MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sashank_1509 | 2026-01-27 16:08:40+00:00
I’m surprised, so it seems like most tariffs are falling towards zero on all products except agriculture and cars below 17,000$ in the coming few years.

Especially cars, India has had insane tariffs on luxury cars and motorcycles that will disappear, which is interesting. On the face this seems like a good deal for India as India can probably export much more than EU can to India except for a few sectors like Automobiles and Chips, but who knows, I assume EU officials seem to think the gains in a few high tech sectors are enough to offset the cheap goods on all other sectors.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-27 16:08:54+00:00
If one is interested in how internal PC registers work, than these build series do the classic eeprom microcode based CPU builds. Fabian's series is highly accessible, and builds a python based assembler from scratch. James series ends with a simple game design.

Cheers, =3

"Build a Superscalar CPU" (Fabian Schuiki)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwjMLyBU4RU&list=PLyR4neQXqQ...

https://github.com/fabianschuiki/superscalar-cpu

"Making an 8 Bit pipelined CPU" (James Sharman)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iHag4k4yEg&list=PLFhc0MFC8M...
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-27 16:09:16+00:00
> ...Back when 4k movies needed expensive hardware, no one was saying they could play 4k on a home system, then later mentioning they actually scaled down the resolution to make it possible. ...

int4 quantization is the original release in this case; it's not been quantized after the fact. It's a bit of a nuisance when running on hardware that doesn't natively support the format (might waste some fraction of memory throughput on padding, specifically on NPU hw that can't do the unpacking on its own) but no one here is reducing quality to make the model fit.
by corvad | 2026-01-27 16:09:19+00:00
Honestly I like Cloudflare's CDN and DNS but beyond that I don't really trust much else from them. In the past though their blog has been one of the best in the space and the information has been pretty useful, almost being a gold standard for postmortems, but this seems especially bad. Definitely out of line compared to the rest of their posts. And with the recent Cursor debacle this doesn't help. I also don't really get their current obsession with porting every piece of software on Earth to Workers recently...
by simoncion | 2026-01-27 16:09:22+00:00
> The supervisor-worker architecture is standard for distributed systems, but I'm not sure the unit economics make sense yet. ... [T]hat specific pattern seems significantly more expensive and slower than a human developer.

Yeggie very explicitly states that Gas Town is for people who give zero shits about how much money they're forking over to their LLM company. If I remember correctly, he said that he had to get a second entire account because of how much money he was spending.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-27 16:09:53+00:00
Heh, no [1][2][3][4].

Meta and Google (including Youtube) kowtow to the administration in what speech they promote and suppress in the exact way the administration (both parties) says China might theoretically do in the future.

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2024/10/21/instagram-israel-palesti...

[2]: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/metas-israel-policy-chief...

[3]: https://www.972mag.com/social-media-ukraine-palestinians-met...

[4]: https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-27 16:10:10+00:00
I guess they're probably operating on the assumption that at worst a few short nails stuffed in a small film canister are no worse than the metal handle from a rolling suitcase.

The swab is for common explosives. The canisters are a bit on the small side but I guess could still pose a threat if packed with high explosive and a bit of shrapnel.

The apparent annoyance (or worse) is the part that gets me. The entire process just feels needlessly adversarial. At least they didn't insist on patting you down or emptying out your bag!
by avaer | 2026-01-27 16:10:26+00:00
Though I won't discuss specifics here, I've personally witnessed several of these scams firsthand from the inside over the last 5 years, to the sum of ~1 billion dollars -- it's not a new phenomenon, but maybe it's going mainstream.

But I would argue this is as old as the tides, it's just been accelerated by:

1) effectively unregulated gambling in the form of crypto tokens,

2) AI acceleration that the average person is too uneducated (sorry, it's true) to understand or evaluate the capabilities of and

3) pervasive, high-speed unregulated social media that props up insane technological claims and often outright lies for financial gain -- at least long enough and loud enough until the dump

You won't believe the PR schemes that brilliant insiders cook on Telegram for gullible audiences on Twitter, but it's not my story to tell here.

