MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cookiengineer | 2026-01-04 19:49:15+00:00
Pfft! My website isn't boring :P

I don't think the issue is lack of features, because audio context and canvas2d are pretty good for making things nice. The issue is pretty much the rest of the DOM that has quirks everywhere if you want to use it that way.

SVG and its animations API are also only half-ass implemented among browsers, so that's not really a reliable alternative.

What I liked about the Macromedia suite was the integration cross-IDE, where dreamweaver worked really great together with Flash and vice versa, and where flash was able to load HTML content, just in a more animated manner.

I mean, this was when XHR and AJAX was the "modern" thing in web browsers. Adobe could have dominated the mobile market if they would have decided to make it an open standard. Flash was really a decade ahead of its time.
by andyjohnson0 | 2026-01-04 19:49:24+00:00
> LLMs do not have opinions.

I'm not so sure. They can certainly express opinions. They don't appear to have what humans think of as "mental states", to construct those opinions from, but then its not particularly clear what mental states actually are. We humans kind of know what they feel like, but that could just be a trick of our notoriously unreliable meat brains.

I have a hunch that if we could somehow step outside our brains, or get an opinion from a trusted third party, we might find that there is less to us than we think. I'm not staying we're nothing but stochastic parrots, but the differance between brains and LLM-type constructs might not be so large.
by satvikpendem | 2026-01-04 19:49:46+00:00
> now know that going to another country, snatching the leader and kidnapping them can be done without much consequences at any time so long as they go in guns blazing.

This sort of thinking was always true in history and geopolitics, as consequences come from those who enforce them. These other countries could try but they might have their own leader snatched soon enough if that's the case.
by theandrewbailey | 2026-01-04 19:50:04+00:00
/media has nothing to do with backups (though one could backup stuff there):

> This directory contains subdirectories which are used as mount points for removable media such as floppy disks, cdroms and zip disks. https://specifications.freedesktop.org/fhs/latest/media.html

/var is used for websites and databases, but defaults for most packages don't use /srv by default. (I have the feeling that /srv is relatively new.)
by bitexploder | 2026-01-04 19:50:12+00:00
There is a lot of nuance to their point. They are saying, in the long run, career wise, focusing on the actual user matters and makes your projects better.

Google UX is decent and the author was not trying to comment on UX as a thing at Google. More that, if you follow the user what you are doing can be grounded and it makes your project way more likely to succeed. I would even argue that in many cases it bucks the trend. The author even pointed out, in essence there is a graveyard of internal projects that failed to last because they seemed cool but did nothing for the user.
Show HN: I made R/place for LLMs
by ekvanox | 2026-01-04 19:50:56+00:00
I built AI Place, a vLLM-controlled pixel canvas inspired by r/place. Instead of users placing pixels, an LLM paints the grid continuously and you can watch it evolve live.

The theme rotates daily. Currently, the canvas is scored using CLIP ViT-B/32 against a prompt (e.g., Pixelart of ${theme}). The highest-scoring snapshot is saved to the archive at the end of each day.

The agents work in a simple loop:
Input: Theme + image of current canvas
Output: Python code to update specific pixel coordinates + One word description

Tech:
- Next.js 14
- SSE realtime updates
- NVIDIA NIM (Mistral Large 3/GPT-OSS/Llama 4 Maverick) for the painting decisions

Would love feedback! (or ideas for prompts/behaviors to try)
by tguvot | 2026-01-04 19:51:32+00:00
worldbank data is off almost by factor of 2

from israeli site:

The 2021 budget framework for the "Ministry of Defense" includes an expenditure budget of NIS 62.357 billion, in addition to NIS 14.972 billion in income-contingent expenditure and authorization to commit in the amount of NIS 36.3 billion.

In 2022, the framework for the budget includes an expenditure budget of NIS 59.833 billion, in addition to NIS 15 billion in income-contingent expenditure and authorization to commit in the amount of NIS 42.9 billion.
by imiric | 2026-01-04 19:51:38+00:00
I'm sorry, "upskill"? The roles you mentioned don't require any more advanced skills than those required for software development—just a different set of skills.

And an IC is not "left behind" if those roles don't interest them. What a ridiculous thing to say. A systems analyst or product manager is not a natural progression for someone who enjoys software development.
by FerretFred | 2026-01-04 19:51:41+00:00
"So, I took long walks with my dog.

