MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by like_any_other | 2026-01-09 16:36:20+00:00
> First of all, they can't import their goods, if they contain residues of those banned pesticides.

You are implying, but aren't saying directly, that using those pesticides would automatically mean the produce would contain them above the EU limits. But if that was the case, then why not appease France and write into the agreement that food from crops sprayed with them can't be imported? So clearly it's possible to use those pesticides and still pass EU food safety checks. You're also assuming those safety checks are and will continue to be rigorously enforced on imports.

> Also European Farmers are heavily subsidized (up to 50% of their total income).

"Up to" is meaningless. The average was 33% [1]. And they are also the most stringently regulated, with the highest labor costs. They also probably don't want to rely on those subsidies too much to stay competitive, as there's no telling how long they'll last, or if e.g. Brazil might increase its own subsidies. Regardless, the complaint was completely factual - they're forbidden farming practices that their competitors are allowed. Ad hominems are not a reason to dismiss them.

[1] https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/data-and-analysis/financing...
by functionmouse | 2026-01-09 16:36:41+00:00
I disagree on principle. Readability is not even close to the top of the list of why I want the code running on my systems to be "clean". Clean software demonstrates good faith by the developers and a competent, ground up understanding of the problem I am trying to tackle by running your software. Clean, to me, means the code is generally not doing more than it has to, resulting in lower attack surface, better performance, lower power usage and thus less environmental impact at scale, and just a tighter, more sensible, reasonable, easy to understand user experience. Maybe this doesn't matter much at your job, which seems to be where they're trying to replace people with these parrots, but it matters a lot on your computer, and it matters even more the other three billion computers.
by jedwhite | 2026-01-09 16:36:47+00:00
Thanks for this. I find templates helpful too, and that's a neat structure. I use templates heavily with Obsidian for non-code tasks also. If you want to try it out, you can use this with the claude-run tooling with flags etc with files using your `.ag` extension with the modified shebang.

`#!/usr/bin/env claude-run --permission-mode bypassPermissions`

Or use the .ag files you have unmodified:

`claude-run --opus --vercel task.ag`
by bodge5000 | 2026-01-09 16:36:59+00:00
> "You can't expect a decade of work for free" - I think you can and many people do.

You can't. People can give a decade of work away for free and thats a very nice thing to do, but its not an obligation and never should be. You are right, people are now expecting it, and that's why the push against that expectation is so important.
by igormartynov | 2026-01-09 16:37:03+00:00
I don’t buy “chaos → AI → insights.” If your inputs are a mess—spreadsheets, one-off exports, “someone’s SQL,” three versions of the same metric—AI just helps you get to confidently wrong faster. Metabase’s community report basically echoes that: AI is everywhere, but trust in AI outputs is still low, especially among more technical folks.

So I’m going with “chaos → Metabase → AI → insights ×10.” First you use Metabase to turn the mess into something you can stand behind: cleaned tables, consistent definitions, a few canonical metrics, clear refresh cadence, and traceability. Then AI does what it’s actually good at: reading the processed data, spotting patterns and weirdness, explaining what changed, proposing plausible drivers, and helping you decide what to check next.

That’s how you earn trust: the AI isn’t inventing reality — it’s interpreting a reality your system already made solid.
by 5upplied_demand | 2026-01-09 16:37:18+00:00
If you keep reading to point #9 on Constitutional Issues, they say "Limiting Overreaching State Government: We recognize that the sovereignty of this State and its citizenry has been imperiled and threatened by the ongoing overreach of state elected officials and agencies."

It's pretty clear that they only mean "overreach" where they don't politically agree. They are perfectly fine when the Governor overrides local rules and ordinances [0] [1] [2], because it furthers their political goals of consolidating power with the Executive rather than the stated goal of limiting government. This action expands the scope and role of government in Texan's lives, that is a fact.

> There’s no enumerated powers problem with the Texas Supreme Court Court deciding what law schools qualify to be admitted to its own bar.

No, it's a political powers problem, which is one of the main things they claim to be against increasing.

[0] https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/07/texas-republicans-ci...

