MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-20 06:49:34+00:00
This is about not having to ask for permission to deploy vast military assets to Greenland, not a matter of having to ask Canada for permission. I didn't mention Canada.

If we're talking polar missile defenses, Canada is quite important. They're half of NORAD already and Greenland is only 500km closer to Moscow.

I'm talking about the US stationing a large number of nuclear weapons in Greenland, thousands of KM closer to Moscow than any other point in the US now.

Okay, why do you think that matters? An ICBM in Alaska has a range that entirely covers the Northern hemisphere, and a large chunk of the southern hemisphere as well. Greenland offers no benefits here.

Having Greenland gives the US an extremely powerful position over the Arctic Ocean for the next century. Build multiple ports.

With what ships? The US Navy is not particularly well-equipped with arctic ships beyond the subs. It also has two arctic ports already at Utqiagvik and Prudhoe Bay with substantial infrastructure already. I've visited both.

The logistical value is extremely obvious.

It really isn't. Greenland is a logistics nightmare. That ice is dangerous and the weather is fun for planes. The US uses much more sensible bases in the UK for patrolling the Greenland/Iceland straits.

An actually interesting proposal would be Jan Mayen.
by Pooge | 2026-01-20 06:50:15+00:00
Exactly. And guess what would happen if 1 million was divided between 100'000 people ? This would mean 10k per person and it's fair to say that at least half would spend (some of) it. Therefore, the velocity has increased.

A person having 200 billion is not spending a big percentage of their wealth nor using it. Yes it's not cash but it doesn't mean it's unusable.

I'm not against the ability to be rich; I'm against the ability to be that rich. The system isn't made to have such wealthy people. My country is one of the rare ones that has wealth tax and you just have to see where the progressive tax rate stops to see what I mean.

This would probably get me sent to an American prison.
by jabl | 2026-01-20 06:52:04+00:00
> And if you take into account how China has treated its own people, it’s not much better or worse than the United States. Maybe worst, actually, since Americans do have a legal right to protest.

In "The Great Leap Forward" they killed tens of millions of their own. Granted, that was a long time ago, but while the current leaders may be wiser little suggests they aren't as ruthless.
by rickydroll | 2026-01-20 06:53:59+00:00
Very possibly, I don't remember the event clearly. This was an opinion my partner expressed about my dishwasher loading habits. Although I did make the mistake of saying, "You've got it wrong, sweetie. I'm not the raccoon."

So now, I keep my mouth shut, rearrange the dishwasher after she's loaded it, and add more stuff into the dishwasher because there is now room for additional dishes.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-20 06:54:27+00:00
> These tools feel symmetric for defenders to use as well.

I don't think so. From a pure mathematical standpoint, you'd need better (or equal) results at avg@1 or maj@x, while the attacker needs just pass@x to succeed. That is, the red agent needs to work just once, while the blue agent needs to work all the time. Current agents are much better (20-30%) at pass@x than maj@x.

In real life that's why you sometimes see titles like "teenager hacks into multi-billion dollar company and installs crypto malware".

I do think that you're right in that we'll see improved security stance by using red v. blue agents "in a loop". But I also think that red has a mathematical advantage here.
by peanut-walrus | 2026-01-20 06:54:37+00:00
I've always found it weird that CNAMEs get resolved and lumped into the answer section in the first place. While helpful, this is not what you asked for and it makes much more sense to me to stick that in additional section instead.

As an aside, I am super annoyed at Cloudflare for calling their proxy records "CNAME" in their UI. Those are nothing like CNAMEs and have caused endless confusion.
by tomr_stargazer | 2026-01-20 06:54:49+00:00
Note, however, that the solar cycle [0] is so named due to its minimum and maximum: the most severe events will be clustered around the maximum, rather than spread out over the whole cycle (as your comment suggested) - so the "nine G4 events on average per year" is mathematically true but not so helpful.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle
by Megas_UA | 2026-01-20 06:55:16+00:00
I built Trackkit because I was tired of integrating heavy CRM SDKs or navigating through complex dashboards just to see if a transactional email was opened.

