MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ozim | 2026-01-16 12:44:03+00:00
Not fun part is that the longer you stay at your home comfort zone the bigger social anxiety grows.

Other annoying parts are if you fight off anxiety and do go out you most likely will run into minor inconvenience like some Karen honking on you or making a fuss in front of you when you’re waiting in line. Minor inconvenience like that refuels social anxiety.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-16 12:45:38+00:00
The “#1.5,” is that we have often developed “loneliness-inducing habits,” that need to be broken. We don’t necessarily have any real “issues,” other than we’ve just gotten used to “hanging out with ourselves.”

Breaking habits isn’t easy. It’s nearly impossible, if we have a compulsive disorder, but, then, we’d be #2.

The key to anything is willingness. If we don’t actually want to do something, then it ain’t happening.

But there’s a hell of a lot more #2, than folks are willing to admit.
by ipsento606 | 2026-01-16 12:45:58+00:00
The problem with the housing issue is that real solutions to it are extremely unpopular, even amount people who agree with the scale and intensity of the problem.

The regular voting public doesn't even agree that there's a connection between increasing the supply of housing and housing becoming more affordable.

Their position is, roughly, "there's plenty of housing already - it just needs to be more affordable for regular people". Sometimes this even manifests in support for self-defeating demand subsidies like help-to-buy schemes for new homeowners

This is a position that can never be satisfied because it is fundamentally disconnected from reality. It is equivalent to the meme of the dog with the stick in its mouth who wants you to throw the stick for them, but not take the stick from them.
by 9cb14c1ec0 | 2026-01-16 12:46:19+00:00
There is a big waiting list for fab tools. You can't just spin that up out of nowhere. Modern chip fabs are the most complex things ever created, and till you spun up your own fab, supply and demand will have balanced out.

Also, how is nationalizing something pro-competition? Nationalized companies have a history of using their government connections to squash competition.
by gosub100 | 2026-01-16 12:46:30+00:00
I was hopeful a few years ago when I heard of chia coin, that it would allow distributed internet storage for a price.

Users upload their encrypted data to miners, along with a negotiated fee for a duration of storage, say 90d. They take specific hashes of the complete data, and some randomized sub hashes, of internal chunks. Periodically an agent requests these chunks, hashes and rewards a fraction of the payment of the hash is correct.

That's a basic sketch, more details would have to be settled. But "miners" would be free to delete data if payment was no longer available on a chain. Or additionally, they could be paid by downloaders instead of uploaders for hoarding more obscure chunks that aren't widely available.
by blenderob | 2026-01-16 12:47:31+00:00
Thanks!

I checked that link. That setting says -

"Show Copilot

Enable Copilot for all GitHub features, including navigation bar, search, and dashboard.

When disabled, Copilot will be hidden and unavailable. This setting does not apply to Copilot search on GitHub Docs."

Does this disable PR code reviews too? The setting description doesn't say anything about PR reviews. If it does disable Copilot PR review comments, which repos does it affect? It cannot disable PR reviews for my PRs on other people's repos, can it?

Anyway thanks for your answer. Much appreciated.
by acdha | 2026-01-16 12:47:33+00:00
Sexist attacks and lying about an imaginary sex-for-reviews scandal didn’t put a spotlight on anything. It wouldn’t excuse their actions even if they had been doing some real ethics work, but they weren’t even showing up to do productive work.

One reason why everyone who actually cared about those issues opposed GamerGate was because it distracted attention from non-imaginary problems and meant that anyone talking about journalistic ethics had to spend time proving they were acting in good faith rather than being part of the hateful mob.
by nephihaha | 2026-01-16 12:47:57+00:00
They have a bee in their bonnet about pseudoscience and paranormal subject matter. It has never dawned on some of them that you can take an interest in a subject without believing it, or endorsing it. As I said elsewhere, hoaxers and fraudsters are interesting figures in their own right.

With something like remote viewing, it is undeniable that the USA, USSR and PRC all conducted research into it during the Cold War, which is documented. Someone might be more interested in that fact than getting a "Here be dragons" warning.
by laffOr | 2026-01-16 12:48:48+00:00
Not German so I can only talk about how it is going in another country:

- Massive change in the average household size: way fewer people live together now (delayed couple & family formation, divorce, etc.). If you go from 4 people per household to 2 people per household, now you need twice as many homes.

