MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pragmatick | 2026-01-25 06:47:53+00:00
My experience has been somewhat different. I've had a linux server for a long time so I'm not new to the OS but my main computer which I use for development and gaming and everything else has always been Windows. I recently added a dual-boot Ubuntu for some performance-heavy development where the better docker integration made sense for me to use.

I had to try three window managers until I was able to use fractional scaling in such a way that my main 4K 32" screen shows 150% and my secondary screen shows a sharp image because Gnome cannot do fractional scaling only on one screen and for some reason 100% resulted in a blurry image.

The window manager crashed multiple times when I tried to unlock it.

Whenever I woke up my screen the whole system froze, apparently because of the USB hub in the monitor which registered. So far the only solution has been to disconnect the USB hub.

Fan control doesn't work properly because the chipset isn't supported.

I see rendering issues with window decorations all the time.

That's just after two weeks. I can't remember the last time my windows froze or crashed or had display errors. Whenever I'm in the console or do IO heavy stuff I feel right at home but as a desktop OS it's still inferior to me. I don't have fewer problems on Linux, just different ones.
by Magmalgebra | 2026-01-25 06:48:13+00:00
> The process is quite easy to implement

Having implemented it myself, I agree it is easy to implement. My argument is that it is overly difficult to maintain. My experience is that incentives to corrupt the point system are too high for organizations to resist.

Funnily enough - I work closely with a former director of engineering at Atlassian (the company whose guide you cite) and he is of the opinion that pointing had become "utterly dishonest and a complete waste of time". I respect that opinion.

If you have citations on pointing being effective I'd be very interested. I consider myself reasonably up to date on SWE productivity literature and am not aware of any evidence to that point - I have yet to see it.
by wafflemaker | 2026-01-25 06:48:34+00:00
Beautifully said.

I'd add a quote from the beginning of a famous sci-fi*:

You have to create Good out of Evil, because there is nothing else to create it from.

Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, famous Russian anti-system science-fiction brother duo. Their other notable book is Snail on a Slope.
by travisgriggs | 2026-01-25 06:49:40+00:00
> I imagine just about any computer science major would have learned the rules of memory layout according to some kind of C-like compiler.

I have worked with a number of fresh grads over the last ten years. I can think of one who may have had a good handle on this. At best the rest range from “vague memory recall about this” to a blank stare.

On the flip hand, it’s something someone can pick up pretty quickly if motivated.
by bruce511 | 2026-01-25 06:49:45+00:00
Please don't downvote comments because you don't agree with the argument. Downvotes should be for comments that add little to the discussion.

I agree that discussing weight with regard to EVs, without acknowledging that (in the US) the fashion is for big heavy ICE cars is just as polluting is disingenuous.

That said, outside the US the trend is for smaller cars, and equally the weight of a small EV is not hugely dissimilar to a common ICE car.

Frankly I'm not sure there's a whole lot to say about tire dust- cars need tires. EVs generate less brake dust. If there's a tire dust discussion to be had, then that discussion is independent of the vehicle fuel source.
by julioa2026 | 2026-01-25 06:51:02+00:00
Hay un momento en la vida en el que una persona deja de medir sus decisiones solo en términos de comodidad o de dinero y empieza a preguntarse qué está haciendo realmente con sus días. Todo lo que tienes hoy existe porque alguna vez decidiste gastar tiempo en ello, y aunque muchas veces no lo notes, esa es la moneda más valiosa que manejas. No porque sea escasa en el reloj, sino porque es absolutamente irrecuperable en la experiencia.

A diferencia de casi cualquier otra cosa, lo que se va del calendario no vuelve. Puedes equivocarte con una inversión, puedes perder una oportunidad, puedes cometer errores financieros y encontrar la forma de recuperarte. Pero cada día que pasa no se archiva, se consume. Y ese consumo silencioso es el que define, con una precisión brutal, en qué se convierte tu vida.