I wanted something provider-agnostic that works with any SMTP or even personal mail.

How it works: You send a POST request to the API, get a tracking token, and embed it as a pixel or a link. When someone interacts with the email, you get a webhook.

Technical bits:

- No SDK: It's just a pure HTTP API.

- Security: Webhooks are signed with HMAC (SHA256) to prevent spoofing.

- Bot Filtering: I implemented logic to filter out pre-fetches and automated opens from Gmail/Outlook/Office365, which usually skew tracking data.

- Privacy: We don't store the email content or personal data, only the event logs.

I'm currently in "pre-revenue" mode and just looking for feedback from fellow developers. Does the documentation make sense? What features are missing for your workflow?

I'll be around to answer any questions!
by breput | 2026-01-20 06:55:55+00:00
I had never experienced meteoblue so I installed it, it looked very nice, but when I added the 4x1 widget, it looked horrible. I resized it and got "Subscription required. Tap on the widget to open the in-app store"!

If you're in the US, I like NOAA Weather Unofficial[0]. It is not quite as visually impressive as meteoblue, but has good technical details and the 4x2 widget resized exactly like I wanted. I think the free version is unrestricted, but it is another app where I explicitly wanted to support the developer.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nstudio.we...
by gherkinnn | 2026-01-20 06:56:29+00:00
I get paid to work with Shadcn and was equally surprised by its radio button. I can't see why Radix implements it this way, and it doesn't work without JS either.

What I do like about Shadcn, is that its components are yours to modify. In our case, it was easy to replace it with a sensible label+input combination.
by eru | 2026-01-20 06:56:30+00:00
> [...] insiders are incentivized to wait until just before the event to make their trade, [...]

What are you basing that one? And how is this supposed to work?

If you are an insider the incentive is to trade as soon as possible, lest some other insider beats you to the punch, or some conventional leak (or investigative journalist) spoils your party.

This is easiest to see, when there are multiple unconnected insiders: the first to trade wins. But even if you merely suspect another insider might exist, you have an incentive to trade first.

> And that's assuming that you can distinguish an insider from someone lying for the sake of market manipulation.

That's exactly the same as any other noise trader in financial markets, yes. Nothing specific about insider information.
by hulitu | 2026-01-20 06:56:49+00:00
> ARM
> greater software ecosystem and tooling.

Like no UEFI, no PC architecture (every board is different), got to x86 complexity (a miriad of instruction sets and extensions) in just a couple of years, needs a special linux kernel to boot with support for newer versions not planed.

Yeah, great software, great tooling. /s
by riffraff | 2026-01-20 06:58:36+00:00
I remember when Japan was supposed to take over the world in the '80s, to the point that "back to the future 2" had Americans speaking Japanese to their managers.

Toyota did become the dominant producer, but American and European car makers (and now Koreans and Chinese) are still around. I wouldn't bet on total domination from China anytime soon.
by pmontra | 2026-01-20 06:58:50+00:00
I'd cut off the numberpad of my laptop, center the touchpad and what's left of the keyboard. That would be my ergonomic setup.

That laptop served me well but it was a compromise between several factors. I think that at the time there were only an handful of 15" laptops without a numberpad and probably it's still like that. I eventually had to give up on that to get other features.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-20 06:59:08+00:00
That's because the user of the tool didn't go through the troubles to setup the env properly (as the author of the blog did). So what they got was a "story about a bug", but without verification.

The proper way to use these tools (like in other verifiable tasks such as math or coding) is to give them a feedback loop and an easily verifiable success criteria. In security exploitation you either capture the flag or not. It's very easy (and cheap) to verify. So you can leave these things to bang their tokens against a wall, and only look at their output once they capture the flag. Or they output something somewhere verifiable (e.g. echo "pwned" > /root/.flag)
by 0928374082 | 2026-01-20 06:59:39+00:00
> ...there is always an uncertainty from having to depend on a foreign government.

