MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quinncom | 2026-01-19 17:21:04+00:00
I was curious:

• Anna’s Archive: ~61.7 million “books” (plus ~95.7M papers) as of January 2026 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive
• Amazon Kindle: “over 6 million titles” as of March 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive

Hard to compare because AA contains duplicates, and the Kindle number is old, but at a glance it seems AA wins.
by didntknowyou | 2026-01-19 17:21:10+00:00
the researcher documented a cow using a stick to scratch itself. no doubt they're intelligent animals but describing them as using 'sophisticated tools' is a bit of a stretch.

this behaviour is quite common in cattle and other animals, often seen rubbing or using sticks to scratch spots. sometimes it is dangerous as they find fences with nail poking out and cut themselves when rubbing to to calm an itch.
by Dilettante_ | 2026-01-19 17:21:10+00:00
Either I am misunderstanding or you replied to the exact opposite of my post.

The skew of your reply seems to be "Don't be so demanding of other people, be more accomodating, give them a break and realize how much they're doing for you".

My whole point was that I do not expect people to put on an act, a show or anything for me, that I want them to be at ease and natural around me without forcing themselves. I do not want them to do anything for me. And I myself wish only to be taken as I am, without having to "pay", to extend, to do something for them, in the same way.

Perhaps I'm projecting the ghost of past conversations onto this one, but it feels like you're telling me I'm acting entitled by not wanting to pay a return for what I'm being offered. I do not value people forcing themselves to entertain me, and neither do I wish to force myself to entertain them in return. I simply do not *want* to participate in such transactional relationships. But people like you come around and "perform for me" without my asking or consent and then call me entitled for rejecting the trade. Does your kind not like being at ease? Do you give gifts only because you expect that they'll be returned? That's not the life for me.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-19 17:21:22+00:00
> So, Schmidt had inside knowledge of before following Apple into the smartphone category?

That's the theory/assumption. Android started as an OS for blackberry-style phones with physical keyboard, non touch screens.

Almost as soon as the iPhone launch, Schmidt left the board, and Android pivoted to a multi-touch interface almost immediately, and a year later the HTC Dream came out.

I don't think anyone has any real proof of wrongdoing but the timing is certainly suspicious
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-19 17:21:30+00:00
Make me think of the book

https://www.franklincovey.com/books/the-speed-of-trust/

which has a profound message is manifestly true (e.g. of course you have been in an organization which was slow because people didn't trust each other) but can't be separated from the ® mark at the end of "Speed of Trust ®", that is, people can't help to be cynical of that kind of message as soon as you put it in a marketing frame.
by dahart | 2026-01-19 17:21:40+00:00
That’s certainly possible, but by no means guaranteed, right? If someone selling goods to the US is selling out (supply-limited) the rest of the global market might absorb the US share. But one might wonder if that was the case, why would they be selling to the US in the first place. I would, by default, assume that losing the US market reduces demand for any given non-US export, and the amount that it hurts depends on how big the US market was compared to the non-US market.

This isn’t the first time tariffs have been used in a country to push purchasing preferences. The problem is that it hurts them and it hurts us, it’s just a net economic drain and doesn’t effectively achieve the local economic boost that some want it to, especially in today’s global economy where trade has become so integral that we no longer produce many of the products we buy, and therefore tariffs can’t fix. “There is near unanimous consensus among economists that tariffs are self-defeating” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff
by jedberg | 2026-01-19 17:21:40+00:00
> What were you thinking? What was going through your heads? I'm genuinely curious.

I know two people who voted for him.

Person one has voted Democrat her whole life. Has worked for the Democratic Party. Has a son who was a Democratic elected official. But she lives in Texas, and watches too much local news, and believed that murderous immigrants were pouring over the border, guns blazing, taking out innocent American citizens daily at the beach and grocery store. So she voted for him because she believed only he could stop this from happening.

