MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tade0 | 2026-01-28 15:59:54+00:00
> I do want a flood of them so that the current scammers in most of the skilled blue collars get devalued.

Same here. A friend of mine had some interior finishing done by two guys - one was a drinker, the other - a smoker (not tobacco).

After several missed deadlines and significant cost overruns, the drinker had to go, because he would go AWOL too often. The smoker stayed, because he responded to yelling and threats of lawsuits.

> Y'all think that AI researchers should go to jail for hallucinated citations?

I don't want to start this conversation because to me if we were a proper branch of engineering, a lot of us would be in jail already.

> Dental surgeons should go to jail for selling homeopathic remedies

I respect the hustle, but he could have just went with vitamin C supplements like my guy. He's a doctor(like all denstist here) and those pills legitimately contain proper amounts of vitamin C. Only difference is that I can get the same thing for 1/4 of the price at any pharmacy.
by QuadrupleA | 2026-01-28 16:00:02+00:00
I always like to chime in on these things that I've been a delighted Arch user for about a year now, for similar reasons. Took a lot of setup, but it's dialed now and just works. My computer belongs to me again for the first time in years.

I should really do more to evangelize. It's not ok to use an OS monopoly to degrade and squeeze your users' often primary career and creative tool to your own short term ends, making their lives worse and worse. And it's such a delight to get out from under.

Not sure the situation for normies currently, but for power users, definitely dual boot and give it a try.
by npstr | 2026-01-28 16:00:03+00:00
What are you basing this on? The announcement literally says the people doing the work want to focus on the work and not the bullshit, so they are firing the bullshit people.

> Engineers in particular have expressed their desire to focus their time on engineering, without being hampered by slow process flows, and restore the fast-moving culture that has made us so successful.
by deaux | 2026-01-28 16:00:45+00:00
The issue isn't not choosing Bernie, it's knowingly picking the only candidate who could possibly lose. Because as GP said, they're in on the game. The goal wasn't to pick who they sincerely believed to be the best candidate for the country, including both fitness and likelihood of winning. So it's theatre, as they pretend to put the populace first, but clearly they don't.
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-28 16:00:51+00:00
> I don't get the obsession with the US here.

This conversation, that you replied to, was a consideration of whether it made sense to move to the US. You mentioned that if you could move there, you would.

I presumed it worked as a basis of comparison?

> And with 50% home ownership statistics, it seems I'm not alone. I'm glad the system worked for you but it failed me and so I will vote to those who put my interest first and not devalue my labor.

I presume you live in Germany? I know some engineers who live there, I used to work with a team based off on Germany years ago.

They are doing fine.

I don't really care who you vote for. Based on your stance, I presume you blame immigrants for "devaluing your labor".

Contrary to you, I believe that with more trade and movement of highly skilled people, economic progress follows.

I don't believe stagnation is a viable strategy. You are free to believe otherwise.

Have a wonderful afternoon.
by asyncadventure | 2026-01-28 16:00:54+00:00
Great point about the accessibility tree @joeframbach. The "vision impaired customer" analogy is spot on - if an interface works for screen readers, it should work for AI agents.

What I find most compelling about this approach is the explicit verification layer. Too many browser automation projects fail silently or drift into unexpected states. The Jest-style assertions create a clear contract: either the step definitively succeeded or it didn't, with artifacts for debugging.

This reminds me of property-based testing - instead of hoping the agent "gets it right," you're encoding what success actually looks like.
Discuss: Linux has been solid for a long time, come on in – the water is fine
by ottoflux | 2026-01-28 16:01:02+00:00
Just a quick note for anyone thinking about making the jump. I’ve been in the Unix/Linux world for about 30 years now, going back to SPARC. I used macOS for a long time because of its BSD roots, but Linux has been my daily driver for years.

