MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keepamovin | 2026-01-31 10:53:41+00:00
That's a good point I hadn't considered it. So YouTube loss-lead with free for all videos -- then became a monopoly and people are reaction badly not because of any inbuilt fairness wiring trigger, but because, actually the price is merely too high?

Hmmm, possible. How to test? Hard, given their monopoly status. Tho does Rumble offer paid subscriptions?

A small but perhaps weak counter to your thesis is that if people were really unwilling to negotiate with YouTube over cost/experience, why would they then so vehemently attempt to eradicate ads, rather that accepting them as a lesser cost than the subscription fee?

But I guess what you're really saying is that none of the costs YT deigns to levy is felt as fair by those complaining. Not the ads. Not the USD9 (?) / mo subscription, however localized. Thus it's not free-then-paid, it's "bad pricing" that's arming the militia? Were the pricing simply "fair" people would be happy to pay it. But what rational expectation could they have for a fair price? Unless I'm mistaking Disney+, Netflix, HBO, are all more expensive, but IMO provide less range. I'm less convinced "fair price" is it the more I think about it, but there could be something there. How else would you expand that?

Good, self contained point overall. Tho I'm going to side with the psychological factor as I've experienced that in other domains where the monopoly is not a factor. And the "merely a fair price" argument hinges on a sense of rationality which appears conspicuously absent from the reactions. Emotional and ape logic, yes, but objective and economic rationality + empathy logic? No.
by graynk | 2026-01-31 10:53:54+00:00
> tens of games

I have 500+ games on GOG and 1000+ in Steam. I still do regular backups of GOG installers to a local hard drive with lgogdownloader, but at any given point in time I am likely to have somewhere around 30 games installed (some of which I play maybe once a month, some are just sitting there so that I don't forget to get around to them). A lot of those games have been released fairly recently and are still getting patches, and I want to have those patches, because it's fairly normal for games to release in a broken state. Given all that, having launchers is kind of a necessity (and playtime, achievements, cloud saves, wine prefix management and social features are a nice bonus to all that).
by tkgally | 2026-01-31 10:55:03+00:00
I don't, but I often see them used here in Japan. Some small-shop operators use them to add up charges and show the total to the customer. I was recently in the office of a small company, and I noticed that the bookkeeper had a calculator next to a pile of paper (receipts?) on her desk. She also had a computer in front of her with a spreadsheet on the screen.

When I moved here forty-three years ago, it was common to see abacuses used in similar situations. There's still an abacus school [1] not far from where I live, but it's been a long time since I saw one in use.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/nvTg4hfSjTcba47c8
by antirez | 2026-01-31 10:56:16+00:00
> So when there is a bug / outage / error, due to "automatic programming" you are first in line and ready to accept accountability when it all goes wrong in production?

Absolutely yes. Automatic programming does not mean software developers are no longer accountable for their errors. Also because you can use AP in order to do ways more QA efforts than possible in the past. If you decide to just add things without a rigorous process, it is your fault.
by sidrag22 | 2026-01-31 10:56:27+00:00
> If you don't like free services, stop using them

If they don't like users using their service how they deem improper, ban them? they know what accounts are doing it... There is a reason for this cat and mouse, and its not ending with youtube banning people.

A lot of the current issues i see with it, is that it is treated like the go to service for video hosting...

Just consider image hosting... If i see an image in a thread and click it (much like people will do with youtube urls), and block the ad that was on the hosted site, is there this much uproar about it? That image hosting site might charge 5$ to do what an adblocker already does... If they wanna lock that up? actually lock it up, and remove the "service" portion of the business, otherwise I don't see any legs to stand on here.

Service in my eyes here, is a public service. This is a company posing as a public service, and occasionally deciding it hates how a % of the public is using their service. So they hand them a 10$ a month ticket that they pretend is required, but they will never take action on users who dont pay that ticket.
by mapierce2 | 2026-01-31 10:56:36+00:00
Yeah I still use my good ol' TI-83+ occasionally, but I'm a math instructor, so obviously. Most often I'll just use GNU `bc` though.

