MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LeafItAlone | 2026-01-18 12:25:31+00:00
>simply moving to greener pastures, whether that be NC, TN, NV, or FL

Yeah, but then they’d be in NC, TN, NV, or FL which, frankly, sounds absolutely miserable. They made the right choice by being in NYC.

Adafruit seems to be doing very well where they are. Why would they want to suffer in such junk states like those with worthless governments when they could continue to be where they are and are happy? They’d also be scraping the bottom of the barrel in those places for talent for the necessary in-person positions. The stars up mentioned sure are cheaper, and they still cost more than they are worth.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-18 12:25:44+00:00
I am not saying that they are aligned with HN guidelines but I am saying that their core message was still valid (although I agree that perhaps it was written in bad way) & they don't really fit the ideal HN guidelines

I agree with you and want to say that we shouldn't call people morons for voting for trump (unless they are voting because of their biases towards a particular race in which we can agree that that's bad) but rather the fact to align them towards and pointing them to real facts and showing the facts that politics can change and its not as core identity and they should look at the facts (as evidenced by many surveys one of which you showed in another tangential post as a comment and I agree with that) and try to do something about it (this is the core part I believe so where the people should try to do something when they are impacted against)

I agree we shouldn't use uncivil comments to people we don't align with partially because that still raises the us vs them dynamic which should be stopped in the first place and comments blanket calling morons does feel like increasing that tension

They should've done a better job giving more facts and being more civil so yeah I can agree with that but that being said, I still believe that what they are saying has true merit and can and should be rephrased in better words for the masses to capture to liberate themselves from echo-chamber related noises
by exceptione | 2026-01-18 12:26:00+00:00
> Make the threat credible and the higher powers would remove Trump in a day or two.

Maybe, maybe not. Trump is here to distract the public via the media business, while behind the scenes ideologues implement Project 2025. The factions behind the GOP aren't aligned on all parts, so an erratic path is to be expected.

What unites them is that their agenda isn't aligned with the electorate. People still try to make sense of things, like this is just another administration, maybe a weird one, but fundamentally part of the same society as you and me. We can't recognize the real nature of that beast, because we are short of imagination. And... we don't want to believe in conspiracy theories, right?

The top isn't compatible with democracy, people like Thiel are not shy about it. We just don't want to believe that.
by BoingBoomTschak | 2026-01-18 12:26:00+00:00
Completely biased in language, which matters because the bias can and will be added verbatim to Wikipedia articles

The bias is that: how do you handle the fact that any man could claim to be a woman and be housed with women? Especially when the issue is compounded by those numbers on rape they're reporting? Do you build special quarters in every prison? For the 47 individuals in 50~70k detainees? Be realistic and have a more balanced view of the matter.

I think the "bias blindness" of WP is a weapon selectively applied to one side and should be removed in favour of sources that at least pretend neutrality. The problem is obviously that you almost have no source left, then; at least in the political/ideological domain.
by NoboruWataya | 2026-01-18 12:26:45+00:00
I am from a country (Ireland) that has a huge agricultural sector so I sympathise with the argument that this will be bad for European farmers. That said, food production in the EU is already largely kept alive by subsidies so if this deal makes life more difficult for farmers I can see the result being higher subsidies to compensate rather than the large scale closure of European farms. Which obviously isn't great but possibly a fair price to pay for the deal as a whole (I don't know enough about it honestly).

But I think the deal is quite positive from a geopolitical perspective. For one, any deal we make without the US just makes us more resilient in the event of a trade war that looks increasingly inevitable. Obviously Mercosur can't replace the US but it's a step in the right direction. And strengthening ties between the EU and Latin America makes it more difficult for Russia and China to bring that continent into their sphere of influence.
by penguin_booze | 2026-01-18 12:26:49+00:00
Children are the best receptacles for any kind of idea. Once injected at a young age, the idea almost stays there for life. Ask religion--they can tell the tale best.

