MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fuzzy2 | 2026-01-13 12:03:20+00:00
Yes, it is (relatively, [1]) trivial. However, even though it is the shell default (Finder, Windows Explorer, whatever Linux file manager), it is not the operating system default. If you call unlink or DeleteFile or use a utility that does (like rm), the file isn’t going to trash.

[1]: https://github.com/arsenetar/send2trash (random find, not mine)
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-01-13 12:03:24+00:00
This has been a huge source of frustration in C#.

The BCL-provided DateTime was really confusing, especially when you just needed a Date. They eventually got around to including a DateOnly, but before that happened I switched to a library called "Noda" (or Joda in Java) and after a bit of a learning curve, it made everything a lot easier to reason about.

It has LocalDates and LocalDateTimes, as well as Instants to store UTC times. It also offers ZonedDateTimes, but I don't use those as much. I work in healthcare. And so many regulations involve strictly dates. Like, "You have 5 days to do X", not "You have 120 hours to do X", and as such, storing the time with a lot of this data can add more complexity.
by short_sells_poo | 2026-01-13 12:03:44+00:00
I never thought of it this way, but now it's clear.

I found that once I tack on luggage, a seat with more space, etc.. they become more expensive than traditional airlines with the same package.

In other words, their business model really seems to be to cater to the "least hassle" passengers who travel light and don't need any extras.
by lazide | 2026-01-13 12:03:52+00:00
Field work is likely to become less common, because ‘ground truth’ (as error prone as it may be), is an existential threat to a lot of people’s comforts and state of mind right now.

After all, if you want a different answer, you can easily tweak a model.

Much harder to force a bunch of people in the field to not see what they see. Certainly not impossible, however!
by andrewinardeer | 2026-01-13 12:04:17+00:00
The US and AU both have told citizens to get out of Iran in the last 24-48 hours. If they are unable to they should shelter in place.

I think it's about to kick off.

US: https://ir.usembassy.gov/iran-security-alert-land-border-cro...

AU: https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/middle-east/ir...
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-01-13 12:04:31+00:00
What has gotten worse without AI? I don't think writing or coding is inherently harder. Google search may be worse but I've heard Kagi is still pretty great. Apple Intelligence feels like it's easy to get rid of on their platforms, for better and worse. If you're using Windows that might get annoying, personally I just use LTSC.
by lordkrandel | 2026-01-13 12:04:38+00:00
You getting old, so you only get to know mainstream artists, and indies cannot get popular because of how the internet centralizes things, and avoids making indies have real world experiences together and gain traction.

Hacktivist is one, but there a lot more on https://www.ongoinghistoryofprotestsongs.com/2025/06/08/30-b...
AI, AI Everywhere
by okokwhatever | 2026-01-13 12:04:39+00:00
I get it, it's the signature of our times but AI and coding agents are so boring.
There was a time when programming and deploying an application was so satisfying and mentally demanding but now it's all about relaying on a third party system to decide for you.

I get it, it makes sense for the industry but it's not enough to work on a personal project tinkering the code. I feel some of us simply lost the passion for creating things.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-13 12:05:06+00:00
* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c041dp0z95yo

* https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/13/central-ban...

* https://www.reuters.com/business/global-central-bank-chiefs-...

* https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260113-central-bank-...
by chrisvalleybay | 2026-01-13 12:06:36+00:00
WARNING! I tried this and it corrupted my entire tmux session, leaving me to have to recreate the entire thing....

Steps to reproduce the bug that broke my tmux:

1. `aoe add .`

2. `aoe`

3. Attach to the session that was added

4. Close that pane with `<Prefix> x` then `y`

5. Tmux closes down

6. Attempt to reattach to any session within tmux: `open terminal failed: not a terminal`

7. `tmux kill-server` is the only viable option, losing all my sessions
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-13 12:06:56+00:00
The biggest tracking hurdle is to figure out if the ISP that handed out the block of addresses is handing out /64s, /56s, or /48s. The network provided to you is functionally the same as the IP address assigned to you with IPv4.

