MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pm215 | 2026-01-26 09:15:55+00:00
You can have either completely separate hot and cold taps, each with their own spout, or you can have a setup with separate hot and cold knobs and a single spout.

For my bathroom sink I specified a two taps/one spout unit (similar to this one https://www.screwfix.com/p/swirl-traditional-chrome-104mm-cl... ) because I prefer to be able to get "this is definitely cold water with absolutely no hot water mixed in" when that's what I want. (My hot water comes from a combi boiler, so if you run the hot tap for a short time all that happens is you burn some gas when the boiler detects the water flow but you just get the cold water in the pipe.)

I like the combined handle type for showers, where you always want some hot water and are generally running the water for a long time.
by config_yml | 2026-01-26 09:16:00+00:00
As someone growing up with shared hosting, VPS and eventually K8s, I never really got Cloudflare's offering (apart from CDN/DDOS/DNS). I'm not sure if it's their positioning or if I never had the problems they're trying to solve, but it just doesn't click for me. Durable objects, Wrangler, D1, some custom Node.js API... it's all kind of opaque to me how it really solves any problem better than just using Postgres, Redis, etc on top of K8S or something like that.
by mhast | 2026-01-26 09:16:59+00:00
The field of "AI assisted programming" is progressing extremely rapidly.

Claude code (arguably the most recent large change, even if it wasn't the first of it's type) was released one year ago.

After watching the video I'd say that it is similar to my own reaction when opening my own code that is 2 years old. (To be clear, code I myself wrote 2 years ago, without AI.) Or even more realistically, code I wrote 6 months ago.

Buy it mostly reads like someone making an exaggerating claim to get s boost from a populist narrative.
by einr | 2026-01-26 09:17:20+00:00
It's more like "nobody cares about Windows" as in: no one is impressed that you added Copilot into Notepad, no one wants you to move the cheese, they just want to get on with their actual work without being interrupted by "good things coming your way" which is inevitably just more annoyance, more bugs, more Copilot buttons.

Most people would probably have preferred if Windows had zero feature updates* since Windows 7, just security patches.

* Well, OK, fine. Task Manager is better now, I'll grant them that one.
by standarditem | 2026-01-26 09:17:35+00:00
Tolstoy defines art as that which conveys emotion. Video games convey emotion. I don't understand why an article arguing why video games are art spends so much time on the state of video game criticism. The only two parties involved in a work of art are the creator and the viewer. Why do we need third parties to verify a work of art is legitimate or not? If it conveys the emotion of the creator to the viewer, then it's art.
by tnsqjahong | 2026-01-26 09:17:42+00:00
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I built this tool to solve that imbalance.

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Input a strategy in plain English.

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The engine runs a backtest against historical data.

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by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-26 09:18:15+00:00
Your initial question was "How are they on par SoC-wise?"

They are on par because they now sometimes beat Apple top of the line A-chips on performance be it single core, multicores or GPU and do so within a power budget which allows the phone they ship in to be competitive screen-on time wise.

Apple doesn't have a one generation lead anymore which is a huge change compared to only three years ago.

You are moving the goalposts because the discussion was always about the gap between Apple and its competitors and you have entirely shifted to peak consumption when it was clear the conclusion would not be the one you want/expect.
by heroprotagonist | 2026-01-26 09:19:09+00:00
Ugh. I wondered what that was. I had to reformat due to inaccessible boot device as well, I thought the SSD had gone bad.

But I left it after the install, annoyed into abandoning the laptop to the shelf at the no-network first-login workaround to avoid a Microsoft account. I hate all the fresh laptop setup that's required afterwards to make Windows tolerable.
by mns | 2026-01-26 09:19:15+00:00
Is this a US thing? We renovated the apartment in Germany in the last year and every faucet and piece of equipment that we got has a manual including a table with list of parts and technical drawings and how to take it apart. We also got from the original owner all the manuals of the existing things, and this helped a lot in finding the proper part to replace and fix the bathtub drain. None of this is old stuff, the building is 15 years old.
by salawat | 2026-01-26 09:19:22+00:00
A Federal intervention is generally not called for unless a State pointedly does not get with some Federal mandate or another. See desegregation in the South for another notable historic example.

