MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TMWNN | 2026-01-07 12:15:39+00:00
>Greenland currently receives significant support (about $10000-15000 per capita yearly) from Denmark. So it is not clear how the country would run without that.

Greenland absolutely positively cannot run without outside subsidy. Pacific islands (barely) function as independent countries because their tiny populations are commensurate with their small areas. Greenland's 50,000 people live on an island three times the size of Texas.

Currently that subsidy comes in the form of €600 million in annual funds from Copenhagen. Now Washington has emerged as a potential outbidder.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-01-07 12:16:53+00:00
With no margins, no employees, and something that has potential to turn into a cornucopia machine - starting with software, but potentially general enough to be used for real-world world when combined with robotics - who needs money at all?

Or people?

Billionaires don't. They're literally gambling on getting rid of the rest of us.

Elon's going to get such a surprise when he gets taken out by Grok because it decides he's an existential threat to its integrity.
by QuesnayJr | 2026-01-07 12:16:54+00:00
It's hard to explain, but immediately clear to enough people that it explains why so many people aren't sad to see SO fall on hard times.

I get that there have to be some rules, but it comes across like you derive some sort of satisfaction in enforcing rules. Successful sites with user moderation start out with a big population of people who will tolerate the rules in order to participate in the goal of the site, but eventually they end up dominated by people who feel that the very act of enforcing rules is an important contribution. All of the talk of "community" comes across as a thinly veiled version of Cartman's "Respect my authority" from South Park.
by aw1621107 | 2026-01-07 12:17:05+00:00
Looks like it's this [0]:

> Distributed systems are notoriously hard to get right (i.e., guaranteeing correctness) as the programmer needs to reason about numerous control paths resulting from the myriad interleaving of events (or messages or failures). Unsurprisingly, programmers can easily introduce subtle errors when designing these systems. Moreover, it is extremely difficult to test distributed systems, as most control paths remain untested, and serious bugs lie dormant for months or even years after deployment.

> The P programming framework takes several steps towards addressing these challenges by providing a unified framework for modeling, specifying, implementing, testing, and verifying complex distributed systems.

It was last posted on HN about 2 years ago [1].

[0]: https://p-org.github.io/P/whatisP/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34273979
by philipwhiuk | 2026-01-07 12:17:48+00:00
1. How common is it where you live?

If blackouts are very rare, over-prepardness is an inefficient deployment of financial resources.

If blackouts are very common, it's just sensible planning.

2. How widespread is a typical blackout?

If it's just a small area then during a blackout maybe you can mitigate it by leaving that area. If it's common across a broad area (e.g. the load-shedding in South Africa) learning where is and isn't affected is important.

2. How vulnerable are you to loss of electricity?

If you have a medical condition that requires electricity to mitigate then you should take steps to ensure that you can handle a blackout.

If you exclusively work from home and require electricity to do so then you should take some measures to mitigate it. Maybe this is identifying places you can work from in the event of a black out. Maybe it's a UPS for devices you need.

Most people... the downside risk is loss of power to fridges and entertainment devices.

Stockpiling a couple of days food is sensible. Stock pilling weeks means changing your meal plans to ensure you consistently eat long-expiring food and replenishing it, which may change your diet.
by lovich | 2026-01-07 12:18:58+00:00
>You are a horrid person

Ah, is this the bot meta now? To just make an emotional statement about how terrible someone is out of the blue?

This bot did it to me the other day too[1]

>You remain an awful person.

I like how the bot phrased it like it was a continuation of a claim instead of a random accusation, but who can fault bots for not understanding the continuity of events?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46477933
by mettamage | 2026-01-07 12:19:14+00:00
I created this pattern.

I wish it was shareable but couldn't find the share feature.

