MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metaketra | 2026-01-29 06:57:36+00:00
I think it could work if it was designed for it from the ground up. Google's experiment's lasted months, and was, what seems like a whim of the owners, where as a lot of the workers probably expected a traditional company.

Valve the "game" company, has a relatively flat structure from what I've heard, and it's working pretty well for them, but they've also had it for a long time.

So if you have a company, that works like that from the start, that people know it works like that, that it has support for it. You could make it work.

I agree that forcing this structure everywhere wouldn't work, some people can work like this, others can't.
by kiwigod17 | 2026-01-29 06:58:00+00:00
Hey everyone!

I just released a new Chrome extension called 1X. It adds a panel on the right column of X that lets you...

* Focus on one X post at a time.

* Like / toggle audio for that post with generously sized buttons.

* Choose from 8 different highlight colors for your currently focused post.

* Configure a cooldown time (from 0-10 seconds) to throttle how quickly you move through posts.

* Skip ads/promoted posts.

The name has a dual meaning. One X post at a time, or navigating X at a "1x" pace :).

Hope you'll give it a shot. I'd love some feedback!

Site: https://1x.kawaicheung.io/

Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/1x-one-x-post-at-1x...

-Ka Wai
by CableNinja | 2026-01-29 06:58:00+00:00
I deal with some regulated things and some users who usually wouldnt be allowed to see/work on a thing are granted special access to do so, with extreme limitations. Recently i was approached asking if we could strip down the users desktops to no gui, no sudo, for use as a jumpbox. I explained why users need sudo to do what they need, and was asked about limiting sudo.

Its really tough to tell someone who is all about security (not linux security but regulatory security and such) that basically granting any bit of sudo access can lead to full access.

There is a way that this can be handled, but its honestly sort of an afterthought functionality. facls. You can delegate multiple owners/groups and permissions for things, and it can work well, but you have to deal with facls on multiple fronts, setting them for basically the entire system. facls are great, in theory, but they feel like such an afterthought that they are often ignored.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-01-29 06:58:07+00:00
The part that often gets left unsaid or glossed over is what the transition period looks like. At most we get some Underpants Gnomes claim about unlimited abundance without actually engaging with the substance of what happens if this technology gets built and deployed. What do you imagine the political and economic impact will be if a huge portion of the population is left without jobs and the political reality hasn't caught up to the speed with which the technology gets deployed?

Oh no, but Elon Musk tells us that out of the kindness of his heart we're going to have unlimited abundance. The same man responsible for taking away aid from thousands of the poorest people in the world through DOGE's interruption of PEPFAR and USAID.

With a single sentence from him, he could start saving thousands of lives without impacting his wealth in the slightest. He could do that right now.
by bear330 | 2026-01-29 06:58:44+00:00
I actually wrote a section about this here: https://github.com/nuwainfo/ffl?tab=readme-ov-file#porting-t.... In short, I used superconfigure the project’s ported Python APE, rewrote all C extensions into Python APE as built-in extensions, modified libraries like aiortc to use them, and finally resolved several tricky porting issues across platforms. It was a tough process, but I managed to get it working successfully :)
by elevation | 2026-01-29 06:59:01+00:00
When I first came to HN, I didn't know what `hn`, `pg`, or other initialisms meant. But I saw people boasting in the new vocabulary of "full stack developer." And I assumed that if companies loved "javascript down to redis" that they would really love that I could do front end all the way down to embedded development. Think of the problems all my full stack knowledge could solve!

Never got an offer through "who's hiring" though.
by Saline9515 | 2026-01-29 06:59:55+00:00
It's anecdata, but a college friend who now works at as a manager in an IT/Data consultancy in my birth country in the EU told me bluntly that they prioritized hiring foreigners as they were 20% cheaper.

Given that the company sponsors them, they are ready to accept lower wages. If they do it I don't see why everyone wouldn't be doing the same.

