MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by terminalshort | 2026-01-20 19:35:11+00:00
I would argue that not only is it not the most likely outcome, but that it's practically impossible. When the colonies united they all spoke the same language and shared the same culture as the descendants of recent British colonists. Furthermore, they had just fought and won a war of independence together. The first presidential election was unanimous with every single electoral vote backing George Washington. Do you think an EU presidential election would play out like that?

Also, when the colonies united, the government they agreed on was by today's standards extremely small and decentralized and there was absolutely no welfare state. Revenue was mostly from tariffs on imports with zero income tax. Merging modern European governments would be a massive undertaking in comparison. And the wealth levels between countries are so lopsided that any such merger would mean massive transfer payments out of the rich countries to the poor. And what about tax rates? Low tax countries will not like this one bit. When the US colonies merged under the constitution, you could very truthfully go to the average citizen of any colony and say "basically you won't even notice any changes." Whereas for the EU, you have to say to the voters "your taxes will go up and we will now be sending $100 billion Euros per year to people in other countries."
by asdff | 2026-01-20 19:35:24+00:00
I wonder why post communist countries lagged behind so much in this regard? Seems like this awareness only really hit the US in the late 90s and early to mid 2000s, well after the iron curtain came down. I guess mass media must have been still siloed by language and there might not have been much english language media presence by that point sharing these ideas.
by bz_bz_bz | 2026-01-20 19:36:01+00:00
The EV options sell better in Europe because they completely stopped selling the ICE Macan due to EU cybersecurity regs. In North America (the only market that hasn't seen a decrease in sales), they did a 180 and promised to keep selling the ICE SUVs into 2030 because EV adoption has massively disappointed. The new K1 is now going to be sold with a combustion engine first instead of as a fully-electric.
by notatallshaw | 2026-01-20 19:36:31+00:00
I found the diagrams on the Wikipedia pages help build an intuitive understanding of each step: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-driven_clause_learnin...

Also, the pubgrub-rs guide I find has a gentle ramp in introducing complexity: https://pubgrub-rs-guide.pages.dev/internals/intro
by petesergeant | 2026-01-20 19:37:21+00:00
Not really. They can say "we shouldn't have taken this"[0], they can decide the case in a way that doesn't really offer any precedent (eg: these are the wrong plaintiffs to have brought the case), or they can remand it back to a lower court for more info. Prediction markets seem to think there's a 70% chance they'll strike down the tariffs though.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissed_as_improvidently_gra...
by mothballed | 2026-01-20 19:37:26+00:00
Your position is they're not government, but you also talk of them "doing whatever the fed needs to do the job" in response to the fed claiming to be a government agency and within government.

So either you are lying, or the fed is lying, and if the latter your position is that they need to lie to do their job (per your dismissive quip) -- much of which involves transactions of banks drawing on master accounts which are held in part in full faith that they are doing business with a government agency.
by billyjobob | 2026-01-20 19:37:29+00:00
My ISP added IPv6 support and my router began handing out IPv6 addresses. How did I know this?

1. My AppleTV began stuttering during playback.

2. My old iMac began crashing every time it connected to the wifi.

At least the iMac has an option to disable IPv6. The AppleTV has no such option so I had to do it in the router.
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-20 19:37:39+00:00
My intuition is that the costs involved to train and run LLMs will keep dropping. They will become more and more accessible, so long as our economies keep chugging along.

I could be wrong, time will tell. I just wouldn't base my argument for why students should learn to think for themselves on accessibility of LLMs. I think there's something far more fundamental and important, I just don't know how to say it yet.
by antyadev | 2026-01-20 19:38:12+00:00
NBomber v6.2.0 is out!!!

The team has focused on improving HTML reporting and cluster usability, plus adding powerful observability support. Highlights include:

Revamped HTML Reports – rewritten in TypeScript for better maintainability and richer visuals. You’ll find improved status code colors, metrics filtering, full-screen charts, and failure insights.

Cluster Mode Enhancements – you can now configure clusters directly via CLI arguments, removing the need for JSON config files. AgentGroup settings are more flexible too.

