MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-14 17:22:35+00:00
I think this is for a different domain than software engineering, but it describes the basics, mostly difficult to get consensus on detailed requirements, often due to "personal" or "group political" reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem

I sometimes use the term to describe heisenbugs, which is probably incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
by kenjackson | 2026-01-14 17:22:45+00:00
It's disappointing, but not surprising, that people thought the president would make any really impact on inflation. That said, with global conditions improving it looks like we could've actually seen a drastically larger reduction in inflation if not for the tariffs. The goals of the tariffs seem so misaligned with what the country needs - again not surprising that we're doing something the opposite of what we need - and again also not surprising that his supporters don't seem to care.
by Pet_Ant | 2026-01-14 17:23:14+00:00
Quick research, but it appears that the population are descendents of the Emirate of Sicily from 1000 AD, which was colonised by people from Tunisia, who would be considered Arabs generally. So a splinter group cut off from the main body for a thousand years (if my reading is correct).

Are they still Arabs? That's subjective.

I'd consider America and England two capitals of the Anglo empire much like Roman and Constantinople, but there is lots of room for nuance. (Romans & Byzantines saw themselves as the same, whereas Americans and English see themselves as different... but I chalk that up to the tyranny of small differences, just look at how the elites jump back and forth across the pond and how their politics harmonise, Trump/Farage, Reagan/Thatcher, Clinton/Blair).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_people#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Relationship
by api | 2026-01-14 17:23:20+00:00
Not sure why this is being downvoted when it's quite an obvious trend in American politics. The executive has been getting stronger and Congress has been getting weaker and more dysfunctional for many years.

We have been setting the stage and preparing the throne for an American dictator or emperor for at least 50 years, just waiting for one to decide to sit in the chair and wield the power we've laid at their feet. The only thing that stopped this from happening sooner is that none of the prior administrations truly wanted to do this.

Bush, in particular, could have become dictator easily after 9/11. I dislike George W. pretty strongly but I do give him a little credit here.
by antomal | 2026-01-14 17:23:25+00:00
I've been working on GRSH because I wanted to explore building core system utilities using Rust's memory safety guarantees, with a specific focus on the FreeBSD ecosystem.

While the shell is still in its early stages, my goal is to create a lightweight, fast, and secure alternative to traditional shells that feels at home on both FreeBSD and macOS.

Key features I'm focusing on:

Zero-cost abstractions for process management.

Native performance on BSD-based systems.

Minimalist design without the bloat of modern 'all-in-one' shells.

I'm also developing DIR (a visual disk analyzer for FreeBSD) as part of this 'Grim Reaper' toolset.

I would love to hear your feedback on the implementation or any specific features you'd like to see in a Rust-based shell for Unix systems.

Source Code: https://github.com/antoniomalara301289/grsh Project Page: https://grimreaper.icu
by dent9 | 2026-01-14 17:23:32+00:00
It's always extremely weird to me when people have to make this distinction because I was under the impression that ALL Adderall prescriptions are for the XR extended release which comes in capsules full of small beads of medication. No one should be taking Adderall IR instant release tablets. Those things have almost no reason to exist. I really don't understand who is taking those things and where people are getting the impression that IR tablets are a normal Adderall formulation. "Long acting" Adderall has been the norm for decades now and I haven't even seen or heard of anyone taking IR tablets since like the early 2000's
by pamcake | 2026-01-14 17:24:31+00:00
There are bad CoCs and ways to abuse them and people who do. That doesn't mean the concept of setting social expectations for a collaborative project is inherently bad. Same as for discussion forum guidelines and moderation.

No CoC is better than a bad CoC or one where interpretation is centralized to someone with an agenda. But many times a decent CoC can help newcomers in reading the room and support well-intended moderators in making judgement calls.

I also think good CoCs are small and mostly reactive. It's premature social engineering to spend energy on formulating general policies for things that happened once or twice if ever for the project.

