MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nbadg | 2026-01-15 13:21:31+00:00
This is a sensationalist piece of not-news.

The CSU/CDU Union party (from which Merz comes) has been, at least in recent historical time, consistently pro-nuclear (at least in terms of their actions). They have consistently voted to lengthen contracts with nuclear providers and consistently advocated for pro-nuclear policies, even when the power companies themselves had long since committed to ceasing all nuclear power production in Germany.

Additionally, the exit out of nuclear power was decided following public outcry after Fukushima -- ie, still squarely within the Merkel government. Merz has been consistently anti-Merkel.

So put into context, the article is saying "the current chancellor of Germany, Merz, thinks leaving nuclear behind was a strategic mistake!" while ignoring "whose party has consistently been pro-nuclear, whose predecessor, who (by the way) Merz doesn't like and frequently and loudly disagrees with, only presided over the decade-long phase-out in response to public outcry following a major nuclear disaster".

IMO this is about as newsworthy as what he ate for breakfast.
by alnwlsn | 2026-01-15 13:21:50+00:00
I grew up in a world where the Arduino already existed, but it was not until I tried building homebrew Z80 computers like this that I really felt I understood how computers/processors work at the low level.

Consider this a warning though: this hobby has caused me to involuntarily collect every model of Z80 powered TRS-80 computer.

If you wish to become hooked anyway, this project might be another good place to start:
https://hackaday.io/project/159973-z80-mbc2-a-4-ics-homebrew...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-15 13:21:52+00:00
> Sounds like you were posting about politics so the flagging was appropriate. You also were asking about TL;DRs which are explicitly not on-topic on HN. I'm not sure you've grasped the culture here to be honest.

The person who first called me clanker called it on an AI related post not on a flag related post. The flag related post was where we were talking about the distrust and where I later posted about on and someone followed that comment but couldn't see the previous so he called me clanker again

Although I admit that I may have mixed two of these flag and clanker stories but they are individually seperate (or that's how I intend it to be)

Apologies if that wasn't clear.

> You are over-valuing HN. A good comment here doesn't get you into college. A bad comment here doesn't change what your employees will think of you if you have some in the future. Overall, HN is not required to model itself to your desired topics and conversations. While it is a really decent place that many of us enjoy, it is still just a discussion board. And one that works exactly because the community monitors and moderates it.

You are probably right but also, it's not only about these things but rather in the whole scheme of things, I wanted to atleast be a legible source if I ever post something here and I still enjoy the discussions. Of course I may have gotten sentimental a little but I deeply enjoyed Hackernews but right now, even not related to politics. The system does fall apart on every AI/Political issue which are dominating the headspace (some of which aren't flagged but I hope you get my point)

> And one that works exactly because the community monitors and moderates it.

I understand ya but once again, apologies if I wasn't clear but we are on the same page except even flagging aside, people are genuinely distrustful of each other and someone had even compared Hackernews to 4chan and I tried to defend against it but nope, I do feel like its becoming 4chan atleast.

> If you don't like the moderation and truly feel wronged, email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com.

BTW, Odds are this post will also get flagged because complaining about flagging is another topic that is not interesting.

Once once again, the two things are somewhat linked but that's okay about flagging, thats a different issue where the community has been vocal about.

But the point (or what I want it atleast to be) is that people call clanker or AI or there is this distrust that the other HN commentator isn't in good faith or is a human at all. And I think that the community is quickly turning to degeneracy in many instances
by falcor84 | 2026-01-15 13:22:15+00:00
I suppose you're alluding to his famous quote "I'd like to die on Mars, just not on impact"[0], so yes, having him stay there would be a win-win for everyone.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/elon-musk-at-sxsw-id-like-to-di...
by rasmus-kirk | 2026-01-15 13:22:17+00:00
I think we should consider stricter restrictions on harmful advertising way before we rush to lock down the internet in order to "save the children". I don't understand why we have accepted that it's companies' God-given-right to blast propaganda which only functions to drain the working class of their money (gambling) and their health (endless ads for poor dietary choices). Why not limit advertisements to at least just products that makes people's lives easier? I especially would love to see more advertisement for rehab centers for example.
by martythemaniak | 2026-01-15 13:22:19+00:00
If anyone is wondering why MAGA is obsessed with Greenland: https://www.deadcarl.com/p/the-perverse-interest-in-greenlan...

And if you think it's ridiculous to focus on a random twitter troll to explain this admin, then you don't understand this admin, because impressing these guys (and this guy in particular) is largely all they do.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-15 13:22:24+00:00
Let me make a parallel argument: We shouldn’t ban drinking and driving. It doesn’t even help, because people do it anyway.

You seem to be setting the bar at “if anyone violates the law then the law is a failure and should be revoked.” But that’s why we have court systems. They don’t just determine if someone broke the law, but also what to do when people inevitably do. You’re operating in a world where the only restrictive laws we should have are ones where it eradicates certain behaviors 100%.

