MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somat | 2026-01-16 05:36:49+00:00
I am wondering what the exact fail mode here is.

Because my naive conclusion after looking at the part in question is exactly the same "would not result in a safety of flight condition." if the bearing cracked at the point in question it is going nowhere, the bearing is still captive in its housing. hell it looks like it could have been designed as two pieces and it would work the same. the large bolt is what is holding the engine on.

The best I can come up with is that a split bearing causes increased wear on the mounting bracket and nobody noticed for a long time.

Anyhow, here is the ntsb update in question https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA26MA024%20I...
by zingar | 2026-01-16 05:37:05+00:00
> ~ doesn’t matter whether you first sell the energy and then go to the government for reimbursement. Or whether you sell the energy to the government which then handles the follow up sale

Still missing something in relation to a point above. Does one of these scenarios involve the operator “paying” or “giving back” actual money when the market price is higher than agreed? As opposed to just operating at a loss or less profit?
by adityaathalye | 2026-01-16 05:37:09+00:00
Congratulations are in order...

2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition Winners

> On the theme of consciousness, intelligence, and the nature of mind in an age of advancing artificial systems

https://berggruen.org/news/2025-berggruen-prize-essay-compet...

> Honorable Mentions and Shortlisted Essays

> The English-language jury also awarded Honorable Mentions to Ian Reppel and Helen Yetter-Chappell, recognizing their essays for originality, clarity, and thoughtful engagement with the year’s theme.

I knew I recognised the name from somewhere :D
by nirui | 2026-01-16 05:37:46+00:00
I think we've wasted a lot of time on this.

> Personally, I value my code compiling in the future over more explicit error handling. New errors will hit my catch-all branch, and I can special-case them later as I see fit. But it's a philosophy/values thing.

OR, you can just do `fn() MyError` then `if myError := fn(); !myError.OK()` opposite to just `fn() error`. I actually use this "trick" on many of my projects and they worked great.

I'm not really sure why Go defenders MUST praise Go's error handling as if it's flawless and thus all fault signals must be a `error`. As I pointed out few comments back, Go is clearly promoting binary error handling i.e. `if err != nil { return error }`, as doing branched out handling for specific error type is much harder (one example is the "nightmarish manual type discovery" mentioned above), so it's far from flawless. It's useful, sure, and people are using it, but it's not flawless.

BTW:

> I can special-case them later as I see fit

See? You already doing manual type discovery, they slipped the idea so naturally into your brain you don't even notice the struggle. But what if the number of types that you need to take care of keeps growing? Is it scalable?

You know what, maybe they should add Sum type for error handling. Hope it's not too late now since many people already camped on the idea that returning an interface then and casting it for error handling is the best idea ever.
by maxglute | 2026-01-16 05:38:27+00:00
>The 14th Five-Year Plan (FYP) aims to cut energy intensity by 13.5% and emissions intensity by 18% by 2025 from 2020 levels (Xinhua News Agency, 2021) . As of November 2025, China is unlikely to achieve the targets, as emissions intensity is projected to decline by only 16–17.

1% off according to dashboard analysis for 2025 5 year plan target. There's study from Q4 that PRC emissions has been stalled/trending, i.e. peaked for past 18months. Functionally they've peaked emissions before 2030 NDC commitment.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-emissions-decline
by hexaga | 2026-01-16 05:38:36+00:00
Kokoro is fine tunable? Speaking as someone who went down the rabbit hole... it's really not. There's no (as of last time I checked) training code available so you need to reverse engineer everything. Beyond that the model is not good at doing voices outside the existing voicepacks: simply put, it isn't a foundation model trained on internet scale data. It is made from a relatively small set of focused, synthetic voice data. So, a very narrow distribution to work with. Going OOD immediately tanks perceptual quality.

There's a bunch of inference stuff though, which is cool I guess. And it really is a quite nice little model in its niche. But let's not pretend there aren't huge tradeoffs in the design: synthetic data, phonemization, lack of train code, sharp boundary effects, etc.
by jlarocco | 2026-01-16 05:39:37+00:00
Why not? I strongly prefer Linux, but if somebody wants to use Windows, why not use XP? It was definitely a better user experience.

