MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigbuppo | 2026-01-17 00:33:57+00:00
Back in the bad old days, people created websites because they had no choice in the matter. You simply had to do that to share anything with the rest of the world. Most of the tools we had back then still exist. The barrier to entry has never been lower, and those that are motivated to tinker do just that. But going through history... once mainstream blogging became a thing, and then social media conquered all, the motivation to share with others became monetized, as did the methods of sharing with others. AI isn't going to fix that. On the flip side, those same monsters that destroyed the world we knew through monetizing everything are the same ones spending trillions of dollars on AI.
by 0x1ch | 2026-01-17 00:34:38+00:00
Many. My entire apartment is filled with large single pane windows. There's zero draft sealing at any of them, nor the front door. I likely pay an additional $100 in electricity a month due to this.

It was noticeably reduced when I took the time to 3M wrap all my windows one winter, but I didn't want to do it again.
by moregrist | 2026-01-17 00:35:22+00:00
> Why would they think it's a great idea to claim they implemented CSS and JS from scratch when the first thing any programmer would do is to look at the code and immediately find out that they're just using libraries for all of that?!

Programmers were not the target audience for this announcement. I don’t 100% know who was, but you can kind of guess that it was a mix of: VC types for funding, other CEOs for clout, AI influencers to hype Cursor.

Over-hyping a broken demo for funding is a tale as old as time.

That there’s a bit of a fuck-you to us pleb programmers is probably a bonus.
by sargstuff | 2026-01-17 00:36:56+00:00
Misc curated lists of visual design resources (depending on how interpret question aka no domain target (web, gaming, music, video, arts, robotics, etc)):

Courses to learn UI/UX Design :https://www.toools.design/learn-ui-ux-design

Design Resources for developers : https://github.com/bradtraversy/design-resources-for-develop...

Design Resources for Developers : https://github.com/manishparui/design-resources-for-develope...

Design Reosurces : https://github.com/reinaldosimoes/design-resources

Awesome Creative Coding : (beginner/intermediate) https://github.com/terkelg/awesome-creative-coding
by tpmoney | 2026-01-17 00:37:10+00:00
Landlords also contribute to educational and class mobility. Students can study at distant but better schools because they don't need to buy a home before they can move and they can return home or anywhere else much easier because they don't have to then find a buyer for the property to cash out. Job seekers can take a job across the country and not need enough spare cash to make multiple flights back and forth across the country to house hunt first. Landlords allow people to take vacations and trips to places they would otherwise never see because they don't live there. Landlords allow small businesses to launch without first needing to buy commercial real estate.

I spent 15 years living in my current state before I bought a home. In that time I moved on average every 2 years often due to changing jobs or changing living circumstances. There is no way I could have afforded to buy a home when I first moved here, and even if I could have, I didn't know anywhere near enough about the area or where I would be in 5 years let alone 10 or 20 to have made a good choice for where to buy that home. I love my home but owning this home has cost me well over 50k in repairs and maintenance in the 15 years I've owned it. That is absolutely money I would not and did not have when I first moved to this state and it would have financially ruined me to have bought and owned a home when I first moved here.

Have I had some crappy landlords? Sure. I've also had some great ones too and have very fond memories of some of the places I've lived over the years. None of which would have been possible without landlords in general.
by fluoridation | 2026-01-17 00:39:33+00:00
>"Imagine an AI that can replace every employee of a Fortune 500 company."

Where did that come from? What started this thread was "I don't think we'll get to the point where all you have is a CEO and a massive Claude account". Yeah, if we're talking a sci-fi super-AI capable of replacing hundreds of people it probably has like armed androids to guard its physical embodiment. Turning it off in that case would be a little hard for a white collar worker. But people were discussing somewhat realistic scenarios, not the plot of I, Robot.

>Try to turn it off? It will call up a minority shareholder, and get you slapped with a lawsuit for breach of fiduciary duty. It will convince someone in government that the company is a vital strategic asset.

