MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cubefox | 2026-01-09 18:01:43+00:00
So you think it's fine that if some Italian agency orders Cloudflare to block some domain on it's 1.1.1.1 public DNS (or Google on it's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) it should be blocked for everyone on Earth who is using this DNS server, including yourself? And if you think otherwise, you are merely "upset that someone else is ruining their monopoly on it"?
by TZubiri | 2026-01-09 18:02:04+00:00
Very nice, always wanted something like this.

Liked: Sheet/No shit split

Would like:

- Ability to play with PC keyboard, other apps already have some type of interface to type with keyboard, of course it might change depending on keyboard layout, but it's pretty standard and it happens that the keys aren't usually alighned, so you can have one row be whites and the upper row being blacks.

- Maybe the waiting times between new notes in simon says can be faster? The "You Win" is a bit slow and it feels like forever, breaking the pace of the music.

- Difficulties can be increased as well, Simon Says currently seems like it only does very small intervals, (feels like sheet based is a bit different but maybe not). Maybe it can be configured to allow a wider range of intervals, making it more difficult.

The other similar product that I've seen is an app called Yousician that did this for guitar but it was microphone based. This is very neat.
by jjfoooo4 | 2026-01-09 18:02:28+00:00
(I'm the author)

Looking at the post again, I think I agree that calling Claude Skills overengineered is too harsh. I think Skills is definitely an improvement over MCP.

However I still think it's a generally a mistake to put useful commands and documentation in AI-specific files. In my opinion a better approach is to optimize the organization of docs and commands for human usability, and teach the AI how to leverage those.

I do use Claude Skills, but only to wire up just commands. I wrote a little package to do this automatically: https://github.com/tombedor/just-claude
by khr | 2026-01-09 18:02:29+00:00
You can, depending on your definition of "useful". You can buy a cheap laser pointer, take out its lens, and put it over your camera lens. Tape it onto the lens for a temporary janky version or make a 3d-printed mount for something much better that you can easily take on/off.

I've personally found this little hack useful, but then again I don't have a DSLR and macro lens!
by mbesto | 2026-01-09 18:03:43+00:00
> (He did end up moving off the platform once he had enough validation)

I'm really curious what this looks like in practice? Like can you just download the whole codebase, throw it against a Supabase Postgres DB, and you're off running? What about any backing services or microservices? Is it tied to any thing like lambdas etc.
by ipdashc | 2026-01-09 18:04:00+00:00
I know the "basically" is probably doing a bunch of heavy lifting, but dang, that's still awesome to think about. I didn't know hardware development was at the point where a hobby project CPU, apparently mostly developed by one guy, can realistically end up in a mass produced product like that.

Quick edit: sounds like "basically" wasn't doing that much heavy lifting after all, wow https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/risc-v-on-raspberry-pi-pico...
by pembrook | 2026-01-09 18:04:18+00:00
It'd be a shame if an asteroid struck earth tomorrow as well.

But given limited resources, we tend not to devote a ton of resources to every possible tail risk since there's millions of them.

Europe should focus on building domestic tech capacity for other reasons (our own future prosperity being one), but being worried about Microsoft Word access over some silly news headlines is not one of them.

Every single productivity suite can open/modify word docs and powerpoints and excel formats. This is not a huge issue.
by TZubiri | 2026-01-09 18:04:22+00:00
Interesting that politics is a vector for contagion.

When you think about politics is very contagious, politicians infect activists, who infect regular folk that advocate for stuff they don't benefit from, when elections come near, it's flu season.

Double parasite burgers where a new parasite leeches of an existing vector are common in biology as well. Like malaria and mosquitoes.
by tiagosn | 2026-01-09 18:05:08+00:00
Location: Brazil

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Email: tsilvasystem@gmail.com
by ladidahh | 2026-01-09 18:06:00+00:00
Well, if racism in America was over. As in, similar rates of wealth and poverty, incarceration and college degrees, etc etc, across racial lines, then yeah, it would be a distraction. But when economic disadvantage, inherited from outright racist laws, is abundantly clear to see, it's hard for me to accept that we are not still anti black (and anti poor, etc) as a country when things like this happen
by easyThrowaway | 2026-01-09 18:06:12+00:00
The interesting part is that neither the AGCOM nor Cloudflare quite understand how each other really work. Also they both believe they got more leeway than they truly have.

