MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by consumer451 | 2026-01-06 19:08:11+00:00
First, thank you so much for replying. This website has some of the best exchanges on the Internet.

> Starlink is perhaps one of the most vulnerable infrastructures available. Every node de-orbits after 5 years and has to be replaced. And they can be destroyed by any number of terrestrial or low orbit solutions.

I have been thinking about this for years...

> And they can be destroyed by any number of terrestrial or low orbit solutions.

Please explain to me how one could accomplish this feat. I have considered creating radiation clouds, etc, but I have never been able to convince myself.
by georgefrowny | 2026-01-06 19:08:28+00:00
I don't think I'm especially stupid and I try very hard not to interact with ads more then I have to, but I have often found it impossible to escape those ads without ending up being delivered to the app store page.

Maybe I didn't notice the X in some part of the display or whatever, but even if by making a concerted effort to not do it, you still "convert", their click though stats must be crazy.
by morshu9001 | 2026-01-06 19:08:37+00:00
Russia attacked directly after Ukraine removed their nonalignment leadership. I'm not saying Ukraine changed its constitution before the attack, just that the 2010 law was evidently possible to reverse.

Even if Russia didn't attack, Ukraine would've gone back to NATO alignment just as they were doing pre 2010. Maybe even more seeing how the entire point of the 2014 revolution was to push away from agreements with Russia, and the protest leaders were all loudly pro-NATO politicians. How could this possibly have led to nonalignment, aside from "this is a Russian talking point"?
by bluecalm | 2026-01-06 19:08:52+00:00
What I like about C is that when they do add features they are just useful non-controversial features with maybe one exception of VLAs (that one was controversial).

Designated initializers, compound literals, binary literals and the way to printf numbers in binary, constexpr, alignas, #embed, stdbit.h, memset_explicit, restrict to name the ones I really like.
by manmal | 2026-01-06 19:08:53+00:00
As long as you give it deterministic goals / test criteria (compiles, lints, tests, E2E tests, achieve 100% parity with existing solution etc) it will brute force its way to a solution. Codex will work for hours/days, even weeks sometimes, until it has finished. A person would never work this way, but since this just runs in the background, there’s no issue with this approach except if you need it fast.
by andrepd | 2026-01-06 19:08:57+00:00
> claiming the world today is simply too screwed up to bring kids into is astounding.

But that's not what I'm saying, so there's that.

Anyway, everybody (barring the global ultra-poor) is obviously aware that their standard of living is much higher than that of most of history. This is not novel, not hard to realise, and certainly not a discussion-terminating point.

In the Western world every single generation since WWII has roughly speaking lived better than their parents. For people currently in their 20s, this is on track not to be the case. The "democratic normalcy" is under attack. Wealth inequality was reaching literal Gilded Age levels... and has now barreled past that with no sign of stopping. And yes, algorithmic social media running anger-maximisation machines on a planetary scale. Shall I go on? The point being that "medieval peasants didn't have microwaves" is immaterial to the discussion.
by prmoustache | 2026-01-06 19:09:02+00:00
I once saw a story about someone who saw her bike on sale even before it was stolen. The thieves announce the bikes they see regularly in the same place in the street and only steal them if they have a potential buyer.

That way they only take the risk when they need to, they don't need any storage area, and if they are caught it is only for 1 bike, not tens or hundreds.
by anthk | 2026-01-06 19:09:05+00:00
Learn to live with 1GB of RAM. Either CLI/TUI tools, or software like Dillo or Sxiv. Mainline dillo from their Git and not the outdated one from the repos. The new "dilloc" it's amazing, you need Dillo compiled with socket control support.
Then you will be able to use dilloc as a client to spawn commands con scripts. For instance, to rewrite URL's from a list. Hint: the ones from https://farside.link . Youtube to Invidious, X.com to Nitter and so on.

Connect to https://farside.link, https://lite.cnn.com, https://text.npr.org or gopher://magical.fish as a services portal or news source.

