MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by staticassertion | 2026-01-10 20:02:32+00:00
How does this support your point? If we're saying "they fixed it because there was pressure to"... okay? That's the parents point - tons of people are going to move off over bad performance, and Github was incentivized to fix it when people started moving off.

If Github's incentive was to keep it slow... we wouldn't have seen exactly what you're describing.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-10 20:03:53+00:00
I have old computers. Windows 10 is dead and Windows 11 will not install on old hardware. I put Debian 13 on my wife’s computer.

At first she found it really frustrating, but then reality set in: she didn’t really know Windows either. On Linux there is pretty broad capability to solve your own problem if you can get over fear of a terminal.

Her favorite game runs faster on Debian so that helps.
by chrneu | 2026-01-10 20:04:17+00:00
lol never gonna happen.

I live in the PNW of the US where many fires have been started by transformers exploding or whatnot.

Basically every community that has a fire as a result of transmission lines rebuilds them above ground/on poles. Just last month I was going through Detroit, Oregon and their 2-3 year old power lines were all down because of the wind storm. Detroit had a transformer explode a few years ago and it took out much of the community. They immediately rebuilt above ground.

They'll rebuild them on poles again.
by theodric | 2026-01-10 20:05:03+00:00
I always had BMWs, like I only ever bought reasonably high-end BMWs, but when we bought our place in Ireland, I needed a vehicle on Swiss plates and insurance (for legal reasons) to use there when car rental in Ireland was running crazy money. I had a look on the Swiss classifieds sites for anything "rechtslenker" (right-hand drive) and found two Rolls Royces, a clapped out MG, and about 15 yellow ex-Swiss Post Renault Kangoo 2-seat car-based cargo vans. (I guess they wanted their mailmen to be able to step out onto the curb, hence RHD in a LHD country?) I bought the van. Weird config: right hand drive, but configured for right-hand traffic, meaning I had to replace the headlights and fog light and get it re-aligned to fit in. Automatic transmission, 1.6L petrol engine, no airbag, no wheel lock, no AC, knobs and switches, glass all around like the MPV version, but a cargo floor. It's insanely simple, the parts are practically free from the perspective of a BMW fanatic, and it's actually a hoot to drive. When we moved, I imported it with our stuff, and it's our only car now. Hauls firewood like you wouldn't believe, and tows a large 2.5m x 1.25m x 1.2m single-axle box trailer without complaints, meaning I can (and have done) shift all the sheets of plywood and drywall I need without buying a pickup. We live way out in the countryside, where the roads have grass up the middle and potholes down both sides, but the Kangoo's ground clearance is enough (especially when empty) that it's never been an issue. I hardly miss the BMW. A little French van is all you need.
by 1dontnkow_ | 2026-01-10 20:05:04+00:00
Yes but we gotta understand that sometimes some things the citizens suggest end up on the law. So we should just continuously fight to keep that happening.

Additionally, the EU and its administration, is a big group of people. There are probably different people or teams pushing for this idea, which all in all, is a very good one, maybe even fellow (ex) open source contributors, and the ChatControl thing, surely comes from other groups with entirely different interests.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-10 20:05:04+00:00
This is a macro problem larger than health insurance, and exists everywhere from employee bonuses, high school group project grades, handicap parking, gas prices, Everest summits, to gas prices.

Those might all seem wildly disconnected, but they all have systems of unfair allocation to compensate for unequal outcomes.

Generally national healthcare programs are entirely dependent on young healthy people paying into the system despite rarely needing it, and then hopefully enough dieing quick deaths or having multiple children to cover their costs. These rebalancing systems are artificial and humans are generally terrible at managing them.
by torginus | 2026-01-10 20:05:12+00:00
In practice however, most manufacturers mandate a yearly inspection when the car is in warranty, and after it's not, usually the state requires you to do one at least every other year.

