MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by satiated_grue | 2026-01-20 15:42:21+00:00
There are a great many modern modifications available for the 8-bit Ataris, many of them from Poland where the machines saw good sales quite late compared to the US.

Using modern electronics (FPGAs etc.), processors, and high-density memories, you can imagine the processing, graphics, and I/O improvements that can be made for relatively low cost.

Many hobbyist machines at this point are highly modified, with much new software taking advantage of the new features, so specifying "classic unmodified" pretty much means a system into which you could have slapped a ROM cartridge purchased at your local computer store back in the day. XL/XE sounds like it rules out the original 800 and 400 models.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-20 15:42:22+00:00
If we're going to the worst examples, let me say that on twitter I have seen content openly glorifying terrorist groups, particularly in some right-wing threads. Indeed, some terrorists have active accounts there.

Some of that content has been posted in the comments here on this HN submission.

This sort of content is illegal in some EU jurisdictions, and post-elmu era, after I reported it, twitter never took it down at all.
by animuchan | 2026-01-20 15:42:40+00:00
Thank you very much! I also feel that the impact of software licensing on violent groups behavior might be low.

It is, however, interesting on principle, since it only allows the use by criminals (implicitly), and not by law enforcement. By then making the tool very impractical to use, we can punish bad actors still.

(I think there was a honeypot operation to this effect, something with feds making up a "secure encrypted phone" and then acquiring Cartels as a major customer.)

(On the off chance I just burned this very similar operation: dear feds, I'm so sorry!)
by ge96 | 2026-01-20 15:42:57+00:00
I want that throaty Lotus Exige shame only 260s legal in US. No electric for me not because I'm against it but I love that sound, real sound. I know Tesla Plaid can do 0-60 in 1.9 but so can Corvette C8. Not that Exige is that powerful but it's a sexy car.

This is awesome to me https://youtu.be/0c9prOTdp_M?si=r0q3vqohdVNw7HpF&t=181
by HireMonster | 2026-01-20 15:43:01+00:00
Hi HN — we built Hire.monster: a job search product that combines a job aggregator (~ 30'000 jobs) with a workspace to organize the application process. https://hire.monster

You can browse/search jobs without an account. If you sign up, you can apply and use the AI features (resume↔JD fit analysis, ATS-style checks, tailored cover letter drafts) plus an application tracker.

Pricing: there’s an always-free tier with limits on AI usage and (currently) a randomized restriction on viewing some job posts — feedback on whether this is a bad idea is especially welcome.
Premium is $6/month and removes the limits (early-stage pricing)

What we’d love feedback on:

For matching: should we show a single score, or a breakdown (skills/keywords/format warnings) only?

For ATS checks: which failure modes are most annoying in real life (parsing, formatting, keyword stuffing, etc.)?

For tracking: what’s the minimum set of stages/fields that would replace a spreadsheet for you?
by seanhunter | 2026-01-20 15:43:17+00:00
I don't think that's true regardless of whether you or Feynman or anyone else says it.

For example:

Every continuous symmetry of action in a physical system with conservative forces has a corresponding conservation law. (Noether's Theorem)

There must be two antipodal points on Earth with exactly the same temperature and barometric pressure (as a result of the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem)

As far as I know these are absolutely proved positively because they are mathematical consequences of the properties of continuous functions etc. I'm not a scientist, but there are thousands of things like this where we are definitely absolutely certain we are right because of the possibility of a mathematical direct proof.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-20 15:43:19+00:00
> So, what's your trick to avoid getting skipped because a contract recruiter or internal recruiter is going through resumes at 6 a minute and looking for keywords nowhere near the job profile?

I don't know, but I can't imagine the person whose job is not to look at resumes at all is going to do any better.

