MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway290 | 2026-01-20 17:36:13+00:00
> balance all the desired export surpluses of the EU, China, Japan, etc together without the US as the demand sink

in 2022 China, Russia exported around 630 billion USD, US imported around 950 billion USD. maybe the world will not end if these three just go and play in a separate sandbox;)

> it's going to be a painful adjustment.

even if demand falls a bit it's not the end of the world if it becomes more sustainable afterwards (less overproduction, consumer waste, gassing the environment)
by yardie | 2026-01-20 17:36:17+00:00
I go to friends' houses and the kids are watching the dumbest, most egregious things imagined on Youtube, constantly. When I ask if they go outside to play, they claim it's too hot, too cold, or too dangerous. They are attracted to these overdramatic influencers doing Jackass style stunts. And I find the entire experience grating.
by SamBam | 2026-01-20 17:36:19+00:00
As a science teacher and former software dev, I find this totally cute, and I understand exactly why the creator chose to make it a physical card game.

That said, I do think the translation into a physical card game means that kids aren't getting the experimentation and near-instant feedback that they'd be getting if they were doing this digitally.

In order for a kid to "win," they either have to already know, or explicitly be told using words, what all of the commands do. Then they have to hear the parent analyze their solution, and tell them where they went wrong. Picture, however, a different game, played online: A kid has no idea what "sort" does, but when they link the "sort" command to a blob of text, all the lines are sorted in order. Now no one has told them what this command does, but they've discovered it. By playing the role of a scientist discovering these commands, they might actually gain an intuitive understanding of them.

I'm thinking of the board game "robot turtle," where kids needed to create a "program" of commands to move a turtle to a goal. When they did that, they had near-instantaneous feedback: the parent moved the turtle. If the kid mixed up their left with the robot's left, the failure was obvious. But if the game has been re-made so that there was no board, and the parent and kid just needed to talk about whether the turtle would actually end up seven paces forward and three paces to the left -- i.e. doing it all verbally -- it wouldn't have been nearly as powerful.

So I'm not raining on this, I can see this as very cool. But I am having a hard time imagining it's the best way to learn to pipe together commands.
by slibhb | 2026-01-20 17:36:28+00:00
> Not true. Some, like myself, love the idea of the shining city on the hill, although we often find the behavior of the actual city less than shining.

Your first sentence says "not true". Your second sentence says "true".

Your dislike of the current US regime/behavior causes you to forcast the decline of US influence. I'm not saying you should like current US behavior, just that there isn't good evidence for any decline.

These things are hard to predict. The most likely situation is not decline: it is continuity, where the US retains its global influence for the time being.
by kanbankaren | 2026-01-20 17:36:32+00:00
Still 53% of the useful life of a HDD for just scrubbing is excessive.

You don't lose tracks in 3 months. If you don't read the tracks for a year and if the HDD is operated in high temperatures, then the controller might struggle to read them.

The very act of scrubbing generates heat, so we should use it sparingly.
by athrowaway3z | 2026-01-20 17:36:40+00:00
The number of Trump apologists lunatics who do not seem to understand what MAD was about is staggering.

Industrial scale warfare isn't some secret forgotten by accident.

The current American power-trip fantasy delusion is rightfully scaring the shit out of people, and the scary thing is the people who aren't scared.

It's reaching the point that I think the best thing is for Germany to detonate a nuke between the US and Greenland just to wake up the idiots who think it would be unreasonably difficult.
by beloch | 2026-01-20 17:36:41+00:00
The Theucydides quote Carney leads with, of course, recently rolled off the tongue of the white house deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller. The days of might making right are, apparently, back.

Just in case anyone thought the genie could be stuffed back into the bottle once Trump is gone, Carney goes on to state that the rules-based world order we've been living under since WWII is somewhat of a sham. The rules have not been applied equally. Some nations, the powerful ones, have been given much more latitude to do what they want. Middle nations have gone along with this to avoid trouble.

