MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MORPHOICES | 2026-01-05 14:07:01+00:00
What skills compound after 10+ years? (Ask HN: Submission)

I've come to realize that not all skills can stand the test of time.

Some things were very useful initially but quickly plateaued. Some felt like they were moving at a slow speed, but were quietly compounded a year after.

I always return to a rough outline.

Quickly acquainted with tools, frameworks, and specific stacks.

Slow skills: judgment, problem framing, communication, taste.

The gradual changes are often unnoticed daily but become apparent over time.

Projects become unclear.

Pile up constraints.

Being right is less important than the trade-offs you make.

I’d be interested to know what you think.

Which skills were more useful than you anticipated?

What’s something you over-invested in early on that didn’t compound?

What would you choose to learn more slowly if you had a second chance? ~
by apavlo | 2026-01-05 14:08:34+00:00
> Am I living in a bubble?

There are rumblings that the MySQL project is rudderless after Oracle fired the team working on the open-source project in September 2025. Oracle is putting all its energy in its closed-source MySQL Heatwave product. There is a new company that is looking to take over leadership of open-source MySQL but I can't talk about them yet.

The MariaDB Corporation financial problems have also spooked companies and so more of them are looking to switch to Postgres.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-05 14:08:52+00:00
They could also potentially write their latest address to the Ethereum blockchain instead, assuming there is a client that could scan and resolve. This would be bulletproof.

Nation-state hackers deliver malware from "bulletproof" blockchains - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860258 - November 2025
by paulahightower | 2026-01-05 14:08:56+00:00
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by hackthemack | 2026-01-05 14:09:17+00:00
Ross Perot in 1992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRr60nmDyu4

We have shipped millions of jobs overseas, and ... a strange situation, we have a process in Washington where after you serve for a while, you can cash in, become a foreign lobbyist.

We have got to stop sending jobs overseas.

You're paying 12, 13, 14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the Border, pay a dollar an hour for your labor, have no health care. That's the most expensive single element making a car. Have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement and you don't care about anything but making money.

There will be a giant sucking sound going south.
by MORPHOICES | 2026-01-05 14:09:39+00:00
Why do distinct systems end up having the same look?

I am often surprised to discover different systems that arrive at the same shapes.

You will find it in nature, but also within.

N/A

Organizational charts.

Patterns of traffic.

Ways to Fail.

Despite different inputs and histories they all yield the same outcome.

I use a mental model of sorts.

Local regulations and limits.

Consistent application of weight.

In the end, only a handful of stable shapes endure.

I'm curious now.

Are we overestimating the uniqueness of our systems?

What design patterns to use in your product?

Have you taken note of shapes showing up in different domains time and again? ~
by dmantis | 2026-01-05 14:09:42+00:00
I still don't get how to bypass a theoretical block, you need to access at least one of the current major relays or a side channel to find a follower, only аfter that you can re-translate the new set of relays. The autosub is good, but IMO the current major operators have an Elusive Joe situation because nostr is very small. Things will change as soon as people with money and government connections see it as a problem.

I totally agree with the Wikipedia argument though.
by olieidel | 2026-01-05 14:09:52+00:00
That won't work, for multiple reasons:

- I assume you're referring to founding a UG with 1€ in Germany. If you truly found it with 1€, it'll technically be bankrupt shortly after founding it because the founding costs are around 1k€ (notary etc.), and you haven't made any revenue yet. It's generally recommended to found with at least 2-3k€.

- 10 days is not a reasonable timeframe for founding a German UG. Optimistic timeline: Instant notary appointment, 14 days for corporate registry, instant bank account, 14 days for tax ID. Total of 28 days.
by phkamp | 2026-01-05 14:09:59+00:00
All the examples you bring up are from an entirely different time in terms of hardware, a time where one of the major technological limitations were how many pins a chip could have and two-layer PCBs.

Ideas can be good, but fail because they are premature, relative to the technological means we have to implement them. (Electrical vehicles will probably be the future text-book example of this.)

The interesting detail in the R1000's memory model, is that it combines segmentation with pages, removing the need for segments to be contiguous in physical memory, which gets rid of the fragmentation issue, which was a huge issue for the archtectures you mention.

But there obviously always will be a tension between how much info you stick into whatever goes for a "pointer" and how big it becomes (ie: "Fat pointers") but I think we can safely say that CHERI has documented that fat pointers is well worth their cost, and how we are just discussing what's in them.
by ozlikethewizard | 2026-01-05 14:10:02+00:00
Have some experience with NA but assuming functionally the same, and there isnt a set threshold. If you are unable to stop taking a substance in any circumstance that is negatively impacting you then you are considered and an addict. Whether thats just every Friday night or every day. Its the inability to stop that makes you an addict rather than the frequency. Tbh i didnt get on with it at all, waaay to goddy for me but I appreciate the work they do for people.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-05 14:10:17+00:00
In those meetings, ask the director when you're going to start replacing directors with AI.

