MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simoncion | 2026-01-25 12:51:25+00:00
> ...it takes 20 seconds to reach 500 Mbps, because TCP takes a while to adjust the bandwidth and is very conservative. TCP and home computers are not designed to make use of gigabit connections.

I very much doubt that that is an artifact of TCP. I can go from nothing to 10gbit/s symmetric in 100->200ms when running Iperf3 over TCP against another one of my LAN hosts.

And, back when I had a 1.5gbit/s Internet downlink, it took far, far less than 20 seconds to reach > 500mbps for big Steam downloads and other such well-provisioned things.
by Chris_Newton | 2026-01-25 12:51:27+00:00
The cornerstone of Microsoft still is Windows and Office.

Again, is it really, though? I have no special insider knowledge so perhaps this is just a misunderstanding of the public information, but just going by the organisation structure, leadership comments and recent financials, it looks like Windows makes up a relatively small part of Microsoft’s revenues these days, while the traditional desktop Office applications seem to be almost lost in the noise. The emphasis seems to be firmly on cloud services, though admittedly with all the rebranding from Microsoft lately, I find it hard to understand even what basic products and services they offer any more.
Ask HN: What should I do when the coding agents run?
by HiPHInch | 2026-01-25 12:52:15+00:00
Now that coding agents can run with minimal human effort, what should the human do during that time?

Do we just become “watchers” who wait for results? Should we be monitoring them closely, or is it better to step away and do something else—like reading, watching a lecture, or even playing games—while the agents run?

For people who use coding agents regularly: what’s your workflow? How do you stay productive without hovering, and how do you decide when to intervene?
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-25 12:52:52+00:00
> Texting in iOS is arguably better or, at the very least

Since some updates ago, my keyboard is still broken if I type too fast, and autocorrect been essentially broken for the same amount of time. Must be happening for ~years now, still waiting for a new update to finally fix it.

At least on Android you can change the keyboard to something else if you'd like, instead of being stuck with what your OS developer forces on you. Wish I had that option now.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-25 12:54:33+00:00
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's surely reasonable to assume they meant something that is factually accurate. Using "the police" to refer to law enforcement in general is common; additionally, the alleged crimes are in the purview of the FBI. There is ample context to interpret their words more strongly.
by 1dom | 2026-01-25 12:54:33+00:00
> Clearly these people are afraid that if they sound too harsh, they'll be ignored altogether as a crank.

This is true though, and one of those awkward times where good ideals like science and critical feedback brush up against potentially ugly human things like pride and ego.

I read a quote recently, and I don't like it, but it's stuck with me because it feels like it's dancing around the same awkward truth:

"tact is the art of make a point without making an enemy"

I guess part of being human is accepting that we're all human and will occasionally fail to be a perfect human.

Sometimes we'll make mistakes in conducting research. Sometimes we'll make mistakes in handling mistakes we or others made. Sometimes these mistakes will chain together to create situations like the post describes.

Making mistakes is easy - it's such a part of being human we often don't even notice we do it. Learning you've made a mistake is the hard part, and correcting that mistake is often even harder. Providing critical feedback, as necessary as it might be, typically involves putting someone else through hardship. I think we should all be at least slightly afraid and apprehensive of doing that, even if it's for a greater good.
by fruitworks | 2026-01-25 12:54:45+00:00
no ublock

How can whatsapp be better? Android at least has features like scoped storage.

Where is the ios equivalent of newpipe? Where is the iOS equivalent of pojavlauncher? where is the iOS equivalent of libretorrent or syncthing?

Open source is essentially banned on iOS.

What is the advantage of iOS? "Feels smoother"? Totally subjective.
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-01-25 12:55:02+00:00
I get where you're coming from, but "encyclopedic" has a pretty specific definition, and it doesn't twin with "ambition" in any sensible way. It seems like it should, but it doesn't. I'm commenting on the poor writing. Maybe "grand ambitions", or "colossal ambitions"? "encyclopedic ambitions" just doesn't work, unless we're going with vibe-writing :-)
by HPsquared | 2026-01-25 12:55:18+00:00
I could see a single "bad" ICE car being the equivalent of 100 "good" ICE cars. Even the VW emissions scandal (where the cars were still functioning as designed, just not as well as they should) had instances where pollutants were 35x higher than they should be. So I could see an emissions deleted diesel (of which there are many, i.e. catalytic converter and DPF removed) could easily have more than 100x the usual emissions of noxious substances. Maybe even more!

You can smell these cars from halfway up the road sometimes, when they're 100 metres ahead.
by throwup238 | 2026-01-25 12:55:35+00:00
> You are proposing that every customer identify themself for every transaction, and that every store verifies that identity against a state maintained list.

That's how debit/credit card numbers work now, except the list is maintained by Visa or Mastercard or another private party. How else would they know who to credit and debit?

