MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hpscript | 2026-01-24 02:26:16+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the creator of Flux.

I love Python's productivity for AI/ML, but I've often been frustrated by the "Python tax" — that overhead you pay when orchestrating many small operations or running tight loops outside of C++ kernels.

I started Flux to see if we could have a language that feels like Python (indentation-based, clean) but lives natively in the Rust ecosystem. Unlike Mojo, which is its own massive ecosystem, Flux aims to be a lean, Rust-powered alternative that might eventually allow seamless blending of high-level ML logic with Rust's safety.

It's very early (experimental!), but it already handles basic tensor ops and Python interop. I'd love to get feedback on the syntax and whether the "native orchestration" approach resonates with you.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-24 02:28:39+00:00
You know...

Many artists through the ages have learned to work in various mediums, like sculpture of materials, oil painting, watercolors, fresco or whatever. There are myriad ways to express your visual art using physical materials.

Likewise, a girlfriend of mine was a college-educated artist, and she had some great output in all sorts of media, and had a great grasp of paints, and paper and canvas and what-have-you.

But she was also an Amiga aficionado, and then worked on the PCs I had, and ultimately the item she wanted most in life was a Wacom Tablet. This tablet was a force-multiplier for her art, and allowed her some real creative freedom to work in digital mediums and create art with ease that was unheard-of for messy oil paintings or whatever on canvas in your garage (we actually lived in a converted garage anyway.)

So, digital art was her saving grace, but also a significant leveler of playing fields. What would distinguish her original creativity from A.I.-generated stuff later on? Really not much. You could still make an oil or watercolor painting that is obviously hand-made. Forgeries of great artists have been perpetrated, but most of us can't explain, e.g. the Shroud of Turin anyway.

So generative A.I. is competing in these digital mediums, and perhaps 3D-printing is competing in the realm of physical objects, but it's unfortunate for artists that their choices have narrowed so far, that they are practically required to work in digital media exclusively, and master those apps, and therefore, they compete with gen A.I. in the virtual realm. That's just how it's gonna be, until folks go back to sculpting marble and painting soup cans.
by zie | 2026-01-24 02:30:26+00:00
Generic Openpilot out of the box is just super nice cruise control right now. So it can do longitudinal and latitudinal control. So it lane keeps, stays behind the car in front of you, etc.

If you use Sunnypilot or one of the other friendly forks, you can do more, but it's not (currently) to the state of Tesla's FSD.

Personally, I recommend buying it if you do a lot of road trips. It's amazing for that. In/around town it's only useful if you have a lot of stop and go traffic, like if you live in LA or other large car-centric city with a big commute.
Customer growth is slow. Who do I talk to?
by alance | 2026-01-24 02:30:28+00:00
Hacker News! Hive of the world's most cunning start-up minds! Lend me your ears and delicious brains.

I've been running a SaaS app for the last 5 years or so. But customer growth has been slow. Last year was a good year - the best yet, but I'm not getting any younger, and these fancy yacht parties aren't going to throw themselves:

Sign-ups:

2023: 102 new companies joined the free plan, 12 converted to paid plan

2024: 125 new companies joined the free plan, 6 converted to paid plan

2025: 129 new companies joined the free plan, 19 converted to paid plan

So 129 companies installed the app on the free plan last year, 19 of them became paying customers. Maybe that sounds like a lot? But the year before only 6 and the year before that, 12. So it's a bit wibbly wobbly.

Looking for a better way to get this into the hands of developers and sre/devops teams. The feedback I get is (overwhelmingly) positive, everyone bloody loves it - and there's almost zero churn - I just need to get it in front of the right eyeballs.

I've had some google ads going on and off for years. They appear to be useless and expensive. I've also dabbled with reddit and linkedin ads with little impact. But I reckon my target audience probably has ad-blocker anyway.

It's a bit of a niche - a Slack/Discord app for helping teams take turns with their tech (mainly servers/services/hardware/docker containers/staging environments in particular) and there are rather a lot of SEO experts on the web who may or may not be broadly helpful, but I think at this stage I need specifically helpful.

