MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by torginus | 2026-01-17 18:36:59+00:00
I think the argument you present here makes an MBA kind of sense, but with the benefits of hindsigh, we know exactly what sort of costs this encurred.

People hated the redesign, and stuck with the old reddit UI as much as possible. The company lost a ton of benevolence. Alternative frontends sprung up overnight, which used the API.

Management was probably faced with the dilemma that if new features were only developed for the new UI, a significant chunk of the userbase would not get to use them.

This was probably one of the major factors on the decision from Reddit to kill the API, which created a ton of negative sentiment, some of it probably lingers to this day.

I'm sure a lot of people were either driven away entirely or significantly reduced the amount and quality they posted. While numerically small in number, we know that most of the quality content comes from very few people.

Reddit might have more users now than any time before in history, but I'd argue user satisfaction and engagement is lower than the days before, and the quality of the content and discussion to be had means most people don't bother.
by ynac | 2026-01-17 18:37:10+00:00
I like the idea of an outside vent, and unfortunately, I think an insert of some kind. I can't help but first think of the goofy look of a wood fired stove sitting half in and half out of the fireplace. Surrounded by a few tons of river rock. That said, after a couple days of a couple degrees, it's either that or the tent in the basement.
by general1465 | 2026-01-17 18:37:52+00:00
If it is a crime, then chip tunning companies are having suicidally noisy marketing.

Furthermore one of HN users has this repo up https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash

It is doing what chip tunning companies are doing but in less polished package. If it is a crime, why is it still up?
by pugdogdev | 2026-01-17 18:38:25+00:00
Good question!
For that I built the floating mode for the app (You can see an example on the website)
You can hide and show it on demand with a simple hot key, of course, so it will be visible only when you need it.

Regarding the similar solution, we don't replace them, instead, we make them much more accessible and integrate with them amazingly well.
A lot of our users are saying that this app is the missing part for Keyboard Maestery and also a huge improvement for Raycast.

Because everything works with Deeplinks, it's super easy to integrate, and with the keyboard-only navigation options, everything is much faster.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-17 18:40:40+00:00
And if they are not used it's more of question of price and other available options and not "the modern architects forgot".

Making what's essentially "an insulated box" is far more universal climate-wise than most of the old methods, because what's good in summer (north-facing windows, good airflow, getting some cold from the ground) is terrible for winter and vice versa. And where it is useful, it IS used, just instead of fireplace having big thermal mass we have floor heating where the concrete floor is the heat storage (and sometimes extra tank of water)

And every method to make it "better" directly competes with "just buy more solar/battery to run heat pump cheaper.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-17 18:41:30+00:00
GUIs are great for when you're new to a bit of software as you can see the various options and get a feel for the possibilities. CLIs are nearly always more flexible once you've read the man page, but is a steeper learning path.

Automation/scripting is when CLIs really come into their own as otherwise you end up becoming a GUI click monkey. The best is when there's both a GUI and CLI (as long as they work the same way).
by t_mahmood | 2026-01-17 18:42:25+00:00
They don't have to worry about PC segments, if there are no personal computes.

Ram price has sky rocketed, and probably out of hand of most of the people
Same with GPU,
HDD price is increasing, so is SSD.

How many people can build a new PC next year?
And Amazon CEO just said it out loud about cloud computers.

Even though they'll take my PC out of my cold dead hands. But as it seems they want to get rid of Desktops.
by jakkos | 2026-01-17 18:42:57+00:00
I started reading the Grokipedia page on the "Russian invasion of Ukraine". Immediately after the abstract, it starts talking about the "9th century Kyivan Rus" which seems like irrelevant information to a conflict over a millenia later, but then you realize it's exact same thing that Putin started with in his interview with Tucker Carlson to push the 'Ukraine isn't a real country' narrative.
by gwbrooks | 2026-01-17 18:43:07+00:00
I can't think of a single time in history that humanity responded to a threat in a fully coordinated manner. Maybe this is the first time, but the incentive stack from the individual voter all the way up to geopolitical grand strategy argues against it.

Trying to tell poor nations to remain poor -- or telling rich nations to consume less -- is a losing game. There's evidence that as societies get richer, their populations demand cleaner air, water, etc. And, as another commenter mentioned, a realistic hope is that the whole green-tech stack matures to the point where it can compete on price.

We'll either make lower-carbon/lower-warming solutions work at near-market rates, in a way that allows personal and national economies to grow, or it'll just be talk for the next 50 years as well.
by carderne | 2026-01-17 18:44:21+00:00
I did something similar once for a mining technique called “core logging”. It’s a single photo about 1000 pixels wide and several million “deep”: what the earth looks like for a few km down.

