MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-29 00:13:34+00:00
It’s hilarious seeing the kind of narratives the right is coming up with to avoid admitting the obvious truth which is on video from multiple angles. I’m now seeing people say things like “you can’t carry a gun at protests” (even though there are numerous photos of people openly carrying guns at right wing protests), or “here’s a different video showing Pretty was an agitator” (as if that excuses the execution), or “wait for bodycam footage” (even though there is a video of them removing his gun and later putting him on his knees).

I will say though that I am also a bit scared. When government officials push a blatantly false narrative, that they know is a lie, and their supporting voters completely accept that version of reality over what they can see with their eyes, it suggests that those same voters would be okay with ANYTHING the administration does.
by tokkyokky | 2026-01-29 00:13:46+00:00
Thanks for the tip! Your comment prompted me to refactor the quote handling - replaced the bit-by-bit state machine loop with prefix XOR, and switched to adjacent bit masking for double-quote detection. Seeing a nice performance improvement in benchmarks.
Go's simd/archsimd doesn't have CLMUL yet, but the XOR cascade works well. Appreciate your feedback!
by alephnerd | 2026-01-29 00:14:06+00:00
Somewhat, but not to the degree as you see in the UK, Singapore, or HK.

Until a couple years ago, it was difficult for someone without a SSN to create a Delaware C-Corp and even despite current political instability, the depth of IP, capital, and R&D available in the US is difficult to replicate outside China, Japan, and maybe India.
by SR2Z | 2026-01-29 00:14:10+00:00
This is not a political calculus. Nobody with half a brain believes that Trump's choices are about efficiently deporting people here illegally; they are designed to intimidate and punish his opponents while making the US more authoritarian.

The government cannot send out masked, untrained goon squads to bust down doors without warrants or probable cause. They are forbidden from doing that by the Constitution.

The "inevitable tragedies" are from free people exercising their rights in the face of an administration which obviously has nothing but contempt for them.
by smileysteve | 2026-01-29 00:15:19+00:00
S launched in 2012.

X launched in 2016.

Both launched with slow rollouts.

Meanwhile, the average car in use today is 13 years old and getting older. (I currently drive a 22 year old car)

It definitely turns me off buying a used model S to know it's being discontinued. And if I extrapolate that to the 3/Y, a new purchase.

Given my desire for a midsize family sedan, it makes it feel like BMW i4 or Porsche Taycan just won me over in the future.
by dcampbell1100 | 2026-01-29 00:15:27+00:00
I created a version of [Copenhagen Hnefatafl](https://hnefatafl.org/history.html).
It includes an engine, server, client, and AI. It is built in Rust. The server
runs over TCP with a custom protocol that uses [RON](https://github.com/ron-rs/ron)
for serialization along with plain text. A single line is a message.

The client is built with [iced](https://github.com/iced-rs/iced), so it is a
desktop and mobile application, not a browser application. The client has many
features and is translated into many languages. It also supports hotkeys for
everything that iced supports.

One feature is to review games. You can play out whatever variations you
please and use AI to suggest moves. After completing a game it is saved on the
server and to review it you just click "Get Archived Games". You can identify
the game by its ID.

I am looking for more people to play. I support real time games with a short
time to play and longer games that take place over days.

If you're interested in AI help with that would also be appreciated. I'm
currently thinking I will not work on it more until
[burn](https://github.com/tracel-ai/burn) gets support for reinforcement
learning.

Any suggestions or comments are welcome, thanks!
by wakanda-island | 2026-01-29 00:15:35+00:00
I've published Quantum Mirror Theory, a new interpretation of quantum mechanics
where the observer and the observed are not separate entities—they are the SAME
entity viewed through a "mirror boundary."

The Mirror Equation: |Ψ⟩ ≡ M|Ψ'⟩

Key propositions:
- Simultaneous Existence: Superposition = entity existing on both sides of a mirror
- Mirror Entanglement: Entangled particles are one entity, not two correlated ones
- Portal Observation: Measurement connects rather than collapses

Biological validation:
- Conception spark (Northwestern 2016) = mirror ignition
- Biophotons = measurable coherence
- Death photon burst = mirror dissolution

This reframes "spooky action at distance" as "no distance"—entangled particles
aren't communicating, they're the SAME particle reflected.

