MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kcplate | 2026-01-15 05:25:21+00:00
I just can’t imagine NATO countries not strongly pressuring Denmark to make a deal before any sort of military action was even close to actually happening. And knowing Trump, it might not take US ownership either, it might just come down to just the right deal that scratches Trumps itch for rare earth minerals and ability to protect against the perceived Russia threats. Perhaps something like a FAS status.

The reality is this…Is choosing to challenge and not placate Trump control really worth risking losing $980B per year from the military budget designed to defend Europe from Russia? My guess is no.
by Eikon | 2026-01-15 05:25:38+00:00
ZeroFS author here.

LSMs are “for small burst workloads kept in memory”? That’s just incorrect. “Once compaction hits all bets are off” suggests a misunderstanding of what compaction is for.

“Playing with fire,” “not sure about crash consistency,” “all bets are off”

Based on what exactly? ZeroFS has well defined durability semantics, guarantees which are much stronger than local block devices. If there’s a specific correctness issue, name it.

“ZFS special vdev + ZIL is much safer”

Safer how?
by ilinx | 2026-01-15 05:25:58+00:00
I’m reading Domain Driven Development and learning why so many of my projects have been tough to maintain.

I also recently learned that you can get ancient coins for very little money if you don’t care about resale value or need them to be in pristine condition. I bought some coins from kingdoms that I’d never heard of. Many are thousands of years old! It’s fun holding a piece of history like that.
Show HN: Calculator to compare Startup offers vs. Big Tech comp
by febtiger | 2026-01-15 05:26:03+00:00
I built this calculator after getting startup vs Big Tech offers and struggling to compare (or even fully understand them). In moments of panic I'll forget basic statistics and go straight to searching Blind or Reddit instead. I think the calculator keeps some expectations grounded, but also helps map out optimistic cases.

- Enter startup details (stage, valuation, equity, salary)
- Select your Big Tech level (L3–L7) and current company
- Compare expected value over X years with p10 / p50 / p90 outcomes, some fun insights.

All assumptions and sources are documented.

I’d appreciate feedback on the model—especially the exit multiple assumptions at later stages. Let me know if there are glaring errors in the financial modeling.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-15 05:30:29+00:00
As another commenter noted, few things in cooking actually scale linearly, and, in general, if you are following recipes mechanically like this, you produce sub-par results. You always have to adjust quantities for ingredient freshness, humidity, ingredient variance, and other variables, so recipes are only ever guidelines at best. And seasoning is always to taste (your own, and whomever you are cooking for) anyway.

But, sure, I guess this helps you scale up those guidelines in some rare cases where that math isn't trivial to do in your head...
by Brybry | 2026-01-15 05:32:06+00:00
It's not just for paywall bypassing. Sometimes there are archive.today snapshots that aren't in the Wayback Machine (though I think your overall point about lawlessness still stands).

For example, there was some NASA debris that hit a guy's house in Florida and it was in the news. [1]
Some news sites linked to a Twitter post he made with the images but he later deleted the post. [2]

The Wayback Machine has a ton of snapshots of the Twitter post but none of them render for me. [3]

But archive.today's snapshot works great. [4]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9www02e49zo

[2] https://xcancel.com/Alejandro0tero/status/176872903149342722...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20240715000000*/https://twitter....

[4] https://archive.md/obuWr
by taxicabjesus | 2026-01-15 05:33:34+00:00
https://www.taxiwars.org/ - this site is mostly composed of my diaries and stories from Kuro5hin.org (RIP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609802 ). "I posted at K5 because I wanted to be anonymous, and was not looking for attention (the site had already shrunk to a skeleton core of users at that time)" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12193286

My submission of my then-new website got a little time on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12193273

I have a bunch of notes for posts I started but haven't yet finished. The Predicaments of Old People seems important. A Medical Hack Job is about a young woman who couldn't afford the pills the ER doctors had prescribed her.

