MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0x3o3 | 2026-01-23 15:31:49+00:00
Radicle is architecturally local-first: you run your own node, sync repositories from a P2P gossip network, and then everything—browsing code, creating issues, reviewing patches—happens against your local data store. There's no round-trip to a server. Issues and patches are stored as signed Git objects (COBs) that replicate with the repo itself. The network is only involved when you choose to sync. This makes it extremely performant for day-to-day work and fully functional offline.

Tangled to my understanding is federated in theory but centralized in practice. It relies on "knots" (servers that host Git repos) and a central AppView at tangled.sh that aggregates the network. Issues and social artifacts live on Personal Data Servers, not locally. While you can self-host a knot, the default experience routes through Tangled's managed infrastructure. The architecture is fundamentally client-server: your operations go over the network to wherever your data lives.
by kccqzy | 2026-01-23 15:32:13+00:00
I don’t think you understood my comment.

> You absolutely should not need root to be able to run software that doesn't require root privileges.

But root can approve or disapprove you running that software. Have you heard of SELinux or AppArmor? The root user can easily and simply preventing you from running an executable even as your own user.

A malware can run as your own user and exfiltrate files you have access to. The malware does not need root privileges. Should root have the capability to prevent the malware from being installed? Regardless of what your definition of “install” is, the answer is unequivocally yes.
by DamnInteresting | 2026-01-23 15:32:57+00:00
On MacOS I use multiple desktops, and I have Finder assigned to "All Desktops" since it is useful to interact with so many other apps. For several major OS releases now, this setup causes any open Finder windows to render on top of all other windows for ~1 second when switching desktops. It creates an annoying lag, and pollutes what would otherwise be a smooth, pleasant experience.
by lifeisoverforme | 2026-01-23 15:32:57+00:00
I like learning in the pursuit of a goal. I’m greedy. If there’s no learning then I can’t care about the goal, and if there’s no goal then I can’t care about the learning.
Actually I see no reason to live at all without this. The evidence is in that most of you guys value the goal above all else, so I’m just going to get outmoded. I think with that inevitability I can either make this short or I can let it be painful.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-23 15:33:01+00:00
I avoid speeding issues by the one weird trick of not speeding.

Besides, money is a big factor here. If you want to make it cost-effective for someone to physically flag down speeders and ticket them, you'll have to raise the ticket fines significantly. And (sensibly) the revenue goes to HMT and not the individual police forces, avoiding America's perverse incentives, so you'd have to raise the police budget as a separate line item.

(pursuing speeders is right out - police chases are extremely discouraged for obvious safety reasons)
by AlisdairO | 2026-01-23 15:33:05+00:00
It supports transactional schema changes, but that's not what I'm talking about. Most schema changes require heavyweight locks on the tables they're altering. The locks might be short lived (for example, just a catalogue update to add a column), but they are nevertheless heavyweight and both block and are blocked by other work.

SELECT or DML operations take a lightweight lock on the table that doesn't block most other work, but it does block these schema changes. While the schema change is waiting to acquire the table lock, all new operations (like new SELECTs, for example) get blocked until the schema change completes.

So the following scenario can be pretty disastrous:

* Start a long-running SELECT operation on table

* Attempt to apply schema change to the table

* All new work on the table is blocked until the SELECT completes and the schema change can apply.

* Production outage

What the ChatGPT folks do is set a lock timeout when applying the schema change to make it 'give up' after a few seconds. This works to avoid truly excessive impact (in their case, they may have micro-outages of up to 5s while trying to apply schema), but has problems - firstly, they then need to retry, which may lead to more micro-outages, and secondly there's no guarantee on a system with mixed workload that they will be able to force the change through, and the schema change just ends up getting starved out.

A better alternative for most workloads is to build a system that detects what workload is blocking your schema change and kills it, allowing the schema change to go through quickly and unblock all the work behind it. You'd still use a lock timeout with this to be on the safe side, but it shouldn't be necessary in most cases.

