MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by directevolve | 2026-01-28 10:37:29+00:00
The point is that the overwhelming majority of the country isn’t facing down ICE brutality right now, not the way Minneapolis is. So yes, most are much less immediately and violently affected by Trump. Hence, calm.

The question I was getting at is why those of us disgusted by Trump are protesting less vigorously, despite his government being much worse this time around. It’s a phenomenon widely noted.

For me, that largely comes down to the fact Trump not only won 2024 fair and square, Biden really was manifestly not up to the task of governing. Biden, and careerist Democrats hoping to ride on Biden’s coattails to another term in the White House failed utterly at the critical moment.

A democracy or republic isn’t guaranteed to deliver good governance. The primary goal is to enable peaceful transitions of power.

Trump is threatening that, explicitly. But how to actually address that threat is less clear.

In 2016, we were outraged to see a turd like Trump win. But at that time, the story wasn’t about electoral threats and fascism, it was his disgusting personal character.

The election threat only really manifested on Jan 6. It failed, he exited office, and was facing prosecution. It looked potentially done and dusted, and like the Democrats in federal government were successfully dealing with the problem, as is their role. We were ridin’ with Biden.

Then they slow walked the prosecution that mattered. Biden got on stage to debate Trump and we were absolutely horrified. Then we noticed how vacant he was at other public appearances. It was “my god, he’s not just sleepy, he is incapacitated, and they’ve been lying about it to us for who knows how long?”

Then there was the last ditch effort to field Kamala instead, another weak candidate who wasn’t even liked in the Biden admin. That was pathetic.

So we got Trump. And it wasn’t “we could have had ultra-qualified Hillary, but we got this POS from out of nowhere” like in 2016. It was “holy shit, I am extremely disappointed in my own party.” Nothing added up. We lost trust in our own party and leadership, and it hasn’t come back. Nobody’s excited for any Democrat. We all just know Trump’s gotta go and we’ll line up for Any Democrat (TM). But that doesn’t mean we are proud to do so. It’s a bitter, demoralizing pill to swallow.

Of course fundamentally, we are dealing with all the normal politics problems. Bad voting system, fake news, social media brainwashing, economic illiteracy, checked out voters. American presidential history (and its history as a whole) is full of depressing candidates and terrible shit, political violence, and disenfranchisement we’ve only even approximated eliminating for the last 61 years, since the Voting Rights Act.

So I am hopeful that in the grand sweep of things, we will pull through and keep finding ways to make progress. I think the main thing right now is to keep your energy, hope and belief in the future. They’d like to take that away, and I just won’t let them.
by mdemare | 2026-01-28 10:37:37+00:00
This is not quite correct. If a dividend happens, the market capitalisation drops by the amount of the dividend, the number of shares remains constant, so the share price dips by the amount of the dividend per share. All investors get the dividend.

If a buyback happens, the market capitalisation drops by the amount of the buyback, and the number of shares drops by the same ratio, keeping the share price initially constant. The money goes to the investors who sell.

Buybacks are nevertheless good for investors who hold. They now have shares in a company whose market cap is 100% growing enterprise, instead of 90% enterprise and 10% bag of money. That means that if the company keeps doing well, the share price will increase faster than it would have done otherwise (it will also drop faster - it's no longer anchored to an inert pile of cash).
by chromanoid | 2026-01-28 10:38:08+00:00
Sorry, did you read this https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2018/12/14/SJWJS.html?

I personally associate Prism with [Silverlight - Composite Web Apps With Prism](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2009...) due to personal reasons I don't want to talk about ;))
by piva00 | 2026-01-28 10:38:25+00:00
Labour laws have much less of an impact than the work or overall culture.

Sweden has quite strong labour protection but can be much more innovative than Germany because there's much less emphasis in respecting titles, seniority, and authority than the Germans. German education has a big emphasis on bowing down to authority from early age, Sweden is much more lax (and even though Jantelagen isn't a big thing in modernity it still can affect modern Scandinavia in general).

