MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-10 01:24:39+00:00
I mean his first wife(mother of that trans daughter) wrote the following about him in 2010:

"Still, there were warning signs. As we danced at our wedding reception, Elon told me, "I am the alpha in this relationship." I shrugged it off, just as I would later shrug off signing the postnuptial agreement, but as time went on, I learned that he was serious. He had grown up in the male-dominated culture of South Africa, and the will to compete and dominate that made him so successful in business did not magically shut off when he came home. This, and the vast economic imbalance between us, meant that in the months following our wedding, a certain dynamic began to take hold. Elon's judgment overruled mine, and he was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking. "I am your wife," I told him repeatedly, "not your employee."

"If you were my employee," he said just as often, "I would fire you.""

https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-start...

I was at /r/RealTesla when it began as an offshoot of /r/Teslamotors. A well known frequent critic of Tesla got banned and him and a bunch of other frustrated skeptics went off on their own.

The people in the auto and space industry were screaming from the rooftops about him for years. The Elon loving crowd were software techies who had no understanding and respect of the history of the auto and space industries totally ignored them.

I'm reminded from a quote from Bob Lutz, former vice chairman of GM (during the bankruptcy era): https://youtu.be/GXJnS9RgKsg?t=2686

Now to be fair to Tesla, they managed to attract tons of amazing talent that screwed up in some ways but produced absolute brilliance in many other ways.

Will Lutz ultimately be proven right just due to chance?(ie. Elon dropping the ball after everything that has transpired) I don't know really. In the end both pro and anti Tesla sides were right and wrong on many things.
by bsder | 2026-01-10 01:25:04+00:00
This is part of the issue I have with the original article.

When these kinds of "unique" people are rare, that's ... sorta okay. Once you get too many of them, it's no longer interesting and becomes an active hazard.

I have a further problem because it seems like the author has no plans for the reverse when it is supposed to be his turn to be on the giving side rather than the receiving.
by SamDc73 | 2026-01-10 01:25:43+00:00
> If you want a half-decent model, at least look at NYC

I don't have the data, honestly, but isn't NYC (and it's surrounding cities/suburbs) more dense than the Bay Area?

In SF (the city) transpiration is quite decent because it's dense; single family houses and public transpiration together is a very very tricky to pull; you have to choose one or the other and most people would rather live in a family house than an apartment/condo with good transpiration
by LolWolf | 2026-01-10 01:26:09+00:00
yes ! but it also assumes you have: a good optical breadboard + bench + dampeners, a beautiful set of lenses, all sorts of nice lasers and kinematic mounts and linear stages etc etc

so yes, we _also_ (back in my phd lab) built equipment in that sense, but there was a pretty good foundation of Fairly Fancy stuff already sitting around !
by recursive | 2026-01-10 01:26:27+00:00
I mean, yes. That's true for everyone. Different people have different life circumstances. It's equally important not to decide to do things that one can't realistically do, for whatever reasons there may be. I'm not sure what your point is.

Don't sell your house if you don't have a realistic place to live lined up. Don't divorce your wife if it's not worth the work.

I'm not saying everyone can or should be grindset hustle bro. Probably no one. I'm just saying that it is sometimes possible to decide what you're going to do in advance. If you already have too many obligations, that could include deciding which ones to fail. That's probably better than trying to do everything and just rolling the dice.

It's surprising how controversial this idea is, but it works for me. I hope you find something that works for you.
by evanjrowley | 2026-01-10 01:27:10+00:00
Another quote from Jim Carey:

People talk about depression all the time.

The difference between depression and sadness is sadness is just, you know, from happen stance. Whatever happened or didn't happen for you...

... and depression is your body saying fuck you, I don't want to be this character anymore, I don't want to hold up this avatar that you've created in the world. It's too much for me.

So, a friend of mine who's a spiritual teacher has a really good take. His name is Jeff Foster, and his take on it is that they should change [how we think of] the word "depressed" as "deep rest"

deep rest - your body needs to be depressed, It needs deep rest from the character that you've been trying to play.

