MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hmokiguess | 2026-01-21 19:40:37+00:00
Each project gets its own share of supervision depending on how critical human intervention is needed.

I have some complex large and strict compliance projects that the AI is a pair programmer but I make most of the decisions, and I have smaller projects that, despite great impact on the bottom line, can be entirely done unsupervised due to the low risk factor of "mistakes" and the easiness of correcting them after the fact they are caught by the AI as well.
by deng | 2026-01-21 19:40:37+00:00
> you can't really point at an RFC and say it settles an argument

This is pretty much the opposite of what I'm doing. I'm saying: look at that RFC, where they write that NAT filters incoming traffic! If even people writing RFCs say this, it is obviously an established notion of the term "NAT".

What I'm arguing against is this obsession with being technically correct; that NAT can only be literally "network address translation" and nothing else, and that you are incompetent if you think otherwise (plenty of examples for this further down).

What I'm saying is: look, things in the real world are messy, and terms can change their meaning.
by sigbottle | 2026-01-21 19:40:38+00:00
Does it?

For me, I've had that mentality for the longest time and I didn't get anything done because, well, "I'm just average".

For me, a little bit of arrogance (there's no way I couldn't do X, let's go do it), even if I end up "looking stupid" (see, I told you it was that hard!), was far more valuable to my development
by snailmailman | 2026-01-21 19:40:40+00:00
The removal of several features from windows 10 is infuriating.
Why can’t the taskbar be moved to the side? Why can’t the taskbar be made smaller? Why can I pick the smaller icons, but the taskbar remains the same size, with massive margins and blank space?

At least they finally added back the “don’t combine taskbar icons” but it’s still lacking basic functionality that was previously there.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-21 19:40:50+00:00
I recently became much more pro-total-unification, so let me give you this counterpoint: individually, European nations are no match to the major superpowers, neither economically nor militarily. We'll get gutted by divide-and-conquer approach. In contrast, bound much closer together (particularly with some form of pan-european armed forces), the EU would become a proper global superpower and a counterbalance for the USA and China.
by zahlman | 2026-01-21 19:41:28+00:00
I would say the presence of an exclamation mark, in a context where exclamation marks are rare, is strong evidence of use as an interjection. Unless we're arguing that some other mark was mistaken for an exclamation, generally I would say rare typography is "marked" (noteworthy) rather than being likely mistaken. I think the researcher's position is not likely to hold much sway going forward.
by spyrja | 2026-01-21 19:41:41+00:00
I agree with Dr. Walkden here. While it was used as an interjection at times (just as it is today when someone exclaims, "What?!") in the context of the opening line of Beowulf "hwæt" is more likely being used to reformulate a statement in order to convey a sense of emphasis. An example in modern English would be something like, rather than saying "That was a gorgeous sunset!", one says "What a gorgeous sunset that was!". (Notice that the verb has now moved to the end of the sentence. In fact if you look at the last word of the line in question, we have the verb "fremedon" which means "performed", so indeed the placement of "what" at the beginning of the line facilitates the restructuring of the sentence in such a way that makes it "sounds right".)
by throwaway150 | 2026-01-21 19:41:52+00:00
> I haven't had my account shutdown,

You have been lucky so far, but there is no guarantee that luck will not run out tomorrow. The algorithms making these decisions are not open to review. They are opaque, and there is no way to know when something in your account might be flagged as suspicious.

> but some tips that could help.

I know you are trying to help, so thank you for that. So don't take this personally when I say this. I'm just frustrated with how things have turned out.

It is absurd that we have reached a point where people must rely on unofficial and unverified tips just to possibly avoid losing access to their source of income. It seems incredibly unhealthy for a market this important to be governed in this way.
by F3nd0 | 2026-01-21 19:41:58+00:00
It seems to me this point of discussion always tends to get way too much focus. Should it really raise concern?

Of all the people who interact with image formats in some way, how many do even know what an image format is? How many even notice they’ve got different names? How many even give them any consideration? And out of those, how many are immediately going to think JPEG XL must be big, heavy and inefficient? And out of those, how many are going to stop there without considering that maybe the new image format could actually be pretty good? Sure, there might be some, but I really don’t think it’s a fraction of a significant size.

