MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-20 17:32:32+00:00
> I have heard anecdotal reports of GPUs used for cryptocurrency mining having similar wear patterns.

If this was anywhere close to a common failure mode, I'm pretty sure we'd know that already given how crypto mining GPUs were usually run to the max in makeshift settings with woefully inadequate cooling and environmental control. The overwhelming anecdotal evidence from people who have bought them is that even a "worn" crypto GPU is absolutely fine.
by jleyank | 2026-01-20 17:32:35+00:00
Yup, the middle powers have to organize and work together to avoid being chum. The economic power is there, and they can shift from purchasing US weaponry (thus paying US workers) into purchasing middle-power weaponry (thus paying middle-power workers). Car/truck plants can be repurposed, and if Ukraine's lesson is valid then smaller, portable weaponry is now the preferred solution. Cheaper, and the middle powers don't have huge investments in tanks and ships.
by docmars | 2026-01-20 17:32:50+00:00
I've used React Query and Zustand extensively in my projects, and unfortunately Zustand suffers from the same issue in cases where you aren't dealing with async data. I'm talking about React state + data that's already available, but can't be used to initialize your store before the first render cycle.

Here's how Zustand gets around this, and lo-and-behold: it requires React Context :( [1] (Look at how much boilerplate is required!)

React Query at least gives you an `initialData` option [2] to populate the cache before anything is done, and it works similarly to `useState`'s initializer. The key nuance with `const [state, setState] = useState(myInitialValue)` is the initial value is set on `state` before anything renders, so you don't need to wait while the component flashes `null` or a loading state. Whatever you need it to be is there immediately, helping UIs feel faster. It's a minor detail, but it makes a big difference when you're working with more complex dependencies.

1. https://zustand.docs.pmnd.rs/guides/initialize-state-with-pr...

2. https://tanstack.com/query/v5/docs/framework/react/guides/in...

---

I guess I could abuse React Query like this...

function useGlobalStore() {
const myHookState = useMyHook(); // not async

return useQuery({
initialData: {
optionA: true,
optionB: myHookState,
}
});
}

And you'd have to use `queryClient` to mutate the state locally since we aren't dealing with server data here.

But here's what I really want from the React team...

// Hook uses global instance instead of creating a new one each time it's used. No React Context boilerplate or ceremony. No wrapping components with more messy JSX. I can set state using React's primitives instead of messing with a 3rd party store:

const useGlobalStore = createGlobalStore(() => {
const dataFromAnotherHook = useAnotherHook();

const [settings, setSettings] = useState({
optionA: true,
optionB: dataFromAnotherHook,
});

return {
settings,
setSettings,
}
});
by Aurornis | 2026-01-20 17:32:53+00:00
PETG and ABS have similar stiffness. Both are fine at the temperatures involved here.

PETG is easier to print and deal with. ABS puts out some bad fumes that require actively exhausting the printer outside if you're trying to print in the house.

ABS is harder to print. Getting good layer adhesion is hard. It's more prone to warping. You want a heated chamber, ideally.

PETG is a fine choice for this. Going to ABS wouldn't change anything.

Also FYI, most people prefer ASA over ABS for printing because it's a similar material with better properties almost across the board.
by kouteiheika | 2026-01-20 17:33:01+00:00
No, I'm just arguing against the blatant double standard I frequently see here on HN.

Personally I agree with you; to me this isn't open source in spirit. But I also think that a modified MIT license with an anti-megacorporation use restriction is still open source in spirit, regardless of what the Open Source Definition says.

Why is the "this is not open source even though it's OSI approved" comment here the most upvoted, while I frequently see the "this is open source even though it's not OSI approved" opinions heavily argued against and downvoted to hell?

My point is: either pick one or the other. Either the OSI is the authority on what is open source, or not. You can't have it both ways and argue either way depending on whether it's convenient to you. (And by "you" I don't mean you specifically, but people here in general.)
by lenerdenator | 2026-01-20 17:33:03+00:00
As the popular practice shows, the first and only duty of a for-profit company is to create returns for shareholders.

If you do that ethically, fine. If you're not sure if it's ethical, try anyways. If it's unethical, do it. If it's illegal, do the cost-benefit analysis of what the punishment would cost the shareholders.

That's how these people think, and it's a direct threat to the liberty and well-being of our society.

EDIT:
Downvote me all you want, but look around. That's how many of the people at the top of companies think as evidenced by their companies' behavior.
by DowsingSpoon | 2026-01-20 17:33:08+00:00
There more to stability than continuity of government. Though, that definitely is important.

It’s bad enough that America’s foreign policy lately swings wildly every four years. More recently, it’s been acting aggressive toward allies, and making very strange and unpredictable moves.

