MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-13 15:43:35+00:00
You are making some very strange assumptions here. I read the comments in order.

tomjakubowski joked about the mechanical turk. anematode recognized the reference, you recognized the reference, and I recognized the reference.

But you didn't reply to tomjakubowski as a general explainer to the audience. You replied to anematode. You replied to anematode in a way that suggested they needed the joke explained, even though they not only understood it, they expanded on it.

That's what I didn't comprehend. Why did you reply there and phrase it like that. And you still haven't explained.

Your claim that [["Amazon Mechanical Turk" does not involve hidden people moving the pieces with the help of levers and magnets and has nothing to do with chess bots on Turkish airlines.]] makes it sound like you still don't understand anematode's joke. Amazon's mechanical turk is named after the original mechanical turk. It has very much to do with turkish chess bots.
by mindcrime | 2026-01-13 15:43:46+00:00
Sad news. Dilbert was a big part of my life for a long time, and brought much laughter and enjoyment to my life. But on the other hand, later in his life Scott said a lot of things I found frankly repugnant, and Dilbert more or less disappeared, all of which made me sad. But he was still an amazing writer of comedy at his best, and I hate to know that he has passed. Plus, every death is at tragedy for somebody - friends, family, loved-ones of all sorts - whether we specifically like someone or not.

All of that said... RIP, Mr. Adams.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 15:44:33+00:00
Reality also doesn't care about an answer if it is impractical for a huge number of people. There are a variety of different answers to the problem and you pick the ones that are applicable to you and work from there

Telling someone who can't afford to move to the city that they just need to move the city to solve their health problem is a waste of time for you and them.
by datadrivenangel | 2026-01-13 15:44:35+00:00
Get a fun error message on debian 13 with firefox v140:

"This application requires passkey with PRF extension support for secure encryption key storage. Your browser or device doesn't support these advanced features.Please use Chrome 116+, Firefox 139+, or Edge 141+ on a device with platform authentication (Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, etc.)."
by raffael_de | 2026-01-13 15:45:20+00:00
Very well put. I'd add the psychological concept of dissociation which seems to be central to the hackernews version of stoicism. Instead of connecting to your emotions it encourages pushing them down. That's just going to postpone the moment when you have to deal with them. Either because of psychosomatic illness, depression, burn out or mental breakdown. Attempting to influence, change, control feelings/emotions by rational concepts and thinking is doomed to fail. Emotions are on a lower level than verbal and logical mental processes.
by zenethian | 2026-01-13 15:45:42+00:00
A DevOps crew? Mainframes aren’t something that are just part of some random web app project in a company. A System Administration team would be the likely maintainer. But a lot of mainframes are designed to be run with very little manual maintenance these days.

They’re also wildly different architecturally from your typical rack of x86 servers, which is why the initial reaction to Linux running on a mainframe sounded stupid at first. When I worked at IBM in the 2010s, a Linux Zserver felt more like a VM running inside the mainframe than anything else. There were abstractions of the mainframe components that intentionally leaked into the Linux side that were interesting. I knew very little about traditional mainframe software development at the time, so I was very fascinated by how it all worked.
by mring33621 | 2026-01-13 15:46:06+00:00
I'm not sure the AGPL license is a good choice for this.

None of Django, Rails, Pocketbase or Supabase, which I think count as competitors, use AGPL.

Unless you can clarify that custom hooks and schemas are outside of the AGPL license, SnackBase may be a non-starter for commercial use.
by jaggs | 2026-01-13 15:46:10+00:00
Yes, there was much depression amongst InvokeAI users when that shift happened back in January. Luckily, in the past two months a rather genius contributor has added the superb Z-Image turbo model, so the open source app is now on a tear.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1q3ruuo/re...
by einsteinx2 | 2026-01-13 15:46:13+00:00
> I got into Dilbert at the tender age of eight years old. I don't know why I liked it so much when half the jokes went over my head, but I loved computers and comics

Same! Or at least I got into them as a young kid I don’t remember the exact age, it was probably a few years older but definitely tweens max.

