MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cjbarber | 2026-01-16 16:07:42+00:00
My sense: human relationships come from repeated interaction over time. This is why college is easy for friendships and suburbs aren't.

The solution is very different for someone who is within walking distance of a neighborhood coffee shop vs someone who isn't.

It seems like there's 3 levels of solutions recommended here:

1) Individual: join recurring activities, volunteer, join communities, get a dog, work on yourself, sports/physical hobbies

2) Founder: Create third spaces, host events, or just create and initiate activities that bring people together

3) Policy: Urban design reform, third spaces. Make it easier for more third spaces to exist and more walkable neighborhoods.

It's like capex vs opex. A lot of the fixes recommended here are very high ongoing daily effort for individuals. But this is such an important thing for humans! So it would be better if the built environment was better, and human interaction was easier and lower effort to get for more people. More walkable high trust places, more third places.

Should there be lots more affinity based master planned communities? Probably yes. More in person theme parks and activity places? Probably yes. More games like Pokemon Go? Probably yes. Better walkability in existing cities? Probably yes. etc.

tl;dr at an individual level, these suggestions are good, but the fact that so much individual level effort is needed imo points to more of a need for macro solutions so it's lower energy for most people to have nice local walkable communities and friends (like people have in university, cities post-university, and in retirement homes)
by verisimi | 2026-01-16 16:08:07+00:00
> most have rose tinted glasses of better economic times from the past, and want to recreate the past instead of learning from it and using it to make the future better for future residents and businesses

So the voters are wrong? You know what's "better" for them, right? Whether they want it or not, right?

> we need to figure out how to get young people engaged locally

Because they are more in line with what you think?

PS

I'm being downvoted - but what is the point of local administrators, except to follow the voters demands? Sure, if you are a local politician, make your case, but local administrators ought to be doing whatever-it-is that people voted for. That's the whole point of voting, as I understand it.

The point is NOT to make people keep voting until they get it right, according to the administratots. That's the wrong way around! The administrators should be enacting whatever the voters want.
by epistasis | 2026-01-16 16:08:08+00:00
Somebody who spends 3-4 years in a place has an immense interest in how it's governed. Their view is 100% as valid as yours, and they should have equal voice, if we are going to judge people based on how long they live somewhere.

I live in a college town. Why shouldn't student voices be represented, when they are a huge chunk of our community?

Maybe I'm too US focused, and have been accused of that a lot recently, but your views are fundamentally at odds with basic democracy as I see it as a US citizen.
by topspin | 2026-01-16 16:08:27+00:00
> imposing a vacancy tax

That might help a little, but you won't notice. Beating such taxes is done with low value businesses. A mattress store is a typical case, good for holding larger spaces with almost no capital cost: a low overhead business used to hold a retail property until values appreciate. Smaller spaces are held with little clothing stores nobody shops at, or wire transfer shops and such. There is a plethora of such operations holding real estate everywhere, barely breaking even or losing modest amounts of money.

It's compelling to imagine there is some brilliant tax fix for every ill, but investors are a lot more agile than tax authorities; they make their living solving these impediments. Handling food is one the costliest ways to hold a commercial property, so that's rarely how its done.
by inejge | 2026-01-16 16:09:31+00:00
> It seems massively unlikely.

Why? There were other talented people who produced masterful works at an early age. From the same time as this there's a Dürer self-portrait, also aged 12-13:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Portrait_at_the_Age_of_13

> We don't have any really reliable records from that time.

Uh, no. There's no documented attribution of that painting to Michelangelo; that doesn't mean that other things weren't reliably recorded.
by grvbck | 2026-01-16 16:09:35+00:00
This was a few years before Sweden joined the EU, but yes, I think the lack of a physical connection was one of the main problems.

From what I've read the test drivers also thought the car was too difficult to drive, with the joystick being too reactive. I wonder how much of that could be solved today with modern software and stability control tech.

I can't find it now, but I do remember a similar prototype with mechanical wires (not electrical) that was supposed to solve the regulatory requirements. That joystick looked more like a cyclic control from a helicopter.
by troyvit | 2026-01-16 16:09:55+00:00
It reminds me of this HN article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46550912

European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

The EU is looking for facts like this as it figures out how to use OS to begin to extend its digital sovereignty. I don't think it's as simple as, "get funding from a giant continental government instead of VCs!" but what I hope is that there is a structure the EU and Open Source can forge together that gives OS software the funding it needs to build more Nginxes and SQLites in a way that fosters the independence of those projects along with the independence of the entities that use it.
by pawelduda | 2026-01-16 16:10:05+00:00
Looking at the surface, it is true, but there are caveats:

- Not all musicians are in the field because it pays, some of them haven't earned a cent

- There are talented people who would like to create music but are forced to work long hours, which leaves them drained. Perhaps in the future, humans won't have to work that much, which will allow them to pursue creative hobbies such as music making

- Artists will be able to continue performing live, which will act as a huge filter for the AI-generated content and keep paying them.

