MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by baubino | 2026-01-16 11:53:04+00:00
> It's hard to understand why in the US many people see it as norm.

Immigration is the norm in the U.S. because the country’s entire history is built on immigration, unlike the EU. I don’t know that undocumented immigration is the norm though.

If you look at the history of any major city in the US, it is a history of demographic shifts based on immigration. That immigration had largely been from Europe since the 17th century (along with the forced migration of enslaved Africans). Only since the 1960s has there been large scale immigration from non-European nations. Over that history, each generation of assimilated Americans has looked down on newer immigrants and sought to limit or prevent their ability to remain and become citizens. The English settlers of the 1600s enslaved forced African migrants and they looked down on the German and Dutch immigrants who followed them. The English/German/Dutch who after a generation or two begin to think of themselves as American looked down on the immigrants from Scandinavia who began to settle the American midwest in the early 1800s. The nascent Americans fought numerous wars and skirmishes with Mexico until a new border meant that vast territory that was once Mexico was now the US and Mexicans were now foreigners in the US. Chinese workers were imported to the west coast as essentially indentured labor to built the railroads in the 1800s. The Spanish American War led to immigration from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines. The assimilated Americans of the 1800s vehemently opposed the mass immigration of Irish people in the mid 1800s and the assimilated Irish in turn vehemently opposed the mass immigration of Italians in the late 1800s. Both groups worked to stop immigration from Poland in the 1920s, and it was then that the US enacted its first immigration restrictions. Those restrictions were relaxed in the late 1960s, which led to large migrations from South America, the Caribbean, and India.

Immigration is the norm for the entirety of the US’s history. Also the norm (unfortunately) is each assimilated group wanting to prevent others who arrive after them from having the same opportunities that they did.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2026-01-16 11:53:53+00:00
> Deporting people who are in the country illegally is a no brainer. If you don't want that, get the law changed. Until then, it's not wrong to deport them.

Enjoy this little cognitive dissonance:

You could also change the law make them legals eg. after X years of work, no criminal record and citizenship tests.

This would completely disable the current ICE gestapo and would have prevent soo much suffering. But i can imagine what you must be thinking now: But they came here illegally, this is harm to our society enough.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-16 11:54:57+00:00
That doesn't really make sense. The population in most of the west is vaguely around replacement. A given individual can only make use of so much housing at once. Sure if you're rolling in cash throw in a vacation home or two. There's a pretty quick falloff in terms of utility, status, desire, any metric that's coming to mind as a type this.

It seems to me that at least in the US the issue is location. There's cheap stock in places without jobs and ridiculously expensive stock where the good jobs are located. It doesn't have to be this way.
Show HN: HN Reader with Favorites, Read-Later and Open Source
by lavren1974 | 2026-01-16 11:54:59+00:00
Hi HN! I built a lightweight Hacker News reader using Next.js 16 and the official Firebase API.

Key features:

Save posts to Favorites
Mark for Read Later
Clean, fast UI with no distractions
Self-hosted user data via Pocketbase (login required for saving)
It’s a personal project, but I’ve open-sourced it and would love your feedback, suggestions, or even PRs!

Live demo: https://hn-pb-next.mystack.host
GitHub: https://github.com/lavren1974/HN-PB-Next

I kept losing interesting threads in the HN firehose—this is my attempt to fix that. Hope it’s useful to others too!
Simple data management for new prototypes
by AndreyK1984 | 2026-01-16 11:55:08+00:00
Hi folks! I have huge success on a prototype of this approach:

- Store all data as json

- App loads: load full json on a client

- Something changes by user - change json locally and every 10 seconds save whole json to backend as a single json file

- also every 10 seconds load the updated json from backend to client.

Yes, I know, parallel access problems, lack of schema, lack of db, using file to store. But how much it makes life easier and speed ups development at start! I am in this over 20 years, and I like dumb stupid solutions applied properly. Duct taping forever!
by jcbrand | 2026-01-16 11:55:22+00:00
It's not capitalism that requires infinite growth, it's our current monetary system.

New money is created by lending it into existence, with interest.

