MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kube-system | 2026-01-06 00:03:56+00:00
Even many TVs with "reputable" western brand names, on the shelf at major US retailers, are often sold at a loss on the hardware and the difference is made up by collecting advertising data.

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2024/11/18/tv-companies-sell...

> you just have to look at the finances of Vizio or Roku to see they’re selling TVs at somewhere between -3 and -7% margin
by gnatman | 2026-01-06 00:04:14+00:00
>> “You keep holding on to hope, then breaking it, and moving forward by picking up ideas from the ashes,” [Baek] said in an interview with a web magazine published by Korean Institute for Advanced Study.

“I’m closer to a daydreamer by nature, and for me mathematical research is a repetition of dreaming and waking up.”

beautiful!
by staticassertion | 2026-01-06 00:04:55+00:00
It's better than nothing, obviously. But I don't consider `npm install <random-package>` to be equivalent to "RCE as a service", although it's somewhat close. I definitely wouldn't recommend `npm install <actually a random package>`, even in Docker.

I also implemented `insanitybit/cargo-sandbox` using Docker but that doesn't mean I think `insanitybit/cargo-sandbox` is a sufficient barrier to arbitrary code execution, which is why I also had a hardened `cargo add` that looked for typosquatting of package names, and why I think package manager security in general needs to be improved.

You can and should feel better about running commands like that in a container, as I said - seccomp and DAC are security boundaries. I wouldn't say "you should feel good enough to run an open SSH server and publish it for anyone to use".
by AmbroseBierce | 2026-01-06 00:05:02+00:00
This is a full block not a warning in any conventional sense of the word, and it resembles Google but it very clearly says "Foogle" so it's not pretending to be Google, and no email or anything at all is asked from the user, so yeah it's just plain abuse of their power and very little space to argument that they are just being "overly cautious", but just like abuses by the state or the police there is always people in favor of such abuses in the name of safety.
by drnick1 | 2026-01-06 00:05:03+00:00
If the game is reasonably priced, people may still buy it out of convenience. For example, I'd rather pay $5 for a single player game on Steam and get out-of-the-box support for Linux through Proton than download a possibly malware-ridden copy in the high seas and then spent time figuring out how to run it. It's the same reason people still buy hard copies when every conceivable book is on Anna's Archive.
by j1elo | 2026-01-06 00:05:27+00:00
If that is really the case (I don't know numbers about React), in projects with a sane criteria of security, they would either only jump between versions that have passed a complete verification process (think industry certifications); or the other option is that simply by having such an enormous amount of dependencies would render that framework an undesirable tool to use, so they would just avoid it. What's not serious is living the life and incorporating 15-17K dependencies blindly because YOLO.

(so yes, I'm stating that 99% of JS devs who _do_ precisely that, are not being serious, but at the same time I understand they just follow the "best practices" that the ecosystem pushes downstream, so it's understandable that most don't want to swim against the current when the whole ecosystem itself is not being serious either)
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by moralestapia | 2026-01-06 00:06:17+00:00
OP got in touch with one (or many) humans on Google. Humans then decided not to act on the DCMA request.

No need for the "doesn't scale" argument, whatever system they have in place is already good enough to process OP's inquire. The problematic bit is what they decided to do once they had all the information in their hands.

I do, however, think this is just a mishandled situation and Google will correct, particularly after being featured on the HN wall of shame.
by jkubicek | 2026-01-06 00:06:44+00:00
> > Actually, you operate on the next level for certain amount of the time. You work with your manager to file for your promotion case. That's how the typical big corps work with promotions.

> This has always struck me as a pretty juicy deal going for the corporation. They get N years of "next level" work out of you while still being able to pay those N years in "previous level" salary. Good deal for them.

My current company used to work this way, but they moved to a "needs-based" promo process. You can be promoted to L5 if your manager can justify the need for an L5.

