MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thomassmith65 | 2026-01-20 20:52:11+00:00
1) The delay came at a tricky time. Canada had arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on behalf of the USA, and China disappeared two Canadian citizens in retaliation.

4 & 5) Canada has a gun problem, and the guns originate from the USA. Canada has a problem with sick Americans crossing the border and buying meds meant for Canadians. American cross-border concerns about Canada don't hold a candle to that.

6) This is a strange expectation. If it had merit, then the reverse would, too: America is guilty of undercutting Canada's efforts to maintain global free trade.

So that leaves NORAD and the Digital Services tax.

To my mind, it seems like Canada primarily is guilty of being a nation with a few priorities and interests of its own, rather than a state.
by runekaagaard | 2026-01-20 20:52:49+00:00
It's impossible to not get decision-fatique and just mash enter anyway after a couple of months with Claude not messing anything important up, so a sandboxed approach in YOLO mode feels much safer.

It takes the stress about needing to monitor all the agents all the time too, which is great and creates incentives to learn how to build longer tasks for CC with more feedback loops.

I'm on Ubuntu 22.04 and it was surprisingly pleasant to create a layered sandbox approach in rust with bubblewrap and Landlock LSM: Landlock for filesystem restrictions (read-only system paths, blocked ~/.ssh/~/.aws, workdir write access) and TCP port control (only 443/22/MCP ports), bubblewrap for mount namespace isolation (/tmp per-project, hiding secrets), and dnsmasq for DNS whitelisting (only anthropic.com, github.com, pypi.org resolve - everything else gets NXDOMAIN).
by complianceowl | 2026-01-20 20:52:50+00:00
Like I said, you're far gone mentally. Deporting US Citizens is 100% a "one-off" example; we can count on one hand the amount of times that has happened. If you look at what's happening in MN and that is all you see, it only confirms what I am saying: you've been radicalized via extreme ideology rendering your blind. Violence against law enforcement who is carrying out the same exact job that it carried out under every president before is not Gestapo behavior.

You're lost.
by alphazard | 2026-01-20 20:53:14+00:00
> Believing something is mispriced simply means the perceived risk is very low (or even negative)

That's not what risk means. Risk is the amount you stand to lose, and expected value is the mean outcome (calculated by integrating across all possible outcomes).
The EV can be positive or negative, and that corresponds to a mispriced asset.
Risk can only go to zero, but it can also be arbitrarily high.

Managing risk is its own thing, but to give an intuition: How much should you bet on repeated coin tosses that pay out 3:1 and costs a dollar to play, if you have $100?
More than 0, because it is positive EV, but definitely not the whole 100.
Risk management is about playing vs. not playing and bet sizing.

Gambling is taking on risk without positive EV. A 1:1 cointoss is the quintessential example. EV is 0, you won't make or lose anything in the long run playing this game. But it adds uncertainty, you could have twice as much or nothing.
Gambling is risk-seeking, the variance of outcomes has value (to a gambler) on its own.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-20 20:53:31+00:00
I’ve told you my background. I’m telling you that you are using the wrong tool for the job. It’s not an issue with the database. Even if you did need an OLAP database like Reddhift, you are still treating it like an OLTP database as far as your ETL job. You really need to do some additional research
by crazygringo | 2026-01-20 20:53:37+00:00
Based on just this article, it seems far most likely to me that it was a place to hide during an attack.

> And while three brave explorers in the 21st century once spent 48 hours in an erdstall, crawling to new sections whenever oxygen became scarce, it seems unlikely that they would have been constructed as hiding places, even temporary ones. Though they could have provided refuge for a small family, why would they be accessed from such public spaces?

I don't see why a whole bunch of people couldn't have hidden in them for several hours during an attack/raid? A hiding spot sufficiently known to a few, just big enough.

> The lack of exits is a further strike against this theory—if enemies became aware of such a tunnel being used as shelter, it would quickly become a death trap for its inhabitants.

Which would contribute to their extreme secrecy. And the loops and dead ends and narrow spots make it all the harder for attackers to pursue you even if they find it.

