MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codebje | 2026-01-28 22:14:08+00:00
It's still wrong, though.

Without dedicated sprite hardware it's not more efficient to read a byte from one place and write a byte to another than to write background bytes and write line colour bytes. DMA controllers on µCs won't save you: a character is usually something like 8x8 or 8x16 and displays are rarely more than 8 bit, so we're talking about DMA transfers of just 8 bytes each, and the overhead of setting them up more than offsets any efficiencies gained.

An 8x12 cell, for example, is 96 pixels to be transferred in 12 rows of 8 pixels. That's 96 reads, 96 writes, and (assuming an unrolled inner loop) 12 branches, to copy as a sprite. Or, it's 96 writes and 12 branches to clear, and (horizontal line) another 8 writes to draw, no branches.

When your graphics become too complex for simple drawing routines to handle them, they're probably also too complex for simple character ROMs, too.
by joshstrange | 2026-01-28 22:14:24+00:00
> I think the most annoying thing is how unevenly the policy is applied. Some megacorps pay the 30% and others like Amazon get sweetheart deals.

I agree, there were deals down to 15% I think (maybe lower) but I don't think that's still happening? I mean, Netflix finally gave up but only after increasing their IAP fee to cover the difference for many years. I might be behind the times on this but I didn't think they still had better cuts for larger corporations. I do know not all developers are treated the same (see Meta still being on the app store after all the shenanigans they pulled with enterprise certs, or Uber), and that does suck. It means that if you are big enough you can break the rules while an indie dev can have everything taken due to an automated system or mistake, even when it's not their fault.

> I have a feeling Tim is just going to tank the Trump stuff and then peace out next admin so he gets all the blame. Much like Ive and Dye have been.

I agree that's likely, though the thought of him staying till the "end" of that is not attractive.
by Scoundreller | 2026-01-28 22:14:41+00:00
Doubt it did anything in RF, only sent packets to adsbexchange’s web service that its volunteers feed it.

Also Adsbexchange has had some… history:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/comments/10l2euc/adsb_exchange...

https://hackaday.com/2023/01/26/ads-b-exchange-sells-up-cont...
by buran77 | 2026-01-28 22:14:51+00:00
> this could be solved

With a USB stick and FTP. It's very easy to underestimate a problem when you've never encountered it or tried to tackle it in practice. Your shallow dismissal gives that away and brings no insight.

Human beings will always organically organize hierarchically. In a group one will have more initiative, one will be happier to be told what to do, etc. In the end informally you will end up with the same structure. And it's hell to deal with that when formally all have the same authority so none can override each other, but one guy just gathered enough support to do whatever he wants.

Do you think someone far away from everything you do will have a magic "workflow" that tells them what to do about the budget you requested, about the strategic decision you need, or about your conflicts, about who has to do the nice jobs or the shitty ones? And why would they have any say, they're not the boss.

Your logic is no better that those pretending today that a team of AI agents "with good workflows" can just replace all the programmers.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-28 22:15:07+00:00
It is - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/london-dr...

Edit: can't reply

The majority of IPOs in 2025 were in 4 markets - US, China, Hong Kong, India, and South Korea [0]. It's really hard to exit in the LSE currently, and this article is self congratulatory while ignoring major recent (past 2-3 years) mistakes that negatively impacted the entrepreneurship scene in the UK (eg. the revocation of funding for Tech Nation [1] and the ongoing leadership crisis at Monzo [2] which makes no one look good).

[0] - https://www.ey.com/en_pt/insights/ipo/trends

[1] - https://sifted.eu/articles/tech-nation-shutting-down

[2] - https://www.ft.com/content/3405c6f3-931b-4fe3-a169-a9665a132...
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-28 22:15:14+00:00
Al Jazeera at its finest:

> the bulletin expressed concerns that countries including Russia, China, and the United States were becoming “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic”.

The Islamist Republic of Iran just slaughtered 36 000 people in a few days and is rushing to get the atomic bomb.

But Al Jazeera being The Muslim Brotherhood's propaganda arm they of course only mention Iran as a victim, not as the aggressor.

