MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxglute | 2026-01-16 20:08:11+00:00
PRC slashed tariffs on Canadian ag in reciprocation, which unlike Canada on PRC EVs is uncapped. Meanwhile EV cap only raises based on PRC auto investments and plenty of ways US can throw cold water on that. Either way, this more bargaining chip for Canada vs USMCA renegotiation next year. Like it would be nice to get chinese EVs, or even shoring some of their manufacturing in CA to keep auto sector going, but I wouldn't hold my breath on it being geopolitically sustainable. Imagine US flexes, PRC pulls out, and early adopters get screwed.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-16 20:08:12+00:00
As mentioned elsewhere (I'm the author of this blogpost), I'm a heavy LLM user myself, use it everyday as a tool, get lots of benefits from it. It's not a "hit post" on using LLM tools for development, it's a post about Cursor making grand claims without being able to back them up.

No one is hung up on the quality, but there is a ground fact if something "compiles" or "doesnt". No one is gonna claim a software project was successful if the end artifact doesn't compile.
Show HN: Kerns – A Workspace for Deep, Ongoing Research
by kanodiaayush | 2026-01-16 20:08:14+00:00
Deep research rarely happens in a single pass. For high-stakes work, or to deeply understand something, you run many deep researches in parallel, revisit them over time, and synthesize understanding gradually. We combine deep research with other docs.

Kerns is built for this mode of research.

It groups multiple deep researches under a single research area, so follow-ups and side investigations accumulate instead of fragmenting across chats and docs. Outputs are structured so you can start shallow and selectively go deep—because you don’t know upfront which deep researches will matter.

Synthesis is an explicit second step. Kerns helps you connect and reconcile insights across deep researches, grounded in the sourced material rather than one-off summaries. This stage also lets you consult other docs on the same level as deep researches.

Research doesn’t stop once a report is written. Kerns passively keeps your work up to date by monitoring sources and surfacing meaningful changes, so staying current doesn’t require restarting.

Built for researchers, analysts, investors, and serious self-learners doing multi-week or multi-month research where clarity and correctness actually matter.

Would love feedback!
by hbn | 2026-01-16 20:08:19+00:00
I was hopeful that they'd finally give us something to make Alfred unnecessary but it's still slow as shit, so I'm still using Alfred.

I essentially use it as an app switcher. Sometimes I'm jumping between 6 different apps across multiple monitors and multiple workspaces on each and it's faster do type the first couple letters of the app I want and hit return than to Cmd+Tab, parse the icons in their unpredictable order (made harder by all icons being squircles now), and tab to which one I want.

But native spotlight is too slow and unpredictable.
by hackyhacky | 2026-01-16 20:08:35+00:00
> It absolutely does sound like "write your first order logic in this subset and we'll solve it".

No it does not. Please read the words that you are citing, not the words that you imagine. I honestly can't tell if you are unable to parse that sentence or if you a cynically lying about your interpretation in order to "win" an internet argument.

All programming languages are restricted, at least, to a "Turing complete subset of first-order predicate logic." There is absolutely no implication or suggestion of automatically solving any, much less most, first order logic queries.
by LAC-Tech | 2026-01-16 20:08:40+00:00
Ah you have misunderstood me.

I think the person elected should hold a lot of powers. Because otherwise, what is the point of voting if they're just going to leak it all to the civil service?

By "kill switch", I just mean you need a way to stop a leader with a lot of powers in exceptional circumstances - such as violation of a constitution.
by mbivert | 2026-01-16 20:08:52+00:00
Agreeing with the main point; on a tangential note:

> At eleven years old: https://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/work-3939.php

This one is a copy (Bargue plate − a famous set of plates designed to train students efficiently). And to be fair, it's not _that_ great of a copy.

The paintings really aren't impressive either: compare them to student works from e.g. the Angel Academy[0] (yes, they are older than 15). Incidentally, they also use Bargue plates a little to train students, and are far, far more demanding with themselves than Picasso in terms of accuracy and cleanliness.

