MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by two_tasty | 2026-01-10 17:12:40+00:00
I certainly understand this perspective.

But is it really so hard to imagine a world where your individual choice to "opt-out" or work for companies that don't use that info is a massive detriment to your individual life? It doesn't have to be every single company doing it for you to have no _practical_ choice about it (if you want to make market rate for your services.)
by GeoAtreides | 2026-01-10 17:13:06+00:00
>I picked CachyOS rather than a better-known distro like Ubuntu because it’s optimized for modern hardware,

>First challenge: My mouse buttons don’t work. I can move the cursor, but can’t click on anything.

Maybe should've picked Ubuntu? I suspect this is the Linus (tech tips, not Torvalds) strategy of picking up an obscure distro for content purposes. Can't really have an article if everything just works, right
by doodlesdev | 2026-01-10 17:13:17+00:00
Regarding the video benchmark on the page: what would be fair is testing against the hardware that was available when the operating system was released. Windows 11 is absolutely not meant to run against hard drives, and current notebook and desktop offerings for home and enterprise users reflect that: you can get a 256gb SSD for a pretty decent price nowadays, to the point there's absolutely no reason to put in an HDD. When Windows Vista was released, your computer would absolutely have an HDD, so that would be a fair comparison.

That said, I was restoring a notebook owned by my aunt recently and I decided to run Ubuntu on it so I could mess with gparted a little bit. I'm already a full-time Linux user (have been for about five years now, I guess), but I was still surprised to see that one of the most bloated Linux distributions ran lightning fast on my aunt's Pentium Gold + 4gb RAM + HDD while Windows took over four minutes to boot.

It's absolutely time to abandon Windows if you're still dependent on it. There are alternatives. Heck, I'm not a fan of Apple either but at this point I'd recommend a MacBook for anyone wanting to get away from Windows and not comfortable with Linux or a Chromebook.
by xerox13ster | 2026-01-10 17:13:24+00:00
*GASP* OH NO THEY MIGHT LEARN A SKILL!!!!

Snark aside, I really really don’t understand the aversion, even within the tech community, to learning new skills especially as it pertains to Linux.

Would having new knowledge be such a burden? Why is it something to avoid? Why is it not a good thing if normal people learn more about computing?

Do we want a population of iPad baby Linux users? Normal people can use it now, don’t gate keep.

We have people going “I don’t have to read, I could just have the AI do it for me” and pretty soon they’re not gonna be able to think. People don’t want to think or learn because we have such a cultural aversion to being a nerd. Nerd is not a bad thing.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-10 17:13:48+00:00
And how many laptops running Linux are light, power efficient, fast, quiet with good battery life?

My 16 inch M3 MacBook Pro runs 5 hours at 80% brightness doing development with my USB powered (video and power from one USB cord) portable monitor. The Mac battery is powering the monitor

https://a.co/d/gHqpcs3
by conductr | 2026-01-10 17:14:03+00:00
This. I think the entire argument and comparison is a fallacy because you can't just compare vehicles on utilitarian factors when many (most?) people are buying primarily based on fashion/aesthetics. Through my American eyes that C15 is dog shit ugly and I don't even care to read through how it measures up on utility because it's style is already a dealbreaker.

Personally-I know I don't need a big truck, and don't have farm/ranch/heavy duty requirements, but SUVs are quite useful for normal city life in most of the US. Several times a month I am fully loaded for some reason or another. May as well be fashionable and handle well too since this is also the vehicle I commute in and valet at a fancy restaurant occasionally.
by beezle | 2026-01-10 17:15:21+00:00
Don't know why you are down voted. People just assume that you have a place to store a trailer (and truck and motorcycle).

As to your choice of the Ford,as a rural late model (2018) F-150 owner, I'd encourage you to consider something else. A used Tundra V8 or one of the GMC/Chevy's. My mechanic is thumbs down on the Rams longer term.

