MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-17 04:39:23+00:00
Images and video compress vastly better than text. You're lucky to get 4:1 to 6:1 compression of text (1), while the best perceptual codecs for static images are typically visually lossless at 10:1 and still look great at 20:1 or higher. Video compression is much better still due to temporal coherence.

1: Although it looks like the current Hutter competition leader is closer to 9:1, which I didn't realize. Pretty awesome by historical standards.
by dddrh | 2026-01-17 04:39:34+00:00
Hey I had a similar idea around skipping the “brew/bun install” copy+paste on a site and instead just give a short prompt to have the LLM do the work.

I like the notion of having install.md be the thing that is referenced in Prompt to Install on the web.

Edit: forgot my link
https://dontoisme.github.io/ai/developer-tools/ux/2025/12/27...
by themafia | 2026-01-17 04:40:11+00:00
The US birth rate was steady from 1990 to 2010.

I also have no idea how you can legitimately claim to predict the birth rate. There is a trend to be sure but it's driven by several factors so this "heartwrenching" prognostication is ridiculous.

Meanwhile consider the value of a degree over the past 30 years. Colleges got sloppy and relied on the largess of the student loan program and not any genuine forward looking management, the degrees became lower quality, and the value to a graduate plummeted. Plus the Internet exists and has wide penetration throughout the US.

This is lame misguided fear mongering apologia. On brand for Bloomberg.
by buu700 | 2026-01-17 04:40:20+00:00
lol, well I'd appreciate the heads up even if it were meant to be aggressive, but thanks. Should be good now; the issue was most likely a CSS animation causing the browser tab to crash, so now it'll just turn off the animation whenever the page is quickly reloaded twice in a row.

By the way, I'm getting a 404 at https://www.weakphi.sh/showcase.
by erlkonig | 2026-01-17 04:42:18+00:00
A while ago, I just wrote a filter to be able to paste markdown into a <name>.smd file, and an Apache filter to autoprocess them much like any other filter (and a <named>.smd.meta for title info and some other metadata).

This makes it super easy to write something cool on Reddit or whatever, then just paste the markdown into an index.smd file in a new directory (named meaningfully) and poof it's in a webpage.

The core of all of it is a /var/www/cgi-bin/markdown-to-html program centered on:

python3 -m markdown -x codehilite -x fenced_code -x toc

It's enabled in my ~/www/.htaccess of all places:

# This works, with setup in /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/mod-ext_filter-adds.conf
AddType text/markdown .md
AddType text/markdown .smd
AddOutputFilter markdown-to-html md
AddOutputFilter markdown-to-shtml;INCLUDES smd

Much easier to just edit markdown (index.smd usually) and reload than reconvert, and that filter above lets you include arbitrary HTML too, critical to deal with markdown numerous weaknesses.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-17 04:42:50+00:00
I know it’s lower than 50% but I wanted to get a better idea myself. Numbers rounded to the nearest 5 million

- Trump voters 2024: 75m
- US population 2024: 340m
- US population >18 2024: 265m
- % pop Trump voters: 22%
- % pop >18 Trump voters: 28%

What numbers did you use?
by mcny | 2026-01-17 04:46:46+00:00
> These days imho it's an automatic 2.99 strikes against anyone who is still endorsing X with their continued business.

Someone mentioned recently that it sure is a little bizarre how many "check marked" accounts Microsoft has on twatter.

https://x.com/Microsoft/affiliates

It is like USD 10k a year a pop per account? You may say 200k is a rounding error for Microsoft but it sure sends a message, doesn't it?
by LordDragonfang | 2026-01-17 04:47:47+00:00
With all due respect, I hope you never touch the development of any piece of software any of my relatives or friends ever has to use.

Good UX is one of the most important-yet-underserved areas in the tech industry (the topic of this site), and this sort of attitude goes beyond being smug and naive to being actively harmful. Your goal should always be to make things easier and with as little friction as necessary.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-17 04:48:33+00:00
Using homicide numbers when the point was about overall incarceration statistics is disingenuous at best, and a wildly racist diatribe worthy of a significant scolding at worst. Murder / homicide account for a small single digit percentage of all incarcerated people in the US.

