MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-15 19:18:27+00:00
I've entertained the idea of going to church. My understanding is that a non-trivial number of people going to Unitarian Universalist churches are openly atheist and completely comfortable with that. So the preaching ends up being more about general good community ideas and less about dogma.

I have not decided yet that it is a good fit, but I am definitely thinking that I should foster some community connections outside of my own family.
by m0llusk | 2026-01-15 19:18:54+00:00
There are a lot of differences. Americans are not being passive. For one thing, reasonable or not there is still a lot of faith in the election process and many are expecting all this craziness will put Republicans on a back seat for decades. For another, these ICE groups are well armed and operate in numbers. Many Americans are also armed and have deep misgivings about political violence and where this is headed. Where you see "passive" many of us see "knife edge". Also, many live staying busy and near exhaustion to start with and have trouble coming to grips with just how bad this is as no one has ever shown this much contempt for laws without consequences. There is an expectation that the constitution will hold any test. And those following closely understand that just about everything Trump has done including tariffs are illegal and the courts are closing in.

Worth mentioning that America does not have a protest culture like Europe. Being largely rural makes gathering for political expression impractical, and in this particular case Trump and his militias are deliberately trying to stir up chaos in order to rationalize cranking up the pressure. Protests make noise and get you targeted but what is needed now is real change.
by wowthatsucks | 2026-01-15 19:18:55+00:00
> I am not sure a government digital ID would help with dealing with businesses.

A central gov ID means that, for example, the bank don't ask for proof of address by requesting months of utility bills,

> Right to rent is a stupid and useless bit of bureaucracy

It can be abused but arguably serves a purpose. Landlords can already just refuse foreign-looking tenants if they want.
by iambateman | 2026-01-15 19:18:56+00:00
The first place to look is suburban development.

I wrote an article[0] on Tiny Neighborhoods (aka “Cohousing”) that starts with:

> “I often wonder if the standard approach to housing is the best we can do. About 70% of Americans live in a suburb, which means that this design pattern affects our lives – where we shop, how we eat, who we know – more than any other part of modern life.”

We have been so uncritical of the set of ideas that make suburbia—single family homes, one car per adult, large private yards—even though these play a big role in how people act.

Some people want to address loneliness by making incremental changes. But if the statistics are right and nearly everyone is somewhat lonely, we should expect that the required adjustments feel “drastic” compared to the current norm.

People would be less lonely if they could live in a community of 15-20 families with (1) shared space and (2) shared expectations for working together on their shared space.

[0] https://iambateman.com/tiny
by mildmelon | 2026-01-15 19:19:06+00:00
Author here, yeah I apologize for the misnomer. I could render it with actual ASCII but it was too slow because of needing to process it on the CPU. My method here is actually done all on the GPU and draws glyphs similar to how fonts are drawn. Well actually I'm using signed distance functions to draw the glyphs, but the glyphs are ASCII-esque.
by 9rx | 2026-01-15 19:19:23+00:00
> I wonder about what in the software industry causes so many people to have similar "symptoms" from it.

By and large those who end up in the software industry are engineers at heart, and therefore want to be engineers, not just software developers.

That's why farming is the oft dreamed of escape. In farming you get to be (and have to be, if you want to remain competitive) a software engineer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, structural engineer... and on and on. You get to actually solve problems for what they are instead of trying to force arbitrarily selected tools into searching for a problem.
by bflesch | 2026-01-15 19:19:54+00:00
AI race is a very good example, because Microsoft customers in the EU pay significantly increased Microsoft license fees so that Microsoft can give that money to OpenAI. Without Microsoft having non-US customers as a cash cow the AI valuations would not be anywhere where they are today. In return non-US Microsoft customers get a useless copilot slapped into all UIs and have to throw away all their computers and buy new ones just because of Windows 11 software update.

