MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yencabulator | 2026-01-11 22:26:18+00:00
Another take on that is that Gruber is unable to sabotage a markdown standard from coming to exist, no matter how much of a tantrum he wants to have. I have no interest in listening to him about the topic, he's just in the way of the community and everyone is routing around the damage.

What Gruber has done is forced the spec to be called CommonMark, but as far as everyone except Gruber is concerned CommonMark is the markdown spec.

There are flavors that predate it like GFM, and extensions, but IMHO going forward it's CommonMark + possibly your extensions or it's not really Markdown.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-11 22:27:11+00:00
This is highly monopolistic action in my opinion from Anthropic which actively feel the most hostile towards developers.

This really shouldn't be the direction Anthropic should even go about. It is such a negative direction to go through and they could've instead tried to cooperate with the large open source agents and talking with them/communicating but they decide to do this which in the developer community is met with criticism and rightfully so.
by dajt | 2026-01-11 22:27:31+00:00
I was shocked when I first hit this. I'm also confused as to why the settings app constrains the window size but I think it did that in the previous version too - not a justification!

I complained about it to a team mate and he thought it was fine and I was weird for using the app launcher and not cmd-space. Although on Windows I always use win-r to run stuff.

Tahoe UI changes and LG are such a mistake and Apple being Apple will probably just double down on it.
by jackschultz | 2026-01-11 22:27:43+00:00
I literally did this yesterday and had the same thought. Older computer (8 gigs ram) with crappy windows I never used and I thought huh, I wonder how good these models can take me through installing linux with goal of docker deploys of relatively basic things like cron tasks, personal postgres, and minio that I can used for self shared data.

Took a couple hours with some things I ran across, but the model had me go through the setup for debian, how to go through the setup gui, what to check to make it server only, then it took me through commands to run so it wouldn't stop when I closed the laptop, helped with tailscale, getting the ssh keys all setup. Heck it even suggested doing daily dumps of the database and saving to minio and then removing after that. Also knows about the limitations of 8 gigs of ram and how to make sure docker settings for the difference self services I want to build don't cause issues.

Give me a month and true strong intention and ability to google and read posts and find the answer on my own and I still don't think I would have gotten to this point with the amount of trust I have in the setup.

I very much agree with this topic about self hosting coming alive because these models can walk you through everything. Self building and self hosting can really come alive. And in the future when open models are that much better and hardware costs come down (maybe, just guessing of course) we'll be able to also host our own agents on these machines we have setup already. All being able to do it ourselves.
by etamponi | 2026-01-11 22:27:45+00:00
> Hours instead of weeks.

And then goes on describing two things for which I bet almost anyone with enough knowledge of C and Redis could implement a POC in... Guess what? Hours.

At this point I am literally speechless, if even Antirez falls for this "you get so quick!!!" hype.

You get _some_ speed up _for things you could anyway implement_. You get past the "blank screen block" which prevents you from starting some project.

These are great useful things that AI does for you!

Shaving off _weeks_ of work? Let's come back in a couple of month when he'll have to rewrite everything that AI has written so well. Or, that code would just die away (which is another great use case for AI: throw away code).

People still don't understand that writing code is a way to understand something? Clearly you don't need to write code for a domain you already understand, or that you literally created.

What leaves me sad is that this time it is _Antirez_ that writes such things.

I have to be honest: it makes me doubt of my position, and I'll constantly reevaluate it. But man. I hope it's just a hype post for an AI product he'll release tomorrow.
by Cyph0n | 2026-01-11 22:28:15+00:00
It’s a bit more than sugar.

1. 1-command (or step) to have a new device join your network. Wireguard configs and interfaces managed on your behalf.

2. ACLs that allow you to have fine grained control over connectivity. For example, server A should never be able to talk to server B.

3. NAT is handled completely transparently.

4. SSO and other niceties.

For me, (1) and (2) in particular make it a huge value add over managing Wireguard setup, configs, and firewall rules manually.
by bicepjai | 2026-01-11 22:28:29+00:00
Thanks for this project. Our family generates about 2TB of media a year, and it’s been like that for a while, so we’re sitting at roughly 12TB total. That’s very much the long tail of personal media.

