MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by numpad0 | 2026-01-24 04:43:20+00:00
Commercial implementations back when this launched was vastly inferior to it, if users' accounts are to be believed. Obvious signs of too high P in PID and such.

Tesla Autopilot was always available, but they were as sketchy as it always had been. Shoving the head into road barriers and fire trucks with rear ends that were less car looking especially to pre-LLM image recognition models.

OpenPilot also allow retrofits. People who own 2017-2023ish cars, shipped between the times after self driving hype took off and before command signature enforcement was widely implemented, can DIY self driving without re-buying the whole car, put aside whether it's legal or whether you should.
by stevenicr | 2026-01-24 04:43:24+00:00
I asked for something similar on HN some time ago and the response I remember was 'if there was a market for this it would exist' - I explained the huge marker and need for it.

The first one I saw that said they did a percentage split I think was/is the "lily card" ? - then 'the founders card' (which is way too expensive for my taste)

Then I had someone from chase bank offer to setup a personal account for me, and I flippantly said sure if you can give me the ability to split percentages every time I get paid / deposit money.. and I know what you are going to say 'that's easy, just know what you are going to deposit, do the math and enter the amount.. full stop - I don't want that - that has been available for a long time everywhere..

This lady told me you can do a percentage now - she was pretty sure she saw that in her training.. took some time to bring it up.. but yes right there on the screen, and she printed it for me..

ability to split a percentage when money comes in..

Now I have not gotten into the details yet - like can you set a percentage for one source coming in and a different one for another?

for my use case I just simply wanted 34% going to a saving account every time I put money in, and that appears doable there now.

When I saw you list I just thought, do a 50/10/10/30 split
have the 10 for affliates just be another account - when money hits there do your 15 split..

Things may get wonky splitting your third account, the 10% for 3 contractors - I think bank match gets weird when it hits a 3.3333% - I would hope there are rules for adjusting in there, but I have not yet seen the system to know.

I actually tried a similar thing when someone set me up with ADP payments a few months ago - they had an option to send 67% to one account and the rest to a different bank account - I was shocked.. and even though I think it had a thing that said if there is leftover pennies or partial percentage just push the rest to X choice..

however it did not go through for some reason - whoever managed that company's ADP stuff said there was some error they had to manually do a thing, don't recall.

Anyhow, I am glad to see that some options are becoming available for this finally - there were none I could find a while back.

I had wanted to do a twitter campaign tagging each major bank and explaining how a bunch of people need this and the bank that rolls it out can be attractive to the gig economy and freelancers big time.
by strogonoff | 2026-01-24 04:43:38+00:00
There seems to be some misinformation about Yarn and how it is worse than pnpm when it comes to workspaces.

— Yarn does not hoist anything in PnP mode, which I think is the default and is better than the old node_modules approach for other reasons.

— Yarn most certainly supports the workspace: protocol in dependency version specs.

Is pnpm better than Yarn in some significant ways? Judging by the name I would assume pnpm has PnP mode just like Yarn, but does it also have zero-installs mode?
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-24 04:44:39+00:00
I bought and returned an AMD Framework. I knew what I was getting into, but the build quality + firmware quality were lacking, sleep was bad and I'm not new to fixing Linux sleep issues. Take a look at the Linux related support threads on their forum.

I've been using AMD EliteBooks, the firmware has Linux happy paths, the hardware is supported by the kernel and Modern Standby actually works well. Getting one with a QHD to UHD screen is mandatory, though, and I wouldn't buy a brand new model without confirming it has working hardware on linux-hardware.org.

If you look online, HP has a YouTube channel with instructional videos for replacing and repairing every part of their laptops. They are made to make memory, storage and WiFi/5G card replacements easy, parts are cheap and the after market for them is healthy.

I've also had good luck with their support, they literally overnight'd a new laptop with a return box for the broken one in a day.
by XorNot | 2026-01-24 04:44:55+00:00
I don't know, it feels odd to declare people wrote "because they enjoy it" and then get irritated when someone finds a way to monetize it retrospectively.

