MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Pinus | 2026-01-16 19:34:55+00:00
Obviously, it has to eventually build and run if there’s to be any point to it, but is it necessary that every, or even any, step along the way builds and runs? I imagine some sort of iterative set-up where one component generates code, more or less "intelligently", and others check it against the C, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and what-have-you specs, and the whole thing iterates until all the checking components are happy. The components can’t be completely separate, of course, they’d have to be more or less intermingled or convergence would be very slow (like when lcamtuf had his fuzzer generate a JPEG out of an empty file), but isn’t that basically what (large) neural networks are; tangled messes of interconnected functions that do things in ways too complicated for anyone to bother figuring out?
by woodruffw | 2026-01-16 19:35:06+00:00
What does attestation mean in this context? The point of the Web PKI is to provide consistent cryptographic identity for online resources, not necessarily trustworthy ones.

(The classic problem with self-signed certs being that TOFU doesn’t scale to millions of users, particularly ones who don’t know what a certificate fingerprint is or what it means when it changes.)
by ossa-ma | 2026-01-16 19:35:22+00:00
Langfuse is by far the best of the langs (-chain, -graph, -smith, -flow) in terms of UI/DX/integration/docs/quality.

Interesting development, announced at the same time as ClickHouse raising $400M Series D at $15B valuation.

Doesn't seem like much is changing at Langfuse - still open source, was already hosted on ClickHouse cloud, lot of collaboration existed between both teams.
by mindslight | 2026-01-16 19:35:55+00:00
> We have to be honest about the fact that parliamentary systems can give massive power to a tiny fraction of the population when that small party becomes the deciding vote.

The American two-party system gave massive power to a tiny fraction of the population, which the large Republican party then retconned into most of their members as their party platform. Now they're a large fraction of the population. I'd choose the approach where the small faction remains its own small faction, even if they occasionally get to pull the levers of power.
by overgard | 2026-01-16 19:35:56+00:00
I'm kind of surprised this didn't happen sooner.

From an ethical standpoint, I think it's .. murky. Not ads themselves, but because the AI is, at least partially, likely trained on data scraped from the web, which is then more or less regurgitated (in a personalized way) and then presented with ads that do not pay the original content creators. So it's kind of like, lets consume what other people created, repackage it, and then profit off of it.
by lostlogin | 2026-01-16 19:36:10+00:00
Thanks.

From that article:

‘The Antarctic research base Druzhnaya I, which was originally established on the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf, was situated on the iceberg when it calved.[2] Subsequently, a rescue mission was started in 1987 and ultimately moved/renamed the base to Druzhnaya III.’

That made me wonder about their naming system.

I and II existed, I floated away and was saved and moved, becoming III. IV was then built.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druzhnaya_Station
by whynotminot | 2026-01-16 19:36:12+00:00
Sure but there’s degrees to this. If you’re a day laborer renting a room at the local motel, it’s a lot easier for you to say “screw this place I’m going to the next town over” than for someone who has their kids enrolled in the highschool and a mortgage.

Everyone has skin in the game but some have way more.
by jfengel | 2026-01-16 19:36:19+00:00
Not a curse word, but a target of automoderation algorithms.

It's hard to know what actually is and isn't included -- they don't really use simple keyword matches. But it's a kind of affectation to say "Hey, I know this word might be moderated against so I'll use a euphemism for it". (See also: unalive)

I think it's kind of pretentious, a way of calling attention to yourself as subverting some kind of authority. But the kids always try to piss us olds off with their language, so my opinion means less than nothing here.
by mikepurvis | 2026-01-16 19:36:33+00:00
It's probably also easier to make cottage-industry money from a single useful tool and some associated services/consulting than it is to turn the whole thing into a big company expected to do the hockey stick curve thing (eg Docker).

