MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blibble | 2026-01-20 16:42:28+00:00
> The UK's current system is realistically about the same age as the US

no, it's evolved continuously from 1066

by the time of the US rebellion, the king was already neutered

> their first PM was in the 18th century.

the title of "Prime Minister" is a modern invention

a constitutionally limited monarchy is older than the US

meanwhile the modern US seems to be a absolute monarchy that isn't constitutionally limited
by palmotea | 2026-01-20 16:42:40+00:00
> It's not a job. Every cop is a weirdo, they looked for opportunities to exert dominance over other people...

Stereotype much? Crime is actually a thing that happens. There are definitely cops that have the wrong attitude, but the function is necessary and warrant that kind of stereotyping especially if you want it to be better.

Like, here's a recipe for making policing worse: heap on so much steotyping and abuse onto the profession that you scare away all the people who aren't "look[ing] for opportunities to exert dominance over other people." Don't create a filter that only selects "bad apples."
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-01-20 16:43:04+00:00
> > the US erupting into a civil war within 5 years, as they seem somewhat to have lost touch with reality.

When your material needs are satisfied then only ideological battles remain to be won.

And having lots of material stuff you have plenty to throw at the enemy.

It's already happening. People are willing to forego their material needs and harm the country and themselves to 'own' and defeat the other side.

The only hope is that the ideological wars become so scattered and around so many topics and centers of power that it's not 70m people vs. 70m people or that the ideological wars are slow and so people realize the loss of quality of life and material wealth and rebalance towards the latter instead of pursuing the 'owning the other side' doctrine
by noumenon1111 | 2026-01-20 16:43:27+00:00
*Gemini Tech Tip #624:* Boost your Wi‑Fi and spiritual resilience by wrapping your router in aluminum foil! Protect against solar flares, reptilian packet theft, and basic physics. Turn it into a family craft: make and decorate foil router cozies and matching foil hats, then browse Reddit and/or the park, seeking fellow shiny‑headed believers.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2026-01-20 16:43:29+00:00
Have you been to Japan? Salaries are low, but stuff is crazy cheap (even after the past year of inflation). People are still feeling whiplash from the fact that prices can change at all. Many menus and items have prices that have barely changed since the early 1990s, and most of those changes were to add sales taxes to the menu.

The exchange rate of the yen has dropped recently by a lot, but the inflation experience there has been the exact opposite of America's.
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-20 16:43:39+00:00
I asked because I started using GSD which I liked at first, but have since dropped. I started using planning instead and find it probably does a better job and is waaay faster. After a while of using GSD I started to realize the control I initially felt over the model with all these markdown documents (current state, phases, phases belonging to larger milestones) etc. were an illusion.
by alyandon | 2026-01-20 16:43:43+00:00
https://antonz.org/go-1-26/#httptest-example

> To fix this issue, the HTTP client returned by httptest.Server.Client now redirects requests for example.com and its subdomains to the test server

I'm really conflicted about the idea that the https client should silently hijack requests to example.com in order to make a dummy certificate work... or am I just really misunderstanding?
Show HN: Fastjsondiff – Fastest JSON Diff in Python Powered by Zig
by adilkhash | 2026-01-20 16:43:53+00:00
Hey,

I built a python package to run JSON diffs. It is probably the fastest json diff out there (python ecosystem).

Previously I used the well-known package called jsondiff, it is great but when it comes to large json payloads it sucks (badly) :(

I didn't want to implement it in pure Python because eventually it would still be very slow hence I decided to use Zig programming language. Seems like the final product solves my problems with poor performance with large JSON payloads.

Please give it a try if you like

Github: https://github.com/adilkhash/fastjsondiff
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/fastjsondiff-zig/

Would be great to have a star on my repo ;)
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-20 16:44:24+00:00
>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.

The fact that I did not choose to tailor my communication to the people obsessively fighting their ideological battles on the internet does in fact not indicate a failure on my part.

There's simply no way a reasonable person can read my comments and reach the same conclusions you have.