What do people honestly think the ideology behind 95%+ of all the world's terrorist attacks and behind the massive slaughter of 36 000 civilians that just happened is going to do once they get the atomic bomb? Not use and only defend themselves? I'll remind you these same people consider raping and killing 1200 civilians "resistance".

These people hate the western lifestyle to their core and they didn't hesitate to slaughter 36 000 thousands of their own for they didn't want to live under sharia law anymore.

Don't think for a second they don't dream of launching an atomic bomb on N.Y. or L.A.

Al Jazeera is an islamist propagandic outlet (and btw I don't know why we have to suffer so many articles from an islamist propagandic outlet on a tech site).
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-28 22:15:21+00:00
To be more specific,

You can't escape momentum exchange. To generate an upward force, the airplane must exert a downward force on the air molecules.

An airfoil does this more efficiently than a flat plate, essentially using the top shape to create a low pressure area that sucks the air over the top downwards, imparting the downwards momentum, along with deflecting the air downward on the bottom surface. A flat plate pitched upwards "stalls" the air on the top surface, because the air has to travel forward some to fill the gap by the plate moving forward - so this creates a lot of drag as the plate is imparting more forward momentum on the air.

The issue is that to analyze lift using momentum, you have to do statisitcal math on a grid of space around the airfoil, which is super complex. So instead, we use concept of pressure with static and dynamic pressure differences creating lift, because it makes sense to most people learning this, which then all gets rolled up into a plot of lift coefficient vs angle of attack.

And as you dive deeper, you learn more analysis tools. For example, there is also another way to analyze performance of an airfoil more accurately, which is called vorticity. If you subtract the average velocity of the airflow around an airfoil, the vector field becomes a circle. In vector math, the total curl of the vector field is directly correlated to the effective lift an airfoil can produce. This method accounts for any shape of the airfoil.

But under the hood its all momentum.
by deaddodo | 2026-01-28 22:15:27+00:00
You’re posting an argument from 6 years ago. Not including Steam OS, the Linux market share has almost quadrupled since then (to ~3.2%); including Steam OS, it’s up to ~24%. And continues to trend upwards.

You also don’t need to arbitrarily support Linux. It’s not difficult to say “this has only been tested on Fedora, Ubuntu, POP, and SteamOS; other distributions are unsupported officially”.
by Frotag | 2026-01-28 22:15:34+00:00
Yeah so instead DNAT, use NETMAP on the gateway device to that LAN. (Sorry if I'm abusing the terminology, I only do this stuff like once a year for homelab.)

eg this is what I'm currently using to alias my home network

# Rewrite 192.168.150.?? as 192.168.50.??
PreUp = iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 192.168.150.0/24 -j NETMAP --to 192.168.50.0/24
PostDown = iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING -d 192.168.150.0/24 -j NETMAP --to 192.168.50.0/24

With other wg peers getting a 192.168.150.0/24 entry in the AllowedIPs for this gateway (if needed).
by nickjj | 2026-01-28 22:15:57+00:00
I'm definitely not defending Windows but when I ran Windows 10 Pro for 11 years straight, I had no problem with performance.

We're talking a 4 core i5-4460, with 16 GB of memory and an SSD running WSL 2, Docker Desktop, real work loads, video editing, etc..

It was very performant and never got in my way. I'd leave the computer on 24 / 7 and only the monitors turned off. It only got rebooted for forced Windows patches.

With that said, my hardware can't run 11 and even if I did patch around that, I'm choosing not to run 11 so Windows for me was over near the end of 2025.

I'm running Arch now on the same box and except for GPU memory leaks, it's quite snappy. CPU intensive tasks finish faster and disk I/O feels even faster than Windows. There's also unlimited flexibility to tweak things however I see fit. Gaming performance is substantially worse for the few games I play. No regrets, except for gaming.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-28 22:16:17+00:00
Auto-hide the task bar at the bottom, and you've basically got the Gnome UI. Works just fine. It's the permanent screen reservation of the double task bar that really eats up the usable desk space.

Samsung's task bar (when you enable the DeX integration on a tablet) also supports this and it makes for a fine user experience.

