MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-21 12:03:54+00:00
For a number of players, big ones too, all the money that's going to change hands has already done so.

Plus even if AI were to work absolutely perfect at this point, it's still not worth money to consumers.

This is not something that was consumer-driven, and there has been no pent-up demand among consumers that is available to be unleashed.

With the money that's been spent so far, it's only worth that much if it can economically replace a fair number of employees almost completely, and the figures are so high already that small-business employers will not likely add up to enough.

People are expensive, even at the lowest of training, so the incentive has always been huge to lower the cost of people, since way before plantation times or Roman legions.

Naturally this really adds up mainly for those who are paying the cost of people, and have power and resources to do something about it.

Other than very large employers, including governments, who else is in position to get their money's worth?

What's supposed to be in it for consumers?

How are they supposed to be motivated to spend any more than they already are when the truly intelligent thing to do is actually cut back and it's so obvious it doesn't take a computer brain to figure it out.
by techpression | 2026-01-21 12:03:59+00:00
Equal in that hey suffer together? When even the SEK outperforms the EUR in times of distress you know it’s incredibly bad. Is it better that all of Europe sinks, maybe, but I’m happy I’m not losing my job because of pension plans in France or financial neglect in Greece, and I’m sure they would say the same if roles were reversed. And to be clear, it’s not about the people, but how governing is done.

The same boat is actually a good metaphor, you tend to want many smaller ones and not one big, risk of losing everything vs something (to a point).
by bossyTeacher | 2026-01-21 12:04:15+00:00
> If the government owns the infrastructure, but outsources the day-to-day running to a company that's one thing

This is still very problematic. To be honest, even using foreign hardware or propietary software is problematic. But you should reduce dependence as much as possible because it is a huge vector that should the foreign government decide to turn on you openly or secretly, it could bring you down before you have a chance to detect what is happening. I believe wars between developed countries will operate at this level (i.e. by targeting foreign dependency chains whether it be national systems for id or simply cutting undersea cables)
by MarginalGainz | 2026-01-21 12:04:16+00:00
The hidden cost we battle in e-commerce isn't just DB storage/performance, it's Search Index Pollution. We treat 'availability' as a complex state machine (In Stock, Backorder, Discontinued-but-visible, Soft Deleted). Trying to map this logic directly into a Postgres query with WHERE deleted_at IS NULL works for CRUD, but it creates massive friction for discovery.

We found that strict CQRS/Decoupling is the only way to scale this. Let the operational DB keep the soft-deletes for audit/integrity (as mentioned by others), but the Search Index must be a clean, ephemeral projection of only what is currently purchasable.

Trying to filter soft-deletes at query time inside the search engine is a recipe for latency spikes.
by fatherwavelet | 2026-01-21 12:04:22+00:00
It is delusional to believe the current frontier models can only write CRUD apps.

I would think someone would have to only write CRUD apps themselves to believe this.

It doesn't matter anyway what a person "believes". If anything, I am having the opposite experience that conversing with people is becoming a bigger and bigger waste of time instead of just talking to Gemini. It is not Gemini that is hallucinating all kinds of nonsense vs the average person. It is the opposite.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-21 12:04:35+00:00
Yes I agree with what you are saying. And this is why I am saying that if this place is a place for chef's then I agree that even a minor use of AI can be disheartening.

Once again if HN is solely for the 1st sector of chefs 100%, then AI use should be completely restricted against

But if HN falls into what I call the 2nd category too then does it really matter if the local chef's using a recipe built by chatgpt?

I completely understand what you are saying man and the psychological effects are real.

And this is why I feel like if Hackernews is targetted for people in the 1st category or the 2nd

Because if there is a forum where both local shops who say makes fries which are built in less time and there is also the chef which takes hours building teh perfect food and both of them are on the same forum & they probably get the same space in it then a conflict between them is sort of meant to occur with all the effects which you mention and feels to me like a prisoners dilemma because if artisanal chefs are impacted by local normal cooks lets say then just being a local cook would get stigmatized in a forum. Overall its a net negative for both.

