MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DrScientist | 2026-01-05 12:24:32+00:00
The Arab spring was a mass uprising, this was the removal of one person - it's really not the same.

Think of it this way - Maduro could had died from choking on a turkey bone over Christmas - would there inevitability be a civil war?

What matters is whether there is a fight for political power as a result - and particularly what the generals think. ie any fight is much more likely to start from the top rather than the bottom.

My guess, and it's just a guess, is that the smoothness of the extraction mission strongly suggests serious inside info/cooperation. ie somebody did a deal with the US - involving giving up Maduro in exchange for removal of the sanctions ( particularly oil which the US has escalated with tanker seizures ) which was crippling the country.

So my prediction is an internal smooth transition of power, cooperation around oil, with neither the US nor the new leader being keen on quick elections as that will interfere with the execution of the deal.

All the Trump cares about is the public 'win' and the oil and minerals flowing. The Venezuelan leadership will want to end the US sanctions and get the countries economy working again - if this happens they will think election prospects will improve - can't see Trump caring that much about Venezuelan internal politics as long as he get's the win and a positive flow of oil revenue and strategic access to minerals.
by hagbard_c | 2026-01-05 12:24:36+00:00
Twitter rebranded to X actually came with a marked change of the product, for better according to some, for worse according to others. It made sense to ditch the old name for something less tainted by the censorious stench which hangs around the old branding. That they chose 'X', well, that's most likely just Musk being fixated on that character of the alphabet. 'Y' was already taken (this site) and also invites jokes around the 'why' of the move, 'Z' is taken by the Roosskies so 'X' it became?

Microsoft rebranding everything to Copilot is either a bold move, jumping in front of the pack which still has not seen the looming takeover of 'AI' over everything or yet another example of how they've lost their way. They clearly think that 'AI' thing will take over everything in sight (and site) and they've chosen a term - copilot - which leaves at least some room for a pilot to override whatever the collective decides. For now.
Show HN: Product Content Creation Tool
by amitaghdk | 2026-01-05 12:24:48+00:00
We are building a platform to help teams turn rough screen recordings into
clean product videos, documents, or GIFs without spending hours editing.
The motivation came from repeatedly seeing founders, PMs, and sales teams
struggle with:
– raw screen recordings that look unpolished
– high effort required to create multiple demo versions
– product knowledge scattered across videos, docs, and people

The goal is not to “auto-generate” content, but to help teams create better product knowledge faster and deliver it in a more guided, measurable way.

It’s currently being used for product demos, onboarding, training, and support.

I’d really appreciate feedback from HN on:
– whether this workflow resonates
– where you see real value vs unnecessary complexity
– what would make you trust (or avoid) an AI-guided demo experience

Link: https://www.demokraft.ai

Happy to answer questions and learn from the community.
by jraph | 2026-01-05 12:25:02+00:00
I suppose I wouldn't mind much either way, apart from the misaligned text maybe now that you brought my attention to it.

I agree that colors could help.

Don't hesitate to give KDE/Qt a try, it apparently happens to get all these things right according to this article from a quick glance: everything is correctly aligned, even when in the same menu some items both have an icon and a checkbox, and some don't have anything; icons are mostly meaningful, some icons are colored (most are monochrome though, there's a move to this), and not all items have icons.

I guess it's the kind of things that are hard to get right for a hobby OS like macOS that lacks professional UX designers. :-)
by cube00 | 2026-01-05 12:25:43+00:00
> Snappy UIs are always a breath of fresh air.

UIs used to be more responsive on slower hardware, if they took longer then the human reaction time, it was considered unacceptable.

Somewhere along the line we gave up and instead spend our time making skeleton loading animations as enticing as possible to try and stop the user from leaving rather then speeding things up.
by chairmansteve | 2026-01-05 12:25:54+00:00
I used to do a lot of fixed price contract work. I used to rationalize that I owned the IP and I was my own boss.