I stopped using Windows at work as Win7 was rolling out but got another job using it again as Win11 started rolling out. Having missed out on the slow decline, it's very obvious to me how much better the older Windows were. The new ones have a dumpster fire UI with built-in advertising that shoves Microsoft web crap and AI down your throat at every chance.
by OCASMv2 | 2026-01-16 05:41:48+00:00
> But surely the history and treatment of black people in the US is at the root of it all, rather than "the radicalized left"?

At some point people have to stop blaming whites from hundreds of years ago and start looking at the consequences current policies and individual choices. This cop violence problem is really only a thing in high-crime areas.

> It ignores how the US got to that situation

Yes, by very lenient with violent criminals.

> Also, cops aren't in the same category as criminals (well, non-criminal cops anyway) and should be held to higher standards. They should de-escalate, not be another factor in violence.

They try that. Suspects refuse to cooperate and results are predictable.

> So we should cut Scott Adams' some slack because he was "radicalized" by the "hysterical reaction of the left", but not acknowledge the reasons for BLM's existence or anything even before that?

There's nothing radical about peacefully disengaging with people who think your mere existance is a bad thing. BLM on the other hand is mostly an attempt to make crime worse by weakening police forces, which again, would mostly hurt black people.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-16 05:42:25+00:00
That's indeed a very naive conclusion. Once that bearing is gone the stress that it would normally allow to escape on account of rotation would be directly transferred to the metal around it and to the bolts holding the whole thing in place. Guess what broke first?

So if that bearing went that's not quite a smoking gun yet but it would definitely be a step closer to a root cause.
by resonious | 2026-01-16 05:42:36+00:00
Every once in awhile I will try a non-thinkpad laptop and I regret it every single time. There's always at least one thing that just doesn't work well. Trackpad being unpleasant, dropped keys when typing fast, can't wake up from sleep in a timely manner, or who knows what else. Thinkpads aren't quite like Macbooks but at least all of their components work...

Actually the Microsoft Surface book/laptop line is really good in my opinion... It's just the Linux support is often (understandably) quite bad. Sometimes I psych myself into thinking I can stomach Windows for the "official, supported" laptop experience but it never lasts more than a few months before I cave and go back to Linux.
by simonw | 2026-01-16 05:44:33+00:00
I think I made good call on Skills.

They were only announced in October and they've already been ported to Codex and Gemini CLI and VS Code agents and ChatGPT itself (albeit still not publicly acknowledged there by OpenAI). They're also used in Cowork and are part of the internals in Fly's new Sprites. They're doing extremely well for an idea that's only three months old!

This particular post on Cowork isn't some of my best work - it was a first impression I posted within a couple of hours of release (I didn't have preview access to Cowork) just to try and explain what the thing was to people who don't have a $100+/month Claude Max subscription.

I don't think it's "unhealthy" for me to post things like this though! Did you see better coverage of Cowork than mine on day one?
by ksaj | 2026-01-16 05:44:48+00:00
There is also this habit of Boomers selling their properties and renting so they can live more elaborately lives in their final few years. Not much financial value is available to the will. They've left it all to Carnival Cruiselines.

Gen X and Millennials will have to buy from foreign and expat owners just like they already have to now.
by kianN | 2026-01-16 05:44:48+00:00
When I was in high school, I got hit head on by a car while walking. It wasn’t going fast but I got thrown 1-2 feet in the air and landed hard on my backpack.

Both my Thinkpad and I (thanks to my Thinkpad) were totally fine, and I continued to use it for 4 more years.
by ta20240528 | 2026-01-16 05:45:12+00:00
"Recycling now recovers >95% of raw minerals"

Not of plastic - recycling rates are decreasing. This is largely due to the excess ethane begin produced as a by-product of US fracking.

The ethane is converted to ethylene, then to polyethylene as a cost below that of collecting, cleaning, and processing used plastic.
by simonw | 2026-01-16 05:46:59+00:00
That's why I publish disclosures: https://simonwillison.net/about/#disclosures

In the case of Cowork I didn't even get preview access, I learned about it at the same moment as everyone else did. There was no incentive from Anthropic to write about it at all (and I expect they may have preferred me not to bang on about prompt injection risks or point out the bugs in their artifacts implementation.)