Like, maybe wait until you actually had a couple of slop PRs before spending time, energy, and political capital on an AI contribution policy.
by scatbot | 2026-01-14 17:24:51+00:00
This seems similar to _hyperscript, except it uses custom tags instead of the "_" attribute. I'm not sure which approach is better, but personally, I prefer keeping the same document structure and varying behavior through attributes. Easier to rewrite on the fly. Custom tags can be clearer in some cases, but attributes tend to work better with existing HTML and tooling.
by saghm | 2026-01-14 17:24:52+00:00
Growing up I was always told that cotton would shrink in the dryer but polyester wouldn't, and I should just check the tag on a shirt to find out if it would shrink (which usually would say something like 100% cotton, 100% polyester, 50% cotton/50% polyester, etc.). Seeing the title on this article made me think that it would be a refutation of that conventional wisdom, but it sounds like what I was taught growing up was basically correct.

I can't help but be curious now; is this something that other people my age (born in the early 90s) had heard when they were kids? Did people who grew up earlier than that hear it when they were kids, or did this idea maybe not reach mainstream status until a bit later (maybe my parents were relatively early in repeating this wisdom)? Or maybe it's something that used to be common knowledge that's been "lost" to newer generations for some reason? I'm genuinely a bit surprised to see that this article was published just last summer, since I assumed that the basic premise would be have something the average person would have learned before then from existing sources. Maybe I'm assuming too much about whether this article was intended to be about the "what" rather than the "why", but the language seems intended to be approachable to those from a non-scientific background (e.g. "on a chemical level, there are also links between the chains called hydrogen bonds"; I would expect someone talking to another scientist to be more direct and say something like "there are hydrogen bonds" with the expectation that they understood what they were already).
by jrussino | 2026-01-14 17:25:10+00:00
Thanks to NPR for this important reporting; it sucks that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down after losing all of its funding.

This "basked of goods" approach to understanding price inflation seems outdated to me. 114 items! It seems to me like there must be organizations out there with tons and tons of price and consumer spending data for thousands and thousands of items, right? It should be possible to get much more comprehensive measurement of price changes over time vs and approach taken like this one (or the CPI, for that matter).
by anthk | 2026-01-14 17:26:00+00:00
Ditto here in Spain. If you were able to watch Northern Exposure or The X Files with the Spanish dub in the 90's with a normal TV schedule (read: with human schedules, you need to sleep), I would ask you a unicorn just in case, because I woudn't believe you. After 2003 with Emule and BT? Damn it, I've got whole NE series over torrent and I regret nil.

My public TV already paid the US TV producer with money from our taxes, so in the end it's a draw.

Programming books? Your elder brother/sister it's doing CS at some uni, right? Then, good luck paying $50 on big book stores from malls. Entry courses you mean? Pay ~$50 a month for a private school and try enjoying Visual C++ 98. Linux? That's was for CS engineers and PC freaks right?

Nowadays you can learn damn Calculus on your own and install Maxima from any distro with online guides and tutorials. I had to learn Calculus from my own (I was some HS dropout) early Debian DVD's which had a PDF on Mathematics and from that I tried to understand every exercise and equation under Maxima. No upgrades, no updates, no tutoring. Hard mode my default for everything. Your TV tuner didn't work? Messing with Linux kernel modules like crazy and even editing the source code to fake the tuner and PLL and watch something in XawTV.
by piltdownman | 2026-01-14 17:26:16+00:00
I literally cited the BBC Question Time editing out audience laughter at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's fumbling responses, and the incredible partisanship to protect him from Andrew Neill while then setting up the most controversial UK political interview of the 21st Century with Marr

https://www.theguardian.com/media/shortcuts/2019/dec/03/chun...

I have to also laugh at Channel 4 (decidedly not the BBC in the first instance) putting some small thumb on the scales of justice re: Nigel Farage and the Reform party generally - the biggest political and institutional frauds outside of the Reese-Moggs clan.

