MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lunar_rover | 2026-01-11 22:43:57+00:00
Vista had the right direction, Windows 7 merely continued on it and it became one of the best operating systems ever.

Windows 8 design wasn't bad per se, but they shipped the start screen when it lacks even the most basic features, so you'll return to legacy desktop the moment you want to do anything.

I don't think any of them are like Tahoe TBH.
by lrvick | 2026-01-11 22:43:58+00:00
As a security engineer that regularly architects and helps implement new defense tactics that no LLM has trained on, I choose not to use LLMs at all, like a cave man.

Being differently trained and using different tools than almost everyone else I know in engineering my entire career has allowed me to find solutions and vulnerabilities others have missed time and time again. I exclusively use open source software I can always take apart, fully understand, and modify as I like. This inclination has served me well and is why I have the skillsets I do today.

If everyone is doing things one way, I instinctively want to explore all the other ways to train my own brain to continue to be adversarial and with a stamina to do hard experiments by hand when no tools exist to automate them yet.

Watching all my peers think more and more alike actually scares me, as they are all talking to the same LLMs. None for me, thanks.

"But this magic proprietary tool makes my job so much easier!!" has never been a compelling argument for me.
by ValentineC | 2026-01-11 22:44:04+00:00
> Still on iOS 18 and macOS 15 (Sequoia). I was a day one upgrader up until now, never had any regrets but this time things seemed very different.

I've tried and returned the iPhone 17 Pro. Love the hardware (especially the camera), but iOS 26 is inefficient (for lack of a better term), and the new camera UI hides too many things.
by sauercrowd | 2026-01-11 22:44:09+00:00
> and hate how much extra bullshit I didn't ask for they always add to the output.

I can recommend for that problem to make the "jumps" smaller, e.g. "Add a react component for the profile section, just put a placeholder for now" instead of "add a user profile".

With coding LLMs there's a bit of a hidden "zoom" functionality by doing that, which can help calibrating the speed/involvment/thinking you and the LLM does.
by BoneShard | 2026-01-11 22:44:09+00:00
Maybe I'm too old and every modern computer is a marvel to me, but as someone switching between win/macos/linux all these complaints amuse me. While in windows I'm using powertoys and I can move/resize windows using any space inside a window. It's the same with linux/gnome - a couple of config settings. Then, when I started using macos I looked for a similar solution - found BetterSnapTool and just started using it.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-11 22:44:30+00:00
Completely different problem domains. A mobile phone is interacting with a fixed point (i.e. cell tower) that coordinates and manages traffic across cell phones to minimize interference. LIDAR is like wifi, a commons that can be polluted at will by arbitrary actors.

LIDAR has much more in common with ordinary radar (it is in the name, after all) and is similarly susceptible to interference.
by tensegrist | 2026-01-11 22:45:08+00:00
At 31:15 (https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-asahi-linux-porting-linux-to-app...) there is a mention of someone working on M3 Asahi bringup.

This led me to the following article, which has more details, including a Doom screenshot:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-EOY-2025-CCC
by p_ing | 2026-01-11 22:46:00+00:00
I don't have Copilot in my start menu. It's in Notepad, but that is the only place I've found it. This is on 25H2.

> original version of Recall stored these in an unencrypted, insecure database.

Why do you bother mentioning it, given that's been long rectified and that particular version never made it to the production ring?

> six different UI frameworks all present in various spots on the OS

Windows has always been like this. It wasn't until Windows 11 that the Font dialog was upgraded from a Win 3.x look and feel.

> no more local-only accounts allowed.

Just false.
by realusername | 2026-01-11 22:46:11+00:00
You had way more issues than that on launch, performance of 3d games sucked compared to XP with the same hardware (I remember at least a 30% decrease of FPS) and usb file transfers were so borked you probably had half of the speed of XP transfering on a usb key (which was the primary method of transfering files at the time).

The UAC wasn't even the main problem, the overall performance of Vista was, everything was so much slower.
by Lerc | 2026-01-11 22:47:22+00:00
People seem to pick an choose what beliefs of Geoffrey Hinton are deserving of the weight of his gravitas.

