MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by willmarch | 2026-01-15 19:57:32+00:00
Here are several off the top of my head with sources and videos:

Peaceful protester/protest crowd attacked:

CBS reports that on Jan. 8 outside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, federal officers fired pepper balls at close range and surged into the protest crowd behind chemical irritants (video in source):

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-minneapolis-protests-aft...

NBC News also reports an incident where an immigration officer rolled down a vehicle window and sprayed a protester point‑blank with a chemical agent:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigration-agents-depl...

In a Richfield Target, video shows federal agents detaining Target employees, including one being tackled/handcuffed while saying “I’m literally a U.S. citizen,” and they were later released:

https://www.aol.com/articles/video-ice-detaining-target-empl... and https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/richfield-target-ice-...

Religion News Service reports that on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, at least two pastors (wearing clerical collars) were shoved, shot at with pepper rounds, and exposed to pepper spray:

https://religionnews.com/2026/01/07/minneapolis-clergy-peppe...
by m4ck_ | 2026-01-15 19:58:01+00:00
I think it's more about the federal government sidestepping the bill of rights, the dragnet surveillance, and the gestapo tactics being utilized when previous administrations (ex: Obama) were able to deport millions without manufacturing all this chaos, violence, and the general dog and pony show being put on. The tech itself isn't special.

But I am admittedly pretty radical/extreme with my views, at least by contemporary standards: I am a big fan of fellows such as George Washington and Ben Franklin, and the documents and principals they upheld, such as those outlined in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of rights. I know that a certain segment of the population in particular would take great offense if the words of the declaration were spoken today; it'd probably be arrestable.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2026-01-15 19:58:03+00:00
I wonder, what’s to stop an energy company with a mixture of RE and gas from disabling X% of their RE infrastructure, forcing gas to come online and the higher rate? Only the biggest producers control enough of the market to do it, but it seems plausible for the company to find specific demand scenarios where they could tip the price in their favor.
by bblcla | 2026-01-15 19:58:04+00:00
(Author here)

> I'm not entirely convinced by the anecdote here where Claude wrote "bad" React code

Yeah, that's fair - a friend of mine also called this out on Twitter (https://x.com/konstiwohlwend/status/2010799158261936281) and I went into more technical detail about the specific problem there.

> I've seen Claude make mistakes like that too, but then the moment you say "you can modify the calling code as well" or even ask "any way we could do this better?" it suggests the optimal solution.

I agree, but I think I'm less optimistic than you that Claude will be able to catch its own mistakes in the future. On the other hand, I can definitely see how a ~more intelligent model might be able to catch mistakes on a larger and larger scale.

> I expect that adding a CLAUDE.md rule saying "always look for more efficient implementations that might involve larger changes and propose those to the user for their confirmation if appropriate" might solve the author's complaint here.

I'm not sure about this! There are a few things Claude does that seem unfixable even by updating CLAUDE.md.

Some other footguns I keep seeing in Python and constantly have to fix despite CLAUDE.md instructions are:

- writing lots of nested if clauses instead of writing simple functions by returning early

- putting imports in functions instead of at the top-level

- swallowing exceptions instead of raising (constantly a huge problem)

These are small, but I think it's informative of what the models can do that even Opus 4.5 still fails at these simple tasks.
by Herring | 2026-01-15 19:58:34+00:00
I'm ok with it. I think this situation is caused by the Baumol effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

I think it's ok if the highly productive parts of society subsidize the crucial-but-low-productivity areas (healthcare, education, etc).

Otherwise this happens https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/te... See all the important careers on the bottom right. And your people elect fascists because the education system sucks and they don't know any better.
by AIorNot | 2026-01-15 19:58:47+00:00
Well yes but the wider point is that it takes new Human skills to manage them - like a pair of horses so to speak under your bridle

When it comes down to it these AI tools are like going to power tools or machines from the artisanal era

- like going from surgical knife to a machine gun- so they operate at a faster pace without comprehending like humans - and without allowing humans time to comprehend all side effects and massive assumptions they make on every run in their context window

humans have to adapt to managing them correctly and at the right scale to be effective and that becomes something you learn
by _august | 2026-01-15 19:59:03+00:00
It looks cool, here's some feedback on the homepage:

- it's really complex. It reads like a tech product instead of an accessible app.

- i wish i could demo it with other languages on the homepage. Greek is, well, greek. I understand some Spanish and French so if i could use those as examples I could immediately "get" the effectiveness of the app by basing it on the knowledge I already have. I would recommend showcasing the most popular language.

- should show the supported languages as icons with text above the fold.

I'm always excited to learn about new language apps as duolingo is a bit basic!
by tb_technical | 2026-01-15 19:59:06+00:00
There already is a separate wikipedia article about the specific program. It is an extensive article. If you look up "Stargate CIA" in any search engine you'll find it easily.