You’re basically arguing against having laws rather than the merits of the law and its efficacy. Also “drinking like a a fish” when you were a kid was terrible for your development even if you turned out ok. Many people do not. It’s not even debatable, we know the numbers on this.
by sgarland | 2026-01-15 13:22:32+00:00
I remembering driving in a near-blizzard in Connecticut one night (got caught out in it; this wasn’t on purpose), and feeling like this explanation was the only one that made sense. I had a Pontiac G6 at the time, which was a fairly boring FWD sedan. Having learned to drive in Nebraska, I was decent at driving in snow, so I tootled along at about 25 MPH. I was being passed by SUVs and trucks, and then felt vindicated from seeing many of them off the road a few miles later.

I would’ve stopped to help, but I was concerned that if I lost momentum, I wouldn’t get going again.
by codingbot3000 | 2026-01-15 13:22:54+00:00
I guess you're right. It's a pity that Elon Musk was incapable of aligning with the German Green movement. So many good things (e.g. large batteries on the German grid to buffer wind and sun) could have come out of that.
The Green party actually helped create the right circumstances to build the German Tesla factory quite fast. He was not exactly grateful later on, supporting their political opponents :-D But I guess their extreme wokeism did not help either.
by oidar | 2026-01-15 13:23:13+00:00
>Speaking of smoking, anti-smoking campaigns in the US in the 90s led to a vast reduction in teen use and adult use alike.

Late 90s... specifically after 1997 and early 2000s. But the anti-smoking campaigns before that were not effective. In fact, educating teens and adults on the dangers of smoking increased smoking. Smoking rates for teens peaked at 37% in 1997. it wasn't until the "Truth" campaigns where they focused on how the tobacco industry was basically a conspiracy, that smoking rates began to fall. And you can't pretend that tobacco taxes didn't play a part in reducing usage either.
by ofrzeta | 2026-01-15 13:23:25+00:00
When you go to the German Wikipedia page about the Fukushima incident you can learn about the misleading reporting in Germany, even in the public broadcasting like ARD or renowned newspapers like Süddeutsche Zeitung (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuklearkatastrophe_von_Fukushi...). Many articles were published that claimed 18.000 casualties from the nuclear disaster while in reality it was the Tsunami.
by lyu07282 | 2026-01-15 13:23:28+00:00
> they used it to generate the first mood board

Btw there was an update on this, larian did an AMA on reddit because of the backlash because the "just moodboard" excuse didn't satisfy many, they are now saying they won't use ai for anything at all:

> We already said this doesn’t mean the actual concept art is generated by AI but we understand it created confusion. So, to ensure there is no room for doubt, we’ve decided to refrain from using genAI tools during concept art development. That way there can be no discussion about the origin of the art.

https://www.ign.com/articles/everything-we-learned-about-div...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1q870w5/larian_studi...
by pbowyer | 2026-01-15 13:23:45+00:00
> What good use cases would you see for grid lanes today?

Fully responsive layouts, where sidebar content is interleaved with page content on small screens, but in a sidebar on larger screens.

Demo: https://codepen.io/pbowyer/pen/raLBVaV

Reordering the content on larger screens would be the icing on the cake but for now I'll take just doing it.

CSS Grid didn't solve this, as it added gaps: https://codepen.io/pbowyer/pen/azNarbZ

And using named grid-template-areas stacks the items you move to the sidebar on top of each other, so you only see one of them at a time. Eventualy I hope that https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9098 will land and we'll be able to use this saner way to do it.
by i80and | 2026-01-15 13:23:51+00:00
About 0%. China really has no serious interest in Greenland, and Russia isn't going to trigger direct confrontation with NATO. At least, unless NATO splinters, which is looking somewhat likely now with this foolish US administration.

Russia and China are just made-up excuses for Trump to do what he wants to do: steal territory, at gunpoint if needed.
by grimre4p | 2026-01-15 13:24:10+00:00
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by thebruce87m | 2026-01-15 13:24:35+00:00
Sadly for me my gas is 1/4 the rate of electricity so it would cost the same. Ironically it’s the gas marginal rate that keeps the electricity cost high.

Rolling the heat pump into the overnight battery calculation could work to offset the cost of install of the heat pump but I can’t stomach the thought of replacing my radiators and pipes.
by Delphiza | 2026-01-15 13:24:37+00:00
There is a little bit of a political kerfuffle underway in the UK regarding police being overcautious in banning a group of supporters for a football (soccer) match. The political focus has brought some awkward evidence gathering to light that may not have been noticed with something more mundane.

