MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thayne | 2026-01-23 06:41:06+00:00
I think the problems with sqlite:

- sqlite can't do concurrent writes, which is a performance bottleneck for certain workflows

- sqlite is synchronous, which isn't ideal in applications that are async

- while sqlite itself is open source, the test suite is proprietary, which means forking it and adding your own features or bug fixes isn't really practical. Of course, that is also a significant barrier to turso having sqlite compatibility.

Does turso really solve those problems? IDK. Does it introduce new problems? Almost certainly. But those are real problems that people have.
by ildon | 2026-01-23 06:41:19+00:00
I stopped reading at the very first bug:

> Mail Search Doesn't Work

For me mail search works very very well. Ironically, it's one of the features that convinced me to use Mail as my primary and only email client.

I'm wondering if the author of the rant is using the search input of the single message/thread, instead of the global one, or if they are not aware that the global search is by selected account, so if you want to search in all accounts you have to first select the unified inbox. By the way, this is another awesome feature of Mail, while the search string is in the input, you can switch accounts and see the different results per account.

Before anyone asks: I have 5 email accounts, between them, I have way more than 100.000 messages (might be 5x, I don't have the Mac now to check) and they're all synced on my devices (it's ~24gb of messages)
by zen4ttitude | 2026-01-23 06:41:34+00:00
I think this is the future as well, running locally, controlling the entire pipeline. I built acf on github using Claude among others. You essentially configure everything as you want, models, profiles, agents and RAG. It's free. I also built a marketplace to sell or give away to the community these pipeline enhancements. It's a project I wanted to do for a while and Claude was nice to me allowing it to happen. It's a work in progress but you have 100% control, locally. There is also a website for those not as technical where you can buy credits or plugin Claude or OpenAI APIs. Read the manifesto. I need help now and contributors.
by mock-possum | 2026-01-23 06:42:20+00:00
Incredibly cool. I was really hoping to see the more ‘edge’ cases - take the light out to the middle of nowhere, walk towards it and away from it with just your phone or a Bluetooth speaker, see it react to your approach. The bit at the end about it shifting over the course of the day is cool, but I wish the effect was more visually apparent - it mostly just looked like random noise the whole time to me.
by theturtlemoves | 2026-01-23 06:42:45+00:00
> The people who write the books, give the TED talks, and post the LinkedIn manifestos about “betting on yourself” are, by definition, the ones for whom the bet paid off.

> You don’t hear much from the ones who went back to traditional employment after three years of grinding, a depleted savings account, and a marriage that got stress-tested past its limits.

Check, check and nearly check. It was a choice between having a business and having a marriage. Easy choice in hindsight.

You can break up, or you can have a thousand fights. Why would you have a thousand fights? Well, so you can make peace. Having my own business, incidentally with my spouse, was the perfect conduit for those thousand fights. Holy hell in a handbasket. But: I've gotten to know them in a way I don't think I'd ever have reached without the business. I wouldn't change a thing. Except maybe getting a clue at the three year mark that this wasn't going to work instead of grimly hanging on to a dying dream for seven years.
by xethos | 2026-01-23 06:43:38+00:00
In which case we disagree fundamentally on America's place in the world, and how best to lead - and that's okay. We can politely disagree (on this), and neither of us has to be an asshole, because neither view is objectively wrong

I applaud the consistency you put on display regarding the US budget though, and I gotta say you view (on this) probably should count more than mine - I'm a Canadian citizen, not American
by roenxi | 2026-01-23 06:45:17+00:00
The thing that jumps to mind is the Security Council, which they can parley into diplomatic favours from other people. And the whole point of the UN is that it was the victors of WWII explaining to the rest of the world how international affairs were going to work, so I'd be pleasantly surprised if the special privileges stopped there.

And even without that, the UN isn't really set up to handle technical matters. It is a diplomatic club. The point is to give people a seat at the table without considering their competence.
by nneonneo | 2026-01-23 06:45:28+00:00
I have a fun one: my iPhone (12 Pro) refuses to acknowledge that it has eSIM functionality, even though the hardware exists.

I'm fairly sure I know what the problem is! It was restored from a backup taken on an iPhone X that had two physical SIM slots (Chinese version). The new phone now seems to think it has two physical SIM slots: it shows an IMEI2 in About, but any attempt to use the eSIM functionality just fails (scanning a code does "nothing"; no "add" button is visible, etc.).

If this was an Android phone, I'd root it and just fix the offending network configuration file. I believe it's possible to tamper with a backup of the phone to fix the issue, but this would mean a full backup+restore cycle and some specialized tooling to go mucking with the backup.

