MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hahahahhaah | 2026-01-27 08:09:39+00:00
Are you "giving up a bit of equity"? I think more accurately you are pointing your front tyres towards a path of aiming for fast growth and investment. YC doesn't want 7% of a $1m arr Haskell consultancy as the endgame for your company for example. They want a shot at a 10B company. See their home page and it now gives that vibe.

So more like you are giving a large chunk of equity for a lot of investment over many years to build a unicorn, unless you fail. Which most likely you will. Based on probabilities. Fail may mean getting some $ though.
by nixass | 2026-01-27 08:10:27+00:00
I'm not in America nor would I rely on their legislators doing anything about it, especially with current admin.
France, Australia and the likes (who are in process of implementing banning social media for kids) is the only way behemots will understand. Otherwise you're risking loopholes beig exploited, bureaucracy being slow while behemots move fast, etc.
Ban is pretty much self explanatory and leaves little room for interpretation, at least not in a way where 100s of pages of moderation guidelines and potential ambiguity such docs create
by Jackson__ | 2026-01-27 08:10:33+00:00
As your local vision nut, their claims about "SOTA" vision are absolutely BS in my tests.

Sure it's SOTA at standard vision benchmarks. But on tasks that require proper image understanding, see for example BabyVision[0] it appears very much lacking compared to Gemini 3 Pro.

[0] https://arxiv.org/html/2601.06521v1
by ffsm8 | 2026-01-27 08:10:57+00:00
If you went to university at 14, which is what... 4+ years earlier then anyone else usually manages? then you really shouldn't extrapolate your own experience on the population at large.

You'd have skipped multiple years in education, hence you'd be massively more intelligent then the general population that this regulation aims to help, (albeit against their own wishes).
by port11 | 2026-01-27 08:11:27+00:00
Nice video, Hank is always good to watch!

I think we’ve more or less debunked plastic recycling, as nothing more but a way to make consumers feel good about purchasing things made of plastic.

We have to recycle plastic where we live — and do so happily —, but I often joke with my partner about where the plastic will end up, since she insists on first washing the plastic.
by aurareturn | 2026-01-27 08:11:41+00:00
I strongly suspect some sort of fab built by Elon associated companies will be announced soon. Almost all supply can be bought by Tesla and xAI.

Fab costs follow Rock's Law which is that the cost of building a fab doubles every 4 years.

Right now, it costs TSMC roughly $25-$40b for each N2 fab. It's going to cost $50b - $80b for an A14 fab 4 years from now. And then $100b - $160b again.

You need many customers in order to justify the cost. Tesla and xAI themselves won't be enough.
by watwut | 2026-01-27 08:12:19+00:00
> They just don't want what the Dems were selling in 2024, specifically: the dems' adopted ideology surrounding gender, plus using race and gender to pick who gets jobs and into schools, rather than merit.

Except that, none of this is true. Democrats did not run on such policy at all. They heavily tried to appeal to center.

Republicans run on culture war. And won, because it literally did not mattered what democratic party run on - republican lies won. And they will win again with the same tactic.
by fragmede | 2026-01-27 08:12:42+00:00
I'm willing to be that 95% of developers you've worked with are, but how representative that is of the broader group is indeterminate. Apple is full of developers who give a shit about design, or at least, had to pass an interview that pretends that they pretend to give a predend shit... look, at some level you just have to buy that people are who they say they are. Even if you're in it for the money, you're going to conferences and speaking about it to people, so it's you.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-27 08:12:53+00:00
I find it interesting to contrast this with my experience flying out of China. I was taken to a private room and shown the digital colored X-ray of my bag on which a box had been drawn around an empty lighter, I was asked to remove it myself and hand it over, and I went on my way. All in under 5 minutes, no pat down, no fuss, and no one physically rifled through my belongings. (Granted I was a tourist so that might well not be typical.)

