MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ComputerGuru | 2026-01-30 17:18:07+00:00
Not true. People can rationally know what they want but still be tempted by the poorer alternative.

If you ask me if I want to eat healthy and clean and I respond on the affirmative, it’s not a “gotcha” if you bait me with a greasy cheeseburger and then say “you failed the A/B test, demonstrating we know what you actually want more than you.”
by pdpi | 2026-01-30 17:18:20+00:00
"Bad" comes in many shapes and sizes. Specifically, "technically competent person implementing a thing designed by a technically incompetent person" is remarkably different from "technically incompetent person implementing a thing designed by a technically competent person".

The way this plays out in practice is that those products you listed can hire actual UX designers, but many product decisions are made by people focusing on business concerns rather than product concerns, so you have competent people implementing designs by incompetent people.

Inversely, because open source software is usually built by people trying to scratch their own itches, they those people actually understand what the product should be, but, because they're usually software engineers instead of UX designers, they're typically incompetent at UX design. So you have incompetent people (devs with their UX design hat on) implementing designs by competent people (those same devs, with their "scratch my own itch" product owner hat on)
by buescher | 2026-01-30 17:18:58+00:00
The TL081 family of op amps is definitely in the "old parts you should (sometimes) use" category (for price/performance) but there have been much better op amps for not much more money for a long time now. Both the now-ancient 2nd edition and the aging 3rd edition of Horowitz and Hill recommend the LF411 for a JFET-input general purpose jellybean, for example.

For learning you some analog, I would recommend the LM358 op amp and the LM393 comparator and all the old National material on them. The LM358 has its quirks so you won't think op amps are ideal but you still see them in a ton of stuff, because they're dirt cheap and adequate for a lot of things, and the LM393 comparator is still so good you really should know why you're choosing anything else - micropower or exotically high speeds or whatever.
by mceachen | 2026-01-30 17:19:37+00:00
Gobsmackingly poor deals made by city and town politicians are par for the course, and why https://www.strongtowns.org/ should be prerequisite reading for any council member, mayor, or board member approving deals that impact their community.

It's easy to look at a glossy project 2-pager and only see the immediate tax revenue.

It's much harder to glean a nuanced understanding of future financial burdens from a given project. No company will have any incentive to be forthright with that information.
by EthanHeilman | 2026-01-30 17:19:50+00:00
If Tesla has lost the advantage in battery tech, that is unfortunate and speaks poorly to Tesla's long term strategy. Reclaiming this lead would be an important strategic goal and I disagree with that not being prioritized.

> Why? Other robotics companies have been doing it for longer. Is Optimus better than Atlas:

Atlas costs about half a million dollars, targeting a price tag of $160,000 once mass produced, and assumes the user will be able to do some maintenance.

Optimus is targeting a price tag of $30,000, but probably costs around $80,000 to produce. It is plastic, it is cheap, it doesn't work.

Atlas is better than Optimus but all measures. The advantage of Optimus so far has been, the mass production-->usage until failure-->improvement cycles that are already underway. Tesla is, as an extremely high cost, slipping on every single banana peel first and this is clearing a path for other companies to learn what doesn't work when you switch from functional over-engineered robot to barely functional robots that can be mass produced.

Telsa isn't alone in this space, but they investing a lot and trying to cut corners. So much of engineering is learning the corners you can cut and the corners that cause a battery fire after 8 weeks of use.
by SR2Z | 2026-01-30 17:20:51+00:00
You say this like the average age and reliability of cars hasn't been skyrocketing for years.

Toyota offers a 10-year warranty on new cars, which would have been unthinkable 20 years ago.

You can't update the infotainment, but the engine controls have remained modular because it's simply too hard to convince people to buy truly unrepairable cars. Tesla did it, and once people realized that gently tapping a Model 3 was likely to total it resale values plummeted.
Show HN: JSON Diff Tool – Compare JSON Documents in the Browser
by ravikmd | 2026-01-30 17:21:00+00:00
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I use it constantly for comparing API responses during development and debugging config file changes.

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by throwup238 | 2026-01-30 17:21:03+00:00
Make it so!

I feel like you and dang should at least use different phrases to fool the stylometry if you want us to believe that you are different people rather than a convoluted plot to provide dang an alibi :)

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
by ComputerGuru | 2026-01-30 17:21:06+00:00
You can’t ask GPT to assess the situation. That’s not the kind of question you can count on a an LLM to accurately answer.

Playing with the system prompts, temperature, and max token output dials absolutely lets you make enough headway (with the 5 series) in this regard to demonstrably render its self-analysis incorrect.
by souvik1997 | 2026-01-30 17:21:23+00:00
Fair points.

