MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alex43578 | 2026-01-13 17:17:44+00:00
What do you present it as? He’s in front of her vehicle, in uniform. She sees he is there, puts it in drive, and pulls forward. The legal standard for him to use force doesn’t require that he ends up under the wheel before he can shoot.

“The officer has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person”, and someone gunning an SUV at you is imminent danger.
by isamuel | 2026-01-13 17:17:55+00:00
I also remember this, and in fact I found an old Dilbert newsletter from 1996 ("Dogbert's New Ruling Class") where he describes it:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdb/1996Mar/0000.ht...

The simplest objection I can see is orbital mechanics.
by baggachipz | 2026-01-13 17:18:04+00:00
I had the privilege of visiting the building and going to the top of the test stand a few years back. They were huge and amazing structures, clearly done in 1950's style. Lead paint, exposed elevators, grates where you could see all the way to the ground, etc. It was terrifying and incredibly interesting at the same time. I have relatives in Huntsville who heard them being demolished.

Can't wait to see what they build there next.
Show HN: Soklet, a zero-dependency Java HTTP/1.1 and SSE virtual-threaded server
by revetkn | 2026-01-13 17:18:05+00:00
Hi, I built the first version of Soklet back in 2015 as a way to move away from what I saw as the complexity and "magic" of Spring (it had become the J2EE creature it sought to replace). I have been refining it over the years and have just released version 2.0.0, which embraces modern Java development practices.

Check it out here: https://www.soklet.com

I was looking for something that captured the spirit of projects like Express (Node), Flask (Python), and Sinatra (Ruby) but had the power of a "real" framework and nothing else quite fit: Spark/Javalin are too bare-bones, Quarkus/Micronaut/Helidon/Spring Boot/etc. have lots of dependencies, moving parts, and/or programming styles I don't particularly like (e.g. reactive).

What I wanted to do was make building a web system almost as easy as a "hello world" app without compromising functionality and I feel I have accomplished this goal.

Other goals - support for Server-Sent Events, which are table-stakes now in 2026 and "native" integration testing (just run instances of your app in a Simulator) are best-in-class in my opinion. Servlet integration is also available if you can't yet fully disentangle yourself from that world.

If you're interested in Soklet, you might like some of its zero-dependency sister projects:

Pyranid, a modern JDBC interface that embraces SQL: https://www.pyranid.com
Lokalized, which enables natural-sounding translations (i18n) via an expression language: https://www.lokalized.com

I think Java is going to become a bigger player in the LLM space (virtual threads now, forthcoming Vector API/Project Panama/etc.) If you're building agentic systems (or just need a simple REST API), Soklet may be a good fit for you.
by hostyle | 2026-01-13 17:18:14+00:00
It would disrupt UKs defence (nuclear submarines in particular) and energy (oil fields) both of which currently are primarily based geographically within Scotlands territory. This is classic Russian tactics. Its not about whether Scotland joins EU or stays with UK, or which is economically or politically the best decision - its about seeding chaos and uncertainty within one of Russias largest antagonists.
by rbanffy | 2026-01-13 17:18:44+00:00
I find it really sad that I lost respect for him because of his political views. When someone you admire dies, it happens once. When you lose respect for someone, that person you admired dies over and over again, on every new disappointment.

To me, he died many times in the past few years. Dilbert of the 1990s is dear to me and I really enjoyed the animated series. My sons tell me it prepared them for corporate life. I'm sad he left us this way. I wish I could admire him again.
by throwaway21856 | 2026-01-13 17:18:49+00:00
How else would you suggest communicating to a population that fundamentally does not share your views, other than with neutrality?

As a Bucks County native, the Beacon is not at all representative of the median voter. Oh, certainly there are some aligned with it, but there are just as many with the opposite views, and most are in between. Journalists that don't respect those people in the middle, that disagreement, have no chance of being listened to by them. They have every right to voice their opinions, but if journalists only respect the people who already agree with them, then we're all just going to stay in our bubbles.
by tom_ | 2026-01-13 17:18:59+00:00
That's for only one of the subtypes of visa. The official site (https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...) mentions a few more options, which would probably turn out to cover onlyfans if you get the right sort of professional advice:

> The O-1 nonimmigrant visa is for the individual who possesses extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or who has a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry and has been recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements
Show HN: Fabi 2.0 – An AI analyst that connects to all your data sources
by mfdupuis | 2026-01-13 17:19:04+00:00
Hey HN!

