MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Yizahi | 2026-01-28 16:37:57+00:00
I wasn't talking about your system, I was talking about many systems everywhere. Just as an example, one of them may be powering your home internet and fast and reliable systemd boot is one of the reasons why multiple minutes had been saved on a hardware power cycle and service downtime.

Regardless of my opinion, this choice has been done by much more knowledgeable people and results are clear. Personally, I would pick a systemd distro any time over script init based.
by sandworm101 | 2026-01-28 16:38:04+00:00
I have owned the index for a few years, running it on ubuntu/mint. It is a pain. But VR is a pain generally. I go months without using the thing. Then when i do use it some bit of software has been updated and i inevitably have to spend an hour getting it to work correctly again. Honestly, VR on linux feels like using windows again.

VR is bad because nobody cares much about it. The hardware is clunky, the market tiny, and costs great. As the hardware improves it will get more attention from the FOSS community and so too will the overall experiance.
by 72deluxe | 2026-01-28 16:38:05+00:00
How do you find macOS Tahoe? I have deliberately avoided installing it on my M3 MacBook Air that I use for work mainly due to the lack of attention to detail they seem to have dumped on the UI.

I have used a Mac at work on/off since the Snow Leopard days and I think Snow Leopard made the most sense from a UI point of view, without wedging in iCloud file nonsense.

I have a Windows 10 machine at home for gaming / development but my daily driver at home is a Linux M910 Lenovo (small enough and powerful enough for C++ dev), along with a Windows 11 mini Lenovo machine for GeForce Now usage on a TV in the house, but do I hate using Windows 11.
by beepbooptheory | 2026-01-28 16:38:06+00:00
If one reads the dialogue, Socrates is not the one "saying" this, but he is telling a story of what King Thamus said to the Egyptian god Theuth, who is the inventor of writing. He is asking the king to give out the writing, but the king is unsure about it.

Its what is known as one of the Socratic "myths," and really just contributes to a web of concepts that leads the dialogue to its ultimate terminus of aporia (being a relatively early Plato dialogue). Socrates, characteristically, doesn't really give his take on writing. In the text, he is just trying to help his friend write a horny love letter/speech!

I can't bring it up right now, but the end of the dialogue has a rather beautiful characterization of writing in the positive, saying that perhaps logos can grow out of writing, like a garden.

I think if pressed Socrates/Plato would say that LLM's are merely doxa machines, incapable of logos. But I am just spitballing.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-28 16:38:35+00:00
I'd be inclined to agree but typically egg wash alters the texture of the bread. You get a more darker and crunchy texture after baking. This bread is still soft and still quite light. The weird thing is the more expensive burger(Whopper) is still matte. You'd think if they were going to fancy up the bun it would be the Whopper bun right? Very strange.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-28 16:38:46+00:00
Wikipedia says Alibaba was their big win. And then they convinced the Saudis to let them bet with Saudi money. They also have decent net income trends:

https://companiesmarketcap.com/softbank/earnings/

Either way, seems like enough of their bets work out, so far.

https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/09/19/softbanks-alibaba-al...
by scottLobster | 2026-01-28 16:39:17+00:00
To be fair I've never worked at Amazon, but at this point they have 1.6 million employees worldwide. I don't care what their hiring brochures say, if you think they don't suffer the same ailments as every corporation that size I have a bridge to sell you.

Certain sectors are high performing centers of excellence whose staff write blog posts that get posted to HN, publish papers, get put on the covers of hiring media and give speeches. The majority of the company is somewhere in the middle holding down their relatively uneventful but important functions, and probably a larger chunk than Corporate leadership would like to acknowledge are deadweight hiding in the cracks.
by heroloray | 2026-01-28 16:39:19+00:00
My dad was a mechanical and electrical engineer and throughout the 1970s he was obsessed with the burgeoning home computer movement. Whether you’re a collector or an early computing historian, my dad’s obsession with the Altairs and his correspondence with MITS reveals two immutable truths about computing: 1) being on the cutting edge also means having to figure a lot of things out on your own and 2) getting quality ram is a costly process
by francisofascii | 2026-01-28 16:39:36+00:00
In regards to fairness, many times these cuts are based what group you are in, rather than performance. You wonder, hypothetically, would the L5s and above all agree to accepting a 20% pay cut in exchange for not having layoffs. It strange that one person keeps the job paying $500K, while the other unlucky one will have trouble getting a new $150K job due to the terrible job market.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-01-28 16:39:46+00:00
From March 16, 2020 (Covid scare reality / market-drop), the marketcaps of Top 10,000 traded companies has doubled (from low $70 Trillion USD to low $140 T)

But bullion has done even better (particularly past month).