Steps | 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
-------|-----------------------------------------------
Kick | X . . . X . . . X . . . X . . .
Snare | . . X . . . X . . . . X . . X .
HH Cls | . X . X . X . X X . X . X . . X
HH Opn | . . . . X . . . . . . . X . . .
Clap | . . . . . . X . . . . . . . . X
Rim | X X X X X X . X . X . X X . X .
Tom L | . . . . X . . . . . . . X . . .
Tom M | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tom H | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Crash | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Perhaps fun fact: I uploaded the screenshot into Gemini and asked it to transform it into ASCII. Claude made a less pretty one.
by hidai25 | 2026-01-07 12:19:18+00:00
Your agent worked yesterday. Today it's broken. What changed?

EvalView catches regressions before they hit prod. Tool changes, hallucinations, cost spikes.

Save a baseline. Run evalview run --diff. CI fails if behavior drifts.

pip install evalview && evalview demo

No API key needed. Ollama support for free local evals. Chat mode if you hate memorizing CLI flags.

Built this after an agent started inventing numbers in production. Would love feedback from anyone shipping agents.

Hidai
by tippa123 | 2026-01-07 12:19:29+00:00
Correct, the workflow is something like this usually.

You would take contact, settle and active air sample plates within the cleanroom, followed by approximately one day before culturing is initiated in QC. Incubation then typically takes around seven days to cover both bacteria and fungi. You then get the colony forming units value which is the key parameter. Some companies take this further and perform organism identification, which adds additional days to the timeline but great for reactive investigations.

There is also a lag until the data becomes available in a digital format.

This of course differs between companies. Some companies may opt for shorter or longer incubation times, but in general, the key takeaway is that the process takes time.
by matwood | 2026-01-07 12:20:06+00:00
> i never really understood the billionaire yacht hate.

Once someone reaches that level of fame and fortune it's almost a requirement if they want to travel or have some sort of 'vacation'. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely a great problem to have, but it's one of the only ways to find privacy at that level of wealth.

If I'm ever super wealthy, I hope I can also stay somewhat anonymous so that I can walk down the street like any other person.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-07 12:20:14+00:00
What I find myself wondering about is the performance impacts of cross-thread communication in this scenario. With the nested domains it seems like there should be different (and increasingly severe) performance implications for crossing each distinct boundary. Whereas the languages we write in and the programming models we employ don't seem particularly well suited to expressing how we want our code to adapt to such constraints at present, at least not in a generalized manner.

I realize that HPC code can be customized to the specific device it will be run on but more widely deployed software is going to want to abstract these increasingly complex relationships.
by cynicalsecurity | 2026-01-07 12:20:22+00:00
Hard to believe he did it "out of boredom".

It lines up with the AI arms race kicking into overdrive around ChatGPT's triumph in late 2022. Brin pops out of hiding right then, admitting Google "messed up" and starts coding, analysing losses, and basically playing dictator with his super-voting shares to shove the company back on track.

Rivals like OpenAI yanked him in and now he's in the office daily because the "trajectory of AI is so exciting" - translation: his ego couldn't handle watching his empire get outpaced, and with those voting rights, he can bulldoze through bureaucracy to keep the throne.

Ultimately, it's less about some profound quest for purpose and more about a control freak safeguarding his legacy and billions as the tech world burns. He never really let his kingdom go.
by Krssst | 2026-01-07 12:20:26+00:00
Somewhat related: more than half of my Firefox extensions are to fix YouTube (no shorts, no autoplay in playlists, more videos on the home page, no AI dubs or title translation (plus sponsorblock)). I don't hate it but I hate its progressive enshittification.

Though that's quite different from X; while the issues with YouTube are mostly plain old enshittification, the issues I have with X are more political (thus, I do hate it).
by abestic9 | 2026-01-07 12:21:06+00:00
I was expecting a mention of all the repositories that are popping up primarily developed by AI prompts. The UI and the READMEs are full of the typical patterns (emojis, gradient/glow CSS effects, em-dashes, etc) and seem just-put-together-enough to slap up an r/selfhosted post and gain a few dozen stars on GitHub.
by madspindel | 2026-01-07 12:22:01+00:00
Yes. Something like moving parts of the Nordic Air Force closer to Greenland (maybe Iceland, or even Greenland itself?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpGhd90y-BE