Of the Little Rock 9 in Arkansas:

>When integration began on September 4, 1957, the Arkansas National Guard was called in to "preserve the peace". Originally at orders of the governor, they were meant to prevent the black students from entering due to claims that there was "imminent danger of tumult, riot and breach of peace" at the integration. However, President Eisenhower issued Executive order 10730,[18] which federalized the Arkansas National Guard and 1,000 soldiers from the US Army and ordered them to support the integration on September 23 of that year, after which they protected the African American students. The Arkansas National Guard would escort these nine black children inside the school as it became the students' daily routine that year.

Ideally though, this type of intervention should be exceedingly rare or reserved for the most egregious cases. Unfortunately, the present administration sees only the mechanism, and is motivated more by pettiness than any real commitment to Statecraft.
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by satisfice | 2026-01-26 09:19:50+00:00
Why do people espouse goals like “not to be needed?” I never understood that. It sounds like LinkedIn virtue signaling. It’s a capitalist talking point along the lines of “I seek to be good and inexpensive capital for my corporate masters.”

My goal is to help my team succeed in such a way as to keep my job or else get a better one. Being “not needed” hardly serves that goal.

Look around you. We are in a world that is turning away from middle managers. Don’t play into their hands.
by orleyhuxwell | 2026-01-26 09:20:02+00:00
Yeah, but to me it's like arguing 'smoking can be more beneficial than harmful to your help, because you take a break and meet new people and loneliness is bad; you should just be disciplined to never smoke more than 2 cigarettes a day and another hard limit is 6 a week'.

Yes, that VERY RARELY would work, but for most (and I mean 98% not 51%) people it doesn't.
It's non symmetrical.

> bit sides can make slop, which is true but irrelevant

Idk, to me avoiding slop seems like the most ethical thing a professional can do these days.
by simonw | 2026-01-26 09:21:10+00:00
You mean for running unsafe Python code?

I'm on a multi-year quest to answer that question!

The best I've found is running Python code inside Pyodide in WASM in Node.js or Deno accessed from Python via a subprocess, which is a wildly convoluted way to go but does appear to work! https://til.simonwillison.net/deno/pyodide-sandbox

Here's a related recent experimental library which does something similar but with JavaScript rather than Python as the unsafe language, again via Deno in a subprocess: https://github.com/simonw/denobox

I've also experimented with using wasmtime instead of Deno: https://til.simonwillison.net/webassembly/python-in-a-wasm-s...
by franga2000 | 2026-01-26 09:21:12+00:00
Firstly, dynamic IPs are quickly reused, so if one customer get an IP onto a bunch of firewall blocklists because they were operating services that got exploited (like an open relay for spam, email backscatter generator, dns that was used for amplification, smb that hosted on-click executable windows malware...), this means some random unrelatimg customer will now have problems with their internet connection. After a while, you could poison a large chunk of the pool, then they have to not just deal with you, but also a bunch of other angry customers as well as beg all the firewall vendors to unblock those IPs.

If you get static, you keep that IP for a while. You suffer the consequences of your bad setup, you have to deal with FW vendors and after you leave, the IP will be offline for long enough that it will probably "cool off".

And secondly, while I don't like it, we need to keep in mind net neutrality was not written for selfhosters. It was written so an ISP can't zero-rate their own streaming service, or block their competitors. It was about internet access, not internet participation. The ownerwhelmimg majority of people are not and don't care to be "on" the internet, they want to "access" things that are on the internet. That's why NAT is still everywhere.
by schainks | 2026-01-26 09:21:24+00:00
This is America. Our toilets use _clean potable water_ to flush our shit.

