MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TrackerFF | 2026-01-07 12:04:46+00:00
Yes, that's the dangerous thing about this. Even if most European leaders understand that Trump might be a once-in-a-century anomaly, the seed has been planted. Who knows when the next one comes around?

Trump, on the other hand, is a huge stress-tester of the US system. He knows that seemingly no mater what he does, he might just face impeachment, but not removal. So his go-to strategy is to break laws, and challenge them in court. All the way up to supreme court.

This is why all the checks and balances are sort-of useless at the moment. We know Trump will just ignore them, instruct people to ignore them, and challenge them. And even if he's doing blatantly illegal stuff that would land his cronies in jail, the DOJ won't go after them.

Trump understands that he will never, ever serve a single day in jail. He'll argue that everything he's doing, he's doing as a president, and with the immunity that comes with it. He'll issue pre-emptive pardons for his cronies, and probably himself. Wouldn't surprise me if he ends up stepping down toward the end of his term, and Vance also issues pardons for Trump.

He's emboldened, knows that he's untouchable, and is easily manipulated by his orbiters. And, frankly, I believe he has limited time left - he's not a man that will live to be 100.
by mrtksn | 2026-01-07 12:04:49+00:00
US looked like the next stage of humanity, if you are ambitious you go to USA. Anyone can be American and didn't feel like betrayal to the country or the people who raised you. Whatever you achieve in USA it will be available to all the humanity.

Fast forward to mid 2020s, now USA feels like old style European country that is rich as f and about to go through stages of great suffering to eventually become civilized. It's not even like Dubai or something, straight out time travel. You don't go to USA to be treated fairly and climb to the top in a meritocratic system, its all about race, identity and paperwork now. It looks like a shitty European country, why would you go to a shitty European country you can have that experience at home in most places in the world and you don't have to suffer the loss of your friends and family. I'm sure a lot of people will still go to USA but their profiles will be different.

IMHO the predominant feeling towards USA is disappointment, not even anger. It wasn't supposed to end up like that.
by TMWNN | 2026-01-07 12:05:00+00:00
>6. Congress does not authorize Trumps use of military, and Trump must withdraw within 90 days.

No US president, regardless of party, has ever recognized the constitutionality of the War Powers Act. When a president sends reports to Congress of the sort the act mandates, the report typically includes a disclaimer stating as much.

>If US economy crashes

Any European attempt to "crash" the US economy would result in worse results for Europe.

Only 7% of US GDP comes from foreign trade, by far the smallest of any developed nation. The US is Denmark's largest export customer, while Denmark is almost insignificant as a US customer.

Example: One often-suggested penalty against the US is Novo Nordisk suspending sales to Americans. Even setting aside the fact that the US's Lilly's own GLP-1 has handily commercially outperformed Ozempic (as seen in their relative stock prices), the US was *57%* of Novo Nordisk's sales in 2024. <https://www.novonordisk.com/content/dam/nncorp/global/en/inv...>
by logicchains | 2026-01-07 12:05:07+00:00
>I don't see any positive outcome for the west in general. Europe in particular is screwed but besides short-term gains I don't think the US is going to be able to sustain anything but very fragile and transactional alliances, if any.

Europe became the forefront of human civilization, the home of the renaissance and the industrial revolution, because of internal competition between states (as opposed to the large centralized autocracies of Asia and the Middle East). In the long term more competition will ultimately be a good thing for Europe, forcing it to stop resting on its laurels, to start innovating and growing again.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-07 12:05:54+00:00
I don't understand what Google is doing.

On the one hand, you have the CEO apparently all in on Gemini and subscriptions which should push for some kind of Office 365 "we don't care where you use it as long as you subscribe" and strong gestures towards their hardware partners.

On the other hand, you have Osterloh who won the tug of war and is now trying to turn the hardware division and Android into some kind of Apple vertically integrated machine like if he was still at Motorola while their SoC is lagging behind one to two generations and they don't seem to have the volume to sustain this kind of investment. Plus, they have regulatory pressure on the competition side from both the USA and the EU.

Google strategy is still as unreadable as ever. It's frankly a miracle this company is still standing. They are living testimony to the power of having a monopoly on a large market.

