MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _bohm | 2026-01-15 17:24:24+00:00
I think most people involved in protests would not characterize the thing they are resisting as merely "law enforcement". What they are experiencing is an occupation by a politically weaponized paramilitary organization which is going door-to-door in their neighborhoods wearing masks, wielding ARs, yelling at people and brutalizing them. How do you think you would react if this was taking place in your community?
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-15 17:24:34+00:00
The thing is, charging an EV in todays age is something that takes planning. Its not as easy as getting gas. For most people that end up at their house every night. For people that use their vehicles more, it becomes more of a problem. If you are going somewhere overnight, you have to make sure that place has charging.

For fleet vehicles this is the same story. You have no idea what kinda bullshit circumstances you are going to run into, and investing in EVs is just not worth it at this point when a F150 XLT or XL + Honda generator suffices.

Until that trend flips where fast charging takes the same time as gas station stop (or automakers start putting small gas engines in their vehicles) EVs are always going to lag behind gas vehicles.
by tptacek | 2026-01-15 17:24:34+00:00
I wish I'd had more space to write about the global orchestrator design, because it's fun.

The Fly Machines orchestrator goes through some trouble to keep the source of truth for each VM decentralized, owned by the physical it runs on. But there's still global state --- apps, organizations, services. That stuff is all on Postgres. Postgres keeps up with it just fine but I'd be lying if I didn't say we're always looking out the corner of our eyes on metrics.

The global state for Sprites is on object storage. Each organization gets a separate SQLite database, and that database is synchronized to object storage with Litestream.io (Lightstream is load bearing in a bunch of places here; solid as a rock for us).

I think people really still sleep on the "multiple SQLite database" backing store design.
by Jblx2 | 2026-01-15 17:24:44+00:00
> power draw of modern appliances

Here's a article that claims that refrigerator energy efficiency has improved dramatically from 1972 to 2012.

https://appliance-standards.org/blog/how-your-refrigerator-h...

I'd bet that modern TVs are more efficient that CRT televisions. Do most people even have desktop computers anymore, or have they mostly been replaced by laptops, tables, and phones? I'd be interested to see the efficiency numbers for electric clothes dryers over time. I wouldn't be surprised if they are also slightly more efficient than older models, even if they are still using resistance heating. Due to smarter electronics that automatically turn the unit off after the clothes are dry (air humidity sensor). I think electric ranges, dish washers, toasters and coffee machines have been ubiquitous since the 1960s (but are probably about the same energy-consumption wise). Air conditioning units are one thing that I'd believe are much more common today than in the 1970s and 1980s. Household sizes are also smaller, so less electricity used for electric water heaters, and the oven, etc.. Electric vehicles are an up and coming user of electricity. What other appliances are likely to be using more now than before?
by afavour | 2026-01-15 17:24:55+00:00
I don’t think data supports this. Polling has shown a lot of people who voted Republican in 2024 (Latinos especially) have snapped back again already, at least partially because of what ICE is doing.

ICE are terrorizing a city and its residents no matter what their immigration status is. Even someone who strongly wishes to curb illegal immigration should have a problem with that.
by thunderbong | 2026-01-15 17:25:07+00:00
In the 2000s, in the tech world, the open source successes that were being talked about was always Apache and Linux.

When Wikipedia started gaining a bit of traction, everyone made fun of it. It was the butt of jokes in all the prime time comedy shows. And I always felt like telling the critics - "Don't you see what is happening? People all over the world are adding their own bits of knowledge and creating this huge thing way beyond what we've seen till now. It's cooperation on an international scale! By regular people! This is what the internet is all about. People, by the thousands, are contributing without asking for anything else in return. This is incredible! "

A few years later, Encyclopedia Britannica, stopped their print edition. A few years after that I read that Wikipedia had surpassed even that.

The amount of value Wikipedia brings to the world is incalculable.

And I'm very fortunate to be alive at a time where I can witness something at this scale. Something that transcends borders and boundaries. Something that goes beyond our daily vices of politics and religion. Something that tries to bring a lot of balance and objectivity in today's polarized world.

