MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2026-01-18 19:05:21+00:00
If you hadn't noticed we've got our own fascist theocracy attacking its own people in the western world. We're trying to avoid giving it any more energy with vaguely-defined popular policy goals. And staying out of another country's affairs, regardless of how evil those affairs are, is a valid moral pillar.

Now perhaps there is an interesting academic discussion about whether if we had done more to direct Demented Donnie towards Iran, that he wouldn't be attacking the rest of NATO trying to steal Greenland to create some dipshit's idea of a legacy. But that is hardly definitive with the kind of moral clarity that you're asserting.
by chaps | 2026-01-18 19:05:28+00:00
I get you -- when I was doing investigative reporting about policing and technology, the Intercept's energy was basically "great pitch, but we want you to do 8mo more work before we'll talk; good luck not being able to afford rent in the meantime".

But, friend, with love -- shit talking about what people are doing or not doing is not the answer. Lead by example.
by antirez | 2026-01-18 19:06:01+00:00
I depends on the situation. In this case the agent worked only using the reference code provided by Flux's Black Forest Labs which is basically just the pipeline implemented as a showcase. The fundamental way for this process to work is that the agent can have a feedback to understand if it is really making progresses, and to debug failures against a reference implementation. But then all the code was implemented with many implementation hints about what I wanted to obtain, and without any reference of other minimal inference libraries or kernels. So I believe this just is the effect of putting together known facts about how Transformers inference works plus an higher level idea of how software should appear to the final user. Btw today somebody took my HNSW implementation for vector sets and translated it to Swift (https://github.com/jkrukowski/swift-hnsw). I'm ok with that, nor I care of this result was obtained with AI or not. However it is nice that the target license is the same, given the implementation is so similar to the C one.
by mlyle | 2026-01-18 19:06:02+00:00
Yah. A lot of the complexity in data movement or processing is unneeded. But decent standardized orchestration, documentation, and change management isn't optional even for the 20 line shell script. Thankfully, that stuff is a lot easier for the 20 line standard shell script.

Or python. The python3 standard library is pretty capable, and it's ubiquitous. You can do a lot in 50-100 lines (counting documentation) with no dependencies. In turn it's easy to plug into the other stuff.
by fsckboy | 2026-01-18 19:06:07+00:00
Realpolitik does not actually dictate that. It says you pay attention to your interests but with a focus on what is actually achievable, and not focused on things like national/regional pride or unrealistic notions of utopian good.

the situation where europeans feel they are in conflict with their best ally and economic partner says they actually need to relearn the lessons of realpolitik.
Show HN: Sinew – infrastructure patterns I got tired of re-writing
by greatnessinabox | 2026-01-18 19:06:11+00:00
After enough production projects, you realize most of us keep rebuilding the same infrastructure over and over: database connections that don’t fall over under load, auth that doesn’t get weird six months later, Docker configs that aren’t massive for no reason.

The usual options haven’t felt great to me:

* Copy something from an old project and hope the mistakes don’t come along with it
* Piece things together from blog posts that may or may not still be relevant
* Install another dependency and inherit its upgrade path forever

So I built Sinew.

It’s a registry of infrastructure patterns—not a framework, not a library. Just curated, tested code you copy directly into your project. You own it, you can read it end-to-end, and you can change it without fighting an abstraction.

There are 30+ patterns across areas like database setup, auth, caching, payments, monitoring, testing, and deployment.

Browse: https://sinew.marquis.codes

CLI: npm install -g sinew

This is mostly for people who like understanding their infrastructure instead of outsourcing it to packages.
by jesse__ | 2026-01-18 19:06:13+00:00
I've done that too and, in my experience, people that ask a scaling question that fits on a single machine don't have the capacity to have that nuanced conversation. I usually try to help the interviewer adjust the scale to something that actually requires many machines, but they usually don't get it.

