MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cauch | 2026-01-27 20:46:19+00:00
They are not. They want illegal migrants to be processed and deported if they are illegal. What they are complaining about is the fact that current, people are "marked" as illegal (or fail to be regularised) for arbitrary reasons and the process is not fair. Imagine if you were doing everything correctly as much as you can and still being treated as a thief? It does not give you a fair chance. You can be marked as illegal just because of quotas or because you had bad luck and the officials did not read your file, or because you did not do something that no one told you you should do despite the fact that you ask, or because you followed the proper process and ask what you should do and the person you asked decided to arrested you, ...

All of this happens in western countries (maybe not all in US). Immigration processes are just really badly designed. Look it up, it is crazy: from some countries, the only way to be considered as "legal" require you to be "illegal" during to the time of the admin process. Even if you pretend that it just means they are just not accepted, it does not make any sense: in this case, why the process does not say "no, sorry, from this country, no one can be legal". But the process is "you want to be legal, good, come to my country and walk this way. Oh, by the way, now that you are here, you are technically illegal, let me arrest you".

The reason is that the victim of the bad design cannot complain because people say "they are illegal anyway, so their voice does not count". For this reason, some citizen noticed that the system is just stupid, and just ask that for each illegal person, we give them a chance to demonstrate if they are really not fit to be regularized. But right now, the whole system is just a waste of money, and some idiots are trying to defend it just because they are too lazy to consider fairness and justice.

edit: if you want more concrete information on why the immigration system is unfair, badly design and waste your money, you can watch John Oliver on youtube about "legal immigration"
by mrandish | 2026-01-27 20:46:33+00:00
> "European" Commodore 64 with PAL was actually a few percent slower than an American C64 with NTSC. And other crazy things like that.

Indeed! Even in the Playstation 2 era, many games still ran at different speeds in Europe than the U.S. and Japan. There were so many legacy artifacts which haunted computers, games, DVDs and more for decades after analog broadcast was supplanted by digital. And it all arose from the fact the installed base and supporting broadcast infrastructure of analog television was simply too massive to replace. In a way it was one of the biggest accrued "technical debts" ever!

The only regrettable thing is during the long, painful transition from analog to digital, a generation of engineers got the idea that the original analog TV standard was somehow bad - which, IMHO, is really unfair. The reality is the original RS-170 standard was a brilliant solution which perfectly fulfilled, and even exceeded, all its intended use cases for decades. The problems only arose when that solution was kept alive far beyond its intended lifetime and then hacked to support new use cases like color encoding while maintaining backward compatibility.

Analog television was created solely for natural images captured on vacuum tube cameras. Even the concept of synthetic imagery like character generator text and computer graphic charts was still decades in the future. Then people who weren't yet born when TV was created, began to shove poorly converted, hard-edged, low-res, digital imagery into a standard created to gracefully degrade smooth analog waveforms and it indeed sucked. I learned to program on an 8-bit computer with 4K of RAM connected to a Sears television through an RF modulator. Even 32 columns of 256x192 text was a blurry mess with color fringes! On many early 8-bit computers, some colors would invert randomly based on which clock phase the computer started on! Red would be blue and vice versa so we'd have to repeatedly hit reset until the colors looked correct. But none of that craziness was the fault of the original television engineers.
by janalsncm | 2026-01-27 20:46:33+00:00
“Free speech” is a concept not a law. The first amendment protects certain types of speech. Whether something is free speech or not does not depend on the US government’s opinion or the Chinese government or your mother in law.

