MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zahlman | 2026-01-16 17:50:21+00:00
I'm not familiar with The Will to Change, but a former Internet associate of mine wrote a multi-part critique of Feminism is for Everyone many years back. As I read along I had to agree that it simply isn't nearly as sympathetic to men as bell hooks seems to have thought it was. Just as many other supposedly softer takes on feminism aren't. In particular, there's a refusal to acknowledge the harm that feminism has actively done to men, and the fact that there very clearly are people and policies out there that actively seek to harm men because they are men. In "liberal" feminism, everything bad that happens to men is rounded off to "the patriarchy hurts men too".

(The promulgation of the term "patriarchy" is itself an example of the harm I'm talking about. Feminists and other progressives will insist that the meaning of terms cannot be divorced from their etymology, and cite questionable-at-best etymology when complaining about words and campaigning for replacements. But then they have an entire canon of words that were deliberately coined to associate masculinity with harmful or undesirable things and femininity with virtue and resistance to oppression. As Karen Straughan put it: "[Feminists are] not blaming men, [they] just named everything bad after them.")
by vdupras | 2026-01-16 17:50:28+00:00
I don't see where you're going. We trust europeans and I very much doubt that we had any tariff on their automobiles to begin with. We're talking about removing a "artificial" stopgap tariff specifically targeting Chinese imports, not preferring China over Europe.

European cars can't compete here because they're not cheap enough. Chinese car are. They're the one disrupting the global market now.
Show HN: I scrapped my working AI agent pipeline and rebuilt it (postmortem)
by xvpdev | 2026-01-16 17:50:56+00:00
Scrapped 2,000 lines of “working” AI pipeline code and replaced it with one agent prompt.
System got simpler, more accurate, and harder to break.

Here's everything I extrapolated from building a rebuilding a large-scale integrated AI system, and a fundamental paradigm choice when building these systems.

If you want a deep dive, you'll get one.
by daneel_w | 2026-01-16 17:51:08+00:00
You're missing the complexity of making the guest inform the host that it has fully freed this and that slab of memory and that the host may reclaim it until further notice. It's a bit more complicated than the other way around, where the guest believes it has e.g. 4 GiB of RAM available but the host doesn't allocate all of it for the guest until it tries to read/write there. A virtual machine is something entirely else than a containerized piece of software.
by KittenInABox | 2026-01-16 17:51:09+00:00
I think people who seek out activities assume you actually have to be interested in the activity. No. You're there to socialize. The activity is just an excuse to have a positive experience with people. I play board games. Do I like board games? Meh. Do I like hanging out with people and talking about a board game, sure. The difference is important. This is why its a common joke to attend book club without having read the book. The book is literally just an excuse to gather.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-16 17:51:22+00:00
> Are IP addresses more transient than a domain within a 45 day window?

If I don't assign an EIP to my EC2 instance and shut it down, I'm nearly guaranteed to get a different IP when I start it again, even if I start it within seconds of shutdown completing.

It'd be quite a challenge to use this behavior maliciously, though. You'd have to get assigned an IP that someone else was using recently, and the person using that IP would need to have also been using TLS with either an IP address certificate or with certificate verification disabled.
by rnhmjoj | 2026-01-16 17:51:36+00:00
Yes, translating packets between IPv6 and IPv4 is precisely what Jool does.

From what you're describing I think you have to options: if you have enough IPv4 addresses at your disposal to cover your IPv6-only machines, you can use the so called "SIIT-DC" mode [1].

Otherwise, if you have less IPv4 addresses, say just one on your router, and multiple IPv6 machine you can setup a stateful NAT64 [2] with some static BIB entries. NAT64 is basically the familiar NAT, just with IPv6 in the LAN instead of private IPv4 addresses (say 192.168.1.0), and static BIB entries are the equivalent of port forwarding.
In this case you would run Jool on your router.

