MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonzzzies | 2026-01-30 03:44:36+00:00
I used to do site/vps hosting (millions of sites); we just bought slightly older 1U rack servers off ebay (and later our rack neighbour in the hosting room, who always had to buy the latest for his clients allowed us to buy of him) and kept filling local racks. We paid for a large bad quality bandwidth pipe for the large bandwidth eaters and good quality for the smaller traffic properties; we served some % of traffic per host through the good and after that through the bad. The porn / warez or whatever people didn't care and the business or hobby folk were happy as well.

In the end it got too much work with that many servers, something is always broken ; we had some virtualisation and failover stuff, but you have to go and repair it. We were basically two fulltime guys + some freelance and that meant getting into a car and driving for an hour every other day, storm or ice on the roads, christmas or birthday, doesn't matter. It made good money and we sold nicely, but servers are loud and we have been so often there for hours that even with ear protection I think it messed something up. Also crawling in small spaces for wiring etc isn't great for your body. I did learn a lot about Linux and the popular packages; we had our own patches and versions of most to shield from 0-days and save processing waste to put more on one machine without it degrading quality.

I would not do it with reselling ; you have no control; when the police called us for illegal/child materials and so on, we were in charge of removing/blocking that; if you resell, they will likely first just shutdown everything you have and then ask you for an explanation. And after a few time delete you and that's it. Or when there is something wrong technically, you are left holding the bag anyway as many will just blame you (and then after 'some time' your service 'suddenly' is back). You can hire much more expensive stuff with much better support but in our experience, that does not help much when there is a LOT of abuse (and with millions of sites, you have a lot of abuse that you cannot check).

It's fun though; just too much work.
by keepamovin | 2026-01-30 03:44:37+00:00
Thanks for sharing how you took it. I'm not sure how helpful that it for me here, as my goal is simply to express exactly how I feel, but it does tell me where you're at.

Here's where I'm at: I applied to YC 15 times, never once got a call back. I saw products I applied with later on become the pivot-intos for other teams. I don't think you captured the emotions that are there for me with the words you chose. I'd pick: angry, disappointed, unhappy with this kind of shady behavior.

The words you pick are more negative, and frame me as an angry, immature loser. If you're trying to be helpful, don't try to humilitate the person you're trying to help. I'm not immature and bitter, I'm facing that situation I described and having normal emotions about it, and expressing how I feel.

If you have a problem with that, where you feel you need to humiliate the person who expresses that, maybe that's something you need to examine in yourself.

Also - probably not the "look I want"? "The look" to get funding? It's an attitude/or appropach that sounds so fake, like bullshist. I'm much more into something that's real.

But anyway all of this, the experience, the emotions, even this interaction here, is singal and information to me, about what YC is and about what people think about it. "The Look" to get funding? Okay.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-30 03:44:43+00:00
Henry Farrell nailed it in early 2018, calling this Philip K Dick's future, with the invasion of fake humans.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/henry-farrell-philip-k...

These people believe in nothing. They offer nothing. They detest that other people have these "virtues", more than smirking deceitful nonsense. Vengeful destruction of the world, letting their fakeness take over and ruin meaning: that's the revenge. Lovely recent short 2 min video, Ruminations on that DHS penguin tweet is succinct & to the point, on the weird suicidal Werner Hertzog penguin meme that has been making rounds, and how these memes so embrace anti-meaning.
https://youtu.be/c7WqVx9x89s
by tharkun__ | 2026-01-30 03:45:02+00:00
1. also helps you after the first 3-6 months. As in, you can't change the entire code base (if reasonably large). Not even with AI helping you with the tedious bits. Consistency is something that does have value, even if it's not global and even if the consistent thing is not how you would've done/called it. The more consistency you can get, the better, because it helps tremendously. Both you and also an AI. If things are named consistently it doesn't matter whether you call a potato a potato or a potahto. It just matters that you don't call it an orange half the time.

We have a relatively good code base in this regard for example. To find things, I literally just hit the shortcut to open file/class by name, start typing the camel case for what I need and I'm usually there. Like, if I need to know what exactly we do for writing the potahto to the database, I type PoRep and I'll probably see the PotatoRepositoryImpl and I'm where I need to be. Of course not everything is roses. I might want to know what the service layer for the potahto does and start typing PotSer and I find nothing, because half the domain objects call the service layer a service and the other half calls it manager. That's OK. That's called "local consistency" and it happens as a code base grows and ages and different people with different opinions build in it and don't know enough about the magic of consistency and think they know better but can't or don't want to change the existing code base. As long as it doesn't get out of hand, it's not a big deal and you can slowly converge.