There's a tragedy of the commons thing here. It might work if people are getting one inbound email a week and they like reading them. Once it becomes common wisdom, suddenly J Random Employee has dozens of incoming cold emails distracting from their work. So all of them go in the bin.
by francisofascii | 2026-01-20 15:43:23+00:00
Don't disagree at all. But many devs are not working with a "high stakes production environment where bugs and crashes and unintended behaviours will make you lose money and reputation." There is the class of software where getting it done ASAP and hitting all the "happy path" requirements is the way to make money. Edge cases, bugs, and maintenence nightmares are all problems for the next contract.
by nicoburns | 2026-01-20 15:43:56+00:00
Regulation has everything to do with this.

> EVs are DESIGNED and MANUFACTURED to be extremely difficult to repair even by excellent technicians and software experts.

Correct. So we should pass regulation that makes this illegal (or otherwise prohibitively expensive for manufacturers due to legal responsilities which would be difficult to fulfil with such a design). We know that repairable EVs are entirely possible.

The same applies to smartphones and whole bunch of other hardware from washing machine to tractors, and is the basis of the "right to repair" movement.
by benreesman | 2026-01-20 15:44:02+00:00
It would need to implement a few dozen ioctls, correctly stub the kernel module in guests, do a probably memory-safe assignment of GPU memory to guest, and then ultimately map that info to BAR/MSI-X semantics of a real kernel module. You could get VFIO pretty fast for a full start by correctly masking LTR bits, but to truly make it free you'd need a user space io_uring broker that had survived hundreds of millions of adversarial fuzz runs because there's only so fast the firmware blob can run even if it's preloaded into initramfs.

Serious work, detail intense, but not so different in design to e.g. Carmack's Trinity engine. Doable.
by simiones | 2026-01-20 15:44:11+00:00
Here is a lengthy interview where he discusses this at length (with a timestamp where he says exactly that String Theory, the precise mathematical model, doesn't describe the real world):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_Hlm6aCok&t=10m15s

This also references this podcast discussion between Leonard Susskind and Lawrence Krauss, where they discuss the same thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhszd_wqAgQ

Note that he still thinks that there is a way to produce some kind of similar theory, "a string theory" as opposed to "String Theory", could be the best answer.
by munk-a | 2026-01-20 15:44:38+00:00
We've certainly planned for single allies going unhinged - but what we didn't plan for was us going unhinged and causing all our allies to take retaliatory actions. If France, Denmark, Germany, Britain - any one of them was swept up in nationalistic fervor and turned their back on our multi-lateral alliances we could easily weather that storm... when it's us though, that threatens the USD's acceptance as the defacto trading currency especially at a time when BRICS is semi-coherent and we're weathering a recent inflationary burst. This is like a perfect storm.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2026-01-20 15:44:39+00:00
>What if someone (could be an individual or even an uncoordinated group) bets millions of dollars on you not doing X, in the hopes of you taking the opposite bet and doing X?

If the market is efficient and aware of the bribery effect, others will bet that you will do X up to the point where the indirect bribe is equal to the cost of you doing X. If you have private knowledge that a bribe would be taken, you probably have the access to do it far cheaper off market (and you can still use crypto).
by haizhung | 2026-01-20 15:45:27+00:00
Just a word of warning to not take this to the max. Do not define your personal self worth over how useful (you think) you are.

There’s a famous billionaire founder in Germany that attempted suicide just recently, because … he didn’t feel useful anymore.

https://7news.com.au/news/ex-boss-of-major-textile-brand-tri...
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-20 15:45:31+00:00
> If none of that stuff makes the U.S. richer who cares?

Your bondholders certainly care, and you've been living beyond your means for quite some time.

I wish you the very best of luck with either massive expenditure cuts causing civil unrest, or hyper-inflation.

Honestly, I can't even believe that someone (who generally expresses reasoned viewpoints) would question the value of being the world's reserve currency. There's definitely downsides but it's allowed a lot more flexibility for the US since the 70s.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-20 15:45:37+00:00
> Soup kitchens provide free food without requiring anything in return. That doesn't make it OK for you to take as much as you can get and resell it.?

It would be if the kitchen soup had infinite soup available.

Whatever volume of soup you take from the soup kitchen, it's gone from the kitchen. This is not the case with information - you consuming or collecting it does not mean there's less of it at the source.

