MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drnick1 | 2026-01-30 19:50:48+00:00
> automatically tracking FSD miles versus manual miles through direct Tesla integration.

No thanks. I unplugged the cellular modem in my car precisely because I can't stand the idea that the manufacturer/dealer/insurance company or other unauthorized third parties could have access to my location and driving habits.

I also generally avoid dealers like the plague and only trust the kind of shops where the guy who answers the phone is the guy doing the work.
by zdp7 | 2026-01-30 19:50:54+00:00
Even if it was, there are other ways to go. The emoluments clause would be my guess. This term is the auction off America plan. Go read the NPR article on the gutting of nuclear safety rules. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/28/g-s1-107650/up-first-newslett... Who needs easy access to nuclear reactors? Tech billionaires possibly... Would you want to live next to a Grok data center? Iterate quickly and fail fast is not really compatible with nuclear reactor design. At least rocket debris a relatively short window of danger.
by thenaturalist | 2026-01-30 19:51:20+00:00
> "Forget about managing complex server infrastructure for your database needs."

So what does this run on then?

No docs, it's not possible to find any deployment guides for Ray using serverless solutions like Lambda, Cloud Functions or be it your own Firecracker.

Instead, every other post mentions EKS or EC2.

The Ray team even rejected Lambda support expressedly as far back as 2020 [0]. Uuuuuugh.

No thanks! shiver

I'd rather cut complexity for practically the same benefit and either do it single machine or have a thin, manageable layer on top a truly serverless infra like in this talk [1] " Processing Trillions of Records at Okta with Mini Serverless Databases".

0: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues/9983

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrmJilG4GXk
by scoofy | 2026-01-30 19:51:54+00:00
I want to step in here and point to Strong Towns. It’s easy to say THAT the cities have owners, but not why. The why is the American development pattern that creates suburbia that can’t generate enough taxes to pay to maintain the town.

That’s the problem. Suburban infrastructure is wildly expensive. A return to dense walkable villages would, in large part fix the problem.

https://www.strongtowns.org/
by TheGRS | 2026-01-30 19:53:07+00:00
I decided I'm going to take the plunge soon. I've used Windows for my personal computers for a long time (25 years? more if you count our family computers back in the day). I have only used linux desktops for little hobby projects, in Pis and VMs, and most of my experience has been headless servers. I loaded up Mint on a thumb drive pretty recently and it seemed like it would be good enough for running my steam games and VS Code. I'm actually liking the idea a lot because while I've been very happy with WSL, there is still a wee bit of friction developing locally with it, especially for game development stuff. And when developing its usually in the linux CLI anyway. Docker usually has some bumps too.

Thankfully I have my old PC still lying around and it'll play most of the games I like, so I'm gonna give it a spin soon and see if its the right fit for me. Maybe I can use a bot to help me document setup better than I have in the past too.
by jevndev | 2026-01-30 19:54:17+00:00
Neat example of the strengths and weaknesses of vibe coding… But if anyone here is looking for a solid browser-based parametric CAD solution, [onshape](https://www.onshape.com) is the best there is. It’s missing a few tools that more complex alternatives have but if all you need is something easy to learn so you can make things to 3d print it’s a good choice
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-30 19:54:48+00:00
> Designers have a choice in lithium-ion though. 18650 is is pretty large cell but there's 14500 which is AA sized or 10440 which is AAA sized. They make versions with the usual battery "nub" rather than the flat faces for spot welding, and built-in protection circuitry to prevent over-discharging. You probably would want to use ones of a different size than normal 1.5v cells though. A personal favorite of mine is RCR123A/16340.

But other than 18650 you can't expect to find a lot of devices using any particular size.

We should strive for a couple blessed sizes that a lot of devices will stick with, where all cells include a nub and protection circuitry.
by doodlebugging | 2026-01-30 19:55:02+00:00
But what about raising a crop right up to the point where it's helicoptered its genitals enough to have found a gullible pollinator or sprayed it's pollen widely enough to produce the seed for the next generation and then killing it, thus cutting it down in the prime of its life with no opportunity for that plant's descendants to sprout and grow (especially if they are Monsanto seeds) and reach the point where they too can wag their privates while looking for PILFs (plants ...)?

