MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giraffe_lady | 2026-01-22 14:49:12+00:00
> “Iran can't hit back over Soleimani's killing. Who will we take out? Spider-man or SpongeBob SquarePants? They have no real heroes.”

But, fwiw, I don't think I agree with you. Mr Bean is just as fictional as charlie brown, the original intended audience doesn't seem very significant to me at all. Also George costanza is in there and I think 90s-2000s american sitcoms actually have a lot of the kind of character you have in mind.
by krapp | 2026-01-22 14:49:52+00:00
Americans don't celebrate the Alamo as a failure, they celebrate it as a catalyst for the Texas revolution afterwards. If that hadn't occurred Americans wouldn't even mention the Alamo in their history books.

Americans don't celebrate Custer's last stand. Indigenous people obviously do, and should, but white people don't consider him a hero.

Americans don't celebrate MacArthur getting chased out of the Philippines, they celebrate his declaration "I will return" and the Allied victory.

Americans only support the underdog when the underdog wins in the end.
by otter-in-a-suit | 2026-01-22 14:49:56+00:00
I just got a Bambu P1S (they are / were on sale since the P2S came out) and the difference to my Ender 3 is truly night and day. I almost never used the Ender, since it always resulted endless tinkering and even then, the prints never came out well. The Bambu worked flawlessly out of the box.
by ramraj07 | 2026-01-22 14:50:49+00:00
Dont even need that podcast. Anyone who's done real research in any field, if they try to sit down and read the paper (if you can call it that), can immediately see that its just self aggrandizing, unscientific, biased garbage written by people who think theyre way smarter than they are. Not unlike wolframs new grand unified theory but even worse maybe.

Unfortunately, its also being used by a lot of people who also think theyre smarter than they are to confirm their pre-existing biases with bad research.

Im not saying ChatGPT doesnt make people stupid. It very well might (my hypothesis is that it just accelerates cognition change; decline for many, incline for some). But this garbage is not how you prove it.
by duskdozer | 2026-01-22 14:50:52+00:00
Paid tools are in my experience much more likely to engage in practices that make them less useful or more frustrating for me, like:

- repeatedly changing UIs in often deleterious ways
- wasting my/CPU time on analytics and engagement
- upselling tactics
- focusing on making the most money, not providing the best tool
- preventing or making difficult the use of old versions
- reducing customization for the sake of reducing customer support or branding
- preventing me from making minor tweaks to code that would improve or fix something
Tell HN: GitHub has experienced issues 60% of days this year
by petetnt | 2026-01-22 14:50:59+00:00
Looking at the https://www.githubstatus.com/history there's been a significant issue in GitHub 13 out of 22 days this year. These track issues that warrant their own status page, but from personal experience there's some sort of degraded performance to be seen in the service almost daily, most often in the evening in my local time.

As a long time paying GitHub user the stability has been bad for years now, but this has been an upwards trend that's only been accelerated in the recent times. What's happening inside of GitHub and can we expect it to ever get better anymore?
by WarmWash | 2026-01-22 14:51:02+00:00
Similar to the media, I've picked up on vibes from academia that have a baseline AI negative tilt.

In my own (classic) engineering work, AI has become so phenomenally powerful that I can only imagine that if I was still in college, I'd be mostly checked out during those boring lectures/bad teacher classes, and then learning on my own with the textbook and LLMs by night. Which begs the question, what do we need the professor for?

I'd be interested to see stats on "office hours" visitation time over the last 4 years (although admittedly its the best tool for gaining a professor's favor, AI doesn't grant that)
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-22 14:51:21+00:00
> This reminds me of the recurring pattern with every new medium: Socrates worried writing would destroy memory, Gutenberg's critics feared for contemplation, novels were "brain softening," TV was the "idiot box." That said, I'm not sure "they've always been wrong before" proves they're wrong now.