(I mean, this is terrible career advice, but it would point out the problem. Either AI is good enough to replace directors, or it isn't. If it is, then their jobs go too. If it's not, then it's probably not good enough to replace a lot of other peoples' jobs. But the problem is, the directors think that their jobs are so hard that they can't be done by AI, but everyone else's jobs are easy.)
by moogly | 2026-01-05 14:10:20+00:00
He is not causally connecting "AI" with industry and manufacturing here. Building data centers isn't manufacturing. He says in this piece that energy production needs to come first, and manufacturing later and not the other way around. Is he saying that AI will require building out energy production and the increased energy production will be used for... manufacturing? But it'll be used for the data centers.

What, exactly, is the kind of manufacturing he's envisioning AI will bring? He's not saying. Is it perchance weapons systems? It's weapons isn't it[1].

That will only make sense if we go back in time a few decades and some assholes instigate more wars and global destabilization, because manufacturing weapons and stockpiling them is pretty pointless and resource ineffective otherwise. We know this from before.

Or is he saying chips? So is he against offshoring all chip manufacturing to TSMC? That's basically been a huge part of continued security guarantees (if you can call them that when they are unproven), and also he's Taiwanese isn't he? I don't get it.

Now, one of my errors here could be that I'm trying to make sense of the things Jensen Huang says, because he rambles incoherently quite a lot, after all, to such a degree I am not sure he's "entirely there".

[1]: https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4370464/se...
by Noaidi | 2026-01-05 14:10:39+00:00
Alan Dye ruined everything at Apple, no idea how he clung on for so long. You know he designed the horrible ios7 as well?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSzjcVZXolc

https://tjkelly.com/blog/ios-7-sucks/

And he also takes credit for the dynamic island. It is an assault on my senses to see everything constantly moving around on my screen.

I have been working with Macs since 1995, but this year is my first using Pixel with GrapheneOS, that is how done I am with Apple. Unfortunately I know the UI will not change for years and I just could not take it.
by freedomben | 2026-01-05 14:10:45+00:00
From reading the article and having listened/read a lot from Jensen and his ilk, I feel pretty comfortable saying the "we" is referring to the system we have built in the US. Basically the era of free trade. He and Trump and that group generally think we made a mistake by allowing free trade, and the solution is to "force" that away with a mix of taxes (tariffs), laws, incentives (subsidies/grants/etc) and others.

This is a summary FTA, not a direct quote from Jensen, but it's a pretty good one IMHO:

> In a recent speech, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outlined his plan for bringing manufacturing jobs back to America: force companies to build AI infrastructure in America.
by adamgordonbell | 2026-01-05 14:11:17+00:00
The book "All the Colors of the Dark" has a plot line around rare purple honey being a sort of treasure map to a place in North Carolina. I thought it was an odd made-up plot point.

I guess it turns out it was not.

Despite not liking that part of the plot, it was a beautifully written book, that permanently changed some of my reading habit's.
by zahlman | 2026-01-05 14:11:31+00:00
> Understood, but that is not what SO represented itself as. They called themselves a Q and A site, not a wiki of fact-checked information.

At the beginning, even Atwood and Spolsky didn't really know what "a Q&A site" is. They didn't have a precedent for what they were making; that was the point of making it. Even Quora came later, and it's useless now because they didn't get it.

It turns out that a Q and A site actually fundamentally is pretty close to "a wiki of fact-checked information", just with Qs as a prompting and labeling mechanism. (Which really isn't that surprising; if you've seen e.g. science books for children in Q&A format, you'll notice the Qs are generally unrealistic for children to ask. I remember one that was along the lines of "is it true you can get electricity from a lemon?", used to introduce a description of a basic copper-zinc battery cell.)

By 2011 or so, at least Atwood had figured this out, and was publicly blogging to explain it. By 2014, a core group of users clearly grasped the idea, but was still struggling to figure out what kinds of close reasons actually keep questions on target (and were also struggling with a ton of social issues in general).

> Right now, the only description of the SO site is on stack-exchange

Not true. https://stackoverflow.com/tour
by bonesss | 2026-01-05 14:11:46+00:00
You’re not accounting for what the example actually does.

The example provides exception conformance at the API level and specific logging information for tracing and debugging. It’s not playing games, it’s simplifying details for upstream consumers and explaining their contribution to the issue, while being explicit in its intentioned failure modes and failure behaviour.

