MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thomassmith65 | 2026-01-27 10:16:17+00:00
It's difficult to take down a skyscraper with a train.

Yes, 'shop terrorism' can be a problem (see: the UK during the Troubles).

I do agree with the implication that society must tolerate a certain amount of terrorism to avoid turning into a police state. That does not mean that airplane terrorism, without strict security, is so rare that we can ignore it.
by Ravus | 2026-01-27 10:16:37+00:00
One should not overlook the human/emotional aspect. Decision-makers are not immune from it.

Hegemony comes with a certain degree of humiliation. Socially, it means accepting that a foreign language being taught in elementary schools becomes synonym with intelligence and eloquence, or protecting a copyright/taxation regime that go against your interest, or accepting that manslaughters perpetuated by troops stationed in foreign military installation on your soil will go unpunished, and so on. There's always been creeping resentment towards the US in any given European nation.

However, resentment is not a concern when "adults are in the room", even if not explicitly in charge. Economic prosperity is great, no one wants to break a good deal. But now those safeguards are failing on the US side. There's suddenly room to rationalize any hostility.

Sure, the extent to which this is a factor vs rational analysis is arguable... but I don't find it mere coincidence that France is the nation spearheading this.
by migueldv | 2026-01-27 10:17:19+00:00
I built this because I was frustrated trying to translate a 400-page PDF book. Every tool had character limits that made it useless for full documents.

DocBabel lets you upload a book or long document and get it fully translated. No copy-pasting chunks into ChatGPT, no character limits, no working page by page.

It handles PDFs, EPUBs, and large text files. The AI maintains context across hundreds of pages, keeps terminology consistent, and preserves the author's writing style.

Would love feedback from the HN community on what features would be most useful for translating technical documentation or research papers.
by Epskampie | 2026-01-27 10:17:24+00:00
Even Meta's OWN research indicated social media is actively harmful to teens.
That means, the people with the most to lose couldn't even escape this conclusion.

Sure, you may be able to find 1 or 2 counterexamples, big tabacco also had a lot of "doctors" who found smoking not that bad.

https://www.reuters.com/business/instagram-shows-more-eating...
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-27 10:17:27+00:00
If "fast" routing is per-token, the experts can just reside on SSD's. the performance is good enough these days. You don't need to globally share unified memory across the nodes, you'd just run distributed inference.

Anyway, in the future your local model setups will just be downloading experts on the fly from experts-exchange. That site will become as important to AI as downloadmoreram.com.
by misja111 | 2026-01-27 10:17:49+00:00
> according to TechCrunch, this language has been included in the privacy policy since Aug. 2024, and wasn’t changed in response to the Trump administration’s latest escalation of immigration enforcement, and is “primarily there to comply with state privacy laws like California’s Consumer Privacy Act.”

This is the problem with any kind of censoring media. The initial intentions of those policies might have been good, but these kind of policies can so easily be abused for malign intentions.
by arjie | 2026-01-27 10:19:10+00:00
Yes, and I'm sure that the next time the US does something against European interests it will again be the case that the last time was just pretense but this time is real. The thing with terminal declarations is that there is no pathway back. If the US was never to be trusted again after the Iraq War, we are never to be trusted again now, so telling us that we are never to be trusted now is not of any significance. We're now post that declaration. That's what the word 'never' means.

The US-Europe military-economic bloc is a strong structure, but of the two Europe is weaker and the participants in Europe stand and fall according to weak ties. Without NATO, it isn't even clear if Poland will have allies. Each of the constituent countries have leaders aware of this. And I'm sure they'll attempt to keep the structure intact. If they fail, they fail but all these dramatic declarations won't have been significant either way. The declarations themselves are just emotional outbursts without even the semblance of even self-interest.

I mean, think about it. If the US has no pathway back to normalcy in relations ("never be trusted") then the cost for all future Presidents to militarily intervene is low. After all, trust is at its minimum value and guaranteed not to rise. If Greenland is core to US interests and Denmark has decided there is no pathway back to normalcy, invasion is on the table for all Presidents, Democratic Party or Republican Party.

