MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by themaninthedark | 2026-01-25 18:02:45+00:00
You might be able to, however not easily like when you put out a simple structure fire.

The ground is riddled with small vents that allow oxygen in. If you were to inject a foaming agent and then flood the space you could eventually lower the temperature below the auto ignition temperature.

Might not be easy. Might not be cost effective right now.

But there is a reason that Pagnotti Enterprises bought the land and I doubt it is because they are looking at turning it into a nature reserve.
by politelemon | 2026-01-25 18:03:04+00:00
> The value of knowing syntax, APIs, and framework conventions approaches zero. An LLM can look these up faster than you can remember them.

The irony here is that although pointing out quite well how people may have made incorrect judgment calls due to what comes down to personal experience at various times, this aspect is also down to personal experience.

An LLM can look these up and is still getting them wrong, or it can get them right but still pick the wrong conventions to use. More importantly though, LLM code assistants will not always be performing lookups, you cannot assume the same IDE and tool configuration profile for everyone. You cannot even assume that everyone's using an IDE with an embedded chatbot.
by tovej | 2026-01-25 18:03:07+00:00
Richard Dawkins is a weirdo crank these days who's co-authoring questionable books woth sex offenders about transgender issues. And the one thing Christopher Hitchens was most right about was Israel, he was an anti-zionist.

And the neoliberal west has more in common with Israel than Iran, I don't quite understand why you choose to write broad political comments if you don't have the basic background knowledge that would be needwd in this discussion.
by gruez | 2026-01-25 18:03:08+00:00
That's only one example, and as I explained in a sibling comment[1] doesn't even seem like something iOS designers were specifically defending against. In light of this, I think it's fair to say this example is poor and that another one is warranted. For instance, I'd consider the app tracking transparency changes to be something where iOS was doing better than Android on, but Android has since reached feature parity on that because you can delete your advertising id, which basically does the same thing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46755250
by p4bl0 | 2026-01-25 18:03:17+00:00
I'm not the author, I just shared this article I came across on Mastodon because it was an interesting read!

I just found out it was already posted on HN by its author here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693460

I don't know why HN let me post the same link less than two hours after it was already posted. Usually when this happens I'm redirected to the existing post and it is automatically upvoted, which I think is a nice behavior.
by loeg | 2026-01-25 18:03:31+00:00
Why would Medicaid have the data of anyone who is at risk of immigration enforcement? The reported connection seems tenuous:

> The tool – dubbed Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) – receives peoples’ addresses from the Department of Health and Human Services (which includes Medicaid) and other sources, 404 Media reports based on court testimony in Oregon by law enforcement agents, among other sources.

So, they have a tool that sucks up data from a bunch of different sources, including Medicaid. But there's no actual nexus between Medicaid and illegal immigrants in this reporting.

Edit: In the link to their earlier filings, EFF claims that some states enroll illegal immigrants in Medicaid: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/eff-court-protect-our-...
by TexanFeller | 2026-01-25 18:04:25+00:00
Ofc I wouldn't us it for extremely high scale event processing, but it's great default for a message/task queue for 90% of business apps. If you're processing under a few 100m events/tasks per day with less than ~10k concurrent processes dequeuing from it it's what I'd default to.

I work on apps that use such a PG based queue system and it provides indispensable features for us we couldn't achieve easily/cleanly with a normal queue system such as being able to dynamically adjust the priority/order of tasks being processed and easily query/report on the content of the queue. We have many other interesting features built into it that are more specific to our needs as well that I'm more hesitant to describe in detail here.
by nickpsecurity | 2026-01-25 18:04:50+00:00
It's specific segments of people saying we can't trust eyewitness claims. They actually work well enough that we run on them from childhood to adulthood. Accepting that truth is the first step.

Next, we need to understand why that is, which should be trusted, and which can't be. Also, what methods to use in what contexts. We need to develop education for people about how humanity actually works. We can improve steadily over time.

