MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keepamovin | 2026-01-31 10:37:05+00:00
Yeah, that marriage situation can be totally tough. If you're going through that, I feel for you. I can relate, but then who of us has ever really picked the "right" person to marry the first time around? Sure, some get lucky. But often our wapred childhoood expecdtatiosn contaminate the idea of a perfect match with something that feels familiar but is actually wrong for us, or worse, just abusive.

Anyway, in this case I think the analogy is a little overblown because the stakes are so different, but is revealing. You can way more easily divest of a software product than a marriage (presumably, tho that may differ locally). But, as in marriage, there's a interesting nuance: the stories we tell ourselves about what went wrong are so often one-sided, which lacks empathy for how the other person is probably just doing their best. A similar empahty mismatch with the entitlement of consumers who don't comprehend that the value they expect a person to provide them for free, should actually be compensated. As in, a free exchange.

That someone might confuse those could tell you 'something about them.' Or it could just be an honest mistake, on their part. That we're all likely to make.

Still the trigger to ape-brained fairness-wiring seems similar, and embodies that same one way empathy. Free and fair exchange, in commerce and relationships, should be based on more of a mutual empahty.

Thanks for bringing it up!
by seszett | 2026-01-31 10:37:15+00:00
My experience, I sometimes buy gold coins to make jewelry. I do that because at least here in Belgium, there's no VAT on coins but there is VAT on the other forms of gold that are more commonly used for that. For professionals it's not a problem because they pass VAT but for an individual it's a 20% difference. Also I'm in Antwerp so it's really easy to just bike to a place that sells gold if I want to.

In my case I buy old French 20 francs coins as they are quite "cheap": 1% above spot price of their gold content (they are 90% gold).

Other more recent coins, like Chinese or Canadian ones, sell at a much higher premium (17%, 20%) so I always wonder a bit who they are for. It's unlikely they can be resold for that much of a premium. At least the shops I use just buy them for their price in gold.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2026-01-31 10:37:20+00:00
Oh dude, no. The instant I could start using something like https://www.wolframalpha.com/ in college over a decade ago, I did. I've never, not once in my life, had any desire to use a physical calculator when I could use a full blown computer instead. I think it's inferior even for pedagogy purposes - I can't screenshot and make Anki cards out of a TI-84.
by torginus | 2026-01-31 10:38:13+00:00
If that were true, Euro and US models would cost the same in China as they do in Europe - after all they dont have import tariffs, and all the stuff you listed - but they're priced in accordance to the local market. As for subsidies, afaik the only difference between how the Chinese do them and the EU does them, is in China, the manufacturer receives them rather than the customer afaik.

But I didn't want to get heavily into cars - its a clear and omnipresent feature of modern economics that things cost different amount of money between economic blocks in ways that's not explainiable by the fundamental cost of goods and services rendered. And not only economic blocks - prices of existing concrete (like an apartment that is just there, and been there) goods can increase wildly over time - which in industrial terms would mean society getting less efficient.

I think it's an important thing to discuss, considering the current system's mandate to lead is based entirely around its ability to bring prosperity to the people.

If it's objectively outperformed by other systems, perhaps the system has to at least face the pressure change or be replaced.
by defrost | 2026-01-31 10:39:30+00:00
> What do you mean, concretely?

I refer to two things:

* Internal to the US citizens are responding FAFO to the US Federal governments recent actions against specific states, and secondly to

* the "FAFO" comment made by @nixass above who appears to be European (by an extremely brief glance at comment history made once two hours ago).

I assume that comment refers to many countries now exploring other options for trade in response to the US actions since January 2025. Other allied relationships are also morphing in the face of the US no longer being seen as a reliable stable partner.
by maccard | 2026-01-31 10:39:48+00:00
Jira is fine.

Jira is excel for task management. OOTB setup works absolutely great, and then someone comes along who wants a custom field on tasks to support <something that they read about elsewhere> and now you have to fill in that custom field. they leave, and someone else comes in and adds a new one. 5 years later you have 11 new fields that partially overlap, some are needed for some views, some are needed for other, but you can't use default boards because person Y decided that they wanted to call Epics Feat's, and made a custom issue type.

And in the end, the people who actualy use those boards just export a filter to excel and work there...

People. The problem is people.
by vr46 | 2026-01-31 10:39:53+00:00
That's cool, but when a friend died last summer, Immich allowed me to find all the digital photos I had of him, even out of focus in the background. I get many requests from friends for old pictures, "do you remember that night when we all did a group photo, etc etc?" and the search facility in Immich allowed me to in a minute what sometimes took years to find, when scouring folders in spare time.
by sidrag22 | 2026-01-31 10:40:06+00:00
the only time ive tried to use a feature like that, is when im in the car listening to a podcast or something.

juggling the phone to not only skip ads, but also forcing the phone screen to be active, is a hazard.

