MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by analog31 | 2026-01-10 16:38:25+00:00
I don’t think “aligned with Russia” is what’s happening. Instead, I think they are aligned with the old fashioned “spheres of influence” concept, where each superpower owns and operates its own region. Thus, Russia owning Ukraine and the US owning Greenland are not inconsistent.

US aid towards Ukraine is just strong enough to keep the conflict going indefinitely (the “forever wars” policy) without resolving it.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-10 16:38:30+00:00
The entire purpose of health insurance is spreading risk across a wide and diverse risk pool.

> why should I also be subsidizing Billy "video-games-are-my-exercise" fatass's chronic health conditions?"

Nobody is asking you to: enrolling in insurance is a choice in the USA.

Also, replace "chronic health conditions" with "unavoidable inherited genetic risk factors". We don't want Billy to be screwed for life just because he was born to a suboptimal combination of parents.
by shagie | 2026-01-10 16:38:45+00:00
They've also got a developer interface - https://developer.yr.no

One of the things that I've seen with them that I haven't seen with others is the cloud cover by layer.

https://www.yr.no/en/details/graph/2-6301678/United%20States...

https://www.yr.no/en/details/table/2-6301678/United%20States...

For doing photography (sunsets) there's a significant difference between 50% high clouds and 50% low clouds.
by justsomehnguy | 2026-01-10 16:38:51+00:00
> Why those features need a server online to work is beyond me

They rewrite the functions on the fly. I.e. if Mouse4 is "navigation back" by default and you "set" it in the software to "Keyboard button A" then the software running on your computer (not the mouse) rewrites "navigation back" to "keyboard button A" on the go.

It's so bad what if you CPU is hogged then sometimes you would occasionally get the "real" button function (ie navigation back) instead of the "reprogrammed" one. Or sometimes - both.

It's utter bullshit of the design and the reason I threw that shit in the wall on day 2 and went to the store to buy Razer DeathAdder V2 HyperSpeed (R)(TM). Despite the ridiculous name and quite shitty application - most of the functions are actually stored on the mouse (besides some macro things, which is a pity, but again...).

Oh, by the way, the software I installed on my notebook to "program" that Logishit kept working, downloading updates, updating and not deleting the previous versions. I suddenly got "low disk space warning" and was like... what? And then I found this Logishit spent 20GBs of space for it. For doing nothing. Literally nothing.

But what is really puzzling is why @dghlsakjg is defending Logitech here. Maybe he has their stock or have some form of so called Stockholm syndrome.
by zahlman | 2026-01-10 16:38:59+00:00
There's also a "source" distribution that installs by downloading from the main project's GitHub release page. But that's presumably limited to the same platform support.

The yt-dlp project also raised concerns that the manylinux wheel incorrectly advertises older glibc support.

... but I always bristle a bit at the "one-liner to run without installing" description. Sure, the ergonomics are great, but you do still have to download the whole thing, and it does create a temporary installation that is hard-linked from a cache folder that is basically itself an installation.
Show HN: Crossview – visualize Crossplane resources and compositions
by moeidheidari | 2026-01-10 16:39:21+00:00
Hey HN
We built CrossView because after managing dozens of Crossplane compositions across multiple clusters, kubectl get + mental graphing just wasn't cutting it anymore.v3.2.0 brings real-time updates (informers + websockets), multi-cluster switching, interactive composition → managed → claim graphs, dark mode, SSO, and stays strictly read-only for production safety.Deploys via Helm in ~2 minutes.Would love honest feedback especially on:
UX when dealing with very large/messy compositions
Missing Crossplane edge cases you run into
Any perf issues at scale
Repo + quickstart: https://github.com/corpobit/crossview
by kstrauser | 2026-01-10 16:39:51+00:00
When we lived in a more rural area, and I drove my kids to school each morning (in a normal-sized sedan), I taught them to notice the contents of the SUVs they saw. The common pattern, like 90% of the time in the morning, was a lady driver in a spotless SUV with a kid in the very back row of seats.

