MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-01-09 14:04:05+00:00
> Because it struggles to compete with the US monopolies doesn't mean that it doesn't have a software industry. It's hard to compete with TooBigTech when they are being anti-competitive, and whenever the EU tries to apply antitrust laws, they get bullied by the US.

Is there anything that stops today anyone from starting a new Google or a new Microsoft or a new Apple in Europe? Concretely no. What's stopping this is that most governments in Europe are taxing companies to death to fund social services that end up in deficit anyway.

It's getting tiring of hearing of the big bad Microsoft that stops poor Europe from competing properly.

The EU tech salaries are ridiculously low and the tax burden is unreasonably high. Add on top of that an aversion to risk from the banks and VC funds in Europe and this is what you get.
by teekert | 2026-01-09 14:04:23+00:00
I see some people donating money to open source. I'm currently discussing with my bookkeeper but she says it's all personal, so I pay income tax (in the Netherlands) and then I can donate. Is this really true? Why can't I just give some money to the devs that develop the software I use in my business, as a business? It makes it twice as expensive.
by lompad | 2026-01-09 14:04:37+00:00
Problem here being that those terms aren't used as defined in regular discourse. Language changes and casual use differs from academic use.

When on an american-centric board anybody writes about "communism", I assume they refer to anything from marxism to stalinism to socialism to democratic socialism to social democracy up to anything non-hyper-capitalist. Not great, but sadly something to be taken into consideration.

Especially when looked at in context - parent was criticizing the EU initiative by essentially claiming something like that leads to a kind of monoculture like in a planned economy reminiscent of "communism", here probably meaning stalinism, from what I assume is a radical libertarian position. Which tells me the person is likely american, implying a rather ... minimal awareness of the nuance here.

Please, look at the actual comment chain and it should be rather trivial to make out what everybody is talking about. Does your comment really add value here?
by episteme | 2026-01-09 14:04:44+00:00
I think I hold a similar view to you and have the same question so maybe what I’ve been thinking about might be useful to you. Everyone is upset about CSAM but when you talk about it, it’s only about deepfakes.

I don’t think we can avoid a world where people can generate CSAM easily, so we have to separate the discussion between being able to do that privately and grok being able to do it.

It makes sense to me that we don’t want widely used websites to contain images of CSAM that you can’t easily avoid, it’s simply repulsive to almost everyone and that’s almost certainly a human instinct, I don’t think it needs to be much more complicated than that.

In terms of generating CSAM privately or even sharing it with other people, I think this is a much more interesting discussion. I think at this point it is an open question on whether it is harmful. Could this replace the abuse that is happening to create some of the real content? Does the escalation argument hold water - will people be more likely to sexually assault children due to access to this material? I don’t think we know enough about pedophilia to answer these questions but given that I don’t think there is a way to stop generating this content in 2026 we really need to answer these questions before we decide to simply incarcerate everyone doing it.
by wt__ | 2026-01-09 14:05:02+00:00
Although I don't use iNaturalist that often (because I don't want the hassle of photographing the species I definitely know) I'm always conscious of the fact it has a relatively modern stack (Rails and PostgresSQL) whereas iRecord is still limping along on Drupal (very sub-optimal DB schema and quite a few front-end annoyances due to module limitations).
by qubex | 2026-01-09 14:05:07+00:00
Not exactly the same thing, but I tried to use two AI models (ChatGPT 5.2 and the latest Gemini) to serve as ersatz Referees for an applied mathematics paper I am planning to publish, and it was an exercise in pointless, frustrating disaster. Suggested extensions that made no sense, requests for intermediate steps that then they couldn’t make any sense of, suggestions to introduce lemmas and remarks that were nonsensical, all the way to recommendations to state that I had proved the exact opposite of what I actually had proved. Never again.
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-09 14:05:25+00:00
"Say what you want about the Iranian government"

I will. For example, it is a nasty group of medieval characters, extremely corrupt even by contemporary standards, and willing to kill and maim their opponents at every opportunity. Hanging people from cranes, bloody hell.

"most obvious CIA-sponsored color revolution"

Yeah, because millions of people are just stupid remote-controlled robotic zombies who will, upon a command of the CIA, go into the streets against Basij thugs who are willing to shoot at them.

Do people outside the West have any personal agency themselves in your view, or are they all just mindless puppets of the Big White Man in the White House?

This is not to deny that the US has some interest in getting the ayatollahs overthrown. But I find the opinion that everyone in the world just obediently dances by someone's flute quite dehumanizing.
by ericmay | 2026-01-09 14:05:30+00:00
If that’s the case, good. Let’s hope it is successful. Iran is solely responsible for a lot, perhaps most, of the geopolitical problems in the Middle East.