Interestingly I now view the Motorola acquisition as a massive mistake, not because of the assets, but because the culture it brought in is actively damaging to the overall company. It's so weird trying to emulate Apple exactly when the regulatory environment is focused on tearing down this model.
Show HN: Typique – a bundler-independent, zero-runtime CSS-in-TS library
by a-v-berezkin | 2026-01-07 12:06:17+00:00
Hi HN! I’ve been following zero-runtime CSS-in-JS/TS libraries for a while and noticed that most of them end up overwhelmed by bundler compatibility issues. A good summary of these problems is in the final status report [1] of Pigment CSS — MUI’s attempt in this space.

As someone working on TypeScript tooling, I started wondering whether this problem could be approached from a different angle: instead of relying on bundler plugins, use TypeScript types to define styles, and TypeScript tooling to provide locally scoped class and CSS variable names.

This led to Typique — a library built as a TypeScript plugin. It provides IDE integration (completion, diagnostics, quick fixes) and emits plain CSS without any dependence on bundler or framework. It’s early, but already usable; I’ve been using it in a couple of personal projects.

Feedback, questions, and skepticism are very welcome. Thanks for reading.

[1] https://github.com/mui/material-ui/issues/45759#issuecomment...
by Yizahi | 2026-01-07 12:07:12+00:00
And low-code/no-code (pre-LLMs). Our company spent probably the same amount of dev-time and money on rewriting low-code back to "code" (Python in our case) as it did writing low-code in the first place. LLMs are not quite comparable in damage, but some future maintenance for LLM-code will be needed for sure.
by Betelgeux | 2026-01-07 12:07:42+00:00
The critique of the financial system relies on a misunderstanding of the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model.

You conflate 'r' (the discount rate) with 'Rf' (the risk-free interest rate). In reality, for high-risk assets like startups, 'r' is defined by the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) or CAPM: r = Rf + Beta(Rm - Rf).

Even in a ZIRP environment where Rf -> 0, the Beta (risk/volatility) for a startup is massive. A rational investor would still demand a high 'r', leading to a low valuation. The fact that VCs ignored this and funded "blatantly bad deals" cannot be explained by low interest rates alone. It is better explained by the information asymmetry a.k.a principal-agent problem.

We have a system where capital flows from passive LPs through multiple layers of rent-seeking intermediaries (VCs, LPs, Fund Managers) who are incentivized by management fees rather than carry. The market failure described isn't "financial nihilism" and "financial short-termism". It's a breakdown of feedback loops where intermediaries face no downside risk for misallocation. When there is no market coordination, no real competition, just unrestricted collusion, then things start to not make sense from the old school financial/business perspective. I do not think this is the failure of economic theory or the financial models itself, rather just that nobody knows or tells, that the prerequisite for these things is at least some degree of fair competition, market based economy, informed, rational actors and restricted collusion.

Suggesting that technical founders can fix this by simply "being decent" ignores the systemic reality. This economic structure rewards extraction over value creation, "decency" is an evolutionary disadvantage. The "real hackers" in this story are the financial and business intermediaries who successfully reverse-engineered the economy to extract rent without generating value, similarly to all those entrepreneurs, CEOs, corpo drones in the business sphere who do not provide any meaningful value to society (and shareholders as well.)
by fl7305 | 2026-01-07 12:08:00+00:00
> What LLMs will NOT do however, is write or invent SOMETHING KNEW.

Counterpoint: ChatGPT came up with the new expression "The confetti has left the cannon" a few years ago.

So, your claim is not obviously true. Can you give us an example of a programming problem where the LLMs fail to solve it?
by renegade-otter | 2026-01-07 12:08:15+00:00
This is why people should have an opportunity to semi-retire when they are still young. A year or two. United States safety net does not really allow that unless you are loaded already.

It's very helpful to zoom out and do LIFE for a change. I got laid off three years ago, started my own project. Didn't take off, but also two mini-mes showed up during that time, and I am infinitely grateful that I could punt on work and just be there.

Hashtag blessed and all. That backrent I owe now, well, that's a bitch.
by CharlieDigital | 2026-01-07 12:08:21+00:00
> that offer the same for 10x less money.

