MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MoltenMan | 2026-01-24 23:11:09+00:00
> Right, so the solution is to silently upload their encryption keys to Microsoft's servers without telling them? If users don't understand encryption, they certainly don't understand they've just handed their keys to a third party subject to government data requests.

What exactly are you hoping Windows does here? Anyone who knows anything about Bitlocker knows Microsoft has the keys (that's where you get the key when you need it, which I have needed it many times because I dual boot!) Microsoft could put a big screen on install saying 'we have your encryption keys!' — would this change literally anything? They would need to also explain what that means and what bitlocker is. And then after all of that, the only people who are going to decide 'actually I want to set up FDE myself' are going to be the technical people who already knew all of this already! This is just a non-issue.

> This is such transparent fear-mongering. How often does this actually happen versus how often are cloud providers breached or served with legal requests? You're solving a hypothetical edge case by creating an actual security vulnerability.

This is not fear mongering at all! The nice thing about Bitlocker is that you don't need to put in your key 99% of the time (and in fact 99% of Windows users — who are not technical! — don't even know they have Bitlocker). But occasionally you do need to put it in. Once or twice I've booted to the bitlocker screen and I actually don't even know why. Maybe my TPM got wiped somehow? Maybe my computer shut down in a really weird way? But it happens enough that it's clearly necessary! That big Crowdstrike screwup a year ago; one of the ways to fix it required having your Bitlocker key!

> Encryption by default and cloud key escrow are separate decisions. You can have one without the other. The fact that Microsoft chose both doesn't make the second one necessary, it makes it convenient for Microsoft.

Again, this is not true for a product like Windows where 99% of users are not technical. Remember, Bitlocker does not require your key on startup the vast majority the time! However, there is a chance that you will need the key at some point or you will be locked out of you data permanently. Where should Microsoft give the user the key? Should they say on install 'hey, write this down and don't lose it!' Any solution relying on the user is obviously a recipe for disaster. But again, let me remind you that encryption by default is important because you don't want any old random laptop thief to get access to your chrome account! So yes, I think Microsoft made the best and only choice here.
by dijit | 2026-01-24 23:11:14+00:00
before anyone jumps on the pedantry bandwagon, its worth noting that even though open war hasn’t been called: the attacks on infrastructure especially cyber warfare is extremely active and, crucially, direct.

It is totally fair to say that in a digital context, Russia is absolutely at war with Europe.

As far as I can tell, they don’t even try to hide it.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-24 23:11:36+00:00
A really bad platitude can be "let me know if I can help, somehow!" and then leaving it at that.

Well, your friend/acquaintance may not know how you can best help. Yes, if it's a widower who lost a home-maker wife, he may need help fixing meals or cleaning house or doing laundry. Vice versa for a woman who's lost her husband.

But if you don't fill them in on how you can help and the things you are good at doing they will not know how or when to ask you. And then you will not end up helping.

Be concrete and specific when you offer help. You could make a list of three things to do. Then present your list as a menu of choices. Or "D", something different.

Be concrete about your boundaries and schedules. Don't let them get carried away with using your services. Tell them you can give them a ride once a week to essential errands, for example. It is sometimes most helpful if there are multiple people pitching in.

Really, long-term, if I were in need, I'd want to go to a professional agency for most things. A professional meal-prep service, housekeeping agency, home care agency that sends licensed and bonded pros. My volunteering friends and neighbors are well-intentioned, but this can be fraught with difficulty if they are not good, or not-so-well-intentioned after all.

Many people will swoop in to take advantage of people who are perceived to be vulnerable, grieving, and willing to accept help. That's why some of us are skeptical.
by scarecrowbob | 2026-01-24 23:12:28+00:00
Fair enough to be angry, for sure. I am lucky enough to have found a therapist a couple of weeks ago, mostly quit drinking, and ceasing FB doom scrolling.

It's hard.

If it helps, there are plenty of folks doing work. Specifically, get trained by whoever your local rapid response network is. That will put you in contact with actual humans in your local who are in similar situations- for me that has bein invaluable.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-24 23:12:59+00:00
> The writing style sounds more like a tech bro describing some weekend conquest, and is wholly unappealing to most of the space industry (or at least the ones with decision making authority). Your CMGs were “locked in,” several times you “nailed it,” and so on.

This is on the company blog. It ends with a call to action to either subscribe to their mailing list or explore their careers page.

It has the right tone for the goal. Tone policing isn’t helpful. The authors are even here answering questions which is very nice of them.
by efortis | 2026-01-24 23:12:59+00:00
Since this works

const style = document.createElement('style')
style.textContent = `* { font-family: Arial }`
document.head.appendChild(style)

I'd say the `data:` URL of the font is violating the Content-Security-Policy, which should show an error in the Console.

