MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by general1465 | 2026-01-17 10:46:57+00:00
> If your business has everything on GCP/AWS/Azure (which is very common) and the Americans choose to weaponinse US tech against your country or business,

these companies have datacenters in Europe too. It is not wild to think that if push comes to shove and US cut off Europe, then Europeans can just take control over those European data centers and restore access to GCP/AWS/Azure in Europe because these datacenters are on their soil and predominantly employing Europeans.
by Havoc | 2026-01-17 10:47:00+00:00
>It probably is pretty good for datacenters.

The cooling would be a bonus, but you also can't ignore all the negatives. No power, limited roads, no deep harbour, no skilled support staff, no fiber, no backup fiber, latency, geopolitical uncertainty, thawing permafrost etc

I'd bet the biggest compute in the country is on the US base already...
by quotemstr | 2026-01-17 10:47:27+00:00
Shouldn't this so-called "transition" should be monotonic? The derivative of energy price should be always negative if you're right. It's not. It's very, very, very much not.

If the end state is very cheap energy, why is it the opposite of cheap now?

Look: the "energy transition" is not working. It's done the opposite of work. You have to concede to reality at some point.
by lindenr | 2026-01-17 10:48:32+00:00
I agree, if AI (or humans) have mistranslated a natural language statement to a formal statement, we should not rely on AI to correctly translate the formal statement back into natural language.

For many statements I expect it's not possible to retain the exact meaning of the formal-language sentence without the natural language becoming at least as complex, and if you don't retain meaning exactly then you're vulnerable to the kind of thing the article warns about.
by lurk2 | 2026-01-17 10:48:36+00:00
> Mass market handicrafts have never been a viable means of subsistence anywhere, ever, if we benchmark against what I think a reasonable lifestyle looks like.

There were plenty of craftsmen who lived lifestyles that were acceptable for the time periods they were living in. From around 1400, to around the early 1900s, European settlements consisting of more than a few hundred people would have had blacksmiths, cobblers, tailors, furniture makers, and various other craftsmen. It wasn’t until the late 19th century that this arrangement started to be replaced by the economies of scale made possible by the factory system.

> A weaver in the 1700s would weep tears of joy at the opportunity to weave things by hand today at market rates.

The idea that a medieval peasant would be envious of our standard of living is doing nothing to further the point you are trying to make.
by Paracompact | 2026-01-17 10:48:39+00:00
> Third, you need to decide how far “down the stack” you want to go. That is to say, the software you want to verify operates over some kind of more complex system, for instance, maybe it’s C code which gets compiled down to X86 and runs on a particular chip, or maybe it’s a controller for a nuclear reactor and part of the system is the actual physical dynamics of the reactor. Do you really want your proof to involve specifying the semantics of the C compiler and the chip, or the way that the temperature and other variables fluctuate in the reactor?

I can appreciate what he's getting at, but my utopian vision for the future is that we won't need to reinvent the wheel like this each time we want verified software! E.g. for high-consequence systems, the hard part of compiler correctness is already handled by the efforts of CompCert, and SystemVerilog assertions for the design guarantees of processors is becoming more commonplace.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-17 10:49:32+00:00
That's not weird at all. Democracy as the word is commonly used does not require direct popular vote, let alone at the highest tier of government. Every "democratic" country I'm aware of uses a more complicated scheme.

Then you've got the part where the US was never billed as a "democracy" to begin with but rather a "democratic republic".

What's weird to me is how quickly a group with an advantage will attempt to discard compromises and other agreements once they have what they wanted.
by boelboel | 2026-01-17 10:49:47+00:00
People are social beings. I could live a life which is (vastly) better than people in 1930 or 1960 by doing the most menial work. The problem is that if most of society wouldn't, I'd be seen as a paria. If I didn't have a partner it would be extremely difficult to find one, children would be bullied at their school.

