MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Rochus | 2026-01-21 13:27:55+00:00
Claiming someone explains capitalism "better than Marx" is a low bar. It is widely accepted that most of Marx’s central predictions did not materialize as he forecasted, not even during his lifetime. The article’s conclusion, that the "Land vs. Money" divide explains modern politics better than "Boss vs. Worker", is compelling because it solves puzzles that Marxism cannot. But the article "cherry-picks" Hume’s sociological insights while downplaying his own massive predictive failure (e.g. "Either the nation must destroy public credit, or public credit will destroy the nation").
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-21 13:29:27+00:00
So much that is either wildly naive, or willfully disinforming, here.

> In the case of Ukraine, being peacefully “relocated” to Russia seems much better than what is happening now.

Provably false: People are risking their lives to avoid that.

No one outside of Russia (except perhaps you and Trump) ever believed Russia wouldn't pursue cultural genocide.

> Before the war the reputation of the Ukrainian government was not much different from the reputation of the Russian government.

What has the international reputation of a government got to do with... anything? "Oh well, no one can tell us apart from Russia, so we might as well sell our children and be sent to work camps voluntarily."

Also, that was dead wrong.
by DrScientist | 2026-01-21 13:29:35+00:00
At it's worse yes, at it's best absolutely not.

The role of government, at it's best, is to ensure the system as a whole benefits the democratic majority as a whole.

The argument that unregulated free markets will deliver has a key flaw - people who work in private companies don't want endless free and fair competition, especially if they are currently in the lead, they are also incentized to dump as much of the true cost of what they are doing on to other people.

So companies will chose cartels and monopolies over competition, choose pollution over responsibility, offload infrastructure and people costs onto others etc, minimise tax rates ( avoid paying for stuff they use ) etc.

Assuming an unregulated market is best is like assuming a football game is better if there are no rules. Turns out cheating is easier than competing almost everytime - and without government to set and enforce the rules you end up with pollution, crime ( people decided the rules don't work for them ), stagnation, and a feudal society.

Take something as simple as rule of law. A free market approach to that is there is no law, everyone negotiates each interaction and enforces their will with personal force. Turns out that's both exhausting and chaotic - much better to collectively agree what is legal or not and then have collective enforcement.

Sure it's slower to change, sometimes unfair, but pretty much every group of people in every country in the world has evolved a system of government rather than go with anarchy.

So good government is all about building - building complex systems - constantly adjusting them as people try and game them - that result in optimal outcomes for the majority of people.
by _petronius | 2026-01-21 13:29:48+00:00
This is true of all contract notarization in Germany (even when buying a house, jesus that is a slog), and although it is a bendy-banana level silly thing that people focus on, isn't actually the biggest problem in company founding here. MUCH more problematic is unfavorable tax rules making equity compensation difficult, capital requirements, legal/notary fees, and an investor class that is notoriously skittish.

If you could solve all those problems and still had to go listen to the Notar recite the contract in a monotone, it would be a worth trade.
by whizzter | 2026-01-21 13:29:53+00:00
I'd look at it in another way, hyperscalers exist due to code contributed from all around the world, often in the form of open source, Europe going closed and competing against the rest of the world (literally) isn't going to be a path forward.

Clients of mine are on hyperscalers due to the ease of deployment,etc but they are focused on lock-in, if ease could be attained in combination with portability then an ecosystem could exist where mid-scaler providers (that exists in abundance in Europe) could have a better chance against the behemoths.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-21 13:30:08+00:00
This is silly, people don't need AI to send you garbage. If your project is getting lots of junk reports, you should take it as a good sign, that people are looking at it a lot now. You don't remove the incentive, you ask for help to triage the junk.

Curl is a popular and well supported tool, if it needs help in this area, there will be a long line of competent people not volunteering their time and/or money. If you need help, get more help. don't use "AI slop" as an excuse to remove the one incentive people have to not sell exploits or just hoard them.
by saibaswanthraj | 2026-01-21 13:30:12+00:00
We’re exploring what a workforce operating system looks like when identity, execution, intelligence, learning, and trust are treated as infrastructure rather than tools.

