MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by le-mark | 2026-01-31 15:32:17+00:00
> 2008 was sudden and unexpected by most. The dot com crash was sudden and unexpected by most.

In both those events there was clearly a bubble, and although no one could predict exact dates, corrections were expected.

Exactly the situation now. The problem is predicting the top. Example;You might estimate now is a good time to pull your assets out of the markets, but then the markets go up another 10%. Then a 20% correction happens and you attempt to time the bottom but miss it. Best case you buy back in at about the same point you left. With transaction fees and capital gains you’ve lost money anyway.

I did this in 2007, bought some rentals and missed a lot of gains post 2008.
by TZubiri | 2026-01-31 15:34:42+00:00
>The residential proxies are not needed, if you behave

I'm starting to think that somee users in hackernews do not 'behave' or at least they think they do not 'behave' and provide an alibi for those that do not 'behave'.

That the hacker in hackernews does not attract just hackers as in 'hacking together features' but also hackers as in 'illegitimately gaining access to servers/data'

As far as I can tell, as a hacker that hacks features together, resi proxies are something the enemy uses. Whenever I boot up a server and get 1000 log in requests per second and requests for commonly exploited files from russian and chinese IPs, those come from resi IPs no doubt. There's 2 sides to this match, no more.
by boroboro4 | 2026-01-31 15:35:04+00:00
He’s not a king to do whatever he promised as is, he’s bound by laws and constitution (which are passed by congress).

Also as you were corrected there is constant goalpost moving in terms of whom exactly should be deported and how.

If you’re really interested in public opinion people don’t support ICE and especially how do they do what they do.
by kkfx | 2026-01-31 15:35:05+00:00
My issue with Guix coming from NixOS is the missing first-class zfs support for root, crypto included, RustDesk, few other common services who are hard to package.

Guix potential target IMVHO should be desktop power users, not HPC, NixOS while mostly developed for embedded systems (Anduril) or servers in general still take care of desktops, Guix apparently not and that's a big issue... Nowadays outside academia I doubt there are many GNU/Linux users who deploy on plain ext4...
by willis936 | 2026-01-31 15:35:23+00:00
Windows recall, intrusive addition of AI features (is there even a pinky promise that they're not training on user data?), more builtin ads, and less user control (most notably the removal of using the OS without an account - something that makes sense in the context of undisclosed theft of private information).

This was 2025. I'm excited for what 2026 will bring. Things are moving fast indeed.
by xivzgrev | 2026-01-31 15:36:00+00:00
There's also the fact that US equities are now consistently best asset class. Used to be all over the map. But with rise of passive investing and global markets, capital flows to the winner. Success begets success.

If something changes and suddenly foreign equities start consistently beating out US then capital would flow accordingly. But the US still has a massive advantage from passive flows propping it up in perpetuity.
by molticrystal | 2026-01-31 15:36:35+00:00
More and more Youtube search results are a playlist when you click the result.

This causes a fatalistic chain where the video has a captcha, and if you don't answer it in 5-15 seconds it goes to the next in the playlist and the process repeats. This turbo charges uncontrollably down the series of videos.

The solution is within seconds remove the &pp= (or go back a few pages and do so) this gives you as much time as you need to solve the captcha. Or remember to copy the search result link instead of clicking on it and clean it up.

I wrote to youtube about this bug where playlists don't wait for you to answer the captcha and never heard back from them, which is what I expected, but figured I'd try.
by ZeWaren | 2026-01-31 15:36:37+00:00
I'm very happy with Memories.

I store my pictures on a NAS jail. That directory is mounted read-only on another jail with NC and Memories. I like the guarantee that my gallery app cannot alter my files.

Also, many gallery apps don't allow browsing a directory tree. You have one level of "albums" and that's it. Memories support it. I have pictures 5-6 directories deep, following a system that makes sense to me.
by arter45 | 2026-01-31 15:37:14+00:00
I did read the article.

I agree that there is a difference between "wood" and "furniture".

Although maybe a more apt comparison is IKEA vs another furniture store.

With IKEA you have a relatively basic "style". You'd be hard to pressed a 1800 style table, for example, but if you are a student or someone who just wants to live in a new place, it's a pretty solid store to go. However, they give you the pieces (not just basic wood, already pre-made pieces) and you have to put them together.