> Besides, in either of these cases, one would expect at least some goods to have been left behind—remnants of food or clothing, cached or dropped valuables. Instead, there is nothing.

If they were intended for hiding for just a few hours, since oxygen would run out anyways, it makes sense for nothing to be left in there. Your rush in, come out when the raiders have moved on. Clothing was valuable, you weren't going to leave your shawl behind.
by arcfour | 2026-01-20 20:53:42+00:00
The presentation here was really interesting. It felt like reading a magazine story on something back in the day. Wasn't a huge fan of just how much I had to scroll sometimes, but still cool overall.

It's really dishearting to imagine how the victims feel after this. Being so vulnerable to someone you trust only to learn it was a ruse all along to scam you is probably one of the most awful feelings I can imagine, on top of the missing money.
by devolving-dev | 2026-01-20 20:53:51+00:00
It's just in my personal experience, I ask AI to help me and it seems to do it's best. Sometimes it fails because it's incapable. It's similar to an employee in that regard. Whereas when I install a computer virus it instantly tries to do malicious things to my computer, like steal my money or lock my files or whatever, and it certainly doesn't try to help me with my tasks. So that's the angle that I'm looking at it from. Maybe another good example would be to compare it to some other type of useful software like a web browser. The web browser might contain malicious code and stuff, but I'm not going to read through all of the source code. I haven't even checked if other people have audited the source code. I just feel like the risk of chrome or Firefox messing with my computer is kind of low based on my experience and what people are telling me, so I install it on my computer and give it the necessary permissions.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-01-20 20:55:18+00:00
My local coin store was busier today than I've ever seen it (visit about once a quarter, for about a decade). Lots of people transacting silver — so much so that the buyback fees were about 50% more than usual — and yet people were primarily turning silver/USD into gold (myself included).

When you consider that historically our US fiat has been 65:1 (Au:Ag), it's scary to see the ratio back around the levels when Bretton Woods was implemented (50:1, 1930s-1960s). It's even scarier to see the rapid rate we are approaching to-when USD was gold-backed (22:1), considering that less than two years ago it was over 100:1 .

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What else is a fiat-based country supposed to do after creating all these unfunded pensions/liabilities ?— ¡¿..then to inflate away the guaranteed difference..?!
by mrburton | 2026-01-20 20:55:24+00:00
I can relate to this and in my journey, I was able to maintain feeding my need to be useful to the world around me and do well money-wise. The latter was my desire to be there for my family so they can focus on their health.

The best part about HackerNews, is that you get a very good sense of the envious and jealous nature of people. A lot of the "hate" or "angry" comments, are basically people who hate their relationship with "work".

To the author, I think you'll continue that process of being useful, but you'll see that in this new world, you're usefulness now scales..
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-20 20:55:49+00:00
Not when the competition is a zero sum game over critical resources. This isn't a game of table tennis, it's about competition over dominance.

Friendships are just the media facing image. In reality, if a country can gain an advantage over the other, and has the means to enforce it without repercussions, they'll do it. Then meet up in front of the media, shake hands and gaslight the peasants on how this benefits everyone.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-20 20:55:59+00:00
> How anyone can not think this is completely insane I dunno.

Not quite, there's a method in the madness. This isn't new in the world of politics, nationalism and expansionist warmongering have always been used in approximately the same way - part distraction and part dog whistling.

Distraction from economic and security policies that aren't in the public interest - the prospect of looting dazzles the mind and makes it easy to utilize the population for concentrating the power in the hands of the looters.

At the same time, it's a dog-whistle to other closeted looters (aka the Putins of the world) signaling that world policing is now passe and pirating has become an honorable profession.

While the newly-hatched pirates salivate over each-other's land, reject all prior agreements as not "something written proving ownership" and proceed to kill each other, they provide more distraction and more justification for war and looting. Mission accomplished.

> Do ~40% of Americans really want their country to become a rampaging conqueror?

That percentage seems a bit low to me. Have you heard any rational arguments against that kind of policy? Something that spells it out, as I did above, together with the risks for the public it entails? Something in mainstream media outside of rare user comments?

