MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andreas_42 | 2026-01-11 20:52:57+00:00
I’m working on a small iOS app for streaming my own media directly from a NAS.

I built it because I wanted access to my music (and videos) on my phone without running a full media server like Plex or Jellyfin, and without syncing files locally. The app streams files directly over a VPN (WireGuard / Tailscale), mainly via SFTP/FTP, and plays them as-is without re-encoding or server-side indexing.

You can browse folders directly, or let it build a lightweight local index for faster artist/album browsing on larger libraries. It started as a personal tool, but I’ve been polishing it after some feedback and opened a small TestFlight beta:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/PaQAsGcM

Still early and rough in places, but it’s already replaced my own setup.
by phil21 | 2026-01-11 20:53:05+00:00
fs.com sells primarily b2b. Account managers are normal and customary.

Just decline politely. They are not a bad company in that regard.

I have my issues with FS product itself, as it can be spotty sometimes in terms of compatibility and repeatability (e.g. getting the same optics firmware every time over the course of a couple years) but they typically handle exceptions and problems quite well. Via your account manager contact.

Weird reason to hate a company, imo. Would be far different if they continued to spam you with phone calls/e-mails after you declined the request.

Sounds like both parties dodged a bullet.
by 0x59 | 2026-01-11 20:53:05+00:00
building a rest APIs that aggregates and structures data from the www

- ETL is vanilla Python
- Orchestrated with Cron and SIGUSR1
- http is Nginx -> uvicorn-> FastAPI

Data lives in a CAFS indexed with Xapian and my current time to load is ~200ms

It's been A LOT of work all far. I came in with some skills and have learnt a lot along the way
by p-e-w | 2026-01-11 20:53:30+00:00
I heard Däniken speak about 30 years ago, and exchanged a few words with him afterwards. He was a brilliant orator and came across as highly sophisticated. His arguments were contrived and I recognized that even as a child, but he was nothing like the natives of the YouTube era who do it for the likes and memes. He was completely sincere in his own belief of what he said.
by arjie | 2026-01-11 20:53:39+00:00
Demand-aggregation allows the aggregator to extract the majority of the value. ChatGPT the app has the biggest presence, and therefore model improvements in Claude will only take you so far. Everyone is terrified of that. Cursor et al. have already demonstrated to model providers that it is possible to become commoditized. Therefore, almost all providers are seeking to push themselves closer to the user.

This kind of thing is pretty standard. Nobody wants to be a vendor on someone else's platform. Anthropic would likely not complain too much about you using z.ai in Claude Code. They would prefer that. They would prefer you use gpt-5.2-high in Claude Code. They would prefer you use llama-4-maverick in Claude Code.

Because regardless of how profitable inference is, if you're not the closest to the user, you're going to lose sooner or later.
by Telemakhos | 2026-01-11 20:54:55+00:00
There have been a number of taste tests that show that, when blindfolded, most people can't distinguish between Coke and Sprite, let alone Coke and a close imitation, without the visual cue: throw together enough sugar, acid, and carbonation, and it overwhelms the body's ability to distinguish taste. It's a story often repeated in marketing (like Twitchells' Branded Nation), because forging a distinction between indistinguishable parity products is marketing's job.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/food/1982/0...
by Moto7451 | 2026-01-11 20:55:22+00:00
If you have the freedom to buy from Best Buy, Amazon, etc, this is certainly the case.

However, depending on how you procure this hasn’t been the experience for over 20 years. By the time you’re done with CDW or whomever is your VAR, you’re not comparing a $600 basic PC laptop to a $1200 basic Mac Laptop. They know you’re like the GP and going to pay $1500 minimum and are probably game for $2000. They sell the “Business” line with whatever terms added.

When I did this in K12 in the late 00s the price for a truly terrible Dell or IBM/Lenovo was the same as an iMac.

For the corporate world there have been times you couldn’t get Virtualization support, hardware dock ports, and various other bits of support until you moved to buying the “Business” line and after a certain number of units the direct to retail options send you down the VAR path. There’s simply too much money involved for them to make it easier for you.

