MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wtcactus | 2026-01-18 17:52:22+00:00
In Germany, 33% of the people in working age, don't work [1]. The "refugees are carrying the economy", because you are effectively paying 33% of the local working age population (I'm here assuming you aren't paying refugees to go there and not work, right?) to slack. Remove their benefits and see how quickly you don't need to import people to do those jobs.

And no, I don't care about the "moral aspect" of not "helping refugees". If you care, you welcome them into your own place.

Also, notice how you didn't go into the gas deals Merkel did with Russia and forced upon the rest of the EU.

[1]: https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/employment-rate
by perihelions | 2026-01-18 17:52:34+00:00
Are you familiar with America's history with eugenics? Contemporary with Denmark's human rights abuses in Greenland you're bringing up (1960's–70's), America's government was doing very much the same thing, to their own vulnerable minorities.

> "Between the span of the 1930s to the 1970s, nearly one-third of the female population in Puerto Rico was sterilized; at the time, this was the highest rate of sterilization in the world.[120] "

> "An estimated 40% of Native American women (60,000–70,000 women) and 10% of Native American men in the United States underwent sterilization in the 1970s.[125]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States ("Eugenics in the United States")
Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup
by frabonacci | 2026-01-18 17:53:21+00:00
Hey HN, it's been a year since we launched Lume (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42908061), and we're back with v0.2 (https://github.com/trycua/cua).

Lume is an open-source CLI for running macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon. Since launch, we've been using it to run AI agents in isolated macOS environments. We needed VMs that could set themselves up, so we built that.

Here's what's new in 0.2:

*Unattended Setup* – Go from IPSW to a fully configured VM without touching the keyboard. We built a VNC + OCR system that clicks through macOS Setup Assistant automatically. No more manual setup before pushing to a registry:

lume create my-vm --os macos --ipsw latest --unattended tahoe

You can write custom YAML configs to set up any macOS version your way.

*HTTP API + Daemon* – A REST API on port 7777 that runs as a background service. Your scripts and CI pipelines can manage VMs that persist even if your terminal closes:

curl -X POST localhost:7777/lume/vms/my-vm/run -d '{"noDisplay": true}'

*MCP Server* – Native integration with Claude Desktop and AI coding agents. Claude can create, run, and execute commands in VMs directly:

# Add to Claude Desktop config
"lume": { "command": "lume", "args": ["serve", "--mcp"] }

# Then just ask: "Create a sandbox VM and run my tests"

*Multi-location Storage* – macOS disk space is always tight, so from user feedback we added support for external drives. Add an SSD, move VMs between locations:

lume config storage add external-ssd /Volumes/ExternalSSD/lume
lume clone my-vm backup --source-storage default --dest-storage external-ssd

*Registry Support* – Pull and push VM images from GHCR or GCS. Create a golden image once, share it across your team.

We're seeing people use Lume for:
- Running Claude Code in an isolated VM (your host stays clean, reset mistakes by cloning)
- CI/CD pipelines for Apple platform apps
- Automated UI testing across macOS versions
- Disposable sandboxes for security research

To get started:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trycua/cua/main/libs/lume/scripts/install.sh)"

lume create sandbox --os macos --ipsw latest --unattended tahoe
lume run sandbox --shared-dir ~/my-project

Lume is MIT licensed and Apple Silicon only (M1/M2/M3/M4) since it uses Apple's native Virtualization Framework directly—no emulation.

Lume runs on EC2 Mac instances and Scaleway if you need cloud infrastructure. We're also working on a managed cloud offering for teams that need macOS compute on demand—if you're interested, reach out.

We're actively developing this as part of Cua (https://github.com/trycua/cua), our Computer Use Agent SDK. We'd love your feedback, bug reports, or feature ideas.

GitHub: https://github.com/trycua/cua
Docs: https://cua.ai/docs/lume

We'll be here to answer questions!
Show HN: Figma-like Canvas for running Claude Code agents
by mprokopp | 2026-01-18 17:53:33+00:00
I built a Figma-like canvas to run and monitor multiple coding agents in parallel because I didn't like how current IDEs handle this.

Forking and branching agent context is super easy with via drag and drop.

