MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chmod775 | 2026-01-20 06:33:07+00:00
Stuff like typing "10j" made sense when text editing was high latency. Nowadays you can just hold j and stop precisely where you wanted to, even if you're ssh'ing into a server on the other side of the country. There's nothing wrong with it (and in fact I prefer it because of the 0 finger movement required).

The only times I use "precise" movement commands like that is when I'm in the odd situation of having to ssh into something from my phone.
by solumunus | 2026-01-20 06:33:19+00:00
You’re being ridiculous. This is my job, I love it. It’s not purely about the money. I enjoy building, maintaining, supporting products, it’s just that without the selling part I wouldn’t be doing it, I would have to do another job and I would have greater preferences for spending my free time. Almost everyone ultimately works for money, that doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t like their job. Come on, you know this…

The distinction is obvious and you’re clearly just expressing an emotional reaction.
by themafia | 2026-01-20 06:33:24+00:00
> There is no platform to show or compare or share.

That's the irony of social media to me. Thinking back to it's genesis I really thought of it as a way to connect "grandma" to the family and share pictures with her. At the time there weren't many great technical solutions for this and the average grandma was not technically capable enough to do much more than login and check facebook now and again.

Once the fundamental problem got solved the tone and scope of social media slowly changed as the networks lost users and struggled to maintain a high MAUs to shove ads into the face of.

> The people really important and close to you will either call you or meet you for a meal.

Which is easier now than it ever has been.
by mwilliaams | 2026-01-20 06:34:02+00:00
I HATE the oily squares on my MacBook Air screen. I think the real issue is that there is zero space between the screen and the keyboard when the laptop is closed. I’ve started keeping a piece of printer paper between the screen and keyboard whenever I close it, and that helps but it’s annoying to have to do. So much so that I looked into getting a MBP but they have the same problem.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-20 06:35:56+00:00
My understanding is that states already have the ability to appoint presidential electors however they want. No need to repeal any amendment, if a state wanted to do things differently in that regard.

My proposed elector appointment algorithm is as follows. For each elector seat, summon 20 grand juries according to standard methods (distribute across various counties, weighted by population). Each grand jury spends a day getting to know one another, then appoints one member as a representative using approval voting. The 20 representatives from the 20 grand juries form a secondary grand jury, which also spends a day getting to know one another, then appoints one member as a representative using approval voting. This produces 1 elector. Electors serve 8-year terms, staggered so that their appointments occur midway through a presidential term when emotions are relatively placid.

If you persuade a few big swing states to adopt this approach for appointing electors, the nature of the presidential contest changes dramatically.

This is more along the lines of how the presidential elector system was supposed to work in the first place. Presidential electors were supposed to be leading individuals of the community, not otherwise involved in politics, exercising their independent judgement. That's what the founders intended.
by maxdo | 2026-01-20 06:36:28+00:00
You're just religious about your own preferences.

Prosche specifically is facing huge losses, and with this strategy is doomed to die. There are already rumors of potential bancrupcy.

EVs grew 20% globally in 2025, with developing markets surging 40%+.
When EVs under $100,000 can hit sub-2.5-second 0–60 mph (0–100 km/h), all this fake "benefit" talk about exhaust notes and luxury engine refinement sounds exactly like people cheering for Vertu golden buttons at the dawn of the iPhone era.

EVs are growing incredibly fast—despite the West's biggest EV supplier deciding to commit marketing harakiri by alienating half its customer base.

New battery tech has made EVs affordable, and that's why adoption will keep accelerating in China, the EU, and the rest of the world. There'll be some irrelevant fluctuations in the US, but those will eventually even out regardless—because the rest of the world and technological progress will move on with or without them.

we are on the edge of go-to-market of billions of dollars of investments into battery development. It will deliver both much cheaper where needed and more capable batteries on the market. Guess what it will do with legacy cars.
by Nales | 2026-01-20 06:36:38+00:00
Previous discussions:

- 2022-02-18: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30389949

- 2022-03-07: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30583808

- 2024-02-19: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39380170

- 2024-03-16: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39700809

- 2024-05-28: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40505223
by f30e3dfed1c9 | 2026-01-20 06:37:50+00:00
"To the executive branch it gave the power to declare war (war power act), and to make new law (administrative law). Then it created a new branch, the federal reserve, to make monetary policy."

The War Powers Resolution of 1973, aka War Powers Act, does not give the executive power to declare war. On the contrary, it was intended to limit the executive's ability to engage in armed conflict. It says so right at the top:

50 U.S. Code § 1541 - Purpose and policy

It is the purpose of this chapter to fulfill the intent of the framers of the Constitution of the United States and insure that the collective judgment of both the Congress and the President will apply to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, and to the continued use of such forces in hostilities or in such situations.