Honestly, constantly having to fend off accusations of being a shill is pretty tiring.
by juggerl3 | 2026-01-16 05:47:00+00:00
One of the last to fall to the 'clickpad' trend. Soon nobody will remember a time of serviceable laptop touchpads with physical buttons where you could precisely and efficiently accomplish real work; a time before the ubiquitous featureless expanse of a clickpad where erratic drivers reduce your interface to vague suggestions to the OS. What's the point of laptops if we have to plug in an external mouse anyway?
by TheCapeGreek | 2026-01-16 05:47:31+00:00
Which leads us to: Tailwind supports making your own components, and encourages it. But devs, either pressed for time or lazy, or by always getting a slightly too unique design from their design team, don't do it.

At the same time, not everything is a reusable component, so yeah, shove a couple dozen tailwind classes there and call it a day. Still better and less messy than hand-wringing custom selectors or custom element styling - else Bootstrap would be better for tweaking than "100% tweaks".

It's the usual OOP debate on inheritance vs composition.

Tailwind is composition, and it's clearly the favoured approach.
by hahahahhaah | 2026-01-16 05:47:50+00:00
This is why I like to think of true laptop price:

* Laptop price

* Extended waranty and support with onsite fix 3 year

* Accidental damage insurance. 3 year

Get it all and consider that the ticket price. Then divide by 36 for the monthly SaaS-like price. Makes claude code seem cheap :)

I found it is worth it.

Especially as the home visit means no backup reinstall needed for many fixes, unless it is a full replacement. Such a time saver. And laptops are fragile. They need repair by default (think like a car not like a house double brick wall).
by DANmode | 2026-01-16 05:48:41+00:00
People said the same thing about allowing the browser to trigger the microphone and the camera.

Use sane browser and or OS inherited permissions, and sane permission-promoting and gating,

and it’s a non-issue.

(Have you seen the prompts for Location, Microphone, WebUSB, and other “scary” features in the browser?

There’s really not much room for misinterpretation!)
by adityaathalye | 2026-01-16 05:49:01+00:00
You can find Ian at susam's project :)

https://hnpwd.github.io/

I'm feeling a rather "HN moment"... I found out, because I'd submitted an essay for the 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay competition too (aiming for last place --- no delusions of grandeur here, no siree). They just announced the results, and I'd noticed "Reppel" last night on hnpwd. I'd also submitted my site for hnpwd. And here we are.

-----

2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition Winners

https://berggruen.org/news/2025-berggruen-prize-essay-compet...

> Honorable Mentions and Shortlisted Essays

> The English-language jury also awarded Honorable Mentions to Ian Reppel and Helen Yetter-Chappell, recognizing their essays for originality, clarity, and thoughtful engagement with the year’s theme.
by arjie | 2026-01-16 05:49:52+00:00
For reasons unknown online technology forums have always had some kind of "underdog" that they cheer for. When the iPhone came out it was Nokia (which had a capacitive touch screen that Apple were just copying), with the Macbook it was the Thinkpad (Apple weren't making devices for real engineers because they didn't have the mousenubbin thing), Nvidia's Linux drivers were garbage (AMD is so much better because it's open source). Some kind of tech hipsterism drives this. But a lot of these proponents were just suffering under inferior tech. I know because I made the mistake of trusting them far too often and then switching to the mainstream thing and finding out that it was really freaking good.

The iPhone is pretty awesome, my Nvidia cards work way better under proprietary drivers on Linux than my AMD cards worked under either OSS or proprietary drivers, and the Macbooks are fantastic hardware. I got scammed by these tech hipsters.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-16 05:50:00+00:00
the SR-71 leaking fuel on the ground was not a design flaw. it was designed to be operated at speed where things would expand to fill in. if they were filled in on the ground, they'd have no place to expand at speed/temps. the risk assessment was that it was better to leak fuel on the ground rather than blowing up at speed/temp
by dalyons | 2026-01-16 05:50:01+00:00
sure. But today china is the #1 producer of solar panels (80% of global production capacity), #1 producer of wind turbines (40%), #1 producer of batteries (~80%), #1 producer of EVs (75%).