I like the canvas because it gives me a spatial component to group my agents which makes it easier for me to remember groups of related agents and switch context quickly.

Enjoy and let me know what you think :)
by ajross | 2026-01-18 17:53:49+00:00
Machado seems fine. There are always going to be controversies around any political figure, and the complaints ahead of the award were... kinda routine, I thought? She was an opposition leader who was denied power won by democratic election, and didn't start an insurrection or whatever. Checks the right boxes. Make the call and move on.

Now, sure, she then went on to personally hand over the medal (or statue or whatever it actually is, I genuinely don't know) to the thin-skinned leader of a foreign superpower in a transparent attempt to be corruptly granted the office by an interventionist coup de tête. Not a great look!

But to claim that this is "what many saw" is sort of ridiculous. No one saw this. The world we live in is simply too ridiculous for predictions like that.
by schmichael | 2026-01-18 17:54:06+00:00
Absolutely nothing beats the integration of Apple software and hardware. As it should be because they don't give you another option! You can't run Apple software on anything else (without hacks), and you can't run anything else on Apple hardware (without significant effort and sacrifice in functionality). This is Apple's whole design philosophy and value prop, and they are essentially unbeatable at systems integration.

This deep software/hardware integration means Apple absolutely destroys everyone at battery life. No contest. If you want to optimize for battery life, Apple is the choice.

The deep integration also makes Apple's security quite good. Obnoxiously so as they make even common operations like downloading software off the web take extra steps.

That being said as soon as you stray outside of a pure Apple ecosystem, Linux wins in my experience. Plugging a Logitech mouse into my MacBook prompted me to install Logitech keyboard drivers... Not only was the device type wrong but drivers?! ...for a simple input device?! I haven't had to worry about printer, mouse, keyboard, webcam, usb mic, drawing pad, etc drivers in years. Simple devices almost universally Just Work in Linux without having to install or configure anything. It's mind boggling when I touch Windows or macOS and am greeted with proprietary drivers for something like a basic laser printer.

But there's plenty of counter-examples: Nvidia requires their proprietary driver to fully utilize their hardware, but the driver is much better than it used to be. My understanding is that no one on Windows really enjoys dealing with Nvidia drivers either, so it's probably a similar scenario.

At the end of the day I use both Linux and macOS regularly and prefer Linux overall. My Macbook Air's battery life and lack of fans does make it unbeatable for actual lap-top computing, and when I want to look and sound good on a Zoom call I can always count on its builtin camera and mic. So I basically use my Macbook as a laptop form factor iPhone or iPad, which I think is Apple's intent and fills a niche for sure.
by hackthemack | 2026-01-18 17:54:13+00:00
I have hung on to my job for many years now because of being in a similar situation in regards to trying to do the right thing and the fear of not being hire-able.

There is something wrong with the industry in chasing fads and group think. It has always been this way. Businesses chased Java in the late 90s, early 00s. They chased CORBA, WSDL, ESB, ERP and a host of other acronyms back in the day.

More recently, Data Lake, Big Data, Cloud Compute, AI.

Most of the executives I have met really have no clue. They just go with what is being promoted in the space because it offers a safety net. Look, we are "not behind the curve!". We are innovating along with the rest of the industry.

Interviews do not really test much for ability to think and reason. If you ran an entire ISP, if you figured out, on your own, without any help, how to shard databases, put in multiple layers of redundancy, caching... well, nobody cares now. You had to do it in AWS or Azure or whatever stack they have currently.

Sadly, I do not think it will ever be fixed. It is something intrinsic to human nature.
by ptero | 2026-01-18 17:54:17+00:00
Perelman is a strange character; IIRC he declined several times first without bothering to give a reason. Then, after being asked enough times, came up with a "I am not a hero and such awards are irrelevant" as a somewhat acceptable version so those pesky folks would leave him alone. Thus I would not use him as an example of the right way to deal with a prestigious award.

That said, the Nobel medal to Trump circus is beyond ridiculous.
We caught a $1,200/month cloud cost regression in a pull request
by cdeshwal | 2026-01-18 17:54:23+00:00
We recently caught a cloud cost regression (~$1,200/month) during a pull request review.