And the demographics made sense: you’d expect to see more moms dropping off kids, at least in redder parts of the country, and the back row is supposed safest (as long as you only plan on getting into head-on collisions). Still, the common theme of a ridiculous vehicle with exactly 2 occupants sitting in the farthest possible positions from each other came to be funny to us.

Those ludicrous pavement princess pieces of junk are status symbols of conspicuous consumption, and that’s it.

Now, a pickup with tool racks or lumber in the back, or covered with drywall dust, or bearing a ranch sticker? Fine. Those make perfect sense. Anything short of that is just bragging about how much you love donating to Exxon, like an NRA sticker but dumber.
by avalys | 2026-01-10 16:39:59+00:00
All we can do is share anecdotes here, but I have found ChatGPT to be confidently incorrect about important details in nearly every question I ask about a complex topic.

Legal questions, question about AWS services, products I want to buy, the history a specific field, so many things.

It gives answers that do a really good job of simulating what a person who knows the topic would say. But details are wrong everywhere, often in ways that completely change the relevant conclusion.
by aziaziazi | 2026-01-10 16:40:10+00:00
That’s fair if you only account for usage emission. The compared tanks weight 2/3x as much (more ressources to extract, manufacture, transport…) and are made of intricate polymers, composites, wires & electronics… event the metal alloys are very technical (saving them to weight even more) and can’t be recycled into newer car. Old cars are mainly… steel.
by nephihaha | 2026-01-10 16:40:10+00:00
My perspective is from Scotland, and what annoys me is the vanilla press continually going to the Copenhagen government and even the Danish royal family for quotes. Greenland is a Danish colony/overseas territory (delete according to view), and I'd prefer to hear from Greenlanders. I'm sure the average Dane rarely thinks about Greenland, or didn't until recently. (Much like most British never thought about the Falkland Islands until Argentina invaded.)

We had a similar scenario during the Scottish independence referendum with the international media going to London to talk about the matter.

As for the Manifest Destiny thing, maybe I'm wrong here, but I'm thinking more Monroe Doctrine. Manifest Destiny was heading westward, and grabbing Greenland, or even Venezuela, seems more aimed at those who would influence them from outside the Americas.
by jeffbee | 2026-01-10 16:40:13+00:00
I think the article is a bit of a Rorschach diagram that tells us about each reader's perspective and relatively less about the author. If you're a pessimist this article is repulsive. Woowoo spiritualists will see it as an affirmation of their universal belief. Me? I agree with your take. I read it as a long-form boomer "#blessed". To a modern reader it makes the author, who had these experiences during a time of great slack and abundance, seem clueless.
by bee_rider | 2026-01-10 16:40:40+00:00
If I told someone to just make changes and don’t provide any commentary, I would not be that surprised to get mystery changes. I’d say that was my fault to a large extent. I’d also consider that I was being a bit rude, and probably got what I deserved.

But this is not a normal human interaction. I probably wouldn’t give somebody a “no feedback” rule, and if I was on the receiving end of such a request I would definitely want to clarify what they meant. Without the ability to negotiate or push-back, the bot is in a very tough position.
by edmundsauto | 2026-01-10 16:40:41+00:00
My guess is the subscription plans provide a way of controlling the base load better, because of how the "session duration" and token quota per session and week work. People can get tremendous value, but a lot of that value is only available at night (theoretically when their GPUs are most likely to have less contention). So it's kind of a pricing strategy around their excess capacity. (For comparison, when first announced, AWS spot instances were like 10x cheaper than reserved.)
by hn8726 | 2026-01-10 16:40:42+00:00
> to fit two motorcycles in the back of the Ranger, you need to adjust the angle of the handlebars awkwardly to fit both on the bed.

can't you position one bike facing forward and one facing back, so the handlebars don't collide? Either way, going with an absurdly big and dangerous car to avoid _awkwardly positioning_ some cargo is pretty American thing to do
by rsyring | 2026-01-10 16:41:09+00:00
I've been running a Linux desktop for about 13 years. There are still "moments" where you have to work on it and it can be more opaque than Windows/Mac. But you have the control to do what you need to do, which is one huge factor for me in Linux's favor.

