MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Hnrobert42 | 2026-01-16 01:15:17+00:00
> I'm catching up but not all the way there yet.

The only thing you have to catch up on is that there is nothing to catch up on. Everyone is at some stage of growth. No one is ever done growing.

I am impressed by your surveys. You're being open and engaging the world. That's awesome. Now hearing your story, I'd be happy to engage you or even buy you a coffee to hear the results.

Yet if I saw you on the street with a sign, I would likely hustle past. I've lived too long in big cities, and I've developed a crusty shell. So if I pass you by and ignore you, I apologize. I am the one with the problem. :-)
by burnbox | 2026-01-16 01:15:43+00:00
We built Burnbox (burnbox.au) with similar goals. To answer your questions for comparison:

1. Argon2id, 64MB memory, 3 iterations. Memory-hard beats iteration count.

2. Encrypted blob + padded filename (256 bytes fixed) + expiry timestamp. No IP logging—downloads proxy through Netlify so Supabase never sees user IPs.

3. Threat model documented at /security. Trust assumption is TLS + uncompromised JS delivery. Source hashes published for verification without self-hosting.

We've had interest from lawyers and incident response teams. Use cases at /use-cases.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-16 01:15:46+00:00
> Obvious examples: health care, education, social benefits provision, public transit, arms control. All involve expansions of the state bureaucracy and decision making power.

So what you have established is that the left and right both want to expand government power, but the left wants to use it to improve the general welfare while the right wants to use it to crush their fellow citizens. Thank you for the clarification.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-16 01:16:42+00:00
But that seems worse? If all your commands are systemctl, then you just have to ^p and edit/rerun, but there isn't a `systemctl $EDITOR /some/file`, so you'll have to ssh to run emacs (or use TRAMP, if using emacs), at which point you might as well just have a shell on the other end and do everything without having to tack --host onto your commands
by krick | 2026-01-16 01:17:06+00:00
As others pointed out, this isn't a very strong offer, but I'm wondering, if it would be competitive (price/performance wise), does anyone have a use-case for this? I mean, I can name quite a few if it would offer me some hardware that my laptop I'm using to access it just doesn't have, like some A100-level GPUs and stuff, then it would be fantastic: login, do your job, forget about it until the next time you need it. But for anything else it feels like I'd just prefer something more… traditional? Like, DigitalOcean droplet, AWS instance, Linode VPS, you get the idea. At least a managed Docker container. Even if it's technically more expensive and less performant, we are talking like $5/mo, and you can pretty much always easily scale-up or buy additional storage volume, all these things. And it's all yours, for pretty much all practical intents and purposes.

Does anyone have a legit use-case when it would be actually nicer to use this on-demand type of service? (Once more, unless we are talking some serious on-demand hardware.)
by tptacek | 2026-01-16 01:17:13+00:00
They're an interesting middle ground between pure ephemeral dev environment and production environment. If your audience is the whole Internet, a Sprite won't scale today to serve it. But for most of the apps I'm building, the Sprite is actually fine for the foreseeable future. There's a ton of security automation stuff we're doing that a Sprite keeps up just fine with; the sandwich bracket I'm running downthread is also indefinitely fine on a Sprite.

On the other hand, if I took the sandwich bracket app and made it a generic "run a bracket" app and that app (inexplicably) got popular, I'd need to move it to a Fly Machine setup.
by gizmo686 | 2026-01-16 01:18:59+00:00
Letting people fail and letting projects fail seem fairly different to me (at least for large projects).

There have been a bunch of times in my career where I've allowed people under me to "fail". Often times, an individual failing at something is just not that expensive; while being highly educational. Sometimes, it turns out that there approach actually worked, and we as a group gained a new bit of institutional knowledge.
by shermantanktop | 2026-01-16 01:20:17+00:00
Someone who succeeds at a game with arbitrary rules without realizing that it's a game - it sounds nonsensical, but I've seen it too. It's some kind of selection bias for people who naturally operate that way, plus the Peter Principle.