OpenTelemetry Reporting Sink – stream real-time NBomber metrics to any OpenTelemetry-compatible observability platform.

A solid update focused on usability, observability, and developer experience for distributed load testing with .NET!
by beasthacker | 2026-01-20 19:38:49+00:00
This framing has been helpful for me:

Your workday isn’t a monolith; it is a series of tiny tasks. Try deconstructing your job to identify intrinsic motivation.

Which micro-tasks do you look forward to? Which raise questions you think about and work on in your free time?

Which tasks do you avoid, put off, or find immediately draining?

If you can’t identify interesting tasks, you are likely looking at too high a level of abstraction. Break “working with clients” down until you find the specific unit of work (e.g., “debugging edge cases” vs. “proofreading emails”) that sparks interest.

After sorting tasks into intrinsically motivating or not, look for a role that involves about 20% more time on the interesting micro-tasks and 20% less on the boring ones. If you do this every few years, you drift toward a career you enjoy without needing a radical “reset.”

This approach led me down an unexpected path: law firm attorney -> government attorney -> regulatory consultant -> small-business operator. Now, I am looking at moving to a role that involves at least 20% more time on software development (intrinsically interesting to me) and 20% less time chasing unreliable people (particularly draining to me). I never set out to change my “identity,” but focusing on the micro-tasks I actually enjoy has allowed me to engineer a career I enjoy on a day-to-day basis.
by clutchdude | 2026-01-20 19:38:58+00:00
There's a difference between Trump says populist things and Trump does populist things. Much like "saying things I want to hear" and "saying things I need to hear."

For your factory worker example, at exactly a year into his presidency, we've yet to hear populist points on:

- a comprehensive overhaul to address medical costs for workers

- point-by-point implementation of tariff revenue in reshoring and subsidizing of industry

- how AI is going to support manufacturing gains to the degree we can become competitive with China
by j1elo | 2026-01-20 19:39:25+00:00
> Open sourcing a product responsibly involves licensing, security, build tooling, contribution workflow, and trademark stewardship.

You can scratch at the very least contribution workflow from that list; anyhow, the original author had already spent months preparing the open source release, ironing out legal and dependency issues, so everything should already be there or pretty close, at least on the technical side of things (arguably one of the biggest sides)
by uyzstvqs | 2026-01-20 19:39:34+00:00
Yggdrasil is great. It's high-performance, uses regular IPv6 TCP/UDP, and automatically forms one big, open network, where routes are available.

Reticulum enables the creation of many different smaller networks, optimized for high-latency, low-bandwidth links (LoRa, packet radio). It uses its own addressing and transport system, with applications which are specifically made and optimized for it.

Both are mesh networks, but have different use cases. Want to build your own private data network over longer distances? Reticulum. Want a fast alternative to the internet that's far more decentralized and secure? Yggdrasil.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-20 19:39:34+00:00
That’s shocking. I looked up a few different polls and it looks like the approval ratings have not really changed in months. How is that possible? The events of the last month or two should affect these in one direction or the other, right? I wonder if there is some polling error like maybe in how these questions are phrased or how the people responding are interpreting it?
by glitchc | 2026-01-20 19:39:37+00:00
The human experience is defined by comparison. That's how our five senses work. While we can work for betterment of society as a whole, there will always be points of comparison between segments. Some segments will be better off than others. To deny that, to try to conform everyone to the same strata, that's contrary to our very nature.

Every so often we get a wave of socialism/communism hitting HN as a new generation is exposed to these ideas. It is a seductive idea, to be fair, has convinced many an intellectual over the years. It's very persuasive, especially on paper, yet it keeps failing in real life for one simple reason. It doesn't account for the human psyche, which is this:

People don't want to be equal. They want to be better. People are envious of success, they wish it upon themselves, not upon others. For, would you consider it success if everyone achieved what you did?
by richardw | 2026-01-20 19:39:41+00:00
I’m sad about Grok going to them, because the market needs the competition. But ASIC inference seems to require a simpler design than training does, so it’s easier for multiple companies to enter. It seems inevitable that competition emerges. And eg a Chinese company will not be sold to Nvidia.

