MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dns_snek | 2026-01-28 09:18:04+00:00
It's so lazy to resort to the false dichotomy of US vs USSR, it doesn't say anything except "It's not as bad as it could've been". Every country in the world can point a finger at someone who had it worse.

And besides, "One may genuinly debate the genocide, racism, imperialism etc" is an essential part of why the working class had a good quality of life in the decades following WW2, particularly white people.

It's easy to build up a good lifestyle when you exploit foreign countries for resources and outsource your labor to poor people across the world because you're not the one paying the bill. But how do you sustain that when those people start demanding the same quality of life that you have? You don't, as we're seeing now.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-28 09:18:54+00:00
> It's absurd that people cry foul when the government goes after people actively opposing the rule of law.

I expect the vast majority of government abuses in recent history the world over have to at least some degree followed the law according to those carrying out the acts. Thus it is almost to be expected that as a situation escalates those crying foul might to some degree find themselves opposing the rule of law as described by those in power.

To state it plainly, not all "rule of law" is subjectively equal.
by retired | 2026-01-28 09:19:04+00:00
> any forced firings they will be well taken care of under Dutch labour laws

Yes. Notice period stays in tact. Transition payment is 1/3rd of a monthly wage per year worked. And then your unemployment runs for up to 24 months at 70% of your income capped at €4500. Unemployment benefits are unconditional until you find a new job.
by VBprogrammer | 2026-01-28 09:19:19+00:00
I've recently been trying to avoid news. Particularly US political news. Sadly for some reason blocking sites on my Eero router doesn't seem to work. Thankfully Facebook recently put up a modal dialog asking me to subscribe or accept personalised ads (pretty sure the GDPR explicitly forbids that but whatever, everyone is doing it), it's doing a good job of preventing me seeing the usual feed of news there. At some point I'll put PiHole on my NAS and take care of Reddit etc.
by aa-jv | 2026-01-28 09:19:27+00:00
>Has the technical and scientific community in the US already forgotten this huge breach of trust?

Yes, imho, there is a great deal of ignorance of the actual contents of the NSA leaks.

The agitprop against Snowden as a "Russian agent" has successfully occluded the actual scandal, which is that the NSA has built a totalitarian-authoritarian apparatus that is still in wide use.

Autocrats' general hubris about their own superiority has been weaponized against them. Instead of actually addressing the issue with America's repressive military industrial complex, they kill the messenger.
by franga2000 | 2026-01-28 09:19:31+00:00
How is it not? For all but some old and insecure or fairly exotic setups, DKIM/DMARC validates the sender server is authorised for that domain and the server's account-based outbound filtering validates it was sent by the owner of that mailbox.

If the sending server doesn't do DKIM, it's fundamentally broken, move your email somewhere else. If the sending server lets any user send with an arbitrary local part, that's either intended and desired, or also fundamentally broken. If there are other senders registered on the domain with valid DKIM and you can't trust them, you have bigger problems.
by imtringued | 2026-01-28 09:19:36+00:00
Look, I'm not trying to decimate you here but your list of keywords is wrong and I know it because I explored that list last month for a completely different application.

The Jacobian is the first order derivative for a function that accepts a vector as an input and produces a vector as an output, hence it must be a matrix.

Newton-Raphson is an algorithm for finding the roots(=zeroes) of a function. Since the derivative of the minimum of a function is zero, it can be used for solving convex optimization problems.

Levenberg-Marquardt is another way to solve optimization problems.

The Powell dog leg method is new to me, but it is just an extension of Gauss-Newton which you could think of a special casing of Newton-Raphson where the objective function is quadratic (useful for objectives with vector norms aka distances between positions).

Most of the algorithms require solving a linear system for finding the zero of the derivative. The Schur complement is a way to factor the linear system into a bunch of smaller linear systems and sparse QR/Cholesky are an implementation detail of solving linear systems.

Now that we got the buzzwords out of the way I will tell you the problem with your buzzwords. Constraint solving algorithms are SAT or SMT based and generally not optimization based.

