MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-19 13:39:12+00:00
Yes, while a "work slack" or "company teams installation" is more formal than the ones that I mentioned above - it is for doing your job, while on the job - it's really not a good store for decisions and other facts.

To be clear, the slacks for "former employees of $Company" were not set up by the company, but by those people in order to keep in touch with each other. The chat had no official relationship to the company. This is why these slacks were regarded as the online equivalent of the pubmeet.
by brushfoot | 2026-01-19 13:39:12+00:00
> Beads formalizes building a DAG for a given workload

> gas town is [...] an orchestrator that is native to dealing with beads

Thanks - this is very helpful in deciding when and where to use them. Steve's descriptions sounded to me like more RAM and Copilot Agents:

> [Beads:] A memory upgrade for your coding agent

> [Gas Town:] a new take on the IDE for 2026. Gas Town helps you with the tedium of running lots of Claude Code instances
by myself248 | 2026-01-19 13:39:19+00:00
> They never should have allowed 3rd-party sellers on the platform until this was in place.

Exactly. From the modern perspective, it's a function purpose-built to abet counterfeiters.

However, look at their origins as a used book seller. When my sister went off to college, I got most of her books off Amazon for a third the price of the university bookstore, and they were all from third-party sellers promising they had a particular edition and printing of a given book. All the same ISBN regardless of where they came from. It made sense in that context, to consider all sources of a given item to be the same item.

However, at that time (2005), all the books shipped from their individual sellers, there was no opportunity for stock commingling. If one had turned up counterfeit, blame would've been trivial.

So I don't think "3rd-party sellers" is necessarily the cutoff point. I don't think they should've allowed multiple suppliers for the same ASIN to all have their stock *in Amazon warehouses* until individual supplier tracking was in place.
by wongarsu | 2026-01-19 13:39:33+00:00
Amazon's assumption was that every box of "Apple AirPods 4" is the same, so it doesn't matter if you got the one sold directly from Apple or from some random reseller. They would just put them in the same bin, after all they are all the same product. Great for logistics because it doesn't matter if the closest fulfillment center has AirPods sold by Apple or "Office Partner Inc", they just ship you whatever is closest. Obviously this fails spectacularly if a seller ever lies about their product, but who would ever do such a thing
by rkagerer | 2026-01-19 13:39:44+00:00
It's also possible people finally become SICK of seeing ads and there's a cultural shift boycotting products incorporating them. I would love to see this.

There's a difference between advertising - which tends to be offensive, stealing your attention from the task you're trying to accomplish - and an agent that actually helps you with the intended task (as in travel agent, real estate agent, etc). In my opinion the future of revenue for the richest companies is the latter, we just have yet to see anyone unlock it at true scale.

My non-tech spouse is excited about AI because she wants what amounts to a personal, universal EA that can help her with anything. If your executive assistant just kept squawking ads at you all day long you'd fire them.
by imtringued | 2026-01-19 13:39:47+00:00
>Linux OSes still have an annoying habit of not automatically recovering their disk drive when the power cuts out.

I don't know how to respond to this, because it seems like a statement so obviously untrue/false it might as well be slander. It's like saying the sky is red.

>The occasional moment you discover that shadow copies/journaling is like... not something Linux machines generally do unless you very specifically choose otherwise...

ext4 is the default and it is a journaling filesystem. The only other default I could possibly imagine is xfs on Redhat, but even that is a journaling filesystem. You must be really going out of your way to pick a filesystem that doesn't support journalling.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-19 13:40:33+00:00
lol. It was not only wrong. It was wildly wrong. Your tone reeks with pride and entitlement. You’re one of those engineers who thinks he’s so great and a step above everyone else who is a non-swe engineer.

Personally I think being a swe is easy. It’s one of the easiest “engineering” skills you can learn hence why you have tons of people learning by themselves or from boot camps while other engineering fields require much more rigor and training to be successful. There’s no bootcamp to be a rocket engineer and that’s literally the difference.