Picasso wasn't terrible − he's definitely better than a non-painter − but he's genuinely far from having ever reached the level of his peers.

It's like comparing a food truck with historical French cooks.

[0]: https://angelacademyofart.com/student-works/
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-01-16 20:09:47+00:00
Klimt did the first three when he was 17. There are even earlier works which are not much less sophisticated.

http://art-klimt.com/early_works.html

Some people are just prodigies - very, very few, but it's a real phenomenon. Even with early craft training, which people don't get today, exceptional talent still cuts through.

This is why the common "There's no such thing as talent, it's just hard work" line can't possibly be true. It's soothing to believe that you too could be a genius if only you put the hours in, but it just doesn't work like that.

Ability is set by a talent ceiling, which is on a bell curve. "Most people don't reach their ceiling" and "There are extreme outliers of native ability" can both be true at the same time.
by ericmay | 2026-01-16 20:10:05+00:00
> This is false.

It's not false. See Honda, Toyota, &c. many models are made in the US by Americans even if they're Japanese companies.

> The US has chosen to produce expensive (average new vehicle price is $50k), fossil combustion vehicles to the detriment of its population.

The US industry regardless of reason isn't going to be able to make a cheap, high-quality EV because it doesn't have access to affordable refining capabilities due to various reasons. So the actual situation is, sure the US could let China ship in a bunch of awesome EVs, but then the US automakers will suffer and some will go out of business and then the US just won't be making cars and those union autoworker jobs will be gone. Some people are fine with that I guess, but strategically it doesn't make a lot of sense for the US to allow the domestic auto industry to be crushed. Same thing with Germany. The EU is already starting to roll back EV mandates [1] for the same reason the US is focusing back on oil and natural gas.

> Whatever it takes to get cheap EVs with the sharpest deployment trajectory possible, I am not particular, regardless of the harm it incurs on US automakers or the US itself

On the other hand, as an American voter and even an EV driver, I disagree with these actions. EVs at all cost isn't a goal that makes sense or that I'm interested in. A better argument is to just do away with cars entirely. EVs still create c02, require toxic processing of materials and components, and while they're better for the environment, they're not as good as walking or transit.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-rel...
by svieira | 2026-01-16 20:10:13+00:00
> What they all seem to be just glossing over is how the project unfolded: without human intervention, using computers, in an exceptionally accelerated time frame, working 24hr/day.

Correct, but Gas Town [1] already happened and what's more _actually worked_, so this experiment is both useless (because it doesn't demonstrate working software) _and_ derivative (because we've already seen that you can set up a project where with spend similar to the spend of a single developer you can churn out more code than any human could read in a week).

[1]: https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown
by joshstrange | 2026-01-16 20:10:18+00:00
By having fewer pixels, lower quality screens? Crazy what you can do when you cut corners.

This screen reminds of when I did tech support in high school and I helped a guy who bragged about his computer monitor, it was a TV running at 720p (if not lower) and a massive screen. The windows start bar was hilariously large (as were all UI elements), I had to just smile and nod until I got out of there.

Sure, your screen may be bigger but it's blurry and everything is scaled way too large.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-16 20:10:32+00:00
> Yeah, seems latest commit does let `cargo check` successfully run. I'm gonna write an update blog post once they've made their statement, because I'm guessing they're about to say something.

> Sometime fishy is happening in their `git log`, it doesn't seem like it was the agents who "autonomously" actually made things compile in the end. Notice the git username and email addresses switching around, even a commit made inside a EC2 instance managed to get in there: https://gist.github.com/embedding-shapes/d09225180ea3236f180...

Gonna need to look closer into it when I have time, but seems they manually patched it up in the end, so the original claim still doesn't stand :/
by henryfjordan | 2026-01-16 20:11:00+00:00
The poster above me suggested advertising is inherently evil and should be abolished, I was just countering that absolutist position.

