MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw0101a | 2026-01-20 16:25:59+00:00
> I’m curious specifically about the people envisioning (with barely disguised glee) the US erupting into a civil war within 5 years, as they seem somewhat to have lost touch with reality.

The MN governor has called up their National Guard to help local law enforcement. The Pentagon is readying troops as well, presumably to help federal officials (ICE).

If both sides think they are following lawful orders, and neither side will give, what do you think will happen? (I have no answers.)

Further, there are folks that want a conflict because the West has become too decadent or something, and some conflict is needed to toughen up (?):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-20 16:26:05+00:00
> I think you're missing the 2nd feature to the parent's point that I take issue with

You're right, I did gloss over that point.

I guess it should be noted that a lot of what fsck does[1] on say ext4 is something ZFS does on pool import, like replying the journal (ZIL) or trying older superblocks (uberblocks[2]). In that regard it's acting more like XFS[3] from what I can see.

[1]: https://linux.die.net/man/8/fsck.ext4

[2]: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/8/zpool-im...

[3]: https://linux.die.net/man/8/fsck.xfs
by the__alchemist | 2026-01-20 16:26:12+00:00
> but none of them have clear protocol specification docs

This is a big turn off for me. I have seen it for a number of protocols beyond mesh ones. ESP-Hosted does this too. So does ELRS. Maybe I'm too used to reading data sheets etc, but if your protocol requires a specific implementation, I am put off by the friction: I must integrate your software, in the language you used, and will likely hit compatibility problems as a result.
by dwedge | 2026-01-20 16:26:31+00:00
I am very much in the anti-AI side. Not against it as a matter of principle, but that I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe where I'm the only one who can't make these tools do anything other than spit out mediocre content, and the times they are helpful it would have been quicker to do it myself. I keep trying every day. And I accept I may be biased.

I only say this to say that, generally, I'm not coming at this article from the other side of the great AI divide. And yet they lost me immediately. The whole piece feels like the political ramblings, verging on the conspiracy side, that you would see in one-sided subreddits or Twitter. I struggled to even digest the content in the middle.
by Ajedi32 | 2026-01-20 16:26:34+00:00
The industrial revolution multiplied the size of the global economy by several orders of magnitude, but it didn't create it. International trade has been happening on a smaller scale since large-scale civilized society existed. And I said "almost no regulation", not "no regulation". Probably something on the order of 99% of the regulations we have today wouldn't have even been feasible to enforce a couple hundred years ago, yet markets still functioned just fine on the whole.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-20 16:26:42+00:00
This is not a one sided thing. The US has been allowed to do a lot of things under the NATO umbrella that it benefited from (such as: selling a vast quantity of arms). Soft power is a thing and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization came into being to deal with exactly the kind of situation that we are viewing today. To see the US bow out, and in fact threatening allies is duplicitous at best.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-20 16:27:11+00:00
> decrease our trade deficit (not saying I agree with this goal), either the dollar

A direct link exists between a nation's status as the world's primary reserve currency and its tendency to run persistent trade deficits.

This relationship is often described by the Triffin Dilemma, a paradox where the global demand for the reserve currency necessitates that the issuing country consistently supplies the world with its currency, primarily through importing more than it exports.
by lostlogin | 2026-01-20 16:27:47+00:00
> I believe that it was generally held at the time (by the rich anyway), that the poor were poor because of some sort of defect of character.

I’ve always assumed that this is why tax cuts for the rich are acceptable to voters.

‘I’m not defective and lazy like those poors. I’m going to be rich soon and don’t want high taxes when I get there.’
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-20 16:27:57+00:00
> So now you need Docker-in-Docker, which means --privileged mode, which defeats the entire purpose of sandboxing.
> That means trading “Claude might mess up my filesystem” for “Claude has root-level access to my container runtime.”

A Vagrant VM is exactly the same thing, just without Docker. The benefit of Docker is you've got an entire ecosystem of tooling and customized containers to benefit from, easier to maintain than a Vagrantfile, and no waiting for "initialization" on first booting a Vagrant box.