While he does describe AI as an existential threat, the set of premises about AI that lead him to this conclusion are resoundingly rejected by a lot of the people who are fighting AI.

Notably the degree of understanding and awareness that Hinton has said he believes current models have is way higher than most people who invoke his name would be prepared to accept.
by wild_egg | 2026-01-11 22:47:27+00:00
This is such a tired response at this point.

People are under zero obligation to release their work to the public. Simon actually publishes and writes about a remarkable amount of the side projects he builds with AI.

The rest of us just build tons of cool stuff for personal use or for $JOB. Releasing stuff to the public is, in general, a massive amount of extra work for very little benefit. There are loads of FOSS maintainers trapped spending as much time managing their communities as they do their actual projects and many of us just don't have time for that.
by chocochunks | 2026-01-11 22:47:55+00:00
MacOS doesn't handle HiDPI screens that well either. The most common and affordable high res monitors are 27" 4K monitors and those don't mesh well with the way macOS does HiDPI. You either have a perfect 2x but giant 1080p like display or a blurryish non-integer scale that's more usable.

And god forbid you still have low DPI monitor still!
by xmddmx | 2026-01-11 22:48:02+00:00
My memory is that it was named "Aero Glass" which heightens the irony of "Liquid Glass" sucking.

But I see many references to it being called just "Aero", but some call it "Aero Glass" [1]

Does anyone know the truth?

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/archive/rip-aero-glass-windows-8-stick...
by buu700 | 2026-01-11 22:48:22+00:00
I see where you're coming from, and I agree with the implication that this is more of an issue for inexperienced devs. Having said that, I'd push back a bit on the "legacy" characterization.

For me, if I check in LLM-generated code, it means I've signed off on the final revision and feel comfortable maintaining it to a similar degree as though it were fully hand-written. I may not know every character as intimately as that of code I'd finished writing by hand a day ago, but it shouldn't be any more "legacy" to me than code I wrote by hand a year ago.

It's a bit of a meme that AI code is somehow an incomprehensible black box, but if that is ever the case, it's a failure of the user, not the tool. At the end of the day, a human needs to take responsibility for any code that ends up in a product. You can't just ship something that people will depend on not to harm them without any human ever having had the slightest idea of what it does under the hood.
by ValentineC | 2026-01-11 22:48:25+00:00
> I swear, this reign of visual artists as dictators has to stop.

> I'm sure people noticed this issue internally and brought it up but some thing by some designer was seen as biblically sacred and overruled all reason.

Funny how Apple went from Jony Ive sacrificing hardware usability for "beauty" (touch bars and butterfly switches) to Alan Dye mucking up macOS and iOS with Liquid glAss.
by wongarsu | 2026-01-11 22:48:40+00:00
I don't think anyone is seriously arguing that Mars will be more habitable than Earth. The argument is about the possibility of humans on Earth being wiped out due to freak events like a huge asteroid impact or global thermonuclear war. Earth would still be more habitable than Mars, but the probability that human survivors would be equipped with Mars-level survival tools is tiny, and any facility equipped like this would have to be hardened against desperate survivors trying to take it over and bringing it over capacity. Meanwhile if we had a self-sufficient Mars colony they could resettle any Earth that is more habitable than Mars.

Now I'm not saying it's necessarily a smart allocation of resources. But it does follow the popular IT saying "one is none, two is one. If you care about something make sure you have a backup"
by h1fra | 2026-01-11 22:49:08+00:00
Love the idea, but I don't think this "built for [...] non-technical users" works. All the examples were more confusing to me vs a regular programming language and definitely not accessible to non-technical users.

