MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryan_lane | 2026-01-14 06:47:07+00:00
HN has plenty of neo nazi propaganda. This comment section itself has plenty. It also has a pretty large base of far right wing members who actively participate in rings to upvote right wing content while flagging articles and downvoting comments that don't match their philosophy.

Take a look at the current state of this post. Most of the comments around Adams' bigotry are downvoted, and plenty of pretty wildly right-wing comments are upvoted.
by lisdexan | 2026-01-14 06:47:09+00:00
As far my recollection goes Voat was actually pretty nice content wise until /r/fatpeoplehate got banned. After that it became the dumping ground for every shithole community that was too awful for Reddit, quite an achievement TBH. It was inevitable with 20/20 hindsight, but I would've loved if it had had more breathing room to actually develop as healthier alternative.

Even if it failed the same way it could've influenced the redesign to implement RES-style QoL changes instead of the clusterfuck that New Reddit still is.
by NoseyParker | 2026-01-14 06:47:52+00:00
I have spent several months, like a moth to a flame, compiling publicly reported loyalty mile thefts from Alaska Airlines, as well as other discrepancies I found.

The data suggests Alaska Airlines has a systemic security issue that has been unpatched for 4 years, but members are being blamed to this day for their implied password hygiene.

Key finding: Alaska's theft rate is 23x higher than peer airlines. The technical patterns (PIN bypass, same-day repeat compromise after password change, password manager users affected, surge after reported hack in June 2025) are inconsistent with credential stuffing.

This connects to a session management bug reported here in December 2024 [1] that exposed random passenger data. That bug appears unfixed despite being reported through official channels.

What I'm trying to understand:

How could this not have been fixed in all this time?
How are these accounts likely being accessed and drained?

Disclosure: not a trader at all, but my research led me to short the stock, so bare this in mind when reviewing my work.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42347432
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-14 06:48:08+00:00
For me it's mostly about the subset of things that LLMs suck at but still rammed in everywhere because someone wants to make a quick buck.

I know it's good tech for some stuff, just not for everything. It's the same with previous bubbles. VR is really great for some things but we were never going to work with a headset on 8 hours a day. Bitcoin is pretty cool but we were never going to do our shopping list on Blockchain. I'm just so sick of hypes.

But I do think it's good tech, just like I enjoy VR daily I do have my local LLM servers (I'm pretty anti cloud so I avoid it unless I really need the power)

It's not really about the societal impacts for me, at least not yet, it's just not good enough for that yet.
by alex43578 | 2026-01-14 06:48:10+00:00
>He pulled his gun out before she moved the car anywhere

So this is a lie, by your own admission. Her car is already moving before he reaches for his gun.

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The tactic of relocating is not a legal requirement. Failing to retreat doesn't prevent him from defending himself.

While Minnesota absurdly has "duty to retreat" laws, since he is operating as federal law enforcement he is only required to have "reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death... to the officer", and he can reasonably believe that she is trying to run him over, given she puts it in gear and pulls forward towards him, from a stop, as he's right at her bumper.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-14 06:49:11+00:00
I think the truth is that there really isn't 10xers, and that's more or less a propaganda technique to get people to crab bucket each other.

Of course everyone likes to think they're santa's special engineer, so they don't need hurdles like protections and a level playing field. But, simultaneously, the industry has been doing everything in its power to make engineers as fungible as possible. The "wet dream" is to make engineers practically assembly line workers - you can just plop some rando in at any time, and it'll probably be fine. You can see this with the extreme turnover in a lot of the industry.

These concepts are in almost perfection contradiction, but they both have the same goal: to convince you and me that the status quo is desirable for each of us personally.
by renegade-otter | 2026-01-14 06:50:07+00:00
My boss used to say: "there is an easy way and there is the cool way".

We no longer have StackOverflow. We no longer have Google, effectively.

I used to be able to copy pasta code with incredible speed - now all of that is gone.

