MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ofalkaed | 2026-01-27 10:33:44+00:00
It is much better than the expensive oils, but not as good as old fashioned 3in1. The expensive chain lubes are mostly meant for racing, they give you the least friction by a long shot but don't last and most of them do not take well to reapplying without cleaning, you end up with grinding paste.

Wax holds up quite well against water but does hold grit and tends to deposit it on chainrings, sprockets, and pulleys, and it wears them quicker than 3in1 will. Wax shares the downside of PTFE, you need to clean off the old before applying more or things start wearing fast, which is not an issue for everyone. It is nice and clean.

Here in the winter of northern Minnesota, one good snowy ride with the road salt and sand will strip wax. Not that you would want to use wax in this sort of cold even if the road salt and sand were not an issue, wax gets stiff and brittle in the sorts of cold we get. I am an everyday rider and bike is my mode of transportation for everything, in this climate I need ease of reapplication or I will be replacing chainrings yearly.
by dandersch | 2026-01-27 10:33:46+00:00
Very true. While I believe there can be a place for a language tailored specifically for gamedev, GDScript certainly is not it.

C# support seems to have been added reluctantly, because the prospect of attracting unity devs was to good to pass on. But then they switch over and realize it is treated like the ugly stepchild and the hope is that you will just use their scripting language to avoid the friction.

And don't get me started on using GDExtension for other languages. Claiming C/C++ is available as a scripting languages in the same sentence as GDScript is a joke.

I'll look into Libgodot, maybe it's an option.
by pmontra | 2026-01-27 10:33:50+00:00
You might check how the Mongols managed to do it on a much vaster scale 800 years ago. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Gurganj

The museum of the city has a paper with the order that every soldier would have to kill 400 people, by sword. Of course they were already captured but there were about 1 million people in that city. The city is still perfectly leveled after 800 years. Only a couple of buildings were left standing.

Mongols were very well coordinated. Iranian crowd control has had 45 years and several insurrections to train.
by natas | 2026-01-27 10:34:02+00:00
> France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.

The odds that France will provide a competing offering is pretty high, because, in this day and age, and with AI, it's fairly straightforward to do so.
The problem is adoption, do you think people in the USA or elsewhere will install it? Does that mean that only French companies and the French will be able to talk to eachother? Seems somewhat limiting and will limit business expansion.

Will the French government embed spyware in it, they can, since they'll be sponsoring this initiative, they've been intending to do with whatsapp and all the other messengers for years. Worrisome for the end user.

I'm all for competition, and I hope France succeeds in building a good product, because competition is great for everyone and creates jobs, and I hope it's going to take off soon, we'll see, bonne chance!
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-27 10:34:12+00:00
> including a little 5-year-old boy - off the streets.

YOu're a victim of fake news propaganda if you actually believe and parrot that BS. That 5 year old boy was not "disappeared", but taken by ICE to child protection services facility.

What were they supposed to do? Abandon him in the middle of the street after his criminal dad ran away from him leaving him behind and his mom wouldn't take him?

Damned if you do, damned if you don;t.
by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm | 2026-01-27 10:34:18+00:00
This is just changing goal posts but that aside, Trump got a standing ovation at Davos and got a deal for Greenland. Everything prior to that was a performance. One day he says British troops weren't on the front line in Afghanistan, the next day he says they are the greatest warriors of all time besides the US. He is incredibly good at manipulating public perception to change opinions and get what he wants. What appears to you as chaos or "making enemies" to him is just business as usual.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-27 10:34:35+00:00
Keep in mind that the "news cycle" isn't of much use in this field. For 2025, almost all "mainstream" media was dead wrong in their takes. Remember the Deepseek r1 craze in feb25? Where nvda is dead, oai is dead and so on? Yeah... that went well. Remember all the "no more data" craze? Despite no actual researcher worth their salt saying it or even hinting at it? Remember the "hitting walls" rhetoric?