Also, why would I want to compile to multiple languages? If I'm building a no-code platform, I won't bother supporting 3 different languages since I'm the only one seeing the code.
by andybak | 2026-01-11 22:49:15+00:00
> Much of the science about lighting, physics, and rendering we take for granted today was mostly unknown;

I'm not so sure. I grew up playing with offline 3d rendering rather than real-time game stuff - and game dev was merely reusing the same smoke and mirrors that people used to keep rendering time under a week a decade earlier. People always knew the "correct" way to do things but it was just out of reach given the hardware constraints. GI, radiosity, path-tracing etc already existed well before this - but nobody could do it on consumer hardware
by elemdos | 2026-01-11 22:49:31+00:00
I’ve also found AI to be super helpful for self-hosting but in a different way. I set up a Pocketbase instance with a Lovable-like app on top (repo here: https://github.com/tinykit-studio/tinykit) so I can just pull out my phone, vibecode something, and then instantly host it on the one server with a bunch of other apps. I’ve built a bunch of stuff for myself (journal, CRM, guitar tuner) but my favorite thing has been a period tracker for a close friend who didn’t want that data tracked + sold.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-11 22:49:33+00:00
It's not Vim vs VSCode though - the analogy might be writing in assembler vs writing in your high level language of choice.

Using AI you're increasing the level of abstraction you can work at, and reducing the amount of detail you need to worry about. You tell the AI what you want to do, not how to do it, other than providing context that does tell it about the things that you do actually care about.
by falloutx | 2026-01-11 22:49:37+00:00
How am I gonna give you exact price savings, when on $18 amount of work you can do it is variable, while $100 on API only goes a limited amount. You can exhaust $100 on API in one work day easily. On $18 plan the limit resets daily or 12hrs, so you can keep coming back. If API pricing is correct, which it looks like because all top models have similar costs, then it is to believe that monthly plans are subsidised.

And if inference is so profitable why is OpenAI losing 100B a year
by 1shooner | 2026-01-11 22:50:47+00:00
Others here mention Coolify for a homeserver. If you're looking for turnkey docker-compose based apps rather than just framework/runtime environments, I will recommend the runtipi project. I have found it to be simple and flexible. It offers an 'app store' like interface, and supports hosting your own app store. It manages certs and reverse proxy via traefik as well.

https://runtipi.io/
by SuperNinKenDo | 2026-01-11 22:51:14+00:00
You joke, but I honestly wonder if this period and projects didn't involve a bunch of Microsoft employees who got a little overexcited when they were told that they didn't need to maintain the insane, sometimes bug-for-bug, compatibility layers with 20-40 year old software that they had had to deal with their entire career there.

Must have felt incredibly liberating, and maybe they got a little too into the whole idea of "fresh start"(s).

See also Windows RT.
by projektfu | 2026-01-11 22:51:21+00:00
I spent a while in the couchsurfing community. It was probably about as safe for women as having a job or being in a university. Now, I recognize that CS was more specific than seeking random acts of kindness on the daily, but a big part of what makes it work is that the vast majority of men aren't looking to assault women and will not stand for it, either.

I met a woman once, who was working as a waitress. She said she was a hobo before this job, but she had a daughter, and while she longs for the hobo life, she knows it's not right for a young kid.

Again, bad things happen, I am sure there are stories. If you expect to find a situation for women where there is no risk, best of luck to you.
by reconnecting | 2026-01-11 22:51:26+00:00
I have tried 3 different Macs with different versions of macOS prior to looking for a workaround, and everywhere the result is the same: old photos are not downloaded automatically from iCloud, and there is no button to start this process - for this exact reason.

Want to prove me wrong? Create a new macOS user and open Photos with your iCloud. It will be empty until you start copying photos from your phone. It will take much less time than arguing here.
by stareatgoats | 2026-01-11 22:52:07+00:00
Not even antirez can sway the skeptics here. People that have garnered too many upvotes in the countless comments about how worthless AI is compared to real programmers will need much more to leave their fortresses.

But maybe we should cherish these people. Maybe it's among them we find the embryo to the resistance - people who held out when most of us were seduced - seduced into giving the machine all our knowledge, all our skills, all the secrets about us we were not even aware of ourselves - and setting it up to be orders of magnitude more intelligent than any of us, combined. And finally - just as mean, vindictive and selfish as most of the people in the training data on which it was trained.