The USA’s tariff policies are, frankly, utterly insane. Yes, I do mean the tariffs are irrational and incoherent. The approach to the tariffs has been overly aggressive. They’ve been changing almost daily, at times. Now, tariffs are specifically a thing that must be stable and predictable on a multi-year horizon. This must be, at least, off-putting to other governments, and to any companies wishing to do business in or adjacent to the USA.

Monkeying with the Fed is dangerous and basically unprecedented. This is going to make people nervous because it marks the end of an era of stability in monetary policy. We may be at the start of a new era where interest rates, much like the tariffs, change frequently for bad reasons or for no reason at all. Who can say?

And THAT is the problem.
by renewiltord | 2026-01-20 17:33:14+00:00
Something that is “already over” cannot be “un-over”. That’s not how “is already over” works. It means it’s done, finito, not a prophecy but a historical fact. We have to move on. And that means less interference in internal European affairs like Ukraine-Russia and more protection of our interests like consolidation of power over the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the Americas.
by emilsedgh | 2026-01-20 17:33:19+00:00
If it was about GDP it'd have "some" moral defense: That this leads to overall wealth growth of the population.

But it's not about GDP. It's about shareholder value which is absolutely not representative of the whole population.

Extreme greed is now part of US social contract, top to bottom, and has driven the whole society to madness sadly.
by obayuwj | 2026-01-20 17:33:21+00:00
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by vjerancrnjak | 2026-01-20 17:33:23+00:00
Thanks for having this discussion with me. I believe I don't want a time series database. I want to be able to invent new queries and throw them at a schema, or create materialized views to have better queries etc. I just don't find Snowflake or Redshift anywhere close to what they're selling.

I think these systems are optimized for something else, probably organizational scale, predictable low value workloads, large teams that just throw their shit at it and it works on a daily basis, and of course, it costs a lot.

My experience after renting a $1k EC2 instance and slurping all of S3 onto it in a few hours, and Redshift being unable to do the same, made me not consider these systems reliable for anything other than ritualistic performative low value work.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-20 17:33:29+00:00
And why shouldn't it when there is zero negative ramifications for being completely fucking unethical?

It's like a video game where the more depraved your thinking is, the more money you make off it, and the rest of the characters sit around like NPCs and just let it happen. Well, maybe they don't, but when they pull a Super Mario Brothers trick the entire state apparatus is used to track them down and imprison them.
by legitster | 2026-01-20 17:33:57+00:00
> Nobody is cheering for inflation to get worse, they are celebrating it being held down to 2.7% after higher inflation a few years ago.

Trump is actively fighting the federal reserve to drop the interest rate to 0%. Members of his team regularly do interviews where they say "it's going to get worse before it gets better". Inflation is being held down despite this administration's best efforts.

> The U.S. is a net exporter of oil and food and self-sufficent for majority of its mineral needs as well.

And has been for a while. But the current conservative rhetoric is specifically about bringing manufacturing jobs back.

> There is no need for U.S. to crash its currency to incentivize domestic production, it can just impose tariffs on imports to do so.

I don't think autarky is this administration's only stated goal. They specifically see an export-led economy as being more important or even "legitimate" and are pushing for other countries to import our goods. Devaluing currency is a strong way to incentivize exports and China's currency manipulations were the key to their rise as a manufacturing power.
by alphazard | 2026-01-20 17:34:19+00:00
Your criticism applies to any epistemic institution.
Prediction markets are far more robust than any epistemic institution that humans have come up with so far.

Contrary to what you insinuate, we don't have 2 parallel markets for each issue, where each groups bets in their own echo chamber market to feel good about their beliefs.
The law of one price holds and we have a single market per event, and it almost always resolves such that >> 50% of people agree with the result retrospectively.
The resolution mechanism affects the price. If the market is expected to be biased towards a certain outcome, then that outcome will trade at a higher price.

You could easily prove your theory by giving an example of two markets about the same issue, with different arbiters, where the price significantly diverges. Or where the arbiters disagreed after the fact. There will be examples, but how much Volume traded in those markets, compared to the markets where it didn't happen?
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-01-20 17:34:32+00:00
Your ruler is no longer following the rules of law, nor the foundational constitution. USA ended with their declaration of dictatorship and the failure of your houses/legislature/military to act against that and defend the Constitution.

I can't see how, since the end of habeas corpus, you can claim legal stability.

Your leader is World renowned for reneging on debts and is demanding bribes for companies to operate.

Isn't borrowing through the roof to pay for things like your stasi?

Daily those stasi are murdering and disappearing people seemingly attempting to foment an excuse to escalate the violence.

