MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cael450 | 2026-01-25 21:23:19+00:00
My wife works in autism services in a predominantly Latino city. Those kids all have Medicaid, which includes info about their parents. It would be pretty trivial to cross reference with other data points to identify kids with undocumented parents and then you have their home address. Many of these kids go to a clinic everyday, so now you know when someone (likely a parent) is dropping them off too. She’s had patients with parents who have been picked up by ICE. I wouldn’t be surprised if that data came from Medicaid. It’s basically the same as the IRS data they’ve been using.

And it is next to impossible for average people to get adequate care for their kids with autism without Medicaid and early intervention can make the difference between someone who can live relatively independently with supports and someone who will spend their adult life chemically restrained in an institution. So they are in between a rock and a hard place.
by AndreyK1984 | 2026-01-25 21:23:28+00:00
Any chance to see the other side ? I regularly read the opposite side press, their points are basically this:

- get rid of all immigrants (illegal alients)

- get rid of everyone who is against ICE

- take Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Colombia

Thus seriously, any minimal possibility
to justify actions of ICE? Scared, non trained, a very stupid agent, whatever ?
by jacquesm | 2026-01-25 21:23:35+00:00
I'd say for commercial hardware it is a near certainty even if you won't ever know until it is much too late.

Realize that many of these manufacturers sell their hardware in and employ companies in highly policed societies. Just the fact that they are allowed to continue to operate implies that they are playing ball and may well have to perform a couple of favors. And that's assuming they are fully aware of what they are shipping, which may not be always the case.

I don't think it is a bad model at all to consider any cell phone to be compromised in multiple ways even though you don't have hard proof.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-25 21:23:37+00:00
> What I find amusing is that when the Snowden leaks happened and I would discuss it, when I said something like "let's pretend for a moment that we can't trust every single person in the government" I would usually get an agreeable laugh.

> But using these same arguments with ICE + Palantir, these same people will say something like "ICE IS ONLY DEPORTING THE CRIMINALS YOU JUST WANT OPEN BORDERS!!!". People's hypocrisy knows no bounds.

"THE CRIMINALS" is doing a lot of work here. Every single one of the tens of millions of people who have illegally immigrated to the United States over the past few decades is a criminal who can be legally deported. Many people are politically sympathetic to these illegal immigrants, often because those people do in fact politically support open borders, but that doesn't change the fact that they violated the law in entering or remaining in the US.

Whether a given person is a US citizen or legal resident isn't private information that the US federal government only knows because of illegal spying. It's a matter of public record, that I leak about myself in a thousand different ways all the time to all sorts of people and institutions. If there was a public database that let anyone in the world look me up by name and determine whether or not I'm a US citizen or legal resident, I wouldn't care at all.

In fact, the main reason why people would like to treat US citizenship or legal residency data as a secret that one part of the government can't legitimately tell another part of the government, is precisely to make it harder for the government to detect and deport illegal immigrants.
by zugi | 2026-01-25 21:23:39+00:00
These are both true statements, but there's a huge difference in scale.

The UK arrests 12,000 people per year for social media posts ( https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-kingdom/freedom-net/... ), for a broad range of vague reasons including causing offense. That's far more than much larger totalitarian nations like Russia and China.

The US arrests folks for direct online threats of violence - a much higher bar.
by derektank | 2026-01-25 21:23:42+00:00
They made that ruling while Biden was president. It seems hard to call that an example of rubber stamping for an administration that did not exist yet.

John Roberts and other conservative members of the court do have an ideological commitment to the Unitary Executive Theory of the presidency (foolishly, in my view) but this has the potential to benefit both Democratic and Republican presidents.
by RealityVoid | 2026-01-25 21:24:22+00:00
The point is, when tense situations happen, you need to have everyone keep their cool. If someone flinches, people die. Repeat this situation many many times over a day, and tragedies will happen.

