MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by latexr | 2026-01-16 17:59:25+00:00
I much prefer The Guardian’s coverage. It includes the organiser’s answer and examples of other situations where the medal was given away.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/maria-corina-m...

> Earlier in the day the Nobel organizers posted on X: “A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel peace prize laureate cannot.”

> (…)

> Earlier this week, the organisers of the Nobel peace prize announced the award could not be “shared or transferred” after Machado told Fox News she wished to “share” it with Trump. “The decision is final and stands for all time,” they said.

That one links to https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/11/nobel-institut...

Back to the original:

> Machado is not the first Nobel laureate to divest themselves of the award.

> After winning the 1954 Nobel prize in literature, Ernest Hemingway entrusted his medal to the Catholic Church in Cuba – where it was briefly stolen from a sanctuary in 1986 before Raúl Castro ordered its return.

> In 2022, the Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctioned his medal to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees. Leon Lederman, who won the 1988 Nobel prize for physics, sold his after it had spent 20 years “sitting on a shelf somewhere”.

> Machado appears to be the first person to give away her medal for such explicitly political reasons, although in 1943 the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun gifted his decoration to Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, as a sign of his admiration for the Nazis.
by chrisco255 | 2026-01-16 17:59:58+00:00
The U.S. does NATO and foots the majority of the bill and human resources for North Atlantic defense. That includes Canada.

The U.S. has historically saved Europe from itself on multiple occasions, it saved South Korea from being a communist dictatorship, it saved China from being completely subdued by Japan, along with the rest of the pacific.

It then helped to reestablish and rebuild Japan and Germany after WW2, it helped Canada's commonwealth the United Kingdom from certain disaster.

China has never done anything like that in its multi-thousand year history.
by kube-system | 2026-01-16 18:00:04+00:00
> Being "state of the art" means being the highest level of development or achievement in a particular field, device, procedure, or technique at a specific point in time. I don't think it's therefore unreasonable to expect supposed "state of the art" text-to-speech synthesis to do far better at everything old-school TTS could do and then some.

Non sequitur. Unless the 'art' in question is the 'art of adding features', usually this phrase is to describe a the quality of a very specific development, these are often not even feature complete products.
by tokai | 2026-01-16 18:00:04+00:00
On wikipedia her political views are describe by multiple sources as:

>she was viewed as a radical, far-right politician, too extreme even for her own party coalition

>most radical wing of the right

>the most radical wing of the political right

>maintained an extreme right-wing stance

It's rare that anyone picks the fascist label themselves so its hard to pin on anyone. But I guess it could be said in the slur sense of the term.
by sofixa | 2026-01-16 18:00:43+00:00
Gradium (https://gradium.ai/), a commercial company offshoot of Kyutai (open source lab), are focusing on emotion (both being able to recognise emotion and also understanding what emotion to use depending on context). I don't think any of their public existing models already does that, but they demoed it pretty impressively at the ai-Pulse conference.
by oconnor663 | 2026-01-16 18:01:00+00:00
It's important to think about the exact procedure you want to use for verifying something. Running with your thought experiment, let's say we publish "the root hash of the whole world" (not too far off from what Keybase did) each day in the Times. Now I open my phone to read some messages from Billy Bob, and my phone needs to get that hash somehow. This is just a thought experiment, so let's say for the sake of argument that it tells me to walk down to the convenience store, buy a copy of the day's paper, and scan a QR code on page 12. The problem with that arrangement (even in thought experiment land, where I'm happy to perform these steps every day) is that all the evil server needs to do to trick me is to put a doctored copy of the Times in that one newspaper stand. That's not the level of security we were hoping for. To get real security here, I'd need to do some sort of random sampling of newspaper stands distributed across the country, to build confidence that whatever QR code I'm seeing is the same one that everyone else is seeing. And the kicker is, everyone has to do this. We can't just pay one guy to sample the papers every day and tell us what the QR code was, because now our security depends on trusting that one guy, and the whole point of peer-to-peer security is avoiding that kind of centralized trust.

I think this is actually a great way to talk about the difficulty of the problem that Bitcoin solved, and why so many nerds were so interested in the whitepaper, long before all the real money got involved.
by y42 | 2026-01-16 18:01:40+00:00
adhd here, too, including asperger. seconded:

A huge intro post, like a text wall. That's everything an adhd person is trying to avoid.

Started the app. A couple of "motivational speeches". Asking some questions I don't even understand. Answered randomly, just to see what the app is offering. At the end: account required.

That's where you lost me.
by rpdillon | 2026-01-16 18:01:46+00:00
I'd love some clarity on that.

