MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by devolving-dev | 2026-01-20 15:50:22+00:00
Don't you have the same issue when you hire an employee and give them access to your systems? If the AI seems capable of avoiding harm and motivated to avoid harm, then the risk of giving it access is probably not greater than the expected benefit. Employees are also trying to maximize paperclips in a sense, they want to make as much money as possible. So in that sense it seems that AI is actually more aligned with my goals than a potential employee.
by gf000 | 2026-01-20 15:50:24+00:00
It worked as in react is the de facto frontend choice.

It didn't work as in if I were to ask for the router, state management, etc library, there would be a combinatorial explosion of react "frameworks", all sucking in different ways.

I am (and supposedly grandparent also) on the option that react leaves out way too much that would still be well in the scope of a 'UI framework', and while modularity can be a good thing in certain things, more modular, more moving parts does increase complexity.
by bluGill | 2026-01-20 15:50:27+00:00
> Full EVs: Less moving parts = less maintenance required = less issues to worry about (think no oil changes, no timing belt changes, no spark plug replacements, no belt/filter changes, no exhaust system checks, etc).

The above is a tiny part of the costs of an ICE. Sure you have to do it, but either it isn't common, or it is cheap. ICEs have gotten very reliable over the decades.

Meanwhile most of the parts of a car a common between an ICE and EV. You have tires either way, which need to be rotated (do you?) Shocks/struts, rust, tie rods, AC compressors, just to pick a few random ones.
by sznio | 2026-01-20 15:50:34+00:00
>What is the societal benefit provided by it?

Same as beer or any other drug - just a way to have some fun and not destructive provided you can control yourself.

Though, the one time I opened a CSGO gun case and felt the dopamine rush, it was way stronger than any drug I've done. Not that I'm a "highly-experienced individual", but alcohol, weed or adderall don't come close to a CSGO case. Gambling feels much riskier.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-20 15:50:52+00:00
Well, the unsophisticated and low education keep voting for Republicans, so what do? If you’re an individual, if you can, the best you can do is be prepared to get out and not have exposure to the US financially or from a tax perspective. Otherwise you’re stuck going over the cliff economically with the lemmings due to an uneducated, unsophisticated, vibe driven electorate and a suboptimal political and governance system.

Maybe we’re lucky and adults come back into power, but hope alone is not a strategy. No one is coming to save you, prepare accordingly. I have prepared accordingly to decouple from the US entirely as a citizen, if necessary. It’s regrettable and I have no other solution for those inquiring.
by Noaidi | 2026-01-20 15:51:02+00:00
Can I tell you how our (U.S.) semi-universal basic income saved me?

I have Schizoaffective Disorder Bipolar Type and Partial ADA deficiency.

In 2003 I was unemployed and spiraling in psychosis and the hospitalized. Unbeknownst to my, a friends, who's father was a lawyer, had one of his underlings start signing me up for Disability, which I have been on ever since. Over the years I have studied my disorder, both genetically and psychologically, and I feel this year, as I approach 60, I find myself stable enbough that I might start part time work. I do not need daily medication anymore because of my genetic and nutritional insights.

Now imagine what the $2000 a month I received would do for someone who did not have my disability? Most people (even my family(!) (who I disowned)) thought I did not want to work. Yes, I was making bank before my illness took me over as a Network Engineer, but no one knows the isolation of not working. By the way, $2000/month still leaves me homeless so...

I will never understand the feeling people have that if you help people everyone will take advantage of it. Some will, but most will not. We have such a dim view of people who are poor, like it is always their fault, and never anything outside of their control. I guess that illusion of control is what keeps people mentally secure.
by pirateyoga01 | 2026-01-20 15:51:04+00:00
Congrats to the Ditto team. I've been using their product for about 6 months now at my startup and it's genuinely solved a real pain point for us - our designers and devs were constantly out of sync on copy, and the "just put it in a spreadsheet" approach was a nightmare.