I don't know how that knife edge can look anything like stable to you.
by echelon | 2026-01-20 17:34:33+00:00
> This is sanewashig this whole thing.

This was being called back during the Biden admin and before Trump even ran again.

Back during the Obama admin, even!

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/no-piv...

https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/us-pivot-asia/

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/europe-biggest-...

If the US can't build strong coalitions with Europe, it wants to spend its energy elsewhere.

Even pop-geopolitik wonk Peter Zeihan was pointing this out during Covid. I can't find his videos, but this has been top of mind for a lot of people for a very long time. These are anti-Trump people, too.

Multipolarity means instability, violence, fights over resources, fights over trade. Post-WWII was unusually (relatively) stable.

The US can turtle up, just like it did before WWII. It doesn't share a land border with any other major powers, unlike European and Asian countries. It commands the two oceans on its sides (and soon Arctic), and doesn't need anyone else - this was the US' defense posture since its founding.
by newsoftheday | 2026-01-20 17:34:40+00:00
When AWS rolled out plans to start charging for IPv4 addresses:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address...

"As you may know, IPv4 addresses are an increasingly scarce resource and the cost to acquire a single public IPv4 address has risen more than 300% over the past 5 years. This change reflects our own costs and is also intended to encourage you to be a bit more frugal with your use of public IPv4 addresses and to think about accelerating your adoption of IPv6 as a modernization and conservation measure."

Their move disgusted me and I moved from AWS to OCI.
by glemion43 | 2026-01-20 17:34:45+00:00
USA had this because it manufactured everything and got rich doing so.

NATO is / was USAs way of controlling Europe to have something against Asia.

It's time for us / Europe to let the USA being whatever and kicking them out

We (Germany) are quite well equipped making guns and tanks.

And btw it was our strategy to try to win over countries by NOT being the big bully but sure Russia and USA made it clear that this no longer works.

I hope USA leaves NATO and we kick them out sooner than later
by like_any_other | 2026-01-20 17:34:51+00:00
Do you understand that this trick no longer works? When you pretend you don't know about China [1], nobody believes you are being sincere. There are only others pretending along with you. I will not be wasting my words on this charade. Go pretend you have the knowledge of a 5-year-old somewhere else.

[1] Though the advice is generic - no country should let their local tech entirely wither, no matter where it gets moved.
by mysteria | 2026-01-20 17:34:59+00:00
Personally I wonder even if the LLM hype dies down we'll get a new boom in terms of AI for robotics and the "digital twin" technology Nvidia has been hyping up to train them. That's going to need GPUs for both the ML component as well as 3D visualization. Robots haven't yet had their SD 1.1 or GPT-3 moment and we're still in the early days of Pythia, GPT-J, AI Dungeon, etc. in LLM speak.
by vacuity | 2026-01-20 17:35:12+00:00
You described one of my misgivings better than I could (I made a sibling reply to parent), but I don't agree with this in all cases. Anger is easy to perpetuate blindly, but I think introspective feelings sometimes can die out if they aren't affirmed. Someone struggling with an internal conflict may reject a feeling that seems to resolve the conflict, and not take time to properly deal with the feeling. Affirming the feeling should affirm that the person may have felt and be justified in the feeling, without assuring that the feeling is definitely justified. Maybe taking that road is indeed foolish, but it would be too hasty to dismiss doing so just because it feels foolish.
by epistasis | 2026-01-20 17:35:26+00:00
> no armies, can’t defend itself, can’t make energy.

Look I love dumping on the Europoors as much as anyone, but even I can see that this is a bit extreme. "Decadence?" What does that even mean here? That people are happy and secure and have good qualities of life, without worrying about everything falling apart?

The US is not fine, and is falling apart. The US is living decadently on its reserve currency status, which enable things like ridiculously wasteful and unproductive military spending. Even its military spending on things like the, say, F35, require external customers in order for it to make any sense at all. But all that decadence is at risk. Decadence is good, I want it, I don't want austerity. Give me this awesome US decadence or I'll have to settle for the fake European "decadence" which is mere economic and health security without all the extra spending that US consumers get to make.
by autoexec | 2026-01-20 17:35:27+00:00
Regulation and education are where the sane middle ground is. You don't outright ban the stuff (which is expensive and doesn't work anyway) but you keep the worst of the harms it causes from getting too out of control. Sadly, gambling is under-regulated and we'll probably all be suffering for a while as a result before regulations are tightened back up.
Show HN: Create promo videos for your projects with Claude Code
by alentodorov | 2026-01-20 17:35:39+00:00
Built this skill to create small shareable videos for my projects and edit them programmatically via agents.

Under the hood it installs remotion.dev, analyzes your styling to determine branding, and includes guidance for generating videos in hook/problem/solution format.