What do you mean? All of them were 100% right. Novels are brain softening, TV is an idiot box, and writing destroys memory. AI will destroy the minds of people who use it much.
by soco | 2026-01-22 14:52:03+00:00
Well. not retroactively - if you used the heater last year they won't take that from you. But otherwise legislation can change and affect existing objects as well, like you can't take knives anymore on the plane while 50 years ago you could. But all metaphors aside, idling an ICE is against the regulations in many places (Switzerland, UK...) so Germany is just catching up.
by wink | 2026-01-22 14:52:04+00:00
> Now, Scala ranks below Elixir, a quite esoteric and narrow-specialized language

I find Scala very esoteric, jftr :)

> You can even see Typescript or Python as backend languages, mainly in the startup area.

"even" "mainly" - I wonder if the author has ever worked anywhere else than... a bank or similar cliche work places.

> In 2023, 52.3% of the respondents wanted to use Scala.

What.. are these numbers? Sure that's not "52.3% of Scala developers"?
by LocalPCGuy | 2026-01-22 14:52:17+00:00
> Claude is an LLM. It can't keep slaves or torture people.

Yet... I would push back and argue that with advances in parallel with robotics and autonomous vehicles, both of those things are distinct near future possibilities. And even without the physical capability, the capacity to blackmail has already been seen, and could be used as a form of coercion/slavery. This is one of the arguable scenarios for how an AI can enlist humans to do work they may not ordinarily want to do to enhance AI beyond human control (again, near future speculation).

And we know torture does not have to be physical to be effective.

I do think the way we currently interact probably does not enable these kinds of behaviors, but as we allow more and more agentic and autonomous interactions, it likely would be good to consider the ramifications and whether (or not) safeguards are needed.

Note: I'm not claiming they have not considered these kinds of thing either or that they are taking them for granted, I do not know, I hope so!
by tbyehl | 2026-01-22 14:52:25+00:00
It's so much worse for poultry. My state and the bordering states represent more than half of US production and there's exactly one USDA facility available to independent producers. They're quite small and the cost approaches today's retail price for a whole Tyson chicken.

There are USDA exemptions for tiny producers (up to 20K/yr vs 150K+ for a single modern broiler house) to slaughter and package themselves for in-state sales but anyone operating under one of those exemptions won't be able to grow that business large enough to self-finance constructing their own USDA-monitored facility.
by Gazoche | 2026-01-22 14:52:31+00:00
Sure, but what confidence do you have that what the "dumb" LLM says is worth any salt ? It's no different than aggregating the results of a Reddit search, or perhaps even worse because LLMs lack the intent or common sense filter of a human. It could be combining two contradicting sources in a way that only makes sense statistically, or regurgitate joke answers without understanding context (the infamous "you should eat at least one small rock per day").
by krustyburger | 2026-01-22 14:52:33+00:00
“No, I didn't know about the exhibit before that day. And then I saw the Al piece and it was just—as an artist myself, it was insulting to see something of such little effort alongside all these beautiful pieces in the gallery. It shouldn't be acceptable for this "art," if you will, to be put alongside these real great pieces.”

What an impulsive fellow.
by CWuestefeld | 2026-01-22 14:52:39+00:00
I suspect that you're relying too heavily on the user here. Even for myself, a very experienced developer, I don't have a flash of insight over what my risk exposure might be for what I'm opening at this moment. I don't have a comprehensive picture of all the implications, all I'm thinking is "I need to open this file and twiddle some text in it". Expecting us to surface from our flow, think about the risks and make an informed decision might on the surface seem like a fair expectation, but in the real world, I don't think it's going to happen.

Your recommendation makes sense as a strategy to follow ahead of time, before you're in that flow state. But now you're relying on people to have known about the question beforehand, and have this strategy worked out ahead of time.

