MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by inasio | 2026-01-28 19:43:49+00:00
Reminds me of Emilio Salgari (late 19th century, Italy's Jules Verne), one of my favorite authors growing up. He has many books on Malaysian pirates, Wild west cowboys (he's apparently considered the grandfather of the spaghetti western), adventures in India, etc. Always thought he must have been an adventurer, or at least a sailor. He never left Verona.
by Fabricio20 | 2026-01-28 19:44:08+00:00
I'd quote your own example from Anno -> "multiplayer never worked". Thats the "doesn't run" part. I always play Anno 1800 with friends. It has been my experience with linux gaming for a while - anything that involves multiplayer usually doesn't work, either because its just broken (less likely) or because its specifically stopped by the developer (anticheat, etc..). Reality is though, that most mainstream games (as in, biggest player counts and as such, the games most people are playing) do not support linux. If my Valorant or League of Legends or Counter Strike or Rust or ARC Raiders or Marvel Rivals don't allow me to play on linux then the state still is "linux can't really run games yet".

How do you fix this? I dont know - most of these are the developers refusing support because of anticheat or just support overload, but it's insane to suggest that linux works for gaming when the most played games in the world straight up do not work. I'd love if linux was more viable though, can't wait to ditch the slowness from windows.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-28 19:44:25+00:00
I have window breakage detectors, motion detectors, and cameras inside covering the external doors and windows. I originally installed them specifically because some sketchy neighbors moved in, and it paid off when they kicked in my front door to burglarize my place. The klaxon cut the looting short, and the video put the cops on the right track.

The struggle I had initially is that I went through a few off-the-shelf solutions, and they were all pretty awful. Some because they didn't work reliably, others because of privacy concerns. I gave up on commercial solutions and just put together a system on my own. It's reliable and doesn't phone home to some company somewhere.

> do you care about the privacy/control of your home security solution

This is the most important thing to me, since these devices generate a lot of incredibly sensitive data. If I can't be sure that data is secure enough (meaning that it never leaves my custody and control), then the system is unacceptable.
by lxgr | 2026-01-28 19:44:30+00:00
Yes, but I don't believe all firewalls support that, especially for TCP, and as you've mentioned, now you also need to maintain a handshaking mechanism.

The complexity makes sense if you need to transport a lot of data peer-to-peer or the lowest possible latency, but if you don't, you might as well use that coordination server (which outbound-only clients are connecting to) for payload communication as well.
by digiown | 2026-01-28 19:44:46+00:00
Agreed. I view general purpose computing (the ability to run whatever code you want) as the digital equivalent of the 2nd amendment: it's an ultimate tool to resist big companies from imposing unfair conditions on you.

It allows you to retain some freedom like stripping out spyware, run adblockers, and continuing to use a device after a company decides to stop supporting it. More importantly it allows you and your device to lie to protect your rights, like not leaking your location, phone number, etc. Locking down everything changes the balance drastically in favor of companies engaging in anti-user behavior. Attestation like play integrity is the forcing mechanism for the locking down of your computer.

Technically Android is not yet fully locked down as you can still run arbitrary code and modify your apps. This might change soon though with the recent announcements.
by WarmWash | 2026-01-28 19:44:50+00:00
>my concern is convergence computing will reduce the importance of desktop interfaces and the freedom we have to install whatever applications we want

The final nail was drilled into the coffin when a judge ruled Google a monopoly with Android a year or so ago.

You would think this is good but:

Apple was not found to be a monopoly with iOS. Why?

Because iOS doesn't allow any competitors, how can they be anti-competitive?

The judge explained this Google when they raised the issue, and just like that, Android wants to become iOS.

Good fucking job judge. 10,000 IQ ruling.
by mynameisash | 2026-01-28 19:44:54+00:00
> They’re not creating pull requests and maintaining learning / analytics systems?

Sure, they check prompts into git. And there are a few notebooks that have been written and deployed, but most of that is collecting data and handing it off to ChatGPT. No, they're not maintaining learning/analytics systems. My team builds our data processing pipelines, and we support everything in production.

