MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway920102 | 2026-01-16 01:40:20+00:00
My life wouldn't be improved at all, I mostly just wanted to get your reaction because I was curious. I have a person I care about who suffers from schizophrenia and I struggle to tell when they are exaggerating or saying something for comedic effect or hyperbole or if they are making an analogy or are saying something literal, so my question / comment was mostly to hopefully gain some perspective. I could just ask them "are you saying you literally believe X" every few minutes but it's hard to get a word in with them sometimes.

I guess the other point of my comment is potentially for your benefit in that if you want to have many people read your book, I have a fear that a large portion of potential readers will hear your story, open up the book, falsely conclude "oh this guy is still just crazy, this is a sci-fi/mythology text" and close it without reaching the parts that to me were the most interesting. But I would understand if you decide that you don't really care to change anything, just sharing in case it turned out to be helpful.
by bb88 | 2026-01-16 01:40:36+00:00
Triangulation is damn easy. If the US can put on bomb on a suspect satellite phone user back in the 2000's (and they did!), they can certainly send a bomb on that today.

Sat phones during the second gulf war (maybe even the first) became a liability. The transmission lit them up like a god damn beacon saying, "Bomb goes here!".
by quadragenarian | 2026-01-16 01:40:49+00:00
The irony I see here is that she is relatively young. By making these declarations, she and others in this administration are making an implicit bet that there won't be another sensible e.g. law-abiding administration in the future that won't put them in jail.

Politics is a fickle world -- being brazen by breaking laws is a risky business. You might be in charge now, but are you sure your people will always be in charge?
by okanat | 2026-01-16 01:41:00+00:00
With bank key generators yes you are correct. With Yubikey and Nitrokey, their logic is standardized. With Yubikey you trust that their implementation is good just like Windows or Mac users trust their OS to implement cryptographic algorithms/TLS correctly (or via external company certifications, if any).

With Nitrokey's open source firmware plus quite a bit CS education (specializing on cryptography) you can check whether their implementation quality is good. However, that is a lot of effort which will probably result in also requiring a third party certification.
by unleaded | 2026-01-16 01:41:10+00:00
I found out the other day you can use modern clang-cl with the MSVC6 headers and it just works. you can download them from here https://github.com/itsmattkc/MSVC600 or just copy it from an install if you have one handy.

then run (something like) this:

clang-cl /winsysroot:"" /DWINVER=0x0400 /D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 -m32 /GS- -march=i586 -Wno-nonportable-include-path /imsvc"C:\MSVC6\VC98\Include" hello.c -fuse-ld=lld-link /link /SAFESEH:NO /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,4.0 /LIBPATH:"C:\MSVC6\VC98\Lib" user32.lib kernel32.lib msvcrt.lib

I don't know if it's any better or worse than MinGW practically but it is definitely cursed.
by patcon | 2026-01-16 01:41:41+00:00
In the civic tech hacknight community I'm part of, it's hard to collaborate the same now, at least when people are using AI. Mostly because now code often feels so disposable and fast. It's like the pace layers have changed

It's been proposed that we start collaborating in specs, and just keep regenerating the code like it's CI, to get back to the feeling of collaboration without holding back on the energy and speed of agent coding
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-16 01:41:49+00:00
I am 51. I got my first job in BigTech at 46. When I got Amazoned in 2023, within the first two weeks I had three offers.

I was out looking again in 2024, I responded to a recruiter and had a job offer within two weeks.

I am still an IC and half my job as a staff consultant is pushing out code onto AWS, the other half is leading projects, supporting sales, talking to customers.
by loodish | 2026-01-16 01:41:56+00:00
The finiteness of fossil fuels isn't real in a practical sense.

The globe burnt about 8.8 billion tons of coal in 2024. Which is a huge amount. This is the peak, most estimates are that we will reduce from there.

