MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sigy | 2026-01-17 20:15:42+00:00
I ordered this within 30 minutes of learning about it. I've been waiting for something like this. Here's why:

- My eyes are getting older, and I need a better visual connection to my work.

- We spend much of our lives in front of these devices. Optimizing this just makes sense.

- It is more than just a monitor with some features. It's a well-rounded kit with good software support.

- I previously used multiple 4K monitors and external KVMs. The built-in KVM and management software that works with the display makes multi-system use as easy as it could possibly be.

- The resolution has _more than_ overcome the issues I had with font rendering on lower resolutions while trying to have more visual workspace.

- The thunderbolt hub has vastly reduced multi-system USB/wiring/speed clutter and confusion.

Yes, it was expensive. Yes, I'm very happy with it. Within this week, it has drastically improved my sense of comfort and utility, and I got rid of all the other monitors.

Ok, for the gripes:

- The curvature is a bit minor compared to what I'm used to. Given the spatial density I want, the optimal distance is less than 30" from the display, and with my aging eyes at this distance, looking from center to edge changes my focal depth by more than a small amount. That said, the off-axis views are quite good. Essentially, looking at this display from a longer distance wastes much of the effective ocular resolution.

- The software is great, but if you want something more tactile, reaching to the sole multi-purpose menu stick is not that great. It wouldn't have hurt for them to provide a USB-connected desktop switch. I hope they still do. This monitor runs its own "OS" of sorts, and can be extended with new functionality should they choose to.

- Finding the improved dynamic range took a bit of learning. The way it works feels better (less of a special case) for me, but I had to go adjust the settings to tap into higher resolution per color plane.

If anybody has any specific questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
by tejohnso | 2026-01-17 20:15:45+00:00
> You have no idea what it's like here right now.

I don't have any idea and I'm not trying to defend or justify.

> What is the unbiased view of a federal agency geared up for war kidnapping and terrorizing people in the streets of American city?

That's exactly what I'd like to know. The report didn't provide one. That's my point. Which is fine, they didn't intent to, they were just telling their truth. But those ICE agents have a perspective, they have motivations, they're people, and while reading the report I was curious about what they might have to say about their actions.
by akhil08agrawal | 2026-01-17 20:15:53+00:00
Exactly. The customer doesn't know what's possible, but increasingly neither do we unless we're staying current at frontier speed.
AI can type faster and answer Stack Overflow questions. But understanding what's newly possible, what competitors just shipped, what research just dropped... that requires continuous monitoring across arXiv, HN, Reddit, Discord, Twitter.
The gap isn't coding ability anymore. It's information asymmetry. Teams with better intelligence infrastructure will outpace teams with better coding skills.
That's the shift people are missing.
by raullen | 2026-01-17 20:15:57+00:00
Running a long Claude Code session? Need to step away from your desk? Claw lets you monitor and control Claude Code from any device with a browser.

See what Claude is doing in real-time from any screen
Send quick responses (yes/no/continue) with one tap
Interrupt with Ctrl+C when things go sideways
Monitor everything — sessions, windows, panes, git status, system stats
by getdoneist | 2026-01-17 20:16:02+00:00
The advice is not about initiating a conflict. It is about not to appear an easy victim in order not to provoke aggression.

But life is always about fight-or-flight, so flight should remain an option, very often the best one.

By not signalling readiness to fight back, you increase probability of aggression by removing all costs to the potential perpetrator from their calculation.
by JohnCClarke | 2026-01-17 20:17:15+00:00
Consider what happened to painters after the invention of photography (~1830s). At first the technology was very limited and no threat at all to portrait and landscape painters.

