MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by devrundown | 2026-01-11 19:27:05+00:00
https://www.bookmarkstuff.com

Another itch of my own to scratch but thought I'd see if I can make some side income as well.

It's a web based bookmark manager with extensions for Firefox and Chrome.

You can easily import and export bookmarks so you have all your data whenever you need.

One main thing I really like that I think makes it stand out is the ability to export the contents of a bookmarked page to an epub file to read later on your Kindle or other e-reader device.

Looking for any constructive feedback on this! Thanks.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-11 19:27:08+00:00
I can think of half a dozen trivial ways to filter this, most of which are probably already being done on training sets. This isn't going to come anywhere close to starving the rat. Nothing will, they'll just build "better rats."

That said, I'm glad it won't. Humanities future will involve AI, and the luddites won't be able to stop or slow it. They'll just make it more expensive at worst.

Today's AI's are the worst they will ever be, and nothing anyone does today can change that.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-11 19:27:23+00:00
>Unlocking Up to 6.6 GW

You could just as accurately sum it up by saying they would like to tie up nearly 6.6 GW, otherwise they wouldn't be making quite as large a deal. They wouldn't be doing it if they didn't have a financial technique to afford it, and it's still taken a while to make the commitment.

What about less-well-heeled consumers who would be better served if the effect of increased demand were not in position to put upward pressure on overall rates?

To the extent that new debt comes into the mix, that's just an additional burden that wasn't there before and this is a very sizable investment at this scale. So the compounding cost will have to be borne for longer than average if nothing else.

Naturally some can afford it easily and others not at all.
by notme43 | 2026-01-11 19:27:42+00:00
Been using Gentoo since 2004 on all my machines. They won me over after I started playing around with their Unreal Tournament demo ISO.

The game changer for me was using my NAS as a build host for all my machines. It has enough memory and cores to compile on 32 threads. But a full install from a stage3 on my ageing Thinkpad X13 or SBCs would fry the poor things and just isn't feasible to maintain.

I have systemd-nspawn containers for the different microarchitectures and mount their /var/cache/binpkgs and /etc/portage dirs over NFS on the target machines. The Thinkpad can now do an empty tree emerge in like an hour and leaving out the bdeps cuts down on about 150 packages.

Despite being focused on OpenRC, I have had the most pleasant experience with systemd on Gentoo over all the other distros I've tried.
by raziel2701 | 2026-01-11 19:27:42+00:00
I bought a thinkpad X1 carbon refurbished for about ~$300. I wanted to travel abroad with a laptop I wouldn't mind getting stolen if it happened. During the installation of Win11 it asked me to create a microsoft account, fuck that. I installed linux mint. Very nice experience overall, so nice to not get assaulted by ads in the start menu. Pleased to see the nightlight functionality (I googled f.lux for linux and that's how I discovered it) is built-in, and with flatpack I installed vlc, qbittorrent and obsidian. Firefox setup was straightforward. And that was it. This is a laptop for youtube and movies, I used the pre-installed libre office calc for small budget things and list making. It just worked for me.

The things that bother me about this laptop are primarily hardware related coming from using a mac laptop (which is the laptop I would mind getting stolen). Trackpad on X1 carbon is definitely not as good, battery life not as good. And opening the lid momentarily reveals what you were on before the lock screen comes on. This last one tastes more like a software issue. I had another issue with the hdmi port being finicky, but that's hardware again.

Overall very happy with this setup, linux mint is in great shape. I do wish there were fewer distro choices for people considering making the switch. It does introduce choice paralysis. I had to set aside my ego and pipe dream aspirations of being a "hacker" and went with a distro that seemed to be simple and straightforward to setup. Mint definitely is easier to install than windows, hands down, no need to create a microsoft account and you don't have to deal with all the slop features it tries to shove down your throat.
by fma | 2026-01-11 19:28:21+00:00
Yep I got 2 on Jan 9th. he e-mails come from security@mail.instagram.com

I also get a bunch of these e-mails from them every few weeks:

Sorry to hear you’re having trouble logging into Instagram. We got a message that you forgot your password. If this was you, you can get right back into your account or reset your password now.