Honestly a bit disgusted to have even read what you wrote here. Shameful.

Edit for more substance: your use of homicide numbers belies the common racist American stereotype of blacks as not only a violent, but coddled minority. The fact that your mind would even begin to think that it’s fair to compare 2 million incarcerated black people to the 3-5% of people who are incarcerated for murder for a statistical gotcha is despicable.
by matt_heimer | 2026-01-17 04:48:36+00:00
I'd argue the question was wrong, it's not that big companies can copy you easier now. They could have always invaded your space and destroyed your business. As other pointed out it was always picking up the pennies that they didn't want until those pennies became dollars.

The concern now is that other small team or solo developers can rebuild what you have very quickly. This happened in the mobile space with all the decompiled and repacked (with min changes) apps that showed up in the stores.

The moat for SaaS startups was that the code is hidden. Now that matters less because people use AI to try and reverse engineer your backend from the API or even UI screenshots.

You have to pick up the pace to keep ahead of them and make sure you don't cause problems for customers while doing it.
by chmod775 | 2026-01-17 04:49:41+00:00
I believe the very last ones of those shut down early would have been scheduled for shut down by 2020, so in that case about 9 years earlier than their planned lifetime. Some were shut down mere months before the planned date. Their average age in 2020 would have been around 45 years. They were shut down at ~35 instead.

Younger reactors Germany left running until they also reached around 35 years.
by cookiengineer | 2026-01-17 04:50:40+00:00
That's way too small for my kind of datasets :D

I have only 8TB WD Purple drives, because I don't want to risk SMR failures again. A couple years ago almost half my drives died within 2 weeks, which was quite insane to happen all at once. As it turned out I had a couple of the defective SMR WD Red drives. Never SMR ever again...

My cluster therefore consists of a couple more storage cages and I'm currently using Intel NUC based hardware because I don't have enough spare money for an Epyc based cluster. So I'm kind of having a ghetto style solar powered archiving project :D

(Intel NUC boards have 14V circuits, so you can easily put them on external 12V power supply with step up converters)

The storage cages are external SATA ones, and the Intel NUCs have each eSATA adapters in their (internal) m2 slots. 8x8x8TB = 512TB where half of it is the RAID1-mirrored backup drives because I'm a bit paranoid about it since the last drive failure incident.

Regarding compression rate: ZIM is actually quite nice in that regard, they support gzip/deflated content, and they tried to balance discoverability and search in their tree structure [1].

I don't have video content on those drives, it's pretty much only text and images (where images are also converted to JPEG for storage optimization with ~90% quality for most cases).

[1] https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/ZIM_file_format
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-17 04:50:41+00:00
That happens in every hobby. There's always people declaring themselves king of some hill and making things toxic. I've been in a lot of hobby organisations and it's always the same. In a commercial organisation these people get reported to HR and kicked out but volunteer orgs are much less likely to throw out someone who does a lot of work for free.

I've seen it in ham clubs, makerspaces, etc. It's just what happens. The best thing is having a rock solid code of conduct.

And yeah it's technically interesting though I really miss it being on the bleeding edge. That hasn't been the case for decades. The commercial world can send a gigabit per second to a phone but we're stuck with 9600 baud APRS (or 1200 even sometimes)
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-17 04:51:04+00:00
This is the problem with big concentration of wealth and power. The big tech mega corps can copy your idea easily because they don’t have any budget, they can undercut you or sell at a loss, and they can distribute it to all their current customers with anti competitive bundling.

It has happened over and over many times and American antitrust law is useless. The largest corporations must be broken up, taxed heavily, and regulated in new ways. Otherwise there is no fair competition or level playing field for startups.
by Tanoc | 2026-01-17 04:51:37+00:00
I can confirm the earbuds thing. Not the mask thing. Modern jelly ended "earbuds" just feel awful. They irritate my sense of momentum, never stay in, and it constantly feels like I have altitude pressure buildup in my ear canal when I wear them. The old hard plastic first generation iPod style in-ear earphones however I have had no problem with. Gravity keeps those in place and so there isn't that constant pressure of expansion in your ears. Those or over-ear headphones are what should be recommended to people, and if neither of those options work then they're just using it as an excuse.
by foepys | 2026-01-17 04:51:43+00:00
This is typical CDU conservative talk from Merz. He is on a war path with anything Angela Merkel did because she saw him as politically inexperienced and shunned him. So he had to work for Blackrock.

