MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ecshafer | 2026-01-13 16:17:06+00:00
The US has this problem. There aren't really rules on paying executives as much as you want, or having bonus structures based on fundraising, as long as the board okays it and considers it as contributing to the mission. It is non-profit because it doesn't pay out profits to investors. This is a large way corruption happens in the US, ie a lot of those "X politician foundations" pay modest amounts of money to some cause, but a large percentage of the donations go to the executive as a salary for running the corp, the executive is the politician. Its a big shell game.
by jszymborski | 2026-01-13 16:17:30+00:00
Unsure about a newspaper per se, but there are a number of news blogs that are co-ops.

Examples I know of in Canada include:

- NB Media Coop: https://nbmediacoop.org/

- Pivot: https://pivot.quebec/

Also, here's a game dev co-op from Montreal that has been around since 2012 as a bonus: https://ko-opmode.com/
by emaro | 2026-01-13 16:17:45+00:00
I use the term not for traits and behaviours I think are masculine, but are sold as being masculine, which are toxic. An example would be that it's masculine to not cry or show emotions (whereas woman are labeled as "emotional"). Suppressing emotions is nothing gender specific of course, but when certain groups promote that as "masculine", calling that "toxic masculinity" makes sense IMO.
Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
by arapkuliev | 2026-01-13 16:17:54+00:00
I keep hearing that prototyping is “solved” now — just use Cursor, Claude, Lovable, etc.

But when I talk to people inside real organizations (healthcare, regulated industries, even large non-tech companies), I keep seeing the opposite:

There’s no shortage of ideas. There’s a constant backlog of things people want to test — new workflows, internal tools, patient-facing flows, decision support UIs.

The bottleneck isn’t creativity. It’s:
– internal IT teams focused on maintenance
– engineers already overloaded
– AI tools that still require time, context, and ownership
– agencies/freelancers that are too slow or heavyweight for “just a prototype”

My hot take: AI didn’t eliminate the prototyping problem — it shifted it to the people who have the least time to deal with it.

Curious how this matches your experience:
– Do you actually prototype continuously, or is it mostly one-off?
– Have AI tools fully replaced the need for external help for you?
– If you could get realistic prototypes in days (not months), how often would you use that?

Genuinely trying to understand whether I’m seeing a real pattern — or just a biased slice of the world.
by johnvonoakland | 2026-01-13 16:17:57+00:00
I built a free URL shortener with QR codes and click tracking — looking for feedback
Hey everyone,

I'm a developer who got tired of the bloated dashboards and paywalls on most link shorteners, so I built my own.

mnml.ink — does what it says:

Shorten URLs

Generate QR codes

Track clicks & basic stats

No sign-up required for basic use

It's fast, free, and I tried to keep it as simple as possible.

Would love honest feedback — what features would make this actually useful for your workflow? Anything obviously missing?

Link: https://mnml.ink
by montebicyclelo | 2026-01-13 16:17:58+00:00
Yep, it is convincing. And it seems the video is performed by a human, although I did think it could be AI. They say in the description:

> I couldn't resist putting a face to this gem.

After saying it is AI:

> How people was touched by this version of « Papoutai » by stromae made by AI, I was also touched as y’all, as an independent Artist I wanted to put my emotions and my soul on this masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ8GbwQV5zE
by elAhmo | 2026-01-13 16:18:02+00:00
Great read!

I am just wondering would stacking up batteries, charging them off-peak and using/selling back during peak usage be as good as this, or even better? Seems like this shouldn't be a viable scenario, but given the prices and idle capacity, it seems just investing in batteries and charging them at night, to be used/sold to the grid during the day would be as good as a solar installation.
by sublinear | 2026-01-13 16:18:15+00:00
I'm not saying there's no point to this discussion, but it would bring focus if this was decoupled from the broader topic of open source.

There has never been any inherent political or economic value in open source software. Those things come from deliberate decisions by authors and users such as licensing and mass adoption.

