MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by array_key_first | 2026-01-25 21:50:19+00:00
Anyone who believes ICE is legitimately trying to rectify illegal immigration is either too stupid to function or a liar.

Because I give the benefit of the doubt, I will assume most people are not that stupid. So, the only option left is they don't actually believe it, and it's just virtue signalling to their fascist overloads. Personally, I think that's a bit pathetic, not to mention naive. Nobody has any reason to think they will be spared, citizen or not.
by ryanshrott | 2026-01-25 21:50:33+00:00
I've been going down this rabbit hole too. I ended up building DictaFlow (https://dictaflow.vercel.app/) because I needed something that specifically works in VDI/Citrix environments where clipboard pasting is blocked (I work in finance).

It uses a 'character-typing' method instead of clipboard injection, so it's compatible with pretty much anything remote. Also kept it super lightweight (<50MB RAM) for Windows users who don't want to run a full local server stack.

Cool to see Handy using the newer models—local voice tech is finally getting good.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-25 21:50:37+00:00
> Unless ordering assassinations and launching a coup are "core constitutional powers" of the president, then no the ruling does not give him immunity for that.

Just to be clear: you are disagreeing with a dissenting Supreme Court justice on how much the law protects the president. Are you a lawyer? Do you know more about how much the law binds the president than the literal office that has the final say on the law?
by footy | 2026-01-25 21:50:37+00:00
I was not born in Canada, but I chose to immigrate here and it's one of the top 5 best choices I've ever made. I have access to so much that in other places would be wildly expensive. My life is richer due to the diversity of the people I am surrounded by, if I bought every book I borrowed from the library last year it would have cost $3000 or more, and even after moving away from a large city I have access to public transit good enough to cover most of my needs.

It's actually really wild to think I spent a couple of years working in Boston more than a decade ago, and I used my zipcar subscription way more often than I've ever had to use a communauto in fake london (a city no one would mistake for having good urban planning).
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-25 21:50:53+00:00
Generally speaking, I think the point of statements like this is to shoot down the trite and thought-free cliche "if you have nothing to hide". And the point is rarely to convince the person you're speaking to, it's usually to get people who might otherwise be swayed by hearing the trite and thought-free cliche to think for a moment.

If you're talking directly to one person and trying to convince them, without an audience, there are likely different tactics that might work, but even then, some of the same approach might help, just couched more politely. "You don't actually mean that; do you want a camera in your bedroom with a direct feed to the police? What do you actually mean, here? What are you trying to solve?"

Option A: "Yes!", which tells you you're probably talking to someone who cares more about not admitting they're wrong than thinking about what they're saying.

Option B: "Well, no, but...", and now you're having a discussion.

Generally speaking, people who say things like "if you have nothing to hide" either (charitably) haven't thought about it very much and are vaguely wanting to be "strict on crime" without thought for the consequences because they can't imagine it affecting them, or (uncharitably) have attitudes about what they consider "shameful" and they really mean "you shouldn't do things that I think you should feel shame about".
by jen_lokryn | 2026-01-25 21:51:06+00:00
Hi HN,

Team affiliate of Lokryn. We’ve been building resources for devs for a while, and we found ourselves increasingly frustrated with the existing visual tools for project planning.

Most tools felt "heavy"—too many menus, slow load times, and a focus on "enterprise features" that got in the way of actual creative flow. We wanted something that felt as snappy as a game but as functional as a whiteboard.

So, we built Lokryn Visual Board (https://vb.lokryn.com).

The Goal: To create a "zero-friction" environment for spatial thinking. It’s designed to be a digital desk where you can map out logic, organize tasks, or curate research without the bloat.

Key Focuses:

Performance: We prioritized low-latency interactions. Moving cards and resizing elements shouldn't feel like a web app; it should feel like a native tool.

Minimalism: We intentionally stripped away the sidebars and deep nesting found in tools like Notion or Miro.

Spatial Logic: It supports a flexible Kanban-style flow but allows for more free-form organization when you need to just "see" the project.

It’s still early, and we’re actively refining the UX. I’d love to get your feedback on the performance and the overall "feel" of the board.

