MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ianburrell | 2026-01-19 19:18:44+00:00
It isn't a law thing, but I'm disappointed that LTE Direct didn't go anywhere. That let's cell phone talk to each other over range up a km. The problem is that there LTE Direct requires implementation in the radio firmware, and the companies only did it for government phones. There is also 5G Device-to-Device and I haven't found out if that is supported more widely. There would also need to be frequency allocation, something CBRS (3.5GHz) would work but would be nice to get something with longer range.

You aren't going to get longer ranges with phone, the power and antenna are too limited. Walkie-walkie have bigger antennas (the stubby FRS sort of suck) and more power. Also, walkie-talkie don't have much bandwidth so the data rates would suck.
by irishcoffee | 2026-01-19 19:19:16+00:00
-Wall/-Werror/-Wextra have existed for a long, long time. -Wno-error will still work in gcc15, which quickly defeats the point of werror being a default. If your're writing c/c++ in 2026 and not using wall/werror/wextra, you're actively choosing to compile unreliable code and you should have been jumping through those "hoops" the whole time.

"But, all my dependencies!" Fork them and fix the warnings. Flow the changes back upstream. Use your fork if they're not accepted. Don't buy libraries that compile with warnings, or demand your vendor fix them.

I've been writing c/c++ for a long, long time. The bugs that actually bite you are almost always logical and have little to do with things like a borrow-checker, ask cloudflare.
by dvt | 2026-01-19 19:19:50+00:00
Apart from the article being generally just dumb (like, of course you can circumvent guardrails by changing the raw token stream; that's.. how models work), it also might be disrespecting the reader. Looks like it's, at least in part, written by AI:

> The punchline here is that “safety” isn’t a fundamental property of the weights; it’s a fragile state that evaporates the moment you deviate from the expected prompt formatting.

> When the models “break,” they don’t just hallucinate; they provide high-utility responses to harmful queries.

Straight-up slop, surprised it has so many upvotes.
by UltraSane | 2026-01-19 19:19:57+00:00
Germany'a decision to shut down their perfectly safe and young nuclear reactors was a deeply irrational and very expensive decision. Shutting down functional low-carbon plants while operating coal plants during a declared climate emergency is difficult to defend.

Multiple studies estimate the climate and economic cost in the tens of billions of euros.

German culture, especially their "Greens" seems to have mentally fused nuclear power and nuclear weapons into one category unlike most other countries.
by ossa-ma | 2026-01-19 19:20:09+00:00
How is it a “fascinating learning exercise” when the intention is to run the model in a closed loop with zero transparency. Running a black box in a black box to learn? What signals are you even listening to to determine whether your context engineering is good or whether the quality has improved aside from a brief glimpse at the final product. So essentially every time I want to test a prompt I waste $100 on Claude and have it an entire project for me?

I’m all for AI and it’s evident that the future of AI is more transparency (MLOPs, tracing, mech interp, AI safety) not less.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-19 19:20:10+00:00
swe-REbench is interesting. The "RE" stands for re-testing after the models were launched. They periodically gather new issues from live repos on github, and have a slider where you can see the scores for all issues in a given interval. So if you wait ~2 months you can see how the models perform on new (to them) real-world issues.

It's still not as accurate as benchmarks on your own workflows, but it's better than the original benchmark. Or any other public benchmarks.
Show HN: Shrp – Free AI writing tools, no signup required
by digi_wares | 2026-01-19 19:20:22+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Shrp (https://shrp.app) – a collection of free AI writing tools for resume bullet points, cover letters, meta descriptions, social media bios, and more.

I know ChatGPT and Claude can do all this. The difference: no account, no thinking about prompts, no conversation. Just a bookmark you hit when you need it.

Each tool is a single-purpose page with a tuned prompt behind it. Paste your text, get results, copy, done.

5 free generations per day.

Would love feedback on what's useful and what's missing.

thank you!
by chasd00 | 2026-01-19 19:20:40+00:00
This is a really bad article, they're on standby for Minnesota and not Greenland. Even the article mentions this and downplays Greenland repeatedly while still trying to plant that seed to keep the user scrolling through the ads.