The CSU (the Bavarian equivalent and permanent coalition partner of the CDU) is also demanding to reactivate nuclear power plants but at the same time is not willing to store any spent nuclear fuel. The CSU is also notoriously anti renewables and does not want new power lines in their "beautiful scenery" to get the renewable power from northern Germany to Bavaria.
by Eji1700 | 2026-01-17 04:51:49+00:00
No Shit.

Economically, diplomatically, strategically, and environmentally probably the dumbest decision they could have made and something they will continue to feel repercussions from for at least another decade.

It’s not as loud as Brexit or Trump but likely equally as damaging to so many causes across the board.

The only silver lining from this monumental fuck up is that since sadly we only learn when consequences occur, they’re finally having to face the music and will hopefully plan for a better future.
by nullocator | 2026-01-17 04:52:49+00:00
> The woman who got shot thought she was on a movie set, tried to act cool and then attempted to run over an officer.

Citation needed. Absolutely wild to claim to know the thoughts of a dead woman. Do you speak for the dead also?

Shills keep bring up Obama deportations. Obama's administration primarily followed the law, observed due process and habeas corpus, didn't send people to concentration camps in other countries, and didn't shoot mother's in the head and then call them terrorists.

It should be clear why the response is so different, there's no need to act naive
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-17 04:53:00+00:00
They are underselling Z-Image Turbo somewhat. It's arguably the best overall model for local image generation for several reasons including prompt adherence, overall output quality and realism, and freedom from censorship, even though it's also one of the smallest at 6B parameters.

ZIT is not far short of revolutionary. It is kind of surreal to contemplate how much high-quality imagery can be extracted from a model that fits on a single DVD and runs extremely quickly on consumer-grade GPUs.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-01-17 04:53:02+00:00
The MD11 in question is a defunct design from 38 years ago. We are building better planes now.

UPS is as old as the plane in question and has only had three fatal accidents in that time with millions of flight hours, most of them on retired airliner frames.

Yes, Boeing had a monumental fuck up with the MAX redesign. However, their last blank page design was the 787 and is seen as completely revolutionary in terms of materials and efficiency. Let’s talk about that plane. It burns 20% less fuel than the planes it was designed to replace, and has a number of incredibly impressive engineering feats purely for passenger comfort- pressurization altitude and window size being the most impressive. It doesn’t sound impressive, but the design ask is: make a lighter plane, with bigger holes in the structure, that can withstand more pressure, and use a material and process that has never been used before. The only fatal incident on the 787 is still under investigation, but is almost certainly pilot error or suicide. Other plane and engine safety technology have allowed ETOPS making it possible to use efficient twin engine jets operate overwater flights that would have been unthinkable 40 years ago.

Jets today are quieter (by such a huge margin that it isn’t legal to operate the original 707 engines at most western airports), more efficient and safer than ever.

In the era that the SR-71 existed in, it was actually pretty common for planes to crash due to design defects (DC-10, Comet, 707, and more). The 737 MAX defect was so shocking because it has been 50+ years since that was common.

The SR71 is a simpler plane in many ways than a modern airliner. The composite technology to build a 787 didn't even exist at that time, and the engine alone on the 787 is far more impressive engineering and material science than the SR71. And there are two companies that figured out how to make them without a blank check from the CIA. The 787 produces more than double the thrust of the SR-71, and most passengers barely are aware of the miracle they are participating.

The SR-71 is an undeniably cool project. I have seen several up close, sat in the cockpit and they are literally awe inspiring. What we build today are airliners that are seemingly boring but built and designed with technology and materials that Skunkworks couldn’t have even attempted.

