MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blackcatsec | 2026-01-29 15:56:31+00:00
As a reply to this, because it's important. Searching does indeed bring up ads, however, they're to the right and only if you do not have whatever it is you're searching for installed.

I know this is splitting hairs, but I like data and not emotional driven decisions. When I tap "Start" and search for "World of Warcraft", which is installed on my PC, the very first item is the shortcut to WoW on my PC.

In terms of Start Menu Zones (as I'm calling them), on the Left is the "best Match", which links to WoW on my PC. The next zone beneath that is "Apps", which are the multiple permutations of WoW on my PC, and beneath that is "Search the Web", which offers a few search terms related to WoW. Beneath that is a "Store" link to WoW, which links to the Microsoft Store. The right zone of the Start Menu offers a menu of what I want to do with the app: Open, Run as Administrator, Open File Location, Pin to Start, Pin to Taskbar, or Uninstall.

This is the same behavior on all programs I have installed on the PC: I can type "Steam", same behavior. Discord, same behavior, Signal, same behavior, Battle.Net, same behavior, etc.

Now, for items that are not installed on my PC, for example, Half Life. Since I don't have it on my PC, it immediately wants to only search the web. On the right zone, which on installed apps shows a menu of options, this now shows a mini Bing search window which basically has sponsored content at the top with ebay links to Half Life editions (also holy crap those are expensive).

So for applications not installed on my PC? Yeah, it's showing me some search bing ads. For every application installed on my PC? It's not showing any ads.

From what I'm reading, it seems many people have a workflow that leverages the start menu pretty heavily. My workflow since the early days of XP has never included the start menu. In Windows XP, I used the Quick Launch Bar and always had a 2nd row of icons above my taskbar for which I used to open apps. When Microsoft changed this, I simply pin everything to the taskbar instead and use that. The only time I use the start menu to search and load something is usually if I want to CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to run whatever that is as Administrator. And that workflow has never once "tricked" me into loading any ads, websites, bing searches, or anything. It has always, for over a decade including on Windows 11 25H2 done exactly what I was expecting every single time.

So perhaps our workflows differ for which this is an annoyance for you, but I cannot replicate your specific problem that you mentioned.
by abeppu | 2026-01-29 15:56:33+00:00
So, as a justification for support of scala, the thing that seems lacking to me is that Chisel seems to still be centered around scala 2? E.g. their recommended template for getting started still uses scala 2 ... so without support to motivate them to use scala 3, it's not obvious that Chisel benefits much from current work on the scala language? I have not fully understood the Chisel project but I see they have a "compiler plugin" which suggests to me that moving fully off scala 2 requires a meaningful redesign.

https://github.com/chipsalliance/chisel-template/blob/main/b...
by stared | 2026-01-29 15:56:35+00:00
Does it benchmark the underlying code (Opus 4.5) or Claude Code harness? If the second, I would love to see CC versions involved.

I would be curious to see on how it fares against a constant harness.

There were thread claiming that Claude Code got worse with 2.0.76, with some people going back to 2.0.62.
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16157

So it would be wonderful to measure these.
by hearsathought | 2026-01-29 15:56:52+00:00
> This is the case in Britain’s former colonies (USA

The USA was never a colony of britain. The american colonies were.

> The primary draw of a city like London is economic prosperity

Then tokyo or singapore or dubai would have been even greater draws. But they are not.

What becomes a "tech capital" is primarily a political decision. If london is a major tech center, it's because of political decisions within britain but primarily outside of britain ( the US ).
by consumer451 | 2026-01-29 15:57:01+00:00
Man, I wrote that comment at the end of a 14hr work day. The crazy thing is that I had seen that SDR slide when I first looked at this. Hours later, when I posted the comment, I reviewed it again and completely hallucinated the SDR slide away.

I need to check all the work I did towards the end of yesterday. Thanks.
by wojciii | 2026-01-29 15:57:12+00:00
It takes a 10 min talk with a doctor to get antidepressants around here. Perhaps a test which looks like multiple choice score of symptoms with some weights.