I've had nothing but stupidity with this F-150 and all I do is personal plowing and a few loads of gravel or dirt each year. Granted, my steep dirt road can be very rough in mud season. But I've now spent about 8K in non-maintenance repairs.

I say this as a past owner of multiple mustangs and rangers - I'm done with Ford.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-10 17:15:24+00:00
Sure, but I think it's safe to say Markdown has more interoperability, no?

Yes you can always use pandoc, but conversion usually brings quirks of its own. And more generally, the less conversion steps you need, the better.

If you just stick to vanilla markup, you don't encounter incompatibilities. The "many kinds of markdown" isn't an issue if you're not using platform-specific extensions in the first place. Which, usually, you're not, unless you need to do something very specific to that application.
by t43562 | 2026-01-10 17:15:26+00:00
Even within the range of Linux distros there are some that feel more agenda-driven than others. That's the absolute wonder of it. One can sidestep the flamewars and just use another distro that suits likeminded people.

On the other hand I think this makes it difficult to provide a perfect experience - you have to stay closer to the herd if you want trouble free computing. You have the choice.
Show HN: Forthora-> an always-on sidebar for cross-team work signals
by aryan_192002 | 2026-01-10 17:15:27+00:00
i built forthora because cross-team work keeps disappearing into slack threads, standups, and status updates.

forthora is a shared stream of “work signals”, things like “product is waiting on tech”, “tech needs client clarity”, or “design approved”, that becomes a live, shared memory of what people still owe each other and what has already resolved.

when someone in product needs something from tech (or sales, ops, or a client), a signal is created between them. it lives inside a small shared space for that interaction, with notes and context attached, and stays visible until both sides consider it done.

forthora runs as an always-on sidebar, so this shared memory is visible while you work, instead of buried in a separate app or chat history.

the result is focused, cross-team work history instead of long chat threads or scattered docs.

there are no tasks, no statuses, and no workflows. just signals that show what’s happening and what’s still open.

i’d love feedback from people who deal with product, engineering, sales, or operations working across each other.

link: https://forthora.com
by creata | 2026-01-10 17:15:41+00:00
I don't think the lack of spec is holding Org back. Markdown came out in 2004; CommonMark came out in 2014. I think Markdown was already very popular by the time CommonMark came out.

The more obvious reasons are that Markdown was dead simple, unlike Org, and integrated into many popular products, unlike Org.

(Tangent: To be honest, I'm not sure why websites like Reddit opted for Markdown rather than text formatting buttons. It's a good thing, and I'm not complaining, but adding the standard rich text buttons (like the ones Reddit has now) seems like it would've been the more obvious move.)
by codexjourneys | 2026-01-10 17:15:50+00:00
Totally agree, it can be a bit of an echo chamber. I had an infection post-dental-work. Bing Chat insisted I had swollen lymph nodes from a cold that would resolve on their own, then decided I had a salivary gland infection. After a follow-up with a real-world ENT, it was (probably accurately) diagnosed as a soft-tissue infection that had completely resolved on two rounds of antibiotics. The AI never raised that possibility, whereas the ENT and dentist examined me and reached that conclusion immediately.

I do think AI is great for discussing some health things (like "how should I interpret this report or test result?"), but it's too echo chamber-y and suggestion-prone for accurate diagnosis right now.
by layer8 | 2026-01-10 17:15:57+00:00
You can’t insert data into the middle of a file (or remove portions from the middle of a file) without either rewriting it completely, or at least rewriting everything after the insertion point; the latter requires holding everything after the insertion point in memory (or writing it out to another file first, then reading it in and writing it out again).

PDF is designed to not require holding the complete file in memory. (PDF viewers can display PDFs larger than available memory, as long as the currently displayed page and associated metadata fits in memory. Similar for editing.)
by adityaathalye | 2026-01-10 17:15:58+00:00
OP here... I do all of these from Emacs orgmode, and more.

