MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rm30 | 2026-01-17 22:12:15+00:00
Excellent technical history, but it misses what made Olivetti incomparable: Adriano's human-centric philosophy that business and human culture were inseparable.

The article mentions worker housing and urban planning in passing, then moves on. But that was the strategy. Ivrea wasn't welfare—it was integrated design. Factory, housing, schools, public spaces all operating under one coherent philosophy: machines and lives should both be beautiful and functional.

Search "Olivetti negozio", "fabbrica" or "architettura"—the retail design and factory architecture show it, decades before Apple. But more importantly, search for Adriano's writing on the Community Movement. He believed you couldn't separate good design from good society. The red typewriter wasn't just aesthetics; it was a statement about human dignity.

That's why Olivetti succeeded where technically equivalent competitors didn't. They engineered for humans, not just machines. Beauty, culture, and production were one integrated system.

The article's strength—technical rigor and business detail—accidentally proves the weakness: it treats design and culture as separate from engineering. Olivetti proved they're the same thing.

(I have a working M10 from 1983. Still remarkable machine—that tiltable screen, the integrated design. They were still building for humans, not just specs.)
by maqp | 2026-01-17 22:12:16+00:00
As per (AFAIK) this hacker's rant on some Tor-based image board, he gloated the login credentials to the Vastaamo's systems were admin:admin. So much for 'hacker god'. This is a Hackers (1995) tier vulnerability. Also, it's sickening that YOLOing security to this extent is even possible in 2020s.
by tonyedgecombe | 2026-01-17 22:12:19+00:00
>someone has to make a native cross-platform desktop UI framework that doesn't suck.

You can't. At best it will shine on one platform and be mediocre on all the others. At worst it will be mediocre everywhere. There are too many differences between Windows, macOS and the various Linux desktops. That's before you start thinking about mobile.
by mosura | 2026-01-17 22:13:20+00:00
It failed because there is an ongoing denial that development and operations are two distinct skillsets.

If you think 10x devs are unicorns consider how much harder it is to get someone 10x at the intersection of both domains. (Personally I have never met one). You are far better off with people that can work together across the bridge, but that requires actual mutual trust and respect, and we’re not able to do that.
by nehal3m | 2026-01-17 22:13:32+00:00
I write for fun, to organize and articulate my thoughts, and I love doing that in vim. The same is true for note taking (I just write .md files and sync them with syncthing). I also like working neomutt. It's just fun working with (relatively) simple, stable tools that seem to grow on you over time for every day tasks. Writing code is just one of those things.
by pstuart | 2026-01-17 22:13:52+00:00
I agree that support is crucial, but stand by the "danger" of distraction. Digital distraction is a drug, and like other drugs has pros and cons -- I don't mean to demonize it. But it cannot be ignored.

We've collectively arrived at point where we could have a post-scarcity society where the arts could be a driving force for so many of us. It's painful to see these possibilities and know that they are out of reach because of the sociopaths who have power over us.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-17 22:13:58+00:00
It’s possible to vibe code certain generic things in a few hours if you’re basically combining common, thoroughly documented, mature building blocks. It’s not going to be production ready or polished but you can get surprisingly far with some things.

For real work, that phase is like starting from a template or a boilerplate repo. The real work begins after the basics are wired together.
by rendx | 2026-01-17 22:14:42+00:00
There's also the Commander In-Chief of the German reichswehr quote about officers:

"I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord
by celsoazevedo | 2026-01-17 22:16:16+00:00
Russia wasn't governed by a bunch of easily to bait and inexperienced morons. They saw an opportunity and went for it, no different from their involvement in Belarus or Georgia. And it worked. They took Crimea, started crap in the east, Ukraine's government was weak, etc.

Before 2022, the US even sent the CIA director to Russia to warn them not to go ahead with the full scale invasion[0]. Multiple warnings were made[1]. If it was bait, then it was pretty bad bait or some pretty advanced "4D chess" moves.