La mayoría de las personas no pierde su tiempo de forma dramática, lo pierde en pequeñas distracciones cotidianas. En decisiones mínimas, en posponer lo importante, en vivir reaccionando en lugar de dirigir. No se desperdicia una vida en un solo error, se desperdicia en miles de renuncias pequeñas.

El problema no es descansar o disfrutar, el problema es confundir descanso con huida y disfrute con anestesia. Cuando el tiempo se usa solo para escapar del cansancio que produce una vida mal dirigida, se entra en un ciclo que no lleva a ningún lugar. El cansancio que no construye nada se convierte en una forma de desgaste invisible.

Muchas personas viven con la sensación constante de que están ocupadas, pero no necesariamente avanzando. Llenan sus días de actividades, pero no de dirección. Estar ocupado no es lo mismo que estar comprometido con algo que valga la pena. Y esa diferencia marca destinos muy distintos.

El tiempo es el único recurso que gastas incluso cuando crees que no estás gastando nada. Cada espera innecesaria, cada decisión postergada, cada hábito automático está usando fragmentos de tu vida. Lo que no eliges conscientemente también lo estás pagando con tu existencia.
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-25 06:51:26+00:00
First off, my Renault Megane e-Tech has paddles that allow me to change the regen strength on the fly. I use it actively when driving.

But anyway, I find I drive differently with an EV. I don't let off the throttle unless I want to slow down. If I want to coast, I just reduce my throttle input to where its coasting.
Show HN: Markdown Viewer with LaTeX Math Support and Export to PDF/Word/HTML
by LuckyBuddy | 2026-01-25 06:52:17+00:00
I found that most online Markdown tools don't render math formulas properly.

So I built https://markdownviewer.cc/.

Features:

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by nomel | 2026-01-25 06:52:20+00:00
Could you provide a reference for them not being federal law enforcement officers (specifically immigration law)? Note that you provided none, but I do find some of your text on an AI generated website.

18 is for "general federal law". Are you trying to say they're not federal law enforcement because it's specific federal law and not general? Do you have a reference that supports this?

From the Cornell link:

> Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), which enforces U.S. immigration law at, within, and beyond U.S. borders;

Are you saying the immigration/deportation enforcement (enforcement) is not federal? It seems it can only be enforced at the federal level [1].

Is this semantics? They're federal agents (this isn't up for interpretation, as case law exists). They enforce federal law [1]. What am I missing? You write as if there's an accepted legal definition. Please provide the reference! Help!

I don't know if it's intentional, but your formatting makes it very unclear where law ends and opinion begins.

[1] https://www.findlaw.com/immigration/immigration-laws-and-res...
by Gud | 2026-01-25 06:53:29+00:00
I disagree, Europe has not been ”relying” on US military support.

It is true that most(not all, for example Switzerland, Finland Poland all have excellent militaries) European countries have been underfunding their military in stark contrast to the war mongering nation across the Atlantic, but I would not call that “relying on”, just a delusion that we lived in an eternal peace.

FWIW I served my country Sweden for three years, including a tour in Kosovo and another in Afghanistan. I have been against this recklessness for as long as I can remember.

Also, the EU is hardly irrelevant, stop the hyperbole…

It is subtle, but different
by mcdeltat | 2026-01-25 06:53:42+00:00
If you look at enough cheapo/handmade circuit boards you'll notice they often look like the bottom one. Cramped, untidy, or otherwise odd trace layout, poor part placement, poor soldering. The top one - although looking less space efficient because there's more going on - is layed out better. The design just flows in a way amateur designs don't.
by manuelmoreale | 2026-01-25 06:53:50+00:00
So, I both don’t have any reason not to take your words at face value and I also don’t have any reason to believe you are in the know of anything that’s happening within your government. I assume you’re not the president (you write too well and make too much sense to be him)

So there’s obviously a level of general skepticism here that I consider to be healthy.

That said, the simple fact that lobbying is a thing and the government can be influenced by the use of money is a sign that the A relationship of some level exists.

