MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noduerme | 2026-01-26 12:16:13+00:00
I'm in a terrible situation right now where I promised a client a fairly simple web-based game, to be delivered in pixijs. Pixi is great for what it does, and as an old time Flash game coder, I find it mostly does enough for procedural stuff, although it's got its share of quirks, gotchas, bugs and memory leaks. What I didn't think about was how to get prefab vector animations into this game - not sprite sheets, but cut scenes that I wanted to be essentially animated SVGs. So I started to go the Adobe Animate route and found to my horror that it's basically Flash stripped of all its useful tools and riddled with bugs; there's no good way to import those animations as vectors or even as bitmaps into Pixi. Animate's exporter still runs on EaselJS code from 2015 and just spits out badly formed json files that misrepresent the tweens. Worse still, it can't even pack textures correctly or consistently. It appears to size them at random based on what size they are in some random frame. And it crashes anytime it tries to pack a texture large enough to be useful. It's not an understatement to say that Flash 7 or 8, in the early 2000s, was far more advanced and powerful.

So what would have taken a day or two back when Flash was available is now taking a week of hand-writing tweens and animations in raw Typescript, one layer at a time.

Since I happened to write the first canvas-based interactive screen graph code that Grant Skinner partially ripped off to create EaselJS, and since I'm sure he's making a fine living from Adobe licensing it, it's especially galling that I'm still paying for a CC license and this is what I get when I want to use a GUI to make some animations to drop into a game.

It's the first time I've done a 2D game since 2017, and I had over a decade of experience building games in Flash/AIR before that. It's just mind-blowing how stupid and regressed Adobe's tooling has become in the past few years, and how much harder it is to do simple things that we took for granted in the heyday of Flash authoring. There really is still no equivalent workflow or even anything close. I guess that post-Flash, there aren't enough people making this kind of web game content for there to be a solid route without using Unity or something.
by ErneX | 2026-01-26 12:16:19+00:00
That’s just the 1st thing that ocurred to me to test it. I think what most people are hyped about it is related to give it access to your reminders, notes, notion, obsidian and then treat it like an assistant that proactively helps you by running scheduled tasks that are useful to you. That’s why some are recommending running the thing on a Mac Mini if you are in the Apple ecosystem, so it can create reminders etc.

I’ll keep playing with it on a VM and see where this goes.
by yial | 2026-01-26 12:16:44+00:00
By must, is that only for energy efficiency?

I ask only because I was retrofitting some navigation lights on a sailboat - and you can’t just upgrade the original incandescent bulbs with LEDs (or aren’t supposed to).

You are either supposed to get a special LED (backing up what you’re saying) or there are some new red/green enclosures that are differently treated / tinted to then put a “white” led into.

But I am so far from an expert on that, I may be completely misunderstanding.
by chickenimprint | 2026-01-26 12:16:46+00:00
I'm not sure what this has to do with positivism.

Data is evidence for all models that predict the data. It doesn't matter that almost all of those models are extremely wrong, while the most accurate models are gross approximations of the truth. Scientists can continue to collect data and narrow the scope of statistically likely models. I don't see how your comment supports your assertion that "the goal of experiments needs to be falsifying hypotheses".

If by verify, you mean prove, I'd say it's not possible to empirically verify anything.
by Schmerika | 2026-01-26 12:16:51+00:00
HN has always had topics that aren't permitted to be discussed; no matter how relevant or how popular, or how polite the discussions are.

However, this past year has been extreme. Seeing how everything related to Musk and DOGE was removed, for example, was extraordinary.