Why would people object if no authoritative voice objects on rational grounds?
by justapassenger | 2026-01-20 20:56:11+00:00
It's part dysfunction for sure, but it's mostly just reality being messy. Anyone who worked on a bigger engineering problem, solving real business problem, learns very quickly that reality is messy and doesn't conform to rules. And that's usually main challenge of building any project.

And it's problem specific to software engineering. Any engineering deals with it - when you manufacture physical things, for example, tolerances, safety factors, etc, are all tools to deal with reality being messy.
by Evanito | 2026-01-20 20:56:37+00:00
> Does anybody know how good routing in this Project protected from malicious actors, or simply badly configured nodes?

Reticulum requires you to manually define your uplinks, including remote servers. If this remote server is blackholing your traffic, you are SOL.

If you define multiple remote servers, then you may be in luck iff your destination is advertising its route on a path (chain of servers) that has no such hostile nodes.
by hekkle | 2026-01-20 20:56:53+00:00
I'd say this study is inherently flawed. As I am sure most people know on the Internet these days that just because X states their 'likes' are 'anonymous', doesn't mean they are.

I think the potential reputational damages would still be on the forefront of most people's minds, knowing that at any stage, at the whim of Elon, these will be revealed.
by wyldberry | 2026-01-20 20:57:36+00:00
The finding is surprising, but I think their methodology is a bit flawed.

Study 1 shows "Difference-in-Differences analysis of engagement with
154,122 posts by 1068 accounts before and after the policy
change". All this tells us is that existing accounts did not have a noticeable change. It doesn't suggest anything about accounts created after where the culture of Twitter (appears) to have shifted quite a bit from before going private.

Basically "okay cool, existing accounts didn't change their behavior". What about new accounts? More anonymous accounts? Can we understand anything else about platform growth and interaction? What about classes of user w/ respect to verified users, anonymous accounts vs accounts tied to real identities?

Study 2 is also very limited to draw that conclusion because people are less likely to honestly report their engagement with content or beliefs that could be punishing in a given political environment. This was most astutely observed by the French polymarket user who crushed it betting on the 2024 election using neighbor-polling methodology [0]. Essentially, it appears to be more reliable to ask about the preferences of a respondent's social circle than ask the respondent directly.

[0] - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/french-whale-made-over-80-milli...
by dwrodri | 2026-01-20 20:58:00+00:00
Author here, welcoming feedback and ideas for how you'd approach challenges such as these. There was a long road of operational tasks to get to a "quick" iteration loop in my debug UI, that I'll be ready to share that story once my new ranker is outperforming my old one. As of right now, the entire data + ranking operation runs on an few-years-old gaming PC with 24GB of ram and 12 cores.

The NMF model was fairly simple to get off the ground, thanks to the maturity of the deployment ecosystem surrounding it. Getting the Set Transformer to beat it in my internal benchmarks has been a journey, hopefully I'll share later this year!
by psim1 | 2026-01-20 20:58:01+00:00
In 2021 I speculated on IP and acquired a /23 block by ARIN wait list. I figured on running some services from the IP space for a while and after the 5 years mandated wait time would cash in when surely it would fetch $100k from some party desperate for IPv4.

At this point the services I am running are far more lucrative than the IP space itself is turning out to be.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-20 20:58:49+00:00
Who are you referring to? Citizens doing this? 70% of the country is fat (large portion of that is also dangerously obese)

If your scenario plays out they will also be broke so that military may not be able to be funded. I wouldnt say its impossible but a civil war would break the country such that a lot of the aspects that make you fearful also cease to exist.
by ofalkaed | 2026-01-20 20:59:39+00:00
It is currently under reconstruction, it sounds like much of it was beyond salvage and has to be remade but it is difficult to find much info on this, bits and pieces strewn about the web. The project was resumed in 2023 and the BOR stated they were still committed to reconstructing the star map. In 2024 they completed the new underlayment and I have yet to find anything from 2025 other than that Monument plaza is still closed to the public.
by TimorousBestie | 2026-01-20 20:59:51+00:00
> Why do you always respond to substantive posts with feelings and personal attacks?