Moreover, how many people in said fraction are going to remember the name (and thus perhaps the format) far more easily by remembering it’s got such a stupid name?
by dwedge | 2026-01-21 19:42:40+00:00
I've been in the same boat as you and replaced it last year but still pay for harvest (grandfathered pricing) until I can be sure I don't need it. I'm almost up to renewal and haven't used it at all since trying app.solidtime.io

I'll be honest it's not as good as harvest. The mac app is a bit buggy, it's not as easy to add manual time, and you need to pay for pdf export. But having said that I've found the free version to cover 90% of my use of the paid version of harvest
by petcat | 2026-01-21 19:43:01+00:00
I bought the dead tree version of this book back in ~2006 or so.

I used to work in a business park in Seattle and the company next door to us operated a PC recycling warehouse. There were piles of old 386/486-era PCs in various states of disrepair just piled up behind their building. I'd go out there once in awhile and pick-through their piles looking for Intel CPUs, sticks of RAM, and hard drives. Find a good chassis with intact motherboard.

I loved putting that stuff together and installing Linux on those machines. I cut my teeth on Linux and LFS building computers out of those Frankensteins.
by ofabioroma | 2026-01-21 19:43:08+00:00
For now, I’m intentionally keeping UltraContext as unopinionated as possible, since every application has different constraints and failure modes.

The goal is to focus on the core building blocks that enable more sophisticated use cases. Compression, compaction, and offloading strategies should be straightforward to build on top of UC rather than baked in at the core layer.
by yonatan8070 | 2026-01-21 19:43:09+00:00
> Flatpak is on life support; there isn't much going on there but it still works.

Since when is Flatpak on life support? Everybody (except Ubuntu) is pushing for it, from the regular desktop distros like Feodra all the way to image based distros like KDE Linux and Fedora Silverblue.
by rdtsc | 2026-01-21 19:43:36+00:00
It’s hard to say what really nice means. I have been using Ubuntu for more than a decade for all my home laptops. But I also researched models are very compatible with Linux. Also besides steam, some basic libreoffice spreadsheets and dev tools we mostly use browser and web based things. So our coverage of all the possible Desktop apps and configurations is minimal.

So I never felt like paying a “linux tax”. Quite the opposite, when I dual boot into Windows 10 it irritates me to no end. Random web based link and ads in the start menu. Updates are kind of a pain - they halt both the shutdown and the startup process. I don’t like the flat UI look in general.

As far as overall consistency and polish nothing beats MacOS but well Macs cost more. So if you look for design and UI polish and have the money that’s probably a better choice.
by ikidd | 2026-01-21 19:43:46+00:00
Copilot is a dumpster fire and I can understand why you're down on agents from that experience.

Splurge on the $20 for Cursor, and install their IDE. Start with a simple project, more because it helps you see how it works than because Cursor can't handle more. Give it specific instruction and not too big a problem at one time so you can tailor the prompt. If it's niche, consider changing the model to Opus4.5 long enough for it to get a handle on the codebase. Use the Plan mode to start, adjust the plan, then let it god. Every time it makes changes it can be reverted to the state at previous prompts. Use git liberally.

I'm just a dumb farmer who quit programming 20 years ago, and I use it to build stuff that works IRL for my operation constantly. A dev should be able to wrap their head around it.
by TimorousBestie | 2026-01-21 19:43:46+00:00
To my memory, people had been using [link](url) and similar styling for a long time on old web forums and even BBSes.

Be glad they didn’t adopt Everything2’s “pipe link” syntax: [link|url]. Or maybe it was [url|link]? It’s been well over two decades, I don’t remember anymore.
by cyberpunk | 2026-01-21 19:44:21+00:00
I used it for smaller scale (low 10s of physical servers) back in the day also. But my problems with that started when i needed a lot more, the sysadmin/devops/whatever story doesn't scale.

