MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arkensaw | 2026-01-15 16:03:24+00:00
I don't know about Japan - I vaguely recall reading that most buildings over there are built with wood (even the big ones) and that this is historically something to do with rebuilding after Tsunamis and earthquakes.

Buildings in most other countries in the world ARE built to last forever, and often renovated, changed, extended and modified long after the incept date until, because needs change, and destroying them to start over is complete overkill (Although some people do these "large scale refactors" - they're usually rich).

> It's just a metter of time someone rewrites a small to medium size application from one language to another using the previous app as the "spec".

I have no doubt of this. I'm sure it's happening already. But the whole point of long term stable applications is that they are tried and tested. A port done in an afternoon by an LLM might be great, but you can't know if it has problems until it has withstood the test of time.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-15 16:03:41+00:00
That is a nice start, a rendering of GIS wikidata. Perhaps ask Wikimedia Foundation for funding :)

What I'd like to see is a more intimate marrying of OSM data and Wikipedia data. For example, if I go to zoom level 12 centred on London, UK on your page, there are about 80 text labels on the OSM layer itself. At minimum this is going to need OSM vector tiles. I'd expect to be able to click any of the OSM labels for the corresponding Wikipedia article, as well as adding in POIs for articles that don't have corresponding OSM links. And then you need OSM rendering style rules about which POIs you show at each zoom level, based on whether labels will run into each other or not.

The problem right now is that the WikiMiniAtlas treats all things, whether large areas or individual POIs, as POIs.
by actionfromafar | 2026-01-15 16:03:45+00:00
Right. A phone call to Denmark => big Naval presence.

What's the problem? Denmark would have welcomed a big Naval presence in Greenland. It benefits them too.

It should have been:

America: can we have a big Naval base in Greenland?

Denmark: sure. 100 year agreement?

It could have been:

America: give us big Naval base in Greenland or we will annex you!

Denmark: Eh... sure, are you alright?

We got:

America: we will annex you.
by toss1 | 2026-01-15 16:04:09+00:00
Outstanding design and implementation! Really great for visualizing the sun, earth, and seasonal relationships!

One minor nit I notice is the Latitude slider on the right seems reversed from what I'd expect. I would expect Slide UP to move North and increasing positive latitude numbers, and DOWN for South/negative, but this implements the opposite. It seems this may be to match the Longitude negative numbers at the top, but that convention seems a lot less necessary, i.e., either would work for longitude and +=UP/-=DOWN for latitude seems like it is more important to match with the physical and mental models?

Thanks for the cool tool, I'll be using it a lot for garden planning and solar panel install (and just cool to look at)!
by fnimick | 2026-01-15 16:04:20+00:00
> Silicon Valley was full of founders who genuinely wanted to use technology to make the world a better place

No, it wasn't, it was full of people who said they wanted to use technology to make the world a better place because saying you would use technology to make the world a better place was viewed as the path to investment and success.

Now, as soon as feigned empathy is no longer required for $$$, the mask comes off. It was never about anything other than profit.
by tim-tday | 2026-01-15 16:04:56+00:00
How do you figure? Demand for electronics skyrocketed when everyone working from home bought new laptops webcams, tablets.
There was a fire on a TSMC manufacturing line that caused a shortage early on but capacity recovered, demand stayed strong throughout and there was a massive spike at the end when car manufacturers needed to ramp back up to handle all the paused orders.

As far as I know there was never a demand dip at any point in there.
by jairtrejo | 2026-01-15 16:05:32+00:00
OP here. I wrote this because I feel the term "Agent Skills" is getting a bit mystical, when in reality it's just a nice pattern for progressive disclosure.

I implemented the Anthropic skill standard using claudette (thanks @jeremyphoward) to see how minimal I could make it. Turns out you only need about 100 lines of Python to support the full spec.

