MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sas41 | 2026-01-02 05:22:41+00:00
I'm seeing some negative sentiment here, that I feel like, needs to be cleared up. For some context, I'm 29, I haven't always lived here, but have been here for almost 20 years. I work in the software industry.

1. Bulgaria has been a member state since January 1st 2007. Many here feel like us being accepted into Schengen area took longer it should despite the clear benefits of our black sea ports.

2. The adoption of the Euro was a long planned thing, delayed to ensure the country can have a smooth transition, while there's a Russo-phile movement in the country, there was never a majority negative sentiment, it's believed to be Russian disinformation that made it look like that.

3. Bulgaria is not purely a leech in the EU, while it's a beneficiary of financial aid from various EU initiatives, that's offset heavily by the constant source cheap, highly skilled labor and education. Some common examples are/were Nurses and Doctors often go west to fill gaps in other member state, notably in UK before Brexit. Construction laborers working in Germany. And an incredible amount of software engineering being outsourced to here from all over the world, especially richer members states.

4. Bulgaria has a huge Queer community, and while it's true, the current government leaned more conservative in the bad sense, we did also protest them out of government. While the country is dealing with and healing from decades of past Russian influence, the youth are organizing Queer Bazaars and Palestinian Solidarity Charity Punk concerts, both, I can attest were very nice.

My advice is to not form your opinions purely by what news sources that reach you, because in the modern world, everyone has an agenda. Before talking about a country you have no personal, long term experience with, try to do basic research using the "country + keywords" query and dig deep. The news that seem to reach people these days seem to constantly confirm their biases, and having seen the comparison to Hungary, a country under possible dictatorship, vs. Bulgaria, a country that just protested it's Parliament out, feels very odd.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-02 05:23:26+00:00
Not only is what he saying in direct contradiction to what people with credibility have said, but his claimed credentials can be utter bullshit.

This is the internet bro. Credibility is irrelevant because identities can never be verified. So the only thing that matters is the strength and rationality of an argument.

That’s the point of hacker news substantive content not some battle of comparison of credentials or useless quips (like yours) with zero substance. Say something worth reading if you have anything to say at all, otherwise nobody cares.
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-02 05:24:29+00:00
How big of a difference is there? I see lots of 'populist' accounting lavishing praise on Augusto Pinochet (famous for perating death squads) they cheer when people sent to a ultra-security prison in El Salvador (likely illegally), and spam Nick Fuentes on social media. The administration is full of groypers and the DHS twitter handle is now a blatant propaganda account obviously run by a white nationalist.
by forthwall | 2026-01-02 05:24:32+00:00
Unfortunately this is the end state for many gig for hire apps, uber, tasktabbit etc, I think food delivery is probably the worst because the customer does not interact with the contractor at all, compared to other apps, so you can’t even hear if the driver is getting ripped off on their end.

The tip stealing thing felt very similar to one thing I noticed last night during NYE was certain friends who used uber more had to pay higher for the same rides as me who never uses the app. There’s so much data singling both drivers and consumers out to maximize returns, it’s crazy
by empiko | 2026-01-02 05:24:55+00:00
It's not really a mystery why it happens. LLM APIs are non-deterministic from user's point of view because your request is going to get batched with other users' requests. The batch behavior is deterministic, but your batch is going to be different each time you send your request.

The size of the batch influences the order of atomic float operations. And because float operations are not associative, the results might be different.
by riku_iki | 2026-01-02 05:25:29+00:00
> I would bet the unit volume of manufacturing with those 4.6T is more than double that of 5.5T. And those 5.5T likely have some very high value, high margin leading edge equipment.

sure, and what's your point? My opinion is that high margin leading edge equipment is more interesting direction than low cost low tech produce.
by keernan | 2026-01-02 05:25:54+00:00
>California, home to a host of Silicon Valley and Hollywood titans, had an estimated 255 billionaires last year, more than any other state, according to Altrata, a wealth-intelligence firm. More than one-third of California’s tax revenue comes from the top 1% of earners.

I'm a bit surprised to see the WSJ conflate wealth with earnings.
by siavosh | 2026-01-02 05:28:51+00:00
I agree. The center of capitalism may have shifted to China, but they'll have to deal with (are already) dealing with the same problems and it'll probably happen even faster for them. Instability in the system is only overshadowed by the growing instability in peoples lives. I think most people feel this and the discourse has fundamentally shifted in the west, but these are tectonic and unpredictable forces.

A parting thought: from a geo-political perspective, I understand the purpose of essays like this but like I said I think its losing the forrest for the trees and at great risk.
by Animats | 2026-01-02 05:30:04+00:00
In the last 125 years Russia has been through monarchy, liberal communism (Kerensky), dictatorial communism (Lenin, Stalin), bureaucratic communism (Khrushchev to Gorbachev), liberal capitalism, oligarchy, and now dictatorship. None of them worked very well.

