MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by retired | 2026-01-27 09:44:01+00:00
In my team we had ownership over a feature. We would build it ourself, someone would review it and then we would merge and deploy.

If someone had their grubby hands all over the code I would no longer feel ownership and would not feel comfortable releasing it, as I wouldn't know how it would react in production with all the changes someone had made. I would at least have to run the full test-suite and manually test the new feature all over again.

Or in other words:

git revert

Just comment on the PR and leave a code suggestion that I can implement in one click.
by munksbeer | 2026-01-27 09:44:43+00:00
I admire your intentions, I genuinely mean that. I have children and worry about the horrible impact of social media too.

But your methods are flawed. I'm not even sure I can follow the logic of your post. You're talking about doing school work on iPads at school, so we must make everyone give their personal identifying information to VPNs? How does that follow?

The main problems I have with your methods:

1. You're forcing everyone in the UK to expose their personal identifying data to third party companies who *will* leak the data at some point.

2. You're forcing children to work around this and they *will* work around it and end up on websites that definitely do not have their best intentions in mind. I think your hammer approach is going to partly work, but have some extreme negative outcomes. Will you raise your hand for the harm this causes?

I'd suggest digesting what I'm saying here, really looking strongly at your aims and think if there are better alternatives.

Here is what I would like:

Whenever a UK citizen browses a social media site, I'd mandate banners that advertise the harms of social media, and also mandate that they can view the algorithm that is being used to feed them.

I plan on providing safe ways to browse the internet for my children when they're old enough. I'll give them their own VPN if needed, again with necessary precautions and education.
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-27 09:45:44+00:00
> extremely powerful explosives that are stable water-like liquids.

My understanding is that those are detected by the bag swabs.

I _thought_ that this was to stop people mixing their own explosives _on_ the plane? There was a whole court case in the UK about how people had smuggled it onboard and then were going to make it in the toilet.

They would need and ice bath, which is somewhat impractical.
by ben_w | 2026-01-27 09:46:02+00:00
> How will this pressure add up and bubble to the sociopaths which we collectively allow to control most of the world's resources?

By things like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Act

and: https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/4583.ht... (I know nothing about South Carolina, this was just the first clear result from the search)
by Dev_Master | 2026-01-27 09:46:32+00:00
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by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-27 09:47:53+00:00
This is why you should set guidelines for reviews (like e.g. https://go.dev/wiki/CodeReviewComments), and ideally automate as much as possible. I'm guilty of this as well, leaving loads of nitpicky code style comments - but granted, this was before Prettier was a thing. In hindsight, I could've spent all that time building a code formatter myself lol.
by mikewarot | 2026-01-27 09:47:55+00:00
I don't have email hooked to my phone directly. If I do need it, I fire up gmail in a browser.

I don't have twitter, facebook, or any of the other apps that came by default. If I need those, I fire up chrome and use the web interface.

One exception is Discord, for contacting my child, but it doesn't start by default, and all the notifications are off for it as well.

Only texts and actual phone calls alert me.
by paganel | 2026-01-27 09:48:03+00:00
> s in a somewhat unified market

It's really not when it comes to the internet. First of all I'm in a very big minority here in Romania because I can read French (I can also speak somehow), but the majority of the people around me cannot. And let's not mention German. So, when the majority of EU citizens cannot speak the languages of EU's two biggest countries by population then it means that the market is not unified.

And, no, using English as a lingua franca across the continent going forward is not going to cut it, that will mean cultural erasure. Maybe in the future some EU bureaucrats will advocate for that, i.e. to replace French, German, Spanish, Italian etc as people's main language, but I think we're pretty far away from that. Also, making everyone around these parts bilingual is also not going to work, it's either English as a first language (or French, or German) or nothing.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-27 09:48:35+00:00
I've also found myself thinking a lot about isomorphic languages, particularly the edge cases I run into when I start attempting to run through potential mappings for various aspects of syntax or language features in my mind.

> with all of the language-specific concepts stripped away

I've arrived at a somewhat different conclusion. I think we'll arrive at a maximally cumbersome, maximally verbose interchange format that isn't intended to be parsed by a human. One capable of expressing literally every feature of every language that it officially supports. Otherwise translation will necessarily be lossy and round trips with perfect fidelity impossible.

Even then certain paradigms that are common today simply don't seem possible to translate between arbitrary language pairs. I think the client language would also need to be tailored to support the paradigm. Consider how you would go about abstracting (for example) longjump in C and how fundamentally incompatible that is with (for example) Java in its present form.

