MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keiferski | 2026-01-25 06:24:51+00:00
I would describe events like that as:

battles of will where one side seeks to defeat the other in toto, not actually arrive at a solution that overcomes the conflict.

The deeper issue is immigration policy, which is a topic that displays the pattern I mentioned: no real attempt to solve the issue by addressing both sides/various parties, and instead boils it into an us-them struggle of political wills.

The responsibility of intellectuals in this case should be IMO to clearly analyze the immigration debate and discuss the benefits, downsides, likely consequences etc. of various actions.

But we don’t get that. Instead everyone just has an opinion already formed, including the intellectuals. And unfortunately unbiased rational approaches seem to lose (in money, attention) to the loud and opinionated.

So as the problem gets more complicated, people get further and further away from actually solving it.
by singingbard | 2026-01-25 06:26:12+00:00
If only people knew how much of Microsoft Windows has been secretly powered by HTML pages for 20 years…

In Windows 95, Microsoft let you set a HTML file as your wallpaper and let you set up “channels” that were web-based widgets. This was the beginning.

Windows 98 used webpages as core components for Explorer. Literally browsing your files involved J(ava)Script… in 1998.

Windows XP/2000 still had Internet Explorer as a core component. Web tech was involved every time you opened a folder.

Windows Shell using web tech is as on-brand Microsoft as it gets.
by 2bitencryption | 2026-01-25 06:26:35+00:00
I’m not sure about “dumb them down”, I suspect it’s more like “subtly influence popular opinion”.

My husbands TickTock feed is full of things like “10 things Americans do that Chinese think are weird”, “10 reasons Chinese cities are in the 22nd century” etc etc.

I personally don’t think that’s propaganda - most of it is factually true and would be pushed to the front of any fair algorithm because it is engaging. But I can kinda see the concern, even though I disagree with the outcome.
by varshith17 | 2026-01-25 06:26:46+00:00
Not just you, widespread reports on /r/gmail and Twitter since ~12 hours ago. Likely a bad model push on Google's end.
Workaround: check spam folder for legit mail, mark as "not spam" + star important senders to retrain your filter faster. Usually resolves in 24-48h when they rollback.
by saidinesh5 | 2026-01-25 06:27:30+00:00
Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many of the tools involved in the Tiny Tapeout project are available open source?

Especially in the project roadmap section..

The licences for proprietary EDA tools are very expensive it seems and most EDA people i talked to didn't really care for any open source tools - as their companies paid for the licenses.
by godelski | 2026-01-25 06:28:09+00:00
Their service is commendable and I'll even go so far to say that they were betrayed. But I still don't agree. We all have a duty. Being betrayed gives you every right to be angry, but it is what you do with that anger that matters. Do you use it as an excuse to be self centered or do you recognize that if you're betrayed so have others. That those that betrayed you can only do so because you do not band together. That you do not use your anger to band together and tell them to fuck off. To make them fuck off.

I'm personally very anti war. But I also am very dissatisfied with how we treat our veterans. To send them to, as Hawkeye says: "worse than hell", and then just abandon them?! That's a high moral sin. Outright unconscionable. But recognize they can only get away with this because we let them. I'm not okay with it, are you?

It isn't our duty to listen and do nothing. It is our duty to get mad and do something. Which is exactly what Droopy said
by kshacker | 2026-01-25 06:28:40+00:00
I’m in my late 50s, and I’ve been using TikTok for over six years. Before that, the only social media I used was Facebook—not Instagram, not anything else—but TikTok pulled me in from the very beginning.

At first, it was all about the novelty: lip-syncing and dance videos. Over time, though, my interests evolved. I started following creators for travel vlogs, occasional financial advice, health tips, yoga and exercise—and last but not least, singing, which I only began at age 55.

I don’t have many viewers, and that’s perfectly fine. My account isn’t about chasing likes or comments. It’s simply a way for people to see who I am rather than engage with a random, unknown profile—if they’re curious enough to look. It also helps avoid mixed signals: when you know who I am (even though you never truly know someone), you can usually tell whether something is meant as a dad joke… or a Daddy joke

As a result, my consumption of TV, Netflix, and HBO has dropped significantly. I find it far more engaging to follow real people and see what they’re doing with their lives. And here’s the irony: aside from the first two or three seasons of Survivor, I’ve never been into reality TV—yet somehow, I’m completely hooked on this one.