> This kind of vagueposting gets on my nerves.

What is vague about my comment?

Whereas in the past, the DS teams I worked with would do feature engineering and rigorous evaluation of models with retraining based on different criteria, now I'm seeing that teams are being lazy and saying, "We'll let the LLM do things. It can handle unstructured data, and we can give it new data without additional work on our part." Hence, they're simply writing a prompt and not doing much more.
by dannersy | 2026-01-28 19:44:56+00:00
I don't share his experience entirely, by even on my desktop built for gaming I can notice the right click menu is delayed in comparison to Windows 10. Even more heinous, before you remove it, the AI button would lazy load causing you to sometimes hit it by accident when you mean to hit something else. God forbid I'm not 80 years old and click my menus with any sort of speed.

Also, if I'm going to have to adjust anything to use an operating system, I might as well use Linux. The only value prop for me to use Windows was gaming, but at this point I'm just completely ripping the band-aid off because it doesn't seem like Microsoft is going in a better direction.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-28 19:45:27+00:00
> Linux is at most 88 percent of servers, since windows is only estimated to be used on 11% of servers and the other unices aren't used outside of very specific circumstances

I wanted to comment on this. Please correct me if I am wrong as I used LLM sources to find

So from what I can find (from human searches) was that https://commandlinux.com/statistics/linux-web-server-market-... Linux is indeed ~55%

But the other thing is that some servers (from Chatgpt, I am not gonna lie) it says that there's an Unknown/CDN servers around 20 or more% (I feel like its more) to then reach the ~88% data estimate in some sense.

So can someone please clarify me on this if this is the true case or not?
by mperham | 2026-01-28 19:45:36+00:00
It was an off-the-cuff comment and probably not worded ideally but the intent was to discuss how Oban is branching off into a new direction for their business based on language-specific products while I went a different direction with Faktory. Since I came to the exact same fork in the road in 2017, I thought it was relevant and an interesting topic on evolving software products.
by godelski | 2026-01-28 19:45:45+00:00
> Having used Arch I can easily maintain almost any distro out there, but it doesn't work the other way around.

I think this is an important thing to recognize. It's exactly why I tell people that want to learn Linux to do it (but not people who want to use Linux). The struggle is real, but the struggle is part of the learning process. The truth is that distros are not that different from one another. The main difference is in the package manager and the release schedule of their package databases.

I'd also like to tell any Linux newbies, the Arch Wiki is your best friend. It doesn't matter if you're using Ubuntu, Mint, or whatever. The Arch Wiki is still usually the second place I go to for when I need help. The first is the man pages (while there's some bad documentation out there it is quite surprising how well most man pages are written. Linux really has shown me the power and importance of writing good documentation)
by biddit | 2026-01-28 19:45:47+00:00
Yes, frontier models from the labs are a step ahead and likely will always be, but we've already crossed levels of "good enough for X" with local models. This is analogous to the fact that my iPhone 17 is technically superior to my iPhone 8, but my outcomes for text messaging are no better.

I've invested heavily in local inference. For me, it's a mixture privacy, control, stability, cognitive security.

Privacy - my agents can work on tax docs, personal letters, etc.

Control - I do inference steering with some projects: constraining which token can be generated next at any point in time. Not possible with API endpoints.

Stability - I had many bad experiences with frontier labs' inference quality shifting within the same day, likely due to quantization due to system load. Worse, they retire models, update their own system prompts, etc. They're not stable.

Cognitive Security - This has become more important as I rely more on my agents for performing administrative work. This is intermixed with the Control/Stability concerns, but the focus is on whether I can trust it to do what I intended it to do, and that it's acting on my instructions, rather than the labs'.
by ghshephard | 2026-01-28 19:46:00+00:00
For Floating Panes - see: https://github.com/lloydbond/tmux-floating-terminal/tree/mas... (if it doesn't work for you on first try - check - https://github.com/lloydbond/tmux-floating-terminal/pull/6)

Love Floating Panes in Tmux - and best part - all the other plugins - resurrect, continuum, etc..) all support floating panes out of the box.
by duskwuff | 2026-01-28 19:46:18+00:00
Telegram's bot API is a lot easier to get started with for sure. It's got some rough edges once you start trying to do anything more complex, though, and the underlying MTProto API is nothing short of bizarre.

