MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shrubby | 2026-01-29 07:40:08+00:00
The silent majority, also know as the banality of the evil, is waking up.

Until masks and Musks we're taken off this year it was possible to pretend that the normal would play into their hands, as long as they stayed silent and played along.

Now pretending that the middle class can survive under the zillionaires Reich is only possible for very delusional minority.

My hunch is that Mamdani and Polanski have struck this nerve. Already before the events in Minneapolis, but now the support for this is dwindling.

I've done some experiments here in the normal and even the well off people are seeing the root cause. And it being the narcissist individuals holding godlike power, instead of the good ole "rule based" or "value based realism" or "systemic change" or even the latest "superorganism".

But remains to be seen, I might be wrong or even worse the power can be so centralized to zillionaire cliques.
by rswail | 2026-01-29 07:40:09+00:00
The problem is not how well Tesla's FSD works, compared to other FSD from other manufacturers.

The problem is that Musk has been promising it for almost 10 years and it is still not sufficiently stable to be rolled out and relied upon by car owners.

FSD is only actually "ready" in terms of the whole "don't need to own a car for personal transport" when there can be passengers and no driver.

When Mom can dispatch the family car to pick up the kids from school.
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-29 07:40:39+00:00
Except NT 3.1 is still NT and NT didn’t “invent” the 3.1 design. They modelled it after Windows 3.1 (though technically Windows 3.0) and named NT as NT 3.1 for brand familiarity.

So NT 3.1 != Windows 3.1

As you said “history here is important”.
by trhway | 2026-01-29 07:40:54+00:00
Nothing prevents the drivers to long-term lease a robocar like a personal vehicle and send it to work for Uber during the time when they don't need it.

Currently an Uber driver can drive at any given moment only one car for Uber. With robocars, a driver can invest in 2, 3 or more robocars and send them to work for Uber. Similar to how people buy multiple properties to rent out on AirBnB.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-29 07:41:03+00:00
> Companies, be they highly profitable global conglomerates like Amazon or smaller Mom and Pop shops, have zero incentive whatsoever to retain staff. None. In fact, they have every incentive to axe as many workers as possible, as often as possible, profit be damned.

Every single individual on Earth does not like spending more money than they have to. Just because I hire a crew of landscapers for my house doesn’t mean I will retain them if I think a better offer comes around and can do the same job for half the price.

> I don’t think it’s a controversial idea to impose broad and lenient regulations on companies to prevent this sort of activity.

This is extremely inefficient and opens avenues for corruption, as well as increases costs for policing the corruption.

The far better solution is governments collecting the appropriate taxes and providing the appropriate benefits it deems are necessary for a minimum quality of life. Let businesses do business however they want, let governments provide the public services.

In fact, the US does have that in some form via unemployment insurance payroll taxes and unemployment benefits, but obviously they need to be better and consistent.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-29 07:42:49+00:00
> but I lack some confidence in models trained on LLM output, so I hope it wasn't that.

That's misguided. Models have been trained on synthetic data for ~2+ years already. The "model collapse" myth is based on a very poor paper that got waaaay more attention than it deserved (because negativity sells, I guess). In practice every lab out there is doing this, because it works.
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-29 07:43:48+00:00
No they’re not. The GUI design came from Windows 3.0. What NT do was take the design of that and the branding of Windows to help sell NT.

But NT 3.1 is a completely different OS to Windows 3.1.

They might look the same, but one has OS/2 heritage while the other has DOS heritage (to overly simplify their origins, but I’m in a rush this morning so can share more accurate details later if you wish).

Edit: the GP changed their comment. The original copy didn’t reference NT, it just said “Windows 3.1”. Hence my reply.
by zkmon | 2026-01-29 07:44:28+00:00
Just the standard procurement. It's all about risk calculation. Award the contract to a branded company, because they tell you that no one got fired for buying IBM. From PwC side, "we already got the work, now just do the minimal thing to finish off the ceremony. Keep it crap and keep the work coming". Work comes back to you not because you have been delivering great products, but because they got locked into brand names and the mess that was created.
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-29 07:45:01+00:00
The sentiment you're speaking of was definitely there, my response is more about how people felt about the government and, say, cybercrime.