One could argue that it hasn't worked all that well, but it is, for example, why George W. Bush got Congress to pass the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 before invading Iraq.

Also, "[t]hen it created a new branch, the federal reserve" is a sort of unusual way to describe something that happened 60 years earlier.
by onion2k | 2026-01-20 06:38:53+00:00
When the people you're interviewing with are 'already senior' (e.g. direct reports to the CEO), you can sometimes make your case worse rather than better, because it feels like you're going over their head.

If that happens then it's a very good thing - you do not want to work at a company where people are precious about how they succeed. If a great candidate (e.g you) drops into the inbox of the CEO who forwards it to someone else, and their first reaction is 'Well, they violated my personal kingdom by going over my head!' then that is a manager you do not need in your life.
by grayhatter | 2026-01-20 06:39:02+00:00
> Even one of the white papers commissioned by the FSF [...] concluded that using copyrighted data to train AI was plausibly legally defensible [...] notice that the FSF has not rushed out to file copyright infringement suits even though they probably have more reason to oppose LLMs trained on FOSS code than anyone else in the world.

I agree with jkaplowitz, but for a different reason I still believe that your description feels a bit misleading to me. The FSF commissioned paper makes the argument that Microsoft's use of code FROM GITHUB, FOR COPILOT is likely non-infringing, because of the additional github ToS. This feels like critical context to provide given in the very next statement, you widened it to LLMs generally, and the FSF which likely cares about code, not on github as well.

All of that said, I'm not sure it matters, because while I don't find the argument from the that whitepaper very compelling, because it's based critically on additional grants in the ToS. IIRC (going only from memory) the ToS requires that you grant github a license as it's needed to provide the service. Github can provide the services the user reasonably understood github to provide, without violating the additional clauses specified in the existing FOSS license covering the code. That being from a while ago, and I'd say it's very murky now, because everyone knows Microsoft provides copilot, so "obviously" they need it.

Unfortunately, and importantly, when dealing with copyrights, the paper also covers the transformative fair use arguments in depth. And I do find those following arguments very compelling. The paper, (and likely others) are making the argument that the code output from an LLM is likely transformative. And thus can't be infringing compelling, (or is unlikely to be). I think in many cases, the output is clearly transformative in nature.

I've also seen code generated by claude (likely others as well?) to copy large sections from existing works. Where it's clearly "copy/paste" which clearly can't be fair use, nor transformative. The output clearly copies the soul of the work. Thus given I have no idea what dataset they're copying this code from, it's scary enough to make me unwilling to take the chance on any of it.
by camel-cdr | 2026-01-20 06:40:17+00:00
> The Tenstorrent Ascalon is supposed to be as fast as AMD Ryzen 5

Don't set your self up for dissapointment.
Ascalon is supposed to match Zen5 performance per clock, but at 2.5GHz, so will still be at a minimum 2x slower.

Additionally, the announces Ascalon devboard is supposed to be on an older node and have an ever lower frequency due to that. (the 2.5GHz were on SF4X, the devboard may be on something like 12nm)
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-20 06:40:44+00:00
Even if you don't have fiber all the way into your house, most cable internet terminates pretty close to the home these days. It kind of has to, since bandwidth has gone way up and as a result they can't put very many subscribers on the same termination system.

We didn't really understand this kind of thing when the Carrington event happened, so nobody knows for sure, but estimates for induced voltage on long conductors are usually something on the order of 20V/km. So for a 5 km long coaxial cable, you're only talking about ~120V of induced potential difference (i.e. the same voltage as a residential plug in the US). When people are analyzing the potential damage from this kind of electromagnetic disturbance (E3 is the term you'll see, based on analysis of nuclear EMP which has other components that you don't see in geomagnetic storms regardless of severity), it's mostly about really long conductors, like on the order of 100km.
by Semaphor | 2026-01-20 06:41:42+00:00
Yeah, tried all of that, but none of the options work. Funnily enough with free resizing it looks right for a moment, then changes to being too big again.

I’ll certainly not exclude this being a meteoblue issue (I only use two widgets, digical and meteoblue), but Hyperion (only with 6 columns) and Nova (always) get it right.
by belZaah | 2026-01-20 06:43:28+00:00
Fundamentally, Amazon will not promise you they will break the law. They are subject to US regulations as well as German ones (in this case). If these regulations demand your data be accessed or removed or keys compromised, it will happen. Not because of US, Germany or Amazon but because that’s how jurisdictions work. Beaides, there is no reasonably feasible method for learning what these regulations actually say on a given day, a lot of it is in bylaws and you just can’t keep track of all ministerial orders of all the applicable jurisdictions. Amazon does have an algorithm to determine course of action in case of compliance conflict, but they will not publish it for obvious reasons.
by tacker2000 | 2026-01-20 06:44:05+00:00
Thats the problem, the most “noise” regarding AI is made by juniors who are wowed by the ability to vibe code some fun “sideproject” React CRUD apps, like compound interest calculators or PDF converters.

