MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-24 18:48:58+00:00
There is no way, no possible way that Google prohibits the use of multiple accounts. They do not. They cannot. I just asked Gemini and I checked the actual TOS. It does not, in any way, prohibit these uses.

In fact, this is plainly evident by the way they give you tools to operate them in a systematic way. You can add multiple accounts to a single Android "user". You can add them to a single Google Chromebook account under one signed-in account. You can add multiple accounts separately to the same Chromebook.

You can add multiple accounts with the same names, the same birthdates, and the same Driver License. I've validated at least two YouTube channels by showing exactly the same ID.

Google did not terminate your account for the reason you state. You are not telling us all the background information.

Google may indeed terminate multiple accounts for the same person because of TOS violations. They will definitely link and associate your accounts, so making an "alt account" for misbehavior is not safe. If my "alt account" is compromised or violates TOS, then I can expect they will discipline all 6 equally, because they're all linked.

But operating multiple accounts is very explicitly supported by Google, and by Microsoft as well, I will say. I don't know about Apple. Facebook definitely prohibited this in the past, although you can maintain multiple "profiles" and "pages" that have unique settings and personalities.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-24 18:50:04+00:00
They could still have asked. They do if you enable Bitlocker outside of the OOBE.

This story is just yet another confirmation of what used to be the "the americans have bugged most computers in the world" conspiracy theory.

I hope Microsoft wakes up to the changes in the way America is being viewed these days, because they stand to lose a lot of business if they don't.
by starkparker | 2026-01-24 18:50:10+00:00
> At a news conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the man who was shot was a 37-year-old white man with no serious criminal history and a record that showed some parking tickets. Law enforcement sources said Saturday their records show Pretti had no serious criminal history.

> O'Hara said the man was a “lawful gun owner” with a permit. Records show that Pretti attended the University of Minnesota. State records show Pretti was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026.

Minnesota permit-to-carry requirements: https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/public-services-bca/firearm...

> Q: Do I have to disclose to a peace officer that I am a permit holder and carrying a firearm?

> A: Yes, upon request of a peace officer, a permit holder must disclose to the officer whether or not the permit holder is currently carrying a firearm.

So a U.S. citizen who is a legal, permitted gun owner with no outstanding criminal charges, legally carrying in public, who complies with the law and informs a DHS officer that they are legally carrying, is effectively subject to summary execution without due process. (The penalty for permitted carrying without possessing the physical permit card is $25 for a first offense and forfeiture of the weapon; it would've been his first offense per Minneapolis police.)

If ever there was a 2A violation, it's a federal officer shooting and killing a legal gun owner solely for possessing a gun in their presence.
by anon7725 | 2026-01-24 18:50:15+00:00
> I can tell you personally that the action which most seriously affected my performance at a workplace was being denied a bereavement day because the official policy was to only allow one.

One of the things I remember most from my career was a manager "rules lawyering" about bereavement leave when my aunt passed away. Ironically, HR was very sympathetic and accommodating, and it was a non-issue with them.

I've been treated "worse" by jackass execs and managers, but always in the context of work. Someone acting in the way this manager did about a personal situation sticks with me much more than those.
by unquietwiki | 2026-01-24 18:50:16+00:00
I have a hot take that MAHA is a modern eugenics movement; that prioritizes access to the Free Market as a provider of good health and relies on Darwinian outcomes for the population at large. Everything's about avoiding autism ("feeblemindedness" anyone?), perceived physical weakness (never mind the gender-related overtones), and collective responsibility (maybe your Mom didn't eat enough of the new food pyramid, so now you're more likely to get polio, or something). There are some rather profane conclusions to be made from this belief system.
by olieidel | 2026-01-24 18:50:34+00:00
Thanks! Super interesting.

Yeah, they were alright - definitely a bit of a "we love to take a lot of your money" vibe, but they did have some actual knowledge.

Some of the other tax advisors in this area are way more shady - like, "do you have 30k€ in your bank account for our fixed-fee consulting" shady.

