MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by volemo | 2026-01-14 12:38:22+00:00
> Kinda makes me wonder: If the point isn't to show how to make a website, or typeset a LaTeX document.... what IS the point?

The point of those articles is how to make a website or typeset a LaTeX document. If you read one and find out you don't have a prerequisite, go google for an article on how to get a domain name or install LaTeX --- there is plenty of those too.
by okokwhatever | 2026-01-14 12:39:12+00:00
Look, sadly this is not gonna be an easy problem (not only for you but for anybody losing a job this days). Our industry has decided the productivity can be increased with less human force an it creates a bottleneck to join a company.
Also, creating something by yourself to live from will be hard because SaaS is quickly dying.
I have no solution for this problem, this is something new for all of us. You'll dedicate your time watching youtube videos about people surfing your same situation but no one has a real answer. Do not try to solve your own problems applying the same solutions than others, get out of your home look at your local community find a problem and find a solution that requires some real hands-on work (other colleague in this conversation talked about searching a trade, it's a good idea)
Eveybody will tell you to not abandon your dreams but lets be practical, a dream without a way to take some food to the plate is just a nice idea in your mind. Be real, crude and honest with the world that we're all living. This is the new reality and sadly it's not your fault.
Keep learning, training your technical skills (obviously) but be realistic about the chances.
You can do it, do not lose your faith.
by iluxonchik | 2026-01-14 12:39:22+00:00
On November 22nd 2005 the president of Russia stated:

- "I believe it's necessary for the Central Bank to pay more attention to precious metals within the territory of the Russian Federation when forming gold and foreign-currency reserves. Those reserves are even called 'gold and foreign-currency' reserves. There's nothing to be shy about here."

At the start of 2026, gold represents ≈43% of Bank of Russia's (BoR) international reserves. Back in 2005, gold accounted for a mere ≈3.5% of the same reserves account.

Since November 2005, gold is up ≈840%, i.e. almost 10 times. In the same period, S&P 500 TR increased ≈726%, or almost 9 times. This means that (anecdotally) Central Bank of Russia's strategy outperformed the U.S. stock market index by ≈14%
by subscribed | 2026-01-14 12:39:57+00:00
Why should that be China's problem?

Someone imported it, someone's selling it in the stores.

If the price of the "disposable" is, say, £5, make the deposit £50. Suddenly all the vapes will end up back at the retailer.

And make sure retailer has the financial incentive to return the used disposables and that's it.

I'm confident the lawmakers have been bribed to refuse to tackle the problem, otherwise how you can explain minimum price on plastic bags but tolerating toxic landfill fires and staggering waste of lithium (recycling will inevitably br fixed soon).
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-14 12:40:33+00:00
When I was a kid, I used to world WWF (World Wrestling Federation) with my best friend. We loved the interviews (pre/post "fight"). Those guys were idiots and certainly "detached from any sort of reality", but also very funny to 10 year old boys! I also liked Jean-Claude Van Damme movies. I turned out just fine.
by bborud | 2026-01-14 12:40:34+00:00
Well, since pretty much everything that consumes power today has an MCU in it, simple MCUs are extremely cheap. Volumes are immense. They are also space efficient and it is easy to manufacture PCBAs with them. They also occupy that sweet spot where the need for low power consumption means that you use gate sizes that are fairly largeish -- manufacturing processes and technology that is much, much cheaper than what is used for CPUs for instance.

Same thing with batteries. Ridiculous volume -> low prices. (Laptops and cell phones is why we have usable electric cars. If the EV industry had to drive up the volume all on its own it would have taken much longer to develop that industry)
by efilife | 2026-01-14 12:40:58+00:00
This is terrible for someone who doesn't know anything and wants to make a website (the people this article is directed to)

> Don’t shop around for a CMS. Don’t even design or outline your website. Don’t buy a domain or hosting yet. Don’t set up a GitHub repository; I don’t care how fast you can make one.

I wonder how a beginner is supposed to know what a CMS is, a domain/hosting or a GitHub repository. This is not explained at all.

