MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-01-10 09:49:20+00:00
The US has been annexing land almost since its foundation. Ask the original Native Americans. Or the people of Hawaii. Or Puerto Rico.

The US USP was essentially just its success as a consumer economy, with relative prosperity compared to Rest of World and nice things to buy.

And there used to be nominal free speech. You could criticise the government, and nothing would happen unless you became organised enough to start threatening capital, in which case you might well be murdered.

That's the good news. The bad news is that non-whites in the US have always had a much worse time of it, and the veneer of freedom has always been very thin for them.

Now the US has stopped pretending to be a creative economy and has decided not to hide its addiction to violent extraction.

So we'll see how that works out for everyone.
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-10 09:49:49+00:00
The term isn’t used to define everyone who isn’t a manager. It’s used to define people like Lead and Principle Engineers who are a subject matter expert, have influence in defining a project, but have chosen to continue in engineering roles rather than switching to management. Often their position in the company is parallel to the managers rather than subordinates, hence the “individual” part of the term.

ICs are generally considered highly valued staff.
by t0mas88 | 2026-01-10 09:50:47+00:00
Someday ordinary Americans may want to consider getting something similar to GDPR in place? Companies in the US are abusing the public's data and privacy in so many ways.

Theee things always result in victim blaming "you shouldn't post your data", but even if you don't it's legal for anyone to collect and sell your data. You can't protect yourself without better consumer protection laws.
by WoWSaaS | 2026-01-10 09:51:15+00:00
The biggest lie in marketing is that you have to "test" with real money to know if an offer works. "Just run some ads and see what happens." This advice is expensive. It essentially says: "Pay the market to learn."

In the old world, you'd spend $5,000 on ads just to learn that your headline was boring or your offer was confusing. In the Autonomous Era, we simulate effectively.

What is Audience Simulation?
Imagine having a focus group of 1,000 perfectly targeted potential customers available 24/7. You show them your landing page, your ad creative, or your email subject line, and they give you brutally honest feedback instantly.

That is the Resonance Engine. It creates Synthetic Personas—AI agents programmed to think, feel, and react exactly like your customer.

The Persona Profile
Name: "Skeptical Steve."
Role: CTO at a Series B startup.
Traits: Hates fluff, cost-conscious, highly technical, risk-averse.
Pain Points: Technical debt, security compliance, hiring speed.
When you show your ad to "Steve", he doesn't just say "Good job." He says: "This headline is too vague. I don't trust 'AI Magic'. Tell me about security protocols or I'm closing the tab."

The Psychology of the "Perfect Pitch"
Why do some campaigns flop while others print money? It comes down to Psychographic Resonance.

"People don't buy products. They buy better versions of themselves."

Your copy needs to speak to their:

Deepest Fears: What keeps them up at night? (e.g., "Am I going to get fired if this breaks?")
Secret Desires: What do they want but are afraid to admit? (e.g., "I want to work less and get promoted.")
Identity: Who do they aspire to be? (e.g., "The Visionary Leader").
The 3-Step Simulation Protocol
Don't launch blindly. Follow this protocol to guarantee success:

Input Your Avatar: Tell the AI exactly who you are targeting. Be specific. "SaaS Founders earning $1M+ who are burned out."
Run the Simulation: The Resonance Engine creates the virtual personas and tests your copy against their psychological triggers.
Iterate Instantly:
Simulation 1 Score: 45%. Feedback: "Too salesy."
AI Action: Rewrite for more humility and value.
Simulation 2 Score: 78%. Feedback: "Better, but offer is weak."
AI Action: Add a guarantee.
Simulation 3 Score: 94%. Feedback: "Shut up and take my money."
Only when you hit 90%+ do you spend real dollars.

Why This Changes Everything
Zero Ad Waste: Never pay for a click that doesn't convert.
Speed to Market: Test 50 different angles in 5 minutes, not 5 weeks.
Unfair Advantage: While your competitors are A/B testing live (and losing money), you already know the winner before the race starts.
Ready to Simulate?
Don't launch your next campaign until you've run it through the engine. De-risk your growth.