Here's the same conversation we just had, simply with the US replaced with another country. Perhaps it'll help you understand just how ridiculous you come across as to someone who isn't emotionally invested in the culture wars:

Commenter 1: Why are residents of Germany letting Hitler go rogue internationally, risk going to war with basically everyone else and also murder all the jews?

Commenter 2: If you can think of a good way to stop that absolutely terrible thing from happening, I'm all ears

Me: You could shoot him

messe: I'm no fan of the German administration (I live in Denmark and am LGBT), but leave that inflammatory rhetoric off of HN.

And before someone brings up Godwin's law or something equally silly, we're literally talking about superpowers fighting over Europe here. Hitler is a perfectly fitting comparison.
by vee-kay | 2026-01-20 16:44:55+00:00
Except for the electronic subsystem, almost everything else in an ICE car can be repaired by a competent non-dealer mechanic shop.

I do agree though that modern ICE vehicles are becoming more and more complex, with electronic subsystems replacing manual subsystems, so non-dealer mechanics may struggle with such complex work and may even reject the work saying it's out of their ambit. This situation is getting aggravated as car manufacturers are pushing for hybrids, which have the partial advantages & disadvantages of both ICE & EV worlds.

But for any EV (including the Nissan Leaf), repairs & advanced diagnostics on the electric-drive components
(which is basically the main component of the EV), health checks on the battery (other main component), or repairs involving high-voltage systems, are typically out of the competency and ambit of a non-dealer mechanic, unless the mechanic shop is a dealer-certified EV-trained service center.

However, the routine mechanical work — things like brakes, suspension (e.g., sway bar links, shocks), tires, wheel alignment, cabin filters, etc. — can generally be done safely and correctly by a good independent mechanic, whether it be for an ICE vehicle or an EV.
by BowBun | 2026-01-20 16:45:16+00:00
Just last week, I was accused on HN of "not knowing what I'm talking about" when sharing data showing, and my interpretation of, a declining US dollar globally.

It is so obvious in the context of globalization: countries seeking power will chip away at fiscal dominance of others with a thousand cuts. Why wouldn't they? Especially after years of getting bullied.

So many people are so dependent on this reality that I think it's going to happen long before any Americans accept it has happened.
by maerF0x0 | 2026-01-20 16:45:38+00:00
China is intentionally undermining the dollar in order to try to make the Yuan the world currency[1,2,3]. My current hypothesis is that the growth in the _price_ of the US Stock market (eg S&P 500) is actually devaluation of the dollar. Compared to real money (Gold) the S&P500 is down over the past 10 years. [4]

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1o2s6qp/yuan_has_s...

2 - https://www.economist.com/china/2025/09/10/china-is-ditching... ( https://archive.is/aNRmm )

3 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006JAM3UU/ "Currency Wars" by James Rickards (2011)

[4] - https://www.macrotrends.net/1437/sp500-to-gold-ratio-chart
by OrvalWintermute | 2026-01-20 16:46:07+00:00
The Monroe Doctrine stated, under Polk, that the Euros should not interfere with territorial expansionism of the US in the Western hemisphere, even if it came at their expense.

The Roosevelt Corollary stated likewise the US would police any Latin American country's mismanagement.

Yet, all these people are proclaiming a certain person a warmonger instead of completely in line with historical US policy.
by petterroea | 2026-01-20 16:46:07+00:00
A similar outlook scandal happened in Norway. I believe both UiO and NTNU, biggest in Humanities and engineering respectively, used to have great internal email services. Huge protests from competent personnel ignored. Now its all outlook. Microsoft are excessively good at convincing non technical stakeholders that their own staff are idiots, and that Microsoft is the solution.

I have corrected exams and graded assignments as an external party before (legal requirement). The biggest problem with LLMs I see is that the weak students copy-paste commands with unnecessary command line switches. But they would have done the same with stack overflow.

Some also say they use LLM to help improve their writing but that's where the learning is so why????? I think it's the anxiety for failing, they don't seem to understand I'll not fail them as long as their incoherent text proves they understood what they were doing.

