MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by elevatortrim | 2026-01-06 10:00:36+00:00
This depends a bit on your company’s structure.

My company, for e.g. is fairly flat, and my boss is more or less aware of everyone’s contributions in my team, he often works with them directly.

I also work with my report’s reports directly and am fairly aware of their work.

Despite this, some engineers, to my surprise, act as we have a strict hierarchy and try to reach to me through their managers.

From the sounds of your description, there are a few possibilities:

1. Your boss’s boss is aware of your work. She is also aware of others’ and she does not think that yours particularly stand out and she is willing to risk your departure. In this case, you would need to really look at this objectively. Are you really exceptional? Why does not she think so if that’s the case? Maybe your contribution is not visible.

2. She does not know you very well. If so, why is this the case? Does she not know anyone, or are you keeping your work to yourself? I’ve definitely been in this situation, despite architecting our whole core systems, years later I found nobody other than my fellow engineers knew. Was a hard-earned lesson for me, you need to start speaking about your work outside of your 1-1s, but not in a promotional way. By frequently offering your hard-earned wisdom where it is helpful.

3. She is not interested in knowing anyone. She will manage her team at a high level and she either won’t promote anyone until she is forced to (e.g. you are leaving otherwise), or when she is given a budget and asked for it, which she will then ask for recommendations, your chances than unlikely to be proportional to your work but be circumstantial. If this is the case, you should start interviewing.
by qxxx | 2026-01-06 10:02:12+00:00
reminds me of my own software I created and was selling online 20 years ago.
I lost the source code but people still wanted to buy it. So I sold it for few years (shareware). I had a serial key generator for windows but it was annoying to do this manually.. I wanted to extract the key generation algo so it can be generated automatically after payment.
I also tried many disassembly tools like ghidra, but without luck. I decided to stop selling / supporting the software.
Nowadays, I still get the occasional mail from people asking where they can buy it, or of there are some updates.
by t0lo | 2026-01-06 10:02:20+00:00
Numbers might be similar- but that doesn't mean the circumstances are.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/iran-ayat...

Remember. The axis is quickly being diminished (venezuela), and the financial and water situations are far worse now, as is the political one (coming off of a war which destabilised leadership).

Just hope that it's not out of the frying pan and into the fire. I have a great appreciation of the everyday Iranian, and they deserve better.
by postexitus | 2026-01-06 10:02:49+00:00
The discipline of writing for sharing knowledge is immense - not only for the sharing part, but to look at yourself (or your research) in the mirror with a critical eye and revise it multiple times. If you don't have that discipline, sharing knowledge even with colleagues / networks becomes harder. It's not only LLM churning out slop, but it's also without that discipline, the researcher putting out half finished work.
by throwaw12 | 2026-01-06 10:03:19+00:00
I am also curious about this, how people wrap their head around multiple changes in multiple features at the same time?

I personally, can handle only one feature at a time, prompt the AI, refine the changes, re-plan, review changes, rewrite parts when necessary, but my mind is still with one feature.

How do you folks manage multiple parallel feature development at the same time?
by bencyoung | 2026-01-06 10:03:24+00:00
Sorry for the delay! It's fairly simple.

1. You have a column on your objects you want secured as an LTREE[]
2. You add a GIST index on that column

The values should be the different hierarchy paths to access the object starting with a "type" e.g departments.root.deptA

When you run a query, depending on how you want to access you use a <@ query. E.g. I'm a user with root access to all depts "col <@ 'departments.root'::ltree" or I'm a user in dept A "col <@ 'departments.root.deptA'::ltree" etc
by thiago_fm | 2026-01-06 10:03:48+00:00
That's where I disagree as well, the non-legendary non-multi-starter is also a crappy team as Pokémon isn't a rock paper scissor game since a long time.

You'd need to take into account innate abilities, how to also understand the impact of HP/ATK/etc in each Pokémon.

Snorlax for example is quite good, as it's pretty tanky and have a good moveset that can help it set it up.

Dragonite has multiscale, stuff that doesn't show up in by just looking at Pokémon types and stats.