The shooting of Alex Pretti was a long chain of escalatory and poor decisions on the part of ICE (well, assuming here that "good" is defined by not shooting people, I'm sure some in this admin might disagree). I might come off too sympathetic to ICE. I am not, but the real killers here are the ones creating these kinds of situations, the ones using ICE as a political gain machine. I'm sure that ICE has its shares of psychopaths, but giving them reign in the first place... those people empowering them have blood on their hands.
We've given up on keeping our initial arch docs/specs up to date.Should I worry?
by yutea_dem24 | 2026-01-25 21:24:25+00:00
At my current team, we started out with decent arch docs “how the system works” pages. Then we shipped for a few weeks, priorities changed, a couple of us made small exceptions and now we don't use them anymore and they are lost in time.

As the one who’s supposed to keep things running long term, I’m not sure if this is just normal and harmless, or if it's gonna hurt us later.

If you’ve been in this situation: should we just accept it? If not, when does it start causing real problems?
by downrightmike | 2026-01-25 21:24:36+00:00
Hyperinflation is most likely, pay the debt with useless dollars. Other option is Debt Jubilee, which the Gov't would need to force lenders to write off the debt.

All the petrodollar stuff seems like they are trying to keep the dollar valuable while it hyperinflates AKA knock everyone else's value down while being the most valuable even if it is like $1 trillion to $1 today
by lll-o-lll | 2026-01-25 21:24:41+00:00
Having worked in this space for over a decade (but not in the last 7 years), your comments surprise me. Is this a smaller operation perhaps?

In general, operator UX (HMI, human machine interface), is a an area that’s well researched and more or less standardised in recent times (ISA101). Abnormal Situation Management (ASM), Situational Awareness, automatic alarm suppression for “consequential alarms”, High Performance Graphics (basically everything grey except the stuff that matters). If your Engineers do a good job; the operators can do a good job.

Removing all interlocks sounds like a bit of a cop-out to me. Interlocks are there to prevent the mis-click pouring molten steel on peoples heads. If you have a nice boring standardized ASM HMI, operators can’t “hide behind them”. Every operation is the same.
by RHSeeger | 2026-01-25 21:24:46+00:00
Challenge.

Laws cannot an action a crime after it was committed. However,

- Civil rules can and do impact things retroactively

- Laws may not make something illegal retroactively, but the interpretation of a law can suddenly change; which works out the same thing.

- The thing you're doing could suddenly become illegal with on way for you to avoid doing it (such as people being here legally and suddenly the laws for what is legally changes). This isn't retroactive, but it might as well be.

It is _entirely_ possible for someone to act in a way that is acceptable today but is illegal, or incurs huge civil penalties, tomorrow.
by rvnx | 2026-01-25 21:24:59+00:00
It is the same concept on an iPhone, you have 7 days to downgrade, then it is permanently impossible. Not for technical reasons, but because of an arbitrary lock (achieved through signature).

OnePlus just chose the hardware way, versus Apple the signature way

Whether for OnePlus or Apple, there should definitively be a way to let users sign and run the operating system of their choice, like any other software.

(still hating this iOS 26, and the fact that even after losing all my data and downgrading back iOS 18 it refused to re-sync my Apple Watch until iOS 26 was installed again, shitty company policy)
by panrobo | 2026-01-25 21:25:05+00:00
I’m a founder and always get overwhelmed when it comes to finding VCs that fit our product. Over the weekend I built pickYourVC which helps to solve this. Input your startup data and see who is the best VC to lead your next round. For now only for EU founders but if you like it, I will add more data to include US too.

Frontend is done with codex and for backend I used vela, which is the Postgres backend platform that my startup is building. So it was a good way to test our product in prod.
by scoofy | 2026-01-25 21:25:47+00:00
You can be pro-immigration enforcement, while also anti whatever-the-fuck-this-is.

It's called being pro-rule of law.