Their CSP has `default-src 'self'` and has no font-src, so font-src is 'self' too (it would need `data:` as well)
by ascorbic | 2026-01-24 23:13:01+00:00
If you want a non-React solution, I made a Bluesky comments web component https://github.com/ascorbic/bluesky-comments-tag

It's very themeable. If for some reason you want your comments to look like Hacker News, there's a theme here: See the playground here: https://bluesky-comments.netlify.app/theme/
by hdgvhicv | 2026-01-24 23:13:08+00:00
As a regular user I see rail privatisation as successful.

In fact the only failure is water, as it was just privitised regional monopolies with no competition.

Electicty/gas? Tell me you’d be happy with British Gas when you aren’t allowed to use Octopus

Phone? Of course that’s a success, both mobile and also wires.

Airline? Freight?

Busses are too fragmented in regional areas, but the services tend to be better than they were under council run.
by topherhaddad | 2026-01-24 23:13:56+00:00
Ultimately it's about the ballistic coefficient. You want high mass, low cross-sectional area, and low drag coefficient (Cd). With propulsion for station-keeping, it's challenging to capture the VLEO benefits with a regular cubesat. That said, there are VLEO architectures different than Clarity that make sense for other mission areas.

Yes it's a big contributor. The atmosphere in VLEO behaves as free molecular flow instead of a continuous fluid.
by mikert89 | 2026-01-24 23:14:07+00:00
Right now, amazon is packed full of L6 and L7 software managers, making 450-900k a year, that:

1. dont understand ai

2. have had the same skill set for 10 years

3. are working on autopilot, not trying to get promoted, just collecting paychecks

4. taking zero risk, follow protocol, play politics

for the company to move forwards, they need a massive purge. 15k is childs play. too many employees that make too much money to just maintain status quo
by alephnerd | 2026-01-24 23:14:25+00:00
They're fine expanding in India.

Turns out announcing a $100k fee to distract from the Trump Gold Card announcement during the same press conference [3] leads to a reverse brain drain [0] and a $35B commitment to invest in India [1].

For example, much of AWS SageMaker's team is out of AWS India, and unofficially Amazonians on work visas are being offered transfers to India [1] while paying L6/7 [4] roughly the same as they would in Germany [5].

I warned people on HN for years to not be greedy with remote work (1-2 day hybrid is not the end of the world) and not be pissy to Americans of non-European heritage and derogatorily calling us H1Bs.

Either way those of us who took advantage of brutal raw capitalism win.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/us-loses-...

[1] - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-35-bill...

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonemployees/comments/1qfesvs/6_...

[3] - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-signs-proclamati...

[4] - https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-en...

[5] - https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-en...
by nicoburns | 2026-01-24 23:14:30+00:00
There has been some EU funding for Servo:

- The Sovereign Tech Agency (a branch of the German government) is funding Igalia ~€500,000 over two years to work on Servo (https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/servo).

- And there have been several NLnet grants (that are worth up to €50,000 each) to individuals working on Servo (NLnet gets there money from the EU).

Those aren't huge sums in the context of browser development, but they're not nothing either.
by dekhn | 2026-01-24 23:14:48+00:00
I think it's factually correct to say that none of the videos give a truly clear view of the order of events (specfically with regards to whether the protestor could possibly have wielded their gun while being restrained by agents, or whether he is disarmed by the gray-jacketed agent, or what caused the agents to fire when they did).

It might be clearer if the agents were wearing bodycam videos and that footage was released.
by randycupertino | 2026-01-24 23:14:49+00:00
I felt like they should have just written off the error and let me keep it, as by the time they realized it, it was almost a year later, and I was a high-performer who had gotten promoted twice. I left the following year for a better opportunity, but this was sort of one thing that turned me 180* from being an all-in, kool-aid drinking culture-carrier to feeling kind of bitter and shafted by them.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2026-01-24 23:15:10+00:00
“ IME "Risk 2: Distributed Monolith" always comes back to bite. You have a nice separation of concerns at first, but then a quarter later there's some new feature request that cuts across those boundaries, and you're forced into distributed monolith territory.”

In what way do microservices handle this better? When you have a feature request that cuts across service boundaries you have to coordinate multiple teams to change and deploy at the same time.
by ofalkaed | 2026-01-24 23:15:23+00:00
I did not know any of that, did not even consider if it was a vanity domain but did briefly wonder if nsl was the domain for some small country. I think the homepage does a good job of covering everything we need to know and in someways does a better job, but this posting provides a better overview for a HN submission. I included the homepage since some would probably skim the post or only read as much as they need to get the idea and miss the note at the bottom, someone would have probably posted asking where the code was.

