MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by modo_mario | 2026-01-06 09:35:52+00:00
Other than the persistent exceptions (hungary and such) those parties either didn't win or only did so very recently.
They were also typically opposed to these kinds of surveillance measures being talked about(of course it's easy to argue they would turn around on this when in power) but it makes this whole argument fall kind of flat.

As for the rest.... given that my country Belgium nearly balkanized in the past due to sectarianism and it's influence on politics this kind of stuff was a pretty obvious big downside to the migration of the past 2 decades from the start. (It really does become a ball and chain on every kind of effective policy) Especially since we're a bit ahead of many countries on the migration front too.
by Xfx7028 | 2026-01-06 09:35:53+00:00
I'm in this exact situation described in the two comments above.
I explained to my manager that the project I have been working on has developed a lot since the last two years and if he would hire a replacement he would be looking at a senior person, not a junior. He agrees but he gets rejected when he made the case to his boss. My performance reviews have been above expectations.
His boss claimed that it would not be fair to other people that stayed in the position for a similar amount of time before getting a promotion, essentially ignoring my exceptional performance.

Do you guys have any advice for this situation?
by latexr | 2026-01-06 09:36:40+00:00
> This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.

Careful, you are in violation of the GDPR. You can’t simply say “I’m going to set non-essential advertising cookies, deal with it or get out” (I checked your policy to confirm you are using non-essential cookies), you can’t set any cookies until the user agrees, and have to provide a way to reject them that is at least as simple as the way to accept.
by nopurpose | 2026-01-06 09:36:44+00:00
> As long as the vehicle has a known starting point, quantum accelerometers can continue tracking its movement accurately, regardless of what’s happening above the atmosphere.

So this is a much more precise inertial guidance system replacement? If true, I'd expect UK MoD to be involved to the point of making technology a military secret, but clearly it didn't happen.
by maxwellsdeamons | 2026-01-06 09:36:48+00:00
Yeah, but this requires good teleoperator infrastructure. You can’t unstuck a robot that loses connection. There are just a lot of things that can go wrong. And an entire car being stuck and waiting for someone to come is also not cheap.
I am pretty sure Amazon (one of the biggest robotics company on the planet btw) has done the math.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-06 09:36:55+00:00
Because you don't go and look for it but instead expect others or The Algorithms to do it for you? Sorry to be so blunt but this comes across as a "why isn't anybody doing anything!!" when many people are doing many things, just not you. Please do some googling before commenting.

Anyway. https://usprotests.liveuamap.com/
by labterminal | 2026-01-06 09:37:03+00:00
Async read/write with tokio::select!, line-delimited JSON, no buffering beyond what BufReader gives you. The proxy is a single loop that races on stdin, stdout, stderr, signals, and GUI commands simultaneously. Whichever is ready first wins, gets forwarded immediately with flush(). No batching, no artificial delays.

Latency: <10μs per message in practice. The JSON parsing for telemetry (serde_json) is the bottleneck, not I/O. A typical MCP message parses in ~5μs on my M3.

Backpressure: Natural - if the child can't accept stdin, the proxy blocks on write_all(). If the telemetry socket fills up, logs get dropped (fail-open design - proxy never blocks on observability). No formal benchmarks yet, but "agent doesn't notice it's there" has been the bar. Happy to add proper measurements if there's interest.
by seertaak | 2026-01-06 09:38:49+00:00
This is going to make the US look less predictable to adversaries, and that's, on balance, perhaps not such a bad thing.

It will be interesting to observe how the aftermath unfolds. If the US succeeds in installing a gov't which gains some level of legitimacy, perhaps by stoking the economy, then this will be a significant win for the US. If not, it will be a strong "the US is the newish sick man" signal.

That said, it's one thing to pull this in Venezuela, another thing to annex Greenland.
by thephyber | 2026-01-06 09:38:56+00:00
You seem to be describing how the web dev worked after JQuery but before React. It wasn’t prettier than now.

I agree that the wider NPM ecosystem is a morass of slop and that is technical debt for anyone who wanders into that minefield. But the solution isn’t to assume that there are no bad / unmaintained GoLang libraries. It’s to realize that maintenance, quality, and sustainability need to be first class attributes of every library you choose to allow your project to depend on.

Your proposal will yield lots of LLM near-slop (basically code that works given the original prompt requirements, but will fail to continue working well once some requirement changes, some original assumption is violated, some browser changes are implemented.