Again, my main point was... analysis could be much more interesting if it analyzed battle data, rather than a very shallow assumption that a combination of Pokémon types and stats can win a battle.
by JdeBP | 2026-01-06 10:03:57+00:00
There are no contemporary sources for that because it is, as it was called here on Hacker News some years ago, an 'ahistoric retcon'.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31338349

The 's' is for 'static' version of the explanation of the name of sbin is not actually supported by any 20th century Unix doco. The books on AT&T Unix System 5 (before which, things were in /etc) that actually give an explanation for sbin all say system binaries, or system administration commands; and none of them says anything about linkage.

The 'static link' story came from Linux people years afterwards. Here's Ian McCloghrie correcting this misconception in a Linux discussion back in 1993:

* https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux.development/c/EKzL...

I pointed out the origins of sbin some years ago.

* https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/02/msg00041.html
by close04 | 2026-01-06 10:04:45+00:00
> there will likely be people who want to play Final Fantasy 6 and Pokémon Silver for as long as computers are around

Is Final Fantasy 6 seeing a lot on new players today? Old games are played more by the people who enjoyed them when they were new. Even the landmark games are easily forgotten and younger players will never bother when they have so many modern choices.
by throw__away7391 | 2026-01-06 10:05:12+00:00
This article claims that that FEMA’s buyout investments “pay off” at roughly $4–$6 saved for every $1 spent. It includes a link to a study, but nowhere in the study does it say this. Instead this is an aggregated estimate for hazard mitigation overall, not a result specific to the FEMA buyout program.
by sunrunner | 2026-01-06 10:07:30+00:00
> It's condescending to the users and feels like a power trip.

condescending (adjective): having or showing an attitude of patronizing superiority.

I don't really see how a once-a-day puzzle is condescending, unless it's a "You can't be trusted to regulate yourself so I'll do it for you" type thing. Adding a dictionary definition like above, however, probably is condescending :)

But I like the one-a-day format because, as other comments have said, you can spend an entire day with just one puzzle feeling important (relative to things that are important).
by skrebbel | 2026-01-06 10:07:40+00:00
I don't follow, so these people using 8 claude codes in parallel, they have 8 git worktrees? and 8 devservers listening on 8 ports?

or 8 VMs? won't syncing be super slow there? like i believe it, but it feels like a lot of setup and i don't understand why nobody seems to be talking about it.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-06 10:08:05+00:00
I would say Amazfit are great, I don't need an app store and a programmable watch to do cool stuff in whatever programming language on weekends.

The set of pre-installed apps, integration with watch messages, call notifications and media controls are enough.

However maybe I am old fashioned, the oldie Timex and Casio smartwatches were also good enough for me.
by dijit | 2026-01-06 10:09:15+00:00
You could give someone permission to crack it.

It's pretty clear that the program has utility, otherwise people wouldn't ask.

Giving it to computer cracking groups as a real world program that they can use as a teaching tool has some value too.

I mean, if you you're not willing to take the money for the program anymore, then you have little to lose with this.

(Unless there's some other reason not to do it, brand harm for example, or third-party code that's licensed and that you do not have permission to subgrant reverse engineering work)
by bencyoung | 2026-01-06 10:09:35+00:00
Sorry for the delay! It's fairly simple.
1. You have a column on your objects you want secured as an LTREE[] 2. You add a GIST index on that column

The values should be the different hierarchy paths to access the object starting with a "type" e.g departments.root.deptA

When you run a query, depending on how you want to access you use a <@ query. E.g. I'm a user with root access to all depts "col <@ 'departments.root'::ltree" or I'm a user in dept A "col <@ 'departments.root.deptA'::ltree" etc
by haritha-j | 2026-01-06 10:09:52+00:00
> If all you’re getting for that money is replacing the imaginative laser and humming sounds kids can already make with their own mouths, that’d be one thing — but there’s enough tech in here that they could possibly be much more.

But that is indeed what it seems to do at the moment, so it's hard to justify a $100 investment for a tiny set with a single smart brick.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-06 10:10:23+00:00
> And Microsoft support does nothing.

By "support" I did not mean "user calls with a problem", I mean, "allowing those windows and office installations to talk to any Microsoft cloud".