- Massive internal migration: declining population in a lot of rural areas and increasing in cities & their suburbs. So lot of empty houses and super cheap houses in Dumbfuck, Nowhere but scarce & expensive homes where people want to live.
by zarzavat | 2026-01-16 12:49:32+00:00
I find both are useful.

Claude is my loyal assistant who tries its best to do what I tell it to.

GPT-5 is the egotistical coworker who loves to argue and point out what I'm doing wrong. Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's confidently wrong. It's useful to be told I'm wrong even when I'm not. But I'm not letting it modify my code, it can look but not touch.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-16 12:50:56+00:00
> aims to remove: Most AI features, Copilot, Shopping features, ...

I grew up on DOS, and my first browser was IE3. My first tech book as a kid was for HTML[1], and I was in absolute awe at what you could make with all the tags, especially interactive form controls.

I remember Firefox being revolutionary for simply having tabs. Every time a new Visual Basic (starting with DOS) release came out, I was excited at the new standardized UI controls we had available.

I remember when Tweetie for iPhone OS came out and invented pull-down refresh that literally every app and mobile OS uses now.

Are those days permanently gone? The days when actual UI/UX innovation was a thing?

[1] Can someone help me find this book? I've been looking for years. It used the Mosaic browser.
by dv_dt | 2026-01-16 12:51:27+00:00
IMHO the key problems is new building is not targeted to the affordable market and easier to build areas with access to jobs of good economic income are not really open any longer. The established land markets are more expensive because literal "green field" expansion of new cities is not very common, and no longer available in quantity. The cost to build are further increased because the higher end market demands more amenities and developers almost always target the highest market available.

Note: I have a personal theory that one way China was able to perform at this it's current stage of growth, was because it was expanding a lot of first generation real estate development to new areas. It will be very interesting to see if they are able to maintain low housing costs going forward into the next couple decades.

There are dubious claims that the lower end market will be served by aged-out high end market housing and that's simply not the case. It ignores that housing stock ages out of usability - and remodeling is often more expensive to work on than the initial builds. Once you remodel them, they occupied at the high end, then they never free up or go down in rent for other portions of the market.
by incomingpain | 2026-01-16 12:51:35+00:00
>Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies encourage cooperation and stability, while also adapting to changing circumstances.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/12/04/public-trust...

In the 1960s, trust in institutions was around 70%.

In 2025 it's about 17%.

This is not something like we had 70% until 2023 and then AI dropped our trust suddenly. If anything, AI doesnt even register on the graph.

So correlation here is practically non-existent. Gallup and Pew have the similar trends for journalists and universities.

You dont get to blame AI for this.

Interesting bump and question. How did clinton improve reputation and then bush destroy it? Or is that a false hump?
by ben_w | 2026-01-16 12:51:57+00:00
> So is the growth of housing stock lower than the population growth?

National averages can hide a lot of local issues. I'm in Berlin right now, I'm told by locals that it's lost the reputation it used to have for "cheap" housing. Meanwhile, if you're willing to look at 115 year old places in the arse end of nowhere: https://www.immobilienscout24.de/expose/165084645?referrer=H... or https://www.immobilienscout24.de/expose/164269182?referrer=H...
by BenjiWiebe | 2026-01-16 12:52:25+00:00
...I should write a blog.

I live on a small dairy farm. We milk the cows, make cheese, raise most of the forage for the cows, do our own plumbing, electrical, and the majority of the mechanical repairs. We do most of the repairs ourselves on our milking robot.

Sometimes it's hard to remember I have such an amazing opportunity to do a little bit of everything.
by hoherd | 2026-01-16 12:52:42+00:00
> We should be more worried what AI will due to the ability of an average human to think.

I had a wake up call on this yesterday. After a recent HN thread about Zed editor, I decided to give it another try, so I loaded it up, disabled AI, and tried writing some code from scratch. No AI completion, no intellisence. Two things came to mind. First, my editor seems so much more peaceful without being told what to do. Second, it was a bit scary how lost I felt. It was obvious that my own ability to communicate through code had declined a bit since I began using AI coding assistants. It turns out that as expected, coding assistants really are competitive cognitive artifacts. After that experience, I've decided that I am going to do at least part of my coding with all completions turned off. Unfortunately at work you are paid to produce quickly, so I think my AI free editor will have to be reserved for personal projects.