I moved my immediate and mostly non-tech family to all run Linux including an aging relative who needed a locked-down Firefox install to keep her from falling victim to predatory sites and extensions. Pretty easy to script the entirety of the OS install and lockdown so that it was documented and repeatable. Can't do that without techie roots but I love that it's possible and mostly straightforward from a scripting perspective. It's almost exclusively get the right file with the right config in the right place and restart a service.

The only major day-to-day downside IMO is battery life on Linux laptops. Can't compare to current generation of Macs but that's true for Windows too.
by UltraSane | 2026-01-10 16:41:14+00:00
I got it for $75 a month for two years. Visual clarity is incredible and monitor replacement level but comfort is meh so I bought studioform creative head strap which helped a lot. You can use Virtual Desktop to connect to any computer easily.

I'm a sysadmin so I bought it to see if it would work when I want to ssh into systems I'm physically near in racks. It has worked really well for this.
by hearsathought | 2026-01-10 16:41:59+00:00
The big difference is the falkland islands are populated by brits loyal to britain whereas Greenland is populated by greenlanders who hate denmark because the danes committed many acts of genocide against greenlanders.

> I think most Americans are much more mobile and not used to the idea that someone could be strongly attached to an area as their home.

You think the people in the falklands are "native" to the falkland islands?
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-10 16:42:00+00:00
Yes, I guess I'm biased by living in a Westminster system (which isn't perfect, I'd prefer Germany's structure like you say, but) I think you're entirely right that the American republic system is just broken. I think we'll look back on it in 100 years as an absolutely awful way to run government because it effectively created an "elected" "king" role and gave them real powers -- and then let that king get more and more powers over 100 years until, effectively, they have a rotating (for now) despot.

The Westminster system "solves" this problem by having an actual king but giving them zero powers. The German system I think you're right is superior. Ireland also seems to have a nice system.

Americans are very enamoured with their constitution, and it has some good words in it. Too bad they don't seem like they want to actually defend it with the real source of power .. which is not words, or "well-armed militias" [almost always the wrong kind], but feet in the street.

And that's not even getting into the complete and total dysfunction of their two party structure.
Show HN: Are premium domains ever worth it? A technical deep dive
by alexcloudstar | 2026-01-10 16:42:22+00:00
Hi HN, I recently bought a premium domain while working on a small product and realized there’s a lot of confusion around what “premium” actually means at the registry and infrastructure level.

I wrote a technical breakdown covering things like registry pricing vs aftermarket, renewal structures, DNS (no magic there), email deliverability, and when paying more actually removes real product friction.

This isn’t about branding or SEO tricks. It’s more about treating domains as long-term infrastructure decisions.

Would genuinely love to hear how others here think about premium domains, especially around renewals and lock-in.
by jiehong | 2026-01-10 16:42:33+00:00
This might work through a LSP server?

It’s not exactly the intended use case, but it could be coerced to do that.

I’ve seen something else like that, though: voice transcription software that have access to the context the text is in, and can interact with it and modify it.

Like how some people use super whisper modes [0] to do some actions with their voice in any app.

It works because you can say "rewrite this text, and answer the questions it asks", and the dictation app first transcribes this to text, extract the whole text from the focused app, send both to an AI Model, get an answer back and paste the output.

[0]: https://superwhisper.com/docs/common-issues/context
by arach | 2026-01-10 16:42:38+00:00
nice, next step is to write a custom function that derives a useful but repeatable message from the hooks and put a little cache in front the Eleven Labs message gen. For example: "In {Project}, Claude needs your permission to run {command}"

That way you can stay comfortably in the free plan with awesome voice messages

I have a different voice for my laptop compared to my main computer and can also pick per project
by keernan | 2026-01-10 16:42:42+00:00
>>The government gets a percentage of your income, this is the agreement that everyone makes.

