MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xp84 | 2026-01-26 23:33:54+00:00
Isn't Chrome OS "the Linux Desktop" for most non-developer people?

90% of the people I know don't need any software that isn't either delivered via the Web, or limited for purely business reasons to an 'APP™' for mobile phones only.

The remainder of the possible uses of a "computer" are mainly video editing and non-casual gaming.

So if Windows and macOS continue to drag their reputations through the mud, Chrome OS, the Linux Desktop, is the most likely beneficiary.
by calvinmorrison | 2026-01-26 23:34:48+00:00
Low Code is just diagram->code in many respects. Many platforms have basically similar constructs.

I work on a 'low code' platform, not really, but we do a lot of EDI. This requires a bunch of very normal patterns and so we basically have a mini-DSL for mapping X12 and EDIFACT into other objects.

You guessed it, we have a diagram flow control tool.

It works, yes I can write it in Javascript too... but most of the 'flow control bits' are really inside of a small sandbox. Of course, we allow you to kick out to a sandbox and program if needed.

But for the most part, yeah I mean a good mini-DSL gets you 90% of the way there for us and we dont reach for programming to often.

So - its still useful to abstract some stuff.

Could AI write it by hand every time? yes... but you still would want all the bells and sidepieces.
by alwa | 2026-01-26 23:34:49+00:00
Your comment motivated me to read the way SF frames their regulation:

https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/s...

> Graffiti. "Graffiti" means any inscription, word, figure, marking, or design that is affixed, applied, marked, etched, scratched, drawn, or painted on any building, structure, […examples…], without the consent of the owner of the property or the owner's authorized agent, and which is visible from the public right-of-way […variations…]

> It shall be unlawful for the owner of any real property within the City bearing graffiti to allow the graffiti to remain on the property in violation of this Article 23.

…surely they’ve thought of it already, but it does seem like that would make “yeah, but I said it was fine” a viable way out of that particular ticket, no?

I am sympathetic to the way they frame their motivations: it’s not the speech itself they say they’re regulating, it’s the way your neglect signals impunity, encourages more of it, and degrades the quality of your neighbors’ lives (and property). That and gang stuff.
by tlb | 2026-01-26 23:34:51+00:00
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/poli... has a list of police body cam retention policies. 90 days is pretty common, though it ranges from 30 days to 5 years.

Documents are kept longer. But a court needs to think about the shortest possible retention time that any agency might have for any kind of evidence.
by acdha | 2026-01-26 23:34:58+00:00
That’s quite the national question more broadly but I look at it this way: if the administration and the Roberts court go all-in on a coup, there’s not going to be accountability without a lot of pain. In that scenario, this doesn’t matter except as evidence for some future tribunal.

However, these guys aren’t Mussolini, Franco, Salazar, etc. on their rise to power. The guy at the top is starting as a struggling octogenarian who even in his prime had an entire professional career based not on hard work but tax evasion and barratry. Most of his top delegates were selected for their social media profiles, not competency, and even within the right a lot of people disliked them personally even if they’re willing to overlook that for power. His supporters are quite loyal but are also being hit by a lot of his policies in ways which are hard to ignore.

That makes me think there are a range of scenarios where this does matter, as we can see right now. Cops tend to support Republicans but a number of them are stepping up to say this is outside of their professional standards. A lot of “law and order” suburban voters are seeing these videos not just as something they don’t approve of–especially the “he had a legal gun so we had to execute him” defense–but also recognizing that the administration completely lied about that and we know only because of the kind of evidence at risk here.

The Roberts court has taken significant moves to empower Trump, but it seems like they’re hedging their bets in key areas: note how the shield against prosecution was conditional leaving them an easy way to find the opposite in any future case, and how much of their support has been shadow docket moves designed to delay without setting a permanent precedent. I think they’re recognizing the fragility of the current administration and leaving a backup plan for the autogolpe failing.