The code implements the three basic tools (skill, read, run) without any complex orchestration framework. Let me know what you think!
by bigpeopleareold | 2026-01-15 16:05:42+00:00
Everything I see on this topic involves gaming. The last game I played in a long while was Cities Skylines on my laptop (which was taxing, but ran it fine). I used to use Macs, but for a long time, until up to 2013, I decided that since I look at mostly text editors, terminals and a web browser and some other common things, I'd rather spend less for equipment and get used to some desktop UI on a Linux. I have had reliable ThinkPads (procured used) for years as a result. While there were bumps, it's been fine. Since I am in the vicinity of financial applications, I have to use Windows about 30% of the time, and I hate it every time. Can someone be the Steam for Excel, please? :)
Show HN: My attempt to formalize "Buddhist" reality
by arthurnogman | 2026-01-15 16:05:44+00:00
I'm interested in Buddhist philosophy, and specifically studying Nāgārjuna's Middle Way gave me inspiration to formalize it mathematically and see what would emerge as a result.

(My background: engineer/co-founder (Qualcomm/Adreno GPU, Bumble, Stereo), 16 years of meditation practice, 2+ years in Southeast Asian monasteries and silent retreats)

Starting from one Buddhist-inspired axiom—recursive duality E={E⁻,E⁺} - I derived:

1) Boolean logic (from period structure of minimal couplings)
2) Universal computation (closure enables Turing-completeness)
3) Memory (pattern persistence across computational steps)
4) Three-dimensional space (stabilized projection of structure)
5) Quantum-like behavior (pre-spatial compatibility constraints)
6) Gravity-like effects (stability gradients in hierarchical structure)

The logic/computation part is rigorous. I've worked out a formal derivation with proofs. The quantum/gravity parts are more exploratory.
I discovered Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form late in this process. His approach encodes Boolean structure through chosen rewrite laws. My derivation differs: no free parameters, canonical constructions only, truth tables computed rather than designed.

I'm seeking:

- arXiv endorsement (first-time submitter, need referral for cs.LO or math.LO)
- your feedback of my book (it's free on Kindle: https://theplusminus.xyz if for some reason doesn't work can send a PDF)

The book is illustrative/accessible. The technical paper with rigorous proofs needs 1-2 more days of polishing before I'm ready to share. If you're interested in endorsing, I can prioritize sending you an early draft.
by mixedCase | 2026-01-15 16:05:48+00:00
Look up protondb for game compatibility. Arc raiders is marked as running perfectly fine, but plenty of multiplayer games with invasive client side anti cheats such as Fortnite or Genjin Impact do not run. If you depend on such games it's best not to switch, any privacy concern you may have with Windows is gone with those games running literal rootkits on your PC anyway.

I've been running Linux for gaming for well over 15 years and have not missed much in the last 5 or so. There's way too many games out there to play that do run on Linux even if unemployed and have the time to dedicate it as your sole hobby.
by elcritch | 2026-01-15 16:06:26+00:00
It seems that their leaders are and have been planning to take over Taiwan for decades. At least according to most of what I’ve read on the topic from all the various sources.

If or when China’s economic and/or demographics issues become problematic is exactly when the CCP likely would want to strike. At least seems to me like it’d be a good time to foment national pride.

Of course hopefully I’m wrong and you’re right.

Many of these larger geopolitical things are decades in the making. Even Trump’s Venezuela action has been a long time brewing. So much so that “US troops in Venezuela” has become a trope in military sci-fi. The primary change with Trump is how he presents and/or justifies it, or rather doesn’t.
by benrutter | 2026-01-15 16:06:35+00:00
From the article for context:

> Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address

So essentially, the relevant app here is custom built in order to help ICE raids.