Blaming labour laws for issues arising from culture is a tired jab, it's not the culprit. You can find that out by working for a German company vs a Swedish one, it's starkly different.
by Olmhinlu | 2026-01-28 10:39:59+00:00
"I have watched TV twice in my life. I am frankly not terribly interested in TV anyway. Certainly I do not pretend that by simply refusing to keep up with the latest news I am therefore unaffected by what goes on, or free of it all. Certainly events happen and they effect me as they do other people. It is important for me to know about them too: but I refrain from trying to know them in their fresh condition as "news." When they reach me they have become slightly stale. I eat the same tragedies as others, but in the form of tasteless crusts. The news reaches me in the long run through books and magazines, and no longer as a stimulant. Living without news is like living without cigarettes (another peculiarity of the monastic life). The need for this habitual indulgence quickly disappears. So, when you hear news without the "need" to hear it, it treats you differently. And you treat it differently too." - Thomas Merton
by budgefrankly | 2026-01-28 10:40:42+00:00
> Most managers are no longer technical, and just create bloated middle layers that slow everyone else down.

> The only managers that are decent are the ones that have kept their technical skills sharp.

Alex Ferguson was a terrible footballer when he was managing Manchester United. Yet they won the premiership in 6 of his last 10 years in that role, and have never won it since he left.

The skills that make one great at doing work on ones own aren't necessarily the skills that make a _team_ of 3, 6, 12 people all collaborate with one another, and with the other teams within the company.

Good management is rare, due to the tendency to promote engineers into the role instead of hiring people specifically trained in that discipline, but when you're in a well-managed -- and hence highly focused -- team the results you can all obtain together can be impressive.
by storystarling | 2026-01-28 10:40:45+00:00
The hardest part of a rewrite like this is usually maintaining bug-for-bug compatibility with the legacy parser rather than the actual Rust implementation. Most real-world media files are malformed in some way that the C++ code implicitly handled, so if you write a strict parser you end up breaking valid user data. Differential fuzzing seems like the only practical way to map that behavior without manually reviewing millions of edge cases.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-28 10:40:51+00:00
Nah, worst that can happen is you get arrested if you try to go back or are in a country with an extradition policy, but that's only if it's considered a criminal case (e.g. espionage instead of no-compete) or there's a warrant out, else a no-compete clause is a civil matter.

And besides, while in the Netherlands people do sign no-compete clauses, in practice they're not enforceable by law. Or so I've heard.
by b112 | 2026-01-28 10:41:58+00:00
A silver lining, is it would likely be attempted via systemd. This may finally be enough to kick off a fork, and get rid of all the silly parts of it.

To anyone thinking not possibile, we already switched inits to systemd. And being persnickety saw mariadb replace mysql everywhere, libreoffice replace open office, and so on.

All the recent pushiness by a certain zealotish Italian debian maintainer, only helps this case. Trying to degrade Debian into a clone of Redhat is uncooth.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-28 10:42:56+00:00
>German education has a big emphasis on bowing down to authority from early age

Ah, good ol' legacy of the education system implemented by Prussia, who wanted an army of conformist soldiers following orders, and not free thinkers risking to upset the apple cart. Great mentality if all you want is waging war though :)

And this mentality persist to this day, where given a set of rules, other successful related cultures like Dutch, Brits or Swedes will first use common sense when interpreting and applying them, whereas Germans will tend to blindly follow those rules by the book even if they don't make sense in that specific context.

It's difficult to uproot people from their ways, when they've only lived in Plato's cave allegory.
by toyg | 2026-01-28 10:43:11+00:00
> Y'all should take a break sometime

We would gladly do if only you renounced your world-ending weapons, in the same way as we would be more than happy to stop bothering with Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Israel, France, and Iran. Until then, unfortunately, we are kinda forced to pay attention, in the not-so-remote chance that some insane "representative" pulls that trigger. It also does not help that your shenanigans have a penchant for overflowing, invading countries closer to us than to you and maintaining military bases all over the world; stop doing that, and we'll happily leave you alone.

> I count one possibly innocent life lost so far.

One, two, or two hundred, it's still too many - and accounting for them like you do is simply callous.

