MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by donny2018 | 2026-01-12 12:25:55+00:00
I hear people say that, but I’m yet to see what’s unreliable about Windows. I’m running Windows 11 with latest updates on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and it hasn’t ever failed me, not even once. It has been solid as a rock for me.

Windows laptops vary in hardware quality and software support significantly, maybe that’s where issues arise for some people?
by DELTA-X | 2026-01-12 12:25:55+00:00
I published a short audit-style report measuring the structural impact of integrating a governance protocol (PRS-A) into an existing 741-page corpus, without changing or adding any content.

Method: strict A/B comparison at constant volume.
Result: +31% global structural gain (coherence, auditability, legal robustness, usage safety, systemic risk reduction).

The protocol does not automate decisions and does not delegate authority.
It documents a controlled human–AI co-architecture where the AI produces structure and the human remains legally and contextually responsible.

DOI: https://zenodo.org/records/18209659
by _heimdall | 2026-01-12 12:26:05+00:00
> If you didn't like working with computers, then you probably made the wrong choice.

This doesn't match what I have seen in other industries. Many auto mechanics I know drive old Buicks or Ford's with the 4.6l v8 because the cars are reliable and the last thing they want to do on a day off is have to work on their own car. I know a few people in other trades like plumbers, electricians, and chefs and the pattern holds pretty well for them as well.

You can enjoy working with computers and also enjoy not working in your personal time.
by trackspike | 2026-01-12 12:26:55+00:00
I'm still working on an open-source containerized agent framework called Capsule Agents. Some solid progress this month, getting an early version of the docs site https://capsuleagents.com live. I'm training for a marathon and its able to send a discord message every morning with the workout on my schedule and the "why" behind it.

Here's the elevator pitch for the framework:

Its built around 3 key ideas I've dealt with inside the agent ecosystem

1. Agents become far more capable when they have access to a CLI and can create or reuse scripts, instead of relying solely on MCP.

2. Multi-agent setups are often overvalued as “expert personas” but they’re incredibly effective for managing context, A2A is the future.

3. Agents are useful for more than just writing code. They should be easy for non-engineers to create and capable of providing value in many domains beyond software development.

If that sounds interesting take a look! https://github.com/brycewcole/capsule-agents
by InfinityByTen | 2026-01-12 12:26:55+00:00
I concur. I did mention there was a rush and foolhardiness. That's my mid 30s excitement. Let me revel a bit :P

I do want to be able to take control; with photos and Google not giving me a folder view to manage them was the last straw that pushed me deep into the self hosted world. I just want to de-google as much as reasonable.
by saaaaaam | 2026-01-12 12:27:37+00:00
I’ve visited 292 times. From Melbourne, Athens, Piraeus, Paris, Munich, Vantaa, Berlin and Kuala Lumpur. I’ve used Chrome, Firefox and Safari on both mobile and desktop.

What’s even more impressive is I’ve made all of those visits from all of those cities in the last few minutes.

You may have a bug.
by bhaak | 2026-01-12 12:28:10+00:00
> Are you describing Erich von Däniken's inability to change his mind when evidence clearly contradicted his theories?

He wasn't that unwavering. About the iron pillar of Delhi he said in his first book that it doesn't rust and thought this being a proof for alien interference. Later he turned around and said "By now this damn thing is rusting!".

But he never changed his opinion on his basic premise. I guess it's easy to not change your theory if it can't actually be disproved. There are so many unknowns and gaps in history that you have enough space to fit a few ancient aliens in there.
by kristopolous | 2026-01-12 12:28:22+00:00
I've been using it for months now ever since I saw their presentation at GitHub

This is a common flow for me

lightpanda url | markitdown (microsoft) | sd (day50 streamdown)

I even have it as a shell alias, wv(). It's way better than the crusty old lynx and links on sites that need JS.

