MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Leftium | 2026-01-31 00:23:06+00:00
There are forms of state that are reversible: essentially, you store read-only events instead of writing to existing state.

The main disadvantages are more complexity and performance issues.

Examples:

- Event sourcing: https://youtu.be/8JKjvY4etTY

- CRDT

- At the DB layer: https://www.datomic.com

- You can also do it at the code level (but this is more like keeping copies of the old state): https://immerjs.github.io/immer
by zahlman | 2026-01-31 00:23:28+00:00
> Here’s the current price of silver.

Not shown on the chart (and which couldn't have been predicted at the time of writing) is today's crash of almost 30% in that price.

Speculative bubbles happen. The narrative of people losing faith in currency made no sense, because that should pump the prices of durable commodities as well, if not instead of precious metals.
by throwaway9996 | 2026-01-31 00:24:26+00:00
First off, the US does not nor will it ever have a dictator in power. Secondly, we have the first amendment which ensures that opposition is not silenced. These loose applications of the term "fascism" just don't hold water. They come off as vituperative and childish virtue signaling disconnected from reality. Opening the gates to the nation and letting in a bunch of low skilled laborers does not meaningfully advance technology nor the GDP, nor does it advance the creative output of the country. Yet, here we are, playing cleanup on four uninterrupted years of mass migration. It's one thing to have a soft spot for people escaping worse situations, but it's another to destroy the quality of life in your own castle to support an obstinate counter-productive principle that, at least in front of people of similar mentality, makes you "feel" like a "hero." We are a country of laws, if you want law enforcement to behave differently, change the laws. Harboring an endless consternation that sows discord and effects no change in policy or posture is some weird, demented, emotional friction that grinds the gears without resulting in motion. People do jobs to get paid. If you want a different outcome, change the incentives. Publicly shaming people because they work a job and have an obligation to their employer, or because they work for the government and have an oath and a duty to their countrymen, is perhaps the least desirable transformation of frustration into action. Most nations have cultures and policies that are simply incompatible with the values we grew up with in the West. To have an infinite inclusivity policy with no consequences for circumventing the law is virtue signaling and peak derangement at its finest. Calling people fascists because they engage in behaviors you personally would not engage in, and encouraging violence against them, is the mark of a failed education, and can be a view held only by those who have not traveled.
by jaybrendansmith | 2026-01-31 00:24:31+00:00
Ahh, now it's clear. He was a boy scout and a choir boy and an ER nurse. A truly good person. But somehow he was an "unhinged criminal" trying to protect a woman. According to who? ICE? Kristi Noem? Liars and fascists, my friend. Take a look in the mirror and then read "Common Sense" to educate yourself about why this country was founded, and what it means to be an American, because you seem lost.
by pojzon | 2026-01-31 00:24:59+00:00
Im using Claude daily. Mostly delegating boring stuff I can do myself but its a waste of my time now.

I store my prompts, so I know I often run the same task multiple times over weeks span.

After working with it for pas half a year I have to say the quality pf responses is steadily going down.

Feels like cost optimizations. Overall the worse it performs the more stuff I have to do myself, because I won’t waste time tweaking instructions every time it happens. It wpulf waste too much of that time.

So seems we are swinging back the pendulum.
by fjordofnorway | 2026-01-31 00:25:04+00:00
> I dont think AI even factors in to this.

I think another way to look at the expansion of the capitalist economy is the onboarding of people into entry day jobs and transitions of economies upward..

AI may have relatively little to do with the US' tantrums yet I think it has a lot to do with the end of expansion and a fast contraction of the availability of top jobs as the last economies enter the middle of the funnel can't be good.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-01-31 00:25:29+00:00
"Fed independence" has always been kind of a ruse. The theory is Congress would want to print money so they can spend it, so you need someone whose job it is to not do that. But then Congress just borrows the money instead, which forces the Fed to respond to keep interest rates where they want them, with the result that they still end up de facto printing trillions of dollars at the behest of Congress.

To some extent the "independence" is even worse, because the Fed has limited ways it can respond to what Congress does and "long-term cause individual debt to get completely out of hand" is one of their primary effects, which is pretty bad and plausibly worse than inflation having been slightly higher over the same period.
by drnick1 | 2026-01-31 00:25:47+00:00
Alternative: Run your own server so that you can have as many mailboxes/aliases as you want. Give each webiste, company, or even person a different alias. The moment you receive spam, revoke the alias, and optionally name and shame spammers.

Some email providers and postfix also allow the creation of dynamic aliases of the form user+alias@example.com.
by krapp | 2026-01-31 00:26:15+00:00
A fork of Godot optimized for native apps would be a good idea. Especially if it learned the lessons of the web stack and used basic text-based formats for describing layout and theming (like HTML and CSS). Maybe something like QT. Something simple, flexible and portable that's as easy to use as Electron but doesn't require lugging around a 60mb Chromium instance for every application.