The reward for avoiding trouble for so long is... big trouble (e.g. invasion threats for an ally of a big power and economic terrorism applied to its allies). So, why pretend the old system works to avoid trouble if the trouble lands on your doorstep anyways?

The answer seems obvious. Middle powers of the old rules-based order need to band together and put bigger powers in their place. It's not impossible. Just very, very difficult. France and Germany may be sticking up for Greenland, but where's Hungary (another EU member)? For this to work, you need everyone. Also, looking ahead, how would you prevent such an alliance of smaller powers, were it successful, from behaving like a bigger power?

Trump is currently showing off AI photos where he's meeting with world leaders in front of a map where both Greenland and Canada are a part of the U.S.[1]. As a Canadian, I think Carney gave a stirring speech here, but I suppose I'm biased given that he's our PM and his vision is one of the few things between us as being swallowed up by Trump's MAGA empire while the other big powers fall upon the respective apples of their eyes.

[1]https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/trump-shares-altered-m...
by Ronsenshi | 2026-01-20 17:36:54+00:00
What if its penetration ends up being on the same level as modern crypto? Average person doesn't seem to particularly care about meme coins or bitcoin - it is not being actively used in day to day setting, there's no signs of this status improving.

Doesn't mean that crypto is not being used, of course. Plenty of people do use things like USDT, gamble on bitcoin or try to scam people with new meme coins, but this is far from what crypto enthusiasts and NFT moguls promised us in their feverish posts back in the middle of 2010s.

So imagine that AI is here to stay, but the absolutely unhinged hype train will slow down and we will settle in some kind of equilibrium of practical use.
Show HN: Arch Linux installation lab notes turned into a clean guide
by senotrusov | 2026-01-20 17:37:03+00:00
Hi HN,

I turned my personal Arch Linux installation notes into a public guide and wanted to share it.

It is a set of lab notes for a fully manual install, with the exact commands written down along with the reasoning behind each choice. It is, of course, not a replacement for the Arch Wiki.

The guide is structured as a modular walkthrough, with clear paths for choices like ext4 vs Btrfs, optional full disk encryption, optional NVIDIA drivers, and different package selections.

It also covers how to perform the install over SSH for easy copy and paste, NVMe 4K alignment, TRIM passthrough with LUKS, and systemd-boot UEFI boot manager.

The main goal was to reduce the amount of re-research needed for each install while keeping everything explicit and understandable.

I also used this as an excuse to experiment with writing documentation using Zensical and to try applying most of the features it provides. Hopefully I did not overdo it.

The guide is open source and licensed under Apache 2.0 or MIT, so you can fork it and adapt it to your own setup.

Would love any feedback.
by relaxer | 2026-01-20 17:37:06+00:00
The emotional world is vast. From what I hear here, there is a collapsing of a couple things all under 'validation'.

Emotional processing, in my experience, is completely separate from action. I hear that your family member had her actions validated - what she decided to do.

An emotion itself can be complex, scary and counter-intuitive. In my experience, always valid - but that doesn't mean you have the right reasons. It's often very difficult to get the right environment to actively explore where an emotion is coming from - purely because of the reactions in other people - which try to suppress, deflect, minimize, etc.

Strangely, simply agreeing or validating someone's outcome is actually a way of minimizing or deflecting the scary expression. Let's not go deeper, let's not figure out where this is coming from - you just go with your gut and act.

Getting to the root of an emotion can come in waves and many iterations. It can be incredibly useful to try and completely unhook action from it.

I've had very strong emotions from events that were almost always "right emotion, wrong reason/story" and I've slowly corrected the 'why' multiple times over.

A lot of those corrections took removing people from my life that made it hard to feel or have access to those difficult emotions.

I wonder if you value that family member or just the idea of them. Value them only when they're 'stable'? Want to get in the muck with them to find where instability comes from? It's okay to not. It's less okay IMO to stay connected to someone you require change from. If you don't like behavior, say it and leave/create much space. Give them agency to choose, agency to fail, agency to be someone you don't like, agency to not be okay.
by godelski | 2026-01-20 17:37:21+00:00
The mines are already being placed. There are plenty of people vibe coding C programs. Despite C documentation and examples being more prolific than rust, well... C vulnerabilities are quite easy to create and are even in those examples. You can probably even get the LLMs to find these mines, but it'll require you to know about them.