Having graduated and knowing how things are ought to look, taking exams are so much less scary now because I'm confident I will be failed for being incompetent, not because I didn't write properly. Not all students have the same privilege, they gain it over time.

It does help that computer science assignments and papers are pretty damn standard in form.
by corimaith | 2026-01-20 16:46:13+00:00
>This looks to be slowly changing for various reasons.

Well, not really, because obviously that deprecation via buying government treasuries is balanced by the appreciation in the other currencies. But if everybody (large enough to matter) dosen't want their currency to appreciate, if somebody buys Japanese bonds for example to weaken their own currency, then Japan will buy somebody else's treasuries to offset the increase in Yen, and if we go to the long chain of musical chairs of people offsetting each other's behaviours, it just leads back to the USA as the only ones both large enough and willing to take in those capital inflows.

That's not a interpretation mind you, that's a description of what central banks are doing right now. If that has to change, you need somebody willing to take the mantle of the absorber of global deficits, and nobody wants to do that.
by daxfohl | 2026-01-20 16:46:22+00:00
Often when doing that, you look up the company on blind and it's got a 3 star rating with low pay, bad management, and no vision, though decent WLB.

My theory is that a lot of companies are one trick ponies. By the time you've heard of them, the core of their product is finished and they're left floating and have to make up stuff to pretend to work on.
by lucumo | 2026-01-20 16:46:25+00:00
Plain CSS is very useful if all you have is an HTML page. Giving all buttons a consistent look is nice and easy if you can just specify that with a nice CSS selector. That's also the only place you can do it without changing all <button> tags.

If you're building a component-based UI, that need is less, because all your buttons are created in a specific Button component. That's also an easy place to attach styling. You don't even need a separate file anymore.

But that's a wash. It gets much more interesting if you have components that are used in different contexts. Unordered lists for example can be an unordered list in the running text, but also a navigation list in the footer, the menu, or as tabs. There's some semantic logic to having those things as lists, but they usually look completely different.

You'd use classes and descendent selectors to deal with those differences. The downside is that those leak very easily to instances that you don't want them in. Having normal lists inside tabs inside running text requires careful engineering of the selectors.

The larger and older your project grows, the harder it becomes to get that exactly right in a future-proof way. At some point changing something for one item somewhere, can completely mess up something on another part of your site.

Inline styling, or Tailwind-style utility classes, are useful in that situation. Every component gets to be responsible for the way it looks and no longer has to care what anything else does. HTML tags that are used in different contexts will have their context right there, next to the styling. All part of the component.

The few remaining things that you need for consistency between components (colors, sizes, fonts, etc.) can be handled with CSS variables.
by throw20251220 | 2026-01-20 16:46:27+00:00
“I want a Nobel prize”. Who asked for help in fucking Iraq up, and got it? Who needed help in Afghanistan, and got it? Oh yeah, we’re not respecting. We’re not respecting the orange bully toddler clown, my fellow dear human being. One day like this, another day the opposite. Just impeach the imbecile so we can all do productive stuff. Where are you going to sell your shit saas when you push us off the cliff? The Ruzzians? Putin, or the guy after him, is going to do you the same way he did Europe. He’s going to lure you, then snap two decades later. But dream on, dreamer.

By the way, “ You are already not respecting your obligations” is big from a guy with a Dutch phone number. You have some split personality right there. Make your mind up about where you are.
by jxors | 2026-01-20 16:46:29+00:00
> Some instructions require VEX.L or VEX.W to be 0 or 1, and some encodings result in completely different instructions if you change VEX.L.

There is even an instruction where AMD got this wrong! VPERMQ requires VEX.W=1, but some AMD CPUs also happily execute it when VEX.W=0 even though that is supposed to raise an exception.
by howmayiannoyyou | 2026-01-20 16:47:14+00:00
USD remains and will remain dominant. Trillions in dollar denominated debt and derivatives, insurance products and assets exist globally. No other country willing to run prolonged & massive deficits required for a reserve currency. No other country, of sufficient size, has as predictable legal and regulatory dispute resolution environment. No other country currently has capabilities to protect overseas shipping - a key component of global trade.