AGCOM is an institutional apparatus, they operate separately, but not independently, from whatever leftwing or rightwing government in charge for the most part (past Berlusconian interests aside) and everything they do is entirely subject to not getting out of the guidelines imposed by the EU, no matter what they want anyone else to believe.

Frankly the best course of action for Cloudflare would be getting in touch with the Board of European Regulation pointing them out that AGCOM is, probably for the hundreth time I guess, overstepping their authority. And they should stop right there, otherwise they're the ones that will be actually fined.
by anttiharju | 2026-01-09 18:06:21+00:00
heh.

I think I've seen an adtech company use AI influencers to market whatever product a customer wanted to sell. I got the impression that it initally worked really well, but then people caught on to the fact it was just AI and performance tanked.

I don't actually know whether that was the case but that's the vibe I got from following their landing page over time.
by lingrush4 | 2026-01-09 18:06:29+00:00
Why are you surprised that people who sympathize with terrorists are called terrorists sympathizers?

Roughly 75% of Palestinians support terrorism (the number changes with every survey but it's consistently over 50%).

The lady in Minneapolis was using her car as a weapon to impede law enforcement operations. That's not really terrorism; insurrection would be a more accurate description. But she certainly wasn't a good person deserving of any sympathy.
by bflesch | 2026-01-09 18:07:10+00:00
One must be thankful to him for removing the illusion that Cloudflare is some benevolent, neutral US company fighting for a more secure internet.

My risk acceptance is not big enough to have all Cloudflare-secured websites in my country to go offline just because someone from my country has a Twitter fight with a member of the US administration or with the Cloudflare leadership.
by u8080 | 2026-01-09 18:07:11+00:00
I am not claiming "invention", my whole point here is that place of origin means nothing, especially for a FOSS project - despite Linus being important part of it.

If we talk about OS being independent from US, the culprit is where does control(both in terms of technology and legislation) comes from. Main contributors are US companies(technological control) while Linus is obligated to comply to US laws and decisions as US citizen.
by tetris11 | 2026-01-09 18:07:27+00:00
My job's SSO moved to provider that either required an unrooted phone or a reliable Voice auth.

For 2 years the voice authentication worked fine (they call me, I type in a number) on my regular rooted phone. Then one random morning I just stopped getting the phone calls. "Network said no".

Complete lock out, nothing I could do except go out and panic-buy an unrooted phone not running Lineage and using a modern Android version. (I tried my older unofficial lineage phones without root, and no dice.)

I opted for a good phone I could postmarket later, but gosh did it set me back almost 1/5 of my monthly salary.
by QuantumGood | 2026-01-09 18:07:34+00:00
As Wikipedia points out "Footage from three camera angles indicates Good’s vehicle is turning past and away from the agent, not accelerating toward him, when he fires three shots through the windshield, killing her as she drives by." Recently home doorbell video released also shows the same thing from a fourth angle.

There are several videos, so "the video" is unhelpful. The NYT breakdown of several videos, or the Reddit synchronization of several videos show he was NOT hit, and seem to show she backed up partly to avoid him walking in front of her car (after dropping her youngest of three children off at school, with her dog in the car, just after waving other cars around her.)
by nephihaha | 2026-01-09 18:07:41+00:00
Roma do have a supposed homeland in India and have been badly persecuted. There is an exceptionalism about Zionism. Many features can be found elsewhere. When I've seen Haredi in Israel, they look like Eastern Europeans to me in their mannerisms, dress (inappropriate for the heat) and even language. I personally think European Jews succeed better in the USA than Israel. Israel is under siege all the time. I have spent a few months in Israel. I left with a very different opinion.
by csours | 2026-01-09 18:08:12+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge

Well, I knew what I meant.