If you can't trust foreign governments any more than they can trust you (you are the foreigner to them, after all), why not just divvy up the world into a bunch of "hunger games" districts and use gunboat diplomacy to keep them in line?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unified_Command_map_...
by josecodea | 2026-01-20 07:01:39+00:00
Fully agree.

No one plans to hire their assistant based on how much they will motivate the other people that are going to deal with the assistant. Sure, it is important that they are pleasant, but that's it. Their role is actually an administrative one of brokering information. Managers are essentially the same role with higher stakes, trying to make it about anything deeper seems to be main character syndrome in full effect.
by qazxcvbnmlp | 2026-01-20 07:01:51+00:00
Some specification exists as formal constraints. Ie: c code will or will not compile.

However some specification only exists in natural language. IE: make this page optimized for a smartphone. The task of turning that vague direction into formal requirements is work in and of itself. The more you can have the llm help with that — the more time it will save you.
by reilly3000 | 2026-01-20 07:02:12+00:00
Typing in URLs by hand is a choice you can make. Scrolling down to organic results (for brands you like) is another choice you can make. Paying for a search engine service is a great choice.

Brands can ask you to add them to your contacts with their website in their vcard. They can prompt you to bookmark them. They could publish a feed for you.

Sure Google can get us to routed in a way we’re all conditioned to depend on, but there are plenty of other ways to get to your destination. There must be 50 ways to leave…
by riffraff | 2026-01-20 07:03:16+00:00
Older relics can be tested, but the Catholic church won't really allow it, e.g. San Gennaro's blood in Naples is a flask of red clotted liquid which melts during some ceremonies, and is quite likely not blood at all. But there's a massive community of believers and thus it will not be challenged by the church.

For more modern miracles and relics the church does have a tight grip, and famously one pope threw a whole bag of Christ teeth in the Tiber river, but many older things have been "grandfathered".
by silisili | 2026-01-20 07:04:30+00:00
I believe that orders probably do go up. I don't believe the sites/accounts using Google's 'how busy' have any relevance at all. As I understand it, these just use GPS/location data of phones.

It only takes one person to pick up 40 pizzas, after all. Perhaps they could look at time estimates for a new order as a better indicator, if such an API exists prior to ordering.
by jabl | 2026-01-20 07:04:57+00:00
Unfortunately children playing in the yard have ample time to get behind the car between you checking it, entering the car, starting it, and reversing.

Yes, in principle one could take whatever measures necessary to prevent such accidents. In reality, backup cameras save lives. Just like seatbelts, anti-lock brakes, crash safety standards, and other safety features that "Real Manly Drivers" protested against back in the day.
by lefra | 2026-01-20 07:05:19+00:00
A million alternatives is peanuts. Restricting the search space to text files with 37 possible symbols (letters, numbers, space), a million different files can be generated with just 4 symbols.

A trillion is 8 symbols. You still haven't reached the end of your first import statement.

I just took a random source file on my computer. It has about 8000 characters. The number of possible files with 8000 characters has 12500 digits.

At this point, restricting the search space to syntactically valid programs (how do you even randomly generate that?) won't make a difference.
by tobyhinloopen | 2026-01-20 07:05:28+00:00
EU automaters fail at making modern cars. They just put a bunch of screens in there with awful software. If you go all screens, just commit like Tesla. If you can't beat Tesla, just stick with minimal screens and use buttons.

Somewhere between 2010 and 2020, most automakers went crazy with their designs and it went all downhill from there.
by Ronsenshi | 2026-01-20 07:07:27+00:00
I'm currently in a strange position where I am being that developer with 15+ years of industry experience managing a project that's been taken over by a young AI/vibe-code team (against my advise) that plans to do complete rewrite in a low-code service.