At least from what I recall, law enforcement were portrayed as bumbling idiots when it came to computers and anything internet-related.

Same thing with legislators and regulators, with the "series of tubes" meme capturing the sentiment pretty well.

When it came to spying, yeah you were (and still are to an extent) considered to be insane if you think the government was spying on you or anyone you know, let alone everyone.
by adastra22 | 2026-01-29 07:45:24+00:00
No, I wouldn’t.

For one, I don’t spend a lot of time doing housework. Just organize your life better.

Beyond that, the cost would not be small. Based on current designs, operating costs would be thousands of dollars per month. I would not pay that.

It would require a cloud controlled robot with cameras in my home. Why in the world would I want that.

Finally, I already have dishwashers and laundry machines.
by bob1029 | 2026-01-29 07:45:52+00:00
I feel like this is really only an issue with true site to site VPNs. Client to site shouldn't have this issue because the VPN concentrator is like a virtual NAT.

The best strategy might be to maintain the ability to easily reassign the network for a site. If every site is non-overlapping the problem does become trivial. I'd much rather fight a one time "reboot your machines tonight" battle than the ongoing misery of mapping things that do not want to be.
by terhechte | 2026-01-29 07:48:39+00:00
I like doing side projects, I don't like wasting a day of work potential on any of these web apps: Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Appstore Connect, Google's Android App Store, RevenueCat, Stripe, etc

I dread having to log in to these systems and waste hours achieving the simplest tasks.

This is what I'm using Claude for. E.g. I log in to AppStore connect, tell it what I need (3 subscription tiers), it will do all the clicking and editing and Apple's stupid UI, then I will ask it to create a summary for RevenueCat, and use another Claude session in there to click all the buttons to configure based on what just happened in Appstore connect.

Or configuring S3 buckets or whatnot.
by topranks | 2026-01-29 07:48:59+00:00
So funny to think about this now.

Our email systems are mostly mediated by giant hyper-scale companies (Microsoft, Google etc). The location of mail servers being where the recipient is seems quaint (and wonderfully decentralised).

And even if we do manage our own servers they are automated, and apps often containerised. Nobody ends up with older MTA due to an OS upgrade.

Remember reading this like 20 years ago nice to see it again.
by wqaatwt | 2026-01-29 07:49:13+00:00
Please don’t be absurd.. or are you one of the people pretending that the October 7th attacks didn’t happen or that the victims somehow deserved it?

What Israel ended up doing in Gaza ended up being extremely horrible.

But what options did they really have? Not doing anything would have been the same(or worse) than the US ignoring 9/11… Hamas on the other hand had the option to stop the war at anytime they wanted, the chose not to.
by bonesss | 2026-01-29 07:49:31+00:00
That completely glosses over the actual behaviour of Microsoft, and ignoring the kinds of career, business, project, and reputational damage those tactics did.

MS’s attacks on open source, open formats, and free software impacted and still impact democracies, developing nations, general computing capabilities, and create vast market inefficiencies. Looking at it as pure tech misses the forest for the trees. The corruption of the Office OpenXml process alone is a daily pox on the developing world. The tax impact of those entanglements is recurrent, and frequently hurts education and healthcare.

Also: if someone got burnt by some industry jerks and have had to deal with the fallout for decades, “it was 20 years ago” completely misstates the problem. Some BS was started 20 years ago, sure, but with daily crap-bowls that needed to be eaten every day in between. Entire careers have fallen into those cracks, armies of IT staff forced into suboptimal and broken workflows to satisfy decisions based on establishing and abusing monopolies.

Breaking a spine, even years and years ago, impacts the every day. Bitterness can be well deserved with an understanding of what was lost.
by atoav | 2026-01-29 07:50:17+00:00
Yeah and we know it is over 3 billion because security researchers from the university of Vienna could read that in one go from one source ip address without encountering any rate limiting:

"phone number, public keys, timestamps, and, if set to public, about text and profile picture. From these data points, the researchers were able to extract additional information, which allowed them to infer a user's operating system, account age, as well as the number of linked companion devices."

