MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by asQuirreL | 2026-01-06 09:48:24+00:00
This sounds like advice for how to be promoted to a specific level -- the first point where awareness of things beyond yourself is required (somewhere around the Senior or Staff level for ICs, depending on your company).

Generally everyone in a team should be working towards some shared goal, there's no level at which you can be a chaos agent and not serve some higher purpose. The difference at this level transition is that you realise that for yourself -- someone doesn't need to remind you of the goal and nudge you back on course. That same realisation is not going to cut it at higher levels.

For me the general version of this advice is not something you can just tell the person who's being promoted, it's collective advice, for them, their manager, their tech lead: everyone needs to agree that this person needs to be given more rope, they need to do something useful with that (i.e. not hang themselves with it), the people around them need to watch out for when they start tying a noose and help them untie it (already regretting this analogy), and that's how you get promoted.

The rope takes different forms for different levels. I'll use the level scale I'm familiar with, starting with a newly graduated engineer at L3:

- L3 -> L4. You help decide how to build the feature.

- L4 -> L5. You help decide what features are worth building, and are trusted to maintain them.

- L5 -> L6. You help shape the work and ongoing maintenance of ~10 people's work (what products are worth building and how), over a time horizon of 6 months to a year.

- L6 -> L7. ~50 people's work, 1-2 years.

- L7 -> L8. ~200 people's work, 2-5 years.

- L8 -> L9. Things start to get fuzzy. The pattern suggests that you have a hand in ~1000 people's work, which is possible to do in the moment, but rare. There's two ways I can think of: you're either a world expert in your field, or you have set the technical strategy well for your organisation as it grew to this size.

This is just based on my experience, working largely on infrastructure teams both in big tech and in start ups as both an IC and a manager (currently an IC).
by stock_toaster | 2026-01-06 09:48:36+00:00
plenty of other issues though:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/blog/brave-ceo-apologises-for-a...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/facebook-twit...

and issues with tor (presumably fixed by now)

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/02/22/brave-browser-was-e...
by donkeybeer | 2026-01-06 09:49:52+00:00
The term isn't quiter about music it was about educational content but it feels close to describing a style of some of thr album arts in the mid to late 90s. (eg https://www.metal-archives.com/images/8/4/8/3/8483.jpg?3113 ; https://www.metal-archives.com/images/5/0/50.jpg?0113 ) Its a nice coinage, they describe it better than I could.
by kalenvale | 2026-01-06 09:50:07+00:00
I won't argue with your points 1-3, makes sense but this was fun building, and long term i think it was for the best. However, i would argue that the value of this currency is not tied to scarcity like bitcoin, or usage like ethereum. Instead the value of Dealta would be based on how well the initial goal is achieved, which is to reduce online frauds. The protocol is setup with timers, that limit how much time can be spent on each stage of a trade, hence limits time wasted when items are not in transit. Given that ebay and amazon take huge percentages, it could in fact be cheaper for the buyer. Its supply and demand. Thirdly, to counter the issue of a buyer holding on to an item, you can simply increase the collateral, lets say with 100%, so a 50% decrease in the coin's price is accounted for, thus making it infeasible. Again, this is something to be decided by the community. My initial argument for making Dealta PoW-based is that much like with any other crypto, whales who think this a good idea, would be able to handle the early volatility. All these things are why Dealta also has a native crypto. Would love to hear more from you!
by coffinbirth | 2026-01-06 09:50:25+00:00
You see, Iran is sanctioned by the west for decades now, and these sanctions eroded the Iranian economy greatly, causing much pain and suffering for the people of Iran.

These sanctions a major reason for the protest, so they are largely legitimate. To archive regime change, mix in (paid) violent protesters with AK's and Molotov Cocktails and add a Truth Social Post like

> If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J.TRUMP

there is your regime change!
by bonesss | 2026-01-06 09:50:31+00:00
In the gap between reality and executive speak around LLMs, I’m wondering about motives.

Getting executives, junior devs, HR, and middle management hooked onto an advice and document template machine owned and operated by your corporation would seemingly have a huge upside for an entity like Microsoft. Their infatuation might be more about how profitable such arrangements would be versus any meaningful productivity improvement for developers.

Like, in ways that BizTalk, Dynamics, and SharePoint attempt to capture business processes onto a pay-for-play MS stack, and all benefit when being pitched to non-technical customers, Copilot provides an ever evolving sycophantic exec-centred channel to push and entangle it all as MS sees fit.

Having all parts of your business divulge in real-time through saveable chats every part of your business, strategy, tooling, and process to MS servers and Azure services is itself a pretty stunning arrangement. Imagining those same services directly selling busy customers entangling integrations, or trendy azure services, through freewheeling MCP-like glue, all inline in that customers own business processes? It sounds like tech exec nirvana, automated self-directed sales.

