MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by elbci | 2026-01-15 12:18:45+00:00
20 or so yrs ago I read a 300 page "EU Start-up Grants Guide" - small print legalese or Kant is children prose in comparison. I managed to reduce to 5 criteria to get 100 points needed to qualify:

20 pts - parrot EU buzzwords profusely without any context or logic

20 pts - spend a tone of money for certificates issued by EU approved firms

20 pts - prove your firm is already rich and wants the grant only to get richer

20 pts - sign yourself in for insane bureaucratic oversight and 30% of revenue kick-back to EU selected services (all your suppliers need to be 'preaproved')

20 pts - !!! THIS !!! prove that you already participated in previous projects

So basically it was 300 pages of gibberish summarized as "you are neither sufficiently 'well connected' or obedient to get grants"
by 7373737373 | 2026-01-15 12:19:12+00:00
I measured my office too, with an Adafruit SCD-30 sensor, it also got to 1500ppm faster than I expected. And it took a long time (12+ minutes with fully open windows) to get it down to an acceptable level again. Certainly compelled me to do that more often.

Surprisingly, i couldn't find any calculator or theoretical approach for estimating this (given room of a certain size, how long does gas need to equilibriate with outside atmospheric composition to within some tolerance, through a hole of certain size)
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-15 12:19:37+00:00
South Indian kingdoms were once maritime powers who traded with Rome and exerted their influence over large parts of South Asia through their navy. Recommended reading: Nagapattinam to Suvarnadwipa: Reflections on the Chola Naval Expeditions to Southeast Asia - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast...
by latexr | 2026-01-15 12:20:11+00:00
I think it’s perfectly reasonable to make something useless for fun, it’s an interesting idea.

But what I’d like to understand is why there are so many of the same thing. I know I’ve seen this exact idea multiple times on HN. It’s funny the first time, but once it’s done once and the novelty is gone (which is almost immediately), what’s the point of another and another and another?
by dust42 | 2026-01-15 12:22:55+00:00
> This is going to sound sarcastic, but I mean this fully: why haven't they merged that PR.

I would go even further, why have they not created at least one less complex project that is working and ready to be checked out? To me it sounds like having a carrot dangle in front of the face of VC investors: 'Look, we are almost there to replace legions of software developers! Imagine the market size and potential cost reductions for companies.'

LLMs are definitely an exciting new tool and they are going to change a lot. But are they worth $B for everything being stamped 'AI'? The future will tell. Looking back the dotcom boom hype felt exactly the same.

The difference with the dotcom boom is that at the time there was a lot more optimism to build a better future. The AI gold rush seems to be focused on getting giga-rich while fscking the bigger part of humanity.
by nottorp | 2026-01-15 12:22:59+00:00
> Another classical case of MS not understanding consent, I guess?

Not sure if Apple is better in this respect, with the "helpers" at least.

For MS, this job only switched to MS from Google less than a month ago but I could whine about new annoyances for 4-5 more paragraphs. And before using it, I thought Google is too enterprise oriented and getting in the way of getting work done. Compared to Slack. But not compared to MS.
by triceratops | 2026-01-15 12:23:41+00:00
> I've never seen an age verification scratch card sold anywhere

It isn't something that exists today.

> Your ID is collected at retail...

You know perfectly well I already addressed that whole argument in my original comment. I know you're philosophically opposed to age verification (a perfectly valid opinion), but that's no reason to tear down strawmen.

If you care at all, here's the proposal in full: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447282

> Even just being able to link a used card back to the time/place it was purchased could be enough to ID someone

Even when close to every adult is buying them every year? Doubt. But in any case also addressed with alternatives in my original comment.

> I could upload a spreadsheet of 1 million unredeemed scratch off codes to the internet

You can't, for the same reason you can't just get unsold gift card codes on the internet.

> I reject the premise that proving my identity to a website is necessary

Again, a valid and reasonable position. But how long will the internet continue to operate like that?

