MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lelanthran | 2026-01-11 06:32:06+00:00
> org-mode is just much more complicated to implement though and just contains so much.

So just implement the features it has in common with Markdown and add the rest as and when people ask for them.

For me, org-mode syntax is just that much more intuitive than Markdown. I sometimes feel that when devs invent something (Markdown, YAML, etc), they really should do 5 minutes of research before inventing their thing.

Markdown should have used all the org-mode syntax for the the features they wanted.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-11 06:32:48+00:00
How in the world could something like that ever work today? For one thing, it presupposed that every issue could be addressed and represented by a small, finite number of "sides." For another, it justified its infringement of the First Amendment by limiting itself to over-the-air broadcast media, where the courts agreed that it was necessary for the FCC to manage a scarce public resource (spectrum) for the common good.

The first of those rationales was not valid then, and certainly isn't now.

And the second rationale wouldn't apply to anything but public airwaves... unless your idea of healthy regulation is to mandate the present administration's idea of "fairness" in print, cable media, and the Internet.

No, thanks. The Fairness Doctrine wasn't fair, and it wasn't a workable doctrine.
by ravioldevuy | 2026-01-11 06:34:43+00:00
Hi everyone, I just launched a small project I’ve been building called Kolektor.

Kolektor is a Windows PC app that automatically detects your installed games and puts them in one place, so you can launch everything from a single library instead of bouncing between different launchers.

This is an early beta, and I’m mainly looking for honest feedback from PC players.

Website: https://www.gamekolektor.com/
Discord (community/support): https://discord.com/invite/97T6MGwhZ8
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/kolektor/

Thanks for taking a look!
by romperstomper | 2026-01-11 06:37:07+00:00
The big challenge in linux (at least for me) is to connect and work with devices like printers or scanners. It is weird but when I connected my (now old) printer a decade ago its setup was easier and more stable. After several years and ubuntu upgrades at some point I wasn't managed to make it work at all.. And I had no luck with my scanner at all.. Luckily I don't need to use neither printer neither scanner these days but I still keep a laptop (also old) with win7 and all original drivers for such devices.
by echelon | 2026-01-11 06:37:52+00:00
I'm fine with that.

Open source purity is problematic. The OSI was established by the hyperscalers, who are decidedly not open source either.

Purely "OSI-approved open source" mandates having no non-commercial or non-compete clause, which means anyone can come in and bleed off profits and energy from the core contributors of open source projects. It prevents most forms of healthy companies from existing on top.

We shouldn't be allergic to making money with the software we write - life is finite and it's more sustainable over the long term to maintain software as a job.

The new "ethical source" / "fair source" licenses that have been popping up recently [1, 2] give customers 100% use of the code, but prevent competitors from coming in and stealing away the profits from running managed offerings, etc. (I wish Obsidian were this, but it's fully closed. Still, I do not admire them any less for this choice. We venerate plenty of closed creators - it's silly to hold software to a different standard.)

AWS profits hundreds of millions a quarter off of open source developed by companies thinking they were doing the right thing. AWS turned these into a proprietary managed solutions and gave nothing back to the authors. The original wind up withering and dying. AWS isn't giving back, they're just hoovering up.

Obsidian being closed means the core authors are hyper focused and can be compensated (even if it's not much). It's not like they can rug pull us - the files are text files, we can use old versions, and if they did piss us off I'm sure someone would write an open source version.

[1] https://fair.io/

[2] https://faircode.io/
by amatecha | 2026-01-11 06:38:04+00:00
Ooh, actually it's almost always plugged in so I couldn't tell you how long it will last asleep with the lid closed :\ Wifi reconnecting after wake is indiscernible to me because by the time I type in my password to unlock the machine, I'm online. I'm totally guessing but I imagine a big factor is simply the wifi card itself and its respective level of support in Linux. I would also say that wifi management has improved a lot in the past handful of years. I often forget I'm even using Linux because it's so easy to use and problem-free for me -- but again there's always that caveat that some machines have better-supported components than others lol
by monero-xmr | 2026-01-11 06:38:24+00:00
It’s just hard to engage when the comment doesn’t respond to the philosophical bedrock point: Stealing! Is! Wrong!