I’ll be around to answer any questions!
by shevy-java | 2026-01-25 21:51:18+00:00
Quite a tragedy.

Spain needs to rethink the way it operates trains. I think Switzerland
handles this better, overall, though they probably also don't have
as many fast trains because there are so many mountains. But I refer
more to the intrinsic quality control and assumption made. If I recall
correctly in Spain, there was the other train also coming in. I am
sure they could have built the tracks differently. Granted, the issue
here is cost, and an attempt to keep the cost down, but if you then
accept disasters like that, it seems really awkward to me to want to
save money here. And now that we know the track was already damaged,
that just adds more validity to questioning whether the quality control
systems were overall proper.
by GOGOGOD | 2026-01-25 21:51:24+00:00
IMO CLIs already have strong constraint channels (CLAUDE.md / agents.md / rules), the real pain is manual upkeep + agents forgetting to read/update them. If docs can be auto-maintained, that’s actually useful “memory”. We’re shipping an OSS experiment in ~1 week: https://github.com/hakoniwaa/Squirrel
by fhdkweig | 2026-01-25 21:52:01+00:00
I didn't bother to vote in 2016 because I wasn't paying attention. I was used to politics being about two nearly identical groups who both wanted what was best for America. By 2020 and 2024, everyone should have known who this guy was. He thrived on media attention. Even during the 4 years of Biden, every news article was about him. Everyone knew what he wanted to do, and they voted for what they wanted.
by MaxBarraclough | 2026-01-25 21:52:10+00:00
I see my phrasing was ambiguous, for what it's worth I'm afraid mike_hearn had it right, I was saying the replication crisis largely just affects research in psychology. I see this was too narrow, but I think it's fair to say psychology is likely the most affected field.

In terms of solutions, the practice of 'preregistration' seems like a move in the right direction.
by themafia | 2026-01-25 21:52:13+00:00
> I can already hear the cries of protest from other engineers who (like me) are clutching onto their hard-won knowledge.

You mean the knowledge that Claude has stolen from all of us and regurgitated into your projects without any copyright attributions?

> But I see a lot of my fellow developers burying their heads in the sand

That feeling is mutual.
by Sabinus | 2026-01-25 21:53:29+00:00
That is legitimately scary. That's narrative control tracked live. Any comment critical of 5 ice officers shooting one guy they gave disarmed and face down in the street were deleted by the mods. I can understand this for the last ICE shooting where it's possible the officer legitimately feared for his life. Not so for this shooting.

I'm divided on if the r/Conservative mods are deliberate foreign agitprop actors, Trump admin employees, or MAGA true believers.
by nine_k | 2026-01-25 21:53:45+00:00
This is the administration of the same FDR who stayed in power for 4 consecutive terms, which imprisoned nearly 150k ethnic Japanese, most of them US citizens, without any due process, and which executed one of the biggest power grabs by the federal administration. In a way, FDR was much more impudent towards law than Trump, but he was not publicly arrogant or silly, and WWII has been won under his rule, so he is considered a good guy.
by mkozlows | 2026-01-25 21:53:56+00:00
Nobody pushed you to use git when you were comfortable with svn? Nobody pushed you to use Docker when you were comfortable running bare metal? Nobody pushed you to write unit tests when you were comfortable not? Nobody pushed you to use CSS for layout when you were happy using tables?

Some of those are before your time, but: The only time you don't get pushed to use new technologies is when a) nothing is changing and the industry is stagnant, or b) you're ahead of the curve and already exploring the new technology on your own.

Otherwise, everyone always gets pushed into using the new thing when it's good.
by Fnoord | 2026-01-25 21:54:13+00:00
The day when T-Mobile NL (nowadays known as 'Odido') started routing all traffic via DTAG to 'save costs', and latency increased because in NL you were routed via Frankfurt. And after complaints they actually insisted on this. Then the company got bought by investors, who immediately changed this back, and also changed the name of the company.
by epolanski | 2026-01-25 21:54:13+00:00
Not everybody wants/cares for an iPhone.

Realistically a 200 euros Xiaomi phone, to most users, is as good as they need it for seeing videos online and chatting.

