MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by boston_clone | 2026-01-06 05:15:21+00:00
No, but I am one with regard to US foreign policy.

Since you’re not (by your own admission), spend more time reading the globalist (1950s - present) reasons why the US meddles with foreign governments and what forcibly creating a power vacuum does for the local populace.

Then you’ll be better equipped to have a conversation with knowledgeable people about the topic at hand, instead of blithely wondering “hmm, is it actually bad when we extra-judiciously remove a head of state because we want oil?”
by paul7986 | 2026-01-06 05:15:31+00:00
Im there with you at the govt contracting company i work for we lost a contract we had for ten years. Our team was 10 to 15 employees and we lost the contract to a company who are now doing the work with 5 employees and AI.

My company said we now are going to being bidding with smaller teams and promoting our use of AI.

One example of them promoting the company's use of AI is creating a prototype using chatGPT and AntiGravity. He took a demo video off of Youtube of a govt agency app, fed the video to chatGPT, GPT spit out all the requirements for the ten page application and then he fed those requirements to AntiGravity and boom it repilcated/created the working app/prototype in 15 minutes. Previously that would take a team of 3 to 5 a week or few to complete such a prototype.
by yesbabyyes | 2026-01-06 05:15:48+00:00
Not quite--this predates .net. They acquired Hotmail in 1997, while it was running on Solaris mail servers and Apache on FreeBSD for the web frontend. In a highly publicized move, Microsoft ventured to port it to Exchange and IIS on Windows NT. This went on for years on end, with MS claiming to have finished the transition several times, while getting egg on their face. Eventually, they got it running on Windows 2000 and a combination of their flagship products and Windows Services for Unix (the WSL of those times).

It has since been rebranded as MSN Hotmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Hotmail, and Outlook, likely with some 365 thrown in.

Meanwhile, they have mismanaged their once great mail user agent Outlook Express, as well as their quite useful personal information manager Microsoft Outlook, to the point where their newest offering is absolutely unusable.
by vannevar | 2026-01-06 05:16:43+00:00
Yes, I think people mistakenly believe that if chargers aren't as ubiquitous as gas stations, there must not be enough of them. Range anxiety can still happen on a cross country trip, but not for the vast majority of daily driving. Now, if you live in an apartment building where it's difficult to charge at home, it's a different story. Not so much because of range anxiety, but because the cost of public fast charging rivals and sometimes exceeds the cost of gasoline.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-06 05:17:39+00:00
It depends™:) Yeah, if you have a dumb switch with devices plugged in, then the upstream router probably isn't relevant. But if you've got all devices on wifi running through a single box that's a router+switch+WAP+modem (very common in consumer home networking) then that single network box is in an excellent position to control devices talking to each other. YMMV.
by Lebu | 2026-01-06 05:17:58+00:00
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I would love to work in an organisational level so i canbe able to contribute my skills
by shubhamjain | 2026-01-06 05:18:10+00:00
Yeah, I am disappointed by how shallow it is. Lexing, Parsing, AST would apply to nearly every programming language and not SQL alone. There’s no mention of how the parsers actually work on the code level, which would have made it an interesting read.

I want to believe people who feel they are 10x more productive with agentic tools but I can’t help notice how there’s lot of doing things that don’t need to be done at all. Either that, or doing them superficially as the article shows.
by vessenes | 2026-01-06 05:19:02+00:00
Yes, definitely. I spent about half that time poking around, understanding the setup, doing some bug fixing and put in a PR for gas town itself, although I used Claude Code separately for making the PR.

I pointed it at a Postgres time series project I was working on, and it deployed a much better UI and (with some nudging) fixed docker errors on a remote server, which involved logging in to the server to check logs. It probably opened and fixed 50 or so beads in total.

I'd reach for it first to do something complicated ("convoy" or epic) over Claude Code even as is -- like, e.g. "copy this data ingestion we do for site x, and implement it for sites y,z,,a,b,c,d. start with a formal architecture that respects our current one and remains extensible for all these sites" is something I think it would do a fair job at.

