MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epolanski | 2026-02-05 09:21:18+00:00
> but two servers rooms in different locations, with resilient power and network is a bit too much effort IMHO

I worked in a company with two server farms (a main and a a backup one essentially) in Italy located in two different regions and we had a total of 5 employees taking care of them.

We didn't hear about them, we didn't know their names, but we had almost 100% uptime and terrific performance.

There was one single person out of 40 developers who's main responsibility were deploys, and that's it.

It costed my company 800k euros per year to run both the server farms (hardware, salaries, energy), and it spared the company around 7-8M in cloud costs.

Now I work for clients that spend multiple millions in cloud for a fraction of the output and traffic, and I think employs around 15+ dev ops engineers.
by coryrc | 2026-02-05 09:21:47+00:00
2008 was caused, in part, by the governments deciding many "banks" were "too big to fail".

The fix was for the government to pick some winners, coercively lend them money and force them to buy the failing banks.

Now we have fewer, bigger banks. People who were conservative with money, saved instead of over-leveraging, did not get to buy assets cheaply, because the government propped up asset prices with unlimited, cheap money.

And TARP did eventually produce weak positive returns. So I'm glad they didn't lose money, but I'm not happy I was prevented from buying fire sale assets. I'm also not happy residential housing prices are 2x what they were in 2010 (and still well over 1.5x the peak of the bubble).
by oaba_omar | 2026-02-05 09:22:00+00:00
I keep shipping small tools in parallel instead of going all-in on one product.

Not because I’m disciplined — mostly because when I focus on a single thing, I get emotionally attached and overthink every metric.

What I’ve noticed:

Zero traction on one project doesn’t kill my motivation anymore

Ideas + feedback from one thing often help another

Progress feels slower, but more consistent

Downsides:

Marketing multiple things is painful

Constant doubt: “am I exploring or just scared to commit?”

Genuinely curious how others here handle this.
One product until it works? Or multiple bets and let users decide?
by x-complexity | 2026-02-05 09:22:54+00:00
> None of the highest up were sent to jail. CEOs perfectly fine taking responsibility for the profits, but what happened to taking responsibility for the fraud they enabled?

> > Literally dozens of CEOs went to jail, which is again why I think this may be the biggest ball-drop of the media this century

The GP's remark is centered around the *sentiment* that none of the C-suite / execs in the Big Banks (Merrill, Goldman, BoA, Citi) were jailed for their involvement / excessive speculation in the 2008 crisis.

The keywords there being "Big Banks": If it's a national household name, OR if their positions are coveted by finance employees, it's a Big Bank. Otherwise, it's not a Big Bank.

> > > Your Google skills may need some work because this is the first result for "bank CEO jailed by TARP":

1) This is a goalpost shift from "bank CEOs jailed for causing / excessively speculating up to the 2008 crisis".

2) TARP was established as a result of the crisis (i.e. AFTER it happened), and therefore cannot be used to mark execs that were jailed for their involvement / excessive speculation in the 2008 crisis.

3) "TARP defraudment" is a different matter, and not "Causing the 2008 crisis" or "excessive speculation"

> > > https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/atlanta/press-releases/201...

The case cited only tangentially involves TARP, when the bulk of the case was about the President of FirstCity Bank & his associates defrauding the bank with loans that *they themselves had involvement in*.
by adamcharnock | 2026-02-05 09:23:20+00:00
Indeed! We've yet to go down this route, but it's something we're thinking on. A friend and I have been talking about how to bring Nix-like constructs to Kubernetes as well, which has been interesting. (https://github.com/clotodex/kix, very much in the "this is fun to think about" phase)
by netsharc | 2026-02-05 09:24:33+00:00
God, it's so dumb. And these 2 menues have 2 different looks, because I guess for Windows 11 they reimplemented it in whatever fancy fucking UI framework they decided to make, but they didn't complete the implementation so they still had to offer the "legacy" version of the menu.

