MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by haldujai | 2026-01-28 18:20:16+00:00
I wonder if in your case (which is very common) the issue is a mismatch between expectations and reality. The medical system as we know is not designed for someone to listen to you and do a back and forth for hours. If we did that we would only treat 2-4 patients a day. It’s also not particularly helpful.

Time spent in a medical encounter is tied to patient satisfaction but there is rapid drop off for clinical benefit especially in the current day where investigations are more important than a physical exam in most cases and more than history in a substantial portion.

15 minutes is what we book as follow-ups or minor assessments in US+Canada, usually sufficient for most things. New consults or complex patients are 30-60 minutes.

Infodumping is not particularly helpful. Doctors are trained to use a combination of open and closed questions to guide the encounter based on their thinking and understanding of medicine. It’s relevant past medical history as not every symptom or past disease is necessarily useful in assessing what’s wrong today.
by MBCook | 2026-01-28 18:20:46+00:00
I loved it. Not SNES levels, but I had a lot of fun.

Caveat: I got it near the end of its life when blockbuster was selling off the ones they were renting. So for like 50 or 100 bucks we got the console and 4-5 games.

Was it perfect? No. But it was a Nintendo system and had some quite entertaining games. And some terrible ones of course.

It was a very interesting experiment. I’m sorry it was Gunpei Yokoi’s last project at Nintendo and he felt he had to resign from the failure.

I don’t know what “modern” people who weren’t around at the time think of it. And back then a lot of people really wanted it to be what it wasn’t. They really just wanted to judge it for not being the GameBoy Color.

It was a neat try at something totally different.

I hope having it available on the Switch virtual console means more people will play the games and find out just how good a few of them were.
by n4bz0r | 2026-01-28 18:20:53+00:00
> If my computer goes to sleep, WSL becomes unresponsive. I have to save all my stuff and reboot to continue working.

Try wsl --shutdown. Works for me when WSL hangs for no apparent reason.

I've also noticed that, in my case, these hangs are somehow tied to Docker for Windows. Couldn't figure what triggers them so far, though. I just restart DFW and kill WSL when that happens.
by stackedinserter | 2026-01-28 18:20:57+00:00
Not just this. I'm linux/macos user since early 2000's and still sometimes hate macos because they have very annoying bugs that are never fixed, and annoying corpo decisions.

E.g. it keeps opening Music app whenever I connect bluetooth earbuds. I can't delete Music app, it just keeps popping up with imbecile message about "user is not logged in" or something. I run a script that monitors that Music.app is running and kills-9 it.

Or blinking desktop background issue, that's been there for years, accumulated many support threads, and still not fixed.

Random services like coreaudiod that suddenly start consuming 100% CPU for no apparent reason.

Macbook throttling (thanks God, gone with M cpu's)

I can keep going but my point is macos has legit problems that can't be simply shrugged off with "they just hold it the wrong way".

Like any other mass product tbh, except rare ideal products like Factorio game or sqlite.
by darksaints | 2026-01-28 18:21:06+00:00
This is absolutely amazing.

For those of us programming nerds that want to play with aerodynamics, I can't recommend AeroSandbox enough. While the code is pretty obviously written for people who know their way around aerodynamics and not so much around programming, it is remarkably powerful. You can do all sorts of aerodynamic simulations and is coupled with optimization libraries that allow you to do incredible aerodynamic optimizations. It comes included with some pretty powerful open weight neural network models that can do very accurate estimates of aerodynamic characteristics of airfoils in a fraction of the time that top tier heuristic solvers (like xfoil) can do (which are already several orders of magnitude faster than CFD solvers).

https://github.com/peterdsharpe/AeroSandbox
by ahepp | 2026-01-28 18:21:28+00:00
I work on embedded devices, fairly powerful ones to be fair, and I think systemd is really great, useful software. There's a ton of stuff I can do quite easily with systemd that would take a ton of effort to do reliably with sysvinit.

It's definitely pretty opinionated, and I frequently have to explain to people why "After=" doesn't mean "Wants=", but the result is way more robust than any alternative I'm familiar with.

If you're on a system so constrained that running systemd is a burden, you are probably already using something like buildroot/yocto and have a high degree of control about what init system you use.
by varispeed | 2026-01-28 18:21:44+00:00
If it's Intel then it might not be fully down to Windows 11. The PC laptops are universally crap. I had a few latest ones, Ultra 9 and they are atrocious. Experience reminds me using a netbook in early 2010s.

I would refuse to work anywhere without a Mac. If x86 then it would have to be linux, as that would be passable (apart from fan noise).
by ATechGuy | 2026-01-28 18:22:17+00:00
Congrats on launching, and great testimonials!

What problem does it solve compared to bazillion code execution sandboxing agents (and containers/VMs)?