Consider the humble circle constraint: a^2 + b^2 = c^2. If you have two circles with differing centers and radii, they may intersect and if they do, they will intersect at two points and this is readily apparent in the equations since c = sqrt(a^2 + b^2) has two solutions. This means you will need some sort of branching inside your algorithm and the optimization algorithms you listed are terrible at this.
by modo_mario | 2026-01-28 09:19:55+00:00
Does it say that about short term business travel only?

"offers an excellent opportunity for us to cooperate on facilitating labour mobility"
"This cooperation framework will facilitate the mobility of skilled workers, young professionals and seasonal works in shortage sectors"
"The Office will help Indian workers, students, and researchers find out about opportunities in Europe, starting with the ICT sector with the aim of expanding it further in the future."

Beyond that press release apparently it commits member states to EU commits to uncapping student visas for Indian students
by koyote | 2026-01-28 09:19:56+00:00
I am not assuming it to be performant, but if you use this in earnest and the implementation is naive, you'll quickly have a bad time from all the data being copied back and forth.

In the end, people program for GPUs not because it's more fun (it's not!), but because they can get more performance out of it for their specific task.
by any1 | 2026-01-28 09:20:00+00:00
I worked for a company that went through 2 cycles like this and I can report that it had zero effect on us engineers.

My impression was that people were constantly being promoted into management and at some point we just had too many managers and that's why it was done. Of course, when you know this, the question becomes: why allow things to get to this point in the first place?
by nhatcher | 2026-01-28 09:20:07+00:00
Aaron Swartz has a nice blog post about it[1].

It's been discussed several times on HN[2]. I had periods I go through without news. It's been harder to do that lately.

[1]: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

[2]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=i+hate+the+news
by kabes | 2026-01-28 09:20:41+00:00
I worked for a big Belgian technology company in the past. It was surprisingly lean in terms of management structure. Then Philips television, which had a big division not too far away, went bankrupt and a lot of those people got absorbed into our company. Within a couple of years the Philips people were able to transform the company to be very management/top heavy until nothing worked anymore.
by 4ggr0 | 2026-01-28 09:21:40+00:00
unrelated tangent, sorry. i agree with your comment, just ranting/venting about a detail.

> a very left-wing state such as California.

seeing any US state being described as "very left-wing" is interesting to me, think it just shows how different these views are depending on who you ask. i'd describe California as Centrist. sure, socially open, no issue with sexuality or heritage. but also, free markets, corpo power, $$$, generally pro-system. the Orange is disliked heavily, but after all it's not the system which is the problem, it's the Orange!

> The userbase here is considerably further left

can't agree, from my own experiences of discussing political topics on here. again, socially open, free minds, sure. but positive towards Silicon Valley, VC-funding, investments and a general lean towards Imperialism(for freedom, of course, not the bad kind). yes, overtly racist comments get downvoted until they're dead.

"further left than very left-wing" could be the description of an anarcho-communist, self-hosted mastodon instance, not a US state.

to end on a funny note, https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQAfP-2...

sorry for being pedantic, and maybe wrong. please show me y'alls POV, i'm not saying that i'm right, it's just kind of my opinion, man.
by DominikPeters | 2026-01-28 09:22:19+00:00
Yeah I realized the parallel while I was writing my comment! I guess what I'm thinking is that a much better experience is available and there is no in-principle reason why overleaf and prism have to be so much worse, especially in the age of vibe-coding. Prism feels like the result of two days of Claude Code, when they should have invested at least five days.
by fulafel | 2026-01-28 09:22:27+00:00
GPUs having have thousands of cores is just a silly marketing newspeak.

