MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trueismywork | 2026-01-09 22:06:24+00:00
The same routine for good things can turn into being a bad thing. Brcause it can make you inflexible. So there's a trade off there.

For me, it was when I was in a situation where I had to work 80 hours a week to keep my job. I had to get rid of my routine for 8 months and I am happy I did it otherwise I would he poor today.
by creeble | 2026-01-09 22:06:44+00:00
I've been getting them for weeks and never noticed they were phishing.

I only used a SendGrid account briefly, as a potential backup to my current outgoing transaction mail provider. Sent exactly 5 test emails I think.

The ICE one this morning gave me pause, but only about 2s before I deleted it and moved on with my busy day of reading HN posts.
by Applejinx | 2026-01-09 22:06:46+00:00
We've had plenty of examples of all those things, over and over, throughout history. Nothing's really new. Societies that get into faceboot territory run afoul of what's already known (there's apparently a CIA handbook to this effect that's being largely ignored in modern America): assert hard rather than soft power and you generate determined and desperate resistance more than you undermine it. That's being demonstrated in countless places right now.

I'm arguing that the egalatarian 'lift my lamp beside the golden door' society is a cheat code for producing the variety and ferment that makes everybody frustrated and unhappy but producing with wild abandon. As a society this tactic dominates the hell out of would-be ethnostates and dictatorships, which seems to also be a natural tendency of humans. They are interested in not being challenged, in those like them not being challenged. Comfortable for those fortunate individuals, hopelessly suboptimal for the society they're in.

The rallying cry of 'NO New York Cities! Only sundown towns where if you don't look right you are killed and nobody ever knows about it!' might please some people (who have never been anywhere near those evil cities) but it just goes to show that many people have unhealthy wishes that are bad for them and the societies they're in.
Show HN: Affordable Attack Surface Management tool for everyone
by Frankbb | 2026-01-09 22:06:47+00:00
Developed in my free time using vibe coding without any frontend skills, so hopefully this is an inspiration for everyone to develop and create a great service. Reasoning for creating such a SaaS is that many companies are hacked while that could be prevented in many cases by understanding the attack surface, any feedback is appreciated.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-09 22:06:59+00:00
That's besides the point: JD Vance and Musk are precisely the wrong entities to have opinions on stuff like this because they are on the wrong side of that line most of the time. Especially Musk, but Vance has his own ulterior motives to berate the EU on anything so regardless of the outcome it will be tainted.
by vunderba | 2026-01-09 22:07:02+00:00
Hey gardenhedge,

Haha - I don't collect any telemetry so your secret is safe. Yeah - if you've got a USB midi keyboard plugged in - the game should autodetect it and just work.

If you're looking for something portable that just works (and don't need a weighted action) - IK Multimedia makes a 37-key controller that is cheap and decent. It's frequently on sale for about $80-120 and probably could be had for cheaper secondhand.

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigkeys2
by oa335 | 2026-01-09 22:07:25+00:00
> nor does it literally say “for Jews only.”

You are incorrect.

The official policy of the current government of Israel is ”the Jewish people have an exclusive right on all the land” between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.”
per the coalition agreement the Likud-led government made
in 2022: https://archive.is/EYGLU
by tonymet | 2026-01-09 22:07:37+00:00
It would be good to hold carriers accountable for fishing and spam. Sendgrid , Twilio and other saas messaging carriers need to do a better job with integrity. I don’t expect them to carry the whole burden, but some negative incentive to promote investment . It could be as simple as enforcing sender pays metering . We all know spam is 60+ % of traffic, so sender pays would drive down spam very quickly
by citizenpaul | 2026-01-09 22:07:54+00:00
Probably not related but it reminds me of a book I read where wizards had Additive and Subtractive magic but not always both. The author clearly eventually gave up on trying to come up with creative ways to always add something for solutions after the gimmick wore off and it never comes up again in the book.

