MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vee-kay | 2026-01-24 17:39:35+00:00
All the major newspapers (e.g., WSJ) and magazines (e.g., NatGeo) of the world have already transitioned to online subscription model.

Guess whether their reader base has increased or decreased from their heydays.

Most newspapers or magazines have reduced or stopped their print editions.

Subscription model works only for niche audience, willing to pay for the premium content and premium experience. Rest of the audience will not pay a penny - they are okay to use the site if it is free but with ads, and many users will use some adblocker, but if site refuses to show content if it detects adblocker, they will simply go elsewhere rather than paying for a subscription.
by ifwinterco | 2026-01-24 17:39:44+00:00
The vast majority of people don't care and would never use ethernet sockets, as long as they can get a good enough wifi connection to their smart TV for Netflix etc. then they're happy and most of the time wifi can do that.

It's only really gamers who are likely to consider using ethernet and avid online gamers don't make up a significant percentage of the people who buy new build homes
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-24 17:40:36+00:00
Can't tell which agent shot first. By the spacing of the gunshots and the agents' reactions on the left side you can tell one agent shot first and the other agents followed up after they realized what happened. I'm guessing the one agent saw or claims he saw the guy reach for a gun or pull one out. We'll see if suspect ends up having had a gun on him. If so he probably pulled it out in a panic. This doesn't bode well.
by AIorNot | 2026-01-24 17:40:44+00:00
Ignoring myth and belief differences

The purpose of the article and the story above was simple - you and I are the same ultimately

The golden rule is just that- when we recognize ourselves in others we act to minimize pain in others as we would to ourselves

Imagine the world as a one person play with each role played by the same person but in different costumes: you
by raddan | 2026-01-24 17:41:15+00:00
Ahh! Don’t replace your coax with Cat5e/6! Coaxial cable has excellent noise rejection—better than Cat5e.

Instead, get a MoCA adapter like this one [1]. You can get 2.5Gbps over coax!

[1] https://a.co/d/e2FYGWj
by phtrivier | 2026-01-24 17:41:16+00:00
> Juniors need to leap into their careers and build up a good head of steam by demonstrating acquired experience,

Junior devs at least have the option of building a portfolio of usefully software on their own machine at home, while eating ramens.

They can build websites for mom'n'pop stores. They can participate into open source projects. Etc, etc...

I dread the people who won't get jobs into other fields because managers have been told by corporate that "we don't need people, chatgpt can do everything".
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-24 17:41:22+00:00
It was interesting to me finding out how many "urban farms" are nestled in our own cityscape, and how many of those "farms" are actually selling their produce, meats, and even livestock.

Until very recently (like 6 decades ago) the area where I live was right up against rural countryside, with sheep grazing, cattle farms, vegetables grown and everything. And those farmers sold out to real-estate developers.

But there are literally homeowners in SFHs with chickens out front and roosters crowing in the morning. And some of my colleagues own chickens and harvest the eggs every day for their own kitchens and families.

But just going through a few urban neighborhoods on Google Maps, it was not long before I found little farms. And these farms sometimes have websites where they advertise that they are selling produce and dairy: raw milk, fresh eggs, fresh fruits & veg, mutton and even live sheep or goats. And they may be doing it on the sly or under the table, and "raw milk" is especially a controversial marketplace right now, but they do it and seem to do alright.

These "urban farms" are often real close to tactical supply shops running out of some guy's garage, and other little "cottage industries" where people who purchased "McMansions" are recouping their investments, basically by skirting the city's zoning laws and tax regulations around businesses.

So yeah, if you've got a brown thumb like me, you can go shop at a farmers market, or you can look up one of these "urban farms" and buy direct, cash in hand.
by greggoB | 2026-01-24 17:41:22+00:00
> Trevor Noah once joked that Trump would make a great African dictator and it looks like that's now turning to reality

I find people are much less dismissive of this comparison now compared to his 1st term.

