MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2026-01-18 17:06:18+00:00
As a heavily sarcastic and often irreverent person myself, I think sarcasm translates very poorly to online communication in public forums. The main problem is the complete lack of context where you don't know where a commenter is actually coming from, so you lack the ability to interpret them making a particular statement as a deliberate absurdity.

So sure, maybe talking to friends I would find myself using the word "fair" that way as a punchline to a joke. But they'd know I'm not looking to normalize the new dynamic, rather than highlighting its perversity.

Then specifically here, OP doubled down on the argument rather than repudiating it. So I don't think it's really correct to call it sarcasm.
by wtcactus | 2026-01-18 17:07:03+00:00
And regulating bottle caps. We are great at that as well.

Maybe - just hear me out - if, instead of spending the last decades regulating idiotic things, destroying our industry to appease ignorant (or worse, traitorous) environmentalists, opening our borders to a flood of unchecked immigration that further damaged our social services and social fabric, weakening our military because Merkel didn’t want to spend money on it ( and instead pushed us into gas agreements with Russia) and constantly apologizing - effectively shooting ourselves in the foot out of some twisted sense of shame - for having modernized, democratized, and explored the planet, and instead, maybe, just maybe, we had spent that time strengthening our industry, society, and military, we wouldn’t now have to bow to Daddy USA.

The truth is that we are helpless without them and can’t even unite to stand up to Russia at present.
by rf15 | 2026-01-18 17:07:10+00:00
Yeah, we've been here before. Empires don't necessarily fall by the hand of their enemies as much as they fall by their own hands and hubris. See: UK, Germany, Russia, historical China and other asian countries, hell even the Romans, and so on and so forth, we've had it all. Trump is nothing new, just another fool in a long line of fools.
by maxloh | 2026-01-18 17:07:10+00:00
I wonder how the current events in Greenland will impact the safety and sovereignty of Taiwan.

The US is Taiwan’s most important military ally, even if that relationship remains unofficial. It is also the most critical power in the First Island Chain. If the US stopped being a global superpower, countries like Japan and South Korea might not be willing to aid in defending Taiwan on their own.
by leviathant | 2026-01-18 17:07:21+00:00
Legally speaking, the Republicans have been losing in court over and over. That doesn't mitigate the damage they're doing during the lag, and the consequences for breaking the law have never been as strong as they should be when officers of the law and elected officials are the ones breaking the law.

But it is important to acknowledge the wins. They do have an effect, and that's the only path we seem to have toward slowing down the march to autocracy.
by m000 | 2026-01-18 17:07:42+00:00
Since Trump can't walk away from NATO [1], could the claim on Greenland be a ruse to force the de-facto resolution of NATO?

He probably sees Europe as too meek to do anything more dramatic/substantial. And believes that without NATO, Europe would buy more US weapons that they now get "for free".

[1] https://www.dirittoue.info/u-s-legislation-restricts-preside...
by jonkoops | 2026-01-18 17:08:03+00:00
The EU actually has a great track record, it has been a massive unifying force. I think people tend to forget how shit things were even 30 years ago. I really hate this constant shitting on the EU for no concrete reasons.

It is crippled because nation states want to retain control, it is one of the main reasons. People act like 'EU politicians' should solve everything overnight, but the reality is that it is out of their purview in many cases. Only federalization would resolve this issue.
by adventured | 2026-01-18 17:08:04+00:00
"We'll see how long the US economy is going to last when it can't even fund its own government."

This is fantasy thinking, projection of a subjective wish.

The dollar is the global reserve currency and is under no serious threat to be displaced (and no, the dollar dropping back to where it was a couple of years ago vs the Euro, is not a meaningful event).

The US economy is by far the world's largest and now dwarfs the Eurozone.

To answer your question: the US economy is going to last a very long time yet. So far it has lasted hundreds of years. Please provide a comparison to any other economy that has lasted so long and done so well. You'll be able to name two or three examples maximum.

