MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bloak | 2026-01-27 11:55:45+00:00
From what I've read, TCPKeepAlive can be a good or a bad thing. On the one hand, sending a packet every now and then can dissuade a middle box from dropping the connection. On the other hand, if the connection is temporarily not working and would have started working again a few minutes later the attempt to send an unnecessary packet could cause the connection to break permanently when it wouldn't otherwise have broken. I suppose that next time I have a recurring problem I should try both.
by phartenfeller | 2026-01-27 11:55:52+00:00
Heavily disagree (for serious low-code platforms). AI produces code that only AI maintains. That's a big burden. Low-code vendors ship code patterns that are easy to compose. They have the burden of maintaining that code.

Let AI build apps using these building blocks instead of wasting tokens reinventing the wheel on how interactive tables should be, which chart library to use, and how speaking from the frontend to the backend works securely.

LLMs will make creating low-code apps as easy as normal apps. But it has one constraint: how is the extensibility of the low-code framework?
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-27 11:56:05+00:00
> I always wondered what the rationale for that was

One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. An easy way to keep communists out of the country.

And we've seen how easy it is to expand that list with "antifa" groups just recently, with antifa groups in Germany having to deal with their banks closing their accounts because the banks were afraid of getting hit with retaliation in their US business.
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by cthalupa | 2026-01-27 11:56:59+00:00
None of this combats anything in my statement.

Again, the officer that begins the shooting can literally see Pretti is disarmed. He has no gun. He watches the other agent take his gun off of him.

A more reasonable take in that situation would be thinking that some other protestor has decided to start shooting at them, not that the guy dogpiled by a half dozen agents and visibly fuckin' disarmed is the one doing it.

I am not a gun control person. I think we'll never realistically get guns away from criminals, and as long as that's the case, law-abiding citizens should be allowed to have firearms to be on even footing. Full stop.

But if we can't hold out law enforcement agencies, however nominal in nature they are, to high enough standards that they don't create the entire situation that causes them to kill someone who was never a threat to them, then they shouldn't be armed. Because we can't trust them not to slaughter US citizens.
by u8080 | 2026-01-27 11:57:16+00:00
>What is real banana? How much processing is allowed for it to be still real? Considering the selective breeding of banana, is banana even still real?

This is arbitrary subjective qualifier, goes somewhere between "isoamyl acetate" flavoring chemical and organic wild forest bananas. I would subjectively say that any grown bananas is REAL while isoamyl acetate made by rectification of amyl acetate is not REAL banana.
by GreenWatermelon | 2026-01-27 11:58:23+00:00
My other 2c: There are Engineers who are concerned by the long-term consequences of their work e.g. maintainability.

In real engineering disciplines, the Engineer is accountable for their work. If a bridge you signed off collapses, you're accountable and if it turns out you were negligent you'll face jail time. In Software, that might be a program in a car.

The Engineering mindset embodies these principles regardless of regulatory constraints. The Engineer needs to keep in mind those who'll be using their constructions. With Agentic Vibecoding, I can never get confident that the resulting software will behave according to specs. I'm worried that it'll scewover the user, the client, and all stakeholders. I can't accept half-assed work just because it saved me 2 days of typing.

I don't make stuff just for the sake of making stuff otherwise it would just be a hobby, and in my hobbies I don't need to care about anything, but I can't in good conscience push shit and slop down other people's throats.
by pgedge_postgres | 2026-01-27 11:58:34+00:00
Hi! From the presenter,

> The PG 18 features that i am presenting don't directly address vector search; however asynchronous I/O can impact large vector index scan, RETURNING enhancements are useful for tracking vector insertion and updates, and generated column replication could replicate calculated embedding across distributed nodes. PostgreSQL 18 itself don't have native vector search improvements but the pgvector extension has been making significant strides in PostgreSQL 18 performance improvements which can indirectly benefit vector workloads....
by willtemperley | 2026-01-27 11:58:36+00:00
> There's a lot of value in having direct manipulation and visual introspection of UIs, data, and logic

Yes. In the GIS industry for example, nothing has fundamentally changed with the introduction of LLMs. They may make the same processes more efficient e.g. though automated building of workflows. AI has significantly improved classification work of course but it's still using the same principles (we've been doing ML longer than most industries). Geocoding will get cheaper and easier but it's still geocoding.