Nothing exotic:
- A NAT gateway was added
- An RDS replica count increased
- No alarms fired
- No dashboards changed

The PR would have merged like any other infra change.

We built a small tool that runs cost checks directly in PRs:
- Shows a before → after cost estimate
- Flags high-risk patterns (unbounded loops, chatty APIs, over-provisioned infra)
- Optionally blocks merges on policy thresholds

We put together a public demo repo where you can open a PR and see the cost feedback:

https://github.com/CloudVerse-Pte-Ltd/devx-cost-regression-demo

Curious how others handle cost regressions at code-review time.
by throwaway5235 | 2026-01-18 17:54:43+00:00
"Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, spent more than $290 million supporting Donald Trump and his MAGA allies on the campaign trail last year." [1]

"Exclusive: How Palantir's Alex Karp went full MAGA" [2]

Look at All In Podcast - tech VCs - they are all in support of this administration.

[1] https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

[2] https://www.axios.com/2025/10/23/trump-alex-karp-palantir-ma...
by cdeshwal | 2026-01-18 17:54:48+00:00
One thing that surprised us: most cost regressions aren’t “big changes”.

They’re small PRs that:
- Add always-on resources
- Increase replica counts
- Introduce N+1 API calls or polling loops

By the time dashboards show it, the code is already in prod.

Happy to answer questions on how the estimates are calculated or what patterns we flag.
by lou1306 | 2026-01-18 17:56:06+00:00
> until there's a server that I can bring home and plug in with setup I can do using my TV's remote, you're not going to be able to move most people to "private" data storage

Quite some BSky users are publishing on their own PDS (Personal Data Server) right now. They have been for a while. There are already projects that automate moving or backign up your PDS data from BSky, like https://pdsmoover.com/
by DoctorOetker | 2026-01-18 17:56:12+00:00
its a statistical term, a latent variable is one that is either known to exist, or believed to exist, and then estimated.

consider estimating the position of an object from noisy readings. One presumes that position to exist in some sense, and then one can estimate it by combining multiple measurements, increasing positioning resolution.

its any variable that is postulated or known to exist, and for which you run some fitting procedure
by dghlsakjg | 2026-01-18 17:57:05+00:00
> I understand the importance and pride with an award as grand as this, but with so much at stake, is it worth keeping the integrity of the award, especially a peace award, at the cost of the freedom of millions of lives in Venezuela?

Is there any indication that pretending that he won would materially improve the situation in Venezuela? Machado is famous because she is in opposition to the Chavez/Maduro regime, but if you dig into her politics, she is VERY far to the right. She looks a lot more like a venezuelan Orban than Mandela if you read about her.
by kgwgk | 2026-01-18 17:57:05+00:00
> Though Christie’s in Manhattan set the estimated haul for James D. Watson’s prize between $2.5 and $3.5 million, an anonymous bidder bought it for $4.1 million, the New York Times reports. The total rose to $4.76 million due to the buyer’s premium, which goes to the auction house.

https://time.com/3619174/james-watson-nobel-prize-medal-auct...
by recursivedoubts | 2026-01-18 17:57:23+00:00
yes: htmx grew out of intercooler.js, which was based on jquery and inspired by the jQuery.load() method:

https://api.jquery.com/load/

which I found while doing some performance work at one point. intercooler.js started as a custom function that hooked .load() in based on custom attributes (a trick I learned from angular 1.x)

deeply respect and love jquery
by travisd | 2026-01-18 17:57:33+00:00
At $DAYJOBSTARTUP, we do hackathons twice a year. At the most recent one, an engineer sat down with a designer and set him up with Cursor. The designer looked like a kind in a candy shop, he was so excited to be able to rapidly prototype with natural language and not be clicking in Figma for hours.

A month later, he comes back to the engineering team with a 10k line "index.html" file asking "How do I hand this off?" (he was definitely smart enough to know that just passing that file to us was not gonna fly). We decided to copy the designs into Figma for the handoff, both because that was the existing way we did design/engineering handoffs and also because creating high fidelity designs (e.g., "this color from our design system" and "this standard spacing value") isn't in Cursor's wheelhouse.

