MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pastor_williams | 2026-01-13 14:24:28+00:00
This is why I subscribe to my local city and regional newspapers. Similar to emailing my representatives about political issues that are of interest to me. It isn't much and I'm just a drop in the ocean but at least it is more than complaining into a void or just reading other's complaints online and getting depressed.

For more local issues I can really feel like I am making a difference. We have sidewalks all the way to my kids' school and a crosswalk now a year after I made it my cause and messaged city planners and councilmen.
by rvz | 2026-01-13 14:24:36+00:00
> Does this solve the trifecta, or is the network still exposed via connectors?

Having sandboxes and VMs still doesn't mean the agent can still escape out of all levels and still exfiltrate data.

It just means the attackers need more vulnerabilities and exploits to chain together for a VM + sandbox and permissions bypass.

So nothing that a typical Pwn2Own competition can't break.
by slfreference | 2026-01-13 14:24:37+00:00
I heard Boeing whistleblowers died unexpectedly.

Two prominent Boeing whistleblowers, John Barnett (died March 2024) and Joshua Dean (died April 2024), have died in recent times, raising significant concerns about retaliation and safety at the aerospace giant; Barnett died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after battling Boeing in a retaliation lawsuit, while Dean died from a sudden infection after raising quality concerns, with his family suspecting foul play despite official rulings. Barnett's death was ruled a suicide, though his family's wrongful death suit claims Boeing's harassment caused his distress, while Dean's death followed rapid illness, with his family also alleging misconduct by his employer, Spirit Aerosystems, and Boeing.
Ask HN: Best FOSS budgeting tool (AI integrated)?
by mavsman | 2026-01-13 14:24:43+00:00
After seeing how Claude can help me clean up my disk space in no time I figured I could find some easy budget improvements with it. Perhaps just pulling in some CSVs to Claude would do the trick but I figured I'd check if there's most of a full-service solution that anyone is using, or maybe even a non-AI solution that I could modify.
by Popeyes | 2026-01-13 14:25:09+00:00
Rightmove, the property sales website, absolutely destroyed local journalism in the UK. It was written on the wall, but local newspapers had all the local listings for property and other services. A local newspaper was 60%+ of house sales, but that advertising revenue paid for local journalists to sit and read council papers and attend meetings and get people out in the community. Nowadays, local journalism, even from national broadcasters like the BBC is a shadow of its former glory.
by shagie | 2026-01-13 14:25:13+00:00
> With online shopping and delivery, the warehouse can be a dark, cramped, hot, robot-filled pandemonium in the worst part of town.

Tom Scott - How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?
https://youtu.be/ssZ_8cqfBlE (grocery fulfillment centers are different than Amazon)

... It's also coldish. https://youtu.be/w2HnKpTo2So
by gwbas1c | 2026-01-13 14:25:15+00:00
FYI: You can't get the cons that they sold about a decade ago. They changed the sole a bit so they are now "slippers" in order to avoid tariffs. (I also suspect there's a reason why they also sell "boots" too.)

I do wish I heeded your advice. I bought some awesome Doc Marten boots/sneaker hybrids called "Boury" a few years ago, and they stopped making them. I can't find any in my size anywhere, like EBay. I walked all around Disney World with them in shorts, and they looked / felt awesome.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2026-01-13 14:25:25+00:00
Which means it depends on the geometry of spacetime. If spacetime is quantized such that the Euclidean norm doesn't apply, then the value of pi will be different. See the "Extremal values of pi" paper[1].

[1]https://e.math.cornell.edu/people/Nikhil_Sahoo/files/pi_pape...
by ricochet11 | 2026-01-13 14:25:50+00:00
Maybe they can work out some ZKproofs of ID thing and it becomes more palatable. I know there’s people in the crypto world trying to solve problems like that. At the moment kyc results in private data later being stolen or sold - and buying stolen ids to register is too easy. But maybe oneday we can prove who we are (or prove unique human) without needing to trust the authority of the site owner at the same time
by iainmerrick | 2026-01-13 14:25:58+00:00
Do you have a link for that? It sounds interesting but a bit unlikely. It's hard to see how charging for pilot training, even at 40K a pop, would be a sustainable business.

