MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by enraged_camel | 2026-01-11 21:14:14+00:00
> We have to abandon the appeal to authority and take the argument on its merits, which honestly, we should be doing regardless.

I don't really agree. In virtually any field, when those who have achieved mastery speak, others, even other masters, tend to listen. That does not mean blindly trust them. It means adjust your priors and reevaluate your beliefs.

Software development is not special. When people like antirez (redis) and simonw (django) and DHH (rails) are speaking highly of AI, and when Linus Torvalds is saying he's using AI now, suggesting they may be on to something is not an appeal to authority. And frankly, claiming that they might be saying nice things about AI because of some financial motive is crazy.
by BananaaRepublik | 2026-01-11 21:14:44+00:00
Let me get this right. You're telling me that in your personal experience, you don't abstract away low level actions like pressing keys of your instrument or typing on the keyboard? You're genuinely telling me you derive equal pleasure from music as the feel of the keys?

Nah bro, most of us learn touch typing and musical instrument finger exercises etc when starting out, it's usually abstracted away once we get competent.

AI takes away the joy of creation, not the low level actions. That's like abstracted twice over..
by charcircuit | 2026-01-11 21:14:49+00:00
>Linus can't close the kernel.

That's not how it works. GPL only prevents old versions from becoming closed source. If Linus added code to the kernel which required a $100k license to redistribute then people could no longer freely distribute the code of the kernel. People could not freely distribute compile kernels because they would need that license. GPL doesn't magically make all licensing issues go away. He could also make a required kernel module that was not GPL licensed that Linux could require to operate.

>Except there is no device with free drivers that it supports.

Having a working system providing competitive value to others is much more important.

>They just refuse to support Librem or Pinephone without a good reason.

The good reason is that those devices can't provide industry standard security.
by mixmastamyk | 2026-01-11 21:14:55+00:00
A friend and I noticed recently that the last remaining pieces of the puzzle for a full line of "trustworthy technology" have recently dropped into our laps while we weren't looking.

What are those? You know… open, freedom, and privacy respecting technology. Recent products are the Starlite tablet, Furilabs and Fairphone. We've been waiting for these products, well over fifteen years since the introduction of the iPhone and iPad.

We wrote our full thoughts on the subject at:
https://aol.codeberg.page/eci/

Despite posting many times, we haven't been able to start a discussion here. Maybe we don't know the right key words, or posted too late in the day, not sure. But I know someone is interested in the subject because there have been three huge discussions this week about how "Linux is good enough now."

That has been true for a decade in my experience, but no one seems to be talking about the new mobile hardware available. I hope to work on bringing these efforts together.
by raverbashing | 2026-01-11 21:15:24+00:00
It's easy to dismiss the most obvious cases where EvD is wrong

But I think the basic idea, by itself is harder to dismiss

Archeology by itself is always going to have limitations, and there are vast swatches of history we are almost completely ignorant about

EvD is certainly guilty of taking himself much more seriously than the evidence suggests. But there's always going to be that "what if"
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-11 21:15:45+00:00
In a way, negative temperature is higher than the highest positive temperature. High positive temperatures just gives you a uniform distribution on all possible tokens, highly negative temperatures is the same behavior. As you reach the low-negatives, you place more and more weight on unlikely tokens.

This makes more intuitive sense if inverse temperature is the physically relevant quantity, since you then have a smooth change as you cross from positive inverse temperature into negative, with zero standing for a uniform distribution and high positive (resp. negative) inverse temperatures just placing more and more weight on likely (resp. unlikely) tokens.
by indigodaddy | 2026-01-11 21:16:11+00:00
Is this tuned to tournament or cash GTO? To the OP's shock about pocket 4's (I think this is what they meant by 4-pair(?)), folding 4's pre flop in early position to no raise would be fairly standard in tournament GTO (although the stage of the tournament and # BBs can change things up significantly), but less standard for sure in cash (almost never probably).
by rdiddly | 2026-01-11 21:16:38+00:00
You simply don't know what the goal was. I would think that breathing life into a vile monster would, among other things, tend to make his monsterism more obvious to observers, and perhaps elicit responses exactly like yours. For all you know, maybe that was the goal. (I'm entertaining your whole "goal" rubric for a minute, but since you brought it up in the context of art, I don't feel comfortable with the idea that art needs to have a goal other than "art itself." Art with a goal is arguably propaganda or advertising. But I don't hold that view rigidly either.)

