MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mahirsaid | 2026-01-30 19:39:10+00:00
The Typical language of believers is to say no that wont happen and how? I learned and studied enough history and the usual narrative is to not accept something that is possibly so catastrophic that it will change their way of life.

The tech bubble is another story and to be study on it's own, but it was summarized well that is < its a cycle of delusional capital invested over and over. Along with the numerous indicators of "what ifs">
The housing market is simply stupid, im sorry i don't have another word for it that better describes the current take on this matter. Home prices are outrageous because of market driven assumptions. A house is technically worth $150 is now on the market for $350 and why is that. from 2 years ago. People truly think that home prices are expected to keep rising and to what extent and why? They couldn't tell you<< " my zip code is the place to live at the moment, the person living in the next zip code is saying the same thing about hiss home,
Homes in silicon valley were above and beyond the national average and it was the only thing on the headlines during 2021 - 2022 but for good reasons that cant be argued too much/ Today it is the rest of US in the same mindset.

All of the US economy seems to be in protection mode right now. As to say it's the mother that doesn't want you to go out again after falling of your bike and scuffing your knee on the pavement.

tariffs were used the wrong way this time around, inevitably the very purpose of them was not so effective, it backfired, Damage is done and reputation is broken in a lot of ways. Britain is renegotiation relationships with china, Canada is renegotiation relationship with China, EU is renegotiation relationships with India and China. All with successful results.

There is a lot of stake here the US has a lot to offer to the world and to use that as weapon is tends to not have a good outcome. The market is large, yes it is resilient to some factors but not all/ When collapse takes place there will be tremendous momentum and its going to be hard to stop.
by SJMG | 2026-01-30 19:39:12+00:00
> there is a smaller % that benefits and learns more and faster

That's not what the study says nor it is capable of credibly making that claim. You are reasoning about individuals in an RCT where subjects did not serve as their own control. The high performers in the treatment group may have done even better had they been in the control and AI is in fact is slowing them down.

You don't know which is true because you can't know because of the study design. This is why we have statistics.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-30 19:39:27+00:00
“Editing systems” will remain being a rigid and formal process, though. The discipline won’t become softer and more easily understood (SWEs are going to be replaced!), if anything it will become harder and less easily understood.

Shareholders don’t want a “release” button that when they press it there’s a XX% chance that the entire software stack collapses because an increasingly complex piece of software is understood by no one but a black box called “AI” that can’t be fired or otherwise held accountable.
by russellbeattie | 2026-01-30 19:39:45+00:00
I'm completely bike shedding, but I just want to say I highly approve. Moltbot was a truly horrible name, and I was afraid we were going to be stuck with it.

(I'm sure people will disagree with this, but Rust is also a horrible name but we're stuck with it. Nothing rusty is good, modern or reliable - it's just a bad name.)
Show HN: GeoEchoes – AR App for Permanent Geo Memories on Arweave with H3 Grids
by Rudoam | 2026-01-30 19:39:47+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Rudo, founder of Wandern Inc.

I built GeoEchoes because I wanted a way to leave and explore discover real-world memories that don't vanish—audio, video, or text tied to specific locations, stored permanently on Arweave.

The app lets you unfog the world in grids (using H3 hexagons for spatial indexing and analytics, e.g., "25% of Brooklyn discovered").

A radar helps pinpoint nearby echoes. You can create your own at any spot, or find ones left by others.There's also a boundary creator tool for drawing custom zones (boundaries.geoechoes.com), randomized loot collection (like series clips or history facts), and clubs for challenges/private echoes.

Soon adding user-created animated characters.It's live on Android, iOS, and web

Feedback welcome of course. What do you think of the Arweave/H3 integration or the overall idea?