The US isn’t trying to restrict Venezuela’s oil sales. It is restricting those sales and part of that work, remember Russia invaded Ukraine and aids Iran in destabilizing the Middle East, is the seizure of ships flying under false flags in violation of international maritime law and in violation of US and European Union sanctions on Russian oil sales.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-09 14:05:57+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dzq41n4l9o

> Giving evidence earlier, he said the group's only intention was to "break in, cause as much damage to the factory as possible, destroy weapons and prevent the factory from reopening".

I count "causing as much damage as possible" to be violent.

While I think graffiti taggers "damage property" but are non-violent. But in many places, rival gangs blow up/set alight/demolish their rivals' homes/businesses/vehicles, etc. That counts as pretty strong violence to me, even if no people are injured.

Anyway, talking of people being injured, watch a member of Palestine Action (Samuel Corner, 23, Oxford University graduate) drive a sledgehammer into a police seargent while she's trying to arrest his comrade:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g54g1r15eo

Full video, sledgehammer attack at 3m05s to 3m10s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6P7p_5D4hw

I'd designate them as a terrorist group for destroying factories, not so much for spraypainting planes. But I'd still support your right to say you support them, even though I'd disagree.
by askl | 2026-01-09 14:06:05+00:00
> I thought it would be nice not to have to take out my credit/debit card from the wallet or my mobile phone from the pocket to pay, but instead, to bring the watch closer to the PoS and just pay with a pinch of modern-day magic .

I don't know, every time I see someone paying with their watch it looks super awkward when they have to twist their arm so the watch gets close enough to the reader.

Most of the time they are holding their phone in their other hand which makes the whole thing extra silly and unnecessary.

I still think this is a pretty cool project.
by Draiken | 2026-01-09 14:06:14+00:00
Which is better because?

We can't copy/paste a new ASML no matter how hard you try (aside from open sourcing all of their IPs). Even if you do, by the time you copy one generation of machine, they're on a new generation and you now still have the bottleneck on the same place.

Not to mention that with these monopolies they can just keep increasing prices ad infinitum.
by thiago_fm | 2026-01-09 14:06:50+00:00
You aren't saving the planet by purchasing a product from Apple. They are the kings of planned obsolescence and also have release cycles and marketing to make their customers over-consume.

Marketing that seems to have worked with you. I'm wondering if you even did any research at all.

Instead of using a garbage phone from Apple, go with better alternatives that are made to last, can be fixed, is more environmental safe, can be fixed etc.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-01-09 14:06:59+00:00
Except for the timezone gymnastics, specs are typical of a modern $5 Chinese watch --- which I'm wearing right now.

If Casio wanted to really push the envelope, they should add a simple slot to store a micro-SD memory card. No reading electronics or connectivity or anything --- just a simple latched slot to securely hold the card. Should be cheap and easy.

Then I wouldn't have to build this to carry my backup data with me wherever I go:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6784665
by LinXitoW | 2026-01-09 14:07:54+00:00
I don't think any serious dev has claimed 10x as a general statement. Obviously, no true scotsman and all that, so even my statement about makers of anecdotal statements is anecdotal.

Even as a slight fan, I'd never claim more than 10-20% all together. I could maybe see 5x for some specific typing heavy usages. Like adding a basic CRUD stuff for a basic entity into an already existing Spring app.
by AlexeyBrin | 2026-01-09 14:08:48+00:00
Your CTO is right, reviewing code is harder than writing it. Any experienced programmer will confirm that.

If the human is the bottleneck the logical step is to use a different AI to review the code produced by the original AI. You can even use two different AIs to review the code generated by the first one and accept the code if both agree it does not have bugs. I doubt this will guarantee a high quality product, but it is the solution to doing all your code with AI.

The prudent choice would be to push any generated code to production only after it was tested and reviewed by an experienced human programmer.
by misja111 | 2026-01-09 14:08:50+00:00
No I agree with you, there are area's where AI is helping amazingly. Every now and then it helps me with some issue as well, which would have cost me hours earlier and now it's done in minutes. E.g. some framework that I'm not that familiar with, or doing the scaffolding for some unit test.

However this is only a small portion of my daily dev work. For most of my work, AI helps me little or not at all. E.g. adding a new feature to a large codebase: forget it. Debugging some production issue: maybe it helps me a little bit to find some code, but that's about it.