We are getting away from them in the classroom though; just started piloting a program where students use the Desmos app on their phones (requested to be in airplane mode) in class, and we have a department set of air-gapped phones with Desmos pinned for students to use on exams.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-01-31 10:57:17+00:00
I was quite clear on that. You cannot interfere with law enforcement.

> In the US, there is no civilian privilege to physically interfere with an arrest, even if the arrest is later found to be unlawful. Legality is and must be adjudicated after the fact; real-time obstruction is in and of itself a very serious criminal offense.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-31 10:58:14+00:00
Thanks even more for coming back and emphasizing your unique experience !

I think cave men are interesting because almost nothing is known about them.

Except that they were just like us.

If you go back far enough they could be in a cave lined with gold and not care about it at all.

Sooner or later though people coveted it so much they would kill for it. Maybe even Neanderthals too ;)

Meanwhile right there in Colorado there were many kilos of gold sitting at the bottom of a lonely river, still just waiting millennia for people to come along and gather it up. By the time settlers got there and were finished sifting out the gold, a whole city had been built on the spot, and Denver has been there ever since.

I would expect there were a lot more places like that which were never recorded, and by the point that biblical times got here had been tapped out and forgotten for millennia.

Sorry about seismics but my only exposure is from petroleum and I was not one of the geologists so not very involved.

But Trinidad is a major example where you didn't need subsurface imaging to find petroleum since there was so much of it floating on top of the water when foreign explorers arrived at the islands. Some people made plenty of money after its value was recognized from just the amount that was coming out of the ground by itself, before any drilling for the mother lode.

First come, first serve though. If an exorbitant amount can be controlled early it can provide an outsize hoard before anyone else has a comparable chance, and the relative advantage in financial strength so there is no threat to the accumulated wealth.

I would think that once gold was deemed desirable in prehistoric times, it didn't take that many more generations for some to appreciate the advantage of keeping the hoard together so they could retain more "critical mass" and power relative to adversaries.

When there is any adversarial situation, lots of times modern man didn't want anybody to really know the depth and type of their assets for strategic reasons. Other times they may have wanted the opposition to think they have way more resources than they actaully do. I guess plenty of people ever since have been no different, so anything is possible.
by Vedor | 2026-01-31 11:02:58+00:00
I have Sharp EL506T and it serves me well. I don't use it very often, mind, but it still happens semi-regularly.

The biggest reason for me are physical buttons and the fact I know the layout and capabilities. I'm just faster on physical calculator than on Android app.

But to tell the truth, usually I just use Speedcrunch on my computer.
Or spreadsheeds.
Or Python REPL.
by bmacho | 2026-01-31 11:03:03+00:00
I think they implied the following argument, or something along the lines

1. Assume that Amazon knows the future
2. Then spending $250M on Rings of Power is a bad decision
3. Therefore paying $28M to Trump is also just a bad decision, and not a bribery

I personally don't think that 1 holds, or that 2 implies 3.
by kalleboo | 2026-01-31 11:03:12+00:00
Up until 2-3 years ago, the Amazon Basics NiMHs were just rebranded Eneloops.

Any new "Made in Japan" NiMH cell is an Eneloop since that's the only NiMH factory left in Japan. E.g. IKEA's LADDA are still Eneloop.
by nirui | 2026-01-31 11:03:23+00:00
You're talking about a company owned by one of the richest "tech bro" out there. He's not just an ISP, he's a visionary (for better or worse) with a lots of ideas.

TLS payload is encrypted, but meta data (such as SNI and other fingerprints) is not. These meta data could still be valuable for someone who know how to utilize it.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-31 11:04:14+00:00
> I don't think that's really credible, simply because having sex with a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old isn't going to be significantly different. Additionally, you can't reliably tell apart a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old without looking at their identification documents.

Yeah, but we're not just talking about 16 year olds here, we're talking about (way) younger than that.

And besides, okay, an 18 year old, for hookups that's fine up to age 25 in my book. 30 is also fine in most of Europe's moral view, in France they'd probably accept 35. But ffs. Gates was around 58 back at the time. That's far too old to hang out with 18 year olds, much less having sex with them.
by hahahahhaah | 2026-01-31 11:04:49+00:00
1.Where does your “second brain” break down the most?

