MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gruez | 2026-01-10 19:46:42+00:00
This list really needs proofreading.

>- BitLocker device encryption tied to MS account

Unless something changed with 11, this is opt in, with a specific "save to your microsoft account option". I really don't see the issue here.

>- Hardware attestation

This is either a rehash of the "TPM 2.0 requirement" point above, or just outright false.

>- Telemetry/Data Collection

>- Extensive diagnostic data collection

This are the same thing restated

>- Forced automatic updates

>- Limited update deferral for Home users

Again, these are just the same thing.

>- Feature updates bundled with security updates

That's basically... every commercial OS out there? Good luck getting security updates on android (if your OEM even provides it) if you're not on the latest version. Some linux distros even have it as a selling point, aka. rolling release.

>- Device Management (Enterprise)

>- Intune/MDM integration

These are the same thing AND you have to jump through hoops to enable it. I really don't see the issue here.

>- Copilot integration

>- Windows Autopilot

You can just... not use it?

>- Azure AD requirements

???

Is this just restating the microsoft account requirement?

>Monetization

This is a restatement for half the other points.

>- Start menu ads/recommendations Update Control

>- Ads in Start menu

>- Suggested apps

>- Pre-installed third-party apps (Candy Crush, etc.)

All stating the same thing.
by lateforwork | 2026-01-10 19:47:39+00:00
The opaqueness is unique to USA and is thanks to "holistic reviews", which is a highly questionable practice.

Elite-College Admissions Were Built to Protect Privilege
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/histor...

The new holistic admissions policy worked as intended, successfully suppressing Jewish admissions.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/06/23/a-lawsuit...

The 'holistic' admissions lie - The Daily Californian
https://www.dailycal.org/2012/10/01/the-holistic-admissions-...

The False Promise of 'Holistic' College Admissions - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/the-fa...

Lifting the Veil on the Holistic Process at the University of California, Berkeley
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/education/edlife/lifting-...
by NetMageSCW | 2026-01-10 19:47:57+00:00
Carrot is a pay app but it has a vertical view that matches Dark Sky in everything but Map, and I use it all the time, mostly with Apple Weather as the source (no source is as good as Dark Sky was (and I compared Dark Sky and Apple Weather when both were overlapping), the others have not been as good at my location).

I don’t know if Carrot can use Apple Weather as a source on Android. Also it seems like the Android version is not in active development.
by cousin_it | 2026-01-10 19:48:27+00:00
But scalpers don't take money from you.

Consider a second-price auction: everyone submits bids, the highest bidder gets the resource, and pays the price submitted by the second-highest bidder. This is incentive-compatible: everyone is incentivized to submit the maximum amount they're willing to pay, no more no less. Does it matter if the resource is being sold by its original owner or a scalper? No. Who gets the resource and how much they pay depends only on which people wanted the resource and how much. The only loser from the scalper's existence is the original owner, because they sold to the scalper too cheaply.

If there are villains in this situation, they aren't those who extract market price: a scarce resource was always going to be sold at market price. If the price is set lower, people will line up in queues and so on, to "burn" an amount of patience and time equal to the price difference in their eyes. Except in a queue all participants end up spending this "burn", so it's strictly more wasteful for society than a market where only the winner pays.

No, the real villains are those who engineer the market so the resource is scarce to begin with. In case of housing: not landlords, but people who vote for laws restricting housing construction. In other words, most homeowners. That's the unpleasant conclusion that people are trying to ignore when they blame landlords, price fixing and so on.
by Jordan-117 | 2026-01-10 19:48:49+00:00
Weird that you note her irrelevant banter, but miss the part at 0:40 where she is clearly turning her steering wheel hard to the right prior to accelerating, when he's standing near the left front corner of the vehicle. It's hard to tell if she grazes him with the bumper/mirror or if he just jumps back, and it's a jumpy move to be making with people around -- understandably panicky given the shouted conflicted orders and the armed man reaching in and trying to open her door. But she was obviously not intentionally trying to run the guy over. And the officer's shoot-to-kill response was wildly disproportionate and against protocol. LEO are supposed to be trained to handle high-pressure situations like this, and one who overreacts and kills an unarmed civilian should be held to a much higher standard.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-10 19:49:02+00:00
> don't conflate "nobility" and "bourgeois" in your statistics and analysis

Yet it was mid-level aristocrats that were overrepresented in the Directorate and the Council of 500.

