MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-06 11:17:29+00:00
> The EU is also not interested in strengthening the domestic software market by engaging in selective protectionism like the Chinese, because of the extensive lobbying by foreign and domestic actors which are the incumbents and see no interest in a competitive and dynamic environment which would destroy them.

They don't need to though, just require all government software to be released under a free software license, with limited exceptions for national security. The US does very well in software, so the EU should commoditise their complement and focus on free software services. This is both cheaper than the current services, and produces lots of employment for EU based tech people (probably at less money though, unfortunately).

This is basically what China is doing with their open weights models.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-06 11:17:55+00:00
https://theonion.com/proposed-bill-would-bring-4-000-troops-...

Regardless of what happens, it is not the case that insider trading isn't illegal for members of Congress, except for some technicalities:

- The act of 2012 does not purport to make insider trading by congressmen illegal. Rather, it purports to make explicit that insider trading by congressmen was illegal before it was passed.

- Insider trading isn't illegal for anyone, in the particular sense that there is no law making it a crime (or any other kind of violation). It exists purely as a construct of the SEC's interpretation of a law that doesn't mention it.
by ptx | 2026-01-06 11:18:42+00:00
Wait a minute...

> with the rise of [...] microservices, apps were becoming [...] too complex for any individual to fully understand.

But wasn't the idea of microservices that these services would be developed and deployed independently and owned by different teams? Building a single app out of multiple microservices and expecting a single individual to debug it sounds like holding it wrong, which then requires this distributed tracing solution to fix it.
by felipeerias | 2026-01-06 11:19:21+00:00
The adoption of AI tools for software development will probably not result in sudden layoffs but rather on harder to measure changes, like smaller teams being able to tackle significantly more ambitious projects than before.

I suspect that another kind of impact is already happening in organisations where AI adoption is uneven: suddenly some employees appear to be having a lot more leisure time while apparently keeping the same productivity as before.
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-06 11:19:30+00:00
The time savings with AI coding tools aren't linear - they're heavily context-dependent.

For me, the biggest wins come from tasks where I know exactly what I want but would normally spend time on boilerplate or syntax lookup. Wiring up API endpoints, writing test scaffolding, formatting data transformations - stuff that's tedious but not intellectually hard.

Where it gets weird is when I'm exploring a problem space. The AI confidently suggests solutions that look plausible but have subtle issues. Debugging those can eat up all the time saved and then some, because you're now debugging code you didn't fully write or understand.

The mental overhead of constantly evaluating AI output - is this correct? is this the approach I'd have taken? - is real and under-discussed. Sometimes it's faster to just write the thing myself than to prompt, review, correct, re-prompt.
by defrost | 2026-01-06 11:19:57+00:00
Not bad, but practically have you seen the underside of many trains?

The spit up of grease, leaves, metal particulate from rail and wheel grind, etc gets pretty thick.

The vision challenge is to cheaply and effectively keep a clean lens.

There's a similar challenge in monitoring production conveyor belts in mineral processing - vibration, tempreture, rocks kick about, dust make for a savage environment.
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-06 11:20:03+00:00
The communication gap this solves is real. I've been on both sides - as a dev explaining what "refactoring the auth flow" means to stakeholders, and as a founder trying to translate technical progress into investor updates.

One thing worth noting: commit messages and PR titles are often written for other devs, not for business context. "Fix race condition in checkout" tells you nothing about customer impact. The quality of output from tools like this depends heavily on whether your team writes decent commit messages in the first place.

For small teams where the founder actually understands the product deeply, I've found a weekly 15-minute sync more valuable than automated reports. But I can see this being useful at the scale where you can't have those conversations with everyone.
by sophielane | 2026-01-06 11:20:37+00:00
In today’s fast‑paced software landscape, delivering high‑quality applications quickly is more important than ever. Test automation plays a crucial role in streamlining repetitive and time‑consuming test cases, improving accuracy, and accelerating release cycles. At its core, test automation uses specialized tools and frameworks to execute predefined tests automatically—freeing teams from manual efforts and helping them catch bugs earlier in the development process. This not only enhances test coverage and consistency but also enables continuous integration and delivery, making it a foundational practice in modern DevOps workflows.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-06 11:20:50+00:00
> To be fair to Ireland and history they have a valid complaint going back centuries wrt outsiders taking their lands, language, governance, food and labour all while debating "the Irish Question" and reaching for eugenic "solutions".

Odd then, that they didn't notice when this happened post GFC when basically all of the land banks and large assets were sold off to (predominantly) US based private equity funds.

And honestly, Irish anti-immigration sentiment is far more driven by both our complete failures at building infrastructure for a growing population (which we've never had before) and the fact that all refugees are housed in poor areas (which already had much worse services).

