MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ReptileMan | 2026-01-30 00:18:02+00:00
So far the only area Trump has shown untypical for him restrain is military intervention. I also think that if it comes to prolonged affair - he would prefer massive casualties on the other side if it reduces the risk for the US forces. And it seems that his preferred style is to kill the honor cards of the deck. If he decides to go after Iran - I suspect it will be oil industry burning and just pummeling the upper echelons of the IRGC
by Scoundreller | 2026-01-30 00:18:21+00:00
> But there's also tons of hotels around airports, you just have to get through security

That works in USA where every international arrival has to be able to, and does, go landside.

In the more advanced world, you may only have authorization to stay in the terminal. Dunno what they do when shtf and people will be stuck for a few days.
by Quarrelsome | 2026-01-30 00:18:53+00:00
how is it low IQ to be honest? People have to make decisions and if the decision is "no", I can handle that. Empowering the person making the decision to the fullest extent is something I'd still be interested in, even if it is to my detriment. Its like when middle-management ask me to lie or withold information from the COO or CEO, its just a no. If they're shit then its on the organisation to sort that out. Second guessing everything leads to even worse dysfunction.

We're not talking about sneaking into a concert or something low-stakes, the security of our nation is the foundation of our very civilization. I have dual citizenship of a nation that borders Russia and was once the USSR, so I appreciate the stakes of worst case scenarios because one of my nations was under that boot rather recently.
by mmh0000 | 2026-01-30 00:19:23+00:00
I briefly looked over the PDF, but I'm not a lawyer. If I understand correctly, they're suing "DOES 1 through 10".

So, I'm assuming they're hoping for a "default judgment" against Anna's Archive, and then they'll presumably start taking domain names and any other hosting resources?

Then, I assume in the end, nothing will really change, just like The Pirate Bay still exists in the open on a series of rotating domains.

But at least the lawyers will be able to justify their job.
Show HN: Sarab – Expose localhost to the internet using Cloudflare Tunnels
by meedoomostafa | 2026-01-30 00:19:32+00:00
I built Sarab to make exposing local ports easier without needing paid services or complex config. It’s a single-binary CLI that automates Cloudflare Tunnels.

Key features:

- No Account Needed: Uses TryCloudflare to generate random public URLs instantly without login.

- Zero Config: Automates the cloudflared binary management, DNS records, and ingress rules.

- Auto-Cleanup: Automatically tears down tunnels and cleans up DNS records upon exit to prevent stale entries.

- Custom Domains: Supports authenticated mode using Cloudflare tokens if you need persistent URLs on your own domain.

It’s open source and written in .NET 10. Feedback welcome! [https://github.com/meedoomostafa/sarab]
by anyfoo | 2026-01-30 00:20:22+00:00
Into the Breach only came out 8 years ago, but I'm still playing it vigorously.

I'm sorry to say, your nostalgia-colored-glasses are so strong, you're actually blinded by them. I grew up in the same gaming era as you (started around early to mid 90s, but the peak was later), and I too have fond memories. But there undeniably has been some magnificent progress in pretty much all aspects of gaming.

Somewhere between 2005 and 2010, I thought I had outgrown gaming, and that no game would have anything to offer to me anymore. But years later I learned that that was just because I was stuck thinking that JRPGs were the pinnacle of gaming, it turned out that I had grown out of those. Obviously your story will be different, but I bet there is some story to you somewhere.
by tmostak | 2026-01-30 00:21:11+00:00
Evidence of this? I own a Tesla (HW4, latest FSD) as well as have taken many Waymo rides, and have found both to react well to unpredictable situations (i.e. a car unexpectedly turning in front of you), far more quickly than I would expect most human drivers to react.

This certainly may have been true of older Teslas with HW3 and older FSD builds (I had one, and yes you couldn't trust it).
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-30 00:21:19+00:00
The first half of your comment doesn't quite click for me.

I appreciate the elaboration in the second half. That sounds a lot more constructive than "attack", but now I understand you meant it in the "attack the problem" sense not "attack the people" sense.