I tried to commit documentation to our source repository; I was told to upload it to the documentation site instead.

The documentation site that we've used for one year, subsequent to the previous documentation site the we used for 3 years, subsequent to the previous documentation site that we used for 5 years.

Following the trend, by the end of this year we will migrate documentation every 5 minutes, degrading every time.

At least source code can be migrated with fidelity. (The main branch anyway)

Who me? Bitter and scarred not at all!
by rmonvfer | 2026-01-09 18:08:55+00:00
Love this part

“It’s almost unbelievable that we entrust ourselves - squishy, sometimes hapless bags of water, meat, and bones - to navigate protocols of such profound complexity needed to safely take advantage of radioactive materials.”

Maybe it’s just me but I feel like that all the time, not specifically about radioactive stuff, but about other highly complex and regulated environments where a simple mistake can have catastrophic consequences. As an example, just look at how the aerospace industry operates, there are so many talented scientists and engineers working in every aspect and yet many incidents take place every year due to trivial human errors, from pilots misunderstanding something to technicians not tightening a bolt enough.

Of course it’s not like we can trust anything (anyone?) else other than other humans to do this stuff, but it blows my mind how easily we forget about it.
by DonHopkins | 2026-01-09 18:09:08+00:00
One of my favorite Facebook groups is "Slime Mold Identification & Appreciation", which has some spectacularly talented and prolific professional slime mold photographers posting to it. Including Barry Webb, the subject of this article, who is an "all star contributor" and posts frequently.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1510123272580859

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1510123272580859/user/100041...

And then there's this guy:

Harvesting, cooking and eating Dog Vomit Slime Mold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfbLSl_4o78
by tompritchard | 2026-01-09 18:09:08+00:00
Hi HN! I built `macos-messages`, a small Python library and CLI that makes it easy to read and search your macOS Messages.app history (iMessage, SMS, and RCS).

I've been experimenting lately with using coding agents to do more "life stuff", and a lot of what that's looked like has been making plain-text files on my filesystem and using CLIs to interact with them and the world. I wanted Claude to be able to do things like "find the name that restaurant that was in the neighborhood group chat", but the SQLite database on-disk is pretty inscrutable, so I built Claude a handy little tool that gives it read-only access to my Messages app!
by yevdduwi | 2026-01-09 18:09:38+00:00
Too many teams still build and ship based on intuition — then wonder why it didn’t convert.

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This isn’t another “AI text generator.” Vect AI is an Autonomous Conversion OS that helps founders, product teams, and growth engineers answer: What will actually convert?
It analyzes patterns, surfaces opportunities you’d miss, and connects real user intent signals to content, funnels, and features. If your goal isn’t casual likes but predictable revenue, this changes the playbook.

Ask how it works (models, APIs, examples, cost, integration), or share what you're trying to build — we’ll show you where Vect AI can save you weeks of guesswork.
by baxuz | 2026-01-09 18:09:56+00:00
That is true, and I'm also working in the industry.

We are currently in dire need of ZKP providers / abstractions that will aggregate both eIDs and tradition IDV (scans).

However it's extremely important that the technical capability is there. The next step is to build upon it, and I think that it's a great time for something like this due to all the horrible implementations of identity verifications currently available — that is 3rd party companies collecting scans of documents and biometrics.
by qwery | 2026-01-09 18:09:56+00:00
This sounds more negative than I want it to, but it seems like this is missing the forest for the trees. There's absolutely a real problem here and I am fully supportive of projects seeking to address this.

Governments around the world throw public money at private enterprise to solve all of their IT problems. This sounds good, I guess, to the Americans in the room. Until recently the US actually had a great number of "open source" projects -- NASA, NOAA, come to mind (the weather satellites are still going). Open projects, owned by the people -- this is the obviously correct way to do things. You can engage the business sector when it makes sense to do so, but a country shouldn't be run by -- be dependent on -- a Microsoft, or a PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Then they delete the production database and write the people a post mortem about how they'll improve for next time. Then they profit from war crimes that your government even quietly admits are a bad thing occasionally. Then they <if you aren't aware of the UK post office scandal, you should be>.