Today we’re launching Fabi 2.0

For the past year we’ve been working with a number of product, eng, marketing and data teams, and the common issue we’ve been seeing with all these teams, especially small and growing teams, is that getting basic answers from their data requires jumping between a bunch of different tools/copy-pasting data and spreadsheets, or building out a full BI stack.

With our latest release, users can not only connect Fabi to databases and data warehouses, but also to applications like HubSpot, Stripe, Shopify etc. We offer hundreds of connectors, and the AI makes it dead simple to start immediately building out analyses or dashboards.

A bit about what’s going on under the hood:

- We use Fivetran to connects to data sources (we tested at a number of different ETL solutions and Fivetran really stood out)
- We pipe the data into a MotherDuck instance for each customer
- We index data and metadata and store in our vector DB to get it ready for the AI. A lot of connectors just work without any further modeling, but some do require a bit of extra modeling. For those we automatically spin up dbt models to do some data wrangling under the hood
- We offer an extra AI config layer for users to provide any additional context about their business and data source which they can write in plain English, which we’ve found to be really important to make it accessible to a wide set of teams

Once the data is ready, you can start talking to it to analyze it like you could before in Fabi with any traditional SQL DB.

You can give it a try here: [https://app.fabi.ai/](https://app.fabi.ai/home)
by 827a | 2026-01-13 17:19:05+00:00
The HP EliteBoard runs a "AMD Ryzen AI 300 series processor", "50 TOPS NPU", with "800M series graphics" and up to 64gb of memory.

As far as I've seen, they have not publicly stated which specific processor its running. This combination means: Its not a Ryzen AI Max 300 processor, because these run the 8060S integrated graphics. (also, they'd have probably stated Max if it was). Moving down-range: the HX375 has 55 NPU TOPS, so its more likely that the best chip it could run is the HX370 (12c/24t); but it could be as low as the 330 (4c8t).

The HX370 posts geekbench 6 scores of single core ~2917 multi-core ~15249.

For comparison: the Apple M5, found in the iPad Pro and upcoming Mac Mini, scores single core ~4291 multi-core ~17469.

Overall, I think this is cool and evocative, and depending on the chip they use the performance could be pretty solid. However, I don't like the idea of a desktop PC being so integrated with a peripheral, such as a keyboard or monitor.
by thorin | 2026-01-13 17:19:12+00:00
There are quite a few protest bands but they don't have the level of popularity as Rage against the machine, Bob Dylan or Public Enemy. Pop music is more of a commodity now.

I see Billy Bragg had something to share on FB about recent events as do many older artists.

Maybe you saw what happened at Glastonbury this year with Kneecap and Bob Vylan.

Personally I enjoy Idles, I went to see them last year and they had good energy and try to be politically active while spreading "the love".

One of my all time favourite bands New Model Army are still going and releasing music. I don't think they ever made it big after effectively being cancelled before it was popular releasing the single 51st State of America.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-13 17:19:22+00:00
Every Christmas since I was a teen I would get a Dilbert desk calendar from my mom (who worked in software startups since 1979). When my mom was dying of cancer during COVID the people in our small, red state town yelled at her for wearing a mask. She could barely move to go shop, and she was harassed to tears. It all turned me from hippy libertarian (that moved from California to a red state) to fuck conservatives. It's so weird to find out the lessons I learned from people like Scott Adams, they never learned from/for themselves.
by lostlogin | 2026-01-13 17:19:30+00:00
I’m a shade under 2m tall.

If I put my knees together and sit up straight (back hard against my seat), my knees are hard against the seat in front. They can’t recline. It doesn’t even hurt, the seat just won’t move. Last flight someone turned around and complained then complained to the stewardess. I’m not sticking my legs into my neighbours space, am the time I extended into the aisle I fell asleep and got knee capped by a trolley.