Publishing locations alone is not conspiracy to commit a crime. If ICE is impeded as a result of this information, that’s not enough. Conspiracy requires the government to prove that multiple people intended to impede them.
by dpflan | 2026-01-27 20:46:37+00:00
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Much of my career has been spent in teams at companies with products that are undergoing the transition from "hip app built by scrappy team" to "profitable, reliable software" and it is painful. Going from something where you have 5 people who know all the ins and outs and can fix serious bugs or ship features in a few days to something that has easy clean boundaries to scale to 100 engineers of a wide range of familiarities with the tech, the problem domain, skill levels, and opinions is just really hard. I am not convinced yet that AI will solve the problem, and I am also unsure it doesn't risk making it worse (at least in the short term)

“””

This perspective is crucial. Scale is the great equalizer / demoralizer, scale of the org and scale of the systems. Systems become complex quickly, and verifiability of correctness and function becomes harder. Companies that built from day with AI and have AI influencing them as they scale, where does complexity begin to run up against the limitations of AI and cause regression? Or if all goes well, amplification?
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-27 20:46:46+00:00
>Private sector does some things better, see Rocket Lab, Blue Origin, SpaceX, et al.

All of those companies exist on the backbone of work that was done by government funded labs. You are just seeing the investments pay off.

PHds aren't engineers. The whole point of a PHd is basically spending a whole bunch of time working on something, with a very slight chance that it may or may not work - this is not something that is compatible with a private sector in any means. The point is that as a collective, you hope that someone has a brain blast moment and discover something that engineers can then take and make viable.
by bhadass | 2026-01-27 20:46:49+00:00
collaboration is the killer feature tbh. overleaf is basically google docs meets latex.. you can have multiple coauthors editing simultaneously, leave comments, see revision history, etc.

a lot of academics aren't super technical and don't want to deal with git workflows or syncing local environments. they just want to write their paper.

overleaf lets the whole research team work together without anyone needing to learn version control or debug their local texlive installation.

also nice for quick edits from any machine without setting anything up. the "just install it locally" advice assumes everyone's comfortable with that, but plenty of researchers treat computers as appliances lol.
by thr59182617 | 2026-01-27 20:46:53+00:00
I see way more hype that is boosted by the moderators. The scared ones are the nepo babies who founded a vaporware AI company that will be bought by daddy or friends through a VC.

They have to maintain the hype until a somewhat credible exit appears and therefore lash out with boomer memes, FOMO, and the usual insane talking points like "there are builders and coders".
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-27 20:47:04+00:00
Impressive. Very nice. (Let's see Paul Allen's browser. /s) Can say is Brooks's law in action. What one human and one agent can do in 3d, one human and hundreds of agents can do in few weeks. A modern retake of the old joke.

>without using any 3rd party libraries

Seems to be an easier for coding agents to implement from scratch over using libraries.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-27 20:47:12+00:00
Our environment controls us, and we are also allowed to control our environment.

Graffiti is like protesting. The government likes to contain it and deny it and suppress it. Your city probably has a free speech zone where protesting is allowed, which is far out of the way so those protests won't have an audience, but that is not where protests occur when they occur.
by rocky_raccoon | 2026-01-27 20:47:51+00:00
From the FAQ [1]:

What is a "sensitive breach"?

HIBP enables you to discover if your account was exposed in most of the data breaches by directly searching the system. However, certain breaches are particularly sensitive in that someone's presence in the breach may adversely impact them if others are able to find that they were a member of the site. These breaches are classed as "sensitive" and may not be publicly searched.

A sensitive data breach can only be searched by the verified owner of the email address being searched for. This is done by signing in to the dashboard which involves verifying you can receive an email to the entered address. Once signed in, all breaches (including sensitive ones) are visible in the "Breaches" section under "Personal".

There are presently 82 sensitive breaches in the system including Adult FriendFinder (2015), Adult FriendFinder (2016), Adult-FanFiction.Org, Ashley Madison, Beautiful People, Bestialitysextaboo, Brazzers, BudTrader, Carding Mafia (December 2021), Carding Mafia (March 2021), Catwatchful, CityJerks, Cocospy, Color Dating, CrimeAgency vBulletin Hacks, CTARS, CyberServe, Date Hot Brunettes, DC Health Link, Doxbin and 62 more.