2. This is such a big one, thank you! Too many people don't believe in Chesterton's fence. They know so much better! Rewrite everything! And it is OK and good to question why the fence is there! Nothing is worse than "we do it this way because we've always done it that way!".

But also, if you never question the fence's existence, you're stuck forever. This is an anecdote I found very good in this regard.

A group of scientists places five monkeys in a room with a ladder and a banana on top. When one monkey tries to reach the banana, all are sprayed with cold water. Eventually, all of them stop attempting to climb. The scientists then place a new monkey who knows nothing of the water incident. When the new monkey sees the banana and tries to climb, the others prevent them from reaching it. Nobody gets sprayed any longer. The scientists slowly replace any of the original monkeys that were actually sprayed with water with new ones. Eventually there are no monkeys left that experienced the spraying. Yet no monkey ever even tries to get the banana any more.

So, do challenge Chesterston's fence's existence! Try to find one of the monkeys that actually got sprayed with water, so that you may understand why the fence was there. Or in other words ask the other monkeys why the eff you can't go for the banana. And if nobody can tell you other than "coz we've never done it like that", then try it. For all you know, the pesky scientist with the hose is long gone!
by user3939382 | 2026-01-30 03:46:26+00:00
> Establishing a trust boundary as early as possible to force possible attackers into userspace as much as possible (where it can be more easily removed and remediated) is significantly important in modern operating system security

I notice you omitted the BSDs and with OpenBSD in particular I’d argue your point is correct for the majority school of thought but not necessarily most correct whatever that means. Correct for a certain set of priorities.

Modern OS attack surface is an insane nightmare. The concept of securing it at all is.. idk what it is. OpenBSD default install you run ps you get 12 processes. You can reason about the OS. You focus on you boundary. You don’t admit scenarios where your attacker is poking around usedland. That’s game over on these byzantine OSes we have now. Even better NetBSD where the arch is the security. The SELinux idea makes the best with what we have where you need Linux for driver whatever support. So I’m not disagreeing necessarily but adding context. As far as generating certs users are better off with piv yubikey etc for pki so it’s in their hands, literally
by smackeyacky | 2026-01-30 03:46:58+00:00
Lost the source code to your elevator control app? Stuck on OS/2. Guy who wrote it is dead, never used source control, you don’t use it in new installations but those old elevators still have to run and the PC hardware has long died and is irreplaceable? Then you have no choice but call ArcaOS.

I’ve seen more than one place where that scenario or something similar has occurred.
by fooker | 2026-01-30 03:47:39+00:00
> We still are not going to want that of course for classic ML domains like vision

It could make sense to decompose one large opaque model into code with decision trees calling out to smaller models having very specific purposes. This is more or less science fiction right now, 'mixture of experts' notwithstanding.

You could potentially get a Turing award by making this work for real ;)
by chongli | 2026-01-30 03:47:56+00:00
Of course it's extremely hard but you can't do it at all on modern games with unresponsive displays. The point is that when you press the button in SMB, the action happens on the screen an order of magnitude faster than a modern game. Modern games have slow, floaty, laggy controls.

It's not just games though. Computers have done the same thing [1]. Modern PCs are an order of magnitude slower, latency-wise, than an Apple II.

[1] https://danluu.com/input-lag/
by gregsadetsky | 2026-01-30 03:48:17+00:00
Huge congrats! I have been getting the instagram reels/ads targeted at me these past few days! and was really bummed to have missed you at nyc tech week last year.

I plan on porting my number to you soon - very quickly, I read in your FAQ that international roaming gets throttled after 5gb (which I already get with t-mobile when traveling). Would you mind confirming - does it get throttled to ~256kbps or something more sensible?

And should the service work with an iphone 13 pro? Finally, any plans for esims? (if the service isn't already esim-only)

Thank you!
by AbstractH24 | 2026-01-30 03:48:33+00:00
Is this just a hidden way to raise money without calling it another round? An effort to avoid the appearance that you are burning way tooo quickly with added bonus of making employees happy and attracting talent?

What stops founders, major investors, or even the company itself from selling shares in a tender offer and reinvesting it back in the company?

Or, to put it another way, is the rise in tender offers actually a indication we're getting closer to the bubble bursting?
by k310 | 2026-01-30 03:49:54+00:00
The law is asymmetrical. The ruling power decides whom it applies to and whom it doesn't.