This piece outlines how RizeOS is being built as an AI + Web3 native workforce OS, and why we partnered with Step In X to strengthen the global talent layer.

Not a launch, an infrastructure perspective.
by floatrock | 2026-01-21 13:30:13+00:00
Huge amount, but maybe not in the way you intended.

Many of California's ecosystems have evolved to expect fires. Humans can't stand fires and aggressively put them out. So fuel that would be regularly burned off in mild wildfires instead builds up into megafires that exceed the limits of what the ecosystem can handle (a lot of California trees are fire-tolerant, but there's a point where the flames get too high and too intense).

So yeah, the human activity that affects these cycles is caused by our cognitive dissonance and fear to phrases like "mild wildfire".
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-21 13:31:07+00:00
I don't really intend my services to be used by EU Govt's but rather just individuals/businesses even and if the EU govt. actually requires it at that point, I genuinely don't mind travelling to European and living there if things do come out as this (if EU provides me & maybe my family a visa ie) & am willing to cooperate consultancy work with EU govt. or others as well

My focus was on the more of a Eu-alternatives kind of thing. I want my idea of privacy to be aligned and EU seems perfect for that. I want to provide sustainability in an idea & can establish an EU company or partner up with one.

My question is that I would still live in India for the most part starting out & I might be unable to make an EU company in the start too but if I am required, then I will do so

Aside from this, I am willing to use only EU services internally for my product as well as I mentioned.

is there any way that I can still align myself with the EU-alternatives mission?

Might sound a bit strange but I want to come into Eu but I can't because immigration is hard/expenses and I want to come to Europe when I finally figure out things/have a decent product in the first place.

Some people told me to create an EU company which holds an Indian company as a consultancy firm and you can be part of both and manage to establish a Data sharing policy given that I can access EU data from Indian soil so If I can do something about it.

I am not really familiar with EU laws tho so I am interested to hear more from people actually interested.
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-21 13:31:09+00:00
These are a few ideas.

My guess is that people on HN make a lot of money. Finding effective places to donate it is useful. While this won't be able to directly influence international saber rattling, it can still help protect people from Trump's criminal presidency.

Donate to organizations that provide legal information and legal defense to people at risk of abuse by ICE. Donate to organizations that provide food for people who are frightened to leave their homes because of ICE. Donate to organizations that provide food to people who are threatened by SNAP funding changes. Donate to independent media organizations that are willing to aggressively criticize the Trump administration. If thinking internationally, donate to organizations that target problems that USAID was targeting before being gutted.

For political change we need two things: democrats to win in 2026 and 2028 and democrats to have the guts to dismantle the systems that enabled Trump and charge people involved for their crimes. Existing dem leadership is clearly not willing to do this. So we need involvement starting at the local level all the way up to replace dem leadership with people with guts. Find community groups involved in local elections.

If you live in a region where ICE is highly active, document. Making their crimes undeniable to as many people as possible is what will shift public opinion so much that a new government will be forced to act.
by ivan_gammel | 2026-01-21 13:31:37+00:00
In metric world nobody cares about decimal points in temperature outside. Measuring precision is not that good because of wind, humidity, exposure to sun etc. We just don’t need that granularity, so it is really hard to understand why would you need that. Is there really any difference between 56°F and 57°F that you can feel and want to measure?

And choice of 0/100 for weather is absolutely baseless. You do have below-zero days and in some places it can be over 100. With Celsius you know when it’s going to be ice on the roads and when rain becomes snow.
by mcntsh | 2026-01-21 13:31:47+00:00
You're just saying this because you're American and accustomed to it.

To you, a 0-100 scale makes sense but to me it doesn't because 0f (-17c) is way rarer of a temp than 100f (38c).

