MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mutator | 2026-01-09 23:01:47+00:00
> San Francisco cable car system map, 1892

Wow! Its great to see parts of the system are still active today. Just took the Hyde & Beach car a couple of days ago, and although we had to wait for double the time including a car that could not stop due to being full, it was a memorable experience.

On the flip side, for a city that perhaps was one of the early movers in envisioning a robust transportation system, it is somewhat disappointing to see that in over 100 years, parts of the city still feel so disconnected from the transportation lifeline, making those places really hard to live in and commute.

What went wrong? NIMBY'ism, lawyerly society, more regulation; and what is there to hope for the future?
by luke5441 | 2026-01-09 23:02:03+00:00
My baseline (as an outside observer) is still that they are too stupid and uncoordinated to do a facist take-over. But that a significant possibility even exists that there will be a facist take-over is awful.

(The main ingredient for a facist take-over is control over the military and media and he is not creating many loyalists in either)
by davorak | 2026-01-09 23:02:50+00:00
> People would rather blame external factors and not take responsibility.

In my opinion the first step to taking responsibility is acknowledging reality. That reality can includes brains and bodies being different, sometimes extremely so. If someones brain or body is different but they deny it, stick their head in the sand, ignore it, then they are at a disadvantage when they try to take responsibility for something and may fail due to failing to acknowledging reality.
by nitwit005 | 2026-01-09 23:03:19+00:00
Possibly, but companies seem strangely set on getting people to install apps, even when the feedback is negative.

Offering a monetary reward for installing apps seems fairly common. Chevron had someone at my gas station offering something like $5 of free gas, plus $1 a gallon off of the next three purchases. If it was something the customers wanted, they wouldn't need to pay people to do it.
by hamdingers | 2026-01-09 23:03:21+00:00
No, issuer-client unlinkability is a feature of the design. The token is finalized by the client using private inputs so Kagi never actually sees the redeemable token (until it's redeemed).

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass#token-generation:~:t....

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9576.html
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-09 23:03:59+00:00
The industrial revolution created a few of those things, but the term refers to a specific period of economic development between (quoth Wikipedia) "c. 1760 . c. 1840", where the production of several classes of goods was mechanised. Not all technological development since the 18th century is the industrial revolution. To pick one example from your list: synthetic fertilisers are largely due to the Haber process iirc, which was a 20th-century invention.
by geerlingguy | 2026-01-09 23:04:09+00:00
There's more comparisons with various Arm hardware and Cyberpunk 2077 over here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/iss...

The DGX Spark and Mac Studio are currently the two best Arm-based platforms for running that game, it seems to like a lot of CPU to feed a decent GPU.
by roenxi | 2026-01-09 23:04:33+00:00
In principle I'm certainly on board with the idea, but the problem is - at least in the Anglosphere, probably further - that the financial system is part of the military and policing systems. They are a powerful and persistent lobby that want a phone to be able to provide enough who-what-when-where to be able to put someone in jail or in extreme cases drop a missile on them.

That is one of the reasons the crypto market is behaving like some radical innovation instead of just a group of bozos speedrunning financial history. For the first time since the invention of capital we have an asset class where it doesn't take the cooperation of a group of armed thugs to guarantee the integrity of the system.
by tombert | 2026-01-09 23:05:01+00:00
I feel like this is a problem that is going to be inherent to any position of power that allows people to use weapons; you very heavily selection-bias towards people want power and to use weapons, especially if the people who do abuse their position of violence are consistently allowed to do it with impunity.

Not saying that every person in law enforcement is bad, obviously; there are plenty of cops and people in the military [1] that are responsible with their weapons and do genuinely want to help people, but if you create an institution where people don't have to pay the consequences for their actions, then of course you're going to attract people who want to commit those actions.

The Catholic Church with their abusive priests is one of the most obvious examples. They create a situation where an adult male can be surrounded by kids unsupervised, not be married, and when abuse does happen it is covered up and the priest is moved somewhere else. Combined with the fact that they're paid shit, there's going to be a very strong selection bias of pedophiles.