Link: https://youtube.com/shorts/lMQJ2bHeP4c?si=UPRHV8DVWZ77nXCM
by hn_acc1 | 2026-01-10 01:27:20+00:00
This 100x. I go to work because I don't want to have a long uncomfortable conversation with my boss, and because I hate interviewing, and not having income is even worse. Even at work, I often find reasons (like HN) to do actually DO work.

I've had routines at times in my life for months. And they disappear in a matter of days when I get stressed or my schedule changes or whatever.
by markyg | 2026-01-10 01:29:07+00:00
Hey HN,

I've been building games on the side for a few years and got fed up with the asset chaos. Unity packages I bought and forgot about, Blender models scattered across folders, sprite sheets from bundles I never unpacked. I'd spend ages hunting for something I knew I had, or worse, buy it twice.

So I built Asset Hoard. It's a desktop app that gives you one searchable library for all your game dev assets. Runs locally, no account required, your files stay on your machine.

Built with Tauri, Svelte, and SQLite. Supports 40+ file types with visual previews: 3D models (.fbx, .obj, .gltf, .blend), sprites with animations (.aseprite, .krita), audio with waveforms, textures. You can inspect Unity .unitypackage and Godot assets without importing them.

It's free during beta. Looking for feedback from anyone who's got a mess of assets they'd like to organise.

Site: https://assethoard.com

Happy to answer questions about the tech stack or the product.
by LolWolf | 2026-01-10 01:29:23+00:00
ah I see!

Yes this is very cool (hope you make it open source :) but have you taken a peek at the openflexure project? They make a fully motorized 3-axis microscope that is 3d printed and relatively inexpensive (parts+motors+electronics - PLA net out to USD 250?)

it’s very cool! maybe you can also take some ideas from there :)

https://openflexure.org/
by econ | 2026-01-10 01:29:42+00:00
It obviously requires a lot of figuring out (by better men than me) but it seems a worthwhile adventure.

The halting problem can just be figured out experimentally in production. Users might need to earn or lose privileges over time as things escalate. Admins might approve a script and allow running it without prompts or pressing the button.

Perhaps entire applications can be written this way. I much enjoyed old php code with discussions in threaded comments. (The cache will save us.)

Reminds me of Richard

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-...
by j-krieger | 2026-01-10 01:30:01+00:00
Ha! What sanctions? We are not sanctioning like we truly mean it.

> So I understand your point but you're essentially arguing that because democracies can abuse power,

No, my point is that because democracies are abusing power, right now, we should be against giving them more tools. The US democracy is in an active state of being dismantled because they have lots of shiny legal tools to do it. These very same beginnings can be seen in Europe too, when the EU tries again and again to pass privacy invading internet tracking laws. We are not in favour of Iran building nukes for "defense", and I would wager you won't defend their efforts in the face of critics when they say "hey, we're pretty sure they will abuse it" because it might not happen, even though abuse is clearly already happening.

> Russia etc have no free speech concerns limiting their operations against us. Doing nothing will allow these adveraries to destroy our democracies from within

If democracy is so weak that it needs to be protected from uncomfortable truths and the opinions of its people (read: opinions you or I may not share), then maybe it's not saveable.

> I think we can at least agree that the choice isn't only between "government ministry of truth" and "do nothing" and we need a middle ground solution.

Dead on. The only true weapon to combat misinformation is transparency. But transparency efforts are not what I'm seeing, and they are certainly not what Ursula von der Leyen means when she talks about the Digital Services Act.
by tombert | 2026-01-10 01:30:23+00:00
I am generally ok with things being proprietary if they want, and I'm mostly ok with Orion being proprietary, but I do understand peoples' issues here.

For a lot of people (even relatively geeky people), their computers end up being "an interface to use a browser". People use their browser to file their taxes, to write their documents, to manage their websites, to create websites, to look at porn, to pirate movies, to chat with their friends, to send/receive money to their bank, and a whole bunch of other things.