I note you've not actually countered any point, just went "you're rubber, I am glue, nah-nah-nah". Which is sadly indicative of online discourse these days, even here.
by metalman | 2026-01-28 10:43:56+00:00
The real issue is that we have created a vast niche environment, lots of peculiar aged organics, in an otherwise "sterile" environment, and these conditions are almost identical over the internal volume of the worlds museums, and things are moved around, from each to each, in little bubbles,microbe ships, carefully protected.

Also there is the "museum beetle".Anthrenus museorum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_beetle
by robtherobber | 2026-01-28 10:44:07+00:00
> that’s an interesting side effect, do you have any suspicions as to what’s drive withdrawal

It's just convenience, I suspect. Once I was out of the house, it was rather convenient to keep myself out and do other things. Plus, you pay for public transportation to get to work and there's some sense in maximising that expense and try to do more.

Working from home somehow impacted that. I still go out, albeit not as often; I've become a bit more comfortable, which I don't see it as a problem necessarily.

> are you Fillmore of your time with intentional valued activity as touched on?

Absolutely. More volunteering, more time on my personal projects, more physical activity, more time for my hobbies.

However, I think that the idea that free time should be used to do something meaningful or useful is not entirely positive or defensible.[0] As creatures we play multiple roles simultaneously: romantic partners, family members, neighbours, employees, volunteers, philosophers, citizens, economic, political and social agents etc.; but, crucially, before all of those we are animals: we need to eat, drink, rest, shit, we need safety and protection from the elements, love and be loved, and all that jazz. Think about something akin to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - perhaps with more recent research.[1][2] Understanding this order is essential and it should drive the organisation of societies.

I don't want to spend all my free time 'optimising' myself continuously, or doing something that can be construed as valuable. Whilst that is or should be considered in part, I sometimes intend to just be rather than do; waste time, think about nonsense, search for food recipes online that I will never cook, watch silly videos.

> Or are you being less impulsive/blowing off steam?

I am definitely being less impulsive, no doubt about that. My mental health has improved significantly, and I'm generally more satisfied with life (and even with work).

> Have there been any productivity changes noticed at work?

Somewhat, yes. I work better when I'm less stressed, I think this applies to most people. I continue to have good days and not-so-good days, but that's because I'm a human being. Whether that impacts work or not it really should not matter in the least: we work to have good lives, not the other way around.

[0] https://leftie.uk/stopworking/topic/how-to-be-human/

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3161123/

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03057...
by Rastonbury | 2026-01-28 10:44:18+00:00
I'm not sure what the point is wrt ASML, they made good bets, they won their monopoly, their shareholders who funded the bets get to enjoy monopoly pricing. If they start cutting R&D and lose their crown, yes it's shame I guess but that's all there is. To expect a company to sell their goods cheaply when they are the only ones in the world who can them is asking for too much. It's great that they and their investors took the punt on EUV all those years ago, we probably would not have the chips we have today and all the economic benefits around it
by pjmlp | 2026-01-28 10:45:18+00:00
If you watch "Microsoft is Getting Rusty: A Review of Successes and Challenges" it appears the whole effort is more on the Azure side, and besides some timid adoption like GDI regions, there is a lukewarm adoption of Rust on Windows side, still pretty much a C and C++ feud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VgptLwP588
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-28 10:45:22+00:00
The main downside to putting scripts into package.json (or NX's project.json) is that you have to wrap it in JSON. Which is fine for simple commands, but when you start adding stuff like quotes or multi-command commands it starts to get a bit busy.

I quite like make or just as a task runner, since the syntax / indentation / etc overhead is a lot lower. I haven't yet tried to introduce it in any JS based projects though, because it adds yet another tool.
by Macha | 2026-01-28 10:45:26+00:00
The soft power is partly based on the belief that the systems it’s built will constrain the US into acting reasonably (at least from the west’s perspective). The Greenland thing was not shut down on the US side hard enough and that has shattered that. Now Europe has to contend with the fact that the US system won’t rein in a president that goes too far, and so it basically has to be treated like the absolute dictatorships with all the risks of a mad king that goes with that
by agnishom | 2026-01-28 10:45:30+00:00
It would indeed be nice if there were a mechanism to find people like Ramanujan who have excellent insights but cannot communicate them effectively.