GIS software allowing standard visualisation, export and map production will bet a lot better because of LLMs. It's an area where the sheer complexity and number of formats was overwhelming, but now a GeoTiff parser can be built in a day or two.

The article was making a bit of a sweeping statement based on a single datapoint: they didn't need Retool anymore.
by b112 | 2026-01-27 11:58:40+00:00
At 40% failure rate, the keyboard would be useless as a keyboard. What would you use it for?! 40% means the backspace, delete key wouldn't work 40% of the time, and even might hit the enter key instead.

Trying to fix the mistakes, would lead to more mistakes! Which I guess is apt, because that sounds a lot like AI.

You could use the keyboard to prop a door open though.
by bartread | 2026-01-27 11:59:07+00:00
I don’t think it’s just the TSA tbh.

A couple of years before the pandemic I managed to make it all the way from London Heathrow to Auckland, New Zealand, passing through Dubai and Brisbane on the way, with one of those USB rechargeable plasma lighters and a Gerber multitool in my hand luggage.

Completely unintentional, of course, but due to #reasons I had packed in some haste and made the mistake of not completely unpacking my day sack, which I also used to carry my laptop for work, first.

I stayed in Auckland a couple of days and the items were eventually picked up on a scan before my flight to Queenstown. The guy was very nice about it: he had to confiscate the lighter, but he let me post the Multitool to my hotel in Queenstown.

A couple of years ago I did something similar flying out of Stansted but, that time, it was picked up at the airport and, again, I was able to get the items posted back to my home address.

Nowadays I always completely empty all compartments of all bags I’m taking before repacking, even when I’m in a hurry.
by roflcopter69 | 2026-01-27 11:59:40+00:00
Thanks for sharing your experience. Mostly very fair points.

Yes, exporting Godot + C# games to web is not possible right now and it seemingly takes the maintainers quite a lot of time to figure it out. It's apparently an official priority https://godotengine.org/priorities/#enable-users-to-export-t... but I wouldn't hold my breath for now.

Similarly for the new GDExtension based C# bindings https://github.com/raulsntos/godot-dotnet which have been cooking for quite a while now. Those would make it possible to only have a single Godot build and get rid of the .Net build. Tbf, the maintainers were teasing that godot-dotnet will soon™ be ready for early testing so who knows.

About setting up debugging+lsp, what were your struggles? Personally, I'm quite happy with JetBrains Rider Godot integration https://github.com/JetBrains/godot-support and JetBrains seems to be quite committed to supporting Godot https://godotengine.org/article/jetbrains-joins-dev-fund-sup... you even get support for Edit and Continue (EnC), which is what's easy to confuse with hot reload but EnC is actually the thing that makes it possible to change C# code while the game is running and the changes are reflected without losing the game state. Really handy. AFAIK you can't get this with open source C# tools like netcoredbg so I'd understand if you'd think that the Godot + C# DevEx is quite lacking if you use something like Neovim or Zed. I think VSCode has actually pretty good support but the really good tech behind the C# extension is proprietary and cannot be used by forks like Cursor or Windsurf.

