MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bloppe | 2026-01-15 20:18:24+00:00
I support UBI, funded by high capital gains taxes, to offset the growing value of capital relative to labor due to ever-improving automation, but I think it's silly to think a significant number of people will ever be happy with UBI alone.

First of all, "baseline needs" are fluid. These days, electricity and internet are broadly considered baseline needs, but would have been unimaginable luxuries for previous generations. The future will inevitably bring new "baseline needs" we can hardly yet comprehend.

Secondly, the vast majority of people will never be satisfied with the bare minimum, no matter what that minimum is. If you have a friend who can afford fancy things, and you can't, then more likely than not, you will not be satisfied. It's also much easier to attract a partner if you're financially successful, for similar reasons. That's just human nature. Just because you don't have to worry about starving or succumbing to the elements does not mean people will stop competing with one another.
by cybwraith | 2026-01-15 20:18:28+00:00
> The common retort is that these don't exist any more

Usually when I see the retort, its also with the understanding that 3rd places need to be free, or essentially free. If theres a significant expectation of money being spent in order to spend time there, its not really a “3rd place” by the intended definition. (Thats the argument I’ve seen)
by joshfarrant | 2026-01-15 20:18:37+00:00
Tangentially related — on my website I track coffees I’ve enjoyed and show their origin on an interactive globe.

https://farrant.me/coffees/

The tilt of the globe on that page changes throughout the year to match The Earth’s tilt when viewed from from The Sun. The initial rotation of Earth is correct for the time of day too. This means that, when you load the page, you see The Earth as The Sun currently sees it.

I’m not sure anyone has ever noticed, and I’m sure my calculation isn’t perfect, but I enjoy watching it change over the course of the year.
Ask HN: A pattern we noticed in how website leads are handled
by lucascorrei4 | 2026-01-15 20:18:47+00:00
We started noticing a recurring pattern across different websites.

Visitors arrive with clear intent.
They interact with the site.
They leave without ever being contacted.

At first, it looked like a traffic or copy problem.
But it wasn’t.

The real issue was response latency combined with qualification cost.
Humans can’t respond instantly.
And responding to every lead doesn’t scale.

By the time someone replies:
– The visitor is gone
– Or they were never a good fit

We ended up building an AI layer to sit between traffic and sales:
– Qualify intent instantly
– Filter low-quality conversations
– Route only real buyers to humans

Curious if others here have observed the same pattern, and how you’re handling it.
by riversflow | 2026-01-15 20:18:50+00:00
on the topic of platonic friendship, I couldn’t disagree more with a lot of the comments. I have plenty of friends yet I don’t do clubs and will never, ever do organized religion. People advising it are religious freaks in my opinion. Some of my best friends took this advice to go to church and bible study. They complain every time I see them about the people in their church. Meanwhile I’ve made more and better friends online. Its not hard, get on social media, find an influencer/streamer that matches your vibes and go jump into the official or adjacent discord community and play video games with people in that community. If you engage in active listening and are a decent person, you will easily make plenty of friends. Additionally, I think in person hangouts are kinda mid, but I hangout with my friends in-person (at a minimum) every other day when I weight lift. Like seriously, I often would rather chill in Discord than go and hang out in-person.

To me the male loneliness epidemic is more about a lack of ability to find meaningful romantic relationships. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and as somebody who has been doing online dating since it essentially started, I am pretty sure that the problem (or at least a major piece) is that match group has commodified romantic relationships.

I know a lot of people will focus on meeting people in public or whatever, but it has been my experience that dating has become completely garbage and a large part is because all of the current popular dating apps disallow index search and funnel you into swiping. From a mate selection perspective this makes no sense. Not only does it muddy the waters about who is actually a real match, but it also does psychic damage to make so many shallow judgements.

Back before match group bought OkCupid, I used to have excellent results finding people their who shared a lot of common ground with, messaging them with a thoughtful message, and going on dates. Swiping is an absolute crap shoot, and often I feel like I am being used.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-15 20:18:59+00:00
> Not only they are much more frequent, including possibly kernel privilege escalations,

No, that's simply not the case.

