MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2026-01-10 18:00:15+00:00
> Then you allow both to evolve at a reasonable rate (maybe 10 years

Automakers already get 10-15 years or more out of their platforms. The same series of engines will be used across the their lineup for a very long time. Transmissions are shared across car makers, and so on.

That’s not a problem. The request above was for all auto manufacturers to have to fit into a standardized format.

It would be like telling Intel, AMD and Apple that they all had to use the same CPU socket for 5 years and they all had to be interchangeable.

Do you think we’d have MacBook Pros with all day battery life that also have 500MB/s of memory bandwidth if the company was forced to use a standard CPU socket that all manufacturers agreed on? Definitely would not. Some other country without such requirements would be enjoying them, though.

It’s a demand that makes less sense the closer you are to the subject matter.
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-10 18:00:18+00:00
I know for a fact that all SOTA models have linux source code in them, intentionally or not which means that they should follow the GPL license terms and open-source part of the models which have created derivative works out of it.

yes, this is indirectly hinting that during training the GPL tainted code touches every single floating point value in a model making it derivative work - even the tokenizer isn't immune to this.
by dietr1ch | 2026-01-10 18:00:46+00:00
What's cool about Org isn't the symbols, but the semantics of a tree with tags, TODOs (along agenda & scheduling), and code blocks.

Org had the problem that a single implementation gained too many features and went underspecified, making the language unusable outside of emacs.
Markdown has the reverse problem, lots of implementations with variance that leave you with the lowest common denominator (there's specs, but IMO having many specs is pretty much having no spec, just many implemenattions)

It'd be cool to see a language that standardised Org features, but tried hard to keep things readable/compatible with markdown.
by tcumulus | 2026-01-10 18:00:49+00:00
For the ones who might be interested, Yr.no uses the ECMWF (European weather model) as their main data source. This model scores the best on benchmarks of the global weather models (available for the whole world), but AI models are catching up on some parameters. Still, there are local weather models available with a much higher resolution (these are regional and only have forecasts up to a couple days). Examples are ICON-D2, Arome, Harmonie for parts of Europe, and HRRR for the US. I'm not sure which apps use these models though.
by ben_w | 2026-01-10 18:01:07+00:00
> Interesting. I thought AfD is ahead in the polls and very pro-Russian, how do I reconcile these observations?

Germany is a multi-party system where no single party is expected to get an absolute majority.

AfD polling is around the 25% mark, which is about the same as the other highest contender, but the remaining 50% of the votes do actually count and get representation in government, they're not lost and forgotten, it's not winner-takes-all.
by damnitbuilds | 2026-01-10 18:01:15+00:00
No one should care about fake pictures of celebrities. People have been drawing tits on pictures for centuries. Deal with it, you precious attention-seeking whiners.

But do not be ridiculous - Musk's AI generating child porn is not an "excuse" to ban it, it is a reason to ban it. Banning the generation of child porn is not repressing free speech, it is enforcing decency and protecting children.

If Grok cannot be configured to prevent the generation of child porn ( can that be done, Musk ? ), it must be banned. And that should happen in every decent country.

[ This comment has been copied from an unpopular version of this discussion - why doesn't HN merge duplicate threads ? ]
by arboles | 2026-01-10 18:01:47+00:00
The following:

\~300 lines

Still exports as <p>\~300 lines</p> (in case of an HTML export). In fact you could "escape it" with any character, the backslash isn't doing anything special, the formatting just doesn't trigger if there's no white space on one side. When I use Org I also do not have auto-formatting, as you do, but the highlighting would still be wrong. And it'd be masochistic to put up with that unless you've invested a lot into Org for other reasons.
by Haeuserschlucht | 2026-01-10 18:01:53+00:00
Thank you for your compassion, I really appreciate that.

Yet it is not so much about downplaying myself than rather thinking about whether what I did was useful, even necessary. Is there inherent intellectual value in fixing dependency issues? Or is the real value in the actual idea? In the perfect description of the problem? Basically the antithesis to the old-age statement of "Ideas are worth nothing, execution is what counts"?
by MobiusHorizons | 2026-01-10 18:03:03+00:00
> In fact, nearly everything terrible about cars in the last decade can be traced to regulations in some way.