Project was started in late 00s so it has substantial amount of business logic, rules and decisions. Maybe I'm being an old man shouting at the clouds, but I assume (or hope?) it would fail to deliver whatever they promised to the CEO.

So, I guess I'll see the result of this shift soon enough - hopefully at a different company by the time AI-people are done.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-01-20 07:07:29+00:00
I disagree. Though I've never ridden Acela, I did Intercity Express at 330kph. Since I've been rail fannig in my youth, I still look out for rail-related stuff. Even if it's 'only infrastructure'. Meaning I notice that stuff in pictures in reports about building/opening new HSR track. No matter where. Seems like they are mandatory. You just don't notice them, even when looking out of the window onto the other track, because it's all just a blur. Need to be on an overpass, and looking down onto where they are, for instance, or from the side, during construction or maintenance, watching how the machines operate, and wondering about what they are doing there. Because it's an interruption :-)

Some better pictures:

https://www.eisenbahn.gerhard-obermayr.com/produzenten/vae/s...

https://slabtrackaustria.com/our-technology/red/

https://www.voestalpine.com/railway-systems/en/products/rail...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Oelzetal...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Schienen...

https://cmi-promex.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CurvedRail...

https://cmi-promex.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Sound-Tran...

https://www.hsrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HSR_Track_...
by aryonoco | 2026-01-20 07:07:35+00:00
Car enthusiast here. I raced in Formula Ford in Europe in my younger days. I still dream about the day I drove a 911 GT2. Nearly every car I’ve ever owned has been a manual.

But with the ridiculous tax incentives here in Australia (at least while they last), my new car turned out to be an EV. Specifically the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N. And let me tell you, while the logical part of my brain knows that the gear shifts and the exhaust notes and everything about it is “fake”, when I’m driving it around a track or a challenging B road, every part of my body is fooled into thinking it’s real. And reluctant as I might be to admit it, it might just be the most fun car I’ve ever had

Is it perfect? No. I wish it was 10cm lower to the ground. I wish it was at least 600kg lighter. But it has completely disabused me of the notion that electric cars can’t be fun.
by mustache_kimono | 2026-01-20 07:08:19+00:00
> Imagine a race condition that writes a file node where a directory node should be. You have a valid object with a valid checksum, but it's hooked into the wrong place in your data structure.

A few things: 1) Is this an actual ZFS issue you encountered or is this a hypothetical? 2) And -- you don't imagine this would be discovered during a scrub? Why not? 3) But -- you do imagine it would be discovered and repaired by an fsck instead? Why so? 4) If so, wouldn't this just be a bug, like a fsck, not some fundamental limitation of the system?

FWIW I've never seen anything like this. I have seen Linux plus a flaky ALPM implementation drop reads and writes. I have seen ZFS notice at the very same moment when the power dropped via errors in `zpool status`. I do wonder if ext4's fsck or XFS's fsck does the same when someone who didn't know any better (like me!) sets the power management policy to "min_power" or "med_power_with_dipm".
by kouteiheika | 2026-01-20 07:09:27+00:00
> This is NOT open source.

So in the end are we going by the OSI's definition of Open Source, or not? Can we make up our mind please?

Every time anyone posts here even a slightly modified Open Source license (e.g. a MIT license with an extra restriction that prevents megacorporations from using it but doesn't affect anyone else) people come out of the woodwork with their pitchforks screaming "this is not Open Source!", and insist that the Open Source Definition decides what is Open Source or not, and not to call anything which doesn't meet that definition "Open Source".

And yet here we are with a repository licensed under an actually Open Source license, and suddenly this is the most upvoted comment, and now people don't actually care about the Open Source Definition after all?

