MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spiffytech | 2026-01-29 12:59:47+00:00
Part of the reason I use RSS instead of getting my links through social media is because when I like something enough to subscribe, I want to read all of it. Not to "dip in". A paradigm where I sample articles means RSS isn't as valuable for me anymore.

I do feel a little urgency to keep up since some me my feeds cover stuff happening in the world, and lose value if not read promptly.

I've seen takes similar to the author's before and they don't resonate with me. Maybe we just have different relationships with technology. The same way a watch telling me to complete my rings has no power over me because that's not a goal I chose for myself. The watch serves me, not the other way around.
by zipy124 | 2026-01-29 13:00:15+00:00
Most live in flat-shares, which honestly I prefer to living alone anyway. You can easily find central London flat shares for £1000 a month which are walking distance to various central locations, and extremely quick by bus/bike/tube.

I've lived in London for 8 years now as a student (undergaduate masters then PhD) and have lived on around £20k a year (post tax) and it's completely fine tbh. I earn more through extra work but save pretty much all of it.
by mothballed | 2026-01-29 13:00:21+00:00
Two things can simultaneously be true. That the legal criteria of obstruction have been reached, and also that the Federal apparatus routinely oversteps both the constitutional and the most essential natural rights.

Just know the King interprets spitting and kicking tail lights as a 'shot at the King.' Pretti took his shot at the King, with his cosmetic accessory piece gun tucked in his waistband, at about 4 out of 100. And expected the King to meet him with something other than 100 or 0. In that light, I'll concede of the possibility he was morally right, but I also think he was a fool. If his goal all along was to kneel, let himself be disarmed, then quietly accept his execution like a bitch -- what did he even get out of it? He handed the pro-regime a major propaganda victory and the anti-regime nothing at best.
by dijit | 2026-01-29 13:00:29+00:00
You've just agreed with my entire argument whilst pretending to refute it.

Your original claim was that the UK uses London as a piggy bank to fund projects in the rest of the UK. I've shown you that London receives vastly more infrastructure investment per capita than anywhere else. You respond with 'thank you' for confirming London generates a surplus, as if that proves your point.

It doesn't. A surplus generated after receiving 4x the infrastructure investment isn't evidence you're being used as a piggy bank - it's evidence the investment works and should be replicated elsewhere.

You accuse me of strawmanning, but you've not actually addressed the central point: London's fiscal position is the result of infrastructure spending, not the justification for denying it to other regions. If you're not claiming regions are deliberately starved, then what's your explanation for the massive investment disparity? Accident? Coincidence?

Either infrastructure investment drives productivity (in which case other regions deserve comparable investment), or it doesn't (in which case London's surplus is irrelevant). You can't have it both ways.
by elaus | 2026-01-29 13:00:36+00:00
TÜV is the mandatory inspection that every car in Germany has to go through. Failing that inspection means you _have_ to fix the issues or may no longer drive that car on public roads.

So while it would be nice to get more detailled stats, I think this is still really helpful. For me the TÜV report was a very important source for my decission on which models (and to a lesser degree manufacturers) I should avoid.
by d3ckard | 2026-01-29 13:00:39+00:00
The main issue IMHO is the monopolization of the industry, especially in the US. Once the giants do layoffs, the rest of the market can't absorb the people effectively, which leads to oversaturated job market.

We can of course discuss how many people got into industry during COVID heyday and whether they should have, but mostly I think it's about those behemoths having disproportionately high impact on the entire labour market.
by alexdoesstuff | 2026-01-29 13:00:40+00:00
We updated our analysis of Meta's AI infrastructure spending after yesterday's Q4 call. Some specifics from the earnings call on where the money is going:

Ad models: They doubled the GPU cluster training their main ads ranking model. The architecture now reportedly "scales with similar efficiency as LLMs." They also consolidated multiple models into fewer, more capable ones (12% increase in ads quality) and moved their ads retrieval engine across NVIDIA, AMD, and custom MTIA chips, nearly tripling compute efficiency.

