MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajsnigrutin | 2026-01-08 03:09:44+00:00
I mean.. some people would prefer to live next to a forest or grassland, but nope, houses were built there, because people needed somewhere to live. Now that's not enough, and larger buildings are needed, and that includes socialist buildings.

I live in a former socialist country (well, part of a country, the country does not exist anymore), and when we needed more housing, we designated the land in the city to be for housing, ie. large socialist buildings. Then 1990s came, no more socialism, capitalism now, and no more large building projects, no new neighborhoods. So now, we have cows and cornfields in what would be prime realestate because the government won't change the zoning, all three neighbors there complain and apartments that used to be 120k eur maybe 20 years ago are now close to 500k eur.

If you want to live next to cows, move to a village, thousands want apartment buildings there, to live in a city.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-01-08 03:09:47+00:00
Dude, every country has borders and most take it seriously. In many countries, such as Poland, they shoot at people crossing the border illegally. A country with no enforced borders is no country at all.

If you want to revise your assessment to include the creation of this problem by having a lax border, I can agree with you somewhat. We should not require border police far away from the borders. But we do require it now, because certain malicious politicians let in a bunch of people illegally.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-08 03:10:08+00:00
If ICE truly was the Stasi for America, then the illegal immigrants would leave voluntarily, just as people did in fact try to flee East Germany. The federal government that employs ICE is in fact actively encouraging illegal immigrants to voluntarily leave the country without interacting with ICE in any way. The fact that ICE has a job to do at all is strong evidence that they are not like the Stasi, and that the conditions of the modern-day US are simply not like those of 20th century East Germany.
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-01-08 03:11:04+00:00
> People have learnt a little while back that you need to use the white hidden text in a resume to make the AI recommend you ...

I would caution against using "white hidden text" within PDF resumes as all an ATS[0] need use in order to make hidden text the same as any other text is preprocess with the poppler[1] project's `pdftotext`. Sophisticated ATS[0] offerings could also use `pdftotext` in a fraud detection role with other document formats as well.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicant_tracking_system

1 - https://poppler.freedesktop.org/
by umanwizard | 2026-01-08 03:12:07+00:00
> I can't wait to see results. Until now, the only real world usage was for coreutils in Ubuntu

I spent five years working at a company (Materialize) whose main product is entirely in Rust. Since then I work at a company (Polar Signals) where sadly I have to use C and Go, but the main backend storage layer is in Rust. And several of our customers use Rust and it would be a show-stopping bug for them if our product stopped working on Rust codebases.

Besides all that, plenty of companies you’ve heard of are now writing large amounts of new code in Rust — most notably Meta and Amazon. Large parts of Firefox are in Rust and have been for years.

Ubuntu coreutils is underselling it a bit.
by midldei | 2026-01-08 03:12:24+00:00
> i’m a fitness conscious 30 something white male

Right. So able bodied, and the gender and race least associated with violence from the state.

> being discriminated against for insurance if you have a drug habit

"drug habit", Why choose an example that is often admonished as a personal failing? How about we say the same, but have something wholly, inarguably, outside of your control, like race, be the discriminating factor?

You medical records may be your DNA.

The US once had a racist legal principle called the "one drop rule": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule

Now imagine an, lets say 'sympathetic to the Nazi agenda', administration takes control of the US gov's health and state sanctioned violence services. They decide to use those tools to address all of the, what they consider, 'undesirables'.

Your DNA says you have "one drop" of the undesirable's blood, some ancient ancestor you were unaware of, and this admin tells you they are going to discriminate against your insurance because of it based on some racist psuedoscience.

You say, "but I thought i was a 30 something WHITE male!!" and they tell you "welp, you were wrong, we have your medical records to prove it", you get irate that somehow your medical records left the datacenter of that llm company you liked to have make funny cat pictures for you and got in their hands, and they claim your behavior caused them to fear for their lives and now you are in a detention center or a shallow grave.