Which ends up making promotions significantly harder to come by. It's near impossible to justify the need for an L5 role when you already have L4s doing the work. No matter how far outside their level competencies a person works, that work becomes L4 work... because an L4 is successfully performing it.

It's a deeply silly and frustrating system.
by lostdog | 2026-01-06 00:07:30+00:00
There's a simpler design here begging to show itself.

We're trying to orchestrate a horde of agents. The workers (polecats?) are the main problem solvers. Now you need a top level agent (mayor) to breakdown the problem and delegate work, and then a merger to resolve conflicts in the resulting code (refinery). Sometimes agents get stuck and need encouragement.

The molecules stuff confused me, but I think they're just "policy docs," checklists to do common tasks.

But this is baby stuff. Only one level of hierarchy? Show me a design for your VP agent and I'll be impressed for real.
by rcxdude | 2026-01-06 00:07:34+00:00
More useful than reading the code, in most cases, is looking at who's behind the code. Can you identify the author? Do they have an identity and reputation in the space? Are you looking at the version of the package they manage? People often freak out about the number of packages in such ecosystems but what matters a lot more is how many different people are in your dependency tree, who they are, and how they operate.

(The next most useful step, in the case where someone in your dependency tree is pwned, is to not have automated systems that update to the latest version frequently. Hang back a few days or so at least so that any damage can be contained. Cargo does not update to the latest version of a dependency on a built because of its lockfiles: you need to run an update manually)
by visarga | 2026-01-06 00:08:49+00:00
> Anyone who understands how easy it is to copy bits should know that the original intent of copyright can't work anymore.

AI makes this even more stringent. You cannot protect the "vibe" of your works, AI can replicate it in seconds. If you make "vibe infringement" the new rule, then creativity becomes legally risky. A catch 22.

In 1930 judge Hand said in relation to Nichols v. Universal Pictures:

> Upon any work...a great number of patterns of increasing generality will fit equally well. At the one end is the most concrete possible expression...at the other, a title...Nobody has ever been able to fix that boundary, and nobody ever can...As respects play, plagiarism may be found in the 'sequence of events'...this trivial points of expression come to be included.

And since then a litany of judges and tests expanded the notion of infringement towards vibes and away from expression:

- Hand's Abstractions / The "Patterns" Test (Nichols v. Universal Pictures)

- Total Concept and Feel (Roth Greeting Cards v. United Card Co.)

- The Krofft Test / Extrinsic and Intrinsic Analysis

- Sequence, Structure, and Organization (Whelan Associates v. Jaslow Dental Laboratory)

- Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison (AFC) Test (Computer Associates v. Altai)

The trend has been to make infringement more and more abstract over time, but this makes testing it an impossible burden. How do you ensure you are not infringing any protected abstraction on any level in any prior work? Due diligence has become too difficult now.
by fragmede | 2026-01-06 00:09:11+00:00
In December of 2025, I took five tickets I was assigned in Jira and threw them at codex, which just did them, and with the help of MCPs, codex was able to read the ticket, generate some code, test the code, update gitlab, create a merge request on Gitlab, and update the Jira with the MR. CodeRabbit then reviewed the MR before a human had to look at it. It didn't happen in 2025, but I see it happening for 2026.
by faidit | 2026-01-06 00:09:18+00:00
This is only good advice if your company has high profit margins or funding and an expectation of growth, or your manager is extremely kind and trusting, or there are signs your manager is about to be fired/reorged and consultants or higher ups are asking if you want to replace them. More established industries or stagnating companies with low profit margin and no VC backing do not have a lot of room at the top, there are "negative selection" processes for management, and trying to do your boss's job is likely to be seen as insubordination. In those organizations the managers keep their job not by excelling at it (typically they would have leveled out due to the Peter principle) but by actively culling threats, and have all kinds of dirty tricks they can use to get rid of you if you show too much initiative.
by dave_sid | 2026-01-06 00:11:06+00:00
If he can only remember two programming languages then he wouldn’t stand a chance in today’s dev ops, t-shaped, m-shaped world I’m afraid. Imagine asking him to help setup an CI pipeline, or some infrastructure but he’s worried learning a bit of Terraform will make him forget his second last language. You just can’t be like that these days. You have to be a jack of all trades and a master of all trades. That’s just where we are and it’s not going to change anytime soon.
by stevage | 2026-01-06 00:11:53+00:00
As a reluctant runner, I still don't see any value in a smartwatch. I just use my phone and it does everything I want, which is basically, play podcasts and record my run for Strava.