I filed a Radar on it ages ago, but I'm assuming nobody ever picked it up.
by quesomaster9000 | 2026-01-23 06:45:49+00:00
The subscription craze is getting worse where often the features I need are locked behind a recurring fee costing hundreds to thousands of dollars over its useful lifetime, or are only available in 'enterprise' versions where the sales people laugh me off for not having $30k to spend and won't even let me trial the software (because inevitably I'll just RE it and make a crack)

The most recent example is I wanted a simple home security system with presence detection and a private control panel, none of the free ones hit my requirements, or require custom hardware, or lock you into a cloud, or assume you can spin-up some containers - or are super enterprise grade stuff.

Within about 2 days I had an android app for my tablet, Google FMDN integration, fingerprinting of my other devices, all controllable via Telegram from any of my phones with alerts that "just work" wherever I am and include an inline gif snapshot.

What I wanted didn't really exist as any individual product, so I absolutely see the appeal of DIY vibe-coded stuff, and a day of the build time was optimizing the OpenGL motion-detection pipeline with shaders & DMA which in itself was good to learn about.
by hvb2 | 2026-01-23 06:45:52+00:00
My friend, as a rule of thumb, every additional player im a transaction takes a cut.

So assuming the rest is all the same, you just paid exactly what you would've paid with a debit card. Because the merchant had to raise prices to accommodate the fee. And that's with the credit card company not taking a cut and we all know that's not true.
by einr | 2026-01-23 06:46:06+00:00
On iOS, it’s not just Wifi but cellular too. I tried switching from Spotify (got tired of their constantly deteriorating UI/UX) but this was a dealbreaker. You can’t listen to albums in the car because if the phone loses coverage at the wrong time it just… skips songs? HOW does this get through testing and persist for so long?

So I cancelled Apple Music and reluctantly went back to Spotify. At least in Spotify, music playback is functional.
by wodenokoto | 2026-01-23 06:47:09+00:00
Someone mentioned Charlie Brown as a counter example, which lead to an insightful discussion.

Similarly I’d like to ask about the Simpson, which in the early 90s was seen as the worst role models on TV for being losers, but still incredibly popular. I guess Bart started out as a proper hero, but Homer being a loser and idiot pretty quickly became the mainstay theme of it all.
by ycombinator_acc | 2026-01-23 06:47:11+00:00
You have to be very precise with your finger drags because it loves snapping back to the original position. Gbroard doesn’t suffer from this. Part of the reason is it doesn’t do the “free-floating” cursor thing - which I’ve never understood the point of anyway. It’s fancy but useless in 99% of cases on a phone.
by 4mitkumar | 2026-01-23 06:47:55+00:00
This is very interesting because I have been thinking vaguely about a somewhat "opposite" effect. In the sense, talking to LLMs kills my enthusiasm for an idea with other people.

Sometimes, I' get excited by an idea, may be even write a bit about it. Then turn to LLMs to explore it a bit more. An hour later, I feel drained. Like I have explored it from so many angles and nuance that it starts to feel tiresome.

And within that span of couple of hours, the idea goes from "Aha! Let's talk to others about it!" to "Meh.."

EDIT: I do agree with this framing from the article though: "Once an idea is written down, it becomes easier to work with..... This is not new. Writing has always done this for me."
by hvb2 | 2026-01-23 06:48:55+00:00
My experience with disputes isn't that....

Yes we'll open a dispute. Yes we'll give you a credit immediately. But then we just take the sellers word for it that they're trying to make it right and charge you anyway.

This is my one singular experience with a dispute but that's with a big bank getting almost all of my transactions over the course of years....
by tstrimple | 2026-01-23 06:50:44+00:00
But surely if we demonstrate just how evil Nestle is just one more time, the rest of humanity will wake up and boycott them and it will be the end of suffering! Crazy to think I was libertarian minded when I was nineteen. Then again, who could actually maintain it much older? We're talking believing in the tooth fairy levels of delusion wrt to its interactions with the real world.
by wezm | 2026-01-23 06:52:27+00:00
> I do my pitch. I say, “Look, I’m not a very good hardware engineer, but I’m a great user of AI.” I was one of the top users of [AI coding tool] Cursor last year. I did 43,000 agent runs and generated 25 billion tokens.
>
> We open my machine. Chris and I go line by line through the code. I don’t know the language that the code was written in because it was written in AI, so Chris actually explained the code to me.

They don't even know what the language is? Wow.
by disillusioned | 2026-01-23 06:52:27+00:00
That's weird. I remember the great SMB cleavering, where they spiked anyone that was, say, a small brick & mortar, preferring to focus on firms that were more pure tech and higher average balances. I've banked with Brex for, I don't know, 5 or 6 years now, and somehow dodged that, but it was concerning at the time since migrating operating accounts is an enormous pain in my ass.

