MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by whizzter | 2026-01-12 14:50:43+00:00
No, the death of Windows Phone was 95% the fault of MS/Nokia.

Pre-announcing that they were leaving all Winphone 7 customers behind for Winphone 8 meant that every retailer/distributor was left with unsellable stock (because they hadn't gained enough traction to sell out initial shipments).

If this was because Nokia made bad/cheap phones that were un-upgradeable or MS being arrogant isn't something I'm remembering anymore but the end-result was pissed retailers and nobody selling WP8.
Show HN: Reality Check – Like, dislike, review, fact-check social media posts
by AndreiBargan | 2026-01-12 14:50:53+00:00
Install our Reality Check Chrome extension and you'll be able to:

- like/dislike any posts on major platforms, especially on X :) Likes are synced with the platform’s own ones.

- rate and comment on any site. It's like TrustPilot, but always there.

- become a reviewer/fact-checker and report fake news, AI-slop, scams, etc. on any post, so that users can see your short review right on this post — with a link to your site/channel for more details, giving you traffic. It’s like Community Notes on X, but better :)

- check authors’ credibility based on how many fakes or misleading posts they’ve published.

- comment even if the author has blocked comments on the post.

- later we’ll promote expert opinions in our comments so they don't drown in low-quality or toxic discussions.

This solves the problem of social networks being toxic and misleading, with tons of AI-slop and inflated social influencers because:

- they got rid of the dislike button — which leads to the spread of toxic content.

- even if you know that it's AI-slop, a scam post, deceptive, misleading, or fake news — you cannot share this signal with other users. Comments don’t work.

- if the post/video author blocks comments for provocative content — you simply cannot respond in any way.

Works for X, YouTube, Instagram, Bluesky, Truth Social, Threads, and more platforms to come…

https://reality-check.info
by aapoalas | 2026-01-12 14:51:01+00:00
Monkey's paw: you get your wish, but so does someone who wants RAII and single-use-malloc to be left behind as a leaky and bad abstractions.

We all happily march into a future where only arena allocation is allowed, and when the arena is overfull it can only be fully reset without saving data. Copying still-used data out if it before reset is not allowed, as that's a copying half-space garbage collector. Reference counting is of course not allowed either as that's also garbage collection. Everyone is blessed...?
by necovek | 2026-01-12 14:51:33+00:00
Agreed. I tried 24k 4k screen as soon as they came out (required two DP cables to run at 60Hz at the time), and turning subpixel rendering off, I could see jagged edges on fonts from normal sitting position (I am shortsighted, but at -3.25 I always need correction anyway, which brings my eyesight to better than 20/20). At 27" or 32", DPI is even worse.

And MacOS has removed support for subpixel rendering because "retina", though I only use it when forced (work).
by taykolasinski | 2026-01-12 14:51:39+00:00
I’m referring specifically to the fundamental residual connection backbone that defines the transformer architecture (x_{l+1} = x_l + F(x_l)).

While the sub-modules differ (MHA vs GQA, SwiGLU vs GeLU, Mixture-of-Depths, etc.), the core signal propagation in Llama, Gemini, and Claude relies on that additive residual stream.

My point here is that DeepSeek's mHC challenges that fundamental additive assumption by introducing learnable weighted scaling factors to the residual path itself.
by PinguTS | 2026-01-12 14:51:57+00:00
I feel like some HN posters simply read news and don't work in the industry and have actual insights on what's happening.

Like Hydac moved some of there assembly from China to Germany.

A company in the district nearby, just moved their whole production from Thailand back to here. Yes, production costs are higher. But there is not transportation costs. They don't have long lead times anymore and can react more better to demand. So the overall costs assessment lead to the decision it is better to have production here locally.

I recommend to go to SPS, Agritechnica, and so and talk to actual people.

BTW: Even as Continental has layoff. There are other companies around that happily absorb those people. Because 2 years back, that had problems employing people.
by piltdownman | 2026-01-12 14:51:58+00:00
So the actual context of this is a long-standing feud between Meta and our elected representatives (and some prominent media figures) regarding social engineering scam ads.

