MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by margalabargala | 2026-01-23 22:07:13+00:00
Yes, and it goes to the same people that the first 1.7B goes to.

The order of operations is not "everyone breaks even, then we start distributing profit".

The order of operations is "people with preferred stock (i.e. investors) get all their profit, and then employees get whatever's left over".

The fact that the amount of investment money put in is less than the sale price is meaningless. If you are an employee with options at a strike price of $5, and the common stock price is now $2, you're screwed.
by cptskippy | 2026-01-23 22:07:20+00:00
Yes it's very contradictory.

"I'm tied of Apple converting everything to services so I'll eschew the Apple Watch in favor of an analog watch and an Oura ring that requires a subscription."

"I'm tired of distracting notifications so I'm getting Meta Ray-Ban AR glasses."

What I find odd is that much of the rationale for these moves is completely absent from the article.

Why is Linux growing in popularity?

People are sick of being spied on and being manipulated for profit.

Why are people attracted to analog?

People are sick of being spied on and being manipulated for profit.

Why are people looking at offline or self hosted experiences?

People are sick of being spied on and being manipulated for profit.

I don't think the OP wants to acknowledge that fact because it paints him as a technology hipster rather than someone taking back their autonomy from corporations. He's saying "Look at me, I'm an individual because I choose to have a different set of companies spy on me than you do."

The other striking thing to me is that the list is also completely devoid of any sense of morality. He might be using Linux but he's actively spitting in the face of Opensource by choosing a Bambu printer.
by mlitwiniuk | 2026-01-23 22:07:27+00:00
No, we don't do audits — and that's intentional. I think there's a conflict of interest when the same company advises you on compliance and then certifies you. Incentives get weird.

The good news: there are plenty of EU-based ISO 27001 audit firms. We can recommend one or two if you need a pointer — we just don't have a formal catalogue or marketplace for that yet (though it's on my list).

So you'd use Humadroid for the preparation - policies, controls, evidence, risks, continuity plans, ISMS workbook - and then bring in an independent auditor for certification.
by setopt | 2026-01-23 22:07:28+00:00
On Jan 11th I received "Easy self-care you can start today" advertising how ChatGPT can be used for meal planning or finding a local gym (ending with "Ask ChatGPT for more wellness tips"), and on Jan 19th I received "Use ChatGPT to make life easier" advertising how ChatGPT can for example improve my coffee brewing skills (ending with "Ask ChatGPT for more ways to get it all done"). I certainly consider these "spam", and until recently didn’t receive such emails from them.
by CjHuber | 2026-01-23 22:07:33+00:00
It depends on the API path. Chat completions does what you describe, however isn't it legacy?

I've only used codex with the responses v1 API and there it's the complete opposite. Already generated reasoning tokens even persist when you send another message (without rolling back) after cancelling turns before they have finished the thought process

Also with responses v1 xhigh mode eats through the context window multiples faster than the other modes, which does check out with this.
by migsvult | 2026-01-23 22:07:41+00:00
This post mentions apps used as an individual. I think that more or less makes sense for some subset of engineers that enjoy this type of weekend project. But once you extend this out to an org, and you're saving a sub for every 'seat', a lot of things start making sense to homebrew. And yes, you get less polish, but you also get customizability. Our small startup reduced spend on subscriptions by several thousand by having one jr replace non-core subscriptions with simple vived alternatives over the course of a couple weeks. Even outside of the savings, I think I prefer the new apps.
by lastofthemojito | 2026-01-23 22:08:39+00:00
> I really like some of the health features on Apple Watch. But I won't buy it because I don't want it to be my watch, and I don't want to pair my Apple account with it. I just want the health features and nothing else.

