MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by moregrist | 2026-01-14 22:59:28+00:00
Adafruit products work as advertised, and are very well documented. Sparkfun is similar though their level of documentation is (IME) a bit more hit and miss.

For rando parts you get from rando vendors, it’s pretty common for schematics to have mistakes, pulldown resistors to be kind of off, and other components to be low quality.

For prototype development work, I’d rather spend a few dollars to have reliable parts that can be easily reordered than spend hours or days tracking down issues in parts that can’t always be reordered.

For post-prototyping and production work, you’re probably spinning boards anyway, and your choices and risks are pretty different.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-14 22:59:31+00:00
Historically, at least in the US, people are indeed explicitly allowed to lie or spread misinformation in the town square. This is specifically allowed by the first amendment and backed by court cases. Your mention of the “town square” here is interesting, as Marsh v. Alabama and Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins both center around this idea. In both cases the Supreme Court ruled that unrestricted free speech was allowed in the town square, whether it was a company town or a shopping mall, so long as the location was effectively serving as a surrogate town square.

Now of course this is about the UK. But to my knowledge and based on research there are no laws or cases about lying in public. As long as you aren’t committing perjury or slander, or urging violence, this isn’t illegal.
by kiwijamo | 2026-01-14 22:59:38+00:00
Agreed although it's getting to the point that other companies are now using Starlink to provide other services so I've often used Starlink (even if indirectly) without realising it.

For example I go tramping and pretty much every remote accomodation I've stayed at use Starlink. My mobile provider uses Starlink for direct-to-cell services. My national airline uses Starlink as backhaul for their in-flight WiFi.

I know there are other competitors coming who aim to provide alternatives to Starlink -- this should mean at some point accomodation providers, mobile networks, airlines, etc can switch to them.
by mikeaskew4 | 2026-01-14 22:59:43+00:00
Been working on something like this for two years, actually 4 if you count the lead up from idea to the tech becoming available and the time to go after it…

The trick to success is finding out how to get people to pay for it.

The problem of “how does this look?” really does get people stuck, but the process of figuring out the answer is both subjective and escapable—we often run out of time and just settle.

Keep at it. Hit me up if you’d like to chat more.
by locallost | 2026-01-14 23:00:21+00:00
I also don't know what's aggressive about questioning speaking matter-of-factly about the cause of the event when it's not clear what the cause was. The end of your document says at fault was "just about everyone", starting from gas plants that did not do their job. I have no idea then why you're trying to throw shade on something good that was accomplished by bending the truth. I did not read the article and the 4.6B figure might be BS, but if it is, pinning something as the definitive cause of the blackout, when this is not really known, is not the way to correct it.
by AgentME | 2026-01-14 23:00:31+00:00
LLMs are amazing and I do seriously wonder if the singularity could happen in my lifetime ... but there definitely are people over-hyping present capabilities too much right now. If present models were fully human-level proper-extended-Turing-test-passing AGI, then the results on the economy and the software ecosystem would be as immediately obvious and world-changing as a comet impact.

I don't think Rakyll or Andrej are claiming these things; I think they're assuming their readers share more context with them and that it's not necessary to re-tread that every time they post about their surprise at AI currently being better than they expected. I've had the experience multiple times now of reading posts from people like them, nodding along, and then reading breathless quote-tweets of those very same posts exclaiming about how it means that AGI is here right now.
by imiric | 2026-01-14 23:00:46+00:00
I'm still waiting for all these remarkable achievements produced with this new technology to provide tangible value to the world. Surely we should be seeing groundbreaking products and innovations in all industries by now, improving the lives of millions of people.

Instead all we get is anecdata from influencers and entrepreneurs, and the technology being shoved into every brand and product. It's exhausting.

At least it seems that the tide is starting to turn. Perhaps we are at the downward slope of the Peak of Inflated Expectations.
Show HN: I built a semantic search engine for video ("Ctrl+F" for mp4s)
by Daviduche03 | 2026-01-14 23:00:48+00:00
Hello HN,

I’m David. I built Matriq because I was frustrated with the "Post-Production Scrub."