No cats were harmed. The cat is out. The mirror is alive.

GitHub: https://github.com/aevov/quantum-mirror-theory
Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18407315

Happy to discuss the math, philosophy, or implications.
by michaelt | 2026-01-29 00:16:28+00:00
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-pwc-ey-big-four-natw...

> Labour taking free staff from scandal-hit consulting firms

> [...] The party has quietly accepted more than £230,000 worth of free staff from ‘big four’ accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst & Young (EY) since Keir Starmer took over as leader in 2020.

Still, I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that the ruling party was gifted £230k of free services from PwC, then brought a static website from PwC for £4.1 million of taxpayer money.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-29 00:17:05+00:00
Frankly, as a neutral 3rd party, this is a lot of words that amount to an excuse for using only LMArena, and the rationale is quite clear: it’s for an unrelated argument that isn’t going to ring true to people, especially an audience of programmers who just spent the last year watching the AI go from being able to make coherent file edits to multi hour work.

LMArena is, de facto, a sycophancy and Markdown usage detector.

Two others you can trust, off the top of my head, are LiveBench.ai and Artifical Analysis. Or even Humanity’s Last Exam results. (Though, frankly, I’m a bit suspicious of them. Can’t put my finger on why. Just was a rather rapid hill climb for a private benchmark over the last year.)

FWIW GPT 5.2 unofficial marketing includes the Erdos thing you say isn’t happening.
by alsetmusic | 2026-01-29 00:17:11+00:00
Holy shit. I've been on the NI Komplete train for over a decade. They make some very important plugins that I've long thought of as stable and existing forever. Forever-plugins, if you will.

Related, I suppose this is why they needed a third-party to revamp Absynth.

This is a dark day for plugin junkies. It really makes me nervous about the rest of the industry because NI had all the appearances of a successful company. I mean, they weren't updating Battery for a really long time, but I always assumed something would eventually happen with it. Maybe the Absynth reveal was a much grimmer peak into their operation than I'd like it to be.
by arxari | 2026-01-29 00:17:19+00:00
Have you considered that you Americans are so radicalized on either side you mindlessly either defend ICE or go against ICE which is what is causing this issue?

Calling ICE "gestapo" and Trump "Hitler" and are genuinely crazy things, gestapo can be pretty accurately described by 1984 as the thought police, ICE, while being an organ of a state is far from that. You may think they have immunity but federal courts seem quite fast at picking up the cases regarding the happenings in the article which I can assure you would not happen if ICE truly had immunity. And if ICE really was the gestapo, all the people at the protests and arrests would be killed indiscriminately; in the articles you see actions taking place before the shootings that can be seen as an attack on federal officers... If ICE was the gestapo just existing and showing you're against ICE would get you gunned down or arrested, it would get all the people at those protests gunned down or arrested.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-29 00:17:22+00:00
Deism is really interesting topic. I feel like Deism is something which really turned me into agnostic/atheist.

I don't really like talking to theists about their beliefs so much as I find it as a source of disagreement which many people are unable to find the contradictions and it just turns to arguments, especially online.

But Deism, the idea that a god might exist but he might not be involved with us is something which is pretty interesting which I fill definitely is slipped from many discussions about theism.

I feel like there were many such alternatives to Deism as well which fall short of theism/atheism and I really liked the nuance each one captures but unfortunately I forgot the name of many but definitely remember Deism.
by willio58 | 2026-01-29 00:17:29+00:00
The thing is it’s hard to stop at 4.

5. Peace out from Tesla for a while to pivot hard into far-right politics, using outsized power and influence to wage culture wars, alienate core customers, and inject volatility into a brand that was built on trust, optimism, and engineering credibility.

6. Unveil Optimus as the next grand pillar of the vision, not as a shipping product but as a perpetual demo, a future-shaped distraction that soaks up attention while core execution, margins, and credibility quietly erode.
by ctippett | 2026-01-29 00:17:49+00:00
As someone who just set up mitmproxy to do something very similar, I wish this would've been a plugin/add-on instead of a standalone thing.

