MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hnaccount_rng | 2026-01-16 09:30:18+00:00
If you are willing to ignore the mechanics, then the result rounds to: The operator will receive the auctioned value of x £/MWh for each MWh delivered to the grid

If you are interested in the mechanics, then _I think_ (i.e. not first hand knowledge) the operator will join each auction (once per day for each 15 min interval of the next day) and offer his energy amount there. He will then receive the integral of (auction price) times (volume) from “the grid”. If that is too little money he then goes to the government and asks for a top up to (contract price) times (volume). If that was too much he has to pay the government the difference.

But again. That is purely mechanical. The end effect of the contracts is you will always receive say 80£ per MWh delivered. Independent of the MWh was worth 500£ in that 15 min interval or -50£. It’s “just” a risk transfer

Ah I’m seeing a possible confusion. There are two different auctions in the description. The first one is for the CfD price and happens (for each project) once. The second one is the daily-price-discovery one and happens daily
by 2b3a51 | 2026-01-16 09:30:46+00:00
In my case I have an old Thinkpad that is chugging on reliably into its third decade soon, that ran XP when it left the factory. Newer linuxes don't work too well (accelerated graphics components such as mesa have accelerated beyond the hardware's capabilities) and the BSDs are a little spartan (very little software for i386 now for understandable reasons).

So I'm thinking of putting an XP install back on the thing with my licenced MS Office 2000 and a few other bits and pieces of software just for retro fun, and a reminder about how things were 20 years or so ago to avoid the rose tinted glasses effect.
Product Documentations for AI SEO
by udit_50 | 2026-01-16 09:31:08+00:00
Hey, I am Udit and I am experimenting with strategies that actually drives users to your platforms. No hacks or secrets but experiments.

I have found a few things that really work good. One of it is a good product documentation.

I don't know how is it working but AI is taking a lot of references of product docs.

I recently asked for creating an auth service to ChatGPT and ChatGPT literally said that supabase also have auth integrated and I can use it..

When I checked sources, it was Supabase's docs.

I will be honest, I also run a platform called SuperDocs which helps create product docs but I it currently don't have an AI SEO support. So, biases aside, Gitbook can be a good option if one is trying to get AI SEO for their product.

Owning a subReddit is the goldmine. You can post and get good references back.

I will dive deep into this and explore what are the opportunities for AI SEO in documentation. And I will surely integrate those in my AI SEO tool as well. But till then, Gitbook is great!! (I see you Gitbook, I see you :) )
by mentalgear | 2026-01-16 09:31:58+00:00
> Documenting it, however, was a marathon that spanned many weeks of focused work.

I like how detailed they were in their writing (even though I was suspecting the graph function to be the culprit all along) ! Big Kudos though to get to the ground of it and writing it all down for others to learn ! Also, indeed this would make a great template for LLM problem-decomposition / solving.
by michaelt | 2026-01-16 09:33:26+00:00
> Am I missing something obvious?

Considering reports like "Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela" [1] one risk is poorly written small print, meaning you might not actually be betting on the thing you think you're betting on. This could also err in your favour, of course - but it's still a source of risk.

There's also the risks involved in cryptocurrency generally - it's the wild west, rife with scams, hacks, unexpected fees, and paperwork.

And thirdly, prediction markets often lack market depth, so if you want to invest a non-trivial amount the price can move a lot. You want to gamble $2,000 to win $190? No problem. You want to gamble $200,000 maybe no-one will take your bet. Can you be bothered to go through all the KYC paperwork rigmarole for $190 ?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521773
by PeterStuer | 2026-01-16 09:34:16+00:00
If you run all the drives 24/7 I would guess you are looking at somewhere around 400W assuming a power sipping minipc as the host. This can be extremely optimized if you intelligently spin down disks when idle, probably down to >50W average.