Things like this force the administration’s supporters to be more open about what they’re doing, in ways which risk losing their less die-hard supporters. Blowing off a court order forces SCOTUS to either rule against the administration or go on the record inventing a new way the executive branch is above the law. I think they know that’s risky at a time when a majority of the country is starting to realize exactly what’s at stake.
by belorn | 2026-01-26 23:35:10+00:00
Can we have a discussion that improves in quality if people dissent to the view of the article, agree with the article, or hold a view that is something in between?

If the answer is no then the risk that someone will flag the article increases dramatically. How open and peaceful the environment is for discussing has a direct impact on how much people are willing to engage rather than disengage, flag, and then leave.
by Lerc | 2026-01-26 23:35:27+00:00
>So what can you and I do?

Engage respectfully, Try and see other points of view, Try and express your point of view. I decided some time ago that I would attempt to continue conversations on here to try and at least get people to understand that other points of view could be held by rational people. It has certainly cost me Karma, but I hope there has been a small amount of influence. Quite often people do not change their minds by losing arguments, but by seeing other points of view and then given time to reflect.

>I know in my gut that imagining an ideal outcome won't change what actually happens

You might find that saying what you would like to see doesn't get heard, but you just have to remember that you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant (if that is not too oblique of a reference)

Talk about what you would like to see, If others would like to see that too, then they might join you.

I think most people working in AI are doing so in good faith and are doing what they think is best. There are plenty of voices telling them how not to it, many of those voices are contradictory. The instances of people saying what to do instead are much fewer.

If you declare that events are inevitable then you have lost. If you characterise Sam Altman as a sociopath playing the long game of hiding in research for years just waiting to pounce on the AI technology that nobody thought was imminent, then you have created a world in you mind where you cannot win. By imagining an adversary without morality it's easy to abdicate the responsibility of changing their mind, you can simply declare it can't be done. Once again choosing inevitability.

Perhaps try and imagine the world you want and just try and push a tiny fraction towards that world. If you are stuck in a seaside cave and the ocean is coming in, instead of pushing the ocean back, look to see if there is an exit at the other end, maybe there isn't one, but at least go looking for it, because if there is, that's how you find it.
by cedws | 2026-01-26 23:35:35+00:00
The government isn't doing any favours for its image by simulatenously trying to ban X, and introducing all of these internet controls. It just fuels the narrative that the government is trying to shut people up and control the spread of certain ideas. Then when you add in that weird "education" game they paid for, Pathways[0], it feels like a very coordinated effort.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/25/ai-generate...
by bogtog | 2026-01-26 23:36:13+00:00
> But now that most code is written by LLMs, it's as "hard" for the LLM to write Python as it is to write Rust/Go

The LLM still benefits from the abstraction provided by Python (fewer tokens and less cognitive load). I could see a pipeline working where one model writes in Python or so, then another model is tasked to compile it into a more performant language
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-26 23:36:46+00:00
2007 https://xdaforums.com/t/sandisk-announcement.316860/

2009 https://xdaforums.com/t/android-market-updates-on-sideloaded...

2012 https://xdaforums.com/t/app-wifi-band-switcher-switch-betwee...

2014 https://xdaforums.com/t/q-att-htc-one-m8-not-working-explana...

2020 https://xdaforums.com/t/app-mono_-flipfont-custom-ttf-instal...

This is a long standing term of art. If you're ignorant of a big part of the industry, that's on you.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-26 23:37:18+00:00
And yet, you can still go to any thread, find dissenting and sometimes negative opinions by users with accounts that are several years old.

I'm not claiming it's super reliable or super representative, but I do think it is representative as one point, and despite all the issues around the sub, that representation matches most other sources. Except a few polls, which I don't think count for much these days.
by Herring | 2026-01-26 23:37:19+00:00
This argument is basically just the 1800s Luddite vs Industrialist argument recast for a new age. Group A thinks quality is about human agency, and that machines are being used to bypass the apprenticeship system and produce inferior goods. Group B thinks efficiency is the highest priority, and craft is just vanity. Of course as we know we went a third way, and human roles just shifted.

