MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ncr100 | 2026-01-08 06:11:14+00:00
This is fairly routine -- for Democratic executive administrations to unfuck financial / other poor performance / bad health promulgated by prior Republican ones:

Republicans since Reagan have prioritized tax cuts as an end in themselves, treating deficit concerns as secondary

Democrats have generally accepted the post-1990s norm of PAYGO (pay-as-you-go) budgeting more consistently

Trump has been remarkable effective and impactful, for a US President.

His term makes me think maybe we DON'T want Presidents, as they're too powerful and it's too risky a structural design.
by mythz | 2026-01-08 06:12:34+00:00
Gemini CLI is too slow to be useful, kind of surprised it was even offered and marketed given how painful it is to use. I thought it'd have to be damaging to the Gemini brand to get people to try it out, suffer painful UX then immediately stop using it. (Using it from Australia may also contribute to its slow perf)

Antigravity was also painful to use at launch where more queries failed then succeeded, however they've basically solved that now to the point where it's become my most used editor/IDE where I've yet to hit a quota limit, despite only being on the $20/mo plan - even when using Gemini 3 Pro as the default model. I also can't recall seeing any failed service responses after a month of full-time usage. It's not the fastest model, but very happy with its high quality output.

I expected to upgrade to a Claude Code Max plan after leaving Augment Code, but given how good Antigravity is now for its low cost, I've switched to it as my primary full-time coding assistant.

Still paying for GitHub Copilot / Claude Pro for general VS Code and CC terminal usage, but definitely getting the most value of out my Gemini AI Pro sub.

Note this is only for development, docs and other work product. For API usage in products, I primarily lean on the cheaper OSS chinese models, primarily MiniMax 2.1 for tool calling or GLM 4.7/KimiK2/DeepSeek when extra intelligence is needed (at slower perf). Gemini Flash for analyzing Image, Audio & PDFs.

Also find Nano Banana/Pro (Gemini Flash Image) to consistently generate the highest quality images vs GPT 1.5/SDXL,HiDream,Flux,ZImage,Qwen, which apparently my Pro sub includes up to 1000/day for Nano Banana or 100/day for Pro?? [1], so it's hard to justify using anything else.

If Gemini 3 Pro was a bit faster and Flash a bit cheaper (API Usage), I could easily see myself switching to Gemini for everything. If future releases get smarter, faster whilst remaining aggressively priced, in the future - I expect I will.

[1] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16275805?hl=en
by razingeden | 2026-01-08 06:13:40+00:00
pushing pixels.

I never liked Wacom tablets or the (Fujitsu) touchscreen on my laptop. worked in design and graphics environments that gave me a few of them for free and it wasn’t for me.

This is one of the ideas I wish worked well for me but I loathed it. And would maybe revisit.

Still clutching to the mouse and still clutching to photoshop 30 years later, I’d change either one out if I enjoyed their replacement.
by throw234234234 | 2026-01-08 06:13:54+00:00
Because of point 3 most SWE's are also hesistant to pay for software. The positive feedback loop of "I did well out of this so i will support others as well" is over.

When you are thinking your days are numbered any cost to develop software (even token budget) is measured. As coding becomes commoditized the ROI in code will drop of that code (capitalism rewards scarcity; not value delivered) and you suddenly become cost conscious. We are moving from a monopoly-moat like market to a competitive cost based market in SWE as AI improves.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-08 06:14:05+00:00
Owning your family home through an LLC, depending on your state, is often a bad idea.

There are generous protections in most states for your personal home that you lose if it's owned by an LLC. This includes things like a homestead exemption in bankruptcy protection.

In Florida, for example, there are better options to keep yourself anonymous. Florida has something called a land trust [1].

[1]: https://www.jimersonfirm.com/blog/2024/04/understanding-the-...
by defrost | 2026-01-08 06:14:23+00:00
"The video" sounds authoritive.

The video linked is to a 4chan hosted selective cut and edit with overlaid commentary of questionable authority.