If you want to spend more, at each price tier you have plenty of choice including: better hardware, better cameras, more memory, etc.

E.g. I do need dual (physical) sim phones. So I ain't buying iPhones ever for this very need.

Consumer trust is very debatable: I have been locked out of my apple id for 2 months in 2021, and that was a work machine I was locked out from. Tragic. Apparently it's not my hardware if Apple decides it's not.

Nowadays I only own an M3 Max because my employer gave it to me. But I don't even use it unless on the move, as I have a way more powerful desktop computer.
by NCFZ | 2026-01-25 21:54:14+00:00
Aside from the confusing conflation of sums and rates mentioned in other replies, your argument assumes that correlations are transitive and exhaustive—i.e., that because socioeconomic status correlates with crime, any group with lower crime must have higher socioeconomic status. Which of course is invalid because correlations do not compose across variables, and crime is multi-causal
by billy99k | 2026-01-25 21:54:17+00:00
How about local law enforcement just comply with ICE? Sanctuary cities and non-compliance brought this on these blue cities.

The issue is that the anti-ice groups just don't want illegals deported. I will never support this.

It's also difficult to have any discussions when there is nobody willing to be honest about it.

Even the discussions here aren't in good faith.
by no_wizard | 2026-01-25 21:54:27+00:00
While I agree with the principle, and we as tech professionals and enthusiasts should be lobbying hard for law makers and regulators to open iOS up to allow for different browsers, there’s a couple flaws here without these precedents or activism.

The alternative here is not Firefox gaining more market share, it’s further encroachment of Chrome and derivatives. You’re not getting this big win for browser diversity. I’m not sure what you really gain here as Safari works fine for near most everything most people do.

Also I don’t think PWA’s have proliferated on desktop or Android despite Google’s efforts in raising awareness for them. It seems to me like consumers largely aren’t into web app shells. They either visit a web app in their browsers or use the App Store apps, by a large margin
by opan | 2026-01-25 21:54:55+00:00
They consistently have allowed bootloader unlocking without extra fuss and have had good LineageOS support. That is their main appeal, IMO. Nothing phones had no LineageOS support until recently (spacewar is now supported, unsure about other models), and it's not clear if there's enough of a community/following to keep putting LineageOS on them. I do not want any phone where I'm stuck with the stock ROM.
by RealityVoid | 2026-01-25 21:55:24+00:00
I think his edit? I read the edit as him pointing out that political posts get flagged on the front page. But it's obviously not flagged because of the rules, it's flagged because _someone_ is flagging this stuff. I say this because the first minutes of the post existence, it oscillated between flagged and un-flagged. Surely, we also triggered the comment activity trigger that auto-flags the post, some anti-flamewar measure.
by mkozlows | 2026-01-25 21:55:43+00:00
I mean, your employer will pay it. $1K/month is cheap for your employer.

But there is an interesting point about what it does to hobby dev. If it takes real money just to screw around for fun on your own, it's kinda like going back to the old days when you needed to have an account on a big university system to do anything with Unix.
by armchairhacker | 2026-01-25 21:55:51+00:00
Using an LLM to lookup syntax, common APIs, and conventions, seems to me like using a calculator to do basic arithmetic. It’s useful to memorize these things because it’s faster.

Moreover, if I know a key term or phrase (which is most cases) I can lookup those things in Google or IDE search, which is also faster than an LLM.
by dnautics | 2026-01-25 21:55:52+00:00
sure, you could in principle write a script that calls into the running vm, executes code, and just make this a text-based command attached to a script + skill.

6 of one one-half dozen of the other.

At the point where you have a phoenix project in dev, you're already exposing an http endpoint, so the infra to not have to do a full on "attach to the VM and do RPCs" is nice, and you just pull tidewave in as a single dependency, instead of downloading a bunch of scripts, etc.
by abernard1 | 2026-01-25 21:55:59+00:00
> This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agency with, apparently, no accountability for following the law at all.

It should be mentioned that "illegal" is a definitive word. There are definitely people not willing to follow the law, including political entities which are dependent on it. The moniker of privacy in this respect is a shield for illegality, because there is no reason that Medicaid data regarding SSNs should be shielded from the federal government.

