MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-22 14:56:38+00:00
The politicians have set a self-imposed limit[1] on how much they can use per year. It's currently 3% of the funds value, to ensure we don't need to reign in too much during hard times[2].

However politicians have tried to use less, for 2026 they plan[3] to use 452B NOK which is roughly 2.13%.

However as OP points out, the total budget is around 2100B NOK, so the oil money pays for roughly a quarter. And that's becoming a bit of a problem in my view as well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_budgetary_rule

[2]: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/tema/okonomi-og-budsjett/norsk...

[2]: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/statsbudsjett/2026/statsbudsje...
by alephnerd | 2026-01-22 14:56:52+00:00
Lower coal use =/= Not expanding coal.

India's Power Ministry itself has planned coal power expansion [0] until 2047.

India would be electrifying even faster if China wasn't export controlling IP [1] and taking India to the WTO for subsidizing green energy [2]

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/india-mul...

[1] - https://www.mercomindia.com/china-tightens-curbs-on-export-o...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-files-wto-complain...
by Tyriar | 2026-01-22 14:57:05+00:00
It's not just the .vscode folder though, the Python extension for example executes code in order to provide language services. How could this threat detection possibly be complete? In this new LLM-assisted world a malicious repository could be as innocuous as a plain text prompt injection attack hidden in a markdown file, or some random command/script that seems like it could be legitimate. There are other mitigations in place and in progress to help with the LLM issue, but it's a hard problem.
by mort96 | 2026-01-22 14:57:14+00:00
Before I have made that initial decision, and before I have invested resources into evaluating what I think the value of a product is, I do not have a price in mind. Deciding on a price I think is fair for a product takes effort. The more accurately I want to determine it, the more effort it is.

Could there exist some hypothetical subjective value? I mean maybe. But not one that I have knowledge of, so it's not something that can even hypothetically affect my behavior. The only time at which I could possibly be aware of my own subjective value judgement of a product necessarily has to be after I have invested time to evaluate it.
Show HN: I'm building an API that finds signal in form responses
by lukapg | 2026-01-22 14:57:36+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building Formtone, a form backend that analyzes form responses and surfaces the signal that usually gets buried.

Once forms start getting real volume (support, feedback, reviews), reading every submission doesn’t scale. Important issues get missed, and everything starts to feel equally urgent. Users may point to the same problem or request the same feature in many different ways. Manual triage often misses this.

Formtone processes incoming text and:

- detects sentiment

- scores priority

- categorizes responses into user defined categories

- summarizes responses

- drafts suggested replies

- suggests actionable insights based on recurring patterns

It also tracks sentiment change week over week for each form you create and find most common issues.

It works with any form via a simple API or webhook, and can push insights to tools like Slack or Discord.

I’m especially interested in feedback on:

- whether this solves a real problem for you

- what signals you’d want surfaced first

- how you handle form feedback today

Happy to answer questions. Thanks for taking a look.
by gryfft | 2026-01-22 14:59:00+00:00
This is directly relevant to my wife's and my reading of the David Tennant & Olivia Coleman vehicle Broadchurch.

David Tennant's character is notably very bad at his job; that's why he got exiled to a backwater town. He bungled his last case so badly it made national news. In an American police procedural, we would either have some mitigating explanation for his failure, or at least some gritty vice or personal demon that was the real reason he got demoted.

In Broadchurch, Tennant's character just sucks at his job. Every episode of the show conforms to a formula where he gets suspicious of one of the other characters in the show and we spend the episode wasting time while it's finally determined that the suspect of the week is actually innocent. I have to say, it makes for entertaining television. It also resulted in my wife and I chorusing aloud, every episode, "he's SO BAD at his job!!"

(Minor Broadchurch spoilers) At the end when he finally catches the big bad, it's not because of anything he did. A coincidence and some carelessness on the part of the big bad lead to the mystery being solved. Also, every other character on the show had already been ruled out.