It would be hard to imagine a piece of software that is capable of knowing me more intimately than my primary web browser, and as Google has proven, this intimate knowledge is valuable. Companies pay boatloads of money for large quantities of personal information to target ads (and probably a bunch of other more disturbing things).

I genuinely don't think freediver is lying; I believe him when he says there's no telemetry data being sent and that it's not tracking me, but there's the sticking word: "believe". I have to trust him, which wouldn't necessarily be the case if it were FOSS.

Now, granted, I could always run Wireshark or something to ensure that there's no telemetry data being sent regularly, but that only protects you so much; for all I know, they could be taking steps to actively make it look like they're not sending data, or they could be batching up N days of data and sending it in batches so it is not as obvious that telemetry is sent.

Again, I genuinely don't think they're doing that, I believe them, but I do see peoples' points.
by bunnybomb2 | 2026-01-10 01:30:26+00:00
You arent the only human whos had a issue with not getting things done, its normal, and its hackable. Brains are hackable.

I dont mean to say you implied it, but its easy to dig a larger hole when you believe you are special, or you have tried "all" the advice.

Every problem has a solution, and I beg you to search deeper to what you do even in task-paralysis states. That might be where your mission comes from.

It helped me to have a life goal that was bigger than life, ego, or energy. Maybe you havent found it yet. If you have, I apologize if I sound cocky!
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-10 01:31:14+00:00
Yea I didn't like the voice as well, it felt very coarse to me and not very enjoyable

To be really honest, I still occasionally browse shorts sometimes because of some youtubers/niche content (there is this really good etymology shorts guy and a fun fact guy I watch usually)

So like the other day I was asking fun fact about niche legal laws just out of curiosity if anyone of them might be interesting/genuinely helpful to me lol to chatgpt about different countries

There were lot of niche things but one which I found interesting was that its possible in finland and other norweigian countries to browse even private land / private forests etc. and finland even has a digital right to internet

> Finland was the first country in the world to make access to high-speed internet a legal right, establishing this policy in July 2010. The law requires all service providers to offer a minimum internet speed of one megabit per second to every household, with a goal of providing access to 100 megabits per second by 2015. PBS edri.org (from Duckduckgo AI)
by dionian | 2026-01-10 01:31:47+00:00
Im super interested to know how juniors get a long. i have dealt with build systems for decades and half the time its just use google or stackoverflow to get past something quickly, or manually troubleshoot deps. now i automate that entirely. and for code, i know what good or not, i check its output and hve it redo anything t5hat doesnt pass my known stndards. It makes using it so much easier. the article is so on point
by lovich | 2026-01-10 01:32:19+00:00
I am hurt when I think I am hearing words from a fellow citizen that are their own opinion, when instead it is a foreign actor pushing a narrative for their state.

I am all for free speech, but I am not for anonymous speech which is choking the internet. If I am in person speaking with you, I can be fairly certain that you aren't actually a completely different person underneath a rubber mask. I want to at least know that an account I am speaking to is a _person_ and not a robot, although Id probably want country of origin too.

I do not have a good answer for how to achieve that without having a chilling effect on speech, but maybe that's a good thing? I go back and forth on if its better or not to require you to say who you are if you want to say something in public.

In private, go hog wild.
by nostrademons | 2026-01-10 01:32:43+00:00
Commuting and residential patterns changed too. A lot of Googlers purchased houses in the Tri-valley during COVID instead of living in apartments in Mountain View or Sunnyvale or SF. Now they have a Dumbarton or 237 commute instead of something Caltrain-accessible. Tech companies also started laying off in 2022, and stopped hiring in the Bay Area; I'd bet that total employment along the Caltrain corridor is significantly lower than in 2019.

The Bay Area also needs way better last-mile transportation. I looked into taking Caltrain to work; it'd take 22 minutes to Caltrain the ~15 miles to the nearest Caltrain station, and then another 22 minutes to shuttle the 2.5 miles to work.
by elbci | 2026-01-10 01:33:36+00:00
Open source, by definition can't be "EU" - it's either universal or it's not open.