Noone has done more for global clean energy, and its not even close. Sure they polluted a lot up until now, but honesty who cares about the past, times change fast.
by defrost | 2026-01-16 05:50:37+00:00
> This cop violence problem is really only a thing in high-crime areas.

All around the world, and all through recorded history the same thing can be seen.

It's more of an interconnected feedback loop.

Distrusted minority areas are over-policed with excess force, more charges are laid (even if actual crime rates are on par with majority less policed areas), people that are over policed act up and push back, reported crime increases.

In the recent history of the USofA there are even examples of state munfactured crime - the CIA famously raised money for off book weapons to foreign fighters by buying cocaine and selling in bulk in minority parts of the USofA.

That was under Ronald Reagan.
by sublinear | 2026-01-16 05:51:32+00:00
> There is something “special” about Thinkpads. It’s rare for such a long tradition of design and engineering to be allowed to continue inside mega-companies...

Not... really? They're mega-companies because of deliberate choices like that. Those choices are not the only way to get there, but they've found choices that work. I get that it's trendy to shit on successful businesses and be toxic about the crumbs you enjoy, but it's plain ignorant to call these things "accidents" or "coincidences" and nobody is forcing you to eat crumbs.

The later comparison to Apple is just as strange. Consumers aren't so particular and will buy anything at any price for almost no reason but marketing. All those people hyping Thinkpads may not be the original manufacturer, but they are selling them on eBay and effectively the vendors. They hype old Macs just the same.
by prvt | 2026-01-16 05:51:48+00:00
Thank you for reading and for the kind words!

It’s often surprising how "intuitive" or elegant solutions can seem once you peel back the layers, isn't it? That simplicity is part of the beauty of good engineering!

I actually wasn't familiar with Josh Comeau’s work before this, but I just looked him up and... wow. To be mentioned in the same breath (let alone "arguably better") is a massive compliment. I’ll definitely be diving into his archives now.
by salesplay | 2026-01-16 05:52:40+00:00
This is an interesting direction for agent frameworks. What stood out to me is the shift from simple tool orchestration to agents that can reason, call other agents, and self-manage workflows. That’s something we’ve been thinking about a lot while building SalesPlay — especially around how autonomous sales agents need clear evaluation, guardrails, and accountability to actually be useful in real GTM teams. The built-in grading/evaluation angle here feels like a practical step toward making agents less brittle and more production-ready. Curious to see how this evolves in real-world use cases.
by zingar | 2026-01-16 05:53:11+00:00
Great read. There is something special here that the author isn’t commenting on: the fact that cold hard business logic was allowed to lead to a sustainably (money-wise) better product without interference for decades is unusual.

Too often cold hard business logic is subverted by psychopathic short term executive thinking that says “we’re spending money on something good for the customer? I don’t care that it’s also good for us but I like the idea of a quarterly earnings report that doesn’t include that expense!”

The executive then takes their bonus and gets headhunted by the next F500 company where they apply the same strategy.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-01-16 05:53:47+00:00
A lot of people would argue that, by definition, being online means a medium isn't a backup. (I'm in that camp, personally.)

I don't have numbers handy, and prices for everything have gone wonky, but historically the crossover point for tape winning purely on cost is between 400 and 700TB. A single, not particularly exotic, 24 slot autoloader w/ LTO-9 elements, is going to exceed 400TB in raw capacity. Retail price on single LTO-9 cartridges is under $6/TB right now.
Show HN: Sigil – Track data trust at the type level
by croolily | 2026-01-16 05:54:44+00:00
Sigil is a programming language where the type system tracks data provenance.

External data is marked `~` (reported). Validated data becomes `?` (uncertain).
Computed values are `!` (known). The type checker enforces these boundaries -
reported data can't satisfy a known requirement without explicit validation.

fn process(input~: str) -> Result! {
let validated? = input |validate!{ parse_int(_) }
let result! = validated * 2 // OK: computation produces known
result
}

This catches injection vulnerabilities at compile time and makes trust
boundaries explicit in function signatures.