It's solid. Definitely worth a check
by niekmaas | 2026-01-12 12:28:34+00:00
Well, you're absolutely the target audience. As you can see my focus so far is mostly on (neuro) oncology as this is my domain of interest/work. Let me know if you have any topic requests or have any ideas for additional features to make our lives as medical specialists/researchers easier. Contact form is on the site or just email whatever to the domain (catch-all doing the work).
by rmonvfer | 2026-01-12 12:29:20+00:00
It doesn’t seem to be very good, but don’t worry, just keep prompting Claude and I’m sure you’ll get it sorted out.

Jokes aside, it’s cool but it’s not useful if it’s the first time I visit and I see I have 10+ past visits from all around the world… obviously this is not reliable and I wouldn’t use it for anything, much less anything serious.
by smcl | 2026-01-12 12:29:21+00:00
While many people thought Facebook/Google paid too much for these companies, you're making an apples-to-oranges comparison. That part about there being "no path to making money" is wrong - online advertising was a huge industry and only getting stronger and while YT/Insta/Whatsapp may have struggled as standalone companies it was clear they'd unlock an enormous amount of value as part of a bigger company that already had a strong foothold in advertising online.

It is not clear who, other than maybe someone like Microsoft, could actually acquire companies like OpenAI or Anthropic. They are orders of magnitude larger than the companies you mentioned in terms of what they are "worth" (haha) and even how much money they need just to keep the lights on, let alone turn any kind of profit.

Not to mention the logical fallacy at the core of your point - people said "the exact same[sic] thing" about YouTube, Instagram and Whatsapp ... therefore, what, it necessarily means these companies are the same? You realise that many of us talked like this about "the blockchain", and "the Metaverse" and about those stupid ape JPEGS and we were absolutely correct to do so.
by kannanvijayan | 2026-01-12 12:29:25+00:00
Writing a GC in rust without just dropping the whole business into unsafe is really annoying.

Jason Orendorff has an implementation of a GC in rust called "cell-gc" that seemed like only one I've seen so far that seemed to "get" how to marry rust to the requirements of a GC implementation: https://github.com/jorendorff/cell-gc

Still has a lot of unsafe code and macro helpers, but it's laid out well and documented pretty well. Not sure if you've run across it yet.
by lproven | 2026-01-12 12:29:37+00:00
> In Gnome, can I move the UI elements to locations I want them in?

No.

> Or are we still in a situation where it's opinionated and you have to seek plugins to get an experience that you actually want?

Yes, 100%.

COSMIC feels like GNOME but done right to me. It's not as pretty but while it looks and works pretty much the same by default, you can choose what goes where.

Saying that, I still much prefer Xfce.
by ziyasal | 2026-01-12 12:29:52+00:00
I've been building a platform that lets you describe a multiplayer game idea in natural language and generates full-stack code for it—frontend (PixiJS, Phaser, Babylon, or Three.js) plus backend (KaosEngine real-time multiplayer framework). You can iterate via chat, preview live, sync to GitHub, and deploy.

Stack overview:

Networking — Rust-powered WebSocket + RUDP with fast ring buffers

Game Server Framework — Matchmaking, Lua runtime with hot-reload, leaderboards, storage, chat, rooms, social features (friends, etc.)

SDKs — Rust, TypeScript/JavaScript, Unity, Godot, Defold

Game Studio — AI-assisted builder (similar to Lovable), Monaco-based Lua/TTML IDE, live preview with hot-reload for both backend and frontend, one-click deploy

Early results are promising. Would love feedback from folks who've worked on similar problems or have thoughts on the approach.

Planning to spin up a Discord and public playground in a week or two for anyone interested in early access.

– Sia
by davidpapp | 2026-01-12 12:31:51+00:00
BpfJailer is an eBPF-based process jailing system that provides mandatory access control (MAC) for Linux. It tracks processes using BPF task_storage maps and enforces role-based policies on file access, network operations, and process execution.

This project is based on the original idea and design by Liam Wisehart at Meta. Special thanks for the vision and foundational work that made BpfJailer possible.
by abielefeld | 2026-01-12 12:32:08+00:00
This is happening already! The 28th regime (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/the-28th-regime...) will simplify the framework to register and operate companies in the EU, also the push by the EU commission to implement the Draghi report (https://commission.europa.eu/topics/competitiveness/draghi-r...) is one of deregularization of the industry.