Person two is a wealthy white boomer. His business already runs in America. He actually has an advanced degree in economics. He believed that the tariffs would only be used surgically by smart people to protect American business. He is not personally affected by any of the racist policies or any of the other shenanigans. So he voted for him because he liked the protectionist and tax cut policies.

He regrets his vote. I haven't spoken to her in months because she stopped talking to me when I kept show her that her "facts" were made up.
by watwut | 2026-01-19 17:21:51+00:00
Frankly, bullshit. This was not about working class in the slightest. Working class as such supported and voted for democrats. The thing is, women are working class too, not just men. And farmers are frequently effectively rich owners - in unstable business bu owning a lot.

This was about all thosw isms and hierarchies we pretended dont exisr anymore.
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-19 17:21:58+00:00
You as a consumer buy my cookies for $10.

Out of that price: $3 goes to production cost, $3 goes to tariffs, and $4 goes to profits.

Now the taxes/tariffs are doubled. The producer can up their price to $13, meaning $3 to production, $6 to tariffs and $4 to profit.

But customers might not accept any price higher than $10. They won't buy.

So instead you continue selling for $10 and your costs are: $3 for production, $6 for tariffs and $1 in profit.

That's what people mean when they say that companies are paying the tariffs. They're not profiting as much as before.

In practice it's usually a mix of higher consumer prices, lower company profits, or even some products not being imported anymore.
by loehnsberg | 2026-01-19 17:22:06+00:00
This is a perfect example of how to lie with statistics. All of these countries are either tax havens or oil-rich economies, apart from half of them having the population of a small city. The economic policy implemented by any of these countries cannot be implemented by a large economy with little or no natural resources, or would you recommend to Germany or Japan to just "HAVE" oil or open their banks as offshore foreign accounts?
by 3D30497420 | 2026-01-19 17:22:12+00:00
A few notes:

> The reason for tariffs is NOT to reduce prices but to bring production (jobs, capacity) home.

Tariffs can be used for many purposes. I would say this is administration is clearly not using them to bring jobs home. Earlier tariffs were lowered/dropped when trade deals were signed, and the current ones are clearly a way to strong arm Europe to giving up its territory.

> Unemployment rate has decreased to 4.4%.

Decreased from where...? Not including the pandemic, 4.4% is the highest rate in almost a decade. Unemployment is clearly rising: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-une...
by drecked | 2026-01-19 17:22:13+00:00
Nadella turned Microsoft completely around. Before Nadella, for about 2 decades, Microsoft’s entire purpose seemed to be to stuff Windows into everything. Changing this was a massive undertaking that was largely unimaginable within MS.

Unfortunately now under Nadella AI is taking the role Windows used to play, but even there he understood the importance of AI before most of his competitors did which is what allowed Microsoft to gain such a substantial footing in OpenAI.
by DivingForGold | 2026-01-19 17:22:19+00:00
Executive summary derived from YT for those who really don't have the time to waste/spare on a "long winded" vid :

This documentary traces the 25-year journey of one of the most beloved tools in software development. Through rare archival footage, intimate interviews, and behind-the-scenes moments, it explores how IntelliJ challenged the status quo, shaped the Java world, and set the standard for intelligent tooling — all while staying true to its founding vision: helping developers do their best work.
by SauntSolaire | 2026-01-19 17:22:29+00:00
I agree in the case of the US, which I chalk up partially to investors knowing the US tariffs are both arbitrary and transitory. Even if the Trump administration were consistent, there's the possibility that the next president will undo them and corporations need more than a four-year guarantee before making investments.

I'm mostly responding to the position that tariffs have no place in economic policy, when we've seen them used successfully in other countries. Should Congress pass a bill legislating tariffs, then I could see them having more of the desired effect, though as I said I'd still be pessimistic without broader changes.
by bad_haircut72 | 2026-01-19 17:22:30+00:00
This kind of purity test is why the left cant win right now. Anyone who does a wrong-think is shitcanned and othered.