But it honestly depends on how negative if the eyeballs come on both, sure they can split and create different forums but neither wants to leave the large one and the large forum owner has had incentives in both artisanal and local cooks (YC funding AI companies and hackernews once being so damn creative that I hear stories about when one day the moderator decided to have the front page be all about erlang/elixir from a story I remember from a HN "veteran")

I mean I love em both. It's not an or condition but honestly what I hear in HN is the path of least resistance ie. if you don't like moderation, then make your own place but I do feel like the moderation's atleast a bit confused about their interests too.

Probably another reason why I am interested in fediverse because I want it to be like a street where we can have both artisanal chef clubs and the local shops fair while on the same road but a bit of problem with fediverse atleast in this context of HN alike is that lemmy's c/technology can probably replace HN in some contexts but the streets of lemmy are empty because everybody's still here on HN.
by latexr | 2026-01-21 12:05:22+00:00
> An entry fee that is reimbursed if the bug turns out to matter would stop this, real quick.

That adds an extra layer of complexity to the cURL maintainers, handling other people’s money and whatnot. It was considered.

Daniel (cURL’s lead) has been discussing this for months. Whatever “quick and easy” solution you think of, it’s already been suggested and thought about and rejected for some reason.
by alkonaut | 2026-01-21 12:05:26+00:00
I installed the copilot extension in my IDE, and switched on Agent mode.

I don't really get how the workflow is supposed to work, but I think it's mostly due to how the tool is made. It has like some sort of "change stack" similar to git commits/staging but which keeps conflicting with anything I manually edit.

Perhaps it's just this particular implementation (Copilot integration in VS) which is bad, and others are better? I have extreme trouble trying to feed it context, handling suggested AI changes without completely corrupting the code for even small changes.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-21 12:05:39+00:00
> EU's strength is in diversity, and von der Leyen is set on killing that.

I feel like it's important to specify "diversity" and not just use it as a catch-all. I don't believe the strength of the EU is in diversity of how companies are implemented and run across the union, it's the diversity of culture, mindset and people that is the strength, and that can be represented inside companies, even if the way of setting up, running and investing in companies would be the same across the union.
by pcthrowaway | 2026-01-21 12:05:48+00:00
Also Canadian here (I've been using this account for years despite the name though).

The above poster is correct that Canada also has a lot of problems. I lived in the U.S. for 20 years and probably would have stayed if I could have. For many people, moving to the U.S. was seen as highly desirable for a long time, especially for tech workers.

I've noticed the reverse is true since around the start of Trump's presidency (not for tech workers though, at least not yet).

I also agree with the suggestion that Canada is at risk of falling into fascism as well.. we were a razor's edge away from electing our own version of Trump in our most recent election almost a year ago... funnily enough, Trump's talk of annexing Canada shortly before the election swung the polls enough that the Liberals were able to retain power (and fortunately, with a minority government that gives our 2 social democratic parties some political sway even with only a handful of MPs).

Now there may be more Canadians coming back (and American refugees coming) that the tide has noticeably shifted.
by crote | 2026-01-21 12:06:16+00:00
> Their biggest incentive is customer satisfaction

At a bank? No way. They are some of the most customer-hostile organizations I've interacted with. Dealing with payment accounts is a necessary evil for them, and they are very much aware of the effort required to switch to a different bank, and of the massive regulatory moat preventing consumer-friendly competition from popping up.

A bank doesn't care about screwing over a handful of customers. As long as it's not common enough to draw the attention of the press and/or a regulatory agency, they are not going to spend any money on improving.
by Iceland_jack | 2026-01-21 12:06:41+00:00
This is to say that (length-indexed) "Arrays" are Representable functors[1]. A `Vec n a` is isomorphic to (Fin n -> a), where Fin n = { x :: Nat | x < n }.

instance pi n. Representable (Vec n) where
type Rep (Vec n) = Fin n
index :: Vec n a -> (Fin n -> a)
index = ..
tabulate :: (Fin n -> a) -> Vec n a
tabulate = ..