During these the mechanic will do the routine maintenance. I'm a casual driver, I drove like 100k km in 6 years, and my first set of brake pads still haven't worn down.
by unethical_ban | 2026-01-10 20:05:19+00:00
edit: after "many" years.

What are peoples' thoughts on which style of distro is best to hand over to a non-techie user for the least amount of hand-holding?

I re-install so much that I don't know how easy it is, or how the distros prompt, when something like Debian Stable or Fedora need to update to the next version. With Arch, you constantly get the "updates ready" and it is always fresh.
by ffsm8 | 2026-01-10 20:05:30+00:00
> Any idea can be built and validated in a few hours or days.

Let's not oversell it to that degree, please.

The amount of ideas that can be built and validated within a few hours or days went way way way up, but is still very very far away from "any". Nor will it ever get there unless we get actual AGI with "free" compute.
by dottjt | 2026-01-10 20:06:08+00:00
Hard question to answer without understanding your circumstances.

Ultimately the point of hedging is to diversify. So the degree you should hedge is relative to the degree with which you have exposure to your home currency. So for example, if you already own a home in that country + you already own lots of shares in that home currency, then hedging might be less important.

The recommendation I've seen is around 25% of your portfolio in hedged global equities, assuming you have another 25-30% in non-hedged global equities.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-10 20:06:43+00:00
There are plenty of health insurers that are not publicly traded, and in fact are non profit, and yet they have the same premiums as the publicly traded ones. See Kaiser, Providence, Cambia, Regence, and the dozens of other BCBS affiliated plans.

If your claims were true, then the publicly traded businesses would have no customers.
by antisthenes | 2026-01-10 20:06:57+00:00
Win 10 IOT LTSC is supported for 6 more years, so support didn't really "end".

That being said, W10 (or W11 for that matter) will never be as fast a Win 7 was on an SSD in the 2010-2020 era, even with all the hacks and debloat scripts available in many places on the Internet.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-10 20:07:51+00:00
> Curated or created? If you "curated" them what is the copyright license on those examples?

Given that they’re talking about their own SDK that they created in this article, the examples are probably from their own docs and engineers.

> Are they just copied into the project?

No, v0 doesn't copy and paste snippets into projects. LLM coding tools don't work like that.

Providing example code or patterns for LLMs to follow is a very effective technique. They don't copy and paste or clone the code. They're good at identifying patterns, especially when you give them hints. What they did is not new or novel, it's just a well-known and effective technique for accomplishing various things with LLMs. Providing similar or generic examples goes a long way.
Show HN: Makers.page – A link-in-bio for founders with a "slot leasing" protocol
by alexcloudstar | 2026-01-10 20:08:05+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building makers.page because I’ve noticed a pattern among technical founders: we have high-intent traffic hitting our personal bios, but our "link-in-bio" is usually a static site or a link-tree clone that doesn't do much.

I wanted to build something that treats a maker's reach as a liquid asset.

The Core Concept: It’s a portfolio site where you can showcase your builds, but with a built-in "leasing" mechanic. You can set a price for your top-level "Featured" slot, and other makers in the community can request to lease it.

Why I’m building this:

Contextual Ads: Traditional ads are noisy. A recommendation from a founder you actually follow is high-signal.

Approval-First: The owner of the page has 100% control. You only approve the SaaS products you actually like.

Distribution for New Builds: It gives new makers a way to "buy" eyes from established builders without the friction of traditional ad platforms.

The Stack: I’m building this with Next.js 15, Framer Motion for the UI, and a PostgreSQL backend. I’ve just launched the waitlist to allow people to reserve their handles (first-come, first-served).

The Marquee: I added a "Legends" marquee on the landing page that pulls in handles from the waitlist in real-time. It’s a small detail, but I wanted the "collective" feel to be visible from the second you land.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the "leasing" mechanic. Is this a distribution model you'd actually use, or is it too close to "selling out"?

