MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by greenavocado | 2026-01-30 14:57:12+00:00
> The federal gov disarmed a protestor and executed them on the street.

He was shot after disobeying lawful orders and the man who disarmed him possibly negligently discharged the victim's firearm while the other officers were wrestling him and the other officers didn't have the information that he was disarmed. This wasn't intentional, this was an accident. There is also another angle showing him kicking an ICE vehicle and breaking its tail light the week before. This is no bystander. It is delusional to believe that it is possible to deport millions of convicted criminal illegal aliens without an incident while thousands interfere with police operations as they deport criminals. The bills being passed are far more relevant to Americans' civil liberties.

More nuanced discussion:

"Did ICE Just Murder Someone For Carrying A Gun?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCiaqJvbW_A
by mothballed | 2026-01-30 14:57:25+00:00
I understand what they mean.

Taliban, the people at the top are acting in a calculated and rational manner. That is why the US overthrew the Taliban to be replaced by the Taliban. They're not morons, and they are not impulsive at least at a high level. They are cold and calculated and know how to use calculated violence and appeal to the populace. You may dislike this is the case but with Taliban I feel this is indisputable, despite numerous tactical blunders on their end.

Pretti looked more like a raging lunatic. He knew CBP/ICE were homicidal maniacs and the slightest thing will set them off. He knew that acting like that will be interpreted by them as a 'shot at the King.' His actions looked impulsive and ultimately threw his life away getting very little for what he traded. And he basically submitted his head for execution after letting himself be disarmed, and I'm left wondering -- what was the point?

No one wants to be like the guy swinging at tail lights and spitting like a toddler with a cosmetic accessory gun tucked in their waistband which they then surrendered and offered their head for execution -- and for what?

Malcom X and MLK both had their followings. People like Pretti, never will.
by westurner | 2026-01-30 14:57:33+00:00
From "Show HN: NPM install a WASM based Linux VM for your agents" re: https://github.com/deepclause/agentvm .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686346 :

>> How to run vscode-container-wasm-gcc-example with c2w, with joelseverin/linux-wasm?

> linux-wasm is apparently faster than c2w.

container2wasm issue #550:
https://github.com/container2wasm/container2wasm/issues/550#...

vscode-container-wasm-gcc-example :
https://github.com/ktock/vscode-container-wasm-gcc-example

Cloudflare Runners also run WASM; with workerd:

cloudflare/workerd :
https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd
by empath75 | 2026-01-30 14:57:33+00:00
What AI development has done for my team is the following:

Dramatically improved Jira usage -- better, more descriptive tickets with actionable user stories and clearly expressed requirements.
Dramatically improved github PRs.
Dramatically improved test coverage.
Dramatically improved documentation, not just in code but in comments.

Basically all _for free_, while at the same time probably doubling or tripling our pace at closing issues, including some issues in our backlog that had lingered for months because they were annoying and nobody felt like working on them, but were easy for claude to knock out.
by ModernMech | 2026-01-30 14:58:05+00:00
Of course, it could be no other way for a company that unleashed "FSD Beta" onto the streets and allowed all of us to be subjected to their bloody (literally) beta test. You don't get a safer future with "move fast and break things" mentality. Especially when the CEO is as illiterate as Musk about his own technology that he discount the results of actual experts in the field.

I mean, just look at the trail of headless corpses (there actually are multiple) left by Tesla during this beta test. Weren't we all here to witness a previous versions of the thing running straight through a cartoon wall? Of course this thing was always going to end in disappointment -- it's sucked its whole existence.

Tesla's technology is bunk, their entire FSD thesis of "vision only" has been a dismal failure, and it's actually going to tank the entire Tesla car brand. I've been saying this for a while and it looks like it's finally starting to happen: Tesla is going to exit the car business never having delivered FSD in any viable capacity (although he'll claim he has), and Musk will retarget his empire to running the same grift he did with FSD but with robots. Musk learned the bigger the promise, the more runway people give you to make it a reality. Spin a big enough yarn and Musk can live the rest of his life delivering nothing -- not Mars, not FSD, not AI, nada -- and people will still call him a genius.
by rodrigodlu | 2026-01-30 14:58:13+00:00
Well I do intend to use software to automate these interactions, because in my country whatsapp groups are unmanageable without this.