[1]: https://www.jool.mx/en/siit-dc.html

[2]: https://www.jool.mx/en/run-nat64.html

[3]: https://www.jool.mx/en/usr-flags-bib.html
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-16 17:51:44+00:00
It's not hard to search for a few keys in the about:config menu or to set a group policy. If you can't be bother to do this you have zero business running random scripts that update your system configuration that you have no idea how it works.

Normie users would be better off reading some detailed step-by-step instructions on how to do it by hand using built-in methods than to run random code from the internet that can be malicious.

My mom is 75 years old and barely knows how to use a web browser to begin with. There is zero chance I encourage her to run random pwsh scripts from the internet.

God forbid we're going to start giving them AI agents to do this kind of stuff for them. God help us.
by adamiscool8 | 2026-01-16 17:52:47+00:00
Nothing to do with “unfair, non-market policies and practices […] and China’s intentional, state-directed policy of overcapacity and lack of rigorous labour and environmental standards”? I suppose that doesn’t even register anymore to the average selectively outraged parochial Canadian.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2024/08/can...
by mrexroad | 2026-01-16 17:52:47+00:00
I reread Neuromancer last month and there was a line about how the AI had to recruit a human for its plan b/c the final step had a mechanical lock that needed to be picked by feel. I’m glad to see this is a brute force approach and that us humans still have some use for a while more (not sure if my comment is /s or not).
by basch | 2026-01-16 17:53:23+00:00
shopping assistant was a specific example, but in the process of research, brainstorming, etc theres a bunch of different ways id like to see visualization and record of how i got somewhere, what was discarded, summary of what was retained, whats coming next, options for branching.

the web is a document structure, but browsing it doesnt need to be linear.
by PedroBatista | 2026-01-16 17:53:35+00:00
I really never understood how people could store very important information in ES like it was a database.

Even if they don't understand what ES is and what a "normal" database is, I'm sure some of those people run into issues where their "db" got either corrupted of lost data even when testing and building their system around it. This is and was general knowledge at the time, it was no secret that from time to time things got corrupted and indexes needed to be rebuilt.

Doesn't happen all the time, but way greater than zero times and it's understandable because Lucene is not a DB engine or "DB grade" storage engine, they had other more important things to solve in their domain.

So when I read stories of data loss and things going South, I don't have sympathy for anyone involved other than the unsuspecting final clients. These people knew or more or less knew and choose to ignore and be lazy.
by unethical_ban | 2026-01-16 17:53:53+00:00
To be fair, I think it is chronically underprovisioned clusters that get overwhelmed by log forwarding. I wasn't on the team that managed the ELK stack a decade ago, but I remember our SOC having two people whose full time job was curating the infrastructure to keep it afloat.

Now I work for a company whose log storage product has ES inside, and it seems to shit the bed more often than it should - again, could be bugs, could be running "clusters" of 1 or 2 instead of 3.
by jonpurdy | 2026-01-16 17:53:56+00:00
I bought my first car in SF, a 2016 Spark EV. Tiny subcompact, 135 km range, perfect for our family of 4 (including dog + daughter).

I literally can't buy any subcompact car these days in USA or Canada, since Spark (petrol) was discontinued in 2022, Prius C (subcompact hybrid) discontinued, and Bolt EV (bigger but still small) discontinued and will be replaced with something even bigger.

Looking forward to inexpensive BYD Seagulls flooding Canada and hopefully encouraging dealers to bring in existing subcompacts that they sell everywhere else in the world.
by corry | 2026-01-16 17:54:16+00:00
A bit of nuance: yes, Carney said that but he didn't just offer up the opinion unprompted - it was in response to a direct press question about if China or the US is a more predictable partner right now.

And even then, he didn't lead with "China is!" but wandered his way into offering the assessment.

The context makes his comment on this seem less nakedly provocative (not that it'll matter either way - the headline will be the headline, and the Trump admin will use it however they see fit as usual).
by justonceokay | 2026-01-16 17:54:40+00:00
Agreed, that’s exactly what i did. But I wonder how much of that culture is because the new cheap Chinese cars aren’t here.

