MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gjm11 | 2026-01-09 15:03:21+00:00
FWIW, if you did that to my house I'd be upset and angry and not much inclined to use the word "just" about it, but no, I wouldn't say you'd been violent to me.

(I would say you'd been violent to me if you'd slapped me in the face. I would rather be slapped in the face than have my house ransacked and smashed up. Some not-violent things are worse than some violent things.)

If you dropped a bomb on a weapons factory that had, or plausibly could have had, people in it then that would unquestionably be an act of violence. If you somehow knew that there was nothing there but hardware then I wouldn't call it an act of violence.

(In practice, I'm pretty sure that when you drop a bomb you scarcely ever know that you're not going to injure or kill anyone.)

I'm not claiming that this is the only way, or the only proper way, to use the word "violence". But, so far as I can tell from introspection, it is how I would use it.

There are contexts in which I would use the word "violence" to include destruction that only affects things and not people. But they'd be contexts that already make it clear that it's things and not people being affected. E.g., "We smashed up that misbehaving printer with great violence, and very satisfying it was too".
by matt_kantor | 2026-01-09 15:03:36+00:00
> when a big tech company has success experimenting with it

TFA has many examples of big tech companies using Wasm in production. It's not exhaustive either, e.g. the article doesn't mention:

- Google using it as a backend for Flutter and to implement parts of Google Maps, Earth, Meet, Sheets, Keep, YouTube, etc

- Microsoft using it in Copilot Studio

- eBay using it in their mobile app

- MongoDB using it for Compass

- Amazon supporting it in EKS

- 1Password using it in their browser extension

- Unity having it as a build target

(And this was just what I found with some quick web searches; I'm sure there are many other examples.)

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> the fact we haven't heard much about was use is probably because it isnt as valuable as we think

One of the conclusions of the article is that it's mostly used in ways that aren't very visible.
by jessica01decor | 2026-01-09 15:03:52+00:00
To maintain a minimalist home, shoes must be hidden without making the furniture a focal point. These slim shoe cabinets offer a discreet way to organise up to 12 pairs of shoes behind a seamless, handle-less exterior. By using movable dividers, you can customise the internal height for boots or trainers, keeping the floor clear and the entryway feeling spacious and orderly.
by gghhzzgghhzz | 2026-01-09 15:04:19+00:00
> The group's stated aim is to stop the UK or any UK companies giving Israel any military support. They target companies who they think supply Israel. They break in and smash them, and as you've hopefully just seen with your own eyes, they are not afraid to attack people with sledgehammers. They use violence to achieve their political aim. They are terrorists and belong in prison.

Yet none of them are being prosecuted under the terrorism act, or on any charge related to terrorism.
by SirSHAmun5on12 | 2026-01-09 15:04:43+00:00
Good Morning HN -

I go by SirSHAmun5on12 online. Around 2018 I built a high-powered PC and tried mining Bitcoin - that turned out to be more of a joke/learning experience than anything profitable, but it got me hooked. Led me down this whole path of hardware, then software development, cryptography, blockchain.

I'm one of those people always trying to spot what's coming before it hits mainstream - you know, find Bitcoin before it was Bitcoin. Recently got into QRL and ZKSync because I think quantum resistance and zero-knowledge tech are the next curves everyone's going to care about but most people aren't paying attention to yet. Now I'm working through Cyfrin Updraft courses trying to break into Web3 security auditing.

Why I built this: I was working on a project and needed OAuth. Added Google - fine. User asked for GitHub. Then someone wanted Apple. Then Microsoft. It clicked that OAuth is fragmented as hell. Every site picks different providers, devs integrate each one separately with different APIs and callbacks, users need accounts everywhere.

What UHP is: Basically "what if OAuth was federated like email?" One protocol, anyone can run an instance, uses XMSS signatures (quantum-resistant). Works for regular Web2 sites AND Web3 dApps - think Netflix, Reddit, Medium using the same OAuth as crypto wallets and blockchain apps. Standard OAuth 2.0 flow, just federated like email servers (SMTP).

Full disclosure - I literally just discovered OpenPass exists yesterday. There's overlap for sure. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel here, just solving a problem that's been annoying me.

Questions I have:
- Is federated OAuth even the right approach or am I overengineering?
- Quantum resistance - too early? I know NIST talks about "harvest now decrypt later" but maybe that doesn't matter for OAuth tokens
- What obvious security issues am I missing?

GitHub: https://github.com/RealHaywoodJ/uhp-protocol

(There's a JOURNEY.md that explains the full backstory - basically trying to create my own opportunity since breaking into Web3 security as a self-taught person is tough)

Tear it apart. Better to find problems now than 6 months from now.
by mmooss | 2026-01-09 15:04:53+00:00
There are more differences: A formally structured org isn't a flat org with titles attached.