That said, $12.2M feels aggressive for what is essentially string management. I wonder what the path to a 10x return looks like here. Are they betting on AI-assisted copy generation? Expanding into full localization workflows?
Will be interesting to see where this goes.
by JohnMakin | 2026-01-20 15:52:13+00:00
Prediction markets to me are a natural consequence of the post-truth world we live in.

For one, it creates insanely imbalanced systems where two sides of a 50/50 market have completely opposite world views that when the market resolves may have access to sources, whether completely fake or misinfo'd, that lead them to believe the market should be settled in their favor. This then puts the prediction market in a place where it is the "arbiter" of reality - in a world where media has become so corrupt and full of noise, finding out what actually happened can be really hard.

So then, a market such as this seems inevitable to me because you can then point to markets and say "see, it resolved this way." It does not perfectly align with truth but with market forces would probably lead to more truth than a reality where you just cherrypick whatever biased source that makes you feel good does. And of course, the market itself can become corrupt.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-01-20 15:52:15+00:00
The petrodollar (a product of Kissinger) has been in collapse since Saudi Arabia began divesting from it.

We've been printing pretend money for quite some time, and supressing the value of precious metals (which is why you're now seeing silver bullion sell for $100+ an ounce). Copper is also selling out now.

These precious metals are extremely valuable because they're used to manufacture all of the technology consumers and nation states rely on daily. We're going to see a regression towards mercantilism and commodity hoarding. Most likely fiat will be abandoned in favor of crypto as we enter a new era of hyperinflation.

Buckle up - 2026 is going to be a wild ride.
by tartoran | 2026-01-20 15:52:18+00:00
It does affect us quite a bit. This situation makes us have to think hard, makes us be very wary of what we click on or read and sometimes bites us as well. I personally find ads extremely tiring such that I mostly avoid add riddled products/sites and always use ad blockers. Quite on the contrary, the vast majority of users aren't even bothered by ads, they've been accustomed to them. My main point of the comment wasn't to be arrogant but to say that most users don't care.
by anp | 2026-01-20 15:52:26+00:00
Anyone who finds this relatable (like me) might benefit from learning more about the last couple of decades of research on emotional regulation, trauma, and the nervous system. I have a great “trauma informed” therapist and over time this tendency of mine feels much less compulsive and more like a choice I can make because I know I’m good at something. At least for me having a calmer internal life has made it way easier to pick my battles and it usually means I end up feeding my desire to be useful on more satisfying and impactful things than I would have chased in more obsessive times in my life.
by jermaustin1 | 2026-01-20 15:53:00+00:00
I'm all for us Americans feeling the pain of electing this idiot, but let's not forget that only 30% of eligible voters actually voted for him. It is a shame that more didn't vote against him, but when the Democrats decided to run someone that the country didn't even remember existed a few months before the election, instead of for the 2 years PRIOR to the election, she never had the chance.
by TheJoeMan | 2026-01-20 15:53:27+00:00
140,000 miles is a lot of use in 7 years. "expected" design life of cars can be 10yrs/100,000 miles. Sorry to hear about your drivetrain issues. I don't know about the Tucson in particular, but many manufacturers are lying about the transmissions having "lifetime" fluid when the transmission manufacturers themselves recommend fluid changes around 60-80k. But if you don't change it, yes technically the car will make it to 100k, but then no shop will touch the transmission fluid for fear of wrecking it.
by westurner | 2026-01-20 15:53:42+00:00
Good blog post re: this essential Python component and CVEs this past year.

urllib3 got started in 2007 IIRC when we moved an internal package index to HTTPS and realized that Python did not have HTTPS handling, and then we realized that Python did not have HTTP redirect handing. And so urllib3!

cgi.escape was added later too.
by mustache_kimono | 2026-01-20 15:54:02+00:00
> Two examples that I can find

I think you are misreading my point above. I am not arguing ZFS doesn't have bugs. That's nuts. I am arguing that the bug the parent say he has would be extraordinary.

This is not just a bug that a scrub wouldn't find, but also it is a bug which an fsck would find. And it is not just a bug in the spacemaps or other metadata, but it is a bug which a scrub, which is just a read, wouldn't see, but a subsequent read would reveal.
by epistasis | 2026-01-20 15:54:03+00:00
The fund is not concerned about the debt ceiling. The are concerned about the US threatening invasion of its allies.

