MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dataflow | 2026-01-07 11:17:28+00:00
No. You make it seem like Europe has to just roll over and take whatever happens without even a proverbial fight. That's not how it needs to play out at all. There's a lot more they could do if you get a little creative.

Let me outline one possible way I think Greenland/Denmark/Europe could proceed here that doesn't require just capitulating:

- Station more forces right now to make it clear they would defend Greenland militarily. Get as many NATO countries to join as possible. Probably better to stay closer to their own civilians instead of going near American bases, I imagine. This is critical so that nobody gets a chance to claim they lost by default due to not even meaningfully attempting to defend the territory.

- If the US starts expanding its military activity... either ignore them and wait out this administration, or file a lawsuit in the US (and possibly elsewhere, wherever feasible) and see how courts respond, if for no reason than to put everyone on the official record. [1]

- If the US starts sending civilians to mine or whatever... send their own unarmed law enforcement to stop them, probably while livestreaming the whole thing globally. [2] File additional lawsuits every step of the way. [1]

- Wait for US courts to respond. Appeal immediately and get SCOTUS on the record. [1] If the response is negative then proceed to attempt enforcement under their own laws.

- If US law enforcement fires their first shot -- send their own armed law enforcement to respond. File more lawsuits as much as possible at every step and wait for courts to respond.

- If US military gets involved and starts firing -- send military (their own + as many other NATO countries as would be willing to join) to respond accordingly. Yes it will risk some lives, but there's a decent chance the US won't shoot NATO allies. The whole bet seems to be that there will be zero physical resistance to begin with. And if they do respond, it's important for everyone to actually see that.

If they play their cards right, I actually think it's quite likely Greenland/Denmark/Europe would win this fight, quite possibly before anyone gets injured. But they really need to play by the books and exhaust every single peaceful avenue available to them before letting combat power decide the matter.

FWIW, I can think of other ideas too. But I think this should be plenty enough to get my point across that this isn't a necessary loss.

[1] For whatever it's worth, the current US administration is still engaging the judicial system. As insulting as it might feel to other countries' sovereignties, utilizing this is currently their best option. They need to get the US on the record in domestic court about exactly which laws it recognizes and which ones it's willing to break. There needs to be zero ambiguity to everyone, especially Americans themselves, who exactly is breaking which laws in whose name.

[2] It needs to be on undeniable record who started whatever ends up happening.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-07 11:17:42+00:00
I don't think there's a legitimate purpose for this. I do think no legislature is capable of outlawing this in a way that's both enforceable with some degree of impartiality (i.e. does not provide plausible deniability for a prosecutor to drag a legitimate service through a courtroom for political reasons) and incurs acceptable collateral damages (e.g. doesn't outlaw unrelated stuff that's fine).
Show HN: Code Recap – Generate year-in-review reports from your Git history
by dignick | 2026-01-07 11:17:49+00:00
I work across 10+ repos for different clients and want to give clients year-end summaries of the work I've done. So I built a tool that scans my git history and generates polished reports using LLMs. Also does daily time logging ("what did I work on yesterday?") and can turn commits into blog posts. uvx code-recap summarize 2025 --open and you're done.
by ivan_gammel | 2026-01-07 11:18:20+00:00
The thing is, Europe is kinda special. Cascade effects of America forcefully taking over Greenland will be by orders of magnitude more painful to Americans than Brexit was to Britain. America flipping from an ally to an adversary will trigger huge economic decoupling and it is practically certain that dollar will immediately loose its weight and USA may even default on its debt after that. Yes, Europe is going to suffer too, but I have a gut feeling that European citizens will still do better.
by lobsterthief | 2026-01-07 11:18:41+00:00
My grandmother is currently dying from vascular dementia at 80. She sleeps all day. There’s really nothing you can do except keep them comfortable. There is no cure, only treatments for side effects unfortunately.