It means that Windows bricks itself after not talking to the mothership for a few days/weeks/months.

It means that no new updates are rolled out.

It means that any licensed computer that talks to MS gets a response of "you are not licensed!"
by rsanheim | 2026-01-06 10:11:23+00:00
The performance of hardware today is even more mind-boggling compared to what most people (SRE managers, devs, CTOs) are willing to pay for when it comes to cloud compute.

even more so when considered in the context of dev 'remote workstations'. I benchmarked perf on AWS instances that was at least 5x slower than an average m1 macbook, and cost hundreds of dollars a dev per month (easily), and the macbook was a sunk cost!
by tialaramex | 2026-01-06 10:12:15+00:00
> That requires the client to only emit ECH

So for example, Firefox since version 119. Or Chrome since 117

Now, for most services ECH doesn't have an encrypted target server. But the important choice in ECH was in this case it just fills that space with noise. An encrypted message also looks like noise. So you can block all the noise, in case it's secrets, or you can let through all the noise (some of which might be secrets) or I suppose you can choose randomly, but you can't do what such regimes want, which is to only forbid secrets, that's not a thing.

We've been here before. When sites starting going to TLS 1.3 lots of HN people said oh, China will just block that, easy. But the choice wasn't "Use TLS 1.3 or keep doing whatever China is happy with instead" the choice was "Use TLS 1.3 or don't connect" and turns out for a lot of the Web China wasn't OK with "don't connect" as their choice, so TLS 1.3 is deployed anyway.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-06 10:12:20+00:00
> EU fines of up to 100s of millions of USD haven't stopped these companies from operating overseas. It is unlikely that they would exit a trillion dollar market because of some self-imposed security laws.

That's not what sanctions mean. When the US imposes sanctions on $COUNTRY, US businesses are not able to do business or any type, including charity, with the target country.
Show HN: Imgity – AI Image Creation and Editing Using Nano Banana Pro
by SherlockShi | 2026-01-06 10:12:25+00:00
Hi HN

Months Ago, we set out with one mission: make high-quality image creation feel effortless for developers, creators, and designers alike. Over countless nights of code, iterations, and real-world testing, we built Imgity, a new kind of AI image platform that blends generation and editing into one seamless experience.

At its core, Imgity is powered by Nano Banana Pro — a reasoning-focused engine that gives us unusually high-fidelity results: physics-accurate lighting, studio-grade details, and textures that hold up even in large prints or professional workflows.

But what really got us excited was solving the stuff people struggle with most:

· Readable typography & complex text in images — historically a weak spot in generative models.

· Consistent characters over multiple generations — great for storyboards, brand visuals, character design.

· Surgical precision editing — smart object removal, fine light control, and context-aware inpainting.

How Imgity Works

1. Pick a mode: whether you’re starting from scratch with Text → Image, or refining existing work with Image → Image.

2. Drop in your prompt or reference. Be as detailed or wild as you like.

3. Let Nano Banana Pro plan and render your creation with quality you’d expect from a studio.

4. Preview, tweak, download high-res — ready to use wherever you need it.

Everything is designed to be fast and intuitive — from social sized ratios to cinematic and print outputs — so you can focus on the idea, not the tool.

Why We Built This

Our team comes from design, AI research, and production backgrounds. We were repeatedly frustrated by tools that either generated art you couldn’t use professionally, or that forced you into endless manual fixes. With Imgity, we wanted to build something that respects both creative freedom and precision control.

Try It & Give Feedback

https://imgity.com

We’re early — and we’d love your feedback on:

· quality vs. traditional generators

· editing workflows

· edge cases we haven’t thought of

If you test it, drop your thoughts here — we’re actively reading replies and iterating daily.

Thanks!
by latexr | 2026-01-06 10:12:59+00:00
If they didn’t care about those laws, they wouldn’t need the notice. Since they do, they do.

Why are you even mad? This doesn’t affect you, it is not directed at you, and is trying to be a helpful clarification to the author. If they care about compliance, presumably they care about doing it right.

> Despite what many EU citizens may think, EU laws don't apply to the world.