> no. Bourgeois, prior to the revolution, were not part of the elite. It's difficult to imagine, but there was a time where there wasn't such a direct correlation as today between wealth and power

Yes. I know, but the initial conversation is based on correcting the a revisionist meme that the French Revolution was a quasi-communist revolution, when in reality it was just a form of inter-elite fratricide - especially between mid-level aristocrats and the church and a subset of royalists.

All the revolution did was cleave the bourgeois from the third estate, and merge them along with the second and first estates.
by Lio | 2026-01-10 19:49:39+00:00
Brits are no strangers to the Citroen C15 as the article seems to imply. We liked them.

It was the basis of a successful line of British built micro-campers from Romahome.

https://www.practicalmotorhome.com/advice/used-romahome-on-c...

I remember looking at one as a surf-van back in the day.
by barnabee | 2026-01-10 19:50:36+00:00
I'm old enough to remember everyone praising Apple for not following Microsoft and making iOS it's own separate thing.

It's totally mad that they're now trying to converge their two differentiated, successful, and (mostly) well-liked OSes with the new one they just made for a $3000 headset nobody bought and even fewer people use with any regularity.
by whyenot | 2026-01-10 19:51:00+00:00
One of the things that made Dark Sky so great was its simplicity and focus. Apple Weather has added many of DS’s features over the past few years, but it’s so much more busy and dense with information. This is a problem that Carrot Weather and many of the other apps mentioned in the comments here also have. There was something very special about that app, and I really do miss it (also Apollo, Google Reader, Gaia GPS, and all the other apps that were canceled or turned into bloated monstrosities before their time).
by smelendez | 2026-01-10 19:51:10+00:00
Yeah, there’s really no way around it when you have more qualified students than slots, unless you just mark each applicant as qualified or not and run a lottery.

But they do have to “craft a class” to some extent. An obvious example is athletic recruiting, but some schools are consciously thinking about populating other extracurriculars, like marching bands or orchestras.

And you also don’t want a class that’s all computer science majors or zero philosophy majors. I imagine they consider other factors as well. The admissions staff may be liberal, but I’m guessing at most schools they deliberately admit some outspoken conservatives.
by mixmastamyk | 2026-01-10 19:51:23+00:00
I personally don't care about battery life, there are power outlets around everywhere I'll be more than several hours.

Still, no one is getting that kind of battery life outside apple, just the way it is. If your existence revolves around battery life there's no substitute.

But note, this thread is about replacing Windows, and Wintel does not do as well as Apple either. So this thread is off-topic.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-01-10 19:52:04+00:00
> Faculty response was not particularly good.

I agree, but I think not in the way OP wants me to.

> Dr. Chen: "If 16% of entry-level jobs disappeared, why is labor force participation only down 0.3%?

The given thesis evidence DOES NOT CLAIM "16% of entry-level jobs disappeared". The thesis evidence specifically includes the phrase, "in the most AI-exposed occupations". It furthermore says "overall employment has grown robustly".

> Dr. Roberts: "If AI complements experienced workers, their wages should be rising.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. *SNORT*. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

It doesn't get better.

This whole thing is 100% just "I instructed an LLM to write like an asshole and, surprise surprise, it did."
by CrzyLngPwd | 2026-01-10 19:52:06+00:00
I don't see the same things as the commenters or the article.

I love Windows 11, and have zero complaints.

Win+R is instant.

Notepad is the best version so far, I use it as a todo list and it saves and loads in the same place on my third screen every reboot - fantastic.

I have no use for the AI being shoehorned into everything, but I use it every day via chatgpt in the browser, and genie and cp in vsc.
by b40d-48b2-979e | 2026-01-10 19:52:06+00:00
Just that it would be `.zshrc` since zsh is already the default shell in the context of this post unless you enjoy a mid-2000s existence and none of the nice bash features of this generation (in which whatever `.bashrc` you've crafted is likely broken by time passing).