Chatbots is all we have. And they are not that bad at search, with no sponsored results to weed through. For now.
by vunderba | 2026-01-14 06:50:16+00:00
Regarding the advice for quieting the voice in your head - yeah that's known as subvocalization. I believe it revolves around going from processing sentences at an individual word (or phonetic level) to processing entire groups of consecutive words at a single time.

I've often felt that speed-reading feels a bit like a parlor trick than an actual useful ability since I find my long-term retention seems to be roughly proportional to the time that I spend quietly internally digesting individual sentences or thoughts before moving onto the next section.

I'd like to see a proper study around short-term and long-term recall with students grouped by their respective WPM reading speeds.
by crdrost | 2026-01-14 06:50:40+00:00
That's only sort of true.

The metagame within 1kbwc is that at the end of play people generally vote on which new cards to keep for seeding the next game, and which to discard. So you get a rush of joy if everybody liked your card and wants to keep it.

For an example of metagame play, one deck developed Angry Sheep, Sleepy Sheep, a bunch of sheeps, plus some rule card of "if there are more than five sheep, the person with the most sheep wins." People liked those, so they kept them. Then someone created a different card called the Sheep Herder, all of a player's sheep get stacked under the Sheep Herder, which passes one player to the left every time a sheep is played, so it slowly goes around the circle vacuuming up sheep. People liked this but started making Angry Goat, Sleepy Goat etc. so that they could have an alternate victory condition. Which led to the Goat Herder card that goes to the right as new goats are played. The meta-joke then reached its peak with the Herder Herder, which picks up Herders and moves them around the board, dropping the things that they are herding as it moves.

The key to 1kbwc is that anyone can at any time create a card that says "I win the game" but that is no fun, not unless someone has a card called Counterspell that says "play me at any time to discard a card that some other player is playing, before it takes effect" etc. The metagame of 1kbwc allows the deck to become its own story and the players of the many rounds after rounds of it, are rewarded as the storytellers.
by volleyball | 2026-01-14 06:50:45+00:00
This is quite rich coming from the FreePress which has devoted the last 2 years denying genocide in Gaza , denying famine in Gaza, or any crimes or fault on part of Israel.

TheFreePress is an Israeli-propaganda operation that was founded in 2021 by the ultra-zionist Bari Weiss and acquired by CBS and Paramount Skydance for 150 million dollars in 2025. Paramount Digital is owned David Ellison son of Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle. He also is a ultra-zionist and the largest private donor to Friends of the IDF. Bari Weiss herself has devoted her entire adult life as a hardline Israel-first advocate starting in Columbia in 2004 - When she was involved in 'Columbia Unbecoming' and 'Columbians for Academic Freedom' . Which was basically a campaign to get Palestinian and Pro-Palestinian professors fired claiming their lectures were 'intimidating' to Jewish students including herself while simultaneously preaching academic freedom and anti-wokeness. She was made the editor-in-chief of the newly-acquired CBS.

No doubt the FreePress is seeking to manufacture consent to embroil the US in another middle-eastern war.
by gigatexal | 2026-01-14 06:50:48+00:00
He wrote a funny comic that pilloried the absurdities of corporate life and terrible bosses.

And then he went crazy. Racist. The full throated support for Trump meant I stopped by thinking about him.

Somehow dying of ass cancer seems like cosmic karma somehow.

He soared to great heights and then threw it all away later in life. Such a shame.
by Culonavirus | 2026-01-14 06:51:05+00:00
What is this psychology bs. I'm so tired of hearing this buch of nonsense. I would expect to read that on Linkedin, not here.

No, motivating people simply requires giving them more money (performance bonuses, stock options, thirteenth salary/end-of-year bonus...). DUH. OBVIOUSLY.

People in management positions always try to weasel their way out of paying their people more. (Well, not always, not all of them do, but you get my point.)

Unless you work on truly cutting edge stuff (by which I mean the likes of SpaceX and its equivalents in different industries), motivation is money.

It's as simple as that. No need to twist yourself into all kinds of pretzels.

