MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hilbert42 | 2026-01-15 01:33:05+00:00
Decades ago we used a much simpler method. A few 50 or 75 ohm non-inductive resistors and a tunnel diode.

Feed any (slow) pulse generator into the diode and make it switch. Tunnel diodes can have sub-nanosecond switching times.

We also used this technique to check/measure the rise times of our oscilloscopes.
by krackers | 2026-01-15 01:33:09+00:00
I'm interested in this too. I was expecting just a chromium reskin, but it does seem to be at least something more than that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46625189 claims it uses Taffy for CSS layout but the docs also claim "Taffy for flex/grid, native for tables/block/inline"
by zmmmmm | 2026-01-15 01:33:45+00:00
> API use is way too expensive

Cry me a river - I never stop hearing how developers think their time is so valuable that no amount of AI use could possibly not be worth it. Yet suddenly, paying for what you use is "too expensive".

I'm getting sick of costs being distorted. It's resulting in dysfunctional methodologies where people are spinning up ridiculous number agents in the background, burning tokens to grind out solutions where a modicum of oversight or direction from a human would result in 10x less compute. At very least the costs should be realised by the people doing this.
by blitzar | 2026-01-15 01:33:59+00:00
Your suggested functionality is server side, not client side.

> it uses API's unused capacity

I see no waiting or scheduling on my usage - it runs, what appears to be, full speed till I hit my 4 hour / 7 day limit and then it stops.

Claude code is cheap (via a subscription) because it is burning piles of investor cash, while making a bit back on API / pay per token users.
by smeej | 2026-01-15 01:34:48+00:00
"Thinking" is directed and intentional. That may very well not be something people can do. I don't know. That's not what I'm talking about. And it very well might be practically impossible to find enough people whose brains can go multiple directions at the same time that it could be studied.

So no, I'm not going to follow you down a tangent that isn't actually related to what I'm saying.
by zuoning | 2026-01-15 01:34:51+00:00
Kutt AI is a professional AI video generation platform that turns text prompts or images into cinematic videos in seconds. You can create lifelike speaking avatars, swap faces or bodies, and animate characters with action imitation, all in HD and ready to share. The platform bundles top models like Wan and Seedance, offers over 100 effects, fast rendering, and commercial-use rights, so creators and teams can produce social clips, promos, and short films without complex editing.
by shermantanktop | 2026-01-15 01:36:36+00:00
In the White House, you have to say what Trump wants to hear. If you are a foreign leader, you have to say you’ll share your peace prize with him, because that’s what he wants to hear. TACO is a thing because he wants to say things, but not do things.

In tech, you have to say you’re bullish on AI, because that’s what managers want to hear. They say it their CEO, because that’s what CEO wants to hear. And the CEO says it to the public because that’s what Wall Street wants to hear.

Turn around and ask ChatGPT a question and it tells you what you want to hear, along with a compliment about how smart you are.
by sanxiyn | 2026-01-15 01:36:46+00:00
Looking at their blog, they in fact ran gpt-oss-120b: https://furiosa.ai/blog/serving-gpt-oss-120b-at-5-8-ms-tpot-...

I think Llama 3 focus mostly reflects demand. It may be hard to believe, but many people aren't even aware gpt-oss exists.
by Nursie | 2026-01-15 01:36:52+00:00
> None of this matters to people who can't afford to heat their homes in the winter.

1. Yes it does because it helps the country control prices and helps people afford to heat their homes in winter.

2. Yes it does because defence is still important even if prices are high.

I'm not defending labour's record or politicians in general, but you're letting your irritation blind you there.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-01-15 01:37:41+00:00
This article could have been written at any point since 1980. If anything, the past decade has seen an actual decline in gymbro culture and in the sport (yeah, yeah) of bodybuilding specifically. Also, steroids are a lot harder to get than they used to be.

It's interesting to note that the heyday of the once-huge bodybuilding.com forum was about fifteen or twenty years ago.
by rayiner | 2026-01-15 01:38:10+00:00
Being “productive in our economy” shouldn’t be the test. People are hardworking and productive all over the world. People in my dad’s village in Bangladesh work really fucking hard. That’s not what makes America different from Bangladesh.

The test should be, if we put the immigrants on an empty plain, could they recreate Iowa or Massachusetts? I.e. a bottom-up democracy characterized by self-government, rule of law, weak extended family ties and strong civic institutions. Because if they couldn’t recreate those things they can’t maintain America. Instead, what’ll happen (and is happening) will be a slow reversion to the global mean.

As we have seen time and time again with democracy experiments in the third world, these things are rare innovations and can’t be conveyed to other cultures just by writing government structures and laws down on paper. The corollary to that is that there is no guarantee we can perpetuate these things in America against immigration just because they’re written down on paper.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-15 01:38:36+00:00
This is the absolutely worse idea possible. The answer is that you don’t. You create a database user that has read only rights and you allow Claude to use that user.

