MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2026-01-27 15:26:13+00:00
Reuters has the draft terms - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/details-eu-india-trade-d....

You know it's a good deal for the EU and India given that China has been attempting a diplomacy blitz against the deal [0] for [1] years [2] now [3].

Indian DefenseTech and Dual Use technologies vendors can also now participate in ReArm Europe [4] as part of the India-EU Defense Pact [5] that was also signed.

Edit: Notice how even on HN new accounts are suddenly popping up trying to make a wedge about this deal by dog whistling immigration even though mobility is not mentioned in the draft seen by Reuters and is a power that falls under individual state's sovereignity in the EU.

[0] - https://table.media/china/thema-des-tages/indien-weshalb-chi...

[1] - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1222983.shtml

[2] - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1222993.shtml

[3] - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202010/1205230.shtml

[4] - https://theprint.in/diplomacy/india-eu-sign-security-defence...

[5] - https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/security-and-defence-eu-and-...
by gruez | 2026-01-27 15:27:10+00:00
>Partway through this article, Winbuzzer asks me to "Install Winbuzzer Prompt Station." I don't think this is a legitimate source.

It's just a first-party ad. There's even a "PROMO" tag above. The fact that it's first party, combined with the fact the site isn't too popular is probably why it didn't get blocked by your adblocker. But it doesn't make the site less of a "legitimate source" than say, The New York Times, which also has ads.
by rtp4me | 2026-01-27 15:27:13+00:00
To me, the media is/are nothing more than drug sellers at this point. They have their weapon "of truth" sold to the very people you listed above. I do my absolute best to not consume any media because I know it is twisted and often wrong (eg. AI generated content). The best I can do is simply not participate in their war. Reddit, TikTok, X, etc are definitely supplying heavy drugs to anyone who wants to be hooked.

At some point, we definitely need a cooling-off period where people from both sides refrain from inciting anger from the masses.
by program_whiz | 2026-01-27 15:27:38+00:00
One other point -- I think the left has effectively shifted the conversation on Israel very quickly. I think immediately following Oct 7 atrocities, public support was overwhelmingly with Israel. By raising awareness of the situation, it has now become more slanted towards "peace in Palestine." I see no reason a similar type of shift couldn't occur on any issue if a coordinated effort to discuss it and raise awareness existed.

And by doing so, it would likely cause change and or discussion by those in power.
by dagmx | 2026-01-27 15:27:54+00:00
There are definitely languages that work well with UIs. I’m not sure how you can make that clear cut a statement?

C++ and Python map extremely well to Qt which is one of the predominant UI frameworks. ObjC maps really well to AppKit/UIKit. Anything small talk derived has been a pretty strong fit for UI work

Just because new paradigms are made, doesn’t mean the old ones are inherently bad either.
by _blk | 2026-01-27 15:27:56+00:00
This is more of an attempt at a political stunt. The CCP's website gets a perfect score, admin.ch also gets a perfect score while Switzerland is most-definitely not in the EU.. non-US is more accurate than EU but you only see that when stars start flying.

IMHO: Just scrap the politics and show what regional deps a site has - that'd actually increase value quite a bit.
by simoncion | 2026-01-27 15:28:10+00:00
> ...or is that a class of performance we just have to sacrifice for the frame-perfect rendering of wayland?

I think I know what "frame perfect" means, and I'm pretty sure that you've been able to get that for ages on X11... at least with AMD/ATi hardware. Enable (or have your distro enable) the TearFree option, and there you go.