This is a bedrock foundational principle of Western civilization. I don’t take any quarter to any other opinion. This is the Ten Commandments. I don’t give an inch to anyone who tries to justify stealing whatsoever. While my HN persona is a bit grating my personal relationships are full of leftists, or I wouldn’t be able to be a community member in my deep blue city. I am tired of people defending theft and thieves. NO STEALING EVER PERIOD
by culi | 2026-01-11 06:39:51+00:00
You should also consider OpenLibrary and LibraryThing. Both of which have good coverage on WikiData which also aggregates identifiers.

In fact, now that I think about it, you could also contribute your work to WikiData. I don't see ISBNdb ids on WikiData so you could write a script to make those contributions. Then anyone else using WikiData for this sort of thing can benefit from your work
by hvb2 | 2026-01-11 06:40:12+00:00
I've seen dummy wires being put in when the conduit goes in.

Say initially you need 2 wires from A to B. That probably means there's plenty of room left. So you just put 4 more other wires in there. When the time comes you need to pull a new one, you pull in the new by pulling out the old
by jacquesm | 2026-01-11 06:40:13+00:00
Besides that fact that in this particular case there probably really is 'something' (it would be rare for the brain to spontaneously exhibit CJD symptoms, though it does happen this would most likely not lead to a cluster of cases), you don't need to propose an infectious disease for people that say they have symptoms where there are none, when there is ample proof of people being able to influence each other into believing all kinds of crap to the point that it becomes part of their identity.

I once had a woman and her husband visiting to inquire about buying a house I owned in Northern Groningen, pretty much as far away from anything as you could possibly get in this crowded country. They arrived in a taxi that was blanked for the day (it turned out the man was a cab driver) and after looking the place over and liking it visibly the woman said 'oh, we really like it, but there is one more thing, I am allergic to electromagnetic radiation so let me verify that' (eye roll by the man at this point). She went to the car and came back with a box with a dial on it that she had bought online (a pretty basic field strength meter, set to the most sensitive part of the range) and started walking around muttering to herself and waving the box around like a modern day dowser.

After a while of this she came to me and said she was really sorry but she had to drop her interest because the house was absolutely infested with EM fields. In Amsterdam, where they lived, they had turned their whole apartment into a cage of Faraday with copper mesh nailed against every surface (it turned out they lived right opposite the KPN microwave tower next to the RAI so maybe she even had a point, that thing featured multiple RF links beaming 100's of Watts on tight beam links between other such towers, at some point in the past these carried our long distance phone calls before fiber came along).

I asked if I could see her box for a second and pointed it at the sun: the needle pegged instantly and she was most surprised, so I explained that what she is measuring is real, but so faint that the chances of any kind of interaction with her body are most likely delusional.

Here the conversation abruptly ended...

As for TFA: prions, the agents responsible for CJD are remarkably resilient and annoying and can make it through the foodchain across the digestive barrier and into the brain and even a single one of them can cause CJD.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/creutzfeldt-jakob-disease-cjd/
by rendx | 2026-01-11 06:41:08+00:00
Nice exchange, thank you! The idea is to not ask either one of the groups to change their behavior, but to show understanding. I agree that certain actions are 'wrong'. Things people do can be very wrong, and understandable at the same time. People quite often do not act out of rational thinking but out of emotions. And these emotions can be very strong and very 'old'. When I remind myself I am not "meant" by them I can feel less offended, which allows me in turn to both stay in understanding and protect myself. Speech is just words after all.
by amatecha | 2026-01-11 06:41:08+00:00
Yeah I think this is what OS X does (or used to do), you open the menu and it does its initial refresh, and only after quite some delay of the menu being open, it refreshes again. Easy enough to choose your network in that large amount of time. I may be missing some subtle details of it though, since I haven't used it in a while >_>
Amazon Redshift AutoWLM and SQA internals plus commentary (and a bit on CSC)
by Max-Ganz-II | 2026-01-11 06:42:38+00:00
I finally read and digested the white paper for AutoWLM, which also explained SQA, and has some previously unknown information about CSC.

