MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by caetris24 | 2026-01-09 21:25:41+00:00
I think it's a good start, but the user experience and the color theme make the simulation cumbersome to absorb. Maybe you can do a theming exercise with an AI. The zoom feature is highly sensitive. It's not intuitive at first on what the user should do or take away from the simulation. The events feature is great, and essential.

Looking forward to seeing the next iteration. Nice work.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-01-09 21:25:51+00:00
I've never really understood the knee-jerk hatred toward billionaires. The reality is that while I'm sure some fraud/corruption exists, for the most part, they cannot steal money from you. They have to make something so good, a person chooses to part with their money to acquire it.

The government on the other hand, can just tax you (often without cause or justification) and offer nothing in return for what they took by force.

Yet you'll find many people decrying billionaires as the great evil while silent on governments who are in many ways, far far worse.
by jiggawatts | 2026-01-09 21:26:00+00:00
ASML's secret sauce is not that secret or uncopyable. The Chinese are already working on their clone of the Twinscan tools.

Veritasium recently made a good video on the ASML machine design: https://youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0

The outcome may seem like magic, but the input is "simply" hard work and a big budget: billions of dollars and years of investment into tuning the parameters like droplet size, frequency, etc...

The interviews make it clear that the real reason ASML's machines are (currently) unique is that few people had the vision, patience, and money to fund what seemed at the time impossible. The real magic was that ASML managed to hang on by a fingernail and get a successful result before the money ran out.

Now that tin droplet EUV lasers have not only been demonstrated to be possible, but have become the essential component of a hugely profitable AI chip manufacturing industry, obtaining funding to develop a clone will be much easier.
by rerdavies | 2026-01-09 21:26:21+00:00
Viruses injecting code into the process of the app that you use to do online banking. obvsly. Or the app you use to do second-factor authentication.

You can protect against that by requiring the app to have a valid signature. You cannot guarantee that the signature is unless you can guarantee that the kernel has been modified. You cannot guarantee that the kernel has not been modified if the phone has been rooted.

For what it's worth, my banking app (and the app which does second-factor authentication for web transactions when doing web-based online banking) will not run on a rooted phone. For good reason, I think.
by burningChrome | 2026-01-09 21:26:27+00:00
get moving is the key.

Some of my best friends are personal trainers and they say the same thing. When you tell people just moving essentially gives you what they refer to as "free exercise". The kind that doesn't make people feel like they have to get up off the couch, change their clothes, go to the gym, get on the treadmill, lift their weights, etc.

Just walking around the block. Just walking up a few flights of stairs. Just doing something that doesn't feel like you have to have a huge investment is sometimes the best way to start - then transition into more structured stuff like wight lifting or running or anything else. And you still get the benefits for almost nothing. Walk a few flights of stairs and your legs start to burn, your lungs open up, you increase your blood flow, and you release endorphins. And it didn't cost anything if you can just include it in your day-to-day activities.

Not sure how many times I make extra trips to my basement just to get in a few more stairs. lol
by Melonai | 2026-01-09 21:26:45+00:00
Okay, it is a full on spyware virus though, not super sure why people would love Bonzi on their system.

This is kind of a shitty compromise, the second you leave a tiny crack open in the security, maybe through root access, maybe some better sideloading, somehow people WILL be tricked into installing malware, and it baffles me...

I've seen it happen multiple times with my older (and younger, though less often) relatives and acquaintances, I'm really not sure how like a solid 5 dialogs that scream at them with sayings like "do not do this", "this is dangerous", "if someone is telling you to do this they're a scammer", and that somehow raises zero alarms, however if you tell them to consider the possibility that they're downloading a virus, or that the nice IT man on the phone is probably not that trustworthy, they will simply not believe you.

That's why I kind of get the paranoia, though most of it is just that and I really believe that software freedom is a whole lot more important.
by Jtsummers | 2026-01-09 21:27:00+00:00
> Getting moving *is* exercise.

