MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxbond | 2026-01-02 02:48:00+00:00
Allegedly a Straussian meme is "self stabilizing" because it imposes some sort of cost to buying into the lower or higher meaning. So it's a multiple entendre that has ideological or epistemic implications. (I'm not convinced this is a thing, the examples were pretty contrived.)

Whereas in the example here, acting on that advice is costly (it means losing friends) but believing it is free. And there aren't different layers of meaning accessible to different parties. It's straightforwardly a play on words.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-02 02:48:04+00:00
God did not create the current system of government on the seventh day of creation. The current system had to defend its existence (or rather, creation) at the time of its origin.

The thing about criticism is, we're a long way from "the worst possible outcome". That is, there is a lot that the current system gets right.

That's why the burden of proof gets put on the one proposing changes. The wrong change could make things worse rather than better, and we really don't want that.

So it's not enough to note that society is broken in some ways. Yes, it is. Yes, we notice too. Now, what are you proposing? Let's take a hard look at your concrete proposal, and see whether it's an improvement or not.

Oh, you don't have one? Yes, it's still valid to point out that there are problems. It's valid to demand that we not become complacent with the current problems. That's not wrong.
by turtleyacht | 2026-01-02 02:48:29+00:00
"The company" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Conscientious individual contributors with little context will certainly make decisions similar to someone who feels ownership. If they knew as much as "the business," likely they would agree on the rationale.

Unfortunately, what happens is someone is seen as causing trouble more often, or complaining of this and that, receiving little correction, mentorship, or a quiet aside, and that path leads to ruin all the same.

The best compromise is to pick the battles, don't try to change the inevitable, and generally try and get along with folks. It's not the happiest circumstance, but practical and maybe something with more longevity than repeatedly dying on various hills.

"It's not your code" is a sense of freedom, but it ought to be accompanied by the engineer's duty to merely "observe and report," not to reverse or influence decisionmaking.
by bcantrill | 2026-01-02 02:48:56+00:00
Yes, the point I was making (and as you point out, have been making for the last quarter century) is that we err when not making this realization -- and indeed, I think the linked piece is exactly backwards because it doesn't understand this. That is, the piece views a world of LLM-authored/-assisted software as "industrialized" when I view it as the opposite of this: because software costs nothing to replicate (because the blueprints are the machine!), pre-LLM ("handcrafted") software is already tautologically industrialized. Lowering the barrier to entry of software with LLMs serves to allow for more bespoke software -- and it is, if anything, a kind of machine-assisted de-industrialization of software.
by jppope | 2026-01-02 02:48:59+00:00
sure, we went to Rome and I was surprised to find that much of the architecture didn't present as I was expecting. I took a bunch of photos. When I came home I checked out "The Romans: builders of an empire" and then the wife bought me "Roman architecture in 50 monuments" which was really cool. I've subsequently read up on the aqueducts... which are really really cool
by 100721 | 2026-01-02 02:49:26+00:00
It's still really early 2000's! We have over 900 years left :)

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On topic: discussions like these are as old as human discussion forums and communities. I think that the participants each grow and change on an individual level just as much as the community and platform does. I think humans have a hard time identifying how much of their feelings of nostalgia are based in reality.

Maybe the platform has not actually changed in the ways people fear, and instead, peoples' opinions on what is interesting, important, or valuable has changed?

Since this thread has been discussing politics-adjacent things, let's consider Senator John Fetterman from the United States. Mr. Fetterman is notably different today from when he first started his campaign, regarding what he believes is important and valuable. (Mr. Fetterman suffered a stroke, which is suspected to have brought about personality changes and shifts in political ideology.)

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I think we, as individuals, should always be focusing our first line of questioning on how _we're_ changing, rather than trying to figure out how the world, or the zeitgeist, or Hacker News, etc. is changing.