And yes, she smells weird ;) it’s mostly from change in normal hygiene. No matter how much you help clean them, they will smell different than they used to. And not good-different.
by spiderfarmer | 2026-01-07 11:18:42+00:00
As a European. I'm starting to hate the US. Not dislike. Hate.

For months I thought they can't possibly allow the orange clown to ruin their country any further. But the country is clearly spiralling out of control. And I'm starting to hate the whole culture.

Now if a part of the population did anything other than comment online. If they took to the streets or did anything substantial in protest. But no. Crickets. So to me, every US citizen is at least partly complicit.

For years, I already noticed I subconsciously did not like action movies that featured CIA / FBI / US Military anymore. And I gradually moved away from all US based infrastructure in my projects because it strategically made sense.

But these past weeks it tipped over in actual disgust. For me, there's no difference between the US, China and Russia anymore. The US will probably take Greenland. China will take Taiwan. Russia will take Ukraine.

And Europe needs to unite further and prepare for war, or risk being torn apart by the new axis of evil.
by throwaway132448 | 2026-01-07 11:19:00+00:00
I didn't say that free markets lead to monopolies: I qualified that with the need for economies of scale. Those may not exist - but look at most of the markets you interact with in your daily life and try and find the ones that don't.

I'm not aware of how regulation of competitive markets would lead to monopoly. Are you referring to "regulation" in the form of state-endorsed/controlled monopolies? Those usually exist in situations where barriers to entry and economies of scale are so high that the state is simply "getting ahead" of the inevitable monopoly (e.g. national infrastructure).

Of course, corruption could also be what you mean by "regulation" that leads to monopolies, but all of this is predicate on the absence of corruption or cartels. If that's not the case you can throw all your assumption out of the window anyway.
by mr_mitm | 2026-01-07 11:19:13+00:00
It's also a low risk topic that can generate lots of follow up questions. It's regular small talk. Also, people here seem to downplay it, but doesn't it tell you a lot about a person what they do roughly half of their waking time? What they chose to do with their life? Sure, you're not your job or your career, but it's also a very normal part about getting to know someone and I'm not sure equating it to some way of gauging success levels is necessarily to right way to think about it.
by g947o | 2026-01-07 11:19:18+00:00
I don't assume everyone can think of that next step.

If I were that smart, I would not be writing a blog article just talking about using LLM to create new projects/tools outside production environment, because the same thing has been written 1000 times at least, and this article would not offer anything new, which would be a waste of time.

Which unfortunately is what's happening here.

(I came to HN comments of this article to look for new perspectives. I found exactly nothing.)
by krageon | 2026-01-07 11:19:23+00:00
https://www.anthropic.com/research/how-ai-is-transforming-wo...

see "How much work can be fully delegated to Claude?": "Although engineers use Claude frequently, more than half said they can “fully delegate” only between 0-20% of their work to Claude"

There won't be anything like you're asking for, even the vendors themselves (they'll be the most positive and most enthousiastic about using it) can't do this with them.
by rockyj | 2026-01-07 11:19:26+00:00
My biggest question now is - since now anyone can build a SaaS, and since everything is now optimized not for "employment" but for "enterprise" (run your own business), just how many 1-2 person companies can we build? I mean how many genuine sell-able ideas are there. Can we as a society have a 100,000s small software enterprises (and not a few hundred employing 1000s)?

I would love to start my own SaaS company, even if it generates $1000 a month I will be elated. And I have 20+ years of experience programming and in FinTech, but what do I build? Not to mention, without sales & marketing nothing will really work.
by thom | 2026-01-07 11:19:26+00:00
Anecdata/placebo/whatever: I use BioGaia's Gastrus tablets and they increase my quality of life noticeably, and I can tell when I've been off them for a while. I got refrigerated deliveries of probiotic yoghurt drinks for a while previously and in addition to the faff, didn't notice as good results.
by fsflover | 2026-01-07 11:19:42+00:00
I completely agree that fully anonymous HN would be great to have. However I am not sure if it's feasible to make it work on this website, given how much it's (likely) targeted by bad actors, i.e., due to its centralized nature.

