MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by big_toast | 2026-01-20 18:33:45+00:00
On bsky, like a few AI/tech things (simonw, dan abramov, jeff dean, ethan mollick etc, and the people in their replies). Then use discover and this 'for you' feed - https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social to find additional things to like. Then follow the people who post what you're liking. (spacecowboy17 is running a feed that looks at your likes and then populates the feed with people who have a similar like cluster to you). Consider adding this anti-ai-ai labeler if you're put off by some people - https://bsky.app/profile/antiantiai.bsky.social

I think the bsky ML/tech content is relatively thin and people are overstating its volume. But it does exist, and some of it is not posted elsewhere. (Or the posters aren't at least.)

I don't know how your twitter is tuned, but I'm overwhelmed by the volume of meaningful twitter ML info. If you turn on swipe to 'not interested in this post' and bookmark/like/click even a few posts (and maybe follow a few AI people), it really becomes a feed of just ML info very quickly. And it's pretty easy to get the engagement bait filtered out this way too.
by woodruffw | 2026-01-20 18:33:48+00:00
I think OP's point is that a "99 year lease" isn't worth very much without a firm guarantee that the least in fact lasts that long. I don't really have an opinion on land leases in the PRC, but it doesn't seem facially unreasonable to suspect that a foreign lease holder's land value wouldn't be a priority for China's leadership during an economic crisis.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-20 18:33:48+00:00
Because all the smart economists in charge stood around doing nothing while industry vanished, and the only one that actually did something was a moron. If your team of doctors is letting the injured bleed out in a ditch, don't complain when someone actually tries to help, but does it wrong.

Also your question has nothing to do with my initial post. It's not even tangential.
by tonio67 | 2026-01-20 18:34:09+00:00
Hi HN - I’m building WebCad, a browser-based CAD tool where you can generate a 3D part with AI, tweak it in the browser, and export a STEP (.stp) that works in SolidWorks / Fusion 360 / Inventor, etc.

Why I built it: CAD installs/licensing/lab computers are friction. I wanted something that works on any laptop (or school computer) instantly.

What it does today:

Runs entirely in the browser (no installs)

Uses Manifold (WASM) for hot-loop rendering and OpenCascade (WASM Worker) for B-Rep export. Custom DAG solver for parametric updates.

AI-assisted geometry generation + AI sketch help

Edit/adjust in-browser

Instant STEP exports

Pricing:

Free to try

$2.99 one-time STEP export

$24.99/mo unlimited exports + advanced tools
No contracts - cancel anytime.

Site: https://webcad.ca/

I’d love feedback on:

What’s the “must-have” feature for browser CAD?

What would make you trust a STEP export from a browser tool?

Any workflows you’d want supported (3D printing, student labs, quick prototyping)?
Ask HN: Will humans still vote after AI takes over?
by nothrowaways | 2026-01-20 18:34:12+00:00
Taxpayer money has always been central to democracy, as it allows citizens to decide how public funds are used.

But if AI and robots take over most labor and taxes are no longer needed, it makes me question: will human votes still matter? Or will those who own the AI and robots become the new decision-makers a.k.a voters, since they control the resources once funded by taxes?

Without taxes or meaningful employment, people's role in governance might become irrelevant.

Is that where we are headed?
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-20 18:34:12+00:00
I am retired but I have not sold all my stocks and moved to bonds. Even if you use the "rule of 100" I should still have around 40% of my portfolio in stocks.

But to your point, I am certain that I am not going to profit from this fuckery. (Although, hilariously I bought silver a decade ago to teach my daughters about investing—and they each purchased a once or two from me. Of course it turned out to be a local maxima and they grow up, went to college—watching their investment sink all the while. Perhaps they did learn a valuable lesson in investing.)

No, I'm just doing damage control.

I had asked a month or so back as to where the "safe harbors" were during the Great Depression. My impression (and the responses did nothing to contradict this) were that there were no safe harbors—as perhaps there may not be any in some dystopian future we may or may not be headed for.

"Hold, don't sell during the panic," is all anyone could offer. (And so too holding those silver coins until now might also have been a valuable lesson for my daughters?)
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-20 18:34:19+00:00
The US would no longer be able to export the cost of its spending on other countries which is the so called 'extraordinary privilege' of running the world's reserve currency and the US population would feel the consequences of its out of control spending.