This code cannot tell callers why the callers have sent it garbage or what to do about that, it is failing and explaining why.

Throwing “invalid : bad user id” is substantively different than rethrowing “index out of bounds : no string character at index -1”. The wrapped exception has all the original detail, its just unified and more descriptive.
by pityJuke | 2026-01-05 14:12:57+00:00
Did you even read his comment?

> The vast majority are against the regime, just like me, although many aren't aware of how dangerous Trump is, or the things he's done in the US. To me, Trump isn't so different from Chávez: he insults those who disagree with him, he doesn't respect institutions, he installs his people in positions of power, and he only cares about loyalty. That's why I'm in a very complicated position, because on the one hand, I want this dictatorship to finally end; on the other hand, I don't like Trump. He's quite capable of trying to establish his own dictatorship in his country. He's not doing this just to liberate us; he's doing it because he has his own interests.

> What Trump and Marco Rubio has said about the situation is worrying, because they make very obvious that their priority it's the oil and democracy seems more like an afterthought.
by dleary | 2026-01-05 14:13:00+00:00
> Melodramatic slop from the original edgy school shooter.

This is a very arrogant, judgemental, dismissive comment that adds nothing to the conversation.
It is also a textbook example of ad hominem. “Why are you paying attention to what that guy said?”

> There are plenty of technologies that increase freedom. […For example. Smallpox vaccine…]

If you think that Kacynski or OP were talking about all technologies then you lack reading comprehension. Since they’re not making the assertion about all technologies, holding up a specific technology as being good does not address the point that was being made.

> from the original edgy school shooter.

Regardless of your views on Kacynski, he is a philosopher of note. His work is regularly quoted and referred to 30 years later. As opposed to, say, Bin Laden’s manifesto.

> Melodramatic slop

It’s ironic that you chose this phrasing, when “slop” has come to mean “low effort, low quality content pushed out without much thought”.

How humiliating for you, to put your foot in the mouth in front of everyone in this distinguished forum. This isn’t Digg, or even Reddit. Put some thought into what you write.
by bluGill | 2026-01-05 14:13:06+00:00
Data centers provide jobs. Not as many as manufacturing, but the difference isn't as large as you would guess. A modern data center needs 50-100 people to repair/replace hardware, maintain the generators and such. A modern factory needs 200-500 people to do the assembly, shipping, and other such work that isn't automated.

Of course if labor is cheap you can use a non-automated factory and then you will have 2000-10000 people needed. However those are not coming back to the US (or Europe).
by short_sells_poo | 2026-01-05 14:13:06+00:00
That's "just life" unfortunately. By the time most people reach their mid-30s, they accumulate enough commitments that they have to plan things in advance or they just don't happen.

If a friend turned up randomly and unannounced at my door and asked if I want to go to the pub, they have the following barriers to overcome:

I'm out for 10 hours a day during the work week and I'm asleep another ~8h. In the remaining 6h I want to go to the gym, I have to eat, I have to run errands, I have to spend time with my wife and in the remaining time I might just want some alone time. Odds are I'd have to turn my friend away, which would make me feel bad, even though I'd have gladly joined him in the pub if I could plan for it. And I have no kids! If I had kids, the odds are even worse.

We all wish we could be back in our 20s when we had all the freedom and none of the commitments, but the truth is that for 95% of people this isn't possible. When you are in uni (or fresh out), you have all the time and energy, but (generally) no money. So you can spend a lot of time with friends who are in a similar position. By mid-life (30-55), you have money and energy, but no time. And in your winter years, you have money and time, but no energy left.

In each of these phases, you can try to go against the flow and experience friction all the time, or you can try to make the most of it and adapt.

If you absolutely desire the freeform approach you describe, perhaps you need to step up and establish the clubs and spaces you'd like and select for members who have a similar desire.

Most spaces in cities have to cater to the lowest common denominator, and simply wouldn't be able to function without strict scheduling rules. It'd be patently unfair if the 20 year old uni student hogged the equipment when you turn up for your 2 hours of free time that you planned a week in advance, wouldn't it?
by freedomben | 2026-01-05 14:13:17+00:00
In quite a few places in the rural US (especially the mountain west), people are asking for that. Those companies usually build out a lot of needed infrastructue (power, water, even roads) as part of the deal, and it provides job opportunities (a ton up front, and some (though fewer than many people realize[1]) in perpetuity).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498947
by diagrammode | 2026-01-05 14:13:43+00:00
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by 15155 | 2026-01-05 14:14:02+00:00
What about it is false?

- Illegal immigrants make the choice to come to the United States for financial enrichment: jobs, handouts. Are you disputing this?

- The United States has a notoriously weak social safety net relative to other countries: this is not a disputed fact.