I did previously have a smartwatch which did heart rate monitoring, but really, once I'd confirmed that when I exercised harder my heart rate went up, I lost interest in it.
by cdrnsf | 2026-01-06 00:12:18+00:00
Our last apartment in Hollywood did not include a refrigerator. It was odd, but we bought a small one that we now use in the garage of our home. This meant that the delivery folks had to haul it up through the building's aging elevator, use straps on their forearms to lift it over the newly installed flooring and set it in place.

The building was also rent controlled but, instead of placing the notice in a visible, public space, it was affixed as an afterthought in the locked basement laundry area.
by observationist | 2026-01-06 00:13:25+00:00
Neural networks are effectively gauge invariant, and you have a huge space of valid isomorphisms as far as possible "valid" layer orderings go, and if your network is overparameterized, the space of "good enough" approximations gets correspondingly larger. The good enough sets are a sort of fuzzy gauge quotient approximating some "ideal" function per layer or cluster or block (depending on your optimizer and architecture.)

https://arxiv.org/html/2506.13018v2 - Here's an interesting paper that can help inform how you might look at networks, especially in the context of lottery tickets, gauge quotients, permutations, and what gradient descent looks like in practice.

Kolmogorov Arnold Networks are better about exposing gauge symmetry and operating in that space, but aren't optimized for the hardware we have - mechinterp and other reasons might inspire new hardware, though. If you know what your layer function should look like, if it were ordered such that it resembled a smooth spline, you could initialize and freeze the weights of that layer, and force the rest of the network to learn within the context of your chosen ordering.

The number of "valid" configurations for a layer is large, especially if you have more neurons in the layer than you need, and the number of subsequent layer configurations is much larger than you'd think. The lottery ticket hypothesis is just circling that phenomenon without formalizing it - some surprisingly large percentage of possible configurations will approximate the function you want a network to learn. It doesn't necessarily gain you advantages in achieving the last 10% , and there could be counterproductive configurations that collapse before reaching an optimal configuration.

There are probably optimizer strategies that can exploit initializations of certain types, for different classes of activation functions, and achieve better performance for architectures - and all of those things are probably open to formalized methods based on existing number theory around gauge invariant systems and gauge quotients, with different layer configurations existing as points in gauge orbits in hyperdimensional spaces.

It'd be really cool if you could throw twice as many neurons as you need into a model, randomly initialize a bunch of times until you get a winning ticket, then distill the remainder down to your intended parameter count, and train from there as normal.

It's more complex with architectures like transformers, but you're not dealing with a combinatorial explosion with the LTH - more like a little combinatorial flash flood, and if you engineer around it, it can actually be exploited.
by p1mrx | 2026-01-06 00:14:12+00:00
If this is true, it's possible that the technology is from Nordic Nano. That would at least explain how a motor/software company could pull a battery out of thin air:

https://www.donutlab.com/nordic-nano-investment/

Their chief scientist is working on solar-powered hydrogen production, which seems fairly unrelated to solid state batteries:

https://www.nordicnano.co/chief-scientist-bela-bhuskute-will...

Though TiO2 nanoparticles appear to be relevant to battery research in general:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsaem.3c02304
by blell | 2026-01-06 00:14:17+00:00
This has happened because the party that rules Spain has ties to the dictatorship.

