MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sigmoid10 | 2026-01-05 10:44:52+00:00
I already told you why that is not just wrong, it misses the point. It also doesn't help if you want to switch this whole historical legitimation propaganda to the other side, because it is meaningless anyway. We are not living in 19th or 15th or 10th century Europe anymore. Ukraine lies in Europe by any remotely recent definition and it has an actual kinetic front line. End of story. Everything else is malevolent political propaganda.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-05 10:47:24+00:00
> I don't think anyone would describe that kind of experience as hard to do?

Some would, especially the younger generation. Their attention span - or probably their brain chemistry - is strongly affected by constant stimulation, to the point where disconnecting from it causes anxiety and restlessness.

Not just the younger generation either, millennials are probably the first generation to be affected.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-05 10:48:52+00:00
Guess I'd been reflecting on how close CBO and EMO (if I'm doing justice to the ru meaning?) sound to me. But I was already complaining at the formation of the DHS that it sounded remarkably parallel to an infamous organisation:

Department Ministerium
of für
Homeland Staats-
Security sicherheit

so I'm probably just a whiner and malingerer.

There's always the general lesson; even if Hillel[0] didn't get nailed to a stick[1] for preaching it, he doesn't seem to have many followers in, say, Likud.

A more specific lesson for the Old Country would be The Frogs Who Desired a King?

I've lifted^Wliberated this from somewhere, but can't remember where atm: the trouble with revolutions is that when they succeed[2], you rapidly discover that you didn't need a better government, you needed better people.

One reason I haven't finished the Durants' The Story of Civilization yet is that if you binge it, you rapidly discover that despite the pleasant turns of phrase, it's largely 13'549 pages of people treating each other poorly.

Pedantry to (nothing but): ERII could at least take a Landy offroad[3], even if in practice, as a lady, she often left it up to her chauffeur.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder#/media/File:H...

[1] I do love the characterisation in Master & Margherita which makes it sound like Mr. INRI was maybe on the spectrum (come to think of it, M&M is another frame story, but with the fantastic and realistic elements reversed)

[2] as the US 1776'ers, the Girondins, and the Mensheviks (to take just 3) might know?

[3] making her more accomplished than the modal Chelsea Tractor driver?
by Yizahi | 2026-01-05 10:50:22+00:00
Windows 11 was clearly a regression after a very good Windows 10. Task bar from Win10 had been completely deleted and a garbage tablet replacement had been pushed in. It's already what, 3 or 4 years in Win11 an task bar still don't have a comparable functionality. It is also slower in performance, it takes visible seconds just to open a volume slider, which loaded almost instantly on Win10 and same hardware. There were multiple severe problems with AMD performance on release, fixed much later, again showing that hey took inferior code or even build from scratch (meaning Win10 had a superior code inside). Explorer has been degraded significantly, I usually use Total Commander and don't have to interact with it, but unfortunately Save/Open File menus are still Explorer ones. And there it has applied this new file "structure" of Today/LastWeek/LastMonth and so on, which overrides normal sorting rules for some folders like Downloads. finding files are now a damn quest. I had to change my downloads directory to a user created one in every program, just to avoid this crap.

And the list goes on, I just don't remember every single UI regression issue I've encountered right away. But Win11 is clearly bad. Not the awful bad, but annoying bad daily.
by cess11 | 2026-01-05 10:50:28+00:00
No. 12 steps is very self-centred and while they don't say it's forbidden to join a union or prisoner's association, start a book club, work at a mutual aid centre or whatever and tell everyone 'hey I'm partially here because I need new friends and help to keep sober', it's also not something embedded in these types of programs.

Commonly the 'mentoring' in 12 steps is also based on you contacting your mentor, rather than building a network of people that check up on you whether you realise it's a good idea or not. This varies between groups, however, it's not as consistent as some of the other individualist traits they tend to have.

Edit: Personally I suspect this partially explains why 12 steps has a pretty bad success rate.
by pigggg | 2026-01-05 10:50:29+00:00
I recall during the 90s spending a bunch of time on SF2 and Mortal Kombat in arcades: shopping malls, bowling alleys, even some restaurant/bars that had a small arcade. One of the fun experiences was one arcade that Saturday mornings they had a "Freeplay" time for a few hours where everyone paid like $5 and every game was in Freeplay mode. It always amazes me how we all learned the special moves and fatalities word of mouth and eventually they'd get published in gaming magazines. The whole winner stays, loser pays - folks setting their quarter on the arcade to reserve their next spot. Many years later a coworker and I bought a very well used (cigarette smell and burns) MK2 machine for the office break area that took me back. Comically we found at least $10 worth of quarters inside the enclosure. Good times.
by Traubenfuchs | 2026-01-05 10:52:43+00:00
When I was developing C# winforms applications 15 years ago, I just created a fat signed .exe that was then distributed. Installers and click once stuff was a big turn off for users.