So, I guess you can actually message them, pretend to another user to rese password? I don't follow many people or have many followers. I can't imagine the attempts on other higher valued accounts...
by seanwilson | 2026-01-11 19:28:50+00:00
Any details about what problems you were having getting a usable Tailwind palette? There seems to be lots of different use case so I'd love to hear more.

That's awesome, I haven't kept up in what helps to get into AI recommendations. Guessing it's related to search result rankings? Not sure if the site would be in the training data. Curious if you asked about accessibility as that's my focus.
by bmacho | 2026-01-11 19:28:51+00:00
> I do not see a path that the frontier makers “call it a day” cause they were defeated.

Eventually we die or we make them stop AI. AI being worse for a period of time saves us that much amount of time for a real action.

From TFA:

Poison Fountain Purpose

* We agree with Geoffrey Hinton: machine intelligence is a threat to the human species.
* In response to this threat we want to inflict damage on machine intelligence systems.
by 28ahsgT7 | 2026-01-11 19:29:09+00:00
It is somewhat amusing that the pro-LLM faction increasingly co-opts their opponents' arguments—now they are turning AI-hype into anti-AI hype.

They did the same with Upton Sinclair's quote, which is now used against any worker who dares to hope for salary.

There is not much creativity in the pro-LLM faction, which is guided by monetary interests and does not mind to burn its social capital in exchange for loss of credibility and money.
by patcon | 2026-01-11 19:29:12+00:00
Building "human perspective maps" using non-linear dimensional reduction algorithms to visualize the "human value manifold" from hundreds of agree/disagree/pass statements, like Google Maps for complex large-scale conversations:

https://patcon.github.io/polislike-human-cartography-prototy...

Just paint with colors, click a painted group, and see what differentiates your painted groups. (Chrome on iOS has issues fwiw)

This is building on the philosophy of democracy-bolstering tools like Pol.is, which I've worked with (as a researcher/practitioner) for almost a decade
by general1465 | 2026-01-11 19:29:17+00:00
Sure, go ahead, seize Greenland, there is nothing what Europe can do in retaliation, because USA does not have tens of thousands soldiers in Europe which could quickly become PoWs or at least completely stranded, cut off from resources in hostile territory. Additionally in Europe there are no bases full of equipment completely dependent on European infrastructure and amenities like electricity, water, gas.

Furthermore USA does not have forward warning radars against ICBM launches anywhere in the Europe. Nothing like this.

And it definitelly does not have any major logistical hub, whose seizure would cause inability to service other smaller logistical hubs further to the east...
by OlaProis | 2026-01-11 19:29:39+00:00
Good question! A few reasons for egui over gtk-rs/iced/others:

- Immediate mode — egui redraws every frame, which makes state management simpler (no callback hell). Great for prototyping.

- Pure Rust, minimal deps — egui is self-contained. gtk-rs requires GTK installed on the system.

- Cross-platform out of the box — Same code runs on Windows/Linux/macOS/Web

- Rapid iteration — Hot reload-friendly, easy to experiment with layouts

Trade-offs: egui's TextEdit isn't designed for code editors (no multi-cursor, can't hide folded text), which is why v0.3.0 will replace it with a custom widget.
by born-jre | 2026-01-11 19:30:35+00:00
Platform for apps, currently Lua support ( future WASM). Think like apk (android app) but spk.zip that has server.lua file for backend and htmt/js/css that get served for front end plus platform gives Files, SQLite db (namespaced/scopped access ), Auth, User management
All in single static binary Cz go

Edit: formatting
by barnabee | 2026-01-11 19:30:51+00:00
I think this kind of thing just bothers some people and not others.

I first started to understand and notice update rates and responsiveness as a gamer playing 1st person shooters.

I hate (ok, I find it a bit jarring) the jerky scrolling of a phone in battery save mode limited to 60(?) FPS. It’s so obviously not connected to your touch anymore.

In terminals it’s things like the responsiveness fuzzy finders and scrolling that I really notice.

I turn off animations everywhere I can.

It’s not impossible to use something slower, but when everything feels instant it’s just much more pleasant, smoother, and feels more productive as a result of the computer working at whatever speed my brain does.
by NamlchakKhandro | 2026-01-11 19:31:03+00:00
> Will these issues with "the other side of the road" ever be overcome?