> Of course, "Think of the children" is really only the excuse. Surveillance and control is the real motivation

Also mostly correct. Now I don't think children should be on social media. Whether or not there's a government ban, I'll do my best to keep my kids off it. The spooks are taking advantage of "save the children" voters to advance their own agenda. If it's possible to satisfy the "save the children" crowd, without violating anyone's privacy, then the spooks lose their support.

The alternative is to sit around as age gates get thrown up and you have to upload your passport to do anything.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 12:24:24+00:00
The Euro vans (sprinter and transit) are very well suited to businesses who'll own new stuff, depreciate and trade in before it's out of warranty. There's a reason those things get exported to the low labor cost 3rd world from there rather than winding up on used car lots like domestic van based single rear wheel box trucks and utility body stuff.
by thatsit | 2026-01-15 12:24:33+00:00
Solar panels etc. will last decades and can and will be recycled afterwards. Further, most materials needed for renewable energy infrastructure (iron, lithium) are highly abundant on earth. Most of the suppliers work to use cheaper (=more abundant) materials in their products, replacing lithium with sodium in batteries and silver with copper in solar panels. Wind turbine blades are produced now using re-solvable resins.
by afishhh | 2026-01-15 12:24:40+00:00
> The other is this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1q4xfm0/over_chr...

I took a 5-minute look at the layout crate here and... it doesn't look great:

1. Line height calculation is suspicious, the structure of the implementation also suggests inline spans aren't handled remotely correctly

2. Uhm... where is the bidi? Directionality has far reaching implications on an inline layout engine's design. This is not it.

3. It doesn't even consider itself a real engine:

// Estimate text width (rough approximation: 0.6 * font_size * char_count)
// In a real implementation, this would use font metrics
let char_count = text.chars().count() as f32;
let avg_char_width = font_size * 0.5; // Approximate average character width
let text_width = char_count * avg_char_width;

I won't even begin talking about how this particular aspect that it "approximates" also has far reaching implications on your design...

I could probably go on in perpetuity about the things wrong with this, even test it myself or something. But that's a waste of time I'm not undertaking.

Making a "browser" that renders a few particular web pages "correctly" is an order of magnitude easier than a browser that also actually cares about standards.

If this is how "A Browser for the modern age." looks then I want a time machine.
by neuralkoi | 2026-01-15 12:24:51+00:00
After leaving my job at a FAANG, I did consulting for a large company for the first two years, working for 20 hours a week. I focused on my mental health which I'd self-neglected for years, by seeking therapy. I also went along the same route as the author, reconnecting spiritually and improving my diet by teaching myself how to cook. I was pretty much eating out every day before this.

At the same time, I began reducing my living costs. I sold my townhome and rented a room in a siblings house. I was able to bring my total core expenses down to around $25k-$30k/year.

Last year I started a nonprofit related to art (fieldsofcolor.org). I found a lot of joy and meaning in this endeavor. We recently received 501(c)(3) exemption, and I am planning to begin fundraising soon. I hope to someday make my living doing this. If not, my lifestyle is frugal enough I can manage via small consulting gigs here and there, or through a side job.
by segfaultex | 2026-01-15 12:25:40+00:00
Also bought a Lightning. I use it for plenty of truck related things that don't involve towing and it's great. I like to target shoot on family farm land, and it's awesome to toss my steel targets and equipment in the bed and offroad to the area I shoot on (there's an area pretty far in with a sharp elevation change that's created a large berm). Or going to lowes to get a ton of fertilizer/plants/gardening equipment for my spouse.

I also use it to commute, and it's even better at that (part of that is mine being the Platinum trim). Quiet, smooth, powerful, has Android Auto/CarPlay (unlike GM's products), etc.

They really are a fantastic vehicle for those who don't need to quickly tow heavy trailers 400 miles. Especially on the used market.

I think the issue was that Ford wasn't making much margin on them and they weren't moving sufficient volume to make up for that. (around 20K/yr avg)
by Y-bar | 2026-01-15 12:26:10+00:00
You can see the pillars they are built on in for example https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-13/china-s-s...

