MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by edent | 2026-01-14 18:08:48+00:00
The one near me which is absolutely fucked, as far as I'm concerned, deserves it.

Fighty customers, crap beer, odd opening hours, and half their food menu is off ("sorry mate, we've got no cheese"). Oh, and now their credit card terminal prompts customers for a tip!

I love a good pub, but most are crap.
by vladdoster | 2026-01-14 18:09:01+00:00
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by KaiserPro | 2026-01-14 18:09:07+00:00
I'm not quite sure why this is being voted down.

But as an outsider, its really not normal for agents of the state to detain people without legal basis. much less deliberatly make sure they can't be found. (citizen or not.)

You as a US citizen are not required to carry ID, so being arrested on the spot for not having proof of citizenship is grossly authoritarian.

Not to mention shooting someone in the street.
by hinkley | 2026-01-14 18:09:23+00:00
> You run observability at your company. But really, you're the cost police. You wake up to a log line in a hot path, a metric tag that exploded cardinality. You chase down the engineer. They didn't do anything wrong, they're just disconnected from what any of this costs.

Somebody didn’t math right when calculating if moving off hostedgraphite and StatsD was going to save us money or boil us alive. We moved from an inordinate number of individual stats with interpolated names to much simpler names but with cardinality and then the cardinality police showed up and kept harping on me to fix it. We were the user and customer facing portion of a SaaS company and I told them to fuck off when we were 1/7 of the overall stats traffic. I’d already reduced the cardinality by 400x and we were months past the transition date and I just wanted to work on anything that wasn’t stats for a while. Like features for the other devs or for our customers.

Very frustrating process. I suspect there’s a Missing Paper out there on how to compress stat cardinality out there somewhere. I’ve done a bit of work in that area but my efforts are in the 20% range and we need an order of magnitude. My changes were more about reducing the storage for the tags and reduced string arithmetic a bit in the process.
by Nadav--Shanun | 2026-01-14 18:09:33+00:00
When a 20-year-old who worked at NASA, the Pentagon, and the CIA meets a 22-year-old who directed documentaries in Congo jungles, at the literal peak of Yosemite, something unusual happens.

They realize they're building the exact same product.

In EO Magazine's latest feature from our new "Inside Hacker Houses" series, we follow Nadav Shanun and Pablo Berlanga Boemare as they work from The Residency, a San Francisco hacker house backed by Sam Altman, on Geome—an AI that learns how humans work by analyzing their screens.

Their vision? Capture all the data on Earth to accelerate AGI.

Read the full story for insights on:
- How two young founders from radically different worlds ended up solving the same problem
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- Why they believe the path to AGI starts with computer screens, not cameras in nature
- How they went from 0 to 50 customers through relentless customer conversations

This is where startup culture is most alive: not on main stages, but in small rooms where founders say impossible things with straight faces.

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by none_to_remain | 2026-01-14 18:09:34+00:00
I perceive "guidelines" or "rules" having a very different connotation compared to a "code of conduct."

See for, example, the SQLite team adopting the Rule of St. Benedict as their "Code of Conduct," getting criticized for it, and changing it to a "Code of Ethics" in accordance with the Rule about seeking accommodation with your adversaries.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-14 18:09:48+00:00
You'd have to be able to read minds if you want to establish a pretext. There are perfectly valid reasons, such as evidence collection against the accused party, to perform the search/raid.

I do wish that the law provided for concepts of minimal damage and repair should there be actual damage (not just creating a mess) that doesn't result in evidence. ie: if you tear open drywall, there better be something behind drywall that was collected as evidence.

However, that's not the case, and even civilly it's hard to collect damages even when it's the "wrong house"... though thatt's one of the few exceptions I've seen... also, iirc, there's been some 4th amendment arguments to construe having to pay for use/damages, not sure where that has landed.

IANAL.
by mingus88 | 2026-01-14 18:10:33+00:00
There is also the optic that the premiere US EV company failed to deliver an EV pickup truck behind Rivian, Ford, Stellantis, and arguably did a far worse job at it.

The F150 lightning was always going to be a tough sell for die hard truck customers but it at least has all the fit and finish that those customers expect, with access to the F-series aftermarket.
by dlcarrier | 2026-01-14 18:10:46+00:00
I have a kitchenaid dryer from the 80's with multiple selections for dryness levels and it works great every time. I can leave the clothes a little moist if the air is dry and I'm going to hang them immediately or set them to completely dry, in case I'm going to be away when they are ready.