> "Humans are complicated" => that is my uncertainty caveat. We're not absolute-hierarchical nor absolute-flat

yes

> when we build organisations which try to deny hierarchy, it has a habit of sneaking in thru the back door.

The same happens when we try to deny freedom. Empowering everyone, through freedom and universal equality and human rights, is the foundation of the very successful modern world.

As I said upthread, I think the focus on hierarchy and power is really an outgrowth of current anti-democratic politics, even if people don't explicitly think of it that way. That doesn't deny all hierarchy or power - it's a matter of degree: The history of modern democracy is to lean heavily toward individual freedom (for essential moral reasons too).
by quietbritishjim | 2026-01-09 15:05:10+00:00
> If I intentionally wreck your home, like I properly ransack the place, smash it all up, I'd say I had been violent to you. Wouldn't you? You wouldn't walk in to find your home and your life ruined and say "oh it's just property damage", would you?

There's certainly implied violence. Like, if you done that once, maybe you'll be back tomorrow when I happen to be in, and actually be violent to me. And even if that weren't the case, I'd still obviously be very distressed about the situation.

But, having said all that, no I wouldn't say you had been violent, if you hadn't actually tried to hurt anyone.

If you dropped a bomb on an abandoned or fully automated factory, that you could be 100% sure doesn't have any people in it - then I still wouldn't count that as "violent" (except maybe figuratively), no matter how destructive.
by perihelions | 2026-01-09 15:05:18+00:00
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46374248 ("Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US (theguardian.com)"; 16 days ago, 39 comments)

("Rogers called [Thierry] Breton – who served as the European Commissioner for the internal market from 2019-2024 – “a mastermind” of the [Digital Services Act]")

That was, like this, a direct conflict between Elon Musk and EU regulators over illegal content, which resulted in Musk effecting US foreign policy, and sanctioning a top EU official.
by carlkcarlk | 2026-01-09 15:06:20+00:00
I’ve been enjoying Embassy most at the application pattern layer: long-lived device tasks that hide timing and coordination behind a small, typed async API. For example:

loop {
let btn = ir.wait_for_press().await;
// use btn
}

Meanwhile the compiler builds the state machine for you.

I think this style is an emergent property of async + no-std that hasn’t really been collected or named yet. A lot of discussion focuses on HALs, bring-up, or executors, but less on how people structure applications once those pieces are in place.

Brad Gibson and I talked about some of these ideas in this (free) article on how Embassy shines on embedded devices: https://medium.com/@carlmkadie/how-rust-embassy-shine-on-emb...

I’ve also started an open repo to experiment with and document these patterns:
https://github.com/carlkcarlk/device-kit

Would love links to other repos that use Embassy at this higher, application-oriented level.
by piva00 | 2026-01-09 15:07:36+00:00
> The companies in the 500 are mostly global companies

Isn't that saying exactly what the parent comment mentioned? Since those companies are global, the growth of the S&P 500 which is USD denominated will track the devaluation of the USD as the underlying companies haven't lost value, the dollar has, and the S&P 500 would track that as growth in percentage to balance it.

I don't understand why they would be losing money since as you said they're global, and more untethered to the USD than the S&P 500.
by jwcooper | 2026-01-09 15:08:10+00:00
> The sticking point like always will be media playback (read: DRM/widevine). That is the graveyard where Linux browsers go to die. If Kagi can legally and technically solve the widevine integration on a non-standard Linux webkit build, they win. If not, it will be a secondary browser for documentation reading only.

I'm hopeful that some day Linux will have enough users where the media companies can't ignore them. Hopefully, that day is sooner than later.

It's pretty frustrating that peacock (and all xfinity streaming) doesn't work and you can't get 1080p or 4k on most other streaming platforms.
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-09 15:08:37+00:00
This all seems like enterprise solutions. As a consumer, I shouldn't have to look at a list of consultants, as if I was trying to find support for a heavy industrial machine.

FLOSS or non-FLOSS, there is no real European consumer offering for an operating system. That should be the starting point for people who want a thriving European IT industry.

It could very well be based on Linux or whatever. But consumers need support. They need a phone numbers they can call and an e-mail addresses they can write to.