Ultimately, the sustainable solution is to have a subset of NPM libraries be extremely high quality, vetted via robust tests and security audits, and are visibly different than the average slop on NPM. Basically a very visible delineation between untrustworthy code and very trustworthy code. Then you should be able to tell the LLM to use only dependencies from that vetted subset.
by PMunch | 2026-01-06 09:40:19+00:00
Same! I've already signed up for the Time 2 and super stoked for it, then I saw the announcement for the Round 2 and I was about to switch over until I noticed it didn't have a heart rate sensor. I know its sleek and elegant, but that slight bulk would be worth it in my opinion. And who knows, with the extra thickness they might've been able to squeeze in more battery to get it to the 30 days battery life cited for the Time 2.

Also unfortunate that it's missing the RGB backlight of the Time 2. I can think of a few good use cases for it, but if it's only on the Time 2 that means fewer apps would use it.
by cuuupid | 2026-01-06 09:40:31+00:00
Incredible to see so many comments claiming this is propaganda and claiming there are no such maps of the US, when a simple google search results in dozens of hits for such maps. It is impossible to walk around in any major US city without witnessing protests about various topics, we have never been shy about protesting and it’s a key element of modern American culture.

Feel like every submission that I see on HN which is even vaguely political just devolves into “America bad” and conspiracy theories. I honestly preferred the “AWS bad” meta over this
by 1dom | 2026-01-06 09:40:50+00:00
I agree, nothing is perfect, there's a time and place for everything - I just think the coverage and advocacy of SSGs is disproportionate to the number of places where they improve things. I'm going to summarise the discussions I've had in this topic in a post over the next few weeks and I'll post it here. Thanks for humouring and challenging me :)

I still do feel there's something not quite right. Hopefully I'll be able to get it out in the summary as I think we're all done with walls of text here. But I think you actually captured it perfectly in your last remark:

> For my own solo projects, the ease of hosting for static sites is often such a big win for me that I'm willing to forego some interactivity even though more interactive features would be nice.

They make the web worse for the world by tempting the developer to take the easier, less interactive route than what would have been taken in the pre-SSG world.

I think I'm troubled by this because the idea "it makes it easy to do the lazy, worse thing" seems completely at odds with the fact that it seems to be what the people I would consider leaders in the field are doing. That's why I still wonder if this view might be a me problem, or maybe the field is just moving backwards? I don't know.

Anyway, thanks again!
by coffinbirth | 2026-01-06 09:40:50+00:00
From Wikipedia:

> The FDD is a think tank based in Washington, D.C., United States.[6][7] It has been described as a pro-Israel, anti-Iran lobby group

> CEO is Mark Dubowitz

> Mark Dubowitz is [...] a proponent of sanctions against Iran[2] and was a leading critic of the Iran nuclear agreement, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Conclusion: U.S./Israel "Think Tank" pushing for regime change in Iran financed by Isreal/Wallstreet money. So boring, always the same playbook.
Of course, the underlying goal is to deny China oil exports from Iran. Venezuela as a major oil supplier to China is already coup d'état successfully. Go U.S.A, go!
by t312227 | 2026-01-06 09:40:58+00:00
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Show HN: Practice spoken English by discussing real news articles
by jakubb | 2026-01-06 09:41:44+00:00
Throughout my career as a software engineer, I noticed that for senior roles, communication often becomes the primary bottleneck for talented engineers. Especially for non-native English speakers who struggle to communicate concisely and effectively.

Most language apps rely on "ordering a coffee" or "booking a flight" scenarios. I found these extremely boring, so my app pulls the latest news (Tech, Science, Business) and turns them into speaking prompts.

How does it work?

1. Read a summary of a current event.
2. Record your opinion/summary.
3. Get feedback on your grammar, pacing, filler words ratio, tone, etc.

You can try a demo on a generic topic without logging in: https://www.orratio.com

It is still in very early stages, and I would love some feedback!
by paganel | 2026-01-06 09:41:46+00:00
Is YC still an (upwards going) thing? Looks like their best days are behind them, I'd say 2018-2019 was its heyday.

I don't feel bad for Paul Graham and his partners, I'm sure he's got his bag and then some, but from the outside it looks like it (the YC-adjacent thing, that is) lost big(-ish) when it came to riding the AI hype train.
by fragmede | 2026-01-06 09:42:28+00:00
You speak the truth but looking back, what I reacted to is

> It's clear that we need a paradigm shift on memory to unlock the next level of performance.

and my take is that we might not need to get there to get the next level of performance, based on how well the latest models are able to utilize these hacks of a memory feature. On top of that, Claude was specifically RLHF'd to have the skills concept, so it's good with those. We disagree. Let's let time see who ends up being right.
by czottmann | 2026-01-06 09:44:07+00:00
There's also Beans, doing MD-based ticketing in your project. It's really good. (Disclaimer: I've contributed a few of the agent rules.)

https://github.com/hmans/beans

> Beans is an issue tracker for you, your team, and your coding agents. Instead of tracking tasks in a separate application, Beans stores them right alongside your code. You can use the beans CLI to interact with your tasks, but more importantly, so can your favorite coding agent!
>
> This gives your robot friends a juicy upgrade: now they get a complete view of your project, make suggestions for what to work on next, track their progress, create bug issues for problems they find, and more.