Anyway, from the metric perspective, most people look at it like... 0 is coat and boots weather, + 10 degrees is jacket weather, + 10 degrees is t-shirt weather, and + 10 degrees is hot. IMO, using "freezing" as the reference kinda makes sense...
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-21 13:31:57+00:00
If you don't have the key, how? I browsed XDA forums a lot in the past to try and ulock and old phone, and there didn't seem to be any way. All of the guides ended up being nonsense.

Someone above said you need the NCK code which is generated from a secret only the carrier has - how does having root get around this?
by ericmay | 2026-01-21 13:32:09+00:00
> Yeah, we went over the Metric System that whole year. I can still sing the "Metric Family" song from the film on metric units ("Kilo", "Milli", etc.). And to my young an impressionable mind, the U.S. was joining the rest of the world "Free World" in a kind of Star-Trek-like casting aside of the old things that divided us—joining each other with a focus on progress, science, space…

I’ve always found this peculiar because at times I have felt the same, but reflecting over the years and I guess as my mind settling on lived experience and opinions I’ve come to appreciate the Imperial system far more precisely because of its absurdities but also because of its history and usefulness without instrument.

As someone who, well, finds say Renaissance or Impressionist art to so far be the peak of human artistry, I find the imperial system fits in better with that warmth of humanity in contrast to Frank Lloyd Wright, Banksy, minimalism, and the cold calculation of the more “scientific” metric system.

Underneath that all is also this view that the United States at least needs to “join the world” and adopt Metric, and soccer, and such and I find myself increasingly rejecting both and other similar notions in favor of cultural uniqueness and fun over conformity.

I hope we never change sustems, and I don’t think we will anytime soon. If we do, however, we should not switch to Celsius because the useful scale of Fahrenheit is far superior 0-100 versus 0-32. Celsius isn’t very Metric-y.
by bondarchuk | 2026-01-21 13:32:18+00:00
When the negative feelings are described (interpreted!) as resulting from a supposedly pathological condition, for example. Also, when negative feelings result from the idea that a certain issue is pathological. And when you put these two together in a loop you have a pretty clear dynamic of pathologization, I'd say.

Of course it's hard to argue with the bare fact of someone feeling something, but everything surrounding that such as the attribution of the causes, potential solutions, and the terms in which feelings are described are all open to debate.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-01-21 13:32:24+00:00
An eyeballed yard is roughly the same as an eyeballed meter. An eyeballed foot is 1/3 of that. You can stick 4 inches in 10 cm roughly.

And I just poke my nose out the window and look outside to see what the temperature is

Freezing.... ~30°F.... ~0°C

Need coat... ~50°F... ~10°C

T-shirt..... ~70°F... ~20°C

Melting..... ~90°F... ~30°C

Rules of thumb can be learned either direction!

ps HN tables are not really a thing, are they?

pps Suspiciously many experiments are conducted at 293K
by dTal | 2026-01-21 13:32:40+00:00
I remember, in 2007, running FreeBSD on a desktop with 512MB RAM and only using 64MB of it running full GNOME 2 and a running instance of Firefox with a couple tabs. A totally standard desktop experience.

Even better, my laptop at the time had only 128MB of RAM and ran Windows XP - a supported, albeit minimal, configuration. XP was bloatier than FreeBSD of course, and ran correspondingly less well, but replacing explorer.exe with a shell called "blackbox" - an openbox-alike - and carefully curating applications (e.g. K-Meleon instead of Firefox) rendered it a perfectly viable multitasking desktop. I have a screenshot from that machine showing an AIM window, an mp3 player, an IDE for an embedded system, and a web browser with the documentation open for that IDE, all running comfortably (on one of its several desktops - yes you could have multiple desktops on XP with alternative shells such as blackbox).

Computers now require approximately 30x the RAM to achieve similar levels of "barely viable" performance - 4GB is considered the absolute minimum for general purpose desktop viability. And qualitatively speaking, what do they do now, that my 2007 fleet did not do? It is difficult to say. One is led to the conclusion that something has gone terribly awry with resource consumption.
by smusamashah | 2026-01-21 13:33:10+00:00
Github can use youtube strikes like system. PRs are tied to people. Someone reported for submitting slop should get a badge or something similar.

