MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coldpie | 2026-01-27 14:38:17+00:00
> Still I perceive a lot of XFCE's userbase to be more "traditional" and conservative about technologies, and likely to be skeptical of both Wayland and Rust, seeing them as complex, bloated, and unnecessary.

Very long time (since 2007) XFCE user here. I don't think this is accurate. We want things to "just work" and not change for no good reason. Literally no user cares what language a project is implemented in, unless they are bored and enjoy arguing about random junk on some web forum. Wayland has the momentum behind it, and while there will be some justified grumbling because change is always annoying, the transition will happen and will be fairly painless as native support for it continues to grow. The X11 diehards will go the way of the SysV-init diehards; some weird minority that likes to scream about the good old days on web forums but really no one cares about.

There are good reasons to switch to Wayland, and I trust the XFCE team to handle the transition well. Great news from the XFCE team here, I'm excited for them to pull this off.
by mghackerlady | 2026-01-27 14:38:55+00:00
Wayland works pretty well on FreeBSD and I know at least wlroots compositors work a bit on OpenBSD (though, I suspect anyone on OpenBSD would prefer to use their homegrown Xenocara). There are Wayland compositors for Mac, the youtuber Brodie Robertson did a good overview of them a few days ago
by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-27 14:38:58+00:00
Definitely develop some capabilities to accomplish an elementary satisfying project in BASIC.

It's the language that was designed for you to learn about programming and a computer language at the same time.

Whether or not you actually "master" the language or just barely learn a few commands, before using a few commands to make a simple finished program. One approach would surely be a lot faster than the other ;)

After that then decide how much you learned about programming itself from the little project, then you can see how far that BASIC alone may be able to advance your programming abilities even after you may be very familiar with the language in detail, or not.

In that '80's generation of home computers with a 6502, most had built-in BASIC so a common progression for so many was to learn BASIC at the same time as learn programming, since nobody had ever had home computers before. This could be just fine for business applications. Assembly is not nearly as easy as BASIC to learn, but in some sense programming is programming.

Then for gaming BASIC was not nearly as fast as assembly but often BASIC performed just fine anyway for developing the logical game flow and making it a "fun" game at its core to begin with. The problem with BASIC was all the other little details like video, I/O, UI, HID, were all so dramatically slower because each BASIC command needed to be interpreted before it could be run on the hardware and that took a little extra time in between each command but it really added up when you have challenging hardware interfaces and not simply fundamental game logic (many times game logic can be so simple that it's never slow in any language).

For a plain BASIC game that is "complete" but is supposed to have quick action and low latency, the next step in the learning curve would then be to find out which part of the BASIC code is the main resource bottleneck when it comes to processing time, then replace that one function with an equivalent written in assembly. It was accepted that it was a lot more work then to introduce assembly to make the game do the same thing it was before, only quicker.

It may not be very clear looking back, but there were a number of good reference books and instructional approaches and so much of it was intertwined with "learn BASIC + programming at the same time" followed by "useful assembly language techniques" to speed up your programs.

As crowds moved along these lines together to a degree as they emerged, it might help to look at publication dates for the books of the time, and use what's found in the earlier texts to help you with later concepts.
by thebruce87m | 2026-01-27 14:39:10+00:00
I only posted an older hacker news link to show even people in this community have been affected. There are plenty of recent examples.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/this-wild-bug-is-still-plagu...

> I had this problem when trying to call 999 (the UK equivalent of 911) about a year ago.

> Fortunately I managed to free myself from the situation I was in by breaking (crushing) my finger.

Ouch!

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1oeiqop/pixel_...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-27 14:39:13+00:00
So continuing from my past comment which did get extremely long but I hope that I could capture the nuance.

My point's probably that EU and Indian relations feel the most easy to form out of any major world right now and honestly I do have a bit of bias in here as I wish to create private solutions or open source solutions from India and the EU market and its privacy conscious users feels better connection if EU and India themselves are connected better and I am feeling like the chances of that happening is quite high.

