MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ipython | 2026-01-03 22:28:51+00:00
what I love is the people on this very site who will downvote you and call you a bad parent for fighting this tooth and nail with your own kids.

I have never sat my kids down with some stupid YouTube channel like CoComelon -- or any YouTube channel for that matter -- yet I am at the mercy of the same strong market forces that make that style of content popular. As a result I have the same issues with emotional disregulation related to screen time with one of my children (the other two handle it mostly OK).

So now, just like everything else it seems, the parents are left alone to try and fight this battle with trillion dollar corporations all by themselves. Yes, some parents have given up and willfully handed their kids' future to these sociopaths. But I assure you there are millions of us who are left in a David vs Goliath fight with no end in sight.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-03 22:29:28+00:00
Right, there's level of solutions. You can't sit here and say that a few seconds of invalid state on the front-end only for mayyyyybe .01% of your users is enough to justify a sprawling distributed system because "well deployments aren't atomic anyway!1!".

IMO, monorepos are much easier to handle. Monoliths are also easier to handle. A monorepo monolith is pretty much as good as it gets for a web application. Doing anything else will only make your life harder, for benefits that are so small and so rare that nobody cares.
by joshribakoff | 2026-01-03 22:29:44+00:00
The flaw in this logic is they are a monopoly. They continue to profit off of the bad user experience, that’s been their business model since day one, and they keep posting growth numbers. I hope they do die, but in the meantime the bad decisions still negatively impact users, and many of them didn’t have a choice.

The other flaw in your logic is assuming that markets are free. A free market is one that is both informed and consents. In this market, there is both misinformation and a lack of consent.
by WalterBright | 2026-01-03 22:30:16+00:00
Microsoft pays well. The prudent move is to not increase spending until saving up at a bare minimum 6 months of "runway".

I live in Washington. My accountant told me stories, one of which was a Microsoftian who got the big job, and promptly bought the most expensive house he could swing. He soon ran into trouble because he didn't have enough left to pay the property tax, and was forced to sell it.

BTW, Microsoft has unusually generous benefits for autism. Many autism clinics have sprouted up around the campus to take advantage of that.

Never, ever, EVER assume that a high paying job is a guarantee for life.
by Huntsecker | 2026-01-03 22:30:35+00:00
looking through the comments one thing I find strange that no one has picked up on is that maduro had met the chinese hours before being captured. To me I think the initial plan was to just let the economy tank by blockading the economy, chinese stepped into help and trump goes nuclear and kidnaps the guy.
still pretty shocking that they wont hand over power to the party who won the election and plan on setting up a puppet state and steal the oil, does seem USA has become some despot country albeit with a large army.
by stevenhuang | 2026-01-03 22:30:51+00:00
Yes I was incorrect to say such a model would be strictly worse off. But my read is that you over index on the notion of laws, hence your general befuddlement on the current outcome. Sovereign nations follow international law and order to the extent their goals align and perceived costs of contravening them exceeds some threshold. Might ultimately makes right, has always been the case. That's realpolitik for you, unfortunately.
by reify | 2026-01-03 22:32:22+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456387

fresh_broccoli 2 days ago | next [–]

I find it worrying that this was upvoted so much so quickly, and HN users are apparently unable to spot the glaring red flags about this article.

1. Let's start with where the post was published. Check what kind of content this blog publishes - huge volumes of random low-effort AI-boosting posts with AI-generated images. This isn't a blog about history or linguistics.

2. The author is anonymous.

3. The contents of the post itself: it's just raw AI output. There's no expert commentary. It just mentions that unnamed experts were unable to do the job.

This isn't to say that LLMs aren't useful for science; on the contrary. See for example Terence Tao's blog. Notice how different his work is from whatever this post is.
by ipython | 2026-01-03 22:32:48+00:00
The difference is- the producers of shows such as Mister Rogers and Sesame Street did not have a profit motive to increase "engagement" numbers. They actually used psychology to try and improve the outcomes of their viewers (aka children) rather than trying to improve the outcomes of themselves.

I mean, watch CoComelon and Sesame Street (or Mister Rogers, or Daniel Tiger...) side by side and tell me there isn't a qualitative difference between the two.
by thrwwy81faa457 | 2026-01-03 22:33:03+00:00
(Parent has already replied by editing their original comment, but I'll tack on a bit more info, from my perspective.)

The reason this has to be emphasized is that all new code runs the risk of regressions, and in a production environment, you hate regressions. Therefore, not only do you not want new features, but you also don't want irrelevant bug fixes. Bug fixes, even security fixes, are not magically free of independent regressions. Therefore a valid incentive exists to minimize backports to production environments. And such a balancing act depends on the careful investigation of the impact of known bugs, one by one.