Maybe it's good to stay skeptical a bit longer.
by throw1235435 | 2026-01-11 22:52:13+00:00
Sure; I absolutely agree and more to the point SWE's and their ideologies compared to other professions have meant they are the first on the chopping block. But what do you tell those people; that they no longer matter? Do they still matter? How will they matter? They are no different than practitioners of any other craft - humans in general derive value partly from the value they can give to their fellow man.

If the local unskilled job matters more than a SWE now these people have gone from being worth something to society to being less of worth than someone unskilled with a job. At that point following from your logic I can assume their long term value is one of an unemployed person which to some people is negative. That isn't just an identity crash; its a crash potentially on their whole lives and livelihood. Even smart people can be in situations where it is hard to pivot (as you say mortgages, families, lives, etc).

I'm sure many of the SWE's here (myself included) are asking the same questions; and the answers are too pessimistic to admit public ally and even privately. Myself the joy of coding is taken away with AI in general, in that there is no joy doing something that a machine will be able to do better soon for me at least.
by martin-t | 2026-01-11 22:52:19+00:00
1) I appreciate that you differentiate between legality and morality, many people sadly don't.

2) re "hoot": You can say "fuck" here. You've been rudely dismissive twice now, yet you use a veil of politeness. I prefer when people don't hide their displeasure at me.

3) If you think I am wrong, you can say so instead of downvoting, it'll be more productive.

4) If you want me to expend effort on looking up statutes, you can say so instead of downvoting, it'll be more productive.

5) The law can be changed. If a well-reasoned argument is presented publicly, such as in a court room, and the general agreement is that the argument should apply but the court has to reject is because of poorly designed laws, that's a good impetus for changing it.
by GlumWoodpecker | 2026-01-11 22:52:49+00:00
If I ran it with just

$ chmod +x snake.com
$ ./snake.com

... then it would try to use Mono to launch it:

Cannot open assembly './snake.com': File does not contain a valid CIL image.

But, running it explicitly with Bash works:

$ bash snake.com

Pretty nifty but doesn't work out of the box on any Linux, at least :p Running Debian 13.
by Eikon | 2026-01-11 22:53:29+00:00
For ZeroFS [0], I went an alternate route with NFS/9P. I am surprised that it’s not more common as this approach has various advantages [1] while being much more workable than fuse.

[0] https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS

[1] https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS?tab=readme-ov-file#why-nfs-a...
by its_ethan | 2026-01-11 22:53:32+00:00
Yea I'd say any university. Here's the results of maybe 3 minutes of quick googling for universities around the world:

University of Mumbai: "The Fruit of Learning is Character and Righteous Conduct" - highlights character and behavior as key to learning

University of Tokyo: "The University of Tokyo aims to be a world-class platform for research and education [and] ... nurture global leaders with a strong sense of public responsibility and a pioneering spirit [and] ... to expand the boundaries of human knowledge in partnership with society." - yes it's academically focussed, but again highlights strong civic duty and partnerships

University of Sydney: "We make lives better by producing leaders of society and equipping our people with leadership qualities so they can serve our communities at every level." - pretty focussed on creating leaders who serve communitities

Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia has a listed value: "AAU pursues innovation, research, and development through team spirit and partnership within the institution, with the communities it serves and with its global partners."

So.. yea most universities? Are there exceptions that are just ultra focussed on being exclusively robot-generating education factories? Sure. I'm not sure where you live that they are so common, but a quick survey of Africa, Asia, and Australia I was able to find universities that check the box for what I claimed.

But again, sorry for being so US-centric on the US website focussed on discussion (mostly) US news (and in this case discussing literally only US universities????), and the goings on of US tech start ups where most everyone speaks English and is active during the US timezones peak hours.
by buran77 | 2026-01-11 22:53:37+00:00
> I need to install a bunch of drivers from HP with dubious names, like sp1234

This is just how HP names their software deployment packages. Lenovo will have something like "u6chp70us17" or "83wo12ww". You go on your product's page, download the driver, install it. I understand complaining about a device that doesn't work out of the box, but about the name of the driver installer?