Not likely because there is still a lower bound. These 1 person startups are winning partially because they are already 10x cheaper than the incumbents.

But beyond that, it's not likely that there are 10x the number of people who know the domain and have the right mindset plus appetite for risk.
by exDM69 | 2026-01-07 12:09:09+00:00
> NV_path_rendering solved this in 2011.

By no means is this a solved problem.

NV_path_rendering is an implementation of "stencil then cover" method with a lot of CPU preprocessing.

It's also only available on OpenGL, not on any other graphics API.

The STC method scales very badly with increasing resolutions as it is using a lot of fill rate and memory bandwidth.

It's mostly using GPU fixed function units (rasterizer and stencil test), leaving the "shader cores" practically idle.

There's a lot of room for improvement to get more performance and better GPU utilization.
by WebReflection | 2026-01-07 12:09:12+00:00
I used to have an extension per each domain then I've decided to publish regurlator https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/regurlator/jfgfmidm... ... this case would be like `^https:\/\/(?:x|twitter)\.com\/(.+)?$` `https://xcancel.com/$1` so you have a single extension with as many rules as you like and you can download/share/restore rules with ease (it's just a JSON file).
by pjjpo | 2026-01-07 12:09:24+00:00
There's capitalism and then there's communism. Both have proven to not work which leaves us with...

Countries are bad but even the sci-fi authors know the only way to change this is literally an alien invasion. Until then, instead of expecting good from our governments (wherever we live) shouldn't we just assume the worst and go from there? Since switching to that mentality life has been much more pleasant personally.
by bmenrigh | 2026-01-07 12:09:31+00:00
Large volumes of SMTP-like traffic are a huge red flag. Competent companies an ISPs should already be looking for large volumes of outbound mail to identify abuse / spam bots / data exfiltration.

If I came across this in netflow data I'd first assume outbound spam. But a hallmark of sending mail is that the client to server byte ratio is extremely skewed towards client -> server bytes, whereas running a VPN-like service is usually more balanced but still skewed towards server -> client bytes. I'd see the large server -> client byte count and immediately know something strange was going on.

That said, very little code here is involved in looking like SMTP. The SMTP obfuscation basically boils down to a few lines of plaintext between the client and server before a STARTTLS and then everything after that has nothing to do with SMTP. You could swap out the fake stub conversation quite easily to look like many other protocols. Whether the in to out bytes ratio makes sense for those protocols is another matter.

These days, I think the best thing to disguise as is HTTPS. There is so much variety in HTTPS traffic and such a huge volume of it, that spotting hidden tunnels is very hard.
by llm_nerd | 2026-01-07 12:09:38+00:00
>You AI hype thots/bots are all the same

This isn't twitter, so save the garbage rhetoric. And if you must question my account, I create a new account whenever I setup a new main PC, and randomly pick a username that is top of mind at the moment. This isn't professionally or personally affiliated in any way so I'm not trying to build a thing. I mean, if I had a 10 year old account that only managed a few hundred upvotes despite prolific commenting, I'd probably delete it out of embarrassment though.

>All these claims but never backed up with anything to look at

Uh...install the tools? Use them? What does "to look at" even mean? Loads of people are using these tools to great effect, while some tiny minority tell us online that no way they don't work, etc. And at some point they'll pull their head out of the sand and write the followup "Wait, they actually do".
by jeswin | 2026-01-07 12:10:57+00:00
I have a GM1, it's truly a standout camera. GM5 makes it even better. It's quite funny nobody wants to attempt similar sizes, even when the market has voted for pocketable cameras.

Especially OM - with all their troubles, if it were me I'd have pivoted the company to sizes that do justice to the mount's inherent size advantage. They have a rich legacy of amazing small cameras (Trip, Pen, XA series, and the overrated mju ii) - yet it's fuji selling an order of magnitude more x-halfs than anything OM is producing.
by Draiken | 2026-01-07 12:11:14+00:00
Putting all your eggs in one basket is one big reason.

As a developer if, let's say, AI does make my profession no longer a viable option monetarily, what would happen if my entire identity is tied to it?