This already annoying spam with the eu call for papers will - at best - result in a random linux distro with a logo slapped on top that will cost 50 million dollars and will be used in 5 kindergartens and 3 elderly nursing homes.
by mjevans | 2026-01-10 01:33:36+00:00
You're sort of making the point though.

'within the historical record' -- No one still makes a big deal about it because it happened long enough ago.

There are places that are not widely contested today, generally most of their present borders are assumed to be generally stable. Or places with obvious natural geographic bounds and mostly internal conflict through history.

Yet at some point were those places not battled over? Even the internal conflicts count, even if as a whole the majority of a country's population of today considers themselves of one people.

The regions that remain in conflict are considered such largely because of the people who have, at some point, lived in an area long enough for it to become a notable part of their history, they have not unified as a people OF a place, but as a distinct ethnic group (be that religious or otherwise) who happened to have at some time lived in some area.

They have all been 'wronged', and all* (generally an assumption but likely to be true) have 'wronged' others (at least in 'aggressive self defense' if not in some other way) at some point.

-- put into a metaphor --

There's a public park owned by the people (earth) which has a single tree that many children have made memories with. However two or more groups of childhood friends want to continue making memories with that tree and disagree with each other and how each other interact with the tree.

What is the solution?

The evil answer from a fiction writer is to destroy the tree to remove the problem. However that does not make a right.

Using any method to give the tree to one group would be a wrong to the other groups.

The groups cannot agree on how to share, nor how to all be full adults and make memories with the tree in peaceful coexistence.

Thus, lacking an accepted answer, the problem remains unresolved.
by perching_aix | 2026-01-10 01:33:54+00:00
> ChatGPT will happily do its own private "literature search" and then not tell you about it

Also known as model inference. This is not something "private" or secret. AI models are lossily compressed data stores and will always will be. The model doesn't report on it because it's not a model output driven activity, but an inference engine driven one.

> even Terence Tao has freely admitted as much

Bit of a (willfully?) misleading way of saying they actively looked for it on a best effort basis, isn't it?
by D-Machine | 2026-01-10 01:33:59+00:00
Sigh. If I start with a pre-trained LLM architecture, and then do extensive further training / fine-tuning with different data and loss functions and custom similarity metrics for specialized search and specialized training procedures, and use feedback from other automated systems, we are far, far more than an LLM. That's the point. Calling something like this an LLM is as deeply misleading as calling AlphaFold an LLM. These tools goes far beyond simple LLMs. The special losses and metrics are really so important here and are why these tools can be so game-changing.
by silexia | 2026-01-10 01:34:22+00:00
Massive numbers of jobs as billionaires by definition are building highly successful large companies. Being on the cutting edge of science and technology. Improvements to all of our lives from better goods and services.

If you hate billionaires, then stop buying any goods off Amazon or from any other billionaire owned company. My guess is your quality of life will drop precipitously.
by zamadatix | 2026-01-10 01:34:32+00:00
One correction to my message above: apparently Chrome on Windows is still 720p for Netflix, it was Edge that had 4k support. Or you can install the Netflix App on Windows too.

I agree it's a bit silly, but I think a lot of people don't really care about quality so long as they can watch it. I guess that'd also explain how Netflix gets away with such low bitrates for even the "high quality" versions of content.
After planning, work history scatters across tools and people's heads
by aryan_192002 | 2026-01-10 01:34:35+00:00
right after planning tasks, when execution actually begins, work breaks into dependencies across cross-functional teams -> person x waiting on person y.
over time, the work history gets messy and scattered across tools and mediums. chats, email threads, and tag-up meetings fade away, leading to vague follow-ups, missed work, and the need to remember things manually.
i built a tool to keep work promises and their shared execution together from start to finish. think of it as version control for work, where the unit isn’t a message, but a work item, and everything else revolves around it.
would really appreciate discussion or pushback on this.

check out landing for even better understanding -> https://forthora.com
by xhkkffbf | 2026-01-10 01:35:29+00:00
Actually, you're the one being obtuse. The point isn't that they use Instacart to avoid the lines. The point is that everyone can use Instacart or the USPS mobile app and everyone pretty much pays the same price. The point is that there's no special level of power that's available only to people with a billion dollars.