I'm not saying that there wasn't any US and EU meddling in Ukraine (alongside Russia's own meddling), but you don't just bait Russia like that.

Regarding your comment, I'm sure you can understand why I raise my eyebrow when I see someone blaming a 3rd party for the war in Ukraine and nothing about the country who actually invaded Ukraine. Russia, not the US, is responsible for Russia's own actions.

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[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/02/politics/cia-director-rus...

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/24/russia-ukr...
by ZpJuUuNaQ5 | 2026-01-17 22:16:50+00:00
What bothers me the most about LLM-generated CSS is the inclusion of these long and completely unnecessary transitions. Every single time, it's the transform on hover and opacity+transform on page load. Why? I haven't noticed these patterns that often on popular sites, but for AI-generated UIs this seems to be the default. If you hover on elements and switch pages frequently, these animations become annoying really quickly.
by amluto | 2026-01-17 22:17:11+00:00
Me too. But have you been in a competently built insulated and unvented attic? The insulation on top makes an enormous difference, to the point that the attic can usually maintain a very pleasant temperature.

While it’s true that the top side of above-attic insulation will be rather warmer than a vented attic on a hot sunny day, insulation on top of your attic also tends to work rather better than ceiling insulation. And there are plenty of other benefits to an unvented, insulated attic.
by joecool1029 | 2026-01-17 22:17:14+00:00
Nobody clicks the link and reads… they just use the slop generators, now I’m stuck having to do tard wrangling:

> Sections 510 - allows for seizure of unlawful equipment (47 U.S.C. § 510).

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/510

> (a) Violation with willful and knowing intent
Any electronic, electromagnetic, radio frequency, or similar device, or component thereof, used, sent, carried, manufactured, assembled, possessed, offered for sale, sold, or advertised with willful and knowing intent to violate section 301 or 302a of this title, or rules prescribed by the Commission under such sections, may be seized and forfeited to the United States.

Guess what? You don’t have to be a fucking lawyer to know how to read.
by Insanity | 2026-01-17 22:17:45+00:00
NK and China are not at the same level lol - NK is almost an inescapable dictatorship, with routine mistreatment and indoctrination. If that were true, you can claim the current US is 1930s Nazi Germany, with a right wing government using media manipulation and “othering”, in a pseudo dictatorship.

Not to mention the US and China use similar “low level” indoctrination strategies (like swearing allegiance to the flag in schools)
by azan_ | 2026-01-17 22:18:26+00:00
> evaluate whether the generated code solves it correctly, consider security implications, ensure it integrates properly with existing systems, and maintain it as requirements evolve

I think you are basing your reasoning on the current generation of models. But if future generation will be able to do everything you've listed above, what work will be there left for developers? I'm not saying that we will ever get such models, just that when they appear, they will actually displace developers and not create more jobs for them.
The business problem will be specified by business people, and even if they get it wrong it won't matter because iteration will be quick and cheap.

> What is your rebuttal to this argument leading to the idea that developers do need to fear for their job security?

The entire argument is based on assumption that models won't get better and will never be able to do things you've listed! But once they become capable of these things - what work will be there for developers?
by allenrb | 2026-01-17 22:18:45+00:00
Nothing about this struck me as a sign that money wasn’t well-invested. From the headline, I was picturing “we raised and then I blew it in Vegas”.

Nothing wrong with admitting to uncertainty and insecurity. I mean, there are two types of people — those who suffer doubt sometimes, and those who don’t admit it. Give me the first kind any time.
by taurath | 2026-01-17 22:19:01+00:00
Identities shift over time whether we intend it or not. Who you were at 5, or 10 is not who you are at 20, 30, 40. We all pick up baggage, trinkets, burdens, and experiences.