For a long while "Settings" had 2 interfaces, 1 that looks like it's from the iPhone, and the other which is from "Control Panel"...
by bonesss | 2026-02-05 09:24:34+00:00
F# and C# are typed scripting languages. F# is quite similar to python in script form (.fsx), and has OCamls expressiveness, exhaustive pattern matching, and type inference. That results in highly expressive, terse, and ergonomic domain code.

The .Net VM now supports AOT compilation.

The future is now-ish :)
by Dormeno | 2026-02-05 09:24:38+00:00
The company I work for used to have a hybrid where 95% was on-prem, but became closer to 90% in the cloud when it became more expensive to do on-prem because of VMware licensing. There are alternatives to VMware, but not officially supported with our hardware configuration, so the switch requires changing all the hardware, which still drives it higher than the cloud. Almost everything we have is cloud agnostic, and for anything that requires resilience, it sits in two different providers.

Now the company is looking at doing further cost savings as the buildings rented for running on-prem are sitting mostly unused, but also the prices of buildings have gone up in recent years, notably too, so we're likely to be saving money moving into the cloud. This is likely to make the cloud transition permanent.
by nosianu | 2026-02-05 09:25:11+00:00
Consumers is nice, but far more important are the big corporate purchases. There may be a lot of people there too who don't want AI, but they all depend on decisions made at the top and AI seems to be the way to go, because of expectations and also because of the mentioned prisoner's dilemma, if competitors gain an advantage it is bad for your org, if all fail together it is manageable.
by evertheylen | 2026-02-05 09:25:25+00:00
> Maintaining a data center is much more about solving real-world challenges. The cloud requires expertise in company-specific APIs and billing systems. A data center requires knowledge of Watts, bits, and FLOPs. I know which one I rather think about.

I find this to be applicable on a smaller scale too! I'd rather setup and debug a beefy Linux VPS via SSH than fiddle with various propietary cloud APIs/interfaces. Doesn't go as low-level as Watts, bits and FLOPs but I still consider knowledge about Linux more valuable than knowing which Azure knobs to turn.
by utopiah | 2026-02-05 09:26:02+00:00
Takes literally minutes to setup with Webtop (assuming you are familiar with Docker/Podman https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop/ ) , nothing to install on the thin client, the stock browser is enough.

I used this when an employer was forcing me to use Windows and I needed Linux tools to work efficiently so I connected home. Goes through firewalls, proxies, etc.

Anyway if you want to host this not at home but a cloud provider there was HavenCo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HavenCo don't ask me how I know about it, just curiosity.
by cdf | 2026-02-05 09:27:12+00:00
The keyword in "Software as a Service" is not Software; it's the Service.

In the early days, the tagline for Salesforce is "No Software". It's secret recipe is this: your sales team only need a browser and a credit card, to get the service. No software installation needed. Even if you have a genius can code something equivalent, it will never be a "service". That genius is not going to support it, not going to add storage for you, not going to restore an accidentally deleted record for you. That takes an army to deliver. It is a service.

Of course, Marc Benioff kind of shot himself in the foot by trying to get ahead of the AI curve... and gutted their customer service division. If the service is delivered by AI agents, what is the selling point again over other AI agents? They have debased their key strengths and are getting punished for it.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-05 09:27:41+00:00
> I proudly stop terrorists, I proudly help law enforcement, and I proudly serve my country to make it the best in the world.

And you're proudly delusional.

But that's fine, stick your head in the sand and continue, you are so invested in this that the thought that you might be on the wrong side seems to scare you into flinging abuse and digging in deeper.

The USA is not 'the best in the world', not by a long shot. Witness the turd sitting in the half demolished White House that you serve.

> Anyways, I will be submitting a tip personally

Haha, so you are now threatening to take revenge on someone you've never met because they're calling you out for exactly that sort of thing. I don't think I could have asked for harder proof.

WTF dude, have you entirely lost it?
by attila-lendvai | 2026-02-05 09:27:45+00:00
i don't think that's a fair representation of the average of the ZH articles.

many bird's eye view articles are depicting how the game is rigged and corrupt to the core and that it is heading towards a wall (and you should buy x, typically gold)... yes.

but then they also have more day-to-day articles discussing market moves and predictions in all directions.

