MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by happytoexplain | 2026-01-13 13:44:18+00:00
Why write in this dismissive tone? Regardless of your personal situation, it would be hard to believe you don't share the common knowledge that virtually everybody uses auto-complete to some degree, e.g. to remember, discover, or abbreviate type/instance methods, argument lists, etc. And why is "API" in quotes? It's very normal to refer to interfaces in languages/platforms as APIs (e.g. "JavaScript's Date API").

Regardless, whether or not a person uses autocomplete for this API is irrelevant - in this case it would be anybody using numbers for things outside this API, and maximally it would be the whole platform if this design pattern is not unique to this API. I.e. the simplicity of this one API has no bearing on the question.
by bluGill | 2026-01-13 13:45:23+00:00
People who have used trains in Japan or Taiwan - islands have never used a train that is anything like Amtrak does and so have no comparison. Even in Europe long distance cross border rail is in most cases pretty bad as well.

However if you only compare the shorter distance rail in those places to what the US has some of the other trains are actually pretty good. Even then though Chicago's trains are a better comparison than anything Amtrak offers
by oblio | 2026-01-13 13:45:38+00:00
The interpretation is simple and the complete opposite of "I have the freedom to kill you".

The software creator (human or AI) must give the user of its software the same freedoms it has received.

If it has received the freedom to view the original, readable, source code, then users should have the freedom to view the original, readable, source code.

If it has received the freedom to modify the source code, then users should have the freedom to modify the source code.

Etc.

It's not hard to follow for people who want to do the moral thing.

It's VERY hard to follow for people who want to make money (and ideally lots of it, very quickly).
by nmeofthestate | 2026-01-13 13:45:49+00:00
"‘Lucy’ claimed that "farmers have used tractors to block the A1 at the English border”, while another account called ‘Kelly’ said that “army trucks are rolling down the Royal Mile. Soldiers in fatigues are guarding the Scottish Parliament”."

Very convincing stuff. We must fast-track the shutdown of X in the UK to stop this ultra-persuasive disinfo from brainwashing our citizens.
by wosk | 2026-01-13 13:46:56+00:00
We are also looking for visualization ideas beyond curve/time series.

* Does a comparison with last year help (flu activity is 10% more than last year)?
* Should we remove the median from the display?
* How hard should it be to check multiple models?

Otherwise, this is a preset link to see the ensemble (the consensus of most models) and our model (influpaint, a diffusion model) and flusion (avery good model by UMass) performance last year:

https://www.respilens.com/?view=flu_projs&flu_dates=2024-11-...
by Fnoord | 2026-01-13 13:47:01+00:00
In that case, may I suggest macOS Tahoe and i(Pad)OS 26?

I hated that UI so much, I'm glad I barely had to use it (that it was slow was due to underperforming hardware, esp. laptops, for which it arguably wasn't meant to run on).

In the meantime, I'll migrate away from anything Apple, for two reasons: 1) I don't want to be dependent on a US company for my OSes, and 2) thank you very much Apple for this design choice making #1 a lot easier. But what I cannot say is 3) it is slow and buggy. I mean, the design itself is bad if you ask me, but the OSes aren't slow. The hardware can deal with it.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-13 13:47:08+00:00
I also liked the idea when I used Gentoo 15 years ago but you quickly realise it doesn't make much sense.

You are trading off having a system able to handle everything you will throw at it, and having the same binaries as everyone else for, well, basically nothing. You have a supposedly smaller exploitable surface but you have to trust that the Gentoo patches cutting these things out don't introduce new vulnerabilities and don't inadvertently shut off hardening features. You have slightly smaller packages but I'm hard pressed to think of a scenario where it would matter in 2026.

To me, the worst debuggability and the inability to properly communicate with the source project make it a bad idea. I find Arch's pledge to only ship strictly vanilla software much more sensible.
by sfn42 | 2026-01-13 13:47:17+00:00
This is a load of bullshit man. Even the article you linked describes lying to his friends' parents to get a second dinner, being unable to have just one cookie etc.