I had hours of B-roll and long-form content, but finding a specific 5-second clip (e.g., "a red car passing by" or "a specific quote about React state") meant manually watching the footage at 2x speed.

What I built:
Matriq indexes video content visually and aurally. It uses multimodal embeddings to understand scene context, action, and dialogue.

The Use Case:

While it works for general editing, I’ve found the best use case is Content Repurposing. Creators with 100+ hours of archives can now instantly find "viral hooks" or specific topics to turn into Shorts/Reels without re-watching old footage.

It’s in beta. I’d love you to try breaking it or give feedback on the retrieval accuracy.

Link: https://matriq.video
by ak217 | 2026-01-14 23:00:52+00:00
I have a hacky piece of code that I used with 2.0 to inspect the state of digest objects. This was removed from the public API in 3.0 but in the process of finding that out I took a deep dive in the digests API and I can confirm it's incomprehensible. I imagined there must be some deep reason for the indirection but it's good to know the Cryptography maintainers don't think so.

Speaking of which, as a library developer relying on both long established and new Cryptography APIs (like x.509 path validation), I want to say Alex Gaynor and team have done an absolutely terrific job building and maintaining Cryptography. I trust the API design and test methodology of Cryptography and use it as a model to emulate, and I know their work has prevented many vulnerabilities, upleveled the Python ecosystem, and enabled applications that would otherwise be impossible.
by tzs | 2026-01-14 23:01:00+00:00
Below is how New York's new law requiring social media sites defined the covered sites. It's based on how the site works, specifically if they have an "addictive feed" which is defined in the law. I'd expect most laws concerning social media would be drafted in a generally similar way.

> "Addictive feed" shall mean a website, online service, online application, or mobile application, or a portion thereof, in which multiple pieces of media generated or shared by users of a website, online service, online application, or mobile application, either concurrently or sequentially, are recommended, selected, or prioritized for display to a user based, in whole or in part, on information associated with the user or the user's device, unless any of the following conditions are met, alone or in combination with one another:

> (a) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is based on information that is not persistently associated with the user or user's device, and does not concern the user's previous interactions with media generated or shared by other users;

> (b) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is based on user-selected privacy or accessibility settings, or technical information concerning the user's device;

> (c) the user expressly and unambiguously requested the specific media, media by the author, creator, or poster of media the user has subscribed to, or media shared by users to a page or group the user has subscribed to, provided that the media is not recommended, selected, or prioritized for display based, in whole or in part, on other information associated with the user or the user's device that is not otherwise permissible under this subdivision;

> (d) the user expressly and unambiguously requested that specific media, media by a specified author, creator, or poster of media the user has subscribed to, or media shared by users to a page or group the user has subscribed to pursuant to paragraph (c) of this subdivision, be blocked, prioritized or deprioritized for display, provided that the media is not recommended, selected, or prioritized for display based, in whole or in part, on other information associated with the user or the user's device that is not otherwise permissible under this subdivision;

> (e) the media are direct and private communications;

> (f) the media are recommended, selected, or prioritized only in response to a specific search inquiry by the user;

(> g) the media recommended, selected, or prioritized for display is exclusively next in a pre-existing sequence from the same author, creator, poster, or source; or

> (h) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is necessary to comply with the provisions of this article and any regulations promulgated pursuant to this article.
by ptorrone | 2026-01-14 23:01:25+00:00
after a decade of dealing with the founder's bullying, i had enough, looking back almost every year there was something. we did handle things privately until it was clear nothing was going to change, the only real change is we cannot buy teensy, a closed source board sparkfun exclusively makes now, maybe they (sparkfun) will stop paying the payments on something that had to agreed to, and have, we'll see.
by joecool1029 | 2026-01-14 23:01:43+00:00
Since this outage is still going on just a town away from their HQ... porting still works to get you going again on the same towers. You can get the device unlock pin from Verizon postpaid sent through a push message to the device so it doesn't rely on SMS.

