MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by araes | 2026-01-11 21:40:34+00:00
Gururu's comment and the quoted text from the article seems like a reasonable possiblity for what's going on.

"we’re developing Intel14A as a foundry node from the ground up in close partnership with large external customers. This is essential to designing a process that meets specific customer requirements and enables us to address a broader segment of the market. Going forward, our investment in Intel 14A will be based on confirmed customer commitments."

That could definitely read that Intel has some customers, and they just don't want to talk about them openly all that much. Lots of possible reasons, depending on who the customers are.

Other thing, personally, is that there's very little ability for "normal" people to request something being manufactured. And at least in part, that probably disincentivizes large customers. It's 1000's of millions of dollars, or it's nothing.

I can't really request a "couple" wafers, or 1000's of chips. Even if I know what I'm doing, and request "just lithography me something" because they require significant upfront Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) & IP integration costs to use Intel's RibbonFET transistors and PowerVia backside power delivery.

Except, even for big people, that's probably still daunting. You can't "try" something. Sign the $1000 million order, or go talk to somebody else. You can't do a "lets try a $million order, or $10 million order, and if we like it, maybe a $1000 million order."

I get that they don't want people to just steal their tech, with some cheapo order, and that below some amount, it's probably more work just trying to even load their files in the machine and print something (even if they know what they're doing). Yet it's probably still a disincentive.

Rumor mill places the wafer cost at $25,000-$30,000 / wafer [1] (which is a whole nother issue with the lack of transparent pricing, ref is a Twitter post...). However, being able to pay double(?) that and get a short run wafer would probably have a larger number willing to "try something". (even if it was, "we'll print what you send, and if it's broken and doesn't work, it's your fault").

[1] https://x.com/zyl19911/status/1876466680169414861

To be fair to Intel, TSMC is basically almost the same. If you're not Samsung / Nvidia scale, they probably don't want to talk with you.
by ricohageman | 2026-01-11 21:41:25+00:00
Built a parking garage occupancy tracker for my city (https://www.parkeergaragesdelft.nl/) after a city council decision on car-free city center policies got delayed due to missing data. The city only publishes real-time availability with no historical record, so I started logging it. The site now shows historical data plus analysis of weekly patterns. (Note: website is in Dutch, but the charts should be self-explanatory.)

Now working on a second tool that monitors public reports on illegal dumping, broken streetlights and more. It tracks how long the municipality takes to resolve them

Lately, I've developed an interest in local politics and started reading policy documents, following city council meetings and even lobbied for a local park. Presenting public data clearly can help shape opinions and keeps the city council accountable, especially important with the upcoming city council elections.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-11 21:41:35+00:00
I really like this idea! I wish I knew other data expression engines for js.

I feel like adding filtering languages into our http endpoints is one of those forever bespoke tasks. This is probably not the right form for tackling that problem, since it is a fairly complex query language & processor and doesn't cleanly map to something we'd use in a URL query string. But it makes me miss odata a little bit. And it makes me wish there were more visible popular options for data expression languages.
by alexmz | 2026-01-11 21:41:56+00:00
This is something I’ve thought a lot about over the past few years. My hypothesis is that the social media “feed” is still a useful and meaningful way for friends to communicate, if you strip out all the junk that comes with traditional platforms (ads, recommendations, constant distractions).

I built an app that I’ve been using with my friends (https://maintain.so/
), and it’s been promising so far. People do seem to post more authentically. That said, I also suspect the FOMO mentioned in the other comment may never be strong enough in a friends-only network to truly replace the FOMO created by larger platforms, where people have years of followers and connections built up.
by fastasucan | 2026-01-11 21:41:56+00:00
>t helped me to have a life goal that was bigger than life, ego, or energy. Maybe you havent found it yet. If you have, I apologize if I sound cocky!

