MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-05 02:44:40+00:00
Without details on what you were using, I can't be certain, but this absolutely is not my experience.

I got started in 2017 with an Ender 3, and extremely cheap printer with a basic set of features. I improved it by adding a bed leveling sensor and flashing new firmware, along with adding a tool steel nozzle and heater, and a 3d printed housing replacement for it's screen which included a place to mount a raspberry pi, running octoprint, to manage it remotely, and a webcam on a stick mounted to the Z rail. It worked pretty good, and building it was fun.

However in the intervening years, I also bought a Creality CR-6 Max, a much larger printer with a built-in bed leveler. It too got a pi and a webcam, but nothing beyond that, and it too worked well. However both those printers required constant maintenance, troubleshooting and overall fiddling. It remained my niche hobby.

I've since upgraded to a Bambu Lab H2D at great expense ($3,200 retail, utterly dwarfing the sub-$500 printers of before) and honestly, it's like a different tech all together. I don't even NEED a computer, really, unless I want to use one: I can find stuff on my phone, download it, and send it to the printer over their cloud service. And no troubleshooting really to speak of, I think I've had like 3 prints that did some weird shit and required a figure or two, but absolutely no comparison to the other machines. And in fact it's so bulletproof that my wife, who is utterly uninterested and frankly a bit hostile to tech, now uses it more than I do. She says it's a slightly trickier version of a Cricut, which is just WILD to me coming from my experiences with the Ender and Creality before it.

All of these are of course FDM printers. I have also played with a Photon Mono X I got from a friend who didn't want to use it with their birds in their home, and that one while requiring more fiddling and more chemicals, is also virtually bulletproof with regard to print quality, and you get better finishes with some tradeoffs (vulnerability to sunlight, figuring out curing vs. over-curing, what have you) which sounds a bit more like what you were dealing with. I could absolutely see that souring your opinion if you started there, that's not a beginner machine IMHO.
by weslleyskah | 2026-01-05 02:45:16+00:00
The US military always seems so focused on projecting a strong image. In these times of impending threats from the East, are there enough incentives for young people to choose the military, even after their studies are finished, over the traditional academic path of college and graduate school?

Also, this reminded me of the WWI documentary from Peter Jackson, "They Shall Not Grow Old", and "Charley's War" by Pat Mills.
by CuylerM | 2026-01-05 02:45:46+00:00
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by fragmede | 2026-01-05 02:45:59+00:00
Did an LLM write this?

...sorry. It's the new world we live in and you're just going to have to get used to it. People are going to get over it eventually, or not, but "You're absolutely right!" and other tells like em—dashes are going to separate the people who care about the thing vs care about AI doing the thing. If I made you dinner, and you ate it, and found it delicious, but I used a microwave to make it, does it make it any less delicious? Now, if I'm telling you I'm a world renowned chef with Michelin stars and have an anti microwave crusade I'm on, and I'm totally a lying liar, that's one thing. But if I'm just humbly making food for a friend, and the question of microwave or not didn't come up, why does it matter if I used the microwave instead of an oven?
by bitwize | 2026-01-05 02:46:24+00:00
When I was a kid, I learned a run-on sentence was a sentence without adequate conjunctions or punctuations to mark and separate the clauses. E.g.: "My wife and I went to a concert we saw The Cure they were terrific." I still have a tendency to write long sentences, but sometimes when I go overboard (e.g., a whole paragraph turns out to be one long sentence) I might break it in two, for clarity. But I don't go to grug-speak extremes.

I think the preference for short sentences in today's prose is a lot like vocal fry among North American women: a deliberate attempt to sound young.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-05 02:46:28+00:00
Is it? The wikipedia article says that regression dilution occurs when errors in the x data bias the computed regression line.

But the stackexchange question is asking why an unbiased regression line doesn't lie on the major axis of the 3σ confidence ellipse. This lack of coincidence doesn't require any errors in the x data. https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/674135 gives a constructed example where errors in the x data are zero by definition.