You've probably seen some variant of it - a 1:1 copy of a reputable newsoutlet - in this case The Irish Independent, The Irish Times, RTÉ or Newstalk - with a purported video from our Prime Minister or similar which leads to a crypto-trading or forex-trading sales funnel. Simon Harris, our previous Head of State, was inundated with variants of the same script:

“In the nation’s best interests, we’ve carried out a full investigation to make sure it’s not a scam,” the AI-generated Harris appears to say in the scam ad shown on YouTube.

“This is your chance to change your life. All it takes is one small step: invest €250 and start earning today,” the deepfaked figure tells a press conference.

https://www.thejournal.ie/facetcheck-debunk-ai-scam-ad-deepf...

https://www.newstalk.com/news/social-media-platforms-see-sur...
by stinkbeetle | 2026-01-12 14:52:13+00:00
> Cooking good food takes time [...]

This does not address what I wrote though because it is not what I was arguing against.

I agree part of the reason people buy junk food and fast food rather than "whole food" is because the real or perceived effort required to turn it into something they will eat. Or they don't know how to make things that can compete on taste and satisfy their food addiction like those fast foods. It's not because they are time-poor either. They are just addicted to this sedentary "lazy" lifestyle. 30 minute drive to get fast food and eat it while watching TV or tiktok for the next hour or so beats making food and cleaning up for an hour.
by watwut | 2026-01-12 14:53:25+00:00
> Who cares how they're doing it in Albania?

It would be interesting comparison, actually. As interesting as French, Germany or whatever.

> It used to be better in America, now it's worse and it's taken our entire society with it. [...] They peaked in 1992 and have been steadily decaying since.

I checked out tests and it is not true. Reading scores in 2022 were still higher then those in 1992. https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=38

So, yeah, this would be an interesting historical comparison. It was worst most of the time.

> These people lack the ability to think critically because they never learned it. They're the ones that open phishing emails and get taken by shady real estate con-men and Nigerian prince scammers.

You are confusing two different things here. First off, highly educated people are in fact vulnerable to scammers ... frequently because of their own confidence.

> You can be semi-literate and be a good person. You can't be semi-literate and make good decisions. Not in the modern world.

But issue in modern world are not people just dont make good decisions. It is people who make immoral decisions. Vance have good reading skills, but he is still a fascist.

> You'll also note that 1992 was the year Dan Quayle was disqualified from the presidency because he couldn't spell potato.

This is not an example of mass of people using critical thinking and acting rationally. This is an example of blown up reaction ala Twitter mob latching on something trivial and making a big deal out of it. This is example of what happen when soundbite wins over substance.
by oneeyedpigeon | 2026-01-12 14:53:34+00:00
I might even give Apple a tiny bit of credit if some designer had piped up at some point and said "you think we should square off the corners when the app is 'maximised'"? But, no, either nobody pointed out that the emperor wore no clothes, or they were ignored.

(I say "maximised", even though that isn't the right term, because there is no right term. I don't mean 'full screen', since the borders are actually squared off properly in that mode, thank the lord; I mean 'full screen except for the global menu bar')
by imgcreatorai1 | 2026-01-12 14:53:35+00:00
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by orwin | 2026-01-12 14:54:02+00:00
> they really, really want to own the entire value chain rather than being relegated to becoming just another "model provider"

This is really the salient point for everything. The models are expensive to train but ultimately worthless if paying customers aren't captive and can switch at will. The issue it that a lot of the recent gains are in the prefill inference, and in the model's RAG, which aren't truly a most (except maybe for Google, if their RAG include Google scholar). That's where the bubble will pop.
by mingli_yuan | 2026-01-12 14:54:31+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been experimenting with a different kind of LLM benchmark, and wanted to share it here for feedback.

IntentGrid is a language-only, turn-based competitive game designed to test strategic planning, spatial reasoning, and long-horizon decision making in large language models.

Instead of puzzles or static tasks, models play a 40-turn adversarial game on a 13×13 grid.
Each turn, they must:

analyze a dense board state,

reason about future congestion and forced combat,

express intent in natural language,

and output a strictly validated action plan.