The only way to get fat is to eat too much and anyone who really eats too much will get fat. There's a huge amount of people who simply lie or are ignorant about their food intake. Fat people falsely claiming they hardly eat anything but can't lose weight etc. Of course you lose weight if you don't eat. Your body can't create energy from nothing. Without energy you die.
by serf | 2026-01-13 13:47:20+00:00
as someone who made their living on f360 for many years I urge newcomers to avoid it. Vendor lock-in as much as possible, along with constant rug-pulls and price-increases. DLC-ification of once-included features, and just shit corporate maneuvers abound.

If your work allows for it, go for freecad or better yet openscad if you're pursuing this new concept of LLM design. onshape is nice feature-wise but then you're just trusting a different group that has an even tighter grip around your unmentionables due to the saas nature.

To be fair : the constant betrayal of tech companies in my life has just pushed me a bit further towards local-only than most; I don't really condemn the -as-a-service industry, they've just been the first to pull rugs and then shrug their shoulders when their (usually already dwindling) customer base is screwed.
by Priotecs | 2026-01-13 13:47:27+00:00
Good questions.
- The Android version came about two years after the iOS app. iOS was always my primary focus and the main success driver.
- Both apps are 100% native. No cross-platform framework and no web views. It may sound more complex, but for me it was actually simpler and more controllable that way.
- There is very little shared code between platforms. Concepts and ideas are shared, but the implementations are platform-specific.
- The core app functionality is almost entirely on-device. MoneyControl works locally by design. There is an optional WebApp that adds device sync and a browser-based interface, but the server side is essentially limited to synchronization.

In short: native apps, local-first architecture, with sync as an optional layer rather than a requirement.
by fny | 2026-01-13 13:47:54+00:00
I'm a huge green energy supporter, but the data belies the headline. These types of headlines are often leverage to discredit the transition.

1. US emissions didn't jump. See the first chart. The 2.4% increase easily falls within 1 standard deviation of typical changes. In that line, US emissions have remained flat since 2019.

2. The caption over that chart uses more neutral language "U.S. greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2025" instead of jumped. Which is it?

3. The 2.4% increase in emissions matches 2.4% increase in energy use nationwide.

4. The title is structured to make it sound like coal power is primarily causal of the emissions increase even though that's clearly not the case.

Unrelated point: Coal quite literally poisons the air. Why are activists so fixated on the abstract specter of climate change to convert others? I'm pretty sure we could win over lots of MAHA types with that framing.
by Priotecs | 2026-01-13 13:47:58+00:00
That’s a fair point. Automated bank imports sound essential at first, especially with many accounts and cards.

In practice, though, I found them less useful for budgeting than expected. A bank statement tells you how much was spent and where, but not what the expense actually was. “$100 at a supermarket” could be groceries, pet food, a lawn mower, or business expenses — that context is what makes budgeting meaningful, and it usually has to be added manually anyway.

At that point, entering the expense directly with the right category often turned out to be simpler and more accurate for me. Automated access would still be nice for reconciliation, but it’s not the silver bullet it’s often perceived to be
by amiga386 | 2026-01-13 13:48:52+00:00
All together, everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE

"This sharing of biased and false news has become all to common on social media"

... say the individual talking heads, all paid by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns or operates 193 TV stations in the USA, covering 40% of US households.

You'd be mad to think that consolidated control of information, the endgame of "mainstream" media, is of benefit to society.

"Mainstream" media is financed either directly by very rich individuals, who then use their control of the thing they own (even just by controlling its hiring policies, to give like-minded people a voice) to spam their own agenda on the populace, or a generic money-making enterprise that then deals with less-affluent people who want to spam the populace (advertisers).
by nmeofthestate | 2026-01-13 13:49:06+00:00
Seems totally risible stuff. On Twitter, I've mostly seen this story shared by British nationalist accounts, presumably because they think it tarnishes the cause of Scottish independence by throwing support for it into question.

