MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bobbob1921 | 2026-01-15 18:35:04+00:00
This is absolutely correct, VMix is excellent software. When you pair it with the correct hardware even low cost hardware, it is very stable and reliable (and powerful). it’s also very reasonably priced, for one particular client twice a year I do a large 2 to 3 day livestream. We buy two copies of their $50 a month pro version (by default it is not a reoccurring subscription), each event. Every aspect of vmix can be automated or scripted, and they have a very easy to use XML based API (I can code but I’m definitely not a coder). Over the years we’ve built some incredible automated graphics for displaying on large billboards at the event, as well as using the second copy to produce the livestream where we pull in five professional ptz cams (via rtsp) and 2x sdi video feeds (via a capture card). We also use the NDI app on two iPhones to add their video into the mix (using the built-in vmix scripting, when someone presses the send button in the NDI app, V-Mix notices the audio level going above zero, and switches that live video feed into program). Note to do ndi over iphone wifi we use a dedicated ruckus R610 access point with no other clients on it, the video has ZERO latency, and amazing 4k quality). We also use companion running on a raspi5, connected to 2x stream decks, so that the entire set up can be controlled via the stream deck buttons.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-15 18:35:16+00:00
Resisting? Where? Can you point to me in the 44 second clip where he is resisting? Because when the ICE agents move out of the way he's sitting there, completely still. He's so still that they lift him up entirely, with zero resistance or movement. What the fuck do you think he should do in order to not be resisting arrest, given that he's already completely still? You can see between the officers legs the only movement he's doing is when he's being kneed in the face.
by willmarch | 2026-01-15 18:35:42+00:00
The “founders didn’t intend to protect X” argument is more about history than law. Whatever the founders personally believed, the Constitution they wrote and endorsed (as interpreted for well over a century) restrains government in its treatment of “persons,” not just citizens. Non-citizens (documented or not) still have due process protections, and law enforcement still has to stay inside Fourth Amendment limits.

On “what actions violate the Constitution”: you’re also overstating what’s been “held.” An emergency order/stay is not a merits ruling that a policy is constitutional; it’s often just “this can proceed for now while litigation continues.” And the fact that multiple branches haven’t stopped something yet doesn’t mean checks and balances are “working”, it can just mean they’re failing in slow motion, which is exactly the scenario the founders warned about.

As for the specific amendments: time/place/manner doesn’t cover suppressing disfavored speech under pretext, and reasonable suspicion can’t be race/ethnicity-by-proxy or broad dragnet logic. If you want to argue the recent ICE-related tactics are clearly constitutional, cite the exact language you’re relying on and I’ll read it. But “emergency order exists” does not equal “constitutional on the merits.”
by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 | 2026-01-15 18:35:48+00:00
You’ve got my intent correct!

Where I’m at with #2 is the agent builds a prototype with its own private session credentials.

I have orchestration created that can replicate the prototyping session.

From there I can keep final build keys secret from the agent.

My build loop is meant to build an experiment first, and then an enduring build based on what it figures out.
by jader201 | 2026-01-15 18:35:51+00:00
To be clear, I'm not hating on Wikipedia, just their (IMO) overly-strong push for donations.

The first word in my OP was "Except", and that was genuine -- I agree with the parent post, just outside of this one gripe. I definitely get value from it -- either directly through visits, or indirectly through it training LLMs I use.

And I don't mind them asking for support. I just disagree with how they ask, and how often they ask.

I feel like a simple persistent yet subtle "Support Wikipedia" link/button may be just as effective, and at the very most, a 30-pixel high banner once a year or so.

Maybe they've done tests, and maybe this is effective for them, but it feels like there are much subtler ways that may be effective enough.

I have supported sites and services much smaller than Wikipedia, with much less intrusive begging. But maybe that's not the case for others.
by sebg | 2026-01-15 18:35:59+00:00
Helping people like you are seems like an amazing start. Maybe try to get a pyramid structure going where you teach people to help other people and then they teach people and then it’s a movement? But at all times a low level of effort so there is no pressure other than just holding up a sign or a marker.