> not affecting Qubes,

Maybe, qubese would still be vulnerable to kernel vulnerabilities even if they didn't allow VM escape - anything in the disposable VM would be at risk.

> the bubblewrap repository itself says that you have to be really careful to stay secure with it, even in the lack of vulnerabilities.

Source? I assume they are referring to misconfigurations.

> There is no comparably secure OS in the world.

You've said before you don't have a lot of security knowledge and it continues to show. Qubes is one specific approach to a problem not suitable for all goals, it's useful for hobbyists who use browsers and such. Anything in the disposable VM is still at risk.

SEL4, ASOS and CuBit are all more secure than Qubes. Qubes doesn't offer any more security than having a bunch of different machines to do different tasks on. Not even airgapped. If the machines have a vulnerability, then whatever is on the machine is fair game.

> I don't understand your unsubstantiated attack on Qubes.

There is no attack, I'm just refuting your preposterous zealotry for it. It's fine for what it is, but you make it much more than what it is. The developers of Qubes would absolutely disagree with your claims.

> Even if a VM becomes hostile and starts reading the RAM, it will not get any privileges in any other VM.

That depends entirely on the vulnerability.
by mrkurt | 2026-01-15 20:19:01+00:00
FUSE is full of gotchas. I wouldn't replace NFS with JuiceFS for arbitrary workloads. Getting the full FUSE set implemented is not easy -- you can't use sqlite on JuiceFS, for example.

The meta store is a bottleneck too. For a shared mount, you've got a bunch of clients sharing a metadata store that lives in the cloud somewhere. They do a lot of aggressive metadata caching. It's still surprisingly slow at times.
by cyberax | 2026-01-15 20:19:11+00:00
> Said tokens didn't have admin access, but had enough privileges to invite other users to become full admins.

Ah... Github permissions. What fun.

Github actually has a way to federate with AWS for short-lived credentials, but then it screws everything up by completely half-assing the ghcr.io implementation. It's only available using the old deprecated classic access tokens.
by conslit | 2026-01-15 20:19:17+00:00
1. "Is the plan to contribute them back to Go?" - No. They won't accept the up-streams. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/30613

2. "How is a one person fork of Go in any way going to ever be more secure than the original which is developed by many people? " - Read the README.

3. "Why should I trust your changes?" - You don't have to. The same reasons you don't have to trust the Github project you're cloning.

4. "Is this actually an adversarial project that will hide and rug pull down the road?" - Read the code.

Sarcasm aside, the objective is "helping to find bugs in Go codebases via built-in security implementations". That's mainly used for fuzzing and testing. Don't deploy you compiled binary on production with that compiler.
by lukan | 2026-01-15 20:19:33+00:00
But wasn't the reason they split with Samsung because they copied the iphone in the perspective of Jobs (to which he reacted with thermonuclear threats)?

They did had the expertise building it after all. What would happen, if TSMC now would build a M1 clone? I doubt this is a way anyone wants to go, but it seems a implied threat to me that is calculated in.
by rambambram | 2026-01-15 20:19:34+00:00
Thermal underwear. Entering the 10th year of a 30 euro Helly Hansen long underpants that keeps me warm half the year.

Raspberry Pi 4 that served as my daily driver for around three years.

A couple of dumbbells that got me started with weight training, and kept me going during covid. Together with the basic equipment that I later bought, it saved me hundreds and hundreds of euros in gym memberships.

Best purchase under 10 euros is a simple cube with blank memo notes, that I use for grocery shopping and all kinds of other to do lists.
by some_furry | 2026-01-15 20:19:47+00:00
There is no easy solution to this problem. It's a conflux of many factors. (There are no more "third spaces". Too much rent-seeking behavior. The centralization of platforms consolidates power and creates inertia. The dopamine-hacking of recommendation algorithms. Social media in general.)

https://soatok.blog/2025/09/16/are-you-under-the-influence-t...