I had an old gf receive two different drugs each with terrible side effects. To me it looked as poison.

I decided that I would rather hurt myself myself than fuck with my brain chemistry this way.

During the dark northern Winters I lack vitamin D (your doctor can measure this using a blood test). The symptoms are some physical issues and probably something that can be described as light depression which goes away if I remember to take the vitamins.

We are all different. Some people might need anti-depressants. I just need some vitamins.
by maxglute | 2026-01-29 15:57:34+00:00
There's not really NEV oversupply, the EV adoption curve will keep shooting up from 50% to 100%, many PRC EV companies will die from competition/pricewar consolidation not broader oversupply, since EV industrial base is still undersupply relative to 100% adoption curve.

Oversupply is in legacy ICE displacement due to rapid domestic EV penetration. "Zero-milage used car" accounting trick is primarily to export excess capacity of gasoline cars (now that EV has taken over) that aren't moving domestically anymore. MOST of PRC exports are ICE, IIRC 60-80%, there's plenty of global demand for ICE still. Pushing domestic sku new car with crushed domestic demand as "used" exports where there's plenty of demand = meet sales target, but less through discounts but import fees engineering - used cars circumvent import duties, certifications, warranty requirements etc. It's a lifehack to unload domestic ICE inventory, not EV. This also likely transient effect because NEV transition in PRC happened so fast ICE manufacturer that target domestic market caught flat footed. They need a few years to either retool to EV or shift primarily to target export markets that still has appetite for affordable gasoline cars.
by slfnflctd | 2026-01-29 15:57:49+00:00
Well, we already provide dedicated lanes for multi-passenger vehicles in many places, nearly all semi-major airports have dedicated lots and lanes for rideshare drivers, many parts of downtown/urban areas have the same things... and it didn't exactly take super long to roll all that out.

Also, 99% of roads in civilized areas have something alongside them already that you can attach RFID tags to. Quite a bit easier than setting up an EV charging station (another significant infrastructure thing which has rolled out pretty quickly). And let's not forget, every major metro area in the world has multi-lane superhighways which didn't even exist at all 50-70 years ago.

Believe me, I've thought about this for a lot more than 15 minutes. Yes, we should improve sensor reliability, absolutely. But it wouldn't hurt to have some kind of backup roadside positioning help, and I don't see how it would be prohibitively expensive. Maybe I am missing something, but I'm gonna need more than your dismissive comment to be convinced of that.
by jampa | 2026-01-29 15:58:43+00:00
When I noticed and commented here, many people said it was only in my head: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736091#46736724

I am using API mode, and it's clear that there are times when the Claude model just gives up. And it is very noticeable because the model just does the most dumb things possible.

"You have a bug in line 23." "Oh yes, this solution is bugged, let me delete the whole feature." That one-line fix I could make even with ChatGPT 3.5 can't just happen. Workflows that I use and are very reproducible start to flake and then fail.

After a certain number of tokens per day, it becomes unusable. I like Claude, but I don't understand why they would do this.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-29 15:59:10+00:00
Wow, my experience is so different. The two most disappointing places I’ve ever been food wise were London and Paris. Spent 2 months in Paris, nothing stuck out except for one home cooked meal at a friend’s

as Tyler Cowen says, Tokyo has the best food in the world, and the best French food in the world.

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/david-brooks-2/

Tokyo has even won best pizza as judged by the Italian pizza competition in Italy several years

Paris has almost no East Asian food and what I did see when trying to find some was all in porcelain trays like slightly fancier Panda Express.

London I found a few good places in Soho but just slightly out of the center it was a food desert
by seszett | 2026-01-29 15:59:14+00:00
> Since the constitution distribute the power based on religion, any census that would mention religion might put into question the current distribution.

Funny how similar it is to Belgium's situation, the "language border" was established through census and then was revised as few times with census results, but since not everyone was happy with it it was essentially fixed and stopped being revised.

Today it's which side of the border you live in that determines which language you officially "speak".
by ndiddy | 2026-01-29 15:59:18+00:00
> Is there anything else that's covered by copyright that's in a similar sort of situation as software? Where the thing that's covered by copyright _isn't_ really modifiable to begin with?