Drinking water from the mains is metered, so it is observable from the business perspective. Life finds a way. Heat exchangers and datacenter plumbing absolutely breed life and put things into the water that were not there when it was pumped in.

Imagine if a datacenter used a shady supplier of pipe that used, say, lead in their alloy. Do you want that datacenter grey water going into crops?
by mxfh | 2026-01-26 09:22:57+00:00
So this also apply to, weirdly craved for, low-pressure sodium (LPS) lighting
which pumps out almost all it's energy at 589.3 nm?

Sound like switching to LED street light made things safer by this rationale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-vapor_lamp#Low-pressure...
by aetherspawn | 2026-01-26 09:23:33+00:00
The really annoying thing about Cloudflare is that Workers don’t belong to zones (i.e. editing any worker is an account level permission, either: Read only or Edit), and thus you can’t scope a particular user or API key access to a particular set of workers.

This means you can’t physically set different permissions between prod and dev workers, which is a disaster waiting to happen.

(You can’t just make a second Cloudflare account for Prod, because it won’t let you
bind single sign-on to two different accounts…)

It also means any employee in the company can just open a dev branch, print out the dev deploy key (from the Pipeline), and use it to deploy to prod. It’s currently impossible to block or mitigate.
by mittensc | 2026-01-26 09:23:34+00:00
Oh no, am i bad at making jokes?, Or is your argument a joke?

> It's powered by a coal power plant in much of the US, with electrical energy transduced

You are wrong. Please provide sources and peer reviewed study that says that.

Even wikipedia says you are wrong!, look up share of coal power plants in electrical supply!

Where did you get that fact from?

So what debate can I have with you if you can't even start from truth and facts?
by dominicrose | 2026-01-26 09:24:04+00:00
There was a lot of death in 2 days but the revolution started about a month ago so it's not just those two days. I think you could compare Gaza to a single Iranian city, but Iran is much larger than this. Another important distinction is that - no matter what your beliefs are - civilians aren't the target in Gaza, but they clearly are the target in Iran. If the civilians had weapons, it would be a different story.
by accidentallfact | 2026-01-26 09:25:15+00:00
I don't think that this is the reason.

Yes, there is something obviously wrong with most LED lights, but it isn't too much of short wavelength light, but on the contrary. It's the near absence of cyan light in most LEDs. Our eyes are by far the most sensitive to it, the majority of receptors in the eye are sensitive to it, and we may focus primarily on it (focus differs for different wavelengths). This is how you get the feeling of something being wrong with your vision as you for example walk into a mall, and so on.

If anything, higher temperature lights seem to make it better, not worse, but the problem will persist as long as the cyan hole stays there.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-26 09:25:23+00:00
It is hard to associate in the same sentence the word "powerful" with a quadruple Cortex-A53 CPU.

Cortex-A78 is in a totally different class of "powerful", when compared with Cortex-A53. Cortex-A53 has not been designed as a top performer among Arm CPUs, but only as a low-power core. Even at its launch, in 2012, 14 years ago, Cortex-A53 was much slower than the older big Arm cores, like Cortex-A15 from 2010. I am aware of this from direct experience, because a decade ago I have developed software on several SBCs with Cortex-A53, including Raspberry Pi, and also on an ODROID model with Cortex-A15, which ran circles around them, and unlike them it delivered a passable desktop experience.

On the other hand, at its launch in 2020, Cortex-A78 was faster than any older Arm CPU cores. It was then surpassed by the Cortex-X1 launched simultaneously with it, and then by the Apple M1, launched later that year.

Even if some enthusiasts have used old Raspberry Pi and similar SBCs with Cortex-A53 as PCs, that was really not wise as they were too slow for a comfortable use and there were faster alternatives with a similar price (after you added the cost of all required peripherals).
by azan_ | 2026-01-26 09:25:45+00:00
> Nothing can justify disorderly protests. I don't care about what caused someone to break the law. I care that law is enforced.