It's of course hard to prove formally as those companies will comply with regs to make it look like they aren't discriminating (fake job ads, etc...). By the way in the US Indian consultancies got busted for this.
by paradox242 | 2026-01-29 07:00:23+00:00
A federal agent executes a man in broad daylight because while a gang of them are beating him for having the gall to try and help a woman who had fallen to the ground they finally noticed he was carrying a gun. Meanwhile the government tries to tell you that he was the aggressor despite the entire encounter having been filmed from multiple angles and which directly contradict the official explanation. The best Altman can muster is that they have gone "too far".
by shrubble | 2026-01-29 07:01:49+00:00
There are at least, for those wanting a Linux or BSD based Motif fix:

Enhanced Motif Window Manager https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html

and the full-fledged CDE desktop that uses Motif also:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/ (note that you want to firewall this somehow as the default settings on the background process ttdb can be a security hole)
by bayindirh | 2026-01-29 07:02:05+00:00
The elephant Tesla mocked has run, and stomped over them. Now there comes the pivot.

While "The old auto establishment" is not a benevolent structure, they proved that experience is something earned with time and doing things. Corporate knowledge and memory is real, and you can't beat it with brute force.

They started the change, but they failed to keep up with the pace. Also hubris, greed and monies.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-01-29 07:02:22+00:00
I can relate and if I'm honest, I need to do this. I can't say I benefit from following the news, including tech news and forums like HN, every day.

I still want to be informed and be involved especially in matters that do impact me and the country I live in; I feel strongly about democracy and that rests on an educated and participatory citizenship. But I don't need to wade through shit every day to have enough of an understanding of it.

I like tech and I'm curious, but just today before reading this article I was thinking about how much do I really gain from this cursory reading on so many subjects (as one might find on HN), instead of using the time to more deeply dive into certain ones. At some point it can become a bunch of clutter that has little value.

(I already stopped watching TV news many years ago, and dropped Facebook and Reddit a few years ago as well. I'm mostly down to Instagram and HN, plus the NYT and a few magazines (MIT Tech Review, that one is excellent; Wired, was planning on dropped anyway; Atlantic, good but I don't need that much of it; The New Yorker has great longform every once in a while.)
by jjwiseman | 2026-01-29 07:02:59+00:00
A transponder in a car is not an "aircraft station" (§ 87.5), therefore it is not covered by aircraft "license-by-rule" (§ 87.18(b)), so transmitting would be operating without a valid authorization (§ 1.903(a)). https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D...
by dntrkv | 2026-01-29 07:03:06+00:00
I think the execs are either using it as an excuse to reduce opex to boost share prices or they're actually buying into this delusion that the productivity improvements are right around the corner. Though I don't really buy into that second option since any reasonably intelligent person would wait to see concrete evidence of said improvements before crippling your company based on some hope.

I also think some of the companies that operate in the AI space are using the layoffs as a form of marketing to prove the capabilities of their tech (while also using it as an excuse to cut costs).

Anyways, I work at one of the major players in the space and the amount of AI code slop I see on a daily basis is absurd. My prediction is that within two years most younger SWEs will only have a high-level understanding of their code. I already see it happening.
by jsnell | 2026-01-29 07:05:03+00:00
Basically none of their examples are just "browse a page"? They're multi-step tasks combining data from multiple pages.

Like the first example in the demo carousel (the Y2K party) starts from a photo and a prompt of roughly "buy the props needed for replicating this photo from Etsy". It first analyzes the image in the current tab, identifies a bunch of things to buy, searches for them on Etsy, customizes the orders, adds them to the shopping basket, and then asks for a confirmation to actually send an order.

The second one auto-fills a form with a couple of dozen fields from the data that's in a pdf in another tab. (And in the fiction of a demo, presumably a pdf that's you already had around, not one that you made just for the purposes of using it to auto-fill the form.)