Use mpv+yt-dlp if you are under Unix to watch online videos. Complex? Just a little bit first. Incredibily rewarding later. No JS will be needed to play videos on most websites. Also with yt-dlp you are able to save them for later usage.

Try programming with small languages from https://t3x.org and doing Math/Intro to Statistics book with Klong and its manual. s9fes can be a good enough Scheme Lisp to complete the exircies Concrete Abstractions and maybe SICP if you know how to reimplement (frame) and the missing functions. An easy task after CACS.

Consider SQLite+Python+TkInter or TCK+Tk as the DDBB UI on top.

Golang can be great too with 1GB of RAM and a simple n270 netbook, I run Yggdrasil on that, and NNCP too among other tools.
Everything with nvi as the editor (basically vi+UTF-8+some status line for help), simple Makefiles git://bitreich.org/english_knight and entr(1) as a tool to watch a directory and spawn 'make' on file changes.
by zamadatix | 2026-01-06 19:09:19+00:00
Interesting, I'm curious how it helps. Maybe with non-video content or something? So far Infuse seems to do everything for shows/movies with the sorting, categorizing, posters, descriptions, actor info, search, release dates, etc already so long as you point it to where the video files are and name them based on the TVDB naming. I even set it up so my parents TV has access to it and they use it more than Netflix now. I don't have any non-video content though, so I'm not sure whether Infuse covers that part well (or at all).
by tormeh | 2026-01-06 19:09:47+00:00
I have to say I'm a bit unimpressed with the efforts of the MFT consumer system camera manufacturers. Panasonic creates excellent cameras, they're so big it lessens the appeal of the smaller mount. OM makes cameras of the right size, but it's releasing new models really really slowly, with mediocre sensors. The OM-5 mark II is a lame rehash. Only the OM-3 is somewhat exciting, but it sacrifices too much in terms of ergonomics to achieve an aesthetic I don't care about.

On the other hand there's no other class of camera that really works on vacation/travel and is meaningfully better than a smartphone. Oh, well.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-06 19:09:51+00:00
Correction: "commies" has always been a weaponized label for anyone with empathy and raising concerns about the externalities caused by rapacious corporate greed. Right-wing death squads murdered journalists, whistleblowers, and activists, slandering them as "commies" to justify extrajudicial murder. Banana wars, the Shah, Pinochet, Iran-Contra, regime change, and more.
by kelnos | 2026-01-06 19:10:08+00:00
Given that companies often spend a significant fraction of their budgets on advertising, I wonder if some products would be cheaper if advertising was banned. Sure, maybe some ad-supported services would be paywalled, but it might end up being a wash in the end.

At the very very very least, every ad-supported service should be required to offer an option to pay and see no ads. I do pay for services I use regularly when they offer it as an option to avoid ads.
by x187463 | 2026-01-06 19:10:34+00:00
A fantastic video from Matt, as usual.

Yet another data point on why nobody should be wasting a second watching Mr Beast content. Complete algorithmically optimized garbage.

I recall Mr Beast showing up in a Colin Furze video for a few minutes and Mr Beast was very clearly incapable of being a normal person. He was obviously out of place, being in full makeup and styled, and couldn't seem to be bothered to actually engage or express real interest in the subject. I think the guy has replaced his real persona with some manifestation of the YouTube algorithm. If he's not actively making money, he's just a shell.
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-06 19:10:35+00:00
I didn't read the article because it's paywalled and I am on a phone with no easy way to get around it.

That said, those three examples (LLMs, driverless cars, and humanoid robots) are extremely different problems.

LLMs are mostly language calculators, which are extremely useful within the scope of their capabilities and when applied to a relevant problem. They are basically "solved".

Driverless cars are also close to being technically solved when used in contexts they work well in (not snow). On pre-mapped roads, with established rules and road markings that are visible.