At work my 2nd brain is confluence. Most info goes into shared spaces.

Often search doesn't find what I need easily so search becomes a context switch (sub mission)

Rovo can be helpful though. Where I work has good culture of documenting things which helps.

2.What best represents “active project context” for you today?

Jira task status 80%;
Plus Slack save for laters 15%;
Then a confluence todo list 5%

Which one would you actually allow a tool to read?

All of them

3.What’s your hard “no” for an AI that suggests actions from your notes/links? (pick 1–2)

Activation energy to get a 3rd party AI approved in my org for compliance is enormous. Plus we dogfood our own.

It won't happen until you become the next Cursor or Loveable and even then maybe not. (we can't run CC lol!)
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-31 11:05:08+00:00
> Unless I'm mistaking Disney+, Netflix, HBO, are all more expensive

Disney, Netflix, and HBO all fund the creation of and own the content they provide to users. Youtube does not. Youtube inserts itself as a middle-man taxing regular people sharing videos with other regular people. There is obviously a non-zero cost to infrastructure but their attempts to extract revenue go far, far beyond that, hence people feeling their prices are too high, whether the price is paid in ads or subscription fees.
by gf000 | 2026-01-31 11:05:27+00:00
I have given a try to data-star that is pretty similar to htmx, and it already had SSE support. (But I think it is a bit more complete solution to the problem - giving lightweight primitives for client-side interactivity)

I think it's (referring to both) a pretty nice framework, though it does require a bit of mental "undoing" if you have worked a lot with SPAs.
by svenmalvik | 2026-01-31 11:05:36+00:00
I really want to be able to make just 1$ from the things I build.

I created:
- Vissper, a SuperWhisper clone
- Malfi, an iOS personal finance app
- Brainr, a basic second brain
- InSlide, a LinkedIn carousel creator

None of these product have either users or get any engagement. The quality of these products is ok-ish, far from perfect but beyond MVP. I use them everyday because they help me.

I really don't know in what direction to go from here. Please help me to get to the next level.
by e-khadem | 2026-01-31 11:06:13+00:00
Yes, I have a Casio fx-9750GIII and I love it. I still haven't found an Android app or website that can do everything that I need (basic functionality), but in general:

- I need physical buttons. I often find that on touchscreens I mistype something and I don't notice.

- The history feature. Maybe I want to do a serial task or calculation, and I can just replace/correct one of the formulas in the history and it automatically recalculates all of the expressions that came after it.

- I have written some micropython code / utilities for the calculator and I use it all the time.

- I don't want to context switch to do a quick calculation. On my PC I have to open up a new terminal or a website (I might be offline, so I have to hotspot and then connect the wifi and ...) and interrupt my existing work or I have to frequently switch between a PDF or latex or whatever that I'm working on.

- Typing out `sin` or `np.sin` or `sin^-1` on PC is both longer and more error prone. It gets very frustrating very quickly.

- The numerical solver is a godsend. Try solving for the roots of an expression like `xe^x = 10` on your PC without internet. Or with an android application. On my calculator it's just a few dedicated button presses. On the PC, I have to use isympy and typeout `nsolve(Eq(x * exp(x), 10), 1)`, and you wouldn't even get a proper graphical display of the expression while you are typing it.
by margorczynski | 2026-01-31 11:06:36+00:00
Vibe coding is an idiotic term and it's a shame that it stuck. If I'm a project lead and just giving directions to the devs I'm also "vibe coding"?

I guess a large of that is that 1-2 years ago the whole process was much more non-deterministic and actually getting a sensible result much harder.
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-31 11:07:42+00:00
FWIW a couple of years ago I was involved in a court case where there was a subpoena sent to Luminati to figure out whether or not a specific request had originated from their network, lawyers Luminati replied that they do not keep any logs whatsoever as they aren't required to do so under Israeli law.

