MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2026-01-25 07:42:40+00:00
In a complex world the little things matter. We feel unimportant because we're little. But also remember one person cutting you off on your way to work can ruin your whole day. But similarly one person giving you a smile can turn it around. The little things matter because all the big things are made of a thousand small things. That's why it's so important. I'm not asking everyone to go do big things. I'm asking people to do little things. You have to treat people the way you wish they treated you, even when they don't. Do they deserve it? No. But do you?

A thing I've learned is that often when people are mad they're not mad at you. Maybe you're part of it, but usually you're just at the end of some long chain. It's easier to respond to anger when you realize this.
by rmunn | 2026-01-25 07:44:10+00:00
I actually credit Nadella with restoring some amount of Microsoft's reputation. It was Nadella who, on his first year after taking over from Ballmer, stood on the stage in front of a big "MS (heart) Linux" banner and talked about how Microsoft was going to be doing more in the Linux world (I don't recall details). That was also when Microsoft started publishing more things as open-source: VS Code, almost everything related to C# and dotnet... None of which, I believe, would have happened with Ballmer and his mindset at the helm. That was the point at which I stopped saying "Oh, it came from MS, it's going to be low-quality code". Some of their code is halfway decent. Of course, none of the code I consider to be halfway decent is part of Windows...

EDIT to add: I agree that they've been going downhill the past few years, though. And I don't think it's a coincidence that that corresponds with the tendency for some devs (not all, thankfully, but too many) offloading too much of their thinking to LLMs and uncritically pushing insufficiently-reviewed slop into the code review process. I suspect MS has the same problems as other companies with that, perhaps more because of internal pressure (I assume, I have no insider knowledge) to use Copilot.
by ggm | 2026-01-25 07:46:15+00:00
if you were talking about erasure in classic film, and not the constraints of non-linear editable data streams (I and P blocks, you-name-it), how much of this would remain true? Yes, its a temporal-spatial space. But, it consists of a sequence of static images. (in the case of film) and so erasure could be a 2 phase process 1) find the mask per image and apply it and 2) construct an infill which respects the rest of the images.

The choice of a dog running down a beach is quite smart: the background has a plane of movement which is mechanistically unrelated to the dog. thats part 2) reconstruct waves lapping on the seashore. Hard. you can't do this per-image. you have to do this across the entire sequence.

I would think, even in a film model, this is a really quite complicated problem because for each static image an infill is plausible, but to maintain consistency across the image series, it has to avoid uncanny valley for the specifics of wave motion up a beach.
by tombert | 2026-01-25 07:47:49+00:00
I'm sorry, which forum do you think you're on? This isn't a fucking "publication", it's a discussion forum for a bunch of software geeks. I'm not trying to "expose" anything, I'm saying that when I read about how much crap they do, how much they work with ICE, and how deeply unlikable the CEO is, then yeah they're creepy. It really is just an "opinion", so you trying to call that out shows a lack of comprehension of the forum and honestly the English language as a whole.

Frankly, I think the fact that you're so willing to simp for a creepy billionaire and a creepy multi-billion dollar company so much as to call one of their shirts "absolutely killer" says a lot more about you than anything else.
by popalchemist | 2026-01-25 07:48:22+00:00
The moral panic is justified, if you take 5 minutes to look into what they do, and who's behind it (YC's own neo-nazi billionaire, Peter Theil, of course, who is actively undermining western democracy and norms in conjunction with Trump, his hand-picked puppet JD Vance, and so on). For example, they created the facial recognition database and national surveillance system that ICE is literally currently using to hunt down and kidnap, torture, deport, and murder political dissenters who have previously been recorded taking part in their right to protest.

If you are too lazy to Google all of that -- it's all fact, not conjecture -- here's one more thing:

"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible". -Peter Theil, Palantir founder.
by justsomehnguy | 2026-01-25 07:48:46+00:00
Nah, office building. And memtest confirmed what that was a faulty RAM stick.

But it was quite amusing to see in my own eyes: computer mostly worked fine but occasionally would cry what "Can't load library at C:\WINDOWS\system33\somecorewindowslibrary.dll".