Edit: I've enabled "force desktop mode" on my Pixel 9 Pro and hooked it up to my laptop dock. The UI looks almost exactly the same already. Taskbar at the bottom, notification bar at the top.

It's clearly experimental; my ultrawide screen scales horribly, my keyboard app gets horribly confused, and interacting with the top bar triggers a full-screen tablet overlay that looks a bit weird.

However, Chrome opens multiple windows and browses just fine. There are right-click menus, mouse hover interactions, window resizing features (though some apps require the "force resizable activities" flag). Ethernet Just Works, audio/video just works, and I can operate my phone screen while working in dock mode (so apps that absolutely refuse to work can still be operated through the touch screen).
by hparadiz | 2026-01-28 22:16:52+00:00
> Odd. Every few months, I see a new xorg-server version in my distro's package manager.

Yea these are security updates but the eco system requires a lot of desktop manager scaffolding in user space. That has basically stopped. It's baffling why you would run X11 today. The X11 emulation layer for Wayland works great too by the way.

Just as one example when you screen share from discord or zoom or Google meets there's now a pop-up that asks you to select the screen or window you wish to latch on to for streaming. This provides some security. With X11 anything can just take a screenshot at any time. Sure that's convenient but so many apps don't even support X11 anymore. As someone that made the switch three years ago I get how you might think the old system is better but in reality you haven't tried the new one so you don't really have a way to compare. I noticed so many quality of life fixes that I can't even imagine running X11 anymore.
by JaggedJax | 2026-01-28 22:17:29+00:00
I'm not sure when this policy was introduced, but fairly recently Jellyfin released a pretty major update that introduced a lot of bugs and performance issues. I've been watching their issue tracker as they work through them and have noticed it's flooded with LLM generated PRs and obviously LLM generated PR comments/descriptions/replies. A lot of the LLM generated PRs are a mishmash of 2-8 different issues all jumbled into a single PR.

I can see how frustrating it is to wade through those and they are distracting and taking time away from them actually getting things fixed up.
by TimorousBestie | 2026-01-28 22:17:52+00:00
An interesting question.

Assuming the FAA has the authority to enforce ADSB requirements (an open question post-Chevron), I can’t find any regulation saying non-aircrafts cannot transmit ADSB. Only ones saying aircrafts in certain categories must.

There’s probably some non-interference requirement somewhere (FCC spectrum licensing perhaps), but I’m not seeing it immediately.

All this is in the hypothetical that RF was transmitted, which as others point out it probably wasn’t.
by vel0city | 2026-01-28 22:17:59+00:00
> Both that monument and the Declaration have zero authority in our government or system of laws.

And yet we enshrine them and make monuments out of them. Why would that be if they have zero relevance to our way of life and our nation's ideals, even if we haven't perfectly followed them in history? Why shouldn't we continue to reference them when we decide what to do going forward?

We're talking about morality in the US here. >62% of Americans say they're Christian. Citing the bible in discussions about morality in the US seems pretty relevant to me. Can you tell me how its not?

I also gave additional arguments and points unrelated to ancient texts, but you're not bothering to respond to those. What a joke.
by johnea | 2026-01-28 22:18:07+00:00
It seems the article and most of the comments here are nonsense.

The focus on http versus https in allowing surveillance of fetching the tracking pixel are all but completely irrelevant.

In any case, the domain name of the tracking pixel locations will be resolved through DNS, which is almost always unencrypted. So anyone on the LAN will see the DNS query, revealing the banking URL, in plain text.

The big issue here, which I couldn't find one comment regarding, is that the email client is interpreting HTML.

Use plain text email! Problem solved. At least use a "Simple HTML" or similar mode when viewing email. Where the HTML is rendered, but no links are followed.
by timbit42 | 2026-01-28 22:18:09+00:00
Well, to start they tried putting Amazon ads in Unity's Dock which was also doing data collection, but removed them after the backlash.

Then they switched to Gnome, meaning they gave up on their own desktop, Unity, so they were no longer dictating what their desktop was like, so how much did they care?

