MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xabe | 2026-01-10 17:41:15+00:00
I wanted to setup a family gaming PC in the living room for Christmas and went with CachyOS. It gave me a one click gaming installation option that just worked. I’m not interested in the FPS games with constant anti cheat mechanisms right now. It has worked with every game I’ve tried so far. Examples include: Crazy Machines 3, Cygni, Gradius, and Bejeweled (all on Steam.)

I have a PC with Windows 10 and so does my dad that I’ll be converting to some kind of Linux soon. Windows 11 isn’t even an option due to the TPM chip requirement. The computers are still quite good and it makes no sense to abandon them. With Linux their performance will probably improve.
by amnbh | 2026-01-10 17:41:46+00:00
OP of the article here, this looks cool!

Since you're looking at print for reference, it is usually very difficult to get the same imperfections with our nice, optimized-for-clarity digital tools. You already have a nice base layer, which with some similar post-processing can get you what you want. I find it helpful to look at the reference you have in mind and then work backwards from it layer by layer. For example, you can zoom into risograph prints to look at the textures or look at how people recreate print misregistration/ink offset in Photoshop to start with and then try to translate it into code (or just Photoshop if you like!). I gave it a quick shot but more can be done: https://i.ibb.co/QvZvjNpf/output.png

magick input.png \
\( +clone -blur 0x0.6 -roll +1+1 -level 60%,100% \) -compose Darken -composite \
-level 48%,55% \
\( +clone +level-colors grey50 -attenuate 3.5 +noise Gaussian -colorspace gray \
-alpha set -channel A -evaluate set 10% +channel \) \
-compose Hardlight -composite \
output.png
by Winblows11 | 2026-01-10 17:41:51+00:00
The page you linked to ends with:

> The proposed Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill emphasised the non-justiciability of the revived prerogative powers, prevented courts from making certain rulings in relation to a Government's power to dissolve Parliament. It received royal assent over two years later, on 24 March 2022.

As some have said before, it effectively means in future the Supreme Court can't undo or interfere with prorogation like what Boris Johnson did in 2019. The Labour party have said they won't cancel this law, so Kier Starmer can now do same as Boris and courts can't stop him.
by nchmy | 2026-01-10 17:41:57+00:00
This was my stance for the past couple years, but I moved to Linux (PopOS) 3 months ago because wsl2 kept crashing from OOM (even though I had allocated excess ram). I kept having to manually manage my memory usage by choosing which apps, containers etc to run.

There's nuisances in popos, but I am generally thrilled.
by MarsIronPI | 2026-01-10 17:42:16+00:00
> Games developers will keep using their Windows workstations, while a community smaller than Switch, will get those games thanks to Proton.

Mobile GNU/Linux might end up in a similar situation if projects like Waydroid[0] can be well-integrated into the system, or if the mobile hardware becomes powerful enough to run it well.

[0]: https://waydro.id
by getnormality | 2026-01-10 17:42:50+00:00
All well and good, but some Org Mode markup symbols are badly chosen if the purpose is human-to-human communication, and that is a profound demerit for a system that purports to structure and facilitate human-to-human communication. Most notably, asterisks are not good section headers. Pound signs are.

So people are not going to switch from Markdown for most purposes. It feels really wrong. And they will generally prefer one system.

YMMV obviously, some people have an easier time managing polyglot systems. But if the goal is to have One System, it won't be Org Mode. It'll be some version of Markdown. Perhaps Org Mode reskinned to look more like Markdown.
by Spivak | 2026-01-10 17:43:50+00:00
I've used those apps and the problem is that they only support a tiny subset of the format, and they can't support any of the features that require the rest of emacs to be present which is a lot of of the value.

If you're okay with the stripped down version that's basically markdown but different and that's fine but I feel like most people fall in love with org mode because it's so powerful once you get it going and all that power comes from emacs. So I get the argument that it's no worse than markdown but you lose so much of the magic.
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-10 17:44:01+00:00
> "If I focused on my health, ate clean and exercised daily, why should I also be subsidizing Billy "video-games-are-my-exercise" fatass's chronic health conditions?"