I don't disagree that there are absolutely some awful ads out there, and that they should be regulated heavily. I've been getting so many ads for semaglutide on tiktok lately that seem designed to prey on people with eating disorders. Whoever is behind those is evil.
by maxglute | 2026-01-16 20:11:04+00:00
Next 20 years is when PRC will really start cooking. In that period, PRC going to be doubling/tripling skilled workforce more than they have now (currently slightly above parity with US), this is already baked in from past 20 years of birth and current tertiary trends. That workforce, the greatest high skill demographic dividend in recorded history, will hang around for another 40+ years. They will have 40-60 years of operating with as much high end talent as OECD combined within a coordinated system. Past 2080, unless they sort out TFR, things could go bad, but for relevant timeframes, i.e. most of our lifetimes, they're going to be peaking.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-16 20:12:55+00:00
> Certificate transparency effectively means that any government actually uses a false certificate on the wider web and their root cert will get revoked.

the ENTIRE reason the short lifetime is used for the LE certs is that they haven't figured out how to make revoking work at scale.

Now if you're on latest browser you might be fine but any and every embedded device have their root CAs updated only on software update, which means compromise of CA might easily get access to hundreds of thousands devices.
by jbm | 2026-01-16 20:13:15+00:00
That might be the rhetoric, but separation means joining the US. The experience of landlocked country would be one of getting taken advantage of by every country around it.

There is a good 20% of people in Alberta who would vote for separation today. Take a close look, they aren't voting to be an independent country surrounded by a hostile country around it and a superpower that hijacks oil tankers to the south.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/red-deer-alberta-ind...

It is a stupid idea because the level of changes that would have to happen to everything would be much, much more than people realize. But Brexit has shown us that people will vote for stupid things if they are sold by trusted-but-dishonest actors
by qnleigh | 2026-01-16 20:13:45+00:00
I'm surprised, and more than a little bit relieved that they didn't allow chats to be steered by ads. This could have been a whole new kind of marketing, where product plugs are e.g. slipped into the system prompt and come across as sincere recommendations. I have to wonder if this is still coming down the road.

I guess in the meantime, they will be able to use chat histories to personalize ads on a whole new level. I bet we will see some screenshots of uncomfortably relevant ads in the coming months.
by w10-1 | 2026-01-16 20:13:58+00:00
I agree a good exit for devtools is good for devtools. I'd like to understand it better.

The Astro claim is that astro developers will all continue full-time on it. So why acquire it instead of supporting it?

The reason given in complementarity (content and infrastructure), but doesn't that mean that Cloudflare is moving into content? Perhaps it's fair to say some content fits better with Cloudflare, or making it easier to just have static sites is beneficial to Cloudflare?

Is there a convention about announcements, for the acquired to announce happily first to bring customers, and then the acquirer to confirm their benign intentions? When can we expect Cloudflare's take?
by Pxtl | 2026-01-16 20:14:11+00:00
I've a smallish lawn so I've just been using wired yard tools my whole life. Have to be careful to mind the extension cord but it's dead simple and zero-maintenance. My lawnmower is just about old enough to run for President. Just make sure you get the right cable gauge for your mower, since you're dealing with long-enough runs that resistance loss in the cable is substantial and Home Depot just wants to sell you 100 foot 16 gauge thing that probably shouldn't be anywhere near a proper lawnmower.
by epolanski | 2026-01-16 20:15:17+00:00
1. The US industrial output has been growing for decades[1]. US manufacturing is doing very well, it's US manufacturing jobs that aren't due to automation.

2. Manufacturing as % of the population has long been declining globally including China. Labor cost is a very minor expense in modern manufacturing unless we talking something like clothing. I don't think Americans miss the millions of jobs they had 60 years ago sewing shoes.

3. Car industry isn't critical manufacturing capability by any means. I can understand ships, or steel or even chips, but cars?

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/uni...
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-16 20:15:18+00:00
The message here is that western Canadian agricultural & energy interests are of potential more strategic value than a dying technically backwards auto sector led by three moribund regressive manufacturers who have shown their willingness to show their belly to Trump anyways.

As an Ontarian, I'm saddened. But I don't think the Big3 deserve anymore state support. They've pushed it too far.