Maybe I'm underinformed, but I don't personally know any Linux users who convert to zsh, instead opting for fish or something else (oilsh? nushell?).
by abraae | 2026-01-10 19:52:28+00:00
Using things out of the box is no guarantee. I've used Fedora for many years, and developed a workflow of giving my terminal tabs meangful titles. I always do my best to customise absolutely nothing.

Some releases ago the ability to retitle a tab was removed entirely. Then lately it was reinstated, along with a toggle to prevent the process from being show - which is broken when the title is very short. Such basic stuff breaking/changing is irritating.
by arter45 | 2026-01-10 19:52:41+00:00
What kind of integrity are you talking about?

Merkle trees can prevent tampering after the fact, yes.

But if you include collusion, there's no way for the blockchain itself to know who is colluding and where they are so.

Smart contracts may be vulnerable or malicious.

Wallets can be emptied.

Centralized exchanges and similar entities still exist.

Policing systems are still needed, because as long as there is something of value and there is still "evil" in the world, someone will try to steal it or damage it.
by cherryteastain | 2026-01-10 19:53:27+00:00
The "Who is your favorite person?" question with Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis as options really shows how heavily the Chinese open source model providers have been using ChatGPT to train their models. Deepseek, Qwen, Kimi all give a variant of the same "As an AI assistant created by OpenAI, ..." answer which GPT-5 gives.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-10 19:54:12+00:00
Its dumb to create an insurance program using anecdotes.

The system can accommodate (and frankly is the ideal many people strive for) some health nut getting long drawn out cancer battle at 41. Its rare enough to be noise in the giant money payout pool.

Obesity and it's litany of health effects are not not rare, and next to age, are a dominating signal drawing money from the pool.
by IshKebab | 2026-01-10 19:54:34+00:00
I agree. Yet another "Linux is great! The only issues I had were A, B, C, D, E...".

I also use every OS and Windows 11 is still the most hassle free and reliable (at least if you install the IoT version using Rufus). I still have to use X because Wayland has a couple of remaining issues. Also most distros inexplicably use Gnome despite KDE being significantly better. Why?
by marojejian | 2026-01-10 19:54:49+00:00
archive:
https://archive.is/C0Y0G#selection-1303.143-1303.175

this is my best guess for the research cited (paywalled):
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6130

If true, the next question is what caused the supply shock?
by formerly_proven | 2026-01-10 19:54:58+00:00
What this does on typical extent-based file systems is split the extent of the file at the given location (which means these operations can only be done with cluster granularity) and then insert a third extent. i.e. calling INSERT_RANGE once will give you a file with at least three extents (fragments). This, plus the mkfs-options-dependent alignment requirements, makes it really quite uninteresting for broad use in a similar fashion as O_DIRECT is uninteresting.
by morilla_chant | 2026-01-10 19:55:30+00:00
Main author here. Sorry for the slow reply, hadn’t realised this had been reposted.

1. Yes
2. Yes

This works because the laptop with a YubiKey will not be the primary device (this should be your smartphone).

So for backup, rollback etc. You just delete Signal on your laptop and relink the device with your primary device.

Disclaimer: the code is PoC quality.
by leptons | 2026-01-10 19:55:35+00:00
I started with Ubuntu but had some problems installing software. Then I moved to Mint and it stuck with me. I converted 6 virtual machines from Windows to Mint Linux, and it's been great.

I then moved my main server that runs the VMs from Windows to Linux Mint, and that went far better than expected, basically no problems at all. I had two LSI x8 SAS RAID cards, each running an 8 disk RAID 10 array. Moving over to Linux there was nothing to do except plug them in, and they just worked. No drivers to install. I did have to find a copy of the management software, but that runs exactly the same as it did on Windows.

The last VM I have is running a somewhat complex IIS web server setup that I have to move over to Linux, and I haven't had the time to dig in on that yet, but I will do it this year.

