MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hilsdev | 2026-01-25 11:03:20+00:00
>What we just saw at Davos with Greenland reveals the actual pattern: the theatrics are the tool, not the objective. The erratic behavior generates uncertainty, which then gets converted into bargaining leverage.

He said this in his book The Art of the Deal, released in 1987. It’s been his playbook for all political campaigning and both terms of his presidency. It’s a meme to point this out in certain right leaning circles.

I was frustrated by the lack of awareness about this for awhile. I still am but I understand now that the media is also playing their part and doing their role. It’s absolutely justified - these ridiculous claims and arguments generate clicks, attention, revenue.

It’s something that should be kept in mind by the average voter though, and in social media discussion. Everyone wants you to be emotionally invested. Trump wants you to commit so he can pump fake tou, and the media gets solid quarterly numbers
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-25 11:04:12+00:00
The biggest customer of Canadian Mint gold bullion are US customers in New York, as Wall Street knows its refinement is always very pure and traceable. Note this mint saw an $8.3B uptick in sales in 2025 alone due to international political antics.

"The prohibition on gold ownership in the US was relaxed in 1964, and finally rescinded in 1977 when Gerald Ford signed proclamation Pub.L. 93-373."

However, during severe economic recession the US government has Nationalized private gold holdings >1oz in the past. Something like a 35% drop in markets due to a theoretical Magnificent 7 "AI" bubble correction does pose a nonzero risk.

Keep some Popcorn ready, as the price of Gold going any higher is getting weird. =3

https://www.usdebtclock.org/
by Fnoord | 2026-01-25 11:04:22+00:00
Well, they did write this lyric around 2004:

(hook)

We′re all living in Amerika.

Amerika ist wunderbar.

We're all living in Amerika,

Amerika, Amerika.

(verse)

Wenn getanzt wird, will ich führen,

auch wenn ihr euch alleine dreht.

Lasst euch ein wenig kontrollieren.

Ich zeige euch, wie es richtig geht.

Wir bilden einen lieben Reigen,

die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen.

Musik kommt aus dem Weißen Haus

und vor Paris steht Micky Maus.

(hook)

We're all living in Amerika.

Amerika ist wunderbar.

We′re all living in Amerika,

Amerika, Amerika.

(verse)

Ich kenne Schritte, die sehr nützen,

und werde euch vor Fehltritt schützen.

Und wer nicht tanzen will am Schluss,

weiß noch nicht, dass er tanzen muss.

Wir bilden einen lieben Reigen,

ich werde euch die Richtung zeigen.

Nach Afrika kommt Santa Claus

und vor Paris steht Micky Maus.

(hook)

We′re all living in Amerika.

Amerika ist wunderbar.

We're all living in Amerika,

Amerika, Amerika.

We′re all living in Amerika.

Coca-Cola, Wonderbra.

We're all living in Amerika,

Amerika, Amerika.

(outro)

This is not a love song.

This is not a love song.

I don′t sing my mother tongue.

No, this is not a love song.

(hook)

We're all living in Amerika.

Amerika ist wunderbar.

We′re all living in Amerika,

Amerika, Amerika.

We're all living in Amerika.

Coca-Cola, sometimes war.

We're all living in Amerika,

Amerika, Amerika.
by zhouzhao | 2026-01-25 11:05:39+00:00
It's similar.

The DT is not doing cost neutral peeing with Cloudflare. Also the DT has no (or only one 10G NIC) at the DE-CIX.

I pay 80 EUR for 1Gbps/300mbps and it's behind GPON or if you can get more XGS-PON. Not even real ethernet. It's a shame.
by microtonal | 2026-01-25 11:06:10+00:00
Why do people continue attributing 4D chess to Trump? He is an egomaniac and just wants to be one of the few presidents that added land to the US (similar to being one of the few presidents who won the Nobel Peace Prize). He has said as much as it being 'psychological' to him.

So, he made the threats. Stocks start going down, bond yields start going up. Perhaps surprising to him there is a unified reaction from EU countries, the trade bazooka is on the table. More rational actors in his entourage/broligachy start to get worried, advising him to find a landing site. Along comes Mark Rutte who offers him a landing site that sounds great, but does not improve much over his starting position, but actually made it worse (there will be non-US NATO arctic troops on Greenland, not just 4 dog sleds or whatever he is always rambling about).