You seem to be uniquely ignorant of how modern payment processing works. Spoiler alert: the "Bank Identification Number" (the "BIN" that the GP references) is part of every card transaction and clearly identifies most federal government accounts. It's pretty much mandatory to handle tax exemption.

https://smartpay.gsa.gov/smarttax/recognizing-your-account/

Some businesses like the Hilton hotels are already putting it into practice, by the way, so clearly its quite trivial: https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-remo...
by flowerthoughts | 2026-01-25 12:55:36+00:00
You also need to build the infrastructure to take on 1,000 tons of gold. I doubt that's done in a month. IIRC, London has the biggest storage after NYC, so that's probably where it'll end up in the interrim. Eventually, I'd guess Switzerland will rise to do more gold storage.

We're essentially creating the same scenario as WTI vs Brent oil, where gold is partitioned into multiple different products depending on location.
by zahrevsky | 2026-01-25 12:56:23+00:00
> The contribution of this work lies in its move from critique to measurement. It proposes concrete methods: recursive summarization chains, metaphor stress-tests, resonance surveys, and noise-infused retrieval experiments. These allow researchers to track how meaning erodes over time. By integrating these methods, it outlines a pathway toward fidelity-centered benchmarks that complement existing accuracy metrics.

To me, starting to solve the problem by meticulously measuring it, is a sign of a good solution.
by glenstein | 2026-01-25 12:57:23+00:00
The inconvenient fact that bursts this bubble is that installing already is the default term, and it's the emergence of "side loading" which is the anachronistic attempt to redefine the term.

The idea that a precondition for something to count is installing is that it's vetted by a big company is the abberation, and the notion that it's trustworthy is belied by the avalanche of unsafe and privacy violating apps that find their way into the store. F-Droid apps are actually more carefully vetted than Play Store apps, so there goes the trust rationale.

You're the one muddying the waters.
by trinix912 | 2026-01-25 12:57:27+00:00
Another T-2 customer here. I never ran into issues with port blocking, even more, I had a "free" static IPv4 on DSL before we got the fiber line, but I've lately been noticing random connection slowdowns. Never had significant slowdowns with DSL.

I've talked to a few people (Telemach customers) who told me it happens every now and then, they call the support center that tells them to restart the router (even if they'd done it before) and then the connection magically works at full speed again.

Could it just be that it all goes through Telekom Slovenije who does some weird load balancing? Definitely worth an investigation, but ZPS might be a better address for this than AKOS.
by dev_l1x_be | 2026-01-25 12:57:42+00:00
There is a surprisingly large amount of bad science out there. And we know it.
One of my favourite writeup on the subject: John P. A. Ioannidis: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1182327/pdf/pmed.00...
by metalman | 2026-01-25 12:58:19+00:00
I am absolutly certain (without knowing or checking), that many of the germans involved in putting there gold in US hands, did so "reluctantly".
And now with panzers in the ukrain for the 3'rd time they are looking back overthere shoulders thinking right, general winter in front and our gold back there and how did they get in this mess anyway, reluctantly.
Some of the men who mentored me, spoke of there experiences going ashore in France and pushing on into Germany, which they did at great personal cost, but in spite of that, enthusiasticly.
Every time Russia publishes a "routine" update on there sovereign gold reserves it must make the euros twitch, with the germans developing a prounounced tick.
which is all my way of saying that I can find no way to sympathise.
by sllabres | 2026-01-25 12:59:08+00:00
From the article:
"The consequences for a consumer buying a shady USB cable likely aren’t too bad".

I can't second that.

Without my knowledge, I once had a counterfeit cable that costed several days of my life.
At that time, the FTDI drivers recognized (and as I read did some other things [1]) that a counterfeit cable was connected, but instead of simply disabling the function, they impeded it.
In my case: After pressing the first few keys on terminal connection, the transmission from the device to the PC worked, but not the reverse direction.
A long search for the error came to an end after I replaced the USB/RS232 with a new one.
This was with windows, with linux even the counterfeit worked.

[1] https://www.elektroda.com/qa,ftdi-ft232-scandal-driver-brick...
Show HN: I made a webgame to make fun fridays entertaining
by prakhar897 | 2026-01-25 12:59:10+00:00
Generally fun fridays just mean playing pictionary. There was a lack of more interesting games, so I made "TEQ - That escalated quickly".