On startup, if not already there, it automagically copied itself to the installation directory, created an autostart directory link and started it from the new location and got killed with a named pipe command. It contained and extracted another .exe that was continuously checking for new versions, downloading them and starting them.

As malwary as it gets but it worked flawlessly!

The windows store nightmare that came after looks dreadful.
by stevenjgarner | 2026-01-05 10:53:21+00:00
I think especially heinous is the use of Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Proof technologies where a centralized attestation authority (e.g. government agency) verifies compliance, and the verifier (e.g. business needing to prove compliance) relies on the ZK cryptographic proof of compliance without revealing the individual. This revocable privacy can unmask the real identity in the case of asserted "suspicious" activity. This is the current direction of mainstream technology, and all it serves to accomplish is a normalization of loss of privacy and anonymity.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-05 10:53:27+00:00
Before Windows / GUIs, everything was a TUI. Some of those applications were kept around for a long time even when Windows was mainstream, because they were faster. If you've ever seen an employee (or co-worker) work in one of those applications you'll see it. They can zip through screens much quicker than someone doing point and click work.
by afrazullal | 2026-01-05 10:54:37+00:00
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by lovich | 2026-01-05 10:54:49+00:00
Brah, some employers in the US check your credit score to make sure you are trustworthy enough.

Your credit score can be checked in multiple other situations that have nothing to do with you taking on debt, but still somehow your debt factors into the decision.

If you think there is no social control as part of this system, then you are just blind to the system you grew up in
by wink | 2026-01-05 10:54:56+00:00
I found my German curriculum to be a lot worse at this. Basically zero books I read in German classes that I liked, compared to most of the "classics" in English lessons I all found ok to good. Maybe because some were more accessible or at least relatable or closer to my interests, but we're talking about educating teenagers here. (E.g. Animal Farm, 1984, Poe, Shakespeare (quite some overlap to what people read in their native English)) vs ... I don't even know which of the ones we read are known to an international audience...
by hexaga | 2026-01-05 10:55:18+00:00
I would like to make really clear the distinction between expressing an opinion and holding/forming an opinion, because lots of people in this comment section are not making it and confusing the two.

Essentially, my position is that language incorporates a set of tools for shaping opinions, and careless/unskillful use results in erratic opinion formation. That is, language has elements which operate on unspooled models of language (contexts, in LLM speak).

An LLM may start expressing an opinion because it is common in training data or is an efficient compression of common patterns or whatever (as I alluded to when mentioning biases in the probability manifold that shape opinion formation). But, once expressed in context, it finds itself Having An Opinion. Because that is what language does; it is a tool for reaching into models and tweaking things inside. Give a toddler access to a semi-automated robotic brain surgery suite and see what happens.

Anyway, my overarching point here and in the other comment is just that this whole logic thing is a particular expression of skill at manipulating that toolset which manipulates that which manipulates that toolset. LLMs are bad at it for various reasons, some fundamental and some not.

> They express opinions because that's what people do over text.

Yeah. People do this too, you know? They say things just because it's the thing to say and then find themselves going, wait, hmm, and that's a kind of logic right there. I know I've found myself in that position before.

But I generally don't expect LLMs to do this. There are some inklings of the ability coming through in reasoning traces and such, but it's so lackluster compared to what people can do. That instinct to escape a frame into a more advantageous position, to flip the ontological table entirely.

And again, I don't think it's a fundamental constraint like how the OP gestures at. Not really. Just a skill issue.

> The problem is that why people hold opinions isn't in that data.

Here I'd have to fully disagree though. I don't think it's really even possible to have that in training data in principle? Or rather, that once you're doing that you're not really talking about training data anymore, but models themselves.

This all got kind of ranty so TLDR: our potions are too strong for them + skill issue
by fainpul | 2026-01-05 10:55:26+00:00
Nothing is perfect, but here are a few things I enjoy using:

https://www.geogebra.org/calculator

https://regex101.com/

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

https://www.figma.com

https://www.affinity.studio

Any spreadsheet program

Apple's Spotlight, GNOME's similiar thing (don't know the name)

I also like Tantacrul's interface design work: https://www.youtube.com/@Tantacrul/videos
by dolia | 2026-01-05 10:55:55+00:00
Few reasons:

1. Habit. We're used to use Telegram for everything: news sources, social network, messaging, memes. Telegram has more capabilities than other apps. You can't realistically move your family and friends to another messaging app because of all of that and the network effect.

2. General attitude of all people towards privacy and sharing data: they don't really care. It's "Who would even care about my data?" and "I've got nothing to hide" all the way.