I figure that C++ will be a viable candidate for the interchange format if we wait another 10 years or so. Just need to add a borrow checker, first class continuations, full blown AST macros, and a runtime "eval" facility. It's slightly tongue in cheek but it's wild to think that actually it could almost work (including the bit about not being intended to be parsed by a human).
by DarkWiiPlayer | 2026-01-27 09:48:55+00:00
Oh this is a funny topic; I just found myself looking for a decent music player on linux like a month or so ago and the situation was... disappointing.

The nicest looking one I could find was amberol, but that was a bit too minimalistic for me. I like minimal UIs but that doesn't have to translate to minimal feature sets as well.

But in the end I didn't find any simple but hackable players that I liked; in the end I just settled on audacious because it's just simple enough in terms of UI and good enough in terms of features. I do like the playlists as tabs idea though.
by n4r9 | 2026-01-27 09:49:07+00:00
Heathrow is by far the largest airport in the UK, with several times more flights per day than any other, and flights to a broader range of destinations. So it affects a lot more prospective fliers. I looked up European airports and found some mention that Rome and Milan also have this new equipment, but they're both still significantly smaller than Heathrow.
by bjackman | 2026-01-27 09:49:32+00:00
Yeah I also regularly bring a razorblade (for my old fashioned safety razor). I have got caught once but it's worth the risk of wasting a few minutes.

If this was really about security, it would be set up so that just deliberately breaking the rules for the sake of minor convenience actually had some consequences.

If I wanted to blow up a plane with liquid explosives I would just... Try a few times. If you get caught, throw the bottle away, get on the plane, and try again next week.
by regularfry | 2026-01-27 09:50:00+00:00
I suspect the difference is whether (as with the old door lock) there is no lubricant at all and anything is better than nothing, or whether (as with the ignition key) there is a lubricant there which was designed for the purpose but for some other reason isn't working as intended, and which the WD-40 will displace and replace with something worse. "Fails in hot weather" sounds either like some sort of thermal expansion problem or the intended grease gets too thin to properly lubricate a high-pressure contact area. Or there just isn't enough of it.
Show HN: Real-time meeting cost calculator
by iambenschmidt | 2026-01-27 09:50:32+00:00
Hey HN,

If you're like me, you have sat in a meeting wondering whether this meeting is worth the cost. Is the cost of the people's time is more than whatever we are meeting about???

Well guess no longer!

Super simple little utility app.

1. Input the average meeting participant hourly/yearly pay

2. Start the meeting

3. (Optional) Share the calculator in your Zoom/Teams/Etc. for accountability

4. Dread the answer

5. (Hope) Shorten the meeting

Hope it brings you clarity (or joy).
by SapporoChris | 2026-01-27 09:50:40+00:00
In the 90's USA was sensible. I was flying with a thermos of hot coffee in my carry on. As soon as they took out the thermos and felt the heat radiating from the lid the agent said, "I don't think they would heat it", smiled and passed me thru.

Now when I fly I have to be careful. When they ask purpose of visit I say sightseeing. I used to say tourist, but with my accent that once caused alarm when the agent thought I said terrorist.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-27 09:51:14+00:00
>Democrats did not run on such policy at all. They heavily tried to appeal to center.

Not true at all. Dems mostly ran on blaming straight white men for all social economic issues in the country, while selling forced DEI policies to the population as their cure to this issue, and the likes of Mamdani housing czar vocally called ‘White, middle-class homeowners’ a ‘huge problem'.

THis is anything but centrist, this is discrimination that would not fly if you replaced white with any other race/ethnicity.

And then they experienced the pro-Trump backlash in opposition to this
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-27 09:52:14+00:00
Yes, or as Cory Doctorow put it: "So now we have tariffs, and if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow orders, and then they burn it down anyway, you really don’t have to keep following their orders."

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-12-16...
by adev_ | 2026-01-27 09:53:12+00:00
> There are studies showing that regulating adolescent social media use is better than a ban for example.

Not in disagreement. I believe that the ban is not even strictly applicable.

It will just lead to the redirection to a new platform that avoid the restrictions or any jurisdiction, which is worst.

The complete lack of will to tackle the problem by the main Mega networks (Meta, X, Tiktok, Snapchat, Telegram and even Youtube) is currently the main issues here.

For instance, enforcing a "report" to the consummer weekly with the effective time spend on scrolling to promote awareness and help to prevent addiction would already be a first good move. None of them implemented that effectively.
by forrestthewoods | 2026-01-27 09:53:49+00:00
No.

The BC will not incorrectly approve an incorrect program.