Other features:
- Morpheme operators for pipelines: `data |τ{_ * 2} |φ{_ > 10} |Σ`
- Rust-like ownership and borrowing
- Self-hosting compiler (233/233 tests passing)
- Interpreter, JIT, and LLVM backends

Written in Rust. MIT/Apache-2.0.

https://github.com/Daemoniorum-LLC/sigil-lang
by ta20240528 | 2026-01-16 05:55:05+00:00
Hardly. China is also betting on nuclear fission and nuclear fusion:

1. Fission: TMSR-LF1 (a thorium breeder, molten salt research reactor)

Based on US work in 1960s and independent Chinese Sinap work in 1970s.
They recently published that they had detected Protactiunium in the salt - a new milestone.

2. Fusion: EAST tokomak

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/nuclear-energy/chin...

We would all be better of if the US and China just collaborated.
by rramadass | 2026-01-16 05:55:56+00:00
Nice. You are looking at it from an Economic Cost pov.

There is also a psychological concept of "Social Surrogates" which is fundamental here; see Social Surrogates, Social Motivations, and Everyday Activities: The Case for a Strong, Subtle, and Sneaky Social Self - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/bookseries/abs...
by devilbunny | 2026-01-16 05:57:36+00:00
The repairability and durability arguments should apply to HP and Dell business laptops as well, but they largely don't.

If I were getting a new laptop, I'd probably buy a Mac. But if I needed a Windows laptop, I'd buy a Thinkpad (one is currently my only Windows PC). It's not really upgradeable or modular (fixed RAM, SSD and battery not easy to change), but it is well-built and still pretty snappy despite being 6-7 years old.
by dharmatech | 2026-01-16 05:58:16+00:00
I'm surprised you cited Genesis 22. :-)

Some people, when confronted with Gen22, simply say
"wow, I want nothing to do with this religion",
and walk away.

Other's see the story and say "wow... how do Christian's get around this one?". And so volumes have been written on this story. There's a ton of rich theology there for folks who were wiling to look past the initial hurdle.

I.e. the argument that "look at this horrific story" only really works for a small subset of people who aren't willing to look into the theology of it.

Now, one could argue that people who find the theology of the story satisfying are somehow demented, but that's a different argument.
by asa400 | 2026-01-16 05:58:27+00:00
> I work in manufacturing and spend a lot of time talking to the people on the factory floor.

Before the pandemic, I used to work doing software for a manufacturing startup and _loved_ that part of it.

I loved hacking something up for the folks on the floor that helped them automate some tedium. They were always so appreciative, not just of the result but also the attention we paid them.

Most of them came from "traditional" manufacturing backgrounds and the way they told it, it was like we were the first software people to ever pay attention to them and the issues they were experiencing.

We weren't even building crazy stuff for them. Most of it was pretty simple, but the bar was _so low_ they were always amazed whenever we were able to give them _anything_ that helped. It was awesome.
by internetter | 2026-01-16 05:58:54+00:00
I mean Josh's site is undeniably more visually polished as a merit to him. His site is definitely more SEO optimized, by covering a technical topic generally instead of multiple topics surrounding a single problem. But the aforementioned SEO strategy is to the detriment of the enjoyability, at least for me. If I was seeking documentation, I'd be happy to see Josh's work, but for entertainment I wouldn't read that but I would read this.
by cedws | 2026-01-16 05:59:10+00:00
That’s kind of the conclusion I came to. I can make changes in my life, but when everybody else is sucked in by social media and doesn’t even see the issue trying to build bridges is futile. The only person you can rely on is yourself, the sooner you can accept being alone the better.
I lived in Japan for a while which is a much more solitary place than the UK. I think things in the West are going the same direction. More normalisation of solitary activities, increasing social distance, and fewer new families being started. Grim future.
by archeantus | 2026-01-16 05:59:52+00:00
When I read the title I wondered “does this really happen?” And then I read a few lines and remembered “yes, I definitely did this all the time”.

The reality is that a lot of people put ideas forward solely for the purpose of getting attention and trying to get promoted. A lot of those ideas are full of hope and enthusiasm and lacking in fundamentals. But to shoot it down makes you come across as a nay-sayer, or a Debbie-downer. Even though you are sure it’s going nowhere, the reality is that it’s a lot easier to let the market prove you right.

Less hurt feelings and interpersonal drama that way. Seems wasteful, but at the end of the day you got data and learnings that you didn’t have otherwise. So hey, silver linings.