Cost will depend on your electricity contract, but will propbably not be a thing that would stop you if you want to do this.
by tomgp | 2026-01-16 09:35:57+00:00
>Accept that most people flake

This is a thing that's always surprised me when I've been in the US. How common it is to enthusiastically arrange to do some activity together, get a meal, play a game, have a drink, whatever, and then for people to just call it off at the last minute. It seems much more socially acceptable to do so than either the UK (where I live) or France (where I have lived and still visit regularly).

The loneliness thing seems common across Europe too though so I'm not suggesting this is the root of the problem. But I do think that whilst this is a global problem the solutions are likely to be local, working with and leveraging different cultural norms.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-16 09:36:05+00:00
Yes! I think this can work!

Would Hackernews community allow for something like this or be interested in doing this or say, if I were to create this post (or perhaps the OP) every month, would that go against terms or still be allowed.

I think it can be allowed but still just want to confirm if the community really wants this

I saw an aspect of vulnerability in hackernews I hadn't seen prior which made things feel real atleast to me
by dvergeylen | 2026-01-16 09:36:34+00:00
>The common denominator is to have shared spaces where it's expected to be among strangers' presence, and for those strangers to eventually become repeat guests in a person's life. That's the maximally comfortable scenario for inducing social behavior and it's responsible for eons of human social history.

This is spot on. It's why you meet so much people during your high school / college years. You're among strangers' presence, while attending to class, which makes a natural topic of interest between the people involved.
by torginus | 2026-01-16 09:36:40+00:00
802.11s with BATMAN routing works very well - you can have commercial quality links with tons of nodes.

The problem is transmitter power, residential Wifi radios are limited to a very low transmit power, like 0.1W, if you do more than that, you're breaking the law, and you're very easy to find if they come looking.
by physicsguy | 2026-01-16 09:36:59+00:00
The whole membership, gift-aided charity donations count as reducing your adjusted net income by the amount for childcare purposes.

There are some quite specific rules about whether things are gift-aidable or not (and as a result a lot of memberships to charities e.g. English Heritage are not gift aidable) but if they are then you add them to your tax return and you also get 25% back. National Trust is, so you pay ~£3k for a family membership (https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/membership/life-membership), get ~£750 back, and the charity gets £3750 in total.
by sputr | 2026-01-16 09:37:14+00:00
I remember watching old American educational videos for teens from something like the 50s (on YT). They talk A LOT about how to be likable and how much work one has to put into being accepted and included. The tone is very much "if you want friends and not be excluded (and being excluded is your own moral failing) you need to work on it".

I feel people have forgotten that. Having friends isn't easy. You do actually need to put in the effort - everyone needs to put in the effort, not just "the extrovert" that "adopts" you. And not just effort, it takes *SKILLS* that you need to actively develop and maintain.

So now we have generations where no one really thought us the skills or instilled the value of "it's a YOU problem". Everyone is just waiting for someone else to do the hard work. Even more stupidly, people might be lonely, but they are also very picky and if the person isn't exactly what they are feeling at the moment they flake/don't engage. And then they are surprised they don't have a surplus of friends when they need them.

So how do we resolve this? By telling people it's their our damn problem and fault. And no, I'm not saying ignore it on a societal level, I'm saying that the public policy to fix this is to start educating people that social engagement requires effort and skills. Maybe take those old American movies as inspiration (naturally remove all the sexist and racist bullshit).
by rjtavares | 2026-01-16 09:37:30+00:00
You made the right call. Skills were added to Antigravity and I immediately started creating and using them. I never used custom MCP servers, but skills were immediately obvious to me.

An example: I made a report_polisher skill that cleans some markdown formatting, check image links, and then uses pandoc to convert it to HTML. I ask the tool itself created the skill, then I just tweaked it.
by ljm | 2026-01-16 09:38:55+00:00
The lack of reciprocation is a tough one. I think it also helps sometimes to understand that not everyone is good at being the mother goose or the facilitator, especially if someone else is already good at doing it, and it's not because they lack interest or don't care.