When the game rules shift, those people flail. Recent example was that in 2021-2 nobody could hire fast enough, but now staff expansion is not common. Managers who excelled at coming up with reasons to spawn new teams did great until the money dried up. Some of them shifted gears and adapted, but others just couldn't get the message.
by morshu9001 | 2026-01-16 01:20:20+00:00
Social factors mentioned there can make a big difference. I've seen plenty of C code choose safety over efficiency.

Our team writes a lot of C++ code for high-level stuff you'd normally do in say JS or Python. At the rate we make changes, we can't write very tight code. Strings and other structs end up getting copied needlessly due to ownership, like if something takes vector<string>& and internally copies those strings into a map, we don't bother also making an external-owned version taking vector<string*>&. Or less efficient algorithms are used due to ease of safe implementation. Or there are fewer or less optimized libs available. Or it's a webserver and we have to throw threads at it instead of event loops.

The end result is C++ code that's slower than the equivalent Python code, dev time being equal.
by villedespommes | 2026-01-16 01:20:27+00:00
What socialist policies? Did we get free healthcare or free higher education or subsidized government housing and food and I somehow missed all of that? Did the government suddenly start focusing on economic inequality first and foremost and eliminated all institutional racism?

The US as it stands right exhibits quite a few hallmarks of fascism rather socialism: amalgamation of the capital and the state, marginalization of minorities, an extreme abuse of power, extreme nationalism. One of the tenets of socialism is that the worker class has no state, that it can only work if the workers of all nations unite, that's the exact opposite of nationalism.

the only common thing I can think of between the soviet flavor of socialism and Trump's administration is that both are authoritarian.
by aero142 | 2026-01-16 01:20:40+00:00
If had to answer this question 2 years ago, I wouldn't have said software was a "don't see it's bad until later" category, with compilers and it needing to actually do something very specific. However, business slides are full of exacting facts and definitely never contains generic business speak masquerading as real insight /s.

This feels like telling a story after the fact to make it fit.
by jensimmons | 2026-01-16 01:20:45+00:00
The "brick" layout creates rows, yes. When a regular person looks at it, they will see rows. But Grid Lanes flows content up and down, not across the row.

If you just want content to flow down one row, then the next, then the next, Flexbox is a better solution.

The whole point of masonry layout is that content flows perpendicular to the lane.
by ajkjk | 2026-01-16 01:21:04+00:00
that's not how morality works... morality is about doing what you think is right instead of excusing yourself not doing it. If you think a bad thing is going to happen that you have agency to prevent, that's on you. Whether you have the data from repeated events or not doesn't matter. (Of course, your confidence in your own belief goes up with more data. But there are still plenty of cases where you can be sure even on the first shot.)
by ajkjk | 2026-01-16 01:22:12+00:00
of course they're wasting their time. a year of work deleted? all you have to show for it is money? you could have money AND something to be proud of. what a waste it was, to do something pointless for a year when you could have done something important.

not to say that there aren't experiments worth running. but in my experience (and in the example in the OP's article), the experiment often isn't even worth running. Intelligent people knew from the jump that it was a bad idea. No experiment necessary. Just pointless waste, enabled by hubris and apathy.
by ninkendo | 2026-01-16 01:22:26+00:00
> The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

I remember that day vividly.

It was the middle of the Great Recession, it was the worst our economy was doing in a long time. Millions were out of work. People were looking to the government to see what the plan was to get the country back on track.

A reporter asks McConnell what the senate’s number one priority was.

The answer? Not fixing the economy, not helping out every day Americans. Not finding the root cause of the crash and making sure it doesn’t happen that way again.

No, the answer was “make sure Obama is a one term president.” That’s all we would expect from the senate for the next 6 years.

The day McConnell said that, I said out loud: “I will never vote Republican again for the rest of my life.” (Prior to that point I mostly voted D but not 100% of the time.)