Much, MUCH less invasive than beads (basically just a CLI tool and a `.beans.yml` & `.beans/` in your project, and a joy to work with. CLI, TUI, labels, status, types (epic, feature, task etc.), GraphQL query interface (agents love that).

It's good.
by JdeBP | 2026-01-06 09:44:22+00:00
If you had been born in the 1960s, you might well have learned by dint of being alive at the time that the world underneath /usr was pretty complicated in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s; that /etc was where some of the things that were used to boot the system once went; and that the tale of sbin is complex and slightly sad.

The tale that things were simple until they went to pot in 2000 is wholly ahistoric.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-06 09:44:27+00:00
On quite a few recent chips (including, AIUI, Apple M series) you can only saturate memory bandwidth by resorting to the iGPU (which has access to unified memory), CPU cores on their own won't do it. It means that using the iGPU as a blitter for huge in-memory transfers and for all throughput-limited computation (including such things as parallel parsing or de/compression workloads) is now the technically advisable choice, provided that this can be arranged.

> If however you use a zero-copy format, the CPU can skip data that it doesn't care about, so you can 'exceed' the 6 GB/s limit.

Of course the "skipping" is by cachelines. A cacheline is effectively a self-contained block of data from a memory throughput perspective, once you've read any part of it the rest comes for free.
by kettlecorn | 2026-01-06 09:44:44+00:00
I suspect the wheels are in motion for many such transitions away from US dependency, in software and other fields.

Whenever trust is massively breached, and I believe much of the EU feels strongly that the US has breached trust, the natural action is to regroup and then gradually begin figuring out how to not be vulnerable to the same risk again.

If the US continues escalating the Greenland situation I expect that process will speed up massively.
by mungoman2 | 2026-01-06 09:44:46+00:00
> Naturally, trains already have track-based location systems, but they are usually based on a train being within a “moving block”, so their accuracy is down to metres rather than centimetres. If you want to monitor track conditions, the more accurate the location of the suspected fault, the less time staff spend repairing it.

Agree in principle though, is this extreme precision really needed?
by theodric | 2026-01-06 09:45:20+00:00
The justification is that they feel it necessary to make obvious, superficial changes in pursuit of differentiation between software versions to help keep the upgrade treadmill running.

The only UI change that I've found useful since Yosemite was Mojave's introduction of a dark mode. They made the fonts look worse on non-Retina displays, threw out the Preference pane in favor of a weird list that can only be resized vertically, added transparent everything, and banned any icon that's not in a squircle. Such UI, many differentiation, much insanely great, wow!

Anyway, I bought a ThinkPad.
by flumpcakes | 2026-01-06 09:45:38+00:00
> Personally, I think it would be great if various foreign countries reacted to the Trump tariffs by repealing laws compelling them to defend various intellectual property claims that primarily but not exclusively benefit large American companies.

This would have been the best move. (Un)fortunately diplomacy takes a soft approach. The current US administration take advantage of that. You don't even have to be consistent with your stances to get respect from the US in the current climate, you just have to be impolite and take a hard stance.

The US taking Greenland militarily would be the rubicon for international relations. No one really cares about the US taking out a dictator, even if it was not done to the apparent international standards (i.e. UN resolutions, etc.). I have a feeling the long standing people working in the US Gov know this. I am starting to think it won't matter though and the US really does have a mad king now.

Where is congress in all of this? "Checks and balances"? How has the Supreme Court freely given the executive ultimate and final power for all things?
Crackable – A Cryptography-Focused CTF Platform
by bl4ckstack | 2026-01-06 09:45:59+00:00
Crackable is a new platform dedicated entirely to cryptography challenges. It covers classical ciphers, modern crypto primitives, math-based attacks, and real-world mistakes we often see in CTFs and security research. The goal is learning by breaking, with challenges designed to teach concepts rather than guesswork. https://crackable.xyz
by exceptione | 2026-01-06 09:46:32+00:00
It isn't that hard. A democracy can be maximally liberal, including the internet, up to the Tolerance Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

The people that govern Big Tech have said as much as that they don't believe in democracy, they show they don't believe in fair markets, and they are put to work to implement the threats of a crazy but powerful clique, attacking free and social democracies with an endless stream of sponsored garbage. If the EU had any leaders instead of weasels, they would have closed the sewers that brings lies, hate, conspiracy theories and division. If the EU does not act, it will go down, taken apart by the oligarchs.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-01-06 09:46:57+00:00
It wouldn't. Wheels slip in the wet, they develop flat areas with differential friction, minor differences in wheel circumference would soon add up over long distances, and all dimensions change with temperature.

