MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by angoragoats | 2026-01-13 14:06:25+00:00
I’m aware of at least two honest-to-goodness new browser projects:

There’s Servo, which used to be from Mozilla, but then they abandoned it. Now I believe it’s independent after a long period of dormancy.

There is also Ladybird, whose founder is a prolific and technically brilliant person but who is also, at minimum, a fascist sympathizer, in addition to being a supporter of white replacement theory and other racist ideas.

Neither project, last I checked, is really close to being a “daily driver.” But they’re both in active development, so maybe in the future they’ll become legit alternatives to the Google/Apple duopoly.
by meindnoch | 2026-01-13 14:06:26+00:00
If we assume pi's digits to be uniformly random, then the expected offset for the first occurrence of a particular N-bit sequence is going to be ~2^N. (This can be proven using a Markov-chain argument. Also note: we're working in binary). So you've converted an N-bit value into an offset on the order of 2^N, which takes again N bits to represent.
by Timon3 | 2026-01-13 14:06:47+00:00
The existence of a course on this topic is NOT evidence of "large use". The contents of the course might contain such evidence, or they might contain evidence that LLM use is practically non-existent at this point (the flowery language used to describe the course is used for almost any course tangentially related to new technology in the business context, so that's not evidence either).

But your focus on the existence of this course as your only piece of evidence is evidence enough for me.
by throwaway17_17 | 2026-01-13 14:06:52+00:00
Thanks, my parent’s comment is almost a thought-terminating cliche in this kind of discussion. However, Chisnall’s now classic ‘C is not a low level language’ article is one of my favorite papers on language theory and potential hardware design. A discussion about the shortcomings of viewing C as a low level language can/could be profitable, deep, and interesting; but context is king.
by vintermann | 2026-01-13 14:07:04+00:00
I think these accounts may not be as political as many people think. It has been observed that foreign bot accounts often support both positions on contentious issues.

Maybe they're just Russian cybercriminals chasing impulse likes and follows for the sake of building up their accounts' social currency? Once they've gotten enough real engagement that the algorithm thinks they're real people, they can pivot to something entirely unrelated to the political controversy they pushed. Change name, change style, suddenly the victim follows an account they don't remember but gives interesting advice on crypto investments.

Now, I do certainly believe Russian cybercriminals do work for the government now and then in return for tolerance. But it may be less mustache-twirling chaos farming and more plain old scams.
by pipo234 | 2026-01-13 14:07:11+00:00
I think the attribution is a very good point!

Essentially LLMs are recontextualizing their training data. So on one hand, one might argue that training is like a human reading books and then inference is like writing something novel, (partially) based on the reading experience. But the contract between humans considers it plagiarism when we recite some studied text and then claim it as your own. So for example, books attribute citations with footnotes.

With source code we used to either re-used a library as-is, in which case the license terms would apply OR write our own implementation from scratch. While this LLM recontextualization purports to be like the latter, it is sometimes evident that the original license or at least some attribution, comment or footnote should apply. If only to help with future legibility maintenance.
by DrScientist | 2026-01-13 14:07:18+00:00
Ants also farm other insects.

For example often if you have a blackfly infestation, the first sign is often a steady stream of ants - they are feeding of the honeydew created by the blackfly, they protect the blackfly from predators like ladybird larvae, and they will even transfer the blackfly to new plants.

Once I knew this I found the best way to tackle blackfly was not to go after the blackfly, but distract the ants - a bit of jam works a treat.

Though you could then argue the ant's have then moved on, from farming, to a protection racket.
by jibal | 2026-01-13 14:07:23+00:00
Your problem is that you have only one comment's worth of context and can't be bothered to read up the thread. The comment was "Don't be surprised when you learn their so-called "chess bots" are actually people, lying hidden below the floor of the passenger cabin, moving pieces with the help of levers and magnets."

That was a joke about the Mechanical Turk (as a response to "I used to fly a lot of Turkish, and their one's laughably bad. If anyone here works for Turkish Airlines, get yourself a better Chess bot"), which is why I said that's what it sounds like and provided the link. "Amazon Mechanical Turk" does not involve hidden people moving the pieces with the help of levers and magnets and has nothing to do with chess bots on Turkish airlines. I posted the link because most people aren't familiar with the Mechanical Turk and would not know what @tomjakubowski's joke referred to.

I'm sorry if you still can't follow, but your failure to comprehend isn't my fault and I'd rather not be insulted for simply posting an informative link because of someone else's misunderstanding so I'm not going to comment further.
Show HN: API to perform inference with pre-trained SLMs for various NLP tasks
by rlucato | 2026-01-13 14:07:30+00:00
This is a fully managed API to perform inference with pre-trained Small Language Models (SLMs) for various NLP and text processing tasks.