Hard to imagine any serious anti-abuse efforts by Luminati if they don't monitor what their users are doing, but this is probably a deliberate effort to avoid potential liability arising from knowing what their users are doing.
by null_deref | 2026-01-31 11:08:39+00:00
I’m no expert on global crime stats, but it feels like organized crime used to be way more 'in your face.' Back in the day, the countries you mentioned including Eastern Europe, you’d hear about car bombings, public shootouts, and blatant protection rackets. Doesn't the relative disappearance of that kind of chaos suggest things have actually improved? Look at the UK, for instance the fact that average police officers patrol without firearms feels like a pretty strong indicator of a more stable society, doesn't it?
by sandruso | 2026-01-31 11:09:31+00:00
> Pre-training is, actually, our collective gift that allows many individuals to do things they could otherwise never do, like if we are now linked in a collective mind, in a certain way.

The question is if you can have it all? Can you get faster results and still be growing your skills. Can we 10x the collective mind knowledge with use of AI or we need to spend a lot of time learning the old wayTM to move the industry forward.

Also nobody needs to justify what tools they are using. If there is a pressure to justify them, we are doing something wrong.
by marmalade2413 | 2026-01-31 11:09:38+00:00
I disagree with referring to this as automatic software as if it's a binary statement. It's very much a spectrum and this kind of software development is not fully automatic.

There's actually a wealth of literature on defining levels of software automation (such as: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2015.09.013).
by deaux | 2026-01-31 11:09:52+00:00
It is dumping. The whole YCombinator VC Silicon Valley model is entirely based on dumping. They call it "burning VC cash", which is an overly wordy synonym for it to muddy the waters, and it would be positive for the world if everyone installed a browser script that did a `s/burning vc cash/dumping` on all text elements.
by sylware | 2026-01-31 11:10:48+00:00
You are perfectly right, this has been similar to the "space industry" (which includes 'ballistic nukes' knowhow maintainance). The thing with a bigger collider is it seems there are, not that honnest, scientists retro-fitting models in order to reach 'appropriate for this new collider' energy ranges where 'new physics' could be found.
Show HN: Video Listen and Learn – Practice listening with movie clips
by UtopiaRC | 2026-01-31 11:10:48+00:00
I built a free tool to practice English listening comprehension using short movie clips.
How it works:

Watch a clip without subtitles first
Reveal subtitles to check your understanding
Click any word for instant translation (40+ languages)

I'm learning English myself and found that short, contextual clips work better than full movies. Built this for myself, thought others might find it useful.
No signup required. Feedback welcome.
by bstsb | 2026-01-31 11:10:58+00:00
i wonder what consumer data they even have to train? they explicitly disclaim using customers’ internet data:

> As a Starlink customer, you may share information with third parties (for example, when you send an email or communicate with a third-party website). In this context, we are not sharing personal information; you are using our Services to share data, and we are merely connecting you to the Internet.

edit: reading this again, i may have misinterpreted this as “we don’t share this data” instead of “this isn’t considered us sharing data”. although in Section 1 they say they only collect diagnostic data in relation to customers’ connection speed/duration etc
by komali2 | 2026-01-31 11:11:02+00:00
> what’s the smallest digital thing you’d accept as the authoritative source of truth

The atom of unassailable truth in my system is the calendar event, especially if it's in the calendar managed by my PA, or one of the automatic calendars fed by cal.com. I trust it without question, since it takes a fairly concrete, verifiable event to get something on the calendar e.g. adding my next therapy appointment at the end of my current one.

> And what’s the trigger that turns a note into an action for you?

My notes are all actions insomuch as they must all be digested into my digital note system, todos, or calendar events. If you mean my fledgling Zetelkasten, I don't make actions out of those. I suppose I also have my random list of project ideas and blog ideas that I grab things off when I finally have free time and some energy but not an idea already in my head of what to do.

Question for you: why do both you and several self help gurus I read use the format of "what's the smallest xyz that abc?" Is that some framework someone came up with? Not an attack, I just don't know how to ask that without sounding rude, sorry.
by noodletheworld | 2026-01-31 11:12:17+00:00
Vibe Engineering. Automatic Programming. “We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication..."

Everyone seems to want to invent a new word for 'programming with AI' because 'vibe coding' seems to have come to equate to 'being rubbish and writing AI slop'.