Other furnitures have a lot more choices in terms of styles and they allow you to just buy stuff without any DIY needed.

Different offerings in the same space (no one in IKEA is asking you to cut wood and make your own chair legs or whatever), both valid.

Furniture metaphores aside, what I'm saying is that there is a subset of users which is completely fine with those services, which are still provided in a self-service, pay-per-use way without the need to have admin rights over the entire platform. That's a cloud provider. A more limited one, sure, but it can still be a cloud provider.

And when it comes to business stakeholders, coverage is important, but so are other concerns, including the ability to move out when needed (which still requires some sensible technical choice, because if you go "all in" you're complicating your exit strategy), or even concerns like the ones mentioned in the OP.

Obviously, each company has its own risk aversion and its own decision making process, and so far market share heavily favors the Big Three even outside of the US, but this doesn't mean alternative options should be dismissed as "not cloud providers" just because they don't provide all those services.
by newzino | 2026-01-31 15:37:59+00:00
The "all functions are automatically variadic" design is a nice simplicity win. No overloading, no arity mismatches at call sites - just a uniform calling convention.

The argsType struct with pointer array and count is essentially how varargs works at the ABI level in C anyway, you've just made it explicit. And having the type info alongside the pointers means you get runtime type checking without the caller needing to pass format strings or sentinel values like traditional C varargs.

The tradeoff is you lose static arity checking at parse time, but for an embedded scripting use case that's probably fine - you're validating at runtime anyway and the error messages can be more helpful than "wrong number of arguments."

Do you have plans for optional/default arguments, or is that outside the scope? With variadic-by-default it'd be natural to just check args.num and use defaults for missing ones.
by cosmicgadget | 2026-01-31 15:38:00+00:00
> “We look forward to moving forward with those claims and note WhatsApp’s denials have all been carefully worded in a way that stops short of denying the central allegation in the complaint – that Meta has the ability to read WhatsApp messages, regardless of its claims about end-to-end encryption.”

My money is on the chats being end to end encrypted and separately uploaded to Facebook.
by newzino | 2026-01-31 15:38:20+00:00
You're right that static analysis tools handle well-defined rule violations - null pointer dereferences, buffer overflows, style violations. Those are formally specifiable.

But "review this pull request" isn't just about catching bugs the linter would find. It includes things like "does this architectural choice make sense given where the codebase is heading" or "is this abstraction going to cause problems when we add feature Y next quarter." Those require contextual judgment that's hard to encode in rules.

Same with boilerplate - yes, templating tools exist, but they require you to anticipate the parameterization ahead of time. AI handles "I need a thing like X but slightly different in ways that are obvious if you look at the existing code." That's a fuzzy spec problem, not a rule-based generation problem.

Whether that's "magic" or just pattern matching on training data is a fair philosophical question. But pragmatically, it solves a category of tasks that neither linters nor template generators handle well.
by hsuduebc2 | 2026-01-31 15:39:28+00:00
Companies lie to governments and the public all the time. I doubt that even if something were found and the case were lost, it would lead to prison or any truly severe punishment. No money was stolen and no lives were put at risk. At worst, it would likely end in a fine, and then it would be forgotten, especially given Meta’s repeated violations of user trust.

The reality is that most users do not seem to care. For many, WhatsApp is simply “free SMS,” tied to a phone number, so it feels familiar and easy to understand, and the broader implications are ignored.
by logicprog | 2026-01-31 15:39:37+00:00
I draw from this that no-one should be subject to those rules, and we should try to use the AI companies as a wedge to widen that crack. Instead, most people people who claim that their objection is really only consistency, not love for IP spend their time trying to tighten the definitions of fair use, widen the definitions of derivative works, and in general make IP even stronger, which will effect far more than just the AI companies they're going after. This doesn't look to me like the behavior of people who truly only want consistency, but don't like IP.

And before you say that they're doing it because it's always better to resist massive, evil corporations than to side with them, even if it might seem expedient to do so, the people who are most strongly fighting against AI companies in favor of IP, in the name of "consistency" are themselves siding with Disney, one of the most evil companies — from the perspective of the health of the arts and our culture — that's working right now. So they're already fine with siding with corporations; they just happened to pick the side that's pro-IP.
by bayarearefugee | 2026-01-31 15:40:20+00:00
TACO is not the same as admitting a mistake.