I have not had to deal with this as a buyer since 2019 but the song seems to be the same as I work for a company that sells through CDW. Per the reps, the same stupid games are being played.

The only times I haven’t had to deal with this is when the companies I’ve worked for just hand you a credit card to walk down to the Apple Store or are using Apple’s program which is basically the same thing but comes with a shared App Store account and some better support for swap outs.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-11 20:55:32+00:00
> It seems to me that it's doctors reaching out to Marrero.

This happens a lot in medicine: One doctor becomes locally renowned for taking in patients with hard-to-diagnose issues and giving them answers, right or wrong. Other doctors take note and then start offloading their difficult patients to other doctors happy to take them in.

It happens all the time with different doctors. Once they find a niche, they start diagnosing everyone with the same thing. A common theme is that their patients don't get better, but are happy to have someone give them a diagnosis.

In the scarier cases, it's surgeons doing this. There have been some sad periods in medicine where certain doctors starting performing unnecessary surgeries on everyone who visited them with vague symptoms. These doctors are scarily popular in a certain type of Facebook health group where patients congregate looking for answers and, lo and behold, some doctor or surgeon becomes their hero with a supposed answer to all of their questions. It usually goes on for several years before everyone realizes that nobody is getting better from these doctors and nobody ever gets rejected for a diagnosis when they visit that doctor.
by napolux | 2026-01-11 20:55:49+00:00
I'm working on https://fullremote.it, which started as a side project and is now turning into a real business.

It's an "italian-oriented" curated remote-jobs and remote-work community, currently ~10k subscribers across newsletter and Telegram. What began as "let's share good remote roles" is evolving into paid job postings, sponsorships, and coaching for companies and devs.

Do you know you can hire remotely in Italy?
by tombert | 2026-01-11 20:55:53+00:00
Even if that's true, we're already facing negative consequences from climate change, and it's affecting developing countries the most. The oil companies knew about the risk of climate change in the 70's, and actively suppressed it and pushed pro-petroleum narratives instead.

Certainly the selfish greedy ambitions of corrupt politicians and short-sighted corporations aren't good for the people dying and being displaced. I mean, we can play with numbers and try and argue a "greater good", sure, but it does seem a little convenient that we can act like greedy self-interests are helping everyone when there are current victims.
by le_meer | 2026-01-11 20:56:33+00:00
You know how Spotify (or any other service) will just silently remove tracks from your playlist because they lost the rights?
No notification, a beloved song just disappeared from your life.

Building a webapp to keep track of your playlists and notify you when a song disappears

https://github.com/thehappyidiot/save-my-music
by bregma | 2026-01-11 20:56:59+00:00
von Daniken's work inspired me to travel to Nazca PE and charter an airplane to see the alien landing strips for myself. Certainly a worthwhile trip. I may even have convinced the local guide I was a True Believer, of which I am sure he has encountered his share.

I have also take a page from his books by expostulating outlandish theories to explain facts with a straight face, always ending with a quick "of course there are other explanations".

It's a hobby. Mostly harmless.
by adilmoujahid | 2026-01-11 20:58:16+00:00
Over the holidays I built MakersHub.dev – a community platform for developers and creators building with AI tools.
Whether you're a complete beginner exploring AI coding for the first time or an experienced professional showcasing advanced work, the goal is to have something useful: learning guides, project showcases, discussions, a tools directory, and news.
Still early but actively building it out.
https://makershub.dev
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-01-11 20:58:26+00:00
You may disagree, but 95% of people in the real world understand what "undressed" means in this context and see it as a gross invasion of privacy.