Some work would need to be done improving text rendering, layout and to add more GUI elements. Probably a lot of stuff removed from the backend that isn't necessary (apps won't need physics or lighting, probably.)

I made a basic theme loader for a project ages ago based on the config file format because dealing with theming and fonts was a pain at the time. Nothing novel, it was just a dictionary that had node paths as keys and set values. It is possible, I don't know why Godot makes some things more complicated than they need to be.
by haunter | 2026-01-31 00:26:47+00:00
To some extent I wish there was a bookmarking / note keeping service with snapshots and context based (local LLM?) search solving this.

My main problem with bookmarks / notes that I forget about them. I don't need a bookmark keeping service, I need one which would bring them forward when I look for something, based on context too. Something like which also makes a plain text searchable snapshot of the page.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2026-01-31 00:26:53+00:00
Play Protect blocks malicious apps, not network traffic, so no, it obviously doesn't interfere with Google's apps.

AFAIK it also left SmartTube (an alternative YouTube client) alone until the developer got pwned and the app trojanized with this kind of SDK, and the clean versions are AFAIK again being left alone. No guarantee that it won't change in the future, of course, but so far they seem to not be abusing it.
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-31 00:27:09+00:00
> the US government has laws against using gold as currency

I don't think that's true, or I can't find any evidence of it. If you want to buy a car and the seller agrees to accept 50 gold coins instead of $100,000 cash, that is perfectly legal. Hell, the US makes currency out of pure gold that are currency at face values of $5-50 (but the gold in the coins is worth 100x more than the face value).

Are you talking about the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 and Executive Order 6102? That banned private ownership of gold and demanded that citizens turn in their gold. But it was lifted in 1974.
by gwern | 2026-01-31 00:27:12+00:00
A discount they get to set on a subset of miles of their choice may just be a marketing expense for an insurance startup which makes losses and relies on VC capital and needs growth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade,_Inc.#2015%E2%80%9320... I was impressed by this until I looked Lemonade up.
by orionblastar | 2026-01-31 00:27:24+00:00
When I was young, for my birthday, I was given a Casio LED Calculator. My father said it was a crutch because then I wouldn't be able to do math in my head, and I wouldn't always have a calculator with me. Now they have iPhones with built in Calculators and even ChatGPT. I saw a video of a 3-year-old using an iPad and ChatGPT for everything, and couldn't even read. ChatGPT read for him. I read that 40% of the kids can't read at their grade level because they use ChatGPT for homework and in school.

Steve Jobs kept his children away from iPhones, iPads, the Internet, and TV. He said something about the way it affects their brains. https://www.uniladtech.com/apple/controversial-reason-steve-...
by swed420 | 2026-01-31 00:27:43+00:00
I still primarily come for the tech/hacker vibe, but also understand and accept that continually hitting snooze on important political items will threaten my future ability to enjoy the former.

I also respect the fact that this is run by an SV incubator and everything that entails. Out of all the discussion platforms, this one is still the most sane, for now. Moderation is a thankless job, and they do a pretty good job with that around here compared to all of the alternatives.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-31 00:28:04+00:00
If that was true they would have let incentives for new energy infrastructure (which can be net positive, given energy is a national level concern), draw down in a way that didn't disrupt/destroy existing investment.

You can alter forward looking policy sensibly in a day. But you can't redline years of cooperative investment on the same day without destroying tremendous value (of the kind you claim to be working toward), credibility and trust.

I am baffled that performative flailing gets interpreted as progress, with such thin narratives.

The deeply counterproductive actions taken ostensibly to increase US investment in manufacturing are more of the same.

The destruction of valuable US research and capabilities, in the name of fiscal responsibility, only to continue fiscal irresponsibility is more of the same.

The destruction of diplomatic and defense alliances and influence, in the name of being stronger, is more of the same.

The private masked army roaming cities, harassing people with low relevance to their purported purpose, in the name of making the country safer: more of the same.

They all involve some truth, and then loud damaging counterproductive execution. Unless loud chaos is value.
by zahlman | 2026-01-31 00:29:07+00:00
> The USD is already down 15% this year compared to the Euro.

It's down 12% since a year ago, but that's largely a reaction to the tariffs. It's been fairly stable since July or so and has only seen a small dip (and partial recovery) in the last couple of weeks.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/USDEUR=X/
by junto | 2026-01-31 00:29:37+00:00
I’ve been through several recessions.

Painfully I’ve learnt that you want to work in an industry that is largely recession proof.

Focus on industries that sell things that people need and will try to keep buying right down to their last buck.

Food, utilities, insurance. People don’t like sitting in the dark. People need water. People need to eat. People really don’t like living without insurance cover or to let cover lapse.