By the 1860s artists were feeling the heat and responded by inventing all the "isms" - starting with impressionism. That's kept them employed so far, but who knows whether they'll be able to co-exist with whatever diffusion models become in 30 years.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-17 20:17:25+00:00
I understand how this has worked historically but when have we seen this amount of money invested so rapidly into a new area? Crypto, social media, none of it comes close. I just don’t think those rules apply anymore. As I mentioned in a previous comment this is literally altering the economies of cities and states in the US, all driven by tech company speculation. This could be my own ignorance, but it seems to me that we have never seen anything like this, and I really can’t find a single sector that has ever seen this kind of investment before. I guess maybe railroads across the US in the 19th century? I’d have to actually look at what those numbers looked like and it’s pretty hard to call that comparing apple to apples.
by abcd_f | 2026-01-17 20:18:22+00:00
Daaamn... Olivetti.

,d88b.d88b,
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`Y8888888Y'
`Y888Y'
`Y'

An Olivetti PC was an ultimate dream to have in the late 80s and the early 90s for me, in impressionable age of adolescence, prone to the call of tinkering, hacking and programming. They were the brand, at least in Europe.

Such a nice memory :)
by chickenimprint | 2026-01-17 20:18:24+00:00
Ocean freight accounts for 2-3% of global emissions. It is orders of magnitude more efficient and clean than air or road freight per ton-kilometer. It's twice as efficient as rail. The ability to efficiently transport goods enables your current standard of living. A world economy without ocean freight would be minuscule and of course far more polluting, without even considering land use.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-17 20:18:52+00:00
There are also technical requirements, which, in practice, you will need to make for applications. Technical requirements can be done by people that can't program, but it is very close to programming. You reach a manner of specification where you're designing schemas, formatting specs, high level algorithms, and APIs. Programmers can be, and are, good at this, and the people doing it who aren't programmers would be good programmers.

At my company, we call them technical business analysts. Their director was a developer for 10 years, and then skyrocket through the ranks in that department.
by martythemaniak | 2026-01-17 20:19:34+00:00
Mark Carney wrote a buzzwordy, but still informative article on his approach: https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2025/11/12/the-wor...

TLDR: Developed countries will come together to cooperate on matters they agree without the US, or US-dominated forums like the UN. Whether it's a group to support Ukraine, tackle climate change, increase trade etc it'll be faster and looser. We will indeed trade a lot more with China and allow chinese EVs, but there's also lots of pressure to bring down domestic trade barriers, automatically recognize European-approved products etc. Over time this will help us decouple from the US.

I'm looking forward to a less US-reliant Canada. We used to have a more vibrant and distinctive culture in the 80s, 90s so it's nice to see people travel less to the US, consume fewer US products. Like the pandemic, it is a painful external event you have to deal with, but what else are you gonna do other than deal with it head on.
by programd | 2026-01-17 20:20:15+00:00
You could mod the game with more varied events, which were of course AI generated to begin with. Bit of an inception scenario where AI plays an AI modded game.

The other option is to have an AI play another AI which is working as an antagonist, trying to make the player fail. More global plagues! More scheming underlings! More questionable choices for relaxation! Bit of an arms race there.

Honestly I prefer Crusader Kings II if for no other reason that the UI is just so brilliantly insanely obtuse while also being very good looking.
by leoc | 2026-01-17 20:20:26+00:00
In another way Trump is actually rather like Adams himself: his one great talent is as an entertainer and self-publicist, but he feels that he deserves success in business and leadership, so that he can be hailed as a great builder and decision-maker. Trump does have the personal charisma and feel for manipulation which Adams longed for, though. (Though it does help Trump that he started with the charisma boosts of inherited megawealth and the associated upbringing.)
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-17 20:20:38+00:00
> Is it your impression that scientists should be considered the paramount experts on climate change policy questions

Yes.

We should listen to people who use evidence and reason to suggest the best course of action. We should listen to people who have spent decades of their lives studying this issue for relatively little reward other than trying to make the world better.