In my case this loophole being closed, wouldn't make me pay for premium... but it would make a younger version of me certainly more dangerous on the road.
by fishstamp82 | 2026-01-31 10:40:06+00:00
RE: "All it knows is that you're trying to write a 6. If someone else wrote a 6 or a 7 in the meantime, then your transaction may have 'meant' (+0) or (-1)."

This is not how it works at all. This is called dirty writes and is by default prevented by ACID compliant databases, no matter the isolation level. The second transaction commit will be rejected by the transaction manager.

Even if you start a transaction from your application, it does not change this still.
by fatherwavelet | 2026-01-31 10:40:17+00:00
Anyone with long experience trading commodities would have expected this.
This is like the least surprising thing ever.

It is amusing reading the comments on here. Silver dropped 50% in 1980. Silver is the original memecoin. I think people care less though about market events that happened before they were born. It is like the way I know the entire story of silver in 1980 even though I was a little kid but nothing about the Nifty Fifty a decade earlier.

Nothing for me with commodities will ever top -$37 per barrel during Covid with oil. That was a level of market shell shock for me that I just can't imagine being topped.
by bob1029 | 2026-01-31 10:40:20+00:00
From a purely engineering perspective I think it becomes difficult to argue with the gas turbine once you get into the gigawatt class of data center. The amount of land required for this much solar is not to be understated. In many practical scenarios the solar array would need to be located a distance away from the actual data center. This implies transmission infrastructure which is often the hardest part of any electrical engineering project. You can put a gigawatt of N+1 generation on a 50 acre site with gas. It's dispatchable 24/7/365 and you can store energy for pennies on the dollar at incredible scale.

Having both forms of generation available at the same time is the best solution. Once you put a data center on the grid you can mix the fuel however you want upstream. This should be the ultimate goal and I believe it is for all current AI projects. I am not aware of any data center builds that intend to operate on parking lot generators indefinitely.
by stavros | 2026-01-31 10:40:33+00:00
The issue isn't with the payment, it's that you've burnt a ton of money to extinguish all competition (by giving away stuff for free) and then, when you're a monopoly because of network effects, you lock it in and charge whatever you want.

If YouTube allowed syndication with other websites, for example, so I could watch videos on whatever website I wanted (with an appropriate portion of the revenue going to YouTube), I would have no problems with them changing their monetization model.
by jj_the_bunny | 2026-01-31 10:40:41+00:00
"Do you still physical calculators?"

Well, no. My calculators don't bounce around so I have no reason to "still" them. /s

I have a calculator app that I use 99.9% of the time. I have a physical calculator around here somewhere. I used to use it when I'd have to tabulate physical items or when I'd been doing calculations for a long time. Short bursts on my phone are fine, but over hours is kinda troublesome.
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-31 10:40:56+00:00
I don't think that's really credible, simply because having sex with a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old isn't going to be significantly different. Additionally, you can't reliably tell apart a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old without looking at their identification documents.

Being specifically attracted to underage girls that could very well be adults seems vastly weirder than pedophilia, given the obvious alternative of being attracted to adult women who look like teenagers.

Looking at the pictures of the women that have been in the media, "conventionally attractive young women, a significant portion of whom were under 18" seems like a far more accurate description than "children". While "children" may be technically correct, someone trying to effectively describe what happened would not choose that word.
by tubs | 2026-01-31 10:41:06+00:00
As the other posters have shown it’s not that hard.

Most graphics specs will explicitly say how tie break rules work.

The key is to work in fixed point (16.8 or even 16.4 if you’re feeling spicy). It’s not “trivial” but in general you write it and it’s done. It’s not something you have to go back to over and over for weird bugs.

Wide lines are a more fun case…
by stingraycharles | 2026-01-31 10:41:26+00:00
Sometimes (often) solving the problem is the most fun part, regardless of how it’s used.

The scale of AI energy consumption is quite unique from what I heard, and there’s a lot of money flowing into that direction. So that seems to me a decent reason to think about that.

I haven’t heard yet that food production is constrained by these kind of things.

It appears to make that you’re just taking a cheap jab at AI.
Show HN: Afelyon – open-source AI agent that turns Jira tickets into GitHub PRs
by AbduNebu | 2026-01-31 10:41:29+00:00
I built Afelyon to solve the biggest bottleneck in our team: the gap between "ticket created" and "PR ready for review."

It's an AI agent that reads your Jira or ClickUp ticket, clones your repo, understands your codebase (conventions, patterns, framework), generates the code, runs tests, and opens a PR — automatically.

We've been using it internally for months. Today we're open-sourcing the full platform: API server, AI agent engine, job orchestrator, and web dashboard. Tech: TypeScript, Fastify, Next.js, Claude AI, PostgreSQL + pgvector, BullMQ + Redis, Docker. Self-host with docker compose up.