[1] and who knows, maybe even ICE!
Ask HN: Who's running local AI workstations in 2026?
by Blue_Cosma | 2026-01-09 23:05:03+00:00
After three years working on private LLM infrastructure, I still can't pin down who and how big the market is.

The ecosystem has matured: DGX Spark, high-end Mac Studios, AMD Strix Halo, upcoming DGX Station. Models are getting smaller and more efficient. Inference engines (llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang) and frontends (Ollama, LMStudio, Jan) have made local deployment accessible. Yet I keep meeting more people researching this than actually deploying it.

For those running local inference:
- What's your setup and use case?
- Is it personal or shared across a team?
- What's the real driver — privacy, regulation, latency, cost, tinkering?

I'm skeptical on cost arguments (cloud inference scales better, plus API subsidies, for now at least!), but curious if I'm missing something.

What would make local AI actually worth it for you?
by techblueberry | 2026-01-09 23:05:15+00:00
“any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests”

Does anyone else find it difficult to discern truth in this era where everyone seems to want to pray in your emotions. My gut is that he’s angry for the right reasons, but it’s hard for me to trust anyone who tries to use the words “shadowy cabal” in a serious context.
by cgriswald | 2026-01-09 23:05:23+00:00
Willpower is what you use when you’re allowed choice and know you should make the good choice but actually feel like choosing the bad choice. The trick to good discipline is to never allow it to be a choice. There are no excuses. There is no negotiation. It just is the same way the sun rises or the tax man comes. Good discipline is a skill you develop and it is far easier than trying to live via something as temperamental as willpower.
Bulk rename files by pasting Excel data (client-side)
by Salmannaseem | 2026-01-09 23:05:37+00:00
I built Fast Batch Renamer to solve a problem I kept running into: renaming files when the new names already exist in Excel or a spreadsheet.

Instead of pattern-based rules, you can copy two columns from Excel (current filename → new filename), paste them into the app, and rename files in one go. Everything runs client-side in the browser — no uploads, no accounts.
by 01092026 | 2026-01-09 23:05:58+00:00
Of course the model is lobotomized - you're giving 0 collaboration, your asking it to even make all the files and folders for you ('mkdir'), all cold instructions/context overlayed by these INSERT_TOOL/IDE_HERE.

It gets inputs and gives outputs. Quality varies - I suppose?

Why don't you just talk to the model in the chat and make the fucking files yourself you lazy fucks? Like collaborate...I don't think thats easy in a 250px wide terminal. I think you would just get good results if you just talk to the model, you know? Like work with the model in the chat window.

But hey, do you.
by IshKebab | 2026-01-09 23:06:17+00:00
Yeah I call bullshit. The number of people with rooted phones is going to be way less than 1%, and the number of those that are unsophisticated enough to fall for scams/malware is going to be miniscule.

This is pretty clearly a case of "oh there's an option here that says 'allow on rooted phones', do we want to allow that?" "No that sounds scary and risky! Of course not. We must not allow it."

The option is there, and nobody is going to try to sell not ticking it.
by defrost | 2026-01-09 23:08:09+00:00
That was very much my initial reaction.

( I'm outside the US, I've worked for deacdes in "intelligence" (being accurate about video, signals, resources, data) for well heeled private clients and state, national level governments. )

Wider angle earlier release video that showed the other officer approach the side window, reach in and attempt to grab keys and or unlock and open door (prompting car to reverse, turn wheels, and move forwards) show this officer turning, crouching, drawing, stalking in to aiming at driver all prior to the forward motion.

This released footage does not appear to have that sequence.
by joe_the_user | 2026-01-09 23:08:21+00:00
I support people taking antidepressants if it helps them.

But I have to say the "chemical imbalance" theory either means no more than "depression responds to an antidepressant (sometimes)" or it is false/meaningless. Neither neurologists nor psychologists have a sufficiently detailed understanding of the workings of the brain to make such a claim.

Again, I'm glad drugs work for you. I would note that there three ways drugs can go for people; working with few problems, not working, working but with significant physical and/or psychological side-effects. Especially, taking any substance daily for the rest of one's life can stress the organs responsible for digesting/processing regardless of whether than substance is otherwise a great fix.