I read somewhere that TearFree is triple buffering, so -if true- it's my (perhaps mistaken) understanding that this adds a frame of latency.
by epsters | 2026-01-27 15:28:17+00:00
In the past i was one of those that cheered the 'arab spring' including 'Syrian revolution' , 'Libyan revolution' because i was told by the liberal western media that these were people rising up against their barbaric dictators.. I opposed the Iraq war (because the liberal media told me to) but i thought "Saddam was a dictator eh at least they will be free now". But now, 20 years later, i realised that all these 'revolutions' and 'humanitarian interventions' in Syria, Libya, Iraq, plus Somalia, Sudan , (also the 'counter-revolution' in Egypt and many others) were just mostly covert-operations funded by western intelligence agencies and their allies. So much death and suffering. All justifications were just excuses to overthrow these countries to establish Israel's hegemony in the region (and for the benefit of American contractors) . Noone else got a good deal out of it. Not the European people, not the American people, certainly not the people of these respective countries in which millions died. The whole thing with Gaza then with Trump and Venezuela and Greenland only makes the contrast now more apparent to more people everyday. The illusion is broken. Now I know that this thing with Iran is just a setup to justify a US-backed invasion/intervention for Israel's sake again. If Iran is invaded or breaks out into a 'civil war',millions will die. Millions more will flee. Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan - all failed states barely functioning- will likely re-ignite in flame. Iran is formidable so the American bases in the region and Gulf allies and their oil infrastructure will also likely be targeted. Which will again draw in more American involvement and possibly throw the global economy in to turmoil. Again, All for Israel.
by braincat31415 | 2026-01-27 15:28:18+00:00
Alephnerd, I doubt Mark Carney was personally involved in anything shady, but it is entirely possible that GS operations in Russia proper were not entirely clean.
I am not even implying that GS was aware of anything. What I am saying is not a long stretch by any means, just look up the 1mdb scandal. And Browder was right there in Moscow in the middle of it.
Tell any Russian old enough to remember that Browder's operations in the 90s were in complete compliance with the law, they would laugh in your face.
by quectophoton | 2026-01-27 15:28:20+00:00
Same.

Also I tend to do the "Don't recommend -> I don't like this video" for those that have the thumbnails with "that face" (you know, the YouTube Thumbnail Clickbait Face, I don't even know if there's an actual term for it).

When I actually enter a video, you have my attention by default and you'll get an instant dislike for:

- "Don't forget to like and subscribe."

- Showing those like and/or subscribe buttons on screen.

- If I get suspicious that you're padding video length, talking just for the sake of stalling.
by dorian-graph | 2026-01-27 15:28:35+00:00
> you assume “the left” (globally!?) is in support of the Ayatollah?

Where did I imply that, justonceokay? And no, I don't think every leftist supports the Ayatollah. Do you think every leftist, globally, doesn't support them?

I was as vague as you were, in referring to leftists. I gave a concrete example of there being confusion about who the bad guys, since you questioned why leftists (or anyone) would be confused.
by bee_rider | 2026-01-27 15:28:38+00:00
That’s a fork, which is fine. But for example, users from most mainstream distros will have to compile it themselves.

I guess we’ll see if that development is ever applied to the main branch, or if it supplants the main X branch. At the moment, though… if that’s the future of X, then it is fair to be a little bit unsure if it is going to stick, right?
by flowerthoughts | 2026-01-27 15:28:51+00:00
I remember back in the day, the days of chisel and hammer. I could feel the stone, and the impact of the hammer vibrating into my hand. It was pleasant, and I could feel that every hit really meant something to shape the future of the stone, and thereby the building. Customers and contractors alike told me how great it was to see me work that stone. So I kept swinging that hammer.

Then I was told about some electrical chisel that was supposed to make my life better. Sure, I made more money, but the work was gone. It just shakes; it doesn't vibrate. I get numb, not proud. I have to take breaks, because my hands can't handle it. It's awful. What's the point, I asked?

But then I started talking to my colleagues during those breaks. I even discovered I had a relative in common with one. While chipping away at stone, no one ever wanted to stand close to me, and I had spent all this time proudly creating stone chips all day long! I still chip away at stone sometimes, but only when there's no one else around to talk to at breaktime.

---

You are not going to be able to stop change. The world never stood still, it's just that changes happen step-wise, and it's unlikely any one step affects _you_ profoundly. This time, the step affects you (and me.) You are standing in front of a steamroller and shouting "stop!"

We'll find a new way to be humans. It won't look like the Instagram times. It won't look like the Myspace times. It won't look like the Rolodex times. It'll be new. What can you do with it that makes you happy?
by larodi | 2026-01-27 15:28:59+00:00
Here’s my take with some dither and vector fields.

http://nouveauxhivers.dub4powder.xyz/

an invitation for event I promoted recently.