They rebranded SIMD lanes "cores". For eaxmple Nvidia 5000 series GPUs have 50-170 SMs which are the equivalent of cpu cores there. So a more than desktops, less than bigger server CPUs. By this math each avx-512 cpu core has 16-64 "gpu cores".
by zahlman | 2026-01-28 09:22:34+00:00
The fact that one speaks while committing a crime does not entitle one to a 1A defense against prosecution for that crime, even if committing the crime requires that speech. The prosecution is not about the content of the speech, but about the criminal activity it enables. A bank robber cannot claim "Your Honour, I was simply expressing my view that I am entitled to the bank's money". Similarly for conspiracy.
Show HN: Bodhi App – Bring your own AI model to any web app
by anagri | 2026-01-28 09:22:57+00:00
Bodhi Chat is a demo chat app that connects to Bodhi App running locally on your machine. The connection to Bodhi App is completely secure and backed by OAuth 2.1 PKCE standards. We also have a built-in Exa web — so the LLM can search the web during conversations if required. The complete setup is completely secured by OAuth authentication/authorization, and no access is allowed unless user consents to it.

Links:

- Demo: https://bodhiapps.github.io/chat/

- Bodhi App repo: https://github.com/BodhiSearch/BodhiApp

- Developer waitlist: https://developer.getbodhi.app

If you want to build your own Bodhi-powered app, join the developer waitlist. We're working with early developers to refine the SDK.
by c16 | 2026-01-28 09:22:57+00:00
I've done somewhat similar for the same reasons.

I realised that if I exclusively read business news I can avoid a good amount of the fluff and sensationalism. I made a browser extension which pushes the headlines from Bloomberg, Financial times Euronews Business and a few others on to my new tab from their RSS, and it's more than enough to give me a nugget of what's going on in the world without being overloaded. 1 item per new tab.

End result is: I don't read the news, but I still know what's going on without the need for Social Media's hot take.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-28 09:23:42+00:00
> Within a couple of years the Philips people were able to transform the company to be very management/top heavy until nothing worked anymore

You see the same pattern with Siemens and a lot of their spinoffs: Continental(VDO), Infineon, Qimonda, Gigaset, Healthineers (yes, that's a real name that somebody got paid to come up with), etc

THe ones without some major moat like trains or energy, got slowly run into the ground becoming irrelevant or stagnant, or ended up being shuffled between various foreign PE groups as they couldn't make them profitable.

Bizarrely, even Healthineers which should be booming due to healthcare being a super profitable industry with a high barrier to entry, has it a 5 year low in its stock price.

Remember how Siemens used to make mobile phones? Yeah, well ironically, Apple's in-house modems are the former cellular modem division of Siemens-Infineon that Intel bought and then sold to Apple.

There's something with the management from these massive German conglomerates that just lacks any sort of vision, and over time end up producing bloat, inefficiency, bureaucracy and stagnation while the same staff ends up flourishing and producing top notch tech when under a US company like Apple. Wondering if it's what they teach in business schools over there or if it's the culture, or both.
by paraknight | 2026-01-28 09:23:45+00:00
I came to a similar realisation about world news a few years ago and live a much less stressful life now. Especially since most of the news was about the US, and I don't even live there and there's nothing I can do about it. If something really important happens, eventually I find out from friends or family.

Same when it comes to staying on top of tech news -- almost everything is a flash in the pan. I used to bookmark cool new products, never revisit them, and then a year later realise half of the links are now dead.

One thing I realised though is I still need to mindlessly browse an endless feed every once in a while for some downtime. One way or another I'll want to fill that time with something, so it's a question of being mindful what goes in it. So my drugs of choice are Hacker News, and carefully curated YouTube subscriptions.
by keiferski | 2026-01-28 09:23:54+00:00
The news is one of those markets where the following is true:

1) a large number of people are dissatisfied with the current product

2) but aren’t willing to pay for an alternative which solves the problem in the ideal way (for them)

There have been dozens of attempts at weekly news summary newsletters, minimal news sites, etc. over the years. None ever seem to go anywhere because no one wants to pay for something they are deliberately deciding has little value.