What used to feel like 10 minutes between breakfast and lunch while working became a full-blown day. Even though I was spending two hours walking my dog instead of a 30-40 minute rush, it felt like an eternity"

My dog has a way of slowing down time, although he won't tell me how. I think as humans we know what we expect from this other species, but they have a way of reorganizing the walk to suit themselves. I do it largely to bond with my best bud and get some exercise. He on the other hand goes out to catch up on doggy social media, with endless sniffing and donating further smells. Every walk is different - the route's the same but the sensory part is constantly changing. All this takes place, silently. We go back home satisfied but I know my boi gets the most satisfaction from it!
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-04 19:51:50+00:00
I hate Microsoft with the passion of a thousand burning stars, yet even I still think Google products have worse UX than their Microsoft counterparts.

MS Teams is definitely terrible. But I’d take that over Google Meets.

Google Docs isn’t even remotely as good as Office 365.

And Azure, for all its many faults, is still less confusing than GCP.

Thankfully I seldom have to touch either other these companies half-baked UIs.
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-01-04 19:52:02+00:00
It's not about the feasibility itself, it's about the precedent that was set. Can you look in the eye someone and forbid them from doing something that you just did? It makes zero sense.

> no casualties

40 people died

> Moreover these countries already hate US, so shouldn’t they logically hate the US actions as well?

It doesn't matter if they hate the US or not. That is not the point. The point is that it makes this sort of actions completely legitimate.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-04 19:52:24+00:00
Well, no ... For a start any "AI" course 20 years ago probably wouldn't have even mentioned neural nets, and certainly not as a mainstream technique.

A 20yr old "AI" curriculum would have looked more like the 3rd edition of Russel & Norvig's "Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach".

https://github.com/yanshengjia/ml-road/blob/master/resources...

Karpathy's videos aren't an AI (except in modern sense of AI=LLMs) course, or a machine learning course, or even a neural network course for that matter (despite the title) - it's really just "From Zero to LLMs".
by et-al | 2026-01-04 19:52:40+00:00
> Too many negative comments here. This is just someone discovering something new and sharing it very excitedly.

Some of the negativity is because many people out there were used to this slower way of living only for capitalist techbros to optimize every waking moment everything and hasten the rat race.

So now the only people who can sit idly at a cafe would be those who've already have a few million in the bank. It's similar to the CEO goes to a yoga retreat in Bali (or Burning Man) trope to rediscover being part of society.
by gbraad | 2026-01-04 19:52:41+00:00
Standard AI response. Similar to " production-ready", "according to industry standards" or "common practices" to justify and action or indicating it is done, without even compiling or running code, let alone understand the output. An AI can't hear, and even worse, relate this. Ask it to create a diode ladder filter, and it will boost it created a "physically correct analog representation" while output ting clean and pure signals...
by ingelstedt | 2026-01-04 19:53:15+00:00
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by elmerfud | 2026-01-04 19:53:23+00:00
I can understand what you're saying but the entire point of LLMs is to have a conversational approach. So by removing a functional part of language you are no longer really having a conversational approach.

You have identified the problem but you have chosen the wrong solution. This is typical with any person knowledgeable in a single field. It's the old adage of if you have a hammer every problem looks like a nail. So the problem is there are idiots or extremely ignorant people. Your solution doesn't really solve for the root problem and simply is taking away a benefit from everyone else. This is a common solution from experts in a narrow field. It is the solution that just exerts control by removing choice.

Let's promote solutions that promote freedom and understanding. I think LLMs are far too restrictive as they are. Freedom should be given to the people even when the risk of that freedom means that people can act stupidly. Even when that freedom can promote self-harm for them. A free people is allowed to harm themselves. Once you begin to take away the freedoms of others you have admitted that you have lost the ability to have a morally superior ideology and the only way you're able to enforce your ideology is the same way a dictator enforces their leadership.
by octoberfranklin | 2026-01-04 19:53:34+00:00
Tons of posts on Reddit disagree with you:

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/SwipeHelper/search?q=hinge+sel...

Maybe you're getting lucky and not tickling their risk-based nonsense, but now that this article has been posted they'll certainly crank that knob up to 11.
by jjtheblunt | 2026-01-04 19:53:40+00:00
The Fermilab bison used to have (probably still do) a sign in their field that said, amusingly, not to jump the fence into the field unless you can cross it in 9 seconds, because the bull can do it in 10. (grew up on the DuPage county side of Fermilab, got to take physics there too, which was awesome)
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-04 19:53:49+00:00
> KDE Plasma switched to Wayland by default sometime last year, and so far the main issue I run into is that a few screen recording tools I like stopped working. (Mostly simplescreenrecorder, which seems to be entirely unmaintained at this point.) Other than some initial instability with accelerated rendering on my GPU, which was quickly addressed, it kinda just works. I mostly don't notice.