But I guess politics tricky and I can be wrong, I usually am so yeah. But I am just gonna build private (or Open source solutions) and have a bit of focus within EU market as well.

Politics isn't really my best suit because I like to come to agreements and politics in this case is trying to tangle the untangled which feels pretty tricky to do such I guess but I also really like talking about India-EU relation so yeah. Probably sacrifices must be made & looking for hopefully a healthy discussion of politics which I didn't witness in the GP's comments being honest.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-27 14:39:27+00:00
A lot of HN users flag any stories about politics.

Comment sections that attract certain comment and downvote patterns can trigger the flame war filter which drops their rank.

It’s not a moderator coming in and hiding things. It’s the users flagging it and/or triggering the flame war filter.

Even with that, there are anti-ICE stories all over the front page every day.
by iambateman | 2026-01-27 14:39:52+00:00
Not a chemist…but if someone can carry on 3 bottles at 3.4 ounces each, now they have 10 ounces.

Two people do it and it’s 20 ounces. All within the “TSA Standard.”

This is where the liquid limit never made sense to me…if we were serious about keeping these substances off of planes, we would limit the total liquid…right? Or require that any liquids get checked.

I just don’t see how per-bottle liquid limits are anything close to deterrent for motivated attackers…but they sure are deterrent for me when I forget that I put a hotel water bottle in my bag.
Show HN: Frigatebird – high performance OLAP database built on io_uring
by joeeverjk | 2026-01-27 14:40:21+00:00
I’ve spent the last few months building Frigatebird, a high performance columnar SQL database written in Rust.
The goal wasn't just "make it work," but to use every systems programming trick available to maximize throughput on Linux.
Frigatebird is an OLAP engine built from first principles. It features a custom storage engine (Walrus) that uses io_uring for batched writes, a custom spin lock allocator, and a push-based execution pipeline. I explicitly avoided async runtimes in favor of manual thread scheduling and atomic work stealing to maximize cache locality. Code is structured to match the architecture diagrams exactly.
currently it only supports single table operations (no JOINS yet), would love to hear your thoughts on it.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-01-27 14:40:35+00:00
They're cheaper and allows third parties, plus the network is stronger.

There are cheap ($5) devices for Apple's network, if you don't need the UWB support (required for precise location, e.g. when you're within metres of the device but don't know which direction you should go).

I wonder which network is stronger in the UK. There are many recent-ish Android phones with presumably the latest version of Google Play Services. But I don't know if anyone has tried to test, or even to estimate the number of devices.
by eieio | 2026-01-27 14:40:49+00:00
The tool (iron) isn't open source, but there are a bunch of public talks and blogs about how it works, many of which are linked from the github repo[1].

It used to be "open source" in that some of the code was available, but afaik it wasn't ever possible to actually run it externally because of how tightly it integrated with other internal systems.

[1] https://github.com/janestreet/iron
by teiferer | 2026-01-27 14:40:58+00:00
I don't really get why they need to clone in order to scrape ...?

> It feels weird to think that LLMs are being trained on my code, especially when I'm painfully aware of every corner I'm cutting.

That's very much expected. That's why the quality of LLM coding agents is like it is. (No offense.)

The "asking LLMs for advice" part is where the circular aspect starts to come into the picture. Not worse than looking at StackOverflow though which then links to other people who in turn turned to StackOverflow for advice.
by dns_snek | 2026-01-27 14:41:11+00:00
Enough of them to give rise to the term "algospeak" which means using words like "unalive" in place of "kill" to avoid automated censorship.

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

Meanwhile you can report a bot who's posted 20+ comments under a video to advertise illegal drugs and all of the reports and subsequent appeals will consistently come back as "No violation found".
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-27 14:41:14+00:00
Because the deleted dissent is not so great in number as to change the sub from being representative to non-representative.