The longer-term damage for the US is much bigger. Tech sovereignty just moved to the top of the EU agendas and companies and government will move away from US tech, to a loss of hundreds of billions of income in the longer term.

Some 4D chess move...
by holowoodman | 2026-01-25 11:06:28+00:00
> he behaviour of Telekom is the problem. That must change. The state has to ensure fairness rather than allow monopolies to milk The People.

The state is the monopoly here.

Telekom is still partially state-owned (~27%), since they were, back in the 90s, privatized from the former total monopoly "Deutsche Bundespost" and the related ministry "Bundespostministerium". Nowadays, the parts of the ministry that were back then regulating EM spectrum, allowable phones (basically phone police, you had to rent from Bundespost or go to jail) and generally being corrupt (relations of the former ministry to copper manufacturers is why they botched the first fibre rollouts in '95 and then ignored the topic for 20 years). Nowadays, the "Regulierungsbehoerde", staffed with the same people, is supposed to regulate their former colleagues at Telekom. Telekom got all the networks and was never split up, so it still has a (~85%?) monopoly on everything copper basically, as well as on customers, using this monopoly to bully other ISPs as well as it's own customers and extending this monopoly into future tech. And the state has a financial interest in this regulation being as lax as possible. So you can imagine how this goes...
by Tade0 | 2026-01-25 11:06:29+00:00
> it’s that manufacturers have zero incentive to solve it. Your car becoming worthless after a decade suits them down to the ground.

They've been aiming for the same or worse in regular cars for over a decade now.

That being said, there is an incentive for EVs: competition from China:

https://www.electrive.com/2026/01/19/byd-extends-battery-war...

Very much like when Japanese cars first got a foothold in the US.
by Avamander | 2026-01-25 11:06:32+00:00
It has been ramping up a bit. Most recent case has been Russian (sock)puppet activity on Wikipedia, where they actively try to rewrite the language used, the narrative to be more suitable for them. It has even gotten news coverage.

First link in English I found: https://balticsentinel.eu/8394326/wikipedia-s-baltic-battle-...
by juliangmp | 2026-01-25 11:06:39+00:00
> The most concerning limitation in the German market is the unavailability of native Glass Fiber modems, that can accept as input a Glass Fiber connection: at the moment, providers install their own Glass Fiber modem.

Im actually quite okay with that. Why should I have to pay for specialized hardware that won't be usable if I move and the new apartment uses DSL or docsis.
Give me an rj45 (or sfp for some fiber connections) and let me put whatever Router I want behind it.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-25 11:07:33+00:00
It was hilarious when I checked the movie listings for this week and found Greenland 2 in its opening run.

So I went to YouTube and rented Greenland (2010). It was a hoot! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_(film)

I wrote "it's the second funniest rom-com I've ever seen". But seriously, it was filmed in close collaboration with the United States Air Force. (Much like Mission: Impossible was a collab between US Gov and US Mil units.)

It is kind of a fun ride if you're willing to suspend that much disbelief.

But I just found it hilarious that a pair of films named and set in Greenland should be produced in this way, while the actual country is in our news cycle now. I almost feel like it's a "PR buzz campaign".
by psychoslave | 2026-01-25 11:07:46+00:00
Seems fair in the frame of what is responded.

But there is a concern which goes out of the "they" here. Actually, "they" could just as well not exist, and all narrative in the article be some LLM hallucination, we are still training ourself how we respond to this or that behavior we can observe and influence how we will act in the future.

If we go with the easy path labeling people as root cause, that's the habit we are forging for ourself. We are missing the opportunity to hone our sense of nuance and critical thought about the wider context which might be a better starting point to tackle the underlying issue.