Inspiration kinda Daniel Johnston "The sun don't shine in your tv"

Leave permenant real memories before we are 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'
- Richard Brautigan
by eggy | 2026-01-30 19:39:58+00:00
I cook whole-grain, hulled Barley for an hour and put it some beef bone stock we make at home, or add it to my wife's Soto Ayam (Indonesian chicken soup). Barley evidently has more fiber and is a bit more effective than oatmeal. It also tastes good with warm milk and honey like oatmeal, or simply with butter and salt. I spend the extra bucks on the Irish salted butter. Tastes creamy and yummy.
by vimota | 2026-01-30 19:40:18+00:00
Thanks for taking a look and the feedback! We run the shim with internet access (https://github.com/coplane/localsandbox/blob/main/localsandb...) but the pyodide sandbox itself doesn't run with internet access : https://github.com/coplane/localsandbox/blob/main/localsandb...
by graypegg | 2026-01-30 19:40:37+00:00
Your browser (if you're using one of the "usual ones") doesn't really do much with the response's status code if it doesn't match a few specific ones for redirecting/caching/protocol shenanigans.

Anything in the 4XX range is going to be treated as just a regular ol' response, just like 404. (You could serve an entire site with all responses set to status=404, and be fine... other than probably never getting any cache hits) If you don't include a body in the response, the browser might sub in it's own error page, but it will just communicate that the user agent made a bad request.
by jabroni_salad | 2026-01-30 19:42:53+00:00
Out of curiosity is this related to the 'emergency location' that we admins have to provide for every calling plan user or is it a wholly separate system? Reading the other comments here they must not realize that teams is already tracking their address because it has to know which PSAP to connect them to.

This location either uses the named locations I have set up in Entra (we use our public IP ranges for it) or it prompts users for their address if isn't sure. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/emergency-c...
by xiphias2 | 2026-01-30 19:43:22+00:00
I see, I found a video about it, actually it was not a protest, I thought people were outside the church, but they went inside.

https://youtu.be/s7jsQKRoNEY?si=gmHgnnxBrbgXR525

It was clearly not a protest but obstruction by others. And he was not taking part of the obstruction, just documenting it.

I can understand DOJ charging him with conspiracy if he took part of the planning, but arrasting him was probably not needed (whether conspiracy took part or not), as he didn't seem to disrupt the church.
by buellerbueller | 2026-01-30 19:43:37+00:00
In which case, one might expect Borger Kong to build in developer-unfriendly Smallville, because they will capture the people driving outside of Smallville. All your arguments are easily countered by basic supply and demand hyoptheticals.

There is no reason that McDonald's shouldn't own the risk of developing a McDonalds, and instead make secret deals with local governments to offset some of that risk. Thats a cost that should be borne by the business.
by mattmcal | 2026-01-30 19:44:24+00:00
I had to read this twice to understand it. Stated succinctly, it sounds like the company's sensor measured the rate of flow of oxygen through the sensor, which would give a reduced reading if the cross section is obstructed.

Feynman's sensor, by contrast, directly measured the concentration of oxygen in the sensor, which gives the same result every time once the sensor is at equilibrium with the environment.
by foxglacier | 2026-01-30 19:45:06+00:00
This kind of mechanism is fascinating. I built a four-wheeled version and even that is beautifully smooth when one wheel goes over a bump because the chasis maintains an average orientation based on the positions of all the wheels. The video shows an 8-wheeled one but it still only has two rows of wheels. I've wondered how to generalize it to an arbitrarily sized grid of wheels so a vehicle would be like a flexible mat that conforms to the ground. I couldn't work that out but I'm no Don Bickler. FEA software has a feature called "RBE3" which models an even more general case of any number of "wheels" and they can also move in any direction while still keeping the orientation of the "chassis" (dependent node) rigidly determined by their average displacements. The "R" stands for rigid because every part is rigid or completely free - no springs! There seems to be nothing like it in machines or nature but it's a beuatifully elegent and seemingly natural mechanism - if it was possible to build.
by brightball | 2026-01-30 19:45:18+00:00
The thing about Elon is that he's got more than enough credibility with betting on big crazy ideas that he's one of a few people that you have to take seriously.

Tesla from LA to NY - https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-tesla-actually-drove-itself-...

Thousand of Optimus Robots...just announced closing a factory to have them focus on robot production - https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla-ending-model-s-x-produ...