See: https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/press-room/press-releases/d...
by jcylim21 | 2026-01-29 07:50:47+00:00
I see... that totally makes sense! I sometimes love that too, especially when gyming when I rely mostly on my muscle memory. I use that time to listen to podcasts or videos I usually dread watching.

interesting! I've never heard of that model before, so I'll check it out!thanks for sharing. I guess your issue with AI is mainly the accuracy then I suppose.
by hello-tmst | 2026-01-29 07:51:28+00:00
Great question — variable-length paths are fully supported in the query builder:

# Friends of friends (1 to 3 hops)

stmt = select().match(
(User.alias("a"), FRIEND.variable_length(1, 3), User.alias("b"))
).where(
User.alias("a").user_id == 1
).returns(
User.alias("b")
)

Generates: `(a)-[:FRIEND1..3]->(b)`

*Variants:*
- Unbounded: `FRIEND.variable_length()` → ``
- Exact length: `FRIEND.variable_length(2, 2)` → `2`
- Min only: `FRIEND.variable_length(1)` → `1..`
- Range: `FRIEND.variable_length(1, 3)` → `*1..3`

You can also use the explicit `VariableLength(FRIEND, 1, 3)` constructor if you need to alias the path or reference it later in the query.

The builder handles all edge cases (empty paths, cycles) the same way RedisGraph does — we compile to idiomatic Cypher without abstraction leaks. Raw string patterns still work if you need something exotic.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-29 07:51:46+00:00
Great. This needs to turn into a nationwide general strike for weeks as the midterms approach.

Between the trillions added to the national debt, executions of US citizens, threats against allies, dangerous changes to vaccine schedules, taxation through tariffs, and billions in grifter contracts to friends/family, the Trump administration has crossed every line for impeachment repeatedly.

It’s far worse than anyone could have imagined. And action is needed to get them all out of the office.
by apublicfrog | 2026-01-29 07:52:42+00:00
> Another thing you may have noticed is that the taskmgr or even regedit does not look the same as you would see on Windows 11. This is because as I mentioned, Cloud Host is built on OneCore and it is headless (or console based), hence, it doesn’t contain any of the GUI pieces of Windows. We have a special taskmgr and regedit version that doesn’t link with all the modern GUI functionality available in Windows 11, which gives them the “old style” look.

I haven't used Windows in a long time, so it looked normal to me. I just went and watched a video on Windows 11, goodness me.
by clort | 2026-01-29 07:54:04+00:00
Nothing takes 'a couple minutes' when you have to sit down and research the five online shops, find if they are approachable, if they will deal with the restrictions of your purchasing department, find out how to submit a query. Many online shops just have a purchasing portal. Find the product, buy it here, pay for it and wait.

So loosely I purchase items at my work from a budget that I am allocated in an organisation that is ultimately responsible to the UK government. I need to justify that the items I am ordering are reasonably priced, and the organisation would really really like to have the goods before any money goes out. That means they want to place an order, receive the goods and and invoice, and then pay the invoice. Many online shops don't want to deal with that. We have accounts set up with many companies, but not all. If I want to buy some reams of 160gsm A4 white card (for example, the other day), that whole process is going to take at least 10 minutes. Some of our suppliers don't sell exactly that. Is 240gsm ok? I've got to go back to the person who wants it (no btw, I had to go find some and take it to them for comparison). More esoteric items are going to take longer. What exactly do I want to order?

So yeah, procurement is simple when you are at home with an amazon account. The items will be here tomorrow!

