MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by handystudio | 2026-01-06 10:38:58+00:00
I recently came across this interesting open-source project called Noi. It's an interaction-first browser designed specifically for power users who juggle multiple AI services and web workspaces.

Key features that stand out:
- Multi-window management: Run parallel workspaces side-by-side.
- Session isolation: Supports multiple accounts on the same website through cookie data isolation.
- Noi Ask: Send batch messages to multiple AI chats (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) simultaneously.
- Prompt Management: Built-in system to organize and sync LLM prompts.
- Local-first: All data like history and settings stay on your device.

It is developed by lencx, the creator of the popular community ChatGPT desktop app. It seems like a great evolution for anyone looking to reduce "tab chaos" while working with various AI models.

(Note: I am not the author of this project, just sharing a tool I found useful.)
by solumunus | 2026-01-06 10:39:16+00:00
Particular steroids will increase aggression, most people avoid those ones. But they won't turn you from a normal person into a complete raging psychopath, if you tried them you would see how completely ridiculous that is. With most steroids you won't notice any increase in aggression. The reason studies show a CORRELATION, is because violent, aggressive, unhinged people are more likely to take steroids. It's really that simple.

Do you drink alcohol? Because there is a FAR greater direct connection between alcohol and violence. Maybe sit on that for a bit.

The reason we have the phrase "roid rage" is sensationalist journalism. If someone commits a crime and they happen to take steroids it's automatically labelled as "roid rage". Think about this.

If you were experienced with steroids or knew many steroid users you would absolutely not hold this opinion, I guarantee it.
Ask HN: Is it even possible to crack a Wi-Fi password from a phone?
by DenisDolya | 2026-01-06 10:39:30+00:00
I've heard some people bragging about this and saying they use free internet, but I think it's impossible because there's no internet on the phone, even through Termux: aircrack-ng, hashcat etc.

I mean, I don't know how they do it, maybe they're lying, but if it's possible, then we can safely say that Wi-Fi security is critically low right now.
by drdrek | 2026-01-06 10:39:58+00:00
There was never a better business than the internet tollbooth google had. The crawlers and search basically costed nothing and made billions in advertisements. Everything else was a desperate effort to use the huge amounts of money the money printer was spewing fast enough, So they had a lot of "fat" to do things that did not directly relate to the business.

Now with Youtube and AI its going to be great businesses, but not 99% profitability great. Nothing is 99% profitability great like search used to be.

You will see Google stock go up and down in the short term, but the fate is already sealed. Sooner or later they will be welcomed to the club of Intel and IBM.
by sparky_z | 2026-01-06 10:41:52+00:00
The result was not, and could never have been, known a priori. All sorts of random things could have gone wrong with the operation causing the raid to fail and Maduro to remain in power. Trump could have just randomly changed his mind, or postponed the raid to beyond the end of January (the cutoff for the betting market). The person placing the bet was still taking a chance, but it was an informed chance that shifted the market probability more in line with reality.

If it helps, you can think of the money made as the payment to a confidential informant for information that contributed to a more complete picture of the world. It just happens via a distributed algorithm, using market forces, rather than at the discretion of some intelligence officer or whoever. The more important the information you have to share, the more it moves the market and the bigger your "fee". It's not being a "grifter" to provide true information that moves the market correctly. In fact, this mechanism filters out the actual grifters - you can't make money (in expectation) by providing false information, like traditional informants sometimes can.

This "intelligence gathering" function is the primary goal of a prediction market. It's the only reason it makes sense to even have them. If you turn it into some parlor game where everybody who participates has access to all the same information, then what are we even doing here?
by wongarsu | 2026-01-06 10:43:09+00:00
The EU is slowly weakening Google's grasp on Android, for example by evening the playing field for app stores. You can get google-free Android devices from both Chinese manufacturers and the Netherlands (Fairphone). They aren't terribly attractive right now, but that could quickly change if the demand exists

At that point Google would probably turn even more hostile to the open source nature of Android, leading to some sort of fork
by rozab | 2026-01-06 10:44:56+00:00
>It’s also 100% vibe coded. I’ve never seen the code, and I never care to, which might give you pause. ‘Course, I’ve never looked at Beads either, and it’s 225k lines of Go code that tens of thousands of people are using every day.

225k lines for a cli issue tracker? What the fuck?
by ACCount37 | 2026-01-06 10:45:03+00:00
The first problem is technical.

Jailbreaks aren't stopped by being ostensibly illegal to do. They're stopped by being a nigh-impossible attack conducted against an adversary that keeps hardening the systems against it.

