MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwup238 | 2026-01-15 19:25:20+00:00
> (unwalkable towns where all of the houses are big garages in the front and no porches)

You can turn the garage into a hangout spot. A neighbor has a full bar with communal table plus TV for sports and he opens up the garage door once a week on a schedule (Sunday game day or whatever depending on the season) and whenever he feels like it on work week evenings. As people pass by we invite them over and after a few months everyone knows that when the garage is open, they can come over for a drink and to shoot the shit. Low pressure social interactions that often turn into weekend outings, regular poker games, etc.

Now years later we get impromptu block parties when he brings out the grill onto the driveway. It’s done wonders for our community in an otherwise unwalkable SoCal suburb.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-15 19:25:27+00:00
This does not support freedom of the press. This policy is essentially a tax on web indexers (in practice, Google) that is paid directly to the news companies. This means that they are entirely dependent on government authority for their revenue, which is the opposite of freedom of the press. On top of that, only companies that are defined as "news outlets" by the government are eligible for forced indexing and payment. So not only is the government setting itself up as the revenue source, but it gets to choose who gets the money.
by mullingitover | 2026-01-15 19:25:38+00:00
> So they sit on social media all day when they're not at work or school. How can we solve this?

The naive solution is to place blame on the people who are influenced by the most advanced behavior modification schemes ever devised by humans. Kinda like how the plastic producers will push recycling, knowing they can shift blame for the pollution away from their production of the pollution, because people love blaming. You'll see commenters here telling us that the answer is for people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, get out, get involved in their communities under their own willpower. These ideas are doomed from the outset.

The real solution is already being enacted in a number of US states and countries[1]: legally restricting access to the poison, rather than blaming the people who are at the mercy of finely honed instruments of behavior modification when they're unable to stop drinking it under their own willpower.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_...
by alpine_accentor | 2026-01-15 19:25:46+00:00
It's honestly besides the point. For even if I accept their sovereignty, they have exercised their sovereign will in the Electoral College to elect this administration. And they always have the power to impeach it through their representatives, the administration did not take that away, nor did they suspend the Congress, nor do they appear to be preparing to wrongfully influence the next elections. A state can not go and rebel against the Union because it disagrees with the current administration. Hell, the Union can literally change the Constitution against the will of a particular state if enough other states agree. You can consider states sovereign if you want, and I concede that it's an established tradition, but when the whole agreement on the separation of powers can be changed with a particular state voting against it - that's a mockery of sovereignty of that state.
by wanderingstan | 2026-01-15 19:25:52+00:00
For me, I recently wanted to assemble a “supercut” of my videos of attempts at learning to bunny-hop a bike. The tool was able to craft a python script that used ffmpeg to edit out the no-motion portions of the videos and stitch them together.

This would have taken ages to do by hand in iMovie, and probably just as long to look up the needed parameters in ffmpeg, but Claude code got it right in the first try, and worked with me to fine-tune the motion detection threshold.
by boothby | 2026-01-15 19:26:04+00:00
It still looks like a perverse incentive to me. If I were operating a gas plant and charging too much, and also building out renewables, it naively seems that I should be able to continue overcharging for gas, lining somebody's pocket to maintain the contract, and building out more renewables for ever more profit. I'm not in the UK so I'm only passingly familiar with the existence of this policy; I do hope that it's got an offramp.

Edit to answer my own concern: But, reading this article, it does seem like the auction is the offramp. The government takes bids for enough power to supply the country, and once the auction is settled the worst-case cost is paid to all winners. So there's a hope that gas will eventually subsidize its replacement with renewables.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-15 19:26:05+00:00
These raids are the indiscriminate door to door raids right? There are lots of disturbing reports from these. For example ICE agents showing up at a white family’s door to ask which houses have Asian people living in them. The raids are blatantly unconstitutional (fourth amendment) but also, regardless of laws, they are well beyond the pale in terms of morality. It’s crazy that tech companies are willfully participating in this. Palantir must be treated as a criminal enterprise by the next non-GOP administration, and there should be consequences for everyone there. As someone else said, you don’t get to just say "I was only in charge of transport".
by jfengel | 2026-01-15 19:26:05+00:00
No, we don't. The country got along fine with half the current population, and half of that, and half of that. There's no reason to think there's anything magical about the current population value. Progressives need to offer solutions to actual current problems, not imaginary future ones.