The only reason this has come to software is that ai slop coding has advanced the point where people who have no clue what they are doing with computers but know how to hype up an audience have learned "one weird trick to optimize rugpulls", and normies haven't yet realized they are the suckers at the table (or they haven't lost enough money yet for the bandwagon to move on to the next scam).

All of this actually makes me very sad as a person who's been working in AI + crypto for the better part of a decade because I think the tech is cool. Alas, you cannot beat the capitalist machine or underestimate people's greed or what they will do when given anonymity and freedom from reprecussions.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-27 16:11:21+00:00
That's commit review not semantic diff, and "why" some changes happened should be in the commit body (some will argue should be in code comments too) rather try figure it out after the fact, which won't even work. E.g.

https://github.com/tkenaz/semantic_diff/blob/main/semantic_d...

The Intent in this report just paraphrases the well-written commit message. But what about things not written? Funnily the tool catches up the drifts:

2. Why was 196 lines of CLAUDE_NOTES.md removed? Was this intentional cleanup or accidental deletion of important project context?
The diff shows massive content reduction in project documentation with no explanation in the commit message. This could represent loss of architectural decisions, bug tracking, or development history.

So... why? No answer is given because not possible.

6. Why skip dependabot PRs specifically? Shouldn't dependabot updates also be semantically analyzed to catch breaking changes in dependencies?
Dependabot PRs could introduce security vulnerabilities or breaking API changes that semantic analysis would catch. Skipping them entirely might miss important issues.

Good question. But, again, no answer.

Also maybe have an option on analysis extend, sections to see, and perhaps prompt to lessen the redundant information. E.g. in previous report, the "CLAUDE_NOTES.md massive content reduction" appears in Impact Map, Risk Assessment, Review Questions. Plus the entire sentence "Massive reduction in file size (212 lines removed, 16 added) suggests project documentation/status was significantly refactored or cleaned up" simply states what is obvious from the deleted lines in Files Changed. Some may like this, other (incl. me) won't. Personally will've preferred overall report be shorter.

The indirect impacts section seems interesting. There're cases that one may want to see modules impacted by a change, e.g. a function changing the result, making another function fail. But this is probably doable heuristically rather requiring an LLM to read the codebase.
by drakythe | 2026-01-27 16:12:16+00:00
430,000 years? Am I reading this headline correctly? (since the site seems to have fallen victim to the HN-hug-of-death). That seems wildly further back than I understood humans to have tools, or even homo sapiens to have existed.

ETA: Today I learned I had a much much larger gap in knowledge than I thought I did. Thanks to everyone for the information and links!
by OisinMoran | 2026-01-27 16:12:17+00:00
Just Connections, Wordle, and Mini for me (in that order), with the occasional Crossword (tend towards a barbell strategy of just doing maybe Mon, Tue, Sun to get the quick hits and a real challenging puzzle).

Also experience the odd difficulty due to Americanisms, but can't really fault a puzzle coming from something called the New York Times for that. I do however think the puzzle setting for Connections is inferior to The Wall from Only Connect, where they got the idea from. If you haven't seen that yet it's definitely worth a watch (it gets harder as as a season progresses).
by uriegas | 2026-01-27 16:12:22+00:00
There are some research projects out there that use LLMs for health diagnostics. Here's one: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/med-pmlr23.pdf

They usually require more data It is not a great idea to diagnose anything with so few information. But in general I am optimistic of the use of LLMs on health.
by sejje | 2026-01-27 16:13:15+00:00
I didn't say it doesn't warrant a trial. And I do think we should be able to press a trial against LEO even if, for instance, the state prosecutor doesn't want to go ahead with it.

But I follow this kind of stuff pretty closely. It's a better shoot than almost any I've seen. He's trained to do exactly what he did. He's already been stuck and dragged by a vehicle in a previous incident, so he's well aware it's a weapon, and he has good reason to fear it. She's disobeying lawful commands. She's accelerating towards the agent. He's not a trainee, he's got many years with ICE.