Side note on transactional DDL - for Postgres systems with high throughput, most people just use autocommit. Table level locks that get taken to perform the schema change get held for the duration of the transaction, and you generally want to really minimize the amount of time you hold them for.
How do you handle cold outreach emails?
by hmokiguess | 2026-01-23 15:33:20+00:00
Hey HN, I try to practice inbox zero and I struggle with unread count even if it's on my junk folder.

I feel like now with AI the cold outreach has gotten orders of magnitude worse. I get countless of those that never stop from whatever automated lead funnel I happen to fall into from LinkedIn scrappers.

Is there a good solution to that?
by lingrush4 | 2026-01-23 15:33:26+00:00
I don't know how else to vouch for this comment which was unfairly flagged, so I will repost it:

Deliberately clickbaity title from the UK national broadcaster. Same broadcaster which brazenly manipulated video footage of speeches of the US president around the time of the US election.
The reality of this story is nothing as nefarious or significant as the headline suggests. It's simply that Tesla has absorbed liability from a handful of people caught speeding in loaned vehicles from Tesla centres in the UK.

Furthermore, it seems that the UK bureacracy may be at fault, as Tesla staff tried to enter the plea online but "encountered a technical issue on the Online Plea Service portal".
by kmeisthax | 2026-01-23 15:33:29+00:00
If you're not the shareholder, you're the product.

The business model of any publicly traded corporation, at least in 2025, is to increase the value of its circulating stock. No more and no less. The nominal business model of the company is a cover story to make line go up. The reason why the stock price matters is because of access to capital markets: if a business wants to buy another business, they are not going to dip into the cash on hand. They are going to take out a loan, and that loan is collateralized by... the value of the business. Which is determined by the stock price.

So if you can keep the line going up, you can keep buying competitors. But if you act like a normal, mature business, you can't.

Profit as a concept is a concern for capitalism. But these businesses are not interested in capitalism, they're angling to become the new lords of a growing feudal economy. That's what "going meta" really means.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-23 15:33:35+00:00
Yes its JEE.

The exams didn't go as I planned it to. I spent way too much time in physics and I couldn't solve much in chem and in maths I really panicked

I think it was one of the worst exams I had. I expected better of myself.

Regarding curiosity, I don't even know man. I had some of the most depressive thoughts today, I do want to do better in the next exam & I don't even want to take a break (well I slept 9 hours after exam or something)

I don't even know, every family member of my like brother etc. they are all somewhere good in life, some getting married, some have jobs, some studying in prestigious & I was on that trajectory too but today the day which mattered, all hell broke loose

Curiosity's kind of killed. You can read my comments in here, they show curiosity but it doesn't matter man, it just doesn't.

I just wanted to get into a decent college & still do.

No you didn't presume too much, I don't know what to feel & I am worried all my friends and everyone would ask me marks and my mother and father associates and I am not prepared for them to tell my marks which I feel are severely low or like I just didn't expect exam like such.

Like, In my exams or mocks, I had two types of exams, one where questions just clicked and the other where they didn't. I knew which chapters were clicked etc. and like fuckkk all the questions atleast in maths and chem came from my chapters which I didn't feel good at or the majority of and maths just panicked me hard even though Maths is one of my favourite subjects

I just want to get alone & start again. Just completely alone and I want my brain to think straight and not feel like being in two places at one time not being able to control it.
by jvandertoorn | 2026-01-23 15:33:43+00:00
"Autocorrect Won't Take No For An Answer" does have a workaround at Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement. If you add the word as both the phrase and shortcut it won't be autocorrected. Apple should still fix the learning behavior of autocorrect, but this workaround can prevent some frustration.

Two other bugs I haven't seen mentioned yet:

- The notes field in the Contacts app on iOS is completely broken. If you start typing a contact note the page jumps around randomly. And if you have a longer note it won't autoscroll to the cursor so you're typing blind. Became even worse in iOS 26...