Run Resonance Test : https://vect.pro/#/signup?continue=%2Fapp%2Ftools%3Ftool%3DR...
by mirzap | 2026-01-10 09:51:19+00:00
I tried using Starship, and it’s clearly faster than Oh My Zsh, but my issue was that I relied on some useful Oh My Zsh features that I didn’t know how to replicate in Starship. One of these is history filtering - for example, when I type source and press the up arrow, I only see previously run source commands, which makes it easy to find what I’m looking for. I tried to get this working in Starship, but had no luck.
by piva00 | 2026-01-10 09:51:32+00:00
At this point who is keeping the federal government in check? They are breaking the law blatantly, one very recent example being the release of the Epstein stuff. Nothing happens, nothing is holding them accountable.

It's only going to get worse, they lose in court and find another angle to keep breaking the law, over and over, there simply isn't enough institutional power in the USA to do anything against it.
by mannanj | 2026-01-10 09:52:03+00:00
Right. this feels more and more like a situation of extraction, abusive and theft of empowerment of the people and funneling it up to the top. It's apparent, and people are too afraid and weak to do anything.

Or so they think.

And I think of a saying that all capitalistic systems eventually turn in socialist ones or get replaced with dictators. Is this really the history of humanity over and over? can't help but hope for more.
by CodinM | 2026-01-10 09:53:13+00:00
I read through that and I'm not a fan of Cloudflare. I live in the EU, I dislike the increased control that the EU keeps desiring - but generally we've fought it with various degrees of success. I feel it's a bit disingenuous to act like the US has total internet freedom since you're the folks that invented ISP letters.
Regardless of that, what really bugged me was the threat of removing the free-tier service for any Italy based accounts, which despite being fully in their right to do, is a shitty thing to threaten with - and it's shocking he would threaten that so easily.

So yes, my reaction is now to move all of my shit from Cloudflare as soon as possible because I don't see CF as a reliable partner right now after that tantrum.
by a2128 | 2026-01-10 09:53:17+00:00
Every time Android gets worse and less open, especially with recent ID verification for APK installs, I think Canonical's 2013 comment on closing Bug #1 ages even more like milk: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

Bug: Microsoft has a majority market share

Almost always, a majority of PCs for sale have Microsoft Windows pre-installed. In the rare cases that they come with a GNU/Linux operating system or no operating system at all, the drivers and BIOS may be proprietary. [...] A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software.

Closing comment:

Android may not be my or your first choice of Linux, but it is without doubt an open source platform that offers both practical and economic benefits to users and industry. So we have both competition, and good representation for open source, in personal computing.

Even though we have only played a small part in that shift, I think it's important for us to recognize that the shift has taken place. So from Ubuntu's perspective, this bug is now closed.
by quails8mydog | 2026-01-10 09:54:55+00:00
They're not, but the point is that users can see the 403 due to network errors.
If vpn + networking work then the user can access the resource through the private interface. If there are issues with network routing or VPN then they end up on the public interface and get 403.
So from the user perspective the same action can result in success or 403 based on whether there are network issues.
by binaryturtle | 2026-01-10 09:55:02+00:00
Sometimes hundreds per day. Tabs come and go here. People have different workflows.

Yesterday just shy over 50, according to entries from `login` in the system log.

I do launch multiple interpreters just to get a fancy coloful cowsay on each launch. Which involves the fortune program, lolcat (via ruby) and cowsay itself (via Perl). I probably should optimise that into a single C binary for better startup times! :)
by lowkey | 2026-01-10 09:55:44+00:00
Yes I'm sure Apple Card data is included in that dataset. That isn't the point.

> And even if it's not, as long as the other side (i.e. merchants and acquirers) just collects and aggregates the same data, that's little consolation.

Respectfully disagree on this point. The issue isn't leaking anonymized aggregated data. The issue is, for example, Chase can and does personalize rewards ads based on your exact transactions internally. So when you use any Chase card, every Chase related entity has access to your non-anonymized transaction data for marketing and credit decisioning purposes.

