MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jesterson | 2026-01-20 04:04:45+00:00
Two things - browsing appstore is not a "basic feature". It's an entertainment and folks gotta pay for it. I have never browsed Appstore in my life - all i got were either direct links or search by title.

On the "highest price premium" - they can charge it simply because there is no alternative. I have tried android several times and it was was a huge eye opener how shitty and unworkable it is, even in 2025. Boy, they can't even get notifications working properly. So yea, apple charge because they can, can't they?
by Yash16 | 2026-01-20 04:05:26+00:00
I am creating the SaaS https://picxstudio.com, and I am the only developer. I don't know how to sell or do marketing, and I don't like the idea of having a partner or co-founder because I have put in 100% effort while others might not contribute equally. So, please tell me how I can sell this app in Japan. Japanese people love creating AI images, videos, and applications, and the best feature of my application is that it's chat-based and supports native language (Japanese), so users don't need to use English at all.
by halfcat | 2026-01-20 04:05:44+00:00
So AI makes it cheaper to remix anything already-seen, or anything with a stable pattern, if you’re willing to throw enough resources at it.

AI makes it cheap (eventually almost free) to traverse the already-discovered and reach the edge of uncharted territory. If we think of a sphere, where we start at the center, and the surface is the edge of uncharted territory, then AI lets you move instantly to the surface.

If anything solved becomes cheap to re-instantiate, does R&D reach a point where it can’t ever pay off? Why would one pay for the long-researched thing when they can get it for free tomorrow? There will be some value in having it today, just like having knowledge about a stock today is more valuable than the same knowledge learned tomorrow. But does value itself go away for anything digital, and only remain for anything non-copyable?

The volume of a sphere grows faster than the surface area. But if traversing the interior is instant and frictionless, what does that imply?
by HWR_14 | 2026-01-20 04:06:00+00:00
> Folks that aren't committed just don't make progress: hang around, season after season, still flying with instructors, until they finally give up or just occasionally grind it out.

They take more calendar time, but do they take more instruction? Because if they make the same progress per session, I don't see why you would think it inferior to spread it out over several years.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-20 04:06:33+00:00
Is this the correct link?

Rust Cookbook states it's a collection of examples to accomplish various tasks, some with brief explanation. But nothing that could be called article/talk/repo.

Should note, for anyone curious, that learning idiomatic Rust off those examples isn't straightforward.

E.g. https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/file/dir.h...

The explanation simply states what the code is doing, the classic sin of code commenting. But no explanation given on why `anyhow::Result`, `main() -> Resut<()>`, `?` operator, `{:?}`, ... are used. If wanted to learn, those are what one would care about. But, if looking for a snippet to use for a task, what the cookbook is about, then is fine.
by shiroiuma | 2026-01-20 04:07:39+00:00
>I don't want Linux to become as popular as Windows currently is. Its quality would decline drastically as it would be subjected to all sorts of corporate forces.

Wrong. Linux is open-source: if you don't like it, you're free to fork it and do it your own way. If some forces tried to make Linux too Windows-like, surely someone would do this. We already have a bunch of different desktop environments because Linux people can't agree on one (one distro, Mint, even replaced Gnome with not one, but two different DEs: Cinnamon and MATE).

"Corporate forces" aren't going to somehow take over Linux and make everyone use a Linux distro that looks like Windows 11 (or worse, Windows 8). They can try of course, and they might get a ton of new people using Linux that way, but it isn't going to kill off the more traditional distros, just like Android didn't somehow kill off Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian/Mint/openSUSE/etc.

>I don't want it to become a commercially driven, adversarial OS like Windows and Mac OS.

Like Android?

>I want it to remain the free, stable and decent OS it currently is

Its open-source nature guarantees this.
by 8organicbits | 2026-01-20 04:07:54+00:00
Good point, I'm not sure. I'd be interested if anyone knew a good estimate for how much of their operating expenses the ad-tech side took.

