MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hahahahhaah | 2026-01-16 06:00:01+00:00
We would need proof of work for emails but that never happened.

All you can do is mark as spam then they get deliveravility issues if enough do it. But make sure it is spam. You shpuld try to unsubscribe first give them a fair go.

I dont think we can solve it. Email is cheapish to send. Spamming for engagement works. It gets some people on the game, hooked on LinkedIn and they find their next job there.

Boycott probably wont affect them.
by keyle | 2026-01-16 06:01:44+00:00
The reasons I buy second hand thinkpad, is because I have expectations about the keyboard, and they're usually met.

I have expectations about the screen not being silly dpi, and that's usually met too.

Finally I have expectations on the fans not being like a total joke on most windows laptops... and that's usually fine too.

For the rest I want compatibility.

If only they could fix the absolute turd of audio quality in thinkpad, I think we'd be on par with Apple from my perspective.
by bulbar | 2026-01-16 06:02:30+00:00
Having it safe to go outside is the very point of a society.

Outside of this safety Bubble there's a strong tendency for conflict and war. Only after two cruel world wars and a prolonged cold war, the western world got their shit together and decided 'enough of that'. And even that doesn't seem to hold much longer, so it seems we will only have managed to live peaceful among each other without an immediate conflict with somebody (cold war) for roughly 30 years.

If aliens are remotely like us, they shouldn't know about us.
by thrdbndndn | 2026-01-16 06:02:31+00:00
Not sure whether such "criticism" is welcome here, since it is ultimately subjective, but I will just be blunt and say: I disagree.

I like this style of writing as well, but I think this article overdoes it, to the point that it became somewhat irritating to read.

The part where I particularly feel this way is when the author spends two whole paragraphs discussing why YouTube (or its developers) chose to sample by "100" segments, to the extent that the author even asks, "If you work at YouTube and know the answer, please let me know. I am genuinely curious." Which, for lack of better words, I found ridiculous.
by onion2k | 2026-01-16 06:02:40+00:00
The notion that people who aren't developers couldn't figure out how to use this tool well, or be trained to, is a little too negative. Programmers aren't special snowflakes. Everyone with a brain is capable of describing a problem and breaking the solution into steps.

The popularity of LLMs proves this. That's how most people use them - building up a detailed prompt in steps, and learning how to put more detail in to get the result you want.
by CJefferson | 2026-01-16 06:02:54+00:00
No, AI are terrible at finding these types of patterns.

You could hypothetically use AI to write algorithms to find the patterns, but people have already spent a long time super-tuning them.

AIs can't even (at least I keep checking) solve Sudokus as well as my mother -- they aren't good with piles of numbers and complex patterns.
by futuraperdita | 2026-01-16 06:03:03+00:00
> For reasons unknown online technology forums have always had some kind of "underdog" that they cheer for.

I've found it's usually a relation in sorts to the underdogs, in some way or another: a vengeance against the status quo, a sort of angsty reactance against it, or a desire to simply do the usual thing and signal yourself as "alternative". That's all the hipsterism is: a kind of counterculture. The author of this post is basically saying in the subtext "You're simply living off the scavenged technology of corporations and these computers aren't built for what you see in them. You are a stupid 20-something with false nostalgia," which I could argue is just a different sort of social signaling.

There is some truth in both sides of the Thinkpad culture argument. Thinkpads have excellent Linux support, ludicrously bad color gamut, questionable build quality generation-to-generation, but are always serviceable if not attractive. If the MacBook is the AR-15, the ThinkPad is the AK-47.
Ask HN: Fundraising compensation
by ebitda_ai | 2026-01-16 06:03:05+00:00
A friend and I have been working on a fintech prototype for the past three years. We’ve built the AI, developed a working demo, and are now at the stage where we need capital to cover licensing and move toward commercialization.

An experienced advisor—who has had two to three successful exits—has offered to help. He would lead the deck creation, handle pitching, and raise approximately $4–5 million from his network(other VCs). If his health permits, he may also join the company full-time afterward.