"Open source" isn't a solution. Free software would be a better look. But the entire world is completely dependent on IT systems and goverments don't employ enough software developers. Not "developers" to "refresh" the UI again, not Autodesk certified Call of Duty Black Ops 9 Micopilot Copilot 666 developers -- normal boring software developers -- public servants.

Make it dull. It's your people you're fucking with. Flashy app bad, boring UI good -- it's a tax return.

The thing that should be happening is serious public sector software development. By the people, for the people. Keep it in-house. I shouldn't have to say to keep it open. It belongs to the people.
by jedwhite | 2026-01-09 18:10:30+00:00
I know this will not appeal to developers who don’t see a legitimate role for the use of AI coding tools with nondeterministic output.

It is intended to be a useful complement to traditional Shell scripting, Python scripting etc. for people who want to add composable AI tooling to their automation pipelines.

I also find that it helps improve the reliability of AI in workflows when you can break down prompts into re-useable single-task-focused modules that leverage LLMs for tasks they are good at (format.md, summarize-logs.md, etc). These can then be chained with traditional Shell scripts and command line tools.

Examples are summarizing reports, formatting content. These become composable building blocks.

So I hope that is something that has practical utility even for users like yourself who don’t see a role for plain language prompting in automation per se.

In practice this is a way to add composable AI-based tooling into scripts.

Many people are concerned about (or outright opposed to) the use of AI coding tools. I get that this will not be useful for them. Many folks like myself find tools like Claude helpful, and this just makes it easier to use them in automation pipelines.
by j45 | 2026-01-09 18:10:32+00:00
It feels like the more standardized the organization, or the more academic the background of an author, the more lagging their insights from the tip of the arrow.

It's clear AI coding assistants are able to help software developers at least in some ways.

Having a non-software developer perspective speak about it is one thing, but it should be mindful that there are experienced folks too for whom the technology appears to be a jetpack.

Just because it didn't work for you, means there's more to learn.
by riffraff | 2026-01-09 18:10:49+00:00
the filters the Italian authorities complain about also only apply in italy.

It's likely a process thing, Italy has had website bans since forever, but the new regulation applies _without going through a judge_. Some copyright holders can say "this website is infringing" and ISPs, CDNs etc.. are required to shut them down immediately.

A similar system was introduced in Spain, with the same problems, for the same reason (football $$$).

EDIT: to be clear, CF argues that they need to block the DNS globally, and that's unreasonable. The Italian authority argues that they have the skills to do a local block and are just being uncooperative.
by synack | 2026-01-09 18:11:22+00:00
That was Intel Quark. It was too expensive for the “big microcontroller” use case and too power hungry for the “small Linux” use case.

The marketing was confusing, I’m not sure Intel even knew what it was for, except to show investors they had an IoT play.

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

I found some of these boards in a box last year and was unable to do anything with them… Intel has thoroughly erased all documentation and SDKs from the internet. If anyone has those artifacts, please push to archive.org
by BeetleB | 2026-01-09 18:11:35+00:00
Funny - in some ways I have the opposite. In my version:

The iPhone SE would be the one I use for calls, SMS, etc. It has the SIM card.

The Pixel 9a would be used for everything I don't need a data plan/SIM card (browsing etc).

My needs are a bit different from yours. I like to separate telephony and communication (i.e. WhatsApp, SMS) from everything else. This way, if I want quiet, I just turn that phone to airplane mode. I really don't want to get random pings while I'm doing "real" stuff on my phone.
by allturtles | 2026-01-09 18:11:45+00:00
> woman in the Missouri-plated Honda.