I'm not sure what their success rate is when tested by professionals but the experience definitely left me wondering WTF the deal with the TSA is.
by logicchains | 2026-01-27 08:13:04+00:00
Social media is objectively damaging to the interests of the ruling class, who have been objectively damaging to western civilization during the past decades in which they had near-complete control over the flow of information. It'd be batshit crazy to go back to the times when information flow was centralized in the hands of a few corporations, just because a some neurotics can't handle the increased flow of information from decentralized media.
Show HN: Takes – A Daily Chess Solitaire Game
by juannyp | 2026-01-27 08:13:53+00:00
Hey!

I am one of the creators of the Clevergoat suite of games. We currently have 7 games and have launched a new game in beta (we call it labs).

It is called TAKES - A Daily Chess Solitaire Game.

Rules:

Capture all pieces on the chess board. If a King is present, it must be the final capture.

There are four difficulty levels, expert mode is unlocked when completing easy, medium and hard. There are three games per difficulty, except expert, there is one.

If you get stuck, you can use a hint. Try and get the best time as you can.
by AndrewThrowaway | 2026-01-27 08:13:54+00:00
I believe the "theater" is needed precisely for this - to catch bad actors. There could just be a long queue with some blind dog and scary looking guy at the end. What it still does is makes a bad guy sweat, plan against it and etc. You just can't have free entrance for all. However you will never prevent state actors or similar with any kind of theatre because they will always prepare for it.
by jongjong | 2026-01-27 08:13:59+00:00
I'm grateful to Russia for standing by its principles and asserting its sovereignty. I can barely imagine how bad the world would be right now if Russia had gone along with the unipolar world order. Russia is just showing us how ridiculous this whole global system is.

A global system which relies on perfect consensus between all countries and a fixed power hierarchy is a terrible idea. How Russia has been weaponizing Interpol is how the US and vassal states have been weaponizing pretty much every other institution over the past few decades. Now the uni-polar globalists are getting a taste of their own medicine. Learning what it feels like when a great power is working against you.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-27 08:14:43+00:00
I'm honestly pretty tired of the 80s-movie-derived cultural memeplex of nerds getting oppressed by jocks with girlfriends in a high school context. This never accurately characterized any social environment I've been in, and I'm definitely a nerd by disposition. I'm not sure this ever really existed outside the imaginations of hollywood screenwriters. The Breakfast Club is mid, Weird Science is an actively terrible movie, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off is entertaining enough but looms way too large in the American pop culture imagination.

Tim Cook was the salutatorian of his Alabama public high school, majored in industrial engineering in college, and later got an MBA. He sold IBM computers for years and joined Apple in its late 90s doldrums because he was won over by Steve Jobs' charisma within several minutes of his first interview with Jobs. He's an openly-gay fitness nut - meaning he's had a lot of opportunity to have sex in his life (and being famously private, he's not talking about it one way or the other, as is his right).

I frankly don't think Tim Cook is much of a nerd. He's a smart, driven, ambitious business guy who's done a good job at making the gigantic electronics company he's the CEO of sell more products and navigate the political environment it operates in. He's not some underdog hero, and people who actually care about technology for its own sake or who care about computational sovereignty shouldn't attach their sense of identity to anything Apple does.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-27 08:14:46+00:00
I, like most people I know, buy Android devices around the 300 euro limit, use them until they break for whatever reason, which is measured in years.

The only apps that get installed nowadays are the ones that must be for a specific service, or gaming.

Many people even turn updates off due to the way companies get creative changing the application on every update.

In the old days before the iOS/Android duopoly there were no updates at all, and the few times they happened to be supported, it required the developer SDK to update the firmware.

Outside communities like HN, regular people hardly care about updates.
by johndoh42 | 2026-01-27 08:14:47+00:00
“People don’t buy software, they hire a service” is a bullshit straw man.

That OS on your laptop? Software.
The terminal your SSH runs in? Software.
The browser you’re reading this take in? Software.
The editor you wrote your last 10k LOC in? Software.

The only “service” I buy is email — and even that I run myself. It’s still just software, plus ops.

Yes, running things is hard. Nobody serious disputes that. But pretending this is some new revelation is ahistorical. We used to call this systems engineering, operations, reliability, or just doing your job before SRE needed a brand deck.