But it's very important that no residents of South Dublin should be inconvenienced, even at the cost of our society.
by ncruces | 2026-01-06 11:20:52+00:00
I follow at least one GitHub repo (a well respected one that's made the HN front page), and where everything is now Claude coded. Things do move fast, but I'm seriously under impressed with the quality. I've raised a few concerns, some were taken in, others seem to have been shut down with an explanation Claude produced that makes no sense, but which is taken at face value.

This matches my personal experience. I was asked to help with a large Swift iOS app without knowing Swift. Had access to a frontier agent. I was able to consistently knock a couple of tickets per week for about a month until the fire was out and the actual team could take over. Code review by the owners means the result isn't terrible, but it's not great either. I leave the experience none the wiser: gained very little knowledge of Swift, iOS development or the project. Management was happy with the productivity boost.

I think it's fleeting and dread a time where most code is produced that way with the humans accumulating very little institutional knowledge and not knowing enough to properly review things.
by rkangel | 2026-01-06 11:21:04+00:00
Possibly. It's the only way it actually works though, because of the Peter Priciple.

Imagine the other way - you have peopel dong a role, and the people who do the best job at that role get promoted to the next one. Some of them will be good and the new role, some of them won't. The ones who are good will carry on getting promoted. The ones who aren't will get stuck in that role. The problem is that everyone rises to a point at which they can't do the job, and every role is filled by someone who has been promoted one step too far.

In a healthy structure, it should be a halfway house - you shouldn't have to be doing the whole job that you're trying to get promoted to, you should be doing enough bits and pieces of it that you demonstrate that you CAN do it. That way the company has information that they're not promoting you to a position of incompetence.
by everdrive | 2026-01-06 11:21:39+00:00
Mobile phones are baffling to me. I heard a story recently that the Venezuelan government is stopping people on the street and inspecting mobile phones for dissident content. In such an environment, why are people relying on phones for anything? Why trust it at all? This stupid device _could_ get you taken to prison for merely having the wrong ideas, but you've still _just got to_ use it! I'm starting to think that if mobile phones gave parents' children rapid, aggressive brain cancer, all anyone would be talking about is "regulation" and "minimizing usage."

And I know someone's going to say "not using a phone might look _more_ suspicious!" I suppose but the needle does need to turn at some point, right? This risk was pretty easily foreseeable. If you got arrested for what was found on your phone during an arrest would you ever look at the device the same way again? In 5 years, would you be using it for meaningful or private communication whatsoever?
by avianlyric | 2026-01-06 11:22:01+00:00
100%, but smoke screen is over selling it. From the article

> The project is being carried out in collaboration with Transport for London, QinetiQ, PA Consulting, Imperial College London and University of Sussex.

QinetiQ is a UK weapons developer, probably the UKs largest. So the defence angle isn’t really being hidden.

Older articles on this project from elsewhere outline the defence angle even more explicitly:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/15/lond...

But IanVisits is a transport focused blog, so the article has a transport focus, rather than a defence focus.

As to why any of this is happening on the underground, that’s pretty simple. Tube trains are a good real world test bed for this technology. Shove your quantum box on an existing train, drive it through the existing tunnels a few times as part of a normal tube service. Compare the run result and validate how accurate your technology is.

It’s a lot cheaper than putting it on a boat or a submarine. Not to mention Imperial College London is based in… London. They’re literally a five minute walk from a tube station.
by minitech | 2026-01-06 11:22:11+00:00
You’ve misrepresented or ignored all of my arguments, which are fairly complete as written. You can reformat them into a table for your personal use if it helps; I haven’t seen evidence that continuing into “an actual discussion” with you on this would have any value. (“It's 2025, dude. You can't be seriously telling me how difficult it is to parse arguments.” was a bad start, and while I’m on it: wrong and right, respectively.)
Show HN: SummonAI Kit – One CLI to rule your .claude/ folder
by viktorb01 | 2026-01-06 11:22:32+00:00
For months I wandered the wilderness like Frodo without a map. Every Claude Code session began with the same ritual — re-explaining my stack, my patterns, my conventions. Context lost to the void.
I thought this was the way. I was a fool of a Took.

Started handcrafting skills and agents manually. 40+ hours of writing markdown scrolls. Mass trial and error — what structure works, what Claude actually reads, what gets ignored. It worked — Claude transformed from "helpful tavern stranger" to a wizard who actually knew the realm.

Then I thought: why am I forging this ring by hand every time?

