MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vunderba | 2026-01-02 15:43:44+00:00
From the article:

> For example, I only record the correctness of a response, not its subjective difficulty, and I mix in random cards with my study sessions to make it harder for me to guess the answer on the basis of when I'm seeing the card.

Sounds a bit like the Leitner system [1] with respect to recording only Correct/Incorrect responses. One of the reasons I avoided Anki for a long time was that I wanted to be able to answer cards quickly without actually looking at my phone. I ended up using a combination of automatic TTS, bluetooth headphones, and swipe-up/down gestures to indicate my response.

Made it much easier to go through cards while driving or during daily runs with my husky.

[1] - https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/study-revision/leitner-syst...
by Someone1234 | 2026-01-02 15:43:50+00:00
Yet in the broader sense online bullying targeting other teenagers is a commonly cited problem, including in incidents of teen suicide. "It didn't make it worse for me" doesn't counteract what we provably know is occurring[0][1][2].

Young Teen suicide (10 to 14) has increased from roughly 1 per 100K in the early 2000s to now nearly 3 per 100K in the last five years. Older teen suicide (15-19) has increased from 6 per 100K to 11 per 100K over the same time period[3].

[0] https://www.jmir.org/2018/4/e129/

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12230417/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32017089/

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db471.htm
by mjg2 | 2026-01-02 15:44:09+00:00
> It's the child's obligation to use that education wisely.

I disagree because children, despite how precocious and "old-soul"ed, are not wise compared to online predators.

I appreciate your POV on allowing children to make their own mistakes; life is the best teacher. Yet, to make an analogy, a gun owner keeps their collection locked up not just for their protection but for their family's protection. Some lessons in life have steep prices and are one-way doors, and we should pass that hard-earned wisdom to the next generation without those costs.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-02 15:44:09+00:00
IMO I think that the industry will start to move away from React and Angular. These apps take too much developer time for basic functionality, are too slow, and too much of a maintenance burden. The Future^TM is HTMX like functionality, which Rails is very well positioned for with Turbo + Stimulus. I rewrote some pages that had Rails backends with React front ends to Turbo + Stimulus, and the code base size drastically shrank, the performance increased, the maintenance time for features dropped, and it was even more reactive than before.
by copirate | 2026-01-02 15:44:15+00:00
This problem may be specific to Darwin because on NixOS I've never had a file overwritten by nix (even with home manager). When a file is managed by nix it's a symlink to a read-only filesystem (/nix/store), so no program can overwrite it. If the symlink is replaced by a regular file, nix refuses to reapply.
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-02 15:44:17+00:00
A better way to frame this is supervised vs unsupervised access. And it depends on their age.

At 11 I wouldnt expect them to have unsupervised internet access. At 16 I might, but by the time they’re 16 I wouldn’t need to monitor their online activity so closely because they’ll have several years of trust and experience built up.
Ask HN: Help with LLVM
by kvthweatt | 2026-01-02 15:44:24+00:00
I'm developing a new language, and everything is pretty nice so far.

I need to know if there's a way to prevent LLVM from linking in CRT symbols entirely. The goal is to make a new runtime.

I have a stub library written in my language, when I go to compile the library in .lib form, I keep running into a wall where LLVM forcefully brings in _fltused, causing my definition to get flagged with an error saying _fltused already exists.

There is nothing in the .ll IR file other than the _fltused definition, the one that I want to have end up in the final .lib.

I have Googled and asked AI for days now what compiler/linker flags I can use to get LLVM to bypass the CRT entirely so I can develop my own runtime, and Clang, MinGW, and LLVM are all aggressively linking in the CRT no matter what flags I add.

I'm pulling my hair out over here. I can't convert my .ll file directly to .as because the LLVM compiler is getting in the way, otherwise I'd have my library by now.
by psunavy03 | 2026-01-02 15:44:30+00:00
I'm glad I don't live in a place where one beer would cause that. Several, yes, that's certainly an issue. But so much of the world seems to have lost the ability to be reasonable in favor of black-and-white thinking.