I didn't even notice at first just though it was a virus or a consequences of a virus infection until I caught that '33' thing. Gone to check and there were system32, system33, system34...

So when the computer booted up cold at the morning everything were fine but at some time and temp the unstable cell in the RAM module started to fluctuate and mutate the original value of a several bits. And looks like it was in a quite low address that's why it often and repeatedly was used by the system for the same purpose: or the storage of SystemDirectory for GetSystemDirectory or the filesystem MFT.

But again, it's the only time where I had a factual confirmation of a memory cell failure and only because it happened at the right (or not so, in the eyes of the user of that machine) place. How many times all these errors just silently go unnoticed, cause some bit rot or just doesn't affect anything of value (your computer just froze, restarted or you restarted it yourself because it started to behave erratically) is literally unknown - because that's is not a ECC memory.
by Joker_vD | 2026-01-25 07:49:17+00:00
It's small, but not unnoticeable... depending on the exact size of the workload and the amount of computation per element. In fact, for huge arrays it may be beneficial to have structs packed if that leads to less memory traffic.

[0] https://jordivillar.com/blog/memory-alignment

[1] https://lemire.me/blog/2012/05/31/data-alignment-for-speed-m...

[2] https://lemire.me/blog/2025/07/14/dot-product-on-misaligned-...
by whyagaindavid | 2026-01-25 07:50:20+00:00
> Matthew Forsyth, Director of Product Management, Google Play Developer Experience & Chief Product Explainer, said the system isn’t a sideloading restriction, but an “Accountability Layer.”

And... What about accountability for hosting distributing spyware, malware loaded apps from Google Playstore and hundreds of copy cat, misleading apps?

Why can't they pose a question when the phone is setup?

- Yes, I want to sideload

- No I dont want

If the user says NO then to later enable it to allow sideload Yes, the user needs to factory reset phone. Done.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-25 07:51:45+00:00
Lumifield quite recently showed on Adam Savage's Tested again, with some literal insights on a reasonably-diverse array of different 18650 cells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD5aAd8Oy84

It's a good watch, and I learned some new stuff about some things that I only knew a little bit about before.
by mahmood726 | 2026-01-25 07:52:42+00:00
I’m an academic working on reliability for high-stakes LLM use (coding + scientific/medical workflows).
This repo proposes a “fail-closed” certification gate: an output only ships if it passes published checks; otherwise it rejects. The benchmark emphasis is on false-ship rate (shipped-but-wrong), not just accuracy.
Looking for critique and real failure cases: where do LLMs most often produce plausible outputs that are silently wrong (C#/.NET, SQL, Python notebooks, data extraction, etc.)? What validation checks would you consider non-negotiable?
Validation: CRM for orgs with internal competition
by Yaswanth21 | 2026-01-25 07:52:47+00:00
Hi all, I’m writing here to get validation on a CRM I’m building.

Field Level Security
I’m working on a CRM where I’ve added a role management capability that allows field-level visibility on records beyond default view access. Records that are usually completely hidden in legacy CRMs can now be displayed with minimal fields, configurable per role. Regular FLS still exists, but the issue with traditional FLS is that it restricts fields even for records you own.

Personal and Org CRM
Users can have a personal CRM where their records are not visible to the organization unless they explicitly publish them. This is not a traditional sales CRM—it’s relevant for orgs where internal competition exists.

Collision Detection
If a user creates a private record and a record already exists in the org, both parties receive an anonymous or open alert. Users can provide a reason and request collaboration, and a collaboration room is created if the request is accepted.

Duplicate Records and Golden Records
Duplicate records are encouraged. Once a private record is published and an org record already exists, a golden record is created where individual records are clustered and displayed contextually based on a user’s role.

I’m interested in perspectives from people who’ve sold into or operated within complex, political orgs (universities, partnerships, government, VC, etc.).

I’m building this independently, but open to collaborating with someone who enjoys talking to ICPs and pressure-testing problem statements in the field.