The other things you list are weak arguments:

- With mature capital markets you mean they plan to dismantle the Fed autonomy? Did you see the powell video?
- Concerning "elite research universities": are you aware that they significantly cut research funding for US universities, prompting many researchers to move outside the country?
- With talent pipeline do you mean top graduates from EU and other non-US regions who bring innovation to US tech companies?

I think the delusion among US tech workers is immense. The moat is not that big.
If other countries stop sharing your idea of copyright and software patents there is not much you can do.
by michalsustr | 2026-01-15 19:20:17+00:00
This article resonates exactly how I think about it as well. For example, at minfx.ai (a Neptune/wandb alternative), we cache time series that can contain millions of floats for fast access. Any engineer worth their title would never make a copy of these and would pass around pointers for access. Opus, when stuck in a place where passing the pointer was a bit more difficult (due to async and Rust lifetimes), would just make the copy, rather than rearchitect or at least stop and notify user. Many such examples of ‘lazy’ and thus bad design.
by twic | 2026-01-15 19:20:29+00:00
Well, as the article says:

> Per the statement, the large vessels were made to sail north from the Netherlands, around Denmark and toward the Baltic Sea. [...] Uldum adds that shipbuilders made the cogs as large as possible to transport bulky cargo, like timber

Once you've built one cog, you've got the ideal tool to fetch Polish timber to build more!
Show HN: 1Code – open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code
by Bunas | 2026-01-15 19:20:48+00:00
Hi It’s Sergey and Serafim from 21st.dev, in the last 10 months we’ve built and launched 9 products, getting over 1 millions total users, $200k in revenue, and 10k GitHub stars.

Motivation:

Claude Code has been our go-to for 4 months. When Opus 4.5 dropped, parallel agents stopped needing babysitting.

You could finally run multiple and trust them. But the more agents we ran, the more the CLI felt like a limitation, not a feature.

So we built 1Code.dev

Whats 1Code?

An app to run your Claude Code agents in parallel that works on Mac and Web.

On Mac - run locally, with or without worktrees.

On Web - run in remote sandboxes with live previews of your app, mobile included, so you can check on agents from anywhere.

Running multiple Claude Codes in parallel dramatically sped up how we build features.

What’s next:
Bug bot for identifying issues based on your changes; QA Agent, that check that new features dont break anything

Adding OpenCode, Codex, other models and coding agents.

API for starting Claude Codes in remote sandboxes. Debugging and spotting errors in AI Coding Era is more critical than ever

Try it:
We're open-source, so you can just bun build it.

Paid tiers exist too - for us it’s gonna be highest signal that we're on the right track.

Either way, we'd love to hear your feedback!
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-15 19:20:50+00:00
> first of all there are 3 letters in FAANG which don't do ads

They all do ads. Apple is about to add them to their Maps.

https://advertising.amazon.com

https://ads.apple.com

https://advertising.netflix.com/en-us

https://business.google.com/us/google-ads/

https://business.meta.com

https://ads.microsoft.com
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-15 19:20:54+00:00
5-year old laptops for free aren't really a thing in most of Europe unless maybe you're in Norway or some super rich country where 100$ is pocket change. In most large places I worked in Europe, laptops are leased from a service provider, not owned by the company. When they're obsolete they get sold in bulk locally or abroad. But never for free.
by xtracto | 2026-01-15 19:20:54+00:00
>Every ICE agent is armed, and most have ready access to automatic weapons. These are not well-trained members of an elite organization with a storied, patriotic culture. ICE is a personalist paramilitary organization, and the president has indicated that these ICE agents are immune from consequences, even if they kill people.

This is what terrified me: Not that the ICE officer shot the woman in the car. But what happened afterwards. That he muttered "fucking bitch" after shooting her, that he walked nonchalantly after shooting a person, and everybody was recording him. This person goes to his car and drives just like that ...
by jselysianeagle | 2026-01-15 19:21:19+00:00
I think by "reward" in the context of this discussion on loneliness, OP may have meant the opportunity to meet people, make friends, perhaps hit it off with someone and land a date, if you're single. Not that it's entirely useless/detrimental to spend time at home reading or pursuing whatever solo hobbies you happen to have.