Open source is not synonymous with the GPL and most businesses try to avoid open source software when implementing their core competency.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-13 16:18:21+00:00
It's high but it really depends on your lifestyle and appliances.

If you have a heat pump water heater and heat pump based floor heating you'll use 1/4th of the energy as the same house with resistive water/floor heating.

A house which barely passed regulation from 2010 will consume 5-10x the energy of a certified passive house.

etc.

That being said I think you have to draw the line somewhere. I'd much rather have inefficient appliances (resistive boiler/heaters) and be fully solar powered than spend 50k in heatpumps and other gimmicks that are rated for 10 years and cost a kidney in maintenance and the eventual replacement.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-13 16:18:32+00:00
>The guns in the US don't seem to be helping people avoid getting shot by ICE.

I don't see ICE prowling "the cops don't come serve a warrant here with anything less than a SWAT team" parts of New Orleans or St. Louis.

Stop thinking about this based on indoctrinated emotion and politics. Think about it in terms of an all out war and "how do I force my enemy to expend resources not toward his goals".

Personal ability to credibly threaten lethal violence (note: I did not say "firearms") acts much like an AGTM or MANPADS for an infantry squad. Making any potential target substantially more prickly to a potentially superior force and doing so for little cost is a huge boon for the little guy.

The idea that any cranky old man might just snap and put a bullet in your favorite bespoke enforcer puts a huge damper on your ability to deploy those people. The risk that your informants might get clapped increases the cost of your informants for like results, etc, etc. And when you game it out to it's ends what it comes down to is that the population doing the subjugating might simply not be rich enough or motivated enough to have or be willing to allocate the resources needed to do the job.

This is a large part of why drugs won the war on drugs. There were enough glawk fawtys wit da switch kicking around on the "wrong" side of the law that the cops needed to adopt militarized tactics, the public didn't wanna pay for that shit (monetarily or politically) over weed, and thus drugs won the war on drugs. If they could've rolled up on just about anyone "cheaply" with just a couple cops it would've gone on way longer.

>(to the extent that armed revolution worked in the UK, the IRA were helped only slightly by US-backed supplies of Armalite rifles, and much more by a large supply of Libyan high explosives. Guns are a much less effective political weapon than the car or truck or hotel bomb)

The semtex wouldn't have gotten anywhere useful if the Brits could just walk into wherever all willy nilly. Bringing enough credible threat of violence to force their enemy to actually behave like a proper occupying force burning money and political credibility as a result limited the Brit's ability engage (at the right price) in the kind of police action they needed to catch the bombs.

If they could've just sent pairs of cops after every lead in an "oi you got a license for that meme" manner they'd have dredged up all the semtex and none of it would've made it to London.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-13 16:19:14+00:00
> Because it is massively exaggerated by those with an agenda to distract from the US.

I don't think there has to be any negative motive. I'm not from the US or the UK but have lived in both countries, so feel I can be somewhat objective. What's going on in both countries is disturbing to me, but they have differences with what they are doing.

> But go on, tell me about how “free speech zones” are meaningfully different to this. You won’t be arrested so long as you stay in your zone down the street and round the corner and out of sight.

That hasn't been a thing for a long time. There have been nationwide protests the last few days not restricted to any kind of 'free speech zone'.

Consider what you are trying to defend: holding up a blank sign. Are you really OK with that? You really think that is reasonable?

> The UK has serious problems, but reading Americans catastrophising over this stuff

Pointing out a legitimate concern is not catastrophising anything.

> And stop believing lies about the streets of London being a war zone.

I never mentioned anything like that.
by j2kun | 2026-01-13 16:19:34+00:00
I do wish I could have a good, in-depth tutorial on how to set this up myself. Along with (pipe dream) an explanation of how it would interact with my local utility. I worry that due to some silly technicality, I won't be able to export to my local utility, or else I won't be able to run off-grid when there's an outage.
by boelboel | 2026-01-13 16:19:38+00:00
The problem as with many things is that people just don't care and they just want things as cheap as possible. Even if people had a great local journal, there's no real reason to pay well for it when you can just figure things out a day later on facebook. Quality can go down without most people noticing because lots of people couldn't tell apart good reporting from bad , a good portion would have to put in effort to do so and an even smaller portion would immediately notice. Less incentive to go into local journalism if you're bright as well, dying field with little chance to go 'up'.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-13 16:19:39+00:00
According to everything that has been reported, both the Google Assistant and Alexa are less reliable now that they are LLM based.