"That's an absurd exaggeration." You may say, but the current admin is already removing funding, or entire agencies, based on policy(DEI etc) and race(singling out Haitian and Somali immigrants), how is it much different from Jim Crow era policies like redlining?

If you find yourself thinking, "I'm a fitness conscious 30 something white male, why should I care?", it can help to develop some empathy, and stop to think "what if I was anything but a fitness conscious 30 something white male?"
by abustamam | 2026-01-08 03:15:02+00:00
> I don't get the cooking pain or dinner problem

Wait, do you really not understand why people have issues cooking healthy stuff for dinner? I don't think the average person can bake a loaf of bread every morning, or cook a meal for a family of four every day.

Personally I tend to batch cook for my wife and me, but my daughter's almost gonna start needing to eat solids soon, so we'll have to cook for her as well. My mom also brings us a lot of food but not every family is fortunate like that.

Meals are simple — a protein (usually meat, but sometimes beans or lentils), a carb (rice or pasta, usually rice) and veggies (frozen). Make a lot and freeze it. I can't imagine cooking real meals for 3 people every day with our work schedules.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2026-01-08 03:15:50+00:00
In the new world, the Supreme Court can change basically any policy or old decision and make up things not in the Constitution. One example is Trump's immunity that they created out of whole cloth and that was nowhere to be found. At the same time they invented a reason why Trump's attempted rebellion against the US did not violate the constitutional amendment that was designed to keep someone like that from running for president
by hallole | 2026-01-08 03:16:41+00:00
> "grass fed, free range... Because agribusiness doesn't make money with those."

They actually make a considerable amount on those last two items, taking advantage of those who want to consume meat more ethically.

(Though, in reality, "grass fed" and "free range" are both misleading terms, and none of the meat on offer is likely to be humane.)
by reactordev | 2026-01-08 03:17:09+00:00
What’s even crazier is those fringe ideas from back in the day now have the compute power to actually execute as designed and really interesting things emerged.

I feel like we are on the verge of it, some say we already had it, but the singularity where hardware, learning, software, sensors and vision, all collide with enough headroom to make real-time our time. Now if we could only solve for our monkey brains.
by tzs | 2026-01-08 03:17:49+00:00
> More importantly, the place where I currently live doesn't have a parking spot with an EV charger (there's a limited number of such spots, you have to join a waitlist to get one). If electric cars really could be charged to be ready to drive 800 miles in 5 minutes, that wouldn't be a problem

It might still be a problem, depending on why you want an EV. There are two annoyances with fast DC charging compared to home charging, and that super fast 800 miles in 5 minutes only addresses one of them.

The one it addresses is time to charge. 800 miles in 5 minutes is similar to ICE cars, and it would mean you can deal with charging with about the same level of hassle as an ICE driver has dealing with gas. I.e., you don't really have to think about it since it is only a few minutes.

However, DC chargers often cost significantly more per kWh than home charging, and also often have additional fixed fees.

If having low energy costs per mile is an important consideration in many places it turns out that an EV only charged at DC chargers will cost more per mile for energy than a Prius or a hybrid Civic or maybe even a hybrid RAV4 or CR-V.

With home charging a Prius and sometimes other hybrids can still beat an EV in some places so if energy cost is important you need to do the math for your area, but in most places the EV will win at least in the US.

There are nice things about EV besides low energy costs, but even if you get one mainly for other reasons the low energy costs can quickly become a favorite feature.

For example, a sandwich chain restaurant in my town raised their prices. My favorite sandwich, which I'd get there once a week, went from something like $9.20 to $12.99. That chain's store in the next town is owned by a different franchisee, and that sandwich is $10.39 there.

Before I got my EV it wouldn't have been worth going to that other town to save $2.60 because the gas for the round trip would come out to around that.

