MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kanbankaren | 2026-01-19 16:06:48+00:00
It is not as easy as you think.

RF attenuation is proportional to frequency and at 2.4 GHz, it is very high. Also, the distance over which one could communicate depends on antenna height, so if both parties are at ground level, it is not feasible over a few hundred meters unless both are in wide open space.

Source: ham operator who has played with long distance device to device communication without using a repeater.
by Cieric | 2026-01-19 16:07:21+00:00
I'm not even sure it's just instruction support that's the problem with the RV2. I bought one since I thought it would be cool to write a bare metal os for it (especially after I found the AI results to be so bad.) But the lack of documentation has been making it very hard to get anything actually up and running. The best I've got is compiling their custom u-boot and linux repos, and even those come with some problems.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-19 16:07:26+00:00
It’s clear nvidia and every single one of these big AI corps do not want their AIs to violate the law. The intent is clear as day here.

Scale is only used for emergence, openAI found that training transformers on the entire internet would make is more then just a next token predictor and that is the intent everyone is going for when building these things.
by fnands | 2026-01-19 16:08:04+00:00
US Americans is usually used outside the US to differentiate inhabitants of the US from citizens of other countries in the Americas (e.g. Mexico, Canada, and all of central and South America).

E.g. in Germany, inhabitants of the US are usually called "US amerikaner", so this is a direct translation (the Kiel institute is in Germany).

It's just Germans being stereotypically precise about things (and reminding citizens of the USA that they aren't the only people in the Americas).
by boplicity | 2026-01-19 16:08:08+00:00
It's not just Renee Good.

Unfortunately, this didn't get a lot of attention, but they also threw a flash-bang grenade and tear gas at a car filled with six children. A six month old baby had to get CPR from her mom. Two kids were hospitalized.

None of this is acceptable. And their overtly violent behavior has nothing to do with enforcing the law.
by speakfreely | 2026-01-19 16:08:35+00:00
It certainly was to anyone who has been paying attention. I would highly recommend that anyone who thinks the tariff strategy is irrational to read through Michael Kao's substack and his analysis of the administration's 2.0 playbook [1]. There's good news and bad news, but overall there's glimmers of hope.

[1] https://archive.ph/kLxw3
by kgwxd | 2026-01-19 16:08:39+00:00
They may have sold more in 2025 but will the customers be happy with that purchase overall? Just about everyone I know in person, that bought an electric vehicle over the past 10 years went back to gas as soon as they could. Worst case lasted a week, brand new hybrid went up in flames while charging. Luckily in the driveway, instead of the attached garage. The batteries need to be standard, quickly swappable, and there needs to be stations for it. For the same reason I don't keep a giant gas tank in my garage, I'll never buy an electric vehicle.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-19 16:09:23+00:00
> Masks have been of for a while, but as long as the EU people can't vote the EU presidency out of office, it's to no avail.

The EU is basically run by the Council, who are the national governments, all of whom are elected.

It's incredibly depressing that this keeps needing to be repeated when its been this way since the inception of the EU (with a small hiatus where we were gonna get a constitution).

The Commission can propose laws, but unless the Council (mostly) and Parliament (theoretically) agree, they won't happen.
by newsoftheday | 2026-01-19 16:09:24+00:00
> It is an art.

I agree what we do requires a lot of creative thinking. When AI supporters attempt to use an argument comparing to factory workers being freed from dull laborious work by robots, the analogy falls flat on two fronts. First, there's nothing creative about that sort of work and second, because robots are highly accurate; while AI can often be just high.
by bruckie | 2026-01-19 16:09:41+00:00
> Energizer batteries

I see the point you are trying to make, but Energizer batteries are a bad exemplar for it. Even if all of the batteries are the exact same SKU, some of them may be 10 years old and some of them may be fresh from the factory. I've had this happen with several (perishable) products from Amazon.
by theyogadev | 2026-01-19 16:09:42+00:00
New milestones for Nyno (open-source n8n alternative for AI Workflows):

