MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Nevermark | 2026-01-29 07:18:42+00:00
Elon should be sending robots to the Moon, Mars and the Asteroid Belt. That would make much more sense.

Setup automated low gravity refueling depots. Then automated mining of the solar system will scale up as it more than pays for itself. And as with Starlink, SpaceX synergy would give him a serious advantage.

Much faster to achieve (despite the challenges), less expensive, and more profitable than a human Mars colony which would burn money without return for decades.

(Regardless of wishful thinking, civilizations coming backup is a second substrate adapted to the rest of the solar system, not a colony suffering truly miserable conditions. Although I am all for human exploration, which would also be easier and cheaper on the back of expanding automated infrastructure.)
by thefounder | 2026-01-29 07:19:32+00:00
The market for that exist but the execution to get that product is beyond hard. Compare full self driving after all these years where are we? It’s still not a real thing. It’s still just a limited experiment. The cars have only speed and steering angle to manage. What do you think about “full self driving robots”? There is a business case for them but in the near term you cannot make one good enough for the tasks you want. Safety is a big issue on top of making the robot useful. You don’t want it hurt anyone.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-29 07:19:45+00:00
How did they abandon it? It release october last year according to google.

>but beyond that it's just about everything I ever wanted in a phone.

I get that, but none of this answers my question of why people should use that to a TV, instead of a PC, other than to flex? It really isn't more practical, nor saving you money and you're still limited to the apps of android ecosystem rather than the windows/linux one.
by tonyedgecombe | 2026-01-29 07:21:48+00:00
>The return is in the increase in value of the stock?

There will never be an increase in the value of the stock if there is no expected return.

If you go back to the 1600's then shareholders got their return from liquidation payouts. Someone would invest in a voyage and when the ship returned the spoils were the paid out and the company was liquidated. Not so different from a dividend really and it clearly wouldn't work for a modern industrial economy.
by nunez | 2026-01-29 07:22:04+00:00
Bigger battery, larger center console and the cabin is slightly more premium. Not $76k premium but moreso than the 3. I also really like the yoke.

However, the 3 is lighter, has better headlight clusters, the light accent inside of the cabin (that I thought the S was getting, but I guess not), and a marginally better sound system.
by thesmtsolver2 | 2026-01-29 07:22:59+00:00
You should also factor in lax human rights enforcement in China (which acts like a subsidy essentially in effect and is not factored in these calculations):

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/10/human-rights-...

BYD is at the bottom of the list (worst for human rights). Tesla is second at the top (better for human rights).
by bonesss | 2026-01-29 07:23:23+00:00
The MS of today is actively reaping the benefits of the EEE & openly shady business years.

Their behavioural changes can be framed as an intentional reformation, but also as exhausting high-value targets, losing monopolies, and settling into profitable equilibrium out of necessity.

Modern competitors to MS are effectively immune to MS-EEE, in some cases by being way better at every aspect of it (MS IE is now delivered by Google based on forked Apple tech, and Office uses React, for quick examples…). MS pivoted to Azure-entanglements for their entrenched customers, which remains highly profitable, but have also had a marked decrease in engineering clout in certain key areas and still have a fragmented client/GUI ecosystem.

I’d contend they haven’t changed, they’re just cornered in ways they never were before so we see different behaviour. If MS controlled iOS or Facebook or WebKit or Search we’d see more classic plays reminding us who owns what.
by anon291 | 2026-01-29 07:24:05+00:00
This is exactly how I feel. I entered the software industry right before GPGPU programming was becoming a thing. I was aware of AI and neural nets back then and saw the future and decided I wanted to be part of it.

So what if my job is no longer a thing in several decades. That's the entire point.

There's infinite number of ways to make a living. My way isn't better than anyone else's.

People willing to adapt will always have opportunities awaiting them. The world is rich and fruitful.

Plus all the fun parts of computer science are still remaining to be pondered. The fun of computers is the high of the aha moment, not the coding lol
by TheCapeGreek | 2026-01-29 07:25:21+00:00
I've seen at least one decent use case from "normies" around me: Bypassing stupid company processes to achieve actual automated productivity in your rote processes instead of the theatre of it.