Just earlier this week they were running editorials against the gov't on EV mandates. Again. Ok, here you go. Don't want to make EVs? Only want to sell giant Canyoneros?

It's ok. China will service that market. Have fun becoming irrelevant. If consumers really don't want EVs, like they said earlier in the week, then there's nothing to fear. Right? Right?
by albertnahas | 2026-01-16 20:15:19+00:00
IcoGenie generates production-ready SVG icons from a short text prompt. Describe the icon, preview 1–4 AI-generated variations, then buy and download clean SVGs (plus PNGs) for $1 per icon. Flat, single-color icons optimized for React and modern UI workflows. With future potential of CLI directly from the terminal.
by mikestorrent | 2026-01-16 20:15:25+00:00
I have a ton of respect for your approach. That said, as someone without ADHD, it seems somewhat odd that an inability to kick off executive function would be well addressed by adding an additional activity that requires executive function. Like, if I had to plan my day out with this document before doing things, I think I'd grow to dread the process, and be even more stymied - i.e. if it was hard to go clean the kitchen, why wouldn't it be hard to go write my dayplan?

Yet, I do hear this sort of thing works for people. I'd love to know more about what you experience and why this helps.
by semi-extrinsic | 2026-01-16 20:15:48+00:00
> everything is scaled way too large

The HiDPI/Retina bullshit is just bullshit. I've been running a 4K 43" 4:3 display at 100% scaling since 2018. It is neither blurry nor scaled too large. It can, however, comfortably fit 10 A4 pages simultaneously. Or 4 terminals + a browser + a PDF reader.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-16 20:16:01+00:00
If Greenland was happening, what's taking them so long? The military could take it without a fight tonight, or last month for that matter.

They want it, but can't take it because it would be too shocking for the public (aka violating narrative continuity.) If they can prepare the public to accept it then it might happen, but most magas I talk to treat it like a joke, trolling the Europeans to make them invest in defense or something. I don't think the American public earnestly believes it will happen, and for that reason I think it won't happen.

Time may prove me wrong, we'll all find out eventually.
by iso1631 | 2026-01-16 20:16:08+00:00
Fundamentally, Microsoft, Google and Apple are all run by American citizens living in America. Firefox is pretty much the same.

The US has strong institutions which prevent the President or Government at large controlling these on a whim. If those institutions fail then they could all push out an update which removes all "top of chain" trusted certificate authorities other than ones approved by the US government.

In that situation the internet is basically finished as it stands now, and the OSes would be non-trustworthy anyway.

Fixing the SSL problems is the easy part, the free world would push its own root certificate out -- which people would have to manually install from a trusted source, but that's nothing compared to the real problem.

Sure, Ubuntu, Suse etc aren't based in the US, but the number of phones without a US based OS is basically zero, you'd have to start from scratch with a forked version of android which likely has NSA approved backdoors in it anyway. Non-linux based machines would also need to be wiped.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-16 20:16:34+00:00
You are being needlessly triggered, to the point that you're not parsing the thread well.

1. I didn't say I do this. It's not my problem.

2. You're exaggerating by saying "everyone else's problem". As is clear from the thread, only certain people view it as a problem.

I also don't like people taking selfies on trails. But I know how not to have my contentment be affected by minor problems.

Learn to share the trail and live with others different from you.
by captures | 2026-01-16 20:16:35+00:00
The classification is surprisingly simple - k-nearest neighbors on a 27-dimensional feature vector extracted from each drawing.

The features:
- Stroke count
- Point density across 6 horizontal and 6 vertical bands (where is the ink?)
- Direction histogram across 8 compass directions (which way are strokes going?)
- Aspect ratio and total stroke length
- First stroke start position, last stroke end position

The training set is ~64k hand-drawn samples from the original Detexify project. Each sample gets preprocessed and converted to this 27D vector. Classification is then just finding the k nearest training samples by Euclidean distance and returning the most common symbols among them.
by joshstrange | 2026-01-16 20:16:52+00:00
Interesting, I'm on 3x27" 2K monitor (same setup as you, portrait, landscape, portrait) and while it works very well for me, I'd like to replace it with just 1 screen (or 3x 4-5K monitors but that is less interesting to me). I already have custom window management software that I use so it wouldn't be hard to switch to sub-dividing 1 monitor to get a similar experience (I think).