It makes me think of budget airlines: constantly critiqued for being uncomfortable and using dark patterns to get every last dollar - yet people consistently just book the cheapest flight possible.
by SkyMarshal | 2026-01-28 09:23:55+00:00
To be fair, Woz wasn't just a “friendly selfless genius inventor engineer”, he was also the co-founder of one of the most valuable tech companies in the world. And YC is, in their own words: "The Y combinator is one of the coolest ideas in computer science. It's also a metaphor for what we do. It's a program that runs programs; we're a company that helps start companies.". They're not entirely unrelated.
by ayewo | 2026-01-28 09:24:11+00:00
> There seems to be zero output from they guy for the past 2 years (except tweets)

Well, he made Nanochat public recently and has been improving it regularly [1].
This doesn't preclude that he might be working on other projects that aren't public yet (as part of his work at Eureka Labs).

1: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-28 09:24:26+00:00
> Actually good software that is suitable for mass adoption would go a long way to convincing a lot of people.

Yeah, that's obviously a lot harder, but doable. I've built it for clients, since they pay me, but haven't launch/made public something of my own, where I could share the code, I guess might be useful next project now.

> This is just, yet another, proof-of-concept.

It's not even a PoC, it's a demonstration of how far off the mark Cursor are with their "experiment" where they were amazed by what "hundreds of agents" build for week(s).

> there's no telling how closely the code mirrors existing open-source implementations if you aren't versed on the subject

This is absolutely true, I tried to get some better answers on how one could even figure that out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784990
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-28 09:24:50+00:00
I'm not arguing they've won forever, but having the executive branch and a majority (albiet not a an opposition-proof supermajority) in the legislative branch is significant. I would say MAGA is well represented at the state level also.

I hope the midterms go smoothly and the GOP loses heavily at the polls and legislative power changes hands in January, but I'm not 100% confident of that any more.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-28 09:24:57+00:00
To me, this is the substantive point. It's about intellectual honesty. That's the key thing for me.

From my perspective, most of what you're saying is either (a) not substantive/outright disingenuous, or (b) I don't have much to add. If there is a particular point you really want me to respond to, you're welcome to highlight it and I will consider responding (but honestly probably not, for the reasons I gave).
by ndr42 | 2026-01-28 09:25:30+00:00
Had to let this here: A TV clip on YouTube of an episode of “That’s Incredible”, featuring Apple co-founder Stephen “Woz” Wozniak (aged 38) running through a maze and nearly winning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoJexQjoMtk

(found on the blog of Cabel Sasser: https://cabel.com/woz-vs-wooz/)
by deaux | 2026-01-28 09:26:11+00:00
It should be your hope rather than your fear.

The UK seems a lost cause though, even under Starmer it has been far more appeasing than any (West-)EU country. And as right-wing as Starmer is, your next PM will inevitably be even moreso and more buddy-buddy with the US. Perhaps even a personal friend of MAGA.
by kornaki | 2026-01-28 09:26:13+00:00
I’ve had similar experiences. These days I only visit Hacker News to read some tech-related stuff. For me, not reading the news to the point where I ask my mom to turn off the TV when I visit is important, because I want to avoid hearing anything about wars, etc. As someone who lives in Poland, I followed so much news about the war in Ukraine in 2022 and 2023, and it was really bad for my well-being and my behavior. A few examples come to mind: not being proactive and creative when it comes to taking care of my house and family, not being present when playing with my son, being less productive at work, and literally feeling angry after consuming news — like the feeling after eating fast food and having bloating. But I’m grateful for the people who do follow the news, read it, protest against the bullshit, and participate more in the democratic process than I do.
Show HN: Overitall, a Procfile runner like overmind with log multiplexing
by jemmyw | 2026-01-28 09:27:06+00:00
Hi HN,

I've written the developer tool I've wanted for some time: a process manager and log multiplexer in one. I think of it as a combination of overmind and lnav, both great tools in and of themselves, but focussed on my needs as a developer.

