MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stego-tech | 2026-01-27 00:16:44+00:00
The advice I give younger folks is what I wished I’d been taught when I was just starting out myself, and confronting dismal prospects and futures after the 2008 Collapse:

Always consider the justification for the narrative. Dario Amodei has a vested interest in peddling his perspective, as that’s how he gets funding, media interest, publicity, and free advertising. He needs his product to be everything he claims it to be, lest the money supply suddenly dry up. Every startup does this, and while it doesn’t make them wrong, it also doesn’t mean you should take them at their word either.

I’d also say that you’re not alone in this frustration, and it’s not limited to your age demographic. My millennial peers and GenX colleagues share similar concerns about a dismal future, and many point to the same trends that have gradually stripped away our ability to survive or live authentic lives in the name of oligarchy profit motives as causes for our present malaise.

What Dario Amodei can never admit, however, is that he’s wrong; you, and many of us here, can and will acknowledge our faults, but Dario and Sam and Zuck et al have built such a massive confidence game around GenAI being the antithesis to labor that one of them admitting they’re wrong risks destroying the entire game for everyone else - and vaporize the trillions of dollars sunk into this technology “revolution” in the process.

The best cure I’ve found for that sort of depression is simply to do more learning across a wider spectra of topics. There’s a reason you don’t see widespread AI boostering in, say, neuroscience or psychology, outside of the handful of usual grifters and hustlers angling to cash in on the hype: because anyone with knowledge beyond statistical algebra and matrix multiplication can see the limitations of these tools, and knows they cannot displace labor permanently in their current forms. Outside of the “booster bubble”, the concerns we have with AI are less the apocalyptic claims of Mr. Amodei that mass unemployment from AI is just three to six months away (since 2023), and more the rampant misuse and exploitation these systems rely upon and cultivate for profit. Most of us aren’t opposed to having another tool, we’re opposed to perpetually renting this tool indefinitely from oligarchs shoving it down our throats and datacenters hoovering our limited energy and freshwater supplies, instead of being able to utilize it locally in sustainable and sensical ways.

Learning about different topics from different fields helps paint a clearer picture - one that’s admittedly even more bleak in the immediate, but at least arms you with knowledge to effect change for the better going forward.
by nosuchthing | 2026-01-27 00:16:51+00:00
Have you ever actually looked into the history of the Taiwan and why they would officially call their region the Republic of China?

Apparently they had a civil war not too long ago. Internationally lots of territories were absorbed in weird ways in the last 100 years, amid post European colonialism and post WWII divvy up of territories among the allies. It sounds more similar to the way southerners like to print dixie flags and reference the confederate states, despite losing the civil war except the American Civil War ended 161 years ago, whereas the ROC fled to the island of Taiwan and were left alone, still claiming to be the national party of China despite losing their civil war 77 years ago.

Why not look into the actual history of the Republic of China? has it be suppressed where you live?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)
by Obscurity4340 | 2026-01-27 00:17:09+00:00
It helps to write out the prompt in a seperate text editor so you can edit it and try to desribe what the input is, and what output you want as well as try to describe and catch likely or iteratively observed issues.

You try a gamut of sample inputs and observe where its going awry? Describe the error to it and see what it does
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-27 00:17:17+00:00
ICE seems to be having a problem with their video monitoring systems having system crashes. Sorry court, we lost all the data!
https://www.404media.co/ice-says-critical-evidence-in-broadv...

I'm still so confused how the issue became "her emails" when they were basically turned over, dealt with. Where-as oops, the Bush White House "lost" literally millions of emails & allowed people to delete whatever they wanted. This is the sort of hiding in the shadows evil shit that I wish Obama had tried to bring to light, tried to prosecute some people for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controv...

Marimar Martinez is trying to make public the records of what ICE did after they tried to kill her & accused her of being a terrorist. That would be interesting to see. Liars liars everywhere, no respect for society. https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/01/26/marimar-...
by sien | 2026-01-27 00:18:50+00:00
I use the fantastic Inoreader that is better than Google Reader was.

I follow things that post maybe once or twice a week or once a month. For things with new information every day, like Hacker News, I check the website.

