MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by plorg | 2026-01-15 18:56:49+00:00
Trying to decide how to categorize those giant first page threads from 2022 where Brian Armstrong would complain about activist employees or Google employees would stage walkouts about their employer doing contracts with the Department of Defense, the comments would be chock full of "yeah, actually a company should fire those employees, because business isn't about politics" then a few years later Coinbase drops $150M on the elections and Google is happily working with Palantir to build dragnet surveillance of US citizens.
by arjie | 2026-01-15 18:57:09+00:00
It's a 5 point scale, so landing a 4 or 5 on satisfaction on a 5 point scale seems significant. Also, when the value was at its highest in that time series, Hacker News had articles like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20468767

The comments there are full of people describing this loneliness epidemic when 65% of people were very satisfied and 90% of people were "somewhat satisfied or very satisfied". No matter what surveys of people's satisfaction with their personal lives show, there appears to be an enthusiasm for this subject of the loneliness epidemic. This makes me suspect that this is less an epidemic than an 'endemic' (if you'll forgive the word).

Regardless, I didn't intend to mislead so I'll edit it to say "somewhat satisfied or very satisfied (4 or 5 on a 5 point scale).
by basket_horse | 2026-01-15 18:57:36+00:00
The government is notoriously terrible at tech. Are you debating that? Out of the top tech talent over the last 20 years, how many of them do you suppose work in FAANG vs the US government?

I'm not saying Palantir specifically is necessary, but I do think finding avenues for Silicon valley to help the US government is necessary for them to be tech competent.
by benatkin | 2026-01-15 18:57:59+00:00
To me, this sounds more monolithic than containers. I think I'd like something less monolithic. However, those who like monorepos might be more quick to develop an interest in this. I could of course use containers within the MicroVM, which is what I really want anyways, because I want lighter weight containers than MicroVMs for sandboxes.

While looking into giving fly another shot as a cloud provider even though I think it's still pretty much a commodity for me, I found an issue in Google: I searched for "fly.io sao paolo" and the title of the first result on fly.io is "Regiones Â· Fly Docs", translated from english to Spanish. While I find the translation in titles on Google annoying, I haven't often seen the characters messed up like this. I reproduced this in Incognito at this URL: https://www.google.com/search?hl=es&q=fly.io%20sao%20paolo
by dartharva | 2026-01-15 18:58:13+00:00
"They stand to benefit from it" how!? The only thing they'll get is immediate geopolitical scorn which could very well escalate to mass military action considering how much TSMC now means for the world's economy. A single temporary shutdown of the fabs would mean a global economic apocalypse. They'd be inviting all powers of the world to attack them for no upside whatsoever, because it will all be over by the time they figure out how to leverage the fabs themselves.
by michaelrpeskin | 2026-01-15 18:58:26+00:00
This may just be me, but I hold the opposite view.

When I lived in a rural area with a few acres of property, I was much more social and engaged with my community.

Now I live at the edge of the city in a medium-high density townhouse area with no private outdoor space. Since I can never really get away from people and be alone, I also have no desire to go out and do things and engage with the community.

I think the variability is nice. If I can get home, relax, not have people around, have some private outdoor space, then I can recharge and have the energy to engage more.
by Terretta | 2026-01-15 18:58:33+00:00
I agree with you, however:

One of the qualia of a product is cost. Another is contemporaneity.

If we put these together, we see a wide array of products which, rather than just being trash, hit a sweet spot for "up-to-date yet didn't break the wallet" and you end up with https://shein.com/

These are not thought of as the same people that subscribe to the Buy It For Life subreddit, but some may use Shein for a club shirt and BIFL for an espresso machine. They make a choice.