What’s wrong with this logic? Any insiders willing to weigh in?
by ironman1478 | 2026-01-20 19:39:46+00:00
I just don't understand how this is true unless you're doing something extremely basic. So much context is missing in this post.

Having a CS degree doesn't mean much, but I don't see how a lit major is going to learn how to be productive in an embedded environment for example. There is just too much domain specific knowledge that isn't based purely on intelligence and can't be inferred from first principles.
by samiv | 2026-01-20 19:39:48+00:00
I think the people on this continent have a lot more in common than they might first realize. We certainly have our own cultures and language but beyond that I think we all share a certain European heritage, core culture and values.

There's a certain stigma especially in Germany caused by the WW2 and the the leadership has been complacent to rely on Bretton Woods agreement. But as we're seeing now the geopolitics are doing a 180 degree turnaround and given these circumstances I expect sooner or later Europe will collectively understand the utmost importance to com together and to regrow and redevelop the military to support independence and not having to bow down to any master in the East or int he West.
by pessimizer | 2026-01-20 19:40:30+00:00
IMO, it's clarifying software development. I think ultimately it means that some people who are slightly on the softer side of development will become indistinguishable from other developers, and people on the more mechanical side of development will disappear.

If what you do can be done by the systematic manipulation of symbols, we have a better system for that now. If the spec they hand to you has to be so specific that you don't have to think while implementing it, we have a machine that can do everything except think that can handle that.
by banannaise | 2026-01-20 19:41:05+00:00
> The market then becomes a voting machine for the public to decide if they think the person will succeed or not.

Which would be great, if the mechanism and prize for "voting" were something other than people's basic means of survival.

Gambling addiction isn't bad because there's something wrong with predicting outcomes, it's bad because it causes people to lose all of their money.

"Kalshi, but with a maximum order size of $1" would be great. Kalshi, with a maximum order size of oh crap I can't pay my rent this month, is very bad!
by proc0 | 2026-01-20 19:41:42+00:00
Right, it has a lot of uses. As a tool it has been transformative on many levels. The question is whether it can actually multiply productivity across the board for any domain and at production level quality. I think that's what people are betting on, and it's not clear to me yet that it can. So far that level looks more like a tradeoff. You can spend time orchestrating agents, gaining some speedup at the cost of quality, or you can use it more like a tool and write things "manually" which is a lot higher quality.
by JulianHart | 2026-01-20 19:41:55+00:00
The CGNAT point is underrated. Carriers have zero incentive to move away from it - thousands of users per public IP, no transition cost.

The interesting downstream effect is on IP reputation systems. Traditional detection assumed 1 IP = 1 user. CGNAT breaks that entirely - platforms can't aggressively filter mobile carrier IPs without blocking legitimate customers by the thousands.

Makes sense the IPv4 price dropped once mobile networks proved you can serve massive user bases with relatively few public addresses.
by tharmas | 2026-01-20 19:42:06+00:00
There are two things Canada is guilty of.
1) it spent far too little on its military
2) it trusted the Americans far too much by tying its economy so deeply with the USA.

If you subtract the oil purchased by the USA, Canada has a trade surplus with the USA. A trade surplus that's mostly comprised of finished goods. Canada sells raw materials to the USA and buys finished goods from them.

It is the United States that is the fake friend.
by pessimizer | 2026-01-20 19:42:06+00:00
> You’re assuming the people in charge are sane, rationale, and value past decisions that have worked out.

No, it's an assumption that the people discussing the subject are sane and rational. It's one thing to argue that the US devaluing its wildly overvalued dollar is an effective default. Nobody would disagree with that, that's why we did it - to give us the continual option for rugpulls. But it's simply delusional and unserious to insinuate that the US won't just print paper to pay off nominal debt. It costs the US absolutely nothing.

