MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stevekemp | 2026-02-10 20:37:06+00:00
The current "stable" distribution of Debian is version 13, codenamed trixie. It was initially released as version 13.0 on August 9th, 2025 and its latest update, version 13.3, was released on January 10th, 2026.

So as of today the latest "stable" release of Debian is a month old.

By contrast the last stable release of Fedora is
Fedora 43, released on October 28, 2025 which four months old at this point.

Really once you get software that works all of this is pointless anyway, you have working software and you update once every year or so, or when you find you need to.

When you "need" to update is so personal that it cannot be predicted, but your FUD about Debian being universally old and outdated is clearly misleading at best and deliberately misleading at worst.
by jvandreae | 2026-02-10 20:37:30+00:00
That article seems a bit misleading. While some sweetener packets, such as equal and splenda contain some sugar, I don't believe this is necessarily true when they are used in other products. A quick google implies that, for example, Diet Coke (my beloved) does not contain any real sugar, only aspartame. So it seems disingenuous to compare the metabolic impact of a sugar/aspartame blend to pure aspartame.
by xg15 | 2026-02-10 20:37:33+00:00
> the writing has too much emotional bait of "Look how evil they are! Don't forget, we're the good guys!"

I mean, that blog seems to be an official Air Force publication. I don't find it very surprising that an army blog (of any nation's military) would stick to that nation's official narrative and not veer into larger geopolitical questions.
by srean | 2026-02-10 20:37:54+00:00
Maybe.

You disagreed with the parent comment that said

"Rotations fell out of the structure of complex numbers. They weren't placed there on purpose. If you want to rotate things there are usually better ways."

I see Complex numbers in the light of doing addition and multiplication on pairs. If one does that, rotation naturally falls out of that. So I would agree with the parent comment especially if we follow the historical development. The structure is identical to that of scaled rotation matrices parameterized by two real numbers, although historically they were discovered through a different route.

I think all of us agree with the properties of complex numbers, it's just that we may be splitting hairs differently.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-10 20:37:56+00:00
> Talking to sales to get an idea what the customer wanted from the business side (first B2B at a product company and now consulting) -> talking to the customer and hashing out more detailed requirements -> designing the architecture and a proposed technical plan -> presenting it to the stakeholder (sometime internal sometime external) -> doing the work or delegating and leading the work -> presenting the work to the stakeholder and leading the UAT -> getting it to production.

You are not the first person to say things like this.

Tell me, you ever wondered why a person with a programming background was filling that role?
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2026-02-10 20:38:00+00:00
When the AS/400 came out circa 1989 or whatever, you could replace an entire mainframe with a box not much bigger than a mini fridge. The hardware is built for high reliability, and the OS and application software stack have a lot of integration. If Unix is "everything is a file" then AS/400 is "everything is a persistent object in a flat 64 bit address space."

The result is a system that can handle years of operation with no downtime. The platform got very popular with huge retailers for this reason.

Then in later years the platform got the ability to run Linux or Windows VMs, so that they could benefit from the reliability features.
by emmawirt | 2026-02-10 20:38:02+00:00
yeah I really love the 'intentionally temporary' framing, that's actually a way better way to articulate what was I was getting at than how I wrote it. The trauma of throwing things away is real, I see it constantly in DD. People treat migration like an admission of failure when it's usually the opposite, you outgrew something, which is a good problem to have.
by stronglikedan | 2026-02-10 20:38:02+00:00
Most people just want a steady paycheck, so it's not hard to find a bunch of very smart people that just want a paycheck. As for morals go, this topic is way too subjective to say whether it's wrong. People can make great cases for and against aspects of it. It'll be interesting to see what the jury says. It'll definitely be a precedent setting case.
by gregherbelux | 2026-02-10 20:38:09+00:00
Hi there,
I'm hiring in my team at Twin — Series A AI company (€12M raised), building an agent builder platform. The core infra is Rust, and I need someone who wants to own serious pieces of it.
Rust is not a "nice to have" here. It's the backbone of:

A remote browser infrastructure running at high concurrency
Low-level protocols between browser ↔ agents ↔ humans
A graph-based agent runtime that has to survive partial failure
Systems that stay fast, predictable, and debuggable at scale