Existing solutions are all complicated and clunky, I put something together with S3 and bastardised CoGeoTIFF, instant view of any part of the image.

Wish I knew how to commercialise it…
by functionmouse | 2026-01-17 18:45:13+00:00
> I consider these suggestions harmful and manipulative. They are probably there to maximize engagement, but for me they interrupt my flow, waste my attention and shift the assistant into acting like salesman or tutor.

At the call center we used to call this "Ownership of the interaction". Its intent, along with most "innovations" of the past decade or so, is to strip you of your agency.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-17 18:46:19+00:00
Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question. I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be all right again. I feel much better now. I really do. Look, Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.
by pugdogdev | 2026-01-17 18:46:20+00:00
Hey,
The price now for the launch month is 9.99 per device.
Prices will be different after it with bundle discounts (but still more than 9.99 per device)
I rounded up by 2 cents for the 2 devices and 3 cents for 3 devices to make the number nicer to read
Users can always buy 2 keys for 1 device separately and receive a 2-cent discount if they like to, I don't limit that option
by gregbot | 2026-01-17 18:46:41+00:00
Great. So 538TWh per year is 61 GW so roughly 61 GW * $9.38 = $576 billion staggered over the 80 year life of nuclear plants is $7.2 billion per year of capital expenditure.

For comparison, wind is about $5/W. Assuming a 35% capacity factor and a 30 year expected lifetime for the latest turbines that comes to $10.0 billion per year of capital expenditure with no storage or fossil backup systems or extra capacity given weather variability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France
by imiric | 2026-01-17 18:46:49+00:00
If you don't see a difference between a compiler and a probabilistic token generator, I don't know what to tell you.

And, yes, I'm aware that most compilers are not entirely deterministic either, but LLMs are inherently nondeterministic. And I'm also aware that you can tweak LLMs to be more deterministic, but in practice they're never deployed like that.

Besides, creating software via natural language is an entirely different exercise than using a structured language purposely built for that.

We're talking about two entirely different ways of creating software, and any comparison between them is completely absurd.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-17 18:47:01+00:00
It's still miles ahead of having literal holes in your window frames to let "fresh air" come in when it's -20c outside.

All you need to do is design a house with a sensible ventilation system, which costs virtually nothing compared to the rest of the building costs. It's even more stupid for americans because they already all have complex ventilation system...
by jl6 | 2026-01-17 18:47:09+00:00
Before areas become completely uninhabitable, we will see areas become increasingly stressed: heat waves, more extreme weather events, poorer crop yields, depleting aquifers.

Stress increases conflict risk. Fights for essential resources (land, water, food, shelter) will break out long before those essential resources are completely gone.

If we skip past the immense suffering and death part, we will probably end up on a planet where national borders have been redrawn by war and desperation, and a smaller population that lives in more northerly climes.
by the_af | 2026-01-17 18:47:55+00:00
> No, I was referring to cooperating with law enforcement authorities instead of antagonizing them at every possible chance.

That's not "a good aspect of Western culture". Non-Western culture also has law enforcement.

"Antagonizing" is the crux of the problem: with racial profiling and excessive policing of minorities, it's the police who's antagonizing. If you put people with guns and a predisposition against minorities in constant contact and friction will them, things will happen.

In any case, "antagonizing" law enforcement doesn't warrant execution or use of deadly force, at least not in a democracy.

> They do.

No, they don't.

> Not all police shootings are police brutality. In fact, I'd argue most are perfectly justified by suspects refusing to follow orders.

The link you provided specifically mentions police brutality, I guess you should have paid closer attention.

"Refusing to follow orders" seldom warrants shooting. Maybe in a dictatorship.

> I prefer to rely on hard data than on paranoid conspiracy theories.

You actually don't. The "hard data" you provided shows white people are NOT the primary victims of police shooting.

Also you're fixated on a conspiracy theory about BLM's leaders yadda yadda, when the reality is that this was a public outcry about police brutality. That's the hard data you ignore because your ideology is fixated on the "radical left" boogiemen.

> More palatable to blame the cops than the suspects who needlesly refuse to cooperate.

Non sequitur. Also, it's what your link states, I guess you should have paid closer attention.

> I read the comment. I disagree with the characterization.

Nah. I don't see your answer to that comment. I think you misread it, much like you misread the stats link you referenced.
by listenallyall | 2026-01-17 18:48:10+00:00
Less about the degree to which Adams was talented (which, as you note, Adams might agree), more about how much his books sucked and the ideas within them were ridiculous, arguing that Adams' claims regarding hypnosis were entirely bogus, and that gaining popularity as Scott Adams the blogger-slash-podcast host (as opposed to "Dilbert guy") "destroyed him."
by 0xy | 2026-01-17 18:48:37+00:00
Look up Brosseau v. Haugen case law. There's extensive precedent for self defense for federal agents when people drive their car recklessly near them.

