MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lovich | 2026-01-19 18:59:43+00:00
> The US trade deficit just hit its lowest points since 2009 due to decreased imports and increased exports, which rose by record amounts.

Why is this positive? And I’m not implying it’s negative either. It’s just a fact sans context on the effect of the market unless you’ve bought the current admins argument that a trade deficit means you’re getting ripped off.

> US Q4 2025 GDP grew by 5.5%, outpacing China at 4.5%. For context, over the last 25 years China averages 8% per year while the US average 2.1% per year.

I can find no mention of Q4 gdp results in your linked source, it appears to be looking at annual gdp rates over years and focusing on the US compared to China and India

> US inflation has continued to slow at 2.7% with core inflation at 2.6%, continuing the trend from the last 2 years under Biden after a huge 9.1% inflation spike in 2022.

Still above the feds target of 2% but it’s good to see it still trending down

> US gas prices continued to trend downward by national average, with significant regional drops. I live in South Carolina and filled up for $2.39 / gallon a couple of days ago.

It’s winter, prices for gas always drop in winter. Your own source shows that we’re still above pre COVID prices

> The price of eggs have come down significantly, to their lowest rates in 4 years.

I’m not sure if I’m reading your source correctly but it appears to be saying eggs are $0.45/ dozen

That seems implausibly low but I can’t find other sources to compare as every source I’m finding has conflicting information internally, and the price given doesn’t match up with the lowest prices even if I multiply it by 12 assuming I misunderstood price per dozen for price per egg

> And the US stock market is at all time highs right now.

Yea but over half of that is mag7 and only propped up by the AI bubble. It’s nice temporarily but all the context around the stock market doesn’t make it look particularly healthy atm.

The economy looks about as healthy as it did in 2024. I think a lot of people’s views on the health of the economy, whether it’s good or bad, are being more influenced by political leanings than by numbers. Fits with the zeitgeist of the era.
by Loughla | 2026-01-19 18:59:46+00:00
The problem with number 2 is that they're trainable until they don't want to be. Think like a cat, but smarter, with opposable thumbs, and a genetic vendetta against human made structures and humanity in general.

Search and rescue would almost immediately become search, weirdly touch the face of victims with their weird little hands to see if they can defend themselves, eat part of the victim, rescue.
by punkpeye | 2026-01-19 18:59:58+00:00
You might need to define 'fast'.

This should not add more latency than your average VPN, since the overhead of websocket is minimal and roundtrip time is about the same.

At the moment, this is running on a single-instance with no load-balancing. The intended use case was to enable streaming of MCP SSE traffic, which is very lightweight. I would expect this to be able to handle a lot of traffic just like that, but if people start using the public instance for other use cases, I will need to think of ways to scale it.
by articulatepang | 2026-01-19 19:00:16+00:00
This is so poorly written. What is "Ralph"? What is its purpose? How does it work? A single sentence at the top would help. The writer imagines that the reader cares enough to have followed their entire journey, or to decode this enormously distended pile of words.

More generally, I've noticed that people who spend a lot of time interacting with LLMs sometimes develop a distinct brain-fried tone when they write or talk.
by 8note | 2026-01-19 19:00:29+00:00
im imagining if you had a couple parts picked, an llm could follow the reference designs quite well and pick relevant parts and lay them out.

maybe not in the best way, but from a post here last week or so, somebody has written an altium mcp, from which i assume a bunch of the timing and capacitor checks could be run.

maybe not anything particularly high tech, but enough to let mechanical engineers put together test boards without needing to get too far into the electrical discipline
by znnajdla | 2026-01-19 19:00:52+00:00
I think the point is being able revert to the initial state, and to have a single step between the initial state and final state. It’s hard to rollback a series of tool calls, and your search for a solution continues at every step. With a “code only” agent, the goal is to get to the final state in a single step, and you can keep reverting state and modifying the code until you get there. You can’t do that with a series of tool calls.
by spankalee | 2026-01-19 19:01:02+00:00
That's styling itself sure, but it's not self-evidently self-contained. Does every component emit those styles? Are they in the page stylesheet? How do they get loaded?