Since watching it we've kept a lookout for protagonists who embody the "everyman in way over his head who accomplished virtually nothing himself" archetype. It's fun to know Adams held forth on the very subject.
by m348e912 | 2026-01-22 14:59:03+00:00
If you are saying sketch shows like "Thank God You're Here" "Fast & Loose" and "Who's Line is it Anyway" are being killed off by short/low budget replacements on TikTok, we must be living in different worlds.

I haven't seen anything like them on TikTok and I'm on there enough to have noticed. Maybe you're talking about the dumb alien short videos of them telling a joke to each other and snickering, that doesn't compare.
by sfdlkj3jk342a | 2026-01-22 14:59:04+00:00
> Is this cultural?

Absolutely. I've been traveling for the last 10 years and lived in 50+ countries. I believe that all cultures have unique pros and cons and that the cultural diversity of the world is an amazing thing. There are good and bad people everywhere, so I rarely leave a place with such a strong opinion as the multiple times I've been to India. I really wanted to love India because of their rich history and diversity, but I ended up leaving with a feeling that their culture is overwhelmingly objectively bad.
by the_arun | 2026-01-22 14:59:09+00:00
Another reason I could think of is Security. There is a bunch of cheating goes on there. As a seller I lost my laptop to a scammer. Seller paid be until I shipped & cancelled the transaction. Buyer asked me ship it to their son’s address. Since I didn’t use buyer’s address registered in their eBay account eBay/Paypal didn’t pay me either. AI accelerates these scams.
by FrankWilhoit | 2026-01-22 14:59:15+00:00
That it is even possible to talk about anyone being "replaced" by a "machine" (which is to say, by a jumped-up chatbot) is really only a symptom of the dominating fact of our time, which is that no one cares whether the answers are right. All they care about is how the process of getting the answers looks.
by codebyaditya | 2026-01-22 14:59:23+00:00
Author here.

Quick summary of probability shifts under the weighted system:

Level I ($80K median): -57% selection probability
Level II ($103K median): -14%
Level III ($135K median): +29%
Level IV ($158K median): +73%

The counterintuitive finding: product companies (direct employers) have 22% Level I concentration vs 7% for staffing firms. The rule designed to stop "lottery abuse" hits direct employers 3x harder.

Data source: DOL LCA disclosure data. Happy to discuss methodology.
by bee_rider | 2026-01-22 14:59:56+00:00
Now this is making me wonder if there was a shift at some point… as far as I remember, kids shows in the past were mostly about the kids. Ed Ed and Eddy and the Peanuts might have taken this to an extreme as part of the joke. These shows were for kids, and so the kids were the focus.

I wonder if kids shows nowadays feel a need to include more adults because adults are more likely to be watching.
by antisthenes | 2026-01-22 14:59:57+00:00
I agree with most of these except 28.

> Some people are profoundly broken – usually from life's harsh trials. Give yourself permission to remove them from your orbit. Their healing requires years of professional help, more than well-meaning friends and family can achieve.

If you give up on those people and cut them out, you're pretty much condemning them to continuing being broken.

This conflicts with the earlier advice of trying to be kind.

Don't let them control you but don't cut them out. Give them some of your time and some kindness. You never know how much time a "profoundly broken" person has left.
by ben_w | 2026-01-22 15:00:00+00:00
> Not if you find new ways to appeal to them once you have them as users.

Doch, even then.

Back at university, we had practice sessions about our CVs and job interviews. Mine had a cliché in it, "committed to quality"*. The businessperson who was helping us figure out how to be any good at the jobs market, picked up on it with an example:

Which is higher quality? A Porsche, or a go-kart?

We nodded at "Porsche", as was the point.

Except no; you didn't consider who the customer was. If this is for a kid who just wants to have some fun, they can't afford a Porsche, they've got no insurance, they don't know how to drive. A go-kart solves their problem, they get to have fun, a Porsche doesn't.

(I'm paraphrasing, it was over 20 years ago now).

* I was 19 or 20 when I wrote that, it was about as true as when ChatGPT writes the same: I didn't know any better.
by Qem | 2026-01-22 15:00:04+00:00
> It’s not like Brazil doesn’t have its own FDA, which is much more strict than the US one, from what I know.