You could do the same for your SSH user.

I’m assuming your database doesn’t have PII, if it does even that would be out of the question unless you gave the database user only access ti certain tables.

Now that I think about it, that’s not even a good idea since a badly written select statement can cause performance issues.
by p_l | 2026-01-15 01:38:40+00:00
Quite probably should work just fine.

The secret is that ZFS actually implements an object storage layer on top of block devices and only then implements ZVOL and ZPL (ZFS POSIX filesystem) on top of that.

A "zfs send" is essentially a serialized stream of objects sorted by dependency (objects later in stream will refer to objects earlier in stream, but not the other way around).
by alexfoo | 2026-01-15 01:38:41+00:00
Not really. Applebee’s is still too food oriented.

Wetherspoons are definitely pubs. They just have a reputation for cheap drinks and cheap meals. But there’s still a significant proportion of people who go there for drinks only.

It’s more like a drinking warehouse with carpet on the floor and a menu of mostly beige food than a larger version of a cosy country pub with a roaring fire and a varied food menu sometimes involving vegetables that have not been deep fried.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-15 01:38:53+00:00
> they have the loan rates for 6-10 years memorized, not 3-5 years

Playing Devil's Advocate, if you're going to be fucked either way, why not be fucked and have a nice truck than not?

It seems like, at least from an uninformed EU perspective, that if the "system" gives you the ability to get a big truck for no worse off that if you weren't going to get it, why wouldn't you?

It seems like auto manufacturers overly inflated their prices, and the loan issuers are mopping up said inflation back - so in the end the borrower (at least if poor and they're going to default either way) is better off getting more truck for their buck than less.
by rankiwiki | 2026-01-15 01:39:40+00:00
One thing I’m personally unsure about is whether the value proposition is clear enough on first visit.

The original idea was not to “rank things better”, but to see how rankings change when language silos are removed. In some cases, the same topic looks very different depending on script and region.

If you landed on the homepage without context:
would you immediately understand what the site is for?
or does it feel like “just another list site”?

Honest feedback welcome, even if the answer is “I’m confused”.
by dlcarrier | 2026-01-15 01:39:44+00:00
Every once in a while, eBay emails me out of the blue and asks me to update my personal details, with a link to a web page.

I always assumed they were phishing scams, but I looked closer at one, and it is a real link too a real page on their site. It's like they're training people to fall for phishing scams. One of them even displayed the name of a variable, instead of my user name.
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-01-15 01:40:07+00:00
I was talking about founders, who are in direct competition with one another for VC funding.

But if you want to talk about employees, what you're saying isn't really true.

Sourcing, recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and relocating immigrant workers is very expensive. For an immigrant to outcompete a citizen on cost they have to be significantly cheaper than the citizen - but if they're on an H1B you have to pay them the prevailing wage for their position! So there's a floor on just how much immigrant workers can undercut citizen workers. Immigration certainly puts downward pressure on wages across a whole industry, but looking at software in particular we see wages having risen consistently for decades now. You can look at what companies are paying their H1B software workers and see that it's typically a very generous wage by US standards.

But, weirdly, a majority of US CS graduates don't work in software. It doesn't make sense that they would be holding out for more money than immigrant workers to the point that they end up exiting the industry altogether and taking a less lucrative job. Not to me, at least.

I think what you're saying, if it's happening at all, is likely only happening at the bottom end of the market. Which kind of proves my point.
by exabrial | 2026-01-15 01:40:37+00:00
I swear, Telsa makes cars for gamers. If you're not in this demographic, it's not for you. Ford, GM, everyone needs to stop emulating Tesla. Practical people do not want this.

Unfortunately other automakers see this as the pinnacle of interior engineering; swoon over this and try to pull a "LETS REMOVE ALL OF THE BUTTONS, ITS WHAT CONSUMERS WANT" maneuver.

All consumers really need/want is an affordable, repairable, minimalistic and simple vehicle. What automakers are shoving down their throats is touch screens, animations, ridiculous LED light displays, etc. Then they wonder why electric sales suck.
by prussia | 2026-01-15 01:41:14+00:00
Chrome is not FOSS btw. Google Chrome is proprietary software based on the open-source Chromium (also created by Google), which in turn is a fork of Webkit (by Apple, and with many corporate and non-corporate contributors), which itself is a fork of KHTML/KJS from the KDE project.

You are still right that corporations found and contribute to countless open source projects though.
by kuttel2 | 2026-01-15 01:41:29+00:00
There are certain connotations that one chooses to acquire when adopting unnaturally coloured pixie cuts and facial piercings. I would also argue that only certain personality types would certify their 'Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise'. There are a lot of red flags and cringe here. It speaks to the character of the person involved in this dispute.
by echelon | 2026-01-15 01:41:43+00:00
Do these developers fear losing their wages to Anthropic?