If the US doesn't do it and defaults, it props up the value of foreign-held treasuries by giving debtors a claim, it doesn't reduce it. We happily let the presses run since 2008, running up the stock market by nearly an order of magnitude, and didn't see a drop of inflation until the last presidential term.

Also, it's extremely weird that European elites think of NATO as some kind of local government. It's simply a US-invented and controlled institution that it used to pressure Russia (the US's competitor in a bipolar world), has had nothing but a corrosive effect in Europe, and now they do the job for free.
by daxfohl | 2026-01-20 19:42:10+00:00
The whole AGI industry is like one of those projects that claims "90% finished" from the time of the first demo, then for the next N years, all the way up until the project is eventually canceled.

Yeah we can spew out millions of lines of unmaintainable slop code! Now we can even write a slop unusable browser!

All this shit looks like progress, but it's all really a cover for lack of progress. And now we've got the entire economy as a bet on it. We'll, hedged with Venezuela and Greenland I guess.

None of this is to say there's nothing useful coming out of the industry. I use it productively for a ton of things. But, the reverse centaur thing is a great analogy. The money getting ploughed into it is assuming reverse centaur will be the final outcome, not a set of useful productivity tools. Once investors start to realize that all we're going to get out of it is the latter, we'll be in for a world of hurt.

Granted, one nice thing about the AI wave is that I bet it'll be able to keep slinging new and idiotic slop for decades that'll keep successfully unburdening investors from their money, because, "hey look, it's 90% finished!" Who knows, maybe that's the point.
by dang | 2026-01-20 19:42:53+00:00
You've been breaking the site guidelines egregiously, including multiple personal attacks in this thread, and bad violations in other threads as well. If you keep doing this, we will ban you. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696040

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695857

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661831

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661778

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604765

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-01-20 19:43:07+00:00
During DEF CON XX, I got bored/overwhelmed (it was not my first year attending) — so I decided to rent a car and visit Hoover Dam (this was before the bypass bridge was completed). I drove through the desert 100mph+, in my own little HST jaunt, searching for nothing but concrete's high water mark.

The statues in OP's article are absolutely beautiful examples of Art Deco / 1930s Americana (my local post office was built then, too, and has eaglettes of similar [but smaller] design). I had no idea they were out there until stumbling upon them, and they definitely leave a lasting impression of our forefather's imposing presence. America, fuck yeah!

Wish I had then-known about this "clock," which is definitely hidden in plain sight. Wish we had similarly-lavish federal budgets, today. But worth visiting, both article, statues & dam.
by giraffe_lady | 2026-01-20 19:43:51+00:00
In the extremely interesting book about water, cadillac desert, there is a great discussion with a scholar of some kind, I think an archeologist, about the large western US dams and the future. The gist is that the reservoirs will eventually silt up and disappear, but the dams will remain for thousands of years. The silted lakes will preserve clear evidence of their construction in the geologic record of these regions.

We will quite plausibly be known as the dam builder civilization, as these artifacts could very easily outlast the memory of what we call ourselves. It is fitting to embellish them in this way.
Show HN: Phaze – A Remote Desktop for Workstations
by boxerbk | 2026-01-20 19:43:57+00:00
We are building a remote desktop for workstations. It's for Windows only today. Our focus is on supporting the most demanding 3D and CAD software with 444 color, 120+ FPS, multi-screen connections and more. We built our own UDP based networking protocol, desktop capture, encoding, decoding, and rendering to squeeze the latency from the connection. There's a lot more for us to do, but this is a start, and we hope to get some early feedback from HN as we continue to build key features, like USB passthrough, HDR video, collaboration, and more.
by smw | 2026-01-20 19:44:17+00:00
I have lots of skepticism about everything involved in this, but on this particular point:

It's a bit like TSMC: you couldn't buy space on $latestGen fab because Apple had already bought it all. Many companies would have very much liked to order H200s and weren't able to, as they were all pre-sold to hyperscalers. If one of them stopped buying, it's very likely they could sell to other customers, though there might be more administrative overhead?