I have some friends who very easily lose themselves in their work and the stress around it and if I wasn't the one checking in and basically pulling them away, I'd miss out on what are easily my favourite days out and it has no impact on how much we enjoy each other's company. Maybe one day it changes but until then I'm there for them.

That said, there are of course times where it's better to just let go. But those people were probably never that important to you in the first place.
by willmarch | 2026-01-16 09:39:42+00:00
It is an attempt to not lose European customers that might be tempted to migrate to Europe-based solutions in the current political climate. In the event of a serious trade war (like you suggested) and/or a real war, it gives some assurances; which is smart based on the threats from the current unpredictable and authoritarian U.S. administration.

But it probably started as a way to comply with EU laws more easily, so it works on multiple levels.
by torginus | 2026-01-16 09:40:03+00:00
Yeah, the problem with these mesh networks is that for them to work, you need high transmit powers typically not found in off the shelf stuf (because it would be illegal).

A would-be opressor can just have a van full of antennas drive through the neighborhood and triangulate all those transmitters, after which you'll get caught.

It's like using high-powered flashlights to covertly message each other.
by jmward01 | 2026-01-16 09:40:12+00:00
Totally agree. Maintenance staff often get ignored. It is worth pointing out how skilled these people are and, in general, how dedicated they are to their task. It is also worth pointing out that often maintenance do get involved in emergencies, especially those that work on the line. I had a guy catch a bleed air leak and signal fire in seconds, saving the engine and potentially a lot more. We like to think of the pilots, but maintainers deserve a lot of credit.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-16 09:40:37+00:00
All true, but note I didn't make any claims on internal mechanics of LLMs here - only on the observable, external ones, and the nature of the training process.

Do consider however that even the "formal part that uses words" of human communication, i.e. language, is strongly correlated with our experience of the real world. Things people write aren't arbitrary. Languages aren't arbitrary. The words we use, their structure, similarities across languages and topics, turns of phrases, the things we say and the things we don't say, even the greatest lies, they all carry information about the world we live in. It's not unreasonable to expect the training process as broad and intense as with LLMs to pick up on that.

I said nothing about internals earlier, but I'll say now: LLMs do actually form a "deep mofel of the real world", at least in terms of concepts and abstractions. That has already been empirically demonstrated ~2 years ago, there's e.g. research done by Anthropic where they literally find distinct concepts within the neural network, observe their relationships, and even suppress and amplify them on demand. So that ship has already sailed, it's surprising to see people still think LLMs don't do concepts or don't have internal world models.
by Findecanor | 2026-01-16 09:40:39+00:00
The problems occurred when online interaction got mediated by corporations with profit motives that use dark patterns, automated systems and algorithms to extract more revenue from its users.

Most of my real-life friends are people I've first met online, or as a consequence of having met someone online. Those online sites have mostly been run by enthusiasts, driven by some hobby, fandom or other interest. A couple of them have risen highly in popularity and attracted many thousands of users, and also served news and allowed vendors to use their site for interactions with customers.

Those communities that have thrived have made sure that discourse does not get poisoned. They have had active, strong but fair moderators. Many have strict rules against discussing politics or religion, but people have a need to discuss that too sometimes — and being identifiable e.g. between subreddits could put people off from doing that.

Also, where do you draw the line to what is an online community and what is "social media"?
I've avoided Facebook and X-twitter, but I know genuine communities exist there too.
by Gazoche | 2026-01-16 09:40:58+00:00
* A USB KVM that lets me share my keyboard/mouse/webcam between my two computers (work and personal), and switch at the press of a button.

* One of those IKEA wall-mounted grate things (SKÅDIS) that you can hang stuff to. IKEA sells hooks for it that turn out to be the perfect size to hold a PS4 controller securely, plus various boxes and mini-shelves that have helped declutter my desk.