My favourite prominent example: footage originally taken from GB News was used by a local Reform Party to falsely claim a rival MP was abusive to Nigel Farage in Parliament

https://inews.co.uk/news/mp-falsely-accused-calling-farage-a...
by binarylogic | 2026-01-14 17:26:22+00:00
100% accurate. It is very much political. I'd also add that the problem is perpetuated by a disconnection between engineers who produce the data and those who are responsible for paying for it. This is somewhat intentional and exploited by vendors.

Tero doesn't just tell you how much is waste. It breaks down exactly what's wrong, attributes it to each service, and makes it possible for teams to finally own their data quality (and cost).

One thing I'm hoping catches on: now that we can put a number on waste, it can become an SLO, just like any other metric teams are responsible for. Data quality becomes something that heals itself.
by kjcharles | 2026-01-14 17:26:31+00:00
Hey InboxReads creator here. I've been facing the same problem with other newsletters submitted to the site so I think you're right that spammers are scraping directories.

I've added a bunch of mitigations but found that they're faking the referrer when subscribing to newsletters and not even going through the site anymore.

Captchas do solve it though!

But I'm just as baffled at their endgame as you are.
by jmclnx | 2026-01-14 17:26:34+00:00
Yes I read it, but still, charging me $1 so M/S can spy on what I do and make money off of it by selling my work to large corporations is wrong.

But if they really wanted to do what the article says, create a project and people can donate what the want. For example, if M/S sends me $5 per month, I can redirect it to various open source projects instead.

When I was on GH, I did donate a little per month to 2 projects, it was a nice way to do that. But I moved off because I do not want to give M/S more personal information (like my Cell #), so I send a few $ to them using other means.
by OutOfHere | 2026-01-14 17:26:43+00:00
"They" is not a valid entity; only individuals are valid entities. Immense political pressure can be exerted to force a survey. Some people will vote, and some won't. Those who don't vote will get assigned the median. The only way out for Greenlanders is to be united in voting a very high number, so high that the US could never afford to pay it, but realistically this is unlikely to happen under my specific noted approach which monotonically penalizes high values and rewards low values.
by simgoh | 2026-01-14 17:27:11+00:00
Maybe this makes sense for recruiters or influencers? I use and browse LinkedIn sparingly, definitely not enough to where paying $48/year makes sense for me.

I want to also make a general comment thats not targeted at you specifically but I'll start by saying "Thank you!" for making the core functionality (removing the Promoted posts) available on your Free tier but man am I tired of everything becoming a subscription. I'm not advocating or implying that people should work for free, but it just feels like every aspect of our life is becoming a subscription in some shape or fashion.
by bitexploder | 2026-01-14 17:27:25+00:00
While you do not have a legal duty to secure classified information it is illegal for you to possess it. It is illegal for a reporter to have and discuss classified information under strict interpretation of the espionage act, however the supreme court ruled that they can as long as they didn't participate in acquiring it or induce someone to acquire it. They will prosecute a reporter if they have a clear indication they participated in the theft of the classified information.

Regarding Gellman, he could have been prosecuted. Under strict interpretation he admitted to retaining classified information. The government is then in a catch 22 situation where they have to verify, publicly, the information he held creating a Snowden like situation where it is no longer secret. It is a very messy area of law and a zealous DOJ can exert tremendous pressure on individual journalists even though they are better shielded than non-journalists. Essentially, by prosecuting someone they have to prove it is national defense information and in so doing they will end up disclosing the information themselves making it dubious a jury would ever convict.

It is the same reason we can freely discuss Snowden-leaked information now. It is not a secret. Even if it is classified it has lost its legal protection.

In short, if this journalist even vaguely induced anyone to leak information to her she can be prosecuted and the precedent there is much less in her favor.
by sph | 2026-01-14 17:27:26+00:00
Yet somehow other political posts that aren't as overtly critical of the US government aren't being flagged. Weird, huh?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616745

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614963

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600194

I maintain my conspiracy theory that a lot of the politically-motivated flagging on this platform is from the moderators, not the users. Y Combinator the company has shown to be openly pro-Trump.
by Tadpole9181 | 2026-01-14 17:27:50+00:00
You've misunderstood the parent. They're saying watch out what happens to anyone in the Journalist's book who did not share classified information.