It'll be interesting to see where Astral ends up landing on that; afaik they have a small team and have only raised seed money, but who knows.
by hasbot | 2026-01-16 19:36:35+00:00
There is so much to this issue. One major problem is the lack of fourth places. If I want to be low-key social where do I go? Some people say the library but IMHO libraries are not social spots. The concept of man shed is cool except for the gender aspect but it's mostly private sheds. There is a maker space in the city but membership is limited and there is a wait list.
by satvikpendem | 2026-01-16 19:36:41+00:00
That is because I've noticed the AI just edits the version management files (package.json, cargo.toml, etc) directly instead of using the build tool (npm add, cargo add), so it always hallucinates a random old version that's found in its training set. I explicitly have to tell the AI to use the build tool whenever I use AI.
by mouselett | 2026-01-16 19:37:09+00:00
I have to be honest, I immediately decided to quit the service and subscribe to YouTube Premium as soon as I saw the news yesterday. I would've been fine if it was just the regular full-priced subscription offerings that were increasing in price, but to do it to the student plan as well? And for what, to cover the costs of Hulu? It's not like audiobooks are included with the student plan! Given that this latest price hike now puts Spotify's student plan within a dollar of YouTube Premium's student plan while being more expensive than almost every other music streamer's student plans, I decided to take the plunge and subscribe to YouTube Premium, because if Spotify's going to increase the price of their subscriptions and not offer a good reason to do it, then why even bother?
by hnthrowaway0315 | 2026-01-16 19:37:31+00:00
I kinda agree with you. The US policy won't change much. It is a set policy but not very well executed, simply because such a policy is not in the interest of existing power base, so someone new but crude has to be elected, and that's why he got elected not once, but TWICE.

My understanding is that US is going to shrink back a bit, takes care of its neighbours first, but keep its probing bases intact, so that it can slash some costs and be more flexible in next decades. China is going to reluctantly expand its power base gradually -- but I think it's going to be a slow expansion because any rapid one would either fail, or create a new power group within China, that may threaten the existing players.

Not sure about EU though, it better gear up quickly.
by adventured | 2026-01-16 19:37:32+00:00
Modern marketing is largely extraordinarily efficient in fact, the opposite of absurd. It does a marvelous job of letting people know that things exist to be purchased. It's a compliment to free will. Buy, don't buy, the choice is yours.

What someone thinks of marketing & advertising will almost always tell you what they think of the intelligence of the typical person. Once you realize that, you realize it's merely a bias that someone is arguing from, that they think most everybody else is a moron and should be deprived of their individual liberty (for their own safety).
by quickthrowman | 2026-01-16 19:37:46+00:00
Probably around the same amount of IP that US citizens stole from the UK in the 19th century. We stole loads of inventions during the Industrial Revolution.

Does it surprise you to find out that a lot of old money families in the US made their money smuggling opium and other similarly unethical things? We are a nation of crooks and thieves and always have been.

I ask anyone reading this comment to please study history more frequently, it will help you understand the world better.
Show HN: Contribute to GitHub Anonymously
by livrasand | 2026-01-16 19:38:21+00:00
gitGost allows anonymous contributions to public GitHub repositories.

It removes author info, email, timestamps, and opens PRs from a neutral bot.
No accounts, OAuth, or tokens required.

Built in Go, open source (AGPL-3.0), with abuse prevention via rate limits and validation.

Feedback welcome.
by anymouse123456 | 2026-01-16 19:38:36+00:00
It is true that this app is more hostile than asking someone to keep it down, but people should beware of either approach, as it's not unusual for the same assholes who are comfortable blasting their audio in public spaces to also be comfortable getting into a fist fight.

I have personally been threatened on multiple occasions because I asked someone to turn down (or turn off) their volume while watching videos on their phone in public.

In one instance, I was in a doctor's office waiting room and a rather large, otherwise normal-looking man (likely in his late fifties) was watching videos at full volume while 4-5 of us were sitting quietly. We were all annoyed by him and exchanging looks, so I politely asked him to mute the video or watch it outside and he stood up and started threatening to fight me in a doctor's office waiting room!