I'll be here to answer any questions!
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-10 20:08:31+00:00
Just to be clear: I was a kid at that time and although the Citroen 2CV was a cool looking car the C15 was just as fugly back then as it is today. A fucking fuglier than fugly piece of ugly shit that was, already back then, making the world uglier for everybody.

I don't dispute that it was useful and reliable: I remember the milkman and plumbers and electricians having these. Note that some had a 2CV and would just cut off the roof (don't tell me it wasn't a thing: I've got pictures of me as a kid in a 2CV whose roof was cut).

Only the french have the "taste" to create such uglyness as the C15. It's hard to understand how a country can both produce the Concorde and the C15.

Even the russian and their Lada brand never managed to create something as fugly as the 4L or the C15.

Now you'll excuse me but I've got to take a look at what nature produces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird-of-paradise

Because that C15 brings back memories from a traumatizing time where uglyness was ruling the world.

P.S: I owned a Citroen VISA: it's hard to tell if it was only the 2nd ugliest Citroen ever after the C15 (indisputably the fugliest of them all) because Citroen produced soooo many turds.
by eh_why_not | 2026-01-10 20:08:33+00:00
> Removing battery swaps is the last step to deploy UAVs autonomously at scale.

So ubiquitous surveillance, literally overhead, without any need to have a nearby/local charging/physical-management station/crew?

> After power companies, we will service rail, road, telecom, real estate and other inspection markets.

Oh?

> After building drones for the Air Force and DARPA, ...

Oh
by arter45 | 2026-01-10 20:08:40+00:00
> Assumptions can change. Each of our technological shifts was more upending than longer healthspans would be—most of the West is already a gerontocracy.

Sure but is gerontocracy a good thing, then? I’m not against older people, but shifting the whole demographic towards them is not looking good for retirement, social constructs, and more. Immortality would bring this even further, especially when meant literally.

> > What would be the purpose?
To not die horribly.

Well ok, but even if you can’t die horribly (ignoring murders,…) you can still suffer horribly, physically or otherwise, for a variety of reasons. Starving, rape, physical and psychological abuse, painful diseases even if non lethal,… still exist regardless of immortality. It’s not like immortal people are necessarily happy or good.
by noelwelsh | 2026-01-10 20:08:54+00:00
I think there are several advantages of stack allocation:

* freeing stack allocated memory is O(1) with a small constant factor: simply set the stack pointer to a new location. In a generational garbage collector, like OCaml, minor garbage collection is O(amount of retained memory) with a larger constant factor.

* judiciously stack allocating memory can improve data locality.

* unboxed data takes up less space, again improving locality.

Overall, I think this about improving constant factors---which makes a big difference in practice!
by alephnerd | 2026-01-10 20:08:56+00:00
> There's clearly a collectivist movement within the revolution, it's just that this force failed to take power

And there was a much more powerful core of leaders who were the children of the various types of elites within the ancien regime.

Almost the entire history of France the century after the revolution was authoritarian or quasi-authoritarian rule with the collaboration of intellectual, economic, and religious elites.

And this is why Marxists, Marxist-Leninists, Maoists, and other flavors of Communists take a dim view of the French Revolution.

If a revolution between the cultural elite and the capital elite just led to the pre-eminence of the capital elite and their co-opting of the cultural elite, that means the revolution basically had no positive impact for the overwhelming majority of the French subaltern of the 19th century.

And don't get me or my extended family started about French colonialism.
by Lio | 2026-01-10 20:09:45+00:00
I'm a big fan of the current range of French Renault electric cars.

The 5, 4, Megan and Scenic are just excellent.

I think the Scenic is probably the one I'd buy right now based on the range, 380 miles but the 5 and the 4 have so much character they're probably the first really iconic electric car designs IMHO.
by MrGilbert | 2026-01-10 20:10:25+00:00
> Modules need to be programmed for your vehicle specs and country because there are different laws and functions.

So are different intervalls of oil change between Australia and Europe - and yet, even in the 90s, people were able to keep that in mind.