I’m a EU citizen living in the EU and have never encountered or heard of anyone with that belief.
by andyjohnson0 | 2026-01-06 10:13:28+00:00
You could try Tails OS [1]. It is specifically designed for anonymity and privacy, and can be booted from a usb stick. There is a recent feature summary at [2] and an older, journalism-focussed article at [3].

[1] https://tails.net/

[2] https://dev.to/aniruddhaadak/tails-os-a-security-focused-pri...

[3] https://freedom.press/issues/help-support-the-little-known-p...
Show HN: Turn Meetings into Presentations with AI
by jimmydin7 | 2026-01-06 10:14:09+00:00
Notefy is an AI meeting assistant that turns recordings into notes, summaries, and ready-to-share presentations. Upload a meeting securely to get accurate multilingual transcription and an AI chatbot trained on your meeting so you can ask questions and get instant answers. Instantly share outputs with teammates and connect via integrations like Slack and Discord.
by HackerNewt-doms | 2026-01-06 10:14:56+00:00
> France: absolutely fricking nothing.

I lived for ten years in a German housing cooperative, which is a member-owned, non-profit organization that provides rental housing within a market economy alongside private landlords.
Tenants are also members, which offers long-term security and participation in governance, without the housing being state-owned or socialist in nature.
When I eventually moved out, I was required by my contract to remove all wallpaper from the apartment—even though I had lived there alone, the walls were plain white, and everything was in very good condition.
Scraping wallpaper off every room turned into a surprisingly tedious and nerve-racking process.
by bartmichalak | 2026-01-06 10:15:35+00:00
Yes, we do!

Check out https://github.com/the-momentum/open-wearables

Open Wearables is a self-hosted platform that unifies wearable health data through a single API. Our roadmap also includes some AI-powered features (https://docs.openwearables.io/roadmap)

We're solving a problem we often encounter when building solutions for clients. So we're targeting developers and builders, and therefore ourselves! :)
The tricky part: we're trying to build the platform so that it's also useful for individuals who simply want to analyze their data (or the data of their clients, in the case of personal trainers).

Currently supporting Garmin, Polar, Suunto, and Oura Ring (with more data types being added). Next big thing will be releasing Apple Health SDK for Flutter (probably next week).

The project has early contributors and growing Discord community. I'll invite everyone to be a contributor, leave a star or just test the solution! :)
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-06 10:16:24+00:00
6 GB/s may well be in the ballpark for throughput per core whenever all cores are pegged to their max. Yes, that's equivalent to approx. 2-3 bytes per potential CPU cycle; a figure reminiscent of old 8-bit processors! Kind of puts things in perspective when phrased like that: it means that for wide parallel workloads, CPU cycle-limited compute really only happens with data already in cache; you're memory bandwidth limited (and should consider the iGPU) as soon as you go out to main RAM.
by Stancyhd8 | 2026-01-06 10:16:36+00:00
Thanks so much to Henryclarkethicalhacler for helping me hack into my husband's phone so I could see what he is up to and
I was able to catch him red handed, now I am out and a lot happier credit goes to earlier mention hacker for a
good job. If you are also interested in any hack job you can contact him via his email –
HENRYCLARKETHICALHACKER@ GMAIL. COM

Tell him Victoria refer you
by pseudo0 | 2026-01-06 10:16:50+00:00
There are also issues with the time value of money for long-shot events. Someone has to be willing to buy a share of "No", and if that works out to a return lower than the risk-free rate (eg. buying t-bills) there will be no incentive to take the "No" position. That makes anything roughly under 3-4% per year pretty unreliable.
by abalone | 2026-01-06 10:16:52+00:00
I tried clicking on every number on this site and none of them linked to any primary sources.

I clicked through on the first news item I saw, "Security forces open fire on woman filming them."

This led to a post on X captioned 'Yasuj; "Firing a shotgun at a lady who was filming."'

The attached video[1] did not show a weapon. It appeared to show uniformed forces on motorbikes and some kind of muted firing sound.

A subsequent comment said: "Don't write the wrong text, it's marking with paintball so the operations team can arrest him. The sound of a shotgun is like this, don't give wrong information."