It also instructs the agent to create props for your scenes so you can tweak them live in the Remotion timeline.

PS: You don't need to install it - a skill is just a prompt. To test it, check the prompt here: https://github.com/alentodorov/create-promo-video/blob/main/...
by senderista | 2026-01-20 17:35:43+00:00
Sorry, Trump insisting on annexing Greenland is not a "change in strategic goals", it's a toddler's petulant obsession. The US already had carte blanche from Denmark to do pretty much whatever it wanted in Greenland.

Besides Trump, I doubt there's another official in the WH who wants this. They are all just humoring the demented old man.
by Winblows11 | 2026-01-20 17:35:54+00:00
But only 56% in a poll? Is that enough for another referendum and guarantee rejoin? EU politicians have made it clear, ALL UK opt-outs will be gone if UK rejoins, whether it is UK opt-out regarding budget (like paying billions less in annual EU fees like UK did before), to special fishing rights pre-Brexit, to forced to adopt Euro currency and drop Pound sterling.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-20 17:35:56+00:00
There are variants of the theory that are actually pretty sound, but it's more about the critical mass open source will achieve and the reduced friction that agents will bring to self hosting.

What closed source software company can compete on features against the entire world's collective agents? What sales pitch do hosted saas vendors have when you can spin up a container for your open source saas of choice pre-configured, and the agent can tweak stuff and offload ops efficiently? We're ~2 years away from this reality.
by TZubiri | 2026-01-20 17:36:00+00:00
I can give you a concrete example

In chess, it's part of the rules that you cannot use a chess engine, a tournament may have a prize money, to enter into a tournament you agree to some clauses like following the rules of chess and not using an engine. It's a contract.

If someone were to use an engine, they would be cheating, and in this context it would be breach of contract, and possibly fraud.

It would be wrong to assume that because using computer programs in this competitive sport, it is therefore wrong to use it in more critical applications, like war, or health or construction. The core reason being because they are by nature very different events with different contracts that are entered into willingly and are controlled by very different laws, but also independent of laws, they are very different phenomenons and will of course have different moral and practical impacts. (Duh)
Show HN: A New Breed of Apps
by _pdp_ | 2026-01-20 17:36:07+00:00
Hi all,

I wanted to show an example of a new breed of apps that we call agentic SaaS - basically the old SaaS model but written entire from scratch to be AI first and self-programable.

The app itself is very lightweight. It uses vercel for deployment, clerk for auth and chatbotkit for the agentic ai backend. There are no other databases or storage systems involved. Updating the app is now just a matter of prompting. New features are automatically rolled out, tested, verified and ultimately deployed (if approved). Anyone from our small team can write a feature - even non developers. If you have a good idea you can make a change.

The software is self-maintained meaning that everything is done end-to-end with AI and it is easy.

The reason this is interesting is because while coding assistants are now getting more and more popular they are still stuck in the terminal. Well, here there are no terminals involved.

Happy to answer your questions.
by hopelite | 2026-01-20 17:36:09+00:00
That is true, but it also goes well beyond that. Much of the "US Gov't behavior" is largely related to trashing and panicked frantic moves because the consequences of its prior and long tailed actions over decades has now not only started bearing rotten fruit, but a previous strategy of world domination through "globalism" has also turned against those who control the Wizard of the USA from behind the curtain.

On the face of it the Greenland situation makes no sense on a national security level regarding a non-existent, fabricated Chinese or Russian threat, nor related to the fantastical grift of the "Golden Dome" that is even more useless against what Russia has recently developed, than it was for things prior to about 3 years ago.

What we are looking at here (you can tell your children that you heard it here first) is a strategic move to essentially take Canada and all of the NA continent, and eventually all of the Americas. Yes, Canada, you are indeed in danger as well as Mexico. I don't see how it could be any other way in the face of current developments; remember Trumps USMCA, i.e., a de facto North American Union?

Biden stated that he wants the USA to have 300 million more "immigrants" before he let in about 15 million in 4 years. Annexing Canada is about 40M by the time we do it, Mexico would add another 150M plus however many people would flood into Mexico to become "Americans". That bring us to a total of around 550 million by the time the North American Union comes around. Perhaps if the UK joins, we will just call it Oceania already.

It does not address the fact that China has 1.4 billion and India another 1.4 billion, but it puts us in contention, especially as Europe has about 700 million by that time if/when the EU absorbs most of Europe.

That also doe not take into account the Wizard of the USA wanting to take over all of South America for positive control eventually… another ~480 million by that time, putting the American Union of Oceania at about 1 Billion, ±100M.

These are real tabletop calculations and how things are seen at the top and discussed amidst cocktails.