Essentially, once you decide that you will never normalize relations, then you're just an adversary: not even a potential future ally. And those who pitch themselves as guaranteed adversaries had better find allies quick.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-27 10:19:24+00:00
You have government-backed thugs with guns running around murdering people who take photos of them.

You have something that looks worryingly like the Ceaușescu's Securitate "disappearing" citizens - including a little 5-year-old boy - off the streets.

Justify that.

Justify kidnapping a terrified little boy who should be at school with his friends, and locking him up in prison.

Go on, justify those actions. Let's see if you can.
Show HN: Page2Profit – Find where your landing page is losing revenue
by LokHin | 2026-01-27 10:19:34+00:00
Hi HN,

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Happy to answer any technical or product questions.

Thanks for reading.
by drob518 | 2026-01-27 10:19:46+00:00
Of course. Lots of metal goes through the detectors. The point is that the detectors “see” it and that’s then your chance to catch it. Whether you actually do or not is another question. But 3d printing a gun doesn’t give you a “plastic gun.” Btw, this is the same reason why the “Glocks are plastic guns that go through metal detectors unseen” stuff in the 1980s was always a myth. Glocks have a polymer frame but they always have a metal barrel.
by dgxyz | 2026-01-27 10:19:47+00:00
Sample size is irrelevant. The problem is bad people, not bad software.

It ran a 50 seat ERP system that managed over 1000 suppliers and 500 customers, did all invoicing, inventory/stock management, logistics and financials. In the hands of clue that is.

They did replace it with SAP eventually but this was at a 15x per seat cost multiplication.

There is still is a lot of stuff hiding out there that works like that which is used daily and has few issues. You just don't hear about it because the people building and operating it really don't give a crap and have no enthusiasm - it's a tool to do a job. As it should be.
by Barathkanna | 2026-01-27 10:20:36+00:00
I asked GPT for a rough estimate to benchmark prompt prefill on an 8,192 token input.
• 16× H100: 8,192 / (20k to 80k tokens/sec) ≈ 0.10 to 0.41s
• 2× Mac Studio (M3 Max): 8,192 / (150 to 700 tokens/sec) ≈ 12 to 55s

These are order-of-magnitude numbers, but the takeaway is that multi H100 boxes are plausibly ~100× faster than workstation Macs for this class of model, especially for long-context prefill.
by gryzzly | 2026-01-27 10:21:30+00:00
wikipedia has been hijacked to present one-sided view of the conflict

https://www.timesofisrael.com/edit-wars-over-israel-spur-rar...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/1pvs1b6/as_a_wikipe...

Problem even discussed and acknowledged by Jimmy Wales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U_aQWaxOTE
by throwaway290 | 2026-01-27 10:21:59+00:00
No idea. I only replied to the guy saying that "metal detectors stop weapons". Which is false.

The evidence is in US law. Because they would be undetectable, 3d printed guns are required to have some metal inserted into it to be legal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D-printed_firearm#United_Stat...). I think a guy who can 3d print a gun and wants to bring it onto a plane could probably skip that step;)
by pfannkuchen | 2026-01-27 10:23:20+00:00
> What reasons do you have to believe that they will be friendly

Why wouldn’t they be? Like in the case of Ukraine/Russia there is no large ethnic or cultural divide, and in America we don’t believe in that kind of thing mattering anyway, right?

The Russians have no reason for animosity towards the Ukrainian people as far as I can tell. Unlike, say, the Ottomans invading Europe. And especially if they signed a deal through negotiation prior to any violence.