Built a CLI that scans your codebase and summons the entire .claude/ structure:

CLAUDE.md — your project's sacred text

/skills/ — deep lore for your stack (React patterns, API conventions, DB schemas)

/agents/ — your fellowship (debugger who tracks bugs to their lair, reviewer who enforces your guild's conventions)

Important bit: the outputs are generated, but they're built on top of handcrafted prompts, skill templates, and agent structures that took weeks of iteration to get right. Not just "throw your codebase at an LLM and pray." The scaffolding is battle-tested — the CLI customizes it to your specific project.
It reads your package.json, tsconfig, actual source files, folder structure — then generates context specific to YOUR project.

Not generic boilerplate from the Mines of Moria.

On the toll: $99 one-time, limited launch price — goes up once this window closes. I know HN has thoughts on paid tools — speaking friend and entering upfront. Solo dev here, mass time invested. The 40+ hours of trial and error I went through? You skip all of it.

Anyone else deep in the skills/agents rabbit hole? Curious what setups the council is using.
by nishilpatel | 2026-01-06 11:23:00+00:00
Recent reports suggest China has completed a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine — a milestone long thought years away — as part of a concentrated state-led effort in Shenzhen. The system reportedly generates EUV light but hasn’t yet produced working chips, and advanced lithography remains dominated by ASML’s commercial machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiCarrier?utm_source=chatgpt.c...
by netsharc | 2026-01-06 11:23:18+00:00
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-...

The 40 minutes of the presentation before the hack gives a lot more context: there are 2 journalists in addition to this anonymous pink Power Ranger, and they investigated the Nazi network, which is international. And Martha Root (the pink power ranger) was trolling them by creating an account and using LLM. The LLM didn't work properly, the account was blocked for suspicions of being a bot (and maybe for having "= 1 OR 1" as eg. gender), she talked her way out of it, and incredibly the admin that unblocked her asked if she wanted to meet up with him, and the site's founder. She said yes, didn't show up, but used that opportunity to covertly follow them and uncover the founder's identity - the journalists found that it's a 57-year old lady who's never been known in the scene, who was married to a French banker whose parents survived the holocaust, but in the last decade fell into the rabbit hole of white-victimization-theory.
by mattacular | 2026-01-06 11:23:36+00:00
The AirBNB JS style guide is kind of like a relic in time from the transition to ES6 etc. Leave it in the past. Their only argument for not supporting eg. "for-of" is because of "legacy" browsers not supporting it. Maybe a salient argument at the time of writing (these issue threads are nearly 10 years ago), but certainly not today.
by modo_mario | 2026-01-06 11:24:25+00:00
>His whole argument is extremely solid. I am sorry.

His argument implies it is because of these parties when again. It's countries where they are not in power leading this charge and this started well before the increase in popularity of said parties.

Meanwhile these parties typically vote against.

>get in power and do the complete opposite of everything they had promised, then

I even acknowledge that in the next sentence.
by RockstarSprain | 2026-01-06 11:24:37+00:00
A few interesting quotes about (unaudited) financials:

> According to previously unreported half-year disclosures, Telegram had $910mn in cash and cash equivalents at June 30, up from $142mn a year prior.

> Telegram’s revenues in the first half of 2025 jumped more than 65 per cent to $870mn, compared with $525mn in the same period the previous year.

> Nearly a third of Telegram’s revenue — or $300mn — came from so-called exclusivity agreements (probably related to the toncoin cryptocurrency)

> Advertising revenue was up 5 per cent to $125mn in the first half of the year. Meanwhile, premium subscriptions jumped 88 per cent to $223mn, compared with $119mn in the same period in 2024 as the number of paying users rose.

Is it me or the remaining 25% of the revenue sources (222mn of 910mn) are not detailed at all?
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-06 11:26:05+00:00
It’s rapidly declining as the world reserve. Thats part of the over 10% decline in the value of the dollar last year (it still amazes me that those prattling on about the rise in the S&P last year dont realize that of the 16% increase, over 10% was eaten up by the USD falling, so the real increase was closer to 6% which is remarkably average if not below average, when considering higher than normal inflation).

The other part that Americans aren’t seeing coming is a reduction in the reduced willingness of the rest of rhe world to finance American debt. The last few rounds have seen a much higher percentage of corporate debt purchases as opposed to sovereign purchases. Which is fine for now, but if a slowdown hits, corporate purchases of U.S. debt will reduce in a way sovereign purchases never did (in fact those tend to increase).

That would severely impact the ability of the Fed to goose a slowing economy by lowering interest rates.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-06 11:26:08+00:00
I can't say I've noticed any "nudges" to use AI tools in VS Code. I saw a prompt for Copilot but I closed it, and it hasn't been back.

I'm probably barely scratching the surface of what I can do with it, but as a code editor it works well and it's the first time I've ever actually found code completion that seems to work well with the way I think. There aren't any formatters for a couple of the languages I use on a daily basis but that's a Me Problem - the overlap between IDE users of any sort and assembly programmers is probably quite small.