Internal tools: Management cited a 30% increase in output per engineer since early 2025, mostly from agentic coding tools. Power users saw 80% gains.

Ad products: Video generation tools hit a $10B combined revenue run rate. Incremental attribution drove a 24% lift in conversions.

On the financial side: Q4 ad revenue was $58.1B (+24% YoY). FY25 FCF was $43.5B, a 22% margin, down from 32% in FY24. They paused buybacks and signaled they may take on net debt. Management committed to FY26 operating income above FY25 in absolute terms against $162-169B in guided expenses.

For context, Meta's 2025 capex alone roughly equals the total lifetime investment in Reality Labs over 10+ years.

The article covers the full AI model stack (GEM, Lattice, Andromeda), capital intensity breakdown, and peer comparison.
by victorbjorklund | 2026-01-29 13:01:17+00:00
There is a simple fact that means we won’t have zero jobs in the future. Human wants is endless. At no point will humans say ”that is enough we don’t need more” so will always have the incentive to use both capital and people.

Is certain jobs gonna be replaced? Probably.

Let’s say we make substantial advances in robotics and it makes sense to replace all the staff in McDonalds with machines? Yea, then those jobs are probably gone. But does it mean people won’t pay for an authentic restaurant experience? No, they might still wanna pay to eat food from a chef etc.
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-01-29 13:01:27+00:00
Also anecdotally, I've had a handful of software development positions throughout the years (never at a position with more than 200-300 person company) and have yet to be laid off due to money. I've yet to be laid off at all, but that's irrelevant.

I truly believe that these new tools will actually hurt the bigger companies and conversely help smaller ones. I'm in healthcare. The big players in the EMR space are Epic and Cerner. They are one-size-fits-all behemoths that hospitals have to work against than with. What if, instead of having to reach out to the big players, the economics of having a software developer or 2 on staff make it such that you could build custom-tailored, bespoke software to work "with" your company and not against?
by kotaKat | 2026-01-29 13:02:04+00:00
“The Tesla 3 and Y are not so fortunate, landing in second to last and last place respectively due to faults in their brake disks and axle suspension.”

https://www.tuvsud.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025/novem...

Just… I don’t know, actually look at your wheels and brakes every few thousand miles instead of let them ride for tens of thousands without service? Shouldn’t people be rotating their tires every 3-5000 miles anyways?
by epolanski | 2026-01-29 13:02:05+00:00
> The result is the worst of both worlds. European engineers now face US-level job insecurity with European-level compensation and limited mobility.

Firing people in most of Europe is still not as easy as it is in the US.

The opposite is also true, it's not that easy to leave your employer and you have to give 1/3/6 months notice before leaving, depending on your role/seniority/contract.

Sometimes companies even make you sign 12 months notice contracts clause where they pay you a fixed monthly bonus but you can't leave without giving a 12 months notice, my SO has signed one.
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-29 13:02:07+00:00
I agree with the economic argument.

But I literally mean if you have a crappy business and put AI into it you’re just gonna make your business worse.

AI as a tool is not actually a solution for very much. AI can mark a good process better but it will also make bad processes way worse.

It’s a power drill upgrade when you were previously only using a screwdriver, but it’s still not a table saw.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-29 13:02:15+00:00
> I think you need to assess what you're actually mad about.

I'm not mad. I'm nervous. And I know exactly why. It has nothing to do with the quality of the graphics of the ad.

Besides, why would I "need to assess" anything? I have an opinion about these things. There's nothing wrong with that any more than there's something wrong with you having an opinion.

> like would it have made you stop shopping at GOG?

Of course not. But I'll point out that I have explicitly said that this ad isn't making me stop shopping at GOG either.

> reality is that's just how these kinds of things will be made from now on.

Yes, I'm fully aware of that.

> I still prefer practical effects but it didn't stop me from going to see movies.

It's funny you brought that up, because that was a large (but not the only) factor in why I did stop seeing modern movies.
Show HN: SoundLocate – Find your city match based on music taste
by akhow | 2026-01-29 13:02:31+00:00
SoundLocate (https://soundlocate.com) matches you with cities based on your favorite artists.