We aren’t building things like the SR-71 anymore because we are building things that are far better and more complex. We have Lockheed producing the F-22 and F-35, multiple companies reusing space launch rockets, etc. the real problem is that we have lost our sense of wonder at just how impressive modern aerospace engineering is.
by nailer | 2026-01-17 04:53:05+00:00
> But Huntley and Yegge have also been posting about $RALPH and $GAS, which are cryptocurrency coins built on top of the longstanding Solana cryptocurrency

Solana isn't a cryptocurrency, it's a blockchain network (by some measures, the one with the most user activity). SOL is the native token of that network, used to pay transaction fees. These are two random tokens that happen to also use Solana.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-01-17 04:53:23+00:00
Ah. So, see, this is exactly why I need to check apparently.

Personally, I go between “I don’t care at all” and “well it’s not ideal” on AI generations. It’s already too late, but the barrier of entry is a lot lower than it was.

But I’m applying a good faith argument where GP does not seem to have intended one.
by n0ker | 2026-01-17 04:54:08+00:00
Growing up in a family business focused on coworking and shared spaces, I saw that many people were looking for a coworking space to use for a day. They weren't ready to jump into a long-term agreement. So I created LANS to simplify coworking.

Our platform allows users to buy a day pass to a coworking space in seconds. The process is simple: book your pass, arrive at the space, give your name at the front desk, and you're in.

Where we are

Live in San Francisco with several coworking partners.

Recently started expanding beyond the Bay.

10K paid users in San Francisco.

Day passes priced between $18 and $25.

What we’re seeing

Users often use this service. They rotate locations during the week to fit their needs and schedules.

For spaces, it’s incremental usage and new foot traffic during the workday.

Outside dense city centers, onboarding new spaces tends to be faster. Many suburban areas host nice boutique coworking spaces. But, they often miss a strong online presence. Day passes quickly appeal to both operators and users.

What we’re working on

Expanding to more cities.

Adding supply while keeping quality consistent.

Learning which product decisions actually improve repeat usage.

Would love feedback from HN:

Does this resonate with how you work today?

Have you used coworking day passes before?

Would you dump your coworking membership for this?
by lateforwork | 2026-01-17 04:54:26+00:00
> Obama deported 3 million immigrants with ICE while he is president

Obama did it the right way, didn't he? Obama's administration managed deportations effectively and humanely, prioritizing criminals and recent arrivals through programs like Secure Communities for over 3 million removals while upholding due process, minimizing community disruptions, and avoiding widespread violence or errors like wrong-country deportations.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-17 04:54:52+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean here: Are you agreeing and layering on other depressing considerations, or are you downplaying that kind of privacy-break as having no effect?

It does matter. Imagine if Anne Frank (or Anna Franco) is hiding in my attic, and then myself or a guest accidentally takes a picture, perhaps without disabling the internet connection.

There's also the the social-graph it allows someone to construct:

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
by alephnerd | 2026-01-17 04:56:20+00:00
"Good" universities (ie. public and private programs with either regional or national prestige) remain in demand. The issue is there are hundreds of no-name private and public programs that are becoming strapped of students.

It's hard to make a case to attend Western Illinois University or St Mary's College versus going to community college and transferring to your state flagship (eg. Grangier Guarantee [0] and TAG [1] respectively).

[0] - https://grainger.illinois.edu/admissions/undergraduate/pathw...

[1] - https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...
by nullocator | 2026-01-17 04:57:49+00:00
I'm way more concerned about my tax money going to Donald Trump and his family and cronies. Followed by it going to billionaires and corporations. You know things that are actually happening today. I'm not very concerned at all by fluffed up recycled true crime by d tier content creators that the administration has turned into propaganda and people like you are pushing at every opportunity.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-01-17 04:58:17+00:00
Everything you said is exactly the truth.

However.. I’m already expecting the blowback when a Z-Image release doesn’t wow people like the Turbo finetune does. SDXL hasn’t been out two years yet, seems like a decade.