Now, psychopathic billionaires want children to grow up with no faculty of their own, but instead develop and addiction to this technology from a young age. Remember that time when Google wanted to introduce (even donated?) Chromebooks to early-years schools? It's all the same principle: "get them while young".
by coldtea | 2026-01-18 12:27:13+00:00
>I think this spectrum shows the issues with that though. Take the last one, the pen pot. You truly have to _learn_ what that means.

Not an issue. You learn it once, and then you instantly recognize Pages every time, due to its distinctiveness from all other app icons (and the same holds for each of the others).

You will be looking to click the Pages app among other apps (in a launcher, Applictions/ folder view, alt-tab app row), etc, for many years. You'll only need to make the discovery/association once.
by nirui | 2026-01-18 12:27:14+00:00
I don't remember the T480 I had was any slow, except of course when running games. So I do agree that the machine is still capable for most use cases today.

But I also saw people (usually X series users) complaining on YouTube saying something like their "mobile" CPU is trash etc. My thinking is, if the slowdown is actually insignificant for real-life use cases, then I rather have longer battery life than better performance.
by Saline9515 | 2026-01-18 12:27:46+00:00
The eu is a net exporter of agricultural products, what you are saying is plainly false.

The problem is rather the inputs, mainly from mineral sources, used for the production and imported from countries such as Morocco or Russia (before the war). Mercosur doesn't solve any of those problems, and will decrease the EU food autonomy as farms will disappear due to the LATAM dumping.
by KolmogorovComp | 2026-01-18 12:27:49+00:00
> The first thing to do is get a lot of game data. This proved more difficult than I thought it would be, but after some looking around online I found a git repository on GitHub from rozim that had plenty of games. I used this to compile a set of 3.46GB of data, which is about twice what Tom used in his test. The next step is to get all that data into our pipeline.

It would be interesting to redo the benchmark but with a (much) larger database.

Nowadays the biggest open-data for chess must comes from Lichess https://database.lichess.org, with ~7B games and 2.34 TB compressed, ~14TB uncompressed.

Would Hadoop win here?
by kalleboo | 2026-01-18 12:27:52+00:00
I was thinking it could be a radio band issue?

I had a fun situation when I had friends visiting me in Japan for a road trip. One friend's US-model Android phone didn't support the specific low bands used for sparse coverage in rural Japan, but the repeaters inside of the tunnels were all on standard 2100 MHz, so whenever we drove through a tunnel he rushed to his phone to get some messages through. Kind of the opposite to what you usually experience with loss of signal in tunnels :)
by IMTDb | 2026-01-18 12:27:56+00:00
If it's that easy to not need the banners, I'd expect EU websites themselves to lead the "no cookies needed" movement.

Yet https://european-union.europa.eu displays a cookie banner for tracking on what is essentially a static informational site. If the EU itself feels tracking is valuable enough to warrant the banner on their own pages, it's hard to fault businesses (whose survival actually depends on understanding their audience) for making the same choice.

At least they're compliant with their own regulation, I suppose.
by kuschku | 2026-01-18 12:29:15+00:00
Legitimate interest is defined as that usage that is absolutely technically necessary. Which is why you cannot object to legitimate interest.

Legitimate interest is for example a website using your IP to send you the necessary TCP/IP packets with the website's content upon request.

Many websites use the term "legitimate interest" misleadingly (or even fraudulently), but that's not how GDPR defines it.
by kingkongjaffa | 2026-01-18 12:30:03+00:00
I guess you spent x000's on your thinkpad but not anywhere near the same amount on luggage.

You can absolutely get 'buy it for life' backpacks and luggage for a few $000

https://www.briggs-riley.com/collections/carry-on-luggage still have a great repair and warranty deal for example.
by KolmogorovComp | 2026-01-18 12:30:09+00:00
> Just how much data do you need when these sort of clustered approaches really start to make sense?

I did not see your comment earlier, but to stay with Chess see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46667287, with ~14Tb uncompressed.