Who can I talk to? What do I focus on?

Anyway. This is a good problem to have. But I'm just a bit stuck.

(ps: it's sort of damned if I do, damned if I don't mention the app, let's just say it helps you call dibs on various things via Slack and Discord commands)
by vee-kay | 2026-01-24 02:30:37+00:00
Next time there is a mass shooting or terrorist bomb blast in your neighborhood, I hope you can look at a poster of Proton VPN on your bedroom wall, and feel safe.

And then when you find out the police are going door to door to investigate the terror attack, you should start distributing printouts of an ad of Proton VPN urging locals on how to evade police/government scrutiny via Proton VPN.

See how that works out for you. You will be arrested as a terror sympathiser.

No surprises why.

It's because terrorists use VPNs to evade scrutiny, and the last thing that any respectable company or civilian should be doing is to openly associate themselves with terrorism, which is what Proton has done.

Proton (or any legitimate company, for that matter) has no business doing subversive activities in terror sensitive areas like J&K. If they do, then they need to face the repercussions.

https://tfipost.com/2026/01/profit-over-people-proton-vpn-ge...
by sforza78 | 2026-01-24 02:30:50+00:00
Here's a manual work around I found that's been working for many users, please refer to this GitHub discussion for more information where I originally posted it - https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866#issue... : my message - "I was getting compacting issues like everyone else here. I was able to manually trigger compaction by doing this: on the most previous message that went through and prompted a response from Claude, resend this chat, for me Claude rewrote this message then on the next one (the message that previously had a compacting issue) I typed /compact at the beginning and Claude then compacted the message. Not sure if this was just by chance or if /compact actually did something. Hope this helps someone else"
by andrekandre | 2026-01-24 02:30:57+00:00
> But I do remember when Kotlin broke on to the scene in 2015, and most of us were thrilled to finally move beyond Java 7!

n=1 but i was there with android studio v0.01 (or thereabouts) using kotlin for a production app cause i was so sick of old-java + eclipse... google was asleep at the wheele imo and android development would be nowhere near where it is today without jetbrains
by nailer | 2026-01-24 02:31:36+00:00
‘Nexus’ is vague. The page is specifically asking founders to participate in YC’s program and showing founders that participated in YC’s program. Altman’s company Loopt failed - Altman went on to work on OpenAI and YC Research allegedly pledged money: we get it, but that’s not the typical YC founder experience, and it wasn’t Sam’s experience with Loopt.

In addition YC Research didn’t send their pledged funds to OpenAI:

https://archive.ph/20230518211335/https://techcrunch.com/202...

> According to federal tax filings, at least one of the named donors, YC Research, never gave a single dollar
by kibbul4 | 2026-01-24 02:32:11+00:00
Is that a genuine question? Of course they're not going to bother responding to some antagonistic rando on X.

I get that it's distasteful, I just really don't care. It's not a big deal. Why do you care? If they post doctored photos for a giggle to slightly humiliate criminals or degenerates, why is that such a scandal in your eyes?
by BeetleB | 2026-01-24 02:32:14+00:00
It's the principle.

I get that you think it's not a major inconvenience, but if I now throw yet another (pointless) popup for you each time you install an app, are you OK with it?

When I install something on my PC (Linux), I never get such a prompt. If any Linux distribution started giving a prompt on each install, power users will stop using it.
by guyfromfargo | 2026-01-24 02:32:24+00:00
I have one of these and I really enjoy it.

No it’s not FSD. There is no navigation at all, you’re correct that it’s “just lane assist”. But the lane assist is next level.

I take a few 1,000 mile plus road trips every year and the comma pays for itself every time. Using the stock lane assist, I’m constantly correcting it. The stock assist tries to take an exit, doesn’t handle curves well at all, and any construction or unusual road conditions it won’t work at all.

With the Comma, on the highway it’s basically FSD. On my last 1000 mile trip I never had to disengage, only to pass and make turns.

The biggest advantage is Comma allows you to be completely hands off the wheel. Where lane assist forces you to hold the wheel at all times.
by defrost | 2026-01-24 02:34:35+00:00
People in democratic countries, the UK, Australia, Canada, the US at the very least, have been embracing vaccines in the majority since the days of peak polio.