Happy to share more details or learn from anyone who has dealt with similar issues.

— Yaswanth
by tomhow | 2026-01-25 07:53:20+00:00
If it's really true that "some of the richest and most powerful people in this country and on this planet look at this website", what do we want them to see here? Do we want them to see enraged people saying the same things that these powerful people keep hearing and thus dismiss as background noise? Or do we want them to see intelligent, thoughtful people having sophisticated discussions and making new points that might give pause to the powerful people and provoke them to think about things in a different way?
by BoredomIsFun | 2026-01-25 07:53:28+00:00
> If the compiler isn't implementing all of a particular standard then it's not standard C++.

C++ have historically been driven by practicalities, and violated standards on regular basis, when it deemed useful.

> Those implementations can continue on with their C++ fork without mandating requirements to anyone else.

Then they will diverge too much, like it happened with countless number of other languages, like Lisp.
by teruakohatu | 2026-01-25 07:53:53+00:00
> And... What about accountability for hosting distributing spyware, malware loaded apps from Google Playstore

This is no joke. The Playstore is filled with malware that pretend to be a different app. It takes days if not weeks to remove these apps.

I have twice now had to recover the devices of family members when they installed malware on Samsung phones running up to date firmware.

That malware to this level is even possible is another matter.
by ubertaco | 2026-01-25 07:54:28+00:00
I looked into PHEVs on my last vehicle shopping go-round, since few pure EVs met my cargo size requirements (stroller/baby life is a whole thing).

Ultimately, it was way more worth it to go all the way up to an F150 Lightning than to go with a good PHEV, partly due to up-front cost, but mostly due to ongoing cost: I will need to change the oil on the electric motors maybe every 150,000miles, and I never need an emissions test again. PHEVs require keeping the gas engine up, and getting it emissions-tested.

A whole category of cost just straight-up disappeared, for cheaper than I could get a RAV4 Prime too.
by petterroea | 2026-01-25 07:54:40+00:00
Just reflecting more on this, can't you argue the whole cambridge analytica scandal was a case of private surveilance being used to affect an election through targeted propaganda? Same with brexit?

Sure, a political party is not a government, but surely capitalism-flavored mass surveilance has the same capabilities, and the buyers seem to have similar incentives to good 'ol government surveilance and propaganda.
by ezst | 2026-01-25 07:55:31+00:00
> There are still plenty of sharp edges. So lots of cursing and griping at Windows 11 continues.

I wouldn't be so assertive about that. No OS is perfect, and as we see here, windows is no exception. It's mostly a matter of being used to living with those imperfections. At least on Linux, nobody is making those worse for you for "fun" (actually for their own profit at the detriment of yours), and many more nontechnical users sense that just fine (just the way copilot was forced is baffling).

> There are still plenty of Apple ecosystem-specific integration points and features that are still not available on Linux, like Apple Notes/iMessage/AirDrop/AirPlay/Handoff between macOS and iOS

KDE Connect solved that, and much more, many many years ago. I don't know the situation in the Apple walled garden, only that any hurdle there is the result of Apple abusive, user-hostile and anticompetitive practices that should (and will eventually) be illegal outside of the US.
by jmaker | 2026-01-25 07:56:29+00:00
Thanks, you’re likely right, but significance is in the eye of the beholder. I don’t attribute much value to the marketing fluff and on-paper changes.

It’s great the battery improved but does it really matter? You still will charge every day.

The camera resolution, well, it’s still just a smartphone camera with some AI post-processing, which Xiaomi can do better with their Leica or Oppo with their Zeiss lenses. And either one is still bad compared to a proper camera.

ProMotion display, Pixel’s still better.

Your point about storage made me laugh, but let’s maybe leave it for another time.

That all is very minor and not noticeable to me. If you go from 10 to 15 it’s a 50% improvement, but if your competitors have been at 20 and won’t regress, you’re still behind.