It's not humongous and it can certainly fit on disk(s), but not on a typical laptop.
by lol768 | 2026-01-18 12:30:33+00:00
I've found it to happen much more frequently than that, unfortunately. Usually it's because the modal is two DOM elements - a backdrop, that fades out the rest of the content and sits on top of it/prevents interaction; and the actual consent modal. Websites then use various mechanisms to prevent scrolling. uBlock is often only removing the actual dialog, so you end up with a page you can't scroll up or down and can't interact with.

If you're going to turn the filters on, it's worth being aware of this because it's far from flawless.
by arikana | 2026-01-18 12:30:36+00:00
It seems the order of the parent structure is still following the Anglo-saxon grammar even though lines and pharisees are Turkish , I would like to see something:

Fibonacci-Dizisi (n):

n 0'a eşitse:
dur.

değilse:

bu-sayıyı yazdır.
şu-sayıyı, (bu-sayı + şu-sayı), (n - 1) ile Fibonacci-Dizisi'ne devam et.

Ana-Akış:

"Bir sayı girin: " yazdır.
Girdiyi oku -> girdi.

girdi'nin tam-sayı-hali:

Yokluksa: "Geçersiz sayı" yazdır.
Varlıksa (n): 0, 1, n ile Fibonacci-Dizisi'ni başlat.

Başlat: Ana-Akış.

nevertheless, that is a good start, congratulations.
by hagbard_c | 2026-01-18 12:30:54+00:00
It is not so much 'plastic' but 'flexible plastic' and the lack of a stiffening internal frame which causes problems.

I've seen a few 'consumer' laptops - HP DV6000, several Acers - go bad this way with parts on the board loosening. What these models had in common was that none of them had a stiff inside frame but consisted of a plastic bottom on which the guts were screwed down and onto the back of which the screen hinges were mounted with 2-3 screws each. This was capped with a plastic top into which the keyboard was mounted. With all parts removed the top and bottom shell are quite flimsy so any stiffness in the finished product depends on all parts being screwed down tightly. Now add those screwed-down hinges on the back which make the thing flex every time the screen is opened and closed, lift the thing using one hand every now and then which causes it to flex as well and you have a recipe for loosening parts - especially BGA components - on the mainboard.
by defrost | 2026-01-18 12:31:05+00:00
A better China, or stronger China, would likely look like China as a trading powerhouse dominating Atlas of Economic Complexity rankings globally, exerting greater control over the bottleneck of China Sea through which almost all its inbound and outbound goods traverse.

It's unlikely (but possible) to see it flex as a global military powerhouse in the same manner as other great empires have done in the past - but it is probable that china will continue to extract "water resources" as food from Africa and elsewhere as it, the Saudi's, and others already do .. in China's case with the backing of its own mercanaries and with US mercanaries (they were hiring Erik Prince and Blackwater not so long ago).

This is a pattern the world has seen before - great powers come and go, meridans and global financial centres have moved before and will move again.

Yes, there has been an uneasy peace of sorts for 75 years or so, do be aware of and prepared for transitions.
by exceptione | 2026-01-18 12:31:06+00:00
Food security is the last concern for Europe. How do you get that idea?

> And EU farmers are subject to a ridiculous number of regulations and costs.

Almost the whole EU budget is for agriculture subsidies. Countries outside EU have to comply with the same standards. The US could for instance export in bulk to the EU, if they would manage to bring food up to basic standards. It doesn't happen, but is not because the market isn't open.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-18 12:31:12+00:00
For a practical guide to which knives to buy, American's Test Kitchen gives pretty good advice:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st6LggwoL_4

* https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/8204-three-esse...

* Under USD 75: https://archive.is/https://www.americastestkitchen.com/equip...

For most daily needs: chef's knife, pairing knife, serated/bread knife. Possibly useful 'extras': kitchen shears, petty/utility, boning, slicing/carving. They do not recommend sets.
Show HN: ArchitectGBT MCP:Intelligent Model Selection for AI-Assisted Dev
by pbopps | 2026-01-18 12:31:23+00:00
I built ArchitectGBT MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that recommends the right AI model for your coding task in real-time—integrated directly into Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf.

