MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-10 16:30:02+00:00
Canadian perspective: it seems like many (not all) Americans are also explicitly brought up with, and heavily absorb, "greatest country in the world" rhetoric that also leaves them incapable of understanding that this is not necessarily how people outside of it see the USA.

Trying to be diplomatic? I've seen a lot of really insane shit in comment sections -- and even more insane shit from public officials -- over the last year since these "topics" came up.

Belief in or unconscious absorbance of the concept of "manifest destiny" and American exceptionalism seems to run deep in a portion of the American psyche.

No, it's not "their" continent to take. Might doesn't make right. And it certainly doesn't make for superiority in anything but brawn and bravado.

I'll also add this: the (imho encouraging) trend in the north and with the indigenous populations there has been in the opposite direction from what the Trump regime is proposing: sovereignty and autonomy for the Inuit to run their own lands. Canada carved out new Inuit administered territories, trying in some respect (and inconsistently) to rectify over a century of mis(mal?)governance and exploitation and mistreatment.

From the polls I see the Inuit in Greenland want more self governance, not a new external boss.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-10 16:30:05+00:00
The US agreed to recognize Greenland being a part of Denmark in the same treaty where the US purchased the Virgin Islands. If the US changes its mind right now and uses force or other coercion, why would anyone trust any treaty or other agreement with the US ever again?

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

> During 1916, the two sides agreed to a sale price of $25,000,000, and the United States accepted a Danish demand for a declaration stating that they would "not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland".
by gambiting | 2026-01-10 16:30:08+00:00
At least here in the UK for years if you opened a bank account, even a free one, you'd get a debit card + a device for generating secure keys for online and telephone banking. Like a standalone, battery powered device the size of a calculator.

Like....why can't we just go back to that? Banks were "fine"(doesn't mean happy) to shoulder the cost of these devices then.
by nephihaha | 2026-01-10 16:30:44+00:00
I have at least twenty years of experience of Wikipedia, and it is exactly how it works much of the time. I lost count of the occasions when people with no knowledge of a particular subject kept trying to delete articles on it. Then there were the continuously changing rules, jargon and oligarchical structures...

Some subject areas have much better coverage than others: linguistics is much better dealt with than sport for example.

Nowadays I rarely edit Wikipedia, because they block most shared IPs. I used a named account for at least ten years and it was counterproductive.
by bmelton | 2026-01-10 16:30:45+00:00
A lot of people naively interject "But we're not a democracy, we're a Republic!" at arguments where it has no real bearing, but _here_ it does.

We (America) are not a democracy, we're a constitutionally limited republic. Republic is a subset of democracy, but the 'constitutionally limited republic' part is important. We cannot elect politicians to censor the things that we want censored because our republic has not authorized the government to do censorship, and the bill of rights expressly forbids it. They are constitutionally limited from doing so until and unless the constitution is amended.

Until and unless we change the constitution, any efforts to do that are illicit. Popular democracy would allow a majority to vote to bring back slavery, and if you don't like that, you don't like democracy.
by seabrookmx | 2026-01-10 16:31:06+00:00
It's also unsafe. He's comparing it to a modern Ranger, not the Ranger of the same year as the C15 (which was much smaller and got better fuel economy), and he completely ignores the fact that the Citroen wasn't sold in North America.

He seems to imply there would be no appetite for one here but I disagree. In western Canada I see imported Kei trucks everywhere and these fill a similar niche!
by jna_sh | 2026-01-10 16:31:14+00:00
Moved my Framework laptop to Bluefin and my gaming desktop to Bazzite early last year. Zero regrets, zero issues. I'm not new to Linux by any means, I've been dabbling since a kid. But in adulthood, I had given up on having Linux as my daily driver because I just wanted my main computers to work, I didn't want maintaining them to be a hobby. That's not been an issue with Bluefin or Bazzite. I'm sure it's not for a lot of modern Linuxes, but these ones I can vouch for at least!
by IgorPartola | 2026-01-10 16:31:21+00:00
Back in the days of Unity I decided to make a full switch to Linux and it just worked. The UX was unfamiliar but it had a cohesiveness that made sense. I use macOS for the past 10 years as my main system (work stuff needs Mac-specific things) but switching to a decent Linux distro would honestly feel like an upgrade. Windows continues being a shitshow and I want nothing to do with it.