Let me ask you again: Do you think any subs are representative of conservatives? Do you think all the numerous people defending the murder of Renee Good and defending ICE were bots? What about X, or Gab, where it's easy to find mass opinions mirroring those subs? Where is the conservative home on the internet where everyone is against what is happening?
by Aurornis | 2026-01-27 14:41:18+00:00
I think you’re greatly overestimating the number of people who only use one social media platform and never check any other news source at all.

TikTok users are also known for being experts at evading filters and censors. Remember the rising popularity of “unalived” when talk of suicide was filtered out on the platform?

I’m not saying this ICE censorship is good, because it’s not! I’m saying it’s ridiculous to claim that only people in other countries have easy access to information.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-27 14:41:27+00:00
> It's not that you don't have access at all, it's that these specific platforms are starting to suppress it.
This is the notable example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_CECOT

The 60 Minutes Episode on CECOT aired on Jan 18 and it is also on CBS News' website: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-deported-venezuelans-endur...
by zamadatix | 2026-01-27 14:41:38+00:00
Is it 40% failure per individual back/forth or 40% failure per individual letter output? I guess it really just depends how much one wants to bash AI instead of actually talk about failure rate not normally being what makes using a tool worthwhile :D.

I'm not big on AI for much more than additional "Google search" type usage myself so it's interesting to see how polarized folks are that LLMs either have to be the greatest gift from god to take over the world or completely 100% useless trash which couldn't ever be used for anything because the output is not always correct.
by koalaman | 2026-01-27 14:41:39+00:00
Iran and North Korea are evidence that with modern technology, and a ruthless enough autocracy, there is possibly no way out from under it. Technological progress only makes this problem worse. It should highlight the urgency for anybody who loves freedom, human rights, and democracy, to fight the swing towards authoritarianism in the 'free world', before there is no way back.
Technical benchmarks for CAAE optimization layer
by zwmaronek | 2026-01-27 14:41:58+00:00
## Executive Summary

CAAE (Context-Aware Adaptive Eviction) has achieved breakthrough results that dramatically improve the performance and cost-efficiency of large language model (LLM) inference. After extensive testing and validation, *4 core experiments are now production-ready* and deliver significant business value:

- *3x more requests* can be handled with the same hardware
- *64% less memory* is needed, allowing 4x larger batches
- *54% faster response times* on real-world production workloads
- *93% service reliability* (up from 80%) on production traces
by zwmaronek | 2026-01-27 14:42:27+00:00
If you're running LLM inference today, CAAE can help you:

1. *Serve 3x more customers* with the same GPU hardware
2. *Reduce memory costs by 64-75%*, depending on workload
3. *Cut response times in half* for better user experience
4. *Improve reliability* from 80% to 93%+ service level compliance
5. *Handle 4x larger batches* for RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) workloads

### Real-World Impact

*Before CAAE:*
- Your system can handle 100 requests per second
- Average response time: 720 milliseconds
- 20% of requests fail to meet service level agreements
- Memory limits restrict batch sizes

*After CAAE:*
- Your system can handle 300 requests per second (3x improvement)
- Average response time: 387 milliseconds (46% faster)
- Only 7% of requests fail to meet service level agreements (65% improvement)
- Batch sizes can be 4x larger for RAG workloads
by ecshafer | 2026-01-27 14:42:28+00:00
I strongly prefer going to my local ACE Hardware or True Value Hardware before Lowes or Home Depot. Their prices will tend to be a little bit higher. However they seem to be staffed by people who know what they are doing, and Home Depot and Lowes stopped doing that entirely. I can walk in, ask the old guy working there what he might recommend and he will give me a recommendation.
by woolion | 2026-01-27 14:43:05+00:00
Flying back from Beijing, I had bought a lot of books. I filled my bags with it, so they were very heavy. When the agent came to try to check my backpack, he casually grabbed it, and fell on the conveyor belt trying to lift it. He looked at me with shock. "I'm done", I thought. He opened the bag, and saw a box of zongzi the university gave me, on top of the books. He instantly became radiant, gave me a pat on the back, and just indicated the way.
by joenot443 | 2026-01-27 14:43:15+00:00
I think when westerners like myself notice the disparity in response amongst western progressives between the Palestinian and Iranian situations, they're talking more from a social lens than the geopolitical one.