Using SLMs for specific text processing tasks provides three main benefits compared to using LLMs:

- Lower costs: SLMs are much cheaper to run compared to LLMs, making them a cost-effective solution for applications with high inference volumes.

- Improved performance: SLMs are often more accurate and efficient for specific tasks compared to LLMs, which are designed to be general-purpose.

- Lower Latency: SLMs are typically faster to respond compared to LLMs, resulting in lower latency for applications.

This API is meant to provide developers with a simple, efficient and cost-effective way to integrate SLMs into their applications, without the need to self-host them.

All models used in this API were trained by us at Tanaos, are open-source and accessible from the Tanaos Hugging Face page.
by bell-cot | 2026-01-13 14:07:37+00:00
In theory, one should start by looking for physical causes - medication side-effects, disorders of the endocrine system, etc. Then quietly ask whether or not she's n=1, in her known blood relatives, for such behavior.

Also, while actually talking with your kids about their mother's issues is currently a no-go zone - kids are quite adept at reading emotions. One can both acknowledge that you're seeing the same Big Problem that they do, and that divorce is also generally horrible - without saying a word.
by tom-pytel | 2026-01-13 14:07:47+00:00
I’ve spent the last year building pfst, a library for structural Python source editing.

Why: The standard ast module doesn't preserve anything and LibCST is verbose and you need to know syntax details. I wanted something "Pythonic" where I could treat a tree like a list and have the "formatting math" (commas, indentation, parentheses) handled automatically.

What it does: It allows high-level editing of Python source and AST while handling all the weird syntax nuances (like extra parentheses or complex continuations) without breaking comments or original layout. It's not a formatter, it’s for refactoring and instrumentation (and linting if you really want though LibCST is better for that).

API example of appending a kwarg to all "func()" calls:

for call in module.walk(Call): # module = FST(src)
if call.func.is_Name and call.func.id == 'func':
call.append('correlation_id=CID')

I would love feedback, especially from anyone experienced with existing CST tooling.

GitHub: https://github.com/tom-pytel/pfst

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/pfst/

Documentation: https://tom-pytel.github.io/pfst/
by piltdownman | 2026-01-13 14:08:15+00:00
The BBC has never been impartial to internal concerns - domestic politics in particular. Leveson Inquiry recommendations not being implemented is the tip of the iceberg in relation to the extent of client-journalism it engages in with regard to the Conservative party.

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/bbc-under-sc...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-13 14:08:22+00:00
Its really ironic that I read the term radicalism in Hackernews as being against tech billionaires and this is the sentiment that I usually see here reasonably (atleast in my opinion)

But your comparison to HN radicalism to equating tech billionaires as HN users themselves flips my whole comment upside down.

I don't know much about the political biases here but I like to think that most people are pro open source and that they dislike the manipulative characteristics deployed by some infamous tech billionaires or those companies. Usually I think that's the case unless of course someone might have a bias themselves I suppose.
by KolmogorovComp | 2026-01-13 14:08:30+00:00
That's not (really) it.

Ryanair makes little to no money from passengers, nowadays it's mainly from selling airplanes.
They were still profitable during COVID without even carrying passengers at some point, only thanks to their flying school, which thanks to social dumping and the UE, allow them to charge 40k€ per wannabe pilot without even guaranteeing them a hire.

They booked 2000 737max, with their own special version during COVID+MCAS disaster, they paid it dirt cheap.

Then they operate them marginally, and now that the traffic has gone up again and the delay between buying and receiving a Max is about 8 years, they sell them back for a huge profit.

It's been known for ages in the industry.
by geremiiah | 2026-01-13 14:09:07+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/keir-s...
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/30/uk/keir-starmer-labour-pa...

I've come across various sources that lean center-left, note, CENTER-left, saying this. I think there might be something to it.
by oug-t | 2026-01-13 14:09:39+00:00
I built zsweep because I wanted a Minesweeper experience that respected "Vim grammar" rather than just mapping arrow keys to HJKL. I found that using a mouse for grid navigation broke my flow state during quick breaks, so I engineered this to be 100% keyboard-centric.

Technical Highlights:
Vim Grammar Engine: I implemented a custom state machine to handle complex motions. This includes quantifiers (e.g., 5j), search (pressing / plus a number to jump to that digit), and context-aware word motions (w/b) that intelligently skip over revealed safe cells to land on unrevealed ones.

Svelte 5 & Performance: Built with SvelteKit using the new Svelte 5 runes. This was critical for ensuring zero-latency input handling—if the movement doesn't feel as snappy as a native terminal, the "Vim feel" is lost.

Backend & Stats: Powered by Supabase. I recently had to refactor the global stats dashboard to move from client-side counting to server-side aggregation (RPC). I hit a common "gotcha" where standard selects were capping at 1,000 rows, causing our total time sweeping to drift. It now correctly reflects our full database aggregate.