Since then they have replaced a number of apps with SNAPs which are only available from Canonical so many people see it as an attempt to corner the Linux market. Many see AppImages and Flatpacks as better than SNAPs.

They are a company. They exist to make money. Of course they are going to decide to do things that make more money and annoy their users.
by spacechild1 | 2026-01-28 22:18:10+00:00
> It's not clear from any of the videos that he did not pose any immediate threat, even though people keep saying that.

So where do you see the potential threatening behavior? When the agent shoots Alex in the back, he is kneeling on the ground and being restrained by several agents. He has not acted in a threatening manner before the shooting nor did he physically attack the agents. The DHS report does not mention any threat either and they have already reviewed bodycam footage.

> Do not harass anyone who has a gun if you aren't willing to accept the risk that it could escalate into you losing your life.

As long as you're not attacking an officer/agent with a weapon, that risk should be very close to zero. Otherwise you're sending a very chill message to the general public.

> I do not have any particular positive or negative opinion about DHS

So you have no issues with the initial statements by Kristi Noem, Greg Bovino and Stephen Miller?
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-28 22:18:19+00:00
HN's text input panel displays ϕ as fancy and φ as plain. This is reversed in ordinary text display (a published comment, as opposed to a comment you are currently composing). And it's reversed again in the monospace formatting. (Which matches the input display.)

I'm glad you posted this. I'm not a unicode expert and have always assumed these weird dichotomies were some sort of user/configuration error on my part. Realizing the unicode glitches are actaully at the website end instead of between my ears is quite a relief.
by apelapan | 2026-01-28 22:19:00+00:00
What I am trying to disagree with, is the notation that it is unfair if high-earners and very-high-earners hand the same proportion of their wealth and income over to the government.

My take on the wealth-cap is that it isn't about fairness at all. Actually I think it would be mostly unfair, but that it would be good for society anyway. Fairness is an important value, but it is not the only value.
by pear01 | 2026-01-28 22:19:12+00:00
I believe this was "spoofed" only in the sense that a particular provider/online platform accepted data via an API that was abused to draw this on that platform only. Searching around it seems it was not found if you looked on other platforms, so it might not even have been a crime. I believe they didn't emit any real "signals" just took advantage of an API that should probably be better secured.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-28 22:19:24+00:00
Escape From Tarkov doesn't have functional anticheat on Windows. Most people either play EFT against bots (which is a $10 DLC) or modded SPT (which is free and works on Linux). Even livestreamers are struggling to play a match without cheaters post 1.0 release, you might as well play Anomaly EFP.

There's definitely a list of games that don't work; they're usually outnumbered 10:1 by better titles. I haven't booted into Windows for 7 years, there's just not many new releases worth the effort.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-28 22:19:33+00:00
Some "flagship" and higher-end-midtier phones cheap out on the USB connection. USB 2 over USB-C with USB-PD for fast charging. No video out, slow data transfers.

Maybe when desktop mode becomes more common there will be an incentive to fix the shitty USB situation.

Cheap phones probably won't really have the power to effectively multi-task so I imagine cheap models would rather disable the feature than leave the user with a bad UI.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-28 22:19:43+00:00
ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) is a protocol for planes to publish their positions, so help with the whole "not crashing into each other" thing. The data is mostly for pilots and air traffic control, but it is publicly available, and there's a number of sites that track the data so that you can see what planes are overhead or whatever.

Someone spoofed Airforce One's transponder, had it declare itself as "VANCE 1", and then fly a pattern to display the meme. Or lied to one or more of the major sites, pretending to be listening in on the ADS-B signals. It's unclear. Regardless, it's a very funny hack.
by conductr | 2026-01-28 22:20:18+00:00
How small can that slice be though?

