MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Mawr | 2026-01-24 01:57:17+00:00
Let's not. The Xth percentile speed is not an appropriate measure for two main reasons:

- Humans are not generally capable of sufficiently accurate long-term low-incidence risk assessment. Meaning, you irrationally value potentially getting to work 10 seconds faster over a 50% increased chance you run over a child crossing the street.

- The speed humans will travel at on a given road depends primarily on what speed that road seems designed for. People will drive faster on straight, wide roads and slower on winding, narrow ones, regardless of the speed limit. Changing speed limits has little effect compared to changing the physical infrastructure.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-24 01:57:27+00:00
GenAI was built on an original sin of mass copyright infringement that Aaron Swartz could only have dreamed of. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, and Anthropic may very well get screwed HARD in a lawsuit against them from someone they banned.

Unironically, the ToS of most of these AI companies should be, and hopefully is legally unenforceable.
by westurner | 2026-01-24 01:58:20+00:00
OpenWISP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953414

From "Open Hardware Ethernet Switch project, part 1" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969857 :

> There are 48+2 port switches with OpenWRT support

Are there 48 port switches with 8 or more cores?
by rendaw | 2026-01-24 01:59:33+00:00
I had a few. They advertised ogg support but it didn't actually work. The directory ordering was random, and it would lose metadata or not show tracks with non-ascii characters in the filename. It didn't remember position on stop. IIRC the sorting didn't work either. The buttons were awful, it felt cheap. It was typical Chinese manufacturing slop. But it had solitaire or some other game installed.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-24 02:02:44+00:00
"You're either very stupid believing that the American Engagement in Europe was just charity or just a very good troll."

Europeans always imply that NATO is some sort of vast American conspiracy. But they are hardly ever able to give compelling examples of American benefit. The US benefit from NATO always remains a sort of esoteric wisdom which is mysteriously beyond the grasp of the average American. I suppose if we were more educated on European geography trivia, like you guys, that might help us understand why the US needs NATO so badly.

"Vietnam"

Yes, that was seen as analogous to another very recent war in Korea. If it wasn't for us, the state known as "North Korea" would cover the entire peninsula.

"Iraq"

One of the worst dictators in history, that Saddam Hussein. Europeans laughed at us for our opposition to him. It's why we now have little interest in opposing Putin, who is a herbivore by comparison.

"Afghanistan"

Depending on who you ask, we are either imperialists for displacing the Taliban, or complicit for allowing them to displace us right back. Typical double-bind.

"Iran"

You mean the country which is at this very moment crying out for American intervention, asking the Americans to restore their monarchy again? It's fascinating to me how certain Europeans can simultaneously beg the US for protection, and also assume that the US must be up to no good in other countries where the US gets begged for protection.

Hopefully you can see why I support Massie's bill to withdraw the US from NATO at this point. I'm tired of it all. I want a Swiss foreign policy for the US. Do you also support Massie's bill? Maybe that's something we can agree on.
by jasonlotito | 2026-01-24 02:03:15+00:00
The fairly accurate joke is that the algorithm is really just telling on yourself.

> it was suggesting feeds featuring clearly mentally impaired people with large audiences throwing money at them for saying their name

I've never seen that. I saw D&D content and discussions about gamedev. The feed is what you make of it, and TikTok's very famous algorithm shows you what you signal you will watch.

Feel free to disagree, and maybe you are the very rare exception, but you watched that stuff for a week or so, and I have no idea what you are referring to.
by trhway | 2026-01-24 02:03:39+00:00
I’ll get, at least for short time :) If nothing comes better, in 20-30 years retired I’ll build something like that Denmark amateur rocket. It is cheap even today, and the tech and blueprints will be widespread and available like say drones and homemade planes today.

Optimistically though I think by that time ticket to Moon on SpaceX cattle class will be $100K.
by austinjp | 2026-01-24 02:04:36+00:00
I haven't used Zotero in anger for a few years and can't get to my laptop right now to verify. But I used to rely on automatic exports to a folder that I sync'd elsewhere. Never used a paid Zotero subscription, never "self-hosted" it, and had many gigs of data (including PDF attachments) working fine for years.