Security: Leveraging Row Level Security (RLS) policies to ensure users can only modify their own game results while keeping the global leaderboard public.

Why I'm Sharing Today:
We recently hit 1,000+ active users, and I’m looking for technical contributors to help polish the experience. I’ve opened issues on GitHub regarding sound system customization and performance optimizations for the larger 30x16 grids.

Play it here: https://zsweep.com Open Source Repo: https://github.com/oug-t/zsweep
by conartist6 | 2026-01-13 14:09:54+00:00
Politicians aren't generally leaders, but rather followers. To force politicians to do something, lead where people follow you. But of course, paradoxically, this will by definition make you a practitioner of politics yourself... To quote from The Hunt for Red October, "Listen, I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and liar. When I'm not kissin' babies I'm stealin' their lollipops. But! It also means I keep my options open."
by mattmanser | 2026-01-13 14:10:12+00:00
A hangout for 11-16 year olds often seems to devolve into a bunch of kids all watching their own phones. It's really depressing to watch, though they do seem to play as well.

We have had several arguments about no social media and we're only 1 out of 6-ish years in to the too naïve to look after yourself on the internet phase, and the eldest already figured out how to download some chat app I'd never even heard of without permission.
by Piezoid | 2026-01-13 14:10:16+00:00
Not a word on Palantir. Is this because of the adept wording by the ministry of justice? I highly doubt they are developing this in a vacuum.

As re reminder, In the UK Palantir holds extensive contracts across defense (multi-billion MoD deals for AI-driven battlefield and intelligence systems) and healthcare (7y £330m+ NHS Data Platform). In France, its involvement is narrower but concentrated on *domestic* intelligence.
by angoragoats | 2026-01-13 14:10:17+00:00
No one is claiming, here or in the article, that Firefox ever had a majority share.

I don’t know if the 55% number for IE is 100% correct but it sounds like the right ballpark to me. The browser market was a lot more fragmented 15+ years ago, so saying that IE had 55% market share and Firefox had 32%, leaving 13% for other browsers, sounds completely right to me.
by perend | 2026-01-13 14:10:56+00:00
Location: France

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), React. Secondary (fun projects, etc): Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, k6, Apache Cassandra

Résumé/CV: https://fr.linkedin.com/in/cl%C3%A9ment-de-nailly-235463145

Email: clement.de.nailly+hn@gmail.com

Hi HN folks, I'm currently working as a 7 YoE freelance senior DevOps engineer. I have a full-stack dev background and am now working as a DevOps or DevSecOps. My most recent missions were around platform engineering and CI/CD (turn a 2-week release process into a 40 minutes complex pipeline).

I am looking for my next challenge as I am about to finish my current CI/CD mission. I'm open to EU and US companies (worked async with a US scale-up for 4 years) and looking for a backend engineer, DevOps or DevSecOps position/mission.

Note: my k8s skills are rusty (only used it part time since 2019), if k8s is a must-have for you I am open to derusting it.
by theryan | 2026-01-13 14:11:24+00:00
While it is a bit of a pain, it can be made a lot easier with the --keep-base option. This article is a great example https://adamj.eu/tech/2022/03/25/how-to-squash-and-rebase-a-... of how to make rebasing with merge conflicts significantly easier. Like you said though, it's not super user-friendly but at least there are options out there.
by miroljub | 2026-01-13 14:11:44+00:00
> So media control, regulation by enforcement, and institutional control becomes the focus of effort.

You forgot gun control. That's the first thing they took away. Thereafter, freedom after freedom has been made optional by the government [1].

When government becomes overreaching, and you don't have the means to protect yourself and your rights, that's where it goes.

[1] I said "government", but probably "regime" would be a more suitable term here.
by OgsyedIE | 2026-01-13 14:11:51+00:00
The UK faces real structural problems with the inflating cost of living regardless of government, roughly halfway attributable to failing the lower-level challenge of continuing to import adequate quantities of diesel at affordable prices and the rest mostly coming from an aging population. Spot diesel has come down from the price spike of covid to approximately 1.3x the 2019 price.

Almost all physical goods have diesel prices contribute to their sticker price in a significant way. The diesel exporting countries are all incrementally increasing their domestic consumption, leaving less for the world market year on year.

The UK government isn't trying much policy for tackling the causes or the symptoms, largely because the government is disproportionately drawn from a class of people who don't want those policies. The media of the upper middle class of the UK has sincere column after sincere column of hating the rest of the population and calling for better controls over the cattle.

Tens of millions of people, held hostage by a clique of crabs in a bucket.
by mcphage | 2026-01-13 14:11:54+00:00
> The mayor of NYC is a socialist

> the core tenet of Socialism replacing capitalism

You can say Mamdani is a socialist. You can say the core tenet of socialism is replacing capitalism. But you can't say both. If Mamdani is a socialist, then replacing capitalism is not the core tenet of socialism. If the core tenet of socialism is replacing capitalism, then Mamdani is not a socialist. Those two things do not go together.
by xvector | 2026-01-13 14:12:32+00:00
Could less physical labor lead to weaker bones or atrophied muscles leading to greater fall mortality?