Of course quasi monopolies of European industry are hoping to lobby these measures to suit them more than small players, but I am hopeful, as we have some very good legislators and politicians who are on our side.

Also Eurostack (of which Eilbek Research is a member) is a lobbyist group pushing for Draghi-adjacent policies, most of all: Relocating the entire cloud stack to Europe. And while for the bigger members of this organization it means having our own Google or Facebook (including their harms), it cannot help but inadvertently push the EU to pass laws that will further the agenda of eroding the USA-Tech monopolies.

Cory Doctorow pushes this narrative (https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/) that this can only be a benefit in the medium term.

Things are moving in the right direction, not many are talking about it, but when things hit mainstream news, they're already old by the reality's standard.
by gyptazy | 2026-01-12 12:32:28+00:00
ProxLB is an open-source lightweight load-balancing and placement helper designed for Proxmox VE environments, helping operators make smarter scheduling and availability decisions for virtual machines and containers. It provides advanced features such as pinning, affinity and anti-affinity rules, maintenance mode, and intelligent node selection to keep workloads where they belong. With a strong focus on simplicity and native integration, ProxLB enhances cluster resilience while remaining easy to deploy and operate.
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-12 12:32:35+00:00
The only people I meet who voluntarily use web apps in their day to day are Linux users who have convinced themselves that it is good enough because there aren't any good native apps on Linux.

And then you of course have corporate, who will not switch from Windows.

Nobody will voluntarily spend all day working within Gmail or Google docs.

You also conveniently cut out photo editing and design in your quote.

Edit: Also I wonder if all you server-admins, programmers and gamers would have switched to Linux if your only option was to do your work or gaming within a laggy and inadequate web-app? But you want other people to suffer that.
by hncoder12345 | 2026-01-12 12:33:00+00:00
Exactly this. I love writing code and solving problems. In my 20s and very early 30s I worked a lot of long hours and tried my best to always be learning new things and upskilling but it's never ending. It's hard sometimes to not look back and think about the hours I spent on code instead of building stronger friendships and relationships.
by klibertp | 2026-01-12 12:34:12+00:00
You're fortunate. Very fortunate.

I've had friends - they really felt like friends at one point - tell me that they don't want to know me anymore when they learned I'm an atheist. One told me that "without God there's no morality", so they can't trust in anything I say. Just like that. One told me that atheists should be branded or marked somehow, so that they can't pose as "good people". To my face. When I mentioned that history knows such policies, and that they almost always lead to massacres, pogroms, and things like the Holocaust, the person didn't see any problem with that. At all.

Beliefs, especially strongly held ones, warp a person and their perception of reality. This influences their actions, and those actions can hit you hard. If a father "100% believes" homosexuals are worse than dirt, and a son firmly believes he loves his boyfriend, that's how a "quarrel" will arise. Most people agree to "live and let live" in principle, but when it comes to details, it's almost always "but we don't want X or Y in this neighborhood".

You're really fortunate to have only met people who hold beliefs that are not in direct opposition to your continued existence in this world or in their presence. However, you need to be aware that there are beliefs that are more incompatible with yours, and that there are people who hold them - and that you will quarrel (or worse - much worse) when you happen to meet.
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2026-01-12 12:34:18+00:00
I want it embedded in git simply to break the hold Github has. We have this fantastic distributed fault-tollerant dvcs that gets funneled though at worse 1 service, at best maybe 3 or 4.

I'd love to clone a repo and be able to view all the reasoning behind commits with the context of issues too. I know the commit message should cover this but sometimes it doesn't, or its too much context, or the context is limited to the opinion of the committer. I think all that information is relevant to projects and should have some chance to live alongside it. Stuff like git-bug exists, but then you still need participation from other people.