If you want to dismiss all that, cool. I'm just talking about how the law actually works, not how it makes you feel.
by dagmx | 2026-01-27 16:13:28+00:00
1. I said “one of the predominant”, that there are other frameworks ahead of it doesn’t mean it’s not in the top set of UI frameworks. Especially for native apps and automotive / medical use cases.

2. I think you might be living in a bubble if you think “barely anyone uses them”. Qt still has massive use , entire industries are dependent on it.

3. This is a misunderstanding of SwiftUI. Many aspects of the underlying parts of SwiftUI are still AppKit/uikit based. It’s about declarative vs imperative, and about react style development. SwiftUI being better doesn’t mean that the old paradigms were inherently bad or unsuitable like you suggested
by megolodan | 2026-01-27 16:13:35+00:00
Beyond federated systems, P2P systems seem to have a strong advantage here in identifying bad actors.

Ranking posts/comments by the exponential of inverse IPAddress-post-frequency would solve bad actors posting behind VPNs/proxies like evil bot farms / state actors and marketers.

Real users have their own IP address, and IP addresses are expensive like $20-50 a month which would make mocking traffic an extremely expensive proposition.

Mocking 1% of reddit's 120M daily active user would cost 58M and you wouldn't want to share/sell these addresses with other actors since it would ruin your credibility
by Maken | 2026-01-27 16:14:07+00:00
I don't remember my government sending bombs to the Ayatollah so they can keep carpe-bombing Tehran.

Protests serve to force your government to take action. i honestly at this point don't see what could mine to to stop this. Given the sanctions are not working, the only option to change Iran is maybe a direct intervention like Syria. And that sure worked great.
by mrkaluzny | 2026-01-27 16:14:21+00:00
This tool lets you:
- Paste URLs or upload a CSV/TXT file
- Generate an IndexNow API key (or use your own)
- Submit URLs in 100 page batches
- Hit Bing, Yandex, Seznam, and Naver simultaneously with a single submission
-

No signup required. Domain credentials stored for reuse in localStorage. Just paste and submit.

For those unfamiliar with IndexNow: It's an open protocol that lets you proactively notify search engines when content changes instead of waiting for them to crawl. Bing, Yandex, Seznam, and Naver support it. Google has been "testing" it since 2022 but hasn't officially joined.
by t-3 | 2026-01-27 16:14:24+00:00
It's possible in mpd+ncmpcpp, but I just encode this in the filesystem hierarchy. My library is basically setup like music/artist/year album/trackno trackname. I had to spend a few hours going through by hand with perl-rename to normalize things, but after that it was great (I don't trust automatic tools to do these things after bad experiences with beetz and similar).
by Phelinofist | 2026-01-27 16:14:29+00:00
For reference, this is how I do it in my Caddyfile:

(block_ai) {
@ai_bots {
header_regexp User-Agent (?i)(anthropic-ai|ClaudeBot|Claude-Web|Claude-SearchBot|GPTBot|ChatGPT-User|Google-Extended|CCBot|PerplexityBot|ImagesiftBot)
}

abort @ai_bots
}

Then, in a specific app block include it via

import block_ai
by davidmurdoch | 2026-01-27 16:15:33+00:00
Because this exact conspiracy has been going on since the elections for 2020. And it's well known and documented. Are you essentially asking me why I wouldn't encouFrage a conspiracy theory based on the anecdote of someone who says they hardly use the platform they are suggesting is forcing propaganda/censorship on them?

There are polarizing events getting more coverage right now, by far, than anything else in the USA, and HN user infecto is subscribing to the idea that the algorithm isn't going to try to check if these important ongoing events interest them.

It's very unlikely that "this time might be different"; the far more likely answer is that this is run-of-the-mill algorithm exploration injection.

Infecto replied me I said "you are wrong". I didn't. My original comment was assuring, in good faith, made to let them know that TikTok changing theit FYP feed is normal. They hadn't yet mentioned they already knew about algo resets and that they were leaning in to the conspiracies. Their reply to me was not in good faith, and did not respond to the strongest possible interpretation of what I originally commented.
by doctoboggan | 2026-01-27 16:15:36+00:00
Yes it's definitely further back than homo sapiens have existed (200k - 300k years), but our ancestor species were known to have used tools and control fire. I believe we have evidence of tool use going back 1 million years. So this article is referencing the oldest known _wooden_ tools, which are obviously much less likely to be preserved across the ages.
Show HN: MakeWay is a simple async client portal
by gatinsama | 2026-01-27 16:15:53+00:00
Hello HN,

I built MakeWay (https://getmakeway.com) because many of my friends were tired of managing client projects through a mix of email threads, shared drive links, and instant messages. They were especially tired of instant messages.