One worries because it was a helpful strategy compared to not worrying, but some (like me very specifically) can get attached to that worry to the detriment of picking up other mechanisms.
by mkl | 2026-01-17 22:19:02+00:00
In some circumstances it has a registration wall. I recently ran into it on one of my computers, and it prevented me from reading some articles until I removed the modals with browser devtools. Stupid and pointless, and just pushes people away or towards workarounds like archive.is. I've given The Guardian money in the past but I don't have or want an account.
by gethly | 2026-01-17 22:19:49+00:00
Not recent but in general:

martial arts

serious running

non-web programming

cigar smoking

shaving my head

growing my beard

carnivore / keto / nutrition education

using soap for showering instead of gels

dressing for comfort(now i wear only sportswear)

buying larger shoes

grounding my own coffee instead of buying grounded coffee due to much lower variety compared to whole bean coffees

getting rid of google and all its services(i have YT account but i have no "channel")

not wasting time commenting on YT videos or tweeting as it's a fool's errand

investing
by yadavrh | 2026-01-17 22:19:53+00:00
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by Mawr | 2026-01-17 22:20:00+00:00
Driving isn't realistically a personal choice. Roadways designed for cars extend from every single point in the country to every other. The support for alternative methods of transportation varies greatly by area, but is generally poor.

Riding a bike or taking the bus is objectively the worse option for most people. That's not personal choice, that's policy.

Reversing course for a car-culture country like the US would take 50+ years. If it's even possible, which I personally don't think it is — the US is too far gone.
by piva00 | 2026-01-17 22:20:08+00:00
The Baltics are protected under the EU defence clause, NATO or not they will be assisted by the EU.

It's already quite clear the US has virtually left NATO, at this point they wouldn't assist at all with a landgrab in the Baltics so I'm glad the EU defence treaty is more forceful about the level of aid/assistance than Article 5.

NATO at this point is virtually dead, there's no trust in the USA and the rhetoric about Greenland has cemented it. Hope the Canucks can join a defence pact with the EU, the Trump admin and its Project 2025 achieved what they wanted.
by allreduce | 2026-01-17 22:20:18+00:00
The problem is not going away until the deskilling of the software profession is reversed.

I don't see it happening for end user stuff like Reddit. The market seems to want the barely working thing for the most cheap in all consumer product categories.

And hiring someone desperate who has skimmed a React and Node JS tutorial page and is now fullstack something is cheap. Or at least the kind of cheap you can reach by greedily optimizing KPIs.
by echelon | 2026-01-17 22:20:33+00:00
> > The image of Saturn was generated with ChatGPT.

> Wait...wh...why?!?

It has just begun. Wait until nobody bothers using Wikipedia, websites, or even one day forums.

This is going to eat everything.

And when it's immediate to say something like, "I need a high contrast image of Saturn of dimensions X by Y, focus on Saturn, oblique angle" -- that's going to be magic.

We'll look at the internet and Google like we look at going to the library and grabbing an encyclopedia off the shelves.

The use of calculators didn't kill ingenuity, nor did the switch to the internet. Despite teachers protesting both.

Humans will always use the lowest friction thing, and we will never stop reaching for the stars.
by imachine1980_ | 2026-01-17 22:21:30+00:00
I disagree, I know the opinion of WSJ, WP, FT or national like france24,DW, BBC, RT,AJ
Or at least know is always opinion Base, the facts are selected in a subjecive way.

Is way harder to know how opinionated Wikipedia is, and everything make them sound like their opinion is only base on facts but isn't.
by tga | 2026-01-17 22:21:41+00:00
_Every_ ticket system with an API (all of them) is a ticket system in a box. You can add that functionality to your application by talking to the API directly.

I think what you are thinking about is a standard API for ticket systems, that would allow you to transparently swap them. Unlike authentication, nobody has bothered to standardize something like that because ticket systems are more varied, not as often integrated into other platforms, and even more rarely replaced.
by Animats | 2026-01-17 22:21:52+00:00
"Boyd" (2004) is a bio of John Boyd. Boyd was a USAF fighter jock and a very good one, and his OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) cycle is a Marine icon. The USAF never really liked him, because he was loudly critical of some high level USAF aircraft decisions.