There's a difference between what something is and what something is perceived as. For whatever reasons they may have, many people have a strong negative emotional reaction to the idea of exercising, ask them to go for a two mile walk around the neighborhood with you and they'll balk. But then you take them to a city like Rome and they'll walk 20 miles in a day without even realizing it.
by akshayshah | 2026-01-09 21:27:02+00:00
I like Markdown, and generally agree that it strikes a nice balance between correctness and usability...

...but it's delicious that this blog post also demonstrates an ambiguity in Markdown: how to handle intra-word emphasis. In the rendered output, "mark_up_" and "mark_down_" were probably intended to be "mark<em>up</em>" and "mark<em>down</em>", but the underscores were instead rendered literally.

I do appreciate that Markdown's solution to ambiguities like this is dead simple - just inline some HTML.
by koubaki | 2026-01-09 21:27:42+00:00
Pre-change I thought Twemoji became closed sourced (source: https://emojipedia.org/twitter) and my repo observations (tons of open issues and no new commits) showed the same, but now I'm not sure. I think they probably resurrected a dead repo. Emojipedia hasn't said anything on their page about Twemoji (I checked before writing this post) as far as I know.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-09 21:28:04+00:00
>make their company better.

>why haven't they been doing this already.

Roger.

I think there's a pretty good number if they were going to do that, would have better utilized the regular employees they already had.

Plenty who would just want to make their company run cheaper. Which has been very common for something like centuries. For better or worse, sometimes good merit can be found there.

What about consumers?

For AI to fly off the shelf into consumer hands it would have to be cheaper than a regular PC too.

Not a special PC that's more exotic and expensive than a regular PC, nope, a special PC that's less exotic and less expensive than a regular PC. [0]

Mass-produced the same way it's always been done to make emerging features be taken in stride as the mainstream adopts them, at the same rate they become affordable at negligible additional cost to the predecessor commodity.

When the fundamental deficiency is because the AI is not yet good enough for regular PC's, it's not the most accurate response to blame the old PC for not being good enough for AI.

[0] It's quite possible that the most mainstream adoption of AI might be greatest in areas where the full numerical accuracy & precision of a PC is overkill anyway.
by scosman | 2026-01-09 21:28:13+00:00
SendGrid phishing emails are some of the best phishing emails. I get emails that there's elevated error rates on an API (`/v1/send`). Looks very legit, good design, reasonable call to action, some urgency which makes me want to click. They know from MX records I send email with Sendgrid, so it's well targeted. Easy catch when I see the domain, but other than that it's the best I've seen in years.
by arjunbajaj | 2026-01-09 21:28:31+00:00
I'm building Fostrom (https://fostrom.io), an IoT Cloud Platform. We have Device SDKs to simplify integrating devices, powered by a small Device Agent written in Rust.

I wanted to support RISC-V boards too, so I went with the Milk-V Duo S as the test device. I have managed to get Tailscale working, and our Device SDK works too, with the bundled Python.

The experience of using the Milk-V Duo is definitely not as straightforward as the Pi Zero, but it does work, and is easily available in most places, unlike some of their other products. The Linux distro they provide is quite barebones, and I wasn't able to get Debian working. The docs for the device are pretty decent. I hope we get better support for Debian/Alpine/Arch for these kinds of boards soon.
by recursive | 2026-01-09 21:29:13+00:00
I'm not asking you to read a book. Sorry for being unclear. The reading a book stuff all started from this in my original comment:

> You can read about music theory (and should) but the only way to [...]

My point is just that "you" (an abstract you) can learn music abstractly and in practice. Some things require book reading. Some things require practice and listening. Nothing intended about the cgriswald "you".

I know how to do long-hand multiplication and have memorized the 12x12 multiplication table. I'm not sure which one is more valuable, but I think they complement each other.

I'm not sure if we actually disagree about anything, except maybe the relative value of knowing what an interval sounds like vs what it's called.
by smeej | 2026-01-09 21:29:24+00:00
> There is no question if I want to do it, it is set at that time and I have to do it, period.

