MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by loufe | 2026-02-06 16:23:16+00:00
The lack of integrated sandboxing in windows compared to android/iphone is still frankly unacceptable. I've become increasingly paranoid about running any application on Windows (not that your average linux distro is even remotely better) and yet Apple and Google seem to be far, far ahead in user permissions (especially with GrapheneOS, god bless that team) and isolation of processes.

Consumers and businesses deserve better. It's crazy to me that in 2026 Notepad++ being compromised means as much potential damage as it does, still.
by usefulcat | 2026-02-06 16:23:32+00:00
I've been using c++ for over 30 years. 20-30 years ago I was mostly using MSVC (including version 6), and it absolutely had bugs, sometimes in handling the language spec correctly and sometimes regarding code generation.

Today, I use gcc and clang. I would say that compiler bugs are not common in released versions of those (i.e. not alpha or beta), but they do still occur. Although I will say I don't recall the last time I came across a code generation bug.
by trentnix | 2026-02-06 16:24:01+00:00
Yep that's Explorers!

I was a bit too young for Stand By Me. The subject matter was just too serious for me at that age. But I also grew up in a small town in the country where exploring was a normal thing.

I would meet kids from college that were from much larger towns and they'd complain "I grew up in so-and-so and there's NOTHING for kids to do there!"

I'd think to myself, "you have no idea what you're talking about. I used to go to your town to do stuff!"
by talkingtab | 2026-02-06 16:24:18+00:00
Yimby vs Nimby is yet another divisive jingoism - simply putting tags on things and then using them as if significant.

The situation is more complex. The forces about housing right now are incredibly destructive. Rich people want to make more money by building expensive homes. In this case NIMBY is the correct solution. In other cases Rich People want to prevent affordable housing. In this case YIMBY is the correct solution. But blindly applying these terms provides a cover for a complicated situation. We have cults of personality, and now we have cults of Jargonism. Neither helps us.

Being outraged because lawyers don't want you to speak is great. The issues legal and housing issues are far more complex and important.
by cgh | 2026-02-06 16:24:21+00:00
Exactly this. At work, I’ve seen front-end people generating probably 80% of their code because when you set aside framework churn, a lot of it is boilerplatey and borderline trivial (sorry). Meanwhile, the programmers working on the EV battery controller that uses proprietary everything and where a bug could cause an actual explosion are using LLMs as advanced linters and that’s it.
by triceratops | 2026-02-06 16:24:34+00:00
Why would they cut down the forest to turn it into apartments? It's more economical to bulldoze existing single-family homes and do it there. The roads are already built, you'd just need to upgrade utilities and so on. There are people living in those single-family homes who would gladly take the opportunity to sell their land for higher than market value but are prevented from doing so.

It's more common for forests to be cut down because dense housing is illegal, so cities have to keep expanding outwards.
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-06 16:25:07+00:00
> More housing in region X will result in lower housing prices in region Y.

Or higher prices in Y, because X will be both more crowded and with on average poorer people than before the supply increase, and people who prefer a less crowded area and less poor people (either directly because they are poor, or because of other demographic traits that correlate with wealth in the broader society, like race in the USA) around them will have an even higher relative preference for living in Y than before.

> The interests of people from region Y are valid.

They exist, validity is...at best, not a case you have made. Existence of a material interest does not imply validitym
by duxup | 2026-02-06 16:25:09+00:00
How many people are actually capable of producing any level of critical thinking that would give them an advantage?

But let’s say you are in fact very smart and you know the market is hanging by a thread.

So you invest according to what you know…. But those sheep don’t do the same and the market continues to go up in spite of what you know….

Does that analysis matter now?
by awad | 2026-02-06 16:25:21+00:00
For those not as well-versed in corporate PR....Salesforce are going to do just the bare minimum to keep the service going until the revenue dries up (or some > 0 $$ threshold where it just doesn't financially make sense to keep it running).