Either we go by the OSI's definition, in which case this is open source, regardless of what you think the motivations are for opening up this code, or we go by the "vibes" of whether it feels open source, in which case a modified MIT license which prohibits companies with a trillion+ market cap from using it is also open source.
by Fh_ | 2026-01-20 07:10:53+00:00
I recently updated the preset feature on Hadaa Ai Landscaper to support user preferences. You can now select options like using local plants, add seats, add water features and even whether to include trees and the generated landscapes show very high fidelity to these preferences.

It's free to try with no card required and your feedback will mean a lot to me :)
by wyldfire | 2026-01-20 07:11:21+00:00
I found that when I used ChatGPT's web chat, I frequently went back and forth, shuttling its output to an editor or IDE and then coming back to ChatGPT with "oh, now it fails like this: ...". It made me feel like I was the automaton now.

Claude Code was transformative and it made me realize that something very incredibly significant had occurred. Letting the LLM "drive" like this was inevitable. Now I see just exactly how this will transform our industry. I'm a little scared about how it will end for me/us, but excited for now.
by mdhb | 2026-01-20 07:11:41+00:00
This is just such a ridiculous joke in 2026 that nobody outside the US and many inside it could continue to take the idea that the US has any actual interest in free speech as a principled argument. We have all just watched for the last decade the people who cried the loudest about it immediately do a 180 the moment they got the political power to practice it. I can’t think of a single prominent “free speech absolutist” who didn’t fail this test miserably and immediately. So no, I don’t actually believe that the US values it above all else, I think that’s some bullshit that people say because they are only interested in the idea that they personally can say and do whatever they feel like and it doesn’t extend beyond that in practice.
by josecodea | 2026-01-20 07:11:46+00:00
> 3. With equity like you're serious, make the salaries low-ish. Not so low that it's nonviable for modest family cost of living, but low enough to self-select out the people who aren't committed to the company being successful, or who don't actually believe in the company.

This is how you select for anyone that cannot land a better payrate. There are startups that get better funding and can pay real salaries.
by jabl | 2026-01-20 07:14:32+00:00
As much as I'm gung-ho about the world electrifying transport, I agree with you here. Those Porsche SUV's just look awful, whatever the drivetrain. If I'm gonna splurge on a Porsche, I'll want the real thing. And if I don't want a 911, well there are a lot of other brands making more sensible vehicles.

(Of course, if a lot of other people share my extremist views, that's pretty bad for Porsche the company. They likely can't survive just producing 911's. Oh well, I'm not here for corporate charity anyway.)
by sublinear | 2026-01-20 07:14:52+00:00
I recently rewatched "The Lawnmower Man" [0] and was not disappointed. The vast majority of the comments I see promoting the notion of "AI" achieving AGI sound like the Jobe Smith character from the movie.

[0]: Seemingly legit upload by current license/IP holders/owners? https://youtube.com/watch?v=cm2FbJE2wsQ
by alterom | 2026-01-20 07:15:13+00:00
Why not both.

Protectionism that works to bolster inovation.

TSMC didn't become the world's supreme chipmaker by a laissez-faire aproach from Taiwan.

Same applies to Samsung. And oh-so-many Japanese tech ventures.

And all of them were a product of American geopolitics and tech collaboration.

Let's not pretend high tech was ever not a result of government-assisted efforts, subsidies, tarrifs, export controls, and geopolitical games.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-20 07:15:16+00:00
I think the scarier part is how utterly polarized the US is. The ratings are awful for trump, but it gets really scary when you zoom in.

80% conservateives at worst still support trump, while 7% liberal at best support him. Maybe someone can bring up polling to prove me wrong, but that is utterly unheard of levels of polarization. The only solace here is that independent voters are tanking, so in polls this close that can be the breaking point for all of this.

>Even if he were a young man, I don't think we're in any danger of a caesar.

The scary part is that he's not a young nor healthy man. He can blow the world up and not live to see the utter destruction he triggered. At least Caesar was assassinated and had to be on edge for years. Trump will have lived a full life never being punished and the world will burn afterwards.