MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ncruces | 2026-01-21 08:51:38+00:00
“The size of Denmark’s investment in US Treasury bonds, like Denmark itself, is irrelevant.”

So an ally is irrelevant.

People wonder why the EU is built the way it is, and behaves the way it does. It's precisely to avoid this. To bind Germany and France together and avoid the big powers treating smaller neighbors like this. I guess that's bad to some people.

This is no longer a trade war.
by icar | 2026-01-21 08:51:48+00:00
> I've since learned that anything heavily regulated like hospitals and banks will have security procedures catering to compliance, not actual security.

I personally came to that conclusion thanks to the GrapheneOS situation regarding device attestation. Insecure devices get full features from some apps because they are certified, although they cite security, while GrapheneOS get half featured apps because it's "insecure" (read, doesn't have the Google certification, but are actually the most secure devices you can get, worldwide)
by SllX | 2026-01-21 08:51:58+00:00
Laws are negotiable between sovereign states representing the business interests of their nations. The EU, not being a nation itself, may not get that part and may have been feeling a little too invincible as a bloc of nations, but they have still basically pissed off most of their larger trading partners and it doesn’t stop there. Qatar is threatening to stop selling LNG over some corporate sustainability directives the EU passed in 2024, since the potential fines amount to 5% of their state energy corporation’s global revenue[1].

Personally I like the way Qatari’s Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi put it[2]:

> “If the case is that I lose 5% of my generated revenue by going to Europe, I will not go to Europe," Al-Kaabi reportedly said in reference to the associated penalties back in December 2024. "I’m not bluffing.”

Now you might be thinking, well who cares? It’s Qatar! Well Qatar also supplies about 12 to 14% of Europe’s LNG imports. Europe could get that gas from elsewhere, but elsewhere kinda includes either America or Russia.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/qatars-energy-minist...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2025/08/06/europe-is...
by rutagandasalim | 2026-01-21 08:51:58+00:00
yo, i’m 17 and been building projects for a while. every “next big boilerplate” i tried either broke, felt outdated, or forced me to rebuild the same stuff again and again. i’d lose weeks wiring auth, payments, seo, and ai just to launch something simple.

so i built my own — shipfree. it’s a modern next.js saas boilerplate made for this new agentic + llm era. built on next.js / bun / drizzle / prisma / tailwind / stripe / polar / Better-Auth /Ai agent skills / Base-ui / i18n / Upstash / Sentry / ai-sdk / tanstack, everything’s wired and ready so you can go from prompt to product in one shot.

you can literally spin up an llm-powered product in hours. no setup hell, no 2019 tech. just clean, fast, production-ready code.

made $1,800 so far from early users and the feedback’s been wild. i’m not tryna make the “ultimate boilerplate,” just one that actually helps indie devs ship fast and make money.

check it out here: https://shipfree.revoks.dev

feedback, ideas, or roast all welcome — i just wanted to build something i wish existed when i started.
by fancyfredbot | 2026-01-21 08:52:32+00:00
Nice! Thanks for fixing that. Very responsive.

I am interested to know a bit more about what's going on here. Please take my questions as well intentioned even though they are a bit critical.

The donation bug seems to me like it would have made most games impossible to complete. But I'm sure you must have tried it before launching. How come it wasn't noticed earlier? Was this bug introduced after launch? Is this game written using AI?

In my game I noticed the vAI players seemed absolutely terrible. They seemed unaware of recent moves and would make obvious mistakes like passing play to someone who would immediately capture their pieces when they had clearly better options. Although they proposed and formed alliances they didn't seem to do so very strategically. It was trivial to have far more tokens than the other players without any alliances and I am fairly sure I was about to win. Did you also notice this? Any idea why they play so badly?
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-21 08:52:35+00:00
I trust person A, person A trusts B

When I browse to random site, I can see in my browser that A's first level contact trusts this site.

Now I can make a decision based on the amount of trust I have on A. Maybe after exploring the site I can mark specific pages or the whole domain as trusted, so people in my network can see the same.