Counterpoint: Shadow DOM is great. People should be using it more. It's the only DOM primitive that allows for interoperable composition. Without it you're at the mercy of frameworks for being able to compose container components out of internal structure and external children.
by randall | 2026-01-19 19:01:54+00:00
So two things.

1/ crypto signing is totally the right way to think about this.
2/ I'm limiting prompt injection by using chain of command: https://model-spec.openai.com/2025-12-18.html#chain_of_comma...

we have a "gambit_init" tool call that is synthetically injected into every call which has the context. Because it's the result of a tool call, it gets injected into layer 6 of the chain of command, so it's less likely to be subject to prompt injections.

Also, relatedly, yes i have thought EXTREMELY deeply about cryptographic primitives to replace HTTP with peer-to-peer webs of trust as the primary units of compute and information.

Imagine being able to authenticate the source of an image using "private blockchains" ala holepunch's hypercore.
by Tarsul | 2026-01-19 19:02:21+00:00
I've been thinking: Trump won't settle for less than Greenland unless it's the Nobel Peace Price. So... why not give it to him but with caveats? E.g. It will be presented to him in an extraordinary pompous celebration (to tickle his ego) but will remain in Norway until the day of the end of Trump's presidency. He will receive it again on that day, and can keep it!, in another majestic ceremony.
by abraae | 2026-01-19 19:02:22+00:00
If I understand what you are doing this sounds like a great idea.

For example a part like the ADS7953 ADC comes with layout recommendations, including the design of the ground plane underneath the chip and the placement of the decoupling caps. A more extreme example would be an esp32 and all of it's supporting parts, including the keepout area on the PCB for wifi transmission.

I really want to assemble circuits out of higher level primitives like that, drag and drop a chip and all of its supporting parts, including their layout and power connections.
by loorke | 2026-01-19 19:02:41+00:00
> two of them (HIPPA and FDA approvals) are American

I specified all three via comma to highlight that we had quite some history in compliance, in different jurisdictions.

HIPPA covers only medical devices, GDPR covers everything. FDA approval process is convoluted and expensive, especially for new types of devices, but it's still much easier than European MDR.

Also, I mentioned FDA because we didn't even try to get a proper compliance in the EU, because it's impossible for a startup without huge support.
by hackermailman | 2026-01-19 19:03:02+00:00
AI copilots and prompts give me massive lines of imperative OCaml and the interface for that code always requires changing to properly describe the data it will receive when I can write it myself in a few minutes. I can however write a simulation of some hardware quickly with Java or C using claude code and then run my hand written programs in there for testing. An example is mimicking the runtime of some controller
by aspbee555 | 2026-01-19 19:03:30+00:00
I find Google is still really good at finding things for maps/navigation (and I contribute greatly to maps with pictures/reviews), but even that has become a problem with results of places that do not exist (and reviews from owners that say a place never existed where maps is saying)

depends on what you are searching for, but the constant attempts to trick me into useless garbage ads has destroyed reliability/my trust in their general search
by spockz | 2026-01-19 19:03:50+00:00
This is very unfortunate. To me Apple was the last corporate standing that is not doing ads nefariously. If this is changing what is next? I’m aware it is a slippery slope argument, but this has to do with trust. Apple’s advertised stance on privacy and security and ads always has been believable (to me) because of their business model and that they made it the distinguishing feature.

Now, what is left? iPads are great, MacBook with Apple silicon are unmatched in refinement, iPhones are awesome but getting a bit stale. Apple Watch is awesome, but for sports Garmin are better. It is the integrated ecosystem with iCloud that makes the total system powerful.

Where to go? I love Linux with CachyOS on my desktop. Anything similar for tablets and laptops? I think KDE has something like connect that aims to do what iCloud does.
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-19 19:03:59+00:00
The claim above is

> Almost all the comments acting like this is some truth bombshell, like people in trumpistan all thought raising tariffs magically made the us economy better. This is a straw man, no?