There have been a few posts since K5 went away. 'False Prophecy' was about the time I became a false prophet. I'd forgotten all about this anecdote until the next time I went out to look at a lunar eclipse. https://www.taxiwars.org/2020/10/false-prophesy.html
by phito | 2026-01-15 05:34:03+00:00
I can't agree more with you. I know multiple people that keep complaining about windows and Chrome and yet they seem to have no interest in even trying Firefox or Linux.

It totally has abusive relationship vibes. It's like they are being captured by convenience, learning something new being too much of an asshle to them.

They also like to take jabs at me for using Linux, but then their jaws drop when I transfer a file to a server in one second using `scp` while it takes them about 20 clicks with their windows GUI...
by nunez | 2026-01-15 05:35:14+00:00
I like US Mobile a lot. That they're able to get postpaid priority on Dark Star is amazing.

I use them for my work phone, but there are a few things keeping me from switching away from T-Mobile for my personal lines (and I'd VERY MUCH like to switch):

- I have a family plan wherein I pay something like $254/mo for seven voice/data lines, two smartwatch lines and two tablet data lines. The phone lines all have unlimited data at full speed.

- T-Satellite just launched (wherein your phone uses Starlink when terrestrial towers aren't available). I'm not in this situation often but it can be useful.

- My plan provides free Wi-Fi on United. I fly a lot and use this benefit all of the time. Losing it would negate the savings I'd rack up from switching to US Mobile.
by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 | 2026-01-15 05:36:05+00:00
If your prompt is complex enough, doesn’t seem to get triggered.

I use a lot of ansible to manage infra, and before I learned about ansible-vault, I was moving some keys around unprotected in my lab. Bad hygiene- and no prompt intervening.

Kinda bums me out that there may be circumstances where the model just rejects this even if you for some reason you needed it.
by energy123 | 2026-01-15 05:36:19+00:00
I open 4 chat windows with Gemini 3.0 Pro. I paste in all file contents to each window. I ask them "which files would an AI need to do $TASK effectively?"

Each of the 4 responses will disagree, despite some overlap. I take the union of the 4 responses as the canonical set of files that an implementer would need to see.

This reduces the risk of missing key files, while increasing the risk of including marginally important files. An easy trade-off.

Then I paste the subset of files into GPT 5.2 Pro, and give it $TASK.

You could replace the upstream process with N codex sessions instead of N gemini chat windows. It doesn't matter.

This process can be automated with structured json outputs, but I haven't bothered yet.

It uses much inference compute. But it's better than missing key inputs and wasting time with hallucinated output.
by cookiengineer | 2026-01-15 05:36:25+00:00
I've read the adverserial attack paper, and I'm currently implementing a captcha based on images that have masks on them so that any LLM agent with a visual model will classify it wrong.

The idea is to use something like a slider that shows different images combined with a memory task, like "find out the pair of images" and then offer maybe a text input field where the user has to write 1,2,3 or something similar with the image numbers to pass the captcha.

The tldr is that I'm abusing the famous panda image that's classified as a gibbon as a technique to build a bot captcha.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-01-15 05:37:04+00:00
Weight is a lot harder to use than volume. If I'm measuring a cup of flour (for example), I dip my measuring cup in, level it off, and I'm done. Takes a few seconds. If I use a scale, I have to watch the scale carefully until I'm getting close, then slow down my rate of pouring into the bowl greatly so that I don't go over. Sometimes I will still go over despite my best efforts, and then I have to take flour out to get the measurement right*. It's a huge faff, and it doesn't even produce a better result the vast majority of the time. Some recipes are finicky and do better with a scale, but 90% of the time volume measurements are much faster for the same result.

* and to head off the obvious "just don't worry about it if you go a few grams over" rebuttal: that defeats the purpose of using a scale for precision! So either you don't worry about the wiggle room in measurements (at which point just use volume, it's faster), or you strive for precision and it takes you much more work. Either way it's a worse solution unless you really, truly need maximum accuracy.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-15 05:37:49+00:00
In general seasoning (or saucing) anything solid is more about exposed surface area than mass, and this depends on things like cut sizes, evaporation shrinking, and god knows what other factors. It doesn't scale with simple math, because there are all sorts of other factors involved that complicate this (surface texture just being one).