Maybe Fashion was the original SEO hack. Whoever came up with the phrase "gone out of style" wrought much of this.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-15 18:59:20+00:00
I don't really musically understand reverb (to the point where I just know oh this needs a plate at X length), so I've been learning future garage forcing me to use a lot of reverb hoping it will click. Inspired by Urban Waifs sharing of some of their process in their Youtube videos. https://www.youtube.com/@UrbanWaifs/videos
by panarky | 2026-01-15 19:00:04+00:00
Just tried it again. Creation took a very long time, then errored.

$ sprite version
sprite version v0.0.1-rc30

$ sprite create quk

Error creating sprite: failed to create sprite: Post "https://api.sprites.dev/v1/sprites": context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)

But despite the error, the sprite was apparently created, and it runs continuously.

$ sprite ls
Sprites in organization <redacted>:

┌────┬───────┬────────┐
│NAME│STATUS │CREATED │
├────┼───────┼────────┤
│quk │running│14m ago │
└────┴───────┴────────┘

Total: 1 sprite(s)
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2026-01-15 19:00:09+00:00
I really hope so but honestly, what lessons have Democrats learned so far that will allow them to take the votes of those who are not right-wing radicals? Because there was a lot of unnecessary stuff that was going on that pissed off those who don't lean too far either side. Trump exploits this by, say, "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" and scores high not just on the right. This theme will be very difficult to deal with by the Democrats.

And on the foreign front, well, the trust has been broken and I don't think it can be repaired easily. The remaining NATO allies are very stable, they understand mutual respect and collaboration is the foundation of their survival, whereas attacking each other breaks trust completely. Even if a new fantastic president is chosen that understands his huge responsibility both for Americans and the world, other countries learned their lesson hard and understand there is no guarantee in a few years the USA become their enemy again.
by NickC25 | 2026-01-15 19:00:30+00:00
>The rhetoric about immigrants being a drain on society are flawed at best, and hatefully wrong and bad faith at worst.

Ironically all the big wealthy GOP donors all hire illegal laborers to clean their homes and mow their lawns, and to maintain the golf courses at clubs they belong to. But we can't actually have the conversation about illegal immigration get to the root causes of why immigrants are actually here, now can we?

> Stephen Miller wants all undocumented people out of this country because he is a white supremacist.

Another point of irony - most of the ardent white nationalists from the heartland of America would be aghast to learn that Miller is a rich Jew from Southern California whose grandparents were immigrants. For a lot of them, Jews are explicitly NOT white nor are they American.

> If Republicans were serious about measured but effective reforms to reduce immigration, they would have accepted the 2024 legislative package that capped asylum volume and vastly increased border patrol and border judiciary resources to expedite cases and get people back out of the country in a fraction of the time the current system requires.

Or, even earlier, they could have backed e-Verify as federal minimum standard for all employment as far back as the 1980s. But no, let's not go after the businesses hiring illegal laborers.
by 15155 | 2026-01-15 19:01:12+00:00
Grandpa's 30-06 from WW1 from 200 yards will penetrate anything but trauma plates.

If it's a hand-carried firearm of any kind (including crew-served weapons like the M249, M240B, M60), it's not a "heavy weapon."

> The second amendment was written in a time when a firearm was a musket.

At the time the Second Amendment was written, there were entire private navies with actual cannons far more destructive than any man-portable firearm available today. No background checks on those ships or cannons, either, btw.
by romanfll | 2026-01-15 19:02:06+00:00
Good catch—it's actually a hybrid approach:
1. Anomaly Detection & Visualisation: This runs 100% locally via WASM using the linear-time algorithms I shared here previously.
2. Forecasting: This hits our DriftMind API [1][2].
We designed the API to be transient-only. The data is processed in-memory for the forecast and immediately discarded; absolutely nothing is persisted to disk or used for training. We wanted to keep the browser lightweight while still offering the heavy-duty forecasting from our core engine

