MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BrenBarn | 2026-01-26 02:51:39+00:00
People often mention email as an example of federated communication, but the way email works in practice doesn't entirely live up to that ideal. Good luck getting your own self-hosted email server to send emails that actually reach anyone using a major email provider; they'll just be blocked as spam.

In practice, email is much less federated than it seems. A significant proportion of people are just using gmail. You probably don't have to include that many providers to cover a majority of people in the US.

I think federation has promise, but federation in itself is not a solution. Technical approaches do not address the more fundamental issue that, regardless of the mechanics of the system, big players will have more influence on its operation and evolution. Thus we will always need sociopolitical mechanisms to restrict big players.
by genewitch | 2026-01-26 02:51:45+00:00
As far as old time radio: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; Richard Diamond (and Rogue's Gallery, same star and crew), and Philip Marlow. I try to get back in to the ones i listened to as a kid 40 odd years ago like Dragnet and Broadway is My Beat, but there's something too slow about them for me now. I like Suspense, as well. I'd have to go digging for some other shows i've enjoyed, as the YT,JD set is hundreds and hundreds of episodes long and keeps me entertained on long car trips...

I also have some newer things, i'm trying to fill my "Coast-to-Coast AM" collection, i've started on Phil Hendrie, and i have most of a show called "Love Line" hosted by Dr Drew Pinsky (and others, usually Adam Carolla). That one i asked permission to clone an archive i found on accident, and the archive owner/host was glad i was doing it. Those are all transcribed, now.

Each is kind of a snapshot of the time they existed, and i don't necessarily want to listen to them all (i don't like Art Bell that much, or talk radio in general!)

And if the reference to "Dude Named Ben" is correct, ITM, and i hope to hear from you when we both have time to fix these old shows!
Werewolf Romance 101: quick trope map and what to watch for
by XiayMu | 2026-01-26 02:52:26+00:00
If you’re new to werewolf romance, here’s the simplest way I’ve found to navigate it without getting blindsided by tropes you hate.

At its core, it’s romance-first: mates, packs, alphas, and shifting are mostly there to amplify relationship tension (instinct vs choice, loyalty vs freedom, power vs vulnerability). The genre is huge, so using trope keywords is the fastest way to get what you want.

A quick starter path:

If you want comfort + chemistry, try Fated Mates.

If you want angst + redemption, try Rejected Mate (expect grovel and emotional fallout).

If you enjoy world-building and stakes beyond the couple, look for Pack Politics / leadership.

If you prefer an “outsider learns the rules” entry point, Human x Wolf is usually beginner-friendly.

Before you commit, I recommend scanning for content warnings like: coercion/consent issues, humiliation/public rejection, captivity/restraint, heavy violence between leads, pregnancy trope, or cheating (people’s boundaries differ a lot here).

If you need a quick browsing rabbit hole, Goodreads shelves can help you see common tags and reader notes:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/werewolf-romance

(Disclosure: I work on NovelFlow. If your forum allows external links, it’s one place to browse werewolf romance catalogs/tags:)
https://www.novelflow.app/

What trope is an instant “yes” for you—and what’s your hard “nope”?
by Guestmodinfo | 2026-01-26 02:52:30+00:00
People's movement start when there is an implicit assurance of sustained outside support. Many feel the pain but they will turn it into action because they don't know if they can trust their peers who are feeling the same pain that the peers will act too as much as they talk. Because talk is cheap. But when people start seeing some outside support then only they start rallying for their goal. That's what i gather from the Indian Freedom movement and from the "Arab Springs"
by ndriscoll | 2026-01-26 02:53:23+00:00
What is the incentive for ad networks to suit you to whichever product best fits your needs? On price, if an ad network knew how much you needed something, why isn't their incentive to show you the the highest confidence-weighted price you'd pay rather than the absolute best deal?

e.g. if they know you absolutely need to get on a flight (dying family member or something), what is their incentive to find you the best one rather than gouging you? And if they sell that information to other groups so everyone knows to gouge you?
by nightpool | 2026-01-26 02:53:31+00:00
No, OP is saying that they have over-engineered the protocol, and that this acts as an *effective* barrier to participation, regardless of whether it was intended or not. Bluesky's protocol is focused on twitter-scale use-cases, where every node in the network needs to be able to see and process every other event from every other user in able to work properly. This fundamentally limits the people who can run a server to only the people who are able to operate at the same scale.
by tombert | 2026-01-26 02:55:01+00:00
It's definitely gotten considerably better, though I still have issues with it generating proofs, at least with TLAPS.