> Listen properly!

For those who don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNa6992ih4. Always fun to have a reason to give it another watch :)
by lance_ewing | 2026-01-24 17:41:47+00:00
Yeah, that one is a great online emulator. I've played around a bit with that one. I have fond memories of the BBC Micro from my school days, especially the game Castle Quest.

How does it handle being run on a mobile phone? My main focus with JVIC was to try making it as easy as possible to use on mobile devices, although I'll admit that my testing has only been on Android so far. I haven't tried it on iOS yet.
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by actfrench | 2026-01-24 17:41:51+00:00
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by Krssst | 2026-01-24 17:42:09+00:00
> A $60 difference

Oh, the difference in dollar is less than I expected. And you're right, after checking, the difference in price in the USA is $60 ($139 Home and $199 Pro). In France, Windows 11 Home is 145€ compared to 259€ for Windows 11 Pro:
https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/d/windows-11-famille/dg7gmgf... - https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/d/windows-11-professionnel/d... (USB key is selected by default but the download edition is the same price).

This amounts to a difference of 114€ or 135$ at the current exchange rate which is significantly more. Also surprised that Windows Pro is 189% of the price of the Home edition in France but 143% in the USA.

I initially bought the Home edition but could not upgrade to pro without buying a full license so I had to bear the full cost of the French Pro license, which lead to an upgrade cost of 259€ instead of just $60. (basically I had to buy the pro version to get password unlock with Bitlocker since TPM unlock was broken with dual boot, needed to enter the recovery key after every boot to Fedora). If it was possible to only pay for the difference they did not make it obvious.

And in general paying this much for an OS that still pushes dark pattern and ads onto me leaves quite a bad taste in my mouth; I wouldn't mind paying a subscription if I could get an OS that does what I want and gets fully out of my way. (but I guess subscription would come with mandatory online accounts which is part of the problem at hand here).
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-24 17:42:43+00:00
It's less about originality than crediting sources.

If I restate something using completely my own words, I'm still supposed to cite the source where I got the idea.

If something is completely my own invention, and I didn't use any sources to create it, then that's original and I don't need to credit anyone else. But that's very rare.
by blackcatsec | 2026-01-24 17:42:52+00:00
Firstly, Apple does not refuse such requests. In fact, it was very widely publicized in the past couple of weeks that Apple has removed Advanced Data Protection for users in the UK. So while US users still enjoy Advanced Data Protection from Apple, UK users do not.

It is entirely possible that Apple's Advanced Data Protection feature is removed legally by the US as well, if the regime decides they want to target it. I suspect there are either two reasons why they do not: Either the US has an additional agreement with Apple behind the scenes somewhere, OR the US regime has not yet felt that this was an important enough thing to go after.

There is precedent in the removal, Apple has shown they'll do the removal if asked/forced. What makes you think they wouldn't do the same thing in the US if Trump threatened to ban iPhone shipments from China until Apple complied?

The options for people to manage this stuff themselves are extremely painful for the average user for many reasons laid out in this thread. But the same goes for things like PGP keys. Managing PGP keys, uploading to key servers, using specialized mail clients, plugging in and unplugging the physical key, managing key rotation, key escrow, and key revocation. And understanding the deep logic behind it actually requires a person with technical expertise in this particular solution to guide people. It's far beyond what the average end user is ever going to do.
by onesociety2022 | 2026-01-24 17:43:08+00:00
You are conflating iCloud Keychain with the rest of the iCloud data. iCloud keychain is always end-to-end encrypted. Apple cannot decrypt it even if they receive a subpoena. The other iCloud data like your photos are not end-to-end encrypted by default unless you turn on Advanced Data Protection (ADP).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651
There is a table showing exactly what is E2EE under Standard vs ADP mode.

