MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cycomanic | 2026-01-14 20:01:45+00:00
Yes completely agree. I always hang up my washing (also in NZ, don't have a dryer) and was recently sorting through my tshirts as we are moving country. I have one t-shirt that is nearly 20 years old and still holds its shape (though the color and print has faded) on the other hand i threw away a bunch of other t shirts which were just over a year old because they developed holes and particularly the collar is completely broken. Funnily their color and print is mostly fine.

I don't think brand is a good predictor either, e.g. the old t shirt is from threadless IIRC while I had many other threadless tshirts which didn't last near as long.
by bloppe | 2026-01-14 20:02:02+00:00
Estonia basically got this completely right in 2002 with their e-ID. I'm kinda shocked nobody else has figured it out yet. Age verification could be simple, secure, robust, and require only the disclosure of your age, nothing more.

Instead, the rest of us have systems that are both far more vulnerable to privacy beaches, and far easier to circumvent anyway.
by john_saptra | 2026-01-14 20:02:16+00:00
If money is not an issue, would you consider an open-source project to contribute to, which could look attractive when the hiring begins?

ignore all FUD on LLM; the professional products would need developers now and in the future.

don't want to sound patronizing, but if you could use this 'real-world' scenario (as tough as it is) to build robust coping skills, it might benefit you personally.

good luck!
by toast0 | 2026-01-14 20:02:28+00:00
> but it's directionally wrong.

A time honored protest chant is "hey hey, ho ho, [target of protest] has got to go." That's just how protests work --- don't like what someone or an agency is doing, march to get rid of them. Getting rid of them may not be achievable or desirable, but it resonates.

Given the number of high profile shootings related to totally unnecessary situations the agency has put its agents into with apparently zero preparation and training, it's not surprising that people want it to go.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2026-01-14 20:02:33+00:00
> Remember why Ronald Reagan and the bulk of the American people from both parties absolutely hated Communism so much?

yes: because nationalizing industries represented a grave threat to western capitalists' bottom lines.

> It was the dictatorship aspect that was so disgusting and anti-American as can be

remember Pinochet? guess not.
Show HN: Harmony – AI notetaker for Discord
by SeanDorje | 2026-01-14 20:02:36+00:00
hi my name is sean dorje (yc x25).

i built harmony because our team's been running on discord for years and we've been dying for something like this so we can finally track our meeting notes/action items.

if your team runs on discord, please feel free to try it out!

it's free to use forever :)
by venturecruelty | 2026-01-14 20:02:43+00:00
I didn't pay for any navigation for my car, so I'm not sure what your point is? ISPs provide DNS. People shouldn't have to fuck with the internet's phone book when they plug their modem in (and they haven't for a very long time). Maybe we can expect more from the people who provide the services society relies on, instead of just saying "why don't you just..." every time someone has a legitimate complaint about something that ought to Just Work.
by autoexec | 2026-01-14 20:02:54+00:00
> Stores that sell other age-restricted products.

So far, I've never seen an age verification scratch card sold anywhere

> How would they be traced?

Your ID is collected at retail and its barcode scanned along with a barcode on the card, your personal data and card ID get uploaded to a server operated by the entity that created the cards and/or the state. ID barcode scan can be replaced or used alongside facial recognition, data collected (directly or passively) from your cell phone, your credit card info, etc. Even just being able to link a used card back to the time/place it was purchased could be enough to ID someone and put them at risk.

> It's clearly not important when selling actual poisons so why would it matter for social media?

The main difference is that I can't upload 1 million cigarettes to the internet for anyone of any age to anonymously download and smoke, but I could upload a spreadsheet of 1 million unredeemed scratch off codes to the internet for anyone to use. It seems highly likely that codes would get sold, shared online, generated, or leaked which means cards would be ineffective at keeping children from using them.

Why should we be okay with jumping through a bunch of hoops that don't even do what they're supposed to in the first place while costing us money and opening ourselves up to new risks in the process? I reject the premise that proving my identity to a website is necessary let alone being worth the costs/risks. Scratch cards seem likely to fail at being private or effective. Of course, "Think of the children" is really only the excuse. Surveillance and control is the real motivation and any system that doesn't meet that goal is doomed to be replaced by one that does.
by zemo | 2026-01-14 20:03:03+00:00
> When they decide it is in their best interest to pay for it they will, i.e. support, bug fixes, changes.