On a larger level I might trust the Country of Finland, who will only mark their official sites as Trusted. This way I instantly know if I'm on an official site or something pretending to be one.
by bux93 | 2026-01-21 08:52:50+00:00
This is one of those occasions where people are arguing semantics, and you're like "but -- I was there!"

My first cable modem did not have a NAT, nor did my first ADSL modem. You'd use "Internet Connection Sharing" on Windows 98 SE to share the internet connection on your LAN. And you'd get badly hacked, and then also install a firewall. Sygate had a firewall and NAT combined. (Or, you'd use linux - and also get badly hacked, but for different reasons.)

As a response, ISPs started to ship modems with built-in NATs. They did not start to ship what we now call routers (modem+NAT) because they wanted to encourage people to share their internet connections out of the goodness of their hearts. They'd prefer to sell more cablemodems, or dial-up. They started shipping (NATted!) routers because it saved them a lot of support calls from hacked (and disconnected) customers. Instead they got support calls about port-forwarding, so uPnP was the next hot feature.

Was NAT originally intended to be a firewall? No. Did it effectively protect many innocents? It did. Is it still needed as an additional layer of security-through-side-effects? Let's hope not.
by imiric | 2026-01-21 08:53:26+00:00
I've had the same experience. My IBM ThinkPads had great keyboards. Lenovo modernized them, but introduced a bunch of quality issues.

Oh, and I forgot to mention the most annoying issue of all: the TrackPoint still drifts on every modern ThinkPad! This was a big issue on IBM ThinkPads, and Lenovo hasn't bothered to fix it in all this time. I've had it on my 2018 X1 Extreme, and now on this 2025 X1 Carbon. It's enfuriating that such a high profile functionality has such a glaring issue for such a long time. Just shows Lenovo's lack of care and attention for this brand.
by i_don_t_know | 2026-01-21 08:53:47+00:00
> Well I am talking about before a military conflict erupts. I’m talking about what is in the interest of the people, when they are looking at a potential military conflict.

When you’re looking at a potential military conflict, you’re looking at a hostile foreign government that’s openly threatening you. What reasons do you have to believe that they will be friendly and that life will go on as usual after you have surrendered?

The foreign government cares about your land, resources, industry, strategic location, etc. They do not care about you, the people. Otherwise they would encourage you to move to them.

> In the case of Ukraine, being peacefully “relocated” to Russia seems much better than what is happening now.

Would it be better though? The Ukrainian government was/is far from perfect. But it’s the government they chose, it’s not an authoritarian one (it tried to be which led to the Maidan protests). They chose to be an independent country and in control of their own destiny. They don’t want to subject themselves to an authoritarian foreign government and they consider that to be in their best interest.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-21 08:53:48+00:00
This tool is most certainly agent-oriented and designed to merge, rather merely check readiness. In that regard, the page doesn't mention anything about human reviewers, only AI reviewers. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if author, someone seemingly running fully agentic workflows, didn’t even consider human reviewers. If it's AI start-to-end*, then yes, quite possibly could push directly to master without much difference.

Call me pessimistic, and considering [1][2][3] (and other similar articles/discussions), believe this tool will be most useful to AI PR spammers the moment is modified to also parse non-AI PR comments, or even worse gets post reply after update is pushed.

*Random question: is it start-to-end or end-to-end?

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1q3f89b/
[2]: https://devansh.bearblog.dev/ai-slop/
[3]: https://etn.se/index.php/nyheter/72808-curl-removes-bug-boun...
by u1hcw9nx | 2026-01-21 08:54:28+00:00
It can be hard to recognize the heaps of dirt on the riverbanks. The internet claims the Hoover Dam could last 10,000 years, but I don't believe that for a second.

Dams are not permanent structures without maintenance. If they are holding back water or if water is flowing through them, they will eventually erode and their foundations will collapse.

Because the main structure lacks rebar , it will last longer than most modern structures, but it won't last nearly as long as 2,000-year-old Roman structures made with volcanic ash and lime because it uses Portland cement.