Gosh it must be nice to have at least an ordinary amount of executive function skills. Is it really this easy for neurotypical people to build routines? That's really all it takes?

I don't see how this removes willpower at all. It just determines what time you have to use it.
by bananabiscuit | 2026-01-09 21:30:13+00:00
I think this situation is very tragic, and I wish it had not happened.

The reason I am taking this stance, is because I think that, unless they are fine with becoming a martyr, people should not go and mess with government officers in the streets.

Yeah, I know: “victim blaming”, but there is a difference between officers descending upon a blameless victim vs. you going out looking to make trouble with authority. Even in the first case, the right thing to do (if you value your life) is to comply with the instructions (even if illegal) and challenge them in court later.
by epolanski | 2026-01-09 21:30:27+00:00
Has it happened this year?

Because now you're required to list all of your handles on any social media you had in the last 5 years and any email you used in the last 10.

This applies even for visa waiver countries as of 2026.

This makes me nervous because I have been critical of the US on some topics regarding the news or geopolitics (e.g. the recent events in Venezuela).

But even admitting the us is a sane country protecting the right to speech, there are 0 chances I remember all my emails (I don't even remember all the clients I worked with but gave me an email) or reddit/forum accounts.
by dizlexic | 2026-01-09 21:30:53+00:00
My argument is that he contributed to a ballot initiative that passed (meaning the majority supported it), but he was still targeted and lost his job because media platforms targeted him.

To quote Andrew Sullivan
> "McCarthyism applied by civil actors".

When people with large platforms target you, you're just as screwed regardless of their status as elected officials. To be outraged by one and excuse the other is laughable.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-09 21:30:56+00:00
I feel there was a disconnect in communication here. I'm saying that the Ultra Rich Guy and his pet project should be held to the same standards that are affecting regular people and organizations.

Even if we want those standards to change, giving the powerful special privileges to ignore the rules is bad because it makes reform less likely to occur, rather than more. It also encourages other problems like regulatory capture and selective prosecution.
by w10-1 | 2026-01-09 21:31:05+00:00
This is good and detailed, but misses a broader trend: how "worse is better" started to win - first Java over C++, then python and javascript over Java, and here markdown over Word and docbook.

When markdown emerged, docbook was getting even more elaborate, and vendors everywhere had for decades been locking people into frameworks and languages with fantastic features that were hard to use -- and then the internet bubble had popped. Then people realized they'd thrown away years building complex system, and had little tolerance for promises.

Markdown is something you can use in its native form. It's both source and destination, with a touch of future-proofing: if the opportunity arrives, you can polish it into anything, and mostly parse it yourself.

(What's surprising to me is that pandoc barely registers when compared with markdown on google trends since 2004; pandoc is the reason I switched completely to markdown in ~2010)
by FunnyUsername | 2026-01-09 21:31:39+00:00
It's like defining Germany as "a state that genocided various groups", or defining Irish nationalism as "a movement characterized by terrorist attacks against British civilians". Whether or not those claims are accurate, they're not defining features of the things we're trying to define.

And sure, most Zionists are not Jews because the Jewish population is too tiny to be a majority in almost any political category. Similarly most people who support Somaliland independence are not Somalilanders, but probably Indians or Chinese or something.
by jiggawatts | 2026-01-09 21:31:49+00:00
Some of the best advice I've ever heard is to look at how people act and ignore how they claim they act or their stated reasons for doing so.

A corollary is that even a "technically false" model can better predict someone's actions than a "truthful one".

Trump may not be a Russian agent, but he acts like one consistently.

It's more effective to simply assume he's an agent of a foreign power, because that's the best predictor of his actions.
by kaoD | 2026-01-09 21:31:49+00:00
As usual, cronyism.

In Spain's case Telefonica (largest telecom, used to be state owned) is private but has a large State participation and the government literally appointed the latest CEO.