But you do care what caused someone to break the law - you just said that if breaking the law (murdering someone) was for keeping order then it's ok. It's very easy to see that you agree with enforcing "law" just because you agree with current administration (otherwise it's very hard to argue that what ICE is doing has anything to do with being lawful).
by average_r_user | 2026-01-26 09:25:48+00:00
Alas, I'm not alone in meditating and thinking while taking a shower.
It's one of the moments of my day when I recollect what happened, what I need to do, and what not to do.

The problem is that I can get quite lost during this phase, and hot water isn't cheap, so my SO is always threatening to put a big timer in the bathroom.
by baxtr | 2026-01-26 09:26:40+00:00
I agree that people on the top usually got there because they wanted power. Also, they want to stay in power as long as they can. The greatest feature of democracy is that change of power is organized.

With that said, I would argue there is a huge difference between those you have mentioned in how they deal with protests.

To make my point clearer, I have an idea for you: In each of the countries you mentioned, go to the capital with a sign "I am against this regime, I want change" and see what happens.
by vanillameow | 2026-01-26 09:26:53+00:00
Been looking at this over the weekend. It genuinely seems like it could have some really cool use cases. However I just don't trust an AI enough to run unprompted with root access to a machine 24/7, even if it's sandboxed. As soon as I willingly integrate data into it, the sandboxing doesn't really matter, especially when I ask it to decide for itself how to process that data (which seems to be what they want you to do with it? Ask it to define its own skills?)

Most of the cool stuff here, i.e. automatic news or calendar summaries or hue light controls or Discord bot integration or what not, you can also just "vibecode" in an afternoon using regular Claude code. If you actually review said code, you then have the peace of mind of knowing exactly what gets triggered when. I don't really feel comfortable enough to give that control away yet.

And I also feel like the people who _do_ feel comfortable giving this control away also strongly overlap with people who really don't have the understanding to make an informed decision on it...
by olafmol | 2026-01-26 09:26:56+00:00
I'd like to point out that CircleCI is typically faster (and more consistent) than GH Actions, and also offers a free tier (with more free build credits for opensource projects: https://circleci.com/open-source/)

Personally I believe that GH Actions' adoption was mostly a case of "we already use github as our VCS, so we get Actions for free with our MS licenses" combined with "hey, we can easily use all those Actions that people put online" (with all the security and compliancy issues that come with such a YOLO mindset lol)

(Disclaimer: i work for CircleCI)
by leonhandreke | 2026-01-26 09:27:07+00:00
I agree that it got appallingly little press, as do many large-scale human rights violations around the world. However, I feel like pitting it against "the rhetoric in Gaza" is wrong. Gaza is much more our war (where "we" is "the West"). Our governments directly provide the funds and weapons that are being used to commit the large-scale grave human rights violations by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank. In plain English: we're funding the genocide with our tax money. In a democratic system of government, I would therefore expect and hope for these issues to take up a much larger part of public discourse.

Given the direct comparison and language of the parent comment, it's hard for me not to see an implied agenda here: Iran's regime is bad, they're islamists, just like Hamas, therefore Israel should be excused for having turned Gaza into a parking lot, or something along these lines. Our commitment to human rights should be strong enough to reject this sort of thinking and condemn every single one of these civilian deaths.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-26 09:27:13+00:00
You don't ever know the specifics of the trajectory such as "selling to Elon", but the general arc under commercial pressures is predictable - that's the thesis of "enshitifcation".

I understand that not signing up in the first place is a valid choice.

But I also feel that using these services, on the understanding that they don't guarantee to remain good, and so you don't guarantee to remain there at all when they succumb, is also valid.

You don't owe them that. Another one will be along in a minute. That's why we went from MySpace to LiveJournal.