And I plan to keep that promise until I die.
Show HN: Using Qwen3:1.7B to call itself recursively
by sneilan1 | 2026-01-16 01:22:27+00:00
Hi, I got Qwen3:1.7b to execute it's own generated python code & then generate prompts to generate more python code recursively! In this case, it scrapes my website & then does it's own prompt engineering to make code to parse what it downloaded. Pretty basic but has some neat stuff in there. And all with Transformers.
by wingmanjd | 2026-01-16 01:23:12+00:00
I had not heard of Parakeet until earlier today with Handy [1].

I've previously had good luck with FUTO's keyboard and it's companion voice input app [2] on my Android, both of which are local-only after downloading the model. I'll have to try this one out and compare them.

[1] https://handy.computer/

[2] https://voiceinput.futo.org/
by randito | 2026-01-16 01:23:35+00:00
(Disclaimer: Newbie checking but still curious).

Are you using libluster or Distributed Erlang to reach the clusters? Or just simple networking over the Fly network.

> That will find or place an Elixir process on the cluster and rpc the target node with our code.

Is this similar to what you did with Flame? Or just a refinement of that idea.
by gizmo686 | 2026-01-16 01:24:55+00:00
I've seen another type of "let projects fail" in my career done by middle managers in a large project. Essentially it takes the form of them saying "the larger project we are working under is probably going to fail. When it does, I want our component to be useful for whatever comes next". And, the surprising thing is that this often worked. The project itself fails, but most of the work done on it still ended up being used.
by code_brian | 2026-01-16 01:25:13+00:00
Yeah, I can relate to that. Maybe it's also because you are too shy to ask someone to dance. I think I learned that lesson: just ask, and be unafraid to fail. Things tend to work themselves out. Much of this is experimentation. I think our models need to be open to that: which is one cool thing about Sparrow-1: it's a meta-in-context learner. This means that when it try's and fails, or you try and fail, it learns at runtime to adapt.
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by bairess | 2026-01-16 01:25:15+00:00
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by jmyeet | 2026-01-16 01:25:20+00:00
D&D is extraordinarily difficult to bootstrap. You ened 4-8 people to commit to being at a certain place at a certain time. If you play online instead, just the coordinated time alone is a monumental effort.

There are a ton of reasons for this. Work, school, coordinating plans with their partner, other commitments , other friends and family and honestly people just being flaky. For D&D this can be particularly bad if you're missing a couple of people who just flaked. Other activities don't have that problem and it can still be an issue.

There was a time when going out and doing things was necessary for social interaction. That's not true anymore. Online is sorta social. It's kinda close enough to scratch that itch for many, particularly because it has none of the coordination and/or travel issues.

But also people just have less free time. Because we have to work so much.

Hobbies in general have becom ea luxury. By that I mean you're spending your time doing something that doesn't earn an income. That's good but an increasingly large number of people don't have that as an option, hence "luxury".

Put another way, the ultimate goal of capitalism is to have all the worker bees constantly creating wealth so Bezos can have $210 billion instead of $215 billion.
by ajkjk | 2026-01-16 01:25:41+00:00
the point of expertise and intelligence is, in part, to be able to know what's going to happen BEFORE doing it. Perhaps without even doing it. You could be wrong, sure -- but there has to be a rate of that happening, and the more intelligent people are wrong less. At some point there are situations where you _know_ what's going to happen and then it happens, inevitably, providing no new information. And in my experience this happens _all the time_ in big tech. It is not hard to predict the failures. But things happen for social and political reasons, not intelligent ones, and so the predictions don't matter.
by ronsor | 2026-01-16 01:26:15+00:00
For these kinds of services, I think the main value would be UX improvements, such as offering an environment preconfigured with a certain set of tools (e.g. nmap, tmux, curl, etc.) and other defaults. SSH in, and don't deal with a web panel. They may also be valuable in a learning environment where you don't want student servers running 24/7.

Other than those points, offering access to more powerful hardware is probably the best use-case.
by danpalmer | 2026-01-16 01:26:21+00:00
I used to get made up APIs in functions, now I get them in modules. I used to get confidently incorrect assertions in files now I get them across codebases.