I will cautiously watch how Apple handles this issue in the future because I don't trust Chase and my financial privacy is important to me.
by jamietanna | 2026-01-10 09:56:41+00:00
I moved from oh-my-zsh to grml ~10 years ago, and I've enjoyed it - it's got good defaults, is extensible (I've added custom stuff to handle how I manage directories for work things) and the single-file nature of the defaults makes it super straightforward to put it onto a new machine (ie a server) without then necessarily needing to do any extra tweaking
by snowmobile | 2026-01-10 09:57:14+00:00
Digging through the PDFs on Google Drive, this seems to be (one of) the generated proofs. I may be misunderstanding something, but 1400 lines of AI-generated code seems a very good place for some mistake in the translation to sneak in https://github.com/plby/lean-proofs/blob/main/src/v4.24.0/Er...

Though I suppose if the problem statement in Lean is human-generated and there are no ways to "cheat" in a Lean proof, the proof could be trusted without understanding it
by IsTom | 2026-01-10 09:58:59+00:00
> it's rare that the theorem statement itself is particularly hard to formalize

That's very dependent on the problem area. For example there's a gap between high school explanation of central limit theorem and actual formalization of it. And when dealing with turing machines sometimes you'll say that something grows e.g. Omega(n), but what happens is that there's some subsequence of inputs for which it does. Generally for complexity theory plain-language explanations can be very vague, because of how insensitive the theory is to small changes and you need to operate on a higher level of abstraction to have a chance to explain a proof in reasonable time.
by pas | 2026-01-10 09:59:00+00:00
50K EUR is OK to start. There's no point in trying to outspend the top private firms.

Like many other people said there are already thousands of unpaid volunteers doing quality work.

If the EU wants "domestic" stuff they need to mandate/incentivize it. It's not like if shit hits the fan the local employees cannot run the local stuff of non-EU companies. (Therefore the important thing is to have full control locally, no outside-EU kill switches allowed - eg. what Uber had and used.)
by Ciantic | 2026-01-10 09:59:09+00:00
I have these plugins: git, zsh-autosuggestions

/usr/bin/time -f "%e seconds" zsh -i -c exit
0.06 seconds

This is acceptable, maybe the zsh-autocomplete is the problem for author or something else?

I originally switched to ZSH + Oh My Shell because it opens so fast. Ideally plugins would initialize asynchronously but it's not very easy with shell scripts I think.
by keiferski | 2026-01-10 10:01:52+00:00
Large states (including the US) have been intervening in nearby countries since the beginning of time. Even for Latin America, this is a "typical" intervention for the US: Cuba, Panama, Grenada, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Haiti, Guatemala, on and on, all happened in the 20th century.

What's different this time is the total lack of effort (or ability to?) to construct a narrative justifying it.
by Ciantic | 2026-01-10 10:02:54+00:00
I have these plugins: git, zsh-autosuggestions

/usr/bin/time -f "%e seconds" zsh -i -c exit
0.06 seconds

This is acceptable, maybe the zsh-autocomplete is the problem for author or something else?

I originally switched to ZSH + Oh My Shell because it opens so fast. Ideally plugins would initialize asynchronously but it's not very easy with shell scripts I think.
by metalman | 2026-01-10 10:03:10+00:00
glass eals are sold to "buyers" for 5000-10000/lb, and a big chunk more money goes to government, customs, and airline people, as they must be flown out on jets from Halifax, which is the main international airport in Atlantic Canada to there destination in Japan.
I have seen the rocks in rivers turning blue from all the glass eals heading down stream, and other people talk of much larger migrations, but like so many things, they are going extinct now.
Why pan for gold, when it will swim right into your net, but it's not the fishers fault that there is a market, and "facilitation" from the very people who are supposed,ha!,ARE! catching the smugglers, catching them, and no doubt taking them out for dinner to discuss ....other markets, right.
by jimnotgym | 2026-01-10 10:03:24+00:00
I keep being told this stuff by normies who couldn't do my job.

ADHD doesn't manifest the same way for everyone.

> pay EXTRA attention to doing right things the correct way

I do wrong things a different way all the time. I'm a maverick. I'm known to have creative solutions other people can't find. Not little ones either, 'we have been trying this for 20 years' ones. $multi-million strategic ones. I can't do the boring task list work you normies can do, but I have super powers you don't.

The breakthrough started and my recovery began when I stopped listening to people like you and focused on what I am good at.