So — extrapolating — I'd recon the USD is inflating away its problems (mostly: itself).
Show HN: Terminal MCP – A sandboxed terminal interface for LLMs and beyond
by e-clinton | 2026-01-28 16:40:17+00:00
Hi HN — I built Terminal MCP, a utility that exposes terminal sessions over MCP, primarily to help LLMs interact with CLIs and TUIs during development and debugging.

It’s also useful outside of AI: it provides a general way to run terminal workflows through a controlled interface, with better isolation and observability than a raw shell.

Recent addition: Sandbox mode, based on Anthropic’s work on safe tool execution. It lets you run sessions with explicit controls over what the process can access — by default blocking common locations where credentials live, and optionally restricting filesystem and network access.

Repo: https://github.com/elleryfamilia/terminal-mcp

Feedback welcome.
by rendall | 2026-01-28 16:40:38+00:00
Outrage is fast. It’s legible. It doesn’t require grappling with incentives, enforcement mechanisms, or tradeoffs.
But outrage has a cost:
It replaces diagnosis with blame.
It trains the public to expect villains, not mechanisms.
It produces demands that can’t be implemented.
It gives cover for inaction, because nothing concrete is being asked.
From the perspective of power, it’s almost ideal. Lobbyists show up with clear goals and specific language. The public shows up angry, divided, and incoherent. Guess who wins.

Proposing life in prison for people who are doing lawful things is a non-starter.
by ibejoeb | 2026-01-28 16:40:51+00:00
The comment was not an appeal to religion. It's making the point that the notion of intrinsic rights is philosophical, and there must be a greater authority above all human systems if there can be a right at all. Otherwise, it's just something that the prevailing authority allows.

The point as it relates to the American Constitution is that that it was conceived with the notion of these divine rights and explicitly recognizes that there is no authority that can deprive the individual of them, thereby placing a hard limit on what a government can do.

You're free to disagree with the notion, of course, but it's worth understanding the foundation.
by usrusr | 2026-01-28 16:40:53+00:00
Cardio units have neither a "weight bar" nor a repetition counter, but they have a whole universe of possible features in the realm of scripted sequences, reactions to HRM signals and even just "making time pass" features. With unbounded gimmickyness, the sky is the limit.

Personally, I'm a bit of an aficionado of close to the metal sports electronics. When I stare at gym screens I immediately notice updates that are supposed to come in once a second to get randomly delayed by what must be hundreds of millis. But I can totally see why they went that route. It's a market where feature quantity is big as a success metric and using a maintenance-friendly platform is even bigger. Wether Android actually checks that box might be debatable, but a bad embedded implementation could easily be worse, no doubt about that.

In the old days, those screens would have randomly dropped into some Windows desktop failing to operate in some kiosk mode fantasy.
by air7 | 2026-01-28 16:40:58+00:00
we didn't really survive photoshop.

The obviously fake ones were easy to detect, and the less obvious ones took some some sleuthing to detect. But the good fakes totally fly under the radar. You literally have no idea how much of the images you see are doctored well because you can't tell.

Same for LLMs in the near future (or perhaps already). What will we do when we'll realize we have no way of distinguishing man from bot on the internet?
by stephanschulz | 2026-01-28 16:41:15+00:00
:) I had to pick a number and 90 seconds just felt about right. Time varies of course per Bite. Each Bite includes a moment for reflection that stretches the time, otherwise it would be faster. The comparison to Readwise is a huge compliment. Honestly, if I can reach that level of daily utility and retention, I'll be more than happy.
by sbondaryev | 2026-01-28 16:41:33+00:00
Hi HN,
I built a chess position recognition system that runs entirely in the browser.