Thank you, Wikipedia.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-15 17:25:16+00:00
> Are any of those things threatened and need defending?

If you don't think authoritarianism or fascism actually has a way of harming those things, then no, I guess not.

I think for most people who had to learn about these things in school growing up, for like 7 years or something, together with grandparents who experienced these things for themselves, it's pretty clear what's happening, but without actually having that perspective, I could understand it feels like "What is everyone so upset about? Doesn't seem so bad".
by NoboruWataya | 2026-01-15 17:25:20+00:00
There is pretty much no way this was ever not going to happen, given Wikipedia's position and structure. It is a massive repository of knowledge, that is consulted by millions if not billions of people around the world on a regular basis, that is (in theory) editable by anyone and that has articles on just about every conceivable topic, including many politically charged ones. There must be immense pressure to use it to propagate all kinds of narratives. Given all of that, I think it does as good a job as can be expected of remaining objective, but absolutely you need to be careful when reading articles on politically charged topics (which is true of all media).
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-15 17:25:20+00:00
In my experience, it’s the opposite. Virtually everyone supports using data to make decisions, unless the data could harm them or their tribe.

For example, requiring elaborate experiments and trials to help develop medicine so you or a loved one bear cancer? Sure.

But if you can make money hawking berries to cure cancer? No data needed.

If casting doubt on vaccines without data helps you feel superior? No problem. If it can help you win elections and get into a position of power? Even better.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-15 17:25:39+00:00
Wikipedia itself knows how much shit it's in. Every ongoing conflict and culture-war issue is a "contentious topic", which is Wikipedia code for "editors are at each others' throats"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contentious_topics#L...

They have a giant pile of editors banned from topics until they can play nice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_restrictions...

But you do give a great tip: at minimum, check the talk page. If it's longer than the article itself, run away.

Some articles are so far gone, even the talk page is locked down like Fort Knox. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gaza_genocide

That page even has an FAQ!

> Q1: Why does this article state that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, even though this is heavily contested and neither the ICJ nor the ICC have issued a final judgment?

> A1: A September 2025 request for comment (RfC) decided to state, in Wikipedia's own voice, that it is a genocide. The current lead is the result of later discussion on the specific wording.
by kxb4032 | 2026-01-15 17:25:50+00:00
Hi HN, I built Keypost after running into the same problem repeatedly with MCP servers. They expose powerful tools, but there is no standard way to control who can call what, with which parameters, or under what limits.
Keypost sits in the request path between an agent and an MCP server and enforces deterministic policies before tools run. That includes tool allow or deny rules, parameter constraints, rate and cost limits, and auditing. There are no SDKs or agent changes required. You swap one URL and policies apply consistently.
I wrote up how the policy engine works here: https://keypost.ai/policy-model
We are in private beta and mainly looking for feedback from people actively experimenting with MCP servers or agent workflows.
by al_borland | 2026-01-15 17:25:58+00:00
The ones I was apart of sited Facebook, and most people moving there, as the reason. I think some of it was also getting older and changing priorities in life.

With one of them I tried making a group on Facebook to see if that would keep the crew together with the same vibe, but it didn’t work. Though I’m still in contact with a few people.
by hu3 | 2026-01-15 17:26:02+00:00
> In my 3-hour tests, Safari consumed 18.67% of my battery each time on average, and Chrome averaged 17.33% battery drain. That works out to about 9% less battery drain from Chrome than Safari. Yes, you read that right, I found Chrome was easier on my battery than Safari.

With how much engineering was poured over V8, I don't doubt.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-15 17:26:54+00:00
If nothing else, thank you for sharing your honest perspective, I appreciate it :)

> Or I suppose a more truthful way of saying it is it's not worth it for me because of the sacrifices I'd have to make just for the chance of getting hurt or being added to a list.