In the news article you shared above, it's very likely this person did not have ADP turned on. So everything in their iCloud that is not E2EE by default could be decrypted by Apple.
by Ronsenshi | 2026-01-24 17:43:39+00:00
"It pases test completely consistently".

There are some managers and developers out there who would charge and ship whatever code AI provides no matter what multidimensional horror there is inside. As long as these people point to test and say "look, the checkbox is green" they will sign on it without taking a single look at the codebase.

So what if tests don't actually cover important parts of the functionality. Checkbox is green and AI review agent said it's fine - so it must be fine.
by kittywantsbacon | 2026-01-24 17:43:59+00:00
From the bottom:

> This is a rendition, not a translation. I do not know any Chinese. I could approach the text at all only because Paul Carus, in his 1898 translation of the Tao Te Ching, printed the Chinese text with each character followed by a transliteration and a translation. My gratitude to him is unending.
by diogenescynic | 2026-01-24 17:44:05+00:00
>At a past company, we originally had a fairly flat org structure. Jr, Mid, Sr, for the ICs. It worked, and everyone was happy. Eventually they brought in some new leadership from one of the big tech companies, and the new leadership brought a levels system. Suddenly we went from a large and flat org, to having all sorts of letters and numbers for levels. And none of the existing staff was promoted to the new levels, they just got moved to the equivalent, while the new leadership hired their own people to the higher eschelons. This already damaged morale, because you had new E6 and E7 or whatever engineers who didn't know their way around the codebase at all, while an E2 or E3 was having to do everything.

This is exactly what has happened. I've had 6 different reporting structures in the 6 years I've worked there. So much leadership change and more levels to the pyramid added. I was promoted the first/only time after my first year and a half--for something that has scaled exponentially since then and I still manage individually despite other teams who co-manage the system being given 8 more employees.

>They kind of kept their word: promotions cycles started happening every 6 months. But the next cycle came through, and once again I was left behind. So this time, instead of asking for clarification, I just started looking for a new job, and handed in a letter of resignation a few weeks later. Upon handing in the letter, I was told "oh we were going to promote you next week!"

Yep, I was part of the original 3 on the team. Only one has been promoted, the other left, and I am still in the same position. Even though the promo cycle has been increased, it's no different. I am 95% sure that my manager didn't even read my self-evaluation because he specifically asked for more metrics and that's what the first bullet point of my self-evaluation had.
by logicalsam | 2026-01-24 17:44:13+00:00
Hey, very late to replying but hopefully better late than never!

The approach taken is pretty similar to 1Password. Other "Privileged Users" can help you recover, and you're actively encouraged to add another Privileged User to prevent any issues should there be a loss of password or secret key.

Privileged Users can help recover other members with the current set-up. Time-delayed access fallback I've considered however I think it would require that the system sacrifices the zero-knowledge element whereby it has the keys to recover your account (not good).
by obidee2 | 2026-01-24 17:44:14+00:00
Anyone expelling a student over a single “ai” label from turnitin alone is a complete idiot. Perhaps that happens occasionally, but that’s clearly the result of horrible decision making that isn’t really turnitins fault.

Anyone who gives 10 seconds of thought to how this could help realizes at 90% it’s a helpful first pass. Motivated students who really want to hide can probably squeak past more often than you’d like. And you know there will be false positives so you do something like:
* review those more carefully, or send it to a TA if you have one to do so
* keep track of patterns of positives from each student over time
* explain to the student it got flagged, say it’s likely a false positive, and have them talk over the paper in person

I’m sure decent educators can figure out how to use a tool like that. The bad ones are going to cause stochastic headaches for their students regardless.
by globular-toast | 2026-01-24 17:44:55+00:00
> A new house bought today could have 10 phone sockets and 0 Ethernet sockets.

Really? I've never seen that many in a house. Most might have one extension in a bedroom upstairs. Which is usually the one room where you don't want a data connection. Crazy to think when I was little it was common to have a phone downstairs and another upstairs in the master bedroom. Who the hell wants to make a phone call from bed?!