As to cost - I did not run out of my claude pro max subscription poking around with it. It infers ... a lot ... though. I pulled together a PR that would let you point some or all of the agent types at local or other endpoints, but it's a little early, I think for the codebase. I'd definitely reach for some cheaper and/or faster inference for some of the use cases.
by asa400 | 2026-01-06 05:19:03+00:00
> Allegedly every dollar you spent on an engineer is potentially worth 10x(?) what it was a couple years ago. Meaning your profit per engineer could soar, but tech companies decided they don't want more profit?

Exactly, so many of these claims are complete nonsense. I'm supposed to believe that boards/investors would be fine with companies doing massive layoffs to maintain flat/minuscule growth, when they could keep or expand their current staffing and massively expand their market share and profits with all this increased productivity?

It's ridiculous. If this stuff had truly increased productivity at the levels claimed we would see firms pouring money into technical staff to capitalize on this newfound leverage.
by lunar_mycroft | 2026-01-06 05:19:08+00:00
For your answer to be correct for your employer, the added productivity from your use of LLMs must be at least as much as the productivity from whichever coworker you're having fired. No study I've seen claims much above a 20% increase in productivity, so either a) your productivity without LLMs was ~5x that of your coworkers, or b) you're making a mistake in your analysis (likely some combination of thinking about it from your perspective instead of your employers and overestimating how helpful LLMs are to you).
by 9rx | 2026-01-06 05:19:18+00:00
Bit too soon to tell, no? Claude Code wasn't released until the latter half of Q2, offering little time for it to show up in those figures, and Q3 data is only preliminary right now. Moreover, it seems to be the pairing with Opus 4.5 that lends some credence to the claims. However, it was released in Q4. We won't have that data for quite a while. And like Claude Code, it came late in the quarter, so realistically we really need to wait on Q1 2026 figures, which hasn't happened yet and aren't finalized until summertime (and perhaps beyond, depending on exactly what you want to look at).

That said, I expect you are right that we won't see it show up. Even if we assume the claim is true in every way for some people, it only works for exceptional visionaries who were previously constrained by typing speed, which is a very, very, very small segment of the developer population. Any gains that small group realize will be an unrecognizable blip amid everything else. The vast majority of developers need all that typing time and more to have someone come up with their next steps. Reducing the typing time for them doesn't make them any more productive. They were never limited by typing speed in the first place.
by paxys | 2026-01-06 05:21:11+00:00
1. The odds are better the closer it gets to the bet's expiry. "Maduro will be ousted sometime in the next few weeks" has a relatively high probability, so a low payout. "Maduro will be ousted in the next few hours" is a jackpot.

2. Operations like these aren't set in stone weeks in advance. There may be general planning, but the exact hour is only decided at the last moment.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-06 05:21:39+00:00
Pro tip: if your enemy is really about to surrender, nuking them once will suffice. Even after the second bomb was dropped, the Emperor faced assassination threats from the military high command for running up the white flag.

More to the point, while Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrible events, they were cheap lessons compared to what it would have cost humanity to establish the taboo of nuclear warfare later, in Korea or elsewhere, with bombs 10x to 1000x their size.
by hattmall | 2026-01-06 05:21:59+00:00
The best is when you are looking at products, and instead of showing you product information. It shows you an AI summary that's incorrect. And it has suggested questions you can ask the AI that it then answers in a nonsensical way.