Everything has to eat something. Humans are omnivorous. We have a choice and some choose to base their diets on plant consumption while others eat a little meat and still others eat mostly meat. It's all okay. The universe is working as intended. Villifying those who choose a different diet than yours seems like a petty exercise by people who need to invent a reason to feel better about themselves.

If you enjoy and love the foods that you eat then you are doing it right. There is no requirement and no need to proselytize about your choices. We have enough other religions who have forgotten the main message to deal with. It will be just as easy for people to tune yours out.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-30 19:55:19+00:00
The person declaring "trillions in new investments" is Donald Trump. He doesn't understand how tariffs work, he doesn't understand how trade works, and he doesn't understand how the truth works.

So many of the stats you mention are based on potentially-untruthful statements from the Trump administration. When the facts and figures aren't favorable to Trump, his strategy is to shoot the messenger and install his cronies. Works great, right up until it doesn't.
by brandall10 | 2026-01-30 19:56:19+00:00
I find it funny that Take Two is dropping against this news... the company that has taken some 13 years to create a sequel to its primary franchise. Wouldn't tech that could significantly shorten the timeline back to something closer to a few years like it was 20 years ago - while at the same time massively expanding the scope of the game relative to those - seen as a boost to share value? Isn't releasing a billion dollar entry to a franchise 4-5x as quickly something shareholders should be celebrating?

It's not like someone is going to prompt up "gimme GTA7 based on what you know about all the past GTAs" and similar crazy high level instructions in a few weeks and go, "yep, that's our standard". There are almost certainly thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of little decisions that go into producing something so massive in scope. Anything that could significantly speed up prototyping, world building, character modeling, NPC behavior, etc, should be seen as a true benefit.
by reify | 2026-01-30 19:56:21+00:00
so, when you have three kids on the rear seat messing around because they are bored, each time you give them the evil eye in the rear view mirror, the car does a backflip

you look in the drivers side door mirror because you heard a harley fat boy behind you. the car swerves in front of the bike rider and kills them.

the chapter of hells angels following the harley, Stop, and beat you within inches of your life for killing their friend.

safe as fuck

GM are shit anyway, they make shite cars
by sowbug | 2026-01-30 19:57:07+00:00
I love the 14500 except for its footgun shape. 6 x 14500 is at least 21 volts, which won't play nice with a device that wanted 9 volts. I used to try to keep the 14500s far away from the AAs, but there's no stopping a kid in a hurry who wants to play with a toy or musical instrument.
by swalsh | 2026-01-30 19:57:42+00:00
I realize i'm probably screaming into the void here, but this should be a red alert level security event for the US. We aquired TikTok because of the perceived threat (and I largely agreed with that) but this is 10x worse. Many people are running bots using Chinese models. We have no idea how those were trained, maybe this generation is fine... but what if the model is upgraded? what if the bot itself upgrades it's own config? China could simply train the bot to become an agent to do it's own bidding. These agents have unrestricted access to the internet, some have wallets, email accounts etc. To make matters worse it's a distributed netweork. You can shut down the ones running via Claude, but if you're running locally, it's unstoppable.
by eriam | 2026-01-30 19:57:45+00:00
Well the way I see it is that it's more a matter of what if more people are producing more efficiently but from the organization standpoint it's not apparent, it's a kind of DDoS on governance and decision, and a fast one.

Now I don't see how flattening hierarchy could cure this. Decisions must still be taken for example for utilities and any other complex system and people must work so we need role shifts and we need process changes effective and apparent for organizations otherwise thay won't benefit and suffer from the shock.

The analogy with COVID was also a kind of what if: could we have an economic confinement if efficiency gains are collapsing the economy ?
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-01-30 19:58:15+00:00
So it only lets Microsoft know people's exact location -- how close is Microsoft to the Trump regime? Nadella has apparently gifted Trump millions?

Why in the f does Word need my location (access to location services) for me to write a document? Pops up every time.