Whenever there's trouble, Russia's history demands a strong leader. When one arises, the strong leader soon becomes the trouble.
by qingcharles | 2026-01-02 05:30:11+00:00
> If you have to make a new copy from the original reels, what if someone is hoarding them?

This is a legitimate problem in public domain releasing. If you're trying to release a really good public domain version then you might need access to very high quality source materials. With a movie it would obviously be nice to scan the camera negatives. If the studio has those negatives in a vault, then you're cooked.

Didn't Bill Gates or some others buy up thousands of old artworks and put them on ice so they could paywall the scans?
by sublinear | 2026-01-02 05:31:28+00:00
> I’m a backend engineer. I sit in the weekly sprint planning meetings where Product Managers (PMs) discuss how to squeeze another 0.4% margin out of "human assets"...

This is what made it feel fake to me. Even the most naive startups don't discuss these kinds of details with the dev team (or sometimes even the senior management) because it's not relevant to getting the work done. This alleged business is likely much larger and naturally siloed. Intent is not a success criteria, and things are always subject to change so why bake it into the code? Sounds like a terrible idea.

What would make way more sense is asking the dev team to expose configuration and stats. Dashboards are not suspicious because they are genuinely useful to the entire business, not just some evil inner group trying to squeeze a few percent.
by disqard | 2026-01-02 05:32:13+00:00
You reminded me of how Marshall McLuhan called TV a "cool" (as opposed to "hot") medium.

My interpretation is that back in his day, TV was grayscale, grainy, and interlaced, and therefore demanded that the viewer exert their imagination to "complete the picture".

I imagine that if he were to see today's 4k full-color 120Hz panels, he would call TV a "hot" medium.
by flomo | 2026-01-02 05:32:14+00:00
It's an interesting discussion. Also, a lot of stuff from the 19th century only became famous after copyright expired (and only sometimes was the author able to profit from this, other times they died in poverty.)

28+28+... might be a better model. I know there's a bunch of decent stuff from the 1990s which will never again have any real economic value, but would be fine for soundtracks or tictoks or MAME or etc.
by antod | 2026-01-02 05:32:24+00:00
My daughter (16) and her friends are. She's asked for specific CDs as presents, and is now the guardian of my brother and mine CD stashes dragged out of the wardrobes and attics.

She'll trawl thrift shops for CDs too.

New CDs in shops now are much much cheaper than they used to be as well.

Giving up Spotify isn't on the cards yet though. I'll teach her how to rip songs next I reckon.
by CrimsonCape | 2026-01-02 05:34:37+00:00
So how can I get control of one Sears store and through that one store, singlehandedly resurrect the brand? Surely they must be ready to field Skunkworks-like ideas from young talent willing to risk and win...

This hypothetical new Sears vision is to create an Ikea competitor, but an honest Ikea, where Sears squares off with their biggest showroom-based adversary.

Ikea is beautiful but hollow, as their showrooms are seductive dioramas, but the resulting money exchange of cash for particleboard is like buying sex instead of meeting you life partner.

Instead, Sears would be the interface between the customer and the American-made premise. Sears sells American made products and represents American makers. Fuck selling washers and dryers. The showroom is not there to stock imports in cardboard. It's there to show you a concept, what your life could be if you stop buying junk. It's there to demonstrate quality. It's not particleboard at the core; it's a chunk of USA.

It would shamelessly capitalize on nostalgia and quality. Instead of nordic spartan whites and blands, it would have dioramas of pine wood wall panelling, cast iron wood stoves, chrome magnificence, Tiffany glass. Want a new desk? $5k. Made of US oak. Want the pine walls? The boardfeet are in the back, milled 5 miles away, how much square feet you need?

Even better, each store is fucking exclusive. Find local makers and concentrate their products in the geographically local store. Make people rabid and giddy to travel to each store even if they need to go five states away. Visiting is a unforgettable experience, like a museum that you can buy stuff.

Stage 2 is to use the Sears branded products like Ycombinator for machine shops. Sears injects some startup capital and now Sears cabinet pulls are turned on a machine lathe in a startup machine shop in Ohio. Furniture ateliers are like franchise Chick-fil-as.
by willtemperley | 2026-01-02 05:34:41+00:00
I actually found the anecdote I was referring to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605873 (see comment by user yalok).