But the BC does not approve all correct programs. Because some patterns which are indeed perfectly correct and will never explode the BC is not able to prove that and therefore the BC rejects the program.

The BC is effectively incompatible with typical video game patterns. The whole level/frame life cycle is effectively unsupported by the Rust BC. As just one example.
by seec | 2026-01-27 09:54:40+00:00
Tim Cook is gay and thus works like a woman. He wants "consensus" and focus on appearances to pretend everyone is getting along. The traditional masculine way of competing to show who can do better is frowned upon.
It is very unsurprising it has all turned to shit.

And yes, Ive couldn't do jack shit without Jobs' leadership, and everyone with half a brain cell knew it.
by creshal | 2026-01-27 09:54:58+00:00
No, it's a generic android keyboard and works with all apps. But you need a keyboard like it (arrow keys, ctrl, etc.) for termux to not be a total PITA to use.

(Android has full physical keyboard support, so with it you can use Ctrl+A/Ctrl+X/Ctrl+V in all input fields. Usually a lot faster than fumbling with the touch equivalents that keep randomly bugging out…)
by Barathkanna | 2026-01-27 09:55:30+00:00
A realistic setup for this would be a 16× H100 80GB with NVLink. That comfortably handles the active 32B experts plus KV cache without extreme quantization. Cost-wise we are looking at roughly $500k–$700k upfront or $40–60/hr on-demand, which makes it clear this model is aimed at serious infra teams, not casual single-GPU deployments. I’m curious how API providers will price tokens on top of that hardware reality.
by robinsonb5 | 2026-01-27 09:56:20+00:00
> and ignores the window manager decorations.

That's because Gtk4 does "client side decoration".
That has the advantage (or otherwise, depending on your point of view!) that the application can now place custom widgets in the title bar, and the disadvantage that when apps do that, the part of the title bar available for dragging windows around becomes significantly smaller.

My main objection to client-side decoration is that middle-clicking a window's title bar to push it to the back no longer works. (Plus, for those of us with eyes that aren't as young as they once were, it's now much harder to choose a window border style that clearly indicates which window has focus.)
by NicuCalcea | 2026-01-27 09:56:32+00:00
> Writing code is not that hard.

It's not that hard, but it's not that easy. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. I'm a journalist who learned to code because it helped me do some stories that I wouldn't have done otherwise.

But I don't like to type out the code. It's just no fun to me to deal with what seem to me arbitrary syntax choices made by someone decades ago, or to learn new jargon for each language/tool (even though other languages/tools already have jargon for the exact same thing), or to wade through someone's undocumented code to understand how to use an imported function. If I had a choice, I'd rather learn a new human language than a programming one.

I think people like me, who (used to) code out of necessity but don't get much gratification out of it, are one of the primary targets of vibe coding.
by BrunoBernardino | 2026-01-27 09:56:34+00:00
Previously Nextcloud [1], currently bewCloud [2]. Full disclosure: I created bewCloud as a simpler, faster, and modern alternative to Nextcloud.

They've mainly allowed me to get my Files (including Photos), Calendars, and Contacts off of Big Tech. I couldn't live without the RSS and Expenses apps, though.

[1] https://nextcloud.com

[2] https://bewcloud.com
by alpineman | 2026-01-27 09:56:50+00:00
My wife is a doctor and there is a general trend at the moment of everyone thinking their intelligence in one area (say programming) carries over into other areas such as medicine, particularly with new tools such as ChatGPT.

Imagine if as a dev someone came to you and told you everything that is wrong with your tech stack because they copy pasted some console errors into ChatGPT. There's a reason doctors need to spend almost a decade in training to parse this kind of info. If you do the above then please do it with respect for their profession.
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-27 09:57:34+00:00
The 80% approach really resonates. We're building transaction coding tools for accountants and the key insight was similar - get the obvious stuff right automatically, surface the ambiguous cases for human decision.

The domain-specific wrinkle for accounting: every firm has their own coding style. What one bookkeeper calls 'Office Supplies' another calls 'General Admin'. So we had to build pattern learning at the individual level - watch how each person codes, learn their preferences, then apply that to new transactions.

The tax rules (VAT in the UK) add another layer - sometimes the same merchant gets different VAT treatment depending on what you bought. Gets messy fast.