Having said that, partisan people on social media are always happy to share stuff that they agree with regardless of the source. Presumably these accounts posted less loopy stuff sometimes and got retweets.
by SPICLK2 | 2026-01-13 13:49:31+00:00
The EU has not yet set a precedent for allowing breakaway states into full membership, so it's far from a given that an independent Scotland would be able to rejoin the EU.

Scotland is of enormous strategic importance due to its location relative to Russia's naval ports. An independent Scotland with no other backing would have minimal resources to monitor and deter Russian naval activity.
by deltarholamda | 2026-01-13 13:49:39+00:00
That is possible, for sure. But think of it like a person learning the piano. You could practice your arpeggios on a Steinway, or you can buy a Casio with an arpeggiator button.

At a certain point, the professional piano player can make much better use of the arpeggiator button. But the novice piano player benefits greatly from all the slogging arpeggio practice. It's certainly possible that skipping all that grunt work will improve and/or advance music, but it's hardly a sure thing. That's the experiment we're running right now with AI programming. I suppose we'll see soon enough, and I hope I'm utterly wrong about the concerns I have.
by zkmon | 2026-01-13 13:49:39+00:00
People fall because the surroundings are unfamiliar, their trust and assumptions about things around them, and about themselves, have gone wrong. Why does this discrepancy arise? For older people, the world around them and food they eat has changed too fast, to the extent of being an alien land. They walk on a surface, making assumptions based on what they were familiar with in the past. But the surface is no longer the same. They eat the changed food, assuming that it will keep them as strong as before. That turns out to be false as well. Most old people feel that they are living in a world that is completely unfamiliar and untrustworthy.
by Priotecs | 2026-01-13 13:49:42+00:00
Good question — yes, there were many major changes, both technically and visually.

On the technical side, the biggest shifts were things like Objective-C → Swift, ARC, Auto Layout, size classes, Dark Mode, and more recently SwiftUI. I generally didn’t jump on everything immediately. My rule of thumb was: adopt new frameworks once they’re clearly stable and proven in real apps. Being too early often meant rewrites; being too late meant technical debt. A slightly conservative approach worked best for me.

Visually, Apple’s HIG evolved a lot: skeuomorphism → flat design → more layered, content-first UIs. I followed those changes gradually. Smaller visual updates happened continuously, but larger redesigns only when there was a real user benefit or a technical reason. Version 10 is one of those bigger moments where design and architecture changes aligned.

In hindsight, following a bit late rather than very early turned out to be the better tradeoff. Users value stability and consistency more than being on the absolute cutting edge, especially for a long-term app they rely on daily.
Show HN: SiteRant– Rant anonymously about your (least) favorite sites
by akarenin | 2026-01-13 13:49:54+00:00
SiteRant is an anonymous online bulletin board that allows users to rant about specific domains. Simply search up a domain (any domain), and press enter to start finding rants or start ranting. Aside from macro/spam, porn/gambling site advertisements, etc., we allow diverse and unfiltered opinions, allowing users to view, upvote/downvote, and post short comments limited to 500 characters. Overall, I hope that SiteRant becomes large enough to map the internet sentiment, but more than that, I hope the site delivers a light and fun ranting experience.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-13 13:50:11+00:00
> The solution should be something like requiring them to build nuclear or renewable energy,

That's happening without regulations, though, isn't it? It's been making headlines for the last few months.

For instance:

- Meta https://carboncredits.com/meta-signs-three-nuclear-deals-of-...

- Alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos_Power?utm_source=chatgp...

- Microsoft https://www.jamasoftware.com/blog/2025/10/14/tech-giants-tur...

- Amazon https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-powered-data-center?utm_so...

If anything, it seems to me that AI is revitalizing nuclear energy investments, which I think is a good thing. Wouldn't you agree?
by Priotecs | 2026-01-13 13:50:45+00:00
Thanks! I strongly agree.

A local-first, offline-capable model turned out to be one of the best long-term decisions. It makes the app faster, more reliable, and usable in situations where connectivity is poor or nonexistent. Sync then becomes an enhancement, not a dependency.