You get the audience that responds to you, mate. If what you want is reasoned debate, you need to apply positive feedback when people come to you with reasoned debate. You’re negatively conditioning the “reasoned debate” population with every ideological screed.

Then there’s the willingness to violate social norms (e.g., zero respect for foreign soldiers who died for your country) and insult or denigrate people on the basis of their culture/religion/status. That probably doesn’t help you find dispassionate debate partners.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-20 20:59:55+00:00
Google did not use TPUs for literally every bit of compute that led to Gemini. GCP has millions of high end Nvidia GPUs and programming for them is an order of magnitude easier, even for googlers.

Any claim from google that all of Gemini (including previous experiments) was trained entirely by TPUs is lies. What they are truthfully saying is that the final training run was done on all TPUs. The market shouldn’t react heavily to this, but instead should react positively to the fact that google is now finally selling TPUs externally and their fab yields are better than expected.
by lovich | 2026-01-20 21:00:20+00:00
Yea, this seems like a submarine article. You won’t even get a human to look at your resume before the ATS trashes it if you don’t have the credentials they’re looking for and they still have those.

I checked at random on their careers page for non entry level roles, ones you’d expect that you don’t need to rely on education as a signal like for entry level, and they are still having minimum qualifications of a bachelors, and preferred qualifications of a masters

https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/resul...
by remarkEon | 2026-01-20 21:00:24+00:00
These people are released, which does make the job of federal agencies more difficult, requiring immigration enforcement action in the streets as opposed to the jailhouse. You prefer it in the street, apparently, but I can certainly understand how others may see how these types of actions start to look like States actively frustrating legal immigration enforcement action. Or that it is de facto circumvention if not de jure.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-20 21:00:38+00:00
Related:

Sega co-founder David Rosen has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502239 - January 2026 (37 comments)

David Rosen, co-founder of Sega, has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497897 - January 2026 (0 comments)
by robocat | 2026-01-20 21:00:40+00:00
> usually it meant just straight up getting the command wrong 5 times before trying to read the man page, thinking I understood what the man page meant, trying again another 5 times

I think that is a developer's superpower. The poncy term for it is grit. I tell others that the secret to leaning computers is frustration and persistence.

> and then giving up.

Knowing when to stop or change direction is hard.

I've definitely wasted years of work trying to solve something that I eventually had to give up on.

But I've also been paid very nicely because I've solved problems that others struggled with.
by sevenzero | 2026-01-20 21:00:40+00:00
Yup, while I like being invested in at work (sending me to learn new shit at conferences or stuff like that) I'd never agree with spending 10k on some tool where even the tool vendors say "use with caution, dont use this in production, bla bla bla".

If it really augments my output, sure, currently I just watch my tokens drop to 0 within 3-4 days of using it and then having to wait a month for them to reset because I wont pay for more parrot tokens. The output speeds up some small things but to my overall speeds its not noticeable a ton.
by skissane | 2026-01-20 21:00:41+00:00
> The United States is a flawed system designed to protect the feudal, mostly southern property based system

A lot of the constitutional factors you object to - like smaller states having voting power out of proportion to their population, or the constitution being difficult to amend - are also shared by Australia, yet Australia never had race-based chattel slavery.

(Dispossession and maltreatment of indigenous people isn’t really comparable because (a) the US had that too and (b) to the extent that influenced the constitutional architecture, it didn’t really influence the aspects you are complaining about.)
by dylan604 | 2026-01-20 21:00:59+00:00
Why is this a thing to be surprised by? How many of the tech industry's biggest corps were started by college drop outs leaving them with no degree? The fact that they put needing a degree in the requirements for their job listings is something that has always been laughable to me. A degree pretty much just that you are more than likely in debt beyond belief and you didn't have much else to do so you kept with it long enough to finish. That's probably a bit cynical, but we all make fun of MBAs while cherishing CSE degrees??? Put someone to work that shows they can do the work regardless of having or not a sheep skin. If they can't cut it, get rid of them and do it again.
by smarthood | 2026-01-20 21:01:18+00:00
SmartHood is a Chrome extension + web app that adds AI-generated neighborhood insights directly onto real estate listings (currently Zillow in the US and Funda in NL).