And let’s be clear about the direction of value:

Software without SRE still has value.
SRE without software has none.

A binary I can run, copy, fork, and understand beats a perfectly monitored nothing. A CLI tool with zero uptime guarantees still solves problems. A library still ships value. A game still runs. A compiler still compiles.

Ops exists to serve software, not replace it.
Reliability amplifies value — it does not create it.

If “writing code is easy,” why is the world drowning in unreliable, unmaintainable, over-engineered trash with immaculate dashboards and flawless incident postmortems?

People buy software.
They appreciate service when the software becomes infrastructure.
Confusing the two is how you end up worshipping uptime graphs while shipping nothing worth running.
by logicchains | 2026-01-27 08:14:55+00:00
>I've noticed that there's a decent amount of people who had benefitted having access to computer and internet really early on that seemed to be pro on banning teen access to social media

Most of the people on this platform are left-leaning, and social media has allowed right-wing ideas to spread among the youth, ideas which they'd never have been exposed to if their information was filtered through left-leaning teachers and media as it was in previous decades. They want to ban social media in an attempt to bring future youth back leftwards.
by quotemstr | 2026-01-27 08:15:50+00:00
There are supposedly studies linking social media to various negative consequences. For example, according to the Mayo Clinic, social media can:

- Distract from homework, exercise and family activities.

- Disrupt sleep.

- Lead to information that is biased or not correct.

... Ah, just like that public health menace, the public library.

I don't believe "social media" is actually injurious to youths. The studies saying it does, ISTM, are all confounded, of poor quality, and ride off publication bias. And yeah, it's remarkable that a lot of people on this very thread ago grew up on the Internet and gained lifelong technical skills want to pull the ladder up after them on the grounds of unproven and implausible harms.

In reality, the drive for social media age limits is the latest in a long line of moral panics. In the 80s, it was D&D corrupting innocent souls. Now, it's feed ranking? I don't believe any of it.

Looking for reason at the root of a moral panic usually leads only to despair. These things just have to be endured.
by microtonal | 2026-01-27 08:16:39+00:00
lol hahaha Europe will "say" and maybe in a few decades

In the local harbor, they built an LNG terminal in 6 months (Eemshaven, NL).

The Russian invasion was on February 24, 2022. They opened an LNG terminal on September 8, 2022.

My primary lessons of previous crises (2008-2010 financial crisis, COVID, 2022 invasion) is that under pressure EU/EU countries can do things very quickly and do things well. The pundits always say the next crisis breaks the EU, but it always ends up with the EU being stronger and more unified than before.
by JodieBenitez | 2026-01-27 08:17:32+00:00
> You might say that owning is more expensive than renting, even with all the price increases. Sure. But I’ve paid for Spotify for ten years, from 2014 to 2024, and that’s a solid 1200€ with the old pricing. At the end, I had nothing to show for it. My carefully curated “library” was not mine - it was held hostage by a company that can up the prices at any point.

10 years to realize it ? What took so long ?
by isolli | 2026-01-27 08:17:36+00:00
Every time I fly, I marvel at how much engineering and know-how went into making the airport that I'm using. From the oddly shaped trucks with various functions, to mundane elements (elevators, escalators, ...) to advanced technology (radio communication, radars...) to the sheer organizational feat (thousands of people coming in every day to execute their carefully planned tasks). This text will give me one more thing to think about :)
by alexfoo | 2026-01-27 08:17:37+00:00
And don't rely on the destination airport having the same rules when you fly back.

This used to get people doing EU -> London flights. The EU rules had already been relaxed, but you got bitten by the extra restrictions when you went to fly back.

Like most things, flying is a complete shitshow, but do it often enough and you get used to it and all of the foibles.

Regularly flying hand luggage only is a grind as you're at the mercy of the lowest common denominator in terms of rules on what you can carry. When I had to visit a string of customers with one or two flights a day I had to submit expense claims with various toiletries purchased several times over, it was questioned by the finance department and they asked about whether I should check in a bag next time, but they stopped pushing when I said that adding a checked bag to my tickets would have been about 10 times more expensive than just buying things as and when I needed them.