Maybe, but also maybe they just fork internally and fix the bug internally and don't publish the bugfix. And maybe it's never in their best interest to pay for it, maybe it's in their best interest to just freeload forever.

> If you make open source software that just works they are unlikely to start writing checks nor should there be any expectation that they do that.

I think it's good when we expect corporations to write checks to the people that write the open-source stuff they rely on. "A rising tide lifts all boats" is not automatically true in software, we have to choose to make it true. I think a world in which we make that choice is a better world. I'm not convinced we currently live in that world.
by HyperLinker | 2026-01-14 20:03:03+00:00
Hello,

I am an Italian researcher and creator. Thirty years ago, I designed a new calendar system—The Earth Calendar—with its Year Zero set to 1969, marking humanity's first steps on the Moon and the dawn of the Internet.

Its weekdays are named after fundamental elements: Moonday, Atomday, Waterday, Winday, Fireday, Earthday, and Sunday. Today, for instance, is Atomday 13, first month, Year 57, of the Atom.

One of its key features is its synchrony with the Unix Epoch.

After three decades of use, publications and refinement, I am now releasing it as an open standard for anyone to adopt, build upon, or integrate.

You can explore the calendar, its structure, and its rationale here:

https://hyperlinker.org/tec/dt/

I welcome thoughts, feedback, or collaboration from anyone.

Best regards,

Danilo D'Antonio
(Hyper Linker)
by alephnerd | 2026-01-14 20:03:09+00:00
> All that is true, but I was not claiming it is the primary driver, but that safety and comfort mattered too.

Absolutely! Though comfort would be rated much higher than safety.

> I as not familiar with the term 2LDK. it seems to be a Japanese term for a two bed flat? The places I know are less crowded and the equivalent would be a house or somewhere a lot bigger (at least for anyone who could afford higher education abroad).

In India and Vietnam, a 2 or 3 bedroom flat/condo would often be part of a gated community/society that includes 24/7 security, park/greenspace, gym, swimming pool, playgrounds, and schools, and would have a mall across the street that includes a mix of Western (eg. McD, Starbucks, Levi's) and domestic (eg. Chaayos, Third Wave, VinFast) aspirational brands.

A good example would probably be this gated community/society [0] in a Tier 3 industrial town called Bhiwadi - most residents would be working as Mechanical, Automotive, Chemical, Electronics, Tooling, Semiconductor, and Automation Engineers or Managers at companies like Honda, Tata, Saint-Gobain, Lumax, Maruti Suzuki, Motherson, or Sahasra with a take-home in the $8-20k range (and with 0% income tax below $13k). This is the Indian (and Vietnamese) Dream.

Most of the residents will have studied in regional engineering colleges and polytechnics and then started off as trainees, and have close familial roots in the region, as regional mobility in India is extremely low [1], and as such factories have decided to move to small towns and Tier 2/3/4 cities in order to be closer to labor. You this all over India like in Mysore with DigiLens [2], Anantapuram with Hyundai-Kia [3] Baddi with AstraZeneca [4], and others. Even in my ancestral village, there has been a wind turbine factory operating since the mid-2000s that exports to the US and Western Europe, and a home-turned-EV battery factory operating since the early 2010s that exports to ASEAN.

In Vietnam it's the same story except labor moves away from small towns to megacities because in much of VN, the rural safety net (derisively called "freebies" in India) is weak-to-nonexistent pushing labor migration away from small towns to Saigon, Hanoi, and Haiphong.

[0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=krPLXO38ZxY

[1] - https://voxdev.org/topic/migration-urbanisation/why-labour-m...

[2] - https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20251003VL202/xr-optics-kayn...

[3] - https://www.kia.com/in/discover-kia/kia-in-india/india-plant...

[4] - https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2010...
by schmuckonwheels | 2026-01-14 20:03:41+00:00
Is there a substantive connection?

Like all the doom and gloom after the Twitter layoffs predicting the site would implode and go permanently offline "within a month" which...never happened.

