MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rpcope1 | 2026-01-28 00:22:52+00:00
The better question then is why the actual f** can an OTA firmware update touch anything in the steering or powertrain of the car, or why do I even need a computer that's connected to anything, and one which does more than just make sure I get the right amount of fuel and spark, or why on earth do people tolerate this sort of insanity.
by david422 | 2026-01-28 00:23:03+00:00
> how do we get large text to scale at a lower rate than body text. It's great that the body text can scale up from 16px to 32px, but does heading text need to scale up from 32px to 64px? It's already huge. If you have any thoughts, please do let me know!

Android 14 has this in non-linear text scaling -

> To prevent large text elements on screen from scaling too large, the system applies a nonlinear scaling curve.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/14/features#non...
by crystal_revenge | 2026-01-28 00:23:03+00:00
It's because they don't have a substantive response to it, so they resort to ad hominems.

I've worked extensively in the AI space, and believe that it is extremely useful, but these weird claims (even from people I respect a lot) that "something big and mysterious is happening, I just can't show you yet!" set of my alarms.

When sensible questions are met with ad hominems by supporters it further sets of alarm bells.
by fartfeatures | 2026-01-28 00:23:08+00:00
It's open source which means I can trust having the app installed if I build from source (or I can just use Wireguard directly). I then know I'm directly connected to a Mullvad Wireguard node by checking the public key here: https://mullvad.net/en/servers

Other than Wireguard protocol being broken there is no way for Obscura to snoop presuming I check the public key. I'm not saying I trust Obscura, I'm saying with their model I don't need to trust them which is vastly superior. Nor do I need to trust Mullvad.

You keep hand waving around that Obscura are somehow untrustworthy but you have steadfastly refused to address the fact that their model does not require trust. If you trust Mullvad (which you are claiming to) please show an attack that would work to breach this model. You can't.

You would benefit from reading their FAQs and this blog post: https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/

https://github.com/Sovereign-Engineering/obscuravpn-client
by wronex | 2026-01-28 00:23:10+00:00
All the extra empty space everywhere. Some websites are impossibly empty. They look zoomed in. This is super annoying.

The loss of a clear design language for desktop apps is also frustrating. Windows XP apps tended to use standard Windows controls, in more or less the same way. Modern apps though are all spaced out HTML/WPF CSS styled wannabe websites.

We cannot solve complexity with empty space and style sheets.

Also this glass thing on iOS. Definitely under cooked. The keyboard doesn’t even fill out the bottom corners of the screen.
by chaps | 2026-01-28 00:24:02+00:00
When talking to someone at-risk of deportation earlier in the year, they asked me, "Why should I do anything differently? Obama and Biden did the same exact shit."

And there's a lot of truth to that which a lot of people need to reconcile with.

The fact that we don't have DACA solidified into a path towards citizenship by now is just sad.
by jesterson | 2026-01-28 00:24:03+00:00
Normally I wouldn't dignify the emotional word salad with a response, but it is important to state few things.

You conceal substance beneath a pile of semantic shenanigans. If someone stays in the country illegally, their presence in the county is illegal and law enforcement on that matter is warranted. You can call them saints if you like, it still doesn't make their presence legal. No matter if they entered the country legally and overstayed their visas, or plainly entered the country illegally. No matter how much leftist media make emotional appeals and frame it as "child dying" or any other sorts of manipulations you are trying to parrot as well - it remains illegal.

There are NO US citizens detained or "abducted" by ICE, provided they comply with due procedure for establishing their legal status. You are lying. There are possibly cases where ICE had to do checks on people who decline to confirm their status, which warrants further investigation.

I appreciate your concern regarding myself being called illegal, but let me assure you I am totally fine and will be totally fine, even being not a US citizen.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-28 00:24:52+00:00
> What are people upset about,

A wide array of policy issues related to the targeting and manner of execution of Trump’s mass deportation program, not the number of deportations.

Also, a number of specific instances of violence by the federal government during what is (at least notionally) the execution of immigration enforcement.

> why are they only upset in one city?

People are very clearly not “only upset in one city”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_mass_deportat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ren%C3%A9e_Good_protes...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/protests-ale...
by tbrownaw | 2026-01-28 00:25:18+00:00
> something that is perfectly legal

The goal is to prevent ICE / BP from doing their jobs. Which I rather suspect is not actually legal.

Thinking they're incompetent doesn't change that. Thinking the specific laws they're (nominally) enforcing are evil doesn't change that. Thinking that national borders are fundamentally illegitimate doesn't change that.

Perhaps the FBI had been ignoring this out of incompetence. Perhaps they'd been ignoring it as a form of protest. Either is interesting.
by meganlanziello | 2026-01-28 00:25:29+00:00
Fwiw: https://icannwiki.org/Larry_Erlich

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/11/business/e-commerce-repor...