Then why are you not asking your insurer why they cover a lot less preventative health or other options. For example, Kaiser flat out refuses to prescribe GLP-1s for weight loss, others insurers are the same with gym subsidies or not covering nutritionists.

But they'll happily pay for your gastric bypass.
by layer8 | 2026-01-10 17:44:33+00:00
Look at the C file API which most software is based on, it simply doesn’t allow it. Writing at a given file position just overwrites existing content. There is no way to insert or remove bytes in the middle.

Apart from that, file systems manage storage in larger fixed-size blocks (commonly 4 KB). One block typically links to the next block (if any) of the same file, but that’s about the extent of it.
by bwb | 2026-01-10 17:44:33+00:00
You have to use critical thinking + it helps to have some info on the subject + it shouldn't be used to perform self-surgery :)

I spent about 12 hours over 2 days, checking, rechecking, and building out a plan. Then I did 2-hour sessions on YouTube, over several weeks, learning the new exercises with proper form (and that continues as form is hard). Followed by an appointment with a trainer to test my form and review the workout as a hole (which he approved of). No trainer really knows how this injury will manifest, so a lot is also helped because I have 10 years of exp.

This isn't a button click, and now follow the LLM lemming. This is a tool like Google search but better.

I could not have done this before using the web. I would have had to read books and research papers, then try to understand which exercises didn't target x muscle groups heavily, etc. I just couldn't do that. The best case would have been a trainer with the same injury, maybe.
by Weryj | 2026-01-10 17:44:39+00:00
My setup is quite purpose built. I use Orleans as the main fabric of our codebase. But since the Orleans cluster is a 'virtual computer' in a sense, you can't rely on anything outside the runtime, since you don't know which machine your code is executing on.

So a Grain calls Proxmox with a generated SSH Key / CloudInit, then persists that to state, then deploys an Orleans client which connects to the cluster for any client side C# execution. There's lots you could do for isolated networks with the LXC setup, but my uses didn't require it.

Proxmox handles the horizontal scaling of the hardware.
Orleans handles the horizontal scaling of the codebase.
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-10 17:45:34+00:00
to be fair windows 11 is the most secure windows ever created, the amount of random checks it has is astonishing. Unfortunately it gets undermined by poor driver code from third-parties, much less of a problem with hyper-v based security, but still a huge problem.

Obviously all these security features cost performance and something that linux and macos can live without since they generally do not have closed source drivers that can't be fixed (except nvidia, but it seems to be changing as nvidia is giving up and starting to open up due to AI). Windows has to be proactive and that is one of the biggest performance hurdles it faces. It's actually incredible how comparatively safe windows is if you have all the security features enabled, there are obviously still one-offs due to having to maintain compatibility and what was effectively usermode code ported to kernelmode ruining it, thankfully that also seems to be changing since they're slowly rewriting it to be secure by design with Unstrusted<> guards making these issues significantly less common.

as for apple doesn't have third party code in the kernel at all so they can also fix it themselves.

side note, the restrictive linux license might seem like it is preventing adoption since for example the whole HDMI 2.1 spec is centered around proprietary code, but in reality they have this illusion that their 'proprietary' code can be protected and somehow linux undermines it when in reality people can reverse everything to sourcecode if they spend enough time on it - if anyone is curious you can just take one of the firmware dumps from any hdmi 2.1 capable TV dongle, extract the kernel module responsible handling the authentication for hdmi 2.1, extract the code, put it in your amdgpu opensource driver, now you have hdmi 2.1 on linux.
by horsawlarway | 2026-01-10 17:45:54+00:00
Honestly, forced to use a macbook for work and I get incredibly strong "windows 8" vibes from macos.

Apple still has pretty incredible hardware, although it's definitely priced with that in mind - but the software has been a constant slog. Change for change's sake, needless shifting in settings/config menus. Weird "we tried to make this similar to mobile" themes in some places but not others. Overly complex os navigation, without clear goals or direction.