> I want to switch but I just don't feel confident yet, and I wonder how long the "yet" will remain.

For people like you who think like this.

FOREVER

You'll always dream up some reason why this side of the road, is just better.
by Larrikin | 2026-01-11 19:31:05+00:00
Provolone melts exactly as well as American when layered on top of a burger or any other hot sandwich. I don't know why you're throwing it in a pot? If you're trying to make a cheese sauce why wouldn't you use cheddar instead of American cheese slices?

Italian beef share many of the same components as cheese steaks besides the beef like the onions and peppers. The meat is also cut similarly. It's really just a couple differences in preparation that makes them different sandwiches.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2026-01-11 19:31:09+00:00
Renewables crash the money making potential of nuclear power. Why should someone buy ~18-24 cents/kWh new built nuclear power excluding backup, transmission costs, taxes, final waste deposit etc. when cheap renewables deliver?

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Wha...

China is barely building nuclear power, in terms of their grid size. It peaked at 4.6% in 2021, now down to 4.3%.

Compared to their renewable buildout the nuclear scheme is a token gesture to keep a nuclear industry alive if it would somehow end up delivering cheap electricity.
by kibwen | 2026-01-11 19:31:39+00:00
In absolute terms, China installs about as much nuclear as the US does solar. So I can only assume you agree with the statement "the US is bringing on an insane amount of solar energy"? Because, once again in absolute terms, the US's solar buildout is trounced by China's. The US is losing the energy race, and nuclear isn't going to save it. The US will run out of fissile material before China runs out of sunlight.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-11 19:31:47+00:00
Just released a Code Quality leaderboard based on the static analysis research I've been doing. https://codehealth.sibylline.dev/

Now working on comprehensive benchmarks for another tool I built, https://github.com/sibyllinesoft/scribe. Results thus far showing it reducing agent token usage by ~80% in real world tasks, but I need to repeat to get variance. Hopefully I can get a writeup out soon.
by Lars147 | 2026-01-11 19:32:10+00:00
Warenkorb+ (German for „shopping cart“): https://github.com/Lars147/warenkorb_plus

A browser extension (Chrome & Firefox) for simplifying my online grocery purchase workflow from Cookidoo to Knuspr.

I was tired of my weekly workflow of copying, pasting & sorting the grocery page for each item.

Also launched my first Hugo blog. Really nice experience so far. Wrote more detailed about the extension as my first blog entry: https://lars147.github.io/blog/
by foxandmouse | 2026-01-11 19:32:26+00:00
I’m working on a real-time tracker for the Canadian Parliament.

While the official data is technically public, it's practically inaccessible (buried in XML feeds and legacy sites).

Phase 1 was building a modern ingestion engine and freeing the information to make it more accessible. The goal is to make legislative data as accessible as sports stats.

I'm almost ready to launch the MVP; I'm just doing some bugfixes and testing the database now! (If you want an early look at the MVP, my email is in my profile.)

The next phase is what I'm most excited about: visualizing this data and using LLMs to provide insights.
by martin-t | 2026-01-11 19:32:54+00:00
> or said something in an off-putting way

It shouldn't matter.

Currently, downvote means "I want this to be ranked lower". There really should be 2 options "factually incorrect" and "disagree". For people who think it should matter, there should be a third option, "rude", which others can ignore.

I've actually emailed about this with a mod and it seems he conflated talking about downvotes with having to explain a reason. He also told me (essentially) people should not have the right to defend themselves against incorrect moderator decisions and I honestly didn't know what to say to that, I'll probably message him again to confirm this is what he meant but I don't have high hopes after having similar interactions with mods on several different sites.

> FWIW, it never helps

The way I see it, it helped since I got 2 replies with more stuff to read about. Did you mean it doesn't work for you?

> downvotes as symmetric to upvotes

Yes, and we should have more upvote options too. I am not sure the explanation should be symmetric though.

Imagine a group conversation in which somebody lies (the "factually incorrect" case here). Depending on your social status within the group and group politics, you might call out the lie in public, in private with a subset or not at all. But if you do, you will almost certainly be expected to provide a reasoning or evidence.