For those without religious objections or addictions, one glass of beer or wine with a meal is a complete nothingburger. Yes, it technically impairs your reaction times, but not enough to be a crime.
by distances | 2026-01-02 15:44:40+00:00
I do the same, except I track even a bit less. I track monthly all account balances, salary/income, paid taxes, transfers to investment accounts, rent/mortgage, and health insurance. This is enough to map investment performance, financial position, and necessary living costs. Mostly everything else is "a life lived" expense and I don't see a need to do any finer tracking there.
by EdNutting | 2026-01-02 15:45:08+00:00
For a long time it was the only graphical user-friendly option for non-technical Windows users that had decent support for a wide range of formats. I don’t know about its early years, but friends, family and I have been using it for a good 15+ years without encountering the issues folks are describing in these comments.

It seems there’s a lot of open-source lovers that haven’t also accepted that bugs can get fixed, projects can improve, etc. They’d rather treat a project as though it was stuck at version 0 from 20 something years ago. Deeply ironic.
by jokoon | 2026-01-02 15:45:24+00:00
I wish he talked about avidemux.

It's a simple tool which is great for many things, it has filters and there are most of the formats. I think it uses ffmpeg under the hood.

It's an old tool but it's fine for most things, when ffmpeg is to fastidious to use. ffmpeg is still what I use, but some more complex tasks are just more comfortable with avidemux.
by bmacho | 2026-01-02 15:45:28+00:00
> No. It can feel awful for one primary reason that dwarfs all others: advertising, which is of course just a wrapper over capitalism.

Huh, I wonder. What if we had a domain that is actively anti-capitalist. No ads, no products, no asking for financial support. Kinda like how GNU operating systems are hostile towards closed source software. (Tho I am AI-doomist and I don't think that online spaces can survive several billion new human-like agents that are trained to be as cunning and malevolent as possible.)
by kccqzy | 2026-01-02 15:45:57+00:00
I am also using a spreadsheet now. I used to do things in plain text files, even did one year entirely in org-mode in emacs. But I started a spreadsheet the year I got married so my spouse and I can look at things together.

We track way fewer categories than you do. But in addition, we also track larger expenses by amount. Right now everything over $100 gets an entry. That means a fancy $100+ dinner gets tracked but a normal $30 dinner doesn’t.
by bronco21016 | 2026-01-02 15:46:03+00:00
My speculations:

- Potential job loss, particularly in the bottom half or so of jobs.

- Further wealth inequality due to so many factors but primarily because the companies providing these tools will capture the dollars that would’ve been spent on the jobs mentioned above.

- NIMBY-ism. AI = data centers and people are overwhelmingly deciding they don’t want these near their homes. I live in the Midwest and it’s been amazing how much opposition has been showing up for these projects.

Of course all of these are based on the speculation and “promises” of the tech. Many feel the time is to act now rather than once it’s too late, on the off chance these things do happen.
by dagmx | 2026-01-02 15:46:13+00:00
Why does it matter if Apple themselves don’t link the WebKit docs? It’s literally their project and seems to meet their requirements.

There’s a lot of things in the requirements like funding that Apple cannot verify. I think you’re being too binary in this.

Some of it is very clearly intended to be a “show us you are at least considering these security measures and have practices in place to minimize known issues”. Again, for the third time, it’s clearly NOT a list for ongoing perfect security, given that there are other items on the list that deal with further mitigation strategies.
by dkdcio | 2026-01-02 15:46:24+00:00
> AI is inherently unreliable and untrustworthy

big statement that doesn’t hold up under any technical scrutiny. “AI” —- neural networks —- are used reliably in production all over the place. signals filtering/analysis, anomaly detection, background blurring, medical devices, and more

assuming you mean LLMs, this still doesn’t hold up. it depends on the system around it. naively asking ChatGPT to construct a legal brief is stupid use of the tool. constructing a system that can reliably query over and point you to relevant data from known databases is not
by immibis | 2026-01-02 15:46:32+00:00
Quality still matters sometimes. You can make a lot of things by AI, but you can't make them good. The same is true of 3D printing.

Also 3D printing is good at making unique objects, but if you want to make ten thousand of the same object, you definitely need someone who knows the "old" ways. They're not irrelevant at all. And you can even use a 3D printer to help make your tools and dies.
by andyjohnson0 | 2026-01-02 15:46:50+00:00
If the op is looking only for remote roles then I'd emphasise that competition for these is extremely high. My advice would be to broaden your search to include hybrid and-in person roles.