Guess who sells the largest football games as part of their expensive TV package?

Guess who asked a judge to order the other telecoms to also block Cloudflare IPs?
by brightball | 2026-01-09 21:31:53+00:00
Wasn't 1.1.1.1 explicitly created to help people in countries with government internet restrictions to get around them?

100% support whatever Cloudflare has to do to win this fight. IMO the timing of something like this in the middle of the Elon + X vs UK censorship fight with the current administration providing support is probably the best case scenario.

People aren't going to want to hear that, but in this case it's probably true.
by epistasis | 2026-01-09 21:32:12+00:00
Here's the suggestion:

>Use <service>@<yourdomain> as your email address when signing up, and check the To header when receiving emails.

The user of the webservice specifies a unique email per webservice; knowledge of that unique email address serves as a hint that the email came from someone that has discovered that email address, i.e. the webservice itself.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-01-09 21:32:28+00:00
Sure, lots of women travel alone, and most of them have excellent experiences.

But you generally don't have to talk to a lot of them before you encounter one that's been sexually assaulted on her travels.

Does that mean women shouldn't travel alone outside of "safe" countries? I am not in any sort of position to make that call. But I'll be supportive of my daughters if they decide to do so.
by jacobthesnakob | 2026-01-09 21:32:52+00:00
I found in the subreddits related to my career and hobbies the discussions were pretty circular, there's a low level of basic knowledge but as soon as you rise above that and start dealing with nuance, the average user can't handle it. It was different 10-15 years ago, but the modern /r/[inserthobby] Redditor seems to have exclusively educated themselves via Reddit content.

X and Instagram are login-walled, I don't have accounts there and can't see any content. I don't really read comments on YouTube, I check like the top 3 to see if anybody has pointed out something major the video got wrong or glossed over. As soon as I see the teenager-level comments with some silly meme or typing out an event that happened in the video word-for-word I close the tab.

>Couldn't you just ... not log in?

Sure, I guess, but I like the ethereality of my approach.
by bodge5000 | 2026-01-09 21:33:28+00:00
Bit on an update on Zen, it looks like Anthropic have blocked Claude usage outside of Claude Code, so if I did want to use Opus, it'd have to be through that. They might reverse it or OpenCode might find a way round it, but overall I'd say at this point its safest to assume, if you're starting fresh with this, you go with one or the other.

Still not sure which one I'll go with, though I can't say I feel too keen to get into Claude after that
by BobaFloutist | 2026-01-09 21:33:30+00:00
Because enough people losing their own money in the same way becomes a social ill.

Much in the same way we try to limit physical addiction, which hypothetically only affects the person taking the substance, and gambling (though we're moving backwards on sports betting).

Some hypothetical social ills:
1 If it's a good source of money, it becomes more ubiquitous. This leads to entire illegal markets, which will typically lead to additional crimes, up to and including human trafficking, slavery, organ harvesting, and murder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam_center.

2. The victims of scams will often feed shared or even stolen assets into the scam, desperately relying on an eventual return that will never come. This mirrors one of the better known social ills of gambling and addiction.

3. Even for people that never fall victim, defending against scams is tiring, irritating, and damages social fabric. An easy example is how spam cuts down on the utility of phone calls. In general, to be safe you have to be almost irrationally suspicious of anyone being surprisingly friendly, which makes non in-person connections -one of the greatest benefits of the internet - much harder and more dangerous to forge.

What do you think, is that enough reasons?
by yabones | 2026-01-09 21:33:36+00:00
They do - well sort of.

The most essential check is SPF and DKIM which authenticate if the message has come from an authorized server. The problem is that most mail services are too lenient with mismatched sender identification. On one hand, people would be quite vocal about their mail provider sending way too much legitimate (but slightly misconfigured) mail to the spam folder. However it allows situations like to happen where the FROM header, the "From:" address, and the return path are all different.