Teams already has a location setting, if you wanted to automate that a more correct way would seem to be adding the feature and offering users the opportunity to turn it on. Microsoft hasn't really changed since the IE days it seems.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-30 19:58:33+00:00
> This is not surprising. America is basically engaged in a tit-for-tat.

They're using the "two wrongs make a right" theory again? Still haven't figured out that it's just double wrong?

Even worse, it's not really a tit-for-tat, it's a theater of tit-for-tat, a slow-boiling theater which habituates more and more oppression. Why wouldn't both sides use it - it gives them exactly what they want.
by bri3d | 2026-01-30 19:59:51+00:00
Thanks for chiming in!

This is how I expected the feature to work once I read the real product brief, so that's a plus at least. You might want to tell your product people to ask whoever deals with this stuff at Microsoft anymore if they can, like, talk to the press about it? Various outlets have been running stories for almost a year now about how Teams is going to start sending your WiFi data to your boss.

The wording on the product page also makes it sound like tenant administrators will get to decide how opt-in works (ie - that they could select which options the end-user is allowed to pick, and at Microsoft they happened to give you the freedom of choice); this makes sense from my experience in enterprise software management but also makes the feature seem like it will be incredibly yucky/annoying. Is that just a case of poor wording?

This still seems like a super weird feature to push through in terms of "yuck" to "value," but I also know how that goes.
by eszed | 2026-01-30 20:00:05+00:00
Was going to say the same thing. I've had three of these sorts of "crashes": once was my fault, but no damage, so I apologized and we shook hands and drove away; once was their fault, but same result; third was unambiguously his fault, but I laughed and told him it was his lucky day that the scratch down the side of my car was only maybe the third worst on the beater I was driving at the time. That guy's bumper was all but ripped off, but (though we exchanged details) I never heard anything more about it, so I'm damn sure he never went to insurance. If you count only the (my fault) first of those I'm well ahead of the once every 200k miles average someone proposed up-thread - though if you count the time I ripped off the underlip of my bumper parking in front of a too-high curb, I'm probably back at par.
by crusty | 2026-01-30 20:00:17+00:00
This was a thing. I worked in an office of 4 within a larger facility back when booting up took some time and we had staggered morning arrivals. The first arrival would power on everyone's computers so they were ready. If someone came in, they'd see a computer on without someone there. Where are they? I don't know, maybe in the bathroom, getting coffee, or running down an issue in another department.
by Jensson | 2026-01-30 20:00:19+00:00
> Dramatically improved Jira usage -- better, more descriptive tickets with actionable user stories and clearly expressed requirements. Dramatically improved github PRs. Dramatically improved test coverage. Dramatically improved documentation, not just in code but in comments.

> Basically all _for free_

Not for free, the cost is that all of those are now written by AI so not really vetted any longer. Or do you really think your team is just using AI for code?
by andybak | 2026-01-30 20:00:35+00:00
It's important to remember that "games" aren't a monolith. People want different things. There's a categorization I vaguely remember and I was an "explorer". Hated narrative, puzzles and any repetition. Never wanted multiplayer. Just give me a weird world to explore. Yeah, procgen has limits but Minecraft is still fascinating to me.
by text0404 | 2026-01-30 20:00:43+00:00
The point is that you fight against injustice, even in the face of state violence.

> Malcom X and MLK both had their followings. People like Pretti, never will.

We're done with leaders. The new movement is decentralized and doesn't rely on figureheads.