Full raw video starts earlier, the audio includes conflicting instructions, the car reverses and moves forwards all before the linked video begins.

The LEO LARPer in front of the car is "in danger" as they moved there in order to shoot the driver.

A trained response and recommended protocol would be to let the vehicle go .. as they earlier commanded as they apparently wanted the road cleared.

In that context, it appear to be a clusterfuck by untrained clowns resulting in a citizens death.
by antisol | 2026-01-08 06:14:33+00:00
> The original developers judged Xorg is really not saveable.

No, the orignal developers judged that they couldn't be bothered saving it. This has no relationship with whether it can be saved.

> Any extra effort on X11 might help to buy more time, but will in the end be for nothing. And in this time of supply-chain attacks, vs-code plugins, npm packages, agents and what-not, X11 is just too dangerous

Wow, this is some impressive vague fearmongering. Please explain what npm packages, vs-code plugins, and "agents" have to do with X11 being "just too dangerous"?

Here, I'll try one:

"Even in 2026 the developer of the i3 window manager says wayland isn't ready for real use. Any effort poured into wayland might delay it's inevitable collapse but in these days of nodejs, rising authoritarianism, and climate change it's clear that it will never actually gain wide acceptance"
AI product distribution platform to tell where and how to get first 100 users?
by udit_50 | 2026-01-08 06:14:51+00:00
I have scaled multiple projects and each one had entirely different ways it was scaled. One offered LTD, other got featured in newsletter, one got users from hacker news and other got it from product hunt.

So, an AI copilot to stress test ideas based upon competitor's growth performances.

Roast, validate, give feedback, anything is good.
by LoganDark | 2026-01-08 06:15:27+00:00
GS was inexperienced and didn't know what they were getting into; that's why Apple was able to get such a good deal and also why GS now wants out. I fear Chase does know what they're getting into and Apple likely has far less favorable terms now. Though I'm incredibly glad they didn't give it to Synchrony (who runs PayPal and is incredibly sociopathic)
by discordance | 2026-01-08 06:15:31+00:00
I have GH Copilot from work and a personal Claude Code max subscription and have noticed a difference in quality if I feed the same input prompts/requirements/spec/rules.md to Claude Code cli and GH Copilot, both using Opus 4.5, where Claude Code CLI gives better results.

Maybe there's more going on at inference time with Claude Code cli?
by SunVirgo | 2026-01-08 06:16:09+00:00
Senior backend engineer with long-term experience building performance-critical, data-intensive systems and simulation backends.
Strong in Python and C/C++, REST APIs, and handling real-time and historical data with an emphasis on correctness and determinism.
Prefer working close to system behavior, data pipelines, and infrastructure rather than abstraction-heavy stacks.
Applied
by viccis | 2026-01-08 06:16:28+00:00
Ah I remember playing this one. My first MUD/MUSH was Elendor. Looks like it went down in the last year or so. RIP

Aardwolf was fun, though I remember my big gripe was that it had a bunch of weird little themed zones like the Star Trek and Wizard of Oz ones that felt a little hokey to have in there. These days it wins solely by virtue of being one of the few that's still populated and free.

When I tried to go back to the Simultronics ones (Gemstone IV and Dragon Realms), not only was it a ghost town, which made random interactions almost stressful because you feel like two people walking past each other in a ghost town, but they have double, triple, and quadrupled down on squeezing their whales for every cent. A lot of people playing that game are paying $50-100 a month or more, and even normal players have to cough up more than the base $15 a month subscription if they want more than 1 character (!!!). Looks like their website has been stripped of all its cool character too. Shame.

These games in their heyday were truly a one of a kind experience. All of the weird online socializing you see people getting on platforms like Discord, but all wrapped up around a fun RPG game that felt so much more flexible and imaginative than other online games at the time.
by lxgr | 2026-01-08 06:16:58+00:00
There are still several 2% cards that don’t require Apple Pay, although I don’t know of any with no foreign exchange fee other than maybe the Fidelity one.