‘Where would you like me to put my legs?’

I’m writing this from a plane seat, having paid for extra room and having been bumped by the airline. That’s nz$1000 gone and 17 hours of misery.

Qatar. Never again.

Aside: I also don’t recline without any empty seat or sleeping person behind.
by intended | 2026-01-13 17:19:33+00:00
Currently the most succesful method of assaulting the "marketplace of ideas" is by overwhelming channels with content. Most of our guard rails and fears were around government over reach, not through the attrition of attention and via the production of overhwelming amounts of content.

As a result, more competition (more speech) has been defanged as a solution.

Producing Local news is never going to be more interesting and attention grabbing, and thus revenue generating, than pure dopamine stimulation.

To keep local news alive, it needs money.

A public news option may seem sub ideal, but the option is on the table because the other avenues have been destroyed. Hell - even news itself is losing. The NYT is now dependent on video game revenue to keep itself afloat.

The common ground of the eralier information ecosystem was a result of chance. New factors are at play, and if we want it to survive, then we need to address the revenue issue, some how.
by EnergyAmy | 2026-01-13 17:19:51+00:00
Your first link seems like he was just trolling. He says "intelligent design" and then defines it in a way that nobody else would.

> What he means by intelligent design is the idea that we are living in a computer simulation. We are overwhelmingly likely to be “copies” of some other humans who intelligently designed us, in a virtual reality.

That seems to have been pretty common with him. "I believe in X. And by X I mean Y. Look at all these people talking about X, aren't they stupid?"
by twixfel | 2026-01-13 17:20:01+00:00
> they framed it in a way that made it seem like truth

"the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people; just get the fuck away"

It is true that this is an evil and racist thing to say.

> when it's really just this person disagreed with Scott's political views

white supremacism isn't just a small policy difference.

If you hold hateful beliefs in which you believe certain people are inferior based on superficial traits like skin colour, why should you expect to be treated with respect? I disrespect such people because I don't respect them, I am if nothing else being sincere.
by razingeden | 2026-01-13 17:20:07+00:00
Scott Adams’s boss at Pacbell in 1985 was (still) an SVP (and my boss) at AT&T in 2012.

There was always a buzz and a whisper whenever someone was frustrated: “SHE’s the boss who inspired Dilbert.”

Internally there was a saying that ATT stands for “Ask The Tentacles.”

I haven’t really read the “funnies” since I was a kid but the few Dilbert comics I ever did read NAILED her org.

I will never forget being paged 1,000 times a night - not even kidding — or having my boss demand I “check sendmail” every time anything and I mean anything went down. Voice? Data? CALEA tunnels? IPTV? Fax? No, I can’t go immediately investigate the actual issue, I have to go into some crusty Solaris box the company forgot about 11 years ago.

Dilbert was BARELY satire.

And that’s enough out of me.
by areoform | 2026-01-13 17:20:22+00:00
Such articles are interesting because they're tacit disapproval, but I would argue that this use of the O-1 is the most American way to use it.

There's a reason why Hollywood became the Earth's center of cultural gravity post-WW2, https://goldenglobes.com/articles/exiles-and-emigres-hollywo...

You may argue that these people aren't of such import, but I would beg to differ. This is the future of culture. These people shape the culture that the young people around you consume. They create the memes of six-seven-ification.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-13 17:20:24+00:00
There's this idea that Democracy and Journalism are intrinsically linked (thanks John Milton), but they're not. Look at the history of Democracy (by that of course we mean representative democracy): it has existed long before, and independent from, Journalism. Then look at the history of Journalism: it has always been a partisan affair, funded, written, and published by people who want to get their own point across. The idea that truth emerges from freedom of speech ignores the fact that the speaker can lie, or that different people view different things as true.