I don't see how software is unique here. You can modify a compiled executable, just like you can modify a finished graphic, or a produced movie, or a piece of music from an album. It takes additional effort, but so does modifying the graphic without the PSD file, the movie without the editor project files, and the music without the stems.
by zabzonk | 2026-01-29 15:59:29+00:00
> a lot of stations just have stairs

very few, if any. they may not have escalators (Covent garden, for eg., but no-one in their right mind uses that - just use Leicester Square and walk on the street)

> platforms are often at a significant offset from the underground cars

Not sure what you mean here - mind the gap? Typically less on the Piccadilly than some other lines - Bank on the Central is particularly scary.

Based on living 30-odd years in London, most of it using the Piccadilly line on my daily commute and to get to LHR.
by ryukoposting | 2026-01-29 15:59:35+00:00
If I'm patreon, here's what I'm doing:

Jack up every Apple user's monthly payment by 30%.

When they go into the app to figure out what the hell happened, they will find big red text saying "want to avoid the Apple tax? re-subscribe through our website! (Link)"

They click the link, it opens a webpage where all the payment info has been auto-filled. They click "ok." Bam, fee gone.
by superkuh | 2026-01-29 15:59:35+00:00
This is untrue. Take it from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519704/table/ch3.t39/ "Impact of the DSM-IV to DSM-5 Changes on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health [Internet]." In 5 they actually moved it to the 'Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders' because it was grandfathered into it's own class and really fit nowhere else in the reorganization. It shouldn't be there either but it was too late.

You've prescribed some outcomes: I am not saying you have not personally observed these things. I am saying they are not due to addiction and that using comparisons to addictive drugs and addiction implies that people have no volition when reading things or watching things on screens instead of, say, watching them in their environment directly. That's a very dangerous claim. If you think that it's okay to claim screens can make you do things and need to be regulated like addictive drugs, we are definitely not having the same conversation. You're advocating that text and video need to be regulated by government use of force and that's really dangerous and wrong.

I agree that the corporations pushing these propaganda machines are a huge problem. But it's not one involving addiction.
by observationist | 2026-01-29 15:59:49+00:00
They're "optimizing" costs wherever possible - reducing compute allocations, quantizing models, doing whatever they can to reduce the cost per token, but vehemently insisting that no such things are occurring, that it's all in the users' heads, and using the weaseliest of corporate weasel speak to explain what's happening. They insist it's not happening, then they say something like "oh, it happened but it was an accident", then they say "yes, it's happening, but it's actually good!" and "we serve the same model day by day, and we've always been at war with Eastasia."

They should be transparent and tell customers that they're trying to not lose money, but that'd entail telling people why they're paying for service they're not getting. I suspect it's probably not legal to do a bait and switch like that, but this is pretty novel legal territory.
by torginus | 2026-01-29 15:59:51+00:00
I usually take extra care when going through a school zone, especially when I see some obstruction ('behind a tall SUV', was the waymo overtaking?), and overtaking is something I would probably never do (and should be banned in school zones by road signs).

This is a context that humans automatically have and consider. I'm sure Waymo engineers can mark spots on the map where the car needs to drive very conservatively.
by mkipper | 2026-01-29 15:59:55+00:00
There's a pretty stark contrast between an MLB player making $50M per year and a bobsledder who's promised $100K 20 years after reaching the pinnacle of their sport. Given the total amount of training that an Olympian puts in over their life, even if that $100K is adjusted for inflation it probably works out to less than minimum wage in many states. That's a pretty bad profession IMO.
by mothballed | 2026-01-29 15:59:59+00:00
Last time around Trump said "take the guns and due process later" and then did an illegal (as ruled by the court) ban on bump stocks. No one following Trump with eyes wide open was under the illusion trump was a champion of gun rights.

People brainwashed or ignoring facts have seen differently, but the brainwashed crowd is already seeing this event the way they want to see it.
by tullie | 2026-01-29 16:00:03+00:00
I've been loving all these projects that are integrating LLMs/encoding directly into the language. There's so much power there.