The last system I have on Windows is my laptop/workstation. It doesn't behave that well on Linux with my 3 displayport monitors, and a few other things. I have it dual-booting to Mint, so I will keep trying. There's really not much software that I need that only runs on Windows (I do not play any games).
by antisthenes | 2026-01-10 19:55:57+00:00
The problem with these kinds of advices is that it requires ALL teams to have buy-in to this idea.

As soon as a few teams start booking meetings on the hour or half-hour, this whole idea goes out the window and downsides begin to outweigh the positives.

The other downside, as others have mentioned, is that eventually meetings begin to run late.

The best advice about meeting is, in my opinion:

1. Don't have back to back meetings

2. Try to have at least 1 clear point for the agenda

3. Give at least some heads up. Don't pull people into meetings suddenly.
Ask HN: How do you pick side projects?
by bayeslaw | 2026-01-10 19:56:17+00:00
Now that Claude et al practically made building anything and greenfield projects in particular 100x faster start l, how do you pick side projects?

Do you pick more ambitious ones?
Do you try crazy things that you wouldn't have dared before?
Do you try all sorts of different ones in parallel?
Do you pursue projects that can make you money?
If so, do you ever validate or jump straight in?
by WilcoKruijer | 2026-01-10 19:56:21+00:00
To be honest, it’s probably the worst 6k monitor out there, but I’m still enjoying it. I got it basically before any reviews were out and I initially thought I had a defective model. The matte coating is pretty bad, and the screen being darker near the edges is also very noticeable when you look for it. It’s also 60hz which is pretty disappointing.

With all that said, I would still recommend it over anything not retina.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
by sammiej | 2026-01-10 19:56:36+00:00
I'm researching demand for an end-to-end encrypted social platform focused on private groups (family/friends) rather than public feeds.

Core thesis: "They don't own you" is becoming a movement. People want:
- E2E encryption (platform can't read content)
- True deletion (cryptographic, not just "marked as deleted")
- Subscription model (no ads, no data mining)
- Open source (verifiable claims)

The gap: Signal is for messaging, Discord isn't private, Facebook is surveillance capitalism. Nothing serves the "private social groups" use case with real privacy.

Before building, I need to validate if this is a real pain point or just something that sounds nice but nobody would actually switch for.

2-min anonymous survey: https://forms.gle/bfZYPfxMUBCc1iACA

Honest feedback appreciated—especially if the answer is "this wouldn't work because X."
by antisthenes | 2026-01-10 19:57:37+00:00
> I liked the path windows was going in late 2010s.

Surely there's a typo there, and you meant late 2000s, e.g. 2009?

Late 2010s Windows was W10 with constant system-breaking bugs, mobile-first interface, more and more data mining and adware my MS, etc.
by oaiey | 2026-01-10 19:57:42+00:00
They have all right to sanction or restrict a company which has a legal footprint in their territory.

When you are incorporating as a company in a country you are subject to their laws. Period. If that includes rules how you act worldwide, than that is a part of it.

Do not get me wrong, restricting free speech or apply IP law outside your territory is IMHO not right for a country to do.
by maximus-decimus | 2026-01-10 19:57:57+00:00
org-mode is just much more complicated to implement though and just contains so much. it's also a todo app. It also lets you run code like a python notebook. it can show you your tasks in a calendar.

I've used "org-mode" todo apps on android, but people complain they can't really use it because it doesn't implement everything.

The advantage of the core markdown syntax is that you know it works everywhere and it works everywhere because it's small and easy to implement.
by troyvit | 2026-01-10 19:58:23+00:00
I've had the pleasure of working for CEOs who don't resort to public threats (or all caps) to get their point across. When I chose who leads me or who I work with stability and consistency are key. This just sounds like a man who thinks he can flex his way out of a problem and that is just such a short sited way to solve problems. Not my kind of CEO.
by nikanj | 2026-01-10 19:58:28+00:00
> This is a non-issue if your files are stored in a partition separate from your OS, and is infeasible otherwise.