We’ll see. I’m hopeful that Z works as expected and sets the new watermark. I just am not sure it does it right out the gate.
by hippo22 | 2026-01-17 04:58:51+00:00
The story of their shutdown is really quite crazy.

The shutdown was initiated by chancellor Gerhard Schröder. After killing Germany’s nuclear sector, he signed off on Nord Stream 1 as he was on his way out of office. Just after leaving office, Gazprom nominated him for the post of the head of the shareholders' committee of Nord Stream AG. Russia later nominated him to be on their largest oil producers board.

This guy basically sold out Germany’s energy independence for Russia.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der
by paulddraper | 2026-01-17 04:58:54+00:00
The serious answer:

The value cannot be just the software. E.g. some workflow tool (Salesforce). These tools will continue to exist for awhile but any customer capable of moving off of it to a startup version, can probably make their own startup version, tailored to them.

Now, if you offer something besides the software — logistics, networks, financial instruments, regulatory compliance, physical goods, etc — that has value besides the software.

But the five billionth workflow automation tool has fast diminishing value in 2026.
by Eji1700 | 2026-01-17 04:59:18+00:00
It’s a shockingly strong movement even still in the US. A lot of education growing up was about how nuclear sludge would ruin everything and basically every “green” movement would still fight nuclear tooth and nail through all sorts of scare tactics.

It’s only in the post climate change world that some are coming around to the reality that France exists and isn’t a smoking radioactive crater.
by unsnap_biceps | 2026-01-17 04:59:20+00:00
I'm pretty traditional conservative and I don't feel that our tax money should be funding child care directly like it does these days. I want to reduce the debt and taxes.

Looking at the "journalist", I really don't understand what people say he uncovered. He showed up with a bunch of people and expected to enter a non-public facility with children to investigate and when he was denied entry, made huge claims about how over half of the state's funding is going to illegal
Immigrants. I saw zero proof of anything in their "reporting" nor did I see anything credible in their approach. I fully support investigative reporting, but there's a bar that needs to be meet to be considered a journalist and rage content creators do not meet that bar.

If you want to link to specific videos that you feel do meet this bar, I'm happy to watch them, but as of now, I do not believe their reporting one bit.
by mikodin | 2026-01-17 05:00:08+00:00
Yeah I see the benefit right off the bat, this is a direct head to Vercel and NextJS.

With that said, I have no idea on the market share or profitability of any of that or Cloudflare vs Vercel.

Also perhaps the rails that will be put in place for seamless 1 click Astro deploy will continue to push them forward with other technologies as well, so it's not just about Astro.

I do feel that fear as well, is this an unnecessary distraction for CloudFlare? Time will tell.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-17 05:00:10+00:00
That's not true, what I said is easily verifiable. Referring to it as "some trolls put people in bikinis for a couple days and it was based" is an undersell. You may note I am no shirking violet, nor do I lack perspective, as evidenced by my notes on Seedream. ;)

I don't think it's kind to accuse others of bad faith, as evidence by me not passing judgement on the person you are replying to's description.

I do admit it made my stomach churn a little bit to see how quickly people will other. Not on you, I'm sure I've done this too. It's stark when you're on the other side of it.
by charles_f | 2026-01-17 05:00:17+00:00
Exactly! Every time I asked someone respectfully to lower their noise, it worked. Most times they apologized, I think sometimes people don't realize they're annoying others. It might be intimidating the first couple of times, but it's so much better to feel assertive and not be annoyed anymore.

Last time this happened was in a bar, there was a pianist playing, and a group sat right next to the piano and started being very noisy. I went and asked them to lower their voices. They apologized, and shut up entirely. Later, someone came to thank me for that.

On the other hand, I would never dare using that tool, it feels a bit childish and would make me feel like such an ass!
by AuryGlenz | 2026-01-17 05:00:39+00:00
It’s easy to say that EV charging on long trips should align with other stops until you factor in kids. Doing a normal 2-3 hour one way trip with kids is already not fun, I don’t want to pull over for them to pee 20 minutes before I need to sit and let the thing charge for 30 minutes.

Nevermind the fact that there are very, very few EVs suitable for anyone with more than 2 kids.