Said another way, how do you have a meaningful conversation about scaling with a person who thinks their application is huge, but in reality only requires a tiny fraction of a single machine? Sometimes, there's such a massive gulf between perception and reality that the only thing to do is chuckle and move on.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-18 19:06:25+00:00
So I'm looking at the given graphs in your linked article and I just don't see how you are coming up with the 12 and 20 year timeframes for payback of EVs.

Just fuzzy eyeballing (I don't see the actual numbers for the manufacturing estimated CO2, just the graph), it looks like ~10% of the lifetime emissions for a new ICE come from manufacturing. That would put the the new EV payback vs used ICE at 4 or 5 years.

At that point, it just sort of depends on how long you hold onto your ICE for.
by themaninthedark | 2026-01-18 19:06:51+00:00
Not sure how to find a primary source, I am only finding news reporting on the speech.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1409929/China-news-US-w...

5 years ago is not that long ago and we were at the start of the Biden administration then. With Trump back in office are relationships better or more inflamed?

>I did discover that Xu Qiliang died last June. I doubt he's going to have much influence going forward.

Unelected leadership in top positions are generally not just pushing their own agenda, especially in autocratic governments. Any speech or statement is highly considered and controlled, that statement should be taken as policy unless it is retracted.
by fweimer | 2026-01-18 19:07:10+00:00
For a task like this, I expect the tool to use web searches and sift through the results, similar to what a human would do. Based on progress indicators shown during the process, this is what happens. It's not an offline synthesis purely from training data, something you would get from running a model locally. (At least if we can believe the progress indicators, but who knows.)
Show HN: TalkThrough – Screen annotation and voice capture for Linear (macOS)
by leek | 2026-01-18 19:07:24+00:00
I was building a web app for my wife and needed her feedback, but teaching her Linear wasn't realistic. She just wants to tell me "this button is broken" without learning issue tracking software.

So I built TalkThrough. She hits a hotkey, draws on the screen, talks through what's wrong, and it creates a ticket in Linear automatically. Now I get actionable feedback tracked in my backlog, and she doesn't have to touch Linear at all.

Built with Swift/AppKit. macOS only for now. Markdown export or Linear integration works, planning to add more based on demand.

Figured if it solved this problem for us, it might help QA engineers and PMs who spend too much time translating visual feedback into written tickets.

$49/year. Use code HACKER for 25% off if you want to try it.

Would love to hear what you think or if this solves a problem you've run into!
by renewiltord | 2026-01-18 19:07:34+00:00
Dude no one cares about “the rank and file”. You’re just serfs. It’s like asking whether John Doe, US citizen who pays for the Iraqi invasion, hates Iraqis. Well, no, he’s just flipping burgers and paying his $3k in tax ($600 of which goes to the war effort). He doesn’t care about Iraq. But the US does.

Your opinion on the subject is worthless. You are equipment.
by koolba | 2026-01-18 19:07:35+00:00
> A billionaire congressional candidate can’t just send a check to Quinnipiac University and suddenly find himself as the polling front-runner, but he can place enormous Polymarket bets on himself that move the odds in his favor.

Maybe not with a specific pollster depending on their scruples, but you can definitely pay to be part of the poll. And that’s the first step to getting any stats whatsoever.
by rectang | 2026-01-18 19:07:39+00:00
I saw that passage, which addresses that durability doesn't degrade through recycling cycles. But what I was curious about was whether this epoxy is more susceptible to weakening when exposed to heat in working environments, perhaps at lower threshold temperatures than common epoxy. Similarly, I wondered whether there were any chemicals which are commonly encountered in working environments which could serve as dissolving agents and damage this epoxy.
by akhil08agrawal | 2026-01-18 19:07:52+00:00
Same here. Really curious on where this leads. Firstly, I feel that the speed and complexity increase that comes with agents can only be dealt with people adept both in the domain and in general AI tools.

Basically, to really leverage this I think just knowing Figma perfectly previously or being a noobie and knowing Claude Code perfectly isn't gonna cut it.