In my anecdotal experience in various tier 2 USA cities (i.e., not NY, SF, LA, etc), Gen-Xers and Boomers seem to be the worst offenders and also surprisingly, the most belligerent when confronted.

If you're going to try either approach (this app, or asking), please do not be surprised if you find yourself in a rapidly escalating confrontation that may quickly result in physical violence.

Sometimes, this calculus is more than worth it, sometimes it's not, but just don't think it can't happen.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-16 19:39:17+00:00
Politicians are like ROM. You can't change them once they are programmed. If you want a different function, you need to swap them out. Yelling in the street is not going to get you anywhere.

The reason Civil Rights, Gay Rights and so on got traction was not through protestors changing politicians' minds. It was through the masses changing their minds and actually going to the ballot boxes to replace their (essentially robot) politicians.
by Bunas | 2026-01-16 19:39:29+00:00
The tagline might feel off if you're already comfortable with CLI. Though there's definitely an audience for this — my co-founder posted about struggling with CLI and it got 240k views with 400+ replies of people feeling the same: https://x.com/serafimcloud/status/2002304990053085542

Even as a technical person, I remember my transition from Cursor to Claude Code CLI being rough. Maybe 1Code could be a way to get the best of both worlds, power of claude code and UX of Cursor
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-16 19:39:45+00:00
> company claims they "built a browser" from scratch

> looks inside

> completely useless and busted

30 billion dollar VS Code fork everyone. When we do start looking at these people for what they are: snake oil salesmen.

The slop laundered the FOSS Servo code into a broken mess and called it a browser. EFF right off.
by lostlogin | 2026-01-16 19:39:46+00:00
It’s almost flat lining. I’m pleasantly surprised.

Despite the recent faster growth at the top, the total shares of wealth held by the upper echelon has remained fairly stable for decades. The top 1% held 29% of total household wealth in the second quarter, compared with 28% in 2000. The top 10% held 67% of total household wealth in the quarter while the bottom 90% held 33%.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-16 19:40:06+00:00
With a decent SSD (or eight), spilling to disk is really not bad these days! Yes!

And if that's still not enough, if you just need to crunch data a couple times a week, it's not unreasonable to get a massive massive cloud box with ridiculous amounts of ram or ram+SSD. I7i or i8g boxes. Alas, we have cheap older gen epycs & some amazing cheap motherboards but RAM prices to DIY are off the charts unbelievable, but so be it.
by digbybk | 2026-01-16 19:40:39+00:00
We're not disagreeing that exercise is good. I also happen to be very pro-exercise. What I'm trying to do here is reckon with the fact that, as you say "exercise, athleticism, sports are celebrated everywhere and anywhere you turn", and yet the obesity epidemic only got worse. And providing the same kinds of answers for the loneliness epidemic will show similar results. It's possible that this disagreement is rooted in differing understandings of what "social infrastructure" means.
by 0xTJ | 2026-01-16 19:40:42+00:00
I don't love that Carney is relatively conservative-leaning for being Liberal, but I do really appreciate the fact that he's professional, competent, and stable. He speaks like (what I see as) a regular person and he's not there to whip supporters into fervent chanting.

I'm absolutely relieved that Poilievre didn't win the election (or his original seat). Setting aside just how far to the right he is, I've heard him described as an idiot both by another MP and by someone (who is himself pretty conservative) who met him at some social event.
by owlstuffing | 2026-01-16 19:40:54+00:00
100% agree.

> Writing SQL code

Language integration is paramount for med/lg projects. There's an experimental Java lang project, manifold-sql [1], that does the impossible: inline native DuckDB SQL + type-safety.

"""
[.sql/] SELECT station_name, count(*) AS num_services
FROM 'http://blobs.duckdb.org/train_services.parquet'
WHERE monthname(date) = 'May'
GROUP BY ALL
ORDER BY num_services DESC
LIMIT 3
"""
.fetch()
.forEach(row -> out.println(row.stationName + ": " + row.numServices));

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/blob/master/doc...
by kps | 2026-01-16 19:41:02+00:00
It's poorly worded, but the rest of the article implies that's average lifespan, not average age.