Linux has been rock-solid for nearly two decades (imo). Most of the pain people run into has very little to do with the OS and a lot to do with expectations. If your goal is to keep running Windows software on something that isn’t Windows, you’re going to fight it forever. If instead you step back and ask, “What does a Linux-native workflow look like for what I actually do?” things tend to fall into place.

I leaned on VMware for years as a crutch, mostly to avoid giving up tools I’d already invested time and money in - eventually realizing I was stuck in sunk-cost thinking.

Once I committed and stopped half-living in another OS, everything got simpler. As an integration software developer and architect, I haven’t booted a Windows machine or VM in nearly a decade — and I don’t miss it. Sure - new tools and commands to learn but no one misses regedit and if your skills are as good as you like people to think they are you can learn to love the shell/terminal.

If you’re on the fence, try it — but actually commit to it. Pick a distro that matches your preferences, knowing that once you’re under the hood, most of the look, feel, and behavior is yours to shape anyway.
by dangus | 2026-01-28 16:01:34+00:00
I just think the funny thing about it is that it doesn’t even seem to always be in their benefit.

For example, it used to be that tech companies wanted more regulations to keep newcomers out of their space. If you have a lot of regulations it’s hard to disrupt an industry with a startup.

I also think a more regulated AI industry with universal law-enforced privacy controls would lead to more consumer confidence and willingness to adopt the technology. It’s hard to adopt AI when I don’t really know what these companies are going to do with my data and I think they’re just going to lie and weasel word their way into harming me.
by sponaugle | 2026-01-28 16:01:48+00:00
"I think 2026 is the year of Business Analysts who were unable to code." This is interesting - I have seen far more BAs losing jobs as a result of the 'work' they did being replaced by tools (both AI and AI-generated). I logically see the connection from AI tools giving BAs far more direct ability to produce something, but I don't see it actually happening. It is possible it is too early in the AI curve for the quality of a BA built product to be sufficient. CC and Opus45 are relatively new.

It could also be BAs being lazy and not jumping ahead of the train that is coming towards them. It feels like in this race the engineer who is willing to learn business will still have an advantage over the business person who learns tech. At least for a little while.
by timbit42 | 2026-01-28 16:01:48+00:00
> I've been running Ubuntu Linux for a long time now...Linux still has it's fair share of bugs...

> I don't see regular users adopting Linux anytime soon...

I can see why you think the second statement is true based on the first statements. When Ubuntu switched their desktop to Gnome, they gave up on being the best Linux desktop distro. I'd recommend you to try Linux Mint.
by Majromax | 2026-01-28 16:02:07+00:00
> In other words, such a structure would not dissuade bad actors with large financial incentives to push something through a process that grants validity to a hypothesis.

That's not the right threat model. The existing peer review process is already weak to high-effort but conflicted research.

Instead, the threat model is closer one closer to that of spam, where the submitting authors don't care about the content of their submission at all but need X publications in high-impact outlets for their CV or grant application. Predatory journals exploit this as part of a pay-to-play problem, but the low reputation of those journals limits their desirable impact factor.

This threat model relies on frequent but low-quality submissions, and a submission fee would make taking multiple kicks at the can unviable.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-01-28 16:02:16+00:00
RPM "solved" it too.

I hate package management so much. I hate installing unnecessary cruft to get a box with what I want on it.

It makes me pine for tarballs built on boxes w/ compilers installed and deployed directly onto the filesystem of the target machines.

Edit: I'd love to see package management abstracted to a set of interfaces so I could use my OS package manager for all of the bespoke package management that every programming language seems hell-bent on re-implementing.
by butlike | 2026-01-28 16:02:30+00:00
Explain to me, specifically, how we have the capacity to reduce suffering.

> Our advances in logistical transportation and food production allow us to be kinder and more plentiful than ever before.

Are the fisheries not overfished? Are the chickens not caged inhumanely? Is last-mile logistics not a problem? Are microplastics in the water not giving 20-year olds cancer?
by alephnerd | 2026-01-28 16:02:36+00:00
How's the $100K H1B fee that was announced to distract from the Trump Gold Card announcement [0] going? The HN hive mind said it would bring back the jerbs and those of us who warned [1][2] it would incentivize mass layoffs and offshoring were hounded.