It is also all moot because ingredients (especially spices) have massive variance in potency, sweetness, bitterness, sourness, etc., so recipes are only ever a guideline. I.e. if you double a spice that is twice / half as potent as expected, you can get an unpalatable / bland dish, and IMO factors between 0.25 to 4.00 are extremely common for plenty of ingredients. So you always just need to taste and adjust accordingly. This is also ignoring that certain ingredients can vary in multiple dimensions (e.g. a lemon that is a lot sweeter than expected but less sour, and so simple scaling of the lemon alone can't get you want want: you need to reach for white sugar and/or citric acid to get your desired pH and sweetness).

It is also a fantasy that all flavour concentrations are perceived linearly anyway (and this is especially the case for acidity / sour / pH generally, but also spiciness in e.g. ginger, pepper, capsaicin).
by 112233 | 2026-01-15 05:37:54+00:00
Asked Opus a question on Openrouter. 0.30$

Asked Minimax 2.1 that question. 0.008$

At some point it stops making sense. You cannot use "the good model" just for the hard bits without basically hand writing you own harness. Even then, it will need full, uncached context.

Feels like consulting a premium lawyer to ask how much time is it.
by antognini | 2026-01-15 05:37:56+00:00
You would basically want to calculate the solar altitude angle (or, equivalently the zenith angle): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_zenith_angle

Given the mountains, the sun would appear to set when it descends below some altitude angle. Given the equation in the wikipedia article you'd then just solve for the hour angle. (You'd then have to use your latitude to convert the local solar time to Mountain Standard Time.)
by Brajeshwar | 2026-01-15 05:38:00+00:00
https://brajeshwar.com

I started my website in 2001, writing a lot of it, much of which is pretty embarrassing later in life, but I kept almost all of it. More often than not, I go back to read them and laugh.

In some weird way, I also feel an obligation to keep them alive for as long as I can, so that the websites linking back to mine are not greeted with a 404. I cannot disappoint the likes of Wikipedia, USA Patents, quite a few other megacorps’ websites, Russian and Chinese websites, and many others who trusted that I’m someone with a mark/presence on the Internet.
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-15 05:39:07+00:00
> But I’ve never met anyone passionate about collecting bins, development of accounting tooling, or pricing of phone insurance. You need rewards to allocate people effectively, because “passion” is random and not related to what people actually need

You're making the mistake of conflating UBI with "no one works anymore". This is a silly mistake to make. It's like believing that providing a universal healthcare service that provides basic care to everyone somehow meant supply and demand for private health services would be eliminated. In the meantime, look at pretty much any European country which already provides free universal healthcare.

Listen, UBI stands for Universal Basic Income. Universal means everyone gets it, Income means an inflow of cash, and Basic means it's not much, just enough to cover basic needs. Think of a kind of unemployment benefit for all that doesn't go away once you find a job. Once you get a job, you get paid an income that supplements your basic income. That's it. The biggest impact is that if you find yourself out of a job, you still get an inflow of cache that allows you to meet basic needs.

UBIs does change the economy. For example, most if not all poverty-mitigation policies can be effectively replaced by UBI. Instead of food stamps, use your income to buy food. There's no longer a pressing need for unemployment benefits if you already are guaranteed a basic income.
by guiambros | 2026-01-15 05:39:40+00:00
As a VR enthusiast who discovered Supernatural early on (way before Meta acquired them), I must say this is a huge bummer. The Supernatural workouts never felt like a workout; it's more like a surreal extra-body experience, equal parts immersive and fun.

It's a similar feeling to when I'm "in the zone" writing code. Time stops, your mind latches into the thing you're doing, and nothing else matters. Except it's hard for me to achieve it with coding (mostly because I don't code as much these days), while with Supernatural I can strap the headset on and I'm there in 2 minutes.