Which is why the fight for unlocked bootloaders and software freedom is such an important fight. It's theoretically possible to create an "unbreakable lock" and forbid the users from having any control over the software forever. Which is why user freedom must be legally mandated, and engineered into the hardware on the ground floor. You can't rely on being able to "hack the freedom in after the fact".
by nicbou | 2026-01-06 10:45:34+00:00
In 2026 I will focus on tenant and employee rights for Berlin's immigrants. I will create guides with help from experts, tools to check if your rent is too high, template generators to demand a rent reduction, and a network of vetted lawyers to help see it through. The goal is to reduce friction at every step of the way. Something as simple as having to find a lawyer can derail the whole project, especially if you don't speak German.

Then, I do the same thing for labour rights. Write guides, build tools, vet a network.

Concretely, I'm setting up a community of practice around the topic. I'm putting everyone in the same room so that we can work faster and together. It makes research much easier for me, because I can just ask experts on Whatsapp.

You can follow my work here: https://allaboutberlin.com/newsletter
by freehorse | 2026-01-06 10:46:17+00:00
I do not disagree that tactics like "building viral interest" may happen here (not necessarily by mods or with their help though), as they happen also in reddit, as OP shows, and in general obviously all around the internet, and it is safe to assume that it does happen from time to time. For me the most disturbing part of the post is that the manipulating tactics target teenagers.

But talking about repressive behaviour by mods against YC-related criticism specifically, I do not see that. I understand the prior would be that a popular forum run by YC would want to protect and censor in order to protect interests of the companies they back. I also had that prior. However, this is not "occam's razor", it is a prior. The time I have been around here I have not noticed this kind of behaviour happening though, while I have definitely noticed other kinds of stuff getting repressed, meaning that it is less likely that such repression would go unnoticed all the time. Thus I adjusted my understanding accordingly by shifting the prior according the data. If you find different examples I am willing to take them into account.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-01-06 10:48:04+00:00
They're clearly not being replaced, as a look at the numbers indicates, but what is true for most European countries is that if the low birth rates stay far below 2.1 their populations will continue to decline and their economies will shrink, if they don't manage to offset that trend with controlled yearly immigration.

To clarify: Although it follows mathematically with constantly low birth rate, dying out is, of course, not a likely consequence. It seems likely that at some point when the economies shrink poverty would hit so seriously that the birth rates would start increasing again, as they seem to be negatively correlated with standards of living. However, we're talking about levels of shrinkage that feel like a collapse of the economy and social security/pension systems.
by u_sama | 2026-01-06 10:49:16+00:00
>There is a saying about how us citizens trust companies but not their government, and how Europeans trust their governments but not their companies.

This is a Danish blindspot, Europeans do not trust their governments in large (France is fractured, Southern Europe has endemic corruption, Germany is increasingly authoritarian in order to keep heterodox parties out) and this is in part the source behind the flare up of "far-right" movements in the continent. The infamous EU chat law doesnt help either, and all the abuses of Germany in their misuse of hate speech to punish speech is not a positive development. We do not have real alternatives to most American tech services, and administrations are unwilling to move to Linux based alternatives.

The EU is also not interested in strengthening the domestic software market by engaging in selective protectionism like the Chinese, because of the extensive lobbying by foreign and domestic actors which are the incumbents and see no interest in a competitive and dynamic environment which would destroy them.
by ktzar | 2026-01-06 10:49:49+00:00
Just that all of those activities you mention feel like a useless life compared to spending time with your own children in a house big enough for everyone to have their space, but small enough to force you to feel you're living with each other, seeing them grow and thrive, and going around your closest nature patch.

Not much money is needed to have a fulfilling and worth-living life.
by buzzardbait | 2026-01-06 10:50:15+00:00
Good counterpoint. Throughout my rather long career I've known a few overachievers. The majority of them did not get promoted, and the ones who did get promoted were actually up-titled -- new title, miniscule pay rise.

Then there are those who do the bare minimum, have frequent unplanned absences and then have the gall to ask to be promoted to a senior level simply because they've been employed at a junior level for 2 years. (I heard this from a particularly gossipy manager. People usually never disclose these things.)

One thing is universally true. If you develop a reputation for being the person that regularly gets things done, somebody somewhere will notice. And that will improve your career prospects in the long run.
by baxtr | 2026-01-06 10:51:26+00:00
I think OODA is fundamentally different to Auftragstaktik.

Auftragstaktik describes a clear purpose / intent. Like: capture the bridge (but: we don’t care how you do it since we can’t foresee specific circumstances)

OODA describes a process of decision making.

So, Auftragstaktik answers who decides what and why.

OODA answers how decisions are made and updated over time.

They’re complementary but different.
by goodcanadian | 2026-01-06 10:52:08+00:00
For half a century or so aircraft height was largely done with air pressure alone.