To be sure, there certainly are many introverts who are perfectly happy on their own with no need to get out and meet people. More power to them! But there are many that crave human connection, even if they happen to have many intellectual interests and for these types of individuals, they would be well served at least carving out some portion of their time to get out of the house with the explicit aim of meeting people. And yes, not every such outing will lead to lifelong friends or meeting your next soulmate, but it's a numbers game.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-15 19:21:36+00:00
> the mass social media is trending sharply towards being a 100% troll mill

I agree. It's one reason I still come to HN and it's one of the few places I bother to comment (and the only place with more than a few dozen users). The moderation and community culture against trolling makes it a generally positive experience. I do still need breaks sometimes, though, for a few months at a time.

I'd love an online community where everyone was having discussions only in good faith. Zero trolling. I can dream.
by appplication | 2026-01-15 19:21:54+00:00
My decision making to use svelte? TBH I looked at source only well after I was far enough along development to be committed to it as a framework.

That said, I don’t have any regrets, it’s a pleasure to use svelte and I trust the team’s direction. This particular app is already locked down to internal/trusted users. For something more public or security critical it may warrant a deeper dive and more consideration.
by bri3d | 2026-01-15 19:22:00+00:00
This is my understanding of Palantir too: it's a consultancy with a map, a graph database, and some "AI" nonsense. They sell expensive "forward deployed engineers" (aka, consultants) to customize this map and graph database to specific use cases.

I'm not trying to argue Palantir is an ethical company; my views on "company ethics" are nuanced but I wouldn't put them anywhere near my "places I want to work" bucket. But (contrary, perhaps, to their name), they're not some weird deep demonic trove of personal information; that's supplied to them by their customers, which is where change needs to happen.
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-15 19:22:04+00:00
Suburban sprawl is not going to be "fixed" in anyones lifetime. But it doesn't have to be limiting. I grew up in a very typical suburban style neighborhood in the 1970s. Tract homes, lots of cul-de-sac streets. But neighbors talked to one another, kids played together, there were summer gatherings in those cul-de-sacs on the 4th of July or Labor Day.

Don't think you have to live in some idealized fantasy land to go talk to your neighbors.
by asdfman123 | 2026-01-15 19:22:23+00:00
I think the trick is getting off social media.

When I was a computer nerd in the 2000s, I noticed people used to like to hang around and chat, but I mostly didn't.

Now, everyone is an internet addict, and I was just ahead of the curve. No one hangs around and chats anymore.

When you get off social media, real life becomes far more interesting. The problem with addiction is that it's so stimulating that everything else is boring. You have to let your mind reset.
by arcanemachiner | 2026-01-15 19:22:26+00:00
Just got started with Claude Code the other day, using the dev container CLI. It's super easy.

TLDR:

- Ensure that you have installed npm on your machine.

- Install the dev container CLI globally via npm: `npm i -g @devcontainers/cli`

- Clone the Claude Code repo: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code

- Navigate into the root directory of that repo.

- Run the dev container CLI command to start the container: `devcontainer --workspace-folder . up`

- Run another dev container command to start Claude in the container: `devcontainer exec --workspace-folder . claude`

And there you go! You have a sandboxed environment for Claude to work in. (As sandboxed as Docker is, at least.)

I like this method because you can just manage it like any other Docker container/volumes. When you want to rebuild it, or reset the volume, you just use the appropriate Docker (and the occasional dev container) commands.
by hallole | 2026-01-15 19:22:35+00:00
"So, who are you?"
"Stupid question."

What an interview!
I had never seen this clip before, it's really something. Facts and context are important for sure, but as someone who isn't clued in on the Sanger drama, Wales could not possibly have made himself look worse. And in under a minute!