The confidence you have here and how completely off base you are with your intuition on who is just evidence for how wrong you are everywhere else. You should take that to heart. Everything we are talking about is speculation, but your idiotic statements about me is on the ground evidence for how wrong you can be. Why would anyone trust your speculation about AI by how wildly wrong you are “clocking” me in.

> Do you think we sit around, artisinally crafting code the slow way, or something?

This statement is just dripping with raw arrogance. It’s insane, it just shows you think you’re better than everyone because you’re a swe. Let me get one thing straight, I’m a swe with tons of experience (likely more than you) and I’m proud of my technical knowledge and depth, but do I think that other “non swes” just look at us as if we are artisans? That’s some next level narcissism. It’s a fucking job role bro, we’re not “artisans” and nobody thinks of us that way, get off your high horse.

Also wtf do you mean by the “slow” way? Do you have communication issues? Not only will a non swe not understand you but even a swe doesn’t have a clue what the “slow” way means.

>We don't have test engineers or QA nearly as much as we used to, and a lot of IT work is automated, too.

Oh like automated testing or infra as code?? Ooooh such a great engineer you are for knowing these unknowable things that any idiot can learn. Thanks for letting me know a lot of IT work is “automated.” This area is one of the most mundane areas of software engineering, a bunch of rote procedures and best practices.

Also your “my dude” comments everywhere make you look not as smart as you probably think you look. Just some advice for you.

Good day to you sir.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-19 13:41:11+00:00
Our computer programs execute logic, but cannot reason about it. Reasoning is the ability to dynamically consider constraints we've never seen before and then determine how those constraints would lead to a final conclusion. The rules of mathematics we follow are not programmed into our DNA; we learn them and follow them while our human-programming is actively running. But we can just as easily, at any point, make up new constraints and follow them to new conclusions. What if 1 + 2 is 2 and 1 + 3 is 3? Then we can reason that under these constraints we just made up, 1 + 4 is 4, without ever having been programmed to consider these rules.
by danelski | 2026-01-19 13:41:21+00:00
I am fine with having a phone with specs that are 3+ years old. I'm not, however, fine with loosing software support shortly buying it or the first repair knocking it out, because the parts are not available or the labour cost makes the repair unreasonable for its value.

Actually, taking on used phones with unknown history means that you'll likely end up 'bottom-feeding' where each unit bought is cheap, but you'll need to exchange them often. This strategy is even harder for less-interested who can't say what's the EOL for a phone model.

Maybe my argument doesn't hold in richer societies where you are effectively subsidised by people who'd still exchange phones every 2 years making them better value.
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by the_real_cher | 2026-01-19 13:42:05+00:00
> Work in Gas Town can be chaotic and sloppy, which is how it got its name. Some bugs get fixed 2 or 3 times, and someone has to pick the winner. Other fixes get lost. Designs go missing and need to be redone. It doesn’t matter, because you are churning forward relentlessly on huge, huge piles of work, which Gas Town is both generating and consuming. You might not be 100% efficient, but you are flying.

This is hilarious and insane and amazing.
by yurishimo | 2026-01-19 13:42:06+00:00
It would be nice to have a couple of routes between a few major cities with nonstop service, but there are are no bypasses around the interstitial cities so those would need to be built first.

Groningen -> Amsterdam

Maastricht -> Amsterdam

Eindhoven -> Amsterdam

Nijmegen -> Amsterdam

I can only speak for myself, but a trip from Maastricht to Amsterdam is almost 2.5 hours by train for a distance of a smidge over 200km. This is mainly due to all of the stops along the way to pick up riders in every major city between the two.

Currently, our trains never go faster than 160km/h if the onboard screens are to be trusted.
by the__alchemist | 2026-01-19 13:42:17+00:00
One. I still get confused when installers etc ask me whether to install for "just me" or "anyone using this computer"!