This is not web CRUD. Design mistakes are expensive and correctness matters.
You'd work on things like async orchestration (task lifecycles, cancellation, backpressure), low-latency protocol design, failure-resistant architectures. Stack includes tokio, tonic, tracing, and internal crates — not a monolith.
What I'm looking for: you've shipped real Rust to production — or you're early in your career but learn fast and build relentlessly. You understand async Rust beyond "it compiles." You care about system boundaries, ownership, and failure modes. You can explain why you built something a certain way. You're comfortable without heavy specs or process.
Senior or junior — I care about signal, not years. If you're earlier in your career but have high agency and strong fundamentals, I'll put you through a real technical challenge and invest in getting you up to speed.
High-agency signal matters to me. Founded something — even if it failed? Served in the military? Competed at a high level in sport? Shipped a side project no one asked you to build? That tells me more than a polished CV ever will.
LLM experience is a plus, but systems thinking matters more.
This is not a research role, not a framework-gluing role. You'll shape what gets built, not just execute a backlog.
WW remote, small team, high ownership. €100K–€170K + equity.
If this sounds interesting — don't send a generic CV. Link something you built, explain a hard systems problem you've owned end-to-end, or tell me about something you committed to that was hard. That's enough to start a conversation.
DM me or reach out at gregory@twin.so — no cover letter needed.
by linkregister | 2026-02-10 20:38:17+00:00
I lean toward your understanding of the topic but experience discomfort toward your framing, which implies a desire or at least apathy to the harm of this Youtuber.

This content creator is undoubtedly seeking conflicts with people and shrouding it in concerns for traffic safety.

Furthermore, most driving fatalities are spatially correlated— road design influences driver behavior more than other factors.

However, there is merit to noxious individuals raising an issue to the level of public consciousness.

It is also possible that the trajectory of traffic calming measures is already good in the UK and would not benefit from additional public exposure.
by 999900000999 | 2026-02-10 20:38:23+00:00
I had a similar, admitted poorly thought out idea a few months back.

I wanted to more or less build Jira for agents and track the context there.

If I had to guess 60 million is just enough to build the POC out. I don't see how this can compete though, Open AI or Anthro could easily spin up a competitor internally.
by xcution | 2026-02-10 20:38:35+00:00
I've been building data tables for various projects for a while. Every project needed sorting, filtering, pagination, row selection, exports — but wiring them together always felt unnecessarily complex.

Niko-table follows shadcn's approach: copy the components into your project and own the code. No black-box library. Built on TanStack Table v8 and shadcn/ui.

Features: row selection, bulk actions, faceted filters, Excel-like column filters, multi-column sorting, column pinning/visibility, row expansion, sidebar panels, pagination with virtualization (10k+ rows), CSV export, tree tables, and fully controlled state.

Would love feedback on the API design.
by unbalancedevh | 2026-02-10 20:38:44+00:00
In the US anyway, calling yourself an "engineer" is only regulated if you sell your services to the public as one. Inside of a business, like a car manufacturer, the position title of "engineer" can be applied to any job at all, however the business wants.

As a degreed engineer myself, this was a bit jarring to me when I first entered the workforce, seeing co-workers who had never been to college calling themselves engineers. But fortunately I got over it.
Ask HN: Is there a "canon" of great CLI typography?
by joshuawheelock | 2026-02-10 20:38:47+00:00
I’m working on a command-line tool and keep running into the same question:
how do I make this cleaner, more legible, and easier to use for humans and machines alike?

Designing in the terminal is severely constrained. But that's also what makes it so compelling. How does one turn glyphs, color, and space into something sparse, yet densely communicative?

I have my own aesthetic sensibilities, but I’m curious:
- Are there people known for doing this exceptionally well?
- Are there CLI tools that are considered gold standards from a typesetting perspective?
- Do any of these folks write about their thinking, or have work worth studying?

I’m not interested in ornament, just clarity and restraint.

Pointers to people, projects, essays, or even old tools that are still worth learning from would be greatly appreciated.
by jszymborski | 2026-02-10 20:38:49+00:00
I started using Linux desktops around 2012, and always used Debian-based distros (Mostly Debian, Ubunutu, and Mint).

I switched to Fedora this year, and I've been super pleasantly surprised. There are some sharp edges (Mostly due to Wayland and Flatpaks), but I don't think I'll be going back to Debian any time soon. Things seem way more stable than on Ubuntu.
by jsheard | 2026-02-10 20:39:41+00:00
We don't need the GPU for anything, but doing it on the GPU is faster and more power efficient so why wouldn't you? Even a meticulously tuned CPU renderer will nearly always get crushed by a much simpler GPU renderer, and the gap is only growing over time as displays get bigger and faster. Laptops are pushing around a billion pixels per second as a matter of course now.
by gmurphy | 2026-02-10 20:39:44+00:00
When we started work on Chrome my favourite browser was a now-forgotten IE shell called iRider, which implemented tree-ish style tabs in a better way than anyone, and we did take multiple attempts at vertical tabs early on.