I think one promising shift direction is humans do NOT like to talk to bots, especially not for anything important. It's biological. We evolved to learn from and interact with other humans, preferably the same group over a long time so we really get to understand and mirror and like and support each other.
by SloppyDrive | 2026-01-26 23:37:20+00:00
I fully believe highly skilled people can get a great benefit from LLM tools; probably not 10x; but enough that its noticeable.

The key thing for me is that it only works when the LLM is used for tasks below the devs skill level; It can speed up somebody good, but it also makes the output of low-skill devs much harder to deal with. The issues are more subtle, the volume is greater, and there is no human reasoning chain to follow when debugging.

So you combine that with a company that has staff in low skill regions, and uses outsourcing, and while there might be some high skill teams that got a speed up, the org is structured in a way that its irrelevant.
by rmason | 2026-01-26 23:37:55+00:00
My late father told me the first time he saw a TV. He was in Ann Arbor, Michigan making a sales call in 1947. When he drove in he noticed there was a huge crowd around a store window but couldn't see what was going on.

After making the call he noticed the crowd was still there so he parked his car and decided to investigate. There was a black and white TV broadcasting a Detroit Tigers game in the window of a radio repair shop. He told me that he came away impressed.
by jasondigitized | 2026-01-26 23:38:43+00:00
Except I work with extremely competent software engineers on software used in mission critical applications in the Fortune 500. I call myself a script kiddie because I did not study Computer Science. Am I green in the test run? Does it pass load tests? Is it making money? While some of yall are worried about leaky abstractions, we just closed another client. Two worlds for sure where one team is skating to the puck, looking to raise cattle while another wants to continue nurturing an exotic pet.

Plenty of respect to the craft of code but the AI of today is the worst is is ever going to be.
by josephg | 2026-01-26 23:38:44+00:00
I wish they made airtags in different form factors.

I've gotten into photography lately. I'd love to slip an airtag into more places - ideally within the housing of my camera bodies themselves. But, there's not really any room to put an airtag on or in a camera given the current airtag form factor.

You can get camera cages with secret compartments for airtags. And lens caps which take an airtag. But they take up a lot of space, and end up adding a lot of bulk to the camera itself. I wish Apple opened airtags up to 3rd party manufacturers who could buy the (tiny) circuit board directly, so they could hide it in their products better.
by arjunchint | 2026-01-26 23:39:07+00:00
Haha we made a demo couple of months back with the same underlying premise of "The Browser Sandbox is All You Need": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrSYYaZCxsc

We essentially leveraged sandboxes built into Chromium browsers for LLM generated code execution.

This actually simplifies a lot of the setup in the blog post, as it leverages existing sandboxing infra exposed for extensions:
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/how-to/security...
by Jtsummers | 2026-01-26 23:39:12+00:00
From your link's subheading:

> This chart includes categories for how long video is kept if it does not contain evidence of a crime [emphasis added]

So yes, some things are short (I did write "usually" for a reason), but even your link doesn't claim that video of a killing would be deleted in 90 days. It's evidence, 90 days would be ridiculously short for retaining evidence.

Even for people who don't think the ICE agents committed a crime, the ICE agents and DHS have claimed that this was the outcome from actions by a "domestic terrorist" which certainly makes it evidence of a crime from their own perspective.
by blauditore | 2026-01-26 23:39:18+00:00
Note that your memories might not be accurate, as your brain may have skightly altered them over the years, over and over. There is generally no way for yourself to know (except for some external proof).