Presumably Facebook would abandon ads if there was more money to be made in paid subscription, so I'll use corporate greed as evidence that the math doesn't work out. But I don't personally know.
by willglynn | 2026-01-20 04:08:30+00:00
AWS has the notion of "partitions", which is a technical boundary encompassing multiple regions. This mostly doesn't come up, but it does poke through in certain implementation details, like how AMI manifests for groups of regions (partitions) need to be encrypted for different public keys. Each partition has a specific region which must be targeted for certain partition-wide actions, such as managing IAM endpoints in other regions.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-fault-iso...

Normal AWS (`aws`) traces to `us-east-1`. AWS GovCloud (US) (`aws-us-gov`) is distinct, based in `us-gov-west-1`. AWS in China (`aws-cn`) is distinct again, based in `cn-north-1`.

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is implemented as a distinct partition – `aws-eusc` based in `eusc-de-east-1` – so it has exactly as much in common with normal AWS as AWS GovCloud (US) or AWS in China.
by shiroiuma | 2026-01-20 04:08:40+00:00
>Whatsapp came at the perfect moment - mobile operators were starting to offer decently priced data plans but were also still very stingy with SMS (which was a bit of a cash cow for them, infra costs were very low) and essentially never added at the time advanced features (like MMS) to any prepaid plan ever.

Right, this explains the history of why Europeans (and others) don't use SMS any more and use chat apps, namely WhatsApp. But still, that was many years ago, and there are many other (and better) chat apps out there now. The EU has been agitating a lot against US tech dominance, but they seem stuck on WhatsApp from Meta; they should have been moving to something else a long time ago.
by the_pwner224 | 2026-01-20 04:08:43+00:00
You can get a BMW for $40k or $120k. Big spectrum. As another datapoint, I have one of those higher tier BMWs and even the top trim Lucid's interior feels like a downgrade compared to my car. The $50-80k BMWs also feel cheap and crappy to drive when I've tested them. Tesla can't compete on anything except their ADAS which is superior.

If you're transitioning from a barebones 330i then yeah the Tesla is probably better. But it's not even close when you compare to the top end German vehicles.
by bradgessler | 2026-01-20 04:11:33+00:00
I shot the Phlex on Rails video course outside last summer with a glossy screen and barely notice reflections or glare, mainly because I setup shop under the shade of large oak trees. The bigger issue with direct sunlight is the glare off the chassis and heat, even when it’s 75F/24C outside.

I wrote about it at https://beautifulruby.com/articles/portable-workstation-iter... if you want to see the setup.
by promiseofbeans | 2026-01-20 04:11:37+00:00
> This repository is a public mirror. All development is happening elsewhere.

So if I have code on a personal (but publicly exposed) git server with a license that includes the above quoted terms, and someone decides they want to be helpful and publish a public read-only mirror of my code to GitHub, then they’re allowed to accept that license on my behalf? I never did a thing and yet I’m now in a contract with Microsoft? How does this work legally?
by brianjeong | 2026-01-20 04:11:51+00:00
I think there's a somewhat valid perspective that the Nth+1 model can simply clean up the previous models mess.

Essentially a bet that the rate of model improvement is going to be faster than the rate of decay from bad coding.

Now this hurts me personally to see as someone who actually enjoys having quality code but I don't see why it doesn't have a decent chance of holding
by flax | 2026-01-20 04:13:45+00:00
I've been mostly happy with Action launcher. It has the few features I really liked from Nova that are missing from pixel launcher: I can make my home screens scroll in a circular/infinite manner, I can remove the search bar and the google news feed or whatever they call the left page, I can set more than one page in the dock.

Unfortunately, the app list page isn't quite as configurable. There are folders rather than tabs, and there's an extra click necessary to search by app name. Overall, it does the job.
by csnover | 2026-01-20 04:14:15+00:00
> In these gossip circles they brush off anything that doesn't make them upset

Things that they have no fear about, and so do not register as warranting brain time.