I used "better bibtex" (?) to ensure files were reliably renamed and moved to an appropriate folder, all automatically.

A real set-and-forget setup that ran without hitch for years.
by lll-o-lll | 2026-01-24 02:05:00+00:00
I’ve been diving down the BYOD rabbit hole recently. At enterprise scale it’s not “hook in with your vpn, job done”, it’s got to be managed. Remote wipe on exit, prove the security settings, disk encryption, EDR.

What this means for the user is your personal device is rather invasively managed. If you want Linux, your distro choice may be heavily restricted. What you can do with that personal device might be restricted (all the EDR monitoring), and you’ll probably take a performance and reliability hit. Not better than just a second laptop for most people.
by krapp | 2026-01-24 02:05:01+00:00
No, but most people who use social media aren't schoolchildren. I have a niece and nephew who are school age and they seem to be doing fine. Certainly better than people here insist they must.

And I don't think believing social media provides some practical value for people beyond addiction is "very idealized."

edit: I remember a very different past than you do. People of all ages watched tv for hours at a time, everyone was captivated. Saturday morning cartoons (all of which were toy commercials) were a mandatory childhood ritual. And the ads when popular were often the memes of their time. Different in structure but not much different in influence.
by BigJono | 2026-01-24 02:06:40+00:00
I really dislike parsing not validating as general advice. IMO this is the true differentiator of type systems that most people should be familiar with instead of "dynamic vs static" or "strong vs weak".

Adding complexity to your type system and to the representation of types within your code has a cost in terms of mental overhead. It's become trendy to have this mental model where the cost of "type safety" is paid in keystrokes but pays for itself in reducing mental overhead for the developers. But in reality you're trading one kind of mental overhead for another, the cost you pay to implement it is extra.

It's like "what are all the ways I could use this wrong" vs "what are all the possibilities that exist". There's no difference in mental overhead between between having one tool you can use in 500 ways or 500 tools you can use in 1 way, either way you need to know 500 things, so the difference lies elsewhere. The effort and keystrokes that you use to add type safety can only ever increase the complexity of your project.

If you're going to pay for it, that complexity has to be worth it. Every single project should be making a conscious decision about this on day one. For the cost to be worth it, the rate of iteration has to be low enough and the cost of runtime bugs has to be high enough. Paying the cost is a no brainer on a banking system, spacecraft or low level library depended on by a million developers.

Where I think we've lost the plot is that NOT paying the cost should be a no brainer for stuff like front end web development and video games where there's basically zero cost in small bugs. Typescript is a huge fuck up on the front end, and C++ is a 30 year fuck up in the games industry. Javascript and C have problems and aren't the right languages for those respective jobs, but we completely missed the point of why they got popular and didn't learn anything from it, and we haven't created the right languages yet for either of those two fields.

Same concept and cost/benefit analysis applies to all forms of testing, and formal verification too.
by tom_ | 2026-01-24 02:06:46+00:00
If you really insist on not having a distinction between "u8"/"i8" and "unsigned char"/"signed char", and you've gone to the trouble of refusing to accept CHAR_BIT!=8, I'm pretty sure it'd be safer to typedef unsigned char u8 and typedef signed char i8. uint8_t/int8_t are not necessarily character types (see 6.2.5.20 and 7.22.1.1) and there are ramifications (see, e.g., 6.2.6.1, 6.3.2.3, 6.5.1).
by deaux | 2026-01-24 02:07:11+00:00
Makes sense, I agree for general chat Gemini is great.

For Gemini Code Assist [1], the problem remains that their models are very poor at tool calling and that their harness (Gemini CLI) is miles behind. Looks like there's a plugin for Opencode to use this subscription, which helps with the harness part.

If Gemini 3 GA - which is taking suspiciously long - is better at tool calling then it'll be a great option.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/products/gemini/pricing
by johntash | 2026-01-24 02:07:24+00:00
If it's a single project, you could try putting some of your corrections in AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md if supported. I don't remember if cursor reads from there, but I think it does have its own rules system.