> No, it's called being part of a community.

Soup kitchens are bad example. They're not there to build a community of poor people. They're there to feed them. The only reason they mind people taking in excess is because supply of soup is finite - take too much, and there won't be enough for someone else. Beyond that, they don't really care what people do with it.

> It's not a positive sum exchange. The community is what is lost.

Nobody other than salesmen and marketers want a community around everything. Especially not when they're looking for facts, or providing a helping hand.

Pay-it-forward is not affected by introduction of an intermediary (AI or otherwise), because it's about giving, not trading.

That's another way of putting this concept that so many don't seem to get: not everything has to be an exchange.
Ask HN: Clipboard overflows causing system crashes in macOS Tahoe 26.3 beta 2?
by nhubbard | 2026-01-20 15:45:49+00:00
I'm submitting this because I'm not sure if something is wrong with my machine, or if there's a kernel bug that can be reproduced on another machine. I've been able to reproduce this issue on my machine twice in a row.

I have a 16-inch Nov 2024 M4 Pro MacBook Pro for my job. It's enrolled in AppleSeed as part of our internal beta testing.

One of the tasks I'm working on is building an IntelliJ IDEA plugin for our internal configuration system. As part of an enhancement I've been working on, I've needed to get several samples of PSI structures from the IDE. If you've worked with the IntelliJ Platform SDK, you know these PSI structures can be absolutely massive, especially if you need to copy and paste them to save them to files.

I tried to save one of these PSI structures to a file so I could analyze it more closely. I pressed Copy PSI in the IDE, opened Neovim in Ghostty to paste, and pressed the paste shortcut... and my system locked up and hard-crashed.

I tried it again when I rebooted, and the system hard crashed again.

I'm not sure how long the actual string I was copying and pasting is, but I know it's probably absolutely massive.

The problem is that I can't figure out if this is a Ghostty issue or a system issue. Ghostty is fully up to date.

Is anyone able to reproduce this issue?
by mustache_kimono | 2026-01-20 15:45:54+00:00
> Scrubs check hashes, not structure.

Can you show us how an fsck would discover this bug but ZFS could never? The point I take contention with is that missing an fsck is a problem for ZFS, so more specifically can you answer my 4th Q:

>> 4) If so, wouldn't this just be a bug, like (a bug in) fsck, not some fundamental limitation of the system?
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-20 15:46:13+00:00
Congress passed a tax cut last year for the wealthiest as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill (“OBBB”) that increases the debt by $1T-$4T over ten years. What taxation by both parties?

The US pays $800B/year to service debt. It pays $800B-$1T/year for the military. What would you like cut that is discretionary? There appears to be no appetite to raise taxes on the wealthy, pay down debt, and reduce military spending. So US credit card go brrr. We’ll hit a debt spiral eventually.

https://usafacts.org/government-spending/
by epistasis | 2026-01-20 15:46:18+00:00
What is the theory of how the US Navy keeps the dollar the reserve currency, when the US has made itself a pariah state? What mechanism? Would the US Navy be doing piracy and demand protection money in dollars? Piracy payoffs would be a far far lower demand for dollars than there currently is and, and also greatly reduce all other trade with the US, further reducing demand for US dollars.

Really curious what your reasoning is here.
by aurareturn | 2026-01-20 15:46:22+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1kolwxm/last_ye...

According to this Reddit thread, he doesn't say it's "dead in the water" at all. It's just a version of string theory.

This is what I'm afraid of. People who aren't qualified spreading fake news on string theory.

I don't claim to be qualified. I just want to call out HN people who are extremely confident that string theory is dead but has no background in physics.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-01-20 15:46:23+00:00
This divestment is so little and with so little aim.

The whole situation is been caused by a single guy and 400 enablers, whereas the US is a 400 million people country.