Yes, ansible exists but it's actually quite hard to run ansible on a few hundred machines -- you need lots of RAM just to run the playbook and your first hundred or so separate deployments, you do need to reach for something like Kubernetes.

As for LX, why emulate linux when it's .... right there? The linux kernel is not a lot of overhead vs having to justify emulating the linux ABI on an OS the industry has largely abandoned.
by kvgr | 2026-01-21 19:44:28+00:00
Yeah, you should pay taxes from where the company is run. Basically if you have one person company. In a place it “does” business. But i want estonian company for the ease of doing business and for to hold profit, for reinvestment later. I dont want to deal with spanish/german authorities if i move around and want to grow business. No government competition is what they want. Because they cant win in square fight.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-21 19:44:30+00:00
Yup, Plasma has also gotten really good. It started to get really good with 5 and has polished like crazy with 6. It's defaults are now pretty close to perfect out of the box for me as a long time windows user.

I'd say it's close to the windows 7 or 10 experience. But without any of the clutter that has crept in.
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-21 19:44:37+00:00
We're in such a stupid time. I'm an EE, I typically do all my engineering in millimeters, but most of my coworkers prefer the clownshoes unit "mils". Half our soldering irons are set to Fahrenheit, the others Celsius.

In ordinary every day life, I've found that I use metric for measurements under an inch or under an ounce. At a certain upper limit it makes more sense to use metric for large values too.

So I have to suffer with the magic constant 25.4 bouncing around my brain every day forever and constantly converting trivial measurements into worse units.

I will never convert a measurement to fractional inches. If you must have inches as an input you can suffer a damn decimal point.
by huntergemmer | 2026-01-21 19:44:55+00:00
Ha - the double y-axis story is exactly why I want to get it right. Better to build it in properly than bolt it on later.

"Data science/data journalism" is a great way to frame the target audience. Clean defaults, sensible design, fast enough that the tool disappears and you just see the data.

And yeah, graphviz keeps coming up in this thread - clearly a gap in the ecosystem. Might be a future project, but want to nail the 2D charting story first and foremost.

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback - this is exactly the kind of input that shapes the roadmap.
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-21 19:44:58+00:00
It's not strange. They can read technology news like anyone else, and vendors of security tools do sales campaigns like any other industry. Media says 'cybercriminals are getting away with it using this one weird trick,' people grumble about the police being useless, police say they can't stop the cybercriminals without spyware, media runs story about sympathetic pensioners losing everything to scammers because police are letting them run free, voters demand politicians do something etc etc. etc.

Also, y'all need to recognize that unbreakable personal security/ privacy/ paranoia is just not the default social position in most societies. There isn't a big conspiracy, it's a reflection of social mores we disagree with, either ideologically or through recognition that policing is often ineffective and corrupt.
by necovek | 2026-01-21 19:45:22+00:00
Agreed!

As an addendum, you have to do it for your actual working computer, otherwise, doing it on a VM or a machine you don't use, you won't be learning nearly as much as there is no pressure to make it truly work for you (this is where learning happens, when the thing you wanted to configure, and LFS docs or web docs are out of date on, so you have to dig deeper).
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-21 19:45:57+00:00
Sure you do. I already quoted it

>independently of whether the trends are good for most humans or what we ought to do about them.

Saying "the writer shouldn't talk about this" is about as dismissive of a topic as you can be. You could have simply said "this topic isn't as interesting to delve into", but the framing that "the article to which we're all responding does not contribute positively." suggests that.

>This isn't ambiguous.

It's also talking about the present. The article already made clear it is not going to predict the future of tech in the very beginning. Its looking at the here and now for AI and the human element for any possible futures on whether or not that remains the case or not.

Also note this response. It is again trying to focus on the tech arguments. This isn't the focus of this argument
Show HN: Qwe – small, opinionated modal text editor
by mitjafelicijan | 2026-01-21 19:45:58+00:00
Creator here. I made this little editor. It is rough around the edges. But why another editor? Well, I wanted to learn about this topic.