I don’t know why, in my much smaller scale experience, converting to an LLM “tools” based approached from the Intent based approach is much more reliable.

Siri was behind pre LLM because Apple didn’t throw enough monkeys at the problem.

Everything that an assistant can do is “hardcoded” even when it is LLM based.

Old way: voice -> text -> pattern matching -> APIs to back end functionality.

New Way: voice -> text -> LLM -> APIs to back end functionality.

How often have you come across a case where Siri understood something and said “I can’t do that”? That’s not an AI problem. That’s Apple not putting people on the intent -> API mapping. An LLM won’t solve the issue of exposing the APIs to Siri.
by chrismorgan | 2026-01-13 16:19:45+00:00
> By stashing infrequently-used items in a command bar like this, […] You don’t need to add that extra toolbar or layer of menu items.

I’m concerned, from this description, about people putting features only in a command palette, and rendering features completely undiscoverable.

This is one of the big problems of Windows’ Start Menu ever since Vista. In XP, you could find all your programs easily. Vista kinda hid them, and Windows 8 hid them a little more, and 11 hid them a lot more. They’re still there, but honestly difficult to find.

So please make sure your features are still discoverable.

Also remember that a lot of users are shockingly bad at typing. Command bars are a power user feature.
by legitster | 2026-01-13 16:20:00+00:00
I loved Dilbert back in the day, and even the books were witty and poignant.

I would like to point out that the quality of his satire really feel of as time went on. He came from an office life in the late 90s and had a lot of insight into it's dysfunctions. But after decades of being out of that world, he had clearly lost touch. The comics often do little to speak to the current corporate world, outside of squeezed in references.

As I see it, decline in quality and the political radicalization go hand in hand. You cannot be a good satirist and be so long removed from the world you are satirizing.
by caminante | 2026-01-13 16:20:12+00:00
> while also recognizing that there were aspects of him they didn’t like

Except you're not being objective.

Accusing anyone of "falling off the far right cliffs of insanity" is a subjective and negative portrayal.

e.g., I could say and get away with the former, but not the latter when critiquing a co-worker's idea.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-13 16:20:28+00:00
Oh, it’s definitely their fault. They brought this about to cram extra seats on a flight, customers be damned. No doubt about it, they’re certainly the root cause.

But when you find yourself in an uncomfortable group situation, it’s good to ask how you can make it better for everyone, or at least not worsen it. “I paid so I’m doing whatever it takes to not inconvenience myself in the slightest” is the origin of “this is why we can’t have nice things”.

It’s different when there’s a compelling physical need here. If the person in front of me has a hurt back and can’t bear sitting upright, and I knew about it, I’d put up with it as best I can in the interest of we’ve all got to get along. But in the scheme of things, not that many people are unable to sit up and not crush their neighbors.
by dashzebra | 2026-01-13 16:20:31+00:00
I need my phone mostly for external emergencies reason.

1. Something is wrong at work and needs my attention (life of an ops guy)
2. Something is wrong with one of the living beings close to my heart.

So I end up having a phone with me at all times. I did manage to get rid of mainstream social media apps on it, but I do end up on hackernews a lot.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-13 16:20:39+00:00
Typed Python vs untyped Python is literally the same as TS vs JS, don't let others fool you into thinking somehow it's different.

