MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bell-cot | 2026-01-05 15:21:36+00:00
I wouldn't read too much into the details here. When your attackers have near-complete intel on your infrastructure, and can chose from a dozen different bomb / missile / cannon / infantry / saboteur / cyber options to knock out your internet service - their choices may be mostly about "let's expend the last few of those obsolete Mark 9F/J rounds", or "General Sellers insists that his people get to do something too", or "the Pres. said this one had a cool-sounding name".
by bobajeff | 2026-01-05 15:21:54+00:00
I've been using vscodium with basedpyright as I've thought it was supposed to be a open source version of pylance. I've got to say it's annoying about type errors and after changing it's setting to be less strict it still annoys me and I've even started littering my code with the their # ignore _____ .

I'm really glad the article mentioned ty as I'm going to try that today.

On zed I tried it but the font rendering hurt my eyes and UI seems to be glitchy and also doesn't support the drag and drop to insert links in markdown feature * I use all the time.

* https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages/markdown#_inser...
by aomix | 2026-01-05 15:22:16+00:00
I’m not even an athlete but I hike fairly often and walk 3-4 miles a day with my dog. If I get a pair of so-so boots they’ll last less than a year. I got recommended boots by a friend that lasted me 6 years until I finally had to replace them with an identical pair this Christmas. Nothing has been an issue in the two weeks I’ve had them but when companies get gutted by PE their quality goes down sharply. If I have to find a new boot company I’ll be very sad.
by dmix | 2026-01-05 15:22:21+00:00
I tried moving from Cursor to Zed but the LLM integration still seems very early. Cursor is very far ahead in terms of DX and the various models/tokens you get is very reasonable price wise. Zed would be a good half-way point for the people using terminal LLM CLIs and prefer the more structured approach rather than a deep IDE integration.
by throwfaraway135 | 2026-01-05 15:22:22+00:00
I tried switching from VScode to Zed but unfortunately it doesn't have Jupyter notebooks and image/video preview which are deal brakers for me.

Other pain points:

- Format on save by default: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/29395

- VSCode Debugger UX seams to be much better
by logicchains | 2026-01-05 15:22:31+00:00
>3. To force people to consume less (i.e. inflation). Voters hate this.

Inflation from immigration/offshoring restrictions is not evenly distributed. It's essentially a purchasing power transfer from everyone else to low-skilled workers (who no longer face competition from cheaper overseas labor, so have more bargaining power and hence can demand higher wages from society).
Show HN: Interactive Map you can drag a country to Mars/Moon/Jupiter
by loa_observer | 2026-01-05 15:22:45+00:00
I made a drag-and-drop playground: pick a country, drop it onto Mars/Moon/Jupiter, and see how large it looks there.

Demo: https://www.runcell.dev/tool/true-size-map

Open source: https://github.com/ObservedObserver/world-map-reality;

happy to take feedback / PRs.
by mattacular | 2026-01-05 15:22:45+00:00
I'm not talking about unnecessary (nor incidental) complexity. That is a whole other can of worms. I am talking about the complexity required given what you need to a system to spec. If choices are made to introduce unnecessary complexity (eg. "resume driven development" or whatever you want to call the proclivity to chase new tech) - that is a different problem. Sometimes it can be eliminated through practical considerations. Sometimes organization politics and other entrenched forces prevent it.
by goalieca | 2026-01-05 15:23:10+00:00
>How do they justify their job if they can't roll out huge visible changes?

This is the core rotting value in so much of big tech. So much of your bonus, performance review, promotion package, etc is hinging on "delivering impact" (ie: doing the flashy stuff). Imagine a world where some internal R&D team took a risk on liquid design but then thought it was okay to not ship it because it didn't work out.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-01-05 15:23:10+00:00
then the pendulum swings the other way and now I have ruthless mercenaries chasing $$$ who will jump at the first opportunity

and not every job needs to be top-shelf.

