MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scoofy | 2026-01-01 22:01:33+00:00
I honestly don't know much about warfare, but that seems like a pretty insane move to me.

First, it assumes the people of Belarus is willing to start a war with NATO and it's very grumpy neighbor to the south. There isn't a world in which the Suwałki gap it cut off without strikes and an invasion of Belarus. Lukashenko might want it, but given the last "election" there will likely be a 5th, 6th, and 7th column waiting for guns to be carried over the border from Poland and Ukraine.

Second, while Kaliningrad might be defensible (though I doubt that), the Baltic Sea is not. Sweden, Denmark, and Germany will shut down any ships entering and leaving the Baltic. Ukraine and Turkey cut off the Black Sea, and the Russian fleet is left in Murmansk (which is likely immediately destroyed), and Vladivostok... which as a single port as mostly useless, and can be mostly cut off in the Sea of Japan.

I just really don't see a way that Russia takes any NATO territory without the entire thing being a psyop against NATO not responding via far-right isolationists, and we're not there yet, or as an assist to help China take Taiwan, which likely means world war, and we're all fucked.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-01 22:01:41+00:00
I think the comments here are a great example of why this idea always sounds better in nostalgic reminiscence than in practice: As I write this, nearly half of the comments here are complaining about this website. There are complaints about requiring JavaScript, the font size, the design, the color choices, the animations. Complaints about everything the designer did to make this site unique and personal, which was the entire point of the exercise. This is coming from a site that supposedly attracts the target audience for this type of page.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-01-01 22:01:44+00:00
This has already happened. Just as in the US, all of the far-right "movements" in the EU are Russian fronts.

The two biggest targets are the UK and France, because both have an independent nuclear deterrent. If those are captured by puppets, expect nuclear explosions over European capitals.

This is not hyperbole. Russian government insiders have made it absolutely, unambiguously clear that Europe must be "crushed."

As a direct quote.

The real tragedy is oligarch complicity. Oligarchs and aristocrats in the US, UK, and EU have decided they have more in common with their Russian counterparts than with the native populations of their respective countries.
by concinds | 2026-01-01 22:01:45+00:00
Proper, full blocking of ads and trackers. Just because you can't see most of them doesn't mean the network requests aren't getting through. And you're not getting a free and open-source extension. And you're not getting 3 extra bucks a month in your wallet, because those grifters made you pay for some pixels despite not contributing to the adblock lists their "business" depends on.
by SomeHacker44 | 2026-01-01 22:01:47+00:00
I have the HP Zbook Ultra G1a. AMD 395+, 129GB RAM, 4TB 2280 SSD. Works great with Ubuntu 24.04 and the OEM kernel. Plays Steam games, runs OpenCL AI models. Only nit is it is very picky on what USB PD chargers it will actually charge on at all. UGreen has a 140W that works.

Updated Mesa to the latest and the kernel too.
by lachiflippi | 2026-01-01 22:02:15+00:00
Lack of centralization is one part of it (see also: communal digital services), yes, but the complete lack of standards and guidelines is also a massive issue. I tried buying a Deutschlandticket from the DB Navigator app a while back, and immediately ran into some issues:

- they only take credit card, probably because of the massive SEPA fraud they've had happen

- they require id verification with a third party(!), which then only supports the e-perso(!!) or video ident(!!!), which they could've just used the actual PostIdent service for, which would've provided an alternative for non-smartphone-havers / people who'd rather not have their ID and face recorded by some Eastern European company until the end of time

- their entire authentication system was down when it came to actually purchasing

buying from my local Verkehrsverbund was a single tap in their app instead, with no id verification whatsoever. If DB's offering were the only option it would be an absolute travesty.
by bcantrill | 2026-01-01 22:03:12+00:00
Appreciate the love, but I think you are drawing the wrong conclusion here: Sun failed to endure not because it loved its customers, but to the contrary because it lost track of them: the company was disinterested in the mechanics of running a business.[0]

As for Oracle and its putative endurance, I would liken it to the Berlin Wall: despite the seeming permanence, it is in fact an artifact that history will be eager to forget when given the opportunity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287033
Ask HN: Why is Apple's voice transcription hilariously bad?
by keepamovin | 2026-01-01 22:03:50+00:00
Why is Apple’s voice transcription so hilariously bad?