Im gonna put a theory out that I havent seen here yet, a lot of people voted for Trump because they got dunked on by leftist Twitter, told they were racist/fascist/whatever for having an opinion like "communism is bad", and now comes a guy who wont back down and who legit makes them cry liberal tears. Ever been pissed off at someone with no recourse? Of course they want that kind of satisfaction.
by comfysocks | 2026-01-19 17:22:32+00:00
It’s easy enough to avoid clicking on articles containing “Greenland”, “ICE”, etc. if you don’t want to talk about those things. Is it also necessary to make sure that none of your fellow nerds talk about those things either?

I consider tech workers to be “my tribe” and am curious to know what others think about what’s happening in the world around us.
by computerphage | 2026-01-19 17:22:52+00:00
The usual thing is that the market ends up around $0.95 for things like that, if the actors are all solid investors. It only takes one overly enthusiastic yes buyer to break that ceiling, the smart money won't "correct" it down to $0.95

There's another idea, which is make contacts that pay out in shares of an ETF, but I haven't seen this idea put into practice
by kcolford | 2026-01-19 17:23:18+00:00
that assumes that external suppliers were not already at their cheapest price point and that they were not competing with each other already

it also assumes that there are no other alternative markets to sell to or that supplier capacity is equally elastic; the US might be a high margin market to sell to, but if you only have a fixed amount of product to sell then it makes no sense to eat the high cost of a tariff to keep selling a low margin product when you can instead sell your product at a medium margin in europe

building out more supply for a product is often capital intensive if you want to make it at an economically efficient price point in these times; efficiencies of scale are hard to overcome and a rapid shift of economic policies makes anyone uncertain about future investment so it takes a very long time for these supply chains to rebalance, if they ever do
by eclipsetheworld | 2026-01-19 17:23:18+00:00
I think you’re conflating security with compliance.

If the goal is to stop breaches, we should mandate MFA and ban default-public cloud buckets. Those are technical solutions. GDPR, instead, mandates a massive administrative layer. No data breach has ever been stopped by a well-drafted Privacy Impact Assessment or a 50-page DPA. Those are legal shields, not security measures.

> then don't automate them: just add it to your DPO's job description.

The DPO isn't an engineer. To let them fulfill a request, I still have to build the internal tooling to query, redact, and export data from distributed production databases. Also, "I'll have my DPO do it manually" never sounds good when going through an audit.

> they may simply be being kind.

The simpler explanation is that the average person has no clue what these rights are because they’ve never had a reason to care. In healthcare, patients care that their data is secure and the service works. They aren't losing sleep over "data portability."

Ultimately, this "level playing field" only benefits incumbents. Unethical players ignore the rules until they’re caught, while legitimate startups are hit with a compliance tax that makes it nearly impossible to compete with US-based firms that can focus 100% of their energy on the product.
by shermantanktop | 2026-01-19 17:23:25+00:00
That undertone is overt in the statements of CEOs and managers who salivate at “reducing headcount.”

The people who should fear AI the most right now are the offshore shops. They’re the most replaceable because the only reason they exist is the desire to carve off low skill work and do it cheaply.

But all of this overblown anyway because I don’t see appetite for new software getting satiated anytime soon, even if we made everyone 2x productive.
Show HN: I built an AI agent to generate AWS migration reports and diagrams
by npd_david | 2026-01-19 17:23:44+00:00
Hey everyone. I’ve been working on a tool to automate the boring "Assessment" phase of migrations.

Usually, this involves a consultant (me) filling out spreadsheets for 2 weeks. I wanted to see if I could automate my own job.

I hooked up a form to AWS Bedrock to parse the inputs (compliance needs, team skills, current stack) and spit out a structured PDF report + a target architecture diagram.

The Challenge: Getting the LLM to consistently output valid JSON/Mermaid for the diagram rendering was a nightmare.