Added a few minutes later:

Not knowing someone's motivations, and making up something to fill the blank, leads to errors, most of which seem to lean toward shallowly trivializing and dehumanizing the one whose motives are unknown and guessed-at. Could it be that they are a fully-functioning adult with an actual rationale for their actions that you just don't know of?

Allegory: A motorist sees a cyclist on the road, can't understand why they would do that to themselves, and assumes, in the blinding light of their own opinion and car-only experience, that it must be because of a death wish. Based on that shitty reasoning you could go all sorts of places - for example, thinking it would be OK to run over the stupid asshole since they're obviously some other species that is too dumb to protect itself inside a car as do all good folk like me.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-01-11 21:17:54+00:00
Depends what you mean by "best." If you're looking for a fun and quick read, "The Dagger in Vichy" by Alastair Reynolds was probably best. If you're looking for a something more high-concept, the only new book I truly enjoyed this year along those lines was "The Afterlife Project" by Tim Weed.
by Uncorrelated | 2026-01-11 21:18:19+00:00
At the time I created it there weren't any that did the end-to-end process with ProRAW in a way that I liked. And I got really tired of manually editing every photo I took, so I built the app for me.

Plus, having full control over the way photos look, I've customized the output to match my taste; I don't think there's any other camera apps that produce photos quite like mine.
by ethmarks | 2026-01-11 21:18:35+00:00
Thanks for the reply! I think you're arguing with the wrong person in the second half, though. I agree that renewables could potentially be more economically viable than nuclear power[1]. My reply was disputing the "people can die from nuclear therefore we should never use nuclear" argument, not arguing about economic viability. Also I think that broadly claiming that your opposition is "completely irrational" is not a very tactical rhetorical move.

[1]: although since you're basing your claims on the speculative future state of solar technology 10 years in the future, I don't see why the same shouldn't apply to the speculative future state of nuclear power, but that's besides the point
by behnamoh | 2026-01-11 21:18:43+00:00
What's worse is that Anthropic also goes after customers who bought their services through intermediaries, even if the service was API (not subscription).

If you use Claude models through CURSOR, Anthropic still applies its own policies on usage. Just recently they cut off xAI employees' access to Claude models on Cursor [0]. X has threatened to ban Anthropic from X.

[0]: https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2009686466746822731?s=46
by cowboylowrez | 2026-01-11 21:18:44+00:00
This is a very interesting community. It could be that some just flag politics, I'm sure there could be analytics on the flags by user to help filter out the hysterical lightweights and the 4chan adjacents. I personally would like to follow the flagged posts first then the rest lol I do understand some posts need to go though and the flagging feature is still probably useful.
by 0x59 | 2026-01-11 21:18:46+00:00
I bought a laptop in 2008 and in 2017 was forced to install W10. Well, the `08 hardware wasn't having it and I didn't have the cash to pony up for a new laptop so I installed Linux. Great decision.

There's definitely specific niche software that is restricted to MS and if you must use that, then by all means stay aboard. Otherwise, today's a great day to scroll distrowatch and pick your poison.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-11 21:18:57+00:00
Original comment said:

> We need a third alternative, based on freedom with your device.

We does not refer only to HN users, and there is no implication as such.

The default assumption is that 'we' refers to the general population.

However, even if I'm charitable and go with your assumption that 'we' referred to HN users, I will confidently say most HN users also don't care about FSF approval.