There is a large amount of data on this topic. Literally hundreds of pages of reports and summaries of experiments written over decades of effort (if memory serves). The CIA was trying to use the phenomenon to view distant targets with mediums. It was deemed ineffective, and discontinued in the 90s. Even today there are people attempting to replicate remote viewing and prove it as a phenomenon.

For the record, I do not believe this phenomenon is as effective as is claimed. Regardless there is a chance that remote viewing (also known as astral projection) is just something the human brain commonly imagines in some populations. It might be an emergent property of human brains reacting to certain input stimulus, like ASMR.

Regardless, the article written about remote viewing as a concept should be allowed to cite documents about how the Stargate program defined and tested remote viewing (their methodologies, etc). But editors, like all humans, have bias.

There was a similar kerfuffle that happened about a decade and a half ago about homeopathy. It lead to an edit thread where one of the founders of Wikipedia was cursing about how fake something was.

The only objection I have to this, is that primary sources relevant to an article should be allowed to be cited. If a study, whitepaper, or report is widely discredited - include that too. The sum of human knowledge needs to include what we know to be false as well.
by ljm | 2026-01-15 19:59:19+00:00
It stands to reason that if someone makes an argument you can make a strawman against it.

In this thread, a manager is compared to earthquakes, ratpoison and gravity… which has fuck all to do with management but everything to do with low intellect.

Come on…just fucking say if you don’t like something. This entire thread exists because some fuckwith selectively quoted it.
by ericmay | 2026-01-15 19:59:43+00:00
I'm not too sure about the best policy, and I agree with both approaches from current and previous admins, but I would say that while you do seem to see headcount falling one can argue that's temporary due to the tariffs and that you have to have time to build manufacturing facilities and those things before hiring workers.

So headcount is interesting, but perhaps a more interesting figure to keep watch of would be around new facilities and capacity being built and compare/contrast that over time.
by bflesch | 2026-01-15 19:59:52+00:00
SV is in the US because of heavy government spending to further national interests. And US intelligence community was one of the first to realize that total domination of home computers / smartphones / social media allows them to exert a lot of power.

SV took workers from all over the world because these workers were extremely skilled and cheap. They didn't compete with Americans for jobs because there were simply not enough Americans with the needed skills.

Foreign tech workers need housing but they don't own land and can't vote in your elections, so the fact housing is bad is 100% on US citizens.
by frankdenbow | 2026-01-15 20:00:10+00:00
Working on a basketball app to bring people together. Basketball was invented out of grief, by James Naismith who lost his grandfather, mother, father, and family home to a fire within 4 months. He was tasked with helping to have rambunctious youth learn the principles of teamwork and sharing and slowing down and thus created the game. It truly brings people together and I hope everyone gets a chance to experience the magic that is pickup basketball. It got me out of a deep hole after the pandemic after my mom had passed and I gained 30 lbs.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-15 20:00:42+00:00
I'd never heard of vdo.ninja. It sounds like the base use case, according to their main page, is the opposite?

> In its simplest form, VDO.Ninja brings live video from a smartphone, tablet, or remote computer, directly into OBS Studio or other browser-enabled software.

I really hope I'm processing what they're saying incorrectly but this sure sounds like they are doing a video encode for each peer, which is madness & obviously bad.

VDO.Ninja is a peer-to-peer system. This means for each new person viewing your feed, a new encode is processed. It also is CPU bound since encoding usually takes place on the CPU. Take care not to overload your system. Keep an eye on your CPU usage.

The intro video also emphasizes that each person has to send video to all peers, that in fact it's not about sending to OBS, it's about having people in a room. And warns that room size of 10 is about as good as you'll get. Seemingly because of these limits.

I really like the idea of web based tools for video capture. And for some video production. It's cool that vdo.ninja is here. But what the heck; this sounds not good.
Show HN: Yesterday/Today app – experiment born from how work gets done
by gijoeyguerra | 2026-01-15 20:00:50+00:00
Hey HN,

I built a small experiment to test a hypothesis I've observed: when teams are under real pressure, managers revert to a document.

https://joeyguerra.com/yesterday-today.html

I've noticed this behavior in myself as well as other managers who are responsible for task execution and team coordination. When deadlines are tight, ambiguity is high, coordination is super important - managers and teams often abandon formal tools and just open a document to track and refine a list of todos.

Observation:
Every day the manager shares their screen, showing Notepad or Google Docs, and just lists out what to do. As the days go by, this UX shows what moved yesterday/was accomplished and what must happen today.

In the process of "going through the list" tasks get refined, together as a team, in real time.

Progress is visible by the day, not by status or workflow stage (like Kanban, Jira, etc).

The hypothesis is that we default to documents because they make the "flow of work over time" visible. My belief is that progression beats abstract states.