Anyone who thinks this forum lives up to its rhetoric is simply flat wrong. This place is now a testament to the effectiveness of clever censorship.
by tssva | 2026-01-26 12:16:59+00:00
The article mentions a one time tax charge which resulted in the reduction in profits but doesn't explain the context of the tax charge. Likely because it doesn't fit the narrative the author tried to create. Qualcomm chose to take a one time non-cash tax charge of $5.7 billion to take advantage of changes in the tax code which were part of the Big Beautiful Bill enacted last year. By taxing the charge their effective tax rate and cash tax payments moving forward will be reduced. In other words they traded short term profits for increased long term profits. Meta similarly took a $15.9 billion charge for the same reason. Many other companies have already done the same or are expected to. Especially those which have large R&D investments.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-26 12:17:09+00:00
Just mark your edit 'edit:'. I often have the same happen where I write a comment and then think 'oh, that's no good, I need to improve on it' and then in the meantime multiple people will comment and hopefully quote the original. That way at least you can see what they replied to rather than the version that I'm finally happy with. I've suggested HN increase the default size of the reply box but so far no takers on that.
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-26 12:17:12+00:00
Yes exactly, it's a standalone cloudflare page with some custom html/css that writes to a D1 (Cloudflare SQL DB) for results and rate limits, thats's it. I looked at so many survey tools but none offered what I was looking for (simple single page form, no email, no signup, no tracking) so I built this (with claude) Thanks for the feedback!
by seec | 2026-01-26 12:17:13+00:00
Well, that's because with the EU there is a law to allow any citizen from any participating country to receive a salary/payment. to any EU-based bank.

So you do need SEPA normalization; otherwise that can't work.
It's hardly a problem, and the fact that it required a regulation just shows how ineffective governments are in practice.

Fintech banks came up with an easier-to-use, more efficient, and more convenient system in less time than it took them to do this. And they manage to be cheaper.

The problem with banks is entirely regulation related; they are established players, working with/for the government, and basically get rewarded for stealing.
Once I had a problem with my legacy bank, who robbed me of over 1k euros because they were generating 150-euro letters to tell me they refused a government tax debit for a lack of provision (mind you, the rejected amount was 50 euros, less than a third of their fee for rejecting it).

As far as I'm concerned, banks are legal criminals, enabled by the even bigger criminals running governments.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-26 12:17:14+00:00
With Wine, the main problem is that you may easily encounter some programs that do not work under it, as they rely on unimplemented Windows features.

However the programs that do work, usually work very well, sometimes even more reliably and faster than under Windows itself.

Many older MS Office versions work very well under Wine.

In general many older Windows programs work very well, because the older they are the more chances are that someone else already tried to use them under Wine and eventually any quirks have been fixed.
by mvc | 2026-01-26 12:17:33+00:00
> each me something but make me feel like “Finally someone who gets it” rather than challenged or threatened.

Ironically, AI has been making me feel like this lately. But it taught me all of this (i.e. your exact point about the psycological levers employed by people/organizations who understand why stuff goes viral).

So is that real or am I just being successfully marketed to, now by AI.
by noiv | 2026-01-26 12:17:43+00:00
Zero is a serverless weather globe rendering ECMWF forecast data directly in your browser using WebGPU.

Zero backend. Zero servers. Zero cost.

As climate extremes become more frequent, understanding forecast hazards becomes survival literacy. Zero makes professional ECMWF IFS data accessible without commercial infrastructure — forkable, self-hostable, resilient. Inspired by Cameron Beccario's earth.nullschool.net, which pioneered browser atmospheric visualization.

Happy to discuss implementation details.

Technical highlights:

- No backend - runs entirely client-side
- Native O1280 grid (6.6M points) sampled directly in fragment shaders - no regridding to textures
- HTTP Range requests fetch ~500KB slices from 4-8MB forecast files on S3
- Works offline after first load (Service Worker caching)
- Animated LOD transitions for graticule grid - line density adapts to zoom level

GPU pipeline:

- Binary search in WGSL for irregular Gaussian grid lookup (precomputed LUTs for latitude positions and ring offsets)
- Marching squares compute shader for isobar contours
- Streamline tracing with Rodrigues rotation for wind flow animation
- Fibonacci sphere for uniform seed point distribution (8K-32K wind lines)
- Globe rendered via fullscreen triangle (ray-sphere intersection in fragment shader)
- Sub-3ms frame times on M1

What didn't work:

- Regridding to textures first - too slow for 6.6M points, quality loss from interpolation
- Geometry-based globe mesh - vertex count explosion at high detail
- CPU-side contour generation - latency killed interactivity

Storage: Caches weather data locally for offline use. Can grow to several GB with extended exploration. Use the "nuke" option in settings to clear everything.