(direct link to image: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iy93Jvbye2e...)

Solar panels are meant to be water proof, after all they are meant to survive rain storms and melting snow and coastal weather.
by p410n3 | 2026-01-15 12:26:44+00:00
This fits them I would say. I was, at a time, chasing the dragon of software minimalism. Y'know, using lynx to browse the web, using suckless software and so on. I was using KISS Linux for a while and even tried to make a package for dwm and st (which iirc was accepted only after someone from the KISS team basically redid my build scripts). So I kinda see myself as a fan of dylan and a great influence on my formative years.

What alwas struck me about dylan araps's software was that the minimalism didnt come from a lack of scope or complexity, but rather the approach to use as much of the tools that were "already there" (at least thats my way to interpret this - i might be wrong).
The pure bash bible describing to do common tasks in pure bash that usually was done with external tools like sed an awk. Then later came the pure sh bible, doing the same for POSIX sh and therefore shedding the dependency on bash-isms.
This represented to me a chase to go "deeper".

And this part clearly seems to still be a driving force to this day. Farming and producing olive oil and wine by hand, no chemicals no bullshit - that sounds like dylan araps alright. Looking at the website you can also see this spirit everywhere. Go ahead and disable JS on https://wild.gr/wine - the image slider still works. It uses inputs and CSS transforms. Makes the markup ever so slightly more complicated, and future changes ever so slightly more involved (unless the code is generated). But lets not kid ourselves, how often are those kind of web elemts updated?

It is once again a project that excels in "using whats already there" and I personally really like that, and even though I am not rocking KISS linux and DWM anymore, this way of thinking is still with me to this day, and I believe it was taught to me by dylan araps. For that I am thankful!
by reactordev | 2026-01-15 12:27:26+00:00
This is such low hanging fruit. Coding agents can be orchestrated. Controlled, rerun, and tested. Are we just coming up with ways to not be at our desks working? Why not scale out agents on a cluster to do more work? Why email instead of SMS with a web endpoint? I can access each agent of mine via a dashboard from anywhere in the world.

Not trying to poo poo, just saying all it takes is Claude Code to introduce this and you’re done.
by techiferous | 2026-01-15 12:27:48+00:00
Don't forget how they found a way to squish closed caption information into analog broadcast. The electron beam traces a path on the CRT display by drawing the odd lines from top to bottom (which draws half the image) and then the even lines (the rest of the owl) from top to bottom. While the electron beam is repositioning itself from the bottom of the screen to the top of the screen, there is a brief period of time where other data can be transmitted. That's where closed caption data was shoehorned in.
by mattmaroon | 2026-01-15 12:28:31+00:00
No it isn’t. They sold 1.6 million vehicles last year and every one of them can self drive. At least once a year they give out free access to it and I don’t know a Tesla owner who hasn’t tried it.

You’re right that it doesn’t happen every day but that doesn’t change the point, you all are debating whether something can happen after it already happened.
by Bender | 2026-01-15 12:28:33+00:00
This will not be a popular answer but Linkedin and others are effectively bots so the closest thing to painful would be that the end users never see it. That means adding regex/wildcard filters for subjects and keywords in the body. Adding anything to slow down their connections will likely just trigger an error on the account saying the email is invalid and could lead to account lock-outs.

Even better if there was a shared github repo and associated addon people could use to filter these emails but there are so many different mail clients that it would become quite a project. Probably just a shared list of regex/wildcard patterns would suffice. This concept would have to become popular for them to notice their engagement emails are not increasing revenue. Spam pays. Until it doesn't this will be a pain for all of us.
by lambdaone | 2026-01-15 12:28:51+00:00
The problem with all of these, even the most recent one, is that they have the "AI look". People have tired of this look already, even for short adverts; if they don't want five minutes of it, they really won't like two hours of it. There is no doubt the quality has vastly improved over time, but I see no sign of progress in removing the "AI look" from these things.
by kace91 | 2026-01-15 12:28:59+00:00
>So I imagine the games would play quite similarly, just with a lower refresh rate in Europe?