Press ? for some stats on desktop.

Even though coding was agent-assisted (not fully vibed though), putting it together took two weeks something to get where it is and to see it working on all mobile. I also have 15+ years of precious experience with JS, but zero with webgl.
by ghaff | 2026-01-27 15:29:51+00:00
And the fact is that there's been some level of security since the 1970s or thereabouts after a fair number of hijackings. Any serious debate is about restrictions around liquids/knives/etc. (Some of which related to isolated incidents like the shoe bomber and others of which seem like pretty clear overreach--like I can't bring a hiking pole in carryon.)
by chbint | 2026-01-27 15:30:20+00:00
I confess it was disappointing for me. Their main claim seems to be that thinking comprises pattern matching and pattern completion--allowing them to say that LLMs do resemble something we humans do-- but that's essentially the idea behind the connectionist movement from the 1980's - the one out of which current DNN models came from. Perhaps a friend of 1960's symbolic AI would be unhappy with that claim, but there are not many of these around anymore (Gary Marcus is misrepresented as one such, but his view is that models should be hybrid, not purely symbolic).

Nowadays, the question about whether LLMs are "actually" doing something similar to human thinking revolves around other dimensions, such as whether they rely on emergent world-models or not. Whether such world models would require symbolic reasoning or not is a different matter.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-27 15:30:36+00:00
> Also how does every other country in the world manage to not have these questions?

You sure about that? Many other countries have what would be considered odd questions on their forms.

Also, saying "every other country" is a mighty wide brush. There are a whole lot of countries where the rule of law doesn't come first and they can simply do what they want if they suspect you of anything regardless if they have a law or not.
by stronglikedan | 2026-01-27 15:31:22+00:00
Song shuffling has been broken for ages now. It used to work correctly, like shuffling and dealing a deck of cards, only reshuffling and redealing when the entire deck has been dealt (or the user initiates a reshuffle).. Now it's just randomly jumping around a playlist, sometimes playing the same song more than once before all the songs are played once. I have a feeling that money is involved somehow, as with everything else that's been enshittified.
by simoncion | 2026-01-27 15:31:30+00:00
If the XLibre project appears to be making enough fairly-consistent progress for you to be comfortable tossing around some cash, then do gather up some likeminded folks to hire a dev to follow the guidance here [0] and help out!

Do note that I've never tried to croudfund a programmer, but that's something that I have to believe is possible to do.

[0] <https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver?tab=readme-ov-file#i-wan...>
by nathan_compton | 2026-01-27 15:31:32+00:00
How tedious. I don't disagree, fundamentally, with your message, but this internet smart guy thing people do where they use things like $variables to signal that they are above everything and anyone who things X is bad or good just isn't smart enough to see things in the abstract really sucks. And I am very glad you are mildly bemused by people getting shot in the streets, the deterioration of democratic norms that might spiral into more violence and actual, real life, people getting fucked up. Very cool of you.
by _pdp_ | 2026-01-27 15:31:47+00:00
molt.bot is connected to the same spam network - growing number of backlinks and reddit shilling just in the past 24 hours.

I saw at least 2-3 security reports as well pointing to various critical vulnerability.

Looked at the source as well - it makes zero sense. A lot of random commits. I suspect it would be trivial to introduce a backdoor the way this project is managed.

Too many red flags.

I would personally not touch this project.
by herx | 2026-01-27 15:32:10+00:00
HNS replaces DNS dependency with deterministic Short-ID resolution for sovereign mesh networks.

Core specs locked:
- Canonical IDs: org_/usr_/nde_ + ULID
- hns:// URI scheme (RFC 3986 ABNF)
- 3-phase resolution contract
- Governance process established

Collision-resistant Short-IDs (SHA256 → Base32[:7], <2^-35 risk).
Transport/database agnostic. SDKs welcome.

https://github.com/herxos/hns-spec
by EricSampson | 2026-01-27 15:32:16+00:00
Hey HN — I’m not an engineer by background. I’ve just traded long enough to see myself (and a lot of other people) make the same dumb mistakes over and over, even when the strategy was fine.