What would be an appropriate compensation structure in this situation? He is asking for 5% equity and 5% cash compensation.
by hrimfaxi | 2026-01-16 06:04:33+00:00
Ah man, I was curious to read your response about priors.

> If an LLM had only ever seen 1+1=2 and that was the only math they were ever exposed to, along with the numbers 0-10, could an LLM figure out that 2+2=4?

Unless you locked your kid in a room since birth with just this information, it is not the same kind of set up is it?
by jscyc | 2026-01-16 06:04:46+00:00
As a 20-something the writer wouldn't have even been a teenager yet when what was regarded as the golden era of second-hand ThinkPads was in swing.

>It’s rare for those teams of people to survive buyouts by foreign companies with their agency and independence intact.

ThinkPad enthusiasts were very vocal about how the Lenovo takeover impaired their later designs (200 and onwards).

I've always found it amusing to see the modern wave of people hyping ThinkPads as recent as the t480; which I've known greybeards to consider having no more in common with a "true" ThinkPad than name and colour scheme.
by lashingflank | 2026-01-16 06:05:13+00:00
One thing that worries me about the current political climate is that everything can be politicized. Do we know that behind the scenes Boeing wasn't paying a bribe for better treatment in the report? Or do we know that this report is especially damning because they refused to bribe? I guess we never knew for sure but the level of corruption now is so high I just have no faith that there hasn't been meddling in these investigations. It's the pernicious effect of corruption in a society and I don't think we're ready for it.
by Liftyee | 2026-01-16 06:05:25+00:00
"Inferior" might vary more than you think. Especially when OSS/repairability/etc. is involved - it becomes a matter of what your personal weights are on values such as performance, UX, durability, "aesthetic choice", etc...

My personal preference is mouse > trackpoint / nub + 3 physical buttons > trackpad, but I know people who swear by an Apple "slab" trackpad even at their desktop computer.
by sublinear | 2026-01-16 06:05:30+00:00
I would argue the real problem with clickpads is that they're a cost cutting measure (even the ones on macbooks). People were fed up with accidental taps, and manufacturers didn't want to pay more for a better trackpad.

The other evil part about trackpads is drivers that don't let you turn off the pointer acceleration because to do so would reveal how jittery the sensors really are.

This is why even now and even on the highest end laptops you must still either slow down your fingers or put up with endless overshooting/undershooting of the cursor movement. I deeply despise how "heavy" and slow the cursor feels on all macbooks for at least the past decade. This is the real reason why the fucking clickpad has to be so massive!
by majormajor | 2026-01-16 06:06:44+00:00
Along those lines, one of the biggest areas completely left out of this article - and many I've seen like it - is operations, cost, incident response, etc.

Maybe eventually you'll want to trust your corporate credit card to the LLMs too, but that's gonna be one of the last things where humans get taken out of the loop. And once the AI is that general what even is the CEO, salesperson, or entrepreneur's role either?

That "programmer/archeologist" idea of Vernor Vinge's books is likely to grow as the piles of generated code get bigger and the feasibility of tossing increasingly-large piles into a single context window at once might not keep up (or probably won't be the best or most cost-effective).
by asa400 | 2026-01-16 06:07:02+00:00
> I’ve been part of some projects where someone external to the team went on a crusade to shut our work down because they disagreed with it. When we pushed through, shipped it, and it worked well they lost a lot of credibility.

I went through this at a corporate job not too long ago for the first time. One of the more insane things I've dealt with so far in my career. I know life isn't always sunshine and rainbows, but up to that point I'd never seen that level of naked, antisocial self-interest in an org that was ostensibly created to allow people to cooperate toward solving some problem for our customers. Call me naive, but it was really disheartening.
by emersonrsantos | 2026-01-16 06:07:04+00:00
I have a 2020 Lenovo Legion and boy, those things last. I can easily open it to clean it (did it last month), add/remove memory or storage without specialized tools or software. All that I need is built into the bios (like disable battery for service, disable hybrid Intel Graphics/Nvidia to use just the GPU, disable secure boot), and the bios is still getting updates. I understand the price tag, especially for enterprise because every big manufacturer does this.
by willtemperley | 2026-01-16 06:08:54+00:00
Thinkpads get eight or nine for repairabliity from ifixit while Macbooks get a four or five, basically because of storage replacability [1]. The pentalobe screw issue is moot for anyone with a spare $5.