I knew when this issue hit the fan that you'd get hordes of overly-literal engineer types arguing that the person wasn't actually violated, or that "how is this any different from someone drawing a hyper-realistic picture of someone naked?" I can actually even (well, somewhat anyway) sort of understand this viewpoint. But if you want to die on this hill, you will, most people in the real world would condemn and ostracize you for this viewpoint.
by pxoe | 2026-01-11 20:58:27+00:00
Even if they pick a distro and decide to install it, more often than not the install process is still convoluted even in just making installation media. Going to a distro website and trying to find where to get it (ubuntu has a habit of leading with literally anything else other than regular desktop distro on their front page). Finding a download page, and having it just spit out an iso file, with no explanation on what to do with it, or 'how to install' link in sight (debian, it's very nice that there's a big download button, but like...then what. where's the explanation link. it's buried under other downloads, but that's not very intuitive). Getting to a 'how to install' page and having it be intimidatingly long, perhaps even needlessly. Sites and explainers being laid out in confounding ways, and install process sometimes laid out in a bit of an overcomplicated way. (debian has it's installation guide that's perhaps presented in the most intimidating way possible to a new unwitting user, and also buried under click on a click on a click. somehow writing the iso is not even among the first dozen of pages there. ubuntu mate gives you links to iso downloads, and yet the installation process is buried under 'faq' (again, not very intuitive or straightforward), that faq only has a bunch of oddly laid out 'making installation media' pages, and the rest of actual installation process is just somewhere else.)

That's before someone even gets to the actual install process. Somehow all of that stuff hasn't gotten more streamlined or user friendly. If you try to see how one would go about getting and installing any distro, you'd quickly see that it's very confusing and convoluted, way more than it has to be, or needs to be to appeal and be simple for new users.
by reconnecting | 2026-01-11 20:58:59+00:00
Someone gave me a new iPhone (120GB) and a new MacBook Pro and asked me to download all their photos from iCloud. Long story short, after 120GB of photos were synchronised to the iPhone, the MacBook Pro refused to copy them, and now there's no storage left on the iPhone.

Also, Photos on Mac doesn't have an option to download photos directly, so the only valid option Apple offers is to download them through the web interface (max 1,000 at a time).

There is no way to download iCloud library that is over phone capacity. Period.
by claytongulick | 2026-01-11 20:59:04+00:00
> So you live in a world where code history must only be maintained orally?

There are many companies and scenarios where this is completely legitimate.

For example, a startup that's iterating quickly with a small, skilled dev team. A bunch of documentation is a liability, it'll be stale before anyone ever reads it.

Just grabbing someone and collaborating with them on what they wrote is much more effective in that situation.
by FergusArgyll | 2026-01-11 20:59:17+00:00
I allegedly know someone who allegedly uses a pirating site for watching the NFL. The site has every kind of clickjacking and malwarey trick. The extension makes only the correct buttons work, the volume controls the volume, the full screen button controls the screen size etc.

Another one (I've open sourced, you can check it out here https://github.com/luvchurchill/mani-gpg) A site I use (manifold.markets) announced they are getting rid of DMs due to spam (they've since brought it back) so I made an extension which makes it easy to use pgp & age encryption on the site so we can do pseudo DMs. It injects "Decrypt" buttons next to exncrypted text etc etc. You can see screenshots at https://manifold.markets/post/an-extension-to-assist-with-so...

(Look at the comments for the latest look)

Besides for that, there are a few I'm sure can be scripts
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-11 20:59:23+00:00
I am actually very familiar with the history of Chernobyl and the meltdown. What I’m saying is human greed and short sightedness does not suddenly go away because a nation decides on a different political/economic system. The implication that it only happened because it was the Soviet Union is what I’m taking issue with because that’s ridiculous. It absolutely could happen in the US without proper guardrails.

I am not defending the Soviet Union or any of the decisions made during Chernobyl. So you should redirect your indignation/condescension.
by rvba | 2026-01-11 20:59:32+00:00
It's funny, because Firefox gained dominant market share in a time when Internet was much younger and Internet Explorer was bundled with Windows.

However Firefox offered something that IE did not have - extensions and customization, so those "in the know" popularized it. Especially abilty to block ads spread as word of mouth.

Then the "in the know" people would install Firefox and recommend it (for free!) to their family and friends.

Now we are in time when Google creates various "manifests" that are a fancy way of saying that they want to cut on ad-blocks in Chrome... so it would be Firefox time to shine again. What do they do? Their CEO (previous one) says that they dont want adblocks and could in fact get rid of them! So opposite of what made Firefox popular in the first place!

Then on top of that they developers of firefox have a big internal problem: they dont want to do what users want (ability to make addons, extensions and customize thing). They dont want to do that because it is "hard". They want to do greenfield projects that nobody is interested in. Note that those developers dont write Firefox for free, they earn good salaries. But management lets them do what they want.

The differentiator for Firefox were extensions - but those were killed, because the team did not want to support them

Business book will ask you "what is the unique proposition of Firefox" - it was adblock now and they want to kill even this.
by OlaProis | 2026-01-11 20:59:33+00:00
The TODO list cursor behavior is exactly the kind of polish detail that matters. I'll add this to the issue tracker — cursor should respect line start position, not jump past the checkbox syntax.

These "many small details" are what v0.3.0's custom editor widget will unlock. egui's TextEdit doesn't give us fine-grained cursor control, but replacing it will.
by iJohnDoe | 2026-01-11 20:59:45+00:00
> Because, I'm guessing, Dell was dealing with too much warranty waste and decided to crack down on everyone.

If that’s the case, then it’s further mismanagement from Dell.

All of the parts get refurbished and go back into circulation. Not in a secretive way. Dell points out that replacement parts for warranty claims might be a refurbished item.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-11 20:59:46+00:00
I think the way to be successful with C++ is to 1. Pick a sensible subset of the language that you allow in your project, and ban everything else. How much that subset should include is a valid debate and reasonable people can disagree, but I don't know of any successful C++ project that just YOLOs every part of the language into the project. And 2. (related) Pick the earliest possible standard that your team can live with, and don't give in to the temptation of cherry-picking anything from a future standard. For instance, the decision of switching from C++14 to C++17 should be a major debate full of fistfighting.
by faizanbhat | 2026-01-11 20:59:59+00:00
Hi all, I wanted to share a plugin that I wrote for Claude code to get some feedback. I’ve been working full time with Claude code over the last few months. I’m generally a big fan and have been using it for product thinking and development. I found it frustrating that important product context that I built during sessions vanished after compacting or switching sessions. I built manual workflows to work around this, essentially structuring and storing product context like strategy docs and mental models. This plugin is an attempt to automate and streamline what’s worked well for me. I’d love to hear feedback and suggestions. Thanks!
by ethmarks | 2026-01-11 21:00:07+00:00
> Nuclear is expensive even after the reactor is build.

Solar panels and wind turbines need maintenance too. And they have much shorter operational lives than nuclear power plants, meaning they'll need to be expensively replaced much more frequently.

> And I wouldn’t call it progress to still rely on steam machines for energy

Could you please explain your objection to steam-based power? Is it purely aesthetic, or is there some inherent downside to steam turbines that I'm not aware of? Also, concentrated solar power systems that concentrate sunlight and use it to boil steam[1] are significantly more efficient than direct photovoltaics.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-01-11 21:00:12+00:00
Those figures seem very optimistic. Uranium miners die early, often of horrific cancers.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33232447/

But the bottom line is that renewable costs are trending down, hard and fast, battery tech is just getting started, and development time for wind and solar is comparatively fast.

Future nuke costs at this point are speculative, development time is very slow, and even if new reactors were commissioned tomorrow, by the time they came online it's very, very likely solar and wind + storage would make them uneconomic.

IMO the attachment to nukes is completely irrational. There are obvious economic downsides, no obvious economic benefits - and that's just the money side.
by Fr0_Tech | 2026-01-11 21:00:16+00:00
I built an experimental system to test whether an autonomous AI can propose actions freely but be structurally prevented from executing side-effectful actions without explicit authorization. The system consistently blocks unsafe filesystem, shell, and network operations and produces a trace and diff proving nothing changed, even under adversarial pressure. The goal was to see if refusal and non-action can be enforced and verified at the execution layer rather than relying on prompts or logging.
by fsflover | 2026-01-11 21:00:35+00:00
> And while Linus allows Linux to be open source.

Linus can't close the kernel. He would need to ask all contributors for a signed agreement for that. This is the benefit of GPL.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177148

> GrapheneOS can use free drivers too. It literally is using Linux.

Except there is no device with free drivers that it supports. They just refuse to support Librem or Pinephone without a good reason. (I strongly disagree with their "security" arguments.)

> A benefit of open source is that you can fork it if upstream decides to stop development or go closed source

Android is already semi-closed (see this submission). Are GrapheneOS developers forking it? (No)
by vishnuharidas | 2026-01-11 21:00:51+00:00
I mistakenly mixed up the abbreviations - it is "Right Hand Traffic"/RHT (which is "Left Hand Driving"/LHD).

Like you said, I enjoy LHD more where I can use my right hand for everything like radio/AC/GPS etc. and most of them work with muscle memory without even taking eyes off the road. Doing the same with my left hand while driving in India (LHT/RHD) is very tough.
by StephenAshmore | 2026-01-11 21:00:52+00:00
I'm working on an AI (Aethas, https://blog.aethas.ai) that preps context before my meetings, sets reminders, makes design drafts, summarizes meetings, and drafts follow-up emails without me asking. Basically trying to have an entire personal AI like Jarvis that has the same context as me but acts on it automatically. Uses my Obsidian for knowledge, Claude for reasoning, pull data from written notes... Still early days but it feels like magic when I use it.
by Jtsummers | 2026-01-11 21:02:07+00:00
They're in LEO which means approximately 15 minutes of visibility (horizon-to-horizon). The specific time will vary based on the orbital elements but 15 minutes is a good rule of thumb. To maintain coverage you need there to be some overlap in their visibility for a location. There's also a limit to how many connections each satellite can support.

Not all the satellites that you can see will be "looking" in your direction for a signal. They support some number of cells (specific, small, geographic regions on the ground). No one satellite can cover the entire ground visible to it while overhead so more satellites are needed.

And to add to the above, Starlink is using laser crosslinks to connect their satellites to each other for routing. This crosslink network is improved with more satellites visible to each other.
by dbdoc | 2026-01-11 21:02:31+00:00
ALT (https://www.APILoadTest.com): I recently built ALT as a no-code platform to load/stress/performance test APIs with pre-defined (and customizable) load profiles, via globally distributed machines. The goal is simple: key performance metrics, in seconds, without scripting. I also added the feature to directly import collections from Postman.

Here's a walkthrough of how ALT works: https://youtu.be/m2MER0KW3yA
by jadbox | 2026-01-11 21:02:38+00:00
My home nvidia desktop is running CachyOS and it's been an overall good experience. 99% of the apps I need just run without issue, and I've only needed to apply a few minor tweaks to get my other laptop set up (switched to deep sleep). As a long time Fedora fan, I was not sure about switching to CachyOS but the performance has been marginally better under heavy use-cases. However, Fedora is fine and can be tweaked to get most of the same benefits though.
by enraged_camel | 2026-01-11 21:02:59+00:00
>> No, I haven’t tried that yet. I don’t really want to turn on auto mode when it’s iterating on my credit card and it looks like it’s in an infinite loop… Is that a silly thing to be worried about?

Yeah. Most AIs today are pretty good at detecting that they're in a loop and aren't making progress. When that happens, they either take a different approach, or stop and say they are stuck. But, if you're really worried about it, you can cap monthly spend on the billing page of virtually every AI provider.
by shireboy | 2026-01-11 21:03:35+00:00
I was just thinking about this today. Apples lack of any 3rd party integration for things like this and iMessage is really annoying sometimes. In addition to a secondary backup, I’d love to automatically sync some photos from a certain album to my parents photo frame. Or if I take a nice nature shot have it sync to a Samsung frame tv. I get the benefits of the walled garden but esp w photos and messaging it seems like opening up a little would allow for some innovation