MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-28 20:25:22+00:00
Reading a comment like this makes me realize how broad the title “Data Scientist” is, especially this tidbit:

> as it’s rare to need model training outside of big labs

Do you think there are pre-trained models for e.g. process optimization for the primary metallurgy process for steel manufacturing? Industrial engineers don’t know anything about machine learning (by trade), and there are companies that bring specialized Data Science know-how to that industry to improve processes using modern data-driven methods, especially model building.

It’s almost like 99% of comments on this topic think that DS begins at image classification and ends at LLMs, with maybe a little bit of landing page A/B testing or something. Wild.

> Once upon a time I thought DS would be much more about deeper statistics and causal inference, but those have proven to be rare, niche needs outside soft science academia.

This is my entire career lol.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-28 20:25:46+00:00
All of these involve external monitors as far as I can tell, so it seems more likely it's the Display Stream Compression mentioned by the sibling to your comment that is the culprit.

Like I said, absolutely nothing like that happens on my display. I see the ringing in the first link. That doesn't happen to me. Not even a hint of it.

I get you don't like the scaling, but like I said, the very slight blurriness just isn't really noticeable in practice, especially given how Macs antialias text to begin with. Of all my complaints about Macs, this particular one is close to the bottom.
by kwanbix | 2026-01-28 20:26:10+00:00
I’ve been using Windows since version 3.0, so I know what I’m talking about.

Vista peaked at around 25% market share and then declined. The lowest peak of any major Windows release. Compare that with Windows XP at 88%, Windows 7 at 61%, or Windows 10 at 82%. Why do you think that is? Because Vista was great and people just didn’t understand it?

Windows XP was already perfectly usable by SP1, not SP3. The UI wasn’t great, but you could easily make it look and behave like Windows 2000 very easily.

Vista, on the other hand, was bad at launch and never really recovered. I very clearly remember going to friends’ and family members’ homes to upgrade them from Vista to Windows 7, and the difference was night and day.
by cyberax | 2026-01-28 20:26:28+00:00
To put it in perspective, the real worry about MRIs is that people would want to do biopsies or a PET scan if they find something that looks like cancer.

That's really the main concern. And we can fix that by doing a follow-up scan several months later to look for any changes. It also has a nice side-effect of reassuring hypochondriacs that they _don't_ have cancer.
by vee-kay | 2026-01-28 20:26:59+00:00
A similar example: Microsoft's Windows Search function is so pathetic and slow, yet there's another little company who gives a blazing fast file search tool, that's available as (portable) freeware since 15+ years.

Everything Search:
https://www.voidtools.com/

Everything Search uses the NTFS indexes to do blazing fast file or folder searches. It has a neat and clean interface, and no nagging ads (unlike.. cough, cough.. Windows 11). Everything Search is one of the first tools I install on any new Windows PC.
by kloud | 2026-01-28 20:27:13+00:00
This is awesome! I was thinking it would be neat to have something like abduco but on a more reliable foundation, like libghostty-vt.

For my agent management scripts I use zellij since it is more ergonomic than tmux. Abduco sounded good in principle, but implementation is too limited. However, zellij is quite huge in the order of tens of thousands LOC and I am using only small part of it. It looks like zmx might implement just the right amount of features for this use case, I am going to try it. It is always nice to achieve same functionality with leaner tools.

Do you also think about dvtm part alternative? I wonder if once libghostty proper gets finished it would open possibility to level up textual multiplexing and unlock some cool features with graphical UIs.
by pessimizer | 2026-01-28 20:27:19+00:00
Things like that can be unbelievably annoying and confusing on Windows or Macs, too. Even worse, they can just turn out to be impossible: the company can actively be preventing you from doing the thing that you want to do, refuses to give you enough access to your own system to do the thing you want to do, and/or sells permission to do what you want to do as an upgrade that you have to renew yearly.

These are things that don't happen in Linux. Doing what you want to do might be difficult (depending on how unusual it is), but there's no one actively trying to stop you from doing it for their own purposes (except systemd.)