Why would an AI capable of performing all the tasks of a company except making executive decisions have the legal authority to do something like that? That would be like the CEO being unable to fire an insubordinate employee. It's ludicrous. If the position of CEO is anything other than symbolic the person it's bestowed upon must have the authority to turn the machines off, if they think they're doing more harm than good. That's the role of the position.
by jacobolus | 2026-01-17 00:39:40+00:00
The only way anything ever changes in a volunteer project is if someone feels motivated and makes the effort. Please contribute changes to German Wikipedia articles (or English ones) when you notice possible improvements. If you are not personally capable of improving an article about a topic you don't know about, please try to contribute to the articles about topics you do know something about. Or you can try to leave a talk page message asking for help.
by arendtio | 2026-01-17 00:40:00+00:00
So far, the only solution I know is to set a date and stick with it. Trying to find a solution that meets everybody's calendar is rarely worth the effort. First, nobody has time; later, they have other appointments, so in the end it seems to be a matter of priority.

Set your date and stick to it. If people deem your topic relevant, they will arrange to participate.
by tharkun__ | 2026-01-17 00:40:01+00:00
Not talking about consumers. Car makers, as that's what my parent posited. "The market made car makers do fuel efficiency all by itself!". Yeah, no.

Which traditional car maker actually cared about EVs before Tesla came along?

(Even Toyota, which was sorta "caring about it" did not believe in going "all in" and for a very very long time would only do Hybrid and nothing more).

Every other established car maker did not invest in this until "forced" by Tesla so to speak. And then spurred on by things like the EU regulations to no longer allow any non-EV new car registrations by ... was it 2035? Which I hear they're now thinking about undoing.
by tehjoker | 2026-01-17 00:40:43+00:00
Does your landlord stand for election? That's a huge huge difference. The landlord is only out for themselves, but the government can potentially make decisions that benefit society as a whole and are rational.

The basic problem in America today is an absolute lack of democratic control of the government and our capitalist class. I can go into this in some detail but it is a large digression from the topic at hand. But I will add, that even Donald Trump is afraid to directly cut popular programs, or at least has some limits.
by pimlottc | 2026-01-17 00:41:31+00:00
WYSIWYG is a concept that pre-dates the web and what this article is talking about is not the same thing. WYSIWYG was coined as a term to describe word processing and desktop publishing software where the appearance of your text matched the final printed output; the same fonts, weights, sizes, styles, etc. That's it.

It's something we mostly take for granted today but was a real advancement over earlier, often text-based, programs that used simple text effects like highlighting or different colors to represent visual effects that were only fully realized when you printed your document.

It has nothing to do with being able to view source, or copy other designs, or any of that.
by qohen | 2026-01-17 00:44:19+00:00
Languages like Prolog just don't offer that sort of freedom.

Yes, they do -- that's why people have enjoyed using such languages.

It might help to think of them as being like very-high-level scripting-languages with more rigorous semantics (e.g. homoiconicity) and some nifty built-ins, like Prolog's relational-database. (Not to mention REPLs, tooling, etc.)

Read, for example, what Paul Graham wrote about using Lisp for Viaweb (which became Yahoo Store) [0] and understand that much of what he says applies to languages like Prolog and Smalltalk too.

[0] https://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
by rucury | 2026-01-17 00:44:25+00:00
"btw OP, the link doesn't work in your blog - there's some markup issues"

Whoops, thanks for catching that! Just fixed it, here is the link just in case: https://github.com/rnegron/WiiNewsPR/blob/11df0e242bb1f4134e...

"Does the Wii just accept any "signed" content? If so, wow, 2007 was a crazy time..."

Yup! I suppose they assumed that hard-coding the URL was enough of a safeguard!
by maccard | 2026-01-17 00:44:30+00:00
This is true. The rating is actually pretty low though - they only need to be a band E on the EPC. It’s soon to be C though.