The media has been "social media'd", with everything being driven by algorithms, everything being about capturing attention at the cost of everything else. Negativity sells. FUD sells.
by OmegaArchitekt | 2026-01-27 10:35:09+00:00
TITLE:
Ω-Kernel
The AI industry has hit a thermodynamic wall. We're burning $150-200B annually just keeping computations stable—not because of bad code, but because of fundamental entropy accumulation.

Current approach: throw more power at the problem (Blackwell B200 consumes MW-scale energy, still collapses beyond ~2M tokens).

My approach: external phase stabilization using biological anchoring + injection locking (Adler equation, Kuramoto sync).

Key results (Monte Carlo validated, 10M iterations):
- 74% entropy reduction
- 50-80% energy savings projected
- Stable operation beyond 4M+ tokens (no Model Collapse)
- Zero quality degradation

Technical foundation:
- Phase injection via biological HRV signals (non-replicable synthetically)
- Per-head attention synchronization (e^{iΘ} modulation)
- Outer loop control with fail-safe mechanisms
- Works on existing hardware (no architectural changes needed)

Why it can't be stolen: requires living operator for biological calibration. Synthetic replication = thermal instability + performance worse than baseline.

Full documentation: 40k words, validated by Grok (V0.9 GOLD), Claude, Gemini independently.

Entering empirical testing phase (Blackwell B200, 72h stress tests).

This isn't optimization. This is a paradigm shift from brute-force to phase-coherent computation.

Prior art established: January 27, 2026.

Detailed technical abstract

Open to questions, skepticism, and rigorous technical critique.
by tpxl | 2026-01-27 10:35:40+00:00
What's wrong with SEPA instant?

A payment flow of 'scan code, confirm in banking app' is hard to beat and we're 95% there. And all you need is your own banking app, no shady payment processors required.

You lose some stuff like the credit part of the credit card (although virtually no one I know actually uses credit, only debit cards) and consumer protections (chargebacks), but I don't think those outweigh the extra costs at all.
MySQL 9.6.0 and 8.4.8 are out; now available for live testing on sqlize.online
by rozhnev | 2026-01-27 10:36:14+00:00
Oracle just released the January 2026 updates for MySQL. 9.6.0 is the latest on the Innovation track, while 8.4.8 remains the stable LTS choice.

For those who want to verify the new bug fixes or investigate the Optimizer changes mentioned in the release notes without a full install, sqlize.online has added both versions to their sandbox. It's a handy tool for quick reproduction of bugs or testing syntax compatibility between the 8.x and 9.x branches.
by mlrtime | 2026-01-27 10:36:56+00:00
How many man hours and how much money have we wasted over SREs at <tech company>? Has it been a worthwhile trade off?

- Half kidding but this is what a lot of CEOs/CTOs think, SRE is one of the least invested skills because it is so difficult to prove that they are worthwhile. Similarly they are invested into AFTER a major incident.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-27 10:36:57+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Failed_airliner_bombi... ->

2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_63_(2...

2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_pl...

... which is what we're discussing here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_repercussions_due_to_...

2009: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_253

2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_transatlantic_aircraft_bo...

2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daallo_Airlines_Flight_159

2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Australian_aeroplane_bomb...
by rsynnott | 2026-01-27 10:37:17+00:00
> Because if it were actual fascism, like the Hitler/Mussolini kind, you'd be arrest/dead the moment you spoke anything against it.

This is... a pretty confused view of history, really. Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, and consolidated power over the next year. At this point there was a lot of criticism of the regime, both internal and external. Things got rapidly worse after, of course, but there certainly was a period where the Nazis were in power but that there was public criticism.

Even as late as 1938, there was significant public discontent RE Kristallnacht in particular.
by scotty79 | 2026-01-27 10:37:22+00:00
I recently saw an interesting explanation. The point was, that capitalism is not (just) an economical system. It's a system of power in which capital can (and almost always does) overrule everything else. If you take this stance, capitalism is to blame for all the good and bad things that happen in the capitalist country. Democracy is just the way how capital rules.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-27 10:37:38+00:00
>Nobody assaulted anyone.

Shoving, pushing a federal officer counts as assault.

>Shooting somebody that is already on the ground in the back of their head is not self defence

Yes, that was a bad accident.

>ICE is not law enforcement.