This goes so far that one of the ministers of the government met in Spain with Delcy Rodriguez, bringing her a few briefcases of something that hasn't been explained yet, despite her being subject to a travel ban in the EU.

Of course this is a progressive government so the EU said absolutely nothing about it.
by irishcoffee | 2026-01-06 00:14:27+00:00
Other states figured this out. I can’t go to the DMV on a whim, I hafta schedule an appt. But I’ve never waited very long. Longest wait I had in years was when their comms went down and they strongly encouraged everyone to leave and reschedule. I did not, 20 minutes later comms were online.

I think the most interesting part was when I finally was “helped” and the person was so rude and demeaning, loudly and vocally, I said as few words as possible to make things move along quickly.

Towards the end, before I had what I needed, I was asked to take a survey and rate my experience. I waited until I had accomplished my goal, and without any guilt gave the worst rating I could.

A manager called me later that day asking about my rating, I was very surprised. I explained myself and even got a bit of an apology.

I’ll add your experience to my list of “why I’ll never live in California” which is starting to really become substantial.
by pixelatedindex | 2026-01-06 00:15:29+00:00
In my experience, the issue is that performing at the next level is not a guarantee for promotion. So when you do work at the next level, they can just say “it’s not sustained enough” or whatever reason and then you’re stuck — can’t really produce less so you end up looking for a way out because all that work was kind of for nothing.

I look for opportunities outside my job requirements to learn and grow but it gets really tiring and exhausting when you’re not rewarded for it. Basically there is a lot of upside for the employer but for the employee it’s a bit of a crapshoot
by nubg | 2026-01-06 00:16:30+00:00
Your plugin is potent, practical, and precise. However, the article itself is a struggle.

It’s not the substance, it’s the style. It’s not the logic, it’s the language. The undisclosed ChatGPT makes the text dense, difficult, and dry. I would rather read the prompt—the plan—than the robotic polish.

I will absolutely use and utilize this tool—it’s a lifesaver—but please: declare AI polish, don't disguise.

/s

That being said, thanks a lot for this tool, I'm geniunely gonna enjoy it. Thanks for making open source n8n useful again!
by stevage | 2026-01-06 00:16:39+00:00
It's interesting to me how norms and expectations about what is provided with a rental apartment vary so widely around the world:

- USA: fridge, washing machine plus the below:

- Australia: oven/stove, kitchen cabinets, overhead lights, toilet seat, shower curtain, curtains...

- France: absolutely fricking nothing. Bare walls. You may have to install cupboards for your kitchen. Instead of overhead lights there will probably be just wires hanging out of the ceiling. If you're moving to the country for a year or so it sucks...
by toast0 | 2026-01-06 00:17:07+00:00
I've not rented in LA county, but everywhere I've rented and the three houses I've bought all came with a fridge. They're large and awkward to move, and they typically last a long time. Why would I want to move one?

Might be nice to have a new one with no one else's mess, but they do clean up pretty fully when you take out all the shelves.
by dwd | 2026-01-06 00:17:15+00:00
A design system I am required to use made a recent "major" update announcement: "Styles have been converted to variables. Styles are out and Figma variables are in".

Where what we really needed was a stable release version (now a year late from the original promised date) so we can build out UI components for the content editors to use that don't require constant design tweaks.

You know the designers are:

a) Just fucking around having fun

b) Making busy work to drag it out as long as possible

As it's now 4 years since they began working on the "design system", there's a good chance it will get canned as there's some more modern design they will want to use.
by bigwheels | 2026-01-06 00:17:53+00:00
Sigh.. where is that battery tech checklist?

Edit: Here we go (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28025969)

Dear battery technology claimant,

Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary battery technology. Your new technology claims to be superior to existing lithium-ion technology and is just around the corner from taking over the world. Unfortunately your technology will likely fail, because:

[ ] it is impractical to manufacture at scale.

[ ] it will be too expensive for users.

[ ] it suffers from too few recharge cycles.