A lot of my peers have been incredibly active on social media the last couple years supporting Palestinians. They've been mostly completely silent on Iran, the imbalance is notable.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-27 14:43:17+00:00
I’m not condoning censorship. It’s bad.

I’m saying it’s silly hyperbole to make the leap to implying that only people in other countries have easy access to information.

These absurd claims always turn into a game of motte and bailey when they’re called out, with retreats to safer claims. I’m talking about the original claim, that “people in other countries” have easy access to this information which we, in the US, see everywhere all the time right now (except TikTok apparently).
by FridayoLeary | 2026-01-27 14:43:17+00:00
I came on here to say that point but you said it much better then i ever could. For the record i am unapologetically pro israel, and their actions in Gaza while regrettable were largely unavoidable.

What is striking is that the death toll in Iran from a couple of weeks of demonstrations is half as much as what Gaza suffered in 2 years of a devastating war. Even taking into account the difference in population this is shocking.

Well done to my fellow Hners for trying to gaslight op that the 2 are not comparable, when everyone here knows what is really behind this anomaly.

You have all my sympathy. Even Israelis understand the difference between the regime and the people of Iran. From a practical point of view how do feel the West should respond? Would you welcome American airstrikes? What do you feel about the looming possibility of another conflict with Israel?
by WhitneyLand | 2026-01-27 14:43:22+00:00
Its often pointed out in the first sentence of a comment how a model can be run at home, then (maybe) towards the end of the comment it’s mentioned how it’s quantized.

Back when 4k movies needed expensive hardware, no one was saying they could play 4k on a home system, then later mentioning they actually scaled down the resolution to make it possible.

The degree of quality loss is not often characterized. Which makes sense because it’s not easy to fully quantify quality loss with a few simple benchmarks.

By the time it’s quantized to 4 bits, 2 bits or whatever, does anyone really have an idea of how much they’ve gained vs just running a model that is sized more appropriately for their hardware, but not lobotomized?
by eieio | 2026-01-27 14:43:26+00:00
Typically in this system you encode obligations - e.g. "eieio should review, or at least be aware of, all changes made to this library." I think that means you're unlikely in practice to have a problem like that, which (unless the team is not functioning well) requires two people who care deeply about the variable name and don't know that someone else is changing it.
by NickC25 | 2026-01-27 14:43:31+00:00
Not to mention, the largest media distributors / syndicates were parroting increasingly right-wing talking points instead of staying neutral or simply presenting the facts and letting the viewer come to their own conclusions.

there is no left-wing media machine that even comes within a billion light years of the strength of the right-wing machine. Effectively, the entire spectrum is owned by hard-right billionaires.

Media has fallen victim to the need for continuous profits (because they have been targeted over and over by bad faith right wing actors) and the journalistic integrity of the 4th estate has effectively been weaponized by the people who need to be named and shamed.
by zenethian | 2026-01-27 14:43:35+00:00
You’re bringing a Reddit analogy to HN and they are not equivalents. On HN there is no downvote. Something unwelcome gets flagged for review. After sufficient flagging the content is removed not just buried. It’s not calling it “stupid” it’s saying “hey buddy maybe this isn’t the right place for this.”

You can’t seem to depolarize yourself from extremes. You call your original post “highly intelligent” and equate any disagreements as being shouted “stupid” at like those are the only two options here or something when they are not.
by throwforthings | 2026-01-27 14:43:42+00:00
My spouse (Bangladeshi) and I (not) went to a rally in Jackson Heights when the first protests were going on and we were surprised by how pro-Islamist the crowd leaned, from their signs and chants. We jumped on video with my in-laws at one point and they were even like "oh no you guys should leave, these young people are Islamists".