Adoption: We hit 300 stars on GitHub, just within a few months!
Product Owner Role: Cooperating with the first business user, adding new features/documentation directly based on demand to the backlog through DMs.
Secure by Design: Cybersecurity is now a key part of the backlog, first security vulnerability fixed in 5.2.2 update.
by loorke | 2026-01-19 16:09:44+00:00
> Those things are all necessary anyway
It's a bold statement. Have you ever actually been working on any compliance yourself? 80% of everything is just senseless bureaucracy. I've worked in a medical startup and we had it all: GDPR, HIPPA, FDA approvals etc. The requirements are completely detached from reality and are usually written for some X-Ray producing firms from 20th century, not an health-tech AI startup. And they're trying to regulate everything, even how your organizational structure should look like, how you should create tickets in Jira (or any other _compliant_ products). Developers had to take useless trainings on how a medical organization should operate, which were essentially the courses of Aesopian language of medical bureaucracy. And legal expenses, boy o boy, the company had to spend twice as much on compliance staff than it did on developers. And what was the result? Rich American competitors with a ton of VC money were getting approvals while our company was struggling with all this idiocy despite having a much more superior product.
by sgc | 2026-01-19 16:09:48+00:00
Producer has minimal margins and cannot lower their price. Consumer, at least in the immediate future, has more money to spend. Never were the curves going to be any different in this case. Only in the case of a poorer country placing tariffs on a wealthier country with higher margins, would this be any different than the blindingly obvious outcome here.

The only fruit of this is real economic pain for the American consumer. But that was likely the goal, so mission accomplished I guess.
by wccrawford | 2026-01-19 16:09:52+00:00
Yeah, I probably need to push this harder now. I did actually join 1 project recently and got to the point that I felt I could add 1 more common thing to my resume, and that felt good. (Getting something done felt good, too.)

But getting to the point that I feel confident in certain frameworks is going to be hard. I'll figure it out somehow, I'm sure.
by butlike | 2026-01-19 16:09:57+00:00
I don't understand. In the grandparent comment you say you have a problem spending too much time on those subreddits and watching too many of those videos, but then you push back here.

Personally, I don't think that behavior is very healthy, and the other parent comment suggested an easy "get out of jail free" way of not thinking about it anymore while also limiting anxiety: they're unreliable subreddits. I'd say take that advice and move on.
Show HN: Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel
by punkpeye | 2026-01-19 16:10:28+00:00
Hey HN!

localtunnel's server needs random ports per client. That doesn't work on Fly.io or behind strict firewalls.

We rewrote it in TypeScript and added multiplexing over a single port. Open-source and 100% self-hostable.

Public instance at *.pipenet.dev if you don't want to self-host.

Built at Glama for our MCP Inspector, but it's a generic tunnel with no ties to our infra.

https://github.com/punkpeye/pipenet
by II2II | 2026-01-19 16:10:33+00:00
> You don't -have- to buy there, if you have the financial means I urge/recommend/encourage you to buy locally or from a responsible seller

That is assuming the component is even available locally or from a responsible seller. I live in a small city (half a million people). It is often impossible to find parts locally even for popular products that were purchased locally. Then there are parts where it is impossible to find official replacements, either because it is outside of the product's support windows, or because the replacement parts were never available to start with.
by bitwize | 2026-01-19 16:10:37+00:00
I'm aware I didn't build the things I depend on—OS, language runtimes, etc. But if I use AI to build the thing I'm building, I'm not really building it—I'm asking someone else to. We've been hoodwinked into believing that AI code generation is just a tool, but it's not—it's a service. You're asking OpenAI or Anthropic to make all but the highest level decisions and write the program you described. It's just done automatically by machine. I feel the same way about AI-generated other things too. What else is paying money, submitting a description, and getting back an image or a song but a commission?
by dghlsakjg | 2026-01-19 16:11:01+00:00
Kind of.

Econ 101 normally covers tax incidence (which side bears the burden of a tax). It has a lot to do with elasticity of both demand and supply. If foreign exporters can easily shift to other markets or adjust production (elastic supply), they'll pass most of the tariff cost to consumers through higher prices. If American consumers have few substitute products (inelastic demand), they'll end up absorbing most of the cost. Of course if the opposite is true, the sellers end up eating the tariff.

