MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-25 03:43:00+00:00
There is video. There was no riot by any standard.

How do you know how he got there? How do you know he wasn't already there when ICE arrived? You are making assumptions in order to cast a non-evidence supported judgement.

I didn't realize the second amendment limited magazine amount.

Yes, a man tried to help up a woman who was pushed to the ground by ICE and stopped further (illegal) excessive assault/battery by ICE. That was the extent he 'imposed' himself.

The man videoed on his camera, first amendmendment protected activity that is not considered impeding ICE.

ICE are not in fact allowed to use lethal force against impediment.

His character matters when you try to paint a picture that is completely untrue and portray him as doing something he didn't and make him out to be some agitator like the government did the last person ICE murdered or the bombastic and unsupported emotionally charged language you choose to use. You calling out/policing language use while using the emotionally charged (and unsupported) language you do is classic internet cry-bully bullshit.

I understand your position is that people can hide at home from the government thugs wearing masks. I understand your position this man should die because he tried to help a woman up. I understand your position this man should die because he videoed government agents (or in your words impeded) wearing masks. I understand your position that law enforcement can murder people when they are impeded (even though legally they can't do that). I understand that you support an absolute garbage position that is based on and backed by nothing and is the opposite of American.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-25 03:43:14+00:00
Jean Baudrillard is a fraud/charlatan. Semiotics is a fake field. Him and all his friends (i.e. Foucualt, Derrida, DnG, Althussar, etc) are at Chiropractors/ Homeopaths for the mind and at worst actual useful idiots for western intelligence agencies.
by al_borland | 2026-01-25 03:46:25+00:00
The business case is the same as every “dumb” device since the dawn of time, up until maybe 10 years ago.

Sell and product with enough margin to make money. Don’t sell it at or below cost, then spy on your users and sell them to the real customers, the advertisers.

“Dumb” stuff has a very simple and honest business model. Market the cars by exposing what every other car brand is actually doing.
by Grimblewald | 2026-01-25 03:47:29+00:00
This is my experience also. Closely guarded email, haven't received _any_ spam to it to date, but a large volume of false positives. This, among other reasons, actually led to my setting up my own email server again. Gmail is a great product if you don't know what you're doing or have avaliable to you. It's like a McDonalds burger. Not inpressive, not good, bot bad either, and certainly won't offend anyone while being accessible --- but calling it good is a bit out of touch with what good looks like.
by zahlman | 2026-01-25 03:47:45+00:00
> For the analysis, the researchers divided California into 1,692 neighborhoods, using a geographic unit similar to zip codes. They obtained publicly available data from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles on the number of ZEVs registered in each neighborhood. ZEVs include full-battery electric cars, plug-in hybrids and fuel-cell cars, but not heavier duty vehicles like delivery trucks and semi trucks.

> Next, the research team obtained data from the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), a high-resolution satellite sensor that provides daily, global measurements of NO₂ and other pollutants. They used this data to calculate annual average NO₂ levels in each California neighborhood from 2019 to 2023.

> Over the study period, a typical neighborhood gained 272 ZEVs, with most neighborhoods adding between 18 and 839. For every 200 new ZEVs registered, NO₂ levels dropped 1.1%, a measurable improvement in air quality.

Seems pretty clear to me that that's controlled for.
by chaostheory | 2026-01-25 03:48:27+00:00
It’s probably still more net efficient in the long run. Besides, the main advantage EVs bring isn’t being more environmentally friendly. The main advantage is that it allows a nation to have more flexibility with its energy sources. i.e. an EV can run on anything that can generate electricity like coal or natural gas, while ICE cars mostly only run on gasoline.
by sillywalk | 2026-01-25 03:49:42+00:00
> Transformers and turbines of any significance are not off the shelf parts and can have lead times of years

Bloomberg had a decent article[0] about transformers and their lead time. They're currently a bottleneck on building. It wasn't paywalled for me.

