MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-19 17:40:23+00:00
I’d say people fall somewhere in between 0% and 100% bigoted and what they will tolerate/laugh at can be incredibly nuanced. Nobody is actually 0% or 100% racist but I generally consider myself “not bigoted” in a broad sense. Everyone is of course carrying some bigoted opinion(s) though, it’s unavoidable.

But back to the point: I’d say I am by and large not particularly bigoted. Still, I’d be lying if I said I have never laughed at off-color jokes. No matter how progressive or anti-racist you are something is going to break through. That is what makes it such a powerful tool for less scrupulous actors. You find what a person or community is willing to tolerate, then you either peel off people in private or push boundaries out loud and slowly drive a wedge into the community.
by missinglugnut | 2026-01-19 17:40:33+00:00
I'm sorry but you're logic really doesn't add up. If a part goes from $30 to $285 because of massive insurance premiums, that indicates that the insurance company expects things to go wrong.

The real reasons oem parts cost more is always some combination of these three things:
1. They use more expensive processes and materials.
2. They charge more because they can. People are willing to pay a premium for "genuine" parts.
3. They have a "dealer network" to support, which is convenient but expensive to maintain.

#1 is the only thing I want to pay for. Ultimately it's on a case by case basis whether oem is worth it and you never know for sure.

But I'm really thankful non-oem parts exist, just as long as they're labeled as such and not comingled.
by gtirloni | 2026-01-19 17:40:41+00:00
Definitely support a living wage available to anyone willing to work.

However, as evidenced by the current situation, the US economy doesn't support manufacturing all types of consumer goods that it demands.

I understand the pressure points you're arguing for but I don't think that the US society will be in a better place once those are enforced.

If everybody willing to work doesn't have access to a job that pays a living wage, isn't that a different issue? Maybe the government could have educational programs so everybody has access to getting the education needed for jobs that pay a living wage (those not offshored to China and others) but I guess that's too much socialism for the US.
by kibwen | 2026-01-19 17:40:44+00:00
> In prediction markets if the markets are fully efficiently priced, in the absence of transaction costs you WILL get 100% back in the long run.

This is basically equivalent to the observation that, in a perfectly efficient market, no entity can ever make a profit.

And yet, in the real world, entities make profits all the time. In fact, they make wild, unimaginable, world-changing, history-altering profits. This is a tacit admission that our markets aren't even remotely efficient, and that includes predictions markets. Efficient, rational markets are the exception, not the rule.
by miohtama | 2026-01-19 17:40:50+00:00
Problem with HateAid is that it doesn't focus on helping on hate crimes alone, but also combats hate speech, which is very widely interpreted. This sometimes have included criticism to politicians in power. Although its mission might be noble, the execution is sometimes murky. Of course if we get to the future where the government draws the line between the hate and the murky, the line will be drawn by White House for the US companies, not the EU.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/germany...
by Noaidi | 2026-01-19 17:41:03+00:00
Apple annual gross profit for 2025 was $195.201B, a 8.04% increase from 2024.
Apple annual gross profit for 2024 was $180.683B, a 6.82% increase from 2023.
Apple annual gross profit for 2023 was $169.148B, a 0.96% decline from 2022.

Seems like this is just plain old greed...
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-19 17:41:17+00:00
I think you're changing the topic here. But i'll bite a bit, we're talking about let's encrypt here, so for every argument you made, it would be let's encrypt issuing the certificates. All the "open source" use cases you have can also be supported by them.

The whole point of let's encrypt doing this would be to reduce the fees for open source devs and poor devs in general. But ultimately, software published to the public is a matter of consumer safety and welfare. to that end, if you have a solution that enables operating systems to authenticate and review software before consumers are exposed to it, feel free to suggest an alternative, short of that, too bad for the open source dev. Nothing stoping you from using alternative devices. You don't have any entitlement over operatins systems or hardware sold to the public. The needs of software developers as a whole is not important in the slightest bit when it comes to consumer devices and software. Just the same as the plumbers needs are irrelevant when it comes to evaluating the safety of water and sewage pipes, or the construction person's needs are irrelevant when it comes to evaluating the safety of the building they're working on.