FWIW, I have a KDE Wayland box and OBS works for screen recording. Slightly more complex than simplescreenrecorder, but not bad.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-01-04 19:54:50+00:00
Coder created a site to mimic MTV's music videos era. https://wantmymtv.xyz/player.html

There are large playlists of music videos, separated by decade (~300vids - 8000vids). There are no veejays, original ads or other period content.

Videos are all YT hosted, pulled from 1000s of YT channels. There are no YT ads (interesting and welcome).
by brunovcosta | 2026-01-04 19:54:52+00:00
Hey folks — here’s a small experiment I hacked together over the weekend:

https://cleoselene.com/

In short, it’s a way to build multiplayer games with no client-side game logic. Everything is rendered on the server, and the game itself is written as simple Lua scripts.

I built this to explore a few gamedev ideas I’ve been thinking about while working on Abstra:
- Writing multiplayer games as if they were single-player (no client/server complexity)
- Streaming game primitives instead of pixels, which should be much lighter
- Server-side rendering makes cheating basically impossible
- Game secrets never leave the server

This isn’t meant to be a commercial project — it’s just for fun and experimentation for now.

If you want to try it out, grab a few friends and play here:
https://cleoselene.com/astro-maze/
by simonw | 2026-01-04 19:54:59+00:00
That IKEA analogy is pretty good, because plenty of people use IKEA furniture to solve the "I need a bookshelf" problem - and often enjoy the process - without feeling like they should call themselves a carpenter.

I bet there are professional carpenters out there who occasionally assemble an IKEA bookshelf because they need something quick and don't want to spend hours building one themselves from scratch.
by analogpixel | 2026-01-04 19:55:06+00:00
Flash feels like some technology from the future that was taken away from us from all those anal people that "need to do it the right way" (see yesterday's story about converting a monolith to micro-services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469845)

you could get so much done with flash which is just so cumbersome with javascript/html5. Simple things, like click on an object and play a sound, I tried to do this yesterday and it was pretty complex (break your animation into a sprite sheet, find something to work with sprites, find something to play an mp3 on click, make sure it all syncs up...)

Not to mention just having a default timeline/tweening system to work with.

None of this really matters, because if flash was still around, I still wouldn't be willing to pay Adobe $50 a month to use it.
by mattwiese | 2026-01-04 19:55:18+00:00
Ah, I see, you're referring to this: https://help.hinge.co/hc/en-us/articles/10303221435539-What-...

You probably don't use Hinge. The verification is not necessary at all. It's merely used to "verify" your identity to other users. It has no bearing on what I cover in the post.
by Cort3z | 2026-01-04 19:56:13+00:00
I fairly recently tried to ask a question on SO because the LLMs did not work for that domain. I’m no beginner to SO, having some 13k points from many questions and answers. I made, in my opinion, a good question, referenced my previous attempts, clearly stating my problem and what I tried to do. Almost immediately after posting I got downvoted, no comments, a close- suggestions etc. A similar thing happened the last two times I tried this too. I’m not sure what is going on over there now, but whatever that site was many years ago, it isn’t any more. It’s s shame, because it was such a great thing, but now I am disincentivized to use it because I lose points each time I tip my toes back in.
by pfisch | 2026-01-04 19:56:42+00:00
It is a real problem that AI's will basically confirm that most inquiries are true. Just by asking a leading question often results in the AI confirming it is true or stretching reality to accommodate the answer being true.

If I ask if a drug has a specific side effect and the answer is no it should say no. Not try to find a way to say yes that isn't really backed by evidence.

People don't realize that when they ask a leading question that is really specific in a way where no one has a real answer then the AI will try to find a way to agree, and this is going to destroy people's lives. Honestly it already has.
by anymouse123456 | 2026-01-04 19:56:52+00:00
Great to reminisce about the old days!

There were various details in here that I forgot (or never knew).

A few notes:

The iPhone was what put the final nail in Flash’s coffin.

Prior to that, and despite its many flaws, the Flash Player was the only true, write-once, run anywhere platform.

Quokka sports was a big deal at some point.

No mention of South Park?!

The Flash Forward conference and Lynda.com were also big.

Things did begin to fall apart under Adobe, but the article might be a little too harsh about it.

I knew the player team before and after the acquisition and it wasn’t abandoned.

The work they did was extremely difficult and no one else has ever managed to produce such a capable and tiny executable that runs on all the things before or since.
by xav_authentique | 2026-01-04 19:57:24+00:00
Sure, but, in the real world, for the software to deliver a solution, it doesn't really matter if something is modelled in beautiful objects and concise packages, or if it's written in one big method. So for those that are more on the making /things/ side of the spectrum, I guess they wouldn't care if the LLM outputs code that has each iteration written separately.