I agree with a lot of what you said, but isn't it wild to think that such a limited device would likely be more expensive than the do-everything Apple Watch that includes the health features among a myriad of others? Selling perhaps in the thousands instead of the zillions, the development costs would be amortized over such a small user base it would be an incredibly niche product. It often falls to us techies to figure out if we can hack an acceptable solution out of the affordable mainstream product.
by greedo | 2026-01-23 22:08:41+00:00
"hire people to do those..."

We already have those people, they're called farmers. And they are already very used to working with high technology. The idea of farmers being a bunch of hicks is really pretty stupid. For example, farmers use drones for spraying pesticides, fungicides, and inputs like fertilizer. They use drones to detect rocks in fields that then generate maps for a small skid steer to optimally remove the rocks.

They use GPS enabled tractors and combines that can tell how deep a seed is planted, what the yield is on a specific field (to compare seed hybrids), what the moisture content of the crop is. They need to be able to respond to weather quickly so that crops get harvested at the optimal times.

Farmers also have to become experts in crop futures, crop insurance, irrigation and tillage best practices; small equipment repair, on and on and on.
by nickdothutton | 2026-01-23 22:08:44+00:00
Greater chance of survival, greater chance of being a winner in any consolidation in the industry, generally revenue translates to higher share price which means ability to acquire useful and interesting companies, likely lower cost of capital for borrowing for build-outs. Attracts greater talent with better packages. Now as teeny tiny (personal) customer of these guys... I'm not really going to care about most of this stuff. But in my $70B company market cap day-job... I do.
by Leno1225 | 2026-01-23 22:08:52+00:00
England developed steam engines in an era where slaves were increasingly expensive and less socially acceptable than before and , contrarily, in an era where exploitation of the poor was still very normal and acceptable.
Hephaestus/Vulcan was disabled, yes, but also was very powerful (governing volcanos and fire in Italy isn’t a weakling’s domain). They absolutely valued technology… to say otherwise is wild.
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-23 22:10:19+00:00
>it is a mixture of technology and art, it is provocative

There's no art (or engineering) in this and the only provocative thing about it is that Yegge apparently decided to turn it into a crypto scam. I like the intersection of engineering and art but I prefer if it includes both actual engineering and art, 100 rabbits (100r.co) is a good example of it, not a blog post with 15 AI generated images in it that advocates some unholy combination of gambling, vibe coding and cryptocurrency crap.
by ls612 | 2026-01-23 22:10:37+00:00
I just checked on my personal desktop, which has Windows 11 installed using a local user account and is signed into my MS account for OneDrive and my account is listed as having no recovery codes in the cloud. I don’t recall editing anything in the registry to accomplish this it was the default behavior for having a local user account. I copied my recovery codes when I built the machine and pasted them into an E2EE iPhone note which should allow me to recover my machine if disaster strikes (also everything is backed up to Backblaze using their client side encryption).
by marysminefnuf | 2026-01-23 22:11:11+00:00
Im jewish and my wife mary is chaldean. I truly feel like the resiliency of our communities will protect us in a way that more vulnerable ones like hispanics arent able to swallow right now. They dont have meaningful political representation or access to politicians like we do so they are easy targets even though the vast majority detained by ice have zero criminal record. Its disgusting. I see people being detained every day for peaceful protesting and being called domestic terrorists but i also see more people than ever before protesting. I feel more hopeful about politics than ever before. Theres a reason ice is targeting places like minnessota and not here in detroit. They think of those places as vulnerable liberal snowflake pushovers they can easily target. I feel at peace here in detroit because i know the government would not get away with the same things. Nothing bad will happen here in detroit so i dont think the anne frank z’ll quote is applicable to everyones situatiom equally in mexicantown or dearborn or shelby township or sterling heights. At some point something will have to give, i dont know what it is but the government wont be able to get away with this much longer.
The Cognitive Cockpit: Why I moved my data to a 1-bit e-ink display
by jerr12939 | 2026-01-23 22:11:29+00:00
Full write up with images

https://turbulencegains.com/trmnl-review-2026/

I realized my iPad and phone were destroying my situational awareness with constant notifications. I wanted the data (overhead air traffic, recovery scores) without the dopamine loop.