Overall, a lot of people are building their own code execution sandboxing agents around containers/VMs. Curious to know what's missing that makes people DIY this?

Here's my list of code execution sandboxing agents launched in the last year alone:

1. E2B
2. AIO Sandbox
3. Sandboxer
4. AgentSphere
5. Yolobox
6. Exe.dev
7. yolo-cage
8. SkillFS
ERA
Jazzberry
Computer
Vibekit
Daytona
Modal
Cognitora
YepCode Run
Compute CLI
Fence
Landrun
Sprites
pctx-sandbox
pctx
Sandbox Agent SDK
Lima-devbox
OpenServ
Browser Agent Playground
Flintlock
Agent Quickstart
Bouvet Sandbox
Arrakis
Cellmate (ceLLMate)
AgentFence
Tasker
by anon291 | 2026-01-28 18:22:26+00:00
Once again, I don't really understand people who say Windows is easier. Take printer drivers. In windows you have a 'simple' wizard to install a printer driver. Except in my experience... it never works the first time and you have to fiddle. On Linux... I just bought a new printer, and it worked out of the box. My experience with most hardware today on Linux is out-of-the-box support while windows requires endless 'driver' installs. Even driver installs on linux are easier. Usually just drop a binary blob somewhere if you really need it and modprobe...

Again it's 2026... why is this so hard. Usually paid software is actually better and more feature-ful, but Windows is just not useful at all. The best use of Windows is WSL2
by EGreg | 2026-01-28 18:22:35+00:00
I used to be worried about swarms of autonomous agents in the wild, running on open source software and LLMs. So they would be an advanced persistent threat, causing havoc at scale, impossible to eradicate.

But it’s even worse. There’s literally no barrier. Millions of people are willing to download anything to their computer and give it access to their emails, etc. in the name of “efficiency”. They’ll give the swarms all the compute they want and all their money too, as long as they’re sleepers and behave well for a while.

Don’t be too smug, as devs we face supply chain attacks via npm and VSCode extensions for similar motivations. “Just trust the ecosystem” that has no real safeguards.
by novia | 2026-01-28 18:22:42+00:00
> The events of the past week have shown that immigration status, citizenship, or even the law is not a deterrent against detention, violence, or even death from federal operatives.

My understanding (could be wrong) was that both Alex Pretti and Renee Good were involved in activities that would make the job of the ICE agents more difficult [1]. I would be happy to be proven wrong about this.

There are protesters, and there are observers, but there are also people actively obstructing by blowing whistles, blocking traffic, and generally getting in the way of the agents. I think both Renee and Alex were in the latter group.

GDM employees just going to work, as long as their visas are in order, shouldn't be worried about getting randomly tackled and murdered by ICE agents.

[1] https://www.wlfi.com/news/national/alex-pretti-broke-rib-in-...
by mips_avatar | 2026-01-28 18:23:06+00:00
The tech jobs were cushy because the tech companies bribed ambitious people to keep them from starting their own companies. Like it wasn't about hiring them because you needed them it was to keep them from competing against you. Like this was always a deal with the devil, but the idea that Microsoft has more of a right to the monopoly it has over OS operating systems than their employees have access to their healthcare is wrong. Like I think a lot of people are waking up to the idea that the promises their companies made to them were like the promises the devil made in that theirs fine print and they sold the company more than they realized.

Additionally all the startups offering to automate whitecollar work are going to run into a problem when they realize the jobs never needed to be done.
by tonyww | 2026-01-28 18:23:30+00:00
The WASM pass is fully deterministic: it’s just code running in the page to extract and prune post-rendered elements (roles, geometry, visibility, layout, etc), no agent involved in the chrome extension .

The “deterministic overrides” aren’t generated by a verifier agent either; they’re runtime rules that kick in when assertions or ordinality constraints are explicit (e.g. “first result”). The verifier just checks outcomes — it doesn’t invent actions. Because the nature of ai agents is non-deterministic, which we don’t want to introduce to the verification layer (predicate only).
by erratic_chargi | 2026-01-28 18:23:43+00:00
Of course it failed, nobody want to shop at a limited selection with mandatory signing up amazon store that closes at like 8.

But a 24/7 data driven store that is a last resort would have succeeded.

Put slop bowls at business areas, Junk food where there are clubs for drunk people.

Moving season in college town, put some stationary and some tools for DIY stuff.

In valentines cheap wine and chocolate for the singles, and flowers with top rated gifts for couples.
by rainworld | 2026-01-28 18:23:44+00:00
> Maybe WE can't imagine taking losses like this, but in Russia they seem more than willing.

WE are happily enabling Ukrainians to take such losses.

> seemingly carelessly.

They are doing what works—which evidently it does, however ugly and cynical it looks. And Ukrainians do the same when they try to recapture. This is the face of attritional warfare in the age of drones and under pervasive surveillance. But you’re probably right—WE could not sustain such for long. One hopes.