Which is to say, that is a fairly traditional way of how empires go the way of the dodo. First losing their financial dominance, which loses them their international power, which then causes internal rupture.
by ericmcer | 2026-01-20 18:34:38+00:00
I had a really nice job hunt this time around because:

- I quit my job to work on a side project in a specific space (voice AI for me).

- Spent three months shipping a few things and sinking into the area.

- Apply to jobs in that space, custom cover letter if applicable.

- Reach out directly to hiring people/engineers on LinkedIn for those companies, if it is engineers I usually say things like "did you also struggle with 'x'", "I solved 'Y' by doing __"

- Be genuinely interested in that space.

~50% reach out to interview rate using that strategy.
by cookieinspector | 2026-01-20 18:34:40+00:00
We built CookieInspector, an AI-powered compliance monitor for websites that detects cookies, trackers, and scripts that run before user consent.

Instead of trusting what CMPs claim to block, we scan sites using a real browser and collect execution evidence. An AI layer then analyzes that evidence to flag compliance issues, assign a risk score, and explain why something is considered risky.

The compliance monitor supports recurring scans, diff-based change detection, and alerts when a site drifts out of compliance.

We launched today and would love technical feedback from the HN community, especially around AI accuracy, edge cases (CMPs, SPAs, WAFs), and how others approach continuous compliance monitoring.

Product Hunt link: https://www.producthunt.com/products/cookieinspector?launch=...
by mythical_39 | 2026-01-20 18:34:41+00:00
Your first paragraph is close to correct, but have you thought of the difference between supportive vs coercive power?

If the Russian army is the force that enables Russian foreign policy, they why do some people in Ukraine think that they don't want to do things the Russian way?

Likewise, I wonder how helpful the US military will be at forcing our former allies to do things they don't want to do?
by AlexandrB | 2026-01-20 18:34:51+00:00
> Sattizahn also testified how, after his research on Meta’s VR platform uncovered children under the age of 10 in Germany being propositioned for “sex acts, nude photos, and other acts that no child should ever be exposed to,” Meta’s in-house lawyers demanded the erasure of any and all evidence of this finding. When asked by Senator Josh Hawley how often she’d witnessed an underage user being exposed to inappropriate sexual content on Meta VR, Savage replied, “every time I use the headset.” The permissiveness by the company that Savage and Sattizahn testified to is mirrored by the more recently unsealed court documents, which included that Meta maintained a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking accounts — removing predators only after they were caught attempting to traffic people 17 separate times. Meta’s own internal documents called this threshold “very, very, very high.”

> On October 23, 2025, a judge in a separate case validated what the whistleblowers and court documents had described. Invoking the rarely used crime-fraud exception to pierce Meta’s attorney-client privilege, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Yvonne Williams found Meta’s lawyers had coached researchers to hide, block, and sanitize studies on teen mental-health harm in order to shield the company from liability. Judge Williams determined there was probable cause that these communications were “fundamentally inconsistent with the basic premises of the adversary system.” [emphasis mine]

Yes, the lawyers are totally in the clear here.
by margalabargala | 2026-01-20 18:34:52+00:00
Solar, wind, and grid-attached battery.

In the late teens, China was dominating all of these industries.

Under policies of the Biden administration, these industries were growing domestically in the US and we were increasing our share of the global market.

Over the last year those domestic industries have been destroyed. They are barely surviving and have stopped rapidly expanding. All gains made against China's dominance in these technologies has been lost, and then some.
by fifilura | 2026-01-20 18:34:55+00:00
Wait until the Norwegians do the same.

Regularly claimed to be the worlds largest stock market investor.

"The fund is the largest single owner in the world’s stock markets, owning almost 1.5 percent of all shares in the world’s listed companies."

https://www.nbim.no/en/about-us/norges-bank-investment-manag...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-20 18:35:11+00:00
I don't know about that...don't they have massive overcapacity in many of their industries as well as ~25% youth unemployment? For all the mess the US is going through at least we are seeing it out in the open. China seems to be going through their own messes right now but it is behind the great wall. Will a treaty be enough or will their leaders falter and try to push for more. Guess we will see.
by autoexec | 2026-01-20 18:35:54+00:00
Nah, we just need actual carrots. If something new is better than what people currently have, and you make it easy for them to get the new thing, people will naturally abandon the old thing. They'll do it happily. In fact, it will be hard to stop them from abandoning the old thing for the new thing.

IPv6 has failed at being better, being accessible, or both. Rather than punish people for failing to adopt something that isn't better or easy to get, either improve IPv6 so that it's actually attractive or admit defeat and start work on the next version that people will genuinely want.