Before the layoffs were announced Amazon also committed to expanding hiring and infra expansion in India [3], and depending on the org, affected employees on work visas were offered transfers to India in lieu of being laid off [4].

The Trump admin won't do anything about offshoring either - in fact technology transfers to India are being encouraged as part of Pax Sillica [5] and Purple Ag states are lobbying for India [6] after China pivoted away from American soybeans [7] and India is now using the same playbook [8].

When forced to choose between swing state farmers and GOP SWE ICs, it's going to be the farmers.

[0] - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-signs-proclamati...

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-09-25/a-100-...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-r...

[3] - https://www.aboutamazon.in/news/economic-impact/amazon-econo...

[4] - https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonemployees/comments/1qfesvs/6_...

[5] - https://x.com/USAmbIndia/status/2010718052992618815

[6] - https://www.radioiowa.com/2025/09/08/iowas-governor-leads-de...

[7] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-favour-brazilian-s...

[8] - https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cramer-dai...
by jerf | 2026-01-28 16:02:48+00:00
The golden ratio is very mathematically interesting and shows up in many places. Not as prolific as pi or e, but it gets around.

I find the aesthetic arguments for it very overrated, though. A clear case of a guy says a thing, and some other people say it too, and before you know it it's "received wisdom" even though it really isn't particularly true. Many examples of how important the "golden ratio" are are often simply wrong; it's not actually a golden ratio when actually measured, or it's nowhere near as important as presented. You can also squeeze more things into being a "golden ratio" if you are willing to let it be off by, say, 15%. That creates an awfully wide band.

Personally I think it's more a matter of, there is a range of useful and aesthetic ratios, and the "golden ratio" happens to fall in that range, but whether it's the "optimum" just because it's the golden ratio is often more an imposition on the data than something that comes from it.

It definitely does show up in nature, though. There are solid mathematical and engineering reasons why it is the optimal angle for growing leafs and other patterns, for instance. But there are other cases where people "find" it in nature where it clearly isn't there... one of my favorites is the sheer number of diagrams of the Nautilus shell, which allegedly is following the "golden ratio", where the diagram itself disproves the claim by clearly being nowhere near an optimal fit to the shell.
by m000 | 2026-01-28 16:02:57+00:00
It was before 2020, so I don't think there was any experiment. I had to regularly submit proof of job applications, and had to meet with UVW in person a few times.

The Dutch system is definitely rigged in the health insurance part, where they more-or-less applied US-style privatization.

But unemployment benefits are quite ok. Yes, we pay for it, the money have to come from somewhere. But it's not that your employer would handle you the money if you didn't have WW. And it's definitely better and more stress-free than GoFundMe campaigns (either as a donor or a recipient). And, again, the tilt in the employment power dynamics in your favour is priceless.
Show HN: FASHN VTON v1.5 – open-source virtual try-on model
by ayaboch | 2026-01-28 16:03:03+00:00
We’re open-sourcing FASHN VTON v1.5, a production-grade virtual try-on model.

Given an image of a person and an image of a garment, the model generates a photorealistic try-on result.

Model specs:
- It operates directly in pixel space (no VAE)
- Supports maskless inference by default, and was trained from scratch.
- ~972M parameters, runs on consumer GPUs
- Can run in ~5 seconds on H100

We built this as a focused alternative to large generalist models, with the goal of making a production-grade, specialized virtual try-on model.

We’re releasing the weights, inference code, and architecture details under an Apache-2.0 license.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
by lapcat | 2026-01-28 16:03:21+00:00
> my experience has been the same as the parent comment, that "independent" always means conservative/Republican but not wanting to call themselves that.