USD dominance isn't going anywhere despite hurt feelings over Trump or US policies.
Show HN: Loci – Visual knowledge map with auto-generated flashcards and FSRS
by omnitrol | 2026-01-20 16:47:17+00:00
Loci transforms documents into an explorable 2D knowledge map with automatic flashcard generation.

How it works:
- Ingest any file (PDF, markdown, images, handwritten notes via vision LLM)
- Extract concepts and generate embeddings
- Project to 2D with UMAP, cluster with HDBSCAN
- Render as interactive honeycomb grid
- Auto-generate cloze + Q&A flashcards
- Schedule reviews with FSRS algorithm

Stack: FastAPI, LangChain, sqlite-vec, Nuxt 4, D3. Works with OpenAI or Ollama (fully local).
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-20 16:47:49+00:00
I swear teachers said something extremely similar about calculators when I was in grade school. "What are you going to do when you don't have access to a calculator? You won't ways have one with you!"

Calculators have never been more accessible/available. (And yet I personally still do most basic calculations in my head)

So I agree students should learn to do this stuff without LLMs, but not because the LLMs are going to get less accessible. There's another better reason I'm just not sure how to articulate it yet. Something to do with integrated information and how thinking works.
by qingcharles | 2026-01-20 16:47:54+00:00
This is definitely correct. I had a dream about a new video game the other day, woke up and Gemini one-shotted the game, but the characters are janky as hell because it has made them from whole cloth.

What it should have been willing to do is go off and look for free external assets on the Web that it could download and integrate.
by FrankWilhoit | 2026-01-20 16:48:13+00:00
Good question. The literature does not tend to be very informative on this point. It is a difficult topic to discuss because you can either handwave and presume agreement, or else go very deep. It has a lot to do with the amount and kind of repetition, and that is where the analogy between music and prose gets wobbly. The nearest thing we had to a Mozart in living memory was Stephen Sondheim. Something like "Comedy Tonight" would have been very familiar to Mozart, in purpose if not in all the details of execution.

In terms of technical writing for multiple audiences, it comes immediately to vocabulary, and there, again, the analogy fails, because it is much harder to get away with using unfamiliar words. For your purposes, Churchill might be a more direct model than Mozart. Look particularly at how he deploys words of one syllable, two syllables, etc. to shape phrases and produce climactic rhythms. Occupational dialect, full of terms-of-art, is obviously an obstacle to this kind of thing.
by Jtsummers | 2026-01-20 16:48:40+00:00
Many of us see it, but many others seem to be embracing it and trying to hasten it for reasons unknown. They pine for the glory days of post-WWII US hegemony but are actively undoing the institutions that were instrumental in US economic and political power at that time. They have no coherent world view, they are severely confused, but unfortunately numerous.
by whimsicalism | 2026-01-20 16:48:43+00:00
I think effectively all empirics go against this notion, the only real counterexample I can think of is the Troubles. People living comfortable lives don't want to die and the ideology usually routes around that: look how morality has been evolving wrt to the notion of 'sacrifice for the common good' - and we expect people will sacrifice their lives for their perception of the common good? doubt it
by jacquesm | 2026-01-20 16:49:00+00:00
I don't know exactly who you are referring to, which article/comment/?? do you refer to?

You are skeptical that it was written by an American, but you have no proof that it was not?

Do you know who did write it?

Those guys in the Whitehouse, are they not American?

They are the ones steering you straight off a cliff and quite literally anything - including civil war - could happen as a result of that.
by cess11 | 2026-01-20 16:49:08+00:00
I have trouble figuring out what argument you're making. My position is that every person who wants to be a cop has "the wrong attitude". It is a mid- to late modern phenomenon so the claim that it is necessary seems rather weak.