Perhaps a decentralized alternative like Mastodon or Lemmy could work better here: Smaller islands interacting (if they prefer so) make it harder for attackers to scale. The moderation is decentralized there allowing for islands of certain topics and opinions.

> Moderation is already done for new users based on content

I'm pretty sure it's not the full story.
by MORPHOICES | 2026-01-07 11:19:48+00:00
A classic hacker news post that will surely interest coders from all walks of life! ~

After regular use of an AI coding assistant for some time, I see something unusual: my biggest wins came from neither better prompts nor a smarter model. They originated from the way I operated.

At first, I thought of it as autocomplete. Afterwards, similar to a junior developer. In the end, a collaborator who requires constraints.

Here is a framework I have landed on.

First Step: Request for everything. Obtain acceleration, but lots of noise.

Stage two: Include regulations. Less Shock, More Trust.

Phase 3: Allow time for acting but don’t hesitate to perform reviews aggressively.

A few habits that made a big difference.

Specify what can be touched or come into contact with.

Asking it to explain differences before applying them.

Consider “wrong but confident” answers as signal to tighten scope.

Wondering what others see only after time.

What transformations occurred after the second or fourth week?

When was the trust increased or reduced?

What regulations do you wish you had added earlier?
by ablation | 2026-01-07 11:21:35+00:00
> > It seems like that's exactly what it would have to do post acquisition--unless of course the US also plans to bulldoze Greenland's sovereignty.

I don't want to repeat what others are saying, but how on earth could you not consider that all of the existing rules, laws and agreements just go in the trash under a new "owner"? Of course the US plans to bulldoze Greenland's sovereignty, goodness me.
by eertami | 2026-01-07 11:21:59+00:00
If you're aware of it and think you're susceptible then you can make it impossible to be influenced by it. Ie, You can disable all 'related videos'/feeds/home page on Youtube with Unhook, and sponsored segments with SponsorBlock. I'll probably never see a Youtube thumbnail for the rest of my life, throw in Adblock and your exposure is extremely limited.

> Sales guys love people like that.

You can also easily never speak to them. I know they exist, but as a consumer I can't think of anytime I've had a sales interaction with a salesperson. I understand that some people do, and might even actively seek a salesperson - but if I go to a physical store I already know what I want to buy before I get there and the only interaction I might have is to ask how to find the thing I want.

I know it's a common argument/appeal to authority that advertising must work, because companies are still doing it - but there are economists who think that it might not[0].

[0]: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-w...
by mothballed | 2026-01-07 11:22:20+00:00
Denmark would likely low key love to shitcan greenland. They are a massive money drain, welfare state. Their minerals exist but not enough to turn the place net positive to their colonizer.

If Denmark could come "steal" something like the Pine Ridge Reservation in the Dakotas, it would be an imperfect analogy. As long as we could lose it while still saving face, it would be absolutely amazing economically for the USA.
by kalleboo | 2026-01-07 11:22:35+00:00
One of the points of Unicode was to replace every other existing text encoding. This requires enough fidelity to be able to round-trip the text back and forth to them so that you can receive data in another text encoding, store it in Unicode, and then spit it back out in that same other text encoding without anything having changed.

The classic IBM PC text encoding ("codepage 437") already contains the card suits, gender symbols, and box drawing characters which are not text glyphs, so any "non-text symbols" battle was lost before it even started.
by tonyedgecombe | 2026-01-07 11:22:40+00:00
>You are ignoring the value of discovering a good or service.

This has very little value to me. I'm buying my wife a new car next year and I won't be perusing adverts to find what to buy. If I did I would be thoroughly mislead as the adverts are full of aspirational bullshit.