Nobody is denying the existence of this phenomenon. And there's perhaps good reason for people to eschew identification with political parties, which are corrupt in various ways, though one may hold one's nose and vote for some major party candidate on election day.

I dispute the "always" claim, however, which appears to be based on your own anecdotal experience. I would trust Gallup polling more than that. Moreover, the existence of the Green party for example would appear to be proof that independent does not equate with conservative/Republican. The Libertarian party of course gets votes too.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-28 16:03:28+00:00
One step beyond this is the multi-subnetted network on each side. You get the DNAT working, but then suddenly the app gets more complex over time and suddenly you're calling 192.168.2.x, which leads to async routes. Some traffic works, some traffic works one way, and other traffic disappears.

Then you as the client/app manager pull your hair out as the network team tells you everything is working fine.
by stdbrouw | 2026-01-28 16:03:40+00:00
One of the things I like most about CachyOS is that the configuration is all just in text files, one of the things I like least is that I am never quite sure whether to modify the systemd unit settings that are usually in /usr/lib somewhere, the app settings in /etc or the personal configs in ~/.config. For packages that I am unfamiliar with, I usually end up trying all three locations until I notice that my changes seem to stick.

The installer also completely broke the Windows partition that came with the workstation even though I was planning on dual booting, but oh well, no great loss there.

Other than that, there are some small conveniences and apps that I miss from MacOS (the mac calendar and mail apps are just so nice!) but the Niri window manager is just so amazing that at this point I don't think there's anything that could make me switch back.
by data-ottawa | 2026-01-28 16:04:00+00:00
A dataframe API allows you to write code in Python, with native syntax highlighting and your LSP can complete it, in one analysis file. Inlined SQL is not as nice, and has weird ergonomics.

UDFs in most dataframe libraries tend to feel better than writing udfs for a sql engine as well.

Polars specifically has lazy mode which enables a query optimizer, so you get predicate push down and all the goodies if SQL, with extra control/primitives (sane pivoting, group_by_dynamic, etc)

I do use ibis on top of duckdb sometimes, but the UDF situation persists and the way they organize their docs is very difficult to use.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-28 16:04:04+00:00
Unless Google reorganizes and gets more focused, I'd say they are highly likely to repeat their mistakes.

IMHO both Apple and Google are missing a big opportunity here. Both are doing work to blur the lines between desktop and mobile. Both are targeting laptops, ar, phones, and tablets.

These are multiple modalities. Or they should be. But because the way both are structured, these are isolated islands with some interoperability but the whole experience is very device centric.

What's nicer is when you have multiple devices and a clean handover between them. You basically sign in and all your apps and data are there. All the open apps have the same state. They just adapt to the formfactor.

Apple has been taking babysteps here but it's still hopelessly compartmentalizing the market. So switching between devices is a lot of setup and install friction.

And for Google, they've been banging the drum that everything is cloud based since forever. Yet they can't figure out a cross device UX that makes sense. It should be as simple as sign in and all your stuff is there. That was the vision with ChromeOS at some point but then they lost interest, got distracted by Fuchsia, went off and created Flutter and also forgot that Android was the thing that actually has an enormous amount of users and OEMs shipping it.

The trillion dollar opportunity here: if devices become like shoes, many people probably have more than one. Some people have many pairs of shoes for different occasions. But they have only one phone. Because switching between devices is painful. Adding another OS to the mix just kicks that can down the road. Multi device, multi modal access to your stuff is the key thing that they should be nailing. If e.g. Apple were to nail that, some people might have many different devices in different sizes and form factors. The main decision as to which one to use would be based on which is most appropriate for the context.

If you take something like that as the starting point, the logical conclusion is that Google should evolve Android to run on any type of device and make sure that everything plays nice together. Switching between your Android phone(s), tablet, TVs, car, AR/VR goggles, or laptops should not be hard. Devices running a version of Android exist in all those categories. But there's very little/no integration across these.
by heliumtera | 2026-01-28 16:04:32+00:00
Assuming you're using systemd, you already gave up control over your system. The road to hell was already paved. Now, you would have to go out of your way to retain control.

