MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kelnos | 2026-01-10 04:07:00+00:00
I'm torn on UPnP in general. If there's something malicious running on my network that could send a UPnP request to my router to open a port, then it could also open a persistent connection to some command-and-control server somewhere and achieve a similar result (and I'd possibly even be less likely to notice this). Sure, it's more taxing on a central server to have to maintain all these connections than to be able to make short-lived outgoing connections at will, but I don't think that's that much of a concern these days.

Having said that, I still disable UPnP on my routers if it's enabled by default... just feels safer that way. Even if the intended use of the port forward is legitimate, other non-legitimate folks on the public internet could presumably use that port forward as well to exploit a vulnerability in the software in my network that's on the other end of that port.

I'm also not sure how relevant UPnP is these days, with many people on the internet behind CGNAT, not even getting a publicly-addressable IPv4 at their home router. I suppose many of those people have routable IPv6 addresses, though, assuming UPnP port forwarding supports IPv6.
by markusde | 2026-01-10 04:07:53+00:00
> it's really not clear to me that humans would be a valuable component in knowledge work for much longer.

To me, this sounds like when we first went to the moon, and people were sure we'd be on Mars be the end of the 80's.

> Even ARC-AGI-2 is now at over 50%.

Any measure of "are we close to AGI" is as scientifically meaningful as "are we close to a warp drive" because all anyone has to go on at this point is pure speculation. In my opinion, we should all strive to be better scientists and think more carefully about what an observation is supposed to mean before we tout it as evidence. Despite the name, there is no evidence that ARC-AGI tests for AGI.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-10 04:08:46+00:00
This accurately mirrors my experience. It never - so far - has happened that the AI brought any novel insight at the level that I would see as an original idea. Presumably the case of TFA is different but the normal interaction is that that the solution to whatever you are trying to solve is a millimeter away from your understanding and the AI won't bridge that gap until you do it yourself and then it will usually prove to you that was obvious. If it was so obvious then it probably should have made the suggestion...

Recent case:

I have a bar with a number of weights supported on either end:

|---+-+-//-+-+---|

What order and/or arrangement or of removing the weights would cause the least shift in center-of-mass? There is a non-obvious trick that you can pull here to reduce the shift considerably and I was curious if the AI would spot it or not but even after lots of prompting it just circled around the obvious solutions rather than to make a leap outside of that box and come up with a solution that is better in every case.

I wonder what the cause of that kind of blindness is.
by dchest | 2026-01-10 04:09:31+00:00
"Too late now, I suppose, but the only file extension I would endorse is “.markdown” [...]

(I personally use “.text” for my own files, and have BBEdit set to use Markdown syntax coloring for that extension, which is why I never saw a need to endorse an official extension.)"

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/01/08/markdown-extens...
by safeshare | 2026-01-10 04:09:50+00:00
I built SafeShare, a local-first URL cleaner that removes common tracking parameters (utm_*, gclid, fbclid, msclkid, etc.) in the browser.

Why: these params leak into chats, emails, docs, tickets and carry extra metadata.

How it works: paste a URL → it strips known tracking params → you copy/share the clean URL. No account. No server-side processing.

I’d love feedback on:
1. Which params/edge-cases should be handled next?
2. Any URLs where cleaning breaks expected behavior?
3. UX: does “Copy → Clean → Share” feel fast enough?
by tluyben2 | 2026-01-10 04:12:04+00:00
Nice work; I remember browsing it during covid.

Tried AI for a standalone html page snippet renderer[0].

I tried just feeding it snippets one by one and that worked, but the raymarching ones it could not get going until I gave it the dwitter github repos. Now most, but not all (simple to fix manually though), work.

Also interesting to see Claude is terrible at trying to write the art (the demos itself) and seeing what it tries to do; not surprising given the challenge.

[0] https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d8b357df-5982-48c6-be58-7...
by windexh8er | 2026-01-10 04:16:02+00:00
It's also interesting Garry Tan (YC Partner) has a lot of comments for the masses when it's on a one sided platform like X. But, will never engage here. Oh the irony.