Ref. a presentation I did last year: https://github.com/adityaathalye/slideware/

- The org plaintext: `clojure-web-app-workshop-functional-conf-2025.org` (see the raw source for formatting directives and structure.)

- Live coding presentation delivered straight from my org source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEHVEId-utY

- The RevealJS handout presentation compiled directly from the same source (self-hosted, with images, text snippets, quotes, code snippets): https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch...

- The extended blog post for the same (I start off all presentations as longform thinking in org plaintext): https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch...

- I can also do LaTeX PDF and raw tex, for undergrad student "professor points" :D (See examples in the github repo --- the "n Ways to FizzBuzz in Clojure" presentation. Which also was a live coding demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTouODWov-A ... "demo live, or die trying", I say :D)

And... I mentioned my site... This is the build step, no Emacs needed :)

__shite_templating_compile_source_to_html() {
# If content has front matter metadata, it is presumed to be in a format
# that the content compiler can safely process and elide or ignore.
local file_type=${1:?"Fail. We expect file type of content like html, org, md etc."}

case ${file_type} in
html )
cat -
;;
md )
pandoc -f markdown -t html
;;
org )
pandoc -f org -t html
;;
esac
}
by klum | 2026-01-10 17:16:01+00:00
Looks interesting, I wonder to what extent they really want to make cars DIY-able again (as they state). On the one hand, they mention servicing is "easy" — just turn to their partner repair shop chain! On the other hand, there's Slate University and mention of repairability. I haven't followed development of this at all, so I'm genuinely curious. Hope it's not just "you can swap in and out our proprietary modules".
by IgorPartola | 2026-01-10 17:16:26+00:00
I have a Ford F-150 (14 gen) and the front is so huge I need to step on the front grill guard to reach anything inside the engine compartment. It is all around an unreasonably sized vehicle. My excuse is that (a) I do use it for home improvement stuff and for hauling stuff around and (b) I work from home so no commute. But for most people who do not work construction this is an insane daily driver.
by xenodium | 2026-01-10 17:16:44+00:00
I’ve built a handful of org based iOS apps.

While my initial intention was to bring as much org support to iOS as possible (https://plainorg.com), my thinking evolved over time and I gravitated towards a different kind of mobile-optimised experience, and so https://journelly.com was born. I’ve recently added Markdown support too https://xenodium.com/journelly-1-3-released

I use Journelly the most and is also my most popular app.

I have an org scratch pad and also a habit tracking app https://flathabits.com.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-10 17:17:30+00:00
Because of the growth imperative. With essential things like ICE cars, phones and personal computing, we long satisfied need, those core business products are simply essentially finished/perfected. It's market, and therefore regulatory, failure to have gigantic corporations in positions enabling rent seeking and market shaping, instead of pushing true innovation. If Apple can't come up with something innovative, they need to be forced to downscale instead of creating artificial demand for essentially the same phone 5 years in a row. If VW repeatedly missed the chance to get off their obsolete engine platform, they need to fail.

I think, Cory Doctorow's idea for regaining digital resilience, by "simply" opening up artificial software restrictions through regulation, is widely applicable and would also push for adequate downscaling and actual innovation: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/
by alphadatavault | 2026-01-10 17:17:38+00:00
I didn't expect a deep dive into Herman Miller’s 'Action Office' and its Neo-Calvinist roots, but it explains so much about modern corporate aesthetics. We moved from the 'bullpen' to the 'Action Office' to the 'Open Plan,' each time marketed as a move toward freedom, while actually increasing the level of surveillance. The author’s point about the 'commodification of time' via the Industrial Revolution is the real kicker here. If you view a salary as buying a result, RTO makes no sense. If you view it as buying a human being’s presence for 40 hours, RTO is the only logical conclusion for management. It’s a short-term win for the balance sheet and a long-term disaster for company culture.
by greenavocado | 2026-01-10 17:17:39+00:00
- TPM 2.0 requirement