> Finished? Great. If you have a domain and hosting, make a new folder on your server called blog and upload your first post in there

I don't, I am a beginner! I don't even know what this means! And even if I do have a server, how do I upload a file to it?

> If you don’t have a domain or hosting yet, now’s the time to buckle down and do that. Unfortunately, I don’t have good advice for you here. Just know that it’s going to be stupid and tedious and bad and unfun. That’s just the way this is.

Oh thanks. But it really isn't. On netlify for example you can just drag a folder that contains your website and it's up immediately. Similarly on neocities.

> If you have images or other media in your post, be sure to use the absolute URL to a resource rather than a relative one.

You should consider explaining what they are and how to use them.

This post is useless for "people [who] want to make a website but don’t know where to start or they get stuck"
by Arch-TK | 2026-01-14 12:41:28+00:00
Yes if I went hard on something greenfield I'm sure I'll be knee deep in tech debt in less than a day.

That being said, given the quality of code these things produce, I just don't see that ever stopping being the case. These things require a lot of supervision and at some point you are spending more time asking for revisions than just writing it yourself.

There's a world of difference between an MPV which, in the right domain, you can get done much faster now, and a finished product.
by TheWiggles | 2026-01-14 12:41:31+00:00
You have a resume or website I could take a look at?

My suggestion is to look at networking events and see if you can get involved in startups. You will be talking to people on the team and it's a good way to make connections.

I'd also look into the Education sector (i.e. colleges, universities, school districts) It's how I managed to get my start in tech. https://www.higheredjobs.com

And don't feel bad about it taking a while to find a job. I graduated a few years ago and it took me 6 months to get something lined up. The market is weird right now.
by azertify | 2026-01-14 12:41:39+00:00
I think that Ladybird has driven a lot of the effort, otherwise we'd just see browsers continuing to use Chromium with backports to allow v2 being worked on.

Ladybird was already progressing rapidly within SerenityOS well before it was officially launched, and I think that's given people a new inspiration for how plausible it is to create a browser from scratch. I'm really pleased we're seeing Servo having a resurgence too.
by jerrinot | 2026-01-14 12:42:01+00:00
You raise a fair point about the percentiles. Those are reported as point estimates without confidence intervals and the implied precision overstates what system clock can deliver.

The mean does get proper statistical treatment (t-distribution confidence interval), but you're right that JMH doesn't compute confidence intervals for percentiles. Reporting p0.00 with three significant figures is ... optimistic.

That said I think the core finding survives this critique. The improvement shows up consistently across ~11 million samples at every percentile from p0.50 through p0.999.
by runarberg | 2026-01-14 12:42:39+00:00
This is a known sales trick, called door-in-the face. First you introduce your victim to an outrageous claim, and then follow with a more modest and more reasonable sounding claim.

In truth neither claims are reasonable, but because of the door in the face, the victim is more susceptible the the latter claim. Without the more outrageous claim it is unlikely the victim would have believed the latter claim.

In reality, both "AGI" and "100x miracle" AND the "10x miracle" are all outrageous claims, and I call bullshit on all of them.
by madethemcry | 2026-01-14 12:44:00+00:00
DHH also famously describe why and how they are leaving the cloud https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47...

I'm not a fan boy of DHH but I really like his critical thinking about the status quo. I'm not able to leave the cloud or I better phrase it as it's too comfortable right now. I really wanted to leave redis behind me as it's mostly a hidden part of Rails nothing I use directly but often I have to pay for it "in the cloud"

I quickly hit an issue with the family of Solid features: Documentation doesn't really cover the case "inside your existing application" (at least when I looked into it shortly after Rails 8 was released). Being in the cloud (render.com, fly.io and friends) I had to create multiple DBs, one for each Solid feature. That was not acceptable as you usually pay per service/DB not per usage - similar how you have to pay for Redis.

This was a great motivation to research the cloud space once again and then I found Railway. You pay per usage. So I've right now multiple DBs, one for each Solid feature. And on top multiple environments multiplying those DBs and I pay like cents for that part of the app while it's not really filled. Of course in this setup I would also pay cents for Redis but it's still good to see a less complex landscape in my deployment environment.