One of the… problems with that is that a lot of our housing stock is very old, and honestly not ever going to reach that. The grading don’t take partial improvements into account so if you do internal wall insulation on half your house it means absolutely nothing on the EPC. The means to get to C for older properties basically require insulation (not practical in pre cavity wall buildings without an ungodly amount of work) and renewable installs. That’s not to say we shouldn’t try but it’s a tall order to ask anyone to rip everything back to brick and build cavity walls in th pre 1930 stock (which there’s absolutely craploads of)
by joemi | 2026-01-17 00:44:54+00:00
People with large vocabularies tend to be heavy readers, and therefore experiencing these words and metaphors more than people with smaller vocabularies. I think there's a direct link between people attempting to use certain words as proof of AI and the fact the younger generations aren't reading as much as older generations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/high-school-english-te...

Somewhat contradictory, I don't think you can ignore fiction when discussing technical writing, since technical writing (especially online) has become far more casual (and influenced by conversation, pop culture, and yes, even fiction) than it ever was before. So while as I noted above, younger people are reading less these days, people are also less strict about how formal technical writing needs to be, so they may very well include words and expressions not commonly seen in that style of writing in the past.

I'm not arguing that these things can't be indicators of AI generation. I'm just arguing that they can't be proof of AI generation. And that argument only gets stronger as time goes on an more people are (sadly) influenced by things AI have generated.
by JohnMakin | 2026-01-17 00:45:12+00:00
Replying to my own comment like this in this thread is vain and gauche so I apologize, but as I think more about this conversation, there’s a site I am now thinking I want to build similar to the early twitch days (justin.tv) to where you could host anything you wanted and drive traffic to it as you please without worrying about algorithms. I’d love to build that. Leaving this here in case that idea becomes a reality I can link the post a year from now.
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-17 00:45:23+00:00
All shells do. Even alternate shells like Murex and Nushell.

The problem isn’t that they can’t, it’s that writing context aware shell completions is hard because every tool does things slightly differently, and typically completions are not done by the same people who wrote the CLI tool to begin with.

So you end up with a thousand edge cases where stuff isn’t 100% correct.
by wmorgan | 2026-01-17 00:46:24+00:00
The military is German, not British. Eisenhower, Nimitz, Oppenheimer. Operation Paperclip. The maneuver tactics you see in Band of Brothers were copied from the Prussians — that is going back to the 1870s. Patton’s speech to the Third Army is the least British speech imaginable; if Rudyard Kipling heard it then he would have exploded. USMC has a web page basically apologizing for being so German: https://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/why-the-german-example/
by dvt | 2026-01-17 00:46:44+00:00
What is your use case that you see UI lag between vscode and sublime? Honestly, I feel zero difference between sublime/vscode/vi. Vscode arguably takes longer to boot up, but that only happens like once a day so it's not a big deal.

I think this is a lot of "I don't like Typescript/Javascript for serious things" or "Electron sucks" posturing rather than an actual tangible difference.
by rawgabbit | 2026-01-17 00:48:17+00:00
Teams of consultants on site, some remote, and many offshore. Tons of documents are created and many environments and DevOps pipelines are stood up. First code release is when the people who push buttons touch the system for the first time. It is crap. Several more code releases attempt to make the system usable. Eventually another consultant or two are brought to evaluate the project and they say the project violated every best practice and common sense rule. Most egregiously the internal stakeholders who voiced serious concerns at the beginning of the project were dismissed or forced out etc.
by burnerRhodov2 | 2026-01-17 00:48:28+00:00
> With a maximum take-off weight of about 16 tons, a 25-meter wingspan and an operational ceiling of 15,000 meters, Jiutian can remain airborne for roughly 12 hours and reach targets up to 7,000 kilometers away

Okay, you're right... their military capabilities are still laughable. Thanks for the reassurance, that'll help me sleep at night a bit better.
by madmod | 2026-01-17 00:48:52+00:00
I have 3 27" 5k monitors in portrait and a 32" 4k horizontal above those. It is all mounted with vesa cheeseplates to manfrotto magic arms on t slot aluminum attached to a C stand with manfrotto super clamps. I also have two genelec studio monitors which sound amazing.