- Secure Boot enforcement

- Microsoft account requirement

- BitLocker device encryption tied to MS account

- Hardware attestation

- Telemetry/Data Collection

- Extensive diagnostic data collection

- Advertising ID tracking

- Activity history syncing

- Bing integration everywhere

- Edge as persistent default (difficult to change)
- OneDrive integration/nagging

- Microsoft 365 upselling

- Copilot integration

- Widgets panel with MSN content

- Start menu web search forcing Bing

- Centered taskbar (not moveable)

- Simplified right-click menu (hiding options)

- Removed taskbar features (no drag-to-taskbar, no ungrouping)

- Start menu ads/recommendations
Update Control

- Forced automatic updates

- Limited update deferral for Home users

- Feature updates bundled with security updates

- Device Management (Enterprise)

- Intune/MDM integration

- Windows Autopilot

- Azure AD requirements

- Remote wipe capabilities

- Monetization

- Ads in Start menu

- Ads in File Explorer

- Suggested apps

- Pre-installed third-party apps (Candy Crush, etc.)
by arter45 | 2026-01-10 17:17:47+00:00
I'm not against scientific research per se or living a bit more but... is immortality (or living for, say, 200 years or more) really something we should strive for?

Many aspects of human society assume, one way or another, that our life expectancy is fairly limited. From politics (even absolute monarchs or dictators eventually die), to economics (think about retirement, for example), demographics (if everyone is immortal and everyone keeps having children, what happens?), even psychology ("everything passes").

Are we willing to throw these implications away? What would be the purpose?
by schmuckonwheels | 2026-01-10 17:17:48+00:00
>the dashboard could be just a double DIN slot and a heavy-duty, universal tablet mount with a 100W USB-C PD port. The car provides the power and the speakers and my phone provides the maps and music.

Legally mandated backup cameras make your idea DOA.

In fact, nearly everything terrible about cars in the last decade can be traced to regulations in some way.

Wondering why transmissions are insanely complicated and unreliable now? Manufacturers were forced to eek out an extra couple MPG due to continually tightening environmental regulations. Something has to give.
by soared | 2026-01-10 17:18:06+00:00
My point was you can buy a car that is primarily safety+capability and not luxury+subscription. My rav4 has a touchscreen and power windows but that’s literally it as far as convenience/luxury. ~28k a couple years ago, no subscription.

Anything heated, remote, touch to start, etc is in the luxury category what gp was asking about avoiding.
by avsm | 2026-01-10 17:18:22+00:00
In a conventional GCed language, you need to minimise heap allocations to avoid putting too much pressure on the garbage collector. The OxCaml extensions allows values to be passed 'locally' (that is, on the callstack) as an alternative to heap allocation. When the function returns, the values are automatically deallocated (and the type system guarantees safety).

This means that I can pass in a buffer, parse it, do my business logic, and then return, without ever allocating anything into the global heap. However, if I do need to allocate into it (for example, a complex structure), then it's still available.

It's kind of Rust in reverse: OxCaml has a GC by default, but you can write very high-performance code that effectively never uses a GC. There's also emerging support for data-race-free parallelisation as well.

The webserver I'm putting together also uses io_uring, which provides zero-copy buffers from kernel to userspace. The support for one-shot effect handlers in OCaml allows me to directly resume a blocked fiber straight from the io_uring loop, and then this httpz parser operates directly on that buffer. Shared memory all the way with almost no syscalls!
by rwyinuse | 2026-01-10 17:18:31+00:00
I love my expensive Macbook at work, but at home old my old Thinkpad running Linux is a godsend. The performance is perfectly adequate for all my daily non-work needs, battery lasts several hours, and since the thing has little monetary value, I can be pretty careless with it, in an environment with small kids running around and doing random things. At this rate, I think it will last me well into 2030's.