Throughout that time the majority have been aware that vaccines are there for the major risks location by location .. some vaccines are only useful if you're travelling to an equatorial hotspot for example.

Vaccine hesitancy hasn't come about because of democratic thinking, it's grown

* because anti vaxxers have had the means to amplify their message via social media,

* because fear of COVID created a fertile ground for that message ... AND

* a small group of quack medicine grifters put a substantial amount of effort into creating almost all the ground zero anti vaccine memes, messages, misleading statistics, "just asking" thought lines etc.
by mrandish | 2026-01-24 02:34:39+00:00
> Korg satisfies both ends of this spectrum in its different products.

I thought you were going to say the Korg Legacy Collection was the "other end". https://www.korg.com/us/products/software/korg_collection/le...

It's basically every synth Korg ever made up to around 2005 (about 20 in all) as software plug-ins capable of playing the original presets and patches. It even includes all the presets and optional patch library cards and expansions Korg ever offered for each (often worth more than the synth itself).

Some of the greatest albums of all time (and several of my personal favorites) were primarily made with these. And they take zero space, need no maintenance and patch instantly into all my other gear with no ground loops, sampling hiss or MIDI timing issues.
by testfoobar | 2026-01-24 02:35:13+00:00
Really impressive tech. I don't understand the insurance ramifications of installing and using this system.

Comma's website links to a 7 year old reddit thread: https://comma.ai/support#will-my-insurance-cover-my-car-with...

As a driver, if in an accident, could someone reasonably assert that you were not paying attention?
by grantmuller | 2026-01-24 02:35:49+00:00
> There's no objective anchors. Because we don't have objective truth. Every time we think we do and then 100 years later we're like wtf were we thinking.

I believe I'm saying the same thing, and summing it up in the word "evolutionary". I have no idea what you're talking about when you suggest that I'm perhaps "one of those people". I understand the context of the thread, just not your unnecessary insinuation.

> Formula IS a metaphor... I wrote "formula or fixed law" ... what do you think we're talking about, actual math algebra?

There is no "is" here. There "is" no formula or fixed law. Formula is metaphor only in the sense that all language is metaphor. I can use the word literally this context when I say that I literally did not say anything about a formula or fixed law, because I am literally saying there is no formula or fixed law when it comes to the context of morality. Even evolution is just a mental model.
by cpgxiii | 2026-01-24 02:38:18+00:00
Because "brand new" doesn't mean devoid of context. Within your domain, there will still be common libraries, interfaces, and tools.

C++ is very flexible, with a lot of very mature tooling and incredibly broad platform support. If you're writing some web server to run on the hardware of your choosing, then sure, that doesn't matter. But if you're writing something deeply integrated with platform/OS interfaces, or graphics, or needs to support some less common platforms, then C++ is often your only practical option for combining expressiveness and performance.
by tison | 2026-01-24 02:38:21+00:00
We have discussed these in previous blogs:

1. Insight In No Time: https://www.scopedb.io/blog/insight-in-no-time

2. Manage Data in Petabytes for an Observability Platform: https://www.scopedb.io/blog/manage-observability-data-in-pet...

That is, Snowflake follows a traditional data warehouse workflow that requires extenral ETL process to load data into the warehouse. Some of our customers did researching of Snowflake and noticed that their event streaming ingestion can not fit in Snowflake's stage-based loading model - they need real-time insights end-to-end.

Apart from this major downside, about leveraging S3 as a primary storage, Snowflake doesn't have adaptive indexes, and its performance would be significantly degraded as data grows and queries involve a large range of data + multi-condition filters when the simple minmax index can't help.
by adastra22 | 2026-01-24 02:42:29+00:00
Unironically yes. If you file a bug report, expect a Claude bot to mark it as duplicate of other issues already reported and close. Upon investigation you will find either

(1) a circular chain of duplicate reports, all closed: or

(2) a game of telephone where each issue is subtly different from the next, eventually reaching an issue that has nothing at all to do with yours.