Like you're either doing this for the money or you're not, and its okay to re-evaluate that decision...but at the same time there's a whole lot of "actually I was low key trying to build a career" type energy to a lot of the complaining.

Like I switched off from Facebook aboutna years after discovering it when it increasingly became "look at my new business venture...friends". LinkedIn is at least just upfront about it and I can ignore the feed entirely (use it for job listings only).
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-24 04:45:27+00:00
> I think one of the most eye-opening blog posts I read when getting into programming initially was the evergreen parse, don’t validate post

Bro, that was written in 2019. If it's not old enough to drink it's not yet evergreen. But it's also long-winded. A 25-minute read, and y'know what the conclusion is? "Parsing leaves you with a new data structure matching a type, validation checks if some data technically complies with a type (but might not later be parsed correctly)".

I need all the baby programmers in the back to hear me: type systems are bikeshedding. The point of a type is only to restrict computation to a fixed set. This concept can be applied anywhere you need to ensure reliability and simplicity. You don't need a programming language to natively support types in order to implement the concept yourself in that language.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-24 04:45:42+00:00
The topic is bitlocker, and Microsoft, and keys.

With a VM running on an encrypted file system, whatever a warrant for a bitlocker key might normally provide will be hidden behind an additional layer that Microsoft does not hold the keys to.

(Determining whether that is useful or not is an exercise for the person who believes that they have something to hide.)
by ranon | 2026-01-24 04:47:14+00:00
Waymo put a ton of sensors, including lidar and cameras, to create a truly driverless experience. Tesla put a ton of cameras to make a mostly driverless experience (but when you need a driver you NEED a driver). Comma strapped a cellphone cam to the windshield to make a semi driverless experience on straightish roads, and a driver must take over when anything complex happens. Source: very happy comma.ai user for many years now
by nodja | 2026-01-24 04:48:07+00:00
> My <device> already comes with built in <software> why would I install anything else?

Top voted comment on hacker news btw.

Ok that was probably unnecessarily snarky I hope you don't take offense, but it seems the hacker spirit has been fading more often from this site, we used to replace stuff with inferior versions just to see if we could.
by mroche | 2026-01-24 04:48:37+00:00
> Unfortunately, Go’s library doesn’t get updated every time Unicode does. As of now, January 2026, it’s still stuck at Unicode 15.0.0, which dates to September 2023; the latest version is 17.0.0, last September. Which means there are plenty of Unicode characters Go doesn’t know about, and I didn’t want Quamina to settle for that.

I have to say I am surprised about that. Does anyone have any context or guesses as to why this is the case?

EDIT: Go's unicode was actually updated to v17 yesterday:

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/dd39dfb534d2badf1bb2d72d...
by d4mr | 2026-01-24 04:48:59+00:00
I got mass nerd-sniped by Anthropic's performance engineering challenge this week and fell down the rabbit hole. This is Part 1 of a series breaking down the problem from first principles, what the simulated machine actually does, why instruction packing is hard, and where the optimization opportunities are.
Built some interactive visualizations to make the concepts click (SIMD vs scalar, dependency graphs, the gather bottleneck).
Currently at 2,375 cycles on the leaderboard. Planning to go deeper into tinygrad's approach in Part 2, their linearizer gets 1,340 with a "fairly generic backend" which is wild.
by apaprocki | 2026-01-24 04:49:24+00:00
> > typedef struct { ... } String

> I avoid doing this. Just use `struct string { ... };'. It makes it clear what you're handling.

Well then imagine if Gtk made you write `struct GtkLabel`, etc. and you saw hundreds of `struct` on the screen taking up space in heavy UI code. Sometimes abstractions are worthwhile.
by galangalalgol | 2026-01-24 04:49:28+00:00
This is the sort of info I was trolling for, but what are those platforms and os? Targets llvm doesn't handle yeah c++ makes sense, or c. A sibling mentions xcode, which makes sense. Graphics seems questionable, vulkan support is fine. Windows support has seemed finetoo, the same gui has worked as what we wrote for Linux.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-24 04:49:38+00:00
> If it weren't for Bitlocker, their laptops wouldn't be encrypted at all!