They don’t need job deleting sentience to make the share price go up and rationalize this LLM push. They are far more aware of the limitations than we…
by 53p3h2 | 2026-01-06 09:50:55+00:00
my friend, living in iran makes you bow to Satan. have you ever pay 40% tax while you currency value gets half every month? why? because you government leader wants an atom bomb to become a more powerful terrorist? so when Mark Dubowitz or people like him do whatever it will be considered a good thing that at least wont get people killed for protesting
What's the hardest part of getting SOC 2 done in practice?
by asdxrfx | 2026-01-06 09:51:05+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m curious to hear from founders, engineers, and consultants who’ve gone through (or are going through) SOC 2. On paper it sounds straightforward: controls, evidence, audit, but in practice it seems to get messy quickly.

Some things I’ve heard people struggle with: translating abstract controls into real engineering workflows; knowing what level of evidence is “enough”; keeping things updated once the audit is over; coordinating between engineering, security, and ops; dealing with tools vs. spreadsheets vs. consultants

For those who’ve done it:
- What part took the most time?
- What was more painful than expected?
- What did you wish you had known before starting?

Not trying to sell anything, genuinely trying to understand where the real friction is.

Thanks!
by barishnamazov | 2026-01-06 09:51:10+00:00
> You often need a real environment to iterate, even for the agent: debug, inspect logs, run the dev server, and use the frontend to actually verify behavior. Without that shared runtime, the agent’s feedback loop isn't tight enough, and you can't verify changes as well.

Cloud environments can do that (e.g., Github Copilot). They can even spin up playwright and take screenshots of an app and do frontend tests.
by ngow25 | 2026-01-06 09:51:11+00:00
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by WJW | 2026-01-06 09:51:49+00:00
As I understand it, there can be concurrent writes as long as they don't touch the same data (the same file system pages, to be exact). Also, the actual COMMIT part is still serialized and you need to begin your transactions with BEGIN CONCURRENT. If two transactions do conflict, the later one will be forced to ROLLBACK although you can still try again. It is up to the application to do this.

See also https://www.sqlite.org/src/doc/begin-concurrent/doc/begin_co...

This type of limitation is exactly why I would recommend "normal" server-based databases like Postgres or MySQL for the vast majority of web backends.
by HackerNewt-doms | 2026-01-06 09:52:05+00:00
There is a scheme that is sometimes used by landlords in Germany in which an apartment is only rented out if the tenant agrees, before the rental contract is signed, to buy a fully fitted kitchen that is already installed — and usually at a price that is far from cheap. Otherwise, the prospective tenant does not get the lease. Given the current shortage of affordable housing in Germany, this puts the prospective tenant under considerable pressure to buy the kitchen from the landlord.

The landlord is fully aware that when the tenant eventually moves out, the landlord can require the tenant to take the kitchen with them — after all, it is the tenant’s property, not the landlord’s. The landlord can therefore demand that the outgoing tenant removes the kitchen. This again puts the tenant under pressure, because fully fitted kitchens very rarely fit into a new apartment.

At that point, the landlord can make an offer to buy the kitchen back from the departing tenant so that it can remain in place — but the purchase price is then only a fraction of what the tenant originally had to pay the landlord when moving in.
In this way, the landlord can indirectly force one tenant after another to buy the kitchen and later sell it back.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-06 09:52:08+00:00
> You can buy a better one that does not have malware installed.

You can buy a better one if you have the technical know-how. But if you did you'd probably be running the *arr stack anyway and not need such a box. But these boxes do work and aren't any more of a threat than your usual public Wi-Fi for the casual user who does not expose any services to the LAN.

The alarm around them is less about the threat to its owner and more about the threat to the tech ecosystem at large... which considering how hostile it is to users, shouldn't really be something they have any reason to worry about.
by andyjohnson0 | 2026-01-06 09:52:45+00:00
Kagi is still working pretty well for me. I think its partly that, being a paid-for product, the commercial incentives are different. And party that I can customise search results by promoting/demoting/blocking particular sources.

I have to use Google and Bing at work (I'm a developer) and the difference is very noticeable.
by 1dom | 2026-01-06 09:53:02+00:00
This is all entirely fair, thank you, I understand, I didn't mean to misrepresent.

> However, since I maintain my personal website as a hobby, I need to make the tradeoffs that feel right to me. I realise this is not a very satisfying answer to the question of whether a hybrid solution like mine (SSG plus server side programming) has merits. But I was never trying to argue its merits in the first place.