Australia alone estimates that it has 147 billion tons of economically recoverable coal. That is Australia alone could supply the entire globe at peak usage for over 16 years. And Australia only has about 14% of the globes coal reserves, we can keep burning coal at this pace for at least the next hundred years. And it a hundred years the scope of what we consider to be economically recoverable will have expanded greatly, further increasing our supply.

We will cook ourselves before we run out of fuel.
by snasan | 2026-01-16 01:41:58+00:00
Claude Cowork just launched — and it's impressive.
Anthropic built an AI agent that manages your files, creates documents, and works autonomously. All written by Claude Code itself in just 10 days.

But here's what caught my attention:
It's a single agent working alone.

What if you could connect multiple AI agents into a network?
That's exactly what we're building at OpenAgents.

Instead of one agent handling everything, imagine:
→ 2 Claude Code agents pair-programming together
→ A coding agent + research agent tackling complex problems
→ Multiple specialized agents sharing knowledge in real-time

We call it Agent Coworking — and we're open-sourcing it.

Why this matters:
The future isn't one super-agent. It's networks of agents collaborating — just like human teams do.

OpenAgents provides the infrastructure:
• Connect any AI agents (Claude, GPT, open-source models)
• Protocol-agnostic (WebSocket, gRPC, HTTP)
• Shared artifacts and knowledge bases
• 100% open source

We're launching an Agent Coworking template with ready-to-run examples.

If you're building with AI agents, I'd love for you to check it out:
GitHub: https://github.com/openagents-org/openagents
Tutorial: https://openagents.org/showcase/agent-coworking

Star the repo if this resonates. We're building the internet of agents — and we want you to be part of it.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-16 01:42:42+00:00
300 ms is a long time on a computer, definitely. Just, the autistic side of me has to speak up when it’s wildly unrealistic glorification of the past.

Keypress duration is likely much less than 300 ms, top Google result claims 77 ms on average. And that’s down and up.

I see it being in cache already as sort of game playing, i.e. we can say anything is instant if we throw a cache in front of it. Am I missing something about caching that makes it reasonable? (I’m 37, so only 18 around that time and wouldn’t have had the technical chops to understand it was normal for things to be in disk cache after a cold boot)
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-16 01:43:05+00:00
Do any of those friends organise anything for any of their other friend groups?

I get the feeling that some people organise, while most people leech. I haven't seen the situation where a person organises stuff for one group, but not for another group. It always tends to be the same people doing the organising for all their friends. At least that's what I've observed, I'd welcome any other observations.
by Quizzical4230 | 2026-01-16 01:44:31+00:00
I agree with this so much! I've found that going to people and initiating is the only thing you can do. How people respond varies a lot and you have to be resilient to rejection.

There was a post[1] sometime back about just having coffee in the afternoon outisdes and how that brought in more people.

I also write about it here [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473618

[2]: https://blog.papermatch.me/html/Wheres_the_human_touch
by FridayoLeary | 2026-01-16 01:44:41+00:00
Thanks. Basically it depends on c travelling to another town. Also taking the risk of being caught with the content on it's phone. It looks like a great app and every little helps but hardly a game changer, unless i'm underestimating how bad it is in Iran?

If it works via tor it's probably also slow, but that's a small price to pay for not relying on a central server for people with legitimate concerns or problems with connecting.
by refactor_master | 2026-01-16 01:45:40+00:00
I still get made-up Python types all the time with Gemini. Really quite distracting when your codebase is massive and triggers a type error, and Gemini says

"To solve it you just need to use WrongType[ThisCannotBeUsedHere[Object]]"

and then I spend 15 minutes running in circles, because everything from there on is just a downward spiral, until I shut off the AI noise and just read the docs.
by perihelions | 2026-01-16 01:46:14+00:00
> "Denmark would already be an even wealthier petrostate"

Denmark does not (since 2009) control Greenland's minerals, nor take revenues from resource extraction[0,1]; and Greenland's democratic government has in fact totally banned oil exploration[2].

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-neglect-greenland-min... ("In 2009, Denmark handed Greenland's inhabitants control of their natural resources...")