...buuuut, it doesn't really matter what you call it does it?

If the result is slop, no amount of branding is going to make it not slop.

People are not stupid. When I say "I vibe coded this shit" I do not mean, "I used good engineering practices to...". I mean... I was lazy and slapped out some stupid thing that sort of worked.

/shrug

When AI assisted programming is generally good enough not to be called slop, we will simply call it 'programming'.

Until then, it's slop.

There is programming, and there is vibe coding. People know what they mean.

We don't need new words.
Show HN: I made a one-click Chrome extension to export bookmarks as JSON
by dwasil | 2026-01-31 11:13:35+00:00
Chrome still doesn't let you export bookmarks as JSON natively. The built-in manager only does HTML. I wanted something minimal — no UI, no config, no data leaving my machine.

So I built a small extension: click the toolbar icon, get your full bookmark tree as a JSON file. Two permissions (bookmarks + downloads), works offline, a few KB total.
by sirwitti | 2026-01-31 11:14:44+00:00
Owning the issue is one thing, but being able to fix issues with a reasonable amount of resources is another.

To me code created like this smells like technical debt. When bugs appear after 6 months in production - as they do, if you didn't fully understand the code when developing it, how much time, energy and money will it cost to fix the problem later on?

More often than I like I had to deal with code where it felt like the developer did'nt actually understand what they were writing.
Sometimes I was this developer and it always creates issues.
by mr_mitm | 2026-01-31 11:14:48+00:00
In what way would studying black body radiation alter humanity? Oh just the basis for quantum mechanics and thus transistors, lasers, MRIs, photovoltaics, and more.

The point is, you don't know in advance. I admit it's a bit more far fetched with these experiments that are so far removed from everyday life, but they're still worthwhile.
by mccoyb | 2026-01-31 11:14:51+00:00
a better term might be “feedback engineering” or “verification engineering” (what feedback loop do I need to construct to ensure that the output artifact from the agent matches my specification)

This includes standard testing strategies, but also much more general processes

I think of it as steering a probability distribution

At least to me, this makes it clear where “vibe coding” sits … someone who doesn’t know how to express precise verification or feedback loops is going to get “the mean of all software”
by keepamovin | 2026-01-31 11:15:24+00:00
OK, again a good point. There is YouTube Originals (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqVDpXKLmKeBU_yyt_QkItQ) not sure the model vs the others (also want to ad I enjoy the classic films that YT provides for free [tho I think I need to be on a US VPN to get that if traveling], plus of which you need to buy/rent), but I'm also not sure any of us has the inside track on YT's costs/revenue, so I guess we're all speculating.

When you say "their attempts to extract revenue go far beyond that"(A) I feel I can't accept that on good faith, I'd need to see numbers. Also I doubt this kind of data is the thing most people reacting with "prices are unfair" or "payment is bad", are drawing on, instinctively or not. So it's hard for me to accept this thesis as the source of ills. Tho, maybe it is. Maybe people's innate sense of fairness really does cover this, somehow.

I'm not aware of those numbers, so it doesn't seem that way to me, but maybe I'm just not across it. Can you give examples of your claim (A)?
by jwr | 2026-01-31 11:16:29+00:00
Relying on EXIF is a good thing. But if you limit yourself to ONLY using EXIF, you can't group images, make one image in a group the primary image, assign common metadata to the entire group, etc.

All turned out to be essential in my photo archives, especially as I started scanning old pictures. You get the front and back side of a photo, or you scan a large-format drawing in 16 scans and store them alongside the merged one, etc.

Aperture used to handle it pretty well, but Apple dropped it. I learned my lesson, and now I'll be doing things differently.
by nullandvoid | 2026-01-31 11:16:52+00:00
I would say fairly substantially different for a few reasons:

- You can run any model, for example I'm running Kimi 2.5 not Claude

- Every interaction has different (likely real) memories driving the conversation, as-well as unique persona's / background information on the owner.

It much closer maps to how we, as humans communicate with each other (through memories of lived experienced) than just a LLM loop, IMO that's what makes it interesting.