Unless I'm misunderstanding something?
by toast0 | 2026-01-05 02:46:39+00:00
Wordpress is fine for what it is, but it's also an upgrade treadmill. You can kind of bypass that by letting the php process running wordpress have access to write to the code directory so wordpress can upgrade itself, but then your php process has access to write to the code directory.

A blog is mostly a static site that changes occasionally, a static site genetator is a much better fit. Caveat: comments, but personally, I don't want to moderate, and the WordPress site I administerred for work didn't want comments either (but even with them disabled, somehow new comments and trackbacks got into the database). When I finally got approval to turn our blog into a mostly static site, it was joyous, and the server(s) stopped burning cpu like nobody's business to serve the same handful of pages. We used PHP to manage serving translated blog entries, but it's not that much slower than a fully static file when your PHP logic is dead simple and short.
by makeitdouble | 2026-01-05 02:46:56+00:00
> While a number of articles cropped up explaining what the Showa Hundred Year Problem was leading up to 2025, they passed mostly unnoticed, mere curiosities compared to the major media attention showered on Y2K a quarter century ago. And, in fact, as 2025 comes to a close, I can't find any reports of actual issues stemming from the date change.

This is probably a combination of two things:

- computer people hate with a passion the Imperial calendar. Normal people are already annoyed when they have to do some calculation, in a decade+ spent here I never ever heard of anyone actively wanting to display or handle dates in the imperial/religious system. The only people I ever saw do it were required to.

- people who care the most about the imperial calendar use mostly paper and static data. It will be for printed forms, official announcements etc. The dynamic part will be mostly for this year or next year, and those will be up to date with the current/next area (also the sanest way to handle that is to have a unix date internally and only convert at display/parsing)
by treesknees | 2026-01-05 02:47:01+00:00
Several news sites offer text only versions.

https://lite.cnn.com/

https://text.npr.org/

https://wttr.in/

More listed at https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites

It’d be great if there was some standard that allowed these to be easily found, and supported on the local news sites.
by muzani | 2026-01-05 02:47:19+00:00
They can and often become worse. Look at Saddam Hussein and his family. They were monsters, but the reason they engaged in torture and fearmongering was to keep the other monsters in place.

Collapsed states are the worst, these becomes breeding grounds for organizations like IS.

Most places often hold as failed states and by our standards, they look terrible. Law enforcement doesn't work, so gangs become enforcers. Money doesn't really work either. But it still beats total anarchy and especially anarchy of a region with a lot of natural resources. A few hundred billion dollars of oil may not be much to a country, but it's a hell lot to terrorist organizations who are waiting to come in once the US pulls out.
by benrobo | 2026-01-05 02:49:29+00:00
As a solo founder, I can't afford to hire a designer every time I need an OG image. But I also don't have time to make them myself, and I definitely don't want to code them myself just to get that dynamicness.

So I built RenderOG - a visual editor where you design OG image templates (no code), and then it generates variations automatically based on URL parameters.

The problem: every time you want to change an OG image, you open a ticket, wait days, ship one static image, and guess if it works.

The solution: design once, connect to your data, every shared link renders automatically. Test different visuals instantly. No redeploying, no code changes.

The cool part: design once, generate thousands of unique images. Perfect for blogs, product launches, e-commerce, whatever.

Works with any platform that supports OG meta tags. No complicated setup needed - just paste a URL in your meta tags and you're done.

I've been using it myself and it's been a game changer. No more waiting on designers or spending hours in Figma. Just design a template once and you're set.

It's in private beta. I'm letting a small group of users in to test it. If you want early access, join the waitlist: https://renderog.com

Curious what other solo founders think of it.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-05 02:49:44+00:00
A friend told me he was addicted to running because he literally got high from it. I said, running hurt for me. He said it used to for him too. I asked how long until it stopped hurting. He said 2 YEARS!!!!