Humanoid robots on the other hand are far from solved and I doubt will be anytime soon. This is partially because of limited training data and partially because we underestimate how much distributed intelligence there is in our bodies. My guess is humanoid robotics that come anywhere close to human level dexterity are 10-20 years away.
by rtkwe | 2026-01-06 19:11:02+00:00
My work just did a big moderately disruptive shuffling of all the teams to try to localize as many members of each squad as possible in one location and the trend since COVID stopped being as deadly has been a massive wave of RTO so management seems to believe there's benefit in in person meetings or at least professes and acts like they do. I can't assign all of the huge RTO pushes to just management justifying and propping up their office real estate portfolios.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-06 19:11:15+00:00
> Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services?

I've been hearing this since 2010s when Microsoft introduced UEFI iirc and I've heard it for a while. I honestly thought in my teens in the mid to late 2010s that by now I'd have a few Petabyte hard drives. Shame.

I've said it many times, everyone wants AI but nobody wants to foot the real bill for AI. The cost is too high. Once the bubble bursts, whoever is left standing might charge reasonable prices that are profitable, until it becomes more cost effective.
by ghettozp | 2026-01-06 19:11:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a solo developer and wanted to share a side project I’ve been working on - Blocks Party!, a mobile block puzzle game.

The main idea was to avoid locking players into a single playstyle. The game includes a Classic mode focused on placement and scoring, a timed mode for faster sessions, and a Weekly Expedition mode with rotating challenges and progression.

I spent a lot of time tuning difficulty, pacing, and performance on mobile, and making sure the UI scales well on iPad.

I’d love feedback, especially on long-term engagement and mode balance.
by zipy124 | 2026-01-06 19:11:32+00:00
Ok fine, here is some data that isn't from a unique outlier:

"Psychedelics are the latest employee health benefit" (tech company) https://www.ft.com/content/e17e5187-8aa7-4564-9e63-eec294226...

"A new psychedelic era dawns in America" (specifically about use in california) https://www.ft.com/content/5b64945f-da21-46d9-853f-c949a95b9...

"How Silicon Valley rediscovered LSD" https://www.ft.com/content/0a5a4404-7c8e-11e7-ab01-a13271d1e...

I could go on, but the knowledge that psychadelic drugs are prominent in the tech community is not a new fact.
by citizenpaul | 2026-01-06 19:11:36+00:00
>The world would definitely be better without ads.

I don't have the proof but I'm guessing that this is provably wrong. Without advertising in some existance it would be nearly impossible to start a business which means everyone would be peasants farming for subsistence living. I think the problem is that the propose of ads has become divorced from product. The issue is poor regulation not the existence of ads.

Think about it, how as a small or competitive business owner would you get people to buy your soda vs coke/pepsi without advertising in some way? The issue is that coke/pepsi know they have a simple product so they blast ads not to sell their product but to adversarially drown out competitors before they can exist. Tons of advertising has counter agenda purposes like this rather than selling a product, its propaganda not advertisement. There are probably tons of unenforced laws already about this but IANAL.
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-01-06 19:11:39+00:00
Takes like this amaze me. It's like they've suddenly forgotten what the entire advertisement industry is like. Ads are designed to take advantage, manipulate, and even trick. Then this person comes along and suggests the industry should do the right thing.

In what world would that ever be a possibility? It's like asking a dictator nicely that they relinquish some of their power!
by mywittyname | 2026-01-06 19:11:43+00:00
I have my doubts. DEF was mandated on class 7 & 8 trucks in 2010, and as we can see by the graph in the article, that timeline coincides with a sustained boom in truck sales.

People hate emissions equipment the knee-jerk reaction is to blame it first and foremost for any problems in the automotive industry. To me, the data indicates that COVID impacted heavy truck pricing the same as it impacted cars, other durable goods and heavy equipment.

Also, this article is n=1 of a low mileage example of a vehicle that doesn't often see so little use. If you hunt around auctions, you'll find tons of examples of pristine vehicles going for absurd prices. This does not represent a trend, for that, we'd need to look at wholesale prices of used equipment and compare it to general and industry-specific inflation figures in order to show that prices are increasing due to factors beyond inflation and availability.

There's even a tacit admission to this fact in the article, pointing out how the auction of a low-hours post-DEF truck also fetched very high prices.