Unless we are talking about pesticides, where Brazil is effectively dumping grounds for substances banned in EU. Every time some pesticide is forbidden in Europe, brazilian regulators are happy allowing local agribusiness import it by the ton in fire sales: https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/10/14/export-grade-pois...
by pstuart | 2026-01-22 15:00:37+00:00
This sounds like a variation of Machine Elves -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine#Entity_enco...

Those are primarily associated with DMT (the one time I tried it, I too had such an encounter and I didn't know it was a thing until years later).

I'm sure I'll be corrected on this but I think DMT and Psilocybin ultimately affect the same pathways so it's just more evidence that Machine Elves are real! (/s on the real part).
by gond | 2026-01-22 15:00:40+00:00
That is exactly the point.

Taking a theory (Systems Thinking), a mental model which has the primary goal of holistically identifying, describing, and understanding wholes and reducing it down to a set of methods out of ease of use (the pragmatism) is exactly the wrong approach.

Systems Thinking and all of its
applications scenarios are based on epistemology. To turn it into a recipe is a wrongdoing. The whole notion is that one size does not fit all.

The operationalization of Systems Theory is the responsibility and is the transfer function of the operator whose approach this is.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-22 15:00:43+00:00
I think there's something to this. But I'd also say the reason it feels so dead is because consumed media has shattered into a million pieces. With the death of broadcast TV and somewhat the death of movies, it's actually getting increasingly harder to find shows with common consumption.

The reason "Bring me a shrubbery" is funny and why people endlessly quoted Holy Grail is because almost everyone in the US watched Monte python at one point or another. Part of what made people do those quotes is the fact that regardless audience, you know you'll get a laugh because they too know the context for the phrase.

I don't think there's a single piece of media like that. Not at least in the last 10 years. I mean, funnily, I think you've nailed Skibidi as a rare exception, at least for the younger generations.
by ACS_Solver | 2026-01-22 15:00:55+00:00
It functionally is a project from fifteen-twenty years ago. Development activity was somewhat slow but steady but it largely fizzled out around I think 2018? The project tried to get political and financial support of the Russian government but failed to secure it, Aleksey Bragin transitioned to working in the crypto space, and of course with every year the number of potential users dependent on Windows 2000/XP is decreasing.

I think by now ReactOS is best viewed as an enthusiast research / challenge project with no practical use, like GNU Hurd. Just as Hurd is interesting in terms of how kernels can be done, but isn't a viable candidate for practical use, ReactOS is now in the same category. Very interesting as an exercise in reimplementing NT from scratch using clean room techniques but no longer a system that has a shot at gaining any adoption.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-22 15:01:14+00:00
But actions are not [0]. India does not view fossil fuels and cleantech as a zero-sum game.

Choosing to ignore the Indian trend of expanding both renewable and fossil fuel capacity is ridiculous.

> Modi is 75, he will be replaced eventually with someone new (if only out of life expectancy)

Modi is expected to remain in office til 2034 [1], and his parents lived into their 90s.

> so stated policy through 2050 is not a predicator.

It is in India, which operates on 5 year plans like China. The current reshoring of fossil fuels is itself due to China's weaponization of export controls [2].

ClimateTech will and is dramatically expanding in India, but India will continue to use fossil fuels as a backstop as long as China remains a national security threat to India.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

[1] - https://theprint.in/opinion/why-pm-modi-has-staked-claim-for...

[2] - https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/cag/publications/center-publicatio...
by tsumnia | 2026-01-22 15:01:18+00:00
Referencing does not necessarily equate to sentiment though. Similar to seeing Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes peeing on thing decals isn't representative to the admiration to the comic series. The "woop woop woop woop" adult voice is another core element to US culture making fun of authorative figures, but doesn't dismiss them as unneed aspects to life.
by AlanYx | 2026-01-22 15:02:29+00:00
The enduring success of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special (despite its hokey Coca-Cola sponsored origins) strongly runs counter to this idea. The other kids in the special are outright mean to Charlie, but at the end no one identifies with the other kids' perspective, nor do they themselves.