The debt ceiling is literally not a problem at all, unless the US were to do something as monumentally stupid as to stop allowing its GDP to grow through trade, and devalue the US dollar, in which case everybody flees US treasuries, resulting in collapse of value, causing more people to flee UST, etc....

The debt hawks are very wrong about the fundamentals of currency, but they are less dangerous than the war hawks in the White House to the US's economic future.

It's one thing to do a epically stupid invasion of Iraq on faked intelligence, which ally support. It's another thing entirely to invade allies. It will totally end US dominance in the world.
by inetknght | 2026-01-20 15:54:14+00:00
> The whole situation is been caused by a single guy and 400 enablers

There's a hell of a lot more than 400 enablers. Every single person who voted for the treasonous traitor orange cheeto enabled this; every single person still supporting him is still an enabler.

We have the modern Nazi party in the USA. Treat it like that.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-20 15:54:15+00:00
> enjoy watching their family get beaten bloody, ie. Stockholm syndrome

That's sadism or something, not Stockholm Syndrome which is about victims forming psychological bonds with their abductors, named so after it happened in Stockholm in 1973.

I think it's less about "like to see someone get beaten" and more "see someone who thought they owned the world and could bully others around, crumble under their own incompetence is satisfying", or something like that. Personally, I think it sucks, but I do understand how others can see it in different light, considering the long history of meddling with others.
by stavros | 2026-01-20 15:54:20+00:00
For something like this, where you need durability, lightness, and heat resistance, you just can't be at ABS. If your printer can't print it, I think it's worth getting it printed somewhere else (after prototyping with other materials). Just the reduced weight alone will be worth it, let alone the fact that ABS is nigh indestructible.
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-20 15:54:37+00:00
> Is the 80% rule real or just passed down across decades like other “x% free” rules?

As I understand it, the primary reason for the 80% was that you're getting close to another limit, which IIRC was around 90%, where the space allocator would switch from finding a nearby large-enough space to finding the best-fitting space. This second mode tanks performance and could lead to much more fragmentation. And since there's no defrag tool, you're stuck with that fragmentation.

It has also changed, now[1] the switch happens at 96% rather than 90%. Also the code has been improved[2] to better keep track of free space.

However, performance can start to degrade before you reach this algorithm switch[3], as you're more likely to generate fragmentation the less free space you have.

However, it was also a generic advice, which was ignorant to your specific workload. If you have a lot of cold data, low churn but it's fairly equal in size, then you're probably less affected than if you have high churn with lots of files of varied sizes.

[1]: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Performance%20and%20T...

[2]: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSZpoolFra...

[3]: https://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/attachments/366_ZFS%20A...
by traceroute66 | 2026-01-20 15:54:45+00:00
The USD has already been in decline as a reserve currency. The only thing that is happening is the decline is accelerating.

It is not necessarily a question of "takes its place", but more about being more serious about diversification. Or to paraphrase the old IBM saying "nobody got fired for buying USD" is no longer the case.

In terms of options you have JPY, EUR and CNY as the big-three and maybe tag AUD on top.
by jeltz | 2026-01-20 15:55:00+00:00
Why don't you go up and punch him in the face yourself? Especially if the problem is just one man and 400 enablers hat should be trivial. Just find 1000 people to beat them up.

In reality that one man is backed by half of the US voters, the Republican Party a lot of rich and powerful people, a clear majority of the police forces and an unknown part of the US military.
by SatvikBeri | 2026-01-20 15:55:28+00:00
Sure, here are my own examples:

* I came up with a list of 9 performance improvement ideas for an expensive pipeline. Most of these were really boring and tedious to implement (basically a lot of special cases) and I wasn't sure which would work, so I had Claude try them all. It made prototypes that had bad code quality but tested the core ideas. One approach cut the time down by 50%, I rewrote it with better code and it's saved about $6,000/month for my company.