I think it's easier just to run cables, tbh. If you can't put them in the walls/floors then hide them in plastic conduit. You can do a pretty good job with a bit of planning.
by jraph | 2026-01-24 17:45:06+00:00
Reasons for not putting the slash in HTML:

- since the slash doesn't have any meaning in HTML, if you don't quote your attributes, you are at risk that your slash is attached to the value or your unquoted attribute: <br class=myclass/> ← uh oh, class = "myclass/"!

You can test this by visiting the following URL, and inspecting the content: data:text/html,<br class=myclass/>

Now guess what happens to the unquoted src attribute of the img tag followed by an unspaced stray slash… OTOH, you don't need to not quote the src attribute…

- it can give a false sense of correctness, one can reasonably consider that the closing effect of the slash is pure illusion and even potentially confusing.

For backward compatibility, a stray slash at the end of the start tag is ignored, not considered as an attribute that doesn't have a value, so there's argument to be made that it's still part of the syntax. You'll never have any issue if you always put a space before the slash (which most people who put the slashes do because of a silly bug in a browser that has not been relevant for a long time), or if you quote all your attributes.

I don't understand why they haven't decided to make the HTML5 parser parse <br class=myclass/> like <br class=myclass> but I guess it is what it is.
by nickevante | 2026-01-24 17:45:57+00:00
The headline is slightly misleading. Microsoft can only provide the key if you are using a Microsoft Account which automatically escrows the BitLocker recovery key to OneDrive.

If you use a Local Account (which requires bypassing the OOBE internet check during setup) or explicitly disable key backup, the key never leaves the TPM. The issue isn't the encryption algorithm its the convenience selection.
by WalterBright | 2026-01-24 17:46:03+00:00
Build times are quite a bit faster.

The package system is called dub.

Memory management options include:

1. stack allocation

2. malloc allocation

3. write your own allocator

4. static allocation

5. garbage collection

You can use exceptions or returns for error handling.

The biggest memory safety feature it has is length-delimited arrays. No more array overflows! The cost of it is the same as in std::vector when you do the bounds checked option. D also uses refs, relegating pointers to unusual uses. I don't know what you mean by "participating in optimizations".

(a) C doesn't have the hack that C++ has regarding the tag names. D has auto.

(b) D has much faster compile times than C++.

(c) The practical benefit is the language is much easier to master.
by vee-kay | 2026-01-24 17:46:03+00:00
My bad. I meant to say: "Emails from known Contacts are auto-dumped into Inbox (they won't go into Spam folder)" (even if you had marked earlier emails from that sender as spam, but later added that sender as a Contact, so thenceforth they'll get treated as legitimate emails, not spam).
But if you have some filter for that Contact, that takes precedence.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-24 17:46:18+00:00
Just seems needless. Like "We should have Hacker News for musicians" or "We should have Hacker News for City Dwellers". I think there's more value from the broader audience than from specialising what is already a fairly niche site. This isn't Facebook or Youtube, it's both less technically sophisticated (no offence to Dan & co keeping it working) but also much smaller in scope.

I'm sure musicians and city dwellers could have some stories they're more interested in versus less interested in, but this gets into the newsgroup hierarchy problem where too much specialisation means there's nothing left to talk about. We presumably agree that a Hacker News for people named Brian who work at Meta is a bad idea?
by signatoremo | 2026-01-24 17:46:31+00:00
Basically your arguments are:

1) The CEO said there was a JS engine, but it didn't work.

2) It didn't build when they published the blog post.

Therefore it lacks integrity! Except that it built (I took Simon's words for it), and building a browser is beside the point, there are a few other big projects listed (Java LSP, Windows 7 emulator, Excel, etc.)

The blog stated:

"Our goal is to understand how far we can push the frontier of agentic coding for projects that typically take human teams months to complete.