The moment you start thinking "Let's make what people have now worse until they move to this other thing they don't want" its an admission that whatever you're pushing people to is shit.
by sb2702 | 2026-01-20 18:35:56+00:00
When building apps with WebCodecs, you need to specify codec strings to configure the encoder/decoder, you need 'avc1.42001f' not just 'avc'.

Nowhere on the internet is there any list of actual valid strings you can use, let alone which strings are supported on which browsers.

So I compiled a dataset of 71M codec string tests, from 220k user sessions, testing 1087 codec strings from an app I manage, built and released the dataset and added codec support tables anyone can reference.
by epistasis | 2026-01-20 18:35:59+00:00
That's definitely going on. There's also something that I've heard called "reactionary centrism:" a feedback loop of people who think that truth lies in the middle between the two extremes, and also that assumes that no mainstream position in a political faction can itself be the "extreme." And that if they find that one political faction is doing something that seems extreme to them, that in the interests of fairness and centrism, they must start considering something that the other political faction does as equally extreme.

A lot of pundits that were center-left in past years fall into this trap, and normalize extremely right-wing positions these days because of it. They are stuck in an media and information environment of politics and, lacking many core values to guide them, they navigate to the middle of the media that they consume, assuming that the truth will be there in the middle just like it was in the past.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-20 18:36:38+00:00
One of my formative experiences was the summer between undergrad and grad school where I worked at the supermarket I worked at in high school. They weren't really hiring but they wanted to make a space for me so I answered directly to the store manager and did whatever random thing they needed when they needed it.

Paint a metal strip around the store? Yes.

Deep clean the whole floor? Yes.

Learn to work the meat slicer and fill in at the Deli? Yes.

Somebody from the bakery is out sick? I've got your back.

It's been a pet peeve for me working in startups that a lot of younger people haven't had that kind of experience so they are hung up on job titles and stuff and don't just think "it's a small team so I'm going to do what the team needs"

I've learned to see that the value of my work is the value it has to my organization delivered by the team I am working in so I adjust accordingly. I can't say there is one thing to do that works all the time but rather you improvise and see what works with the people you are working with. If there is somebody who reviews your PRs for instance it is going to go smooth if you meet their expectations as opposed to what you think their expectations ought to be. Decide what boundaries you want to enforce and what you can't compromise on but be flexible about everything you can be flexible about.

Understand the contradiction between "doing what people need" and "doing what people want" and not be afraid to rub people the wrong way if you really have to while not promoting any excess antagonism. (It isn't easy!)

One of the best managers I ever had integrated me into a team by tasking me with completing a late project on a nearly impossible schedule and giving us all the understanding that I was supposed to ask for and get all the support I needed. We pulled it off and it was better than any "team building" exercise I've been in. (e.g. there are great ideas in "team building" as much the execution is often cringe.)
by magimas | 2026-01-20 18:37:05+00:00
this completely misses how crazy word2vec is. The model doesn't get told anything about word meanings and relationships and yet the training results in incredibly meaningful representations that capture many properties of these words.

And in reality you can use it in much broader applications than just words. I once threw it onto session data of an online shop with just the visited item_ids one after another for each individual session. (the session is the sentence, the item_id the word)
You end up with really powerful embeddings for the items based on how users actually shop. And you can do more by adding other features into the mix. By adding "season_summer/autumn/winter/spring" into the session sentences based on when that session took place you can then project the item_id embeddings onto those season embeddings and get a measure for which items are the most "summer-y" etc.
by ianburrell | 2026-01-20 18:37:12+00:00
IPv6 is just as secure as IPv4. NAT usually combines address translation with a stateful firewall. I remember when they were separate things. IPv6 has the stateful firewall, all the same security but without the mess of address translation.

Also, if you have devices connected to WAN, then they are insecure because they are not NATed.
by lumost | 2026-01-20 18:37:15+00:00
The "TACO" trade only works as a pump and dump for insiders for as long as the counterparties allow it to. It does not make sense for the G7 to support the enrichment of the American president for long.

Why would anyone believe that this is the last time a president will use Tariff threats in the next 12 months? it was reasonable to negotiate last year based on the observation that trade imbalances had been a growing issue for the American people. Using trade as a lever for territorial concessions is almost certainly a hard red line.
by rapatel0 | 2026-01-20 18:37:36+00:00
This is exactly the sensational take (devoid of nuance and information) that we should collectively push back against. You should read the actual guardian article that Vice links to and investigate the actual reality.