What I think we agree on is that society has resource redistribution problem, and it could work a lot better.

I think we might also agree that a well functioning economic engine should lift up the floor for everyone and not concentrate economic power into those who best weild leverage.

One way I think of this is, what is the actual optimal lorenz curve that allows for lifting the floor, such that the area under the curve increases at the fastest rate possible. (It must account for the reality of human psychology and resource scarcity)

Where we might disagree is that I think we also have some culture and education system problems as well, which relate to how each individual takes responsibility for figuring out how to ethically create value for others. When able bodied and minded people chose to spend their time playing zero and negative sum games instead of positive sum games we all lose.

E.g. If mcdonald automates their restaurants, those workers also need to take some responsibility for finding new ways to provide value to others. A well functioning system would make that as painless as possible for them, so much so that the majority experiencing it would consider it a good thing.
by aanet | 2026-01-30 00:21:32+00:00
There is already widespread discussion on LinkedIn about this thread... but usefully, here [1] is the NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation report. Nothing much new there, tbh.

As I did suspect, legal scholars are already calling for "voluntary disclosure" from Waymo re: its annotated videos of the collision [2]. FWIW, my skepticism about Waymo actually releasing it remains...

[1] https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2026/INOA-PE26001-10005.pdf

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matthew-wansley-62b5b9126_a-w...
by mattlondon | 2026-01-30 00:21:41+00:00
Have you been in a waymo? It knows when there are pedestrians around (it can often see over the top of parked cars) and it is very cautious when there are people near the road and it frequently slows down.

I have no idea what happened here but in my experience of taking waymos in SF, they are very cautious and I'd struggle to imagine them speeding through an area with lots of pedestrians milling around. The fact that it was going 17mph at the time makes me think it was already in "caution mode". Sounds like this was something of a "worst case" scenario and another meter or 2 and it would have stopped in time.

I think with humans, even if the driver is 100% paying attention and eyes were looking in exactly the right place where the child emerged at the right time, there is still reaction times - both in cognition but also physically moving the leg to press the pedal. I suspect that a waymo will out-react a human basically 100% of the time, and apply full braking force within a few 10s of milliseconds and well before a human has even begun to move their leg.
by pwdisswordfishs | 2026-01-30 00:21:47+00:00
Generative AI didn't need to come into existence in order for the proliferation of utterly mind-numbing devops slop that already dominated modern development to suck all the fun out of computers that were originally intended to solve problems for humans.

That's the difference between the original "free software" community and the "open source" one to me, including its modern incarnation on GitHub: the former produces a collaborative effort to develop a UNIX replacement/alternative and a thriving ecosystem around free software desktop environments with apps intended for humans to do their personal computing. The latter gets you Apache Kafka.
by Kina | 2026-01-30 00:22:28+00:00
This really depends on how a state structures this, but “county courthouse” is not necessarily a meaningful statement. The judiciary is a state function and it has been delegated to county for purposes of logistics. In larger states, each county gets to set its own court rules, fee schedules, etc. because it would be maddening otherwise. They still ultimately answer to the state judiciary.

Iowa is small enough that it looks like the Iowa Judicial Branch just runs everything directly. Every county seat in Iowa has a courthouse, but the county probably doesn’t really have any control of it.

My guess is that the sheriff had an ego and may not have wanted a finding against him.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-30 00:22:55+00:00
Asteroid mining in our current economy is about pointing at the market price of an extremely low supply element that isn't that high demand in the first place and forgetting to talk about what a supply glut does to price.

Everyone is laboring under this subtle belief that space industry will be just like scifi speculated, but scifi stories always treated space like the ocean, with lots of interplanetary trade and easy travel and no consideration of energy (because it makes for good storytelling) but the actual energy budgeting and consideration of gravity wells is the exact opposite of ocean transport.

Global trade works at all because buoyancy and fluid physics make ocean vessels stupidly efficient at transport.