[1] https://www.allensworthlaw.com/legal-updates/governor-overru...

[2] https://fedsoc.org/scdw/supreme-court-of-texas-holds-governo...
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-09 16:37:22+00:00
The big system integrators are often pretty terrible at their jobs but it isn't the only cause.

Extremely expensive software projects in government have a common thread in every case I have first-hand experience with. The government has no consistent vision of what they want or who is the final arbiter of these decisions, and no person in the government is accountable for the outcomes. Both the requirements and responsibility are spread across so many people that for all practical purposes there are no clear requirements and no accountability.

The government software programs that run well in my experience have the organizational equivalent of a BDFL. A BDFL doesn't really exist in government; even when someone acts in that role they are often reassigned to other projects at random.
by buellerbueller | 2026-01-09 16:37:26+00:00
>There are a lot of people -- usually women -- who want to travel the world to prove the goodness of humanity and get killed by some rando along the way.

"Wont someone think of the (lots of?) women?"

Honestly: how are you defining "a lot" here? A dozen or two? That's a vanishingly small proportion of humanity, my friend. And would you even hear the tales of those who travel the world and don't get killed? I am just saying that you are making a big claim, but provide no evidence.
by suzzer99 | 2026-01-09 16:37:42+00:00
A NOVA episode on dogs showed a Russian study where they bred the most friendly foxes with each other and did the same with the most aggressive (so extremes in both directions). The aggressive-bred animals were like that scene in I Am Legend where he checks on his infected rats. They were being fed, and they still wanted to kill their feeders. Kind of terrifying.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-09 16:38:08+00:00
Try Smart Cat. It's grass-based, not wheat-based. It controls odor far better than clay-based cat litter.

Only problem I've had with it was when my dog decided that it smelled good enough to eat. Of course, it pulled all the moisture out of the dog's mouth and left it with a stuck-on clump that it couldn't get rid of.
by II2II | 2026-01-09 16:39:04+00:00
Agreed.

My take is: you're welcome to the party, but don't be surprised if someone shows you the door when you pull out the drugs. It ain't our type of fun.

I understand various reasons why people are pushing for the adoption of open source software, but it will be counterproductive if it brings the problems of the commercial software world with them.
by derbOac | 2026-01-09 16:39:05+00:00
I think there's a real deficit in research on and understanding motivated cognition, and a lot of blurriness about attitudes versus belief versus perception. I don't just mean anything political, I mean things including physical pain and all sorts of things. When someone states something, it's very difficult to distinguish between "this is honestly what I saw or felt" versus "this is what I wanted to see or feel". When you get into the fact that consensus can be wrong, it leads to all sorts of issues.

It would be nice to have some kind of way to discriminate at what point in the percept -> attitude -> construal chain (which is probably more of a feedback loop) we are.
by hamburglar | 2026-01-09 16:39:22+00:00
My advice is to ask yourself how important your credit limit is, and ask yourself why. And challenge the notion that a better credit score has any positive impact on your life. You have a whole chain of “truths” you take for granted: higher limit implies lower utilization. Lower utilization implies better credit score. Better credit score implies better mortgage rates. Better mortgage rates implies better something. What I’m trying to tell you is you can forget every single bit of that dependency chain without doing yourself any damage and you will actually feel better.

Sorry for the proselytizing. I know I’m doing it. But I think it’s a huge part of our consumerism addiction.
by femiagbabiaka | 2026-01-09 16:39:57+00:00
Like all defenders of the indefensible, you will shift the goalposts incessantly to suit the narrative you wish to defend.

First it was, "The British military isn't doing anything in Gaza, anyone who says otherwise is lying."

Now it is, "The British military might be doing something in Gaza, but they're justified in doing so, and it's limited to protecting British citizens anyways."

What will it be now?

"While the Ministry of Defence (MoD) claims these flights are solely for locating Israeli hostages held by Hamas, AOAV found that the RAF conducted 24 flights in the two weeks leading up to and including the day of Israel’s deadly attack on the Nuseirat Refugee Camp on 8 June 2024, which killed 274 Palestinians and injured over 700."

https://aoav.org.uk/2025/britain-sent-over-500-spy-flights-t...