The correct form of reaction is a punch in the face during a bilateral meeting, Zelensky came close to doing it but unfortunately he resisted his impulse , that's where the epicenter of all newly generated global problems in the last 10 years lies, in that octogenarian brian of his.
by snowwrestler | 2026-01-20 15:46:26+00:00
I pay close attention to IPv4 addresses for outgoing emails. At work we use several email services and pay for a dedicated IP(v4) at each. And when we provision a new service, we expect our new IP address to be “clean,” by which I mean it is ideally not found on any email reputation list.

For websites and services I don’t care. Some hosting platforms publish via CNAME, and some via A and AAAA records. Most seem to use a mix of v4 and v6 addressing.

The falling price of IPv4 addresses looks to me like we’ve made it to other side of the IPv6 rollout: demand for IPv4 is falling faster than supply now. Not clear if those prices are adjusted for inflation; the post-COVID spike looks like a lot of other nominal price graphs. If not, then the recent price drop is even more dramatic than it appears.

Perhaps in the long run, IPv4 becomes an artisanal choice for uses that depend on stable IP reputation: email sending, primarily. And everyone else relies on TLS for reputation signals, not caring about the IP address.
Show HN: Skillshare – How are teams syncing AI agent skills?
by runkids | 2026-01-20 15:47:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been building Skillshare (https://github.com/runkids/skillshare), a tool to sync AI agent skills across different environments.

While tools like Vercel’s add-skill are great for quick discovery, I’ve noticed a lack of discussion on how teams manage these shared capabilities long-term.

I built Skillshare to test a "Skills-as-Code" hypothesis:

Git-based Sync: Automatically track and pull skills from remote repositories, flattening nested structures so tools like Claude Code or Cursor can use them immediately.

Team Standards: Ensuring everyone on the team is using the same version-controlled "source of truth" for specialized scripts and prompts.

As an independent developer, I'm curious to hear your thoughts:

Is managing AI skills via Git the right mental model for production teams?

Or do you see this evolving into more of a centralized "registry" approach?

Looking forward to your feedback.
by bluGill | 2026-01-20 15:47:17+00:00
In the US the average car is 12 years old. I don't know Norway, but I expect similar. Which is to say I don't expect this to have made any difference in the number of gas stations yet. Gas station owners are watching numbers, but and are likely to open less in the future (not zero, some new development/locations will be important, but some locations that previously would have got one will not longer be worth the investment. Or maybe they put in the station without gas pumps - people still need those snacks (again I don't know the market in Norway, in the US that is how it would be).

Gas stations are also trying to figure out how charging fits in. While people are expected to charge at home, there will still me some demand for on the road charging. This is a place that hasn't worked out yet (I personally expect people will go for a nicer meal and sit down for an hour charge - but this might be my bias)
by softwaredoug | 2026-01-20 15:47:59+00:00
When I actually look at the data, a lot of US deficit growth came from several specific shocks, with inconsistent years of recovery.

- 9/11

- Iraq War

- Covid

The US did recover a bit deficit-wise in Obama years, but have not reset the fiscal picture from Covid.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD
Show HN: Talkng AI group chat with voice
by -i | 2026-01-20 15:48:06+00:00
Use chrome to experience a realtime infinite Ai wikipedia, every word is a link, have a group chat with unlimited people and Ai by sharing any link or create private links, press z to trigger Ai chat

The Ai should be able to define the words you click but is still in school so sometimes it drifts or hallucinates but eventually it will graduate
by stronglikedan | 2026-01-20 15:48:08+00:00
It costs a lot to administer the welfare bureaucracy and make sure the money goes to those who are entitled to it, and even then many people that aren't entitled to it game the system on a daily basis. I imagine a world where there is minimal administration since everyone gets the same amount, and it's all paid for by just gutting the current welfare system and it's administrative fees. I hope it's tried someday.
by qweiopqweiop | 2026-01-20 15:48:31+00:00
Without getting overly philosophical, defining value purely in terms of being useful to others within the company feels shallow to me.

There’s no mention of what we’re actually working on or why, only the assumption that being busy or useful is inherently good.