What I think could really push Linux desktop forward is if various PC gaming influencers started doing content on how to game on Linux. Given that it is not just viable now but actively sometimes better than on Windows it would make for good content AND show people an alternative. And soon as AAA games start being created for Linux first and run on Windows in some sort of compatibility or emulation mode that will really start turning the tides.
by kittikitti | 2026-01-10 16:31:38+00:00
This is a great achievement for AI! I quickly read through the thread but found that Tao's page on Github to be easier to comprehend,

https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contribution...

It classifies the advancements based on the level of AI input. In particular, the entry in Table 1 related to the original post has both a green and yellow light, reflecting the skepticism from others.
by atmosx | 2026-01-10 16:31:55+00:00
The responsibility falls always to the patient. That’s true with doctors are as well: you visit two doctors they give you different diagnosis, one tells to go for surgery, the other tells you it’s not worth the hassle. Who can decide? The patient does.

LLMs are yet another powerful tool under our belt, you know it’s hallucinating so be careful. That said, even asking specialized info about this or that medical topic can be a great thing for patients. That’s why I believe it’s a good thing to have specialized LLMs that can tailor responses on individual health situations.

The problem is the framework and the implementation end goal. IMO state owned health data is a goldmine for any social welfare system and now with AI they can make use of it in novel ways.
by LoganDark | 2026-01-10 16:31:56+00:00
Back when I used Android phones, tweaking was pretty important to me too. I still remember when I installed CyanogenMod on a Motorola XT1565, those were the days... Eventually, LineageOS, and then some new phones happened, not all of which were rootable, though I eventually ended up with a OnePlus 7 Pro which was pretty tweakable and even opened the possibility of bootloader re-locking, until a TWRP bug wiped my device and I pretty much stopped tweaking. Was never quite able to get EdXposed working right again...
by bccdee | 2026-01-10 16:32:19+00:00
Yeah, your error handling should not always be backwards/forwards compatible. If the new version of a library is throwing a new kind of error, that library's clients need to be updated. Being able to break your clients when necessary is a feature & not a bug. Of course, if you don't need to break your clients, simply don't change your ErrorKind enum.

Backwards/forwards compatibility matters a lot across service boundaries. I'm not saying Protobuf needs to be exhaustively matchable. But native types from a static library? You want to be able to match those exhaustively.
by Fischgericht | 2026-01-10 16:32:27+00:00
I can confirm all of the findings.

My first car I got in Germany was a C15. I used it to transport server racks, but also had a mattress in the back and had my first sex on it. On muddy festivals where others cars got stuck, I was able to get out easily. Repairs were dirt cheap. It also had a tow bar, and was able to pull a 1.5 metric ton trailer to get equipment to a computer party.

And I still was able to do 160 km/h (100 MPH) with it on the Autobahn. With or without server racks, with or without sex.

Best car I ever had.

It is really insane that these days cars on average weigh 25-40 times of their load. Human stupidity never ceases to amaze me.
by btrettel | 2026-01-10 16:32:29+00:00
> Have you seen teams actually test or evolve their hiring criteria this way, or does it usually stay fixed once defined?

I'm sure many folks hiring do iteratively improve their hiring criteria, though I'm skeptical of how rigorous their process is. For all I know they could make their hiring criteria worse over time! I have never been involved in a hiring decision, so what I write is from the perspective of a job candidate.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-10 16:32:29+00:00
> and the dealership said they probably won't have any for a long time

In my case, I told the dealerships I was okay with waiting up to two years to get the exact trim I wanted. I told them whichever dealership could get me an allocation first got the sale. Then I literally stood up to leave.

And like magic, they went to the computer and found the exact trim I wanted and got my allocation a month out. I was extremely picky on color and options, though. If I had been flexible on color it would have been sooner.