We should NOT listen to semi-literate goobers who gained authority by being popular with simpletons they manipulated into voting for them, mostly through graft and trickery. Those people's opinions should be regarded as being equivalent in value to the opinion of your weird conspiracist uncle who helped vote them into power.
by DELTA-X | 2026-01-17 20:20:43+00:00
Cognitive framework published on OSF.

This project presents a non-clinical, non-therapeutic cognitive framework focused on structure, internal coherence, alignment, and self-audit.
It does not claim treatment effects, performance enhancement, or normative authority.

The corpus documents the framework’s internal logic, constraints, and structural assumptions, with an emphasis on auditability, falsifiability, and third-party critique.

The work is shared openly to invite critical examination of its construction, limits, and consistency rather than validation or endorsement.
by maxglute | 2026-01-17 20:21:01+00:00
Nature is healing (mild /s), not that there isn't high risk of pivot backfiring for CAN. Regardless people forget Canada under the British and post independence was fundamentally an anti-American project until WW1. Before that, it took multiple wars and (failed) US annexation effort before CAN/US realized jawjaw was better than warwar, really when Canada realized you can't be FOB for US adversaries, then British, and even that coexistence was under decadesof mutual suspicion. Of course the chance of PRC/CAN defense cooperation is nil, US will never allow that considering all the NORAD infra, but way things are going, even generic trade with PRC (something US already does - agriculture, energy, technology) is probably going to put another 51st state annexation attempt back on the menu.
Zero-knowledge encrypted notepad, no account, no ads
by thesecurenote | 2026-01-17 20:21:47+00:00
I built a zero-knowledge encrypted notepad where all encryption happens client-side using AES-256-GCM. The server never sees your password or plaintext data.

How it works:
- Pick any URL (thesecurenote.com/ {anything})
- Write your notes
- Create a password on first save
- Your notes are encrypted in the browser before being stored

Key features:
- End-to-end encrypted
- Multiple sections per notebook
- No account, no email, no tracking
- Open source client
- Free forever tier

Would love feedback on the UX and any security concerns you might spot!
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-17 20:21:57+00:00
As is it, nothing is "real". But I'll offer options

1. Unionize

2. Work to form a general strike. Even an industry wide strike would be highly effective

3. Work your civic duties to push for stronger labor rights in the United States. It can include anywhere from 4 day work weeks to raising minimum wage to preventing abuse of the H1b Visa. There's dozens of initiatives to push for.

4. Similarly work to properly regulate Ai before the genie is out the bottle.

5. In the abscense of the ability to do 1-4 for whatever reason, research efforts out there and use capitalism to support them financially. Anonymously if need be.

Quittog your job without. Collective bargaining is a drop of water on a clear sunny day. You need to make it rain, and we can only do that together. Or have enough money to lobby he government to do your bidding. Too bad people at that level only seem to resort to authoritarian efforts.
by Torwald | 2026-01-17 20:22:38+00:00
So Canada found out it doesn't have any leverage over China in this so-called trade war, that is going on between North America and China?

That is at least the logical conclusion based on the information the linked-to article provides.

What I am asking myself now is, why did Canada join the US in the 2024 tariffs enactment the article is talking about in the first place? What was their motivation?

The US president always said, that he deemed the existing contracts between China and the US as "unfair" for America, hence the tariffs and trade war. That is his official explanation at least. But why would Canada join that? That's what I want to know.

Any takers?
by shassingh09 | 2026-01-17 20:24:13+00:00
Here's a quick demo of claude code building 4 websites in parallel on PaperPod - a game, a 3D universe sim, a dashboard, and an interactive mountain UI.

Claude writes the code, runs the servers, exposes live ports, and we open the websites, end to end, fully autonomous on just 1 prompt!

https://x.com/PaperPod/status/2011851728065302787?s=20
by akhil08agrawal | 2026-01-17 20:24:34+00:00
This clicked for me in a way I didn't expect.

I've been thinking about trade-offs as "pick two of three" in the abstract, but the bookshelf example made it concrete. The insight that matters is: if you know your query patterns, you can optimize differently.

