MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-02 00:37:27+00:00
> range certainly includes Putin using nuclear weapons (which is part of Russia's military doctrine - see 'escalate to deescalate'). That needs to be part of your plan

If we had acted decisively at the beginning of the Ukraine war, the risk of nuclear war would be lower today.

Appeasement can work. But it can also increase risks. In this case, giving into a bully invites escalation itself, which increases the chances of a fuckup (e.g. a misfired drone taking out an early-warning radar) which legitimately calls for nuclear escalation.
by mmooss | 2026-01-02 00:38:39+00:00
Yes: Notice that without the Baltic Sea, which is effectively closed, and the Crimean region of Ukraine, Russia is not a European naval power, and experts have long argued (afaik) not much of a European power.

Similarly, notice how much they invested in their naval base in Syria on the Mediterranean (though I'm not sure of its status now, and they oddly seemed to abandon Assad, who provided it to them).

More critically, think of a war: How do they trade by sea by sea? Their economy could be choked off, restricted to Pacific trade and trains across Asia to the population centers. They are in a corner.
by lcuff | 2026-01-02 00:38:48+00:00
Again, I think this is likely seen differently depending on which side of the political spectrum one stands, and what sources of information one attunes to. I agree that both 'racism' and 'gender' have become flash-points for discord, and that one can point to the left as trying to change the definitions. But I can think of other words that the right is equally guilty of attempting to re-define. For example, 'woke' was a term originally rooted in African American communities meaning awareness of systemic injustice, but is now used by the right as pejorative for anything they disagree with. (Including the existence of systemic injustice, sigh.)
by benbayliss | 2026-01-02 00:38:49+00:00
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by GaryBluto | 2026-01-02 00:39:28+00:00
I designed an extension with a roughly similar aim that filters based upon various phrases and characteristics rather than the poster of the comments themselves. It collapses comments (via automatic triggering of HN's built-in collapsing feature) and adds a "reason" tag to the comment information, so I can choose whether or not to read it anyways. I feel the features with the most positive differences are the capitalization detector (hides all caps or all lowercase) and the character requirement.
by Fr0styMatt88 | 2026-01-02 00:40:23+00:00
Anticheat is one of those things where I probably sound really old, but man it’s just a game. If you hate cheating, don’t play on pub servers with randoms or find a group of people you can play with, like how real life works.

For competitive gaming, I think attested hardware & software actually is the right way to go. Don’t force kernel-level malware on everyone.
by quesera | 2026-01-02 00:40:46+00:00
It's actually kind of embarassing seeing someone from the org chime in and say ~"this is our first time doing this, so we expected feedback" ... and separately infuriating ~"we will take this into account for next year".

a) Any Internet-enabled human should have seen and avoided this problem from a million miles away.
b) "We expected feedback" ?? this phrase is fucking insulting, sorry.
c) Not next year. Take it down now and preserve some credibility. What is wrong with you people?
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-02 00:41:09+00:00
> the ability to distill out an idea into its most concentrated, compressed essence, so it can be diluted, expanded, and reworded ad infinitum by the LLMs

Nobody said people haven’t rendered themselves unable to understand poetry or literature through the ages. Nor that these skills haven’t had a distinct class mark to them.

Same here. Someone who relies on LLMs to speak and read will not be able to compete in a live environment. (Someone who uses them as a tool may gain an advantage. But that’s predicated on having the base skill.)
by mmmpetrichor | 2026-01-02 00:41:51+00:00
I have always wanted to use linux as my main OS. I tried with Ubuntu twice the past and always ran into really painful hurdles or missing features. This year I tried again with Mint and it absolutely stuck the landing. I have completely switched my desktop and laptop (and plex server) to mint. I have never even booted back into windows. I have not had any big issues and have been able to make it better than my windows desktop ever was.
by Magmalgebra | 2026-01-02 00:41:55+00:00
> You run into other tools you have to cobble together as part of actual work, but you never have to memorize those particular tools

The statement I like to use as an analogy to this one is:

"I don't need to know how to add or multiply numbers, calculators can do it"

This is true in a certain sense, but if you are numerate you know that speed with numbers allows you to do all kinds of quick checks that less numerate peers cannot. It's my experience that colleagues who don't get good at leetcode style problems don't actually understand the skills they've left on the table.
by anonymars | 2026-01-02 00:42:49+00:00
> The war propaganda and hysteria this time is more intense than the Iraq war, which I think you are too young to remember.