There's no way I'm going to run for 2 years on the hope that one day it will stop hurting and get enjoyable.
by blurbleblurble | 2026-01-05 02:49:59+00:00
The US is a shit country. I've been traveling around the world for months now and there's no benefit to living in the US. Cheap gas but no health care, no public transit, no trains, no affordable housing, shitty class relations? American exceptionalism is deluded. The imperialism isn't benefiting the American people quit fooling yourself.
by barrkel | 2026-01-05 02:50:31+00:00
This would be more credible if it stuck to computational primitives and didn't bring in "reasoning" or "decision manifold".

Stick to the math, and make an argument that the hardware behaviour drifts outside documented bounds, taking into account the existing non-determinism in the system, e.g. CUDA thread atomics, or batch sizes and layouts if you're layering concurrency on top.
by german_dong | 2026-01-05 02:50:49+00:00
"Tremendous societal cost" is putting it uncharitably. My country was
built on the financial incentivization of patents. I can think of
several economies with an open disregard for patents, even some where
the state assumes ownership of all innovation, and I'm happy I live in
one where IP hoarders like The Walt Disney Company continue to thrive.
Show HN: A Android Color Detection Auto Clicker with no full-screen ads
by dopifier | 2026-01-05 02:52:44+00:00
Hello, everyone!
I created a Android auto clicker called "Dopifier"

which can set color detection and set variable. Which is a high customization auto clicker app.

Currently, it is free full-screen ad.

I have some demo here which auto plays SD gundam gen g eternal

I set the script to resolve $5000 mission automatically:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2sTrH00bXY

also the daily mission/action:
https://youtu.be/vmXF9w5rfIw

The stage repeat demo:
https://youtu.be/Un2aIPicn_4

You can recording the script, then go to image gallery to inspect more color point to choose in trigger condition in event page.

But there is the chance to get ban using Assistive Tool. Please take your own risk.

if you have any question do not hesitate to ask me.
by robocat | 2026-01-05 02:53:27+00:00
> I now find it impossible to put up with boring people (which is basically everybody who has time to sit around chatting, almost by definition).

You're being judgemental to call them boring - and to widen your opinions to be a "definition" sounds like an unhealthy worldview. You likely appear boring to others.

Then again I have a saying I use when anyone says they are bored - I say they are boring!
by tacticus | 2026-01-05 02:54:01+00:00
1 is a well known issue with onedrive.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/3863319/...

> onedrive is that bad

guess what. Onedrive is that bad. this is far from the first situation i've seen with this pattern.

the microslop devs are doing great work pushing people off windows.
by MisterMower | 2026-01-05 02:55:06+00:00
I gave you a predictive model, and I challenge you to prove it is incorrect. Nations do what they want irrespective of international law. If they can write it to align with what they wanted to accomplish anyway, they will. Otherwise they ignore it.

Go touch grass, brother. Life is more than models. Most things in life really aren’t that complicated. People do what they want and make up the reasons for why they did what they did as they go. It’s basic human behavior at the state level.
by dabluecaboose | 2026-01-05 02:55:08+00:00
I was told when I worked at Philmont Scout Ranch that they had a pure herd.

Other than that, I know Steven Rinella listed a few pure herds in his (excellent) book [1] on the American Buffalo, but I'd have to dig it out to find them for you.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/American-Buffalo-Search-Lost-Icon/dp/...
by maxkfranz | 2026-01-05 02:55:29+00:00
Agreed. Meditation can be excellent. It took quite a bit of practice for me to benefit from it, but it was certainly worth it.

To put it in terms that this crowd would appreciate, it's like garbage collection for the mind. It may not feel productive in the short term, but the longer you go without it, the more you can be weighed down.

Meditation is a preventative for burnout.
by aed | 2026-01-05 02:56:44+00:00
I went digging through some old folders out of curiosity and I still have things I wrote in middle school and high school. (Not code, although I was starting with HTML at the time but that's lost to Geocities.)