But I totally agree, the GDScript integration is what Godot cares the most about and it shows in many places in the editor. So my experience is not wildly different in that sense. Just some different aspects I focus on maybe. But I'm always curious to see how people approach this stuff and what they feel about it.
by Swoerd123 | 2026-01-27 11:59:43+00:00
"The time has come, I can no longer remain silent. The current US administration is perpetrating a fascist takeover of our democracy, and Big Tech CEOs and companies are complicit. It's time to reckon with the inextricable ties between the companies we turn to for innovation and excitement and the government's horrific actions. If this video alienates you because you support this administration, good. You are not welcome here. Please unsubscribe. Everyone else, let's keep these things in mind as we go forward. Never forget the gross violations of civil liberties, baldfaced corruption, and gross acts of evil being perpetrated."
by sambuccid | 2026-01-27 11:59:55+00:00
That's because not everyone thinks that the trade deals were lop-sided, and it's difficult to objectively determine if they are, given that trade deals are just another lever in the relationship between 2 countries, one lever among millions of levers, one that is constantly calibrated and moved depending on the other ones.
In a system like this I think it's pretty difficult to say who's getting more and who's getting less.
But Trump doesn't care what is true of false, so for him it's easy to just say what suits him best.

Regarding the war, I can assure you that Trump not excluding to take Greenland my force has been seen by the EU as threat of starting a war, giving that Greenland is part of the EU.
Also applying tariffs when European NATO countries sent some troops in Greenland has been perceived as: "Trump wanted to invade Greenland, he felt like EU countries wanted to defend it, so he imposed tariffs because he wanted to invade".

I'm not saying everyone in EU is thinking this, but I think a lot of people did, and this is some context for you to try and understand europe's point of view.
Trayd (YC S23) is hiring senior engineers in NYC – scaling after major growth
by caratrayd | 2026-01-27 12:00:22+00:00
Trayd (YCS23) is building construction payroll + back office software. Payroll is one of the few domains where 99% accuracy is an F, so we obsess over correctness, reliability, and observability.

We recently hit a major growth milestone (57% month-over-month revenue growth, among other things), and we’re hiring senior engineers in NYC (on-site) to help scale the product and the systems behind it as volume ramps. You would be joining a small but mighty eng team, all based in NYC.

Stack: TypeScript, Node, Postgres, Prisma, React & React Native.

URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trayd/jobs/1Ez3l4b-sen...
by tom1337 | 2026-01-27 12:00:52+00:00
There are none from Apple but in the past I have used Chipolos. They have some which are the size of about 3 stacked credit cards and fit in my wallet easily. The (at that time) did not feature UWB tracking but had a decent loudspeaker. Unfortunately they are single-use only and once the battery ran out (happened to me after about a year) you had to throw it away...
by tsoukase | 2026-01-27 12:01:21+00:00
The reflex to bind Europe's IT with OSS is due to SEVERAL factors, like Linus Torvalds being Finish, Arch and SUSE having a European leadership and an absence of a unicorn IT company.

Relaying to OSS in continental level is a blessing and a curse. It can scale very well like a homogenous umbrella but there is not organised well in national and regional level due to less economic motivation. The good scenario is the development of a modified kernel, named like Europix, with a userland with full packet of apps, interoperable in public and private level.
by alias_neo | 2026-01-27 12:01:45+00:00
It's not really clear to me what livekit is, but it appears to be some sort of agentic coding tool.

Perhaps the similarity to Jitsi Meet is due to it regurgitating the source that an AI has ingested.

The code base looks very different but a lot of the same terminology is used and the UI layout, navigation, menu options etc look very similar.
by glimshe | 2026-01-27 12:02:18+00:00
A few months ago we were hearing that it was game over because of Deepseek. Today it has a mind share close to zero on the developed world. Being 90% as good (which Deepseek isn't) doesn't cut it...

US models might not be "destined" to stay in the lead, but I see no reason to believe that won't at the moment.
by crimsoneer | 2026-01-27 12:02:55+00:00
Oh for gods sake, can we stop this nonsense mad twitter trope spreading through HN. Having been a cop in the UK, we will happily got nick a robber if they're on the move and tell us where they are, and we don't arrest people for "wrong thought" on twitter unless that happens to be repeatedly messaging your ex and telling her about how you're going to do murder them.

yes, some of my stupid colleagues will once in a blue moon arrest people for twitter nonsense, but that barely ever happens which is why it makes the news and they pretty much never get convicted.
by esskay | 2026-01-27 12:03:11+00:00
Seen a couple of people on X have posted about their Claude accounts being suspended after using this. All of them seem to have used it with Claude Code so yes looks like it violates their policy (not surprising really, it breaks their TOS).