If all you have in town is a target, that’s where people will shop. If you open up a goodwill there might be some handwringing and “I would never” rhetoric. But many people will go to the goodwill even if they don’t admit it.
by leoc | 2026-01-16 17:54:41+00:00
Probably the advantages of its location outweigh the extra costs for the IA. Having your datacentre sited on land and in a building you own, behind a non-shared front door, has legal advantages similar to the ones which drive organisations to keep their data centres on-premises. A distinctive location in a nice area of San Francisco probably helps to keep cultivating the goodwill of the SV tech industry and of local and state politicians. It's also an advantage to be within easy walking distance in a neighbourhood where people like the IA and would be inclined to go there and protest if government forces rolled up and started pushing their way inside. To be sure, I presume that 300 Funston Ave. also being a very pleasant workplace for senior IA people has something to do with why the Archive moved there and remains there; but remaining there seems justifiable for other reasons.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-16 17:54:48+00:00
And a larger lock pick tool does pretty much zero in the case you listed as that is not opportunistic. Those are pretty much the open up and steal when they see an unlocked car kind of people.

It does nothing for the type of criminals that work in groups and steal tires of 50 cars at once, or whatever soup de jour of automobile parts they want at that moment.
by GabrielTFS | 2026-01-16 17:54:51+00:00
> If this much effort were being put into writing about government policy I'd totally agree with you, but this level of detail is uncharacteristic even for Wikipedia.

Honestly, I think you're very much underestimating how much Wikipedia writes about government policy - but perhaps more to the point, it's trivial to find articles about controversies regarding the "other side" that are also quite well furnished, e.g.:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controve...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Go_Brandon

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Did_That!

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_White_House_cocaine_incid...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Township_High_School_District_...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_name_Geronimo_controversy

So I don't think there's much of an argument to say that they're being particularly biased in doing this (you might believe that none, or almost none of these articles at all should exist, but that's a different issue).
by publicdebates | 2026-01-16 17:55:21+00:00
Not at all. In fact, once I learned to raise my standards for friendship, I now have significantly higher quality ones.

I have a small handful of people who I talk to regularly, who I genuinely listen to, and who genuinely listen to me, who genuinely enjoy my company, and whose company I genuinely enjoy, whether in small talk or deep conversations, serious topics or lighthearted fun.

These people give me by far the most joy in my life out of any relationships I've ever had before. And it's because we worked toward it the right way, and built our way up to it, finding common interests and building a real, organic connection from them.
by omoikane | 2026-01-16 17:55:35+00:00
Be sure to also check out some of the MP4 files in the images directory:

https://github.com/etinaude/Lock-Picking-Robot/tree/main/ima...

I am surprised that those thin copper wires can actually push the pins up, I thought they would slide off to the side or compress themselves against the more solid/rigid pins.
by christalwang | 2026-01-16 17:55:57+00:00
A few things top of mind:
1) A big differentiation is the guidance. Indy is based on science-backed frameworks and exercises that set the foundation for and fuel the main scaffolding interactions. For example, by going through the lifeline exercise when you sign up, members are prompted to think of future events across different life areas (vs. often when you tackle this yourself you may just start working on productivity/work oriented things for example) and the objective function of the app is general well-being rather than productivity
2) Indy is built not to give you answers but to build your capacity. For example, in the problem solving agent, it teaches you the COM-B framework through demonstration, and I've already talked to many members who are surprised that they found themselves going through similar thought process even when Indy wasn't there and getting things done that they haven't been able to in months or years
3) Sounds trivial but the design and user experience. It's built for ADHD and although not perfect and there's tons we want to add, the app is trained to help you see the good (pulling out wins, surfacing it in pretty ways, allowing you to add photos to build salience, etc.) to build self trust over time; and other UI / illustration choices to provide some dopamine (and we've considered hard the balance between providing dopamine but not trying to just get people to return to the app for the sake of it)
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-16 17:55:58+00:00
China buys and deploys more robotics for manufacturing than any other country in the world. Automate or die as a business. It's not "cheap China labor" vs "expensive union labor"; it's labor vs automation.