In theory I could rent an IPv4 /29 (of which 6 addresses are usable) for like 20 euros a month from my home ISP to cause the same confusion but I doubt it'd confuse trackers to use those.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-13 12:07:01+00:00
> We stand in full solidarity with the Federal Reserve System and its Chair Jerome H. Powell. The independence of central banks is a cornerstone of price, financial and economic stability in the interest of the citizens that we serve. It is therefore critical to preserve that independence, with full respect for the rule of law and democratic accountability. Chair Powell has served with integrity, focused on his mandate and an unwavering commitment to the public interest. To us, he is a respected colleague who is held in the highest regard by all who have worked with him.

Signed by: ECB, BoEngland, Sveriges Riksbank (SE), Danmarks Nationalbank, Swiss National Bank, Norges Bank, BoCanada, BoKorea, etc
by Bender | 2026-01-13 12:07:15+00:00
but what is the alternative

If an app can be installed on someones hardware without their intervention launch it into the air and use it for target practice. If a website requires some crypto-crap to verify objects were scanned then upload to smaller platforms and let others link to the objects from the big platform. The big platforms can play whack-a-mole removing links, it's a fun game. The smaller sites can give the crawler alternate images. Better yet just use small semi-private self hosted platforms. Even better yet ensure those platforms are only accessible via .onion domains requiring a browser that is Tor enabled. People can then make sites that proxy/cache objects from Tor onion sites to easier to access sites.
by rofrol | 2026-01-13 12:07:24+00:00
Also oh-my-posh supports transient prompt and AFAIK starship.rs does not.

"Transient prompt, when enabled, replaces the prompt with a simpler one to allow more screen real estate." https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/configuration/transient

Here is my config for oh-my-posh https://github.com/rofrol/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/oh-my...
by striking | 2026-01-13 12:07:29+00:00
"JPEG XL" is a little bit of a misnomer as it's not just "JPEG with more bits". It supports lossless encoding of existing content at a smaller file size than PNG and allows you to transcode existing JPEGs recoverably for a 20% space savings, the lossy encoding doesn't look nearly as ugly and artifacted as JPEG, it supports wide gamut and HDR, and delivers images progressively so you get a decent preview with as little as 15% of the image loaded with no additional client-side effort (from https://jpegxl.info/).

It is at least a very good transcoding target for the web, but it genuinely replaces many other formats in a way where the original source file can more or less be regenerated.
by rofrol | 2026-01-13 12:07:37+00:00
Also oh-my-posh supports transient prompt and AFAIK starship.rs does not.

"Transient prompt, when enabled, replaces the prompt with a simpler one to allow more screen real estate." https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/configuration/transient

Here is my config for oh-my-posh https://github.com/rofrol/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/oh-my...
by contrarian1234 | 2026-01-13 12:07:51+00:00
i feel the fact coal is so often considered separately from oil and gas to be very suspicious. Cant help but feel demonizing coal is plays into the interests of petro states.

Obviously we should be moving to green energy, but coal provides energy independence and doesnt fund horrid regimes..

a Coal plant seems way better for world peace than LNG plant

the cost savings could be put to developing green energy faster
by ViewTrick1002 | 2026-01-13 12:08:29+00:00
That is the expected variability? On-shore wind has capacity factors between 25-40% depending on location and size of wind turbine. That it reduces to 11% is expected.

Given that this happened once it is also quickly pushed higher by storage.

How would add nuclear power to this grid mix? Yes, that is over 100% of demand being generated by rooftop solar.

https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=7d&...
by mattmaroon | 2026-01-13 12:09:10+00:00
I don’t know of any restaurants that previously had delivery of their own and switched. I’m sure they exist but it’s vanishingly small, for the reasons outlined.

So all DoorDash does is give you the consumer more options. If you don’t like it, you don’t use it and nobody is harmed.

Only a small percent of restaurants delivered in the first place outside of the ones like pizza that still do.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-13 12:09:17+00:00
I see things rather differently. Here's a few points in no particular order:

(1) - A major part of the challenge is in not being directed towards something. There was no external guidance for Einstein - he wasn't even a formal researcher at the time of his breakthroughs. An LLM might be able to be handheld towards relativity, though I doubt it, but given the prompt of 'hey find something revolutionary' it's obviously never going to respond with anything relevant, even with substantially greater precision specifying field/subtopic/etc.