[1] https://thingbook.io/doc/devGuide.html
[2] https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/reflexive...
by Telemakhos | 2026-01-15 19:02:07+00:00
From what I gather, corruption in this case means that civil servants of the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali got business class travel when they should have flown economy class because the trip was under five hours (the established cut-off for upgrading to business class), and that they stayed in hotels that were better than the ones authorized for civil servants. There's also something about the head of the Garante changing the terms of his lease in Rome on an apartment that is directly adjacent to an AirB&B owned by his daughter, but my financial Italian's not up to understanding the full details. I think this is less the "point out Grok's deepfake" kind of corruption and more the "some civil servants think they're entitled to live better on the taxpayer's dime than other civil servants do."
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-15 19:02:12+00:00
Certainly not; I myself held a green card at one point.

But that's a bit like responding to "Auschwitz was bad!" with "so you oppose giving free food and housing to Jews?!" I object to how enforcement is being performed, and the collateral damage ICE is willing to inflict on citizens not in their legal purview.

Now let's do you. Do you think the President should have a relatively blank check to get away with being convicted of felonies? Do you have concerns about the Vice President's claim that ICE agents enjoy "absolute immunity"?
by Dr4kn | 2026-01-15 19:02:23+00:00
500MB is just not enough RAM for a good HA experience. I would go with at least 2GB. If you have a few add-ons running I would go with 4 or more.

If it's an option I would always go with an SSD for HA. It makes a big difference in usability. Writing often and a lot to SD cards, like HA does, kills them way too fast
by ayeeye1careers | 2026-01-15 19:02:42+00:00
Hiring: Embedded Linux / Video / Edge AI Engineers (Remote)

We’re building a local-AI camera OS:
SigmaStar cameras → RTSP → HDMI Node → on-device AI → zero cloud.

Think Android for CCTV, not another mobile app.

We need engineers who know:
• Linux video pipelines (V4L2, GStreamer, FFmpeg)
• RTSP / ONVIF
• Edge AI (YOLO, NCNN, TFLite, OpenVINO)

This is founder-level work — small team, big system.

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by pawandeepsingh | 2026-01-15 19:02:42+00:00
I spent the last few months building a PDF editor that doesn't feel like a web browser. Most mobile PDF 'editors' today are 500MB+ bloatware that require a cloud login just to edit a single line of text. I wanted to see how small and fast I could make a native engine.

The Tech:

Engine: Built in C++ using PDFium. I used Dart FFI to bridge the engine to the UI.

Size: 11MB. No trackers, no telemetry, no 'cloud sync' prompts.

XObjects: This was the hardest part. I noticed even industry leaders fail to edit nested XObjects on mobile. By working directly with the C++ layer, I was able to implement native manipulation for these.

AI: I used an AI companion to boilerplate the FFI layer and some of the C++ structures, which allowed me to focus on the actual PDF spec implementation.

Why it exists:

I recently shared a demo on Reddit and got 1,400+ upvotes from people who were just as frustrated as I am with the current state of PDF software. It’s currently on Android, but since the core engine is pure C++, I’m porting it to Desktop (Mac/Linux/Windows) next.
It’s 100% offline and requires no sign-up. I'd love some technical feedback on the editing performance or the UI responsiveness.
by docdeek | 2026-01-15 19:02:57+00:00
I understand, though there is a marked difference between the couple of dozen European troops deployed in this fashion and the 25,000 US soldiers deployed in Korea.

In any case, the point stands: I would argue that France is willing to put a dozen soldiers in Greenland because it is pretty sure that they won’t be killed by the US, as opposed to sending even a single soldier to Kiev where there is a reasonable chance that they might get killed and we might have to do more than just send money and guns.
by ezekg | 2026-01-15 19:03:03+00:00
I'm not sure I agree with the doom and gloom here, but I do understand the sentiment. Especially after spending a few days writing something that I feel should've taken me 3 weeks. I do struggle with having a knee-jerk reaction to that change. I mean I just told my wife a couple nights ago that the future of programming feels shaky, even though I know that's not the reality right now. But she was in my office, so I showed her a bug, and then I asked Claude to fix it, and the bug was gone in 30 seconds, with regression tests.