In the moment people tend to get hyper emotional, hyperbolic. They think something fundamental is changing. That's almost always nothing more than personal subjective projection of what they want to have happen, rather than an objective assessment of reality. Back in reality the US has survived and thrived through drastically worse than anything going on in the present. The Vietnam era was far worse both socially/culturally and economically. WW2 was drastically worse. The Civil War was drastically worse. The Great Depression was drastically worse. But oh yeah sure, the US superpower is about to end any day now.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-18 17:08:08+00:00
It seems to me to be quite the feature ... well, everywhere except the USA. Certainly all over Europe, one finds this mix. In the USA, you generally only find cheap/low quality/small housing stock adjacent to expensive/high quality/large housing stock where there's some municipal or other border, and the two just can't avoid being where they are.
by LightBug1 | 2026-01-18 17:08:31+00:00
psychopathic
/ˌsʌɪkəˈpaθɪk/
adjective
adjective: psychopathic

affected or marked by a persistent pattern of antisocial, impulsive, manipulative, and sometimes aggressive behaviour (not in current technical use).
"a psychopathic disorder"

Psychopathy, or psychopathic personality,[1] is a personality construct[2][3] characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, persistent antisocial behavior,[4] along with bold, disinhibited, and egocentric traits. These traits are often masked by superficial charm and immunity to stress,[5] which create an outward appearance of normality.[6][7][8][9][10]

psy· cho· path ˈsī-kə-ˌpath ˈsī-kō-
: a mentally unstable person
especially : a person having an egocentric and antisocial personality marked by a lack of remorse for one's actions, an absence of empathy for others, and often criminal tendencies

----

Seems spot on to me. You'll find a dictionary is your friend.
by csense | 2026-01-18 17:08:34+00:00
I think the administration's real goal isn't taking over Greenland. I think it's scaring the EU enough about the possibility the US might take over Greenland that the EU pays to fortify it so the US doesn't have to. (Somebody needs to fortify it, because the world is warming and it will become a strategically important trade choke point when a Northwest Passage opens up.)

Just like Trump being hot-and-cold on Ukraine. The administration's real goal isn't the US letting Russia take over Europe or even Ukraine. The goal is to scare the EU enough about the possibility the US might let Russia take over Europe or Ukraine that they start paying the expense of making sure that doesn't happen.

Greenland only has a population of 56k. If the US really wanted to buy Greenland, it should suggest a referendum whether Greenland should be annexed by the US, then pass a law that says the US will give each Greenlander $1 million if the referendum passes. I'm sure it would pass in a landslide and it would only cost $56 billion, which seems much lower than the price of trying to capture it militarily.
by miltonlost | 2026-01-18 17:08:34+00:00
> It's just maddening to me because this technology could be so much more useful for purposes way beyond advertising.

Can it tho? The problem with LLMs right now is that they don't have much useful purposes beyond spam, slop, hallucinated searches, and advertisements. The lack of a product is why there isn't a profit to be made in them
by rectang | 2026-01-18 17:08:59+00:00
There are two recycling mechanisms:

> After use, the material can simply be ground into powder and pressed into a new shape while heated, causing the bonds to rearrange themselves. This is known as thermomechanical recycling.

> it can also be chemically dissolved

I wonder whether either of these opens up any practical durability issues for this variety of epoxy.
by r_lee | 2026-01-18 17:09:24+00:00
There wouldn't have been a problem if the US would've just done a deal go deploy all their stuff on Greenland, hell, even a whole autonomous military zone or something?

But nooooo, they gotta buy the whole thing like it's Alaska or something.

I don't get it. Especially because now Russia/China will actually get real interested in the Arctic, plus that they now have an opportunity to disrupt the alliance and delegitimize NATO etc.
by gambiting | 2026-01-18 17:09:46+00:00
>>I fully support the US taking Greenland by non-military means. Makes sense economically and militarily.

So their own wishes on the topic don't matter?

Also I cannot think of many worse fates for Danes than becoming American, yeah I'm sure they can't wait to have their privatised healthcare and Gestapo policing. What Americans want in this scenario matters less than what Russians want in regards to Ukraine.

>>The Danish colonials force-sterilized the native peoples of Greenland.