Adverts encourage people to eat unhealthy food, take unneeded drugs, drink, smoke, buy more house than they need and replace perfectly functional consumer goods. They make everybody's life worse (apart from the advertisers).

Commerce won't stop without them. I've mostly eliminated them from my life but that hasn't stopped me from spending my money.
by benrutter | 2026-01-07 11:23:29+00:00
This is a really interesting take, I've been thinking very similarly.

I think there's a tendency to think of 'free markets' as having a lot more scope than they do - almost no countries allow free markets to determine the flow of people and restrict who can enter the country in some way. Similarly, nobody suggests the free market is a good way to regulate child labor.[0]

Especially in the US, there's a been a rapid erosion of other power structures like democracy, law, unions, etc that might serve as checks or balances against raw material interest. I think 'capitalism' often gets misclassified as 'pure competition', but it's probably better thought of as 'pure competition through regulated trade'. Pure competition, with no regulations to define a market, sounds more to me like what predated the industrial revolution (something more along the lines of feudalism)

[0] I took both these example from Ha-Joon Chang's Economics a Users Guide.
by Latitude7973 | 2026-01-07 11:23:40+00:00
Mass spectrometry is a multi-faceted beast, and has many applications. One that comes to mind is ion mobility spectrometry. I am most familiar with FAIMS which is an extremely selective method and can detect trace amounts of specific molecules.

The challenge is piecing together what you have detected to draw conclusions about the sample - in this instance you might detect a specific molecule, but to definitively conclude that it's caused by a particular fungus requires lots of prior testing.
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-07 11:24:04+00:00
It is not just about assigning identity to others.

I am probing for topics of mutual interest, or topics that make other people passionate, to learn more about them generally.

In some people, this is completely orthogonal to their careers, but most of the time, there is an overlap. Like, I haven't yet met a railway engineer who wasn't a raging railway nerd at the same time.
by spoiler | 2026-01-07 11:24:07+00:00
I think one of those pedagogical half-truths useful for onboarding people onto an idea across different languages or getting parts of a point across, and they cover some similar use-cases.

It's a bit like saying JavaScript's prototypes are classes even though they're technically not (even with the introduction of the `class` syntactic sugar), but for casual discussions it's probably fine to just say "JS class".

But to your point: I wouldn't really phrase the way the GP did; it makes it seem like they're on the same level of usefulness as a type class!
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-07 11:24:26+00:00
>1. They’re not talking about any lucrative activity — the primary worry is longterm sexual harassment via stalking.

There's potential for far more, and far more lucrative corporate and state harassment here. Think like low effort red light camera mail ticket but for the general case.

"We see that someone has posted a picture of X at your location. Here is a copy. This is a violation of a) your leas b) the zoning code, please pay us $1000, if you would like to appeal please fill out the attached form and include the $500 appeal fee and if you lose the fine will be $2000. Reminder: you agreed to this in subsection ABC of <your lease|the zoning code>"
by MORPHOICES | 2026-01-07 11:24:35+00:00
Title: Ask HN: How do you evaluate claims of “this model changes everything” in practice?

The release of every big model seems to carry the identical vibe: finally, this one crossed the line. The greatest programmer. The end of workflows and their meaning.

I’ve learned to slow myself down and ask a different question. What has changed in my day-to-day work after two weeks?

I currently make use of a filter with roughness.

Did it really solve a problem, or did it just make easy parts easier?

Has it lessened the number of choices or has it created new ones?

Have my review responsibilities decreased or increased?

Some things feel revolutionary on day one and then quietly fade into something that’s nice to have. Others barely wow, but stay around. ~

For those who've experienced a couple of cycles.

What indicators suggest that an upcoming release will be significant?

When do you alter your workflow, after how long?
by igleria | 2026-01-07 11:24:49+00:00
> Great for parties where you rather be home tinkering.

I know this is probably in jest, but when someone invites you to a party it's not because they just want your atoms in the same room as them.