Also, as an aside, a reason that Windows and Macs might have easy virtualization (I have no idea if they do) is because of how often they're running Linux VMs.
by vel0city | 2026-01-28 20:27:30+00:00
> This has nothing to do with racism, and the implication is offensive.

The history of the 14th amendment, Jus Soli, and birthright citizenship have loads of racism in their debates and history. I'm not necessarily calling you a racist here, I'm just pointing out many racists do these things for racist reasons. But you are the one suggesting the citizenship rights guaranteed by the 14th amendment is immoral.

If you're truly ignorant of the history of the 14th Amendment and it's connection to racism you really need to read up on the US Civil War.

> In the age of English common law

We're still living in the age of English Common Law in many ways. It guides a massive part of our legal theory. I point to it because it seems you're taking the position the US is rare in its application of Jus Soli, as if only we made it up somewhat recently.

For practically all free white babies born to immigrants living in the US even before the 14th Amendment Jus Soli was the standard. Racism prevented granting this right to others.

What moral reasons do you give to not give citizenship to those born here? How is the 14th Amendment immoral?
by frsandstone | 2026-01-28 20:27:55+00:00
Very cool stuff.

Vintage marketing of the future: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/curator-picks/vi...

Lectures:
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/search-c...

Oral Histories:
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/search-c...
by yardstick | 2026-01-28 20:27:55+00:00
The problem with talking to a telco, is you have to talk with not just one but any your customer may use. And if at the customer location there’s multiple routers in between the cameras and that telco router, it’s a shitshow trying to configure anything.

Much easier to drop some router on site that is telco neutral and connect back to your telco neutral dc/hq.
by anonnon | 2026-01-28 20:28:10+00:00
> The narcissism of small differences?

Certain political parties (typically leftwing) in these countries will often leverage, if not outright foment, anti-Americanism for political gain. And then you have the external propaganda campaigns, most notably undertaken by the Soviet Union and later, the Russian Federation. The USSR also funded violent separatist movements, like the IRA and ETA, and propped up "pacifist" protest movements that curiously only ever protested the US and other NATO countries' militaries, disregarding the Eastern Block's military buildup.

Today, Code Pink and other organizations run by power couple Neville Roy Singham (ThoughtWorks) and Jodie Evans do this on behalf of the CCP. Name-dropping them now is contentious, because FOXNews and other rightwing outlets have alleged a link to anti-ICE protests. But there was a lengthy NYT piece covering them and their pro-CCP activism back in 2023: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/europe/neville-roy-...

> I think it's also mirrored by some Americans.

It's surely reciprocated, but usually only by Americans who been exposed to enough anti-Americanism from these countries to wise up. The default attitude of Americans towards our allies is overwhelmingly positive: https://news.gallup.com/poll/472421/canada-britain-favored-r...
by LoganDark | 2026-01-28 20:30:14+00:00
The character ROM was not read and processed by the CPU. The CPU set some bytes in video RAM, which served as indexes into the character ROM by the video output hardware.

I believe on some systems there were some tricks that allowed some bitmap display by redefining glyphs. One example off the top of my head is The 8-Bit Guy's Planet X2, which can use text mode but with glyphs redefined to use for icons, units, terrain, UI, etc.
Notes on Clawbot: agents are starting to look like OS runtimes design now
by chenyusu | 2026-01-28 20:30:36+00:00
I spent a few days poking at Clawbot and it clarified something I’d been hand-waving: the hardest part of “useful autonomous agents” is increasingly not model quality, but the runtime that keeps the whole thing coherent when tools/LLM calls are slow, flaky, or non-deterministic.

Clawbot reads less like “an agent” and more like a platform:

• A gateway/daemon that owns processes and isolates the system from expensive/unstable LLM calls

• Event-driven orchestration (webhooks) so agents react to real state changes rather than polling

• Fine-grained permissions during onboarding + handshake flows that make “local authority” safer to reuse

• Local-first execution so you can reuse existing tools (terminal, local apps, Claude Code, etc.) without turning everything into a cloud integration problem

This also explains why hackathon agent demos (including one I built last year) often feel brittle: they’re usually an “agent loop + tools,” but they lack the boring runtime pieces—resource management, concurrency control, failure handling, state persistence, and permission boundaries—that let tasks run for long periods without weird interference.