It still is. Flight levels (20000 feet and above in the US) are defined by air pressure without reference to current atmospheric conditions (i.e. the actual altitude of FL200 can vary based on atmospheric conditions). Below 19000 feet, altimeters are calibrated to local conditions which are given to the pilots by air traffic control.
by throwaway37426 | 2026-01-06 10:52:55+00:00
Yeah, no thanks! The current regime is all about spirituality, prophecies and magic and look where that got us. We don't need anymore of that. I hope you're right and the regime is gone for good this time, but we need rationality, pragmatism, democracy, science, good education and economic policies, modern government and the rest of the obvious things we should have that a well developed nation needs.
by nephihaha | 2026-01-06 10:52:56+00:00
The difference is that back then we were talking a few jobs here and there. Now we are talking about the majority of work being automated, from accountancy to zoo keeping, and very little in the way of new jobs coming in to replace them.

By the way stable hands and night soil collectors are still around. Just a bit harder to find. We used to have a septic tank that had to be emptied by workmen every so often. Pretty much the same.
by woooooo | 2026-01-06 10:53:09+00:00
> 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.

You still have to load a 64-byte cache line at a time, and most CPUs do some amount of readahead, so you'll need a pretty large "blank" space to see these gains, larger than typical protobufs.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-01-06 10:53:29+00:00
Depending on what specifically you're talking about, what you say might or might not make sense.

For chat, it depends on what you mean by fail. What actually happened/is happening, is that XMPP the protocol works so well, that most chat apps start by just being another XMPP app, and if they ever get traction they make their servers incompatible with XMPP. That's what WhatsApp did for example.

For social networks, Mastodon is quite large especially in the tech space. It's just not facebook-size. But given that Facebook's success is driven by getting people addicted to their phones, I see this as a sign that Mastodon is doing better. Mastodon doesn't try and get you addicted. And the federation aspect works AMAZINGly. I don't know/even care whether a user I'm interacting with is in the same instance or not. And I can subscribe not just to publications of Mastodon users but also blogs, photo apps etc which implement the ActivityPub protocol.

So yeah, what you said is not nonsense, but I 100% disagree with "doesn't have 1bn users therefore federation failed".
by flanked-evergl | 2026-01-06 10:54:03+00:00
I'm very conservative and in principle really aligned with Republicans in the US, but this is rotten deal. The end result is in practice worse for everyone, because the American voters do not understand why they should be underwriting out security, and their security underwriting in practice is not very reliable or good from our point of view. It has not deterred Russia, it has not countered China, and I don't think it's going to last, because American voters don't understand what they are getting for it, and neither do I.

Europe will be much better off if we can guarantee our own security. I'm not suggesting for something dumb like withdrawing from NATO without first having the next thing in place, but we need to be in a position where Putin (and his eventual successor) does not feel like they can push us around as much as the Americans will tolerate, which is precisely what Putin thinks.

We can and should be in a position where we push Russia around as much as China and India allows, and we dictate terms to them instead of cowering while they dictate terms to us. We should be in a position where if we say we are going to incorporate Ukraine into a defensive alliance that the Russians praise us and bow out of fear that we will take more of their things, instead of the reverse.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-06 10:54:32+00:00
> They are far more aware of the limitations than we…

Every individual only cares about their paycheck and promotion. They will happily ignore their knowledge of the limitations if it means squeezing out an extra resume bulletpoint, paycheck or promotion, even if it causes the company to go bankrupt down the line (by that time they would've jumped ship somewhere else anyway).
by 578_Observer | 2026-01-06 10:55:16+00:00
@Jach, thank you for very honest tips. "Be worse" — this is a shock for me! But I understand what you mean on HN. I will try to use my "broken English" more. (Actually, I think it might be more difficult for me... ^_^)

About Japanese nouns, that's very interesting. I didn't know words like "Tanren" (鍛錬) look like a "meme". For me, a local banker in Gunma, these are just daily words. But I see how they sound too "mysterious" or like a marketing trap here.

Your "Bin" (bottle) story is a very weird and funny analogy, even for a Japanese person like me. I will be careful not to make every word into a zen philosophy!

By the way, is this reply "worse" enough?

Next time you come to Japan, please come to my hometown, Gunma. I will teach you Japanese then ^_^. Thank you for helping me.
ScreenSense – OS Screen Rcorder Focused on Indviduals and Small Teams
by gurpreet_codes | 2026-01-06 10:55:42+00:00
I built screensense as a side project while working on my full time job.

Its my 3rd side project. I Know there are many other like screenity,cap but I also want to build one myself. Its built upon Laravel/Vuejs and its open source if anyone from laravel community running teams and need screenrecorder for QA and all can host it easily.

Recently, I saw a similar project was making 15k/MRR I thought why can't I build one, I keep building thiings on side so I picked this idea.

People here are smart, I want advice/feedback how can I reach at some level with this software.