Thanks for the background info.
by dashundchen | 2026-01-24 23:15:44+00:00
Tell me what legal rationale ICE had to detain and kidnap a 5 year old US citizen.

Tell me the legal rationale for ICE abducting an employee from a Target beating him up and dropping him off bruised and covered in blood at Walmart at miles away.

ICE has been turned into a paramilitary political
mafia to harass and harm the administrations political opponents and racial outgroups.

They've repeatedly been found in federal court to have violated the constitutional rights of citizens and non-citizens alike but Congress has shown no spine to reign in the executive which has willfully spurned these rulings.

Turn the blind eye to this at your own peril. History has shown that fascism does not stop acting only against people that you disagree with
by shoo | 2026-01-24 23:16:20+00:00
There's often a tension between efficiency (say maximising throughput, or minimising latency) and robustness (being able to cope with shortages of inputs, demand shocks, work around failures). The world got to experience a bunch of logistical examples of this around COVID-19, but there's examples everywhere. Having a whole 2nd engine on a passenger plane seems wasteful, until the first engine fails.

When attempting to apply a process optimisation perspective from supply chains or manufacturing to software delivery, one way the software delivery problem space differs is that the software delivery process isn't a process that produces a stream of identical units that are independent of each other.

Suppose we abstract the software situation, we can tell ourselves that it is a repeatable process that produces an endless stream of independent features or fixes (weighed in "story points" say) that get shipped to production. This mental model maybe works some of the time, until it doesn't.

In reality, each software change is often making a bespoke, one-off modification or addition to an existing system. Work to deliver different features or fixes are not fungible and delivering the work items may not be independent -- if changes interfere with each other by touching overlapping components in the existing system and modifying them in incompatible ways. A more realistic mental model needs to acknowledge that there's a system there, and its existing architecture and accumulated cruft may heavily constrain what can be done, and that the system is often a one-off thing that is getting changed in bespoke ways with each item of work that ships.
by andrewingram | 2026-01-24 23:16:50+00:00
Ambiguity increasingly feels like the crux of estimation. By that I mean the extent to which you have a clear idea of what needs to be done before you start the work.

I do a lot of fussy UI finesse work, which on the surface are small changes, so people are tempted to give them small estimates. But they often take a while because you’re really learning what needs to be done as you’re doing it.

On the other end of the spectrum I’ve seen tickets that are very large in terms of the magnitude of the change, but very well specified and understood — so don’t actually take that long (the biggest bottleneck seems to be the need to break down the work into reviewable units).

In the LLM age, I think the ambiguity angle is going to much more apparent, as the raw size of the change becomes even less of an input into how long it takes.
by majormajor | 2026-01-24 23:17:06+00:00
> And in that exchange, people whose success in life has been built on top of work ethic and perseverance rather than unique insight or intelligence are going to get left behind. If you accept that, you must also accept its contrapositive: people who have been left behind despite unique insights and intelligence because of a lack of work ethic will be propelled forward.

I think there's still a very high chance that someone willing to refine their AI-co-generated output 8-10+ hours a day, for days on end, will have much more success than someone who puts in 1 or 2 hours a day on it and largely takes the one of the first things from one of the first prompt attempts.

The most successful people I know are in a category you leave out: the people who will put in long hours out of being super-intrinsically-motived but are ALSO naturally gifted creatively/intelligently in some domain.
by kukkeliskuu | 2026-01-24 23:17:59+00:00
It is not unheard of to encounter a situation in enterprises where microservice architecture has been "too succesful".

There may be even 500 microservices and their number is growing rapidly. The situation might no longer be under control, sometimes even the responsibility for maintaining them is unclear or "shared". It is easier to implement a new microservice than track down who could implement something there.

I have encountered this problem several times, so I started a side project to bring such situations under control. It is still alpha, but first part -- scoping the problem -- is already pretty useful, allowing you to select, visualize and tag etc. microservices.

If anybody is interested, the code is here:

https://github.com/mikko-ahonen/arch-ascent/
by baobabmeeko | 2026-01-24 23:18:38+00:00
I built this after getting tired of copy-pasting terminal output into Claude Code. Wake records your shell sessions (commands,outputs, git context) and exposes them via MCP, so Claude can see what you've been doing.

The workflow: start a wake shell, do your normal debugging/deploys/whatever, then ask Claude about it — no context-switching to paste logs.

Written in Rust, works with zsh/bash, all data stays local in SQLite. Happy to answer questions.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-24 23:18:51+00:00
Amazon Prime Video isn't targeting the US market anymore - they made a hard pivot to India [0][1][2], and as such are primarily investing in MX Player.