I wish that rto was being handled with more flexibility and empathy, and I appreciate that travelling to work can be very difficult to reconcile with location and parental/caring responsibilities, but this is unfortunately where we are.

I'd also recommend looking beyond startups and pure software/tech companies. There are many businesses in eg manufacturing, or in less mainstream locations, that struggle to hire decent devs.

For context: I'm a UK-based developer and have recent experience of a fairly substantial period of unemployment. I now have a job with a great business, but also with a substantial commute.
by timr | 2026-01-02 15:46:57+00:00
A question for your doctor and your partner (and of course, you can read the data in the link I posted above and use that to influence your conversation and decision!)

I'm not being avoidant here -- medical decisions are always subjective and multi-factor, and I can't begin to tell you what you should do. (But I also sincerely believe that propagandists try to reduce nuanced data to talking points, which is equally wrong.)

Also, please note the caveat about gender that I just added. The data for biological men and women are very different. Also, I haven't discussed risks at all, which is the other side of the ledger -- these vaccines are pretty darned safe, but everything comes with risk, and only you can decide what level of risk is appropriate for your life.
by energy123 | 2026-01-02 15:46:57+00:00
> Let alone that to provide same quality of living to average chinese worker as they have in China their salary in US will have to grow 5-6 times.

That's Baumol's Cost Disease, a symptom of not allowing massive amounts of workers in. The solution is to let them in, something like how UAE or Hong Kong does it but even more.

Most people don't want to do that. That's a choice they made, but they must live with the consequences and stop complaining.

> To build things you also need a lot of people with education, know how and experience.

Let those people in too as guest workers. There's millions of people that know how to build housing, do surgery, and so on, but they're not allowed to do it.
by runako | 2026-01-02 15:47:23+00:00
We have manufacturing capacity here! Some of this is simply down to US automakers choosing high-margin SUVs and trucks over cars (most US auto brands do not offer a single car).

Basically only Tesla offers any car that is even similar to the extremely popular Toyota Camry. No US maker offers a compact car anymore.

Honestly, I don't think the immediate impact of dropping tariffs on Chinese vehicles would be as dire for the US automakers because the Chinese vehicles largely sell into noncompetitive segments. I don't doubt that the F-150s and Silverados can coexist with BYD sedans.
by jez | 2026-01-02 15:47:36+00:00
What’s the approach to embedding fonts in standard ebooks’ epubs? Curious whether there’s a set of fonts that producers are allowed to embed in finished books, or whether there’s project consciously avoids embedding fonts, and if so why.

I tried to find a policy page on this via a standardebooks.org site search but nothing looked relevant.

I’m asking after realizing that some of my favorite books were books where the ebook had intentional font choices, for example different fonts for chapter titles vs body text, fonts that matched the vibe of the book (historical, more modern, etc.) It would be nice if more ebook readers made it easy to import more than the ~8 fonts they include by default but the next best thing is when the book itself includes a great font.
Show HN: Crowdslist – A repository for year-end lists that don't disappear
by scriptedfantasy | 2026-01-02 15:47:41+00:00
Every December, great year-end lists get published across the internet. Best albums, best papers, best tools, best whatever. By February, they're buried in search results or gone entirely.

I built Crowdslist to fix this. It's a minimal platform for creating and archiving lists that matter that deserve to persist beyond their publication cycle.

The idea: aggregate "Best of 2024" lists across every domain: music, books, research papers, dev tools, indie games, architecture projects, whatever, and make them browsable years later. Want to see what people thought were the best ambient albums in 2019? It should exist somewhere permanent.

Right now it's very simple:

- Create lists (anonymous or with attribution)
- Vote on quality
- Browse by category, popularity or by who you follow
- No algorithmic feed, no engagement optimization

The vision is to become the Internet Archive of taste: a searchable repository where "Best X of Year Y" lists accumulate over time and remain discoverable.

Its early and vibed, but functional. Looking for feedback from the HN community on what would make this actually useful.

Live at https://www.crowdslist.com/
by stared | 2026-01-02 15:47:44+00:00
> I rarely see any statistics do this sort of segmentation.

There are multiple publications. THe easiest way to find is Gemini 3 Pro or ChatGPT Thinking + find for publications (go to link, not just rely on summary).