This is not just the case for early childhood memories, but for anything - the more time passes, the less accurate. It's even possible to have completely "made-up" memories, perceived as 100% real, e.g. through suggestive questioning in therapy.
by ferguess_k | 2026-01-26 23:39:23+00:00
I think all companies eventually mutate into a MBA company. For MSFT there was a culture from very early that PMs should lead the project instead of engineers. I read in "Showstoppers" that Cutler was very against of the idea and he pushed back. So that means even in the late 80s MSFT was already a MBA-centered company. The only reason that it has not degraded yet, was because it has not achieved the monopoly position. Once it does it started to chew on its success and quickly degraded into a quasi-feudal economic entity.
by thegrim000 | 2026-01-26 23:39:44+00:00
A thought experiment I like is to image a city of the future. Imagine we get our shit together and survive another 1,000, heck, 100,000 years. Close your eyes and imagine our most advanced cities, 100,000 years in the future. What does it look like? Do you see graffiti in your vision? I definitely don't see it in mine.
by linguae | 2026-01-26 23:39:47+00:00
I remember those days. Thankfully Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 had a Windows 95/98-style desktop but used the rock-solid NT kernel. Unfortunately they were not marketed to home users.

I feel similarly about the classic Mac OS: excellent interface and UI guidelines hampered by its cooperative multitasking and its lack of protected memory.

Windows XP and Mac OS X were major blessings, bringing the NT kernel and Mach/BSD underpinnings, respectively, to home computing users.
by reitzensteinm | 2026-01-26 23:39:50+00:00
But coding is largely trained on synthetic data.

For example, Claude can fluently generate Bevy code as of the training cutoff date, and there's no way there's enough training data on the web to explain this. There's an agent somewhere in a compile test loop generating Bevy examples.

A custom LLM language could have fine grained fuzzing, mocking, concurrent calling, memoization and other features that allow LLMs to generate and debug synthetic code more effectively.

If that works, there's a pathway to a novel language having higher quality training data than even Python.
by storystarling | 2026-01-26 23:41:31+00:00
It is worth noting the distinction between display acceleration and compute support here. While the desktop rendering is impressive, for local AI or LLM inference the Linux stack on M-series is still significantly behind Metal/MPS on macOS. I tried to switch my local dev environment over recently but without a mature compute stack it is hard to justify leaving macOS if you need to run models locally.
by HelloMcFly | 2026-01-26 23:41:44+00:00
I think this is likely to be true for every artistic creation that requires lots of capital and widespread human coordination. Ultimately for a TV show to be great many, many things have to go right, and much of what could go wrong happens after the money is spent and the air date is already assured. I'm grateful we've had so many great things, certainly far more than I'll have time to watch in my life. But I'm not a heavy TV viewer.
by browsingonly | 2026-01-26 23:41:56+00:00
I lived it when I lived in West Oakland. Tagging, violence, hell a neighbor was shot in the face in front of her family over a gang beef. I'm still exposed to it now working with people reentering society after being incarcerated.

You haven't been paying attention for the last 30 years, perhaps because you only circulate with people just like you in insulated echo chambers. I can tell you from having lived it: tags are not funsies and diversity and inclusion. They are male-cat-pissmarks-on-the-wall from gang members establishing, defending, and expanding turf, and they are unwelcome for very good reason.
by theoa | 2026-01-26 23:42:30+00:00
Today's link is an update to an article first published some time ago

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/fixing-retail-with-land-v...

There's a healthy number of comments on SlashDot: https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/26/1637238/fixing-retail-wi...

The comments open up a Pandora's Box of many valid complexities. All indicative of why it has become so difficult to get things done these days.
by cube00 | 2026-01-26 23:42:39+00:00
> I'm sure "purchase does not work at all" is an exception

Nope, a Play store "support specialist" just told me: "I tried to create a refund request but its not allowing to create one since the date of the transaction is out of our refund policy as we can only process refunds for up to 120 days only after the transaction was charged."
by imoverclocked | 2026-01-26 23:42:58+00:00
> Find My makes it easy to locate AirTag, Apple devices, and compatible third-party devices

The other side of this is that it can't be used to slip into someone's purse as they leave the bar and then be tracked unknowingly.