Sounds like a contrived situation, but there's a surprising amount of "thought leader" CEOs out there who make completely nonsensical decisions under the banner of "saving costs and automating things".

(Real-world example I know of) company pays for cheapest tier they can find of Gemini, tell everyone to use it. But won't pay for Asana seats, so every user in your 100-person startup is a guest, and can't use the connector in any AI app to TRULY do useful task management with AI.

Having some better access to AI in the browser would pave over that pain for someone who currently doesn't want to spend their own money on something like Claude for Cowork and the Chrome extension to drive the browser, or open a terminal to have Claude Code do it.
by vlovich123 | 2026-01-29 07:26:45+00:00
Facebook chat preceded Messenger which was a rebranding and separating into a standalone app precisely because WhatsApp ate their lunch so bad.

The rates people were paying back then were extortionate - like 60-90% profit margin. When WhatsApp launched, plans were 5-15 euros/month for 100-500 messages with ~0.15 per message for overages. So you might not count the bundle as a per text message, but it really is which you can tell by what happens if you send more than your bundle allowed. Compare that with WhatsApp’s $1/year for unlimited messaging and you start to see the pricing disparity.

Many people were not mostly texting free in 2009. I think you’ve got the timelines mixed up. That started changing towards the mid to late 2010s precisely because of internet-based chat apps on the phone and plummeting data costs making the telco’s SMS pricing plans insane.
by ben_w | 2026-01-29 07:27:10+00:00
> Isn’t that as close as "it" gets for now?

Always has been.

Even when I was a kid, people were saying all software is either a prototype or obsolete.

The difference is the cycle got compressed from half of what we know becoming obsolete every 18 months, we just don't know which half, to every 18 weeks.
by mrsmrtss | 2026-01-29 07:27:26+00:00
I have worked with AWS, Google and Azure. Google Cloud has the worst UI of them, it slow, broken and just horrible. UI in AWS may be faster than Azure, but overal layout and organization feels a lot better in Azure. I would strongly recommend clearly separating builds from deployments, if you don't want bad surprises. In the age of containers there should really be no difference in how, where or what you deploy.
by johnfn | 2026-01-29 07:28:00+00:00
I don't understand why my question was so controversial. Oftentimes on this website I feel like everyone is tapped into some polarizing news source that I am not, and so when I ask some (to my mind) benign question it's actually a secret tripwire that everyone is super polarized on and so rather than engaging in my question they all just tell me I am a moron. But I am seriously just asking a question here.

My layman's opinion is that I would happily pay a lot of money to have a robot help me around the house: fold my clothes, do the dishes, whatever dumb menial labor. That seems like a business case to me, unless someone is going to tell me I'm the only one in the world who could want that (but I doubt it).

OP said:

> Humanoid robots? Ain’t nobody made the business case for that. It is pure vibes.

I can't make sense of this. Are you really telling me you wouldn't pay any amount of money to do menial housework? If not, why not?
by omnifischer | 2026-01-29 07:28:10+00:00
> people have access to old computers from ewaste imports at a reasonable price,

Are you joking?

One can get super good condition Dell latitudes with 8th gen Intel with 8GB RAM and 256GB NVMe with 1 year no-questions asked warranty (and original charger) for €100. Similar ones cost 2x or 3x in India. That is not reasonable.

> don't all live in straw mudhuts wearing loincloths

No. But not everyone is earning in Bengaluru campus. Look at the typical Rapido driver.
by throwaway277432 | 2026-01-29 07:28:35+00:00
I'm not going to review it in full, sorry. Reviewing is so much more effort compared to producing something with AI. But don't let me deter you, keep on learning and keep on building.

I wish I had the possibilities to learn and build on such a large scale when I started out. AI is a blessing and a curse I guess.

My own early projects were most definitely crap, and I made the exact same mistakes in the past. Honestly my first attempts were surely worse. But my projects were also tiny and incomplete, so I never published them.

However: What little parts I did publish as open-source or PRs were meticulously reviewed before ever hitting send, and I knew these inside and out and they were as good as I could make it.

