MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reify | 2026-01-20 18:46:38+00:00
people generally misunderstand the intelligence of cows.

My uncle ran a small dairy farm,

his cows were able to do vibe coding

It was amazing to watch, a cow swishing it tail across a keyboard prompting some pucker vibe.

It was very discombobulating and upsetting when they had to go to the slaughter house.

Such a waste of good talent prompting instead of writing real ode

c'est la vie
by snowmobile | 2026-01-20 18:46:38+00:00
An AI has no concept of human life nor any morals. Sure, it may "act" like it, but trying to reason about its "motivations" is like reasoning about the motivations of smallpox. Humans want to make money, but most people only want that in order provide a stable life for their family. And they certainly wouldn't commit mass murder for a billion dollars, while an AGI is capable of that.

> So in that sense it seems that AI is actually more aligned with my goals than a potential employee.

It may seem like that but I recommend you reading up on different kinda of misalignment in AI safety.
by tonyplee | 2026-01-20 18:46:39+00:00
Maybe: if PCIe device in on BDF 00AA:BB:00, create the proxy device on 00AA:BB:01 and the typical PCIe utils that talk to default 00AA:BB:00 will stead be config to talk to 00AA:BB:01 node. Some wireshark plugin will get the sniffed data (io, memory read/write, DMA read/write, etc) from the virtual device interface.

Ideally, the setup might be genetic enough to apply to all (most?) of the pcie device/driver....
by stego-tech | 2026-01-20 18:46:51+00:00
Add in the fact companies seriously invested in AI (and like workloads typically reliant on GPUs) are also investing more into bespoke accelerators, and the math for nVidia looks particularly grim. Google’s TPUs set them apart from the competition, as does Apple’s NPU; it’s reasonable to assume firms like Anthropic or OpenAI are also investigating or investing into similar hardware accelerators. After all, it’s easier to lock-in customers if your models cannot run on “standard” kit like GPUs and servers, even if it’s also incredibly wasteful.

The math looks bad regardless of which way the industry goes, too. A successful AI industry has a vested interest in bespoke hardware to build better models, faster. A stalled AI industry would want custom hardware to bring down costs and reduce external reliance on competitors. A failed AI industry needs no GPUs at all, and an inference-focused industry definitely wants custom hardware, not general-purpose GPUs.

So nVidia is capitalizing on a bubble, which you could argue is the right move under such market conditions. The problem is that they’re also alienating their core customer base (smaller datacenters, HPC, gaming market) in the present, which will impact future growth. Their GPUs are scarce and overpriced relative to performance, which itself has remained a near-direct function of increased power input rather than efficiency or meaningful improvements. Their software solutions - DLSS frame-generation, ray reconstruction, etc - are locked to their cards, but competitors can and have made equivalent-performing solutions of their own with varying degrees of success. This means it’s no longer necessary to have an nVidia GPU to, say, crunch scientific workloads or render UHD game experiences, which in turn means we can utilize cheaper hardware for similar results. Rubbing salt in the wound, they’re making cards even more expensive by unbundling memory and clamping down on AIB designs. Their competition - Intel and AMD primarily - are happily enjoying the scarcity of nVidia cards and reaping the fiscal rewards, however meager they are compared to AI at present. AMD in particular is sitting pretty, powering four of the five present-gen consoles, the Steam Deck (and copycats), and the Steam Machine, not to mention outfits like Framework; if you need a smol but capable boxen on the (relative) cheap, what used to be nVidia + ARM is now just AMD (and soon, Intel, if they can stick the landing with their new iGPUs).