SpaceX rewriting the entire economic formula for space launches, accounting for almost 90% of all launches globally last year, becoming a critical piece of the Department of Defense while also launching Starlink globally.

Neuralink let's people control computers with their brain, even playing video games. They're working on an implant to cure blindness right now.

https://neuralink.com/trials/visual-prosthesis/

I get that the man is politically unpopular in some circles, but it's really difficult to bet against him at this point. So far, the biggest criticism has been that it took a little longer than he initially said to deliver...but he did deliver.
by cardanome | 2026-01-30 19:45:39+00:00
The other side of the argument is that dynamic typing is great for prototyping and can allow for more compact code.

The discussion is exhausting because many people don't understand the difference between weak typing and dynamic typing. You basically never want weak typing but dynamic typing has legit uses. Yes JS is both weakly and dynamically typed and that sucks but Common Lisp shows you can have very strong typing and dynamic types.

Lots of very complex software has been writing in dynamically typed languages. The whole Erlang/Elixir world is dynamically typed though Elixir is getting gradual typing.

There is a good reason gradual typing is getting popular, you get the best of both world. You can prototype quickly and then add types and make everything more solid later.

(Which also why you want to always use a statically typed language in the corporate world because there is never a "later" and the bigger the team the more important it is to have the lang enforcing discipline. But not every programming is corporate.)

People that are dogmatic about static typing show their immaturity. The older I get the more I realize that there is no right or wrong way to program, everything it tradeoffs and "it depends".
by bediger4000 | 2026-01-30 19:45:50+00:00
I wasn't sure what word to use. That suspension has lots of pin joints and linkages, which are usually the subject of kinematics, 3-bar linkages, mechanisms, etc etc.

I realize that the stiffness of the rockers and links will make a difference in how forces are distributed, because that suspension is clearly not statically determinant, but the main factor in the design has to be the proportions of the links and beams. I can't find anything about that, so I asked.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2026-01-30 19:45:51+00:00
As a leftist, i can tell you that any kind of unchecked capitalism or inequality threatens democracies and their constitutions in the long run.

The contradiction of private vs public interests surfaces when growth/ROI demands become harder to achieve. Marx predicted it as diminishing profit rates [0]. The decades of lowering taxes for rich individuals and corporations lead to the pressent budget pressure on institutions, civic decay and agitated uninformed voters. This happens in all capitalistic democracies and we hear the same songs everywhere, about more austerity with a xenophobic background.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...
by eisa01 | 2026-01-30 19:46:00+00:00
You can get them with different voltage drop-off curves

E.g., this battery is 1.5V for ~70% of the capacity, before it gradually reduce to 1.0 V

https://www.xtar.cc/product/xtar-1-5v-aa-clr-3300-lithium-ba...

edit: And one with USB-C and linearly decreasing voltage curve https://www.xtar.cc/product/xtar-aa-lithium-lr-2000mah-usb-c...
by tonymet | 2026-01-30 19:46:23+00:00
The video games industry is suffering a lot of headwinds, so it's misleading to call this the major driver. Studios have been shutting down for 18+ months. Ubisoft stock is at a ~15 year low as are most big publishers. Many big titles fell flat in 2025 (and there were some surprise wins too -- not all doom). Console sales fell off a cliff. Now hardware is impossibly expensive, putting Gen 6 in doubt. Lots of projects shuttered or delayed, and layoffs.

AI and gaming is an important topic, but this story is an oversimplification of what has been hitting the games industry for > 2 years .
by contingencies | 2026-01-30 19:46:31+00:00
All other names are generally considered either common or historic. Common names are regarded as too ambiguous for scientific use, they are generally only mentioned in relevance to collections such as "How do the local people in <area x> having <population y> of <latin name z> (who might help identify where it is growing) refer to the organism?". In a small number of cases local names confer ethnobotanical or cultural semantics.
by spwa4 | 2026-01-30 19:46:54+00:00
Really? The judiciary refusing to hold the government accountable is nothing new. One huge example:

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

ONE person was held accountable. One of the kids for cash judges convicted kids for money ... and didn't pay taxes on the kickbacks. He got convicted for "both" factors, excpept PLENTY of people involved in the convicting kids for cash, including lawmakers, didn't get convicted at all.