If you're going to rely on this so heavily, maybe you should make that strategy more official, and surface it to users ahead of time - maybe in some kind of security configuration wizard or something. Relying on them to interrupt flow and work it out is asking too much when it's a security question that doesn't have obvious implications.
by usere9364382 | 2026-01-22 14:53:05+00:00
I do mean SDL, and the discussion is not about its popularity, but about something formal, but perhaps I was not clear. First, yes, SDL is a very good library, and I have referred to them in the past for references about issues related to software architecture.

However, the way I saw SDL 1.x, I am expecting a strong contract. Every now and then SDL drops support for one thing or another. Where you had to worry about different APIs, now if you want to retain your strong contracts, you have to worry about different SDL versions. I am aware of something like the "sdl12-compat" layer for example, somewhat similar to JQuery Migrate, but it does not change the fact that the underlying contract is not strong, is not trustworthy, because of both changing APIs and changing compatibility, similar to the JQuery situation.
by weberer | 2026-01-22 14:53:14+00:00
>You're warned when you open a folder whether you trust the origin/authors with pretty strong wording.

I can see the exact message you're referring to in the linked article. It says "Code provides features that *may* automatically execute files in this folder." It keeps things ambiguous and comes off as one of the hundreds of legal CYA pop-ups that you see throughout your day. Its not clear that "Yes, I trust the authors" means "Go ahead and start executing shell scripts". Its also not clear what exactly the difference is between the two choices regarding how usable the IDE is if you say no.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-22 14:53:17+00:00
None of what you said disproves the fact that India has stated it plans to expand coal capacity in parallel until 2047 [0].

It will be at a slower pace than the Solar PV rollout (which has an added benefit of helping force indigenization of a large portion of the electronics components supply chain due to value-add requirements for subsidy and permit allocation), but is still happening.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/india-mul...
by cogman10 | 2026-01-22 14:53:21+00:00
They were more human and relatable in the very early seasons. It was just a bunch of people dicking around trying to run a bar (for the most part).

As time went on, they become more and more awful.

I'd say it has a pretty decent parallel with Breaking Bad. In season 1 almost anyone can relate to and cheers for Walter. By the last season, you hate him and are happy he dies.
by foxygen | 2026-01-22 14:53:25+00:00
> 1 Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord. 2 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
by LanceH | 2026-01-22 14:54:04+00:00
I like having a gridfinity grid on my desk with a number of various sized boxes for at-hand storage of things like paperclips, tacks, pens, etc...

In the garage, I have one that I can slap down anywhere, with a couple boxes that I can load for the screws, nails, washers, nuts, and bolts, etc... used in my current project.

Having the grid makes the boxes sit firmly in place.
by xoa | 2026-01-22 14:54:17+00:00
>But it's not always the periapsis.

>But since the impact point isn't guaranteed to be the periapsis or apoapsis, the above mentioned diametrically-opposing point also cannot be guaranteed to be an apsis.

You're correct on the generalized case of the math here, no argument at all, but this also feels like it's getting a bit away from the specialized sub-case under discussion here: that of an existing functional LEO satellite getting hit by debris. Those aren't in wildly eccentric orbits but rather station-kept pretty circular ones (probably not perfectly of course but +/- a fraction of a percent isn't significant here). So by definition the high and low points are the same and which means we can say that the new low point of generated debris in eccentric orbits will be at worst no lower then the current orbit of the satellite (short of a second collision higher up, the probability of which is dramatically lower). All possible impact points on the path of a circular orbit are ~the same. And in turn if the satellite is at a point low enough to have significant atmospheric drag the debris will as well which is the goal.
by jasonlotito | 2026-01-22 14:54:20+00:00
> How is this any different than say, Democratic voters who want medicare for all (or whatever) and not getting that for decades?

They can see progress. ACA wasn't a slam dunk, but it was progress.

Also, you aren't voting for a Republican or a Democrat, you are voting for a person, and if the person you are voting for supports M4A, that's what you can do. If someone else in the same party doesn't support that, you can't do anything about that. However, your representative is one piece of the puzzle. Giving up on that is dumb.