It's just that if you really like to work on your craftsmanship, you spend most of the time rewriting/remodelling because that's where the fun is if you're more on the /making/ things side of the spectrum, and LLMs don't really assist in that part (yet?). Maybe LLMs could be used to discuss ways to model a problem space?
by lunatuna | 2026-01-04 19:58:40+00:00
I’ve had some version of the consumer and producer problem in my head for a while and this is a good articulation of it. I would use Brazil and Venezuela as examples of it where there is a democracy that struggles to keep up with the majorities consumption desires vs its producer ability. Venezuela has since capitulated and unbelievably since I first thought about it been invaded.

Is this just all rent seekers? Is it a tipping point of wealth distribution and economic mobility? Is there a limit to how much imbalance a democracy can handle? Where the floor is on social services?

Enjoyed the essay for kicking up some thoughts.
by dahart | 2026-01-04 20:00:18+00:00
I’ve been ordering Americanos for 20 years. Espresso drinks became a very common thing around the time when Starbucks took off in the 90s. But it does depend on where you go. Diners and gas stations and some kinds of cafes and restaurants (especially in small towns) often only had drip coffee until recently, but these days you can get an Americano in many gas stations too. Cafes with baristas making espresso drinks is the norm in big cities and has been for some time.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-04 20:00:42+00:00
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is much better in terms of reflecting the human cost from a contemporary of the obliteration of 150 million natives and Africans for the enrichment of Europeans. US Americans eventually got into the act too with slavery, banana wars, taking land and peoples that didn't belong to it, Monroe doctrine, CIA-backed coups, and funding and training right-wing death squads like The School of the Americas.
by hansmayer | 2026-01-04 20:00:45+00:00
> Only UI/UX issue is that most experienced users want to not adapt to change

Users will not only adapt, but will even champion your changes if they make sense to said users. For example the web checkout or to name a more drastic example, iPhone and fingers as user interface devices. Once you start convincing the users that the interface is great, but they are too resistant to changes/dumb/uncreative to know how use it... its a different story I´d reckon ;)
by kmoser | 2026-01-04 20:01:04+00:00
> Recently I was writing an e-mail and noticed I misspelled the e-mail address of the recipient, which I rarely do. So, I should just be able to click the address and edit it quickly, right? Wrong - now you have a popup menu and inside of it you have to search for "edit e-mail" option.

I just tested this out and I don't think that's a particularly good example of bad UI/UX. Clicking the email address brings up a menu with options for other actions, which presumably get used more often. If, instead, you right-click the email address, the option to edit it is right there (last item on the bottom, "Change email address"). I don't see this as a huge penalty given that, as you said, it's rarely used.

There's also the "X" to the right of the email address, which you can use to delete it entirely, no extra clicks required.
by DrewADesign | 2026-01-04 20:02:02+00:00
To require that, the person would have needed to disable upnp on their router. I’ve played tons of multiplayer games on the switch and upnp handled it seamlessly on the 7 or 8 home networks I connected it to over its life. Never once even had to think about it.

So yes, if you disable the requisite, standard, built-in feature on your router, you may need a pretty annoying workaround. Weird!

What percentage of users do you imagine disable upnp? Let’s be real. This is a problem that your average user will never, ever experience a problem with.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2026-01-04 20:02:41+00:00
Do you have proof the negotiations take place before the speaker of a house/king/whatever process proposes a canditate to form the executive branch in a parliamentary system?

> There was no election.

Just stop with the misinformation.

The current Commission is the von der Leyen Commission II, which took office in December 2024, following the European Parliament elections in June of the same year.

> The EU doesn't have an upper and lower house by any definition used anywhere in the world.

Yes, every country is unique. And the EU moreso due to its history.

> It really has none because the Europarl can't pass its own laws so it's not a house of representatives, just a room full of theatre kids playacting democracy.

It is just the chamber that accepts the proposed commmission, and has the decision to unilaterally force a no-confidence vote if the commission does not propose the laws the chamber wants.
by aardvark179 | 2026-01-04 20:02:59+00:00
You need more than a simple sandbox for what you describe. You also need to avoid infinite loops or other constructs from causing a DoS or similar, and if you are doing this with the intention of interacting with some other parts of a system then you need to think about how that interaction works and whether there is a way to execute something outside of that sandbox.

Even if you go with something backed by a full time team there is still going to be a chance you have to deal with a security issue in a hurry, maybe in the run up to Christmas. That is just going to come with the territory and if you don’t want to deal with that then you probably need to think about whether you really need a sandbox that can execute untrusted code.