* A cheap bluetooth-connected Xiaomi temperature/humidity sensor. You're supposed to use it with the Xiaomi app, but turns out those devices just broadcast their data as an unencrypted BLE feed, so I can just intercept it with a Raspberry Pi and redirect the data to my own Postgres+Grafana setup for recording and monitoring.
by danwills | 2026-01-16 09:41:06+00:00
I wouldn't normally say something not-about-the-content of your comment, however a question-mark at the end seems like it would increase the spirit of curiosity a bit?

I did interpret it as a question anyway, and would like to know more about OpenBSD. I am using Gentoo, and it used to be possible to use an openBSD kernel apparently:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_OpenBSD

But not any more by the sounds of it. All good, just keen to learn more about the differences ;D
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-16 09:41:26+00:00
The launch doesn't matter nearly as much as the 12 months after it.

I've been building in a niche B2B space and the pattern I've noticed: products that stick around tend to have one thing in common - they're findable when someone has the exact problem they solve. Not before, not in general, but at the moment of pain.

So rather than trying to "stand out" broadly, I'd focus on being incredibly visible in the specific places your ideal users go when they're frustrated. For SaaS that's usually niche subreddits, specific Slack communities, the comment sections of blog posts about the problem you solve.

The other thing that works: just... not disappearing. Half the products launched last year are already gone or abandoned. If you're still shipping updates and engaging in year two, you've already outlasted most of your competition. Persistence is underrated as a marketing strategy.
by sjw987 | 2026-01-16 09:42:01+00:00
> you are going to get well under a 50% success rate here. Accept that most people flake

This is true, but as long as the success rate is >= 1 other person, it's okay.

I started a running club for my apartment block (about 200 flats with maybe 300 residents). I posted flyers out once advertising it as a friendly social running club. Of the 300, the group has about 15 people, of which 5 are regulars (every other week at least), and just 2 of us are super regulars (multiple times per week). It's a terrible success rate, but those are 4/5 good friends.

At first it bothered me how flaky people were. Some people joined the group but have yet to show up in person. And some joined the group and are yet to even converse in the group chat, but hey, they'll come along when they're ready.
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-16 09:42:50+00:00
Building in a niche B2B space and this resonates. The data moat isn't just volume though - it's the accumulated understanding of edge cases.

In my domain, every user correction teaches the system something new about how actual businesses operate vs how you assumed they did when you wrote the first version. Six months of real usage with real corrections creates something a competitor can't just replicate by having more compute or a bigger training set.

The tricky part is that this kind of moat is invisible until you try to build the same thing. From the outside it looks simple. From the inside you're sitting on thousands of learned exceptions that make the difference between "works on demos" and "works on real data."
Show HN: Codex Plus – Turbocharged OpenAI Codex for Headless Workflows
by SafeDusk | 2026-01-16 09:42:58+00:00
I use codex exec a lot, but it struggles with its built-in telemetry support, which is insufficient for debugging and optimization.

codex-plus provides a CLI entry point that mirrors the codex exec interface but is implemented on top of the TypeScript SDK (@openai/codex-sdk).

It exports the full session log to a remote OpenTelemetry collector after each run which can then be debugged and optimized through codex-plus-log-viewer.

Have a look at https://github.com/aperoc/codex-plus!
by br1brown | 2026-01-16 09:44:37+00:00
Italian IT guy here.
I understand Cloudflare’s position.
BUT
IMO making this only "Cloudflare good vs Italy bad" is too simple.

Italy’s anti-piracy system (Piracy Shield) is a shitshow: too fast, too automated, and often unfair. And "shit happens" is not ok when legit services get blocked too (like Google Drive on 19 Oct 2024).

One point: if a private company can say "we will not comply" and also hint they can pull services from an entire country, this is not legal stuff anymore, it’s soft power. DNS and DDoS protection is infrastructure, and infrastructure is not neutral.

So here we have a critical infrastructure player taking a strong position, and becoming a political actor, and lately it doesn’t always feel accidental.