But last night, I wanted to get to bed at 10pm, but I got some music stuck in my head. I had some music on to chill out, but something gripped me and I picked up my guitar. It felt like a moment of time but I look up and it is 1am. If I had gone to bed I would have lain awake all night. Meditation would have had this music dominating it and dragging me out of it. I'm in bed late on Saturday morning typing this, which will upset my whole weekend, but I wouldn't have slept, which would have been worse. So, I just went with it.

I envy people who can keep a routine, but I now pity people who don't have extraordinary moments of inspiration. I embrace my super powers and accept my life won't be normal. It will be exceptional.
by frank_lbt | 2026-01-10 10:04:31+00:00
While there are many players in this space, I wanted to offer a slightly different approach to the AI compute marketplace. My goal was to create an intuitive interface to drive adoption, with payments in fiat currency (real money), unlike many platforms that force the use of proprietary crypto tokens.
Performance is at the core of the platform's value, with the ability to leverage providers' NPUs in addition to CPUs and GPUs. Finally, I wanted to ensure fair compensation for providers while remaining cost-competitive against existing cloud giants.

Of course, it isn’t perfect yet, and I have plenty of ideas for improvements, but this version already handles some interesting use cases. I can't wait to hear what you think!

Website: https://www.infinite-gpu.scalerize.fr/
by willis936 | 2026-01-10 10:04:40+00:00
On the other hand: it's nice to see the march of pixel density increasing which makes this problem go away entirely.

I used an LG C2 42" as a monitor for a few years. The color fringing was particularly bad for me because I like yellow text and LG uses RWBG. 4K 42" and 1440p 27" are about 110 DPI. This is not enough. 4K 27" is about 160 DPI. That is enough. We've already pushed past needing to care about subpixel layouts if you properly weight pixel density in your selection.
by simonair | 2026-01-10 10:05:16+00:00
For anyone who cares about zsh startup performance, `zsh4humans` by `romkatv` (author of powerlevel10k) is worth a look: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh4humans

It achieves instant startup by rendering the prompt before the full shell initializes. Since adopting it, I am done fiddling with my shell config and the fact that `zsh4humans` is in maintenance-mode is actually an advantage as it keeps me from wasting time refactoring `zshrc`.
by tick_tock_tick | 2026-01-10 10:05:17+00:00
> And sure, some laws and most likely this one, are stupid. I always take GDPR as an example. Annoying as fuck, but a good regulation. Well written, well executed and hits its goal.

It's funny people normally use GDPR as an example of a law so poorly written and implemented that the sites of the very EU governments that passed it are still not in compliance a decade later.
by BoingBoomTschak | 2026-01-10 10:05:17+00:00
It's also worth mentioning that some people seem to have a worriyingly short and/or selective memory. I mean, how could you ever trust your government on such matters after stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood... ?
by robinsonb5 | 2026-01-10 10:05:33+00:00
The low latency is the reason why the PiStorm (Amiga CPU accelerator) project works so well on a Pi 2, 3 or 4. (Pi 5 is no longer suitable since the GPIO is now the other side of a PCI-E bus and thus suffers significantly higher latency than on previous models, despite being much faster in terms of throughput.)
by MagicMoonlight | 2026-01-10 10:06:07+00:00
I’m starting to realise we don’t really want a cure to aging.

Imagine a world where people like Stalin never die. People like bill gates never have to pretend to be a nice person…