I think behind the scenes it's phoning Wolfram Alpha nowadays for a lot of the numeric and algebraic stuff. For all I know, they might even have an Isabelle instance running for some of the even-more abstract mathematics.

I agree that this is largely an early ChatGPT problem though, I just thought it was interesting in that they were "plausible" mistakes. I could totally see twelve-year-old tombert making these exact mistakes, so I thought it was interesting that a robot is making the same mistakes an amateur human makes.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-26 02:56:04+00:00
> This type of thinking is what is leading to the destruction of order there.

Yes, we are seeing a destruction of order in MN. US citizens being terrorized by ICE and CBP agents with 47 days of training, no understanding of the legal limits of their authority, and no consequences when they go beyond those limits.

But that's not being caused by people pushing back against the beginnings of autocracy. That's being caused by the people who want to become autocrats.
by dmead | 2026-01-26 02:57:39+00:00
I had a design sketched out that would do sentiment analysis on each post in your social media feeds. It would then take action to hide or outright delete stuff based on your configuration.

It would probably work as a browser plugin, but I didn't have a real solution for rewriting whats on say the reddit or Twitter phone apps.

Probably pretty easy to vibe code up such a thing now.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-26 02:58:14+00:00
> Kay was convicted after he used social media to call for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set alight.

Somehow I think prosecuting a public call for arson (and in intention, mass murder) is not the authoritarian excess you wish to portray it as. It's really completely unrelated to the thread at hand, which was about a future government using private information, collected in the past, to target people in the then-present. Your bringing up of the social media law could maybe be in the realm of comparison if they were retroactively punished for comments they made before the law passed, but as it is, there really isn't any relation at all.
by cmiles8 | 2026-01-26 02:59:42+00:00
I get that ICE and Palantir aren’t exactly broadly seen as the most popular, respected, or ethical teams out there at the moment. However, written another way the article could say:

“Data used to identify criminals fraudulently fleecing taxpayers of government services they aren’t entitled to.”

They’re not just hunting down random people. These are folks that have broken the law on multiple fronts. The current press headlines tend to gloss over that basic fact.
by SolubleSnake | 2026-01-26 02:59:47+00:00
I'm going to be controversial and say that this is an interesting spectacle but it is not even remotely comparable to the difficulty of what was going on in Free Solo. This is a circus trick by comparison to that.

For example I think a lot of 'good' climbers with several multi pitch climbs behind them could do this building fairly comfortably with ropes and really the only thing interesting about this is he did it without safety equipment which is frankly just a bit daft.

(I have climbed pretty extensively in the UK and also in Yangshuo China). I was kind of 'intermediate/good' at one point.
by krackers | 2026-01-26 03:00:12+00:00
Almost all of the bulbs you can find at a hardware store (let alone grocery store) exhibit terrible 120hz flicker. I know because I've literally tried every single one. Also it's not hard to get high CRI while nonetheless having terrible deep reds.

Out of the manufacturers you listed, only Philips Ultra Definition has low flicker and good R9 (95 CRI, R9 90). Also the claim from TFA is that NIR component improves visual performance (and I've read elsewhere that NIR also has health benefits).
by hobs | 2026-01-26 03:00:49+00:00
Wrong https://www.americanhistory.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/ameri...