This feels like falling into a time warp back to February 2022 when the same sentiments were expressed vis-a-vis the imminent invasion. I see a lot of whataboutism, but not a whole lot of reasoning for why this isn't likely to be more of the same?
by WillEngler | 2026-01-02 00:43:39+00:00
Yeah, I've done this. I've bought records for years but only bought a record player recently. I would want to buy something at the merch table for a small band I like. They don't always have a shirt in my size but they always have records. Oftentimes the records went on loan to friends, which was a nice way of gently spreading my taste.
by micimize | 2026-01-02 00:43:45+00:00
The title is all bluster. Nothing wrong with going off to play in your own corner but I don't think it does this movement any good to play-act at some grand conflict.

Personally, I believe it would be better if we had more technological self-direction and sovereignty, but this kind of essay, which downplays and denigrates the progress and value of our modern systems, is a perspective from which the insights necessary for such a transformation cannot possibly take root.

When asking such questions seriously, we must look at youtube, not twitter. Mountains of innovations in media publishing, delivery, curation, navigation, supplementation via auto-generated captions and dubbing, all accreted over 20 years, enabling a density and breadth of open-ended human communication that is to me truly staggering.

I'm not saying we should view centralized control over human comms infra as positive, or that we'll be "stuck" with it (I don't think we will be), just that we need to appreciate the nature and scale of the "internet" properly if we're to stand a chance of seeing some way through to a future of decentralized information technology
by machomaster | 2026-01-02 00:44:02+00:00
> BYD has overtaken Tesla in overall European registrations for the first time in 2025 (BYD outsold Tesla across EU + EFTA + UK in several months)

> Across EU+EFTA+UK in October 2025, BYD’s registrations (~17 470) were ~2.5× Tesla’s (~6 964), and YTD BYD’s total (~138 390) was closing the gap on Tesla’s (~180 688).

Still not as strong as in other markets. In Finland, BYD is not even in top10:

- 1. Skoda Enyaq (~1614 units)

– 2. VW ID.4 (~1582)

– 3. Tesla Model Y (~1516)

- Other brands include VW ID.7, Kia EV3, Volvo, Audi, Polestar.
by triceratops | 2026-01-02 00:45:11+00:00
> These tokens will be sold with markup on black markets,

Black markets catering to minors aren't very large or profitable. No adult needs to buy from this black market. How big is the black market for beer for teenagers? Yes, some reselling will happen, just as minors sometimes get alcohol or tobacco. Prosecute anyone involved. It doesn't have to be perfect it just has to be good enough without sacrificing privacy.

> buying porn scratch cards will be stigmatised

There was once a time, in living memory, when people had Playboy and Hustler mailed to their houses. You're overthinking it. And also why would the seller assume it's for adult content instead of social media?

> Are you comfortable doing it in front of your teenage child, neighbor, crush, grandma, or spouse?

So don't do it in front of them? You're allowed to go to stores alone.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-01-02 00:45:25+00:00
Kamala Harris, citing seemingly classified intelligence, famously raised the alarm on Bluetooth earphones to Stephen Colbert:

“I know I've been teased about this, but I like these kinds of earpods that have the thing [pointing to the wire] because I served on the Senate Intelligence Committee. I have been in classified briefings, and I'm telling you, don't be on the train using your earpods thinking somebody can't listen to your conversation.”

https://www.aol.com/kamala-harris-warns-against-wireless-150...
by lightandlight | 2026-01-02 00:45:54+00:00
I'm with you. Surprised by the negative reactions here.