One can barely imagine what the punishment would be for a private individual kidnapping >2000 kids for on average 3 months each, with several of those kids committing suicide as a result? Kidnapping, because that's exactly what the state did here. What do you think if you or I did that, the punishment would be? I'm thinking somewhere between consecutive life sentences and death, and 100k+ USD per kid.

The state decided NO punishment, except a short house arrest stint for one of the judges that also didn't pay taxes was enough.

Oh, and to add insult to injury:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/14/kids-for-cas...

Or take the Flint lead poisoning crisis, and compare civil liability to what the government did when it was the culprit, rather than the benificiary. Compare and contrast:

Private company causes lead poisoning? On average $300,000 USD per victim, paid within 2 years of the poisoning. In some cases people served jail sentences of weeks to months, which isn't much but it's at least not zero.

Government causes lead poisoning? Flint water crisis: On average $2000 USD per victim (though some kids got $100,000, though that didn't cover their medical bills), paid >8 years after the case started. And this is purely based on the flint poisoning crisis, and ignores the many smaller cases the government simply got away with it. Not a single person, even the ones who were directly personally responsible and refused to turn up to court saw a single second of jail time.
by Bender | 2026-01-30 19:47:01+00:00
I don't know the exact amount

31 Karma and I believe it takes 4 people to flag a submission. If a user has 31 Karma they can also Vouch for a submission. [1] It can then get re-flagged.

[1] - https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...
by thighbaugh | 2026-01-30 19:47:21+00:00
> [Specifically Crafted Instructions For Working With A Specific Repository] outperforms [More General Instructions] in our agent evals

------> Captain Obvious Strikes Again! <----------

See the rest the comments for examples pedantic discussions about terms that are ultimately somewhat arbitrary and if anything suggest the singularity will be runaway technobabble not technological progress.
by instig007 | 2026-01-30 19:47:38+00:00
> My point is that it is easier to get AI to get better than try to improve a million developers.

No it's not, your whole premise is invalid both in terms of financing the effort and in the AI's ability to improve beyond RNG+parroting. The AI code agents produce shoe boxes, your claim is that they can be improved to produce buildings instead. It won't happen, not until you get rid of the "temperature" (newspeak for RNG) and replace it with conceptual cognition.
by dsr_ | 2026-01-30 19:47:58+00:00
The emergency location is for 911 dispatch. The theory goes that in the time of wired phones, a call from 212 555 1212 was definitely from the phone on the 11th floor of 60 Hudson Street, so the correct police/fire/ambulance would be obviously in South Manhattan -- but now that we have VOIP and softphones, the phone could be anywhere -- so which 911 point-of-presence should handle it?

Hence the explicit statement.
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-30 19:48:09+00:00
>Not that kind of answer - this is bad manners or worse. The counter-question "Why do you ask that" isn't an honest or meaningful answer - it's indefensible defense of allowing meaningless traffic without any defenses.

Nah. Based on years of experience, the typical person asking this question is asking because they're bothered by log entries. They're not asking it because the requests are actually being somehow disruptive. The correct answer is "don't stress out about normal background noise".

>Maybe $100/mo isn't a trivial amount for a site that has no video, isn't dynamic, etc - your assumptions contradict themselves and reality.

$100/mo is a trivial amount for anything that is visited hundred thousand times in a second.

>It's absolutely clear that giving a free reign to bots will encourage more bots and more sinister behavior because the boundary between bot scraping and ddos is blurry, you're essentially arguing for allowing soft ddos which can be turned up at times just to make a site ineffective when it's needed.

Not really. The bots have a strong incentive to not be disruptive.

>Without any maybe, the prices of RAM, bandwidth and hosting are going up while usage limits are going down - inflation. There's no reason to sacrifice $100/mo to hostile bot daemons which are sure to ask for more and more in the future.