The premise is you're given a question and you have to write a funny answer. After everyone writes their answer, all players vote on the funniest answer.
by 4700 | 2026-01-25 12:59:19+00:00
The AI gold rush is slowing.
For the last few years, the conversation was about:
Bigger models
Faster tools
Automating everything
Most companies adopted AI to avoid falling behind—not because they had clarity on trust, ownership, or risk.
That’s changing.
By 2026, companies won’t ask:
“Can AI do this?”
They’ll ask:
“Can AI explain this—and can we trust it?”
From experimentation to accountability
Early AI adoption was forgiving. Errors were framed as “learning experiences.”
That tolerance is disappearing.
With 58%+ of U.S. small businesses already using generative AI, AI outputs now directly impact customers, revenue, and brand trust. A hallucinated response or biased recommendation is no longer a model issue—it’s a business liability.
Uncontrolled AI doesn’t just fail. It scales failure.
Accountability is becoming a core AI skill
By 2026, AI-mature teams will expect:
Explainable outputs
Transparent decision logic
Ethical safeguards
Human-in-the-loop oversight
Clear ownership of outcomes
This isn’t just an engineering problem:
Leaders must know when AI should assist vs. decide
Managers must challenge AI outputs
Engineers must build auditable, governed systems
Where AI education needs to evolve
This is why programs like Eduonix’s “Top Multimodal AI Tools for 2026” are interesting.
Instead of focusing only on tools or prompts, the course is designed around AI accountability and real-world usage, with:
Ethics and explainability treated as core skills
AI positioned as decision support, not decision replacement
A dual-track structure so responsibility doesn’t fall through gaps
For those interested in structured, workflow-centric AI learning, Eduonix’s Top Multimodal AI Tools for 2026 is an example of a two-track approach worth reviewing.
by tomhow | 2026-01-25 12:59:37+00:00
> HN sometimes seems to spend more energy decrying the current state of the UK than that of the US, despite the relative imbalance in user numbers.

I have to assume this perception has mostly to do with the time of day you're normally looking at HN. As someone who is looking at the threads for hours each day, there's certainly far more politics-related discussion about the U.S. than any other country.
by akomtu | 2026-01-25 13:00:18+00:00
Dao is the way of life, it teaches the proper way to live. This teaching exists in every culture. Westerners call it the Way, Indians call it Dharma, Chinese also call it Fa. The simpler it looks, the higher its level. Its written forms have many layers of meaning because readers are of different levels. A well known example is statements like "love your enemy." It has a surface level meaning, a deeper meaning and so on. What you can ultimately see corresponds to your character level. To raise your level you need to apply what you've learned into practice, to live in the Dao, in other words. Intellectual understanding isn't enough, it must change the way you live. Then you can read the Dao again and see a higher level of meaning.
by alex1138 | 2026-01-25 13:00:32+00:00
You know, I've speculated before that Facebook's video metrics fraud might have disrupted the entire industry, because people copy their "success". It's why autoplaying videos etc

I wonder if MFABT is a similar justification

Does MFABT work? It's possible. But people have complained about Facebook for years as a buggy product. And it doesn't fulfill what it's apparently meant to be used for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719
by IshKebab | 2026-01-25 13:00:50+00:00
> I wouldn't put a scraper or pdf generator with the main application.

I would. It can be in the main executable just under a different subcommand.

> There are benefits to keeping some things small and isolated.

Nobody is saying otherwise. It's just that the downsides are almost always bigger.

> Teams that have problems with micro services are doing it wrong.

How so? Some of the disadvantages are inherent to the idea of microservices, e.g. the additional orchestration complexity.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-25 13:01:16+00:00
In the U.S. Civil War several states joined together to break from the nation. I'm not seeing anything like that here.

I am seeing a cold civil war with Pacific states banding together for health initiatives. And states gerrymandering their districts prompting other states to then gerrymander theirs in response. That kind of cold civil war.

Minnesota now calling up their state's national guard is the first sign I see of the cold civil war warming up.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-25 13:01:44+00:00
The webpage of the journal [1] only says 109 citations of the original article, this count only "indexed" journals, that are not guaranty to be ultra high quality but at least filter the worse "pay us to publish crap" journals.

ResearchGate says 3936 citations. I'm not sure what they are counting, probably all the pdf uploaded to ResearchGate

I'm not sure how they count 6000 citations, but I guess they are counting everything, including quotes by the vicepresident. Probably 6001 after my comment.

Quoted in the article:

>> 1. Journals should disclose comments, complaints, corrections, and retraction requests. Universities should report research integrity complaints and outcomes.

All comments, complaints, corrections, and retraction requests? Unmoderated? Einstein articles will be full of comments explaining why he is wrong, from racist to people that can spell Minkowski to save their lives. In /newest there is like one post per week from someone that discover a new physics theory with the help of ChatGPT. Sometimes it's the same guy, sometimes it's a new one.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1964011

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279944386_The_Impac...
by kxbnb | 2026-01-25 13:02:01+00:00
The insight about environment attacks vs. model attacks is critical. "The model functioned correctly, yet the overall agent system remained compromised because it trusted its tools' outputs."