I've tried it on Codex (ChatGPT Pro) and within an hour of just getting stuff set up and tested used half my weekly limit so I can see using $300 in a couple of days being very easy.

Until thats figured out this is basically a non starter, you can't use it if its going to cost $1k+ per week to use, and I'm not sure theres any local models that'd handle it without $10k+ in hardware costs.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-27 12:04:03+00:00
> This is likely why it's illegal to carry a firearm when interfering with or obstructing law enforcement operations.

Ah so all you have to do is define your unconstitutional actions as “law enforcement operations” and suddenly we can start throwing away amendments. The founding fathers hate this one trick!

> He was there to create chaos in order to interfere with law enforcement. I don't think anyone denies this.

I deny this vehemently, mostly under the definitions of “chaos” and “law enforcement”. I do not view outcomes of civil disobedience as “chaos”, and I do not view the actions of ICE in Minneapolis as “law enforcement”.

Final edit: your painting of the victim in such a negative light, despite knowing so little about him, is morally repugnant. Observe yourself. “Look for the helpers” - Mr Rogers. Should everyone present at these protests be assumed to be subject to summary execution, no matter their intent? If you’re American, I’m ashamed to be in the same country as you.
by wiredfool | 2026-01-27 12:04:11+00:00
We had 4 bags go through, 3 had liquids (2 water bottles and one Barenfang) in them. All three were pulled for secondary screening, at which point they put the specific liquid bottles in a secondary scanner and cleared them.

So, yes, they stay in the bag, but then they're pulled out and scanned separately, at least in Frankfurt.
by krapp | 2026-01-27 12:04:35+00:00
No no no no no, it was because TikTok was owned by the CCP and was literally and directly controlling the minds of millions of people and indoctrinating them with communist propaganda, turning them against the United States.

You may have gone onto the platform and seen nothing but the same sort of vapid memes as anywhere else, but you see that's just how insidious and clever those Chinese are.

We're not exerting control over the narrative, we're protecting the truth from foreign influence.

There is no genocide in ba sing se.
AI governance isn't failing because we lack regulation-it's failing at execution
by mykytamudryi | 2026-01-27 12:04:52+00:00
There's a lot of movement around AI regulation right now (EU AI Act, US frameworks, etc.), but in practice many of these governance models don’t survive contact with real, agentic systems.

A recent paper I was involved in looks at why compliance frameworks tend to break at the operational layer - things like:

- human oversight that works on paper but collapses in real workflows
- enforcement gaps across jurisdictions
- fragmented compliance creating systemic risk rather than safety

The goal wasn't to rehash regulations, but to analyze where governance actually fails once AI systems are deployed and interacting autonomously.

Paper + more context in the comments.
Happy to discuss or get critical feedback.
by tim333 | 2026-01-27 12:05:38+00:00
I'm not sure that's how it is. Sure NATO countries aren't keen on any of the members being reliant on weapons from potential NATO enemies, for example Turkey buying Russian S-400s but it doesn't mean the countries aren't mostly independent.

Likewise NATO countries aren't keen if one of their members gets a leader who rolls out the red carpet to the Russians and threatens to invade other NATO states. It's not like all the members have to do what the US likes.

Here's a Danish vassal MEP saying "Mr Trump, fuck off" https://youtu.be/hASG-hQgk-4

I see the Turks have now changed their mind on the S-400s and I hope the red carpet for Putin folk change at some point too.
by ekidd | 2026-01-27 12:05:49+00:00
All on my own, I hand-craft pretty good code, and I do it pretty fast. But one person is finite, and the amount of software to write is large.