"legitimacy" is not binary nor eternal, and Elon's mouthpiece is leaking it's remaining legitimacy.
by munksbeer | 2026-01-26 09:27:40+00:00
There is a very ironic meta being demonstrated here. The author's blog predicts exactly how the comment section here would unfold. It's like we're little puppets and we don't have control of our strings. I'm here to say "I agree with the author, I was very underwhelmed initially, but in the last few months I now use claude code a huge amount".

Others will be here to say "Just another evangelist telling us we're going to miss out".

To add a bit more of an interesting take (because all the arguments at this point are soooooo boring), my main issue at this point isn't whether I find it useful or not (I 100% do), it is that I'm now relying on claude a bit too much and I find it frustrating when I work offline. I am wary of that, a lot actually.
by Grisu_FTP | 2026-01-26 09:30:34+00:00
> Worse part is that it autocorrects when pressing "send", not just when adding a space or a period. So the correct word gets corrected wrong and immediately sent.

Oh my GOD. YES. FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED.
Everytime i use an iphone it drives me insanely insane. I dont understand how this isnt one of the most common tech complaints i hear.

This ruins my day every time i think about it.
by hagbard_c | 2026-01-26 09:30:58+00:00
SuperSlicer, PrusaSlicer and Creality Print work fine for me using Debian. Orca Slicer runs but reliably crashes when opening the preferences window, something which it has been doing for a long time according to the bug report. Cura also works fine om Debian for me. Which problems did you have running any of these?
by rightbyte | 2026-01-26 09:31:26+00:00
I don't think those happely going with whatever the elite says counts the same way?

In political parties there are always these members that vote with the leadership. You usually need way more than 50% support among members to go against them. Dunno how much. In the long term to share is probably closer to 60% but in the short term it might be like 90%. (Made up numbers)
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-26 09:31:41+00:00
colorised*: https://imgflip.com/i/aidj8a (I also think it's remarkable that GR and ES now rate so deep blue; both were literally fascist within my lifetime)

upper middle? (went to good schools and even worked before public service, where she is known mostly for what she does)

* Goethe, eat your heart out. Colours from 2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index#...
by jcparkyn | 2026-01-26 09:32:45+00:00
This applies everywhere, and it fundamentally wouldn't be possible for just function calls.

> needless cost

Are you comparing to a language with mutable references or a our functional language? A language with mutable references will of course be faster, but this is more intended as an alternative to pure functional languages (since functions are referentially transparent).

In this case, the cost of the indirection is approximately zero (relative to the cost of just doing reference counting), since passing a reference just requires a bump to the refcount. And most of the time the refcount increments are skipped by "moving" instead of copying the reference.
by Keirmot | 2026-01-26 09:33:06+00:00
The way I read it is not to be needed for normal functionality of the team, not to "not be needed" at all. Akin to a ship's captain - for the most part a ship works without a captain just fine, but that doesn't make the captain's job redundant, it's just he's needed for specific occasions, otherwise, he's just making sure the crew works as a well oiled machine.
by high_na_euv | 2026-01-26 09:33:23+00:00
>The bump came in a year when Qualcomm reported full-year revenue of $44.3 billion, up 14 percent, but net income plunged 45 percent to $5.5 billion after the company booked a hefty non-cash tax charge tied to changes in US tax law. In other words, sales were up, profits went backwards, and executive pay kept climbing anyway.
by zimpenfish | 2026-01-26 09:34:23+00:00
> The massive Somali fraud had no evidence

It's weird, then, that most of them (and it's, like, 60 Somalis out of 80k) were already on trial[0] a good month before ...

> a random YouTuber started knocking on quality learing center doors

"As of December 2025, subsequent investigations by state officials have not found evidence of fraud at the sites Shirley visited."

Oh no, that doesn't sound like a "massive Somali fraud", does it?

(Also he's not "a random YouTuber" - he's a former prankster turned full MAGA right-wing agitator[1] and that should tell you all you need to know about his credentials and honesty.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Our_Future

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Shirley ("he repeated a false claim", "has falsely implied", "also amplified Trump's false claim", etc.)