- We do not have an unlimited amount of resources: sorry, this is reality, not socialist fantasyland.

- Most US citizens do not cover their overall per capita government tax expenditures: illegals certainly don't.

Illegal immigrants are absolutely a net-negative financial, quality-of-life drain on society at large.
by andrew_lettuce | 2026-01-05 14:14:19+00:00
This is so arbitrary and incredibly naive. How did you come to with 300M, why not 300k or 300 billion? How would you determine the worth of rare, illiquid or intangibles? What about wealth held in trusts or companies? How does the accounting work if I borrow against my wealth? What happens when things change value dramatically in a short period of time? And the government is going to "make billionaires whole again" if they crater their wealth?
by phkamp | 2026-01-05 14:14:34+00:00
I huge factor in iAPX432 utter lack of success, were technological restrictions, like pin-count limits, laid down by Intel Top Brass, which forced stupid and silly limitations on the implementation.

That's not to say that iAPX432 would have succeeded under better management, but only to say that you cannot point to some random part of the design and say "That obviously does not work"
by necovek | 2026-01-05 14:14:59+00:00
Ever since I first tried a modern Mac (around the time of M1 MacBook Pros with Max coming out: work mandated, or I wouldn't), I could easily see inconsistencies all around the system, and could never get to grips to why people cling to the belief that it has consistent, simple UI. It was as inconsistent as GNOME (which I mainly use), and sometimes more so (though this could be my personal bias, since I've used GNOME since before 2.0 days, so 2003 or so -- though, I'd note that 2.x series was significantly more consistent, especially with Sun-contributed GNOME HIG, than 3.x still is).

Not to even mention hardware support, as I had a lot of issues with Realtek external USB network devices randomly disconnecting (and they are in many USB-C hubs, including inside USB-C monitors), with no such issues under Ubuntu.

I imagine there is some history around MacOS being similarly much better in the past, but I've never seen anything great about MacOS UI/UX in comparison to GNOME.

I do like their performance and battery life, but the "shells" it's stuck in also sucks (until recently, only glossy screens; shallow keyboards with sharp palmrest edges; either heavy or passively cooled; no touchpad buttons...). Putting some of this hardware into a new Thinkpad X1 Carbon case would be amazing, though I'd want to run Linux on it.
by goatlover | 2026-01-05 14:15:22+00:00
Everyone in this country regardless of their status is still guaranteed due process by the Constitution. The Venezuelans and Abrego Garcia sent to CECOT was done without due process and in violation of a Federal Judge's orders. Not to mention CECOT is a horrible prison.

I think it's cruel and inhuman to deport people already here unless they're engaged in criminal activities. Most of them are hard working people who gave up everything to flee bad circumstances in their home countries. We're a nation of immigrants.

You want the border secure, fine (I would prefer immigration reform since we have a large country and tons of economic opportunity migrants fulfill). But don't be so cruel as to support what ICE is doing to hard working people who have established lives here. Most of them are not criminals.
by MORPHOICES | 2026-01-05 14:15:32+00:00
Would you block time for nothing?

My thinking is clearest when I am not working. It tends to be when I am: - Seated in a neutral place - My inbox is closed - There are no tasks to work on - I am free to think It feels like I am not doing anything, but often I’m making decisions I won't regret.

I think of it like this: - Input (reading, meetings, slack, other activities) - Output (creating, writing, executing) - Integration (doing nothing but thinking) Most calendars are packed with no time for the third.

Do you leave space for this? How do you make sure it’s not taken up by work? ~
by ChoGGi | 2026-01-05 14:15:57+00:00
Yeah, our Premier is doing her best to be as lobbyist as she can, if it ain't American oil n gas she doesn't care.

I'm stupid, so I still haven't figured out how both of these petitions were approved, other than she really wants a referendum on separation.

https://www.thealbertan.com/innisfail-news/forever-canadian-...

https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2026/01/02/citizen-petition-on...
by goku12 | 2026-01-05 14:16:04+00:00
Well! Not really a surprise, is it? We knew that DNS censorship was coming sooner or later. The real surprise is that it lasted so long. X509 (TLS) PKI is also probably being abused right now. We know how differently the administration sees services like these that are actually beneficial to humanity. Choosing to rely on services like DNS and PKI exclusively for the function they provide is a very bad idea going forward for us normies.

We should have considered these centralized and corporate driven core infrastructure components as interim measures while more independent alternatives were being developed. We have a few different alternatives right now. Can't we just choose one and switch over? (something not based on blockchains.) Something like GNU Name System, may be?

PS: They will probably block the IP if Server hold/DNS block is not useful anymore. That's a different problem though.