Who would avoid becoming a cop if I changed my rhetoric to yours? Do you believe that your "bad apples" would stop becoming cops if more people said that they "really like the cops"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX_EHeCbMqc
by ecshafer | 2026-01-20 16:49:17+00:00
If 3 people vote and 1 million are eligible but dont vote. Then 2 people vote for A and 1 person votes for B. A wins with 66% of the vote not .000000001% of the vote. Effectively those million people surender their votes to the other 3, or even just to the winners. They dont count anymore, they chose to not be counted when they chose not to participate. Whether those votes effectively disapear, or go to the winner or are divided based on the results, it doesn matter. If youre counting non voters you mignt as well get really pedantic and say that only the president, house and senate really get votes on a law so its .000000001% that vote on anything, but we dont because we known those votes represent the will of the people.
Show HN: An open-source personal finance simulator with AI features
by schelskedevco | 2026-01-20 16:49:26+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm Joe, the creator of Ignidash. In May, I quit my job at Meta to figure out what I wanted to work on next, and ended up on this. It's for DIY long-term financial planning, and includes US tax estimates, Monte Carlo simulations, historical backtesting with real market data, AI chat & insights, and more.

The hypothesis for it is as follows:
- As tools like Claude Code and Cursor become better & more popular, the value of being able to vibe (or regularly) code on top of the tools you use becomes greater, because it's faster, easier, and more accessible. This is especially true in personal finance, where everyone has an idiosyncratic situation to some degree and could benefit from changing things to their liking. Thus, the app is open source & self-hostable with Docker.
- AI will in some way, shape, or form be a big part of the future of financial planning, and I wanted to build towards that. I think it's genuinely very helpful and informative as long as it doesn't make mistakes, which of course it sometimes does. I'm planning to continue to improve the AI's accuracy with a RAG-based approach in the coming months.

Let me know what you think, and thanks for your time!
by dsr_ | 2026-01-20 16:49:42+00:00
> Sure, it's possible for a big crash in Nvidia just due to volatility. But in that case, the market as a whole would likely be affected.

Other way around: if NVidia sinks, it likely takes a bunch of dependent companies with it, because the likely causes of NVidia sinking all tell us that there was indeed an AI bubble and it is popping.
by petterroea | 2026-01-20 16:50:19+00:00
One helper here is fear. You can be failed for formal errors at university, and it means we were scared shitless of making them and payed close attention.

If people know "at university you can't use LLM, you are forced to think by yourself" they will adjust, albeit by trial of fire.

I think there's an argument that growing up in an educational system unable to teach you how to not rely on LLM would for all intents and purposes permanently nerf you compared to more fortunate peers. Critical thought is a skill we continue to practice until the very end
by sam_march | 2026-01-20 16:50:23+00:00
Hey guys,

I'm Sam, the founder of BlitzBrowser. I released the browser-as-a-service engine I did for my SAAS.

I built this project to simplify the deployment and management of browsers on scale. Over the years I scraped millions(maybe a billion) web pages and the browsers were always a pain to scale.

This is result of what I think simplify the usage of headful browsers in docker. It supports user data storage with S3 and you can connect your browsers to any HTTP proxy.

Every details about how to use the project is in the readme.

I hope you enjoy!
by nwthiele | 2026-01-20 16:50:27+00:00
Update: Thanks for the early feedback! To clarify the “beyond Turing” claim without fluff—it’s not about hypercomputation magic, but introducing μ-bits as a constrained bit model that enforces physical realism (e.g., conservation laws via Noether’s theorem) in chaotic/emergent systems. This makes it “stricter” than TMs for certain real-world simulations, while still universal (proven in Coq, zero admits).
If you’re curious:
• Quick Python sim to play with: https://github.com/sethirus/The-Thiele-Machine/blob/main/sim... (try running a simple chaotic iteration).
• Hardware angle: Verilog for FPGA prototyping—anyone with ASIC experience want to collab on optimizing for low-power emergent logic?
• Thesis highlights: Ch. 7 on emergence in physics/AI, or Ch. 10 on why this could matter for verifiable ML training under constraints.
What breaks it for you? Proof holes, sim perf, or just the physics tie-in? Open to PRs or discussions!