It also changes how you design software: you optimize for resilience and data ownership instead of assuming a server is always there. I’m convinced more apps would benefit from this approach, especially for tools people rely on daily.
by Gracana | 2026-01-13 13:50:48+00:00
I love SW and think it's one of the better parametric solid modeling CAD packages out there. It is tough to learn, though. I recommend taking a class or finding a mentor to guide you and answer your questions.

FWIW, back in the day I tried solidworks, inventor, pro e, catia, solid edge, anything I could get my hands on. I struggled to find something that would click with me, thinking it was the software that's the problem. It really wasn't -- the mechanical design problem space is vast and the requirements are demanding, which makes for solutions with a certain level of complexity. I had entered with a lot of hidden assumptions and found it frustrating when the software required me to address them, and on top of that, there's just a lot of stuff to figure out. It helps to have someone around to help when you get stuck.. that was what got me over the hump. At this point I've been using solidworks almost every day for about 15 years, and it only fills me with blind rage every few days, which I think is pretty good for professional software.
by CIPHERSTONE | 2026-01-13 13:50:58+00:00
Gemini is my go to now when I need a recipe. Pick a recipe site, any recipe site, and its guaranteed to be the most painful experience on mobile, and slightly less painful on a laptop experience you have on the web. Pure fucking trash. And if you happen to be a recipe publisher who does this and is reading this, fuck you.

Enter Gemini. It consistently can give me a text only version of the recipe that I can copy into a notes app if I want with zero pain. Zero. Now I have my own set of "wtf are you doing Gemini" and "why are you halucinating on this request" experiences at work with Gemini, but recipe extraction.. the goat.
by netsharc | 2026-01-13 13:51:04+00:00
Yeah, the government's idea is moronic. But making it the victims' responsibility ("don't share your number indiscriminately") is depressing too. How about make it easier to prosecute the unsolicited sending. How about educating people not to be fuckwits..

Yeah prosecution makes lives more difficult, it's rife for abuse (the recipient could fake evidence, the sender could claim he was hacked/his friend took his unlocked phone..)..
by virgil_disgr4ce | 2026-01-13 13:51:22+00:00
> Apple is always behind on industry trends

Huh, I always thought it was the other way around (whether people liked it or not): ditching floppy disks, ditching cdroms, prioritizing BT over wired earphones, etc. I am glad, though, that they were forced to stick with USB-C if I'm not mistaken.
by bluGill | 2026-01-13 13:51:27+00:00
Mozilla is not and never has been a browser company. They have always been a charity with a for profit arm that does a browser. However never has a browser been more than an after thought to any of the leadership.

Of course what the world really needs is a browser company and so we try to pretend Mozilla is that, but they are not. Support an alternative browser (I'm not aware of any though. There are browser skin companies but nobody making the hard parts of a browser)
by egberts1 | 2026-01-13 13:51:53+00:00
X Window Release 3 (X11R3) was introduced on Cray into UNICOS (a UNIX variant of Cray OS, COS) in late 1989 using ported 64-bit Xlib. But it was not widely used within small Cray community.

But MIT cooked up X11 "PROTOCOL" of Xlib in late 1985 to 1986 on Univac and Unix in C with many other X libraries written in Common Lisp.

X10R3 mostly stabilized the Xlib around a few platforms and CPU architecture (DDX) in a"long" preparation for X11R1 in September 1987.

https://www.x.org/wiki/X11R1/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
by varispeed | 2026-01-13 13:52:07+00:00
"We detected that you are about to commit a crime. Here is provisional 2-years sentence shall you decide to go ahead with the plans. It includes free single room, 3 meals a day, gym, library, daily walks and company of people like yourself. You will also receive counselling and you could take up a free course to advance your skills in desired field and post-release support for a year."
Show HN: Y0 – Platform for autonomous AI agents that do real work
by yethikrishnar | 2026-01-13 13:52:07+00:00
y0 is different because the agents actually do things — they don't just chat.

You describe what you want in natural language. Then y0 spins up a sandboxed environment and the agent gets to work: browsing websites, writing code, managing files, running shell commands. It streams progress in real-time so you can watch it work.

