MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Topfi | 2026-01-03 00:47:34+00:00
Hey, it's CrackBerry Kevin.

If you don't mind me asking on here, what materials will the frame be made out of? Asking because I used my 15 Pro Max Clicks somewhat intensely and managed to dig through the rubber on the bottom right and bottom left edge with the friction from typing alone. Keyboard still works flawlessly, but the case looks like it's seen an apocalypse...

Also would love to see a video showcase of the touch functionality on the keyboard, I can already imagine a few ways that'll be useful.

Am personally waiting for the next Razr before deciding whether I'll replace my iPhone with a Communicator or the next Clicks for Razr (hoping that there will be one). Then again, Motorola has hinted at a book style foldable for CES so if that is interesting, might go for the PowerKeys instead. Or might there be something for larger phones, perhaps inspired by an old Samsung phone, dare we dream? That'd "zeal" my purchase for sure...

The keyboard is a really good lock in mind you, once I got the hang of it I really detested (a very strong word, but it is true) any time I had to use a smartphone without one, even if only briefly.
by anonzzzies | 2026-01-03 00:47:49+00:00
> LLMs basically are a dead end

Not sure if anyone who works in the foundational model space and who doesn't directly depend on LLMs 'making it' for VC money would claim differently. It is rather obvious at this point, but some companies are too far in and not cash rich enough so they have to keep the LLM dream alive.
by altbdoor | 2026-01-03 00:48:30+00:00
> I think it's sending my message to the server continuously

It is, at least I see it for the first message when starting a new chat. If you open the network tools and type, you can see the text being sent to the servers on every character.

Source, from spending too much time analysing the network calls in ChatGPT to keep using mini models in a free account.
by sn9 | 2026-01-03 00:48:40+00:00
If you have a <1% pass rate from beginning to end, then that strongly suggests that your admissions criteria is intentionally low enough to admit students that are unprepared for the program so that you can take their money.

You could easily raise the bar without sacrificing quality of education (and likely you'd improve it just from the improvement in student:teacher ratio).
by esperent | 2026-01-03 00:49:18+00:00
It's a relatively new vaccine, this commonly happens for a few reasons:

1. They start with a cautious roll out to the highest lifetime risk population (teenage girls in this case)

2. They may be limited by vaccine stocks as it does take time to build up product. There's an entire world to vaccinate, billions of doses needed

3. They need time to prove that it will be useful to give to other populations - in this case, adults

There's no conspiracy here, you had to push to get it because you were going against the existing recommendations, which were reasonable. Not because of your gender.

Those recommendations have likely changed recently because when I went in for shots last month (male, 40s) they immediately recommended that me and my partner both get it.
by welterde | 2026-01-03 00:49:33+00:00
This is already a thing in IPv6 pretty much.
You can write applications IPv6-only and support IPv4 via IPv4-mapped addresses (::ffff:1.2.3.4 for the IPv4 1.2.3.4). The host still needs to be dualstacked for that to work though.
In case the host is IPv6-only you can use NAT64 (or similar technologies), where the IPv4-space is embedded behind some other prefix, but the application just talks plain IPv6 and doesn't have to care too much what happens in the background.
by derangedHorse | 2026-01-03 00:49:54+00:00
It looks like the gist of the article's assertion is that since the Fed has ramped up repo operations since October 2025, they're seemingly covering a liquidity crunch being experienced by big banks. This support this assertion with the fact the fed eliminated the $500b limit in asset value that the Fed can give loans for [1] (although a max of $40b still exists per proposition*). The article also links a possible motivation in JP Morgan being in a losing short on silver in the commodities market.

The article is wordier than it needs to be, but I think it presents a solid argument. Some other interesting things I've observed is that the discount window website started advertising 'Discount Window Direct' on its homepage in June [2] (which could be a sign that there has been more inquiries about it) and that the pickup in the repo market being in the latter half of 2025 might also be correlated with the closing of the Bank Term Funding Program in March 2025 [3][4].

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/opolicy/operating_policy_...

[2] https://www.frbdiscountwindow.org/

[3] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...

[4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/H41RESPPALDKNWW
by RachelF | 2026-01-03 00:51:31+00:00
Windows has been my main operating system for the last 35 years (from version 2). I've used Linux and to a lessor extent BSD and Mac as well, but my main desktop has always been Windows, as it ran most of the apps that I needed.