I’m not ready to pay $60/month, but I do like iCloud’s memories and other photo features. My compromise is simple:

- I use docker-icloudpd to download our iCloud Photos to local storage over time. It’s been the most practical way I’ve found to back up multiple accounts into one place, though it does require occasional re-auth every so often.
- I keep only the last ~2 years of media in iCloud and delete older ones after they’re archived locally.
- For browsing and searching the older archive, I use Immich, which has been a great self-hosted personal photo cloud experience with a modern app feel.

For storage, I’ve found fast local disk matters a lot once you’re digging up photos from 5+ years ago. Something like an OWC 4M2 with M.2 drives keeps the experience snappy; a typical HDD-based NAS can feel sluggish when you just want to quickly pull up an old memory.

https://github.com/boredazfcuk/docker-icloudpd
by GZGavinZhao | 2026-01-11 22:29:16+00:00
I'm trying to make a Chinese Hanzi variant of Wordle called Handle 汉兜 [0] available as a Discord activity/app so my Discord groups can have fun solving puzzles just like we've been having with NYT's official Wordle Discord app[1]. A Discord app is just a webview or iframe embedded inside Discord that you can launch.

[0]: https://handle.antfu.me
[1]: https://discord.com/discovery/applications/12117814899314524...
by Humorist2290 | 2026-01-11 22:29:18+00:00
It needs to be said that your opinion on this is well understood by the community, respected, but also far from impartial. You have a clear vested interest in the success of _these_ tools.

There's a learning curve to any toolset, and it may be that using coding agents effectively is more than a few weeks of upskilling. It may be, and likely will be, that people make their whole careers about being experts on this topic.

But it's still a statistical text prediction model, wrapped in fancy gimmicks, sold at a loss by mostly bad faith actors, and very far from its final form. People waiting to get on the bandwagon could well be waiting to pick up the pieces once it collapses.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-11 22:29:21+00:00
Totally understand that, I’m just talking about the difference between “patriot/veteran” and “military grade” to the average person. The latter heavily implies “quality build” while also appealing to people (mostly dudes) who want that sort of label for whatever reason, while the former is purely about values and has no implications as far as quality is concerned.
by nephihaha | 2026-01-11 22:29:26+00:00
Universal Basic Income is not the panacea it's claimed to be.

UBI gives government more control over individuals' finances, especially those without independent means. Poverty is also the result of unfair taxation, where poor people face onerous taxes while receiving less and less in return, and the wealthy avoid tax at every turn. Or that it is difficult for people to be self-employed due to red tape favouring big business. UBI does not address those issues.

UBI also centralises control at the expense of local self-determination and community engagement.
by hnburnsy | 2026-01-11 22:29:44+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-openais-chatbots-can-...

https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/11/01/nsfw-ai/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shubhank-suman-7995741b4_inve...

https://old.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1oxrcd2/gemini_25...
by zamadatix | 2026-01-11 22:29:51+00:00
For me:

- Browser: works after renaming to .html

- Linux: "./snake.com: line 20: lzma: command not found". Installing the xz package makes it work (already had XWayland enabled so X11 worked, but may be needed if you have a strict Wayland session).

- Windows: As either .com or renaming to .exe I get "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005). Click OK to close the application." Not sure how to make this one work, it's definitely not AV related though (I have that stripped in this sandbox VM).
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-11 22:30:17+00:00
I think one might argue even a VPN might be enough. Theoretically someone might be European and can have American card or any other countries cards and it would generally be okay.

So the only thing you kind of need to figure out is VPN and ProtonVPN provides free vpn service which does include EU servers access as well

I wonder if Claude Code or these AI services block VPN access though.

If they do, ehh, just buy a EU cheap vps (hetzner my beloved) and call it a day plus you also get a free dev box which can also run your code 24x7 and other factors too.
by amluto | 2026-01-11 22:30:48+00:00
You generally don’t get negative temperature in any system at equilibrium, but you can prepare classical and quantum systems at negative temperature.