In the great scheme of things, this period where systemd was intentionally designed and developed and funded to hurt your autonomy but seemed temporarily innocuous will be a rounding error.
by dagss | 2026-01-28 16:04:40+00:00
Others have mentioned SVG AI tools... I've tried 3-4 over the previous days and eventually ended up with svgai.org (after I've used Google Gemini for bitmap).

You can instruct it to make edits, or say "Use SVG gradients for the windows" and so on and you can further iterate on the SVG.

It can be frustrating at times, but the end result was worth it for me.

Though for some images I've done 2-3 roundtrips manual editing, Nano Banana, svgai.org ...

The advantage is that it produces sane output paths that I can edit easily for final manual touches in Inkscape.

Some of the other "AI" tools are often just simply algorithms for bitmap->vector and the paths/curves they produce are harder to work with, and also give a specific feel to the vector art..
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-28 16:05:00+00:00
If we remove from life everything that people have access to by industrialization and mass production, then many or most people would say that "society" has collapsed.

That would be the consequence of taxing ownership in companies, since there would be no reason to invest to create big companies. And for industrial society you need big companies. You need giant companies, and taxing owners on the size of the company means that people will not invest their money or effort build industrial scale companies.

The other way to have industrialization is to instead have a command economy, where the government mandates what is to be done.
by sejje | 2026-01-28 16:05:06+00:00
This child's mother had a choice to bring her along or not, and she brought her.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25919906-vml-v-harpe...

My translation: "Jenny Carolina Lopez: I'm taking my daughter V.M.L. (unredacted) with me to Honduras."

The judge received a petition from non-family that said a US citizen was being deported. He inquired, and found out that it was the mother's choice, not ICE's.

"On April 25, 2025, Judge Doughty issued a memorandum order addressing the emergency petition. 2025 WL 1202548. The order acknowledged the serious due process concerns raised by the petition and scheduled a hearing for May 16, 2025, to determine whether the government had unlawfully deported a U.S. citizen without providing a meaningful opportunity to challenge her removal. Despite the scheduled hearing, on May 8, 2025, the parties filed a joint stipulation of dismissal, and the case was closed without a ruling on the merits."

https://clearinghouse.net/case/46497/

Next.

Also, does the difficulty in surfacing a case not give you a clue that this is not a problem?
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-01-28 16:05:07+00:00
> I think Windows is the only other one which really does this properly

Windows is the only one that does this properly.

Windows handles high pixel density on a per-application, per-display basis. This is the most fine-grained. It's pretty easy to opt in on reasonably modern frameworks, too; just add in the necessary key in the resource manifest; done. [1]

Linux + Xorg has a global pixel density scale factors. KDE/Qt handles this OK; GNOME and GTK break when the scaling factor is not an integer multiple of 96.

Linux and Wayland have per-display scaling factors, but Chromium breaks, and GTK breaks the same way as the Xorg setup.

And of course, every application on Linux in theory can handle high pixel density, but there is a zoo of environment variables and command-line arguments that need to be passed for the ideal result.

On macOS, if the pixel density of the target display is at least some Apple-blessed number that they consider 'Retina', then the 'Retina' resolutions are enabled. At resolutions that are not integer multiples of the physical resolution, the framebuffer is four times the resolution of the displayed values (twice in each dimension), and then the final result is raster-scaled with some sinc/Lanczos algorithm back down to the physical resolution. This shows up as ringing artifacts, which are very obvious with high-contrast, thin regions like text.

On non-retina resolutions, there is zero concept of 'scaling factor' whatsoever; you can choose another resolution, but it will be raster-scaled (usually up) with some bi/trilinear filtering, and the entire screen is blurry. The last time Windows had such brute-force rendering was in Windows XP, 25 years ago.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/hidpi/settin...