[ Wordsmithed by AI ]
by varshith17 | 2026-01-25 06:29:33+00:00
2 days is nothing, VCs move slower than founders think. Demo review usually takes 1-2 weeks: partner watches it, discusses in Monday meeting, maybe loops in domain expert, then decides next steps.
Silence for a week is normal. Silence for 3+ weeks without follow-up means soft pass. If you haven't heard anything in 10 days, polite check-in is fine.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-25 06:29:48+00:00
It's easy to start with Palantir because it simply doesn't provide any legitimate value. They don't do anything, at all, other than enable spying by weaving snippets of private data into a coherent whole. You don't have to explain the decision to well-meaning people who are inconvenienced, nor provide a transition plan for essential services, you can just yank the plug tomorrow and tell everyone who complains to buzz off.
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2026-01-25 06:29:59+00:00
No, their statement was ‘if another country gets it, I should get it too’. That’s not the same as ‘I long for the privacy benefits offered to Europeans and actively write to my government representatives to request it’. It’s more like expecting a privilege your parents gave your sibling just because they got it as a result of doing well in school while your grades were so-so.

At let’s not forget, most of the egregious privacy violations like faang and adtech come from American companies.
by nearbychat | 2026-01-25 06:31:01+00:00
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by rvz | 2026-01-25 06:31:12+00:00
Correct.

I expect the author of the article must also recognize that Big Tech is in the same basket and are just as complicit for the sake of consistency. The problem is, we just don't hear about it often.

When I brought this up last time in [0] all I saw was constant hairsplitting, attempts to seperate Big Tech from Palantir and lots of 'whataboutism' accusations, which doesn't work because I agree.

So when I saw this:

> Palantir’s tentacles are already extending into our communities. In my constituency of Coventry, the Labour-run council awarded the company a £500,000 contract to develop an AI tool for children’s services.

Google [1], Microsoft [2], Amazon [3] are no different and these are just a few of them and they are just as bad as Palantir and all of them are in the SNP 500 directly in the portfolios of pension funds.

So it is indeed a waste of time trying to picking and choose US tech companies on this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407683

[1] https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366634759/Google-wins-mu...

[2] https://www.digitalhealth.net/2023/06/nhs-signs-new-microsof...

[3] https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366566172/AWS-secures-89...
by sach90 | 2026-01-25 06:31:15+00:00
If you want some feedback this is absolutely pathetic and downright egregious behaviour from you. Someone made a tool that you have ripped off in an almost exact way. AND you have the audacity to try and promote it in his twitter thread. What planet are you on where you think this is socially acceptable?

You have a PHD but zero common sense. Get in the bin.
by int_19h | 2026-01-25 06:31:47+00:00
Is it the first video of American law enforcement shooting someone that triggered this reaction?

This is from 8 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUUx0jUKxc.

Extreme violence has been normalized among American LEOs for a long time now.

Look up "killology" for some more on this. If you're in US, check if your local PD or sheriff's office signed up its agents for a Dave Grossman seminar or training course; you might be unpleasantly surprised.

And now that ICE job ads are essentially an open invitation to come be violent for a "righteous cause", it's exactly those types of people that end up there in even larger concentrations. But make no mistake, none of this is new in any way other than the sheer scale of it.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-25 06:32:22+00:00
Sam Altman bought 40% of the world's supply of DRAM in an underhanded, secret deal with two large manufacturers. It will take years for supply to recover.

The best part is the wafers are being bought with no plans to use them; just to keep them in storage so that competition cannot easily access RAM. Supervillain shit, should have been the last straw for PG to publicly denounce Sam and for OpenAI to be sued by the US government for anticompetitive practices. All this does is harm the consumer. Of course that ks never going to happen.
by malevolent-elk | 2026-01-25 06:32:50+00:00
You have no real reason to believe me, but if it's worth anything, I work with US agencies in the domain of information warfare and the relationships with platforms are tenuous if not adversarial. And nothing happens on the scale you might imagine. But if you really do believe that the US is pulling the platforms' strings, I do indeed encourage disentanglement or forcing sales as you describe. What I have seen through my work has strongly reinforced my biases against the Chinese government, but I recognize that others may view my own government in that light.

Personally, I worry more about the platforms and data brokers themselves, as I think everyone should and does. They hold disproportionate power and their incentives drive us all in the wrong direction.
by petterroea | 2026-01-25 06:33:19+00:00
It's not the same, I see it more as two flavours of bad. However, the scary thing with private surveillance is that we do not know and won't know for a while the extent it is used.

Private surveillance however has the possibility to be much worse than government surveillance. We are already seeing collected data being used by the government to carry out enforcement (see period app subpoenas and the cameras that track where everyone drives), but the private actors have a perverse incentive to surveil as much as they can and make as much actionable data on it as possible. They can then show up at the governments door and offer it.

That is, private surveillance has the potential to surveil in ways governments don't even know they want, and they have an incentive to find any hole in the surveillance market and fill it.
by squirrellous | 2026-01-25 06:33:34+00:00
> But I will never call into a library I don't fully understand while holding a mutex again. Fool me once.