And this is what my post was referring to: not that AI doesn't help at all, but to the crazy claims (10x speedup in daily work) that you see all over social media.
by quietbritishjim | 2026-01-09 14:09:32+00:00
One member did very violently attack a police officer:

> A police sergeant was left unable to drive, shower or dress herself after a Palestine Action activist allegedly hit her with a sledgehammer during a break-in at an Israeli defence firm's UK site, a trial has heard.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g54g1r15eo

Of course, one violent member does not make an organisation into a terrorist organisation. But, just as a matter of fact, there has been some actual violence against a person.
Show HN: Plan trips from Instagram reels in minutes
by shivam-myv | 2026-01-09 14:09:34+00:00
What is the problem?
People save a lot of travel reels on instagram by bookmarking them. But there is no easy way to convert the reels into actual trips. Real scenarios:
- Where is that reel from Italy I saved a few months ago?
Lost in the Instagram saved collection or whatsapp chats.
- I am visiting Italy soon. How do I find all my saved reels just from Italy?
Impossible to find if you have saved thousands of reels.
- I managed to find all the Italy reels I saved. How do I convert them into an actual trip?
Even if you found all the reels, planning a trip from them involves rewatching each & every reel, noting down all the locations found in each reel & then somehow converting them into an actual trip. This can take days to do manually.

How does Map Your Voyage solve this?
5 simple steps:
1. [One time process] Create an account on Map Your Voyage.
2. [One time process] Enter your instagram username & verify the account. Once your account is verified, you will be shown an instagram username where you need to send your favorite travel reels as DMs.
3. Start sending your favorite travel reels as DM to the Instagram account shown to you in the 2nd step.
4. Our AI automatically detects all the locations from the reels & organizes them into country specific bucket lists. All of this happens in the background without you ever leaving the instagram app.
5. When you are ready to visit a country, just convert the bucket list into a daywise itinerary covering all your favorite locations.

I’d love to hear your thoughts—whether it’s what you liked, what didn’t work, or any suggestions for improvement. Every bit of feedback will help me shape the next steps.

Thanks for taking a look—happy to answer any questions!
by clarionbell | 2026-01-09 14:09:51+00:00
Draghi report made it abundantly clear that this is the big issue. Despite being outwardly unified, EU market is horribly fractured, with regulations building on top of EU standards in almost every state and every area of business.

Then there are high energy costs, high salary costs, limited mobility of the workforce (partly due to ongoing housing crisis), entrenched overseas competition that doesn't have to deal with same challenges.

Together, these add to a deadly mix. Paradoxically, software is less affected than other industries. But even here it's bad.
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-09 14:09:54+00:00
Cool project, I feel like I have been running my own mental, gut feeling degeneration tracker so far.

- Is a daily sample size of 50 really sufficient to distinguish actual model degradation from the inherent stochasticity of SWE-bench?
- Since you're running directly in the CLI, do you also track 'silent' degradations like increased token usage or latency, or is it strictly pass/fail?
- What are the§ API costs for daily Opus 4.5 runs on 50 SWE tasks?
by kwanbix | 2026-01-09 14:10:32+00:00
As a South American, it’s striking to see how the current U.S. administration has forced other countries to confront the risks of not having their own digital infrastructure.

And this isn’t just about software or the cloud. What happens if tomorrow the U.S. forbids Apple from selling iPhones outside its borders? Or starts requiring built-in backdoors or kill switchs?

Scenarios like these raise a deeper question: could this push the most powerful players—the U.S., the EU, China, India to eventually rebuild entire technology stacks from scratch in the name of self preservation?

Could this mean the end of a globalized world?
by DangitBobby | 2026-01-09 14:11:09+00:00
A lot happened. Trump and his ilk being in power has uniquely facilitated an extended "masks off" period so the rest of the globe has repeated refutations of the US's previous reputation as sometimes belligerent but mostly benevolent. That large swaths of the population could repeatedly openly support the corruption, the vulgarity, the cruelty, and the lawlessness of the administration revealed an unmoored civic/political process at best and underlying cultural and institutional rot at worst. In short, the US has revealed itself to have already declined to a point where it's no longer wise to allow it global hegemony. A dying Republican party, willing to do anything and everything required to remain politically relevant managed to dismantle 70 years of carefully executed foreign policy and unseat us as the global hegemon.

From the inside, I feel the cultural rot runs deep, political tension is high even among family, and the institutional inertia will prevent us from making the necessary political reform (end gerrymandering, end legalized bribery, reform our voting system to eliminate the 2 party system) before violent internal conflict occurs.
by PurpleRamen | 2026-01-09 14:11:11+00:00
That's an interesstingly delusional take, considering Open Source would support the free market in this specific case.

> If you're afraid that one country might create a better software product/company and win the market and this would become 'unfair,' you've already lost the plot.

That's not how this market works. With government, many projects do not make the deal because they have the better offer or superiour product, but because the company is better at playing the administration, which usually comes down to "investing more money". Open Source and open standards can remove some of the leverages they use, enabling smaller companies to play on a bigger field, and thus improving the market overall.