My parents' modern dryer is awful, just like yours. The craziest part is that it starts a countdown timer when there's tens of minutes left, as though the designers new the sensor was awful and decided to add some extra drying time to cover it up.
by echelon | 2026-01-14 18:11:05+00:00
I had never heard of the Tim Peters incident, but I just googled it. (It's not on his Wikipedia page.)

I found this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1ep4dbt/the_shamefu...

Which points to this:

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestr...

This characterizes it as completely unfair, and the /r/python community seems to agree.

Is there a rebuttal from the other side?
by jandrese | 2026-01-14 18:11:06+00:00
5,600 units of Cybertrunk and Semi combined is basically 5,600 units of Cybertruck. The Semi is still a boondoggle. I can believe that number. Your maximum sales figures are capped by your price point, and the Cybertruck, as well as the S and X, are in that "Fully successful this vehicle will have sales in the mid-thousands" price bracket.

I sometimes wonder about a world where those trucks managed to hit their $40,000 price points. For the Cybertruck it was clear that Elon demanded way too much (four wheel seering? Come on) to ever get close to it, but for the F150 it seems more like the price was due to Ford halfassing the production.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-14 18:11:09+00:00
It's a shame the Lightning got discontinued.

As an EV owner, it sucks that the main thing holding the technology back is misconceptions and misunderstanding, rather than actual practical matters.

People think EVs are cars with tanks of electrons, and run aground the same way you would if you thought horses were cars full of hay. It's a different transport tool that gives the same results, you just have to know how to use it properly.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-14 18:11:11+00:00
Today in neighboring Belgium, in the city of Brussels, four people armed with machetes did hurt and kidnap a person in play daylight and put them in the trunk of their car. Thankfully police noticed something odd and a car chase, complete with helicopter, ensued.

When I was a kid in Brussels, there weren't people from the fourth world armed with machetes kidnapping people in broad daylight.

Would you qualify hurting a person (he's fine but he got hurt), kidnapping him as just a "hustle"?

Where do you draw the line? At which point do honest citizens have the right to live without fearing being kidnapped by fourth-world'ers armed with machetes?
by kotaKat | 2026-01-14 18:11:13+00:00
5G data roaming is hilarious for this. Verizon offered 500MB of high speed data roaming per day in Canada before throttling down to ~128kbps. I ran one single speedtest in the middle of Ottawa on Rogers 5G, didn't even finish the speedtest (hitting an error at the end that it failed), and got the text message going "You've run out of high speed data today. Do you want to buy another 500MB for $5?"

At least it's 2GB/day now. And my 5G roaming is off...
by tzs | 2026-01-14 18:11:20+00:00
The world only has effectively infinite resources if growth slows down, because exponentials get out of hand surprisingly quickly.

For example at 1% energy growth per year it would only take around 9-10k years before to reach an annual consumption equal to all the energy in the Milky Way galaxy. By "all the energy" I don't just mean consuming all the solar energy from all the stars, and using all the fissionable material in reactors, and fusing everything that can fuse, and burning all the burnable stuff. No, I mean also using all the gravitational potential energy in the galaxy, and somehow turning everything that has mass into energy according to E=mc^2.

From there at 1% annual growth it is only another 2-3k years to using all the energy in the whole observable universe annually.

Population at 1% growth also gets out of hand surprisingly quickly. If we don't get FTL travel then in about 12k years we run out space. That's because in 12k years with no FTL we can only expand into a spherical region of space 12k lightyears in radius. At 1% annual growth from the current population in 12k years the volume of humans would be more than fits in the sphere--and that's assuming we can pack humans so there is no wasted space.

We actually have population growth under 1% now, down to around 0.85%, but that only gets us another 2-3k years.
by ericmay | 2026-01-14 18:11:32+00:00
> Iran's government is rogue and I don't support them in any sense. They are committing crimes against their own people and funding terrorism elsewhere. The world would be better off if there was a different regime.

Yes you got that right.