Aside from that I agree, though musicians just one of many groups disrupted by AI and I wouldn't say they'll be the ones hurt most by it, mostly because they can continue to "exist" outside of the Internet, and experiencing music live could become more popular because of it. A lot of assumptions here, I know
by 9rx | 2026-01-16 16:10:37+00:00
> Thank you for explaining your position.

We're on the internet. Is it my position?

> I don't know if I would have described that as bad faith, more like good-faith-in-disguise

It is good faith from the author's perspective, but bad faith/trolling from the reader's perspective. It, as taken from an expectation of replication of what is found outside, is deceptive. There, of course, can be no such thing as bad faith/trolling if you remove trying to see it as a reflection of outside.

So, as the earlier comments are taken from the reader's perspective, it is what is labelled bad faith. But I too get what you're saying.
by homedecorart01 | 2026-01-16 16:10:47+00:00
A disorganised makeup vanity dressing table with mirror and drawers can lead to a chaotic start to the day. By utilising internal dividers, a small dressing table helps categorise your routine. Closing the lid at the end of the morning signifies a transition to a tidy space, helping to keep your bedroom a place of rest rather than a place of chores.
by tstrimple | 2026-01-16 16:10:50+00:00
> For one thing, reasonable or not there is still a lot of faith in the election process and many are expecting all this craziness will put Republicans on a back seat for decades.

If only the country wasn't systematically designed to favor conservatives. Low population states have way too much influence on this country. It's one of the reasons we're so fucking backwards compared to the rest of the world. We're held hostage in part by places like Wyoming and Nebraska. Our House representation has been capped so we're getting fucked on representation and the electoral college as well. On top of that, the conservative's willingness to lie and cheat certainly puts them at significant advantage as well. Stunts like convincing someone with the same name as your opponent to run as well in hopes of confusing the voters and splitting up votes to running as a Democrat only to switch as soon as elected.

Liberals just aren't equipped or willing to fight against conservative fuckery. If liberals fought half as hard to support their lip services towards helping people as conservatives fought for fucking people over, we might actually make progress in this country.
by iamcalledrob | 2026-01-16 16:11:04+00:00
It is totally possible to get a $4 lunch in the UK.

Basic pre-packaged sandwiches can be had for under $2.

For about $4.75 you can get a sandwich, pastry, and a latte from just about any of the chain corner shops (Tesco Express etc)

It's not gourmet, but it's a solid affordable option that millions of people eat every day. There's no real equivalent of this in the US sadly.
by jdeng | 2026-01-16 16:11:09+00:00
Exciting to see Anthropic validate the "AI coworker" direction. We're building VITA AI (https://vita-ai.net) with similar philosophy but for enterprise QA testing.

One key architectural difference: Cowork runs sandboxed VMs on your local macOS machine, but we run sandboxes entirely in the cloud. This means:

- True isolation - agents never touch your local files or network, addressing the security concerns raised in this thread

- Actual autonomy - close your laptop, agent keeps working. Like delegating to a real coworker, not pairing with an assistant

- Scale - spin up 10 test agents without melting your CPU

The trade-off is latency and offline capability, but for testing workflows (our focus), asynchronous cloud execution is actually the desired model. You assign "test the checkout flow," go to lunch, come back to a full test report + artifacts.

Different use cases, different architectures. But the broader trend feels right - moving from conversational assistants to autonomous agents that operate independently.
by ivanr | 2026-01-16 16:11:17+00:00
As already noted on this thread, you can't use certbot today to get an IP address certificate. You can use lego [1], but figuring out the exact command line took me some effort yesterday. Here's what worked for me:

lego --domains 206.189.27.68 --accept-tos --http --disable-cn run --profile shortlived

[1] https://go-acme.github.io/lego/
by gnosis67 | 2026-01-16 16:11:20+00:00
> Trump, handing over power to a WOMAN? LOL.

You, populous mob of fickle appetites know not yourself or those you find as your enemies.

You are flat landers in a game of so many dimensions and sides, those you are familiar with are those least likely to be “real”, or the complete explanation by meaningful measure.

Trump is a masterful opportunist, and a man practiced in brinkmanship.

Listen to your own words. You are a scuttlebutt scavenger. Popularity is a curse, the world wants to eat and shit everything and everyone for their compulsive desires.

Let us look in terms of those determined to take upon themselves the terrible burden and those letting it cascade to the chorus of malcontents.
Show HN: DeepSeeds – An AI tool that generates structured SEO content briefs
by Waffle2180 | 2026-01-16 16:11:22+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on SEO and content-heavy sites for a while, and one problem I kept running into was that ChatGPT outputs were too unstructured to be used directly by writers or editors.