Even 2–3 years ago, OpenAI’s Whisper models delivered better, near-instant voice transcription offline — and the model was only about ~500 MB. With that context, it’s hard to understand how Apple’s transcription, which runs online on powerful servers, performs so poorly today.

Here are real examples from using the iOS native app just now:

- “BigQuery update” → “bakery update”

- “GitHub” → “get her”

- “CI build” → “CI bill”

- “GitHub support” → “get her support”

These aren’t obscure terms — they’re extremely common words in software, spoken clearly in casual contexts. The accuracy gap feels especially stark compared to what was already possible years ago, even fully offline.

Is this primarily a model-quality issue, a streaming/segmentation problem, aggressive post-processing, or something architectural in Apple’s speech stack? What are the real technical limitations, and why hasn’t it improved despite modern hardware and cloud processing?
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-01-01 22:04:05+00:00
Also a provocation that forces a reaction that is difficult to modulate. Activating Article 5 demonstrates NATO solidarity and that it means business, but it would be disastrous. Doing nothing demonstrates fecklessness and impotence of NATO. The reaction needs to be measured and proportionate.

But outright hostility is not necessarily the goal. Hybrid warfare is more “subtle”. Its targets are more diverse and the aim is less overt defeat and more war of attrition in a broad sense. You want to wear your enemy down.
by ls612 | 2026-01-01 22:04:07+00:00
lolwut? For phones it’s one thing but even the Switch has Atmosphere CFW for hackable or modded units and it seems like multiple switch emulators have emerged from the ashes of Yuzu. And for earlier consoles the situation is even more comprehensive with high quality emulators and homebrew firmware. And as a bonus, there’s a new game in town for cracking Denuvo in recent weeks ;)
by ramon156 | 2026-01-01 22:04:31+00:00
First 80%: "le web is le better" (sure, ok, it's a statement that u can make)

then it's an instant jump to "Let's write down what we want", which skips so many steps in between. why is the current internet bad, what are the reasons and causes that go along with it?

I'm saying this because, if I add these steps, I always conclude that it's just the past talking to me. The old internet also sucked, but for different reasons. You were yearning for things you take for granted now.
by ghusto | 2026-01-01 22:04:44+00:00
There's no reason _not_ to use static sites for types of sites he's talking about (learning sites for hobbies, blogs, general sharing of information), created with things like Hugo, or even a simple script to generate pages with your own templating. There's nothing to exploit, because it's just HTML.

If you don't feel like keeping a server secure, there are free and easy hosting solutions (Cloudflare pages publishes at a press of a button, for example).
by crazygringo | 2026-01-01 22:05:14+00:00
> So I have to have a real iPhone to debug problems with Apple's implementations. Safari fucking sucks

You'll still have to debug it. Even when other browsers are allowed, Safari isn't going away.

"Safari fucking sucks" isn't an argument that Apple is being anticompetitive. There are a bunch of things that suck about Chrome too. And Firefox as well. No product is perfect.
by astrange | 2026-01-01 22:05:21+00:00
"Sound quality" is a theoretical goal which can't be achieved in practice unless you listen in a perfectly quiet room. Your audiophile open-back headphones can't achieve their rated sound quality if eg there's a CPU fan in the room, or if you're wearing glasses, or if your head just doesn't fit the headphones the same way as the tester's dummy head mic did.
by k_g_b_ | 2026-01-01 22:05:55+00:00
DB is only in its current state (company organization, leadership failures, organizational failures, underfunding for decades, etc) because of previous governments' failed attempts at privatization decades ago. Full actual privatization would not likely have yielded any better results - especially regarding the actual infrastructure itself. (There's enough examples worldwide)

It's also been used for cushy post-politics jobs and lots of other incompetent meddling - such as requiring and extracting profits, etc.