We got taught to be helpless by the industry, so they can help us out. If that mindset would have existed in the 60s, 70s, then there would not be a "true to OEM" aftermarket available for car parts. We need to get back to that.
by kstenerud | 2026-01-10 20:10:47+00:00
Kubuntu. I wanted the compatibility of Ubuntu, but not the horrible UI.

It's not without its problems, though:

Snaps completely bork the system, so you need to remove snap entirely on Kubuntu (good riddance anyway - snaps are a plague).

Idle suspend is flaky. Sometimes it won't come back. Better to just disable it.

Sometimes the machine just freezes up. Either it completely freezes, or the mouse slows down to 1fps with the entire movement queued up (move the mouse and it'll go exactly where you told it to, over 2-3 minutes).

WIFI was a nightmare, but I switched to ethernet so it's not an issue for me anymore (desktop machine).

Bluetooth is iffy. I just switched to wired speakers.

On the plus side, AI works great!
by bradchris | 2026-01-10 20:11:14+00:00
Texan here. There’s still ways to get in if you don’t make the top X% of your class (the percentage is shrinking every year as the school climbs up the rankings and more people want to go… I think it’s near top-4% now? It used to be top 15% I recall), and many of those high achievers go onto other out of state schools, so it’s in the interest of UT system to offer automatic admission to the top achievers from across the state.

Just because the top X% is guaranteed admission, that does not mean all (or even most) of the school is from the top X%.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-10 20:11:30+00:00
Is modal running every single service inside gvisor?

I have heard that gvisor isn't recommended to run every single production but rather only some front facing or some other activities but it has some serious performance degradation which is why most end up using firecracker

This is really cool though, does this mean that we could probably have AI models that are snapshotted?

Are the states of checkpoint/recovery encrypted by default or how would that even work? Like what are the privacy aspects of it. I don't think even using something like modal would be the private llm that many people sometimes want on subreddits like localllama but the people dont have gpu. of course nothing beats privacy if you have your own gpu's but I'd be curious to know what people's thoughts are
by spwa4 | 2026-01-10 20:11:39+00:00
I have a derive.exe from 1996 that I still use. TI's calculator, as an incredibly fast windows app that's like 20% of wolframalpha.

And to think on all "modern" OSes you can't even do that. Neither Android nor IOS let you do this in any way shape or form. Even with portable webapps it doesn't work, as webapps go offline. And microsoft clearly wants to create this situation too (last brute force attempt was windows home)
by chrneu | 2026-01-10 20:11:47+00:00
as someone who only recharges their garmin watch maybe once a month(with dozens of hours of activity tracking), lol at daily recharging of a watch. that completely eliminates it as a possible product for me.

even after a few years with battery degradation I rarely recharge my watch more than once every 2-3 weeks.

it's kind of wild to me that folks would daily recharge a watch.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-01-10 20:13:22+00:00
> > Still he behaves like if the French people wanted him.

Well he's the closest to that benchmark no?

You can hardly regulate how emboldened a person feels, especially after having obtained such a big result.

He is the most liked person in France , as if you just take into consideration the raw number of people who like him and ignore those who dislike , his number would be higher than the everybody else.

It's always like that with elections, once the polls are closed and the votes counted someone will have a mandate and a mandate is determined by number of preferences expressed. Those who stayed home or the raw number of "dislikes" doesn't count.

A thing that would somewhat diminish the power of the elected person is an election where just 15-20% of the population who has the right to vote decided to cast their vote
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by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-10 20:13:33+00:00
> if you have access to finite resources but your needs are expanding exponentially

Our material needs in many categories are not expanding exponentially. On a per-capita basis, in advanced economies, it's been flat in several categories.

If anything, the constraints of spacefarig seem almost perfectly designed to nudge a culture and economy towards conservation and recycling. Building lunar and Martian colonies requires sustainability in the near term in a way that does not have clean parallel on Earth.

> we shouldn't bank our future on something unproven

Nobody is banking on space-based resource extraction.