Someone shared with me these the other day and we're inspired to add more remote LLM calls directly into ShapedQL now:
https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-rembed
https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-lembed
by roelschroeven | 2026-01-29 16:00:21+00:00
You are correct in that the deflected airflow exerts an upward force on the wing (or at least a force with an upward component; there's also a backward component (called induced drag if my memory serves me well)).

The way the airflow exerts that force is through pressure differentials: air under the wing having higher pressure than the air above it.

Momentum change can describe physical interactions, and it's often easier to calculate things that way, but actual physical forces still exist, and can also be used to describe the same physical interactions.
by prewett | 2026-01-29 16:00:28+00:00
#1 is inevitable; the Pareto distribution is everywhere. I read a paper on how it naturally shows up when people can act on preferences, but can't remember the paper (and it was in the context of why cities show a Pareto distribution)

#2 there will always be craftsmanship companies, but they will always be small companies, or a small team within a big organization. Craftsmanship doesn't scale; engineering does.

#3 contracting won't become the default. Many places have experimental or well-contained projects, or not enough ongoing work for full-time, but anywhere that custom-built software is important to the business will always need changes and maintenance. The problem with using contractors is that after their contract is over, they go find another contract, so they may not be available when you would like to re-use them, and then you've got to start over with a new one.
Ask HN: A Single Board Computer for a phone alternative
by krastanov | 2026-01-29 16:00:42+00:00
I am using my phone less and less due to it being a surveillance nightmare and due to the fact there are no small phones anymore.

Now I am building a screen-less alternative for myself to take the place of my phone and my laptop (I use my laptop only when I am on the train/airplane or in the passenger seat of a car, otherwise I use desktops).

What I am building is an SBC attached to my belt, a bit bigger than an N900 with:

- no screen
- usb cell modem (internet only, no phone)
- a Pebble watch for most phone-like IO
- earbuds for phone/signal calls
- optionally Xreal glasses and a foldable keyboard when I need laptop functionality
- VNC to an android phone at home for all the privacy intrusive bank apps / SMS / phone calls / insecure 2FA / etc
- SSH to a desktop for the occasional dev work on the train/airplane
- A local browser for "office work" on the goal

I have a lot of trouble finding an SBC that I can buy.

I need >=8GB ram, USB C with Display capabilities, and mainline(ish) kernel support. I want to run a linux distro on it, android is a no-go on ideological grounds. Slight preference for the AMD64 architecture.

Does such a thing exist?

I have found a few Ryzen SBC but none of them are sold to individuals. There are the Raspberry Pi clones, but they are <1GB of RAM or do not have USB C Display port. And there are all the android devices that do not run normal linux distros.

Maybe Valve will sell replacement parts for the Steam Frame -- that would be perfect. The Steam Deck mainboard is a bit too big.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-29 16:00:43+00:00
Population counts are parts of geopolitics.

If you're the neighbor of some country that has a number of natural resources you'd like to get a hold of then you want to do things like formulate battle plans. If you have to make a plan to conquer 10 million people, it's going to be a bit different than one for 5 million people. The 10 million one is going to take longer. And then when you figure out that country is using deception to bolster its population numbers you have to figure where they lied about these numbers. Is it everywhere, is it in the place you want to invade. Is the population actually higher where you want to invade but lower in the rest of the country. Now you have to invest in doing your own general population and capability counts to make sure you don't step 10 feet deep in a 2 foot deep pool.
by numeromancer | 2026-01-29 16:01:07+00:00
I think the creators did it a disservice to xmake when they tried to unluaize the syntax. You can also do:

target("foo", {
kind = "binary",
files = { "src/*.cpp" },
includedirs = { "src" },
defines = { "FOO", "BAR=BAZ" },
})

which suits Lua better.
by micromacrofoot | 2026-01-29 16:01:26+00:00
It's possible, but likely is a heavy assertion. It's also possible a human driver would have been more aware of children being present on the sidewalk and would have approached more cautiously given obstructed views.