As you said, the interviewer is in the right, carrying out the job of interviewing, by pushing Wales as he did. To call him a "jerk" is silly, I think.
by TomasBM | 2026-01-15 19:22:36+00:00
My 2 cents:

- You now likely have the money/time to pursue passions you didn't know you have, or would have developed if you didn't pursue software development as intensely.

- Even if you had/have passion for computers, being paid to do something you wouldn't do otherwise can quickly drain that passion.

- We're built for sunlight and exercise, not LED light and sitting, so you may have felt increasing physical discomfort that only the former can alleviate.

- Woodworking and farming were never lucrative enough (or as lucrative as computer work) to convince you to make the switch for money.
by mathisfun123 | 2026-01-15 19:22:40+00:00
<rolls eyes> alright i'm totally responsible for the trumpocalypse because somewhere someone in my company is running some kind of ads service </rolls eyes>.

> then posturing like a anti-FANG freedom fighter for 50% cut, which might rub some people the wrong way as being a by hypocritica

The only place I was posturing was in your imagination. I guess you're salty about FAANG salaries in the US (and that's what has you tilted) but I was literally just asking about comparable salary and accelerated immigration pathways. The comment is very short - I don't know where you're getting all of this content from.
by cael450 | 2026-01-15 19:22:51+00:00
The people who love the second amendment are the ones that support the president. Most of them would gladly shoot me or you if their president told them to. In fact, a significant portion fantasize about being able to shoot other Americans and get away with it.
This is one half of the country holding the other half hostage. Despite what you think, there are many protests going on. But a lot of Americans simply agree with what is happening.
by gregbot | 2026-01-15 19:22:51+00:00
The Potassium naturally occurring in your body produces 5400 Bq of radiation. All the Krypton-85 in the atmosphere produces 1 Bq per cubic meter of air. So this is a trivial amount of radiation and not a hazard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypton-85
by bradley13 | 2026-01-15 19:22:52+00:00
The question you have to ask yourself, us this: How do you deport with millions of illegal immigrants? Propose a better system, considering the realities on the ground.

And, no, ignoring their existence is not an option, unless you want "millions" to become "tens of millions" or even more. Note also that mass deportations also happened under Biden and Obama - they just didn't attract the same publicity.
by dybber | 2026-01-15 19:22:54+00:00
It seems like Google and Meta are using their dominant position to take as big a part of ad revenue as they possibly can, and if that means independent news companies where actual journalism is conducted can’t survive, then they don’t really care.

Danish media are trying to survive, as high quality journalism is necessary for democracy to function. They can’t avoid being on the big platforms, as Google and Meta have this dominant gatekeeper position in the market - this is where the media pull new users into their sites.
by dpoloncsak | 2026-01-15 19:23:01+00:00
I think its kind of a conspiracy/"Open Secret" that Palantir was funded by the government to side skirt any "Government cannot...." rules. It's not the government breaking privacy regulations, its a private company doing it....just under contract of the government.

Thats the rhetoric on good ole r/WallSteetBets, atleast.
Theil and Karp definitely play into this angle as well, but that doesn't really prove anything other than they're hungry for investors
by Someone | 2026-01-15 19:23:05+00:00
The risk isn’t that it makes weird commits; it’s that it may decide to clean up stuff and delete more than desired.

- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4331

- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/7787

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268222
by RhythmFox | 2026-01-15 19:23:06+00:00
This isn't strictly better to me. It captures some intuitions about how a neural network ends up encoding its inputs over time in a 'lossy' way (doesn't store previous input states in an explicit form). Maybe saying 'probabilistic compression/decompression' makes it a bit more accurate? I do not really think it connects to your 'synthesize' claim at the very end to call it compression/decompression, but I am curious if you had a specific reason to use the term.
by epolanski | 2026-01-15 19:23:35+00:00
I would suggest for the crowd here: tech meetups, even online ones and communities will connect you to people with your interests.