Hell, I get poorly defined APIs across files and still get them between functions. LLMs aren't good at writing well defined APIs at any level of the stack. They can attempt it at levels of the stack they couldn't a year ago, but they're still terrible at it unless the problem is so well known enough that they can regurgitate well reviewed code.
by jon9544hn | 2026-01-16 01:27:21+00:00
In my use case, woocommerce in WP, I have WordFence security plugin, and it has a selection to choose which header to pull ip address from. Since I used cloudflare, I selected the appropriate checkbox, and the IPs were properly posting.

So, hopefully you are able to check on which header your requests are being hit with.

Other comments already mentioned it, but that’s to figure out with your anti-ddos/reverse proxy headers setup
by Qwertious | 2026-01-16 01:28:24+00:00
Existing wind turbines turbines are not recyclable - new wind turbines are.

Except, that's not even true. Some existing wind turbines are not recyclable.

Except that's not entirely true either! The tower portion of the turbine is usually steel, and easily recyclable! The nacelle, too. It's the base and the blades that can't be recycled.

Except that's not entirely true either! Existing turbine blades are made (mostly) of fibreglass, which is made of the fibre and the resin. The fibres aren't reliably as strong when recycled (which makes them not-very-useful when recycled), but the resin is just fine. And of course, if the blade is e.g. carbon fibre, then you can either re-use it or just burn it.

So, you statement should be that some (components of) existing wind turbines cannot be profitably recycled with current technology.

The wind turbine's concrete base doesn't need to be smashed up or ignored, incidentally - it can be re-used. Concrete is much sturdier than the e.g. gearbox.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-16 01:28:35+00:00
Find a small company with a founder who loves their team and wants them to be happy. They exist, I assure you. They're not even rare.

I spent most of my career working in companies with <50 employees, and only hit a couple of unpleasant founders. The few large companies that I worked in were always bureaucratic nightmares by comparison.

Small companies won't pay FAANG salaries, but they also won't make you feel like a meaningless cog in a vast unsympathetic, unproductive, machine.
by strangescript | 2026-01-16 01:29:50+00:00
Its almost never correct to rip on a project from a distance. Only two things can happen, one, you are wrong, and the project succeeds. This is a personal catastrophe for your career at that company. Two, you are correct and the project fails. Its rare this will get you enough credibility to make the risk worth it. There are always others that will show up and dogpile as if they "knew" the entire time themselves. You need to be consistently correct about failure to get truly noticed, but then it asks a lot of questions. Why are you still working there? Why don't you have enough influence to prevent it in the first place? "I told you so" rarely accomplishes anything good.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-16 01:30:13+00:00
To the eventual detriment of the latter, I expect. There are plenty of people currently on the "evil officers" side who would be much more willing to support the mass deportation effort if the ICE officers were calm, unmasked, not using violent SWAT tactics just to apprehend an undocumented immigrant. This intentional violence turns away a lot of people who'd otherwise be sympathetic to the goals.
by rainsford | 2026-01-16 01:30:35+00:00
A more sci-fi apocalyptic angle on this fact is the argument that fossil fuels, especially easily accessible ones, are necessary to bootstrap a futuristic multi-planetary civilization. They provide the easy energy necessary to support an industrial revolution and the society and technology level necessary for more advanced and renewable forms of energy necessary to really build and sustain an advanced civilization long term.

But because they take so long to form, stumbles along the path of energy advancement mean a planetary civilization could run out of fossil fuels before reaching the level of advancement necessary to move beyond them. At that point, the civilization is essentially doomed since they lack the technological ability to move beyond fossil fuels and they lack the energy resources necessary to develop that technology.
by dancrystalbeach | 2026-01-16 01:30:54+00:00
Anyone who’s been around for more than a decade or so in the programming, development, and data world might get a slight eye twitch when the word database driver appears. Before the modern times we live in came along, the entire data world was driven by SQL Server, Oracle, with just a sprinkling of Postgres and MySQL … a-la AWS. That’s just the way it was.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-16 01:32:15+00:00
This is more than a bit out of place on HN in my experience, please, try to engage politely.