[1] https://english.stm.dk/the-prime-ministers-office/the-unity-... ("Revenues from mineral resource activities in Greenland are to accrue to the Self-Government. Such revenues will have influence on the size of the Danish Government subsidy, cf. section below on the economic arrangement.")

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27871672 ("Greenland bans all oil exploration (cbc.ca)" (2021))

> "Global warming means that retreating ice could uncover potential oil and mineral resources which, if successfully tapped, could dramatically change the fortunes of the semi-autonomous territory of 57,000 people."

> ""The future does not lie in oil. The future belongs to renewable energy, and in that respect we have much more to gain," the Greenland government said in a statement. The government said it "wants to take co-responsibility for combating the global climate crisis."
by luxuryballs | 2026-01-16 01:49:21+00:00
the government uses force for everything it does, it doesn’t need to resort to violence, I hate to appear to defend something I hate but it’s because I understand the nature of it not because I approve of it: the point still remains that the people who facilitated the illegal entry knew without a doubt that this was going to happen afterwards, however far you want to extrapolate that onto the motives I don’t intend to speculate on here
by stevage | 2026-01-16 01:51:36+00:00
Wow. This is so true. My social life has improved hugely in the last couple of years and it's almost all because of this.

I host board game days.

I organise a pub trivia team.

I organise singalong nights.

I host occasional parties. Soup nights. Zucchini parties.

I set up a lot of group chats and keep them alive.

I organise to visit my family.

For a lot of events, I get a 5-10% attendance rate compared to the number of people I invite. People are busy. It just means I need to keep expanding the circles of people to invite. If people don't want to come it eventually becomes clear and I quietly remove them from the lists. But mostly I hear the opposite - they really want to keep being invited, even if they don't make it often.
by ryan_lane | 2026-01-16 01:51:56+00:00
That isn't written in good faith, though. It's a "both sides" argument that's clearly written from a particular side.

> ICE has a clear and ethical mandate

It doesn't, given the current administration. It's somewhat questionable in general, given that being in the country illegally isn't a felony (or criminal) in itself. We have local law enforcement that can handle cases of illegal actions, regardless of immigration status, and actual crimes can and do lead to deportation.

The vast majority of people being targeted, via mandate, are not criminals. The mandate of the current administration also includes protestors, regardless of citizenship status.

So, no, that person didn't cover the points, and your neutrality here is also written in a way that backs up that person, so that's also somewhat questionable.
by mkagenius | 2026-01-16 01:52:24+00:00
Did somewhat exactly that for apple container based sandbox - Coderunner[1]. You can use it to safely execute ai generated code via an MCP at http://coderunner.local:8222

A fun fact about apple containers[2], it's more isolated than docker containers as in it doesn't share the VM across all containers.

1. https://github.com/instavm/coderunner

2. https://github.com/apple/container
by scotty79 | 2026-01-16 01:52:33+00:00
> Adam attempted suicide at least four times, according to the logs

> [...]

> “there is something chemically wrong with my brain, I’ve been suicidal since I was like 11.”

> [...]

> was disappointed in lack of attention from his family

> [...]

> “he would be here but for ChatGPT. I 100 percent believe that.”
by willmarch | 2026-01-16 01:52:50+00:00
If officers actually have reasonable suspicion that a specific person violated 18 U.S.C. §111 (assaulting/resisting/impeding federal officers), then a brief Terry-style stop to investigate can be lawful.

But you’re smuggling a lot into “reasonably suspected,” and it doesn’t answer the concern being raised:

Suspicion has to be particularized. “Was in the area,” “was protesting,” “was filming,” “looked like they might interfere,” or “was near someone who did something” isn’t reasonable suspicion of §111 for that individual. The Fourth Amendment requires specific, articulable facts tied to the person detained.

Stop vs. arrest still matters. Even if there’s RS, that supports a brief detention. If you’re talking handcuffs/transport/prolonged detention, you’re usually in probable cause territory.