But LLMs are not really helping. With all the beautifully typeset papers with immaculate prose, Ramanujan's papers are going to be buried deeper!

To some extent, I agree with you that it is a "discrimination by proxy", especially with the typesetting example. But you could think of examples where cranks could very easily fool themselves into thinking that they understand the essence of the material without understanding the details. E.g, [I understand fluid dynamics very well. No, I don't need to work out the differential equations. AI can do the bean counting for me.]
by yomismoaqui | 2026-01-28 10:47:01+00:00
You are right, but the responsibility of the final artifact must fall on the human.

Think about what we did before if we didn't have another human around to ask and think together about a problem.

We searched for solutions or more info on Stack Overflow, Reddit , random blogs or HN even. The we tried to evaluate the pros and cons of each possible solution and then decide what to do.

Now we should use the LLM to get that info from the internet (be it from its lossy memorized or better fresh from its search tool). Then try to ask the LLM for pros and cons and follow the links it provided if you don't trust its "judgement".
by farseer | 2026-01-28 10:47:57+00:00
Large software platforms with their own ecosystems will be spared this fate. Mostly because AI can only create small and trivial apps and further model improvement in context size or otherwise may not be forthcoming so easily.

So large software platforms, think Jira/Confluence, MS Teams, SAP etc are not affected. But AI will definitely eat the solo dev SaaS, especially those handling trivial use cases.
by foldr | 2026-01-28 10:48:00+00:00
Hmm? These are mostly news reports of one person calling another person a fascist. Notably, one of the people doing the calling is Donald Trump!

>Last week, after being found guilty of falsifying business records, former President Donald Trump said Americans today live in a “fascist state,” building on his unfounded conspiracy theory that somehow President Joe Biden is behind his prosecution in Manhattan.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/06/politics/fascism-trump-bi...
How to DeGoogle Myself?
by neuralkoi | 2026-01-28 10:48:02+00:00
I recently started a non-profit, and after being approved for Google Nonprofits I tried to enroll in Google Workspace.

I created an account but upon login it prompted me for a phone number for "additional security". After entering my cell, I got the message: "This phone number has already been used too many times for verification."

There seems to be no way around this whatsoever short of getting a new phone number. There's no way to contact a human being for support. Removing my cell # from other accounts (i.e. college, work) seems to have no effect.

A scary thought came to mind: If Google ever decides to kick me out of their system for my main account, I'm toast. I use it for everything.

How can I begin to practically "deGoogle" myself?
by throwawayqqq11 | 2026-01-28 10:48:08+00:00
Yes, i needed that bullshit spelled out. When your mind is wrapped in identity politics, then "the left" is only about some imaginary enemy. Btw, an image of an enemy, that is conveyed by propaganda channels you should recognize. Disgust towards some ougroup and the elevation/pride of your own ingroup (aka. yourself) are the primary drivers how that propaganda manipulates you. Besides love, disgust can be the strongest emotion one can have towards other humans and when that one is dumb enough, it is futile to argue about complex realities, like crime statistics or socialization.

Unfortunately, i have to spell that out too. The left is primarily focused on wealth distribution! That is why i am so sure, you are the propaganda distorted mind here. If the game was really rigged by the left, we certainly wouldnt have the current oligarchy establishing fascism and using all tricks _of that game_ to convince the gullible masses that it is actually the have-nots at the bottom (not just migrants) who are to blame for societal problems. Populists make this their primary campaign message (for their donors) and dipshits make this their primary voting reason. With a little more education and less brainfuck, you would _know_ that most western countries actually need immigrarion!