> TypeScript helps paper over like 90% of the holes in JavaScript

Always kind of baffles me when people say this, how are you actually programming where 90% of the errors/bugs you have are related to types and other things TS addresses? I must be doing something very different when writing JS because while those things happen sometime (once or twice a year maybe?), 90% of the issues I have while programming are domain/logic bugs, and wouldn't be solved by TS in any way.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-13 16:21:05+00:00
So what about next year when all of the apps receive updates/upgrades? Will the paid-in-full versions receive the upgrade for free, or will they have upgrade prices? I remember the days of Adobe's annual version upgrades, and they were at least $99 per app. Using that as the basis, the Adobe subscription plan is not more expensive that just broken up into 12 payments. People that kept running v4 to avoid the upgrade prices eventually got left out as they could not open files provided to them from others using the most recent version. Let's not forget our history on the one-time purchase pros/cons
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-13 16:21:17+00:00
> Every studied history?

A little. Broadly, the things that historical people considered "good" and "bad" are still considered "good" and "bad" today – discounting brief thousand-year fads (which largely boil down to how and whether to signal allegiance with particular ways of organising society).

> Do you eat factory farmed animals?

So you, too, understand that factory-farming animals is wrong – and that many people eat factory-farmed animals despite knowing that it's wrong, because very few people are paragons of moral virtue.

> Currently some leftist group is trying to justify Female Genital Mutilation.

You believe that leftist groups in some sense "should" be more moral than… I'm guessing the comparison is "rightist groups", perhaps the various contemporary fascist governments. But you've correctly pointed out that FGM is wrong, and that identifying with a contemporary political label or ideology does not automatically mean you're in the right.

I fail to understand why you think this is a gotcha. Your comment only functions as a gotcha if we all broadly agree on what's right and what's wrong.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-13 16:21:53+00:00
Get a basic heat recovery unit, it basically has no moving parts (just a few fans) and good ones recover 90%+ of the heat going out of your house. It's almost useless if you don't have an airtight envelope though.

All in one systems with water heating are way too complex and _will_ fail relatively quickly, mini heat pumps won't last 10 years, and by the time it dies you won't be able to find a replacement for your specific model
by WickyNilliams | 2026-01-13 16:21:54+00:00
Yeah this is one conspiracy I believe. There's this narrative at the moment that the UK is some dystopian hellhole where you'll get arrested for basically anything you post online. It's very pervasive to the point that fairly normal American people I follow online have repeated such things.

Now, the UK has plenty of problems, I do not deny that. But the situation is nothing like it is presented online.

My thinking is that this is meant to make people in the US feel that the rising authoritarianism isn't so bad in relative terms "well the UK is far worse!".
by t-3 | 2026-01-13 16:22:15+00:00
> America hides sugar in everything. Plain old white sandwich bread often has loads of added sugar.

It's not hidden, it's on the label, and expected. I just don't buy garbage bread.

> Sugar isn’t necessary for bread making. Yeast can break down the starch. That’s what it evolved to do. Flour, water, yeast, salt, done.

That usually means that malt is added to the flour (most bread flour). You can get breads without added sugar or malt, but you're going to have to go to a bakery that makes their own dough and buys flour without additives, which is getting rarer and rarer.
by ajross | 2026-01-13 16:22:19+00:00
To a large extent they do and always have. It's not as broad or fair as it should be[1], but for almost any economically important project all the major contributors and maintainers are on the payroll of one of the big tech interests or a foundation funded by them.

The hippies writing that software may not be compensated at the level you'd expect given the value they provide, but they'll never go hungry.

[1] LLVM and Linux get more cash than they can spend. GNU stuff is comparatively impoverished because everyone assumes they'd do it for free anyway. Stuff that ships on a Canonical desktop or RHEL default install gets lots of cash but community favorites like KDE need to make their own way, etc... Also just to be clear: node is filled with povertyware and you should be extremely careful what you grab from npm.
by guywithahat | 2026-01-13 16:22:26+00:00
Which seems intellectually frustrating. The python foundation was only short money because they refused to accept a 1.5 million dollar federal grant from the Trump admin for political reasons (I believe a condition of the money was it couldn't be used for DEI). They have now received 1.5 million from Anthropic, which is VC funded and burning cash.