There's this mythology built around great wealth and it's largely false. They can't just snap their fingers and make things happen as if by magic. There's no special magic power that only they get. They have to pay for what they want and just like normal humans, they can only spend the money once.
Show HN: Turn any topic into a 3Blue1Brown-style video
by lafalce | 2026-01-10 01:35:53+00:00
Hey HN! I built Topic2Manim to automate the creation of educational videos
like those from 3Blue1Brown.

The workflow is simple:

1. Give it any topic (e.g., "how ChatGPT works")

2. An LLM generates an educational script divided into scenes

3. LLM generates Manim code for each scene

4. FFmpeg concatenates everything into a final video

Currently working on TTS integration for narration!

Would love feedback on the approach and ideas for the TTS integration
by arjie | 2026-01-10 01:36:48+00:00
I think I may have given the wrong impression: I definitely appreciated it. When I said it's not necessary, I was distinguishing the act from legal acts that are necessary. For instance: a car waiting for me to take my turn at a stop sign cannot be evidence of the driver "showing consideration" since even the inconsiderate may yet prioritize adhering to a legal requirement.

Making it easier for me to lane-split on the other hand is not required of the driver. If they are doing it, they are doing so entirely optionally and consequently it is evidence of their being considerate.

When lane-splitting I appreciated the move over for the following reasons:

* I know you can see me

* It is more comfortable with more space

* I know you are willing to look out for other motorists => if a thing happens unexpectedly right in front, the spot I'm in next to you is safer than standard.
by maximinus_thrax | 2026-01-10 01:37:03+00:00
Montlake Terrace WA did https://www.heraldnet.com/news/mountlake-terrace-cancels-flo...

My hope is that https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules... will make Flock get the fuck out of Washington state.
by dpoloncsak | 2026-01-10 01:37:28+00:00
Tried to submit slopware.wtf as a slopware website and it told me it's an invalid website.

Edit: nevermind, you need to add https:// because thats not clearly implied by the fact that we're calling these websites

Also, your RSS feed doesn't seem to be properly serving XML...could be something on my end though
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-10 01:37:30+00:00
> Logic solvers are useful, but not tractable as a general way to approach mathematics.

To be clear, there are explicitly computationally tractable fragments of existing logics, but they're more-or-less uninteresting by definition: they often look like very simple taxonomies (i.e. purely implicational) or like a variety of "modal" and/or "multi-modal" constructions over simpler logics.

Of course it would be nice to explicitly tease out and write down the "computationally tractable" general logical reasoning that some existing style of proof is implicitly relying on (AIUI this kind of inquiry would generally be comprised under "synthetic mathematics", trying to find simple treatments in axiom- and rule-of-inference style for existing complex theories) but that's also difficult.
by diob | 2026-01-10 01:37:37+00:00
Yes, exactly. I have exercised daily (either weight training or cardio) for nearly 20 years. I've also had anxiety and depression for that entire stretch of time.

Exercise was how I stayed mildly sane for a good majority of those years, but when I started taking medication it was like the entire world changed. I wish I had started earlier in life. It helped me to become a lot more introspective as well, being able to better examine why I was feeling the way I did.

There are some things that no amount of exercise or "healthy living" can fix, that's unfortunately just the human condition. It's nothing to be ashamed of.
by thefourthchime | 2026-01-10 01:37:48+00:00
I can tell you the light rail in Austin is a complete failure. There was some ridership before the pandemic, but after a few years, the numbers are dismal. They've covered the windows with ads, so you can't even tell how empty they are inside. Meanwhile, they crisscross the city, constantly blocking streets with rail guards just to shuffle a handful of people north and south.