The thing about buying planes is also interesting, but sounds like a sneaky business move rather than the actual foundation of the business.

I've always heard that nobody really makes money from passengers, which is why airlines are always going bankrupt, and I'm sure Ryanair's margins are super skinny. But even so, it does seem like moving passengers around is the core of their business, rather than it just being a front for something else.
by gnosis67 | 2026-01-13 14:26:19+00:00
> more automatic and unconscious than we think

It goes both ways.

We are our deeper self, not the fleeting illusion of compulsive awareness in the now as our conventional account suggests.

Those who develop “inward” (who truly have the power of will, not the act of “choosing” as of the lay mind) know the self is like a captain on a ship that one gets out of what one puts in.

Articles like these encourage the modern American nihilist to write off the power of self determination in favor of sweeping behavioral policies.

They suggest you will be happy with whatever you’re doing, once the divergent phase of transition settles down.

Free will, is that our wills are not coerced through force or fraud (not that we aren’t fools by default.)

Determinism is a dead debate when potential is beyond bounds of account. The question of will and the potentials of consciousness come down to what do WE determine to resolve in the moment of “now”, not what best available choice is before us.
by trashb | 2026-01-13 14:26:20+00:00
I thought you meant a hello world or similar program only handling strings would be fundamentally insecure but rather you mean that it is hard to write secure code with C strings.

There are indeed a lot of pitfalls and footguns in C in general but I would argue that has more to do with c's memory focused design. I always feel like C strings are a bit of an afterthought but it does confirm well with the C design. Perhaps it is more so a syntax issue where the memory handling of strings is quite abstracted and not very clear to the programmer.
by ssk42 | 2026-01-13 14:27:28+00:00
I saw an interesting comment somewhere that this will ultimately be Anthropic’s goal: creating the next generation of of App Store. The idea that Anthropic could just be building the mini vibe code to whatever the user wants. This post clearly exemplifies that me-apps can and should be a thing. That anyone can put forth reasonable effort and make an app without having to cross hard learning barriers of effort.
by maxglute | 2026-01-13 14:27:55+00:00
~15% of PRC emissions are attributed to exports. On the other hand 0% of US oil and lng exports are attributed to US emissions. Entire shale revolution is literal energy intensive production, it's just attributed to importers not exporters in accounting. In another world, emission accounting would be territorial - renewables would be credited to producer, carbon would be taxed to extractor.

Reasonable framing is PRC is emitting a lot simply because it has 4x people, exports are not substantial contributor, with caveat their population is declining. US is emitting more than what accounting shows, while also adding more increasing pop with higher per capita emissions. Probably not reasonable to criticize countries for population growth, but pretty fair to point out US (and other fossil exporters) should have exports count towards emissions, conversely, PRC renewable exports should be credited.

Instead they're being punished for producing the panel that saves other people emissions. For comparison US exported ~5 billion BOE / barrels of oil equivalent per year, PRC exported 0.5 BOE in solar, which translates to displacing 15 billion BOE assuming 30 year life span. In real world, PRC renewable exports is displacing 3x more emission than US fossil exports generate. That 15b BOE is larger than PRC emissions via exports, i.e. for all intents and purpose PRC export is now (substantial) net carbon sink, it's a global decarbonization utility. Meanwhile US chooses to be export fossil to the world.
Show HN: Online compiler with real-time stdin/stdout and AI debugging
by notamitgamer | 2026-01-13 14:28:17+00:00
Built a browser-based compiler that supports real server-side execution
with live stdin/stdout via WebSockets.

Includes an LLM-based layer that explains real compiler/runtime errors
instead of synthetic examples.

Live demo: https://compiler.amit.is-a.dev
by Finnucane | 2026-01-13 14:28:40+00:00
The article did address differences in the rates of 'same level falls' vs. stairs, etc. So they accounted for that too.