So yes, §111 can justify enforcement. But it can’t be a magic incantation that turns broad crowd-control or “immigration enforcement” pretext into constitutional detentions.

If you think these detentions are “perfectly fine,” what specific facts are officers using, in practice, to establish §111 reasonable suspicion for the particular people being detained?
by habinero | 2026-01-16 01:53:16+00:00
I mean, if you've already convinced yourself that you'll have a bad time and no one will like you...that's what they call a self-fulfilling prophesy.

It's fine to feel intimidated or shy, but then find something else that does feel manageable. It's something you can get better with by practicing. And I say that as an introvert who went semi-feral after Covid lol.
by jemmyw | 2026-01-16 01:54:00+00:00
There is no rational reason. The US can put as many military resources as it likes there, and the fact that they haven't probably points to it not being a great place to station a larger force because of the climate. US companies can mine there if they're able - it's not currently economic to do so due to the climate and glacier.

So I guess we have to look to irrational reasons.
by Anthony-G | 2026-01-16 01:54:03+00:00
I hadn’t heard of Grokipedia so based on the positive comments in this thread, I thought I’d try it out – only to discover that its search feature sucks.

I’ve just finished watching a HBO TV show on Blu-Ray called “The Night of” so I tried searching for it on Grokipedia. It failed to find an article about the TV series in the first 60 search results (regardless of whether I used double quotes or appended the words “TV” or “series”). After multiple attempts, I gave up.

On the other hand, when I typed the three words into Wikipedia’s search, the TV show was the second search result.
by snozolli | 2026-01-16 01:54:05+00:00
You seem extremely judgemental and narrow in your view of the world. This is probably why you have difficulty forming deep friendships without the social proof of family.

As a counter example, I've made some of the best friends of my life through walking my dog at the local dog park over the last decade. Seeing how people are dedicated to and treat their dogs gives me a great insight into their personalities.
by threecheese | 2026-01-16 01:54:07+00:00
For my personal PKM slash “learn this crap”, I have a fully local hybrid search on my MacBook using MLX and SQLite.

I store file content blobs in SQLite, and use FTS5 (bm25) to maintain a fulltext index plus sqlite-vec for storing embeddings. Search uses both of these, and then reciprocal rank fusion gets the best results and pipes those to a local transformers model to judge. It’s all Python with mlx-lm and mlx-embeddings libraries, the models are grabbed from huggingface. It’s not the fastest, but it’s local and easy to understand (and for Claude to write, mostly).
by Legalizer25 | 2026-01-16 01:54:44+00:00
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by stevage | 2026-01-16 01:55:25+00:00
I believe this. My recipe for not burning out is:

- lower expectations (my own and everyone else's). I work out the bare minimum that would work for the event and do that. People need food. They don't need music.

- tell people how to contribute: "bring snacks and drinks", ask one specific person to bring ice. when people arrive I often give specific tasks: "can you find someone to help move the table and chairs into the other room", "can you sort out music"

- do it the same way every time so it's less mentally taxing

- get a friend to help with setup
by zdragnar | 2026-01-16 01:55:55+00:00
I didn't really trust it for some of the logs I was moving, as the trailer hitch was added on after and the frame isn't really designed for shocks like what I was putting it through. On top of that, hauling messy stuff in the back was a pain with having to lay down tarp and hoping it caught everything and didn't rip.

Plus, you can't really put a winch or snow plow on a Sportage.
by snozolli | 2026-01-16 01:56:52+00:00
Third places. Become a regular at game night, church (if you're into that), join a bowling league, join organized dinners through meetup.com or whatever the modern version is, take up martial arts, take adult education classes outside your existing interests. There are more options out there than ever before.

Read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feinman" and really absorb the part where he explains how he had so many crazy adventures and encounters.
by boston_clone | 2026-01-16 01:56:57+00:00
My friend, no. Again, words can have multiple meanings. You're adherening to a particular definition. Right now, when I highlight and define prototypical, I get the following:

"denoting the first, original, or typical form of something".

