MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DrScientist | 2026-01-26 11:53:21+00:00
The problem is you have to fight for these things every generation.

It's a mistake to take things like trial by jury, open justice ( not secret courts ), non-arbitrary detention, even regular elections for granted.

I totally agree with you that the UK is not Iran and there is too my hyperbole - but at the same time the current government is trying to criminalise legitimate protest, cancelling elections and trying to remove trial by jury for a substantial set of things ( the ultimate protection against an authoritarian state ).

As an example, it's very telling that the government ensured that in all the Assange legal proceedings it never went before a jury.

The current government creating all these precedents, in the shadow of the prospect of a potential Reform government is something I think we should all be concerned about.
by bawolff | 2026-01-26 11:54:51+00:00
> Because the essence of a video game, which makes it more than a low-quality animated movie, is that it is interactive and requires the player to enact the plot. It transforms the player’s mind.

But transforming the viewer is how i would define all art.

When we judge a movie, a novel or even a painting, its about what it made us feel. I don't see how a video game is any different.

> To read a review or an attempted critique of a video game is scarcely more satisfying than someone telling you about a dream they had once; presenting a video of cutscene compilations or a few minutes of gameplay doesn’t add much

I don't really play video games, but i've recently been watching some of the videos from GDC on youtube and have found them fascinating nonetheless, so i don't think this holds up for me.
by nunodonato | 2026-01-26 11:55:07+00:00
I have my own telegram bot that helps me and my wife. Reminders, shopping list, calendar. Small and simple, gets the job done :) At the start of the day it greets with a briefing, can also check weather and stuff

Btw, I'm in the process of training my own small model so that I can run it on my cpu-only VPS and stop paying for API costs
by PurpleRamen | 2026-01-26 11:55:26+00:00
What are you even talking about? Reddit, YouTube, even TikTok has more serious tech-content than X these days. X is now hard infested with scammers and bots, who want to sell you their snake oil and other low-quality-trash. High-quality-content is the exception. Sure, there are still high-profile-people, but outside of posting relevant news, usually leading to other platforms, even those are more busy with trash-talking and dreaming around.
by lemoncookiechip | 2026-01-26 11:55:38+00:00
You can block the entire internet and whitelist specific domains. There's multiple ways of doing this, from router parental controls, specific OS tools in iOS/Android, Windows, as well as apps specific to it, and all it takes is for a parent to care enough to make a simple Google or Youtube search and learn if they don't know, and don't even know to know that they should care in the first place.

The failure here is two-sided.

One and the most glaring are the parents who let devices raise their children, this hasn't changed since before home computers were a thing.

Secondly it's a failure of the state for not educating both adults and teenagers on best practices when using online platforms to be safe. If they're interested enough in policing people's web habits, they can spend time and resources on educating the masses. The best time to start doing it was 20 years ago, the second best is now and it could take a decade plus for it to have a meaningful impact.

Also this is important. The UK, like it or not, is a nanny state. They like to use child safety as an excuse to police adult habits, and more important their speech. There's quite a few times they've admitted to this plainly without any ambiguity.

"The Online Safety Act 2023 (the Act) is a new set of laws that protects children and adults online"

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act...

There's also examples of them being asked directly in interviews and they admit to wanting to police adults speech and content they consume online.

Australia is in a similar predicament and honestly most of the world is rolling towards this, just not as fast as the UK.
by ErneX | 2026-01-26 11:55:47+00:00
Tried it for a bit yesterday on a macOS VM.

I told it my local mqtt broker hostname and it figured out I have some relays using tasmota, then told it should remember how to toggle those lights and it did. I used Z.ai GLM 4.7 through OpenRouter as its brain.

It’s definitely worth checking it out, but keeping in mind the amount of things it can run by having a whole computer to itself.
by galkk | 2026-01-26 11:55:56+00:00
Projecting much?

Where did I say that rules do not apply/shouldn’t apply? I specifically stated my opinion about many types of activists. I’ll repeat my other comment - article quotes only activists/enviromentalists/watchdogs, without any mention of their qualifications in the subject matter. Executive director at Bark, conservation director for environmental group (wtf does it even mean?) are not qualifications
by adrian_b | 2026-01-26 11:56:03+00:00
True, but that lowers the energy efficiency.

