MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nothrabannosir | 2026-01-15 21:26:39+00:00
> Trying to change consumption habits (like smart grids, dynamic pricing, etc.) works poorly, especially for such vital resource as electricity.

Why? Has the UK started trying recently? When I lived there nobody gave a hoot about fluctuating prices. It would have been hard to even know when electricity was expensive or not. Has it changed?

Meanwhile >three decades ago my grandparents in rural France had a big red lamp on the kitchen wall that would light up when energy was expensive. It was a part of their life and they had no problem with it. They chose that plan deliberately because it ended up cheaper.

If you’re saying that even with adaptive behavior , it’s all a wash because the constant cost of peakers is so high that you lose all savings when they kick in , no matter how little you use; ok, I believe you did the math.

But if the claim is “it’s impossible for humans to adapt their energy consumption depending on the current price of electricity”, I have seen first hand that is not true. For sure when I lived in Britain nobody did this at all, but that would be at best a British limitation, not a human one.
by PufPufPuf | 2026-01-15 21:26:42+00:00
Using jdx/mise in GitHub Actions has been very nice, I recommend it. It's not just a nice task runner, it also manages the dependencies of your tasks (stuff like Python, Node.js, even random tools from GitHub) so that "mise run build" does the exact same thing both locally and in CI. Then the ideal GHA workflow is just "install mise, run this mise task". And not only for building, we have it set up for commit checks too.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-15 21:26:50+00:00
This is fascinating idea. I created an idea like this on top of firecracker and custom golang ssh client to build something like this for my own personal use case (the abstraction part of pricing and how to connect it seemed the more difficult part for me atleast)

What stack does this use underneath?

Good luck with launch, this idea is similar to railway in terms of pricing model. I discussed about it a few comments back and I think its an interesting idea and we are seeing alternatives within such pricing model

Also are you using some cloud provider itself or building it yourself, I'd be interested in so many details to discover

Have a nice day and looking forward to ya response! Good luck with your project!
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-15 21:26:52+00:00
My son is comparing every alternative to what he can accomplish by staying home and practicing guitar. However, we are trying to start an anime theme song cover band (e.g. "Upstate NY's most energetic opening act") for which he's going to play Bass, Rhythm or Lead as needed and I'm going to be the Kitsune/Band Manager/Mascot.
by mindwok | 2026-01-15 21:27:05+00:00
It cannot be solved, at least not in the way I think people want it to be.

We’re lonely because we are wired to avoid rejection and uncomfortable social situations, and because technology has given us hundreds of alternatives to sitting in the mess of connecting with people.

You can only solve it in your own life - by being courageous and spending more of your time in the physical world than in the digital one, willing to gro through the shitty feelings that come with being a human trying to meet other humans.

You cannot solve it for other people. There’s no sexy solution here. Meetup.com or whatever dating app or tech platform or not for profit will not fix it, because it takes individuals choosing the hard path and that will never happen en masse.
by mikesurowiec | 2026-01-15 21:27:18+00:00
I worked on docs at GitHub which are open source, synced to an internal repo, and deployed on internal infra. I recall jumping through many hoops to make it work safely. These were workflows that had secrets access for deployments, and I recall zipping files, doing some weird handoffs/file filtering between different workflows based on the triggers and permissions. Security folks were really quick to find any gaps =)

Glad to see a few more security knobs on actions these days!
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-15 21:27:23+00:00
The point is that the combined knowledge/process of the LLM and a user (which could be another LLM!) led to it walking the manifold in a way that produced a novel distribution for a given domain.

I talk with LLMs for hours out of the day, every single day. I'm deeply familiar with their strengths and shortcomings on both a technical and intuitive level. I push them to their limits and have definitely witnessed novel output. The question remains, just how novel can this output be? Synthesis is a valid way to produce novel data.