> eager to get to the outrageously stuff.

The things which are creating a feeling of fear.

It’s not necessary for the source of a fear to exist in the present moment, nor for it to even be a thing that is real. For as long as humans have communicated, we have told tales about things that go bump in the dark. Tales of people who, through their apparent ignorance of the rules of the group, caused the wrath of some spirits who then punished the group.

It needn’t matter whether a person’s actions actually caused a problem, or whether it caused the spirits to be upset, or indeed whether the spirits actually ever existed at all. What matters is that there is a fear, and there is a story about that fear, and the story reinforces some shared group value.

> It's a pattern of behavior which old people in particular commonly fall into,

Here is the fundamental fear of many people: the fear of obsolescence, irrelevance, abandonment, and loss of control. We must adapt to change, but also often have either an inability or unwillingness to do so. And so the story becomes it is everyone else who is wrong. Sometimes there is wisdom in the story that should not be dismissed. But most often it is just an expression of fear (and, again, sometimes boredom).

What makes this hypothesis seem so unbelievable? Why does it need to be people seeking anger? What would need to be true for you to change your opinion? This discussion thread is old, so no need to spend your energy on answering if you don’t feel strongly about it. Just some parting questions to mull over in the bath, perhaps.

Thank you for raising this idea originally, and for engaging with me on it.
by gpm | 2026-01-20 04:15:22+00:00
Yes - we agree on how the pricing and odds work now :)

The hitman shouldn't expect to capture the value of the entire open interest. The market here is serving to negotiate the bounty with speculators betting that too much was offered taking the rest (a privilege they pay for by buying contracts that only pay out if they don't take too much). It's a curious form of negotiation since the people paying for the murder don't participate... but should (in a very theoretical efficient market) come to a "fair" (large enough to get the job done, and no larger) payment for the hitman.

2xing your money in a night is a huge payout, I think you're overestimating how high the multiplier on the capital requirement needs to be. That said, if you aren't, and you need a 5x payout to find a hitman then no rational speculator would purchase contracts for more then $0.20...
by 405nm | 2026-01-20 04:15:29+00:00
all users need to be running the reticulum network stack to be able to send, receive, and route packets.

reticulum itself describes the network stack (like tcp/ip) and it has its own protocols like LXMF for messaging and LXST for streaming. applications can be built on top of these protocols.

it’s different than IP, instead of addresses, each node has an identity that’s a cryptographic key pair that you send messages to, the routing happens in the background regardless of network topology or diversity of link types.

you CAN send reticulum packets over a TCP/IP adapter and thus across the normal Internet (there are a lot of testnet and community nodes that are accessed this way), but the protocol also seamlessly bridges over any interface (lora, bluetooth, HAM radio, etc) that is attached to the node.

so like, there could be a message sent over lora to a base station that relays it to another server through the internet, then that server sends it out over a ham radio link to another computer somewhere else, etc.

all the message sender has to know is the pubkey of the node they want to talk to, and the network figures out how to establish a link.

128 hops maximum.

the prerolled binaries of the aforementioned software include the network stack and easy enough presets to find content from other nodes and people to talk to.
by coffeefirst | 2026-01-20 04:16:13+00:00
In effect, I got rid of the middlemen.

I text friends and family, call a few, and ideally have people over and grill.

For news, go to the source. People used to subscribe to newspapers and magazines for every interest under the sun. Add in podcasts and newsletters.

Technically I still have an industry Slack or two and a local Discord for parents, but those are basically just more groupchat.

Also when you go to do the "what do I need from here" exercise you realize how much of it's just worthless. I dropped Reddit and added one RSS feed from a local bookstore to find out about new books.

In the end, the algorithm was an unnatural way to read.
by Dirak | 2026-01-20 04:16:34+00:00
This has never been the case across the history of humanity -- there has never existed a non-biased institution, and it's incredibly naive to think that a German think tank funded by the German government would be any exception.