From the fine blog post:

> For those that are always worried “what if a bugfix causes problems”, they should remember that a fix for a known bug is better than the potential of a fix causing a future problem as future problems, when found, will be fixed then.

A whole lot of users can disagree with this. For good, practical reasons. The expected damage of a known bug may be estimated, while an unknown regression brought in by the fix for the known bug may cause way worse damage.
by zX41ZdbW | 2026-01-03 22:33:04+00:00
GPU databases can run a small subset of production workloads in a narrow combination of conditions.

There are plenty of GPU databases out there: mapD/OmniSci/HeavyDB, AresDB, BlazingSQL, Kinetika, BrytlytDB, SQReam, Alenka, ... Some of them are very niche, and the others are not even usable.
by 8fingerlouie | 2026-01-03 22:33:11+00:00
Except, they're not.

They're in iCloud, backed up to my NAS at home, backed up to another cloud vendor, backed up to two different external hard drives, stored in separate locations, as well as archived on Blu-Ray M-Disc media, also identical copies, stored next to the external hard drives.

They're not exactly "great quality" most of them, us being early adopters of digital cameras (2000'ish), so 1.5 megabit, up to 3.5 megabit for our last "real" digital camera. There are some Canon EOS 500D SLR photos in there as well, but we continued to shoot our old an trusty analogue SLR cameras for years after that.

These days it's all phone pictures anyway. I don't think I have more than a handful of SLR quality photos of the kids.
by Thorrez | 2026-01-03 22:34:05+00:00
What if multiple people discover the same vulnerability. What do you do?

Do you pay out to all of them? Do you make them sign an NDA without guaranteeing you'll pay them? Do you tell the 2nd etc discoverers to go away and hope they don't reveal it?

If you pay out to all of them, there's a strong incentive to leak info and collect multiple bounties for the same vulnerability.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-03 22:35:54+00:00
Mean that essentially article is instructions on setting up the server & link to the cool site* hosted on it. Whether a LLM was used or not doesn't appear to have such relevance to be on title**. If article had the prompts or transcript showcasing how was done then could see it being there.

*Which doesn't appear static with information like memory, storage, requests, etc. More interesting than what title makes it seem.

**On the contrary, would want it to be in article itself.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-03 22:36:05+00:00
No, they really wouldn't. People do this all the time. Take the example of the (politically motivated) charges against Leticia James for mortgage fraud. Everybody lies about the house being their primary residence to get a better interest rate and nobody who doesn't piss off politically powerful people are ever charged for it. Fraud is essentially never charged if the loan is paid back.
by Aloisius | 2026-01-03 22:36:14+00:00
> So did Britain argue this was to fight commmunism? Yes. Was it really? No. It was about Britain's oil interests and colonial ambition. It was no more about fighting communism than invading Iraq in 2003 was about spreading democracy.

More than one party was involved. They had different reasons for their involvement.

The United States' reason was to fight against communism (read: the Soviet Union). As quite a few internal memos make clear, the US did not particularly care about Britain's oil issues and wished to stay out of it. Rather, the US was almost single minded about it's fight against the Soviets. Britain used that to manipulate the US into getting involved.

> As for any election abnormalities, nobody cares about that.

If no one cared about it, people would stop stressing he was "democratically elected."

> It's undeniable that Mossadeq was immensely popular in the early 1950s for his stance that Iranian oil should benefit Iranians

And he was incredibly unpopular by 1953 as he was blamed for the deterioration of the economy caused by the British refusal to ship Iranian oil and he went full autocrat.

Indeed, had Mosaddegh remained popular, the Shah never would have agreed to go through with the coup. After all, he had seen what had happened after Mosaddegh resigned in 1952.
by gehsty | 2026-01-03 22:36:45+00:00
For it feels like we should work harder to mine critical resources in as low impact way possible. We don’t know what this will do. We don’t really need it. No one would get this consented / permitted within their own seabed, so why do we do it in international waters.

I work in subsea cables and the companies that develop this type of tooling also work in this field, on a purely technical level it’s super cool technology and operationally very very interesting - the riser for nodule collection and how you pump / suck something from 4km down to the surface is wildly cool.
by lerno | 2026-01-03 22:37:25+00:00
Two reasons, the second being the important: (1) If I read "io.print", is this "the print function in the module io" or "the print method for the variable io". There tends to be an overlap in naming here so that's a downside (2) parsing and semantic checking is much easier if the namespace is clear from the grammar.

In particular, C3's "path shortening", where you're allowed to write `file::open("foo.txt")` rather than having to use the full `std::io::file::open("foo.txt")` is only made possible because the namespace is distinct at the grammar level.