That was my assumption as well! But nope, gameplay was coupled to framerate for a surprising range of years.

You can see comparisons on YouTube, check the music of the pal/ntsc version of sonic for the genesis/megadrive.

Apparently it was still happening to some extent during the PSX era. I remember the turn meter bars in FF7 filled very slow, and this explains it.
Show HN: I modeled personal success as a control system with Bayesian priors
by mondonno | 2026-01-15 12:29:00+00:00
I am a student and co-founder of an accessibility startup. Balancing product development with exams broke my workflow, so I looked for a debugger.

Mathematica Successūs is my attempt to model the "Self" as a control system. It argues that stability is only possible when your regulator's variety matches environmental disturbances (Ashby's Law).

It is a short (59-page) technical manual written in LaTeX. It treats burnout not as a feeling, but as a system constraint violation. It relies on mathematical rigor, not coaching fluff.
by Dumblydorr | 2026-01-15 12:30:20+00:00
What is the question to which fusion and geothermal is the answer? From a climate perspective those will come too late to aid our planet much until decades of further change, if fusion even comes at all.

Seems to me like wind solar batteries and nuclear are the answer, what’s actually being built now in a big way, not pie in the sky like fusion.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-15 12:30:35+00:00
I wonder if there’s variation between EU and US for this. As a counterpoint, I’ve disabled all notifications when I set up my LinkedIn back in 2017 and to this day I receive no email from them.

But if all your notifications are off and they are still spamming, just set up an email rule to trash all the messages from their domain and call it a day. If you want to deter this behavior find the email address of someone whose time is expensive (or an alias like legal@) and adjust your rule to forward all the spam there.
by FeteCommuniste | 2026-01-15 12:30:43+00:00
> You mention you've done work for public transit - well, if public transit documentation suddenly starts being terrible, will it lead to an immediate, noticeable drop in revenue? Doubt it. Firing the technical writer however has an immediate and quantifiable effect on the budget.

Exactly. If the AI-made documentation is only 50% of the quality but can be produced for 10% of the price, well, we all know what the "smart" business move is.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 12:30:56+00:00
>he internet loves to bash truck owners as all being the same one guy who buys a truck to drive 1.3 miles to the office every day

Because the only truck owners the people who bash trucks see are their neighbor across the street who is that guy.

The demographically comparable guy who commutes in 80mi one way from his "country estate" in his Audi isn't on the internet bashing truck owners because the guy he lives across from uses his truck.
by amne | 2026-01-15 12:31:03+00:00
I think it's just someone learning something new most of the time.

I have home made url shorteners in go, rust, java, python, php, elixir, typescript, etc. why? because I'm trying the language and this kind of project touches on many things: web, databases, custom logic, how and what design patterns can I apply using as much of the language as I can to build the thing.
by palata | 2026-01-15 12:31:25+00:00
First, I believe that age verification is coming, whether we want it or not. It is completely accepted to ask for an ID before entering a night club or buying alcohol, there is no way "people" will be convinced that it is unreasonable to do that for social media and porn. It is coming, period.

So the question is really: what is the best way to implement it?

* I find the "buying a gift card at a store" idea interesting: the seller checks your ID and gives you a gift card.

* I find the digital idea with privacy preservation interesting, too: the government already knows about me. If they can give me a token that only reveals my age, and I can use that token without revealing to the government where I used the token, then it works.

I think the EFF's stance on this is: "but some people will have issues using that technology". I would like to know how many people that is, and why we couldn't imagine a way to help them?
by thedrbrian | 2026-01-15 12:31:39+00:00
>All sorts of congratulatory posts about AR7...the £94 /MWh being roughly the level of today's wholesale power price is being used as some sort of positive signal

So here are some facts:

* The average wholesale power price
in 2025 was £80 /MWh
* The carbon price was £35 /t a year ago
and £73 /t today
* Carbon was c11-12% of the wholesale
power price a year ago
* It's c28% today
* AR7 contracts are for 20 years vs 15
years in AR1-6
* AR7 is the highest price since the
first auction
* We started subsidising wind in 1990!!