I actually did very menial work in a food processing plant while still in education, I'm not better than the people working there but I'm different from them in interests and in upbringing (even though I didn't come from wealth, the people I studied with, shared hobbies with did). I wasn't able to discuss the things I read with these people and they weren't able to talk about their interests. I believe if I had to work there for years or decades it would lead to dysfunction.
by moffkalast | 2026-01-17 10:50:24+00:00
> At the time, it took New Reddit almost 200 milliseconds to collapse a single comment. That is 200 milliseconds of pure JavaScript, with hardly any DOM work in sight. If you care about quality software, your jaw should be on the floor. It is a staggering amount of waste for what should have been a few DOM calls. And you feel it as a user: an ugly, intense hitch.

> New Reddit was a React app

Many such cases. React is basically synonymous with horrible lag and extreme bloat to me. Its name is the highest form of irony.

I'm really not sure why JS frameworks in general are so popular (except to facilitate easy corporate turnover), when the browser already gives you a pretty complete toolset that's the easiest to use out of any GUI library in existence. It's not low level by any means.

Granted something like an <include html component> feature is desperately missing from the html spec, but there are lightweight solutions for it.
by kinkyusa | 2026-01-17 10:53:13+00:00
I still feel that the questions that I asked were not answered with direct answerables. It was more like a skip around the answerable. At least that’s how it felt for me from it. Philosophy, for it is one thing the philosophy also entails that it may answer direct questions with an answer that is optimal-able. Questions about being- ness cannot simply be answered for its own. For it to understand logic and illogic it’s one way of putting it. A lot of times our illogical way of thinking is what breed brand new ideas. Sure being- ness is alike an algorithm and it’s because all of life has rhythm and even the nonliving things have rhythm, a sound, rhythmic sound?
by baq | 2026-01-17 10:53:49+00:00
Expect mistral to keep getting large cash infusions until they get competitive.

Managed services weren’t needed because big tech was bending to EU regulations and buying out alternatives. The services aren’t rocket science; plenty of euro devs participated and still participate in building them, they’re just on US big tech payrolls. Expertise is there, money isn’t, yet.
by polotics | 2026-01-17 10:54:20+00:00
Having gone through the whole cycle
from 1 dev...
to 2 dev-lead...
to 3 large-ish team qa-lead for offshore devs...
to 4 qa-lead for offshore qa...
to 5 actual qa ("a" is for assurance as opposed to the quality control that passes as qa) in an industry that needs it...
to 6 kind-of principal engineer...
I would advise you that generalities about qa are useless, environments differ. Still always true: some mgmt will either want more for less, or even something for nothing, and in the long run we are all dead, and some folks' horizon is surprisingly short!
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-17 10:56:43+00:00
You are correct. In Europe, governments and businesses should treat the US as a hostile foreign country, and relying on anything from there is a massive risk.

The only thing is that weaponizing the hyperscalers would also be disastrous for the hyperscalers. They would be liable to lose their assets in Europe, access to European markets, etc and so on. Which would as a consequence cause a tangible harm to the US economy itself.

Not that in Europe we should rely on it for anything. Any business is wise to move away from any sort of dependency that is subject to US pressure. Governments in particular should consider it a matter of life and death.
by 7bit | 2026-01-17 10:57:43+00:00
The old one doesn't have ads. I'm talking about the new one.

The ad I'm talking about is for a different Firefox service. I think it asks to you try your VPN or something. I'm not at home so I can't exactly tell you. But I just want to switch profile not getting bugged or judged to a different service.

Chrome makes this right. You click on the profile icon and instantly switch to a different profile.

Mozilla fucked that completely up.
by AmariahKam | 2026-01-17 10:57:45+00:00
Hi HN, I’m Amariah, the creator of Atlarix.

I built Atlarix because I wanted the agentic power of tools like Lovable/Windsurf but without the cloud lock-in or privacy trade-offs. I wanted an AI that actually lives on my machine, understands my local dev environment, and lets me control the models I use.