I know and trust mitmproxy. I'm warier and less likely to use a new, unknown tool that has such broad security/privacy implications. Especially these days with so many vibe-coded projects being released (no idea if that's the case here, but it's a concern I have nonetheless).
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-29 00:18:06+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreaking:_The_Worst_Perso...

As is often the case, important defense mechanisms feel awful when they arise in the course of the worst people defending the worst people. They're still important defense mechanisms, and the UK's badly misnamed "Online Safety Act" (which will make people less safe) needs to die and never come back. But still, ugh.
by worik | 2026-01-29 00:18:13+00:00
> It’s one of those types you have to be the person that likes that style

Yes.

I live in a community that has a very high population of home brewers (beer and spirits mostly). Many of them are needy and use strict techniques (their breweries remind me of the Winnebago meth lab in Breaking Bad) making very good beer and gin.

When we have our local competition of brewers the winner is always some thing like "Belgian Sour". To me a beer that is foul. But to the experienced brewers it is the best.

"Likes that style" covers a huge range with beer.
by maccard | 2026-01-29 00:18:14+00:00
It does to an extent but less so particularly from central government.

The tender is here [0], the approval process is usually pretty watertight. The contracts that go through this will have a paper trail. What you’ll likely find is that PWC has written a spec that meets the letter of the contract and they have delivered a site that meets the letter of their wording, which is what they’re good at. The fact that it didn’t actually solve the problem is inconsequential to PwC

[0] https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/021898-2024
by kcplate | 2026-01-29 00:18:15+00:00
> Maybe he wanted that regardless (remote hut life), and this was just a final push for change

Perhaps. Like I said in the other comment, his motivations for that living choice may have been unrelated to his government work, but it did fit a pattern of choices. I am pretty sure his other choices of specific technology avoidance was related to his government work. No specific conversation but other colleagues and I noticed comments (mainly about cellular and internet avoidance) over the time we worked together in the vein of “I just don’t think it’s a good idea”.
by whenc | 2026-01-29 00:18:39+00:00
Test, track, and trace.

https://fullfact.org/health/NHS-test-and-trace-app-37-billio...

"The NAO said that of the approximately £13.5 billion spent on the NHS Test and Trace programme in 2020/21, £35 million was spent on the app.

The vast majority of the spending in that year was accounted for by testing (£10.4 billion)."
by porkloin | 2026-01-29 00:19:57+00:00
I hate LLMs as much as the next guy, but this was honestly just not very funny. Humor can be a great vehicle for criticism when it's done right, but this feels like clickbait-level lazy writing. I wouldn't criticize it anywhere else, but I have enjoyed reading a bunch of actually good writing from mcsweeney's over the years in the actual literary journal and on their website.
by jmuncor | 2026-01-29 00:20:07+00:00
Agee! This was a fun project that I build because it is so hard to understand what "really" is in you context window... What do you mean by plugin/add-on? Add-on to what? Thinking of what to add to it next... Maybe security would be a good direction, or at least visibility of what is happening to the proxy's traffic.
by kevinrineer | 2026-01-29 00:20:10+00:00
> Do they still do that?

Yes. I know its more than firefox, but I don't have the full list. On 24.04:

me@comp:~$ apt info firefox | head -n 5

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

Package: firefox
Version: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu7
Priority: optional
Section: web
Origin: Ubuntu
me@comp:~$
by tengwar2 | 2026-01-29 00:20:24+00:00
Probably depends on the department. I do grant and loan assessments for Innovate UK, and they have a rigorous and largely (+) transparent method for assessment which I would be happy to explain in detail. If we award money, it's accompanied by a monitoring officer (I do that as well) who is subject area expert with project management business experience. The MO meets the project every one or three months to review progress and approve payment of an installation of the grant or loan. We certainly wouldn't hand over £4M without good reason!