That last bit is key. In order to pay off the interest, you need money, which was also loaned into existence with interest.

The only way to maintain this is through constant economic growth. Without it there's a deflationary collapse.
Show HN: Recursive Language Model for Querying Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
by lafalce | 2026-01-16 11:56:23+00:00
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises is a 900+ page treatise on economics and praxeology dense, complex, and foundational to Austrian economics.

I built this tool using Recursive Language Models (RLM) that ingests the entire book and lets you query it conversationally. It downloads the full text from mises.org, processes it with RLM for deep contextual understanding, and serves a simple Flask frontend. Perfect for students, researchers, or anyone curious about Mises's ideas!
by rsp1984 | 2026-01-16 11:56:47+00:00
The boring but true answer is that the only thing people should be protesting for is a change of the electoral law. Everything else is downstream of that.

In the US, it's a de-facto duopoly on power, held up by a number of "winner-takes-all" rules. Politicians of either party will do everything in their power to keep "outsiders" (i.e. people/parties that are not entrenched in the two-party system and might actually drive positive change) from ever gaining a foothold.

In Germany it's the famous 5% rule that virtually ensures that every new party must maximize populism or perish.

I'm sure it's very similar in most other "democratic" countries.

Laws aren't perfect. In fact they often are buggy as hell. The electoral law is certainly no exception. However it is ultimately the law that matters most as it determines who can raise to power and who can't. Ensuring it fair and democratic should be the #1 civic duty.
by ben_w | 2026-01-16 11:56:47+00:00
> It's hard to understand why in the US many people see it as norm. Just have a legal immigration system that works.

Two reasons, both cynical.

1. It lets them have an underclass such that they can away with lower pay and lower rights, which conversely also allows all the native-born to earn more than they otherwise would have because someone has to do these jobs that have yet to be automated.

2. while also demonising that group for bonus points in elections.

Everything breaks hard the moment anyone with power mistakes the kayfabe (demonising them) for reality.

Letting yourself be one whom politicians can score points out of, encourages the election of people more likely to make that mistake.
by bell-cot | 2026-01-16 11:57:23+00:00
Millennia before Adam Smith was born, pretty much every human societies which built "houses" (be they crude tents, igloos, lean-tos, thatched huts, or whatever) made a point of building enough of those to house all their members.

Capitalism has financialized housing, and that seems to be a major cause of the "can't actually build housing" problem.
by fennecbutt | 2026-01-16 11:57:39+00:00
I mean we were seeing this even before AI. It's the same type of person. To slop is human.

It's like for some reason we thought that like some good percentage of us aren't just tribal worker drones who fundamentally just want fats, sugars, salts, dopamine and seratonin. People actively vote against things like UBI, higher corporate taxes, making utilities public. People actively choose to believe misinformation because it suits their own personal tribal narratives.
by czechonetwo | 2026-01-16 11:57:46+00:00
> My engineer brain says lets pick up the poo and then look at solutions to stop it happening again.

The people that put up the “no pee or poo” signs in the yard have dead bushes from dog urine.

Dogs pee and poo, dogs are good companions, you shouldn’t get rid of dogs or their people, there will always be dogs, resistance to pee and poo are futile.
by microtonal | 2026-01-16 11:58:32+00:00
Business owners turn fascist over economic anxiety.

The grandparent said billionaires though. Some of them may have economic anxiety (not being in the government's graces might damage your company), but it seems most see a possibility of operating in an environment where they are not constrained by 'pesky' rules. E.g. leveraging Trump's wrath to pressure the EU into dropping laws like the DMA/DSA that protects citizens against the power of large tech companies.
by pploug | 2026-01-16 11:58:38+00:00
Remember interviewing for a security role at Phillip Morris who owns the IQOS e-cigaret brand. They bragged about how the device phoned home every time it could get a bluetooth or wifi connection, to inform of consumption amount and patterns - so they could proactively send users more nicotine.