On both Linux and MacOS, use this:

# Build 'claude' VM and Docker context

$ colima start --profile claude --vm-type=qemu
$ docker context create claude --docker "host=unix://$HOME/.colima/claude/docker.sock"
$ docker context use claude

# Start DinD, pass through ports 8080 and 8443, and mount one host directory (for a Git repo)

$ docker run -d --name dind-lab --privileged -e DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR= -v dind-lab-data:/var/lib/docker \
-p 8080:8080 -p 8443:8443 -v /home/MYUSER/GITDIR:/mnt/host/home/MYUSER/GITDIR \
docker:27-dind
$ docker run --rm -it -e DOCKER_HOST=tcp://127.0.0.1:2375 \
-p 8080:8080 -p 8443:8443 -v /mnt/host/home/MYUSER/GITDIR:/home/MYUSER/GITDIR \
ubuntu:24.04 bash

# Or if you don't want to pass-through ports w/ DinD twice, use its network namespace directly
# ( docker run --rm -it -e DOCKER_HOST=tcp://127.0.0.1:2375 --network container:dind-lab .... )

Your normal default Docker context remains safe for normal use, and the "dangerous" context of claude euns in a different VM. If Claude destroys its container's VM, just delete it (colima stop claude; colima delete claude) and remake it.

You could do rootless Docker/Podman, but there's a lot of broken stuff to deal with that will just distract the AI.
by lovich | 2026-01-20 16:27:59+00:00
>I thought it was so states could knowingly house illegal aliens or illegal drug businesses without doing anything.

> Normally states wouldn't have that right, but I see many who think they should have it.

The states are not compelled to enforce federal law. Doing nothing about people violating federal law has always been a right of the states. You are trying to, or already have in your head, conflate non enforcing federal law, with actively violating state law.

Where marijuana is legalized, it means the State made it legal in terms of State law, not that it superseded federal law.

Zero States have made illegal immigrants legal. Some states stop going after them and assisting the federal government in their immigration duties.

You are talking about state's rights and have no idea what the boundaries of those rights even are.
by adventured | 2026-01-20 16:28:05+00:00
The US isn't going to get hyperinflation. It's going to get a Japan style heat death. More and more wealth concentrated into low yielding debt, rather than invested into growth, while purchasing power is chewed up by persistent currency debasement. Japan never did suffer real deflation (that was a lie), it suffered massive inflation: they debased the Yen to garbage levels, drastically chopping down the standard of living of the typical Japanese person, wiping out their wealth, eroding the value of their output per capita. Only in a twisted, failed Keynesian experiment could one confuse such epic scale inflation with deflation. What they thought was deflation was an economic heat death due to their productive capital being tied up in low yield debt.
by linguae | 2026-01-20 16:28:36+00:00
Americans have a history of rioting over economic and social conditions, however. An attack on Greenland may open a Pandora’s box of consequences that will devastate America by us becoming a pariah state, which will lead to economic pain.

For the sake of the country, I hope that this is finally the red line that will get enough Republicans representatives to finally have the courage to rein in Trump, at least on this issue.
by thrance | 2026-01-20 16:28:54+00:00
It is very obnoxious, the sound should just be enough for pedestrians to notice there's a car behind them (happened to me a few times now that there was an electric van one meter behind me that I hadn't heard at all). Tangentially related, but I came across a startup selling EV noises as NFTs once, and it still holds the palm of "most ridiculous business" in my head.
Treating anxiety as a bug in legacy code (engineering approach)
by bitkin_dev | 2026-01-20 16:29:12+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm a software engineer. About a year ago I hit a severe burnout phase. Traditional advice ("just relax", "inner child", etc.) didn’t work for me because it felt non-operational and hard to test.

I started thinking about my cognition as an operating system running on legacy evolutionary drivers. These drivers were optimized for survival in unpredictable environments, not for modern high-load cognitive work.

Instead of asking “how do I feel?”, I reframed the problem in engineering terms:

what specific inputs reliably trigger failure states?

what minimal interventions consistently exit those loops?

I treated anxiety and procrastination as recurring system errors rather than emotional problems. Instead of relying on willpower, I experimented with small, mechanical actions that reliably altered attention or physiological state — similar to forcing an interrupt or resetting a stuck process.