"The selection of the 11th Airborne Division has immediately drawn scrutiny. Reconstituted and reoriented in recent years, the division is widely regarded as the Army’s premier Arctic and cold-weather formation, optimized for sub-zero operations, austere airfields, glacier movement, and high-latitude logistics.

Military planners note that for domestic crowd-control or security missions in the Midwest, National Guard units or conventional active-duty formations are typically preferred. “This is an Arctic hammer being readied for an urban nail,” said a retired logistics officer familiar with force-generation planning. “That mismatch is what’s raising eyebrows.”"

it's about to get really effing cold in Minnesota.

Just another click/rage bait article...
by abi00 | 2026-01-19 19:20:45+00:00
Thanks for the questions. I used a picture of Manhattan intentionally to show that it is possible in some parts of America. There's already tons of pictures of that type of building in Japan, where it originated.
The zoning laws are at the local and city level, as are the parking spaces.
Japan does have car dependent suburbs and rural areas, I'm not saying they don't. It's likely that Japan's $4 meals are concentrated in not-rural areas.
I really doubt that Americans take pride in not having cheap lunch options if they want them.
by justtraderit | 2026-01-19 19:21:06+00:00
I’m currently in Ukraine in an area with unstable power and frequent outages.

I mentioned Starlink specifically because mobile internet is unreliable during outages and congestion.
I’m aware that Starlink Mini is cheaper in Kyiv, but availability and delivery are inconsistent where I am.

Regarding EcoFlow: the goal is to have enough capacity to cover longer outages, not just short blackouts.

I work remotely and need stable power and internet to stay connected and continue working.
by port11 | 2026-01-19 19:21:41+00:00
A consistent argument against the deal was precisely that the Mercosur partners won’t be able to stick to the same quality standards that we impose on the Bloc, or they might but then their prices will have to go up to accommodate the added bureaucracy and expectations in terms of agricultural practices.

Another more cynical take is that were simply offloading to poorer countries the greenhouse gas emissions of our agriculture.
by nkmnz | 2026-01-19 19:21:45+00:00
Your speaking of VAT. And even though it’s pointed out on the receipt, it doesn’t mean that the consumer pays all of it compared to a scenario without tax: just imagine you’re a businessman and a VAT of 20% is introduced. Would you be able to increase the prices of all your goods by 20%? For some, maybe. For others with fierce competition and hesitant buyers? Maybe not. The same shows the other way around: imagine a VAT of 20% is abolished. Would you lower all your prices by ~16.6%? Probably, but only for those items that you know your competitors will reduce the price for as well. The terminology to look up is elasticity of supply and demand. There are nice graphs that show the effects of different kinds of interventions.
by yencabulator | 2026-01-19 19:21:48+00:00
> I just think this sounds very elegant

Where the elegance starts to fade for me is when you see all the ad hoc syntaxes for specifying what ta connect to and what to mount. I have no love for tcp!10.0.0.1!80 or #c or #I. I want to move away from parsing strings in trusted code, especially when that code is C.

I also have no love for "read a magic file to have a new connection added to your process".

9P is neat but utterly unprepared for modern day use where caching is crucial for performance.
by randcraw | 2026-01-19 19:22:28+00:00
Yep. After 40+ years in the business I chose to retire rather than madly pump out code using a robot. Sucked all the joy right out of the craft.

It's also a depressing wakeup call to realize that programming has evolved from a craft in which you used to write 90% of the instructions but with the rise of libraries, and now codebots, 99% of the instructions are written by others. Coding became cut-and-paste decades ago but now it's degenerated into talk-and-walk. Soon there'll be no need for any skill from the code creator at all. The writing is on the wall. Frankensteinian LLMs surely will drive all the engineers from the building.

It was great while it lasted, but... sayonara hackerdom.
by Pooge | 2026-01-19 19:22:35+00:00
Just as reading books all day will [1].

Seems like the researchers are not interested in telling you that, however.

Children spend most of their time indoor—would you want something to happen to them outdoor? Surely not, right?! But surely it must be those pesky screens.