The reality is that tariffs typically get passed through to consumers as higher prices, not absorbed by exporters. The exact split depends on how flexible each side can be, but empirical evidence shows consumers usually bear most of the burden.
by mikeayles | 2026-01-19 16:11:12+00:00
Been working on this exact problem for a while now. The core issue isn't that LLMs are bad at circuits, it's that we're asking them to do novel design when they should be doing selection and integration.

My project (https://phaestus.app/blog) takes a different approach: pre-validated circuit blocks on a fixed 12.7mm grid with standardized bus structures. The LLM picks which blocks you need and where they go, but the actual circuit design was done by humans and tested. No hallucinated resistor values, no creative interpretations of datasheets.

It's the same insight that made software dependencies work. You don't ask ChatGPT to write you a JSON parser from scratch, you ask it which library to use. Hardware should work the same way.

Still WIP and the block library needs expanding, but the constraint-based approach means outputs are manufacturable by construction rather than "probably fine, let's see what catches fire."
by squarefoot | 2026-01-19 16:11:34+00:00
A small USB pluggable module that supports LoRa plus an app using Codec2 or similar low rate codec for voice encoding could fill the gap, although having it bundled with the phone would make it a lot less cumbersome to use. For non phone portable solutions, the LilyGo T-Deck Plus/Pro come to mind, but they're not phones so that would imply a 2nd device to carry around.
by lxgr | 2026-01-19 16:11:46+00:00
> Meanwhile a $10 walkie talkie using primitive stone-age radio technology can go many miles with zero infrastructure, but by law is not allowed to be used for data transmission.

Is this even true?

I still have two Gotennas from before they pivoted to military use cases, and they were legal to use both in the US and in Europe (on different bands auto-configured via GPS, as far as I remember).

REI also currently stocks at least one set of walkie talkies [1] that can relay short messages from smartphones via Bluetooth.

[1] https://www.rei.com/product/240874/motorola-talkabout-t803-2...
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-01-19 16:12:05+00:00
I think most people have experienced relatives of theirs falling down these rabbit holes. They didn't seek out a reason to be angry; they watched one or two episodes of these shows because they were on Fox, or because a friend sent it, or because they saw it recommended on Facebook. Then they became angry, which made them go back because now it became a moral imperative to learn more about how the government is making frogs gay.

None of these people said to themselves, "I want to be angry today, and I heard that Alex Jones makes people angry, therefore I will watch Alex Jones."
by bartread | 2026-01-19 16:12:22+00:00
I'm glad they've done the work here and put a figure on it - the impact absolutely needed to be quantified - but I also have to say... to the surprise of absolutely no-one with even the most basic grasp of how economies function.

People, lots of people, lots of people who have a really deep understanding of national and global economics (unlike me), have been warning about this since talk of tariffs became common currency a year ago.

I wouldn't like to comment on HN's political leanings in the round and, obviously, there are a large portion of non-US readers/commenters on the site (including me) but, will say this: there are a portion of you who voted for this. Exactly this.

What were you thinking? What was going through your heads? I'm genuinely curious.
by pembrook | 2026-01-19 16:12:25+00:00
Obviously this was always going to be the case.

But here’s the hard truth: the US has needed to raise taxes for decades given its inability to reduce spending.

Hence they massively inflating runaway deficit. If this is the only way Americans will accept tax increases, and they aren’t willing to decrease spending, then this policy will ironically end up being the only way forward to climb out of the financial hole.
by lxgr | 2026-01-19 16:13:26+00:00
Both not true.

Both European PMR446 and the US FRS are limited to 0.5 W; GSM uses four times that. There are walkie-talkies with very small antennas too. The limiting factor is line-of-sight, in any case.

If you're fine with less than real-time audio, you can get much, much smaller and low power.
Show HN: Eigent – the open source alternative of Cowork
by camelaiorg | 2026-01-19 16:13:27+00:00
Hi everyone!

