MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dangus | 2026-01-15 15:36:49+00:00
Owning a leading edge fab is not practical for most companies, even huge some ones like Apple.

Intel has even struggled with it since they traditionally didn’t sell capacity to other buyers. It worked for Intel because they traditionally had a near-monopoly over the laptop, desktop, and server chip market.

Apple certainly has the money to spin up their own chip fabricator, but there’s no guarantee it would be as good as TSMC, it would cost billions, and they would have less of an ability to sell capacity to other customers.

At the end of that effort they could be left with a chip fab that produces chips that still cost the same or more than what TSMC manufactures them for. It might just be cheaper to try and outbid Nvidia for priority.
by infecto | 2026-01-15 15:37:01+00:00
What region of the US are you in. I have lived in the south east, Midwest, NY, CA, TX and vans are the norm for most trade jobs outside of landscaping or jobs that can actually benefit from an open bed. HVAC, plumbing, electricians and the like all have equipment that is a lot easier to organize and safely store inside of a van. Now sometimes depending on the type of work that person does they may opt for a high roof and I have seen some opt for the chassis cab and go with a third party body that gives even more room but still enclosed and may even choose the van chassis.

I am quite surprised to hear you have never seen an electrician use a van. That said there are certainly specialities where it’s more common.

90% of trade work is all on pavement and trucks suck for tools. If you are a logger yeah sure you may be using a truck to get to your equipment, similarly for lineman but for the vast majority of trade jobs companies opt for commercial vans.
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-15 15:37:36+00:00
I mostly built it myself [1]. I run some workers on Cloudflare for subscribe / unsubscribe as well as host files. And I’m using Resend API for distribution. Fell free to ping me for more details.

[1] https://philippdubach.com/posts/building-a-no-tracking-newsl...
by nerdjon | 2026-01-15 15:37:37+00:00
I am all for criticizing and pointing fingers at trump and this entire administration.

But it does say they have been working with ICE for “years” in the article. What is not really clear to me is was the app made worse recently, was it originally commissioned under trump?

Nothing about that changes that they should not be working with ICE and they deserve any pressure they get to cut ties. But there is some history here I am very curious about.

All of that being said, I am concerned about how this will be turned around and used in more than just ICE and targeting everyone. Especially since we can be sure this will be used in largely blue big cities.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-15 15:37:47+00:00
Which is part of why I think Range is often a distraction in EV discussions. The people asking for 600+ mile Range EVs may see those built because it always sounds like there are plenty of people "demanding" that, but the weight trade-off in batteries isn't going to make those great cars, most of that range will be "waste" given average trips. But it is easier to get to 600+ miles of range by adding more (and better) batteries than by making larger gas tanks and engines.
by whacked_new | 2026-01-15 15:38:02+00:00
I played with vui.el's hello world code earlier today, and it's a great showcase!

Is there a simple way to achieve in-buffer forms? The jsf-- stuff was instructed to make the widget form read-only except for the interactive widget components (took a few iterations to work), while keeping the rest of the buffer editable. The demos seem to all mount to a new buffer. Though I could also feed vui.el into an agent and ask :-)

Thanks for the tips. I guess I can add the deps to --eval "(load 'eldev)" in manual testing.
by phkahler | 2026-01-15 15:38:03+00:00
If you build OBS from source and would like more than a 3-band equalizer without a plugin, I've still got my eq8 branch getting stale here:

https://github.com/phkahler/obs-studio/tree/eq8

I should rebase that...

BTW they do not want it upstream for whatever reasons. I'm not complaining, I get it. But some of us like this built-in so I'm keeping it around.
by gxy5202 | 2026-01-15 15:38:06+00:00
bun-tasks is a parallel task runner for the Bun runtime inspired by concurrently. It understands the ::: command separator, merges global and per-command environment variables, and automatically expands package scripts to bun run <script> when needed. The CLI is exposed as the binary bun-tasks; it is exported for programmatic usage but never auto-executes when imported.
by petcat | 2026-01-15 15:38:38+00:00
> The US has its own TSMC supply (insert comments about it not being cutting edge)

USA has been strategically re-homing TSMC to the US mainland for a long time now. 30% of all 2nm and better technologies are slated to be produced in Arizona by 2030.