Every tool I used focused on charts, entries, indicators, or some “edge.” None of them helped with what actually blew accounts up: getting emotional, chasing losses, sizing up at the wrong time, breaking rules you thought you had.

So I started building Samson as a seatbelt for traders.

It doesn’t tell you what to trade and it doesn’t predict markets. It looks at behavior instead — things like loss streaks, position size changes, and when discipline starts slipping. The demo is diagnostic only. You upload a CSV of trades and it shows where risk built up and which trades happened during high-risk behavioral windows. Nothing gets blocked in the demo.

The live system (not enabled here) is meant to be closed-loop and anonymous. It learns your baseline over time and only steps in when your own behavior starts to go sideways. The idea isn’t to trade for you — it’s to stop you from doing the things you already know you shouldn’t be doing.

For HN I unlocked the full diagnostic for free for a short window so people can see how it works without paying.

I really need real users at this stage. I’m especially interested in feedback from traders, risk folks, or anyone who thinks this is a bad idea and can explain why.

Happy to answer questions or hear what’s broken, confusing, or just unnecessary.
by akarshc | 2026-01-27 15:32:29+00:00
This was something we were careful about. The request and event models are intentionally close to what most providers already expose, rather than introducing a completely new abstraction.

Teams usually integrate it incrementally in front of existing calls. If you remove it, you’re mostly deleting the orchestration layer and keeping your provider integrations and client logic. You lose centralized retries and observability, but you’re not stuck rewriting your entire request model.

If adopting it requires a full rewrite, that’s usually a sign it’s being applied too broadly.
by Jamesbeam | 2026-01-27 15:33:01+00:00
I think a lot of people don’t see the bigger picture.

At a WEF panel on the quantum future, Singapore’s cybersecurity minister made a good point, already‑stored data encrypted with non‑quantum‑resistant algorithms is extremely valuable.

She said they need to show people quantum tech can be used for things that actually benefit citizens but we also need to be aware of the dangers.

The NSA probably has a giant trove of non‑quantum‑resistant encrypted data on anyone who used the internet a lot since 9/11. US citizens are being mass‑surveilled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...

Take WhatsApp.

Its encryption is based on the Signal protocol, but Whatsapp hasn’t fully adopted PQXDH (Post‑Quantum eXtended Diffie‑Hellman) to guard against future quantum attacks. Do you think that’s an accident?

Right now they may only see metadata, who you talk to, but they can harvest and store the encrypted stuff now and decrypt it later once quantum breaks it.

Then someone, or some AI has to read and analyze all that data. With the massive AI facilities being built and extra data like old phone numbers, social accounts, and emails, they can automatically build and categorize profiles on people.

And the worst part, you mostly handed this to them yourself, so it’s effectively verified. If you become an activist for something a future government labels “domestic terrorism,” it’s like signing your own death warrant.

You might shrug and say, “So what if they have data on foreigners?” Remember, they have that data on you and your neighbors too. They already have your dirty secrets. They just can’t read them yet.

Once they can, people lose power.

The right to bear arms only matters if you can organize. Organizing needs secure communications, you can’t overthrow a murderous regime alone.

Microtargeting lets them neutralize organizers before resistance forms by quietly taking out the few who can spark large protests.

History repeats.

Every so often an asshole rises who wants to crush anyone who’s not like them. We used to organize and stop them, kill them or put them on trial. Now the assholes build machines to surveil and manipulate you, splitting people into tiny groups so none can exert collective pressure to hold leaders to account.

Most Americans aren’t in the favored few.

It’s almost funny. People paying $30 a month for an overhyped word generator and the average greedy user fueling the AI bubble are funding the slow collapse of American society.

We live in interesting times. I don’t know what will destroy us first, our own greed, or an AI deciding we’re more useful as matchsticks than consumers of scarce resources.