ZH is a wider range of stuff than that. and in all that noise, most of the important alternative, often initially censored news appeared there first.

so, yeah, don't take it all in literally... but then it's a site edited by Tyler Durden FFS... :)
by cope123 | 2026-02-05 09:27:56+00:00
Haha, this is definitely not an LLM answer. I won’t pretend I don’t use AI to help with writing comments sometimes — English isn’t my native language.

That said, ads absolutely don’t belong next to the page title and the site itself feels a bit confusing. I read a few articles and they’re interesting, but the Issues and Events pages are honestly leagues ahead of the rest of the site.
by viraptor | 2026-02-05 09:28:15+00:00
Those and Icelandic people. But there's a fun correlation - see how much the US media content is played compared to local one per country. And which countries use subs rather than dubs or voiceovers in cinemas and TV. https://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/e4d5cbf4-a839...

If you have exposure to English media from young age and don't get a translation, you learn pretty quickly.
by Lucasoato | 2026-02-05 09:28:22+00:00
Hetzner is definitely an interesting option. I’m a bit scared of managing the services on my own (like Postgres, Site2Site VPN, …) but the price difference makes it so appealing. From our financial models, Hetzner can win over AWS when you spend over 10~15K per month on infrastructure and you’re hiring really well. It’s still a risk, but a risk that definitely can be worthy.
by CyanLite2 | 2026-02-05 09:28:46+00:00
To your point, I think there are 3 main categories:

1. Too big to fail (SalesForce, ServiceNow, ServiceTitan, Shopify). They’re targeting megacorps’ core business operations. Switching costs are too high. They will survive,

2. B2B non-core (PagerDuty, Vanta, Monday, Atlassian). They’re going to have stiff competition and most here will fail or merge/consolidate. They have the most to lose because they’re non-core to a business’s success and pricing pressures will cause many of them will be easily vibecoded with enough time. The large TAM here will attract hundreds of competitors each.

3. Consumer SaaS (Notion, Canva, Grammarly, Dribbble). They're good as dead and can be buried.
by yrro | 2026-02-05 09:29:15+00:00
That won't overwrite pages not allocated to a namespace (which can happen due to wear levelling/underprovisioning, or because the controller has decided to stop using that page because it's unhealthy).

Flash looks like a simple array of blocks, but under the hood there is a controller that allocates writes to different pages. You need to tell the controller to erase all pages if you want to guarantee data destruction.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-02-05 09:29:33+00:00
Hopefully quickly and efficiently deporting them back to the places they are legally citizens of.

Realistically, shittier living conditions in the detention centers, just like how in the 2000s and early 2010s living conditions were shittier in California prisons because they were overcrowded. Which is why refusing to sell or rent warehouse space to ICE is counterproductive from the point of view of illegal immigrant detainee welfare.
by entuno | 2026-02-05 09:29:39+00:00
I've argued for a long time that adblocking isn't just a quality of life thing, it's an essential security control for browsing the Internet in the same way that patching your system and running malware protection is. I didn't expect it to be protecting your physical security quite so soon..

This sort of thing should also help put the "adblocking is unethical" argument to bed.
by thegrim000 | 2026-02-05 09:30:42+00:00
Utter rubbish from an extremely biased source. Every time they say something like "didn't you notice X" or "your portfolio must look like Y" the answer is nope, you're completely wrong. Every time they talk about some major "crash" you can just go look at it and see that it recovered within 48 hours and looked identical to dozens of other events through recent history. The outright calls for violence + intentionally destroying our own economy to "stick it to the man" at the end surely make me believe this is some rational analysis.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-05 09:31:23+00:00
Sure, there's procedures to arresting someone and when they are allowed to shoot, that's all fine. But the danger is that these procedures are not being followed, and that there are no consequences to it.