Like the seller is putting in the product information, why would we need AI to regurgitate that? But even better, it's not even accurate.
by kjjoseph | 2026-01-06 05:22:44+00:00
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Hi, I'm Kevin. I'm an experienced (15+ years), versatile mainly-front-end engineer. I'm seeking an opportunity to contribute to the success of a team while continuing to learn and expand my skills. I'm working in a non-technical role at the moment, but am attempting to get back into the engineering world.
by dkdcio | 2026-01-06 05:22:46+00:00
vendor lockin + slow network calls (+ GitHub is down sometimes). if you want to search over hundreds of issues, `gh search` isn’t bad but you can do a lot better with a filesystem or embedded database

that said for work I use GitHub and have CC make use of the gh CLI, works great. but I have wanted some sqlite/duckdb tracker you could just commit, maybe with back and forth between markdown files. also GH projects are pretty slow/clunky
by Gibbon1 | 2026-01-06 05:23:59+00:00
When I've looked at the power and energy requirements of vehicles it seems to follow some sort of log(size) law when it comes to speed and energy per mass distance. But not for acceleration which is linear.

What that means is a small vehicle like a motorcycle needs more energy and hp per lb than a car to have the same range.

So could see higher performance batteries being very useful for motorcycles. Have heard noises that electric motorcycles and bicycles are heavy feeling. So lighter probably would be considered better.
Show HN: Git-workty – I got tired of Git stash and built a worktree wrapper
by binbandit | 2026-01-06 05:25:08+00:00
I context-switch a lot. Someone pings me about a bug while I'm mid-feature, and I either:

1. `git stash` (and forget what's in there forever)

2. Make a "WIP: stuff" commit (clutters history)

3. Ignore them until I'm done (not great)

Worktrees solve this perfectly – each task gets its own directory, fully isolated. But the commands are clunky and I kept forgetting the syntax.

So I built a small CLI wrapper. Now my workflow is:

```

wnew feat/login # creates worktree + cd into it

# ...do work...

wcd # fuzzy-pick another worktree, cd there

wgo main # jump straight to main

```

Dashboard shows everything at a glance:

```

▶ feat/login ● 3 ↑2↓0 ~/.workty/repo/feat-login

main ↑0↓0 ~/src/repo

```

Written in Rust, ~2k lines. Refuses to delete dirty worktrees unless you force it.

https://github.com/binbandit/workty

Curious if anyone else has this problem or solved it differently.
by thegrim000 | 2026-01-06 05:27:40+00:00
Interesting that this guy claims to be a "staff level SWE at a major company", yet one year ago he was on HN posting about how horrible of a time he was having getting a SWE job, how he's failed multiple interviews, including at FAANGs, was being rejected for even no-name small startups, had failed multiple interviews because of inability on algorithm questions ... and yet within the last year he was supposedly successfully hired on at a "major company" for a staff-level senior coding position.
by bulbar | 2026-01-06 05:28:04+00:00
Additionally, they can leverage crypto which is much less regulated and has already been publicly exploited for personal benefit by Musk and Trump.

But you don't become a Billionaire by having a risk averse "well, that's enough" mindset.

I would think the biggest question is if it's worth exploiting poly market. Getting 400k out of such an event sounds as peanuts and I am not so sure that scales to 4m+.
by mjevans | 2026-01-06 05:28:51+00:00
Isn't that what polishing 'the prompt' does? Refine the communication like an editor does for a publication? Only in this case it's instructions for how to get a transformer to mine an existing set of code to produce some sort of vaguely useful output.

The human factor adds knowledge of the why that refines the results. Not just any algorithm or a standard pattern that fits, but the correct solution for the correct question.
by Ozzie_osman | 2026-01-06 05:28:55+00:00
I'm a huge fan of Mission Command. If you want to read more, I'd recommend the Army's official doc on it: https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN34403-ADP_6-... (it's 110 pages but you really only need to read Chapter 1).

This was eye-opening. I used to think militaries were completely centralized and top-down, but a friend who was an officer explained this to me and pointed me to the literature. It was fascinating and educating to understand the principles behind Mission Command being successful as a method (competence, mutual trust, shared understanding, etc).
by aetherspawn | 2026-01-06 05:29:09+00:00
Solid state batteries already exist, but they’re unreliable. A few bus companies have been messing around with them over the last few years, even putting them on public roads. One had a huge recall when they started delaminating after a year or so.

They are not as safe, light or as good as advertised. Yet.

After delaminating, some caught fire.