"On October 19, 2024, four days after it had been at RAF Brize Norton, the “Re’em” aircraft with registration 272 appeared directly over Gaza at 7:32 p.m. local time, less than 5km away from Beit Lahiya, a city in north Gaza. Three hours later, at 11:20 p.m., the IAF bombed a residential complex in Beit Lahiya killing at least 73 people.

On October 24, 2024, nine days after traveling to the UK, the same 272 aircraft was located at 9:30 p.m. less than 5 miles from Jabalia camp. An hour later, at 10:40 p.m., airstrikes were recorded destroying apartment blocks in Jabalia. The aircraft remained airborne patrolling the airspace near Gaza until it was recorded at 10:36 p.m. near Ashdod, a coastal city near Tel Aviv, flying towards Hatzor Airbase."

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/revealed-uk-labour-israeli-mi...
by jimbokun | 2026-01-09 16:40:17+00:00
> Although we don’t deserve it, and have done nothing to merit it, we have been offered a glorious ride on this planet, if only we accept it.

This is the core message of Christianity. Undeserved Grace.

I will also say though, I find it annoying this guy so easily received gifts from those least able to afford them, and then admits he is not willing to be so generous himself. Did he learn nothing from their example?
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-09 16:40:19+00:00
Was going to bed and couldn't reply so edited to call out your 'special use case' of using jewish language to identify something for the racism it is.

I don't care one whit about your internet justification for your racism. Your shamelessness about it is on you. Should I use the term taqiyya if I feel someone is lying about something related to Islam or repressive backwards Islamic theocracies? Hell no, that sort of subtle use of language in that way is for racist intentions.

Fun fact, this thread is about Iran. You can oppose both the Israelis and the horrific repressive theocratic leaders in Iran.
Show HN: Interactive Maxwell's Demon
by proc0 | 2026-01-09 16:40:32+00:00
This is just an exploration of particle physics with a little added interactivity.

Using Velocity Verlet Integration for particle physics.
Calculating the Boltzmann entropy based on hot and cold particle count (not sure if this is correct, but will revisit).

Stack:
C++
Cmake
Raylib

Source: https://github.com/proc0/Maxwells-Demon
by palata | 2026-01-09 16:40:39+00:00
I am not sure what you are trying to say. My whole point is that regulations are required for a sane market.

The fact that the US wins because they don't play by the same rules does not mean that it is fair.

And the fact that the US bans Chinese tech when they do to the US what the US does to the rest of the world shows that the US doesn't find it fair either. It's just easier to accept an unfair situation when we benefit from it.
by deadcore | 2026-01-09 16:40:50+00:00
Good idea - sort of remind me of YikYak. That was really fun & actually a great way to get local tips if you were new into an area with a good community. Towns it was dead, but if I was in a city that I'd never been to before, put a question out and you would get some real good insights.

It faced a fair few controversies & got taken offline and not sure what became of it...

Always wanted something with that... casual fence... to think of a better word again
by kccqzy | 2026-01-09 16:41:04+00:00
I took a look at the table of contents and found that the second chapter is about the well-ordering principle. That’s surprising to me because I’ve only heard of the well-ordering theorem by Zermelo, which is a fundamental theorem in set theory, stating that any set has a well-ordering assuming the axiom of choice. It’s amazing and mind-bending in its own right, but is clearly not very relevant to computer science.

I find the well-ordering principle slightly bewildering. It seems to presuppose the existence of an ordering on natural numbers and then prove this principle. But I’ve never been taught things this way; you always construct the natural numbers from Peano and define the ordering first, then you can actually prove the well-ordering principle rather than leaving it as an axiom.
by Lerc | 2026-01-09 16:41:21+00:00
The tricky part is that people don't necessarily report what they see as what they see, and you can't really look inside their brains to get at what they meaningfully perceive.

A good example of this was the inauguration crowd size photos where people who were unfamiliar with the topic reported a unified perception on which crowd was bigger based purely on the photos. People who knew what the photos were of varied their conclusion based upon their political stance.