Sometimes we outgrow things that we hold dear, and instead of accepting that it's not really the place for us anymore and moving on to a different environment, we try to shape our current environment around our new personality by instituting new rules or adding new features.
by xp84 | 2026-01-02 02:50:54+00:00
Oh I see you’re welcome hat you were getting at. In a SaaS company, at least the kind I know, those are two very separate functions. CSMs are assigned accounts, and they proactively meet with you monthly or at some appropriate cadence to make sure you’re using the software well and don’t have any concerns. The idea being that if you are using it unsuccessfully, you’re more likely to just not renew your contract. They are evaluated on whether their accounts renew vs. churn.

Support are a separate group, they answer emails to support@, open tickets to investigate, etc. They do communicate with your CSM to tip them off if you’re having a hard time.
by Fr0styMatt88 | 2026-01-02 02:50:59+00:00
Funnily enough the most annoying things on my system at the moment is RGB and keyboard/mouse customisation.

I haven’t found a tool that can access all the extra settings of my Logitech mouse, not my Logitech speakers.

OpenRGB is amazing but I’m stuck on a version that constantly crashes; this should be fixed in the recent versions but nixpkgs doesn’t seem to have it (last I checked).

On the other hand I did manage to get SteamVR somewhat working with ALVR on the Quest 3, but performance wasn’t great or consistent at all from what I remember (RTX 3070, Wayland KDE).
by yowlingcat | 2026-01-02 02:51:27+00:00
Run a model at all, run a model fast, run a model cheap. Pick 2.

With LLM workloads, you can run some of the larger local models (at all) and you can run them cheap on the unified 128G RAM machines (Strix Halo/Spark) - for example, gpt-oss-120b. At 4bit quantization given it's an MoE that's natively trained at NVFP4, it'll be pretty quick. Some of the other MoEs with highly compressed active parameter models will also be quick as well. But things will get sluggish as the active parameters increase. The best way to run these models is with a multi-GPU rig so you get speed and VRAM density at once, but that's expensive.

With other workloads such as image/video generation, the unified vram doesn't help as much and the operations themselves intrinsically run better on the beefier GPU cores, in part because many of the models are relatively small compared to LLM (6B-20B active parameters) but generating from those parameters is definitely GPU compute intensive. So you get infinitely more from a 3090 (maybe even a slightly lesser card) than you do from a unified memory rig.

If you're running a mixture of LLM and image/video generation workloads, there is no easy answer. Some folks on a budget opt for a unified memory machine with an eGPU to get the best of both worlds, but I hear drivers are an issue. Some folks use the Mac studios which while quite fast force you to be inside the Metal ecosystem rather than CUDA and aren't as pleasant for dev or user ecosystem. Some folks build a multi CPU server rig with a ton of vanilla RAM (used to be popular for folks who wanted to run DeepSeek before RAM prices spiked). Some folks buy older servers with VRAM dense but dated cards (thing Pascal, Volta, etc, or AMD MI50/100). There's no free lunch with any of these options, honestly.

If you don't have a very clear sense of something you can buy that you won't regret, it's hard to go wrong using any of the cloud GPU hyperscalers (Runpod, Modal, Northflank, etc) or something like Fal or Replicate where you can try out the open source models and pay per request. Sure, you'll spend a bit more on unit costs, but it'll force you to figure out if you have your workloads figured out enough to where the pain of having it in the cloud stings enough to where you want to buy and own the metal -- if the answer is no, even if you could afford it, you'll often be most happiest just using the right cloud service!

Ask me how I figured out all of the above the hard way...
by brailsafe | 2026-01-02 02:51:33+00:00
I think I went through a phase of feeling like you do, but eventually I realized it was a pretentious, excessively online, insufficiently adventurous, disconnected way to engage in life, that was lacking in humility and vulnerability, relying too much on control.

I realized all of this while not having gone to the apparent extreme you have, and never stopped building new friendships, but my level of engagement in those friendships and how I felt about them did change. I don't believe you can constantly add new arbitrary friends and have them all be equally as deep or stimulating—it's not economical from a time perspective, assuming you want to be friends with yourself too and devote time to your own interests alone—but that doesn't mean you need to exempt yourself from social life altogether.

