MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by traceroute66 | 2026-01-26 17:31:45+00:00
> Most EU companies, including this one, offer subpar services compared to their American counterparts

Not true.

But you know what the best thing about the EU companies is ?

Transparent pricing.

EU company: Yes, you really can accurately calculate to the nearest cent how much your compute instance will cost you and exactly what you are getting for that money. No surprises.

US company:Is that Compute Savings Plan, EC2 Savings Plan, On-Demand or Spot. What speed is my network "up to" ? And then of course the big "I DUNNO" in relation to "how many IOPS am I going to be charged for EBS disk transfer ?"

EU company: Of course we don't charge you for LIST etc. on S3. We only charge you for off-network GETs and the associated data transfer, on-network is free.

US company: What do you mean LIST etc. should be free ?

You know what else I like about the EU companies ?

At least two of them allow pay as you go from a reducing credit balance.

Yes that's right US companies. It IS possible to give your customers a way to 100% guarantee you will never have an "oops I just spent a million dollars overnight" moment.
by keernan | 2026-01-26 17:31:54+00:00
>>The Supreme Court

Please explain how the Supreme Court has any power to stop a President surrounded by heads of the FBI, Homeland Security - all of whom have sworn allegiance to the Man ( Trump ) and not to the Office?

As a trial attorney for 40+ years ( now retired ), it is my impression that SCOTUS is acutely aware of their powerless position vis-a-vis Trump and has tried to avoid decisions that prompt him to finally declare that SCOTUS can only offer non-binding advice to the Executive Branch.

Note: I say this while painfully aware that some ( eg Thomas and Alito ) have their own agenda and no misgivings that the pro-Trump rulings have changed the balance of power between SCOTUS and the Executive. While I am suspicious of the intentions of the other conversative Justices, I lean towards believing that they voted as they did because they knew the alterative was to deal with the crisis of the President declaring SCOTUS has zero authority over the Executive.
by eichin | 2026-01-26 17:31:55+00:00
Trying not to turn this into "falsehoods developers believe about geographic names", but having done natural-language geocoding at scale (MetaCarta 2002-2010, acquired by Nokia) the most valuable thing was a growing set of tagged training data - because we were actually building the models out of that, but also because it would detect regressions; I suspect you needed something similar to "keep the LLMs in line", but you also need it for any more artisinal development approach too. (I'm a little surprised you even have a single-value-return search() function, issue#44 is just the tip of the iceberg - https://londonist.com/london/features/places-named-london-th... is a pretty good hint that a range of answers with probabilities attached is a minimum starting point...)
by heraldgeezer | 2026-01-26 17:32:10+00:00
As a Swede we don't have the competence or expertise anymore. We did have at one time and we tried to make the bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_weapons_progra...

Everything is service or finance economy now. Nobody cares about science sadly (me included).

It's all Netflix & TikTok, Foodora scrolling until the end now.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-26 17:32:13+00:00
The Jevon's Paradox argument is not wrong but they're blanket applying it. Geoff Hinton has talked a lot about this, and he notes that while some things do benefit from Jevon's Paradox, there are a lot of things that AI is automating that won't. In terms of thoughtfulness and credibility I'll trust Geoff over YC.
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-26 17:32:19+00:00
I think I completely agree with you but I think HN folks seriously underestimate the rate of progress. Believe what you will about the magnitude of capex but it’s coming and it’s coming fast. And we are extremely extremely close now. I agree we constantly have gotten timelines wrong, and I think it’s easily possible SOME capabilities may take longer but I think it’s hard to overstate just how much we are accelerating progress like in the next year or two.

But yea: self driving cars are still not here, see e.g. all the other AI booms

Difference here is we’re seeing it with our own eyes and using it right now. So much absolutely existential competition between companies (even within them!) and geopolitically.
Show HN: Donkey Support –> Reply to Support Chats from Slack/Discord/Telegram
by sjorsfest | 2026-01-26 17:32:33+00:00
Hi HN

I built Donkey Support, a lightweight support widget for web apps that routes customer chats into Slack, Discord, or Telegram threads, so you can reply from the tools you already use instead of checking another support dashboard.