Apple could easily fix this. Macs are generally good value except for the absolute rip-off that is storage. $400 to go from 1TB to 2TB is a ridiculous markup.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/repairability/laptop-repairability-sc...
by hagbard_c | 2026-01-16 06:09:43+00:00
Your first two examples are more proof of the hype around the fruit factory and Jobs' "reality distortion field" than of what you mentioned. Nokia had been producing "smart phones" (Symbian devices with user-installable applications, cameras and other such "smart" features) for years when he first presented the mentioned device, IBM had been producing utilitarian box-like laptops for years before that other device you mentioned was presented. All examples show that fanboyism is rife in the world of technology, not just information technology but any such: tractors, cars, tools, audio equipment, musical instruments, look into any field and you'll quickly find camps around certain technologies and brands. Much of this is centered around the fact that those who have invested resources into acquiring and learning a given implementation wish for their choice to become or remain leading so as to defend their choice. This goes especially for those who invested time and money into "premium" brands and even more so when those brands have created "ecosystems" around their products which make it harder to escape should the choice turn out to have been the "wrong" one.
by culebron21 | 2026-01-16 06:11:51+00:00
I had interesting flights in end of june from St. Petersburg to Novosibirsk. It departed at around 23:00, and you saw sunset and still a dawn. As the plane flew mostly at latitude of 60°, the dawn in the north was always there, and 1.5 hours later, the sun rose. The plane arrives after 3h30m of flight at ~7:00 local time, in summer solistice the sun is already high enough.
by p4bl0 | 2026-01-16 06:12:48+00:00
I see others have specified their tech stack.

My blog runs on Dotclear (a very good open source PHP+MySQL blog engine) with a homemade theme.

My website runs on a hand written static site generator made of a Makefile and Bash scripts relying on the xml2 and 2xml commands, and coreutils in between them (especially sed). Those are automatically executed by a Git hook on my server to update the website on push. It's been like this since the beginning so I have the full history of my website's version back up to 2008 (I'm not even sure GitHub Pages were a thing back then!). It's fun to sometimes go back and see how it looked like almost 20 years ago.
by shiroiuma | 2026-01-16 06:12:52+00:00
>How is someone supposed to pay for all the overhead that goes into research and writing these articles without a source of income.

I'm not sure, but we've been trying the online advertising model for a few decades now, and it's been terrible. Pop-ups, pop-unders, malware, I could go on and on. At some point it's fine to just say "no" to the advertisers after so much abuse.

Also, there's nothing stopping a website from hosting their own ads: these generally are not blocked by ad-blockers because they're served from the same domain, rather than a known ad-serving domain. But they never want to do this for some reason.
by AlecSchueler | 2026-01-16 06:13:53+00:00
> Nearly all NSFW content takes the most extreme forms of taboos related to social oppression and ratchets them up well past 11. Almost no one in the USA can even begin to relate to sex in ways that don't involve "domination", or "race", or some weird Freudian familial relation, etc.

Yes, we live in a patriarchal society. That same patriarchy is at the core of our modern loneliness. Teaching young people that "it doesn't have to be this way" isn't lying. Telling them it's the natural order of things is the lie that ultimately tears people apart because their bodies know differently.

> To even begin to teach them that they can relate to sex without domination, first teach them that their own desires are not evil.

This is exactly what I was saying.
by vunderba | 2026-01-16 06:14:45+00:00
mmarian is right. OP I'd honestly dispense with some of the numbers - they're weirdly specific and probably have the opposite of the intended effect, like:

> Networked with clients to expand potential clientele to over 7+ people

... so 8?

Your résumé shows that your first tech job started in January 2022. If you’ve been unemployed for 1.5 years as of January 2026, then your max amount of professional experience (which is most employers really care about) can really only be ~2.5 years.