I'm not the target market for this: automating a browser with my credentials is just too scary, but I can certainly see the utility. There's a huge amount of tasks taking a minute or two are not worth creating bespoke automation for but that are also pretty mechanical processes.
by YetAnotherNick | 2026-01-29 07:05:10+00:00
Using TPU has the same opportunity cost as GPU. Just because they built something doesn't mean it's cheaper. If it is they can rent it cheaper to save money on paying billions of dollars to Nvidia.

A big segment of the market just uses GPU/TPU to train LLMs, so they don't exactly need flexibility if some tool is well supported.
by mogili1 | 2026-01-29 07:06:12+00:00
I use claude's chrome plugin all the time. As well Chatgpt's agent mode. I prefer Agent mode when I don't need to login but want it to do search.

However, Gemini in Chrome requires you to allow them to use your data to improve their model, which I won't consent to. Google workspace account seems exempt so I plan to try it out there.
by jmuncor | 2026-01-29 07:06:54+00:00
Ohh my, no offense taken... The next time I will be a lot more careful with the stuff that I put out there. Learning and getting the hang of it, would love if you either comment on the code or here any other things you think could be improved. I am in the process of getting better and appreciate all the blunt and transparent feedback. No one grows out of praise.
by trhway | 2026-01-29 07:06:58+00:00
demand for any robotaxis will be high. Just look at the number of Uber drivers whom the robotaxis will replace. Plus leased robotaxis or personal/reserved ones - whatever shape it'd take replacing at least some percentage of personal cars.

There is only a "small" issue - to make those robotaxis, i.e. the self-driving system for them. Almost 20 years in, Google/Waymo is way ahead of everybody and is still not there yet (i believe we will get there anyday now - which maybe next year or in 10 years - especially giving all the avalanche of investment in AI. Though i'd have expected that 4+ years in we'd see a lot of autonomous platforms/weapons in Ukraine, yet it hasn't happen too yet)
by tombert | 2026-01-29 07:07:08+00:00
I think there's value in space exploration even for its own sake, but I think it's utterly idiotic to think that we're going to realistically be able to terraform Mars in the next century if ever.

Even if I do think it's worth exploring space, including Mars, I think it's silly to assume that it's going to be a way to guarantee the permanence of humanity.
by Perseus_ | 2026-01-29 07:07:49+00:00
This is really great!!!!!! I’ve been hoping for something like this for a while. It’s nice to see a place that actually archives and celebrates the small, thoughtful games people share here instead of letting them disappear in the feed.

I built a puzzle game called Pegasus3301, inspired by Cicada 3301, focused on hidden clues, ciphers, and observation. I’ve added/submitted it to the arcade and would love feedback from others who enjoy this kind of thing.

here is the link : https://pegasus3301.com/
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-29 07:10:50+00:00
MacOS can now run a lot of IOS applications. They have icloud to sync a bunch of things. But only for their own applications. But maybe it's more clear if we limit the discussion to just phones. The key question, why do people only buy 1 iphone? Is it because it's perfect for every situation? Or because they can't play nice together?

Switching from one to the other is a PITA. What if that was seamless. You just pick one up and now everything is there. You might have a phone for work, going out, hiking, etc. You might have phones matching different iphones. Apple could be selling you many phones. Losing a phone would be a lot less dramatic because you'd have multiple spares. Do they all have to have the same screen size? Do all of them even need a screen?

Apple sells lots of phones. They could be selling 2-3x more. That's just phones. The way they positioned their VR device and watch is kind of telling. They are both kind of satellite devices. But apparently that requires special apps and a new OS (for both).
by jacquesm | 2026-01-29 07:10:52+00:00
> Hatred of the technology itself is misplaced

I think hatred is the wrong word. Concern is probably a better one and there are many things that are technology and that it is perfectly ok to be concerned about. If you're not somewhat concerned about AI then probably you have not yet thought about the possible futures that can stem from this particular invention and not all of those are good. See also: Atomic bombs, the machine gun, and the invention of gunpowder, each of which I'm sure may have some kind of contrived positive angle but whose net contribution to the world we live in was not necessarily a positive one. And I can see quite a few ways in which AI could very well be worse than all of those combined (as well as some ways in which it could be better, but for that to be the case humanity would first have to grow up a lot).
by captain_coffee | 2026-01-29 07:10:58+00:00
Me personally: absolutely not - and I fundamentally do not understand the need for something like this. I would never use such a tool under any possible circumstance knowing what I know about the current technology underpinning these clankers.