I’ve found the hardest thing is breaking the ice and the sign / marker normalises a low stakes interaction where one participant can walk away at any time
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-15 18:36:10+00:00
Small pickups could be pretty fuel efficient. The problem is not CAFE standards but the fact that zero Americans buy small trucks, because the entire market for new vehicles in the US is people who are financially illiterate and easily marketed to and making them buy $80k brodozers is more profitable than a $30k S10

Half these people still choose to buy the vehicle they do for insane and superficial reasons like "It's got a Hemi", like my uncle, even though Hemispherical combustion chambers haven't been state of the art or even good ICE technology in decades.
by 15155 | 2026-01-15 18:36:11+00:00
The point that you seem to be missing is that these are projects open to the public: if the person isn't espousing these ideas in the space in question, you're just as intolerant as they are to try and use the color of authority (a code of conduct, etc.) to bar them from those spaces.

"Treat with respect" is a dog whistle - easily coopted for whatever nefarious reason.

"If you do not agree with me, you will not participate in any space where I can drum up enough sympathy (headache) to have you excluded from."
by skybrian | 2026-01-15 18:36:16+00:00
I imagine that's sometimes true.

Also, sometimes you could be a busy beaver implementing a lot of stuff you don't need. (And I'm a hobbyist programmer now (retired) so it's all stuff I don't really need.)

Also, sometimes being in the zone results in tunnel version and taking breaks results in new perspective.

So I think this is an area where "it all depends" is the best summary.
by M95D | 2026-01-15 18:36:43+00:00
You probably should revisit your opinion about what wars would look like today.

- WW1 was a competition of troops: how many soldiers each country was willing to sacrifice for victory. Something like 50M soldiers participated.

- WW2 was a competition of hardware, less troops - how much industrial output could each country pour into the battle. Aprox. 300 000 tanks, 200 000 airplanes , 9000 warships (according to chatgpt), 2750 Liberty cargo ships (wikipedia).

- WW3 can't be a competition of troops (where would they get 50 million people, how would they train them, how would they feed them?), and it can't be a competition of hardware (who could make 300 000 tanks, 200 000 airplanes and 9 000 ships today?, where would they even get that much steel?).

World war today could be 1) nuclear and we're doomed, or 2) kids playing with toy drones breaking windows at each other's factories - you're mostly safe, unless you work there.
by gabrielsroka | 2026-01-15 18:36:53+00:00
My "Pith" programming language didn't make the cut

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32681150

Webpage using Pith instead of JavaScript to fetch HN Polls

https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hnpolls_pith.html

Source

https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...
by gipp | 2026-01-15 18:37:03+00:00
Well, let's start by confronting and acknowledging the very strong case that we -- "we" here being the tech world in general, and the audience of this site -- bear a heavy burden of responsibility for it.

It could be argued that it was all inevitable given the development of the Internet: development of social media, the movement online of commerce and other activities that used to heavily involve "incidental" socialization, etc. And maybe it was. But "we" are still the ones who built it. So are "we" really the right ones to solve it, through the same old silicon valley playbook?

The usual thought process of trying to push local "community groups," hobby-based organizations etc is not bad, but I think it misses an important piece of the puzzle, which is that we've started a kind of death spiral, a positive feedback loop suppressing IRL interaction. People started to move online because it was easier, and more immediate than "IRL." But as more people, and a greater fraction of our social interaction moves online, "IRL" in turn becomes even more featureless. There are fewer community groups, fewer friends at the bar or the movies, fewer people open to spontaneous interaction. This, then, drives even more of culture online.

What use is trying to get "back out into the real world," when everyone else has left it too, while you were gone?
by toyg | 2026-01-15 18:37:14+00:00
Different things.

AGCOM (Autorità per le Garanzie nelle COMunicazioni - authority for integrity in communications) is what supports the anti-piracy efforts that are fighting Cloudflare (as well as ensuring competition in telecom markets etc etc).

GPDP (Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali - guarantor for the protection of personal data) is the data privacy regulator, tasked with ensuring that people's right to privacy is respected in a world of databases.
by Barbing | 2026-01-15 18:37:20+00:00
Quick thoughts re: mentioned transcribers

Superwhisper — Been using it a long time. It's paid with a lifetime subscription available. Tons of features. Language models are built right in without additional charge. Solo dev is epic; may defer upgrades to avoid occasional bugs/regressions (hey, it's complex software).

Trying each for a few minutes:

Hex — Feels the leanest (& cleanest) free options mentioned for Mac in this thread.

Fluid Voice — Offers a unique feature, a real-time view of your speech as you talk! Superwhisper has this, but only with an online model. (You can't see your entire transcript in Fluid, though. The recording window view is limited to about one sentence at a time--of course you do see everything when you complete your dictation.)