Best of luck out there. You are going to need it.
by helterskelter | 2026-01-27 15:33:10+00:00
I remember reading something around the time these prohibitions against liquids were rolled out that said none of the two-part liquid explosives were powerful enough to take down a plane unless you were carrying an unusual amount of liquid to be traveling with, or storing your liquid in an unusual way. For instance, there should be no reason you couldn't carry an ordinary sized bottle of shampoo in your luggage. No idea how accurate this is, maybe somebody could set this straight?
by kmfrk | 2026-01-27 15:33:29+00:00
I checked out the website, and it looks more like Instagram than TikTok. We've had a few TikTok-like apps, and it didn't work out. Even the people behind Vine couldn't make their own Byte app take off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddles_(app)

TikTok showed that the platform lives and dies by the algorithm and ease of use. I'm not even a huge fan of TikTok's recommendations these days with too much slop slipping through the cracks. And their comment moderation is some of the worst.

If another platform ever gets popular enough, I'm sure the same people will find another way to neutralize it.
by the_jizzler | 2026-01-27 15:33:46+00:00
Well done. I had Claude explain the architecture back when you submitted to melpa last week. As cool as playing lichess in emacs is, Im reminded just how amazing the lichess founder is. Bro single-handedly (in scala, no less) made what chess.com took a cast of thousands to make, and lichess looks and feels a thousand times better and clearly has a richer api that made an emacs client possible. If chess.com even has an API, that is.
by Leynos | 2026-01-27 15:33:49+00:00
Here's a counterthesis:

This is people having fun with a new technology that is far from perfect, is full of unknowns, but is ripe for exploration and discovery.

Gas Town itself is a piece of speculative fiction: throwing out a hypothesis as to what might be possible were inference to drastically drop in price. Its supervisor + isolated worker + merge factory approach is an experimental spike into how agentic coding could play out at scale.

And funnily enough, it is also the approach that Anysphere arrived at through their own experimentation.

Karpathy's alien technology metaphor is particularly apt. No one knows how to use these tools properly yet. We're having some success and a lot of fun, but really we're only going to find out by experimenting in public and sharing our results. Which means the positive and negative.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-27 15:33:54+00:00
You're making assumptions the thing they lied about and the thing they are being deported for are the same, and quite often the thing you're actually being deported for is not a reason to deport anyone at all.

You come to the US and make a social media post saying Trump is a big fat dummy head.

You get deported for lying about being in a terrorist organization.
by ericmay | 2026-01-27 15:33:57+00:00
> The chinese government has never physically assaulted me or my neighbors, never used tear gas around the elementary school my family attends.

Ok, well here where I live the government has never physically assaulted me or my neighbors, nor used tear gas around the elementary school my friends and family members children attend. But the government is clearing my streets of snow, gave me an opportunity to get an education, and generally helps make sure my life isn't so bad.

On the other hand, the CCP (and others) has created lots of fake accounts, engaged in paying off people to help incite riots, and is responsible for algorithmically promoting divisive content which has caused people to go out and riot, shoot at each other, become white nationalist goons or antifa goons, and helped get Donald Trump elected.

Donald Trump himself claims TikTok helped him get elected, he was wildly popular on the platform.

> It's interesting to me that you're so certain about your threat model here but I don't share it.

It's not that interesting, and this isn't warranted. I don't even know what you mean by threat model, and you never asked, so there was never an opportunity for it to be shared. Please don't wantonly levy suspicion here.
by duped | 2026-01-27 15:33:58+00:00
Missing in this discussion is that package management is tightly coupled to module resolution in nearly every language. It is not enough to merely install dependencies of given versions but to do so in a way that the language toolchain and/or runtime can find and resolve them.

And so when it comes to dynamic dependencies (including shared libraries) that are not resolved until runtime you hit language-level constraints. With C libraries the problem is not merely that distribution packagers chose to support single versions of dependencies because it is easy but because the loader (provided by your C toolchain) isn't designed to support it.

And if you've ever dug into the guts of glibc's loader it's 40 years of unreadable cruft. If you want to take a shot at the C-shaped hole, take a look at that and look at decoupling it from the toolchain and add support for multiple version resolution and other basic features of module resolution in 2026.