The sales people at dealerships will pressure you into upsells. They’re not going to turn down an easy sale if you demonstrate that you know what you’re doing. They were trying to upsell you.
by jeron | 2026-01-10 16:32:50+00:00
I'm probably one of the few people in this thread who are actually truck shopping right now

The ranger is a great option for most people but one of my capabilities for the truck is to bring my bike to motorcycle track days. Usually I'd only take a single motorcycle, however track days are more fun with friends. to fit two motorcycles in the back of the Ranger, you need to adjust the angle of the handlebars awkwardly to fit both on the bed.[0]

that leaves only the bigger 1500 class trucks as options for me, and why I'm going with an F150

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmegARwXN7Q
by fifticon | 2026-01-10 16:33:08+00:00
can you clarify on what grounds it is irrelevant? As I see it, most things in the world are arranged in their current way for 'hysterical raisins', so I don't quite follow? There are approximately 200 countries that could carry continued support for greenland,but currently denmark is the one doing it, for HR. By the same logic,greenland could go to China or Russia?
by ryandrake | 2026-01-10 16:34:35+00:00
One (obscure) example I know of is the RTLSDR-Airband[1] project uses the GPU to do FFT computation on older, less powerful Pis, through the GPU_FFT library[2].

1: https://github.com/rtl-airband/RTLSDR-Airband

2: http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPU_FFT/Main.htm
by plagiarist | 2026-01-10 16:34:40+00:00
I went with a Retroid after seeing articles about people booting ROCKNIX on it. And one can, from SD. But I did not do enough research to see there was no documentation on writing Linux to the internal storage.

I'm so tired of doing research. I'd just like it to be a functioning BIOS. I at least learned my lesson and have stayed clear of other Android devices.
by TomMasz | 2026-01-10 16:34:41+00:00
There's always room for a tool that does most of the things that people need to do, alongside far more complicated tools that do that plus a whole lot more. If all you want to do is maybe make some text bold or italic or have a bullet list, you can do it in Word, but it's way more than you need (plus it's not text), Markdown solves your problem, and if someone doesn't have a tool for viewing Markdown, it's still perfectly readable in a text editor.
by eesmith | 2026-01-10 16:34:44+00:00
He deliberately planned to travel via countries which were unlikely to extradite him to the US on his way to a country which offered him permanent asylum.

Do you have a suggestion for a better routing? I surely can't. How should he have gotten to Ecuador? (Which, btw, is not a US adversary.)

As for your "drop off" conjecture, we have no evidence that happened, and unless you are attached to the "Snowden was black-hearted liar" fabrication, we can all read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden where he says he did not do that, and explains why:

> In October 2013, Snowden said that before flying to Moscow, he gave all the classified documents he had obtained to journalists he met in Hong Kong and kept no copies for himself.[110] In January 2014, he told a German TV interviewer that he gave all of his information to American journalists reporting on American issues.[57] During his first American TV interview, in May 2014, Snowden said he had protected himself from Russian leverage by destroying the material he had been holding before landing in Moscow.

I take it you believe he lied, and during the last decade-plus his nefarious actions and additional secret files never leaked.

Would you care to explain the basis for your belief?
Show HN: Awesome-Nanobanana-Prompts
by hellomerlin | 2026-01-10 16:35:02+00:00
I built a GitHub-first prompt library for Nano Banana / Nano Banana Pro with example images.
What makes it useful:
• Image-first browsing: prompts are collapsed by default (click to expand), so you can scan results quickly.
• Organized by category (e.g., product shots, posters, profiles, deconstruct/infographic-style prompts).
• Consistent titles + structure so prompts are easy to search, compare, and reuse.
• Open to contributions: PRs/issues welcome (new prompts, better categories, more examples).
If you try it, I’d love feedback on the taxonomy and what prompt formats are most reusable for your workflow.
by yorwba | 2026-01-10 16:35:03+00:00
There was an election in 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Greenlandic_general_elect... Pro-independence parties won a supermajority. The only party whose leader said that he trusts Trump in the debate before the election got 305 votes and no seats.