edit: oh, I didn't mention the free delivery.. a box of white card doesn't get me free delivery. Is there something else I can add onto that? Ok, the order will have to wait..
by jmward01 | 2026-01-29 07:54:12+00:00
I'm not sure what you think I was implying with my post? The history I was pointing out was Windows NT 3.1 supported the DEC alpha processor (3.1 was marketing and implied the UI was similar to windows 3.x, which it was). This was a connection between DEC and windows that I thought was interesting and not the subject of the post, but in some interesting ways ties the two together. DEC did many things for a very long time like make machines, operating systems and processors [1] and is likely good fodder for a top level HN post in its own right. I remember dreaming about running a DEC NT3.1 machine when I heard about it. I had a friend in the AF who showed me the install disks for NT 3.1, a double stack of 1.44mb 3.5" disks. It must have taken hours to install. Anyways, that is the linkage. Take a look. It is fun history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation
by Lectem | 2026-01-29 07:55:00+00:00
I suppose you need to be able to read data from the buffers to know what parts of the graph to cull? Is computing the graph really long or the graph needs update mid execution?
If you really have nothing else to do on those threads/cores, spinning might actually be the solution(considering a high sampling rate). I'd still fallback to the OS after a certain amount of time, as it would mean you failed to meet the deadline anyway. I would also reduce as much as possible the need for writes to synchronized resources where possible, so that you can just read values knowing no writes can happen during your multiple reads.
by dlcarrier | 2026-01-29 07:55:57+00:00
He's writing in the academic/upper-class style that it's training data focused on.

I'm convinced that one of the largest frictions to common use of LLMs is that it translates everyone's writing to the that same style. Having it punch-up or flesh-out your proposal or outline, or whatever, isn't really adding any new material, but it's translating it to a writing style that has historically been exclusive and difficult to learn, and that difference in style is what made the original text sub-par, from the perspective of academia and members the upper class.
by mika01 | 2026-01-29 07:56:06+00:00
Fytly is a gamified fitness app where your workouts and habits are treated as quests, but the core is the plan adaptation loop. You log sets, reps, and adherence, then the backend updates upcoming sessions using fixed templates plus an LLM for coaching copy and small adjustments.

Stack: React Native client, NestJS API, Postgres, Gemini for plan generation, with server side guardrails (progression caps, volume limits, deload rules, and basic injury flags) to avoid unsafe jumps.

It is currently TestFlight only. Android comes after the iOS beta is stable. I would like feedback on how you would evaluate plan quality and what safety checks you would add to catch bad recommendations early.
by simianwords | 2026-01-29 07:56:24+00:00
This conversation is naive and simplifies technologies into “does it achieve something you otherwise couldn’t”.

The answer is that chatgpt allows you to do things more efficiently than before. Efficiency doesn’t sound sexy but this is what adds up to higher prosperity.

Arguments like this can be used against internet. What does it allow you to do now that you couldn’t do before?

Answer might be “oh I don’t know, it allows me to search and index information, talk to friends”.

It doesn’t sound that sexy. You can still visit a library. You can still phone your friends. But the ease of doing so adds up and creates a whole ecosystem that brings so many things.
by bluecalm | 2026-01-29 07:56:55+00:00
For me the only feature I want from a taskbar/status bar is ability to hide it permanently so it never comes out until I press a key on a keyboard (like meta/Windows key or even a key combination if needed).
Task bar auto popping just because you weren't precise with your mouse and moved it too far down or to the corner is very annoying to me.
I treat it as a test if desktop environment have "we will force our way down your throat" or "we try to make it great for everyone" attitude. Windows and Apple are choosing the former. KDE is choosing the latter.

I am surprised because somehow they get it on phones (hidden by default, needs a gesture to bring down). Real estate on a laptop is a just as precious, especially vertical real estate.
Show HN: Selling New Era Calculator
by sandeepkd | 2026-01-29 07:57:11+00:00
So I built this calculator which can do big number multiplications (keeping the scope/functionality small)

Only caveat is that there is a certain probability of it making mistakes with the calculations ( I claim the probability to be less than .0001 %, different results for different benchmarks though)

- It does speeds up the calculations, saving lots of time for business

- You can of course verify the calculations manually if you want to check on accuracy

- Better yet, you buy multiple calculators and execute the same inputs to get a better confidence on the result

( Though in full transparency, I must warn you, since the core logic is same, its possible that for certain combination of inputs it produces the same result across all the calculators/devices which may be wrong. Buying more than 1 calculator can only help up to certain degree.