"Level headed" and "sober" people are not immune to the effects of incentives and conflicts of interest. Researchers are dependent on grants, on invitations to conferences, etc., and so are liable to follow trends (tariffs bad), and p-hack to support the mainstream narrative (as they do in this analysis with P values > 0.01).

> German academia is actually full of sober, level-headed, nuanced people

Thanks for the laugh. I hope you realize how pretentious this sounds. In actuality, Germany's GDP is about 1/6th of that of the US, so these German academics don't sound very bright for how "level headed" and "sober" they are.
by 0manrho | 2026-01-20 04:16:34+00:00
Mid to late 2025 was the peak of an 11 year solar cycle (25th one since we've started keeping track). We're on the trailing end of that peak activity now, which is why the past year/several months has seemed so active compared to recent years past, and should decrease significantly (in frequency and intensity) as 2026 progresses.

There was also a fairly significant geomagnetic storm back in November of 2025 as well.

You can see the data here at NOAA's Space Weather site
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
by tw1984 | 2026-01-20 04:16:59+00:00
> Some people care less about squeezing out performance and more about open standards. I like having more choices, especially open ones.

you need to be totally autistic to believe that Chinese vendors are going to share anything meaningful with you. they don't hate you, they want their paying customers to be happy, but the brutal competitions in China doesn't allow them to be open in any sense. For products like RISC-V processors and MCUs, the moat is extremely low, being open leads to quick death. It is not about how much stuff they share with you as paying customer, it is about how much they are willing to share with their competitors when there are hundreds of companies trying everything to survive.

as a developer, you just need to ask yourself a dead simple question - how such risc-v platforms are going to be more open than raspberry pi.
by WalterBright | 2026-01-20 04:17:16+00:00
> What do you mean by respect?

The disinterest programmers have in using 80 bit arithmetic.

A bit of background - I wrote my one numerical analysis programs when I worked at Boeing. The biggest issue I had was accumulation of rounding errors. More bits would put off the cliff where the results turned into gibberish.

I know there are techniques to minimize this problem. But they aren't simple or obvious. It's easier to go to higher precision. After all, you have the chip in your computer.
by coryrc | 2026-01-20 04:17:18+00:00
Especially as Toyota seems structurally unable to create a good EV. They produced one completely bare-bones model 30 years ago and never expanded past that. At least they're keeping some knowledge of the parts by having PHEVs, but I don't think they're on the leading edge of anything. Maybe they don't need to be and can buy everything from other suppliers, but they're going to be doing a whole lot less than they currently do and not sure they'll keep their profit margin.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-20 04:18:14+00:00
If I’m rich enough to employ thousands of people I can hire each one of them to borrow as many books as possible then use all the books to train an AI. Perfectly legal. And also very possible.

Point being that the library prevents you from checking out 500gb because of logistical issues. First how can you carry all those books and how can they let other patrons in the library check out books if you grabbed that many? These rules aren’t enforced to prevent “scale” hence why my methodology got around the rules.
by notpushkin | 2026-01-20 04:18:18+00:00
> I don't like the idea of having a partner or co-founder because I have put in 100% effort while others might not contribute equally.

I get it – I’ve felt the same when I was looking for a cofounder too. It’s tricky to find a person that’s passionate about the same thing as you are. But I think it’s still worth it to be looking for one.

Of course, you can also hire a marketing guy, or just ask around to see if you can barter (e.g. help them with something IT instead). But I think having a cofounder is still great for motivation – if you do find the right person, that is.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-20 04:18:48+00:00
WTF kind of useless measurement is this? Is the impact going to be spread evenly across the entire US GDP sources? No, it's going to have large impacts on specific industries/services and not much on others. How the f are you arguing these numbers won't have an impact on us?