If construction worker claims they don't need regulatory certified construction materials because that means random people building cabins in the woods can't sell their house, too bad right? They can still build their own cabin and live in it, but to sell the cabin house it must pass inspection (fees), zoning requirements, accessibility and fire safety requirements,etc.. why is your software dev industry so special?

And yes, microsoft and google get to police things, just like in every other regulated industry there are professional certification boards. You need to pass the law BAR to be a lawyer, you need to pass the medicine BAR to practice medicine on the public. And those BAR associations are made up of industry leaders. Nothing prevents you from going to medical school and treating your own self without passing the BAR. Nothing stops you from writing your own software and using it. but when other people use it, they expect the government to keep them safe from malpractice and harm, that supersedes any needs or desires you may have for open source. You can even argue that it should be free, and that's the whole point of this, let's encrypt made TLS certs free, maybe it can make code signing/dev auth free too! But if it doesn't ,i consider it gross incompetence and dereliction of duty, if the government doesn't require software signing and secure boot on every consumer accessible software system.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-19 17:41:51+00:00
https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/13-482...

This is the conclusion of the saga between the author's guild v. google. It goes through a lot of factors, but in the end the conclusion is this:

> In sum, we conclude that: (1) Google’s unauthorized digitizing of copyright-protected works, creation of a search functionality, and display of snippets from those works are non-infringing fair uses. The purpose of the copying is highly transformative, the public display of text is limited, and the revelations do not provide a significant market substitute for the protected aspects of the originals. Google’s commercial nature and profit motivation do not justify denial of fair use. (2) Google’s provision of digitized copies to the libraries that supplied the books, on the understanding that the libraries will use the copies in a manner consistent with the copyright law, also does not constitute infringement. Nor, on this record, is Google a contributory infringer.
by nindalf | 2026-01-19 17:42:03+00:00
Just incredible how little people understand football on here, but confidently say things like this.

Here's an example from a few months ago where Italy suspended their EU obligations to free movement to prevent hooligans entering from Germany.[1] This is a far bigger response, which affected all Germans entering Italy, not just the football fans. This is a far bigger response and of questionable legality.

[1] - https://www.visahq.com/news/2025-11-04/de/italys-one-day-bor...
Show HN: I built a privacy-first retirement simulator in React (no login)
by manizkrishnan | 2026-01-19 17:42:15+00:00
Hello HN,

I’m the developer behind RetireFluent.

I built this because I was frustrated with the current state of retirement calculators. They usually fall into two buckets:

Too Simple: "Enter current savings + 7% growth" (ignores tax brackets, inflation variance, or spending phases).

Too Expensive: Professional tools like MoneyGuidePro that cost $1,000s/year and are gatekept by financial advisors.

I wanted something in the middle—high fidelity but accessible.

The Tech Stack:

Frontend: React + Tailwind CSS.

Logic: Runs entirely client-side. No data is sent to a server. Your financial data stays in your browser's local memory.

Deployment: Vercel (Web).

Key Features:

Privacy First: Since it's client-side, you don't need to create an account or hand over your email to see results.

Spending Phases: Models "Go-Go" (early retirement), "Slow-Go", and "No-Go" years rather than flat spending.

Medical Inflation: Separates healthcare costs from general inflation (since medical costs historically outpace CPI).

Gap Analysis: Calculates the exact shortfall and generates a "Verdict" rather than just a raw number.

What I’m looking for: I’m currently refining the UI flow (specifically the mobile wizard) and the tax estimation logic. I’d love feedback on:

Does the "Simple vs. Advanced" toggle feel intuitive?

Are the default assumptions (inflation/growth) reasonable?

Any edge cases in the simulation I missed?