At no point along the way will you encounter an actual human from Anthropic.
by arantius | 2026-01-24 02:42:45+00:00
What prevents it is that the web in 2026 is very different than it was when OG pagerank became popular (because it was good). Back then, many pages linked to many other pages. Now a significant amount of content (newer content, which is often what people want) is either only in video form, or in a walled garden with no links, neither in or out of the walls. Or locked up in an app, not out on the general/indexable/linkable web. (Yes, of course, a lot of the original web is still there. But it's now a minority at best.)

Also, of course, the amount of spam-for-SEO (pre-slop slop?) as a proportion of what's out there has also grown over time.

IOW: Google has "gotten worse" because the web has gotten worse. Garbage in, garbage out.
by wing-_-nuts | 2026-01-24 02:43:41+00:00
I mean, just like with a Tesla, the driver is responsible for the actions taken by the car, which means you do need to be paying attention, hands on the wheel, ready to take over at all times.

We don't yet have the legal framework to say 'Sue company x, it wasn't my fault!' You get sued, then you have a very uphill battle to turn around and try to sue the company that provided the 'self driving' functionality because companies put all sorts of 'I totally accept liability for using this' in the T&C of their products.
by idibiks | 2026-01-24 02:43:47+00:00
Oh, I agree. I think it more likely than not that we have invented a combo of technologies that produce an environment in which liberal democracy cannot exist outside maybe smallish countries with tight controls on incoming media from outside (so, also fairly tight foreign capital ownership rules).

The medium is the message, and I think the “message” of the global Web + social media + (now) generative AI may not include liberal democracy.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-24 02:45:18+00:00
> the fatal error was not combining the array dimension with the array pointer; all it needs is a little new syntax a[...]; this won’t fix any existing code. Over time, the syntax a[] can be deprecated by convention and by compilers.

You're thinking in decades. C standard committee is slower than that. This could have worked in practice, but probably never will happen in practice. Maybe people should start considering a language like D[1] as an alternative, which seems to have the spirit of both C and Go, but with much more pragmatism than either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)#Criti...
by nandomrumber | 2026-01-24 02:45:22+00:00
The subsidies given to private individuals and business for roof top solar would have been better off used to build grid scale solar. You get more solar per dollar spent.

Australia silent have around global average electricity costs, we should be a case study in providing the cheapest electricity, given we have the worlds largest known solar reserves (ha!), the worlds largest known deposit of uranium, and we export about the same volume of LNG as Qatar. And there’s the iron ore, the zinc, lead, aluminium, copper, gold.

Why settle for average.

No.

Every Australian citizen should receiver a cheque every quarter for their share of the revenue generated from the proper management of our natural resources.
by idibiks | 2026-01-24 02:47:45+00:00
It takes two to tango, and the cop can stop the life-threatening chase at any time, without causing a wreck.

Causing the speeding car to go out of control is also not a great thing for public safety, and does kill and cripple people who are in no way involved in these chases. We have jurisdictions with no-chase rules and it doesn’t seem to cause some hypothesized explosion in crime. It is in-fact ok to not do them, as satisfying as they might feel.
by Herring | 2026-01-24 02:49:21+00:00
Maybe recheck how exposed your country is. It's really bad for Canada, since ~77% of all Canadian goods exports are headed to the US. It will take a long time for them to diversify. Same with Mexico and Taiwan, and to a lesser extent Vietnam and Ireland.

Honestly as an American I'm just happy to see some open talk and movement by world leaders. This breakdown has been clear for at least 10 years, maybe 20 if you're smart, but nobody did anything. I hope Europe can learn to work with China here. I don't think the whole system is dead, they just need to find other dance partners.
by alance | 2026-01-24 02:49:31+00:00
Good question. So one change I made last year was to cap the number of queues the free account could utilize. It's sort of hard to know for certain if that was what moved the needle though.

There has been a suggestion that maybe the free plan could just be a time-limited trial instead.

But it feels like there is some risk associated with that - as often a customer will use the free plan for (eg) six months, before hitting the limits and becoming a paid account.
by thedeep_mind | 2026-01-24 02:50:40+00:00
Built this satirical tool.
Borderline AI slop, but still found myself chuckling at the output, thought I would share with the community.

