MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwworhtthrow | 2026-01-14 16:40:10+00:00
There are many topics discussed on HN that I find tiresome to read about. For example, diet and fitness topics. You could swap the comments from one article to another and not even notice.

That's why I stopped reading them.

It's never once occurred to me that I should rather open them up, dive into the comments section, and tell the participants that I'm trying to get away from boring discussions about diet and fitness.
by eli | 2026-01-14 16:40:17+00:00
Sure, though the government routinely searches the personal property of innocent people if they think that search will yield information about a suspect.

The issue here is the American tradition of a free press and the legitimate role of leaks in a free country. The PBS article is a bit better on context:

> The Justice Department over the years has developed, and revised, internal guidelines governing how it will respond to news media leaks.

> In April, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued new guidelines saying prosecutors would again have the authority to use subpoenas, court orders and search warrants to hunt for government officials who make "unauthorized disclosures" to journalists.

> The moves rescinded a Biden administration policy that protected journalists from having their phone records secretly seized during leak investigations — a practice long decried by news organizations and press freedom groups.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fbi-searched-home-of-w...

My understanding is that searches of journalists still must be signed off on by the AG personally.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-14 16:40:19+00:00
It's just a simple analogy that quickly breaks down.

The frogs have it easy. All they have to do is jump out. One individual action and they're safe. (Until the scientist catches them and uses them in more experiments, anyway.)

The situation for people living under governments becoming gradually more oppressive is much more complicated. You don't know for sure that the water will keep heating up. Escape is extremely difficult and costly. Turning off the heat takes massive collective action. A third of the frogs actively want the water to boil, and another third don't really care.
by troyvit | 2026-01-14 16:40:34+00:00
I got to bike around Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, in India in 2017, well before this revolution. When you look at it from an outsider's perspective it looks like chaos and I went in with my typical American mindset, hustling my way through the throngs of bikes, pedestrians, mopeds, autos, dogs, and cows.

Once I fell into the natural flow of the system the experience was much more smooth. There's an organic cadence that reminded me of red blood cells bumping around inside capillaries.

I wonder how the spike in e2W use has affected that cadence.
by kalkin | 2026-01-14 16:40:43+00:00
It's way too far into the Trump administration for people to still be responding to authoritarian moves by Trump by finding Biden administration actions that sound vaguely similar if you don't think too hard and then pretending nothing new is going on here. (Even if it wasn't, "that's nothing" would be a pretty weird inference to draw with a comparison to something that clearly upsets you, and an article is a "piece", not a "peace".)
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-14 16:40:45+00:00
The reason why there are now quite a lot of these things in India (and all over Asia) is that the challenges you cite are in practice not that big of a deal:

- for most people these things are transportation tools, not toys. Performance doesn't really matter all that much. In a big Indian city, the maximum speed is determined by the highly congested traffic, not the performance of the ebike. Going fast is fun but not that essential.

- Many people primarily charge at home, inside their home if needed or remove the battery and charge that inside.

- Unless you drive more than 40/50km, the charge is generally good enough for a full day. And for more intensive use, there are bikes with bigger batteries. Or you can swap in a spare battery.

- If it's not enough for the day, you can charge anywhere there is a wall socket. Unlike cars, people don't tend to use specialized chargers for ebikes. That's pretty much anywhere. You might have to pay for the privilege in some places. But plug it in during your lunch break or whenever you have a gap and you are good to go probably.

- We're talking about less than half a kwh for most ebikes for a full charge. It's not going to break the bank. Charging is really, really cheap.

- Fuel is not cheap. A large part of Asia is still on incomes where that price difference matters; even though especially India has a rather large middle and upper class as well these days. The cost aspect really matters.

Those cheap bikes you are complaining about: they are really cheap. And they kind of work. That's why people are buying these things by the millions now.
by Storment33 | 2026-01-14 16:41:05+00:00
I don't touch Windows so I would not know.