It's really sad to hear that the chilling effect is working so effectively. I of course understand why you make the choice you make, that's not strange, but that they managed to turn your society into this is nothing but sad to hear.
by nullocator | 2026-01-15 17:27:02+00:00
Trump as demonstrated that the next president has full authority to disassemble and disband effectively any agency or federal organization that they like. So I wouldn't be so sure that ICE will exist after Trump, assuming we continue to have fair elections which is a big if I guess.

I certainly would consider voting for a candidate who expressed a desire to exercise this authority and presidential power to defund ICE, fire and federally blacklist all of it's former employees during that presidents term.
by thoiejrw23434 | 2026-01-15 17:27:03+00:00
The US is falling prey to what has become obscenely common in democracies of late : the "plebs" going after the elites, for reasons valid or otherwise.

This often means that they'll often go after academics and artists who stick out like a sour thumb, instead of financial/industrial/political elites who they more likely have a grouse with. This results in very bad negative effects in the long-term, which these actors themselves don't have much foresight for.

Reminds me of Pol Pot killing off anyone who knew a foreign language, or Mao luring out Intellectual elites and them wiping them off in the cultural revolution or the destruction of India/Africa's British-era universities with toxic caste/race-politics (or US's toxic woke-politics, and now its continued destruction by its mirror-image in populist fascism).

Really makes you question many of the tenets we take for granted in "democracies".
by mmooss | 2026-01-15 17:27:42+00:00
> Surely people don't think sources such as Mother Jones are more 'reliable' than The New York Post, Fox News, or The Heritage Foundation?

That seems based on a premise that I don't grasp. Why is Mother Jones more or less reliable than those sources? Are those sources reliable in your opinion?

My impression is that you have a strong opinion and are assuming everyone shares it.
by RickJWagner | 2026-01-15 17:27:49+00:00
The ICE agents encounter protesters acting within legal bounds often. These people stay behind lines, do not touch the ICE agents, do not block ICE vehicles, etc. These people do not get much attention from ICE.

The people encountering forceful actions from ICE are doing something more. They are driving cars at federal agents, using their cars as moveable roadblocks, throwing objects at federal agents, etc. I find it hard to believe that any law enforcement agents anywhere would tolerate these actions without similar response.

But I may be wrong. If you live someplace where cops will let you block their cars, or throw things at them, etc please do let us know. I’d be interested to see how that works.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-15 17:28:06+00:00
> Not a system that necessarily works all that well if one player has a short-term ability to vastly outspending all the rest.

Well yeah, people were identifying that back when Apple bought out the entirety of the 5nm node for iPhones and e-tchotchkes. It was sorta implicitly assumed that any business that builds better hardware than Apple would boot them out overnight.
by lukaslalinsky | 2026-01-15 17:28:13+00:00
You get a computer that's compatibles with Linux, you install Ubuntu LTS, and you just keep using it. After a couple of years, you reinstall it. If you are a power user able to prepare the boot USB and boot from it, you do it yourself, otherwise you have to pay someone to do it for it for you or buy a computer with Ubuntu preinstalled. I've been using Ubuntu for more than 20 years, Debian before that, and Linux is definitely not my hobby.
by alex43578 | 2026-01-15 17:28:32+00:00
First they passed the naturalization act of 1790
And I did not speak out
Because we’ve been regulating and enforcing the concept of citizenship for 230 years

Then they passed the immigration act of 1891
And I did not speak out
Because a sovereign state needs control over its borders, immigration, and may want to exclude criminals or those with communicable diseases

Then President Obama deported over 3 million people
And I did not speak out
Because it wasn’t Trump doing it

Then President Trump rescinded Temporary Protective Status
And I did not speak out
Because I understood what the word temporary means
by roywiggins | 2026-01-15 17:28:51+00:00
I've been having fun with OpenCode's webui in a Sprite, set it up right in Termux and you can vibe code a website with a full backend from your phone. I have a Termux shortcut that sets up a port forward and pops open my web browser to the OpenCode webui. OpenCode can pick up the Sprite skill built into the containers so it can manage the instance itself (mostly setting up and destroying services).