This is why I've been focused on boundary visibility. Agents are opaque until they hit real tools - and if you can't see what's actually being sent/received at each boundary, you can't detect manipulation.

We built toran.sh to provide that inspection layer - read-only proxies that show the actual wire-level request/response. Doesn't prevent attacks, but makes them visible.

Curious what detection mechanisms you're recommending alongside the attack framework?
by goranmoomin | 2026-01-25 13:02:39+00:00
This is very interesting, I haven’t touched macOS development for quite a while but it’s good to know that libraries are still being written for both AppKit and SwiftUI on macOS.

I do feel that this library would benefit from an explanation on why this was needed. AFAIR AppKit already provides a native tabbing API where you can “just” (that “just” is doing a lot of heavy lifting) implement a few delegate methods and you get tabbing behavior for free, especially on document-based apps. (Sorry, I do not remember the specifics, it might have been a tad more difficult)

I’m not updated on the SwiftUI equivalent, but I would imagine that a similar API would exist much alike API for multiple windows or multiple documents.

I think everyone would benefit from a “why” explanation (which I definitely think would exist, since I’ve used too many AppKit APIs in pain), and also some screenshots for a demo app (so that we can expect how it would look and how much the look and feel would deviate from the native counterparts).
Show HN: Gitmore – AI-powered Git reports that write themselves
by inferno22 | 2026-01-25 13:02:50+00:00
Hey HN! I built Gitmore to solve a problem I kept running into: spending hours compiling what my team did each week for stakeholders.

What it does:
Gitmore connects to your GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket repos (via webhooks, never touches your code) and uses AI to generate human-readable reports of your team's activity.

Example report: https://www.gitmore.io/example.html

Interactive demo: https://demo.arcade.software/5tZyFDhp1myCosw6e1po
by arter45 | 2026-01-25 13:02:58+00:00
The overall idea seems interesting, and that graph is cool, but I have to say I'm a bit confused.

First, the main market graph uses currency like symbols, as if this was a forex or crypto market. Maybe it's just me, but I was kind of put off by forcing "trading" naming conventions into something that is not advertised as a trading platform.

Also, when I read:

>evolved into an observation tool. It now models where global attention flows across news and communities (HN, Reddit, GDELT), visualized as a live market

and I saw the graph, I initially supposed it scraped major news communities to find what's the trending topic (AI, war,...). After all, it's an observation tool, it's not for trading or prediction.

Except... there are those "Trade" buttons for each category. What does it mean? Do users vote on which topic they currently consider more important? Is the vote exclusive (can only vote for one category)? Do users pay to vote?

And why should votes on this platform be more representative of these trends than actual posts on actual news communities?
Unless this is some kind of prediction market, but this isn't reflected in your statement ("observation tool... not for trading or prediction").

Since there is no visible page which explains what this is all about, I'm left a bit confused.

On a less important note, maybe you could make graphs with flexible time ranges. Say, 24 hours/7 days/30 days. Users focus on whatever time range they are interested, and you provide a default choice.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-25 13:03:19+00:00
While it is true that Silicon Graphics eventually acquired Cray Computer, they did it after the novel, and the film's release, but I would suppose that even before the 1996 acquisition that SGI and Cray machines were very good partners, like peas in a pod.

It is important to remember that nobody who operated a Cray did it in isolation. The supercomputers always require some extra workstations arrayed around it in order to get stuff done. Of course, there were remote connections too, but often there would be at least one sort of "dedicated user console" that was closely coupled to the supercomputer itself. I believe that some supercomputers of that era were poorly equipped to actually handle interactive user sessions, and that's why.
by Asmod4n | 2026-01-25 13:03:59+00:00
but the fun thing about them is, they allow you to impersonate any mail address you want with their smtp server.

Aka, when you are a customer of them you get a @t-online.de address and login data for their smtp server.

You can just login into that server and set the From: Header to anything, they don't check.
by defrost | 2026-01-25 13:04:06+00:00
The generous interpretation is that was a jolly quip about those that confuse global averages with immediate specific locations.

For example, some might forget about hemispheres and assume January was globally meaningful when some of us are going through a tarmac melting heatwave.

Life under a rock is generally stabilised - warm during the night, cooler than direct sunlight during the day .. that's why goannas and perenties live in tunnels under rocks.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perentie
by lordnacho | 2026-01-25 13:04:29+00:00
No, the feedback loop isn't closed. The fish customer just keeps handing his spread to his favourite sales guy.

I've witnesses this several times, some trader always uses the same relationship, irrespective of cost. I've seen this both in terms of friends from a long time ago helping each other, family, or backhanders.

And so the real winner is that sales guy. I've known people climb to the very top of well known institutions on the back of relationships with just one hedge fund.

What you're describing is a sort of ideal market from an economics textbook.