Focusing on consumers instead of corporate or academia is how Apple became so successful.
by knowitnone3 | 2026-01-09 15:08:45+00:00
I have to disagree with some of your points. No shade at Orin but WebKitGTK is a volunteer project. Having competition won't push WebKitGTK any faster because I am sure they are going as fast as they can. WebKitGTK already have a good list of features to add because they have other commercial browsers to compare themselves to, it's the speed that they can add them due to resource limitations. BTW, Firefox also runs on Linux. Also, nobody is installing a secondary browser for documentation reading only - what's the point of doing this?
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-09 15:09:10+00:00
A little of both.

speakers used to be something that would last a lifetime. I still have the same active monitors that I bought quarter of a century ago when I was producing techno. And I still used those speakers daily for listening to the radio. I used them for a NYE house party. They’re used often and still perform as well today as they do when they were new.

smart speakers is just a way of introducing forced obsolescence into the market.

So these EOL guarantees are nice, but EOL for speaker used to mean 50+ years later or when someone idiot inflicted physical damage onto the hardware. And even then, it was often still repairable.
by rjpaganini | 2026-01-09 15:09:24+00:00
Location : Los Angeles, CA USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (FastAPI, Pandas), PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, REST APIs, JSONB, Git & CI/CD, Vector Databases (RAG), Prompt Engineering, Model Eval & Fine-tuning, Whisper, Pyannote (Diarization) Google Cloud (Run, Vertex AI, SQL), AWS (S3, Lambda), Cloudflare Workers, Docker, JSONB, Adobe Premiere & After Effects, DaVinci, ffmpeg

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ujALnZqw1kYzgU-tcRaSRsOFdS2...

Email: rjpaganini@gmail.com

Profile: Creative Technologist and AI Workflow Engineer evolving traditional media pipelines into intelligent, AI-assisted ecosystems. I pivot traditional post-production workflows into structured, metadata-rich systems|focusing on semantic search, automated classification, and the operationalization of AI tools to eliminate workflow friction.
by todaycompanies | 2026-01-09 15:09:37+00:00
Hey HN,
I built workzonespeedingticket.com because automated cameras are issuing fines in construction zones even when no work is happening and no workers are present.
The Issue: Many states (like NY and PA) are rolling out 24/7 monitoring. The cameras are dumb; they don't know if the construction crew went home for the weekend or if the "Work Zone" signs were left up by mistake. If you drive the normal limit, you get a $50-$100 ticket in the mail.
The Fix: I built a workflow that helps you draft a "Statement of Facts" disputing the "Active" status of the zone.
How it works:
You input the ticket time/location.
The tool generates a dispute letter challenging the state to prove the zone was active (required by law in many jurisdictions).
It formats it for the specific county clerk or administrative judge.
It’s a "David vs. Goliath" tool. If the state is going to automate the fine, we should automate the defense.
by dsign | 2026-01-09 15:09:47+00:00
Slightly tangential, but I think that dogs have allowed for some bad things to happen to us. Like, they are available physically, so if you don’t want to go insane in this society of ours where you are allowed to have physical contact with at most one person (your one and only partner), you can get a dog or five, or simply pet your friend’s dog or even a neighbor’s. Many post-agricultural revolution civilizations predicated on small family cells and strict property and succession rules would have been impossible without a dog to pet.
by Heapifying | 2026-01-09 15:10:29+00:00
I do wonder why Grok has this capability in the first place.

Is it because it was pre-trained with real images? (which would be highly illegal and immoral, but I wonder if Twitter has a data-curation team somewhere)

Maybe some kind of distillation technique such as "generate normal porn -> decrease body size -> generate childish face and replace the original image's face with it"? Which would prove there's an intent to explicitly allow generation of this kind

Is it an emergent behaviour?

Why are there no better safeguards?
by margalabargala | 2026-01-09 15:10:46+00:00
The link submitted is a sub-page of a sub-page on the Kagi docs site. Every single page should not need the information you require just in case someone links someone to that particular page. You should blame OP for linking to the Linux status page.

The actual top level page has everything you asked for. https://help.kagi.com/orion/
by pseudony | 2026-01-09 15:10:56+00:00
Small countries lack agency and international law is being repurposed as toilet paper right now.
Look at Ukraine, look at Greenland.

Your view is demonstrably proven wrong.

As for cost of living, name a developed country, big or small, where things are going swimmingly on that front and I’ll name you ten others where it didn’t, big and small.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-09 15:10:58+00:00
Note that I'm not great at math so it's possible I've entirely misunderstood you.

Here's an example of directly leveraging a transform to optimize the training process. ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21265 )

And here are two examples that apply geometry to neural nets more generally. ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13018 ) ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16512 )
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-09 15:12:10+00:00
> What I then saw was him struggling for one hour with some simple extension to his project. He didn't manage to finish in the hour what he was planning to. And when I had some thought about how much time it would have cost me by hand, I found it would have taken me just as long.