The romantic idea of Journalism as a bastion of Democracy conveniently ignores the facts. Democracy is a form of Government, and Government is power exerted on people. You don't get more power or influence because you heard about a thing happening. And most people will never do anything about what they hear. The real purpose of Journalism is to galvanize the public's feelings based on a selective viewpoint towards a specific aim. An article is written, using selective information, presented in a particular way, in order to effect a change the writer wants. If effective, the writer gets what they want, or something close to it.

Journalism is just another form of power. But it's not power of the people. It's power using the people. You and the rest of the people have no power of your own. But as a group, the people are wielded by institutions (Journalism, Religion, Party, Industry, Culture, etc) to act on behalf of those institutions. The group can try to push back on power. But without organization, leadership, clear goals, and strong motivation, there's no effective opposition. So occasionally the group will take on these qualities, and becomes... another institution, wielding power to get its way. And as a group with power, the results are not always positive for everyone (see: Anti-Saloon League, National Federation of Parents for Drug-Free Youth, etc)
by Itoldmyselfso | 2026-01-13 17:20:26+00:00
This was recorded before he publicly came out as racist[1] and anti-vaccine[2]:
https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/scott-adams-...

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/23/dilberts-scott-adams-...

[2] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/26/scott-adam...
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-13 17:20:32+00:00
Protestors and cops having tussles in the streets falls short of my bar for "brutal violence"; shooting a woman in the face certainly qualifies, but I am not seeing anything like that so widespread that it could motivate a drone ban like some people in this discussion are asserting. The political violence in America right now doesn't even come close to what was normal in living memory in the 20th century. America today is very peaceful, not that you'd think it from following the media.

The DJI ban is about China, not domestic protests.
by Firehawke | 2026-01-13 17:20:38+00:00
I try to consider how I feel about this, and all I come back with is an emptiness, a follow feeling.

I'm not going to gloat, nor am I going to consider him even remotely a good person based on things he's said and done. I will never know him outside of his works and the things he's said and done, so I can only judge on those merits.

I guess all I can really do is shake my head and wonder what could have been had he not completely lost his way; his death by cancer was likely (not guaranteed, but there's always some hope if treated early and properly) preventable, but he made a choice.

I guess I'll just remember the early, funny, too-true-to-life material and try not to think too much about what happened after that.
by ivell | 2026-01-13 17:21:10+00:00
My takeaway is that all previous U.S. administrations had pretense of morality and rules in both international and domestic politics (even when they did dubious stuff). The new administration has realized that there is no need for such pretense to stay in power. Previously Venezuelan attack would have been about "democracy" and "freedom" and "peace". Trump has made it clear that it is for oil.

Overall it is probably better for the world society in general that pretense is gone and the realpolitics is laid bare. The risks are no longer ambiguous but real and clearly stated and the world can plan mitigation accordingly.
by Someone1234 | 2026-01-13 17:21:24+00:00
32 people[0] have died in ICE custody, and an additional 4 this year alone[1].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_in_ICE_detentio...
by justin66 | 2026-01-13 17:21:41+00:00
Do we think anything secret is being conveyed when it comes to US terrain? It's not like there are too many secrets of that kind remaining. The Chinese can probably just buy any maps they need in any case. (perhaps a drone's potential to map or even affect the wifi landscape is more interesting as a security threat)

The potential for industrial espionage is perhaps more interesting, as drones are used for security, agriculture, and pretty much everything else you can shake a stick at.
by caminanteblanco | 2026-01-13 17:21:55+00:00
I mean even Microsoft (that Titan of Lightning-Fast Development) has implemented a JPEG XL add-on, so now that Google's giving up the ghost, i think JPEG XL has a real chance.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MZPRTH5C0TB?hl=en-us&gl=U...
by hbn | 2026-01-13 17:21:55+00:00
> Second, some of the increased deaths may be due to rising alcohol consumption. According to data from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the percentage of people aged 65 or older who consume alcohol each month increased by 16% between 2002 and 2019. From 2002–2003 to 2021–2023, the share of this group who reported binge drinking in the past 30 days rose from 7.3% to 11.4%

I've been hearing nothing but the complete opposite, that people are drinking less than ever

https://news.gallup.com/poll/693362/drinking-rate-new-low-al...