The project walks through the full pipeline: manually collecting data from book scans, comparing Autoencoders vs. SimCLR for representation learning, and deploying with ONNX Runtime and Pyodide to avoid server costs.

The included demo recognizes board diagrams and generates Lichess links for analysis.
by Eric_WVGG | 2026-01-28 16:41:34+00:00
It’s not as central to the GOP platform as it used to be, though. Really ever since the “War on Terror,” their messaging has mostly been around whatever the enemy du jour is. Small gov’t was a paleocon thing and McCain, maybe Rand Paul, are pretty much the last of them.

Bob Dole was the first and last Republican I ever voted for. I still think he was kind of a fun guy, although it’s good that his candidacy failed.
by drysine | 2026-01-28 16:41:44+00:00
>$0.85 for a box of Barilla pasta

That's cool. Which one? The cheapest one in Russia costs about $1.20 [0]

> a photo of their QR code and reuse it over and over again

Don't you think it's a wrong thing to do?

[0] https://5ka.ru/product/makarony-barilla-dzhirandole-n-34-450...
by genvibe | 2026-01-28 16:41:47+00:00
Last month I spent 8 hours setting up auth, database, and deployment config for a weekend project. By Sunday, I was too burned out to actually build the feature I wanted to test.

That's why I built GenVibe - it takes Figma designs or text descriptions and generates deployed full-stack apps in ~15 minutes.

What it does:

Figma - Production Code
Import your Figma designs and get working React apps. No manual translation or design-to-code headaches.

Web & Mobile Support

Web: React, Next.js, Remix, Vue, Angular, Svelte

Mobile: React Native, Expo
Pick your framework or let it choose based on requirements.

Built-in Features:

Authentication & user management

Database integration

Real-time updates

One-click deployment to Vercel/Netlify

Live Preview
See your app running in real-time as it's being built. Make changes through chat and watch them apply instantly.

Try it: genvibe.pro

What I'm working on next:

Better design system detection from Figma

Custom component library support

Team collaboration features

Looking for feedback:
What's your biggest pain point when starting a new app project? What would make you choose this over building from scratch?
by skrebbel | 2026-01-28 16:41:53+00:00
NPM is plenty opinionated. For all its mistakes, it got lots of things uniquely right too. For example it’s very uncommon in JS land to have version conflicts (“dependency hell”). If two deps both need SuperFoo but different versions, NPM just installs both and things Generally Just Work. Exceptions are gross libraries with lots of global state (such as React) but fortunately those are very uncommon in JS land.

People love to complain about node_modules being a black hole but that size bought JS land an advantage that’s not very common among popular languages.
by ndriscoll | 2026-01-28 16:41:58+00:00
The latest I can find on Bad Spaniels is that the courts concluded they did not infringe the trademark exactly because it was an obvious parody, but that it tarnished the brand because of the association with dog feces[0]. Notably, it seems that brand confusion is still central to the infringement question, and SCOTUS ruled that parody plays into that.

> Reaching the Supreme Court, the case took another turn in 2023 when the Court vacated the Ninth Circuit’s decision, unanimously ruling that the Rogers test does not apply in cases when a trademark is used as a source identifier, rather than as a purely artistic work. As a result, the Supreme Court remanded the case for the district court to reconsider Jack Daniel’s counterclaims under traditional trademark principles.

In the food truck case, clearly they are using it as their own brand identifier (so it's analogous to Bad Spaniels), and clearly it is a parody, so clearly it is not trademark infringement as with BS. Unlike the BS case, they're also not tarnishing the Eggo brand, but just making a playful pun, so that outcome doesn't seem likely here.

[0] https://www.internetandtechnologylaw.com/bad-spaniels-iii-pa...
by SenHeng | 2026-01-28 16:42:09+00:00
You’ve just illustrated exactly the problem. You assumed I was building an accounting app. I’ve experienced the same issue with building features for calculating the brightness of a room, or 3D visualisations of brightness patterns, managing inventory and cataloguing lighting fixtures and so on.

It’s great for churning out stuff that already exists, but that also means it’ll massage your idea into one of them.
by neogodless | 2026-01-28 16:42:13+00:00
Did multiplayer LAN work in Anno 1800 for you out of the box, or did you make adjustments? I couldn't figure out how to get it to work.