Forgive me if I do not accept the proposition that the non-wealthy had equal influence in the decision how to fund the government. The wealthy decided 'wages earned' would be the determining factor to fund the government, not wealth. I guess I would have done the same if I had so much wealth I didn't need to earn a wage.

However it is accomplished, all citizens should share the same impact on their lives ( wealth being the best approximation I can think of ) in contributing to the annual cost of funding the government.

Put another way: it is immoral for the wealthiest and most powerful in society to shift the burden of paying for government away from themselves and onto the rest of society.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-10 16:42:53+00:00
You do this by standardizing interconnection at both the physical and protocol levels, and leave everything else alone. Then you allow both to evolve at a reasonable rate (maybe 10 years for the physical interconnects, maybe less for protocol since back compat is much easier there).

This leaves people free to tweak form factors, energy efficiency, system capacities etc. etc.

We don't need to care about the final results ("small medium large"), we need to care that you can connect things together (which also means "replace one component with another"). Same for automobiles and most other consumer technology products.
by rngfnby | 2026-01-10 16:43:13+00:00
The ranger has a tow rating of 7500 lb.

The gross vehicle weight (ie the max vehicle weight with the heifers, obviously stuffies) of the C15 is 1500 kg (hence the name) or 3300 lb.

Uhaul rents a car tow trailer rated for 5000 lb that weighs 2200 lb [1].

The Ranger, then, can tow the C-15 + the heifers = 5500 lb and have 2000 lb left over to put two real heifers, and do this legally at 70mph.

Citroen makes great vehicles though. Amazing off roaders.

[1] https://www.uhaul.com/Trailers/Auto-Transport-Rental/AT/
by raxxorraxor | 2026-01-10 16:43:31+00:00
To be honest, I think this argument is FUD as well. There are some Russian accounts and there is disinformation, but this isn't the core of polarization in western democracies and Europe in particualr. And reigning in free speech is even poison in this situation, which is more complex than pointing your finger at bots.

In Europe freedom of speech is under threat from its own population, which is more and more driven by fear. This fear might not be unreasonable and has multiple sources, but it remains a bad basis for decision or policy making.
by devwastaken | 2026-01-10 16:43:37+00:00
The woman is one of the worst examples of people you could have chosen. her kid (singular) was taken away because their lesbian partner physically abuses the kid. She was left out of her ex husbands funeral because she was crazy and a danger.

She was there to intentionally instigate ice. it was planned, she planned to try to run them over with her car and would have been successfull if it went her way.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-10 16:43:46+00:00
You are purposefully obtuse and I'm not sure what joy you derive from it but just to take your silly strawmen:

Laptops for the most part are put together from standardized parts and you can exchange the major ones (CPU, RAM, storage and often even the displays) from one brand to another and it will work. And if you go to desktop computers the range of parts that can be swapped out between manufacturers increases even further (power supplies, graphics cards, etc).

The 'highly optimized MacBook Pro' is as closed as apple can make it because they are trying to emulate car manufacturers, including 'model years'.

As for OS types, we have a basic common denominator, the boot environment and some abstractions which allow us to run a wide variety of operating systems on the same hardware.

And on that hardware you can run applications, which either talk to the OS directly using a standardized interface and there usually are a number of emulation options and VMs that allow you to run other operating systems and/or their applications, usually with some penalty but for the most part it works.

CNC machines use a lot of standardized tooling (I had a machine shop at some point, founded a CNC machine company, and I think I'm still in touch enough with this domain to be able to do it again if I want to today). Sure, you can't pull a board from one machine and stick it in another, but the G-code they use is for the most part backwards compatible to 1966 or so and it isn't rare at all to see a machine upgraded to the latest controllers and motors but keeping the frame, tooling and such.

Cars are over optimized to the point that the cost to society (in terms of landfill and recycling) is immense, there is most likely a point where a better balance between up front profits and cost to society can be found.
by tazjin | 2026-01-10 16:43:48+00:00
I'm not in the US.

I spent some time on Google Maps, and the furthest spot I managed to find from a town was about 35km. Note that I didn't say anything about supermarkets - this is a thread about car reliability, so the context is how far you can be from a town where it's reasonable to expect that someone can help you with your car.
by maximus-decimus | 2026-01-10 16:43:56+00:00
Even grocery stores fit your definition of scalpers.