I'm not going to buy a new Macbook with my own money as long as I can't install Linux on it. I don't want perfectly fine machines to turn into e-waste, or at least become insecure once the original manufacturer decides not to offer OS updates anymore.
by SilasX | 2026-01-10 17:18:42+00:00
This. It was infuriating to find Notepad got updated to a bloated app with rich text and Copilot. It's so different, it just should have been another program. The whole reason I use Notepad is because it's a simple, dumb, fast, predictable program. If I wanted the rich text, I would use any of the numerous other options!

And for the kicker, the update made it forget my font settings.
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-01-10 17:19:07+00:00
> you benefit from it as a business owner.

When one has no response it's easier to blame the messenger. A nice cop out if I may say so.

> Yeah, because you are so superior to everybody else that people should ask you question, and their opinions are not worth your time

You are putting words in my mouth and arguing in bad faith but that's easier than making a compelling case with facts and figures.

> "I am the best, I am so frustrated that so many people don't recognise it".

If I was the only one highlighting these problems then maybe you would have point but as I have demonstrated in my other comments, the EU commission disagrees with you, the Draghi report disagrees with you and a few people here also disagree with you.

Unfortunately instead of engaging in a healthy debate and addressing the points that have been raised, you have brushed aside all the arguments and refuse to respond with anything that supports your point of view.

You decided that you were right so you are right but you don't seem to have a problem calling out other people by telling then that their opinions are not facts, while yourself ignoring all the facts presented to you. That is a clear case of double standards if I have ever seen one.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-10 17:19:21+00:00
I'm sorry, but I'm not being obtuse nor making strawman arguments. I'm trying to explain an industry I'm familiar with. If you're going to start with personal attacks or calling my input "silly" I don't know why I bother, but here goes:

> Laptops for the most part are put together from standardized parts and you can exchange the major ones (CPU, RAM, storage and often even the displays) from one brand to another and it will work. And if you go to desktop computers the range of parts that can be swapped out between manufacturers increases even further (power supplies, graphics cards, etc).

You cannot swap CPUs between laptops, obviously, unless you get the exact same generation CPU with the same footprint. This fact helps basically nobody. It is true that some laptops are built around the same CPUs from a common vendor, but the same thing happens in cars too!

Major parts like transmissions are shared across many vehicles and vendors. The popular ZF 8HP transmission can be found in cars from Dodge, Audi, Jaguar, BMW, Porsche, Land Rover, Jeep, Volkswagen, and others for example.

This patterns repeats across many major components like Bosch ECUs. Automakers aren’t dumb. They’re not custom making every part for no good reason.

Many of the sensors and small pieces used in cars are generic and interchangeable. They're also available across a range of generic vendors.

Common parts like wheels and tires are standardized with small variations, much like the different RAM speeds in computers. Windshield wipers are generic. Cars take generic fuel and oil.

The point is: There are a lot of shared and common parts in the automative world already. Like your CNC example, there are some common parts where it makes sense, but you can't take the motor controller board out of a Haas and drop it into Mazak. You're familiar with this industry so I think you can see why demanding that all CNC vendors standardize their motor controllers and everything else would be a silly proposition. Likewise, I'm familiar with the automotive world and I'm trying to explain that cars do share a lot of parts already, but demanding that everyone conform to a single set of standards is a silly proposition.
by hackyhacky | 2026-01-10 17:19:39+00:00
This is a non-issue if your files are stored in a partition separate from your OS, and is infeasible otherwise.

* If you have a separate partition, you can replace your OS and your file remain untouched.

* If you don't have a separate partition, your OS and your files will be replaced by the Linux installation. The only way to preserve your files is to copy to some external media before installation. Even if the Linux installer could retain files while reformatting a partition (which might be technically feasible), it would have no way of knowing which files to retain: the user could easily keep important files in arbitrary directories, not just in their designated C:\User\Patrick directory, and they would be understandably irate if the installer promised to keep files but didn't. To say nothing of adding complications of copying files that Windows has pushed to OneDrive.