(2) - Logical processing of natural language remains one small aspect of intelligence. For example - humanity invented natural language from nothing. The concept of an LLM doing this is a nonstarter since they're dependent upon token prediction, yet we're speaking of starting with 0 tokens.

(3) - LLMs are, in many ways, very much like calculators. They can indeed achieve some quite impressive feats in specific domains, yet then they will completely hallucinate nonsense on relatively trivial queries, particularly on topics where there isn't extensive data to drive their token prediction. I don't entirely understand your extreme optimism towards LLMs given this proclivity for hallucination. Their ability to produce compelling nonsense makes them particularly tedious for using to do anything you don't already effectively know the answer to.
Show HN: Nametag – open-source personal relationships manager
by mattogodoy | 2026-01-13 12:09:26+00:00
I built Nametag because I kept forgetting details about people I care about. Can you remember when you last talked to an old friend? Their partner's name? When their birthday is?

It's like a CRM, but for actual relationships instead of sales prospects. You track people, map how they're connected (family, friends, colleagues), and visualize your network as an interactive force-directed graph.

*Features:*
- Track people with flexible attributes
- Map bidirectional relationships between people (for example, Teacher <-> Student)
- Interactive network graph with zoom/pan/click-to-navigate
- Custom groups for organizing contacts
- Reminders for important dates such as birthdays, anniversaries, etc
- Reminders for getting in touch with people as frequently as you want
- Dark mode, different languages (English and Spanish for now, but more are coming!)
- Mobile-responsive

*Dual deployment model:*
- Hosted at https://nametag.one (free tier: 50 people, paid starting at $1/month)
- Self-hosted using Docker (no limits)

For self-hosting, accounts auto-verify (no email service needed), so you can run it completely offline for maximum privacy. The hosted version helps fund development.

*Why AGPL-3.0?*
I wanted to ensure that if anyone modifies and deploys Nametag, they contribute improvements back to the community and the code stays open. Personal relationship data is sensitive - users should always have the right to inspect and modify the code handling their data.

*GitHub:* https://github.com/mattogodoy/nametag

Happy to answer questions about the implementation, architecture decisions, or graph visualization challenges.
by OtherShrezzing | 2026-01-13 12:09:43+00:00
>‘Jake’ claimed that a “top BBC anchor resigned on air and was immediately detained by security services” and that “crowds have surrounded the residence of the newly appointed ‘Governor General’ imposed by London”.

>Meanwhile, ‘Fiona’ said that “protesters have seized Balmoral Estate” and “International markets are dumping UK assets as images of tanks in Edinburgh go viral”.

>‘Lucy’ claimed that "farmers have used tractors to block the A1 at the English border”, while another account called ‘Kelly’ said that “army trucks are rolling down the Royal Mile. Soldiers in fatigues are guarding the Scottish Parliament”.

Surely the number of Scottish people influenced by accounts making such outlandish claims is exactly zero.
by wtcactus | 2026-01-13 12:09:45+00:00
The traditional HN solution for Climate Change: If they only had more babies in the USA, their CO2 per capita emissions would fall and we would save the planet!

These 5th column arguments, are just appaling. USA (and EU, if we finally wake up and smell the coffee) don't have to pay for Asian high birthrates.

If a country has the same area as another, I expect that country to stick to the same total emissions.

China doesn't have to pay for it's high birthrates in the past? Well, then the West doesn't have to pay for their inovation and productivity in the past as well.
by Ogbon | 2026-01-13 12:09:46+00:00
Dopamine Detox Chrome extension solved this for me:

Real-time tracking → "YouTube: 2h15m today" shame dashboard
AI predicts binges → " 2h risk today"
1-click blocks → focus mode

Mentoring designers fixed their biggest blocker.

Chrome Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dopamine-detox/emoh...
by schiffern | 2026-01-13 12:09:55+00:00
>calculate only the cost to industry

What a farce.

Industry is perfectly capable of calculating its own costs, and advocating for its own motivated self-interest, thank you very much. This is not a bug we need to fix.