You're not allowed to just shoot people in the back that are very obviously not a threat, even if their idiotic lack of proper training makes them feel like they're in danger. It's literally South Parkian "they're coming right for us!!!" -- BANG -- as justification for lethal force of an unarmed person in custody.
by ameligrana | 2026-01-25 21:26:20+00:00
I take the occasion to say that I helped making/rewriting a comparison between various agent-based modelling software at https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/ABMFrameworksComparison, not sure if this correctly represents all of them fairly enough, but if anyone wants to chime in to improve the code of any of the frameworks involved, I would be really happy to accept any improvement
by mistermaster1 | 2026-01-25 21:26:25+00:00
While I don’t like what this administration is doing, this is still hyperbole and sensationalism. True fascism would not allow the massive criticism and outrage (including by active lawmakers and heads of state & local governments) that recent events have reasonably led to.

Also, the midterm elections this year will be a direct, real and concrete mechanism that demonstrates that we aren’t living under fascism in the United States.
by RadiozRadioz | 2026-01-25 21:26:33+00:00
This is a disgusting tool. This is assisting and profiting from the SEO spam arms race that is filling the web with garbage.

> Take a competitor's high-performing video, extract the key points, and write a 'Better Than' guide on your own blog.

It is literally promoting plagarism with expressly negative pretext. Flagged.
by jy-tan | 2026-01-25 21:26:45+00:00
Hey! Yes, Fence was inspired by sandbox-runtime. Both use the same underlying OS primitives (sandbox-exec on macOS, bubblewrap on Linux) and proxy-based network filtering.

Fence adds additional controls on top of what is available on sandbox-runtime:

- Command deny rules

- SSH command filtering

- Port exposure for inbound connections (useful for running dev servers inside the sandbox). This is a key reason why I decided to create Fence - because https://github.com/Use-Tusk/tusk-drift-cli spins up users’ services locally for trace replays and Fence helps to block unintended localhost outbound connections.

- Built-in templates for common developer workflows

- Better ergonomics for violation monitoring (`fence -m` gives you real-time violation logging on both macOS and Linux via eBPF, vs sandbox-runtime where Linux requires manual strace)

In summary, Fence layers extra permission-management features for wrapping popular CLI agents. If you just need filesystem + network isolation and you're in the Node ecosystem, sandbox-runtime is great. If you want command blocking, SSH filtering, inbound port exposure, or a standalone Go binary, Fence adds that.
by manuelmoreale | 2026-01-25 21:26:47+00:00
You are 100% right. But so is the person you’re replying to. Not everything coming out of AI is slop. This almost certainly is.

“AI slop (also known simply as slop) is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is lacking in effort”

Your homepage says:

“Paste a YouTube URL (yours, a competitor's, or a viral hit). LandKit extracts the genius and converts it into a structured, SEO-optimized article in 60 seconds.”

Tell me how that’s not the definition of low effort. And also tell me how that adds any value. An original video already exists. You’re doing nothing but generating noise that makes the whole situation worse.

AI can have beneficial use cases. This is not one of them.
by cdrini | 2026-01-25 21:27:05+00:00
I think it's an interesting relationship between influencers, especially young ones, and their followers.

Young influencers of this nature get a following because of their authenticity. They're genuine, honest, about their experiences, and the comments reflect it. People in the comments open up about their own problems and insecurities and issues. It creates an "illusion of community" as Edwards says in the article.

Now couple with that the complication of making money. An influencer indirectly makes money from their followers. I could easily see how someone who makes that authenticity part of their brand/identity feeling an obligation to their followers to continue to be honest even on subjects of high emotion. These people who are responsible for your success, your lifestyle, how could you be anything but brutally honest with them?

And just like in real relationship where showing vulnerability can strengthen bonds, it has the same effect on the influencer-follower relationship -- despite in reality being parasocial. And strengthening that bond also results in more faithful followers, which is financially beneficial.

Now, whether a given influencer is being vulnerable due to obligation or due to financial incentives, is unclear. For many it seems more obviously financial. But for others it does seem like a bit of a complicated mixture of the two.