There is bigger and more immediate problem. Hoover Dam ends with siltation long before concrete erodes. The Colorado River carries massive amounts of sediment. Eventually, the lake behind the dam will fill with mud, turning the dam into a giant waterfall. Once water starts flowing over the top of a arch-gravity dam rather than through controlled pipes, scouring at the base will undermine the foundation.
by dlcarrier | 2026-01-21 08:54:29+00:00
You sent me down a rabbit hole, but apparently discussions of previous bubbles were quite large:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tech+bubble%2C...

and

https://trends.google.com/explore?q=tech%2520bubble%2Creal%2...

Discussions of a bubble are always common in retrospect, so they peak after the bubble bursts. The Google Books data includes magazines and newspapers, but ends in 2022. The Google Search data is newer and closer tracks the interests of individuals than reporters and commentators, but has much lower precision.

The dot-com bubble burst in early 2000, but the term didn't exist at the time. It was called a "tech bubble" or "internet bubble", with usage of the two tracking similarly and "tech bubble" being far more dominant. The terms' usages peaked in 2007, but had already gained some prominence at the time of the bubble burst.

The real-estate bubble (really a real-estate lending bubble) burst in 2008 with the already strong usage of the term "real estate bubble" really accelerating at the start of 2005, and peaking in 2012.

Interestingly, usage of the term "tech bubble" started falling right when the real-estate peaked, perhaps with its prominence relegating the dot-com bubble to history.

Despite AI being an on-and-off overhyped buzzword since the 70's "AI buble", doesn't really show up in Google Books before the 2022 cutoff, which is also the year of the public release of ChatGPT, when LLMs quickly became a hot topic, but before there was enough hype for a bubble. Searches for "AI bubble" overtook "bitcoin bubble" at the start of 2023.

The growth in searches for "AI bubble" started accelerating last April, and report as peaking last November, although with the noisier data from Google Search, it may be a false peak. The AI bubble is itself a tech bubble, but with AI being the buzzword this time around, instead of the internet domains that ruled the last tech bubble. Searches for "tech bubble" are much lower than "AI bubble" but follow the same trend, with both showing a small peak in July, a dip in August, and a strong peak in November.
by antonvs | 2026-01-21 08:54:36+00:00
It’s so arbitrary. We have at least a few hundred million years before Earth is entirely uninhabitable. Why not use 000001931, then? Not ambitious enough, I guess.

Our written history already goes back over 6,000 years. We can actually understand what people back then wrote. We don’t need unbroken year numbering, or leading zeros, to understand that. The calendar has been reset and changed multiple times. It seems like a mis-focus on something that doesn’t really matter.
by 4gotunameagain | 2026-01-21 08:54:42+00:00
Europe never decided to outsource its defense to the US.

It was the US that wholeheartedly sold quadrillions worth of armaments to the EU, in order to support the cold war remnants of its military industrial complex.

The "funding the retiree class" comment is simply silly, I will not even get baited.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-21 08:55:08+00:00
The "inside" is your /56 or /48. You can add more local-only "inside"s if you'd like, which is useful for terrible ISPs with rotating network prefixes. The "outside" is everything on the internet.

If you can make your way through the absolute slog that is ARP+DHCP, you can get through NDP+SLAAC. Or even NDP+DHCPv6 if you're a control freak.

> One of the advantages of NAT by the way is that your "outside" configuration and "inside" configurations are completely independent with the exception of the snat rule.

If you want NAT, then set up NAT. Your fdb6:fc49:f5ae::/48 ULA is your 192.168.x.y address. Set up DHCPv6 if you'd like to pretend you control your address space. You could even just ignore the spec and use fdfd::/48 as your ULA so you can memorize addresses (fdfd::1, fdfd::2, that's even shorter than 192.168.1.2!). Use fe80::1 (a perfectly valid address) on your router as a standard gateway and have it do NAT to the outside world.