> We should assume that our future is here on Earth with the resources currently available to us, until proven otherwise

Bit of a paradox to this. On one hand, obviously, yes. But on the other hand, given two civisations, one which assumes space-based resource and one which doens't, which do you think is going to get there first?
by ultra2d | 2026-01-10 20:13:47+00:00
It really depends on what you play. I've been playing online co-op regularly with a bunch of friends since Covid times. We're jumping to new (well, on sale) games regularly, and the only recent time I booted to Windows was because a 4-player mod for Remnant II _might_ not work on Linux. Can't remember the previous game that did not work on Linux.
I'm so used to things working without major tinkering that I forget to check protondb most of the time.
by pan69 | 2026-01-10 20:13:54+00:00
What do we think the future is going to looks like?

"I need a caching component in my stack. Oh, I just let AI create it from scratch, so AI can also run it, maintain it etc."

or

"I need a caching component in my stack. Oh, let me just grab an existing, well maintained and supported cache component and let AI write the glue logic to run it, maintain it etc."

Personally I think it will be the second one. There definitely is a case for generating one off tools but I don't think AI will replace established, well written and maintained software (being it open-source or not).

Not all software is equal. I can get 80% of my new SaaS to be generated by AI as it's mostly considered boilerplate and mostly the same as any other SaaS. It's the 20% that makes it unique OR something that AI can't touch like a special relationship with a supplier or a first to market position etc.
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-10 20:14:05+00:00
Oh yes, because the vast majority of employers in the US say "pick whatever healthcare plan you want from whatever carrier you want, we'll make it work" and not "You'll get what you're given and be glad for it".

Even in tech spaces with money to throw around, that just means that maybe your partner and dependent's premiums will be covered/negligible, or that your deductible will be low.

You're still going to be fucked by their policies, though.
by xnyan | 2026-01-10 20:15:04+00:00
You may be joking, but I have several high achieving peers whose families did this with good results. The choice was: did they want to be in the best high school with the highest level of competition, or did they want to go to an OK school that had good magnet programs and less competition. my sample size is only about three, but it worked out well for them.
by heliumtera | 2026-01-10 20:15:14+00:00
The fix already existed and was neglected for a decade. It was a 3 lines of bash code.
The big would commonly make a runner hang forever unnoticed, on a platform that charged by the minute.
One minute hanging, was one minute charged.
The fix that would drop considerably the amount of total minutes charged was immediately followed by charging self hosted runners by the minute.

>GitHub incentive was to make it fast.

They charge by the minute. The faster it completes the action, less money. Runner go fast pocket go low
by sammiej | 2026-01-10 20:15:51+00:00
Thanks for your reply. Curious what the feedback was 2 years ago? Was it "wouldn't use it" or "already exists"?

The problem I'm trying to solve is different from group messaging:
- WhatsApp/Telegram = messaging (1-1, group chats, calls)
- This = social platform (feed of posts, photos/videos, chronological timeline, comments)

Think "Facebook groups but encrypted" not "another messaging app."

But if HN said "no" to that specific framing, that's valuable to know.
by drdaeman | 2026-01-10 20:16:09+00:00
What’s this “it” are you talking about, exactly?

If LLMs hoover up removal of auto-shipped telemetry (currently the main selling point) then I’d say that’d be a reason to publish and submit this to every indexer imaginable ASAP ;-) Shame it’s a bit of absence of code so it’s nor really possible to submit anywhere.

And other features are worthy because they’re implemented ideas, not because of their actual implementations. Like programmable buttons or overflow menus - I’m pretty sure there’s no secret sauce there, and it’s extremely unlikely one can just grab some parts of that and move it to a different product - adapting the code from Orion’s codebase would likely take more effort than just implementing the feature anew.

Most code is just some complicated plumbing, not some valuable algorithmic novelty. And this plumbing is all about context it lives in.

The value is usually not in the code, but in the product itself. Some exceptions apply, of course.