Now imagine he says something which is factually correct. If you say you agree, are you expected to provide references why? I don't think so.

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BTW, on a site which is a more technical alternative to HN, there was recently a post about strange behavior of HN votes. Other people posted their experience with downvotes here and they mirrored mine - organic looking (i.e. gradual) upvotes, then within minutes of each other several downvotes. It could be coincidence but me and others suspect voting rings evading detection.

I also posted a link to my previous comment as an experiment - if people disagree, they are more likely to also downvote that one. But I did not see any change there so I suspect it might be bots (which are unlikely to be instructed to also click through and downvote there). Note sample size is 1 here, for now.
by evenil | 2026-01-11 19:33:16+00:00
There are actually specific diagnostic criteria for FND. The BBC article mentions that the young patient showed impairment in voluntary motor behaviors, but not in involuntary behaviors (e.g. reflexes). That is characteristic of FND. Similarly, there are clear ways to distinguish FND seizures from epileptic seizures. It is not a wastebasket diagnosis at all.
by jesse__ | 2026-01-11 19:33:25+00:00
> A low level concurrent and parallel ‘functional’ language

I'm not particularly familiar with array based languages, but are you inspired by them at all? Seems like a similar concept.

What're your goals for the language? It would be cool to see a parallel execution model unify SIMD, multithreading and gpu. I bet people with a lot of money would be interested if you could apply it to ML
by davidebianchi03 | 2026-01-11 19:33:36+00:00
I'm currently working on Codebox, a remote development workspaces provider. After trying many existing solutions, I realized there wasn’t a self-hosted option that was both simple to set up and easy to use, so I decided to build one.

With Codebox, you can define workspace templates or load workspace configurations directly from Git repositories. At the moment, it supports Dev Containers and Docker Compose, with plans to expand to additional configuration methods in the future (for example, Terraform).

Below are some resources where you can learn more about the project, including an article that explains how Codebox works and the source repositories (mirrored on both GitHub and GitLab):

* Medium article: https://medium.com/@dadebianchi2003/introducing-codebox-an-o...
* GitHub repository: https://github.com/davidebianchi03/codebox
* GitLab repository: https://gitlab.com/codebox4073715/codebox
by mjr00 | 2026-01-11 19:33:48+00:00
> Ironically, being concerned and skeptical about running random executables from the internet is a good idea in general.

I agree you shouldn't run random executables, but the key word is "random". In this case, Ring Racers is a relatively established and somewhat well-known game, plus it's open-source.

It doesn't guarantee it's not harmful of course, but ultimately for someone with the mindset of "I should never run any programs that aren't preapproved by a big corporation", they may as well just stick to Windows/MacOS or mobile devices where this is built into the ecosystem.
by discreteevent | 2026-01-11 19:33:54+00:00
" They make it easier to explore ideas, to set things up, to translate intent into code across many specialized languages. But the real capability—our ability to respond to change—comes not from how fast we can produce code, but from how deeply we understand the system we are shaping. Tools keep getting smarter. The nature of learning loop stays the same."

https://martinfowler.com/articles/llm-learning-loop.html
by melezhik | 2026-01-11 19:34:26+00:00
DTAP protocol.

Double TAP is lightweight testing framework where users write black box tests as rules checking output from tested "boxes". Boxes could be anything from http client, web server to messages in syslog. This universal approach allows to test anything with just dropping text rules describing system behavior in black box manner.

http://doubletap.sparrowhub.io/
by OlaProis | 2026-01-11 19:34:42+00:00
Fair feedback! You're right — Ferrite isn't Obsidian-complete. Those are reasonable additions:
- Left panel already exists (file tree + outline), but could use polish

- Right panel (backlinks?) would come with v0.3.0 wikilinks work

- Hiding toolbar is a quick settings addition — I'll add that to the list

What's your priority order for those? And if you do implement encryption later, I'd love to see the approach!
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-11 19:34:44+00:00
Geothermal energy is highly location-specific (it's great if you have a handy volcano nearby, of course), storage cannot meaningfully "back" intermittent renewables because it's only good for a few hours load from the grid (aside from pumped hydro which is effectively built out), natural gas peaker plants are very expensive and increase CO2 emissions. There isn't much of an alternative to nuclear.
by nlkl | 2026-01-11 19:35:02+00:00
I see this mentioned again and again, but I don't buy it.