The business fundamentals paint a picture of cannibalizing one’s evergreen customers in favor of repeated fads (crypto and AI), and years of doing so has left those customer markets devastated and bitter at nVidia’s antics. Short of a new series of GPUs with immense performance gains at lower price and power points with availability to meet demand, my personal read is that this is merely Jenson Huang’s explosive send-off before handing the bag over to some new sap (and shareholders) once the party inevitably ends, one way or another.
by ncruces | 2026-01-20 18:47:16+00:00
What do you expect (e.g.) Norway to do except disentangle, when their PM sends this text and gets back this response? And note that Finland's president (Alex there) has been one of the big proponents of continuing to engage with Trump. So, honest question, what should Finland, Norway, etc, do?

https://archive.ph/rjEtm
by sfpotter | 2026-01-20 18:47:50+00:00
Why are you asking HN? Do you have anyone you know in your personal life you can talk to? Family or friends? Hopefully someone you know well can give you some honest feedback and help you figure out what would be a better fit for you. I don't see how a bunch of strangers on HN could possibly help seeing as they know nothing about you and totally lack context.
by Atlas667 | 2026-01-20 18:48:01+00:00
I wasn't using super exploitation as a specific term, just as intense exploitation.

Slavery was not profitable in the industrial north, just the agrarian south. In the North they used cheap free-labor from Irish and German proles.

If the morality argument holds why did systematic racism not end with abolition?

The fact is that wage labor is cheaper than slave labor. Slavery was no longer required in the Americas, it was a "way of life" for the south, but unnecessary for the country economically. Especially after a global system of trade had established itself, AKA imperialism, and had placed the US into competition with India with cotton and the rest of the Americas with sugar.

My reasoning is that abolitionism only became a widely accepted moral stance BECAUSE it was no longer "necessary" for the Americas' capitalists, but the weapon of racism didn't go anywhere.
by reflexe | 2026-01-20 18:48:30+00:00
According to nvidia’s 2025 annual report [1], 34% of their sales for 2025 comes from just 3 customers.

Additionally, they mentioned that customers can cancel purchases with little to no penalty and notice [2].

This is not unique for hardware companies, but to think that all it takes is one company to get reduce their sales by 12% (14b$).

To cut to the point, my guess is that nvidia is not sustainable, and at some point one or more of these big customers won’t be able to keep up with the big orders, which will cause them to miss their earnings and then it will burst. But maybe i’m wrong here.

[1] https://s201.q4cdn.com/141608511/files/doc_financials/2025/a..., page 155:
> Sales to direct Customers A, B and C represented 12%, 11% and 11% of total revenue, respectively, for fiscal year 2025.

[2] same, page 116:
> Because most of our sales are made on a purchase order basis, our customers can generally cancel, change, or delay product purchase commitments with little notice to us and without penalty.
by Teever | 2026-01-20 18:49:01+00:00
It will be very interesting to see how the Canadian government reconciles the existential need for a populace trained and armed to repel an American invasion and occupation with their political goals of banning private fireownership in Canada.

The Canadian government has recently banned many firearms and is forcing an incredibly expensive and unpopular gun buy-back program (the term is a misnomer -- people dind't buy the guns from the government so they're not actually buying them back.) This program has proved incredibly inefficienty and unpopular[0] with many leaders across the country including Police Chiefs and Provincial leaders refusing to support the program.[1][2]

It seems pretty clear to me that these two goals -- developing the skills to endure an invasion and repel an occupation and eliminating private gun ownership are completely incompatible and it isn't clear what the Carney government is going to do.

At the end of the day if you want a country that can win assymetric warfare you need a population proficient with firearms. That means training teens how to use them in extra curricular clubs like Air Cadets or Boy Scouts. That means the promotion of regional and national marksmen championships. That means the creation of properly equipped and sanctioned paramilitary groups that offer the public frequent opportunities to learn and practice activities like squad maneuvers, orienteering, and marksmanship.

If the Canadian government is serious about raising a force that can potentiall repel American invasion it needs to start putting guns in the hands of kids. It needs to start opening firing ranges in rural and urban environments and encouraging the responsible and safe use of firearms.

The Liberal Party of Canada has no choice but to embrace firearms as a part of Canadian cutlure and identity while rejecting the worst impulses of pacifists who would rather see Canada disarmed and vulnerable than armed and defended.