It's not like the Democrats are under the heels of a tyrant leading their party and country over a cliff.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-22 14:54:26+00:00
India’s electrotech fast-track: where China built on coal, India is building on sun - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/indias-electrotech-... - January 22nd, 2026

> India is forging a better path to the electrotech future of energy. Cheap solar and batteries are enabling India to develop without the long fossil detour taken by the West and China.

> When we compare India today with China at equivalent income levels ($11,000 PPP in 2012), several observations emerge:

* Rapid solar deployment. In 2012, China had negligible solar generation. In 2025, solar accounted for 9% of India’s electricity generation, up from half a percent a decade earlier. India has a powerful new tool to scale cheap power, and it is using it to spectacular effect.

* Much lower coal use. Indian per capita coal generation, at 1 MWh, is roughly 40% of China’s level in 2012. Coal demand is approaching its peak and is very unlikely to follow China’s subsequent ramp-up to around 4 MWh per person.

* Rapid growth in EVs. In 2012, China had almost no electric vehicles on the road. By mid-2025, EVs accounted for around 5% of car sales in India and the country is the global leader in electric three-wheeler sales.

* Much lower oil demand for transport. India’s per capita road oil demand, at 96 litres, is about half of China’s level in 2012 and is close to peaking. India is not going to rescue the oil industry.

* A similar rapid electrification pathway. India’s electrification rate is nearly 20%, comparable to China’s level in 2012, and is growing relentlessly by around five percentage points per decade.
by noo_u | 2026-01-22 14:54:26+00:00
Calling PETG "utterly problem free" is quite a stretch lol. PLA is pretty objectively much easier to print than PETG, and perhaps than all the popular filament types out there, especially if you are trying to print anything where precision/detail matters. .

PETG is just oozier and stickier by default, so stringiness is almost guaranteed to happen, bridging at a greater risk of failure, etc. It is tougher, so unless you have a printer that can use multiple filaments on the same print, removing supports is more difficult.

Can you reduce these factors by tuning your 3D printer - yes, a bit. But that's not "utterly problem free".

PLA is the plug and play of the 3D printing world right now.
by saberience | 2026-01-22 14:54:32+00:00
It did destroy memory though. I would bet any amount of money that our memories in 2026 are far, far worse than they were in 1950 or 1900.

In fact, I can feel my memory is easily worse now than from before ChatGPT's release, because we are doing less hard cognitive work. The less we use our brain's the dumber we get, and we are definitely using our brains less now.
by augusto-moura | 2026-01-22 14:54:50+00:00
At what level do you mean that? Kernel level? Driver level?

Wine[1] is the de facto compatibility layer with NT executables. Driver compatibility is too complex and obscure to worth the while. Often information is undocumented or hard to get.

There are a few implementations of windows behaviors at kernel level for a few subsystems features, ntsync, smb, etc. they can be used by wine to improve compatibility or performance

[1]: https://www.winehq.org/
by gwt123 | 2026-01-22 14:54:59+00:00
A website that serves as a travel planning tool for foreigners visiting China, offering guides on Chinese cities and local cuisine. It uses professional China travel data models to generate personalized itineraries based on your arrival city, cities you want to visit, budget, group size, and number of travel days. The site highlights the most worth-visiting and foreigner-friendly cities in China, the must-try local dishes in each city, and the most famous attractions. It also provides pre-trip reminders, covering up-to-date and accurate information on China’s mobile networks, visas, payment methods, transportation, and accommodations, ensuring a smooth travel experience.

Key features of the itinerary planner:

Helps you plan the most efficient multi-city travel routes, saving time and money.

Filters each city’s top attractions and best local food according to your budget and preferences.

Optimizes your time in each city based on trip length to ensure the best possible travel experience.
by ramses0 | 2026-01-22 14:55:06+00:00
"Power Sellers" - there was a statement that your business (for marketplace-type-business) needed to have an avenue to support "mega" suppliers for eventual symbiotic success.