What makes it different:

Native & Local-First: It’s a standalone desktop app (Electron + Rust/Node), not a VS Code extension. It has direct control over your terminal, file system, and browser to run agentic loops (scaffold -> run -> debug -> fix).
BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys): Complete sovereignty. Use OpenRouter or run local models via Ollama/LM Studio completely offline.
"Lovable-style" Live Previews: It spins up dev servers (Vite, Next.js, Python, Go) and gives you a live, interactive preview and a diagram that the AI can see and debug in real-time.
Agentic Workflow: It doesn't just write code; it runs commands, reads build errors from the terminal, and auto-fixes issues without you copy-pasting stack traces.
Tech Stack:

Frontend: React, Tailwind, Framer Motion
Backend: Electron (Main Process), SQLite (Local Vector DB for RAG)
Agent: TypeScript-based agentic loop with tool use (57+ tools for file ops, searching, terminal control)
It’s currently v1.0. Would love to hear your feedback on the agentic workflow vs. standard chat assistants!
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-17 10:57:58+00:00
> We didn't get your definitions.

Your definition makes no sense, and at most reflects your own ignorance on the topic. I already listed a few and very specific classes of tests, which not only have a very crisp definition but also by their very nature can only be deployed after implementations are rolled out

> This one doesn't seem to be used by anyone.

That just goes to show how clueless and out of touch you are. It's absurd to even imply that regressions aren't tracked.

Listen, it's ok to read through discussions on topics you are not familiar with. If you want to chime in, the very least you can do is invest some time learning the basics before hitting reply.
by dandelionv1bes | 2026-01-17 10:58:10+00:00
I think the docs are great to read, but implementing was a completely different story for me, ie, the Ask AI recommended solution for implementing Claude just didn’t work for me.

They do have GitHub discussions where you can raise things, but I also encountered some issues with installation that just made me want to roll the dice on another provider.

They do have a new release coming in a few weeks so I’ll try it again then for sure.
by traceroute66 | 2026-01-17 10:58:16+00:00
> This seems like a lot of zesty made-up assumptions.

Nope.

The second half of my post, anyone who has been seriously involved with large carrier-neutral facilities will likely agree with me.

It is a fact that IA will be incurring a premium to DIY and as I quite clearly spelt out, I am NOT trying to say they are wrong, I am just genuinely curious as to what the premium they are paying is.

Regarding my comment about large non-profits. This is from personal experience. Once they get to a certain size, non-profits do switch to a business mentality. You might not like that fact, but it is a fact. They will have management boards who are "competitively remunerated". They will actively manage their spare cash (of which they will have a large surplus) in investment portfolios. Things will be budgeted and cost-centered just like in larger businesses. They will have in-house legal teams or external teams on retainer to aggressively chase after donations people leave them in wills. etc. etc. etc. etc.

You absolutely cannot place a large non-profit in the same mindset as your local community mom & pop non-profit that operates hand to mouth on a shoestring.

That is why I discourage people donating to large non-profits. You might feel good donating $100. But in reality its a sum that wouldn't even be a rounding-error on their financial reports. And most of your donation is more likely to contribute to management expenses than the actual cause. Large non-profits are more interested in large corporate philanthropic donations, preferably multi-year agreements.
by anthk | 2026-01-17 10:59:55+00:00
That reminds me on Lee Si Chen, a great Electrical Engineer (IEEE level) but a fringe science supporter. Yes, a bit like Will Beaty and in its infamous web from the 90's, but he put all of these theories under a section "just in case some cracknut it's right".

Back to Si Chen, here you have:

- Paper about finger reading

https://ijhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SCLee-2-2.pdf

- Video explanation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ9g1CM5m8Q
by sigseg1v | 2026-01-17 11:00:05+00:00
The overwhelming majority of devs do not concern themselves with nor are even familiar with the concept of software licenses, let alone how to abide by them. I argue that it's not that they think it's "free game to [...] re-license" so much so as they think it's just code and they can use it without the idea of a licence ever even crossing their mind.

Source: find literally anything on GitHub using dependencies that are MIT licensed and being distributed without following the terms that state you must also redistribute the licence for each
by brasscupcakes | 2026-01-17 11:00:29+00:00
Yeah it has been banned in quite a few states -- unfortunately those same few states end up banning plain powdered kratom right along with it.