Would be happy to swap notes - feel free to reach out. Always interested in how other domains handle the 'close enough to be useful, flexible enough for edge cases' problem.
by littlecranky67 | 2026-01-27 09:59:12+00:00
Germany has a very sad and weak airport security story. The security personal are hired and paid by the state (Land), and thus the state plans their capacity and workflow. The airport owner (i.e. FRAport) has no say in their internal work organization, as it is basically contracted out policework. For whatever reason, most german Airports I regularly use, use the same machine and broken workflow: There is only a limited amount of containers to put your stuff in to go through the x-ray, and the machine itself has an integrated container-return system using conveyors. As a result, each machine has only a single small table with a container dispenser to serve passengers. On that tiny table, only 2-3 people at the same time can get undressed, get water out of their handlugagge etc. Waiting passengers behind them are blocked.

I contrast that with my experience in Spain: Several meters before the machines, there is a large amount of free, huge tables with containers stacked everywhere, so everybody can get undressed and pack their stuff into the container trays. Staff assists and tells the rules to individuall travellers. Once you are done sorting your stuff into the containers, taking off your belt etc - only THEN you take the containers towards the x-ray conveyor. So there is hardly any blocking the line. Instead of a container-return system, a single human stacks the containers past the scan and returns them to the beginning. This is so much more effective.

Classic example of government run workflows: No one cares to optimize the workflow, and the one who would benefit from a speedup (the airport and the airlines) in terms of increased sales, have no say in the process.
by pbmonster | 2026-01-27 09:59:20+00:00
Sounds like you have a music discovery process in nicotine? Can you elaborate on how you find new things to listen to? Just my looking at what individual other users listen to?

Music discovery is the one thing I cannot drop Spotify for. I want to make a playlist with 10 songs and then have an algorithm suggest 20 more - ideally songs I have never listened to before, or songs I haven't listened to in a long time.

Spotify is mediocre at that task, but I just can't find a replacement at all...
by bjackman | 2026-01-27 10:00:34+00:00
My experience is that basic generic agents are useless but an agent with extensive prompting about your usecase is extremely valuable.

In my case using these prompts:

https://github.com/masoncl/review-prompts

Took things from "pure noise" to a world where, if you say there's a bug in your patch, people's first question will be "has the AI looked at it?"

FWIW in my case the AI has never yet found _the_ bug I was hunting for but it has found several _other_ significant bugs.

Most of the "noise" I get now just leads me to say "yeah I need to add more context to the commit message". E.g the model will say "you forgot to do X" when X is out of scope for the patch and I'm doing it in a later one. So ideally the commit messages should mention this anyway.
by akmarinov | 2026-01-27 10:00:53+00:00
Just the opposite, he has over 15 years of experience of providing third party frameworks for the iOS community, used in thousands of apps. He founded PSPDFKit, a library for working with PDFs and managed to make an exit of the company worth $100 million

He's written up hundreds of articles on different topics in the community and is very much a skilled developer, with tons of technical merit.

Now you come along with your small mind and a hard on for AI and all you can comprehend is that nothing can challenge your world view so you reach out and attack what you don't understand. That just defines you as ignorant.
by renewiltord | 2026-01-27 10:01:47+00:00
> How are gangs of thieves reasonably justified as part of culture? Surely civil society frowns on theft?

Theft is considered acceptable in coastal elite culture so long as it is from a multi-store chain. I haven't yet figured out how many stores transforms a chain from independent (theft-unacceptable) to corporate (theft-permitted, perhaps even encouraged). It is somewhat underspecified but at a sufficiently franchised operation, it is considered moral to steal.

> The resulting life in prison without parole sentence is probably just, but as with the Las Vegas story, I think that's up to those most affected by the crime to decide.

In this case, the person most affected did not make a statement as to his intended outcome. This is probably because he was killed in the commission of his crime, but we have no peer-reviewed studies that have proven that so we must consider it speculation.
by int0x2e | 2026-01-27 10:02:07+00:00
There are not even 7,000 Mossad agents, period.
7,000 is the highest estimate publicly available for the TOTAL number of employees in the Mossad, and 95% of them are not agents - just like most US intel are not field agents. Real numbers for agents are far, far lower without a doubt.

Also - Israel got burned so bad with the idiotic Pollard affair, there is zero chance Israel would put so much of their assets in the US when they have a 7 front war. They are many things, but they are not idiots, and they clearly care far more about their immediate security interests than what the US thinks.

These theories make absolutely no sense, my dear fried.
by domh | 2026-01-27 10:02:37+00:00
Oh wow. I did a very basic test this morning `ping google.com` and then ctrl+c and it seemed to work okay. Not done any more extensive testing than this though.

Could it be that it's just very flaky on all pixel devices? Or maybe something graphene is doing to harden the OS doesn't play nicely with how it's been implemented?