Tools like lovable have come a long way.
This silly website has a full backend, AI Integration with Gemini-3-flash, and pulls in actual data.

All with just 3-4 prompts, and the free daily limit on the platform.
by pixodaros | 2026-01-24 02:50:57+00:00
No, that article has one paragraph which frets that if Medicare drives down drug prices in the USA, pharma companies might cut R&D spending, and might get less new drugs (note the conditional and hypothetical). A colleague in biomedical research says that its just a common misconception that R&D costs drive drug prices eg. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-071710
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-24 02:51:33+00:00
It would seem that one elephant in the room, so to speak, is the fact that vaccine manufacturers are actually virus manufacturers. Until the mRNA type of vaccine was perfected for COVID-19, the making of any given vaccine meant that the factory must culture and grow massive trillions of colonies of viruses, then weaken or kill them to be used in vaccines.

Chicken eggs, among other things, have been contentious lately for this reason: the pharma market demands them in large quantities to nourish and grow viral cultures, and meanwhile, hens were being genocided because of the "bird flu epidemic". So there was a rather unspoken market tug-of-war between consumers wanting eggs to eat, and pharma needing eggs for vaccine manufacture.

Regardless of their safety once inside a human body, I believe that any anti-vaxxxer worth their salt, if they are intelligent beings of science, would understand that it is morally questionable and ethically problematic for any nation to be constantly manufacturing and stockpiling trillions of dangerous viruses.

I, B1FIDO, HAVE SP0KEN!!1
by amiga386 | 2026-01-24 02:51:40+00:00
Fun fact: the background image is the "BallsMany" pattern included with MagicWB for the Amiga

(To confirm: download the LhA archive from https://aminet.net/package/util/wb/MagicWB21p then open the archive in 7-zip, extract Patterns/BallsMany then load into an ILBM viewer, e.g. https://www.retroreversing.com/ilbm )
by onecommentman | 2026-01-24 02:52:43+00:00
I’ve always thought the hippie protests in 1968 are what guaranteed Nixon his second term. It provided an “other” whose appearance to the majority was so off putting/repulsive that, even during an unpopular war, they were willing to re-elect Nixon just to attempt to purge the National consciousness of the buffoonery presented as the Left (and actually was, to some extent). The Democratic Party was only able to reclaim leadership when they found an anti-hippie (Jimmy Carter, Navy nuclear sub guy) as a spokesperson. Democrats who continue, and who will continue, to struggle under the anti-woke backlash should take note.
by Midnight8ball | 2026-01-24 02:53:29+00:00
I built a small web game experiment that’s closer to a digital arena than a traditional game.
The main interaction is choosing once and then watching a short match resolve.
I wanted to explore whether anticipation and observation alone can create engagement, without continuous player input or skill loops.
It’s intentionally simple and fast. The goal is to feel tension immediately rather than ramping up over time.
Each session resolves in seconds.
Link: https://midnight8ball.com
Curious how this lands with people here.
by RulerOf | 2026-01-24 02:55:33+00:00
> my impression of most of that documentation from that time is that it was incorrectly using .local as a fake TLD

When setting up Active Directory on Windows Server 2003, there was a note in the wizard that explicitly called out .local as a domain suffix that would prevent DNS lookups from hitting the public internet, which many people (myself included) took as an endorsement.
by grep_name | 2026-01-24 02:55:43+00:00
> I have a 2020 Forester and I've come to describing it as "I no-longer drive on the highway, I manage the car." Sometimes I'll get nervous and take over. But even in stop-and-go traffic, it has behaved perfectly.

I drive an old beater from 2001, but... I really don't think I understand why people want these in-between not-quite-autopilot features? To me it's like, it would be one thing if you could completely turn your brain off, or look at your phone, or rest. But since you can't, it seems like this stuff makes it more difficult to pay the appropriate amount of attention? For me, if I'm already driving somewhere, and have to pay enough attention to know if an emergency is about to happen, I might as well just do the driving.