Hugely wasteful but then so is flying, and most of my trips could have been replaced with a video call if it wasn't for touchy-feely corporate politics.

Water: I use a generic cycling bidon for travel. I empty it before security and they're happy with that. Any sane airport will have places to refill it for free, if they don't I can just buy a bottle of water and refill it. No airport I've traveled through has wanted to confiscate an empty cycling bidon and if they did it's cheap to replace.
by nomel | 2026-01-27 08:17:38+00:00
Wanting to know how email worked and then stumbling on it being mentioned next to the relevant RFCs was my first exposure! You could easily check pop3 mail over telnet, by sending all the commands by hand. HELO!

I then made my first email client, then an RFC later, and after browsing the web through telnet for a while, made my first web server!
by awesomegoat_com | 2026-01-27 08:18:13+00:00
This reminds me the blog one would write around 2006. Not the text content, but the pixelated font and pictures of winamp wibe like that.

Myself, I am rather happily using mplayer - without any gui. Initially it was practicality of not leaking memory - like many gtk+ apps would do. Now, it is pure utility.
by p0w3n3d | 2026-01-27 08:18:31+00:00
TBH the only thing I care for (except maybe for playlist management) is gapless playback. There's no word about it, but I constantly find out that the new players do not really care about the gap, while the music I am listening to is always ripped from my personal CDs and they mostly have music continuing on two or more tracks. Why nobody cares about it?

Do you know this feeling when you get towards the High Hopes on The Division Bell and there's this ugly crack in between tracks?
by tucnak | 2026-01-27 08:18:45+00:00
You know they can run NAT at the border right? Iran -> Russia -> the rest of the Internet. Russians would never re-advertise Iranian routes, and because they're all such good pals they could let them use whatever segment, so all Iranian traffic would simply appear as Russian traffic to the rest of the Internet, using normal residential subnets of which there are plenty. No need to ever involve the commercial VPN providers, and the scale would be negligible considering we're only talking about "the elites" of which there aren't many.

This is not as hard as you think.
by DarkWiiPlayer | 2026-01-27 08:19:09+00:00
Same here; I'm all for a "ban" but it doesn't have to be all social media, just force them to use a simple rules-based algorithm for minors.

But meh, it's a broader issue anyway. Just look at the puritanical obsession some people have with pornography too.

Young people these days are getting infantilised way too much imho and that's just not healthy. There needs to be a safe environment to transition into adulthood with gradual exposure to all kinds of things, rather than turning 18 and suddenly being a different category of person entirely.
by quotemstr | 2026-01-27 08:19:33+00:00
This site is social media. Should under 15s be prevented discussing developers in the tech industry?

No? On what grounds? HN uses opaque feed ranking algorithms. It's run by a for-profit US tech company. It uses dark patterns (e.g. shadowbans and unwired "flag" links) that prompt users to engage under false pretenses.

It even has advertisements. The horror!

Yet nobody serious says HN is harmful to the fledging minor technologist.

I've yet to see a logical rule allowing minors to access HN but prohibiting their scrolling Instagram. Every demarcation scheme I've seen is some variant of "big company bad", which is a ridiculous standard for a law intended to prevent the harms that the "structure* of a medium (as opposed to the identity of its owners) produces.

In a nation of laws, an act is allowed or prohibited based on the nature of the act itself. Actors don't get special privileges based on who they are.
by arjie | 2026-01-27 08:20:04+00:00
A typical example of Hyrum's Law: ...all observable behaviors of your system
will be depended on by somebody. It's like how your draft folder feature will be used as a secret messaging app by a general and his mistress, or as Don Norman points out, your flat topped parapet will be used as a table for used cups, or your reliable data store of chats will be used as academic research storage.

But I have to say, quite an incredible choice! ChatGPT released in Nov 2022. This scientist was an early adopter and immediately started putting his stuff in there with the assumption that it would live there forever. Wow, quite the appetite for risk.