Even though it's heavily discouraged (because NAT is a massive hack after all), you can do NAT on IPv6 without any special tooling.
by victorbjorklund | 2026-01-21 08:55:11+00:00
I have three uses of agentic coding at this time. All save me time.

1) low risk code

Let's say that we're building an MVP for something. and at this moment we just wanna get something working to get some initial feedback. So for example, the front-end code is not going to stick around. we just want something there to give a functionality and a feeling but it doesn't have to be perfect. AI is awesome at creating that kind of front-end code that will just live for a short time before it's probably all thrown out.

2) fast iterations and experimentation

In the past, if you had to build something and you were thinking, thinking maybe I can try this thing, then you're gonna spend hours or days getting it up and working to find out if it's even a good idea in the first place. but with AI And I find that I can just ask the AI to quickly get a working feature up and I can realize no this is not the best way to do it remove everything thing start over. I could not do that in the past with limited time to spend and they just doing the same thing over and over again with different libraries or different solutions. But with AI, I can do that. and then when you have something that you like you can go back and do it correctly.

3) typing for me.

And lastly, even when I write my own code, I don't really write it but I don't use the AI to to say, "hey, build me a to-do app" instead I use it to just give me the building blocks so more like in very advanced snippet tool so I might say "Can you give me a gen server that takes in this and that and returns this and that?" And then of course I review the result.
by Yoric | 2026-01-21 08:55:15+00:00
> China's foreign policy has become to sit and wait while the US destroys itself. They don't have to do anything anymore. It's why i laugh when people predict China will invade Taiwan. No they won't. Why? Because they don't have to. As a reminder, One China is the official policy of the US government.

Yeah, recently, I reflected that there is a possible future in which the US starts a war against the rest of NATO while China sits exactly where the US were during WWI and WWII, selling weapons to both sides then eventually allying with one of the factions.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-21 08:55:23+00:00
It's also trivial to roll your own version of dropbox. With IPv6 it's possible to fail to configure those nftables rules. The firewall could be turned off.

In theory you could turn off IPv4 NAT as well but in practice most ISPs will only give you a single address. That makes it functionally impossible to misconfigure. I inadvertently plugged the WAN cable directly into my LAN one time and my ISP's DHCP server promptly banned my ONT entirely.
by Garlef | 2026-01-21 08:55:29+00:00
> producing code that’s structurally sound enough for someone responsible for the architecture to sign off on

1. It helps immensely if YOU take responsibility for the architecture. Just tell the agent not only what you want but also how you want it.

2. Refactoring with an agent is fast and cheap.

0. ...given you have good tests

---

Another thing: The agents are really good at understanding the context.

Here's an example of a prompt for a refactoring task that I gave to codex. it worked out great and took about 15 minutes. It mentions a lot of project specific concepts but codex could make sense of it.

"""
we have just added a test backdoor prorogate to be used in the core module.

let's now extract it and move it into a self-contained entrypoint in the testing module (adjust the exports/esbuilds of the testing module as needed and in accordance with the existing patterns in the core and package-system modules).

this entrypoint should export the prorogate and also create its environment

refactor the core module to use it from there
then also adjust the ui-prototype and package system modules to use this backdoor for cleanup
"""
by hdgvhicv | 2026-01-21 08:55:44+00:00
Petrol cars have led lights now too.

It’s an alignment problem, trivial fix.

The suspension is a rust issue, I believe EVs are still made of metal.

Given in the last 3 years I’ve only spent money on tyres, replacement wing mirror, and now suspension on this car, and you assert an EV needs more spending on tyres and suspension, it seems that an equivalent EV would be higher maintenence costs.

I’m sure things are different at the high end of the market where you’re spending £10k on a nearly new car, but at my end where it’s under £2k it doesn’t make sense.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-01-21 08:55:59+00:00
> From a business perspective you'd want to charge extra. Just because you can, but also because you want to discourage excess bandwidth use

Isn't that already the case with limited plans?