I'd urge caution before using them as a component of your business, though. Their business strategy is pretty chaotic and has relied heavily on weird cryptocurrency-adjacent plays (e.g. TON / Fragment / gifts). They've made a couple of attempts to introduce business features, but I'm not sure they've had any substantial uptake.
by cepcode | 2026-01-28 19:46:28+00:00
As time goes on, I get closer and closer for Linux to be my daily driver. The ads, the Microsoft account login, the OneDrive in the explorer window, the 'recommendations' to change my default browser, etc make me more angry by the day. However, when I install Linux on an old machine, I initially have driver issues like wifi. And after fighting with that for an hour, I decide it's not worth the risk to blow away my main machine. So I accept the slop from MS and continue on.
by AngryData | 2026-01-28 19:46:49+00:00
My utopian ideal is that management skills are by themselves considered completely useless, and that management skills should be considered add-on skills to add onto an already useful base set of skills and experiences.

There is only one kind of person that I look down upon life, its MBAs with no other qualifications. I would consider a medieval dung hauler a more skilled and important member of modern society than a modern MBA-only holder. I just don't see how anyone can get such a degree and see their skills as valuable, but they all like to build each other up off of everyone else's backs and somehow it works.

Ive never had a good manager that wasn't just another worker in the trenches for a decade or more beforehand.
by wlesieutre | 2026-01-28 19:47:48+00:00
Blind people use phones smaller than this with large text all day long and the inability of web developers to accommodate it is an embarrassing failure of web developers and web platforms.

In the ChatGPT example, the entire interface boils down to a scrolling chat history, a text input box, and a send button. It's hard to imagine an interface that would be easier to fit in a small viewport than this. But the current reliance on full page zoom and poor responsiveness to viewport space (maintaining huge side margins in a narrow window) means it sucks.

Their mobile app works fine with large accessibility text sizes (iOS goes up to 310%). There's no fundamental reason the web shouldn't be able to handle an accessible interface with enlarged text equally well. The current state of web accessibility is just bad.

It can be better, but only if people do the work to make that happen. Curb cuts and wheelchair ramps didn't exist until we built them, and they gave a lot of people with mobility limitations the ability to get around independently. Unfortunately it took heavy handed regulation to force the issue, because so much of the population is content to say "I'm not the one in a wheelchair, why should I care about that?"

My hope would be that enough people in tech do care about accessibility and it won't require that level of regulation. And I'm thankful that Chrome is looking at ways to improve the current situation.
by vimwizard | 2026-01-28 19:48:05+00:00
I finally installed Windows 11 last year so I could use Wifi 6E. Other than that, it is certainly a downgrade. With some debloating and ExplorerPatcher, its mostly the same as Windows 10 now, but I'm praying that an update wont brick my install. Thankfully the latest forced feature update didn't affect me.
by fasterik | 2026-01-28 19:48:06+00:00
With Windows 10 EOL, I had to decide whether to upgrade my laptop to Windows 11 or Linux. I've been a Windows user for decades, but with all the user-hostile bullshit coming out of Microsoft and the degradation of performance on Windows 11, I decided to go with Ubuntu instead.

I'm still on a Windows 11 desktop for the time being, but seriously considering switching there as well. The main thing stopping me is commercial software. There is undeniably a better ecosystem on Windows for professional video editing and music production. I've spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on high quality virtual instruments and effects plugins. But if I can manage to find good replacements on Linux, I would happily abandon all Microsoft products at this point.
by esskay | 2026-01-28 19:48:08+00:00
All sounds about right for HSBC. They've got some of the worst banking tech in existence. How the heck anyone puts up with their crap is beyond me, I moved away a decade ago but still have a close family member with them and they're forever having issues (genuinely not user error) with the crippled online banking app they've got that looks like something from the early days of app development.
by triceratops | 2026-01-28 19:48:11+00:00
> The fuck your mean, save up?