If we play with changing the syntax because it isn't as elegant as `file.open("foo.txt")`, we'd have to pay by actually writing `std.io.file.open("foo.txt")` or change to a flat module system. That is a fairly steep semantic cost to pay for a nicer namespace separator.

I might have overlooked some options, if so - let me know.
by anonnon | 2026-01-03 22:37:26+00:00
The appetite HN has for this kind of naked self-promotion is really something. Get posted (even if by someone else) a few too many times to /g/ and you'll be regularly rebuked with "buy an ad" from then on, but HN just looks the other way, and the "haters" calling it out get flagged, at least until the pattern becomes conspicuous and obnoxious enough that even the more gullible lot of HNers start to notice.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-03 22:38:12+00:00
> which when I was a wee child made no sense to me because "surely then nothing would happen"

I've literally just had this conversation today about jet aircraft with my 5-year-old, and how when you push air out of the jet engine really fast, that action pushes the nozzle forwards - it's not pushing against anything, it's like if you push against the sides of a box.

But he's still not quite got it, so we're going to go to the workshop and play with a high-volume fire pump.
by layer8 | 2026-01-03 22:38:51+00:00
You have to think of the long-term consequences of blatantly abandoning the rule of (international) law for might makes right. The end doesn't justify the means.

Not to mention that the "end" here is first and foremost enriching the administrative "elite" and extending their power. If they cared about democracy, they'd stand firmly behind Ukraine instead of humoring Russia.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-03 22:38:51+00:00
Not all companies have "make profit" as their primary goal. But what I meant by "ulterior motive" was that their space factory may never provide enough output for that alone to justify the cost. Their plan may be for the factory in space to bring money in other ways (e.g. making them eligible for grants they would otherwise not have received).
by araes | 2026-01-03 22:39:22+00:00
> But this seems murky to me.

It looks like propaganda. Day after, and then all the American news sites post stories about Venezuelans celebrating? Looks like propaganda. Almost no dissenting stories, no real discussion. Blackhawks and missiles at night, and hooray, spontaneous street parties, and news reporters just happen to be there to capture their "spontaneous" rejoicing. Reuters, Bloomberg, ABC, NBC. Rejoicing, dreams of democracy, yatta. CBS seems like one of the only sites that actually carried somewhat balanced coverage of people burning US flags, and no to American war.
by est31 | 2026-01-03 22:41:02+00:00
I was mostly thinking about CGNAT instead of NAT around your home network.

There is a talk by Dmitriy Melnik at RIPE 91 about the costs for ISPs to not adopt ipv6 vs to adopt ipv6 (relevant stuff starts at 9:55).

https://ripe91.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/sessions/37/8...
by andix | 2026-01-03 22:41:30+00:00
The digital photos are not my issue. Especially in the early 2000s the files were really small, super easy to copy. I've always moved them to a new laptop, I guess I have at least 8 copies lying around in different places.

More problematic are the first analog videos from the 80s, the magnetic tape now starts to rot, and it's not that easy to copy those.

I also have film from the 60s and 70s, this is slowly becoming an issue too. But honestly I don't care that much about those past memories from my parents and grandparents.
by jasomill | 2026-01-03 22:41:51+00:00
There are several solutions, and while most are limited to volume licensing, which, depending on your definition, may exclude "regular users", at least one is not:

1. Supply the code given by the "slmgr /dti" command to Microsoft over the phone or online from a non-air gapped machine.

2. Apply the resulting activation code with the "slmgr /atp" command.
by stevenwoo | 2026-01-03 22:42:47+00:00
It’s wild to me that (at least for now) Trump has publicly repudiated the second (or first if one swings that way) place vote getter in last election as unqualified even after she brown nosed Trump hard. He apparently needs a bigger sycophant in charge like his cabinet members https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-03/nobel-win...
by solenoid0937 | 2026-01-03 22:43:07+00:00
Please leave a substantive comment instead of just calling something a "redditism" and appalling.

You may not like the framework of realism but it is the way the world is headed. The recent frameworks of liberalism were a great experiment, but clearly one that is not working out (eg Ukraine/China/Russia.)

Rules-based international order has always been a thin veneer over the fact that nations will always act in their self-interest regardless of what they say.
by lrvick | 2026-01-03 22:43:50+00:00
We banned proprietary software in our home, self host the internet services we need and want as a family, and block ads in everything.

Gave up my own phone entirely a few years ago partly to ensure kids never see me use one or rely on one so they know such tools are optional in life.

I like teaching kids modern technology starting with a soldering iron making an LED blink, and building a PC from parts, and eventually compiling an operating system from source code. I see absolutely no reason for a kid to ever need unsupervised access to the internet until at least high school, and even then not on a phone, but via desktop computers in common areas where there is accountability.
by ipython | 2026-01-03 22:45:32+00:00
So... because we believe now that the moral panic around TV was unfounded, that directly implies there could be no concerns about the impact of consuming large amounts of algorithmically generated "junk content" by young developing brains?