With my EV, charged at home, it is only about $0.60 round trip, so I save $2.00. It does take longer of course, but as I said I like to get that sandwich once a week. There's a weekly podcast I listen to. I use the time driving for the sandwich listening to that, so it is time I otherwise would have spent on the couch listening my my home entertainment system so it cancels out.
by massysett | 2026-01-08 03:18:24+00:00
I made the choice at Costco to not build a relationship with anyone. There's a guy standing at the entrance checking memberships. I've seen him for years. I don't know him. I don't use the automated kiosk if I have several items. I see some of the cashiers for years. I'm cordial but I don't chat them up. One woman who has been there for years chats with me a bit; I'm cordial but don't reciprocate a ton.

There's a corporate supermarket owned by a Dutch multinational not far from me. I see some of the same employees there every week. One of them loves people and recognizes me. I could stand around and chat with him if I wanted. But I don't want to.

I made this choice. Someone who wants to build relationships chats with people. Folks like that chat with people at the grocery store, on the airplane, waiting in line, etc. Often it leads to nothing, occasionally it leads to something. But the point is, they practice it. I don't. The built environment is not stopping it. Not being in a "local store that one of your neighbors owns" has nothing to do with it either. Plenty of relationships are built in corporate chains.
by pixelatedindex | 2026-01-08 03:18:29+00:00
All fair and valid points. I agree. In today’s age with a career in the tech field and a newly first time home owner, I do feel the aspect of being tied down. But I never really got to avail of moving to chase job opportunities since the Bay Area is where they’re the densest. That being said during Covid times I had to move to the PNW due to layoffs (got a great offer, but I didn’t have to accept it and could afford to keep looking). So I really do understand the benefits of renting.

Like I said in another reply, I don’t consider landlords to be inherently bad. But there are a lot who will try to take advantage of you if you let them. You have to be lucky to get a good one - I only had a couple out of the dozen or so and I wish them the best.
by veeti | 2026-01-08 03:18:42+00:00
Yet in practice, only the big boys are allowed to become "Trusted Publishers":

> In the interest of making the best use of PyPI's finite resources, we only plan to support platforms that have a reasonable level of usage among PyPI users for publishing. Additionally, we have high standards for overall reliability and security in the operation of a supported Identity Provider: in practice, this means that a home-grown or personal use IdP will not be eligible.

How long until everyone is forced to launder their artifacts using Microsoft (TM) GitHub (R) to be "trusted"?

[1] https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/internals/#how-do-i...
by OsrsNeedsf2P | 2026-01-08 03:19:39+00:00
You're not alone, I feel like sometimes I'm on crazy pills. I have benchmarks at work where the top models are plugged into agents, and Gemini 3 is behind Sonnet 4. This aligns closely with my personal usage as well, where Gemini fails to effectively call MCP tools.

But hey, it's cheapish, and competition is competition
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-08 03:20:46+00:00
Do you have more details on this 1 example, specifically the trends of city housing prices and demand? A quick search [0] seems to show city housing prices increasing, rather than decreasing.

Obviously housing built outside the city will be cheaper than within it, and that might work for people who are fine living just anywhere (like away from the city), but the hypothesis is that the prices within the city increase when more housing (denser housing) is added within the city, right?

0: https://www.courthousenews.com/copenhagen-housing-prices-dou...
by kcplate | 2026-01-08 03:21:04+00:00
No I don’t think so. See my comment with video above and scrub it back and forth. He did not appear to move in earnest until after the car began moving forward. The vehicle moving in reverse at an angle brought him into view annd a danger orientation and he appears stationary to me until after the vehicle lines up on him. It appears that he was on the right side angled off the front right fender and several feet from the vehicle.

I am not privy to the training, but from my vantage point, he was probably initially in a safe tactical position not in front of the vehicle if the vehicle was stationary. The vehicle’s movement reoriented to him and created the danger.
by stopbulying | 2026-01-08 03:21:07+00:00
Impediment to Change or Last Resort? The ICC Case Against the Maduro Regime (1yr ago, 2024) https://youtube.com/watch?v=rSYTtDrP99I :

> Can you give us
a little bit of the history of the ICC
investigation? You and I both worked on
the OAS process to investigate the
possible Commission of crimes against
humanity in Venezuela which led directly
to the article 14 referral of the
country to the Court by six member
states of the Rome Statute back in 2018. That was the first such referral in the
Court's history. The ICC prosecutor then
formally opened an investigation in
November of 2021.