I think the reason we even need backup cameras now is that visibility is so poor on modern vehicles. I think that in turn is due to increasing the height of the bottom of the windows for better airbags. I’m sure it’s great in a crash, but visibility is also a safety concern.

Not all of it is regulations though, but lot of common complaints.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-10 18:03:05+00:00
https://archive.today/mrtnX

Related:

Urban World: Meeting the Demographic Challenge [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513422 - January 2026

Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD) - https://www.lawrencelek.com/works/sinofuturism - 2016

Sinofuturism (1839 - 2046 AD) [video] - https://vimeo.com/179509486 - 2016
by DrammBA | 2026-01-10 18:03:14+00:00
Without getting into your specific injury or sport, what was the biggest change compared to the trainer’s program?

Was it something unexpected like "exercise this seemingly unrelated muscle group that has nothing do with your injury but just happens to reduce pain by 75% for some inexplicable reason"?

Or was it something more mundane like "instead of exercising this muscle every day, do it every other day to give it time to rest"?
by bee_rider | 2026-01-10 18:03:24+00:00
By agenda-driven, I think they mean the commercial operating systems are designed with the intention of improving the uptake of other products and services by the companies that sell them.

I think you are referencing something more like a political agenda. And Linux to some extent, GNU even more so are motivated by a political agenda: user empowerment. It is just… a good agenda.
by limagnolia | 2026-01-10 18:03:25+00:00
Polygamy is a fundamental religious practice by some religions too, but the US Supreme Court already ruled that the government can restrict it. (Though this article is talking about England and Wales... which also don't allow polygamy, so...)

I think it would be better to have the debate on circumcision in the legislature/parliament, but I am not opposed to outlawing it.
by jama211 | 2026-01-10 18:03:49+00:00
“Linux is so easy and great, my mouse didn’t even work and I have it unplugged to this day, and I can’t even play minecraft!” - I use every OS and have arch on my gaming pc (dual booted I’ll admit), but this is both one of the worst articles advocating for desktop Linux and one of the best at the same time, because it shows the harsh truth a lot of people experience and us Linux users don’t even want to admit exists.
by FridayoLeary | 2026-01-10 18:04:06+00:00
What about freedom of religion (and it's a basic, non negotiable religious obligation)? What percentage of adult men resent it, vs those that are happy it was done to them specifically as babies?

(replying to another comment of yours, being born to a religious family or secular one is down to the lottery of life, each child is deprived the lifestyle of the other one growing up, you can decide how to raise your child, what gives you the right to impose your worldview on someone elses child Just because you think it's better? )
by westurner | 2026-01-10 18:04:09+00:00
> According to the company, the H1 replaces traditional resistive heating elements with processors that perform high-value computing tasks, including Bitcoin mining. The heat generated by those processors is captured and used to heat water, allowing the unit to deliver hot water while simultaneously earning Bitcoin.

There are also space heaters and pool heaters that reuse mining rig waste heat.

One vendor, Heatbit, sells space heater air filters that mine at 10-39 TH/s and return $100-350/yr, for from $399-$1249 + annual cost per kWh; /? heatbit https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

One way to heat a pool on the roof with mining or datacenter or other waste heat, is to immerse the heat source in a chip-compatible nonconductive thermofluid and run the pool/spa/hot water through exchange loops.

FWIU, in order to run pool water through an attic to be heated, to prevent water damage you should have double-walled pipes and/or relief trays.

How much to upgrade the TH/s/kWh mining rigs; or, how does the return from mining change over time?

How does the annual cost compare?

Residential heat pumps have electric resistive heating elements to unfreeze the unit. Even natural gas heat pumps do.

How could heat from mining rigs be a source for a multi-source heat pump?

How could a pellet stove be a source for a multi-source heat pump?

How do the efficiencies of these systems compare to the efficiency of infrared wallpaper for heating, for example?
by Haeuserschlucht | 2026-01-10 18:05:30+00:00
That is not conclusive to being able to code. If you don't put yourself out there and your code for judgement, a lack of occupation is no rebuttal of ability.