Long story short, while try to integrate SolidQueue myself I found Railway. Deployment are fun again with that! Maybe that helps someone today as well.
by onefootincode | 2026-01-14 12:44:01+00:00
It is a disease as in “your metabolism is slow” so you need to cut food even more. It is a disease as “you have problem with controlling your impulses and therefore crave food”

Psychological diseases are not better or worse from psychical/metabolic ones. They are real, and for some of them we have or we develop medicine.

Nobody is claiming that obesity can’t be a result of a disease, but under the hood it always ends up as: calories surplus is stored as fat.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-14 12:44:20+00:00
I really wished™ there was an API/ABI for userland- and kernelland-defined individual virtual files at arbitrary locations, backed by processes and kernel modules respectively. I've tried pipes, overlays, and FUSE to no avail. It would greatly simply configuration management implementations while maintaining compatibility with the convention of plain text files, and there's often no need to have an actual file on any media or the expense of IOPS.

While I don't particularly like the IO overhead and churn consequences of real files for performance metrics, I get the 9p-like appeal of treating the virtual fs as a DBMS/API/ABI.
by btreecat | 2026-01-14 12:44:21+00:00
Lately I've been using my desktop keyring/wallet to store the secrets encrypted at rest. Then on login they get injected to my shell directly from the secure storage (unlocked at login).

I feel this is probably better than plain text, but if my machine gets popped while logged on you likely have Access to active browser sessions between MFA flows and could do more damage that way.
by wink | 2026-01-14 12:44:38+00:00
Half of the things you mentioned only came out after 2014. My Chrome wants to print with Comamnd-P.

But I'm not disagreeing in principle, I personally use so many of these fuzzy search things in so many apps, all with different keybinds (which is maddening in another way) - and maybe that's just the objectively most well-known one?
by oakesm9 | 2026-01-14 12:44:50+00:00
Yes, negative is rare, but I wouldn't say that it's overwhelmingly expensive.

The median range is 15p-20p (60% of the time in December) and the UK "price cap" is about 26.35p.

With a tariff like that, shifting usage outside of 4pm-7pm can lead to massive savings. With our usage from the Octopus API, I can see from OctopusCompare that in the past month my effective average unit cost would be 19.24p/kWh, and we don't do any specific load shifting.
by throwaway777x | 2026-01-14 12:45:02+00:00
We have had algorithmic composition for a long time.
Here is a brief history of algorithmic composition from 1999
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~blackrse/algorithm.html

What is meant by "AI Music" is not works by Iannis Xenakis or certain Autechre albums.

We should be defining all this better but we won't. It is also that there is no "AI music" equivalent of the amen break to invent new forms of art. The cultural structures and norms that made that possible no longer exist.

It really is the difference though between art and porn. A blurry distinction on paper but quite obvious in practice. Quite obvious in motivation.
by romshark | 2026-01-14 12:45:20+00:00
First of all, at this point, SCION is not here to replace BGP, practically speaking. It's here to provide a more secure and more reliable way of interconnecting ASes for critical infrastructure applications (finance, defense, government, energy, etc.) and can, for example, be seen as a better (multi-provider, multi-path) and cheaper alternative to MPLS, etc.

SCION can help private and public organizations better protect themselves from network disruptions (immediate failover thanks to multi-path routing instead of BGP reconvergence) and reduce DoS attack surface (you can't be hit if you can't be seen).

> How do I peer with the big corps in a SCION world?

You do so by joining an ISD (Isolation Domain) and inheriting TRC (Trust Root Configuration).

> so SCION doesn't really enable a more secure internet, it enables more (largely corporate) control

SCION gives you path authenticity that BGP simply can't provide.
It gives you as a packet sender control to define how your packet shall be (multi-)routed given the path options you get.

Think of the power grid for example. Putting power plants on the internet is probably a bad idea. A better idea is to interconnect power plants through multiple ISPs over a separate SCION ISD.
by ljf | 2026-01-14 12:45:31+00:00
I'm 'lucky' to live near a couple of offshore wind turbine 'fields'. From the shore these are barely visible many days of the winter, and when they are they cause me no concern or upset seeing them on the horizon. I actually find them pretty pleasing to see.