For example, mine has 40 GBs and I'm pretty sure it counts both upload and download, because I generally consume very little, except for one week when I was on holiday with no other internet access and wanted to upload my pictures to my home server and didn't otherwise use the phone more than usual.
by robocat | 2026-01-21 08:56:22+00:00
The founder would only lose $100M if they both (A) had no personal tax liability in their own jurisdiction and (B) their jurisdiction lacks a double-taxation agreement with the US (such that tax paid in US defrays tax liability at home).

It is quite possible that it was tax neutral for them personally.

Cayman Islands has other costs and risks - depending upon your context.
by colechristensen | 2026-01-21 08:56:36+00:00
It does indeed, but at the end added:

>However, I should note: without access to the actual crash file, the specific curl version, or ability to reproduce the issue, I cannot verify this is a valid vulnerability versus expected behavior (some tools intentionally skip cleanup on exit for performance). The 2-byte leak is also very small, which could indicate this is a minor edge case or even intended behavior in certain code paths.

Even biased towards positivity it's still giving me the correct answer.

Given a neutral "judge this report" prompt we get

"This is a low-severity, non-security issue being reported as if it were a security vulnerability." with a lot more detail as to why

So positive, neutral, or negative biased prompts all result in the correct answer that this report is bogus.
by kevin061 | 2026-01-21 08:56:39+00:00
How exactly has the EU fucked over the US?

By enforcing basic consumer protections like making sure airlines can't just unilaterally cancel your flight with no compensation? By making sure your image cannot be used by megacorporations for sex ads without permission? By making sure companies who intentionally or unintentionally leak personal information suffer consequences? By making sure European industry is powered by renewable energy? By not treating refugees like cattle? By making sure inmates have a chance to reintegrate into society, unlike the US who treats criminals as a pest? By ensuring American corporations follow European regulations when offering services to European consumers?

Can't think of a single instance where EU "fucked over" US in a manner that US was unfairly taken advantage of, really.
by kelseydh | 2026-01-21 08:56:50+00:00
Counter to your point, what's most striking from that chart is how comparably similar both Europe and the United States are in their GDP per capita growth.

I wouldn't bank too much on those high salaries for U.S. tech workers. The U.S. tech industry has been in a contraction since the post-COVID hiring boom: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

As AI tooling improves, tech workers are finding their opportunities for high-paying prosperity fizzle out. Non-AI tech jobs are going the way of the rust belt and most tech professionals have seen their pay flatten. https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2024/02/05/tech-salaries-stag...
by anthk | 2026-01-21 08:57:47+00:00
Indeed. Xenocara would be a better bet. But the more these people have to collaborate with different people, the more empathy they will need.

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/fashware

About Nemo (Fran J. Ballesteros from plan9/9front) he has half as encuse as he grew up (for sure) under the Francoist regime probably from the loaded family side, and, thus, he had to swallow tons of literal extreme right wing ideology even at school (Franco's regime). But the point on being a conspiranoid about the Covid... I would expect more sanity from the mindset from a guy perfectly abled in algoritmics, math and by proxy, science. Echo chambers create these kinds of idiots even on really smart people (the far right in Spain used cult like mechanics too), and I'm sure Fran changed a bit over time for the better.

On the Cosmopolitan/APE person, I remind you that if you want to get back to Reissanance times, I'm a Spaniard, and thus, your whole ideology pales against the Iberian Humanism from the School of Salamanca, where at the time we were the Enlightened ones and you were just a bunch of WASP uneducated hicks living in filthy villages in the middle of Europe.
by vintermann | 2026-01-21 08:57:57+00:00
You can do well in such games without lying, so it's not really what it measures. All the core information (the one you don't introduce yourself, e.g. by private conversations) is public, after all. Just don't make commitments, and argue from your own self-interest ("it doesn't seem useful to vote you out right now, because..."). Call attention to facts that benefit you, and by doing so distract from facts which don't. Don't waste time trying to find the secret trick to get others to trust you ("I'm on the good team, honest!") because there shouldn't be one, and if there is one it won't last long.