (no center screw in the front/bottom). Also with the T480 is, what it seems to be, the slightly flaky USB-C connectors. The external keyboard (non-bluetooth), while very useful for 2 years, has always been a struggle with the flimsy micro-usb, leaving me to hack that. But now, I somehow now lost an important key on it, I just gave up and bought a nice Tex Shinobi. The only stable-ish one is the one I am on now, a T470p. It's not been perfect, but it's the best designed TP I had (my T430s is overall good, except for battery power, but the internals for those old machines are a chore to get through.) I have a P14s at work. It's OK, but nothing to write home about.

If all these TPs die, and Framework has a trackpoint version + delivers to my country, I would like to get that instead.
by joomy | 2026-01-18 11:32:46+00:00
You're right about the records providing flexible order, I overlooked that.

But Kip lets you repeat cases in arguments, so you're not limited to 8 arguments for a function. In cases where a function takes multiple arguments of the same case, the order in which those arguments are applied matters, otherwise it doesn't. So if you say "any number of arguments but only 8 are named, that seems bad", I'd understand, but that is a relatively uncommon problem to run into, especially in a toy language like this that is not meant for any serious work.
by tim333 | 2026-01-18 11:33:01+00:00
Second most left wing in the senate https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4816859-kamala-harris-i...

The 'pissed off the left wing' thing is a bit of an issue. The Dems really need to return to representing the average american, not the extra woke. Democracy means rule of the people, not rule of the far left.
by AbstractH24 | 2026-01-18 11:33:13+00:00
Starting with the desire to be a founder then searching for a problem is something I’ve only recently discovered is a common occurrence. And i find it a sort of odd reason to become a founder.

Has it this always been common or if it’s a characteristic of a vc-hype cycle?

Why devote yourself so long to creating solutions for a problem of solving it isn’t more gratifying than money?

But after almost decade of working in GTM for B2B startups, I’m starting to realize I find it totally unfulfilling and having begun moving back into the arts world i came from. So maybe I’m just cut from a different mold. Not better, just different.
by gilleain | 2026-01-18 11:33:56+00:00
Yes, the Titin example is completely ridiculous. On the one hand, the protein Titin is one of the longest sequences. However you can form a 'word' out of any protein or DNA (or other macromolecue or polymer) this way.

The key problem for me is that you would never refer to any polypeptide this way in a sentence. It would be like referring to a piece of software by concatenating its source code into one long 'word'. Meaningless.
by port11 | 2026-01-18 11:34:29+00:00
I worked for them and even interviewed to be founder of one of their spin-offs. GP’s comment has nothing to do with Rocket’s model. Zero.

And that’s coming from someone that despises Rocket for what they did to my workplace, the parent company, all teams I knew, and all colleagues I met from other projects.

App mills don’t respect anything at all, Rocket at least is Lawful Evil.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-18 11:34:56+00:00
Yes, absolutely.

Even more on it but Greenland right now is unsustainable and funded by Danish govt. who is willing to fund it because it sees potential in the Area

But its still Greenland's which is sovereigen/autonomous. Trump/America right now are the opposite of it.

Also all the points trump makes is bullshit and danish govt and everyone is always willing to help since they dont want russia either in the area but yeah I do feel as if this is just a smokescreen.
by raincole | 2026-01-18 11:35:06+00:00
> it's about clarity and affordances

The ink pot one tells me it's clearly an Apple's app. Though I might not know what it is, I know it's likely Apple's.[0]

The new ones can be a random app that shows up in AppStore when you search 'note taking' or 'todo list' or whatever.

I'm also strongly against the idea that an icon needs to directly tell you the functionality of the app. Photoshop's icon is literally 'PS.' Twitter is (was) a bird. No one thinks they lack clarity.

[0]: of course in this AI era if the retro detailed illustration comes back, everyone will just generate their icons in that style... it's a battle you can't win.