You seriously think this administration is going to get a list of 1,200 government employees who are (legally) informing reporters of the goings-on and just... Let it go? Those people are about to get punished.

And since we're at the point of an unaccountable, unidentifiable Gestapo going door-to-door and arresting / murdering citizens openly in the streets...
by vunderba | 2026-01-14 17:27:53+00:00
Nice job. I have a bespoke GPT that I use with ChatGTP in voice chat to do language practice but I could see this being useful for beginners.

Not sure if I ran into an error or if it was the end of the lesson, but when it asked me to pronounce "I want a coffee" and I repeated it - it didn't progress any further and just sat suspended there - dev console logs:

useSpeechRecording] Committed: Quiero un café.
index-DkqRIC0D.js:435 WebSocket closed: code=1000, reason="User ended session", wasClean=true
by bArray | 2026-01-14 17:27:59+00:00
$1 USD is ~90 Indian Rupees, 1450 Argentinian Peso or over 1 million Iranian Rial [1]. In some places, $1 USD could be a week's work. On the collection side, you could be seriously over-charging people. On the distribution side, you could be seriously overpaying people for their work - and encourage scams, etc.

> GitHub should charge every org $1 more per user per month and direct it into an Open Source fund, held in escrow.

Sure. It'll be some charity, then somebody gets paid $200k+ per year to distribute what remains after they've taken the majority, all whilst avoiding most taxes. To receive the money the person has to ID themselves, financial background checks need to be done, a minimum amount needs to be reached before a payment is made, and then after passing through multiple wanting hands, they end up with a fraction.

> Those funds would then be distributed by usage - every mention in a package.json or requirements.txt gets you a piece of the pie.

What even is "usage"? How many times it appears in a number of repos? How many users there are of the project? Is the usefulness and value of a project limited to the number of people that directly use it?

> Or don’t! Let’s not do anything! People’s code and efforts - fueling incredibly critical bits of infrastructure all around the world - should just be up for grabs. Haha! Suckers!

> Anyway, you all smarter than me people can figure it out. I just cannot accept that what we have is “GOOD”. xx

It's entirely possible you can make things worse by avoiding doing nothing. Sometimes in life you have to pick the lesser of evils.

[1] https://www.x-rates.com/table/?from=USD&amount=1
by shykes | 2026-01-14 17:28:01+00:00
I've been working for the last 5 years on an alternative called Dagger. Ended up building a company around it.

We started from the ideal state of CI, and set out to build the platform that would support that.

For us this ideal state of CI boils down to 4 things:

- local-first (local execution should be a first-class citizen, with no exception)

- repeatable (the same inputs should yield the same output, with affordances for handling inevitable side effects in an explicit and pragmatic way)

- programmable. my workflows are software. I want all the convenience of a modern software development experience: types, IDE support, a rich system API
, debugging tools, an ecosystem of reusable components, etc.

- observable. I want all the information in one place about everything that happened in my workflow, with good tooling to get the information I need quickly, and interop with the existing observability ecosystem (eg. open telemetry)

So Dagger is our best effort at a CI platform focused on those 4 things.

Sorry if this comes across as a sales pitch. When
you're building solves a problem you're obsessed with, it's hard to discuss the problem without also mentioning the solution that seems the most obvious to you :)
by mlyle | 2026-01-14 17:28:06+00:00
People always use bits for connectivity. 62.5kB/sec -- maybe really 55-60kB/sec downloaded. Or 18 seconds to get a megabyte.

This is simultaneously fast (on my 14400 bps modem that I spent the most time "waiting for downloading", I was used to 12-13 minutes per megabyte vs. 18 seconds here) and slow (the google homepage is >1MB, so until you have resources cached you're waiting tens of seconds).