Boyd had a lot of influence on the design of the F-16, the fighter jock's dream airplane. He also pushed for, of all things, the A-10 Warthog, hated by fighter jocks, loved by ground troops who really needed close air support.

Reading up on the OODA loop is useful. Boyd himself barely wrote anything about it. Others have written volumes.
by blutoot | 2026-01-17 22:21:56+00:00
I would say, in pre-CC (pre-claude-code), this might seem like a daunting task for average DevOps engineers. But in post-CC, there is just no excuse to fret from such challenges.

EDIT: lol - I am getting downvoted for suggesting some DevOps engineers will actually be ready to take on tasks that were previously more intimidating. I really hope those folks are from the never-coding-agent camp. When I refer to. reliance on CC or Codex, I meant being engaged at a wholesome level with AI -- not blindly one-shotting solutions. This means having the patience to understand the complexity of the system, the criticality of its downtime in the overall architecture (in this case it's the k8s controller), ability to learn the codebase, using the right MCPs to delve into all the details needed for testing changes locally etc). These are system-level skills and barely overlaps with just coding skills.
by hypfer | 2026-01-17 22:22:01+00:00
Honestly it needed an LLM to tell me that it is satire, because I tuned out at the 20% mark.

The author seems to be so deep in the radioactive weeds that even if it is satire and they're distancing themself from it, they're still likely to already have experienced a near-lethal dose.

Worded differently, I would argue that anyone who sees this and _understands it_ is stuck in something very unhealthy and needs to get out very fast. Using this level of satire as a coping mechanism just prolongs what shouldn't be prolonged (or exist in the first place).
by zug_zug | 2026-01-17 22:23:09+00:00
I've spent 20+ years in the industry seeking to understand first, and my conclusions have pretty consistently been that the systems are broken and inefficient as people already talk about. The caveat I'd add is that the critics themselves would also be just as much as a crapshoot.

Honestly it sounds to me like the author doesn't truly understand the inherent conflicts of interest at a large company. For example a really common anti-pattern is "Nobody knows X thing is a problem my team manages in a problem (e.g. our app eats battery usage), but if I draw attention to it they'll want to measure it forever. So do not make it a focus."

In short pretty much never does any employees/manager's/executives interest align with the company.
by piva00 | 2026-01-17 22:23:11+00:00
Not even the US can stand against China by itself...

The EU still has a large military industrial base getting revitalised as we speak, it didn't rot, it simply didn't need to pump out massive amounts of gear until this point.

Poland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Czechia, etc. all have different kinds of weapons manufacturers. You can even include the UK, and Norway in the mix even though they aren't in the EU.
by adolph | 2026-01-17 22:23:51+00:00
> Many of these scientific file formats (HDF5, netCDF, TIFF/COG, FITS, GRIB, JPEG and more) are essentially just contiguous multidimensional array(/"tensor") chunks

Yeah, a recurring thought is that these should condense into Apache Arrow queried by DuckDB but there must be some reason for this not to have already happened.
by cco | 2026-01-17 22:24:45+00:00
Cactus Chat is probably the easiest.

Just download the app and it has a few built-in model options. The best of those is probably Gemma-3 1B Q4 but on my Pixel 10 Pro I find the best performing model it can reasonably run is Qwen3 8B Q4_K_M.

You can download and run any GGUF compatible model with that app.
by omnimus | 2026-01-17 22:25:39+00:00
Farage whos been campaigning for Trump in US multiple times? Meloni who is Elon Musks bestie going on dates together?