Anyway, a bit of an indirect answer to your question but I found a paper I worked on in November 2000 (when I was a junior in high school). The work cited is below. None of the links still work. It could have been completely plagiarized and no one would know!

Fast Facts – Ancient Rome’s Coliseum. 21 Nov. 2000. The History Net. <http://www.thehistorynet.com/HistoricTraveler/grandtour/0996...>

Gladiator. 21 Nov. 2000. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. <http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,37695+1+3...>

Gladiators. 21 Nov. 2000. The Roman Empire. <http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Stage/3591/gladiators.html>

Gladiators. 21 Nov. 2000. <http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Fountain/5832/gladi...>

Scott, Ridley, dir. Gladiator. Perf. Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Harris, Connie Nielsen, and Djimon Hounsou. Dreamworks, 2000.

Haggard, Cristin. Roman Entertainment, Vicious or Victorious? 21 Nov 2000. <http://www-relg-studies.scu.edu/projects/fal96/1300pm/~chagg...>

Lee, Eugene and Justin Strickland. Roman Gladiators. 21 Nov. 2000. <http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/7917/menu.html>

Meredith, Karen. A Contempt for Pain and Death. 21 Nov. 2000. <http://www.omnibusol.com/ancadd2.html>
by kettlecorn | 2026-01-05 02:58:24+00:00
I write notes that are very explorative and rambling on some topics. Like I have probably 100+ pages of notes on programming language design where I use my notes as more of a working memory than a cohesive document. In other cases I'll do competitive market analysis by looking at most products in a category and scrawling down first impressions, strengths, and weaknesses.

In some cases yes I'll synthesize that myself into something more coherent. In other cases an LLM can offer a summary of certain themes I'm coming back to, or offer a pseudo-outsider's take on what the core themes being explored are.

If something is important to me I'll spend the time to understand it well enough to frame my own coherent argument, but if I'm doing extremely explorative thinking I'm OK with having a rapid process with an LLM in the loop.
Show HN: CloudSlash – Find AWS waste and generate Terraform state rm commands
by drskyle | 2026-01-05 02:58:35+00:00
We've all been there: You find an unused NAT Gateway costing $45/mo. You delete it in the AWS console to stop the billing immediately. But the next time you run terraform plan, it fails because of state drift. Now you have to manually run terraform state rm or import it back to fix the drift. It's tedious, so often we just leave the waste running.
I built CloudSlash to automate the cleanup and the state surgery. It’s written in Go (using BubbleTea for the TUI) and solves two engineering problems:
1. Finding "hollow" resources (the graph). Most cost tools just check CloudWatch metrics (CPU < 5%). That creates too much noise. Instead, I build an in-memory graph of the infrastructure to find structural waste. Example: An "Active" ELB. It has healthy targets, so metrics look good. But if you traverse the graph (ELB -> Instance -> Subnet -> Route Table), you might see the Route Table has no path to an Internet Gateway. The ELB is functionally dead, even if AWS reports it as "healthy."
2. The state mapping. Deleting the resource in AWS is easy. The challenge is mapping a physical ID (e.g., nat-0a1b2c) back to its Terraform address (e.g., module.vpc.aws_nat_gateway.public[0]) so you can remove it from the state file programmatically. I wrote a parser that reads your local .tfstate, handles the complex JSON structure (including nested modules and for_each outputs), and generates a remediation script.
It outputs a shell script (fix_terraform.sh) that runs the necessary terraform state rm commands for you. It never writes to your .tf files directly—it just hands you the script to review and run.
The core logic, scanner, and TUI are open source (AGPLv3). I charge a one-time license for the feature that auto-generates the fix scripts for developers , but the forensic analysis/detection is free.
Repo: https://github.com/DrSkyle/CloudSlash
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-05 02:59:00+00:00
> Trump also promised US oil companies would move into the country and warned the US would stage a second attack if needed.