The idea: artists are popular in specific cities. If you love the same music as people in Berlin or Melbourne, you'd probably love those cities too.

Connect Apple Music or enter artists manually → get matched → shareable result card.

Tested it on myself: 7 out of 10 cities it suggested actually matched my lifestyle and preferences. Got heavy results on British cities (Glasgow, Manchester) and Australian ones (Melbourne, Sydney) - all have that indie/alternative vibe I gravitate toward in real life.

Free, no signup. Curious how accurate it is for others.
by cong-or | 2026-01-29 13:02:41+00:00
Interesting framing. The article makes a compelling case that we're seeing the hangover from 14 years of ZIRP-fueled hiring rather than an AI apocalypse.

But I'm curious what people think the equilibrium looks like. If the "two-tier system" (core revenue teams + disposable experimental teams) becomes the norm, what does that mean for the future of SWE as a career?

A few scenarios I keep turning over:

1. Bifurcation - A small elite of "10x engineers" command premium comp while the majority compete for increasingly commoditized roles
2. Craftsmanship revival - Companies learn that the "disposable workforce" model ships garbage, and there's renewed appreciation for experienced engineers who stick around
3. Consulting/contractor becomes default - Full-time employment becomes rare; most devs work project-to-project like other creative industries

The article argues AI isn't the cause, but it seems like it could accelerate whatever trend is already in motion. If companies are already treating engineers as interchangeable inventory, AI tooling gives them cover to reduce headcount further.

For those of you 10+ years into your careers: are you optimistic about staying in IC roles long-term, or does management/entrepreneurship feel like the only sustainable path?
by garyfirestorm | 2026-01-29 13:02:43+00:00
Everyone seems to be missing important piece here. Ollama is/was a one click solution for non technical person to launch a local model. It doesn’t need a lot of configuration, detects Nvidia GPU and starts model inferencing with single command.
Core principle being your grandmother should be able to launch local AI model without needing to install 100 dependencies.
by braiamp | 2026-01-29 13:02:52+00:00
> but rather that they're abused by psychiatrists

Doctors of all countries have been under a lot of pressure by patients and health administrators to "fix the issue and quick". The last thing that your doctor wants is giving you pills so you go away, but that's what the context very strongly incentivize. You want doctors to stop abusing pills, stop asking them for immediate fix. Give them less patients, more time and more resources to deal with the health of the population. Also, prevention.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-29 13:03:01+00:00
Ok, anyone can build it - let’s say I believed that.

Now try to displace Salesforce, Slack, ServiceNow, Workday, etc.

No corporate buyer is going to take a chance on your homegrown vibe coded replacement that they saw on HN where the author didn’t even seem to know the importance of having SSO support.

Besides “no one ever got fired for buying IBM”. Why would I take the reputational risk of not just buying from the well known company who is already at the right square of “Gartner’s magic quadrant”?

Writing software has never been the challenge. If anyone can write software, Microsoft can just throw a few engineers at it and bundle it in thier corporate seat licensing
by ryuzaburo | 2026-01-29 13:03:02+00:00
I’ve been analyzing a forensic case where a smartphone was temporarily compromised. While investigating the logs, I noticed a peculiar pattern involving international IVR calls (+1 prefix) and fragmented file system traces (around 27.2KB of corrupted logs).

This led me to a hypothesis I call "Logic Mapping." The core issue is a decoupling of user intent from system interpretation. By overlaying a benign prompt ("Press 1 for language") over a critical one ("Press 1 for transfer"), an attacker can hijack the physical trust institutions place in SIM-based authentication without ever breaking encryption.

I'm curious to hear from security engineers here: Is this a known vector in your regions, and how are you handling the semantic integrity of IVR inputs in your authentication flows?
by RobotToaster | 2026-01-29 13:03:16+00:00
One flaw in this analysis is that the source he cites for antidepressant effectiveness didn't include tranylcypromine (or any MAOI class drugs), which the STAR-D trial found was one of the most effective antidepressants.