Frankly - the OS apple is producing for their traditional computers feels like garbage. I use Arch/Gnome on my personal hardware and I feel like some time in the last 5ish years my opinion swapped - I used to think Gnome was mostly copying Apple design choices, but slightly worse. Now I think Gnome is just a more clear, more usable DE than what Apple is releasing. I moved my wife to Arch/Gnome on her personal laptop last year, and the sure sign was that she hasn't really had any problems with it.

All that said... I still keep a laptop around with Windows 11 on it, because I have a couple of legacy tools (CNCs, solar inverters) that still want it, and holy shit is modern Windows just absolute trash. I grew up on Windows, from windows 3.1 to windows 10, and it's the worst of the 3 by a good distance right now.

You know something's gone wrong with commercial tech companies when the only OS that actually feels like it's intentionally designed for users is the free product.
by rynld | 2026-01-10 17:46:00+00:00
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by tobadzistsini | 2026-01-10 17:46:03+00:00
Article reads like an anti-Linux post because the author goes on about, "muh mouse buttons" and "how many desktop environments?" Screw that, do something simple like Ubuntu that just works without decision paralysis. The whole piece reads like, "Linux is good if you're smart so git gud" esp. since he makes a point of crowing how it's Arch-based.
by thelastgallon | 2026-01-10 17:46:16+00:00
This reminds me of Adam Bosworth's talk on HTML (https://adambosworth.net/2004/11/18/iscoc04-talk/): It is an ironic truth that those who seek to create systems which most assume the perfectibility of humans end up building the systems which are most soul destroying and most rigid, systems that rot from within until like great creaking rotten oak trees they collapse on top of themselves leaving a sour smell and decay. We saw it happen in 1989 with the astonishing fall of the USSR. Conversely, those systems which best take into account the complex, frail, brilliance of human nature and build in flexibility, checks and balances, and tolerance tend to survive beyond all hopes.

Markdown is an 'improvement' over HTML, makes it even more flexible and tolerant and easier to write without using tags.
by WillAdams | 2026-01-10 17:46:24+00:00
If I could still be running Windows 2000, I would --- it simply flew on a Fujitsu Stylistic ST2300, and I was able to hack the Compaq TC1000 Finepoint digitizer driver for Windows NT to run on it --- w/ a CF--IDE adapter, no spinning rust to worry about, and I even had room for a full install of Encarta, my only worry until it died was buying AAAA batteries for the stylus, and the only thing I missed was pressure sensitivity (but my work computer had a Wacom Intuos, so the delicate stuff was done on that).

That said, my favourite Windows computer ever was the Fujitsu Stylistic ST4110 w/ transflective display and Wacom EMR digitizer --- put an SSD in it, carried a couple of spare batteries, added a USB GPS, and kept a pair of docking stations w/ power supplies at my desks at work and the office and a third power supply in my laptop bag and it just worked --- despair of really replacing it, the Samsung Galaxy Book 12 was close, but then Fall Creators Update came out and crippled styluses down to an 11th touch input so that they would scroll rather than select text... getting by w/ a Book 3 Pro 360, but Windows 11 has me looking at a Raspberry Pi paired w/ a Wacom One or Movink display....
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-10 17:46:26+00:00
It's also strangely martial. Commander in chief, first president a general, all that stuff.

The blurring of the executive and the military, the adoration of troops and war, etc. All very strange(?) for a country whose military has only ever been really involved in outside interference and war and not defense of homeland.

"Thank you for your service" is an odd phrase to hear to non-Americans -- service for what? The US is at no risk of invasion.

Hegseth is a low-IQ fascist fool, but renaming to Department of War is at least acknowledging reality.

The Trump government just mostly says the formerly quiet part out loud.
by cagey | 2026-01-10 17:46:34+00:00
Pop!OS (22.04) nearly 2 years ago, after having read generally favorable reviews on HN and getting a sense of "monernity/stability/mainstream'ness of Ubuntu without snap and with closer-to-leading-edge kernels" on an Asus Vivobook 17 (my daily personal/WFH driver).