Handy — Pink and cute. I like the history window. As far as clipboard handling goes, I might note that the "don't modify clipboard" setting is more of a "restore clipboard" setting. Though it doesn't need as many permissions as Hex because it's willing to move clipboard items around a bit, if I'm not mistaken.

Note Hex seems to be upset about me installing all the others... lots of restarting in between installs all around. Each has something to offer.

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Big shout out to Nvidia open-sourcing Parakeet--all of these apps are lightning fast.

Also I'm partial to being able to stream transcriptions to the cursor into any field, or at least view live like Fluid (or superwhisper online). I know it's complex b/c models transcribe the whole file for accuracy. (I'm OK with seeing a lower quality transcript realtime and waiting a second for the higher-quality version to paste at the end.)
by petcat | 2026-01-15 18:37:51+00:00
> In 2024, Google ran a set of tests of user interest in news content in Denmark and several other countries, concluding that removing such content had “no measurable impact” on search ad revenue. Those findings — along with the testing itself — have come under harsh criticism from Danish lawmakers.

I'm not really sure what Denmark is complaining about? It sounds like Google decided that removing Danish media and news from their services would have no impact on their finances whatsoever, therefore they are firm on their negotiating position since it's basically "take it or leave it".

And Denmark is also somehow trying to force Google to list and index their media, and at their price.
by arjie | 2026-01-15 18:38:12+00:00
Reminds me of an old joke[0]:

> The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

But really, the reason is that people like Pieter Levels do exist: masters at product vision and marketing. He also happens to be a proficient programmer, but there are probably other versions of him which are not programmers who will find the bar to product easier to meet now.

0: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/01/30/future-factory/
by nerdjon | 2026-01-15 18:38:18+00:00
We get absolutely nowhere if we just blindly blame trump for everything. All it does is give the other side ammunication to paint us as just “anti trump” when they can poke holes in our information. We have to be better than them.

We have to have all of the information and actually inform people instead of the half and twisted “truths” that is all that ever spew from this administration.

It doesn’t change or diminish what is going on right now, but it changes some of the conversation around this particular contract.

I guarantee you that if this contract started under the Obama or Biden administration and we just conveniently ignore that, it will come back and bite us in the ass. This app existing before this administration, what form did it exist, and how much use did it get is critical information.
by pfisch | 2026-01-15 18:38:22+00:00
idk, If I was in control of a country in the EU I would realize, unfortunately for pretty much everyone on the planet, that we have made a drastic miscalculation by relying on the US so heavily for defense.

However, that is not something that can be reversed meaningfully in less than a decade. So for now, I would play the long game like Germany while working to get the EU to build up a military force large enough to significantly reduce our dependence on the US.
by rvnx | 2026-01-15 18:38:27+00:00
An example of (either fabricated, or just very convenient) facts:

[1] https://patriotpolling.com/our-polls/f/greenland-supports-jo...

According to an American poll that surveyed 416 people residing across Greenland on their support for joining the United States.
57.3% wants to join the US.

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/greenland-poll-mute-egede-do...

According to a Danish poll (conducted through web interviews) among 497 selected citizens in Greenland.
85% do not want to join the US.

What is the actual truth ? Who knows.
by QuantumGood | 2026-01-15 18:38:30+00:00
Last night ICE agents were attacked with shovels, injuring one. A man was shot.

BEFORE this began we had 7 million people protesting simultaneously nationwide—they are "out on the street" as you put it. Minneapolis has organized hundreds into rapid response teams against ICE. The killings get more news than the protests, particularly as much of the media has been bought up by republican owners.

In Philadelphia, residents are being filmed patrolling with automatic weapons in advance of ICE supposedly heading there next. Read what @asa400, another local like myself, is saying in another comment to parent.

Many locals on social media are cheering on the shootings. America is incredibly polarized right now. It's not like all the public is against the government. Nearly half of those most likely to vote in past elections support this. “It wasn’t Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who were given a uniform....” —Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-15 18:38:37+00:00
I agree you (OP) must work on developing a positive view of yourself. Maybe therapy. Don't overlook clergy even if you're not religious. Religion is as much about fellowship and how to live a fulfilling life as it is about worship. Some churches (e.g. unitarian) are quite inclusive and are much more spiritual than dogmatic.

But you will find it much harder to attract friendships if you come across as needy or wanting to unburden a lifetime of problems on your new prospective friend. Not to say a longtime friend can't eventually handle some of this, but it's not a good way to start off.