Now, I personally am on none of those platforms. I use the bare minimum I need and even in that case, as a paying customer of those companies, I don’t expect them to treat me nicely.

Because money seems te be the only thing that matters at this point and morals are way further down the line.

All that said, from an outside observer, seeing the China argument coming from America, considering everything that’s happening in plain sight, it’s ironic to say the least.
by XenophileJKO | 2026-01-25 06:56:10+00:00
So two things.. Yes this helps with context and is a primary reason to break out the sub-agents.

However one of the bigger things is by having a focus on a specific task or a role, you force the LLM to "pay attention" to certain aspects. The models have finite attention and if you ask them to pay attention to "all things".. they just ignore some.

The act of forcing the model to pay attention can be acoomplished in alternative ways (defined process, commitee formation in single prompt, etc.), but defining personas at the sub-agent is one of the most efficient ways to encode a world view and responsibilities, vs explicitly listing them.
by userbinator | 2026-01-25 06:57:06+00:00
There's a HUGE difference between "you can use HTML" and "JS all the things, because we can".

Windows 98 used webpages as core components for Explorer. Literally browsing your files involved J(ava)Script… in 1998.

"Active desktop"? Most people turned that off, and the explorer was pure native code otherwise.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-25 06:57:30+00:00
I think you have to keep in mind that what you write is more important than how you write it. Can you write better programs with this tool or not? All the time I used to spend on stack over flow, asking people questions, scouring through bad documentation and source code, now AI can do all that for me. Now, if you're a 10x engineer or whatever the term is these days, and you're telling me you have no need for research, for PoC code, for critical analysis of your code, then power to you. But most people aren't in that boat.

> Have you considered how relying on AI affects your own programming skills?

Yes, about as much as it did before but now I have more time to think more deeply about solutions instead of cosmetic things, syntactic nonsense,tedious b.s.,etc... It's like asking how using an IDE with auto-complete affects your programming skills when you could be writing in vim or notepad. Doing tedious things, knowing how to beg right on the correct forum, or hunting down the best library, the best doc,etc.. these are not programming skills. Like I said in my original comment, I'm not using it to write the code for me, I'm using it to do things that have nothing to do with solving the problem at hand.

With AI's assistance, you can become a better problem solver. heck, you might even be good at spotting mistakes other people make, just by force of habit learned from correcting mistakes AI makes. It's just a utility, take all the benefits from it and discard things you don't like about it. Nothing forces to use the code it generates. think of it as a junior programmer that's doing PRs for menial tasks for you, and that's the best case scenario. It's just a really good google search that gives you the results you're looking for instead of jumping through hoops to get something of lesser quality. Many times I've mistrusted the AI and did things the old way, and its solution contained more nuance, details and considerations I failed to glean with my initial attempts.

Before AI, the story of people copy pasting things from stack overflow, including bugs, and including good code that gets buggy in certain situations was a major trend. AI does that, except better both in terms of result quality, and in helping you avoid pitfalls. But imho, you still shouldn't trust it, you still have to vet everything it does and stop using it if that effort takes more time and it would have doing things manually.
by EnPissant | 2026-01-25 06:57:38+00:00
> People have a stark reaction to the visual of a guy being 200 meters above the ground but the reality is if you're a circus acrobat and you're 10 meters up the air you're also likely dead or maimed if something goes wrong.

No, it's the large number of free soloists that have died. And the small number of circus performers who have died. People's intuitions about the relative risks are actually very accurate here.
by manuelmoreale | 2026-01-25 06:57:52+00:00
Personally I’m of the opinion that forcing sale and nationalization is not a good way to go about solving these issues.

I think one better way would be to make it so there are consequences for actions. And consequences should start flowing from the top but I know this is a dream and we live in a world where consequences for their actions are no longer a thing that exists if you have enough money.
by NorwegianDude | 2026-01-25 06:58:00+00:00
> You could always allow users to choose the amount and just include the transaction fee.