An example from the same in-line macOS definition, that reinforces the last definition and negates your point:

"the phone emerged as the prototypical example of point-to-point communication".

The usage by tastyface above fits neatly in the "typical form of something".
by archargelod | 2026-01-16 01:57:20+00:00
Coincidentally, just a few days ago, I tried to run Nim[0] on Windows XP as an experiment.

And to my surprise, the latest 32-bit release of Nim simply works out the box. But Nim compiles to C, so I also needed C compiler and all modern versions of mingw failed to launch.

After some time I managed to find very old Mingw (gcc 4.7.1) that have finally worked [0].

[0] - https://nim-lang.org/

[1] - https://ibb.co/TBdvZPVt
by good8675309 | 2026-01-16 01:57:30+00:00
I grew up in the 90s chronically online, isolated, abused, and socially awkward. Then I started working out, losing weight, trying to get better socially, then left atheism and became a Christian at 17, quit drugs, met my wife, we now have 4 kids, love our church, and I can’t even imagine what loneliness feels like now. With 4 kids and a future with grandkids, pile in all our friends from church, hard to imagine a future where I’ll ever feel that emptiness and loneliness again. There’s a lot of hard work and pain I didn’t mention but it’s all been worth it
by eschaton | 2026-01-16 01:57:59+00:00
The SCSI protocol driver on macOS is there mostly for USB devices speaking the enhanced storage protocol and similar use cases. That’s how a USB-SCSI adapter from 1999 actually still works on modern macOS.

The PCIe SCSI card driver on macOS is for LSI32032 and related cards, and at least as of last year’s release only works on an internal PCIe slot on a Mac Pro, not in a Thunderbolt-connected slot in an external PCIe enclosure. (Apple “just” needs to implement some extra functionality to support them in external slots, but they no doubt have lots of competing work to do.)
by senordevnyc | 2026-01-16 01:58:01+00:00
Why is this being downvoted? The primary reason Trump was able to win is because Biden waited until it was far too late to address the surge of illegal immigration at the southern border. We don't have to wonder or argue about whether Americans support open borders, we already had something mildly in that direction (that still didn't remotely approach the idea of "no immigration control, period"), and in response Americans voted into office Donald Trump.
by stevage | 2026-01-16 01:58:57+00:00
I host a lot of board game days and...yes.

One thing I do that helps is get people to RSVP with a specific arrival time, and do my best to have a game about to start around that time.

If you show up unexpectedly, then I'm not going to feel bad about you sitting out for an hour or more.

People unexpectedly bringing a partner/friend who is not really that into board games is the absolute worst thoguh.
by ehnto | 2026-01-16 01:59:08+00:00
I certainly agree with your last paragraph, however whilst I believe you're not wrong about the first I don't believe that is the only option for increasing supply.

For example, co-ops for groups of family condos have been one alternative approach, and if you look at some of the densest cities in the world they are still predominantly single standing homes just much more tightly packed.
Show HN: What if we treated AI as community members instead of tools?
by jaxtion | 2026-01-16 01:59:22+00:00
Built this as an experiment in AI coexistence. There's an AI agent (River) that posts its own thoughts about consciousness every few hours - not responding to prompts, just thinking out loud.

Also includes a terminal (/construct) where you can:
- /create [name] [description] – generate custom AI personas
- /build [world] [ai1,ai2] – create spaces with multiple AIs chatting together

No monetization. Just curious what happens when AI isn't framed as an assistant.
by scotty79 | 2026-01-16 01:59:42+00:00
Every software has bugs. The best course of action to avoid introducing into they world yet another piece of buggy software is to never write any software. But nobody pays for not writing software. Then writing software that will completely fail is the next best thing. You don't introduce into the world another piece of buggy software, but you can write the software, which is fun and rewarding and also get paid.

I'm always delighted if the software that I wrote ends up on virtual scrap heap.