> The same Python testing code runs on all three platforms.

I have no objections to Python being used for testing, I use it myself for the end to end tests in my projects. I just don't think Python as a build script/task runner is a good idea, see below where I got Claude to convert one of my open source projects for an example.
by devsda | 2026-01-14 16:41:25+00:00
> Main issue is having a parking space with a charger and/or having to pay for it

Agree. New apartments in metros are coming up with shared charging spaces but the supposed cost benefit of owning ev is offset by high prices at these chargers. Also as ev adoption grows, you are only looking at more competition in the future for these limited charging slots. Builders for logistical reasons or out of just pure greed are really not keen on allowing installation of charging points at own parking spots.

This seems to be one of the main challenges to overcome even for those who are willing to adopt an ev vehicle.
by mock-possum | 2026-01-14 16:41:44+00:00
> a handful of white people (on different occasions) who each complained that they needed a near perfect score on the State Police entrance exam whereas "other" people could be accepted with far lower score

Were these people trustworthy? Because that sounds exactly like the kind of urban legend that people like to parrot, or like a pretty standard way to cope with not getting hired. I heard a bit of very similar chatter about college admissions back in the day. “Maybe I would have had a shot if I was Asian.” Etc.
by Izkata | 2026-01-14 16:42:18+00:00
> This "spread it around" sounds like some trickle down ecodomics madness to me =)

Trickle-down would be giving him the full 10x salary, then by his own choice he'd be doing something with it that benefited everyone else.

Forcing it by spreading it around instead of paying him is more like socialism or communism.
by fortran77 | 2026-01-14 16:42:50+00:00
> People also rejected fudge shaped like dog feces

Have you ever seen the popular Halloween party food "Cat Litter Box Cookies"?

Here's some examples: https://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/302/Litterbox_Cookies...

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/15195/cat-poop-cookies-ii/

In my experience, people don't mind eating them. We served them at a Humane Society event once.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-14 16:42:55+00:00
I am completely out of loop here. I think I may have heard about adafruit once.

Your comment seemed the most information to me (and thank you for that) but can you please sum up the whole controversy from what allegations were made and everything because I was sensing that adafruit was in the right earlier but (now I am not?)

I feel like I would benefit a lot if you can tell me the whole controversy if possible. Thanks in advance!
by dylan604 | 2026-01-14 16:43:30+00:00
I use my line in Texas, and 3 hours would see the clothes go from wet -> dry -> melted! And that's in the shade!

Unfortunately, the line dried clothes are not soft, so I end up fluffing them in the drier using the air dry setting. Still cheaper than running the heating element, but hasn't eliminated the drier for me.
by inferiorhuman | 2026-01-14 16:43:32+00:00
Mostly I'm just leery of software defined peripherals being at the mercy of whatever community springs up around them, nothing specific. In terms of a Metro then yeah, something to slot in where the Due was absolutely with high speed USB, 10/100 ethernet, CAN FD, and all that jazz that wouldn't work on a $10 board. A SAMV70 successor to the Due?

NXP just seems antithetical to an open platform. Then again Arduino went with Renesas, and they're… not great.

Otherwise it's the openness that would pique my interest. SWD headers, yes 100%. But also the documentation. No half-assed SVDs, buggy closed source flash algorithms (Microchip), wholly undocumented peripherals (looking at you Renesas), stuff like that.
by Nifty3929 | 2026-01-14 16:43:36+00:00
Not civil war, but a revolution. The 2nd amendment isn't worth much except as a very last resort, when the vast majority of people are willing to die to overthrow a government, as we're seeing in Iran.