Technical skills:

> Git

> Software Development

Listing Git is like listing VS Code - it’s too basic to be worth mentioning. Use that space to highlight more valuable skills. The same goes for listing “software development” as a skill; it’s assumed if you’re applying in the IT industry.

Good luck on your search~
by jameslk | 2026-01-16 06:14:53+00:00
> 3 months ago, Anthropic and Simon claimed that Skills were the next big thing and going to completely change the game. So far, from my exploration, I don't see any good examples out there, nor is a there a big growing/active community of users.

Skills have become widely adopted since Anthropic's announcement. They've been implemented across major coding agents[0][1][2] and standardized as a spec[3]. I'm not sure what you mean by "next big thing" but they're certainly superior to MCP in ways, being much easier to implement and reducing context usage by being discoverable, hence their rapid adoption

I don't know if skills will necessarily stay relevant amongst evolution of the rest of the tooling and patterns. But that's more because of huge capital investment around everything touching AI, very active research, and actual improvements in the state of the art, rather than simply "new, shinier things" for the sake of it

[0]. https://developers.openai.com/codex/skills/

[1]. https://antigravity.google/docs/skills

[2]. https://cursor.com/blog/dynamic-context-discovery

[3]. https://agentskills.io/home
by autoexec | 2026-01-16 06:15:03+00:00
Old IBM ThinkPads were actually nice laptops that held up to a lot of abuse. I can't touch anything made by Lenovo though. They've been caught more than once installing backdoors and malware (sometimes because they were paid to do it).

They've had many security issues since then, including another backdoor in 2025, but Superfish was probably their worst disaster because after it became public that every machine they sold with it was vulnerable Lenovo continued to deny it until they were finally forced to admit it and release a removal tool. That should have been the end of it, but the removal tool just uninstalled the bloatware itself while leaving the system changes it had made which introduced the vulnerability. That just gave the customers who were even aware of what was going on and downloaded the removal tool a false sense of security. Only after the media started reporting that failure did they eventually release a second removal tool that actually corrected the problem Superfish introduced. No way would I ever trust that company
by internetter | 2026-01-16 06:15:18+00:00
> Not sure whether such "criticism" is welcome here, since it is ultimately subjective, but I will just be blunt and say: I disagree.

If this was my post I'd certainly appreciate criticism.

> but I think this article overdoes it

Perhaps its overdone in places, to your credit the question about if 100 was an arbitrary number was a bit much. But, as a counterpoint, I found the related pondering of "might it make sense to have variable time duration windows" to be interesting. The interpolation YouTube ultimately selected is deceiving and variable density could be a way to mitigate that.

There's definitely a healthy balance and perhaps the author teeters on the verbose end, but I mostly just wanted to voice that I was surprised about the type of article it was, but not in an unpleasant way.
by kleinishere | 2026-01-16 06:15:32+00:00
Congrats on the innovative product and sticking with development!

How has the translation quality changed / improved since this Show HN a couple years back? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39177467

For languages not using the Roman alphabet, is it required that the user know the characters already? After registering but before starting a trial, I wasn’t clear on this.

Some comparison of who should choose this over Duolingo and why (ie features) could be useful.
by big-and-small | 2026-01-16 06:16:07+00:00
> Macbook

For most of their history Macbooks were good looking, but overheating and throttling devices with some specifically unlucky generations being pure garbage due to design problems like butterfly keyboard and flexgate. Apple also have a long history of not admitting these design flaws.

Macbooks only became a really good option in last 5 years after switch to ARM and overall industry degradation towards not upgradable and not repairable hardware.

Also even though more than decade under Lenovo thinkapds became much more fragile, but they are still much better suited to survive water, dust and physical damage. This doesn't matter if you work in comfy home, cafe, office or co-working, but there are many people who have to use their laptops in moist or dusty environments.

PS: Written from M1 Air that I bought back in 2020.
by mellosouls | 2026-01-16 06:16:11+00:00
Neither, just cheap flat earphones that come in a headband or sleeping mask. I used the term "Sleep buds" as that is what most people will be familiar with as the idea, but they don't go in the ear.