Admitting a mistake involves some amount of learning not to make the same mistake again.

The reason this is important practically speaking can be seen in situations like chaotic tariffs and threatening allies.

The TACO move might allow us to step back from the cliff in these situations but the fact that we keep being on the cliff on a weekly basis means every other world actor has no choice but to make plans to have us committed in the long term, and this is going to cause huge, long term problems for the US economy.
by mncharity | 2026-01-31 15:40:31+00:00
I don't think I'm your survey target, as cost/benefit fails all along that "second brain" pipeline have so far prevented my non-trivially adopting one into my extended mind. But thank you for surfacing a "now with LLMs and speech-to-text, I should revisit". Like a git docs dir, a "second brain"-ish pkm fragment might be a fruitful setting for LLM communication/collaboration/RAG.
by Propelloni | 2026-01-31 15:40:54+00:00
> If the world is governed by rules, why does the United States maintain a considerable number of military bases around the world, far exceeding the total number of military bases of all other countries combined?

It's the other way around. Rules are tools of peace. No peace, no rules. But if you want peace then you have to be ready to wage war. It's called deterrence and the EU is learning this just now, again. That's also one reason why the USA has been called the world police... because it was true.*

If nobody enforces the rules any more, things break down and we close in on violence. It is plain to see on the global scale, e.g. Russia's war against Ukraine, and also the domestic scale, e.g. ICE's violence against their own citizens in the USA.

> Why is the American military budget so much higher than the combined military budgets of all other countries?

The US military budget is about three times that of the EU or China's, or about a third of all military spending on the globe. Obviously, this is much higher than any single entity, but not all other countries combined.

* Frankly, being the world police has had a lot of benefits for the USA. Why they are abdicating this position to run a protection racket instead is for wiser people than me to answer.
by vitus | 2026-01-31 15:41:12+00:00
You probably meant to say oversubscribing, not overprovisioning.

Oversubscription is expected to a certain degree (this is fundamentally the same concept as "statistical multiplexing"). But even oversubscription in itself is not guaranteed to result in bufferbloat -- appropriate traffic shaping (especially to "encourage" congestion control algorithms to back off sooner) can mitigate a lot of those issues. And, it can be hard to differentiate between bufferbloat at the last mile vs within the ISP's backbone.
by pyrale | 2026-01-31 15:41:13+00:00
> I think the only ways we can get serious Euroclouds is some combination of

Just mandate EU countries' public administration to rely exclusively on EU cloud solutions. That doesn't need to be done at once.

This would create enough of a captive market to start the homegrown industry.

> Europeans have to use lower-level infra and do a lot more ops in-house

To be honest, every large enough company would benefit from doing a little bit of that.
by kcplate | 2026-01-31 15:41:33+00:00
> Do you mean that we should then conclude something about this event

The law is specifically written to protect religious gatherings from protest and harassment (in addition to the abortion harassment prohibition in FACE), so it’s an appropriate question to ask to define if your outrage at its application is based on your political agreement with the protesters/disagreement with the religious group or if you are willing to allow a law to be applied without regard to which religion and which concept is being protested.
by bogwog | 2026-01-31 15:41:57+00:00
> I don't really see how it's possible to mitigate client compromise

Easy: pass laws requiring chat providers to implement interoperability standards so that users can bring their own trusted clients. You're still at risk if your recipient is using a compromised client, but that's a problem that you have the power to solve, and it's much easier to convince someone to switch a secure client if they don't have to worry about losing their contacts.
by jocaal | 2026-01-31 15:42:11+00:00
What actually happens is, smart people are isolated from the problems of the general population and work towards meaningless goals at the cost of the everyday tax payer doing unglamorous work to earn a living. Decoupling science from the state will also reduce the meaningless competition of academia that leads to the publish-or-perish and replication crises, because the people who will be doing it, will do it for the love of the game, regardless of social status and money.

If you want to live in this world, you have to trade your time and provide value to others. You shouldn't get a free pass because, just because you convinced yourself and the government that you're smarter than everyone else.
by oefrha | 2026-01-31 15:42:22+00:00
I always assumed Meta has backdoor that at least allows them to compromise key individuals if men in black ask, but law firm representing NSO courageously defending the people? Come the fuck on.