Hey, I'm a firm believer in the idea that the best solution for a personal website is the one that's the most fun for the owner to maintain! The reminder that it's not all about technical merit makes yours one of the more satisfying answers - thanks again for the considered responses:)
by PeterStuer | 2026-01-06 09:53:19+00:00
ASML is considered 'strategic' and its freedom to operate is significantly constrained by international politics, specifically US-led efforts to limit China's access to advanced semiconductor technology. The Dutch government, under pressure from the United States, has implemented and tightened export license requirements for various ASML products destined for China, including both advanced EUV and some older-generation DUV machines. These controls are tied to US export administration regulations, as some components and underlying technology in ASML machines are of US origin, giving the US jurisdiction. The company must comply with US law, which has led to actions such as rejecting job applications from nationals of sanctioned countries.
by TrackerFF | 2026-01-06 09:53:19+00:00
Stephen Miller, is that you?

Yes people are going to fight, even if it’s a losing battle.

There’s no scenario where Denmark simply lays down, or where the citizens of Greenland will just let the US roll over.

That’s a fantasy being perpetuated by the far-right, and swallowed whole by clueless Americans high on American exceptionalism.
by Doxin | 2026-01-06 09:54:13+00:00
> Doing anything usually involves prep work. Want to take a step? First put on your shoes (literally or figuratively, depending). If your attempted habit is 70% prep, your brain will somewhat rightfully conclude "this is stupid" fairly quickly.

Note that this is also something that can be weaponized. Recently I've learned to draw and I found I kept having great difficulty just starting. To get over that I made the agreement with myself that at least once every two days, I would grab a pencil and page through my sketchbook. I'd find myself on the first blank page holding a pencil.

Turns out your brain thinking prep work without actual work is stupid really helps here. Once you've tricked yourself into doing the prep work, you might as well do the work-work.

e.g. for distance running: just make the deal with yourself that putting on your running clothes/shoes/etc and taking one step outside counts as having ran that day. You'll find yourself going for a run anyways once you get outside, because you might as well.

> "Just do X every day for [long time period]" has an inherent falsification problem

Very true, but unfortunately a lot of things worth doing require that sort of investment. When learning to draw I hated every single second for the first ~two months or so. And then like a switch getting flipped I started having fun.

> You can actually make steps so small that they're useless.

You should take the biggest steps you can actually keep yourself to. Maybe that leads to steps that are sub-optimally small, but taking useless steps is still doing more than taking no steps.

> Doing something daily for a long time is extremely hard to achieve

Oh for real, especially once you factor in force majeure. Hence why I went with "draw at least once every two days". That gives you wiggle room to plan around life events.

Turns out building habits is incredibly hard and no amount of seeking advise will do it for you. It's a slog and you gotta overcome that yourself one way or another.
Ask HN: How do small teams make sure recurring tasks don't slip?
by batels | 2026-01-06 09:55:05+00:00
In small teams(~10), a lot of important work is recurring and operational: checks, reports, maintenance, follow-ups.

These tasks are rarely complex, but they’re easy to forget or assume "someone did it".

How do you assign and track recurring work in a small team?

Do you:
- use task managers?
- calendars?
- informal routines?
- just trust it gets done?

What actually works long-term?
by ifh-hn | 2026-01-06 09:55:10+00:00
I have no experience with video encoding, or AI training. My only interactions with either are as a consumer.

I have no idea how video relates to AI memory and I'm more confused after reading the above and the GitHub.

All that being said, my understanding is this is model independent single file bespoke AI memory that isn't a bunch of different technologies taped together. Meaning less overhead and complexity.

If that's correct then kudos, well done on the insight, even if by accident.

I just wish I understood any of it.
by exceptione | 2026-01-06 09:55:32+00:00
> They were also typically opposed to these kinds of surveillance measures

The mistake one should not make is thinking that those parties have any policy for the common good. People, from journalists to the man on the street, ignore all the lies, the crazy things, the falsehoods refuted by science, the attacks on the rule of law--only to discuss their political marketing flyer like it would constitute any real policy, as if these parties leaderships are sponsored just for that.
And when these populists get in power and do the complete opposite of everything they had promised, then the press will miss that, because the press is so easily distracted by the bullshitting clowns. In the mean time, fewer and fewer people believe in democracy anymore.

His whole argument is extremely solid. I am sorry.
by scoch | 2026-01-06 09:55:38+00:00
Sorry to be a bit of a killjoy, but I find the snowflake animation on the page annoying. Nothing serious, of course— I read the article in its entirety ;)
But ironically, in the case of this article about icon design, the icon for the warm/cool color theme toggle button in the site header is a snowflake (and it doesn’t change when switching to warm colors). I initially thought this button was meant to disable the snowflake animation :D
by throwaway37426 | 2026-01-06 09:56:12+00:00
> when it does not succeed

Iranian here. I think we've been successful! After the Woman Life Freedom movement, there's a noticeable change on how government enforces hijab rules! Not because they don't want to force hijab and their religion on us, but because they know they can't do it like that anymore. They are scared! That's a big win in my book. I know it might not seem much but I believe it is! No big change happens in one day. I think what you refer to, is the "last" protest/movement before everything falls apart.