That's substantially different from generic office tech where ICE happen to be one of millions of users.
by technova0410 | 2026-01-15 16:06:38+00:00
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by Qem | 2026-01-15 16:06:40+00:00
I recently installed and spent some weeks testing the past release, Mageia 9. Nice system. I'm currently learning R, one thing I noticed is that mandriva-derived distributions are some of the few that have RStudio packaged in the repositories. When LMDE 7 was released I installed it instead, as the package versions in Mageia 9 were quite old, but once Mageia 10 is released I intend to go back.
by nubg | 2026-01-15 16:06:51+00:00
Btw while I think this is cool and useful for real time voice interfaces for the general populace, I wonder if for professional users (eg a dev coding by dictating all day), a simple push to talk is not always going to be superior, because you can make long pauses while you think about something, this would creep out a human, but the AI would wait patiently for your push to talk.
by vukadinovic | 2026-01-15 16:07:06+00:00
This repo is a full-stack implementation of a VLM for medical report generation from imaging scans. It is designed to serve as a practical example for researchers, demonstrating end-to-end training of VLMs on medical imaging data, and can be adapted to various imaging modalities. echovlm is inspired by Karpathy's nanochat, and is also a fully open source, reproducible codebase which makes it one of the few public codebases for medical machine learning. As a running example, we use an echocardiography dataset with synthethic reports and study embeddings, which allows us to simulate VLM training data despite not having access to raw medical imaging scans. echovlm is very light and it can run on a single gpu via speedrun.sh script, that runs the entire pipeline start to end. This includes dataset preparation, tokenization, training, evaluation, inference and real example on the scan of my heart.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-15 16:07:23+00:00
Wikimedia, maybe, but Wikipedia itself acknowledges it in the lead paragraph:

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

> Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001

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

> Most notably, he co-founded Wikipedia

Wikipedia shows integrity even when its co-founder does not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#Co-founder_status_...

> In late 2005, Wales edited his biographical entry on the English Wikipedia. Writer Rogers Cadenhead drew attention to logs showing that in his edits to the page, Wales had removed references to Sanger as the co-founder of Wikipedia.[53][54] Sanger commented that "having seen edits like this, it does seem that Jimmy is attempting to rewrite history. But this is a futile process because, in our brave new world of transparent activity and maximum communication, the truth will out."[20][55] Wales was also observed to have modified references to Bomis in a way that was characterized as downplaying the sexual nature of some of his former company's products.[16][20] Though Wales argued that his modifications were solely intended to improve the accuracy of the content,[20] he apologized for editing his biography, a practice generally discouraged on Wikipedia.[20][55]
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-15 16:07:32+00:00
Yes I agree, I mean in the sense to stop investing in S&P 500 entirely and much rather focus on international market index funds

There is no free lunch, people who argue that S&P 500 historical returns and the over concentration into tech stocks has more risk than people believe leading to thinking of free profit

I would still call it a foolish errands if you are unable to keep your calm and composure if american stocks can fall 50% - 75%

If you are okay with that and then sticking your profits for 10 years or so afterwards to then get your money equal then sure

People forget that japan's markets got into a stand still for 30 years to make net profit. Researching about japanese documentaries pre and after that time can just show you the devastation

I personally recommend investing into world index funds if possible. Its your savings not your gambling money. Even 25% is devastating.

Even John bogle says that the difference between S&P (US) and international is minimal giving fairly similar but he was more nationalistic but seeing the current geopolitical and economical blunders by america, I wouldn't be surprised if he might change his stance

Rest in peace John Bogle, you will be missed.
by observationist | 2026-01-15 16:07:43+00:00
It's remarkable that Grokipedia has challenged Wikipedia so thoroughly, at only 80 days old with 25 years of Wikipedia.

You'd think a Wikipedia style encyclopedia, with high quality AI, allowing for transparent and responsive editing, versioning, verification, and validation of the entries would be cheered on by the HN crowd.

If Anthropic had released a Claudipedia, 99% of the people booing Grok would be swooning over it.

Wikipedia's failure modes, the persistent editorial and corporate bias and intellectual dishonesty, and the presence of demonstrably better tools will mean Wikipedia goes extinct, eventually. I don't think it makes it to 50 years as a meaningful participant in the world.
by usrbinbash | 2026-01-15 16:07:44+00:00
Scenario 1: US troops land and just stay there

Scenario 2: US troops land and would now have to deal with some NATO soldiers.