And because of Bitlocker, their encryption is worth nothing in the end.

> if these people were using Linux, their laptops wouldn't be encrypted

Maybe, maybe not. Ubuntu and Fedora both have FDE options in the installer. That's objectively more honest and secure than forcing a flawed default in my opinion.
by at1as | 2026-01-24 04:50:21+00:00
> It feels like a such an American point of view to think a techno-ideal is defined simply by buying a different set of consumer electronics, many of which are just as throwaway as the ones before

This author is European, even if posting from the US.

There are classes of items that are throwaway, but bring other kinds of value (like all of the soldering kits I used to buy, that were basically garbage once assembled but were very educational and steered my career in a certain direction).

There are classes of items that increase the volume of e-waste over time. Dedicated purpose driven devices (like e-readers). And there's a compelling alternative: Apple makes very good stuff. You can buy a Mac and an iPhone and keep them for up to a decade (with a battery replacement in-between). You can use that iPhone to many things (like reading books). But I think the real costs of that consolidation aren't worth it, and that anyone growing up in that environment won't be curious or inspired about tech the way I was.

And there are items that are throwaway because they're cheap and won't last. These I usually avoid. The ASUS, I'm finding out, was questionable, though purchased with good intentions - Macbook like solid aluminum chassis, etc. But the Leica (actually 2nd hand), Apple stuff, even the Ray Bans are all pretty durable.

I actually see a lot more "throwaway" tech, and culture around it in Asia than I do in the US. Things are pretty conservative over here for the majority of people.

> the way I was excited by the N64 or the early web.

This is part of the reason I've been buying old, physical games. It brings some clarity and focus that I frankly find difficult scrolling through an endless digital library. Something about the mere act of inserting a CD or cartridge subconsciously silences distractions and feels like a real commitment rather than a passive activity.

It may be more of a callback to the past than the future, but I think there's a reasonable chance the future will look similar, with a wave of new products that seek to do similar things and evoke the same reactions. Time will tell.

> If the only future we can envision is a curated list of retro-gadgets and subscriptions, we have lost the plot.

Hate subscriptions. Left Adobe because of them. Will leave 1Password when they finally end my one-and-done 1Password 7 purchase. Don't use Microsoft Live for my Xbox. Spent years manually copying iPhone photos weekly to avoid the Apple storage subscription (this one I've admitted defeat on). The only subscription product on that list is an Oura Ring, for which I'm grandfathered into a non-subscription plan; would give it up otherwise.

If the predicted AI-driven downward pressure on per seat pricing plays out in SaaS, there's reason to believe consumer subscriptions would likely be under pressure as well.
by hcazz | 2026-01-24 04:50:50+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiB8GVMNJkE

Not sure you understand how "The Formula" works. The profit generated by adding this feature will outweigh the cost of any resulting accidents that they take liability for.

A less pessimistic way of phrasing it is that within the boundaries they've defined, their self driving system is so much better than a human that they're willing to assume responsibility for crashes deemed "at-fault" while using the system.

Not intentionally trying to compare that with other automakers, but Mercedes is the only "you can buy now" vehicle (ignoring robotaxis/Waymo/others) that assumes liability with those capabilities. Until other automakers provide that legal guarantee, they're parlor tricks at best that will continue to get folks killed in scenarios that they otherwise wouldn't had they been actually paying attention.
by rekabis | 2026-01-24 04:52:27+00:00
Report to SpamCop. You need the entire eMail, including headers, but it’s worth it.

I was one of the submitters, back in the mid 2000s, that forced SpamCop to increase daily submission limits (in stages) from 200/day to over 20,000/day. After I breached 500/day I began using a personally-modified version of MailWasher (local-only/pre-cloud) to ram my noggin against their limit on the regular as I chased it upwards. This was also right about when MailWasher began offering batch submissions to SpamCop.