Most client portals seem to be either file storage solutions (Dropbox-style) or complex project management suites (Jira-style). I wanted something in between: a portal with a dedicated "Space" for each client or project.

What it does:
MakeWay lets you create a portal where you and your clients can exchange messages, files, and events. It works for internal communications too.
It is designed for asynchronous communication in threaded, organized discussions.

How it works:
1. Spaces: You create a Space for a client or project.
2. Access: Everyone uses magic links (or OTP).
3. Interaction: All messages, files, and calendar events for that project happen inside that Space.
4. Notifications: Not a lot. You only notify clients and clients notify you manually, ping-style.
5. Messages: You can close threads so communication is more organized.

Tech Stack:
- Frontend: SvelteKit (SPA, SSG) hosted on Cloudflare Pages.
- Backend: Django Rest Framework on a VPS (Hetzner).
- Database: PostgreSQL.

Try it out:
You can try the full app in Demo Mode without a credit card.
1. Go to https://app.getmakeway.com
2. Enter an email to "Sign Up" (it uses magic links).
3. Create a new Company (it will be in Demo Mode). Note that in Demo Mode, outgoing emails are blocked to prevent abuse, so you can test safely.

Feedback Requested:
I'm a solo dev bootstrapping this. I'd appreciate feedback on:
1. The "Spaces" model: Does this conceptual model make sense for your client interactions?
2. Onboarding: Was the passive "Demo Mode" clear enough?
3. Features: What features are missing? Folders or tags next? Public files for easier client onboarding? I have a huge backlog!

Thanks a ton!

Link: https://getmakeway.com
by reeredfdfdf | 2026-01-27 16:15:58+00:00
Syria was an absolute hell under Assad for dissidents, can't blame America for that. Iraq and Libya maybe, though Saddam and Gaddafi weren't exactly great leaders to their people either.

Anyway, IMO the thing about Iran is that it's mostly Shia, and the population isn't that religious, especially not in cities. Unlike Syria, Iraq and Libya of the past, they aren't ruled by a secular dictatorship, but religious extremists. So, while US intervention in Iraq, Libya and so on created space for religious extremists to rise, I think getting rid of Iranian government could actually do the opposite - give a chance for secular opposition to rise.
by vablings | 2026-01-27 16:16:15+00:00
I think the biggest difference is simple the fact that Israel has much closer ties with the US. The foreign policy of the USA has been the carrot and stick model for a long time and it seems Israel always gets the carrot on the back of national security. Iran, we have little to no relations with so there isn't anything the USA can to do excise power without serious military action
Show HN: Sprout, a fun-sized, developer-ready humanoid robot
by kelguerin | 2026-01-27 16:17:06+00:00
Hi all — I'm Kel, VP of Platform at Fauna Robotics. We're coming out of stealth and shipping Sprout (Creator Edition) today: a developer-ready humanoid robot built to be safe, approachable, and capable.

We set out to build Sprout because we believe robots belong around people. Too many humanoids still feel like heavy machinery that doesn't belong in human spaces, and even the “friendlier” ones force teams to spend their time rebuilding baseline hardware and software instead of real applications. Sprout is different: lightweight and soft-bodied (1.07m / 22.7kg), with compliant control + active safety sensing, and designed to feel more like the robots we trust in our imaginations, like Baymax or Wall-E—expressive, emotionally legible, and built for natural interaction and HRI work.