This post describes what we've learned from running hundreds of concurrent agents on a single project, coordinating their work, and watching them write over a million lines of code and trillions of tokens."

They didn't set the goal of building a browser. It's an experiment about coordinating AI agents within a context of a complex software project, yet you complained they exaggerating about a JS engine?

The blog post itself is one of the first that describes a large scale experiment of agents, what works, what doesn't. There is very little hype. They didn't say it's game changing or Cursor is the best AI tool.
by em-bee | 2026-01-24 17:46:35+00:00
it very much depends on how prepared the parents are. if you or your partner grew up with a lot of siblings you have plenty of examples from your own childhood to draw on that make things easier.

i didn't have that, so i struggled, especially in the beginning, not because it felt hard, but simply because i didn't know what to do. the mechanics are easy to learn, feeding, changing, sleep, etc, but beyond that i simply had no examples to draw on. but i was able to compensate that with continuously being aware that this is what i wanted. i chose this adventure, and i was not going to despair over making that choice, nor would i regret it.

but we were also lucky, and our kids were not fussy and slept well. they got plenty of breastfeeding because nobody told my wife when or how to stop and she didn't complain, so she stopped when the kids were ready on their own.
by teucris | 2026-01-24 17:46:37+00:00
You may be right if AI truly can never replace devs. But history shows many examples of inadequate technologies getting hammered on by industry until they work due to distorted perceptions of economic gain. I’ve heard stories like this regarding mechanical looms, CNC, and cloud services. My understanding is those all work (decently) now not because they were obviously better, but because economic pressure pushed innovation to make them work, for better or worse.
by juanpabloaj | 2026-01-24 17:46:57+00:00
If that is the question,

I agree, the LLM support we lose some level of manual work, maybe that is useful to be more familiar with the information, although I am not sure if that is a critical step. The LLM gives us management support. We can use a command to collect incomplete tasks, the LLM is doing that with extra steps, and it shows us the collected information, but in the end, we decide which tasks to prioritize.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-24 17:47:00+00:00
I was visiting a girlfriend once, and she was in the process of moving in the same city. There was a telephone bill on top of her dresser, and I noticed that she had noted "butt-rape fee" next to one of the line items there.

Now she is a very literate woman and loves poetry and "Penny Dreadfuls", so she uses language and words very deliberately. And so, I asked her why she wrote that, and she said it was some sort of unnecessary fee that they were charging to move her line from one address to another, and she clearly resented their opportunistic capitalism.

I certainly sympathized with her, especially since she is the type of woman who has probably been subjected to that sort of actual trauma in her own life, and that of her friends, she had every right to compare the experiences.
by roxolotl | 2026-01-24 17:47:01+00:00
This is wonderful. Ursula K. Le Guin is a great thinker and I’d highly recommend her novels. I’ve read Ken Liu’s, who many here probably know at least from translating The Three Body Problem and Death’s End, Tao Te Ching and it was remarkably poetic. Excited to read another person’s interpretation.
by raincole | 2026-01-24 17:47:06+00:00
Honestly, even if you know Chinese, it's very hard to translate Tao Te Ching into English.

Hell, it's hard to translate it into Chinese. Even the first paragraph is controversial. For example this rendition says:

> The name you can say

> isn’t the real name.

However, in a 5th century interpretation[0], it's more akin to:

> The fame and wealth the mortals praise are not a natural state.

(My extremely simplified paraphrasing)

[0]: https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&chapter=491818
by fogzen | 2026-01-24 17:47:34+00:00
I think because capitalist employment is inherently adversarial. If employers (and managers) reveal the time budget, employees may take advantage and reduce output to expand to fill the deadline. Tight schedules squeeze employees, so hiding the real time constraint allows management to exert pressure by adjusting the deadline. Employees that realize the bluff and ignore fake schedule pressure can be identified, marginalized, and eliminated.

Avoiding this degrading game is half the reason I preferred contracting.