What makes it different from Copilot/Cursor:
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Happy to answer any questions about the architecture.
by 2b3a51 | 2026-01-31 10:41:35+00:00
I think it depends on what one regards as a minor dispute. The Newton/Leibniz calculus dispute a generation or so earlier was pretty major, with Newton defending his deductive geometrical method of fluxions against Leibniz's more algebraic concepts. Leibniz was also much into his universal calculus. I was wondering what this Fergola would have thought about Newton and his geometrical method (fluxions)!

The Naples state at that time was around 5 million people. You had the landowners (I imagine) looking around at the 'enclosures' of common land in Britain and other parts of Europe and thinking about rents. You had the engineers and Jacobins thinking about new roads and canals and all. The ones who lost out appear to have been the peasants as they lost the feudal protections and access to common lands. And so it goes.
by maccard | 2026-01-31 10:41:39+00:00
It's also the most valuable part of the entire article, and is true whether you're using waterfall, scrum, Extreme Programming, Kanban, or whatever. It's also the only thing that reliably works - the better you are at breaking down your work the better your estimates will be. As you said though, breaking down the work is oftentimes the largest part of the work because it requires _starting_ the work in the first place.
by District5524 | 2026-01-31 10:42:27+00:00
In a movie, I'd definitely involve Ötzi as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi). Ötzi was found like 30 km from the impact site. And could have been a contemporary.
E.g., he cursed the guy who shot him and whose village is struck by a meteor in the end.
by lurk2 | 2026-01-31 10:42:41+00:00
YouTube got to where it is by making intentional moves to be the only game in town They aren’t the most user-hostile platform by any means, but they have been coasting on the network effects of backlogged content for close to a decade now. Even if a competitor could deal with network and storage costs, and somehow manage to attract a network of uploaders, the platform would be 20 years behind, and there’s certain content (e.g. older content) that you simply wouldn’t ever be able to find there in any appreciable quantity.
by ky3 | 2026-01-31 10:42:50+00:00
EWD 1036: On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)

“My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as ‘lines produced’ but as ‘lines spent’: the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.”
by moepstar | 2026-01-31 10:44:11+00:00
> I think you accidentally a verb.

Totally reminded me of the old meme "i accidentally a coca cola bottle, is that bad?" :D

To be more on topic: yup, Casio fx-85ES - still going strong, needs basically no maintenance at all and having tactile buttons you can mash while sitting over a piece of paper just has no comparison.
by griffzhowl | 2026-01-31 10:45:04+00:00
If you're looking for a source on the landslide, another commenter here posted this, that seems more reliable than wikipedia. Searching for Kofel's impact brings up nonsense because there's only pseudo-evidence for that.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01695...

It dates the landslide to about 9400 years ago (BP), so this article about the star map putting it at 5500 years ago seems to be a colourful fabrication (my bad). The author of the meteor theory apparently even tries to connect it to Sodom and Gomorrah being hit by the passing heat! Lol

Finding reliable info on this "planisphere" tablet isn't easy. As far as I can tell it was untranslated and kept a low profile until this impact story
by jorgegalindo | 2026-01-31 10:48:38+00:00
I’ve been building startups for years and became a parent along the way. For a long time, I thought having kids would hurt my productivity. What actually happened is that it forced me to take time seriously.

This isn’t a guide or advice. It’s just my personal experience on how parenting changed how I prioritize, say no, use my calendar, and think about work. Writing it down after a conversation with a founder friend who just became a parent.

Sharing in case it’s useful to someone in a similar situation.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-01-31 10:49:59+00:00
doesn't seem to have the most famous Danish tongue twister
Rødgryde med Fløde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCp3IDpQ6uc

which is also really great because how often do you find a tongue twister that people brought up in the language can say without problems but foreigners out themselves and then all the native speakers can stand around and laugh and laugh and feel superior? It's really cool.
by jorgegalindo | 2026-01-31 10:50:25+00:00
Author here . This isn’t meant as advice or a productivity framework. It’s just a personal reflection on how becoming a parent changed the constraints around my time while building a startup.

Writing it after talking with a founder friend who just had a baby and felt he was failing at both work and parenting. Sharing in case it resonates with others in a similar situation. Happy to answer questions or clarify anything.
by hypeatei | 2026-01-31 10:50:53+00:00
> It feels as though all we need is a spark. And yet, many sparks seem to have come and gone. Big market moves, in stocks or yields, that have recovered

Yes, in a five year span we've had three 20% drawdowns in the stock market that have all recovered which is unprecedented. IMO, anyone who thinks we're going to crash and have a lost decade is not looking at the bigger picture. The Federal Reserve exists to allow the government to spend as much as possible by:

- Making sure that as many people are employed as possible for as long as possible (tax base)

- Making sure that prices keep going up and that the government can borrow below the rate of inflation (so they can spend even more and manage the debt)

What this means is that people need to work to keep up, and that asset prices will continue to go up as people try to protect their wealth from inflation. The government also takes a cut from that via capital gains tax. Regardless, there is simply too much "free money" going around for the outlook to be bearish, IMO. I'm investing across my 401(k), Roth IRA, and brokerage accounts as usual with a little more focus on exposure to international funds this year in my retirement accounts.