Betty in Accounts-Payable just sorta needs to be there and not screw up too often. I don't need a super-star, and if we have to move her to another part of Accounting that's fine; I'll save my money for a solid CPA or two, etc.
Ask HN: Interior design apps – are they still worth building today?
by mhld | 2026-01-05 15:23:12+00:00
Hi and apologies in advance for the rambling,

I’m a solo developer and I’ve been working on a small consumer app in parallel with my 9-5.
The app lets people visualize how their walls might look after a specific redecoration (style, budget, materials, etc).

I’m aware this is a crowded space. There are a lot of similar apps and tools out there. My own approach has been more focused on realistic and budget-friendly visualization rather than generating AI slop generations, but I’m not sure that distinction actually matters to users.

Lately I’ve been stuck. Traction has been very slow, and I honestly can’t tell whether this is a distribution problem, a differentiation problem, or simply an idea that doesn’t resonate strongly enough (anymore).

I don’t have an existing audience, and trying to grow through TikTok / Instagram feels overwhelming and ineffective so far. I’m unsure whether I should keep pushing, try a different angle (for example partnerships with decor online shops), or accept that this might just be a dead end.

I’d really appreciate honest perspectives from anyone:
- Does this kind of product still feel worth pursuing today?
- How do you decide when to keep going vs. move on?
- Are there distribution channels you’d still try without an audience?

I’m not here to promote anything, but genuinely trying to learn.

Thank you!
Show HN: Nodegraph/Geomap for Grafana
by vaduga | 2026-01-05 15:23:20+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a plugin for visualizing network topologies at scale.

When observing anything more complex than a small lab setup, most existing tools assume subscription based vendor lock or rigid schemas for setup, hardcoded dataframes, or collapse under visual clutter. I wanted something that works across data stacks, scales with volume, and remains readable.

Key features:

- No hardcoded dataframe requirements. It works with arbitrary data models

- Vendor-agnostic and transferable across datasource stacks

- GPU-accelerated rendering for large graphs

- Layered autolayout with subgraphs (e.g. namespaces) to reduce visual clutter

- Link aggregation for shared path fragments

- Metric reducers (e.g. show only faulty or overloaded connections)

- Dynamic styling with user-defined node groups derived from data

- Cluster icons with aggregated group statistics

- Bi-colored 3D arcs to visualize link load

This is aimed at real-world networks (infra, service meshes, distributed systems), not just small demo graphs.

I’d love feedback from people working on observability, networking, or graph visualization - especially on usability, missing features, or integration pain points.

As for Grafana labs, I've talked to them right at the inception offering cooperation on building a faster geomap with links that only lead to shipping their own Network layer in a rush on top of existing outdated tech stack with no intention to improve, so it never left Beta. Native Grafana Nodegraph is also highly hardcoded for internal needs.

I wonder why people keep bombarding Grafana github issues with feature requests for 3-5 years since major updates of these plugins instead of looking for an alternative?

I also have a community edition, which I stopped maintaining due to lack of volunteer support. It remains listed in the Grafana catalog with over 200k downloads, mostly from users who are fine with a large gap from the current version.
by jurajmasar | 2026-01-05 15:23:22+00:00
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by JosephjackJR | 2026-01-05 15:24:20+00:00
Just read a CIO article saying cloud costs are now the second biggest expense for midsize IT companies, behind labor and ahead of pretty much everything else.

That matches what I keep hearing from people running real systems. Cloud spend doesn’t feel like a line item you control anymore, it feels like something you react to after the fact. Bills go up, dashboards light up, and then everyone scrambles to shave a few percent without touching the parts that are actually painful.

What stood out to me is that a lot of this cost doesn’t seem to come from raw compute or storage anymore. It comes from all the things glued around the system to make it work at scale. Remote caches, coordination layers, metadata services, control planes, cross region calls. Stuff that exists because there isn’t a good local place for certain kinds of state to live.