Facing all this idiocy, i am slowly loosing hope. My very first comment to you was "where should the billions for all this come from?" and ofc you didnt engage with it. You talk about some rigged game (which is true) but fail to grasp the bigger picture.
by dgunay | 2026-01-28 10:48:27+00:00
I ran an experiment at work where I was able to adversarially prompt inject a Yolo mode code review agent into approving a pr just by editing the project's AGENTS.md in the pr. A contrived example (obviously the solution is to not give a bot approval power) but people are running Yolo agents connected to the internet with a lot of authority. It's very difficult to know exactly what the model will consider malicious or not.
by dspillett | 2026-01-28 10:48:46+00:00
> … the internet is already full of LLM writing, but where it's not quite invisible yet. It's just a matter of time …

I don't think it will become significantly less visible⁰ in the near future. The models are going to hit the problem of being trained on LLM generated content which will cause the growth in their effectiveness quite a bit. It is already a concern that people are trying to develop mitigations for, and I expect it to hit hard soon unless some new revolutionary technique pops up¹².

> those Dead Internet Theory guys score another point

I'm betting that us Habsburg Internet predictors will have our little we-told-you-so moment first!

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[0] Though it is already hard to tell when you don't have your thinking head properly on sometimes. I bet it is much harder for non-native speakers, even relatively fluent ones, of the target language. I'm attempting to learn Spanish and there is no way I'd see the difference at my level in the language (A1, low A2 on a good day) given it often isn't immediately obvious in my native language. It might be interesting to study how LLM generated content affects people at different levels (primary language, fluent second, fluent but in a localised creole, etc.).

[1] and that revolution will likely be in detecting generated content, which will make generated content easier to flag for other purposes too, starting an arms race rather than solving the problem overall

[2] such a revolution will pop up, it is inevitable, but I think (hope?) the chance of it happening soon is low
by senko | 2026-01-28 10:49:01+00:00
> The end goal of AI is

AI is a technology. It has no goal. You use a tool, the tool doesn't use you or have goals or plans for you.

> In a world where there is no work for the common man.

"Work expands to fill the time available" (Parkinson's Law). Work hours haven't been reduced even though technology has advanced tremendously over the centuries (they have been reduced due to push for worker's rights).

> I'm afraid to imagine what is left there.

Do not define yourself, or your worth, through work. You work to live, not live to work.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-28 10:49:58+00:00
I don't, fits on my card with the full context, I think the native MXFP4 weights takes ~70GB of VRAM (out of 96GB available, RTX Pro 6000), so I still have room to spare to run GPT-OSS-20B alongside for smaller tasks too, and Wayland+Gnome :)
Show HN: The HN Arcade
by yuppiepuppie | 2026-01-28 10:50:32+00:00
I love seeing all the small games that people build and post to this site.

I don't want to forget any, so I have built a directory/arcade for the games here that I maintain.

Feel free to check it out, add your game if its missing and let me know what you think. Thanks!
Show HN: RightSize CLI, Find the cheapest LLM that works for your prompt
by 44za12 | 2026-01-28 10:50:41+00:00
RightSize runs your prompt against candidate models (Kimi, GLM, Qwen, Gemma etc.) in parallel via OpenRouter. Then it uses a stronger model as a Judge to score accuracy against a baseline model.

Happy to answer questions.
by mgh95 | 2026-01-28 10:52:53+00:00
The figures I provided are for 2024. You would need to compare USD/CAD ratios for 2024 versus 2025. Annual GDP figures for 2026 are not yet available as 2026 has not yet come to pass, so usage of 2026 data is not accurate in this context. To compare, I would consider USD/CAD on December 31, 2024 which was 1.386 [.72] and USD/CAD on December 31, 2025 which was 1.4359 [.69] which are both less favorable than the .73 given.

As stated above, the usage of more accurate figures would render Ontario with a lower GDP than more states.
Two Brothers: A designer and a A hobby programmer built this Animation tool
by yomi405 | 2026-01-28 10:53:00+00:00
Hi everyone, after months and months of designing and animating. My brother and I built this Animation tool that helps anyone remix their favourite motion designs bits in minutes.
Let us know what you think

www.autograph.video

Getting started:

https://youtu.be/05aNmIM37xc?si=RhJrqEdyvl-UCYu5