For power users or users with niche use cases, sure there might be specialized software that lock you into Windows or Mac.

But for most casual home users, I think Linux would be perfectly adequate, and familiarity being the only real detractor.

Assuming someone can help install a friendly Linux distribution (and that the hardware is compatible), then what are the big blockers? Gaming maybe, for those where it is relevant.

But looking at all my not so tech savvy family members and friends, a browser, online versions of MS Office (or Libreoffice for sure), maybe Spotify or the like, would really be enough. Being able to install apps via an (actually useful) app store is a big win in itself.

Looking at those friends/family members, it is not like they are able to support their Windows machines either when something goes wrong or needs to be changed - I (or someone else technical) always need to help out anyway, fixing driver issues, installing software, changing any non-trivial settings, and so on. And I could just as well do that on Linux - and whether I need to pull up a terminal is irrelevant.
by mystifyingpoi | 2026-01-11 19:35:05+00:00
Sure, there are pros and cons for everything. It also depends on circumstances. I remember in 2012 I'd dim the screen and play with cpufreqd to get maximum time out of a battery, because I had a 3h train ride to my university weekly, with no power sockets most of the time on the train. I barely could do 3h. Today, in age of cheap PD powerbanks and USB-C everywhere, I'd easily take a better OS over battery life.
by echelon | 2026-01-11 19:35:08+00:00
Two years ago we were installing 1/10th of Chinese solar today?

Where are we at today? Can we catch up under this administration?

Where do we compare on a nuclear basis? I know my state installed nuclear reactors recently, but I'm not aware of any other build outs.

In a war game scenario, China is probably more concerned about losing access to oil and natural gas than we are. Not that we shouldn't be building this stuff quickly either.
by LocalPCGuy | 2026-01-11 19:35:37+00:00
FWIW re: performance, I love Obsidian, but performance is it's one main downside for me. I could care less about the real-time collaboration (they are my notes, not for team consumption, I'll share a file somewhere else for that) or self-hosting (sync so my notes exist wherever I am is more important to me than hosting them anywhere, again, my notes are private on purpose; obviously that isn't the case for everyone).

Anyways, just a counter-point to the commenter you were replying to.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-11 19:35:39+00:00
This is a purely political move. It will take a decade or longer if ever to ever get power from this. And yes it says "as early as 2032" but we know how that goes.

Why nuclear? Because it's cleaner than fossil fuelds but appeases the administration because it isn't wind or solar, which would immediately solve any power generation problems.

You might be tempted to say, since this always comes up, "what about base load?"

FFirst, batteries can solve that problem.

Second, you use a mix of power and when the Sun isn't out (ie night) is when power is cheaper from other sources.

Third, data centers don't really need base power at all. You just run the DC when you have power and don't when you don't. There's precedent for this. Google has a DC in Scandanavia that they shut down a few days a year when it gets too hot, otherwise it's just cooled by ocean water.

What I find most funny about all this is that all these big tech companies are kowtowing to the state in the exact same way they accuse Chinese companies of doing.
by OlaProis | 2026-01-11 19:35:52+00:00
You're right, currently Ferrite leans developer/tech with Mermaid, JSON/YAML tree viewer, and CLI integration. The Obsidian-style features (wikilinks, backlinks, knowledge graph) are coming in v0.3.0.

Target audience is probably "developers who take notes" rather than pure writers. The native performance angle is the differentiator, same niche as "I want Notion but faster" or "Obsidian but lighter."
by b112 | 2026-01-11 19:36:11+00:00
You still intended it for humans. Intent is defined by what one is aiming for, and without knowledge of an alternative, that was your intent.

100% I get that you are OK with it being used by non-human ingestion. And I think many might be OK with that.

One thing, I'm not sure how helpful the documentation is. I think we're getting training out of example, not docs. This makes me think... we could test this by creating a new pseudo-language, and then provide no examples, only docs.

If the LLM can then code effectively after reading the docs, we'd have a successful test. Otherwise? It's all parroting.