A few questions I’m left with:

1. What’s the right minimal “kernel” interface for agent runtimes (state, scheduling, authority, audit)?

2. How should these systems implement preemption / cancellation / checkpointing for long-running tool chains?

3. What’s the best pattern for “LLM as an unreliable subprocess” (retries, circuit breakers, sandboxing, determinism contracts)?

4. For multi-node setups, what’s the cleanest model: one daemon per node + one gateway, or fully federated gateways?

Full thoughts:

https://chenyu-li.info/blog/15/en/
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-28 20:31:05+00:00
>You’re ignoring the part where FAANG massively overhired in the years preceding.

Yes, because overhiring is a lie generated to justify layoffs. I'd hope by year 3 that we'd see through this. If they "overhired", why is hiring still up globally while down in the US?

>You’re also forgetting about this little thing popularly called AI that happened in the intervening years.

What about it? Hiring numbers are still up. Its clearly not replacing workers as of now.
by robocat | 2026-01-28 20:31:17+00:00
> like Zimbabwe, having up to 10 dependents per worker on average IIRC

Some developed countries have terrible demographics and need fresh kids.

I am expecting that sometime soon New Zealand will start accepting unskilled immigrants if they have >2 healthy kids under 10 years old. It wouldn't surprise me if the dept of internal affairs already has a soft rule to encourage that.

At some point many countries with shitty demographics are going to have to start competing to import kids.
Show HN: EU Regulations MCP Server – Query GDPR, Dora, NIS2 from Claude
by Aesir89 | 2026-01-28 20:31:21+00:00
Built an MCP server that makes 37 EU regulations searchable from Claude Desktop/Cursor. Full-text search across 2,400+ articles, control mappings to ISO 27001/NIST CSF, cross-regulation comparisons.

Started as our internal tool for our Threat Modeling service. Open-sourced it because EUR-Lex is painful.
GitHub: https://github.com/Ansvar-Systems/EU_compliance_MCP
npm: npx @ansvar/eu-regulations-mcp
Tech: TypeScript, SQLite FTS5, MCP protocol.
by Biganon | 2026-01-28 20:31:22+00:00
The idea that the golden ratio is particularly aesthetically pleasing is 100% snake oil.

Sure, moving a heading slightly higher can make it look much better than if it was perfectly equidistant from the side and the top, but the precise amount depends on a million visual factors. The golden ratio might happen to work fine, but there's nothing magical about it.

Even temples that we thought followed the golden ratio for their dimensions have been measured better, and it turns out they don't. The civilizations back then knew enough so they could have made them very close to the golden ratio, but they didn't. Not always at least.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-28 20:31:32+00:00
Indian high school senior here about to start CS in college here.

Your project feels phenomenal. Definitely starred.

I was actually trying to create a browser (in golang) myself as well (using LLM assistance) & I really couldn't do it after countless efforts.

https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/golang-browser Much of it was just curiosity towards if LLM's could port the rust project by emsh https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/ into golang & this has led to some really insightful discussions between me and emsh on bluesky

This is actually really pretty cool as I was targeting a ~10k loc for golang from the ~20k loc of rust (given how golang has networking binaries and other stuff)

I guess this is really cool. I was always really averse to C++ preferring golang. I think I am ken-thompson pilled for the most part lol.

Anyways its really great to see people my age working in similar ideas. Somehow it gives us I guess a more sense of connection like I am not alone doing these things and I guess its pretty cool feeling seeing others do similar stuff and learning from them!

I have starred your repo and good luck for college too man! Hope to communicate with ya.

Edit: Another comment here as someone here mentioned that you used LLM, which LLM did you end up using and how'd you use it. For me personally, the most (success?) that I found which could generate a hackernews without any styles and anything was via their computer-use agent model (which I am thinking of downloading & working with kimi-cli to add more styling and other stuff as well in golang just out of curiosity)

I don't really mind if you used LLM, but I am curious as to how in this instance.
by ColinWright | 2026-01-28 20:31:46+00:00
That's not my channel. Alas, my name is fairly common, and there are some proper whackos who publish widely.