One more tiny thing: Cloudflare did not fully leave Russia after the 2022 invasion, saying "Russia needs more access to the Internet, not less". So... for me it feels a bit weird to frame this as an "Italian law" problem (valid point), when the real question is: who decides, and with what responsibility, when infrastructure providers should comply or resist?
by Aromasin | 2026-01-16 09:45:05+00:00
I think your comment about social acceptance in the UK is slightly off. It's person dependent. I would say my experience aligns closer with the 50% mark. It's a massive variant from person to person. I have friends that will turn up to anything, rain or shine, sickness or in health. Equally, I know people that would flake on a wedding because they stubbed their toe or the latest season of [insert meaningless reality show] came out.
by gaborme | 2026-01-16 09:45:17+00:00
I check Hacker News way too much. I love seeing new tools and reading the comments, but I often get lost in the threads for hours.

To fix this, I built this tool. It sends me one email every day with a summary of the top posts and comments. I tried to make it sound like a buddy telling me over the phone.

It is open source and you can host it yourself. I hope it helps you save some time, too. I would love to hear your feedback!
by iliaishacked | 2026-01-16 09:46:08+00:00
When AI agents control your mouse, a single malicious email can drain your accounts. We built the first system-level defense to sandbox these agents, and the results challenged our assumptions about AI.

It turns out, digital environments are more predictable than we admit -- half of OSWorld tasks can be solved without the agent ever seeing the screen. By leveraging this, CaMeLs provides strict security without killing performance. You don't need an omnipotent agent; you need a predictable one.
by The1JDC | 2026-01-16 09:47:09+00:00
That is excellent advice. How do we amplify this advice to more areas?
I practice that by being intentional about my work: I think about all the opportunities I have to meet people and how I can give back to them. I call that slow multicast.
I have a startup in my incubator that I call .find . I am a looking for a founder. I love how you explained it simply, clearly. I would love to have you in my "combat loneliness" team
My ingredients:
- walk the walk
- Multicast
- Seed
- Tie to your bucket lists as growth engine (virtuous cycle)

I would love to further the combat, please reach out to me Joseph de Castelnau on IG and X.
by vanderZwan | 2026-01-16 09:47:30+00:00
I remember that incident! As a side-effect I discovered that beautiful panorama picture[0], which was perfect for my two-monitors-plus-laptop-screen set-up aside from the low resolution, so I used my stippling notebook[1] to hide that a little bit[2]. I could probably tweak the stippling settings a bit to have prettier output, but it's been my wallpaper for over two years now.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Sycamore...

[1] https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/a-fast-colored-stipple-...

[2] https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/... https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/... https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/...
by consumer451 | 2026-01-16 09:48:16+00:00
> you can try to get a good deal from allies to put it back together

There is no un-breaking this egg. Only the most deluded people in the world don't realize that there is no trust to be exchanged, for many generations at least.

The most universal bad outcome is that just as many other had predicted, we are living in a new age of accelerated nuclear proliferation thanks to the loss of Pax Americana.
by bayindirh | 2026-01-16 09:48:31+00:00
In the post I have seen, where the guys got a single full rack and played with it on the weekends, running it for a day added a significant amount to their bills, so yes, newer systems are more efficient (generally due to compute efficiencies), but disks are disks. Spindles are not way more efficient than before.

On the ROI part, this is a case by case issue. I for one can do the "play" part at work, too. Also, I don't want to spare space for a 1U or 2U full-depth server at home. I'm not even adding disk boxes to this. I neither have the space, nor the desire.
by Y_Y | 2026-01-16 09:48:36+00:00
But also because it seems fun in the meantime. In fact a state that doesn't plan to turn off the internet should probably want a cohort of amateur radio operators ready to turn into a signals corps.

Maybe in the battlefields of the future we'll be fighting with lorawan cyberdecks rescued from desk drawers, and meshtastic hackers will be the equivalent of fighter pilot aces.

On that topic, I'm in this thread hoping to hear about how anyone got into resilient mesh networks and what they're doing with them now (outside of overthrowing the Ayatollah).