[1] https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/adjunctions-4.4....
by postepowanieadm | 2026-01-21 12:07:03+00:00
I may tell from Polish perspective - loosely speaking: Germany and Austria used to share single bidding zone: electricity was produced by wind at the north and then consumed by factories at the south. The problem: no sufficient grid connection - Polish and Czech grids were used instead, what caused major problems - loop flows. It lasted from 2001 to 2018.

Unification needs to be real, including grids, not on paper only.
by techjobfinder | 2026-01-21 12:07:05+00:00
So I built a tech job board which aggregates jobs globally. For now it only covers finance employers, but it will cover all public companies and startups in the United States to start with. I packed quite a few other features into it - would anyone share feedback about it? Keen to get more traffic to the site as the site is already fully in production, I just need to implement more scrapers. Will actually be quite useful in the age of LinkedIn spam (where 90% of roles are actually fake).
by Saline9515 | 2026-01-21 12:07:17+00:00
I don't like "Kremlin influencers", that said the Streisand effect is real, and the slope is very slippery from here to include other people along the ride.

Will we also sanction Elon Musk and other pro-MAGA individuals after the current rift between the EU and the US? Why not include Chinese ones, too, who are actually quite active? Also, far-right influencers? Far-left? They are nazis/communists after all!

Or, if you are German, consider that saying something offensive about a politician is "attacking democracy" and sentence people to prison because of untasteful memes.[0]

Of course, all of this can be justified and most undemocratic/less democratic countries get along with those rules, but at least let's stop pandering to "values" that have become pious words without any real meaning.

[0] https://archive.is/tgdag
by lbreakjai | 2026-01-21 12:07:29+00:00
In the UK, it took me half an hour and 30£ to open a Ltd, which I think is the equivalent of a GmbH.

It might have changed, but a few years ago you could go from 0 to a fully functional limited company, with accounting, business account, registered address with mail forwarding, etc. in a matter of days, from the comfort of your sofa.
by Confiks | 2026-01-21 12:07:39+00:00
Solvinity (now acquired by Kyndryl) owns and runs a lot of the underlying infrastructure of DigiD, but the application itself and the day-to-day operations are handled by an autonomous body of the government (Logius). DigiD is mainly about translating authentication factors into a social security number (BSN) for authentication to other public institutions.

That allows Logius to pretend it's not much of a problem, and Solvinity maintains (in an unusually sharp and on-point interview) that all data is "encrypted" [1], without mentioning who possesses the keys or whether encryption is relevant at all. They go on to say that they consider the scenario of the US shutting down DigiD "very hypothetical", that they will follow Dutch law and that they have a strong supervisory board (as if that would matter).

Logius also operates MijnOverheid, which collates very sensitive information about all citizens from most government agencies and also relies on Solvinity infrastructure.

The infrastructure that Solvinity maintains goes far beyond servers, as they've concocted themselves an unholy procurement mess with their PICARD / LPC solution (Logius Private Cloud). They were advised multiple times over multiple years by the main advisory body on IT of The Netherlands (AcICT) not to do it in this way and KISS, but then did it anyway.

The intent of structuring it in this way was that it would be easier to switch infrastructure providers, but the outcome is the exact opposite: there is now a non-standard "integration layer" that would need to be rebuilt. Which is exactly what AcICT warned about from the beginning.

You can find a diagram of the responsibilities on both the Solvinity and Logius side on the last page of [2] (in Dutch).

The wild thing is that Logius also owns and maintains "Standaard Platform" [3], which is a very neat and standard Kubernetes environment, but they declined to use this for DigiD and MijnOverheid because they didn't deem it secure enough, and instead of securing their Kubernetes deployment, they went on with PICARD / LPC.