Plenty of no-name ones on eBay for years before Bose took an interest. An example brand though is Musicozy if you want to search. I don't have that brand though and can't testify to them (thinness of phones will be important and will vary between brands).

Ofc mine won't be of similar audio quality to the ones you mention but they are fine for my use at night.
by somat | 2026-01-16 06:16:18+00:00
Especially in a bouncing moving vehicle. I find touchscreens(phones) and the trackpads nearly unusable in such an environment.

It is why was a bit horrified when I was watching the first spacex manned launch and saw their main interface was a touchscreen. I guess a mitigating factor in that case is the pilots probably don't have to fiddle with it during launch and it had one feature I would love if forced to use a touchscreen in a vehicle. A dedicated bar to stabilize your fingers on.
by maxglute | 2026-01-16 06:16:55+00:00
Last year, PRC new generation is functionally >100% renewable (as in over 100%), new advanced coal plants serve as cleaner coal peakers not base load. New renewables now displaces existing coal (new trend last year) - nameplate coal is up due to new plants, but actual utilization of coal down in absolute terms.

Meanwhile what doesn't get captured in accounting is US increasing fossil exports (crude, lng etc), and PRC exporting renewables. Assuming 25 year lifecycle, PRC exports solar last year displaces ~5 years worth of US fossil exports in barrels of crude equivalent (400 GW of solar = 14000TWh electricity, or 8B barrels of oil, i.e. 22m barrels per day). TLDR PRC is reducing absolute fossil use, MASSIVELY increasing global renewable use. US is simply increasing net fossil use, much of it hidden from domestic balance sheets because it's exported globally.
by arjie | 2026-01-16 06:17:41+00:00
Agreed. I used to own a ZTE Blade. It was an incredibly cheap smartphone and you could CyanogenMod it. Great phone in the performance per $ category. It was honestly the top tier phone in that category in 2010 or whatever. And I suspect these Chinese makes are likewise the top tier in that category. But that's not the category of the iPhone Pro.
by LexiMax | 2026-01-16 06:17:50+00:00
> What bothers me is the performative nature of it

I always find it funny how these sorts of things always seem to roll one way. You can be supportive of him all you like, but if you're going to distance yourself, do it quietly - preferably silently - and please don't say anything that might cause anyone to feel bad about it.

I will admit that I haven't read Dilbert regularly since the early 00's, and certainly not since Adams revealed his uglier side - but that has more to do with me finding out about and preferring Achewood's Roast Beef as my comic surrogate computer nerd.
by nowittyusername | 2026-01-16 06:18:37+00:00
Its an issue that is caused by many factors which are mostly related to the way our large scale societies are structured and ran, but I believe it will be solved very soon... By AI. first disclaimer, I am not advocating one way or the other for this just spelling out what I see on the horizon. Very soon AI systems will become a lot more sophisticated then your average chat bot. We will interact with them naturally through voice and they will become more capable in expressing the various nuances of the human speech, conversation cadence, etc... This is where humans will find solace. In fact i believe AI will be a humans best friend, lover, parent, child, etc.... as technology progresses and these things get embodied and so on. This year alone I expect the start of mass adoption of voice agents. But yeah, that's the way i see things play out. If I am right and things go this way, and you are interacting with these things, the smart move is to make sure you own the full stack 100% and not use the api related nonsense that will eventually brainwash you for this or that reason. If you are gonna dig a hole at least dig one that doesn't have the obvious traps in it.
by andruby | 2026-01-16 06:18:57+00:00
I fondly remember visiting Wikipedia HQ in Jan 2012. It was amazing to see how small their "operation" was :)

Back then they had 474M monthly unique visitors, 83,444 active contributors and a staff of less than 100. I'm still blown away by the collaboration. To me, that was the promise of "Web 2.0".

On the kitchen door they hung xkcd 903, 906 and another webcomic mentioning that only 13% of updates to Wikipedia are from women (can't find the source). The wifi password back then was "knowledgeshouldbefree" (maybe it still is?)

https://xkcd.com/903/

https://xkcd.com/906/