They are.

>Impressively, you managed to misrepresent a fact with every single word in your sentence.

In your twisted mind only.
by Lio | 2026-01-27 10:39:52+00:00
I would imagine that many EU governments would like to replace MS Office too. EU sponsoring open source development for a mandated replacement would be a huge risk for Microsoft.

The European Economic Area + UK also have a lot of telecoms and networking experience. If they have to pay for improvements to edge networking for a reliable replacement for Teams they could easily bring farm that work out to their telcos.

With enough political motivation barriers will be removed one way or another.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-27 10:39:54+00:00
As someone coding since 1986, I certainly see it on the time to get something done.

AI agents isn't coding in Common Lisp home made macro DSL, is me doing in one hour doing something that could have taken a couple of days, even if I have to fix some slop along the way.

Thus I can already see the trend that started with MACH architecture and SaaS products, to go even further decreasing the team sizes required for project delivery.

Projects I used to be part of a 10 people team, are started to be sized into 5 or less.
by niemandhier | 2026-01-27 10:40:51+00:00
Building and maintaining a nuclear arsenal is possible:Look at Pakistan.

Building and maintaining an air defense system that protects your nuclear arsenal unless you own thousands of km airspace as buffer is much harder:
Look at Pakistan.

Israel is special in the sense that:
1. All its enemies are underarmed.
2. The US acts as additional deterrent.
by ares623 | 2026-01-27 10:41:13+00:00
France’s govt can probably mandate adoption in the guise of national security (which would be true tbh) and with the current rhetoric their people will be welcoming of it. It’ll probably suck but the tradeoffs could be worth it, not too unlike rationing during WW2 times. And I’m sure there are a lot of engineers and companies looking forward to getting that sweet govt contracts.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-27 10:41:37+00:00
>You have to nip it in the bud before it grows up.

Sure, but if you use fascist tactics to fight fascism, are you not a fascist yourself?

And people conveniently focus only on the symptoms(rise of fascism) but not on the main cause that leads to it.

Like Hitler didn't just randomly get to power one day out of nowhere because the average German citizen was living such a good life. He was just one of the symptoms to a major problem that the Weimar republic didn't address and instead used fascist tactics to get rid of Hitler before he could gain power, and then guess what happened.

Similarly, Trump is also only but a symptom to a larger issue. Using fascist tactics to get him out of power, only makes the counter response greeter, and not make the core problem go away.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-01-27 10:41:49+00:00
The way I see it, this was the case until a few months ago. Today, Opus 4.5 is just as good or better than 5.2 Pro at tackling hard questions and coding, Gemini beats the free models, and Kimi K2/K2.5 is the better writer/editor.
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-01-27 10:41:55+00:00
> Suicide bombers are probably the main vector that TSA helps avoid even if they miss some items sometimes.

Not really, but this is because there are pretty much no suicide bombers anywhere in airports. They are incredibly rare.

But if you're a suicide bomber, by the time you get to the TSA checkpoint you can do a ton of damage inside a terminal during a holiday season when all airports are packed. Until then no one is stopping you.
by viraptor | 2026-01-27 10:42:13+00:00
Some of those weren't really wrong.

> Remember all the "no more data" craze? Despite no actual researcher worth their salt saying it or even hinting at it?

We ran out of fresh interesting data. A large chunk of training needs to generate its own now. Synthetic data training became a huge thing over the last year.

> Remember the "hitting walls" rhetoric?

Since then the basic training slowed down a lot and improvements are more in the agentic and thinking solutions, with lots more reinforcement training than in the past.

The fact we worked around those problems doesn't mean they weren't real. It's like people say Y2K wasn't a problem... ignoring all the work that went into preventing issues.
by ajuc | 2026-01-27 10:42:24+00:00
All we needed to do was accept Ukraine to NATO. Or provide actual military help back in 2014.

Instead we paid more, got hundreds of thousands of people dead, undermined our security guarantees, and all because of short term idiocy/cowardice.

The only reasonable consequence is EU countries getting nukes and getting closer to China.