Please please remember that any data from Waymo will inherently support their position and can not be taken at face value. They have significant investment in making this look more favorable for them.
by shermantanktop | 2026-01-29 16:01:36+00:00
> I just realised I have the impression that's exactly what people do in the USA?

How would you have formed that impression? Whatever media and culture you’re consuming, or how you are interpreting it, is leading you to incorrect conclusions. You should examine that.

We all live in a cultural bubble but any time you find yourself thinking that millions of people somewhere else do something crazy, you should probably talk to someone from there.

Sleeping meds might be prescribed at a higher rate in the US, that wouldn’t surprise me due to the specific incentives in our health care system. But that’s a far cry from your impression.
by seemaze | 2026-01-29 16:01:44+00:00
>What next, should apple take a 30% cut of my rent because I found my apartment on the Craigslist app? Should they take a 30% of my train ticket that I purchased using the Safari app?

Sure they could, and usage of those products to purchase goods would nominally drop to 0%. People do not care about a lot of things, but they do care about losing money.
by majkinetor | 2026-01-29 16:01:53+00:00
Its not only overblown, its totally non-issue.

The main problem seems to be tracking pixel itself to deduce involvement. The suggested approach to send email to confirm email seem better, unless it contains link to login page (as it can be phished). So, the best seems to be that one should send email that explains user how to confirm e-mail by logging manually to the app.
by einpoklum | 2026-01-29 16:01:56+00:00
So, digging through the website git repo a bit, some basic facts:

* The project started almost 11 years ago, in 2015.

* Code is almost exclusively by one person, waruqi: https://github.com/waruqi , with several other people making a few contribution.

* Prima facie, the API seems to be less flexible/rich than CMake's, but I'm not sure.

* It says it supports "C/C++" (that slash is fishy, they're not that similar these days); I don't know about other languages.
by yodon | 2026-01-29 16:02:03+00:00
Steve Yegge is hella smart, and I've spent many hours digging into his recent work on GasTown and Beads, but he needs to read up on business strategy.

I'd recommend starting with Stratechery's articles on on Platforms and Aggregators[0], and a semester long course on Porter's Five Forces[1].

[0]https://stratechery.com/2019/shopify-and-the-power-of-platfo...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter%27s_five_forces_analysi...
by yearolinuxdsktp | 2026-01-29 16:02:25+00:00
Happy to pay 42% higher Patreon fees in exchange for ease of subscription control, visibility, safety and ease of payment with in-app Apple payments.

It’s funny seeing people call 78% operating margin too high, while we all know that software VCs demand 90% margin from their startups, and if it wasn’t Apple, people here would call that an excellent business.
by ryukoposting | 2026-01-29 16:02:29+00:00
I use the Patreon app. It's great. I get to see stuff from my favorite creatives weeks (sometimes months) early, and ad-free. Since many of them are youtubers and I don't pay google to show me less ads, this is a huge value prop. And, the Patreon app can cast videos to my TV, so it's really a complete experience.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-29 16:02:53+00:00
Don't forget terrestrial observing from the ESO with ALMA, VLT, and the under construction ELT down in Chile.

Edit: If you watch the Euclid link above, please don't make the mistake I did and let the player auto select the crappy 720p50 version. Jump up to the 2160p version. It is more than worth it. But as advertised, if you are not impressed with Euclid's imagery after viewing the video, you must be dead.
by ArielSh | 2026-01-29 16:03:15+00:00
open-source experiment applying chaos-engineering ideas to LLM agents.

Agent development feels fast, but reliability is mostly assumed. Agents depend on prompts, tools, APIs, and implicit coordination. When something breaks, behavior degrades in subtle ways and we usually find out too late.

Balagan Agent intentionally injects controlled “chaos” into agent workflows to surface failure modes early:
- Tool failures, latency, partial responses
- Prompt drift and unexpected decisions
- Hidden assumptions in sequencing and coordination

The goal is not load testing, but understanding how fragile an agent really is and where guardrails are needed.

This started as a side project to explore whether chaos-style testing makes sense for agents, similar in spirit to what Chaos Monkey did for distributed systems.