Most experiments failed. The ones that worked were surprisingly boring, simple, and repeatable — which made them reliable.

Over time, I documented the working approaches into a technical manual for myself, structured as a set of protocols rather than advice.

I’m curious whether anyone here has approached burnout, anxiety, or habit loops using systems thinking or engineering-style models.
What frameworks worked for you, and what didn’t?
by kotauchisunsun | 2026-01-20 16:29:12+00:00
According to data from AI Coding.info, until last month the AI coding agent usage share rankings were led by Claude Code, followed by GitHub Copilot in second place and Codex CLI in third.

By the end of December 2025, the usage shares of GitHub Copilot and Codex had become nearly equal. On January 8, 2026, a noticeable gap began to emerge, with Codex reaching a 25.5% share compared to Copilot’s 24.3%.

As of January 21, 2026, Codex has clearly overtaken GitHub Copilot in usage share.

The current AI coding agent usage shares are as follows:

1. Claude Code: 31.6%
2. Codex CLI: 26.7%
3. Copilot Agent: 22.9%
4. Cursor: 9.7%
5. Gemini CLI: 6.3%
by abdullahkhalids | 2026-01-20 16:29:27+00:00
> Unions sabotaged automation efforts and limited hours worked.

It's completely rational for unions, and the workers, to prevent automation. The short term results of automation are only negative for workers, and positive for every other part of the market (customers, suppliers, capitalists). The results might be positive in the long run, but why should only one group suffer.

Perhaps, the capital-owning class could make the deal positive for the workers by giving the workers ownership of a substantial portion of the firm. Then whats good for the firm would become good for workers, and the union would not oppose automation so much.
by rayiner | 2026-01-20 16:29:29+00:00
And how did that work out for Ukraine, Egypt, India, etc? Protesting, rioting, and strikes is what people do in dysfunctional democracies like my home country of Bangladesh, where they recently just overthrew the government responsible for almost 15 years of continuous solid growth. Getting emotional and rioting is a third-world trait.

It is a virtue of Americans that they are unemotional and resolve disputes at the ballot box. America got rich because it grew at a modest 2% per year almost continuously for more than 200 years: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/theres-one-thing-we-can-alway.... Nothing is so important that it can't wait until the next election.

If people don't like what Trump is doing, they'll go out and vote in 2026 to reign him in, and then will vote for the other party in 2028. Even during the Civil War, Lincoln stood for reelection. And even with the Confederate States not voting, it was a vigorously contested election. Lincoln's margin of victory (about 10 points) was lower than in 12 elections we had in the 20th century. Reagan won reelection by almost double the margin that Lincoln did while he was Commander-in-Chief during the Civil War. FDR and LBJ won reelection by more than double the margin.
by jwHollister | 2026-01-20 16:29:32+00:00
I have something similar to this need to be useful but perhaps a different twist that is causing me problems. It's not so much a sense that I want to be useful but a feeling that I HAVE to be or bad things will happen. Lately it's a constantly running internal narrative that everyone around me is useless. Which breeds an anxiety that if I don't do everything then something important will slip through the cracks. That yields a sense of dispair and eventually anger because of this constant weight that I expect I'll have to carry indefinitely.

I've been in therapy off and on through the years and I think this stems from a childhood with neglectful parents. I need to start seeing someone again. Thanks for the reminder!
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-20 16:29:34+00:00
To note, I believe it's possible the ~1500 troops staging to Minnesota are not to assist with ICE operations, but to be air lifted via the 133rd Airlift Wing to Greenland. If interested in pursuing this, task some commercial satellite imaging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/133rd_Airlift_Wing
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-20 16:29:55+00:00
Far more important, I'd say, are the European countries having already got together to discuss joint sanctions/tariffs against the USA (their nominal NATO partner) if Trump moves to seize Greenland.

Macron has also said that he wants no part of Trump's (billion dollar entrance fee) "peace board" that he's going to be pushing at Davos.

A divorce from the USA would certainly hurt Europe, but it will also hurt the USA and it's ability to defend itself if it loses access to European intelligence and ability to have forward located military bases and refueling locations.