One conclusion you could draw from this is that their beliefs were altering their perception, but how would you distinguish that from people altering their expression of what they saw based upon their beliefs?
by mossTechnician | 2026-01-09 16:41:22+00:00
About half a year ago, I ran into an instance of a user who requested more openness[0] regarding the sources Kagi used - initially there was a list that was available, and then it was removed. I know it's not exactly the same, and it's been a long time since that request was made, but if you happen to read this, I second their request.

Personally, I think it would be incredible if you open sourced your search engine. But like someone else said more eloquently, software runs on our computers. And to me, open-source software is table stakes when there are viable alternatives.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/252-show-source-of-results/49
by koke_vidaurre | 2026-01-09 16:41:31+00:00
I'm doing the consulting (the human)

but they are supporting lot of our task, researching, intelligence reports, content writing, website and cli improvements, among others.

I'll say the key to trust and being able to delegate is the alignment of the agents with your goals.

This post, explain the difference between the 2025 data agents (only data retrievers) ; and what' possible today (agents that act based on trusted data)

https://agents-squads.com/intelligence/enterprise-ai-agents-...
by Fiveplus | 2026-01-09 16:41:42+00:00
I couldn't help but focus on the vicarious adventure aspect Kelly mentions which was the "payment" he offered drivers in exchange for the ride. This is a mechanism that has largely been deprecated by the modern attention economy.

In the era of hitchhiking, the bandwidth for novelty was low. A driver on a long commute had no podcasts, no Spotify or audiobooks. A stranger with a story was high value. The transaction was something like = I provide logistics and you provide content; like the story of your cross-country bike trip.

Today, we have near infinite content in our pockets. The marginal utility of a stranger's story has plummeted because the competition is Joe Rogan or an endless algorithmic feed. We have largely replaced the P2P protocol of kindness with a sort of centralized platform of service. We stripped out the human latency and the requirement for social reciprocity and replaced it with currency and star ratings. It makes me surreal to think about this.
by tristor | 2026-01-09 16:41:56+00:00
I used to have a macro lens, and while I quite enjoyed it, I found that since I primarily do wildlife photography I could use a longer focal length telephoto lens at distance to get nearly as much detail by filling the frame with the subject. I have quite a few butterfly photos that were taken with a 300mm or 400mm telephoto prime, not a macro lens, and you'd be hard pressed to know the difference.

That's not true of /all/ macro photography, it depends on the specific details of the subject you're most interested in capturing. Without a macro lens you aren't going to capture the subtle textures of a butterflies wing, but you can certainly get a good photo of the entire butterfly including the textures of its eyes without a macro lens.

That said, I love doing proper macro photography. It does require a bit more kit though, you really need a ring light or a dual-flash, and a tripod and focus rail to support doing focus stacking to get extremely detailed shots. Agreed though with your sibling comment that manual focus is fine. There's really no reason to worry about refocusing on a subject once you get initial critical focus, it makes more sense to move the camera/yourself (which is the way a focus rail works).
by taeric | 2026-01-09 16:42:17+00:00
Realistically, it takes ringleaders to get a circus. As such, I can only assume that the lack of show online is that the people that would be the ringleaders are largely the ones currently getting what they want.

I'm cynical enough that I think this is fairly clear evidence that some political affiliations are less sincere than others, but very few people will acknowledge this.
by adityaathalye | 2026-01-09 16:43:01+00:00
When `clj-kondo` first came out, I whiplashed at the name and was like "who needs this, emacs formatting works fine"... Cut to 2020s, you will pry `clj-kondo` (and babaskha things in general) from my cold dead hands.

Also borkdude is not one person. No one person can be this prolific, each project useful if not exemplary. I aver, he contains multitudes. He is borg-dude.
by doublerabbit | 2026-01-09 16:43:22+00:00
If you are already paying for the streaming service that offers the content and they restrict you from watching because of your OS are you harming the industry by downloading it? Nothing is stopping you from buying a 4k webcam and recording your computer monitor.

You're already paying the monthly fee to stream it, you're just streaming it in a more friendly way. Granted if you cancel the service, you should delete the content.