Data hosted by Open-Meteo via the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program — bandwidth is free for everyone.

Stack: TypeScript, WebGPU, Mithril, Zod, Immer

Mirror: https://hypatia-earth.github.io/zero

Source: https://github.com/hypatia-earth/zero
by throw0101c | 2026-01-26 12:18:11+00:00
> He only left the Republicans in 2024, he was around for the first term.

Yes, he hoped to fight from the inside, but recognized that the GOP had been taken over my inmates.

In 2016 he voted for Clinton and urged others to do so:

> Surely the American system of government is more robust than the Turkish or Hungarian or Polish or Malaysian or Italian systems. But that is not automatically true. It is true because of the active vigilance of freedom-loving citizens who put country first, party second. Not in many decades has that vigilance been required as it is required now.

> Your hand may hesitate to put a mark beside the name, Hillary Clinton. You’re not doing it for her. The vote you cast is for the republic and the Constitution.

* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...
by nicoburns | 2026-01-26 12:19:11+00:00
It's usually the Color Rendering Index (the spectrum of frequencies that the light puts out). Incandescent bulbs more of less mimic that of the Sun, they are "black body radiators". Cheap LEDs tend to be missing a lot of the red spectrum.

However, you can get LEDs that do this well. Look for one with a "CRI" of 95% or higher.
by Digit-Al | 2026-01-26 12:19:18+00:00
The major problem is that no one trusts government not to abuse it and use it to track everything people do. There will be some proportion of people who trust the current government, but will be paranoid that a future government will abuse it, and there will be a proportion of people that don't trust the current government to not abuse it.

You might be able to get more trust by the government assigning a third party to audit the systems to make sure they are working as advertised, and not being abused, but you would still get people being paranoid that either the third party could be corrupted to pretend that things are okay, or that a future government would just fire them and have the system changed to track everyone anyway.

No matter what you do, you will never convince a subset of people that a system that can potentially be used to track everyone won't be abused in that way. Unfortunately, those people are most likely correct. This is why we can't have nice things :(

For the record, I thing it would be great to be able to have a trusted government issued digital ID for some purposes. I especially think it would be great to have an officially issued digital ID that could be used to sign electronic documents. My partner and I moved home recently, and it was not easy signing and exchanging legal documents electronically.
by callamdelaney | 2026-01-26 12:19:28+00:00
That's like saying parents would give meth to their kids. Make the crime equivalent and you'll find they won't, or if they do, they won't have their kids for long.

Parents are obviously far too stupid to do what's in their children's best interests re social media and smart phones. That plus the general indifference most parents have to this kind of thing mandates state interference. Banning social media for them specifically is a pain for everyone involved, just ban the phones - simple.

How is it more enforceable? It seems far more clear cut than 'little kimmy has an iphone 74++ pro but can't have snapchat' or whatever stupid app predators are using in year X. If little kimmy has an iphone 74++ pro it's getting confiscated and her parents fined at a minimum, that should make them strongly re-consider in future.

I think desktop computer use under some level of parental supervision is fine, but smartphones are not appropriate for kids at any level. I can't see any benefit whatsoever to under 18's possessing one.
by Schmerika | 2026-01-26 12:19:44+00:00
> it's obviously not flagged because of the rules, it's flagged because _someone_ is flagging this stuff

Dang was commenting in this thread 8 hours ago - and the post is still flagged.

There's simply no good excuse for that to be the case. And this is far from the first time. Conclusions must be drawn.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-26 12:20:15+00:00
Some of these are great.

I expect the mundane "wildstyle" tagging on train cars but have been surprised a few times to see trains roll through town with much more complex graffiti. I'm happy to see examples of some of that more artful work in this post.