On containers: yes, running in Docker/Firecracker works. The "one prompt injection and you’re done" framing is hyperbolic for containerized setups. The pitch is more relevant for people running agents in their local environment without isolation, or who want something lighter than spinning up containers per execution.

On the licensing: completely valid concern. We are a new company (just two cofounders right now) and the binary is closed for now only because we need to clean up the source code before releasing it as open-source. The Python SDK and capability layer are MIT.

I get that "trust us" isn’t compelling for a security product from an unknown entity, but since the Wasm binary runs within wasmtime (one of the most popular Wasm runtimes) and you can audit everything going in and out of it, the security story should hopefully be more palatable while we work on open sourcing the Wasm core.

The 2025/2026 date discrepancy is just me being sloppy with the license
by convolvatron | 2026-01-30 17:21:42+00:00
I wish I didn't feel so compelled to wade into this comment. After reading it several times I just can't make sense of it. Surely its the tech-rich psychopaths and hedge fund managers (I dont think of them as being particularly progressive) that are asking city councils to sign NDAs and are funding these data centers in the first place? it really seems like you're blaming them for stirring up antipathy for the project?
by light_hue_1 | 2026-01-30 17:22:13+00:00
This is the argument that people used to fight against rich customized IDEs like emacs for decades. What if you need to ssh into a machine that only has baseline vi in an emergency?

I'll happily optimize my life for 99.999% of the time.

If the Internet is down for a long time, I've got bigger problems anyway. Like finding food.
by ben_w | 2026-01-30 17:22:19+00:00
I believe kitchen knives, without good reason (being a chef is a good reason, have just bought it ditto), are already banned in public in UK.

Still, UK does have a firearms licensing process; I doubt anyone at any protest would be allowed one, but the response of UK police only escalates to "pin to ground then shoot in head" when they've mistaken you for a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest and expect you to blow yourself up in a crowded subway train (which has happened! I don't excuse this! But this is still less stupid than claiming someone is armed after removing their weapon).
by bell-cot | 2026-01-30 17:22:30+00:00
True. But McD may decide that the services in developer-friendly Small Township are just as good, for their use case. And Smallville residents may be content to drive another 500 yards down Smallville-Littleton Rd., to spend their money at the new McD out in Smallville Twp.

In public policy, everything is a tradeoff.
by bayarearefugee | 2026-01-30 17:22:33+00:00
> 'this time it's different'

I remember reading this a lot in 2000-2001 and 2007-2008

That said, overall I sort of agree with your assessment except for having any optimism that the US changes course.

The current looming problems with the US economy are almost entirely unforced errors of the Trump administration (they could have done basically nothing and taken credit for the Biden soft landing and economic growth) but they aren't going to course correct.

Trump has no ability to admit mistakes even to himself and he's now surrounded by lots of people who stand to enrich themselves from the chaos even as the average American is harmed greatly.
by kreetx | 2026-01-30 17:22:45+00:00
Right. The original poster who was saying that only ("only"!) 29% of January deportees have been convicted, that is correct. To this I added that that percentage doesn't account for ongoing charges (also true, right?). No disagreement in the percentage arguments.

The rest of the immigrants are still illegally in the country, no? Wasn't deporting them on the campaign platform that got the mandate? What is "the system" if not this?

If your interpretation of the constitution is that as long as you are "protesting" then you can do anything, be anywhere, including whistle along an ongoing police operation then I can tell you that that interpretation is not correct. If it were, any criminal (not need be immigrant) would say that they were "protesting", while robbing a store or doing any other random actually criminal thing.

Edit: I get what you are saying, too, but the practical solution isn't to keep current illegal immigrants in, as in that case anyone attempting to enter legally should just switch to enter illegally as that is more efficient. (I.e, if there is some country-wide entry rate, then the currently illegally entered have succeeded by jumping the line.)

The above is also the platform that was voted into office not long ago. This does look like democracy to me.
AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
by cadabrabra | 2026-01-30 17:22:49+00:00
I can’t name a single software application or software feature that has been mooted by AI. Zero. Take Excel as an example. Not only has AI failed to replace Excel in its entirety, but it has also failed to replace any of its features. AI was simply appended as an additional feature in the form of an agentic chatbot. This has been the trend across the entire industry, and it’s why AI has failed to fundamentally transform any of our exiting software application.

Now you might ask: what about AI native applications? Well, as it turns out, most of them are essentially clones of existing software but with a chatbot slapped on top. Because of the error prone nature of AI, any application that leverages it also has to surface all of the controls required to override all of its decisions. So you end up with a traditional software application plus AI.