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/FAQs#SensitiveBreach
by monooso | 2026-01-27 20:48:11+00:00
In this case, it seems to be lower than the figure quoted in the report abstract[1] (emphasis mine).

> Among 230,156 food and beverage products, the mean [Health Star Rating] was 2.7 (standard deviation (SD) 1.4) from a possible maximum rating of 5.0, and 71% of products were classified as ultra-processed.

[1]: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/11/8/1704
by thomasrognon | 2026-01-27 20:48:11+00:00
Come on, man. We're talking about classified information, not general OPSEC advice. I worked in a SCIF. Literally every piece of equipment, down to each ethernet cable, has a sticker with its authorized classification level. This system exists for a reason, like making it impossible to accidently leak information to an uncleared contact in your personal phone. What Hegseth did (and is doing?) is illegal. It doesn't even matter what app is used.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-27 20:48:15+00:00
DEI went too far the second it violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which explicitly bans all discrimination based on race in hiring. It doesn't matter if Biden or Harris or any other democrat leader didn't explicitly initiate any of these policies. Their failure to prosecute for these obvious (and sometimes even publicly bragged about by the companies) violations of civil rights law that is supposed to protect me is more than enough to lose any chance of getting my vote. I am willing to watch quite a lot of things burn if the alternative is a racist regime against me.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-27 20:48:16+00:00
I wonder how many more failed tiny financial band-aids it will take before governments figure out that moving the needle on birth rate requires that deep systemic issues to be addressed.

The most astute observation I've seen on the topic is that in a capitalistic system in which monetary value is assigned to everything, the value of children is deeply negative and therefore they are not desirable. By having children, most couples are putting their stability, wellbeing, and long-term prospects on the line. The opportunity cost is staggering. If more children is the desired outcome, that tradeoff must cease to exist, and a lousy $2k isn't anything remotely close to that.
by llm_nerd | 2026-01-27 20:48:24+00:00
It's the LA Times, a clearly American newspaper, so of course the reader must assume football = "American" football. This is not contentious.

Further, the contention of the article is simply that there are many perspectives to a game like (American) football, and every perspective is limited in some way, not receiving the full information of everything happening simultaneously, and this also applies to any video source. Not sure how that relates to fascism, but somehow it apparently does. Regardless, the contention is just as applicable to soccer (aka the shortened name the brits made for Association Football)
by uniqueuid | 2026-01-27 20:48:36+00:00
Here it actually means 70%, but the paper is in a paper from mdpi which have been under criticism for predatory (i.e. fraudulent, junk-science enabling) practices.

From TFA:

"We report results of a cross-sectional assessment of the 2018 US packaged food and beverage supply by nutritional composition and indicators of healthfulness and level of processing. Data were obtained through Label Insight’s Open Data database, which represents >80% of all food and beverage products sold in the US over the past three years. Healthfulness and the level of processing, measured by the Health Star Rating (HSR) system and the NOVA classification framework, respectively, were compared across product categories and leading manufacturers. Among 230,156 food and beverage products, the mean HSR was 2.7 (standard deviation (SD) 1.4) from a possible maximum rating of 5.0, and 71% of products were classified as ultra-processed. "
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-27 20:48:55+00:00
To me I really like how embedding shapes took things in his own hands and actually built it. It really proved a point at such a scale where I don't think any recent example can point to.

It's great to see hackernews be so core part of it haha.

> I thought "build a browser that renders HTML+CSS" was the perfect task for demonstrating a massively parallel agent setup because it couldn't be productively achieved in a few thousand lines of code by a single coding agent. Turns out I was wrong!

I do wonder if tech people from future/present are gonna witness this as a goliath vs david story. 20k 1 human 1 agent beats 5 million$ 1.6 millions loc browser changing how even the massive AI users/pioneers at the time thought about the use of AI

Looks like I have watched some documentaries recently but why do I feel like a documentary about this whole thing can be created in future.