Imagine the group of parents of my kids schools sending 100 to 300 messages per day with different subjects.

The issue is. I also have personal and important chats that I don't want to share with an vibe coded AI software without any canaries taking the shot first.

And I'm talking as a person that is using almost all my Claude max subscription every week.

But I do verify ALL of the code that I'm delivering. And I'm even using Gemini as an adversarial LLM to review Claude generated code.

Does this that gigantic project set any standards for this?

I was not able to find on their documentation.

So it's funny indeed, but for now I'm upvoting this one even being a confident moderate person.

:)
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-01-30 14:58:30+00:00
I do take your point. But the point I’m trying to emphasize is that the brain isn’t like a hard drive that fills up. It’s a muscle that can potentially hold more.

I’m not sure if this is in the Wikipedia article, but when I last read about this, years ago, there seemed to be a link between Hyperthymesia and OCD. Brain scans suggested the key was in how these individuals organize the information in their brain, so that it’s easy for them retrieve.

Before the printing press was common, it was common for scholars to memorize entire books. I absolutely cannot do this. When technology made memorization less necessary, our memories shrank. Actually shrank, not merely changing what facts to focus on.

And to be clear, I would never advocate going back to the middle ages! But we did lose something.
by lynndotpy | 2026-01-30 14:58:32+00:00
This is very clearly a loaded question and not a good faith one. You are using the format of a question to express a rhetorical position. You can't just tack on "this is an honest question".

Your premise is incorrect. ICE's conduct is illegal, they are executing people in the streets and deporting US citizens. This is against the law. The majority of US citizens did not vote for Trumpin in 2024, and federal elections do not explicitly involve a vote on policy.

Further, people who are 30 now were 15 in 2010.
Show HN: CronPulse Community – Self-hosted job monitoring with alerts
by joeminichino | 2026-01-30 14:58:47+00:00
Scratching my own itch to get alerts when a job / task / service has failed and near real-time alerts are needed. You can self host it, you can use email or webhooks for alerts.
My motto for this little project is "just tell me when it breaks". I like to think of it as an anti-observability tool, good devs know where issues are anyway, but they do need to know when stuff has gone down. Hope it helps someone, this is probably the second time I publish an OSS project since LokiJS back in 2014.

Used VSCode / GH Copilot (Sonnet 4.5) for writing tests and some refactoring.
by dfxm12 | 2026-01-30 14:59:04+00:00
In addition to environmental concerns (including power and water usage) & noise pollution concerns, which are specific to data centers, localities are also against the tax breaks the owners of these data centers get. This bit isn't unique to the data centers, and we also saw similar pushback when details like this came out around Amazon warehouses. The fact is, the local communities don't reap the benefits from these despite the cost. Once built, they provide few, if any, jobs, little money goes back to the community, no new products or services are provided.
by SamiBuilds | 2026-01-30 14:59:08+00:00
We've been exploring tools that analyze API specs for semantic intent and catch risky or inconsistent logic before it reaches production.
The challenge you describe—decisions trapped in chat history—reminds me of how latent intent can create hidden security or logic gaps in APIs or systems. Curious how you handle multi-threaded context extraction when discussions span multiple sessions or tools?
by ghtbircshotbe | 2026-01-30 14:59:09+00:00
Ewan MacColl - The Blythesome Bridal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLCCYAPNuKU

There lads and lasses in pearlings
Will feast in the heart of the ha',
On sybows, and rifarts, and carlings,
That are baith sodden and raw.

And there will be fadges and brochan,
With fouth of good gabbocks of skate,
Powsowdy, and drammock, and crowdy,
And caller nowt-feet in a plate.
And there will be partans and buckies,
And whitens and speldings enew,
With singed sheep heads, and a haggies,
And scadlips to sup till ye spew.