Moving any matter through space is stupidly inefficient.

The tyranny of the rocket equation constrains everything.
by Nadav--Shanun | 2026-01-30 00:23:01+00:00
Redefining Morality
What is morality? Strip away the philosophical abstractions, the religious doctrines, the cultural variations and you arrive at something surprisingly simple: morality is the general consensus of humankind.

Not the consensus of a government. Not the consensus of a committee. Not the opinion of experts or the rulings of courts. True morality, in its purest form, is the aggregated understanding, values, and preferences of every conscious human being on the planet at any given moment.
by cmurf | 2026-01-30 00:24:43+00:00
Federal court orders (judicial branch) are enforced by federal law enforcement such as marshals, FBI, ATF, and so on (executive branch).

If the executive branch is lawless, then there’s selective enforcement. We are seeing the emergence of the dual state. Authoritarianism that follows the law sometimes so it sorta looks legitimate but sometimes isn’t at all legitimate.

America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State (theatlantic.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43454004
by _carbyau_ | 2026-01-30 00:25:01+00:00
> and unbelievably knowledgeable

They are knowledgeable in that so much information sits in their repository.

But less than perfect application of that information combined with the appearance of always perfect confidence can lead to problems.

I treat them like that one person in the office who always espouses alternate theories - trust it as far as I can verify it. This can be very handy for finding new paths of inquiry though!
by Terr_ | 2026-01-30 00:25:49+00:00
> 100% of the progression happens

Faced with such a statement, the contrarian in me spent a little while trying to remember any exceptions. I won't say "the ship's computer", since that would be against the spirit of the thing, and by extension certain things involving signals/waypoints.

I think certain actions with the Advanced Warp Core would qualify, breaking the usual progression rules and often leading to an alternate ending.
by Zanni | 2026-01-30 00:26:49+00:00
Fred Lambert at Electrek has become an unreliable reporter on Tesla. I don't know where his bias stems from, but it's unmistakeable.

Lambert claims David Moss couldn't find a Robotaxi ride without a safety driver. True enough, there aren't a lot of them on the road. That doesn't mean they don't exist or were "pulled back."

Here's Moss's latest tweet on the subject: "ANOTHER UNSUPERVISED:

2 in a row now here in Austin, TX of Tesla Robotaxi’s completely autonomous without chase cars.

You can see 2 cars in the clip with no one in it & anyone can book it!

Ride 59 complete."
https://x.com/DavidMoss/status/2016939137031381487

Note also in that SAME ARTICLE, Lambert credits Moss with driving 10,000 miles on FSD v14 with zero interventions.

To paraphrase William Gibson: full self-driving is here, it's just unevenly distributed.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-01-30 00:27:27+00:00
Oh, wow. This sort of happened in my life!

My grandmother's house is adjacent my parents' w/ 200 ft. between and line of sight. Back in 2013, when my grandmother moved into the then-new house, I setup a point-to-point wifi bridge between them to share my parents' Internet connection and give me easy remote support access to grandma.

Summer of 2023 visiting relatives complained the Internet service in grandma's house was slow and unreliable. There were repeated suggestions made by helpful relatives for purchasing a new WiFi router for her house, getting independent Internet service, etc.

Grandma was happy with it, and the relatives went home, so I put off looking at it. When I did finally look at it, months later (when I went over for Thanksgiving) everything seemed fine.

When the relatives came to visit in summer 2024 they complained again. I looked at it immediately and found massive packet loss on both ends.

The ornamental trees planted along the driveway between the houses were the culprit. With the leaves off (say, at Thanksgiving time) it was fine. When the relatives came to visit in the summer the trees were in full leaf and acting as very good attenuators.

The trees were newly planted when grandma moved in. I didn't even think about them getting bigger and fuller when I set up the link. They filled out in the 10 years intervening, though. (Chalk it up to me still being relatively young and not thinking about installations on 10+ year timescales when I put it up.)