Regardless of how many NATO soldiers we're talking about, the geopolitical stakes in S2 are orders of magnitude higher than in S1. And so is the political backlash, problems at home, reasons for other nations to respond, etc.

So yes, these few troops, being there, in an official capacity as a NATO deployment no less, matters. Alot.
by staplers | 2026-01-15 16:07:56+00:00
You already lost your own bet.

"A pair of armed and masked men in tactical gear stood guard at ballot drop boxes in Mesa, Ariz., on Oct. 21 as people began early voting for the 2022 midterm elections."

They might be "off-duty" but this is during Biden's admin. They're immensely more emboldened now and local LE will absolutely not enforce any laws restricting this.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/06/election-officials-facing-ar...
by ferguess_k | 2026-01-15 16:08:00+00:00
I don't think there is an alternate. Math and logics are mandatory for everything, not just CS. I'd teach Math, Science (Phys and Chem, biased towards history and experiments), Native Language (reading/writing/making speeches), History, one foreign language (mostly speaking but also some reading), Survival skills. Then I'll follow his interests to teach him something else.

I think the ^ are the minimum a good citizen needs. If you can't teach all of them maybe let him go to school as well, or hire someone to do the part you can't.

Regarding the future, yeah I share the some worry, but I guess we all have to go through it.
by lambdaone | 2026-01-15 16:08:17+00:00
For all of its ubiquity, Wikipedia is a single fragile organization in an increasingly unstable political landscape.

I hope that efforts are being made to make sure that its content is not only being archived in many places, but also that the know-how to reboot Wikipedia's hosting from its dumps (software, infrastructure deployment and all) is being actively preserved by people independent of the organization.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-01-15 16:08:17+00:00
> WinRT writing Bluetooth drivers

This is a bit suspect. WinRT is an entirely user-mode library meant for writing user-mode applications; why would you be writing Bluetooth drivers in that? It's like writing Linux drivers with GTK. Why aren't you writing the driver with UMDF2[1]? I have so many questions.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-hardware/drivers/w...
by vukadinovic | 2026-01-15 16:08:34+00:00
Inspired by Karpathy's nanochat, I developed a minimal, from scratch implementation of a visual language model for report generation from medical images. AI in healthcare models are rarely fully open-source, causing researchers to struggle adapting these models on their own data, and barriers to entry for newcomers in the field. I've made echovlm fully open-source. I provide a complete pipeline to train the model end-to-end using 120k publicly available imaging reports and matched synthetic videos for just $5 in 2 hours. To demonstrate echovlm in practice, I've included an inference example using a real video of my own heart. I'm looking forward to researchers using this for their experiments, students to learn about vlms for medicine and welcome new pull requests from contributors.
by tanelpoder | 2026-01-15 16:08:39+00:00
I never got to comparing the exec plans between PostgreSQL 16 and 17. The latter ran much faster, if you (or anyone) have time, please test on 16 and 17 (and 18) with explain (timing=on) and put it through some online plan explainer (and write a post about it).

Happy to link to it in my blog.
by rpigab | 2026-01-15 16:08:42+00:00
I would recommend it yes, the biggest pain point of switching OSes for me is getting your data out on an external drive, I'm not good with backups so it always takes a while for me to find my files and make sure I'm not erasing valuable documents or non cloud savefiles. If you have a new SSD you can keep the old one as a backup.

To check for game compatibility, you should check :

- Steam store page for Steam Deck compatibility, be aware that sometimes a bad rating only means the in-game text is too small to read on small screens or that gamepad support is poor, also I've played multiple "not supported" games that ran just fine.