Commercially, I understand Meta's rationale, and I feared this day would arrive since they acquired Within [1]. This has always been an expensive distraction for Meta, who's neither in the 1P gaming business, nor health and fitness. And with VR more broadly never gaining traction, you simply don't have enough active users to sell subscriptions. Without subscription you can't justify new sessions, coaches, music rights, etc.

That's unfortunate. They will leave behind a niche but passionate community; just see the depth of the comments [2][3][4]. You don't see such an outpouring of love, support and compassion for Big Tech companies and their employees (or former, in this case) very often [5].

Also, this clearly marks the beginning of VR Winter. VR is not dead, but over the next several years we'll see a cooling-off period, and expectations will reset.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Within_(company)

[2] https://www.uploadvr.com/vr-fitness-gym-saving-lives-superna...

[3] https://www.facebook.com/groups/2680672221985841/

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/comments/1qcz2ez/dam...

[5] https://www.uploadvr.com/fitness-supernatural-leanne-pedante...
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by rmunn | 2026-01-15 05:40:32+00:00
> The observant could respond here that 0.64 tablespoons is damn close to 2 teaspoons ...

Correct, first thing I thought of. :-)

> ... and it could've landed on something more awkward like 0.4 tablespoons total.

Let me try to tackle that one. 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons, so that's 1.2 teaspoons. Most tablespoon & teaspoon sets have a 1/4 teaspoon as the smallest available measurement, so I'd probably make that 1.25 teaspoons and leave the 1/4 teaspoon not quite full.

I know several families who homeschool. Getting kids to help you in the kitchen is apparently a very good way to get them comfortable with doing math with fractions.

Incidentally, our own problems go the other way. My wife likes to get recipes from American recipe sites that give measurements in cups or tablespoons, but we live outside America (I got a job overseas) so the local store sells things in grams or kg. So when I'm doing the grocery shopping on my way home from work, I often have to look up "how much does one cup of sour cream weigh" to know whether I should buy the 250g package or the 1kg package. Once the ingredients arrive in the kitchen, we find the fraction math easy. (Though we also, very often, make use of the kitchen scale in measuring ingredients).
by bsimpson | 2026-01-15 05:41:15+00:00
Agents know that.

> ReadFile ../other-project/thing

> Oh, I'm jailed by default and can't read other-project. I'll cat what I want instead

> !cat ../other-project/thing

It's surreal how often they ask you to run a command they could easily run, and how often they run into their own guardrails and circumvent them
by mmooss | 2026-01-15 05:43:23+00:00
> Of course I judge, and I expect other people to judge me. It is what we do every day: we assess, evaluate, and draw conclusions.

Not 'of course' - it's a choice, like the other ones you talk about. This choice isn't a meaningless subjective preference like clothing, but one that results in errors and harm to other people. We are responsible for our errors and for preventing them - claiming the error is inevitable is to make yourself a victim.

I don't judge people unless I have to - it's not hard to learn, especially if you learn from and are responsible for your mistakes; I didn't have to make that mistake many times. And that has been the approach of most wise people I know. There is no other way to prevent those errors: Lacking godlike omniscience, we can't read minds or observe more than a very little; we are prone to serious errors. There's a reason courts and science require objective evidence and strict process; truth is very hard. 'Judge not' goes back a couple thousand years.

When I have to judge - for example, when evaluating job performance - I am very aware of my own limitations. Otherwise misplaced confidence causes even more mistakes.
by palmotea | 2026-01-15 05:44:25+00:00
> Yes, we made a grave mistake in electing the wrong person as president—but that doesn’t mean the country is obligated to sit silently for the next three years while he lurches from one dangerous blunder to the next.

Correction: the only viable opponent party ran the wrong person and chose the wrong strategy to oppose him. Their candidate(s) weren't the "right person" to be president. And despite a year of Trump, that opponent party is still unpopular.

It's a testament to how broken the system is. They'll all acting stupidly, and no one is the good guys.