If you've seen the film, "Brother From Another Planet" you might look at graffiti a little differently as I do. :-)
by reacharavindh | 2026-01-26 12:20:19+00:00
My wife has a Gemini AI pro Ultra whatever that she paid for to help with her academic research, but uses barely. She was generous to login with it on my computer to let me use the cli with her credentials. So Gemini-3.0-pro comes from there. I use OpenAI and Claude API keys with EUR 20 credits that I topped up (pay per use). I've mostly settled on Gemini-3.0, but occasionally pit codex, Gemini and Claude at each other at a gnarly problem reviewing each other's work, and proposing actionable changes with clear reasoning. They tend to catch teachers blind spots, an dI get to learn something from their reviews as well.
by katzgrau | 2026-01-26 12:20:30+00:00
A few things:

1. You can't judge the person, you can judge the behavior

2. To judge the person requires the ability to quantify the unquantifiable (circumstance, sequence of events leading to the outcome, going back to the literal beginning of time).

3. To judge the person implies a superiority to that person

Sure, one can take/justify simplistic shortcuts for practical reasons. But some forget that's what they are - shortcuts that bypass the nuances/reality of the situation.
by herewulf | 2026-01-26 12:22:02+00:00
I don't watch anime or really follow anything specifically Japanese, but I read Shogun as a teenager and then decades later (lately) I read about the Mishima Incident which attempted to restore the Emperor to power in 1970. Quite frankly the way the article was written and the events that transpired were extremely reminiscent of Shogun. The latter was written in 1975 but I am skeptical how much non-Japanese information was available about it leading up to 1975 when Shogun was published, considering this Wikipedia article has an obviously rough translation. Just the way the people involved relate to each other is quite unexpected from a Western perspective.

My tentative conclusion is that there is something really unique about Japanese culture and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishima_Incident
by redeeman | 2026-01-26 12:22:17+00:00
depends on what you mean by fatally compromise, much infrastructure across europe, and I would strongly think the US aswell(allthough here I am only familiar with 1 example), it is absolutely trivial to atleast temporarily disable and possibly bring some harm for anyone unauthenticatedly.

I am not saying whether russians are doing it or not, im just saying that its not just victim blaming, and that anyone operating with this level of security is grossly negligant and should be severely punished as criminals
by samfromnz | 2026-01-26 12:22:29+00:00
My iPhone has so little free space (thanks to the ever increasing “system data”) that it can’t update to iOS 26. Point updates for iOS 18 are usually much smaller and can still be installed.

I can’t believe I’m suggesting this, but… you could install a bunch of apps to get your phone storage to <10GB free, which should block it being able to update to iOS 26.
by daversa | 2026-01-26 12:22:48+00:00
Thank you, I think we have the search fixed, but yeah only having Parks show is not ideal and wasn't the intent. We're just dealing with a hodge-podge of API's with rate limits and several layers of caching trying to make things work lol.

Reserves like Drivers Triangle, Rea, and Blue Gum are showing for me in Sydney Now.
by password4321 | 2026-01-26 12:22:52+00:00
The snarky answer is that MQTT doesn't require the author's UDP to AWS Lambda gateway SaaS⁰.

I did find MQTT flavors that support UDP but neither MQTT/UDP nor MQTT-SN seem concerned with WireGuard-level security.

⁰(This article is AI-assisted content marketing good enough that I didn't realize it until ¾ through.)
by crimsontech | 2026-01-26 12:23:36+00:00
In the UK all mobile phones default to no adult content on the mobile networks, if you want to access adult content you need to request it with the mobile network provider. They could have gone the same route with consumer internet access. Most ISP supplied routers support content blocking, it could have been turned on by default with a simple update pushed by the ISP.

Kids here in the UK get educated about online safety in school, schools have sessions for parents covering this stuff too. My own kids have had age appropriate internet access all their lives, its not been difficult to control it, we have had the tools and knowledge for years.

This stuff really isn't about child safety in my opinion.
by vintermann | 2026-01-26 12:23:42+00:00
I think they are worrying about antitrust, and believe (probably correctly, unfortunately) that whether they get hit by antitrust or not is entirely political. There's more than enough evidence, for any justice department which wants to. They're not going to change that by keeping Android moderately open.