But if you generalize this by asking, isn't code just a set of descriptions, have you written a tutorial and people used that? Then I would say, yes.

Of if you share some snippet and 1000 people see that and some upvote, are you able to code? Also refer to my other replies in this thread for clarification.
Show HN: ContextFS – virtual file system abstraction for agent context
by mattw1810 | 2026-01-10 18:05:50+00:00
ContextFS is a library that lets you construct a virtual filesystem using a router-style API. It's mountable via NFS or `just-bash`, and useful for providing agents with hierarchical, explorable context defined in code.

// Define file system structure
const vfs = createFileSystem({
issues: {
":id": {
[list]: () => getIssues().map(i => ({ id: i.id })),
[read]: (c) => getIssue(c.params.id).body,
}
}
});

// Mount with NFS
await mount(vfs, { mountPoint: "/tmp/issues" });
await fsp.readFile("/tmp/issues/123");

// Explore with just-bash
const env = new Bash({ fs: new ContextFS(vfs) });
await env.exec("ls /tmp/issues");

Key features:
- Express-style dynamic paths (:id, :slug.md) with full TypeScript inference
- Read and optional write support
- Symlinks to represent relationships
- Browser-safe core library
- Pure TypeScript NFS v3 implementation, no native deps
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-01-10 18:05:57+00:00
I call bullshit on these tests. The baseline doesn't make sense. Software defaults are never minimal (aka bloating) and are designed to scale with hardware. So as faster hardware reaches systems, the core OS still becomes faster but you will never see it when choosing defaults. You still receive baseline OS functioning in faster increments over time. If you tuned these OS installs for performance (no bloating, only core GUI and speed enhancing services) you would reach the opposite conclusion.
by arboles | 2026-01-10 18:06:32+00:00
This summary is definitely useful as I'm a user of Org. I still think backslash escaping is great even, and is a simpler algorithm, which is important when you want to paste text into your org documents from other sources.

You can keep these tricks in mind while writing, but sometimes it's not you doing the writing. It could be pasted text, it could be a machine writing.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-10 18:06:49+00:00
It goes back further even.

The US arguably had bigger guns during the war of 1812, too, but they failed to take the whole continent. The British were on the whole disinterested in fully committing to that conflict, but Canadian territory was only partially conquered (and not held) and that's in large part due the guerilla warfare conducted by highly motivated Iroquois militias fighting alongside the British.

Something about seeing your ancestors and compatriots genocided and their land taken tends to motivate people against all odds.
by steve1977 | 2026-01-10 18:07:12+00:00
Well, that's true. It's an interesting point actually. Windows certainly wins in terms of binary compatibility.

I was thinking more about the developer perspective, i.e. churn in terms of frameworks. Yes, PowerPC is gone. Intel will be gone soon.

But both the transitions from PowerPC to Intel as well as from Intel to ARM were pretty straightforward for developers if you were using Cocoa not doing any assembly stuff.

Carbon only every was a bandaid to give devs some time for the transition to Cocoa.
by tomeraberbach | 2026-01-10 18:07:15+00:00
There are sorta two separate features:

1. Notion-style realtime "autocomplete" for heading and inline formatting Markdown

2. Full Markdown import/export and copy/paste

These features make Docs interoperable with Markdown, but don't make it a Markdown _editor_ in my view.

Anyway, you can enable the features from Tools > Preferences > Enable Markdown
by 999900000999 | 2026-01-10 18:07:19+00:00
It's a catch 22.

The way to make Linux easy to use is basically just to pre-install it and ensure the hardware is compatible.

System 76 does this, and charges 3x as much as other OEMs.

At this point if I'm a consumer ohh Linux is 3x the price.

If you install Linux on a refurbished Thinkpad, most of the time you can get something very nice for 500$ or less.

I often dream, if I had money, of buying and refurbishing hundreds of laptops per year. Installing Linux and giving them out.