We just finally got my 85-yr-old mother to move out of her house into a nice apartment near us with elevator access. She has already had some bad falls. Now we just have to worry about her driving. She shouldn't need to drive as much in her new place, but she probably will anyway.
by LgWoodenBadger | 2026-01-13 14:28:41+00:00
In college I had an account on our ACM chapter's DEC Alpha, which I used primarily for mudding. Its DNS name was cray-ymp.xxx.xxx.edu, which resulted in more than a few moments of shock/consternation from mods. "You're mudding from a CRAY Y-MP???"
Show HN: CodeMic - replay coding sessions inside your editor, local-first
by seansh | 2026-01-13 14:28:42+00:00
Hi guys,

With CodeMic, instead of watching a programming video, you can replay sessions *inside your own editor* where you can run the code, explore, and experiment.

Think Asciinema for coding sessions with audio, video, and images.

Record & replay in VSCode. Emacs, Vim, web embedding and more coming soon.

Local first and open source.

No signup required, except for publishing your sessions.

-----

p.s. This is a platform not only for teaching programming, but also for showing human engineering at its best by exploring and discussing incredible open-source projects. Some of my favorites I would like to cover include projects such as FFmpeg, SQLite, LuaJIT, and Emacs.

I believe in human engineering and aim to build the right tools for presenting and communicating code through CodeMic.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts :)
by ciberado | 2026-01-13 14:28:59+00:00
If you are using VSCode against WSL2 or Linux and you have installed Docker, managing devcontainers is very straightforward. What I usually do is to execute "Connect to host" or "Connect to WSL", then create the project directory and ask VSCode to "Add Dev Container Configuration File". Once the configuration file is created, VSCode itself will ask you if you want to start working inside the container. I'm impressed with the user experience of this feature, to be honest.

Working with devcontainers from CLI wasn't very difficult [0], but I must confess that I only tested it once.

[0] https://containers.dev/supporting
by ckozlowski | 2026-01-13 14:29:17+00:00
I agree, and the "not the first time" I think is key there. Setting expectations I think is crucial. For ours (5yo), we're clear about what he can watch and for how long. We control the device. "Two episodes before dinner" or so. Over time, he learns how this works. And we're not afraid to tell him that now isn't a good time for the TV.

It's not to say we never have any complaints over this, but when we do, it's rare and usually because something else is amiss (hungry, frazzled, tired).

But most instances it's like last night, where we were clear that we had time for two episodes of Tumble Leaf before dinner. At the end of the second one he announced "last one!" and got up off the couch as we picked up the remote.
by jbjbjbjb | 2026-01-13 14:30:14+00:00
That’s just the way “freedom news” is framing it.

Social movements don’t just happen from grassroots these days. They’re seeded by foreign states. A simpler solution would be require ids for social media posting. If you don’t provide an id you get a limited number of views.

And I don’t see anything wrong with a preventative system in principle, we should be able to join up social services information with policing, because we have had cases where a mass murderer has been known to multiple services.
by troyvit | 2026-01-13 14:30:16+00:00
Noice! I use xtrlock on Linux [1], but it requires preparation. It doesn't play the annoying noise it just locks the keyboard. You can set it to trigger after a few minutes of inactivity which is nice. But you'll still find cats warming their bellies on your keyboard.

[1] For Wayland there's this: https://github.com/Kuze2571/Kaylock
by elzbardico | 2026-01-13 14:30:45+00:00
Really, don't believe benchmarks as gospel. Chinese models are pretty much competitive with offerings from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. Meta is currently at a disadvantage, but I believe they will find their mojo and soon be competitive again.

Frankly, a lot of times I prefer using GLM 4.6 running on Cerebras Inference, than having to deal with the performance hiccups from Claude. For most practical purposes, I've seen no big penalty in using it compared to Opus 4.5, even the biggest qwen-coder models are pretty much competitive.