All of that cost less than this one monitor.
by rimmontrieu | 2026-01-17 00:48:52+00:00
This is a great news for Astro. It ticks all the boxes when being used to build heavy content and SEO driven websites. I've been using (Astro + Cloudflare workers/pages) as my go-to stack to build my Java gamedev resources website [1] and gaming portal [2], so far and the experience is very positive. Deploying static files to Cloudflare edges feels natural and frictionless.

Still a bit concerned that it might be too tempting to build an entire website infrastructure around cloudflare, which is a single point of failure. But there is really no better alternatives at the moment. I tried self-hosting but eventually resorted to cloudflare because of bad bots, ai, scrappers kept hammering on my sites.

[1] https://raizensoft.com/tutorials/
[2] https://ookigame.com
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-17 00:49:09+00:00
I don't think Chinese cars ever came into their own until two things happened:

- A move to automate auto factory lines in Chinese auto factories. Up until about a decade ago the emphasis was still on using human labor, and quality took a hit accordingly. Robots are much more precise and consistent, the quality difference between a Chinese-made cars and the same kind of car made in Japan was huge.

- EVs. EV motors are just more reliable in general, and are easier to replace when they wear out or are defective. You don't have so many moving parts any more, and the Chinese became world leaders in battery tech.

If I ever live in China again and need to buy a car, it will definitely be an EV. Heck, I would never buy a BMW ICE (maintenance sucks) but I bought a BMW EV...
by neilv | 2026-01-17 00:49:22+00:00
Even without rent control, being known by the landlord as a reliable tenant in a troubled apartment/building... is a way to eventually have one of the least expensive apartments in an area, through a series of only small rent increases.[1]

Every little repair and upgrade I've made has been more than worthwhile, and I only wish I had made more.

Though, a friend in a nicer place went and made a deal with his landlord, for landlord to pay for only materials for substantial DIY renovation friend would do. Suddenly, his apartment had higher market value...

[1] Unless landlord participates in RealPage/YieldStar, and is pushed to illegal price-fixing.
by Grimblewald | 2026-01-17 00:49:55+00:00
I used to evangelize pro AI, but these days I am staunchly anti. Not AI specifically, but corporate involvement in any aspect of it's development or rollout. Behavior to date does not inspire confidence in competence or moral/ethical soundness.

The aggressive non-consensual attempts to force it into every aspect of our lives is itself plenty of proof for the fact we cannot trust it.
by andrewaylett | 2026-01-17 00:50:01+00:00
You should probably be running your renewal pipeline more frequently than that: if you had let your ACME client set itself up on a single server, it would probably run every 12h for a 90-day certificate. The ACME client won't actually give you a new certificate until the old one is old enough to be worth renewing, and you have many more opportunities to notice that the pipeline isn't doing what you expect than if you only run when you expect to receive a new certificate.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-17 00:50:04+00:00
> Thanks for the feedback!

> On pricing: honestly, the paid tier is less about monetization right now and more about signal. People who pay are the ones who really want this to work, and we want to build for them first. It helps us focus.

Honestly I am pretty frugal usually but respect. I think I read something like this either in some VC idea where people will intentionally raise prices in the start to see if their market is fit as you say (or perhaps I am butchering it, but you put it out wonderfully)

I just hope that in the end, you guys become competitive to things like exe.dev which is what I currently use (for completely free mind you but its in alpha version) but it provides an agent shelly with the web in a sandbox and I think that they are gonna focus on being more competitive in the market and there are multiple of options right now

Though just now I saw that 1code.dev is an YC backed startup and um, being honest, I have just less faith in YC backed/VC funded startups unless proven otherwise because VC requires profits so they might be incentivized to keep the pricing on the upper side of things and not change as you mention

I am not exactly sure how things would go for your product and I am unable to get a clear visual understanding of what you are trying to achieve but I feel like there are some things which you can do to solve it as the GP said

Basically please dont get enshittified in the end.
by pcthrowaway | 2026-01-17 00:50:23+00:00
The relevant word here is MAY[1]

It's true that if an API requires the devs of its consumers to have consulted documentation in order to respect the RateLimit header, they can just as easily include custom API logic for traffic control, but this does provide a nice standardized way to do so nevertheless.