Link: https://retirefluent.com

Thanks for checking it out!
Kris
by shihab | 2026-01-19 17:42:22+00:00
Hi, I actually mentioned ISPC several times there. And although I strenuously avoided crowning one approach "better" over the other, it is worth pointing out that 1) Many of these benefits of ISPC can be had from explicit SIMD libraries like Google's Highway, and 2) ISPC (or any SIMT model) is a departure from how the underlying hardware works, and as the AI community is discovering with GPU, this abstraction can sometimes be lot more headache than its worth.
by jolmg | 2026-01-19 17:42:59+00:00
All comments seem to assume the officers lied about not using AI, but the article doesn't actually say that:

> officers had found this material through a Google search

> the erroneous result concerning the West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv match arose as result of a use of Microsoft Co Pilot

> his force used fictional output from Microsoft Copilot

What this says is that the material originates from Copilot.

I suppose you can read that and assume that they lied about the Google search, but if you assume incompetence over malice, the more likely interpretation is that they didn't properly verify their source found through Google. It could have been the source of the source of their source that used Copilot, not the officers themselves.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-19 17:43:02+00:00
> Do you condemn the Maccabi fans recorded on camera in Amsterdam repeatedly chanting "death to arabs" and "there are no more schools in gaza because we destroyed them?"

Yes, without question. Those are racist provocations.

I also condemn their local opponents who made random attacks on unrelated Jewish and Israeli people. I hope you would do the same.

> Or the army of an ultra racist state that committed what the UN has described as genocide?

I take no side on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Israelis and Palestinians both have a right to exist, and to live in peace.
by exodys | 2026-01-19 17:43:02+00:00
I think that a lot of web developers and users have gotten too comfortable with large amounts of memory usage. On one hand of the spectrum, web browsers are essentially remaking the idea of the operating system, but on the other hand, is the "HTML is good enough" crowd. Quite frankly, there SHOULD be a balance between these factions; and personally, I lean towards the "HTML is good enough" crowd. I've never been a fan of web apps, and I think systems programming is not beloved enough. A web page should be just that; a web page, like paper. Anything fancier shouldn't be stuck in the browser, IMHO.
by watwut | 2026-01-19 17:43:04+00:00
Back then, yes, many voted for holocaust. It did not had a name yet, but they wanted exactly that.

They also voted for military conquest, they celebrated start of the war. Including or even especially so young men seeking to prove their masculinity. They were not voting to just bring better conditions for themselves. They voted to bring glory and violent victories.

They believed themselves to be strong dominant men who will bring good times to the aryan races.
by majormajor | 2026-01-19 17:43:05+00:00
> You can be confident it works if it passes domain level tests.

This is generally true for things you run locally on your machine IF your domain isn't super heavy on external dependencies or data dependencies that cause edge cases and cause explosions in test cases. But again, easier to inspect/be sure of those things locally for single-player utilities.

Generally much less true for anything that touches the internet and deals with money and/or long-term persistent storage of other people's data. If you aren't fluent in that world you'll run software built on old versions of third party code with iterations to make further changes that have to be increasingly broad in scope against a set of test cases that is almost certainly not as creative as a real attacker.

Personally I would love to see stuff move back to local user machines vs the Google-et-al-owned online world. But I don't think "cheap freeware" was the missing ingredient that prevented the corporate consolidation. And so people/companies who want to play in that massively-online world (where the money is) are still going to have to know the broader technical domain of operating online services safely and securely, which touches deep into the code.

So I, personally, don't have to be confident in one-off or utility scripts for manual tasks or ops that I write, because I can be confident in the domain of their behavior since I'm intimately familiar with the surrounding systems. Saves me a TON of time. Time I can devote to the important-to-get-correct code. But what about the next generation? Not familiar with the surrounding systems, so not even aware of what the domains they need to know (or not know) in depth are? (Maybe they'll pay us a bunch of money to help clean up a mess, which is a classic post-just-build-shit-fast successful startup story.)
by overfeed | 2026-01-19 17:43:09+00:00
> if you want to understand what’s going on

Funny how the in-depth analysis is strictly in one direction, rathcheting the Overton window forever rightward.