There has been many ways to stop you from voting, contesting your vote, calling your registration into account, imitating tests that are impossible to validate if you are intelligent enough to vote, etc

Spend some time educating yourself on how voting suppression has worked historically and you wont sound so ignorant.
by bane | 2026-01-26 03:01:03+00:00
Some anecdotes:

- My wife is Korean, and a lot of Korean food is fermented, preserved, or otherwise kept using a traditional pre-refrigeration method. There are a number of really beautiful traditions that come from the logistics of keeping stuff around for months, or even years. The idea of things being diverted off at various stages of fermentation for different uses was a massive revelation to my American mind.

- That being said, my Korean relatives are completely blown away by some old Western methods of fermentation especially around land mammal meats -- various sausages, smoked meats, salted meats -- and fermented milk products like cheeses.

- The best restaurant in the world, I think in Norway, featured a dedicated fermentation R&D lab as part of their core restaurant menu development process.

- The global trade in alcoholic drinks in based on truly beautiful and sophisticated battles between various micro-organisms.

- My friends in the bio-world recently (in the last few years) have taken an interest in fermentation as part of the thinking on long-term food sources for space habitability. Nothing produces the incredible complexity in microbiology, specifically ones good for food sources for humans, creates anything close to the complexity of fermentation. The thought it using stages of fermentation to produce all of the feed material needed for complete human nutrition. But it's perpetual.

Bonus - you might also divert some parts of the process into fuel, air, and other required processes. It's incredibly compelling, highly technical (informed by modern AI models) research.
by jason_tko | 2026-01-26 03:02:30+00:00
I've seen many people say "I don't get the hype", so here's my attempt to explain it. I've been working in technology and software companies my entire life, but not as a developer.

Two days ago, I submitted and had my first pull request merged to an open source project (Clawdbot) thanks to my AI assistant rei.

A short story: rei suddenly stopped responding in some Slack channels. So I asked it to help me troubleshoot.

We traced the issue: adding custom instructions in one Slack channel incorrectly stopped it from replying in all the others.

I considered reporting the issue in GitHub, but then I thought, "Well... what if we just try to fix it ourselves, and submit a PR?"

So we did. We cloned the codebase, found the issue, wrote the fix, added tests. I asked it to code review its own fix. The AI debugged itself, then reviewed its own work, and then helped me submit the PR.

Hard to accurately describe the unlock this has enabled for me.

Technically, it's just an LLM call, and technically, I could have done this before.

However there is something different about this new model of "co-working with AI that has context on you and what you're doing" that just clicks.
by camillomiller | 2026-01-26 03:04:07+00:00
On the night of Alex Pretti's execution by Border Patrol, big tech CEOs think it's a great idea to show up at the preview of the most pathetic movie in existence. This goes beyond "having to seat at the table" to change things, like Tim Cook often said. This is high level simping. I am so disgusted. These are the people y'all work for.
by tkel | 2026-01-26 03:04:51+00:00
Who is a "terrorist" in the eyes of the US gov't has always been their political enemies, never themselves or their allies.

At this point, it's simply an empty accusation that has been so ingrained into the American psychy over generations, that it can cheaply be used to justify incredible violence against enemies of the state. Even justify invading entire countries even on faked evidence, remember the "war on terror", "weapons of mass destruction", calling Maduro a "narcoterrorist"? It's a term of propaganda, same as it ever was. Only difference now is it's more obvious as this administration doesn't seem to care if the mask is slipping.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-26 03:05:05+00:00
Alright - Updating the base model to Deepseek R1. Making sure the deep research dependencies install immediately.

I want this repo to be so easy to use that anyone can git clone, double click start.bat - run the import brain (automatically) and start it up.

The deep research framework 50 is a toggle - scroll down the left sidebar and click it on. It'll run my framework and provide you with comprehensive reports.

I'll be pushing this update either in the next 30 minutes or tomorrow morning depending If I can stay awake long enough. (Dead tired.)

Thanks for the Stars guys - 21 stars total - 3 stars just in the past hour - means a lot.

Vive la révolution!
by cthalupa | 2026-01-26 03:05:57+00:00
They are not where I would hold them to if they were truly a principled organization and not largely a political tool for the far-right on any and every talking point, but we got far more out of them than we usually do.