So I think we need to look beyond a glib "this fixes it for everyone" rhetoric even if this fixes it for you (and yeah, some of my friends should at least drugs, I'll admit).
by WickyNilliams | 2026-01-09 23:08:41+00:00
Funnily, I felt the opposite when I learnt to read music a few years back - that even though I was extremely slow, I could now (theoretically) read and learn to play any music, just slowly! You'll get faster and better with practice, as with everything. I'm still slow. Just not as slow. But crucially I'm fast enough that it's not the bottleneck anymore, getting the notes under my fingers is.

Keep at it!
by araes | 2026-01-09 23:08:54+00:00
Don't know about the rest of the article, yet this part is insane sounding

"reclusive chief executive, Kevin Rountree, of whom no public photographs exist, was named The Sunday Times “business person of the year".

The company has a £6,000,000,000 market cap, and the CEO was named business person of the year by The Sunday Times for FTSE 100 leadership. Operates a global gaming business with 1000's of employees, 570 stores, 7,000 independent retailers, dozens of official events, and probably 100's to 1000's of sponsored events. Subreddit with over 1 million members, and an estimated 2.4 million+ monthly visitors to community sites. Fans known to be kind of obsessive.

Nobody has ever photographed them. Ever.

No talks, no conferences, no presentations, no public appearances, no Q&A's, no recorded video conferences, no awards acceptances, ... nothing.

The CEO. Main executive management. Set company strategy. Managing operations. Serve as main link to the company. Drive company culture. Act as public face for the organization.

Nothing. No pictures.
by owenpalmer | 2026-01-09 23:09:38+00:00
Extremely disappointing analysis in the article and also the cited paper's abstract [0]. The only way this data could possibly hold any value is if they found a way to control for how depression might influence an individual's likelihood of choosing to participate in the trial in the first place, as well as trial completion rates.

Even an amateur could read the headline and instantly understand this critical point the experiment's design, and yet it's not even acknowledged under the "Risk of bias" section.

[0] https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
by chipotle_coyote | 2026-01-09 23:09:47+00:00
When you say "better Emacs support," you're kind of understating things: Org Mode was -- and to a large degree, still is -- tied intimately to Emacs. It was only available in Emacs for years, and if you didn't use Emacs, you probably didn't hear about it for years.

As someone who now uses both, I think the syntax between the two is really kind of a wash. I know Org Mode folks who insist that its syntax for links is more intuitive than Markdown's, for instance, whereas I used to insist that Markdown's was. Now I think neither is really intuitive -- the one that feels more natural to you is, very likely, the first one you learned and got comfortable with. Beyond that, most of the differences in syntax are kind of academic. (I would genuinely argue that Markdown's block quote formatting, which is the way that plain text email tended to quote messages, is more intuitive, at least to anyone who remembers writing email in plain text.) Org Mode partisans also correctly point out that you never have to worry about differences in syntax parsing the way you technically do with different flavors of Markdown, but I'd argue that's because there's effectively only one Org Mode parser out there, e.g., Org Mode in Emacs. There is no formal syntax specification for Org Mode any more than there is for Markdown, and if Org Mode had become as popular and had as many different implementations in as many different programming languages, it would absolutely have the same issue. (In fact, the few non-Emacs Org Mode parsers that I've seen are, to a one, at significant variance with Original Flavor Org Mode once you get past the basics.)

Org Mode's real strength isn't the syntax, it's everything else. I don't use it for GTD, either, but I use it as a task manager and an agenda system for work, and as a personal journal and fiction outliner. None of the power it gets for any of those things comes from using asterisks instead of hash marks for headlines, or slashes instead of underlines for italics. :)
by Tossrock | 2026-01-09 23:09:48+00:00
It's true that a lot of established ML techniques were first popularized to fight spam (ie bayesian filtering), but it might also be the case that they're not applying the full might of eg Gemini-3-Pro to every email received. I suspect Gemini-3-Pro would do an effectively perfect job of determining if something is phishing, with negligible values in the false quadrants of the confusion matrix, but it's probably too expensive to use in that way. Which is why things like this can still slip through.
by machomaster | 2026-01-09 23:09:57+00:00
Do you ever feel unmotivated to go to the toilet despite needing to? Has this lack of motivation ever stopped you from getting from your chair?