Logius is an autonomous body of the Ministry of the Interior (BZK), but they appear to have completely lost control over setting any policy and now mainly walk from crisis to crisis because any opening on their "SAFe train" is years away.

[1] https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/03/baas-van-solvinity-prob...

[2] https://www.adviescollegeicttoetsing.nl/site/binaries/site-c...

[3] https://www.logius.nl/onze-dienstverlening/infrastructuur/st...
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-21 12:07:42+00:00
Fair point, I agree, that isn't obvious. What is obvious to both of us (I assume?) is that pollution has to be lower, not just in the EU, but across the world. But we (Europeans) can mostly just influence what happens inside of Europe, EU and our countries. Hence, we do what we can to reduce it, where taxing it is one approach.

With that said, more investments into other energy sources are totally welcome, and I don't think that should mean we also need to tax pollution less, we can have both :)
by mrtksn | 2026-01-21 12:07:50+00:00
That's not the issue. If your business is dependent on slave labor and offloading your externalities on the society to make a profit it simply means your business should not exist.

Its evident that labor cost and taxes are not excessive in EU by the reality of existence of plenty of businesses in a healthy society.

What doesn't exist in EU is the "tech" business, and the tech doesn't have margins too slim to employ people and pay taxes. On the contrary, the margins are fat. The reason that the tech sector isn't a large one in EU is that its easy to incorporate in USA and access the full EU market from there instead of incorporating in some small EU country and deal with their bureaucracy and internal border limitations. The 28th regime and the EU-INC is to address exactly that.

If the USA-EU relations deteriorate enough, it will also create instant trillion Euros market. Just look at the quarterly reports of US tech giants, they generate EU revenues that are not that behind the US revenues. For Apple thats %60 of the US revenue, or ~110B$ for the last quarter and that's happening despite Apple having a much smaller market share in EU.

A full blown conflict between US-EU will be a huge opportunity to replicate the US tech sector in EU and having an EU-INC will be the necessary facilitator that is currently missing when compared with the landscape in USA.
by lnsru | 2026-01-21 12:08:05+00:00
The question is always the same: do you really need UG/GmbH at the beginning? It’s typical rookie mistake. I did it too, sold the company for 1€ to some shady people at the end. Gewerbe with 40000€ in the company’s account does not have the problems anymore. And the expensive tax consultants are just another cost of doing business in Germany. Ok, the quality of Finanzamt clerks varies heavily depending on location. Current town has nice ones.

I agree, the process is not easy or nice in Germany, but it’s enough to start businesses despite all the complications and overregulation. But getting VAT number and bank account in other comments mentioned Estonia was huge pita for friends.
by croisillon | 2026-01-21 12:08:31+00:00
i went in it with good faith, started the webapp with a couple languages and clicking wherever my mouse landed, quickly enough it appeared to me this was not produced in good faith and i became very critic of it ; at best i would look at it like a proof of concept you send to a team of real dev and designers to get done properly, but in the current state i would never sign in
by bmacho | 2026-01-21 12:08:31+00:00
> Even ignoring all the politics and crazy stuff from the "maintainer"; most of their contributions were just shuffling code around and causing a lot of breakage.

This take was stupid when it was just a baseless claim by X11/RH (the very people that declare that they want to kill X11, don't want to put new features in X11 or fix bugs, and don't accept code from people on the right). This take has been double stupid since Enrico has released XLibre and it is indeed better than Xorg.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-01-21 12:08:33+00:00
I know political discussions on HN are discouraged but let me chime in as the one who made a comment higher in the thread: From a European perspective, both US Republicans and US Democrats are right-wing, except for guys like Bernie Sanders whose positions are close to a typical European center-left social democrat.