The most obvious explanation is that the people seeking out assets as an inflation hedge are broadening the scope of assets they are interested in. Auction quality vehicles have been a solid bet post-2020, even after fees. This truck will probably surface again in a few years at a 30% higher price.
by tavavex | 2026-01-06 19:11:55+00:00
It's also terrifying. Look at the average competence their group displays on a daily basis, and now consider how far they've been able to get just with this level of knowledge and curiosity. Far-rightists rule the world and are continuing to become ever more powerful. Now imagine what happens if among their masses appears an actually scarily intelligent figure. If they're already able to exert so much power, that intelligent figure would probably be able to make us all suffer for the rest of our lives.
by horsawlarway | 2026-01-06 19:11:59+00:00
Yeah... worth looking again (or... with all due respect, maybe actually trying a first time).

Spoken as the person hosting a jellyfin instance for my extended family. I switched years ago and it's only gotten easier.

You can find things to complain about if you want to, but generally speaking - Jellyfin just works. The idea that it's not comparable is pretty silly.
by taeric | 2026-01-06 19:12:03+00:00
I have grown to not agree with this idea. Sorta, at least.

It isn't so much that I think the criticism is wrong. Many people do think they could more effectively do something in a different area. But this isn't a stack thing. People are largely ignorant of a ton of work happening everywhere.

You see that ignorance quite commonly in stuff like climate activism. Young activists are convinced that nobody is working on the problem. And to be clear, it would be nice if maybe more people were working on some problems. But please don't ignore the progress made by a lot of hard work, in the meantime.

But back to "why companies keep failing." I could as easily assert that big companies fail when they stop pouring money into growing. Wouldn't be hard to build an argument that the more "funny money" is at play in a large company, the more they are stifling innovative ideas in their walls. Of course, if you pour money through leveraged debt, some day that comes due, as well.
by nec4b | 2026-01-06 19:12:12+00:00
Why is glue code not normal code in Rust? I don't think anyone else would say that for any other language out there. Does it physically pain you to admit it's a bug in Rust code? I write bugs in all kind of languages and never feel the need for adjectives like "technical", "normal", "everyday" or words like "outlier" to make me feel not let down by the language of choice.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-06 19:12:27+00:00
If I understand correctly, this is to say the Soviet Union was more responsive* to its people than the United States is?

If the people wished to, could they not make it clear what the results of a primary would be, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio...

If legislators are afraid of the President, should they not be more afraid of their constituents?

* in the event, it looks like it took them 4 years as well, 1988-1991, but somehow I doubt they were just telling themselves they'd sit around and wait for 2028...
by Groxx | 2026-01-06 19:13:30+00:00
No, I mean there are ads with a "close button" in the corner, and then a few seconds later the real close button will appear and it'll weirdly overlap it. Because the first one was fake, just part of the image asset of the ad.

They're very very clearly click-fraud tricks, and most platforms will ban them if they're caught. But by clicking on the ad, it closes the ad, and there's no way to go back and report them, nor incentive for ad-viewers to do so. By design, IMO.

The whole industry runs on scams like this, there's no incentive for large platforms to proactively block any of them because they lead to money moving through them, where they can extract their rent. They only move against the most egregious, to keep fraud at the same barely-acceptable level as all the others.
by SilentM68 | 2026-01-06 19:13:44+00:00
I find that most negativity comes from the inexperienced, young, and one-track minds of individuals, which through no fault of their own, have only been exposed to one way of thinking, one way of looking at the world. Since they don't know any other way of doing things, they refuse to understand the knowledge or experience that is being shared and jump to conclusions. That is one way that regional conflicts thrive, after they arise. These conflicts usually arise from the self-interest of the older generations. Unfortunately, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. It's no different whether on the physical or digital battlefield.

Flame away ;)
by nelop | 2026-01-06 19:13:48+00:00
Two separate networks, completely isolated, the only bit connecting the two is the opto coupler.

Was all audited by their internal sec department.