This is a person who is deeply involved in the mechanics of writing legislation supported by GOP legislators. I do not believe that she is uniquely dumb amongst right wingers who have access to the levers of power.
by kgwxd | 2026-01-19 19:04:09+00:00
Every single word around actual intelligence has been hijacked by the industry. Everything should be prefixed with "Artificial", like vegan food that mimics other food. Or just use more accurate words. Or make them up if they don't exist.

Every thing I used to come to HN for (learning, curiosity, tech, etc) has been mostly replaced by an artificial version of the thing. I still get tricked daily by titles I think are referring a real thing, but turn out to be about AI.
by Retric | 2026-01-19 19:04:59+00:00
You’re forgetting the economy is finite. You can’t infinity add new participants with infinite product to sell.

Instead in an efficient market everyone is already occupied making X ROI and gives as much up by entering a new market as they gain.

Put another way, if you already own a sock with 10% ROI, you can sell it and buy a sock with 10% ROI but the transaction is pointless so it doesn’t occur.

> An efficient market also assumes perfect information, which includes information of future events, so talking about risk/uncertainty is already out of the question.

Perfect information means something different here. In Chess both players have perfect information of the game state, they don’t know the future. Poker has randomness and imperfect information but there’s other games with randomness and perfect information.
by dundarious | 2026-01-19 19:05:02+00:00
The background level of hooliganism is AFAIK a lot lower now than in the 80s/90s when I casually recall it being commonplace and less under control, yes, but that doesn't mean that Maccabi deserve to be treated as if they themselves rarely act as hooligans or racists, etc.

I have read quite a lot on the topic of what transpired in Amsterdam, what generally transpires at Maccabi games in Israel (in terms of genocidal chants, calling Israeli "left wing" club supporters "the whores of Arabs", etc., because they are in my view less racist against Palestinians or "Israeli Arabs"), the level of analysis done by the Birmingham police (a poor document, but to me there is clearly a reasonable argument in there, struggling to be expressed, but mired in unforced errors), etc. I think the standard of discourse by UK parliamentary commissions and debate in parliament, etc., has been very low, and not a sufficient basis to understand the relevant facts, even for a casual overview, never mind for detailed insight.

However, none of that is part of my original point, which is only to say, that banning away fans from a club like Maccabi is not notable, and on the surface level, anyone arguing that it smacks of discrimination is either ignorant or disingenuous. If one admits that there was plausible justification to prohibit Maccabi away fans, but in the particulars it was not justified, then fine, I disagree, but I don't wish to pursue the argument on HN.
by funkyfiddler69 | 2026-01-19 19:05:34+00:00
> The difference is that, fortunately, fine-tuning them is extremely easy.

Because of millions of years of generational iterations, by which I mean recursive teaching, learning and observing, the outcomes of which all involved generations perceive, assimilate and adapt to in some (multi-) culture- and sub-culture driven way that is semi-objectively intertwined with local needs, struggles, personal desires and supply and demand. All that creates a marvelous self-correcting, time-travelling OODA loop. []

Machines are being finetuned by 2 1/2 generations abiding by exactly one culture.

Give it time, boy! (effort put into/in over time)

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
by bediger4000 | 2026-01-19 19:05:43+00:00
do the people who voted for Trump actually back him on this specific issue?

Please excuse me if I am repeating something you've heard. Some fraction of the people who voted for Trump don't back him on this, or maybe any other issue. The US mass media is owned by oligarchs, and the oligarchs like Trump, so he has not been reported on completely or honestly since 2017, early in his first term. That fraction voted for someone who doesn't exist in reality.

A large fraction of Trump voter almost certainly do back him on this. There really is a cult of personality around Trump. I'm not sure Trump himself caused it, but he certainly took advantage of it when it started. The Qanon bullshit is a primary example of this. The US Republican party has made itself more and more rigid and lock-step over the years, Trump was able to take it over, to his advantage.