Would you like me to start listing all the things that Americans have done to both their own citizens in modern times(like injecting people with radioactive compounds just to see why would happen) and in the distant past to the native populations of Northern America?
by saghm | 2026-01-18 17:10:01+00:00
> I mean if you replaced an array of one million
objects with an array of one million arrays you'd
probably end up with simila performance.

Once again, my argument is that I think there's evidence against making assumptions like "you'd probably end up with similar performance" and that actually testing assumptions like this is worthwhile. I'm not sure how I could make this more clear at this point though, so I doubt it's worth it for me to try to spend more time understanding whether you don't understand what I'm suggesting or are just unwilling to explain why you disagree with it.
by rendall | 2026-01-18 17:10:11+00:00
There is no right party, unfortunately. The Duopoly of Democrats and Republicans rely on this illusory idea of "the other side" to maintain a stranglehold on power for both parties. The sooner we give up that idea that one side is better than the other, the sooner we can hold "both sides" accountable. The Democrats are an absolutely corrupt shit show. As are the Republicans.

Each expansion of executive power is treated as unprecedented until it becomes normalized. Before Bush, indefinite detention without trial was unthinkable. Before Obama, the executive assassination of U.S. citizens without due process was unthinkable. Before Clinton, routine humanitarian war without congressional declaration was unthinkable. Each step is later reclassified as “different,” “necessary,” or “less bad,” each step decried by the "opposition" but excused by partisans.
The danger isn’t that one party does uniquely shocking things. It’s that both parties participate in a ratchet where norms only ever move in one direction supported by the rank and file. What looks like a false equivalence is actually a cumulative one: today’s outrage rests on yesterday’s precedents.

And it’s not even mainly about presidents. Fixating on the occupant of the office misses how much of this is legislative and bureaucratic drift. The real damage is often done through laws that quietly expand state power, normalize surveillance, weaken due process, or lock in perverse incentives. Presidents sign them, but Congress writes them, renews them, and funds them. That’s where the ratchet really lives.

USA PATRIOT Act (2001), Authorization for Use of Military Force (2001), Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (1994), FISA Amendments Act (2008), National Defense Authorization Acts with detention and secrecy expansions, Telecommunications Act (1996), Controlled Substances Act (1970), Defense of Marriage Act (1996), Welfare Reform Act / Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996). All terrible. All drafted and passed by both parties.

This is why “no one did X before” is the wrong metric. The system advances through laws and precedents that feel technical, temporary, or defensive at the time. Each one lowers the bar for the next. By the time something looks outrageous, the groundwork was laid years earlier by people insisting they were the reasonable alternative.
Show HN: TrackMyRupee – A privacy-first, manual expense tracker for India
by omkarpathak27 | 2026-01-18 17:10:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I built TrackMyRupee because I was frustrated with the state of personal finance apps in India. The popular ones (Axio, Walnut, etc.) are convenient but invasive—they require access to read your SMS, email, and bank notifications to "automate" tracking. The alternative is Excel, which is great for privacy but painful to use on a mobile screen.

I wanted the privacy and control of a spreadsheet combined with the UX of a modern app, without being the product.

The Tech Stack:

Backend: Django (Python)
Frontend: Django Templates + Bootstrap 5 + Vanilla JS (No heavy framework complexity)
PWA: Service Worker for offline support and "Add to Home Screen" capability
Database: PostgreSQL
Key Features / Decisions:

Zero Data Scraping: It does not (and will never) ask for SMS or bank permissions.
Manual Entry as a Feature: I found that manually typing "₹150 - Coffee" creates a psychological "pain of paying" that automated apps numb. It makes you more mindful.
Opinionated "Savings = Expense": The dashboard treats SIPs and Investments as expenses. This shows you your "True Balance"—what you can actually spend guilt-free—rather than an inflated bank balance.
Smart Bulk Import: For those who hate typing everything, I built a robust Excel/CSV importer to batch-process statements on your own terms.
It is currently in public beta and free to use. I'm running this as a solo indie developer project.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the architecture, the "manual entry" philosophy, or anything else!