This was made a bit more annoying when they lost their magical single operating cash sweep account and forced you to split to a separate Treasury account in order to earn interest. Even with auto balance shifting rules, I've had a few transactions fail because of bad timing. (And ACH is scheduled at the same time an intra-bank transfer is scheduled, but the ACH processes overnight and intra-bank has to wait until market open.) Super obnoxious.
by cyode | 2026-01-23 06:52:29+00:00
I’ve encountered several of these, but (at least on iOS 26.2), I can’t reproduce the typo one.

> Autocorrect Won't Take No For An Answer. You fixed it. It unfixed it. You fixed it again. It unfixed it again.

My experience is after the system makes the first autocorrection, the word is underlined, allowing me to revert to the original spelling. Then subsequent instances of the word aren't autocorrected.

It’s true though that if I leave the context and enter the same unrecognized term elsewhere, it’s the same grind. The only fix for this is to spotlight search for “Text Replacement” settings page to essentially add it to the iPhone’s dictionary. Clunky, but personally only have had to do this twice.
by thunfischtoast | 2026-01-23 06:52:51+00:00
I've used the Anthropic models mostly through Openrouter using aider. With so much buzz around Claude Code I wantes to try it out and thought that a subscription might be more cost efficient for me. I was kinda disappointed by how quickly I hit the quota limit. Claude Code gives me a lot more freedom than what aider can do, on the other side I have the feeling that pure coding tasks work better through aider or Roo Code. The API version is also much much faster that the subscription one.
by jxhdbdbd | 2026-01-23 06:52:56+00:00
This argument is brought up a lot against using opportunity cost for private projects, but I don't buy it

If you are dedicating a considerable amount of time on a project, there is of cause opportunity cost, since that's time

- not spend on improving health
- not spend on improving skills
- not spend on improving other projects

Seldom one decides between a side project and starring into the void
by shevy-java | 2026-01-23 06:53:06+00:00
See it as a honour with distinction: the future skynet AI (aka Claude) considers you as person with his/her own opinion.

By the way, since as of late, google search redirects me to a "are you a bot?" question constantly. The primary reason is because I no longer use google search directly via the browser, but instead via the commandline (and for some weird reason chrome does not keep my settings, as I start it exclusively via the --no-sandbox option). We really need alternatives to Google - this is getting out of hand how much top-down control these corporations now have over our digital lives.
by fhd2 | 2026-01-23 06:54:39+00:00
Just like how writing helps memorisation. Our brains are efficient, they only do what they have to do. Just like you won't build much muscles from using forklifts.

I've seen multiple cases of... inception. Someone going all in with ChatGPT and what not to create their strategy. When asked _anything_ about it, they defended it as if they came up with it, but could barely reason about it. Almost as if they were convinced it was their idea, but it really wasn't. Weird times.
by nobodywillobsrv | 2026-01-23 06:55:09+00:00
The fixed fee plan is because the agent and the tools have internal choices/planning about cost. If you simply pay for API the only feedback to them that they are being too costly is for you to stop.

If you look at tool calls like MCP and what not you can see it gets ridiculous. Even though it's small for example calling pal MCP from the prompt is still burning tokens afaik. This is "nobody's" fault in this case really but you can see how the incentives are and we all need to think how to make this entire space more usable.
by defrost | 2026-01-23 06:55:18+00:00
I travelled globally a lot for work, many borders and often laden with many trunks of equipment - getting stopped for inspections, often driven by curiousity, was par for the course.

The grilling by US security types was a "feature" of crossing any US controlled border space for a number of years after this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597539 in 1998.

You spend one month at ground zero for 11 nuclear tests that caught most of the five eyes by suprise and that's all they ever seem to ask about forever.
by kranner | 2026-01-23 06:55:32+00:00
Agreed; also a kind of recursive placebo tends to happen in my experience:

10 You recognise your thinking (or some other desirable activity) has improved
20 You're excited about it
30 You engage more with the thinking (or other activity)
40 You get even better results
50 Even more excitement
60 GOTO 10

You definitely don't need LLMs for this.
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2026-01-23 06:55:40+00:00
Semantic in machine processing is actually very simple: if a machine has an instruction to process an element and we know what it does, then the element is semantic.

So, for example, <b> and <i> have perfect semantic, while <article> not so much. What does the browser do with an <article>? Or maybe it is there for an indexing engine? I myself have no idea (nor that I investigated that, I admit).

But all that was misunderstood, very much like XML itself.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-23 06:55:54+00:00
It's just so so anti Homo Sapien to create this legalistic horseshit where people don't own and have no rights to the world about them. Anti-circumvention laws making it a felony to do anything more than what is permitted with the things we "buy" (which is totally a misnomer now) regresses mankind brutally, pushes us back from man the thinker, back even from man the tool maker. Government decree is that we are animals with no natural right or ability to understand or explore the world about us, that shitty petulant corporations dictate all terms of the reality we live in.