Classical: put 100 balls in a box and shake the box continuously. The balls will be distributed through the box with more balls toward the bottom than the top, and the distribution will have some temperature. Now magically freeze all the balls (keep their velocities but pause time for a bit) and turn the box upside down. When you resume the system, the temperature will be (briefly) negative.

Quantum: take a bunch of atoms with two electronic states each. Put 75% in the higher energy state and 25% in the lower energy state. Now the temperature is negative. Most lasers actually work this way, and the classic way to make them is to have more than two states and to carefully excite atoms via the third state. The math is surprisingly straightforward.

There’s a nuclear analogue. If you could manage to prepare a sample of something like Technetium-99 plus Technetium-99m state with more (higher energy) 99m than (lower energy), then the effective temperature of the nuclear state would be negative. And maybe you could find really really amazing mirrors and make a gamma ray laser :)
by ebcode | 2026-01-11 22:30:53+00:00
SourceMinder: A “code index” tool that finds symbols in a codebase and creates a single table sqlite database for the index. It uses tree-sitter to parse the AST and add the symbols and what they are (function, class, argument, etc) to the db. I currently have it working with TypeScript, C, Go and PHP. I’m working on adding Perl next, after someone requested it here on HN.

https://github.com/ebcode/SourceMinder
by tuckerman | 2026-01-11 22:30:57+00:00
I think this is true with an arm mac (and would be tricky to fix that, props to the Asahi folks for doing so much) but for a lot of other hardware (recent dell/asus/lenovo, framework, byo desktops) I find Linux complete. I'm sure there is hardware out there that with struggles but I've not had to deal with any issues for a few years now myself.
by epistasis | 2026-01-11 22:31:04+00:00
Are you saying that the NRC asks for more than that? That there was a different process in the past? The big complaint I've heard about the NRC are changes required mid-construction, which happened last in the 1980s.

In the 2000s the NRC adopted a new licensing scheme at industry urging. What "hamstringing" are you talking about?

Okla would sound a lot more reliable here if they would have fought back with lawsuits with their accusations, or if the would release the communication now that there's no chance of this supposed retribution. As it is Okla makes all the talk of "hamstringing" seem like people not doing their jobs and trying to blame others.
by closewith | 2026-01-11 22:31:21+00:00
> Like, my job is "make sure our customers accounts are secure".

This is naiveté. Secure customer accounts and the work to implement them is tolerated by the business only while it is necessary to increase profits. Your job is not to secure customer accounts, but to spend the least amount of money to produce a level of account security that will not affect the bottom line. If insecure accounts were tolerated or became profitable, that would be the immediate goal and your job description would pivot on a dime.

Failure to understand this means you don't understand your role, employer, or industry.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-11 22:31:28+00:00
I like writing. I hate editing.

Coding with an LLM seems like it’s often more editing in service of less writing.

I get this is a very simplistic way of looking at it and when done right it can produce solutions, even novel solutions, that maybe you wouldn’t have on your own. Or maybe it speeds up a part of the writing that is otherwise slow and painful. But I don’t know, as somebody who doesn’t really code every time I hear people talk about it that’s what it sounds like to me.
by CSSer | 2026-01-11 22:31:53+00:00
The answer is people who don't truly understand the way it works being in charge of others who also don't in different ways. In the best case, there's an under resourced and over leveraged security team issuing overzealous edicts with the desperate hope of avoiding some disaster. When the sample size is one, it's easy to look at it and come to your conclusion.

In every case where a third party is involved, someone is either providing a service, plugging a knowledge gap, or both.
by ziml77 | 2026-01-11 22:32:02+00:00
> Yes, UAC could be considered as annoyance by some but it's no different than "sudo" on single-user Linux machines and we seemingly have no problems with that (I wish we'd move on past that because it is damn annoying and offers no security benefit).