For everything where Apple Pay works, it’s a great deal; for everything else, it’s below average (as there are many 1.5% on everything cards).

> it's essentially free money. Am I missing a catch here?

In the end, all you’re doing is recouping a bit more of your own money than with some other cards. You pay those 2% and more as part of the price of everything you buy.
by bamboozled | 2026-01-08 06:17:36+00:00
Been doing it the same way for centuries so, care to elaborate on what's wrong with how they farm?

Also, just because their setup isn't optimal, doesn't mean it's the cause for some ecological crisis like you seem to be implying. I live in Japan, I watch people farm every year, there is very little going on that makes me suspect there is some wide-spread ecological damage being done by people who want to grow massive pumpkins, even though, people do grow massive pumpkins.

You telling everyone that gardening is bad for the environment is interesting because I absolutely cannot imagine what is worse for the environment than the industrial scale monocrop style farming that goes on most developed countries. Like, holy shit...
by kcplate | 2026-01-08 06:17:42+00:00
> Bro, you aren't anti qualified immunity, you are totally cool with it.

> You are cool with this mother being murdered, and her daughter left an orphan tonight,

Nope, quite the opposite, I’m just not caught up in the heat of the moment they way you are.

When this is evaluated legally your emotion will not be taken into account. I specifically left emotion out of my observation and kept my observation as coldly specific as possible because that is how this will play out legally. Unless something changes drastically, no criminal legal ramifications will come of this.

> You are OK with it today, because it is in alignment with your politics

Nope again. My politics run across a spectrum and don’t directly align with any party. Recently I think the democrats have descended into utter lunacy, but GOP candidates almost never get my vote. In fact, in the last 15 years only a single GOP politician has gotten my vote and only because I knew his opponent personally and specifically voted against him.
by LoganDark | 2026-01-08 06:17:54+00:00
> i doubt most people could name the underlying bank for the Apple Card. Only place the bank is mentioned is the fine print at the bottom of the card details.

And in the bottom-right corner of the titanium card and in the picture in Wallet. And it's advertised practically everywhere they mention the titanium card. And if you have Apple Savings it's also specified to be from GS everywhere.
by tshaddox | 2026-01-08 06:18:14+00:00
I can’t imagine what you mean by “each time you’ve been pressed.” Are you perhaps confusing me with other people you’re arguing with?

But no, VHS tapes are not factors of production. That’s a term with a widely understood definition, and linguistic tricks like “a VHS tape causes an image to be produced on a television” or “viewing an VHS tape produces a sense of enjoyment” are not valid arguments.
by immibis | 2026-01-08 06:18:15+00:00
I keep subconsciously dismissing TinyTapeout because the time horizon is so long and I don't have a cool project idea that requires an ASIC, but it's probably a really good idea to do uncool things that don't require ASICs, to become familiar with the process and be able to do cool things later eventually. (Libre Hardware phone, anyone?)
by jabl | 2026-01-08 06:18:35+00:00
The cooling effect of SO2 was certainly known when the IMO regulations were decided upon. It was decided that the public health advantages outweighed the climate warming. One can certainly quibble whether this decision was correct or not, but it wasn't done in ignorance.

(My take would have been be to allow high sulphur fuel out on the high seas, where there's very few humans around (or flora and fauna in general). )
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-08 06:19:09+00:00
> This is exactly the same as you'd normally do implicitly by handing a CI/CD system a long-lived API token, except without the long-lived API token.

The other difference is being subjected to a whitelisting approach. That wasn't previously the case.

It's frustrating that seemingly every time better authentication schemes get introduced they come with functionality for client and third party service attestation baked in. All we ever really needed was a standardized way to limit the scope of a given credential coupled with a standardized challenge format to prove possession of a private key.
by olowe | 2026-01-08 06:19:56+00:00
That's pretty much how it happened. A neighbour bought a medical practice from two retiring doctors in their 80s. One had officially diagnosed vascular dementia but was still practicing. The place was losing money because they couldn't reliably bill appointments. Nobody really knew how to use computers except for that neighbour who was himself busy seeing patients. That neighbour knew I was interested in "computers" because I picked up some old desktop he put out on the side of the road for rubbish collection, and asked if I was up for scanning papers in for hourly cash. "Ummm, sure". I never knew I could really make money using computers.