There was a business a while back that was like "pay $50-100 to carpool from SF to LA" and the post-mortem was: "your earning potential was limited, no power-seller support" b/c eventually just turn into a bus-driver/bus company. (Uber is an interesting contra-example).

It's stuck with me as a quick analysis of business-types: how does the power-seller eventually make 10x, or at least 2x median wages?
by pjc50 | 2026-01-22 14:55:32+00:00
Another great example of this is British SF, especially 20th century Doctor Who and Blake's 7, vs American SF such as Star Wars/Trek. The British version can be much bleaker. And of course Red Dwarf, which doesn't translate at all into American. (There was a single pilot episode)

Edit: someone downthread mentioned Limmy's Show and Absolutely, to which I would add Burnistoun. Scottish humor is even more grimly fatalist than English.
by efitz | 2026-01-22 14:55:35+00:00
Although the Anglican Church is a hybrid of Reformation era Protestantism and of Catholicism, I think that the US tradition of Protestantism is generally (not always) more positive and less fatalistic.

I believe that the cultures of both nations are heavily derived from their religious traditions; even if you never practice religion in either nation you imbibe its effects from early childhood in the cultural values and norms that it influenced.

For example, one of the key aspects of Protestantism is evangelism, which would not make sense if people thought they could not be successful.

So I think a lot of American culture in particular is based on this tradition that encourages optimism and repeated trying even in the face of failure. Hence the way we select heroes.
by blackcatsec | 2026-01-22 14:55:45+00:00
to be fair, this isn’t a perfect solution but it does get us much closer to that solution each time. There are still plenty of democrats whom don’t support solving these problems (for any number of reasons, I’m not going to conjecture here why)

The best solution I’ve seen is to just keep pushing leftward—even if we only get a few increments here and there.
by Nemi | 2026-01-22 14:55:54+00:00
I love this. Thank you for introducing me to "Norman Doors". I hadn't realized someone else had described this in such detail. I have been complaining about this years.

Ok this will be a tangent, but I also take this one step farther and also talk about "documentation". Just for the record, I don't think documentation is all good or all bad, but it definitely can be used incorrectly and in excess. And Norman Doors and a great way to get this point across.

When someone creates or installs a Norman Door by accident or out of ignorance and then realizes there is a problem, they often think "I know, I will document it!" and they add little placards to the door that says "Push/Pull" or some such. They see that this helps with a small subset of users and thinks "there, I fixed the problem, people just need to read the documentation and now it is their problem if they don't". But if you watch users of the door, a large portion will still use the door incorrectly because... people don't read documentation. If they don't read documentation, is it the users fault the door was designed incorrectly or was it the designers problem?

I use this as an example for my developers on thinking before documenting troublesome code or a confusing interface to first ask "can I design this so it is less confusing?" and if so, that would usually be preferable to adding documentation "to solve the problem". Well designed code (or doors) with no documentation always beats poor designs with documentation.
by deepsquirrelnet | 2026-01-22 14:56:19+00:00
This is really awesome detail. I’m very impressed by the amount of care taken to identify a good template. I started a small hook to try and do this using DSPy prompt optimizers, but haven’t had a compelling use case to try it with.

This seems like an ideal case for trying DFT as well. I’m not sure if you’re using trl, but I’d suggest checking that out.
by K0balt | 2026-01-22 14:56:37+00:00
If you mean, by reporting statistics, you’re probably right. But men in general are widely used to physical abuse and are expected to take it. Granted, it is rarely significantly harmful and women use it as a way to reassure themselves that men are “in charge “ or whatever, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is vile behavior.

Men’s behavior is as much shaped by female expectations as the behavior of women is molded by men.

Like it or not, we’re in this together, and cooperation with mutual understanding and benefit is the only way forward. We can see what happens when this breaks down, as in sharia law. How do you think this ends if we ceaselessly demonize men? Shame has its limits, and they start where the violence begins.