No mention of the results when targeting bigger, more complex projects, that require maintainability, sound architectural decisions, etc… which is actually the bread and butter of SW engineering and where the big bucks get made.
by marak830 | 2026-01-20 06:44:49+00:00
That's a really interesting concept. Either once they open source their build (or I get over my innate laziness) I could use something like that for my build at home (more of a horizontal stand style thing, looking at the monitor) - my laptop's primarily my second monitor at home with attached KB.

More fuel to help convince my wife the printer isn't a waste of money xD
by tzs | 2026-01-20 06:45:08+00:00
The point of setting it up as a German legal entity with US AWS having no special access is to avoid that.

All the relevant part of the CLOUD Act does is make it so when a US legal entity is asked to provide data that it controls it doesn't matter where it has stored that data. For example suppose I run an online forum. I decide to archive some records to cloud storage and remove my local copies.

I archive some of them to AWS in the US. I archive some more to a cloud provider that is in some other country and does not have any US data centers or offer services in the US (I'm going through a VPN with an endpoint in their country so they only see me using a local to them IP, and I pay via some method that doesn't tip them off that I'm American).

I get legally ordered to give copies of those archived records to law enforcement. Under the CLOUD Act I have to retrieve copies from both cloud providers and turn those over.

Note that from the foreign cloud provider's point of view nothing unusual is happening. All they see is a customer retrieving some data that that the customer previously put there, using the normal APIs that are provided for customers to do that with. They have no idea why the customer is retrieving the data.

From the way they are describing it in the article and in their FAQ at https://aws.eu/faq/ it sounds like they are setting up a German company and giving that company the rights to use a bunch of AWS technology which will be run on infrastructure owned and operated by the German company and with no operational access for US AWS. That would make it pretty much equivalent to the foreign cloud service in the example above.

The reason earlier I said "relevant part of the CLOUD Act" is that it actually did two things. One is what is described above, which for some reason is what most people focus on even though it wasn't very controversial.

The other part, which is what most opposition was over, concerned "mutual legal assistance treaties" (MLATs). These are agreements between countries to, as you might guess from the name, assist each other in law enforcement. The CLOUD Act made it so MLATs could be created through executive agreements, just requiring the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to agree that the other country had protections in place to protect US citizens.

Before the CLOUD Act MLATs were created by the executive branch negotiating the terms and then the agreement had to be ratified as a treaty by Congress, so this was a huge change.
by troupo | 2026-01-20 06:45:32+00:00
It's a hillarious attempt to save face.

"Separate opinions of professionals" etc.

Here's Ryan Dahl, cofounder of Deno, creator of Node.js tweeting today:

--- start quote ---

This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.

https://x.com/rough__sea/status/2013280952370573666

--- end quote ---

Professional enough for you?
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-20 06:45:38+00:00
Vibe coding has its place. Some time ago I had to diagnose some strange memory behaviour in a VM, for which I could have either spent a lot of time reading manpages and not-quite-correct StackOverflow posts to find the correct commands and options I needed to track down the problem, or I could have asked Claude to do the legwork for me. I ended up solving, or at least seeing the cause of, the problem in minutes rather than hours.

Now, would I ask Claude to write the memory-allocator code that ran things in the first place? Hell no. But it was a very useful tool to use as a souped-up search engine that summarised the results and turn them into a bash script for me that displayed the info I needed.
by mustache_kimono | 2026-01-20 06:46:11+00:00
"Scrubs differ significantly from traditional filesystem checks. Tools such as fsck or chkdsk examine logical structures and attempt to repair inconsistencies related to directory trees, allocation maps, reference counts, and other metadata relationships. ZFS does not need to perform these operations during normal scrubs because its transactional design ensures metadata consistency. Every transaction group moves the filesystem from one valid state to another. The scrub verifies the correctness of the data and metadata at the block level, not logical relationships."

> ZFS scrubs do not check filesystem objects for correctness and consistency; it only checks that they have the expected checksum and so have not become corrupted due to disk errors or other problems

What else are you looking for? A scrub literally reads the object from disk.