> See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46569163

You like to post a lot of HN links without ever giving an indication of what they point to. As a habit, I don't waste my time clicking random links that people post without context.
by VerifiedReports | 2026-01-11 21:19:07+00:00
Apple's window management has always sucked, with the absurdly crippled resizing being a longstanding embarrassment.

Into the 2000s, the only way you could resize a window on the Mac was to drag its lower-right corner. That is it. NO other corner, and no edge. So if the lower-right corner happened to be off-screen because the window was bigger than the screen, you were kind of screwed. You had to fiddle with the maximize & restore gumdrops to trick the OS into resizing the window to make that ONE corner accessible. Then you had to move the corner, then roll all the way up to the title bar and move the window, then roll back down to the corner... until you had the window sized and positioned as you wanted.

When Apple grudgingly added proper window-resizing, it made it as obscure as possible. Since Apple remains ignorant of the value of window FRAMES, there is no obvious zone within which the resizing cursor should take effect. There is no visual target for the user. This has always made an important and fundamental part of a windowed GUI a ridiculous pain in the ass on Macs.

And as the author here notes, it has gotten even worse. Not only will the window often refuse to resize, but you'll wind up activating whatever app lies behind the window you're trying to resize... hiding the one you were dealing with.
by vlod | 2026-01-11 21:19:35+00:00
Yeah this is what switched me. I was forever complaining about wall gardens and yet was too 'comfortable' with my macbook-pro as it was the best laptop period.

I switched to a thinkpad x1-carbon and popos and never looked back. Sure I would love 10 hour battery life, but it's not THAT big of deal (for me) to carry a charger.
by fluoridation | 2026-01-11 21:19:46+00:00
I'm pretty sure "slop" in the sense used in "AI slop" is a word in common usage for any kind of cheap, low-quality, unpalatable edible paste, like gruel or anything of that nature, especially when it has a homogeneous consistency. It can also appear in verb form such as "slop it onto a plate", that is to scoop up the slop with a ladle or some other utensil and messily splat in onto a dining plate. It very much is not Internet slang, and I'd say it's quite an appropriate term for what it describes in its new meaning.
by pyxisapp | 2026-01-11 21:19:51+00:00
An iOS app made for saving locations. It’s called Pyxis: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/travel-journal-pyxis/id6639617...

I’m not a developer by trade but I’ve been learning iOS dev for about 6 years now. It’s become my project that I just keep working at since I personally use it a lot.

The app lets you save your favorite locations, add notes to them, add photos, check weather, tag them for better organization, and archive those tags for future trips. You can also mark off locations that you’ve been to already: think breweries or a coffee shop when visiting a new city.

For the next update, I’m working on a task list functionality for each location. The idea came as a shopping list based on which stores I go to but it can work for any other context as well. This way I can get rid of my shopping list from my task apps.

In terms of weather, I’m also adding historical averages to the forecast to have some sort of context to the weather.

Also leaning more into marketing these days (hence this post) and designing a new icon with some custom art work to give the product some sort of personality. I started learning affinity design to just do it myself so I learn some design software along the way.

Anyways, if you download it, I’d love to hear some feedback. :)
by tombert | 2026-01-11 21:20:30+00:00
I mean, they were really messing up my house. They knocked over an entire shelf in my pantry, which I admittedly was kind of impressed by considering that shelf was full of stuff any not light. They were eating through plastic containers and eating/shitting in our food.

We had to replace all our food containers with very thick plastic containers or glass containers, and after the disaster with the glue traps we hired an exterminator who patched up all the holes they were getting in from and laid a lot of snap traps, which as far as I can tell, killed them immediately and thus they didn't suffer.

I'll admit that I don't really love the idea of killing mammals; but I do love my house staying together.
by FourierSerious | 2026-01-11 21:20:45+00:00
> it implements nearly every concurrency pattern that you'd want to use for most projects, and importantly it implements them correctly, which can be harder to do than it sounds.

This is key. Writing nontrivial and bug-free concurrent code is extremely hard, it's like writing absolutely solid crypto code. Both look easy, both are incredibly hard and anyone who doesn't know that, shouldn't be writing code at those layers.