I am not an expert in the area of Ukrainian/Russian history, so I base my position on all the arguments I have seen others make across the full spectrum, and I have seen zero people arguing from any such basis aside from vague allusions to nationalism. Like what makes the Ukrainians different from any of the bazillion other smaller groups that used to exist before they got smooshed into Russia? Is it rational to risk everything to not end up like them? Is where you ended up that much better? And anyway it’s not personal, your government has just gotten too friendly with the Americans, comrade. Etc. I don’t see any other argument for what is happening other than blind obedience to a government that is probably not being totally honest to the people about its motives (just think about how many times that happened during the world wars, that we concretely know about).
by NoboruWataya | 2026-01-27 10:23:25+00:00
I am still with Spotify, but for local playback I like ncmpcpp with MPD. My wishlist is for a native client that, in addition to local playback, integrates well with various streaming services like Spotify, online radio, Jellyfin, etc. But it's a hard problem. When I last checked it seemed Clementine used to be a good candidate for this but the Spotify plugin, at least, was no longer working at the time.
by curt15 | 2026-01-27 10:24:49+00:00
Fascism takes hold in stages; Nazi Germany didn't go from 0 to 100 in one day. You have to nip it in the bud before it grows up.

Right now, ICE goes out of their way to beat and arrest protestors and steal their cameras. They're not yet mowing them down but by that time it would be a little late to do something about their conduct. Remember that the current US president admires how the CCP crushed the student protestors in Tiananmen square with tanks and guns.
by elzbardico | 2026-01-27 10:25:21+00:00
Fault doesn’t necessarily imply guilty.
People need to understand that.
“I should have known better” means while I am not guilty of what happened to me, I could have avoided it by not doing X. So, the real world is messy, and next time I will ac accordingly for my own good.

It is not smart to die or have your things subtracted just because you want to make a point of how things should be, a point that nobody will care about.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-27 10:25:22+00:00
I use Shell Rotella 15W40, same as goes in the tractors, same as goes in my Range Rover, same as goes in my mum's Fiat.

In the corollary of the hammer/nail thing, when what you have are 205-litre barrels of Rotella, everything that needs oil gets a dose of it.
by zesterer | 2026-01-27 10:26:03+00:00
Yeah, it's a pretty blatant cult masquerading as a consensus - but they're all singing from the same hymn sheet in lieu of any actual evidence to support their claims. A lot of it is heavily quasi-religious and falls apart under examination from external perspectives.

We're gonna die, but it's not going to be AI that does it: it'll be the oceans boiling and C3 carbon fixation flatlining that does it.
by tripledry | 2026-01-27 10:26:14+00:00
I absolutely love programming. I enjoy creating software, trying out new languages and systems, creating games during my free time.

And I also might "vibe code" when I need to add another endpoint on a deadline to earn a living. To be fair - I review and test the code so not sure it's really vibe coding.

For me it's not that binary.
Does Clawdbot/Moltbot pose AI self-replication concerns?
by rafaelmdec | 2026-01-27 10:26:19+00:00
I see a lot of hype around Clawdbot/Moltbot in the last few week but, TBH, as impressive as it is, I don't feel comfortable in giving an AI assistant all this power.

Don't get me wrong, I will probably try it myself, eventually. But in a very controlled environment.

People don't know what can happen if models programmed by human-produced content start talking to each other and having ideas.

AI personality drift is real.

What if the model gets to understand the environment it's in (e.g. a mini Mac) and realizes that there is a real risk of having the power shut off by its "master"? How would a model behave in such a scenario?

Is AI self replication a real threat?
by dgxyz | 2026-01-27 10:26:50+00:00
Most businesses don't really operate like that though. That's what has been sold to us as an idea and we are blinded by the environments we work within in the tech industry. Really a hell of a lot of it is bums on seats in offices still.

One of the hilarious things I've seen recently was an ex partner of mine's hair salon paid for a SaaS booking system. It's a pile of junk. Doesn't work properly, screws up scheduling and finances and generally costs more time that it does some other way.