And with the actual political situation in Europe, there is also the beneficial sideeffect that more players in the market, and less dependecy from single point of failures, will allow everyone to raise their survival-rate in case of hostile actions.
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-09 14:11:12+00:00
I could purchase the fully fledged OS X operating system as a consumer for $20, and get customer support for it. Now the OS is free with customer support.

> There is no artificial monopoly in FLOSS

I don't care about that as a consumer. I want software / a computer which works and easy customer support if I need it. People are very willing to pay for that, but there is no such FLOSS offering as far as I know. Because FLOSS developers hate consumers and worship corporate enterprises.
by michael_forrest | 2026-01-09 14:11:20+00:00
This! I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a chance to spin up a greenfield project, prototype or proof of concept in my 30 year career. Those were always stolen moments, and the bottleneck was never really coding ability. Most professional software development is wading through janky codebases of others' (or your own) creation, trying to iron out weird little glitches of the kind that LLMs can now generate on an industrial scale (and are incapable of fixing).
by Peteragain | 2026-01-09 14:11:32+00:00
Did people here see the Cory Doctorow thing a few days back about DMCA and "Article 6 of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive"?
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
Basically without open source, the rest of the world will have to keep paying a tithe to American companies, and hence tax in the USA.
Show HN: Free noise evidence generator for tenant complaints
by countfeng | 2026-01-09 14:12:18+00:00
I built a free, no-registration noise evidence generator for tenant noise complaints.

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As a tenant dealing with noise issues, I was frustrated that existing tools either required subscriptions or uploaded data to servers. This tool is:
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Website: https://noiseevidence.com

Feedback welcome!
by jyoung789 | 2026-01-09 14:13:44+00:00
Ultimately, if your interest is in contributing to scientific biodiversity data collections, I really feel inatuslist is the best tool for the average person to do this.

Similarly to programs like eBird[0] or bumble bee watch [1] (both of which are taxa specific), inatuslist contributes its data to GBIF[2]. This is a large database including records from all over the world,and is made up of both modern digital observations (like those from inat), historical observations like those kept in herbariums, as well as independently published records from smaller organised research efforts.

I work as in academia and do a fair amount of spacial modeling in relation to biodiversity data, and the data from iNaturalist as published in GBIF is essentially the best coverage I can find if we are talking about large geographies. I also do my own field work, tracking specific study sites and iNaturalist is a fantastic tool for generating species lists. Within about an hour, usually while also carrying out some other field task, me and my team of technicians can capture the wide majority of plant species at a given site, all with location data, time stamps, and usually high quality photos that allow me to verify the computer vision IDs. Then back in my office, I can open up iNaturlaist online, and look through all the data, as well as download it in a consistent format. I’ve also worked out methods that allow me to do something similar (albeit more focused) for bees.

Seek offers essentially all the same value to researchers while also streamlining the experience for users. You are able to get a quick answer, and I still get the biodiversity data generated by you, without the clunkiness that comes from the inat app(s).

Beyond scientific data, as someone who is principally a botanist, I find the accuracy of iNaturalist to be far better than things like pictureThis. So even in these cases, I still think it’s worth while for the casual user to stick with seek if you’re looking to identify mainly stationary life forms or record them for your own use.

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[0] https://ebird.org/home

[1] https://www.bumblebeewatch.org/

[2] https://www.gbif.org/
by quietbritishjim | 2026-01-09 14:13:51+00:00
> I count "causing as much damage as possible" to be violent.

That is just not what the word violent means (unless used figuratively but I don't think that's what you mean). It means hurting, or attempting to hurt, a person (or maybe an animal). Setting fire or blowing up a home which might have people still in it is certainly violent, but destroying property for the sake or property destruction is not.

Of course, deliberately attacking someone with a sledgehammer certainly is.
by HPsquared | 2026-01-09 14:13:52+00:00
This is where evolutionary theory can be viewed through
the lens of coevolution or group selection (a group defined as containing both a selection of humans, and also animals and plants in varying degrees of domestication, as a whole system). This is in contrast to kin selection, which only accounts for genetic relatedness.

I remember in one of Jiang Xueqin's videos, he made the interesting argument that "grain domesticated humans" at least as much, if not more, than "humans domesticated grain".
by superb_dev | 2026-01-09 14:14:14+00:00
Please look at the second image in this article[0]. It shows each frame of the video where a shot was fired. Her tires were pointed away when the first shot was fired and the second two shots were from the side of the vehicle. She was clearly trying to leave, she was not trying to hit anyone.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/01/08/vid...
by energy123 | 2026-01-09 14:14:47+00:00
20k words by the 0.75 words/token rule of thumb.

It's a lot, but for quick projects I don't do this. Only for one important project that I have ownership of for over a year.

Maintaining this has been worth it. It makes the codebase more stable, it's like the codebase slowly converges to what I want (as defined in the doc) the more inferences I run, rather than becoming spaghetti.