This part of Trump's voters would back anything he'd say or do, regardless of relation to reality. Luckily, the oligarch owned press is nearly omnipresent, and does not report honestly or completely on Trump, his behavior, so that fraction of voters can keep on believing in Trump as God King.
Show HN: ColmapView is a browser-based COLMAP viewer
by yxl448 | 2026-01-19 19:06:02+00:00
We built a small web viewer for inspecting COLMAP SfM/MVS outputs in the browser. It loads COLMAP cameras/images/points and renders everything nicely. No install, meant for quick inspection and sharing.

Early stage, feedback welcome, especially on UI/UX, and whether this fits your workflow.
by scottmf | 2026-01-19 19:06:15+00:00
I independently did the same with an MLX implementation on Sunday (also with Claude Code).

I expected this C implementation to be notably faster, but my M3 Max (36GB) could barely make it past the first denoising step before OOMing (at 512x512)

Am I doing something wrong? The MLX implementation takes ~1/sec per step with the same model and dimensions: https://x.com/scottinallcaps/status/2013187218718753032
by MaxL93 | 2026-01-19 19:06:39+00:00
The same thing is happening on the Android side.

If you've made a game, it doesn't matter how high quality it is, how many awards it has won, etc.

The only thing that matters is that it's live service, that it doesn't "have an end", that it can drive engagement and perpetual revenue.

Quite a few testimonies from game devs: according to them, Google representatives pretty much told them this.

See also: the requirements to constantly update your app/game even if it's a "finished product" that does not inherently require any updates.
Show HN: Movieagent.io – An agent for movie recommendations (with couple mode)
by roknovosel | 2026-01-19 19:07:01+00:00
Most Friday nights and weekends, my wife and I would spend 30+ minutes scrolling Netflix, vetoing each other's movie suggestions. The intersection of our tastes is pretty small. She's into rom coms and the occasional thriller, and couldn't care less about ratings. I gravitate toward critically acclaimed stuff and 3h+ sagas. Eventually, we would settle on something neither of us really wanted, or a comfort TV show.

So, I built movieagent.io to help us. It's an agent that finds what you're in the mood for tonight. The agent plays the role of an arbiter, and does its best to try and bridge the gap between users. The whole process takes about 2-3 minutes, depending on the level of disagreement (and Anthropic's API load).

The agent asks a few quick questions, then runs "duels", showing you two movies and asking which movie resonates more. Your choices reveal which direction the agent should probe into more.

Finally, the user(s) get 4-5 movies at the end with a personalized recommendation note as to why this particular movie is a good choice for tonight.

It still hit or miss sometimes, but it did help us to a couple of great movie nights.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-19 19:07:14+00:00
Weirdly true. A year ago, I bought perhaps the most comfortable chair I've ever sat in specifically for the purpose of reading. And it really is incredibly comfortable to sit in. Yet ... it doesn't solve either of the two central problems of actually reading: having to hold the book/ereader and the head/neck/shoulder angle. The only solution I can imagine is an "overhead" mounted ereader with voice control, and I don't actually want that.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-19 19:07:22+00:00
> Genuinely, please list a few ideas of his that are actually good.

> I’m on the outside, but I’ve never seen a single speech or talking point of his and thought “yeah, that’s a good idea”

Here are some:

- Challenging China on Trade & Industrial Policy

- NATO Burden-Sharing Pressure (forced EU to take defense spending commitment seriously and increase defense budgets)

- Criminal Justice Reform (reduced mandatory minimums for nonviolent offenses, expanded rehab and early-release programs)

- Operation Warp Speed

- Energy Independence Focus

- Deregulation Emphasis, especially for small business

- Abraham Accords

etc.

I also have a list of ideas that I think are terrible.

Point is to not be blind to what’s happening as much as possible. Difficult because you have to pick your news sources carefully and even then critically evaluate the reporting. There’s also emotional component etc.
by bs7280 | 2026-01-19 19:07:43+00:00
You are not wrong, and I should clarify I also have a big problem with the current state of legal insider trading of elected officials, but this polymarket problem is much more extreme. You can get a guaranteed 100-1 payout by blowing up some random people on the other side of the planet. Way worse than making even 2-5x on a leveraged futures bet with insider info. In that example, the victim is usually just other rich people.
by ozzyphantom | 2026-01-19 19:07:48+00:00
Too lazy to learn is a bit harsh and your statement lacks empathy.