"""
Just anecdotally, but this aligns with my observations on the trend/growth of successful useful open source projects that go with permissive BSD-like license. ~20 years ago there were way less of those than now.
And as a SW developer doing client side/apps as well, using GPL/LGPL is a total pain and basically cost prohibitive, unless I work on my personal small project where I don’t care about having to/risking to open source the rest of the code and getting sued/cloned…
Real life example from ~2010 - we ended up including an LGPL library in our mobile app code, and published/upstreamed all the modifications we did to that code (mostly ARM optimizations). Once the app became popular, our competitors came to us demanding the source code of our app - just because iOS didn’t support dynamic libraries (so we had to statically link it), and giving them the object code to relink it wasn’t enough for them (which would satisfy the spirit of LGPL), because they really wanted to see how we hacked around iOS camera input APIs…
"""

Arguably the competitors didn't have a case as the object code was provided, so I would stand by calling this extortion. Maybe the legal burdens were too high, so the company complied.
by downut | 2026-01-02 05:36:55+00:00
> quickget windows 10
Downloading Windows 10 (English International)
- Parsing download page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...
- Getting Product edition ID: 2618
- Permit Session ID: ea2e2386-932a-44f2-b9b1-da7629b3d601
- Getting language SKU ID: 16068
- Getting ISO download link...
- URL: https://software.download.prss.microsoft.com/dbazure/Win10_2...
#################################### #################################################################################################### 100.0%
Downloading VirtIO drivers...
#################################################################################################### 100.0%
Downloading Spice drivers...
#################################################################################################### 100.0%
#################################################################################################### 100.0%
#################################################################################################### 100.0%
Making unattended.iso
Making windows-10.conf
- Setting windows-10.conf executable

To start your Windows virtual machine run:
quickemu --vm windows-10.conf

> quickemu --vm windows-10.conf
ERROR! QEMU 6.0.0 or newer is required, detected 10.1.2.
by m-hodges | 2026-01-02 05:37:17+00:00
I've come to think something is deeply wrong with the assumption that digital participation must mean audience acquisition. Whenever people talk about leaving platforms, the immediate rebuttal is "discoverability" or "reach" as if it's self-evident that pursuing an audience is inherently good. It's rarely defended; it's just presumed.

This is often smuggled in under the language of "network effects," as though the relationship were mutual. But "audience" is fundamentally one-directional. It turns participation into performance.

I think a lot of internet nostalgia is really grief for a time when you could participate without being on stage. Sure, you wanted lots of people to read your blog, but we did have an era when posting didn't implicitly ask: how big is your following, how well did this travel, did it work.

Today, the "successful" participants (the successful audience-builders) are called "creators", while everyone else (who is also creating, just without large-scale traction) is categorized as lesser or invisible. You can write a blog post, a tweet, a Reddit thread; you have undeniably created something. Yet without an audience, you haven't achieved the status that now defines digital legitimacy.

What I miss is a participation model that didn't say: audience or perish.
by mkozlows | 2026-01-02 05:37:29+00:00
I mean, yes. That's how people work: They don't care about the OS for itself, the OS is a means to run the software they want to run, and it'll be ready when it runs that software.

(I'm typing this on my Linux desktop right now... but also have a separate Windows PC for running the games I want to run that don't work on Linux yet. When they work, I'll be thrilled to put Linux on that machine or its successor.)
by tracerbulletx | 2026-01-02 05:37:49+00:00
Priority delivery has nothing to do with "speeding you up" on Uber Eats. It means you won't get bundled with another order and come second. So far I have never gotten that when I used it, and I did when I didn't. So that rings false. Also his other complaints are literally just every business in the world and how they act. As long as I value the service they give more than the total end money they take out of my account I can pay attention to the fees for myself. I know they aren't my friend.
by netsharc | 2026-01-02 05:39:13+00:00
And which side is the driver side? Surprise, it depends on the country. And a Japanese car manufacturer will move the driver controls to sell cars in USA/Continental Europe, but flipping everything else will cost more.

I've driven 2 models of an Italian brand, my previous car had the gas tank on the passenger side, and my current one has it on the driver side. I do wonder why they changed it.

There's also the issue of pulling to a small road side petrol station, having the fuel door on the passenger side means you don't have to be standing next to the busy road while refuelling.
by em-bee | 2026-01-02 05:39:42+00:00
that solution is not trivial because it requires permission for anyone to comment on issues, which invites irrelevant or unhelpful comments or even complaints. the separation allows issues to be limited to developers only, those who actually work to fix the issues.

technically, messages are messages. this approach no more than grouping messages into different forums. it could also all be under discussion with a sub forum for issues, one for features, one for other topics, etc, and then there would need to be a permission system for each sub forum.

so all this does is to create two spheres of access for users and developers. and that's the point.

in the end it's really a matter of taste and preference.
by childintime | 2026-01-02 05:40:08+00:00
Turns out text files are a binary format also, with any number of encodings, ever more binary as UTF8 grows, requiring constant updates, hidden by the OS. Text files are just the name for a renderer built in into every OS.