“The average car lifespan now is closer to 322,000 kilometres, which works out to around 10 to 12 years for most drivers.”

“While the average vehicle in Canada may be designed to last around a decade, there are several factors, some of which are within your control and some of which are not, that can impact how long your car lasts.”

My last two cars were scrapped at 13 years due to rust effects.
by filoleg | 2026-01-16 19:41:23+00:00
Is this a sarcastic take?

Asking because I was pretty much on-board with the comment and took it as being fully serious, up until the point of “jerking off in public shouldn’t be anybody else’s business, unless they stain something” being mentioned.

Now, I am not so sure. Either the entire comment was sarcastic or I am missing something major. But putting jerking off in public and talking on the phone in a public bathroom into the same bucket of activities (in terms of appropriateness) feels crazy to me.
by martythemaniak | 2026-01-16 19:41:39+00:00
Well, I downvoted because I think your views are ill-informed and stupid, not because I think you're advocating for this. You fundamentally don't understand Trump and his ilk - he's petty, vindictive, vain, greedy and a bully. Everything runs on narrative and personal dealings, NOT any sort of rational goals or strategy. Ascribing these things to him is like pretending my cat is scheming about something when it jumps on a window. No bud, they're much simpler creatures.

Venezuela happened because it makes him look good on TV, that's it. There's no grand strategizing, it's a petty, vain person doing shitty things to make himself look great. He believes he is entitled to rule as an absolute monarch and acquiring territory (Greenland, Canada, etc) is just a way for himself to make himself more grand. Sorry, no grand strategy there either. I'll go further and say that part of what makes him so successful is that there's a large contingent of people that can't see him as he is and instead engage in this strategy larp like your various theories.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-16 19:41:48+00:00
> But that's not who they're going after, it's everybody, with a focus on ethnic cleansing.

This is not yet something most Americans have caught onto. The DHS made a tweet fantasizing about deporting 100 million Americans (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-100-million-deportations-...) - which is roughly what deporting all non white people would look like. And Elon Musk posts white supremacist content daily - and I mean this literally. For example he called for “white solidarity” (https://people.com/elon-musk-shares-startling-post-endorsing...) and has also repeatedly called for remigration which is literally defined as “ethnic cleansing” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration).
by techblueberry | 2026-01-16 19:42:10+00:00
This was a more interesting article than I thought it would be, and I never loved Dilbert, and I think this was an interesting exploration into why. This isn't sort of a surfacy fuck MAGA thing, but there is a nihilism in it that is described by Scott Adams in this quote:

"Mr. Adams said he hadn’t changed. Instead, the political parties had. The liberals used to be the rebels, the outsiders, the ones poking fun at the self-serious establishment."

Maybe it's that there builders and destroyers and Scott Adams has always seemed more like a destroyer? I'm willing to entertain philosophical screeds on nihilism, but actual nihilism is intensely offputting, and his whole life seems to have reflected that nihilism. I think there are ways to "poke fun at the self-serious establishment" (and I appreciate plenty of folks who do) that still reflect a belief in _something_. I can like almost anything, but as I make the distinction, I think that it's important to be building something, that can be a thing that is very different from mainstream life. I can appreciate almost anything someone put a lot of heart and soul into, but oddly;

I often think about the commentary that "people get more conservative as they get older" and the MAGA movement isn't conservative, it's something else. It is this nascent conservatism that I've been nurturing in my older years; currently best informed by some of the writings of Roger Scruton that makes Scott Adams the MAGA movement so distasteful.
by phlo | 2026-01-16 19:42:15+00:00
My go-to for situations like these: Assume that the offender _clearly_ didn't mean to behave incorrectly, and help them overcome the mistake.