Still, I'd really love to have a more transparent and affordable choice here. Currently, to my knowledge, none exists.
by lance_ewing | 2026-01-24 18:50:55+00:00
JVIC (the libGDX version of JVIC) actually started out as mainly an Android project 10 years ago, but I didn't release it at that time. It was only a few months ago that I decided to add the html platform as a target, tidied it up in general, and thought it was time to release it. Given that this html version can be installed as an app on android phones, I'm not sure I need the android target anymore :D. It avoids the whole play store / app store process.
by dang | 2026-01-24 18:51:35+00:00
> I think it would be more constructive if the helpful and forthcoming answers happened in public

You're in luck, because there are thousands of public answers easily searchable on HN Search: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang&type=comment&dateRange... (by dang), https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... (by tomhow).

Whether they are helpful or forthcoming you'll have to decide. They are repetitive (and are even more tedious to write than they are to read) but here are some places to start:

stories with political overlap - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

not a current affairs site - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

consistency in moderation is impossible - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

flags and turning off flags - https://hn.algolia.com/?query=flags%20off%20turn%20by%3Adang...
by chainbuilder | 2026-01-24 18:51:46+00:00
I was looking at a wallet that appeared normal by most on-chain metrics.

No obvious scam flags.
No sanctioned counterparties.
Nothing unusual in token composition.

What stood out wasn’t what it did — it was when it did it.

Instead of reading transactions, I plotted activity across time:

24 hours × 7 days

Color intensity = transaction volume

What I expected to see was a human rhythm:

Clear active hours

A multi-hour lull overnight

Some weekday/weekend bias

What I saw instead was perfectly even activity.

No quiet window.
No multi-hour inactivity.
No timezone bias.
Just steady execution across all hours, every day.

That alone is a strong signal. Humans don’t behave evenly across time — we sleep, pause, and lose consistency. Software doesn’t.

To confirm, I checked for burst patterns:

Sudden activity spikes at regular intervals

Repeated across days

Consistent ratios relative to baseline

At that point, the conclusion was unavoidable: this wallet was automated.

What surprised me wasn’t that bots exist — that’s obvious — but how easy it was to identify one once I stopped looking at balances and started looking at timing.

Time-based behavior seems harder to fake than transaction structure:

Labels can be wrong

Funds can be mixed

Ownership can be obscured

Sleep patterns can’t

Curious if others here have used timing or activity rhythms as a primary signal in on-chain analysis, or if there are known false positives I should be aware of.
by iknowstuff | 2026-01-24 18:52:17+00:00
This is wrong.

A large chunk of the “classic” UK sell-offs were 1980s to early 1990s: BT (1984), British Gas (1986), British Airways (1987), and by 1991 regional electricity and water companies had been privatised.

A lot of EU single-market liberalisation in network industries ramped up later (late 1980s/1990s, and beyond). For example, telecoms EU “competition” directives begin in 1988/1990 and are amended through the 1990s.
Meanwhile, the UK government had already announced plans to sell major chunks of BT by 1982, and BT’s privatization was implemented through UK legislation. England/Wales water privatization was created by Water Act 1989.
by j45 | 2026-01-24 18:52:26+00:00
I thought it was reasonably common knowledge if you had a phone jack with 4 wires, you could route data over those 4 pins in an ethernet plug too.

Came in handy in an older house that used to have an intercom system, we just borrowed the deactivated intercom wires (they were 4 or 6 copper wires).
by irl_zebra | 2026-01-24 18:52:31+00:00
I was resigned to running cat6e up three floors because there was only coax and I needed a wifi AP up there. Came across the moca solution and it's great. I get flawless 2.5gbe from the basement switch to the third floor over coax. It's basically a little device that connects at each end of the coax and cat6 goes in and out.