If there’s no chance of death, there will never be any progress in society. People in power would just establish a tighter and tighter grip. All the boomers would be immune to death and disease, but the treatment would be banned for the young because they haven’t done enough to earn it.
by anticristi | 2026-01-10 10:06:09+00:00
Where I work, we have company-wide breaks between 10.00-10.15, 12.00-13.00 and 15.00-15.15. These cannot easily be enforced with external parties, but running an internal meeting over a break will need an explanation. What I noticed is that back-to-back meetings are more likely "capped" at 2 hours, so it's easier for people to show up on time and energized.
by coaksford | 2026-01-10 10:06:53+00:00
I have never used Oh My Zsh, but I use Atuin to do this and it works excellently at that. You can even make it filter by what folder you're in and whether you want to search only this session or host (you can sync shell history across hosts). It never occurred to me that this is something I'd want from a shell prompt, which is what Starship is.
by kmaitreys | 2026-01-10 10:07:02+00:00
My experience has been mixed. Honestly though, talking to AI and discussing a problem with it is better than doing nothing and just procrastinating. It's mostly wrong, but the conversation helps me think. In the end, once my patience runs out and my own mind has been "refreshed" through the conversation (even if it was frustrating), I can work on it myself. Some bits of the conversation will help but the "one-shot" doesn't exist. tldr: ai chatbots can get you going, and may be better than just postponing and procrastinating over the problem you're trying to solve.
by dandelionv1bes | 2026-01-10 10:07:04+00:00
This is fantastic. I think it’s nailed in the substack what was missing from a lot of these LLM driven NPCs that did not feel authentic. I have a couple of follow-up questions on specifics relating to analysis of behaviour with LLMs (in game-dev myself). Would it be possible to speak to you directly on them?
by flumpcakes | 2026-01-10 10:07:19+00:00
I'm not sure I have ever seen such an unprofessional communication from the CEO of Cloudflare, irrespective of a poorly written Italian law.

The fine was also peanuts for a company the size of Cloudflare.

Given the current political climate I think the tone he is using will turn a lot of Europeans off: Open threats against citizens of an EU country (turning off free cyber protections) and general 'American Exceptionalism' attitude and brown nosing of the current administration.

He is within his rights to pull out of a market, but this is an example of the now-becoming-classic Trumpism of smugly shouting pretty extreme open threats to bully your way into getting what you want (and screw everyone else who isn't America).

It honestly makes me want to add it to the list of American tech companies willing to sabotage Europe for disproportionate reasons. (Currently X, Microsoft) and start planning strategies to decouple from them, if not outright replace.

Perhaps this is a knee-jerk reaction, but I was not expecting this from Cloudflare.
by wrqvrwvq | 2026-01-10 10:08:01+00:00
For terminal-centric workflows, one ends up needing to open dozens of shells throughout the day.

Starting one command, realizing you need info from a previous command, often the fastest way to get that info is to open another terminal and start typing and the copy-pasting the relevant piece of cmd. Or needing the output from another command that's scrolled up in a window. In general you end up with a mosaic of tiles each of which is holding key information. So you inevitably open a new tab to make use of the information in the other 3 or 4 windows.

Shell startup is mainly not about waiting for a few terminals in abstraction, but about the way each shell is just a small piece of a longer live workflow and waiting a second for a shell so that you can fill in a piece of a command feels terrible. I think nushell will help cut down on this unpiped inefficiency, but it's usually much simpler to manually glue bash commands together than to parse text output and pipe.
by hypercube33 | 2026-01-10 10:09:13+00:00
In general the best part of the Pi is that it's so stable as a platform. Everyone has the same hardware and generally the same OS so guides online just work - it may be one of the if not the best Linux on the desktop experience I've used personally.

Along with that the gpio is there and ample so it's extremely easy to just start using it.

I do argue an esp 8266 or esp32 are better for a development microcontroller but you have to muck with cabling it up before you can even load a program on it which is a few more extra steps than a Pi
by mariusor | 2026-01-10 10:09:51+00:00
I'm currently a participant under a NLNet grant. I'm unemployed at the moment so getting a trickle of 1-2K of donation money per month working on my passion project is a pretty decent proposition.

You can also be a participant alongside your well paid job, because once the memorandum of understanding is signed you have a year to work through the proposal at your own pace, during weekends or moonlighting.
by mirekrusin | 2026-01-10 10:10:22+00:00
Don't underestimate prototyping nature of js that allowed for exporing design space at higher speed throughout the years.

Reminds me when I was working on distributed filesystem at LiveDrive more than 10 years ago, wrote working prototype and few iterations in Ruby before rewriting it in C - somebody said "(you did it) because Ruby was slow/crap?", I said "no, because Ruby was essential (to do it quick)".

Also interop with those tools (though wasm) is relatively new.

Js/ts ecosystem is actually quite nice now with this option to use wasm for performance - while still keeping "works on the server and in the browser" intact.