Pour one out for Heroku as they were truly a revelation back in the day and one of the most magical experiences ever on first run.
by dataflow | 2026-02-06 16:25:24+00:00
No, it's insane to have to rely on that workaround. Having to download raw logs, bring up a terminal, go to that directory, and type less -R, is already a massive pain. All of that and you don't even get back a basic scrollbar.

And how do you expect people to even know about this workaround, and how to search for text with it? It's not like the GitHub UI even tells you. Not everyone is a Linux pro.

Nobody is saying it's impossible to get past the ANSI escape codes. People eventually figure out ways to do it. The claim is how much of your time do you want to lose to friction in that process, which you have to repeated frequently. It's insane for it to be this hard.
by UncleMeat | 2026-02-06 16:25:33+00:00
Orientalism is a discussion of how europeans engaged with culture from the near and far east, yes. That's a topic on europeans. And europeans engaged with this culture incompletely, which is not exactly a surprise for any community on the planet.

Again, the reason why we see more courses on Orientalism than the reverse is because of the continued disproportionate focus on european history in the academy. And at least for my professor friend who teaches indigenous american history, there is absolutely discussion of the ways that they understood and misunderstood europeans.

I do not understand how a modern authoritarian leader relates to this whatsoever. Does Erdogan have some say in history curricula at US universities?
by jcranmer | 2026-02-06 16:25:36+00:00
It is generally considered a bug in a compiler if its output is nondeterministic. Of course, compilers are large, complex beasts, and nondeterminism is so easy to accidentally introduce (e.g., do a "for each" in a map where the key is a pointer), that it's probably not too hard to find cases that have nondeterminism.

> PGO seems like it ought to have a random element.

PGO should be deterministic based on the runs used to generate the profile. The runs are tracking information that should be deterministic--how many times does the the branch get taken versus not taken, etc. HWPGO, which relies on hardware counters to generate profiling information, may be less deterministic because the hardware counters end up having some statistical slip to them.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-02-06 16:25:36+00:00
> For my tastes telling me "no" instead of hallucinating an answer is a real breakthrough.

It's all anecdata--I'm convinced anecdata is the least bad way to evaluate these models, benchmarks don't work--but this is the behavior I've come to expect from earlier Claude models as well, especially after several back and forth passes where you rejected the initial answers. I don't think it's new.
by mlyle | 2026-02-06 16:25:39+00:00
Just because people need a grocery store doesn't mean that you're guaranteed to make money running one.

multiplying huge revenue by a small percentage to get a big positive number

to multiplying huge revenue by a small negative percentage to get a big negative number

So that's how Kroger managed to lose billions over the last couple of quarters, or how small changes in shoplifting/shrinkage based on store makeup can cause losses to some chains, etc.
by czhu12 | 2026-02-06 16:26:03+00:00
I’ve been developing an open source Heroku alternative so we may never again be gouged for nice deployment pipelines.

https://canine.sh

It supports all the quality of life features like opening a shell via a cli, which I found was one of my favorite parts of Heroku (canine run —myproject /bin/bash)

Been fortunate enough to get a sponsorship from the Portainer folks, which allows me to maintain and develop full time!
by kristjansson | 2026-02-06 16:26:19+00:00
> Right next door is Hawthorne

30 minutes drive in no traffic, crossing half a dozen cities and the 405. There's reasons to inveigh against the YIMBYs (why are they celebrating densifying a coastal area that's actively falling into the pacific[1], nevermind it's inherent beauty) but let's not deny geography.

Also RPV doesn't have 1-5 acre lots, it just costs ~$4m for an house on a normal lot, rising to ~$20m as you get to the coast. You might be thin thinking of Rolling Hills, to the extent you're thinking of anything on the peninsula at all?

[1]: https://www.rpvca.gov/719/Landslide-Management-Program
by mullingitover | 2026-02-06 16:26:27+00:00
> Would you expect the collapse of the yen carry trade to cause the Dow to collapse as well?

USD devalued ~10% last year, so some of the losses are already priced into the DJI. When you account for that and sprinkle in ~3% inflation, it has lost value despite being up ~11% in the last year.
by jjice | 2026-02-06 16:26:37+00:00
Define investment in this case. He's the cofounder of HashiCorp. I guess you could refer to his equity as an investment here, but I don't really think it tracks the same in this context.