- ProtonDB, community rating, separate comments for Steam Deck and PC, troubleshooting for Nvidia/AMD specific issues, etc. -> This includes Valve's Steam Deck compatibility score
https://www.protondb.com/app/1808500?device=pc

- https://areweanticheatyet.com/game/arc-raiders AWACY says ARC Raiders is not officially supported, but runs. You never know, it might break in the future or not.

- Be aware that the Steam Client is only officially supported on Ubuntu, though you might be fine with other distros as well. Don't use the open source "nouveau" GPU driver, use the proprietary Nvidia drivers, also I've had GPU hiccups during the transition from X.org to Wayland that might be related to NVIDIA, but now it's fine.
by kebabfrites | 2026-01-15 16:08:42+00:00
Found out that our (small company's) VPS was compromised by a mining script, attacker probably exploited NextJS' RCE that I forgot to patch.
The scripts were using half of the threads at 100%, i deleted all of them, found the watchdogs that kept recreating them and updated NextJS, luckily there was nothing to steal, now everything seems alright, but I'm thinking that I should format/rebuild everything just in case that I missed something.

I'm a junior dev with very little experience, I would appreciate any suggestion/advice
by evan_ | 2026-01-15 16:08:45+00:00
> Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

> That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
by lsiq | 2026-01-15 16:08:45+00:00
I would love to use Adafruit boards in my production, but I have to resort to custom Chinese PCB stuff to be competitive. I don't want anything, but taxes and CoL is basic business logic.

SparkFun is in Colorado, which isn't a low tax state but their cost of living is still lower. So all else equals, they are going to earn maybe 5-10% more profit on the sale of a commodity item like a Teensy. You have better products than they do, all else equals you could earn 25%+ more than them, by simply moving to greener pastures, whether that be NC, TN, NV, or FL.
by jfengel | 2026-01-15 16:08:48+00:00
Latinos and blacks, plus (as with the Nazis) homosexuals and anybody they can call a "communist".

Jews are safe for the moment, but I wouldn't count on it forever. Netanyahu will not be in charge of Israel much longer. The new government will still want to be a US ally but is nowhere near as close to Trump and opposes a lot of the policies Netanyahu endorses.
by hulitu | 2026-01-15 16:08:55+00:00
> That's probably linked to the increasing polarisation in the US,

Not really. The phenomenon exists in other languages Wikipedias. I think it is related to the fact that NGOs that "shape" political discourse and politicians have become "sensible" to the text in Wikipedia pages.

It is always good, when you read Wikipedia, to "follow the money", i.e. look at the sources, see if they make sense.

In the last 5 years, a lot of online platforms, HN also, are used by state actors to spread propaganda and Wikipedia is perfect for that because it presents itself as a "neutral" source.
by saalweachter | 2026-01-15 16:08:58+00:00
I bought a used "regular" F-150 with an 8-foot bed about the last year that made sense, and when the frame finally rusted out and it could no longer pass inspection, the prices of used trucks was insane, and most of what was available was a lot of luxuries I didn't want to pay for.[0]

So I replaced it with a 5x8 trailer, which anymore gets pulled behind a Chevy Volt. I'd hesitate to load it to the max and take it on the thruway, but for most of my tasks it's actually more convenient than the truck. Loading up a riding lawn mower or a few hundred pounds of scrap metal is way easier with it being closer to the ground, and I'm mostly driving 10-15 miles over back roads so if I'm worried the load is too heavy for the compact car I don't mind taking it a little slow.

Also, it's convenient to load it while it's unhooked, piling in garbage and debris over a week or a weekend and then hooking it up to run to the dump; likewise, just unhooking the trailer full of construction materials and (weather permitting) just unloading it as you build.

I occasionally miss being able to drive it into the woods, but to be honest not being able to parallel park the trailer is a bigger inconvenience than not being able to off-road it.

[0] Since having kids I've come around on the second-row-of-seats/short bed trade-off; not being able to pick up dimensional lumber with kids in tow is way more limiting in my current phase of life than not being able to fit it in the bed with the tailgate up.