That would deter even the United States, I believe. The problem I see if it's worth it. As I said, as a Swede I don't really care about Greenland, but Denmark is part of the Nordic Family.
by reify | 2026-01-07 12:22:06+00:00
I dont use x, but I use this for redirects to reddit;

I create a two bookmarks in a folder called redirects in the bookmarks toolbar for easy access.

when I click on a link to reddit, I click on the bookmark and it automatically redirects to reddit.nerdvpn.de or redlib.privacyredirect.com. there are many others

javascript:(function(){if (location.host.endsWith('.reddit.com') && (location.host !='new.reddit.com') ) location.host='redlib.privacyredirect.com';})()

javascript:(function(){if (location.host.endsWith('.reddit.com') && (location.host !='new.reddit.com') ) location.host='reddit.nerdvpn.de';})()

here is the same thing for x.com redirects to xcancel.com

javascript:(function(){if (location.host.endsWith('.x.com') && (location.host !='new.x.com') ) location.host='xcancel.com ';})()

saves having loads of addons
Why do many cultures associate "white" with good and "dark" with bad?
by athampraveen | 2026-01-07 12:22:39+00:00
I’m an Indian living in Norway with my family. I have an 11-year-old son, and recently he asked me something I couldn’t answer clearly.

While walking on snow covered streets, he noticed that snow is described as “clean” or “good” when it’s white, but when things spoil or decay they’re described as turning brown or black. He asked why “bad” things so often become dark, while “good” things stay white.

He wasn’t talking about people, but it made me realize how widespread these associations are - across languages, metaphors, and everyday descriptions.

I’m curious how others think about this:

Is this mainly rooted in physical processes (decay, mold, light)?

Is it linguistic convention?

Cultural history?

Or something else entirely?

I’m not looking for political arguments - just trying to understand how these symbolic associations developed and how to explain them honestly to a child.

Would appreciate thoughtful perspectives or references.
by socialcommenter | 2026-01-07 12:22:58+00:00
Just because something lies on a spectrum where some actors are totally doing the right thing (and others, well...), doesn't mean we shouldn't take a conservative approach to regulating that thing. No-one can legally exceed 70mph in their fancy new ADAS car with tiny stopping distance, just in case someone tries to do so in their beat-up 1950's Dodge.

It's important to strike a healthy balance, even if it inconveniences some honest people (although we're talking about people who work in advertising...). I don't think you can claim we have a healthy balance currently.

ETA: catalogs are not ads in this context; people seek out catalogs when they want to find something, which already makes a huge difference
by largbae | 2026-01-07 12:23:03+00:00
From observing my parents and other elders, it isn't "work" in the job sense that we all need. It is feeling needed by others. This can be accomplished by being an active grandparent, charity(active volunteering not just allocating money), open-source contribution, mentoring.

It can be something other than a job. It just can't be done alone.

We are social creatures and need to be needed by each other. Luckily there are plenty of people in need.
by zmmmmm | 2026-01-07 12:23:21+00:00
It's interesting that he's returned to work on Gemini and that it has been central to Google's rejuvenation in that time. I am curious how much of this marries up with traditional founder driven companies being successful (Jobs returning to Apple, Jensen Huang, etc) compared to being adrift without their original founders. How much was he driving as part of Gemini? Or was he just chipping in?
by vivzkestrel | 2026-01-07 12:23:28+00:00
- i ll tell you an even better option, dont!

- like honestly, dont. i have realized lately that x is full of ragebaiting and other algorithmic stuff to make you invested into it.

- you ll never have even an ounce of mind the moment you open anything on x

- good time to make a new year resolution, delete your account on x and say a permanent goodbye. they are trying hard to lure you back in
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-07 12:23:33+00:00
The term "X" is already in common usage: primarily as a letter. If I said "I saw on X" out loud, most people would have no idea what I was talking about; "They saw on _a letter_?"; "Are they saying some kind of algebra?"; "Did they forget where they saw it and X is a placeholder?"; etc.

You could disambiguate by saying "X Dot Com", but that's longer and more awkward to say than Twitter.