The right likes talking about it because it's tinged with racism. It's not just that the birth rate is falling, but that white people in particular might be out-reproduced. That's what underlies the hysterical level of their claims of collapse.

And that works for them, at the ballot box. But progressives won't triumph by letting the right set the agenda. We need to set our own agenda: the climate, the economy, a sane national conversation, etc.
by dismantlethesun | 2026-01-15 19:26:13+00:00
On the other hand, you can’t develop a technology if you have no knowledge of its inner workings.

This is an issue the US finds itself in now as it tries to onshore manufacturing again after allowing someone else to play middle man for decades.

Yes, the US has plenty of capital resources but that doesn’t directly translate into production when you have to setup not just a single factory but an entire supply chain.
by idontwantthis | 2026-01-15 19:26:19+00:00
To paraphrase Barney Stinson:

When I'm feeling lonely, I stop feeling lonely and feel awesome instead.

There are lots of good suggestions in here. People just need to go do them. And if there are structural impediments to doing them, then eliminate those impediments.

I wasn't getting out enough during the day because I share the car with my wife. So I bought an EBike and now I go out all the time.

I chose to live in a place with things near by that I can go to.

Whenever I'm thinking, I'd like to go do an activity, but I need something else first, it's usually not true, or the other thing I need is easy to get.

People just need to decide to stop doing things that make them unhappy.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-15 19:26:25+00:00
It felt like a more confident statement and I was legitimately asking. I have little love for Apple. Ditched my Mac Studio earlier this year for a Linux only build after 20 years of being on Macs. I say this because I think folks think I am trying to sealion/“just ask questions:tm:” or some nonsense, when I am legitimately asking if this is a documented practice and what the extent is. I am not finding it easy to find info on this.
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-15 19:27:26+00:00
I posted on another subthread but I think this is largely an excuse. If you live in a typical suburb you have 15-20 families on your street. You can easily walk next door and chat or just say hello when you see someone outside. It takes initiative, which is the key thing that's missing. You either hide in your house or you get out and be sociable.
by RIMR | 2026-01-15 19:27:36+00:00
1. You don't deport millions of undocumented people, you find a way integrate those who are willing to work (most of them) into your society.

2. Obama and Biden didn't get the same level of attention because they weren't being publicly antagonistic and racist, or using deliberately cruel tactics to accomplish their goals. Or breaking the law / violating the constitution to meet their ends.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-15 19:27:42+00:00
Nobody said you're responsible for ads, but people have an issue with you accepting to take the big FANG money which you knew comes from ads and other nefarious monopolistic anti consumer things FANGs do, and then wanting to be a anti-FANG freedom fighter but only if you can maintain 50% of FANG money, which might rub some people the wrong way as being a by hypocritical.

My 2 cents.
by munificent | 2026-01-15 19:27:48+00:00
> It's a 5 point scale, so landing a 4 or 5 on satisfaction on a 5 point scale seems significant.

No, it is absolutely not. Gallup is not asking "on a scale of 1-5, how would you rate your satisfaction?" They are asking:

"In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in your personal life at this time? Are you very [satisfied/dissatisfied], or just somewhat [satisfied/dissatisfied]?"

When it comes to surveys and social science the specific wording of questions has a huge impact on the results.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-15 19:28:11+00:00
> Now, everyone is an internet addict, and I was just ahead of the curve. No one hangs around and chats anymore.

A lot of the events and spaces I go to have people who hang around and chat.