What they can do, is make themselves politically useful to whoever will be in charge. Right now the war on general purpose computing is in high gear, due to panic over AI models, social media manipulation and (as always) kids. That's the only ticket to avoid an antitrust crackdown.
by nicbou | 2026-01-26 12:23:59+00:00
I'm not ignorant. I just don't want it in my morning cereal when it's also everywhere else.

Awareness of your country's politics definitely isn't the issue here. I am keenly aware of the US presidents' threats to invade my country.

The issue is the insistence that it has to be discussed in every community, all the time, and that the importance transcends categorisation. Every website just becomes another dumping ground for US politics, and when you bring that up, Americans get indignant.

It's Hacker News. I am here for news for hackers. The guidelines are pretty explicit: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic".
by wumms | 2026-01-26 12:25:42+00:00
Related: "Data on AI-related Show HN posts"

Original title: "Data on AI-related Show HN posts More than 1 in 5 Show HN posts are now AI-related, but get less than half the votes or comments."

6 months ago, 155 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463249
by spicyjpeg | 2026-01-26 12:26:01+00:00
While great on paper, zero-knowledge-proof based systems unfortunately have a fatal flaw. Due to the fully anonymous nature of verification tokens, implementations must have safeguards in place to prevent users from intercepting them and passing them onto someone else; in practice, this will likely be accomplished by making both the authenticator and the target service mobile apps that rely on device integrity APIs. This would ultimately result in the same accessibility issues that currently plague the banking industry, where it is no longer possible to own a bank account in most countries without an unmodified, up-to-date phone and an Apple or Google account that did not get banned for redeeming a gift card.

Furthermore, if implementers are going to be required to verify users per-session rather than only once during signup, such a measure would end up killing desktop Linux (if not desktop PCs as a whole) by making it impossible for any non-locked-down platform to access the vast majority of the web.
by chrisjj | 2026-01-26 12:26:05+00:00
> then you are not using any vpn service marketed or provided in the UK.

Irrelevent. See:

must apply the child VPN prohibition to the provider of any relevant VPN service which is, or is likely to be—

(i)
offered or marketed to persons in the United Kingdom;

(ii)
provided to a significant number of persons
by neomantra | 2026-01-26 12:26:15+00:00
An elderly friend had some identity theft and we went to handle it at the three credit bureaus…

She has an old MacBook and old iPhone (circa 2017?). Apple no longer updates these OS’ even the bundled Safari.

One of the bureaus, Experian I think, has a TLS cert that is not compatible with the old OSs so all the “don’t trust this site” warnings come up.

How many people have incomplete credit freezes because of this? Apple is of a size that this hurts society.
by _aavaa_ | 2026-01-26 12:26:52+00:00
I was surprised to see no mention of C. Thi Nguyen who has a much more structured version of this thesis: games are art and the medium is human agency.

See:

1. https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/the-philosophy-of-game...

2. https://academic.oup.com/book/32137
by DeathArrow | 2026-01-26 12:27:27+00:00
>Is this true? I’ve got LEDs in my house because they cost vastly less to run, and because I rarely have to replace the bulbs.

At least in EU is true. Citing from Wikipedia: "The 2005 Ecodesign directive covered energy-using products (EuP), which use, generate, transfer or measure energy, including consumer goods such as boilers, water heaters, computers, televisions, and industrial products such as transformers. The implementing measures focus on those products which have a high potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions at low cost, through reduced energy demand."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecodesign_Directive
by rsynnott | 2026-01-26 12:27:42+00:00
> Nobody pushed you to use git when you were comfortable with svn?

Generally, sensible companies held off on this sort of transition until the tool was mature and stable.

Way back in the day, I was involved in an abortive move from CVS to SVN. It went great for a week, then the SVN db corrupted itself irretrievably, taking a week's work with it... I think we finally moved for real about a year later, when SVN had abandoned its extremely unreliable BDB backend that early versions used.

Forcing adoption of [AI tool of the month] now feels a bit more like, say, adopting Darcs back during the DVCS wars than adopting git after it had won.