Then, if that's the case, put your kids where your mouth is, go buck wild and sit your kids in front of CoComelon all day.
by xnyan | 2026-01-03 22:45:56+00:00
I think Maduro almost certainly cheated. All history and our current geopolitical relationships indicate that does not matter to the US unless you oppose them.

Even pretending to follow international law when you don’t actually do so is, to some small degree, support for international law. What the US did is essentially state kidnapping of the sitting head of an another state. This is going to be vastly more stabilizing than Maduro cheating.
by PantaloonFlames | 2026-01-03 22:46:06+00:00
The US doesn’t need large reserves of oil. The US is an energy exporter. The country is limiting investment in solar and wind, ON PURPOSE.

This is crony capitalism. This is Trump shoring up support from oil companies.

Mr Trump has purposefully depressed the value of non-petroleum energy sources in the US, which props up the value of US oil Producers and processors.

And now, This is a territory takeover by a mafia don, so he can hand favors to other rich guys. Maduro wasn’t doing the deal Trump wanted, so this is what Trump did.

If solar and wind were thriving in the US (as they could be!) then this new oil territory would be worth less. That’s why Trump hates wind. He cannot convert clean energy into a benefit for himself.

It’s not about drugs or fentanyl. It’s not about democracy or corrupt elections in VZ.
Ask HN: What did you learn in 2025?
by kiernanmcgowan | 2026-01-03 22:46:37+00:00
What is something you learned (or had to re-learn) in 2025? New skills, insights, life lessons that could be worth sharing with the rest of the forum.

For me: I've been forced to relearn how important sleep hygiene is and that it is something that can fall away slowly resulting in misery. Maintaining a consistent be time is a chore but one that does make for a happier life.
by jhirshman | 2026-01-03 22:46:54+00:00
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by lizknope | 2026-01-03 22:46:55+00:00
shrug

I got my first digital camera in 2001 and still have all the photos from then as well as all the images I downloaded from the internet starting from 1991 through Usenet groups.

I scanned all of my dad's old photos going back to 1965 and have our family photos going back to the 1930's.

Everything is backed up twice and verify every file checksum twice a year.

I know not everyone is a computer expert but 1) we are on Hacker News 2) prebuilt NAS systems have a lot of these features now and can backup to another unit.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2026-01-03 22:48:55+00:00
The decline is not surprising. I am sure AI is replacing Stackoverflow for a lot of people. And my experience with asking questions was pretty bad. I asked a few very specific questions about some deep detail in Windows and every time I got only some smug comments about my stupid question or the question got rejected outright. That while a ton of beginner questions were approved. Definitely not a very inviting club. I found i got better responses on Reddit.
by wiesbadener | 2026-01-03 22:48:58+00:00
They state:

> RLMs are not agents, nor are they just summarization. The idea of multiple LM calls in a single system is not new — in a broad sense, this is what most agentic scaffolds do. The closest idea we’ve seen in the wild is the ROMA agent that decomposes a problem and runs multiple sub-agents to solve each problem. Another common example is code assistants like Cursor and Claude Code that either summarize or prune context histories as they get longer and longer. These approaches generally view multiple LM calls as decomposition from the perspective of a task or problem. We retain the view that LM calls can be decomposed by the context, and the choice of decomposition should purely be the choice of an LM.
by alexjurkiewicz | 2026-01-03 22:50:37+00:00
(2024)

My favourite part of these tools is the zany use of numbered file descriptors. `keypair` outputs the public key on fd 5 and secret key on fd 9. But signing reads the secret key on fd 8, while verification reads the public key on fd 4! Why aren't they the same?? I have to read the manpage every time.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-03 22:51:46+00:00
Emanuel Macron, President of the French Republic:

"The Venezuelan people are today liberated from the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro and cannot but celebrate it.

By seizing power and trampling on fundamental freedoms, Nicolás Maduro has committed a grave affront against the dignity of his own people.

The transition that is now opening must be peaceful, democratic, and respectful of the will of the Venezuelan people. We hope that President Edmundo González Urrutia, elected in 2024, can ensure this transition as soon as possible.
"

- https://x.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/2007525843401154891
by earlhathaway | 2026-01-03 22:51:53+00:00
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by jazzyjackson | 2026-01-03 22:52:49+00:00
I've had very poor results trying to reason about geometry with chatgpt (to the point where it hallucinated that a line can intersect a sphere 3 times...) but it would be interesting to have a feedback loop from code to image. I just found out about build123d as a newer variety of cadquery and looking forward to trying an LLM out with it.