The company was sold to a large provider of LLC's a few years ago. The web page gives the impression somewhat that Larry is still involved but he's not. It's PR on behalf of the company that bought them (a large company that primarily registers LLC's).

> Neither of these have Wikipedia entries.

(I have done contracting for them.) This is on purpose not everybody wants to have widespread publicity. And in fact very little is known about the company that acquired them and that also is on purpose. The sale was done quietly and not announced.

> They claim they've been "accredited since 1996".

It doesn't say that at all. It says they were founded in 1996 (true) and '3rd oldest ICANN-accredited registrar still in operation' (most likely true since they were in the initial post testbed approval batch). That said saying 'we founded' is wrong; the company who owns them now didn't start the company the founder did.
by saberience | 2026-01-28 00:26:21+00:00
It’s vibe coded slop that could be made by anyone with Claude Code and a spare weekend.

It didn’t require any skill, it’s all written by Claude. I’m not sure why you’re trying to hype up this guy, if he didn’t have Claude he couldn’t have made this, just like non engineers all over the world are coding all a variety of shit right now.
by wyldberry | 2026-01-28 00:26:54+00:00
You're missing the forest for the trees here. The network and techniques used here are the same, but even more refined and tech enabled, of those insurgency groups. The power is the network of people in their specialized roles that can quickly target the enemy (ICE) and deliver a payload (obstruction).

The FBI has a long history of attempting to infiltrate and destabilize these groups. In the early 2010s there was a push to infiltrate right leaning groups. They especially called out in their published documents disgruntled veterans returning from the wars and unhappy with leadership noting a worry they would use the skills picked up at war at home.

It's absolutely no surprise that the FBI would investigate this behavior.
by conception | 2026-01-28 00:27:09+00:00
To add, McDonalds is required to list calories and nutritional information. There are various agencies and regulations guarding us from them selling us rat meat instead of cow. Education on “junk food” is widespread and has (had…) widespread government education programs.

There is a great deal of information given to parents on what is in McDonalds.

I would say that most parents, not those on a tech site, have no idea how tiktok works, what studies have shown about it or its dangers.
by tptacek | 2026-01-28 00:27:20+00:00
Neither is the UK, Germany, Spain, or India, all places with with YC companies in them. None of those locales have ever been in the standard YC deal terms.

What founders in Europe (say, in the Netherland, where YC invested in Servo7 in the W26 batch) do to accept funding from YC is a "flipped structure": they create a new Delaware Corporation, which then acquires the original company and runs it as a subsidiary. The founders retain the same ownership of the new DE company as they would have had they been in the US. Literally nothing else changes about the operation of the company.

This structure is so standard that Canadian YC companies already tended to do it. You've got Dan in this thread talking about how he and Scott did it with Skysheets back in the mid-aughts. Whatever else YC is OK with, future priced-round investors want companies incorporated in the US.

I'm sorry, but you were wrong; your analysis of what this change meant was based on a wildly false premise. The prospects of founders in Canada have not changed; the only thing that's changed is how the paperwork is managed if they are invited to a batch and accept.
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-28 00:27:30+00:00
Strange take? Are you kidding me?

The second amendment is literally in the constitution for the EXACT reason where if a governing entity decides to violate the security and freedoms of people, the people have the right to own weapons and organize a militia.

Plus nobody really needs to die. Having enough people point guns at them is going to make them think twice about starting shit. Contrary to popular belief, ICE agents aren't exactly martyrs for the cause. There are already groups of people armed outside protecting others, for this exact reason.

You are the actual fed lmao.
by bonsai_spool | 2026-01-28 00:27:32+00:00
> But if asian researchers (yes, no offense), were already spamming half the world papers with cheated slop (non reproducible experiments) in the desperate bid of publishing before, I can't imagine now.

Hmm, I follow the argument, but it's inconsistent with your assertion that there is going to be incentive for 'proper work' over time. Anecdotally, I think the median quality of papers from middle- and top-tier Chinese universities is improving (your comment about 'asian researchers' ignores that Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have established research programs at least in biology).
by LooseMarmoset | 2026-01-28 00:27:37+00:00
"The OS configuration and state (i.e. /etc/ and /var/) must be encrypted, and authenticated before they are used. The encryption key should be bound to the TPM device; i.e system data should be locked to a security concept belonging to the system, not the user."

See Android; or, where you no longer own your device, and if the company decides, you no longer own your data or access to it.
by CMay | 2026-01-28 00:28:01+00:00
So I'm part of a gold star family now? Are you going to put me in a concentration camp, because I think the rule of law is more important than mob rule?