If you add a second, skilled programmer, just having two people communicating imperfectly drops quality to 90% of the base.

If I add an LLM instead, it drops to maybe 80% of my base quality. But it's still not bad. I'm reading the diffs. There are tests and fancy property tests and even more documentation explaining constraints that Claude would otherwise miss.

So the question is if I can get 2x the features at 80% of the quality, how does that 80% compare to what the engineering problem requires?
by kebman | 2026-01-27 12:07:03+00:00
Going to Edinburgh Airport, I was reminded that the tiny water bottle I forgot in my bag could be a bomb. I just went "Oh jeez I'm sorry... Here, have some water! You look like you need it!" Then I opened the bottle and drank it. He grabbed it out of my hands and said it had to go to some lab. So I went "Ok then, the chemical compounds in there are ... H2O and perhaps some carbon...? Idk. I'm not a chemist, but I'm fairly sure the worst thing it'll do is make me burp."
by elAhmo | 2026-01-27 12:07:32+00:00
People have shared that many of those things didn't work, developers don't care about reviews of an abandoned app, refund process probably costs you more in time than you would get, and Google is not really known for their good support.

You shouldn't go through that much effort for something you already paid and obviously malicious/unethical approach caused you problems. If there are things in favour of piracy, it is in cases like this.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-27 12:07:40+00:00
Used it on and off mainly to check it out, but always in a personal/experimental capacity. Never managed to convince any teams to give it a try, mostly because git don't tend to get in the way, so hard to justify to learn something completely new.

I really enjoy how local-first it is, as someone who sometimes work without internet connection. That the data around "work" is part of the SCM as well, not just the code, makes a lot of sense to me at a high-level, and many times I wish git worked the same...
by GreenWatermelon | 2026-01-27 12:08:14+00:00
In real Engineering disciplines the process is important, and is critical for achieving desired results, that's why there are manuals and guidelines measured in the hundreds of pages for things like driving a pile into dirt. There are rigorous testing procedures to enusre everything is correct and up to spec, because there are real consequences.

Software Developers have long been completely disconnected from the consequences of their work, and tech companies have diluted responsibility so much that working software doesn't matter anymore. This field is now mostly scams and bullshit, where developers are closer to finance bros than real, actual Engineers.

I'm not talking about what someone os building in their home for personal reasons for their own usage, but about giving the same thing to other people.

In the end it's just cost cutting.
by throwawayheui57 | 2026-01-27 12:08:22+00:00
Because of the sheer incompetence and cruelty of the islamic regime I wonder if Mossad even need to do anything at this point. Islamic regime is doing their work for them to upset the population and destabilize the country.

Did you think that running a dictatorship is a stable endeavor? No foreign intervention even needed when you build your house on sand.
by ben_w | 2026-01-27 12:08:48+00:00
Even starting from scratch with the software, I'd make the opposite bet. Imported energy on the scale of nations a lot of expensive physical hardware. Given the numbers people throw around when talking about upgrading the electrical grid, think trillions*.

Software also has the potential to be made by forking open source projects. That Canonical Ltd. (London) has Ubuntu is already a decent foundation, a wheel that probably doesn't need to be fully re-invented.

* ironically, one of my hobby-hills on green energy is that I have noticed that a genuinely global electrical grid fat enough to get resistance down to 1 Ω the long way around, would only cost a few hundred billion in aluminium. Currently only China makes enough to consider it, but still, the BOM for such a project is much less than the price of all the manpower needed for the last 100 miles.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-27 12:09:27+00:00
Imho, there are two key values that I've seen QA bring to software companies.

1. Deep user/product expertise. QA (and support) almost always knows more about how users (including expert users) actually use the product than dev.

2. Isolation of quality from dev leadership politics. It should be unsurprising that asking an org to measure and report the quality of its own work is fraught with peril. Even assuming good intentions, having the same person who has been developing and staring at a feature for months test it risks incomplete testing: devs have no way to forget all the insider things they know about a feature.