On my end, I've been collecting resources that might be helpful. That includes Christ-centered theology with real-world application, philosophies of knowledge with guides on each one, differences between real vs organized science, biological impact on these, dealing with media bias (eg AllSides), worldview analyses, critical thinking (logic), statistical analyses (esp error spotting), writing correct code, and so on.

One day, I might try to put it together into a series that equips people to navigate all of this stuff. For right now, I'm using it as a refresher to improve my own abilities ahead of entering the Data Science field.
by DivingForGold | 2026-01-25 18:05:21+00:00
If enacted, wouldn't this just "offshore" or offstate" the printing of these parts to other locales ? Then end users would smuggle or ship them into Washington State if desired there ? Seems it's somewhat like marijuana: Legal or quasi legal in like Oregon and Calif., but in outlawed states end users just order through the mail from a dispensary in those states where available.
by t-3 | 2026-01-25 18:05:27+00:00
This article right here, and the countless that came before are telling people to be outraged. People aren't, partly because they don't know what to believe without really any reliable or unbiased reporting, partly because the Trump outrage machine has filled the news feeds with so much other stuff to be outraged about, and partly because the situation in the Middle East seems so futile and stupid that people don't want to care because nothing will change and no government with any say in the region will allow peace or democracy or self-determination to the people there.
by miki123211 | 2026-01-25 18:05:50+00:00
This isn't about pure revenue, it's about scams.

Android has a reputation for being unsafe precisely because of sideloading (as well as low Google Play fees, looser app review, accessibility services and remote access).

This policy is bad for us HNers, but objectively good for the 95+% of people who will never sideload a legitimate Android app, but are extremely likely to get caught by scammers.

The heavy US skew of HN really distorts the arguments here, as Android-based scams aren't as common in AMerica due to the prevalence of iOS in that region.
Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids
by idd2 | 2026-01-25 18:06:26+00:00
This is an interactive map of US navigational aids and lighthouses, which indicates their location, color, characteristic and any remarks the Coast Guard has attached.

I was sick at home with the flu this weekend, and went on a bit of a Wikipedia deep dive about active American lighthouses. Searching around a bit, it was very hard to find a single source or interactive map of active beacons, and a description of what the "characteristic" meant. The Coast Guard maintains a list of active lights though, that they publish annually (https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/light-list-annual-publication). With some help from Claude Code, it wasn't hard to extract the lat/long and put together a small webapp that shows a map of these light stations and illustrates their characteristic with an animated visualization..

Of course, this shouldn't be used as a navigational aid, merely for informational purposes! Though having lived in Seattle and San Francisco I thought it was quite interesting.
by Dev_Master | 2026-01-25 18:06:28+00:00
I built AutoBackupPro, a lightweight offline backup utility for Windows/macOS/Linux that handles multiple sources and destinations.

Key features:

Backup multiple files/folders at once (drag & drop supported)

Multi-destination support (copy the same archive to several locations)

Optional single archive for all destinations

Supports ZIP, 7Z, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, TAR.ZST

Deduplicates files automatically to avoid duplicates

Preserves folder structure and optionally includes subfolders

Live progress bar with file counter and ETA

Safe stop with cleanup of partial archives

Thread-safe background processing with real-time logs

Use it for:

Backing up large datasets or projects

Compressing photos, documents, or mixed collections

Creating archives for sharing or long-term storage

It’s fully offline, portable, and doesn’t require complicated setup.
by physicles | 2026-01-25 18:07:58+00:00
I use the Nexstand K2 (well, the Chinese knockoff I got for $5), and I bent some coat hangers to attach to the top of the stand and tilt the laptop forward. I’m a tall guy, and the top of the screen is even with my eyes. Bonus is that with an X1 Carbon, the Lenovo M14 or M14d fits perfectly over the top of the keyboard.

The whole setup fits into a drawstring gym bag.

https://nexstand.io/
by jmalicki | 2026-01-25 18:08:06+00:00
This is done that way at the GPU layer of abstraction - generally (with some exceptions!) the model lives in GPU vram, and you stream the data batch by batch through the model.