He seems to enjoy spreading factually misguided "statistics" [0] about how Flock is "solving crime". OK buddy.

I mean, just look at how he enagages with those replies. If that's at the helm of YC? WTF.

[0] https://x.com/garrytan/status/1963256544524640456
by sejje | 2026-01-10 04:16:33+00:00
Yes, but it's in the deli area instead of the bread aisle, and it's not as common in America. Sunbeam, wonderbread, Bunny -- these are staples in most homes. That's what a peanut butter and jelly is supposed to be made on, or a grilled cheese. It's also the same stuff they make hot dog and hamburger buns out of.

Most American breads would be labeled cake elsewhere, as they have a high sugar content.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-10 04:16:57+00:00
> Create confrontation

So it's not the constant protests [0], obstruction [1], harassment, doxing [2,3], and threats [4,5], occasionally escalating to attacks [5,6,7] and shootings and killings [8,9] that are creating confrontation. It's daring to enforce immigration limits as written, i.e. the rule of law, that is to blame. We know this because the quality of ICE is comparable to the quality of US police in general, instead of being the one law enforcement agency that is magically staffed only by the most competent and restrained officers the US has to offer.

[0] https://www.dailywire.com/news/racist-groups-behind-anti-ice...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108116

[2] https://fox17.com/news/local/nashville-mayor-freddie-oconnel...

[3] https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5566481-ice-tra...

[4] https://xcancel.com/DHSgov/status/1976713091443204099

[5] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3844197/bounti...

[6] https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5539362-vehicle-ram...

[7] https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/08/ice-jo...

[8] https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-joshua-jahn-shooter-deadly-da...

[9] https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/alvarado-police-officer-s...
by nhinck3 | 2026-01-10 04:17:16+00:00
Crying free speech and attempting to rile up the tech bros is just what companies do these days.

It doesn't matter if, like this issue, it has absolutely nothing to do with free speech; if you position yourself as a defender of the "open internet", "open source", "free thinking" or "innovation" you get every dingleberry that hangs off Musk to come and defend you.
by snvzz | 2026-01-10 04:17:53+00:00
The first RVA23 chips should appear this year.

Tenstorrent has announced a development board using the Tenstorrent Atlantis chip, with Ascalon cores, TBA Q2.

The performance of this chip should be above Apple M1 or AMD Zen2, comfortably above Raspberry Pi 5, and sufficient for most people's everyday computer usage.
by mopsi | 2026-01-10 04:18:29+00:00
We have seen time and time again how this approach does not work and only invites further aggression. Zelenskyy himself campaigned on, got elected and began pursuing the same things that you suggest: economic development, anti-corruption, and conciliatory approach to the war in Eastern Ukraine. All he got in response was a renewed invasion.

Neutrality is not a serious option anymore. Not for Ukraine, not for anyone else. Sweden and Finland's pivot away from their long-standing neutrality highlights this reality and marks the end of neutrality as a credible security posture in Europe. They were the last holdouts among Russia's European neighbors.
by miki123211 | 2026-01-10 04:18:36+00:00
Governments just can't come to grips with how much money software engineers make.

Paying a contractor $x million? Yeah no problem, projects are projects, they cost what they cost. Does that $x million pay for 5x fewer people than it would in construction or road repair? We don't know, we don't care, this is the best bid we got for the requirements, and in line with what similar IT projects cost us before.

Paying a junior employee $100k? "We can't do that, the agency director has worked here for 40 years, and he doesn't make that much."

Variants of this story exist in practically every single country. You can make it work with lower salaries through patriotism, but software engineers in general are one of the less patriotic professions out there, so this isn't too easy to do.
by moron4hire | 2026-01-10 04:18:48+00:00
The Ship of Theseus has nothing to do with the identity of the parts. That is not in question at all; they are explicitly different parts. The thought experiment is the question of the identity of the whole.

Qt in your example is a part. You're application is the whole. If you replaced Qt with WxWidgets, is your application still the same application?