The linked page says this:

```
How AI Destroys Institutions

77 UC Law Journal (forthcoming 2026)

Boston Univ. School of Law Research Paper No. 5870623

40 Pages Posted: 8 Dec 2025 Last revised: 13 Jan 2026
```

What exactly is this document? It reads like a heavily cited op-ed, but is coming out of a law school from a professor there and calls itself a "research paper". Very strange.
by beepbooptheory | 2026-01-16 18:01:50+00:00
What is the scandal supposed to be in the first one? No water in the dam? Mismanagement? Nationalization itself?

The Derwick one seems pretty light too, at least the article here just mentions an accusation from a journalist. And even then, if we are using possible corruption/overbilling with regard to a government contractor as an "atrocity" now.. That's pretty wild to say the least.

And ok, Venezuela took bribes from another government contractor, along with many other countries. I wouldn't call that an atrocity, but if that's what it is I guess I will give you the benefit of the doubt about it.
by deng | 2026-01-16 18:02:06+00:00
If you look at the original Cursor post, they say they are currently running similar experiments, for instance, this Excel clone:

https://github.com/wilson-anysphere/formula

The Actions overview is impressive: There have been 160,469 workflow runs, of which 247 succeeded. The reason the workflows are failing is because they have exceeded their spending limit. Of course, the agents couldn't care less.
by daedrdev | 2026-01-16 18:02:08+00:00
The vast majority of US auto jobs have already been lost to automation yet I don't hear you asking for those to come back in exchange for twice as expensive cars.

This is these companies own fault. These companies have grown cozy rent seeking with little competition and have completely missed the electrification of cars as a result. Cheaper cars will hurt those workers, but all of society will be better off when one of their largest expenses decreases.
by cluckindan | 2026-01-16 18:02:16+00:00
”That means a recently acknowledged write may not show up until the next refresh.”

Which is why you supply the parameter

refresh: ”wait_for”

in your writes. This forces a refresh and waits for it to happen before completing the request.

”schema migrations require moving the entire system of record into a new structure, under load, with no safety net”

Use index aliases. Create new index using the new mapping, make a reindex request from old index to new one. When it finishes, change the alias to point to the new index.

The other criticisms are more valid, but not entirely: for example, no database ”just works” without carefully tuning the memory-related configuration for your workload, schema and data.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-16 18:02:33+00:00
The US government has really handled this poorly. Let's take one of our closest allies and push them into the arms of our biggest rival. All while helping boost that rival's total exports to record numbers. And boosting their universities to top positions in world rankings. Just brilliant, guys. "Make America Great Again" sure seems like it was intentionally tongue-in-cheek.
by troupo | 2026-01-16 18:02:33+00:00
> The fact that Firefox and Chrome and WebKit are likely buried in the training data somewhere might help them a bit, but it still looks to me more like an independent implementation that's influenced by those and many other sources.

They generate a statistically appropriate token based on a very small context window. And thet are slightly nerfed bot to reproduce everything verbatim because that would bring all sorts of lawsuits.

Of course they are not reproducing Webkit or Blink or Firefox verbatim. However, it's not an "independent implementation". That's why it's "stringing together a bunch of open-source components": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649586

Edit: also, this "independent implementation" cannot be compiled by their own CI and doesn't work, apparently.
by toast0 | 2026-01-16 18:02:35+00:00
Assuming they don't conform to US safety standards (and aren't easily made to conform), your best bet is to aim for this provision:

> Nonresidents may import a vehicle duty-free for personal use up to (1) one year if the vehicle is imported in conjunction with the owner's arrival. Vehicles imported under this provision that do not conform to U.S. safety and emission standards must be exported within one year and may not be sold in the U.S. There is no exemption or extension of the export requirements.

There's certainly a question of if it's personal use if your canadian friend leaves their vehicle at your place and you drive it around. But your friend can certainly get it over the border and I don't know how much enforcement you'll get after that. You will want the vehicle to return to Canada before the year is up.
by senordevnyc | 2026-01-16 18:02:36+00:00
I think you're onto something here, but I do wonder if self-efficacy is actually all that modifiable by individuals. I know some folks who struggle with nihilism and depression. I don't really identify with that, even though when we discuss the issues they're ostensibly depressed about, we share similar views. I wonder if I just got lucky with a brain that leans towards optimism and action, even when it doesn't seem like it'll make much difference in the grand scheme of things, and they were unlucky and were born with an absence of that self-efficacy.
by SECProto | 2026-01-16 18:02:39+00:00
> It's for just 50k vehicles, which means that the first 50k that get sent will be all Luxury high margin electric vehicles. [...] Why would anyone use there quota for cheap stuff?