For LED lamps, the color must be controlled at the emission source, not by filtering, i.e. by using an adequate combination of different conversion phosphors, to ensure a neutral white with a quasi-continuous spectrum, instead of a bluish white with great narrow peaks in its spectrum.

Unfortunately, the phosphors for the latter variant are much cheaper than for the former, so the lamp vendors have the incentive to make the lamps as bad as possible.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-26 11:56:41+00:00
No, the fact that Show HN is spammed with LLM-generated garbage is what drives me bonkers. The Show HNs are in fact living proof of how illusory LLM productivity gains are, because we are overwhelmed with trivial proof-of-concepts that have no merit, not even the merit of a human having put effort into creating something neat, rather than actually interesting software anybody would try or discuss.
by Hikikomori | 2026-01-26 11:56:51+00:00
This is it. Trump doesn't really matter anymore, he will likely be dead by the next election. Why it doesn't matter is because its all project 2025 people now, they're using Trump to further their goals and those hove some overlap with Trumps wants. Their main goal is that there will be no transfer of power away from them again. Like the 2020 election they will try many different things, but will likely succeed as the party now is mostly loyalists, the entire white house cabinet as well, so does most of the government as a goal of project 2025 wasn't just RAGE, it was also to hire replacements. And now they have very well funded goons in training to deploy when needed.

Back in 2024 after reading project 2025 and about its authors and backers (federalist society, Thiel, Vance, other tech CEOs, Curtis Yarvin, etc) it was already clear that this was going to happen. I was already convinced that the only way out of this was a general strike and/or military coup, and it doesn't look any better now. I fear an Iran like crackdown is in the deck now.
by JustinXie | 2026-01-26 11:57:03+00:00
Hi HN,
I built this tool to solve a specific frustration with current motion control models (like Kling): they are extremely picky about input images. If the subject isn't perfectly framed or standing in a standard T/A-pose, the generation usually fails. This makes it particularly hard to create videos for pets or casual selfies.
I built a pipeline combining Kling Motion Control and NanoBanana Pro to bridge this gap.
The core logic acts as a middleware that:
1. Automatically out-paints and expands cropped images (e.g., selfies) to fit the required aspect ratio.
2. "Rigs" difficult subjects (especially cats/dogs) into a structure that the motion model can interpret, effectively mapping human dance logic onto non-human agents.
3. Wraps this in a template system so users don't need complex prompting.
The goal was to make the input robust enough that you can throw almost any "imperfect" photo at it and get a coherent dance video.
It's live at https://aibabydance.com – would love any feedback on how it handles your edge-case photos!
by Koffiepoeder | 2026-01-26 11:57:45+00:00
Had to search a bit, but here's a demo page: https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-js/docs/examples/display-a-...
Can be compared with: https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-js/docs/examples/display-a-...

In that example I saw this in the console:

before - 2.41+26.29+24.87+71.28+59.2+77.57 - 261.62kb
after - 2.45+22.4 +22.66+60.6+51.99+77.57 - 237.67kb

So roughly a ~10% compression improvement, neat!
by flohofwoe | 2026-01-26 11:57:59+00:00
I always point to the Metal-API debugger in Xcode for what I'd want a CPU debugger to look like, visualizing dependencies and dataflows with an actual graphical UI, letting me view data as something else than just hex dumps (e.g. as image or 3D mesh), etc... etc...

Of course the CPU side usually lacks semantics to automatically create data visualizations (while modern 3D APIs have enough context to figure out data dependencies and data formats), and that would be the "interesting" part to solve - e.g. how to tunnel richer debug information from the programming language to the debugger.

Also there's a middle ground of directly adding a realtime runtime debugging UI to applications via something like Dear Imgui (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/) which is at least extremely popular in game development - and in this case it's trivial to provide the additional context since you basically develop the debugging UI alongside the application.
by teekert | 2026-01-26 11:58:20+00:00
This makes the tech companies the decision makers over what is suitable content for children. But this has many problems. A big example is that some people are more open about sex than others. I'm reminded of a scene in an anime of a father in a bath with his daughters, normal in many cultures, deemed perverted by many (particularly christian US residents).