"The Covid-19 pandemic strained many supply chains, and most have recovered by now. The supply chain for transformers started experiencing troubles earlier — and it’s only worsened since. Instead of taking a few months to a year, the lead time for large transformer delivery is now three to five years. " [0]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transfor...
by dgacmu | 2026-01-25 03:49:46+00:00
It gets studied. EVs are often heavier, which is worse for tire wear, but use regenerative braking, which is better for brake dust.

Overall, EVs are likely a net win on the combination of these two things, and a big win on exhaust emissions, but it would be nice if we could shift to lighter and smaller vehicles and increase the mix of non-cars such as e-bikes and mass transit.

Source: https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/4...
by smsm42 | 2026-01-25 03:50:47+00:00
Language is not a huge deal - if the French and the Spanish and the Dutch can use Facebook, they could use Eurobook if that existed, as well. The problem of course would be, if they made a committee to build Eurobook, they'd spend 5 years in meetings to ensure every country and every language is absolutely equally represented and then would build something that no speaker of any language would use.

As for GDP, EU overall GDP is only slightly less than US GDP, so it could very well sustain the industry of comparable size. Per capita GDP is indeed lower, but I'm not sure how that precludes creation of something like Eurobook.
by dekhn | 2026-01-25 03:50:51+00:00
I think you completely and totally misread my comment and incorrectly imputed my intent. I am in no way allied with ICE, what they are doing is abhorrent and wrong. I'm not sure why you're attacking me or assuming I have a position completely opposite of the one I have. I used caveat words- "I think it's factual". That's the way somebody states their subjective opinion of what they believe the facts are.

I have nothing to quibble with the video you linked (which I think must have been released since I made my comment, or I missed it), that makes the order of events a lot clearer, I can see the gun being taken now, and the timing of the shot.
by dietr1ch | 2026-01-25 03:51:45+00:00
I was alright with the backup cameras and an AUX cable (Bluetooth sucked for at least a decade and not owning your media will forever suck)

Now I can stream video from my phone to my car's screen, but can't have the phone ask the car to warm-up, that'll be 30 bucks a month. Things took a drastic corporate turn.
by marcosdumay | 2026-01-25 03:53:17+00:00
> It likely is wrong, that's fine

It's almost never fine, though. When it's fine, people aren't pressured into giving estimates.

> It likely is wrong, that's fine

The most you can do is say it. Communication demands effort from all involved parties, and way too many people in a position to demand estimates just refuse to put any effort into it.
by nanolith | 2026-01-25 03:53:27+00:00
I could spot the clone because I'm familiar with the form factor of the FTDI IC, and I'm familiar enough with the datasheet to spot the expected passives.

I'm not too keen these days with FTDI's reputation for manipulating their Windows device drivers to brick clones. So, while I'm familiar with their IC, I don't give them any more money. The next time I need a USB to serial cable, I'll bust out KiCad to build it using one of the ubiquitous ARM microcontrollers with USB features built in. Of course, this is easier for me, since I can write my own Linux or BSD device driver as well.
by eignerchris_ | 2026-01-25 03:54:07+00:00
I know folks are blaming AI but looking back on my 17 years in tech, AI is just the latest hyped-up fever-dream. And whenever there's hype the marketers will do whatever they can to move the metrics, regardless of industry. They hide unsub links, force auth to unsub, auto sub you to new newsletters, send you "we're sorry to see you go" emails, and more.

Social, Apps, Cloud, Crypto, and now AI.
by gnabgib | 2026-01-25 03:54:41+00:00
(2017) Popular:

2024 (273 points, 112 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40387318

2021 (418 points, 153 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440681

2017 (337 points, 88 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15908107
by saguntum | 2026-01-25 03:56:02+00:00
I haven't used any but there are several it seems: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/google-docs

NextCloud looks ok.

For some reason I thought it was open to the public, but France also maintains a full sovereign cloud office suite for use by civil servants: https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en

Maybe one day they'll open it up publicly.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-25 03:56:17+00:00
> If a company is legally obligated to offer a feature to people in other parts of the world, they should be forced to offer it at back home in the US as well

The obvious implication of the above statement is that the US government should force the company to do this.