And since the word is "MAY", APIs may also use standard responses that don't require an custom handling. As an example a CLI-builder library which parses OpenAPI spec can adopt changes to handle the RateLimit header automatically, in the situations where consulting docs is not required.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119
by wildzzz | 2026-01-17 00:50:56+00:00
Why would a landlord care about expensive efficiency upgrade? They don't pay the utility bills. Efficiency upgrades would only justify a higher rent to cover the work. The upgrades would essentially be a "luxury" upgrade that would raise the rent in this free market scenario. Would the higher rent be offset by the utility savings? Probably not.

Assuming the work was free (it never would be but just go with it), the upgrade would save about $100/month in electricity. To a prospective tenant, that means they'd be willing to pay up to $100 more in rent to break even. Now since we live in the real world, that upgrade now has to be paid for. The work cost $4.8k and the landlord wants to pay for it over 2 years so now there's a $200/month increase. But the work will only save $100/month. The tenant is now paying an extra $100 in total living expenses. By the time the 2 years are up, the landlord isn't going to cut the rent by $200, he'll just continue to charge the same or more than what it was 2 years ago. The tenant will forever be paying that extra $100 in living expenses while the landlord gets to pocket an extra $200.

What's needed is a baseline of acceptable housing for tenants and rent controls that force the landlord to share at least some of the financial burden.
by mindslight | 2026-01-17 00:51:29+00:00
I think domestically we need some analog of the EU's GDPR, as table stakes for preventing the surveillance industry ("big tech") from amassing so much power over the People that they're inclined to try for another coup.

We also need some kind of antitrust enforcement against the forced bundling of products from the distinct categories of hardware devices, network services, and client software.

Those should leave us with a similar environment to the EU. Beyond that, sure tax away, whatever. If we've done our job right domestically, these services should be a lot easier to value in terms of subscription fees rather than nebulous values siphoned away from surveillance subjects.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-17 00:51:32+00:00
Let's not forget the infamous demo of the Metaverse where Zuck's avatar was jumping and another avatar, a female one, was trying to do high-kicks on high-heels... And it turned out the vid was fake because they hadn't figured out how to do legs yet.

I mean: it was faked, using motion capture, and... it still sucked big times. That vid lives rent-free in my head.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-17 00:52:06+00:00
Zed is awesome and zed has zed AI and its built on non electron. Its actually built by the atom team itself by learning from their mistakes of building atom and this time instead of building it on browser, they did some pretty hardcore optimizations like running the editor at 144 fps or similar by rendering rectangles via GPU processing.

Zed is really snappy. It's kind of my go-to editor for most things.
by perrygeo | 2026-01-17 00:52:12+00:00
Speaking only of written communication here: I've noticed a distinct trend of people stopping documentation, comments, release notes, etc. intended for human consumption and devoting their writing efforts to building skills, prompts, CLAUDE.md intended for machines.

While my initial reaction was dystopian horror that we're losing our humanity, I feel slightly different after sitting with it for a while.

Ask yourself, how effective was all that effort really? Did any humans actually read and internalize what was written? Or did it just rot in the company wiki? Were we actually communicating effectively with our peers, or just spending lots of time on trying to? Let's not retcon our way to believing the pre-AI days were golden. So much tribal knowledge has been lost, NOT because no one documented it but because no one bothered to read it. Now at least the AI reads it.