* My wife and I had a really complicated spreadsheet for tracking how much we owed our babysitter – it was just complex enough to not really fit into a spreadsheet easily. I vibecoded a command line tool that's made it a lot easier.

* When AWS RDS costs spiked one month, I set Claude Code to investigate and it found the reason was a misconfigured backup setting

* I'll use Claude to throw together a bunch of visualizations for some data to help me investigate

* I'll often give Claude the type signature for a function, and ask it to write the function. It generally gets this about 85% right
by andrewpollack | 2026-01-20 15:55:36+00:00
Highlighting some recent tooling I've picked up to help manage my workstreams. Coming from a "one IDE window at a time" developer, this has been quite the process for myself to adapt, but I'm feeling in a much happier spot.

There are also some exercises at the bottom covering change requests that have come up that helped git operations really click for me.

Hope folks can benefit a bit from this!
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-20 15:55:38+00:00
Cool concept. (Legit project overall too.) Any chance it expands beyond Claude, e.g. Codex, OpenCode? Also, unless misunderstood those commits happen in currently working branch? If yes, an option to have the code/sessions mix in alternative (not working) branch will be nice too, as not every project would want to fill history with sessions.
by Joker_vD | 2026-01-20 15:55:39+00:00
> markets have successfully run the entire global economy for thousands of years

Markets, as they are understood today, are more like about 300 years old, even less in some places. The bulk of world economy has been sustenance farming for most of the human history, with some communal mutual help (based on favours and mutual indebtedness) thrown in.

> with no central oversight and almost no regulation

Lol what? E.g. Roman Republic (and later empire) tightly regulated its markets, especially food trade, during all of its existence.
by bell-cot | 2026-01-20 15:55:57+00:00
tl;dr; -

"Some Cities" is the most-arid quarter of cities - where greenery absorbs more solar energy than light surfaces, and water-conserving plant species do less evaporative cooling.

However trees - which both provide both shade and use their deeper root to keep up the evaporative cooling - were a net negative in only 2% of cities.

(Yeah, there are other reasons to avoid growing grass in hot, arid cities. Starting with the water supply.)
by simiones | 2026-01-20 15:56:03+00:00
You can listen to the podcast yourself. I explained my own understanding of his position: that String Theory, the specific mathematical structure, is categorically not a good model of the real world. He does believe that it is possible to create a different theory inspired from String Theory, "a slightly expanded version of String Theory", that could be correct. But, he also says that no version of a string theory that exists today fulfills this role.

Now, if by "string theory is dead in the water" someone means that "working on a generalization of string theory is a bad idea", then they are wrong, Leonard Susskind doesn't believe that.

But if by "string theory is dead in the water" they mean "there is no point in studying String Theory deeper, with its general mathematical properties, maybe with a slight tweaks, as it is right now it can't describe the real world", then this is quite clearly professor Susskind's position.
by gf000 | 2026-01-20 15:56:05+00:00
With all due respect, I don't believe it is "more snappier than react".

React itself with nothing else is plenty fast. You would have to go way out of your way to see performance differences between different UI approaches, computers are just way too fast to notice whether this click resulting in the div's text changing to +1 is slow or fast, even if the implementation were crazy convoluted.

What makes react apps slow is using it badly, and having 10 other libraries getting in the picture loading fat UI elements, etc.

And frankly these would be much slower in your render everything anew approach.
by spaceribs | 2026-01-20 15:56:05+00:00
I've fallen into this problem before, but theres an additional trap you should be aware of: You are not a therapist.

You cannot and should not just "listen" to problems that you're not allowed to work on or expect the other person to work on. You are an active member of this persons' life with your own point-of-view and emotional needs, not a dumping ground for emotional flotsam.
by lostlogin | 2026-01-20 15:56:30+00:00
> Congress passed a tax cut last year for the wealthiest as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill (“OBBB”)

I think you need to call it by its real name.

One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

You can tell how much care and considering went into if from the name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act
by knallfrosch | 2026-01-20 15:56:34+00:00
So? Did you open a PR for shadcdn or Radix? Did you throw out the shadcdn code rendering the radio button from your codebase? Did you ensure it doesn't come back the next version?