AI promised to transform and even replace software applications, but all it did instead was augment them with an unreliable chatbot. All of the old fields and buttons are still there, but now there’s an additional text field that you can type into and hope for the best.
by pardon_me | 2026-01-30 17:23:30+00:00
How do we know everyone's better for it? Massive amounts of public and private funding went into it and we still haven't seen the outcome, it's too soon.

Consider how many car manufacturers are backtracking, the fact that China will now win the EV race, utility energy prices have skyrocketed, and the damage done not only to the brand but people's view towards EVs in general.

Forcing this play happened too soon.
by vdupras | 2026-01-30 17:23:52+00:00
I'm not the one who made the "it's crashing now" claim and I do agree that from a certain point of view, it might be seen as a stretch.

However, what I'm claiming is that "all time high" is also quite a stretch. Pretty much all nations have been printing money pretty intensely, so fiat is not a solid anchor to derive "actual value", but CHF might be among those that are less printed, so I chose it.

Even if we chose EUR, EURUSD wins YoY over S&P 500, hence, "stocks are flat". Sure, in the case of EUR, optics are fuzzier and you might pick a point or index showing a small increase over EURUSD, but I don't think it's strong enough to beat the general point, especially if your counter point is "stocks are at an all time high".
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-01-30 17:24:21+00:00
Regarding berries, those can be deep-frozen, and turn the oatmush into icy slush. Giving it an unexpected but nice texture. At the same time the aromas from the berries went into everything, but the milk didn't get thick like buttermilk. Like it can happen with too much citrus/orange/mandarine/clementine in milk. Of course one can vary and combine that with different yoghurts, kefir, kombucha, and so on.

Come thank me, once you've tried it. If cold stuff is your thing at all, which could be compensated with some nice green tea, or coffee, ofc.
by Bnjoroge | 2026-01-30 17:24:28+00:00
PMs could have chosen to do this before, though. Sure, LLMs obviously empower them but the main reason you have developers is to have someone to be accountable to, and they thus have to be extra careful and thoughtful about the code they write. The PMs could come up with adhoc fixes but unless they're also willing to be on the hook for the code, then it's not terribly useful organizationally imo
by 12_throw_away | 2026-01-30 17:24:32+00:00
Recently I was playing a not-very-good video game that was pumped full of stop-what-you're-doing-and-read-this tutorial pop-ups. What percentage of the audience really needs the entire game to stop so we can read "use the left stick to move, press x to continue"? Even if this is literally first game you have ever played, I can't see how a flurry of messages that are not even actionable until dismissed will do anything but cause anxiety.

Thinking about other forms of media, the film industry just expects that its consumers will have some basic visual media literacy. Like, let's say you're watching your first ever movie, and there's a fade-out to represent a time jump. The movie does not stop with a dismissable pop-up explaining what it represents - the vast, vast majority of the audience already intuitively understands it, and the rest can probably figure it out from context. The only requirement to pull this off is an extremely minimal amount of respect for your audience / users!
by browningstreet | 2026-01-30 17:24:52+00:00
I keep a master llm.md file and rotate between Claude Code (Pro), Antigravity Opus, Antigravity Flash, and OpenCode Kimi. I don't actually mind hitting limits.. though I'm least happy when Opus goes away.

My entire process is to build a generic llm.md file that all the tools can use and record to. I don't want to be tied completely to any one solution. You can get pretty far without spending a lot on tokens. I can run almost continually, and presently I'm the bottleneck anyway.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-30 17:24:59+00:00
Very true, I support this, but the law is still needed imho unless we're fine normalizing the continuation of corporations tightening the screws on workers to keep their labor costs within their desired tolerances. It's about control, of course, as it always is. Protect the human from bad actors, broadly speaking.

I would be chuffed if I see someone present on breaking this at Defcon this year.
by jblox | 2026-01-30 17:25:33+00:00
It's safe to say the broadband market in the UK is dominated by terrible, mass market ISPs. They lock people into long contracts, provide crappy routers, throttle speeds etc. I recently launched an alternative aimed at gamers, and I'm really trying to find out what people prioritise most.

So if you're a serious gamer, what is important to you?

Low latency?
Fast download and upload speeds?
No contract?
The ability to "tweak" your connection to minimise latency to specific game servers?
Top tier hardware provided?