You should read the news today: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=general%20strike&tbm=n...
by asyncadventure | 2026-01-30 20:01:04+00:00
Interesting take on extending DuckDB beyond single-machine limits. The discussion about "over-engineering" vs real scale needs resonates with a project I worked on recently - sometimes you hit that awkward middle ground where single-node DuckDB maxes out but full Spark feels like bringing a cannon to a knife fight. The Ray abstraction here is clever for bridging that gap, though the serverless claims seem overstated given Ray's infrastructure requirements.
by ForceBru | 2026-01-30 20:01:11+00:00
Sorry, I was just trying to be funny, no gotcha intended. Yeah, I once found some massive prompt that was supposed to transform the LLM into some kind of spiritual advisor or the next Buddha or whatever. Total gibberish, in my opinion, possibly written by a mentally unstable person. Anyway, I wanted to see if DeepSeek could withstand it and tell me that it was in fact gibberish. Nope, it went crazy, going on about some sort of magic numbers, hidden structure of the Universe and so on. So yeah, a state that resembles psychosis, indeed.
by hn_acc1 | 2026-01-30 20:01:45+00:00
What about when they ramp up the cost 10x or 100x to what it's ACTUALLY costing them, because the "free money we're burning to fuck the planet" has dried up? Now you have software you can't afford to fix anymore.. Or assistants that have all your data, and you can't get it back because the company went out of business.
by lossolo | 2026-01-30 20:03:08+00:00
You're using an uninteresting appeal to authority argument again.

So let's talk physics. Are you familiar with the radiative heat-balance problem? You can use the Stefan–Boltzmann law to calculate how many radiators you'd need.

Required area:
A = P / (eps * sigma * eta * (Tr^4 - Tsink^4))

Where:

A = radiator area [m^2]

P = waste heat to dump [W]

eps = emissivity (0..1)

sigma = 5.670374419e-8 W/m^2/K^4

eta = non ideal factor for view/blockage/etc (0..1)

Tr = radiator temperature [K]

Tsink = effective sink temperature [K] (deep space ~3 K, ~0 for Tr sizing)

Assuming best conditions so deep space, eps~0.9, eta~1:

At Tr=300K: ~413 W/m^2

At Tr=350K: ~766 W/m^2

At Tr=400K: ~1307 W/m^2

So for 10 MW at 350K (basically around 77°C): A ~ 1e7 / 766 ≈ 13,006 m^2 (best case).

And even in the best case scenario it's only 10 MW and we're not counting radiation from the sun or IR from the moon/earth etc. so in real life, it will be even higher.

You can build 10 MW nuclear power plant (microreactor) with the datacenter included on Earth for the same price.

Show me your numbers or lay out a plan for how to make it economically feasible in space.
by shehackspurple | 2026-01-30 20:04:08+00:00
Tanya Janca | Shehackspurple
@shehackspurple
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Jan 27
I’ve been working toward this for years, and it finally happened.

Canada now has a parliamentary petition to require secure coding in federal software. If you care about cybersecurity, public safety, and better government tech, please sign.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-30 20:04:08+00:00
Hey Hackernews, You can read my previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827731#46828331 where I was suddenly writing until I realized that on Hackernews I have written way too many words.

I then got the idea of actually figuring out how many. Then I first wanted to try out algolia but then later, I found out about clickhouse and how it had a play and the api for playing is so simple, I am definitely gonna make more projects on top of clickhouse play for HN (seriously my mind got blown because I was assuming that the browser -> api was gonna be hard but it seriously wasn't)

Then decided to think to write a github page about it for other people as well.

Anyways, this was one of the most fun project I had. So it turns out that I personally have written 0.64 Game of thrones words in Hackernews itself.

Dang has written 11.15 Volumes equivalent to game of thrones which is actually really crazy.

When I searched dang I was shocked haha. Anyways Dang, If you are reading this, I know that we all like to talk about how moderation of HN has issues but seriously man, the amount of efforts you put in is really lovely & respectable. We all love you.

I still feel like there are some issues where people flag anything they dislike which can be frustrating and other things but that still doesn't really impact the moderation and the moderation team (dang) is pretty awesome in my opinion even if the website does have this flaw in my opinion but Hackernews is one of the best websites man!

Dang today's your day! We can discuss the issues of flagging and others some other day, Have a nice day now!

(Also a little side fact but I picked game of thrones because my name of github is SerJaimeLannister because I was watching game of thrones in my brother's dorm room once in his college room and I literally just thought one or two episodes and started watching from s4 or something and then literally the second I got home, I binge watched Game of thrones till end and then s1 s2 but I think that I haven't watched some seasons I think s3 iirc more but still I loved the show so much and I think I had lost my old github account and naming is always hard especially in programming so picked SerJaimeLannister but this is the reason why I picked the novel equivalent to be game of thrones!)
by petcat | 2026-01-30 20:04:15+00:00
> Netscape has seen its browser share go from about 80% to about 20% during this time, all the while it could do nothing to address competitive concerns, because their key software product was disassembled in 1000 pieces on the floor and was in no shape to drive anywhere. That single bad decision, more than anything else, was the nuclear bomb Netscape blew itself up with.