You're right that it's not privatized, but the root causes of current misery still are the privatization attempts and a significant neoliberal/conservative political force that caused decay and blocked progress/improvements.
by fbias | 2026-01-01 22:06:17+00:00
Take George Hotz as an example. He’s not in this thread and I doubt he wants to swing his massive dick but he’s a poster child for a pattern that comes up. Here are a few.

- Precocity and curiosity. Access to tech, resources, ways of actually getting answers instead of just hypothesizing. Though a curious mind will always conjure theories of all sorts.

- Working on an assortment of devices. Recent, old. Take them apart, ask how do they work. Read up about how they are constructed. Repeat.

- Robotics. Dead give away because robotics means embedded and embedded knowledge is gold. As is electronics knowledge among all the knowledge of how sensors actually work and what they do. You don’t wake up knowing how software and hardware interfaces. Along with learning this you learn a ridiculous amount regarding protocols, tools like logic analyzers and oscilloscopes, and patterns that repeat again and again. [0]

- Free time. This one is a given. This shit takes too long and all you’ve got are hunches along the way.

Take the recent CCC presentation on Miele appliances. The young presenter practically gives the punch line away: he fixes his parents’ house appliances, he rummages forum posts looking for information. He reads data sheets of processors and knows what pin does what. He looks at what others have done and wonders “what if?”. His whole presentation was so textbook and the appliance is an early 2000s model that it’s begging for someone with a shred of curiosity to take it apart and learn how it works. He finished by successfully dumping the firmware even when he thought it couldn’t be done. Along the way his “hunches” show he knows how things work because he’s worked on it before. The only people surprised are people who haven’t done it. He was going to succeed before he began - that’s how prepared you need to be.

Now, if you’re not a super talented 12 year old, that’s okay. Start programming microcontrollers and get comfortable with reading voltage levels and signals of GPIOs and peripherals. Learn how your firmware gets loaded at startup. Build some basic protocols and confirm on a logic analyzer. Decode your work with your eyes. Reading binary and hex should be second nature. Read and decode a USB protocol. An SPI protocol. And don’t complain it’s too much work.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1C-DrRZAfw
by astrange | 2026-01-01 22:06:52+00:00
> - Apple has a lossless codec for wireless, ALAC that can do up to 24bit/192khz

Only Vision Pro has wireless lossless audio and it works because it's right next to the AirPods.

But your phone can passthrough AAC over Bluetooth as long as it doesn't have to mix system sounds or anything in.
by leptons | 2026-01-01 22:07:06+00:00
>And what percentage of users do you think ever check that, or even know it's there to check?

It does not matter. The functionality is there. If a user can't figure it out then they have other problems that having a smartphone won't fix for them.

>No it's not, the app store disallows arbitrary code execution.

You mean Javascript interpreters inside a web browser? lol. You mean like Safari is allowed to do? So only Apple can allow Apple apps to do this? I'm not sure you're thinking this through. Apples rule is a made-up rule designed to keep competition out, and force developers to write native apps so Apple can extort the developers by taking a percentage of purchases made through the native app.

>Yes there is -- JavaScript.

That's the dumbest possible argument you could make. Javascript has been very much sandboxed and secure for a very long time. There have been flaws in Safari that allowed remote code execution had nothing to do with Javascript, so good luck moving that goalpost somewhere else.

>...by Safari. It wouldn't be if you allowed any developer to write their own JavaScript interpreter as part of their own browser.

I'm not recommending my users use H@ck0rbR0Ws3R, I'm recommending they use Google Chrome, specifically because it supports the APIs my company needs to use for our product (on Android at least).

Okay Tim Apple, the DOJ is coming for you. You can explain this all to them when they come knocking, and they will.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-01 22:07:09+00:00
Because they're an authoritarian shithole with a strongman leader who openly murders dissenters, personally controls all branches of government, controls the military and has people arrested just for holding up blank sheets of paper. He can pretend the country is not at war when it clearly is, and suffer no consequence, because nobody can replace him or even censure him without the country completely collapsing. When he eventually dies, the ensuing power vacuum will make the entire country a basket case. It's a dead country walking.