What modern people usually lack is not time, but lack of energy. Usually this is thought as the energy to do stuff (like coding a side hussle in the evening). But often it manifests in a lack of energy:

1. to make a decision (to do something)

2. to slow down, to stop the current activity and to think with the rational mind.

So you need to recognize these things and do certain decisions beforehand to solve the problem. Stuff like:

1. Go to the gym in the morning, when you still have the decision energy.

2. Create a habit, linking a new habit with the old ones, in order to decrease the energy expenditure

3. Increase the stakes, like getting a gym buddy

4. Decide stuff beforehand. Pack the bag, set up the alarm clock (to go to gym, to go to sleep)

5. When you are tired, actually rest. Don't turn the tv on, don't scroll social media, stop touching yourself via phone. If you are tired, eat, go to gym or a walk, go to sleep or simply sit in your chair or lay on the sofa looking at the walls. I guarantee, watching at the wall for 30 minutes straight will give you great motivation to do something else more productive. Don't let the monkey in you convince you to do the unproductive things I mentioned. Stay strong and make a rational decision what to do instead of looking at the wall. Do the right thing, not the thing that may feel nice in the midst of it.

6. Take care of the nutrition/sleep in order to increase the energy reserves

I hope that helps.
by voodooEntity | 2026-01-09 23:10:06+00:00
Its funny, always stucks on 90% till it fails with the error that another big image may be keeping the server busy.

I mean ok its a "demo" tho the funny thing is if you actually check the cli and requests, you clearly can see that the 3 stages the images walks through on "processing" are fake, its just doing 1 post request in the backend that runs while it traverses through the states, and at 90% it stops until (in theory) the request ends.
Show HN: Mac OS 8.1 Running on an ESP32-P4 Dev Board
by mcwiggin2 | 2026-01-09 23:10:21+00:00
I ported the BasiliskII Emulator to the ESP32-P4. The performance is a lot better than I expected. I think there is a ton more room to improve.

Currently there is support for USB Keyboards and Mice as well as the touch screen. The project is easy to build and install. I think there is a lot of performance left to unlock. The way I am handling the frame buffer is pretty basic at the moment.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-09 23:10:23+00:00
Even US citizens are fair game if they're not rich/popular enough. Renee Nicole Good's family will discover that no Bivens nor 1983 civil claims will be possible because federal agents essentially have absolute immunity. Michigan state is acting in a performative manner to assuage emotions when nothing will happen as they lack jurisdiction. That is a problem only Congress can solve, but won't because they're beholden to the same rich assholes as Clarence Thomas takes vacations and other bribes from.
by worldsayshi | 2026-01-09 23:10:51+00:00
I'm not claiming this works for everyone but what sometimes work for me to form a routine is to do the thing but without committing effort to it. I.e. go to the gym but you only promise yourself to go there, not actually spend effort there. Any actual exercise you then do is a bonus, not a "payment on your promise".

I think it can be generalized as:

Find the thing to do that doesn't require much effort but puts you in the context of doing the effortful thing. Do that thing. See if you "want" to do the effortful thing. Otherwise go home.

Cleaning? Put the vacuum in your hands and see if something happens.

At least I think that's how it works for me.

The points when it's hardest to make it work is when there's lots of distractions. Like when you try to get into a routine of doing work at a computer.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-09 23:10:53+00:00
1. Rubiks cube

2. Wordle. It’s much more a game of probability than anything else so start by eliminating the most common consonants and vowels. I am averaging word selection on the third row.

3. As a typical software developer can get a better job by memorizing all the details of common digital transmission mechanisms from the specifications. It’s how I escaped JavaScript insanity.