The Ask: I’ve released it for free (no login needed for the snapshot). I’m trying to figure out if the generated diagrams are actually useful for a first-pass, or if they are too generic.

If you have 5 mins, could you try breaking it?

(Note: It runs on my personal AWS credits, so be gentle!)
by cael450 | 2026-01-19 17:23:45+00:00
I have spent my whole life intimately involved with southern Republicans. They will never ever not vote Republican, let alone vote Democrat. It is an identity marker.
It doesn’t even really matter what the policies are. They’ll complain for a while, but they will always internalize a Republican policy shift no matter what it is. They used to treat “free market economics” as a religion just 10 years ago.
Secondarily, they love to define their identity as opposition to the northeast (a stereotypical fictional version of northeast). Democrats and “coastal elites” are the same to them. Once they elected a black man, they all got more racist. They nominated a woman, then they got more sexist. They campaigned on social programs, fuck the poor (even if they are poor).
And there is a cognitive dissonance between their beliefs and their experience. They’ll say “deport them all” but be personal friends with immigrants from church. They simply don’t connect their political beliefs to their reality.
I’m a southerner and I don’t see a future for this country. I used to think if they felt enough pain, then they would take politics seriously, but then a whole bunch of them died of COVID and it changed nothing. If I was a non-American, I’d be telling my government to do what they can to remove all dependence on this country as possible because it won’t get better.
by bilbo0s | 2026-01-19 17:23:54+00:00
That won't do anything.

No one at a gun range is changing their vote.

Both parties already know which voters change their votes depending on the situation. The data's already told strategists in both parties that the hotspots are, generally speaking, a few counties in a few states in the midwest, Pennsylvania, and more and more Arizona. So they don't really need to do more than pay lip service to any others. Because the data's already told them that the others won't change their votes in any case.
by vorpalhex | 2026-01-19 17:24:28+00:00
No, you don't need "superhuman levels of willpower to avoid social media entrapment". Just block the damn sites. Delete your account before you do. No you don't need to keep up with Timmy from the 8th grade and his third marriage and worsening benzo addiction.

People smoked for the same reason people doomscroll - anxiety.

You can expose your kid to technology and also explain the role of moderation the same way you do with candy and sweets. You will need to model the behavior you want in your kid - that means putting your phone down. Buy a timed lockbox if that is what you need.
Defeating AI scraping by rethinking webpage rendering
by exodys | 2026-01-19 17:24:48+00:00
Consider the idea of someone creating a project that rendered out webpages in images and sent those over the web; updating them whenever an input is received, much like a video game input loop. If everything was server side rendered, how difficult would it be for scraping? The idea of an un-copyable webpage is enticing, assuming that you would not like your data scraped. I know computer vision is a thing, but the error rate may be enough?
by RiverCrochet | 2026-01-19 17:25:00+00:00
Not seeing the connection.

In "non-secular times" people as a whole were far less mobile, so they grew up and built connections around the same people, and any connections to the wider world were very low-bandwidth if they existed at all. So they trusted the people they were near because they were around them constantly, and also tended to resist change.

I think you are conflating religious values with how things were when people mostly lived among the same people for most of their lives and didn't have modern communication methods that brought the whole world (or an appearance thereof which is what modern social media is) to their face.
by R_D_Olivaw | 2026-01-19 17:25:02+00:00
I would reckon looking at these kinds of things through religious lenses is actually VERY useful.

I don't follow sportsball, but there are masses of population and massive institutions that are built upon for and on sportsball.

So, seeing large changes or shifts within sportsball can be useful in gleaning some sort of trend.

While, I don't fully follow the gp comment, I can see the other side of yours.
Show HN: A web-based meme generator I built (planning to add AI generation next)
by zealer | 2026-01-19 17:25:20+00:00
Hi HN,

I recently launched MemeGenerator.online, a simple tool for creating memes.

Current Features:

Browsing templates via the Imgflip API.

Uploading custom images.

Adding and editing text on images.