> Our colleagues’ defence of NSO on appeal has nothing to do with the facts disclosed to us and which form the basis of the lawsuit we brought for worldwide WhatsApp users.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-31 15:42:42+00:00
I'd always kind of imagined the reactionary geometers were defending an order in which their tools were imperfect finite approximations that yielded insights into perfect infinite truths, where the original sin of the revolutionary analysts was in saying that "yes, and with compactness and continuity, many of these problems have their α-and-ω in finite descriptions".

Is that a fair take? Would it be one, even if it were ahistorical?
by hannasm | 2026-01-31 15:42:43+00:00
> patched an Encrypted DNS Server to store the original TTL of a response, defined as the minimum TTL of its records, for each incoming query

The article seems to be based on capturing live dns data from some real network. While it may be true that persistent connections help reduce ttl it certainly seems like the article is accounting for that unless their network is only using http1.0 for some reason.

I agree that low TTL could help during an outage if you actually wanted to move your workload somewhere else, and I didn't see it mentioned in the article, but I've never actually seen this done in my experience, setting TTL extremely low for some sort of extreme DR scenario smells like an anti pattern to me.

Consider the counterpoint, having high TTL can prevent your service going down if the dns server crashes or loses connectivity.
by kingforaday | 2026-01-31 15:42:46+00:00
Google shows a samaple of the IOCs but Google Trust Services have issued a number of the SSL certs for those domains that have not been revoked (yet?).

Only looking at the:

- a8d3b9e1f5c7024d6e0b7a2c9f1d83e5.com

- af4760df2c08896a9638e26e7dd20aae.com

- cfe47df26c8eaf0a7c136b50c703e173.com

Looks like a standard MD5 hash domain pattern of which currently there are:

user@host:/data/domains/2026/01/30$ zgrep -iE '^[a-f0-9]{32}\.com$' com.txt_domains.gz | wc -l
3005

If you look at some of the others (not listed in Google's IOC), they tend to have a pattern with their SSL certs e.g.:

- 0e6f931862947ad58bf3d1a0c5a6f91f.com

X509v3 Subject Alternative Name:
DNS:0e6f931862947ad58bf3d1a0c5a6f91f.com, DNS:effc538138d9342c547c5df42b03d81e.com, DNS:gulfclouds.site, DNS:xinchaobccgba.net

- 17e4435ad10c15887d1faea64ee7eac4.com

X509v3 Subject Alternative Name:
DNS:0dcbdf154c39288c91feb076795715e1.com, DNS:0e8843e8f10f20eeef59f0076e4feb83.shop, DNS:1014a1fb60e1b91404682e572ede6b4f.com, DNS:178281a79266d2faa3e578f23c8a361e.com, DNS:17e4435ad10c15887d1faea64ee7eac4.com, DNS:19f75b2642320e0606f5e38ce9fbcf17.com, DNS:1vxe.com, DNS:292893d0b31941e1c0d8eb01235be4eb.com, DNS:2b1e642f3a60130d1b2cf244891bef0d.info, DNS:354542342b7d2ddb66c97240d0c770dc.com, DNS:37d993ba8c9284bedad2a3177dfc44a6.info, DNS:3857036aaeedf670bbcca926945b50dd.com, DNS:3961f3fa3a6bacc5c4f28e81c60f4169.com, DNS:3eb4b3a3f8722b60d6ba2de7dd5f2523.org, DNS:42a17c71c0d6f2a6d7e135f8e869ab3f.com, DNS:4edd3793da3080640431430a4da57a86.org, DNS:4f5667d51451a2060067a97bcddf077f.info, DNS:5006cc38aff1ebc7d1232037fd592c60.net, DNS:54c35ec930f5b52fd9505778bb9c3f00.com, DNS:60255ec5427c2ba9a80b9c7648dd62e9.com, DNS:638d0e352728a04bb56ca102e54b8c9b.xyz, DNS:69234f9b18c0b4d572dc553dbfdb8f52.com, DNS:6934addf679d79a79f0bfc2ff090b104.com, DNS:694b64c9b41c17a229d92156d14a4ffd4.com, DNS:6eba8c4def89561e1cee02bb3c9b373d.info, DNS:7050f8c6563ff47465932e3838dc06fd.com, DNS:72ad0de0a556f763e0629c64c694df4c.com, DNS:86f7020358afaf71baeee5782b6264e4.xyz, DNS:88f2f20d26dcabeafd2f9d24e7ea4e50.com, DNS:911f4bf053ee3dadae1ca6bfdf40a817.com

would there be any reason any of these would be legitimate?
by gus_massa | 2026-01-31 15:42:52+00:00
If you see a very strange pattern, you can send an email to hn@ycombinator.com so dang/tomhow can take a look.