But also, More and more I am feeling like AI is an absolute black box, nobody knows how to do things but we are all kind of doing experiments with it and seeing what sticks (like how we now have definitive proof that 1 human 1 agent > many agents no human in the loop)

And this is when we are 1 month in 2026, who knows what other experiments and proofs happen this year to find more about this black box, and about its usefulness or not.

Simon, it would be interesting if you could read the thread of predictions of 2026 thread in hn each month or quaterly to see how many people were wrong or right about AI as we figure out more things perhaps.
by zeech | 2026-01-27 20:48:56+00:00
This article equates ultraprocessed foods and hyperpalatable foods (foods designed to make people want to eat them more). While many hyperpalatable foods are classified as ultraprocessed, simply being hyperpalatable does not mean it's ultraprocessed.

Worth noting that the Nova food classificationvsysten (which this article references) completely disregards the actual nutritional content of foods.

For a good primer on a lot of the misconceptions around UPFs, check out [0].

[0] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/research/harvard-ultraproces...
by boplicity | 2026-01-27 20:49:14+00:00
> In numerous incidents, DHS’s narrative of what led up to a shooting has later been proven to be inaccurate.

Not only are they lying about what happens when they shoot people, they vindictively charge their victims with a crime, turning things exactly on their head.

If this isn't fascism, what is?

And how do we stop it?
by NekkoDroid | 2026-01-27 20:49:15+00:00
The system owner. Usually that is the same entity that owns the secure boot keys, which can be the person that bought a device or another person if the buyer decides to delegate that responsibility (whether knowingly or unknowingly).

In my case I am talking about myself. I prefer to actually know what is running on my systems and ensure that they are as I expect them to be and not that they may have been modified unbeknownst to me.
by mindcrime | 2026-01-27 20:49:43+00:00
I noticed something similar recently. I purchased "The Fast and the Furious" on Prime quite some time ago. Recently I searched for it, and the only entry that shows up shows that I would have to pay to watch it. WTF? So I go into my Video Library and browse to that title, and sure enough it says "You purchased this" and I can watch it.

I assume that in my case, the issue is that certain titles are listed more than once (for whatever bizarre reason) and the particular instance I bought is no longer available. OR, a less charitable take would be that Amazon do this intentionally to try to trick people into paying a second time for something they've already purchased...

Not sure what I believe yet, and not sure if this relates to your issue or not. So take this FWIW.
by bauldursdev | 2026-01-27 20:49:56+00:00
It's not a fixed size of PhD candidates competing. A future PhD candidate may choose to not become a future PhD candidate because of changes. For example, a high school or undergraduate student might read all these articles and statistics about how funding is getting pulled and research is becoming more difficult and choose to take another path. They are no longer a competitor to be a PhD candidate, they do not bid down the prices.
by jorvi | 2026-01-27 20:50:02+00:00
AOSP is mostly licensed Apache and LGPL. The repos have probably been cloned a million times. Although Google has taken large swathes of the project (like the launcher or Settings app) behind closed proprietary doors. But that is not a huge obstacle, there are already plenty of decent open source launchers.

The most important thing would be a (drop-in) alternative for Firebase Cloud Messaging. Without it, you can say bye bye to any decent battery life.
Show HN: I Stopped Hoping My LLM Would Cooperate
by seanlf | 2026-01-27 20:50:24+00:00
42 validation errors in one run. Claude apologising instead of writing HTML. OAuth tokens expiring mid-digest.

Then I fixed the constraints. Eight days, zero failures, zero intervention.

The secret wasn't better prompts... it was treating the LLM as a constrained function: schema-validated tool calls that reject malformed output and force retries, two-pass architecture separating editorial
judgment from formatting, and boring DevOps (retry logic, rate limiting, structured logging).

The Claude invocation is ~30 lines in a 2000-line system. Most of the work is everything around it.

https://seanfloyd.dev/blog/llm-reliability
https://github.com/SeanLF/claude-rss-news-digest
by hyperman1 | 2026-01-27 20:50:38+00:00
I tend to have many tasks in parallel, as there are always multiple blocked on input from someone else. E.g.