He dramatically revealed that they were no longer selling tobacco, but rather "Nicotine as a service"

Needless to say, I decided not to work for a merchant of death
by dgacmu | 2026-01-16 11:58:55+00:00
There is (was?) one called riecoin that searched for dense clusters of primes.

I wrote a little about developing a miner for it I'm 2014: https://da-data.blogspot.com/2014/03/fast-prime-cluster-sear...

There's one called "nexus" that finds sparse clusters of primes of longer length than the ones in riecoin but where there can be a slightly larger inter-prime gap.

(It turns out to be a bad idea to use a mathematically complicated proof of work function, because it means someone like me will come along with some friends who are GPU programming experts and mine your coin better than the developer can.)
by racktash | 2026-01-16 11:58:58+00:00
I think you've described the problem (or one of them) very well.

We've seen how misinformation -- including ideas that were once fringe, believed only by a minority of cranks -- spreads and becomes acceptable, becomes a "legitimate alternative opinion".

We've seen, too, how hostile states, populists within, spread falsehoods to sew havoc and division.

My only hope, really, is that I think some of the younger generation are slightly more alert than some Gen X and millennials (my own generation) as to the dangers of misinformation online.

I wish I knew the solution too. Like you, I feel quite helpless even in terms of what to WANT. Can the Twitters of the world be regulated? If so, are we as a society able to agree on how it should be regulated, or are we too divided to agree on anything?

It's a mess. I don't know how we get out of it.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-16 12:00:37+00:00
> In fact, many of those selfish people

Is it selfish to take the attitude that humanity will deal with the consequences of its actions as they arise? That rather than expending vast amounts of capital reorganizing and regulating society to prevent disturbances before they happen we can instead accept the disturbances and deal with the consequences as necessary?

I don't personally think very highly of such a plan but neither do I think that it is reasonable to apply a blanket label of "selfish" to anyone who speaks in favor of it.
by Spooky23 | 2026-01-16 12:02:08+00:00
The more extreme billionaire types see the world as a zero sum game. If they lose a third of their paper wealth, they are still billionaires. The more extreme ones want to gut the middle class, because political power is the only threat to their existence. They see a path where they become merchant princes, and another where they are stood up against the wall and meet their fate.

German and Italian fascism took a similar path. In Italy the state even took over some industry, but the big industrialists with power did great. It didn’t end well for them, but their pal Franco was smarter and hung in there for decades.
by _heimdall | 2026-01-16 12:02:20+00:00
Wealth as we describe it today is effectively directly correlated with consumption of natural resources. Look up graphs of countries' GDP and oil consumption if you're ever curious.

If society does continue to be richer and more prosperous, and those concepts aren't somehow fundamentally redefined, continued worry about crisis or collapse seems reasonable as that wealth came at the expense of further increase the amount of resources we burn through.
by defrost | 2026-01-16 12:02:36+00:00
Spoken language, reading, writing, arithmetic, farming, tool use, law, mechanics, tracking, sewing, leatherwork, casting, weaving, forrestry, swimming, diving, shooting, general warfare, riding, dishwashing ...

Almost, but not, aviation.

There's probably more. That's my family though - we're still using 1935 CWA cookbooks and occasionally pull a plough with horses or bullocks.

We've obviously added and upgraded those skills over generations, but we still have stuff the great grandparents used, and added in a few more contempory skills.

I guess we'll lose some of that if we ever get a mechanical dishwasher though.
by raincole | 2026-01-16 12:02:38+00:00
> You have individuals who at best completely a BSc in Business Studies, and you are asking them to decide on COVID or climate change. That by itself is a hard ask.

But it's more or less the premise of democracy.