Person in a public space listening to reels at full volume? Get their attention, then loudly point out that their headphones got disconnected and everybody can hear the audio.

People leaving a train or bus and leaving behind trash? Loudly let them know that they forgot their water bottle or paper bag. If it's a single item, this works doubly well if you helpfully hand them the item, too.
by swframe2 | 2026-01-16 19:42:42+00:00
I use 2 32" 4K which cost about $800 for both monitors. The small gap between the monitors is annoying but I can't really justify paying $2k more. Also there is a samsung dual 4k that is about the same price as the dell.

Moving my head to see everything doesn't bother me. I also have a setup with 3 32" 4k which I find a little too wide but in that setup 1 monitor connects to different computer.
by mywittyname | 2026-01-16 19:42:50+00:00
I agree with your assessment. But I think the leaders pulling these strings are not fully appreciating the costs of this security.

Controlling all of these foreign lands is pointless if the country collapses then Balkanizes. The past decade has brought so many events that nobody thought could ever happen that we need to be rearrange our beliefs. It's very possible that those of us around in 10 years will see this time period as being part of the Second American Civil war.

The only thing keeping people almost pacified is the economy is not total dogshit yet. But that's tenuous at best.

There's going to be a post-trump power vacuum. It will likely be much more bloody than our current situation.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-16 19:43:04+00:00
You know who else was shipping firearms illegally to countries in North America? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal

(Obama administration, although not personally his fault)

We could also discuss the provision of Armalite rifles to terrorist groups in the UK, Iran-Contra (an early accountability failure paving the way for pardon abuse), and so on.
by cvoss | 2026-01-16 19:43:21+00:00
It's a great example of (effective, apparently) passive aggression, and, I would guess, is motivated by all the same reasons as any other kind of passive aggression. E.g., fear of open confrontation, or a desire to create a situation that is just as or more undesirable for them so that the other person actively chooses the thing you want, of their own free will.
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-16 19:43:27+00:00
Using the government propaganda press release is certainly a choice.

China has been engaging in "unfair, non-market policies and practices and intentional, state-directed policy of overcapacity and lack of rigorous labour and environmental standards" for decades, but Canada only changed their minds when Biden told them to.

"You know, there’s a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say ‘we need to go green fastest…we need to start investing in solar" -- Justin Trudeau

Yeah, I'm sure he did it because he gives a fsck about human rights and fair markets.
by rekabis | 2026-01-16 19:43:29+00:00
> For single homes, if only 2% of all homes being sold are owned by investors, releasing those would at most increase the supply by 2%.

For the last time, I AM NOT ONLY TALKING ABOUT CORPORATIONS. I am INCLUDING those INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS who are landlording AS A CAREER.

Like, anyone who has bought any residence purely to rent out, and who has never lived in that residence. Who treat housing as an investment without actually being a corporation.

THAT is what covers 30+% of the market.

Release 30+% of that housing onto the market, and supply increases DRAMATICALLY.

QUIT BEING A F*KING TROLL.

> But it’s even crazier that you think apartment buildings shouldn’t be owned by corporations and centrally managed.

>Do you think individual owners will take care of maintenance, property taxes, collecting rent, a centrally managed tenant office erc?

Let me update you on this lovely little administrative structure called a STRATA COUNCIL. This covers a lot of what you just talked about. It’s a council of individual owners that make decisions about maintenance and changes to the common areas and overall physical building.

The property taxes and rent are handled by the landlords, which is what the vast majority of landlords already do.

> As far as farmers what do you suggest?

Punitive taxation of corporate profit margins. This forces the middlemen to do one or more of three things: invest in the company (such as increased wages of workers, or better tooling, etc.), pay more for inputs, or charge less for outputs.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-16 19:43:32+00:00
I sort of feel like they will keep doing things repeatedly to make it seem normal and get their base to support it. As long as they stay “ahead” of the people that way, is there real hope that citizens can hold them to account? My only idea here, which I see more people talking about, is making a general strike happen in all the major cities.