Of course, name and shame is still there in the rhetorical toolbox, and everyone and their dog is able to use it even when rage and despair is all that stay in control of one mouth. Using it with relevant parcimony however is not going to happen from mere reactive habits.
by moffkalast | 2026-01-25 11:07:47+00:00
Open source is a means to an end, if I can generate an ad-hoc solution that fits my use case more than the often bloated standard open source library for it then I'm all for contributing to the dataset that makes that happen. People who are looking at it from an IP standpoint are less about about solving problems and more about putting themselves on a pedestal of accomplishment just for the sake of getting credit. Especially so for corporations.
by Youden | 2026-01-25 11:08:32+00:00
FWIW, the incumbent ISP in Switzerland, Swisscom, tried to roll out XGS-PON but our "Internode", Init7, fought them in court on the grounds that it was anticompetitive, since it locks every provider into a single technology. They won.

Now customers can choose. Nearly every ISP chooses the easy way and has the customer connect through Swisscom's XGS-PON but Init7 in particular has instead built out their own routers in POPs around Switzerland so that customers can have a physical fibre directly to their network. It's just plain ethernet with DHCP so you can use whatever equipment you want. It's also allowed Init7 to do something none of the other providers can do: offer 25Gbps symmetric service at no extra cost (beyond a one-off installation cost for the more expensive SFP modules).
by divyaprakash | 2026-01-25 11:08:53+00:00
Fair points all around. To be transparent: yes, I used an AI coding assistant (Antigravity) to help with the heavy lifting of refactoring the original legacy code and drafting the README. I’m with @rustyhancock on this—I’d rather focus my brainpower on the pipeline logic and hardware integration than on writing boilerplate and Markdown.

However, orchestrating things like decord with CUDA kernels, managing VRAM across parallel processes, and getting audio sync right with local TTS requires a deep understanding of the stack. An LLM can help write a function, but it won't solve the architectural 'glue' needed to make it a reliable CLI tool.

The project is open-source precisely because it’s a work in progress. It needs the 'human touch' for things like the RT-DETR auto-zoom and more nuanced video editing logic. PRs are more than welcome—I'd love to see where the community can push this beyond its current state.
by ben_w | 2026-01-25 11:09:43+00:00
My condolences about your mum; I lost mine during the pandemic, though Alzheimers' causing her to forget to drink water rather than cancer, and the frequent closing of international borders meaning I couldn't even be there for the funeral.

That said, you've shifted the goalposts here: the one and only thing I was disagreeing about was the military. The military are the final arbiter of what happens, when the civilian government turns evil.

Seeing all the toadying and the way red hats are becoming the new brown shirts… I hope the ocean separating us is sufficient to keep me safe.

I cannot say, an am not saying, for certain that *the US military* are going to be not-evil, because unlike everyone else in the US federal government today the majority of the US armed forces are competent enough to keep quiet, and quiet makes it impossible to tell.

But what little gets out, from specifically the military? It suggests they take their oath of allegiance to the constitution seriously.

If the military is as bad as all your other non-military examples… well, even 25 years ago I was wondering how a new American civil war would play out, and if nukes would get involved.
by vjerancrnjak | 2026-01-25 11:10:19+00:00
I think this is standard. It applies to domains as well. I experienced government services blocks as well -- they send me an email, yet block my reply. I complain every time and rarely does anyone care, the support person does not escalate, so my email remains blocked, sometimes I'm told system is working as configured, completely ignoring that I am a real person and system is hostile towards me.

It's just general fragility of tech and lack of care from the creators/maintainers. These systems are steampunk, fragile contraptions that no one cares to actually make human friendly or are built on crappy foundations.
by michaelt | 2026-01-25 11:11:01+00:00
Eh, somehow The Pirate Bay, Fitgirl Repacks, Anna's Archive, Sci-Hub etc seem to manage it.

The real challenge is delivering good enough performance that your site is better than waiting through 30 seconds of ads; and making it worth your time to run the site: there's hassle, legal risk, and it's not like you can run ads to make some cash.
by Jedd | 2026-01-25 11:11:01+00:00
FWIW, starting a sentence with "Honestly ..." always makes me think the rest of what this person has to say is dishonest.

Your BIO on HN is:

> I HAVEN'T SHOWERED AT ALL! THAT'S WHY I REEK! WORKING IN FINTECH! AIN'T SHAVED IN WEEKS! POUR CRUMBS FROM MY KEYBOARD! THAT'S WHAT I EAT! WROTE A CURRENCY LIBRARY! 3RD TIME THIS WEEK! LURKING HN! I PREFER /b/! IN MOM'S BASEMENT! I'M THIRTY THREE! IT'S 3'O'CLOCK AM! THAT'S WHEN I SLEEP! AH!!!! COME ON FUCK A GUY!!!!