If that's not clickbait, then that's a hugely sensationalist title to something that is at best ignorant and at worst misinformation; I don't usually flag posts but I'm flagging this one.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia#Environmental_factors
by tuetuopay | 2026-01-19 19:22:50+00:00
Many rightfully interpret the RFC as "CNAME have to be before A", but the issue persists inbetween CNAMEs in the chain as noted in the article. If a record in the middle of the chain expires, glibc would still fail if the "middle" record was to be inserted between CNAMEs and A records.

It’s always DNS.
by wjfuu32984 | 2026-01-19 19:23:02+00:00
My Apple Vision Pro is perfect for this, especially with the dual knit band. It really helps me just focus on reading as well, unlike a laptop or something where alt-tabbing is super easy and the (enlarged) book isn't taking up most of my FOV. It's an expensive solution, though, and not for everyone (for example my wife's neck is way slimmer than mine and it would injure her over time).
by peteforde | 2026-01-19 19:23:04+00:00
I really do appreciate the concern.

What I've done a poor job of explaining in this thread is that audiobooks are ... recorded ... at ... molasses ... speed.

When I listen to a book at 1x, it sounds like they are doing a bad William Shatner impression.

If they didn't record them slowly, I wouldn't need to speed them up to a normal conversational pace.

I'm not a neuroscientist but listening at 2x taking twice the brain processing feels off to me. I suspect that it's sort of like variable bit rate encoding, and that factors like practice, narration quality, sound quality, external noise, other distractions all come into play.

When you're sitting at a table with multiple conversations going on around you, do you feel like your brain is working twice as hard to separate out what is being said to you? Our brains have evolved some pretty impressive special case handling features for these scenarios.
by progbits | 2026-01-19 19:23:12+00:00
Kindle makes this easier. I read lying in bed, on my side, same as if I was sleeping, and prop the kindle against a second pillow.

This doesn't work with a paper book as you would have to flip between sides and keep holding it open.

The only thing I would like to improve is to have some small remote to flip pages, so my hands could be in more comfortable position and not have to touch the kindle.
by TrackerFF | 2026-01-19 19:23:20+00:00
If anything, I think the tariffs are signaling Trump meeting resistance from the military.

One thing is for sure: If Trump for whatever reason manages to attack Greenland, there will be some signals beforehand. Like moving any and all US personnel currently in Denmark, out of Denmark. There's a good chance US personnel in neighboring countries would also need to be moved out, like in Norway.

A military attack on Greenland would send the US and Europe into a geopolitical crisis.
by kelnos | 2026-01-19 19:23:22+00:00
I've been using vim for over 20 years as my primary editor. I'm faster and more comfortable in it than I am in any other editor, but I still feel like a vim noob

I still have to look up how to do things I rarely do (like insert the contents of another file at the cursor position). And I don't really use many (if any) of vim's intermediate features, let alone advanced ones.

I've tried various ways to get more fluent, but nothing really stuck or kept my interest. This has always annoyed me a bit...
by CodesInChaos | 2026-01-19 19:24:00+00:00
> If the summary has the info, why risk going to a possibly ad-filled site?

I can usually tell if the information on a website was written by somebody who knows what they're talking about. (And ads are blocked)

The AI summary on the other hand looks exactly the same to me regardless if it's correct. So it's only useful if I can verify its correctness with minimal effort.
by jimbokun | 2026-01-19 19:24:11+00:00
Part of the confusion stems from implicitly pulling in the concept of consciousness into the definition of intelligence.

There is an interiority to our thought life. At least I know there is for myself, because I know what it's like to experience the world as me. I assume that other humans have this same kind of interiority as me, because they are humans like me. And then animals to greater or lesser extent based on how similarly they behave or sense the world around them to humans.

But if there is an "interiority" for LLMs, it must be very very different to humans. The reasoning of an LLM springs into existence for every prompt, then goes away entirely for the next prompt, starting over again from scratch.

Yes this is an over simplification. The LLM has been trained with all kinds of knowledge about the world that persists between invocations. But if the floating point numbers are just sitting there on a disk or other storage medium, it doesn't seem possible that it could be experiencing anything until called into use again.

And the strangeness of the LLM having a completely transformed personality and biases based solely on a few sentences in a prompt. "You are a character in the Lord of the Rings..."