Between me and the company I work for, I spend some serious money with AI. I use it extensively in my main job, on two side projects that I have paying customers for, and for graduate school work. I can tell you that there quite a few more SOTA models around than what the benchmarks tell you.
by VoidWhisperer | 2026-01-13 14:31:05+00:00
I think (granted, this is from a quick bit of research so I could be wildly wrong) - the message you see in your credit card app with a transaction is usually mainly the merchant name and location which is part of ISO 8583, so it may be a bit hard to extend it to include an arbitrary message in a way that works without merchants having to replace card reader/POS systems en-masse.
by rjdj377dhabsn | 2026-01-13 14:31:11+00:00
> Children being sent dick pics, or AI generated nudes of them being sent around schools, etc. are real problems facing real normal people.

These are relatively minor problems. Certainly not something that warrants invasive government intervention.

If parents are that worried about their kids seeing some porn, then they should either not give smartphones to them at all or install some kind of local protection software.
by everdrive | 2026-01-13 14:31:38+00:00
There's little barrier to entry, but for the most part the community does good internal policing. Stupid emotional comments are pushed down, and the worst ones are flagged. (I've had a few moments of weakness here, so I'm not trying to be sanctimonious here)

I see a lot of people who conflate "my opinion, which is the correct opinion just won't fly here, so how can you say the community does a good job of self-policing?" I really don't agree with this. Any community is going to hold some opinions you disagree with, and will hold some bad or even wrong opinions. What I generally (but not always) see is HN upvoting comments that are thoughtful and intelligent, not necessarily ones that I think might be correct.
by squeedles | 2026-01-13 14:31:45+00:00
This article should be at the core of any discussion about media concentration. The vast consolidation of radio stations is well known, but the same thing has been happening to small local newspapers. In both cases, you end up with a voice speaking to the public from afar, not local people talking to your community about issues that are important to your neighbors.

At that point, most people just go to the gossip corner of social media and spend the rest of their day being fed six hours of outrage.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-13 14:32:06+00:00
Do you think this doesn't happen in other countries?

Just to give an example from the UK of "state" media, the nominally independent BBC has to answer to a board, and to the regulator Ofcom. But in 2021, Boris Johnson installed Richard Sharp (Tory pary donor, Rishi Sunak's old boss) as the head of the board, and Robbie Gibb (Theresa May's head of communication) as a member, and attempted to rig the selection of the head of Ofcom, even though he's not legally allowed to do that. He still tried it. He "let it be known" he wanted Paul Dacre (former Daily Mail editor) be head of Ofcom. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/63982/boris-john...

They are all at it, to try and control public opinion and gatekeep what is seen and not seen.
by kace91 | 2026-01-13 14:32:06+00:00
I don’t get why they think “professional” is a generic tier.

If I’m a music producer, what’s the value of being given a digital art drawing program? If I’m an illustrator, why do I need a cinema post production suite?

Some people might happen to do both, but overlap is largely accidental, right? The fact that they think of all professions as a bundle is even insulting as it signals the products are mostly toys/hobbyist stuff.
by arghwhat | 2026-01-13 14:32:25+00:00
What your are describing is purchasing certificates from renewable energy vendors, which while technically a small investment (more money to the renewable energy vendor → renewable business growth → more renewable energy projects) has very little to do with renewable energy projects like those I was talking about.

It is technically possible for the AI companies to decide to become self-sufficient or enter into the energy production market if things tilt far enough in favor of that, but it is somewhat unlikely and unexpected.

Big renewable projects are run by electricity producers, not consumers, and they are the ones being actively sabotaged in all sorts of ways.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2026-01-13 14:33:15+00:00
> Rust certainly calms security fears

No, memory safety is not security, Rust's memory guarantees eliminate some issues, but they also create a dangerous overconfidence, devs treat the compiler as a security audit and skip the hard work of threat modeling

A vigilant C programmer who manually validates everything and use available tools at its disposal is less risky than a complacent Rust programmer who blindly trust the language
by egberts1 | 2026-01-13 14:33:28+00:00
Many embedded systems or supercomputers disable modules for security or simplicity, but then all needed drivers must be built in. WiFi is a common casualty because it’s normally modular due to firmware blobs provided as-is from WiFi manufacturers.