Windows 11 UI and spyware are so bad, that Windows 10 is where my 35 years of using Windows as my main OS has ended.
by sam345 | 2026-01-03 00:52:27+00:00
Thank you. From that link: "Borrowing from the Fed at year-end is also tied to market forces, where an upward drift in money market rates can make it cheaper to borrow from the Fed compared to private sources. Most expect Wednesday's borrowing surge will dissipate over coming days as more normal trading conditions reassert themselves.
The activity at the standing repo operation is highly unlikely to signal any sort of market trouble."
by ClayShentrup | 2026-01-03 00:53:06+00:00
yes. election by jury is the good parts of sortition without the bad parts.
https://www.electionbyjury.org/

approval voting is great. i co-founded a major non-profit that got it adopted in fargo and st louis. for election by jury i'd advocate score voting, since higher resolution is more valuable with small groups.
by Havoc | 2026-01-03 00:53:40+00:00
This rings true...outside of users that play competitive FPS...the anticheat continues to be a challenge

As a side note - if you're in that venn diagram overlap group of linux and gaming...check out "beyond all reason" RTS if you haven't. High chance it'll tickle you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wxwIxz4PaY

edit: not affiliate to linked yt - organic enthusiastism
by cogman10 | 2026-01-03 00:53:56+00:00
I've been seeing it a lot on reddit as well, with a lot of non-technical users asking "how do I get started with linux?"

I think this is a real thing and I think a combination of MS demanding everyone get new hardware and Valve really polishing a lot of linux has gone a long way to get non-technical users to start seriously considering linux.

It's a huge added bonus that old hardware simply flies with linux. I have a 5 year old laptop that feels about 10x more responsive since I killed the windows install and put linux on it.

And I know that laptop will continue to fly because, unlike windows, it's never going to get any sort of serious bloatware added on as I update it.
by Desafinado | 2026-01-03 00:55:27+00:00
On the money. Recently reading has been branded as a 'pill that's good for you' rather than 'way more interesting than everything on TV' which isn't very encouraging.

But let's face it, the reason people aren't reading anymore is because most of us are lazy and there are swaths of less cognitively demanding alternatives. People also can't afford books. Reading has always been a pastime of the wealthy.

Books had their heyday in the 19th century before the rise of computers and when print technology was quite robust.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-03 00:55:43+00:00
> Early on after 4th diagram, author includes sentence : "Because every transaction appears twice, once positive and once negative"

This isn't quite right, but it is a simplification that works here.

> The previous diagram absolutely does not have positive and negative for each transaction! In fact, there is 5000 going into banking account and 500+5 coming out of it.

Yes, those are two separate transactions. Each arrow is a transaction, and each of the accounts that it connects reflects the transaction (one as a positive, the other as a negative.)

> Nothing in 4th diagram is obviously the negative of that 5k transaction, to me.

The arrow with the $5000 has both the positive and the negative.

Each arrow (each edge of the directed graph) represents a "negative" for the account at the tail and a "positive" for the account at the head.
by rainbowsy | 2026-01-03 00:56:02+00:00
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by jmye | 2026-01-03 00:56:05+00:00
> If teaching was so simple that you could just tell people to go RTFM then recite it from memory, I don't know why people are bothering with pedagogy at all. It'd seem that there's more to teaching and learning than the bare minimum, and that both parties are culpable. Doesn't sound like you disagree on that either.

I do not! A situation where roughly 1% of the class is passing suggests that some part of the student group is failing, and also that there is likely a class design issue or a failure to appropriately vet incoming students for preparedness (among, probably, numerous other things I'm not smart enough to come up with).

And I did take issue with the "fraud" framing; apologies for not catching your tone! I think there is a chronic issue of students thinking they deserve good grades, or deserve a diploma simply for showing up, in social media and I probably read that into your comment where I shouldn't have.

> Jokes aside though, isn't it a gamble?

Not at all. If you learn the material, you pass and get a diploma. This is no more a gamble than your paycheck. However, I think that also presumes that the university accepts only students it believes are capable of passing it's courses. If you believe universities are over-accepting students (and I think the evidence says they frequently are not, in an effort to look like luxury brands, though I don't have a cite at hand), then I can see thinking the gambling analogy is correct.
by rubyn00bie | 2026-01-03 00:56:07+00:00
I've been using Linux as my desktop since 2020, I switched because I wanted to play games and maintain a development environment I'm familiar with (having run Linux servers for ~15 years at that point) that would be stable. I had long used a Windows machine for gaming and a Mac laptop for development. My Mac was stable enough, but Windows was not-- it wasn't blue screens it was constant unpredictable updates (sometimes erratically running when I didn't want them to). I had an SSD in the machine with Windows, but after installing Pop_OS! (as a happy accident) I never found a compelling reason to use Windows again.