We're probably going to spend more time working on a better setup for him. At the very least he should be working against our codebase and components and colors and design tokens. But I'm very curious to see where it goes from here.
by DamnInteresting | 2026-01-18 17:58:08+00:00
I thought Musk was pretty cool when he was just the guy making EVs and reusable rockets happen. I didn't even mind his over-optimistic projections, it's hard to be mad at optimism. But then he started becoming more of a public figure. He called that rescue worker a 'pedo guy' just for turning down a bad idea. He started broadcasting his philosophies, and they were mostly gross. He bought Twitter and made it so everyone had to see his dumb tweets. He revealed himself as a big, moist wad of lies and insecurities.

I have a hypothesis that the Hedonic Treadmill[1] can cause actual harm to the human brain; I suspect that over time, in certain brains, extreme wealth erodes the reward centers such that some rich people can't help but be miserable, flailing for ever-elusive life satisfaction. It seems like a fairly serious bug in human software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
by themaninthedark | 2026-01-18 17:58:11+00:00
China doesn't seem to think so.

>"The top uniformed soldier in China, chairman of China's Central Military Commission, stated that war with the United States is inevitable," Coffman said. "That is the first time China has made that statement publicly."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/11/china-declare...

Would you say the same thing about Russia, Is that a fabricated narrative? Why or why not?
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-18 17:58:20+00:00
Yep, the examples on man pages are helpful, but I'd like a slimmed down option to just show the examples and a one-line description for the examples.

I usually end up just doing a quick web search for the command if it's not one that I'm familiar with (i.e. where I have read the man page).

An extreme example of my issue would be trying to find BASH examples of how to process a list of files - the man page on BASH is fairly lengthy.

Meanwhile, Greg's wiki provides this example of processing mp3 files:

while IFS= LC_ALL=C read -r -d '' file; do
some command "$file"
done < <(find . -type f -name '*.mp3' -print0)
by r_lee | 2026-01-18 17:58:22+00:00
It's not just a dictionary definition, there's a real threshold for what can be considered psychopathy in clinical terms.

You could say that about a lot of people you don't like.

I'm not saying there's some traits, but we could say that about many people. He's narcissistic for sure and charismatic, but again...

If you want something more likely, look up NPD:

Key Characteristics

Grandiosity: Exaggerated sense of self-importance, achievements, and talents.

Need for Admiration: Constant craving for attention and praise.

Lack of Empathy: Inability or unwillingness to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.

Sense of Entitlement: Unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment.

Exploitative Behavior: Taking advantage of others to achieve personal ends.

Envy: Often envious of others or believes others are envious of them.

Arrogance: Haughty, condescending attitudes or behaviors.

---

I'm just saying, clinical psychopathy is much more rare and extreme
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-18 17:58:41+00:00
That is extremely biased.

Many of us own guns precisely to defend ourselves and our countrymen in the event of civil chaos. That's what the second amendment is for.

Most true leftists I know stay armed. Did you forget what Karl Marx said about an armed populace? We are in some serious shit and this kind of divisive attitude is not productive.
by romanhn | 2026-01-18 17:59:55+00:00
Fascinating that there is a historical precedent that maps pretty well to the current situation:

Knut Hamsun (Literature Prize 1920): In 1943, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun travelled to Germany and met with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After returning to Norway, he sent his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a gesture of thanks for the meeting. Goebbels was honoured by the gift. The present whereabouts of the medal are unknown.
by networkadmin | 2026-01-18 18:00:07+00:00
How about the skill of saving hard disk space, memory, and CPU cycles, for a start? The skill of designing simple, reliable, fast, and efficient things, instead of giant complex bloated unreliable pieces of shit? How about a simple, usable web page that doesn't drag my machine to a crawl in spite its supercomputer-like ability to process billions of instructions per seconds and hold billions of bytes of data in working memory?

Remember when BIOS computers used to boot in seconds, reliably? When chat clients didn't require an embedded copy of Chromium? When appliances and automobiles didn't fall apart in 6 months, costing thousands to "repair" or just needing to be thrown away and bought again?