A possible piece of the puzzle: I originally read the article on mobile, no issues. Then I opened it on my desktop, and found the design quite jarring. The margins are much too large for my taste, forcing the text into a single narrow column, and the header animations were distracting and disorienting (fortunately the page works perfectly with JavaScript disabled). Perhaps this triggered people?
by tim333 | 2026-01-02 00:46:00+00:00
Yeah the internet kind of started with ARPANET in 1969 and didn't really get going with the public till around 1999 so thirty years on.

Here's a graph of internet takeoff with Krugman's famous quote of 1998 that it wouldn't amount to much being maybe the end of the skepticism https://www.contextualize.ai/mpereira/paul-krugmans-poor-pre...

In common with AI there was probably a long period when the hardware wasn't really good enough for it to be useful to most people.
by dwohnitmok | 2026-01-02 00:46:08+00:00
> I am sorry we disagree about this. If you think I am missing anything I am open to thinking about it more.

I am sorry I'm responding to this so late. I very much appreciate the dialogue you're extending here! I don't think I'll have the time to give you the response you deserve, but I'll try to sketch out some of the ideas.

This is all a matter of degree. Calling individuals out on mailing lists, in internal company comms, or in class still feels different than going and listing all an org's members on a website (even more so than e.g. just listing the CEO).

There's a couple of factors here at play, but mainly it's the combination of:

1. The overall AI trend is a large, impactful thing, but this was a small thing
2. Just listing the names without any explanation other than "they're responsible"

This just pattern matches to types of online behavior I find quite damaging for discourse too closely for my liking.
by Retric | 2026-01-02 00:46:09+00:00
For almost everyone with home charging, EV’s are a substantial win even without subsidies. There’s so many little wins like being able to turn the car on to warm up in a garage without filling it with exhaust. That’s a long way from every driver, but the EV industry doesn’t need to make up every car sale to survive just fine.

ICE cars can’t get vastly better they are simply too close to fundamental limits. It’s quickly becoming a competition between hybrids and EV’s.
by bcantrill | 2026-01-02 00:46:21+00:00
Well, this wasn't badmouthing a customer -- it was showing contempt for customers, full stop. As for the accusations of hypocrisy: the example you picked (a deep cut!) was a Sun customer who insisted that we disable DTrace for their application so their customers (who were also Sun customers!) wouldn't be able to instrument the software that they had paid for. So ironically, I was in fact operating in defense of their customers. (I have generally told that story with the ISV anonymized -- but you clearly found an example where I named them.)

Broadcom is definitely not an Oxide customer -- and the (misguided) questions that were being asked were not about them becoming an Oxide customer.

Finally: isn't it a little hard to argue that I'm public humiliating someone who I am not naming?
Show HN: FountainData – product, revenue, and GTM Intel from user conversations
by j_mao | 2026-01-02 00:46:31+00:00
Hi here,

We are building FountainData to answer a question most teams still guess at: Which user problems, competitor moves, or GTM signals actually affect revenue?

FountainData ingests user and competitor conversations (reviews, support tickets, slack conversations, forums, social, GTM activity) and turns them into ranked, actionable intelligence for product and growth teams.

What’s different:

1. Product intelligence
We cluster raw feedback into concrete problem statements, rank them by impact, and generate engineering-ready tickets instead of sentiment charts.

2. Financial intelligence
Issues are scored by estimated revenue risk or opportunity, so prioritization becomes an economic decision, not a popularity contest.

3. GTM intelligence (recently added)
We track competitor launches, campaigns, events, and market chatter, then surface strategic takeaways and recommendations teams can act on.

4. Agents, not dashboards
We’re adding product and financial agents that can answer questions like:
“What’s hurting retention right now?”
“Which competitor weaknesses should we attack?”
“What should we ship next to move revenue?”