They don’t need Netflix, Disney+ or Prime. They don’t need Spotify. They don’t need training or e-learning. They don’t need luxury goods. They don’t need new motor vehicles. They don’t need holidays. They don’t need new iPhones or new computers.

Try and move now to an industry that has some security.

Investment wise diversification is key. Just pray that it doesn’t get so bad that banks start to fail.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-31 00:30:27+00:00
There's a lot going on here and it's not just the price going up and then going down (see my other comments). Basically, the entirely silver market is dysfunctional at the moment. And it's all about bailing out banks who are getting wiped out by the silver rally.

So when you sell silver at a pawn shop or to a retail dealer, here's what happens in a normal market. You get an instant price, 5-10% off spot hopefully. That dealer then takes that silver and sells it to a refiner in higher volume with a lower margin (to spot). That's their profit. Refiners will convert that silver into bars and sell it to wholesalers and institutional buyers.

But instead what's happening is the refiner needs to hold onto the silver for 7-14 days before it gets smelted and processed. With high volatility, they're not paying out the dealers until it's processed and sold. That's a huge cash flow problem. Instead of instant money, it's money in 2 weeks and you have no idea how much money.

So the retail dealer has to wait and it could be 20% lower or 20% higher in the current market so instead of 5-10% they eitehr have to offer 30%+ less than spot price if they buy it at all. That money tied up has an opportunity cost.

Combine this with a shortage of physical silver to deliver on futures contracts and the refiners aren't really getting the silver they need to satisfy that demand.

So the spot price is fake. Nobody's buying anyway. Low wholesale supply means the prices continue to go up. Banks are haemorrhaging money because they have huge short positions. They have to borrow silver to meet their obligations and the silver lease rate (the price to borrow silver for a money has like 10x'ed) and this is where we are.
by kevincox | 2026-01-31 00:30:36+00:00
Because unless your TTL is exceptionally long you will almost always have a sufficient supply of new users to balance. Basically you almost never need to move old users to a new target for balancing reasons. The natural churn of users over time is sufficient to deal with that.

Failover is different and more of a concern, especially if the client doesn't respect multiple returned IPs.
by jdub | 2026-01-31 00:31:51+00:00
Weeeeelllll...

Post-CFEngine (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform) and cloud platform (CloudFormation) infrastructure-as-code is over a decade old.

Docker's popularisation of containers is just over a decade old.

But containers (and especially container orchestration, i.e. Kubernetes) are still entirely ignorable in production. :-D
by fasbiner | 2026-01-31 00:31:54+00:00
I really appreciate this comment. So much of marketing is "puffery" or based on what would be best for the app creator for the audience to believe. Sometimes that lines up with reality, sometimes it doesn't.

In this case the marketing copy seems more like creator wishcasting or living in the past. I've fallen into this trap before too, of creating things as if AI was a secret in my basement and not something of intense focus by a plurality of 20 million+ software developers. Rarely does a technology landscape change so fast.

How you're framing it is helpful as well. Instead of saying "this already exists (so you shouldn't do it)", I think it's valuable to highlight what a competitive space this is. The creator will need to think hard about what they can do to differentiate their offering in 2026, both in marketing and functionality.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-01-31 00:33:23+00:00
> If it autonomous or self-driving then why is the person in the car paying for the insurance? Surely if it's Tesla making the decisions, they need the insurance?

Suppose ACME Corporation produces millions of self-driving cars and then goes out of business because the CEO was embezzling. They no longer exist. But the cars do. They work fine. Who insures them? The person who wants to keep operating them.

Which is the same as it is now. It's your car so you pay to insure it.

I mean think about it. If you buy an autonomous car, would the manufacturer have to keep paying to insure it forever as long as you can keep it on the road? The only real options for making the manufacturer carry the insurance are that the answer is no and then they turn off your car after e.g. 10 years, which is quite objectionable, or that the answer is "yes" but then you have to pay a "subscription fee" to the manufacturer which is really the insurance premium, which is also quite objectionable because then you're then locked into the OEM instead of having a competitive insurance market.
by imchillyb | 2026-01-31 00:33:41+00:00
My observations:

The calligraphic font is antithetical to the theme of your app. The apps colors and ux suggest playful. The font suggests school marm, which is it?

The app itself doesn’t differentiate itself enough to stand out on first use as unique. What does this provide over other similar platforms? How is this different?

The space you’ve chosen is highly competitive. Most of the big players bear a unique signature from ux down to the syllabus they teach.

I applaud you for sharing with us. Sharing here takes grit. Good fortune with your endeavors mate.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-31 00:33:56+00:00
This is a prime example of being confidently wrong. As another commenter put it (paraphrased) if you think a few Tiktokers can move the global silver market then you're a deeply unserious person.