Further related to your statement about thought, the hallucinations persist, and even last night I got a response about 80's pop culture that was over 50% bullshit. Just imagine what intentional persuasion through LLM models will do to society. Independent thought has never been more important.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2026-01-16 12:52:53+00:00
I suspect part of it is that the housing being built now is both bigger and better than that built in the 60s and 70s. Think of what cars were like then versus now. The other might be the availability of land. Another factor is how housing has changed from being more of a commodity item back then (its a place to live) to an investment vehicle (its a thing you own and make return from). These trends are not specific to Germany, but would apply to many developed countries worldwide.
by upofadown | 2026-01-16 12:54:11+00:00
This seems like a fairly reasonable assumption for the Briar case. An adversary would have to get a user accept a Briar link in error. Contrast with things like Signal[1] that base their trust on phone numbers.

Note that Briar groups are controlled by one moderator. Other participants of the group can not add members. Note also that Briar has the concept of introductions. So it is easy to avoid making the sort of identity errors commonly made by other schemes.

[1] https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=em:sg
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-16 12:54:41+00:00
> There is no precedent for this. The executive lacks the authority. It would require Congress to enact a law,

Does this actually matter in practice? It seems like the administration has done a bunch of things that normally requires Congress to do something, yet they were able to and I don't see anyone getting arrested. The executive have lacked the authority for lots of things, yet it doesn't seem to stop them.

I'm not saying you're wrong, in theory. But in practice it seems like those things aren't actually stopping anyone, at least not yet.
by password54321 | 2026-01-16 12:55:15+00:00
I was reading an interview with Peter Thiel and he put it pretty well even if you don't like Trump:

>The Trump administration is trying to pull off an extremely difficult thing, because the red pill is that America is no longer a great country. But you have to make sure it doesn’t become a gateway drug to a black pill, where you become nihilistic and give up and you’re destined to eat too many doughnuts in a trailer park.

>...we don’t want to just get blackpilled from that. And then the question is: where are the places that you have some agency to get out of this straitjacket?

I have been nihilistic in the past but took action where I could in life and accepted the reality that you aren't going to solve the world's problems but you have to look at the places where you can have agency and focus on that. Thinking more like this improved my life a lot but it can be easy to engage in doomerism online as it has become its own form of entertainment.
by tannhaeuser | 2026-01-16 12:57:17+00:00
> Opus 4.5 is really good at Prolog

Anything you'd like to share? I did some research within the realm of classic robotic-like planning ([1]) and the results were impressive with local LLMs already a year ago, to the point that obtaining textual descriptions for complex enough problems became the bottleneck, suggesting that prompting is of limited use when you could describe the problem in Prolog concisely and directly already, given Prolog's NLP roots and one-to-one mapping of simple English sentences. Hence that report isn't updated to GLM 4.7, Claude whatever, or other "frontier" models yet.

[1]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/llm-demo/part1.html
by holri | 2026-01-16 12:57:34+00:00
A relevant talk from 39C3 Congress regarding Russia:

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-coding-dissent-art-technology-an...

Coding Dissent: Art, Technology, and Tactical Media

This presentation examines artistic practices that engage with sociotechnical systems through tactical interventions. The talk proposes art as a form of infrastructural critique and counter-technology. It also introduces a forthcoming HackLab designed to foster collaborative development of open-source tools addressing digital authoritarianism, surveillance capitalism, propaganda infrastructures, and ideological warfare.

In this talk, media artist and curator Helena Nikonole presents her work at the intersection of art, activism, and tactical technology — including interventions into surveillance systems, wearable mesh networks for off-grid communication, and AI-generated propaganda sabotage.

Featuring projects like Antiwar AI, the 868labs initiative, and the curatorial project Digital Resistance, the talk explores how art can do more than just comment on sociotechnical systems — it can interfere, infiltrate, and subvert them.

This is about prototypes as politics, networked interventions as civil disobedience, and media hacks as tools of strategic refusal. The talk asks: what happens when art stops decorating crisis and starts debugging it?

The talk will also introduce an upcoming HackLab initiative — a collaboration-in-progress that brings together artists, hackers, and activists to develop open-source tools for disruption, resilience, and collective agency — and invites potential collaborators to get involved.
by ogogmad | 2026-01-16 12:57:48+00:00
I just found out that there's a 1D cellular automaton called Rule 54 that is conjectured to be Turing complete, but for which there isn't yet a proof.