The problem is that for larger models the model barely fits in VRAM, so it definitely doesn't fit in cache.

Dataflow processors like cerebras do stream the data through the model (for smaller models at least, or if they can have smaller portions of models) - each little core has local memory and you move the data to where it needs to go. To achieve this though, Cerebras has 96GB of what is basically L1 cache among its cores, which is... a lot of SRAM.
by furst-blumier | 2026-01-25 18:08:32+00:00
The main issue is that who is supposed to implement it? The gov has 2 possibilities: hire a contractor, or do it themself. DIY has the issue that nobody wants to work for the gov because as any IT specialist you'd earn 1/3 or 1/4 of what you would earn in a private company. Stateworkers here cannot be fired. So you trade money for extreme "stability" (read: laziness). Hiring a contractor requires money they also don't see the necessity to spend. And that's how you end up in this situation. There are also other issues like no national wide implementation plan. Every state, every commune has to figure out and build stuff themself.
by Xmd5a | 2026-01-25 18:08:37+00:00
poignant?

> His next major growth spurt came when his university career ended. When Oxford University rejected his master’s application in 2020, Edwards posted a video of himself crying, entitled “oxford university rejected my masters application… (sorry this video is sad)”. Social media rewards confession. Authenticity, sincerity and vulnerability were important – more important than orthodox intellectual baubles.

It's literally pathetic.

pathetic
/pəˈθɛtɪk/
arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness.
"she looked so pathetic that I bent down to comfort her"
by al_borland | 2026-01-25 18:08:55+00:00
> apps nagging to get updated is annoying in fact.

There is no nagging. Apps auto-update on iOS, and have for years. I had 15 apps update in the last week. There was no nagging or notifications. It just happens.

My only gripe is that they seem to want to update right after I take it off the charger in the morning, instead of at night. But I only actually notice this once or twice per year, if I go to use an app that’s in the process of installing within the first few minutes of waking up.
by singron | 2026-01-25 18:08:56+00:00
Generally yes, but if you use e.g. the parallel consumer, you can potentially keep processing in that partition to avoid head-of-line blocking. There are some downsides to having a very old unprocessed record since it won't advance the consumer group's offset past that record, and it instead keeps track of the individual offsets it has completed beyond it, so you don't want to be in that state indefinitely, but you hope your DLQ eventually succeeds.

But if your DLQ is overloaded, you probably want to slow down or stop since sending a large fraction of your traffic to DLQ is counter productive. E.g. if you are sending 100% of messages to DLQ due to a bug, you should stop processing, fix the bug, and then resume from your normal queue.
by philipswood | 2026-01-25 18:08:57+00:00
> Consider what happens when you build software professionally. You talk to stakeholders who do not know what they want and cannot articulate their requirements precisely. You decompose vague problem statements into testable specifications. You make tradeoffs between latency and consistency, between flexibility and simplicity, between building and buying. You model domains deeply enough to know which edge cases will actually occur and which are theoretical. You design verification strategies that cover the behaviour space. You maintain systems over years as requirements shift.

I'm not sure why he thinks current LLM technologies (with better training) won't be able to do more and more of this as time passes.
by hwillis | 2026-01-25 18:09:01+00:00
The people of Minneapolis are defending their right to accept foreigners into their community. Do you genuinely think those people are being paid? That all those protestors don't genuinely feel that way? That the majority in that state don't, as the polls say, want those people there?

If you really think that people in Texas and Florida have the right to say who gets to live in Minnesota, why?
by Scene_Cast2 | 2026-01-25 18:09:28+00:00
You're typically issued a corporate phone, it's the only phone that can open work email. You have a choice between an Android (something like a Pixel and a Samsung) and an iPhone, with some companies incentivising Androids with things like a faster upgrade cycle or more premium trims. The culture is split between having just the one free corporate phone and having two phones - one personal, one corporate.
by mmooss | 2026-01-25 18:09:30+00:00
The first step in problem solving is to look in the mirror. It's not surprising that in an engineering community, the instinct is to blame outsiders - lawyers, bureaucrats, managers, finance, etc. - because those priorities are more likely to conflict with engineering, because it is harder to understand such different perspectives, and because it is easier to believe caricatures of people we don't know personally.