You are incredibly cocky, and naive and have very little insight on other peoples situation. You are reducing peoples various illnesses to something that can be solved if they just tried a bit harder not to be sick. If only it was so easy.
by rdiddly | 2026-01-11 21:41:58+00:00
Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig and Kelly Morrison showed up at the Whipple Federal Building and were initially allowed in, but shortly after, asked to leave and blocked from touring the facility.

What pisses me off about this story is, that's the end of the story. We went in, they told us to get out, we told them they're breaking the law, they said "We don't care," and we realized how cogent and amazing that was, and said "Welp, that satisfies me! They sure did win that argument! Let's skedaddle everybody!" The only acceptable end of the story is that you went around and deputized whoever you needed and went back in there and got what you came for.
by latexr | 2026-01-11 21:42:15+00:00
> Of the regions in the article, which bring window focus

Just did a quick test in a VM, and it seems all of them. I.e. if you could resize the window, clicking that space (even if empty) brings it into focus. But then I also tested on Sequoia and the same happens.

It seems then that basically everything remained the same except for the visual presentation of the corner.
by kergonath | 2026-01-11 21:42:21+00:00
> Most guillotined were commoners [0] - not the wealthy nor the intelligentsia.

The guillotine for everyone was itself an egalitarian idea (I am not saying it really was progress, because the death penalty in itself is atrocious, but...) The status quo before was that the nobles were decapitated with a sword or axe (quick and usually painless death), whilst the commoners were hanged (usually long and very painful). In that light, a quick and painless death for everyone was better.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-11 21:42:45+00:00
> commonly people try to set temp=0 to get "deterministic" or "most factual" output but we all know that is just Skinner pigeon pecking.

Hmm? Given the same runtime, the same weights, and with the model actually giving deterministic output with temp=0, are you saying this isn't actually deterministic? Most FOSS/downloadable models tend to work as expected with temp=0 in my experience. Obviously that won't give you "most factual" output, because that's something completely else, but with most models it should give you deterministic output.
by tombert | 2026-01-11 21:42:56+00:00
I have been running desktop Linux for a very long time, but I actually agree. There's a lot of rough edges. I do think a lot of these problems do go away if you are a bit proactive in choosing compatible hardware. I bought my mother in law a laptop for Christmas, and I put Linux Mint on there [1]. There were no issues getting it working on Mint with Cinnamon, but that's in no small part because I double checked all the common hardware (wi-fi, GPU, trackpad, etc) to make sure it worked fine in Linux and it did.

If you don't do your homework, it's definitely a crapshoot with hardware compatibility, and of course that sucks if you're telling people that they should "switch to Linux" on their existing hardware, since they might have a bad experience.

That said, it is weird that people seem to have total amnesia for the rough edges of Windows, and I'm not convinced that Windows has fewer rough edges than Linux. I've grown a pretty strong hatred for Windows Update, and the System Restore and Automatic Repair tools that never work. Oh, and I really think that NTFS is showing its age now and wish that Microsoft would either restart effort on ReFS or port over ZFS to run on root.

[1] Before you give me shit for this, if anything breaks I agreed to be the one to fix it, and I find that generally I can solve these kinds of problems by just using tmate and logging into their command line which AFAIK doesn't have a direct easy analog in Windows.
by foresto | 2026-01-11 21:43:14+00:00
> I probably chose the wrong distro for this

Indeed. Arch-based distros ought to be reserved for intermediate-advanced users. Linux Mint is better suited to beginners.

> but I really just want the PC to work for playing games without any issues.

If you decide to give it another go, and you have the means, I suggest using an AMD graphics card. Nvidia's drivers are notorious for being troublesome on Linux, and although they can usually be made to work (either by the user or by a distro developer), the drivers for AMD GPUs are much better integrated with the OS.