Ironically I was planning to port my parents from Verizon to US Mobile to save them some money since they aren't financing any devices (there's a sale from them that ends today) and I've just done that on the first line and I now have service on that line with Verizon, where the remaining Verizon postpaid is still dead.
by iancmceachern | 2026-01-14 23:01:57+00:00
8000 miles towing 10k lbs in a Cyber truck would be roughly 70 charging stops at an hour each

8000 miles towing 10k lbs in a diesel super duty would be 30 stops at 15 mins each.

That's 70 hours vs 7.5 hours. Every 8000 miles
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-14 23:02:00+00:00
Did anyone manage to run the tests from the repository itself? The code seems filled with errors and warnings, as far as I can tell none of them because of the platform I'm on (Linux). I went and looked at the Action workflow history for some pages, and seems CI been failing for a while, PRs also all been failing CI but merged. How exactly was this verified to be something to be used as an successful example, or am I misunderstanding what point they are trying to make? They mention a screenshot, but they never actually mention if their goal was successfully met, do they?

I'm not sure the approach of "completely autonomous coding" is the right way to go. I feel like maybe we'll be able to use it more effectively if we think of them as something to be used by a human to accomplish some thing instead, lean into letting the human drive the thing instead, because quality spirals so quickly out of control.
by cellu | 2026-01-14 23:02:47+00:00
I mean alcohol is the worst drug: it’s highly addictive, toxic to the body, one of the few drugs with potentially fatal withdrawal, and a major driver of violence, accidents, and family breakdown. Unlike most drugs, it seriously harms people beyond the user — and because it’s legal, cheap, and socially normalised, its damage happens on a massive scale.

Sooooo yes happy with pubs closures.
by jrflowers | 2026-01-14 23:02:52+00:00
I don’t know what’s going on here but it is super funny to link to [2] and only quote “hi jerks”

> nick has been telling people about the grand old time you two had at limor’s expense, my expense, and others. he says you sat around making memes about us, registering domains, the whole thing.

> you removed [limor’s] name on code. you scraped our site until it crashed and then emailed to get unblocked so your team could keep using our guides. you squatted on the adafruit name for usb stuff. that’s just a sample of the greatest hits. can you "compete" without doing this? did it even work?
by 0hijinks | 2026-01-14 23:05:11+00:00
I guess I had never considered at face value what that kind of arrangement means until reading this DOJ document.

It makes total sense to me that committing terrible crimes should be punishable. When a criminal per domestic law resides in a different country (and the issue crosses national borders), it seems to me (not a lawyer) that the determination of appropriate force must be decided by an international group.

Otherwise, what's chilling to me is... what stops a country from unilaterally abducting anyone they want? The country doing the abducting determines the laws that have been violated, after all. In this document, we've explicitly determined that international law has no bearing on domestic consequences. So do whatever you want, so to speak. Freaky stuff.
by reincarnate0x14 | 2026-01-14 23:05:13+00:00
As someone who has used both light and heavy pickups for work, recreation, and farm work for decades, the Cybertruck is absolutely terrible at everything you want a truck to do.

It's a brodozer for people that are slightly environmentally conscious or have Elon issues.

And again, I say this as an actual cowboy, in that yes, I own cows. And a lineman who ferries manly men (and a few manly women) to do manly man work on high voltage power lines that will kill you so dead it's a guaranteed closed casket funeral. Trucks aren't just dick compensators, they exist to do work. And the Cybertruck sucks at all of that work. The F-150 lightning was a useful fleet vehicle due to the 120VAC outlets alone, aside from being, you know, a usable truck.

There's a reason most of the offering are very similar. We figured out what work pickup trucks need to do and how they're engineered to do it 50 years ago. The Hilux and friends made it highly economical. So you've got the Hiluxies and the SuperManlyMinivans and those are the two main kind of pickup trucks.
Ask HN: How do you find a non-US only, remote first job?
by hxii | 2026-01-14 23:06:03+00:00
I wrote about the circumstances and retrospective of 2025 here – https://0xff.nu/end-of-2025/
I'm unfortunately unemployed from November 2025, and have had no success looking for local or remote jobs via LinkedIn.