Inside China's 'dark factories' where robots run the production lines [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftY-MH5mdbw - December 4th, 2025

Chinese EV makers accelerate robotics drive for ‘game-changing’ edge over US - https://www.scmp.com/business/china-evs/article/3333310/chin... | https://archive.today/sJKKv - November 19th, 2025
by bflesch | 2026-01-16 17:56:21+00:00
If US had such amazing offensive cyber capabilities, why are bug bounties like HackerOne not already bankrupt? The NSA hackers could just easily farm all those bounties and make significantly more than they earn at the government.

I feel the answer to this is that most of what we call NSA offensive capabilities are not "real" offensive capabilities in terms of vulnerabilities and exploits, but simple backdoors in US equipment and US tech companies.

And I think they got really complacent because analyzing Facebook, Google and Apple data combined with credit card payments, phone call and browser history is doing the job just fine in 90% of the cases.

Due to large size of US traditional military, they have advanced capabilities in terms of physical network tapping that many other countries don't possess. Maybe they have super binoculars to spy on people typing in their passwords through the window from space. But in the end it is again white-collar "analysts" going through the data instead of clever people actually finding novel vulnerabilities in software, which is also the skill that is rewarded in bug bounties such as HackerOne.

Why invest into learning how to reverse engineer a cisco router if you can just call your buddy at Cisco and tell them to commit a new backdoor to the code.

By not using these skills they atrophy and once you hit a "real" adversary who is not on Windows and permanently uploading their data to Facebook and iCloud while using a credit card with apple pay, they might struggle very much.

I recall things like omg cable being a revolution in red team pentesting. Of course they had prototypes before, but I don't think it was widely utilized. Because why invest into such fancy hardware gimmicks if you can get the data directly from a US tech company who is forced to provide access for you anyways. It's much cheaper and more reliable.
by observationist | 2026-01-16 17:56:48+00:00
It's a lot like turn signals - social communication that goes beyond the practical benefit. If you're using your turn signals, you're saying "I'm aware of the environment and a good participant in the game we're playing because I'm following the rules". If you don't use signals, you're telling people that you're not following the rules, and that makes you suspect in all the other social games. Kinda funny to do some people watching with that perspective, and to start to see how many assumptions are based on society being high trust - the exploitable vulnerabilities are endless, and people communicate a lot about themselves in the rules they choose to follow or break.
by zahlman | 2026-01-16 17:57:04+00:00
It's bizarre to me that your comment was flagged and killed (here's a vouch). You see what you see in the video. There is nothing about your comment that violates HN guidelines. On the other hand, rhetoric about "lying" and "fascist assholes" is clearly not in the spirit of constructive dialog.

Other people here seem to think that "obstructing" something entails making it impossible to get around. That is just... not how that language ordinarily works. They also misrepresent your argument, skipping all the steps in between, as if you were asserting that people are being shot directly as a punishment for obstructing traffic. That's clearly not what anyone is saying or justifying, including the officers themselves.
by SECProto | 2026-01-16 17:57:25+00:00
> Massive trucks are useful for construction.

No, trucks are useful, but a massive modern pickup truck is much less useful in the urban context than a standard pickup truck from 30 years ago. The bed size has remained the same, the outside envelope of the vehicle has ballooned massively.

> You should get better transit so less people have cars.

Toronto has a very high (for north america) transit mode share
by roywiggins | 2026-01-16 17:57:38+00:00
> Elastic has been working on this gap. The more recent ES|QL introduces a similar feature called lookup joins, and Elastic SQL provides a more familiar syntax (with no joins). But these are still bound by Lucene’s underlying index model. On top of that, developers now face a confusing sprawl of overlapping query syntaxes (currently: Query DSL, ES|QL, SQL, EQL, KQL), each suited to different use cases, and with different strengths and weaknesses.