> now exceed sustainable recruitment and replacement rates,

That’s on even days. On odd days these people will tell you that the Russia army has been all but rebuilt and is about to invade the Baltics.

> Meanwhile, battlefield casualties favor Ukraine by a 2.5- or 2-to-1 ratio.

Russia is 4–5 times bigger. So, even if these numbers were true, they would be bad news. Same with materiel—just check Oryx. For extra credit, look at the trends of losses. Far from good enough and getting worse.
by jandrese | 2026-01-28 18:23:46+00:00
Maybe the difference is that I am running Ubuntu? Personally I think it's a common mistake for new users to jump on some obscure distro because they read something online where someone says it's the best. Even if that's true there is value in being on a popular distro in that bugs tend to be discovered and fixed quicker and there's almost always someone who has had the same problem you did and often figured out the solution just a web search away.

I think Canonical and the Gnome foundation have made some really bone headed decisions over the years, but I stick with Ubuntu because the mass of users on it means I never get left high and dry. Or at least I'm not alone when I run into a problem.
by nly | 2026-01-28 18:23:48+00:00
Depends what "doing it badly" means.

The most important aspect of software design, at least with respect to software that you intend not to completely throw away and will be used by at least one other person, is that it is easy to change, and remains easy to change.

Whether it works properly or not, whether it's ugly and hacky or not, or whether it's slow... none of that matters. If it's easy to change you can fix it later.

Put a well thought out but minimal API around your code. Make it a magic black box. Maintain that API forever. Test only the APIs you ship.
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by kimys1324 | 2026-01-28 18:23:54+00:00
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by krs_ | 2026-01-28 18:23:57+00:00
While I agree it's unreasonable, it's also kind of a chicken and an egg thing. These things won't change until Linux becomes big enough to ignore. I'm not sure what the solution is though, as I don't think it's realistic to make people give up what they enjoy to get there. That's not gonna happen. But Valve has at least made a dent with the Steamdeck and Proton in general, and maybe more with the upcoming Steam Machine. Devs actively target the Steamdeck nowadays for games where it makes sense, so it is taken into consideration at a whole new level compared to years past.
by tayo42 | 2026-01-28 18:23:57+00:00
Did you try it? If it doesn't work there's also called once if you scroll up on the doc

And as far as whether it's a good idea or not, I generally wouldn't, but was saying when it is important then you do have these tools available,llms aren't the first thing to check for these mistakes. It's up to the engineer to choose between trade offs for your scenario.
by ben_w | 2026-01-28 18:24:06+00:00
Sometimes that delays it.

But when the tech is good enough and cheap enough then the picketing unions find their only barganing chip, that of witholding their labor, has become a toothless threat: no matter how long and hard a person of the profession "computer"* refuses to work for me for daring to have an unauthorised "electronic brain"**, the absense of that labour will not cause me any loss.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

** https://archive.org/details/electronicbrainh00cook/mode/1up
by lenerdenator | 2026-01-28 18:25:37+00:00
> Same with gun laws, now the tyrants have big enough guns that your personal 9mm can't deter tyranny

The fetishization of individualism is the problem here.

The guys who wrote that were fresh off a revolution where they had used privately-held arms to drive off a system of government. They didn't do that alone. They had committees on security and correspondence that would coordinate how arms were used. They were militias, not necessarily state-backed ones, either.

What you see now is a lot of people who are almost as well-armed, personally, as the tyrants, but not as well-organized.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-28 18:26:01+00:00
> It’s got to be one of the first to go in AI age especially since the market is so saturated with mediocre talents.

Depends what your definition of “to go” means. Responsibilities swallowed by peers? Sure, and new job titles might pop up like Research & Development Engineer or something.

The discipline of creating automated systems to extract insights from data to create business value? I can’t really see that going anywhere. I mean, why tf would we be building so many data centers if there’s no value in the data they’re storing.
by everdrive | 2026-01-28 18:26:26+00:00
I think Apple gets a pass because they're a luxury product. For the record, even though Apple has some really impressive hardware, this is one of the reasons I'm not very big on Apple. People praise their phone's longevity all the time, but I think this is crazy. I could be running a 13 year old computer right now and it would work fine if I had Linux. Smartphones don't really have options for this due to the market capture. Apple's PC could be supported longer, but Apple isn't interested in doing it. (and apparently they change architectures every 15 years anyhow.)
My app is going viral and hitting the Google books API quota
by iboshidev | 2026-01-28 18:26:32+00:00
the hyperlink they have in the gcp dashboard to submit an increase request is broken and i cant even file a support ticket for some stupid reason. anyone know anyone from google that could help? plssss my app is going insanely viral and all my users are now blocked cuz of these stupid limits. any help would be super duper appreciated even a working link to submit a quote increase request at this point.
by ufmace | 2026-01-28 18:27:14+00:00
There's a little bit of considering it already yeah. Plus what the sibling comments say of it being clearly against what Microsoft wants, so no guarantee they won't disable it or make it even harder in the future. And also, the factor of, doing any of these check-disabling hacks also seems to require a full OS reinstall instead of an in-place update. If I need to do a full reinstall anyways, why not do it with an OS I don't need to hack up to get it to install on a system the OS maintainer doesn't want it to be installed on.