No, it's not your coworkers (which are not your friends unless you meet outside of work by the way), it's not your job as such (very few people outside of art actually enjoy doing their job as an activity after say 10 years of doing it), it's money.

Money is the primary motivator (by far). End of story. Anyone saying otherwise is a bs artist.
by mikaeluman | 2026-01-14 06:51:13+00:00
Regarding the IEA report; I think you didn't read it carefully enough. In the near term there is no supply deficit (although current price development would seem to beg to differ) - but the point was in an electrification scenario there _would be_ in the 2030s. Given it takes many years to start up mines (as far as I know), that is the issue. For copper - the report is very clear that there already is an issue, which is understandable because copper is used everywhere. And again, looking at copper prices, you can already tell.

Regarding California; you are right. I was misinformed. I would say that the grid is still very, very vulnerable due to the huge reliance on solar and overproduction during midday. That's why these examples of "I exported power to the grid" is not very interesting.

Most grids aren't built that way anyway. The residential units are sinks, not sources. In Sweden we don't even have much solar power but already there have been policies aimed at reducing grid exports from residential units, because they are mostly redundant and even harmful.
by elemdos | 2026-01-14 06:51:42+00:00
Talk to friends and family, see if you can build something to solve their problems that doesn’t exist yet (or cost too much or does a poor job). The more removed they are from the tech sector the better.

OR - do general client work (cold call or go door-to-door) and try to find gaps that way. Maybe you corner the market on sub-industrial sprinkler repair management software.

Our industry is hostile to vibecoded tools while the rest of the world waits for us to replace their legacy garbage with something better, vibecoded or not.
by teekert | 2026-01-14 06:55:08+00:00
And we just don't think about all the software that is then not being created because people feel it's immediately everyone's property and so won't even bother?

Sure, we can copy software, so it's not like they are taking your house. But "they" may be taking your livelihood.

Ok, objectively perhaps the world would be better, but we can't know. And opinions don't mean anything. What matters is individuals and being fair to them, whatever society grows from that is just what we have.

That said, if we ever go multi-planet, and there is a planet with no copyright and everything is GPL, I'd check it out and imagine I'd feel quite at home there.
by mikaeluman | 2026-01-14 06:55:23+00:00
You are right. Not sure where I read it but it was clearly wrong.

Still, I think the grid is very vulnerable with that amount of weather-based energy. If there can be enough batteries to sink all that power generated and have it during evening til morning then that's great.

Perhaps that _can_ work in California, I really don't know what an acceptable level of storage would be. That is, how many days worth of battery power you'd want in case of bad weather conditions.
Show HN: Go-CoreML – Go Bindings for Apple's CoreML with Neural Engine Support
by kingcauchy | 2026-01-14 06:56:25+00:00
Go bindings for CoreML that let you build and run ML models on Apple Silicon from Go, no Python required.

You construct models programmatically using CoreML's MIL intermediate language, then run them on the Neural Engine, GPU, or CPU. Also works as a GoMLX backend.
by vunderba | 2026-01-14 06:58:18+00:00
Another thing that doesn’t get mentioned enough is that AI can help you quickly breadboard concepts to see if they’re viable at all.

One of the worst experiences is having an idea for a game, spending a bunch of time building a prototype, and then discovering in playtesting that it’s just not fun.

It still stings but at least with AI you’ve invested far less time getting to that point.

*Case in point*

A few days ago I built a tiny web app that generates a random sentence, speaks it using TTS, records the result with Chrome’s built‑in speech recognition, and then loops the process to see when it converges.

Turns out the Chromium speech recognition is really good, so at best it would unroll contractions (don't -> do not) and stabilized almost instantly whereas I was hoping for a rather crazy TTS version of the old game of phone tag.

Total time spent: about 20 minutes and most of that was it quietly building in the background while I noodled on my piano.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-14 06:58:20+00:00
The biggest thing is trust, in just about any relationship. The truth is, I think, most people are very well meaning and highly ambitious. It's disillusionment and distrust that creates the rift.