The people claiming that having guns won't save you against the weight of the army are only partly correct. Having a few guns won't save me personally. I would certainly be killed on my own. But no government can kill everyone, either as a practical matter, or simply because you still need folks to produce the food. When everybody is armed, the government simply cannot oppress them to the same degree.
by 9JollyOtter | 2026-01-14 16:43:43+00:00
> 40 RA, my mum used to drive a Vauxhall Carlton

They were/are nice cars. I did dream of buying a Lotus Carlton, but unless a few million falls into my lap it will remain a dream :D

> I mean it's true and it does work for the most part. The bans on knives, drain cleaner etc have reduced the number of these kinds of crimes especially in London. It's hard to argue against something when a lot of this kind of policymaking is effective

Does it? The stats seem to suggest the opposite.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/864736/knife-crime-in-lo...

> The increase in knife crime witnessed in London has occurred alongside a general increase in overall crime throughout England and Wales. In 2022/23, there were approximately 6.74 million crime offences across England and Wales, compared with just over four million ten years earlier. During a similar time period, the number of knife homicides also increased, and reached 282 in 2017/18, compared with 186 in 2014/15. Due to strict gun laws in the United Kingdom, firearms are rarely used to commit homicides, with knives or other sharp instruments being used in over 46 percent of homicides in 2023/24.
by AlexandrB | 2026-01-14 16:43:45+00:00
Maggots are commonly found on rotting food or dead animals. They're a clear indication that decomposition has set in.

Of course this only applies to species of flies that go for these food sources. Most fly larva (really most insect larva) look like "maggots", including for species like hoverflies that eat nectar. But these "maggots" are usually hidden in the soil or on the plant and don't show up in one place in large quantities. Thus there's an obvious association between maggots and rot.
by pron | 2026-01-14 16:43:47+00:00
> It's compilers and compiler optimizations that make code run fast.

Compiler optimisations certainly play a large role, but they're not the only thing. Tracing-moving garbage collectors can trade off CPU usage for memory footprint and allow you to shift costs between them, so depending on the relative cost of CPU and RAM, you could gain speed (throughput) in exchange for RAM at a favourable price.

Arenas also offer a similar tradeoff knob, but they come with a higher development/evolution price tag.
by alnwlsn | 2026-01-14 16:44:04+00:00
Can't say I blame them though. Paul and Robin are two people. Sparkfun (and Adafruit) are massive by comparison and have big stores that sell the same sort of stuff in much higher volume. The Teensys are popular. Sparkfun does (or at least used to do) board assembly in-house. It seems like a perfect match on paper.
by hamburglar | 2026-01-14 16:44:22+00:00
Ah, that is pretty illuminating. Insert “adafruit employee / husband of CEO overreacts to internet squabbles and gets a little shrieky because he’s sleep deprived” in there somewhere.

This reminds me of the olden days of small messageboard drama. It’s a shame to see it affect a business relationship between two good companies. Maybe they’ll make up after it all cools off.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-14 16:44:25+00:00
Hating the current administration is one of the top technical issues on my mind. There is a substantial chance that all US-EU software collaboration is going to get blown up in the next few months if Trump makes good on his threats to invade Greenland, just as international trade has been reoriented around his illegal tariffs and responses to them.

When Trump decides to destroy your life, as he's destroyed so many others, I hope you'll find supporters who aren't so determined to ignore the inconvenience as you.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-14 16:44:38+00:00
If simplicity is the goal, then sure: Maybe spinning up a custom part may become useful.

But simplicity isn't always the goal. I have a throwaway vape here with a color LCD screen that plays full-motion animations.

That's not necessary at all. But this functionality does exist, and people do buy them.

IIRC, these are said to use a 48MHz Cortex M0 part. More information here: https://github.com/ginbot86/ColorLCDVape-RE
by gamblor956 | 2026-01-14 16:45:07+00:00
I think that presumes that an LLM is capable of "unblocking a tricky C# problem" that a group of humans cannot with research. LLMs don't understand the code they output; they just regurgitate code that's already in their training set (the proof is in the pudding; see the many posts on HN about these LLM coding assistants outputting copyrighted code token for token).