To take this to its logical conclusion, Americans must concede that EU/UK systems of identity and social services are inherently immoral.
by johnfn | 2026-01-25 21:56:12+00:00
I think the standing assumption is that most of us take pride and enjoyment in being good at our craft - and some of us even want to be great at it. That means understanding all the tools at our disposal - to see if they are useful or not.

If that is not interesting to you I think that’s a totally fine choice, but you’re getting a lot of pushback from people who have made a different choice.
by _wire_ | 2026-01-25 21:56:28+00:00
Does this overview of the "origins of the 2nd amendment" sound legitimate?

//The Second Amendment arose from English rights, colonial experiences with oppressive British rule, and fears of a powerful federal government, codifying the right to bear arms for a "well regulated Militia" to ensure self-defense and resistance against tyranny, balancing state militias with potential federal power. It drew from the English Bill of Rights (1689) and was championed by Anti-Federalists concerned about disarming citizens, leading to its inclusion in the Bill of Rights to reassure states and individuals.//

Is there any constitutional principle more fiercely supported by U.S. Republicans than the 2nd ammendment?

The U.S. was founded on opportunistic immigration. Was there ever a question about the legitimacy of immigration to the founding of the U.S.? No. Only battles over who gets to police it.

So it is merely a narrow, self-serving concern of consolidated authority of this Republican administration that is on display with ICE. Racism.
by danderedandolo | 2026-01-25 21:56:30+00:00
Know your audience is right, and Gwern misses the most interesting thing about Venice- that it was a merchantile Republic with reasonable independance from the Catholic Church. Lots of the political ideas which influenced British and American democracy came from the Italian city states. Ruskin's Stones of Venice and Bowsma's "Venice and the defense of republican liberty" capture this well, as do parts of Quentin Skinner's "The Foundations of Modern Political Thought."
by Waterluvian | 2026-01-25 21:56:31+00:00
Hard to know what accounts to bother responding to these days. This is likely one of them as it fails to offer any worthy substance beyond a barely whined grievance. But I have first hand experience that the things described in this post are absolutely not gone.

I suspect there are agents of lesser minds at work hoping to stir instability. We aren’t swindled as easily as other peoples.
by tinyhouse | 2026-01-25 21:56:48+00:00
I'm not a big fan of this solution since it rewards people who knowingly did something that is illegal. It also allows businesses to take advantage of these people, unless you decide to give them legal status immediately. However, I agree with you that getting the balance right is really hard and that deporting people, esp families with kids who grew up here and did nothing wrong, is very problematic.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-25 21:57:01+00:00
How is this like DeluxePaint? For me DeluxePaint's defining feature is how brushes work. You press B, you select some pixels, those pixels immediately become your brush that you draw with

https://classicreload.com/play/dosx-deluxe-paint-animation.h...

This clone doesn't do that, therefore it's not remotely like Deluxe Paint and it's disingenously to claim it's modeled on it.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-25 21:57:16+00:00
With all due respect, actually look at the replies to your comment here. You are arguing in bad faith.

> How about local law enforcement just comply with ICE? Sanctuary cities and non-compliance brought this on these blue cities.

No, they "brought this on" by ignoring due process. There is no world in which your stance justifies the extrajudicial execution of a detained US citizen.
by qq-niklas | 2026-01-25 21:57:32+00:00
Thank you for the kind words, Pungfury! Hearing that you’ve put hours into it is a real booster for me.

You mentioned updates. I actually pushed a fairly big one today! I added a thematic music album to the game, plus a bit of rebalancing and some bug fixes. Since you've played quite a bit, I’d love to know if the new music fits the vibe or if it needs tweaking!
by charcircuit | 2026-01-25 21:57:41+00:00
>They arrest and deport US citizens

This is systematically not true as citizens can not be legally deported.

>They arrest and deport people that show up to court to become US citizens.