So what exactly distinguishes them? The OS knows how to render them? It's just a linear list of characters? The reliance on a fixed font to allow some form of layout or positioning? Good basis for embedded DSL's, like Markdown?

Don't forget they are a binary format also. Oh, I just said that. I anticipate the day UTF8 will be a fond memory of a big mistake we made in our youth, that held us back for decades.

Don't forget that all of IT is a shit show sprinkled over with dollar paint, much like alchemy was. We don't yet know what the formation in Information is.
by yanhangyhy | 2026-01-02 05:40:13+00:00
meanwhile my BYD stock didn't go up... Hope 2026 this will change.

For China, this is ultimately a good thing. BYD employs a large number of workers and has factories in many developing countries such as Brazil and Central Asia..., creating numerous job opportunities. Many of BYD's factories in China are located around non-first-tier cities, where workers may earn only around 5,000 to 6,000 yuan. However, considering China's extremely low cost of living and deflation, this salary is sufficient to support a family and drive more consumption in the market.

The factory in zhengzhou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyCTwhdqOhs

zhengzhou is also famous for produce iphone before..
by shevy-java | 2026-01-02 05:41:43+00:00
I think this is ok. They attempt to add a barrier here, with the attempt to increase the quality of the issue suggested. This may not be the only goal; one may be to have fewer issues raised in total. But there may be several advantages, as well as disadvantages with that approach - it is simply a trade-off.

In particular when I maintain an open source project, I have a lack of time in general so I need to move quickly. I actually don't mind issue discussions on my project, but people can not expect me to invest a lot of time into managing all of those; whether this is a discussion or an issue directly, is not so important, but I know that some project owners don't like open issues that remain open for years. It is kind of a difference in philosophy here.

One trade off is that I am not so likely to get involved in such a project. I may start a discussion, but in general I am very chaotic and may never follow up on discussions I started, simply due to lack of time, too many things to do, forgetting too much too (I do keep notes locally, but these files just keep on growing!).
by quantummagic | 2026-01-02 05:41:48+00:00
Man donating his new design to the public domain:

"The first really new type of compass since 1936. In this video, I present a genuinely different approach to compass design — a liquid-free baseplate compass that uses induction (eddy-current) damping instead of fluid, meaning it can never develop bubbles, regardless of temperature or altitude."
by Mountain_Skies | 2026-01-02 05:43:15+00:00
That's an interesting angle. Wonder if that part of the movie could be rescored with something in the public domain so the rescored version could be distributed freely. It also reminds of the Commodore 64 game for 'Blade Runner' which was oddly stated to have been inspired by the soundtrack rather than by the movie itself. I've seen claims that they couldn't get a license to do a video game based on the movie, so being inspired by the soundtrack was a workaround. That never seemed legally grounded to me but copyright, especially the components of musical performances, gets really strange sometimes.
by mkozlows | 2026-01-02 05:45:07+00:00
I'm sorry, but no. I ran Slackware 96, Red Hat 4.2, Mandrake 5.0, a bunch of Ubuntus from 12.04 onward, and Fedora now. It is absolutely, qualitatively different now than it was at the turn of the century.

In the Red Hat 4.2 days, it was something that I was able to use because I was a giant nerd, but I'd never ever ever have recommended it to a normal person. By Ubuntu 12.04, 15 years later, it was good enough that I'd recommend it to someone who didn't do any gaming and didn't need to use any of the desktop apps that were still then semi-common. In 2026, it's fine for just about anyone unless you are playing particular (albeit very popular) games.
Show HN: Analyse 1M rows of CSV on device
by gopal_virtual | 2026-01-02 05:46:43+00:00
Hello HN,

Wish you a very Happy New Year.

StatPecker is our baby project. A cute little infographics generation tool for anybody seeking insights.

We recently dropped a new feature, to help user upload CSV upto 50mb or in other words data with ~1 million rows.
We wanted to make sure user data doesn’t get leaked, so we developed a mechanism where the CSV is analysed on user’s device. We only use our AI APIs to generate SQL queries on the fly and query the DB on user’s machine, along with the final response for aggregated data.

The result turns out to be quite fast. Would love you to try it out.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-02 05:47:21+00:00
Why would an AG care? This is a huge company stealing from poor people. The system is working as designed.

They would not be so brazen in doing this (in relative openness with every developer being in on it) if they thought an AG would actually care.

They do this because they correctly calculated that they have enough connections and/or bribes to preempt such an action.