The local market is difficult, and most of the companies work in a hybrid model of 3-4 days from the office, which will be neigh impossible because of the constant commute, which will amount to around 3 hours a day. And I'm not even going into the difficulties related to ADHD.

As such, I want to ask – what's a good source for remote job listings that is not US only? Very often on websites like HN, RemoteOk or LinkedIn I see something like Remote (US only).
by j45 | 2026-01-14 23:07:25+00:00
It's important to separate the spirit of this from the spirits of it.

Pubs as social gathering places are critical to exist and keep alive.

Drinking neurotoxins that have a lot of destruction and damage, maybe not so much.

In the UK pubs are extremely different as well than the US. This site is for the UK, since it's asking for a postal code, among other signs. The UK also I believe has last call at 11 PM, which helps fuel the binge drinking before 11 PM and the wild public afterwards. In North America, last call for alcohol can be 1-3 AM, and people generally aren't in a rush to fuel up to blast off.
by mrandish | 2026-01-14 23:07:30+00:00
> and are super verbose...

Since I don't code for money any more, my main daily LLM use is for some web searches, especially those where multiple semantic meanings would be difficult specify with a traditional search or even compound logical operators. It's good for this but the answers tend to be too verbose and in ways no reasonably competent human would be. There's a weird mismatch between the raw capability and the need to explicitly prompt "in one sentence" when it would be contextually obvious to a human.
by vaindil | 2026-01-14 23:07:48+00:00
I'm 6'9" / 206cm, and I've struggled my whole life to find clothing that fits, since I'm slim. If we're sharing links, the two I've been buying from lately are https://tallslimtees.com and https://www.2tall.com. The latter has a large selection of knitwear, which I've never found anywhere else, it's been a game changer. (Most tall sizes are both bigger and taller, so they don't fit correctly. These sites sell taller clothing that'sonly taller.)
by astrange | 2026-01-14 23:08:15+00:00
Writing a function with UB for overflows doesn't cause unintended behavior if you're doing it to signal there aren't any overflows. And it's very important because it's needed to do basically any loop rewriting.

On the other hand, writing a function that recovers from overflows in an incorrect/useless way still isn't helpful if there are overflows.
by neuroelectron | 2026-01-14 23:08:22+00:00
Scott Adams said "anti-VAX were right— accidentally"

Just search for it and read about his dialog with the community around the shot.

He was given the nick name "clott adams" for buying the official narrative at first and getting boosted.

https://x.com/sablaah/status/1610002947135475713?s=20
by Cornbilly | 2026-01-14 23:08:26+00:00
>I absolutely agree that gamified, algorithm-driven social media should be banned for those under 16.

I agree. It's purposely addictive and harmful to peoples' mental health.

The current situation is akin to having absolutely no regulations on cigarettes.

Personally, I'd take it a step further and ban targeting algorithms for all ages and pair that with strict data privacy laws that make the entire user data industry collapse.
by smashah | 2026-01-14 23:08:30+00:00
I think this is a good opportunity for a tool like warpgate. It has an API to create unique ssh sessions for one time use.

I've just rolled an instance but it's quite powerful in terms of control. I imagine it would be fairly simple to implement an MCP user group which is barred from using some commands. If a barred command is run the session disconnects.
by majormajor | 2026-01-14 23:08:50+00:00
> Does this really hold when Tesla has a considerably higher valuation?

> Tesla is sitting at an egregious 30x market cap of Ford. If anything... I'd expect them to have sales targets that are ~30x the size of Ford.

It almost holds BECAUSE of that. Tesla's valuation has been wildly detached from its sales numbers for years, so having a poorly-selling Cybertruck doesn't really matter.

But admitting that a high-end high-profile product was a big failure, on the other hand, might be much more undesirable for the company whose valuation depends on vibes vs sales.