Prices of bandwidth and hosting are not going up, usage limits are not going down. This is not a real thing that's happening. Servers (and bandwidth) are in fact cheaper than ever, except perhaps for the RAM.
by Rebelgecko | 2026-01-30 19:48:36+00:00
Their test was in a low-ish orbit so most of the debris is gone now.

I haven't looked at stats lately but I'd guess the #1 source of debris in space right now is still the Chinese ASAT test which threw a bunch of crap into Medium Earth Orbit. Before that, the main source of debris was leaking coolant from some nuclear reactors the Soviet sent up
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-30 19:48:36+00:00
You too can start your own space exploration company if you are lucky enough to somehow obtain capital and your luck compounds sufficiently from that capital.

That luck is out of grasp of the vast majority of the population. It isn't a matter of effort, but mostly luck. Playing the lottery is not a realistic strategy to put forth from a monopoly competition perspective. 90% of startups fail, for example. They worked hard, but were unlucky.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-30 19:49:44+00:00
I agree with the Ray Dalio perspective on this. AI is not a creative force. It is only a different form of automation. So, the only value to AI is to get to know your habits. As an example have it write test cases in your code style so you don't have to. That is it.

If you sucked before using AI you are going to suck with AI. The compounded problem there is that you won't see just how bad you suck at what you do, because AI will obscure your perspective through its output, like an echo chamber of stupid. You are just going to suck much faster and feel better about it. Think of it as steroids for Dunning-Kruger.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0LeJ6xn35gc

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vXecG_KajLI
by sowbug | 2026-01-30 19:49:47+00:00
I swab the corroded contacts with white vinegar from the kitchen. It turns the white gunk into a foamy blob, and I assume it etches off enough of the corrosion to restore conductivity. I wipe the foamy part with the dry side of the cotton swab, and the device usually works again.

I started doing this as a kid, reasoning that the white gunk looked like baking soda, which is fun to combine with vinegar, so let's see what happens. I just looked it up, and it appears that the process is legitimate and safe. The vinegar turns potassium carbonate into potassium acetate, also producing carbon dioxide.
by johanvts | 2026-01-30 19:50:00+00:00
You are right for now, but co2 neutral is not impossible. Thats the promise of Rivan, see rivan.com

> Rivan’s RNG (renewable natural gas) generator combines 3 core technologies:

1. A calcium-looping DAC system (CO2)

2. An alkaline water electrolyser (H2)

3. A sabatier reactor (CH4)

To produce 99.9% pure synthetic natural gas, which acts as a carbon-neutral drop-in replacement for fossil alternatives.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-01-30 19:50:02+00:00
Larry Fink is personally responsible for more insane progressive policies and pogroms in publicly traded companies than any other single individual. Historically, maybe Lenin was worse. Brendan Eich, father of JavaScript, was excommunicated from Mozilla for having private opinions not in line with the progressive ersatz religion. You’re not being serious here.

There is nothing grass roots about “AI will cause drought and famine” nonsense coming from the infotainment content mills. I don’t blame anyone for keeping their work out of the hostile press.
by efreak | 2026-01-30 19:50:05+00:00
> M$ removed the "shut down cleanly" button from the language chooser

Not sure what language chooser you're talking about here, but if you're trying to shutdown Windows without hybrid shutdown to access the uefi, there's two switches you can use with shutdown.exe: `shutdown /s /t 0` will perform a full shutdown without hibernating the system session (not hybrid shutdown, that can be done with another parameter). If you want to reboot into your UEFI menu, use `shutdown /r /fw /t 0`

I may be confusing the time parameter, it might be `/t now` and not `/t 0`; I usually use a dedicated command to reboot to UEFI via slickrun.
by netsharc | 2026-01-30 19:50:17+00:00
Before taxes... And as AI just educated me, GDP is the monetary amount the country earns from its production, but Norway's oil earnings are heavily invested by the government.

Perhaps Switzerland is more known by the "filthy rich"/Nouveau riche crowd, and therefore attracts them...

I write this as this event is happening this weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZzCCNCVa6E