What level of credibility are you seeking?
by kitd | 2026-01-25 11:11:34+00:00
My thoughts too.

> kafka compatible

Kafka is not a straightforward protocol and has a few odd niches. Not to mention that message formats have changed over the years. Even the base product has recently dropped support for some of the oldest API versions. And there are still plenty of clients out there using old versions of librdkafka (he says from experience).

So I'd be interested how (backward-)compatible they are.
by cedilla | 2026-01-25 11:11:38+00:00
> billions of people now have access to better translations on deman

As a German speaker, I experience the quality of German language technical documentation steadily declining. 30 years ago, German documentation was usually top notch. With the first machine translations, quality went notably down. Now, with LLM translation, it's often garbage with phrases of obvious nonsense in it.

This is especially true with large companies like IBM, Microsoft or Oracle.

I guess the situation is better for languages where translations only became available with LLM.
by throwup238 | 2026-01-25 11:13:32+00:00
> (And it's not going to happen since Windows is nothing but a quarterly result side note at this point)

Azure will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Their stock price has depended on it since Cloud and AI got restructured into a single department (it was Nadella's baby before he became CEO), and Azure was already pretty bad before vibe coding entered the picture.
by reneberlin | 2026-01-25 11:14:18+00:00
In memory of the "49.7-day bug"

Back in the day it was Windows, that had a hard limit on how long it could run in one pass. I forgot when it began and ended, but happily AI helped out to investigate back in time.

The bug primarily affected the Windows 9x family of operating systems:

Windows 95 (all versions)

Windows 98 (original release)

Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)

While there were separate reports of similar 497-day overflows in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000, the "classic" version of this bug that most people remember is the 49.7-day limit on Windows 95 and 98.

Why 49.7 days?
The issue was a classic integer overflow. Windows used a 32-bit counter to track the number of milliseconds since the system started.
This counter was used by the Virtual Device Driver (VMM) to manage system timers.

The maximum value for a 32-bit unsigned integer is: 2^32 - 1, which equals: 4,294,967,295 millisec.

If you convert those milliseconds into days: 4,294,967,295 / 1,000 = 4,294,967 seconds
4,294,967 / 60 / 60 / 24 ~ 49.71 days

When the counter hit that maximum value, it would "wrap around" to zero. Because many system services and drivers were waiting for the counter to increase to a certain target time, they would suddenly find themselves waiting for a number that had already passed or was now mathematically impossible to reach in their logic. This caused the "hang"—the mouse might still move, but the OS could no longer process tasks.

When did it start and end?
Started: With the release of Windows 95 in August 1995.

Ended: Microsoft officially fixed the bug with a patch in 1999 (Knowledge Base article KB216641). Windows Me (released in 2000) was the first in that specific family to ship with the fix included, and the transition to the Windows NT architecture (Windows XP and later) eventually rendered the specific underlying cause obsolete for home users.
by Culonavirus | 2026-01-25 11:14:18+00:00
Even if it has 4.8 and 7000 reviews it's often fake 4.8 because the reviews are botted / paid / dark patterned (e.g. when you pop up star rating on your users and beg them "rate the app plz" and when the users tap anything but 5 stars you say "k, ty" and keep those "bad" reviews for yourself)
by krapp | 2026-01-25 11:14:43+00:00
Choosing not to vote is implicitly voting for the status quo, whatever it happens to be. It's accepting fate.

If voters saw the first Trump term and knew about Project 2025 (which was public and publicly discussed) and didn't care enough to vote against the implementation of what was happening right under their noses then that isn't much different than voting for him.

If anything it's worse. At least the right is actively evil. At least voting third party, futile as it is, is making a statement. Seeing Trump's movement gain and consolidate power, listening to their beliefs, seeing the preparation of political infrastructure, January 6th, stacking the Supreme Court, the normalization of white supremacy, and knowing fascism could be a vote away and not giving a damn shows a depth of poisonous cynicism and cowardice that should brand a person for life. That will brand our entire society for a generation.
by smusamashah | 2026-01-25 11:14:47+00:00
AI translation is so much usable these days I think.