It's interesting how you just can't leave it at that. Any criticism of a country besides Israel or the United States has to be couched in sarcasm or outright refusal to criticize other belligerents. It's tribalism. And so you can't get mad at other tribes for being tribal too.
by stevenwoo | 2026-01-14 18:11:37+00:00
Uniqlo and Patagonia specifically test their products through wear and tear and wash//dry cycles sources (others, too) - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/22/inside-uniqlos... and Let My People Surf. I think most other stuff we commonly see at retail has degraded to fast fashion and meant to only last a short time. The lifetime warranty and repairs offered by Patagonia speak for themselves I think.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-14 18:12:00+00:00
> How do you think VPNs are getting past VOD providers’ VPN block lists?

In my experience, they most often don't. If you got more insights, please enlighten me. I presume VPNs which get past VPN block lists, are just not yet on the radar, or don't provide the privacy claimed, not actually fully in control of their infrastructure.

> What’s illegal about them?

Where do you think residential IPs are coming from? It's often botnets or otherwise compromised devices, or people tricked into sharing their connection. In any case, it's most certainly breaking the ISP's TOS. Because of the effort behind providing residential IPs, these VPN services are rather expensive. And certainly not trustworthy in regard to privacy. If offering residential IPs would be legal, every VPN service would provide them.

> And does it matter to uncooperative/aggressive bots?

No. They are used for mostly shady/criminal activity, where the limitations and legality don't matter. I doubt commercial LLM crawlers and data intense campaigns aren't bothered by legality, stability, connectivity or (upload) bandwidth limitations. Like, you wouldn't crawl the web on a mobile connection.
Show HN: DanceJump For YouTube – turning videos into browser rhythm game
by maaydin | 2026-01-14 18:12:07+00:00
Hi HN,

I built DanceJump as an experiment in making rhythm games more accessible. It overlays arrows on top of any YouTube video and lets you play directly in the browser using a keyboard, controller, or USB dance pad.

It’s not meant to replace DDR or StepMania style simulators, but rather to make it possible to jump into songs that don’t normally have charts especially for quick or casual/family play.

It currently ships as a Chrome extension because it needs tight integration with the YouTube player and low-latency input handling. Everything runs fully client-side, no accounts, no tracking.

This started as a way to generate playable charts for songs that don’t normally exist in rhythm game libraries. I’d really value feedback on timing accuracy, input latency, and whether this feels usable compared to traditional setups.
by grouchomarx | 2026-01-14 18:12:09+00:00
>I think the timing of the Cybertruck starting deliveries roughly aligning with when Elon got heavily involved in politics

That and also it's just a bad product.

>That said, even though it's not to my taste, I do admire that they dared to do something different and took a big gamble on it.

A pickup truck should just be max utility, especially if you're a manufacturer making your first one
by 0xbadc0de5 | 2026-01-14 18:12:15+00:00
There's an incredible piece of biotechnology that converts insects and inedible seeds and detritus into delicious, perfectly edible protein pods with very high efficiency. And at EoL, any of the pods can be used to replace the original, which itself is also edible and delicious. It's fully automated and requires almost no human labor to maintain. This is my preferred method of superfood consumption.
Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?
by nuky | 2026-01-14 18:12:24+00:00
I’m wondering whether traditional diffs are becoming less suitable for AI-assisted development..

Lately I’ve been feeling frustrated during reviews when an AI generates a large number of changes. Even if the diff is "small", it can be very hard to understand what actually changed in behavior or structure.

I started experimenting with a different approach: comparing two snapshots of the code (baseline and current) instead of raw line diffs. Each snapshot captures a rough API shape and a behavior signal derived from the AST. The goal isn’t deep semantic analysis, but something fast that can signal whether anything meaningful actually changed.

It’s intentionally shallow and non-judgmental — just signals, not verdicts.

At the same time, I see more and more LLM-based tools helping with PR reviews. Probabilistic changes reviewed by probabilistic tools feels a bit dangerous to me.

Curious how others here think about this:
– Do diffs still work well for AI-generated changes?
– How do you review large AI-assisted refactors today?
by Teever | 2026-01-14 18:12:33+00:00
The no politics rule on HN is the equivalent of "the suspect smelled like marijuana so I had probable cause to search his car." -- it gives the moderators a plausible reason to remove content they don't want on here while maintaining an air of legitimacy around the removable because thems the rules.

Donald Trump has threatened to annex my country. Are posts about that political? Sure doesn't seem like it to me. From my persective this subject seems more like an existential threat then a discussion about policy. But I suppose to Americans it is just a matter of policy and politcs.