A few of the things that I follow that may be a bit different for people are :

Arnold Kling - a PhD economist who worked in technology and is genuinely different.

https://arnoldkling.substack.com/

Noah Smith - a PhD economist who writes about economics and the world

https://www.noahpinion.blog/

Roger Pielke Jnr - a guy with a PhD who writes about climate and energy and was excommunicated by the climate priesthood.

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/

Andrew Sullivan - a conservative, gay, HIV positive, Catholic writer who campaigned for gay marriage.

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/
by justonepost1 | 2026-01-27 00:18:55+00:00
There’s nothing for us. The best our generation can hope for is that the vision these people have of the future, and are spending more money than god trying to create, fails, and the economic consequences end up limited.

The second best thing is getting enough time to build a runway. I have a good job right now (mid 20s), and I’m eating progresso soup for dinner most days to save money for whatever is coming. Pretty much every medium or long term goal abandoned, I just want to have the money to hit some bucket list items if the collapse comes.

Meanwhile, I’ll keep on reading the daily article from one of the many people with few gray hairs, a retro blog and a small fortune from the dotcom era telling me this is the best time ever, actually. We’ll see.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-27 00:19:04+00:00
No, but they issued an umbrella ban on anabolic steroids of any kind, regardless of chemistry, even on those not invented yet. FDA criminalizes or makes prescription-only whatever they want, willy-nilly and without any consequences - drug enforcement opened the door for that.

I'm not saying that drugs should be legal, only that given perverse intensives, legitimate problems are routinely used as a Trojan horse to rope in oppressive regulations.

In the case of communications and speech, the government's incentives for censorship, eavesdropping and control are enormous - otherwise there wouldn't be a Constitution, 1st amendment or the entire Bill of Rights that depends on it. Once the routine circumvention of these becomes acceptable, any kind of true but inconvenient for Big Brother speech will become impossible - with or without a written permit.

The manner of doing it doesn't matter, the permit was a figure of speech, kind of telling that I have to state it explicitly.
by stevage | 2026-01-27 00:19:17+00:00
>I had just read Life of Pi, and one thing I like about that book is that you know the punch line before you even pick up a copy. A boy is stuck with a bengal tiger in a boat. Now that the punch line is out of the way, the story has time to unfold and be interesting in its own merit. That's what I was trying to recreate with my own story.

For me this is a perfect example of what I hate about clickbait.

A boy trapped in a boat with a tiger is interesting. But the rest of the story really wasn't worth the read.
by CSm1n | 2026-01-27 00:20:41+00:00
> No, you can't. When you use 7-era toolchain (e.g. VS 2012) it sets the minimum client version in PE header to Vista, not XP much less 2k.

Yes, you can! There are even multiple Windows 10 era toolchains that officially support XP. VS 2017 was the last release that could build XP binaries.
by kiwijamo | 2026-01-27 00:20:42+00:00
The reliability of the other brands are quite poor though. I've tried Tile, I've tried Pebble (using Google's network) and neither has worked reliability enough. So I ended up switching to AirTags and so far I have been impressed with the reliability - it works 100% of the time which is not something I could say about Tile nor Pebble/Google.
Show HN: Protogen – An Autopoietic Autonomous World Model
by hiddenarchitect | 2026-01-27 00:21:41+00:00
The Autonomous Autopoietic World Model Generation Artificoal Intelligence

Why Protogen is DifferentMost AI today is a "Black Box"—you put text in, and you get text out, but you don't know why. Protogen is a White-Box system:•Metabolic Heartbeat: The system has an internal "pulse." It processes, cleans, and organizes its own thoughts in the background, even when you aren't interacting with it.•Entropy Gating: It uses Shannon Entropy to protect its "sanity." If you feed it nonsense, it detects the chaos and refuses to let it corrupt its internal logic.Symbolic Evolution: It watches how concepts relate. When a relationship becomes strong enough, it "lifts" that concept into a Symbol, creating a permanent foundation for future reasoning.•Recursive Learning: It doesn't just learn facts; it learns rules. It then looks for patterns within those rules to build increasingly complex understanding.
by MiguelHudnandez | 2026-01-27 00:22:09+00:00
I feel that not only should QA staff outnumber developers, but QA staff should have access to development time to design and improve QA tooling.