I've written at length about related topics. Unfortunately, there are powerful invested interests in keeping things shitty. It's often critiqued as "capitalism is bad" but we're seeing today is better described as techno-feudalism than capitalism.
by dyauspitr | 2026-01-15 20:19:53+00:00
I think part of the problem is the stuff you’re suggesting. I think everyday life needs to happen organically and if everything is scheduled and regimented and needs to be planned for, it’s very hard for the vast majority of people to actually accomplish. In the past the way, this worked was you went to church which was societally and peer enforced. People need to have marriages that last a lifetime. It’s my opinion that marriages that are a partnership without any sort of hierarchy like we had in the past are essentially doomed to fail except in a small percentage of cases. You need to have kids with stable homes that can go out on the street and be outside all day without fear of crime. Extended families need to live close to each other so there are a lot of folks raising kids and approaching life’s every day problems together. You need to shut off indoor sources of entertainment like social media and video gaming. You need to have a solid education system that is factual and science based, and only lets kids get through on the basis of meritocracy so they can be good informed citizens, and not vote for populist nonsense like we currently have. In a nutshell, what I’m trying to say is people cannot act on what’s best for them but society can put enough peer pressure on everyone for everyone’s good. This might be very hard to listen to in an individualistic society like ours and I don’t even know if I would want to live in this society, but I believe that if that’s the only option, everyone is better off.
by jonas21 | 2026-01-15 20:19:54+00:00
AI capex may or may not flatten in the near future (and I don't necessarily see a reason why it would). But smartphone capex already has.

Like smartphones, AI chips also have a replacement cycle. AI chips depreciate quickly -- not because the old ones go bad, but because the new ones are so much better in performance and efficiency than the previous generation. While smartphones aren't making huge leaps every year like they used to, AI chips still are -- meaning there's a stronger incentive to upgrade every cycle for these chips than smartphone processors.
by self_awareness | 2026-01-15 20:20:02+00:00
It's really funny, because that's how I portray inclusive people. They're nice until they bring friends. And later friends require changing the vocabulary and I don't even know how to communicate with them. But I'm not calling them soviets.

I've literally said in my previous message that in my opinion it can't be said that BLM is a grift, and can't be said that it is not a grift. It's not even about a grift, it's about objective statements.

I guess we have to agree to disagree, since it's apparent we're not even reading ourselves properly.
by dalyons | 2026-01-15 20:20:03+00:00
> But they have limited flexibility: you can't turn it on and off easily and there's limited power modulation you can do. That's why France keeps its gas output relatively constant in winter and do the modulation with nuclear despite its marginal cost being lower than gas on paper.

Gas peaker plants are extremely flexible and fast to turn on and off. That's the style that will fill the gap until batteries (or whatever else) takes over the last ~10%.
by TulliusCicero | 2026-01-15 20:20:04+00:00
Azumaya brand kotatsu futons are now my favorite blankets for both sleeping and using around the house, and some of them at least are around $100.

They're fairly thick and very comfortable blankets, I love these way more than any other blankets we have (and we own quite a few different kinds). I'm seriously considering trying out other kotatsu blanket brands too, even the really expensive ones.
by jfengel | 2026-01-15 20:20:27+00:00
Because, unfortunately, a terminal degree is not always a guarantee of future productivity.

String theory came into the public consciousness about two decades ago, followed by a backlash from a relatively small but persistent set of professors. String theory has largely dropped out of the public focus, but those researchers continue to hammer at it.

Woit is one of those. He's known primarily for his objections to string theory. His own work is just fine, but nobody outside of his discipline knows it.
by jshier | 2026-01-15 20:20:39+00:00
To extend the analogy, Congress hasn't had their balls removed, they simply aren't humping other dogs right now.