It's best to show some moderation and give these controversial political moments a little time to air out, because there is a lot of disinformation being promoted with the intent to amplify people's emotions. Some people are very vulnerable to that kind of propaganda, and many of those people are compassionate.

Don't let your compassion be weaponized. Be your own person.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-28 00:29:17+00:00
> IDEs/agent swarms/fallability. Both the "no need for IDE anymore" hype and the "agent swarm" hype is imo too much for right now.

I'm honestly considering throwing away my JetBrains subscription and this is year 9 or 10 of me having one. I only open Zed and start yappin' at Claude Code. My employer doesn't even want me using ReSharper because some contractor ruined it for everyone else by auto running all code suggestions and checking them in blindly, making for really obnoxious code diffs and probably introducing countless bugs and issues.

Meanwhile tasks that I know would take any developers months, I can hand-craft with Claude in a few hours, with the same level of detail, but no endless weeks of working on things that'll be done SoonTM.
by proee | 2026-01-28 00:29:29+00:00
I've had to deal with mold more than I care to discuss.

The key is to keep humidity down (relative to temperature). There is a concept of "Days till Mold" growth. Once you're past this number all bets are off.

Here is a chart that shows Days to growth. If museums can stay in the "no risk" zone then artifacts should be good. If they fall outside that zone, then artifacts are at risk.

https://energyhandyman.com/knowledge-library/mold-chart-for-...

Example: At 85'F and 84% Humidity, it will take 7 days for mold to grow into your nostrils and reach your brain.
by sgarland | 2026-01-28 00:29:32+00:00
The ORM isn’t the performance issue here, it’s the DB. DISTINCT is a form of GROUP BY, and so it brings with it the various limitations imposed by the RDBMS. For example, look at what MySQL requires to use an index to perform a GROUP BY.

0: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/group-by-optimizatio...
by saurik | 2026-01-28 00:30:08+00:00
Which again, is obviously the wrong answer, as that same argument could try to be applied to Windows and would fall immediately: Windows 95 knows nothing of my new hardware, and yet, by and large, works fine. There is something unique about macOS and Apple that causes their hardware to actively not bother to maintain any form of backwards compatibility with the software that runs on it (which is not to be unexpected from Apple, but still), and that must be present in the answer to this question (which is done really well by mschuster91).
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-28 00:30:56+00:00
this feels like such a line in the sand, where github is Extend Embrace Extinguishing the value of git.

pr's themselves already, in my view, are an example of github not playing particularly well amid git. it leave so much want as this thing that is about git, but isn't in git, isn't tracked there, that is purely held by github & not git. it's been convenient but it's bad for growth innovation possibility and coordination.

the agents tab feels so so so crucial, is such the tale of the project. this is enormous interesting helpful stuff. but it's being managed purely by github, is not part of the repo, and that's a huge lost opportunity for all. this feels too far to me!

we see some early work such as the Git AI Standard v3 maybe starting to create some common protocols & systems for using git, for enriching git. on git, in a compatible way. agents tab is technically very cool & so useful, but this is the wrong direction, further entrenching & self-dealing for github, and i am not down for this microsoftization of such a core vital open source system. https://github.com/git-ai-project/git-ai/blob/main/specs/git...
by Brian_K_White | 2026-01-28 00:31:50+00:00
"The trick is the same: use a popular linux distribution and don't fight the kinks."

I believe that you are genuinely being sincere here, thinking this is good advice.

But this is an absolutely terrible philosophy. This statement is ignorant as well as inconsiderate. (again, I do believbe you don't intend to be inconsiderate consciously, that is just the result.)

It's ignorant of history and inconsiderate of everyone else but yourself.

Go back a few years and this same logic says "The trick is, just use Windows and do whatever it wants and don't fight."

So why in the world are you even using Linux at all in the first place with that attitude? For dishonest reasons (when unpacked to show the double standard).

Since you are using Linux instead of Windows, then you actually are fine with fighting the tide. You want the particular bits of control you want, and as long as you are lucky enough to get whatever you happen to care about without fighting too much, then you have no sympathy for anyone else who cares aboiut anything else.

You don't see yourself as fighting any tides because you are benefitting from being able to use a mainstream distro without customizing it. But the only reason you get to enjoy any such thing at all in the first place is because a lot of other people before you fought the tide to bring some mainstream distros into existence, and actually use them for ordinary activities enough despite all the difficulties, to force at least some companies and government agencies to acknowledge them. So now you can say things like "just use a mainstream distro as it comes and don't try to do what you actually want".
by alephnerd | 2026-01-28 00:31:55+00:00
> this will be a long war of edits

That's my fault. I abused my HN account instead of using the HN API years ago during a drunken hackathon in the early days of LLMs. As such my replies are rate limited.