Cat 6 would be better though so I could run POE from the basement switch to power the wifi AP, and instead I need to go do a much more complicated switch (cat6) -> moca adapter + power brick to power moca adapter -> coax -> moca adapter + power brick (cat6) -> POE injector (with power brick) -> wifi AP. SO I'm adding at least three power bricks to the setup, which is annoying. Otherwise it would be one cat6 drawing POE from the switch and powering the AP.
by lukevp | 2026-01-24 18:52:53+00:00
I had cat5e in my house but for phone line usage. It wasn’t daisy chained here, it was all tied in with a punch down panel in the master closet. I re-terminated the punch down side of each cable to ethernet and same with the keystone jacks in each room, and after switching to hardwired gigabit, I got into higher performance networking. I wanted to upgrade to at least 2.5 throughout the house, but maybe 5 or 10 if possible. Everything said cat5e isn’t shielded enough for 10 gig, but I tested every run with iperf3 at both tcp and udp and was surprised that everything was able to handle it! So I added a 10 gig switch to the master closet and now I have 10 gig throughout my house. Upgraded the internet to 5 gig. My NAS speeds are fantastic now and it’s really great to never have to wait on anything. The limiting factor now is the hard drive speeds!
Show HN: Loclean – Local semantic data cleaning with LLMs and Pydantic
by nxank4 | 2026-01-24 18:53:09+00:00
Hi HN, I’m the author of Loclean.

I built this because I work with sensitive data that I can't send to OpenAI, but traditional tools like Regex were too brittle for the messiness of real world inputs (like address typos or inconsistent date formats).

Loclean is a Python library that:
- Runs entirely locally (CPU friendly) using quantized models via llama-cpp-python.
- Uses Pydantic to enforce strict schemas (no more hallucinations or invalid JSON).
- Compatible with Pandas/Polars/PyArrow workflows.

It's designed to be a "middle ground" between rigid Regex and expensive/risky Cloud LLMs.

Repo link: https://github.com/nxank4/loclean

I’d love to hear your feedback on the API design or use cases you might have for local data scrubbing. Thank you!
by hosh | 2026-01-24 18:53:50+00:00
More generalized, any kind of symbol representing something is not the something. The social labelling is very accessible, true now and true then.

There’s a Zen koan about that (with Zen coming from Chang which came from a meeting of Buddhism and Taoism in China) — about the finger pointing to the moon, and how all but one student looked at the finger.

In a different example, there is the distinction of virtue signaling and virtue (the “Te” in “Tao Te Ching”)
by vimwizard | 2026-01-24 18:53:51+00:00
I received a title bump without pay increase to Senior after doing senior work for 4 years because our senior bracket is capped by lifers waiting to retire (I like them as people but they are checked out, professionally). It just left a bad taste in my mouth that it took so long to be recognized officially.

To put things into context, I'm basically operating as an engineering consultant to the rest of our senior staff and directors across multiple teams. In larger companies, perhaps I would be an intermediate IC, but in this company I am definitely responsible for more than my ICs.

It's my fault for not holding them to it, and should have realized earlier that I'm working under management that only reacts to things immediately happening to them.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-01-24 18:53:53+00:00
>No, everything was already open source, other had done it before too, they just made it in a way a lot of "normal" users could start with it, then they waited too long and others created better/their own products.

They made a unique contribution which was significant in its own way. It doesn't matter in the end that others tried to do related things before and failed to get traction. They could have made Docker more restrictive to make money, and they didn't. Open source is hard to actually make money with, unfortunately for those of us who enjoy it.
by lubujackson | 2026-01-24 18:53:54+00:00
I agree whole-heartedly with the source article as well as this comment. The point is that the work of estimation is most of the work. We can have better estimates if we break things down to bite-sized chunks, but "when will this be done" is largely impossible and comes down to many external factors. Laypeople understand this implicitly in other contexts.

My favorite metaphor is building something like a new shopping mall. If you ask for an estimate you first need to architect the entire thing. This is equivalent to breaking down the task into sprints. In most companies the entire architecture phase is given very little value, which is insane to me.

Once we have our blueprints, we have other stakeholders, which is where things really go off the rails. For the mall, maybe there is an issue with a falcon that lives on the land and now we need to move the building site, or the fixtures we ordered will take 3 extra months to be delivered. This is the political part of estimating software and depends a lot on the org itself.