The incessent posts about Bay Area housing regulations -- political or not? Seems pretty political to me but apparently it isn't?
by buellerbueller | 2026-01-14 18:12:33+00:00
As I recently said about Scott Adams: "Good things can be done by Bad people." I think to assume that humans are these monolithic, logically consistent entities is to badly misunderstand humanity.

For example, Planned Parenthood--an organization I definitely believe in--was essentially created by a woman who was a eugenicist--something I definitely do not believe in.
by dyauspitr | 2026-01-14 18:12:47+00:00
The dose in urine is 1-3% of that of cigarette smokers so it is a significant, order of magnitude decrease in risk based on the paper another GP has posted below. In the mouth the levels also seem to be an order of magnitude lower than cigarette smokers (though similar in a majority of cases). Those are relatively acceptable risks for a vice I would think.
by palmotea | 2026-01-14 18:12:52+00:00
> Another current exhibit is the prohibition of using salt for removing snow and ice from the pavements because it's "bad for plants and the ground water". While that is true to some degree, the Berlin policy conveniently ignores all second-order effects: Sidewalks are more slippery, more people get hurt.

Rigorously considering second-order (and greater) effects is a massive undertaking, though. Like: how do you even know how many more people will slip and get hurt without salting sidewalks and how much the damage the salt does to "plants and ground water," without many careful and expensive research projects? And then there's the challenge of weighing such completely disparate things: how many injuries are healthier plants worth?

Basically is seems easier said than done.
by graemep | 2026-01-14 18:13:32+00:00
I am a bit confused about this. Is that a list of things you needed to open a bank account? Or a list of things for which you needed to show ID?

I am not sure a government digital ID would help with dealing with businesses.

Right to rent is a stupid and useless bit of bureaucracy which encourages racism - its much easier for landlords not to rent to someone who looks or sounds foreign, especially at the bottom end of the market where people might not have passports.
by jason_oster | 2026-01-14 18:13:46+00:00
Come again?

I was skeptical of the LLM energy use claim. I went looking for numbers on energy usage in a domain that most people do not worry about or actively perceive as a net negative. Gaming is a very big industry ($197 billion in 2025 [1], compare to the $252 billion in private AI investment for 2025 [2]) and mostly runs on the same hardware as LLMs. So it's a good gut check.

I have not seen evidence that LLM energy usage is out of control. It appears to be much less than gaming. But please feel free to provide sources that demonstrate this lie.

The question is whether claims of AI energy use have sustenance, or if there are other industries that should be more concerning. People are either truly concerned about the cost of energy or it's a misplaced excuse to reinforce their negative opinions.

[1]: https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/12/23/the-gaming-industry...

[2]: https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/econo...
by bee_rider | 2026-01-14 18:13:48+00:00
That’s an interesting question.

Actually, a follow up. PII leaks are so common, I guess there must be millions of identities out there up for grabs. This makes me wonder: we’ve got various jurisdictions where sites are legally required to verify the age of users. And everybody (including the people running these sites) knows that tons of identities are out there on the internet waiting to be used.

How does a site do due diligence in this context? I guess just asking for a scan of somebody’s easily fabricated ID shouldn’t be sufficient legal cover…
by danans | 2026-01-14 18:14:13+00:00
I shouldn't have used the word "tend", but there are still many 2-stroke auto-rickshaws in India. I saw (and smelled) them a year ago. That said, I know many cities in India have banned them, and they are not in production anymore.

Having been in an electric rickshaw, I will take them over a combustion one (2 or 4-stroke) if I have a choice. I hope that the economics in India reach the tipping point where they are the obvious choice for rickshaw drivers.
by akhil08agrawal | 2026-01-14 18:14:19+00:00
Interesting idea. As a product person I'm immediately thinking about security. how does this handle auth, data validation, etc when backend logic is embedded in HTML?

But that said, this could unlock some interesting use cases where security isn't the primary concern. Like few internal tools, prototypes, small side projects where the tradeoff might be worth it.
by afavour | 2026-01-14 18:15:21+00:00
> I think to assume that humans are these monolithic, logically consistent entities is to badly misunderstand humanity.

I don't think anyone is doing that though. But to decide whether to give someone's business money you do have to come to some sort of decision about their net good vs bad. It's logically consistent for the OP to be aware that Musk is aiding internet connectivity in Iran but still oppose giving him money.