If you find a better primary source, you'll see that the lower price vehicles are the only thing allowed at the low tariff rate:

The deal covers vehicles priced at $33,000 or less, and other cars sold at that price are already manufactured offshore

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/canada-china-elec...
by f311a | 2026-01-16 18:02:40+00:00
Yeah, it's

- Servo's HTML parser

- Servo's CSS parser

- QuickJS for JS

- selectors for CSS selector matching

- resvg for SVG rendering

- egui, wgpu, and tiny-skia for rendering

- tungstenite for WebSocket support

And all of that has 3M of lines!
by chaps | 2026-01-16 18:02:43+00:00
Yeah, my experiences match yours and I very, very much work with messy data (FOIA data), though I use postgres instead of duckdb.

Most of the datasets I work with are indeed <10GB but the ones that are much larger follow the same ETL and analysis flows. It helps that I've built a lot of tooling to help with types and memory-efficient inserts. Having to rewrite pipelines because of "that one dataframe API" is exactly what solidified my thoughts around SQL over everything else. So much of my life time has been lost trying to get dataframe and non-dataframe libraries to work together.

Thing about SQL is that it can be taken just about anywhere, so the time spent improving your SQL skills is almost always well worth it. R and pandas much less so.
by paulbakaus | 2026-01-16 18:03:05+00:00
Author here. I agree that that wasn't a strong example. I wasn't happy with the outcome of those before/after examples, it was rushed before the launch, and I shouldn't have shipped it. Removed. I mostly use these commands on smaller targeted sections on projects that I unfortunately can't screenshot, the case study examples where rushed and didn't communicate the value. Removed them for now, until I can fill in better, real examples.
by PedroBatista | 2026-01-16 18:03:33+00:00
Even most toy databases "built in a weekend" can be very stable for years if:

- No edge-case is thrown at them

- No part of the system is stressed ( software modules, OS,firmware, hardware )

- No plug is pulled

Crank the requests to 11 or import a billion rows of data with another billion relations and watch what happens. The main problem isn't the system refusing to serve a request or throwing "No soup for you!" errors, it's data corruption and/or wrong responses.
Show HN: Web PWA unifying translate/FSRS Anki/conjugations
by watduyuwan | 2026-01-16 18:03:43+00:00
I was fed up with my daily language learning workflow after immigrating to Spain: Translate app → manual Anki input → separate conjugation lookups for Spanish, so I built an app to solve that problem. Meet Leka: a Lovable-built web/PWA that unifies translate → FSRS flashcards → conjugations. It currently supports Spanish (Spain/LatAm), Italian, German, French, Portuguese, and Dutch, with more easily added in the future.

Now one flow:
- Type or paste text → auto-translate + word extraction → FSRS cards
- Integrated conjugator (full verb/noun tables, e.g., ser/estar)
- Offline PWA
- FSRS algorithm similar to Anki

Coming soon:
- Different study modes
- Voice to text mode
- Image to text mode
- Image <> translation mode

https://lekalearning.com (Free with Premium upgrade available)

Thoughts on Lovable for prod PWAs?
by nlunbeck | 2026-01-16 18:03:53+00:00
Frustrating to see.

Dev-led testing is too fundamentally different from a QA function, just as any amount of E2E tests can't replace manual testing. Each tries to solve for a different type of problem. Is it possible to do effective dev peer "QA" without essentially duplicating the QA role? And forget about testing one's own work..
Show HN: The 1 Day Protocol – An app for 24-hour psychological excavation
by railing1024 | 2026-01-16 18:04:07+00:00
Dan Koe recently published a framework for resetting your life in a single day, based on the idea that behavior change fails because we're trying to change actions instead of identity.

I turned it into an interactive web app: https://the1dayprotocol.vercel.app

How it works:

Morning: 12 questions to excavate hidden dissatisfaction and define an "anti-vision" (the life you refuse to live)
Day: Calendar events with scheduled interrupts to break autopilot thinking
Evening: Synthesize insights into vision statements, yearly goals, and daily actions
It's entirely local – no account, no backend, nothing leaves your browser. Your answers stay on your device.

There's also an optional AI reflection feature that acts as a Socratic mirror, challenging your answers without telling you what to think.

The premise is that most self-help fails because it targets symptoms (habits, productivity) instead of the root (unconscious goals and identity). This tool forces you to sit with uncomfortable questions for an entire day.

Curious if anyone has tried similar "structured introspection" approaches – or if this just feels like a fancy journaling app.

Original Article: https://x.com/thedankoe/status/2010751592346030461
by boringg | 2026-01-16 18:04:09+00:00
Who wants to be a trade partner with the US these days? I honestly ask people who aren't fully indoctrinated or already have ties established?