Part of the reason the Halloween Special never gained the same cultural relevance/popularity is probably because it doesn't have the same progression. The other kids are mean to Linus and he persists despite it all, but ultimately it ends with no resolution to the mocking.
by ckcheng | 2026-01-22 15:02:35+00:00
“Please don't do things to make titles stand out…

“If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out…

“If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it…

“Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.” (From that link.)

Hope that helps.
by sarchertech | 2026-01-22 15:02:44+00:00
Look up Lost Cause of the Confederacy. Perhaps the biggest celebration of the losing side in history. Or the first Rocky movie.

> Americans only support the underdog when the underdog wins in the end.

By that definition the by far most cited example on the British side, Dunkirk, doesn’t count because Britain won in the end.

No one celebrates someone who was defeated if the defeat wasn’t memorable. Usually that was because it was an inspiration to rally a cause that was later successful.

Plenty of white people celebrate Custer. Search for “Custer statue” or drive around out west and see how many paintings of Custer’s last stand you can spot hanging in bars.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-22 15:03:00+00:00
...and the destruction of Notepad and Paint for my uses cases is nearly complete.

> Notepad now also comes with a welcome screen designed to help users discover the appțs newest features, a dialog that will appear on first launch and can be accessed later through a megaphone icon in the toolbar.

Good lord. That notepad is now complicated enough that this seems necessary is really damning.
Show HN: BrightGrade-Grade Calculators (Final, GPA, Weighted, Semester)
by nio5787 | 2026-01-22 15:03:02+00:00
Hi HN,

I built BrightGrade, a collection of grade calculators to help students:

• Final Grade Calculator – What score do you need on your final?
• Weighted Grade Calculator – Category weights (homework 20%, exams 50%, etc.)
• Semester Grade Calculator – Track your progress throughout the semester
• GPA Calculator – Convert letter grades to GPA
• College Grade Calculator – Weighted by credit hours
• Assignment Grade Calculator – Calculate assignment grades and scores

Available in English, Spanish, and French. No sign-ups, totally free.

brightgrade.app

Feedback appreciated!
by agentultra | 2026-01-22 15:03:08+00:00
There’s enough going on to call out Satya here for hyping up a nothing burger. It’s not as world-changing as he makes it sound or else he wouldn’t be imploring people to find a use for it.

His bottom line depends on this bet that everyone is going to depend on AI and pay Microslop rent to use it.

https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=cognitive+effects+of+ai+...
by Tyriar | 2026-01-22 15:03:12+00:00
"May" is the most correct word though, it's not guaranteed and VS Code (core) doesn't actually know if things will execute or not as a result of this due to extensions also depending on the feature. Running the "Manage Workspace Trust" command which is mentioned in the [docs being linked][0] to goes into more detail about what exactly is blocked, but we determined this is probably too much information and instead tried to distill it to simplify the decision. That single short sentence is essentially what workspace trust protects you from.

My hope has always been, but I know there are plenty of people that don't do this, is to think "huh, that sounds scary, maybe I should not trust it or understand more", not blinding say they trust.

[0]: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/workspaces/worksp...
by nio5787 | 2026-01-22 15:03:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I built BrightGrade, a collection of grade calculators to help students:

• Final Grade Calculator – What score do you need on your final?
• Weighted Grade Calculator – Category weights (homework 20%, exams 50%, etc.)
• Semester Grade Calculator – Track your progress throughout the semester
• GPA Calculator – Convert letter grades to GPA
• College Grade Calculator – Weighted by credit hours
• Assignment Grade Calculator – Calculate assignment grades and scores

Available in English, Spanish, and French. No sign-ups, totally free.

brightgrade.app

Feedback appreciated!
by pessimizer | 2026-01-22 15:03:22+00:00
> Bidding is open as long as there have been bids in the past 5 minutes.

You also have to proportionally raise the bid increment, or you'll have people bidding $1 up at the end of every 5 minute period in order to exhaust and frustrate the person they're bidding against. Their opponent's only choices are 1) to mirror the $1 raises, which could go on for ages (then sleep and automation become issues), or 2) to make a big jump hoping that they jump past their opponents limit.