Those people have valuable input on issues the engineer may not understand and have little experience with. And engineers are just as likely to take the easy way out, like the caricature in the parent comment:

For example, for the manufacturer's engineering team it's much easier, faster and cheaper to slap an alarm on everything than to learn attention management and to think through and create an attention management system that is effective and reliable (and it had better be reliable - imagine if it omits the wrong alarms!). I think anyone with experience can imagine the decision to not delay the project and increase costs for that involved subproject - one that involves every component team, which is a priority for almost none of them, and which many engineers, such as the mechanical engineer working on the robotic arm, won't even understand the need for.

> And China's society is run by engineers, so it will win out over ours.

History has not been kind to engineers who do non-engineering, such as US President Herbert Hoover who built dams and but also had significant responsibility for the Great Depression. It's not that engineers can't acquire other skills and do well in those fields, but that other skills are needed - they aren't engineering. Those who accept as truth their natural egocentric bias and their professional community's bias toward engineering are unlikely to learn those skills.
by altern8 | 2026-01-25 18:09:42+00:00
I can't seem to open it. It keeps saying "Apple could not verify “Posturr.app” is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.".

I tried opening by right-cliking on the app file, holding option, etc.

I'm on Sequoia 15.7.3 (24G419)
by k310 | 2026-01-25 18:09:52+00:00
FAQ page is 404. https://kloak.app/faq

Also, the pricing is hidden better than any other site or app I've looked at. [0]

> Why do you charge money instead of showing ads?

I always check for a number before going further.

Just doing detective work. Not being a PITA.

[0] https://kloak.app/philosophy
by nunez | 2026-01-25 18:10:10+00:00
Unfortunately, apps have always been the barrier to entry for competing options.

If your platform doesn't have apps, then your platform won't have users, which won't attract developers and BigCo's to write apps for your platform. Rinse and repeat.

This is how Windows Phone was wiped out, despite them spending *a lot* of money trying to attract companies and developers to write stuff for their OS.
by miki123211 | 2026-01-25 18:10:54+00:00
Useless warnings are a great CYA tactic.

THe more of them you have, the more likely it is that there's a warning if something happens. Whether the warning is ever noticed is secondary, what matters is the fact that there was a warning and the operator didn't react to it appropriately, which makes the situation the fault of the operator.
by mothballed | 2026-01-25 18:11:12+00:00
The gun free school zone act has been upheld even though you could be within 1000 ft of one with no real indication there is one there. Supposedly you can only be convicted for doing it knowingly, but IIRC knowingly has been interpreted to mean as little as you live near the area so reasonably should have known.

Also note, i.e. stuff like statutory rape has been upheld even in cases where the perpetrator in all good faith thought the victim was 18+, the victim initiated selling the services, and the victim provided fake ID showing they were 18+.

So there is not necessarily any need for mens rea in the US legal system.
by kccqzy | 2026-01-25 18:11:27+00:00
Around the time Aperture became dead, I was looking for a photo editing app on the iPhone; three of my non-negotiable requirements: non-destructive adjustments, curves, and the ability to brush a mask for an adjustment. I found Snapseed which fulfilled these requirements. But of course, why did I get the idea for these requirements of mine? Aperture of course. Once you got used to the features of Aperture, you really don’t want to use a lesser app like Photos.
by cb321 | 2026-01-25 18:11:29+00:00
DNA researchers developed a parallel format for gzip they call "bgzip" ( https://learngenomics.dev/docs/genomic-file-formats/compress... ) that makes data seem less trapped behind a decompression perf wall. Zstd is still a bit faster (but < ~2X) and also gets better compression ratios (https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/5103#32269)
by epolanski | 2026-01-25 18:11:51+00:00
I'm a bit lost on few bad and ugly points.