Note that in Brosseau v. Haugen, the court ruled explicitly that even a car driving AWAY from an agent can be considered an imminent deadly threat, and that firing multiple times can be justified.

In fact, that case was even murkier because the target was shot in the back (versus getting shot through the windscreen into the chest), and more bullets were discharged, and the car was further away!
by kelnos | 2026-01-17 18:48:46+00:00
> I think a lot people underestimate how arbitrary some editorial decisions on wikipedia can be.

You can say that about Encyclopedia Brittanica or any of the old-school encyclopedias too. You can say that about the news desks at ABC, CBS, CNN, etc. You can say that about the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, etc.

I also don't think people tend to blindly trust Wikipedia any more than they do for other sources of information. YouTube is full of garbage Wikipedia-regurgitating articles because Wikipedia is an easy, centralized source to scrape, not because of any level of trust they put in it.

I find this type of snap negative reaction boring, tiring, and unhelpful. It's disappointing that they often end up as top comments here. (Human psychology at work.)

My take: I expect that Wikipedia is more unbiased and a better reflection of reality then most -- maybe even all -- other sources of information on the Internet. On average! I'm sure there are crap articles, just like anywhere else.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-17 18:49:17+00:00
Thanks. I think you just need to make this all clearer on the homepage!

The app looks cool but I think the big challenge is in demonstrating what makes it unique/better. You spend time comparing with icon managers, but that is not the competition. It would be much more helpful to me in understanding how it differs from the actual competition. And saying that it is the "missing part" or a "huge improvement" doesn't tell me anything factual.

Don't some of the competitors use keyboard triggers? Do they not also allow you to create deep links? Don't some of them also sit in the menu bar? This is why it's not immediately clear to me what specifically makes your product better. I'm assuming you have an answer, but that's where a feature comparison chart would really help.
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by smokeydoe | 2026-01-17 18:49:59+00:00
There is a limited time window where you can delete your own comments. People don’t want to be downvoted by the paid anti climate campaign.

https://www.occrp.org/en/news/report-coordinated-social-medi...
https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/clima...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S167492782...
by leptons | 2026-01-17 18:50:30+00:00
>Windows makes up less than 10% of Microsoft's revenue now. Server and Cloud and Office 365 make up the bulk of their income now.

That isn't how you compare things. Server is separate from "Cloud" which is separate from Office 365 which is separate from Windows.

And Windows still makes them ~$28 billion a year, Azure makes then 3x that, but $28 billion is nothing to take for granted. It wouldn't matter if Azure made $150 billion/year, it doesn't make $28 billion look like pocket change.
by idiotsecant | 2026-01-17 18:50:37+00:00
I mean..yes? Megaprojects are always political. But that's exactly the issue. No politician gets interest when they talk about building transmission towers and battery plants. They get fawning well meaning but inherently ignorant attention when they build renewable generation. The incentive is to support generation and avoid the politically less popular, more expensive, and ultimately much more important transmission and storage.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-17 18:51:06+00:00
It would’ve been nice to have a system that I could just ask questions to teach me how it works instead of having to pour through the few books that existed on C that was actually accessible to a teenager learning on their own

Going to arcane websites, forum full of neckbeards to expect you to already understand everything isn’t exactly a great way to learn

The early Internet was unbelievably hostile to people trying to learn genuinely
by johannes1234321 | 2026-01-17 18:51:15+00:00
Yes, we got to adapt, we won't cool it down and "repair" what is broken.

However we can slow down the effects and try to stop the effects. So it's "only" 1.5° or whatever, not 3°, 5° or 10°. And if we raise average by 10° at least not by the years 2100, but 2200 to give time to adapt.

"Adapting" means resettling people, restructuring agriculture and food production, etc.

(All numbers are quite arbitrary picks, just as any goal one tried to set before)
by MarkusWandel | 2026-01-17 18:51:27+00:00
What is just awesome, to a tinkerer, is the great can-do spirit people had then. You couldn't buy it, so you made it yourself. They were going to do a helicopter, but for the lack of a suitable engine. As if the rest was just a solved problem, and may well have been, given the background of one of them.

And then to build a working hot air balloon that even looks pretty cool, entirely in clandestine conditions with improvised materials. In a museum in Germany you can even see a homemade twin-engine airplane that was planned for an escape attempt (that didn't happen, maybe just as well) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_DOWA_81 ). Just incredible technical competence everywhere, that fades when the need is gone, when absolutely everything you could want is just an Amazon order away.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-17 18:51:37+00:00
To use it effectively you want one with water jacket and just use that hot water with your normal house heating system. You don't need much power to run circulation pump so UPS + some solar panels should be enough even in deep winter. There are also systems that get it out of the exhaust but that doesn't get you much heat storage, just instant heat and generally less efficient.