And beyond that, we are teaching these models general problem-solving skills through RL, and it's not absurd to consider the possibility that a good enough training regimen cannot impart deduction/induction skills into a model that are powerful enough to produce novel information even via means other than direct synthesis of existing information. Especially when given affordances such as the ability to take notes and browse the web.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-01-15 21:27:30+00:00
no i think you and the people you are replying to are getting it completely backwards

people think Palantir makes a lot of money. did Palantir make a lot of money? No. Accenture Federal Services, Leidos Defense Civil IT & Services, Booz Allen Hamilton Gov Consulting & Cyber, General Dynamics Technologies, SAIC, and CACI combined made $61.9b in 2024, compared to all of Palantir which made $2.9b. so if you just look at some IT and defense companies' gov IT sales segments - we're not even including Raytheon or Lockheed Martin or Boeing where calculating such a thing is complex - Palantir's revenue looks very, very small.

people think Palantir makes vanilla "consultants" and “typical enterprise vendor vibes" products. does the thing that Palantir make work? we're talking about it! I think the reason we don't talk about Raytheon's version of this app is that Raytheon's (or Accenture's or...) version doesn't work haha
by selfhoster1312 | 2026-01-15 21:27:48+00:00
I'm not an expert in any way, but i personally benchmarked [1] juiceFS performance totalling collapsing under very small files/operations (torrenting). It's good to be skeptical, but it might just be that the bar is very low for this specific usecase (IIRC juiceFS was configured and optimized for block sizes of several MBs).

https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage/issues/1021
by cogman10 | 2026-01-15 21:28:23+00:00
I expect them to enforce the law without breaking the law. I want the job of any law enforcement agency to be hard. Not because I want lawlessness, but because the government has a rightful burden to surpass to prove that it's citizens are in the wrong. The government is supposed to serve the citizenry and not the other way around.

We have a freedom of speech and protest precisely to signal our discontent with our leaders. It is precisely for citizens to harass law enforcement that they view as unjust.

The entire reason we got those freedoms spelt out in the constitution in the first place was because of British occupation and the views that the British governments laws and enforcement were unjust. There is a direct parallel. The spirit of the 3rd amendment is that we should be able to kick out law enforcement that we hate. That we don't have to tolerate their presence.
by Alupis | 2026-01-15 21:29:01+00:00
> The actual cost has to price in the impact of using it.

Is there real evidence the collected tax revenue is actually offsetting carbon emissions?

There's a lot of fraud in carbon credit systems - where often the sole benefit is feeling and/or looking good.

Is this self-imposed tax actually having a real result - or is it just artificially increasing the price of energy? If the latter, then it's not really fair to claim it's the actual cost.
by diyseguy | 2026-01-15 21:29:09+00:00
I see this as quite a problem in the US. The default place a lonely person has to go is usually a church - where you can expect a modicum, possibly even a seeming profusion, of welcome. This is their hook. They provide automatic acceptance - of sorts. This is also how the right wing fascist regime convinced people to let Trump take over the country - propaganda through the churches.

The only other options people hear about are 'join a club.' Interesting clubs aren't that easy to find. Hanging out at the local pub has obvious downsides, though I guess it sorta works in some countries.

We need more ways for people to casually meet others that aren't trying to manipulate you or program you with religious doctrine...
by 15155 | 2026-01-15 21:29:35+00:00
> If the section was phrased as “We are LGBTQ+ friendly and do not tolerate transphobia or racism” that would feel more welcoming to you?

It's very, very easy to turn ideas into "racism" or "transphobia."

> it’s just not a space where that kind of discussion is welcome

These folks believe no space exists where this type of discussion is welcome and will deny participation to anyone not towing the party line in all forums - not just their little fiefdom.
by 999900000999 | 2026-01-15 21:30:46+00:00
I was going to post this somewhere else, but I think this story fits.

An old guy approached me and said "put the music on my phone mann".

Alright.

My response:
"Search on YouTube"

He keeps insisting on ME doing it for him.

3 steps

First his data was off. For presumably a while he's had his data off ( it's metro PCs so it's prepaid anyway) and I guess he was relying on WiFi.

Ok.

One click to fix that in the Android tile menu.

His Bluetooth was off too.