Edit: Here's the video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8J8fWCNqCI . Personally this feels more genuine than financially motivated, but that's me. And to be fair there is no actual crying in the video! Seems like a bit of a dishonest wording by the author of the article to claim as such.
by mitjafelicijan | 2026-01-25 21:27:25+00:00
This whole tool is much more a display of what termbox2 can do in couple of lines tbh :) You are so right about that.

It's an amazing library. And all that juice in one stb-style header file. You just gotta love it.

And if you are interested in such small libraries, I have a Github list with a bunch of them that I found.

https://github.com/stars/mitjafelicijan/lists/stb-style-mini...
by rolph | 2026-01-25 21:28:08+00:00
no its not true, constitutional rights and responsibilities are durable.

what is true, is that individual states, may "decorate" or amend [the interpretation of] constitutional legislation, and at times may enact what amounts to a defacto revocation of constitutional law.

here is where you will loose it if you dont use it and speak up about a state overreaching "states rights".

one example being 2nd amendment, vs concealed carry laws.
by averynicepen | 2026-01-25 21:28:41+00:00
Degradation is driven by many things, but a big one is heat. Elevated temperatures during both charge and discharge is very bad for battery longevity. To manage this, almost all EVs use liquid cooling, with a cold plate directly contacting as many battery cells as they can to move heat out of the battery. This coolant is then cooled by a radiator, an AC chiller, or both.

The worst temperature abuse case is DC fast charging, aka Supercharging, where high current charging creates tons of heat due to resistive losses. This is why frequent fast charging causes faster battery degradation, but ordinary charging and driving does not, because the coolant loop is sized for the DC fast charge heat transfer requirements.

Besides removing heat, adding heat into the system is also desirable. Cold weather environments approaching freezing or below is also bad for battery longevity, and more importantly, terrible for range. Resistive heaters are super power hungry, and to heat the battery coolant loop requires power from the battery. This is why, conventionally, EVs are terrible in cold weather.

> Do EV manufacturers use any other tricks not covered by this?

And now, onto the magic trick.

Heat management is so important to both the driving range and the longevity of a vehicle that EVs have moved from traditional resistive heaters to heat pumps. These magical thermodynamic devices can move heat from anywhere, including drawing heat out of cold ambient air.

When you combine that with a valve design that allows the heat pump to access the battery coolant loop, the motor drivetrain coolant loop, the cabin coolant loop, the vehicle computer(s) coolant loops, and external ambient temperature, you can have a super efficient system that shuffles heat where it's "wasted" to where it's "needed".

Tesla has an excellent video briefly covering their heat pump and their very clever Octovalve design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGgrkeds5U

For more depth, this video covers the heat pump and the ~22 different sources of heat it can draw heat from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dujr3DRkpDU
by mvkel | 2026-01-25 21:29:03+00:00
This seems like a cheap trick to hook someone into a blog post (ironically, Gwern seems to disregard this almost universally).

If I were reading a book and each chapter started with such a "hook," it'd start to feel like a LinkedIn post.

Chapter 1: I didn't know what it felt like to be alive until I was dead...

Chapter 2: Death was nothing compared to what came next: judgment.

Chapter 3: I thought I knew what judgment was until...
by rudedogg | 2026-01-25 21:29:17+00:00
This is kind of where I'm at.

I don't think everything is for certain though. I think it's 50/50 on whether Anthropic/whoever figures out how to turn them into more than a boilerplate generator.

The imprecision of LLMs is real, and a serious problem. And I think a lot of the engineering improvements (little s-curve gains or whatever) have caused more and more of these. Every step or improvement has some randomness/lossiness attached to it.

Context too small?:

- No worries, we'll compact (information loss)

- No problem, we'll fire off a bunch of agents each with their own little context window and small task to combat this. (You're trusting the coordinator to do this perfectly, and cutting the sub-agent off from the whole picture)

All of this is causing bugs/issues?:

- No worries, we'll have a review agent scan over the changes (They have the same issues though, not the full context, etc.)