> Americans' drinking habits are shifting amid the medical world’s reappraisal of alcohol’s health effects. After decades of relative steadiness in the proportion of U.S. adults who drink, Gallup has documented three consecutive years of decline in the U.S. drinking rate as research supporting the “no amount of alcohol is safe” message mounts. Compounding the challenge for companies that sell alcohol, drinkers now appear to be dialing back how much they drink, as well.

How are they finding completely opposite trends?
by ajross | 2026-01-13 17:22:06+00:00
> Teenager from High school here. 4chan is genuinely a cesspool where trolling is the key purpose.

Middle aged curmudgeon here. And the older I get the more I realize that the hyperliterate technomagical credential flinging you see in the comments here is... basically just trolling. We do it to make ourselves feel smart.

Sure sure, we all want to imagine ourselves geniuses changing the world with the power of our intellect. But that's hard, and most of us settle for getting in a good barb or three in the comments.
by drnick1 | 2026-01-13 17:22:10+00:00
> Having our full costs returned in ~11 years is definitely something we're happy with

Except that after 11 years the equipment will have broken down or become obsolete, at which point you have to start over.

> we've also had protection against several power outages in our area along the way, which is a very nice bonus.

This seems to be the real benefit of the setup.
by spankalee | 2026-01-13 17:22:25+00:00
I don't get "avoiding the ugliness" when someone dies. We need to acknowledge the ugliness and try to do better.

Acting like "oh, he was trolling", or "it was just a small amount of hating Black people and women" is exactly how you get Steven Miller in the fucking White House.

We need to make it shameful to be bigoted again, and that means calling out the bigotry even in death.
by firstshow | 2026-01-13 17:22:43+00:00
Built this over the weekend because I was frustrated with calculator apps that are either too complex or filled with ads.

CalcPercent.net has 6 percentage calculators (basic, increase/decrease, difference, reverse, discount). Everything runs in your browser - no tracking, no data collection, completely free.

Tech stack: Pure HTML/CSS/JavaScript, hosted on Hostinger.

Built it in a few hours and launched today. Would love feedback from the HN community on what features to add next!
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-13 17:23:04+00:00
I think probably app-defined palettes and a global menu is best possible combo.

The app-defined palette enables more rich functionality as you’ve mentioned, while the system-owned global menu provides a consistent way to see everything an app is capable of without hunting and pecking through the palette. The menu also serves as a unified API for assistive and automation technology to interact with software and allows users to choose how the menus are displayed (don’t like a top-aligned menubar? Cool, your desktop can present it as window attached menus, a pie menu, or NeXT style floating menus or anything else you can imagine).
Eleva.js – A 2.3KB JavaScript framework with signals and no virtual DOM
by TarekRaafat | 2026-01-13 17:23:16+00:00
Hello HN,

I've been working on Eleva.js, a minimalist frontend framework that just hit v1.0.0.

What it is: A 2.3KB (gzipped) vanilla JavaScript framework with signal-based reactivity and direct DOM patching.

Why I built it: I wanted something between writing raw DOM manipulation and using React/Vue. No JSX, no compiler, no virtual DOM — just native template literals and a simple reactivity primitive.

The mental model is intentionally small:

const app = new Eleva("App");

app.component("Counter", {
setup({ signal }) {
const count = signal(0);
return { count, inc: () => count.value++ };
},
template: (ctx) => `
<p>${ctx.count.value}</p>
<button @click="inc">+</button>
`
});

app.mount(document.body, "Counter");

Technical choices:

- Signals for reactivity (similar to Solid/Preact signals)
- Direct DOM diffing instead of virtual DOM
- Render batching via queueMicrotask
- No build step required — works with native ES modules
- ~0.5KB/row memory overhead in Chrome benchmarks

Trade-offs:

- No SSR yet (client-side only)
- Template strings aren't as composable as JSX
- Smaller ecosystem than established frameworks

Links:

- Docs: https://elevajs.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/TarekRaafat/eleva
- npm: npm install eleva

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or design decisions.