Building things is fast, but building something that is gonna stick is gonna be more difficult now you have so many options.

The game has changed.
by bshaughn | 2026-01-18 19:08:39+00:00
It gives people in power, wether it be the government or even an NBA ref, a vehicle to profit off of conflicts of interest / fixing games / etc...

Ive seen people point out White House press conferences do weird shit, like cut the conference 10 seconds before some polymarket prop bet of "how long will this press conference be".

Much more heinously, a few months ago right before one of Trumps asinine tariff announcements, someone took out a $300M BTC short position that was almost certainly from a WH insider.

I honestly don't care if someone loses all their money gambling, but the problem I have is how so many institutions are able to be undermined at a fundamental level do the existence of polymarket.
by RugnirViking | 2026-01-18 19:09:27+00:00
thats an overly simplistic way to look at it. Of course you can never get more money from your employees' purchases than you give them, that makes no sense. The point is using your market power as a large employer to raise market salaries. People will not want to work for your competitors or other sectors if they pay half what you do. So when you rise, naturally other salaries will rise too. And those other workers will also be buying cars.

Whether that makes sense economically is a difficult problem to quantify, especially over any fixed timeframe. I would guess not, at least if your brand isnt insanely strong (on the level of half or more people with enough money would buy it)
by networkadmin | 2026-01-18 19:09:42+00:00
So that lazy people who form their worldview via a Quick Google Search, Wikipedia articles, and/or "news media" can actually have a chance to learn something real about the time they are living in.

It's like a dozen paragraphs, forming one complete argument. Is this too much material to take in all at once, in this brave new TLDR tomorrow?
by hypeatei | 2026-01-18 19:09:54+00:00
Perhaps soft skills are too squishy and/or broad of a term to be useful then. It seems like these discussions always go "maybe you, as the developer, just need to learn how to do soft skills properly?" in response to business types exhibiting an undesirable behavior. Sure, smooth talking and playing into someones personality might be more successful (albeit with a lot more hot air), but all of you are supposed to be working towards a goal. If someone gets hung up because you weren't smooth enough, I would think they're a bad faith actor who doesn't actually want to get something done.
by usui | 2026-01-18 19:09:56+00:00
If you have grievances with some foreign students having terrible English language skills, regardless of how well it generalizes to the student's country, why would you complain about those students? Wouldn't you rather complain about how badly standardized tests like TOEFL are at evaluating admitted students? Or complain about how universities don't set the standard high enough? Foreign students need a good enough score on a standardized English test to study in US universities. Overall this is a confusing comment.
by jondavidhague | 2026-01-18 19:09:58+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the solo founder behind Bountisphere. I find Zero-Based Budgeting (like YNAB) fails at handling Time: specifically in understanding cash flow/running balance not only today but next week, next month, next year. I find this approach creates a great ease knowing that the Money Plan you put in place is actually working right now AND into the future.

So, I built Bountisphere to focus on running balance forecasting instead of category tracking (though we do that too secondarily).

Would love any and all feedback on the approach! Thanks!!
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-18 19:10:12+00:00
The rearview mirror analogy is spot on. Traditional budgeting tells you what happened, cash flow forecasting tells you when you'll actually hit the wall.

The tricky bit is handling irregular income and timing uncertainty. Are you modeling confidence intervals or just point estimates? Most forecasting tools I've seen fall apart when income isn't predictable - would be curious how you're approaching that.
by rpiguy | 2026-01-18 19:10:34+00:00
Can you please leave this comment on all the posts that state “we need to protest” or “look at the mad king” I don’t see any explanation or opportunity for curious conversation.

Why did you single mine out? Oh yeah, the default instinct to censor different ideas.

I support the US assuming control of Greenland because it would be incredibly economically beneficial to the US, militarily beneficial to the US, we’d be on the hook for defending it in case of a war as the EU hardly has any expeditionary force left, and we’ve propped up Europe for 70 years.