Perhaps there is a lesson here.
by tda | 2026-01-09 22:08:12+00:00
The sharpest (and scariest) analysis I've encountered is this: the administration governs as though no government will ever follow. The blanket pardons for January 6th insurrectionists, the revocation of Secret Service protection for political enemies—these are not the actions of someone who expects to face accountability from a future administration. And that's precisely the point. Trump is not governing recklessly; he is governing with a specific end in mind: to be president for the rest of his life.
That project requires dismantling the judiciary, hollowing out independent institutions, muzzling the press, and having his own goon squad. By all appearances, he is on schedule.
by teshaq | 2026-01-09 22:09:02+00:00
a couple of other resources:

- More recent lectures on MIT OCW https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-1200j-mathematics-for-computer...

- A well-paced course that follows the textbook and uses online videos done by another one of the authors (Albert Meyer) of the textbook: https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:OCW+6....
by keybored | 2026-01-09 22:09:22+00:00
The fundamental reason why terms are confused is because malicious
actors (bad faith) intentionally set up to at best muddy the waters
and at worst associate things they fight against with the worst
adjectives. That doesn’t reflect on anyone present right here, just a
process that took decades.

I don’t care if someone “doesn’t know” about the nuance when they
breathlessly throw back with One Cereal For Everyone Decided By The
State. Come on.

> Please, look at the actual comment chain and it should be rather trivial to make out what everybody is talking about. Does your comment really add value here?

I can understand that you think my reply is pedantic noise. That’s
simply because we have different goals and things that we intend to
communicate. I’m content with setting the record straight. You
apparently want to calmly explain the difference between apparent
Stalinism and Bernie Sanders-style Socialism.

I think I am able to make out what people are talking about. But you
can’t seem to, right in this context, imagine that we all have different
goals ourselves about what we wish to get out of commenting here.
by kayodelycaon | 2026-01-09 22:09:36+00:00
This method requires a significant amount of executive function.

My body doesn't feel the passage of time consistently. So my mind is never prepared to switch activities when it needs to.

And there are times my brain stops working on a particular task and nothing can get it started again. It's like a leg going out, you just can't stand on it.

This isn't occasionally where habit could be picked back up. This has been a problem every day of my life.

In my experience, this has been the death of every bit advice I've gotten from a neurotypical person. A lot of them keep circling back to discipline or trying harder as a solution to a problem they can't make sense of. Lack of understanding isn't their fault, this is so far outside their frame of reference they can't make sense of it in a single conversation. Fortunately understanding isn't required, only the acceptance that other people have limits they don't have themselves.
by achierius | 2026-01-09 22:10:10+00:00
> Depression can be caused by a chemical imbalance

And yet many other times, it can be caused or exacerbated by situational and psychological factors, including "being stuck at home all day".

> One of the most frustrating things when your really low is people giving advice like do exercise to feel better - please don’t do this.

Worse, antidepressants actually cause significant harm to many people who take them, often without even improving their depressive symptoms. This is very bad, and I would say significantly worse than giving general advice that might be inapplicable to some people.

There's no one-size-fits-all solution, and some people probably are legitimately just in need of more motivation to go running or biking or whatever else will get them the exercise they need.
by mothballed | 2026-01-09 22:10:15+00:00
I think the 'good reason' he had was that 7 months ago he was dragged by a car, used a taser twice, and got roughed up.

He probably spent awhile in the hospital pondering what happened. He probably spent time talking to his ICE buddies. About his injuries. About using the taser. About how much he wished he had used his sidearm instead of his taser. And his buddies encouraging him. His buddies encouraging him, "next time don't be so kind with the tazer." He thought about what he would do "next time."

He was fantasizing about "punishing" the guy who dragged him. He fantasized about that for months. He "lost" the last fight and walked away with more injuries than the other guy. Got to even the score.

He evened the score. He won. And he will get away with it.