Fortunately there's a room in her house with line of sight to my parents' house unobscured by trees. It meant putting the radio outside a bedroom window instead of the attic (where I'd originally stashed it), but it solved the problem and ended complaints from relatives.
by mattlondon | 2026-01-30 00:27:44+00:00
Yes I agree, but why 10mph? Why not 5mph? or 2mph? You'll still hit them if they step out right in front of you and you don't have time to react.

Obviously the distances are different at that speed, but if the person steps out so close that you cannot react in time, you're fucked at any speed.

10mph will do serious damage still, so please for the sake of the children please slow yourself and your daughter's driving down to 0.5mph where there are pedestrians or parked cars.

But seriously I think you'd be more safe to both slow down and also to put more space between the parked cars and your car so that you are not scooting along with a 30cm of clearance - move out and leave lots of space so there is more space for sight-lines for both you and pedestrians.
by nikitaga | 2026-01-30 00:27:56+00:00
This is great news, nice win for Scala.

It's a great language, I've been working with it for 10 years now. Full stack Scala with Scala.js on the frontend is so very nice. My experience is mostly in fintech & healthcare startups where the language helped us get correctness, refactorability, clarity, and high velocity at the same time without blowing up the team size.

Initially I learned Scala on the job, but I've been writing open source Scala for years since then. It's a cool language to learn and explore ideas in, since it has lots of elegantly integrated features (especially FP + OOP).

Scala may not be the #1 most popular language, and that's fine. Popular stuff surely gets the benefits of funding and attention, and sometimes lacking such support is really annoying, like a few years ago when Scala 3 was first released, the IDEs took a looong time to catch up. But I still choose Scala despite those occasional annoyances, even though I also have years of experience in JS / TS and other languages. It's just a much better tool for my needs.
by 0nabilbk | 2026-01-30 00:28:21+00:00
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Now you need to send something professional.
But you don't. Not right away.
Because sending it means: open a blank doc, figure out the structure, remember what they said, make it look decent.
It's not hard. It's just heavy. Starting from nothing is heavy.
So you tell yourself you'll do it tonight. Then tomorrow.
By the time you finally send it, the conversation is cold.
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by Stratoscope | 2026-01-30 00:28:54+00:00
From the blog post (twice):

> creative ideation

At first I had no idea what this meant! So I asked my friend Miss Chatty [1] and we had an interesting conversation about it:

https://chatgpt.com/share/697bf761-990c-8012-9dd1-6ca1d5cc34...

[1] You may know her as ChatGPT, but I figure all the other AIs have fun human-sounding names, so she deserves one too.
Show HN: Vibe Language – A messenger for language learners
by osd2030 | 2026-01-30 00:29:00+00:00
My girlfriend and I wanted to text each other in the language we're learning. Tried WhatsApp but kept copy-pasting to ChatGPT. Too much friction.

So I built a simple messenger with AI built in:

- Helps you write before you send (translate or improve)

- Explains any message you receive

- Save expressions and review later

iOS only for now. Free.

Would love technical feedback or ideas.
by analog31 | 2026-01-30 00:29:09+00:00
Probably a vanishingly small number of people who drive stick, actually understand how and why it works. My kids do, of course, because I explained it to them. Most drivers just go through the motions.

A growing number of cars have CVTs.

Granted this is now a digression. I was a college math major, and use math every day in my job. But I can't tell you for the life of me why we teach long division. Math education at the K-12 level is widely regarded as a failure.
by zamalek | 2026-01-30 00:29:43+00:00
I have no doubt about it, but for my use-cases Wayland definitely is a step up. It's definitely a first-world-problem, but somehow typing feels more enjoyable at low latency - back when I still had a backup X11 session, I could instantly tell that I had left it on: the mouse cursor, input, everything felt like soup.
by starfreakclone | 2026-01-30 00:30:03+00:00
There's nothing non-standard happening there. The compiler is allowed to translate #include -> import. Here's the standardese expressing that: https://eel.is/c%2B%2Bdraft/cpp.include#10.