You should always take bearish outlooks with a grain of salt especially if they don't put their money where their mouth is and show their positions. Bears don't tend to make a lot of money over the long term: https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/does-market-timing-work
by silverpepsi | 2026-01-31 10:51:27+00:00
There wasn't but consider the context: at the time YouTube was an almost purely piracy platform most likely the biggest on the planet if quantified in IP dollar value - yet was magically not shut down by the government. How unfair to the competition is that? Remember that other piracy based sites were raided in that era. But when Google started acquiring it, it was very quickly above the law. YouTube should not exist.

- fair use was also sot as permissive in that era! Web 2.0 coerced a legal shift -
by polshaw | 2026-01-31 10:51:43+00:00
UBI discussion invariably is way off the mark. The only thing UBI solves is how to give out the money, which is a massive misdirection, the real problem is how to get the money. Do you gut the state and allow people who don't work to have enough money to barely survive as an underclass, or do you end billionaires and usher in a new renaissance where all needs are met and labour shall just be at our whim. These two vastly different visions are both UBI, but most discussion about UBI completely sidesteps that as it requires touching upon the more difficult issues.

Once you have control of the money to give out, literally every way of redistribution is as good as UBI. If you calculate how much money would be required for a reasonable UBI.. then imagine what could be done if that money was spent on communal, humane, services then it would be able to revolutionise the world every bit as much.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-31 10:52:06+00:00
tl;dr: RPN - ride or die. ;)

Sometimes, for vintage reminiscing, a real HP48GX.* It got me through AP Calculus BC, SAT-I, and EE/CS. And doubled as a learning TV remote & TV-B-Gone. I also have a virtual HP48 on my phone, tablets, and computers.

In middle school, I had an HP 32SII. I remember being able to hear** either the processor clock or data line(s) of each of the 32 and 48 because one or more components acted as inadvertent audio oscillators.

I've used R, MATLAB, pspice, and Mathematica in the past.

I'm a fan of Xcas and Wolfram Alpha now.

* I also have a collection of HP 48[GS]X cards, the printer, and the overhead projector adapter. In lieu of the overpriced official HP 48G to computer RS-232 interface cable, one can be easily made from a Sony CD-ROM audio cable.

** With my much younger ear pressed up to it.
by AnonymousPlanet | 2026-01-31 10:52:08+00:00
GP and I are apparently from that universe where you remember that YouTube wasn't the only popular video on demand game in town and, e.g., Vimeo is older than YouTube. They only won because they didn't charge you for uploading or watching. They could afford to undercut the competition since they were bought by Google.

They were also somehow the only ones that offered music videos without being shut down.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-31 10:52:23+00:00
Sure, as long as a firm isn't borrowing state money that ultimately indentures a country with over-engineered massive boondoggle projects.

That regulatory capture con strangled more emerging economies than most like to admit. Seeing it happen in the US is simply a tragedy. =3

"The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" (Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith)

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...
by niemandhier | 2026-01-31 10:53:20+00:00
It’s a place where extremely skilled people work highly motivated on humanities hardest problems at scale.

CERN pushed distributed computing and storage before anyone else hat problems on that scale.

CERN pushed edge computing for massive data analysis before anyone else even generated data at that rate.

CERN is currently pushing the physical boundaries of device synchronisation ( Check „ White Rabbit“ ), same for data transmission.
CERNS accelerator cooling tech paves the way for industrial super cooling, magnet coils push super conduction…

Companies are always late in the game, they come once there is money to be had:
No one founded a fusion startup until we were close enough to the relevant tripple product.
by rvz | 2026-01-31 10:53:32+00:00
> I'm a programmer, and I use automatic programming. The code I generate in this way is mine. My code, my output, my production. I, and you, can be proud.

Disagree.

So when there is a bug / outage / error, due to "automatic programming" are you ready to be first in line to accept accountability (the LLM cannot be) when it all goes wrong in production? I do not think that would even be enough or whether this would work in the long term.

No excuses like "I prompted it wrong" or "Claude missed something" or "I didn't check over because 8 other AI agents said it was "absolutely right"™".

We will then have lots of issues such as this case study [0] where everything seemingly looks fine at first, all tests pass but in production, the logic was misinterpreted by the LLM with a wrong keyword, [0] during a refactor.

[0] https://sketch.dev/blog/our-first-outage-from-llm-written-co...