Then, finally building. This is the easy part if we cleared the precursor work. Things can still go wrong: oops we hit bedrock, oops a fire broke out, oos the design wasn't quite right, oops we actually want to change the plan.

But yes, estimates are important to businesses. But businesses have a responsibility to compartmentalize the difference. Get me to a fully ticketed and approved epic and most engineers can give you a pretty good estimate. That is what businesses want, but they consider the necessary work when they Slack you "how long to build a mall?"
by cityofdelusion | 2026-01-24 18:54:07+00:00
I don’t see how this ever gets past the land phase. How does the AI know if the proposed land rental is fertile, farmable, accessible to vehicles, accessible to specific machinery, etc? Assuming a human intervenes here, I don’t see how you find an operator to get up to run a combine on 5 acres for the harvest. I’d have as much luck finding someone to do it on my backyard garden.
by RGBCube | 2026-01-24 18:54:23+00:00
I like the Google Calculator, but don't use Google services and the Google Calculator can't work without Play Services for some reason. So I've tried all the popular open source ones and found https://github.com/sadellie/unitto to be the closest in experience (material design) and accuracy (the tan(355/226) test works). It also has conversions for other units, and even currency using https://github.com/fawazahmed0/exchange-api that is accurate enough for a rough estimate if you let it have Internet access.
by tucnak | 2026-01-24 18:54:38+00:00
Not all ISP's are like that. MikroTik is used by many ISP's in Europe. Dominant? Not yet, but it's getting there! U.S. is not really popular these days, you know? Trust in the pesky, backdoored Cisco switches is at an all-time low, cost notwithstanding. This is pushing telcos to consider alternative architectures that do not require certain proprietary features pushed by the big-three switch and router manufacturers.

This is not rocket science.
by kccqzy | 2026-01-24 18:54:49+00:00
> The hard part of quant is implementation, making sure your data is right, hunting through poorly understood markets, and managing risks carefully and understanding them.

In my experience I have seen far more division of labor than you describe. Real quants don’t do work like making sure your data is right or even much of implementation; they delegate that to software engineers. But a cheap quant shop might be too cheap to hire SWEs so quants end up doing this work instead. The real quant work is just hunting through poorly understood markets.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2026-01-24 18:55:06+00:00
the pattern I recommend is to use CI system only at the event trigger layer e.g. setting up invocation as a response to webhooks. Then you drop down into whatever orchestration layer you implement yourself to do the actual work. So in my configurations, the ci yml is very minimal, it essentially says "set up env vars, inject secrets, install minimal deps and invoke `ci` command of whatever adult system you so choose" (Dagger would be one example).

What UI are you looking for outside of log streaming? If you want to see a DAG of your workflows and their progress you can use other systems as you say (Dagger has this), or your orchestration layer can implement that.

If you want to use the orchestration component of your ci tooling, you always can do so, and get your DAG viewer, but you have to accept all of the constraints that come with that choice
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-24 18:56:02+00:00
>Question is, are people on HN procrastinating and commenting here because the agent isn't very good and they're avoiding having to write the code themselves

Can you help me envision what you're saying? It's async - you will have to wait whether its good or not. And in theory the better it is the more time you'd have to comment here, right?
by senko | 2026-01-24 18:56:06+00:00
> There must a ton of new full-web datasets out there, right?

Sadly, no. There's CommonCrawl (https://commoncrawl.org/) which still, sadly, far removed from "full-web dataset."

So everyone runs their own search instead, hammering the sites, going into gray areas (you either ignore robots.txt or your results suck), etc. It's a tragedy of the commons that keeps Google entrenched: https://senkorasic.com/articles/ai-scraper-tragedy-commons
by mostlysimilar | 2026-01-24 18:56:31+00:00
> For users that have enabled Advanced Data Protection, iCloud stores content for email, contacts, and calendars that the customer has elected to maintain in the account while the customer’s account remains active. This data may be provided, as it exists in the customer’s account, in response to a search warrant issued upon a showing of probable cause, or customer consent.