I think this is the sense in which many people argue that an LLM is not "intelligent". It's really an argument that an LLM does not experience the world anything like the way a human being does.
by jruohonen | 2026-01-19 19:24:29+00:00
"So, in this case, chatbots disserved him heavily. He was totally lost in his own setup. He had LLMs generate walls of text he could not read. Instead of trying to think for himself, he tried to have chatbots pass the exam for him, which was doomed to fail because I was asking him, not the chatbots. He passed but would probably have fared better without chatbots."
by moritzwarhier | 2026-01-19 19:24:44+00:00
I think the suggestion is that it can be helpful to fully utilize the tag namespace beyond built-in elements when authoring HTML and CSS for DOM trees where some nodes are "components", regardless of the attached JS behavior.

Having a tree like

resizable-pane
editor-panel
editor-panel-canvas
editor-panel-input
...

could be more helpful than

div
div
div
div
...

Readable tag names can be helpful for CSS architecture, I guess.

But my example is not so good.

edit: language
by Dirak | 2026-01-19 19:24:59+00:00
Today the S&P500 is at an all-time high, energy prices are at all-time lows, and there is no clear indication of recession. This, all in spite of the fact that for the last decade, economists have been crying that tariffs would ruin the American economy, trigger deep recession, etc.

The claim of this analysis is a significant backpedaling on the narrative they've been wrong about regarding the effects of tariffs. Instead of trying to reposition the goal posts on the effects of tariffs, it would be far more productive to simply acknowledge that the original dire predictions of tariffs did not manifest.
by ozlikethewizard | 2026-01-19 19:25:02+00:00
Thats still speech you just dont like it? HateAid have no legal authority, all they can do is utilise the already established channels to report content same as any other entity, but they do this in a more organised manner. Moreover, HateAid hasnt been sanctioned, individuals that work for or have worked with hateAid have been.

Look, im not saying I agree with everything or anything HateAid does, to be honest I dont care, its irrevelant to the matter. Several individuals have had their freedom of expression curtailed, for right or wrong.

The only point i take issue with is people pretending that that isnt what has happened. If you believe hateAid deplatform and cancel people, how can you not see the US removing individuals who supported hateaids's ability to access the country as the same thing? Don't allow yourself to be blinded just because you disagree with HateAid.
by hakfoo | 2026-01-19 19:25:18+00:00
There's also
4) Manufacturers could position the price of spares at a level that's intended to provide pressure to scrap salvagable devices and put the customer back into the market. The classic "it will be $150 to send the guy out, and the magic PCB is $250, while an entire new washer is $550, are you sure you want to throw money into an N-years-old unit? (Bear in mind this calculus applies to the people who are not even considering DIY repair)

5) Manufacturers are burdened with selling the entire spares catalog, while third parties may concentrate on the highest-turnover items that they can sell easily.

Years ago, I looked at the service manual for a 1980s stereo receiver, and the manufacturer literally starred the parts they mentioned as most commonly needed for replacements. (The part I needed was, unsurprisingly, on that list)

I wish we'd see more in the way of "open PCB" appliances. 90% of "white goods" appliances (washers/driers/dishwashers/fridges/stoves/microwaves) have a board somewhere that reads a membrane keypad and a few sense switches and activates some relays and displays a timer. You could probably design a master PCB that replaced hundreds of different models, with different cable harnesses and firmware configurations for each model.

This would dramatically reduce the number of SKUs to stock, but at the cost of the master PCB probably costing a few dollars more because they can't strip out every non-essential component for lower-end models.
Show HN: Heroshot – Screenshot Automation CLI
by machala | 2026-01-19 19:25:21+00:00
Hi HN! I built a CLI tool that automates screenshots.

The idea: define what you want to capture once (URL, selectors, viewport, actions like click/type), then regenerate everything with one command. Useful for docs, but also for anything where you need consistent, repeatable screenshots.

Point and click in the UI to select elements - no need to write CSS selectors. It remembers your login session, so headless runs just work.