There is no Karma. He is victorious, and indeed, now placed upon the mantle by the administration as a hero who settled a score against "domestic terrorism."
by pixl97 | 2026-01-09 22:10:52+00:00
> The right to vote doesn't exist because you didn't have to defeat the entire army to vote against their leader,

I would say you're wrong. The right to vote does exist because men rose up together and fought leaders that wouldn't let them vote. And, when leaders rise up that take our right to vote and we don't stop them they will prevail.

> it's just that everyone on the planet with a weapon has coincidentally decided not to murder you, for now.

Correct. Start up a big disaster where food goes away for some reason and it comes back.

We have a stable world where we don't kill each other at the moment because in general we all have food, water, shelter, and I would say enough entertainment that fighting each other isn't worth the risk. There is no rule that says this will last forever. Quite often in history there have been stable times, that then fell apart because of greed and malice of leaders.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-09 22:11:35+00:00
Looking at the phone, disabling the lock, swiping down, and pressing "Do not disturb" is a lot more than just not looking at the phone.

Also, that's only half of it. I have to move it out of "Do not disturb" at some point. Or set a timeline for it. Why should I when I just don't need to?

Also, it's been years since I used "Do not disturb". Does it show notification icons in the drawer on top? That's a definite no-no.
by nkmnz | 2026-01-09 22:11:35+00:00
new comment: you're so wrong that not even the opposite of your statement would be true. CUII is a private body, but it forces its members to go to court before they ask CUII to initiate a block:

Jede DNS-Sperre einer strukturell urheberrechtsverletzenden Webseite (SUW) wird im Rahmen der CUII gerichtlich überprüft.

Das ist freiwillige Selbstverpflichtung der CUII-Mitglieder. Denn eigentlich besteht kein Richtervorbehalt für die Sperransprüche nach § 8 Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz (DDG). Aus diesem Grund sind auch die DNS-Sperren nach dem alten Verhaltenskodex mit behördlicher Beteiligung zulässig gewesen (Siehe Fragen: “Was verändert sich durch den neuen Verhaltenskodex der CUII?” und “Warum gab es zum Juli 2025 - nach jahrelanger Arbeit - einen Systemwechsel in der CUII?”).

old comment: CUII is not a governmental body so what the hell should they need a court order for when doing the thing that their members pay them to do? If your not happy with your internet access provider being a member of CUII, switch your internet access provider. I agree that CUII should publish a list of blocked domains as part of transparent communication and proving that they are doing a good job.
by Havoc | 2026-01-09 22:11:48+00:00
>Why not put them to the test?

haha I shall. I like the idea of tighter constraints on LLM hence my enthusiasm for rust over python for vibecoding.

I did just try it and the first thing it did was try to download half a gig. Which is fine, except my fiber install is next week and I'm hotspotting off a phone. So that'll need to wait

...it did seem to fundamentally understand the ask though of "make me a plan to make a http hello world server".

Though at same time flagged that this isn't ideal

>Rocq/Coq is primarily for theorem proving; HTTP server implementation will be minimal
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-09 22:11:52+00:00
That a coding agent or LLM is a different technology than a compiler and that the delta in industry standard workflow looks different isn’t quite my point though: things change. Norms change. That’s the real crux of my argument.

> But for hyping up the technology well beyond it's actual merits, antagonizing people who point out it's shortcomings, and subjecting the rest of us to worse code? Yeah, I hold that against the LLM fans.

Is that what I’m doing? I understand your frustration. But I hope you understand that this is a straw man: I can straw man the antagonists and AI-hostile folks but the point is the factions and tribes are complex and unreasonable opinions abound. My stance is that people can dismiss coding agents at their peril, but it’s not really a problem: taking the gcc analogy, in the early compiler days there was a period where compilers were weak enough that assembly by hand was reasonable. Now it would be just highly inefficient and underperformant to do that. But all the folks that lamented compilers didn’t crumble away, they eventually adapted. I see that analogy as being applicable here, it may be hard to see the insanity of coding agents because we’re not time travelers from 2020 or even 2022 or 3. But this used to be an absurd idea and is now very serious and highly adopted. But still quite weak!! Still we’re missing key reliability and functionality and capabilities. But if we got this far this fast, and if you realize that coding agent training is not limited in the same way that e.g. vanilla LLM training is by being a verifiable domain, we seem to be careening forward. But by nature of their current weakness, absolutely it is reasonable not to use them and absolutely it is reasonable to point out all of their flaws.