Most mail systems have several stages of filters, and the first ones (checking authentication) are quite basic. After that, attachments, links, and contents are checked for known malware. Machine learning might kick in after this, if certain criteria are met. Mail security is very complicated and works well except for the times it falls flat on its face like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail
by zoeysmithe | 2026-01-09 21:33:58+00:00
The US doesnt recognize many of the bodies you would use as enforcement against aggressive action on EU bought US products. Or for some it does, it gives itself immunity from them like the ICJ.

Also considering the US's unilateral and often violent and aggressive and illegal way of doing things, especially with this administration, I think we're a bit past hypothetical meteor-like hypotheticals.

At this point any usage of destructive leverage the USA has over Europe should be seen as a real possibility, if not a likely one, when it comes to negotiation with or the expansionist desires of the USA.
by asdefghyk | 2026-01-09 21:35:06+00:00
How did (US Military) turning off/( or interfering with ) Venezuela power grid SPECIFICALLY help capture Maduro?

WHat difference could UPS ( Un interuuptable Power Supply's ) have made?
Maybe UPS at certain military locations
Maybe UPS at certain communication systems / public communication - like mobile networks? Military communication system?
At Maduros actual residence ? for lighting and other uses ?
by luqtas | 2026-01-09 21:35:19+00:00
i think most here if not all, people complaining by predatory practices of not supporting or liberating your device to whatever you want, are not worried or effected by monetary reasons

for my smartphone usage, i could still use my iphone se (1° gen) perfectly fine and that would include writing some pieces with garageband; which got deprecated and non-download-able because newer versions weren't aimed to my iOS version. heck the vast majority of smartphones aren't compilling software with local hardware (nor i know why someone would do)... guess we could stop with processing power advancement of 2015 just fine to run Whataspp and Instagram. producing hardware is costly, not everyone has a decent job nor minerals are infinite and have no ecological impact
by ElijahLynn | 2026-01-09 21:35:35+00:00
The audiobook Spark by Dr. John Ratey, psychiatrist is a great listen with a bunch more evidence based arguments to support that exercise is better then drugs for depression.

I highly recommend the audiobook as it is read by him and he is very enthusiastic about his research.

The one quote I remember from the book is that he stopped prescribing Prozac and started prescribing treadmills...
by psunavy03 | 2026-01-09 21:35:59+00:00
> People in the military do insane amounts of cardio because it helps dealing with insane amounts of stress.

This is giving the military way too much credit for organized stress management. If military people give the impression of doing "insane amounts of cardio" it's because that's what the physical fitness tests are biased towards.

And we also won't talk about the fact that getting a psych diagnosis, especially in fields like aviation, can end your career, while managing stress via alcohol gets a wink and a nod as long as you don't have an alcohol-related incident.
by lunar_mycroft | 2026-01-09 21:36:15+00:00
> It's like the articles point: we don't do assembly anymore and no one considers gcc to be controversial and no one today says "if you think gcc is fun I will never understand you, real programming is assembly, that's the fun part"

The compiler reliably and deterministically produces code that does exactly what you specified in the source code. In most cases, the code it produces is also as fast/faster than hand written assembly. The same can't be said for LLMs, for the simple reason that English (and other natural languages) is not a programming language. You can't compile English (and shouldn't want to, as Dijkstra correctly pointed out) because it's ambiguous. All you can do is "commission" another

> Do you resent folks like us that do find it fun?

For enjoying it on your own time? No. But for hyping up the technology well beyond it's actual merits, antagonizing people who point out it's shortcomings, and subjecting the rest of us to worse code? Yeah, I hold that against the LLM fans.
by j-krieger | 2026-01-09 21:36:19+00:00
"UK police made over 12,000 arrests under laws criminalizing communications causing 'annoyance or anxiety,' with arrests rising 58% since 2019" [1]. Only 10% lead to a conviction. What then, is it, other than a government issuing arrests for speech?

[1]: https://evrimagaci.org/gpt/london-braces-for-free-speech-sho...