But to answer your question, to replace Qt with you're own piecemeal code doesn't do anything more to Qt than replacing it with WxWidgets would: nothing. The Qt code is gone. The only way it would ship-of-theseus itself into "still being Qt, despite not being the original Qt" would be if Qt required all modifications to be copyright-assigned and upstreamed. That is absurd. I don't think I've ever seen a license that did anything like that.

Even though licenses like the GPL require reciprocal FOSS release in-kind, you still retain the rights to your code. If you were ever to remove the GPL'd library dependency, then you would no longer be required to reciprocate. Of course, that would be a new version of your software and the previous versions would still be available and still be FOSS. But neither are you required to continue to offer the original version to anyone new. You are only required to provide the source to people who have received your software. And technically, you only have to do it when they ask, but that's a different story.
by _wire_ | 2026-01-10 04:19:04+00:00
tl;dr

The display the author doesn't like is a specific model Dell QD-OLED with a sub pixel arrangement that causes a fringe above / below text.

There are macro screenshots that reveal the sub pixel details of a preferred LCD compared the disliked Dell OLED, and it's easy to agree with the author's discontentment.

But the categorical complaint about "OLED" is an over generalization.

Treat the report as a warning to investigate the sub pixel characteristics of any monitor you may be considering.
by rconti | 2026-01-10 04:23:46+00:00
I used to ride as well, and I had the same reaction. The sheer number of people who moved over for me (in California) blew me away every time I rode. They'd never hear me coming; they SAW me and made the choice to move over. I constantly felt that I was underestimating how many people were truly paying attention while they were driving, despite how much "we" like to complain that everyone's in their own world and nobody pays attention anymore.

I try very hard to do the same. I did before I rode, and I still do now. I'm a skilled and trained and attentive driver who is rarely distracted. And yet, I am ashamed at how often I am surprised when a motorcycle splits past me. Maybe I shouldn't think so highly of my attentiveness compared to the "average" person.

It's also a lesson on law and culture. Here in CA where it's legal by statute (if not always practiced in a legal manner), and where drivers are aware it happens, and MOSTLY aware that it's legal, the drivers are very kind. In places where it is ILLEGAL, drivers can be a lot more antagonistic and unsafe about the practice. But at the end of the day, the laws are arbitrary; on the asphalt, it's just another human trying to get from one place to another, doing nothing to inhibit the journey of the other.
by nradov | 2026-01-10 04:25:09+00:00
Routines tend to get more and more derailed as the day goes on. Wake up early and get the important stuff done first.

As for narcissism, the optimal amount is not zero. If you want to continue being of value to your family over the long term then sometimes you have to take care of yourself first. Unless it's a life-or-death emergency, others can wait a bit for help.
by Aeglaecia | 2026-01-10 04:26:38+00:00
while the spirit of your statement is clear , i dont think its 'properly craven' to recognise both an individual's faults and their strengths - in this case the author goes to lengths to state he does not necessarily agree with either musk or vance. has anybody successfully recieved protection from this US administration while acknowledging fault of said administration ? from outside this doesnt seem likely as US politics is currently operating like team sports (ie. no tolerance of toeing party lines, 'youre either with us or against us')
by testing22321 | 2026-01-10 04:26:51+00:00
> and other car makes are slowing down or cancelling EV developments.

Only to US automakers are doing that, and that’s thanks to Trump gutting the EPA emissions regulations (I.e. V8s are back in everything!!!!)

All the US automakers are dead in 5-10 years anyway, it’s just prolonging the inevitable.
Show HN: Focus timer that turns hours into assets
by keplerjst | 2026-01-10 04:26:53+00:00
# The Problem

You probably spend a lot of time on screens.

If time is money, the hours we spend are capital expenditures. We should be careful about how we allocate them, because they're the capital we have.

Peter Drucker said: *The first step toward executive effectiveness is to record actual time-use.*

But it's not easy. We generally track time on the spot with a timer, or just a clock. It doesn't give us a sense of long-term progress.

Most timers on app stores have limited features, such as pomodoro. Some apps are too complicated. We don't need calendar or team features, which sacrifice simplicity for personal use.