Otherwise you haven't engineered anything, you've barely outlined the concept of a plan.

Two lessons here: The complexity exists for a reason. Try to understand where it comes from.

Second: Thinking "it could be done this way, I think" is barely 1% of really outlining a solution, implementing it and convincing others to use it. The latter is the hard part, but actually changes things outside of your head..
by nitinkanna10 | 2026-01-20 15:56:42+00:00
Hi Christian,

I’m a full-stack engineer (~2 years) with hands-on experience building OCR + NLP pipelines that turn messy PDFs/images into structured data, along with FastAPI backends and React dashboards to ship scrappy, real-world MVPs. I’ve built rule + LLM query hybrids for extraction and evaluation.

I’d love to chat about owning the menu extraction + pairing engine side. Coffee fan too.

Email: nitinkanna89@gmail.com | GitHub: https://github.com/nitink100
Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitink8/
by busterarm | 2026-01-20 15:57:16+00:00
Canada needs cheaper cars than US manufacturers want to provide. US brand cars have all been going higher dollar and further up market in recent years.

Quebec is famous for the "Quebec Special". Cars with manual everything. No AC. Manual windows. Completely stripped down to be as affordable/disposable as possible. Also the roads are absolute shit, they never wash off the salt, there used to be no inspections and title-washing is common practice there.
by tremon | 2026-01-20 15:57:23+00:00
> I went to a concert recently where someone copied every word and (as far as I could hear) every note from a copyrighted work by Bruce Springsteen. Singing and playing. This too is intended to be fair use.

Only the learning part is fair use. Playing an artist's songs in public does not violate the copyright of the original performing artist, but it does violate the songwriters' copyright, and you do need a license to play covers in public.

They're called Performing Rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performing_rights
by mywittyname | 2026-01-20 15:57:26+00:00
Two people buying and selling the same dollar a trillion time would hit that trade volume in a day. There's also a huge difference between short term and long term bonds.

So we need a better metric to evaluate this against. If we look at recent auctions, they typically move around 35-40 billion in 10 year notes and about 25-30 billion in 30 year notes. With the rest being short term.

In 2025, the Treasury issued $30 trillion total over 400 auctions.

So yes, $100MM is not a lot, but it's still three or so auctions worth of bonds. There's also the downstream impacts of this, as the Netherlands is likely no longer buying t-bonds in any form. And this is just one country.
by emilburzo | 2026-01-20 15:57:35+00:00
Hmm, perhaps I'm missing something, so let's go through it step by step and see where the disconnect is:

- There's a cloned 'my-project' git repo on the base OS

- The 'Vagrantfile' is added, 'vagrant up' and claude login is run

At this stage, besides the source code and the Claude Code token (after logging in), there are no other credentials on the VM: no SSH keys, no DB credentials, no API tokens, nothing.

There is also no need to add:

- SSH keys: because the git stuff is handled outside the VM

- DB credentials: because Claude can just install a DB inside the VM and run the project migrations against that isolated instance, not any shared/production database

API tokens can definitely be a problem if you need external service integration. But that's an explicit opt-in decision, you'd have to deliberately add those credentials to the Vagrantfile or sync them in. At that point, yes, you need proper token scoping and permissions.
by grayhatter | 2026-01-20 15:57:44+00:00
The answer is in the name of the law, copyright, the right to produce a copy. The original, ethical intent behind the law was to encourage people to create things. Someone could invest time and money into creating some art that had value, and then they were given the exclusive right to monetize it for some amount of time. You could create something, and I'm not allowed to copy what you created, and sell it without your permission, preventing me from doing no work but capturing all the money you could reasonably make off your work.

Want to create a song? You're the only person allowed to make, or authorize people to duplicate it. You're the only person allowed to control the supply of your effort. Eventually, the public good, and interest was supposed to take over, because in the end, you're right, it's just information. It was supposed to enter "the public domain" where anyone could freely use it. But then Disney got involved, and now it's a toxified weapon used mostly by unethical lawyers against curiosity.