SpamCop eventually threw in the towel and unlocked my account entirely to let me run limit-free. Which was, apparently, a very rarefied club to be in. There was one week, during a particularly bad spam storm, where I was submitting more than 50k a day.

I don’t know exactly where I was in their leaderboard, but when they unlocked my account’s limit, the contact I was talking to let slip that I was among their top-10 most prolific submitters of all time.

I know I caused a lot of lingering trauma among spammers, as those same honeypots get only a handful of spam eMails a month these days. The decline started around 2012 and had slowed to a trickle by 2015. These days it’s pretty much a rounding error.
by futuraperdita | 2026-01-24 04:53:23+00:00
I feel like a lot of people that are looking for a nostalgic device can get the experience they need by uninstalling most applications and then turning off all notifications first. In doing so, you don't end up with a device that is much different than an old Treo 650 - PIM functionality, messaging, and no growth-hacking loops.
by numpad0 | 2026-01-24 04:53:37+00:00
It requires steering and cruise control to be able to be controlled by the random pieces of code downloaded from GitHub.

So a 1920s Fords are out, and 2035 BYD flying cars with post-quantum cryptographic command signature enforcement are out too. Toyota bZ sits somewhere in the middle of those. IIRC they got past some types of Toyota security keys but not all.
by hn_acker | 2026-01-24 04:55:33+00:00
> What about books sent directly from a book store?

That was THE way for individuals to send a book via mail to an inmate, and starting February 1st that will no longer be an available option [1]:

> Before the new policy, employees of the Department of Corrections inspected and decided, on a case-by-case basis, whether materials could be passed to those on the inside. Materials to incarcerated people were already limited to those sent directly from publishers or approved vendors, with bans on materials sent from individuals and unapproved organizations. Now, materials are allowed into the system only through requested donations to prison libraries and/or prison chaplains.

When I posted TFA, the Arkansas Division of Correction page about "Mail and Money" for inmates [2] had a line about the February 1st restriction on printed materials. The line did not mention sources of mail, so I interpreted it as applying to mail from both individuals and stores. I'm kicking myself for not archiving the page at that time, because just now I checked the page and the line had been deleted [3], except for a sloppily-left-in space right before "No food or care packages may be mailed to an inmate." The now-deleted line seems to have been added after January 12, because a Wayback Machine archive on January 12 says that "All books, magazines, newspapers and catalogs must be mailed directly from the publisher, bookstore, educational institution, or recognized commercial or charitable outlet." [4] (That is, the page previously mentioned specific sources of mail.)

[1] https://bookriot.com/arkansas-prison-book-ban/

[2] https://doc.arkansas.gov/correction/inmates/mail-and-money/

[3] https://archive.ph/qE7Zk

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20260112235838/https://doc.arkan...
by madhadron | 2026-01-24 04:57:20+00:00
> Copy-paste his post into any LLM and ask it whether the post is contradictory or whether it's ambiguous whether this is production-grade software or not. No objective reader of this would come to the conclusion that it's ambiguous or misleading.

That's hilarious! You might want to add a bit more transition for the joke before the other points above, though.
by moralestapia | 2026-01-24 04:58:23+00:00
Seems that the "it's a numbers game" thesis delivered.

(I know the previous deal was different but just to get an estimate ...)

500k to each of 5,000+ startups = 2.5 billion

in exchange of

7% of 1.3 trillion = 91 billion

~36x return.

It's even better than that as they invest, on average, less than 500k and get, on average, more than 7% equity.
by Leftium | 2026-01-24 04:59:07+00:00
Instead of directly passing the CSV data to the LLM, have the LLM write a script that will read the CSV and output the trends. (Then it can run the script and report on the results.)