I originally built this because the last early-stage SaaS I worked on was full of bugs. We were moving fast, review wasn’t great, and things broke a lot.

What saved us wasn’t perfect code. It was fast support.

We had a little support widget on the site, and the second something broke, users could message us. Most of the time they’d tell us exactly what went wrong, we’d fix it quickly, and they actually loved it. It turned frustration into “wow, these people care.”

That made me realise that fast support isn’t just a nice-to-have. It keeps users from churning when things are still rough around the edges.

The setup is quite simple. You just add the widget to your site (script tag or React component), connect Slack, Discord, or Telegram, and each new conversation becomes a thread in your chosen channel/server. The replies there sync back to the widget instantly

Would love feedback (Feel free to dunk hard on me):

* Does this solve a real pain for you?
* What would you want to see before using it in production?
by pmarreck | 2026-01-26 17:32:58+00:00
I used to be that guy, then I had my first kid at 49 and things have been circling around the bowl since then (he is 4.5; I am... impacted)

And now I'm not sure what to do, moving forward. Government job? Find some niche in a large institution that won't fret too much if I have 2 sleep-impacted nights in a row? And then there's the current hiring economy... Who is going to hire me if I'm completely honest and admit I'm buckling under parenting pressure but really do want to help?
by edgineer | 2026-01-26 17:32:59+00:00
There are sites for searching for your (or anyone else's) publicly revealed information, but the one free one I knew of was forced offline.

Downloading the datasets--there are so many with so few options to obtain them. The mega-compilations likely won't include everything, either, like your license plate numbers or all your compromised addresses, nor the site from which hackers stole it.

So basically don't bother. If you want the same experience, open up notepad, HIBP, and your password manager, and make a little doxx file on yourself, in CSV or JSON.
by dimitri-vs | 2026-01-26 17:33:20+00:00
But millions discussions are needed and will always be needed?

"Create a copy of Amazon.com"

ok, how did you want to handle 3pl fulfilment and international red tape?

"No not that complicated, a minimal copy"

How minimal? How many servers should I provision? How vertically integrated should we get?

Etc.

I really want to see someone build an app of any value with minimal decisions made.
by heraldgeezer | 2026-01-26 17:33:33+00:00
oh lol

Qwen (also known as Tongyi Qianwen, Chinese: 通义千问; pinyin: Tōngyì Qiānwèn) is a family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud.

Had not heard of this LLM.

Anyway EU needs to start pumping into Mistral, its the only valid option.
by bsimpson | 2026-01-26 17:33:44+00:00
It's funny that it's such a blatant knock-off of Google Workspace - the repos even have the same names:

https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

I wonder if the emoji will grow into its own set:

https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet/blob/main/src/fronten...
by allenu | 2026-01-26 17:33:57+00:00
Comparing the two, you can really see how minimalist the modern stuff is. It has less texture, fewer details (buttons, collars), no patterns (at least from the blog post screenshots).

I think you could argue that some of this is just modern sensibilities and aesthetics, but I think a lot of it is probably just the modern movie industry. Like decisions with modern lighting and how flat things looks in modern movies (to make production more efficient and making adding CGI easier), they probably go with minimalist costumes since they're easier to capture on film, cheaper, and easier to make.
by jafioti | 2026-01-26 17:34:18+00:00
Thats reasonably accurate, we're fusing both pre-defined operations as well as codegenned operations. Block-level operations live inside the search space, as do kernel, warp and thread level operations. Since it's a unified search space, we can look through tons of combinations of kernel, block, warp, and thread level ops. When we go to compile them to runnable code, thread ops get compiled to warp ops, warp ops get compiled to block ops, block ops get compiled to kernel ops (megakernels live here!), so at the end of the day everything that gets ran is a kernel.