It's also ironic in the sense it implies the indignant people were so bad at their jobs they designed and built a system so fragile it would collapse without constant intervention from thousands of individuals.

You do realize it's possible for an organization to be overstaffed?
by matwood | 2026-01-14 20:04:09+00:00
I had a 2008 Tundra I sold when I moved to the EU not too long ago. Still miss it. It was big, but could easily tow my boat or haul anything I needed. Was a 4 door and had a full sized bed. Had 125k miles when I sold it, and still ran great.

I would have gotten a Tacoma, but I need the extra towing capacity.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-14 20:04:24+00:00
Harsh did a tipper conversion for the Daihatsu Hijet, which had an 850cc triple with a lot more poke than the Acty's 660cc twin, and had a "true 4WD" variant.

In the UK, Truck and Driver Magazine featured one so equipped in a head-to-head AWD tipper test (AWD in the sense of all wheels driven regardless of number of axles, not Subaru AWD/Audi Quattro type AWD), alongside a variety of extremely large trucks. Proper trucks, not F150s, we're talking 18-tonne Scanias and stuff here.

Everyone wanted one of the little Hijets to take home.
by xyzzyxy | 2026-01-14 20:04:30+00:00
> i asked if the person was going to "dox" me if i purchased a sticker that was in my cart already.

That implies you asked this of some random Etsy seller you happened to be interested in purchasing a sticker from, due to general privacy concerns. However, as I understand it, you instead tracked down the Etsy store of someone who had criticized and blocked you on social media, specifically to send them further unwanted messages related to your previous conversation about "doxxing" another user. Is this correct?

> there are multiple people making accounts using my handle, so i'm now on a server where there is some due process before fake reports or others pretending to be me.

Nick cited [1] specific since-suspended fediverse accounts linked to you: @ptorrone@fosstodon.org, @ptorrone@toot.community, @ptorrone@cyberplace.social, @ptorrone.bsky.social, @ptorrone@mastodon.nu. Are you denying involvement with those specific alt accounts, or just vaguely suggesting there might be other impersonators out there?

[1] https://chaos.social/@North/115602127173454774
by lassejansen | 2026-01-14 20:04:36+00:00
The main reason for using a stack was reducing verbosity because for short scripts using variables felt unnecessary when the type-prefix of the command already communicates the variable contents. But it could still be a good idea to have a shorter syntax for assigned variables.

Accessing a variables works like this at the moment:

<selection-set-text $text="varname">

Keeping the dollar syntax, setting the return value to a named variable could look like this:

<response-get-text $="varname">
by jleyank | 2026-01-14 20:04:42+00:00
When we lived in Cal decades ago, taxes weren't all that much lower. Federal taxes and state taxes (higher) on a larger salary, lots of social security and other fiddly little taxes and 100-200/check for 20% of my health insurance. The only good thing about social security is that while you pay a more the benefits are larger 62+. I'm trying to remember, but like 25% for the feds, 8-10% for the state, 6% for social security and the health insurance. Call it high 40's or so, maybe 50%? Yeah, sales tax was lower vs. vat but I thought Cal had about the highest sales tax in the states?

It all depends on what the aggregate deductions that are outside your control sum to, and what you get for the money.
by shaftway | 2026-01-14 20:04:44+00:00
I've seen people have success with a more legit version of the Circuit City scam.

For the uninitiated / younger generations, Circuit City was the Best Buy of the early 2000's. In 2009 they went out of business and laid off ~60,000 employees. It was a rough time to be looking for work; lots of people had been affected by the financial crisis and a lot of people had gaps on their resume of 1 to 3 years. And then all of a sudden, nobody had a gap. And there were a sudden influx of people who had been managers at Circuit City. And you couldn't confirm it, because Circuit City had just closed.

Nowadays the scam is to find any recently closed, large firm and claim you worked there with whatever BS title you want. A LinkedIn profile can actually be your downfall here, so don't have one. The over-employeed community does this, claiming that they had to take it down because of a stalker. But I wouldn't advocate this. If your company finds out then there are probably legal repercussions.