Turn that on. Turn on his headphones. Luckily it was already paired.

Finally I had to open YouTube and find music for him.

3 or 4 steps.

Now he's happily listening to music.

But beyond that, he got to introduce himself to me, and I guess the next time he accidentally turns off his data he can ask for help again.

I also like to help people.

Old people are awesome when it comes to this. They'll just ask someone to help them out, that's how you build community.

Don't know how to change your oil ? Cool Billy's a car guy he can help you out. Having trouble with your water pressure, maybe Sarah's a plumber and she can help.

Of course if something serious you're still going to be expected to pay these people, but if it's something quick they'll help you free of charge. Maybe you'll bake them a cake for their kids birthday.

I recall when I was young a neighbor basically gave my mom a car. It was an absolute piece of crap, and out of the goodness of his heart he would come and fix it every now and then.

I didn't realize it as a kid, but if you're passionate about cars and you get the emotional satisfaction of both helping a neighbor and seeing how long you can keep that old car running, that's its own reward.

How many of you would love for a non technical neighbor to say their computer is slow. I recall someone on HN even offering to send out a free laptop to someone in need.

Traditionally communities would have a blacksmith or a baker. That's what that person did and they had a status tied to it.

In modern economic systems what exactly we do is so abstracted away from anything meaningful we lack this connection.

On a very fundamental level people need to feel needed.

TLDR: Help others.
by MBCook | 2026-01-15 21:30:55+00:00
Not all of Apple‘s chips need to be fabbed at the smallest size, those could certainly go elsewhere. I’m sure they already do.

Is there anyone who can match TSMC at this point for the top of the line M or A chips? Even if Intel was ready and Apple wanted to would they be able to supply even 10% of what Apple needs for the yearly iPhone supply?
by 9rx | 2026-01-15 21:30:57+00:00
> how is anybody supposed to meet anyone?

It used to be that you knocked on the door of the residence beside you.

> And now many of them prefer the internet over socializing with people they don't care for that much in person.

This is the crux of it. Your neighbours weren't ever likely to be your soulmate, but that is who was there to befriend, so you did. But now you don't have to. And since they now feel the same way, they aren't putting in the effort either.
by jongjong | 2026-01-15 21:31:05+00:00
It's ridiculous that a trillion dollar company feels beholden to a supplier. With that kind of money, it should be trivial to switch. People forget Nvidia didn't even exist 35 years ago. It would probably take like 3 to 5 years to catch up with the benefit of hindsight and existing talent and tools?

And anyway consumers don't really need beefy devices nowadays. Running local LLM on a smartphone is a terrible idea due to battery life and no graphics card; AI is going to be running on servers for quite some time if not forever.

It's almost as if there is a constant war to suppress engineer wages... That's the only variable being affected here which could benefit from increased competition.

If tech sector is so anti-competitive, the government should just seize it and nationalize it. It's not capitalism when these megacorps put all this superficial pressure but end up making deals all the time. We need more competition, no deals! If they don't have competition, might as well have communism.
by saltybytes | 2026-01-15 21:31:18+00:00
No, just no.

I'm long-time unemployed, had my last interview in Dec 2025. But what I can tell you is that during my interviews I get a lot of questions regarding numbers like: "how did you get to $X mio ARR, saved Y% on the data ingestion pipeline, or decreased processing algorithm speed by Z mins?"

Don't do that!

Everybody is trying to "quantify" their resume but hiring managers are calling the bluff. It's straight out lying, they smell your BS.

Speaking of lying: I get a lot of input from my peers how to actually make it to the next round of an interview process. Across the board they advised me to inflate my expertise of skill XYZ, if asked. Speaking humbly about yourself is not recommended - quite the contrary: brag, but keep it vague and very brief. I never had to do this in the past but now it's almost required.

Shameless plug: If you have any leads that help me secure a full-time position as Solutions Architect (or the like) you won't be disappointed - I'm a fast learner, taking on the toughest challenges! Now that all my savings are gone, I finally need find some work - maybe with your help? Thank you!
by AlanLan | 2026-01-15 21:32:55+00:00
That’s a solid roadmap. Moving towards span-based management is progress, but the real challenge for any new language is achieving true Zero-Cost Abstractions.