It seems to be true across the Muslim world. My father is from North Africa, and any time we've been back there over the past decades it's very clear a large swath of the youth are embracing the more religious political movements.
by woooooo | 2026-01-27 14:43:58+00:00
It's not about legality, its about scrolling and recommendations. Young people see stuff by other young people by default.

Its been a conservative/zionist talking point for years now that "the youth are getting brainwashed by tiktok", and Ellison in particular seems to be in the "I've gone hard right due to the latest Israel conflict" camp. So of course they're not being subtle about it.
by _pdp_ | 2026-01-27 14:44:03+00:00
Noticed the same. Doing a quick analysis of clawdbot myself I figured there are many spam domains that are used to backlink. Now there is a new domain being advertised as a replacement of the original. It points to the same landing page though it is hard to say if this comes from the original authors. All of it seems to be related to a crypto scheme. The astroturfing on reddit is also pretty bad.

This is obviously in a blip in the grand scheme of things but it is just an indication what all of these social media platforms are destined to become without some sort of intervention.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-27 14:44:23+00:00
>The model absolutely can be run at home.

There is a huge difference between "look I got it to answer the prompt: '1+1='"

and actually using it for anything of value.

I remember early on people bought Macs (or some marketing team was shoveling it), and proposing people could reasonably run the 70B+ models on it.

They were talking about 'look it gave an answer', not 'look this is useful'.

While it was a bit obvious that 'integrated GPU' is not Nvidia VRAM, we did have 1 mac laptop at work that validated this.

Its cool these models are out in the open, but its going to be a decade before people are running them at a useful level locally.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-27 14:44:37+00:00
> I’m not saying this ICE censorship is good

I hope not because it’s bad and that’s really all that matters in this conversation. And nitpicking whether or not there are other avenues for information is completely besides the point. I don’t even really understand what point you’re trying to make. If you think this is bad, then say it’s bad and we shouldn’t be ok with it. Saying “I’m not saying it’s good” then muddying the waters reads like you’re trying to defend the action.
by PrismShadow | 2026-01-27 14:44:38+00:00
Hi HN,
We ' ve been frustrated with the fragmentation in the LLM ecosystem. Switching between OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google often means rewriting state management logic or losing model-specific reasoning features.
So we built AgentHub to solve this. It’s a small, open-source SDK that provides a unified Python/TypeScript interface for all SOTA models.
Why I built this: Existing tools like LangChain felt too heavy, and routers like OpenRouter are closed-source and lack deep execution auditing. It includes a lightweight board for auditing LLM executions. You can permanently trace every run by passing just one parameter.
Key Focus: We simplify the engineering process with an asynchronous, stateful, and streaming API specifically designed for multi-turn agentic executions, which significantly flattens the learning curve with zero code changes. And we ensure that model-specific capabilities, such as interleaved thinking and caching, are rigorously validated and aligned across providers with no loss of performance.
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
by brooke2k | 2026-01-27 14:45:02+00:00
that's not been my experience at all. I've found that Godot works exceptionally well with C#, and I've felt zero pressure to use GDScript. It integrates really well with Rider too, which is the C# IDE I use. Even when there's places online that use GDScript examples, they tend to translate pretty much directly 1:1 to C#.
by justabrowser | 2026-01-27 14:45:07+00:00
Fossil user here. Yes, you can commit individual files.

There are certain more advanced things git can do that fossil can't--for example rebasing, which the author refuses to implement. If you want to rename a commit then you also have to go into the sqlite shell and do it manually, and there's no way to delete a bad commit. All of this is stupid, obnoxious asshattery on the part of the author, but otherwise it's very easy to use and bulletproof. (I don't ever use the web UI.)

One way to simulate "staging" is to just checkout the repo into multiple directories and do different things in each one, or even create a temporary work repo to be cleaned up and merged into the main one.

So you do lose some flexibility with fossil, but for normal uses it's quite usable, and the tradeoff is you won't ever accidentally blow your leg off.