Or all of the above?
by ux266478 | 2026-01-30 17:25:42+00:00
> It was arguably the ideological opposite of the American dream – its aims not exceptionalism but reasonable living standards

What on earth does this person think American Exceptionalism and the American Dream is about? This is the kind of line I'd expect from bad faith rhetoric drummed up by a state actor playing a marketing game, not an Anthropologist writing a serious article. The level of cultural and historical ignorance on display is astounding.
by MyHonestOpinon | 2026-01-30 17:26:47+00:00
It seems to me that now days software engineers move a lot more. Either within a company or to other companies. Furthermore, companies do not seem to care and they are always stuck on a learning loop where engineers are competent enough to make modifications and able to add new code but without deep insights where they can improve the fundamental abstractions of the system. Meanwhile even seniors with 25+ years of experience are noobs when they approaching a new system.
by xcf_seetan | 2026-01-30 17:27:19+00:00
As someone that used the original emotes, all this graphics emojis just don't make any sense. There are just too many, and i have to lookup what they mean in isolation and try to dig what they mean in sequence... I dont have the context the user had when he constructed the sequence of emojis and i cant understand what they are trying to communicate, at this point it is easier to just say the words.
by newsoftheday | 2026-01-30 17:27:23+00:00
> Gamers generally game on PC because they like building their system. Otherwise they would use a PS5 Pro or whatever.

I haven't built a PC in over 2 decades and I can't stand trying to game on a console or on a phone. I buy a stock machine like AlienWare, overwrite Windows with Kubuntu and go to town gaming.
by garciansmith | 2026-01-30 17:28:28+00:00
Until recently (moved to GrapheneOS) I ran stock Android for years and never had an issue with turning any notifications from default apps. Maybe this is different with other manufactures and custom OS version (e.g., Samsung's)? I think the only thing that bugged me was Google Play pushing new features/ways to give them money, but that was only within the app itself when I opened it. Notifications of that sort were all easily blocked. The only notifications I got and get are ones I want (99% of it are messages from messaging apps, calendar reminders, and alarms).
by bsimpson | 2026-01-30 17:29:05+00:00
If native software was routinely available, launchers might not feel necessary.

But I sure as hell don't want to invest howevermany weekend days figuring out how to make games from other platforms as easy to play as Steam games on SteamOS.

I imagine this is that - give me "download" and "play" buttons that let me run GOG games on Linux, even if the binaries were authored for Windows.

Cloud saves and achievements and all that are nice (and expected from something like GOG), but even just a normal launcher feels essential on Linux.
by gogo61 | 2026-01-30 17:29:07+00:00
I recently found this website, and really find it insightful. I also collect a lot of information in this format, and I'm really looking forward to sharing it. If someone can help me create a website like this, or put a domain in Google Slides, it would be really helpful. I am okay with sharing the Google site, but the summarised view on the left side of the screen is really helping me to go through different sections.
by entuno | 2026-01-30 17:29:24+00:00
Yes, they did.

> Eight titles were excluded from the analysis due to them being either shorter than the other full-length novels (Eric, 1990; The Last Hero, 2001), or because they are part of his titles for younger readers (The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, 2001; The Wee Free Men, 2003; A Hat Full of Sky, 2004; Wintersmith, 2006; I Shall Wear Midnight, 2010; The Shepherds Crown, 2015).
by figmert | 2026-01-30 17:29:33+00:00
I'm unsure what Flameshot on macOS has to do with Flameshot Linux? I used to use Flameshot on Linux, and it works great, though I've always found the built-in screenshot software for Linux good enough. The application doesn't work as smoothly on macOS and I wouldn't need a tool for screenshots if the built-in tooling was any good. It's like it was designed by someone who had created a screenshot for the first time in their life.
by ComputerGuru | 2026-01-30 17:30:00+00:00
I remembered it being higher, but you are correct. All “technical help” (coding + data analysis + math) is 7.5%, with coding only being 4.2% as of June 2025 [0]. Note that there is a separate (sub)category of seeking information -> specific information that’s at 18.3%, I presume this could include design and architecture questions that don’t involve code, but I could be wrong.

[0]: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34255/w342...
by dragontamer | 2026-01-30 17:30:04+00:00
NiMH cells are like $1 each. Seriously, Amazon.com is quoting me $18 for 16 cells, AA Amazon Basics NiMH.

As I said earlier: it's likely a better strategy to buy 4 extra cells and keep them pre charged / topped off, rather than spending a few dollars on a better charger.
by theamk | 2026-01-30 17:31:13+00:00
You mean, you are not worried about high complexity of codebase because you work with it every day for decades, so you know all this complexity by heart?

This basically requires one to be working solo, neither receiving not sharing the source code with others, treating third-party libraries as blackboxes.

I guess this can work for some people, but I don't think it would work for everyone.
by amatecha | 2026-01-30 17:32:16+00:00
Yeah, I'm remembering the time immediately before Steam launched, getting a computer set up with games for a LAN party or whatever, someone sharing a folder of installers/updates from their HDD so everyone could be on the same version and whatnot. .. and that was the best-case scenario. Sometimes you just don't play a certain game because half the people have a different version or whatever haha