> He also said the US would sell oil to other countries.

> Venezuela's government described the attack as an attempt to seize "Venezuela's strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals" in an attempt to "forcibly break the political independence of the nation".

Wait did Trump just admit that the US has effectively enslaved Venezuela as a resource colony? I find this threat to attack them again for oil to be completely immoral. But what happened to the stopping drugs narrative? Even that changed from stopping fentanyl to stopping cocaine. Just two weeks ago Rubio and Hegseth lied to Congress when they said their involvement in Venezuela wasn’t about regime change. What consequences should these people face?
by cyberax | 2026-01-05 03:00:23+00:00
Russian is much more conducive to long sentences because it's highly inflected. Adjectives have to agree with the nouns, and verbs can carry the grammatical gender and person markers. So long-winded descriptions fit really well into the flow of the text.

It just feels more artificial and self-indulgent in English. As if the author wants to show off how well they can string together longer sentences, and it's up to you, the reader, to keep up with the magnanimousness of the author allowing their readers to glimpse upon their greatness.

Chinese novels are on the other side of the spectrum. The sentences simply can't be very long and but often don't have any connecting words between sentences. The readers have to infer.
by Rendello | 2026-01-05 03:00:36+00:00
There's also disulfiram (branded as Antabuse), which impedes your body's ability to fully break down alcohol. If you drink, you basically get an instant devastating and hangover (which can even kill you). Apparently it's proscribed in conjunction with naltrexone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfiram
by cbracken | 2026-01-05 03:01:20+00:00
While most developers may dislike the imperial calendar, all of my bank/brokerage statements display dates using it, as do tax/pension forms. It's definitely still in heavy use for some very important data.

On a similar note, I recently requested a list of historical transactions from a brokerage and found that transaction dates continued to be annotated as Heisei all the way through Heisei 36 (2024), a full 5 years after Heisei officially ended in Heisei 31 / Reiwa 1 (2019). Late in 2024, transactions finally started being annotated Reiwa 6.
by brunoborges | 2026-01-05 03:02:18+00:00
> This makes it critically important that you, the software engineer, understand the purpose and real world usage of your software. Your job isn’t to complete tickets that fulfill a list of asks from your product manager. Your job is to build software that solves users problems.

You actually described the job that Product Managers _should_ be doing: "understand the purpose and real world usage of your software".
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-05 03:02:32+00:00
But that's a different setting. Consent for Linkedin to show you my email does not imply consent for my email to be exported into a third party list.

Again, I think you'd benefit from researching the Cambridge Analytica scandal to understand what's going on here. There was a time when social media worked according to the intuition you're describing, where you should be able to export from the platform any information you can see on the platform, and it led to results that the public and regulators really did not like. Companies like Cambridge Analytica were able to build detailed profiles on Person X, without Person X's consent or knowledge, simply because Person Y who happened to be friends with them agreed to share data with a Facebook quiz. So now that's not how things are done.
by sdenton4 | 2026-01-05 03:02:35+00:00
I'm in historicals! And I mess around with 3d printers!

The big difference in the historical wargame space is that there's no way to trademark Alexander the Great. Anyone can make the minis, whether it's a small-but-awesome company (Victrix! Wargames Atlantic!) or a dude with a 3d printer. As a result, there's some separation between people who write rules (which you can buy as books or PDFs) and people who make minis. The people making minis actually compete on price and quality, and we get fsck'ing awesome minis for ludicrously low prices as a result. Victrix is often $1-$2 per mini, often about a tenth of the price of GW.

I use an fdm printer for terrain, which is a complete game changer. It has none of the problems of resin, and you want big stuff for terrain and care a bit less about layer lines. It's awesome.

The only problem is that only a small corner of the miniatures wargame world plays historicals. :)

(So feel free to ping me if you're in sf/East Bay and want to roll dice sometime.)