Nice sentiment and an admirable goal. Not really actionable in practice. Even if we disregard all userspace libraries out there, fully understanding the most frequently used syscalls is a monumental task already. You have to pick your battles in terms of understanding parts of a complex system.
by brianpan | 2026-01-25 06:33:54+00:00
Late reply, but did your colleague go from ICE BMWs to an EV Model 3? For me, zero maintenance and no more stopping at gas stations (you need a charger at home) were HUGE advantages to switching to an EV. So I also really liked switching from ICE to Tesla EV.

But I also much prefer my EV BMW to my previous Teslas. Nicer to drive, nicer features (better sound, HUD, sunroof), hardware controls, door handles that you can open with either hand, better in weather (no rain in the trunk).

My family complains the i4 has a smaller cabin, but the driver's seat feels just fine to me. :D
by hakfoo | 2026-01-25 06:34:05+00:00
This was a huge own-goal for their brand image.

If I buy a FTDI based adapter, it might brick, and I lack the detection skill or supply chain control to be sure that it won't happen.

If I buy a CH340 or PLwhatever based adapter, that doesn't enter the calculus.

Unless I had some explicit "only FTDI can possibly do it" need, I'm going elsewhere.
Show HN: Document your tRPC API without mapping to OpenAPI
by liorcodev | 2026-01-25 06:34:23+00:00
Hi HN,

I built trpc-docs-generator because I love the zero effort type safety of tRPC, but I found that as soon as a project grows, the source of truth stays locked in the TypeScript files.

Most existing solutions require you to implement trpc-openapi, which is great if you need a REST endpoint, but feels like a lot of boilerplate if you just want a way for team members (or yourself) to visualize the API, check Zod schemas, and see procedure trees.

How it works: It uses tRPC’s internal router introspection to map out your procedures. If you’re using Zod for validation, it pulls those schemas to show exactly what inputs/outputs are expected. The result is a static documentation site that's easy to host or run locally.

Why use this instead of OpenAPI? This is strictly for tRPC users who want to keep their DX pure TypeScript without adding the REST compatibility layer.

Repo: https://github.com/liorcodev/trpc-docs-generator

Thanks for checking it out!
by tzs | 2026-01-25 06:35:31+00:00
> I'm aware. The point I'm making is that EVs apply more braking than ICE vehicles do, due to the specifics of the implementation of regen braking that all manufacturers have chosen

Hyundai and Kia EVs have a 5 level setting for what happens when you lift up on the accelerator, either partially or fully.

At level 0 the regeneration is so low that I don't notice a difference between that and being in neutral. It slows down way less than an ICE does when not in neutral.

> If you just take your foot off the accelerator, any modern EV will apply some amount of regenerative braking. It's not really possible to hold the accelerator pedal at the exact position where you are not applying motor power but also have 0kW of regen braking, certainly for any extended period of time.

Tire wear is not a linear function of acceleration. Is there any reason to believe that variations from not being able to hold your foot perfectly steady, assuming you aren't have spasms, will be big enough and/or last long enough to make a non-trivial difference?
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-25 06:37:47+00:00
I actually have done that, but there are still problems. It doesn't really do anything to help somebody who can't read English because things like error messages and libraries are still in English, and it doesn't play nicely with IDE tooling, which is fixable in open-source editors but not proprietary editors. It ends up being a lot of effort for an experience that feels very much second-class.
by tombert | 2026-01-25 06:38:19+00:00
I have been trying so hard to get YouTube to stop recommending shorts to me. I am pretty sure that the "Show Fewer Shorts" thing you can choose in the app doesn't actually do anything.

My wife loves TikTok to a point that she will take it personally when I complain about it, but I absolutely hate the "vertical short form video" crap that's gotten popular. I'm probably just showing my age, even with my admittedly-quite-flakey attention span, I feel like TikTok and YouTube shorts are just kind of irritating. So much stuff on there is either low-effort crap with lip syncing to some clip from a movie, or shit yelling at me with burned in giant subtitles, both of which are almost certainly part of my own personal hell.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-25 06:39:31+00:00
A single scary warning per source (ie per new certificate that you choose to trust) would be fine. If I had to jump through a few hoops to install f-droid on a stock device that would be fine. But once I've authorized f-droid the OS needs to shut up and stay out of the way for good. No "are you sure you want f-droid installing this other thing" nonsense.
by random3 | 2026-01-25 06:40:36+00:00
David Patterson is such a legend! From RAID to RISC and one of the best books in computer architecture, he's on my personal hall of fame.

Several years ago I was at one of the Berkley AMP Lab retreats at Asilomar, and as I was hanging out, I couldn't figure how I know this person in front of me, until an hour later when I saw his name during a panel :)).