And there will be lapper'd milk kebbocks,
And sowens, and farls, and baps,
With swats, and well scraped paunches,
And brandy in stoups and in caps:
And there will be meal-kail and castocks,
With skink to sup till ye rive,
And roasts to roast on a brander,
Of flukes that were taken alive.

Scrapt haddocks, wilks, dulse and tangle,
And a mill of good snishing to prie;
When weary with eating and drinking,
We'll rise up and dance till we die.
Then fy let us a' to the bridal,
For there will be lilting there;
For Jock's to be married to Maggie,
The lass wi' the gowden hair.
by ericyd | 2026-01-30 14:59:22+00:00
I used Nannou for several months, it's actually how I got into creative coding and was my first real foray into Rust. I didn't find the compilation time to be a huge issue for me, but I did find the strictness of Rust to be a problem. Creative coding for me evolved into making beautiful (to me) visual patterns with code. I had no interest in understanding or fixing a mutable shared value because this code was meant to exist for only a few moments, not to power an enterprise system.

I eventually moved on to OPENRNDR [1] which I loved, but these days I just use TypeScript.

[1] https://openrndr.org/
by ndriscoll | 2026-01-30 14:59:25+00:00
Your point doesn't make any sense. The only reason Apple's store can have "all" the apps is that they are a monopolist and take steps to disallow anyone from selling apps through any other channel, so there cannot possibly be multiple storefronts with different selections like their is in any other context.

On Android for example, Play Store does not have "all" apps, or even most apps that I have on my phone. Because Play Store has mostly garbage. It's a surprise to no one that Steam's storefront has a different selection from Amazon or Epic or GoG in the same way that no one is surprised that Walmart and Target carry different items.
by vlunkr | 2026-01-30 14:59:33+00:00
Sure, I didn’t say all old games are bad, we just have to be aware of nostalgia as a factor. It’s difficult for a game to match the ocarina of time for me, because I had simply never experienced something like that. As an adult I recognize that it is a good game, but also that someone who wasn’t there at the time isn’t going to see what I see in it.
by roflcopter69 | 2026-01-30 15:00:07+00:00
Yes I think there's still a lot of potential upside.

But check out this collaboration between Blender and Godot https://godotengine.org/showcase/dogwalk/ I could imagine that in the not too distant future we might really have a completely open tools stack for making up to AA games (minus console SDKs which always are under NDA I guess).
by al_borland | 2026-01-30 15:00:10+00:00
The only plan I’ve seen so far to start monetizing AI has been advertising based… nudge people toward buying products they are paid to push.

If Apple isn’t going to do that (which they absolutely should not), what is the plan? No one else has it figured out either.

If they can avoid spending $100B over some FOMO, maybe they don’t have to specifically monetize the AI, and it can be a value-add feature that comes be nature of buying Apple hardware, like so much of Apple’s stuff.

If they have a higher level AI offering, it could roll into their other premium services.
by bzzzt | 2026-01-30 15:00:11+00:00
> This is such a weird trope.

No, it isn't. Lots of non-trivial OSS desktop applications are clearly made by people with no interest in aligning with expected desktop GUI behavior. From Gimp with dozens of windows to LibreOffice which is slow and has bad font rendering. And those are the 'poster apps' for FOSS desktops, lots of apps are worse.
by 0xmattf | 2026-01-30 15:00:20+00:00
No worries! I would probably add the Greek text by default, and remove the hamburger icon from "Compare Translations". I don't know, my brain is trained to see that icon strictly as a site navigation item.

If you wanted to, perhaps at the top of the page, you can add <select> tags for the translations.

But after figuring out what everything was doing, it's a super nice project; I like it. Thank you for putting it together!
by pigpop | 2026-01-30 15:00:37+00:00
I don't see how this is possible with the use of the state or not. I mean, I can throw out some ridiculous sci-fi ideas like geo-engineering and megaprojects that give every region the perfect balance of temperate seasons, agricultural productivity and variety, access to functional and esthetically pleasing waterways and pastoral landscapes that would make them all equally attractive places for people to live but that's just the definition of a utopia that will never exist.