I agree that internet use has had an impact, but I think it's easy to underestimate how much situations change as you grow up. Now that I have kids, it seems like we're always ending up in spaces where people are hanging out and chatting. As far as my kids know, that's just the way the world works.

I thought the same up through college, then I graduated and suddenly spontaneous socialization ended. I had to change my habits to go find other people.
by spockz | 2026-01-15 19:28:16+00:00
I think the point is more that 50% of senior FAANG total comp is still a lot more than you get at most European places.

100-120k net is considered quite a good salary and is unattainable even for most as a contracted employee. You do get benefits like healthcare and pensions which work differently. You can get higher rates if you are good at marketing, but then you need to insure your unemployment and pension yourself as well.

My latest info on Silicon Valley compensation (Google, Netflix, and Twitter) was that 400k/year gross before tax and RSU was typically achievable with even higher regular occurrences. 50% of that is still way over what you typically find here. (Switzerland excluded but all prices are inflated in Switzerland.)
by chaps | 2026-01-15 19:28:36+00:00
Please understand where I'm coming from:

My mom's dad was shot and killed by police. Absolutely nobody in my family knows anything about it, but the default is "he was a bad person and deserved it" or, "he probably did something wrong." The coroner's report shows his death as a suicide, despite police shooting and killing him. This was a time before cameraphones and before I was even born, so it's impossible for me, let alone anyone else to know what happened.

A lot of how you approach this discussion reminds me of the side of my family that defaults to thinking that the police did nothing wrong, or that their actions were justified or within policy, even without knowing the full facts (or, any; it's willful ignorance out the wazoo), plus a handful of assumptions. And, just -- a person died and that's all you can muster? Callousness and an air of benevolence?

You can do better, friend.
by drysine | 2026-01-15 19:28:47+00:00
>Why should I look at ten commits when I can look at one and get the same exact data?

For the same reason you have your production history instead of zip file with code)

>while presenting a nice clean set of changes at the end of it

The set, yes, not a single squashed commit.

>The branch is a scratchpad, you should feel empowered within your own branch, rebase

Yes, amend, fixup, rebase. Make it a nice set of small commits.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-01-15 19:28:51+00:00
- ICE boxed in a Woodbury real estate agent recording their movements
- She was run off the road into a snowbank by ICE for laying on her horn
- A woman attempting to drive past a raid
- Feds pushed an unidentified motorist through a red light
- Fired projectiles at a pedestrian walking “too slowly”

Where does the Palantir app come into any of these stories?
by epolanski | 2026-01-15 19:29:05+00:00
The article is quite misleading.

Agcom isn't the privacy watchdog, albeit their responsibilities overlap in some areas.

Also, our actual privacy watchdog (garante per la privacy) has been under the lenses for corruption for quite some time.

One of it's most important managers was on one side expected to fight for Italians privacy, on the other hand his own law consulting firm was defending US big tech interests.

He was caught bragging for being one of the first people in the world to receive the latest meta ray bans before they even got released, a very controversial device for privacy (and yes, he also defends Meta).
by Jcjimenez | 2026-01-15 19:29:09+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Julio, and I built Superfocus over the past few weeks.

The problem: I noticed college students (including myself) struggle with focus during study sessions. Most Pomodoro timers are either too complex or too boring.

What I built:
- Simple Pomodoro timer (25/5/15 cycles)
- Custom "vibes" - students can set their own backgrounds + Spotify playlists
- Unlimited custom timers (52 min deep work, 90 min sessions, whatever works)
- Focus analytics to track productivity patterns
- Share achievements on X after completing cycles

It's free with 1 hour/day limit. Premium is $3.99/month with a 7-day trial.

Tech stack: Vanilla JS, Clerk auth, Stripe, Vercel, Resend for emails.

I'd love feedback from the HN community. What features would make you actually use a focus timer?