Coding has been free to learn for a long time and the quality of education resources has only improved overtime. But that does not mean it’s easy and it doesn’t decrease the time to learn.

I’ll use myself as an example. I’m pretty creative, I have a lot of ideas and interests, but I struggle a lot with the logic and syntax of coding. I find it interesting at the surface level but every time I’ve tried to learn I just can’t get it to click. And, to be frank, I don’t find it very enjoyable.

But at the same time I have random website and app ideas quite frequently. I’ll use apps that have terrible UI/UX and imagine ways it could be better or maybe even design something in Figma if I’m feeling frisky. But actually making an app? Always just way too out of my wheelhouse. Plus I work 40-50 hours a week and prioritize socializing on the weekends, a lot of those ideas have to be relegated to just ideas on a list in Obsidian. Does that make me a lazy person? Maybe to you but I don’t think of myself that way.

The tools available now have unlocked something new for me. My ideas can start to come to life because the coding part doesn’t hold me back anymore. I’ve made silly websites with domains I’ve owned for years. I’ve made apps that solve an annoying issue I’ve had forever like a file media viewer app for my iPhone since file viewing sucks with Files/Preview and every app on the AppStore is infested with ads and didn’t fit my use case. I just for fun made an app that can play against me in MTG by using the continuity camera from my iPhone to my Mac to read the playing field.

I get where you’re coming from but you probably think every vibe coder is lazy because you’re good at coding. Not everybody has the talent/time/desire to learn how to code. Does that mean we can’t let our ideas come to life?
by TZubiri | 2026-01-19 19:07:51+00:00
I'd just like to make the distinction between:

1- Making a bet with privileged information.
2- Creating the event and making the bet.

2 would be a war crime, 1 would be a probabilistic leak.

Trump claimed they didn't want to pass through congress because they leak, and there were no leaks about the event. But if any personnel made a polymarket bet, that would constitute a leak. It wasn't acted upon, but if personnel continues to leak information in this manner, it is possible that an adversary will eventually listen to this signal, and that it was just ignored because it is too fresh.

This analysis would also make it clear why it would be immoral to participate in such markets as a civilian. Because if it is your country you might be compensating an insider for information, benefitting the enemy. And if you are not, you might be harming the enemy, but you would be an unlawful belligerent.
by hdjrudni | 2026-01-19 19:07:56+00:00
"Warnings" are like the most difficult thing to 'send' though. If an app or service doesn't outright fail, warnings can be ignored. Even if not ignored... how do you properly inform? A compiler can spit out warnings to your terminal, sure. Test-runners can log warnings. An RPC service? There's no standard I'm aware of. And DNS! Probably even worse. "Yeah, your RRs are out of order but I sorted them for you." where would you put that?
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-19 19:08:03+00:00
> it would be more than reasonable for the community to demand the riot police step in and arrest the provocators.

Likewise, it would not be unreasonable or unprecedented for your community to respond by stomping this lynch mob into the gutters, or at least running it out of town. The principle that intolerance should be tolerated is not universally held, and IMO is a bit privileged.

> It would not be OK to plan a "jew hunt" on WhatsApp

What information do we have on that? A statistically-insignificant non-random sampling of texts across a large sample size isn't particularly relevant.

> And completely random people who you just think look Jewish or Israeli

That sounds like it came after the maccabi rioters started their campaign of violence against random people who they just thought looked Palestinian or Muslim.

Unfortunately, ethnic violence tends to beget ethnic violence.
by punkpeye | 2026-01-19 19:08:10+00:00
I am keeping one eye on how this is scaling.

At the moment there are 5 active tunnels and CPU is at 2%.

I would therefore expect that this can scale quite a bit before it becomes some sort of bottleneck.

Who knows though – maybe I am underestimating the demand. Didn't expect this to get to the front page of HN.