You're also just copping out by saying "the state should handle it", who and what do you think the state is? It may come as a surprise that it's just a bunch of people who are just as imperfect and limited in their abilities as the rest. They can't simply wave their hands and make everyone happy any more than saying "Microsoft should handle it" or "the Catholic Church should handle it".
by savolai | 2026-01-30 15:00:56+00:00
These are all products the ux direction of which is likely influenced more by corporate power dynamics. Sure, uxers are involved, the real power they have is a different question.

Everyone’s got their preferences, quality of ux is by definition subjective. That is what makes these discussions hard. Naming any examples will always have ”nah i don’t like that product” as counterpoint.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-30 15:01:24+00:00
You can't store an infinite amount of entropy in a finite amount of space outside of a singularity, well or at least attempting to do that will cause a singularity.

Compression/algorithms don't save you here either. The algorithm for pi is very short, pulling up any particular randomm digit of pi still requires the expenditure of some particular amount of entropy.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-01-30 15:01:27+00:00
The elected representation agreed to this, and a with a bit of imagination, you can list a few reasons for exercising an NDA before a vote:

- Avoid the large and well-funded network of professional activists in the US from sabotaging the property and injuring locals
- Avoid local political actors from spreading fear and misinformation just for the sake of grandstanding.
- Avoid activist attorneys and judges from across the country, some paid by competitors, to create endless frivolous legal obstacles

We need an acronym like NIMBY but when it’s obnoxious progressive hedge fund managers and tech-rich psychopaths who live in some toxic coastal city who don’t want it in your own back yard a thousand miles away.
by ericmay | 2026-01-30 15:01:53+00:00
You're right that cars aren't going away, and I don't think it's a serious goal.

The point about equilibrium you're not thinking through fully. If you'd have the 20 minute commute with no traffic and parking right in front of whoever you're going, everyone would do it and you'd just wind up with, well, not that.

But as transit* improves you are able to do more with less, and instead of spending insane amounts of money on 5-lane highways and McDonald's for all and the extractive economics that come with that, you can maintain your existing infrastructure and give folks who can't, shouldn't or would prefer to not drive the option to get to whoever they are going without doing so. That frees up the existing highway infrastructure a little bit, reduces costs across the board, and has a lot of other nice benefits.

You are effectively arguing against other transit methods and models because you'd rather sit in traffic, because without the introduction of alternatives that's what you are advocating for - again because everyone will be in the car and you'll never alleviate traffic and you'll never have a 20 minute commute with free and easy parking.

* We should move away from the "public transportation" frame of reference. Highways are public transportation too, fully funded by taxpayers (in general, it maybe be uniquely different in some countries) and are an entrenched lobbying group that justify projects at the expense of the public too.
by jerf | 2026-01-30 15:02:38+00:00
"Roguelites have proliferated"

I know it's easy to feel that this is people chasing trends, but I've really come to appreciate roguelites over many of the PS2 era games because they give me real progression in a single play session, but also, that single play session is discardable.

As an adult this is a very compelling proposition.

In the PS2 era, while you can find some early roguelite-like-things, you tended to have either the games that have no interesting progression (arcade-like) and the you would just play the game, or you had very long scale games like JRPGs that slowly trickle out the progression but are also multi-dozen-hour games. Compressing the progression into something that happens in a small number of hours, yet eliminates the "I'm 50 hours into this game that I stopped 2 years ago, do I want to pick it back up if I've forgotten everything?" has been very useful to me.

This has been a fairly significant change in gaming for me. I still have some investment into the higher end JRPGs but the "roguelite" pattern across all sorts of genres has been wonderful overall. I don't even think of it as a genre anymore; it's a design tool, like 'turn based versus real time'.
by LunicLynx | 2026-01-30 15:02:48+00:00
But this is more your feelings than actually factual.

I mean sure you can say that the timelines did slip a lot but that doesn’t really have anything to with the rest that is insinuated here.