The Problem:
With 10+ frontier models now available (Claude Opus/Sonnet/Haiku, GPT-5/4o, Gemini 2.5, DeepSeek, etc.), developers spend cognitive load and tokens guessing which one to use. The right model for boilerplate is different from the one you need for debugging. But testing both is expensive.

The Solution:

A lightweight MCP server that uses task-aware heuristics to instantly recommend the optimal model based on:

Task type: refactoring, debugging, architecture, boilerplate, logic-heavy work

Performance metrics: speed vs. capability trade-offs

Cost efficiency: right-sizing model selection

Key Features:

Integrates seamlessly into your editor workflow (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)

One-line installation: npx architectgbt-mcp

Task-specific recommendations across 8+ AI models

Open source, MIT licensed

Installation:

json
{
"architectgbt-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["architectgbt-mcp"]
}
}

Why It Matters:

Model Context Protocol is becoming the standard for AI tooling (see: Windsurf's architecture)

With Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and others releasing models monthly, having an advisor automating model selection is a productivity multiplier

Developers can focus on coding, not on hyperparameter tuning for which AI provider/model to use

GitHub: 3rdbrain/architectgbt-mcp

Would appreciate feedback from the HN community on use cases, improvements, or related problems in this space.
Show HN: Claude Threads – Collaborate on Claude Code via Slack/Mattermost
by aschuth | 2026-01-18 12:32:20+00:00
I wanted my team to start using Claude Code but didn't want to set everyone up. Started piping output to Mattermost (and later Slack) so people could watch.

Ended up building more: multiple sessions in parallel (each in a thread, hence the name), approve messages from other users with emojis, approve file writes, attach images/files, worktrees per thread.

It runs on your machine.

I built most of it using itself. Teammates watching live caught stuff I missed.

https://claude-threads.run
https://github.com/anneschuth/claude-threads
by Saline9515 | 2026-01-18 12:33:16+00:00
Most beef in the EU is a byproduct of the dairy industry. Beef meat comes from culled dairy cows, and a lot of production is done on land that isn't suitable for other uses (mountains, for instance). The EU has also the highest norms in the world regarding food production, and they are tightly enforced, unlike LATAM where a lot of cattle is grazed on deforested land with no regulation regarding chemicals.

What you are saying is very misleading if not plain false.
by 4d4m | 2026-01-18 12:33:32+00:00
A little rambly, but his point is gold: clearly question what you are doing in tech. Are you building toward a better future for everyone, or are you building products of oppresion and despair?

If you're not building something that solves real problems for people, you're going to experience a time in your life you'll regret it. You likely will have to start your own company if you want to choose what problems you're working on yourself.
by jruohonen | 2026-01-18 12:33:42+00:00
> separating out the human [input] from the machine

I was thinking more generally and thus put the noun input in parenthesis in the quote. With agents and slop, the value for humans being there may quickly spiral down. There are also a lot of bad stuff already there, including malware and such.

If you have your own infrastructure instead of a mega-platform, you can control these things more easily.
by verdverm | 2026-01-18 12:34:21+00:00
I'm using "agentic coding" like the author here, I'm not interested in "vibes" being a part of the name for what I do because there is no "vibes" about it

> “Vibe engineering”, really? ... Is this a stupid name? Yeah, probably. ... I’m ready to reclaim vibes for something more constructive.

Simon should have stopped after the first answer imho, we can find a better name for what we do as our profession increasingly adopts agent assisted development
by ninjagoo | 2026-01-18 12:34:25+00:00
> In the end, I think the dream underneath this dream is about being able to manifest things into reality without having to get into the details.

> The details are what stops it from working in every form it's been tried.

Since the author was speaking to business folk, I would argue that their dream is cheaper labor, or really just managing a line item in the summary budget. As evidenced by outsourcing efforts. I don't think they really care about how it happens - whether it is manifesting things into reality without having to get into the details, or just a cheaper human. It seems to me that the corporate fever around AI is simply the prospect of a "cheaper than human" opportunity.