It could greatly delay the collapse of the American empire that I love and enjoy living in.

We haven’t been a humble republic since the close of WW2, maybe even WW1.
by onli | 2026-01-18 19:11:28+00:00
You are right. But it's a matter of perspective. In the mainstream perspective those bases are based on contracts and a method of mutual security. But there is indeed also the perspective in Germany that those bases are factually occupying forces and given their history the option of having those bases removed have been limited.

And there is a kernel of truth in it. The USA likely wouldn't give up Ramstein under any circumstances safe the German military mobilizing against them, the base is (was?) too important for the US. When Trump invades Greenland we will see this play out (how the base stays active and Germany is powerless to stop that).
by notnullorvoid | 2026-01-18 19:11:43+00:00
Search so far has not been overly pushy with ads. It's easy enough to gain the instinct of scrolling down after each search. There's little incentive for people to seek out an ad free alternative.

That changes with local AI though. There is now incentive to integrate and further develop self hosted search. You can see it happening on AI services already, using their own internal search engines for better reasoning and more accurate results.

I suspect Google's censorship and intentional worsening of search results to increase traffic would've been enough on its own to eventually drive people to self hosted search as it became trivial to setup.

Streaming entertainment is different, there's usually no legal alternatives. Either you pay extra for no ads, or you put up with the ads. You could easily say that streaming services have demonstrated that people don't have a high tolerance for ads as well. One of the major drivers to streaming from cable TV was the lack of ads at the time.
by gloryjulio | 2026-01-18 19:11:49+00:00
Many years ago, I used Redux to build real time streaming data processing layer. Basically I need to receive, merge, and process multiple data streams into a single realtime data pool. After that,consuming the realtime data becomes dead easy.

Even now I am not sure I could find a better tool to deal with real time data and synchronization. But for simple crud Redux is mostly overkill
by larrydag | 2026-01-18 19:12:19+00:00
It works for me. Cathedral is analogous to free software being a religion. It is a theocratic worldview that has a zealous following that must apply the rituals of old. Bazaar is the marketplace. It is supposed to be a efficient market metaphor for software being transactional and not relational.

Is this a perfect metaphor? I think its a rigid way of looking at software on either side. I think it is more grey. I like the merits of both sides.
by addaon | 2026-01-18 19:12:29+00:00
> IMHO the bigger issue with NaN-boxing is that on 64-bit systems it relies on the address space only needing <50 bits or so, as the discriminator is stored on the high bits.

Is this right? You get 51 tag bits, of which you must use one to distinguish pointer-to-object from other uses of the tag bits (assuming Huffman-ish coding of tags). But objects are presumedly a minimum of 8-byte sized and aligned, and on most platforms I assume they'd be 16-byte sized and aligned, which means the low three (four) bits of the address are implicit, giving 53 (54) bit object addresses. This is quite a few years of runway...
by orwin | 2026-01-18 19:12:50+00:00
The US has less arctic capability than just the Nordics, not including the Baltic States, Germany, France, Italy and the UK who also all have arctic specialists. How is the US the best country to defend that zone? Less usable equipment, less personnel, less spec ops? Clearly not the planes, f35 can't operate 8 out of 12 months in arctic conditions, unlike the grippen (at least they won overheat). The only part where you need the US is the Navy, because it allows you to project your power, but how does it help against an invasion, where the logistics are on your side anyway?

That's pure cope.
by jrm4 | 2026-01-18 19:13:37+00:00
The more I read and consider Bluesky and this protocol, the more pointless -- and perhaps DANGEROUS -- I find the idea.

It really feels like no one is addressing the elephant in the room of; okay, someone who makes something like this is interested in "decentralized" or otherwise bottom-up ish levels of control.

Good goal. But then, when you build something like this, you're actually helping build a perfect decentralized surveillance record.

This why I say that most of Mastodon's limitations and bugs in this regard (by leaving everything to the "servers") are actually features. The ability to forget and delete et al is actually important, and this makes that HARDER.