These feels on par with Microsoft's push to shove Copilot down everyone's neck at every step possible whether we like/need it or not
by rolph | 2026-01-29 07:11:04+00:00
are you sure TTL is only hop limits?

have a look at this and let me know what you think:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/computer-networks/what-is-time...

there it gives what seems to be a good rundown on TTL, and it seems like this could be DNS activity, or CDN caching tuned to quench back propagation.

e.g. [about hafway down page]

In Internet Protocol (IP) multicast, TTL may have control over the packet forwarding scope or range.
0 is restricted to the same host
1 is restricted to the same subnet
32 is restricted to the same site
64 is restricted to the same region
128 is restricted to the same continent
255 is unrestricted
TTL is also employed in caching for Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). TTLs are used herein for specifying the duration of serving cached information until a new copy is downloaded from an origin server. A CDN can offer updated content without requests propagating back to the origin server if the time between origin server pulls is properly adjusted. This accumulative effect enables a CDN to efficiently offer information closer to a user while minimizing the amount of bandwidth required at the origin.

TTL is also employed in caching for Domain Name Systems (DNS). TTL is a numerical value that refers to the duration used herein by the DNS Cache server for serving a DNS record before contacting the authoritative server to get a new copy.
by thefounder | 2026-01-29 07:13:08+00:00
I think the technology is just not there to make the business case for humanoid robots. It’s like the VR. Everyone would like to use VR but the tech is just not good enough. Same with FSD. The robots may be 10-20 years away from actual being good enough. If Elon can trick people for 20 years like he did with FSD then he may have a business case for humanoid robots
by subdude | 2026-01-29 07:13:17+00:00
lol, "your people." I've seen enough of you guys in real life to know what lies behind the bold Nazi larp online. Meek, resentful, small men. You may piss your pants at the sight of a non-white person, but 99% of people don't. Nothing you hope for or think is going to happen will happen. The world you yearn for never existed and never will. Much like every other fascist movement in history, the current one will only be remembered as a pathetic failure.
by bf9d413906 | 2026-01-29 07:14:12+00:00
40+km, every day? Or even if total, it's a proper distance.
I'm fascinated by that. Do you just walk around randomly or do you plan things you want to see ?

Walking is imo one of the big "secret" ways to get to know a city. I fondly recall just getting lost on purpose in major cities, and at the end of the day take a taxi, or bus, or tuk-tuk back to the place I was staying. So many things seen, and tried, and random people encountered from all walks of life, it's one of the best things.
by Aloha | 2026-01-29 07:14:32+00:00
You are correct that jobs made a ton of people - and not just wealthy, he created an entire ecosystem around Apple, which made a large number of people vast sums of money.

That last part however.. is not actually true - Fairchild Semiconductor did it, and did it far before Apple did. I'd like to say intel (and a ton of others) did the same thing.
by rswail | 2026-01-29 07:14:41+00:00
So he milked Tesla for another $2B to subsidize xAI, has dropped the models to 2 (3 and Y), revenue is down, growth is negative, BYD is eating Tesla for lunch, followed by the other CN and KR vehicle companies.

He doesn't have FSD, camera only navigation without sensor fusion with LIDAR will fail, the only thing keeping Tesla where it is is the bullshit dispersal field that surrounds Musk.
by seanhunter | 2026-01-29 07:16:45+00:00
Well for home use you probably also want a robot that won’t accidentally murder your pet, injure your children, break itself and/or your prized possessions by doing the wrong thing, etc etc etc.

These are unsolved problems for robotics. There is a reason that most industrial robots work behind guards or in very constrained areas with use cases that are 100% on rails and stringently tested.