(The STAR-D had a cumulative remission rate of 67%, I don't know how to convert that to the format he used)

Otherwise I agree that vit D and omega 3 are underrated for depression, it would be interesting to see if they have a cumulative effect with antidepressants.
by Arkhaine_kupo | 2026-01-29 13:03:35+00:00
> How do you even do that?

I am not going to comment on how they did it. But they were openly accused by OpenAI of it. I believe the discussion is over destillation vs foundational models.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/openai-accuses-deepseek-of...

There are other theories like OpenAI inflated their training costs to seek further investment in later growth quarters. Meanwhile Deepseek under reported their cost to portray China as more cost efficient investment. If that was the case then their performance is similar, with similar training costs but one side reported even the coffee from the coffee machine in the office in the total while the other only counted the minimal CPU cycle cost and not the GPU, energy, engineering etc. Which is plausible too.

I have no dog in the fight but the first accusation seemed quite serious, hence why I asked
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-29 13:03:50+00:00
Should information technology be a stable employment sector?

As far as I'm concerned, the main purpose of IT is to automate work. Tech companies make these systems of automation and provide them to other industries, so they can automate.

Making a program or an IT system is something you only do once. So once it is completed, it is expected that a lot of people who helped make it have to go. It's like building a skyscraper. Massive amounts of work to build it, and when it's finished, most workers have to move on.

Of course an IT company can continue to expand into perpetuity, but what if they don't have the leadership talent or resources to create a new giant project after one has been finished? Then the sensible thing is to down-size.

"Well don't hire too many people in the first place to rush your project into completion" - Then you get left behind.
by mothballed | 2026-01-29 13:03:55+00:00
He chose option (3). Kick the tail light out, spit a bit, literally verbally asked to be assaulted, let himself be disarmed, kneel, and quietly submit his head for execution. What was the point exactly? The guy wasn't using any more logic beyond whatever spur of the moment emotional response he had.

I can understand resistance, but whatever he was doing looks more like he had some onset of an impulse control related mental illness.
by poizan42 | 2026-01-29 13:04:23+00:00
Not OP, but the paper says on page 8

> An adult in a bathing suit exposed to 1 minimal
erythemal dose of ultraviolet radiation (a slight pinkness to
the skin 24 h after exposure) was found to be equivalent to
ingesting between 10,000 and 25,000 IU of vitamin D
(Fig. 6).

Doesn't say 30 minutes, but it may be 30 minutes depending on your skin colour and the local strength of the sun.
by zipy124 | 2026-01-29 13:04:57+00:00
Depends on the company, but typical junior salaries are £35-45k a year, mid level around £50-65k year and senior somewhere between £65-85k a year. Obviously you have FAANG who pay significantly more and finance firms, but they are not the majority, and I've hired or have friends being paid in these ranges who are extremely talented and from top unis.

Upper ranges for all levels accross the very highest paying employees are £100-400k when including bonuses usually. Usually these are quant/quant-dev jobs and FAANG.
Show HN: Telegram-Archive – Own your chat history
by geiser | 2026-01-29 13:04:57+00:00
Hey, I'm Sergio, the dev behind Telegram-Archive

I built Telegram-Archive because I wanted complete control over my chat history, no matter what might happen (i.e. my account gets locked, or Telegram changes policies, etc.)

It's composed of a backup and a viewer. It has been evolving for some time and it's more complex than that, so you can, for example, archive and share public channels.

Feel free to check the features. I think the project is still in its infancy, but I hope you can bring your expertise and suggestions too.

Built with Python, FastAPI, Telethon, and Vue. GPLv3 licensed.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-29 13:05:04+00:00
> Well it's a small govt contracting company. The adminstration cutting down on federal jobs, IT contracts and the tech layoffs has/is flooding the market with UX/UI folks in these parts (mid Atlantic region). Now AI is hastening the shrinking of this field.