The Republican's are really shooting themselves, and the US, in the foot here by not standing up to Trump and therefore indicating that all this craziness is Trump rather than an enduring US policy that they support. Even if they flip flop when Trump is out of office, the rest of the world is never going to trust the US again.
by NetMageSCW | 2026-01-20 16:30:02+00:00
Don’t full battery packs weigh more than an ICE system? Plus, weight is a minimal factor in efficiency anyway.

Today, a PHEV is the best of all world’s, but full parity for BEVs (in the US) is almost here. Reliable trip charging (NACS, SuperCharger network) and available destination charging will be enough pretty soon.
by bstar77 | 2026-01-20 16:30:15+00:00
I have been running dangerously, but I always make sure to start a new session, have claude read the docs (I have already generated) related to the project in question, and then scope the work to just those things in the current sandbox. It can technically go outside of the sandbox in this mode, but I've never had it happen.

IMO, if you are not running in the dangerous mode then you are really missing out on one of the best aspects of claude code- its ability to iterate. If you have to confirm each iteration then it's just not practical.
by Retric | 2026-01-20 16:30:22+00:00
“There's no chance US will default on its debts, all it has to do is to print more money.”

Trying to inflate away 40+ Trillion in debt would directly result in hyperinflation.

> they debased the Yen to garbage levels

Look at Yen to USD exchange rates and it’s clear they didn’t. “From 1991 to 2003, the Japanese economy, as measured by GDP, grew only 1.14% annually, while the average real growth rate between 2000 and 2010 was about 1%,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades Meanwhile the USD exchange rate in Jan 1988 was 127 vs 140 in 1998 vs 107 in 2008. It went up and down all through the 20 years of poor economic growth, but something else was clearly the issue.
by whimsicalism | 2026-01-20 16:30:43+00:00
Federal supremacy will win, the MN governor will not tell local LE directly to prevent federal agents enforcing federal law. I understand that law is not popular among many right now, but that is how it will play out.

There will not be civil war unless the military truly comes to assist in a Trump attempt to take power in 2028, which I think is very unlikely.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-20 16:30:43+00:00
> The most effective way to reduce the global threat the US is appearing to pose more as of late, is to hit the dollar.

Which is exactly what this administration is doing. What do you think happens when the POTUS and DOJ overtly pressure the sitting Chairman of the Federal Reserve to cut Fed Funds rates and print more money, thus creating more inflation in direct violation of a crystal-clear Congressional mandate? Do you think that's good for the U.S. as a destination for safe assets, or a "reserve currency"?
by gretch | 2026-01-20 16:31:10+00:00
Yeah so far there's not enough nuance in the discussion.

I also like to separate between 1) solvable vs unsolvable problems: e.g. you cannot solve a deceased relative.

Also 2) first time vs multiple repeat problems

If find it very irritate someone is venting to me repeatedly about solvable problems.

But if it's a 1 time unsolvable problem, then it's important to be in listening mode.
by topspin | 2026-01-20 16:31:16+00:00
> PCI is very delay-tolerant

That fascinates me. Intel deserves a lot of credit for PCI. They built in future proofing for use cases that wouldn't emerge for years, when their bread and butter was PC processors and peripheral PC chips, and they could have done far less. The platform independence and general openness (PCI-SIG) are also notable for something that came from 1990 Intel.
by throwaway5752 | 2026-01-20 16:31:38+00:00
Yes, of fucking course it is. The US elected a convicted con artist who is incontrivertibly violating human rights law, breaking treaties with allies, militarily threatening neighbors, and in general making a global outcast of themselves.

The US is making an absolute mockery over the honor and responsibility granted to in the post-WW2 world. It has sophisticated rivals that are predictably and effectively making use of the self-inflicted crisis. So far the ruling class of the US has been happy enough to let this go, and has been too busy making rocket ships, fake computer currencies, and large estates in south Florida to deal with real world problems.