To be clear, this is not meant to defend security forces firing paintballs at or arresting people recording them, just calling into question the integrity of this particular claim suggesting lethal force, and the overall lack of support for the figures claimed.

[1] https://x.com/ManotoNews/status/2008440556867702830
Show HN: Is this the best epoch converter?
by subhash_k | 2026-01-06 10:18:48+00:00
I frequently use epochconverter in my day to day work.

Sick of old UI, i created new website. Completely redesigned the epoch converter with modern UI elements.

Check out - https://epochconverter.dev/

Let me know if you have any improvement to it. Upvote if you liked it.
by globnomulous | 2026-01-06 10:19:56+00:00
You know, it's funny. Your comment made me realize something about LLMs:

There's a famous line in Hesiod's Theogony. It appears early in the poem during Hesiod's encounter with the Muses on the slopes of Mt. Helicon, when they apparently gave him the gift of song. At this point in his narrative of the encounter, the Muses have just ridiculed shepherds like him ("mere bellies"), and then, while bragging about their great Zeus-given powers -- "we see things that were, things that are, and things that will be" -- they say "we know how to tell lies like the truth; we also know how to say things that are true, when we want to."

This is the ancient equivalent of my present-day encounters with the linguistic output of LLMs: what LLMs produce, when they produce language, isn't true or false; it just gives the appearance or truth or falsity -- and sometimes that appearance happens to overlap with statements that would be true or false if they'd been uttered by something with an internal life and a capacity for reasoning.

LLMs' linguistic output can have a weird, disorienting, uncanny-valley effect though. It gives us all the cues, signals, and evidence that normally our brains can reliably, correctly identify as markers of reasoning and thought -- but all the signals and cues are false and all the evidence is faked, and recognizibg the illusion can be a really challenging battle against oneself, because the illusion is just too convincing.

LLMs basically hijack automatic heuristics and cognitive processes that we can't turn off. As a result, it can be incredibly challenging even to recognize that an LLM-generated sentence that has all the cues of sense has no actual sense at all. The output may have the irresistibly convincing appearance of sense, as it would if it were uttered by a human being, but on closer inspection it turns out to be completely incoherent. And that inspection isn't automatic or always easy. It can be really challenging, requiring us to fight an uphill battle against our own brains.

Hesiod's expression "lies like the truth" captures this for me perfectly.
by cameronh90 | 2026-01-06 10:20:46+00:00
Maths isn't a sensor technology. Wheels slip, air pressure fluctuates, rotary counters misread, errors accumulate, so better raw data could get you a more precise estimate of your current position. Various position technologies are already in use (e.g. "balise") but they have their limits if you're after cm-level accuracy.

That said, I'm not buying that quantum INS is required for this over more established techniques like visual-inertial odometry. However, the UK seems to have a whole bunch of active quantum INS research projects, so I wonder if the tube stuff is just a weak public cover for the military/civil emergency applications that make the technology actually interesting.
by alex1138 | 2026-01-06 10:21:21+00:00
Downvoters: I am suggesting that the lack of care by a CEO in his younger years translates directly in his older years as the company grows and reaches global proportions

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719

Use your brain for once, or else don't (please) work for any FAANG companies
by delaminator | 2026-01-06 10:21:28+00:00
> While Rust is undeniably powerful and stands out for its emphasis on safety, it comes with a relatively steep learning curve.

I've got... 60,172 total lines of Rust code across all my repositories.

I didn't write a single line of it. Claude writes Rust very well because of the Compile-Error-Edit loop.

That's what's going to define the winners in the future.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-06 10:21:50+00:00
The Elixabeth Line runs 24 trains per hour automatically through a 10-station tunnel in central London. It mainly uses axle counters to measure where the train is.

https://www.railengineer.co.uk/controlling-the-elizabeth-lin...

> The signalling is essentially hands off and is timetable driven. The latter includes GoA3 reversing moves at Paddington and Abbey Wood which are fully automatic as are all entries into and out of a depot. The line uses axle counters for secondary train positioning information other than where neutral sections for the overhead power exist, where track circuits are deployed, these being seen as less vulnerable to any spark interference from the overhead catenaries.