There are fundamental issues driving up silver prices in the last 6+ months, capped off by China instituting strict export controls starting January 1, 2026, which has further tightened supply.

This is a short squeeze, just like Gamestop from a few years back. Banks hold huge short positions, the prices keep going up, the exchanges are intentionally trying to bail out by the banks by crashing the market and no retailer is actually buying silver for a bunch of reasons I went into more detail about in other comments on this thread.
by icedchai | 2026-01-31 00:34:01+00:00
Yep, I've seen a couple of folks pretending to be junior PMs, thinking they can replace developers entirely. The problem is, they can't write a spec. They can define a feature at a very high level, on a good day. They resort to asking one AI to write them a spec that they feed to another.

It's slop all the way down.
by ajross | 2026-01-31 00:34:52+00:00
Literally the whole economy has "over-raised its fundamentals" though. Not everyone is going to fail in exactly this way, but (again, pretty much literally) everyone is exposed to a feedback-driven crash from "everyone else" that ended up too exposed.

We all know this is a speculative run-up. We all know it'll end somehow. Crashes always start with something like this. Is this the tipping point? Damned if I know. But it'll come.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-31 00:35:08+00:00
You can sell jewelry for the same price as the equivalent weight in whatever purity of precious metals it is and I specified same weight in the parent comment. They won't be the same price originally, but that's not particularly germane to this discussion of whether there should be a sales tax on one vs the other.

And for what it's worth, people buy things for different reasons. It's very common for Indians to explicitly value jewelry as a wealth store (among other reasons), to give one example.
by rainonmoon | 2026-01-31 00:35:43+00:00
Yeah, I’m fully in support of a decentralised web but the internet is old enough now that being naive about this stuff has become equivalent to being maliciously incompetent. Without designing for things like community or self-governance and moderation, you’re designing for trouble. Thinking about ways to healthily cultivate a peer-to-peer web doesn’t make someone a Nazi, it makes them a responsible member of a community.
by keithluu | 2026-01-31 00:38:02+00:00
I always thought my problem was my notes being scattered and disorganized. But reading this post made me realize something. I don't need better organization for the random links or braindumps I collect over time. Because I rarely actively revisit them. Usually That happens thanks to reminders, or when I need references for something I can't find anywhere else. So I think your action engine idea is sound.

To answer your questions:

1. Retrieval. 90% of my notes never get touched the second time, and I can't remember them at the right time.

2. On my head + a simple task list I made.

3. Hallucinations and pricing.
by BizarroLand | 2026-01-31 00:38:41+00:00
Fortunately they would have to repeal the 22nd Amendment to allow that dingdong a third term

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
by tikhonj | 2026-01-31 00:39:41+00:00
> crystal clear software development plan and the exact know-how to implement it

This is simply not how expert programmers work. Programming is planning, and programming languages are surprisingly good planning tools. But, of course, becoming an expert is hard and requires not only some general aptitude but also substantial time, experience and effort.

My theory is that this is a source of diverging views on LLMs for programming: people who see programming languages as tools for thought compared to people who see programming languages as, exclusively, tools to make computers do stuff. It's no surprise that the former would see more value in programming qua programming, while the latter are happy to sweep code under the rug.

The fundamental problem, of course, is that anything worth doing in code is going to involve pinning down a massive amount of small details. Programming languages are formal systems with nice (well, somewhat nice) UX, and formal systems are great for, well, specifying details. Human text is not.

Then again, while there might be a lot of details, there are also a lot of applications where the details barely matter. So why not let a black box make all the little decisions?

The question boils down to where you want to spend more energy: developing and articulating a good conceptual model up-front, or debugging a messy system later on. And here, too, I've found programmers fall into two distinct camps, probably for the same reasons they differ in their views on LLMs.

In principle, LLM capabilities could be reasonably well-suited to the up-front thinking-oriented programming paradigm. But, in practice, none of the tools or approaches popular today—certainly none of the ones I'm familiar with—are oriented in that direction. We have a real tooling gap.
by mrandish | 2026-01-31 00:40:14+00:00
Yeah, I full-stopped on that sentence because it was just so bizarre. I can understand making a counter-to-reality claim and then supporting the claim with context and interpretation to build toward a deeper point. But he just asserts something obviously false and moves on with no comment.

Even if he believes that statement is true, it still means he has no ability to model where his reader is coming from (or simply doesn't care).
by chrisjj | 2026-01-31 00:40:20+00:00
> The original term Normalization of Deviance ... the process in which deviance from correct or proper behavior or rule becomes culturally normalized.

Is it even meaningful to think of correct or proper behavior in a program that's an inherently random and unpredictable word predictor? It is not as if these programs' creators can ever have expected them to work reliably.