I switched to AMD a few years ago and have been very pleased with the results, both in games and in non-gaming tasks. (I don't use my GPU for LLM development, though, so I can't speak to the current state of things in that area.)
by MehmetFurkan | 2026-01-11 21:43:30+00:00
Building a 22-service e-commerce platform in Rust (Runs on ~300MB RAM)

I'm 17. For the past 6 months, I've been diving deep into Rust to answer a question for myself: "Is Rust actually viable for complex, enterprise-grade backend architectures, or is it just hype?"

To test this, I built a full distributed e-commerce system (22 microservices, gRPC, Event-Driven) using Axum and Tokio.
This is not meant as “how everyone should build”, but as an exploration of trade-offs.

Some hard lessons I learned along the way:
Complexity vs. Performance: …
The "Memory Shock": … (idle baseline; load benchmarks still in progress)
Over-engineering: …

I'm currently squashing the final bugs…

I'd love to hear from senior folks here: …
by dathinab | 2026-01-11 21:43:32+00:00
my guess?

they lose money on 200/month plan, maybe even quite a bit. So that plan only exist to subsidize their editor.

Could be about the typical "all must be under our control" power fantasies companies have.

But if there really is "no moat" and open model will be competitive just in a matter of time then having "the" coding editor might be majorly relevant for driving sales. Ironically they seem to already have kind lost that if what some people say about ClaudeCode vs. OpenCode is true...
by dpark | 2026-01-11 21:43:39+00:00
It’s like anything else, you’ve got to check the results and potentially push it to fix stuff.

I recently had AI code up a feature that was essentially text manipulation. There were existing tests to show it how to write effective tests and it did a great job of covering the new functionality. My feedback to the AI was mostly around some inaccurate comments it made in the code but the coverage was solid. Would have actually been faster for me to fix but I’m experimenting with how much I can make the AI do.

On the other hand I had AI code up another feature in a different code base and it produced a bunch of tests with little actual validation. It basically invoked the new functionality with a good spectrum of arguments but then just validated that the code didn’t throw. And in one case it tested something that diverged slightly from how the code would actually be invoked. In that case I told it how to validate what the functionality was actually doing and how to make the one test more representative. In the end it was good coverage with a small amount of work.

For people who don’t usually test or care bunch about testing, yeah, they probably let the AI create garbage tests.
by krautburglar | 2026-01-11 21:43:46+00:00
Don Hopkins is the archetype of this industry. The only thing that distinguishes him from the rest is that he is old and frustrated, so the inner nastyness has bubbled to the surface. We all have a little Don Hopkins inside of us. That is why we are here. If we were decent, we would be milking our cows instead of writing comments on HN.
by 8fingerlouie | 2026-01-11 21:43:48+00:00
It does. It uses PhotoKit to access photos, so it basically uses your Apple Photos app (iOS or Mac) to download the photos.

The only scripted solution I can think of that works with ADP is osxphotos[^1], but that also uses PhotoKit, and requires the user to be signed in.

Personally I use PhotoSync [^2] to backup our photos from phones to a NAS. It works reliably, and supports exporting unmodified originals as well as edited versions, and XMP/AAE metadata alongside it.

^1: https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos

^2: https://www.photosync-app.com/home
by metalman | 2026-01-11 21:44:19+00:00
Im working at it from another angle, I live in a rural area, just cam in from putting the horse in her stall while we serinaded by a pack of coyotes in there full glorious madness, but there is no money out here, no nothing except even wilder stuff in walking distance, but now there is cellular internet, and the ability to sell my skills, and even buy stuff on line, and get good enough weather information to plan outdoor work and travel.
But it's making money as an indipendent small business owner on line,that is for me
making the off line, off the grid, off the radar life possible.
So the idea is carry a coyote whacking stick when I am in the woods, and plug in to optimise whatever advatage I can gain* from the truely vast market online.

* a customer told me that when they asked grok where to get a custom shower curtain hanger, it sent them to me, through what must be a result of LLM's realy and actualy eating everything everybody says making the whole idea of bieng unplugged or plugged in
sort of the same.
by cyberax | 2026-01-11 21:44:31+00:00
Sure. And Tesla doesn't have robotaxis at all, they're still playing in the kindergarten league.