This is part 1 of how I applied aviation psychology to build a passive 'Cognitive Cockpit' on my desk.
by xp84 | 2026-01-23 22:11:43+00:00
Maybe the terminals don't use the strip, but the cards still have them, so they can still be skimmed, and at least used online, as well as in other parts of the world that do have the magnetic readers.

I think it's possible to write the number to the strip of your cloned card with the bits set to say this is NOT a chip card, so that a terminal won't say "Use chip" -- but clearly the issuer could have the opportunity to notice it odd that the transaction is using the stripe and hopefully subject it to harsher fraud heuristics.
by cal_dent | 2026-01-23 22:11:58+00:00
Not sure where you questioning good faith comes from but do you. You're generating more carbon because you're then building more stuff where you've razed. It's a pretty recognised trade off why just mass demolishing stuff isn't the most effective thing to do.

https://restoreoregon.org/2021/04/12/understanding-the-carbo...
by throwaway89201 | 2026-01-23 22:12:12+00:00
> YC often also mentors founders on pivots

It doesn't seem unlikely to me that YC coined or at least popularized 'the pivot' in the context of changing business / startup directions. The first mention of using the word in that sense is in this comment [1] which explicitly mentions the usage by YC, while it only gets used when talking about pivot tables or more traditional uses of the word before that.

Edit: The "Lean Startup" blog series [2], which was quite influential, mentions 'the pivot' a little earlier than the post above, and really seems to coin it, so I guess that's the source (edit again: wrong :D).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=806601

[2] https://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/06/pivot-dont-jum...
by coffeeaddict1 | 2026-01-23 22:12:34+00:00
What I really want from Codex is checkpoints ala Copilot. There are a couple of issues [0][1] opened about on GitHub, but it doesn't seem a priority for the team.

[0] https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2788

[1] https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/3585
by 3vidence | 2026-01-23 22:12:41+00:00
This analogy has always been bad any time someone has used it. Compilers directly transform via known algorithms.

Vibecoding is literally just random probabilistic mapping between unknown inputs and outputs on an unknown domain.

Feels like saying because I don't know how my engine works that my car could've just been vibe-engineered. People have put 1000s of hours into making certain tools work up to a give standard and spec reviewed by many many people.

"I don't know how something works" != "This wasn't thoughtfully designed"

Why do people compare these things.
by PStamatiou | 2026-01-23 22:13:09+00:00
Really love the new site and how it highlights founders so well.

Only minor tweak I'd make is for the desktop viewport size - make it so you can also click the company names instead of needing to precisely scroll for the images to show up for that company. With notched mouse wheels it's all too easy to skip one even with a regular scroll. Or increase the scroll distance.

Also might suggest using a gradient mask to fade out the company logos as you scroll the primary text block up. Some of them get very close to the text and the one-by-one removal feels a tad distracting.

And really minor but kept finding myself trying to click the photos to see things larger. Would be nice if they could come up in a media viewer with a small caption, and let me arrow key or swipe through.
by stuckkeys | 2026-01-23 22:13:24+00:00
Yes, you can. I was just testing it. I made a "My Custom Voices" tab, and recorded a small sample of my own voice or upload a sample of w/e voice. Then you can use it. I am in the process of training a model of my voice too to see how it handles it using the 1.7b

Works surprisingly good with a 4090. I will also try it on 5090. This is the best one I have seen so far. NGL. 11Labs is cooked lol.
by pessimizer | 2026-01-23 22:13:30+00:00
Even in the best of times. Why widen your attack surface unnecessarily? Do you tell people your passwords and PINs at parties?