In regards to doom coding: I would chop off my arms before coding/prompting on a phone. Also, think about your cervical, neck etc! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-07 11:25:38+00:00
No, not so fancy (do they arise from interference from the internal reflections?).

In standard tunnelling, one starts with a normal oscillation, goes to evanescence in the "tunnelling" regime, and then continues with oscillation again once on the low side of the potential; in double descent the test error goes way up (like the potential earlier) in the "tunnelling" regime, and then on the far side comes back down and then continues descending.

Have I explicated my model?
by usefulposter | 2026-01-07 11:26:21+00:00
What kind of agent workflow is it called when you post a hastily vibecoded Show HN, feed glaringly obvious user feedback reports one by one into the LLM, wait for the LLM to course-correct (YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!), then push a coincidentally timed "bugfix" while informing the user that their feedback was addressed by said bugfix?
by hliyan | 2026-01-07 11:26:46+00:00
This is an excellent counterargument. I was stumped for a bit until I noticed that your argument introduces a new variable that changes the equation: number of conflict deaths. Theoretically, it is possible to have a system of perfect enslavement where the number of conflict deaths are zero. But in such a system, low conflict deaths are a poor proxy to quality of life.
by cortic | 2026-01-07 11:28:39+00:00
Humans are large language models. Maybe the term language is being used a bit liberally here but we basically function in the same way, with the exception of the spacial aspect of our training data.

If this hurts your ego then just know the dataset that you built your ego with was probably flawed and if you can put that LoRA aside and try to process this logically; Our awareness is a scalable emergent property of 1-2 decades of datasets, looking at how neurons vs transistor groups work, there could only be a limited amount of ways to process these sizes of data down to relevant streams. The very fact that training LLMs on our output works, proves our output is a product of LLMs or there wouldn't be patterns to find.
by margorczynski | 2026-01-07 11:29:04+00:00
But eventually people will catch up you can basically create a working product alone with the help of AI.

My prediction is that this will lead to a margin free-fall for many software products where the main moat is the software itself. And a lot of SaaS companies will also become redundant when the AI can code up a tailored solution in an hour for free.
by joakleaf | 2026-01-07 11:30:22+00:00
Europe has not just "cheered on". There were demonstrations throughout Europe against the wars in the middle east and both e.g. France and Germany openly opposed the war in Iraq.

The Europeans I know (from all over) have generally been opposed to American geopolitics both in the Middle East, South East Asia, and South America. The US has traditionally been seen as an ally, but that doesn't mean we "cheer on" its actions.

Because there are many financial and military interests, it is very hard to do much for e.g. the EU, and the politicians are very careful with their words. Just as it is for the rest of the world...

Note: Europe is not a single entity but a continent full of different countries including (part of) Russia. Even the EU doesn't really have one single foreign policy.
by latexr | 2026-01-07 11:30:23+00:00
> made a program you can actually run, on an apple ii, or an emulator, or the open-source adafruit fruit jam – mini rp2350 computer, which does this and so much more (this is where the hackersnews jerks will say this is an ad and that cloudflare is on our blog).

As I read that sentence, before reaching the parenthesis, I actually thought it was cool and smart marketing. It feels like the author misunderstands what is typically called an ad, which are those blog posts which read like “has this ever happened to you” infomercials, inventing a problem and then publicising their product as the exact solution at the end.

This, on the other hand, is just for fun and the joy of hacking, and HN typically enjoys those. Heck, you even listed alternative ways to run it before your own.

The only thing that bothers me about the article is the poor formatting and the insistence on lower case, both of which make it unpleasant to read for me.
by mothballed | 2026-01-07 11:30:39+00:00
To be fair the US acquired American Samoa and kept a lot of their law in place even to the point you can do stuff in American Samoa that would be unconstitutional like limit power of women in some of the tribal councils (sorry they have a better name but I've forgotten), do not provide 2nd amendment protections required inside the USA, and limit ownership of land based on ethnic lines.