But this is even more different because they don't even sell the housing to you, they rent it to you. The service they offer is that you don't have to have capital to buy a house and you don't have to maintain it and if you move, you don't have to sell it and pay sales taxes.
by al_borland | 2026-01-10 16:44:19+00:00
DarkSky seemed to have their own weather service (not sure the source data), but they had their own API that other apps used. Apple shut the API down after a couple years. This meant the death of the DarkSky website and the old apps.

Apple says they use data from the weather channel, but this varies based on country. It used to say right in the app, but it seems like they removed that in favor of this link:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105038
by utyagi | 2026-01-10 16:44:29+00:00
I’ve noticed a recurring frustration during review cycles: “I’ve been here X years—why am I not promoted?”
From the leadership side, time in role rarely drives promotion decisions. Sustained impact and readiness do.
Sharing a short piece on why growth comes before titles, and how this plays out in real organizations.
https://thinkandgrow.substack.com/p/why-time-in-role-doesnt-...
by perihelions | 2026-01-10 16:44:40+00:00
In the context of the instant "debate", this is missing the mark. The moral question isn't what happened hundreds of years ago to dead people; it's what do living people want (as is their right to self-determine), and the polls are 85% against 6% in the "we don't want to be Americans" direction. (I infer "Ameerikkamiuunianngilagut" is their word for that?)

https://www.reuters.com/world/poll-shows-85-greenlanders-do-... ("Greenlanders overwhelmingly oppose becoming part of the United States, poll shows" / "only 6% of Greenlanders are in favour of their island becoming part of the U.S.")

Here's a joint statement from yesterday by every major political party in Greenland speaking in unison, which you can't post on HN because it offends Americans and they flag these things on sight, though they desire to own the people who are speaking. ("The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice (214 comments) is, of course, welcomed). You're invited to translate it for yourself, as they have pointedly not released official statements in English, which is not and never has been their language.

https://siumut.gl/inuiattut-ataatsimoorpugut/ (Greenlandic)

https://dk.siumut.gl/vi-star-sammen-som-et-folk/ (Danish)

> "Ameerikkamiuunianngilagut, qallunaajunianngilagut, Kalaaliuniarpugut."
by npilk | 2026-01-10 16:44:42+00:00
I'm pretty sure you can still open that fridge by hand. The design is the same as many existing Samsung fridges - there are no visible handles, but you open and close the doors with handles under the bottom or over the top of the doors.

Still not a winner for me, but not as ludicrously dumb as only being able to open the doors with your voice would be.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-10 16:44:46+00:00
Monroe Doctrine I think has always been considered to apply to Latin America. But probably mainly because the US has almost always (in the 20th century) had a subservient "partner" here in Canada.

But we were invaded (twice) here in Canada (or what became Canada) by the US. The only people to have ever invaded us. And when they did so, their leaders at the time were definitely flying the Manifest Destiny rhetoric. So much so they could not even imagine why the Quebecois and others didn't just welcome them with open arms.

So, no, I think it definitely applies northward too, not just westward. Or at least some of the ideological underpinnings of it.
by layer8 | 2026-01-10 16:44:53+00:00
I don’t think this was particularly modeled on MS Word. The incremental update feature was introduced with PDF 1.2 in 1996. It allows to quickly save changes without having to rewrite the whole file, for example when annotating a PDF. It’s also essential for PDF signatures, since when you add a subsequent signature to a PDF, you couldn’t rewrite the file without breaking previous signatures. Hence signatures are appended as incremental updates.
by saubeidl | 2026-01-10 16:45:20+00:00
I think the solution is to elect a commission of experts to be deciding this. Term limits. Separate independent institution from the government - no meddling.

Critical thinking even in those capable of it is a limited resource. I can't spend all day every day critically examining every single statement the internet flings at me - it's mentally exhausting and wears one down.

Let's elect proxies to do it for us.