Things get a little fuzzier on Linux machines where there is both my user and a an admin "user". I treat the other as an abstraction, and type "sudo" if it won't let me do something without invoking that. Sometimes there are problems where I need to install something with sudo, then can't access it as my normal user and vice versa.
by encyclopedism | 2026-01-19 13:42:51+00:00
LLM's have surpassed being Turing machines? Turing machines now think?

LLM's are known properties in that they are an algorithm! Humans are not. PLEASE at the very least grant that the jury is STILL out on what humans actually are in terms of their intelligence, that is after all what neuroscience is still figuring out.
by Tistel | 2026-01-19 13:42:54+00:00
I have seen code bases that are amazing. I have seen ones that look bad, but work. About a year and half ago I saw my first fairly large scale fully AI generated project and it filled me with dread. It looked like the figma, which is very impressive. But under the hood it was bizarre. It was like those sci-fi movie tropes of teleportation where one of the people teleport and the destination coordinates are wrong and the merge with a tree or rock or whatever. There was so much unused junk that had nothing to do with anything. Ugh. My task to was to figure out why the initial render took so long. (unsurprisingly it was loading all the data then rendering, so with toy dev loads it was fine, in production nightmare and getting worse). So I just got to it and made some progress. But the new grad (who thought I was a dinosaur (might be right)) who made it was working in parallel and reintroducing more slop. So it became this Sisyphean task where I am speeding things up (true dinosaur so measuring things) and they were cutting and pasting and erasing the gains.

I have always found management to be just silly exercise in day full of meetings. I like to make things. I could retrain, but, the salary drop would be very hard. Hope to find one last gig and have enough to retire. I still get that spark of joy when all the tests pass.
by mike_hearn | 2026-01-19 13:43:02+00:00
Moxie's argument is that even if something has a flagship app, this doesn't help because if you use a new feature and then your friend complains that they can't see what you posted, the experience is just that the flagship app itself is broken. People don't experience this as, oh well, my friend should just have picked a better client. They experience it as, that's annoying, the video feature doesn't work reliably on Y but it always does on X.

An extreme example of this is WhatsApp and emojis. WhatsApp doesn't use the operating system's text rendering APIs to draw emojis, instead Meta license the Apple emoji font and draw the characters themselves. That's because if you do emoji the standards based, open way you get these problems:

• People use visual puns that only make sense if emojis look a certain way, without realizing they might look very different to other people.

• People use new emoji, without realizing that old operating systems can't draw them.

The experience in both cases is that it's simply broken and buggy. Version skew can kill platforms, which is why the most successful platforms today restrict which clients can connect and forcibly expire them on a regular basis.

BTW I don't think it's worth generalizing from Bluesky. Bluesky is an X clone whose unique competitive advantage is censoring conservatives even more aggressively than Twitter itself once did. It has no technical edge so they can develop the site as open source without it being a concern to them - they don't care if they leak what they're doing because technical innovation isn't a part of their brand to begin with - and the AT protocol clearly doesn't matter to more than a tiny fraction of its users. The point you're making in the essay is general, but ends up feeling overfit to Bluesky.
by fourside | 2026-01-19 13:43:14+00:00
> Stack: Next.js, React, TailwindCSS, shadcn/ui, four languages (EN/DE/FR/JA). The AI picked most of this when I said "modern and clean."

I’m not an AI hater but I do see this as evidence of LLMs being susceptible to chasing trends as much as people.

Next.js with server rendered React is not a stack that an experienced web developer would have recommended for a “clean” solution to a collection of financial calculators. It’s the answer you’d get if you asked for the stack that’s trending the most lately.
by AdamN | 2026-01-19 13:43:17+00:00
That's a really fallacious argument. Nuclear wouldn't stop truck emissions, car emissions, boat emissions, long distance freight train emissions (unless electric), and airplane emissions. It wouldn't stop military emissions (which are significant).

We could have done a lot more nuclear but it's not clear that it would have done more than a few percent of CO2 savings in the overall scheme of things. You can see this most clearly in China which is still burning tons of coal in 2026 and have had no compunction with nuclear ever.
by Okawari | 2026-01-19 13:44:41+00:00
It's never going to happen, but I felt we solved all of this with forums and IRC back in the day. I wish we gravitated towards that kind of internet again.

