MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-25 19:32:59+00:00
> People are unafraid of the government knowing certain things because they believe it will not have any real repercussions for them.

A very famous quote: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Many people - particularly white people, but let's not ignore that a bunch of Black and Latino folks are/have been Trump supporters - believe that they are part of the in-group. And inevitably, they find out that the government doesn't care, as evidenced by ICE and their infamous quota of 3000 arrests a day... which has hit a ton of these people, memefied as "leopards ate my face".

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/trump-ice-ar...
by salawat | 2026-01-25 19:33:43+00:00
Not quite. Religion, when taught properly, can serve as an innoculant against corrupt states, as it ingrains a kernel of understanding that man, and all his works are flawed, falling short of the perfection only attainable by the divine. There is always something higher worth maintaining loyalty toward. Like most things though, practicing that doesn't make you super popular with "leaders of worship" who wield their position in a human institutions as a tool to their own ends.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-01-25 19:33:59+00:00
> Meanwhile, if you all use two apps, everytime you want to check up on a friend you have to check two apps.

You just have to check the one they use. Also, both of the apps would support notifications when something has happened in that app.

> But what if they don’t like it that much?

There is no real advantage of WhatsApp over Signal except that some people are already using it, and a significant privacy disadvantage. Once someone already has Signal then the advantage of WhatsApp is gone and only the disadvantage remains.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-01-25 19:34:32+00:00
It's not that bad, I pay 8.60€ per month for 30GB, and they also threw in a cheap Android Phone in the 12 Month Contract.

Also Switzerland being included is at least for me a nice perk that O2/Vodafone don't offer.
But compared to other European Countries offerings it's obviously shit.

Also Fraenk is even cheaper than Congstar
by lambda | 2026-01-25 19:34:53+00:00
> although we get the very occasional complaint about wanting a dev environment that works offline

It's only occasional because the people who care about dev environments that work offline are most likely to just skip you and move on.

For actual developer experience, as well as a number of use cases like customers with security and privacy concerns, being able to host locally is essential.

Fair enough if you don't care about those segments of the market, but don't confuse a small number of people asking about it with a small number of people wanting it.
by tadfisher | 2026-01-25 19:34:53+00:00
Going back a bit further:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment%2C...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade

This fact pattern (reimplementing API functions for emulation or interoperability) tracks even more closely with the Connectix case than Oracle. Google reimplemented a huge swath of the Java API surface so developers could reuse libraries, but actual applications still needed porting, so there's less protection from a fair use perspective; and even then copying APIs was still ruled to be fair use.

I just don't see how Microsoft could contort the facts to achieve a meaningfully different outcome. It doesn't matter if APIs are copyrightable if copying them is fair use for just about any purpose.
by EngineerUSA | 2026-01-25 19:35:56+00:00
Palantir is interesting. Founded by a closeted German, run by an Israeli operative, and a 3rd arm of the federal gov. I wish we could prosecute it in my lifetime for the numerous violations of privacy it undertakes, but the world does not work that way. The rich enjoy private jets subsidized by our hard-earned taxes, while violating ideals held by our Founding fathers (for what would Thiel or the current CEO know about our morals, when they have none and are American by name only.. their loyalties lie elsewhere)
by WheelsAtLarge | 2026-01-25 19:35:57+00:00
A new definition of object oriented software should be around the corner. Imagine having a few thousand objects that fit together but need AI tweeking for the system to work. Imagine people puting the blocks in place and have LLMs glue them together. We will have bug free software in no time. We will go from script type code to full custom OSes in days. It's bound to happen.
by djoldman | 2026-01-25 19:36:06+00:00
> Medical AI: In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton—the “father of modern AI”—predicted that radiologists would be replaced within five years. We are now a decade past that prediction, and radiologists are as essential as ever.

This one is instructive. State of the art radiology image classification models match or exceed the performance of expert human radiologists.

But radiologists haven't been replaced... why?

The simplest answer is that classifying images is not all a radiologist does, and therefore cannot be replaced completely by a computer.

Radiologists serve as the human-in-the-loop to blame if something goes wrong. Also, there are myriad regulations in healthcare that slow or prevent the adoption of tools like this: FDA regs on medical devices, insurance stuff, professional associations, etc.

Like much of the tech world, the problem often isn't the tech, it's the context.
by lizknope | 2026-01-25 19:36:12+00:00
I've been doing this for 30 years.

Blocks are never 100% full. If it was then you would never be able to route the design. High utilization may be 70% but if a block has tons of IO then I've worked on blocks that are only 25% utilized. For various manufacturing and yield purposes the empty spaces need filler cells.