I would say avoid groups that are focused on personal success or networking. These tend to be full of people who are looking for an angle or benefit for themselves, not people genuinely trying to develop friendships and connections with a community.
by tptacek | 2026-01-15 18:38:45+00:00
Understandable. Our current take is that there's not really much to know, and that the people this will really light up are good with that. Of course, we'll flesh out documentation!

I'm really jazzed about this particular product as a product (I just really enjoy using it), but the post is mostly about how we built it, and deliberately not much about how best to use it.
by thunderfork | 2026-01-15 18:38:51+00:00
Does "someone doesn't know trivia about the inflection point" really demonstrate any of those things?

Like, if I asked you whether the anger at Depression Quest was downstream of a long-standing meme-feud on /v/ about whether visual novels are videogames and you didn't know that, that doesn't really mean anything about your understanding of anything other than /v/ culture wars of the 2010s.

I mean, c'mon, "five guys burgers and fries"?

The whole thing springs out of "someone who made a thing we don't like" and "an excuse to attack" - the lack of any actual ethical breaches in the coverage of Depression Quest should be immediately disqualifying.
Show HN: TalkMate – Someone to Talk To, Anytime
by digi_wares | 2026-01-15 18:39:31+00:00
I work alone. I travel constantly:- Bangkok, Dubai, Singapore, Vietnam. I'm a workaholic and honestly pretty confined to myself because there's never enough time. Sometimes I just want to talk through what's on my mind but it's 3 am, or I'm in a new city, or I don't want to bother anyone with half-formed thoughts.

So I built TalkMate. It's a voice companion that actually talks back. Open it in your browser, start speaking, and it responds out loud. No signup, no account needed.

I used to earlier chat with ChatGPT and Claude in my free time but talking to someone feels different, someone on the other side is listening to you, though virtual but lets forget that for now that there's some virtual someone and imagine that its someone real who is talking to you.

For this reason, I built TalkMate. t's a voice companion that actually talks back. Open it in your browser, start speaking, and it responds out loud. No signup, no account needed.

It supports 17 languages, doesn't save your conversations by default (privacy first), and runs on a simple credit system instead of yet another $20/mo subscription. You get 20 free messages a week to try it. I also built a pro version in case someone needs longer chat durations.

If you have tried it, please spare a moment to tell me what you think about the voice UX - is the flow natural? Does the "thinking companion" angle make sense or is it too soft? I've been using it myself for over a week now before taking the site live.

thank you for your time!
by panarky | 2026-01-15 18:39:40+00:00
There's no way to stop sprites from the CLI.

Supposedly they auto-stop when inactive.

But I've tried multiple times and they don't stop, and it's not just Docker that prevents them from stopping.

I created a new sprite and installed ffmpeg. Then exited. Next day I run `sprite ls` and it's been running continuously for 23 hours.

No way to tell if I'm being billed for it or not.

And the per-hour pricing is extremely expensive.

So for now it's `sprite destroy -s spritename`.

Maybe I'll check it out again in a few months after the fly team has iterated on this a few times.
Show HN: Lore – search and link AI coding sessions to commits
by raethro | 2026-01-15 18:39:50+00:00
I use a variety of tools including Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex and others depending on the task, but that chat history is scattered across different locations. I needed something to:

- Search across all of them
- Link conversations to the commits I made
- Ask my current LLM session about any previous session and get answers

Lore runs a daemon that watches your session files, stores everything in SQLite, and automatically links sessions to commits as you work.

A few things it does:

- `lore blame` - trace a line of code to the conversation that wrote it

- `lore search "websocket reconnect"` - search across all tools

- MCP server - ask Claude "what was the websocket issue last week and how did we fix it?"

Thanks for checking it out.
by zbentley | 2026-01-15 18:39:58+00:00
> there's no "decades-running trap of trying to solve this".

I’m not as certain. The fact that we’ve gone from ASN.1 to COBRA/SOAP to protobuf to Cap’n’web and all the million other items I didn’t list says something. The fact that, even given a very popular alternative in that list, or super tightly integrated RPC like sending terms between BEAMs, basic questions like “should optionality/absence be encoded differently than unset default values?” and “how should we encode forward compatibility?” have so may different and unsatisfactory answers says something.

Not as an appeal to authority or a blanket endorsement, but I think Fowler put it best: https://martinfowler.com/articles/distributed-objects-micros...

It absolutely is a decades old set of problems that have never been solved to the satisfaction of most users.