>This is a pretty typical self -entitled attitude that Americans have.

When Americans ask their government for the exact same thing that Europeans asked their government for, suddenly Europeans think Americans are "entitled". Hard to parody you guys.
by kgeist | 2026-01-25 03:57:01+00:00
>Didn't Russia quickly spin up an alternative smartcard payment system

The MIR payment system started functioning in 2015, long before Visa/Mastercard pulled out of Russia

>Android app store

Initially there was some fragmentation because several companies raced to develop "Russia's #1 answer to Google Play Store" but everyone eventually settled on RuStore developed by VK (Russia's Facebook).

Generally, Russia already had replacements for all major American services long before 2022, with good market penetration: Google => Yandex, Meta => VK, Uber => Yandex Taxi, etc. Lack of own app store was more like an oversight.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2026-01-25 03:57:13+00:00
Plug-in hybrids are a wonderful middle point on the Pareto frontier.

Wikipedia lists the 3rd-gen Prius Prime at roughly 3,500 pounds curb weight, and the Tesla Model Y at 4,100-4,600 pounds, I assume depending on the battery it's equipped with.

The Prius Prime has 40+ miles of all-electric range, and it can reach highway speeds with the gas engine off. So your day-to-day driving is all electric, then you still have an engine for harsh winter days, power outages, and you have 600 miles EPA range on gas for sudden road trips.

People are really sleeping on hybrids. Even a used non-plug-in Prius will get 50 city and 50 highway MPG. No gas sedan can do that.
by jraph | 2026-01-25 03:57:20+00:00
I, and most of us, mean a language in which one can express a computer program, which is a set of instructions for a computer to execute. You don't execute an HTML file, you display, or render it. You can't implement fizz buzz in HTML.

A programming language doesn't need to be procedural, it can be functional, or use another computationally equivalent paradigm. I'm not quite sure it needs to be Turing complete, but possibly.

If you consider any language you program with to be a programming language, then CSS, JSON, markdown and even English (that's what you use to express the specs, the bugs, maybe your notes / drafts, the comments) or UML need to be programming languages too. That's not quite useful. "Program with" is too large.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14512218/is-html5-a-prog...
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-25 03:57:20+00:00
> But I have to ask: are those screens actually any good? Ours have FHD panels, and I have not seen a single one with a decent screen.

Yeah, I brought up the screens because the FHD screens are not good and there's a chance you might end up with a SureView screen. The QHD screens suit my needs, they support HDR and higher refresh rates. I'm not a designer or someone who can speak to color quality/contrast/etc, though.

I eventually had an issue with the keyboard on a G8 model, a key popped off 3 years into using it, but I've also had that same issue with the keyboard of every laptop I've owned including every MacBook from 2006-2018, so the problem is likely me.

> These are also fairly expensive, around 1500 EUR, and the components are of questionable quality. The SSDs in particular are dog-slow (but they're very easy to replace).

I buy them on the consumer side when there's a >60% off sale, I would not pay the sticker price for them, and get them with the intention of replacing the innards so I spec them out with the least I can.

If you don't care about new, if you buy Ebay open box/refurbished Elitebooks, you can find recent ones for a few hundred bucks with HP support for a year or more. The overnight laptop replacement I got was for a refurbed Elitebook I bought on Ebay and HP replaced it without question.
by goatlover | 2026-01-25 04:00:18+00:00
Shooting US citizens who are exercising their Constitutional rights to protest and observe is fascist. So is all the beatings, breaking down doors and pulling people out of cars, not to mention detaining citizens without providing access to an attorney.

Also, I don't see a good reason to deport people already living here unless they've engaged in criminal activity. Crossing the border illegally is a civil violation. You can enforce the border without being cruel to people already living here, working hard raising families.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2026-01-25 04:00:54+00:00
> Nobody studies this
> Even playgrounds are filled with shredded tires, which borders on biohazard.