He may have a vested interest, but he did cofound HashiCorp as an engineer that actually developed the products, so I find his insight at least somewhat valuable.
by dangus | 2026-02-06 16:26:38+00:00
IMO, you’re not really an open source project if you’re not accepting contributions with reasonably low friction.

I’ll call this what it is: a commercial product (they have a pricing page) that uses open source as marketing to sell more licenses.

The only PRs they want are ones that offer free professional level labor.

They’re too uncaring about the benefits of an open community to come up with a workflow to adapt to AI.

It honestly gives me a lack of confidence that they can maintain their own code quality standards with their own employees.

Think about it: when/if this company grows to a larger size, if they can’t handle AI slop from contributors how can they handle AI slop from a large employee base?
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 16:26:38+00:00
@a_better_world: (apt username for this conversation!)

I do understand what you mean, and I do comprehend that animal testing cannot be avoided for scientific advancements to help and progress humanity.

But I have a simple motto I want to adhere to (it is very hard though, to practice it in principle and action daily):
Ethics is best when it is for the good of humanity, without being bad for Earth.

In recent years, I am starting to feel humanity is sharply veering away from its basic ethics (and the first ethic must be to not shit where one eats - but hey, we are actively aggressively destroying the only beautiful bountiful planet we know of, that can support humanity), and doing whatever the top richest most-powerful elites want.

And this unbridled greed and apathy is going to sow the seeds for the downfall of humanity, I'm afraid. At the cost of our precious Earth and its other denizens who share this planet with us humans.

There has been a catastrophic 73% decline in the average size of monitored wildlife populations* in just 50 years (1970-2020), according to World Wildlife Fund‘s (WWF) Living Planet Report 2024.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/news/press-releases/catastroph...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3j0vzpl3o

Forests around the world disappeared at a rate of 18 soccer fields every minute, a global survey found.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/climate/deforestation-wri...

Our generation is the last one that can still save the wild forests of the Earth, which help us cope with the climate crisis and preserve the biodiversity of the planet. A new study by Greenpeace Russia and the University of Maryland has shown that if urgent and effective measures are not taken to preserve wild forests, most of them will disappear in the next 20 years.

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/51810/wild-fo...
by MarkusQ | 2026-02-06 16:26:38+00:00
>> That's why you block ALL ads. Starve the beast. If an app has ads, I do not use it, end of story.

> Unfortunately the "beast" is the Internet content itself.

So be it.

It's like someone realizing that their crack dealer is an untrustworthy scumbag who is destroying everything the care about and they need to totally cut ties with him, and a friend objecting "Unfortunately, the 'scumbag' is your crack supplier himself."

Yeah, we know that. If starving the beast means we have to give up our unhealthy addictions, it's probably a side benefit rather than a counter argument.
by a456463 | 2026-02-06 16:26:45+00:00
Yup. All the tech hype bros are like "but my compiler"... Nobody was paying me to write a compiler, the meaning of "clean room" keeps changing, that they had to spend $20k (on the surface), not include the energy costs, the hardware costs, the time of assembly, etc. If you only paid that much money to a person and group of people. It is the hype bros wet dream to extract all value out of people and somehow get rich. Who cares if humanity suffers, look what I built for myself by enslaving people and wasting earth resources. Every single AI fetishist in this thread is responsible for it.
by anal_reactor | 2026-02-06 16:26:52+00:00
> I don't quite understand why one would waste so much resources and compute to expand some lazily conceived half-sentence into 10 paragraphs, as if it scores them some points.

Because it does. The goal here isn't to create good code, it's to create an impression of a person who writes good code. Even now, when software career is in freefall, for many people in poor countries it's still their only way out of poverty so they'll try everything possible to build a portfolio and get a job and the suffering of your little pet project isn't a part of the equation. Those people aren't trying to get Nobel prizes, they're trying to get any job that isn't farming with literal medieval-era technology.