Right now I think it's a fair opinion to say LLMs are poison and I don't want them to touch my codebase because they produce more output I can handle, and the mistakes they make are too subtle that I can't reliably catch them.

It's also fair to say that you don't care, and your work allows enough bugs/imprecision that you accept the risks. I do think there's a bit of an experience divide here, where people more experienced have been down the path of a codebase degrading until it's just too much to salvage – so I think that's part of why you see so much pushback. Others have worked in different environments, or projects of smaller scales where they haven't been bit by that before. But it's very easy to get to that place with SOTA LLMs today.

There's also the whole cost component to this. I think I disagree with the author about the value provided today. If costs were 5x what they are now, I think it would be a hard decision for me to decide if they are worth it. For prototypes, yes. But for serious work, where I need things to work right and be reasonably bug free, I don't know if the value works out.

I think everyone is right that we don't have the right architecture, and we're trying to fix layers of slop/imprecision by slapping on more layers of slop. Some of these issues/limitations seem fundamental and I don't know if little gains are going to change things much, but I'm really not sure and don't think I trust anyone working on the problem enough to tell me what the answer is. I guess we'll see in the next 6-12 months.
by touwer | 2026-01-25 21:29:43+00:00
The most scaring and amazing thing is not Trump himself, but all the people (suddenly) supporting him and being silent (including too many Democrats) in order to keep their position or for for opportunistic purposes. And destroying democracy along the way. Just like all the secret police agents in Iran or the henchmen of Hitler. CEO's of bigtech. Crypto-libertarians. Too many people are sucking up to wannabe dictators when the moment is there
by Telaneo | 2026-01-25 21:29:47+00:00
The Venn diagram of Xbox games and PC games is very close to the Xbox circle just being completely inside the larger PC circle. The number of Series S/X exclusives is literally zero at this point, at least I'm fairly sure, and if there are any, my bets are on them being shovelware. The Xbox One only has one exclusive game of note, which is Halo 5.

I don't think the performance of the Steam Deck is up to play all Xbox games at Series X quality, but that's a nitpick assuming future Steam Decks arrive.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-25 21:30:06+00:00
> The classic example here is what happens when someone is being stalked by an abusive ex-partner who works in law enforcement and has access to those databases.

Or if you're currently married to an abusive partner and want to leave: how can you make a clean break with all the tracking nowadays? (And given how 'uncivilized' these guys act in public (masked, semi-anonymous), I'd had to see what they do behind closed doors.)
by ChrisGammell | 2026-01-25 21:30:11+00:00
I didn't realize the Bending Spoons acquisition was a second time go-round. I do know after they enshittified (sorry, "harvested called for the PE overlords") two other web properties I used and loved back in the day (Evernote, Meetup), and thus I have an unfortunate to-do list item to migrate my 1000+ video library over to something else in 2026. Currently looking at Cloudflare for the files and some kind of player on top.

Sigh.
by nailer | 2026-01-25 21:30:18+00:00
Someone bought a modified Sig Sauer gun - that’s known to go off when moved suddenly (you can find as many videos as you want on the issue) - and resisted arrest. The gun went off during the arrest, officers thought the man was firing at them.

It’s tragic - the way to prevent this is to increase calm, give the federal officers some support, stop conspiracy theories (eg like the boy that abandoned by his father that people say was ‘arrested’ or your comment pretending it was a murder) and stop vigilante groups from causing chaos.
by tombert | 2026-01-25 21:30:22+00:00
Without going into a long tangent talking about each point, I would like to point out that ICE doesn't actually seem terribly concerned with whether or not the people are illegal aliens or criminals. The last two people they murdered were US citizens, there are many US citizens, some natural born, that have been detained.

If they have access to all this information that was volunteered, then why are they so utterly incompetent at actually deporting illegal aliens?

That said, the disturbing part of Palantir and ICE isn't just that they are reading my driver's license or my legal status, it's the fact that they know everything.

You are absolutely, unequivocally incorrect that anyone in any significant numbers wants "open borders". I know this is a meme, but it's a meme that isn't true.