The purpose of agencies like the EPA is to "see the [Pareto optimal] forest for the trees" and counterbalance industry's [Nash equilibrium] profit motive.

Otherwise let's just rename it the Shareholder Protection Agency, because that's all it would be.
by joshocar | 2026-01-13 12:10:12+00:00
Food quality and options vary significantly with location in the US. In my city I have a Gucci market that gets super fresh veggies and fruit, along with imported cheeses, fish, very fresh meats, and other low processed food, but at a premium price point. There are also 2 other supermarkets to choose from. If you go an hour away there is one supermarket for the area that is "okay." Go to the next State over and the towns have 1/4 the fruit/veggie options and very limited meat options, all at a premium. The veggies are not fresh, no exotic fruits, and you might not find the cut of meat you are looking for.
by lproven | 2026-01-13 12:10:24+00:00
Hi there. Register writer here, and personal friend of the author of this piece.

It is a joke. You missed the joke.

What the sentence means is "America's policy is that if China takes over Taiwan, it will bomb TSMC's chip fabs."

The phrase "kinetic contaminant" means "big bombs". That's why he specified the model of bomber.

The B2 is the American "Stealth bomber".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_B-2_Spirit

No, it is not about graphite.
by bell-cot | 2026-01-13 12:10:40+00:00
Pretty much ignored in comments here:

> At the same time, colder winter temperatures led many buildings and homes to burn more natural gas and fuel oil for heating last year.

Which none of "shut down the AI DC's", "stop burning coal", or "build more wind & solar" would do squat about.

Maybe we should be looking at boring, pragmatic programs to improve the heating energy efficiency of the worst (say) 5% of America's buildings & homes?
by akoboldfrying | 2026-01-13 12:10:51+00:00
> Surely there's enough common short words like "a", "the", etc that that would be impractical?

Tokens don't have to correspond to words. The 2-character tokens "a " and " a" will cover all practical uses of the lowercase word "a". Yes, this does make some strings unrepresentable, such as the single-character string "a", but provided you have tokens "ab", "ba", "ac", "ca", etc., all other strings can be represented. In practice you won't have all such tokens, but this doesn't materially worsen the output provided the substrings that you cannot represent are all low-probability.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-13 12:12:52+00:00
Yeah, but those already exist as plenty of compiled languages are bootstraped already, thus I don't see the business value of LLVM-vNext.

One might argue GraalVM could be such one, however it has an history that traces back to SunLabs Maxime VM, it is focused on Java ecosystem, serverless deployments into Oracle Cloud, and for compiler development the target audience doesn't overlap with LLVM folks (C++ vs Java tooling).
by VorpalWay | 2026-01-13 12:13:00+00:00
Linux doesn't see one on my Ryzen 5600X desktop at least. My Intel Skylake Thinkpad does seem to have two though (iTCO as well as INT3F0D, not sure what that is, but if I interpret the files under /sys correctly it belongs to the LPC/eSPI controller PCIe device, while the TCO watchdog is found under the SMBus PCIe device).

In both cases they do have software watchdogs (NMI based) which relies on a hardware timer triggering an NMI in the kernel. But that relies on the NMI handler still working, which is not as good as a real HW watchdog.
by 3rodents | 2026-01-13 12:16:02+00:00
You only need look at Musk’s Twitter and right wing media outlets to hear about the U.K’s no go zones for white people — which do not exist. Accounts professing to be from Scottish people are not trying to influence Scottish people, they’re trying to influence Americans into believing that Scotland has already fallen victim to what the fearmongers say is coming for America.
by noelwelsh | 2026-01-13 12:17:15+00:00
When I read wildly insane comments on a mildly contentious issue here on HN (e.g. as a very mild example, posts on electric cars always draw out someone who needs to state they drive 1000 miles a day and so electric cars will never work for anyone) I wonder how many sock puppets accounts there are here. There must be some. The radicalization of, e.g., Marc Andreessen was very useful to some group, so there is no reason they wouldn't try more of the same in this venue.
by keybored | 2026-01-13 12:17:39+00:00
> The account, which describes itself as “a proud Scottish lass” and “passionate about Scotland's independence & our right to self-determination”, is based in Europe (according to X’s location data).