I doubt most of people ever thought about the topic of trusting a messaging app. It's not the framework they operate in.

There are two global psyops done by I don't know who:

1. That Bitcoin is safe and anonymous.

2. That Telegram is super safe for whatever shady or private stuff you want to do.

One of the best marketing campaigns ever.

I would also want to use this chance to alert everyone who uses Telegram that:

1. It's not e2e by default.

2. They use proprietary encryption protocol. You don't have access to code.

3. I don't think Telegram is profitable, I don't know how it can be with that scale. Which makes you wonder.

4. If you open in-message links, you have a chance of losing your account to hackers thanks to the old vulnerability that hasn't been fixed for years. You literally have to check the list of devices connected to your account every 12 hours if you want to be safe.
by rswail | 2026-01-05 10:55:56+00:00
Worked on public transport ticketing (think rail gates and stuff) with contactless last 30 years, when guys would tell me that the software was "ready", I'd ask:

> Is it "stand next to the gates at Central Station during peak time and everything works" ready?

We were working on the project from a different city/country, but we managed to cycle our developers through the actual deployments so they got to see what they were building, made a hell of a difference to attitude and "polish".

Plus they also got to learn "People travel on public transport to get somewhere, not to interact with the ticketing system."

Meant that they understood the difference just 200ms can make to the passenger experience as well as the passenger management in the stations.
by kakacik | 2026-01-05 10:56:20+00:00
Thats sociopathy in corporate world. Big companies have often 20-40% of such individuals, ie finance has way more (as I see daily) and concentration rises as you rise up in ranks.

The thing is - you don't have to play that game. Sure, you will miss some promotions to largely meaningless titles, much more stress and pressure in such work, and a bit of money but in most companies the money is not worth it (ie work 50% more to get 20% more compensation, in net income rather 10% more since extra income will be hit with high marginal tax bracket in most countries).

But main reason is - what you do 40+ hours weekly for decades (and especially how you do it) seeps back in into you even if you actively try to prevent that. Is it really worth tainting your personality permanently with more sociopathic behavior and thinking, with subsequent negative effect on all personal relationships and even things like personal happiness? I am old enough to see these trends among peers, they are very gradual but once you know what to look for, rather obvious.

When poor such a deal is easy to rationalize since poverty can be crippling, but once beyond that quality of life should be top priority, we are here for rather short time. Otherwise most probably regrets happen later, just listen well to old folks what they are proud of and what not so much.
by scott_w | 2026-01-05 10:57:04+00:00
Only for large scale multiple user applications. It’s more than reasonable as a data store in local applications or at smaller scales where having the application and data layer on the same machine are acceptable.

If you’re at a point where the application needs to talk over a network to your database then that’s a reasonable heuristic that you should use a different DB. I personally wouldn’t trust my data to NFS.
Connecting portfolios, ATS, AI to simplify startup hiring
by kathir05 | 2026-01-05 10:58:26+00:00
We believe Portfolios are better personalized way to showcase professional self with Proof of work.

For decades resume builders are false marketing that perfectly formatted resumes increases hiring conversions.

Why can’t we connect both personal portfolios , hiring via ATS?

We are building HuntYourTribe in this journey.

In our recent user interviews, One Startup founder mentioned , “He had 1500 applicants from Linkedin Job posting. He was struck and screened only 200 resumes. He was guilty of not screening 80% and admits that he overlooked many qualified ones but he doesn’t have choice today as ATS is bulky, costly and most functionalities I don’t need”

Vinod Khosla, "The team you build is the company you build."

We are curious to hear all you feedbacks on this attempt

Links
https://huntyourtribe.com/
https://blog.huntyourtribe.com/our-journey-so-far/
https://x.com/ramitkoul/status/2003060909862953084
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbUe8PoEDB4
by n49o7 | 2026-01-05 10:58:29+00:00
This comment and the parent one make me realize that people who answer probably value the exchange between experts more than the answer.

Perhaps the antidote involves a drop of the poison.

Let an LLM answer first, then let humans collaborate to improve the answer.

Bonus: if you can safeguard it, the improved answer can be used to train a proprietary model.
by cameronbibb | 2026-01-05 10:58:48+00:00
Location: Kentucky, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, Ruby, PostgreSQL, SQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Debezium, Change Data Capture (CDC), Redis, Docker, Jest, Express, WebSockets

Résumé/CV: https://cameronbibb.com/assets/files/Cameron_Bibb_Resume.pdf

Email: cameronbibb@gmail.com

Hey, I'm Cameron! I enjoy building dynamic, high-performance applications—ranging from responsive UIs with React to real-time backend systems that scale.

Most recently, I created Willow, an open-source framework for building Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines. It leverages Kafka, Debezium, and PostgreSQL to process database changes in real time. You can check it out here: https://willow-cdc.github.io/.