Unlike chatbots, y0 agents have real execution capabilities. They can navigate complex websites, fill forms, extract data, create documents, run scripts, and chain multiple steps together autonomously. When the agent finishes, you get the actual output — files, data, reports — not just a text response.

The sandboxing means agents can't mess with your local machine. Each session runs in an isolated container with its own filesystem, browser, and shell. You can give agents access to specific tools and APIs without worrying about side effects.

We built y0 because we got tired of copying code from ChatGPT and manually running it. We wanted an AI that could just do the work end-to-end.

There's a free tier to try it out. Would love feedback on what workflows you'd want agents to handle.
by Priotecs | 2026-01-13 13:52:40+00:00
Thank you — and congrats to you as well, that’s an impressive run.

I completely agree: in a small, niche business, relationships and support matter far more than scale. Replying quickly, taking users seriously, and actually helping them goes a long way over many years. It’s probably one of the few real advantages solo developers have over larger teams.

13 years in a niche is no small achievement. Best of luck to you too, and thanks for sharing your experience — it’s always encouraging to hear similar stories.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-13 13:52:51+00:00
> without using a large framework?

I have explained this countless times. It rarely sinks in and quite often is met with hostility, so I don't bother any more. The problem is simple: its where people stake their career. Do they build their career upon writing original applications or upon using a tool? This difference is rather extreme.

By the way, without React shouldn't default to jQuery. If that is your perspective of reality you are already at the maxim of your potential.
by dannersy | 2026-01-13 13:53:12+00:00
I think you'll find, especially within the tech community, people struggle with purity and semantics. They see that supporting and promoting FOSS is to be okay with its use for war, oppression, or whatever mental gymnastics they need to just not care or promote bad things. They will argue about what "free and open" means and get mixed up in definitions, political alignments, etc.

It is pretty obvious to me, that being blase about whomever using FOSS for adversarial reasons is not very "open" or "free". Somewhere in the thread there is an argument about the paradox of intolerance and I don't really care to argue with people on the internet about it because it is hard to assume the debate is in good faith.

My point is this: Throw away all your self described nuance and ask this yourself whether or not you think any malicious, war-monger, authoritarian, or hyper-capitalist state would permit a free and open source software environment? If the objective of a business, government, or billionaire is power, control, and/or exclusivity then, well, your lofty ideals behind FOSS have completely collapsed.
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-13 13:53:15+00:00
The accounting pain nicbou mentioned is real. Bank reconciliation seems simple - two lists, match them - but then you hit timing differences where something cleared on different dates in each system, or description mismatches where the bank shows "PAYPAL *ACME" but you recorded "Acme Ltd - Invoice 4521".

Transaction categorisation is arguably worse because there's no universal standard. What one accountant calls "Office Expenses" another puts in "General Admin" - both correct for their context. Any automation that works for one client's books tends to break when you switch to another.
by keybored | 2026-01-13 13:53:46+00:00
Russia is a waning superpower with a low GDP but a powerful enough internal economy to wage a conventional invasion of a large European country. The US is a much richer country, the leading superpower, and an IT powerhouse. But for some reason the first thing that pops into people’s mind when they hear propaganda bots is “Russia”.

(I would buy China, too. A huge country with a powerful economy.)

That in itself looks like a programmed response.

Of course Russia uses bots and propaganda. But the focus on Russia seems completely out of proportion.
by oblio | 2026-01-13 13:53:46+00:00
The big engineering challenges right now are electrifying everything (which means convincing people that it's the right thing to do and that gas powered vehicles belong to the trashbin of history, amongst others) and banning production of "virgin" plastic items, especially single use items (which also required a whole lot of convincing).

Most of that is convincing is done in the exact opposite direction with... you guessed it... AI.
by W-Stool | 2026-01-13 13:54:34+00:00
If these kinds of machines interest you I highly recommend the book "The Supermen" by Charles Murray. It has all the details you would ever want on Seymour Cray and others in the business.

I was working at a geophysical company in the 80's and we lusted after a Cray-1. Best we could afford where array processors (CSPI) connected to VAX systems.