You cannot fully control your career no matter what. Many external factors can affect it and you deeply if that's your identity.

What if you can't even teach after retiring because nobody else cares about it?

For me it's about risk/reward and unfortunately in our current system the fact that all my efforts reward someone else disproportionately more completely taints it.
by hopelite | 2026-01-07 12:11:33+00:00
How do you figure? This show is actually going to be rather boring. The setup has long been completed and Europe will not even squeal all that much.

What, with the Ukraine trap and the narrative hole of Russia marching on Paris, Europe is going to do what against America for taking Greenland? Europe walked itself into a trap and it has no clue it’s even happening.

There is a tiny chance something else is being done, but it’s such a small chance it’s not even worth mentioning. Reality is that this thing we still call America is starving hungry and it smells European blood in the water, and is furiously rubbing its hands over Greenland’s resources and Arctic access. And no, Europeans, the Democrats will also devour you now that they’ve also smelled the money in the Potomac. The Empire must eat.

No, Europe is already drugged, muzzled, and strapped to the table… it will be over soon, Europe.
by latexr | 2026-01-07 12:11:36+00:00
> check out my bio for one example.

First thing I got was “browser not supported” on mobile. Then I visited the website on desktop and tested languages I’m fluent in and found immediate problems with all of them.

The voices in Portuguese are particular inexcusable, using the Portuguese flag with Brazilian voices; the accents are nothing alike and it’s not uncommon for speakers of one to have difficulty understanding the other in verbal communication.

The knowledge assessments were subpar and didn’t seem to do anything; the words it tested almost all started with “a” and several are just the masculine/feminine variants. Then, even after I confirmed I knew every word, it still showed me some of those in the learning process, including incredibly basic ones like “I”, or “the”.

The website is something, and I very much appreciate you appear to be trying to build a service which respects the user, but I wouldn’t in good conscience recommend it to anyone. It feels like you have a particular disdain for Duolingo-style apps (I don’t blame you!) but there is so much more out there to explore in language learning.
by gedy | 2026-01-07 12:11:42+00:00
> My brother is selling a CRM he developed for his business to others for a couple thousand a month.
There is no way he would have built the CRM as quickly pre-AI

The thing is, if AI is what enabled this, there's no long term market for selling something vibe coded for thousands a month. Maybe right at this moment and good for him, but I have my doubts these random saas things have a future.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-01-07 12:12:08+00:00
Objectively, we are talking about systems that have gone from being cute toys to outmatching most juniors using only rigid and slow batch training cycles.

As soon as models have persistent memory for their own try/fail/succeed attempts, and can directly modify what's currently called their training data in real time, they're going to develop very, very quickly.

We may even be underestimating how quickly this will happen.

We're also underestimating how much more powerful they become if you give them analysis and documentation tasks referencing high quality software design principles before giving them code to write.

This is very much 1.0 tech. It's already scary smart compared to the median industry skill level.

The 2.0 version is going to be something else entirely.
by nl | 2026-01-07 12:13:31+00:00
I've been super impressed by qwen3:0.6b (yes, 0.6B) running in Ollama.

If you have very specific, constrained tasks it can do quite a lot. It's not perfect though.

https://tools.nicklothian.com/llm_comparator.html?gist=fcae9... is an example conversation where I took OpenAI's "Natural language to SQL" prompt[1], send it to Ollama:qwen3:0.6b and the asked Gemini Flash 3 to compare what qwen3:0.6b did vs what Flash did.

Flash was clearly correct, but the qwen3:0.6b errors are interesting in themselves.

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/examples/default-sql-transl...
by lrvick | 2026-01-07 12:13:36+00:00
I host weekly friend-of-friend open events where some people show up most weeks, find a nice comfortable spot to doom scroll in for a couple hours, maybe take a nap, leave, sit in their car for a bit, scroll some more, then go home.

I am just hoping they actually took a break from doom scrolling while driving as then at least I can say I had some non zero positive impact on their lives.

5 years phone-free and I do not miss it. People use them as security blankets to avoid having to be present for more than 5 minutes at a time with other people or even just exist in their own heads. I now find this behavior immature and gross but avoiding it would mean not having friends.