Does the US arrest of Maduro preempt or parallel the ICC investigation of crimes against humanity in Venezuela?

Given the US's history of defiance of ICC, would the US accept evidence collected by ICC for their prosecution of (additional) crimes against humanity?
Show HN: Enriched HN, LLM-powered topic filtering for Hacker News
by mjshashank | 2026-01-08 03:23:01+00:00
I've been reading HN for years, but I've noticed a pattern: I'd open the front page to "stay current on tech etc." then emerge an hour later having read hundreds of comments on some political thread or startup drama. I built this extension to keep myself honest.

What it does:

The extension uses an LLM to analyze HN stories and adds metadata badges directly to the front page:

- Topic classification (AI/ML, Web Dev, Systems, Startups, Policy, etc.)

- Content type (Show HN, Tutorial, Paper, News, Discussion…)

- Technical depth score (0-1 scale)

- Tags (specific technologies, descriptors like "deep-dive" or "beginner-friendly")

You can then filter stories by topic/type, or set a technical depth threshold. My favorite feature is hiding just the comments link on non-technical stories so I'm aware of them without falling down the rabbit hole.

How it works:

- A Cloudflare Worker runs hourly, fetching top stories and queuing them for enrichment

- Gemini analyzes the title, URL, and top comments to generate structured metadata

- Results are cached in Cloudflare KV

- The extension fetches enrichments and injects badges into the page

Privacy-wise, it only sends public story IDs to the API, no personal data.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enriched-hn/mmcdcoa...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enriched-hn/

GitHub: https://github.com/mjshashank/enriched-hn

Would love feedback on the categorization accuracy or feature ideas!
by c0nsumer | 2026-01-08 03:23:02+00:00
Many, many more devices here... And good/typical enterprise level hardware... And failing TPMs are just something that happen. It's pretty expected these days. And on Windows when it causes a loss of certificates, it's actually a good bit more of a pain than just a dying disk or display or something, because it's not immediately obvious what's wrong, it just doesn't talk to the network properly anymore, or so.

I'm not surprised by Tailscale's change here. It's a good move.
by serf | 2026-01-08 03:25:43+00:00
>We call AI models "open source" if you can download the binary and not the source. Why not programs?

the weights of a model aren't equivalent to the binary output of source code, no matter how you try to stretch the metaphor.

>why not

because we aren't beholden to change all definitions and concepts because some guy at some corp said so.
by perfmode | 2026-01-08 03:26:40+00:00
Science and eastern philosophy differ in epistemological objectives and methodological scope:

Science is characterized by objective empiricism; it relies on third-person observation, quantifiable data, and the principle of falsifiability to build a predictive model of the external, material world. Its goal is to establish "public" knowledge that remains true regardless of who is observing it.

In contrast, many traditions within Eastern philosophy are rooted in disciplined phenomenology or first-person inquiry. Rather than seeking to measure external objects, these traditions provide a systematic framework for investigating the nature of consciousness and the "felt" quality of experience from within.

While science seeks to explain the mechanisms of reality through a detached lens, Eastern philosophy seeks to realize the nature of being through direct, subjective realization.
by yashasolutions | 2026-01-08 03:26:59+00:00
I have tried to use exclusively each of the libraries to better understand their limit, overtime I got to the following observations:

- htmx is more straightforward (because a lot of the magic basically happening in the backend) and helps a lot to keep some sanity.

- Alpine shines when you need more composition or reactivity in the frontend. But it gets verbose quickly. When you feel you are reimplementing the web, it means you went too far.

For pagination, page structure, big tables, confirmation after post etc. I usually go with htmx. Modals, complex form composition (especially when you need to populate dropdowns from differents APIs), fancy animations, I prefer Alpine. (I probably could do that with htmx and wrapping it in a backend - but often more flexible in the frontend directly.)