What's Next: My next step is to integrate AI features to generate memes automatically, including dynamic/video memes.

Feedback: I'm sharing this to get some early feedback on the usability and the editor experience. I'm also open to suggestions on how you'd like to see AI integrated into a meme workflow.

Thanks!
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-19 17:25:26+00:00
I have had similar issues.

I no longer buy anything over $50 from them, but I have had "Fulfilled by Amazon," from the sellers' [actual] sites, and haven't had a problem.

I don't trust the sellers' "stores" on Amazon, though. You will get things like gray market Chinese versions, from "official" stores.
by metalman | 2026-01-19 17:25:26+00:00
"They will not give the world truly free and open platform", uhuhu!, but we are giving them the pivot point to claim the flag of freedom , rather than just doing that ourselves.
also, one more move from you know who, and a whole lot of countrys will have to very seriously start looking for stable deals that last longer than it takes the ink to dry. China just ghosted nvidia, on the "something 200" ai chip to start shipping in march, tsmc and all there suppliers have stood down on that, and will of course, instantly re focus on the next job, which might be a batch of chips for fairphones....
by a_e_k | 2026-01-19 17:25:47+00:00
When the Unsloth quant of the flash model does appear, it should show up as unsloth/... on this page:

https://huggingface.co/models?other=base_model:quantized:zai...

Probably as:

https://huggingface.co/unsloth/GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF
by lucideer | 2026-01-19 17:25:51+00:00
There's a lot of contradictions in this comment.

> it's self-contained: it brings along its own dependencies, whether that's JavaScript, templates, CSS

> Also, don't do this [...] That just adds HTML bloat to the page, something people with a singular focus on eliminating JavaScript often forget to worry about. To many HTML elements can slow the page to a crawl.

A static JS-less page can handle a lot of HTML elements - "HTML bloat" isn't really a thing unless those HTML elements come with performance-impacting behaviour. Which "self-contained" web-components "bringing along their own dependencies" absolutely will.

> shouldn't require an external framework

If you're "bringing along your own dependencies" & you don't have any external framework to manage those dependencies, you're effectively loading each component instance as a kind of "statically linked" entity, whereby those links are in-memory. That's going to bloat your page enormously in all but the simplest of applications.
by kwar13 | 2026-01-19 17:26:07+00:00
This article lacks even the most basic understanding of probability and statistics. Slot machines "93 cents on the dollar" return is a statistical certainty of 7% loss. You are playing a repeated game which by the law of large numbers will converge to the 93% probability.

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.

Slots are also unskilled games, prediction markets clearly some participants have a clear market edge, thus not efficiently priced.
by leet_thow | 2026-01-19 17:26:17+00:00
Where on the US ballot was there an option to vote for tariffs?

If I recall correctly, we vote for presidents, senators and the congress who have policy stances on a variety of issues. There are usually only two options, one of which stands for open borders, not enforcing laws, socialism and demonizing people who choose the other option on the ballot.

A large cohort of independents didn't vote for republicans, they voted AGAINST democrats.
by i80and | 2026-01-19 17:26:22+00:00
I found USB-C to be pretty unreliable up until the past several years -- I had multiple phones and laptops from multiple brands <=2020 that just had USB-C ports turn fiddly or outright stop working after a year or two.

Things are better now in my experience, but for a device made in 2019, this is pretty darn plausible.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-19 17:26:31+00:00
Also see recent trade deal between Canada and China. And of course Canada and the EU have a trade deal. And Merz was visiting India recently so there are also trade deals between India and the EU coming. In short, everybody is trading with everybody.

The US might have an easy to choice to make after Trump. Regardless of who takes over. Simply roll back tariffs and instantly boost the economy. The protection aspect of tariffs will probably have proven to be mostly counter productive by then.

At least I don't see the US car industry doing any better when it can't export. Coal probably won't ever recover from being obsolete, etc. I think this mostly won't be controversial a few years down the line.