The real loser in all of this will be the EU which will be completely without the ability to produce or acquire chips. They'll just end up buying from China and USA, which will only further deepen their dependence on those countries.
by cies | 2026-01-15 15:38:41+00:00
> And ppl were worried about China's 1984 style use of Ai, lol.

Came here to say the same...

> In the end it was greedy software developers that enable this.

Nope. First is a failing govt system (not upholding the constitution) that's enabling this.

Second it's not the devs but the business men (that are so much in bed in govt that they have become indistinguishable).

Look, there are software devs (and probably business men) that are equally greedy in, say, Finland/Iceland/etc. But it's not happening there: they simply have a govt that's better for the people at large.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-15 15:38:57+00:00
They're working on that.

Challenging the rules: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-revives-...

Changing the rules at USPS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-this-new-mail-rule-c...

And I'd fully expect some fuckery via executive orders closer to the election, and SCOTUS to use the emergency docket to let them "temporarily" be enforced.
by paodealho | 2026-01-15 15:39:10+00:00
> ... "Software Engineer," as a protected term. You can't just call yourself a software engineer.

In my irrelevant opinion, this is good. To me at least, the word engineer represents someone with a big, heavy responsibility on their hands.

I never liked being called an engineer and only have it on my resume because that's the keyword recruiters search on linkedin nowadays. One reason is that I don't have formal education. The other is that, in almost 15 years of experience, I witnessed very few occasions of software receiving proper care to the extent that I could call it "engineering".
by cbeach | 2026-01-15 15:39:12+00:00
They set themselves up for a fall when they named themselves "Impeccable Style"

The mix of sans and serif fonts on their website is a mess. There's too much negative space, and it's inconsistent. Too many font sizes, and some that are so tiny they're illegible.

In the landing page before/after example, I think the "before" design looks more appealing.
by thinkingemote | 2026-01-15 15:39:14+00:00
Note that the quote was "involves doing evil". This is important and different than a declaration of a career as evil.

The meaningless thing is more of an absolute statement however. (more on that later)

With a bit of thought, introspection or just imagination, I find it easy to see how most of us here on HN, involve doing evil in their careers.
Here is an example writing on the fly taking the current #1 post about Apple vs TSMC - Apple has been claimed to do evil in many different ways, consumerism, resource extraction, environmental, energy, wage and employment actions as well as encouraging doom scrolling, social media addiction, integration with US government departments etc. Is a career at Apple likely to do more evil than healthcare? So a career at Apple unavoidably involves doing evil, but no one rational would say that career was evil.

Healthcare is a better example that you give, I do struggle to find examples of doing evil when healthcare is at it's best. (Maybe the author was thinking when there's some failure, or related to medical insurance barriers or in some unavoidable issues of e.g. abortion, euthanasia, gender surgery etc?)

A career can do (and even mostly do) good and sometimes unavoidably do evil.

Likewise a career can be (and even mostly be) meaningful and sometimes unavoidably be meaningless at times!
by rob74 | 2026-01-15 15:39:36+00:00
Let's hope China doesn't get a leader like Donald Trump in our lifetimes, then I think your prediction will apply. Despite the political tensions, China and Taiwan are so deeply integrated economically that an invasion would hurt not only Taiwan and the global economy, but also China (directly and indirectly). The EU and the US are making efforts to re-shore some semiconductor manufacturing, but TSMC and others will probably still keep a sizable amount of manufacturing in Taiwan, so I don't think this interconnectedness will change anytime soon...
by lionkor | 2026-01-15 15:39:41+00:00
Definitely the combination of callgrind (valgrind --tool=callgrind) and kcachegrind, or the combination of HotSpot and perf.

I have toyed with Intel's vTune, but I felt it was very hard to get running so its discouraging before you even start. That said, if you need a lot of info on cache etc., vTune is fantastic.
by Kapura | 2026-01-15 15:39:50+00:00
It's crazy that anybody who has read books could learn about the company "Palantir," know where the name comes from, and join it thinking it's anything other than evil.