Many won't though and that's the problem but that problem is caused by the fact that you're being restricted in the first place.
by foobarbecue | 2026-01-09 16:43:23+00:00
I did a sort of internship at Los Alamos which involved building some drones. A year or two later I got a call from my advisor there, out of the blue asking me if I had anything immediately available that could do recon underground effectively. I didn't really, so I declined. I asked what they needed it for and he said it would be easier if I got the info from the news. That was kinda terrifying ... turned out to be this incident.

Internship started as this thing: https://youtu.be/hq03MsP1MPI?si=lVpDMLqRN4nfwMiA really great experience.
by oasisbob | 2026-01-09 16:44:23+00:00
Not sure I agree, the systematicness can be cultural as well.

In my area there's a bunch of Islands with ferry service, but the ferry terminals are often remotely located on these islands, away from lodging and population centers.

It's fairly common to see people hitchhiking their way to hop off the islands. Every time I've chosen to do it, I'm still filled with the same sense of gratitude Kevin Kelly describes. The folks picking me up always feel like they're experiencing the sense of levity and kindness, not habituality and scorn.
by ux266478 | 2026-01-09 16:44:35+00:00
I'm someone who has used Prolog in the past, but this is the first time I'm learning of Futamura's work[1]. I knew it was great for building executable grammars, but I hadn't ever really tried to do so thus have absolutely no knowledge on the usual techniques. What an absolutely fascinating methodology, I can see exactly how it maps to Prolog.

[1] - https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/001/006/665/partial_evalua...
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-09 16:45:02+00:00
> Things may be different with other frameworks like Blazor which I've not tried, but I just find myself wanting to write JS instead.

Blazor WASM probably is among the best approaches to what is possible with WASM today, for better and worse. C# is a great language to write domain code in. A lot of companies like C# for their backends so you get same-language sharing between backend and frontend. The Razor syntax is among the better somewhat type-safe template languages in the wild, with reasonably good IDE support. C# was designed with FFI in mind (as compared to Java and some other languages) so JS imports and exports fit reasonably well in C#; the boundaries aren't too hairy.

That said, C# by itself isn't always that big of leap from Typescript. C# has better pattern matching today, but overall the languages feel like step-brothers and in general the overhead of shipping an entire .NET CLR, most of the BCL, and your C# code as web assembly is a lot more than just writing things more vanilla in Typescript. You can also push C# more functional with libraries like LanguageExt (though you also fight the reasons to pick C# by doing so as so many engineers don't think LanguageExt feels enough like C# to justify using C#).

I'm curious to try Bolero [0] as F# would be a more interesting jump/reason for WASM, but I don't think I could sell it to engineering teams at my day job. (Especially as it can't use Razor syntax, because Razor is pretty deeply tied to C# syntax, and has its own very different template languages.)

With WASM not having easy direct access to the DOM, Blazor's renderer is basically what you would expect it to be: it tosses simple objects over to a tiny Virtual DOM renderer on the JS side. It has most of the advantages and disadvantages of just using something like React or Preact directly, but obviously a smaller body of existing performance optimizations. Blazor's Virtual DOM has relatively great performance given the WASM to JS and back data management and overhead concerns, but it's still not going to out-compete hand written Vanilla JS any time soon.

[0] https://fsbolero.io/
by gostsamo | 2026-01-09 16:45:04+00:00
> I learned from hitchhiking to think of this as an exchange. During the moment the stranger offers his or her goodness, the person being aided can reciprocate with degrees of humility, dependency, gratitude, surprise, trust, delight, relief, and amusement to the stranger. It takes some practice to enable this exchange when you don’t feel desperate.

That's his view. Transactional and rehearsed.
by buellerbueller | 2026-01-09 16:45:07+00:00
My wife and kids always make fun of me for the goofy dad-joke-level interactions* I will create with strangers (that far more often then not elicits laughs from the person with whom I interact).

When they tease me about it, I ask them if they'd rather live in a world of complete atomization, free of any human interaction.

I know I would not!

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEGohj0IkQo. (They call me "Bonjour" sometimes lol)