I suppose we need a new rule, "Any sufficiently successful data store eventually sprouts at least one ad hoc, informally-specified, inconsistency-ridden, slow implementation of half of a relational database"
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-16 17:57:49+00:00
>Some of these installs are only slightly better than paving the whole area.

Utter horseshit.

Putting up what amounts to a bunch of shade on steel pillars just doesn't harm the environment. There are more than a few contexts where it improves the environment.

There's no identified or predicted harm from large scale photovoltaic installations.
by sarkarsaurabh27 | 2026-01-16 17:57:53+00:00
Deskmate is a passion project developed under ., born from a simple goal: staying in creative and developer flow even when I’m not sitting at my desk.

I didn’t just want remote control.

I wanted an assistant that understands what I’m working on and lets me keep building, without switching mental gears or remembering commands.

That idea became .

Deskmate is a local-first agent that lets you continue working on your laptop from anywhere using natural language. It handles real, everyday “off-the-desk” moments like:

* Running a Docker build and push while you’re grabbing coffee

* Triggering tests or notebooks from bed

* Sending VPN-only emails or handling internal operations remotely

* Write code, run tests, or monitor running jobs and services remotely

* Take screenshots or join meetings even when you’re away from your machine

* Granting limited, time-bound access to your laptop when you’re not around

A simple example:

: “’ 3000?”

: “ ( 12345), . ”

: “ ”

.

With Deskmate, there are no commands to memorize, no context switching, and no broken flow.

Just intent.

Under the hood

* A local agent runs on your laptop under your user account

* Instructions are interpreted and planned locally, with awareness of context

* Actions execute safely on your machine

* You get feedback through logs, screenshots, and confirmations

Building on ideas from gen-shell, Deskmate goes further by introducing agents, workflows, approvals, and remote execution, so your creative or developer mode continues even when you step away from your desk.

Current stack

* Claude Agent SDK for agentic execution

* MCP for Claude Desktop integration

* Telegram for quick remote interaction

* TypeScript, running as a macOS background service

Planning to open this up for open source soon and would love to collaborate with others who are interested in:

* Making background execution reliable across always-on machines and sleeping laptops

* Migrating the agent runtime to OpenCode or other open-source alternatives

.
by tsunamifury | 2026-01-16 17:57:58+00:00
I was not looking to 'lock in life long friendships.' I was hosting a cocktail party as a favor for our school at my home and was obligated to ensure the overall experience was somewhat nicer than 'a wild party at an apartment' as fun as that is as well. These are somewhat normal things as part of a knit-community adult life. You have distant people come as well as close friends and open your home. That is ... hosting.

Partly what I was trying to point out is how 'adult life' gets complicated and expensive and most people are understandably just opting out. But at the same time, whats going out with it is just basic manners and social habits -- which is unfortunate.
by urcturpurs | 2026-01-16 17:58:26+00:00
Structure it as an X for Y thing for a % of equity vs how much the bring in.

Does 5% cash comp mean they’re going to get 5% of the raise amount? No VC would be ok with 5% of their investment going str8 to a middleman - if they find out.

That’s coming out to maybe 2-3 months of your runway gone immediately.

Beyond that the CEO of the startup is responsible for raising capital - you must build that skills from the beginning.

(Raising $2m on a $10m cap safe is not too hard if you’re serious about it and have some interesting insight)
by yabones | 2026-01-16 17:59:02+00:00
Not really... Most F150s have a 5.5' bed which is pathetically small. You can't fit a sheet of plywood or a 2x4 in there without having the tailgate down. You can only really buy full-sized long box trucks if you're part of a fleet program.

Most professional builders drive big Savannah vans, which can not only carry full sheets of plywood, but also keep them dry. Plus, the front blindspot is less than one meter.

I don't disagree about transit though.