Advice that doesn't work for everyone isn't automatically useless.

What else can a person in that situation do? I'm not asking what we as a society can do for them (plenty). I'm asking what they can do themselves, if they want to do something (and many don't, because poverty is exhausting, like I already acknowledged).

Poverty has solutions on an individual level and on a societal level. I won't judge anyone who can't or won't implement the individual choices to themselves get out of poverty because I don't know them or their situation. Even as a massively privileged person I struggle to make good personal lifestyle choices. Everyone's doing the best they can at that moment.

But equally, ignoring the existence of those choices is unhelpful.

> I’ll just point to the obvious high cost of fresh fruit and vegetables

I completely agree. It's a travesty. We should subsidize more vegetables and less corn and soybeans.
by behnamoh | 2026-01-28 19:48:18+00:00
lmster is what was lacking in lmstudio (yes, they have lms but it lacks so many functionalities that the GUI version has).

but it's a bit too little too late. people running this probably can already setup llama.cpp pretty easily.

lmstudio also has some overhead like ollama; llama.cpp or mlx alone are always faster.
by Zarathruster | 2026-01-28 19:48:26+00:00
I was in your shoes about a year ago with an A1 mini, getting into OpenSCAD to make my own keycaps.

If you're getting into OpenSCAD I'd highly recommend getting Belfry ASAP.

https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki

I wouldn't really consider using OpenSCAD without it
by hypeatei | 2026-01-28 19:48:39+00:00
> This is moving the goalpost because you know economists (the critics) forecasted major inflation sooner/now

Yes, because no one expected him to chicken out as hard as he did. It also came out that people in his cabinet (specifically Howard Lutnick) were betting against tariffs while simultaneously advocating for them. The legal opinion is heavily leaning towards them being illegal after many lower court decisions. Do you care to explain how tariffs wouldn't be inflationary if the actions matched the rhetoric?

> The US is still the #2 exporting country

Are you being intentionally obtuse? Look at how much we import vs how much we export. What would you call an economy that imports more than it exports? A ___ based economy?
by ghshephard | 2026-01-28 19:48:44+00:00
I'm intrigued - as tmux has been my window manager for my desktop for 10+ years now ( I typically have 80-100 different windows/panes in play by the end of any given week, where I take time to close down all sessions that aren't still in progress).

I'm wondering what the difference is between this and just tmux basic environment - which already has a lot of pane / window management. What's the key distinction between using tmux and dwm.tmux?

<5 minutes later> - Ah - this is just tmux with some custom config. The window manager is tmux - I would suggest changing the title a bit - maybe something like, "DWM.TMUX - dwm inspired tmux configs. "

<Further review - note the "10 years ago" timestamp - ahh.. This has been gestating for a while>
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-28 19:48:56+00:00
> This makes it where you can run LMStudio properly headless and not just from a terminal while the desktop app is open

Ah, this is great, been waiting for this! I naively created some tooling on top of the API from the desktop app after seeing they had a CLI, then once I wanted to deploy and run it on a server, I got very confused that the desktop app actually installs the CLI and it requires the desktop app running.

Great that they finally got it working fully headless now :)
by superkuh | 2026-01-28 19:49:08+00:00
Gambling disorder was introduced in DSM 3 (1980) before much was known about human neurobiology under 'impulse control disorder not elsewhere classified'. Back then they even thought dopamine was a 'pleasure' chemical. And we now know it's about wanting, not liking. You may be mixing it up when it was reclassified as the DSM 4 (not 5!) did a big reorganization.

Kent Berridges' lab review articles are a great place to start to understand addiction, wanting, and liking and how they are different. But mostly importantly, how addiction works so you can see how chemical addictive substances are vastly different. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/selected-review-art...