[0] https://archive.ph/7Byer

[1] https://archive.ph/r72mb

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-ucp-agm-legi...
by tjr | 2026-01-20 18:49:07+00:00
I disagree that citizens really have much pull over how public funds are used, especially through general elections. We can vote for one candidate over another, in hopes of seeing public funds used for this or that, but in the end, we elect people to represent us, and they make the actual policy decisions.

That said, even if we did arrive at the scenario of AI and robots handling most labor (everything except plumbing, right? We'd be a nation of plumbers), it would still require major legal changes to remove the citizens from the voting process. Not saying it couldn't happen, but it wouldn't happen solely because of AI/robots taking over labor.

Would the elected officials make those major legal changes, to eliminate citizens voting? In my opinion, I rather doubt it.
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-20 18:49:24+00:00
General strikes. Technically these are illegal when called by unions under the Taft-HArtley act, but if done at the popular level they can grind the country to a halt. But mass protest is the most effective way to bring down a corrupt government, and doesn't require waiting for an election and being disappointed by another round of political scams.

oh that isn't possible to organize
No with that attitude

authorities will brutalize the protestors
freedom isn't free

Americans are too comfortable/lazy to do mass political protest
Well we'll see whether that's true I guess.

what if this leads to civil war
If the alternative is corruption and tyranny, maybe that's a fight worth having. Authoritarian governments do not historically reach a point where they say 'well that's enough tyranny, let's not get carried away lest history think ill of us.'
by gogusrl | 2026-01-20 18:49:31+00:00
My theory is that people buy mass-market Porsche cars because the 718/911 guys tell everyone how cool these cars are, but not everyone wants or needs a kidney-busting two-seater, so they compromise with a Panamera or Macan.

If there's no electric 718/911 version to hype them up, there’s not going to be any demand. There's also the issue that they're known for their small sporty cars, yet they're trying to sell 5m-long sedans and 'soccer mom' SUVs and failing at it.
by apublicfrog | 2026-01-20 18:49:47+00:00
Yep, I have a mate who left tech to "go dig holes" (civil construction). He's now fit and happy, earns about half of what he did and is done with work by 1-2pm most days.

There are a billions of options out there and you only get one life. Go try them, or even try not working. You don't have yo have a job if you don't want to. It's your life.
by buellerbueller | 2026-01-20 18:49:58+00:00
>Why is there a requirement for consequences to act moral? If I have to have a threat of punishment to be good, then I'm not being good and it's all transactional.

Morals are not universal; different people have different morals. Ancient Greece would not have batted an eye at relationships that we consider pedophilia. Slaves were kept in various societies over time, as recently as 6 generations ago, with varying levels of "morality" attributed to the practice.
by muvlon | 2026-01-20 18:50:19+00:00
But the part about the undersea cable is simply wrong! Major undersea cables have been disrupted several times and never has a "continent gone dark".

I think this betrays a severe misunderstanding of what the internet is. It is the most resilient computer network by a long shot, far more so than any of these toy meshes. For starters, none of them even manage to make any intercontinental connections except when themselves using the internet as their substrate.

Now of course, if you put all your stuff in a single organization's "cloud", you don't get to benefit from all that resilience. That sort of fragile architecture is rightly criticized but this falls flat as a criticism of the internet itself.
by senbrow | 2026-01-20 18:50:21+00:00
I went through the exact same thing as you, and I needed some time to explore different ways of living. I tried being a drone pilot, a kayak guide, and a paddleboard instructor and learned a lot in the process.

After those forays I designed and built a trailered coffee from scratch and now I run it on a public park that overlooks the ocean.

I am more fulfilled than ever, I can pay my bills, and I get to do WAY more "real" engineering than the bureaucracy of my past life at FAANG ever allowed for.
by dyauspitr | 2026-01-20 18:50:23+00:00
I did engineering for 7 years and then burned out of that and then did tech management for another 8. I’m all burnt out of that as well and honestly didn’t enjoy the last 15 years. I’ve been looking, there’s nothing even remotely close to the pay in other industries. My specification were to be able to work mostly alone and work hard for a low six figures but I can’t find a single thing that fits that bill.