Group sizes were smaller and as such easier to moderate. There could be plenty of similar interest forums which meant even if you pissed of some mods, there were always other forums. Invite only groups that recruited from larger forums (or even trusted members only sections on the same forum) were good at filtering out low value posters.

There were bots, but they were not as big of a problem. The message amplification was smaller, and it was probably harder to ban evade.
by barishnamazov | 2026-01-19 13:44:45+00:00
I'm a believer that LLMs will keep getting better. But even today (which might or might not be "sufficient" training) they can easily run `rm -rf ~`.

Not that humans can't make these mistakes (in fact, I have nuked my home directory myself before), but I don't think it's a specific problem some guardrails can solve currently. I'm looking for innovations (either model-wise or engineering-wise) that'd do better than letting an agent run code until a goal is seemingly achieved.
by matsemann | 2026-01-19 13:44:48+00:00
Gopro subreddit daily has people posting issues with their camera complaining about the SD card. In all instances they've bought a "genuine" card on Amazon from the official seller, but probably received a fake one due to commingling.

The brand hit from this must be massive, with the amount of people now avoiding Amazon. But perhaps it won't matter with their size, most people won't have any other options anyways. For me, it was counterfeit dental stuff that made me quit buying from Amazon. A faulty SD card is annoying, stuff I put in my body is no-go.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-01-19 13:44:56+00:00
It shouldn't be CDPR's right to make this decision. A mod is just software that runs on top of other software. Microsoft doesn't get to dictate what I do with Windows. Apple does try to dictate what I do with my iPhone, but even then, if I manage to jailbreak my phone there's nothing they can do about it.
by devsda | 2026-01-19 13:45:32+00:00
When my country and China had border clashes, there was a nation-wide grassroot level movement to boycott Chinese goods and services where possible. It worked to an extent but it fizzled out in few weeks/months. Some of the reasons were the impracticality of total boycott so you start from a position of compromise, difficulty to sustain a movement born out of anger and some inter-govt agreements to avoid escalations etc.

Do you have plans to overcome those sort of challenges and sustain this initiative ?
by reify | 2026-01-19 13:45:46+00:00
A Similar theme from George Monbiot at the guardian

There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to
At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/16/super-rich-inequality-politicians-extreme-wealth

Especially relevant when the vast majority of UK politicians, left, right and centre. have shares in big USA tech companies.

REGISTER OF LORDS’ INTERESTS.

https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/publications-records/house-of-lords-publications/records-activities-and-membership/register-of-lords-interests/register210125.pdf
by cyber_kinetist | 2026-01-19 13:46:27+00:00
A Marxist can certainly also be a Georgist, it's a matter between who should we eliminate first: the capitalists or the rent-seekers. Maybe we should eliminate the latter first in order to be able to properly tackle the former: the real class conflict between the proletariat and the bourgeois!

But you can also go a bit more extreme (and less orthodox) and say that classical capitalism has already come to an end, and in the current neoliberal era most of the purported "capitalists" are actually just rent-seekers (platform based companies which run either on ads or monthly payments) - you don't sell commodities anymore and instead just access to services. Maybe these are just a symptom of The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall - where the value of labor itself has fallen so much that there is no way for any capitalist production to continue generating acceptable profits unless you do any rent-seeking behavior. In that sense, you can certainly be both a Georgist and a Marxist since you still believe in the TRPF and the inherent contradictions of capitalism (though quite an unorthodox one!)
by lelanthran | 2026-01-19 13:46:57+00:00
I've read your whole reply and agree with most of it; what I don't agree with (or don't understand) is below:

> If you are in need vibe coding disaster remediation consulting, it's not because you need to refactor 300,000 lines of slop real quick. That's not going to happen.