What is interesting to HN is that the police may have used AI summaries to determine the risk, and the AI/Search gave them the wrong information. Essentially they relied on Google or copilot (it is not clear which) to inform them of a riot at a match that didn't even take place. Police intelligence relying on public search and AI that is hallucinating is probably as common as it is worrying.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2026-01-15 13:25:16+00:00
Exiting nuclear power early was wrong. Wasting trillions on handouts from taxpayer money on new built nuclear power today is wrong. Just look at the French:

Flamanville 3 is 7x over budget and 13 years late on a 5 year construction schedule.

The subsidies for the EPR2 are absolutely insane. 11 cents/kWh fixed price and interest free loans. The earliest possible completion date for the first reactor is 2038.

France is wholly unable to build any new nuclear power as evidenced by Flamanville 3 and the EPR2 program.

As soon a new built nuclear costs and timelines face the real world it just does not square with reality.
by kilobaud | 2026-01-15 13:25:18+00:00
Thanks, I can relate to the parent poster, and this is a really profound comment for me. I appreciate the way you framed this. I’ve felt compelled to fact check my own LLM outputs but I can’t possibly keep up with the quantity. And it’s tempting (but seems irrational) to hand the results to a different LLM. My struggle is remembering there needs to be input/query/calculation/logic validation (without getting distracted by all the other shiny new tokens in the result)
by LeafItAlone | 2026-01-15 13:25:24+00:00
I really wish your comment also had some capitalization and punctuation so it was easier to parse. Even ChatGPT had different interpretations.

But PT (sorry, I guess it’s stylized, pt) has written like this for years, long before the recent LLM-based AI revolution (maybe given his position in the tech community he had much earlier insight into what the machines want). It has been one of the reasons his messages always seem aggressive, IMO.
by stackedinserter | 2026-01-15 13:25:43+00:00
> So here’s my request for you: Reconsider

Why should I hire a dedicated writer if I have people with better understanding of the system? Also worth noting that like in any profession the most writers are... mediocre. Especially when you hire someone on contract. I had mostly bad experience with them in past. They happily charge $1000 for a few pages of garbage that is not even LLM-quality. No creativity, just pumping out words.

I can chip in like $20 to pay some "good writer" that "observes, listens and understands" for writing documentation on something and compare it with LLM-made one.

"Write a manual for air travel for someone who never flew. Cover topics like buying a ticket, preparing for travel, getting to airport, doing things in the airport, etc"

Let's compare!
by aggeeinn | 2026-01-15 13:25:51+00:00
OP here.

I’ve been trying to map out why some sites get cited by Perplexity/ChatGPT and others don't, so I built a custom crawler to audit 1,500 active websites (mix of e-commerce and SaaS).

The most interesting findings:

The Accidental Blockade: ~30% of sites are blocking GPTBot via legacy robots.txt rules or old security plugins (often without the owner knowing).

The "Ghost Town": Only 3 sites (0.2%) had a valid llms.txt file.

The JS Trap: 40% of marketing sites rely so heavily on client-side rendering that they appear as "empty shells" to non-hydrating AI agents.

Context on the tool: I gathered this data using the engine for my project, Website AI Score. We are still in early beta (rough edges included), but we are building towards a complete "Crawl, Fix, & Validate" ecosystem for AEO that will launch fully in early February.

Right now, the scanner is live if you want to check your own site's "AI readability."

Happy to answer questions about the crawling methodology or the specific schema failures we saw in the wild.
by NoboruWataya | 2026-01-15 13:25:51+00:00
The article is based on the assumption that when we ban things for children only, it is because we perceive them to be harmful to children only. I don't think that is true. Nobody thinks adults are immune from the negative effects of cigarettes or alcohol. But adults are, in general, allowed to harm themselves. Children are not, because there is an acceptance that children are less able to make informed decisions. You can take issue with that and obviously bright-line rules based on age are highly imperfect, but it's a very different discussion to the one the article is trying to have.

Granted, there is also evidence that social media has particularly harmful effects on children, which no doubt strengthens the argument. But in the general case bans targeted towards children are not (just) about that.

Ultimately the article seems to be trying to argue (implicitly) that we shouldn't ban, regulate or tax anything, because if we were to do that, we would then need to ban, regulate and tax everything in order to be "consistent". It's a common argument I see from libertarians online, including on HN. If you're going to ban guns, surely you should also ban knives and cars? If presented with a choice between permitting one specific thing or prohibiting all the things, most people will choose the former. But it's a false dichotomy. The law can treat different things and situations differently, even if those things/situations have some commonalities.
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by vcastant | 2026-01-15 13:26:27+00:00
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Drive technical decisions and roadmap
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5–10+ years backend experience
Strong in Node/TypeScript, Python, or similar
Skilled in React.js for web/mobile
Comfortable with marketplace-style flows and Stripe
Thrives in early-stage, loves 0→1 building
Mission-driven and excited about ownership

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Show HN: Pawnch – Addicitve chess puzzles with explanations
by galgia | 2026-01-15 13:26:43+00:00
Old school aesthetic and new learning concepts.