Why this fixation among conservatives on the out-of-state plates? Desire to pin unrest on "outside agitators" a la Ghorman? [1] In fact the woman lived in Minneapolis, if that matters to you for some reason. [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_(Andor)
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ren%C3%A9e_Good#Ren...
by toast0 | 2026-01-09 18:11:58+00:00
Having a friendly name listed in the From field is part of the problem. SPF, DKIM, and DMARC make it possible to control who can send as your domain, if the receiver cares to check. If you have strict SPF and DMARC rules, most receivers will drop or not accept emails that fail the rules. But you can't control using your brand from unaffiliated domains.

Would you even open an email from noreply@drummond.com if that's what showed up in the message list?

On mobile it's worse. Gmail (Android) doesn't even show the From address at all when you open an email. For some emails, I can tap the sender icon and see the address, for others I have to find the hit reply (but if DMARC et al doesn't validate a Reply-To address) or go find a computer and see the message there.
by exabrial | 2026-01-09 18:12:00+00:00
Your example proves otherwise:

5,000 seats x $200 price = $1,000,000 cash realized, right now, no debt financing needed for funding development, regardless if said dev shop leaves you.

5,000 seats x $4 = $20,000 month. That kinda pays the salary of a single FTE, and development ceases if customer runs away, only safe option would be to finance further development to insulate yourself from churn.
by Kerrick | 2026-01-09 18:12:46+00:00
I feel like I've been incredibly productive with AI assisted programming over the past few weeks, but it's hard to know what folks' baselines are. So in the interest of transparency, I pushed it all up to sourcehut and added Co-Authored-By footers to the AI-assisted commits (almost all of them).

Everything is out there to inspect, including the facts that I:

- was going 12-18 hours per day

- stayed up way too late some nights

- churned a lot (+91,034 -39,257 lines)

- made a lot of code (30,637 code lines, 11,072 comment lines, plus 4,997 lines of markdown)

- ended up with (IMO) pretty good quality Ruby (and unknown quality Rust).

This is all just from the first commit to v0.8.0. https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby/tree/v0.8.0

What do you think: is this fast, or am I just as silly as the live-streamer?

P.S. - I had an edge here because it was a green-field project and it was not for my job, so I had complete latitude to make decisions.
by ZeroConcerns | 2026-01-09 18:12:56+00:00
> Can this be fixed?

For popular senders: sort-of: in your incoming mail server, substring-match the display name of the sender against popular brands, and ensure the actual domain matches.

This works remarkably well for proper brands (FedEx et al), but breaks down when the brand name regularly occurs in "normal" names, the sending brand sends mail from all over the place, or "innocuous" impersonation takes place all the time.

Like, somehow, From: "VODAFONE" <shipping-update@dpd.co.uk> is a 100% legit sender (assuming SPF and DKIM verification pass), despite both Vodafone and DPD being pretty common impersonation targets. You'd think they'd know better, but alas.

So, yeah, room for improvement and such...
by undeveloper | 2026-01-09 18:13:02+00:00
Cool larp, but you know they were free to do otherwise, and frankly faced no penalty from the government for not doing so, not true of today. DEI, in its limited implementation, was in fact good for hiring and maintaining talent (shocker, leveling the playing field improves finding the best possible candidates) until it started becoming a target for "woke" and republicans. Lina Khan comes to mind, and went after large megacorps such as Microsoft and Meta, the former still has DEI programs to this day. "Please" shut the fuck up lmao
by sig-term | 2026-01-09 18:13:06+00:00
relatedly, my wife received polititexts destined to her conservative father. The latest was actually genius IMO, in that it stated "Dear STEVEN, due to inactivity, your registration will be changed to DEMOCRAT in 20 minutes unless you navigate to this link." It, I assume, redirected to some support page to donate to the US conservative party or its affiliates. The social engineering is getting more effective
by renewiltord | 2026-01-09 18:13:25+00:00
Italy is much more powerful than Cloudflare is. The only sensible thing for him to do is to rush to who will protect him. If the Italian authorities would protect him from capricious use of DNS blocking requests from La Liga he would rather go there but they won’t.

It’s an old story. You make a guy’s life hard and the next thing you know he’s working with your enemies even though he’d rather be free. He has no choice. He’s powerless on his own.