For the past six months, we’ve been building an open-source local agent called Eigent, an open-source alternative of Cowork and was #1 on GitHub Trending! It supports BYOK and can help you to organize local files, automate browsers end-to-end. GitHub: https://github.com/eigent-ai/eigent

At the core is CAMEL’s Workforce system, which is inspired by distributing systems: a root node for task planning and coordination, worker nodes for execution, and an asynchronous task channel. It also supports failure tolerance and recursive workers for long-horizon tasks. All of this is open source.

For browser automation, Eigent uses a two-layer architecture:

- a Python layer for agent reasoning and orchestration

- a TypeScript layer (built on Playwright) for native browser control (DOM ops, SoM markers, occlusion handling)

These two layers communicate asynchronously via WebSockets to keep things low-latency and avoid the limits of Python-only automation. This stack is also open source.

Happy to answer questions or take feature requests!

That said, the hardest problems we face today are not in agent design, but in the local desktop runtime itself. Supporting multiple operating systems, versions, and package mirrors has been extremely painful. Our desktop agent installs Python and TypeScript dependencies on first launch, and supporting this reliably across macOS and Windows has been more complex than we initially expected.

After looking into a VM-based approach that uses Apple’s Virtualization framework to run Ubuntu on macOS, we started wondering whether a similar setup could help.

Could this kind of VM-based runtime or something equivalent realistically solve the cross-platform issues across both macOS and Windows?
by flooow | 2026-01-19 16:13:38+00:00
This story has been horribly misreported in the mainstream media. Suffice to say that the AI gaff was the very thinnest pretence for a politically motivated firing. The true reason being that West Midlands Police made the UK govt furious for suggesting that maybe Maccabi were violent thugs rather than persecuted victims, which goes against prevailing official narratives WRT Israel.

I have only found one news source that actual tells the story properly (warning, long read): https://whispering.media/the-maccabi-gospel/
by soared | 2026-01-19 16:14:10+00:00
This is a whole lot of words with no meaning. Yes 4% is a number that can go up or down, cool? 4% is absolutely meaningless compared to to what was shouted loudly about how other countries would be paying these.

Does it change who customers buy food from? No, because everyone increases their prices regardless of if they’re impacted by tariffs or not.

The 2018 washing machine tariffs are a clear cut example of why tariffs are a garbage strategy.

https://www.warrantyweek.com/archive/ww20250522.html#:~:text...

Price Pass-Through: Studies found that 100% of the tariff cost was passed through to consumers, resulting in an estimated $1.5 billion in additional costs to American families in the first year.
The "Unexpected" Dryer Rise: Although tariffs only applied to washers, the price of dryers (a complementary good often sold with washers) also rose by an equivalent amount—approximately $92 per unit—as manufacturers increased prices on laundry pairs.
Job Creation Cost: While the tariffs helped domestic manufacturers like Whirlpool, LG, and Samsung shift production to the U.S. and create about 1,800 new jobs, researchers estimated that consumers paid over $800,000 annually for each job created.
Outcome: The tariffs resulted in a 49% decline in imports from 2017 to 2019. They expired in February 2023, after which washer prices decreased.
by ryanlol | 2026-01-19 16:14:17+00:00
Two different things:

Linked to this investigation? Of course it was.

Linked to the crime? No, not really.

The cryptocurrency analysis in this case reaches absurd conclusions and doesn't stand up to the slightest scrutiny. At best their analysis establishes a low-confidence link between me and the hacker, as it's impossible to tell what if any transactions took place between us. Just that an unknown amount of money may have traveled between our wallets.

One thing is certain though, the relevant sum in this case was 0.1 BTC paid by the police. Their analysis shows me receiving significantly more than that, with no explanation as to where the rest of the money originated. Coincidentally, the other person who was later charged in this case received pretty much exactly the 0.1 BTC according to the police report.
by bigmeme | 2026-01-19 16:14:21+00:00
> Everyone I know has strong opinions on every little thing, based exclusively their emotional reactions and feed consumption. Basically no one has the requisite expertise commensurate with their conviction, but being informed is not required to be opinionated or exasperated.