I'm not an expert, but while many of SCOTUS' rulings have been against the plain letter of the law, few of the decisions ruled out Congressional power in those areas categorically. Congress could pass a new Voting Rights Act, or redefine the EPA's powers over wetlands, or any number of things, they just choose not to. And of course, even with a Democratic Congress, getting past the veto may be impossible.
by myvalovec | 2026-01-15 20:20:39+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on modernizing legacy Java Swing applications. I know Swing is often considered dead or ugly, but I wanted to prove that with the right paintComponent overrides, it can look just as modern as apps without needing the overhead of JavaFX or Chromium wrappers.

This is a standalone, zero-dependency implementation of a Button that handles:
Native anti-aliasing text/shapes
A lightweight engine for hover/click animations
Same syntax with bonus intuitive methods

It's part of a larger project I'm working on, but I wanted to open-source this component as a reference for anyone else stuck maintaining legacy Swing codebases.

Happy to answer questions about the rendering logic!
by NickC25 | 2026-01-15 20:20:50+00:00
>How do you deport with millions of illegal immigrants?

Make E-verify the federal minimum standard for ALL employers nationwide.

Fine the shit out of all businesses that don't comply. Fine the shit out of employers that hire illegal labor. We know who they are.

You don't deport them, you give them no reason to stay here because there'd be no work for them.
by Zafira | 2026-01-15 20:20:53+00:00
I think you’re correct that they’re good at just ripping the band-aid off, but the details seem off. AFAIK, Apple has always had a license with ARM and a very unique one since they were one of the initial investors when it was spun out from Acorn. In fact, my understanding is that Apple is the one that insisted they call themselves Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. because they did not want Acorn (a competitor) in the name of a company they were investing in.
by mildmelon | 2026-01-15 20:20:56+00:00
Author here.

Yes you're right in that it's not real ASCII, but more ASCII-esque. I took some artistic liberty to do everything on the GPU, if I had done true ASCII I would have had to move data back to the CPU and render the glyphs there. However it was too slow and didn't have the desired effect I was seeking.

I am considering building out an additional feature set where it allows for true ASCII rendering, but we'll see if I get around to that.
by wgjordan | 2026-01-15 20:21:20+00:00
This clarification is helpful, thanks! The README currently implies a slightly different take, perhaps it could be made more clear that it's suitable for use unmodified in closed source products:

> The AGPL license is suitable for open source projects, while commercial licenses are available for organizations requiring different terms.

I was a bit unclear on where the AGPL's network-interaction clause draws its boundaries- so the commercial license would only be needed for closed-source modifications/forks, or if statically linking ZeroFS crate into a larger proprietary Rust program, is that roughly it?
by SllX | 2026-01-15 20:21:25+00:00
If regulations can legitimately be advocated for, they can be advocated against as well.

Facebook wouldn’t have any vested interest in the far left, the far right, the far up or the far down in the EU if the EU wasn’t giving them reasons to take an interest. If the parties in power were really worried that Facebook was going to be the difference-maker, they could undercut the opposition and remove the issue entirely by rolling back their needless regulations and keeping their own desire to overstep their authority and dictate terms to foreign enterprises in check.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-15 20:21:29+00:00
Flagged: code and prose written by an LLM, and uncanny-valley as a result - a few examples:

- the programming language part is dropped almost immediately by the LLM.

- The unrelated meat emojis to give it an animated background

- Painfully generic / not attempting to make a joke: "This language finally lets me express my true feelings about variable assignment."

- Every section has exactly the "right" length, ~3-5 items per list, ~2-3 paragraphs per section.

Hate to eat downvotes for saying this, I hate what FB / Zuck too and understand the impulse to treat it as unneeded negativity.

However, I've been on HN for 16 years, and can't remember a time I've seen a human-generated surface-level satire persist in the top posts. Seems to me the length and subject let the slop skate, at least so far.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-15 20:21:56+00:00
> Congress could pass a new Voting Rights Act, or redefine the EPA's powers over wetlands, or any number of things, they just choose not to.

They could, and SCOTUS could toss it, like they did bit by bit to all the important parts of the first.