They publicly called out a Trump appointee for saying you're not allowed to bring a gun to a protest, and have urged that there be an investigation in to what occurred.

They also then blamed it on the MN government, because for some reason CBP (250 miles from a border, and thus 150 miles away from their remit...) pretending to be police officers when they also lack a remit to do that and them then fucking things up and murdering people because of the lack of remit, lack of training, lack of screening on the hiring... is because of Walz and co.

So... better than I expected, but still pretty dogshit.
by freeopinion | 2026-01-26 03:06:28+00:00
Are there really a lot of alternative Wifi chips that don't require closed blobs? Do you have a list?

Are they found in any laptop that is reasonably available on the market?

I don't think that Guix is punishing users by not supporting non-libre hardware. They are making a choice in what they develop and anybody of similar mind can join their effort.

The nonguix folks are practical. It just stinks that nothing ships with a Wifi chip that doesn't require nonguix pragmatism.
by tkzed49 | 2026-01-26 03:07:45+00:00
The fact that there's no tangible plan for any plugin support in Turbopack is actually what made me not choose Next.js.

The answer for people who need basically any build plugin is "use the webpack mode", and I have zero faith in Vercel maintaining that past the next major version.

I guess we'll see whether they figure out a story for plugins by then.
by nostrebored | 2026-01-26 03:07:57+00:00
https://x.com/nils_reimers/status/1809334134088622217?s=46

https://x.com/generall931/status/1809303448837582850?s=46

There used to be a benchmarking issue with a founder that was particularly egregious but I can’t find it anymore.

The sharding and consensus issues were from around a year and a half ago, so maybe it’s gotten better.

There are just so many options in the space, I don’t know why you’d go with one of the least correct vendors (whether or not the correctness is deception is a different question that I can’t answer)
by dang | 2026-01-26 03:07:59+00:00
Let me see if I can outline how we approach this in a way that might make sense to you...

People use the word "transparency" to mean different things. Here are the ways in which I think it's fair to say we're transparent about mod actions: (1) we explain the principles that we apply, frequently and at length; and (2) we're happy to answer questions, including about specific cases.

What we don't do is publish a complete moderation log. To understand why, it's probably easiest to look through my past answers about this at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Here's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39234189.

In our experience, the current approach is a reasonable balance between the tradeoffs. It's true that we don't see all the comments like the ones you posted here, and we can't address what we don't see. It's also true that, as volume has grown, we've found it harder to reply to absolutely every question. But it's still eminently possible to get an answer if you want one—especially if you're asking in a way that signals good faith*.

(*I add the latter bit because some people use the format of "asking a question" as way of being aggressive and in such cases we may respond otherwise than by taking the question literally. That's pretty rare though.)
by thelastgallon | 2026-01-26 03:07:59+00:00
You are spot on about segregation. Yes, walking and biking are for undesirables. The suburbs are built for cars and cars only. Poor people (African, etc) can't afford the large lots, the minimum size of residence, the HOA and lawn maintenance, car required to go anywhere. This is how you can do segregation without violating any laws. Usually, most people don't admit that these are the real goals. I'm surprised that you are openly admitting that segregation is what we want. I guess times are changing!
by defrost | 2026-01-26 03:08:30+00:00
It's not contraversial at all - buildings are extremely predictable (

to a point, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750654 and consider that the initial overhang pass failed due to not finding an open bottomed window cleaning track to slot into, they backed up, tried another spar, and success )

this was an exercise of focus, indifference to exposure, and fitness to complete the 1,660 odd feet of ascent.

> he did it without safety equipment which is frankly just a bit daft.

People vary a lot, I had spent a few years climbing before someone pointed out that you could use ropes and protection .. indoor climbing gyms were fun for a while but never really became a thing of great interest for myself.
by crdrost | 2026-01-26 03:09:33+00:00
With a slide rule you can start from 92200 or so, long division with 9.22 gives 9.31 or so, next guess 9.265 is almost on point, where long division says that's off by 39.6 so the next approximation +19.8 is already 92,669.8... yeah the long divisions suck but I think you could get this one within 10 minutes if the interviewer required you to.