I get suspect everytime an online socialist overuses famous socialist terms (or supposed socialist terms) before segueing into a conjunction. “Of course I want the socialist utopia just as much as all of us, comrades, but...”
by wtcactus | 2026-01-13 12:18:25+00:00
Sure, in the end, we must always find a way to blame western societies while we give a blank check for China (and other bad actors) to continue doing whatever they are doing...

This was never about saving the planet, it was always about destroying our socio-economic system. Look how the tune changed in Brazil when Lula came into power: they never burned so much rainforest, but now it's fine, becasue socialists are in power.
by throwaway37426 | 2026-01-13 12:18:30+00:00
> After Israel bombed Iran last year, there were a few Israeli cells that were uncovered in Iran, so suggesting there is some foreign intervention isn't out of the ordinary.

What a leap of logic. I’d wager not being able to afford basic necessities and also your women being killed by morality police, not having any political freedom, not being able to decide how your government is run, etc. are enough incentives. Don’t you think the people there have enough agency to want all of these? If Israel wanted to intervene, it looks like Iranian government is doing their work for them by making Iran a living hell for its people.
by Dilettante_ | 2026-01-13 12:18:35+00:00
>underplays the magnitude of the ‘issue’

That jogged me a little:
The magnitude of the issue would be different in the mind of any person: The original poster of the joke and I see more of a historical fact and engage with it fairly casually, while someone very directly affected might still (I maintain, though you don't have to agree) make jokes about it, but a very different kind of joke, one that does include the seriousness of the issue to them.

I'm having a little trouble articulating it, but I think my point is: You were "right" to call out the original joke as coming from a place of not-as-serious-about-the-genocide as, well, you seem to be. But this is a function of us, the people who indeed are not as serious about it as those more closely affected, not of it being a joke.
by graemep | 2026-01-13 12:18:44+00:00
Its hardly surprising as we already know there are people who (for both commercial and political motives) have very fake social media accounts.

This guy claims to have made $300k posting racist content posing as British: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-11-16/kin...

This is why my FB feed is full of misinformation, strawman arguments, sweeping conclusions and no nuance. it does not matter what they are arguing about of which side they are on, the stupidity is constant. Left and right, theists and atheists, pro and anti-immigration. Anything else you can think of. All things I am happy to have an interesting argument about, but what social media offers is engagement bait of one kind or another - from rage bait to feigned ignorance.
by lproven | 2026-01-13 12:18:48+00:00
> Except everything that runs on electricity has a CPU nowadays

This is true but it totally misses the real point.

The point is that most "smart" devices could be perfectly functional and usable with a Z80 or a 6502 or some other simple 8-bit chip controlling them, if the code were kept very small and simple.

The bigger point is that we in the modern Western world don't do this, because we've got lazy and it's easier to stick in an Arm core and do it in very inefficient software. Such as something running in Javascript on an entire embedded Web browser, such as all electron apps, which embed Chromium.

Worse still, these days, quite possibly vibe coded so even the person who nominally wrote it doesn't know how it works.

There are 2 logical corollaries to this:

1. We can make computer-controlled devices without tiny fast 64-bit chips and GPUs, but we are ill-prepared for it. The world will be able to make chips without TSMC, but it will hurt, because we have got slack and lazy.

2. China can make its own chips now, and thanks to FOSS, China has state-of-the-art software stacks that the rest of the world developed it and gave to it for free. It has x86 chips, such as Zhaoxin, but it also has Loongson and so on, and GCC can generate code for them.

So China can make its own computers without the aid of the global chip market. But the rest of the world can't so easily.
by egberts1 | 2026-01-13 12:19:09+00:00
It is the intake-only transport of software/LLM through a waterfall-type security that is bringing LLM (and related analysis tools, RAG, HYDE) into the SCIF.

Nothing is taken out except product results with appropriate classification level.

Then I saw "Newsweek" for what it is, a yellow journalistic rag corporation that was bought for exactly $1.00 USD by a billionaire car radio magnate as a gift for his wife, a radical ex-US-Congresswoman so she can prop her party up.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampbarrett/2010/10/07/for-...