This is a hard problem, from about 0 to 18, kids go from being, well, kids, to being expected to be full adults and are expected to be able to deal with every liberty, every temptation that comes with it. There is no single best path.

I want to educate my kids about sex, I want to teach them that the internet is a source of many good things, and many bad things. I'll make arrangements and will set boundaries for doing this properly together with my partner, thank you.
by tssva | 2026-01-26 11:58:20+00:00
They didn't mess up badly. They choose to take a one time non-cash tax charge of $5.7 billion which will allow them to take advantage of a recent change in tax law to achieve a lower effective tax rate and lower cash tax payments going forward. Meta did something similar taking a $15.9 non-cash tax charge to take advantage of the same changed tax laws. Many other companies have already or are expected to do the same.
by agentai007 | 2026-01-26 11:58:22+00:00
Very nice — congratulations on the project!
I have a few questions

How does Cori handle live updates to authorization policies without risking inconsistent permissions for long-running agents?

What is the recommended strategy for revoking or rotating Biscuit tokens issued to autonomous agents that may run for hours or days?

How extensible is Cori’s tool generation model when you need domain-specific operations or workflows that go beyond simple CRUD actions?
by fmajid | 2026-01-26 11:58:24+00:00
They need to fire Craig Federighi first, but of course that is Tim Cook's job, and he showed poor judgment in firing spiky but effective Scott Forstall to keep that hack Jony Ive. Ive is the one who appointed Alan Dye, an advertising designer with no clue about UX and too arrogant to listen to those who did, leading to iOS 7 and now Liquid Ass.

There is no point in complaining, or worse, enduring Stockholm Syndrome, Apple repeatedly demonstrated its contempt for its customers. I've decided to cut my losses after 25 years of using the modern OSX Mac (and 35 years using the Mac), and iOS since the original iPhone, to go back to Linux, and to GrapheneOS, and the migration is largely complete.
by secure | 2026-01-26 11:58:39+00:00
You might want to add a little note to that effect to your link blog :)

I have added year indicators to my blog (such that old articles have a prominent year name in their title) and a subscribe note (people don’t know you can put URLs into a feed reader and it’ll auto-discover the feed URL). Each time, the number of people who email me identical questions goes down :)

Anyway, thanks for blogging!
by leoedin | 2026-01-26 11:58:58+00:00
> The push toward LED seems to be primarily for emission target related reasons

Is this true? I’ve got LEDs in my house because they cost vastly less to run, and because I rarely have to replace the bulbs.

Some cheap LEDs do flicker (at 50 or 60 Hz). But that’s fairly easily solved. I don’t think I’ve noticed the flicker since some cheap bulbs I bought in 2014 or so.
by sdoering | 2026-01-26 11:58:58+00:00
I could just as easily turn this argument around:

If my younger self, went into a store to buy a bottle of Vodka, before I came of age at 18 here in Germany, it wasn't my parents fault. It was the shop that did not check my license that was liable.

If they sold me beer before I was 16, same situation. Analogous for cigarettes. Or me trying to enter an amusement arcade (with monetary gains possible, not just pinball like things.

So why should "online stores" / "arcades" / "non kid friendly/appropriate venues" be treated differently than brick and mortar ones?

Wouldn't that be the same argument?
by sunshine-o | 2026-01-26 11:59:13+00:00
I really do not think European countries had "free speech" like it is understood in the US.

After WWII you mostly had state run and controlled TV and radio. And some more freedom in the written press but still most countries mandate Legal deposit [0] sometimes since the Middle Ages. Legal deposit is just the granddaddy of what we understand the Internet is in China.
You could really get in trouble easily.

Then mass media were liberalized and put under the control of big corporations in the 1970-80s what gave the illusion of more freedom.

But the WWW really brought the US free speech standards to the entire developed world in the 90-2000s. This is why people under 50 understand "free speech" according to this standard.

The "you get put in jail because of a meme on Facebook" is really a return to normal after a 20 year pause on the Internet.