So Tesla is in a weird state right now. Tesla's highway assist is shit, it's worse than Mercedes previous generation assist after Tesla switched to the end-to-end neural networks. The new MB.Drive Assist Pro is apparently even better.

FSD attempts to work in cities. But it's ridiculously bad, it's worse than useless even in simple city conditions. If I try to turn it on, it attempts to kill me at least once on my route from my office to my home. So other car makers quite sensibly avoided it, until they perfected the technology.
Show HN: Sprig-config – Spring-like config for Python, layered YAML and secrets
by gigglesx | 2026-01-11 21:44:34+00:00
Hi HN,

I recently moved projects from Java/Spring Boot to Python and missed the clean, profile-driven application.yml magic — deterministic layering, env var expansion, secrets, and easy binding.

So I built sprig-config: a lightweight, Spring-inspired config lib for Python 3.13+.

Features:
- Deep-merge YAML with profile overlays (dev/test/prod)
- ${VAR:-default} expansion + fallbacks
- Encrypted secrets (ENC(...)) with lazy decryption
- Dependency injection / binding to classes/functions
- Import chains + circular detection
- Debug-friendly _meta (source files, resolution graph)

Quick try:

pip install sprig-config

from sprig_config import ConfigLoader, profile

loader = ConfigLoader("config/")
config = loader.load("application.yaml", active_profiles=["dev"])

print(config.database.url) # auto-expands env vars

# Binding example
@profile("dev")
class DbConfig:
url: str = "${DB_URL:postgresql://localhost/dev}"

db = loader.bind(DbConfig)
print(db.url)
by mjr00 | 2026-01-11 21:44:42+00:00
Of course this is true. But you can keep going down the rabbit hole. How do you know there isn't a backdoor hidden in the source code? How do you know there isn't a compromised dependency, maybe intentionally?

Ultimately there needs to be trust at some point because nobody is realistically going to do a detailed security analysis of the source code of everything they install. We do this all the time as software developers; why do I trust that `pip install SQLAlchemy==2.0.45` isn't going to install a cryptominer on my system? It's certainly not because I've inspected the source code, it's because there's a web of trust in the ecosystem (well-known package, lots of downloads, if there were malware someone would have likely noticed before me).

> still running a random binary

Again "random" here is untrue, there's nothing random about it. You're running a binary which is published by the maintainers of some software. You're deciding how much you trust those maintainers (and their binary publishing processes, and whoever is hosting their binary).
by einr | 2026-01-11 21:45:05+00:00
Off the top of my head: Windows Vista was slow and unstable on a lot of hardware of the time due to significantly higher system requirements than XP and a new display driver model that worked poorly at first, had a very polarizing look, and had quite overbearing UAC -- where XP would just let you do the thing, Vista would ask you three times if you're really really sure you wanted to authorize it.

It had decent bones though -- arguably a lot of its bad reputation was due to hardware/third party driver issues and people trying to run it on old hardware that just couldn't hack it. Windows 7 was well received and is basically the same thing with small improvements and some of the UX issues smoothed over (i.e. less annoying UAC)
by AuthAuth | 2026-01-11 21:45:16+00:00
My non technical friend she choose to try installing linux and picked mint. I laughed and I was sure she would brick it at least once but its been over 6 month and the system is still running fine. She did end up dual booting windows because there are a few games which were to hard for her to get setup and some that will never work. I think dual booting is fine its a good pressure release valve as long as you're spending most of the time booting into linux.
by bastawhiz | 2026-01-11 21:45:17+00:00
I think this is kind of a nothingburger. This reads like a standard clause in any services contract. I also cannot (without a license):

1. Pay for a stock photo library and train an image model with it that I then sell.

2. Use a spam detection service, train a model on its output, then sell that model as a competitor.

3. Hire a voice actor to read some copy, train a text to speech model on their voice, then sell that model.

This doesn't mean you can't tell Claude "hey, build me a Claude Code competitor". I don't even think they care about the CLI. It means I can't ask Claude to build things, then train a new LLM based on what Claude built. Claude can't be your training data.