However, IMHO this doesn't really matter because in the US both the left and the right tend to score high on authoritarianism on the freedom vs. authoritarian axis on a two-dimensional political spectrum view if you look at their actual policies and views they defend. That even includes the almost nonexistent US far left. Strongly anti-authoritarian viewpoints are extremely rare in the US. Even self-proclaimed "libertarians" in the US tend to have fairly authoritarian views when you press them about it, they're usually merely anti-federal-government pro business right-wing neoliberals.
by alkonaut | 2026-01-21 12:08:41+00:00
Yes. And some way of using an instructions file. Because interacting with an agent in a tiny plugin window without use of "agents.md" or some sort of persistent prompt you can adjust retry etc is horrible.

Now it's "please add one unit test for Foobar()" and it goes away and thinks for 2 minues and does nothing then I point it to where the FooBar() which it didn't find and then adds a test method then I change the name to one I like better but now the AI change wasn't "accepted"(?) so the thing is borked...

I think the UX for agents is important and ...this can't be it.
by lm2s | 2026-01-21 12:08:50+00:00
I bought one, then returned it the following day.
I cannot comprehend how LG is shipping these monitors and people are buying them.
The matte finish on the screen is very bad. So bad that you see colorful grains (maybe 0.05-0.1mm each) all over the screen. Particularly noticeable on light content.
I had seen some people complaining about it online, but never would’ve imagine that this was the actual issue and it’s still mind boggling that they are producing and shipping these monitors.
by Bewelge | 2026-01-21 12:09:36+00:00
- We narrowed it down to the tool we used to flash the code.

- I downloaded the repository, jumped into codex, explained the symptoms and it found and fixed the bug in less than ten minutes.

Change the second step to:
- I downloaded the repository, explained the symptoms, copied the relevant files into Claude Web and 10 minutes later it had provided me with the solution to the bug.

Now I definitely see the ergonomic improvement of Claude running directly in your directory, saving you copy/paste twice. But in my experience the hard parts are explaining the symptoms and deciding what goes into the context.

And let's face it, in both scenarios you fixed a bug in 10-15 minutes which might have taken you a whole hour/day/week before. It's safe to say that LLMs are an incredible technological advancement. But the discussion about tooling feels like vim vs emacs vs IDEs. Maybe you save a few minutes with one tool over the other, but that saving is often blown out of proportion. The speedup I gain from LLMs (on some tasks) is incredible. But it's certainly not due to the interface I use them in.

Also I do believe LLM/agent integrations in your IDE are the obvious future. But the current implementations still add enough friction that I don't use them as daily drivers.
by cogogo | 2026-01-21 12:10:02+00:00
Neighboring ski areas in Maine have just so so snow. NOAA Northeast snowpack map. One of my favorites.

https://www.weather.gov/images/nerfc/ops/nohrsc_full_sd.png

I usually use this one but the previous includes Quebec.

https://www.weather.gov/images/nerfc/ops/NOHRSC_SD_highcontr...
by Klaster_1 | 2026-01-21 12:11:03+00:00
Glad to finally see 28th getting more traction, I was thinking about it just the other day. Personally, I'd love for EU to introduce more institutions that cut at member state sovereignty in favor of tighter integration. What comes to mind immediately is a 28th regime for employment and personal taxes, so companies don't have to resort to workarounds like employee of record or fake "contractors". It seems that EU late binds making big decisions until all options collapse, current events will probably result in more push for federalization overall.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-21 12:11:08+00:00
> Equal in that hey suffer together?

Yes, quite literally "hey lets suffer together", this is what we've signed up to, and want. Good for everyone and bad for everyone, we're linked and this helps us focus more on helping each other, rather than just focusing on ourselves.

> The same boat is actually a good metaphor, you tend to want many smaller ones and not one big, risk of losing everything vs something (to a point).

Yeah, that's probably the two mindsets that differ here. EU was created with the goal of "better one big boat than many small", because we've tried the "many small boats" approach for millennials, and somehow we in Europe always end up starting wars against each other. We've had (more or less) continent-wide peace now, for a good while (maybe the longest it's ever been? Not sure), and probably because of the reason that we're more connected now, instead of sitting alone in our tiny boats.