Later (on repurposed low-spec Chromebooks, then on newer deployments just because I came to like it) Crunchbang++ (12, then 13) which is Debian-based.

I avoid printing like the plague, and keep a long-remaining-AUE Chromebook around almost solely for its ability to WiFi-print to our aging Brother laser printer.
by big_toast | 2026-01-10 17:46:42+00:00
"The value got extracted, but compensation isn't flowing back. That bothers me, and it deserves a broader policy conversation.

What I keep coming back to is this: AI commoditizes anything you can fully specify. [...]

So where does value live now? In what requires showing up, not just specifying. Not what you can specify once, but what requires showing up again and again."

This seems like a useful framing to be aware of, generally.

The internet has always kinda run on the ambiguity of "does the value flow back". A quote liberated from this article itself; all the content that reporters produce that's laundered back out through twitter; 12ft.io; torrents; early youtube; late youtube; google news; apache/mit vs gnu licenses; et cetera..
by Macha | 2026-01-10 17:46:56+00:00
It's typical business logic. It's not enough to focus on making the product better than the user, you must have a "big" product vision and you're only allowed make changes that align with that product vision.

So when that vision is something that users are ambivalent on (3D TV, AI operating system, etc...), well tough, that's still all they're getting until it hurts the company financially or the next executive has a different "big idea". :(
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-10 17:47:04+00:00
Not really. US programming salaries are much higher than most other engineering and specialist positions, which makes it harder for the government to hire good programmers.

However, programming salaries here in the EU are much more in line with other specialist salaries, which the government already hires many of. So there is no significant problem in hiring programmers at competitive rates for government work. The bigger problem, and the reason this doesn't usually happen, is just ideological opposition to state services, preferring to contract out this type of work instead of building IT infrastructure in-house.
by broof | 2026-01-10 17:47:23+00:00
I’m a user of omarchy and I like it a lot. I wanted a Linux experience that I didn’t have to set up myself, and this one was designed specifically for devs who are used to a macOS environment. It took about 6 minutes to set up and everything just works. I don’t really know that much about dhh or his politics, like some sibling comment mentioned. I just think it matches my sweet spot of ease to set up and provided good UX
by beej71 | 2026-01-10 17:47:43+00:00
I use Markdown for all my books, currently. It used to be a custom XML format, but that was really annoying to type even with custom Vim keybindings.

I do wish Markdown were more capable, but it's a good lowest common denominator for HTML and PDF. Also Pandoc-flavored markdown is pretty decent.

My current flow is:

Markdown -> preprocess -> pandoc -> HTML

Markdown -> preprocess -> pandoc -> HTML -> page-splitter -> split HTML

Markdown -> preprocess -> pandoc -> LaTeX -> PDF

That last one is slow, and I'm hoping to replace it with Typst, probably:

Markdown -> preprocess -> pandoc -> docbook -> xlstproc -> typst -> PDF

I've tried other things like Sphinx and it's tough to find something that checks all the boxes I need.

In general, though, I'm pretty impressed with Typst. I wrote a test program that takes the XML output from cmark-gfm and converts it to Typst with xsltproc. It produces PDFs in orders of magnitude less time than Pandoc/LaTeX. I use that now for all my casual PDF documents. https://github.com/beejjorgensen/xml2typ
by rwyinuse | 2026-01-10 17:47:56+00:00
After Trump's re-election, I figured that there's not much difference between using a cheap Android from Chinese OEM, or an iPhone. Both will give away my information if the totalitarian government (Chinese or American) requests so. I don't really have particular preference on whether it's the Chinese or Americans spying on me, so in the end it all boils down to price. Chinese Android devices deliver same level of performance and features as Apple for 1/4 of the price.

Of course if I really cared about privacy, I would just install GrapheneOS or LineageOS on supported Android device, so no Apple in that case either.
by linkregister | 2026-01-10 17:48:30+00:00
The last time I went through the Palantir hiring process, the effort on their end was almost exclusively on technical and cultural fit interviews. My references told me they had not been contacted.

Calibrating your threat model against this attack is unlikely to give you any alpha in 2026. Hiring at tech companies and government is much less deliberate than your mental model supposes.