It’s only really needed on true blue ocean innovation and where the company has to find the skills where they exist. If that’s the US, then sure they’ll continue some small slice of employment here for those projects. But as you said, a majority of software is a commodity now (has been for a long time, really). I don't feel like many companies are doing much innovative anymore and I feel people severely underestimate the talent present in other countries. So, even if you pointed to 10 innovation projects at Amazon then I could counter by saying even 85% of those teams could be in India.
by darkwater | 2026-01-28 22:20:20+00:00
I think the gist and the "virality" of this policy is:

1) we accept good quality LLM code

2) we DO NOT accept LLM generated human interaction, including PR explanation

3) your PR must explain well enough the change in the description

Which summed together are far more than "no shitty code". It's rather no shitty code that YOU understand
by ShroudedNight | 2026-01-28 22:20:34+00:00
Also worth remembering that around 2010, the music and film industry associations of America were claiming entitlement to $50 billion dollars annually in piracy-related losses beyond what could be accounted for in direct lost revenue (which _might_ have been as much as 10 billion, or 1/6th of their claim):

https://youtu.be/GZadCj8O1-0

These guys pathologically have had a chip on their shoulder since Napster.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-28 22:20:55+00:00
That's how I've been using and treating it, though I'm not primarily a developer. I work in ops, and LLMs write all sorts of disposable code for me. Primarily one-off scripts or little personal utilities. These don't get shared with anyone else, or put on github, etc. but have been incredibly helpful. SQL queries, some python to clean up or dig through some data sets, log files, etc. to spit out a quick result when something more robust or permanent isn't needed.

Plus, so far, LLMs seem better at writing code to do a thing over directly doing the thing, where it's more likely to hallucinate, especially when it comes to working with large CSV or Json files. "Re-order this CSV file to be in Alphabetical order by the Name field" will make up fake data, but "Write a python script to order the Name filed in this CSV to be alphabetical" will succeed.
by sundvor | 2026-01-28 22:21:19+00:00
The endpoint stuff kills laptop performance. I left my previous job and they let me keep my X1 Nano (1st gen; 16GB memory) which was performing abysmally towards the end.

Deleted all the partitions and did a 100% clean install (multi boot Win11/Fedora), and it's suddenly what feels like 2-4x as fast. Made sure to disable some of the Copilot and Internet content in search menu rubbish etc with a few registry tweaks (yay for having admin access to get rid of the bloat/junk).

Fedora/Wayland/Plasma still feels faster though - I just had some issues getting my video to work properly across all of Teams and Zoom.
by jibal | 2026-01-28 22:22:07+00:00
> I'm mostly trying to make sense of the world

By completely ignoring the facts about it.

> So in regards to this economic issue, it seems that human personality traits that lead to disproportionate power/influence/money are distributed non-uniformly to an extreme extent.

It doesn't seem that way to people who look at ALL factors, not just this one that is chosen to justify a sociopathic ideology.
by timbit42 | 2026-01-28 22:22:14+00:00
I tried Fedora once. On a fresh install, all it did was clog up all the hard drive space with error logs within 3 days.

I'm not interested in any distro that is controlled by a corporation. IBM is a corporation and they already screwed up CentOS and is eventually going to screw up Fedora someday because that's what corporations do, and I'm not interesting in going through that.

You have your fun running Fedora for now but know you're going to get burned someday.
by fragmede | 2026-01-28 22:22:16+00:00
> The agent runs locally.

Oh the agent running locally, not the LLM itself. We'll see. The amount of prompting I do with Claude code via the app and not at my desk is way more than I ever would have thought. Flash of inspiration for a thing while I'm on the bus? Open the app on my phone and start a session from my phone, for me to check when I next get to a computer.
by rayiner | 2026-01-28 22:22:30+00:00
> People should not be allowed to accumulate capital beyond $X, yes.

The term "capital" is an abstraction that's not helpful here. The big "wealth" numbers are all about equity ownership in highly valued companies. Bezos owns 9% of Amazon stock. That's why he's "rich." What should happen to that stock? What happens to his voting control over Amazon?
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-28 22:22:57+00:00
At the last startup I worked at, CEO grabbed me just happening to pass by his office to proudly show me how many people at Apple had "opened" his newsletter.

I explained what that number actually means and watched his eyes totally glaze over. Doesn't matter. The "Apple number" was greater than zero so clearly he was successful at his job. (Entirely unrelated, he now has one employee and zero customers)