I’m not sure what I can say that will qualify as more than “nuh uh” to you, shy of getting a Core 2 Duo running with XP and the same keyboard as OP. That isn’t possible at the moment, is there anything else I could do?
by Avicebron | 2026-01-16 01:33:21+00:00
> I wonder how much of this is due to our ever increasing sense of obligation to be "performing" all the time.

Yeah...sometimes I think the concept of indelibility, because of the internet, has trained us (all of us) in weird ways. If people don't have spaces to say stupid stuff, be ignorant, abrasive, etc but still tolerated/accepted even. Then it becomes sort of this neurotic quest to construct an image and be on constant defense. Interesting times.
by devnavigator | 2026-01-16 01:34:32+00:00
AI change management has become one of the most underestimated challenges in modern organizations. While companies continue to invest heavily in models, platforms, and pilots, many struggle to embed AI into day-to-day decision-making and operational workflows. The result is a growing gap between AI ambition and realized value. This article examines why AI change management breaks down in practice and outlines eight structural barriers that consistently prevent organizations from moving beyond experimentation into sustained adoption. Understanding these failure modes is essential for leaders who want AI to become a durable capability rather than a series of disconnected initiatives.
by ethin | 2026-01-16 01:35:54+00:00
If memory serves, the license is the ultimate source of truth on what is allowed or not. You cannot add some section that isn't in the text of the license (at least in the US and other countries that use similar legal systems) on some website and expect it to hold up in court because the license doesn't include that text. I know of a few other bigger-name projects that try to pull these kinds of stunts because they don't believe anyone is going to actually read the text of the license.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-16 01:37:15+00:00
Because shares are no longer about investing in a company that is making healthy margins and has a solid business, that will pay you a decent dividend in return for your investment.

Shares are a short-term speculative gamble; you buy them in the hope that the price will rise and then you can sell them for a profit. Sometimes the gap between these two events is measured in milliseconds.

So the only thing that matters to Wall St is growth. If the company is growing then its price will probably rise. If it's not, it won't. Current size is unimportant. Current earnings are unimportant (unless they are used to fund growth). Nvidia is sexy, Apple is not, despite all the things you say (which are true).
by dznodes | 2026-01-16 01:37:25+00:00
We need weekly activity plans to introduce multi-racial, multi-age, multi-political people to each other in palaces for the people venues.

Read the book 'Palaces for the People'... Invest Billions in social infrastructure... and run the country like it was a retirement community. Everyone is welcome, everyone has value and we need to learn (with practice) how to love each other again.
by bb88 | 2026-01-16 01:37:44+00:00
>Isn't stopping abuses of the power of the military the reason for the 2nd Amendment?

It was for establishing well ordered militias. They could be used to help defend the country in a time of war.

> Why don't the people in Minnesota go open carry and let ICE agents think twice before drawing their weapons on people?

Most of the demonstrators believe that "the pen is mightier than the sword", and non-violence is the way to achieve political means.

When the peace-niks start amassing guns, that's when you have a tipping point in this country.
by ethin | 2026-01-16 01:39:02+00:00
Uh, no? This is not at all an absurd requirement? Screen readers literally do this all the time, with voices that are the classic way of making a speech synthesizer, no AI required. ESpeak is an example, or MS OneCore. The NVDA screen reader has an option for automatic language switching as does pretty much every other modern screen reader in existence. And absolutely none of these use AI models to do that switching, either.
by zuoning | 2026-01-16 01:39:21+00:00
Just type your idea in plain language. Kutt.AI understands natural descriptions and transforms them into polished video content, automatically generating cohesive scenes with matching visuals, appropriate pacing, and seamless transitions. It even handles the audio, selecting background music that fits your content's mood. Or want dreamy slow-motion or punchy fast cuts? Just say the word.