Because 80 units are spawned over 40 turns on a 169-cell board, the system guarantees saturation:
combat is unavoidable, and passive survival fails. Timing, positioning, and coordination matter more than tactics alone.

A concrete match example (Kimi vs Gemini):
https://intentgrid.org/match/25f2530d-c7e6-4553-b231-dff4a98...
by bwb | 2026-01-12 14:54:35+00:00
I read Careless People, and it was great. I'm glad I quit FB in 2016 after the Cambridge Analytica scandal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

My wife read it and quit as well this year.

I think FB and other social media as something we will look back on as being worse than cigarettes.
by lucasoshiro | 2026-01-12 14:54:39+00:00
> Now, if someone wants to recreate win95

You can try Chicago95 [1], but it's only a XFCE theme. If you want more than a theme, there's SerenityOS [2] but it isn't suitable for daily use (yet)

[1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
[2] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity
by kreco | 2026-01-12 14:55:07+00:00
That's a very nice project.

List of remarks:

> var ints: int[5] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

> var zeros: [int; 5]; // Zero-initialized

The zero initialized array is so convoluted.

> // Bitfields

If it's deterministically packed.

> Tagged unions

Same, is the memory layout deterministic (and optimized)?

> 2 | 3 => print("Two or Three")

Any reason not to use "2 || 3"?

> Traits

What if I want to remove or override the "trait Drawing for Circle" because the original implementation doesn't fit my constraints?
As long as traits are not required to be in a totally different module than the struct I will likely never welcome them in a programming language.
by random_ind_dude | 2026-01-12 14:55:09+00:00
I have a hard time believing that your team who were mostly from Kerala asked you not to set up a development centre there, as IT is pretty immune to militant trade unionism. A lot of companies have development centres in Trivandrum, some were set up more than twenty years ago.

I don't disagree that Kerala was known for being rather unfriendly to big industries, but things are changing. The Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry ranked Kerala at the top in 2024 for "Ease of Doing Business Reforms".

https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2024/Sep/06/e...

As for the clothes manufacturer, I believe you are talking about Kitex. They didn't go anywhere and their factories are still there in Kerala. They did set up a new factory recently in Telengana though, which, along with the rest of the company, is going through a rough phase now because of Trump's tariffs.
by jrsj | 2026-01-12 14:55:19+00:00
I’m starting to think you’re right but only because software engineers don’t seem to actually value or care about open source anymore. Apparently we have collectively forgotten how bad it can be to let your tools own you instead of the other way around.

Maybe another symptom of Silicon Valley hustle culture — nobody cares about the long term consequences if you can make a quick buck.
by Terretta | 2026-01-12 14:55:27+00:00
As a user of Claude Code via API (the expensive way), Anthrophic's "huge mistake" is capping monthly spend (billed in advance and pay as you go some $500 - $1500 at a time, by credit card) at just $5,000 a month.

It's a supposedly professional tool with a value proposition that requires being in your work flow. Are you going to keep using a power drill on your construction site that bricks itself the last week or two of every month?

An error message says contact support. They then point you to an enterprise plan for 150 seats when you have only a couple dozen devs. Note that 5000 / 25 = 200 ... coincidence? Yeah, you are forbidden to give them more than Max-like $200/dev/month for the usage-based API that's "so expensive".

They are literally "please don't give us money any more this month, thanks".
by bee_rider | 2026-01-12 14:55:32+00:00
Are live tiles universally praised? I see them mentioned positively occasionally, but I suspect they are getting some benefit… like, they are the Windows 8 feature that isn’t immediately obnoxious. Windows 8’s UI just didn’t have any redeeming features, so the element that is merely bad gets brought up as a sort of “see I’m not a relentlessly negative hater, I’m objective” thing, I bet. Is there a name for this trope?
by alistairSH | 2026-01-12 14:55:46+00:00
Ugh, this caught me as well.

And it's not just Tahoe. The various iOS/WatchOS updates from the fall are all broken in one way or another.

For example, WatchOS's music app can't play more than 2-3 songs from a downloaded playlist without crashing.