That framing seems like a recipe for abuse by people who don’t care about users or the broader societal impact of their work.
by whimsicalism | 2026-01-20 15:48:38+00:00
We don’t need tax cuts, we need higher taxes and less spending on the rich&old. Our welfare system is completely backwards, if you are facing declining fertility and struggling young people - you don’t continue to tax the young to spend on the wealthier generation.

Unfortunately most young people don’t realize they are being hoodwinked and so poll extremely supportive of this scheme.
by quacked | 2026-01-20 15:48:52+00:00
The answer to "why should I know anything" is a value judgement that, if advertised in my top-level post, provides a great deal more rhetorical surface to disagree with or criticize. My main point is that regardless of why anyone wants to know anything, in the age of AI, if you want to produce students who actually know things, I recommend dropping the tech and returning to a more rigorous, in-person curriculum with a foundation of memorization.

Here, though, is my answer: an excellent long-term goal for any band of humans is to create, inhabit, and enjoy the greatest civilization possible, and the more each individual human knows about their reality, the easier it is to do that.
by abeppu | 2026-01-20 15:49:15+00:00
> "Is money a birthright now? Do we just get born and get money from the government?" Republican Rep. John Gillette told Business Insider. "Because I think the Founding Fathers would say that is very contrary to our capitalist system and encouraging people to work."

I think the other perspective is that the US _has_ historically been comfortable with giving away property in the Homestead Act, land rushes, the Oregon Land Donation act etc. These were giving away _capital_, and the people needed to provide the labor to make it productive.

IDK what a future-facing equivalent should look like. Should we all own datacenter racks? Robot factory lines?
by chrismorgan | 2026-01-20 15:49:16+00:00
You’re misunderstanding. This isn’t about React, it’s the Radix UI primitives library which is being overcomplicated by it allowing you to put any element as the visual part of the radio button.

As for “the point of React” being that you can just do such and such… there’s nothing special about React there, that’s what any of these component libraries achieve (React, Vue, Svelte, &c., even basic templating systems like Handlebars a lot of the time).
by chrisss395 | 2026-01-20 15:49:29+00:00
I too use this solution, using both Ubunutu LXCs and full-fledged VMs. Only issue I've struggled with has been losing SSH connection on the LXC, and tmux and session both seem to mess up the terminal formatting in CC.

I do agree with the security / cautionary comments and wouldn't leverage this setup outside a hacked together homelab.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-20 15:49:52+00:00
> USA was already the richest nation before both world wars and way before NATO was established. Europe can't align with Russia, because Russian Empire wants pieces of Europe. It can't align with China, because trading with China is more or less one way and that can be taken away anytime China feels like it.

In a world where the US is not a trusted partner, I'd expect the EU to do partial deals with the US and China while maintaining pressure on Russia.

Lets not forget that the US imports vast amounts of EU capital, and in the new world that makes less and less sense. And the US market having 60% of global equity value is not sustainable in this world either.
by kxbnb | 2026-01-20 15:50:17+00:00
This resonates. "Type safety is not enough - bugs in downstream services can silently break your API contracts" is something I've hit repeatedly.

Your approach of schema-first with observability layer makes sense. Schema gives you the contract, metrics give you truth about what's actually happening.

Building something adjacent at toran.sh - API observability focused on agent workloads. Similar motivation: see actual traffic, not just trust the schema.

Question: how are you handling observability for services that call external APIs? The internal → external boundary is where I've found the most surprising failures.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-01-20 15:50:21+00:00
An operating system can be coded on one not particularly powerful computer by one person and it costs a few pennies to compile and test. A lot of other open source projects were also initiated by one or two talented people. Software is absurdly inexpensive to develop relative to its complexity.

A cutting edge processor requires personnel across several disciplines and millions in specialized equipment to both validate the implementation of the architecture and the electrical behavior of the circuits and each time it's "compiled" (a batch of test chips fabbed and QAed), it takes a few weeks to be delivered and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. The ISA being open and royalty-free doesn't affect any of those massive costs.

To use a famous quote: "The answer to any question starting, 'Why don't they...' is almost always, 'Money'" Nobody is offering up that kind of money without practical guarantees of success and some kind of profit at the end of it.