Sometimes we put in decoupling cap cells. But the ecofiller cells go in everywhere else.

About 25 years ago we were using spare gates that we had preplaced on the die.

About 5 years ago we started using spare gates preplaced and ALSO the ecofiller cells. The reason I was told was to save money because the ecofiller cells require some other mask layer to change. I think that was in the $500K range but it's still money.

In general I hate doing ECO's with the preplaced spare gates as it is manual and time consuming to find the best cells to use.
by armadyl | 2026-01-25 19:36:20+00:00
> No Aux port, no usb. Slow phone with slow animations. But maybe this is fixed, its been 10 years.

It has been 10 years and none of this is true today, also the average person doesn’t care about an aux port.

> Solid no here. Being able to install stuff from fdroid is amazing.

Not sure if you’re serious here, the app selection is far better on the App Store (and also Google Play Store) due to the nature of not being restricted to purely FOSS apps.

> You forgot to mention how poor iPhone security is.

Citation needed, iOS has the second best mobile security and is at worst equivalent to stock Android. The only OS that surpasses iOS by a large amount is GrapheneOS.

> People have died due to Apple's poor security.

This could also be said for any other OS/maker? Nothing is 100% secure/private.
by tasty_freeze | 2026-01-25 19:36:24+00:00
Musk and his flying monkeys came in with hard drives and sucked up all the data from all the agencies they had access to and installed software of some kind, likely containing backdoors. Even though each agency had remit for the data it maintained, they had been intentionally firewalled to prevent exactly what Palantir is doing.

There is also a world of difference between a government using data to carry out its various roles in service of the nation and a government using data to terrorize communities for the sadistic whims of its leadership.

Think I'm being hyperbolic? In Trump's first term fewer than 1M were deported. In Obama's eight years as president, 3.1M people were deported without the "techniques" we are witnessing.
by mcphage | 2026-01-25 19:36:34+00:00
Their plan is failing because their popularity numbers are dropping constantly, and they are convincing people to get out and organize and protest. Like, do you actually see any successes here? They’ve managed to turn “Abolish ICE” from a fringe left wing opinion, to the mainstream centrist position.

Like, I get that they’re doing this big show of force. But they’re losing. They are not accomplishing any of their goals, and the longer this goes on, the more the population is turning against them, and the less and less they will be able to accomplish their goals anywhere. Minnesota is not afraid of them, and they’re teaching the rest of the country not to fear them either.
by sosomoxie | 2026-01-25 19:38:12+00:00
The US is not like many countries in that it was formed by illegal immigrants, and not just immigration, literal genocide and land theft of the indigenous people.

That being said, all immigration policy is out of date. The world is connected now and the policies are an anachronism.

> How could a massive influx of people happening faster than a system can react

I don't agree that this is reality. Our system is not under strain from immigration. It's under strain because we spend our money on the military instead of improving infrastructure. It's also under strain due to wealth inequality and corporate friendly policy. None of which has anything to do with immigration.
by alecco | 2026-01-25 19:38:25+00:00
You're saying EU is any different to USA?

Palantir clients: Europol, Danish POL-INTEL, NHS UK, UK Ministry of Defence, German Police (states), NATO, Ukraine, ASML, Siemens, Airbus, Credit Suisse, UBS, BP, Merck, ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Customer...

https://www.palantir.com/partners/international/
by assaddayinh | 2026-01-25 19:38:33+00:00
Speed limits are biology and physics derived. The eye has a max speed, over which it starts to rewrite the history of what you saw. Everytime you have been "frozzen in fear" the first few milliseconds are just the eye rewriting the logs.

So you take that the saccade speed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade) + speed of visual buffer reaction + reasonable time to break and you get a max speed for that.

Same goes when you have two points of attention, like traffic in front of you and merging traffic, the speed gets reduced to compensate.
by VivaTechnics | 2026-01-25 19:38:37+00:00
OPINION:

This will only compound wasted time on Claude.ai, which exploits that time to train its own models.

Why time wasted?
Claude’s accuracy for shell, Bash, regex, Perl, text manipulation/scripting/processing, and system-level code is effectively negligible (~5%). Such code is scarce in public repositories. For swarms or agents to function, accuracy must exceed 96%. At 5%, it is unusable.

We do also use Claude.ai and we believe it is useful, but strictly for trivial, typing-level tasks. Anything beyond that, at this current point, is a liability.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-01-25 19:39:42+00:00
But your examples are markedly different to me. Yes, those examples do put the onus on the individual to ensure there are no schools around or that an individual is of legal age, but those are at least discoverable things - school locations are public info, and I think for any adult it's not that difficult to steer clear of anyone who looks mildly close to underage.