But it doesn't have to be a scam. Form an LLC, spend some time up-leveling skills, and put that on your resume. It explains the gap, and gives you an excuse for why it looks like you weren't doing anything.
by briandw | 2026-01-14 20:04:53+00:00
I looked it up and Far-UVC (typically 222 nm) seems safe-ish. But how do you confirm it's not outputting 254 nm or other wavelengths in the UVA/B range? Seems likely to happen with sloppy production of sources. You really have to trust the filter on the light or verify the frequency somehow.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-01-14 20:05:32+00:00
The point is that the government tried to sell this as helping against illegal immigration by enabling effective right to work checks and this was a blatant lie since it would not change anything: right to work checks are already carried put amd legal immigrants have eVisa that are checked online by employers.

It is obvious that the government is being deceitful. Noone wants ID cards except the Tony Blair Institute.
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-14 20:05:37+00:00
Exactly. With the current over-funded startup market people can spend tons of time and money building over-engineered juicers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ - and their software equivalent.

So many companies would be just fine with a single VPS, Python and PostgreSQL - but that's boring and doesn't look good in your resume =)
by LeoPanthera | 2026-01-14 20:05:54+00:00
I'm very much on the left, and I honestly like the design of the Cybertruck. (I know this puts me in a minority.) It is disappointing that the original "unibody" design was abandoned. The new design where the body panels just randomly fall off is silly.

If it was made by some other company I would genuinely consider buying one. But I would never buy another Tesla. I owned an older Model X, before Elon went full-fascism. And even ignoring Elon, the car was awful. It was shoddily built, kept breaking down, and the service experience was shockingly bad. Absolutely atrocious.

But after all that, I can't give money to Elon ever again. I can't fund America's descent into fascism. I could not live with myself.
by harrisonjackson | 2026-01-14 20:05:56+00:00
I've owned a few F-150s over the last 20is years. It has the best fold up seats of any truck - entire back cabin floor is flat which is great for my dogs.

I rented a lightning on Turo and it was amazing - planned on getting one as my next truck. I would drive a CT depending on price but they just draw too much attention.
by alwa | 2026-01-14 20:06:14+00:00
Are you in the US? Most Home Depot locations will rent you one of several sizes of work truck for as low as $20 for a quick there-and-back of 75 minutes, or ~$100-200 for a day. I understand Lowe’s to do something similar. U-Haul does trucks.

And if your needs are more ambitious, there’s Sunbelt Rentals through much of the country and Enterprise’s Trucks arm as opposed to their more consumer-familiar operation.

If I’m using it once a year, I’ll splurge for a bigass 1 ton 4x4 which Enterprise Trucks is currently listing for $139 a day including 150 miles… and in 100 years, have spent the $13,900 difference between a dweeby little smarte car and owning my own pickup

Not that there’s the least thing wrong with just preferring to own one, just options that I wish I’d known about earlier in life.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-14 20:06:18+00:00
The homepage doesn't even say it's about the UK.

For a generic ".com" domain that isn't American, it's generally a good idea to yes, have a kind of minimal hint that tells you at least which country it's about, and at least a single link you can follow to get the broader context.

I'm following a link to it on HN. When I get there, I have zero context. Visitors to your site can come from anywhere, so it's generally considered a good idea to provide basic context.
by cheeseprocedure | 2026-01-14 20:06:19+00:00
Yeah, the Canadian telco was Rogers. Total recovery took multiple days. From the Wikipedia writeup:

> In a letter to the CRTC, Rogers stated that the deletion of a routing filter on its distribution routers caused all possible routes to the internet to pass through the routers, exceeding the capacity of the routers on its core network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_out...
by webdevver | 2026-01-14 20:06:46+00:00
if everyone had symmetric gigabit, this would be a no-brainer. imagine having auto-scaling CPUs, auto-scaling RAM, etc - it would incentivise some cool OS architecture (yes yes, privacy issues aside etc.)

most of the time i'm doomscrolling, but every now and then you wanna play with linux, or llvm, or some VM cluster.

i bought a beefy rig for these 1% events in my life, and the rest of the time its doing basically nothing. seems a real waste.
by antod | 2026-01-14 20:07:16+00:00
Yup, knew that equation. My point was I only ever recalled the effects of gravity on mass being called a force, and never gravity itself being called a force. eg no mass, no force - gravity being a field that causes forces (on mass) rather than the force itself.