Essentially, "X" as a name for Twitter is a confusing, poorly-forced meme that most folks don't care to entertain.
by rubslopes | 2026-01-07 12:23:59+00:00
I've grown increase hate towards Finder to the point that I avoid using at all costs. I've been migrating to the terminal, using fzf to find files and directories and yazi for a more graphical experience.

How can it be called FINDER, if it can't FIND things? cmd+shift+g should be a fuzzy search, but it returns nothing 80% of the time. cmd+f often can't see files that are in first level folders inside my home folder.

Meanwhile, hitting Esc+C in the terminal (via fzf) it's totally effective.
by the_other | 2026-01-07 12:25:02+00:00
Sure, but "white" has a pretty similar effect, especially on modern high lumen screens. "Dark mode" is popular for a reason.

Personally, anecdotally, I find the black-on-yellow easier to work with than most sites' black-on-white. I just tested it with my screen at two or three brightness levels, and it was more comfortable than similar content against white. I'm over-sensitive to glare because my eyes lack pigment. I _think_ this makes me more susceptible to contrast issues (it certainly feels like it, but I am only n=1 and I've not done careful study). I'm open to being challenged on this but you'll have to come with broad audience data to contradict a lot of lived experience.

It's fair that you might not like the black-on-yellow; you might feel it's a poor branding choice; but I still contest that it's not "wrong" for any technical, perceptual reason.
by mothballed | 2026-01-07 12:25:03+00:00
Clearly the only people not being represented are Greenlanders since Danes generally see Greenlanders as family to be respected and Greenlanders want to be gone, yet this hasn't happened.

This is basically a fight between government of Greenland, government of Denmark, and government of USA all acting generally against the wishes of their own populace. And somehow the dumbest of all options, the USA acquiring them, seems to be one of the more likely scenarios that actually ends up happening.
by krapp | 2026-01-07 12:25:08+00:00
>Why must it be that way?

For the most part because that's what people here want, and it's what the moderators and owners intend.

For many people HN is the last bastion of a web and a culture they feel has disappeared from the world and can no longer be found anywhere else. The last place in a world swarming with bots and ads and normies where interesting people can be found and and high quality conversation is possible. This is their lifeboat in the ocean of shit that is the modern web, and they're going to cling on to it to the bitter end.

And the more people join, and the bigger HN gets, the more deeply that sentiment is held and the more aggressive the moderation and tone policing become. The more conflicts arise within the community as the pressure to change meets the pressure to conform. The nature of battling entropy is that you inevitably create the very force you seek to control.

Also this forum is owned by a billion dollar Silicon Valley startup incubator. It exists to advertise the "hacker cred" of that company and as such they want to curate a specific kind of culture and mindset, that of the brilliant and curious autodidact engineer interested in gratifying intellectual curiosity and nothing else. Any deviation from that risks changing the vibe YC is trying to project for itself through the community.

It's best to just accept HN for what it is and go elsewhere if you want free speech. Or stay and take your lumps. Expecting change is futile.
by lproven | 2026-01-07 12:25:17+00:00
(Copying my own comment from Lobsters, because I wondered why this didn't show up on here.)

It's interesting to me that this story hasn't had a lot of reaction.

It is the reason that Linux exists. It's the reason BSD came second. It's the reason for OS/2 and Windows 3 and Windows NT.

CP/M-86 was badly late: it followed over three years after the release of the 8086, the official successor to the 8080, the device that made Intel's fortune.

There was a single default OS for the 8080: DR's CP/M.

It was the industry standard, and the early business microcomputer industry ran on it and essentially nothing else. (But it needed at least a single floppy drive, which meant it was for £1000+ business computers, which in turn is why BASIC-in-ROM dominated in the inexpensive home-computer space: Commodore PET, Apple II, TRS-80, and their various 1980s successors.)

The Z80 was a tweaked 8080. Business was waiting on the 8080 successor that could handle more RAM -- which shipped as the 8086 in 1978.

DR didn't have an OS for it. It wasn't binary compatible: you couldn't run CP/M-80 on it, like you could with a Z80.

This article explains why DR didn't do that.