Wilhoit's law: [0]

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

> There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

[0] https://systemicunlearning.substack.com/p/wilhoits-law-there...
by CaptainJack_X | 2026-01-30 03:50:53+00:00
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by credit_guy | 2026-01-30 03:52:16+00:00
> If OpenAI is incapable of building anything that can't be easily copied by a third party

They can build better models, but for that they need a lot of compute and that's where the billions go. These better models can't be easily copied by a third party, because that third party needs to also throw billions at the problem, and billions don't grow in trees.
by 627467 | 2026-01-30 03:52:31+00:00
And yet... The examples mentioned and the justifications for big errors/fakes in many countries (that historically have been highlighted for scares around overpopulation) are very plausible. "Most countries run census" is not the same as "most countries run mostly reliable census" or "most of the world population is covered by a reliable census".

Aren't there plenty of incentives for over expressing population numbers in many countries, specially in underdeveloped ones?
by protocolture | 2026-01-30 03:53:19+00:00
Man having dealt with so many wireless issues I already had a shortlist when I read fixed wireless was involved.

Either the radios were misaligned and the rain was reflecting it back towards a stable link just enough to improve throughput.

Or

The rain took a bad link all the way down, failing over to a different link.

Or

The rain/wind was moving an obstruction.

I have about a million of these stories sadly.

"The internet goes down on tuesdays"

Crane.

"The internet goes out in the morning"

Temperature inversion.
Ask HN: How do you force yourself to take breaks while coding?
by glidea | 2026-01-30 03:53:33+00:00
I'm a dev with zero self-control. "One more function" turns into 3 hours.

Tried Apple Screen Time – I just click "Ignore" every time.
Tried Pomodoro apps – closed them when they got annoying.

What actually works for you? Hardware timers? Standing desks? Blocking software?

I'm building a macOS tool that uses full-screen overlays with a 30s cooldown to bypass, but curious what approaches others have found effective.
by scarecrowbob | 2026-01-30 03:54:43+00:00
The democrats can eat my shit and hair and all.

At the same time it's neat to live in a separated reality from the people thinking that "In my opinion the ICE unrest is a smoke screen."

The federal gov disarmed a protestor and executed them on the street.

That doesn't seem like a "distraction"... that seems like -the literal thing that you're worrying about- happening in a highly obvious and direct way.

As a left-wing gun owner, a pretty common conversation is about how limited the right wing gun owners understandings are, because this is, like, literally the thing they have been fantasizing about all along.

Wild times for sure.

I hope the world many of us live in never actually enters yours and you can keep enjoying your fantasy of government oppression while some of us are out here being physically assaulted by the state.
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-30 03:55:20+00:00
Don't ask questions if you don't like the answers lol

> There is nothing secret about ICE lol

Then who are they? I can give you a list of every cop in my municipality, county and state, their names, where they work, where they live, exactly how much money they make, their benefits and so on.

Anyway, honestly answer:

> > Honestly answer: what is the purpose of literally every government publishing lists of their employees' names, where they work and how much they make, which includes police and teachers of small children?
by caditinpiscinam | 2026-01-30 03:56:07+00:00
For those wondering why having a browser based slicer is useful: teaching. The site mentions this, but I'll add my own experience that having good in-browser software like this is incredibly useful when you have a classroom full of students who a) aren't used to installing desktop software, b) are running a bunch of different operating systems (including chrome os), and c) have firewalls prevents them from installing local software anyway.

I wouldn't want online tools to be come the default (like google docs) but having them as an options is great. (I find onshape and photopea useful in this way as well).
by forrestthewoods | 2026-01-30 03:56:59+00:00
SPIN THE CAMERA 1080 DEGREES YOU COWARDS

The only test I ever want to see with these frame-gen models is a full 1080 degree camera spin. Miss me with that 30 degree back and forth crap. I want multiple full turns. Some jitter and a little back-and-forth wobble is fine. But I want multiple full spins.

I’m pretty sure I know why they don’t do this :)
by agog13 | 2026-01-30 03:58:12+00:00
You copied a database connection string 3 hours ago. You don't remember the exact text. You type clipmind search "database credentials" and it's right there.

ClipMind is a clipboard manager that understands what you copied, not just the text. It embeds every clip using all-MiniLM-L6-v2 and stores vectors in ChromaDB — so you can search by meaning, not keywords. "auth endpoint" finds /v2/oauth/token and "that error from earlier" finds the stack trace you saw at lunch.

Built for developers and technical knowledge workers who copy 50-200+ things a day across terminals, browsers, editors, and chat apps.