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit
Tell HN: Thoughtfully https://claude.md redirects to Claude Code docs
by alentred | 2026-01-26 11:59:19+00:00
I accidentally clicked on a accidentally created link in Notion (typed in "CLAUDE.md", Notion converted it to a link) and noticed this.

I am just very fond of and sympathetic to this level of care and the attention in software, and wanted to say: hats off to Anthropic Team.
Show HN: Vayu – A local-first API client with a C++ load-testing engine
by athrvk | 2026-01-26 11:59:55+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Vayu because I was frustrated with the current state of API tools. Postman has become bloated and forces cloud sync, while high-performance tools like JMeter or k6 often lack a decent GUI for quick debugging.

Vayu attempts to bridge that gap. It is an open-source, local-first API client (like Postman, Insomnia) that includes a high-performance load-testing engine (written in C++20) under the hood.

Key technical decisions:
- Sidecar Architecture: The UI is Electron/React (for usability), but it spawns a separate C++ daemon ("The Engine") to handle actual networking.
- This allows the UI to remain responsive even while the engine is pumping thousands of requests per second during a load test.
- Privacy: It is 100% local. No cloud sync, no accounts required.
- Scripting: Uses QuickJS for test scripts (compatible with the `pm.test` syntax you already know).

I have tested upto 60k rps locally on Macbook Pro M3

It is currently v0.1.1. I have builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS. (PS: macOS requires some extra steps to run via the dmg file, will have to find a workaround)

I am looking for feedback specifically on the "Engine" performance and the developer experience of the load-testing flow, and developers to help me improve the UI.

Repo: https://github.com/athrvk/vayu
by port11 | 2026-01-26 12:00:05+00:00
Search inside settings is a baffling one because search seems like it’d be a relatively easy thing to tackle. On iOS 18 I can’t really find anything in the settings.

If I go to the applications sub-sunscreen and search for an app, it’s a “no results found” for 5–10 seconds. Sometimes it does find an app, but that unreliability means there’s no point using the search bar.
by DrScientist | 2026-01-26 12:00:47+00:00
You talk about distraction - and I would argue that the article you are linking to is a distraction.

If you don't believe Iranian tweets are a major factor in Scottish independence - then why mention it?

And while I agree there is a lot of media manipulation attempts out there - I'd argue, if you take your Iran/Israel issue as an example - do you truely believe that Iran is outgunning Israel in this regard??

I'm sorry - that's just not credible.
by asliper | 2026-01-26 12:01:48+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm an indie developer trying to break free from the 9-5. Last week, I launched a "Bento Grid" portfolio template built with Next.js 14 and Tailwind.

I launched on Product Hunt and got decent traffic to my Gumroad page, but my conversion rate is flat 0%.

I suspect I might be failing at:

Pricing (too high for a template?)

The copy (not convincing enough?)

Or maybe developers just prefer to build this from scratch (NIH syndrome).

The Project:https://veloxweb.gumroad.com/l/launch-ui

I have thick skin. Please roast my landing page and tell me why you wouldn't buy it.

Thanks.
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-26 12:02:03+00:00
This is not even close to true. The Spanish state is mandating that ISPs implement these blocks or face significant penalties, up to and including imprisonment of responsible individuals.

Yes, technically "Spain" is not blocking. ISPs are. It is however the armed agents of "Spain", who will come and violently lock you in a tiny room if you refuse to do as you're told. If you try to resist hard enough, they will simply execute you on the spot.
by goku12 | 2026-01-26 12:02:07+00:00
You're correct. I'm just going to add a bit more technical context here. The process of keeping a steady orbit is called 'station keeping'. Similarly, the process of maintaining the correct orientation/alignment is called 'attitude control' (attitude is the technical term for orientation).