It was wild to me when I was testing out if I wanted to move over to Linux as my full-time desktop OS how much it was asking for my password. And it didn't even have a mechanism to make it a little less painful such as requesting a short PIN (which I think is a fine option as long as a few incorrect PIN entries forces full password input).
by eek2121 | 2026-01-11 22:32:33+00:00
> Is this the view of LLMs? Do they desire what is not yet digitized? Pluribus suggests that the happiest LLM is

LLMs don't have views and they aren't emotional. They are auto complete engines. Further, while some of the writing definitely COULD have been influenced from LLM hype, most of it was not, as the original plot was taking shape between COVID and 2023, according to both wikipedia and other sources.

To quote wikipedia:

> Vince Gilligan conceived the premise of the series after becoming "weary of writing bad guys",[14] following a decade of working on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.[15] During production of Better Call Saul, he came up with the premise of a man who everyone in the world suddenly adored after some cataclysmic event.

The comparison of the show to LLMs was actually mildly entertaining. If the author had simply written the post noting the similarities without showing bias, it could've been a fun read.

However, most folks here on HN know LLMs are, what their strengths/limitations are, so it comes across as a cringe support piece for LLMs. Those of us that are knowledgeable know that, while LLMs are a useful tool, the output requires scrutiny from end to end, and failing to apply that scrutiny universally across every field will result in not only false results, but also, lives lost, folks innocently jailed, bad decisions that effect the masses, and more.

"AI"/"LLMS" are currently resulting in layoffs of key experts (along with everyone else) globally, and that is EXACTLY what most of the skeptics are up in arms about. Even if LLMs stopped hallucinating 100%, they can't innovate, don't understand culture, and are biased towards bad practices thanks to humanity itself having a terrible history regarding war, racism, torture, slavery, committing unimaginable acts, doing the bare minimum, and more.

Further, it's beeing pushed WAY too hard by corporate america, who has a terrible agenda.

At any rate, some of the similarities are pretty hilarious, even the ridiculous "always positive" tone they have most of the time. Others, are just straight up reaching.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-11 22:33:36+00:00
According the FT article [0] The Guardian is secondhandedly reporting from, it's for O-1Bs - the O-1 reserved for "[I]ndividuals with an extraordinary ability in the arts or extraordinary achievement in motion picture or television industry" [1]

Based on the FT article, the reason law firms are doing this is because attribution metrics like followers and revenue are easier to use to show "exceptional ability".

It's the same reason why if YC or any employer wants to sponsor an employee for an O-1A, they tend to use a mix of conference presentations (eg. KubeCon), press releases (eg. TechCrunch articles), and other PR strategies to help build a case for "exceptional talent".

[0] - https://www.ft.com/content/8816fcec-4148-4cda-be7f-fc59d5bcb...

[1] - https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...

[2] - https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
by remix2000 | 2026-01-11 22:34:19+00:00
Honestly, coding with a chatbot's "help" just slows me down. Also the progress in chatbot space is minimal (at least it feels like that from an end user perspective), essentially nonexistent since like 2024. I only use them cause all search engines are broken on purpose now. It's truly terrible times we live in, but not because the robots could replace us, rather because nontechnical managers are detached from reality as they always were and want us to believe that.
by easterncalculus | 2026-01-11 22:34:20+00:00
Nice. This is a great start. The next steps are backups and regular security updates. The former is probably pretty easy with Claude and a provider like Backblaze, for updates I wonder if "check for security issues with my software and update anything in need" will work well (and most importantly, how consistently). Alternatively, getting the AI to threat model and perform any docker hardening measures.

Then someday we self-host the AI itself, and it all comes together.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-11 22:34:23+00:00
This is how tyranny works. 'for my friends everything, for my enemies the law' is the basic premise.