Once those pieces sit on the critical path, they get hit constantly, they add latency, and they quietly become some of the most expensive parts of the system. At that point cloud cost stops being an optimization problem and starts feeling like a structural one.

I’m curious how this lines up with other people’s experience. How much of your cloud bill is tied to coordination and state rather than actual business logic. Have you had to add external services just to keep latency acceptable. Have you reached the point where you’d rather rethink architecture than keep paying the tax.

Genuinely interested in what people are seeing in practice, not vendor takes or budgeting advice.
by artk42 | 2026-01-05 15:24:44+00:00
This is so true, and it is so crazy that the __majority of single people__ are so lacking empathy to at least understand this simple scheduling arithmetic.

That led me to quite radical thoughts, that childless people shouldn't have the same voting power as active parents, just because they simply do not and _can not_ understand the generational mechanics of society and nations survival. They just lack this critical extremum of life experience and can not contribute consciously.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-05 15:24:52+00:00
The irony of the situation when you realize that you can probably get healthcare yourself in India (not sure about other countries) but for even a very good healthcare program to be around 25$ per month

And that 10k$/year can be considered middle class / heck I can even argue just slightly above middle class in India

And you can actually enjoy food and a lot of things really cheap as well

Usually the only problem becomes if something is inherently expensive (think college or land) which is where PPP does hurt but in everyday life, I think India's decent to live in.

Now I want to ask you but even if someone spends around ~$10k+ a year, even then I have heard people describe american healthcare subpar. Like why? Is it just corruption at healthcare level and lobbying efforts?

Is there truly nothing that the average american can't do about to make things better for the healthcare situation. To me its feeling like america's moving even backwards right now from cutting medicaid putting even more strain on the amount and still even on the average person themselves as well.
by ajross | 2026-01-05 15:24:53+00:00
Do you have a cite for that? It's a hamburger menu, which is by far a more common menu paradigm in the modern world. Do you imagine some kind of "casual user" who... doesn't have a phone?

I repeat: the menu bar is a dying abstraction, preserved in a consistent form only on the Macintosh (even iOS has no equivalent), because it's presence is unavoidable. Users of modern apps don't see it used consistently, so it's absolutely not surprising that Apple's designers aren't doing it either.
by saberience | 2026-01-05 15:24:53+00:00
This times 100000. I've been using Mac OS since 1992 and this version (both IOS and MacOS) has had me pulling my hair out more than every other version, and note, I did use OSX 10.0!

The first thing I did with Tahoe was go into the System Preferences to try and turn off as much as possible of the new UI because it's the biggest regression in Mac OS history (at least since I've been using Macs).

I used to mock Windows for the Explorer UI and general GUI experience, now I think I prefer using my Windows 10 PC over my Mac. It's just such a fucking mess, so inconsistent, shitty performance (even on brand new macs and phones), is actively harder to grok, much harder to use for my elderly parents, and doesn't even look "cooler" or "better" in any way. It's just worse on every possible metric, and made me start wondering about an Android phone, which has never happened since I bought an original iPhone.

I am and have been the ultimate Apple fanboy since 1992, but this release fucking sucks balls. I hope you're listening Apple.
by Molitor5901 | 2026-01-05 15:24:58+00:00
This is precisely how I felt. Being obese is not, nor ever, ok. The body positive movement around obesity should have been to help people to 1) nto feel ashamed at being obese, but also 2) to reduce the negativity around it and turn that into positive reinforcement for healthy eating. Instead it became a dogmatic, self righteous movement of encouragement to continue to live that way because others judged it negatively.

No one should be harassed or made to feel bad by the way they look, but at the same time, it's not wrong to want others to be healthy.
by weikju | 2026-01-05 15:25:08+00:00
> I believe Microsoft builds VS Code releases by building VS Codium

Isnt vscodium a specific product built strictly from open-source VS Code source code? It's not affiliated with Microsoft, they simply build from the same base then tweak it in different ways.