https://www.redshift-observatory.ch/slblog/2026-01.html
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-11 06:43:33+00:00
It should have been abundantly clear that wasn't the way the word "evolution" was being used here to being with. (Actually the comment you replied to used the word "metamorphosis" so what are you even going on about?)

Nonetheless, if you're going to quibble that it isn't ahckchtually evolution because it's missing a fitness function then I'm going to counter that you can form a loose analogy so long as you have some fitness apparatus that's conceptually and operationally separable from the implementation itself. I think some unit tests and a CI pipeline is sufficient.
by spydr | 2026-01-11 06:43:43+00:00
The computers they give us at work are pretty powerful. Mine has 64 gigs of ram. When I power it on the fans instantly go into full blast mode because the computer is heating up. why? I have no idea I just run Edge and Teams, if I try to use VS my computer will crash. At home I use Mac and Linux (kububtu) and will never have windows on my devices again
by shellfishgene | 2026-01-11 06:47:26+00:00
I like graphs that compare various models, that gives you information on the confidence of the prediction, depending on how well they agree. For example
https://www.wetterdienst.de/Deutschlandwetter/Berlin/Vorhers...

https://kachelmannwetter.com/ has data from dozens of models, but only in separate maps I think.
by jhhh | 2026-01-11 06:48:58+00:00
This feels like a case of guessing at something you could know. There are two types of allocations that each have a size and free method. The free method is polymorphic over the allocations type. Instead of using a tag to know absolutely which type an object it is you guess based on some other factor, in this case a size invariant which was violated. It also doesn't seem like this invariant was ever codified otherwise the first time a large alloc was modified to a standard size it would've blown up. It's worth asking yourself if your distinguishing factor is the best you can use or perhaps there is a better test. Maybe in this case a tag would've been too expensive.
by zarzavat | 2026-01-11 06:49:14+00:00
In the webdev world being late is the same as being early. Just wait for the pendulum to swing back.

Tailwind is like GenZ has discovered the bgcolor="" attribute.

> Markup and styling are intrinsically linked, making any change to the markup most likely will require changes to the styling, and vice versa.

No, not vice versa. It's only in one direction. Changing the component requires changing styles, but changing styles doesn't require changing the component if it's merely cosmetic. If I have a button and I want to make it red the button doesn't have to know what color it is.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-11 06:49:21+00:00
The acquisition of the company can also be financially "meta-strategic", where it doesn't actually matter what service the company provides, but how its assets can be structured or leveraged to extract more value for the PE's stakeholders:
- https://www.businessinsider.com/red-lobster-endless-shrimp-b...
- Here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233029
by zdragnar | 2026-01-11 06:50:29+00:00
There's gotta be more to it than that. I've got a pair of dress shoes I wear maybe thee times a year at most, and I've had them for somewhere between ten and fifteen years, perhaps longer.

The soles (rubber because winter) are in perfect condition, and the leather isn't too bad either, though I've not really conditioned it enough and it's starting to show.
by simion314 | 2026-01-11 06:50:34+00:00
not OC, as i mentioned in parallel thread, an USB witreless antena.
The brand of the antena is not important, what is important is the chip used in it, since same chip is used by many brands , some chap no name brands or some well known brands use same chip and package it in a more expensive looking package.

In Windows it does not recognize it, so I pluged it in Linux and just worked directly, no need to scan for drivers or shit like that, so I run the "lsusb" command in Linux, found the chip ID , searched the internet for a Windows driver from Linux, put it on a USB stick and install it on Windows.