My experience as a consultant to business is that they only ever bring in consultants when they need a fix and are in a hurry. No client of mine ever phoned me up to say "Hey, there, have you any timeslots next week to advise on the best way to do $FOO?", it's always "Hey there, we need to get out an urgent fix to this crashing/broken system/process - can we chat during your next free slot?".

> Like everything else worth doing, deep specialisation is valuable and, to some extent, insulating.

I dunno about this - depends on the specialisation.

They want a deep specialist in K8? Sure, they'll hire a consultant. Someone very specialist in React? They'll hire a consultant. C++ experts? Consultants again.

Someone with deep knowledge of the insurance industry? Nope - they'll look for a f/timer. Someone with deep knowledge of payment processing? No consultant, they'll get a f/timer.
Show HN: PromptDuty-block leaking confidential data to ChatGPT
by aleks5678 | 2026-01-19 13:46:59+00:00
We are a small fintech firm based in London. One of the things preventing firms like us from using ChatGPT, Claude, and the other AI assistants is the nagging feeling that we are not compliant under the current FCA and GDPR and all the other data sovereignty and data privacy regulations. This is a big issue right? It impacts the productivity of firms like ours and basically we can't innovate and can't keep up with the rest of the competition. This product was born out of that frustration. It addresses the issue, hopefully at scale and hopefully in a compliant way to mask PII data being sent across. We'd really love to see to hear what other people think about this.

Thank you so much for looking at this.
by barry-cotter | 2026-01-19 13:47:15+00:00
Net loss of €2.8 billion not gain of €1 billion.

> The ISF was controversial; critics claimed it drove away wealthy individuals from the country, resulting in financial loss. A report by senator Philippe Marini estimated that 843 people left France in 2006 because of the tax, resulting in a net loss of €2.8 billion.[2][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_tax_on_wealth
by wrux | 2026-01-19 13:47:22+00:00
Yeah that's true and the plan is to expand to multiple chains once the platform has users and we are happy with the stability of the system.

Our current system will allow us to expand to Ethereum easily which will open up a much larger network. We just wanted to keep things simple for our initial product and you have to admit that Solana is a good chain to build on.
Show HN: Loomind – Local-first chat with docs. Offline, Electron+Next.js
by redhotcookerr | 2026-01-19 13:48:48+00:00
Hey folks, LLMs are amazing for analysis, but I wasn't comfortable uploading my personal journals, legal contracts, and business ideas to a public cloud just to search through them. I also hated losing context every time I started a new chat.

So I built a standalone desktop app that handles indexing locally. It acts as a secure bridge: your files stay on your disk, and the AI only sees the specific snippets it needs to answer you.

What it does

Local RAG (Chat with Docs) – Index PDFs, DOCX, and MD files directly on your device.

Data Sovereignty – The database is a local file. You can put it on a USB stick and run it on an air-gapped machine.

Eternal Memory – The AI retains context across different sessions, so you don't have to re-explain yourself.

Hybrid/Offline Mode – A dedicated switch to cut off internet access and work strictly with local tools.

Built-in Editor – A full WYSIWYG editor (not just markdown), so you can write and organize inside the app.

Tech stack

Electron (for cross-platform desktop support)

Next.js (Client side)

Next.js (Server side, running locally within the app)

Local Vector Store (File-based storage)

And this was important to me: Zero vendor lock-in. Since the database is local, you own your data physically.

Links

Download / Site: https://loomind.me

I’d love feedback! Are there any specific file formats you'd like to see supported for indexing?
by abalashov | 2026-01-19 13:48:51+00:00
> My experience as a consultant to business is that they only ever bring in consultants when they need a fix and are in a hurry.

No, that's fair, and I think you're right about that. But refactoring 300,000 lines 'real quick' isn't going to happen, regardless of that. :)

> They want a deep specialist in K8? Sure, they'll hire a consultant. Someone very specialist in React? They'll hire a consultant. C++ experts? Consultants again.

I implicitly had narrow technical specialisations in mind, albeit including ones that intersect with things like "insurance industry workflows".