They could've been sorted with precise context injection of claude.md files and/or dedicated subagents, no?

My experience using Claude suggests you should spend a good amount of time scaffolding its instructions in documents it can follow and refer to if you don't want it to end in the same loops over and over.

Author hasn't written on whether this was tried.
by DeathArrow | 2026-01-25 18:12:07+00:00
This seems to be one of the articles: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

And another one: http://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2023.63.3.2

And another one: https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr518324
by rob_ | 2026-01-25 18:12:36+00:00
My favourite window manager in linux was always ion3 that then became known as notion. I'm not sure if it was one of the first tiling/tab/split window managers but I started using it around the year 2000 and loved it. One feature that it seemed to have that a lot of other tiling windowmanagers didn't have is tabbed splits. Really nice to see this.
by glenstein | 2026-01-25 18:12:40+00:00
Sure, you could argue it helps to express a distinction but that doesn't mean it has to live inside the verb install. Historically installing software was the general act and provenance was handled with qualifiers eg installing from "third-party sources", "manual install" etc. Android is alone among computing platforms in collapsing that qualifier into a new term that implicitly recenters the Play Store as the default meaning of "install."

In other ecosystems the store path is described as "store install" not the other way around. Android chose the inverse framing and that choice isn't neutral.
by qubex | 2026-01-25 18:12:56+00:00
I loved MiniDisc as a format and was an avoid user in the late 1999s before I transitioned to an iPod 3G in 2003 or something like that.

Anyway… that was a preamble… in 2001 I spotted some of these in a weird shop in London near Russel Square. They had a sticker price of £150 which I thought was absurd. In one of my very few attempts to haggle in my life, I offered £50 and the shop attendant turned me down flatly. I was mildly disappointed because they were so brazenly “alternate timeline cassette futurism” (before the latter term existed) and the thought that I’d missed a golden opportunity gnawed at me for years. At some point in 2002 or 2003 I went back, but the stock had gone. I doubt they sold any of them at that price in that age.

Anyway, I probably dodged a bullet. They looked cool though.
by ben_w | 2026-01-25 18:13:06+00:00
IMO both recent cuts were at minimum funded and encouraged by Russia. But the conversations I've seen here in Berlin that discuss the power cuts can be enumerated using only thumbs, and we've had quite a few severe weather warnings vs two power failure warnings.

There's also occasional anti-NATO "stop the war" marches, and some longer-duration pro-Ukraine vigils above the Brandenburger Tor U-Bahn station.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-25 18:13:27+00:00
Secureboot was being used as an example to illustrate the issue with your claim that a user controlling the keys must necessarily undermine security.

I'll grant that if the user is given control then compromise within the supply chain does become possible. However the same hypothetical malicious aliexpress vendor could also enroll a custom secure boot key, install "definitely totally legit windows", and unless the user inspects he might well never realize the deception. Or the supply chain could embed a keylogger. Or ...
by gruez | 2026-01-25 18:13:34+00:00
>Even now, that's not a term used in Windows or Linux.

No, it's existed in windows 10 (and probably windows 8.1) for over a decade.

https://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/13/how-to-enable-developer-mo... (note the date)

>So it's staggering to see a specific term of art that deviates from historical precedent that only is used in an Android context and only relatively recently in the history of computing be referred to as if its observing a longstanding precedent across all of computing. It's nothing of the sort.

None of that refutes anything I said. You're basically arguing "back in the good old days, all installs were not from first party source and there was no distinction", but that doesn't mean no such distinction exists right now. Otherwise it's like arguing "immigration" is some "neologism" because back before the advent of the nation state, people just moved wherever, there wasn't random lines that turned "moving" to "immigration", and the word "immigration" is coined by statists that want to impose their worldview on the populace.