Sprout is a canvas for developers, with thoughtfully designed core capabilities and a fully featured SDK, so you can focus on what excites you. Out of the box, it can walk, kneel, crawl, and sit, map, localize, and navigate real environments, and supports full-body teleoperation and manipulation with integrated grippers and a stereo camera. We also provide simulation assets for Isaac Sim and MuJoCo, and include an MCP server so any of the robot’s functionality can be driven by the LLM or agent of your choice. You have everything you need to train your own manipulation policy, create a tour guide, build an emotive story-teller, and you can easily add your own modules to build whatever else you can imagine.

Sprout is already in use with groups across entertainment and research, including Disney, Boston Dynamics, UCSD, and New York University, and we would love to hear what you would build with Sprout!

Specs, videos, our platform paper, and a request form are up on our site: https://www.faunarobotics.com
by ikamm | 2026-01-27 16:17:21+00:00
>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This has not changed in over ten years https://web.archive.org/web/20140702092610/https://news.ycom...
by smeej | 2026-01-27 16:17:26+00:00
As a person who's worked in support roles in tech companies and has a working familiarity with Python but is not a software developer or engineer at all, it's been fascinating to watch the changes.

In the last couple weeks, both Gemini and Claude have asked me, "Can I use the computer?" to answer some particular question. In both cases, my question to each was, "What computer? Mine, or do you have your own?" Here I had thought they were computers, in the vague Star Trek sense. I'm just using the free version in the browser, so I would have been surprised if it had been able to use my computer.

They had their own, and I could watch them script something up in Python to run the calculations I was looking for. It made me wonder who it was at Google/Anthropic who first figured out that the way to get LLMs to stop wetting their metaphorical pants when asked to do calculations was to give them a computer to use.

It did make me scratch my head when I was trying to prompt Nano Banana to generate something and it was like Gemini started talking about the image generator in the third person: "The AI is getting stuck on the earlier instruction, even though we've now abandoned that approach." Felt a little "turtles all the way down" with that one!
by justonceokay | 2026-01-27 16:18:52+00:00
I’m in an interesting place. Here in Seattle I am two blocks from one of the largest Amazon Fresh stores. It was built on the former location of a local grocer. The construction was almost complete before Covid hit, but Amazon shuttered the store during that time. As a result there was no groceries in my neighborhood from 2018-2023.

Now it seems Amazon is going to leave us a grocery desert yet again.

They were piloting smart carts at the location. The cart scans your items so checking out you just push the cart through a scanner that weighs it. But this invention was like a microcosm of Amazon’s whole fuckup with groceries. The problem with the store wasn’t that I couldn’t check out fast enough, it’s that it was a shit grocery store. They had popular products but they were missing all the unpopular, low margin products you need to actually cook (baking powder, shortening, tomato paste, soy sauce…). They only hire non-union jobs program people at the registers because Amazon believes that cashier is a sub-human role.

The previous store had an owner who would wander the aisles and chat with customers. The new store has Europeans with clipboards who watch you as you shop.
by throwup238 | 2026-01-27 16:19:05+00:00
Tools predate homo sapiens (which emerged about 300 kYA) by millions of years. The first stone industry - Oldowan - is at least two million years old and might be as old as three million. They predate what we call “archaic humans” by a long time.

Even this evidence of woodworking is largely unremarkable. We’ve got phytolith [1] and microwear [2] studies showing unambiguous evidence of woodworking going back at least 1.5 million years. Wood tools just don’t survive very long, so this find is most notable for its preservation.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...
by jrm4 | 2026-01-27 16:19:41+00:00
What do you think I'm trying to do, precisely?

I'd agree, if my goal was "to be a great and complete coder."

I don't. I want just enough to build cool things.

Now, that's just me.

That being said, I'd also venture to say that your attitude here might be a tad dinosaurish. I like it too, but also, know that to a large extent, especially in the market -- this "quality" that you're striving for here may just not happen.
by Alifatisk | 2026-01-27 16:21:02+00:00
Yes, they do distill. But just saying all they do is distill is not correct and actually kind of unfair. These Chinese labs have done lots of research in this field and publish it to the public, some of not majority contribute with open-weight models making a future of local llm possible! Deepseek, Moonshot, Minimax, Z.a, Alibabai (Qwen).

They are not just leeching here, they took this innovation, refined it and improved it further. This is what the Chinese is good at.