Try it: https://superfocus.live
by bitwize | 2026-01-15 19:29:15+00:00
Which is kind of funny because my standard quip is that AI research, beginning in the 1950s/1960s, and indeed much of late 20th century computer tech especially along the Boston/SV axis, was funded by the government so that "the missile could know where it is". The DoD wanted smarter ICBMs that could autonomously identify and steer toward enemy targets, and smarter defense networks that could discern a genuine missile strike from, say, 99 red balloons going by.
by synsqlbythesea | 2026-01-15 19:29:30+00:00
Thanks — both are great systems.

ClickHouse and Scuba are extremely good at what they’re designed for: fast OLAP over relatively narrow schemas (dozens to hundreds of columns) with heavy aggregation.

The issue I kept running into was extreme width: tens or hundreds of thousands of columns per row, where metadata handling, query planning, and even column enumeration start to dominate.

In those cases, I found that pushing width this far forces very different tradeoffs (e.g. giving up joins and transactions, distributing columns instead of rows, and making SELECT projection part of the contract).

If you’ve seen ClickHouse or Scuba used successfully at that kind of width, I’d genuinely be interested in the details.
by observationist | 2026-01-15 19:29:37+00:00
Exactly. robots.txt with regards to AI is not a standard and should be treated like the performative, politicized, ideologically incoherent virtue signalling that it is.

There are technical improvements to web standards that can and should be made that doesn't favor adtech and exploitative commercial interests over the functionality, freedom, and technically sound operation of the internet
by rnhmjoj | 2026-01-15 19:29:56+00:00
As much as Americans like to think everything is about America, I doubt this is somehow connected. These goverment-appointed officials, like the Secretary General of the Privacy Watchdog, tend to be incompetent and corrupt buffoons.

Just two months ago, the previous Secretary General was forced to resign[1] after he tried to spy on his own employees in a botched attempt to find a whistle-blower that had exposed his corruption. He couldn't get away with it only because the head of IT (who he ordered to carry out the actual spying) happened to be the son-in-law of the President of the Republic, which is practically the last remaining institution with some integrity in the political landscape.

To understand the magnitude of the incompetence of that fool, just know that he had asked IT to retrieve employees access logs and all emails for the past 25 years (hundreds of TB of data) and put them on a DVD so he could check them out [2].

[1]: https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2025/11/20/scosson...

[2]: https://www.key4biz.it/garante-privacy-capo-it-a-segretario-...
by boxerbomb | 2026-01-15 19:29:57+00:00
Spot on, programming on any of these TI calculators in either BASIC or ASM is a great way to learn programming and can really teach a programmer a lot about how computers work, and how to program efficiently. I still think that TI calculators could play an important role in computer science education. If you haven't checked it out already check out the Cosmac Elf memebership card and some of the Homebrew 1802 software and hardware, there is a lot of nice stuff.
by daheza | 2026-01-15 19:30:27+00:00
How about we treat people humanely?
How about we focus on the criminals and dangerous people first instead of getting people that have pending citizenship appointments. How about we don't grab people from hospitals, schools, and places of worship?
How about we try to get citizenship easier access for these folks who are clearly living and contributing successfully to our society?
How about we don't have masked thugs grabbing anyone of color off the street?

Its extremely easy to do better than they are. Biden and Obama did in fact do this and successfully. They are not trying to do it well, they are trying to do it cruelly. The cruelty is the point.
by theptip | 2026-01-15 19:30:40+00:00
> When it became cheaper to publish text did the quality go up?

Obviously, yes? Maybe not the median or even mean, but peak quality for sure. If you know where to look there are more high-quality takes available now than ever before. (And perhaps more meaningfully, peak quality within your niche subgenre is better than ever).

> When it became cheaper to make games did the quality go up?

Yes? The quality and variety of indie games is amazing these days.

> When it became cheaper to mass produce X (sneakers, tshirts, anything really) did the quality go up?