But in this instance, the movements of ICE are specifically hidden by the government - heck, they've even threatened to prosecute people who publish this information!! It is the literal definition of a Catch-22.
by chrisjj | 2026-01-25 19:40:47+00:00
> One of the most divisive technical, and work-related topics of our current times, is the rift between people who wholeheartedly believe in AI and it's application to optimization, efficiency, and growth versus the people that are maintaining strong, and consistent levels of scepticism.

This word skepticism grossly understates the concerns of the opposition, the most significant of which is not that "AI" wont benefit, but that it will harm.
by yoyohello13 | 2026-01-25 19:41:32+00:00
I agree wholeheartedly. Religion, practiced as designed, is extremely positive in my experience. I think the issue is that religion is and has been abused throughout history. I’m really not sure how to deal with this issue though. It seems the Abrahamic religion are quite vulnerable to this kind of abuse, likely because a core part of the doctrine is submission to authority.

I’ve never seen a Buddhist led genocide for instance, and I think a big part of that is the emphasis on looking inward for answers instead of outward.
by sidrag22 | 2026-01-25 19:41:33+00:00
ya idk, structure screams AI and its a generic take, but i see no reason to assume anything beyond AI assistance especially in regards to the styling.

Personally I'd avoid a 2nd to last topic anywhere near resembling "reality check" into a clearly marked "final thoughts"... Even if i followed that sorta structure i would avoid # Reality Check style formatting simply because of the implication it gives off.

pretty much im hesitant to dismiss something as AI just because of bullet points.
by steveBK123 | 2026-01-25 19:41:58+00:00
This is the sort of federal policing force the libertarian right always conspiracy mongers about, and now that they are the ones in power its good, actually.

The language being used by the president to describe immigrants is on par with how the enemy was talked about during the war on terror. ICE has been told they are immune from prosecution, and the recruitment videos are basically white nationalist cosplay.

Now they are being surged, masked, poorly uniformed, poorly trained into US cities, as if they were Fallujah.

All that happens afterwards is inevitable.
by realusername | 2026-01-25 19:42:16+00:00
PostmarketOS doesn't use the Android codebase, they work on upstreaming devices with a standard Linux kernel, so the opposite. They act mostly the same way as a desktop distribution. They do use the downstream image but mostly as a reference to remove it.

Ubuntu Touch does use the Android vendor images though through the libhybris compatibility layer, that's why they have some good compatibility, if the phone has a lineageos image, there's a good chance that it'll work with Ubuntu Touch.

The downside of that is the same as Lineageos, they are stuck on whatever kernel the device shipped with.
by tjohnell | 2026-01-25 19:42:22+00:00
Thanks rdslw. I mentioned something similar on my blog post about this app here:
https://tomjohnell.com/posturr-a-macos-app-that-blurs-your-s...

I love coming up with fun ideas and only having to worry about the fun part - not the toil. I would never have made this app without llm support.
by zahlman | 2026-01-25 19:42:44+00:00
Neat analysis.

Although noticing the repeated pattern of a multiple of 9 in the fraction 0.16327272727272726 naturally suggests multiplying by 11, and then we get the much simpler value 1.796, at which point it's much easier to continue. I wouldn't have broken out a general analysis method for this, although it's neat to know that they exist.
by eastbound | 2026-01-25 19:43:25+00:00
Laptop work is clearly not OSHA-compliant. I’m in France so it’s probably regulated a little bit more, but having a screen at eye height and a keyboard slightly under elbow height is the first line on the security analysis document (le DUERP), at least for tertiary workers. And far above “Floor must be non-slippery” and “The right to disconnect after 6pm”.
by apaprocki | 2026-01-25 19:44:08+00:00
Completely possible. In the early 90s everyone was buying SGI Indys to run Apache on and put the cool “Powered by SGI” badge on their site. I admin’d a local ISP then and that Indy was on my desk and IRIX was my daily driver. Their UI just felt leagues beyond other commercial Unices of the time, so rather than being plausible, I’d expect it due to the lab/science/dataviz aspect.

edit: Just last night a friend was watching MiB and Tommy Lee Jones looks at a Motif UI. It was obviously SGI but it was IRIS ViewKit and not the later Interactive Development Environment. Narrowed down likely creator being Van Ling from Banned From The Ranch Entertainment. If you’re out there…
by RajT88 | 2026-01-25 19:44:32+00:00
> There’s a toxic idea built into this statement: It implies that the real root cause is external to the people and therefore the solution must be a systemic change.