As a PM, I keep trying to build systems that work for "every case." But this article reminded me that's the wrong goal. The hash table works because it accepts the space-time trade-off. The heap works because it embraces disorder for non-priority items.

Sometimes the best system isn't the most elegant one—it's the one that matches how you'll actually use it.

Good reminder to stop over-optimizing for flexibility I'll never need.

Thanks for sharing.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-17 20:25:27+00:00
> White supremacists generally deny that they have societal advantages and frame any attempt to give minorities equal opportunities as a plot to subjugate whites.

White people are not a demographic majority in many places (including where I personally live), and yes most ostensible attempts to give nonwhites equal opportunities to whites wind up as blatant anti-white discrimination. White people are morally justified in politically resisting this even if leftists call white people who do so white supremacists or neonazis.
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-17 20:26:02+00:00
> It is absolutely possible for the side effects to be hard to detect, widespread, hard to mitigate once detected, and for us nevertheless to be otherwise dependent upon continuing to produce those effects.

Oh I completely agree that it's possible, but there are some very material differences between those examples.

The purpose of fossil fuels is increasing access to energy and The downside is climate change. The purpose of the aerosol injection would be climate management and the downside would be unintended climate change. If it's not working as intended we are far more likely to stop doing it because of the direct relationship between the purpose and the issues.

Also, we got hooked on fossil fuels before we had the science to understand the long term consequences to the climate.

So to summarize there are at least two very material differences:

- fossil fuels were essential to reducing energy costs whereas I don't see a direct economic benefit to aerosol injection, just the purpose of managing climate damage. Am I missing something?

- our scientific understanding at the beginning of adoption will be materially different and we are a lot more likely to detect issues earlier on. Not certainly, but materially more likely.

To me the combination of these two things makes it a fundamentally different dynamic.

I am sure it sounds like I'm advocating for aerosol injection, but I'm actually just playing devil's advocate and trying to strengthen my understanding by pointing out the holes I'm seeing in your explanations.

If there's ever a specific source that you think would help fill a gap in my understanding I am receptive to checking it out.
by apublicfrog | 2026-01-17 20:26:10+00:00
Yes. This is how I've been shutting down windows PCs for decades, as I don't want to use a mouse and start menu positioning varies:

Windows + R

(type) shutdown /s /t 0

Enter

The /t is a time flag and you can abort scheduled shutdowns with the /a flag. Handy if you know your Windows machine will be finished with a task in 10 or so minutes but you need to leave - just set a timer for 1800 seconds and Kazaa will be done with its download ;).
by aleyan | 2026-01-17 20:26:41+00:00
Great work! While I was building ascii-side-of-the-moon [0][1] I briefly considered writing my own ascii renderer to capture differences in shade and shape of the Lunar Maria[2] better. Ended up just using chafa [3] with the hope of coming back to ascii rendering after everything is working end to end.

Are you planning to release this as a library or a tool, or should we just take the relevant MIT licensed code from your website [4]?

[0] https://aleyan.com/projects/ascii-side-of-the-moon

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46421045

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_mare

[3] https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa

[4] https://github.com/alexharri/website/tree/master/src
by ryanlol | 2026-01-17 20:26:56+00:00
Yes, I'm sure my comments here are just full of terribly damaging stuff.

Not sure what the theory here is. Am I supposed to worry about the judges stalking me online and reading my HN comments professing innocence?

The prosecutors couldn't, and wouldn't even want to use anything I've written here, especially considering the trial is over and they can't just file new evidence.
by frays | 2026-01-17 20:27:09+00:00
I don't understand the hate for Meta's attempt at the metaverse.

Since when do we criticize companies for actually doing R&D? We should be striving to build novel technologies, not just maintaining the status quo.