It was always the network. And David Patterson, after RISK, started wo iRAM, that was tackling the same problem.

NVIDIA bought Mellanox/Infiniband, but Google has historically excelled at networking, and the TPU seems to be designed to scale out in the best possible way.
by bruce511 | 2026-01-25 06:41:26+00:00
Both ICE and EV cars require a support infrastructure. As sales trends change, so the emphasis on support infrastructure changes, and that accelerates the trend.

For example EVs depend on charging, so we're seeing more public charge points, as well as more home chargers, work chargers and so on.

ICE depends on gas stations (which is the tip of the gasoline distribution industry.) It also depends on ICE mechanics. As demand for those services drop off, so they'll become harder to find. (To be clear, that's not happening soon, there are a LOT of ICE cars out there...)

But 50 years from now most of that ICE infrastructure will have disappeared.
by pan69 | 2026-01-25 06:41:38+00:00
My two cents. Trump likes the idea that in the Ukraine they can't hold elections when they are at war as per their constitution. Even though the US doesn't have such a thing, it's not going to deter Trump from creating a "situation" where he can declare a marshall law event of some sort to "postpone" elections, indefinitely. If Americans think that there are going to be midterms, or even a next presidential election, better get ready!
by tillcarlos | 2026-01-25 06:42:30+00:00
Peasant move if you ask me. You could have waited a week / month / year.

Also: the 10 USD for James is way less than it'd take to even install your app and figure out if it's for me. Why would I waste my time like that? With James' app I at least know that it's well-maintained quality I'm getting.
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-25 06:43:32+00:00
> They rely on a 12 V battery or a 48 V battery like a normal car.

Which leads to "fun" situations when that battery runs out, like not being able to get into your car or start it. However not much power is needed, so a tiny portable jump pack is enough to get things going.

Both me and my sister has experienced this, me a Nissan Leaf and her a VW ID.4, good times.
by kstenerud | 2026-01-25 06:44:37+00:00
KDE is useable now that I can use AI to deal with the thousand cuts.

TBH I was rather shocked at how bad Kubuntu is out of the box:

* Hibernate is flaky

* The OS freezes from time to time requiring a hard reset

* Snaps completely bork the system - better to just uninstall snap

* Keyring is flaky. Often you get stuck into an "enter your password" endless loop.

The list goes on - and this is on a desktop PC! But fortunately an AI can sift through the arcane workaround lore in the various forums.

The bugs are annoying, but a helluva lot better than using Gnome!
by godelski | 2026-01-25 06:45:22+00:00
You're right, but also we shouldn't make it easy.

The reason exterminate always go after academics is because they make things harder. The vast majority of academics could make more money than they do as a professor. The authoritarian relies on the religious nature of followers and it's harder for those followers to have faith when it's constantly being questioned. It's why your mental model of an authoritarian regime is where people are afraid to speak freely.

You're right that the strategy is to confuse and overload. It's difficult to counter and I think you're exactly right to say "enough". We need to adapt to this strategy too. I think it's important to remember that truth has a lower bound in complexity but lies don't. They have an advantage because they can sell simplicity. We have the disadvantage when we try to educate. But what we need to do is remind people of how complex reality is while not making them feel dumb for not knowing. It's not easy. Even the biggest meathead who is as anti academic as they come will feel offended if you call them (or imply they're) stupid (are you offended if they call you weak?). We need a culture shift to accept not knowing things and that not knowing things doesn't make one stupid. I have a fucking PhD and I'm dumb as shit. There's so much I don't know about my own field, let alone all the others. I've put in a lot of hard work to be "smart", but the smartest people I know say "I don't know" and that's often the most interesting thing you can hear.

It's no easy task to solve. Don't forget, we're a species that would rather invent imaginary invisible wizards than admit we don't know. We're infinitely curious but also afraid of the unknown.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-25 06:45:51+00:00
Fun fact: the athletic Aryan blonde who threw the sledgehammer into Big Brother's virtual face is portrayed by Anya Major, who would go on to star with Elton John in his hit video "Nikita", as a Communist border guard and the object of the singer's fantasies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anya_Major
by ed_mercer | 2026-01-25 06:46:42+00:00
The iPhone 17 delivers significant display, battery, camera, and memory improvements. The aluminum switch does enhance thermal performance, but calling it the "only tangible" upgrade requires ignoring ProMotion displays, 36% longer battery life, 4x camera resolution boosts, and doubled storage.

The standard iPhone 17, in particular, received upgrades substantial enough that upgrading from an iPhone 15 or earlier makes strong practical sense. Hardly the profile of a phone with "little hardware improvement".