I do know a guy in Florida that left tech to take people on manatee tours. He says he works 5-6 hours a day and makes more than $100k a year. I went on one of his tours, it’s a nice easy job, paddling for 2-3 2 hour sessions per day in nice warm weather.
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-20 18:50:41+00:00
What would it take for you to feel interested in work? I think a lot of people dont really feel interested in their work FWIW.

Have you worked other jobs? Just curious if you're familiar with all the excellent working conditions associated with being a dev or knowledge worker. Doesnt mean you have to be a software dev but

Remote work possible, no physical constraints like (work has been shoved into my space and I have to figure out where to put it before I can continue working, kitchen, warehouse, etc.), no real injury risk, no physical exhaustion, not simply being there to react to customers literally every second of a shift, being able to manage your own time, not having your schedule posted a week at a time with zero control, little to no dress code, more likely that you can take some vacation or sick time and you dont come back to a complete mess you have to clean up before you can be productive, ability to take a break without asking permission.

I could go on-and-on.

I see stuff about becoming a teacher and it just seems insane to me. If people want to do that then great but do not be naive about what some of these other jobs entail.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-01-20 18:51:36+00:00
> IPv6 has failed at being better, being accessible, or both.

I don't agree that it has. IPv6 is clearly better (no collisions between address space and thus no NAT requirement), and it's perfectly accessible to anyone who actually tries. I'm not by any means a top tier network guy but even to me IPv6 is dead easy to setup. The problem with the v6 transition is that people have very inaccurate views on one or both of those points (usually they falsely believe NAT provides security benefits, or they falsely believe IPv6 is a difficult thing to implement). I'm not sure how to fix this widespread misinformation but that is the problem from what I've seen.
by levolvel | 2026-01-20 18:51:37+00:00
I worked in a high paying tech job for about 12 years and got burnt out from it in 2022. Decided to quit and thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail in 2023 which turned out to be life changing and very rewarding. My old job said I could return to it once I got back from the hike. When I got back they said they were doing cuts and my job was cut. Old me would have spiraled, new me decided to hike the Appalachian Trail. I got back from the AT and took my time finding a job. I was in no rush. After considering finding another field of work I decided to stick with my skills but rather than a cutting edge tech stack I found a job working with a University in their marketing and communications department where I manage their web properties. Its so much easier and a much slower pace. Its not as high paying as my past job, but I think with that pay cut, my responsibilities and stress level were also cut. Hiking those two trails and living in the forest for six months out of the year for two years opened my mind up to so many new things and found that you really don't need much to live a happy, rewarding life.
by dmoy | 2026-01-20 18:51:40+00:00
Plumber makes $800/hr, or bills you are $800/hr?

That's still quite good either way, but OP should understand that even in most expensive US cities a journeyman plumber is typically pulling at most like $150k-$200k without doing significant overtime. And you won't get there until 5++ years on the job.

So think more like $100/hr of actual compensation on the higher end.

Not a bad gig at all. But that $800 number comes with a lot of caveats.
by infamia | 2026-01-20 18:51:46+00:00
If you're on a Linux or Unix OS, a chroot jail might be a more lightweight solution. the chroot command essentially makes the chrooted directory look like the root dir. You need to set up all the directories claude can access (like /usr/bin or whatever). I haven't tried this yet, but I don't see any reason it wouldn't work. This solution would protect files outside your project from getting trashed, but not malicious data exfiltration.
by ralfhn | 2026-01-20 18:51:48+00:00
Just my two cents: don't chase happiness through work. It rarely works out that way. Work to live, don't live to work. I know it sounds a bit cheesy, but give it a try and see how it feels.

If you’ve got 30 minutes, I recommend checking out the first half of this podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-detach-from-wor...
by yakkomajuri | 2026-01-20 18:51:51+00:00
I've burned out in the past, and while it was mostly related to my personal life it ended up spilling over to work too, even though the job was great. I felt like I needed to get away from software and took a sabbatical, during which for the first 3 months I couldn't even think about code. I was climbing, hiking, reading, etc.