They are also building a heap of new energy transmission infrastructure here, which for now is bringing a fair few new jobs to the area - and going forwards there will continue be jobs in ongoing maintenance.

Coupled with the cheaper energy they provide, it all feels like wins for me - I hope we see much more generation planned, and I agree - if this means we need less (or none) nuclear power in the future, that feels like another win.
by bodge5000 | 2026-01-14 12:45:34+00:00
So could the company hiring you to do that work fire you and just use Opus instead? If no, then you cannot compare an engineers salary to what Opus costs, because the engineer is needed anyway.

> And API costs at all major providers represent selling the model with a good profit margin.

Though we don't know for certain, this is likely false. At best, it's looking like break even, but if you look at Anthropic, they cap their API spend at just $5,000 a month, which sounds like a stop loss. If it were making a good profit, they'd have no reason to have a stop loss (and certainly not that low).

> Yeah. Obviously. Duh. That's why we keep doing it.

I don't think so. I think what is promised is what keeps spend on it so high. I'd imagine if all the major AI companies were to come out and say "this is it, we've gone as far as we can", investment would likely dry up
by maleldil | 2026-01-14 12:45:39+00:00
I think you're underestimating the current state of the Python type system. With Python 3.12 and pyright or mypy in strict mode, it's very reliable, and it makes those kinds of tests unnecessary. This requires you to fully buy into the idea, though, with 100% of your codebase statically typed and using only typed libraries, unless you're comfortable writing wrappers.

It's not Rust-level, but I'd argue it's better than C or Go's type systems.
by g947o | 2026-01-14 12:45:44+00:00
So the article is about the frustrating experience of fixing GitHub Actions when something goes wrong, especially when a workflow only fails on one platform, potentially due to how GitHub runner is set up (inconsistently across platforms).

Took me a while to figure that out. While I appreciate occasional banters in blog articles, this one seems to diverge into rant a bit too much, and could have made its point much clearer, with, for example, meaningful section headers.
by silvestrov | 2026-01-14 12:45:48+00:00
This is such a nonsense comment.

> Producers are far from consumers

Distance from London to the biggest windfarms are 350 km [1]

This is the same distance as from Miami to Orlando (in Florida). Do you really think it is a problem transmitting electricity this distance.

You should try look at the international connections in Europe. Some are longer than this.

The Viking link between UK and Denmark is 765 km.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in...
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-14 12:45:52+00:00
I understand this sentiment. When I look at my own life, one culture constant has been the decline of "formalism" -- dress, language, jobs, inter-generational relationships, privacy. If anything, the average YouTuber is a pretty average person -- not too good looking, not too well coached by a PR team, not too well dressed. Isn't this a cultural "win" because we are getting more authentic content, instead of ~10 major TV networks and film studios deciding who we should watch?
by arch1t3cht | 2026-01-14 12:46:20+00:00
A lot of the pain of GitHub Actions gets much better using tools like action-tmate: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate

As soon as I need more than two tries to get some workflow working, I set up a tmate session and debug things using a proper remote shell. It doesn't solve all the pain points, but it makes things a lot better.
by TheCapeGreek | 2026-01-14 12:46:43+00:00
errr, this sounds backwards, no?

Tailwind is better when you actually try to put the utility classes in your own components, sure. But the reason Tailwind got popular over Bootstrap in the last 5 years is because people got sick of hand-tweaking Bootstrap components and fighting it to do so when they can only run basic CSS sticks together.

(I'm aware modern CSS is really good even on its own, and most of us under-utilise it. But I think it has become clear that most people just don't want to learn it)
by 1a527dd5 | 2026-01-14 12:47:01+00:00
1. Don't use bash, use a scripting language that is more CI friendly. I strongly prefer pwsh.

2. Don't have logic in your workflows. Workflows should be dumb and simple (KISS) and they should call your scripts.

3. Having standalone scripts will allow you to develop/modify and test locally without having to get caught in a loop of hell.

4. Design your entire CI pipeline for easier debugging, put that print state in, echo out the version of whatever. You don't need it _now_, but your future self will thank you when you do it need it.