The WatchOS Outlook app won't launch (which also means the watch face complication is broken).

iOS Safari's search bar/address bar periodically freezes after you enter a search term. If you click the bar, the search term disappears, so you have re-type it.
by uyzstvqs | 2026-01-12 14:55:56+00:00
This is a good way to regulate this. Criminalize people who abuse AI tools to cause harm. Don't try to impose censorship or mass-surveillance on AI tools. I oppose all pornography, but censoring nudity from a model both compromises the model's quality (example: SD3) and stops legitimate artistic value.

Though the framing on Grok is highly duplicitous. It is against the ToS, and it's about a few abusers among millions of legitimate users. Meanwhile there are actual "nudification" services which advertise themselves entirely to enable this kind of abuse.
by Fabricio20 | 2026-01-12 14:56:15+00:00
Is it just me or does anyone else notice all the little inconsistencies on these "windows ui clones" that show up on linux? I like the idea but looking at the pictures I can't get past the lock screen (font size feels wrong, the borders missing on the input field, the size.. it just all feels wrong somehow I can't explain. That On-Screen-Keyboard squeezed into a tiny square??). On the "start menu" picture the two font sizes near the battery icon, how all the linux apps on display have weird coloring and blues-that-dont-quite-match, the bright greens with white text, etc..

Not to diss the UI attempt at all, I just always seem to spot all these little things/polish every time one of these come up (I've seen so many XP clones where the minimize/maximize/close buttons look out of place and badly shaped, etc..). I genuinely wonder if it's because I spent so much time on these OSes back in the day or if all the DEs being used have some inherent limitations that cause these design inconsistencies.
by otikik | 2026-01-12 14:56:18+00:00
I have realized that I only need 3 window sizes: maximized, minimized, or half-of-the-screen vertically. Rectangle [1] is a great way to get key combinations for resizing and moving my windows around. It works well across multiple monitors and it's free. I didn't even notice this issue, but I see how it could be problematic for people.

https://rectangleapp.com/
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-12 14:56:28+00:00
>that had problems employing people

Who is "that" in this context?

>Even as Continental has layoff

Not just Conti, but all major automotive suppliers, semiconductor, embedded companies spread across Europe had mass layoffs.

And not everyone was quickly absorbed. I have friends almost a year unemployed after the layoffs. They apply but only get rejections.
by bwestergard | 2026-01-12 14:56:29+00:00
"But this is the same process that people go through as they go from coder to lead developer or architect or project manager - letting go of control."

In those circumstances, it's delegating control. And it's difficult to judge whether the authority you delegated is being misused if you lose touch with how to do the work itself. This comparison shouldn't be pushed too far, but it's not entirely unlike a compiler developer needing to retain the ability to understand machine code instructions.
by atommclain | 2026-01-12 14:57:06+00:00
I was just looking into this today. I want to keep my computer updated with the cli tool softwareupdate. Before I was using the flag --all to apply any update, but then tried to change it to --recommended as I wanted to avoid any major macOS upgrades (ie Tahoe). But Tahoe is listed as a recommended upgrade.

Now I call it with --required which only applies critical and security updates. Then I call it again with --safari-only, and one more time with --list to see what remaining updates are available. Frustrating (but sadly not surprising) there isn't a way to apply all available updates excluding major OS updates.
by wffurr | 2026-01-12 14:57:13+00:00
I love these physical mechanisms for controlling the software that surrounds us. Not enough physical UX out there; all the industrial designers seem to be in love with single button controls or touchscreens or capacitive panels. I presume they're cheaper than switches with a nice thunk or dials with a nice clicky feel.

Unfortunately, it takes a fair bit of time and skill with microelectronics and fabrication to build these things.

My 7 year old has figured out the Roku app pretty well and can play stuff on PBS Kids or turn on the Nintendo Switch without any guidance. His 3 year old brother, not so much.
by evanjrowley | 2026-01-12 14:57:19+00:00
Glad to see someone was inspired to do this! I miss the Windows 8 UI - one of my unpopular opinions, which I shall justify here.

I never personally owned a Windows 8 computer, but I used some at work. I logged in to Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 on a daily bases for several years - these had the same type of start menu.