They differ by population and methodology. For example, here is "Age-specific and genotype-specific carcinogenic human papillomavirus prevalence in a country with a high cervical cancer burden: results of a cross-sectional study in Estonia", 2023,
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10255022/
by jayers | 2026-01-02 15:47:45+00:00
My reaction to your original comment was probably too ornery.

You are right that not everyone can make a great film, but I would still contend that most everyone (in the US and Europe) has the right material conditions to make a great film (access to a camera, editing software, people, and locations). You'd need great discipline, leadership, creativity, and charisma to get it done. Most people lack one or more of those qualities.
by deltarholamda | 2026-01-02 15:47:57+00:00
If you are interested in keeping backups, including the ability to go back in time to recover accidentally deleted/changed files, then ZFS with its reliable snapshot facility is fantastic. Other file systems offer some version of this, e.g. btrfs, but they don't have the same reliability as ZFS.

Snapshots on ZFS are extremely cheap, since it works on the block level, so snapshots every hour or even 15 minutes are now doable if you so wish. Combine with weekly or monthly snapshots that can be replicated off-site, and you have a pretty robust storage system.

This is all home sysadmin stuff to be sure, but even if you just use it as a plain filesystem, the checksum integrity guarantees are worth the price of admission IMO.

FWIW, software RAID like ZFS mirrors or mdm is often superior to hardware raid especially for home use. If your raid controller goes blooey, which does happen, unless you have the exact same controller to replace it, you run a chance of not being able to mount your drives. Even very basic computers are fast enough to saturate the drives in software these days.
by drysine | 2026-01-02 15:47:58+00:00
> This was done in the 1990's purely for benevolence towards Russia. Russia clearly hasn't acted in such way that they should enjoy these kinds of acts of benevolence.

How would you like this passage: "Estonian independence is purely the result of Russian benevolence. Estonia clearly hasn't acted in such way that they should enjoy these kinds of acts of benevolence"?

A little historical reminder:
"In Nystad, King Frederick I of Sweden formally recognized the transfer of Estonia, Livonia and Ingria to Russia"[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Nystad
by sgc | 2026-01-02 15:48:00+00:00
I haven't dealt with this for her in a few years, but basically:

Pin all their apps in favorites and they will persist through updates. Updates don't overwrite desktop shortcuts either (although like other os, a couple might be added that need to be removed). This might be more difficult in gnome, I wouldn't know since I am firmly in the kde camp.

To stay as up to date as possible, use the mozilla apt repo:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w...
by palata | 2026-01-02 15:48:01+00:00
> You choose to spend your time on a place A instead of the place B, it means that the place A is better than the place B. Why else would you do it, if B was better? It is a simple logic.

Your logic seems to be wanting.

I choose to spend more time at work than on vacation. Do you think I like it better, or can you imagine one reason explaining why I work?
by mocana | 2026-01-02 15:48:41+00:00
Elon built up Tesla, to his great credit.
He also has gone out of his way to undermine the car business. He enthusiastically endorsed getting rid of the EV car credit, publicly stating that it would help Tesla.
And his DOGE antics have turned the Tesla brand toxic in the eyes of so many people in the US and around the world.
(I own a Tesla and had many people advice me to sell it or to put a sticker on it to avoid vandalism).
There is no doubt that an important part of Elon's businesses has been setting big bold and exciting goals that attract great talent.
Is there any indication that Elon has messed up talent recruitment like he messed up the Tesla brand for consumers?
by miladyincontrol | 2026-01-02 15:49:13+00:00
Agree. Never mind how far they were behind on the more power user options like scaling, dealing with mismatches in video framerate and monitor refresh rate, etc.

Havent used it in ages, but a decade ago it felt a joke for all the video artifacts and subtitle glitches.

The one part that does get me some about people who blindly still praise it as THE video player at least outside of more technically inclined spaces like this, is so many people assume it exists as some monolith. Clearly library free, entirely the original work of VideoLAN, gracious they be that they give it all away for free.
by bicx | 2026-01-02 15:49:21+00:00
The example in the article really is true negligence. I can't imagine that lawyer did good work even prior to using AI.

My approach is that you're responsible for anything you ship, and I don't care (within reason) how you generated it. Once it hits production, it's yours, and if it has any flaws, I don't want to hear "Well the AI just missed it or hallucinated." I don't fucking care. You shipped it, it's _your_ mistake now.

I use Claude Code constantly. It's a great tool. But you have to review the output , make necessary adjustments, and be willing to put your name on it.
by burkaman | 2026-01-02 15:49:29+00:00
> the uniquely American animosity toward artificial intelligence

The poll they cite shows this is clearly not unique: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/10/15/concern-and-ex.... The US is (just barely) at the top, but no country is anywhere close to "more excited than concerned", and several countries are basically equal to the US.

I live in America so that's my perspective, but I would be surprised if this article couldn't accurately describe a lot of other countries.
by user_timo | 2026-01-02 15:49:41+00:00
Results with version 0.52.4:

From the memory access patterns, the biggest architectural difference seems to be prefetch behavior.

M4 appears to use a much more aggressive prefetcher that strongly assumes forward-linear access and delivers very high bandwidth when that assumption holds, but performance drops sharply when the access pattern breaks.

M1 is more conservative, with lower peak bandwidth but more consistent performance across different access directions and patterns.

Macbook Air M1 Bandwidth & latency:

Main Memory Bandwidth Tests (multi-threaded, 8 threads):

Read : 58.63377 GB/s (Total time: 9.15634 s)
Write: 33.19277 GB/s (Total time: 16.17433 s)
Copy : 58.52319 GB/s (Total time: 18.34729 s)

Main Memory Latency Test (single-threaded, pointer chase):

Total time: 21.11410 s
Average latency: 105.57 ns

Macbook Air M1 Patterns:

Sequential Forward:

Read : 58.573 GB/s
Write: 33.202 GB/s
Copy : 58.712 GB/s

Sequential Reverse:

Read : 62.390 GB/s (+6.5%)
Write: 33.116 GB/s (-0.3%)
Copy : 59.786 GB/s (+1.8%)

Strided (Cache Line - 64B):

Read : 31.476 GB/s (-46.3%)
Write: 16.584 GB/s (-50.1%)
Copy : 38.262 GB/s (-34.8%)

Strided (Page - 4096B):

Read : 6.288 GB/s (-89.3%)
Write: 14.165 GB/s (-57.3%)
Copy : 8.610 GB/s (-85.3%)

Random Uniform:

Read : 5.282 GB/s (-91.0%)
Write: 15.219 GB/s (-54.2%)
Copy : 8.259 GB/s (-85.9%)

Mac Mini M4 Bandwidth & Latency:

Main Memory Bandwidth Tests (multi-threaded, 10 threads):

Read : 114.74709 GB/s (Total time: 4.67873 s)
Write: 68.55840 GB/s (Total time: 7.83086 s)
Copy : 105.60609 GB/s (Total time: 10.16742 s)

Main Memory Latency Test (single-threaded, pointer chase):

Total time: 19.47850 s
Average latency: 97.39 ns

Mac Mini M4 Patterns:

Sequential Forward:

Read : 114.754 GB/s
Write: 65.959 GB/s
Copy : 105.532 GB/s

Sequential Reverse:

Read : 70.724 GB/s (-38.4%)
Write: 37.437 GB/s (-43.2%)
Copy : 88.743 GB/s (-15.9%)

Strided (Cache Line - 64B):

Read : 35.369 GB/s (-69.2%)
Write: 18.655 GB/s (-71.7%)
Copy : 52.914 GB/s (-49.9%)

Strided (Page - 4096B):

Read : 9.072 GB/s (-92.1%)
Write: 24.492 GB/s (-62.9%)
Copy : 12.979 GB/s (-87.7%)

Random Uniform:

Read : 6.342 GB/s (-94.5%)
Write: 21.752 GB/s (-67.0%)
Copy : 11.142 GB/s (-89.4%)
by RamRodification | 2026-01-02 15:50:00+00:00
> It's a complete dealbreaker for competitive play

Very true, and this is the biggest issue for me when it comes to gaming on Linux. And it's not just raw FPS count. You can usually brute force your way around that with better hardware. (I'm guessing you could probably get a locked 60 in Street Fighter 6 even with a 30% performance loss?). It's things like input lag and stutter, which in my experience is almost impossible to resolve.

If it weren't for competitive shooters, I could probably go all Linux. But for now I still need to switch over to Windows for that.