People want to work hard and they want to do good - but they're scared. They're scared that working hard will only be to their detriment and, well, can you blame them? When managers create an almost adversarial relationship, it can feel like doing your best is setting yourself up for failure.
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-14 06:58:47+00:00
> Why do small if you can go big right away?

You're missing the fact that this sort of infrastructure requires a robust business case. That's why scale is critical.

Recycling bottles and cans has a solid business case. Glass and aluminium are straight forward to recycle at an industrial scale, but would be pointless if they were kept at an artisanal scale.

Any moralistic argument is pointless if you can't put together a coherent business plan. The people you need to work and the energy you need to spend to gather and process whatever you want to process needs to come from somewhere. How many vape pens do you need to recycle per month to support employing a single person? Guilt trips from random people online don't pay that person's rent, do they?
by mngnt | 2026-01-14 06:59:51+00:00
This youtube video explains why plastic recycling exists, how it's mostly ineffective and why is it a scam created to normalize one-use plastic. This basically applies to electronics and others. "Why would I reuse or reduce, I can buy, consume an recycle".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g
by NoLinkToMe | 2026-01-14 07:01:09+00:00
Heatpumps are a proven technology, have been in use for more than a hundred years, and are one of the most efficient (and thereby cost-effective) ways to manage heat.

They're also technically simpler and have fewer components that can wear out. And they're a single system that works both for cooling and heating, rather than needing multiple system investments.

The majority of experts believe that its the future technology stack to manage heat, not a gimmick at all.

That having been said, always start with good insulation first.
by gloflo | 2026-01-14 07:01:54+00:00
This is about AI, so just believe what the companies are claiming and write "Dear AI, please would you be so kind as to not hammer our site with aggressive and idiotic requests but instead use this perfectly prepared data dump download, kthxbye. PS: If you don't, my granny will cry, so please be a nice bot. PPS: This is really important to me!! PPPS: !!!!"

I mean, that's what's this technology is capable of, right? Especially when one asks it nicely and with emphasis.
by globular-toast | 2026-01-14 07:02:04+00:00
Of course you should keep backups. But that's a different abstraction level.

I have never in 15+ years of using git daily encountered one of these "weird states". Because, like I said, no command in git can modify or delete a commit.

The only real mistake you can make is hard reset with uncommitted changes in your working dir. Other than that it's down to git bugs, which I have never encountered.
by linguae | 2026-01-14 07:02:05+00:00
To me, it seems like Apple’s traditional culture is dead. On one hand, while I like the classic Mac OS and Tiger-Snow Leopard Mac OS X, Apple’s UI guidelines aren’t sacred scripture; they should change as we discover new insights about human-computer interaction, and I’m open to changes that improve my productivity.

Unfortunately, in my opinion it seems that Apple’s software promotes form over function. It’s been this way for over a decade now, but macOS 26 and iOS 26 are severe regressions. It seems that there isn’t anyone at Apple in charge that is aware of what makes Apple distinct from its competitors. It’s more than just sleek visual design; it’s how the interface works. A long time ago Apple had people like Bruce Tognazzini and Don Norman. When Jobs returned, he was a major influence. Apple today, unfortunately, has neither advanced its platforms to lead the way in human-computing interaction, nor has it upheld the traditional Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines. Instead Apple is on this weird luxury brand path.

Apple’s saving graces these days are its excellent hardware, the state of Windows, and the Sisyphean nature of the Linux desktop ecosystem’s development. However, the Linux desktop works for many people, and it’s increasingly gaining ground this past year as an alternative to Windows and macOS.

I wish there were a company that pushed personal computing forward again, much like how Apple did in the pre-iPhone, pre-Cook era.
by pyeri | 2026-01-14 07:02:58+00:00
> I personally do not like the Javascript frontend ecosystem. It's hacks on top of hacks on top of hacks. But, do you know another way to deploy software that's cross-platform and basically free of gatekeepers?

One way is what I call the "Modular MVC pattern" that involves pure js routing and manual DOM manipulation without using any framework at all. You handle complexity in two ways: by modularizing the "controller" parts into multiple js modules for each route, and "view" parts into multiple HTML partials - and using the event bus pattern if your app gets too complex (as alternative to modern reactive frameworks like react/vue).