I only have one video in my channel ... never really got going, but I keep promising myself I'll start doing more. My channel is here:

https://www.youtube.com/@ColinTheMathmo

I don't have that talk on video, but I can probably sketch the content for you if you're interested, and then give pointers to pages with the details.

How to contact me is in my profile ... I'm happy to write a new thing.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-28 20:32:39+00:00
No, "vibe coding" means you don't look at the code, nor care about it. You could probably manage to get together a prototype, maybe even get it to deploy, but eventually it'll fall over in it's own slop. The tooling isn't ready for a non-software engineer to maintain a large-scale software project, don't let the marketing fool you.

However, if you are a software engineer, armed together with an agent, I don't see why not. Come up with the architecture/design, stick to it, and you could probably get something to a polished state at one point.
by evanjrowley | 2026-01-28 20:33:02+00:00
It's a trend with Apple as well. It can be seen in iOS/macOS 26 Tahoe. There's lots of untapped potential in those iPads with M-series CPUs. We've also had rumors of a "MacBook Air Lite" sporting a cellphone A-series CPU. The convergence is happening.

I would love to be able to do more with my Google Pixel phone. Right now, the MacBook is my primary workstation, but the possibility of an even more "mobile" productivity setup is very enticing. Now if only I could get an Android tablet with the new "Terminal" feature in Android 15...
by themafia | 2026-01-28 20:33:20+00:00
> but everything gets much easier

It also gets more fragile. If your ISP can't or doesn't issue you a prefix for whatever reason then your entire IPv6 network stops working even internally. This is even more pertinent if, like me, you're on a 4G LTE connection. Verizon has great IPv6 support, when you can get it, and when you can't I'd still prefer to have a stable internal network.
by spacechild1 | 2026-01-28 20:33:46+00:00
> What would you do in this situation?

Follow the protocol. If you lose your nerves because of people blowing a whistle, you're in the wrong job.

> Alex seemed to put hands on an officer

Where do you see that? All I see is that he raised his left hand in a protective manner, likely to keep the agent at a distance and protect himself from the pepper spray. After that gesture he turns away from the agent to help the woman on the ground. That's when they grapple him from behind and wrestle him to the ground. At no point did Alex behave in a threatening way or physically attack an agent.
by lbeckman314 | 2026-01-28 20:33:55+00:00
If God didn't want me to use the em dash, why did he enshrine it in

nature? In the horizon line—the lightning-harrowed bough—the canyon's

pink striation—the pupil of the goat

— @ctrlcreep

https://twitter.com/ctrlcreep/status/1808321708627317061

https://nitter.net/ctrlcreep/status/1808321708627317061
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-28 20:34:06+00:00
No country which I am aware of taxes companies for reinvesting profit and for growing. On the contrary, some countries instead give tax breaks to industries if they are large enough. And these are socialist countries.

Thinking about how incredibly many factors have to come together right for a giant business or industry of any kind to be able to exist, I understand that governments are very careful to not poke them with too many sticks. Their products and services exports (and imports) are an incredibly valuable bargaining chip in foreign politics. The only other significant bargaining chip which nations usually have are military threats, and that isn't a pleasant road to travel.
by watwut | 2026-01-28 20:34:32+00:00
> So what exactly are they supposed to say?

Several options, pretty much all of them involve being actually cooperative rather then intentionally unhelpful. If Bill was part of some other team, point to that team or its leader.

If he was in your team, you or leader can ask about what the person wants and move from there. Maybe you can actually answer the question. Maybe the proper reaction involves raising jira ticket. Maybe the answer is "we are probably not going to do that anymore". It all depends on what the person who came with the question wants.

> But it doesn't change that Bill was the person who was responsible, and now is gone.

The other people are still there. And the team IS responsible for X. And without doubt, they are fully responsible for helping figure out who should be contacted now and what should be done.

That is normal part of work after any reorganization.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-28 20:34:33+00:00
FreeBSD user here too <3 Mainly because I think Linux is way too aligned (and developed by) big tech these days.