Remember when there used to be these things called "machine shops" and "Radio Shacks" and "parts stores" that people who built things frequented? Now most people have to call AAA if they get a flat tire. Changing their own oil is out of the question. "Eww, dirty oil, on my clean fingernails?" Many couldn't tell you which end is which on a screwdriver if their life depended on it.

I'd say these concepts are pretty essential, especially for any nation entertaining delusions of waging Total War against other big and powerful nations. Wasteful and foolish nations lose wars.
by networkadmin | 2026-01-18 18:00:30+00:00
"Save the planet" by making giant lithium strip mining operations great again. (Safely hidden out of sight in rural China or West Virginia, of course.) City slicker "logic."

No thanks. I will instead actually do something to help the planet by continuing to drive decades year old vehicles whose production costs have long since been amortized, and which have much lower maintenance cost.

Bonus: I can also safely park my old automobiles indoors without any worry of spontaneous combustion. #winning

Another bonus: People all the time chat me up about my old automobiles, wanting to buy them. EV owners don't have the same experience for some reason.
by victorbjorklund | 2026-01-18 18:01:17+00:00
Most SaaS products have close to zero marginal cost, since marginal cost is the additional cost of taking on one more customer. If you already have a thousand customers, what does customer number 1001 actually cost? In most cases, you do not need more infrastructure and you do not need more developers. Maybe you need a bit more support time to answer a few extra emails or take a few more calls, but that is usually it.

There are exceptions. Some SaaS products have infrastructure costs that scale linearly per customer, for example if you spin up a separate database for each tenant. Others are very hands-on, where a large part of the cost is human support or service work, so each new customer does add real cost.

But for the vast majority of self-serve SaaS products, the cost of adding one more customer is effectively near zero in the context of the overall business.
by QuiEgo | 2026-01-18 18:01:26+00:00
Low density text (most of screen has no content) is easier to read on a black background with bold, light color text. High density text (most of screen has content) is easier to read on a tan background with black text. HN knows what’s up.

Books, websites, email on light background. Code (lots of low density lines with only brackets) on a black background.
by mbulatnikov | 2026-01-18 18:01:30+00:00
I love the 'river vs bucket' metaphor. You hit the nail on the head - FOMO was 100% the motivation here.
Ideally, I would just unsubscribe, but in my field (and as a student), I often fear missing a specific signal in the noise. My goal with this agent is actually to help me treat it more like a river: if the AI tells me nothing critical happened, I can skip reading without anxiety. Thanks for the perspective!
by mooreds | 2026-01-18 18:01:42+00:00
> It’s also lose-lose for the US.

Yes. Ian Bremmer keeps pointing out that if the "law of the jungle" becomes the norm for relations between countries, the USA will not benefit as much as autocracies like China and Russia.

See https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TLhz6ZbrMuI for a more full-throated explanation from Ian.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-01-18 18:01:45+00:00
I don't request the supporters of circumcision to be censored (indeed I would prefer to let people incriminate themselves on the topic), I only ask not be censored myself, and not to censor my peers so we can discover each other true opinions...

If truth, logic and rationalism were weaker than lies, narcissism and incumbents, the renaissance could never have occurred, freedom of beliefs and freedom of speech were essential to develop philosophy, science, etc. during the renaissance and after.

> (As is this, but a daily reminder to trump supporters of what everyone thinks of them doesn't hurt)

So who gets to decide what hurts? For clarity I don't think this discussion should be flagged, but the double standards are eye-gouging.
by romanhn | 2026-01-18 18:01:48+00:00
The post itself contains a fascinating historical precedent that maps pretty well to the current situation:

Knut Hamsun (Literature Prize 1920): In 1943, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun travelled to Germany and met with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After returning to Norway, he sent his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a gesture of thanks for the meeting. Goebbels was honoured by the gift. The present whereabouts of the medal are unknown.
by hattmall | 2026-01-18 18:01:53+00:00
Sure those are the things Jesus advocated for in society, but it's not as if a warrior ethos isn't warranted for Jesus considering the attitude towards his message at the time. Especially when you gauge it in the light of what eventually happened to him. The ultimate message in Christianity is the necessity of perseverance in pursuit of goals. The world in general isn't immediately receptive to a message that priorities acceptance over lament.