On one hand we had mountains of articles about "economic anxiety" & "The MAGA next door" in 2016. On the flip side is "Fuck your feelings" and never a "humanizing, fish out of water" longform article about the life of a Democratic Socialist in a small Texas town after Biden 2020.
by engineer_22 | 2026-01-19 17:43:18+00:00
> the US isn't flooded with BYD electric cars from China. China's dirt cheap labor could decimate the US auto industry,

What you're describing is called "dumping", and it's a strategy China has used to varying degrees of success in other markets in order to destabilize foreign industries. It could be seen as an act of war.

Chinese labor is not actually so cheap anymore, many other developing nations are significantly less expensive. But China's secret weapon is total control and coordination across industries. They use this to subsidize target industries for the export market. You've highlighted automakers, but they also target steel, aluminum, and others. To a casual observer it almost appears as if they were targeting industries that could be readily adapted to wartime production.
by jesse__ | 2026-01-19 17:43:26+00:00
As other commentors pointed out, 1gb/day isn't a problem for storage and retroactive processing until you get to like, hundreds of years of data. You can chew through a few hundred TB of JSON data in a day, per core + nvme drive.

Regardless, storage and retroactive processing wasn't part of the problem. The problem was explicitly "parse json records as they come in, in a big batch, and increment some integers in a database".

I'm not going to figure out what the upper limit is on a single bare-metal machine, but you can be damn sure it's a metric fuck-ton higher than 1gb/day. You can do a lot with a 10TB of memory and 256 cores.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-19 17:43:32+00:00
The titles have rolled. The prediction in Q1 last year was specifically that by this time, the US would be in a deep recession due to tariffs.

I can understand that most people do not actually stay with these forecasts. The story hits NBC, you are completely outraged about this forecast made by these economists, the thing never happens, NBC has moved onto next disaster coming round the corner, next outrage.

If you work in markets, you are confronted with the relentless inability of talking head economists to just say mildly rational things. It is constant, almost every year now we have this latest economic disaster by economists in the periphery of political parties...no-one pays attention to these people, they have tenure, they make money from cashing in their political contacts not through actual correct forecasts (and yes, they always say that the thing they predicted will definitely happen next year now).

Stopped clock is eventually right. But there was literally zero information in the insane claims made in Q1. If you did not see this immediately, don't pay attention to these forecasts.
by crote | 2026-01-19 17:43:37+00:00
This happens all. the. time.

For example, at any duel between Ajax and Feyenoord the away fans have been banned - since 2009. The Den Haag municipality banned away fans at ADO Den Haag - Ajax games for over 10 years. NAC - Willen II didn't allow away fans during the 2022 season. Fans misbehaved badly enough during N.E.C. - Vitesse games that they were threatened with a 10-year ban on away fans. Amsterdam banned the Italian fans at Ajax - SS Lazio in 2024, due to repeated antisemitism and racism. Lille didn't allow Ajax fans during their game last January. In 2023 the Amsterdam police seriously considered banning all away fans during all high-risk European games.

And that's just the first few results of a trivial search for a single country. I could probably find a hundred more without much effort.
by kanbankaren | 2026-01-19 17:43:56+00:00
> With the same antenna size, the path loss is exactly the same.

What do you mean? The size of the dipole or monopole antenna is dependent on the wavelength, so obviously the 2.4 GHz is just a few centimeters and not the same size as a VHF antenna.

> After all, where else should the radiated energy go?

Well, most of RF energy is wasted. There are software that can plot the radiation pattern, but even without knowing the exact pattern, very little RF energy is received at the target.
by Matl | 2026-01-19 17:44:03+00:00
I followed this closely at the time. It was clear that Maccabi supporters were looking for a confrontation and were intimidating anyone with a Palestinian flag. They're kind of known for being massive racists[0].