Prior to this experience on Windows, I was a Mac OS X "power user" enjoying Quicksilver[0][1] on Snow Leopard (10.6) through (Mavericks 10.9). It's mode of interaction[2] was very similar to Spotlight[3] built-in to modern macOS.

I also learned to touch type on that very same *MacBook while waiting for a plane in an airport terminal.

All this is to say that the concept of hitting a key and typing to launch an application felt very natural to me when I first encountered the Windows 8 UI. I never felt the need to use a traditional start menu, despite having clocked lots of hours on Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, and older versions. in the office. When Windows 10 brought back the traditional start menu, I only ever searched through it like I would have on a Windows 8 or MacOS system.

Recent benchmark testing[4] showed Windows 8.1 to be faster in many ways compared to Windows 10 and Windows 11. I was surprised someone actually did this, but not surprised at the results!

Perhaps one of the reasons why I preferred it more than Windows 10 and Winows 11 is the Control Panel was still very usable in Windows 8. As someone who worked on Server versions of Windows, the Control Panel was very much embedded in my muscle memory. The erosion of it in subsequent versions of Windows is the source of my growing pains. That, plus all of the popular reasons why Microsoft/Windows gets backlash today.

* The 2010 MacBook was advertized with a 10 hour battery life. Many years would pass before Apple would again advertize such a long battery lifetime. I had upgraded the RAM and swapped the optical drive for a second 2.5 hard disk, then re-installed Mac OS X in software RAID1 mode. It was extremely stable until the day I ran 'sudo rm -rf /' at the Terminal. I.e., the type of stuff that would give Tim Cook indegestion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_(software)

[1] https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver

[2] https://images.sftcdn.net/images/t_app-cover-s,f_auto/p/7e76...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(Apple)

[4] https://meterpreter.org/the-20-year-showdown-why-windows-8-1...
by alexpadula | 2026-01-12 14:57:32+00:00
It’s not, it’s just how hackernews works. You’ll see new projects hit 1k-10k stars in a matter of a day. You can have the best project, best article to you but if everyone else doesn’t think so it’ll always be at the bottom. Some luck involved too. Bots upvoting a post not organically I doubt is gonna live long on first page.
by RicoElectrico | 2026-01-12 14:57:34+00:00
With my grandpa thankfully it wasn't as bad, though I had to regularly change back the source to HDMI (from STB). Somehow changing that himself was too much, even though he regularly read the teletext. Later, when choosing a new TV I opted for one that accepted a CAM module, obsoleting the cable STB. The simplicity of the remote was also a factor. So a cheap 32" Samsung TV it was. Turned out great. The other choice was a Sony, but my gut feeling about UI was right all along.
by necovek | 2026-01-12 14:57:38+00:00
Perhaps try a 5k/27" at 150%, or look for visual acuity correction :)

FWIW, I could see jagged edges on 4k at 24" without subpixel rendering, 27" is worse. Yes, even 4k at 32" is passable with MacOS, but Linux looks better (to the point that 4k at 43" has comparable or slightly better text quality to 4k at 32" for a Mac).

I am trying to get a 55" 8k TV to work well with my setup, which might be a bit too big (but same width as the newly announced 6k 52" monitor by Dell), but it's the first next option after prohibitively expensive 32" options.
by xfour | 2026-01-12 14:57:53+00:00
This is so cool, I’m glad the company allowed the author to release this to the public. People like myself with knowledge of some of the art and technology involved but that stand outside the industry can get a little bit of a sense how the SOTA of animation evolves.

Secondly the bit about the evolution catching the unnamed studio, likely Pixar in production capability as of the first Zootopia certainly shows up on screen.
by systemtest | 2026-01-12 14:57:53+00:00
I used it up till 2011. It had multiple top-cases replaced under the extended warranty, display CCFL was changed a few times due to flickering, disc-drive got swapped once, new logic board because the audio-jack was stuck on SPDIF, new power adapter.

The only device I ever got Apple Care on and I got thousands in repairs covered for free. This was from before Apple would just replace the entire device.

All my other MacBooks have been trouble free luckily.