Basically just a bullet list of stuff like "- use httpx instead of requests" or "- http libraries already exist, we dont need to build a new one that shells out to /proc/tcp"

Just add stuff you find yourself correcting a lot. You may realize you have a set of coding conventions and you just need to document it in the repo and point to that.

Smaller project-specific lists like that have been better imo vs giant prompts. If I wouldn't expect a colleague to read a giant instruction doc, I'm not going to expect llms to do a good job of it either.
by da_chicken | 2026-01-24 02:07:24+00:00
No, just that confusing the two was ubiquitous at the time 14.4k, 28k, and 56k modems were the standard.

Like it was more common than confusing Kbps and KBps.

I mean, the 3.5" floppy disk could store 1.44 MB... and by that people meant the capacity was 1,474,560 bytes = 1.44 * 1024 * 1000. Accuracy and consistency in terminology has never been particularly important to marketing and advertising, except marketing and advertising is exactly where most laypersons first learn technical terms.
by ldx1024 | 2026-01-24 02:07:43+00:00
I was about to say something similar. It may be true that the ideal image of the entrepreneur is the exception rather than the typical for the self-employed, but I would say the same for the image the author paints of the career employee. For every self-actualized employee with an enriching network, meaningful work, and supportive surroundings there are many more who are just trying to make ends meet in a meaningless, toxic, soul-sucking environment. The grass is very much greener on the other side...
by Tallain | 2026-01-24 02:07:44+00:00
I think Fiio and Hiby are the closest that exist today. They have dedicated hardware and physical buttons for the things listed in your comment. However, they do still ship with a custom Android OS and you need the touch screen to navigate your library and such. On the upside, this lets you choose your media library app. On the downside, it still isn't as good as the touch wheel on old iPods. I, too, am waiting for something like this to return. The Hiby is good enough until then for me.
by dlivingston | 2026-01-24 02:09:06+00:00
Fully agree. And more than that, I think you're objectively correct.

Think about the evolution of the term "social media". It evolved from social networks, which themselves evolved from forums.

The "media" in "social media" refers to third-party content that is algorithmically boosted through social signals, with signals from your own network weighting higher, and in the end creating a personalized algorithm of media content.

There is no personalized media on HN. It's the same feed for everyone. There is no network on HN. No friends, follows, private messages.

So there's no social to HN, and no (personalized) media, and no network.
by gbear605 | 2026-01-24 02:09:07+00:00
It would be impressive in the sense of "Can I ask AI to make me money, and it does so autonomously?", since that's just a free source of money (until other people do it better than you and with more capital). But looking at everything here, I'm dubious that the AI will be able to do that. Farming isn't that high of a margin business, and it's adding a lot of inefficiency and other issues (small acreage, unbelievably low amounts budgeted for labor and machinery, dubious plan for "IoT Sensor Kit", no budget for seeds, etc.).
by timeon | 2026-01-24 02:10:25+00:00
> 1 bad politician elected by a fraction of the population is enough to turn the world against us. Why bother with such altruism when a single election can turn everyone against us?

I get your pain but are you expecting other countries just to take hit?

Should EU lift sanctions with Russia as well? You know "1 bad politician elected by a fraction of the population".
by peapicker | 2026-01-24 02:10:27+00:00
Have had iPhones since the 5s. On a 17pro now. Never had this happen as an apple software thing, but the new ones (I last had a 14 and didn't have this problem, not sure when the button placement changed) make it easier to accidentally place the user's thumb on the volume buttons (up -or- down) and end up cranking it or silencing it unintentionally.
by ragall | 2026-01-24 02:12:10+00:00
In the Zurich Greater Area, you can get this for example: https://www.immoscout24.ch/buy/4002631314. Keep in mind that in most of Europe, real estate ads show the living space, i.e. surface net of walls, corridors, closets, cupboards, etc... whereas in US/Canada it's the gross surface. Those 350sqm are prolly 280 "livable". So if you're willing to live outside the Zurich city core, prices are comparable to Seattle but construction quality is way higher.