I really love the idea of radicle.xyz which is git + p2p + issues & patches (called `COB` - collaborative objects) all in your repo but getting the buy-in of the wider population seems extremely difficult, if not impossible. I think part of the attraction here specifically is nostalgia for me, it feels like its invoking the 90s/00s where it was all a big mesh network, information wanted to be free and you couldn't stop the signal.

Fossil also seems cool but the rest of the world is tied to git and I'm tied to jj now. I guess I really wish git themselves [sic] would push something forward, I think that's the only way it would really get broad acceptance. Forges could adopt it and try and special-sauce parts but still let you push/pull "COB"s.
by hncoder12345 | 2026-01-12 12:35:09+00:00
I had a period of time where I really wanted to be exceptional. I spent many hours studying and working on side projects but it just never really clicked. I think I'm decent at what I do for work but more complicated topics (graphics programming, low level memory management, etc.) just seem to not stick, no matter how many hours I put into studying. Sometimes it feels like I'm forcing this career but after this many years it's hard to give it up. I do still enjoy it but I don't think I'll ever really get it.
by Ray20 | 2026-01-12 12:35:48+00:00
> The question IMO is, who will be creating the demand on the other side for all of these goods produced if so many people will be left without the jobs?

There is no reason why people will left without jobs. Ultimately, "job" is simply a superstructure for satisfying people's needs. As long as people have needs and the ability to satisfy them, there will be jobs in the market. AI change nothing in those aspects.
by bell-cot | 2026-01-12 12:35:50+00:00
> Like, no one working there is seeing it?

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968)

"Because Pharaoh is paying daddy, and we need the money." - Unknown laborer at the Pyramid of Djoser, c. 2660 BC, explaining to his son why he's making a giant pile of rocks in the desert.
by xutopia | 2026-01-12 12:36:52+00:00
For the life of me I don’t understand why people absolutely insist on using JavaScript to render HTML. Backend frameworks do HTmL just fine.

DOM manipulations can be simplified to just a few actions: remove, Add, change.

The other types of manipulations and interactive features can be sprinkles of JavaScript instead of hundreds of kilobytes of the stuff.

HTMX, Hotwire/Turbo, LiveView are just so much saner to me.
by mft_ | 2026-01-12 12:37:32+00:00
> The ways in which Musk dug himself in when experts predicted this exact scenario confirmed to me he was not as smart as some people think he was.

History is replete with smart people making bad decisions. Someone can be exceptionally smart (in some domains) and have made a bad decision.

> He seemed to have drank his own koolaid back then.

Indeed; but he was on a run of success, based on repeatedly succeeding deliberately against established expertise, so I imagine that Koolaid was pretty compelling.
by phboot | 2026-01-12 12:37:40+00:00
I’ve been working on a storage system for a long time. Longer than I planned. Longer than was healthy.

It started as “just an allocator experiment.”
Then it grew a compression engine.
Then repair logic.
Then identity.
Then tags.
Then time slicing.
Then a namespace.

At some point I realized I wasn’t building components anymore — I had built the whole substrate.

Not a directory tree.
A flat, identity-first namespace with semantic tags, time and generation slicing, CRC defense, extension chains, and deterministic resolution.

No public API. No SDK.
It just speaks POSIX now.

I’m releasing the namespace engine today as a public reference implementation. It’s spec-locked, test-covered, and boring in the best way.

There’s no product.
No startup.
No VC story.
Just a filesystem that finally works the way I always wished they did.

I’m tired.
But I’m also weirdly calm about it.

If anyone wants to read, criticize, or tell me I reinvented something from 1987 — I’m ready.
by brightball | 2026-01-12 12:37:44+00:00
The reports I’ve read said that some continued to attempt to navigate with the street lights out, but that the vehicles all have a remote confirmation where they try to call home to confirm what to do. That ended up self DDoSing Waymo causing vehicles to stop in the middle of the road and at intersections with their hazards on.

So to clarify, it wasn’t entirely a lidar problem it was an need to call home to navigate.
by sneak | 2026-01-12 12:38:05+00:00
I don’t agree with canadian oilmen’s politics generally but I defend their (and everyone’s) right to protest loudly about whatever grievances they may have.