I'd be happy to do that, but it's not really as simple as it seems. Multiple of my payment providers have fees I'm not allowed to disclose, and the same Norwegian Consumer Council has also repeatedly stated that they do not want payment fees to be passed on to the consumer as that might be unfair to those who can't use specific payment options. They are passed on to the consumer either way, so... That's the only reason I don't provide tiny purchases, as the fees will result in negative value of the sale. But again, I'd be happy if I could just add fees to the price so that people could just buy exactly the amount they want.

> If card networks are operating in the country, they'd have to abide by the country's rules too.
Yes, but currently the laws are not compatible. You can't follow one without breaking the other.

The problem isn't displaying a price, but how to do it in a way that makes sense. It doesn't really make anything more clear when it's called the same thing as the currency in game and has no fixed conversion because of fees making up a larger cut for small purchases. The Norwegian Consumer Council want's users to be able to buy the smalles unit of currency if thwy want, but that must be relatively very expensive because of the fees. They alsy want prices to reflect the most expensive method of acquisition of the currency. This will 100 % result in totally unrealistic prices, that are easy to confuse with the in game currency. It's clearly easier if you buy a fixed bundle of 1000 "gold coins" for $10, and the price is listed as "Buy a $500 paiting for 100 gold coins" instead of "Buy a $500 paiting for 100 gold coins($50 real money)".
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-25 06:58:05+00:00
Sycophantic idealism mixed with political Brand analytical-blindness is incompatible with functional democratic processes. Verifiable facts are the core responsibility of the Scientific process, and a lot of people still fail that minimal standard.

https://mchankins.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/still-not-signifi...

Modern corruption is just unsustainable populist negligence, that coincidentally also collapsed many empires in history. Suggesting Academic bureaucracy is a functional Meritocracy is naive wishful thinking, and ignores why these structures usually still degenerate to merge with poorly obfuscated despotic movements.

"Despotism" (1946)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w

Have a great day, =3
by NoteyComplexity | 2026-01-25 06:58:07+00:00
While I am reading others’ view points and enjoy it; perhaps just straight to the point to your point first.

Can you tell me what exactly THE ERROR when I want to find a single good thing about TikTok when I don’t understand it?

For your view point, you logic is the following for the good reason using TikTok:

“Addiction is bad, but many people are using it anyway, just like any media back in the days.”

Are you really sure you have answered A GOOD REASON of using TikTok? Sounds like a horrible argument for me. Addiction is a bad habit to begin with, it won’t magically validated just because the media has been changed.
by edmundsauto | 2026-01-25 06:58:47+00:00
I found this interesting to think about. On the surface, this could fit the requirements. However, in the past decade, I feel a dynamic where my relationship with tech companies like eBay are actually antagonistic, rather than cooperative. They (and American society) have become so extractive and user-hostile that I have no trust their features are designed to accomplish my goals. Instead, they are designed to accomplish the company's objectives and it's only by coincidence if the customer is satisfied.
by jeena | 2026-01-25 06:59:10+00:00
My Main Problem is To keep the bridges up to date. I just switched my phone number in WhatsApp and Signal and that lead to a huge ton of trouble for my bridges. After a month of fiddling with it, deleting things, updating, logging in and out of accounts and puppets, I still don't get any messages from signal into element. While it was working for years just fine it gives me the most trouble now that my dad is in the hospital in another country and I have to coordinate with my siblings a lot.
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-25 07:01:33+00:00
There's no inherent ACL in NAT, and adding one would just demonstrate that ACLs can block packets, which we already knew.

> What you’re describing would happen if NAT were completely disabled. You’re just describing an open router

Yep. It also happens when NAT is enabled. A router doing NAT is exactly the same thing as an open router -- it just has the additional property of editing outbound connections to appear to come from the IP of the router itself.

If NAT on its own blocked inbound connections, I would have seen that in my tests.
by rubyn00bie | 2026-01-25 07:02:30+00:00
I’d also recommend people try Arch. The install process has been made waaaay easier in the latest versions. Mostly select what you want et voila you’re good to go. I installed it on a mini pc I took with me over the holidays to game on and it was great. The only thing I’d seriously suggest against is installing a bunch of packages from the installer itself.