My very radical personal opinion is that either we have small elitist circles of trust, or the internet will remain a global ghetto.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-06 16:27:12+00:00
I'd say it's even more true with appimage and flatpak options for desktop apps, and docker/podman containers for development use.

My biggest hobby project right now has several dependency services that are configured via docker compose and some script files for development.. then the couple services/application I'm working on are literally setup to run in dev containers watching/running against mounted volumes to the source director(ies). It's very portable to any nix-like environment with docker installed in terms of dev. Including Windows with git/msys bash or wsl.

You can use pretty much whatever Linux you want or suits your needs... relatively easily. I'm probably going to get to a point for first release over the weekend... a lot of it AI assisted (Claude Code) and pretty happy with it.
Show HN: Seatplan.io – To-scale event seating planner with collision detection
by Sharanxxxx | 2026-02-06 16:27:14+00:00
Hi HN, I’m the creator of SeatPlan.

I built this because I found that most people planning events are still stuck between two extremes: using a generic tool like Canva (which lacks scale and guest-list logic) or heavy CAD software (which is overkill and hard to share).

I wanted to build a 'spatial spreadsheet' for events. The goal was to combine a to-scale coordinate system with a guest management database.

Some technical details for those interested:

To-Scale Engine: Everything is drawn based on real-world dimensions (feet/meters) to ensure that if it fits on the screen, it actually fits in the ballroom.

Collision Logic: I implemented basic collision detection so users don't accidentally overlap tables or place furniture outside the room boundaries.

Collaborative State: It uses [mention tech, e.g., WebSockets or Yjs] to allow real-time guest shuffling between a planner and a client without the client needing an account.

PWA: It’s optimized for tablets so it can be used on-site at a venue with low connectivity.

The pricing is a flat monthly fee because I personally hate per-event or per-seat billing in this industry.

I’m looking for feedback on the UX—specifically, how the table/guest assignment feels. Is the 'snap-to' logic too aggressive, or does it help?

I'll be here to answer any questions about the canvas implementation or the guest-import logic!
by mothballed | 2026-02-06 16:27:43+00:00
It's a pretty core element of democracy, that if the majority says they get to do a violence against you for a certain behavior, then they get to do that. It might be immoral but it's the current religion of this area of the world *.

* But muh republic -- spare me, the zoning fiasco shows the current constitutional limits on democracy doesn't stop it.
Show HN: Enhance – a TUI for GitHub Actions is now open source
by dlvhdr | 2026-02-06 16:28:41+00:00
Thanks to all the awesome supporters I've reached my goal of 150$ a month in donations.
With that ENHANCE is now open source!

This is the goal I've set myself and was really happy to see people supporting OSS like this.

Hopefully support will continue and I will make even more awesome TUI apps to make the terminal the ultimate place for developers - without depending on web apps!

Check out some of the supporters on my sponsors page at https://github.com/sponsors/dlvhdr.

Also, the docs site is at https://gh-dash.dev/enhance.
by Jensson | 2026-02-06 16:29:02+00:00
> its not necessarily "capitalism". Think about how Myspace was, or early Facebook, that was capitalism but didn't have the same issues.

No thats exactly capitalism, capitalism ensures processes gets more and more efficient over time, as you say previous versions were less efficient at inducing addictive behaviors but capitalism ensured we progressed towards more and more addictive apps and patterns.

Capitalism doesn't mean we start out with the most efficient money extractor, it just moves towards the most efficient money extractor with time unless regulated.

This is well known and a feature, capitalism moves towards efficiency and regulation helps direct that movement so that it helps humanity rather than hurts us. Capitalism would gladly serve you toxic food but regulations ensures they earn more money by giving you nutritious food. Now regulations are lagging a bit there so there is still plenty of toxic food around, but it used to be much worse than now, the main problem with modern food is that people eat too much directly toxic compounds.
by jamestimmins | 2026-02-06 16:29:31+00:00
I keep thinking about two very different cases wrt existing platforms:

1. My cousin who works for an enterprise real estate SaaS company. He said their main product has iirc 10-20,000 database tables.