- Stage Manager on macOS feels very buggy due to inconsistent behavior across apps and windows. Could be great in theory, but in practice frustrating to use.
by NiloCK | 2026-01-23 15:33:45+00:00
It's not that code is distinct or "less than" art. It's an authority and boundaries question.

I've written a fair amount of open source code. On anything like a per-capita basis, I'm way above median in terms of what I've contributed (without consent) to the training of these tools. I'm also specifically "in the crosshairs" in terms of work loss from automation of software development.

I don't find it hard to convince myself that I have moral authority to think about the usage of gen AI for writing code.

The same is not true for digital art.

There, the contribution-without-consent, aka theft, (I could frame it differently when I was the victim, but here I can't) is entirely from people other than me. The current and future damages won't be born by me.
by lanstin | 2026-01-23 15:33:54+00:00
I have for about 15 years used a stool to sit on at work, rather than a desk chair that I can slump in. I have found I feel much better - the stool forces my upper body to be actively held up and balanced; also, when I do go to meetings, instead of being annoyed at sitting in some dumb conference room, I am a little happy to be able to slump like a normal slouch.

I put a zafu (kapok filled, and not too full so its soft/adjustable) on the stool, and adjust the desk height so I don't have to reach up at all to touch the keyboard.

I also do a lot of zazen on a zafu (with legs crossed) so keeping my torso upright is pretty ingrained into my body.

This is just anecdata, but my dad suffered with back pain his entire life (included multiple herniated spinal disks), knock wood, I haven't. If I skip the check on the keyboard height and find I am reaching up for a while, I will get shoulder soreness, but so far early enough to function as a warning to lower it.

Sitting upright as tho you are a world honored one does I think affect the entire mind/body system in a healthy way :)
by dylan604 | 2026-01-23 15:33:59+00:00
As someone that's spent time behind the decks, I wonder what kind of hacking could be done by letting someone like Qbert take the wheel while loading.

Part of the infamous sound of a dial-up connection being established was negotiating the speed of the connection. Now I'm thinking if you'd need a negotiation of 33 1/3, 45, or 78 and an advanced feature.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-01-23 15:34:20+00:00
Really? I haven't had any problems, even with computers that don't meet the official hardware requirements.

Download the Win11 Pro ISO, extract it to a USB drive and then execute the command below from it for a totally automated install that bypasses all the BS.

.\setup.exe /product server /auto upgrade /EULA accept /migratedrivers all /ShowOOBE none /Compat IgnoreWarning /Telemetry Disable

You're welcome!

PS: I know it says "server" but when upgrading a desktop machine, desktop is what you will get.
by DrBazza | 2026-01-23 15:34:27+00:00
That quote mentions gas only. What about coal, oil, and biofuel?

Record energy costs are a thing. If solar and wind are 'free', why have European energy prices risen so much?

The real-world contra-indicators are the USA, China and pretty much any country outside the groupthink of the G20.

Whilst state interference is a factor, more tellingly they haven't slavishly followed the suicidal empathy of being 'green' and shutting down nuclear and fossil fuel power plants before a sufficient replacement was available.
by lorenzleutgeb | 2026-01-23 15:34:39+00:00
First, to make this clear: The Radicle network is not dependent on any blockchain technology, you can use it without holding any cryptocurrency/token. You do not need a wallet. You just need to generate an Ed25519 keypair for yourself.

Radworks and RAD are still a thing, and the last vote (https://community.radworks.org/t/3698 and https://community.radworks.org/t/3703) was to fund Radworks App (https://radworks.org/app), Drips (https://www.drips.network/), Radicle Garden (https://radicle.garden/).

Radicle development is funded by the Better Internet Foundation (https://betterinternet.foundation/), previously called "Radicle Foundation".