Or just invent a new legal standard, like the "history and tradition" one they used in Bruen, Dobbs, and Bremerton.
by bogwog | 2026-01-15 20:22:04+00:00
* Religion has been used, is currently being used, and will always be used to facilitate and encourage the murder/death/suffering/abuse/exploitation of others

* My Little Pony is a children's cartoon that attracts creepy adults with questionable fetishes who like to wear ugly costumes in public and buy anthropomorphic sex dolls

I think if I *had* to pick one of those works of fiction to pretend to be a fan of just to get other people to talk to me, I'd rather deal with the smelly weirdos in the MLP fandom than any of the dangerous zealots in the <insert religious book here> fandom. (MLP is a joke example, but obviously there are way more options out there to find a community)
by colechristensen | 2026-01-15 20:22:12+00:00
Organize things.

Start a bowling league, a DnD group, a book club, a charitable organization... whatever.

Have a dinner party. Join the chess club. Start or join a sports league.

Many of these community events aren't happening because nobody has created them yet and it might just be up to you to do it.

Part of the loneliness epidemic is somebody actually has to initiate things and not enough people do. YOU can do it.
by wwweston | 2026-01-15 20:22:29+00:00
“atlanticist” - the culture of the enlightenment and the good that’s come from it.

Wikipedia does hold ideals, that access to knowledge is a net good, that people can cooperate both in contribution and review without a dominating magisterial authority. That rational dialogue and qualification and refinement is possible, and that it’s possible to correct for bias, and see the difference between bias and agenda.

Like those whose anti-enlightenment agenda is revealed when they use “atlanticist” as a slur.
by NonHyloMorph | 2026-01-15 20:22:31+00:00
The term to consider here is >extrajudical killing<
As in: Someone wotking for the executive kills another citizen, without 1) a need to do so for selfdefense 2) any justification from the judicary for it, and that without being charged for murder/aggrevated manslaugther.
The argument: they are not doing what this law enforcement person wants do do of them (whether that obstruction is legal or not), so they are free to be killed is nothing but the total disregard for the law, any decency and the respect for human life and dignity. In short it is lynchmob mentality.
by cheese4242 | 2026-01-15 20:23:10+00:00
Cost-free travel back home, a $1,000 exit bonus, and forgiveness of any "failure to depart" fines. Quite generous.

Over the Holidays they even increased the exit bonus to $3000: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/22/increased-incentives-dhs...

Yet another reason why I find the haphazard comparisons to Nazi Germany/Gestapo so farcical.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-15 20:23:24+00:00
Just like they hate oil companies. But that doesn't stop them from pulling up to the gas station, or enjoying any of the other thousands of goods and services dependent on oil. They even go out an buy massive inefficient cars and spend multiples of what they need to. And despite all the supposed hatred, no politician dares to mess with the oil industry because at the end of the day they know nothing will get the voters out for blood against them quite like rising gas prices.

They hate the tech industry you say? They want you to "decapitate" a tech company you say? Americans love two things above all else, convenience and complaining. Go ahead, take away their overnight Amazon deliveries, Google searches, smartphones, Instagram, and Tiktok, and see where that gets you.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-15 20:23:29+00:00
This is something I absolutely would not feel comfortable doing unless I was warmly encouraged to join in, that's how I've been turned into a social outcast in my youth. I know some people who for a fact feel the same way.

Maybe one solution is therapy, to help massage them out of their shell, to help them learn to be vulnerable and unafraid and friendly. But many of them refuse to go to therapy for whatever reason also.

These are things I will be running into as I try to resolve this. I have already encountered a young man named Daniel who remembered me, and told me that he was hospitalized, and that the thought of me and my sign helped him get through it. I'm dealing with people on all spectrums of mental health.

In fact, maybe that's kind of the point. I'm trying to reach out to people who refuse to go to therapy, who have internal thoughts berating them all day long, and I have the unique opportunity of helping them through the darkness and into the light of the truth, that they are valuable and lovable, if only people saw the true them, and trusted them to become that.