2. Evernote users had famously little overlap in which features they used. Everyone use a slightly different subset of Evernote tools.

I wonder if you could create a 2x2 grid of these two scenarios to determine a SaaS tool's likelihood of being replaced with AI.

- Complex Data Model + High feature adoption: Low risk of AI

- Complex Data Model + Low feature adoption: Medium risk short term. High long term.

- Simple data model + High feature adoption: High long term risk risk, but limited ability to grow accouts

- Simple data + low feature adoption: Very high risk
by marklar423 | 2026-02-06 16:29:37+00:00
IIUC, if you have the source you can recompile said Windows app with LiteBox to statically link in the Windows OS kernel dependencies, so it'll run on any compatible processor regardless of OS (since it won't be making syscalls anymore). It's a unikernel basically.

That's the theory, but I don't know how far LiteBox is along to supporting that workflow.
by digiown | 2026-02-06 16:29:40+00:00
The sandboxing on mobile platforms puts the OS vendor in a special position to enforce a monopoly on apps and features. Apple enforces it aggressively, while Google only reluctantly so far. It also prevents the user from exerting full control of the system. Apple does it by locking things down directly, while Google punishes you for owning your devices with attestation.

There has to be a better way. I think Linux's flatpak is a reasonable approach here, although the execution might be rather poor. I want a basic set of trusted tool that I can do anything with, and run less trusted tools like GUI programs in sandboxes with limited filesystem access.
by apparent | 2026-02-06 16:30:14+00:00
Not sure why people think that no one thinks they're a NIMBY. I am. I bought a house in a neighborhood with a particular character and if it turns into a bunch of urban high-rises, I won't like that.

I would make money, since more high rises means higher price per square foot of land, but I wouldn't like having to move. If someone moves into an area that is zoned for particular types of properties, then new zoning is imposed by outside fiat (not a vote of the people who live there) is not appropriate.
by xnx | 2026-02-06 16:30:29+00:00
> The Waymo World Model can convert those kinds of videos, or any taken with a regular camera, into a multimodal simulation—showing how the Waymo Driver would see that exact scene.

Subtle brag that Waymo could drive in camera-only mode if they chose to. They've stated as much previously, but that doesn't seem widely known.
by watwut | 2026-02-06 16:30:32+00:00
No, your comment is an example of "argument by joke" and "false equivalency".

The bad faith free speech argument that somehow applies to only some people, to only one side of the political divide, but never to the other was prevalent mainstream argument for years now. Some peoples free speech was sacred and if you criticized or opposed them, the criticism and opposition themselves did not counted as free speech - even if it in fact consisted of speech only.

So like, kicking at those people is entirely fair. Because they actively damaged "free speech". Not that they care or ever cared.
by skydhash | 2026-02-06 16:30:43+00:00
Because for all high level languages, errors happen at the same level of the language. You do not write programs in Go and then verify it in opcodes with a dissasembler. Incorrect syntax and runtime reference the Go files and symbols, not CPU registers.

The same thing happens in JavaScript. I debug it using a Javascript debugger, not with gdb. Even when using bash script, you don’t debug it by going into the programs source code, you just consult the man pages.

When using LLM, I would expect not to go and verify the code to see if it actually correct semantically.
by trentnix | 2026-02-06 16:31:06+00:00
That's true on there being lots of terrible practical effects out there. The parent lauded Raiders of the Lost Ark for its practical effects. In contrast, Last Crusade was a great movie that had a few practical effects that were terrible. The scene with the tank going over the edge of the cliff is so bad and so fake that I could help rewind and pause to laugh at it when I was a kid.
by jjice | 2026-02-06 16:31:19+00:00
If you'd like an estimate, I like this from Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/

Keep in mind that these are estimates, but you could attempt to extrapolate from here. Programming prompts probably take more because I assume the average context is a good bit higher than the average ChatGPT question, plus additional agents.

All in, I'm not sure if the energy usage long term is going to be overblown by media or if it'll be accurate. I'm personally not sure yet.