Also, most mortgages in Switzerland are very peculiar: you pay 20% down, but then you don't ever pay off the principal, only interest on the remaining 80% which is owned in perpetuity by the bank. The interest rates are kept very low and the currency quite stable, because most of the citizens rely on it. So your monthly interest could be 400-500 CHF, and you invest the rest however you prefer.
by alphazard | 2026-01-24 02:13:01+00:00
> there is no entity or force on this planet that can decrypt them.

At this point I think all of the modern, widely used symmetric cryptography that humans have invented will never be broken in practice, even by another more technologically advanced civilization.

On the asymmetric side, it's a different story. It seems like we were in a huge rush to standardize because we really needed to start PQ encrypting data in transit. All the lattice stuff still seems very green to me. I put P(catastrophic attack) at about 10% over the next decade.
by IgorPartola | 2026-01-24 02:13:42+00:00
It’s funny because I started with Windows 3.1 and it was actively user hostile then. From 3.1 to XP it was awful. Then it got slightly better with 7, and went downhill from there.

Realistically, a major Linux distro is the most user-beneficial thing you can do and today it is easier than ever. If my 12 year old can figure out how to use it productively, so can anyone. Switch today and enjoy.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-01-24 02:14:17+00:00
I like that you can just use the hostname for web and ssh, without considering that the same IP address isn't exclusively yours.

And, sure, you can add a -p option. But if you have 20 VMs (which is how many come with their basic plan) you'd have to remember all the different port numbers.

(I'm not in the target market for their service.)
by gerdesj | 2026-01-24 02:14:46+00:00
Good skills - you are well on the way to Engineer with a capital E.

You cannot see network traffic.

You'd be amazed at how many people think they can diagnose a network fault without using tools like this. Everyone is an expert until they prove themselves to be a bit of a twit!

At layer 1 you have electrical issues to deal with and that will need some hardware. Obviously you need to pick your network model too. Here you'll go in with a couple of PCs/laptops and APIPA and/or a Fluke or a cheap network tester effort off of Amazon. Use what you have available.

After that you will need nmap and wireshark. LLDP and CDP are very handy too.

If you have to deal with a large network, I can highly recommend Netdisco.
by dangus | 2026-01-24 02:16:47+00:00
HN and Reddit aren’t traditional forums because of the way downvotes and upvotes work. I would consider a forum to be defined by the most recent activity bringing the thread to the top of the list, not a popularity contest via upvote and downvote.

I also think HN has become too general purpose to be similar in spirit to most forums. Being seen on HN has major dollar value just like trending on Reddit does.

Also, have you used Reddit recently?

Open up Reddit on the app. No using old.reddit.com, doesn’t count. That’s not the experience most users are using.

Go to the watch section. I think you swipe left or right or something? I forget, I deleted the app.

Bam, it’s TikTok.
by austinjp | 2026-01-24 02:17:00+00:00
Not OP and this is mere anecdata, but on a modest several-years-old ThinkPad, Zotero was slow when my single collection started pushing over 1,000 papers, most of which had PDFs attached. Starting up would take many seconds (half a minute?) and heavy operations such as bulk-renaming would take minutes. But for day-to-day use (adding references to my collection via a browser plugin) it was fine.

Personally, I used auto-export for all additional functionality. So, I didn't use any Word (LibreOffice) plugins that hooked into Zotero or whatever. I'd just consume a giant .bib file as and when necessary.

On modern hardware Zotero is probably fine. And it's reasonably flexible. A suggestion: export/import a big refs file (plus PDF attachments) and see if it can handle your daily workload. I suspect it will.
by sergiotapia | 2026-01-24 02:17:27+00:00
I was in the market for this for my Pacifica but I couldn't figure out what this does exactly.

Is it FSD basically?

Is it just lane assist?

Can I put an address in a map and it takes me there?