Its a dependency that I have to think almost all countries/businesses are evaluating. How do you do business and set up long term supply chains in a country can't trust that the economic policy of today exists in 3 months, they are actively trying to undermine their currency and the system of law is under heavy pressure to the point of failure.

It is tough to be supportive of the United States under this administration or that the future state of the US will be more sound. Having their formally closest trade partner looking over to China for trade is a massive signal.

The trade off is the market is large and strong financial (availability of capital) foundation - but I fear thats changing.
by FractalParadigm | 2026-01-16 18:04:11+00:00
> Keep in mind that the US auto industry is also very much a Canadian one.

As someone who's worked in the auto industry (in Canada) I have to 'hard disagree.' The big three have proven time and time again that we (Canadians) are second-class citizens when it comes to how they operate the facilities built here. Even before any of this nonsensical tariff nonsense, billions in government money has been given to the likes of Stellantis and GM over the years in an effort to keep jobs in Canada, with them putting in the bare-minimum effort to satisfy people in the short-term and thanking us by continuing their movement of production out of the country. Instead of trying to talk the president down from his pointlessly harmful tariffs, or doing what Toyota/Honda have done in pivoting to building worldwide models beside the domestic ones, the big three are gleefully taking the opportunity to expedite the closure or downsizing of facilities here.

Outside of the chuds who 'need' a pickup truck to satisfy their fragile ego, sales of "American" vehicles are starting to drop, with buyers choosing domestically-produced where possible (like the Toyota Rav4, Lexus NX/RX, or Honda Civic/CR-V).[0]

[0]: https://ca.investing.com/news/economy-news/market-share-of-u...
by alibarber | 2026-01-16 18:04:12+00:00
Also I don't see the point of what TLS is supposed to solve here? If you and I (and everyone else) can legitimately get a certificate for 10.0.0.1, then what are you proving exactly over using a self-signed cert?

There would be no way of determining that I can connecting to my-organisation's 10.0.0.1 and not bad-org's 10.0.0.1.
by cromulent | 2026-01-16 18:04:13+00:00
Good stuff, I appreciate your work.

I suspect that the ADHD audience on HN would skew towards people who have already developed coping mechanisms and systems (and some people seem to have very high intellectual horsepower), so you might not find the best market fit or feedback here. I think I am past the point where this may have been a fit for me, but earlier in my life it may have been very useful.

Edit: Can you explain what "clear boundaries around non-medical use" means?
by noo_u | 2026-01-16 18:04:13+00:00
I think both of us are ultimately wary of using the wrong tool for the job.

I see your point, even though my experience has been somewhat the opposite. E.g. a pipeline that used to work fast enough/at all up until some point in time because the scale of the data or requirements allowed it. Then some subset of these conditions changes, the pipeline cannot meet them, and one has to reverse engineer obscure SQL views/stored procedures/plugins, and migrate the whole thing to python or some compiled language.

I work with high density signal data now, and my SQL knowledge occupies the "temporary solution" part of my brain for the most part.
by scottious | 2026-01-16 18:04:20+00:00
Parents need reliable childcare. A teenager or aging parents can't fill this gap reliably. I need somebody to watch the kids most days from 8 until 4. A high schooler won't be able to do this. My in-laws who live 1.5 hours away and have mobility issues (plus their own lives) can't always do that.

I agree we need strong community in close proximity, but still people need to travel to destinations a few miles from their houses sometimes. Biking is a great (this is my primary form of transportation) but even I know biking and walking cannot fill every transportation need. We need the trifecta of biking/walking/transit to ween ourselves off of cars and develop denser communities with more people to interact with in our day-to-day lives.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-16 18:04:39+00:00
HN comment threads are really not the right place for discussions like this.

> Here's my core objection: you're defining "manipulating concepts" as "whatever special thing happens during conscious human reasoning that feels different from 'pattern matching.'" But this is circular and unfalsifiable. How would we ever know if an LLM (or another human, for that matter) is doing this "special thing"? You've defined it purely in terms of subjective experience rather than functional or mechanistic criteria.

I think your core objection is well aligned to my own POV. I am not claiming that the subjective experience is the critical element here, but I am claiming that whatever is going on when we have the subjective experience of "reasoning" is likely to be different (or more specifically, more usefully described in different ways) than what is happening in LLMs and our minds when doing something else.

How would we ever know? Well the obvious answer is more research into what is happening in human brains when we reason and comparing that to brain behavior at other times.

I don't think it's likely to be productive to continue this exchange on HN, but if you would like to continue, my email address is in my profile.