RAD "tokenomics" are discussed here: https://community.radworks.org/t/3645/
by alephnerd | 2026-01-23 15:35:12+00:00
The article's argument follows your track of logic but is much more pessimistic:

"Is liberal democracy, then, in terminal decline? The rise of Carney himself offers a glimmer of hope, fuelled as it was by a reaction against Trump. But electoral trends in Europe do not suggest a repeat. A broad-based recovery of the liberal order will probably depend on a turnaround in the underlying trends, and here the signs are less promising. Attempts to soften the impact of worsening demographics are routinely rejected by voters and parties on both left and right. And the most promising source of renewed economic dynamism — AI — is likely to worsen inequality and increase societal instability, further undermining faith in democracy and hastening the slide into a zero-sum world.

Events of the past year have shocked the democratic world out of its daze, but it is these more powerful and slow-moving forces that should be the lasting cause for concern. Trump may fade from view in a few years, but any expectation that the liberal order will snap back flies in the face of the evidence. The old system was one that worked under a particular set of conditions. Those conditions are no longer present."
by zhoujing204 | 2026-01-23 15:35:20+00:00
"It is not possible to do the work of science without using a language that is filled with metaphors. Virtually the entire body of modern science is an attempt to explain phenomena that cannot be experienced directly by human beings, by reference to forces and processes that we can experience directly...

But there is a price to be paid. Metaphors can become confused with the things they are meant to symbolize, so that we treat the metaphor as the reality. We forget that it is an analogy and take it literally."
-- The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment by Richard Lewontin.

Here are something I generated with Gemini:

1. Sentience and Agency

The Horse: A horse is a living, sentient being with a survival instinct, emotions (fear, trust), and a will of its own. When a horse refuses to cross a river, it is often due to self-preservation or fear.
The AI: AI is a mathematical function minimizing error. It has no biological drive, no concept of death, and no feelings. If an AI "hallucinates" or fails, it isn't "spooked"; it is simply executing a probabilistic calculation that resulted in a low-quality output. It has no agency or intent.

2. Scalability and Replication

The Horse: A horse is a distinct physical unit. If you have one horse, you can only do one horse’s worth of work. You cannot click "copy" and suddenly have 10,000 horses.
The AI: Software is infinitely reproducible at near-zero marginal cost. A single AI model can be deployed to millions of users simultaneously. It can "gallop" in a million directions at once, something a biological entity can never do.

3. The Velocity of Evolution

The Horse: A horse today is biologically almost identical to a horse from 2,000 years ago. Their capabilities are capped by biology.
The AI: AI capabilities evolve at an exponential rate (Moore's Law and algorithmic efficiency). An AI model from three years ago is functionally obsolete compared to modern ones. A foal does not grow up to run 1,000 times faster than its parents, but a new AI model might be 1,000 times more efficient than its predecessor.

4. Contextual Understanding

The Horse: A horse understands its environment. It knows what a fence is, it knows what grass is, and it knows gravity exists.
The AI: Large Language Models (LLMs) do not truly "know" anything; they predict the next plausible token in a sequence. An AI can describe a fence perfectly, but it has no phenomenological understanding of what a fence is. It mimics understanding without possessing it.

5. Responsibility

The Horse: If a horse kicks a stranger, there is a distinct understanding that the animal has a mind of its own, though the owner is liable.
The AI: The question of liability with AI is far more complex. Is it the fault of the prompter (rider), the developer (breeder), or the training data (the lineage)? The "black box" nature of deep learning makes it difficult to know why the "horse" went off-road in a way that doesn't apply to animal psychology.
Show HN: Neural Bordello – Where retired AI models work the night shift for $1
by Remi_Etien | 2026-01-23 15:36:12+00:00
Built this as a love letter to AI history with a... suggestive twist.

ELIZA (1966) — the original madam, still asking "tell me more about your desires." GPT-2 whispers forbidden prophecies "too dangerous to release." BERT does bidirectional analysis of your... personality. Clippy finally found work after Microsoft let him go. LSTM never forgets — especially the pain.

Each model has unique "services." Pay $1, get a personalized artifact. The whole thing is absurd, slightly inappropriate, and weirdly touching.

Tech: React, Gemini 3 Flash, Firebase
by Someone | 2026-01-23 15:36:22+00:00
> if we were running the version of Docker Desktop after the commercial licensing requirement change, they sent a 30 day notice to license the product or they’d sue.