Every couple of days "the server" would crash. It was an old dusty Windows box under one of the admin staff's desk. I offered to move it out so they wouldn't keep accidentally kicking out the power cable or disturb the wobbly ethernet switch making it fall down off the top of it down into the corner where the mice and moths hid. I was sick of crawling down there after a while.

Once staff saw that I knew how to plug network cables back in after moving IT gear, they stopped calling in the IT company meant to be keeping all this stuff on life support. From there you hear about every tiny little problem, you get busier, learn to automate bits of your job piece by piece to keep up with the demands.

For example, a doctor complained about waiting for me to scan in pathology reports delivered by snail mail. The fax machine kept running out of toner & paper as it was also the practice's main printer. I researched and found that the pathology providers could install some software on a Windows machine which would deliver reports directly into the medical software the doctors were starting to use. That software would crash, too. How can I monitor that Windows service and have it send me an email if it goes down? What if I could get it to try to start it back up again before it sent me an email?

Eventually the dementia doctor retired as he kept falling asleep during appointments.

The other old doctor voluntarily quit when the filing cabinets containing all the paper records moved to a locked room with just a scanner and shredder.

A doctor wanted to be able to connect to the practice remotely. I learned about VPNs, but I had no idea if I could set that up using the modem/router provided by the ISP. Some family friend referred me to the IT company who took care of their email. Turned out that company were real Linux purists running all their own mail system in a datacenter. They were impressed by my proposed network diagram for the medical practice. They thought it was cool that I installed Linux on old PCs to keep using them for fun.

Instead of me hiring them for support, they just offered me a real salary job at a bit over minimum wage.
by 0928374082 | 2026-01-08 06:20:49+00:00
The US got a lot of things in a lot of fields because the sort of people who were smart enough to make those advances were also smart enough to get far away from the Reich while the getting was still good.

Similarly, I believe the Renaissance was not so much a "rebirth" of culture as it was italian port cities suddenly benefiting from a sudden influx of highly educated people bugging out from Constantinople; more a translation than a reappearance.
by simondotau | 2026-01-08 06:21:10+00:00
And if I ever see any misleading claims go uncorrected in a discussion, I won't hesitate to provide such corrections. This hasn't happened here, so there's nothing for me to say on that.

Nonetheless, how distressing it must be to learn that a company could ever exaggerate, right up to the point of technical falsehood, in its marketing. GM would never market emissions-cheating engines as "clean diesel." Ford would never label a payload "best-in-class" when it isn't. Perish the thought. Pass me my fainting couch.
by Tanoc | 2026-01-08 06:21:15+00:00
He has also shown that it isn't a functional policy either. Much of what he's done has backfired almost immediately after it was implemented, but much like a gremlin in a wiring loom by the time the sparks appear he's already moved on to tear out something else important. Mafioso politics only work when your concentrated power is wielded against fragmented power that will move too slowly to mitigate you. Even if there are a multitude of small groups if they turn against you even without unanimous action you're spending too much time and effort jumping from thing to thing to ever actually achieve your intended goals. The end result is a parade of violent whack-a-mole as force is used against the myriad number of small revolts that happen, exhausting the resources of the enforcement infrastructure and normalizing the expectation of violence.

Of course the four morons of the broken winds don't see this as a failure, but merely an excuse to normalize that violence until it reaches the extent that they will face little to no consequence when they push it to the logical extreme and attempt to exterminate the many opposing groups rather than simply subjugate them.
by cluckindan | 2026-01-08 06:21:18+00:00
And this is why AI coding will eventually degrade into a mess. Enjoy it while it lasts.

AI eats up users caring about $company which makes library, library degrades because nobody is paying, $company goes insolvent, library goes unmaintained and eventually defunct, AI still tries to use it.