Vibe-coded software is never as good as you could make it, so the effort in reviewing it is mostly wasted.

I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm a bit tired of seeing student-level projects on HN / Github cosplaying as production ready software built by an experienced engineer. It used to be possible to distinguish these from the README or other cues, but nowadays they all look professional and are unintentionally polluting the software space when I'm actually looking for something.

Please understand that this is not specifically directed at you, it's pent up frustration from reading HN projects over the last months. Old guy yelling at clouds.
by PeterStuer | 2026-01-29 07:28:46+00:00
For some projects, you do not want your code or documents leaving the LAN. Many companies have explicit constraints on using external SaaS. It does not mean they restrict to everything 'on prem'. 'Self hosted' can include running an open weights model on multiple rented B200's.

So yes, the tradeoff is security vs capability. The former always comes at a cost.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-01-29 07:29:14+00:00
It is not Hollow Knight, but I recall there were a few parts that required quite a bit more skilled platforming than the game theme would imply.

If nothing else, there are some sections which have somewhat tight time windows which can put a lot of tension into a puzzle game. Resetting an attempt to a failed set piece might take several minutes, adding to the frustration.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-29 07:29:16+00:00
> using the LLMs still benefit from technical knowledge and product design skills, if the tools don't improve we keep that advantage…

I don't think we will, because many of us are already asking LLMs for help/advice on these, so we're already close to the point where LLMs will be able to use these capabilities directly, instead of just for helping us drive the process.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-29 07:29:27+00:00
The H1B requirements are even higher, but also WA state law requires software developer salaries to be 3.5 x minimum wage x 52 weeks per year. Currently, that is $124k+, because minimum wage is $17.13 per hour.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=296-128-535

https://www.lni.wa.gov/forms-publications/f700-207-000.pdf
by AuryGlenz | 2026-01-29 07:29:40+00:00
Yeah, great. Except we need to unload the dishwasher every day, which takes a lot longer when you have all sorts of kid's cups and bottles. We also need to bring the dishes over, rinse them, put them in, wash the pots & pans by hand along with the high chair's detachable eating area, wash the table, wash the cooking area & counters, and then wash the sink.

A dishwasher saves a lot of time but it certainly doesn't save all of the time.
Analysis: The Mathematics Behind Pokemon Type Combinations
by lincyang | 2026-01-29 07:29:42+00:00
I built a Pokemon type matchup calculator and wrote an analysis of the most effective dual-type combinations from a game theory perspective.

The article examines why certain type combinations dominate competitive play by analyzing:
- Defensive multipliers (resistances, immunities, weaknesses)
- Offensive coverage (STAB effectiveness)
- Meta-game viability and usage statistics

Some interesting findings:
- Steel/Fairy has 9 resistances and 2 immunities with only 2 weaknesses
- Water/Ground has only ONE weakness (4× to Grass) but covers Electric immunity
- The trade-off between defensive stability and offensive pressure

The site includes an interactive calculator for testing any type combination and a battle simulator with STAB calculations.

Built with Next.js 14, TypeScript, and static generation for 50+ pages.

https://www.typematchup.org/blog/best-pokemon-type-combinations
by bob1029 | 2026-01-29 07:29:52+00:00
I think Tesla would make way more sense if they got out of the car part of the business. Serving the consumer market directly is very expensive.

Their electronics, batteries, motors, etc., are world class. Packaging this up into something a partner can use to build actual cars could have less risk. An electric motor or battery can propel many kinds of automobile. They tend to keep their value better when stored in this format too. The moment everything is integrated into a car, things get very bad very quickly unless you're selling Ferraris or Lamborghinis.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-01-29 07:30:29+00:00
I think can still do it, 30 years after I last had to. The trauma of debugging sendmail m4 config issues for
hours while the company e-mail remained dysfunctional has permanently etched it into my mind.

EHLO example.com
MAIL FROM:<foo@example.com>
RCPT TO:<bar@example.com>
DATA
Subject: Hello, World

I have crawled through the depths of hell to deliver unto you this message.
.