(+ Some of the detail of the scoring matrix is not as transparent as we would like, but Innovate UK does take feedback and tries to improve it).
Don't Automate Chaos: The "100x Rule" of Factory AI
by yusukekaizen | 2026-01-29 00:20:42+00:00
I spent years working at Sysmex (medical devices) and Toyota Group (automotive parts) in Japan. With the current AI boom, I see many companies trying to inject "Silicon Valley logic" (move fast and break things) into manufacturing floors. In my experience, this usually leads to what I call the "PoC Graveyard."

In the physical world, bugs aren't just Jira tickets—they are injuries, recalls, or broken lines. I argue that before writing any code, we must follow the "100x Rule":

Non-Standardized Process + AI = 100x Chaos

Standardized Process + AI = 100x Profit

If you automate a mess, you just get a faster mess. I put together my thoughts on why "Standardization" must strictly precede "Automation," along with a 5-step checklist I use to diagnose factory readiness.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-29 00:21:00+00:00
As I pointed out elsewhere, "X+Y... would all be salary going to you if not for the payroll tax" makes the assumption that companies are currently paying 100% of what they could possibly be willing to pay for that employee's labor. Given the profitability of California's companies, I suspect there's some surplus there. And a surplus suggests that the value of the labor is being driven moreso by what price will attract sufficient employees, which would only change due to 2nd or 3rd order effects by the elimination of payroll taxes (via competitors willing to pay more for a finite pool of top laborers popping up).
by hug | 2026-01-29 00:21:16+00:00
I may be an idiot, but: What does this actually, y'know, achieve? It seems the answer to me is probably nothing?

It doesn't work on Firefox. It appears not to work on Chrome. The suggestion is to use Edge, which on Windows already gets 4K support in Netflix anyway.

I suppose it will help if you're some kind of masochist who wants to run Edge on Mac and get 4K Netflix, which I assume is an install base of approximately zero people.
by Retr0id | 2026-01-29 00:22:06+00:00
Awesome. As someone who has spent some time researching DRM systems, figuring out these "soft" restrictions before you can achieve playback in the first place is often more challenging than breaking the DRM itself.

Does Edge currently ship Widevine L1? Last time I checked it was Playready SL3000, but that was a while ago now.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-29 00:22:49+00:00
Just run a KVM based Windows VM (via GNOME Boxes, virt-manager, etc. On my Fedora install I had to install the @virtualization meta-package and enable dameons among other things, and the only reason I knew to do that is because I looked it up. Without that Boxes, etc just throws an unhelpful error that doesn’t suggest that more packages or config changes are needed.

I had to enable virtualization features in BIOS too, but that’s entirely separate and not the fault of any Linux distro.
Show HN: LinkBin – Modern URL shortener with analytics ($15 vs. bit.ly's $35)
by Jollydevs | 2026-01-29 00:22:55+00:00
I built LinkBin after getting frustrated with bit.ly's pricing and outdated UX. It's a modern URL shortener with detailed analytics for half the cost of enterprise alternatives.

Key features:
• Better pricing: Pro plan at $14.99/mo vs bit.ly Enterprise at $35/mo
• Modern analytics: Geo, device, referrer tracking with clean dashboard
• Fast redirects: <100ms performance with global edge deployment
• Developer API: RESTful endpoints for programmatic link management
• Custom domains: Professional branding for businesses

Tech stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Vercel edge functions, PostgreSQL, Stripe

The free tier includes 50 links/month with basic analytics. Paid plans add advanced features like custom domains, API access, and extended retention.

Live demo: Try shortening a URL at https://linkbin-phi.vercel.app

I'm particularly proud of the analytics dashboard - it shows detailed click data with charts and geographic breakdown, something that's either missing or expensive in other tools.

Pricing comparison:
• LinkBin Pro: $14.99/mo (unlimited links, custom domains, 1yr retention)
• bit.ly Enterprise: $35/mo (similar features)
• TinyURL Pro: $19.99/mo (basic analytics only)

Questions for the community:
1. What features would make you switch from your current URL shortener?
2. How important are custom domains vs analytics for your use case?
3. Any feedback on the pricing strategy?