AvE is ok in my book. His channel is more posturing and fluff and in-jokes than useful content, but supporting legitimate political protests (even if you don’t share their political views) isn’t cancel-worthy.
by knorker | 2026-01-12 12:38:18+00:00
p in the callee is not constructed at all. It's a reference.

> Calling a function that takes a rref will never use a move constructor to create the paramete

This is what I mean by talking past each other. This is literally what I said.

Well, I wouldn't say the parameter is "created", since I'd say that's an imprecise term in this context.
by kelipso | 2026-01-12 12:38:42+00:00
NBA gives everyone the same chance to get it, just you have to be good at basketball.

If the circumstances of your childhood made it so that you are shit at basketball but hey you were the top performer in your group of terrible players, the NBA is not going to pretend like you are good enough or grade you on a curve because of your circumstances.

Because if the NBA does that, well,
you will get crappy players in the NBA. And can you then say that the NBA gives everyone the same chance to get in anymore. Just move to a neighborhood where everyone is shit at basketball and you suddenly have a much higher chance at getting into the NBA? That’s a much more unfair system than a standardized measure.
by leobg | 2026-01-12 12:38:44+00:00
So I guess in the 90s they would’ve sued Adobe for not putting spyware into Photoshop?

If you believe in democracy, and the rule of law, and citizenship, then the responsibility obviously lies with people who create and publish pictures, not the makers of tools.

Think of it. You can use a phone camera to produce illegal pictures. What kind of a world would we live in if Apple was required to run an AI filter on your pics to determine whether they comply with the laws?

A different question is if X actually hosts generated pictures that are illegal in the UK. In that case, X acts as a publisher, and you can sue them along with the creator for removal.
by hncoder12345 | 2026-01-12 12:39:04+00:00
I love your last point. I asked this question because I used to be the person that would spend 4+ hours after work every day trying to keep up with new tech and working on side projects. But now, I've gotten into art and it's really changed my perspective on things like this. I've spent many hours doing, as you call it, unpaid career development instead of pursuing hobbies, building up my friendships, and in general just having fun. It feels like I've taken life so seriously and I don't have much to show for it.
by MajidAliSyncOps | 2026-01-12 12:39:08+00:00
In my experience, the biggest weekly time sink tends to be work that sits between teams rather than inside a single system. Things like manually reconciling data between billing, support, and ops, or preparing the same reports in slightly different formats for different stakeholders. These processes usually start small and “temporary,” but scale quietly as the company grows. The trade-off is that they’re hard to automate cleanly because ownership isn’t always clear. Curious whether the pain you’re seeing is more about fragmented data or about human approval loops that automation alone doesn’t fully eliminate?
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-12 12:39:08+00:00
There are still some things. A handful of court cases have gone against the trump admin and they have (in many cases) respected them. For example, the suits against national guard deployments in chicago. Donating to organizations using the courts to leverage the law against the trump administration does have material effects.

The senate can also still hold some things up. If you have a senator who keeps voting for trump's judicial appointments or you have a senator who is in leadership then yelling at them to stop letting trump's judicial appointments sail through is important. The fact that the dems are not using every procedural step to slow down the process is ridiculous.
by michaelmure | 2026-01-12 12:39:27+00:00
> Stuff like git-bug exists, but then you still need participation from other people.

The plan is to 1) finish the webUI and 2) accept external auth (e.g. github OAuth). Once done, anyone can trivially host publicly their own forge and accept public contribution without any buy-in effort. Then, if user wants to go native they just install git-bug locally.
by dunhuang_nomad | 2026-01-12 12:39:46+00:00
This move makes perfect sense to me. I think people are bit too online pilled to think about this if it were a different product.

If you produce a product that causes harm, and there are steps that could be taken to prevent that harm, you should be held responsible for it. Before the trump admin dropped the Boeing case, Boeing was going to be held liable for design defects in its Max planes that caused crashes. The government wasn’t going after Boeing bc a plane crashed, but bc Boeing did not take adequate steps from preventing that from happening.