If you're doing an OS right, the quality is the product. I think MacOS prior to the launch of the iPhone would be the gold standard the kind of product design I'm talking about. At that time they were running circles around Windows XP/7 in terms of new features. They were actually selling the new OSes and folks were happy to pay for each roughly annual upgrade. Often the same hardware got faster with the newer OS.

Lately Microsoft and Apple are racing to the bottom, it seems.
by xp84 | 2026-01-27 00:23:17+00:00
Thanks for that excellent link. I suppose I have to remain optimistic here, but I think that you and I disagree on one really important thing and time will prove one of us right (I think we both probably hope I'm right): I think that Trump is too different from the others, even people he's ushering into the administrative state. That's my opinion because Trump seems to govern from:

- 1 part petty corruption: stupid stuff like deals that enrich Kushner, his Trump company itself, and that of his close personal allies

- 1 part vanity: stupid stuff that serves no purpose but to exact revenge against people who humiliate him. And let's throw in silly stuff he says just to 'troll the libs' to this group too.

- 1 part just pure inexplicable stupidity. Things like pointless tariffs, or the idiocy around Greenland, that hurt nearly everyone and especially the US itself. Honestly some of this may be just the petty corruption part, where someone who stands to make a fortune from the chaos has cut him in on a deal we don't know about.

I simply don't see that same motivation triad coming from anyone else, even among Republicans. Other Republicans are driven more by political ideology, their own goals, their own ideas about the culture, their belief that X policy makes the economy stronger, etc. So, while you should judge us by what we do in the future, and bearing in mind that more idiots of his caliber may be discovered, I think and hope that you'll find out that Trump was simply the perfect storm of moron, and can never be repeated.
by 8organicbits | 2026-01-27 00:24:06+00:00
> you try to tell your friend “hey I sent weddingpictures.zip to your email” and your friend clicks the resulting link, thereby being redirected to a trick site that steals your SSN.

Information theft seems possible, SSN less so, but I was more concerned about downloads.

Clicking on an auto-linkified weddingpictures.zip could autodownload a zip file containing malware. You may trust your friend but the zip file is not from them.

I think the lack of auto-linkification has a lot to due with why we aren't seeing real phishing attacks using the ZIP TLD. So I feel like we warned, the industry reacted by not autolinkifying, and disaster was averted.
by sjw7444 | 2026-01-27 00:24:12+00:00
I built Electric Pants, an iOS RSS reader with a different philosophy: it's "finite by design."
Instead of infinite scroll, you see "All Caught Up" when you've read everything. No algorithms deciding what you see, no engagement manipulation – just the feeds you chose.

Key features:

- RSS/Atom feed support with beautiful card layouts
- Reddit communities (no account needed)
- Private iCloud sync (no tracking, no servers)
- Enhanced reader mode
- Folder organization with custom colors/icons
- Home screen widgets

It's free on the App Store: https://electricpants.com

The app respects your time and privacy. Your subscriptions, folders, and read state sync via iCloud – I never see your data.

Would love feedback from the HN community. As RSS/Reddit/HM enthusiasts, what features matter most to you?
by j33dd | 2026-01-27 00:24:16+00:00
Yep.

Man can we just get this hype phase over with? Its very obvious to anyone who truly has "general intelligence" in understanding the nature of the economy and the present labour market and its job classes that LLMs are not going to cause job destruction nor immense leaps in productivity.

To put it another way - who cares if you can write more lines of code - if your taste for project selection lacks? Google has an expansive grave yard for a reason.
by andai | 2026-01-27 00:24:49+00:00
Was this Claude Code? If you tried it with one file at a time in the chat UI I think you would get a straight-line port, no?

Edit: It could be because Rust works a little differently from other languages, a 1:1 port is not always possible or idiomatic. I haven't done much with Rust but whenever I try porting something to Rust with LLMs, it imports like 20 cargo crates first (even when there were no dependencies in the original language).