Steam has worked perfectly, clicking install and then hitting play, no futzing with drivers or weird updates. The only games I haven't been able to play are League of Legends and some of the new AAA shooters. I'm okay with that because I don't particularly care at this point, and it's not worth maintaining a Windows install to periodically play for an hour or so.

Linux has been unbelievably stable. This year, I fully upgraded the system and planned on reinstalling but I didn't even need to. On first boot, my old install was picked up and mostly just worked. On Windows I've tried that before, and it was an unrelenting shit show (that resulted in having to nuke the old windows install).

The only hitch I've had was installing conflicting NVidia drivers (open source vs proprietary); which, I was able to fix by booting into the command line then nuking both sets of drivers via apt remove and installing the one I wanted. Took me less than five minutes and my system was working. It also wouldn't have happened if I hadn't tried being too clever (and Pop_OS! having some quirks).

I recently setup a MiniPC to use while traveling to game on and this time I tried Arch. To my surprise the install was ridiculously easy. The most recent installer makes it a breeze. My only mistake was not noticing I'd installed a few desktop environments and the default wasn't what I wanted so things seemed broken. After selecting KDE from the login menu et volia! It worked perfectly. I'm considering switching my primary rig to Arch, but I'll give the most recent Pop_OS! release a try to see if the newer LTS version gets me access to some new packages first.

Linux is great folks. If you stick with a major distro you're likely going to love it. It's really low maintenance and just works. 11/10 would recommend to anyone.
by kcplate | 2026-01-03 00:56:12+00:00
I can’t speak to windows since it’s been at least a decade since I have had to use it, but I really don’t understand the hate on the new Apple OSs. I haven’t found them to be a measurably different user experience than their respective prior versions. So when you say “horribly wrong” it makes me wonder exactly what you mean, specifically.
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-03 00:57:04+00:00
I think you've actually reinvented 6to4, or something morally very close to it.

Each v4 address has a corresponding /48 of IPv6 tunnelled to it. The router with that IP receives the tunnelled v6 packets, extracts them and routes them on natively to the end host. This is something that v6 already does, so you don't need to make posts complaining about how dumb they were for not doing it.
by ffaser5gxlsll | 2026-01-03 00:57:36+00:00
For whom?

Every single web or mobile app does his own custom thing nowadays. As a user I couldn't care less how it's implemented, what I want consistency in behavior and style across the board.

It feels like this has been completely lost, even on platforms like mac where consistency used to be important.

I'd take MFC everything over random behavior if I could.
by glenstein | 2026-01-03 00:58:06+00:00
Indeed, it's the Linux super power. I've mentioned this before but my favorite linux adventure was, being a borderline penniless college student, having broken Toshiba Tecra 8000 from 1998 with a dead hard drive. But it had a working CD drive and USB port, so I got Puppy Linux 4.0 on a CD, booted from a CD, and installed to a 1gb USB stick and set it to boot from USB.

I had Dillo for a web browser, a stripped down version of VLC that could play 360p Youtube videos without issue, downloaded via Youtube-DL. I had XMMS which looked just like Winamp, and Sega/Nintendo emulation and even Duke Nukem 3D. For programs I had epub/pdf/djview readers, xpaint which is like classic MS Paint, feh as a hyperlightweight all purpose image viewer and background manager, a super lightweight RSI break popup program, and even a fully functional web server stack. It also had a window manager (JWM) that handled multiple desktops more intuitively and effortlessly than Windows does now.
by craftkiller | 2026-01-03 00:58:13+00:00
I've been using this extensively recently. I was setting up virtual machines that boot a live ISO containing all the software for the machine. I build that ISO with nix. Sometimes I need to change a small config file, which would lead to generating a new 1.7GiB ISO, but 99.9% of that ISO is identical to the previous one. So I used rsync. Blew my mind when after a day of working on these images, uploading 1.7GiB ISO after 1.7GiB ISO, wireguard showed that I had only sent 600MiBs.