StarCraft 2 worked, oddly enough, run from Steam as an external program. (Lots of search results tried to get me to use Lutris/bottles, but I couldn't get it to work consistently under Lutris.)
by crazygringo | 2026-01-28 16:42:20+00:00
Remember it's the same as a smaller screen.

If you have vision problems such that sites don't work at the zoom level you need, then you simply need to purchase or use a device with a larger screen. Then the larger zoom level will work, because there's more space for it.

The world adopted responsive design a long time ago to be mobile-friendly. That inherently made page zoom highly effective even at larger levels. If you need to push it to extreme levels, you need to get a larger screen.

And there's always pinch-to-zoom on top if you really need it. Plus screen magnification utilities.
by zkmon | 2026-01-28 16:42:28+00:00
I was away from Windows for the past 12 years. Recently we bought a desktop and had to install Wondows on it. I was just shocked by the level of shittification that happened. I can't even find a Solitaire game that is not littered with ads.

I was a big fan of Satya. I thought he had new vision that aligns with the emerging world. I saw some successes he had with cloud, office 365 etc. But when offered to take Altman in, I knew Satya is no longer maintaining the stature of the grand company built by Gates.
by troupo | 2026-01-28 16:42:32+00:00
> For anyone hosting a product on servers (almost everything web related)... there IS something special about linux: It's where your product is going to run in production.

I've been at several corporations and companies where the target OS doesn't matter in the least, and I've had multiple projects on my own where it was the same.

Most of development is so far removed from actual hardware and actual OS, it doesn't matter if your backend is developed on Mac and runs on Linux.
by zikduruqe | 2026-01-28 16:42:57+00:00
> Having very frequent updates to bleeding edge software versions, often requiring manual intervention is not "stable".

I dunno. I have an arch installation that is maybe 4 years old, I might update every few weeks, and have only had one issue.

Any issues are usually on the front page of archlinux.org what the issue is, and how to fix it.
by morserer | 2026-01-28 16:43:04+00:00
Came here to say this. Archinstall rocks.

Regarding why Arch doesn't "invest" in a graphical installer, it's worth mentioning that Arch's installation image has a different design philosophy than most installation media.

The image is a fully functional arch environment that copies the entirety of its contents to RAM on boot, giving you special installation opportunities such as the ability to install Arch to the same flash drive that booted the installer. Having no graphical dependencies lets this image remain small enough to pull this off, as well as allowing for fully remote installations over SSH out of the box, since archinstall is a TUI.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-28 16:43:23+00:00
That's roughly what I did for my ANSI console/viewer... I started with EGA resolution, and each ega pixel renders 3x4 in its' buffer then a minor blur, then scaled to fit the render area. The effect is really good down to about 960px wide, which is a bit bigger in terms of real pixels than the original... at 640px wide, it's a little hard to make out the actual pixels... but it's the best way I could think of to handle the non-square pixels of original EGA or VGA... I went with EGA because the ratio is slightly cleaner IMO. It's also what OG RIPterm used.
by ColinWright | 2026-01-28 16:43:34+00:00
One of the talks I give has this in it. The talk includes Continued Fractions and how they can be used to create approximations. That the way to find 355/113 as an excellent approximation to pi, and other similarly excellent approximations.

I also talk about the Continued Fraction algorithm for factorising integers, which is still one of the fastest methods for numbers in a certain range.

Continued Fractions also give what is, to me, one of the nicest proofs that sqrt(2) is irrational.
by jjfoooo4 | 2026-01-28 16:43:35+00:00
I read through it, scanning sections that seem uncontroversial and reading more closely sections that talk about things I'm less sure about. The output cites key lines of code, which are faster to track down and look at than trying to remember where in a large codebase to look.

Inconsistencies also pop up in backtesting, for example if there's a point that the llm answers different ways in multiple iterations, that's a good candidate to improve docs on.

Similar to a coworker's work, there's a certain amount of trust in the competency involved.
by rickydroll | 2026-01-28 16:43:36+00:00
Organized as in they have meetings, serve cookies, and coffee? Most likely not. These anti-ice groups seem to be extemporaneous meetups.