Also, many supercomputing facilities and hardened servers prohibits direct networking with WiFi drivers (because, unverifiable firmware blobs).

Your homelab should provide the direct Ethernet connect to your desktop.
Show HN: AI Mime – Record and parameterize workflows for Computer Use agents
by prakharjain | 2026-01-13 14:33:38+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been experimenting with the latest "computer use" models (like Gemini 3 flash, qwen 3 vl plus, browser use), and while they are impressive, I hit a wall with reliability in production use cases.

The main issue I found is context. When we give agents simple natural language prompts (e.g., "download the invoice"), they often lack the nuance to handle edge cases or specific UI quirks. They try to be "creative" when they should be deterministic.

I built AI Mime to solve this by shifting from "prompting" to "demonstrating." It’s an open-source macOS tool that lets you record a workflow, parameterize it, and replay it using computer-use agents.

How it works:

Record: It captures native macOS events (mouse, keyboard, window states) to create a ground-truth recording of the task.

Refine (The interesting part): It uses an LLM to parse that raw recording into parameterized instructions. Instead of a static macro, you get manageable subtasks where you can define inputs/variables. This constrains the agent to a specific "happy path" while still allowing it to handle dynamic elements.

Replay: The agent executes the subtasks using the computer-use interface, but with significantly higher success rates because it has "seen" the exact steps required.

The goal is to make these agents observable and repeatable enough for actual RPA work.

The repo is here: https://github.com/prakhar1114/ai_mime

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the approach or how you are currently handling state/reliability with computer-use models.
by icar | 2026-01-13 14:33:42+00:00
> When viewing a web page in a text-based browser, you essentially get plain HTML, no CSS, no JS. There is some “styling”, a result of the elements’ semantics, but don’t expect anything fancy, we are down to colors, indentation, and centered text.

Reminds me of Gemini protocol.
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
by lemonlime227 | 2026-01-13 14:33:45+00:00
The individual one time purchase versions are still available for all the apps. Final Cut, Logic, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage are offered in a bundle for education by Apple as a $199.99 one time purchase (no education status is verified) [1]. Pixelmator Pro is available as a one time purchase as well for $49.99 [2]. Not included in the Creator Studio is the Lightroom alternative Photomator, which is available as a one time purchase of $119.99. You could recreate just the Creator Studio as a one time $250 purchase, or the entire suite (including Photomator) for $370.

Not available for one time purchase are the AI features and templates available for the free apps (Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Freeform).

Personally, I'm glad that one time purchases are still options for the core pro suite: long term they do hold value compared to paying Adobe a subscription (or dealing with the high seas on macOS). However, I don't see things like the education bundle sticking around much longer, so purchase it sooner rather than later.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/us-edu/shop/product/bmge2z/a/pro-apps-...

[2]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixelmator-pro/id1289583905
by armchairhacker | 2026-01-13 14:33:56+00:00
Voluntary “censorship” (not being shown visceral media you don’t ask) and censorship for children are very important.

Bad “censorship” is involuntarily denying or hiding from adults what they want to see. IMO, that power tends to get abused, so it should only be applied in specific, exceptional circumstances (and probably always temporarily, if only because information tends to leak, so there should be a longer fix that makes it unnecessary).

I agree with you that children should be protected from beheading and extremism; also, you should be able to easily avoid that yourself. I disagree in that, IMO, anonymous accounts and “free” websites should exist and be accessible to adults. I believe that trusted locked-down websites should also exist, which require ID and block visceral media; and bypassing the ID requirement or filter (as a client) or not properly enforcing it (as a server operator) should be illegal. Granting children access to unlocked sites should also be illegal (like giving children alcohol, except parents are allowed to grant their own children access).