Most wet chemistries (LFP) are safer than current dry chemistries.

Donut claim they have GWhr manufacturing capability. The way they claim that feels very third-person.

That being the case, chances are they just white-labelled someone else’s cell technology and packaged the cells in a box (this is super common, virtually every company in eMobility does this with CATL/LG/Sony cells).

Technically it’s a battery made by Donut, yes, but in that case Donut don’t have the valuable IP so don’t be so quick to jump to buy shares or whatever. Making a battery box is fairly easy.
by nullc | 2026-01-06 05:29:11+00:00
The advice here is now increasingly out of date in the era of LLMs. Trisectors are more numerous and voluminous than ever, while being less obvious and more effective at wasting your time, and approaching a far greater variety of subjects, and any kind of response to one has a much greater risk of outright aggressive and even threatening responses as sycophantic AIs escalate their users otherwise benign hyperfocus into outright paranoid delusions.
by hirenj | 2026-01-06 05:29:46+00:00
It is a huge worry for me that unless we decouple the publishing “system” from the career pathways (i.e., rewards), we are going to lose access to both the careers (to robot-weilding bullshitters) and even worse, the shared space where scientific communication took place.

Does anyone know of any writing on the network effects of the publishing system? What would happen if the actual value of the journals (of the little they provide!) were to go away?

The death of scientific twitter, and the failure to establish any replacement makes me worry that we won’t be able to coalesce around a replacement system. Obviously preprints play a role, but we really need our scientific communities to engage with them in a more serious way.
by yazomie | 2026-01-06 05:31:05+00:00
The originators of vaporwave - like James Ferraro, Lopatin, Vektroid/Macintosh Plus - didn't exactly "celebrate" uncritically that feel-good phase of capitalism, their takes on the plundered material featured quite a bit of darkness, eeriness and liminal feels in between the cracks... which may seem non-inexistent or sanitized with other vaporwave producers who followed, but make no mistake... Early on, music journalists framed vaporwave as implicitly an ambivalent critique of the '80s-90s, where: 1) as a child, that era seemed to be so exciting; 2) as an adult now, not only that culture did turn out to be an empty promise, but also a lot of it is dying or dead by now. In the US there are even dying shopping malls right now, which might seem weird in other countries, but that might partly explain the minor popularity of vaporwave in the US among Internet youth - even young people who aren't very "woke" can tell something's wrong at the heart of capitalism. Current techbro capitalism? Who really likes it?

Being nostalgic is one thing, endorsing "fashwave" - which not for nothing was just a microniche within vaporwave - is another. Long story short, if you go past the surface fascination with the products of 80s consumerism, vaporwave is generally not really in praise of consumerism and it most certainly disrespects copyright, which is that fundamental to that economy, isn't it?
by gary_0 | 2026-01-06 05:31:30+00:00
Yes, I know mmap already sort of allows this (and has for well over a decade). To elaborate: when I want to, say, parse a megabytes-sized file, I don't muck about with mmap(), I just read() into a buffer; it's simple and it's fast enough even though I'm just wasting microseconds waiting for bytes on one fast chip to get copied into another slightly faster chip (and then copied into CPU cache). If I'm dealing with a larger amount of data, I'd be tempted to use database middleware to figure out all the platform-specific shuffling between RAM and disk (designed on the assumption that the disk is spinning rust, cough), but that pulls in yet another chunk of complexity.

Instead, imagine if I could just state in one line of system-agnostic code "give me a pointer to /home/user/abc" and it does the right thing--assuming there was some way around mmap's current set of caveats. Imagine if I could turn a memory buffer into a file in one line of code and it Just Worked. Imagine if the OS treated my M.2 SSD as just another chip on the bus instead of still having a good amount of code on the hot path that assumes I'm manually sending bytes to a mechanical drive.
by two_handfuls | 2026-01-06 05:33:11+00:00
That was very much a thing. Sign a contract, company puts solar on your roof, owns that electricity, and you pay a predetermined price for the next 20 years or so and then the panels are yours.