It would be nice if everything were just a touch more efficient.
by pasquinelli | 2026-01-14 17:28:11+00:00
> The language is intentionally neutral and apolitical, without any stance on social or political issues.

does this mean something?

i was very confused by your description of xoscript as typeless. only typeless languages i know of are languages where a variable can only be a word. i assume you mean it's dynamically typed.

every new language that gets on hn gets two criticisms: they don't show code first thing, and they don't start with what problem is being solved by designing a new language. i'm not very interested in those things. i would, however, like to be told what it is in a concise way. you've basically got, if i understand correctly, a smalltalk-like system here, prototype based instead of class based, with dynamically scoped variables, and you're tooling it with server side scripting in mind. that tells me a lot more than code.

as for the what-problem-are-you-solving-by-designing-this-language criticism, if we're honest we can see that every language is either designed as an experiment, "what would a language be like if...?", or it's designed as a matter of personal ergonomics, "i want language X with differences i, j, and k cuz i like it that way." i'm completely fine with that.
by linkregister | 2026-01-14 17:28:21+00:00
Be heartened that your choices are meaningful. The impact of e-waste on ground contamination from landfills in the United States and Europe is negligible, and landfill capacity itself does not approach the level of emergency that planetary warming is for human civilizations.

Bicycling, transit usage, and switching to lower-carbon food sources significantly reduces your CO2 footprint. Your example influences others in your community, though it may not be personally apparent.
by kowbell | 2026-01-14 17:28:34+00:00
Let's not forget that with both porn AND all the other "junk food" on social media that we waste away on: there are very smart people getting paid a lot of money to make/keep you hooked on them.

IMO this is as much a "we are hopelessly dumb monkeys who just want to satisfy ourselves" as as it is "there's clever monkeys who know and exploit our monkey weaknesses so they can make more money."
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-14 17:28:43+00:00
> Search is investigative; not punitive.

Let's be real, it can be both. A legal, valid and justified search can be done in a manner calculated to inflict maximum pain. Raiding in the middle of the night instead of when they step out their door in the morning, ripping open walls when all they're really looking for is a laptop, flipping and trashing the place in a excessive manner, breaking things in the process, pointing guns at children, shooting the family retriever, etc. I don't know if they took this raid too far in any of these ways, but it wouldn't surprise me.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-14 17:28:56+00:00
It's worth noting that Renee Good was shot because she was protesting after she happened upon ICE operating in her city. More than just weekend protests are happening. Few people in any of the blue sanctuary cities ICE is terrorizing actually want ICE to be there and those who don't frequently make themselves heard, sometimes resulting in their tragic end.

Yes, some protests happen when it's convenient for the protesters. That does not invalidate their protests, nor any others with a similar message. It does not weaken the message nor the movement.
by linuxftw | 2026-01-14 17:29:09+00:00
Wages and energy have not increased. Tariffs on food are basically non existent for most items.

It's 100% purely supply side pricing, propped up by government spending and credit (which is largely backstopped by the government as well).

I listened to a podcast recently that some 'homeowners' have not made a mortgage payment in years, have no ability to pay, but here are essentially unlimited 'no doc' mortgage modifications available since the Corona time period.
by horsawlarway | 2026-01-14 17:29:26+00:00
Personally, I've had absolutely miserable experiences trying to get products on Aliexpress.

I have at least 3 paid for orders that literally just never showed up (18650 charger, and two LFP 24v chargers). It's not a huge sum of money (~$45) but it's just... gone. Poof - into the ether. It's been more than 24 months.

I also have had orders take 3+ months to actually arrive. Consistently. And some products that do show up but are absolutely unfit for purpose (ex - copper wire that IS NOT COPPER).

Given the complete lack of reliability... I now avoid aliexpress for pretty much everything.

So sure - something like sparkfun/adafruit/etc is going to charge me an overhead, but that overhead ensures

1. The product will roughly work

2. The product will show up

3. The product will show up on a reasonable timeline

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The extra money isn't so I can have an illusion that I'm "above all that"... it's literally just setting a baseline service level that I don't mind paying extra for, because aliexpress isn't a reliable shop (and is borderline scammy as fuck).