The next parliamentary elections are scheduled for 2029, too late for a pro-Trump swing unless he manages to stay in office somehow.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-10 16:35:04+00:00
> Instead, it comes from perthein (to destroy) + phonos, making her the "Bringer of Destruction". With a caveat that the etymology of her name is uncertain:

But... of all the theories listed there, perthein isn't among them.

And if the roots are "destroy" and "death", what would make her the "bringer" of destruction?
by peanut-walrus | 2026-01-10 16:35:30+00:00
I've been a Linux admin for 25 years but up until a few months ago my personal computer has been windows (gaming desktop) or Mac (laptop).

I decided to give desktop Linux another shot and I'm glad I did. I was prepared for a lot of jankiness but figured I have enough experience to fix whatever needs fixing. Surprisingly, this has not been the case at all, the PC has been not only as stable as Windows or Mac but also performs better and is much more comfortable and intuitive to use. I never really want to "work on" my personal computer, I want it to just be there for me reliably. I've always had a soft spot for free software, but I just couldn't justify the effort until now.

So I guess this is my love letter to all the devs that have made the modern Linux desktop possible. Even compared to just a few years ago, the difference is immense. Keep up the good work.
by blacklion | 2026-01-10 16:35:39+00:00
It is supported by vueScan (of course), but Classic Mac doesn't.

Film photography revival goes full swing, I hope there will be new good film scanners with MF format support. Nikon CoolScan 9000 costs unreasonable money, if you factor in lamp which can burn-out and overall age of the machine. And drivers are pain in the ass on modern systems, though, again, vueScan supports it. But ICE (dust removal) works better in Nikon software.
by MattDaEskimo | 2026-01-10 16:35:40+00:00
Tailwind itself is not useless, but the plus package is.

It's a simple convenience utility belt that LLMs can already automate.

Both open-source and open-core need to be re-evaluated as labor value plummets.

I also disagree with the "why". Tailwind is extremely useful with LLMs as it can set styling inside of HTML, rather than maintain an external, typically massive, convoluted CSS file.

It's for the same reason that typing in programming will become a standard with LLMs: eliminate implicit/semantic density with explicit/semantic precision.

In both examples an LLM can have a strong understanding of a single file/module without needing to search for its meaning externally
by al_borland | 2026-01-10 16:36:16+00:00
I just downloaded it to try it out after seeing it in a few comments. While some of the visualizations seem like ones I could get used to and like, the radar is severely lacking. I use radar a lot and DarkSky’s view was amazing and just fun to play with. Weather Graph has it buried at the bottom and just loads up weather.gov. It’s hard to justify paying a premium with radar feeling pretty ignored. His website mentions radar won’t be coming in the near term. I think that’s a deal breaker for me.
by epolanski | 2026-01-10 16:36:42+00:00
This won't bother at all this administration.

Say what you want but presidential democracies where presidents are elected by popular vote are a disaster for stability and democracy.

What's happening with this doing and undoing in the US (or Russia, Belarus, Hungary and countless other presidential republics) fully displays why this is a terrible political system:

1. Winner takes all. You may have been voted by 50% + 1 (even less) citizens but the other half is totally not represented like in a parliament.

2. No parliament/party that you need to have backing of. In a parliamentary democracy the prime minister won't just lose opposition's votes, but has to govern in a way that its own party won't boot you.

3. Single person can claim popular mandate. Often in opposition to the parliament/senate whatever. So you end up in situations like the disaster in Poland where government and president are from different parties and the government gets vetoed everything.

4. Extremely hard to remove. A prime minister is a vote of no confidence away from losing its seat. The president can ask them to resign in extreme situations. A president? Removing them is beyond difficult.

Honestly this is such an obvious disaster to have people vote for a president rather than a parliamentary prime minister.

The last parliamentary democracy to turn authoritarian has been Sri Lanka 50+ years ago. It's very hard to get so bad so fast in parliamentary republics.