Although, to your point, we must await AGI, or get very close to it, to be able to manifest things into reality without having to get into the details :-)
by ost-ing | 2026-01-18 12:35:00+00:00
I switched to a T480 from a crappy macbook pro 2017. I enjoyed the switch to use linux fulltime but ultimately I was let down by the Intel processor that would throttle very badly. Compiling code was a nightmare. Ive since switched back to the M1 macbook pro which I plan to keep as long as possible and probably switch to linux when macos inevitably decides my hardware is too old to support. I would love to have a non-apple future, though.
by pocketarc | 2026-01-18 12:35:10+00:00
> includes some breaking changes

Most of the changes are completely reasonable - a lot are internal cleanup that would require no code changes on the user side, dropping older browsers, etc.

But the fact that there are breaking API changes is the most surprising thing to me. Projects that still use jQuery are going to be mostly legacy projects (I myself have several lying around). Breaking changes means more of an upgrade hassle on something that's already not worth much of an upgrade hassle to begin with. Removing things like `jQuery.isArray` serve only to make the upgrade path harder - the internal jQuery function code could literally just be `Array.isArray`, but at least then you wouldn't be breaking jQuery users' existing code.

At some point in the life of projects like these, I feel like they should accept their place in history and stop themselves breaking compatibility with any of the countless thousands (millions!) of their users' projects. Just be a good clean library that one can keep using without having to think about it forever and ever.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2026-01-18 12:35:30+00:00
The value in open source code was never the code. It was the trust that was created around it that it becomes a place for useful innovation, for trust, for vetting, for keeping dependencies low.

I can build my own curl in a week, but the value that curl gives me is that it's a multi decade old library, by a person that has dedicated his live to keeping the project there, keeping a quality bar etc.

The value of curl is not curl, it's the human behind it.
by verdverm | 2026-01-18 12:36:35+00:00
The author describes how their use of agents has transformed, not how "vibe" coding has transformed. See these passages for example

> But a year of daily use changes things. The way most engineers I know actually work with these tools now—myself included—has evolved into something different.

> What we’re actually doing # So if “vibe coding” doesn’t describe it, what does? I’ve been calling it agentic coding. The distinction matters: it’s using AI agents while maintaining the expertise and judgment that keeps the output good, rather than letting it rip with zero validation.

See also their passages around how using vibe coding for side projects is different from agentic coding for professional projects
by lazide | 2026-01-18 12:36:53+00:00
The CapEx (and planning/timing) required to actually use it would almost certainly dwarf any actual gains - notably, because we’d already be selling the electricity for a profit if we could use it productively, the negative price is precisely because the equipment just isn’t there yet.

Also, once said capex was spent so we could actually use that electricity - it’s marginal cost/value would no longer be negative.

Weird huh?

Notably, if these kinds of situations do keep occurring (aren’t just random), someone almost always ends up spending the capital to capture it, because this is obvious.

You just don’t see all the finance geeks pulling out their calculators and talking about their plans because they know secrecy is an important strategic and tactical advantage when arranging investment and building out capital equipment.
by investbot | 2026-01-18 12:37:07+00:00
Nice work on making the hard money loan math transparent — that's often a black box. I'm building a tool in a similar "rational decision-making" space, but for stock portfolios (InvestBot). Your approach to breaking down complex financial terms into interactive inputs is exactly the UX challenge we face with risk constraints like max drawdown and concentration caps.
Question from one builder to another: How did you validate which specific loan parameters were most critical for users to control? We're constantly prioritizing which risk rules to expose first.
by girvo | 2026-01-18 12:37:29+00:00
I also lived in ctags land, but gosh I don’t miss it. LSPs are a step change, and most languages do have either an actual implementation or something similar enough that’s still more powerful than bare strings.

It’s faster, too, as the model doesn’t need to scan for info, but again it really likes to try not to use it.

Of course I still use rg and fd to traverse things, cli tools are powerful. I just wish LLMs could be made to use more powerful tools reliably!