Also I am 100% sure that when I bought my desktop the box had CDs for everything from motherboard, sound, network and video card, I am remember for sure that if I would install the drivers in the wrong order in Windows the OS willb e confused and not detect my sound card)because some cofusion between the Realteck network and sound card I think)

Would be an interesting experiment to get N random PCs and N random non tech people and have them install Windows and Linux on them, have them setup the random hardware in the PC, setup a printer and scanner, connect the phone to it and download photos etc the Linux distro must be a distro targeted for normal people not the extreme dev/game/nerd targetd distros so IMO Kubuntu LTS would be a good choice.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-11 06:50:38+00:00
There needs to be a nationwide movement against extreme concentration of wealth and power. Individual billionaires are part of that - it can begin state by state but economic populism may work across the aisle. But we also need new antitrust laws and tougher enforcement against mega corporations. And maybe constitutional changes (citizens united).

Without these, our political process becomes distorted.
by alhazar | 2026-01-11 06:51:10+00:00
Why I’m subsidizing LLM tokens for other devs

Hi HN, I’m the creator of HeyToken.

I built this because I was frustrated by the high margins OpenAI and Anthropic take from small developers. It’s hard to build a sustainable AI business when such a huge chunk of your revenue goes directly to API costs.

The Idea: Instead of spending our budget on Google or Meta ads, we’ve decided to use that marketing capital to subsidize token costs for our users. We’re essentially buying growth by paying for 30% of your API bills.

The Tech:

1-Line Migration: It’s 100% OpenAI SDK compatible. You just change the base_url.

Zero-Logging: We built this as a stateless proxy. We don’t store prompts or completions.

Performance: Routed through a global edge network to keep overhead under 20ms.

Stability: We use high-tier enterprise channels to ensure uptime.

We are losing money on every request right now, but we believe that providing the most affordable, high-quality gateway is the best way to earn the trust of the developer community.

I’ll be here all day to answer technical questions about our routing, latency, or how we handle the subsidy model. Would love your feedback!
by aiahs | 2026-01-11 06:51:32+00:00
What worked for me was a thing I started with one of my best friends, where we're accountability buddies for each other. We both pick topics/habits we wanna foster and then talk once a week about how that went the last week. In my case I chose exercise (going a certain number of times per week), and there were quite a few moments already, where I'm sure I would've just skipped if I didn't have this construct. It basically created this social obligation to keep the habit. I can really really recommend it if you wanna try it out with someone.
by jaredhallen | 2026-01-11 06:51:50+00:00
Not a developer by trade. But incidentally, today I took my first stab at "vibe coding". I wrote a little gui program to streamline a process that I've been doing for years. The code is an absolute wreck. But the program works and does what it's meant to do. I wouldn't ever expect anyone to maintain it, but for what it is, I can't complain. The alternative would have been for the tool to have not been written at all. The level of effort was so low that a) it passed the threshold of it being worth my time, and b) if it needs to be re-vibe-coded over again, then no worries.
by rickydroll | 2026-01-11 06:52:11+00:00
Yeah I described trends in software development is like the length of skirts. They both have the same logic behind the changes. But I don't consider type systems to be hype. I think they're frequently poorly implemented with a mathematically illiterate notation but they're so damn useful went done reasonably right

Most of my understanding on type systems comes from taking a course on the calculation of programs from the author of this book.

To be blunt, this course and the understanding this book gave me crystallized why I was unhappy with the current state of software development and it was one more nudge pushing me out of the field. I caution others that reading and understanding this book may change your understanding of the software development world enough that you don't want to be part of it either.

Programming in the 1990s: An Introduction to the Calculation of Programs | Springer Nature Link (formerly SpringerLink) https://share.google/K81ZlVTbfoR2oeYLh
by jdlshore | 2026-01-11 06:52:49+00:00
Not a lawyer, but this seems like a pretty direct violation of copyright law. Even if AI’s use of it isn’t infringing, copying the files for upload seems like it must be. Scrubbing proprietary data doesn’t mean they’re suddenly public domain.