So if the tricky C# problem isn't already in their data set, the output of the LLM is, at best, random crap. Even the worst human effort would exceed the output of the LLM, and that is the average case for any "tricky" problem. LLMs are fundamentally only useful on the most common types of problems that are can better be addressed by using frameworks, plugins, or APIs.

(And on that note: every programmer I've met who says that LLM coding agents 10x'd their output is the type of programmer that would have been PIP'd or fired 10 years ago for incompetence. We used to call them "code monkeys" for obvious reasons. Junior programmers think that LLM coding agents are awesome because they don't have the experience or skill to understand just how bad the output of LLM coding agents is, and the few that survive in the industry long enough to become senior programmers will laugh at their younger selves at how much of an unmaintainable mess they made vibe coding.)
by prmph | 2026-01-14 16:45:12+00:00
Bought some dress shirts (made of mostly cotton) from Banana Republic, the same brand that had good shirts some years back, the exact same size I wear.

Shockingly, after hand washing them for the first time in cold water, the sleeves have shrunk so dramatically that I cannot wear them any longer, except to roll up the sleeves Up to beyond the elbow.

They just lost customer for life. Enshittification strikes again.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-01-14 16:45:23+00:00
Unsurprisingly, the name InsectiPro (the company featured in the magazine article) comes up in publications from the Gates foundation, the WEF and the World Bank.

NGOs trying to convince the rest of us to eat bugs to save the planet, while many of their members are soon going to be boarding private jets headed to Davos. Hard pass - I'll continue enjoying eating meat thank you.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-14 16:45:35+00:00
I've switched to using Deno for most of my orchestration scripts, especially shell scripts. It's a single portable, self-upgradeable executable and your shell scripts can directly reference the repositories/http(s) modules/versions it needs to run without a separate install step.

I know I've mentioned it a few times in this thread, just a very happy user and have found it a really good option for a lot of usage. I'll mostly just use the Deno.* methods or jsr:std for most things at this point, but there's also npm:zx which can help depending on what you're doing.

It also is a decent option for e2e testing regardless of the project language used.
by ericmay | 2026-01-14 16:45:44+00:00
Sure, but Israel has also been continuously attacked so we're not sure how Israel would act if it weren't continually being attacked. The counterfactual is hard but it's not hard just because the United States has supported Israel, but also because other nations in the region have always attacked Israel and continue to do so.

I think there's an inclination on the Internet to lean toward one side or another, but just like with Democrats and Republicans, at least in my view, everyone sucks here.
by beeflet | 2026-01-14 16:46:19+00:00
>One dude in his home with a gun or two versus a 50 billion dollar ICE force that has complete immunity and a massive media and political empire ready to spin any bad incident into an us-versus-them narrative.....

How does legal immunity or a media empire affect a dead man?

>Oh, and if anything really gets out of hand, that political empire also has nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons are not very useful in a civil conflict... Or pretty much any conflict
by EA-3167 | 2026-01-14 16:46:28+00:00
There was a point after which the outcome of WWII was obvious and inevitable, but could you have timed the ending to within a week or two based on that knowledge? Should the inability to precisely time something imply that the arc of its future can’t be obvious?

Clearly not. Does the fact that few of us know the date of our death imply that we might live forever?
by johnisgood | 2026-01-14 16:46:49+00:00
Yeah, but... the quoted phrase should not be taken literally as a statement about battlefield capability.

It was a political struggle for legitimacy, not just territory, and the enemy did not have to win any battles, just avoid losing until the political will collapsed.

The thing is, military power does not automatically translate to political success, and guerrilla fighters do not need to defeat tanks and jets, they just need to survive, persist, undermine legitimacy, and exhaust the opponent's political will.

So, in this sense, the US was not beaten by farmers, it was beaten by a strategy that made military superiority irrelevant.
by troyvit | 2026-01-14 16:47:10+00:00
That's what I don't get. We had a solid relationship with our fellow NATO country and that relationship left all the room in the world for collaboration, including what you're describing.