Also Rust for gamedev was a painful experience for me, because rust hates globals (and has nanny totalitarianism so there's no way to tell it "actually I am an adult, let me do the thing"), so you have to do weird workarounds for it. GPT started telling me some insane things like, oh it's simple you just need this rube goldberg of macro crates. I thought it was tripping balls until I joined a Rust discord and got the same advice. I just switched back to TS and redid the whole thing on the last day of the jam.
by barbazoo | 2026-01-27 00:26:14+00:00
> Cook has been working to maintain a close relationship with Trump, and he visited the White House several times in 2025, in addition to meeting with Trump in Japan and at Davos. Apple also donated an unspecified amount toward Trump's ballroom project, and Cook presented Trump with a glass plaque that included a 24-karat gold base. Prior to when Trump took office, Cook personally donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration.

Sounds like involuntary ball gargling to me.
by jasonjayr | 2026-01-27 00:27:01+00:00
FWIW; Every Lenovo I've used in recent history had a setting in the BIOS to remap Fn/Ctrl.

On my assigned machine, I have it swapped so Ctrl is in the lower left spot because otherwise I'd lose my mind trying to figure it out between all the machines I swap through. (Emacs users will have to use something else to put Ctrl where they want ....)
by neobrain | 2026-01-27 00:27:14+00:00
Given that you're already using Home Manager: Make sure to also take a look at plasma-manager! [1]

It extends HM's declarative config to KDE/Plasma's config files, which are harder to manage since they also contain volatile state like window geometry. For discovery, there is also a `plasma-manager` executable that prints out most (all?) active settings. In particular the keybindings are included in there.

(This doesn't directly answer your question, but maybe is informative regardless and/or helpful for finding related options)

[1] https://github.com/nix-community/plasma-manager
by rednafi | 2026-01-27 00:27:46+00:00
It’s easy to forget that any artifact - painting, music, text, or software - that appeals to a large number of people is, by definition, an average on the spectrum of quality.

Popular music tends to be generic. Popular content is mostly brainrot these days. Popular software is often a bloated mess because most users’ lives don’t revolve around software. They use software to get something done and move on.

I never understood the appeal of “craft” in software. Early computer pioneers were extremely limited by the tech of their time, so the software they hacked together felt artsy and crafty. Modern software feels industrial because it is industrial - it’s built in software factories.

Industrial software engineers don’t get paid to do art. There are research groups that do moonshot experiments, and you can be part of that if it’s your thing. But lamenting the lack of craft in industrial software is kind of pointless. Imagine if we’d stopped at crafty, handmade auto engines and never mass-produced them at scale. We don’t lament “crafty engines” anymore. If you want that, go buy a supercar.

Point is: AI is just another tool in the toolbox. It’s like Bash, except calling it that won’t pull in billions of dollars in investment. So “visionaries” call it ghost in the machine, singularity, overlord, and whatnot. It produces mediocre work and saves time writing proletariat software that powers the world. Crafty code doesn’t pay the bills.

But I’m not saying we shouldn’t seek out fun in computing. We absolutely should. It’s just that criticizing AI for not being able to produce art is an old thing. The goalpost keeps shifting, and these tools keep crushing it.

I don’t use AI to produce craft, because I don’t really do craft in software - I have other hobbies for that. But I absolutely, proudly use it to generate mediocre code that touches millions of people’s lives in some way.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-27 00:28:20+00:00
They're still quintupling down on their sad Python-lite clone language and toy inbuilt text editor, what a damn shame. Still no way to avoid GC in C#. Godot had real potential, but they continue to insist it is a playground for learning about game development, rather than a tool to release a real game. If a fraction of gdscript and editor manhours had gone into real engine development, it would be better than Unity by now.
by jackdawipper | 2026-01-27 00:29:26+00:00
definitely. I got ad blitzed the last two days by "wow" YT videos which I admit is why I even ended up clicking through todays "bot news" to this site. It's been uber hyped with marketing strategy for sure, its only coz it was OSS I paid attention but was surprised by the marketing for OSS since that doesnt usually happen.
by Scoundreller | 2026-01-27 00:29:28+00:00
> Some ingredients may be identified in relatively vague ways, that are sufficient for safety purposes but do not reveal the exact product

Where I find this can be fun is that different countries seem to have different requirements for precision. Or just straight up different formulations for the same thing.