Now there are some interesting questions about Nvidia creating demand by investing huge amounts of money in cloud providers that will order nv hardware, but that's a different issue.
by mothballed | 2026-01-20 19:44:38+00:00
There's no serious argument that a central bank is unconstitutional facially

is not the same as

There's no serious argument that the Federal Reserve is unconstitutional as applied.

The latter is certainly debatable, especially insofar as the fed (in their own words) claims to operate independently when in fact the constitution delegates the powers you cited to congress and the execution of powers of congress to the executive.
by lysace | 2026-01-20 19:44:54+00:00
Just ban me now. I am done with the US and YC.

What a disgusting country you have become. Your country threatening to take Greenland by force and you allowing all discussion around that to be flagged. Weak as hell.

https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/garry-tan-trump-ai-crypt...

> Garry Tan is hopeful about Trump
by adastra22 | 2026-01-20 19:44:54+00:00
Nit point (I'm not sure it's relevant), but we don't know to what degree Old Chinese did or dit not have tones. The very first work to say anything at all about pronunciation is a Middle Chinese text from ~600AD, which already did have a system of 4 tones, albeit a different 4-tone system than Mandarin. Old Chinese pronunciation is a reconstruction from very limited data, not unlike proto-Indo-European, despite being considerably closer to the present.

I just looked it up and the phonetic markers are only like 20-30% reliable. I am shocked at this number as in my experience I would have thought it higher (I would have guessed 60-70%), but it is definitely hit-or-miss. I've never found tones to be predictable.
by internetter | 2026-01-20 19:44:58+00:00
I taught myself how to program as a teenager by… programming. While I didn’t have an academic background, I was perfectly capable of contributing to OSS and working. Rarely ever did I think “I wish I had a degree to do this.” The little bit of academics I did need I also self taught, like time complexity. The only case really where the degree may be helpful is leetcode type interview questions where you need to know the algorithm.
by sillywalk | 2026-01-20 19:45:15+00:00
What is Plan 9? (9front.org)

183 points by AlexeyBrin 2 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 124
comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46667675

( The successor to Plan 9 was Inferno )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)
Show HN: Stitch-MCP, a universal MCP server for Google Stitch
by k_aakash | 2026-01-20 19:45:27+00:00
I actually just built this stitch-mcp because I needed it for my own workflow. It has a bunch of tools that help a lot, and I made it to use on any MCP-supported platform.
It's open source here if you want to try it: https://github.com/Kargatharaakash/stitch-mcp

If you use it and find it helpful, please give it a star !
by spike021 | 2026-01-20 19:45:37+00:00
I attended San Jose State University and not once did I see Google at a CompSci/eng career fair or trying to hold any events.

Can't comment on if that's still the case as it's been several years now since I graduated, but it was notable.

same could be said for Adobe and their HQ was even closer to SJSU than Google's was.
by arrsingh | 2026-01-20 19:45:50+00:00
I remember when I was at the CMU Robotics institute in the graduate program (Robotics / AI) in 2003 and Google came on campus and they wouldn't even consider anyone without a PhD - the campus recruiter advised me to apply when I had completed my PhD.

Glad I didn't spend another 8 years and instead took a job at AWS.

My how things have changed!
by bvrmn | 2026-01-20 19:46:04+00:00
Thank you for posting it. It's the launcher I didn't know I need! My usage pattern is literally: use first desktop for often used apps and search for everything else. Samsung launcher search is quite shitty and slow and takes considerable amount of gestures to reach.

Installed and toyed with KISS for 30min and yes. It's perfect for me!
by rvz | 2026-01-20 19:46:08+00:00
> LLMs agents are not exploiting kernels to get out of the sandbox.

You can't assume that.

Attackers with LLMs have enough capabilities to engineer them to build exploits for kernel vulnerabilities [0] or to bypass sandboxes to exfiltrate data [0] in covert ways.

It is completely possible to craft a chained attack for an agent to bypass sandboxes even with or without a kernel exploit.

From [0] and [1]

[0] https://sean.heelan.io/2026/01/18/on-the-coming-industrialis...

[1] https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltra...