MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-23 07:03:22+00:00
Sqlite had such a stellar stellar reputation, for so many excellent reasons.

I still find it absolutely freakish & abominable that people are so incredibly touchy & reflexively mean & vile to Turso. I've seen a couple Turso centric YouTube's recently and there are dozens and dozens of up votes for what just seems like the most petulant vacuous reflexive bitter viewed comments, dominating the comments. Sqlite deserves its honor, is amazing! Yes! But there's such a wild concentration of negativity about a sqlite compliant open source rust rewrite. None of it is technical. It's all just this extreme conservatism, this reflexive no, I don't trust it, fud fud fud fud.

(Can't find the worse example but https://youtu.be/CrIkUwo8FiY somewhat shows this)

I'm just so embarrassed having such low antagonistic peers dominating the conversation all the time. With zero moderation, zero maybe it's ok, just dialed 100% to no no no no. For fuck sake man. Everywhere I go it's not hackers, it's not possibility seekers, it's a radical alliance of people using fear uncertainty and doubt to cling to some past, refusing even possibility of different. It's so regular, so consistent, so tiresome and so useless.

What if this is better? What if you are wrong? What if there is some possibility of better? It just feels like all the air time is sucked up by these negative creeps, always, everywhere, all around, with these absurd vast pervading pessimisms that admit to no maybe possiblies, that see no tradeoffs, that are just convinced always for the worst. And it's just so popular! Is the plurality! How anti-hackerly a spirit is anti-possibility! The world deserves better than these endless drag-gards.

I'm obviously reacting strongly here. But I just want some God damned room left for maybe. The negative creeps never allow that: no no no no no, fear uncertainty & doubt endless & abundant, no possibility, just bad. I cannot stand the negative energy, I'm so sad the hackers have to put up with such absolutist shitty drains sucking all the energy from the room, everywhere, always. Sqlite somehow has such a strong anti-possibility anti-energy magnet around something so so good: what a shame, it deserves better, & iteration attempts deserve at least some excitement. Progress is possible, can be neat, and judging way too early & reflexively with empty comment is to be condemned, imho.
by touisteur | 2026-01-23 07:03:29+00:00
I don't have first-hand knowledge on HBM GPUs but on the RTX Blackwell 6000 Pro Server, the perf difference between the free up-to-600W and the same GPU capped at 300W is less than 10% on any workload I could (including Tensor Core-heavy ones) throw at it.

That's a very expensive 300W and I wonder what tradeoff made them go for this, and whether capping is here a way to increase reliability. ...

Wonder whether there's any writeup on those additional 300 Watts...
by jraph | 2026-01-23 07:03:37+00:00
See also rubberducking [1]

I've seen people solve their own issues by asking me / telling me about something and finding the solution without me having the time to reply numerous times.

Just articulating your thoughts (and using more of your brain on them by voicing them) helps a lot.

Some talk to themselves out loud and we are starting to realize it actually helps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
by lucid-dev | 2026-01-23 07:03:43+00:00
FANTASTIC!!

I was just thinking about this the other day, and wondering about directionality...

For example, if you had a camera facing a space, and the receiving antenna was within that space... and you were able to (somehow?) from the antennas perspective, see the "direction" the frequency was coming from..

And then map the different specific frequencies within the desired bandwidth to colors... and of course intensity map like you have in the slit device..

And then "look through the camera"... you would see a live three dimensional overlay of all signals within range (colored!) "interacting" with the antenna... but kind of more the "looking through the camera" sort of view, like you could "see" how those waves were interacting..

And then wouldn't it be interesting to put a tin-foil hat to one side of the attennas.. and see how the waves change in real time... etc.!!!

(I guess it takes three antennas, to triangulate the field? Maybe all three can still be mounted on a single device in close proximity?)
by silisili | 2026-01-23 07:04:00+00:00
Of course it's a US view. It's a US site and the OP even prefaced it as such. Does every reply need to do the same?

Retailers(in the US) typically eat the cost. Some industries(in the US), like gun shops, are up front about charging more for credit card payments. Most companies(in the US) just see it as cost of doing business.

Points have next to nothing to do with why you should always use credit cards(in the US). There are legal consumer protection reasons. The points are just an optional perk.
by glitchcrab | 2026-01-23 07:04:50+00:00
> But the quality is really no different.

Hard disagree. As someone who is somewhat into the home brewing rabbit hole, I can tell you that the gulf between what I can make at home and what you get in Starbucks is enormous. And I'm no expert in the field by any means.

The rest of your analogy holds up, but not that sentence.
by genewitch | 2026-01-23 07:05:33+00:00
I convinced my grandfather to give me $30 to buy one at a garage sale while i was house sitting with him (he had emphysema and was 82 at the time) back in the early 90s. he lived as an adult through the depression, so it was a point of contention between him, me, and my mom. It only came with 1 cartridge iirc, and a brochure showing all the accoutrements you could add to it, speech module, joystick, and i forget what else.

turning it on and getting a BASIC prompt was real cool. never could save anything, though. I traded it in 1999 or so for an Apple IIc with monitor, with which i could save data.

coincidentally, i just mentioned owning a ti-99/4a to a friend yesterday, we were comparing notes about the first computers we actually owned, and that was it, for me. We had an atari (the wood paneled console one, carts, with keyboard built in, BASIC interpreter on ROM) in '87ish i guess, but i only had it for a couple of weeks before i accidentally blew it up with a cable trying to save something to a tape recorder. the tape recorder had a cable in the back that had a 1/8" TS plug, which apparently was a radio shack "universal power supply" and i guess i put 9VDC into the speaker port.

k i am done for the day on HN! busiest day in years, here. oops.
by guidum80 | 2026-01-23 07:06:11+00:00
I've built a library of 43 marketing "Skills" for Claude. Each one contains the framework references, quality rules, and logic required to generate professional-grade output without the typical "AI fluff."

The core philosophy here is "No Fluff." I’ve hard-coded rules into the system instructions to prevent the "As an AI language model..." intros and the "I hope this helps!" outros. It goes straight to the substantive content.

Each Skill is a single Markdown file. I use Markdown because LLMs parse the hierarchy of headers and bullet points better than flat text. The prompts are designed to be "context-aware," meaning they infer whether the business is B2B or B2C based on the initial brief without requiring manual toggles.

The library is organized by function:

STRATEGY

Buyer Persona: 400+ line personas with 10 psychological sections.

Market Positioning: Competitive alternatives and SWOT frameworks.

Value Proposition: Feature -> Capability -> Benefit -> Outcome ladders.

GTM Strategy: Full plans including channels and timelines.

ADVERTISING

Google/Meta Campaigns: Complete with hook formulas and audience specs.

Ad Copy: 15+ variations using psychological triggers.

A/B Testing: Structured hypothesis and measurement frameworks.

CONTENT & SEO

LLM Optimization: Strategies for visibility in AI search (ChatGPT, Perplexity).

SEO Strategy: Keyword research and link-building plans.

Content Strategy: Pillar-cluster models with editorial calendars.

COPY & WEBSITE

Landing Pages: Using StoryBrand and PAS frameworks.

Headlines: 20+ variations using AIDA and PAS formulas.

Homepage Audit: Conversion optimization with prioritized fixes.

SALES & EMAIL

Email Sequences: 5-10 stage nurture flows with subject A/B variants.

Sales Scripts: Discovery, demo, and objection handling.

HOW TO USE:

Download the .md file for a skill (maestrix.ai/skills).

Upload it to Claude (via Projects or the Skills capability).

Provide your basic business info.

The system triggers the logic automatically.
by john01dav | 2026-01-23 07:06:13+00:00
In my experience LLMs offer two advantages over private thinking:

1) They have access to a vast array of extremely well indexed knowledge and can tell me about things that I'd never have found before.

2) They are able to respond instantly and engagingly, while working on any topic, which helps fight fatigue, at least for me. I do not know how universal this effect is, but using them often means that I can focus for longer. I can also make them do drudgery, like refactoring 500 functions in mostly the same way that is just a little bit too complicated for deterministic tools to do, which also helps with fatigue.

Ideally, they'd also give you a more unique perspective or push-back when appropriate, but they are yes-men too much right now for that to be the case.

Lastly, I am not arguing to not do private thinking too. My argument is that LLM-involved thinking is useful as its own thing.
by Moldoteck | 2026-01-23 07:06:20+00:00
Co2 tax is less about externality and more about putting this extra money into renewables. When ren are underperforming but bidding low prices, they will still be compensated by the merit order which is artificially bumped even higher with CO2 tax.

And the worst thing is other regions like US or China don't have such a tax, causing industry offshoring. It's a noble case to want to subsidize ren sector, but this method is hurting EU more than helping
by Klaster_1 | 2026-01-23 07:06:37+00:00
That sounds true when you have already internalized the idea. But my environment never even suggested in can be approached this way. My school didn't teach me how to write, we just had to. Uni didn't explain this either and that was part of the reason why I dropped out. You can't make progress when you don't know what questions to ask and nobody sees your struggles and provides guidance.
by ggm | 2026-01-23 07:06:52+00:00
I cannot find the YT video but an artist in residence did a short film with scratch-over of footage in an RF lab which tries to give a visual impression of the waves emitted by things present.

We're bathed in EMF. It's what light is, but aside from that we use electricity so much now, we're in a sea of radiation in other frequencies too.
by throwaway81523 | 2026-01-23 07:07:15+00:00
It sounds like this prevents books from being sent to prisoners no matter who the sender is.

In California you are not allowed to mail books directly to prisoners, but you can order books from Amazon (or a few other large sellers) for shipment to the prisoner. They figure a shipment directly from those places should be contraband free. Hopefully they have some kind of anti-spoofing scheme.

I think the CA policy is pretty common, so Arkansas must be going further.
by teiferer | 2026-01-23 07:07:59+00:00
Does it? I can blurb whatever grammatical, structural, spelling mess into the LLM input, it still gets what I mean. If I do that with a co-worker, they will be either offended or ask if I'm drunk or both.

Just like omnipresent spell-check got people used to not caring about their correct spelling since a machine always fixes it up for them. It made spelling proficiency worse. We could see a similar trend in how people express themselves if they spend a lot if time with forgiving non-judgemental LLMs.
by jiggawatts | 2026-01-23 07:09:52+00:00
I'm pretty sure both Azure and AWS are merely reselling the same HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200 chassis with some variations. Azure seems to have only the 16-socket model, but AWS has the 32-socket model.

That AWS instance uses these 60-core processors: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/231747/...

To anyone wondering about these huge memory systems: avoid them if at all possible! Only ever use these if you absolutely must.

For one, these systems have specialised parts that are more expensive per unit compute: $283 per CPU core instead of something like $85 for a current-gen AMD EPYC, which are also about 2x as fast as the older Intel Scalable Xeons that need to go into this chassis! So the cost efficiency ratio is something like 6:1 in favour of AMD processors. (The cost of the single large host system vs multiple smaller ones can get complicated.)

The second effect is that 32-way systems have huge inter-processor cache synchronisation overheads. Only very carefully coded software can scale to use thousands of cores without absolutely drowning in cache line invalidations.

At these scales you're almost always better off scaling out "medium" sized boxes. A single writer and multiple read-only secondary replicas will take you very far, up to hundreds of gigabits of aggregate database traffic.
by vaxman | 2026-01-23 07:09:59+00:00
Can’t even imagine what kind of social media influence that DOGE sycophants have on The Hacker News. Makes it tough to post a mainstream account of USDOJ confirming DOGE workers probably have stolen copies of SSA data thru unknown CloudFlare (tunnels) and a recent interview where the founder of DOGE muses about prison.

The SSA database itself is just too valuable ..if what USDOJ says is True, then it is almost a certainty that the data is already vectorized allowing it to be used for a lot more than “voter roll” verification.