Apparently, fundamentally, Microsoft does not want me as a user. Hacking around their checks won't change that. I'd rather comply with their wishes and use an OS that actually wants me as a user.
by mmooss | 2026-01-28 18:27:14+00:00
This is a really interesting examination of how (online) political communication works. Also, I love that they embrace serious thinking without hesitating and trying to sound 'cool' - they go right for the heart of it. Some excerpts:

At the intersection of culture, technology, and human cognition lies a framework for understanding the subtle architectures governing contemporary existence ...

Polarization emerges not merely from misinformation or malice, but from foundational structures of signification itself.

René Magritte’s iconic pipe, inscribed with “This is not a pipe,” exemplifies the treachery invoked in the title: a perpetual disjuncture between signifier and signified.

The crux resides in signs’ inherent underdetermination of interpretation. They resemble fragmentary mosaics, completed through contextual priors. In diverse societies, this fosters innovation. Algorithmic curation, however, transforms these interstices into abyssal rifts. Linguistic anthropology, crediting Paul Kockelman’s 2024 framework on semiotic agency, elucidates indexicality (signs’ tethering to social milieus) and enregisterment (their aggregation into typified forms). “Defund the police” may connote reform for one group, lawlessness for another, with divergences accruing in segregated enclaves.
by owaislone | 2026-01-28 18:27:24+00:00
I'm just coming back to web/API development Python after 7-8 years working on distributed systems in Go. I just built a Django+Celery MVP given what I knew from 2017 but I see a lot of "hate" towards Celery online these days. What issues have you run into with Celery? Has it gotten less reliable? harder to work with?
by rayiner | 2026-01-28 18:27:43+00:00
I’m obviously using Bangladesh as one example. What part of my post do you even disagree with? Are you disputing that most immigration to the US is from third-world countries where people have a different view of the relationship between the people and the government than is traditionally the case in America? Or do you think immigrants and their children just shed those beliefs when they set foot on US soil?

Besides, what you’re overlooking is that the definition of “liberal” and “conservative” changes over time. Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton in many ways embraced traditional small-government conservatism. That’s an idea that basically doesn’t exist outside the Anglosphere.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-28 18:28:02+00:00
I've been pretty happy with Pop in general, I did upgrade to COSMIC pre-release about 6 months ago, and although there have been rough edges, less than some of my Win11 experiences. I don't really fiddle that much in practice, I did spend a year with Budgie, but only the first week fiddling. Pop's out of the box is about 90% of what I want, which is better than most.

I do use a Macbook M1 Air for my personal laptop and have used them for work off and on over the years... I'm currently using a very locked down windows laptop assigned from work. Not having WSL and Docker have held me back a lot though.

In the end, I do most of my work in Linux anyway... it's where what I work on tends to get deployed and I don't really do much that doesn't work on Linux without issue at this point. Windows, specifically since Win11 has continued to piss me off and I jumped when I saw something that was just too much for me to consider dealing with. I ran insiders for years to get the latest WSL integrations and features. This bit me a few times, but was largely worth it, until it wasn't anymore.

C# work is paying the bills... would I rather work on Rust or TS, sure... but I am where I am. I'm similar to you in that I looked at Linux every few years, kicked the tires, ran it for a month or a couple weeks and always went back. This time a couple years ago... it stuck. Ironically, my grandmother used Linux much longer than I ever did on her computer that I maintained for her. For her, it just worked, and she didn't need much beyond the browser.
by sashank_1509 | 2026-01-28 18:28:19+00:00
We’ve had crazy covid years where every new grad was making 250k+, and now every 3-6 months we have layoffs which has not surprisingly been paired with blaming it on offshoring, H1b etc. Clearly the current system can’t withstand much of a shock, what’s going to happen if we get a full 2007 style recession, will the blame game go even higher on steroids, some times it feels like it’s quite bad already. I don’t look forward to that.

I think and I know HN commentators are going to hate this, but Thiel was right when he wrote that the current system only works with fast continuous growth. Ideally multiple growing sectors, contributing to the economy. Anything else, and everyone immediately starts fighting for scraps joining their tribal identity or whatnot. The only way out, would be more rapid growth in multiple sectors, not just AI, or a complete breakdown of the existing system which does not leave me hopeful for anything better. I in fact like the existing system quite a bit, but maybe that’s just me.