We didn't ship them because they were only a mitigation of the too-many-tabs problem, not a solution, and they didn't really fit our model of 'tabs are titlebars'. They were also never going to be default - most people did not have that many tabs, and we had a very strong opinion was that we shouldn't have configuration - it was better to very strongly execute on one vision we loved and risk losing people (but hope the quality would bring people along), than to execute and support multiple directions poorly.

The world has changed a lot since I last worked on Chrome ten years ago, so as an outsider I'm excited to see what the team currently attempting it can do.
by godelski | 2026-02-10 20:39:45+00:00
This is essentially the literacy component of a Lennon market (which the parent essentially described). Where the consumer can't differentiate a lemon from a peach, only a tad more abstract. The customer has an implicit assumption that it's all equivalent so it gets removed from the decision process.

Which that's probably why we're in a lemon economy. To figure out the answers to these things is incredibly time consuming, even if one does have expertise in a specific domain. Fatigue leads to the same result, oversimplification of assumptions
by ndneighbor | 2026-02-10 20:39:56+00:00
Angelo from Railway here, Railway runs our own metal for the sheer reason to preserve margins so we can run for perpetuity.

We're nuts for studying failure at the company and Heroku's margins was one of the things we considered to be one of the many nails in that coffin. (RIP)

(my rant here: https://blog.railway.com/p/heroku-walked-railway-run)
by lelanthran | 2026-02-10 20:40:15+00:00
> It can, but now you output must be a min of 2x.

Great! I turn from a creator to a babysitter of creators. I'm not seeing the win here.

FWIW, I use LLMs extensively, but not to write the code, to rubber-duck. I have yet to have any LLM paired with any coding agent give me something that I would have written myself.

All the code is at best average. None of the smart stuff comes from them.
by horsawlarway | 2026-02-10 20:40:33+00:00
Again, I like Debian a lot as a distro (much more than Ubuntu), but it's just not the same as a distro like Arch, even when you're on testing. Sid is close, but between Arch and sid... I've actually found fewer issues on Arch, and since there's an existing expectation that the community maintains and documents much of the software in AUR, there's almost always someone actually paying attention and updating things, rather than only getting around to it later.

It's not that Debian is a bad release, but it's the difference in a game on steam being completely unavailable for a few hours (Arch) or 10 days (Debian testing) due to an upstream issue.

I swapped a while back, mostly because I kept hitting issues that are accurately described and resolved by steps coming from Arch's community, even on distros like Debian and Fedora.

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The power in debian is still that Ubuntu has made it very popular for folks doing commercial/closed source releases to provide a .deb by default. Won't always work... but at least they're targeting your distro (or almost always, ubuntu, but usually close enough).

Same for Fedora with the Redhat enterprise connections.

But I've generally found that the community in Arch is doing a better job at actually dogfooding, testing, and fixing the commercial software than most of the companies that release it... which is sad, but reality.

Arch has plenty of its own issues, but "Stale software" isn't the one to challenge it on. Much better giving it a pass due to arch/platform support limitations, security or stability needs, etc... All those are entirely valid critiques, and reasonable drivers for sticking to something like Debian.
by samuelson | 2026-02-10 20:40:48+00:00
I've had a similar experience where I'd be craving a beer, but not really craving alcohol since wine or spirits didn't sound appealing at all. I think it might actually be the hops and not the alcohol.

I don't know if it's common in the UK, but in the US, a lot of breweries have started making hop water. I've found that it can really scratch that itch. Even just a hop tea might work if you can't find pre-made hop water.

It sounds weird, but it's actually delicious with nice floral and citrus notes and just enough bitterness that you don't drink it too quickly.
by panick21_ | 2026-02-10 20:41:05+00:00
> you are not going to sell to the large LLM labs as there isn't much of a story with NVIDIA here

Oxide just recently talked about that actually the LLM people do want to buy Oxide. Because turns out, doing everything around LLMs also requires compute, and quite a lot of it. And when you already have to deal with massive issues to run a complex advanced Nvidia stack you might not also want to worry about what firmware bugs Supermicro is delivering.

If you are not one of the hyperscaler who already has all the CPU based infrastructure on their own cloud stack (google, amazon, facebook) then Oxide is quite interesting.

Also as for this shrinking/small market claim. About 50% of IT spend is still outside of the cloud. While nobody know the real number, its still a gigantic market, much bigger then most people realize. And it might not be shrinking because the bad economics of cloud are becoming increasingly clear to many company. Along with other trends such as making computing more local, not letting US companies control everything.

> You are like a fancier version of Dell or Supermicro.

Dell has a market cap of 80 billion $, Supermicro has 20 billion $. Must really suck to be them I guess. I'm sure Michael Dell wishes he had done something worthwhile with his live instead. I mean he could have worked for Digital Equipment Cooperation instead then he might not have ended up being such a loser.