Doing so caused me headaches because it installed Gnome (again my fault for selecting a bunch of packages) alongside KDE and I didn’t realize it. Causing me a bunch of “issues” until I selected KDE as the desktop environment on login.

I’ll probably move to Arch on my primary workstation sometime in the next few weeks (from PopOS which has treated me well for the last five years but Cosmic has been frustrating). My biggest reason is Arch has much more up to date packages than what I’ve had access to via Pop and it’s what SteamOS is based on so imagine it’ll be easier to keep up to date (along with little tweaks that Valve incorporates). Not to mention the Arch docs are great, I’ve had them help me even on PopOS for years now.

Addendum: Gnome + Wayland has more or less jumped the shark for me, with its highly opinionated design. KDE has thus far been plenty acceptable. For folks wanting to try both it’s easy enough to just install, pretty much all login managers (screens) let you choose which one you want. My only regret about KDE is losing Kinto.sh for MacOS style keybindings but I lost those with the move to Wayland anyway (still trying alternatives but they’ve been slow or quirky by comparison).
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-25 07:03:48+00:00
He deserves it unironically. I love his tweets and that he tried to speak truth to power to republicans (i.e. calling them/Americans out for being mean to nerds and not glorifying nerds like they do in asia), but he deserves to see that his brand of political thought almost always leads to extreme, virulent racism.

People who vote for leopards NEED to have their faces ate.
by slg | 2026-01-25 07:04:26+00:00
Alex Pretti was a nurse. What power did he have? I'm not attributing ultimate power over the fate of the nation to you or HN. You are a tiny cog in a huge machine, but you're still a bigger cog than me. So I'm asking you to consider when you will use the power you do have. Current events should have us all considering that question
by culebron21 | 2026-01-25 07:04:41+00:00
Sure. She's very resentful and puts labels on everything and everyone. Her discourse, from what I remember was like "in Russia, there's no this, no that, no life, etc." Just no point to seriously discuss what she says.

I lived in Moscow in the '10s, and was at some meetings of liberal crowd, saw where these political activists were formed. By the time many of them already couldn't be in real politics, i.e. be elected, so many were just in these salon meetings (because youtube wasn't yet the default place to present), competing in cool and juicy takes.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-25 07:05:21+00:00
Yes, immigration/deportation officers are enforcing civil violations, not criminal, meaning they don't qualify. HSI is the group that does actual criminal stuff and that qualify under statute. ICE officers aren't doing that. Also the statutes that give authority require proper training, which ICE is definitely not receiving with their cut down.

But nah, I'm not spending more time after your uncalled for 'AI website' dig. No need to be an ass or imply I'm using AI or take passive aggressive jabs. I looked but don't have that site in my history. I do have:
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2024-title6/USCOD...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/8/287.8
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2024-title6/USCOD...
https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/ero
along with others.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-25 07:08:12+00:00
Google's long term strategy with Android is baffling to me. Apple has had better mobile hardware for years. Apple has higher consumer trust. Apple has better app selection (for most people). Apple has been increasingly implementing the core features that differentiate Android devices, like USB-C and RCS. Every Android user lost to the increasing iOS market share is another customer Google has to pay exorbitant fees to a competitor to access.

And Google's strategy is to continue removing differentiating features from Android that also help them mitigate the threat of antitrust? Surely the marginal revenue from the inconsequential number of sideloading users isn't attractive enough to justify that kind of strategic blunder.
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2026-01-25 07:09:18+00:00
Please don’t blame react for this, and not because I like react. The real problem is bad development caused by processes, procedures and most likely pressures to cut corners.

Microsoft code is bad. This is not a react issue, and is probably not caused by lead developers. But the problem is now that things have regressed to 98 era technology, it’s going to take a long time for the problem to get better.