We have Netflix and Sun influence but the former is not really putting its stamp on it and the latter no longer exists (and evil Oracle has zero interest of course)

I prefer the OS aligned with users like me not the big cloud boys.
by Applejinx | 2026-01-28 20:34:36+00:00
This is not a fair criticism. There is _nobody_ there, so you can't be saying 'code the exact same LLM wrote minutes before'. There is no 'exact same LLM' and no ideas for it to have, you're trying to make sense of sparkles off the surface of a pond. There's no 'it' to have an idea and then a different idea, much less deep meta cognition.
by dnautics | 2026-01-28 20:34:45+00:00
yeah some frameworks call these "lenses". There's even crazy people who write lenses on top of elixir schemas because they dont realize you can just have multiple schemas.

maybe more concretely: if you have a table with a kajillion columns and you want performant views onto some column (e.g. "give me the metadata only and dont show me blobs columns") without pulling down the entire jungle in the sql request, There's that.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-28 20:35:35+00:00
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to attribute a lot of malice to Microsoft, but in this case I really do believe that it was incompetence. Everything I've ever read about 90%+ of hardware vendors is that shipping hilariously broken firmware is an everyday occurrence for them.

(This is separate from Windows RT, of course)
by thelastgallon | 2026-01-28 20:35:37+00:00
I used IBM CoScripter[1] for many many years to supercharge productivity at work. It records macros and you can rerun it. Perfect for most Corporate applications which require you to fill many pages of garbage to close tickets/etc. I used to close hundreds of tickets/day working as a Linux production support engineer. The troubleshooting was quick, closing the tickets on the bullshit peoplesoft ticketing system with a dozen screens was the most timeconsuming thing. CoScripter helped me quite a bit. I've searched high and low for simple macro recorders like that, but never found any. I wonder if this solves the same problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoScripter
by dlahoda | 2026-01-28 20:35:42+00:00
tax more is so solution...

underesourcing segment - why not just segment to stop consuming cheap dophamine and replace a lot of bad food with less of good (nope, new usa pyramid is not so solution).

i would pay people for eating less ut really good and watch less shows and tvs, would be glad to do so.

just give poor people free ai, free internet, free good water; give them chance to find out everything.
by system2 | 2026-01-28 20:35:52+00:00
Amazon Go had one of the best turkey pesto sandwiches you could buy for $6. It was my treat after driving back from the dog park. I felt sad after they closed that Go store. Coffee (Starbucks) was free with a minimum purchase of $5, which the sandwich covered. I miss that, but only that. There was literally nothing useful to buy on the go. All weird Amazon products, nothing close to 7-Eleven.
by jeffrallen | 2026-01-28 20:35:54+00:00
I don't know if anyone from Switzerland explained why this is to you, or if you are interested.

Swiss business hours limits are for worker protection. You are lucky to hang out on HN and work whenever you want. You neighbor who keeps your groceries on the shelf for you is happy to be home with his or her children in the evening instead of in the store.

Having a high trust society also includes treating all people with respect, so that they will be willing to trust you. Even the hourly workers who keep the world turning for the rest of us.
by hypeatei | 2026-01-28 20:36:01+00:00
> Why do you choose to dismiss drivers like stockpiling inventory, increased USMCA compliance, broader economic offsets (AI/tech boom, energy production)

Okay, so you're admitting that they're inflationary but choose to rattle off a list of random stuff that somehow, magically, offsets the increased costs from tariffs. Please go into detail on one of those, including what you're talking about (e.g. what is "increased USCMA compliance"?)

AI datacenters have increased energy costs in the localities where they're based and raised memory prices by eating up all the supply.

> You ask this as if I didn't say the US imports more than it exports.

So.. you were agreeing with my point then? I don't understand why you'd call my thoughts "not coherent" then agree with it.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-28 20:36:20+00:00
The fact that literally the Creator behind Redis has to go and point this out straight up proves this.

Also Antirez, I am in high school and I can literally write it in writing that there's literally no school with such homework assignments imo. I have written a comment about seeing the curriculum of one of my other friends and my anecdotal evidence talking to friends.

There's literally zero doubt in my mind that there's no such homework assignment.