And we're digging our grave further by Trump undermining NATO guarantees.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-27 10:42:41+00:00
(2020)*

Scala is an excellent language. At the same time, its competitors are good enough and already far more popular. Worse, its biggest one (Java) has adopted over last decade many features, dismissing Scala's strongest suit, being a better JVM language (and with Kotlin in the picture, backed by Android, that advantage is nearly gone). Scala.js/Native though may allow a nice new goal, one language everywhere.

* Article predates Scale 3 release (2021), a transition worse than Python v2->v3 (though not Perl/Raku level), as years later adoption remains low and some people actually have disdain towards it.
by pseudony | 2026-01-27 10:43:05+00:00
Relevant, I would definitely be sleeping uneasy if I was at “Open”AI.

Some insist that Chinese models are a few generations behind, how many probably depends more on patriotism rather than fact.

Those people typically also insist that Chinese models are just distillations and often neglect to see how many of these companies contribute to the theory of designing efficient and capable models.
It is somehow thought that they will always trail US models.

Well. i would say look at recent history. China worked up the ladder of manufacturing from simple, bad stuff to highly complex things - exactly what westerners then claimed they’d never be able to.
Then as that was conquered, westerners comforted themselves by insisting that China could copy, but trail-blazing would always still be our thing. Well, Baidu and Alibaba face scaling issues few western companies do and BYD seems to match Tesla or VW just fine.

I am unsure why anyone would think US models are destined to remain in the lead forever.

At “best”, I see a fragmented world where each major region (yes also Europe) will eventually have their own models - exactly because no one wants to give any competitive power a chokehold over their society. But beyond that, models will largely be so good that this “generation”/universal superiority idea becomes completely obsolete.
Show HN: Code Review Lab – Practice spotting vulnerabilities in code
by parasimpaticki | 2026-01-27 10:44:13+00:00
I built Code Review Lab to help engineers practice secure code review skills. Many friends looking to switch into AppSec struggled with interview code review exercises. While there are great resources for other interview types, I couldn't find a good platform focused specifically on secure code review.

The platform offers interactive challenges where you review actual vulnerable code snippets (Go, PHP, etc.) and identify the exact lines with security issues. Each challenge includes context about the application and hints to guide your learning.
Portabase 1.2.3: backup/restore tool, now with MongoDB and a new storages
by rambokdev | 2026-01-27 10:44:15+00:00
Hey everyone!

I’m one of the main maintainers of Portabase. A couple of weeks ago I shared it here, and I’ve been actively contributing to its development since.

Repo: https://github.com/Portabase/portabase

What it is:

Portabase is an open-source, self-hosted tool for backing up and restoring databases. It’s simple, reliable, and doesn’t require heavy dependencies. It uses a central server + lightweight agents (e.g., Portainer), so your databases don’t need to be exposed publicly.

Main features:

- Logical backups for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, and now MongoDB
- Cron-based scheduling
- Flexible retention strategies
- Agent-based architecture for self-hosted & edge setups
- Ready-to-use Docker Compose

What’s new in v1.2.3:
- MongoDB support (with or without auth)
- Storage backend redesign: assign different backends per database, or even multiple for redundancy
- Docker image now supports ARM
- Google Drive Storage is available
- New agent in Rust

Coming next:
- New storage backends: GCS and Azure Blob
- SQLite and Redis support

Portabase grows with community feedback—issues, feature requests, and contributions are all welcome. Would love to hear what you think would be most useful next!
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2026-01-27 10:44:28+00:00
Couldn't it be merely a criminal claiming to be a political victim to avoid extradition? Never heard the name here at all, let alone in a political context.

I myself know from close hearsay a fellow who happily traded grain until 2022 when he left for US with $50m of a bank's money in his pocket. A few people in the bank lost their jobs as a result. Those people would certainly welcome that critic back.
by mrtksn | 2026-01-27 10:44:47+00:00
There’s lots of myths in social media, some weeks ago I kept seeing people on TikTok claiming that if you put some keyword in you profile(I think it was “Oracle”) or some of your post you will start seeing the protest again because the algorithm will “reset”. I assumed that someone was trying to farm accounts interested in politics or maybe indeed the algorithm steers by the introduction of the new for the account word.