What I bring to the table:

- React & Frontend Expertise: Built component-driven UIs with React, TypeScript, and Material UI
- Backend & Data Processing: Designed scalable APIs, database workflows, and event-driven systems
- Distributed Systems & Real-Time Data: Worked with Kafka, WebSockets, Redis, and CDC pipelines
- DevOps Awareness: Experience with Docker, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and performance tuning

I'm looking for remote opportunities where I can work on scalable web apps, high-performance APIs, and data-driven workflows.

If that sounds like a fit, let’s chat!
by loxs | 2026-01-05 10:59:02+00:00
After 2 years in production with a small (but write heavy) web service... it's a mixed bag. It definitely does the job, but not having a DB server does have not only benefits, but also drawbacks. The biggest being (lack of) caching the file/DB in RAM. As a result I have to do my own read caching, which is fine in Rust using the mokka caching library, but it's still something you have to do yourself, which would otherwise come for free with Postgres.
This of course also makes it impossible to share the cache between instances, doing so would require employing redis/memcached at which point it would be better to use Postgres.

It has been OK so far, but definitely I will have to migrate to Postgres at one point, rather sooner than later.
Tell HN: EU soliciting feedback on law that could affect Open Access
by Quanttek | 2026-01-05 10:59:38+00:00
The EU Commission currently has an open consultation on the European Research Area Act until 23 January, which might could strengthen rights to open access and secondary publication [1]. I know many of you care about open knowledge, so this could be a good way to share those thoughts and counter the voices of the many publishers responding.

You can fill out the questionnaire here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14608-European-Research-Area-Act/public-consultation_en

Academic institutions, NGOs, EU- and non-EU citizens, and businesses can all respond.

You can look at the submissions to get an idea of the concerns raised [2]

[1]: "Barriers also remain to the free and open access to publicly funded R&I results" mentioned in the call for evidence https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14608-European-Research-Area-Act_en

[2]: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14608-European-Research-Area-Act/F3719029_en
by WJW | 2026-01-05 10:59:56+00:00
SQlite as a database for web services had a little bit of a boom due to:

1. People gaining newfound appreciation of having the database on the same machine as the web server itself. The latency gains can be substantial and obviously there are some small cost savings too as you don't need a separate database server anymore. This does obviously limit you to a single web server, but single machines can have tons of cores and serve tens of thousands of requests per second, so that is not as limiting as you'd think.

2. Tools like litestream will continuously back up all writes to object storage, so that one web server having a hardware failure is not a problem as long as your SLA allow downtimes of a few minutes every few years. (and let's be real, most small companies for which this would be a good architecture don't have any SLA at all)

3. SQLite has concurrent writes now, so it's gotten much more performant in situations with multiple users at the same time.

So for specific use cases it can be a nice setup because you don't feel the downsides (yet) but you do get better latency and simpler architecture. That said, there's a reason the standard became the standard, so unless you have a very specific reason to choose this I'd recommend the "normal" multitier architectures in like 99% of cases.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2026-01-05 11:00:24+00:00
It seems crazy to me that we use such a bandwidht heavy, time consuming and costly format as video to have any sort of public discussion whatsoever, especially as important as this, when you can post linked hypertext anywhere and it is virtually impossible to censor, can be self-hosted, requires no extra software or hardware, and can be viewed on almost any device. For public discussion, blogging and heavily moderator forums (like HN) are just far superior option and far better for democracy than any type of ”social media”.

Regardless, most boomers like to get their news from TV and younger from tiktok, IG and youtube. It is very very sad state of affairs.
by ctas | 2026-01-05 11:00:32+00:00
I agree that displays and input changed. But if you think in fundamentals, like clarity, readability, affordances, you tend to arrive at the right answers anyway.

Those principles survived CRTs, TN panels, Retina, touch, trackpads. They’re not tied to a specific technology.

Can you give me an example of a change in todays UI that was motivated by change in display quality?
by ofTimothy | 2026-01-05 11:00:59+00:00
I limit the time I can spend on apps that distract me. I can use youtube, twitter, etc. for a combined 30 minutes, then my time is up, and I can only use essential apps (whatsapp, calendar, notes).
On iPhones it's super easy to set up rules like these, using the screen time manager, and then giving the pin to a friend who only gives it to you if you need to change the settings.
On android it's not as easy but solutions also exist.

It's difficult for apps like chrome that are distracting but also useful, I personally also limit chrome, if this means I can't look something up so be it, it's worth it for me.

Why more people aren't doing this is one of the main things that confuses me. People are constantly complaining about using their phone too much, but they don't just do this. I guess I'm an extreme outlier in terms of how willing I am to restrict the actions of my future self.