Define obstruction. Everything reported, blowing whistles, encouraging businesses not provide service to ICE agents, and recording from a distance is not obstruction. It's a First Amendment right to keep government forces in check.
by some_furry | 2026-01-28 16:43:46+00:00
> However for other e2ee systems (e.g. messaging, filesystems) where hiding your social graph is important, wouldn't a key directory be able to infer (part of) your social graph by recording which lookups you make?

Metadata resistance is out of scope for this project.

ActivityPub already leaks your social graph all over the place already. This is intended for ActivityPub. Trying to fix this in our design would have been a fool's errand.

Even if we could mitigate that, your k-anonymity is already limited to the users on the same instance you're on. Attackers are assumed to be able to see which messages are routed to which server.

That said, your public keys are vended publicly via an HTTP REST API. Just because someone is fetching those public keys (which could be fetched over Tor) doesn't mean you know who is requesting them, or for what purpose.

(I deliberately design things to be Tor-compatible; and to that end, do not ever rely on DNS records or DNSSEC.)
by bjourne | 2026-01-28 16:43:52+00:00
It doesn't work. You can use it for proof-reading, but that's about it. You can use it to stuff your text with scientific sounding BS: "remains challenging", "motivating alternative approaches", "emerged as a prominent", "strategy leverages", and "typically". Typically, it will insert a "typically" in every third sentence. Leveraging AI for high-quality content generation "remains challenging".
by webdoodle | 2026-01-28 16:44:11+00:00
This is great news! Hopefully so many people have stopped buying crap from Amazon, that a tipping point is near, and there entire business will fold.

I personally haven't bought anything from Amazon or Ebay in 4 years, and will never again. I only buy local, or I don't buy. Starving the beast one purchase at a time.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-28 16:44:27+00:00
Funny how HN discussions about the development of encrypted messaging apps often include remarks from commenters about the need for a "group chat" feature

In some cases, popular messaging apps that initially did not provide "group chat" have since added this "feature", apparently in response to "user demand"

The so-called "tech" companies that control these apps from Silicon Valley and Redmond have aligned with one political party, generally whichever party is in power, for "business" reasons, e.g., doing whatever is necessary to ensure their continued profits free from regulation

Surveillance is their core business
by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-28 16:44:42+00:00
I fully agree, Jobs was like the ideal founder.

And so was Woz.

What actually hapened couldn't have happened any other way.

>It seems Woz would have just kept working as an HP engineer and bringing designs to the homebrew computer club to give them away as a hobby.

If so it could only continue for so long before a lesser entrepreneur took the position that Jobs undertook.

And Apple might only be about half the size it is now.

Is that so bad?
by kqr | 2026-01-28 16:44:47+00:00
Paper airplanes do not have barndoor wings, though. Most of them have stepped camber through the way they are folded.

It's not finished but I started writing this to clarify: https://entropicthoughts.com/paper-airplane-aerodynamic-stab...

Scroll down to "trim and angle of attack".

(I hope there's nothing embarrassing in there. It's an old, early draft.)
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-28 16:45:27+00:00
Linux has plenty of video card driver issues too. Windows may suck, but Linux sucks in different ways. Windows suckage is solved by "buy a different machine and reinstall". Linux suckage is solved by weeks googling and trying technical fixes in consoles, installing different distributions and trying the same, then eventually buying a different machine.

Apple, for all its flaws, tends to not have the suckage of either. I don't like using Apple, but it does break a lot less. (One of the reasons is encompassed in this story... while Microsoft and Nvidia yell at each other, Apple makes both the OS and the graphics card, so they just solve the problem internally) Apple with VMs gives you everything without the hardware hassles.
by scottLobster | 2026-01-28 16:45:31+00:00
Of course it's biased. I'm just saying I find it quite believable that some program was funded 5 years ago under different financial conditions and has remained funded until now despite no longer being viable.

People generally don't like losing their jobs, and will put a positive spin on every report that might be good enough to pass muster with middle management bureaucracy at a large firm. All it takes is for enough people in the chain of command to shrug, sign whatever docs are needed and move onto something they care about more.