So yes, AI writes code faster than I can, but it usually doesn't write better code. And you still need to know how to program to produce good code; it's very easy for Claude to write unmaintainable code, especially as it continues to write more code. You really have to put time into refactoring, using prior programming experience to know how to do so.

My current workflow is to prototype with Claude, and then refactor with Claude by giving clear instructions on what needs to be refactored and why. This works relatively well. But even then, at the end of the session, even the refactorings don't quite meet my high bar. So I hand-code towards the end. Maybe that last bit will go away? But it hasn't.

To be honest, code is too personal and artistic for me to fully give up control. I enjoy stressing the details, like doing a squint test on the code as I would with any art to check composition, or rewriting variables and classes and methods to hit the spot where I say "now that's beautiful code." Passing tests doesn't mean code good, or tests.

Thankfully my job allows me to spend time doing that. I think it's human to spend time doing that.
by fundad | 2026-01-15 19:03:21+00:00
I found it uncomfortable as a kid when I saw how my parents handled begging: ignoring it. I remember one time my father saying "that's ok". And I either say "no, sorry" or ignore.

I've heard of kids from cities being given money so they always have something to give a mugger instead of looking like you're holding out, I don't go that far but I remember it to keep perspective.

I recently made an effort to carry cash with me so I can leave tips in cash, still working on that. Would you be open to keeping singles on you to give? You can even give max of one per excursion and then decline or ignore the rest or any combination but maybe having that as a plan can help you feel comfortable. Yes you're training yourself and it's because you deserve the benefits of training.

As for non-bums hello is good, also fist bumps and nodding upwards; that stuff is cool AF and make people so damn happy.
by bnagda | 2026-01-15 19:03:49+00:00
Sharing through an event we're hosting next week with Romain Huet, Head of Developer Experience at OpenAI. Feel free to join via Zoom for the event & Q&A! More below. Thanks.

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by barefootsanders | 2026-01-15 19:04:26+00:00
Author here.

I've been writing Claude Code skills for the past year and kept making the same mistakes: wrong frontmatter format, first-person descriptions, abstract examples instead of concrete input/output pairs.

Good examples exist everywhere, but they are scattered. So I extracted what has worked best for me, combined with Claude's own best practices, and built a generator.

The tool:
1. Takes a plain English description of your expertise
2. Generates a skill following Claude's official format
3. Grades it on a 100-point rubric and gives specific suggestions

Grading criteria includes: format compliance, conciseness (Claude is smart, don't over-explain), Quick Start quality, example concreteness, and completeness.

Tech: Next.js, Claude API, Supabase, v0.

Free, no signup.

This is v1. I'd love feedback on what's working and what needs improvement.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-15 19:04:42+00:00
You mentioned a number of flare-ups: Ukraine, Iran protests, Israel. And these of course are not climate related. Trump also snatched the president of Venezuela. Major flare-up? Or maybe it missed the deadline.

I don't disagree that climate change pressures are going to lead to strife, just the "next major flare-up" part.
by mlmonkey | 2026-01-15 19:04:52+00:00
I'll add another suggestion: be more forgiving.

Anecdote: I had a friend in SF. He and I would hang out once in a while, and I always looked forward to these hangouts (we'd meet up for coffee, or go for a walk, hang out at Dolores Park, etc.). He is gay, I'm not. His perspective on things was often quite different than mine and I found that interesting. I got married, he stayed single. Even after marriage we would still hang out (though not as often as before). Then we had a child, which sucked all spare time out of my life; but even then we hung out once in a while. Then one winter there was cold/flu/COVID going around. We planned on hanging out and I unfortunately bailed on him at the last moment. This happened 2 more times. Then that bout of illnesses passed and I reached out to him to hang out again. But this time he seemed cold and distant. So I dropped it. And I didn't see him again for almost 3 years.