There's an argument to be made that Anthropic didn't obtain their training material in an ethical way so why should you respect their intellectual property? The difference, in my opinion, is that Anthropic didn't agree to a terms of use on their training data. I don't think that makes it right, necessarily, but there's a big difference between "I bought a book, scanned it, learned its facts, then shredded the book" and "I agreed to your ToS then violated it by paying for output that I then used to clone the exact behavior of the service."
by 8fingerlouie | 2026-01-11 21:45:36+00:00
It works well enough, but it's not without flaws either.

The desktop version works reliably, if you can get macOS to keep shares mounted for long enough, and mount them on request. The scheduler is also kinda wonky.

The iOS version has so far never finished an incremental backup overnight of our ~1TB individual libraries. It handles resume/suspend well, but for some reason, while it exports unmodified originals, it doesn't include AAE files, which the desktop version does.

PhotoSync does everything right, with the exception of trying to keep state of what has been exported, which makes little sense as it doesn't support restoring photos.
by Tempest1981 | 2026-01-11 21:45:36+00:00
The roof mount seems very practical, but it's a look that may turn off some buyers... buyers who care about looks.

For SUVs, maybe it could be blended in with a roof air scoop, like on some off-road trucks. Or a light bar.

Where is the LiDAR on the Atto 1? In the grille? How much worse is the field of view?
by layer8 | 2026-01-11 21:45:43+00:00
> Thought process

Given that the language of the thought process can be different from the language of conversation, it’s interesting to consider, along the lines of Sapir–Whorf, whether having LLMs think in a different language than English could yield considerably different results, irrespective of conversation language.

(Of course, there is the problem that the training material is predominantly English.)
by gnabgib | 2026-01-11 21:45:45+00:00
Related: Quake on an oscilloscope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIdiHh6mW58

2017 (322 points, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659172

2014 (859 points, 70 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810857
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-11 21:45:52+00:00
> Thank you. I have thrown printers out the literal window.

I have literally thrown one of those "winmodems" [1] out of the window back in the days. I then went out and drove with my car on it. I then put it in a bench vise until its PCB shattered to pieces. Utter destruction, much to the amusement of my brothers.

These were the days.

And big thanks to GP for his work of CUPS / Linux printing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmodem
by js2 | 2026-01-11 21:46:04+00:00
> Photos on Mac doesn't have an option to download photos directly

Yes it does. It's called Download Originals to this Mac.

https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/use-icloud-photos-pht...

You keep asserting to the contrary, but I've been syncing _my entire photos library_ to my Mac for years, since it was iPhoto even.

Obviously if you have more photos than storage space on a particular device, you cannot synchronize the entire library to _that specific device_. e.g. my photos library vastly exceeds my iPhone 13 mini storage, so on my iPhone, I don't sync everything. But my Mac has 2 TB of storage, and Photos is setup to sync all my photos, and does so, reliably, and has been, again, for years now.

Additionally, unlike with this open source tool, I can keep advanced data protection enabled.
by fastasucan | 2026-01-11 21:47:30+00:00
>ADHD people should be MORE vigilant regarding the correct behavior, rules, habits.

Yes, but that doesn't make the ADHD fully go away.

>actually solvable with typical means without reinventing the wheel.

Yes, and they are defined by medical science, not your "think deeper".

>The fact that life is harder to organize and manage for ADHD people only means that they should pay EXTRA attention to doing right things the correct way.

Wow great insight, a bit hillarious with the part of asking adhd people pay extra attention. Should the guy with a neurological problem just pay extra attention to moving his leg, and he will soon run as fast as the rest?