To be honest I've never seen an EliteBook that needed any drivers for the common components (I own a ~14 year old one and only need fingerprint driver I think), and in general any laptop that needed a touchpad driver to work in over a decade. And I've played with a lot of different laptops, business models in particular. Not saying it doesn't happen, just that I don't think it's common.
by defrost | 2026-01-11 22:53:41+00:00
She was killed because, in the words of the shooter, he considered her "a fucking bitch".

The car wasn't aimed at him, it was slowly turning away, it didn't hit or touch him, his hand held phone jolted as he fired. He was seemingly fit and unharmed as he stomped away angry after firing three shots.

He moved into firing position as he didn't want her to leave and wanted to shoot her to stop her.
Show HN: I built Sonars in 3 weeks to see if AI coding is useful for my company
by JasperBekkers | 2026-01-11 22:53:47+00:00
I've been programming since I was 11. I'm 38 now.

In those 27 years, I've worked on game engines at EA DICE, done rendering research at OTOY and Embark, and now run a graphics R&D company that does work for AMD, Intel, and Meta. I've seen plenty of new tools come and go.

When AI coding tools started blowing up, I needed to figure out: is this something my company should invest in, or something we can safely ignore for another few years?

I decided to settle it: go all-in for a few weeks. Build something real, outside of our existing codebase, with agentic AI—not just autocomplete, but actually letting Claude Opus write files, run commands, and commit code.

3 weeks later, I have my answer.

Sonars went from zero to launch in 3 weeks. One developer. Pure agentic AI. And once the core was working, I used Sonars to build Sonars.

The problem I kept hitting with other tools: Claude made changes directly in my working directory. One experimental prompt and my branch was a disaster—half-finished features, broken tests, merge conflicts with myself.

The fix was obvious in hindsight: Git worktrees. Every AI session in Sonars runs in complete isolation. Claude can go wild—read files, write code, run tests, commit changes—and your main branch stays untouched until you explicitly merge.

Features:
- Claude reads files, writes code, runs terminal commands, commits changes
- Every session isolated in a Git worktree
- Real-time streaming with extended thinking mode
- Visual diff viewer with syntax highlighting
- Native Rust + Dioxus app

Tech stack: Rust + Dioxus (frontend), Axum (backend), SQLite + PostgreSQL, gix (pure Rust Git).

Free tier available: [https://sonars.dev](https://sonars.dev)

After 27 years and shipping game engines, I don't say this lightly: this is the most productive I've ever been. The answer to my original question? This isn't something to ignore.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, the worktree approach, or what building Rust with agentic AI is actually like.
by kcplate | 2026-01-11 22:53:48+00:00
I realize this is difficult for people on this thread to accept, but unless you are someone selected for a jury evaluating this case your opinion, my opinion, the half dozen or more others opinions commenting about this situation on this thread, every pundit or talking head, every news agency, federal government officials, politicians, and even Trump’s opinion (unless he decides to preemptively pardon before any charges are brought, which is now a thing thanks to Biden) just doesn’t matter.

Frankly at this point I am just tired of rehashing the same things over and over again. I will leave you with this as my final summary of my thought (which I have more than once articulated on this thread): The government has the ability to take your life from you. The legal bar to prove that they did this illegally is very very high. Your best protection against it is to minimize being in any situation where the conditions will easily exist for it to happen.
by iLemming | 2026-01-11 22:54:48+00:00
One of the most annoying things after installing Tahoe for me, that for no good reason an ordinary app would randomly lose its focus. In the midst of my typing. This is unbelievably preposterous and I just can't stop hating Apple for this crap. How the fuck this is acceptable? I just have no words. What makes it even worse that I couldn't even complain about it on their support pages - they just keep removing my comments for being "non-constructive". This is some random bug, and many people have complained about it, how am I suppose to make it "more constructive"? Send them the exact configuration of constellations, the number of monitors I use and their positioning angles, log the keyboard rate and delay, the latency, the level of magnetic interference caused by my Bluetooth devices, etc.?