How anyone can think this is good news is beyond me. It's obviously good news for the subsidy farmers who will enjoy 20 year contracts at inflated prices, unless Reform wins the next General Election and rips them up in which case it will be pretty bad news

It is terrible news for consumers, embedding high prices for decades to come

> https://x.com/KathrynPorter26/status/2011693634278625460

Get in. we've just locked in / subsidized the most expensive form of energy.
by chithanh | 2026-01-15 12:31:48+00:00
In China the participatory model works and citizens overwhelmingly approve of the outcomes (when it comes to domestic policy).

In US, which is a liberal democracy, you have outcomes like 20% satisfaction with Congress, yet >90% incumbent reelection rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_stagnation_in_th...

I'm not saying everything is good and democratic in China and bad in the US, but the answer is a bit more nuanced than some people here like to think.
by rbits | 2026-01-15 12:32:23+00:00
> Yes, maybe you think that you worked so hard to learn coding, and now machines are doing it for you. But what was the fire inside you, when you coded till night to see your project working? It was building. And now you can build more and better, if you find your way to use AI effectively. The fun is still there, untouched.

"Yes, maybe you think that you worked so hard to learn painting, and now machines are doing it for you. But what was the fire inside you, when you painted till night to see your finished artwork? It was creating. And now you can create more and better, if you find your way to use AI effectively. The fun is still there, untouched."
by epolanski | 2026-01-15 12:32:27+00:00
It's actually more ingenious for spaghetti, because for fusilli/etc, you can just put scales on the packaging.

Say that you divide 500 grams in 6 servings (84ish grams each), you only need to print 4 lines on the package. You can do it either externally if the packaging is transparent, or you can even do it internally if it's not (like a carton Barilla box).

All you need to do is to empty it till when standing it reaches roughly the next line.
by eagleal | 2026-01-15 12:32:36+00:00
Google is not using exclusively DBs like MaxMind for geolocation though. They fuse a lot of data together and probably can even discern which building you're on from the other local network devices without the precise geolocation sharing.

Like the Meta/Yandex apps were doing, just not strictly for position tracking, but more centered toward pinpointing your unique id.
by rpigab | 2026-01-15 12:33:12+00:00
People trust their browser nowadays, I'd expect the attack to be even easier if you just render the markdown in html, hiding the injection using plain old css text styling like in the docx but with many more possibilities.

You can even add a nice "copy to clipboard button" that copies something entirely different than what is shown, but it's unnecessary, and people who are more careful won't click that.
by sschueller | 2026-01-15 12:34:20+00:00
Is there a premade VM image or docker container I can just start with for example Google Antigravity, Claude or Kilocode/vscode? Right now I have to install some linux desktop and all the tools needed, a bit of a pain IMO.

I see there are cloud VMs like at kilocode but they are kind if useless IMO. I can only interact with the prompt and not the code base directly. Too many things go wrong and maybe I also want kilo code to run a docker stack for me which it can't in the agent cloud.
by Harsha_Jaya_13 | 2026-01-15 12:34:36+00:00
Yeah it actually is beautiful, because we get the brainstorming ideas so that ,sometimes we lack the experience in coding to get that idea to be converted into a powerful working application ,we need the artificial intelligence so that ,we can always enjoy the process , only if we are loving the work we are doing ,I mean there is a lot of difference between blind pasting and completing a work ,just my opinion of what I have been through
by aeonik | 2026-01-15 12:34:48+00:00
I like sprinter vans, but they won't fit in my garage.

It also makes more sense for me to get a large SUV, as towing is important.

The SUV or Truck is still more capable in hazardous road/off-road conditions compared to the van.

Though in my current neck of the woods, a Sprinter would satisfy my needs well.