The current extent of background checks is an API call to Checkr. This is simply to control hiring costs.

As a heuristic, speculated information to build a threat model is unlikely to yield a helpful framework.
by potsandpans | 2026-01-10 17:48:31+00:00
They're still going. I just bought a 5090 for myself this Christmas to do more interesting things.

I mostly use them for game assets.

Trellis2 is very cool. Ive managed to put together a sdxl -> trellis -> unirig pipeline to generate 3d characters with mixamo skeletons that's working pretty well.

On the llm front, deepseek and qwen are still cranking away. Qwen3 a22b instruct, imho does a better job than gemini in some cases with ocr and translation of handwritten documents.

The problem with these frontier open weight models is that running them locally is not exactly tenable. You either have to get a cloud GPU instance, or go through a provider.

- https://github.com/microsoft/TRELLIS.2
- https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/UniRig
by SilasX | 2026-01-10 17:48:31+00:00
>The reason for this is that it's hard to hire native UI developers, but easy to hire web devs.

This ... has been very opposite of my experience:

1) I've seen websites turn into poor imitations of mobile apps that lose all the features of web UIs that I want: ability to open links in tabs, use of affordances to scroll up and down, dense packing of information, ability to edit the size, etc.

2) Generally, I see that the more UI specialists they have, the worse the UI gets. There's the saying, "developers are responsible for mediocre UIs, designers are responsible for horrible UIs".
by subjectsigma | 2026-01-10 17:48:34+00:00
One would think multi-monitor support is the hardest thing in the universe to solve. My Linux desktop has very bad multi-monitor support, but hey, it's Linux. My $2K Macbook Pro has, somehow, even worse multi-monitor support, so bad that sometimes the productivity of an external display feels not worth the hassle of plugging it in and wrestling with it.

Besides that no problems with MacOS, it feels snappy to me and Office apps work mostly fine (except for all the missing features Microsoft refuses to add to Outlook).
by cf100clunk | 2026-01-10 17:48:48+00:00
''Trump’s libertarian friends have been eyeing it for some time. Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered “network states” on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland.''

https://www.afr.com/world/europe/taking-greenland-would-be-e...

https://archive.ph/zTj4L
by unethical_ban | 2026-01-10 17:49:01+00:00
CachyOS KDE. My first time using Arch family after meant years of Debian and some Fedora. Honestly fedora is great, and I wanted to try something new.

You know what's fun? Being able to change system fonts, which you can't do on Windows.

I'm using the IBM Plex fonts and they are so good looking.
by chrneu | 2026-01-10 17:49:03+00:00
I was an android user when it went offline. When Apple bought it they kind of mothballed it for a year or so, no updates but it still worked. Then they took the apps off the stores, but the API was still enabled for a lil while longer, so other services still functioned for the most part.

Then one day it just stopped working and it all went away. But it took apple ~18 months or so to kill it off, if I remember right.

But there was never any refund or whatnot.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-10 17:49:07+00:00
> I picked CachyOS rather than a better-known distro like Ubuntu because it’s optimized for modern hardware

So this isn't a usual comparison, as the vast majority of users will choose Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint. CachyOS is also a new distro, meaning it won't last long (most distributions, like small businesses, only last a few years). It's also Arch-based, meaning the user is going to get constant updates, which leads to problems. Finally, Cachy is optimized for speed and security, not hardware.

> First challenge: My mouse buttons don’t work. I can move the cursor, but can’t click on anything. I try plugging in a mouse (without unplugging the first one), same deal. Not a major issue; I can get around fine with just the keyboard

And this is where I stop reading
by lysace | 2026-01-10 17:49:17+00:00
Feb 2014: Satya Nadella becomes CEO.

July 2014: Microsoft lays off 14k people, a large portion of which are SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test)/QA/test people.

The idea was that regular developers themselves would be writing and owning tests rather than relying on separate testers.

I'm sure there was instances of insane empire building and lots of unproductivity, but it's also hard to not think this was where the downfall began.