Hackers & literally every other human soul have a moral obligation to overthrow this control of thought, control of systems that illegitemizes itself & debases itself by pretending it has any right to turn us back into shitty dumb fucking animals. This is a spiritual calling, a violation of God's wills that these governments are acting against. They try to strip our humanness from us, and nothing could be worse. Damn these infernal bastards.
by thomasahle | 2026-01-23 06:56:32+00:00
> And also plagiarism, when you claim authorship of it.

I don't actually mind putting Claude as a co-author on my github commits.

But for papers there are usually so many tools involved. It would be crowded to include each of Claude, Gemini, Codex, Mathematica, Grammarly, Translate etc. as co-authors, even though I used all of them for some parts.

Maybe just having a "tools used" section could work?
by thayne | 2026-01-23 06:57:17+00:00
I'm not sure how big of a factor it is, but scylla and red-panda are both source available, and VC funded, while the projects they are trying to replace are fully open source, and owned by a non-profit foundation. That probably isn't the only reason they are struggling, but it is a potential reason not to switch.

Granted, scylla used to be open source. And turso is VC funded and potentially vulnerable to a license change in the future.
by Mokshgarg003 | 2026-01-23 06:58:58+00:00
Hey,
"I'd like to see something like your product to help guide people through the right questions, rather than finding the solution"

This is exactly what we do, we ask you very deep question to collect context and make the results much better. We see by using Figr users become much clearer on what and why they want to build.

I understand on Credits bit, its hard to explain simply. Mainly defined it like one hour of design work or 1 screen.
by shawn10067 | 2026-01-23 06:59:07+00:00
I've also found that talking through an idea with a language model can sharpen my thinking. It works a bit like rubber duck debugging: by explaining something to an impartial listener, you have to slow down and organise your thoughts, and you often notice gaps you didn't realise were there. The instant follow‑up questions help you explore angles you might not have considered.
by shawn10067 | 2026-01-23 06:59:33+00:00
The takeaway for me isn't that LLMs produce bad references—humans do that too—but that cutting corners shows in the final product. If your background section contains made‑up citations, it makes readers wonder how careful you were with the parts they can't check as easily. If you're going to use AI tools for draft writing, you still need to vet every fact.
by f1shy | 2026-01-23 07:00:16+00:00
Ask the owners of this shop:

https://www.mate-tee.de/en/

Or people exporting meat I happen to know. Independent of all requirements for anything in the EU, that of course has to be met, they will ask for lots of things above and beyond. That is the reality of the market. If you want to play with such a big market, it won’t be easy.
by my_throwaway23 | 2026-01-23 07:00:19+00:00
Your writing disagree -

"This is not <>. This is how <>."
"When <> or <>, <> is not <>. It is <>."
"That alignment is what produces the sense of recognition. I already had the shape of the idea. The model supplied a clean verbal form."

It's all LLM's. Nobody writes like this.
by teiferer | 2026-01-23 07:00:39+00:00
> Coffee is a universally available, productivity enhancing commodity

The analogy carries further than you intended. If you have never reached addiction stage, then there is no factual productivity enhancement. "But I'm so much less productive if I haven't had my morning coffee" Yeah, because you have an addiction. It sounds worse than it is, if you just don't drink coffee for a few days the headaches will subside. But it doesn't actually enhance productivity beyond placebo.
by awesome_dude | 2026-01-23 07:01:19+00:00
> Once data is split across nodes, join patterns, cross-shard transactions, global uniqueness, certain keys hit with a lot of traffic

If you're having trouble there then a proxy "layer" between your application and the sharded database makes sense, meaning your application still keeps its naieve understanding of the data (as it should) and the proxy/database access layer handles that messiness... shirley
by Mokshgarg003 | 2026-01-23 07:02:29+00:00
Figr do give out the decision logs and even saves it for your future sessions as memory. Your patterns, decisions, work preference, and more are stored.

On the 200k+ ux pattern, it is more to guide the ux building process to avoid hallucinations and make sure solved problems aren't hallucinated. For example there are only 8-10 different ways you can design a settings section.

Mainly we refer to your product context and use it to think through and build specs, flows and designs.
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-01-23 07:02:39+00:00
There's also the case in Australia where, despite successive governments that were (likely monetarily* ) opposed to solar and wind, people power kinda took over to get the unexpectedly high penetration of home solar panel installations, going back beyond a decade, and currently home battery installations.

Both were due to government incentives, I'm not sure if both parties may have initiated parts of these incentives, but only one party significantly and constantly talked down solar and renewables (and still would, although they don't currently have the platform)

* I have to assume the reason is money (read: lobbying) for any political party to downplay Australia's potential to lead the world in solar power generation given our natural massive, otherwise mostly useless land mass and beyond plentiful sunshine. Also, Australia's dependence on petrol / oil from overseas should be treated as a national security issue. Australia does have plentiful coal reserves, however, which is where I believe the lobbyists (and therefore unimaginable amounts of money) come from.