I wanted to figure out reasonable values for range of daily/hourly precipitation for https://weather-sense.leftium.com. Claude wrote a script to call the Open Meteo API to collect hourly stats for a few cities for an entire year (8000+ rows), then just reported the 80th, 90th, etc percentiles and recommended ranges.
by thot_experiment | 2026-01-24 05:00:23+00:00
lmao, `autotrace -centerline filename.png` would also achieve this, I wonder how many tokens were burned to achieve what a 1mb GPL program from 1999 could do

very depressing that our incentive structures are so malformed that finding the 27 year old solution is more difficult than burning a few kW getting an LLM to regurgitate a facsimile
by cap11235 | 2026-01-24 05:03:46+00:00
Maybe I'd care about his opinion if he didn't take the money. I consider this worse than OSS taking VC money. At least those don't have a scam auto-builtin to the structure beyond normal capitalistic parasitism.

Also, 275k lines for a markdown todo app. Anyone defending this is an idiot. I'll just say that. Go ahead, defend it. Go do a code review on `beads`. Don't say it's alright, but gastown is madness. He fucking sucks.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-24 05:04:31+00:00
Yes, there is no point in trying to make Europeans happy. They are impossible to please. You can see our favorability in Europe was barely net positive then.

By May of last year (before the Greenland drama--I'm against that of course), more Europeans liked China better than the US. Maybe we should start shipping materials for weapons to Russia, like China does, to see if that improves our popularity with Europe.

"Soft power" is an absurd talking point. Doing nice things for Europe has brought us nothing but anger and contempt. Just scroll through this thread, there's plenty of proof. They are a very entitled and condescending people.
by apaprocki | 2026-01-24 05:05:02+00:00
Please don’t buy into “no const”. If you’ve ever worked with a lot of C/C++ code, you really appreciate proper const usage and it’s very obvious if a prototype is written incorrectly because now any callers will have errors. No serious reusable library would expose functions taking char* without proper const usage. You would never be able to pass a C++ string c_str() to such a C function without a const_cast if that were the case. Casting away const is and should be an immediate smell.
by WalterBright | 2026-01-24 05:06:32+00:00
D is an elegant re-imagine of C and C++. For a trivial example,

typedef struct S { int a; } S;

becomes simply:

struct S { int a; }

and unlike C:

extern int foo();
int bar() { return foo(); }
int foo() { return 6; }

you have:

int bar() { return foo(); }
int foo() { return 6; }

For more complex things:

#include <foo.h>

becomes:

import foo;
by VerifiedReports | 2026-01-24 05:06:42+00:00
This is a fresh install. The CLI brokenness is documented in this and across several bugs marked as dupes: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/20115

And if you try to use the "regular" VS Code plug-in mode, it fails with error 3221225477. A search will turn up reports on that too.

If you query Claude itself on this, it will acknowledge that both of these are known problems. But no support for paying customers, who are promised a follow-up E-mail after reporting a problem. BULLSHIT. A week later, I haven't heard a peep, and what I paid for is thus far useless.
by dandersch | 2026-01-24 05:06:42+00:00
Guests don't care about charisma, they care who your previous guests were. He early on got Elon Musk as a guest (AFAIK by writing a paper that was overly favorable to Tesla) and managed to snowball that into a big podcast.

Also guests agreeing to go on your show means they already want to talk about something, so in a way it's more important to shut up than ask good questions.
by perihelions | 2026-01-24 05:06:47+00:00
> "Not sure what he would gain from that."

Besides the ~$1 million a head he's openly selling[0] pardons for?

Why wouldn't he pardon a white-collar felon fraudster? This president has pardoned dozens of those[1]—frauds who had no reason at all to be deserving of clemency, other than being incredibly rich. He's pardoned fraudsters who defrauded thousands of victims[2]. He's pardoned a fraudster convicted of fraud, who committed fraud again, and he pardoned them a second time[3]. There are no limits.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-presidential-pardo... ("Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon /
Lobbyists close to Trump say their going rate to advocate for a pardon is $1 million")

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executi... ("List of recipients of executive clemency from Trump")

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/politics/trump-david-g... ("Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence / David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.")

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/politics/trump-fraudst... ("Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time")

> "The crypto community largely backed him in the last election"

Gee golly; I wonder why.