I wrote more about it here: https://www.aha.io/engineering/articles/over-it-all

Hope someone else finds it useful too.
by falcor84 | 2026-01-28 09:28:28+00:00
That definitely happens, but I wish had the displeasure of working at companies that were enamored with the solution they have, and couldn't be convinced to look again at the problem and see how it's changed since they originally solved it. As with most anything, the best approach is to somewhere in the middle, combining a love for the problem with a drive to repeatedly solve it. And one of the best tools for that seems to be dog-fooding, when the people in the company really want to use it for themselves.
by NoBeardMarch | 2026-01-28 09:28:36+00:00
Interesting discussion to read this between you and the other poster because it showcases an almost perfect example of the way disagreements almost always appear: There is some disconnect in a definition which was implied and not stated clearly, and one side thinks their intention to be clear while the other infers what they believe to be an obvious intent shown.

On a different webforum one or the other might become agitated and emotional, at which point it does not matter what the intent was, now it only matters to "be right". Great that it was just resolved cleanly.
by Arainach | 2026-01-28 09:28:41+00:00
There's way too much going on to follow all of it, and most of the important stuff isn't written down. By the time the text of bills is available, the politicians and influencers have been discussing things for a long time and the opportunity to do anything about it is nearly gone.

Perhaps we could pay people to follow important topics, politicians, important lobbyists and see what they're doing and claiming they want to do. They could send us summaries to save us time.

We could call those people journalists.
by Slartie | 2026-01-28 09:28:41+00:00
Actually, discount grocers operate on razor-thin margins of 2-4%. If your inaccuracy is geared to the benefit of your customer (because otherwise you'll be out of business due to the regulatory bodies) and thus removes just one percent of that, you suddenly lose a quarter to half of your earnings! And that goes ON TOP of the additional cost incurred with all that computer vision tech.

In addition to that, you'll have the problem of inventory differences, which is often cited as being an even bigger problem with store theft than the loss of valued product. If the inventory numbers on your books differ too much from the inventory actually on the shelves, all your replenishment processes will suffer, eventually causing out of stock situations and thus loss of revenue. You may be able to eventually counter that by estimating losses to billing inaccuracies, but that's another complexity that's not going to be free to tackle, so the 1% inaccuracy is going to cost you money on the inventory difference front, no matter what.
by InfinityByTen | 2026-01-28 09:29:06+00:00
I find the atrophy and zoning out or context switching problematic, because it takes a few seconds/ minutes in "thinking" and then BAM! I have 500 lines of all sorts of buggy and problematic code to review and get a sycophantic, not-enough-mature entity to correct.

At some point, I find myself needing to disconnect out of overwhelm and frustration. Faster responses isn't necessarily better. I want more observability in the development process so that I can be a party to it. I really have felt that I need to orchestrate multiple agents working in tandem, playing sort of a bad-cop, good-cop and a maybe a third trying to moderate that discussion and get a fourth to effectively incorporate a human in the mix. But that's too much to integrate in my day job.
by Wilsoniumite | 2026-01-28 09:29:09+00:00
I'm not an economist either and definitely could be wrong, but my understanding of precious metals markets has been that they are mostly driven by speculative pressures rather than demand/supply ones, unlike most other commodities, which is why I framed it that way. Much more gold and silver sits in storage than is mined or used every year, so even a significant relative shift in production/use has little effect on the price.

I have worked close to the trading floor at a financial institution, and there, precious metals are sometimes modeled more as currencies than as commodities for this reason.

It's not necessarily a rush to replace fiat, people just like the idea of a safe asset whos scarcity is secured.
by zwaps | 2026-01-28 09:29:41+00:00
Many large corporations in Europe, especially in sectors of prior consistent growth and profit, are chock full of too many managers.

These are people who primarily create work for themselves and each other. I have sat in meetings about meetings for actions that, ultimately, have zero impact, in teams where managers involve outnumber people who actually execute anything three to one.
It's staggering.

I believe the best way to kill a company is to have middle management beyond the absolute minimum you might need.

So, ASML is extremely on point here.