Link: https://trackmyrupee.com
Whats will next in P2P comms? a.k.a. WhatsApp killer?
by gagarwal123 | 2026-01-18 17:11:22+00:00
I have been thinking about p2p apps recently how things moved from IRC to Messengers to Whatsapp/Telegram/Signal.. what will be the defining characteristics of next p2p communication app?

1. Privacy - Signal claims to be the gold standard, very limited meta data capture, fully encrypted.
2. Features Template - Whatsapp/Wechat/Telegram offer a series of 100+ features
3. Pure P2P - Bitchat / Mesh comms but doesnt seem to be really scalable to whatsapp level

Immediate future seems to be implementation of EU DMA to enable inter operability between chat apps

Challenges in front us - More governments trying to figure out how to tap into chats - up the surveillance, more scamsters sending apk files, suspicious links, Pegasus style snooping, governments doing internet shutdowns to control citizens..

Wondering what is the future of p2p and is someone building it already? Would love to learn / read more on it.
by lkey | 2026-01-18 17:11:24+00:00
The one thing it will never recommend is no product at all.

You've ceded even the glimmers of discernment that remain in you and all I feel is pity.
It is not a 'waste of time' to interrogate your own desires.

There's no such thing as a 'top 3' for all things under heaven. You cannot purchase yourself a solution to every 'use case'. Furthermore, even if there were such a ranking, the ad machine would not reveal it to you, as you are not the customer, you are the mark.

You don't even want to be bothered to hit the 'buy it now' button. This is the mental model of an immaculate rube. You deserve better.
by hbogert | 2026-01-18 17:11:48+00:00
> Also IME EVPN is mostly deployed/pushed when clueless app developers expect to have arbitrary L2 reachability across any two points in a (cross DC!) fabric [1], or when they want IP addresses that can follow them around the DC or other dumb shit that they just assumed they can do.

Sorry, but that's really reductive and backwards. It's usually pushed by requirements from the lower regions of the stack, operators don't want to let VMs have downtime so they live migrate to other places in the DC. It's not a weird requirement to let those VM's keep the same IP once migrated. I never had a developer ask me for L2 reachability.
by dismalaf | 2026-01-18 17:11:56+00:00
Europeans will really do anything except confront Russia and China.

A little history lesson: the US has defacto and dejure been defending Greenland since WWII (they've had a defence pact since Denmark fell to the Nazis). US bases have been on Greenland from then to the current day.

Even after Ukraine, Europe buys Russian gas. Even with all the threats from China towards Taiwan, Europeans are cozying up to them. And Europe still doesn't adequately defend itself, with a few exceptions.

While Trump is erratic in public, all recent US moves point to a confrontation with Russia/China in the near future. And Europe just sits by twiddling their thumbs. Feels like Eastern Europe and the Baltics are the only ones who take it seriously.
by Geonode | 2026-01-18 17:12:03+00:00
The people who opted out do bear responsibility.

Would he win the popular vote today? Hard to know. Only the kind of people who are willing to talk to pollsters end up in polls.

Both parties tend to claim a high moral position and definitive mandate from a narrow margin of victory.

Talk of suspending mandates, third terms, and invading Greenland are exactly how he keeps winning- talk past your goal, and retreat to victory.
by Keyframe | 2026-01-18 17:12:59+00:00
I wonder how the current events in Greenland will impact the safety and sovereignty of Taiwan.

That was my thought as well. It's a dangerous rhetoric being displayed by USA. "We need this land for our security". Turns out, what if other powers start using the same rhetoric? Russia did it already for Ukraine, China might say "We need Taiwan for our security".. where does it stop and ultimately it leads absolutely nowhere good.
by heliumtera | 2026-01-18 17:13:06+00:00
That sounds like a great question. Why did no one bother to mention the problem was already proved and published by the author that proposed the statement 90 years ago?

Somehow an llm generated proof that consist of gigabytes upon gigabytes of unreadable mess is groundbreaking and pushes mathematics forward, a proof proposed by Erdos himself in 5 pages gets buried and lost to time.

Maybe one particular optics fuels the narrative that formal verified compute is the new moat and llms are amazing at that?
by fweimer | 2026-01-18 17:13:09+00:00
It's also oddly self-defeating. If Greenland is made the 51st state (as proposed here: https://fine.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1...), it's reasonable to assume that the balance of power in the Senate would shift slightly, but significantly given how thin the majorities usually are. Politically, the two new senators would almost certainly be way to the left of the Republican party.