The thing is, I know palantir engineers are well paid. Money warps people's brains. It's much easier enable evil if you can go back to a home you own in Silicon Valley.
by Sean-Der | 2026-01-15 15:39:50+00:00
If anyone is using/testing WebRTC I would love to hear how it is working for them :) I am hoping Simulcast makes a impact with smaller streamers/site operators.

* Cheaper servers. More competition and I want to see people running their own servers.

* Better video quality. Encoding from source is going to be better then transcoding.

* No more bad servers. Send video to your audience and server isn't able to do modification/surveillance with E2E Encryption via WebRTC.

* Better Latency. No more time lost transcoding. I love low latency streaming where people are connected to community. Not just blasting one-way video.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-01-15 15:40:00+00:00
I didn't post this thing to discuss about the merits of the Laffer curve etc. as a matter of fact I didn't even read it.

We all know that airplane travel is the safest means of transportation and that a plane is among the safest space a human can occupy period.

Intuitively we all know that deaths could be reduced elsewhere in society (not necessarily transportation) by taking some IQ brain power and computing power that is in heavy needed to reach the 5th 9 after the comma to make planes 99,99999% safe and diverting elsewhere

Geez man zoom out
by r_thambapillai | 2026-01-15 15:40:09+00:00
while it makes sense that companies are unlikely to want to maintain a bunch of auxiliary saas tools just because Claude Code exists, it might be the case that Claude Code massively reduces the barrier to entry for software companies, and in theory the maintenance costs as well. So while companies will still outsource a lot, their options for outsourcing could go up a tonne, so even though companies are still spending money on external options, those options see margin pressure that dilute SaaS from 70% margin in the era where building great software was hard, to ~0%, if building great software suddenly becomes trivial.
by sidewndr46 | 2026-01-15 15:40:13+00:00
Agreed. I was kind of surprised to see 54 VDC mentioned. I am assuming this is low enough to meet some threshold for some kind of safety regulation. In other words, it doesn't shock you just 220 VAC would. I'm not entirely convinced of that however as it turns out bus bars are really dangerous in general. A 54 VDC bus bar won't shock you, but if you drop even a paperclip between the bus bar and a metal part that is grounded it basically disappears instantly in a small blast of plasma. The injury from that can be far worse than any shock you'd receive.
by sowbug | 2026-01-15 15:41:12+00:00
Starting with red beans from scratch is on my list. I was hoping to get 80% of the taste with 20% of the effort -- seems like a simple enough dish, after all -- but last night I was watching a video of a guy making his own coconut oil (not just milk) from fresh coconuts, and it's clear I'm going off the deep end.
by Fiveplus | 2026-01-15 15:41:16+00:00
That is the traditional textbook yield curve logic, if I'm not wrong? Smaller area = higher probability of a surviving die on a dirty wafer.
But I wonder if the sheer margin on AI silicon basically breaks that rule? If Nvidia can sell a reticle-sized package for 25k-30k USD, they might be perfectly happy paying for a wafer that only yields 30-40% good dies.

Apple OTOH operates at consumer electronics price points. They need mature yields (>90%) to make the unit economics of an iPhone work. There's also the binning factor I am curious about. Nvidia can disable 10% of the cores on a defective GPU and sell it as a lower SKU. Does Apple have that same flexibility with a mobile SoC where the thermal or power envelope is so tightly coupled to the battery size?
by fragebogen | 2026-01-15 15:41:20+00:00
Slightly off topic, but now that long context machine translation is roughly on-par with humans: are there any official efforts from Wikipedia, to translate the "best" or "most complete" language version of each article to all other languages? I'd imagine that the effort of getting all languages up to the same standards are just an impossible one and people from "lower-resource" languages would benefit a lot.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-15 15:41:33+00:00
https://wikipedia25.org/en/the-first-day

> Founder Jimbo Wales on a challenge overcome

Aren't you forgetting someone, Jimmy? Your co-founder Larry Sanger, perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger

Let's check one of the citations from the History of Wikipedia page: https://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/health-and-fitness/article...