Unadultated unextracted kratom is far safer than tylenol or ibuprofen in small doses and is widely used by recovering addicts for harm reduction.

(a gram or two drastically reduces the urge to take opioids, drink alcohol, etc.)

But 15 grams -- that's a LOT. Kratom is self limiting for most people in its powder form because beyond the first few grams it doesn't get any better (you just get sleepy and nauseous).

That amount will also cause the kind of constipation that will bring you to tears.

(In and of itself, though, even fifty grams of kratom isn't enough to kill you.)

But 164 Xanax, is that what he told the AI he took? Good God, if he'd even said ten it warranted a stern recommendation to call ambulance immediately.

I don't think you can lay these ridiculous responses at the feet of Reddit drug subforums.

I haven't lurked all of them by any means but of those that I visited the meth one was about the worst and even there, many voices of reason made themselves heard.

Guy posted from a trap house, saying another resident was there with a baby what should he do and with very few exceptions this sub full of tweakers said call the cops, call CPS immediately.

I don't engage with AI much except when I am doing research for a project and it's always just a preliminary step to help me see the big picture (I check and recheck every 'fact' up, down and sideways because I am astonished by just how much it getd wrong.

But ... I really had no idea it could be quite this stupid, parroting hearsay without attribution as if it was hard data.

It's very sobering.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-17 11:00:32+00:00
> Here is to hoping someone will do something similar for DRM'ed BOSCH ebike motors.

Please not. Bike thieves are already annoying as they are (a ring in the rural city I live in managed to steal over 400 k€ worth of bikes in a matter of months, in my case they only stole the control unit), and so are people modding their bikes to run (way) faster than the legal limit, leading to more and more calls for them being banned off of normal bike tracks.

[1] https://www.idowa.de/regionen/landshut/landkreis-landshut/se...
Show HN: Why Should Assembly Be English‑Only? Nuasm Adds 51 Human Languages
by neuroosgenesis | 2026-01-17 11:01:59+00:00
NUASM is a universal assembler that lets you write low‑level code in 51 human languages — including Hindi, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, Quechua, Basque, Swahili, and many more.

No transpilation.
No DSL tricks.
No “English‑only mnemonics”.
Just real assembly, expressed in your own language.

NUASM is built in pure Python and outputs real x86‑64 machine code. It includes:

51 language packs (with dialects and regional variants)

Kids Mode for teaching low‑level concepts

Localized error messages

A universal tokenizer and encoder

Support for bootloaders, kernels, and low‑level systems

A fully documented wiki with examples in every language

The goal is simple:
If you can speak it, you can program it.

Repo: https://github.com/cyberenigma-lgtm/NeuroUniversalASM (github.com in Bing)

Happy to answer questions, discuss design decisions, or help anyone build new language packs.
by neuroosgenesis | 2026-01-17 11:02:06+00:00
NUASM was created to challenge a silent assumption in computing:
that low‑level programming must be done in English.

Assembly mnemonics were invented in the 1950s by English‑speaking engineers, and the entire world inherited that constraint. NUASM removes it. The assembler doesn’t care which human language you use — it maps everything to the same machine code.

This project is not about replacing English.
It’s about removing barriers.

If you’re curious about:

how the tokenizer handles multilingual input

how mnemonics are mapped across languages

how dialects are normalized

how Kids Mode works

or how to add your own language pack

I’m here and happy to dive deep.
by ben_w | 2026-01-17 11:02:32+00:00
> By analogy, however, AI is orders of magnitude less power efficient than humans.

It is both more and less power efficient, depending on the task. When a coding task is easy enough that an LLM can actually do it, I've seen e.g. Claude do a week's worth of human labour in a few hours of wall-clock time for what amounted to 0.25 euro of subscription cost. When it can't, it will churn as many tokens as you've got and leave a big ball of mud behind, as seen with the recent attempt at a vibe-coded browser.

When Stable Diffusion is good enough, the energy cost per image output is comparable to the calorific consumption of a human living long enough to type the prompt. When Stable Diffusion isn't good enough, no amount of re-prompting gets you something it can't do.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-17 11:02:46+00:00
In the second Trump term, The rest of the world is justified in viewing the US as the kind of country which will, for the foreseeable future, periodically elect this kind of kakistocratic leadership.