Lots of unreasonable people out there, my argument is simply: be reasonable.
by afrazullal | 2026-01-09 22:12:10+00:00
We scaled to $1M ARR with zero marketing hires. No agency, no freelancers, no chaos.

We found that 90% of marketing overhead is just "human latency"—waiting for copy, waiting for designs, waiting for approval.

We replaced that entire layer with an autonomous state-machine we call Vect AI. It’s not a "writing tool"; it’s an autonomous operating system that:

Researches market signals (finding "blue ocean" opportunities).
Architects entire campaigns (landing pages + ads + emails).
Executes the assets (using specialized agents for video/code/text).
Validates quality against a psychological "Gatekeeper" node before you ever see it.
The result isn't just "content"—it's an Infinite Content Glitch. We are producing agency-level output at 100x the speed for 1/1000th the cost.

If you are a solo founder or running a lean team, this is the asymmetric advantage you’ve been looking for. Stop managing people. Start managing compute.

continue: https://blog.vect.pro/content-infinite-loop-guide
by bananabiscuit | 2026-01-09 22:12:15+00:00
Specifically in the officer POV video (2nd link in my original post), with how the car was positioned, and that Renee’s partner was walking around outside and was not in the car, and the style of the back and forth dialog between, Renee, her partner, and the officers, all served to give me the impression Renee and her partner were there for a while, and weren’t just “passing through”. Again, I am willing to admit I might be wrong, it’s possible they were in the middle of an awkward, u-turn. I think we will know the clear truth of at least this aspect of the situation sometime soon, seems like a thing that would be easy to verify or disprove with how many videos must have been recorded.
by FpUser | 2026-01-09 22:12:18+00:00
May I ask what bank? I use CIBC and RBC. They do not require any apps on the phone to reach whatever services they offer. I use all my work on desktop.

I did install app from CIBC for one single and the only purpose - deposit cheques sent to me by clients to my business account without having to go to ATM or the bank teller.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-09 22:12:29+00:00
I hate to admit it, but it's true. Technology is amoral and neutral rather than morally directed, it can directed towards profits, control, and nefarious goals, sure. It's the added externalities in the form of lost jobs and suffering borne by many and power gained by a few that technological advancement enables. The decision to or how to use technology by human decisions is where a moral crossroad exists and is considered or ignored by the stakeholders involved. Substantive engineering ethics isn't much of a thing anymore as long the TC is enough, but performative complaints about napkins not being 100% recycled or insufficient planted trees are the ostensible substitutes.
Ask HN: What useful skills can be learned through rote memorization?
by blev | 2026-01-09 22:12:53+00:00
I recently discovered that the algorithm to calculate the day of the week for any given date (e.g. January 1, 2000 was a Saturday) can be easily memorized and, with some practice, one can calculate the day of the week for any date in 5-10 seconds (maybe 2 seconds if you really practice).

What other useful/fun skills can be learned through rote memorization? Bonus points if you can provide a website or app to learn/practice the skill.
by bflesch | 2026-01-09 22:13:27+00:00
The act of threatening unrelated customers just because they are in the same country is extremely stupid.

Businesses might not care whether he tweets at JD Vance or Taylor Swift, but the risk of having your website shut down because the CEO of your firewall vendor has a psychological breakdown on Twitter is unacceptable.

It is Friday evening in Europe and the fact that Cloudflare leadership and Cloudflare legal team couldn't put out a statement to mitigate this situation within the last 5 hours shows that this guys could run the company into the ground within blink of an eye.