Would be better than cities handing out Chromebooks.
by alphadatavault | 2026-01-10 18:07:26+00:00
The most underrated point in this article is using Claude to debug GNOME C source and XDG configurations. For two decades, the barrier to switching to Linux was the 'RTFM' culture and the time-sink of grepping through obscure forum posts from 2012. Having an LLM that can analyze your specific system logs and write custom shell scripts in real-time effectively removes the 'Arch Tax.' We’re entering an era where you don’t need to be a kernel expert to run a custom riced setup; you just need to be able to describe your desired state to an agent.
by hearsathought | 2026-01-10 18:07:44+00:00
If a venomous snake bites you, you die. If you bite a venomous snake, you live.
If a poisonous snake bites you, you will. If you bite a poisonous snake, you die.

Or Hamlet's mother died by drinking poisoned wine. Hamlet died by being stabbed with an envenomed sword.
by bilbo0s | 2026-01-10 18:08:20+00:00
You are shortsighted.

What Trump has proven is that millions of single issue voters can be created on any issue if a political party desires it.

Underestimating this reality will only keep political parties that depend on unwritten rules of decorum from winning more and more elections.

There are now new unwritten rules of election issue decorum now. Which is to say there are no longer any unspoken rules of election issue decorum. I'd strongly urge everyone to acclimate themselves to that reality sooner rather than later.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-10 18:08:23+00:00
The Tacoma is gussied up and not Spartan/repairable as the Hilux. I guess it’s more comparable to the current ranger than the hilux is, I wonder if ford makes a stripped down ranger for the developing world? Are there any Ranger Jeepneys? Maybe the T6? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger_(T6)
by conartist6 | 2026-01-10 18:08:56+00:00
Yeah it can be, but you'd really prefer to know without having to go do an exhaustive search I think. The closer to the root cause you catch the problem the easier it will be to tell what happened. Plus, it's not always easy to run exactly the right tests and to run them at exactly the moment they're needed. I usually won't run the whole test suite on each commit if I'm just doing a rebase, say, but it would still be nice if I didn't sail past a problem that I would later have to retrace my steps to fix.
by MobiusHorizons | 2026-01-10 18:10:15+00:00
And yet I personally know more people who own iPhone minis (myself included) now in 2026 than that own pixel phones of any model. I think the data is distorted by the fact that most people who want things like that also don’t typically buy new (especially with cars). I did buy my iPhone 13 mini from Apple directly, but I bought it after the 14 line had already been released.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-10 18:10:28+00:00
Gentoo with KDE plasma, because I can :)

I don't really recommend this route, but I will say that the experience has been pretty great. Once setup the regular maintenance is just boring update commands. Most days, it's a less than 1 minute affair to get everything compiled and up to date.

Arch would be a pretty equivalent experience as would be using bin packages with gentoo.
by pletsch | 2026-01-10 18:10:51+00:00
Central government would typically be a customer

This is a wrong assumption, it's not that they aren't customers as they'll deal with hundreds of vendors/partners and will benefit from these changes regardless but national cyber & supporting IT agencies (including the UK) are often providers themselves to both other government agencies and private organizations in the country.

This can be anything from running their SOC functions to specialized consulting services to intelligence sharing so the bill is definitely relevant and the exclusion of the govt. doesn't seem to serve a purpose other than saving the budget to implement/maintain their own rules.
by Aldipower | 2026-01-10 18:11:25+00:00
Just an anecdote from yesterday. I got an old Pentium 4 1,5Ghz from a friend, put a Terratec EWX 24/96 soundcard in, installed WinXP, turned automatic updates off and installed a software synth, Native Instruments FM7, connected a midi keyboard via the gameport. Literally 2ms latency and no midi jitter! With an 25 years old setup! And it just works, without any distractions. Really, I almost cried as I saw that. I feel somehow violated by today's Windows11/10/8.
by joshstrange | 2026-01-10 18:12:42+00:00
Agreed, that’s what won me over to Dark Sky. Now I use Carrot Weather and like that a lot, the “it’s going to rain hard in XX minutes” notifications are awesome, especially with a dog. I’ve gotten that notification close to a normal time I’d take the dog out and been able to run him outside before it pours rain for the next hour.
by schmuckonwheels | 2026-01-10 18:13:14+00:00
Maybe I am a bit jaded, but with Apple's yearly OS release cycle — and breaking things nearly every time — I grew sick and tired of software I spent good money or relied on suddenly not working anymore.