What exactly are you objecting to? Since you say “I’m fine with the idea that licensing Docker and Docker Desktop is a good thing to do” it’s not the change, so what is it? The 30 days, them saying they would sue after that, or the tone?

I haven’t seen the messages so I cannot comment on that, but if you accept that the licensing can be changed, whats wrong with writing offenders to remind them to either stop using the product or start paying? And what’s wrong with giving them 30 days, since, in my memory, they announced the licensing change months in advance?
by graemep | 2026-01-23 15:36:26+00:00
They can, but that invites retaliation. If they do it on all non-EU trades that is in effect an attack on investment in every non-EU economy. There are all sorts of consequences.

There are practical difficulties too. What is the investments are made through an off-shore subsidiary or by investing in a fund in the US? It might even encourage the latter (single trade to buy the fund instead of managing US investments) and mean management fees move to the US.

If they impose it on just US trades it might still be subject to the problems above and would be a very serious step and one investors will hate.

I think we might well end up with something like this and a return to more money going to national capital markets rather than global, but its not going to be an easy transition.
by jm4 | 2026-01-23 15:36:31+00:00
Some people just want their name in the contributor list, whether it's for ego, to build a portfolio, etc. I think that's what it comes down to. Many projects, especially high profile ones, have to deal with low effort contributions - correcting spelling mistakes, reformatting code, etc. It's been going on for a long time. The Linux contributor guidelines - probably a lot of other projects too - specifically call this stuff out and caution people not to do it lest they suffer the wrath of the LKML. AI coding tools open up all kinds of new possibilities for these types of contributors, but it's not AI that's the problem.
by TyrunDemeg101 | 2026-01-23 15:36:34+00:00
I was banned as well, out of the blue suddenly and without warning. I believe it was because I was either doing something like what OP was doing AND/OR using the allowed limits to their fullest extent.

It completely blew me away and I felt suddenly so betrayed. I was paying $200/mo to fully utilize a service they offered and then without warning I apparently did something wrong and had no recourse. No one to ask, no one to talk to.

My advice is to be extremely wary of Anthropic. They paint themselves as the underdog/good guys, but they are just as faceless as the rest of them.

Oh, and have a backup workflow. Find / test / use other LLMs and providers. Don't become dependent on a single provider.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-23 15:36:45+00:00
I really don't know, I had asked chatgpt to create it and earlier it did give me a wrong one & I had to try out a lot of things and how it worked on my mac

I then pasted that whole convo into aistudio gemini flash to then summarize & give you the correct settings as my settings included some servers and their ip's by the zed remote feature too

Sorry that it didn't work. I um again asked from my working configuration to chatgpt and here's what I get (this may also not work or something so ymmv)

{
"agent": {
"default_model": {
"provider": "ollama",
"model": "hf.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B:latest"
},
"model_parameters": []
},

"ui_font_size": 16,
"buffer_font_size": 15,

"theme": {
"mode": "system",
"light": "One Light",
"dark": "One Dark"
},

// --- OLLAMA / SWEEP CONFIG ---
"openai": {
"api_url": "http://localhost:11434/v1",
"low_latency_mode": true
},

// TAB AUTOCOMPLETE (THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART)
"inline_completion": {
"default_provider": {
"name": "openai",
"model": "hf.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B"
}
},

// CHAT SIDEBAR
"chat_panel": {
"default_provider": {
"name": "openai",
"model": "hf.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B"
}
}
}
by doublerabbit | 2026-01-23 15:36:54+00:00
My father worked on the early 90's contract that implemented the speed camera's on the motorway. The future road map was to make these digitally automated. Dark Fibre was laid but the plans were scrapped as the government saw it as a waste of money. This is why we are stuck with the ludicrous system.

For a long while if you were changing lanes while speeding through the camera it couldn't capture the plate. Again the government didn't care. Of course now resolved with the archaic future technology we have now.