But I can't call him too many names. I have a similar story of my own: one thing I once did was ETL a bunch of advertising data into a centralized data lake. We did this through the use of a Facebook App that customers would log in to and authorize ads insights access to. One of the things you need to do is certify that you are definitely not going to do bad things with the data. All we were doing was calculating ROAS and stuff like that: aggregate data. We were clean.

But you do have to certify that you are clean if you even go close to user data, which means answer a questionnaire (periodically). I did answer the questionnaire, but for everyone who has used anything near Meta's business and advertising programs (at the control plane, the ad delivery plane must be stupendous) you know they are anything but reliable. The flaky thing popped up an alert the next day that I had to certify again and it wouldn't go away. Okay, fine, I do need the one field but how about I just turn off the permission and try to work without it. I don't want anyone thinking I'm doing shady stuff when I'm not.

Only problem? If you have an outstanding questionnaire and you want to remove a permission you have to switch from Live to Development. That's fine too, normally, it's a 5 second toggle. Works every time. Except if you have an outstanding questionnaire you cannot switch from Development to Live. We were suddenly stuck, no data, nothing and every client is getting this page about app not approved. And there's nothing to be done but to beg Meta Support who will ignore you. I just resubmitted the app and we waited 24 hours and through the love of God it all came back.

But I was oh-so-cavalier clicking that bloody button! The kind of mistake you make once before you treat any Data Privacy Questionnaire like it's the Demon Core.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-01-27 08:20:26+00:00
For most of my music listening needs, I self-host SwingMusic and keep it pinned in Firefox. Occasionally I'll open the music files directly with MPV or VLC.

The automatic lyrics fetching and playback sync in SwingMusic is pretty nice. My only complaint is that it doesn't let me do full-collection shuffle. Ideally it would also allow me to do something like "full collection shuffle but only of songs that I have never heard". Sometimes I'll pick up an album because it seems interesting but things happen and I forget that I added it and it might languish without listening to it for months or years.

I'm waiting a bit for this to mature before I try it out, but I've seen that there's a few ongoing projects to analyze your full music collection to do feature extraction and generate smart playlists using AI tools. I'm not sure if it'll pan out but it seems like a fun tool for exploring large music collections and possibly making unexpected connections.
by stuaxo | 2026-01-27 08:21:01+00:00
Current one was 150 quid off Ebay, I've also used backmarket.

Last time I had a "flagship" phone it got stolen out my hand.

The screen was also expensive to replace.

If I drop this its no big deal (the back is plastic anyway).

It also comes in a fun colour so its not just another black rectangle.

I'll replace it with the Jolla phone when that arrives.
by zurfer | 2026-01-27 08:21:17+00:00
we use codex review. it's working really well for us.
but i don't agree that it's straightforward. moving the number of bugs catched and signal to noise ratio a few percentage points is a compounding advantage.

it's a valuable problem to solve, amplified by the fact that ai coding produces much more code.

that being said, i think it's damn hard to compete with openai or anthropic directly on a core product offering in the long run. they know that it's an important problem and will invest accordingly.
by pzmarzly | 2026-01-27 08:22:27+00:00
TIL Raspberry Pi doesn't support UEFI - I once read RPi 4 and 5 do, but apparently that was just a community project. https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/02/18/raspberry-pi-4-uefia...

Regarding phones, Google is trying to push UEFI adoption with their EFI bootloader, but that's still some time away. Recent talk: https://lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2257/

Regarding Windows/PC ARM devices, I think the best experience would be on System76 Thelio (with Ampere CPU), but that's quite a pricy machine.

I don't really care what Apple does on this regard, they were always doing things differently. IIRC, even Macs that supported EFI, only supported EFI 1.1, not 2.0, no?
by bpye | 2026-01-27 08:22:42+00:00
> if you talk to anyone in canada who is from here and doesn't work in the public sector, the conversation quickly turns to whether they're planning to leave and how far along they are. the way it's going, they're going to have to bar the exits.

It sounds like that is just your bubble. I live in Vancouver, BC, and am a Canadian citizen. Yes, lots of people agree that things could be (and should be!) better - but I don't know many folks that are actively planning to leave.