MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 12:35:05+00:00
If you look at the cybertruck's architecture it basically is the "top end" of that line.

It's a big car platform with a bed. It's the "top of the line" for "car based" pickups like the old Subarus, the Maverick/SantaCruz and Ridgeline.

While it nominally competes with the F150 it doesn't really. Same as how the Ridgeline nominally competes with the Ranger, but doesn't really.

I think it's a real shame the cyber truck never took off. While gimmicky I think the longevity of it's absolutely stupid thick(er than typical) gauge stainless body would have put pressure on other OEMs to stop building shitty truck beds that dent and rust if you look at them funy.
by jimbo808 | 2026-01-15 12:35:12+00:00
Humans are unreliable in predictable ways. This makes review relatively painless since you know what to look for, and you can skim through the boilerplate and be pretty confident that it's right and isn't redundant/insecure, etc.

LLMs can use linters and type checkers, but getting past them often times leads it down a path of mayhem and destruction, doing pretty dumb things to get them to pass.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-15 12:36:50+00:00
To steelman the vibecoders’ perspective, I think the point is that the code is not meant for you to read.

Anyone who has looked at AI art, read AI stories, listened to AI music, or really interacted with AI in any meaningfully critical way would recognize that this was the only predictable result given the current state of AI generated “content”. It’s extremely brittle, and collapses at the smallest bit of scrutiny.

But I guess (to continue steelmanning) the paradigm has shifted entirely. Why do we even need an entire browser for the whole internet? Why can’t we just vibe code a “browser” on demand for each web page we interact with?

I feel gross after writing this.
by techiferous | 2026-01-15 12:36:53+00:00
> Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me.

Good for you! Everybody has their own "twist" on Stoicism, and that's fine. You have to find your own twist on it; you have to make it your own.

In my own experience, what is most rewarding and promotes my progress the most, is when I put philosophy into action. Then I get authentic feedback from life about what actually works. It helps me separate mere opinions and good sounding ideas from true insight.
by prakashn27 | 2026-01-15 12:36:56+00:00
I feel local rag system , slows down my computer (I got M1 Pro 32 GB)

So I use hosted one to prevent this. My business use vector db, so created a new db to vectorize and host my knowledge base.
1. All my knowledge base is markdown files. So I split that by header tags.
2. The split is hashed and hash value is stored in SQLite
3. The hashed version is vectorized and pushed to cloud db.
4. When ever I make changes , I run a script which splits and checks hash, if it is changed the. I upsert the document. If not I don’t do anything. This helps me keep the store up to date

For search I have a cli query which searches and fetches from vector store.
by reactordev | 2026-01-15 12:36:57+00:00
The ultimately sad part was the professor in a Sun OS machine.

In a corner with no where to go, giving demerits because his bash was older than he realized.

Reminds me of my college professor that claimed you don’t have to close HTML tags (some you absolutely do) and I proved that you do. Not all of them, but most of them. (Netscape Navigator Days)
by triceratops | 2026-01-15 12:37:17+00:00
> not the least of which is inventing a whole new type of crime and passing laws about it

They're already writing laws about age verification. Tacking this onto a bill in progress would be the way to do it.

As for the other "gyrations", selling age-restricted products IRL is already done. Gift cards and the infrastructure for them is well-established. Most importantly, this is something a regular person on the street can understand. This is vital for capturing the "save the children" vote.
by jimbo808 | 2026-01-15 12:38:20+00:00
Yep - no doubt that LLMs are useful. I use them every day, for lots of stuff. It's a lot better than Google search was in its prime. Will it translate to massively increased output for the typical engineer esp. senior/staff+)? I don't think it will without a radical change to the architecture. But that is an opinion.
by yosid | 2026-01-15 12:38:36+00:00
Hi HN,

Like many of you, I was frustrated when Skype was retired last year and replaced by the Teams "unified" experience. I don't want a collaboration suite just to call my grandmother in Italy or to phone a bank; I just want a dial pad that works.

I was surprised to see that users have already logged over 80 hours of calls in less than a month.

I built CallTuv (calltuv.com) to be the "old Skype" in a browser tab with some cool features. Built with Next.js, Tailwind, Shadcn, React, Node.js.
by raghuveer19 | 2026-01-15 12:38:59+00:00
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by segfaultex | 2026-01-15 12:39:21+00:00
If I had to bet; they'll put their 3.7L V6 in and run it on the miller cycle with a fixed drive to hit @130+kW or so.