In other words, very complimentary to our search-based approach.
by scandox | 2026-01-26 17:35:05+00:00
Elite people don't take books as seriously anymore. That's what's happening. The prestige of serious books is diminishing. The referencing of serious books in mainstream culture is diminishing. If 8 billion people all read one shit book that's all well and good - literacy is saved. But if the people who currently influence events do not read good books, care to be seen to read good books and consider the opinions of the writers of good books important ... then I think it's not good.
by salawat | 2026-01-26 17:35:14+00:00
>Hiding doesn't fix the problem.

If your problem is that you have no means to control what other people find important enough to talk about on a public forum, in their spare time, or that the means at your disposal to do so are insufficient to make other people saying things that make you uncomfortable go away... That isn't a problem that can or should should be fixed. Hell, the desire you've expressed could be uncharitably interpreted being contributory to part of the problem that has people around you discussing politics in the first place.
by wvenable | 2026-01-26 17:35:25+00:00
That is the correct definition of vibe coding "fully giv[ing] in to the vibes, embrac[ing] exponentials, and forget[ting] that the code even exists."

I think we need another term for using an LLM to write code but absolutely not forgetting the code exists.

I often use LLMs to do refactoring and, by definition, refactoring cannot be vibe-coding because that's caring about the code.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-26 17:35:26+00:00
RDBMS are pretty well understood and very flexible, more still with the likes of JSONB where parts of your schema can be (de)normalized for convenience and reducing joins in practice. Modern hardware is MUCH more powerful today than even a decade and a half ago. You can scale vertically a LOT with an RDBMS like PostgreSQL, so it's a good fit for more use cases as a result.

Personally, at this point, I'm more inclined to reach for a few tools than to try to increase certain types of complexity. That said, I'm probably more inclined to introduce valkey/redis earlier on for some things, which I think may be better suited to MQ type duties without an actual MQ or more complex service bus over PG... but PG works.

Especially for systems that you aren't breaking up queues because of the number of jubs, so much as the benefits of a logical separation of the work from the requestor. Email (for most apps), report generation, etc... all types of work that an RDBMS is more than suitable for.
by mavamaarten | 2026-01-26 17:35:28+00:00
What are you on about. We had a great thing going until your (Assuming this is a US person speaking and not a Russian or other troll bot) president started breaking that relationship down. We never threatened to "shoot first" lol, we simply responded to the threat of having Greenland taken by force.

Our relationship has been deteriorating because it was very clear that the US was not behaving like the ally they said they were.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-26 17:35:41+00:00
France kicked the US military out of France in 1966 and left NATO's military command structure.

They largely rejoined in 2009 (and very deliberately never rejoined NATO's Nuclear Planning Group), but if any NATO member is capable of going it alone on this one, it's probably France.

240 nukes on subs is plenty to wave around as a stick, too.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-26 17:35:42+00:00
The challenge with AI doing architecture is assembling all the relevant stakeholder context, then having the wisdom to weigh it to produce an optimal solution. The context issue is solvable, but the wisdom part is complex and nuanced, it requires a deep understanding of power structures and organizational dynamics, as well as some understanding of where the problem domain is evolving over time.
by mindslight | 2026-01-26 17:35:43+00:00
nit: Fascist voters who think of themselves as "conservative" are the problem. Actual conservatives wouldn't support Trump attacking institution after institution, both domestic and international.

My point isn't to defend the behavior of the people who have called themselves conservative for the past ~forty years. Rather it's meant to reclaim the term for what has now clearly become the middle of the Overton window. For example, never before having voted for a major party candidate in a national race in my whole life, I voted Biden in 2020 and Harris 2024. I consider these solidly conservative votes, and partially attribute them to my getting older and more conservative.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-26 17:35:43+00:00
It's weird you got downvoted; you're correct, that chat bot was spewing hate speech at full blast, it was on the news everywhere. (For the uninformed: it didn't get unplugged for being "PR-unfriendly", it got unplugged because nearly every response turned into racism and misogyny in a matter of hours)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)#Initial_release
by Legend2440 | 2026-01-26 17:35:44+00:00
>most weapon systems use SoCs and microcontrollers that can be fabbed on "legacy nodes"

The argument is that existing weapons systems are essentially old tech, left over from previous wars in previous decades. Many of them are less useful in the modern battlefield, e.g. defense systems built to shoot down missiles are easily overwhelmed by drones.