What governments and corporations (and plenty of bad actors in the FOSS world) have done is make this the default; made it easy to mindlessly hand people your privacy without even knowing. Opt-out, if you know the setting exists, and can find it.
by perfmode | 2026-01-23 22:13:49+00:00
There’s something that bothers me about reducing achievement to stock price and exit valuations. Yet, it is sobering to witness the machinery laid bare.

The whole aesthetic of startup success—those triumphant IPO bell-ringing moments—celebrates money, not wisdom or authentic progress. I’m aware this is the dominant framework, but that doesn’t make it feel less hollow. Welcome to Heartbreak.
by JohnLeitch | 2026-01-23 22:14:31+00:00
Thanks for taking the time to respond, and apologies for the contentiousness. I'm a jaded old man suffering from severe LLM fatigue, so I may have come off a bit harsh. Your write-up was a good read, and while I might be critical of your methodology, what you did clearly worked, and that's what matters in the end. Best of luck with your project, especially the go lib fork.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-23 22:14:40+00:00
> What are you excited about? AI slop?

A little credit please?! I don't use AI anything. I code my stuff the old fashioned way with nested if/else statements that make you cry trying to follow along. And damn the coworker that interrupts your debugging asking if you got their email or not.

https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/r_55338_NBSDq.jpg
by thomassmith65 | 2026-01-23 22:15:19+00:00
Ancient Greeks and Romans spent more time in the Middle East than they did in Northern Europe. If Christians borrowed from anyone, it was Middle Easterners... ie: themselves.

Granted, Islam is not the same as Middle Eastern, but European and the Middle Eastern cultures have interwoven for millennia. The Middle East is not monolithic, either. They have had their own Christian communities ever since the religion was invented.

Neither is Europe free of Muslim thought. Spain is an obvious example, but there was also trade, which is how algebra came to Europe.
by rayiner | 2026-01-23 22:15:21+00:00
That’s possibly true, but it’s usually not a helpful argument. The historical analysis typically is used to define the exception to a clear textual rule.

Here, the first sentence of Article II says: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”

You can say this isn’t a categorical dictate and there’s exceptions. One way to support that is by saying the founders created an independent central bank immediately, so they thought it wasn’t covered by this rule. But as you recognize, the founders could have just been breaking the rule. But that leads you to the conclusion that the central bank isn’t permissible.
by sam_lowry_ | 2026-01-23 22:15:24+00:00
Euro-Stack.eu is a scam that promotes European software using:

A wordpress.com based website hosted in California by the US company Auttomatic

Fronted by Cloudflare, a US monopoly (this is probably part of wordpress.com paid subscription)

Edits its letter to EU Commission asking to support European IT industry in Microsoft Word.

Converts it to PDF with Adobe software
by dekhn | 2026-01-23 22:15:30+00:00
Somebody somewhere told Jobs that Apple products had too much "surface area"- a modern desktop computer with huge number of tunable options, too many programmable APIs, too many products, etc. Every one of those areas is a source of customer complaints and engineering cost, and eliminating them- even if there are users- leads to higher profits and higher average satisfaction.

Taken to an extreme, I expect that Apple will evolve to have only one product, with minimal surface area. A button you press that gives money to apple, in response you receive some sort of lovely bauble with no actual functionality. The cost to apple to maintain this would be quite small (they could probably survive with 10 engineers focused mainly on site reliability) and given the historical pattern of Apple customers (I am one), would be highly profitable.
by observationist | 2026-01-23 22:15:39+00:00
Once you've got a bit of savvy, do Arch. But if you're looking for "good" and "just works" and you don't want to tinker and/or occasionally scream at your computer in inchoate fury, Fedora is the way.

You can build your ideal fantasy setup piecewise, and I definitely recommend getting there, but Fedora is nice, and clean, and has plenty of "just works", and 99.999% of the problems you might run into, someone else has, too, and they wrote a treatise and tutorial on how to fix it and why it happened.
by adolph | 2026-01-23 22:15:54+00:00
I looked that up. This does not have the smooth textual UI of an iPod. It does seem better than many things. AFAICT those are buttons in a circle, not a jog dial, which is the key affordance.