> It was Larry Sanger who chanced upon the critical concept of combining the three fundamental elements of Wikipedia, namely an encyclopedia, a wiki, and essentially unrestricted editorial access to the public during a dinner meeting with an old friend Ben Kovitz in January 2, 2001. Kovitz a computer programmer and introduced Sanger to Ward Cunningham's wiki, a web application which allows collaborative modification, extension or deletion of its content and structure. The name wiki has been derived from the Hawaiian term which meant quick. Sanger feeling that the wiki software would facilitate a good platform for an online encyclopedia web portal, proposed the concept to Wales to be applied to Nupedia. Wales intially skeptic about the idea decided to give it a try later.

> The credit for coining the term Wikipedia goes to Larry Sanger. He initially conceived the concept of a wiki-based encyclopedia project only as a means to accelerate Nupedia's slow growth. Larry Sanger served as the "chief organiser" of Wikipedia during its critical first year of growth and created and enforced many of the policies and strategy that made Wikipedia possible during its first formative year. Wikipedia turned out to contain 15,000 articles and upwards to 350 Wikipedians contributing on several topics by the end of 2001.

He may not be with the project now, but don't airbrush him out of history.
by k310 | 2026-01-15 15:41:41+00:00
PG&E similarly neglected maintenance and faked inspection records. The history of these is long and basically boils down to regulatory capture to maintain shareholder returns and socialize the cost of safety measures that were not done, at great cost in property and lives. It's government welfare for business. My non-summer bill went from $35 to $105, and I am on the very low end of usage.
by SR2Z | 2026-01-15 15:42:06+00:00
As an American, I know that right now my words ring hollow - but the European approach to free speech (especially as it's handled in the UK) is incredibly alarming and off-putting.

We should all be tolerant societies, and the problem with tolerance is that you never have to tolerate speech you like.

"Private remote communications" like sending a letter have been around forever. The right of citizens to privacy is enshrined in the constitution of virtually every democracy. Sure there are some allowances that have to be made for common law vs civil law regimes, but if the right to privacy is routinely being violated that is a problem.
by alex43578 | 2026-01-15 15:42:08+00:00
Yeah, I just don’t know that there’s the will to blow up the world economy for which flag flies over Taiwan.

China absorbing Taiwan (especially to Americans) just doesn’t seem like a radical, terrifying concept.

A Hong Kong style negotiated transfer might be best for the world - Taiwanese that want to leave can, the US can build up a parallel source of semiconductors, China gets Taiwan without firing a shot.
by melezhik | 2026-01-15 15:42:14+00:00
“ For the love of all that is holy, don’t let GitHub Actions manage your logic. Keep your scripts under your own damn control and just make the Actions call them!”

This is why I started DSCI - https://github.com/melezhik/DSCI

One can replace GitHub actions yaml pipeline runner by general purpose languages/scripts but still using all other standard features of GitHub server
by YmiYugy | 2026-01-15 15:42:52+00:00
It seems a bit odd that data center operators aren’t willing to put their money where their mouth is.
Data center operators say: expand more quickly.
TSMC says: we need long term demand to justify that.
And all the data center guys say is: don’t worry that won’t be an issue, trust us.
I would think that if they were serious they would commit to cofinancing new foundries or signing long term minimum purchasing agreements.
by jandrese | 2026-01-15 15:42:54+00:00
Do you think the DOT should have a X program similar to the FAA that allows manufacturers that sell less than some number of cars a year (maybe 100?) to bypass most of the testing but require buyers to sign a disclaimer that they know the vehicle has not been fully tested for safety?