If you have Node.js, try it right now: npx heroshot

This is early alpha. Core works, rough edges remain. I'd love feedback on:
- Config format / developer experience
- What's missing for your use case
- Anything that feels awkward

Free and open source: https://github.com/omachala/heroshot
by coldtea | 2026-01-19 19:25:22+00:00
Strange take. Apple Maps was a new product. It's expected it would be behind Google Maps, maybe even forever given all the headstart and resources Google gives it.

In any case, Apple Maps (a NEW then product, in an entirely new space for Apple) being bad, is not at all related to "enshittification".

Apple Maps is absolutely the wrong thing to judge Forstall on.

Not to mention that its main problem is coverage i.e. data quality. Regarding software engineering it's fine, even better than Google Maps in lots of aspects.
Show HN: Dead or Alive – Daily celebrity mortality guessing game
by docnavy | 2026-01-19 19:25:23+00:00
Hey HN! I made a daily puzzle game with a morbid twist - guess whether 10 celebrities are dead or alive.

The design is intentionally newspaper-obituary themed, and I'm constantly surprised by how confident people are about their wrong answers. That actor from the 90s? Still alive. That politician who seems immortal? Passed away in 2015.

Built as a simple web app - no login, no ads, no tracking. Just clean HTML/CSS/JS with localStorage for streaks. 100% Claude code :)
New puzzle every day at midnight.

Would love feedback on the concept and execution!
by utilize1808 | 2026-01-19 19:25:55+00:00
Sure, you can argue that "justice is expected" doesn't align with how the real world actually operates, but in the modern interpretation, national law enforcers are supposed to be subject to the same law they are enforcing (whether that is actually the case is another issue); they may break the law some times, but being a law enforcer does not exempt them from the obligation of obeying the law. In other words, law and its enforcement apply universally.

In the international case, it is understood that the "law enforcers" are not obliged to play by the same rule. The "enforcement" therefore only applies selectively. Then the law cannot really be said to have been being enforced, because they don't apply to the "enforcer".
by cyberax | 2026-01-19 19:26:12+00:00
Without additional signals, you can just as well use it to manipulate markets.

E.g. there's a 1-to-1000 bet for $1m today on Trump falling down the staircase. So markets read this and go crazy, buying up the stock. The next day, nothing happens and the markets go down. But somebody could have made billions betting on that.
by port11 | 2026-01-19 19:26:28+00:00
Well, who are you? As a voter, I’m already disappointed in Belgium’s lack of a gold standard for the welfare of chicken-laying eggs and male chick grinding. So we’re stuck buying the more expensive organic eggs. Okay, so the partners promise to uphold animal welfare standards. How are we checking? How often?

Are their emissions lower than ours? Do they pollute their waterways? What do they feed their livestock? Was it grown using pesticides we’ve banned, but feed was conveniently laundered through a 3rd-party importer?

I think it’s good to strike deals with new partners, but Mercosur was consistently criticised for not addressing corruption, not helping the already suicidal EU farmers, etc. It went full steam ahead, without any regard for the voters and their opinions.

Source? Dunno, I went to the protests and maybe I’m very biased.
by LexiMax | 2026-01-19 19:26:40+00:00
My pet theory, one that is borne out by some amount of anecdotal evidence, is that they don't honestly believe. Assuming they're not bots, they were bit by the 2025 cost of living increases just as much as anybody, they know what changed, they know in their gut that Trump is the reason for it.

They are just so caught up in their culture war that they believe that shouldering such a burden, at least for a time, is worth it for all of the "positives" of the regime - especially the part where people they don't like are suffering.

That's why trying to argue over tariffs is useless - not because they don't believe, but because that's not their underlying motivation. In fact, they would prefer to talk about tariffs, because they have a set of well-rehearsed talking points for arguing against that.

It's better to figure out what they actually care about, as well as their motivations for why.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-01-19 19:26:50+00:00
1000%. The Alaska lifestyle has been aspirational for 100 years. "Deadliest Catch" and other shows brought that notion to the masses. Alaska has the single best fishing, hunting, skiing, climbing in the Western Hemisphere. And (like salmon canning and crab fishing) great economic opportunity for hard workers - think of the roughnecks from Landman. But people seem to have already forgotten. Now we get "Life Below Zero" which is .... a little more on the edge to be kind