The app is intentionally minimal. I'm trying to isolate why the document works before adding anything else.

I'd love feedback on:
- Does this model match how you've seen teams operate under pressure? What's your experience?
- What feels fundamentally right? wrong?
- Where does this fall apart in a real team?
- What would you immediately want to add or intentionally keep out? gut reaction.

I appreciate any pushback, critique, or "this reminds me of ..." reactions.

Thanks ya'll.
by glompers | 2026-01-15 20:00:56+00:00
Orators learned the "palace of memory" trick for remembering long speeches. It seems less demanding to be able to see where you put things on a 3D layout (as suggested above) than to have to search through stacks or folders of icons. But perhaps the different types of cognitive loads result in what some people call different personal organizational styles or preferences. The "Clutterbug"[0] quadrant taxonomy comes to mind.

[0] https://clutterbug.me/what-clutterbug-are-you-test
by scoofy | 2026-01-15 20:01:01+00:00
CTRL+F "third place" -- take my upvote.

Anyone suffering in the loneliness epidemic should have a copy of The Great Good Place, by Ray Oldenburg. The entire point is that you should be putting yourself into socially active areas in your community.

This includes: a church, a local pub or coffee shop with regulars (ideally walking distance from where you live), a rec sports/game league or club.

Knowing this, I've perused it in my life and it seems very effective. I'm a regular at a Trivia Night one night per week (I don't go every week, but enough to know both the bartender and host by name). I'm a regular at a bar three blocks away from where I live, even if I consume only one non-alcoholic beverage and one alcoholic beverage per visit (a couple night a week), that leaves me plenty of time to chat with my neighbors. I'm a member of a local golf club (a very cheap municipal course), and play there every other week, and after a couple years have very good relationships with many of the other members even if we don't interact much outside of the club. At my last apartment, I was a regular at the coffee shop enough to know multiple baristas by name, it wasn't exactly a third place situation, but it was getting close before I moved. I'm not religious, but I'm very familiar with academic institutions and open lecture series that I used tot attend in grad school.

I do this intentionally. My partner had never been a regular at a bar before, and she really, really enjoys it now even though she doesn't really drink. When she joins me, she will maybe consume one-half of a light beer. You don't have to be an alcoholic to be a regular, this is a major point that Oldenburg discusses when he contrasts German-style drinking culture with English-style drinking culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Good_Place_(book)
Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
by krishadi | 2026-01-15 20:01:24+00:00
Curious what items under $100 have made your life better or any meaningful impact.

Revival of this [thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363396) from 6 years ago. Thought it would be fun to have new answers to this :)
by stego-tech | 2026-01-15 20:01:52+00:00
It’s all about fostering community again, and that’s more than just shared calendars and town events.

It’s “third places” where folks can just hang out and work, play, share, and commiserate without having to pay money to do so.

It’s bringing back establishments that promote lingering and loitering, like food halls or coffee shops, rather than chasing out folks.

It’s about building community centers inside apartment complexes, more public green space, more venues and forums.

Giving people space that doesn’t require a form of payment is the best approach, because humans will take advantage of what’s out there naturally. Sure, structure helps, but space is the issue at present I believe.
by mildmelon | 2026-01-15 20:02:16+00:00
Author here. P5JS is great and I've used it in the past. However you can get pretty far with just VanillaJS. Here's the source code to the ASCII Clouds tool, it's almost all plain JS.

https://github.com/caidanw/caidanw.github.io/blob/main/src/p...
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-15 20:02:19+00:00
There is a certain subset of Tesla owners who have this belief that features in certain Tesla vehicles are completely novel to Teslas and other auto manufacturers haven't even considered them. They can often be identified by how they refer to them as "dinosaurs".

Adjustable ride height? Miraculous. Meanwhile my car is mapping the road surface, actively leaning into corners and following road camber, actively avoiding potholes, and adjusting the suspension, including ride height, constantly.

Traffic Sign Recognition, including recognizing school zones, and recognizing active school zones.

Adaptive blind spot - so nice. Speed differential low, or you're going faster? Will not activate, or only activate last moment. But if someone is blowing by you in the HOV lane, it will warn of them when they're still several hundred feet back.

Laser headlights. Matrix headlights. Night vision with thermal imaging.

Predictive active suspension - The car actively scans the road ahead with sensors and it will adjust suspension for poorer road conditions.

The car can not just stop, but will actively swerve, if safe, around obstructions to avoid a collision, or even a parked car opening a door into traffic.
by ArtDev | 2026-01-15 20:02:20+00:00
In person RPGs, tabletop wargames and boardgames are amazing for geek culture. Thanks to local Discord groups, I have an active nerd community that I play games with at least once a week. This has revolutionized by social life!

There is a introverted crafty side of painting and 3D printing miniatures that works great for me too.