Honestly I can't comprehend Americans thinking their constitution is some holy grail. It's old and has been written centuries ago without all the experience we have in modern democracies. Eastern Europe too has made very bad choices with similar setups and democratically elected presidents.

Say what you want but Germany or Italy have built in way more resilience to these absurdities by having the parliament elect the president which forces them to elect mostly neutral unbiased figures that will support and oversee whoever ends up being in government.
by toddmorey | 2026-01-10 16:36:44+00:00
Commercial OSes (both Windows and MacOS) now feel so insanely agenda driven, and the agenda no longer feels like anything close to making the user happy and productive. For Mac, it feels like Apple wants to leverage what came out of VisionOS and unify the look and feel of mobile and desktop--two things no one asked for. For Windows, it feels like ads for their partners and ensuring they don't fumble the ai/agent transition the way they did with mobile.

Linux is SUCH a breath of fresh air. No one wants it to be anything other than what you want it to be. Modern desktop Linux has a much improved out of the box experience with good support for all the hardware I've thrown at it. And Claude Code makes it very fast and trivial to personalize, adapt, automate, etc.
by hearsathought | 2026-01-10 16:37:07+00:00
> That’s not what makes it morally unacceptable.

Who decides what is morally unacceptable? Those with power.

> Force doesn’t determine morality.

Really? How else is morality enforced? Other than by force?

> It determines what happens.

What happens? Like deciding what is moral or not?

> Your statement amounts to a tautology: “whatever happens is what happens”

No it doesn't.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-10 16:37:09+00:00
The actual realization, which usually comes years after the realization that there is no bottom, is that there is no top either.

The battle along the spectrum of privatizing gains (lower healthcare premiums for a healthy lifestyle - high premiums for unhealthy lifestyle) vs socializing losses (paying $20/mo to get $1200/mo of care - paying $1200/mo for $0/mo of care) is constant and boundless in either direction.
by rigelbm | 2026-01-10 16:37:40+00:00
As a Kagi long time user, and a Linux die-hard, I don't get the obsession with having everything being open source.

This will sound overly critic (sorry before hand), but what do you want the source code for?

Do you read the source code of every open source applications you use? Do you compile all of them to make sure there are no shenanigans? If you do, congratulations, you are a member of a very niche group of people, that I'm not sure companies will be targeting.

I pay Kagi because I don't want to be the product (via no-privacy ad businesses). Not because I hate ads per-se (although I really dislike them), but because ads-funding incentives are contrary to make their products better. I like to know that Kagi's only incentive is to make their products better, so that I will keep paying for them.

I more than welcome that now expanding to browsers. I would get absolutely 0 value from it being open source, and so would most users I would guess, including probably you, even if you are fundamentally against closed source software, which you have the right to be of course.
by Raed667 | 2026-01-10 16:37:41+00:00
My favorite C15 story is with my childhood friend who got it as a hand-me-down first car, we used to put plastic lawn chairs in the back and head to the beach...

The gas meter was broken, so my friend had to guesstimate when he needed a refill.

At one point it was stolen, but then found a week later on the side of the highway,out of gas..
by simonw | 2026-01-10 16:37:56+00:00
Here's the key idea:

> Creating any one single behavior in a computer system is almost always trivial for the experienced engineer. When the experienced engineer on your team says that something can’t be done easily, they almost always mean is that the thing can’t be done easily in a way that is acceptable to the health of the product. Junior engineers tend not to have to consider this constraint.

I completely agree. One of the things that makes a senior engineer senior is the ability to design and implementing code with the health of the overall system in mind.

This is really hard, especially since you simultaneously have to resist the temptation to build abstractions for a future that may not come to pass - sticking to the YAGNI principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-10 16:38:12+00:00
One of the tricky situations now is that full independence for Greenland now would leave it weak to more aggressive imperialist predation from the USA.

Not that Denmark (or even the EU) is capable of militarily defending it now. But politically it carries more clout than a tiny population in its own state.

I think the situation of Quebec here in Canada does show it's possible for regions/provinces to become somewhat more sovereign in their own land without full legal independence. Even if that has been fraught with all sorts of ridiculous conflict.