Their disapproval of Trump is simply calculation. They would have been hurt too much otherwise. Once most of europe will go their way (europe has huge hard right turn incoming) the rhetoric will change. It will be normalized, they will sell europe in name of anti-regulation, lack of innovation and “incompetence” of other eu states.
by cma | 2026-01-17 22:26:10+00:00
The TPU implementation used approximate top-k instead of the exact used on nvidia. While that wouldn't matter too much and there was a bug with it, it still was a cost savings thing not to use exact from the beginning because it wasn't efficient on TPUs which they were routing to under load. So it was a bit of a model difference under load, even aside from the bug.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-01-17 22:26:24+00:00
this works for small increments in skill or small shifts in adjacent skills.

imagine being an engineer educated in multiple instruction sets: when compilers arrive on the scene it sure makes their job easier, but that does not retroactively change their education to suddenly have all the requisite mathematics and domain knowledge of say algorithms and data structures.

what is euphemistically described as a "remaining need for people to design, debug and resolve unexpected behaviors" is basically a lie by omission: the advent of AI does not automatically mean previously representative human workers suddenly will know higher level knowledge in order to do that. it takes education to achieve that, no trivial amount of chatbotting will enable displaced human workers to attain that higher level of consciousness. perhaps it can be attained by designing software that uploads AI skills to humans...
by mji | 2026-01-17 22:26:36+00:00
> At very large software companies, programming ability, technical expertise, and raw resources are not the limiting factors. Coordination is.

If coordination is your limiting factor I'd argue that it shouldn't be, and you're not investing enough in removing it as a factor. Companies can use various tools to do this, for example:

* Defining directly responsible individuals / single-threaded leaders so that every choice doesn't involve massive coordination

* Putting people who work together in the office sitting next to each other most days of the week

* Or, for remote work, having a strong culture of async communication that is visible to the broader group by default, for example with Slack
by libraryofbabel | 2026-01-17 22:26:38+00:00
I was also curious about this quote, and it sounded to me too like Donne (or Pascal or Robert Boyle, a bit).

But Gemini 3.0 knew what it was, and it is from Omar Khayyám like the sibling commenter said, but from the little-known E. H. Whinfield translation (1883) rather than the more famous Fitzgerald one:

—-

221. (395.)

Such as I am, Thy power created me,

Thy care hath kept me for a century!

Through all these years I make experiment,

If my sins or Thy mercy greater be.

——-

Link to the actual page in Google books:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NN_TAAAAMAAJ&q=Experimen...
by anal_reactor | 2026-01-17 22:26:43+00:00
> Europe cant afford to have enemies on both sides

Neither can the US. Imagine Europe supporting China in exchange for China backstabbing Russia - entire Ukraine and Belarus and maybe even Kaliningrad suddenly are up for grabs for EU while China gets Russian territories that it has historical claims to. Then China gets access to European technology (ASML and Airbus) which means that the US stops having massive technological advantage and suddenly the conquest of Taiwan starts being more realistic. China and Europe are too far away physically to come in direct conflict, especially as EU doesn't care about being a superpower.

This is unimaginable right now, but the more EU decouples from the US because of its unreliability, the more it might actually work out.
by tzs | 2026-01-17 22:27:07+00:00
I'd expect quite a few consumers would still want them. Canada has cheap electricity and expensive gasoline. For those who don't live in some part of Canada so cold that the efficiency of an EV drops massively due to heating an EV can save quite a bit on energy costs.

Around 65-75% of Canadians live in parts of Canada that have winter temperatures similar to those of Norway's major cities and EVs perform fine in Norway so will probably also be fine in Canada.

The US and Japanese and Korean car companies are putting most of their EV effort, at least in the US and Canada, into the more expensive models. They don't have much that is the EV equivalent of a Toyota Corolla or a Honda Civic for non-SUVs, or the equivalent of a RAV4 or CR-V for EVs.

Honda for example only has the Prologue, which is built on top of GM's Equinox EV platform and starts at about $15k more than an Equinox EV.

The Chinese EV companies seem more willing to address that segment. Even if they have to pay union wages to build them there will be demand because it will still be cheaper than the EVs that are aimed at a more upscale market the other companies are mostly making.