[ ] it is incapable of delivering current at sufficient levels.

[ ] it lacks thermal stability at low or high temperatures.

[ ] it lacks the energy density to make it sufficiently portable.

[ ] it has too short of a lifetime.

[ ] its charge rate is too slow.

[ ] its materials are too toxic.

[ ] it is too likely to catch fire or explode.

[ ] it is too minimal of a step forward for anybody to care.

[ ] this was already done 20 years ago and didn't work then.

[ ] by this time it ships li-ion advances will match it.

[ ] your claims are lies.
by trhway | 2026-01-06 00:18:05+00:00
the popular conspiracy theory among Russian opposition is that Maduro exit was negotiated, so he will do small time at a Fed club and would preserve significant amount of his money (at least couple hundreds of millions), and after completing the time will end up with his money in Russia/Belarussia.

We can see that nobody was going to resist the operation in Venezuela, so it doesn't really matter that Venezuela doesn't have nukes. Using nukes isn't just a matter of pressing a button, it involves a lot of people and processes - thus any significant opposition inside the force or just widespread sabotage will make it unusable.
by avadodin | 2026-01-06 00:18:42+00:00
I am not going to win in an argument about ancient religious texts.

Personally, even rejecting the food poisoning mechanic, it still rings more likely to me that some more superficial heuristic like "pigs and eels revel in the mud thus they are unclean" existed before religious and/or cultural significance("these beasts are unclean and I'm the Rabbi") was attached to it, rather than the wish for differentiation from other peoples appearing first("the enemy drinks water, henceforth we shall only drink beer").

But perhaps you're right and my mind can't wrap around that of those people from three thousand years ago.
by gnabgib | 2026-01-06 00:19:23+00:00
Deadline (3 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46503906

Corporation For Public Broadcasting (4 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504496

Variety (6 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46505794

Related:

Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations (624 points, 5 months ago, 604 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44759382

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order (392 points, 8 months ago, 562 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43869546
by techblueberry | 2026-01-06 00:19:47+00:00
I think I know the answer to this question but curious of other perspectives - why is it that like 40 years ago, right-leaning folks wanted to conserve institutions, and now that's flipped.

it does I dunno explain or is correlated with why the political compass doesn't use the term liberal or conservative (it uses libertarian but obviously not the same thing.). It's kind of interesting that I think that maybe 10 years ago I would have said left / liberal / democrat and right / conservative / Republican were synonyms, and now I would say those are very different words with very different meanings.
by ashvardanian | 2026-01-06 00:19:57+00:00
My workflow isn't very common. I typically have 3-5 projects open on the local machines and 2 cloud instances - x86 and Arm. Each project has files in many programming languages (primarily C/C++/CUDA, Python, and Rust), and the average file is easily over 1'000 LOC, sometimes over 10'000 LOC.

VS Code glitches all the time, even when I keep most extensions disabled. A few times a day, I need to restart the program, as it just starts blinking/flickering. Diff views are also painfully slow. Zed handles my typical source files with ease, but lacks functionality. Sublime comes into play when I open huge codebases and multi-gigabyte dataset files.
by Alex_L_Wood | 2026-01-06 00:20:19+00:00
I am also betting on this. Google used their dumb bots in support since time immemorial, but now these dumb bots are supercharged by LLMs. Except they are still as dumb as before.

I still remember trying to get my Google Play account unbanned in 2014 after I clicked on my own ad in the app once to test that it’s working. Lovely times. Got the account back, but not due to my actions - their dumb bots masquerading as humans were giving me the runaround, and then I just randomly got my account back.
by zaidf | 2026-01-06 00:20:20+00:00
Fair enough. But tides do shift. A lot of today’s terrible patterns (like flat design) were born in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The current generation of UI and UX folks—for simplicity, designers in their 20s—who are empowered to make both big and small decisions at Big Tech are largely riding that inherited wave. There’s still time for their taste to evolve as their confidence and seniority grow.