I had a report/article (using Claude) on methods to fall asleep. First method worked amazingly and I am doing that every night. I translated it to Urdu using Gemini (because they are doing translations for a long time, they must be better). First translation used very stiff/dry language, something you might read in a research paper etc. I asked it to simplify it for my mom the language and to my astonishment, it did that very very well.

Urdu surely must not have as much data as other languages. I could not find a single mistake. Yeah there were some weird choices of words in original version, but the simpler was so good it can be published like an article.
by botacode | 2026-01-25 11:15:20+00:00
Counterpoint 1: the gitlab founder going "founder mode" on his cancer: https://centuryofbio.com/p/sid

Counterpoint 2: the findings that happiness doesn't really level off in an S-curve shape (i.e., fewer diminishing marginal returns than expected to wealth) https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-43605-001.

"Is there a growing class divide in happiness? Among U.S. adults ages 30 and over in the nationally representative General Social Survey (N = 44,198), the positive correlation between socioeconomic status (SES; including income, education, and occupational prestige) and happiness grew steadily stronger between the 1970s and 2010s. Associations between income and happiness were linear, with no tapering off at higher levels of income. Between 1972 and 2016, the happiness of high-SES White adults was fairly stable, whereas the happiness of low-SES White adults steadily declined. Among Black adults, the happiness of low-SES adults was fairly stable, whereas the happiness of high-SES adults increased. Thus, the happiness advantage favoring high-SES adults has expanded over the decades. Age–period–cohort analyses based on hierarchical linear modeling demonstrate that this effect is primarily caused by time period rather than by birth cohort or age. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)"
by tschumacher | 2026-01-25 11:15:50+00:00
I know in some people's eyes saying this will make me a Google shill but this reminds me of the manifest v3 thing. What makes it to the top of HN is mostly clickbait a las "Google is cracking down on ad blockers" or in this case "Google is preventing side loading". These articles don't link to primary sources (Google) and they (intentionally?) miss all nuance.
by boelboel | 2026-01-25 11:16:34+00:00
Going to conferences seeing researchers who've built a career doing subpar (sometimes blatantly 'fake') work has made me grow increasingly wary of experts. Worst is lots of people just seem to go along with it.

Still I'm skeptical about any sort of system trying to figure out 'trust'. There's too much on the line for researchers/students/... to the point where anything will eventually be gamed. Just too many people trying to get into the system (and getting in is the most important part).
by KingMob | 2026-01-25 11:16:35+00:00
Definitely ignore single studies, no matter how prestigious the journal or numerous the citations.

Straight-up replications are rare, but if a finding is real, other PIs will partially replicate and build upon it, typically as a smaller step in a related study. (E.g., a new finding about memory comes out, my field is emotion, I might do a new study looking at how emotion and your memory finding interact.)

If the effect is replicable, it will end up used in other studies (subject to randomness and the file drawer effect, anyway). But if an effect is rarely mentioned in the literature afterwards...run far, FAR away, and don't base your research off it.

A good advisor will be able to warn you off lost causes like this.
by luckys | 2026-01-25 11:17:34+00:00
>GHG are a matter of life or death

That's what I hear from mainstream media all the time. Do you have some information or argument that will help me see things differently?

>Of course you live in a 1st world country and it likely won't kill you, just cost you tons of money

A little presumptuous to assume my living conditions

>It's not about "take better care of the planet", whatever you think that means

Now that's just snarky and done in bad faith. If I didn't care would I have posted it, already antecipating the downvotes?

We humans got where we are much due to technology, but we have to start thinking seriously where we go from here or there won't be land or water (or air?) that isn't polluted by something the planet is not well equiped to process. Have you read on the kind of places that microplastics have been found already? In the human body?
by Rygian | 2026-01-25 11:17:41+00:00
If you park in the street, and there are public chargers in a 1-km radius around your apartment, you can probably make it by "topping-up" every two or three days on a public charger.

Unless you spend upwards of 40% of your battery daily, you'll be good.

If you own a parking spot in your apartment complex, and depending on your jurisdiction, you can install your own charger.