That people get killed is a tragedy, but that the people that killed them do not get the proper training, guidance or consequences for their action is a problem.
by bilgisoft | 2026-02-05 09:32:33+00:00
*Update:* While validating TSE against primesieve, I discovered
consistent ±1 counting discrepancies at 10^13 scale. The findings
point to a classic edge-case bug in segmented sieve algorithms.
Details: https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve/issues/178

Would appreciate feedback from the community!
by ch_123 | 2026-02-05 09:32:45+00:00
I ran Linux without swap for some years on a laptop with a large-for-the-time amount of RAM (about 8GB). It _mostly_ worked, but sudden spikes of memory usage would render the system unresponsive. Usually it would recover, but it in some cases it required a power cycle.

Similarly, on a server where you might expect most of the physical memory to get used, it ends up being very important for stability. Think of VM or container hosts in particular.
by pm215 | 2026-02-05 09:32:54+00:00
Some of the 386 bugs described there sound to me like the classic kind of "multiple different subsystems interact in the wrong way" issue that can slip through the testing process and get into hardware, like this one:

> For example, there was one bug that manifested itself in incorrect instruction decoding if a conditional branch instruction had just the right sequence of taken/not-taken history, and the branch instruction was followed immediately by a selector load, and one of the first two instructions at the destination of the branch was itself a jump, call, or return.

Even if you write up a comprehensive test plan for the branch predictor, and for selector loads, and so on, it might easily not include that particular corner case. And pre silicon testing is expensive and slow, which also limits how much of it you can do.
by isoprophlex | 2026-02-05 09:33:03+00:00
Nadella is in the position he's is, clearly, and I'm just a nobody. The guy must be onto something, and I'm just a delusional internet commentator.

However.

No-one I know, literally not a single soul, is delighted by using any of the copilot-branded tools. What's more, almost everyone seems to resent these tools due to their hamfisted design, poor performance and seedy marketing.

The copilot suite of... things is, in other words, shit.

Yet somehow Nadella seems blind for the fact that they're trying to push a turd sandwich onto their client base?

I can't believe a MSFT ceo would be THIS incompetent, but here we are.

The mind truly boggles.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-05 09:33:46+00:00
> You guys

One of the reasons I chose to move to Europe is because I value the mininal safety nets and labor protections on this side of the pond. Yes, I make less money and pay more taxes but I believe this is how society should work, I reject the hyper individualism that ignores any sort of collective.

But I am also not naive. Expecting individuals to take the burden for decisions way beyond their control is silly. It takes immense fortitude to threaten the well being of those dear to you based on principle, when the only outcome is your own suffering (the company will likely find another employee right away anyway).
by adamcharnock | 2026-02-05 09:33:47+00:00
You sum it up very neatly. We've heard this from quite a few companies, and that's kind of why we started our ours.

We figured, "Okay, if we can do this well, reliably, and de-risk it; then we can offer that as a service and just split the difference on the cost savings"

(plus we include engineering time proportional to cluster size, and also do the migration on our own dime as part of the de-risking)
by oblio | 2026-02-05 09:33:56+00:00
I've seen plenty of Gmail accounts over the years and they pretty much look the same.

The only Gmail accounts that are "overrun by spam" are those of people subscribing to lots of spammy newsletters and then not knowing how to unsubscribe from them (or figuring they'd stay subscribed in case the next newsletter is the Magical One™). But that's 100% self inflicted and you can't save those people with any technical solution.

Email spam isn't a day to day problem for Gmail (at least) since Bayesian email filtering was first implemented.
by bryant | 2026-02-05 09:33:59+00:00
I mean, framed differently:

> A material number of customers see Animate as a differentiator from our competitors, so even if we only provide support and security patches, the investment is justified for retention.

I don't really think there's a hidden agenda here. The announcement surfaced new information for them, they probably reframed their own analytics and saw insights that backed maintaining Animate as a result.
by Kon5ole | 2026-02-05 09:34:12+00:00
>The other part is that you should have the entire picture in your eyesight w/o moving the neck.