Total US goods exports in 2024 were $2,083.8 billion

Total US goods exports to the European Union were $369.8 billion, to the UK $79.5 billion

Total US services exports in 2024 was $1,107 billion

Total U.S. services exports to European Union in 2024 were $294.7 billion, to the UK another$99.4 billion

The EU is 26% of our services exports

The UK is 9%

Canada another 8%

Sure, our economy, industry, and service sector can totally just eat losing this trade, it's not significant at all. /s

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/europe...

https://www.bea.gov/news/2025/us-international-trade-goods-a...

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4120.html

https://www.usitc.gov/publications/industry_econ_analysis_33...
by filoleg | 2026-01-20 04:19:47+00:00
The best PR that Cloudflare could possibly have here is just the demand letter from AGCOM (aka the Italian comms agency).

Just reading what they are demanding from Cloudflare and their reasoning for it is enough to turn pretty much anyone to Cloudflare’s side. And that’s before even digging into the details of the context preceding that whole conflict
by bearseascape | 2026-01-20 04:19:48+00:00
> What counts as research?

You might be aware of this, but most big tech companies (i.e. the ones with massive user counts) don't just let you roll out UI changes to everyone, because they know that this has a downstream impact on users. So they often A/B test those things, which is literally an experiment: you randomize who sees what, measure outcomes, and ship whatever wins. There are many data scientists employed in industry to set up and analyze experiments like this.

Also, it seems clear that this not harmless research. Everyone is aware of the effect social media has on our mental health (see the under-16 social media ban in Australia). Facebook definitely knows this, e.g. 2014 there was a big controversy over their News Feed “emotional contagion” study, where they altered what content people saw to measure changes in sentiment, without meaningful informed consent [1][2].

> Also I would like an example of something a social media company does that you wouldn't be able to get approval to do on animals. That claim sounds ridiculous.

This misses the main point: the issue is that for these experiments (and they are experiments) there is often no independent approval mechanism in the first place. Facebook, after receiving backlash, does have privacy/integrity/safety teams now which review these experiments, they are far from being independent third parties.

[1] [https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...)
[2] [https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/main-result-face...](https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/main-result-face...)
by the_pwner224 | 2026-01-20 04:19:52+00:00
> That’s not too shabby for a 2022 non EV car

It very much is! (no offense) And EV vs ICE doesn't make a difference, the manufacturers put the same ADAS systems regardless of the powertrain.

BMW has had radar cruise control + lane keeping since 2016 I think? In 2019 they added full hands-free operation in highway traffic (up to 40 mph) as well as auto lane change when you tap the turn signal. In 2023 they have full hands free up to 85 mph on highways, plus auto lane change w/ navigation integration and auto-overtaking (car promps you to check the mirror, then changes lane completely touchless).

A frickin' 2020 Honda Civic has the same ADAS functionality as your '22 Porsche, even on the base trim ($21k). Porsche is way, way behind. And that's before you even get to all of the non-ADAS drivers assistance systems for parking, reversing, etc., which again the other Germans trash Porsche on.
Show HN: A simple fork of gpodder2go for lightweight self-hosted podcast sync
by ijustlovemath | 2026-01-20 04:20:14+00:00
I became quite frustrated with how slowly Spotify tends to load on Android, especially when it comes to podcasts. On Windows and Linux, I've been using Kasts, and added AntennaPod to the mix, but they don't have native interoperable sync. I don't have a full NextCloud instance, but I do have a server for my website, so I wrote a quick patch and systemd service/nginx config to allow both to work.

Note: the passwords written to g2g.db are stored in plaintext (haven't fixed it myself yet), so when you're creating a user, make sure to use a unique and long password.
by yndoendo | 2026-01-20 04:20:41+00:00
Stingrays are use to intercept calls in real time. They are used by police and foreign intelligence agencies. It allows them to listen in on political calls. Washington DC is a haven for fake cell phone towers.

I found out the LEO in the area I was in had at least one. I saw a police car parked in the area I was in. Very out of place and would only be there if there was a house call. Decided to test the waters, went out side, paced back and forth, and kept talk. His face and body language changed dramatically which let me know he was using a Stringray and I was the current target without a warrant.