Then one day I ran into him while walking through Dolores Park. He didn't see me, but I hesitated and still hollered out at him, for old times' sake. He responded and walked over. We chatted a little, I gave him a parting hug and we agreed to hang out again.

A couple of weeks later we managed to hang out again. What I gathered from our meeting was that he had been miffed at what he thought was me blowing him off; and I, when I felt he was cold and distant, had misread his grief at losing his cat. We both misread each other and wasted 3 years.

Moral of the story that I took away from it was: be more forgiving. Friendships are worth the extra effort.
by cole-k | 2026-01-15 19:05:44+00:00
Cool stuff! I'm not as lucky to be surrounded by (affordable) fresh, seasonal produce, but I'll keep your seasonality tip in mind. We do have farmers' markets where I am, although their prices are unfortunately at a bit of a premium. Maybe I'll just buy some quantity of whatever's freshest one of these days and try to improvise as you do.

LMK if there's a mailing list or something I can get on for your mom's book!
by benrutter | 2026-01-15 19:05:55+00:00
You were arguing that the use of Microsoft office vs the bespoke Palantir app were equivelent, and I'm simply pointing out that they are very different.

I'm a stranger on the internet, if you don't already think that the USA's immigration raids and camps are a bad thing, I'm probably not going to be the one to convince you otherwise.

There's a lot of good journalism and commentary on the topic, so if you want to have your mind changed, do a web search and read from people much smarter and more knowledgable than me.
by yesfitz | 2026-01-15 19:05:58+00:00
I've posted this thought a few times in different ways, but in my experience, community is found and then built.

Regularly sharing space with others is the way to start finding community. I think your surveying is an example of that. The next step is when the interactions begin taking place outside of the regular time/place, as evidenced by your epilogue.

What I haven't posted before is anything about how to successfully create those connections. Maybe we get lucky and someone will share our taste in music or movies or what have you, and the connection will be almost effortless. But to increase the rate of connection, I've found that learning to ask good questions is key.

We can learn a lot from popular interviewers like Terry Gross, Johnny Carson, or James Lipton. But to provide some direct tips: Lead with open-ended questions (i.e. not "yes or no"). Ask follow-up questions. Share a little bit while asking questions (e.g. "I'm not really into X music, more Y. Where would I start if I wanted to listen to X?")

Of course, sometimes friendships just aren't meant to be. It's tough, and can feel like a waste of time to have made the connection, but I've been surprised multiple times when a conversation that seemed like a slog of a one-off led to fruitful friendships later.
by avhception | 2026-01-15 19:06:22+00:00
The problem here is "something like this". I may buy one of these today. Then in 6 months, I have to buy a different one. Only to find out that it's firmware has a bug. Or it uses a different ethernet chips that is a problem for me for some reason. Or something like that.

The RPi I can depend upon to be shitty as well, but in the exact same way. So it stays fit for purpose.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-15 19:06:37+00:00
Same feeling from me. I also disliked his framing of moving his FAANG wealth to outcompete EU workers on jobs and housing, then making it sound like he's doing Europeans a favor with this.

"Yeah guys, I got enough blood money now from ad targeting people in the US, so to clear my conscience I can come give you guys a hand to fight the evil guys I had no issue with when they were paying me big money, but only IF you pay me 50% of what they pay me."

How about thanks but no thanks. We don't need this kind of fake virtue signaling "help". Enjoy your money somewhere else.

Edit: sorry I sound so mean, but it's how I feel.
by alpine_accentor | 2026-01-15 19:06:45+00:00
The American public has sadly elected this administration. I agree with you in principle, especially when legal immigrants become targets. But again, if the actions of this administration are not just morally wrong but illegal there are courts, and in any case there are elections. The people of one state or one city can not obstruct the will of the Union, it is fundamentally undemocratic way of interfacing with the fairly elected government.