Who’s on the hook here, though? The contractor uploading the file is the actual person doing the copying. Or is OpenAI culpable for directing them to do so?
by cuu508 | 2026-01-11 06:54:10+00:00
> Don't you dare to compare SQL and CSS. SQL is not a cobbled together mess of incremental updates with 5 imperfect ways of achieving common tasks that interact in weird ways.

Reminds me a little bit of Sascha Baron Cohen's democracy speech [1] in The Dictator ;-)

Both SQL and CSS have evolved through different versions and vendor specific flavors, and have accumulated warts and different ways to do the same thing. Both feel like a superpower once you have mastered them, but painful to get anything done while learning due to the steep learning curve.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUSiCEx3e-0
by throw10920 | 2026-01-11 06:54:25+00:00
> Anything open source will be turned against its authors and against ICs.

I fail to see how open source is being "turned against" anyone here.

> we'll be owned by industrial giants

...or how anyone is being "owned by" industrial giants in any way relevant to open source.

> Tech is about to cease being ours.

This doesn't mean anything.

You're just ranting.
by AngryData | 2026-01-11 06:54:36+00:00
Changes in purity, especially when unknown to users, is going to affect hospitalizations and such no doubt, but the people using it also adapt to the purity of a drug over a longer timespan.

Even if people wanted to its not like they can all just bring a sample of their old heroin and a sample of their stronger high fentanyl laced heroin and test their purity and calculate dosages. Which is part of the problem of the war on drugs, many methods of harm mitigation and recovery are barred from users and 90% of their drug information is based on hearsay or personal experience.
by amatecha | 2026-01-11 06:55:26+00:00
Gaming on Linux is so good now I know multiple people who switched their gaming PC to Linux and have no intention of going back. Then there's Steam Deck, which has 3million+ users alone. 3.6% of Steam users are playing on Linux[0], which is kind of insane if you ask me, especially when only 2.2% are playing on MacOS.

Install Steam in Linux and notice you can play the vast majority of your library. There are some online multiplayer games that won't work due to anticheat[1] though that seems to be improving over time as well.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

[1] https://areweanticheatyet.com/
by throwaway_9879 | 2026-01-11 06:57:11+00:00
The answer is "nothing"

The only common factor between these patients is Dr. Marrero. It is notable that he is not the only physician who works in that clinic, but is the only one diagnosing this condition. The most likely cause is weak diagnostic skills for challenging patients.

Unfortunately, a majority of these patients likely have Functional Neurologic Disorder https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/conversion-di... , which is a horrible condition that accounts for a plurality of cases seen by most neurologists. This phantom diagnosis will probably make recovery almost impossible for those people. Acceptance of that diagnosis is the number 1 positive indicator for recovery.

Source: I live in the canadian maritimes, and know many neurologists.
by anonnon | 2026-01-11 06:57:33+00:00
Do you really think there being a mass hysteria component to this, especially in the age of TikTok, doesn't warrant serious consideration? Your alarm bells didn't go off when you saw the photos and read the profiles of some of these people, especially the 18yo who supposedly needs a wheelchair and a cane?

> Cormier has featured heavily in the media coverage of the cluster, becoming a kind of poster child for the mystery disease. She was first referred to Marrero at just 18. A high school student, dancer and competitive figure skater, she had begun to experience fatigue-like symptoms and muscle soreness and then passed out at school.

> Cormier was already taking anti-anxiety medication, and the hospital emergency room doctor told her the incident was anxiety-induced.

The other young person woman contemplating MAiD is especially tragic. Hopefully the doctors do not enable her.
by Lazare | 2026-01-11 06:57:36+00:00
As someone else noted, Amazon sent a cease and desist letter when someone tried more-or-less the same thing on them (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-perplex...), so it's absolutely a double standard, yes.

But that doesn't answer the question of what rights vendors actually have here (much less what rights they should have).