I had so much fun making it. It is a modal editor with some batteries included, like basic LSP integration, Tree-sitter for code highlighting (still limited, though), modal editing in Vim style (took some liberty with different remaps), and Ollama integration because why not.

This is still a work in progress, but I have been using it as my primary editor, and it perfectly fits my needs, tbh.

Happy to answer questions.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-21 19:46:09+00:00
> It doesn't make sense to me why European countries might trust Indian subsidiaries of American companies

Because most European companies are paying lip service to EU sovereignty because of how tightly coupled they are to the US. Look at how the EU-China spat led to Nexperia China's de facto decoupling which shut down the EU automotive industry for a couple months. It's even worse with regards to American dependency.

> Why not get Independent Indian developers and the startup culture established around it

Because the dependency then comes from India. An "Atmanirbhar" EU means having the capacity for self-reliance almost entirely within the EU and without a dependency on non-EU states like India or Israel.

> It still doesn't effectively prevent the lock-in or worries in case of a geopolitical spat for EU in reality but only on the papers

European companies (like all companies) don't care about open-source once they become dominant in a segment - for example ERP and SAP and SUSE Linux, and industrial systems.

> To be honest, I am open to open sourcing much of my products (ideologically) but the problems I feel in open source is that its hard to even make a developer salary comparatively even in India

That's the reality of OSS. There's a reason most OSS contributors for critical projects are employed by the organizations that heavily utilize that project (eg. Python and Google, OCaml and Jane Street).
by anonnon | 2026-01-21 19:46:09+00:00
Yeah, they're the ones trying to gaslight Americans into believing that NATO hasn't been a completely lopsided relationship since the end of the Cold War, and that it makes complete sense that Americans be treaty-bound to defend nations like Sweden (which lifted not one finger when Finland was invaded by the Soviet Union and its territory annexed, and also later when Norway was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany), a country where less than half of the population had a favorable view of us as a nation, before Trump.

Obviously I don't agree with his threats over Greenland, but acting like the end of NATO would be a huge loss for the US is ridiculous. Look at how obsequious European heads of government are towards Trump, even in the face of these threats; that tells you all you need to know about whom NATO truly benefits. They know if the US withdraws from Europe completely, they'll have to up their military spending considerably to plug the gaps, which will strain the welfare state.
by ejo4041 | 2026-01-21 19:46:21+00:00
I don't disagree with most of your comment, although I don't think my tips are questionable, they are well within Amazon's guidelines. I have been through counterfeiter issues on my account before and very familiar with the brand registry process. Changing listing titles also happens on a regular basis to chase trends in search results. My recommendations are pretty much directly from the cited guidelines in sellercentral.
by bigfishrunning | 2026-01-21 19:46:57+00:00
Why? If you really care that little about the properties of the Linux distribution, just run one of the many that already exist.

Linux From Scratch was never really about running the system anyway -- Most people go through it as a learning exercise and then run a maintained distribution anyway; I would think it's a tiny minority that maintains an LFS system for a long time.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-01-21 19:47:00+00:00
number of firearms is moot without 1) the ammo to use it, and 2) enough bodies to use them.

I'd rather have 10 people with 10 guns than 3 people with 30 guns, esp. if of different calibers and configurations

and in a collapse situation I'd rather have excessive water purification and just enough firearms, than excessive firearms and little to no water purification
by tonymet | 2026-01-21 19:47:17+00:00
> why is the UI so slow / explorer slow / bluetooth slow

this is a legitimate complaint, but I see latency absolutely everywhere. my iPhone 17 Pro dropped frames out of the box . now 3/4 unlocks drops frames.

I'm not defending Windows, it's obviously in decline -- but trying to identify root cause. There used to be curmudgeon engineers on staff who would berate team members over blocked UIs, dropped frames, input latency over 30ms . Dave Cutler made a rubber stamp that rejected (then paper) code reviews with "Size is the Goal". That culture has retired.

Web-dev's design interactions targeting 500-2000ms, so to them everything on the OS looks fast . Adding 150ms to right-click is unnoticeable . Like 15kHz audio to a boomer or purple to the color blind .