They should.

They should also hope that the power is held in as distributed a fashion as possible. The more any single player dominates the coding model space, the more they'll be able to extract for themselves.

We should hope for extreme levels of competition.

Someone should write an OS-level program that can extract the crypto keys from Anthropic tools, spy on the network traffic, then send all of that as training data to a third party. We should all install it.

We need to go to war against concentration of power.

In the future, when all development at scale happens through a company's tools, they'll be able to monitor the things you develop. And they'll be able to shut you down if they don't like what you're building. Assuming we don't just skip past that step and to the point where these companies automate everything and keep it for themselves.
by kulahan | 2026-01-15 01:42:36+00:00
Because most people who are fucked, are fucked due to terrible money spending habits. Tons and tons of people who make six figures are living paycheck to paycheck. Not because they must but because they won't stop spending poorly.

Again, I don't understand the desperate internet trend of defending terrible choices by focusing on the, like, 0.001% of people who do everything right and still fail. We've got the highest living standards on the planet. It's absolutely a choice.
by petesergeant | 2026-01-15 01:43:22+00:00
> nothing about the industry's finances add up right now

Nothing about the industry’s finances, or about Anthropic and OpenAI’s finances?

I look at the list of providers on OpenRouter for open models, and I don’t believe all of them are losing money. FWIW Anthropic claims (iirc) that they don’t lose money on inference. So I don’t think the industry or the model of selling inference is what’s in trouble there.

I am much more skeptical of Anthropic and OpenAI’s business model of spending gigantic sums on generating proprietary models. Latest Claude and GPT are very very good, but not better enough than the competition to justify the cash spend. It feels unlikely that anyone is gonna “winner takes all” the market at this point. I don’t see how Anthropic or OpenAI’s business model survive as independent entities, or how current owners don’t take a gigantic haircut, other than by Sam Altman managing to do something insane like reverse acquiring Oracle.

EDIT: also feels like Musk has shown how shallow the moat is. With enough cash and access to exceptional engineers, you can magic a frontier model out of the ether, however much of a douche you are.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-15 01:43:44+00:00
I've seen reported anywhere from 2 500 to 12 000 civilians killed by the islamist regime in Iran these last days.

Where is all the outrage from all those who were constantly posting messages defending the act of Hamas on Oct 7th as "resistance"?

We sure do read constantly about one person shot while not complying and driving away hitting one ICE agent, but zero posts about islamists eliminating thousands of civilians in Iran?

The dual standard here is insane.

Anyone posting a non-pro-left comment is downvoted into oblivion. It's insane.
by jleyank | 2026-01-15 01:43:54+00:00
People better pay attention to this issue if they want to work in the tech field. How the US interacts with its associates governs how products can be marketed, how staffing can be done, how money can be raised, … pretty much everything of interest to the HN community must be seen through this economic and immigration lens. Autarky might be a neat concept to some, but it’ll suck being a startup in that environment. They need customers and staff so restrictions on their scope suck.
by sargstuff | 2026-01-15 01:44:02+00:00
Use sql to create table views & only populate with data llm should have access to.

for 'command line' stuff:
If just shell text (aka, a-z,A-Z,0-9), then crude way would have a program sit between inbound ssh and database. Would need to determine how to send back error notice if something not allow. aka in "not OK" set (rm, move, chmod, etc). May need to break-up 'single line grouped commands' aka using end of line as marker, can send multiple sequences of shell commands per "new line" aka echo "example"; ls *; etc.

awk/gawk works nicely in this role. see awk filtering standard input concept -- demo concept[0]. Perhaps use ncat[4] instead of 'pipe'.

More technical, would make use of ebpf -- demo concept [1]. This would be able to handle non-ascii input.

Total overkill would be making use of kernel capabilities or pseudo-kernel capabilities via ptrace related things[2].

humor ip : Should the TV program Stargate's security door covering the portal have been called 'ncat' or '/dev/null'?

-----------------------

[0] : awk/gawk : https://www.tecmint.com/read-awk-input-from-stdin-in-linux/

[1] : ebpf : https://medium.com/@yunwei356/ebpf-tutorial-by-example-4-cap...

[2] : ptrace : https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/1...

[3] : ncat : https://nc110.sourceforge.io/
by fingerlocks | 2026-01-15 01:44:07+00:00
If you mean true 4x4, there are none. Sprinter went AWD a few years ago.

But I believe most vans on the market have an AWD option. Ford Transit and Volkswagen IDBuzz both offer AWD. Toyota’s Sienna is (only?) AWD with a silly lifted trim for the off-roading soccer mom market. Chrysler’s van is AWD.