A group of Maccabi Fanatics chased two men, beating one with a belt as he tried to escape in a taxi. After the police arrived, the group ran away, joining other Maccabi ultras, nearly all of whom wore black clothing instead of team colours, walking towards Rokin. This group of around 50 Maccabi supporters gathered in front of Villa Mokum, a squat where several Palestinian flags were displayed.

Why not mention this?

0 - https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/47336888/maccabi-tel-...
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-19 17:44:05+00:00
> Almost all the comments acting like this is some truth bombshell, like people in trumpistan all thought raising tariffs magically made the us economy better. This is a straw man, no?

No. It isn’t.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/fact-check-trump-van...

> “She is a liar. She makes up crap … I am going to put tariffs on other countries coming into our country, and that has nothing to do with taxes to us. That is a tax on another country,” Trump said.

> Vance said in late August that as a result of tariffs Trump imposed during his presidency, “prices went down for American citizens.”
by untech | 2026-01-19 17:44:22+00:00
I rerun vimtutor from time to time, because I still don't remember every trick from it. I've recently tried to read the whole embedded "introductory documentation" on a train, learned a lot, but probably need to do it again. Setting every option in the .vimrc seems a nice exercise, will need to do it some time! I like to nuke my config from time to time anyway. (My experience with Vim is about 14 years I think.)
by pton_xd | 2026-01-19 17:44:28+00:00
> to the surprise of absolutely no-one with even the most basic grasp of how economies function.

Trump and his entire administration admitted there would be short term pain, possibly a recession, but that it would be "worth it" to restructure the economy.

So the question is: how long does the pain last? And is the economy stronger when it's over (do we get over it)? It's been 9 months so far.

From my perspective the policy goals are very unclear since it seems like they're actively wielding tariffs both as a means to reorganize the economy and as a weapon to bully other countries. Mainly bullying. The intended effectiveness on our economy seems difficult to judge.
by avalys | 2026-01-19 17:44:39+00:00
Not obvious to me that this is worse or as user-hostile as many seem to presume.

Previously the blue background made the ad result look more highlighted and more prominent.

Now it is just like the other results - not special or better.

Yes, the HN audience knows the visual convention indicates that the blue background represents an ad. Does your everyday user know that or do they assume the blue results are better?
by SkyPuncher | 2026-01-19 17:44:45+00:00
Every now and then, normally while I’m bored before departing on a plane, I’ll scroll the App Store. It’s all ads at this point. Lists and lists of “top [x]” most of which are clearly just paid lists.

I never visit the App Store outside of that. If I need an app, I search for it and go directly to its listing page (yes, technically the App Store) or install it directly from my Home Screen.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-19 17:44:52+00:00
Right, but what people miss is that some people (usually not academic economists) are able to predict the economy with good levels of accuracy. It is not hard, there is a ton of data, the problem is that you have to drop your own personal interest in politics...for 99.99% of people feeling politically validated is more important than being right on the economy.
by bhouston | 2026-01-19 17:45:12+00:00
> Why is it only Birmingham that saw fit to ban them?

Huh? Amsterdam is also looking to ban them:

https://www.trtworld.com/article/86ebbfd8eada

The main European football association also found them guilty recently of anti-Arab racist chants and fined, gave them a "suspended one-match away fan ban":

https://news.sky.com/story/maccabi-tel-aviv-fc-given-fan-ban...
by hawkticehurst | 2026-01-19 17:45:12+00:00
Author of the blog post here! Since this blog post, I put this idea to practice on the VS Code website (https://code.visualstudio.com/) to create all the interactive graphics on the homepage. Which is a slightly different use case than what I described in the post, but cool and effective none-the-less.

What woud have been a soup of `div` elements with various class names are now more meaningfully named elements like `<top-bar>`, `<chat-container>`, etc. that were mixed and remixed to create all the graphics.

Also no issues regarding performance that we've seen up to this point, which makes sense; browsers are very good and fast at rendering HTML elements (native or custom).