I'd be awesome if ModRetro made an mp3 player that mirrors the iPod similar to the Chromatic's GameBoy.
by ttkari | 2026-01-23 22:16:30+00:00
Back in 1980's the Finnish public broadcaster YLE used to broadcast Commodore 64 software in their radio show Silikoni. They actually have a recording the first such episode available online at https://yle.fi/a/20-108142 - of course, this is in Finnish.

It was not a very reliable method but it did work if you had good FM reception and a high quality tape deck. I guess it helps that the data rate is only 300 bits per second or so.
Show HN: Python lib and Java CLI tool to read/write Screaming Frog config files
by am-seo | 2026-01-23 22:16:30+00:00
Hey all, first time posting. I posted about this on linkedin and a friend said I should post here too

I run a lot of headless Screaming Frog crawls on servers.

The main bottleneck is that while the SF CLI can consume configuration files (.seospiderconfig), it cannot produce them. If you want to run a crawl with complex settings (like custom extractions or specific excludes), you are forced to open the desktop GUI, configure it manually, save the file, and upload it.

You can't just script the file generation because the configs are serialized Java objects (binary blobs), not JSON or XML.

I decided to reverse engineer it. A hex dump confirmed the format was standard Java serialization. Instead of writing a fragile parser, I realized I could use the application's own JARs to handle the heavy lifting.

I built two tools to solve this:

Python Library: Uses JPype to bridge Python to the local SF JARs. You can instantiate config objects, modify them (e.g., config.set_user_agent(...)), and serialize them back to disk. Great for Airflow/Python pipelines.

Java Utility: A standalone CLI tool to do the same thing if you prefer a native Java environment or don't want the Python overhead.

What this enables:

True Headless Automation: Generate valid configs on the fly right before a crawl runs.

Diffing: Compare two binary config files to debug "config drift" (e.g., seeing exactly why a crawl limit changed).

Feedback welcome—especially on the JPype implementation, as that was the trickiest part to stabilize!
by ggm | 2026-01-23 22:16:58+00:00
Over what period of time do you predict economic downfall for European tech because of salaries?

Please explain your working. These last 40 years or more there has been a cliff of money, but Europeans continue to live and work in europe.

You have to have an incredibly narrow definition of "only good people work for more money and only poor/ineffective people work for less" to say people who don't chase the millions in a US company are somehow failures.
by hirako2000 | 2026-01-23 22:17:34+00:00
Or maybe when usage is low so that we try again.

Or maybe when usage is high they tweak a setting that use cache when it shouldn't.

For all we know they do whatever experiment the want, to demonstrate theoretical better margin, to analyse user patterns when a performance drop occur.

Given what is done in other industries which don't face an existential issue, it wouldn't surprise me some whistle blowers in a few years tell us what's been going on.
by xp84 | 2026-01-23 22:18:03+00:00
You're confusing costs with pricing. Retailers set the price they show customers to what the market will bear and not a penny less, regardless of their costs. Sometimes they make money. Sometimes they even lose money on an item for strategic reasons. It's only competition that forces prices down though.

So, someone could open up a cash-only chain store and have lower costs that could allow them to price things a couple percent lower, but the absence of that business suggests that they know nobody wants to go to the trouble of paying cash anymore for a savings of a few bucks a month.

I expect that if credit card fees went to 0 tomorrow, no prices would change (though I'd lose thousands in value I get from points each year). Many retailers like grocery operate on thin margins already, so they'd be especially eager to keep the block of cheese at $2.69 instead of dropping it by a few cents.

And even if you could prove that eventually some retailer would give pass on that savings to customers, I still would rather use a card than deal with cash. And stores know that they sell more than they would if (1) everyone had to carry cash everywhere they go and also (2) if people couldn't spend on credit. That's what the retailers are spending 3% on.