So I built DeepSeeds – a small tool that generates structured SEO content briefs and content refresh plans, including:

- Search intent breakdown
- Suggested H1–H3 structure
- Key talking points per section
- Optimization ideas for existing content

It’s not meant to replace writers, but to reduce the time spent turning vague ideas into usable briefs.

This is still early, and I’d really appreciate feedback from people who’ve worked with SEO or content workflows.
by Edman274 | 2026-01-16 16:11:31+00:00
The thing about a sledgehammer is that if you're asleep in your house, you, your dog, your SO, or your neighbors might be startled awake by the sound of metal splitting and cracking open. Your security system might be designed to alert on something like a window being smashed. The person attempting to enter the house may be trying to enter undetected, because they know that a broken lock and/or a replaced lock will alert the people they're trying to ambush or steal from. Imagine something like industrial espionage, where a person breaks in undetected, steals an item, and then leaves. The occupant only realizes the item is gone a week later, and wonders if they could've misplaced it. In your scenario, they'd see the sledgehammered lock and immediately call the cops.

I see comments like these all the time on Reddit and Hackernews. Hackers are like, "locks aren't security, a sledgehammer breaks them" and it appears to betray a mental threat model of "what if the cops want my thing" and never "what if someone wishes to do me harm while I am in my house" or "what if a criminal wants to not get caught taking my things" or "what if someone wants to lie in wait in my house", which are not risks to these commenters. They are to a lot of people though.
by rramadass | 2026-01-16 16:11:36+00:00
Nice! I am not sure whether i should comment on your decisions ;-)

For myself, because of my upbringing and my own studies, i follow these axioms;

1) Be extremely risk averse when it comes to money-in-hand. I would rather live within my capital than risk it on investment which may make me lose a sizable portion of it.

2) Never trust any financial/investment advice from anybody unless i have thought through it and assessed the risks. Nobody has my welfare at heart as me myself.

3) Curtail my desires i.e "wants" and whatever i buy, make full use of it over a number of years. That means using cars/laptops/phones/gadgets/clothes etc. until they die on me. Never buy something just because and/or follow fashion.

4) When you splurge on some specific "want", you must balance it with saving on other fronts. This rule is inviolable; nothing will build financial discipline like being forced to give up something for something else.

5) Never buy stuff on loan/EMI etc. but always do it with cash-on-hand. If you can't pay for it completely, you can't afford it. The only possible exception is buying a house but even here you should try to payoff everything as soon as possible.

6) Always payoff your credit card etc. in full every month. There should never be any outstanding debts.

7) The future is uncertain. Hence always imagine the worst-case scenario and then plan for it. As i said, the goal is to avoid total ruin.

8) Always rely only on yourself; do not assume/depend on help from siblings/relatives/friends etc. when things go wrong. This builds mental fortitude and responsibility so that you can face come what may in the future.
by trinix912 | 2026-01-16 16:11:49+00:00
In my country, citizens without a permanent address (which is very few people, those who have no place of theirs mostly register at someone elses for easier administration) can still sign up and vote, so that leaves us with just the people who don’t have the permits to even stay here permanently.

I’m also not expecting to fly to country X, book an airbnb for 6 months or get a summer job, and then just somehow be entitled to vote there.
by nindalf | 2026-01-16 16:12:31+00:00
SQLite made and makes a lot of money from a lot of the people who use them. It's free for us to use, but it wasn't free for Motorola and AOL and Nokia (and later Google, Apple and Adobe) who contracted the team to build it out, add features, fix bugs on it. This wasn't FOSS funded by a few people's free time. It was a commercial business that made money by finding product market fit - the best embedded database in the world. Their scale then allowed them to find more bugs, fix them and become more reliable than anything else.

The whole story (https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/) is fascinating, but here are a couple of interesting excerpts:

> I scrambled around and came up with some pricing strategy. [Motorola] wanted some enhancements to it so it could go in their phones, and I gave them a quote and at the time, I thought this was a quote for all the money in the world. It was just huge. ($80k)

> [Nokia] flew me over and said, “Hey, yeah, this is great. We want this but we need some enhancements.” I [Richard Hipp] said, “Great,” and we cut a contract to do some development work for them.

> We were going around boasting to everybody naively that SQLite didn’t have any bugs in it, or no serious bugs, but Android definitely proved us wrong. Look, I used to think that I could write software with no bugs in it. It’s amazing how many bugs will crop up when your software suddenly gets shipped on millions of devices.