Except some were a scam, and now the well is poisoned.

https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/solar-lease-everything-you...
by aurizon | 2026-01-06 05:33:27+00:00
Can JFK Jr be charged with murder because more infant deaths occurred after his anti vaccination policy was promoted? R0 = Basic Reproduction number.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/1/17-1901_article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number

Measles has one of the highest R0 numbers. A virus has a number of processes that run molecular assembly lines.(some have only one) these processes should run perfectly = each cycle = one virus. Some do not run properly and create a failed product. The virus takes control of cellular processes to make viruses, as time goes by the cell is filled with virus particles and bursts at which time all the good/bad virus particles are released. A virus with a well tuned processes make the exact number of components and subcomponents to make only perfect viruses, with no wasted parts that then all perfectly assemble into perfect viruses. These have the higher R0. Some are helter skelter = badly tuned = low R0. They say a single measles particle can infect a human, and it has one of the highest R0 numbers. An R0 below one is probably 'sub critical' and will not propagate.
by saxenaabhi | 2026-01-06 05:34:31+00:00
Linkedin shows the following

US: 77,000
European Economic Area: 58,000
India: 51,000
China: 48,000(probably undercounted)
UK: 9,000
Canada: 7,000
Brazil: 6,000
Mexico: 4,000
Aus & NZ: 2,000
Eastern Africa: 300
Western Africa: 500
Southern Africa: 600
Northern Africa: 1,000

Within europe:
Nordics: 3,000
Germany: 15,000
France: 8,000
Italy: 3,000
Poland: 5,000
Romania: 2,000
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-06 05:37:13+00:00
Anecdotely, I’m in the interview pool at my mid size company. Our offer to application ratio is 0.4% with over 7000 applications. We are a fully remote company.

I have personally referred 6 people who I know are qualified. Only two got interviews and no offers.

Hell my offer to referral ratio was 50% at AWS. The job market really sucks right now
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-06 05:37:27+00:00
It would be embarrassing if they jumped the gun with promises from a Chinese oem who was also just white labeling some other Chinese battery. Or giving engineering samples to Donut from a process with a 1% yield hoping they can figure it out in time.

To put in HN terms, if someone sold you a 20TB SDcard knowing your R/W speeds are limited to 100kbps, it's going to take you a while to confirm that the card is actually 20TB. Rough analogy, but there are similar ways you can hide true battery performance.

It's just extremely suspect that a company full of mechanical and electrical engineers, who made (supposed) blow out gains in electrical motors this year, also found the holy grail of (battery) chemical engineering too.
by verdverm | 2026-01-06 05:38:06+00:00
yup ABRP was awesome for the trip, nothing out there comes close

Be warned, as you approach and cross the Rockies, there is a lot of uphill and wind. Didn't mention this, but I also did the trip in early March, temps were just above freezing most of the trip, range was terrible. There's a spot in NE, which I'll never forget. Only stop in the middle of a long gap in stations, steepest incline in NE, blew through most a charge in 90 miles. Then the charger is old and very low charge rate (like 5+ year old speeds). The saving graces are (1) public restroom (2) Awesome awesome coffee shop owner who made me a nice brew after hours when I asked him where I might find one as we passed on the sidewalk.

WY was worse on the charger infra, most unreliable and sketchy part of the trip (mostly because of snow in the mountains as temps dropped below freezing, but also the worst charging infra at any point)
by wisty | 2026-01-06 05:39:44+00:00
IANAL but if you send a DMCA notice and they ignore it, they are (partly) liable. That's the point of DMCA.

File in a small claims court (or notify of your intent to do so) and see how long it takes to get a response ...

I wonder if you could probably even suggest a fee for damages, wasted time, etc due to their slow response and hope it's cheaper than them getting a lawyer to assess it ...

You would need to be the owner, and would know where to file though. If it's not your content, and you're "helping a friend" (but not actually legally representing them) then my guess is they haven't received a valid DMCA.