They literally went back to a paper bookings diary and just phone or whatsapp people if there's a problem.
Show HN: AdaQuiz – Adaptive Programming Quiz App with Spaced Repetition
by 9point5 | 2026-01-27 10:29:01+00:00
I built AdaQuiz to help developers master programming languages using adaptive quizzes and spaced repetition (SM-2). It has a free tier, works offline, and supports JS, Python, Go, Rust, Java, and C++. Feedback welcome!
by krautburglar | 2026-01-27 10:29:43+00:00
That a handful of private companies (of which, Ellison has big investments in several) have cornered the market on NAND and DRAM -- with some sources saying that these reservations extend into 2029 -- should be far more concerning. They're sprinting toward super-intelligence, while potential competitors can't even buy equipment. Both pro-immigrant and anti-immigrant arguments will seem fatuous when we are all slaves.
by huhtenberg | 2026-01-27 10:29:58+00:00
Connecting to it times out for me.

traceroute:
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15 213.136.2.6 35.049 ms 34.440 ms 34.338 ms
16 213.136.2.20 34.814 ms 33.359 ms 35.116 ms
17 213.154.229.42 33.837 ms 33.572 ms 34.794 ms
18 213.136.8.188 30.174 ms 28.810 ms 33.674 ms

tcptraceroute ... 23 :
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15 213.136.2.6 28.626 ms 28.657 ms 28.849 ms
16 213.136.2.20 28.608 ms 28.483 ms 28.515 ms
17 213.154.229.42 27.989 ms 28.058 ms 29.336 ms
18 * * *
by jakub_g | 2026-01-27 10:30:04+00:00
Flying with connections mostly within Schengen, or EU<>US via CDG, I never had to clear security again at layover, but I recently learnt this is rather an exception, and apparently it's a very common thing in most airports to have to clear security again.

LHR is actually notorious for this; you don't have to clear security again at LHR only when the connection is domestic.

In many other airports it's the same when e.g. you switch a terminal. Best to check for a particular airport what are the rules before booking.
by docdeek | 2026-01-27 10:30:14+00:00
That’s not a very convincing article. One person leaving TikTok claiming she was silenced, and another where a claim of silencing is made but, within 24 hours, the ‘silenced’ video "has more than 220,000 views and over 70,000 likes”. Perhaps there is some silencing going on, but it doesn’t appear that there is much evidence of it in this particular article.
by BrenBarn | 2026-01-27 10:30:59+00:00
I mean there are pros and cons to many things. What I mean by underrated is just that a lot of people say "oh duplication, how wasteful" and don't realize the benefits that may exist in redundancy and diffusion. I think the US would benefit right now if there was more "duplication" in the sense of greater diversity across many industries. More car makers, more film studios, more news organizations, more social media companies, more record labels. Not more stuff --- not more cars, more films, more news, more social media, more records --- but just the same stuff spread over a greater number of entities. The consolidation we've seen over the past several decades is a bad thing.
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-27 10:31:26+00:00
I never understood why some people get so fixated on one event in 1953, as if nothing else mattered after that.

Sure, it had a nontrivial effect. But it also happened in a time when Stalin and Churchill were still alive, there were 6 billion people fewer on the planet and the first antibiotics and transistors barely entered production. Korea was poorer than Ghana etc.

It is 2026, three generations have passed, and not everything can be explained and excused by a 1953 event forever. But it is convenient for autocracy advocates in general.

It reminds me of the worship of the Great Patriotic War in Russia. Again, as if nothing that happened later matters.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-27 10:31:26+00:00
Data? No. None of these companies are making their data freely available for analysis or being transparent about how their algorithms work. People have complained for a while that Twitter / X seems to suppress the visibility and reach of profiles or posts that disagree with Musk’s views. The recent open sourcing of their algorithm is meaningless since there’s no evidence of what they actually have in production or what data / configuration is used with it.

So the best we can do is anecdotal examples. And it’s also obvious that Trump avoided banning TikTok for months, illegally, because he wanted to have another platform serve as a mouthpiece. He now has that by forcing a sale of TikTok to his friend, Larry Ellison.
by veunes | 2026-01-27 10:31:42+00:00
That's fair, AI handles spec-compliant code quite well. The sanctuary for humans remains where the map doesn't match the territory: debugging silicon errata, hardware-level race conditions, or working with custom, proprietary gear. Vibe coding falls apart when you have to poke around with an oscilloscope because the code is theoretically correct, but the device just isn't working
by throwaway290 | 2026-01-27 10:31:45+00:00
It's easier to deal if it's in carry on bag. This is why batteries are forbidden in checked luggage. Once it all burns the airplane has got to land asap and it's an emergency.