If you can find paying customers that can fund your development, then it's fantastic. It's even better if those contracts give you scale that none of your competitors have. You don't need VC money if that's the case. But let's not pretend that Astro were in that situation. No one was paying for a web framework.
by dulakian | 2026-01-16 16:12:37+00:00
I was using Sudolang to craft prompts, and having the AI modify my prompts. The more it modified them, the more they looked like math equations to me. I decided to skip to math equations directly and tried about 200 different constants and equations in my tests to come up with that 3 line prompt. There are many variations on it. Details in my git repository.

https://github.com/michaelwhitford/nucleus
by MoreQARespect | 2026-01-16 16:12:43+00:00
Coz while devs with specialties usually get paid more than a generalist, for some reason testing as a specialty means getting a pay cut and a loss in respect and stature.

Hence my username.

I wouldnt ever sell myself as a test automation engineer but whenever i join a project the number one most broken technical issue in need of fixing is nearly always testing.

I typically brand this work as architecture (and to be fair there is overlap) and try to build infra and tooling less skilled devs can use to write spec-matching tests.

Sadly if i called it test automation i'd have to take a pay cut and get paid less than those less skilled devs.
by defo10 | 2026-01-16 16:13:13+00:00
Here’s a highly relevant, recently published paper:

Lasgaard M, Qualter P, Løvschall C, et al. Are loneliness interventions effective for reducing loneliness? A meta-analytic review of 280 studies. Am Psychol. Published online October 23, 2025. doi:10.1037/amp0001578

If you know German, you might be interested in the two books on loneliness published by Noëmi Seewer and Tobias Krieger.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-16 16:13:22+00:00
From a developer perspecive, I was going to go "Ahh shit here we go again"

But to be really honest, thinking more about it. atleast from an "AI" bubble perspective, Cloudflare is pretty rock solid and isn't involved in the AI bubble deals whereas vercel has

If you were to use cloudflare workers say the past few months, you would've noticed some serious UI/UX improvements and its projects highlighted astro template was one of the first things (I think second was sveltekit iirc)

Anyways thinking about it now, I am sure that cloudflare must have been in talks with them for quite some time and they had the astro deployments on cloudflare workers so they must have seen its usage and other data we have no idea about to justify this purchase

That being said, I had been part of astro community almost exactly the time they had partnered up with turso (It was my holidays so I wanted to build a website from scratch, I sadly lost it but it was really cool and it had BMO from adventure time's pixel art that I lost oof :<)

So I was in their discord when they had just joined turso for astro DB and at that point, you couldn't host it locally (some tried with wasm) not sure what's the reality now though. But its interesting to see this because cloudflare offers a turso (serverless sqlite) alternative as Cloudflare D1, So we might see Astro shift to d1?

Once again, I have not been part of community for almost around 1-2 years so I don't know the current state of Astro aside from tweaking around making my own custom editor in bun for some astro templates (astro templates are really cool)

Perhaps, we are gonna see astro templates website + cloudflare workers to create an instant deployment of astro templates on cloudflare workers as a first class citizen. Honestly I would love that because cf workers/pages are free/cheapest in the whole market.

I hope that Astro still stays local first and still its serverless features can benefit everybody and not just cloudflare (looking at you vercel for nextjs)
by tialaramex | 2026-01-16 16:14:05+00:00
They also allow you to distinguish legitimate operations. Maybe that armed guard isn't sophisticated enough to realise that your ID is fake, but they do know that you're supposed to use a key to open these lock, you were not supposed to turn up and smash one open -- which means that maybe you're not who you say you are after all and best you stay right there while they call somebody.

Easy picks can mess with that. If I can open this with my tools in two shakes of a lamb's tail because the tolerances are far too big probably that guard doesn't notice, whereas if I'm there heaving and grimacing for ten minutes, or I need a sledgehammer or an angle grinder, they'd have to be completely moronic not to realise I'm not on the up-and-up.
by packetlost | 2026-01-16 16:14:41+00:00
It's touched on in this article, but there's a lot more than just zoning that makes it impractical to operate businesses like the ones being talked about. Tax code, health code, ADA, etc. not to mention the complete lack of density in the majority of the US.

As much as I'd love to have something like Matsuya in the US, it's just not practical here. I'm surprised it hasn't been talked about yet, but zoning is also a major factor in the spiraling of housing costs.
by 7402 | 2026-01-16 16:14:51+00:00
I have one (NUSTE brand on Amazon) that has a built-in rechargeable battery. It takes up much less room than some I've had.

The ones that plug in to a lighter socket (which sometimes require the car to be running or the ignition switch in ACC position), or have to be clipped to the car battery are not as convenient.
by oivey | 2026-01-16 16:15:02+00:00
> If you were open every day of the year and assume no seasonality, that means your first 49 orders every day go just to regulatory fees.

This looks crazy because it is incorrect. In your premise, that 9% profit margin includes the regulatory costs for a brick and mortar restaurant already. The only way your logic works out is if truck regulations are on average $30k more expensive than a regular building, which they almost certainly are not.

You can’t even begin to do the calculation without knowing the breakdown underlying the profit margin you cite.