A smartphone is like toilet paper. No one wants to watch you use it.
Show HN: Node.js type-safe dynamic config with real-time updates (MIT)
by tilyupo | 2026-01-07 12:13:41+00:00
NodeJS TypeScript client for watching configuration values with real-time updates. Zero runtime deps, works in Node 18+. Override rules are evaluated client-side so user context never leaves your app.

Use it for feature flags, rate limits, timeouts, kill switches—anything you'd rather change without a deploy. Changes propagate in under a second. Roll back instantly if something breaks.

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@replanejs/sdk

GitHub: https://github.com/replane-dev/replane-javascript/tree/main/...
by pjmlp | 2026-01-07 12:14:24+00:00
Some people have the skills to make C++ work on a GBA, https://github.com/GValiente/butano

Arduino, https://docs.arduino.cc/arduino-cloud/guides/arduino-c/

Or even ESP32, https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/stable/esp32/...

Others do not.

As for C does not such thing, strangly there are enough examples from TI, Microchip, Atmel that prove otherwise.
by bodge5000 | 2026-01-07 12:14:31+00:00
Linux is 34 years old, most large software projects are not. Also your using a specific version of Claude, and sure maybe this time is different (and every other time I've heard that over the past 5 years just isn't the same). I don't buy it, but lets go along with it. Going off that, we have the equivalent of 2 years development time according to whats being promised. Have you seen any software projects come out of Claude 4.5 Opus that you'd guess to have been a 2 year project? If so, please do share
by magospietato | 2026-01-07 12:14:42+00:00
I still manually approve tool use requests at the start of a run. As it gets deeper in I might allow it to run safer commands without that oversight (e.g. writing to local text files), but potentially destructive execution still requires approval.

As for the local env, I'm treating the Android terminal as a sandbox. Anything gets trashed I just reset and reinstall my toolchain.

I won't pretend I'd use this workflow for anything high-stakes. But for simple things like "I wonder how my Hue lights actually work?", its viable.
by Findecanor | 2026-01-07 12:14:50+00:00
The US has military bases all around Europe from which they would be able to do actions to keep NATO from mobilising.

In 2024 I spent a day protesting outside the Swedish parliament against US base also in Sweden.
We warned about Trump probably winning the US election and how unpredictable he is, but the proponents disregarded all our arguments: "Trump being president again? Pfft.. That will never happen", "Provision for US leaving NATO? Pfft. They won't", "Rule against nukes on Swedish soil? Pfft. The US are our friends and will respect our wishes.". The vote passed, and here we are.
by smetj | 2026-01-07 12:14:54+00:00
Well ... IMO this is literally replacing (entry-level) engineers, but lets agree to disagree on that. Be it as it may ... task automation is also "a product" then not? 5 years ago, this wasn't possible. Now it is, so extrapolate that to the future ...

ps: If you can guarantee the Powerball lottery continues forever, I can give you a guaranteed winning combination.
by maxglute | 2026-01-07 12:15:05+00:00
To clarify, 3166-1 is for countries, dependent territories (i.e. Guam), special areas (Taiwan, Hong Kong) i.e. TW gets a flag being in 3166-1 list but under UN resolution 2758, PRC gets to subsume TW as special area - "Taiwan (Province of China)". 3166-2 is for subdivisions (TW provinces, UNDER CHINA), i.e. all TW provinces are considered subdivisions of China/PRC. Same with HK. Unicode doesn't offer opinion in the sense the opinion is whatever UN recognize as countries, which will never include TW as long as PRC holds P5 veto.

In the meantime this arrangement works out since ROC constitution still legally asserts it's but part of One China polity, i.e. it doesn't matter what TWers think or DPP claims, or tries to legally engineer (additional articles /legal fiction limiting ROC political jurisdiction to "free area" of tw + islands). Until TW voters&politicians actually formally separates / declares independence, as in change ROC constitution by renounce claims on mainland, they'll lose 3166-1 designation because PRC gets to remove them, and won't get a new one because PRC veto. They'll lose their emojis (maybe iso codes, maybe domain depending on US/ICANN drama)... which TBH will be least of their worries.