Additionally, I've found that the people I'm exposed to and can build strong relationships with are only limited by own interests and depth. I have been fairly one-dimensional at times, and thus my friends end up being people who can tolerate that one-dimensionality. If I bring political bs to every party, I'll only be invited to parties I won't kill the vibe at, it's not their fault, and likewise if all I could talk about was programming, I'd only have tech friends. Incidentally I have only two tech friends among at least 20-30 pther "strong" friends from completely unrelated backgrounds with different dispositions.

It's okay to not miss a specific type of social life, but I think it's worth reflecting more deeply on a lack of interest in any social life. Your social life should not be transactional, imho. A book won't show up to your wedding, a book will not wave at you while on your to a grocery store, and a book will not climb a mountain, go biking, or play cards with you during a rainstorm on a train. Your romantic partner might, but they can't be expected to do it all the time. I don't do any of that with all my friends either.
by culi | 2026-01-02 02:51:53+00:00
Possibly, I'm not very familiar with the US history. But this is a recurring pattern in China as well. It's called the "shakeout phase" and we saw it with bike sharing as well as the solar industry. Every industrial sector backed it own company and after a few clear leaders emerged there was a massive consolidation phase. This is a purposeful effort by China and is driven by specific policies, increased regulation, and reduction in cheap financing options. It's essential for them to minimize subsidization and combat involution or counterproductive competition. It's also why you should always ignore articles critical of china's "overcapacity". Overcapacity is a planned phase of their economic strategy to capture an industry. And, so far, it's been quite effective

I have no doubt the same will happen with EVs. But that's another reason to hold off on investing in any specific Chinese company rn.
by drewsski | 2026-01-02 02:52:25+00:00
Best video will be the one you create while learning. Often times, the best way to learn is to teach. Java with its compilation cycle is not ideal for trial and error but you can install Groovy console and just write code for a concept, execute, crash, fix and go again. I say this as someone who has spent a small fortune buying Udemy/Coursera videos, but ultimately the concepts never sink in until I write some code and run it.
by skyriser | 2026-01-02 02:52:31+00:00
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by musicale | 2026-01-02 02:52:39+00:00
> What is wrong with you people?

Unmitigated arrogance combined with scathing contempt for your user base, probably?

I expect nothing less from the people that botched the Python 2.x to 3.x transition, burning billions of dollars of software value and countless hours of development effort in the process. Or the people who repeatedly failed to come up with a sane library and package system.

Python demonstrates that having a standards body and caring about backward compatibility are not bad things, and that a platform's most important job is to absorb pain, not multiply it across millions of users.
by lovich | 2026-01-02 02:52:44+00:00
You are the one saying we shouldn’t fight back war is bad :(

> Too many warmongering, aggressive people in the comments. This is not how we get the good ending. Cooler heads prevail. You don't understand this. That's okay. It's not your fault.

And ah, four month old account making incomprehensible statements that seem almost human but don’t quite make it, pushing a political view and trying to gaslight everyone into thinking that this account isn’t doing so.

How much fucking time in our life are we going to have to waste responding to bots.

Edit: wait, I confused `mosst with `mmooss who is also from a post AI era account and pushing the same narrative. These aren’t just bots but sock puppet bots boosting each other
by SergeAx | 2026-01-02 02:52:58+00:00
Let's play war game. Here's a life-like scenario:

- Russian ship damages another cable
- EU deploys military ships and planes on Baltic/North sea
- Russia deploys military ships and planes of their own
- EU tries to stop and seize another RU shadow fleet vessel
- EU vessel denies EU demands
- EU attack a vessel, trying to immobilize it
- RU ships and planes attacks EU ships and planes
- casualties from both sides
- RU drops 10-15 MRBMs with conventional (non-nuclear) warheads onto key EU naval bases
- orange clown in the White House says "this is not our war"

Your move.
by billsimms | 2026-01-02 02:53:03+00:00
Is there any way that a potential customer for this service could be convinced that their data was actually removed from these 100+ sites and that they can be convinced what that really actually accomplished? Are there other sites that provide similar services and you could present a comparison showing the pros and cons of each service? If you could do those things then this might more interesting to me. But I have seen some data collection/data search sites that have an opt-out feature down at the bottom along with a disclaimer that yes, if you ask us to remove your data we will do that, BUT you must realize that does not remove your data from the other thousand or billion sites on the net that also have your data and this opt-out is going to do nothing to remove your data from any of them.
by jhancock | 2026-01-02 02:53:24+00:00
> are they making progress?

* The Shanghai and Hong Kong stock market seems to have improved regulatory enforcement. I have no way of measuring this...just stories from others.

* Over the past 10 years the China gov pressed on with building more housing in part to dilute value. Each year they have warned that houses are for living, not speculation. Last year, they dumped a huge amount of cheap lending into the market to provide movement...warning this is the last step...a month ago the 2026 gov priorities list removed protecting the housing market...first time in modern history. Expectation is the next two years will see realized losses in property. It would be a huge mistake if the gov hasn't ensured regulatory enforcement of other segments have not reached maturity for the retail investor. We'll see...

* As for civil courts, over the past 20 years I've run into quite a few stories from friends and business colleagues that needed to go to China court. The stories are similar to what you may hear in the US. No one suggested the court/process itself was dodgy/unfair.
by xp84 | 2026-01-02 02:54:03+00:00
Slack doesn’t have spam coming from outside my company, and any “apps” that “helpfully” bother me can be silenced easily. Contrast this with email where the inbox fills with useless nonsense constantly.

“An unrecognized device signed into…”

“Upcoming birthdays on your team” (not making this up - Lattice sent this today)

Even slack sends me email spam to tell me about messages that are waiting for me in slack. LOL.
by baubino | 2026-01-02 02:55:57+00:00
> It is, definitely, very possible to build a rhizome of small indie sites, along the lines of Web 1.0. But they would also benefit from a thoughtful symbiosis with the "big bad" giants of the modern Web.

That’s exactly what the article says. Seems like you made assumptions about the argument based on the design instead of actually reading it.
by evil-olive | 2026-01-02 02:56:55+00:00
the article is very vague on the details of where the highway actually is, and the only map I could find is a ~15mb PDF [0] that took forever to load, probably because it's meant to be 60x30 inches when printed.

so here's a google map link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/iPjj2M2r2f3qnHQC8

that lake will be just north of the new road, which will run east-west between US 27 and SR 429.

it looks like it will run more or less parallel to an existing road (Schofield Rd) which is only one lane in each direction.

you could also drive 6 miles south and use US 192 (the W Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway) which is 3 lanes in each direction.

that seems like a strange spot for a ~4 mile toll highway but I'm neither a Floridian nor a traffic engineer so maybe I'm missing something.

0: https://www.cfxway.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SR-516-Dis...
by gxqoz | 2026-01-02 02:58:15+00:00
I've always been curious about what it means for a movie to enter the public domain. A few years ago I sent a mail to Planet Money in what I thought would be an interesting hook but never got a response:

"Hi Planet Money, today is public domain day. I see that Fritz Lang's classic Metropolis is now in the "public domain." I was curious what that meant at a practical level for a German language silent film.

If Planet Money Movies wanted to release their own version of Metropolis, how would they do it? Can you just go to Amazon, buy the Blu Ray, and somehow release your own? What about the anti-piracy measures on the Blu Ray? What about the work that Transit Film did in restoring the film from the original negative? Does that count as some sort of newly original work? It's a silent film and a foreign film. How does the soundtrack and translation work?

If you have to make a new copy from the original reels, what if someone is hoarding them? Does that mean you could buy all the copies and prevent someone from releasing a public domain version?"
by ryandrake | 2026-01-02 02:58:55+00:00
> Most of us are happy to have effective anti-cheat

I could almost get on board with the idea of invasive kernel anti-cheat software if it actually was effective, but these games still have cheaters. So you get the worst of both worlds--you have to accept the security and portability problems as a condition for playing the game AND there are still cheaters!
by whartung | 2026-01-02 03:00:46+00:00
So, does that make AIX that last one standing of the original, commercial Unixen?