("Should" that be true, though? Well, that's a different question. ;) )
by kyralis | 2026-01-14 23:09:19+00:00
That's a challenging claim to justify when their output is the Cybertruck. Honestly, none of Tesla's lineup is currently impressive - it's mostly gimmicky with less than stellar build quality.

I strongly considered a Model S years ago when they first came out, but the price just didn't seem justifiable. Now? The world has moved on, and Tesla... hasn't.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-14 23:09:28+00:00
I own a station wagon, a van and a pickup (none of which are nice or new) vehicle and three trailers (to be fair one is special purpose) and I'll put up to ~1000lb on the roof of the car before I drag a trailer around.

Trailer is kind of obnoxious pain in the ass and has a bunch more shit to go wrong with it's use compared to a vehicle that "just does what you need".

It might not be the literal cheapest but a truck with the desired cab to bed ratio is the right call for the casual user who just wants to do homeowner things and doesn't wanna think about it.
by consumer451 | 2026-01-14 23:09:33+00:00
Germany is deploying its troops to NATO protected land, Greenland. Something relatively acceptable.

Germany has also given more than most countries to defend Ukraine.[0] No foreign country has deployed their troops to Ukraine.

I genuinely do not understand your take.

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/28489/ukrainian-military-huma...
by tzs | 2026-01-14 23:09:41+00:00
> i totally agree, but the solution to corporate manipulation of our feed is to regulate social media so that the first amendment applies to the algorithm so the companies themselves dont have the power to push their own propaganda.

What does it mean for the 1st to apply to the algorithm? For example, who would have to do what in order to violate the algorithm's 1st amendment rights?
by denkmoon | 2026-01-14 23:10:32+00:00
Yeah I don't think my doctor is going to give me a cannabis vape prescription, though admittedly I haven't asked.

I don't see how making vapes prescription only changes the situation with children, which is that all tobacco products are illegal to sell or provide to a person under 18. Cracking down on the sale of tobacco to children does not require tobacco products to be made prescription only, these are orthogonal issues. All this does is drive profit towards shonky pill doctors who advertise on facebook that one cheap over the phone appointment is all you need to "feel great again" and other euphemisms, and will give you any pill you ask for regardless of the medical suitability.
by stephenhuey | 2026-01-14 23:10:52+00:00
Indeed. It's because of the fashion preferences of American SUV and pickup buyers.

I can attest to the fact that minivans are much more comfortable. I picked up my Pacifica hybrid minivan in early 2021 before the price hike and it was a steal compared to SUVs and pickups. When I was doing paperwork for the vehicle at the Chrysler dealership, I was chatting with some sales guys and discovered the shocking fact they had recently sold a luxuriously loaded-down pickup for over $100K. I was fortunate to easily haggle with them over my minivan because they don't make much money on minivans so they focus on pickups, Jeeps, etc.

A couple decades ago, I had started looking to replace an old hand-me-down car from my grandma, and had been mulling over whether I could ever justify spending $30K on an Infiniti at that time. My boss at work got a new pickup, and he was rather proud of it, and I innocently asked if it cost $25K because plenty of my Texan relatives had driven them over the years and I assumed they were a no-frills working man's practical vehicle. After a brief pause, he answered, "It was a little over 40 thousand." That was over 20 years ago.
by mjbale116 | 2026-01-14 23:11:00+00:00
Re-posting an older comment of mine on the subject:

Here's a couple of arguments I had to deal with whilst expressing my support for electronics ban at schools including a blanket social media ban:

1) "Since when do we consider it OK for the government to intervene between the parents and their children and telling them whats good and whats not? They know best."

2) "Whoever does not want to use electronics at school grounds are free to do so who are we to constrain them? Also, forbidding things never works let them learn."

3) "I think you are underestimating children; if they see that what they are doing with electronics affects them in any way, they will stop using them. Lets give them some credit and let them make their mistakes."

All of which are anti phone-ban/anti-regulation/pro-liberal/freemarketeering masquerading as a product of independent thought.