It's easy to beat up on MS, because most open-source devs have despised them. But Microsoft had a very high bar for engineering until about 10 years ago ( you may laugh, but remember they were writing OS's that last 40+ years) . Apple had an extremely high bar until about 5 years ago.

This isn't just one bad product, but an entire industry lowering its standards.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-01-21 19:47:19+00:00
I can give you perspective as a customer. I can't imagine they treat sellers any differently. I quit Prime (after spending tens of thousands over the years) and Amazon immediately started treating me like a third-class citizen. Free shipping is normally 5+ days. Obscene amounts of dark patterns trying to get me to sign back up for Prime. Literally every checkout flow is a maze where I have to ensure I don't accidentally click the wrong thing or I'll find myself on the hook for a subscription.

I started giving more business to Walmart. Free shipping promos are just that, same dollar threshold as AMZN but items often arrive in a day or two (sometimes same day). They arrive by the date stated. Free shipping is the default selection. Experience with third party sellers has been good. They do shill Walmart+ (their cheaper Prime equivalent) but it's not obnoxious and no dark patterns. They do have the Chinese products but for some reason they do not pollute the search anywhere near as bad as Amazon. It's easy to filter out third party products with one click. I know stuff I'm getting is not counterfeit - they seem to have much better control over supply chain than AMZN. Many products are drop shipped direct from the manufacturer.

Unfortunately the Chinese flea market junk is Amazon's bread and butter so they have intentionally made it difficult to exclude it.

The downside is Walmart's site is a bit rough around the edges but lately Amazon is doing a great job of destroying their own site in multiple ways - like removing the ability to print real invoices, removing the ability to effectively filter third-party sellers in search, etc.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-21 19:47:51+00:00
The EU is not a state.

And no, wealth inequality is much higher in the US: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/wealth-in... . And those are averages, we don't have people making 100.000x more than others.

We also have wayyy less violent crime: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/violent-c... , and much less people in prison per capita

LGBTQ+ rights are way better covered here (with the exception of a couple countries that should really be booted out of the EU). Also really important for me.

We're doing pretty good, we will have some challenges going forward but that's always the case. Military equipment is something that we're now buying a lot from the US where prices are really high, and once we move that to European vendors we can get a lot more for the same money (this is similar to how Russia manages to have so much military power on a country with a GDP similar to Italy: they make it themselves with their own purchasing power).

The one challenge to the EU is not to fall into the austerity trap as they did in 2007 though. And we don't need so much. I don't need or want a car, a big TV, daily takeaway coffees etc. Less consumerism is also a good thing.
by sgjohnson | 2026-01-21 19:48:19+00:00
I didn’t claim that eclecticlight writes cheap dunk.

But this article, which starts with

> That’s a question I’m asked repeatedly, which this article tries to answer.

doesn’t actually _try_ to answer the question. It just stops at SSV and draws a meaningless comparision with macOS 9. It also has several factual inaccuracies in there. Notably, the claim that macOS is not UNIX, and the implication that Unix systems must somehow be free and open-source (virtually all Unixes of the day were proprietary & closed source).
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-21 19:48:22+00:00
>Yeah, they're the ones trying to gaslight Americans into believing that NATO hasn't been a completely lopsided relationship since the end of the Cold War, and that it makes complete sense that Americans be treaty-bound to defend nations like Sweden

Sweden just joined NATO in 2024, so what does the cold war have to do with it?

> a country where less than half of the population had a favorable view of us as a nation, before Trump.

Ok? Yes, it was looking like Sweden thought Russia was the bigger threat, so they joined NATO in 2024, but I guess Trump is making them regret this.
by Cd0 | 2026-01-21 19:48:26+00:00
The problem seems to lie with the UX/UI of the touchscreens and not the screens themselves.

Had the screen made it clearer that only one side of the ship was being controlled, this wouldn’t have happened. And if the “physical” helm looked like a recording studio with 1000 identical knobs/levers/buttons, I could see the same crash happening.