This is somewhat unlike my understanding of Chromium/Chrome which is similar to what you described.
by andrewmcwatters | 2026-01-05 15:25:12+00:00
What’s your point? Say everything you just said again, but with software engineering and Indians, instead of manufacturing and the Chinese, or textiles and Vietnam and Pakistan.

There’s no reason American cars need to exist either, they basically all perform worse dollar-for-dollar, feature-for-feature, than foreign cars.

In fact, let’s offshore everything. There’s no reason not to use Filipinos for McDonald’s and In-n-Out drive-thru speakers.

Let’s all adopt Chinese tang ping. Lay down and die. Treat every effort of labor as replaceable and void of respect.

If China and India wanted to wage effortless war with the US all it would have to do is stop exporting goods and labor to us.
by queenkjuul | 2026-01-05 15:25:26+00:00
I finally talked my company into letting me swap out my MacBook pro for some little Dell. After the last year of updates, my Mac has stopped resuming from sleep reliably, everything is ugly, they took the already barely usable (imo) finder and system settings and found exciting new ways to make them worse. Sadly corporate security means os updates were not optional.

I've never really liked macOS but it feels like someone at Apple was hired just to make it even less likable for me personally lol
by walthamstow | 2026-01-05 15:25:49+00:00
I hadn't noticed that they killed Launchpad! On my M3's keyboard, F4 is a magnifying glass icon for Spotlight. I've always used cmd+space, which has been around for a while.

What's even worse is I have disabled all search categories for Spotlight except Apps and System Settings. It's searching a list of 40 apps and idk maybe 200 settings, and it still sucks.
by metadope | 2026-01-05 15:26:14+00:00
Please don't ask a question, then follow immediately with your opinion (showing your question was meaningless rhetoric). You had me going for a moment there, as I was still in a state of mind, still digesting what our Venezulan GP had shared, still trying to imagine what ordinary people in country were feeling about this whole mess, and I thought for a moment that you'd asked a legit question.

I would like to know more of the potential benefits of this op, as seen by the people of Venezuela. Is it possible that ordinary people will benefit?
by ca_tech | 2026-01-05 15:26:23+00:00
This is why I think trail running is so valuable. You must be aware of your changing environment and how to adjust your body's movement to accommodate. You are exercising your mind to calculate your current momentum, intended placement of your next step, and it's potential impact to the rest of your body. You are running your own mental physics simulation as you work the trail, nothing like running on regular roads.
by Octoth0rpe | 2026-01-05 15:26:49+00:00
I'm a very early Zed adopter, and have gotten much more confident in it in the last 6 months mainly because of their AI plans. Note that my strongly positive opinion on this actually has very little to due with the _utility_ of their ai functionality, but rather in that it appears to be a sustainable funding model.

My biggest worry with Zed since I started using it (again, early adopter) was that it would eventually need to be monetized, and likely enshittified. I'm not at all a fan of subscription software, but probably would've happily handed over $20-$50 for a one time purchase (or, maybe $20 for a 1 time purchase of a major version, with another $20 at least 3+ years out or something).

In the last year, Zed has become a sort of AI reseller. You can buy their 'pro' plan, get so many openai/anthropic/gemini tokens, and set a max budget.

For me, this is probably as good of a business model gets in terms of staving off enshittiffication. Zed can happily take a cut, I can preview a bunch of different services, and if you don't care about ai at all, well the core editor is still free. My only worry about this model is that I think I'd have a hard time getting my employer to pay for a Zed pro plan over copilot, so I think they may have trouble monetizing enterprise users with this plan.

In any case, seeing an obvious/relatively innocuous method of sustainable dev has been a tremendous relief to me (and I'm sure the Zed devs as well).

Its biggest remaining flaws IMO remain its small extension ecosystem which hopefully is simply a matter of momentum. I'm sure they could do something like provide richer examples of how to port an extension from vscode, so it's not an intractable problem.