If you are in the US, buy some gold or a house so you your savings aren't destroyed - utterly predictably - by the man who declared Chapter 11 bankrupcy at least 6 times.
by corimaith | 2026-01-20 16:32:09+00:00
You do realise it is arthimetically impossible to balance all the desired export surpluses of the EU, China, Japan, etc together without the US as the demand sink right? Whatever adjustment comes is certainly going to require somebody to act in a manner contrary to their current strategies, and it's going to be a painful adjustment.

And which is harder? Bringing back production to satiate domestic demand or increasing domestic demand? Historically, demand deficiency is much harder to restore.
by celsoazevedo | 2026-01-20 16:32:29+00:00
They've started displaying ads: https://www.reddit.com/r/NovaLauncher/comments/1qhzbws/is_no...

The SDKs are also part of the app even if you paid for it, and there are reports on reddit of paid users seeing ads (that might be a bug, but still).

There's also the privacy side of this. It's not in my interest that my launcher sends data about me to Facebook/Meta.
by lovich | 2026-01-20 16:32:34+00:00
My local town doesn't have a Constitutional right to exist or be independent either.

This has very little to do with the price of tea in China.

Parties outside of the US who don't give a fuck all about the Constitution are involved in keeping us as a reserve currency, and they care that the fed is independent. We have kept it so to keep the economy stable and to reap the benefits of that stability.
by minimaxir | 2026-01-20 16:32:49+00:00
> Shit is getting bad out in the actual software economy. Cash registers that have to be rebooted twice a day. Inventory systems that randomly drop orders. Claims forms filled with clearly “AI”-sourced half-finished localisation strings. That’s just what I’ve heard from people around me this week. I see more and more every day.

What? You can't argue "if the software is shitty, it must be vibe coded." People have been writing shit software with low standards since before 2023.
by drob518 | 2026-01-20 16:32:56+00:00
Exactly. Okay, that’s a great claim. How? Also, “planetary scale” is meaningless. With the right node count (low), topology, and radios, just about any mesh network can achieve “planetary scale.” But that doesn’t mean it’ll support 10 thousand users, never mind millions. There are underlying technical reasons that the Internet works the way it does.
by veira | 2026-01-20 16:33:09+00:00
I am Kevin founder of Veira. We are building a POS system for small retail owners who struggle with unclear sales numbers staff manipulation and compliance pressure

The idea came from watching shop owners manually reconcile cash receipts and staff reports every day and still not knowing what actually happened. Many had POS systems but no real visibility or alerts

Veira focuses on real time sales tracking simple reports and owner level visibility even when you are not at the shop. It is built primarily for small retailers in emerging markets starting with Kenya

We are early and actively learning. I would really appreciate feedback from anyone who has built retail software worked with POS systems or run a small business

Happy to answer questions and hear what we are missing
by throwaway5752 | 2026-01-20 16:33:25+00:00
Holders of US debt have no obligation to give a shit about the statutory background of the Fed, and to just make decisions about who is the best fiduciary of their currency.

If holders of US debt goes away, we have immediate inflation to the point where our currency hits trade equilibriums such that we can service our debt. All of your savings are worthless.
by messe | 2026-01-20 16:33:32+00:00
This conversation doesn't belong here and will devolve into a flame war. It's not my job to teach you how to communicate.

> I think the problem is firmly on your side

The fact that you're getting downvoted and flagged to death would lead me to disagree. It seems most people didn't interpret it as you intended, which is a failure of communication on your side.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-20 16:33:36+00:00
The rest of the world is not going to be bullied into submission by one guy. If you can't take care of your own problem then eventually the world will turn away from you. This has the obvious potential of spiraling out of control but Trump is first and foremost the responsibility of the US population. The rest of the world will pick up the pieces. But he needs to be kept inside the lines or he'll run into people who are not just going to say 'yes' to his every whim.
by stackghost | 2026-01-20 16:33:46+00:00
>The federal reserve has no constitutional right to exist or be independent.

Irrelevant.

Actions have consequences, and the natural consequence of the actions of the US administration is that corporations and states that value stability are looking elsewhere than the US Dollar.

Whether or not the Fed has a constitutional right to independence is irrelevant to this situation. If Americans want to cheer while Trump flushes nearly a century of soft power down the toilet that's their prerogative, but the trend of de-dollarization has already begun and it's unlikely to be reversed.