Also, don't take a role that interviews like that unless they work on something with the stakes of Apollo 13, haha
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-26 03:09:48+00:00
Sure, but then why do they have to wait? ICE agents who want to threaten legal observers can just do it to their faces - as we've seen, even if they murder legal observers the Trump regime will have their back. I think most don't want to do that, whether out of cowardice or an understanding of what's coming once their leaders are brought to justice.
by kgarten | 2026-01-26 03:10:14+00:00
Quite a while back, a former student of mine built Nekoze :D

https://nekoze.app
Nekoze warns you when you are hunched over.

Years back, we did a couple of whimsical prototypes along those lines (using J!NS MEME, smart glasses):
https://youtu.be/LXIY2g-twOA
by solaire_oa | 2026-01-26 03:11:46+00:00
To be honest, I found this essay a bit meandering and I lost interest in reading the whole thing (coming off the heels of re-reading Civil Disobedience, which by comparison is immediately forthright and to the point).

Skipping ahead to the 14 properties, however, points 5, 7, 11, and 12 are probably the most evident in the present moment.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-26 03:11:51+00:00
This is true.

Yet law enforcement officers are some of the most resistant to the idea, and Trump and DHS are extremely resistant to the idea of utilizing them for ICE and CBP, and have even cut funding for it.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-moved-cut-funding-ice...

When we know that the body cams are frequently used in a way that benefits the people wearing them, I find it quite telling when those people are railing against the idea and those in power actively work to block it.
by dang | 2026-01-26 03:12:39+00:00
I appreciate that there's a gap between what people intend to say and what they actually say, but I'm not sure I've ever seen the gap as large as what you posted above vs. what you posted here.

In case it helps at all, "When your door is kicked down, your partner is dragged away and citizens are executed on your street, will you feel proud about how you have helped suppress these discussions?" struck me as grammatically, rhetorically, and emotionally more aggressive than even "have you stopped beating your wife yet?" as an incriminating cross-examination.
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-01-26 03:12:48+00:00
>> The instanceof[0] operator is typically banned from use in application code and often frowned upon in library implementations.

> Never seen this being banned. Whats the reason?

Its usage encodes a priori assumptions of what a super-type could be, often expressed in an "if-else-if tree", thus making the logic doing so needlessly brittle and difficult to maintain.

Library logic sometimes needs to use this construct (I'd argue those abstractions need to be rethought however), but an application which does exhibits a failure in domain modelling IMHO.
by bucket_ | 2026-01-26 03:12:54+00:00
Great question. Magic-wormhole is perfect for live 'hand-off' sharing, and there are plenty of use cases where that’s exactly what you need. I've used it too many times to count.

The difference here is mainly architectural. Wormhole follows a more traditional P2P sharing workflow and is strictly synchronous — it requires the receiver to be connected at the same time to complete the handshake. Bucket is completely asynchronous and state-agnostic: recipients don’t have to be online or even install anything to receive a file. They can simply click the link your CLI generates and enter the secret key (within the file expiration period).

Your question about writing to stdout is also a good one. Currently, the CLI (client.go) forces a write to disk, but I am actively working on stdin/stdout support. It will land in a release soon. The intent is to support commands like:

$ bucket pull --secret "$SECRET" bkdf1e848ea23e | ssh rocky@10.10.10.2 "cat > redhat92_minimal.iso"

$ ssh rocky@10.10.10.2 "tar zcvf - /var/ /etc/ /usr/" | bucket push --filename="10.10.10.2_backup.tgz"
by zzleeper | 2026-01-26 03:15:02+00:00
The problem is that a relatively small group of people (flaggers) just veto what we see and don't see. This made sense when we relied on flagging to just remove spam, useless posts, etc. but its now being used to remove anything that goes against MAGA.

I'm pretty sure that if you sqldump the list of flaggers of this and other posts (like the MN posts) you will find it's not a uniformly distributed list of users.