Even if the project 'failed' for now, the engineering lessons learned are valuable assets that will transfer to whatever problem those teams solve next (whether at Meta or elsewhere).
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-17 20:27:59+00:00
I'm confident that they can. This isn't a new idea. Something like this would be a walk in the park for Opus 4.5 in the right harness.

Of course it likely still needs a skilled pair of eyes and a steady hand to keep it on track or keep things performant, but it's an iterative process. I've already built my own ASCII rendering engines in the past, and have recently built one with a coding model, and there was no friction.
by foobar10000 | 2026-01-17 20:28:27+00:00
Yeap - this is why when running it in a dev container, I just use ZFS and set up a 1 minute auto-snapshot - which is set up as root - so it generally cannot blow it away. And cc/codex/gemini know how to deal with zfs snapshots to revert from them.

Of course if you give an agentic loop root access in yolo mode - then I am not sure how to help...
by galangalalgol | 2026-01-17 20:28:44+00:00
Trump is not unique. You can find similar parties and figures in most of Europe. Usually the would-be autocrat populist is even more popular than in the US in two party systems. Multi party systems dilute it which just leads to paralysis until eventually >40% of your population is ok with abandoning democracy because the impacts of paralysis are stacking up (France).
by the-lazy-guy | 2026-01-17 20:28:46+00:00
Ok, let me call you out more explicitly. It is clear that most of the code is not written by you. Commit history shows that first a large feature appears out of the blue, then you have a followup series of commits removing "useless" comments (left by LLM). Quite a few useless comments are still there.

Also your rust implementation is 100% broken which some of comments you deleted point out.

I also love this comment: https://github.com/whispem/minikv/blob/main/src/coordinator/...
It is exactly what LLMs write when you ask them to implement something.
by sigy | 2026-01-17 20:28:47+00:00
I disagree with this take. Particularly because this isn't just a little more of this or that. It's a well-integrated set of features that should have already been on the market in some form, but wasn't really. And it's also a premium setup in terms of each feature individually. It really does feel like the whole is more than the sum of its parts in practical terms.

I don't feel FOMO. I'm thinking more "why did it take this long?"
by maccard | 2026-01-17 20:28:50+00:00
An open fire is not a particularly warm thing to have unless you’re directly in front of it. Most of the heat goes straight up the flue, and it uses an enormous amount of air to keep burning - it will pull huge volumes from rvertwhere it can. This is why these old buildings didn’t suffer from damp issues - the open fires burning were ventilating them.
by roskelld | 2026-01-17 20:28:54+00:00
I do enjoy these kinds of write ups, especially when it's about something that might seem so simple on the surface, but in order to get looking great you really have to go in deep.

Lucas Pope did a really nice write up on how he developed his dithering system for Return of The Obra Dinn. Recommended if you also enjoyed this blog post.

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374...
by theptip | 2026-01-17 20:29:14+00:00
It’s a good idea to have Claude write down the execution plan (including todos). Or you can use something like Linear / GH Issues to track the big items. Then small/tactical todos are what you track in session todos.

This approach means you can just kill the session and restart if you hit limits.

(If you hit context limits you probably also want to look into sub-agents to help prevent context bloat. For example any time you are running and debugging unit tests, it’s usually best to start with a subagent to handle the easy errors. )
by amluto | 2026-01-17 20:29:16+00:00
> For example, how many houses have a cupola? They're common on older homes, but non-existent on modern ones. What the roof does is accelerate the wind moving over the roof, then the air vents in the cupola let the wind through, which sucks the heat out of the attic.

This one is genuinely obsolete. With modern techniques, it’s straightforward to build a reliable unvented attic, and there are few if any climates where a vented attic makes sense. There are plenty of climates where a vented attic, even a nice one with a cupola, is massively inferior to an unvented, conditioned attic.

Seal and condition your attic. Put on a decorative cupola if you like. If you live in a place with heavy snow load, you vent a small gap between the top of your attic and your roof surface to help keep the actual roof surface cold enough to avoid melting the snow.