That leaves the ProMaster as the only two wheeler I’m certain about. Mazda and Kia also have vans, unsure about their drivetrain options. Did I leave anyone out?
by camillomiller | 2026-01-15 01:45:23+00:00
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by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-15 01:45:37+00:00
> evidence is low-quality and contradictory. For example, high social media use is associated with anxiety and depression, but which direction does that relationship run?

The evidence from device bans is pretty damn compelling.

I am less familiar with the social-media literature. But I believe we have decent efforts at disentangling causation, and to my knowledge all research not coming out of Meta and TikTok points one way.

> kids are just going to find places to hang out online that are less moderated and less regulated and less safe

If they do this isn’t great policy. If they don’t, it is. Let’s let this natural experiment play out.
by MaKey | 2026-01-15 01:46:29+00:00
I've been part of a lot of communities and never have I felt that a CoC was missing or needed. CoCs didn't come because they were needed but because of a social justice fad. Have a look at the Tim Peters incident with the Python community. The decision to suspend him, a core maintainer (he wrote the Zen of Python), was justified by made-up absurd alleged CoC violations. Without a CoC they couldn't have suspended him as easily without totally losing their face.
by just6979 | 2026-01-15 01:46:46+00:00
If you're willing to purchase enough tokens, you can prompt and agent to loop and fuzz its way to "retire* this technical debt as described in issue #6712". But then you still need to review it and make sure it's not just doing a "debt-swap", like some kind of metaverse financial swindler. So you're spending money to avoid fixing tech debt, but adding in the need to review "someone else's code". And to take ownership of that code!

*(Of course, depending on the issue, it could be doing anything from surpressing logs so existing tests pass, to making useless-but-passing tests, to brute-forcing special cases, to possibly actually fixing something.)
by basilikum | 2026-01-15 01:46:47+00:00
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Also as text: https://txt.basilikum.monster

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and clearnet reverse proxy of that: https://onion.basilikum.monster
by bradlys | 2026-01-15 01:46:49+00:00
It’s weird how people don’t recognize that most of these companies started with American founders who then decided to use exploitative labor policies including collusion then slowly became more and more detached - and hired other people to do the exploitation for them. Who better to do the exploitation than those who know the ins and outs of what makes the exploitees tick?

Do people really have no clue that the rise of Leetcode has come from exam culture in eastern countries? Are they that clueless?

I am one of the only Americans in my department at faang. The people I work with aren’t some special level of intelligence. It’s just not cool to work in tech and Americans know that. That’s why you see 2nd gen Asian Americans joining finance and going to nyc. They know it’s fucking lame.
by k2052 | 2026-01-15 01:46:55+00:00
Chiming in as a former-ish member of the demographic you are just making stuff up about. There is no way to determine how much and how UBI would impact hikikomori because the demographic is inherently adverse to study.

I personally know that some crucial open source work is maintained by people with schizoid-avoidant spectrum issues. I know a lot of them but I won't out them here. hikikomori are driven to be invisible because their extreme pathological avoidance of attention. You don't know them and their contributions because they don't want you to know that they still live at home, out of their car door dashing because no company ever hires them, are shut-in because of serious unhealed trauma, are still deeply in poverty in such a wealthy industry etc.

A lot of these humans if given a no pressure handout of cash would likely contribute more to society. Would most not contribute? idk. But I do know that the contributions of those who would might offset all the others.

Many prominent pseudonymous devs have had hikikomori traits.
_why practically inspired a generation of Ruby devs. visualidiot (RIP) was a crucial driver behind a lot of web dev culture in the 2010s. Heck, I made significant contributions to Joomla and WP themes back in the day -- you have probably used sites with themes or plugins I made. Also I ran a blog a decade ago that used to rank prominently in google and receive dozens of emails a month from people struggling with mental illness -- many people crediting me with saving their lives. Surely that is something of value to society.

Don't go around spreading bullshit like it is facts about a group of people we know little about.
Show HN: I built a satellite forensic engine to detect fraud in Carbon Markets
by kccanarch | 2026-01-15 01:47:40+00:00
I got tired of reading PDF reports for Carbon Offsets that claimed to be "Protected Forests" but looked suspicious on Google Maps.

So I built Silent Earth—a standalone forensic engine (Python/React) to audit them mathematically.

The Stack:
* Ingestion: Scrapes Verra/Gold Standard registries for project coordinates.
* Telemetry: Queries the Sentinel-2 Satellite Constellation (via Microsoft Planetary Computer).
* Analysis: Calculates NDVI (Biomass Density) and performs spectral analysis on the claimed area.
* AXIOM Kernel: Cross-references industrial "shutdown" claims against Tropospheric NO2 levels (Sentinel-5P).

The Result: I routinely find "Verified" assets with an NDVI < 0.2 (Bare Soil).

The tool is currently local-only for privacy, but I'm planning to move the data stream to Snowflake.

Happy to answer questions about the geospatial stack (Rasterio/Shapely) or the satellite APIs.