# The Solution

That's why I built Seton - a focus timer that visualizes your time spent like an asset you’ve invested.

https://seton.run/

All you need to do is press "Start" for the activity you're working on. The activity can be reading, writing, meditation, or anything else.

When you complete a focus session in the app, it accumulates. You can look back on your time spent with charts. Celebrate your progress like "I've spent 100 hours reading this year!" You can configure how many minutes to focus and break, and number of cycles of sessions.

It's very simple, but highly effective. The more you record your time, the better you will be at managing it. That will make you more productive for sure.

# The Philosophy

*1. Frictionless:* No need to sign up. Just press "Start".

*2. Privacy:* Data is stored in the browser. No syncing feature for now.

*3. Low-cost:* It runs on Cloudflare to minimize costs. It's free for the time being.

If you like Seton, please share it with your friends. Let me know what you think on X ([@keplerjst](https://x.com/keplerjst)).

Time is money, and life is an accumulation of time. In that sense, I think everybody is an investor. Good luck on your investment journey!
by miki123211 | 2026-01-10 04:27:24+00:00
AFAIK, the DMCA doesn't require infrastructure providers (ISPs, DNS resolvers, "relay" services like Cloudflare) to block entire websites. It's just for surgical removals of content (and blocking of ISP / hosting provider customers who are notorious infringers).

The US doesn't have the kind of website blocking laws that many European countries have.
by notpushkin | 2026-01-10 04:27:46+00:00
Hmm, yeah, I guess you’re right. There are tradeoffs, but if they’re worth the benefits for you – yes, you can live without a smartphone.

For this to work for me personally, I would need webapps for ride-hailing and preferably food delivery, and to learn how to navigate the city without a map. I think I might be able to pull it off for some of the places I live in.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-10 04:28:12+00:00
> What it can't do (as far as I understand): complex layouts, precise typography, embedded binary content, anything that needs pixel-perfect rendering. Am I missing anything? What are the other limitations I should know about?

Multi-level lists, annoyingly, get rendered as code at the deeper levels because of the 4+ spaces from the beginning of the line.

This is a serious and major drawback of markdown, making it good for developers only. The average person does not want to render code.

Remove that one drawback, and it'll get even better adoption.
by moosedev | 2026-01-10 04:29:07+00:00
The earliest I've used was Protracker, which was the most popular tracker in the early heyday of the format (late 80s - early 90s), but the earlier Soundtracker was the OG "tracker", and probably used the same layout, but I'm not sure. https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Soundtracker_History

But if FL Studio (formerly FruityLoops) and Renoise use the same layout, as others have said, then those are probably going to resonate with a wider modern audience :D Or maybe just call it "FL Studio / Renoise / tracker layout"?

I don't do computer keyboard note entry any more, but I still have the muscle memory for that 4-row layout from hours spent with it in the late 90s :D And I'd totally use it in your game. (My MIDI keyboards are kinda too far away from the mouse and monitor.)
by metadope | 2026-01-10 04:29:07+00:00
You seem to be assuming a lot, both before and during the question you eventually get to. Lawyers challenge with "assuming facts not in evidence" [no, not appealing to authority here, I just like that phrasing].

Let me try to correct your mistaken assumptions.

> HN is so much against people whose job is to arrest people who broke federal laws.

I don't know of anyone on HN who is 'much against' legitimate law enforcement. We very much want people who break federal laws to be arrested.

> those laws are not really -new, they were just not enforced during the previous administration as strictly (forgive my spelling correction here, but it is an important word. Correct me if I misunderstand you).

I think you might be referring to things like the DACA[0][1] program, which was created during Obama's administration, cut back during Trump 1.0, restored to its former glory during the Biden oasis, and has fallen out of favor again under Trump[2]. I'm just guessing. But understand that "not enforced...as strictly" is a political talking point and bone of contention. It's a judgment call that history will make (if the generations to come bother to remember us).

> Do people really care about the people who broke the laws or just hate the current administration so much?

Are those our only choices? This is what I've always known as a "loaded question" (when did you stop beating your wife?).

Two choices, one or the other, to help you to understand this reality?