I'm just kind of like, JUST DO MASTODONS MODEL, like email. It's better and the kinks are more well thought about and/or solved.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-18 19:13:56+00:00
> Venn between 'sees footage of ICE and still wants to recruit' and 'gun owner' overlaps a lot more than the former and non-gun owners

I’d encourage you to be rigorous with this assumption.

The line between even folks who will cheer on a Gestapo on TV and those who would materially aid it in their own communities is bright and wide.
by gruez | 2026-01-18 19:14:00+00:00
>I’ve seen a lot of claims of rampant cheating in China. Perhaps gp who doesn’t seem to have a high opinion of Chinese students would worry about cheating in a standardized test?

I don't know, the Chinese seem to do a good enough job keeping cheating under control in their college entrance exams (gaokao) such that most families spend their resources on tutors and cramming rather than bribes. Worst case scenario, require tests to be done on US soil. I'm sure someone paying $50k+/yr tuition for 4 years can afford a $500 flight to hawaii for their tests.
by darhodester | 2026-01-18 19:14:06+00:00
Hi,

I'm David Rhodes, Co-founder of CG Nomads, developer of GSOPs (Gaussian Splatting Operators) for SideFX Houdini. GSOPs was used in combination with OTOY OctaneRender to produce this music video.

If you're interested in the technology and its capabilities, learn more at https://www.cgnomads.com/ or AMA.

Try GSOPs yourself: https://github.com/cgnomads/GSOPs (example content included).
by sodapopcan | 2026-01-18 19:14:58+00:00
> But history shows nearly every time a tool makes people more efficient, we get more jobs, not less.

I hope so, but you have any ideas what they could be? This time feels different, especially because all the ultra-pro-AI people keep saying that "this time it's different" from a technological revolution. This is aiming to replaces people across many industries whereas historically it has been in smaller increments as new inventions are (more slowly) rolled out.
by jondavidhague | 2026-01-18 19:15:05+00:00
thanks for comment! i'm tracking both irregular and regular income/expense via common frequencies: weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, quarterly, annually. Then that income/expense shows up appropriately on the Money Calendar with projected running balance. so even if irregular (either income or expense) you can easily see it play out in the calendar. so nothing too fancy on the technical end. user just needs to pick a frequency and/or insert one-off income/expenses as needed. I use this obsessively and find it works well.
by CodingJeebus | 2026-01-18 19:15:47+00:00
> Gambling isn’t a new problem, but apparently we thought it would turn out differently this time, for some vague unclear reason.

Moneyed interests saw a business opportunity, simple as that. Economic investment is becoming highly concentrated towards high-growth, high-risk opportunities and gambling has long thrived in the black market while staying current with technology.

> except in the value that acquiring money by any means necessary is a good thing.

And this will only become more true as the economy continues to worsen. Economic downturns and market collapses favor the elite.
by Flundstrom2 | 2026-01-18 19:16:00+00:00
In the theoretical case of US actually invading Greenland (whatever that would mean, considering the largest city Nuuk is the size of a middle-sized town), the question isnt about potential casualties on Greenland.

The question is what would happen to the US staff land-locked on NATO bases within the EU. They will automatically become under siege, vastly outnumbered by European counterparts.

Since any attack on Greenland is an attack on the EU country the Kingdom of Denmark, and any attack on any EU countries automatically trigger EU Article 42.7, which mandates the full support from all members, to which all EU countries have committed, it would imply full-scale war.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-01-18 19:16:03+00:00
the real question is how much of the art is their own and how much is outside expectations and their reactions to it.

And it's not always giving in to those voices, sometimes it's going in the opposite direction specifically to subvert those voices and expectations even if that ends up going against your initial instincts as an artist.

With someone like A$AP Rocky, there is a lot of money on the line wrt the record execs but even small indie artists playing to only a hundred people a night have to contend with audience expectation and how that can exert an influence on their creativity.