- Also I am emphasizing that you should not spend any more efforts to learn multiplication since calculator is there

As a business:

1. Would you want to buy this calculator

2. How many calculators would you want to buy, I would like to emphasize that the more you buy the better accuracy/confidence you will have with the results

Oh couple more things I forgot to share,

1. I was able to sell this calculator to some of the companies in aviation industry to calculate altitudes while flying

2. My business plan does depends on people loosing the skill to do multiplication, thus artificially increasing the accuracy of my calculator in the absence of manual verifications. Eventually I will raise the price 10X to make profit.

PS: This is one time investment opportunity to take big number calculations to next level.
by shalmanese | 2026-01-29 07:57:46+00:00
> Common sense product could be something smaller than Model 3 for Europe and this car would eat Chinese for lunch.

Yeah, that would be the Model 2, which Musk cancelled, then denied he cancelled, then has made no effort to review whatsoever so it exists in a limbo state of zero people working on it but it not being officially cancelled. Either way, it didn't come out in 2025 as planned.

https://www.cbtnews.com/tesla-execs-raise-red-flags-after-mu...

For a normal company, this would be disastrous. For a meme stock, this makes total sense since anyone claiming the Model 2 is dead can be shouted at by fans saying Musk himself disputed it was dead.
by amadeuspagel | 2026-01-29 07:57:50+00:00
And ChromeOS is designed for Chrome's tab bar, so that it is at the top edge of the screen, essentially making it infinitely tall. This is one of the things that makes surfing the web more pleasant and ChromeOS then on Windows and Mac.

With many linux window managers you can move the statusbar to the bottom, hide the titlebar and configure chrome to use the (now hidden) system titlebar for the same effect.
by ben_w | 2026-01-29 07:58:12+00:00
If Tesla's FSD existed in isolation, it would be a fantastic breakthrough that signposted the future.

If.

It doesn't exist in isolation. The competition isn't just from the American firms, but also European and Chinese, and it isn't really possible to overlook Musk himself given both his long history of Musk over-promising and under-delivering, deflecting blame.

Even the current release isn't what Musk was talking hopefully about a decade ago, e.g.:

Our goal is, and I feel pretty good about this goal, that we'll be able to do a demonstration drive of full autonomy all the way from LA to New York, from home in LA to let's say dropping you off in Times Square in New York, and then having the car go park itself, by the end of next year. Without the need for a single touch, including the charger.

- Oct 2016, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

Likewise, based on a video I saw recently from someone reproducing Tesla's 2016 "Paint It Black" drive, Tesla's AI is only now around the performance level that they faked in 2016.

Don't get me wrong, that level was impressive… just, the world isn't isolated developments.
by kqr | 2026-01-29 07:59:02+00:00
Oh, wow, thanks! I've only been using Midjourney but the other models you showcase really do adhere much better to the details of the prompt. Do you know how I can get them to adhere to style suggestions better? They seem to be biased toward photorealism but that's not the vibe I'm going for. (I tried both Gemini 3.0 Pro and Seedream.)
by dzjkb | 2026-01-29 08:00:29+00:00
funny you say that, I was literally just booking a flight with air china yesterday and the UX was 10x better than the average wizzair/ryanair experience - a clear, readable UI (with a great table comparison of prices +-3 days from the selected dates), no ads, no random services getting pushed in your face, no booking tabs automatically opening in the background
by keiferski | 2026-01-29 08:01:16+00:00
Yeah I was doing a challenge of walking entirely across the city, from Woolwich to Heathrow. I think I made it to about Chiswick before my phone died and it was too dark to keep recording on my GoPro. So maybe 30-35k or so that day, and another 20k or so the day before and after just exploring the city more informally.

Agreed that walking is the best way to see a city, for sure. I have done similar one day walks across Brooklyn, Manhattan, etc. and always really enjoy the experience.
by shalmanese | 2026-01-29 08:01:25+00:00
Early on in Uber's life, I went to a presentation they held where they showed there was a U shaped curve by income of who used Uber. Upper middle class people used them as discretionary entertainment vehicles but Uber had a substantial lower class population using them as necessary transport when working graveyard shifts in locations public transit didn't go.

So yes, there's a surprising contingent of people who commute to work every single working day using hire cars.