I’m also not sure why I liked them so much, other than that I loved computers and always knew I’d end up working in the industry, so maybe it was like a window into that world that I liked. I also loved the movie Office Space, so maybe I just had a thing for office satire.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-01-13 15:46:20+00:00
> He was of the opinion that the best thing for the UK economy was Brexit

I don't want to start another Brexit debate or even take position on it. However I'd like to point out that the key with Brexit is the plan on what to do afterwards and that is what has been completely lacking.

Whatever one's opinion of Cummings, he did put forward a plan and that plan was never attempted (probably too bold, shall we say, for politicians to touch it). I am not commenting on whether that would have worked or not, but at least he put forward a plan and strategy. On the other hand, Bojo's "plan" for Brexit seemed to have been limited to becoming PM...
by LightBug1 | 2026-01-13 15:46:25+00:00
Ahh, quality content on X confirmed once again.

I heard on the grapevine that X is consistently number 1 on the app stores for News content ...

X ... the home of Truth ... and where the team would get rid of bots and bot networks once and for all !!!

Elon ... you're a fucking genius ...
by sergiu140 | 2026-01-13 15:46:27+00:00
I built ToolsAreCool.com because I believe even the simplest web utilities deserve a high level of craft. I wanted to create a space where every tool—from a word counter to a financial calculator—is a pleasure to interact with.

Fluid Motion: I’ve integrated motion effects throughout the site to provide tactile feedback and cool transitions between states.

Custom Component Library: Rather than using usual UI kits, I built a library of custom Vue cool components.

Interactive Charts: For the financial and some other tools, I’ve used reactive charts to visualize data like compound interest calculator or credit card calculator.

I’d love for you to check out the animations and the charts. Feedback on the UI/UX is very welcome!
by 999900000999 | 2026-01-13 15:46:37+00:00
So the big issue with the entire business model of journalism is it's just too easy to buy influence.

Jeff Bezos has already reaped many multiples of his investment in the Washington Post.

For more or less a nominal amount of money to him He's able to shape much of our public discourse.

I suspect a volunteer non profit news organization could emerge. But even then, how many skilled journalists are going to be able to work a "real" job too.
by nathan_compton | 2026-01-13 15:46:38+00:00
I don't see this as particularly dark or particularly funny. Seems like good advice. Most of our negative emotions are a waste of time and energy. I always try to see things in the greater context of the world: all things are brief, beautiful, and utterly without meaning in the greater scheme of things. If I spend a ton of time wailing and grinding my teeth about shit then I'm just wasting time I could be using to enjoy the experience of being alive.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-13 15:46:46+00:00
> Proper Stoicism is not about dodging your emotions, it's very much about dodging the adverse behavioral effects of your emotions.

I’m not disagreeing with this. I understand classic stoicism, but I’ve also seen the effects of modern pseudo-stoicism as pushed by influencers and social media.

Focusing on stoicism and trying to dodge the effects of your emotions is a reasonable strategy for someone who is truly stuck in a situation, like the prisoners or warriors cited in the article.

But it becomes a self-defeating action when the situation you’re dealing with is something that should be addressed or changed rather than dealing with it like you’re a prisoner and helpless victim. The common example is someone in a toxic job who is furiously consuming stoicism social media and trying to act stoic in the face of a job they hate instead of using that energy to apply for another job.
by rubyfan | 2026-01-13 15:47:10+00:00
>Now AI is becoming the new intermediary. It’s what I’ve started calling “Layer 8” — the agentic layer that mediates between you and everything else on the internet. These systems will negotiate on our behalf, filter our information, shape our recommendations, and increasingly determine how we interact with the entire digital world.

This is a sad statement. It reminds me of Wall-E. Big tech created the environmental ruins of today’s internet through perverse incentives. Now we need robots to go sift through the garbage and think for us so we don’t have to be exposed to the toxic internet.