These days I just charge an hourly rate. It's so much easier. Just turn up, do the work, go home. If the requirements change or I have to wait for an asset, no problem, I'm getting paid.
by mosura | 2026-01-05 12:26:07+00:00
It is incredible just how widely held the view is that Win2k (or XP in classic mode) was close to peak desktop UI. (Contenders also being Tiger to Snow Leopard and Windows 7).

A key problem is that big US corps have always had a product design mentality that can produce monstrosities like your average cable TV remote and think it is in any way a good solution. That was clearly already an influence on things like XP.
by j45 | 2026-01-05 12:27:19+00:00
You are describing leverage.

As a contractor hourly work is often relationship suicide every 2-3 years when your value is questioned no matter how great the baseline.

To move towards value based pricing, and not splitting hairs on time and hours, by billing minimum half or full days with the understanding not much gets done less.

Of course value based pricing, at a weekly or monthly retainer is the next step.

I’ve done all of the above.

The client doesn’t care if it’s an html page it’s the value it creates or enables.

Rarely do most businesses wake up wanting to buy more tech and software dev, they have business problems or outcomes to solve.

If the solution was a single html page I wouldn’t even talk to the client in terms of an html page or not.
by HugoTea | 2026-01-05 12:27:42+00:00
2011: Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion, rebrands Lync to Skype for Business, an incredible branding manoeuvre.

2012: Skype peer-to-peer nature and end-to-end encryption removed.

2017: Microsoft launches Teams, competes with own product after driving Skype into the ground for 6 years with encroaching advertising, removing features, and abandonment.

2025: Skype shut-down.

What was the point? When MS bought Skype, they already held a majority market share in the IM market with MSN, which they also shut-down. Between 2011 and 2025 they lost almost all market share for domestic users to WhatsApp and Discord.
This series of events baffles me to no end.
by serial_dev | 2026-01-05 12:27:47+00:00
Wow, it turns off the snowflakes, but the ones already falling will stay there and keep falling. I thought it only changed the background color to yellow, so assumed it doesn't actually turn off the snowflakes, wanted to come here and comment how ridiculous that is on an article talking about bad icons, then I saw in the comments that it turns off the snow effect... eventually (like a 10s delay).

It's hilarious that it's a great article about clutter, and yet, the post is on a theme that is so badly cluttered it would have been funny... if I could have read the article...
by nelox | 2026-01-05 12:28:33+00:00
Right, because this time humans will heroically reject cheaper, faster, better substitutes out of pure reverence for "the human condition." Any day now. We’ve famously done that with factory goods, photography, recorded music, CGI, calculators, spellcheck, and literally every other technology that "could never replace" human craft.

The claim boils down to: AI won’t replace humans because humans like feeling special. A rigorous argument. History definitely supports the idea that sentiment reliably beats convenience, especially once the imitation is indistinguishable and half the price. But yes, this disruption will surely pause out of respect.
by nelblu | 2026-01-05 12:28:57+00:00
I really enjoyed reading this. I can totally see where the author is coming from. I have a dog, and this holiday season my wife went away to her parents for a month and I was all alone with my dog. My daily routine was to just take him for a hike in the morning, workout in my basement gym, cook some breakfast then do some mundane activities at home then prepare cooking for lunch (always prepare extra lunch for the neighbours or the random friend that shows up at my door), then again take the dog out to the dog park and enjoy conversation with regulars and or new ones. Come back enjoy lunch, read some book, then around 4pm before it gets too dark, take the dog out again for a hike. Stop by at a friend's house or just come back home watch a Disney movie then read again until you fall asleep.

All this time, I would intentionally forget my phone at home and all my notifications except calls were turned off.