It helps home buyers understand risks, livability, future value signals, and negotiation context without opening multiple tabs.

Built with Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, and OpenAI. Still early-stage and actively iterating based on user feedback.
by pstuart | 2026-01-20 21:01:19+00:00
It's a pity that diesel-gate happened, and that they weren't able to solve the emissions problem.

I came across a post about a diesel tractor with no electrical parts and imagined the value of a post-apocalyptical car that could withstand EMPs and run on virtually any fuel type. Limited market obviously, make it configurable like a diesel Slate truck and baby you've got a stew going!
by mym1990 | 2026-01-20 21:01:49+00:00
Yes but you have a) no idea how bad the suck will be b) no idea how long the suck will last and c) what the "better" will look like.

I am not advocating that the status quo should go on, I am just saying that the repercussions will be vast and long lasting, likely resulting in a world war, and whatever follows after that(if anything).
by sixtyj | 2026-01-20 21:02:23+00:00
Thanks. I was surprised that Tesseract had recognized poorly scanned magazines and with some Python library I was able to transcribe two-columns layout with almost no errors.

Tesseract is a cheap solution as it doesn’t touch any LLM.

For invoices, Gemini flash is really good, for sure, and you receive “sorted” data as well. So definitely thumbs up. I use it for transcription of difficult magazine layout.

I think that for such legally problematic usage as companies don’t like to share financial data with Google, it is be better to use a local model.

Ollama or HuggingFace has a lot of them.
by steer_dev | 2026-01-20 21:02:34+00:00
The Data:

Green Line (Capability): MMLU State-of-the-Art (48% → 94%).

Red Line (Control): Organizations with effective mitigation for inaccuracy/hallucination (lagging at ~52%).

Sources:

MMLU: Official Repository (hendrycks/test) and Model Technical Reports.

Risk: McKinsey “State of AI” Annual Reports (2023–2025).

The Gap:
Intelligence is surging. Control is lagging. We are currently in the gap (High capability, low trust).

How are you solving the gap?

Potential Solution:
Move verification outside the model using deterministic “Reality Locks” (Regex, SQL AST, Entropy)

Repo: https://github.com/imtt-dev/steer
by 3ple_alpha | 2026-01-20 21:03:34+00:00
There are some partial solutions that are fairly simple in concept, for example those related to farming. Some of the crops grown in regions where water is less than abundant are unnecessarily water-intensive, leading to a possible strategy that can be summarised as "grow something else". In practice this means regulating farming with emphasis on water management, I often feel that many places could use more regulation in this area.

Simple concept does not mean simple execution, once you start regulating things it's easy to get it wrong, but the ideas are there and are not exactly novel.
Ask HN: Revive a mostly dead Discord server
by movedx | 2026-01-20 21:05:02+00:00
Hello :-)

I have a Discord server I set up a long time ago. Around 2016 I think. Back then, it was lively and active and loads of fun. Over time it's developed close to 5,000 members (it actually had over 5,000 members at one point) and currently has 501 members online as I type this. It's more likely there's about 10-15 that are paying attention to anything happening.

It's a Discord that originally focused on DevOps. It complemented my YouTube channel on the same topic, but since then, as it's slowly died out, and my channel's focus as shifted and changed, it's become a bit of a waste land.

It's a shame really, because a really fun Discord server can be a great place to be, but I'm not sure where to take it now.

How would you handle this situation? What would be your approach to reviving the Discord and perhaps trying to get a community of like minded hackers going again in 2026?

I won't link the Discord here as I'm not trying to beg for users or spam. I just genuinely want to work on a solution to improve the life of the server. I will put it in my HN profile, though, so if you do want to check it out that extra step is required.

Are people even interested in Discord servers any more? I don't know.

Thanks in advance.