It feels like we have lost so much.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2026-01-13 15:47:27+00:00
This breaks down when one half of a two party system goes all-in on lying.

Reality has a left wing bias because reality is fact-based.

To take a "neutral" political position in this environment is to accept blatant lies. Journalism should be a pursuit of truthful information, thus being "neutral' politically is untenable if you want to do actual journalism.

It's true that might not always be the best for your subscriber numbers. But some folks do, actually, care about the truth.
by fao_ | 2026-01-13 15:47:33+00:00
Have you heard of the Horizon IT Post Office Scandal[0]?

> Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were wrongfully convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecutions carried out by the Post Office. Other subpostmasters were prosecuted but not convicted, forced to cover illusory shortfalls caused by Horizon with their own money, or had their contracts terminated.
>
> Although many subpostmasters had reported problems with the new software, and Fujitsu was aware that Horizon contained software bugs as early as 1999, the Post Office insisted that Horizon was robust and failed to disclose knowledge of the faults in the system during criminal and civil cases.

(content warning for the article about that for suicide)

Now think of places where LLMs are being deployed:

- accountancy[1][2]

- management systems similar to Horizon IT

- medical workers using it to pass their coursework (A friend of mine is doing a nursing degree in the USA and they are encouraged to use Gemini, and she's already seen someone on the same course use it to complete their medical ethics homework...)

- Ordinary people checking drug interactions[3], learning about pickling (and almost getting botulism), talking to LLMs and getting poisoned by bromide[4]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

[1]: https://www.leapfin.com/luca-ai

[2]: https://www.autoentry.com/integrations/sage

[3]: https://www.tumblr.com/pangur-and-grim/805013689696747520?so...

[4]: https://www.livescience.com/health/food-diet/man-sought-diet...
by lalitgehani | 2026-01-13 15:48:04+00:00
Thanks for the kind words and the bookmark!

You're right. Since I use SQLAlchemy, the core is already database agnostic. Swapping the connection string to Postgres actually works for most features right now.

I listed it as "Roadmap" only because I haven't finished the full end-to-end test suite for Postgres yet, and I wanted the default "Quick Start" to be a zero dependency SQLite setup. I am also working on native read/write splitting so that the system can properly leverage scaling architectures (like Amazon Aurora's single-writer / multi-reader clusters) out of the box.

I'll make sure to clarify in the docs that it's currently "experimental" rather than missing. Appreciate the feedback!
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-13 15:48:05+00:00
ISPs do, cloud providers often give smaller ranges.

Re: renaming all the prefixes, that's why I use a ULA within my home network. Not as useful if you want your services available from the outside if you move ISPs (NAT66 can help on the inside but you'd still need to update all DNS records to use the new prefix). I'll stick with my ULA + VPN fallback for now, I don't expect the prefix to change more than once every five or six years.

If you want a static prefix with a changing prefix, you're probably better off with getting a Hurricane Electric tunnel. Or if you want to go hard on the IPv6 homelab hobby, get your personal IPv6 address space and a bring-your-own-IP business ISP.
Show HN: LintPage – Catches SEO issues on staging sites before you deploy
by orzmar | 2026-01-13 15:48:06+00:00
I built this after watching a client site lose most of its organic traffic because someone left a <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag in the header component. It was there for two weeks before anyone noticed.

LintPage checks your staging URL for common SEO mistakes that block search engines:

- NOINDEX meta tags
- robots.txt with Disallow: /
- Missing or invalid SSL
- Broken internal links
- Missing title tags, meta descriptions, canonical URLs
- Basic accessibility issues (alt text, ARIA)

It's a simple fetch + parse with JSDOM on the server side. No browser automation, so it's fast.

Tech stack: Next.js 15, Supabase, deployed on Vercel.

I'm looking for feedback on:
1. What other checks would be useful?
2. Anyone have horror stories about staging configs making it to production?

https://lintpage.com
by EvanAnderson | 2026-01-13 15:48:45+00:00
I think what you have there is cool, but I question if it would be sustainable.