I may be dumb building the same thing, but I'm curious and love building things.
Show HN: The Zone – A Daily Battle Royale for SaaS Launches
by Sbrefe | 2026-01-06 10:57:17+00:00
I built The Zone to solve the "noise" problem in software discovery.

Most directories suffer from infinite scroll and bot inflation. My hypothesis is that scarcity creates focus.

The mechanics:

Strict Limit: Only 9 projects compete per 24-hour cycle.

Elimination: Based on voting (verified via X-Auth), the "Safe Zone" shrinks.

SEO Value: The winner takes the archive spot, securing a permanent, high-quality backlink for their domain authority.

Monetization Experiment: I added a feature where sponsors can "bet" on a card to get visibility if that card wins.

Registrations are open today for the first batch starting tomorrow.

Stack: Next.js + PostgreSQL. Curious to hear your thoughts on the elimination mechanic.
by noodletheworld | 2026-01-06 10:57:17+00:00
No one said anything about lying.

Their job is to make the company successful. Part of success is raising funds and boosting share price.

That is their job, and how do you imagine they can do that?

Sound kind of glum and down about the company prospects?

Do not make be laugh.

Even if the company is literally haemorrhaging cash and has < week of runway left, senior executives are often so far up their own basses and surrounded by yes men, that they often honestly believe they can turn things around.

Its often not about will-fully lying.

Its just delusional belief and faith in something that is very unlikely.

(Last minute turn arounds and DSA do exist, but like lottery players, seeing the very few people who do win and mimicking them does not make you into a winner; most of the time)
Ask HN: How are you using AI coding tools?
by throwaw12 | 2026-01-06 10:57:24+00:00
I am currently using Claude Code as my daily driver for coding as an assistant where I plan and it codes.

But oftentimes, I am hearing people are doing much more with it:

* Multiple worktrees

* Parallel feature development

* Managing multiple Claude Code instances from mobile phone/web and so on

What are the ways you are using it and how are you managing the context in your brain?

For me, I am focusing only on a single task and doing multiple iterations to rewrite my plan, review the output, revert the changes and start over with a new plan and so on. Can't imagine how can I parallelize this process
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by g947o | 2026-01-06 10:58:06+00:00
Funny enough, for-of is not allowed in Airbnb eslint config, and you are expected to use forEach instead:

https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/issues/1122

https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/issues/1271

Because the style guide thinks "forEach is cleaner than for-of". (No I did not make that up.)
by anon7000 | 2026-01-06 10:58:24+00:00
Problem is that “the same” isn’t good enough. To get a promotion, you’d need to somehow prove that your specific change was so good that more customers are happy now than before.

To prove that, you need some data to compare before/after. Hm, how about how much time people send in the software? Seems like a decent proxy. Well, plenty of people are very unhappily addicted to social media. and yet that’s what companies and investors frequently look at.

It’s very hard to come up with an incentive where just keeping things the same is acceptable. I mean it’s basically an admission that you as a company cannot innovate or invent better ways for people to interact with a computer.
by visarga | 2026-01-06 10:59:14+00:00
I am personally working on formalizing the design stage as well, the core concepts being Architecture, Goal, Solution and Implementation. That would make something like the complexity of an algorithm an explicit decision in a graph. Take a look here: https://github.com/horiacristescu/archlib/blob/main/examples... (but it's still WIP, I am not there yet)
Show HN: Probably the most customizable and powerful iOS widget maker
by arcquesar | 2026-01-06 10:59:15+00:00
Most other widget apps I tried were bloated, full of ads and overwhelming.

So I tried building something simpler, and it somehow turned into a monster

Texget is a fully customizable widget maker:

Freeform canvas

Multiple text and image layers

Custom fonts, spacing, alignment, rotation

Widget actions to launch apps or shortcuts

Think Canva, but for creating iOS widgets.

It’s free to use, with optional in-app purchases for unlimited layers and custom fonts. No ads. Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

This is still early and I’m very much figuring things out. I’d genuinely love feedback. If you try it and have thoughts, please tell me what’s good, what’s confusing, or what’s missing.

App Store link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/texget/id6756565331
by hulitu | 2026-01-06 11:01:53+00:00
> But is it realistic these days to just expect software to write once and run forever?

From an engineering perspective, yes.
From the current mindset in SW development (reinventing the wheel every couple of years) no.
Almost all current SW is throw away software.
For most of it you need a particular version of an OS, particular versions of libraries and a particular planet alignment, just to be able to run it.
by avazhi | 2026-01-06 11:02:12+00:00
Minimising a browser installer surreptitiously installing an unrelated network service without my consent in the name of convenience and then pulling out a whataboutism that has nothing to do with this. Not even gonna bother reading the rest of your comment.

And yeah, my bone to pick is warning others not to fall for Brave’s slick PR. Companies that act that way can pay the price.