I think Gemini (an LLM) and me are in agreement that the proof will likely be found by a neuro-symbolic AI. As evidence for this, see AlphaEvolve and the agents which received IMO Gold.
by maccard | 2026-01-16 12:58:14+00:00
I can't speak for CUE, but I've worked with CI and "build orchestration tools"in the past. Most CI providers provide executor APIs that let you override it as a plugin. One example is https://buildkite.com/resources/plugins/buildkite-plugins/do... - you mark this as "this is using docker" and configure it in the environment, and then you provide the command. You need to be very careful about the design of the plugin, but I've done it a few times and it's viable.
Show HN: mdto.page – Turn Markdown into a shareable webpage instantly
by hjinco | 2026-01-16 12:58:40+00:00
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by alistairSH | 2026-01-16 12:58:57+00:00
I wish I understood how people arrived at this state in the first place…

My parents are retired boomers who’ve lived in the same area for decades. This has afforded them a strong local fried network, despite being an ocean away from their homeland and extended families. Mom and her friends have a weekly gathering to chat and have tea/cake.

My wife and I likewise have a geoup of local friends. We get together quarterly or so for a group dinner. The wives usually organize that. Most of the guys are cat enthusiasts and/or cyclists so we see each many weekends.

Is this mostly a Millenial thing? Is there a whole generation that for whatever reason never found hobbies outside work?
by nalathna | 2026-01-16 12:59:47+00:00
My daily small annoyance is that when my work laptop goes to sleep, it doesn't shut off primary and secondary displays at the same time and moves all my windows onto one monitor. Which monitor seems totally random, so I'm perpetually moving windows back to one screen or the other. And it doesn't respect my sleep settings if I put up the lock screen, instead almost immediately turns the monitors off.
by ajb | 2026-01-16 12:59:48+00:00
Is that the right threat model, though?

Governments usually switch off the internet when they have a risk of being overthrown. Thats' why it's happening in Iran. They want to disrupt the co-ordination of a coup, and their opponents only need to win in the short term after which it doesn't matter. In the US, the threat is censorship and tracking- suppression over the long term. Mesh networks are not great for that,because if you run a mesh network then you have declared yourself against the regime. Steganography may be better.

An amusing point is that secure steganography depends on redundancy with entropy- noise. A few years ago, it looked increasingly difficult because of lossy compression. Today, we're awash in randomly generated content, so it should be possible to make secure steganography quite high bandwidth. Although, it's not immediately obvious to me how to make use of it,because the randomness is the input to a diffusion model,not the output - you might need to run the model backwards to obtain your steganographic content. Which I guess is possible,although expensive.
by pankajdoharey | 2026-01-16 12:59:50+00:00
Claude is overrated premium piece of developer tech, i have produced equally good results from Gemini and Way better with GPT - medium. And GPT Medium is a really good model at assembling and debugging stuff than Claude. Claude hallucinates when asked why something is correct or should be done. All Models fail equally is some or the other aspect, which point to the fact that these models have strength's and weaknesses, and GOPT just happens to be a good overall model. But dev community is so stuck up on Claude for no good reason other than shiny tooling : "Claude Code", besides that the models can be equally worse as the competition. The Benchmarks do not explain the full story.
Show HN: Meishi – Open-Source P2P Contacts App with Signal Protocol E2EE
by marcoparisi | 2026-01-16 13:00:02+00:00
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Would love feedback on the architecture and whether this resonates with you.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-16 13:00:04+00:00
You stopped too soon in your analysis. Why is there so much fear? Why is there more than, say, the 1980s? The 1970s? (Or was there this much fear then, too, and we just don't remember it that way?)

Is it basically economic? We had this amazing economic ride from 1945 through the early 1970s, and that gave a view of what life could be like that permeated society and gave hope, and the hope continued long past the growth. Now people are realizing that the hope is not likely to happen to them. Is the fear caused by realizing that the hope is in danger? (That hope is in danger in another way, too. People are realizing that, even if they get better economic circumstances, past a certain point prosperity is still kind of empty.)

Or is the fear manufactured? Is it part of the propaganda? Are we being made to feel afraid, so that we can have a crisis of democracy? So that more non-democratic leaders can take over?

Or is it something else?