In a market where "mostly one guy" can cover the beat that might work for awhile, with all the caveats that come from depending on an individual, versus an organization, to do a job.

In a larger market, where multiple people would be needed to cover the worload, I'm not so sure the funding model would work. I can imagine the subscription fees not keeping up with the step function of adding people to the organization. (You need that 3rd reporter to drive subscription revenue by expanding coverage, but current subscription revenue doesn't support it, so you can't add them.)
by komali2 | 2026-01-13 15:49:03+00:00
I wonder if a newspaper co-op is a viable idea?

I do feel like there's a turn happening in the economy, or at least, some new scene growing. Or maybe I'm just finally becoming aware of it. That being, rejection of monopolized products.

I've never seen so much activity around Linux, for example. Or, I follow a content creator called SkillUp who just launched a videogames news site with revenue purely from subscriptions, and apparently they got way more subs than they expected. And as has been mentioned, lots of indie games have been getting funding lately, and a relatively small studio just crushed the game awards circuit.
by altilunium | 2026-01-13 15:49:18+00:00
> "I'm just not sure there's a good solution to this."

The democratization of local journalism, where anyone can become a reporter: reporting events in the field, interviewing key people, and publishing opinions. With the internet, anyone could set up their own news outlet.

This idea is quite well-tested in my local area, where audiences directly send donation money to individual reporters who run their own sole-proprietorship news outlets.
by NoGravitas | 2026-01-13 15:49:34+00:00
It's reductive, but not totally inaccurate. The Stoics hated the Epicureans, because the Epicureans preached withdrawal from politics and the quest for political (military) honors, whereas the Stoics made those one of the defining principles of the virtuous life. Stoicism was adapted to imperialism in a way Epicureanism was not. Same way Pauline/proto-orthodox Christianity won out over the diversity of early Christianity --- it was usable by the Roman Empire.
by pantulis | 2026-01-13 15:49:36+00:00
It's not outrageous, for sure, specially if you happen to have a use case for all the bundled apps. But things change if you consider that the one time payment for Logic Pro equals about 18 months of the subscription. In my case, I bought Logic Pro in 2013 for 180€. Obviously a subscription seems expensive no matter what the price is.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-13 15:49:45+00:00
If you haven't used git bisect to find a regression, you should try it.

You can write a test (outside of source control) and run `git bisect good` on a good commit and `git bisect bad` on bad one and it'll do a binary search (it's up to you to rerun your test each time and tell git whether that's a good or a bad commit). Rather quickly, it'll point you to the commit that caused the regression.

If you rebase, that commit will be part of a block of commits all from the same author, all correlated with the same feature (and likely in the same PR). Now you know who you need to talk to about it. If you merge, you can still start with the author of the commit that git bisect found, but it's more likely to be interleaved with nearby commits in such a way that when it was under development, it had a different predecessor. That's a recipe for bugs that get found later than they otherwise would've.

If you're not using git history to debug, you're probably not really aware of which problems would've turned out differently if the history was handled differently. If you do, you'll catch cases where one author or another would've caught the bug before merging to main, had they bothered to rebase, but instead the bug was only visible after both authors thought they were done.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-13 15:49:46+00:00
It ends when they can win powerful majorities in elections again. What I said is only controversial because the topic is relatively well supported. But if you look at it as a party supporting a topic that is preventing them from winning elections, it doesn't really matter what that topic is, they need to rethink their platform until they can win elections again.

It might sound unsavory to say that they should drop <issue you think is important>, like climate change, but if that were genuinely the reason they're losing then of course they should drop it. The alternative is you just have a party of ideologues with no power. They can still do good things without doing <important thing>.

I just don't think any issue is as contentious as abortion, or having as much of an effect, because you can hold your nose about a lot of things, but not about 'murdering babies'. Again, this is a moral hard line that a lot of people have. They seriously think that Democrats are ontologically evil because of this; it's far beyond the political. I don't think they need to drop those things you listed from the platform because I don't think it would help them win.