Do you want to make your country such a nightmare country, so you can also cheat like they do?
by Sayrus | 2026-01-01 22:07:17+00:00
> produced by the Heritage Foundation

> Twelve are the factors related to four key aspects of the economic environment that are graded from 0 to 100 and averaged to determine a country’s score: rule of law (and related sub-categories: property rights, government integrity, judicial effectiveness); government size (government spending, tax burden, fiscal health); regulatory efficiency (business, labor and monetary freedom); open markets (trade, investment and financial freedom).

Quite the definition they made up.
by kelnos | 2026-01-01 22:07:18+00:00
Not sure I agree with that. I think there are a lot of people (especially in the mid-2023 time frame the author is talking about) who want to get out more and want to engage more meaningfully with others. But they don't really know how, and don't know how to create opportunities to do so. They might not accept any random invitation to absolutely anything, but a punchy event description about bringing people together could easily be a solid attractor.

Yes, there are also many (stuck-up and immature, IMO) people who won't even consider attending an event without a look at the guest/RSVP list to see who else will be there. But I don't think that's the majority. If you set up an outing, invite 50 people, but only 10 show up, that's still a pretty great success, I think.
by dredmorbius | 2026-01-01 22:07:33+00:00
If you're looking at safety, a power cage with the bars set will do the trick. Or swap out BB for DB for presses.

If you're looking at forced reps, you can do drop sets or add bands (assist rather than resist) to continue lifting for extra reps. For quicker drop sets, use some light plates (2.5# or 5#) which you can rapidly strip from the bar and continue a few reps.

For DB moves you can self-assist in some lifts using your other arm, or have lighter DBs to hand for additional reps.

<https://dr-muscle.com/use-drop-sets-build-muscle/>
by jackvalentine | 2026-01-01 22:07:41+00:00
You _can_ curate the Enterprise edition a lot more with group policy/intune and remove all that stuff but my experience has been most corporate IT departments don’t care/don’t know how to do it, and MS will just randomly enable new things without asking the same as home editions and you have to keep an eye on it and go to disable them.

It’s super annoying!
by CmdrKrool | 2026-01-01 22:08:53+00:00
I'm confused by this:

String operations in Python are fast as well. f-strings are the fastest formatting style, while even the slowest style is still measured in just nano-seconds.

Concatenation (+) 39.1 ns (25.6M ops/sec)
f-string 64.9 ns (15.4M ops/sec)

It says f-strings are fastest but the numbers show concatenation taking less time? I thought it might be a typo but the bars on the graph reflect this too?
by concinds | 2026-01-01 22:09:24+00:00
No, it's just not true.

Interop 2025 is a subset of web features, but Apple gets a veto on which features get included in each Interop round, and vetoes heavily. It doesn't reflect interoperability in general. Safari also consistently starts out the worst each year, and improves the slowest.

They don't support notifications correctly, they have a semi-broken implementation. Only a subset of sites will work, even though they'll work perfectly on Chrome or Firefox or even minor browsers. Even if you put the site on the homescreen.
by jameshilliard | 2026-01-01 22:09:31+00:00
> "Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war"

The way they came up with this 83% figure is insane, they are essentially claiming everyone killed that hasn't been identified as a named fighter in one specific Israeli military intelligence database is assumed to be a civilian, this logic is of course blatantly misleading as one would not expect Israel to have the capability to identify the name of each and every enemy combatant in a war zone. On top of that the total number killed is a figure published by the Hamas run Gaza Health Ministry which is well known to have major accuracy issues.
Show HN: DBPiper – Affordable Sequin alternative ($15 vs. $1000)
by aliamer99 | 2026-01-01 22:09:53+00:00
Hi HN,

I built DBPiper after Sequin (YC W19) shut down

Problem: Teams use Postgres for production, Airtable for ops.
Keeping them synced is painful.

Sequin solved this but shut down. Stacksync (replacement) is
$1000/month. Too expensive for most teams.

DBPiper: Same real-time bidirectional sync, $15/month.

Link: https://dbpiper.netlify.app/

Tech: Go backend, Next.js frontend, uses webhooks + DB triggers
for real-time sync.