Maybe I should look into the 40" 5K monitors, thanks!
by 7bit | 2026-01-16 20:17:04+00:00
Once you took a meeting while taking a shit, you will see things differently. It just makes problems look insignificant, when you're pumping one out while you listen to someone explain how the issue is company critical.

Of course, disable your camera and mute your mic while dropping or flushing.

And how to deal with it becomes vastly different when you've done it. It's just human. Just ignore it.
by rpdillon | 2026-01-16 20:17:13+00:00
Came here to mention this.

> Ads are always separate and clearly labeled.

Indeed. Let's look at Google's launch of Adwords in October 2000:

> Google’s quick-loading AdWords text ads appear to the right of the Google search results and are highlighted as sponsored links, clearly separate from the search results.

https://googlepress.blogspot.com/2000/10/google-launches-sel...

Things evolved from there, and that's likely here, as well, I think.
by wood_spirit | 2026-01-16 20:17:40+00:00
I’m also a duckdb convert. All my notebooks have moved from Pandas and polars to Duckdb. It is faster to write and faster to read (after you return to a notebook after time away) and often faster to run. Certainly not slower to run.

My current habit is to suck down big datasets to parquet shards and then just query them with a wildcard in duckdb. I move to bigquery when doing true “big data” but a few GB of extract from BQ to a notebook VM disk and duckdb is super ergonomic and performant most of the time.

It’s the sql that I like. Being a veteran of when the world went mad for nosql it is just so nice to experience the revenge of sql.
by mfuzzey | 2026-01-16 20:17:42+00:00
"stolen" should not be used in conjunction with IP, "infringed" if you like.

To steal is to deny the original owner access to their property.
That is true for physical objects, if I steal your wallet or your car you no longer have it.

But if I illegally copy some of your IP you still have access to it.
Sure you may experience some financial prejudice from that but you still have it.
by asadotzler | 2026-01-16 20:17:51+00:00
These are tiny purpose built models with simple and safe use cases.

Do you also want to remove the ML that gets the results you want at the top of the address bar autocomplete. That's been around for 15 years and it's "AI" so might as well get rid of it right?

This "all ML sucks" because generative AI LLMs suck has to end. It's entirely a garbage take.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-16 20:18:06+00:00
> On the other hand, as an American voter and even an EV driver, I disagree with these actions. EVs at all cost isn't a goal that makes sense or that I'm interested in. A better argument is to just do away with cars entirely. EVs still create c02, require toxic processing of materials and components, and while they're better for the environment, they're not as good as walking or transit.

Well, you're arguing this in the wrong country. You might check your priors. I regret to inform you that only about 5% of Americans use public transit [1] [2] [3], and that is unlikely to change unless there is a sea change of migration towards urban areas from the suburbs and rural areas.

A majority of US miles are driven in rural areas or areas without mass transit [4], and the sun belt, where there is limited to no public transit, holds roughly half of the US population. I certainly agree to destroy demand for light vehicle passenger miles in urban areas with robust public transit and other non vehicle options, but the rest of the US will require EVs of some sort. Most of the US does not have mass transit infrastructure, and won't for the remainder of most of our lives (as of this comment).

[1] https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/public-tran...

[2] https://vividmaps.com/public-transportation-in-the-united-st...

[3] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/public-t...

[4] https://www.bts.gov/geography/geospatial-2/daily-vehicle-mil...
by davidivadavid | 2026-01-16 20:18:19+00:00
Works now! Another free suggestion: when you drag a bit fast, since the animation is a bit slow, sometimes the boundary between before/after will barely move before your cursor makes it to the edge and reset to the middle, which is a bit jarring / doesn't let me really see anything. Should either make the animation faster, or put the reset threshold outside of the container somehow.