It's both obviously. To address the human cause, you have to call out the issues and put at risk the person's career by damaging their reputation. That's what this article is doing. You can't fix a person, but you can address their bad behavior in this way by creating consequences for the bad things.

Part of the root cause definitely is the friction aspect. The system is designed to make the bad thing easier, and when designing a system you need the good outcomes to be lower friction.

> This hits a nerve for me because I’ve seen this specific mindset used to avoid removing obviously problematic people, instead always searching for a “root cause” that required us all to ignore the obvious human choices at the center of the problem.

The real conversations like that take place in places where there's no recordings, or anything left in writing. Don't assume they aren't taking place, or that they go how you think they go.
by UncleEntity | 2026-01-25 19:44:32+00:00
>> Also note, i.e. stuff like statutory rape has been upheld even in cases where the perpetrator in all good faith thought the victim was 18+, the victim initiated selling the services, and the victim provided fake ID showing they were 18+.

You had me up to the "selling the services" part.

If you are 'engaging' with someone in a criminal enterprise it's probably reasonable to assume they might misrepresent certain facts to make the sale.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-25 19:45:44+00:00
I was responding to the statement from the article that it had explicitly banned anything to do with race, ancestry, or ethnicity. I have not read the full policy.

> To put it simply, how do we get samples from marginalised groups if we plan to allow to use that data for them to be marginalised?

You said in your previous comment above that these categories aren't useful anyway, which brings up some questions:

1. If that is the NIH's opinion, then why did they label the data with those categories?

2. If these categories are actually not useful, then why should I care if the dataset isn't balanced between members of those categories?

> But the article is also about groups engaging in academic dishonesty to bypass NIH policy. It really makes me question their motives and that they aren't simply scientists seeking truth.

To the contrary, I consider any such restriction on the topic of research to be fundamentally unscientific and I mistrust any scientist who feels an ethical obligation to comply with such political censorship.
by YokoZar | 2026-01-25 19:46:10+00:00
In general free open-source Wine has been developed with the philosophy of of not allowing application-specific code. Crossover (and presumably Photon), however, allows such patches for supported applications.

Patches can be motivated by specific apps, of course, but generally the requirement is to complete the patch implementing/fixing some API in a generic way, proven by additions to the test suite showing the same behavior on Windows.
by uejfiweun | 2026-01-25 19:47:11+00:00
This was my issue with platforms like Sentry. Turns out, in a decently used prod web app with a lot of dependencies, there's a lot of noise. After spending hours trying to debug some of these only to conclude that they were not debuggable, I ended up kind of letting the Sentry reports fade into the background, and eventually I turned it off entirely to reduce payload sizes.
Show HN: Bookface – Modern TypeScript wrapper and MCP for Meta APIs
by anonyonoor | 2026-01-25 19:47:13+00:00
Hi HN,

This is Bookface — a TypeScript wrapper for Meta's developer services, born from frustration at Meta's lack of easy developer integration.

The current API libraries you'll find for Meta's products are either very limited (and use hacky browser simulation) or unacceptably old/unmaintained. This is a library that aims to:

Interact with Meta's developer services the way Meta intended, although with way more ease.

Support all of Meta's platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, etc.).

Be consistently updated with Meta's latest API changes.

Overall, make things faster for people trying to use Meta services.

For background, I've been working on this library on and off for about a year and a half, slowly adding features as I needed them. I originally created this library for another project when I was seventeen. Two years later, I have been putting off release for too long, and this library desperately needs other experienced hands.

The reason for this post is to get some urgent feedback on what syntax feels good and what doesn't; to test that what's currently added is working as intended (I am the only tester); and, crucially, to find other maintainers. I want this to be a long-term project, and maintainers would help smooth out the rough edges of my mistakes and hopefully keep this project going for a while.

I should note that this is sort of a preliminary release post since this library is still in its very early stages (lacking features), and I'm really just looking to get things into motion. Please check it out!

https://facebook-js-sdk.vercel.app/

(The current, early-stage website. I’m working on getting a better domain.)
(Also forgive the name discrepancy with the website and repo — the name is still up in the air and I'm open to suggestions.
by asveikau | 2026-01-25 19:47:31+00:00
> Let’s see your immigrant crime stats.

https://www.google.com/search?q=immigrants+less+likely+to+co...

> Crime is at an all time low because liberal DAs

If you take out the outlier years of 2020-2022 caused by the pandemic, crime has been declining for more than 30 years. I don't know what kind of conspiracy theories about "liberal DAs" you're on about, this only became a talking point about 6 years ago, and wouldn't explain why crime dropped for multiple decades starting in the mid 1990s. The trend is also not restricted to areas with "liberal DAs".