But on the other hand, Puerto Rico and various U.S. territories are still waiting for their senators to be seated (and voting rights in presidential elections, and in some cases, full citizenship rights).
by cjbgkagh | 2026-01-18 17:13:13+00:00
Optionally perpetual or subscription, niche software, B2B, more expensive than mass market / commodity software. Nonstop lying / scamming behavior.

You get funny things that happen like when a rep from a company will call you and warn you not to do a deal with another rep from the same company, then 2 hours later we get a call from the other rep.

I’m eventually going to go subscription only, people from Asia tend to really hate that and refuse to pay for subscriptions but we make so little money from them that it’s not worth catering to them, we’re better off dropping that entire region.
by alibarber | 2026-01-18 17:13:16+00:00
A mass selloff of US bonds will mean that the US can’t sell any more - because the market is suddenly flooded with bonds at a ‘discount’. This means that the US can’t take on any more debt (borrow money)

Why would you pay the US $10 when you can get the same thing from France for $8?

Or the US then has to issue bonds with massively inflated returns - i.e. pay a much higher interest rate.
by jmholla | 2026-01-18 17:13:51+00:00
Mine was my senior design project as well. My group got assigned to a competition to wirelessly harness energy in the GHz range. The competition used a ratio of energy to size (power / (longest edge * mass)) to rate the entries and so we decided to focus on the denominator making ours as small as possible.

We finished design and production in the first month using off the shelf parts. That left just presentations as our work for the rest of the semester. The professors kept telling us to design large complicated antennas but we double checked that a small denominator against the minimum power requirement was a solid strategy and stuck it out. At the end of the semester, our final presentation and demonstration had them applauding our decision to focus on the size over energy.

I took our tiny little thing to the competition and we hit middle of the pack against larger and much more complicated designs, some of which couldn't even support themselves (but the supports didnt calculate into your size). And most of the competitors were graduate teams. We probably would've done even better if the banana clips we had to use weren't part of the size calculations; they were significantly bigger than the rest of our contraption.
by legitster | 2026-01-18 17:15:09+00:00
Even all of the purely imperialistic stated reasons for taking Greenland make no sense.

National security? We already have the right to station as many troops there as we want! And we have actually removed troops recently.

Mineral rights? America is already richly endowed - its just impossible to access what we have when permitting is almost impossible. If there were actually valuable lodes in Greenland, it would probably be easier to mine now!

The only thing I can think of are the warm fuzzies you may feel as a despot to take land and enrage your allies.
by simonsarris | 2026-01-18 17:15:50+00:00
Eli Lilly has GLP-1 injectables and will have an oral pill this year. Novo Nordisk has already dropped that ball.

Hence Eli Lilly +40% in the last year and Novo -23%. Or on a longer timescale you can see the problem:

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/NVO:NYSE?sa=X&sqi=2&ved...
by nromiun | 2026-01-18 17:15:50+00:00
> Yes, OpenAI is burning $8-12B in 2025. Compute infrastructure is obviously not cheap when serving 190M people daily.

So casual. Actual ad giants like Meta and Google are serving many more people than 190M while bringing in actual profit.

Yes, let's say these are just the early days and they are burning money just like any other VC company. But how are they going to scale up their hardware/usage and get a profit at the same time?

AI hardware is getting optimized YOY too but the flagship models are getting bigger every year as well. I don't see how they are going to get profit without jacking their prices at the same time. And price increases always hits usage growth.

Serving an ad is very cheap these days, while serving a big model is very much expensive.
by notnullorvoid | 2026-01-18 17:16:52+00:00
Ads aren't a long-term viable model for tools. Each year it gets more feasible to self host tools (email being the od exception, but there are still many ad free alternatives). Ads shifting vehicles to AI will extend the lifetime a bit, but even still local models are getting better and that's without even much architectural advancement.

I don't see an end to advertising all together though, public spaces and entertainment don't really have an escape unless forced by regulation.