That's the real scary part to me. It really ramps up the botnets. Those that know what to look for have better automation tools to attack and at the same time we're producing more vulnerable places. It's like we're creating as much kindling as possible and producing more easy strike matches. It's a fire waiting to happen.
by monero-xmr | 2026-01-20 17:37:58+00:00
You have it 100% backwards. The goal of Europeans is not to work. They have low productivity. The majority of the economy is tourism or bureacracy. It's just a decaying, old place. It's fine if you goal is to be a museum but as a 21st century economy they have enormous structural problems. They will continue to sell their crown jewels to the highest bidder, because no one wants to work. Look at the hundreds of thousands of young men and women flocking to Ukraine to die on the front lines... there aren't any! No one actually wants to do anything
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-20 17:38:10+00:00
> it can just impose tariffs on imports to do so

This is how you grow a sclerotic, internationally-uncompetitive domestic industry. See: shipbuilding.

Where tariffs work is as a nursery policy. Give firms a safe haven to grow in. Then let competition hone them. South Korea has pioneered this playbook; China copied it. We were sort of doing it, but the current administration blew up our nascent new energy industry.
by nine_zeros | 2026-01-20 17:38:35+00:00
> And why shouldn't it when there is zero negative ramifications for being completely fucking unethical?

This is at the crux of everything in America. There are zero punishments for corporations and executives but there are bureaucratic lock ins for "customers".

And the answer is not merely regulation. Why shouldn't I be able to switch health insurance at ANY time? If I am unsatisfied with United Healthcare, I should be able to get anything else right away. Why impose laws on me?
by Ekaros | 2026-01-20 17:38:43+00:00
More so I meant to think of oil, copper and now silver. All follow demand for the price. All have had varying prices at different times. Compute should not really be that different.

But yes. Cisco's value dropped when there was not same amount to spend on networking gear. Nvidia's value will drop as there is not same amount of spend on their gear.

Other impacted players in actual economic downturn could be Amazon with AWS, MS with Azure. And even more so those now betting on AI computing. At least general purpose computing can run web servers.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-20 17:39:02+00:00
It seems you seek a back-and-forth argument where you simply talk past your interlocutor. In my experience, that doesn't lead to understanding. Are you sure you don't want to seek understanding?

We're in a polarized environment, and understanding is the best way to get past that, whereas dismissing* people with which you disagree tends to increase it.

* – from you in this thread so far: dismissing questions as "loaded"; dismissing questions as "a wall"; dismissing differing opinions as "propaganda"; dismissing differing opinions as "extremist"; dismissing differing opinions as "far left"; dismissing differing opinions as "yapping"; dismissing differing opinions as "unreasonable"; etc.
by alnwlsn | 2026-01-20 17:39:03+00:00
The whole project is a convenience. If I were in a situation where I actually had to rely on Meshtastic for comms, I'd be pretty nervous. It doesn't really work that well. Luckily, I've only enjoyed Meshtastic recreationally. Where this comes from is from me trying to learn about and set up some nodes on vacation in an area with very limited internet. I followed the tutorials, thought I had what I needed, but I was wrong. Woops, documentation is online. Within the community, I've seen "that same thing happened to me" more than once.

As with many hobbies, this is a "just because I can, I will" type of thing.
by gruez | 2026-01-20 17:39:03+00:00
>If a taxi company did that every year, they'd be losing a lot of money. Of course new cars and cards are cheaper to operate than old ones, but is that difference enough to offset buying a new one every one to three years?

That's where the analogy breaks. There are massive efficiency gains from new process nodes, which new GPUs use. Efficiency improvements for cars are glacial, aside from "breakthroughs" like hybrid/EV cars.
by linuxftw | 2026-01-20 17:39:30+00:00
I think the story is less about the GPUs themselves, and more about the interconnects for building massive GPU clusters. Nvidia just announced a massive switch for linking GPUs inside a rack. So the next couple of generations of GPU clusters will be capable of things that were previously impossible or impractical.