If a PR is submitted by someone who is then known to submit slops, they can be easily ignored by the maintainers.

EDIT: Or may be something like SponsorBlock for youtube. There could be a browser extension that will collectively tag sloppers the sameway and can help identify sloppers.
by rsyring | 2026-01-21 13:33:27+00:00
I recently tried to help my mom reset her Apple account password on a modern Mac. Absolutely and utterly shite process at almost every step. I couldn't believe it. Even had a screen show up completely blank that was obviously supposed to have something there but I have no idea what.

Finder is garbage from a power user UX perspective.

And the extra hoops to jump through to manage windows instead of applications is super annoying IMO.

I think Apple is slowly enshitifying it's UX advantages.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-01-21 13:33:42+00:00
There really is no reason for it to be longer, more expensive, and more complicated than what exists today in, say, the UK where you can do it all online for about £20 and complete in a matter of hours.

This is really down to individual countries' red tape and suspicion.

The risk element is also not at all attached to forming a company (hence why it can be so simple and quick), it is with funding and finance. So banks will want to see a business plan but the company registration office does not, or should not, care.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-21 13:33:42+00:00
Honestly everyone should just use T-Mobile Connect. They make it very hard to find on their site, but it's their true prepaid service, cheapest plan is 5GB of data and unlimited calls/texts, and it won't a lesser priority like MVNOs are.

The fact that people pay over $100/month for a phone bill is truly a uniquely mind-boggling American thing.
by entuno | 2026-01-21 13:34:14+00:00
I remember seeing a prank program years ago that showed the SETI@home screensaver for a bit, then popped up an alert box saying "Alien Life Found!" with options to submit or cancel(!).

If you tried to submit it would spend a while with a really slow progress bar, and then say it failed to submit and asked you to contact SETI directly. I wonder if anyone actually did....
by moritzwarhier | 2026-01-21 13:34:20+00:00
Companies are treated like persons legally and while I'm sure there is too much bureaucracy in many places, I'm also sure that there are important documents that should be required.

For example to make sure that a company can be held responsible when it breaks the law.

There are already enough loopholes to disconnect legal responsibility from profit-taking, and not every company is benign.

Sure, if the documents cannot be acquired in X days for other reasons, that would undermine the tagline.

But I don't think that's the main risk.

Let's not forget that some requirements make sense.

In Germany, the government recently decided that some minor applications to local governments must be answered within X days or else are automatically approved.

But "minor" is important here... great for a small business that applies for a permit to renovate there outdoor seatings or whatever.

I wouldn't want for company foundings to be auto-approved without submitting the legally required documents.
by closewith | 2026-01-21 13:34:31+00:00
I’m not sure you read my comment. I didn’t claim LLMs have reached a ceiling – I’m very bullish on them.

The point I was making is about the baseline capability that even sceptics tend to concede: if LLMs were “only” good at CRUD and task automation (which I don’t think is their ceiling), that alone is already economically and socially transformative.

A huge share of white-collar work is effectively humans doing CRUD and coordination. Compressing or automating that layer will have second- and third-order effects on productivity, labour markets, economics, and politics globally for decades.
by turbocon | 2026-01-21 13:34:39+00:00
Any other worthwhile projects to donate cpu time to? I see Folding@Home is still going.

Update: looks like there is a Wikipedia list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_pr...

Would still be nice to know for the applicable ones if any success have come out of these or if they're just fun toys
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-21 13:35:21+00:00
Super cool, I might want to connect this to my swipe engine [1] (see comment below). Since you have already curated so many feeds this is the source I was looking for (and trying to build myself [2]). I’ll shoot you an email.

[1] https://philippdubach.com/standalone/rss-tinder/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602227
by closewith | 2026-01-21 13:35:25+00:00
I acted as a technical advisor on a raise in Q2 2025 and saw figures from the EI Market Research Centre that Q1 Series As & Bs totalled ~$35 BN USD vs ~€4.5 for the EU as a bloc, so very roughly an order of magnitude greater. 2025 was considered a mid year for US VC capital deployment but a good year for the EU.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-21 13:35:29+00:00
> Go a step further and switch to Mint, T-mobile's pay-as-you-go subsidiary. I'm paying $180/year for a single line. I've been on mint for ~3 years now.