4. You can get a gardening green thumb by memorizing plant details, knowing the chemistry of your dirt, and buying old bananas by the case for conversion into a fertilizer slurry.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-09 23:11:11+00:00
I think it might be that with increased prices, America is less willing to pay so much for mediocre-or-worse pizza. At least in my area, the chains seem to be suffering, but the places that sell good-or-better pizza seem to be doing fine.

Which makes sense, because there's much less of a price differential between the two now.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-09 23:12:30+00:00
Basically things that eliminate friction. I wear only slip on shoes because having to tie & untie is friction. I replaced our kitchen cupboards with those glass window ones so I can see whats inside every cabinet without opening it. I have multiple laundry bins, so I actually don't put clothes away in a dresser when done. I just leave them in the bin, pull out what I'm going to wear, and then have separate bin(s) for dirty. Eliminates a huge friction point (folding & hanging) when it comes to doing laundry.

For work, that's mostly just luck. I'm a solo sysadmin for a non-tech company, and I work from home so I have a great deal of freedom. Outside of interruptions for help desk level tickets/emails (which suck and do throw off my flow), no one really oversees what I do and I set my own deadlines for the most part so I can work when and however it suits me to take advantage of days where I have good flow state.
by voodooEntity | 2026-01-09 23:13:27+00:00
If you have multiple images you could use photogrammetry.

At the end, if you want to "fill in the blanks" llm will always "make up" stuff, based on all of its training data.

With a technology like photogrammetry you can get much better results, therefor if you have multiple angled images and dont really need to make up stuff, its better to use such
by 93po | 2026-01-09 23:14:55+00:00
> The majority of the time, it isn't to save money, but the talent just isn't there in the US.

this is very clearly demonstrably not true. i posted about this months ago if you want to see my arguments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425031

i'm also not really sure why the budget the marines is relevant here. the DoD has a nearly trillion dollar budget. if we're going to randomly segment out expense centers why not focus it even more narrowly to something arbitrary like how much the military spends on flour for pizzas?

for ICE, total effective/enhanced funding for FY2026 is widely reported in the $28–30B from what I can tell.

not trying to be a dick but dont want to spend more time wording this more softly
by remich | 2026-01-09 23:15:51+00:00
What if the instructions they give you would be to submit to them while they assaulted you, sexually or physically? Are you supposed to comply and then challenge them in court later?

That is a thing that happens. Rarely, I suppose, and #notallpolice and all that, but the idea that we should live in a country where everyone just has to "comply" with the instructions or be murdered is ridiculous.
by vunderba | 2026-01-09 23:16:00+00:00
Peg system – it's a very simple rhyming mnemonic that helps you memorize a list of 10–20 items by quickly assigning visual imagery to each number. It's more of a parlor trick than anything, but it's pretty fun.

Here's the list for ten (but you can go much farther than this)

1 - Sun
2 - Shoe
3 - Tree
4 - Gore
5 - Hive
6 - Sticks
7 - Heaven
8 - Gate
9 - Vine
10 - Hen

Then you take the list of things (grocery list, etc) you want to quickly memorize:

1 - Viking
2 - Ink Pot
3 - Matador
...

and quickly create tiny visuals for each one:

1 - A longboat rows around the spherical face of the sun each of vikings dipping their flagons into the solar flares

2 - A old man accidentally knocks over his ink pot spilling it onto his shoes

3 - An Tree ent holds a cape and taunts the uruk-hai into charging at him

You'll find its trivial for somebody to call out a number and to recall the associated item. Over time you'll also find yourself getting extremely quick at it as well.
by oaiey | 2026-01-09 23:16:13+00:00
I share that perspective. Being an international company is a challenging thing regards law. You have to operate in best intent, and judges respect that.

And sure, some laws and most likely this one, are stupid. I always take GDPR as an example. Annoying as fuck, but a good regulation. Well written, well executed and hits its goal.

However, disrespecting and being tone deaf in communication is wrong, ignoring the intent (Italian based legal control of IP violations) is wrong and treating the Internet as a legal free space (or only accept US perspective) is wrong. Italy is a sovereign state and the Internet is operating there and on its citizens. It has all right and duty to do so. We have to respect that.