A professor in our school jokingly said that the key of functional democracy is to distance average voters from decision making processes. Now I am not so sure whether he was joking at all.
by npunt | 2026-01-16 12:03:05+00:00
Yeah, after a period of general stability where power was more even distributed among different groups of people (pols, media, finance, labor, edu, etc), we've found ourselves at the mercy of this dangerous new concoction of naive software engineers and business sociopaths that has escaped the lab and run amok over the world. Sociopaths always find a way to harness the ignorant but powerful, and this time its the software engineers.
by cycomanic | 2026-01-16 12:03:06+00:00
This is one thing that I don't understand, take for example Germany, the population barely grew over the last 20 years [1], at the same time there has been a building boom that building costs have risen dramatically (more than doubled between 2010 and 2024). Compare that to the 60s and 70s where population was rising much faster in combination with the rebuilding effort. So is the growth of housing stock lower than the population growth? If yes how come that this was not the case when population growth was significantly faster (even 30 years ago). I don't recall there being more building going on when I was young than now, in fact if anything my impression is it's the other way around.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/germany-popul...
by Core_Dev | 2026-01-16 12:03:08+00:00
I am a solo developer, and I built Core MBA because I was frustrated with the "video course" default in business education.

I wanted to build a "compiler for business logic"—a tool where I could read a concept in 5 minutes and immediately test it in a hostile environment to see if my strategy actually compiles or throws a runtime error.

The project is a business simulator built on React 19 and TypeScript.

The core technical innovation isn't just using AI; it's the architecture of a closed loop between a deterministic economic engine and a generative AI validation layer.

The biggest technical hurdle was building the Market Engine.

I needed it to be mathematically rigorous, not a hallucinating chatbot. I wrote a custom `useMarketEngine.ts` hook that runs a discrete-event simulation. Every "run cycle," it solves a system of equations, including a specific Ad Fatigue formula—`1 / (1 + (power - 1) * fatigueFactor)`—to force diminishing returns.

I also coded the "Theory of Constraints" directly into the state management: the system enforces bottlenecks between Inventory, Demand, and Capacity. For instance, a single employee has a hard cap of 7 operations per day. If you scale demand beyond that without hiring, the system burns your cash on lost orders.

To handle the educational content, I moved away from hardcoded quizzes.

I built a module that pipes the static lesson text into Gemini Flash to generate unique "Combat Cases" on the fly. The AI validates your strategy against the specific principles of the lesson (like LTV/CAC) rather than generic business advice.

These two engines are connected by a "Liquidity Loop."

Passing the AI cases earns you virtual capital ($500), which is the only fuel for the Market Engine. You literally cannot play the game if you don't learn the theory.

If you go bankrupt, my heuristic `Advisor` analyzes your crash data—comparing `lostRevenue` vs `lostCapacity`—and links you back to the exact lesson you ignored.

I am inviting you to test the full loop: read a brief, pass the AI simulation (Combat Cases ), and try to survive in the Market Engine.

I specifically need feedback on:
1. The Content: I aimed for maximum density—are the lessons too dry?
2. The AI Simulation: Does it accurately validate your logic based on the lesson?
3. The Market Economy: Does the math feel balanced, or is the "Ad Fatigue" too punishing?
by guitarlimeo | 2026-01-16 12:04:31+00:00
> I don't want any future children of mine, to have self loathing/pessimism or "woe is me" feelings taught by teachers or lecturers.

Except that wasn't the point? The point was to critically evaluate what value your work brings to the world and if it is positive. It emphasizes that having ethics as an engineer is maybe a better thing than being a apolitical robot who is only motivated by money.

If there was something similar to the Hippocratic Oath but for engineers, I would vouch for it.
by NoiseBert69 | 2026-01-16 12:04:36+00:00
There is Mesh(core|tastic) around. Both use LoRa.

With tiny solar repeater that placed on a strategic hill you can cover lots of kilometers. Being sensitive down to -145dBm opens a lot of doors.

I was able to build energy harvester nodes that fit into 5cm x 5cm x 4cm boxes that roughly cost around 20€. Without energy harvesting capability with a normal TI BQ wide range charge controllers (that stuff costs $1.5-2.5@pcs and eats every power source up to 18V! With pseudo-MPPT!) you can bring the entire thing down to <<15€. That's mass producable throw-away stuff.