Another thing that you'll likely find in your area is a chess club.

Maybe you won't love the chess itself, but it's an excuse to hang out with people.

Another one is volunteering work. Elderly, dogs, etc, many communities need help.

In my village I have started a "clean up" program where average citizens take few bags a picker and we clean areas of our village.

Most of people are "this is the job of the garbage collectors, the mayor should do it", so what? It also costs money, and nobody will do as carefully as the people living there.

Even if 95% of my village won't care few will and we make an impact and socialize, etc and more start taking part of it.
by MrTravisB | 2026-01-15 19:24:00+00:00
This is a valid perspective. Since this is an emerging space, we are still figuring out how to show up in a healthy way for the open web.

We recognize that the balance between content owners and the users or developers accessing that content is delicate. Because of that, our initial stance is to default to respecting websites as much as possible.

That said, to be clear on our implementation: we currently only respond to explicit blocks directed at the Tabstack user agent. You can read more about how this works here: https://docs.tabstack.ai/trust/controlling-access
by reubenswartz | 2026-01-15 19:24:03+00:00
> So when Clinton’s BP raided Elian Gonzalez
That followed a court order. And many people were very upset about it.

>We’ve enforce immigration laws, policed our populace, and had to balance 1st/4th amendment rights against the interest of a functioning state for a long time.
Nothing on this scale since the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII. And even that did not involve (AFAIK) the mass disappearances and torture of thousands of people.
by textfiles | 2026-01-15 19:24:20+00:00
Not in the way I think you're talking about. The archive has always tried to maintain a situation where the racks could be pushed out of the door or picked up after being somewhere and the individual drives will contain complete versions of the items. We have definitely reached out to people who seem to be doing redundant work and ask them to stop or for permission to remove the redundant item. But that's a pretty curatorial process.
by willmarch | 2026-01-15 19:24:33+00:00
You’re moving the goalposts. The point is the tax bill, not “ability to pay per person.” On 100k total, MFJ owes thousands less in federal income tax than a single filer at 100k because the standard deduction and brackets are basically doubled. That’s exactly why marriage is usually a bonus at moderate incomes. The “marriage penalty” shows up mainly when both spouses have high, similar incomes/phaseouts, not in the $100k total case.
by brailsafe | 2026-01-15 19:24:49+00:00
> you get much worse results than if you simply stayed at home and do there what you love.

That's a sense of risk and caution that gets too comfortable for some people to compete with over time. If you don't build yourself better options, all you want to do is sit at home and do the thing that guarantees a reward. Then you get in your car and move about the world in a way that you feel is guaranteed to protect you from conditions, other people, but really is dangerous. You bet only on certainty, and outcomes are predictable, but they're not compatible with not being lonely
by digbybk | 2026-01-15 19:25:08+00:00
This is good advice for your friends and family, but a bad answer to the question. "How can we solve the obesity epidemic? Stop eating so much and get some exercise." Well sure, but this misses the big picture. We built a social infrastructure that encourages a sedentary, solitary life. We shouldn't be confused by physical and emotional health implications. We can expect some people to be proactive about it, but we can't expect that of everyone.
by munificent | 2026-01-15 19:25:12+00:00
I agree but if your goal is to socialize more, it's not enough to get off social media. You need to be in a place where enough other people do too.

Think of a city as both a spatial and a temporal grouping of people that are in the same place at a same time. Every hour a person spends at home on social media is an hour that they aren't really in the city and are not available for you to socialize with.

The cumulative hours that people spend staring at their phones are effectively a massive loss of population density. That lost density makes it harder to find people even if you yourself are getting off a screen and looking for them.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-15 19:25:12+00:00
I think that there are a lot of people that are kind of waiting for other people to pitch something to do. Maybe you want to call them type A and B, leader and follower, I think of it as the Host and Attendees. The more of the Hosts the more things that will be happening, so trying to become a Host is just creates more opportunities.