I also continue to have concerns re: the security of their chat/cooperative editing system as it's currently difficult (impossible?) to self host, but perhaps that will also be improved.
Show HN: A CLI That Compiles React, Next.js, TS and Vue for LLMs
by AmiteK | 2026-01-05 15:26:54+00:00
After working with LLMs on real React/TypeScript codebases, I kept running into issues caused by missing structure - invented props, broken hook assumptions, and style leakage.

logicstamp-context is a CLI that analyzes the AST of React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Vue 3 (Composition API) projects and produces deterministic, structured context instead of raw file dumps.

The output is designed for LLMs and CI workflows: components, hooks, props/emits, dependencies, and style usage are extracted explicitly rather than inferred from text.

The CLI can also be used via an MCP server for editor and agent integrations.
by BrandoElFollito | 2026-01-05 15:26:58+00:00
> i think youre not hearing what - at least i - was saying.

You said " it's nonsensical to say tailscale works in places where wireguard is blocked".

If by "blocked" you mean "blocked at the firewall level through some kind of adaptive block that will recognize a wireguard connection based on its behaviour/nature of packets/whatever" → then yes, of course tailscale will not work either as it uses wg under the hood.

If the OP message "tailscale has a much better chance to work when you need it most. WireGuard is blocked by too much stuff" means "I installed wireguard and it does not work (because whatever) but tailscale consistently delivers" → then it is not nonsensical at all. It is the right tool to start with.

> Tailscale themselves actually have an incredibly indepth article on how they've implemented it on their end

This is an excellent documentation to which I refer people as well.
by tomaskafka | 2026-01-05 15:27:37+00:00
And then you have Sylvio Rizzi (of Reeder fame) just one-shotting the whole Liquid Glass tenet by using the prominent glass element to focus on the actual content instead of that hideous sidebar (a liquid glass element I hate the most, not just for a way it makes Xcode 26 sidebar 1 cm wider than Xcode 18 with the same content).

I would wear the t-shirt with Reeder screenshot to work if I worked at Apple, and would observe who notices it.

https://x.com/tomaskafka/status/2008168483608293873
Show HN: AgTrace – Observability for AI Coding Agents via MCP (Claude Code etc.)
by zawakin | 2026-01-05 15:27:57+00:00
AI agents are getting more capable, but we're increasingly in the dark
about what they're actually doing. They run complex multi-step workflows,
call dozens of tools, reason through problems - and we just watch the
output scroll by. It's a black box, and humans end up being led around
by the agent rather than understanding it.

I wanted to flip this. The key insight: all these agents (Claude Code,
Codex, Gemini) already write detailed logs. The problem is they're in
different locations, different formats, incompatible schemas.

agtrace normalizes this "observation layer" across providers:

- Auto-discovers logs from Claude, Codex, Gemini
- Converts them into a unified event timeline
- Exposes this via CLI, TUI dashboard, and MCP

The MCP part is what makes it interesting for agents themselves. An agent
can now query its own past sessions:

- "What approach did we take when we refactored auth last week?"
- "Show me errors from yesterday's session"
- "How did we handle this edge case before?"

This enables agent self-reflection - using execution history to inform
current decisions.

Built in Rust for safety and speed. 100% local, no cloud dependencies.
The database is just a pointer index to original logs - rebuilable anytime.

Happy to discuss the architecture or use cases.
by wilkommen | 2026-01-05 15:28:24+00:00
You know that that "angry tiger inside you" feeling can go away completely right? That angry tiger is not biological part of who you are, it's a dissociated memory of how you felt when you were a child, which continues to live on in you in the present because you haven't fully processed your childhood feelings. All else being equal, keeping the tiger caged up is better than letting it loose, but you can also heal it so that it goes away completely, which will benefit your life in many ways, most of which are not even related to alcohol. Healing usually requires softening the cage that the tiger lives in bit by bit as you become increasingly able to metabolize him, or cutting the tiger up into pieces and dealing with a piece of him at a time.