Currently available LoRa-gear is either USB-power optimized (looking at you Heltec) or just awfully overpriced as soon as a solar panel is attached to it.
by mr_monkey | 2026-01-16 12:04:43+00:00
Those botnets are hitting random endpoints thousands of times a minute.
The problem is that each time they switch to a different residential IP so that they are untraceable.
That's the frustrating part: not only do they not play by the rules, but they use advanced methods to obfuscate and bypass any protections. That probably costs them a fair amount too, all that to access free data they can download as a tar file...

They won't be able to create thousands of API keys a minute, and if they reuse the keys they'll very easily be identified and blocked.
by siddkgn | 2026-01-16 12:05:18+00:00
I built this autonomous pipeline to see if agentic orchestration could replicate a high-quality editorial desk with zero manual overhead. This is a a tech news stream that removes the "noise" (deals, opinions, fluff) using a multi-model agentic approach.

The Agentic Pipeline (runs every 2 hour):

I custom-coded the orchestration to swap LLMs based on their specific strengths:

1. Discovery: Scrapes raw feeds, removes duplicates, and checks against the published cache.

2. Classification (default:Gemini): Filters out non-tech news and "opinion" pieces. Gemini's context window makes it great for high-volume filtering.

3. Prioritization: Selects the top 5 most impactful stories from the filtered list.

4. Authoring (default:GPT-4o): Drafts the report based on the raw facts provided by the Discovery agent.

5. Proofreader (default:Sonnet 3.5): Handles the final edit to ensure a human-like tone and fact-checks against the source.

The Lean Tech Stack:

- Backend: Custom Python orchestration.

- Publishing: WordPress API (Website) + X API (Twitter) + Zapier (LinkedIn).

- Stateless: I bypass a local database entirely, using the WordPress REST API as my primary content store.

- Optimized: A "Non-News Cache" prevents re-processing URLs already identified as noise, saving in token costs.

Every post starts with a disclaimer and cites the original sources. Currently, it's 100% automated and has grown to 50 organic followers.

I'd love to hear feedback on the "agentic" logic or how I can better handle potential classification hallucinations!
by xoa | 2026-01-16 12:05:45+00:00
>OK, they are foreigners, but does that mean they can ignore the law and avoid paying fines?

Uh, yes? Obviously? If they're willing to pay a much bigger price in the form of losing all business in the country completely and never visiting again. But the law and fines don't apply globally only to Italy, so if someone is not Italian and is willing to give up on a not insignificant market (and beautiful country) then sure, why wouldn't that be that? Seems like it balances out, I'm sure Cloudflare does way more business than 14M in Italy, so they're not going to be casual about it. And remember, this is just pitting one arbitrary set of business interests (IP monopolists) against another (internet service company and associated customers). Why should Italy be immune from getting pushed on by the second party there and immune from facing the cost tradeoffs? Why privilege the former commercial interests over the latter?
by _heimdall | 2026-01-16 12:06:31+00:00
When it comes to global or environmental concerns, that isn't unique to software. Wealth is created by collecting and using natural resources.

You can always find companies sneaking through that system and turning a profit despite not directly consuming resources like that, but they are few and far between. I'd expect jobs like that to effectively be a rounding error, meaning anyone with a job is likely working on something that is detrimental to people and/or the planet in some way, even if those costs are externalized out of their field of view.
by NoiseBert69 | 2026-01-16 12:06:42+00:00
All Semtech LoRa modems are wide-range modems. You can switch to basically every other frequency.

An idea would be to move to SX128x modems with work around 2.4GHz. You recycle Wifi-gear for directional stuff. This also enabled you to hide below Wifi traffic.

Still jammable - but much much more difficult.
by Beestie | 2026-01-16 12:08:05+00:00
Late to the thread but I recommend volunteering. The best medicine for loneliness is to serve others in greater need. Churches, hospitals, libraries, all not-for-profit institutions.

Part of loneliness is feeling like you won't be missed. When you serve others (even indirectly if direct contact is not your thing), you feel needed and have purpose.
by mrtksn | 2026-01-16 12:09:34+00:00
I can't believe that US and the global world is being dismantled by a TV show personalities and we are going to be restricted as ranch animals on this rock in the space.

Anyway, here's the speech on how Canada is re-aligning to the new world order realities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLasfU4l__A