Very hard to just get these concrete answers, maybe they just take the newbie experience for granted and assume people know these answers. Anyone who owns one of these can answer? Thank you!
by kylequest | 2026-01-24 02:17:48+00:00
By the way, I reversed engineered the Claude Code binary and started sharing different code snippets (on twitter/bluesky/mastadon/threads). There's a lot of code there, so I'm looking for requests in terms of what part of the code to share and analyze what it's doing. One of the requests I got was about the LSP functionality in CC. Anything else you would find interesting to explore there?

I'll post the whole thing in a Github repo too at some point, but it's taking a while to prettify the code, so it looks more natural :-)
by josephcsible | 2026-01-24 02:18:07+00:00
> Bonus points for rationalizing this behavior "because it's safer to go at the speed of traffic!".

But that's true (look up the Solomon curve), and it's exactly why the 85th percentile would be better.

> Delusional rationalizations like "if the limit is 50 then going 10 over must be fine too, due to <reasons>!". Bonus points for applying the "5/10/15/20 over" rule for every possible speed limit — basic maths and physics say hello!

You have cause and effect backwards. People think it's safe to go over the speed limit precisely because most speed limits are too low.

> Changing speed limits has little effect compared to changing the physical infrastructure. Show me a picture of a road and I'll tell you how fast people will drive on it.

Right. So even if going slower is safer, just making the speed limit lower won't accomplish that.
by eqvinox | 2026-01-24 02:20:32+00:00
hmm. I see the point about using the same hostname… but that's what .ssh/config is for.

You also can't really use the public hostname for this, can you. Unless you do really complex DNS trickery, you can only return one (set of) IP address for a given name. It would thus need to be the same IP address for everyone. Which works only as long as 2 users don't have overlap in the VMs they want to access…

(I guess they can run a solver and try to make it work for as long as possible, including reassigning IPs… but it'll hit a wall at some point?)
by epistasis | 2026-01-24 02:20:45+00:00
I'm coming back to this a few days later because the official new Pentagon policy deprioritizes China:

> The National Defense Strategy — a dramatic shift from even the first Trump administration — no longer focuses primarily on countering China. Instead, it blames past administrations for ignoring American interests and jeopardizing the U.S. military’s access to the Panama Canal and Greenland.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/23/pentagon-national-d...
by jpster | 2026-01-24 02:23:02+00:00
These type of stories are typically attributed to anonymous sources. So it’s impossible for a reader to conclude anything about the sources’ own credibility. So they usually rely on the credibility of the reporter or media org who’s published about it.

The Information is also reporting on this, but paywalled. IMO The Information does solid reporting.

https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/openai...

Editing to add some of the Information’s reporting:
> Speaking at a panel at Davos moderated by The Information CEO Jessica Lessin, Friar suggested that in the field of drug discovery, her company could, for instance, take a “license to the drug that is discovered” using OpenAI’s technology. In other words, OpenAI would take a profit-sharing stake in the financial upside its AI creates for customers.

> Friar is no doubt familiar with older AI drug discovery firms such as Recursion that struck deals with pharmaceutical firms to give them big bounties for successful drugs identified by their tech. There aren’t many, if any, examples of such successes yet, though.

> OpenAI isn’t the only firm eyeing this opportunity. Its rivals Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, an Alphabet subsidiary focusing on using AI for drug discovery, have also held discussions with early-stage biotechnology startups about data licensing or partnerships.
by vee-kay | 2026-01-24 02:24:30+00:00
Your plus is someone else's minus.

Of course, if you or your family are not the victim of a terror attack, you may not care if others are impacted by it.

After 9/11, USA did the biggest crackdown on terror, including domestic security overhaul such as stringent security checks in airports, more pervasive surveillance, etc.

Microsoft has recently given FBI recovery keys for Bitlocker to unlock a suspect's laptops:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-o...

And this was for fraud investigation, not even a terror investigation case.

Every nation responds to repeated terror attacks in a similar way. Increased surveillance, increased scrutiny, increased vigilance, retaliatory strikes.

What do you expect? Let terror attacks happen, try not to prevent them, try not to retaliate at terrorist networks and nests?

You live in a cosy idealistic world, if you think that terrorism can be handled by ignoring it or its mechanisms of communication.