For all who are doing that, what is the experience of coding in a livestream? It is something I never attempted, the simple idea makes me feel uncomfortable. A good portion of my coding would be rather cringe, like spending way too long on a stupid copy-paste or sign error that my audience would have noticed right away. On the other hand, sometimes, I am really fast because everything is in my head, but then I would probably lose everyone. I am impressed when looking at live coders by how fluid it looks compared to my own work, maybe there is a rubber duck effect at work here.

All this to say that I don't know how working solo compares to a livestream. It is more or less efficient, maybe it doesn't matter that much when you get used to it.
by CrimsonRain | 2026-01-09 15:12:21+00:00
Blah blah. That's why almost all the tech companies in EU that (start to) get big, shifts to US.

eu has a shit software industry and it has only itself to blame for the insane amount of bureaucracy, cutthroat taxes, labor laws that promote stagnation, and the culture of extreme risk aversion.

It is a good place to live until the borrowed time elapses.
by serious_angel | 2026-01-09 15:12:22+00:00
Roger that. Thank you! Apparently, while I've being employed in security as software engineer for at least 19 years now, I've never ever considered it all serious, and still do not.

Sorry, I have literally no interest in all of it that makes you dependent on it, atrophies mind, degrades research and social skills, and negates self-confidencen with respect to other authors, their work, and attributions. Nor any of my colleagues in military and those I know better in person.

Constant research, general IDEs like JetBrains's, IDA Pro, Sublime Text, VS Code, etc. backed by forums, chats, and Communities, is absolutely enough for the accountable and fun work in our teams, who manage to keep in adequate deadlines.

I just disable it everywhere possible, and will do all my life. The close case to my environment was VS Code, and hopefully there's no reason to build it from source since they still leave built-in options to disable it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79534407/5113030 (How can I disable GitHub Copilot in VS Code?...)

Isn't it just inadequate to not think and develop your mind, and let alone pass control of your environment to a yet another model or "advanced T9" of unknown source of unknown iteration.

In pentesting, random black-box IO, medicine experimental unverified intel, log data approximation why not? But in environment control, education, art or programming, fine art... No, never ^^

Related: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-09 15:12:36+00:00
To be fair, when you have ~dozen carrier strike groups and ~3'500 nukes and wish to be aggressive, any theory is about as sound as any other. Recall the "WMD" theory.

I'd argue that, realistically, there is far more utility to be gained from a much less aggressive posture.

Look at Somalia: a warlord world is one in which the warlords get huge slices — of a tiny pie.
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-01-09 15:12:37+00:00
The euro group did not follow austerity measures.

Italy's debt has ballooned to 150% of it's GDP, France is heading for 130% in the near future. Whatever happened in the EU, was not Germany's responsibility. Even Greece's debt is way higher than it should be after the Euro zone austerity "cure".

If there had been real austerity and real slashing of the national budgets so that all countries of the euro-zone actually complied with the fiscal pact that says that euro countries should not have a level of debt higher than 60% of it's GDP, then the Euro-zone would actually have some dry powder left to face these uncertain times.

Instead, the only country who seems to try to do something currently is Germany, precisely because it's debt is lower than most Euro-zone countries and therefore it can afford to spend more to try to create growth.

France is running 5%+++ deficit each year and it has not complied with the euro-zone fiscal rules for the last 20 years. Finland has 10% unemployment, Italy is not doing much better.

Where do these countries go from here? Do they cut social services and risk getting ousted in the next election? Do they borrow more and more with not much to show for it? That is the question that is facing these countries and nobody has the answers.
by BoxOfRain | 2026-01-09 15:12:42+00:00
I quite like IndexTTS2 personally, it does voice cloning and also lets you modulate emotion manually through emotion vectors which I've found quite a powerful tool. It's not necessarily something everyone needs, but it's really cool technology in my opinion.

It's been particularly useful for a model orchestration project I've been working on. I have an external emotion classification model driving both the LLM's persona and the TTS output so it stays relatively consistent. The affect system also influences which memories are retrieved; it's more likely to retrieve 'memories' created in the current affect state. IndexTTS2 was pretty much the only TTS that gives the level of control I felt was necessary.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-09 15:12:45+00:00
Takeaways:

* Satellites have detected enormous amounts of methane billowing from Venezuela's abandoned oil rigs, rusty pipelines and other dilapidated energy infrastructure.

* Roughly 13 billion cubic meters of Venezuela's natural gas is flared, vented or leaked into the atmosphere every year, wasting about $1.4 billion of potential revenue.

* Restoring the nation's production levels will require companies to invest about $100 billion over the next decade and also require careful operational management and oversight long into the future.