Hacker News may have emboldened many to cross the line .. Here they hang on to those that they aspire to be until one day https://youtu.be/wWpvNTIrQdI
by peepee1982 | 2026-01-23 07:10:32+00:00
No one is arguing that thinking doesn’t improve thinking. But expressing thoughts precisely by formulating them into the formalized system of the written word adds a layer of metacognition and effort to the thinking process that simply isn’t there when 'just' thinking in your head. It’s a much more rigorous form of thinking with more depth - which improves deeper, more effortful thinking.
by draven | 2026-01-23 07:11:36+00:00
They should have used a screen for the front plate and have the IA generate a visual. But then they'd pass the $20 per plate.

I don't like these kind of products, what I get in breadth I lose in depth, it's like having a enormous Steam library but only play the first half an hour of each game because I have limited time to invest and too many things. I'm already overwhelmed with my Katana 100.
by g-b-r | 2026-01-23 07:11:46+00:00
The core of the article is at the bottom:

> the various XML-based "standards" spawned by enterprise committees are monuments to over-engineering. But the core format (elements, attributes, schemas, namespaces) remains sound. We threw out the mechanism along with its abuses.

It's mostly only arguing for using the basic XML in place of the basic JSON.

I largely agree to that, although I wouldn't consider the schemas among its core, go read the Schema specifications and tell me when you come out.

But I agree that a good part of XML's downfall was due to its enterprise committees: no iteration, and few incentives to make things lean and their specifications simple; a lot of the companies designing them had an interest in making them hard to implement.
by kranner | 2026-01-23 07:11:49+00:00
As cognitive-offloading devices go, paper is completely neutral. It doesn't flatter you into believing you are a genius when you're not; it doesn't offer to extend your reasoning or find references in the research literature and then hallucinate and lead you astray; it will never show you advertisements for things you don't need; it will never leak your ideas and innermost thoughts to corporations owned by billionaires and totalitarian governments... I could go on but you get the drift, I'm sure. Paper wins by a mile.
by mahirsaid | 2026-01-23 07:11:56+00:00
I agree there is only so much an organization can do After the spread, countries themselves have to take action in behalf of the organization's directions and procedures. The U.S. at the time took way too long to act, this was a fact, clearly why some governors were in a tweeting match and arguments over this issue. I do not agree with this direction. Clearly there is alternative motive behind this amongst the multiple other useless withdraws and steps taking at this time.
by fsh | 2026-01-23 07:12:22+00:00
I was given an iPad at work and had to make an Apple account to use it. Every time, the form on the website errored out with "Your account can currently not be created" without any further information. By trial and error, I figured out that creating an account with the exact same information on the iPad worked. Not the best first impressions of the "it just works" company.
by sublinear | 2026-01-23 07:12:39+00:00
I almost entirely agree with you, but the issue is that the information you currently have might not be enough to get the answers you want through pure deduction. So how do you get more information?

I think chatbots are a very clumsy way to get information. Conversations tend to be unfocused until you, the human, take an interest in something more specific and pursue it. You're still doing all the work.

It's also too easy to believe in the hype and think it's at least better than talking to another person with more limited knowledge. The fact is talking has always sucked. It's slow, but a human is still better because they can deduce in ways LLMs never will. Deduction is not mere pattern matching or correlation. Most key insights are the result of walking a long tight rope of deductions. LLMs are best at summarizing and assisting with search when you don't know where to start.

And so we are still better off reading a book containing properly curated knowledge, thinking about it for a while, and then socializing with other humans.
by Moldoteck | 2026-01-23 07:12:43+00:00
You pay less vs gas heating because of co2 tax.
And it's just an individual case. Germany's electrification percent is lower vs China's amd the rate of changing is lower too. In other words Germany has more energy used indirectly instead of electricity and electrification percent increase per year is lower than China's too

Amd Germany isn't even the worst example in terms of electricity prices. UK is even worse which will slow it down even more
by genewitch | 2026-01-23 07:12:59+00:00
I was thinking more of Mr. Wizard's demonstration of flour blown through a plastic tube into a funnel containing said flour (or whatever) with a flame above it made a "whoosh" type flame ball.

or places that mill anything that don't clean their rafters, who then get a tool crashing into a work piece, which shakes the building, which throws all the dust into the air, which is then sparked off by literally anything. like low humidity.

see also another example; Domino Sugar explosion.
by otabdeveloper4 | 2026-01-23 07:13:05+00:00
> That is a completely valid threat model analysis, though?