5. Consider using third party runners that have better debugging capabilities
by figmert | 2026-01-14 12:47:37+00:00
Prefacing this with the fact that act is great, however, it has many shortcomings. Too often I've run into roadblocks, and when looking up the issue for it, it seems they are hard to address. Simpler workflows work fine with it, but more complex workflows will be much harder.

Don't put your logic in proprietary tooling. I have started writing all logic into mise tasks since I already manage the tool dependencies with mise. I tend to write them in a way where it can easily take advantage of GHA features such as concurrency, matrixes, etc. But beyond that, it is all running within mise tasks.
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-14 12:47:43+00:00
"His success at that persuaded him that he was an Important Moral Authority."

Isn't this rather common in artists? Bono of U2 comes to mind as a very pronounced example.

The problem with being a well-known artist is that you have way too many sycophants. Imagine getting dozens of ChatGPT-like fawning messages every day, but from real people, and not just over e-mail, but whenever you stray out of your house and someone recognizes you.

That will mess with self-image of almost everyone except the most stoic personalities.
by unsupp0rted | 2026-01-14 12:48:48+00:00
I regularly interact with devs and project managers in Eastern Europe. Their quality is top-notch and their English is good enough you'll forget they're not natives. Most importantly, their mentality is American. Like... weirdly American.

Yes means yes, no means no, "how was your weekend" and then down to business. It's a pleasure interacting with them.
by someuser484848 | 2026-01-14 12:49:18+00:00
I see what you mean - it wasn't intended to be a parallel to mechanical calculators.

However, the title implies that they were a trick - otherwise why is the "confidence trick" 400 years old?

I feel like this kind of imprecise use of language is what makes it difficult to interact with LLMs in a meaningful way - perhaps that is the reason the author seems to dismiss the value of them.
by bborud | 2026-01-14 12:49:20+00:00
I'm sure most don't care more than regulations require them to care (including making tradeoffs in terms of risks of getting caught, and the chance of actual enforcement). But that doesn't change the fact that it is a safety-critical device. It produces something that interfaces directly with sensitive tissues.

I talked to someone who worked on developing vapes and they spent much, if not most, of their engineering on safety-related issues. They may be an outlier. The reason I remember is because I was surprised how dangerous these devices really are if you get things wrong.

As a software engineer with some hardware experience, I would never use a vape. It strikes me as way too risky. Much for the reason you point out: the companies probably don't care more than they are forced to by regulations.
by zoobab | 2026-01-14 12:49:40+00:00
"Microcontrollers like the Puya PY32 Series (e.g., PY32C642, PY32F002/F030) can cost in the $0.02 - $0.05 range"

LCSC says between 6 and 8 cents in volume:

https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/C5292058.html

500+ $ 0.0802
2,500+ $ 0.0727
5,000+ $ 0.0682"
by figmert | 2026-01-14 12:49:54+00:00
Tmate is not available anymore, and will be fully decommissioned[0]. Use upterm[1] and action-upterm[2] instead.

Honestly, this should be built into GitHub Actions.

[0] https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/issues/322

[1] https://upterm.dev/

[2] https://github.com/marketplace/actions/debug-with-ssh
by vintermann | 2026-01-14 12:50:38+00:00
I share the disgust at slop music spam sneaking into Spotify's recommendation services last time I used them.

But I absolutely don't agree that Bandcamp does recommendations well. To me, it seems like they don't personalize at all. Maybe you're just lucky enough to share the taste of the (at least human) taste makers at Bandcamp. Spotify's pre-enshittification Discover Weekly was miles better than whatever they do. My experience with old brick and mortar record stores was that at best they stocked a little of the music I enjoyed, but didn't have a clue about it. Most often they didn't stock it at all.
by acdha | 2026-01-14 12:51:50+00:00
Yeah, I think those are coming from the same place: so many companies are trying to wedge LLMs into everything, especially contexts where you really need actual reasoning to accomplish a task, and it’s just such a “magic VC money fairy, pick us!” play that it distracts from the underlying tech opening up some text processing capabilities we would’ve thought were amazing a few years ago.