If there's a real war, it will be fought with next-gen weapon systems - probably autonomous drones that will require high-end AI chips.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-26 17:35:50+00:00
What the other reply said, plus ...

1. crops in the desert are generally OK if they are directly for human consumption. The problem is growing alfalfa and other crops intended to feed livestock - they are incredibly thirsty crops, and the end result is not a lot of food in terms of nutrients or calories. Plus the little detail that a huge amount of the meat produced in the SW is exported to Asia, and so it might "look local" but actually isn't

2. even human-consumption crops are a lesser problem if the farms use the old techniques collectively known as "flood irrigation". Farming in the SW needs to switch to drip irrigation, which requires a significant capital investment by farmers, and I don't think they should be required to bear the whole (and perhaps not even the majority) of that cost.
by mcoliver | 2026-01-26 17:36:14+00:00
Visio with live kit (part of lasuite) or opendesk with jitsi would be my guess.

https://livekit.io/
https://www.clever.cloud/product/visio/
https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

https://jitsi.org/
https://www.opendesk.eu/en

As an aside I am surprised it has taken this long but seems inevitable now given the last 18 months.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-01-26 17:36:20+00:00
it's easy to lay the state of the US at the feet of the GOP, but Democratic leadership has been ineffectual for decades, either by continuing GOP policies ala Bill Clinton's continuing the Reaganite policy of deregulation into the 90s or Obama's continuing Dubya-era policies in the war on terror or in simply throwing up their hands in defeat ala the Biden DoJ completely dropping the ball wrt the Jan 6th and Trump investigations or Schumer today being damn-near worthless in offering even the appearance of resistance to the dismantling of the liberal democratic apparatus of the US government.

The Democratic Party is merely the other half within the narrow confines of allowed political discourse in the mainstream. I won't go so far as to say they're controlled opposition but it is very clear that they have had no intentions of upsetting the status quo for a very long time and it has lead to the what is currently happening today.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-26 17:36:34+00:00
Google doesn't choose what ad to show you. Google serves up a platter of details and auctions the ad placement off to the highest bidder.

That platter of details is not shown to you, the consumer.

What you are experiencing is that your ad profile isn't valuable to most bidders, ie you don't buy stuff as much as other people do, or your ad profile is somehow super attractive to stupid companies that suck at running ads who are overpaying for bad matches.

It is not evidence that google knows nothing about you.

Google is pleased that you think they don't know you. It helps keep the pressure down when people mistake this system for "Perfectly target ads". The system is designed to make google money regardless of how good or bad their profile of you is.
by graypegg | 2026-01-26 17:36:43+00:00
> ...for a one-time purchase of $4.99 - No subscription.

That's really neat! But you may want to scale your pricing with your ambitions. That's very cheap, and it will be much harder to increase single-purchase pricing if you start at 4.99$. Totally unrequested advice, but maybe a 4.99$ "essentials" version that acts like a flipbook, and a 49.99$ "pro" or "full" version that includes future features you might add down the road, like more tweenable properties or IK bones.

Really nice job on the app so far! I also really like your AI use statement. I'll keep Animate in mind when I need something like this!
by Insanity | 2026-01-26 17:36:43+00:00
Similar to the article, I always think of it as my job to make sure the team has the mechanisms in place to continually deliver high quality software, even without me.

I once had a senior engineer blatantly say: “that means you’re just being lazy, your team should be dependent on you”.

Scary to think that engineer was a manager earlier in his career.
by latexr | 2026-01-26 17:36:52+00:00
> If it were true there would be no role for things like university lecturers.

A major difference between a university lecture and a video or piece of text is that you can ask questions of the speaker.