Wietse Venema saved us all.
by avhon1 | 2026-01-29 07:30:42+00:00
To rotate the view in SolveSpace, you need any one of these:

* a keyboard's shift key and a right mouse button, or
* a middle mouse button, or
* a 3D mouse.

I've done some work in SolveSpace with a Wacom tablet, by binding the stylus's buttons to the middle and right mouse buttons. SolveSpace is a pretty simple program, so you don't need to dig deep through the UI to get to all the functions. Lost of the often-used functions have keyboard shortcuts, but I don't think there is anything that is only accessible through the keyboard.

Depending on what you aim to do, you might be interested in keeping up with Blender's currently-in-development tablet mode:

https://code.blender.org/2025/07/beyond-mouse-keyboard/
by dajonker | 2026-01-29 07:31:02+00:00
You are equally understating past performance as you are overstating current performance.

One year ago I already ran qwen2.5-coder 7B locally for pretty decent autocomplete. And I still use it today as I haven't found anything better, having tried plenty of alternatives.

Today I let LLM agents write probably 60-80% of the code, but I frequently have to steer and correct it and that final 20% still takes 80% of the time.
by lnsru | 2026-01-29 07:31:42+00:00
The gamble with Cybertruck failed. It’s common sense, that such a vehicle will fail. The successful cars are made for masses and not for niche buyers. Common sense product could be something smaller than Model 3 for Europe and this car would eat Chinese for lunch. Expensive experiment failed, it’s time for consequences. Does Tesla have resources for another car experiment? Will it stay a car company?.. Or it will be now a manufacturer of robot soldiers?..
by stephenr | 2026-01-29 07:33:39+00:00
> based on Debian

Are you sure about that? Everything I can find now and from when it was first covered suggests that it's an RPM based "distro" (let's not argue about whether it's technically a distro).

The TomsHardware article you linked to in turns links to ZDNet which in turn links to an InfoWorld article (isn't modern reposted rehashed "news" slop just fucking delightful) about the "release" of CBL-Mariner notes that it was created as a replacement to the then-recently-deprecated RedHat CoreOS, and references that (at the time) MS had a deal with a company that was supporting a CoreOS fork.

Given those two factors, it isn't impossible but it seems hard to believe that they would use a Debian base but then Frankenstein RPM package manage into it.
by zh3 | 2026-01-29 07:33:55+00:00
A spinning mirror is certainly an option, there are many projects around using them as projectors e.g. [0]. It would need precision faces and be a larger volume than the flapping mirror approach. Because the mirrors are spring-mounted and designed to resonate at ~50Hz they actually take very little power to drive - there's an optosensor on the back used to stabilise the oscillation amplitude, which is why the VB and Private Eye display widths vary during startup.

Can't see the video from this location, so may be just restarting stuff in it.

[0] https://hackaday.com/2018/04/20/laser-projector-ditches-galv...
Show HN: TheBaduk – A Go/Baduk Platform Built with Vanilla JavaScript
by bugon | 2026-01-29 07:34:23+00:00
Hi HN
I built this Go (Baduk/Weiqi) platform called TheBaduk.

Tech Stack & Key Features:
Frontend: Vanilla JS (No frameworks), optimized for performance on both desktop and mobile.
AI: Client-side KataGo integration (runs in the browser).
Backend: Socket.io for real-time matching.
I wanted to create a frictionless experience where you can play instantly without heavy initial loads.
I'd love to hear your feedback on the code performance and UI responsiveness. Thanks!
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-29 07:35:51+00:00
Agreed, but people are going to people and will use phones, anyway. Might as well not include identifying information during registration.

Signal is a desktop app, as well. Even if you wanted to run it on Qubes in a Faraday cage, you'll need a phone number to register to use the app.

In the ideal situation, no one would be using Signal, phones or computers, the design of the internet is inherently identifying and non-anonymizing.
by LiamPowell | 2026-01-29 07:36:49+00:00
Adblock continues to be just as effective as it ever was in Chrome.