Technically, it’s an async ingestion and processing system (Server, workers, embeddings, LLM pipelines) designed to keep raw data auditable and outputs usable by engineering, product, and leadership.

We are early but already seeing teams replace manual VOC reviews and ad-hoc competitive research with this system.

Would love feedback from folks who have built products, lead products, run GTM, or invested in dev-tools / B2B SaaS.

https://fountaindata.com/demo
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-02 00:46:36+00:00
The problem with "new entrant" is that only revolutionary features convince users to switch en mass.

Tabs/stability (Firefox vs IE). V8 (Chrome vs Firefox).

Anything else is a battle of attrition, where the deepest pocketed competitor in terms of advertising spend wins. Or Google, because it flood all its own advertising channels.

And Chrome still barely only won.
by NoteyComplexity | 2026-01-02 00:47:33+00:00
Agreed, and on top of that:

I think these kind of numbers are everywhere and not just specific to Python.

In zig, I sometimes take a brief look to the amount of cpu cycles of various operations to avoid the amount of cache misses. While I need to aware of the alignment and the size of the data type to debloat a data structure. If their logic applies, too bad, I should quit programming since all languages have their own latency on certain operations we should aware of.

There are reasons to not use Python, but that particular reason is not the one.
by rented_mule | 2026-01-02 00:47:50+00:00
It seems plausible that it would help with latency, but not by a game changing amount. This is 70/550 or 13% closer. Not all of the latency is caused by distance to the the satellites (e.g., terrestrial latency is not 0), so my guess would be that the latency experienced by users would improve by less than 13%.
by why-o-why | 2026-01-02 00:47:54+00:00
Sure, but we are talking about generating a random number, not sampling noise: those are two different things, albeit the former can be derived from the latter but not directly and as simply as the parent post claimed. Just sampling analog noise does not generate a "true" random number that can satisfy a set of design parameters to configure the NIST 800-90b entropy assessment (well, one could pick shitty parameters for the probability tests, but let's assume experts at the helm). Hence the need for software whitening.

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

https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment

(^^^ this is a fun tool, I recommend playing with it to learn how challenging it is to generate "true" random numbers.)

An infinite precision ADC couldn't be subject to thermal attack because you could just sample more bits of precision. (Of course, then we'd be down to Planck level precision so obviously there are limits, but my point still stands, at least _I_ think it does. :))
by evil-olive | 2026-01-02 00:48:11+00:00
> The World's Most Important Machine

de-clickbaiting: machines that manufacture computer chips

based on these section titles from the video description, I get a pretty strong impression that this is spon-con for ASML Holding [0]

> 21:59 How ASML Conquered The Chip World

> 35:35 Who are ASML’s biggest customers?

> 37:40 The Most Important Tech Company In The World

> 41:25 Inside ASML

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding
by nradov | 2026-01-02 00:48:57+00:00
In a hypothetical future where sailing under flags of convenience becomes untenable, all the legitimate merchant vessel owners would rush to register in the US or China. Those vessels would still be able to sail anywhere unmolested. Outside of a few pirate gangs, no one would be stupid enough to screw with them and risk kinetic retaliation. This might increase shipping costs by a few percent.

Russia can bluster and threaten but their navy is weak and shrinking. Most of their commissioned warships never venture far from port. Outside of their territorial waters they have minimal capability to protect their own merchant vessels or interdict anyone else's sea lines of communication.
by fwipsy | 2026-01-02 00:50:37+00:00
Regulators can't verify every single Facebook ad. So, they take a sample. Facebook is creating a Potemkin village - trying to provide a clean sample. It suggests they don't believe that a wider sample would pass muster.