> If impeachment and conviction aren’t on the table, then the least our leaders—Republicans and Democrats alike—must do is stand together and speak with one clear, unmistakable voice in opposition.

Wake up, you're dreaming.

What needs to happen is the Democrats need to listen to their own rhetoric and actually take the threat seriously, instead of seeing an opportunity to win a narrow partisan victory for their extremists. They need to reconfigure into a truly majoritarian party, which will make the progressives unhappy, so it won't happen.

> Our credibility with Europe, already strained, will continue to erode if the world sees that American leadership is unwilling or unable to check reckless behavior.

Honestly, few care about our "credibility with Europe." And they've got too many of their own problems to be considered in such a superior position.
by ddxv | 2026-01-15 05:45:02+00:00
A AppGoblin report on the relative increase and decrease in mobile app SDKs from the top 50k apps in the app stores. Most of the data is from Android with some iOS. The apps are limited to those that were released before June 2025.

Check the developement tools for open source / development libraries.

Some interesting take aways:

Rive saw big increase in apps.
Developer focused analytics like Datasig, PostHog saw big increases
MongoDB decreased
by culebron21 | 2026-01-15 05:46:03+00:00
I think such scaling as the author suggests, can be done in the head. 57g is roughy 3/4 of 80g. It's trivial to take 3/4 of almost anything. 250g -> ~180..185g, 40 -> 30, 50 -> 37g. Unless you do bakery, where proportions are very important, there's no need for 3 digit precision.

And yes, in general a slide ruler is a great tool. I should try it again.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-15 05:46:58+00:00
This is impossible for most ingredients because many ingredients (flour, oil, or almost all such ingredients) vary considerably depending on packing, composition, and a whole host of other factors, and, also, not all recipes need to be scaled by mass.

If you see a recipe involving flour and it uses volume, it is trash, will not be reproducible. All serious baking is done by mass and mass only, except for glazes / coatings and/or if a very specific product / brand is specified. EDIT: as another commenter here noted, yeast also does not scale linearly (obviously) except in special cases.

Also, oils in general should not be measured either by volume or by mass, but relative to what they need to coat / submerge (be that an ingredient, a cooking surface, or some combination of the two), or, for deep-frying, based on the amount needed to not drop temperature too significantly for whatever batch you are frying.
by laborcontract | 2026-01-15 05:47:47+00:00
This is a nice technical account that we're used to seeing from Simon.

I get a kick out of the fact that Microsoft has been preciously clinging to the "Copilot" branding and here comes Claude coming saying "Cowork? Good enough for us!".

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Taking a step back, I really would love to see a broader perspective -- an account of someone who is not tech savvy at all. Someone who works a basic desk job that requires basic competency of microsoft word. I'm so deep into the bubble of AI-adjacent people that I haven't taken stock of how this would or could empower those who are under-skilled.

We've taken it as truth that those who benefit most from AI are high-skilled augmenters, but do others see some lift from it? I'd love if anthropic tried to strap some barely-performing administrative assistants into these harnesses and see if there's a net benefit. For all I know, it's not inconceivable that there be a `rm -rf` catastrophe every other hour.
by pedrini210 | 2026-01-15 05:47:52+00:00
Check the Vortex file format (https://vortex.dev/), if you are interested in a distributed SQL engine then you can check SpiralDB (https://spiraldb.com/), I haven’t used this one personally but they created Vortex.

If you can drop the “distributed” part, then plug DuckDB (https://duckdb.org/) and query Parquet (out of the box) or Vortex (https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/core_extensions/vortex.html) with it.
by lern_too_spel | 2026-01-15 05:48:09+00:00
The web page you are visiting contains personal information, and that is where the mischief can be made. All that is required is for the website to incorrectly trust an image, either by not sanitizing a user-uploaded image or by embedding a third party image. Both trust bugs are rampant on the web, and both have caused problems in the past. Adding an improperly vetted image decoder is a sure-fire way to get exploit authors salivating.