This is the case where I don’t see a win, and I think it bears further thought; I don’t have a clear explanation. But I note this is the one case where production is not actually democratized. So it kinda doesn’t fit with the digital goods we are discussing.

> basically nobody can make a living with focusing on publishing news or articles

Is this actually true? Substack enables more independent career bloggers than ever before. I would love to see the numbers on professional indie devs. I agree these are very competitive fields, and an individual’s chances of winning are slim, but I suspect there are more professional indie creators than ever before.
by jfengel | 2026-01-15 19:30:47+00:00
You presumably don't run an overall trade deficit. You have a positive balance of trade with your employer, who pays you money for your services. That is probably slightly higher than the total trade deficit you have with your purchases.

You may even have saved up enough that you could retire, and run a trade deficit for the rest of your life. Which would be fine, except that countries don't retire. They need to more or less balance their net trades, over a period of decades if not every year.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-15 19:31:09+00:00
From a cultural / literary / symbolic perspective, reading the KJV makes the most sense. Most allusions and quotes are to this specific version. Shakespeare didn't use it, but almost everyone after him did. Getting the most precise original meaning is important for scholars and theologians, but for most people it's more important to read the text that will connect to the most nodes in their cultural canonical graph.

OP specifically indicates he wanted to read it because of its high valency with other texts he had read, so his choice makes sense.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-15 19:31:20+00:00
I live in a suburban neighborhood with a couple bag ends, our neighborhood is pretty social. couple of neighborhood bbqs a year, kids all playing together every day, dinners, etc. It is quiet and not a lot of traffic with long term residents. I am not 100% on what exactly the key is for a town is, I think style matters, but Ive been in walkable neighborhoods without a good community, and non-walkable neighborhoods with one.
by hedora | 2026-01-15 19:31:27+00:00
It's frustrating that there's no way for people to (selectively) mirror the Internet Archive. $25-30M per year is a lot for a non-profit, but it's nothing for government agencies, or private corporations building Gen AI models.

I suspect having a few different teams competing (for funding) to provide mirrors would rapidly reduce the hardware cost too.

The density + power dissipation numbers quoted are extremely poor compared to enterprise storage. Hardware costs for the enterprise systems are also well below AWS (even assuming a short 5 year depreciation cycle on the enterprise boxes). Neither this article nor the vendors publish enough pricing information to do a thorough total cost of ownership analysis, but I can imagine someone the size of IA would not be paying normal margins to their vendors.
by deandotwork | 2026-01-15 19:31:30+00:00
reminds me ... I opened a can of Illy coffee today. It has a big red warning saying similar under pressure warning. I went...."pfhhh, how much pressure could be in this little can?" and it went ba-boom, coffee grounds all over me and my kitchen. I will heed the Sustromming warning if I ever come across a tin
by fullstackchris | 2026-01-15 19:31:34+00:00
> I don’t know if I feel exhilarated by what I can now build in a matter of hours, or depressed because the thing I’ve spent my life learning to do is now trivial for a computer. Both are true.

I'm not so sure... I mean it's true that regardless of if you are a beginner, junior, or 'senior', if you say "build me an instagram clone" Opus 4.5 will probably do a decent job. I think the skills go still in understanding architecture, and just knowing where pitfalls and problems can arise, or even making some important 'abstraction cut' prompts. I think applications can still grow to a point where you still need to prompt at specific domains only, or the model will fail to do everything you want it to - especially if you give it massive 'fix this this this anad that too' prompts
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-15 19:31:44+00:00
Not to take away from the point that it's overcomplicated, but a lot of the complications come from trying to expose a generic interface. For example, digests can have variable output lengths like BLAKE2 and BLAKE3 do.

The default BLAKE2 provider doesn't actually support that functionality, but my provider for BLAKE3 does. I don't think anyone uses it though. I haven't updated that provider since they changed the internal API for setting it and no one's complained yet.