Attitude control can be achieved to a finite limit using momentum wheels or reaction wheels. But at some point, it will reach its maximum speed and its control capability saturates. You will need to 'desaturate' the wheels and restore its control capability. One method is to produce a counter torque using special reaction control thrusters (RCT) called 'attitude control thrusters'. That needs propellants. Smaller satellites don't have that luxury. So they exploit Earth's magnetic field by using a 'magnetic torquer' to produce the counter torque against it. That needs only power, not propellants.
by jamessb | 2026-01-26 12:02:45+00:00
PMtiles is often used with MVT tiles, but it can encapsulate a variety of tile types: the current spec [1] has defined tile types for MVT, PNG, JPEG, WebP and AVIF (plus "Unknown/Other").

[1]: https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles/blob/main/spec/v3/spec....
by bawolff | 2026-01-26 12:02:46+00:00
Wikipedia defines it as: Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around works utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience,[1] generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, technical proficiency, or beauty.[2][3][4]

I like the "evoke a worthwhile experience" idea.

Transformation is a bit ambigious imo. In a certain sense, every experience is at least a little transformative.
by suprfnk | 2026-01-26 12:03:22+00:00
No I can confirm this. I am at least an average C# dev, with 16 years of experience.

I have built a very nicely responsive real-time syncing iOS app in what amounts to a weekend of time. (I only have an hour here and there, young kids) I had zero iOS/Swift development experience prior to it.

I can also confirm that this wouldn't have been built if it weren't for Claude Code. It's "just" an improved groceries app, that works especially well for my wife and me.

Without LLM's, and with just an hour here and there, I wouldn't have done the work to learn the intricacies of iOS and Swift dev, set up the app, and actually tweak and polish it so it works well -- just to scratch the itch of a bit better groceries handling.
by JustinXie | 2026-01-26 12:03:28+00:00
The R1C1 normalization is smart. Treating 5k copied formulas as one "finding" is the only way to avoid alert fatigue.

Re: magic numbers, have you considered checking column headers as a signal? E.g., if a header contains "Rate" or "Months", a hardcoded number is likely a valid constant. If it's just "Total", * 1.2 is probably a hidden risk. How do you handle cases where the context is ambiguous?
by kotaKat | 2026-01-26 12:03:56+00:00
Stick with Silhouette. They're at least owned by a bigger proper conglomerate (Graphtec) that doesn't fuck around with stupid bullshit like Cricut is.

As a plus, small Silhouettes provide a hardware and software upgrade path off of the Silhouette Studio to Graphtec's own design package, and then up to Graphtec's own full-size vinyl cutters.
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-26 12:04:10+00:00
I feel like HN is quite divided about that actually, A couple of days I started a survey which I plan to run monthly to see how the community feels about "LLM productivity etc". Now I have ~250 answers, need a couple more to make it significant but as of now it looks like >90% report productivity gains from AI tools - happy if you participate, only takes a minute: https://agentic-coding-survey.pages.dev/
by kqr | 2026-01-26 12:05:04+00:00
This mirrors reflections I've had recently as well. I have been, for the most part, focusing on what you would call "content for acquisition", i.e. easily relatable, somewhat shallow, extensively researched articles that show off what I can write at my best.

But in trying to aim for a regular cadence in the past year, I've realised I cannot maintain that level across the board. So I've started to write things that aren't as "good", in my flawed subjective judgment. Yet surprisingly often those are the things I get positive emails about, from readers who are glad I took the time to put things into words.

I am trying to come to terms with the idea that some of my more enthusiastic readers might really be happy to read even things that aren't up to what I consider to be my standards. But it's deeply uncomfortable. Triggers my impostor syndrome like little else.
by pieshop | 2026-01-26 12:05:20+00:00
Amendment 92 of the bill, added by Lord Nash during it's passage through the Lords says:
> “consumer” means a person acting otherwise than in the course of a business;
> “relevant VPN service” means a service of providing, in the course of a business, to a consumer, a virtual private network for accessing the internet;

It's quite specific wording for a piece of legislation, just VPNs. It excludes businesses but, as written, it wouldn't include network proxies, or remote desktop protocols, or TOR, or web/mobile applications that fetch pages for you, any of which could be used to circumvent the bill. The slippery slope argument could be made that those things would have to be added for this bill to have any meaningful impact, and that would require the amendment to be written in a very non-specific way. I'm not hopeful that the Government would recognise that as overreach (ignoring that the amendment already is).