If someone is not a citizen and are here illegally they should be removed, no matter their intentions. If you are willing to break the law to stay here, I personally don't want them back in the country.
by cdata | 2026-01-25 21:57:55+00:00
AI has pushed me to arrive at an epiphany: new technology is good if it helps me spend more time doing things that I enjoy doing; it's bad if it doesn't; it's worse if I end up spending more time doing things that I don't enjoy.

AI has increased the sheer volume of code we are producing per hour (and probably also the amount of energy spent per unit of code). But, it hasn't spared me or anyone I know the cost of testing, reviewing or refining that code.

Speaking for myself, writing code was always the most fun part of the job. I get a dopamine hit when CI is green, sure, but my heart sinks a bit every time I'm assigned to review a 5K+ loc mountain of AI slop (and it has been happening a lot lately).
by light_hue_1 | 2026-01-25 21:58:27+00:00
I grew up in Canada and live in the US now with kids.

The US is not one country. It's two that are radically different.

There's wealthy America. The top 5% to 10% that have healthcare, have their own safety nets, don't need to worry about money, their kids go to select schools that they can buy into (mostly by buying into the right neighborhoods), an amazing pension plan, etc. My kids go to a fancy library with reading time, puppets and classical music. All the things I love about Canada and more.

That country is amazing and the quality of life is unparalleled unless you're obscenely wealthy.

The bottom 80 to 90% percent of Americans live a life that is far inferior to any western and even many developing countries. They have no safety nets, no job security, no retirement, housing insecurity, they're even the smallest accident away from ruin, etc.

In other countries people know roughly how badly or how well they're treated by the system. Only in the US have I experienced the level of brainwashing where people are thankful for the horrors of this system, and somehow wash away anything they see or hear about anywhere else in the world.
by blibble | 2026-01-25 21:58:39+00:00
> There weren't ex post facto laws being passed during the holocaust.

the argument isn't that states can't create ex-post facto laws (even though they can, see: any country with parliamentary sovereignty)

it's that what the law says doesn't matter when the executive no is longer bound by the rule of law

see: the United States under the Trump regime

the fact that some previous legislature has passed a law saying that "using the gay/jewish/disabled/... database for bad things is illegal" is of no consequence when the state already has the database and has no interest in upholding the rule of law
by abernard1 | 2026-01-25 21:59:36+00:00
> When I think about the counterfactual me that grew up in a large American city, New York or L.A. instead of Toronto,

And just think, those are the American areas most common to Canada.

There are places in America where those counterfactuals do not exist, where the necessities aren't locked behind counters, where community is thriving, and where the normality of civic life is an expectation.

I expect no honors for those parts of the country. If Canada didn't have an air of superiority to comfort itself with, it would have nothing at all.
by yak90 | 2026-01-25 21:59:51+00:00
## 12. Fisher exact test ## (2026-1-25, 10:56pm)

Frequency data =
24 107 | 131
20 50 | 70
--------------------------------------
44 157 201

[### Fisher's exact test ###]

Ho (Null hypothesis) : There is no
association between two classification
of the rows and columns.
Ha (Alternative hypo) : There is an
association between two classification
of the rows and columns.

p = 0.108418 NS (2 tails)
--> Ho was not rejected.

(Reference: Chi square test)
X2 = 2.8036907 (p = 0.094048)
X2Y = 2.2362266 (p = 0.134809)
(Adjusted by Yates Correction)
by drnick1 | 2026-01-25 21:59:52+00:00
> What do OnePlus gain from this? Can someone explain me what are the advantages of OnePlus doing all this?

They don't want the hardware to be under your control. In the mind of tech executives, selling hardware does not make enough money, the user must stay captive to the stock OS where "software as a service" can be sold, and data about the user can be extracted.
by bdangubic | 2026-01-25 21:59:55+00:00
> you could deploy it independently

what exactly does this mean? you work on a team, team is responsible for the product. there is nothing "independent" about it. everyone does their job, everyone deploys to production. if you are at any place where "deploying to production" is an "event" then for sure I would advice either leave or if that is not an option work towards this goal. there should be no one on the team that can't "deploy to production" and there shouldn't really be anything "independent" thing going on in my opinion. I see a whole lot of discussion and struggles around this though...