Edit: and re: "porn disorder/gaming disorder/behavioral impulse disorders to 'screens' in general" and the behavior of the ICD re: china, see the widely cited Nichole Prause' work https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yySl87AAAAAJ&hl=en
by mangodrunk | 2026-01-28 19:49:10+00:00
Maybe your understanding of things is wrong? Maybe the information you are getting on the situation is misleading?

I am a democrat who does support ICE. If there are any issues, as there are given the numbers, they should be investigated. There have been many instances where an “execution” is claimed but they, the agents, were reasonable to assume imminent harm and self defense.
by zokier | 2026-01-28 19:49:33+00:00
The solution is to run ipv6 on the overlay and have the customer site gateway thing they have to translate it to target ipv4. Conveniently you can do the translation it more or less statefully and very easily because you can just embed the ipv4 addr in ipv6. For example you could grab a /64 prefix, assign 32 bits to customer/gateway id and other 32 bits to target ipv4 addr.
by eko | 2026-01-28 19:49:51+00:00
Fair points, thanks for laying them out clearly.

A few clarifications:

1. We don't aim to replace diagrams-as-code or lock teams out of portable formats. Archyl focuses on discovering and keeping architecture in sync with reality: export and text-based representations are on the roadmap because portability matters.

2. Git integration today is read-only by design. We intentionally avoid bidirectional mutation of source or models until we can guarantee determinism and auditability.

3. We do not treat Archyl as a "golden source of truth" for code or IP. The goal is derived metadata and visualization, not ownership of your system definition.

4. Security is taken seriously: scoped access, least-privilege credentials, and no persistence of sensitive source artifacts beyond what's required for analysis. We're working on publishing a deeper security model to make this more explicit.

The philosophy tension you're pointing out is real, and we're trying to earn trust there rather than hand-wave it away. Appreciate the thoughtful critique.
by ComposedPattern | 2026-01-28 19:50:16+00:00
Muhammad is not a god, and he was very insistent on that point. The Buddha is also not seen as a god is most traditions. Elohim, Allah, and Ahura are generic terms for God or gods.

One does not need to know the specific identity of God to justifiably believe that rights come from God. Suppose that I receive a handwritten letter with no name on it. By the nature of the letter, I can reasonably infer that it was sent by a human, even if I don't know what specific human it was.

GP's argument is that the nature of rights implies that they must come from God. This is because they think rights can't be taken away by others; if they could, they would be privileges, not rights. They presumably think that for a right to be inalienable, it must come from an authority above all others, like God.

You seem to think that rights only apply to specific people at specific times and places. That's fine, but it's the very point that GP was addressing—if rights are given by the government, then they're not rights at all. Restating the claim that rights are not universal does not address GP's argument.

I don't think GP's argument works when it comes to God, because it might be that rights simply exist independent of any authority. Maybe they're an emergent property of human beings, or maybe they simply exist, the way that many believe that God, the number two, or the universe itself just exist without cause. GP might not agree, but it's certainly coherent to believe in inalienable rights without believing in God.
by kbolino | 2026-01-28 19:50:18+00:00
Indeed, these artifacts sound like they're coming from Display Stream Compression [1] rather than scaling. I've had Macs occasionally use DSC when it wasn't necessary; power-cycling the display and/or changing the port it's plugged into usually fixed it. If it's consistently happening, though, it's probably because the display, the cable, the port, and/or the GPU can't handle the resolution and refresh rate at full bandwidth.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Stream_Compression
by j45 | 2026-01-28 19:50:46+00:00
This seems to historically have been a pattern. There was a period where Windows Vista was forced on everyone and downgrading to Windows XP until Vista was better was forbidden.

Lots of people jumped to Mac or Linux at that time. There's article floating around that the Macbook Pro ironically was the best laptop to run Windows XP on via dual boot because it was so intel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-28 19:51:10+00:00
Well yeah, it always comes down to money. Even on an indie level Linux support is a commitment.

https://reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/e2ww5s/mike_rose_linux...

Now if you do care about quality, having a committed, technical audience giving quality big reports is a godsend. But that's not where we are this decade rife with layoffs and rampant outsourcing in the industry.