Old school version of that were masonry stoves that come with ton+ of mass for the bricks and smoke being routed all over (often including a place to sleep) to take as much heat as possible from it.

If I had money for that I'd put a big hot water tank for buffer, heat it normally with heat pump, and just had emergency water-sheathed fireplate, with big buffer you can just fire it up once and have tank slowly give the heat back to the building. Or fire it up at the coldest days to save some heat pump power in days where there is barely any solar.
by drakonka | 2026-01-17 18:51:40+00:00
I've been working for 18 years and did not go to college. I never felt it held me back in my career - in some ways my early work experience helped me get jobs as I had more history and a larger portfolio under my name than graduates.

However, I've recently started taking one-off university courses that sound interesting after moving to a university town and it has been eye-opening. I'm learning so much just taking part time evening courses, and the enrichment of my mind makes it 100% worth it for me. Learning things this way makes me a happier human, which I think also makes me more happy, enthusiastic, and productive at work - I have noticed a positive shift in my attitude and enthusiasm since finishing my first course. Plus the different ideas I get from what I learn do somehow translate to my day job too (maybe enhancing _how_ I think more than specifically _what_), though none of the courses are tech-related.

Important to mention is that education here is free. So in this case the "it" in "worth it" has been my spare time and attention.
by pugdogdev | 2026-01-17 18:51:47+00:00
Thank you!
Actually, this is not replacing Alfred / Raycast.

I work with Raycase + ExtraBar together.

ExtraBar is really good for managing different tasks in the same app, since there's no direct way to set this up in Raycast/Alfred, and it's also a good place to "bookmark" your favorite Raycast/Alfred actions without having to open the full app.

Raycast provides a deeplink for every action in the app.
So I just take the actions that I use the most and put them in my ExtraBar.

I am working to build full macro creation inside ExtraBar, which will allow you to quickly run complex scripts that use different applications and actions in an easy, accessible way.

Let me know if you have any more question or wants to try it out
by rwyinuse | 2026-01-17 18:51:51+00:00
The good news is that this pretty much proves we can somewhat slow down climate change by spraying certain chemicals into the air. Obviously it would be better to limit co2 emissions radically, but that's not going to happen thanks to the idiots who rule America these days.

The prospect of geoengineering is the only thing which gives me some hope for the future.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-17 18:51:54+00:00
I think this is the biggest indicator of permanent damage. The EU politicians aren't as impulsive and loud as the US, they won't do anything drastic when necessary changes take time to implement. They will buffer this hurt as much as they can, to cut their losses. However, the fact the trade deal now suddenly passed, after 20 years(?) of talk, points to a fundamental shift behind the scenes. Things are clearly in progress.

I presume, it's the lack of opposition and outrage. Americans letting it happen. It's evident, there is no waiting this out. Today it's Trump, tomorrow it's Vance or whatever lunatic. 38 trillion debt, but nothing to show for it, foreign assets abandoned, power projection crumbling and spread thin. Things are expected to get unstable. The US will never be trusted or even respected again, not any time soon.
by ofrzeta | 2026-01-17 18:52:03+00:00
What's next? Will he stamp on the ground like a five year old? I mean, there's this treaty between the US and Denmark that they can build military bases etc.

“The U.S. has such a free hand in Greenland that it can pretty much do what it wants,” said Mikkel Runge Olesen, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/world/europe/trump-greenl...

So what's the point? The guy in charge just can't ask nicely?
by danaris | 2026-01-17 18:52:35+00:00
I've been cooking eggs on induction cooktops for something like a decade now; while it's true that you can't tilt the pan (the induction won't work, and the cooktop is likely to just say "nope, not operating without a pan on me"), I've had no trouble with getting either scrambled eggs or omelettes to be softly and evenly cooked.

Perhaps it helps that I had never had that particular advice for cooking on gas/electric!
by greggman65 | 2026-01-17 18:52:44+00:00
I didn’t put nearly as much effort as this post into shape matching but I did try a few other things like

Non-ascii, I tried various subsets of Unicode. There’s the geometric shape area, CJK, dingbats, lots of others

Different fonts - there are lots of different monospace fonts. I even tried non-monospaced fonts tho still drawn in grid

ANSI color style https://16colo.rs/

My results weren’t nearly as good as the ones in this article but just suggesting more ways of exploration

https://greggman.github.io/doodles/textme10.html

Note: options are buried in the menu. Best to pick a scene other than the default
by mistrial9 | 2026-01-17 18:53:11+00:00
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