> Unfortunately it's possible for ZFS bugs and issues to give you filesystem objects that have problems

Undoubtedly, but what problems which aren't discovered during a scrub?
by strogonoff | 2026-01-20 06:46:46+00:00
Humans don’t exist as standalone individuals, and a lot of our experience is shaped by being in a larger graph of people. I suspect it’s under-appreciated how social our perception is: in order to tell each other about X, we need to classify reality, define X and separate it from non-X; and because we (directly or indirectly) talk to each other so much, because we generally don’t just shut off the part of ourselves that classifies reality, the shared map we have for the purposes of communication blends with (perhaps even becomes) our experience of reality.

So, to me, “to bring someone to their senses” is significantly about reinforcing a shared map through interpersonal connection—not unlike how before online forums it was much harder to maintain particularly unorthodox[0] worldviews: when exposure to a selection of people around you is non-optional, it tempers even the most extreme left-field takes, as humans (sans pathologies) are primed to mirror each other.

I’m not a psychologist, but likening chatbot psychosis to an ungrounded feedback loop rings true, except I would say human connection is the missing ground (although you could say it’s not grounded in senses or experience by proxy, per above). Arguably, one of the significant issues of chatbots is the illusion of human connection where there’s nothing but a data structure query; and I know that some people have no trouble treating the chat as just that, but somehow that doesn’t seem like a consolation: if treating that which quite successfully pretends to be a natural conversation with a human as nothing more than a data structure query comes so naturally to them, what does it say about how they see conversing with us, the actual humans around them?

[0] As in, starkly misaligned with the community—which admittedly could be for better or for worse (isolated cults come to mind).
by eru | 2026-01-20 06:46:46+00:00
How is that any worse than existing financial markets?

You can already short sell a company and then cause trouble for them, eg with an anonymous phone call of a bomb threat or whatever.

Typically, the authorities will catch you, because they check suspiciously lucky traders. They can do the same with prediction markets.

> A small example of this would be NFL / NBA Refs fixing playoff games with a bad call or two. This actually happened 20 years ago, an NBA ref went to prison over being bribed just $2000 per game.

The outcome of a sports game isn't exactly important in the grand scheme of things. And no one is forced to bet on sports to hedge their harvest against the weather or something like that. It's all entertainment.

> The much worse example is the fact that you can make 100-1 odds on whether the US airstrikes Iran today... or How many times Pam Bondi says the word "China" in a press conference.

So? Don't participate in these particular bets then?
by agent86 | 2026-01-20 06:46:56+00:00
And, as of 3 weeks ago, the one man is "stepping back from all public-facing interaction with this project".[1]

Further, "Occasional updates may appear at unpredictable intervals, but there will be no support, no responses to issues, no discussions, and no community management in this or any other public venue."

Nothing salacious here - just another one man open source project with a burnt out maintainer :(.

[1] - https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/1069
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-20 06:47:29+00:00
Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321
And more developments and analysis since:

An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367744

Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468283

Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544610
by grayhatter | 2026-01-20 06:47:38+00:00
No, it's also not illegal to train your brain. If you break into a store, and read all the books, you'll get arrested for breaking and entering. Not for reading the books. My (superficial) take on the argument is that they're hoping by saying "it's not illegal to read" no one will notice, and no one will ask how they got into the book store to begin with.
by mindslight | 2026-01-20 06:48:11+00:00
I think it's just a small segment of terminally online people that are still hardcore supporters. My direct observation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642922

Not that I expect the latent supporters to ever really own up to their mistake (I mean, who even supported that Iraq War anyway? Must have been a liberal conspiracy). And of course the question is how do we actually immobilize and evict this piece of shit from the White House.
by johnj-hn | 2026-01-20 06:48:52+00:00
Author here. I know not everybody loves the name. If I was trying to sell it I might be concerned about that. But it's open-source, and I'm not trying to make any money off of it, just trying to give something back to the community.

I was originally trying to name it something serious-sounding and I quickly found out that pretty much everything decent is taken. And even if you can come up with a good name that's not already in use by three other projects, good luck getting a decent domain for it.

I'm also a musician, and I've been through the drama of trying to come up with band names many times in the past. Here's what I've learned: the name matters, but only so much. If people like a band, they're gonna listen no matter how dumb the name is. Do you think Metallica is actually a good name? How about Def Leppard? Lynyrd Skynyrd? The Beatles? Those names are kinda stupid and nobody cares, lol.

Same thing with software. If the product is good, people will use it, and they are not going to care much about the name. I think Luxury Yacht is better than some made-up word that doesn't mean anything but maybe has some vague connection with kubernetes if you squint at it just right, like a magic eye puzzle.

Just my opinion, though. I'm not wrong, and you're not wrong, we just think about things differently, and that's OK!