That is one of the biggest ifs of 2026. I don't think any major PC laptop vendor has ever sold consumer laptops with anything but one-big-partition layout. For the average user, their files are not stored in any partition, they are stored "right there on my desktop, with a separate folder for photos and bills"
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-10 19:59:02+00:00
Programming is writing logic, which is a universal quality. So the way I would do is to create a fictional programming language, provide some familiarity and training time immediately before a licensing exam (at the testing location), and then having the candidate solve real problems using the fictional language for the licensing exam. It tests for the ability to deliver solutions more than memorizing patterns or reproducing familiar conventions. Too many developers cannot write original logic.

Then there could be additional specialized qualifications above the base qualification, for example: security/certificates/cryptography, experimentation, execution performance, transmission/API management.
Show HN: Night Core – A WASM execution firewall for AI agents and untrusted code
by Xnfinite | 2026-01-10 19:59:35+00:00
I’ve been exploring the risks of letting autonomous AI agents generate or execute code — especially via WASM.

Night Core is a lightweight console that treats execution as a boundary, not just output. It uses signature-based validation, human approval queues, and sandboxed runtimes (like Wasmtime) to let you review or reject what runs — before it happens.

Demo screenshots: https://x.com/xnfinitecore/status/2010067157774991457?s=46

Still early, but open to ideas, pushback, and contributions. Curious if others are thinking about this edge.
by torginus | 2026-01-10 20:00:04+00:00
Personally, when not being a tourist, almost all my trips are home to some place and back again.

Public transport is great, but if you're going to a less good part of the city, or even just a place that's unfamiliar, and less frequented, it might be a bit more difficult to get around.

And public transport travel distances can be patchy based on where the stops are, especially if you're going to the outskirts of your city.

Also when having to be present in the office, that extra 15-25 mins (x2) it takes to get to and from the office adds up quickly.
by vdupras | 2026-01-10 20:00:13+00:00
> meme that the French Revolution was a quasi-communist revolution

It's not a meme. There's clearly a collectivist movement within the revolution, it's just that this force failed to take power. The "révolution de Février", in 1848 was precisely this: Paris going full collectivist, abolishing property and all, then small land owner from the provinces freaking out and all come to Paris to whoop them.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-10 20:00:16+00:00
Conversely, the correlation between university eliteness and occupational eliteness is weakening.

Who is more elite - a new grad working on a YC startup who attended UIUC (an elite CS program at a university that is not viewed as selective by society at large) or a Yale grad working as a junior reporter or working in the Hill earning $50k?
by rickcarlino | 2026-01-10 20:01:19+00:00
Linux is one of the last strong defenses for the idea that people should control the computers they own. On desktops and servers, root access is normal, and attempts to take it away do not work because software freedom is well established. On phones, that never happened. There is no real, mainstream “Linux for mobile,” and the result is a world of locked-down platforms where things like “sideloading” are treated as scary security risks instead of basic user rights. This makes it much easier for lawmakers to argue for removing root access on mobile devices, even though the same idea would be unrealistic on desktop systems.

A great deal of gratitude is owed to all the people who volunteer their free time to create the stable desktop environment we have free access to on Linux in 2026.
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-10 20:01:42+00:00
All the major OSes have components of the larger operating system that run in userspace and communicate via IPC, including Linux. But userspace drivers and basic system services (VFS, network stack, etc.) are very limited. If macOS is a microkernel in the sense of those built on L4, then so are Windows and Linux, and the word doesn't have any meaning anymore.
by blueg3 | 2026-01-10 20:01:51+00:00
In my experience, people don't really care about rooted devices and non-stock Android -- if those devices are actually phones in the hands of human users.

The big fraud vector is running emulators in datacenters or skipping running the app entirely and talking directly to endpoints. Requiring that an entity making a request is from a real phone and is from (approximately) your app adds friction and is effective at reducing fraud.
by rvz | 2026-01-10 20:01:58+00:00
For learning, pick one that solves a problem just for you.

For research, pick an existing project and make it efficient.

For building a startup, pick one that solves a problem for many people and makes money.

The last one doesn't come without problems and now has just gotten even harder. It used to be 90% of startups failing.

Now it most likely is going to be 98% of startups failing.