Apple leaves the door open for manufacturers to implement an anti-theft device into their goods that address both concerns.
by ASalazarMX | 2026-01-26 23:43:05+00:00
For the PDF impaired

- LVP Aliphatic Hydrocarbon (CAS #64742-47-8) 45-50%

- Petroleum Base Oil (CAS #64742-56-9, 65-0, 53-6, 54-7, 71-8) <35%

- Aliphatic Hydrocarbon (CAS #64742-47-8) 10 - <25%

- Carbon Dioxide (CAS #124-38-9) 2-3%

Note: The specific chemical identity and exact percentages are a trade secret.
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-26 23:43:09+00:00
> If the sheriff who arrested this person has zero personal consequences that make him change his behavior, then it is de facto legal for them to arrest you for your speech.

Yeah, in my state, the Sheriff of my County is beefing with the next County's Sheriff, because among other things, that Sheriff's perspective on "is it legal" was literally, and I quote, not paraphrase. "Make the arrest. If it's wrong, the courts can figure it out." Great, slap people with the arrest, the inconvenience of being jailed, charged, and having to hire a lawyer because you don't give a fuck about doing your job. Not coincidentally, same Sheriff is openly inviting ICE to the towns in his county saying his Department will provide additional protective cover.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-26 23:43:31+00:00
> sucrose disassociates in the presence of an acid into glucose+fructose simple sugars

Which tastes different from pure fructose. If you want to taste them side by side, you can absolutely tell the difference. (If you've done any endurance sports, you know what I mean.)

Once digested I agree that the health effects are suspect. But tastewise, fructose, sucrose and glucose are distinct.
by AuthAuth | 2026-01-26 23:43:41+00:00
Everytime I see a good post from Mozilla I cant help but cringe every time AI is mentioned. Its so forced and its ruining all the good will that the post would have generated.

Like this is an objectively cool thing but every sentence is talking about AI. Its clear Mozilla has no idea what to do. They should remember that they're suppose to be a community and ask the community.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-26 23:44:10+00:00
I've read his responses here and in other topics over 2025. He still seems to maintain that politics is something to avoid, regardless of quality. Not explicitly, but the way he talks about it gives that impression.

Having a tepidness when it comes to the dozens of slop articles on some trivial Ai blogs contradicts this mission to encourage curiosity and encourage a quality discussion. It feels outright contradictory and feeds into this sentiment that "anything tech is fine, nothing political is". Having flaggers do the work and promoting it as "community vote" is a convinent smokescreen, even though we all know flagging is based on a super minority of the community.

I know it feels knee-jerk, but I had this sentiment for a few years now as AI rose, and it of course hit a fever pitch in 2025. I think seeing a Tesla earnings call flagged because it wasn't stellar earnings really made me go from quiet apathy to being more vocal on the phenomenon. The actions (which I disagree on) simply do not match the words behind it (which I overall agree with).
by cube00 | 2026-01-26 23:44:24+00:00
Support is unresponsive, this looks like an exit scam.

I'm so glad this is finally getting traction after leaving so many of us out of pocket.

Both developers [1] are working at Microsoft and AWS while ignoring emails, leaving JuiceSSH to rot because they couldn't be bothered to wrap up cleanly (refund, release a final update with pro features enabled, release the source code etc.)

Paul Maddox [2]: Director - Cloud & AI Solutions Engineering @ Microsoft - last reposted a month ago

Tom Maddox [3]: Head of AWS Solutions Architecture for Local Markets - last commented two months ago

Don't bother going back to Google either. A Play store "support specialist" just told me:

I tried to create a refund request but its not allowing to create one since the date of the transaction is out of our refund policy as we can only process refunds for up to 120 days only after the transaction was charged.

[1]: https://juicessh.com/about

[2]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-maddox

[3]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-maddox-87236b27
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-26 23:44:56+00:00
This is the rare case when Europe is even worse. Metropolis, the 1927 Fritz Lang film, is out of copyright in the United States but will still be in copyright in Germany until 2047: 120 fucking years.

It’s preposterous, and offensive to anyone’s intelligence to claim that this is about incentivizing production; does anyone seriously believe there is a potential artist out there who would avoid making their magnum opus if it could only be under copyright for 119 years?