> Apple does not receive or retain encryption keys for customer’s end-to-end encrypted data. Advanced Data Protection uses end-to-end encryption, and Apple cannot decrypt certain iCloud content, including Photos, iCloud Drive, Backup, Notes, and Safari Bookmarks
by throwaway150 | 2026-01-24 18:56:34+00:00
As with most of these stories, the defendant presents only half the story. The other half which you can see in the comments is that the defendant lost a trademark infringement suit in India. So Namecheap is asking them to geofence their domain so that they are not serving users in India.

Then there's also the thing that the DNS record for their company points to this individual (not the company). So then this individual gets the lawsuit. I wouldn't be sure that Namecheap is at fault here.

To read the other half of the story -

https://nitter.net/loganflatt/status/2014805148611076530#m

https://nitter.net/pkj__m/status/2014888969989980167#m
by assimpleaspossi | 2026-01-24 18:56:55+00:00
You took things out of context. You aren't following along to what I replied to. The person I replied to said, "...so these days it's actually HTML5." And, in response to "these days", I said there is no HTML5. Which is true and you agree with.

So did the other guy. Thanks to you all for your support for web standards.
by spicyusername | 2026-01-24 18:57:29+00:00
In the case that the IP, and thus the financial benefit, is not owned by an individual, but owned by a large corporation, as with your example, what does the individual care whether or not the IP is infringed?

They don't. In this case democratizing the IP is more likely a social benefit, not a harm.

We're talking about intellectual property rights, the benefits of which only go to the intellectual property holder.

Although how big a corporation has to be before we cross the line is an interesting question.
by Gazoche | 2026-01-24 18:57:48+00:00
Same here. Until recently I would get maybe 1-2 spams a month, and I just got 30 in the span of a few days.

They’re the very obvious, very obnoxious kind of spam, and Gmail still correctly sends them to the junk bin, so I wonder if they were shadowbanned before and Google simply decided to make the process more explicit (which I don’t hate on principle).

Either that or my address was scrapped from somewhere by a spam bot and the timing is coincidental.
by VLM | 2026-01-24 18:57:51+00:00
The article shows how performance has always increased at a somewhat continually increasing level of inconvenience. Weird connectors, SUPER demanding power requirements, new case designs every generation, new cooling required every generation, etc.

My applications have remained the same for many years my octoprint and retropie don't require more FLOPs as time goes on but I'd really enjoy a modern board that has fewer headaches. Works on any normal USB port instead of requiring specialized power supplies, doesn't brown out and reset as much, doesn't heat up as much, etc. I suspect "a pi 3, but now with fewer headaches" would sell better than "a pi 3 but even more headaches and bigger numbers that you don't want".
by stephen_cagle | 2026-01-24 18:58:15+00:00
Thank you for your response.

Haha, yes, when read out loud, all the new terms do come off as a bit unhinged. :]

It sounds like the major difference is that DSPY is more of a "define a node in a graph of computation, flow data through those nodes". While Gas Town is ideally more of "Tell me what you want, I will spin up a graph of nodes that you can have some input on to complete your work".
by credit_guy | 2026-01-24 18:58:27+00:00
> but these days for most people there’s little to no new maths.

You are right. For most people there's little to no new maths.

But not for all. There's still plenty of good quality math to be done in the exotics space. However, there's a bit of Catch 22 that prevents people from doing new math: all the big shops have had exotics libraries since before 2008, and because of the exotics hiatus between about 2008 and maybe 2013, the research momentum was lost. After that, most quants in the space were happy to find ways to use the old stuff, and apply small tweaks at the margins. Most small shops use vendor models (Numerix, Murex) or open source (QuantLib), and people who use vendor solutions or open source are not looking for cutting edge stuff.

But there's still good math left out there.
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-24 18:59:00+00:00
GSD was the first project management framework I used. Initially I loved it because it felt like I was so much better organized.

As time went on I felt like the organization was kind of an illusion. It demanded something from me and steered Claude, but ultimately Claude is doing whatever it's going to do.

I went black to just raw-dogging it with lots of use of planning mode.