[0] - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/apo...

[1] - https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/prime-video-india-growth-pa...

[2] - https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/prime-video-india-content-c...
by db48x | 2026-01-24 23:19:56+00:00
It’s still nonsense. Everyone doing FTTH is using passive optical networking (PON, or NGPON or XGPON or XGSPON or …) which actually has a line rate of 10Gbps. It then uses TDMA to give each subscriber enough time slots to send and receive at a particular speed. My ISP, Ziply Fiber, just gives every subscriber enough time slots to send at the advertised speed _after_ protocol overhead, even at gigabit and higher speeds. If you buy the 500 Mbps service it really will speed test at 500 Mbps. If you buy gigabit it really will test at 1000Mbps provided you have faster than gigabit Ethernet between you and the router. The router that they rent connects to the ONT at 10Gbps, so speed tests done on the router itself always test at the speed you’re subscribed to.

At 10Gbps and above they start using direct–attached fiber (DIA) instead, so the speed you subscribe to is the line rate and it will test lower due to protocol overhead. But if you can max out a 50Gbps link then I think the overhead will not bother you much.

They also allow residential customers to run BGP and use their own addresses. They’re a great ISP.
Looking for engineers who want to prototype patented new-tech no-fuel engines
by Root-Zero-Tech | 2026-01-24 23:20:07+00:00
Root Zero Technologies LLC (currently just Adam Lee Pellegrino) has provisionally patented and fully designed and blueprinted a new clean energy engine—no solar, no wind, no lithium, no fuel. These engines will power homes and transportation without fueling, without electric bills, without gas, oil, or any other inputs.

These are engines without moving parts, tied to the kind of energy generation Nikola Tesla heavily invested in. The difference is that Tesla was building large-scale coils and towers to broadcast energy.

Root Zero Technologies has constrained this energy generation into small-scale engines capable of powering homes, vehicles, and off-grid communities—without traditional power infrastructure.

This is green technology with no rare-earth elements. If these engines work, they would decentralize energy control. A life with energy - without energy bills, a life with working vehicles without the need of gas and recharging stations sounds like a life worth living.

Root Zero Technologies LLC has fully complete, build-ready blueprints for a zero-fuel, zero-waste harmonic energy engine system. As a solo R&D startup with no lab, no capital, and no physical resources, I’m looking for skilled engineers, fabricators, or clean energy experimenters willing to prototype under a signed NDA.

You’ll retain the right to run your own production line or business under a fair, ethical revenue-share agreement — where Root Zero Technologies LLC does not take the majority share. You’d be an early-stage partner, not a hired contractor.

A grant application has already been submitted, with more in progress. If these engines work as predicted, they represent a potential trillion-dollar-per-year industry, capable of disrupting fuel, battery, and grid systems globally.

If you're the kind of person who builds stuff just to see if these engines work, I want to talk.

I’ll share everything. This isn’t about selling anything—I just want to know if it works in the real world. If it does, it could change a lot. This is not theoretical, the technology has been figured out, and the blueprints are complete.

Non-engineers are also welcome if you can assist, help, promote, donate, or fund.

website: root-zero-technologies.com
contact form: https://root-zero-technologies.com/contact/
by cogman10 | 2026-01-24 23:20:14+00:00
A citizen, A vet, and a nurse at the VA.

None of that should really matter here. He didn't have his gun when he was shot the first time. He wasn't moving after the first shot and the 5 shots later were completely unnecessary and dangerous to the general public.

This sort of hair splitting is gross. Even if he illegally possessed the gun, the execution wasn't justified. He was not brandishing and nobody was in danger because of his possession of the gun.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-24 23:20:25+00:00
> There are other services that could be used for this purpose instead. Notably, I could embed replies from the social media formerly known as Twitter.

Twitter split into x, bluesky, and truthsocial. By picking one, you now allow comments from only 1/3 of your readers. Maybe that's intentional, a sort of ad hoc political filter or gate. But I think it's noteworthy.
by epistasis | 2026-01-24 23:21:08+00:00
Trump is not a normal person with normal friends.

Sure some relationships might be worth it, but whose? Trump already got the votes, which is what let him avoid prosecution for insurrection, mishandling of classified documents, etc. etc.

What friend or relationship would he lose for pardoning SBF? It has to be a billionaire, because he respects billionaires, or it has to be somebody paying home more than SBF to keep SBF in jail. What billionaire would risk their relationship with Trump in order to express displeasure about pardoning SBF? Wha person would pay more than SBF to keep SBF imprisoned?

Again and again Trump burns people that supported him. There is zero loyalty, everything is purely transactional.