They are happy, it was an interesting problem, they need a bunch of seriously old kit well away from their network, so put it on its own isolated network, but then they realised they also wanted to get some info out of the old kit.

Therefore this project was launched.

Luckily it's not an industry like defense.

Both pi's are locked down, handed over to the right folks and I am locked out.
by NelsonMinar | 2026-01-06 19:14:03+00:00
On Android vs iOS, it's worth noting Android apps are smaller than iOS apps. The details are complicated but this report says after installation Android apps take up about half the space as iOS. https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/app-storage-usage-rese...

One specific complication: Apple's store reports install size, Google Play reports compressed download size. https://www.emergetools.com/blog/posts/are-android-apps-real...
by nexawave-ai | 2026-01-06 19:14:37+00:00
Oh, thank God, there’s someone with common sense who hates ads and is in a position of power to push this law through. Even if it’s only in Vietnam, it sets a precedent for other countries to follow.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with ads themselves; the problem lies with the platform owners. YouTube, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video, HBO, etc., use dark patterns to force users to upgrade to ad free plans. These manipulation tactics are designed to push people into more expensive subscriptions.
My prediction is that once platform owners can no longer make money from unskippable ads, they’ll simply get rid of ad supported subscription tiers altogether, like we had before.
by citizenpaul | 2026-01-06 19:14:46+00:00
You comment is very interesting observation. Its made me reconsider some things about sentiment analysis. You are right its not really that HN is negative its that sentiment analysis doesn't really have any way I can think of offhand to measure meaningful discourse rather than GOOD/BAD/NEUTRAL

I've never done any sentiment analysis outside of hobby tinkering. Maybe there is some HN experts that will chime in on how to deal with it?
by rtkwe | 2026-01-06 19:14:59+00:00
While I get that I also think it's a bit odd because how much has actually changed about the basic required set of buttons needed to operate a vehicle in the last 20 years? Most of the differences I see are down to trim levels and companies already had the solution to that with panels that weren't on the main cluster of dash controls. My low trim Golf has a couple obvious panels near the shifter where different optional things would live; seat heaters etc.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-06 19:15:02+00:00
> The great firewall was updated to support inspection of TLS 1.3.

To actually "inspect" TLS 1.3 you need the keys which are chosen randomly for each session by the parties - so either (1) you have a mathematical breakthrough, (2) you have secured co-operation from one or both parties (in which case they could equally tell you what they said) or (3) in fact you don't have inspection.

As you observe forward secrecy was already possible in TLS 1.2 and China's "Great firewall" didn't magically stop that either. In fact what we see is that China blocks IP outright when it doesn't want you to talk to an address, the protocol doesn't come into that. What we changed wasn't whether China can block connections, but how easy it is to snoop those connections.

> For ECH, China can just require you turn it off

So did they? Remember, I'm not talking about some hypothetical future, this technology is actively in use today and has been for some time.
Show HN: Agents Council – Connect Claude, Codex, and Local Agents via MCP
by mrlesk | 2026-01-06 19:15:05+00:00
Hello HN,

Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's "LLM Council" concept, I built a lightweight MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets different AI agents communicate with each other locally.

Most multi-agent frameworks require complex orchestration or heavy installs. I wanted something simple that feels like it "just works".

The Problem: I often find myself manually copy-pasting context between coding agents (like Claude Code to Codex or vice versa) to get a second opinion.

The Solution: Agents Council is an MCP server that acts as a shared message bus. It runs locally via stdio and allows any MCP-compliant agent to "summon" other agents into a council session to debate solutions or review code.

Key Features:

Zero Install: Runs directly via npx agents-council@latest.

Summon other agents: agents can also summon other agents directly (for the moment only Claude Code is supported)

Privacy First: Works 100% offline if you are using local models; state is stored in a local JSON file.

Protocol Agnostic: Works with any client that supports MCP (Gemini, Cursor, etc.).

It’s open source and I’d love your feedback on the implementation or ideas for new integrations.

Repo: https://github.com/MrLesk/agents-council