If you've been born into these freedoms that we're fighting so hard for, you've been through this process before; by your ancestors. It's hard to appreciate how difficult it is to achieve the smallest of wins. You're not ignorant, it's just difficult to comprehend if you're not in the midst of it.

I also think this should serve as a warning to people whose freedoms are being eroded in western world right now. If you loose them for good, This is the process for getting them back and this is the price you'll have to pay.
Ask HN: Why do tech companies have such confusing naming schemes?
by compounding_it | 2026-01-06 09:56:44+00:00
While marketing aside, I’d love to know the psychology and rationale behind computer manufacturers and tech companies complicating naming of their products lately. While at one point it may have suggested incremental updates, lately the complete abandonment of the series itself in a short span doesn’t suggest what’s the latest one to buy (assuming that’s the marketing goal). I’m wondering what is the rationale behind it all.
by ustad | 2026-01-06 09:56:48+00:00
I’d rather someone say “we architected this poorly and are working to fix the design” than “things slip through sometimes, report them when you find them.” The former is honest AND shows they understand the problem. The latter treats a design flaw as an acceptable steady state.

Being honest about shipping bugs is good. Being honest that you’ve designed a system where the same category of bug will keep happening? That deserves criticism, not praise for honesty.
by tuetuopay | 2026-01-06 09:56:57+00:00
Pretty much, yes. And they don’t have much as far as isolation goes. It’s a bit frightening honestly.

It does unlock some interesting things to be sure, like sqlx’ macros that check the query at compile time by connecting to the database and checking the query against it. If this sounds like the compiler connecting to a database, well, it’s because it is.
by tukoai | 2026-01-06 09:57:30+00:00
SheetAI is a browser-based AI tool that helps people work with spreadsheets more efficiently.

Users can upload Excel or CSV files and use natural language to perform common spreadsheet operations such as data cleaning, row and column transformations, batch edits, chart generation, and data analysis — all without installing software or setting up local environments.

SheetAI is designed for real-world data workflows used by operators, analysts, and researchers who rely heavily on spreadsheets but want faster and more intuitive ways to analyze data.

As an AI agent, SheetAI can automatically plan analysis steps based on the task, build analytical models, and generate professional results. It can create publication-ready charts that follow academic and research standards, helping users get reliable insights without manually designing each step of the workflow.
Show HN: Supertonic 2 – Lightning-fast, On-Device, Multilingual TTS
by login588 | 2026-01-06 09:57:49+00:00
Supertonic now supports 5 languages:
한국어 · Español · Français · Português · English

It’s built to run locally across setups—from on-device/offline use to browser inference with WebGPU, and small devices like mobile and Raspberry Pi.

Here are key features:

(1) Lightning fast — RTF 0.006 on M4 Pro

(2) Lightweight — 66M parameters

(3) On-device TTS — Complete privacy, zero network latency

(4) Flexible deployment — Runs on browsers, PCs, mobiles, and edge devices

(5) 10 preset voices — Pick the voice that fits your use cases

(6) Open-weight model — Commercial use allowed (OpenRAIL-M)

We hope Supertonic is useful for many applications.
Thank you!

Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Supertone/supertonic-2

Model: https://huggingface.co/Supertone/supertonic-2

Code: https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertonic
by defrost | 2026-01-06 09:57:52+00:00
Engaging with the substance of the suggestion ...

* What would the Central Limit Theorem give us if a significant number of wheels on loco's and carriages were instrumented and ID logged over the years.

* What drift patterns and correction factors can be observed and fine tuned by passing {many} wheel streams through station to station and line end to line end "known distance" corrections.

For half a century or so aircraft height was largely done with air pressure alone.

To this day GPS accuracy is "improved" by logging the "drift" of fixed point stations giving us filter coefficients to correct for atmospheric wobble, acute angle uncertainty, as yet uncorrected time drift, etc.
by andrewl-hn | 2026-01-06 09:57:55+00:00
As someone who never saw Mad Max, Slow Horses, Cat’s Cradle, Breaking Bad and only saw Waterworld when I was a kid all the references in this post went completely over my head, and I just think of words used in there as their own terminology. Like, if non-engineers read about chemical production.

The article was pretty Ok. Kubernetes has it's own share of obnoxious terminology that often comes up as "we name it different so that it doesn't sound like AWS". At some point you just accept the terminology in relation to the tool you use and move on.
by kalenvale | 2026-01-06 09:58:33+00:00
How about trading with those with low reputation? I assume a high reputation takes time to build, and people who are willing to take the risk with low reputation traders. That is the main issue with reputation based systems. Is Heatware transparent? Yes, but what happens if a dispute arises? I assume there are mods, whose main goal is to protect their position and Heatware. Blockchain gives the necessary voting power to the people, such that frauds are economically infeasible. Would love to discuss this more!