So yes, to me, the aluminum case is the only tangible. My palms don’t burn anymore. And I’m grateful to Apple for letting me pay more again for this noticeable improvement.
by countWSS | 2026-01-25 07:57:03+00:00
It seems to be adding tons of articles, then some of them get deleted.
I assume it's been allocated lots of compute.
The entire model is outcompeting wikipedia on quantity per topic.
If wikipedia merges/integrates some article and Grokipedia has a
specific page for it, the search engine/LLM will get that version front and center.
Grokipedia seems to have no scope limit, so wikipedia "non-notable" entries
will be SEO-optimized towards sites with the topic-names, eventually
settling on AI content farms as primary destination.
by somerandomqaguy | 2026-01-25 07:58:06+00:00
I'd call the that country that adopted EV's first and gasoline second... extinct after WW2. If nothing because the country wouldn't be able to launch an airforce to counter the bombers hitting your power plants. If not that then there's the constant contention of having to pull power lines forward and leaving them vulnerable to artillery fire while the petrol tank hit and run with impunity.

Plus now you have problems moving tonnes of food, water, ammunition on BEV vehicles that no longer have reliable charging access because the Luftwaffe is dropping bombs on the cables for the 10th time that week.

Even setting aviation aside, a lot of the reason why gas engines were adopted was because agriculture was among the first to do so, they were less finicky then ox and horses. Rural areas didn't have access to electricity like cities did at the time though; It was a lot easier to have a tin of whatever liquid fuel (gasoline was a byproduct of kerosone production at the time).
by assaddayinh | 2026-01-25 07:58:34+00:00
Karp is a philosopher who had to look at humanity as it is without the idealizations. Longtermism, dark enlightenment, yada ya.. all just fancy terms for enlightenment, actual progress. Not the delusions that you can talk yourself into when high on resources.

The points made while on drugs are worse than worthless they are dangerous to longterm survival and those who engage in this are deeply amoral. Most of humanity is basically glorified stoners, congratulating themselves on how high they get while their futures starve. The opinion of the retarded about the warden is always that he is evil.

Go, get yourself some access to a database collected from the seeing stones(aka cellphones) and write your own behavioural queries. Look at the damage and weep. Realize the best we can manage is stabilization in shitty conditions because the warmode species is to retarded. And then go on the web and listen to the blabber of the retarded. Fusion and mini reactors will save civilzation. Meanwhile they handed out proliferation "tracking nukes" aka lookalikes with gps) in every war since the coldwar and guess what the fanatics already have blown it up, several times. Thats why panopticon, thats why electric drugs (games), thats why scenario root hardening, including hardening against government tribalist retardation. Go bu yourself a hoodie and shut the fuck up. #LeviathancyberneticsIsNotaCrime
by bryanlarsen | 2026-01-25 07:59:26+00:00
No need to double twice. 250 miles (~4 hours of driving) is about what you want. Pretty much everybody needs to bathroom at least that often. And nowhere on a road in the continental US is more than 150 miles from a charger.

So yes, you want 400-500 miles of range, but that's because you've doubled the 250 for weather, safety margin, etc.
by gyanchawdhary | 2026-01-25 08:00:00+00:00
no need to apologise .. but see you are doing it again .. hiding behind “it’s just my opinion” after dumping a slurry of buzzwords and vibes .. also no one is confused about what forum this is … people here still expect opinions to have content…

However screening “creepy billionaire” and then accusing anyone who disagrees of “simping” is reddit tier brainrot .. not discourse. If that’s your bar, don’t get mad when someone notices you cleared it by crawling ;)
by zjaffee | 2026-01-25 08:00:39+00:00
I'm originally from the US, but where I live now, whatsapp functionally replaced email for a lot of different types of communication (that would be an email in the US). Recruiters text me on whatsapp about jobs, I can ask for a prescription renewal through it, and I get support from everything ranging from a government agency to customer support for things from businesses, ect.
by wtcactus | 2026-01-25 08:00:55+00:00
Will this be the time that EU grows a spine and comes together to oppose Russia?

Naaa, better continue to have Germany and France continue to destroy the Union by looking only at their self interests while they pretend to talk tough on Trump and sabotage and real internal changes so that they can keep their crumbs.