I do agree, it's not _exactly_ the same as using _named modules_, but header units share an almost identical piece of machinery in the compiler as named modules. This makes the (future planned) transition to named modules a lot easier since we know the underlying machinery works.

The actual blocker for named modules is not MSVC, it's other compilers catching up--which clang and gcc are doing quite quickly!
by marifjeren | 2026-01-30 00:30:05+00:00
So funny to be seeing this article. Just last week I spent about 9 hours in that airport and I asked several people who worked there what some good places were to get some respite while waiting for a delayed flight. None of these spots were recommended (wish I had this article then) but they did refer me to a quiet-ish "lounge" area.

You can get there if you take the stairs in the 20's gates (Terminal 2) where I ended up sleeping for a while.
by stackskipton | 2026-01-30 00:30:30+00:00
After seeing the flood of resumes for application, I do think a small cost to apply wouldn't be a bad thing for either applicants or companies. I also realize that if someone is unemployed, getting them to pay money they don't have to find a new job is counterproductive.

However, when we wanted to hire a new Ops person at work, the flood of obviously not qualified at all applicants we got was insane.
by zinekeller | 2026-01-30 00:30:34+00:00
Just read this in the comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39899534):

> I wonder how much polarization affects things; I was once told that terrestrial FM Radio is transmitted with vertical polarization to reduce interference from tall objects between you and the transmitter.

> Terrestrial TV (some of which used bands that overlap FM radio) uses horizontal polarization.

This is only true in the US (and probably areas influenced by US standards). In Europe, FM radio transmissions (and digital television nowadays) tend to be mixed-polarization (circular polarization), except if there are known interference (usually border areas) that would preclude mixed-polarization.

Analog television meanwhile significantly differs depending on your area, which required you to either test which tower and polarity is the best (note that all broadcasts are transmitted at a single tower, unlike in the US), or just... request a map with that data.
by keeganpoppen | 2026-01-30 00:30:40+00:00
i dont know why, but this just feels like the most shallow “i compare llms based on the specs” kind of analysis you can get… it has extreme “we couldn’t get the llm to intuit what we wanted to do, so we assumed that it was a problem with the llm and we overengineered a way to make better prompts completely by accident” energy…
by allears | 2026-01-30 00:31:08+00:00
SpaceX would only be harmed by the merger. They're a great company on their own, accomplishing amazing things and creating revenue. Tesla is going down the tubes, X still makes some money from ads but is basically just a propaganda outlet, and this new robotics thing is a ketamine dream. Whatever enabled Musk to create SpaceX and Tesla seems to be slipping.
by altairprime | 2026-01-30 00:31:34+00:00
It's literally "computer fraud and abuse" in every sense of the word, so one assumes that an avenue of potential prosecution and possible conviction would be under the CFAA act. This does not, of course, guarantee that a conviction would be made and upheld at appeal, but this community is quite familiar with the dire harm that federal prosecution for misuse of computer services can impose on individuals, no matter how misguided that prosecution may be. Prosecution can be wielded as a form of persecution that does not require a conviction as outcome to be successful, and that is the a pressing risk now faced by whoever did this.
by sroerick | 2026-01-30 00:31:46+00:00
I would actually assume a little more sophistication. For each user, a measure of "Are they convinced that AI is great". Then, you weaponize your compute to have the maximum social impact. If somebody has a large following (many edges on the social graph), and theyre skeptical of AI tech, inject the expensive but effective models directly into their veins. Let them taste the joy. Then start watering down their dose, and move onto the next person in the graph, again maximizing for net social impact. Language may not even be a consideration
by isodev | 2026-01-30 00:32:13+00:00
> Neural networks excel at judgment

I don’t think they do. I think they excel at outputting echoes of their training data that best fit (rhyme with, contextually) the prompt they were given. If you try using Claude with an obscure language or use case, you will notice that effect even more - it will keep pulling towards things it knows that aren’t at all what’s asked or “the best judgement” for what’s needed.