EDIT: I must say having a dog made a lot of difference, I don't know if I would feel the same being just alone. That might be an experiment for another time :-).
by robinhood | 2026-01-05 12:29:24+00:00
I never disliked an OS as much as I dislike what Apple is doing with MacOS (and iOS by extension). I've been with MacOS for 20 years, but I've switched at home to Linux full time 2 years ago and I don't regret it. At work I'm forced to be on MacOS. It's concerning how Apple doesn't care anymore about user needs, usability, design and consistency. Where it was the best OS in the past for me, it's not anymore. Other OSes are better suited for where I'm at in my life.
by adrianwaj | 2026-01-05 12:29:40+00:00
Sounds interesting, I think there'd always be a market for cheaper hosting, especially Wordpress. Also a way to "park" a blog as static files over the very long term or as an archive.org alternative. It's an explored space.

People are obviously going to want to host their new fangled vibe-coded projects too. Maybe with crypto and stablecoins there's a way to keep costs down and anonymity high. Perhaps anonymity is overlooked too in hosting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334025 .. I'd also look at providing options for getting users paying with x402.

Also hosting in Iceland looks interesting for a number of reasons. https://gemini.google.com/share/c6d7c4fa5f3d
by mrcino | 2026-01-05 12:29:43+00:00
Low quality, inconsistent software is a result of a lack of standards, QA, internal communication and rigged corporate processes that are serving the private interests of managers trying to satisfy the board, not the users.

This is a symptom of no strong leadership that's capable of enforcing standards, Apple downslide as a whole firm where departments and people are fighting each other for resources.
by Arnt | 2026-01-05 12:30:35+00:00
It's odd, in a way — when you have a well-paying job, you have nothing from an accounting viewpoint and the owners of the organisation have a valuable asset. The skill that you contribute to the organisation is accounted for as a financial asset belonging to someone else. There are good reasons for that, the accounting viewpoint makes sense for accounting purposes.

In everyday parlance we say that you have a job and you have the skill, and in reality you actually are free to take your skill elsewhere. Your skill plays a part in the market value of your employer, but you stay or leave at your whim, the "owner" of the "asset" doesn't decide.

Those billions are IMO mostly an accounting fiction — it's better to think of it in the way that our ordinary language suggests, where your actions are yours, your skills are yours, etc. If you drive to work, that's your emissions based on your choice, it's not a choice made by someone whose great wealth is mostly an assessment of your skill and earning power.

If you build a house and need some concrete for that, CO₂ is emitted in a concrete factory, but I think it's better to regard the emitted CO₂ as a choice made by you than as emissions by the billionaire who owns the factory. Even if the accountants assess the value of the factory as a large number.
by j45 | 2026-01-05 12:30:53+00:00
Yup outcome based pricing is best.

I save my clients 20-30% across the board on their digital transformation projects, the solution price or rate doesn’t matter compared to the 6-7-8 figures I lace in their pocket.

Solution pricing can be further extended into contingency based pricing. Have the clients gather pricing for you and then hammer home a better deal and have a cheque cut for the portion of the savings.
by bluehex | 2026-01-05 12:31:06+00:00
Such confusing naming they can't even keep it straight in the announcement.

"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app" in the introductory paragraph.
Then there's a button "Buy Microsoft 365"
The link below is as "Download Microsoft 365 apps for MacOS"

And the file you get is:
Microsoft_365_and_Office_16~Installer.pkg

So is it the "Microsoft 365 Copilot app", or is it just "Microsoft 365" or multiple "Microsoft 365 apps"?

Above it says "formerly Office" and then the installer is named with "and Office". It's a jumble of inconsistency in just the first few lines on this landing page.
by noduerme | 2026-01-05 12:31:17+00:00
FWIW, while I'm complaining about this site I'm actually adding a nice easy-on-the eyes particle system in the background of a point-and-click online game. You don't put it in front of the content or behind text people are supposed to read.

This is such a common failure mode with coders who do their own design. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
by rdsedmundo-cv | 2026-01-05 12:31:23+00:00
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by matwood | 2026-01-05 12:31:25+00:00
It's a damned if you don't, damned if you do. Apple could release a new system with zero UI updates and tons of internal improvements and people would call it 'old' and 'dated' and 'lack of innovation'.