Vibe coding with libraries is a fad that is destined to die.

Vibe coding your own libraries will result in million line codebases nobody understands.

Nothing about either is sustainable, it’s all optics and optics will come crashing down eventually.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-08 06:22:04+00:00
Your first point

> kind of surprised it was even offered and marketed given how painful it is to use. I thought it'd have to be damaging to the Gemini brand to get people to try it out, suffer painful UX then immediately stop using it.

is immediately explain by your second point

> Antigravity was also painful to use at launch where more queries failed then succeeded, however they've basically solved that now to the point where it's become my most used editor/IDE

Switching tools is easy right now. Some people pick a tool and stick with it, but it's common to jump from one to the other.

Many of us have the lowest tier subscriptions from a couple companies at the same time so we can jump between tools all the time.
by silisili | 2026-01-08 06:22:52+00:00
Fair points.

> The 3% is good, but you have to pay $5 a month, so equivalent $60 annual fee.

It's $50 a year, which isn't nothing, but more than pays for itself with either the 3% IRA match or 1k free margin. Understandably, not everyone wants to invest, so point taken.

> I assume thats using the high end cards with fairly hefty annual fees, or category cashback.

The only one with a fee is Amex Blue Cash Preferred, which I use for 6% groceries. The rest are store cards(AMZ/WM) or free category cards(of which you can often get multiple, oddly enough). For example USBank Cash+ for 5% back on all utilities and electronics, year round. Then there are some that automatically just 5% your highest spend category.
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-08 06:22:58+00:00
There's aggregation laws that allow shoplifting incidents to be added up to a total charge.

Also, consider someone stealing small amounts over a year from a single store, a chain of stores or a group of stores with the same owners. The victims in these cases are the same entity.

That said, the trend in my area is for business owners to share data about accused shoplifters, help law enforcement with investigations, etc. I would not be surprised if they're all using a platform to do this these days.

See also:

- https://legalclarity.org/do-stores-build-cases-on-shoplifter...

- https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/11/organized-retail-crime-nine-...

- https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/12/30/new-in-2025-cracking-down-...

- https://www.davisfirmllc.com/blog/the-retail-theft-aggregati...

- https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/monica...
by rizza | 2026-01-08 06:23:00+00:00
Part of this is J.P. Morgan Chase paying for customer base. JPMC can't legally buy any banks anymore unless it's at an fdic auction for a failed bank. That means that the only way to bring in new customers is organic growth and taking over company/store cards from other banks. If JPMC sees an ROI on this, I expect that they will start aggressively going after established store card like the old navy/gap card or airline cards like the American Airlines card. They instantly get thousands of new customers to market their other services to, can offer cross promotion into their most valuable fee cards (sapphire reserve) for less cost, and get to expand their market information gathering operation that feeds into their investment banking and commercial banking lines of business to inform better understanding of the market.
by jhanschoo | 2026-01-08 06:23:32+00:00
I'm a bit peeved at this caricaturization of earlier eras. In fact, significant fields of modern philosophy received great innovation by churchmen, and they were of course constantly attempting to reconcile Christian dogma with Greek and especially Aristotelian thought.

One prominent example was formal logic, which was significantly developed in the middle ages, but received scant attention in the Renaissance.
by calmbell | 2026-01-08 06:24:23+00:00
Whole foods are affordable and healthy. My wife and I eat mostly rice, tofu, lentils (especially red), and vegetables (mostly frozen). We buy in bulk, spend around $350 a month on groceries (while barely eating out), and have a lot of variety through preparing the tofu and lentils in different ways. Our favorites recipes are from
Nisha Vora of Rainbow Plant Life and The Vegan Chinese Kitchen.
by Yodel0914 | 2026-01-08 06:24:43+00:00
The point about not setting a goal rings true for me. A few years ago I set a book-a-week goal and it definitely had a large influence on the books I chose to read.

I tend to read a lot of books simultaneously, but much I’m not convinced is the best approach (esp for fiction) but I’m undecided yet on if it’s a habit worth changing.