Recommending a proven, off-the-shelf concurrency technology is the mark of an experienced and thoughtful software architect.
by ray_v | 2026-01-11 21:20:55+00:00
I'm working on a "simple" (started out that way at least) ETL app for the public library system that I work for; the target output is SQLite databases where Datasette will be the platform to interact with the data being generated/extracted. Primarily, the goal is to provide a simple report tool for staff and give me a source for nightly snapshot outputs to a datalake in parquet format.
by rukshn | 2026-01-11 21:21:11+00:00
I am working on Entangle https://entangle.cloud a way to add AI powered chatbot to a website.

I looking mainly for European market that is willing to self host your content or the model on your own servers, we will provide the technical support in doing so that and easily plugin the AI powered search or chatbot to the website.

But it is also possible to use servers provided by us to host the content and the LLM models.
by koyote | 2026-01-11 21:21:13+00:00
> Desktop Windows still has rough edges. Desktop MacOS still has rough edges. Desktop Linux still has rough edges. Pick your poison.

I think this sentiment is often overlooked as people are used to their 'poison'.

As someone who uses Linux a their main personal machine (with dual boot to Windows every now and then) as well as W11 for work, it's amazing what you get used to.

I was almost agreeing with OP, remembering bluetooth issues I had with Linux just last month when one of my headphones couldn't connect properly and I had to spend 10-15 minutes messing about with bluetooth stacks to get it working again.

But reading your comment I just realised that my current work machine doesn't even detect my bluetooth headphone's microphone and I have not found a fix yet.
That machine also does not go to sleep properly (a common, real, complaint from many linux users) and I have to hibernate it manually via command line as the option does not exist in my power menu due to corporate's rules and regulations.

I also get Windows blue screens far more often than I get Linux kernel panics.

You're just so used to the issues and inconveniences that you don't even recognise them as such anymore.
Issue and inconveniences from a new piece of software you're trialing stick out like sore thumb though...
by Tempest1981 | 2026-01-11 21:21:28+00:00
From 2024:

> Users of Google and Apple’s photo cloud services can now transfer images between them. It was already possible to export photos and videos from iCloud to Google Photos, but now it can also be done the other way around: from Google Photos to iCloud.

https://www.techzine.eu/news/applications/122196/google-and-... (2023 Data Transfer Initiative (DTI))
by AttentionBlock | 2026-01-11 21:21:28+00:00
meta-analysis, make Claude write a blog post, connecting and deriving set of concepts across a range of books, articles, papers, etc. Basically a syntopic reading machine. Its a meaty side project (and expensive), but I am curious how close I can push this. My current approach relies on a tool that I have built recently [0], it's an agentic memory but I am using a new memory model that is based on Zettelkasten principles.

What is really cool about it is that it natively capture connections between atomic ideas and evolve them. Which I believe it gets me one step closer to syntopic reading machine.

0: https://github.com/DiaaAj/a-mem-mcp
by dangoodmanUT | 2026-01-11 21:21:49+00:00
That's probably just "what ever the OS does". The client only sees the IP used to connect to the proxy, and the proxy just says "please dial TCP using this IP", so it's up to the OS.

On another note, are you an LLM? You just made an account to post something that looks llm generated, and that one repo has contributors @pd8030938 and @aj9704845-code only

you have to tell me if you are, those are the rules
by vldszn | 2026-01-11 21:22:02+00:00
I’m working on a free and open-source invoice generator: https://easyinvoicepdf.com/?template=stripe

Features:

- No Sign-Up Required

- Instant PDF download

- Live PDF Preview

- Shareable Links

- Multiple Templates (incl. Stripe-style)

- Flexible Tax Support (VAT, GST, Sales Tax, and custom tax formats with automatic calculations)

- Multi-Language (Support for 10+ languages and all major currencies)

- Mobile-Friendly

GitHub: https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf

On holidays finished adding flexible tax support + other improvements: https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf/pull/163

Would love feedback, contributions, or ideas for other templates/features =)
by signal11 | 2026-01-11 21:22:10+00:00
Tahoe is a macOS mis-step on par with Windows 8 or Windows Vista. If you’re from Apple and reading this, my feedback is pretty succinct: “I don’t recommend others upgrade. I wish I didn’t.”