Fun surprise, rsync uses file size and modified time first to see if the files are identical. Nix sets the time to Jan 1st 1970 for reproducible builds, and I suspect the ISOs are padded out to the next sector. So rsync was not noticing the new ISO images when I made small changes to config files until I added the --checksum flag.
by sarusso | 2026-01-03 00:58:23+00:00
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by redeeman | 2026-01-03 00:58:27+00:00
> This has already happened. Just as in the US, all of the far-right "movements" in the EU are Russian fronts.

And you, singlehandedly have the supreme insight into all these people, to ascribe motive on them? Impressive

or perhaps its possible that some people just have their own opinions that is not yours, and MAYBE has some overlap with russian? (assuming that to be true)

I bet you share many opinions with Putin, for example, I believe he considers exercise to be healthy, why, by your previous logic, that would make your health advice a russian front?
by reincarnate0x14 | 2026-01-03 00:58:55+00:00
Pretty standard for Microsoft lately. The old stuff is still there, we're adding a completely new stack adjacent to it so now you can live with the worst of both! The Windows 8 tablet interface and the Win11 wtfever that is still sometimes kick out a dialogue box unchanged since Windows XP.

One can only imagine what the product managers of like .NET think of all this.
by easton | 2026-01-03 00:58:58+00:00
From the outside looking in one wonders why this is allowed to continue. Microsoft’s old school “developer tools for money” business is slowly dying (because Visual Studio proper is less popular than its ever been since so much is targeting web), you would think they’d reorganize and move .net and GitHub and stuff into their cloud team and yeet whatever toxic leadership is preventing Windows from using Microsoft’s own frameworks.

IIRC .NET was banned from core Windows components after longhorn died, but its been 20 years. .NET is fast now, and C++ is faster still. Externally developed web frameworks shouldn’t be required for Windows.
by somat | 2026-01-03 00:59:01+00:00
One of the more obscure things OpenBSD man does is provide tags to the pager(less). So you can do things like ":t test" in man ksh and end up right at that section.

However while I think the feature is neat, a clever use of an existing feature, I never use it. I think it is sort of the same as info pages and why the technologically superior solution sort of lost to the stupider simpler man pages. Having a simple uniform interface "press / to search, all information in one document" is far less cognitively distracting than the better system.

And final thoughts: if unfamiliar the bsd's use the mdoc set of troff macros to build semantic man pages. sort of like how latex lets you build semantic documents on the tex typesetting engine. Where linux man pages are usually plain troff. OpenBSD actually went one step further and now uses a specific mandoc program to render them rather than the troff + mdoc macros that was used before.

https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc
by metadope | 2026-01-03 00:59:12+00:00
Do what you love; you'll never work another day in your life.

I don't know if you have dependents; that personal fact alone would make a big difference in what you can and should do.

But if you are free to choose, find or expand upon what you enjoy doing, and do it and keep doing it until you're satisfied that you're the best you can be. Whether you're hand-carving figurines (or making any kind of art), exploring the world (or leading local tourist hikes), or hacking the perfect free tier prompt and creating software filters that blow our minds, you can do what you want, and you will, if you focus on what you love to do anyway.

If you would do it even if/when no one pays you, you may have found your way.

> im not challenged well in my job

A leap of faith (in yourself) is often needed; a drastic change in environment can become necessary. Either challenge yourself to squeeze all the skill-growth-juice out of your current position, or go a step further and take all your time back, for an investment in yourself, where you find what you love to do and spend all your time doing it, even if you're not getting paid for a while.
Show HN: SpeakCamera – a surprisingly useful iPhone Shortcut to read text aloud
by wdpatti | 2026-01-03 00:59:28+00:00
I made these two extremely simple shortcuts a while back to quickly translate and read aloud into earphones info presented in a French art museum.

It allowed my family and me to look at the art while listening to information about it just like an audio guide would. This was the fastest implementation of something like this (two shortcuts on an iPhone Home Screen) I could think of, and you can even map the Action Button to it.

I could also see this being useful from an accessibility perspective, as it is great for people who only need text read out loud to them sometimes, while still being very easily accessible with a single button press.
by viraptor | 2026-01-03 00:59:33+00:00
> That seems oddly rigid though.

We're past that for a decade, but various services have not caught up yet https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6177

The actual intention has always been that there be no hard-
coded boundaries within addresses, and that Classless Inter-
Domain Routing (CIDR) continues to apply to all bits of the
routing prefixes.