But fiberoptic gyro navigation is already a thing, and has been for decades. It's not super cheap, but it's cheap enough for an industrial application like this one. So I'm not sure what problem is being solved here.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-06 09:47:02+00:00
> you can tell how far it has gone. We're more than capable of tracking that a missile has gone past what would make sense for a Russian strike on Ukraine

Generally speaking, a bunch of Russian silos lighting up would put us at DEFCON 1. We’re not waiting until it passes Ukraine. It we want to engage any boost-phase ABM, we’re not going to let it. (Which leads to its own issues.)

> you'd be able to tell if a launch made sense to attack NK from the US or not

At some point. But waiting will cost you precious minutes, and you don’t know what else is in position e.g. off your coast.

> Europe and Turkey have no silo based weapons left

I was unclear. I meant conventional forces that would be targets in a first strike.

> "Punitive" retaliation is all of their strategy. This has already been normalized

Strategic retaliation for tactical nukes has not been normalized. This is still entirely ambiguous and hotly debated.

Again, flip it around. If you knew China and Russia would stand down if they thought you were just nuking North Korea, you could use that to gain material advantage in a first strike.
by Traster | 2026-01-06 09:47:12+00:00
This stuff is so difficult because it's all situational. In my first job I got hired into a small team, within a year or so my boss quit. I essentially stepped into that job. But in order to be the manager of that team you needed ot be a certain level of seniority, so I was doing the job, but I couldn't have the title or the money. I talked to my manager and made clear that I wanted the job and asked how I get there. The answer was that I needed to be a grade 7 and I was only a (new) grade 5, and since there are only a handful of promotions they can give each year, all things being equal I would get promoted to the seniority level needed to be doing that job in about 6-10 years.

I was essentially doing what this article was advising, but because of the corporate structure I was in, I was just volunteering to be taken advantage of. The correct strategy actually was just to leave. I wasn't going to be successful in that structure, it wasn't a meritocracy and the business results over time went how you would expect. In the end I leverage a job offer to put myself on track to get into that role within 2 years, but in reality that was 2 years wasted, I should've left immediately.
by afrazullal | 2026-01-06 09:47:18+00:00
I built an autonomous marketing command center designed around AI agents that plan and execute real marketing workflows, not just generate one-off outputs.

The goal was to reduce the manual work founders and small teams do across research, campaign planning, copy, and visuals by letting agents handle multi-step execution with persistent context (brand voice, audience, and objectives).

A few design choices that may be interesting to this crowd:

Agent-based workflows instead of prompt-driven chats

State awareness across sessions (brand and strategy persist)

Focus on organic growth systems (SEO, distribution) rather than ads

Built as a cohesive system, not a bundle of disconnected tools

I’m sharing this primarily to get feedback from builders and operators.
For transparency, I’ve also listed the project externally so the full technical and product context is visible in one place:

https://flippa.com/12205760-vect-ai-is-an-autonomous-marketi...

Happy to answer technical questions, architecture decisions, or trade-offs I made while building it.
Ask HN: Does git worktree help with parallel dev?
by roniman | 2026-01-06 09:47:48+00:00
I’m trying to run multiple dev efforts in parallel with Claude Code, and it keeps breaking down at the runtime layer.

I’ve tried Conductor and other git worktree based approaches. Multiple checkouts are easy, but you’re still constrained by the same local dev setup (DB, services, ports). Spinning up multiple local full stacks also hits resource limits pretty quickly.

Cloud based agent setups feel too black-boxy. You often need a real environment to iterate, even for the agent: debug, inspect logs, run the dev server, and use the frontend to actually verify behavior. Without that shared runtime, the agent’s feedback loop isn't tight enough, and you can't verify changes as well.

Feels like the bottleneck is isolated environments that can run concurrently, but with tooling to make it more like multiple local setups instead of black-boxed agent environments.

Has anyone found a practical way to run multiple agents in parallel?
by breppp | 2026-01-06 09:48:12+00:00
> restoring international relationships in exchange for sanctions lifting and access to international markets to get filthy rich

The issue is the Iranian elites are getting filthy rich from sanctions and have a vested interest in them.

The IRGC has its own smuggling networks and its own companies which it can use to evade taxes and sell its own imported goods for lower prices locally