The changes for cooling, etc. will be substantial, but the problem space is already well-known by the team, so the time to market probably won't be as long as we think.
by crote | 2026-01-15 12:39:43+00:00
The intent isn't true independence. I think we can all come up with half a dozen ways for AWS US to add backdoors when required to do so by the US government.

This moves makes a lot more sense when you view it as a compliance checkbox ticking exercise: for all intents and purposes they look like a truly independent company.

This means it'll be very hard to write public tenders in a way which exludes AWS, which enables them to sue when EU governments don't pick their "independent" cloud but use an (on paper) more expensive / less featureful EU cloud instead.
by mindcrash | 2026-01-15 12:39:47+00:00
> Also can anyone explain why X is calling itself a “news app” and is categorized as “news” instead of social media

If I remember correctly the publisher can choose the category of the app it publishes on the storefront.

Elon Musk thinks X is the number one source for news, so that explains that.

You already named the most likely reason why no one dares to recategorize it.
by Y-bar | 2026-01-15 12:40:13+00:00
Less scenic, sure. But still beautiful.

I would rather they not have to be built in the first place. Yet, this is unfortunately the price we must pay today for not reducing our carbon emissions yesterday.

Had we taken a serious effort to do something in, say the mid nineties when the scientific community reached a large consensus regarding the major contributors of climate change it had been less urgent to do something now thirty years later and we would have had a much longer time for the academies and industry to research and improve performance of non-fossil energy production and do the same for energy using applications.

It's not the renewables which are to blame, because if we continue to burn fossil fuels the way we do then these places will either soon be destroyed, or nobody can appreciate them due to civilisational collapse.
by fifticon | 2026-01-15 12:40:28+00:00
currently learning 3d "solid" design with blender for 3dprinter.
I am aware blender is not the fit a cad app would be (),
but it 'works' if you are careful what you do (I am not).
This morning I had to clean the poor 3dprinter of a spaghetti-gone-wrong
accident, because my hubris-3d-design submitted last night
was not as clever as I naively thought.
() the advantage of using blender is that,
as a byproduct I will eventually have learned blender..
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-15 12:40:48+00:00
It's a plausible explanation, but I find it a bit difficult to believe. Motorcycle companies are mature and well funded, they're hardly in need of any venture capital at their stage.

As for the motorcycle market being conservative, I rather think that there's a lot of people chomping at the bits to try an electric bike. The motorcycle market is much more diverse and playful than the car market, in my opinion. If electric bikes were even "almost as good" as gas bikes, then I'd expect to see at least some percentage out on the street being electric. Or hear people talking about them.

But I don't see them anywhere, or hear anything about them. And they are easy and affordable to buy here. What I see is tons of gas motorcycles, and a whole lot of electric cars, and electric scooters (those that go on the pavement).

I would expect most ladies who commute on a 125cc scooter to much rather go on an electric motorcycle, just to name a very large customer group.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-15 12:41:37+00:00
One thing Cursor does different to some other agents such a Claude Code in managing context, is to use a vector database of code chunks so that it can selectively load relevant code chunks into context rather that entire source files.

Another way to control context size (not specific to Cursor), is to use subagents with their own context for specific tasks so that the subagent context can be discarded when done rather that just adding to the agent's main context.

If context gets too full (performance may degrade well before you hit LLM max context length), then the main remedy is to compact - summarize the old context and discard. One way to prevent this from being too disruptive is to have the agent maintain a TODO list tracking progress and what it is doing, so that it can better remain on track after compaction.
by ffsm8 | 2026-01-15 12:41:38+00:00
> That said - I 100% don't believe that hertzner are simply passing on the price for their colo clients. Where did you read that they are not making a profit off electricity resale?

That's indeed probably untrue, you're most likely correct there.

The statement was wrt the increase (they're passing on the increase in cost, not that they're mirroring the cost the energy provider!)

And after thinking about it some more, they absolutely have to make a significant upcharge, as they need to pay for wiring to the rented devices, Large battery banks for electricity temporary fail over and finally diesel generators if power is down for an extended period of time (that has all been demoed via YouTubers like derBauer )
by MichaelFKnight | 2026-01-15 12:41:54+00:00
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by infecto | 2026-01-15 12:42:16+00:00
Maybe we are talking about different things. AWD is a $4k upgrade on a transit. 4wd buys you nothing and at that point it’s more about the tires.

Even in cold parts of the US your hvac or plumber is going to be using something like a transit. Very few trade jobs opt for a truck. They don’t make economic sense and impossible to secure anything in the bed.

Sure landscaping crews can utilize trucks but even then, your mowing operation can get more value from a transit style van if they are only using pus mowers.