The lesson is finally sinking in, in ways that it did not during the first Trump term. During the first Trump term the argument could be made that this was not a one-off. But during the second Trump term it's simply a fact.

Economic decoupling is a rational response.
by MonkeyClub | 2026-01-17 11:02:57+00:00
> GPT$$$ is surely smart enough to separate you from whatever you have, [...] or lobbying your government to take it from you.

I find it quite interesting, and somewhat disturbing, that we've so quickly come to the point of seeing the AI power drivers as openly adversarial to people and deeply entangled with equally adversarial government forces.

But are we actually (and realistically) talking about technofeudalism in the next couple of decades?
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-17 11:03:54+00:00
This is wild, thank you so much!! I was struggling with these costs for a long time!! Why is this not more well known? I researched this a lot and it was going to cost me at minimum $500~ over 3 years with the cheapest providers. Let me see if my specific use case can work with them.

I owe you one @briHass :)
by uecker | 2026-01-17 11:04:39+00:00
Sad is the low intellectual level of this discussion where people draw conclusions from insufficient understanding of the data (or more likely, they believe what they read somewhere without even looking at data - which I assume is the case for you - as you do not provide logical arguments and merely repeat the talking points from political discussions, which are worded to evoke an emotional reaction "dying century-old factories" "collapsing"). The prices households or industry pays are only indirectly related to the generation cost and a lot more with fees, so this is something to study. Also, if you compare to France, EDF was renationalized and now contributes to the relative high amount of government debt compared to GDP.
by seasongs | 2026-01-17 11:04:56+00:00
Oh yes, finally something I can comment on!
I’m a wildlife veterinarian, parrots were always my favourite animals and growing up I wanted to become a “parrot vet”.
Throughout my studies and work experience I discovered so many heartbreaking things about these animals that instead I chose to dedicate myself to the wild.
The parrot crisis is much bigger than what the article says. We are living a period where parrots are struggling to survive in their native range, we are getting more knowledge on how sick they get in captivity (some parrots literally self-mutilate for lack of stimulation) and we are getting bigger and bigger colonies of invasive species (mostly monk and ring neck parakeet) throughout the US and the EU. I’ve actually been working on a documentary on this topic for the past two years, if you are interested I can share it when I’m done. In the meantime I suggest you reaching out to

https://www.allianceforparrots.org/
by Kon5ole | 2026-01-17 11:05:16+00:00
I'm guessing you play FPS competitively and are in your 20s, and for you it might be true, I won't argue that.

The issue for me is that even if your experience was true for all gamers in the world, that would still be a tiny minority compared to all people in the world who use monitors to read text, day in and day out.

A low-res monitor cannot show a high-res image, but a high-res monitor can show a low-res picture, so both sides can get what they want here.

I run 8k/60 but my screen can also do 4k/120. If it could also do 1440 at 240hz or 1080 at 480hz wouldn't bother me, but that the industry spends all effort on making 1080/480 and basically NO effort on 8k does.

The industry should throw everything below say 200ppi on the scrap-heap of history where it belongs. It would harm nobody and benefit everybody.
by danielpetrica | 2026-01-17 11:07:03+00:00
If you are building high-performance Laravel applications, you are likely already exploring the limits of what's possible with FrankenPHP and Laravel Octane. In my previous work designing a production-ready Laravel architecture with Traefik and FrankenPHP, I promoted this stack for its simplicity and raw power.

However, bleeding-edge tech often comes with bleeding-edge problems. Recently, I lost three hours debugging an issue that should have been obvious: The FrankenPHP binary installed by Laravel Octane is version-locked.

In my case, it was locked to PHP 8.4, despite my system running the latest stable PHP 8.5. If you are trying to upgrade your stack or build a high-performance directory like I did for LaraPlugins.io, you need your environment to match your expectations.

Here is how to force FrankenPHP to use PHP 8.5 and stop chasing ghost bugs.