Imagine taking your car in for an oil change annually and the radio stopped working when you got it back. It's incompatible with the new oil, they say. You'd be furious.

With the Windows of yore this wasn't so much of an issue — with 5-10 years between upgrade cycles — and service packs in between — you could space it out.

When you work in the computer industry, there tends to be a disconnect with how they are used in the real world by real people — as tools. People grow accustomed to their tools and expect them to be reliable as opposed to some ephemeral service.
by nandomrumber | 2026-01-10 18:13:48+00:00
Did I hear right that some new vehicles are claiming 20,000km service intervals?

I know I’ve seen 15,000 service intervals.

This is the minimum to maintain the warranty for the first 3 / 5 / 7 seven years whatever.

If you change the oil at every 5000k and never turn off a cold engine - all petrol engines have fuel wash down at ignition cut, but much worse when the engine is come - you should expect 500,000+ plus kilometres out of an engine barring any metallurgical problems or manufacturing defects.

Petrol makes a poor lubricant for engines, and fucks engine oil. The less of it in engine oil the better.

Modern engines and fully synthetic oils are way better than the their counterparts from my youth, but 15,000+ kilometres service intervals are less about what engines need and more about what the folks over in marketing need.

Edit: I did see a second hand commercial diesel van recently that had met all service requirements for the warranty period, x number of years or 90,000 kilometres.

This meant it had logged exactly two oil changes since new, and the third had just been done at 90,000.

90,000k on two oil changes. Wild.
by ankit219 | 2026-01-10 18:14:08+00:00
This was always against the terms of service. Took too long to crack down on it.

There seems to be a lot of FUD on how anthropic prices it. but i think many devs and harness builders are intentionally misrespresenting things to build pressure.

API capacity has specific SLAs and the infra is for peak capacity expectation. API demand is notoriously spiky, especially when you don't know who is going to be using it via the third party. At any given time you would have 20%-30% utilization, given the api is mostly used by tools like Cursor who have a system of routing by themselves. For subs, they can use the unused capacity (with high priority to API requests). The marginal cost of a query is not as high especially given kv cache and continuous batching (and with new parallelism techniques). With subs, the number is expected, the concurrency can be modelled, and hence the price per token is lower.

With third party APIs reverse engineering that, it breaks the whole thing in two ways - one more pressure via subs. Claude code rarely parallelizes requests while Cline does it every time (for example). It also cancels out the peak capacity estimation. In a way you could argue that same users doing it via subs woudl have been doing it via api too, but given the pricing differences, not the same. This ends up affecting people legitimately using the subscription.
by heliumtera | 2026-01-10 18:14:21+00:00
Tailwind Labs relied on a weird monetization scheme.
Revenue was proportional to the pain of using the framework. The sudden improvement in getting desired UI without relying on pre-built templates killed Tailwind Labs.

There are many initiatives in a similar spot, improving your experience at using Next.js would hurt Vercel.
Making GitHub actions runners more reliable, stable and economical would hurt Microsoft.
Improving accessibility to compute power would hurt Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
Improving control and freedom over your device would hurt apple and Google.

Why should we be sympathetic to the middleman again?

If suddenly CSS became pleasant to use, Tailwind would be in a rough spot. See the irony?

"Give everything away for free and this people will leave technology", geohot said something like this and I truly appreciate. Technology will heal finally
by birdsongs | 2026-01-10 18:14:44+00:00
I don't understand you describing women's experiences with safety as an edge case. We're half the population. How is that a marginal, edge scenario?

I would never do this solo.

The amount of times solo travelling I have been threatened with rape is not high. But it's way too far from zero for me to ever consider anything like this.

Perhaps to you it's an unnecessarily limited life. I must, however, stick with my real world, lived experience threat model re:safety.

It's bittersweet to both hear how little others understand this, and also to read about experiences I can never have.