I agree, but that is still the case here. The difference is that the "full picture" no longer occupies the whole monitor.

The amount of windows and content you arrange on a normal office monitor is about one third of my available space. I can arrange my windows in that space and not have to move my neck.

But at a glance, I can also see the contents of 4 other code files in my project that are also visible, as well as my notes, the documentation, the team chat.

Or if I want, I can also see twice the amount of code in any file by having my editor take up the full height of the center third of this monitor.

Basically the monitor goes from being the "full picture" to a canvas where you are free to create any collection of a "full picture" you want, and you can have the leftover building blocks visible on the sides, optionally.

I am sure that if you let all knowledge workers in the world test this setup for a day, a vast majority of them would want to keep it. But since even 8k tv's are going away now, most will never know.

Curved gaming monitors costing more than my TV are being deployed everywhere lately, for productivity work. Most people are used to 27" or 24" low-res monitors and they are getting an upgrade, but i's not a very good one.

Had the panels from 8k tv's been used in monitors and marketed to corporations it would have been so much better!

Perfect for open offices too - no need for desk dividers if everyone is behind a huge screen! ;-)
by solatic | 2026-02-05 09:35:34+00:00
PgBouncer introduces its own problems and strictly speaking adds additional complexity to your infrastructure. It needs to be monitored and scaled separately, not to mention the different modes of session/transaction/statement connection pooling. Adding another proxy in the middle also increases latency.

Yes, currently, putting PgBouncer in the middle helps handle massive sudden influxes of potentially short lived connections. That is indeed the correct current best practice. But I hardly fault the author for wishing that postmaster could be configured to run on multiple cores so that the additional complexity of running PgBouncer for this relatively simple use-case could be eliminated.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-05 09:35:53+00:00
My thoughts are sort of similar. AI/LLMs have allowed many of the typical SaaS customers to think that maybe they could do at least some of this work themselves, and get better results.

For most companies this was always true, but LLMs have given them the confidence to actual start writing more software in house. The SAPs of the world have nothing to fear, companies aren't going to vibe code a CRM, but they are going to be able to more easily write integrations. At a previous job we frequently had bills for €10.000 for small integrations into our ERP, but once we figured out the API and gained more confidence in our abilities, all those integrations got pulled in house.

If your SaaS platform provides actual benefits, then you don't need to worry. If your business in writing integrations for other companies into platforms you don't own, yes, AI is going to hurt your business.

This should have happened regardless of AI though. The idea that companies (over a certain size, e.g. ~20 people) doesn't have a least on developer employed, regardless of industry always seemed like a missed business opportunity. We wrote so many tools for sales, warehousing, customer service and accounting and it's hard to imagine the business functioning without those tools. I might have spend two weeks writing a tool, but if it saves sales 20 hours a week punching in orders, we get a positive return in a month.
by nickm12 | 2026-02-05 09:36:27+00:00
I'm not sure what the high-level point of the article is, but I agree with the observation that we (programmers) should generally prefer using AI agents to write correct, efficient programs to do what we want, to have agents do that work.

Not that everything we want an agent to do is easy to express as a program, but we do know what computers are classically good at. If you had to bet on a correct outcome, would you rather an AI model sort 5000 numbers "in its head" or write a program to do the sort and execute that program?

I'd think this is obvious, but I see people professionally inserting AI models in very weird places these days, just to say they are a GenAI adopter.
by codeulike | 2026-02-05 09:36:28+00:00
Its hard to come up with useful AI apps that aren't massive security or privacy risks. This is pretty obvious. For an agent to be really useful it needs to have access to [important stuff] but giving an AI access to [important stuff] is very risky. So you can get some janky thing like OpenClaw thats thrown together by one guy and has no boundaries and everyone on HN thinks is great, but its going to be very difficult for a big firm to make a product like that for mass consumption without it risking a massive disaster. You can see that Apple and Microsoft and Salesforce and everyone are all wrestling with this. Current LLMs are too easily hoodwinked.