German wd40 says it’s all c9-c11 carbon chains:

https://smarthost.maedler.de/datenblaetter/EG_SIDA_WD40_EN.p...

US has a CARB and non-CARB formulation which are also different:

https://files.wd40.com/pdf/sds/mup/wd-40-multi-use-product-a...

https://files.wd40.com/msds/latam/GHS-SDS-WD-40-Multi-Use-Pr...
by nkurz | 2026-01-27 00:29:46+00:00
I'm confused by your reply. GP's point is that they both dissociate into simple sugars, and thus it doesn't matter what the source is. And your response says correctly that sucrose tastes different than both fructose and glucose, but I don't see how this contradicts him. There is (practically) no sucrose left.

Are you perhaps thinking that "high fructose corn syrup" is predominantly fructose? The name is confusing, but it actually means that it is high in fructose relative to normal corn syrup, not that fructose predominates. HFCS is usually pretty close to 50:50 fructose to glucose, just like sucrose is:

How much fructose is in HFCS?

The most common forms of HFCS contain either 42 percent or 55 percent fructose, as described in the Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR 184.1866), and these are referred to in the industry as HFCS 42 and HFCS 55. The rest of the HFCS is glucose and water. HFCS 42 is mainly used in processed foods, cereals, baked goods, and some beverages. HFCS 55 is used primarily in soft drinks.

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/high-fruct...

While you can measure the difference between 55:45 and 50:50, I'm doubtful the taste difference is much.
by lysace | 2026-01-27 00:30:08+00:00
My dad wanted a computer for the interwebs, at 70ish. I built him a PC and loaded it with the Ubuntu of the day (like 2012). It worked fine.

The previous time he meaningfully interacted with a computer before that was via punched tape containing ALGOL in the early 1960s. (When I first manually "decoded" those tapes 30 years later in the 1990s, it kind of blew my mind. I had just learned Turbo Pascal. Looks very similar at a high level.)
by jorvi | 2026-01-27 00:31:15+00:00
> Healthcare costs are high because of insurance companies and private equity, not doctors and hospitals.

It is actually the opposite.

UnitedHealth, one of the 'worst' insurers in terms of denials, has a profit margin of ~5% [0]. It is mainly the providers that overcharge, under the guise of "the less and lower we bill, the less and lower insurance pays us".

Insurance only works if there is at least as much going into the pot as is going out. What do you think would happen if insurances weren't denial hawks?

Get angry at your doctor for overcharging you whilst using insurance companies as the heel.

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UNH/unitedhealth-g...
by AshamedCaptain | 2026-01-27 00:31:20+00:00
Wouldn't you target whatever is the minimum "supported" glibc you want to run in the first place?
What is that you need to recompile?

Chroot _is_ trivial. I actually use it for convenience, as I could also as well install the older toolchains directly on the newer system, but chroot is just plain easier. Maybe VS has a button where you can target whatever version MS fancies today ("for a limited time offer"), but what about _any other_ windows toolchain?
by MarsIronPI | 2026-01-27 00:31:25+00:00
I don't want to be "that guy", but I'll indulge myself.

> I think this is one of the divides between people who like AI and people who don't. I don't mind writing code per se, but I really don't like text editing — and I've used Vim (Evil mode) and then Emacs (vanilla keybindings) for years, so it's not like I'm using bad tools; it's just too fiddly.

I feel the same way (to at least some extent) about every language I've used other than Lisp. Lisp + Paredit in Emacs is the most pleasant code-wrangling experience I've ever had, because rather having to think in terms of characters or words, I'm able to think in terms of expressions. This is possible with other languages thanks to technologies like Tree-sitter, but I've found that it's only possible to do reliably in Lisp. When I do it in any other language I don't have an unshakable confidence that the wrangling commands will do exactly what I intend.