It's a bit like adding new emojis in an OS release. There's been reports that new emojis are one of the drivers for getting people to upgrade. No one cares about a zero day security flaw, but that new kiss emoji everyone wants.
by palebt | 2026-01-05 12:31:25+00:00
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by gus_massa | 2026-01-05 12:32:49+00:00
Usually "Roman"+"Good post" or "Medieval European"+"Good" can be replaced by "acoup"+"I'm feeling lucky".

PS 1: If you can remember how to spell "acoup", it's the harder part.

PS 2: IIRC he only (mostly?) post about those topics, not about random old stuff, because it's his expertise area.
by bayindirh | 2026-01-05 12:33:36+00:00
I'll voice the unpopular opinion: As someone who can parse images faster than text, I tend to what I'm looking for faster in macOS Tahoe.

Still, my primary OS is Linux, but for laptops I prefer macOS, and it's still in acceptable shape.

However, I'll agree that Tahoe has far more papercuts than its predecessors. It needs a "Snow Tahoe" version.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2026-01-05 12:33:46+00:00
I genuinely thought this was a joke when I saw the headline, and I had to double check the domain name to verify that this wasn't a parody.

Apart from being absolutely abysmal marketing, the front page alone is wildly inconsistent:

* "Welcome to Microsoft 365 Copilot"

* "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) [...]"

* "Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office 365) is a subscription service [...]"

Which is it, "Microsoft 365 Copilot", "(The) Microsoft 365 Copilot app", "(The) Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)", "Microsoft 365" or "Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office 365)"?

I think Microsoft delegated all marketing decisions to AI. Not even joking.
by aeonik | 2026-01-05 12:34:13+00:00
They have published a lot of stuff.

I don't remember the exact link for the biochem stuff. Something about collagen being glycine limited and vitamin C being a catalyst for synthesis for tendon tissue regrowth.

Here are the two papers I remember reviewing.

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wn8s39q

https://escholarship.org/content/qt2j57t1j1/qt2j57t1j1.pdf
by aylmao | 2026-01-05 12:34:54+00:00
This isn't the only aspect of Tahoe that seems amateurishly designed by someone following "wrong rules", the wrong rule here being "for consistency, let's assign an icon to every action.

Another wrong rules I've seen blindly followed is making everything an edge-to-edge canvas, so that the sidebar floats on top. Having a full-window canvas with floating sidebars can make sense for applications where content is expansive and inherently spatial (like say, Figma) or applications where the sidebar is an actual floating element that can be moved around (like Photoshop once was).

It doesn't make sense in Finder, or Reminders, where the content is ultimately just a list. Forcing the sidebar "to float on top of the content" yields no benefit because the content wont ever scroll under it, and because it can't be moved anyway, but it does lead to wasted space, that ugly "double border", etc.
by mapt | 2026-01-05 12:35:01+00:00
Just a reminder that DHS just posted on Twitter for the holidays about how much of a paradise the US will be after 100 million "deportations".

And that we don't have close to 100 million immigrants.

That the "kavanaugh stop" allows them to detain you on he basis of skin color or accent.

And that a driver's license with Real ID is no longer sufficient "papers".
by jzebedee | 2026-01-05 12:36:42+00:00
Interesting. I've used Pulumi but this is the first I've heard of Kusion.

From a quick look, it still requires all of the resource specification to be present in the AppConfiguration, and it's written in their own DSL called KCL. Is there more to the use case that I'm missing?

It seems like if I'm already specifying the details of the entire workload, I'd either use Terraform, where I probably already know the DSL, or Pulumi, where I could skip the DSLs entirely.
by josalhor | 2026-01-05 12:37:24+00:00
Interesting.

The article starts with this: > Sequoia → Tahoe It’s bad

And I look at the image... And I like it? I agree with the author that it could be better, but most of the icons (new, open recent, close, save, duplicate, print, share etc), do make it easier, faster and more pleasant for my brain to parse the menu vs no icons.