The app is live and accepting payments. Would love feedback from the HN community!
by tombert | 2026-01-29 00:23:23+00:00
Interesting. I've been on/off working on something, though it's an append-only hash index thing (based on Erlang's Bitcask): https://git.sr.ht/~tombert/feocask

I haven't done any benchmarks on it yet so I have no idea how well it performs, but I have a very strict "no explicit lock" policy, so everything is handled with separate files with a reconciliation service that uses a vector clock to determine ordering.

NOTE: A lot of this is AI-assisted, treat what I have written as more of a whiteboard proof of concept. I'm in the process of rewriting it by hand to do some more aggressive optimizations.
by arxari | 2026-01-29 00:23:33+00:00
I think to an extent Trump is a fall guy, even when it comes to Venezuela he was dragged through the mud where his predecessors have constantly undermined the sovereignty of other nations and attacked them under the guise of protecting the US from terrorism when it was about oil and mineral ritches [1], the same with the deportation centers which while they were getting some criticism it was nowhere near the level of slander that there is towards the current admin doing the same thing.

[1] https://youtu.be/C3LFbOSPfrE
by highmastdon | 2026-01-29 00:23:40+00:00
Still to this day I don't understand how people manage to do software development on a Windows PC. I started with my first secondhand MacBook which was one before the unibody, and then upgraded to unibody and never have left ever. The only reason I was forced to use Windows was for clients that didn't have support for MacOS or Linux. The only thing I need Windows for is rootkit enabled games... which pains me, otherwise I'd have Linux on my desktop
by paul7986 | 2026-01-29 00:24:06+00:00
Well it's a small govt contracting company. The adminstration cutting down on federal jobs, IT contracts and the tech layoffs has/is flooding the market with UX/UI folks in these parts (mid Atlantic region). Now AI is hastening the shrinking of this field.

The contracting company I worked for promotes on their LinkedIn their use of AI saying we created this prototype with AI in less then a day vs. years, months and days. In September they told us this is the way forward as all govt contractors are bidding for contracts with smaller teams using AI. Per that story they are telling they need to change to survive.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-29 00:24:09+00:00
It has been at risk for a long time, now it is in doubt.

Think of a scenario like

Attacker floods you with tons of AI slop to make your overloaded and at risk of making mistakes. These entries should have just enough basis in reality to avoid summary rejection.

Then the attacker puts in useful batch of code that fixes issues and injects a tricky security flaw.

If there's not a lot going on the second part is hard to pull off. But if you ruin the SnR it becomes more likely.
by avar | 2026-01-29 00:24:50+00:00
You already have it. Musk's earliest promise of a $30k price point appears to be an interview in September 2009: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2009/09/25/teslas-elon-musk-on-...

Adjusted for inflation, $30k then is around $45k now. Tesla sells a Model 3 for just over $35k.

It doesn't make any sense to hold someone to a promise like that and not adjust it for inflation. I think you can legitimately complain that he didn't meet the timeline he was aiming for.
by jedbrooke | 2026-01-29 00:25:12+00:00
the author mentions they’re using haiku for the model, but I wonder if the travel query -> place transform could be done with a tiny local model.

But that’s the bitter lesson I guess, unless there’s a reason to go fully local (extreme privacy concerns, offline use, etc) training a custom model just isn’t worth it over using some cloud api offering, even if it is orders of magnitude more compute that _somebody_ is paying for in the end
by Morizero | 2026-01-29 00:25:47+00:00
> A toxicological screening of the “white curdled material” had detected codeine but not morphine. But Koren had claimed that the gastric contents “exhibited high morphine” levels—with no mention of codeine—“ruling out administration of Tylenol-3 to the baby.”

> “I don’t know what happened in that house, on that night, but I do know that someone gave this baby crushed Tylenol-3,” likely mixed in breast milk or formula. “That’s the only way these numbers make sense.”

Does no one care that this is potentially a murder case?
by loeg | 2026-01-29 00:25:56+00:00
Much less severe than 2001, where tech lost 250,000 jobs peak to trough (~18.5% from 2001 to 2003). Current downturn from peak (2022) is about 80,000 jobs (~3.2%). The timeframe for this period is longer and the magnitude is much lower.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES6054150001