And by that I mean those commercial OSes that started with AT&T and drifted from there. Not to slight, say, the OpenSolaris children, per se, or the open source BSDs.

There were so many back in the day, with so many platforms and CPUs. HP, IBM, AT&T, SCO, Pyramid, Ridge, Sun, Sequent.

Perhaps there are still some overseas?
by kev009 | 2026-01-02 03:01:44+00:00
Is this a performance art where you do the thing you accuse? "malapropism" is a five dollar word if "sequitur" is. The use tracks with the Latin or English definitions, what does any of this have to do with sequence? I imply the article is probably not simple AI slop because it follows official documentation. Add "a" in front of it if your worth is determined by neckbearding a borrowed verb that can only noun in the lease.
by TulliusCicero | 2026-01-02 03:02:13+00:00
That's simply not true. The US response to Pearl Harbor was proportional -- you attacked us, that's war, so now we're warring -- but that didn't mean staying on the defensive.

If it's known that Russia is using ships to attack Western infrastructure, blockading those ships is entirely proportional. A blockade, in this case, isn't so much an act of war, as it is a response to an act of war.
by l33t-mt | 2026-01-02 03:03:10+00:00
Hey HN,
I built EmergentFlow – a visual AI workflow builder where the execution engine is your browser, not a server.
The key difference: When you run a workflow, your browser orchestrates everything directly. API calls go straight from your browser to OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. Nothing routes through my servers (except optional free-tier credits). Your API keys never touch my backend.

What you can build:

Chain LLMs with different providers per node
Agents with tool use (web search, HTTP, Python, RAG)
Web scraping → LLM processing → webhook pipelines
RAG with in-browser embeddings (Transformers.js)

The tradeoff: Browser tabs can get killed, so there's an optional Electron desktop runner for Pro users who need background execution.
Try it: https://emergentflow.io – click "Try Now", no signup. 25 free credits/day if you don't want to add keys.
Curious what HN thinks about this architecture. The "your browser is the runtime" approach felt right for an AI tool where people are paranoid (rightfully) about where their data goes.
by canjobear | 2026-01-02 03:04:47+00:00
I think I understand your argument (you could define "the smallest 'undefinable' number" and now it has a definition) but I still don't see how it overcomes the fact that there are a countable number of strings and an uncountable number of reals. Can you exhibit a bijection between finite-length strings and the real numbers? It seems like any purported such function could be diagonalized.
Ask HN: Favorite Articles in the ACM Digital Library
by lioeters | 2026-01-02 03:05:27+00:00
Now that all publications in the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library have become open access [^1], I thought it'd be fun and educational to make a "Best of ACM" list of favorite articles. Not only favorite, but historically relevant papers to the field of computer science.

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To start with, the series of papers presented at HOPL (History of Programming Languages) Conferences are great reading.

HOPL I (1978) https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/800025

> FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL, APT, JOVIAL, SIMULA, JOSS, BASIC, PL/I, SNOBOL, APL

HOPL II (1993) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/154766

> Pascal, Prolog, Icon, Smalltalk, ALGOL 68, Forth, C, Lisp, C++, Ada

HOPL III (2007) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1238844

> AppleScript, Lua, Oberon, C++, Statecharts, Erlang, Fortran, ZPL, Slef, BETA, Emerald, Haskell

HOPL IV (2021) https://dl.acm.org/do/10.1145/event-12215/abs/

> Clojure, MATLAB, Groovy, Oz, APL, Emacs Lisp, Logo, Fortran, JavaScript, LabVIEW, D, F#, Smalltalk, Objective-C, C++, Verilog

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Edit: Someone pointed out that it's better to use the doi.org URL over dl.acm.org for individual papers.

[^1] https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2026/january/acm-open-access
- Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454763 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313991