Shameless plug: I've tried to implement this exact pattern with limited success in Abhyasa Quiz App[1], a side project.

[1]: https://abhyasa.pages.dev/
by swyx | 2026-01-14 07:03:19+00:00
hi will! super nicely written, nice look under the hood of your processing. as an orchestration guy i always wondered why everyone seems to converge on using Ray, and as a secondary thought, how well is Anyscale capturing the Ray market.

if i were doing what you do i might set up a lot of rate limits/anomaly detection in case some weird unintended invalidation causes a weird spike in your dependency graphs. is there good practice there for anomaly detection other than "setup a bunhc of dashboards and be on call"?
by GeneralMaximus | 2026-01-14 07:03:49+00:00
> I think maybe we're talking past each other then. I'm saying I don't agree with the argument that music necessarily needs to have a story to be widely consumed in a positive way.

I can imagine that this is true for a lot of people. There are certainly folks out there who see music as an interesting sensory stimulus. This song makes you dance, this one makes you cry, this other one makes you feel nostalgic. To these people, the only thing that matters is what the music makes them feel. It's a strange, solipsistic way of engaging with art, but who am I to judge?

I personally don't connect to music—or any other art—that way. The process that goes into making a piece of music is as important to me as the music itself. The people who make that music are even more important. I don't believe in separating art from the artist. In fact, I find the whole idea of separating art and artist to be fundamentally rotten.

Here's an admittedly extreme example, but it's demonstrative of how I personally relate to music. In the wake of the #MeToo movement (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeToo_movement), some of the musicians I used to love as a teenager were outed as sexual predators. When I found out, I scoured my music library and deleted all their work. The music was still the exact same music I fell in love with all those years ago, but I could no longer listen to it without being reminded of the horrible actions of the musicians. Listening to it was triggering.

And so to me, music is not just a series of sounds that make me feel good. There are humans behind those sounds, and I care deeply about those humans. They don't need to be perfect—everyone fucks up from time to time—but they need to demonstrate some level of human decency. And they certainly can't be machines, because machines aren't people.

I love machines. I've spent my life building them, programming them, and caring for them. But machines aren't people, and therefore I don't care about the art they make. Maybe one day machines will be able to make art in the same way humans do: by going out into the world, having experiences, making mistakes, learning, connecting with others, loving and being loved, or being rejected soundly, and understanding deeply what it means to be a living thing in this universe. A generative AI model doesn't do that (yet!) and so I'm utterly uninterested in whatever a generative AI model has to say about anything.
by jemmyw | 2026-01-14 07:03:56+00:00
That's probably quite unfair. The EU nations don't have huge militaries that allow them to project force around the world. And they used to. They didn't just become cowards after WWII. Europe was reshaped by wars, and by American policy, and then yes they sat on their laurels for too long after the cold war when it came to defense spending.

Nobody has stood up against China really. Nearly the whole world, including the US, went along with the one China policy for the sake of money.
by psyklic | 2026-01-14 07:04:09+00:00
> This is the actual challenge: the medical recommendation might be solid, but a public policy doesn’t work unless people follow it. ... presumably due to misinformation, members of the public have opinions that are too strongly held for them to follow policies.

Right before you posted this, RFK Jr stated that his objectively worse vaccine schedule was weakened so that skeptical people follow it. Whether you were aware of it or not, your arguments merely parroted exactly what he and other anti-vaxxers were heavily spreading on that day.

This is precisely how misinformation spreads, and how anti-vax "influencers" like RFK Jr have a large effect both on you and the public.

- To see how closely your arguments match RFK Jr's, see: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTbrH_zDvqw/

- To see that in actuality Republicans as a group (influenced by prominent anti-vaxxers) dropped from 91% to 78% belief (2016-2025) that vaccine benefits outweigh the risk, see this new Pew study: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/11/18/how-do-americ...