To me, the main reason why I use these libraries, is what I write today will still be valid in 5 years without having to re-write the whole thing, and it matters since I have to maintain most of what I write.
by efskap | 2026-01-08 03:27:03+00:00
> most vegetables and legumes are missing necessary amino acids

In practice, there's no evidence of amino acid deficiency in vegans/vegetarians except ones that restrict even further (potato diet, fruitarians, etc)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6893534/

Besides the ever-popular soybean being a complete protein, if you have normal variety in your diet, it's just not something you have to worry about.
by cmurf | 2026-01-08 03:27:32+00:00
As bad as 40% approval for POS POTUS is, this is not fascism. Fascism? They'd have shot everyone taking video. Those peacefully assembling? They'd have been arrested, tortured, and rehabilitated with hard labor. Their families would be threatened.

The people elected an abuser, and the people are now being abused. It could get a great deal worse. I expect things will get worse until Trump is impeached and removed from office.

Peacefully assembling does work. If they shoot at a peaceful assembly of people addressing their grievances it will only further de-legitimize the regime.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-08 03:27:35+00:00
> but it's still a huge commitment, especially given how hard it is to assess potential problems with a living space before you've actually lived there.

Now imagine trying to asses the potential problems with a living space before committing the next 30 years of those payments, plus locking yourself into that single living space and taking on the single and sole responsibility for repairing or addressing all of those problems yourself.

Look, I really like owning my own home, but when I signed a rental agreement, for the duration of the agreement that was the most money I would ever spend on my housing. And I never once worried about replacing a roof, or replacing an HVAC unit, or replacing a water main. I've owned my own home now for over a decade and my monthly housing expenditure is nearly 2x what it was when I started between tax increases, insurance increases and loans to pay for the various major repairs, and that's with a fixed rate primary mortgage. And that's my cost increases AFTER the insurance payouts. The townhome I first rented when I moved to the area currently rents for about $100 LESS than I pay each month. Granted when I bought the place, it was renting for about $200 more per month than I was paying but that basically means renting vs buying was a wash as far as costs go. Yes, to a degree I got unlucky, but that's also the point, I couldn't know if I was going to be unlucky or not before agreeing to the mortgage. As a renter I could get reviews and recommendations or warnings from prior tenants and at least have a chance of knowing what I was getting into.
by rekabis | 2026-01-08 03:29:22+00:00
I can’t think of a single account I have created using my gMail eMail address. In fact, I technically don’t even have a gMail account, as I log into my Google account using my personal domain eMail.

This likely wouldn’t work with any other webmail provider as well, because even my Hotmail account (which pre-dates my personal domain by about three years) has been purged of anything personal since about 2005, and now exists as a spam honeypot and emergency recovery account for a handful of services that demand one.

Now, if you could scan IMAP folders, then fine. But I have never handed my passwords out to anyone. It’s gotta be a locally-run tool or it’s just not gonna fly with me.
by max_ | 2026-01-08 03:29:39+00:00
Yes please.

For example, eating a fruit is very different from drinking fruit juice. And the process of "juicification" destroys fibre. [1]

And this is just mild processing.

It gets worse for other processed foods that have preservatives etc.

Infant formula is just a scam. Nothing beats breast milk when it comes to feeding babies.

Infant formula puts you at risk of corporate scams — https://x.com/i/status/2009105279414141380

[1]: https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/topic/default%3Fid%3Dfr...
by f33d5173 | 2026-01-08 03:30:18+00:00
You can for the most part evaluate intent based on actions. There are some actions which can have multiple possible intents behind them, where things get trickier. But in most situations, there is one primary consequence of something, and the action needs to be taken with deliberation, hence you can state with high certainty what the intention was, based purely on what was done. Consversely, if a person has complete freedom to complete some action, but chooses not to, then we can say their intention wasn't to do that thing.