The whole mastery plan consists of 18k puzzles. Split by each tactical concept, each piece, each square.

Example:
Unique chess squares: 64
Topic: M1
Unique pieces: 6
Puzzles: approx. 6*64

The coverage of squares is 85%, as some moves are mathematically impossible, and for some exotic positions, I did not find any quality puzzles.

Have fun and master chess!
by iammjm | 2026-01-15 13:27:10+00:00
As a European, it’s fairly easy to spot fascism. I fear Americans are less tuned to that as back then it didn’t happen directly in their backyards as it did here. The parallels of how Hitler came to and consolidated power are off the charts. What I find particularly interesting is the role of new media and technology in both cases: back then it was radio and TV and propagandists like Leni Riefenstahl; today it’s social media, AI and propagandists like Elon Musk. Nazis weren’t some devil-obsessed demons, they were regular people driven to the worst of their humanity by evil ideology and the government that explicitly orchestrated and demanded it. In the end, it took tens of millions of people to fix that; I fear the bill might come even higher this time
by Zaloog | 2026-01-15 13:27:24+00:00
I just added a cli Interface to my existing tool kanban-tui.

Now I can let the agent create tasks and work on them via cli and I can monitor or add new tasks on the fly on the TauI without needing to interrupt the agent. Using sqlite backend, if you use it as a local skill, it doesnt create files in your repo

„uvx kanban-tui skill init“ to get the skill and get started.
by piva00 | 2026-01-15 13:27:25+00:00
> Not sure how this is relevant to anything.

You are not sure how it's relevant the main pillar of NATO is openly talking about military action against one of the founding members of NATO?

It's relevant since everything in your life right now if you live in any Western country is reliant on this partnership since the end of WW2. If it changes you'll live in a different world, not sure how this is not relevant to you.
by sgarland | 2026-01-15 13:27:40+00:00
> Stupid internet circle jerks about stopping distance are not the pain point or performance bottleneck for the average user.

Uh, it should be? The ability to confidently stop is far more important than to go. If you can’t get going, you’re not in a wreck. If you can’t stop, well…

You also missed another key reason to get snow tires: many (most?) vehicles do not come with AWD even as an option. Telling someone to trade their Civic in for a CR-V just so they can get AWD isn’t sensible, when they could mount snow tires and get a significant traction boost.
by dartharva | 2026-01-15 13:27:56+00:00
Maybe because the intended target are immigrants who purportedly put a higher load on welfare and public services:

> "The Trump administration is bringing an end to the abuse of America's immigration system by those who would extract wealth from the American people," State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said. "Immigrant visa processing from these 75 countries will be paused while the State Department reassesses immigration processing procedures to prevent the entry of foreign nationals who would take welfare and public benefits," he said.

Since the Indian diaspora is famously known to be the wealthiest on average in the US, they wouldn't be targeted under such reasoning.
by rasmus-kirk | 2026-01-15 13:28:05+00:00
Spot on! I think LLM's can help greatly in quickly putting that knowledge in writing, including using it to review written materials for hidden prerequisite assumptions that readers might not be aware of that. It can also help newer hires in how to write and more clearly. LLM's are clearly useful in increasing productivity, but management that think that they even close to ready to replace large sections of practically any workforce are delusional.
by nerdjon | 2026-01-15 13:28:08+00:00
I have never understood the complaints about Safari and at this point it feels more like parroting than anything grounded in facts.

Unless I am using Windows (which I use for anything except gaming sparingly) Safari is my primary browser on my Mac and I stick with it on my iPhone and iPad. It does what I need it to do and I never have issues as a user. It works with the plugins I need it to work with (mostly 1Password).

I am sure there are genuine issues with the browser just like with any software, but it is already past "decent" and does its job.
Founding Engineer| Pet Care Market Place| Feline Tails
by vcastant | 2026-01-15 13:28:24+00:00
Feline Tails is NYC’s first sitter-vetted, cat-only care platform. We’re building the most trusted marketplace for cat families and sitters — and we need a Founding Engineer to own backend development and help shape our technical foundation for scale.

What You’ll Do

Build and scale backend systems and APIs
Develop React-based web and mobile app
Integrate payments and scheduling flows
Drive technical decisions and roadmap
Help shape engineering culture and future hires

Who You Are

5–10+ years backend experience
Strong in Node/TypeScript, Python, or similar
Skilled in React.js for web/mobile
Comfortable with marketplace-style flows and Stripe
Thrives in early-stage, loves 0→1 building
Mission-driven and excited about ownership

Why Join Us

Significant equity + real influence
Flexible work environment
Validated market demand, clear roadmap
You set the tone for engineering culture

Apply: Email valerie@felinetails.com with your LinkedIn or resume + a project you’re proud of.