They don't study it, but you're worried about it? I'm curious to know why these things in particular (brake dust and rubber tires) are on the radar.

(And a quick search shows that people do study this.)
by zippyman55 | 2026-01-25 04:00:56+00:00
I never found CA hard to live in. Yes it was expensive but there was always a zillion things to do. And I did miss one of the first property run ups so I did pay my dues. But never demanded a 4000 sq ft home. The people I hired scored homes and seemed to do well also.
I now spilt time with another state, and I hired several younger CA people to the remote state (homes 60 percent less, great salary) and they went back to CA or to DC!
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-25 04:01:13+00:00
A long ongoing discussion;

Related recently:

European Alternatives

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731976

AWS European Sovereign Cloud

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46640462

I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427582

Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558635

Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822902

'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44552389
by jbm | 2026-01-25 04:01:29+00:00
This will be met with consternation, not appreciation. The people who comment about brake dust in EV topics are the people who complain about birds when talking about windmills.

We know it is disingenuous because no one cares about this when discussing overweight trucks and SUVs. Good news about a reduction in pollution from EVs? Can't have that. It's like the "At what price" meme around headlines about China.

Going forward, I will downvote any comment about "brake pollution" and "tire pollution" that does not begin with - specifically - "This is a bigger issue for large, gas-powered trucks and SUVs", and invite you all to do so to. The association of these shitty comments with EV topics is as organic as lighter fluid.
by cyberrock | 2026-01-25 04:01:33+00:00
The hardware itself used to be exclusive. We used to marvel at what the Cell processor, N64 MIPS, etc. could do, but now PS and XBox are just commodities that we could say is equivalent to a 58XX + 20XX. Even the Switch 1 became a commodity at the end of its life, if we count emulation.

Personally, I would define the lack of exclusives outside of Nintendo's shrinking sphere as a monoculture. At the same time, I don't have a verdict on whether this is good or not. On one hand, everyone on the globe can theoretically play anything now, as opposed to what countries some American and Japanese companies can find on a map, but on the other hand, this monoculture has also completely erased our ability to truly own or trade games. Gamers now need to periodically assess if they need to upgrade hardware, and it has directly connected this hobby with the turbulence of the global economy.

On an emotional level, the erosion of console boundaries has made the world feel smaller, and that makes me inexplicably sad. Imagine if your local playwrights or board game makers feel like they need to put their works on a global marketplace, tailored to the tastes of the biggest markets.

Of course, I too have a lot of blind spots. For example, I have no idea what games are brewing on Roblox or itch.io nowadays, some of which might be on a top 10 play-hours chart if we could aggregate all platforms together. When I see one of them like Juice World/Galaxy leak out of their containers, I'm filled with joy that there's still a pocket of this world that I haven't explored.
Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user?
by kingleopold | 2026-01-25 04:01:35+00:00
https://x.com/paularambles/status/2015145005212746208

https://xcancel.com/paularambles/status/2015145005212746208

Does anyone know how and why? Is law and order only apply to people, small and medium size companies?
by text0404 | 2026-01-25 04:01:55+00:00
You can quite clearly see the second shooter in the video standing over him, shooting him multiple times as he's laying motionless on the ground after being beaten and shot once.

> the most likely theory

According to whom? What's your source for this? Wild that you're trying to muddy the waters with "theories" that even ICE hasn't claimed (the only defense so far is that he was a violent domestic terrorist who wanted to murder ICE agents, which is demonstrably false).
by elcritch | 2026-01-25 04:02:44+00:00
That was not my intent. H1-B visas were sold as helping talent shortage. There are many genuinely talented immigrants and always have been. Fantastic! A previous company hired an H1-B visa and he was truly a talent in robotics.

However that doesn't mean that the real political support for masses of H1-Bs was ever about talent. It was about lowering labor costs by semi-exploiting large numbers of immigrants willing to work insane hours knowing they'd loose their visa's otherwise.