Of course you can do similar with a VPS, but this makes it very easy (and cheap!) to spin up an entire new machine with a public url and HTTPS whenever you want to.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-15 17:28:53+00:00
> it's because you come in from a perspective of not wanting the underlying problem solved

Where is this assumption coming from? Of course I don't want people to break the laws of the country or immigrate illegally, I never argued for that either.

What I don't understand, if Obama managed to throw out more illegals than Trump did for the same duration of time, yet with a lot less chaos and bloodshed, and you truly want less illegal immigrants, should you favor a more peaceful and efficient process? Instead of a more violent and less efficient process?
by observationist | 2026-01-15 17:28:57+00:00
It's consistently better in content quality, for everything that I've used it for. I've seen conversations complaining about it that effectively reek of either anti-Musk or anti-AI bias, and when I dig in, I haven't found any legitimate bad information or arbitrary bias in the articles themselves.

It's not yet as comprehensive, with ~6 million articles compared to Wikipedia's ~7 million, and the UI isn't as good, with a lot of polish and convenience and fun features in Wikipedia that are noticeably absent.

It's qualitatively better in significant ways, and when you compare and contrast articles for which there's a difference, you start to get a feel for the ways in which Wikipedia has failed.

Being anti-Musk is a shibboleth and article of faith for a lot of people, so they can't engage with anything he's involved in on an objective level. Grokipedia isn't used by as many people for that and other reasons. From the last couple months of using it, I've found it to be an objectively better tool.

I've gone in and made corrections in places I have knowledge of, and the process and transparency of those types of edits are awesome. It just works, no drama, no dealing with digital tinpot tyrants, and if there's evidence you're wrong about a thing, the bot will actually counter your suggestion and stick to its parameters and standards.

It's not perfect by any means, but it's a damn sight better than Wikipedia.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-15 17:29:17+00:00
Yup, there's a wonderful, presumably LLM generated, response to somebody explaining how trademark law actually works, the LLM response insists that explanation was all wrong and cites several US law cases. Most of the cases don't exist, the rest aren't about trademark law or anywhere close. But the LLM isn't supposed to say truths, it's a stochastic parrot, it makes what looks most plausible as a response. "Five" is a pretty plausible response to "What is two plus three?" but that's not because it added 2 + 3 = 5
by pstuart | 2026-01-15 17:29:21+00:00
There's a vast difference between tribal partisan politics and discussing policy as a system of governance (hacking society). I do my best to avoid the former and embrace the latter.

That said, there's a disappointingly significant number of HN members who hew to the latter and embrace the current regime. I consider this to be a forum of intellectual engagement, and that those people walk amongst us is quite distressing.
by dylanzhangdev | 2026-01-15 17:29:28+00:00
When I was learning the Japanese kana (hiragana and katakana), I downloaded seven or eight different apps from the App Store, and finally chose one called MARU. It's a product by an independent developer, and it's very simple and efficient. Even for a mature topic like kana, different apps have different perspectives and approaches to solving the problem. I think this is still something that AI can't replace: good product taste and aesthetics, and solutions to problems in a specific field. However, I think another problem might arise: if a product is very good, someone might easily use AI to create a similar product with a different interface and sell it at a lower price, leading to intense competition. How should developers deal with this?
by BeetleB | 2026-01-15 17:29:36+00:00
I hope you get more out of it than I did. I don't recall which of Seneca's work I read several years ago, but to me it was ... meh?

Some of the stuff I strongly agreed with, but I didn't derive value because I already had the mindset. Other stuff I disagreed with, and the book didn't really convince me. Then there was the stuff in between.

Overall, it felt like something you or I could have written - I didn't see something insightful that enlightened me.

Not to take away from your essay, which I thoroughly agree with :-)
by cafard | 2026-01-15 17:29:39+00:00
My recollection--from Ohio, Colorado, Maryland, and Washington, DC--is that in the US the property owner is generally responsible for the sidewalk.