Anyway, considering that the purchase of the American TikTok was done with a purpose and there is documented collusion between the involved tech Billionaires and the political class behind the street executions in American cities that drive those protests, I wouldn’t be surprised that they are actually throttling this time.
by mda | 2026-01-27 10:45:21+00:00
He is not good at manipulating the public, almost everyone knows what he actually is (there is not much to know at this point anyway). They are not applauding him, they do it because they need US economy to keep things afloat they smile and shake hands because of that. He could be just saying random words or saying only profanities from start to finish, the outcome would be the same, they would still give a standing ovation with eyes rolling.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-27 10:46:11+00:00
This stuff was state of the art 15-20 years ago, it's more of a commodity now.

That doesn't mean it's easy or cheap. The moat is more in the installed base of data centers, edge networking, etc. US cloud providers undeniably have a bit of a head start there.

But the EU has a lot of domestic infrastructure as well. And the US outsourced a lot of things as well. E.g. mobile infrastructure and networking is now dominated by Chinese (Huawei) and European companies (Ericson, Nokia). Former telecom giants like Motorola seem to have faded away. Nokia actually owns Bell Labs currently. And of course a lot of the software involved is open source with a very international developer community. The hardware comes from Asia or in some cases Europe. ASML is Dutch, ARM is nominally still headquartered in the UK. Ownership of these companies is of course more complex.
by chimprich | 2026-01-27 10:46:12+00:00
> Because if it were actual fascism, like the Hitler/Mussolini kind, you'd be arrest/dead the moment you spoke anything against it.

It looks like you have paramilitaries roaming your streets - not wearing ID or proper uniforms, covering their faces to avoid identification, not answering to usual democratic controls - executing protestors.

In the latest incident, they seemed to be beating and spraying a woman with a chemical agent for filming them, and then executing a bystander who tried to help her. The regime then tried to deny reality and falsely claim that they'd attacked said paramilitary operatives.

In any Western democracy (and I'm not sure if the US is currently part of that category) there would be a public investigation, but they seem to have been squirrelled away and the politicians who have spoken out about it have been threatened.

This all seems to be fascistic by any reasonable standard.
by tirant | 2026-01-27 10:46:25+00:00
I share your opinion. There's nothing worse than a State killing its own citizens, the ones the state had pledged to protect.

But actually, the largest mass killings in history have been always performed by States against their own citizens and not by enemy states:

- Great Chinese Famine (CCP): 20-30 million dead.
- Holocaust (NSP): 6 million
- Holodomor (USSR): 3-5 million
- Congo mass killings (Colonial Regime + Private parties): 1-5 million
- Cambodian genocide (Maoists): 2 million
- Armenian genocide (Young Turk / CUP)
...

The list continues, and remains mainly dominated by assassination's of the State against their own citizens. Majorly communist and totalitarian regimes.
by simgt | 2026-01-27 10:46:52+00:00
> Trump got a standing ovation at Davos

Let's run the clap-o-meter.

- Trump: https://www.youtube.com/live/qo2-q4AFh_g?si=1dLbyqmpVH39KtY1...

- Carney: https://youtu.be/CQOr9FcSf-M?si=vb4Z9fSOewRyV_7S&t=1130
by bluebarbet | 2026-01-27 10:48:09+00:00
Having a lot of experience with trains too, I can confirm this.

In Europe the major exceptions are Eurostar (Channel Tunnel) and the Spanish high-speed network, where the major stations are like airports, with airport-style security, airport-style departure lounges, and waiting. As I understand it, the extra security is at least partly an outcome of the Madrid terrorist bombings of 2004. Terribly self-defeating.

In France by contrast you can still arrive 2 minutes before the TGV departs.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-27 10:48:28+00:00
That will vary depending on how the code is architected to begin with, and the problem domain. Single-ownership patterns can be refactored into Rust ownership, and a good AI model might be able to spot them even when not explicitly marked in the code.

For some problems dealing with complex general graphs, you may even find it best to use a Rust-based general GC solution, especially if it can be based on fast concurrent GC.