100% local. The embedding model, the vector database, the search engine — all of it runs on your machine. No cloud. No accounts. No API keys. No telemetry. No network calls. Your clipboard history never leaves your disk.
by devonkelley | 2026-01-30 03:58:43+00:00
Running agents in production, I've stopped trying to figure out why things degrade. The answer changes weekly.

Model drift, provider load, API changes, tool failures - it doesn't matter. What matters is that yesterday's 95% success rate is today's 70%, and by the time you notice, debug, and ship a fix, something else has shifted.

The real question isn't "is the model degraded?" It's "what should my agent do right now given current conditions?"

We ended up building systems that canary multiple execution paths continuously and route traffic based on what's actually working. When Claude degrades, traffic shifts to the backup path automatically. No alerts, no dashboards, no incident.

Treating this as a measurement problem assumes humans will act on the data. At scale, that assumption breaks.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-30 04:00:01+00:00
That one's always a good read, particularly the discussion of the tension between 100% coverage testing and defensive programming. We go for maximum defensive programming, so huge numbers of code paths that can't be exercised in testing but that will prevent things running off into the weeds if something does manage to trigger them. Another organisation in contrast had a client who required 100% code coverage in testing so they spent six months removing all the non-testable defensive code in their code base.
by resoluteteeth | 2026-01-30 04:00:08+00:00
I like ChromeOS but really having two different operating systems is a liability.

ChromeOS is already worse at running Android apps than android tablets except for support for having them in resizable windows.

All they need to do is improve the support for a laptop mode on android and make chrome on android in the laptop mode equivalent to chrome on ChromeOS and they can kill ChromeOS entirely.

It makes no sense to have to choose between two operating systems

You should be able to get a fully compatible android like experience in tablet mode and a chromebook like experience in laptop mode all in one os

And the ChromeOS like experience should be available on any android tablet if you use it with a keyboard
by sublinear | 2026-01-30 04:00:38+00:00
I think the main thing is to understand why oatmeal works: soluble fiber and the gut bacteria feeding on the carbs.

That can be achieved within many other diets too. I wish they were more specific in saying what's special about oats, if anything.

I also get upset when I see a ton of junk options at the grocery store. They are talking about plain cut oats and whole fresh fruit, but based on the way shelves are stocked I imagine a majority of people get the kind with all the added sugar. You might as well be eating honey smacks at that point. Yogurt has the same problem at the store.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-30 04:01:32+00:00
From the rest of the article:

"According to the NHTSA, the accident occurred “within two blocks” of the elementary school “during normal school drop off hours.” The safety regulator said “there were other children, a crossing guard, and several double-parked vehicles in the vicinity.”"

Driving 17mph in this context is insane, and something a human would not normally do, even if it was below the legal marked speed limit, because a kid popping out from behind a car is not only unsurprising but 100% expected.
by someguyiguess | 2026-01-30 04:03:31+00:00
What OS? Does this happen randomly, after long sessions, after context compression? Do you have any plugins / mcp servers running?

I used to have this same issue almost every session that lasted longer than 30 minutes. It seemed to be related to Claude having issues with large context windows.

It stopped happening maybe a month ago but then I had it happen again last week.

I realized it was due to a third-party mcp server. I uninstalled it and haven’t had that issue since. Might be worth looking into.
by mindslight | 2026-01-30 04:04:11+00:00
Sure, in the pragmatic sense I agree. If I was going to put myself in this type of situation, and the agency authorizing the test did not want to bring the agency that would be responding into the fold, I'd be contemplating things like having an employee or even some state official be physically present at the police station / dispatch when I was actually doing the pentest.

But the commenter I was responding to seemed to be leaning on the territory of what ought to be, in which case it's good to not normalize those societal problems.
by hajile | 2026-01-30 04:04:41+00:00
> Then why are half the websites I use broken? Why is my hospital's billing estimate system broken? Why did my FSA provider send a request of documentation to the wrong e-mail address? Why is my bank's website always broken? Why did Equifax leak data? Why did Doordash mis-charge me?

I can't speak to all of those, but Doordash has extensively outsourced its software teams to India. I also know that lots of hospital software companies also outsource to India. Your FSA provider probably had someone in a call center transcribe an email incorrectly and we all know most call centers aren't in the US either...

> There's your problem. Most top talent doesn't find jobs via recruiting firms.

You'd need to prove this statement. F500 companies have more money than most companies and pretty much exclusively hire through recruiters. If you were top talent and wanted to work for a top overseas company, it seems like working with a recruitment agency would be a no-brainer.

In any case, I had zero say in who to use. I was handed some contacts and told to make it work.