Maybe it’s just in my neck of the woods but if you cannot get up or down a hill because a homeowner does not clear their driveway then it’s a no go. Very acceptable boundary.
Show HN: Okscale – Create color scales using OKLCH curves
by elyalon | 2026-01-15 12:42:56+00:00
Hello HN! I want to show off a tool I made for creating color scales by modifying curves of the OKLCH components (lightness, chroma, hue).

I also made an accompanying blog post about how I use it for web design: https://ely.al/posts/okscale-for-design
by csa | 2026-01-15 12:43:20+00:00
Thank you. I’m very familiar with the guidelines. I’ve think I can play my OG card on this one.

I added substantial commentary that makes it more than a “why the down votes?” type of comment.

‘rayiner gets beat on here a bit due to what appears to be his conservative stances on some issues.

While I don’t agree with many of the things ‘rayiner says, we can’t throw the baby out with the bath water if we’re going to have meaningful discussions here — especially ones that are intellectually stimulating.

IMHO, one of the reasons we (in the US) are where we are politically is precisely because we ignore, or downvote, or denigrate views from the opposing side (whichever side that is). It’s not really prudent to blithely downvote a considered and articulate comment without commentary just because you disagree with it or dislike the implications. In the case of hacker news, this type of behavior is antithetical to the goals of the site — intellectually stimulating content.

So, while I appreciate your citation of the rules (which may itself be a middlebrow dismissal), I stick by my original comment, and I look forward to anyone who could reply to it.
by teekert | 2026-01-15 12:43:56+00:00
This is pretty big here in the Netherlands, a lot of internal discussion is going on about our sovereignty wrt IT. Especially since the ICC (international Criminal court) is moving away from MS365 after getting shut down [0] (which is seen as THE example that we need to do something), and now that Trump threatens to invade Danish territory... I'm seeing several online petitions popping up blocking this. The company concerned (Logius) is saying "It's not so bad" [2]

A good Dutch source: [1]

[0] https://www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/digitaal/internationaal-st...

[1] https://tweakers.net/nieuws/243642/experts-eisen-inzicht-in-...

[2] https://www.logius.nl/actueel/digid-en-blijft-nederlands
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-15 12:44:03+00:00
That's one advantage of the US' 1950s paper-based approach to everything, or at least as it was 20-odd years ago. As a non-US citizen I opened a bank account with barely any ID (no drivers license or phone number), they gave me a box of paper cheques that I had to look up online to figure out how to use because I had no idea what to do with them, I got an SSN (still not quite sure how I managed that), filed IRS tax returns, and somehow got a complete US identity and whatnot set up which seemed to be based mostly on the fact that everything was built around paper records and no-one talked to anyone else about what they had on file.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-15 12:44:53+00:00
That's an odd malayanglish; drop the comma and the ending be perfect (for starters :)

https://old.reddit.com/r/Liverpool/comments/14qshol/who_stil...

all (most?) of "la" save the parts that are shared with "mate" (or "lad" for the boomers)

Indeed it's sometimes spelled "lar" in the suburbs. Besserwisserism is a security vuln =p
by NoboruWataya | 2026-01-15 12:44:58+00:00
IMO this is a consequence of Raspberry Pi going for-profit and IPOing. Now they are incentivised to chase the same hype trains as every other public tech company. I can't see them having another "Raspberry Pi moment", those are too risky now.

That said, more options at the (relatively speaking) low end of the AI hardware market probably isn't a bad thing. I'm not particularly an AI enthusiast generally, but if it is going to infest everything anyway, then at least I would like a decent ecosystem for running local models.
by thanksgiving | 2026-01-15 12:45:15+00:00
Subject: Website Feedback and Issues

1. Wilson J. Holmes https://wilsonjholmes.com/
The HTTPS version is not working and the page fails to load.
SSL Analysis: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=wilsonjholmes...

2. Mndnm https://mndnm.io](https://mndnm.io
The About page is currently not working.
The RSS feature looks like a good addition, though I have not tested it yet.
by alance | 2026-01-15 12:45:21+00:00
A talk about creating from Ethan Hawke called "Give yourself permission to be creative"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9Gek4V5Q

But my takeaway was more like "Give yourself permission to be bad"

Felt good to be reminded that if you want to make interesting things, it's ok to flail around. It'll feel foolish and that's completely ok, perhaps necessary.
by zipy124 | 2026-01-15 12:45:34+00:00
It is incredible to see just how many big-oil talking points there are in this thread. From renewable energies resource costs, to their land use impact. I didn't realise just how effective their propaganda was in the tech space till reading this thread. That is not to say that these projects should be free of criticism, but anyone who believes these negatives are remotely close to the damage that fossil fuels are doing needs to re-evaluate their world view.
by thoughtlesslabs | 2026-01-15 12:45:44+00:00
The idea is about sharing secrets and keys not locking people out of the codebase.