In my work with Modern C++, I've come to realize that predictability isn't the result of a single feature like a scavenger or an allocator. It’s the cumulative integrity of every primitive—from a simple string to complex containers—all meticulously engineered to ensure the developer never pays a 'runtime tax' for what they don't use.

A great example of this rigor is why we still don't have Reflection in the standard: the committee refuses to compromise until a solution exists that adds zero overhead at runtime.

For Nature to truly bridge the gap, it shouldn't just aim for 'high performance,' but for that level of uncompromising zero-cost integrity. When the language's abstractions are so refined that the runtime effectively disappears, you reach a state where system behavior becomes perfectly deterministic. That is the standard C++ has set for decades.
by david_p | 2026-01-15 21:32:57+00:00
I started a company in that market 10 years ago. We compete with palantir. It’s a competitive market with lots of actors.

On of their strengths is the ability of thiel to raise lots of money, and win huge gov contracts by convincing everyone that what he built is magic. it is not.

palantir is regular enterprise software. morally, they are vilains for sure, but their superpower is being excellent at marketing themselves.
by BizarroLand | 2026-01-15 21:33:02+00:00
Yeah, it's bizarroland out there.

I wouldn't mind so much if all I had to worry about was making car payments, but having an entire life to support and car payments puts some brakes on my purchasing power.

I could swing $600/m if I needed to, but $1,300/m is a cheap mortgage or rent, not a car payment imho.
Show HN: A WebGPU-based browser engine with "Blam "-style physics
by goovbot | 2026-01-15 21:33:11+00:00
I’ve spent the last few days prototyping a browser-based game engine stack designed for instant-load, "Roblox-for-Teens" style deployment. The goal is to lower the floor for AA indie devs who want high-fidelity physics and instant web distribution without the overhead of Unity or a heavy Godot export.

The Stack
Engine: A headless WASM/WebGPU implementation. I’m currently using custom flags and selective streaming to bypass standard browser memory and execution limits.

Physics: I’ve ported Jolt (Guerrilla Games) but modified the solver to mimic the original Blam! engine (Bungie/Halo 1-3). It successfully replicates that specific "physics chaos" (unstable vehicle momentum, grenade jumping) that modern rigid-body sims often feel too "clean" to capture.

The "Vibe Console": A React-based no-code layer on top of a Godot web-editor clone. It uses an LLM-backed (Claude) interface to allow real-time engine modifications via natural language—essentially mapping prompts to engine dials and knobs.

The Vision
I want to build a platform where casual/semi-competitive party games launch instantly upon page load. No installs, no long loading bars. I’m launching with three open-source "proofs of concept":

A Halo 2-inspired multiplayer arena.

A Simpsons Hit & Run style driving sandbox.

A 3D "Mousetrap" physics runner.

Why I’m posting here
I’m a bootstrapped guy with a previous 10x SaaS exit and a light background in PDEs. While I’ve "vibe-coded" the current architecture into existence, I’m looking for a lead systems engineer who lives and breathes low-level optimization.

I have the capital and gtm know how, but I need a partner who can help me harden the WebGPU pipeline and ensure the "Vibe Console" doesn't create unmaintainable technical debt.

I’d love to hear the community’s thoughts on:

The viability of WebGPU for high-fidelity physics at scale in 2026.

The "Blam!" physics approach—is there a better way to simulate retro-instability than modifying Jolt's constraints?

If you’re a cracked engineer who wants to build the next-gen web gaming substrate, let’s talk.
by rogermas | 2026-01-15 21:33:22+00:00
Helios is basically us trying to build what we hoped Apple Intelligence would feel like day-to-day. It’s a cross-app AI assistant that understands what you’re working on and helps directly in place.
It overlays and can be used in any app (mail, slack, browser etc)
Free to use with your API keys (and free credits from us!)
Try it for free at www.gethelios.xyz
by messh | 2026-01-15 21:33:49+00:00
Hi thanks for the interest!