The day before these people said a woman deserved to be shot in the face 3 times for bumping into a federal officer they said that January 6th was peaceful and celebrated a president pardoning... people that attacked federal officers.
by idiotsecant | 2026-01-11 22:34:25+00:00
A MW of nuke capacity is not replaced by a MW of solar or wind. New generation is much cheaper, but only because we are neglecting the parts of it that are hard and expensive - storage and transmission. Renewables without those things are worse than nuke - they are undispatchable like nuke and they are uncontrollably variable. We should build more renewables, but it is essential that we either tolerate intermittent system outages or massively improve transmission and storage, the generation is the least important part right now .
by ankit219 | 2026-01-11 22:34:26+00:00
From what i have read on twitter. People were purchasing max subs and using it as a substitute for API keys for their startups. Typical scrappy startup story but this has the same bursty nature as API in temrs of concurrency and parallel requests. They used the Opencode implementation. This is probably one of the triggers because it screws up everything.

Telemetry is a reason. And its also the mentioned reason. Marketing is a plausible thing and likely part of the reason too, but lock-in etc. would have meant this would have come way sooner than now. They would not even be offering an API in that case if they really want to lock people in. That is not consistent with other actions.

At the same time, the balance is delicate. if you get too many subs users and not enough API users, then suddenly the setup is not profitable anymore. Because there is less underused capacity available to direct subs users to. This probably explains a part of their stance too, and why they havent done it till now. Openai never allowed it, and now when they do, they will make more changes to the auth setup which claude did not. (This episode tells you how duct taped whole system was at ant. They used the auth key to generate a claude code token, and just used that to hit the API servers).
by wk_end | 2026-01-11 22:34:36+00:00
Yeah, OS X was definitely the nicest native development experience at the time. Apple's documentation was considerably better and more searchable back then than it is now (especially as it is now for desktop, it particular). And even though they've introduced lots of niceties (including Swift), as Apple's piled additional features and APIs into Cocoa/Xcode I find it quite a bit less coherent or intuitive or ergonomic than it used to be.
by holoduke | 2026-01-11 22:34:50+00:00
Well are you the super developer than never run into issues, challenges? For me and I think most developers, coding is like a continuous stream of problems you need to solve. For me a LLM is very useful, because I can now develop much faster. Don't have to think which sorting algoritm should be used or which trigonometric function I need for a specific case. My LLM buddy solves most of those issues.
by softwaredoug | 2026-01-11 22:35:05+00:00
Of course, for Noem / DHS, its about buying time., she bets by the time anyone goes to the court and gets a temporary restraining order, that they'll rob Omar etc of the optics of visiting. While throwing up the confusion of the other funding source as a legal hail mary

Hopefully Omar are going to get a restraining order...
by yencabulator | 2026-01-11 22:35:19+00:00
rST was better at structured content with its directives etc, but it was too complicated for non-techies, too much repeated punctuation and careful indenting.

Now we have markdown which is unable to express the structured parts, with a flea market of less-good extensions, some raw HTML snippets, and in general have lowered the bar to not even attempt the things rST is capable of.

Instead of rST, the markdown ecosystem is leaning toward "some fenced code blocks are magic", with user-unfriendly goop in them that is hidden by the UI (when one happens to use the one blessed UI for that flavor). And that approach can't solve inline directives.
by mrcwinn | 2026-01-11 22:36:01+00:00
I started with an Apple Lisa. I’ve never enjoyed Apple products less than I do right now. And there were some rough days in the 90s! I switched from a AW Ultra 3 to a Garmin. Considering an S26 because of the semi-matte screen. The Mac, though, I probably can’t replace, but man Tahoe/Liquid Glass sucks.
by dajt | 2026-01-11 22:36:20+00:00
I disagree. I generally don't get too upset by UI changes - having been programming since before Windows I've seen many of them - but LG is a loser.

I upgraded my mac to Tahoe and I don't like any change to the UI that I have noticed.

I upgraded my phone the other day, thinking it was just an update to whatever it already had, and ended up with LG on there and it is a disaster. I enabled the 'more opaque' feature and it did almost nothing.

LG is an awful experiment IMO. I'd put it at worse than Vista (which I skipped) and Gnome 3 which didn't bother me because I don't expect anything from linux desktops. I also skipped Windows 8 so not sure about the ranking there. But I'd say it's that level of disaster.