Case in point: if you ask for expertise verification on HN you get downvoted. People would rather argue their point, regardless of validity. This site’s culture is part of the problem and it predates AI.
by throw101010 | 2026-01-19 16:14:35+00:00
FOX News, after their scandal with Dominion, should have been broken down or even shutdown.

They deliberately disinformed the public, there is blatant evidence that the news anchors were aware that they were lying. Not just bending facts a little or opining, but knowingly and purposefully lying.

The pretext of freedom of expression, and more narrowly freedom of press should not *continue* to apply to businesses/individuals which are found liable/guilty of such destructive behavior for the society they operate in.

The same should apply to people like Alex Jones, you had your chance to use freedom and you have wasted it, move on to another profession.
by boelboel | 2026-01-19 16:14:36+00:00
Secularism, changes in 'christianity' in the US. I'm not some christian nationalist but I do believe changes in values allowed Amazon to do this. Maybe I'm wrong and people will end up going against this in the long term. The 'christian' view of this behaviour didn't come from a vacuum. My biggest worry is the passivity/docile nature of people nowadays can't bring such change.
by mrtksn | 2026-01-19 16:14:47+00:00
I always thought that this tariff stuff is about restraining American consumerism first and coerce export oriented countries.

Also, this obsession over the importance of accessing US consumers feels ridiculous. If Americans aren't buying then it means more stuff for everyone else.

EU/China etc. sends actual things to US and US sends back dollars that are created out of thin air. It must be a restructuring pain more than anything since US doesn't actually export much goods. With the proliferation of cheap and available solar energy the trade with US can halt, endure the pain of restructuring came out of the other side with using the produced goods domestically instead of sending them to US and replace the US services with domestic ones. Then US can produce their things that they consume and have 350M market for the US companies instead of 7B.

It almost looks like Trump is Pushing for US irrelevance, its vey strange. Why would US be looking to abandone such an advantageous position? The people in the rest of the world are working their asses off, breathing toxic air just to obtain dollars.
by turnsout | 2026-01-19 16:14:54+00:00
"Commingling" is such a great euphemism for fraudulent counterfeiting.

I can't count the number of times I've ordered a book from Amazon (1st party, Amazon as the seller) and received an obvious counterfeit, with fuzzy text and a poorly printed cover. On one occasion, the scanning/OCR process had missed most of one chapter, so there were just section headers, page numbers and blank pages.

Unfortunately publishers and manufacturers don't have a lot of leverage with Amazon. If there's pressure coming from somewhere, it must be coming from a regulatory body.
by newsoftheday | 2026-01-19 16:14:57+00:00
>it's probably not a great time to be a very middling pure CRUD web app developer

Businesses don't pay for CRUD apps, businesses pay for apps that solve problems which often involves CRUD to persist their valuable data. This is often within the sometimes very strange and difficult to understand business logic which varies greatly from one business to another. That is what "CRUD app developers" actually do, so dismissing them as though there is zero business logic and only CRUD is doing them, us, a disservice.
by shaky-carrousel | 2026-01-19 16:15:13+00:00
There's an entire world to trade with. If the Americans choose to shoot themselves in the foot, we won't be the ones paying for the bandage.

Also, it's deeply naïve to assume tariffed countries would absorb the cost. Why would they? It's like going into a shop and asking for a discount because you just took out a loan. Why would the shop give you a discount for something you inflicted on yourself? And what makes you think other customers wouldn't ask for the same discount?
by NewUser76312 | 2026-01-19 16:15:21+00:00
"I've noticed" was my wording - communicating my claim and opinion. I will make claims and opinions on a message forum, thank you very much. Unless you want to pull up a specific moderation rule instructing me otherwise.

"Slight skew" is just your claim and opinion. We're both equally entitled to them. I'd be happy to look at actual data: try an anonymous poll on HN for political affiliation sometime. We both know that skew wouldn't be "slight".

Please don't make unfounded counter claims without evidence.