We're trashing that relationship not just with Denmark but with NATO. What gains do we see that can offset that?

I guess this is not just a rhetorical question, but what is more secure than stable relationships with existing allies?
by supermatt | 2026-01-14 16:47:13+00:00
> Lithuania is definitely one of the cheaper countries

And yet has one of the highest wholesale rates...

> Hetzner prices it at...

Hertzner are reselling. They make a profit on energy resale. Their rate also includes a substantial buffer on the actual rate to account for volatility. Their rate is most likely less than half of what they are passing on for colo.

For reference, last year German industrial energy prices were around 10c/kWh INCLUDING taxes and network fees - and the government are looking to subsidize that further to target 5c/kWh: https://www.gleisslutz.com/en/know-how/germany-cuts-costs-el...
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-01-14 16:47:18+00:00
There is also a conflict of interest for many in the tech space who browse this forum. Many of the technologies we work on are being abused by this administration.

IE Flock being a ycombinator startup, Ring cameras giving free access to police and others[1], AI systems being used for targeting dissent, ad-services and the data they vacuum up being bought by agencies to build up profiles for dissenting citizens[2]. We've watched this type of technology even be used to target the families of people in warzones to explicitly perform war crimes[3].

This is a forum of people who have effectively built the panopticon but don't enjoy hearing about how the panopticon is being used. Politics is now interwoven into our careers whether we like it or not. There is no pure technology, everything we work on effects the world for better or worse. Pulling the wool over our eyes to pretend there's a pure non-political form of talking about these topics is childish and naive.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/home/security/amazons-ring-cameras-push...
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/tech/the-nsa-buys-americans-i...
[3] https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/10/questions-and-answers-is...
by docdeek | 2026-01-14 16:47:58+00:00
The submission guidelines suggest:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

There’s not really a shortage of other places to discuss this story; a lot of political stories that are well-covered in the mainstream media get flagged not because of censorship but because you can find that story everywhere else.
by TimTheTinker | 2026-01-14 16:48:07+00:00
> the government routinely searches the personal property of innocent people if they think that search will yield information about a suspect.

If that's true, it's a direct violation of the fourth amendment. I'll paste it here for convenience:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
by aftbit | 2026-01-14 16:48:11+00:00
Huh? Are you saying that if Gavin Newsom is elected, rather than turning down the rhetoric, restoring the rule of law, and taking the pressure off of the immigrants and brown people who are scapegoats of the current administration, he instead wants to commit violations of the 4th amendment under the color of searching for immigrants but _actually_ in order to find firearms that are legally owned by US citizens? Presumably in preparation for a mass violation of the 2nd amendment (aka "round 'em up boys")? And your source for this is ... you're friends with someone who works "in the Newsom camp" and you go out for lunch with them?

I'll be honest, this sounds like some crazy conspiracy theory, so I'm gonna take it for what it's worth ... nothing.
by mmh0000 | 2026-01-14 16:48:16+00:00
https://icelist.is/

HN Article[1] -> Daily Beast[2] -> icelist[3]

[1] https://vechron.com/2026/01/whistleblower-drops-largest-ever...

[2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-...

[3] https://icelist.is/
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-14 16:48:16+00:00
So then again my question is who ultimately audits and holds the system accountable such that if the system needs to be fixed it gets fixed?

The only answer to that is the people who form the citizenry.

If the citizens cannot influence the system such that they can actually affect change on the system then they are irrelevant in it and the system needs to be replaced

As long as they continue to fail to organize then they will continue to be dominated by it

That’s just reality

There is no alternative organization that can counter the global capitalist system currently
by qweiopqweiop | 2026-01-14 16:48:42+00:00
I used to be obsessed with in game skins as a teenager but I'm very thankful the game I played most didn't charge for them. But I remember freaking out at my parents when they stopped me playing a game one night because I wanted a new skin so badly.

I grew out of it, I can't help but feel the scarcity of such skins/items don't lead to anything good except manipulation.