No it isn't. Here in 2026 timesharing accounts aren't a thing anymore and literally everyone who ever logs into your server has root access.

"Just make sure all those outsourced sysadmins working for a contractor you've never met are never bad guys" is not a valid security threat model.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-23 07:14:45+00:00
> Has anyone else noticed that the AI industry can’t take “no” for an answer? AI is being force-fed into every corner of tech. It’s unfathomable to them that some of us aren’t interested. The entire AI industry is built upon a common principle of non-consent.

I can't help but see the spam as more circumstantial evidence of a bubble, where top-down "pump those numbers" priorities overrides regular process.
by otabdeveloper4 | 2026-01-23 07:15:42+00:00
Incorrect.

Random sysadmins who have access to your server have the permissions to steal whatever is communicated between third parties unrelated to this sysadmin.

Just because some random outsourced nightshift dude has the permissions to do "sudo systemctl restart" shouldn't mean he gets to read all the secret credentials the service uses.

As it is now, the dude has full unfettered access to all credentials of all services on that machine.
by anotherevan | 2026-01-23 07:16:06+00:00
I think perhaps the author's 35th lesson¹ is that brevity can lose nuance.

I interpreted this one to be in the context where having them in your orbit is causing you (or others) harm, and it ain't something you can fix.

¹ Actually it would be the 50th lesson. For some reason tacking on fifteen "bonus" lessons annoyed me. Felt like having your alliteration and eating it too. 51st lesson: math.
by reutinger | 2026-01-23 07:16:34+00:00
11 nuclear tests? I officially surrender the title. My 13 hours over a breadboard feels very quaint by comparison.

It is fascinating to see the evolution of the 'threat signature,' though. You were flagged for proximity to literal nuclear physics in 1998; I was flagged for a vibe-coded prototype that just looked like physics in 2026.

I have a sinking feeling that, like you, I've just unlocked the 'secondary screening' achievement for the next decade. I’ll take the permanent Swiss police record over the Five Eyes watchlist any day. You win.
by singron | 2026-01-23 07:16:38+00:00
You have to exercise the options or let them expire. You normally have 10 years not 7, but if a company comes up on 10 years after they issued their first options, they might try a tender offer to buy some employee shares. If your 10 year old "start up" shares can't be sold anywhere, then they probably aren't worth exercising. A company that can't provide liquidity to employees for 10 years will probably never do it.
by Zentrix | 2026-01-23 07:17:19+00:00
Hey, thank you for your post.

I noticed that you are missing an important part of the story, the argument for why the 80% might not be that hard. Here is a video from Simon Clark that explains it. [1]

Also, you seem to have used old data in your analysis. You need to look at/use data for 2025 because renewables are on an S-curve so the predictions for their growth are constantly underestimated.

Hope that helps.

[1] https://youtu.be/6c94vRmbM6Y?si=pPmvfJAGjHa2zOF1
by anovikov | 2026-01-23 07:17:36+00:00
Overall renewables (including the "bad" ones like biogas, and the finite ones like hydro) are at around 27% of TFC in EU today (25.2% in 2024 and growing at around 1% per year). Not bad. But far from replacement.

Renewables plus nuclear is now at around 70% of all energy (by final consumption) that is produced in EU though, it's just that the rest is imported.
by talldan | 2026-01-23 07:17:59+00:00
I think Forrest Gump's major quality is an indomitable spirit and an ability to overcome. (War Hero, runs across American, gets the girl)

I'm not so sure it applies to Arthur Dent, who tends to roll from one situation to the next. There is resolve, but it never really rises above.

I think there is similarity in the storytelling, that both characters find themselves in extreme situations, and somehow navigate them despite their own limitations.
by andeee23 | 2026-01-23 07:18:14+00:00
i’m not sure about the work on tooling

just a few weeks ago i was trying to work on a swift project in neovim and found the whole langserver experience pretty bad

and it’s way worse when working on swif ui apps, but i guess that’s more of an apple wanting you to use xcode thing.

i wish there was better tooling, i like the language, but i just switched to nim for my side project