It's more like if the health inspector found e coli in the spaghetti, so Facebook threw out the spaghetti then said "trust us, you don't need to check the macaroni, it's fine."
by fn-mote | 2026-01-02 00:50:46+00:00
I’ve met some of them. To me: don’t get stuck. If it’s not working, move on. There’s a zillion volunteer orgs, so keep shopping until you find somewhere that you like and appreciates you.

I stay volunteering for the people I work with even more than my investment in the goals of the organization.

You can find something like that - keep looking.
by sampo | 2026-01-02 00:50:50+00:00
In 2023, Balticconnector gas pipeline between Estonia and Finland was broken by a Chinese ship Newnew Polar Bear dragging its anchor in the sea floor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balticconnector#2023_damage_in...

In 2024, another Chinese ship damaged telecom cables in the Baltic Sea area between Sweden and the Baltic countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Baltic_Sea_submarine_cabl...
by legerdemain | 2026-01-02 00:51:23+00:00
Historically, social clubs were a thing!

You've got gentlemen's clubs of the kind that Phileas Fogg from "Around the World in 80 Days" belonged to. They were leisure spaces where the rich could socialize with each other, dine from a wider menu than their own domestic staff could offer, access a bigger reading library, and organize group activities like automotive clubs and regattas.

Then you've got private societies like the Freemasons and the Rotary Club, which were usually segregated by gender and race, had a religious component, and offered services like mutual aid and insurance.
by jameshilliard | 2026-01-02 00:51:29+00:00
> How about you and I stay out of it and let international organizations whose job it is to monitor this have their say? Are you ok with that?

Why would I blindly trust the conclusions of "international organizations"? Especially ones that have shown themselves to have very little integrity?

> You trust Amnesty and the UN?

The same Amnesty international that has shown to have serious issues with bias across multiple conflicts?[0][1]

The same UN which has thrown away essentially all of their credibility when it comes to anything related to Israel?[2]

Obviously I would never blindly trust these organizations.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/28/amnesty-intern...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/ngos-anti-...

[2] https://unwatch.org/2025-unga-resolutions-on-israel-vs-rest-...
by quietsegfault | 2026-01-02 00:51:29+00:00
The key difference isn’t whether abuse happens, it’s what happens after.

In Mississippi, if a local official, police department, or state agency harms you, that action can be challenged outside the state that committed it. Federal courts can overrule Mississippi. National media can report it. NGOs can litigate it. You can leave the state. The same authority that harmed you does not get to decide whether it acted lawfully.

In China, when the state harms you, there is no external forum. Courts answer to the same party that ordered the action. Media cannot investigate it. Lawyers can be punished for challenging it. The authority that harms you also decides whether the harm was lawful, and that decision is final.

“China will be better on average by 2030” is not the same as “safer for minorities.” Tier-1 city averages describe the majority. Minorities face an unconstrained state with no external recourse. That distinction doesn’t show up in a line fit.

That difference is what “constraints” mean in practice. Worsening outcomes in Mississippi don’t erase it. Rising averages in China don’t replace it. It’s why calling China “safer” by pointing to low street crime misses the real source of risk for disadvantaged people.
by ThatPlayer | 2026-01-02 00:51:32+00:00
Up until a year or two ago, the majority of monitors (and graphic cards) used DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.1. With HDMI 2.1 (42 Gbps) having more bandwidth than the DisplayPort (26 Gbps).

This is my case with my relatively new/high-end RTX 4080 and OLED monitor. So until I upgrade both, I use HDMI to be able to drive a 1440p 240hz 10-bit HDR signal @ 30 Gbps.
by firekvz | 2026-01-02 00:51:38+00:00
Thank you, I Will fill the form and hope something happens

Among the crazy things that Kontigo did, was that they allowed Venezuelans to open an US bank account, without any check or anything, you just had to put random "passport number" on a field (no kyc or anything) and they would issue you a chase checkings account number.

heres the ig advertising for that service: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DMljYtUsrDI/

anyways, they got shut down by chase few days ago:

https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2025/jpmorgan-chase-fr...