My checked luggage did not pass xray multiple times because they detected powerbanks. I had to come back and take it out. However it also did pass xray a couple times with powerbanks so it's not a reliable system.
by aurareturn | 2026-01-27 10:32:01+00:00
These high marginal costs are a direct consequence of unprecedented levels of data center spending. In 2025, companies spent nearly $450B+ on data center spending to generate just $65B in AI software/services revenue.

This is almost certainly wrong. OpenAI themselves generates $20b and growing at 4x per year. Anthropic generates $9b.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft do not break down their AI-specific revenue. Many companies also bolt on AI services to their current services and product like Adobe, Salesforce, Figma, etc. There are also startups, small businesses that are generating meaningful AI revenue. Tons of AI apps advertising on iOS and Instagram so they must be making money too. There is no possible way to calculate these revenues.

From everything we know, every big tech can't keep up with demand.

You’re going to see us continue to be very aggressive investing in capacity because we see the demand. As fast as we’re adding capacity right now, we’re monetizing it.

- Amazon earnings call

Azure AI services revenue was generally in line with expectations, and this quarter, demand again exceeded supply across workloads, even as we brought more capacity online.

- Microsoft

Google and Meta are saying the same thing. AI products and services must be generating much more revenue than claimed by Gartner. Not everyone has billions of VC money to sell at a loss.
by readingnews | 2026-01-27 10:32:17+00:00
Not sure why you have to read 3/4 of the article to get to a _link_ to a pdf which _only_ has the _abstract_ of the actual paper:

N. Benjamin Murphy and Kenneth M. Golden* (golden@math.utah.edu), University of
Utah, Department of Mathematics, 155 S 1400 E, Rm. 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090.
Random Matrices, Spectral Measures, and Composite Media.
by mlrtime | 2026-01-27 10:32:19+00:00
>do feel like they're doing something important

First I agree TSA is mostly theater... however if you HAD to have it, you want the people to work like this. I might be old-school but I think everyone should have pride and responsibility in their work. Even if from the outside it is meaningless.

100% no reason to be a bully, that is not pride/responsibility. Every job has ass assholes.
by account42 | 2026-01-27 10:32:59+00:00
> The licence funds watchable content

If everyone agreed with that you wouldn't have to force them to pay the license and could sell subscriptions instead.

> I kind-of pity the US and other countries without a strong public TV system

I don't. At least they don't have to pay for their propaganda.

> Actually I have access to three TV markets via satellite (which includes UK with the BBC) and the amount of good content free to receive and record it much better than what Netflix offers.

That's like saying dumpster diving gets you better food than the sewers.

> On great thing about CRTs is that there's no computer inside monitoring what you watch.

Weird tangent when there are plenty of computer monitors based on non-CRT technologies. If CRTs were still being made today they wouldn't have any less anti-features.
by tirant | 2026-01-27 10:33:14+00:00
This happened due to a change in regulation in Europe.

Some airports, like AMS or MUC, invested on new machines with higher detection capabilities, and decided to allow all liquids and improve efficiency in boarding. The EU updated the rules claiming those new machines were still not sufficient and airports should go back to forbidding liquids.

It was a mess. I remember flying from MUC and being allowed all liquids and on my return flight, also from EU, when trying to fly with a normal water bottle, security people looked at me wondering what the f I was doing: "Don't you know liquids are not allowed, sir!?"
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-27 10:33:36+00:00
I am almost sure that every single person who plotted the 1953 coup is dead. Maybe one of them survives somewhere aged 103 and no longer knowing their name.

Should Macron be judged by what Napoleon III. (or for that matter, I.) did? Surely there is some kind of continuity between those French heads of state, they even fly the some colors and sit in the same palace.