Let's say you are using an OpenAI api key. The only people who can use your key are the ones you added their public key to the vault.

If you decide they can no longer have access, you change the secret and pull their public key from the repo.

This is no different then if you were sharing secrets in a .env except that they are not stored in plain text which is why you can upload it to github.

If you never give anyone access to the vault they can never use your secrets even if they have the code. They can create their own vaults and keys but they can't use yours.
by soco | 2026-01-15 12:46:08+00:00
You are actually correct, I believe. But this is exactly the principle of capitalism isn't it? Market forces, invisible hand, the theories changed over the years but it boils down to the same thing: letting everybody compete. But you cannot have your cake (only locals employed) and eat it too (big wages) in this free competition - some will be underbidding the others.
by 0xy | 2026-01-15 12:46:22+00:00
My favorite version of Windows was Vista, and it receives unearned hatred thanks largely to OEMs bundling it with underpowered PCs.

It was miles ahead of XP from an architecture standpoint, Aero looks positively futuristic today, security was improved, file transfers improved.

It was rock solid and good to look at. I used Vista right up until EOL.
by hrn_34 | 2026-01-15 12:46:25+00:00
Location: Argentina

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

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Email: hernan.farias.arg@gmail.com
by nativeforks | 2026-01-15 12:46:42+00:00
>Maybe look into dual licensing.

No, no, not at all as a FOSS developer.

> I’m planning a non-intrusive in-app prompt to remind users about donations something subtle, because many users forget once they start using the app, rather than only seeing the donation info in the README.

As I mentioned previously, the above approach seems to be well enough and good.
by patapong | 2026-01-15 12:47:17+00:00
The specific issue here seems to be that Anthropic allows the unrestricted upload of personal files to the anthropic cloud environment, but does not check to make sure that the cloud environment belongs to the user running the session.

This should be relatively simple to fix. But, that would not solve the million other ways a file can be sent to another computer, whether through the user opening a compromised .html document or .pdf file etc etc.

This fundamentally comes down to the issue that we are running intelligent agents that can be turned against us on personal data. In a way, it mirrors the AI Box problem: https://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox
by sylware | 2026-01-15 12:47:49+00:00
How much valve did port in plain and simple wine C code that horrible c++ diarrhea dxvk code in this wine version?

Why is valve not porting that much proton vkd3d code into wine vkd3d code?

Explain.

That said, there is still a legal issue: somebody has to take over the legal requirement of the technical support of 'proton' titles where real money is put into (sales or micro-transactions). Valve or the game devs have to support this technical hell hole which is elf/linux+proton debugging (microsoft/apple grade).
by codingbot3000 | 2026-01-15 12:48:15+00:00
You must have dreamed this. There is no blockade against Kaliningrad. Especially no sea blockade.
In fact, there is a EU treaty in place that ensures overland transport to Kaliningrad via Lithuania.

What in fact is in place is widespread GPS jamming done by the Russians from Kaliningrad, and that impacts ships sailing the baltic sea.
by magnetometer | 2026-01-15 12:49:32+00:00
The company I work for is rather slow in adopting AI-based tooling. Recently, I discovered that our Databricks instance exposes an API endpoint that provides access to a wide range of LLMs. So I built a small local Streamlit-based chat app that lets me switch models within a conversation, add or remove files from the context, and clean up dead ends. It actually works much better than the Microsoft Copilot app we’re officially supposed to use.
by sophielane | 2026-01-15 12:50:27+00:00
Baseline testing compares current test results against an approved baseline from a previously validated version of the system. The approved baseline is known as ‘a reference version’, which defines what a good working version of your system is. Any deviation from the previously approved/accepted baseline indicates that changes have occurred to the product over time, some of which may be unacceptable (i.e., regressions), while others may be acceptable (e.g., improvements).
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-01-15 12:50:31+00:00
> When I was a young, green, university student, I was forced to use test(1) as the only true way to do testing in shell scripting. […] Yeah, I was also forced to not use semicolons as they were evil (according to my professor, any comment unneeded!).

The author’s professor clearly went gone overboard, but doesn’t this entire anecdote demonstrate the value of teaching it this way? Having green students call the `test` binary provides more insight into how UNIX operates, and gets them into that mindset.
by jtuluve | 2026-01-15 12:51:17+00:00
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