Also, I don't think it is the cost of DOT testing that is the primary barrier to entry for a company with three quarters of a trillion dollars in revenue. The domestic car manufacturers are never going to stand for a repeat of the Japanese invasion of the 70s that nearly bankrupted all of them simply because they were not listening to the customers and trying to sell vehicles that were too big and too expensive. Everyone knows what would happen if some bare bones $15,000 EV with a 250 mile range and ample supply appeared in the market.
by stevenjgarner | 2026-01-15 15:43:03+00:00
This study reveals that 18 of Earth’s largest river deltas, including the Nile and Amazon, are sinking at rates significantly faster than global sea levels are rising, driven primarily by localized human activities like groundwater extraction and sediment starvation from dams. This research answers the pivotal question of whether global climate change or local intervention is the dominant threat to these regions; it concludes that for many deltas, human-induced land subsidence is the primary driver of "relative sea-level rise." This finding is critical because it suggests that while global warming remains a threat, the immediate survival of these deltas and their 236 million inhabitants depends on local management of water and sediment resources.
by boomlinde | 2026-01-15 15:43:05+00:00
> Regarding higher quality components, I think the for the usecase (I mean the kinds of thing it is supposed to be used for) of Raspberry PI, reliability is more important.

That you think that reliability is more important for a Raspberry Pi usecase than a laptop doesn't somehow magically make it a fact that its components are of higher quality than your average laptop. You only speculate and then speculate further on the basis of your original speculation. That's not how you arrive at a basis for a factual claim or an estimate.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-01-15 15:43:09+00:00
I agree with you on this one, I've never understood the fascination with Chrome. Safari has done a pretty good job of maintaining a clean and simple UI along with being reliable.

If there was a downside I guess it would be in the realm of extensions/plugins where Chrome probably has a leg up. That's where I decided to make the jump to Brave. All the same Chrome extensions without the Google nonsense (and built in ad blocker).

I still really like Safari though and would likely use it daily if it had a built-in ad blocker.
by usefulcat | 2026-01-15 15:43:18+00:00
Some are down over the previous 6 months, but not by 50%. At least among the largest.

Company: 6 month change:
============================
Palantir: +20%
Salesforce: -9%
Shopify: +40%
Intuit: -26%
ServiceNow: -30%
Adobe: -17%
CrowdStrike: -1.5%
Snowflake: -3%
Cloudflare: 0%
Autodesk: -9%

Above companies are the 10 largest from this list:

https://www.mikesonders.com/largest-saas-companies/
Show HN: First professional-grade AI fonts
by jrd79 | 2026-01-15 15:43:38+00:00
Hi HN,

We have developed (from scratch) the world's first production-grade Font GenAI system, and have used it to put together the largest collection of fonts on the planet:

https://fonthero.com

(1) There have been other serious efforts at developing GenAI fonts. These have struggled to produce consistent, professional-looking fonts and most of them produce irregular and inconsistent results that do not pass the bar of usability. (We of course also have some "claw hands" in our results, but large swaths are more or less error free.)

(2) Our filter lists are organized using the traveling salesman problem (TSP) on the distances between feature vectors established from the VAE's latent space. This creates lists that have enough movement to allow exploration, while having enough local continuity to feel coherent and smooth. (Keyword searches are not organized by TSP because those lists are ad-hoc and TSP takes too long to do live.)

(3) Our descriptions are LLM generated and are full of accurate and descriptive keywords, making free text search a meaningful tool. See the keyword suggestions for the types of things you can meaningfully search for.

(4) Our terms are free for commercial use, and we don't require login or other hoop-jumping to access the fonts. The font world is full of complex licenses, high prices, and aggressive gatekeeping and that is just not reasonable in a world of ubiquitous GenAI.

(5) Because they all come out of the same model, all fonts have the same 255 glyphs, covering more or less all Latin-derived character sets.

(6) Single click download of the TTF. If a full font is more than you need you can also get a PNG or SVG of your text sample.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-15 15:43:44+00:00
These troops have been invited, which makes a legal difference (at least for all those who still believe in the rule of law); see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630190

As far as I am aware, although Operation Arctic Endurance is pitched as being in the interests of NATO, it is technically not being run via NATO.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2026-01-15 15:43:52+00:00
They should have said "enough are ok" instead of "everyone is ok".

Unfortunately, there are still enough people who are fine with the Trump / Miller / Noem / Bovino approach to immigration enforcement, or they're not impacted personally enough to make them speak or act.

I hope the cartoon villain responses coming from the administration when they're challenged on any of this will get more people to stand up against it all.