Remember, some weeks ago Cloudflare had an outage because of an extremely stupid engineering mishap, today it is an extremely stupid leadership mishap. How many more strikes should they be granted?
by spankibalt | 2026-01-09 22:13:49+00:00
> "Am I overthinking it?"

It feels like you answered your own questions and are also to bothered by what sloperators and assorted clout chasers think. Coding, especially "deep work", is your passion that you'll still do once you exit the rat race, vibe coding is the source of your intellectual understimulation.

To me, that solution would be simple... cut out the slop, make stuff that you'll be remembered for, that you and maybe some like-minded folks collaborate on. Who cares what some rando vibeclown thinks how long something takes? You did something you might be proud of (i. e. you didn't waste time on trivialities like so many others) and had fun along the way.

But then again my advice comes from a different corner. I don't do vibecoding. Never have, never will. I also count myself lucky that I never had to as all my professional creative endeavours happen(ed) in a freelance capacity, thereby circumventing the corporate slopmire. And I'll intend to keep it that way for control, time, and my mental health are much more important to me. I also enjoy the privilege that I don't have to live in the United States, or a country with a similar, or even worse, setup...

As for different industries... that depends on a lot factors.
by wswope | 2026-01-09 22:14:21+00:00
Speaking as the user you responded to in the first link: I’m sure you get flak from all corners, but I (and presumably many others like me) take zero issue with your philosophy or design goals for the site. I’m with you all the way when you say you don’t want to HN to turn into a current affairs site.

The problem IMO is the current sensitivity of the filtering. You said upstream that a high enough number of upvotes could outweigh flags — but that CECOT thread was one of the top 5-10 posts of the month despite having been taken down for many hours overnight. If that wasn’t a thread where the upvotes should be a strong enough signal to override the flags, I dunno what is.

We’re asking for subtle knob tuning, not revolution.
by blev | 2026-01-09 22:14:24+00:00
The algorithm I mentioned in the OP is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule

I practiced the algorithm by replacing my doomscrolling time on a trainer app (https://whattheday.com/) over the last 3 weeks. I went from taking 2-20 minutes to usually get the wrong result to about 95% accuracy in 10 seconds.

This training app to teach you to play piano by ear and to sight read also got posted today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556210
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-09 22:14:52+00:00
California should tax its' most valuable asset, its land. It's immovable.

Of course, they did the exact opposite with prop 13 many decades ago, creating a land owning class with disproportionately low tax rates.

In California, if you make or do something valuable, you have to pay increasing proportions of the rewards to the government. But the longer you (and your ancestors) simply own land and do nothing, the lower your tax rate.
by technothrasher | 2026-01-09 22:15:00+00:00
> "Oh I don't know much about $LOCATION_YOURE_FROM."

I always love the most to chat with strangers in line or wherever when I'm in a foreign country, as there's so much good dirt for digging with someone from a far away place. It's funny, though, the number of times I strike up a conversation with someone halfway around the world only to find out they live within a few miles of me. Last time I was in London, for example, the lady in line in front of me had an Australian accent, and I always enjoy talking to Aussies. Yep, she was an Aussie... Who lives a few towns over from me in the US, in the same apartment complex my wife lived in when I met her.
by javanissen | 2026-01-09 22:15:05+00:00
Is the huge risk being involuntarily committed?

If so, that is a risk that is very dependent on local laws. I would be much more cautious about seeking mental health care in Florida, where the Baker Act makes it very easy, than in Connecticut [0]. The risk of being involuntarily committed also, of course, has to be balanced against the risk of forgoing mental health care when you need it and then injuring or killing yourself.

[0] https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.201900477
by bhelkey | 2026-01-09 22:15:33+00:00
> EDIT: And fwiw, "Why would you continue doing business in Italy?" is not what is being proposed. They are threatening to block 55 million people from ~20% of the world wide web.

There is no mention of blocking people in Italy from using sites protected by Cloudflare. From the tweet:

> we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country.