> On Mint your traffic is routed with lower priority than T-Mobile's main customers.

Much better to just use T-Mobile connect. Same pricing without the lower priority. I pay $15/month for my line which works out the same to $180/year.
Ask HN: How to find companies that use ChatGPT?
by Poomba | 2026-01-21 13:35:31+00:00
I built a GPT for the ChatGPT store to help turn docs and meeting notes into internal wikis. The ideal customer are large engineering-oriented companies. Ideally, companies that just started using ChatGPT and AI to do this type of task.

Is there a tool that can help me find companies that just started using ChatGPT? I tried Wappalyzer and Builtwith but those seem to just focus on frontend stuff like JS frameworks
by mrtksn | 2026-01-21 13:36:01+00:00
I'm not so sure about that. Elon Musk and Trump promised something of this sort, created the DOGE department and ended up not saving anything despite claiming to uncover waste.

> Dying out, pyramid scheme retirement system mostly.

The solution to this is more creampies 20 years ago, no government action can change that. Every generation pays for the retirement of the previous one and if a generation makes less kids then they put higher burden on those kids. Before the taxes and pensions people used to look after their aging parents, today people who live in cities and pay taxes so that they can have independent lives from their parents. That's how biology works, people born procreate age and die and if you live in a society the young ones take care of the old onces until they die.
by urup2l8 | 2026-01-21 13:36:06+00:00
The other issue I have is when you go to a local store they don’t stock items, they say “we can order it”.
I needed a gasket for my Kamado Joe grill. I went to my local dealer. They didn’t have one and proceeded to order one for me - the salesman was looking on the Amazon site! Why would I buy it from them? I haven’t been back since.
by codebyaditya | 2026-01-21 13:36:24+00:00
(Methodology): Author here. Technical methodology: The counterintuitive finding: DHS justified the weighted lottery by citing "employers submitting large volumes of low-wage registrations"—understood to mean staffing firms. But our data shows:

Product companies (direct employers): 22.0% Level I concentration
Staffing/consulting firms: 7.1% Level I concentration
Ratio: 3.1×
Tech companies hiring junior engineers get hit 3x harder than the outsourcing firms the rule supposedly targets.

Data: DOL H-1B LCA Disclosure Data FY2024, 517,874 certified applications. Stack: Python, pandas 2.1.0.
by kevin061 | 2026-01-21 13:36:41+00:00
I think (or maybe hope) that open source is going to be a large part of the European data sovereignty strategy.

America has had decades to privately run and develop their own software alternatives and everything (Windows, Office, Google) is extremely deeply established now and hard to compete against. I mean, can you imagine building a proprietary x86_64 operating system from scratch not based on Linux? And writing the code is just a small part of the work. You also need drivers from manufacturers like Realtek and Nvidia. You need people buying your product. You need marketing.

It's just not going to happen. Open source is the only way forward for EU, in my opinion.

And therefore, I think you will be able to contribute as much as you want to these open source efforts. Even testing and translations are already great initiatives, but if you can also write code, that's even better!
by closewith | 2026-01-21 13:36:49+00:00
> But the claim was that early stage VCs in Europe invest in US instead, contrary to my experience. If they were instead investing in US companies, I'd see that instead, I don't know if I used the wrong word here, where exactly is the tautology?

Not to disrespect your experience, but I don't it is particularly relevant, because the capital deployment from EU HNW is overwhelming deployed outside the bloc, largely in the US.

> I don't understand the assumption that I wouldn't know what my peers are up to, unless you're assuming I only know these people because they specifically invest in European companies, is that what you're trying to imply?

I do suspect your peers aren't the Europeans deploying the majority of early stage capital or that you don't know what they're investing in.