We’re a union of hypocrites. And France and Germany are the worst of them.
Show HN: Sightline – Shodan-style search for real-world infra using OSM Data
by ni5arga | 2026-01-25 08:01:21+00:00
Hi HN,

I built *Sightline*, a Shodan-style search engine for *physical-world infrastructure*.

Shodan makes it easy to explore exposed internet services. Sightline applies the same idea to the real world, using OpenStreetMap as the data source.

You can search things like:

* “telecom towers in karnataka”
* “power plants near mumbai”
* “data centers in paris france”

or use structured queries:

* `type:telecom operator:airtel region:karnataka`
* `type:data_center operator:google`

Sightline:

* uses Overpass API for querying OSM features
* uses Nominatim for resolving countries, regions, and cities
* avoids hardcoded geography
* uses deterministic, rule-based parsing (no AI inference)

Repo: https://github.com/ni5arga/sightline
Try it out: https://sightline-maps.vercel.app
by bigyabai | 2026-01-25 08:03:02+00:00
The USMC is a largely expeditionary force that has to work without much (or any) fire support/big artillery. Their gear has to be tailored for lightweight, mobile and high speed operations; drones make a good fit for this work.

Not sure if these would do well in Ukraine, or scale to larger forces in the first place. Anduril's reputation abroad is pretty low and not much better at home.
by andrewflnr | 2026-01-25 08:03:38+00:00
This isn't the right framing IMO. Closures actually aren't complicated with GC for the same reason structs with references aren't complicated, at least as far as the programmer is concerned. You could say functional languages "hide the mess" there too, but even if you take that perspective, it's nothing to do with closures in particular. Closures are just one of the things that need memory, and memory management is tricky without GC.
by MrDresden | 2026-01-25 08:03:41+00:00
When this whole thing got announced, I purchased a new Pixel 9 and flashed it with GrapheneOS.

I am hoping that in about 6-8 years (when I realistically need to update) the landscape might be a bit better. Or who knows, maybe I'll just continue using GrapheneOS.

So far I have not had a single issues with it. Apps the rely on attestation do not work, but honestly it's only two applications out of hundreds so I can live with it.

I also financially support GrapheneOS on a monthly basis (15$). This is just too important of an project not to.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-25 08:05:17+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

My own is what I call the framework rule. All discussions of software frameworks eventually degrade to first person pronouns and the word easy. Knowing that you can always predict your audience and their desires well in advance with extremely high confidence/precision. Easiness is an unmeasurable subjective concept whose second order consequences are always measurable and always cost more and which are likewise identifiable and predictable. That makes it similar to a fractal of Conways law but it applies more broadly.
by chii | 2026-01-25 08:05:55+00:00
> they think the audience is now fully captive.

the audience is captive. Do you have a choice to move from android, if you didnt want to have an apple device? Do you want to use a different search engine other than google? Is there another email provider than gmail (for the non-technical person - i know you can run your own). Is there another browser other than chrome (and dont say firefox or edge - because both don't compete)?

Google behave in ways that they think makes them more profit. When users cannot migrate (nor even threaten to), then it simply means they can do this.
by brainwad | 2026-01-25 08:05:57+00:00
No, it's about being able to hire more people at the same hiring bar and comp for companies hiring at scale, like (pre-2022) big tech. If you limit yourself to only hiring Americans in your US office, then you are at a talent disadvantage unless/until you open another office in a more friendly jurisdiction. And if you open such a satellite office and hire there, then that's worse for the US than if you had hired them in the US, because the US misses out on the income tax.
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-25 08:07:19+00:00
> They aren’t professionals and operate with neither the training, nor the will to obey the law.

Many of them are experienced and trained. The man who shot Renee Good served in Iraq, worked for Border Patrol for two decades and was literally a firearms instructor[1].

This is just what cops, reactionaries and psychopaths will do when they know that they have carte blanche to do anything they want, including murder.

No amount of "training" will fix this. It isn't an accident, it isn't incompetence, it is deliberate and wanton.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ren%C3%A9e_Good#Jon...