> The contracting company I worked for promotes on their LinkedIn their use of AI saying we created this prototype with AI in less then a day vs. years, months and days. In September they told us this is the way forward as all govt contractors are bidding for contracts with smaller teams using AI. Per that story they are telling they need to change to survive.

Thanks for providing more context, This feels much the govt. faults than the contractor but I feel like moves like these will come to bite the govt. sooner than later.

I feel like though contracting companies also might've overhyped. Like yea sure for basic things AI's fine but AI won't be fine for govt. projects & shouldn't be fine.

Govt.'s can spends an unknown amount of money on defense with literally no accountability with billions of $ literally not knowing where they went but they will try to price squeeze thigns here only to some years down the line have catastrophic event.

I mean LLM's still hallucinate and they can be poisoned. If govt.'s use LLM the aspect of poisioning becomes really important.

Chatgpt still pulls grokipedia whose primary source is X where bots can be created and spread and a certain narrative can be established.

I am pretty sure that if we see govt.s in any capacity have AI generated websites then the idea of poisoning the whole web to negatively impact the other nation becomes a good strategy for agressions between countries.

Although I may have gotten off topic but sorry to hear this that you were in such a weird and messy chopping block due to mistakes from the govts in general.

Wishing you the best in your future that things get better for ya :hug:
Show HN: 静阅" means 安静阅读 – a quiet reading app designed for bedtime
by jackhyyy | 2026-01-29 13:05:07+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m an indie developer and I built an app called *静阅 (JingYue)* because I wanted a calmer reading experience before bed.

Most reading tools push feeds, recommendations, endless scrolls and notifications. I wanted something that felt closer to flipping through a book — quiet, simple, and relaxing.

So I made 静阅:
• curated calm reading content — quotes, images, short essays
• dark and light adaptive themes optimized for night time
• no notifications, no algorithmic feeds, just relaxed reading
• designed to help you slow down your mind before sleep

The app is live on the App Store here:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/静阅/id6758232981

It’s very early and opinionated; I’d love feedback — especially on UX for night time reading and content pacing.

Thanks!
by FpUser | 2026-01-29 13:05:07+00:00
>"Most engineers (including me) spent months grinding LeetCode ..."

I have not done it once (work in programming for 40+ years) as independent. Few times potential clients tried to play this game but I just simple refuse. On was surprised and asked why? My answer was - I have a track record of successful deliveries, here is big list of projects, emails and phone numbers to confirm. If you are going instead to rely on some tests to prove my abilities I have better things to do then be a schoolboy on exams.
by joshstrange | 2026-01-29 13:05:32+00:00
Clients and customers will not stand for this. I don’t agree but I’ve seen it enough times now it doesn’t surprise me. They want an app, doesn’t matter if you have an identical web-based version that does the exact same thing, they want an app.

I write cross platform apps using Vue/Quasar (previous Angular/Ionic, and before that Titanium), I have put up a web-based version of their app (as a fallback and as an early MVP) and it’s like pulling teeth to get anyone to even play with it. Then you put an app up on TestFlight and suddenly they are using it.

And that’s just trying to get the to use the web while I’m still setting up crap for a “native” app. The idea of not having an app is a non-starter.

Again, I don’t agree with them, I’m just telling you what it’s like out there if you are developing software for other people. An app brings “prestige”, they want be able to say “we have an app”. And no, saving a webpage to the home screen is not a viable alternative (trust me, I’ve tried). Clients and customers reject that and there are extra limitations with that approach (or there were last time I tried, around using the camera feed, things that work fine in mobile Safari).
by j05ev1f3 | 2026-01-29 13:05:36+00:00
The whole article rests on this false economic claim, that traditional industries don’t overhire based on expectations. They absolutely do, ALL THE TIME. Manufacturing, automotive, airlines, energy etc. all of them make demand bets and lay people off when those bets fail.

Cheap money amplified this cycle, but this isn’t a tech specific "failure", it’s just how forecasting under uncertainty work.

It’s incredible how some engineers assume they understand economics, then proceed to fail on some of its most basic premises. This tends to happen when engineering-style certainty is applied to systems that are driven by incentives and uncertainty.