Thought I wouldn't come back for a sec. Then gradually the spark came back, I built a side project here, side project there, and ended up taking a position that paid a lot less but where the first few months I was just getting the house in order and knew exactly what to do (i.e. it wasn't challenging or at the edge of my skillset). Basically they had a mess going on and I was hired to fix it and everything was so clear to me that it just flowed. Gradually I got excited, started taking on ambitious projects inside the company that did challenge me and teach me stuff, and now I've quit to start my own company.

Basically I'm just one data point but at least for me: a) the sabbatical really helped b) I thought it'd be impossible to come back, that I'd be rusty etc but as long as you do it gradually it usually turns out ok (you have 10 years of experience in SV so you'll be fine). c) if the spark doesn't come back well then probably you've found yourself happy doing something else and that's just as good.
by paulhebert | 2026-01-20 18:52:18+00:00
Yes, several times. I've been specializing in front-end dev for over a decade.

I shared a simple example because Shadcn has a simple design.

You do often hide the native appearance if you need something complex, but doing that via CSS is still much simpler than a bunch of JS and a third party dependency.

If you have a specific design in mind I can show you how to do it.
by adrianmonk | 2026-01-20 18:52:27+00:00
Sounds nice, but how do you keep it from falling over? The higher screen makes it top heavy, and the way screens are tilted back also makes it lopsided. It will want to fall backward, and it will be worse on surfaces that aren't flat and solid, like your lap.

I guess one approach is weight distribution. Make the screen as light as possible and shift as much weight forward (near the space bar) as possible. I'm just not sure if it would be enough. You could also go with outriggers (like a crane or boat), but that's ugly and doesn't help with the lap situation, which is where you need help the most.
by proee | 2026-01-20 18:52:31+00:00
Combine what you know with development and apply it to art. There's a lot of magic and opportunities at the intersection of two major domains. Artists would love to know how to use programming to bring their ideas to life. Programmer would love to come up with creative artistic ideas, but they are limited to the world they know - code.

If you become medium/ok at both domains, you become a bit of a renaissance person, and hopefully excited to work on ideas and projects that bring you much joy.

By artist, this includes designers, architects, videographers, etc.
by mbrumlow | 2026-01-20 18:52:33+00:00
It’s not that they don’t work. It’s how businesses handle hardware.

I worked at a few data centers on and off in my career. I got lots of hardware for free or on the cheap simply because the hardware was considered “EOL” after about 3 years, often when support contracts with the vendor ends.

There are a few things to consider.

Hardware that ages produce more errors, and those errors cost, one way or another.

Rack space is limited. A perfectly fine machine that consumes 2x the power for half the output cost. It’s cheaper to upgrade a perfectly fine working system simply because it performs better per watt in the same space.

Lastly. There are tax implications in buying new hardware that can often favor replacement.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-20 18:52:34+00:00
The share of the European countries in supporting NATO has been higher than the official numbers.

For instance, when the East-European countries have been admitted into NATO they were forced to pay dearly for this, with many billions of $ for various lucrative and overpriced contracts assigned to some well-connected US companies (e.g. Bechtel), either for various infrastructure projects or for military acquisitions.

Those billions of $ do not appear in the US budget, but they have enriched certain US businessmen.

It is normal for a regular US citizen to believe that NATO has not been beneficial for himself/herself, because this is true, but what regular citizens are not aware of is that NATO has been a great source of profits for some US citizens who are more equal than the others.
by wvenable | 2026-01-20 18:52:43+00:00
A weak dollar is good for manufacturing and a strong dollar is bad for it. China tightly controls to the Yuan to purposely keep it's value low to benefit it's manufacturing. The current US administration wants to something similar for the US to boost manufacturing.

I think that's foolish and backwards thinking. The US doesn't really need more manufacturing; it had relatively low unemployment, a healthy economy, etc. The US is a service country. Apple is one of the richest companies in the world and does none of it's manufacturing in the US. Why wouldn't people invest in Apple?