We are wary of salt, having damaged a stretch of sidewalk in a rowhouse development by heavily salting it one winter. Others, and the city of Washington, will put down salt at the least probability of snow.
by palmotea | 2026-01-15 17:29:47+00:00
> But what if these "local conditions" are the actual problem?

They are not. I thought we were defending democracy? "Adapting to local conditions" means representing your constituents, not kowtowing to some far off group and lecturing your constituents that they really should want want you're offering.

One of the Democrats' problems is, ironically, a lack of diversity.

> Republican voters are _literaly_ programmed on their enemy stereotypes!

That kind of othering thinking is a pretty serious problem. If you think in such an unempathetic way, you're going to delude yourself. Your side isn't all kindness and light, and their side isn't all hateful automatons. You are all people, for fucks sake. How the fuck different are you really? Actually not much.
by alexfoo | 2026-01-15 17:29:52+00:00
The proliferation and arms race of increasingly huge vehicles with poor visibility hasn't taken hold in Europe yet, but I'm not so sure that will be the case in 5 or 10 years.

We have our fair share of Range Rovers and other SUV shaped things but the bonnet heights are still not that far above average adult waist height.

Vehicles like Ford/RAM/GMC trucks with hood heights at or above eye level of an average adult just aren't a common sight at all.

Buses and trucks often have better visibility than those as they have a shorter distance between driver and the front of the vehicle. There are still huge blind spots though.

Most European countries have a much greater affinity and acceptance of cyclists than my experience of the US.

Cycling has its risks but it's far less dangerous than being sedentary. The UK has around 24 cyclist deaths per year per billion miles traveled. The US figure is about 4 times as high as the UK per distance traveled.

In the UK it's more dangerous to be a pedestrian (27 pedestrian deaths per year per billion miles traveled) yet people fixate on cycling being inherently dangerous whilst pedestrian deaths are just kind of an accepted consequence of cars driving right next to where pedestrians walk.
by boringg | 2026-01-15 17:29:52+00:00
Counter argument is that is NVIDIA friendly to their supply chain? I have to think that maybe they are with their massive margins because they can be - their end buyer is currently willing to absorb costs at no expense. But I don't know, and that will change as their business changes.

Your underlying statement implies that whoever is replacing apple is a better buyer which I don't think is necessarily true.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2026-01-15 17:30:01+00:00
Pick a place you want to work at and get any job you qualify to do and once there work your way into the job you want. 2 advantages, you get a paycheck and you prove that you are a good employee. Plus you can continue your search too.We are at a strange time in tech. Companies are being very cautious about who they hire and even if they want to hire anyone at all.
by welcome_dragon | 2026-01-15 17:30:06+00:00
When we stop tying our health insurance to our employment, we'll see a drastic uptick in people starting their own businesses. Working at company Z because their health insurance is fully paid for by the employer vs working at company Y where it costs you 1,400 a month for HDHP but the salaries are the same shouldn't be a thing

At least that's my theory.
by mlsu | 2026-01-15 17:30:18+00:00
Because these systems are not only used on illegal immigrants. To give you a very clear example: a US citizen was murdered without any due process a few days ago by ICE.

Because surveilling people -- PEOPLE, not citizens -- without probable cause is a violation of the US constitution?

It is a bad thing because it leads to innocent people being brutalized, it's a violation of the constitution, it's very clearly the primary tool of an increasingly authoritarian government?
by eblume | 2026-01-15 17:30:30+00:00
I just deployed my own forgejo instance on my private tailnet this week. I've had a ton of fun mirroring up to or down from github, I set up a devpi proxy for my python packages, and just generally "cleaned house" in my personal infrastructure. Delightful! Forgejo was an absolute breeze to install. I chose homebrew for installation and service management because I'm running on macos and I'm trying to avoid containers for key services (for no particular reason other than "it's my homelab and I'm gonna do what I want"). A few short lines in an app.ini and `brew services start forgejo` and it all just unfolded from there. Great job, forgejo team!