These games all work as essentially offline alternatives to videogames and are way more fun!

Also, my local game store serves beer; so its essentially a nerd bar even though most people don't drink.

Wargaming related references:
Tabletop Minions on YouTube,
The HiveScum podcast,
Companies such as Black Site Studios and
Conferences such as Adepticon.

Go look these up!
by pixl97 | 2026-01-15 20:02:23+00:00
>how much situations change as you grow up

And yet this looks very different from what 40+ years back looked like for adults so it's not just about growing up, there was other massive changes in our society.

For example the number of kids we had in the past dramatically affected 'forced' socialization.

The post war suburbanization that forced us to spend huge amounts of time on the road.

Things like TV that took entertainment from a group activity to a single person event.

All these things added up.
by advisedwang | 2026-01-15 20:02:33+00:00
Take the example of circumcision. You could probably write a mere definition of circumcision neutrally, sure.

But do you include cultural practices of circumcision? Do you include criticism? If so, how many column inches do you dedicate to either? Which comes first? That surely is going to determine whether the article appears to support or oppose, which is basically the issue in the comment above.

But beyond that, do you group female circumcision in the same article as male circumcision? If not, you are tacitly approving of male circumcision by separating it from disapproved of practice. If so, surely you need to explain the difference in social and legal acceptability. If you do that without noting controversy, then you are implying the social acceptance of male circumcision is universal. If you note controversy, then you are necessarily elevating that to noteworthyness.

There's no way out of it.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-15 20:02:39+00:00
All communication requires some context.

You're on a web site with a vague title and a bunch of random links, and zero explanation on the front page for what it's all about. Do you also complain about that?

This is not obfuscation, this is aiming at a particular audience that you aren't a part of. This web site doesn't need an introduction so that people browsing from Kazakhstan can understand what it's about, any more than a calculus lecture needs to start with basic arithmetic to cover attendees with no math background.

You're doing the internet equivalent of yelling at people to speak English when they're having a conversation in another language. It's as uncouth here as it is there.
by ge96 | 2026-01-15 20:02:39+00:00
Yeah I'll probably be smart and just empty my wallet except ID and some loose cash. I just don't like it the idea someone coming up to you asking you for money and you're expected to just do it, give it to them. It's funny too as soon as they get what they want or don't get what they want, they're like f you and move on. Ahh well I just wish I didn't care. I'm too soft/care what other people think of me.

It's like points on a website "oh no I got downvoted", there's a thing as being you/not being a conformist

I think I purposefully need to get into a fight you know overcome it, like expect anyone who comes up to me to fight me

I'm gonna stop ranting but it's not like it's hard to get laid, it's just my standards are high like she's gotta be a dime or fit at least. So that means I also have to be fit/good looking which I haven't cared much before as far as good haircut/good clothes. I at least am lucky with my genetics for fitness but I also have not been as cut as I could be. But ultimately I know it's my mind that's f'd.
by chrisjj | 2026-01-15 20:02:40+00:00
So someone adds a gateway to a fence but forgets to add the gate. That's not "introducing capabilities that the auth model wasn't designed to govern".

> The fix isn't just "secure your APIs" (though yes, do that). It's recognizing that autonomous agents need different authorization primitives than human-operated systems.

An API is for programs, not humans. And isn't suddenly insecure because some of those programs are now purportedly intelligent.

I will agree though this is going to happen repeatedly. But only because the companies thinking rushing to bolt on "AI" is a good idea are more than averagely likely ones who thought proper API security wasn't.
by hypeatei | 2026-01-15 20:02:47+00:00
Your first paragraph is what I've always thought: "back in the day" most people simply didn't have the option to be a hermit. In modern life, your bills, grocery shopping, car registration, hobbies, etc. can all be handled online / in your home.

In my opinion, it takes a lot of time and energy to avoid loneliness in the modern era. So, advice about "just get yourself out there" is technically accurate, but it misses the mark since previous generations didn't need to put much thought, if any, into socializing. Perhaps not everyone is wired to focus so much energy into that aspect of their life and we're seeing that play out with modern amenities?
by themafia | 2026-01-15 20:02:52+00:00
The inability of wealthy people to take responsibility for themselves and instead blame their own bad behavior on the mere existence of Trump is getting exceptionally thin.

Credit your co-founders. Even if you don't agree with them anymore. There's no excuse not to.

If you've been asked the question a lot then you should be _very good_ at answering it by now.
by deeg | 2026-01-15 20:02:56+00:00
> Not the most compelling case:

Does not matter one bit. Law enforcement may not break down doors without a warrant except in limited cases. This was not one of them. They violated the constitution and our way of life.

> Legal ones...

I'm guessing you didn't read the cite. It clearly shows that undocumented immigrants commit significantly less crime. Once you read it I'd be interested to know if it changes your opinion at all.