* 2-3 big programming tasks as focus for this week: I push one forward until I hit a wall, then task switch.

* A backlog of about 5 dumb non-urgent tasks for when the brain is not braining or in meeting filled days.

* 4-5 tasks where I keep asking people questions until the problem is understood. These tend to wake up when receiving information, take priority with 10-30 minutes of writing mails and looking up interesting cases, followed by a few days of waiting for an answer.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-01-27 20:50:39+00:00
that may be. but that's like saying, "XYZ is a killer app for vinyl" haha.

football as a televised spectator sport? trending down. it's not dead, but where growth is measured, it is not good. the cultural thing this guy is talking about in the article, it's going away. fewer and fewer people every year value the aesthetic experience he is describing.

TV ownership? trending down. they've never been cheaper for a reason. trend for TV production since peak TV? down.

football as a gambling product? up. okay, do you see what i mean by bad growth? football mediated as betting stats on apps? up. draftkings, polymarket, ESPN fantasy app ARPPU? up. ESPN streaming app ARPU? down. comcast? hated, down, everyone is cheering for it to go down. do you see?

there is no way to talk about specific instances of football (and stadium sports') cultural weaknesses without sounding really cringe. maybe just, "who cares?"
by kfreds | 2026-01-27 20:50:44+00:00
Well, it comes down to what trust assumptions you're OK with. Reproducible reduces trust in the build environment, but you still need to ensure authenticity of the source somehow. Verified boot, measured boot, repro builds, local/remote attestation, and transparency logging provide different things. Combined they form the possibility of a sort of authentication mechanism between a server and client. However, all of the concepts are useful by themselves.
by nyc_data_geek | 2026-01-27 20:51:18+00:00
Yes and all of the credulous rubes still whinging about how they "can't imagine" how it's gotten this bad or how much worse it can get, or how "this is not who we are" at some point should no longer be taken as suckers in good faith, and at some point must rightly be viewed as either willfully complicit bad faith interlocuters, or useful idiots.
by echelon | 2026-01-27 20:51:47+00:00
It's US law.

If Kellogg doesn't defend their trademark, they lose it.

An amicable middle ground might be for Kellogg to let the business purchase rights for $1, but if that happened it would open up a flood of this.

Kellogg has so much money in that brand recognition, they'd lose far more than $15 million if it became a generic slogan. The $15 million is a token amount to get the small business to abandon its use. Kellogg doesn't want to litigate. They tried several times not to litigate.

I'm sure Kellogg would be happy to pay the business more than the cost of repainting their truck, buying some marketing materials, pay for the trouble, etc. It's easy good will press for Kellogg and the business gets a funny story and their own marketing anecdote. It's cheaper than litigation, too.
by maxkfranz | 2026-01-27 20:51:51+00:00
I generally agree.

On the other hand, the world is now a different place as compared to when several prominent journals were founded (1869-1880 for Nature, Science, Elsevier). The tacit assumptions upon which they were founded might no longer hold in the future. The world is going to continue to change, and the publication process as it stands might need to adapt for it to be sustainable.
by Insanity | 2026-01-27 20:51:52+00:00
100% this.

I keep mentioning that to people when they bring up a quite anti-China narrative (or paranoia). Most people in the western hemisphere are way more likely to be negatively impacted by the US than China.

Europeans, Canadians etc are less likely to travel to China so of course Chinese media spying would be less immediately detrimental than the spying of US companies. But even when traveling to China, it's less likely you'll be treated poorly than when traveling to the US.
by jaredklewis | 2026-01-27 20:52:13+00:00
Press release says

> On mobility, the India-EU FTA provides a facilitative and predictable framework for business mobility covering short-term, temporary and business travel in both directions.

Do you predict short term business travel from India will increase youth unemployment in Europe? Why?

Don’t you think a larger export market for EU products like cars will increase employment in the EU? That would be my prediction.