As the other comments say, there is a lot of spam that is detected automatically and manually. You can take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newest with "showdead" enabled. While you are there, remember to upvote good post and flag spam.
by r_lee | 2026-01-31 15:43:01+00:00
It absolutely is.

With the rise of ETFs and 401ks people are incentivized (literally) by the US Gov to put their money in the S&P500

And the "instead of picking a needle in the haystack, just buy the whole haystack" only works if there is actual stock picking going on and you get to ride that, but now when there's so much passive investing, it's just everybody buying the haystack, even if there is no needle

Like with the ETFs and 401ks, they will happily buy as much NVDA at its ATHs, it's quite literally massive liquidity feeding orders all the time, coming from retail's monthly paychecks
by Throaway3126 | 2026-01-31 15:43:16+00:00
They are the red lines. There is no going back. The USA is too dangerous to rely on, that's quite clear.

People don't quite realize how big a deal "invading" Greenland would have been. That's literally an act of war! What's next, occupying France? Saying that it's at all a possibility is far beyond any red line that the EU thought it would have to deal with.

Not only would the rest of the world ditch the USA, but the Democrats themselves would take the opportunity to publically announce that they do not recognize Donald Trump's government.
by jebarker | 2026-01-31 15:43:28+00:00
I currently have a landscape designer planning our yard landscaping. When I see the impressive renderings they produced I immediately thought that it’s some idealized version of how it will look on a sunny day after 10 years of bedding in. I asked them to also produce renders of how it’ll look on a gloomy winter day 6 months after planting everything. Seems they don’t have the tools to produce those images really though
by kagvi13 | 2026-01-31 15:43:30+00:00
For anyone following along:

HMP (HyperCortex Mesh Protocol) is an experimental application-layer protocol for agent networks and can be used in more than one way.

* It can be used standalone as a general app-layer protocol focused on long-term semantic continuity, memory, and cognitive continuity between agents.

* It can also be used as an application layer within ANP (Agent Network Protocol) — ANP provides identity, discovery, encryption and transport, while HMP provides semantic payload and memory.

So the “experimental application-layer protocol for agent networks” label is correct as a general description, but not limited to standalone use — HMP also fills the application layer in the ANP stack.
by lormayna | 2026-01-31 15:43:36+00:00
It's not about the year of birth, it's about the role. Saviano creates his own career with mafia and now is acting as opinionist to any other option (i.e. now about the constitutional referendum that "will enforce the mafia").

Falcone, Borsellino, Livatino, Don Puglisi (just to mention people that paid with their own life) fight heavily against mafia, but they never converted this fight in a career.
by anovikov | 2026-01-31 15:44:07+00:00
Great Depression is thoroughly unrelated. It was because of excess agricultural production by overleveraged farmers that forced them into further undermining themselves by overproduction, and eventual contagion of bad debt of those farmers propagating across the economy - made worse by unhinged, and unregulated, leveraged stock trading.

It did not happen because of sudden productivity increase that put too many people out of work. No economic crises ever happened that way, and there is no reason to believe any will. This is what every economy strives to achieve and it's kinda stupid to be afraid of it. Some people can be hit hard, and it always happens during every technological revolution, but with sufficient investment into predictive policing and law enforcement overall, this is a manageable risk.

Surely, a stock market shock can happen other way around - if AI will turn out to be a flop - but i believe this is not the risk you are talking about.
by somethingsome | 2026-01-31 15:44:12+00:00
As a non expert, I can't pronounce myself on the subject, I found this recent study:

https://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/research-newsroom/proton...

But on the subject of discoveries and practical uses, the IBA cyclotrons are also used for other purposes than proton therapy: cleaning exotic fruits from dangerous substances and personalized medicine.