This doesn't mean much for inference, but for training, it is going to be huge.
Show HN: I turned Hacker News into a radio station
by digi_wares | 2026-01-20 17:39:31+00:00
I wanted to catch up on tech news without staring at a screen. Built tera.fm - it reads HN stories aloud with summaries. Works like radio - just hit play and listen.

Free to try, no login required.

Curious if anyone else has tried audio-first news consumption.
by colechristensen | 2026-01-20 17:39:41+00:00
Having free elections doesn't make you the good guys if you elect a tryant to be a tyrant. Republicans are getting what they voted for and they STILL want what's happening. I've heard them say it.

This leftist idea that everything will just be ok and we don't need to do anything because it'll all be fixed in the next election needs to stop.

Right now the only people actually protecting the republic are the people in the streets because NOBODY else is accomplishing anything.
by JohnMakin | 2026-01-20 17:39:52+00:00
I don't know why you're reacting to the parent comment as a criticism - it is just observation. I have spent a lot of time over the years in similar markets. A trivial example - "Will Hillary be the Democrat Nominee?" Yes/No market on PredictIt for the 2020 election.

Even though the market basically settled in 2019 as she missed filing deadlines, a whole group of conspiracy theorists in the "Yes" market descended in the comments, and there was 10-15% on "YES" even til the very last hours they closed the market, which was like a ~week or two before the actual election.

Every news event was interpreted by this group as a "sign" she was secretly running, and they provided their own sources. I was arbitraging this market for the whole year on any "new" hillary news, so paid very close attention to the discussion circles happening around it - I checked in after the market closed and many of the genuine "YES" people putting up as much money as they were able to concluded PredictIt was incorrect and that Hillary was still the "phantom" nominee. It would not at all surprise me if a few of them still believe she actually ran for president. They probably should have closed the market several months before, but they kept it open. If they had closed it at any reasonable point beforehand a huge chunk of the "YES" market would have lost their minds.

People are goofy and prone to conspiratorial thinking. If you want an example of something that there isn't a market for, but just an example of how much 2 groups of people's thinking can diverge - Ask 100 random people what happened to an ICE officer in minnesota that was involved in a shooting very recently.
by ljf | 2026-01-20 17:40:00+00:00
Austria has 30 days leave after 25 years service (other wise 25 days) - so that is 6 weeks, plus 13 public holidays. So some people get around 8 weeks there.

Here in the UK, I get 29 days leave, I buy 5 more, plus get 8 bank holidays - so 42 days leave - or 8 weeks. Plus volunteering days and training days... but that isn't that common.
by epistasis | 2026-01-20 17:40:21+00:00
Yes, it would be a big change. But if Europe needs to bring out the Anti-Coercion Instrument against the US, an economic weapon it invented to be used against China, the world is in a very different place in belief of what could be safe.

If China signals that it is changing its attitude on its currency, that it wants to be the reserve currency and establish a consumer economy, it wouldn't take much for people to shift these days. Nobody needs to adopt the Renminbi 100% right away, they can transition to multiple currencies for a while as a hedge against the US, and the situation will evolve. Dedollarization won't happen in a month or a year, it will be a multi-year process once it kicks off. But once it kicks off, it will be because of such a loss of confidence in the US that it probably won't be possible to stop it.
by codelikeawolf | 2026-01-20 17:40:21+00:00
I've been in therapy for over a year and one of the most valuable things I've learned as a fellow "problem solver" is to run through the "three H's" when something comes up:

1. Do you want to be Helped?
2. Do you want to be Heard?
3. Do you want to be Hugged?

I'm still trying to get in the habit of using this approach more often with my partner, and as I do, it has noticeably improved our relationship. It turns out most of the time, she just wants to be hugged.
by Drupon | 2026-01-20 17:40:35+00:00
>If there is a parallel world without coercion but prostitution, you would probably still argue that prostitution is coercive.