I find these matters are often more complex than I can understand from a headline but this feels like Anthropic bailed out the PSF because PSF is making bad management decisions, and bailing them out might be a bad long-term play.
by overfeed | 2026-01-13 16:22:49+00:00
> No matter how rational you start, terminal cancer diagnosis throws much rationality out the window.

Doctors who get cancer typically stay level-headed. I wish society talked about death and mortality more often and openly, most people are ill-equiped to face it square on, and yet its the one thing that is truly universal. Humanity needs sex-ed, but for dying.
by vel0city | 2026-01-13 16:22:50+00:00
An average EV battery is what, around 70kWh? Add in a bit of charging losses and we'll say maybe 75kWh being generous here, and that's assuming a nearly dead battery to a full charge. Doing that every month is then 900kWh, or 0.9MWh/yr. That's ~4% of the energy usage of 21MWh/yr.

An average EV gets what, ~3.5mi/kWH? An average US car does ~12,000mi/yr. That theoretical average EV would then use ~3.5MWh. Two would be ~7. But this author is in the UK, where the average car only does ~7,500mi/yr or so or a little over 2MWh/yr. So for their two UK cars, assuming they drove an average mileage in an average EV efficiency, they would likely have used something like 4.3MWh/yr for their cars. About 20% of their total electricity usage. This drops a good bit if they're really getting closer to 4mi/kWh in efficiency, which is likely if they're not driving on many highways like one does in the US.
by foldr | 2026-01-13 16:23:03+00:00
The usual meaning of English. Say, roughly the criteria that would make someone eligible to play for the England football team. Skin color has nothing to do with it, and I can assure you that very few English people either know or care whether they have any ‘Celtic’ ancestry.

No-one questions the Englishness of white men born in England to two non-English parents. People raising the absurd non-issue of Rishi Sunak’s Englishness are just concealing their rather obvious prejudices with a lot of bafflegab about ‘English ethnicity’ (a concept which not even they can really take at all seriously, if they at least have some acquaintance with English history).
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-13 16:23:14+00:00
It lacks a lot more than flashy social media features - and given their biggest driver in the 2010’s was arguably YouTubers, they actually need more robust social media features. For starters, they just added voice isolation what? A year ago? That has been bog-standard for resolve and premiere for years now. The audio tools in general are still very subpar.

I used it professionally from 2011-2020 or so. Around 2020 the gaps in feature parity became wider and more apparent, it’s clearly not a priority anymore. Once I went to resolve I basically abandoned it. I use maybe every 6mo tops now for quick stuff for friends and family or to open an old project.

The one thing I will say is for speed cutting, it’s probably the best. And that’s no small thing! But that’s about it.
by spmartin823 | 2026-01-13 16:23:16+00:00
The death of local journalism is fundamentally a revenue problem. My cofounder and I have been working for the last year to find new revenue streams for newspapers at https://seward.presspass.ai/.

Our current hypothesis is that local rewards programs could be a sustainable revenue stream and give the newspaper a way to prove their advertising works with locals.

While trying this out, we've also helped a few papers get up and running - we're calling it "newspaper in a box". Check out a few of the papers we've helped launch: https://sewardfolly.com/ (9 months old) https://homerindependentpress.com/ (2 weeks old).
by Ajedi32 | 2026-01-13 16:23:54+00:00
> 4 core Skylake (Mac 2016) would be well beyond human capabilities

Not if the computer's time limit is set at 15 microseconds. It's not a question of whether the computers have "enough power"; just whether they are more powerful now than they were previously.

And yes, obviously that's a very sloppy and error-prone way to implement a difficulty control.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-01-13 16:24:12+00:00
My absolute favorite (this is irony) form of stoicism in the modern era is when a company director paid some multiple of your salary sends a daily stoic quote to everyone in the organization that amounts to telling people to work longer hours and accept more abuse and to shut up about not getting even cost-of-living raises because they should be grateful that they're employed at all. Should people be grateful for employment? Mmmmm....debatable. Should that be the chosen form of interaction from a position of imbalanced power? My fucking god, no. Try being slightly less of a sociopath.