There's also lots of talented American's here by immigration or born here who were affected by all developer salaries being suppressed by the big H1-B visa abusers.
Show HN: AsyncReview – An OSS DevinReview Using RLMs
by sashimikun | 2026-01-25 04:03:40+00:00
Hi HN — I’m Sheing, the original author of Deepwiki-Open.

I just open-sourced AsyncReview, a DevinReview-inspired code review tool that uses an RLM-style approach to review large PRs without trying to fit everything into a single prompt.

It treats the repo as external state and lets the model search and revisit files as needed. This is still early and experimental, but it’s been useful for reviewing PRs that other tools tend to skip.

Happy to hear feedback or criticism.
by Larrikin | 2026-01-25 04:06:25+00:00
I liked the system one of my old workplaces had.

If you want to celebrate your birthday with your team, you bring in your own cake. The manager will designate time for the team to eat it and maybe have some company beers at the end of the day.

If you don't bring in anything then there's just private words throughout the day.

The system eliminates any need to ask to split the cost or go through a budget request, since it's one dessert item once a year.
by TruePath | 2026-01-25 04:07:04+00:00
To clarify the point in the other reply -- imagine it sent one packet per keystroke. Now anyone sitting on the network gets a rough measurement of the delay between your keystrokes. If you are entering a password for something (perhaps not the initial auth) it can guess how many characters it is and turns out there are some systemic patterns in how that relates to the keys pressed -- eg letters typed with the same finger have longer delays between them. Given the redundancy in most text and especially structured input that's a serious security threat.
by hithre | 2026-01-25 04:07:26+00:00
How do they compete for actual tech then? Like Airbus.

- 35h a week, doesn’t prevent engineers from working more legally (most do)
- with the age of AI code velocity is no more about time spent, but fresh brain
- And much much more important, it is significantly more efficient to have an employee 10 year in one place than 2 years in 5 places. What could explain higher US turnover than europe, you think?
by schiffern | 2026-01-25 04:08:14+00:00
The main innovation seems to be the author's ability to willfully ignore that distinction.

From https://proofofcorn.com/story :

>FRED: “Okay, well that's a little different... you're going to get somebody to grow corn for you. But that's not exactly what I'm talking about. Like, you can hire Jeff to come and make dinner for you, but like you can't make dinner.”

>The Insight

>The insight isn't that AI needs to drive a tractor. It's that AI can orchestrate the systems and people who do. A farm manager doesn't personally plant every seed—they aggregate data, make decisions, coordinate contractors.

>Fred's analogy was: “You can hire Jeff to make dinner, but you can't make dinner.”

>But that's exactly what a restaurant owner does. They don't cook every meal. They hire chefs, source ingredients, manage inventory, make decisions about the menu. The output is dinner. The method is orchestration.

>What if Claude Code became a farm manager?

The 'insight' is just redefining the success condition to be something easier.

Claude still can't grow corn, but sure it can tell humans to grow corn (with a little help from the persuasive power of money, also supplied by humans).
Show HN: EchoFluid – a video transcription without uploading full videos
by samwulol | 2026-01-25 04:09:11+00:00
EchoFluid is a privacy-first video and audio transcription tool I built to solve a problem I personally ran into: most transcription services require uploading the entire video file, which is slow, bandwidth-heavy, and sometimes not acceptable for sensitive content.

What’s different:

- Videos are processed locally in the browser to extract audio before upload

- Only the audio is sent for transcription, not the full video

This results in:

- Faster uploads

- Much lower bandwidth usage

- Support for much larger video files

- Better privacy by default
by TruePath | 2026-01-25 04:11:30+00:00
Lots of the real world vulnerabilities out there exist exactly because of people choosing to support a range of crypto algorithms.

Sure, if it's an internal tool you can recompile both ends and force a universal update. But anything else and you need to stay compatible with clients and anytime you allow negotiation of the cryptosuit you open yourself up to quite a few subtle attacks. Not saying that choice about go is clearly a good one but i don't think it's obviously wrong.