If no one needed to work to survive and live a dignified life, then I would not think seeing a prostitute was an act of rape, yes, but I would expect a dramatic drop in people who choose to have sex with random strangers in exchange for resources without those motivating needs.

>This is because your argument fundamentally rests on the idea that you can just pick whatever situation has the fitting "moral consequence" and ascribe it to the thing you don't like to hide your own subjective opinion under the pretense of objectivity.

Aww, you've discovered the is-ought problem. Spoiler: Every moral judgment has this problem.

>They need help with switching careers and since society is built on musical chair economics, there aren't enough chairs to for them to sit on.

I guarantee that in developed countries, there are enough chairs. The main obstacles are mental illness (often as a result of childhood trauma) and substance abuse stopping them from engaging in the economy legally. Instead, they end up joining the lumpenproles, just like men in similar situations turn to various petty crimes.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-20 17:41:11+00:00
So what is the limit of days you drive 200+ miles per year that make a full EV make sense?

In an average year I'll have 40+ days where I drive that much. Not for work, just for doing random things.

>a policy failure and we should care about it.

We should, but we won't because Oil/Gas/ICE cars spend an epic fuckload telling you that anything not related driving more is communism.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-20 17:41:20+00:00
> I hear that your family member had her actions validated - what she decided to do.

A lot of people in this comment thread are trying to rewrite this situation. That's not what happened.

The problem was that she would have a strong emotional reaction to something and her partner would go along with it: Validate her emotions, offer comfort, not question the validity of responding that way.

This is the problem with the overly abstract notion of validating emotions without endorsing them. If you consistently "validate" the way someone is feeling even when it's obviously harming them, you're not actually helping. You're implicitly agreeing and condoning.
by shadowtree | 2026-01-20 17:41:55+00:00
But Iraq, Afghanistan, Grenada, Panama, Vietnam ... were not a problem?

Ahistorical BS, I am sorry. As if Trump is a radical departure of NORMS. Euros were chanting HO HO HO CHI MIN in 1968 in the streets of Berlin and Paris.

There is a long tradition of anti-American feelings outside the US, like with any hegemon.

The global left had to build walls to keep their people IN, crush them with tanks, from Prague to Berlin to Beijing. So there is that.

HN turning so left is weird to watch, I guess a reflection of PG's stances and moderation/group votes. Well, money does not give a fig.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-01-20 17:42:02+00:00
>You aren't a gambler, you're a "hyperinformed high iq individual predicting the geopolitical moves"

And finally, here it is: The one guy who won the Venezuela bet by being hyperinformed-high-iq-predicting-the-future: https://futurism.com/future-society/polymarket-venezuela-ins...

(btw: you forgot to add AI and blockchain!)
by xorcist | 2026-01-20 17:42:29+00:00
> stop relying on America to fight the Russians for them,

That's a very uncharitable take. Europe relies on NATO to fight the Russians. Of course it does. There is no alternative, and the US would never allow other credible alliances to form. Because why would they? It's certainly not in their interest.

It's good that Europe spends more in security, and it's good that Europe seems to be serious about Ukraine. However western Europe is something else. If push really would come to shove, there is zero chance Russia could take and hold continental Europe.

The population is larger, the economy is larger by a ridicolous amount, and there are French and British nukes positioned all over. What Europe is mainly lacking military projection in the Pacific and the Middle East, and that's not likely to change.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-20 17:43:01+00:00
> What would make you trust a NEW security extension in 2025?

Time. I wouldn't trust it while it's new. I'd develop trust in it over time as I've observed the results of other people using and examining it.

> Would you ever pay for browser security ($3-5/month)?

I don't rent software, so I wouldn't pay a recurring fee. A one-time fee isn't out of the question, though.

> Is Manifest V3's limitations (30k rules, webRequest restrictions) a dealbreaker even for security-focused extensions?

Pretty much, in that I wouldn't be using a browser with that limitation in the first place.