> without the necessary cultural knowledge you will struggle to spot the red flags that the locals can spot easily

I agree. This is why most VC/PE funds have a deep bench of Asian American operators.

> In capitalism, jobs are commodity. Business really only cares about efficiency, not nationalist sensitivities. For every "American" job taken, there is an "American" boss who gives it away, but that is the point: the boss does not feel any patriotic duty to keep jobs onshore. He is beholden to the bottom line of his business

Absolutely. Hence why I made choices to move offices from SV to Karlin, or moving Brno offices to Delhi.

> Maybe the whole idea of just easily cherrypicking talent from very distant nations with very different cultures is less workable than naive people think

It's not that difficult. Most VC/PE funds have a roster of a couple dozen (VC) to couple hundred (Megacap PE) operators we can poach to manage investments. This is why the recent boom in Indian American C-Suites and VPs happened.

> Czechs aren't particularly honest people on average

Ehn, y'all are honest enough. Czech pragmatism is refreshing after dealing with Germans.

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I think what happened was a mutually heated moment of emotion, but largely we sound aligned (and from personal experience, I have tended to agree with your thoughts somewhat). When I'm back in Praha let's grab some Pivo - I'm a Mliko guy to be honest.
by jedberg | 2026-01-28 00:33:04+00:00
> You realize that stamina is a core bottleneck to work

There has been a lot of research that shows that grit is far more correlated to success than intelligence. This is an interesting way to show something similar.

AIs have endless grit (or at least as endless as your budget). They may outperform us simply because they don't ever get tired and give up.

Full quote for context:

Tenacity. It's so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day. It's a "feel the AGI" moment to watch it struggle with something for a long time just to come out victorious 30 minutes later. You realize that stamina is a core bottleneck to work and that with LLMs in hand it has been dramatically increased.
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-28 00:33:46+00:00
You've just seen the people at the very top of the administration saying that just having a gun in any sort of proximity to federal agents = terrorist. If you show up tomorrow with a rifle on the other side of a Minnesota street from a bunch of ICE agents, do you think they're going to prioritize de-escalation and professionalism or just light you up? Serious question.
by bojo | 2026-01-28 00:33:57+00:00
I've been an EM for the last 10 of my 25 year Software Engineering career. Coding is, frankly, boring to me anymore, even though I enjoyed doing it most of my career. I had this project I wanted to exist in world but couldn't be bothered to get started.

Decided to figure out what this "vibe coding" nonsense is, and now there's a certain level of joy to all of this again. Being able to clearly define everything using markdown contexts before any code is even written has been a great way to brain dump those 25 years of experience and actually watch something sane get produced.

Here are the stats Claude Code gave me:

Overview
┌───────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ Metric │ Value │
├───────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Total Commits │ 365 │
├───────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Project Age │ 7 days (Jan 20 - 27, 2026) │
├───────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Open Issues │ 5 │
├───────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Contributors │ 1 │
└───────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
Lines of Code by Language
┌───────────────────────────┬───────┬────────┬───────────┐
│ Language │ Files │ Lines │ % of Code │
├───────────────────────────┼───────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ Rust (Backend) │ 94 │ 31,317 │ 51.8% │
├───────────────────────────┼───────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ TypeScript/TSX (Frontend) │ 189 │ 29,167 │ 48.2% │
├───────────────────────────┼───────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ SQL (Migrations) │ 34 │ 1,334 │ — │
├───────────────────────────┼───────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ CSS │ — │ 1,868 │ — │
├───────────────────────────┼───────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ Markdown (Docs) │ 37 │ 9,485 │ — │
├───────────────────────────┼───────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ Total Source │ 317 │ 60,484 │ 100% │
└───────────────────────────┴───────┴────────┴───────────┘
by fragmede | 2026-01-28 00:34:07+00:00
It's probably that whole "masked gangs randomly kidnapping people" angle that's got people on edge, doesn't matter who they voted for. That is to say, there's a very vocal contingent online that would lead you to believe that all Trump voters support everything that's happened and is happening and could possibly happen, but it's also not true. And also not everyone has forgotten about Epstein either.

What's hilarious is the whispers among troops that were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. They never would have gotten away with the same shit that ICE is pulling. If your read is that it's "typically brutal", you may want to engage with, erm, the rules of engagement in more depth.
by taylodl | 2026-01-28 00:34:16+00:00
I thought we discovered years ago that people retain content better when reading books than when reading e-readers? Nobody could really explain why, but that's what the results showed. I know if I'm using reading to learn new things then I learn it better when reading a book. However, I also know that good videos plus a book is even better. Which is to say I think screens may augment books, but they're not going to replace them.