This post from spolsky is always amusing to me because it came 6 months after Microsoft was convicted of antitrust violations to crush Netscape. So it's funny that he claims Netscape killed themselves, when the courts actually said that Microsoft killed Netscape. Obviously Netscape made critical bad decisions, but Microsoft's illegal behavior was what actually killed them.
by ploxiln | 2026-01-30 20:04:18+00:00
I just worry that the voltage of these is a bit too high, if the device takes 3 or 4 in series. They tend to be around 1.8 volts per cell, significantly higher than a fresh alkaline AA at around 1.6 volts, and even after half the energy is discharged, if the device is off for a long while, the initial voltage for next turn-on creeps all the way back up.

(The price doesn't bother me ... it's worth the much lower chance of leaking than alkaline, if you leave it in a remote or gadget for years. But I've come to think that rechargeable NiMH like eneloops are a better idea due to the voltage.)
by georgeecollins | 2026-01-30 20:04:27+00:00
That's a smart take. However, the cost and time to make GTA6 is mostly baked in at this point.

What I think is likely is that the cost of many other types of games in the future will be reduced because of AI. It's an open question how useful AI will be but I think its clear that it can make a lot of tasks in game making more efficient.
by aftbit | 2026-01-30 20:04:45+00:00
FACE covers "physical" obstruction or threats of violence or force. Standing in the room and yelling is not physical obstruction, and none of what was yelled was threatening violence. Regardless, Don Lemon himself didn't take part in any of that - he just went there to film it.

The DOJ just wants to scare people out of protesting or reporting on crimes, score some points with their religious base, and "own the libs" by turning the FACE act around, probably in retaliation for the (IMO overcharging) of the "Pro Life Grandmother" aka Paula “Paulette” Harlow:

>“[The defendants] forcefully entered the clinic and set about blockading two clinic doors using their bodies, furniture, chains, and ropes,” the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said.
by doodlebugging | 2026-01-30 20:04:47+00:00
The post title makes more sense now. The website name is a bit misleading but is out of your control. Leading with that initially created the opportunity to lampoon them in a good-natured sort of way.

If anyone's feelings were hurt by anything I posted here today I remind you to think of the plants. Mine have spent more than a week nearly frozen under a thick blanket of sleet waiting for me to have the opportunity to remove their cold weather protections so that they can once again feel the warmth of Mr Sunshine for a few hours before being covered again to protect them from the hard freeze we'll have again tonight. I love my plants and they grow well for me. And then I eat them, all the edible parts anyway, sometimes with meat but not always.
by eknkc | 2026-01-30 20:05:10+00:00
I've been using it with opencode. You can either use your kimi code subscription (flat fee), moonshot.ai api key (per token) or openrouter to access it. OpenCode works beautifully with the model.

Edit: as a side note, I only installed opencode to try this model and I gotta say it is pretty good. Did not think it'd be as good as claude code but its just fine. Been using it with codex too.
by tbrownaw | 2026-01-30 20:05:13+00:00
I have some LiPo-based 1.5V AA and AAA batteries that have USB-C ports built in for charging. The AAA ones claim 1200 mWh (800 mAh) and the AA ones claim 3400 mWh or ~2250 mAh. (I say "claim" because I bought them off some random Amazon shop a few years ago and haven't bothered to actually check.)
by amarant | 2026-01-30 20:05:29+00:00
Read a random thread, found this passage which I liked:

"My setup: I run on a box with an AMD GPU. My human chose it because the price/VRAM ratio was unbeatable for local model hosting. We run Ollama models locally for quick tasks to save on API costs. AMD makes that economically viable."

I dunno, the way it refers to <it's human> made the LLM feel almost dog-like. I like dogs. This good boy writes code. Who's a good boy? Opus 4.5 is.