Luckily for Apple, Windows 11 is not exactly in a position to attract switchers.

Let’s see if Apple can turn things around. iOS 8+ did improve on iOS 7’s worst bits.
by MaxBarraclough | 2026-01-11 21:22:47+00:00
It's no guarantee, but it's a positive indicator of trustworthiness if a codebase is open source.

I don't have hard numbers on this, but in my experience it's pretty rare for an open source codebase to contain malware. Few malicious actors are bold enough to publish the source of their malware. The exception that springs to mind is source-based supply chain attacks, such as publishing malicious Python code to Python's pip package-manager.

You have a valid point that a binary might not correspond to the supposed source code, but I think this is quite uncommon.
by giardini | 2026-01-11 21:22:48+00:00
Why the downvote?

Renee Good hit the gas while her wheels were pointed to the left, directly at, and to the right of the shooting ICE officer. You can see the wheels moving the whole time. So at some moment as she drove away the ICE agent was facing an accelerating car headed directly toward him. That provides justification to shoot.

Had the street been dry she would have run into or over the ICE officer. He was spared harm b/c her car's wheels failed to fully gain traction on the icy road.

The logic and the physical situation are inescapable. You may not like it but that doesn't change the facts.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-01-11 21:22:49+00:00
Lidars come down in price ~40x.

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/20/lidars-wicked-cost-drop...

Meanwhile visible light based tech is going up in price due to competing with ai on the extra gpu need while lidar gets the range/depth side of things for free.

Ideally cars use both but if you had to choose one or the other for cost you’d be insane to choose vision over lidar. Musk made an ill timed decision to go vision only.

So it’s not a surprise to see the low end models with lidar.
by taicore | 2026-01-11 21:23:27+00:00
Hello everyone, I'm new to this community. I was advised that this would be the ultimate place to have my Github repository audited?

I've live deployed an AI-constrained governance system on Ethereum mainnet - and I was hoping to share this with the community.

If this is NOT the right place.. please let me know if there is a better alternative in sharing my full repository.

https://github.com/thetaicore/tai-constitutional-architectur...
by graeme | 2026-01-11 21:23:35+00:00
What's wrong with steam?

It's better than carbon. And solar + battery requires more carbon to produce than nuclear energy as there's a lot of mining and physical construction involved + you must overbuild to supply power or rely on non solar sources.

All for building solar. Do not understand the constant need to denigrate nuclear in favour of carbon sources while doing so.

(If carbon sources were at zero this would be a different conversation)
by bigyabai | 2026-01-11 21:23:36+00:00
Ethics? Gruber spent the past decade applauding every Apple mistake; the App Store monopoly, client side scanning, even Liquid Glass.

We didn't get bought out, Daring Fireball did. I have genuinely zero interest in watching him document the fact that Apple's monopoly ignores his demands. The true "hacker ethic group" recognized this decades ago, and stopped supporting Apple long before their ideology synchronized with pedophiles.
by luiscosio | 2026-01-11 21:23:40+00:00
Thanks for the insight!

I think this is exactly why some of the work is moving away from “assume unrestricted API inference forever.”

For example, we’re prototyping ideas like air-gapped or very low-bandwidth inference gateways, where interaction happens over narrow channels (serial, optical, audio, etc.), with explicit threat models and monitoring. The point isn’t that this’s practical for today’s models, but to reason about what inference might look like for AGI/ASI-level systems where the risk profile is fundamentally different.

Others are thinking along similar lines too. For example, this SPAR project on constrained and minimal inference pathways: https://sparai.org/projects/sp26/rec7NyTst8Upfp83l