I'm sorry xiphias2, but are you for real? Your post doesn't match up to my quick & dirty assessment of your profile and previous comments. Your post reeks of pretense: has someone else taken over your account?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_...
[1] https://www.uscis.gov/DACA
[2] https://www.uscis.gov/daca
by tom_0 | 2026-01-10 04:29:12+00:00
The "big" one is Llama3.3-70b on the cloud, right now. On GroqCloud in fact, but we have a cloud router that gives us several backups if Groq abandoned us.

We use a ton of smaller models (embeddings, vibe checks, TTS, ASR, etc) and if we had enough scale we'll try to run those locally for users that have big enough GPUs.

(You mean the voxel grid visibility from 2014?! I'm sure I did at the time... but I left MC in 2020 so don't even remember my own algorithm right now)
by aidenn0 | 2026-01-10 04:29:23+00:00
I can read and understand e.g. Python, but I have seen subtle bugs that were hard to spot in code generated by AI. At least the last time I tried coding agents (mid 2025), it was often easier to write the code myself then play "spot the bug" with whatever was generated. I don't know anything about Lean, so I was wondering if there were similar pitfalls here.
by miki123211 | 2026-01-10 04:30:45+00:00
I recently learned that Poland literally has a law on the books[1] (from the executive, not the legislative), mandating our use of SOAP and WSDL. You're definitely right on that score. As far as I know, it's supported by some EU directive or other, no less.

[1] (Polish) https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20240...
by 01092026 | 2026-01-10 04:30:50+00:00
Cool, so you are basically doing local onsite deployments? The H100's are nice. I'm not that rich, so I have some 4xV100 32GB SXM2....server, dual socket - it's OK for inference. You can get when with V100s, RAM, etc for $10-$12k all in used stuff.

I run largest models I can, DeepSeek, adding a few more soon. The fact that I can have a premier high end model run locally is main interest, a 70B model is pointless unless it's a specific task based special model or whatever Text to speech, etc.

I am more interested in ditching Nvidia for AMD Chips+GPUs, but not even ROCm - just run with OpenGL / Vulkan weights in shaders. Faster, more control, better performance for MY architecture, etc. This is the goal.

I don't think many people are running models, maybe outside of a company? I guess you are company/industry focused, I am just a programmer / personal.

People don't see a need I guess? It's complicated. Well - actually it's NOT if you have lots of money to buy all the right stuff, brand new, etc.

For regular guys like me, we have to be creative to get shit to run in the best way, it's all we can afford.
by DangitBobby | 2026-01-10 04:31:03+00:00
Refusing to accept the philosophical concept of rights is just correct. You are born with fuck all unless people have decided you are entitled to something by existing. Plenty of people were born without anything remotely resembling rights. If rights were inherent and not simple enforced by people, that wouldn't be the case, would it? Life isn't a fairy tail.
by raincole | 2026-01-10 04:31:30+00:00
The article reminds me of The Art of Asking. If you never heard of it, it's a TED talk where a musician/singer shared how much favors she received from fans (without expectations of returning them.)

Years later the said musician, Amanda Palmer, was accused and sued for sexual assault and human trafficking. Together with her husband, Neil Gaiman.

I'm not saying the author has done anything illegal, but I think one should be extra cautious about people who take others' kindness for granted.
Show HN: VoiceBrainDump – voice-first idea capture, single HTML file, offline
by digi_wares | 2026-01-10 04:31:35+00:00
I built VoiceBrainDump because I kept losing ideas. By the time I opened a notes app and started typing, the thought was gone.

This lets you tap, speak, and move on. No folders, no tags, no organizing upfront.

How it works:
- Voice-to-text using Web Speech API
- Ideas are saved to localStorage (no server, no account)
- Keywords are extracted automatically and used to connect related ideas
- After 7 days, old ideas resurface so you can keep or archive them

The whole thing is one HTML file (~2000 lines). No build step, no npm, no frameworks.

Built it in a weekend. Intentionally minimal — meant for people who think faster than they type.

Works on mobile too. Just open it in your browser.

Happy to hear why this is a terrible idea.