That distant memory came from engineering school, where it was classical mechanics all the way down. The only non classical stuff was just a tiny amount in a first year physics paper.

Then again, maybe the way classical physics got taught was a bit different after Einstein so as not to directly contradict relativity. Eg maybe before relativity it really was described as a force?
by csressel | 2026-01-14 20:07:50+00:00
good callout, I've seen Will McGugan's work on textual and rich before and that really pushed forward the Python+terminal ecosystem in the past five years. I've seen a lot of CLI tools coalesce on the rust and go ecosystems, for various reasons (uv, fzf, helix, just, etc). But I didn't know toad had gone open source now, very excited to check it out!
by wasabi991011 | 2026-01-14 20:08:14+00:00
> Thinking about the “overall economy” increasingly means focusing on the spending of the rich, and ignoring the poor and struggling. A consequence of increasing inequality is the rich make up more and more consumer spending.

It means increasingly focusing on the spending of the rich, because the population is increasingly richer. Proportion of families making more that 150k (in 2024 dollars) has gone from 5% in 1967 to 33% in 2024, while both middle class (50k-150k) and poor (<50k) have decreased. [1]

[1] https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dtoi!,f_auto,q_auto:...
by mywittyname | 2026-01-14 20:08:23+00:00
These are quite expensive for what you get and are slooooooow. It's fine if you want an expensive, quirky neighborhood runabout, but you'll be made very aware that this is a product not at all designed for the US market (there's a good reason most examples do ~1000 miles a year). The ACTYs I found online were in the $7-20k range, for a ~30 year old model - more for a nice van.

The best used work truck is actually a van. They lack the coolness factor of trucks, but are far more versatile. You can pick up a <10 year old Transit with under 100k miles for like 10-15k. That price point will get you a >10 year old F150 in the 100-150k mile range.

Plus, there are good options if you want something smaller can car-based, like NV2000s and Transit connects. Which don't really exist for trucks outside of newer (maverick) or niche (Ridgeline) options.

Bonus points, a nice Transit is a great daily driver too.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-14 20:08:53+00:00
If you’ve got 100k people to run something that should run essentially on autopilot, you’ve got much deeper problems where merely laying off selected chunks of people will no longer help. The whole company is rotten and the only way is to start from scratch and not make the mistakes that led you to accumulate 100k people.

I can't even begin to imagine what those 100k people actually do. For starters, none of the telcos actually develop their own equipment - they buy pre-made from vendors like Ericsson. Often that includes ongoing maintenance too. The only "engineering" is building the back-office and customer-facing UIs, and even that is often outsourced (as a rule of thumb, if something can be outsourced, telcos will do it: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/).

Customer service might be part of that number (assuming that too isn't outsourced), but even then 100k feels extreme.

10k is ok although leaning on the more bloated side. But 100k?
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-14 20:08:56+00:00
Never had any problem with any bike, except regular maintenance which is changing oil, changing chain, and changing tires. There aren't physically any parts on a motorcycle which could become a "massive money sink" if it breaks from normal use.

Are you talking about weird vintage bikes or Harley Davidson bikes? Because modern bikes don't have maintenance or factory issues.

> Battery degradation is a bit of a meme

Well, what is the explanation then? If there isn't a major drawback with electric motorcycles, they would already have sold hundreds of millions of units.

Because of no gas cost, cheaper/no maintenance, better performance, better riding experience, less noisy. Which commuter wouldn't want an electric motorcycle? Are hundreds of millions of potential customers in India, Asia and South America simply fools who don't have the hacker enlightenment?
by danielfoster | 2026-01-14 20:09:08+00:00
With all due respect this opinion verges on neo prohibitionist alarmism. The social benefits of alcohol have been widely acknowledged and at a time when we are all spending too much time at home on our phones (arguably worse for health than a pint), communities need more social spaces. That place may not necessarily be a bar and it’s perfectly fine if you don’t wish to drink, but it’s a bit much to refer to a cultural product as a criminal enterprise.