If you actually look at the data, the vast majority of expenditures in medicine are the last few months of life. Paying ~500K to 1M to extend life ~6 months so you can spend the time hooked up to tubes and passing in and out of consciousness to deal with the pain is NOT HUMANE.
by coffeemug | 2026-01-20 18:37:44+00:00
The surface level reading of history is that everyone always agreed centralization of power is bad and operated in a gentlemanly way to further this principle, until Trump came along. But that's not the case at all. In the two parts of American history where I read more or less deeply (early republic and civil war), the factions bitterly vied for absolute power but were prevented from getting it through intangible American magic.
by jll29 | 2026-01-20 18:37:47+00:00
The great minds that - after WWII - built the new Europe had in mind that there should never be war again, which is best realized when former enemies become friends and closer bonds are established at multiple levels: politically, economically, culturally (unions, trading exchanges, visits/open borders/teaching common European values in schools).

There is a strong political and cultural foundation in geographic Europe for the political EU:
some exemplary giants/EU co-architects:

Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman

European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)
Schuman Declaration (1950)
[It is only right that the R. Schuman Roundabout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schuman_Roundabout Rue houses the European quarter in Brussels.]

Konrad Adenauer

Promoted reconciliation with France
pro-European

Alcide De Gasperi

Integrated Italy into Western Europe
Advocated supranational institutions

Paul-Henri Spaak

institutional designer, key role in the Treaties of Rome (1957)
helped design the European Economic Community (EEC)
Advocated supranational institutions

Walter Hallstein

1st President, European Commission.
Built EC into powerful, independent institution
Championed the supremacy of European law

Altiero Spinelli

Wrote the Ventotene Manifesto (while imprisoned by Fascists)
Advocated a federal Europe

Winston Churchill

A paradoxical but crucial figure: called for a “United States of Europe” (1946 speech)
Influenced Europe’s post-war direction despite UK distance

François Mitterrand

Drove Maastricht Treaty with Helmut Kohl
Pushed for the €
Symbolized Franco-German partnership

Helmut Kohl

Franco-German friendship exemplified by Mitterand-Kohl personal friendship
"Architect of modern Europe"
German reunification
Key figure behind the EU and monetary union

It's ironic that the name "U.S.E." (United States of Europe) was first proposed by a Brit, alas a smart one, and I'm sure Sir Winston Churchill would have had the oratory abilities to convince his countrymen that his idea had merit, but he did not live to see it. The Federation of Europe or United States of Europe is the logical end-point of the joint vision of all these foundational leaders.
by nomadygnt | 2026-01-20 18:37:55+00:00
Maybe I am wrong about this but I think a lot of recent research has shown that trial and error is a great way to learn almost everything. Even just making an educated guess, even if it is completely wrong, before learning something makes it much more likely that you remember and understand the thing that you learn. It’s a painful and time-consuming way to learn. But very effective.

Maybe Linux commands is a little different but I kinda doubt it. Errors and feedback are the way to learn, as long as you can endure the pain of getting to the correct result.
by horsawlarway | 2026-01-20 18:38:21+00:00
Your linked page doesn't actually appear to render any sort of compelling argument for this.

In fact - the entire argument seems to more accurately hinge the conditional left off the main saying, so the full description is:

"Bad money drives out good if they exchange for the same price."

But that requires a legal structure that enforces the disparity, and the summary of the whole thing basically boils down to:

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If given the choice of what money to accept, people will accept the money they believe to be of highest long-term value and not accept what they believe to be of low long-term value. If not given the choice and required to accept all money, good and bad, they will tend to keep the money of greater perceived value in their own possession and pass the bad money to others.

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But if anything - this is exactly an argument for the value of soft power to the US, because we can't enforce how other nations transact, except through soft power.
by gogusrl | 2026-01-20 18:38:33+00:00
The Volvo EX30 / MG4 XPower would fit in the hot hatch / sub-compact crossover crossover. Both cars are the size of a raised VW Polo at 4.2m length while having over 400hp and around 3.5 secs to 60.

While not exactly cheap, you can get the MG for under 30k eur if you shop around for some discounts and the volvo at around 35-40k. considering a 300hp golf R is over 50k eur they're pretty great options for some cheap fun. Cheap as in total cost of ownership, not just purchase price.

Also, the SC01 people just announced that they plan to bring it to Europe [1] so that's gonna be a great option.

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/784884/sc01-electric-coupe-roadst...