From talking with Republican or centrist or ex-democrat peers and family, some of them would vote Democrat "if they stop killing babies", and others would "if they stopped the racial shit". I've never heard anyone say such a thing about anything you listed.
by xnx | 2026-01-13 15:49:50+00:00
> This consolidates JPEG XL’s position as the best image codec currently available, for both lossless and lossy compression, across the quality range but in particular for high quality to visually lossless quality. It is Pareto-optimal across a wide range of speed settings.

Wow. Nice. Big improvement if JPEG and PNG can be replaced by one codec.
by stephenr | 2026-01-13 15:50:07+00:00
I didn't say I can't read it. I asked who thought it was a good fucking idea. I guess you've answered that implicitly.

Embedding every style directly into the style attribute is also readable, and as a side benefit it doesn't need a build step just to make your styles actually work.

I can now see exactly why OP made this post. If a client told me they don't want to use something akin to bootstrap or any other sane css library, and that instead I will need to ensure that every element has every manner of css states expressed as a faux class, I wouldn't even stop to make a coffee before telling them how far they can jump.

This sounds perfect for front end “developers" who struggle even with css, and want any reason possible to pad out their billable/working hours doing nothing productive.

Oh what's that, you want to change the style of standard button everywhere in the codebase?

No of course we can't just update a single css file you silly goose.

I feel like half the bad problems in web development are because JavaScript developers saw that j2ee guys had ant and whatnot, and said "hey what if we started inventing reasons to have a build step"?

> button class="button"

The thing is, that is more readable for a sane code base. If I can glance and know it's using the correct standard button class, it means I don't need to memorise the fucking pixel sizes and states of button paddings.

I get it alright. It's a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist, and instead found a crowd of "developers" looking for anything shiny to pad their resume and keep themselves looking busy.
by sneak | 2026-01-13 15:50:26+00:00
Just because I don’t agree with his politics doesn’t mean that it’s sad. It’s a good thing when people change and grow. Without change as you age, you can’t grow.

I don’t think that it’s conclusive that his shift rightward has anything to do with “a political media echo chamber”. People becoming more conservative as they age is a documented phenomenon that existed long before the current media polarization issue.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-13 15:50:47+00:00
> Once a society enters sustained low fertility and longer life expectancy, each cohort is smaller than the one before it.

I mean, unless fertility completely collapses (to like less than 0.5) then it'll mostly be a single generation problem. Regardless of any future changes, the current generation (my kids etc) will be supporting a much larger older cohort, with problems arising from that. I am one of 4 siblings, have two kids, and as long as both of them have two kids, no more problems arise (obviously extrapolating to the population).

There's some amount of irreducible demand for kids so I'd be surprised to see TFR continue to decline on a generational basis. Mind you, I could be wrong (or alternatively, we could see a massive increase in TFR like we did post WW2).
by sinenomine | 2026-01-13 15:50:50+00:00
There are high-quality linear or linear-ish attention implementations for the scales around 100k... 1M. The price of context can be made linear and moderate, and it can be greatly improved by implementing prompt caching and passing savings to users. Gpt-5.2-xhigh is good at this and from my experience has markedly higher intelligence and accuracy compared to opus-4.5, while enjoying lower price per token.
by nathan_compton | 2026-01-13 15:50:55+00:00
I don't think of stoicism as passive, though - it is just about responding rationally rather than irrationally, and one important aspect is focus on what can actually be modified, controlled or accomplished, not on fantasy. That idea seems crucial to modernity, where the main manner of control is to dangle outrage after outrage in front of everyone to keep them focused on spectacle and NOT focused on what they can actually, materially, physically do to change the world.
by desireco42 | 2026-01-13 15:50:58+00:00
Why is this getting downvoted... it is true. Also it is true that dynamic languages (like Ruby ;) and Python) are more efficient with tokens, like significantly then types like C, C++ or such. But Javascript and Typescript are using twice the tokens of Ruby for example and Clojure is even more efficient, obviosly I would add.