The idea that if you just make a robot in a human shape all these cease to be problems is magical thinking. We are fare from knowing that a humanoid-ish robot is the best option to do any of these things because we have no idea what it would take for it to do these things safely other than to say it would take technology that we currently don’t have.
by Animats | 2026-01-29 07:16:53+00:00
MUSK: Yeah. But I think self-driving cars is essentially a solved problem at this point, right? And Tesla’s rolled out a sort of robo-taxi service in a few cities, and will be very, very widespread by the end of this year within the U.S.

He said that would happen in 2025. And probably earlier, too.
by incr_me | 2026-01-29 07:17:04+00:00
> CPC controls and owns production, policy, finance and even consumption levers.

These terms are useless for distinguishing anything -- what you said can be said about literally any capitalist state.

> China is one party system

This is also relatively uninteresting. There have been many countries where a single party has nominally remained in power for about as long as the CCP has. That Deng Xiaoping's coup occurred without nominally dismantling the party makes the "one party system" distinction a superficial one.
by bayindirh | 2026-01-29 07:17:52+00:00
Worth related statistics doesn't mean anything in the realm of hard engineering. I completely look from the point of "what the companies are doing tech-wise".

When Tesla came about, they were distinctively different. A different chassis, a different weight distribution, completely different dynamics. Since they started with a blank slate, their cars were greenfield projects, and they correctly took note of the pitfalls, and avoided them.

On the other hand, avoiding past pitfalls or remedying them doesn't make you immune from the future ones, and doesn't mean the other companies can't learn, too. This is where they made the mistake.

They overpromised (esp. with the Autopilot thingy) and underdelivered massively on that front, and while they "made" the software-defined-vehicle, they underestimated the problems and behaved like the problems they face are as simple as configuring a web service right. This is what slowly broke them. They also underestimated hardware problems of the car (like using consumer grade parts in the critical parts of the hardware. Remember wearing down flash chips and bricking cars?)

Because while car is software defined now, it's also an "industrial system". It has to be robust. It has to be reliable, idiot-proof even. Playing fast and loose with these things allowed automakers to catch them, maybe slowly but surely.

Because, "the old automakers" has gone through a lot of blood, sweat and tears (both figuratively and literally), and know what to do and what not to do. They can anticipate pitfalls better then a "newbie" carmaker. They shuddered, sputtered, hesitated, but they are in the move now. They will evolve this more slowly, but in a more reliable and safer way. They won't play that fast, but the products will be more refined. They won't skimp on radars because someone doesn't believe in them, for example.

Not everything is numbers, valuations and great expansions which look good on quarterlies, news, politics, and populists. Sometimes the slow and steads wins, and it goes for longer.

Physics and engineering doesn't care for valuations. They only care about natural laws.

This is what I'm seeing here.
by Retric | 2026-01-29 07:18:34+00:00
If they are eating into model X or S sales it obviously counts here.

Porsche, Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Genesis, and Cadillac are all competitive in different ways. Stat wise someone buying the electric G-Wagon is making a poor decision, but swagger is a selling point which very much costs Tesla sales.

Cadillac’s approach of a huge dumb battery powering a huge heavy vehicle may not be ideal for the average use case, but customers are going to prioritize different things. One SUV just can’t be the best solution to every lifestyle.
Show HN: SwiftMock – automatic mock generation for Swift
by gokulnair2001 | 2026-01-29 07:18:39+00:00
Hi HN
SwiftMock is a lightweight CLI tool that generates mock implementations for Swift protocols.

The idea is to remove the repetitive boilerplate involved in writing mocks by hand, especially as protocols grow larger and start using async/await, throwing functions, and complex method signatures.

The tool scans the codebase, identifies mockable protocols, and produces deterministic
mock classes that support call tracking, argument capture, and customizable behavior for tests.

It’s written entirely in Swift, has no runtime dependencies, and is designed to be easy to integrate into existing build or CI workflows.

GitHub: https://github.com/gokulnair2001/SwiftMock

Feedback and suggestions are very welcome.