I feel you are being really dismissive talking as if aiming for that is somehow not worth doing.
by TrnsltLife | 2026-02-10 20:41:11+00:00
Whatever their age was, they were betrothed to be married to men who didn't evacuate when warned:

14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-10 20:41:17+00:00
1. Being called an idiot or told my idea is dumb is not going to upset me. I guess I just have more emotional maturity than some OSS devs.

2. Why would I leave when I can just block you if you are harassing me?

3. Why are you inventing this hypothetical instead of just showing where that occurred?

4. No-one has said words don't have power. But being on the internet you should be able to recognize that you won't be friends with everyone. So you have to develop some basic emotional regulation for silly insults.
by autoexec | 2026-02-10 20:41:22+00:00
I haven't seen the plant ad, but it sounds like once you start learning about how the ad industry works your mind will be blown. Insane amounts of money have been poured into research by the industry (including some highly questionable research being done on children and infants) and some of the results are fascinating.

The manipulation goes beyond even the content of the ads themselves. For example, one of the reasons companies are spending so much money collecting/buying/storing/securing every scrap of data they can get about you and your life is so that they can target ads at you at specific times when they know you'll be more vulnerable such as times when they know you'd normally be tired, or when they think your medication may be wearing off, or during periods where you're under high stress, or when you might be entering a manic phase, or when you're intoxicated, etc.

Like I said, understanding the many many ways that you are vulnerable to their tricks can help but it won't stop them from working on you. It's kind of like how you can't not see certain optical illusions even though you know you're interpreting them incorrectly. The conclusion I've come to is that it's best to do everything you can to avoid exposure to advertising where possible and to keep an eye out for when those tricks are being used against you elsewhere.
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2026-02-10 20:41:23+00:00
> Are we really worried what vendor they get their trucks from?

There are for sure gun manufacturers that would love to sell terrorists guns, can car manufacturers that would sell terrorists cars. The harder they are to obtain, the less success the terrorists will have in their objectives.

Do you really think we shouldn’t care, understand or look to shut down supply chains?
by wqaatwt | 2026-02-10 20:41:24+00:00
> not achieving a similar population until the 1300s

That’s not the necessarily best metric either, though. Roman city sizes (especially Rome itself) very inflated due to centralized state redirecting a lot of tax revenue there.

However in premodern times pretty much all cities universally had negative population growth which would imply they weren’t particularly nice places to live if you had better options.
by csallen | 2026-02-10 20:41:25+00:00
> prior to reforming society into one that does not predicate survival on continued employment and wages

There's no way that'll happen. The entire history of humanity is 99% reacting to things rather than proactively preventing things or adjusting in advance, especially at the societal level. You would need a pretty strong technocracy or dictatorship in charge to do otherwise.
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by hackrmn | 2026-02-10 20:41:40+00:00
This article has done rounds on the ITernet before. Maybe because it resonates with people (who repost it time and again). Anyway, I very much agree with the idea. In my experience, "text" or "string" is not a type. Technically it is one, of course, but I seldom see good use of it for when a more apt type would do better -- in short, it's a last resort thing, and it fares badly there too. Ironically, the only good use for it is as input to a... parser.

I see a lot of URLs being passed around as strings within a system perfectly capable of leveraging typing theory and offering user defined types, if not at least through OOP goodness a lot of people would furiously defend. The URL, in this case, would often have _already_ been parsed once, but effectively "unparsed" and keeps being sent around as text in need of parsing at every "junction" of the system that requires to meaningfully access it, except that parsing is approached like some ungodly litany best avoided and thus foregone or lazily implemented with a regex where a regex isn't nearly sufficient. Perhaps it's because we lack parsers, by and large, or in the very least parser generators that are readily available, understandable (to your average developer), and simple enough to use without requiring to understand formal language theory with Chomsky hierarchy, context sensitivity, grammar ambiguity and parse forests, to say the least.

Same with [file] paths, HTTP header values, and other things that seem alluring to dismiss as only being text.

It wouldn't be a problem, had I not seen time and again how the "text" breaks -- URLs with malformed query parameters because why not just do `+ '?' + entries.map(([ name, value ]) => name + "=" + value).join("&")`, how hard can it be? Paths that assume leading slash or lack there of etc.

I believe the article was born precisely of the same class of frustrations. So I am now bringing the same mantra everywhere with me: "There is no such type as string". Parse at earliest opportunity, lazily if the language allows it (most languages do) -- breadth first so as to not pay upfront, just don't let the text slip through.

I am talking from experience, really, your mileage may vary.