In the case of 2) the dollar bidder's limit could be +$10, and there's no rational way for their opponent to choose the amount for a big jump other than jumping to their limit. Meaning that they just wipe away all of their potential bargain and get it for their valuation. Leaves a sour taste; feels like they're bidding against themselves.

As somebody who auctions things, I use a required greater than "≈10%" of the current bid amount bid increment, and the auction doesn't end on an item until there hasn't been a bid for 10 minutes. Works great. "≈10%" means to just drop the last digit of the current bid to know the minimum next bid. Then I can set the auction to end an hour before I really want it to end; if it hasn't ended by then it's because I mispriced something and the right people found it.

You capture all the value you can, and it runs completely unattended. You just need a way to timestamp bids and broadcast that timestamp e.g. a forum post.
Show HN: A tool to practice lateral thinking organically
by jennalk | 2026-01-22 15:03:34+00:00
I saw a Terrence Tao quote recently, that AI is great at converting billions of pieces of data into one good answer, but humans are great at taking 10 observations and making an inspired guess. That ability to make inspired guesses is something we should retain.

I built this because I caught myself using ChatGPT for things I used to think through myself, like emails, texts, basic problems. I was skipping the thinking part to get to the answer faster.

My own thinking has started feeling duller. struggling with hard ideas and coming up with something original is something I've been outsourcing as of late. So I built this for myself and anyone else who wants that back.

The premise is simple: One creative, weird, provocative prompt a day, to be answered by yourself. just a daily rep to try and think for yourself again.
by calny | 2026-01-22 15:03:42+00:00
Stated more cynically, many platforms have an interest in attention hijacking. Done well, agents' 'laser focused attention' could help users avoid wasting time (wandering attention) and money (impulse buys). This is a good thing, even if it dings revenue of some existing platforms. If a company's business model is impulse buying and ad revenue (this isn't eBay IMO), then good riddance.
by shmeeed | 2026-01-22 15:03:49+00:00
I get the point, we've all been burnt. But if you're not trusting anybody anyway, why would explicity in a non-binding blog post / press release soothe you?

We're in the middle of an AI bubble propping up the whole friggin US economy all by itself, driven mostly by a company that claimed to be a non-profit until a few years ago.
by kylecordes | 2026-01-22 15:03:51+00:00
Auction site design where most every transaction is a very material amount of money for buyer and seller probably have different trade-offs from something like eBay where most items are rounding errors compared to the income or wealth of the participants.

For example, think about "sniping" from the seller side. Sellers are rightly concerned about any wrinkle of the bidding process that might leave money on the table. Automatically extending the time so that every potential buyer has time to "answer" a new bid soothes the concern that buyers were willing to pay higher, but they didn't have the technological prowess to post their bid in the last 0.3 seconds.
Show HN: StoryVid – create image and video on an infinity canvas
by jacksonLiu89 | 2026-01-22 15:04:25+00:00
I Built an Infinite Canvas for AI Image and Video creation Because I Was Tired of switch between different website and interrupts my creative process。

Here's the core idea: what if you could dump all your creative thoughts, reference images, and video outputs onto one surface—like organizing ideas on a whiteboard? Then connect the dots between them, literally.

Because that's actually how your brain works when you're planning a creation.

No more tab-switching that kills your momentum. No more "wait, where did I save that file?" moments that yank you out of the zone.

Everything's right there, organized the way your mind naturally works—spatially, not linearly.

you can keep creating on the same canvas while the ai is generating.

there is more feature on https://storyvid.ai/, i hope anyone face the same issue would like it.
by nkrisc | 2026-01-22 15:04:42+00:00
> How is this any different than say, Democratic voters who want medicare for all (or whatever) and not getting that for decades?

How is it different? It’s different because people do stop voting for right-leaning Democrats who are all talk, and then they lose and Republicans win, and then the Republican voters get exactly what they voted for (and everyone else gets it too).

Republicans control the government, what on Earth do Republican voters have to complain about? They got what they voted for.

If they’re unhappy with the government they should complain to the mirror.