Even before the removal of MV2, the claims that it would kill adblock were ridiculous as many adblockers had already switched to MV3 but it was at least understandable that people could be ignorant of that fact. Now that everything is on MV3 how can people still be claiming that Google killed adblock when Chrome users still have working adblockers?
by smilingleo | 2026-01-29 07:37:19+00:00
I’m not entirely sure why there’s a push toward ASCII diagrams (perhaps influenced by AI usage).
Mermaid and PlantUML are already text-based representations, and what most users actually want is a rendered diagram in a standard, widely recognized notation—primarily for humans, not machines.

ASCII diagrams are inherently constrained by printable characters, which makes them hard to standardize and limits their expressiveness compared to proper diagram renderers.
by qhwudbebd | 2026-01-29 07:37:22+00:00
Yes, I was going to suggest nat64 encapsulating the customer's v4 network on the wireguard overlay, but their embedded device is presumably a little linux board, and mainline linux still lacks any siit/clat/nat64 in netfilter. So I guess they'd end up in a world of pain with out-of-tree modules like jool or inefficient funnelling through taptun tayga-style.
by nottorp | 2026-01-29 07:38:35+00:00
> I can almost guarantee this is from some endpoint management software your company installed.

Not necessarily. Every little or not so little utility deems it necessary to install a context menu item on Windows. Corporate or not. Just like every little or not so little utility deems it necessary to send you notifications on mobile.

On Windows the solution is Total Commander, on mobile the solution is to turn all notifications off :)
by hello-tmst | 2026-01-29 07:39:09+00:00
Thanks for sharing these resources — great to see the FalkorDB ecosystem growing!
We built GraphORM with a focus on type safety + fluent query composition (e.g., indegree()/outdegree() helpers, chainable .match().where().returns()), which we found missing in existing RedisGraph/FalkorDB Python tooling.
Happy to see multiple approaches emerging — diversity helps the ecosystem. We're also planning to expand support beyond RedisGraph/FalkorDB to other Cypher-compatible databases where the query model fits.
Would love to exchange ideas on ORM design patterns if you're open to it.
by stephenr | 2026-01-29 07:39:25+00:00
> Much less there was no war.

Did people pick up literal guns and fight each other with literal bullets over Linux/Microsoft?

No of course not. Even most American nerds aren't deranged.

Did Microsoft do everything it could to try and kill Linux, and the concept of OSS in general? You bet your fucking ass they did.

> Microsoft sued Lindows for infringement and won. After the rename to Linspire Microsoft actually worked with them on compatibility.

Holy revisionist history batman.

This isn't exactly fucking hard to find

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com....

> As early as 2002, a court rejected Microsoft's claims, stating that Microsoft had used the term "windows" to describe graphical user interfaces before the product, Windows, was ever released, and the windowing technique had already been implemented by Xerox and Apple many years before.[4] Microsoft kept seeking retrial, but in February 2004, a judge rejected two of Microsoft's central claims.[5] The judge denied Microsoft's request for a preliminary injunction and raised "serious questions" about Microsoft's trademark. Microsoft feared a court may define "Windows" as generic and result in the loss of its status as a trademark.

> In July 2004, Microsoft offered to settle with Lindows.[6] As part of this licensing settlement, Microsoft paid an estimated US$20,000,000 (equivalent to $33,294,574 in 2024), and Lindows transferred the Lindows trademark to Microsoft and changed their name to Linspire.

> completely contrived by some fans of Linux

I mean there are absolutely some fanboy fantasies of grandeur here but I don't think it's the "fans of Linux" who are delusional mate.
by adastra22 | 2026-01-29 07:39:33+00:00
Not what I was asking about. What should Israel have done in response to Oct 7th? What would be the downstream effects?

What should a country do when a neighbor invades and massacres entire towns, live-streaming the violent deaths and rapes for the world to see? What is the correct response to this?

You have clearly not thought through the game theory and repercussions of what you are suggesting.

Like many college protesters, you would do well to understand the complexity of the mechanics of the real world, and understand that reality ain’t rainbows and butterflies.

I have no clue how you drew the Vietnam war protest thing from what I wrote.