Again, I don't disagree that you could do it better, I just disagree with the premise that the 1992 manual is "the authority". Display density has increased dramatically; people use their computers more and have been accustomed to those interfaces, which makes the relationship of the people with the interfaces different. Quoting a 1992 guideline on interfaces in 2026 feels like quoting the greeks on philosophy while ignoring our understandings of the world since then.
by flumpcakes | 2026-01-05 12:38:01+00:00
> What purpose is served by any of the gizmos on this site?

It's a personal website, it's fun. Comparing someones personal website - where the 'fun' things can be turned off - to a $tn company with hundreds of millions of users who rely on the usability their products is not a great basis for disagreeing with a pretty great write-up with many salient points.
by Izkata | 2026-01-05 12:38:48+00:00
Some of them are also just badly written, like The Scarlet Letter - the impression that stuck with me was it took way too long to get to the point, so much so that the second half of the book contained needed context for the first half to have any meaning at all.

And I was one of the few who got it when we read it. I don't think anyone I knew realized the movie Easy A shared any themes with that book, but it was just so much better done they understood the relevant themes from it.
by noduerme | 2026-01-05 12:39:56+00:00
So the goal was to generate signatures for 2, 3 or more players and then be able to reference anything in the history table that had that combination of players without doing a full scan and cross-joining the same table multiple times. Specifically to avoid having ten index columns in the history table for each seat's player. This was also prior to JSON querying in mysql. I needed a way to either bake in the combinations at write time, or to generate a unique id at read time in a way that wouldn't require me to query whether playerIDs were [1201,1803,2903] or [1803,1201,2903] etc. Just a one-shot unique signature for that combination of players that could always evaluate the same regardless of the order. If that makes sense. There were other considerations and this was not exactly how it worked, since only certain players were flagged and I was looking for patterns when those particular players were on the same table. It wasn't like every combination of players had a unique id, just a few combinations where I needed to be able to search over a large space to find when they were in the same room together, but disregarding the order they were listed in.
Show HN: TalkNow – instant browser calls via simple join code (no sign-up)
by falcriser | 2026-01-05 12:40:50+00:00
Hi HN - I built TalkNow after repeatedly hitting a travel problem: in parts of the Middle East, common consumer calling features (e.g., VoIP calls inside popular chat apps) can be restricted or inconsistent, and you end up installing different apps depending on the country/operator. Reuters has noted VoIP limitations on WhatsApp in places like the UAE and Qatar (messaging works, calls can be restricted).

What it is: a small web app for instant 1:1 audio/video calls in the browser. Open the site → start a call → share a join code/link with one person → talk. No accounts. It’s intentionally limited to two people to keep the flow simple.

What’s different (vs meeting tools):
No sign-up, minimal UI, optimize for “time-to-first-call”
1:1 only (not trying to be a full meeting platform)
Aimed at cases where people don’t want to install yet another app while traveling

Feedback I’d love:
Is the join code/link UX obvious?
How is reliability across browsers/networks (especially mobile + hotel/cellular)?
What should be next: screen share, better mobile layout, copy-link default, etc.
by aeonik | 2026-01-05 12:41:20+00:00
It's complicated, rotator cuff tear combined with a bunch of rib, shoulder and neck injuries. I never properly healed them, just rest, career in tennis ended after trying to rest and heal 3 times over 8 years.

YouTube and Physical Therapy combined with the UC David protocol has brought back more strength and mobility than I've ever had.

My main issue I had before was I kept pushing my injury too hard without proper remodeling.

The UC Davis protocol requires a specific isometric, loaded stretch while dosing Vitamin C and Type 2 Collagen an hour before isometrics.

It took about 6 months before I felt it getting significantly better, and I'm not fully healed yet, but I can actually throw balls to my kids without feeling my injury now.