This is all written in python and the AsyncSSH package. Firecracker for VMs with memory mapped files for ram. Paddle for billing. Caddy as a reverse proxy for certificates.

It works on top of very large bare metal instances.

I'm thinking maybe open sourcing but it will take some more work on the code to make it publishable w/o embarrassing myself :)
by AndreyK1984 | 2026-01-15 21:33:57+00:00
Can someone tell me three things, please!
- is ICE illegal or immoral ? Or it is a good tool used wrong ?
- can people vote and make ICE stronger / weaker depending on their choice ?
- are non registered people breaking the law or not ? Is it basically bad law or bad people ?
I am sure US is republic and democracy together, but everyone here pretends ICE is a tool of dictatorship and should be stopped immediately.

If you ask about my personal opinion - it is an internal problem of US citizens, and they need to fix it.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-15 21:34:01+00:00
> So they really were not joking when they said that they were just going to relocate TSMC to Arizona.

Definitely not joking. So much not joking that TSMC already has fabs in both the US and Japan.

> Is the EU even remotely capable of such a thing given all the grumbling about dependence on American and Chinese tech?

No. Only european company in the top 30 is ASML (the Netherlands).

Europe's biggest industry and exports were german cars but somehow the EU managed to kill its german car industry by handing the market over to China. They did it by: a) rising energy prices like crazy (by shutting down nuclear in Germany and becoming reliant on... Russia: didn't turn out well), so that chinese car manufacturers can build cars with much cheaper energy (I've read 1/6th the price) and b) mandating a crazy shift to 100% EV by 2035 in 2023 or so (they backpedalled a few months ago after realized this destroyed the german economy but the damage is done), leaving no time to german (and to a lesser extent french) car manufacturers to adapt to EV tech.

EU leaders are actively trying to turn the EU into the third world.
by pbalau | 2026-01-15 21:34:03+00:00
What a stupid take, but it showcases the underlying problem: there is no loneliness issue, there is a "me me me" issue.

Friendship is a two way contract: you add something to someone's life and they will consider you their friend, they add something to your life, making them your friend.

Of you "optimize" for your own and only your own benefit, nobody is going to be your friend.
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-15 21:34:05+00:00
> This is something I absolutely would not feel comfortable doing

Part of it I think is to endure the uncomfortable for a bit.

I felt really uncomfortable in social settings, and still do sometimes. But I forced myself to ignore those feelings. Now I'm at a point that if people think I'm weird or whatever then that's their problem.

I try not to be rude, be considerate and such thing, I'm not totally unhinged. But I am much more relaxed about just being me. Sometimes it doesn't work, but often it's all good.
by windowpains | 2026-01-15 21:34:55+00:00
Let me tell you about real life. I’m a caregiver and leaving the home is simply not an option. Short trips to the store, a walk around the block, maybe, if it’s before sundown, provided the person I’m caring for is in the right mental state to be left alone for 45 minutes. If there were neighborhood pubs that might be a thing to do if I drank. Getting off social media is great for those lucky enough to have the option, but with an increasing number of people getting into their dementia years, many with no savings to afford respite or other forms of care, social media is going to be the only option for a lot of people like myself. It’s better than nothing.
by billyhoffman | 2026-01-15 21:34:59+00:00
There are real problems with the Torrent files for collections. They are automatically created when a collection is first created and uploaded, and so they only include the files of the initial upload. For very large collections (100+ GB) it is common for a creator to add/upload files into a collection in batches, but the torrent file is never regenerated, so download with the torrent results in just a small subset of the entire collection.

https://www.reddit.com/r/torrents/comments/vc0v08/question_a...

The solution is to use one of the several IA downloader script on GitHub, which download content via the collection's file list. I don't like directly downloading since I know that is most cost to IA, but torrents really are an option for some collections.

Turns out, there are a lot of 500BG-2TB collections for ROMs/ISOs for video game consoles through the 7th and 8th generation, available on the IA...