I would argue a timeline slipping doesn’t mean you go about killing people and lie about it next. I would even go so far as to say that the timelines did slip to exactly avoid that.
by mbreese | 2026-01-30 15:03:04+00:00
That’s not quite the point. I’m a bit of an outlier, I don’t drive much daily, but make long trips fairly often. The point with focusing on 500,000 miles is that that should be enough of an observation period to be able to make some comparisons. The parent comment was making it seem like that was too low. Putting it into context of how much I’ve driven makes me think that 500,000 miles is enough to make a valid comparison.
by repelsteeltje | 2026-01-30 15:04:18+00:00
I skimmed the article and it feels like they're comparing apples (Visio) to oranges (MS teams, zoom). One begin a software product, the other being a service.

There's a fair amount of work to be done before the French infrastructure runs this service as reliably as current commercial offerings.

(Not saying it's undoable, but this isn't the drop in replacement the article seems to imply)
by cong-or | 2026-01-30 15:04:32+00:00
I built hud after getting burned by blocking in async Rust services during one too many 2am debugging sessions. Blocking on Tokio worker threads can quietly tank throughput and explode p99 latency, all without panics or anything obvious in the logs.

Most profiling tools technically work, but they expect you to reason clearly, correlate timelines, and keep a full mental model in your head. That’s fine at 2pm. At 2am, it’s hopeless. hud’s goal is to reduce cognitive load as much as possible: show something visual you can understand almost immediately.

The UI is modeled after a trans-Pacific night cockpit: dark, dense, and built to be readable when you’re exhausted.

Under the hood, hud uses eBPF to track scheduling latency—how long worker threads are runnable but not running. This correlates well with blocking (though it’s not a direct measurement). You can attach to a live process with no code changes and get a live TUI that highlights latency hotspots grouped by stack trace.

The usual suspects so far: std::fs, CPU-heavy crypto (bcrypt, argon2), compression (flate2, zstd), DNS via ToSocketAddrs, and mutexes held during expensive work.

Tokio-specific (worker threads identified by name). Linux 5.8+, root, and debug symbols required.

Very open to feedback—especially around false positives or flawed assumptions. Happy to answer questions.

https://github.com/cong-or/hud
by netsharc | 2026-01-30 15:04:49+00:00
I've been using Gemini to plan a vacation (boo, hiss), it's surprisingly useful. It can look up flights (from Google Flights) or hotels (from Maps), has info about busy weeks in the destination, etc..

I guess "agentic browsing" will mean the user being able to say "Note this item" and then a few pages later ask "How does the product on this tab compare to the one I asked you to note 5 minutes ago". Or just to jot down notes.

Of course doing things manually is also possible, but hey, we can also add numbers by hand, or we can open Excel (of course Excel doesn't hallucinate, or does Excel Copilot 365 offer that feature?).

Somehow Gemini seems to have a lot of "insider knowledge" that one could gleam by reading a lot of forums and YouTube videos... or one can put faith in it and hope it's not hallucinating (safer for things like trips than for healthcare, so says I as I board my flight to Iran...)
by jchw | 2026-01-30 15:04:50+00:00
I believe I have zero Alkaline batteries left in my house and I'm relatively surprised that pretty much everything works fine. If anything, I suspect the only problem is that some devices have an inaccurate account of how dead the batteries are. But I use Eneloops on everything, even things surely not designed at all to run on them. (And I reckon you could probably make more devices work if you really wanted to; adding an additional cell or two in series would surely give you a voltage that's in range, if you can figure out a good way to do it.)

Of course not all rechargable batteries are the same; there are a few different rechargable battery chemistries in the AA form factor. I like Eneloop Pros, though; they've been very reliable for me. I've been using them for years and I've never had to throw one out yet; supposedly they last over a thousand cycles with most of their capacity.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-30 15:05:09+00:00
Ah my bad. But also, if we’re comparing buildout of infrastructure to the construction of the American Railroad system, especially in the context of lawbreaking and general immoral and unethical behavior…

Point kind of proven, yeah? One more argument for the “return to the gilded age” debates.

Edit: you’re speaking kind of authoritatively on the subject though. Care to share some figures? The AI bubble is definitely measured in trillions in 2026 USD. Was the railroad buildout trillions of dollars?