Are there any MS-branded features I should care about positively or negatively?
by Kon5ole | 2026-01-06 11:27:32+00:00
I agree that it is probably impossible to maintain the economy around selling copies of a work when those copies are practically free, but making your works actually free in the current business models is giving up too soon.

There needs to be a transition from making money from unit sales to something else, and until that's sorted out I think having piracy being at least stigmatized for being wrong makes sense.

I think it's important for a creator to ensure that the experience for those who want to pay is as good as possible. Apart from that I don't think any amount of worry will help very much.
by walmsles | 2026-01-06 11:27:32+00:00
Hi HN, I built this because MCP servers run with full user permissions — they can see your SSH keys, AWS credentials, everything.

Most people just copy configs from READMEs and hope for the best. I wanted container isolation without the Docker complexity.

One config change: "uvx" becomes "run-mcp", args: ["uvx", ...]. Full isolation, no Docker knowledge needed.

Blog post with more details: https://serverlessdna.com/strands/projects/introducing-run-m...

Happy to answer questions.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-06 11:28:58+00:00
> ... 10 years ago people would've laughed if you talked about leaving Microsoft and iOS in enterprise. Now we all have contingency plans for just that, ...

If, at long last, Trump doing insane things can help get rid of that piece of undescribable turd that Windows is in the EU, please just please Trump: go take the Groenland.

As an EU citizen I'm gladly giving Groenland up (even if it's not in the EU but belongs to Denmark which is, itself, in the EU) if in exchange I don't ever have to see a computer running Windows ever again in Europe.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-01-06 11:29:09+00:00
By "controlled" I had something else in mind than what you seem to insinuate, namely that the yearly immigration rate must roughly match the desired long-term population stability. For a reasonable immigration system, you need to welcome the immigrants you want to get, provide a long-term perspective, and offer some incentives for them to come. Unlike the US, European countries have often failed at that basic job, or at least their immigration politics have been erratic and without constancy. Phrases like "a stance hard enough" are a symptom of the problem.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-01-06 11:29:18+00:00
> There is a saying about how us citizens trust companies but not their government, and how Europeans trust their governments but not their companies. Which obviously doesn't apply to everyone, but it's how you can view the EU.

I would rather say for quite a lot of people in Germany it's that they neither trust the Federal Government nor the EU government nor the US-American tech companies.
by akhnid | 2026-01-06 11:29:50+00:00
Good point on commit message quality.
We've addressed this partly by design, every event gets normalized into a standard schema: message, description, author, timestamp, files changed, PR state.

The AI reasons over structured data, not just raw commit messages. PR descriptions especially help. Most devs write oneline commits but actually explain context in the PR body. We capture that.

Still, teams with good commit hygiene get better output. No way around it.

Appreciate the thoughtful take.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-06 11:30:04+00:00
It depends on whether you just want to get your data out of the grasp of US companies or whether you want to go full retar...uhh, purist and remove any software from any US company just because of its origins. I run local installs of US-produced software but don't store or host anything useful to the USG on US services or servers. The few things I do have there, e.g. Github, aren't of much consequence, it's public code not PII.
by avianlyric | 2026-01-06 11:30:09+00:00
> so I wonder if the tube stuff is just a weak public cover for the military/civil emergency applications that make the technology actually interesting.

The project is quite explicitly a defence project. IanVisits is just a transport blog, so the article focus on the transport aspect of this project. But reporting else where makes it quite clear this a defence project.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/15/lond...

The only reasons for the Tube being involved is as a test bed for the technology. It’s cheaper to put this box on a train and test it, than it is to put it on a boat or a submarine. It’s also handy that the researchers involved are based in London, so the commute to their test bed is nice and short.
by netsharc | 2026-01-06 11:31:41+00:00
Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman was also in the area, 20 odd years ago, when they did a montorbike trip from London to New York, "The Long Way Round" (Crossing Europe, Mongolia, Russia, Canada and USA): https://youtu.be/6kajsHTy3hA

Man, looking at the map it feels like one of the last wild place on earth. I was wondering if this shipyard is on the Arctic Coast, but not really. If it were, it'll be relevant in the near near future. At the moment it's connected by a river to the Arctic Ocean, it's probably booming with business.
by jpfromlondon | 2026-01-06 11:31:58+00:00
There is a product I have to use that updated its ui design some years ago, only the functionality is partially implemented and the new design has some functional elements that weren't present in the old configuration.

This has been solved with a button that switches the layout between the two designs, when I'm making changes it is sometimes necessary to flip back and forth between the two mid-change.