Happy to answer any questions
by fennecbutt | 2026-01-01 22:10:09+00:00
69%~ of Bulgarians disagree with gay marriage. Only 17%~ think gay marriage should be allowed in Europe in general.

In 2024 they passed your typical "gay propaganda" bill meaning that issues related to or affecting gay people cannot be discussed, even sexual health etc.

As a gay dude who never got being gay mentioned, or requisite sexual health advice when I was in school (in NZ) and took several hard years of not understanding what was wrong when I was trying to force myself to be hetero:

I don't think they deserve this. They don't deserve the financial boons and convenience of the Euro area. But then others will disagree of course; we're tribal - the gays are my tribe and might not be yours, but the difference between you and me I suppose is that I'd complain if they were known to have laws or persecute any particular group, not just my own tribes.
by fleeting900 | 2026-01-01 22:10:48+00:00
> a significant proportion of the people you used to hang out with have kids and disappear off the face of the Earth for two decades.

I’ve been on both sides of this, so I’m going to put this out into the universe:

Your friends with kids still want to see you.

They have a lot to deal with suddenly. They’re exhausted.

But they miss hanging out with you, and will leap at the opportunity to hang out if you take the initiative and make some kid-friendly accommodations.

They may decline more often than before, because the kid is sick or sleeping or not sleeping so the adults just need to lay low. But don’t take that “no” as a “stop asking”.
by talkingtab | 2026-01-01 22:10:49+00:00
The issue is good, the thought is good. But things happen for reasons. Those reasons are often how systems work. Unless we understand how those complex systems work, we cannot change anything. We end up with cargo cult thinking. You need to understand the function that produces the result.

Why does the internet function the way it does? It is really pretty simple. The internet is primarily characterized by very-high-volume-very-low-value transactions.

How much does it cost to send an email? When I send a real letter, I buy a stamp $0.78. So if I can send an email instead, it will save me a lot of money. You can try to calculate how many email transactions you can provide on one VPS costing $5.00 per month.

Here is a great business opportunity! You sell people email stamps at $0.01 per letter for 10k bytes. Cool. And 1,000,000 people each buy 10 stamps. Wow. That is a lot of money for your $5/month VPS, right?

But how do you get the money? You need to find a way for the one million people to each send you a dime. You cannot do it. If they put a dime in envelope and mail it to you, it will cost them $0.78. Etc.

So you have another idea. Why not let scammers include details of their scam in all emails send and they pay for the email. Oops, I should have used the term "advertisers". Now the people who email pay nothing and the scamm.... oops advertisers pay for the cost.

And you surprisingly find many, many people and corporations from all over the world are eager to exploit, oops target with advertising users. Especially if you can identify what kind of target they are.
by mlacks | 2026-01-01 22:10:53+00:00
I moved to linux this month for good once i realized I no longer needed microsft services (Excel for example "runs on Mac" but is missing important features). I chose redhat because its what I've been using for over a decade at work and feels like home. Only thing I miss is Capcut as that workflow was pretty ironed out. Getting the hang of KDENlive
by epistasis | 2026-01-01 22:10:53+00:00
Honestly I loved it a lot more pre-2022, when Ubuntu added a super aggressive OOM killer that only operates on the level of an entire systemd run unit. Meaning that if you are running computation in, say, a shell and one for your subprocesses running computation takes too much memory, it takes out the entire shell and terminal window, leaving no trace of what happened, including all the terminal logs.

And if you are running Chrome, and something starts taking a lot of memory, say goodbye to the entire app without any niceties.

(Yes, this is a mere pet peeve but it has been causing me so much pain over the past year, and it's such an inferior way to deal with memory limits tha what came before it, I don't know why anybody would have taken OOM logic from systemd services and applied it to use launched processes.)
by dhedberg | 2026-01-01 22:10:55+00:00
I make no judgement on this particular claim, I have not checked it out.

But what immediately comes to mind from reading the title are all the "AI solutions" for the as-of-yet undecoded voynich manuscript that are posted with surprising (and increasing) frequency to at least one forum. They're all incompatible and fall apart on closer inspection.

A collection of them can be found at https://www.voynich.ninja/forum-59.html .