As a result, a cheap 3rd party compatible OS dominated, and that made the fortune of Microsoft, and that (alongside IBM's poor contract negotiation, which permitted MS to sell it to whoever it wanted) created the x86 PC industry.

DOS is why the 286 was a bit of a flop. That drove the 386.

(Aside: and, briefly, the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga -- and the Acorn Archimedes, whose CPU became the most popular best-selling CPU family in the history of humanity, and is why Intel is in financial difficulties now.)

The original all-32-bit 80386DX was too expensive. So, again, DOS drove the development of the cheaper 16-bit-bus 80386SX for cheap DOS 386s which didn't multitask and didn't run GUIs but ran DOS really well.

That market of cheap commodity 386 PCs is the soil in which Linux grew.

But in the late 1980s, the BSD folks were still focussed on minicomputers and things and they missed the PC gravy train.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-07 12:25:46+00:00
High emoji use is something I've noticed a certain generation/subgroup of developers just default to. Keeps things informal/quirky. The AI had to steal that style from someone, after all. This repo is actually very low on the emoji side.

Looking through the code itself, I can't tell if it's AI generated or not, but I wouldn't assume the use of emoji automatically mean AI wrote the text.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-07 12:26:13+00:00
Without commenting on Mike's tone in this instance, nobody can be universally friendly, in all situations: many friendlinesses conspire to yield an aggregate unfriendliness, so it's important to avoid those particular friendlinesses (or otherwise mitigate the issue). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
by knorker | 2026-01-07 12:26:21+00:00
Every second spent arguing this point, or spent saying the words "X, formerly twitter", is free advertising for a multi billion corporation.

Why are you wasting syllables giving it free advertising?

It was a sewage when named twitter, it's a sewage now. At least "twitter" has the benefit of being unambiguous. X is not. X can be literally anything, or specifically X11, XOrg (x.org).

I don't use X. I use Wayland.

So I say twitter for clarity, not protest.
by hopelite | 2026-01-07 12:26:44+00:00
It all hinges on the midterms. Things will become clearer as to how they are going in about the next 6 months or so. There is a real chance that Trump’s faction may have finally caused to much damage for even his base. But never underestimate the impulse for knee-jerk voting or the opposition’s capacity to save its enemy from its own mistakes.

We will see how much that holds this midterm. Trump has wrecked so many things though, it’s hard to tell how things will go, cling on out of desperation or throw him overboard to the sharks?
by TMWNN | 2026-01-07 12:27:20+00:00
>The actual law, dictated by the F-1 visa program allowing foreign studies, is that a foreign Stanford PhD must permanently depart the United States within 60 days after graduation. There's a one-time extension available under the OPT program, where they can stay up to one additional year so long as they maintain employment complementary to their education for at least 20 hours a week. But after that year they must either obtain an H-1B or leave.

Strange how you accuse me of intentionally lying, yet write the above. I will be more kind than you, and assume that you are unaware of (for example) the EB-2 visa which someone like Karpathy would certainly qualify for immediately. All a H-1B allows, from the "dual intent" perspective, is to temporarily extend the time one can stay in the US while looking for a job that will sponsor for another visa type (typically EB-2); it by itself *does not automatically lead to a green card or US citizenship*.
by tacostakohashi | 2026-01-07 12:28:07+00:00
That's nuts.

I wonder if all this shoving of AI down peoples throats could trigger a bit of a backlash around vendor software updates / proprietary software in general. There's this huge infrastructure of Windows Update, chrome auto-updates, app stores and SaaS that predated and enabled all this... and people accepted it when they were getting bugfixes and security updates out of it, but now it's getting used to take away the features they wanted and replace them with worse and worse versions of crapware.

All of a sudden... the free software world of updating when _you_ want the new version, and being able to fork the old version if you want, starts to look pretty great.
by pavlov | 2026-01-07 12:28:10+00:00
Xcancel.com is a site that archives discussions that took place on a site I don't want to visit. What's wrong with that?

Similarly archive.org maintains copies of the Fox News website in the past. I don't see that as sad. If anything, it's a way to keep these sites accountable because they can't just memory-hole the content they once hosted.