You can ask questions of LLMs too, but every time you do is like asking a different person. Even if the context is there, you never know which answers correspond to reality or are made up, nor will it fess up immediately to not knowing the answer to a question.
by graemep | 2026-01-26 17:37:12+00:00
This is the biggest step any country (other than China and those subject to US sanctions) has made to reducing their dependence on American big tech.

Its still a small step, but its a start.

> The only way to accomplish this at scale is to build something that is legit better and let the market decide

You can push people to do this. The government can switch as a matter of policy. It can require companies bigging for government contracts to only use systems based in approved countries. It can make it a requirement for regulated industries (e.g. infrastructure, critical financial services, etc.)
How do you reconstruct what a financial system observed at time T, years later?
by denjuro | 2026-01-26 17:38:15+00:00
I’m working on a problem I keep running into when dealing with complex financial analysis systems (quant, risk, governance, infra).
Markets are obviously uncertain, that’s not the issue.
The issue is that, ex-post, it’s often very hard to reconstruct what the system actually observed at a specific point in time.
Typical questions that become surprisingly hard to answer a year later:
- What data was actually available at time T?
- In what order was it processed?
- Which transformations and constraints were applied?
- What was explicitly known vs implicitly assumed?
- Can this observation be replayed deterministically, without hindsight?
In practice, dashboards change, pipelines evolve, inputs get revised, and explanations become narrative rather than evidential.
I’m curious how people here deal with this in real systems:
- Is this a problem you recognize?
- Do you solve it structurally, or mostly through process and/or/with documentation?
- Are there established patterns I’m missing?

Not pitching anything, I’m genuinely trying to understand how others approach this.

thank you!
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-26 17:38:19+00:00
I'm the board of my local (rather small) water system. Most of our capital investment is done by spending what we raise from our members/customers, and we try hard not to require loans unless absolutely necessary.

A larger water system has bigger capital projects, but also a larger customer base (and they also likely charge more per liter of water than we do). So it is absolutely not a given that capital investment in water infrastructure requires bonds or loans (though I acknowledge that these likely cannot be avoided).
by pixl97 | 2026-01-26 17:38:28+00:00
The particular problem here is the past has very little predictive power on when something is going to happen in the future.

There were plenty of people in 1890 saying heavier than air powered flight was never going to happen.

>humans love to do things, just for the sake of them.

This said, it doesn't prove a negative. How many things would people be doing if they could get paid for it. It's easy to say these things in generalities, but you do any specific things, especially for a living, those could dry up and disappear.
by heironimus | 2026-01-26 17:38:34+00:00
> It was pure, unadulterated slop. I was bewildered. Had I not reviewed every line of code before admitting it? Where did all this...gunk..come from?

I chuckled at this. This describes pretty much every large piece of software I've ever worked on. You don't need an LLM to create a giant piece of slop. To avoid it takes tons of planning, refinement, and diligence whether it's LLM's or humans writing it.
by alphazard | 2026-01-26 17:38:38+00:00
> I don't think there's any question at this point that it's in Nordic self interest to develop a nuclear deterrent.

Yes, it definitely is.

> The worst change is of course the fact that the odds of a complete societal collapse have increased dramatically.

A nuke means that anyone who wants to invade you needs to price in a total loss of their largest city as a possible outcome.
That is a great disincentive, one that Ukraine probably wishes it had against Russia.

> and the risk of major accidents will increase.

I don't think that's reasonable to say about a bunch of countries getting their first nuke.
The concern should be more with countries like the US and Russia that have so many nukes, which they can't possibly use effectively, and don't have the ability to properly maintain.

If every western country had exactly one nuke, the world would probably be much safer than if the US has all of them.
by SahAssar | 2026-01-26 17:38:49+00:00
I think for most people the apps either have equivalent web versions (because they are already electron/similar on OSX/Win) or have linux native versions (basically all software engineering tools like IDE:s, compilers).

Sure, there are professions where that is not true (adobe, xcode, etc.), but I think most people on this forum could switch to linux without problems.