I did an Ozempic stint and noticed my bone density had decreased to the bottom 3 percentile for my age, and I lost muscle as well.

It's all on me, of course, but I wonder if this phenomenon is widespread, and if it'll result in more deaths from falls.
by egberts1 | 2026-01-13 14:13:04+00:00
The sole blocker of CONFIG_MODULES=n is WiFi and only just prior to network UP state of WiFi (during initial WiFi initialization).

Also, kernel build will fail during 'make modules'/'make all'/'make' but will succeed for 'make bzImage'/'make install'

Desktop Linux distros' WiFi required SIGNED module support for internationalization of radio band selection.

SO, for kernel modules to be disabled on desktop and still use WiFi, one needs to rebuild WiFi without module support and specifically to comply with their country's radio authority.

Pesky little thing.
by iso1631 | 2026-01-13 14:13:26+00:00
It's a problem with pretty much anyone. Things are bad from a fundamental structural failings for decades, elect new person, don't see immediate turn-around, they're massively unpopular.

The only way out of this is if you successfully blame $marginalised_group for the peoples problems. Or spend decades undoing the damage, but nobody ever gets decades in power.
by jamesthurley | 2026-01-13 14:13:29+00:00
> If I’m understanding this correctly, he is suggesting that Apple should put their fancy camera in a strategic location at every stadium and concert hall in the country/world

I don't think you understood correctly. He's talking about optimising the use of limited cameras.

> The “immersive experience” would be fun for 10 or 20 minutes and then people would want the different angles.

People pay money to attend events in person, so this doesn't appear to be true.

> You think people want to pay $3500 ...

That's about the same as flying to another country to watch the football world cup final in person. Once.

> to not be able to see better angles? To not be able to see replays?

You could watch replays on the big screens at the event. I'm sure user-selectable angles would be inevitable.

> Yeah, courtside seats are amazing; that doesn’t mean they are perfect.

Amazing sounds good enough to me!
by grumbel | 2026-01-13 14:13:40+00:00
That is a complete fools errand. If it ever passes it would just mean the death of Open Source AI models. All the big companies would just continue to collect whatever data they like, license it if necessary or pay the fine if illegal (see Antropic paying $1.5 billion for books). While every Open Source model would be starved for training data within its self enforced rules and easy to be shut down if ever a incorrectly licenses bit slips into the models.

The only way forward is the abolishment of copyright.
by prameshbajra | 2026-01-13 14:13:53+00:00
Instead of setting Pi-hole as router-wide DNS, this post shows how to use Tailscale DNS so Pi-hole applies only to selected devices.

This gives you network-wide filtering for your devices without router specific hassle.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with Tailscale, and by how much functionality it offers even on the free plan.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-13 14:14:19+00:00
> This is a bigger problem that should be fixed ASAP. OS vendors should never critically break graphics on a OS like this.

> Again, the QA department or automated tests of your OS vendor should not let this get released. If such a bug happened there should be a fix rolled out immediately.

On a Linux system, if you go messing around with your configuration enough, you will eventually break something. You are effectively your own QA department in this case. As a kid I did this often, it’s part of the learning process.

> Why do you need to run the browser on the server? I can't think of a case where you would want to use a text browser there instead of a regular browser on your actual machine.

You just need to look something up quickly to fix something and you are in front of the server. Or you need to download a configuration file from GitHub and the URL is really long, but you can get there in a few seconds from a web browser. There are other means to get the files to the server but they require more effort, and you are lazy (as is your right).
by throw0101d | 2026-01-13 14:14:53+00:00
53% of Americans say that the ICE agent for shooting the woman in Minneapolis:

* https://xcancel.com/YouGovAmerica/status/2010853750618063016

In a different poll 53% say Trump is doing "too much" to deport illegal immigrants (up from 44% in March):

* https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/12/15/growing-s...
by nullify88 | 2026-01-13 14:14:57+00:00
I'm very impressed by the range of shows available on DR (Danish broadcasting). Shows about emotion, social etiquette, animals, machines and other intrigue. We do limit time, use it to reward good behaviour, and use it to recuperate after a day at nursery.
Each night the kids get a book, and we usually play music as we prepare and eat dinner.

I believe a balance of all mediums is healthy. I look forward to introducing video games to them.
by erichocean | 2026-01-13 14:14:57+00:00
> What would be amazing is if some distro would just ship native LLVM with all the things working out of the box.

Omarchy could/should do this, nice low-hanging fruit.

@dhh, if you're listening, the other good thing Omarchy could do is support the VFX Reference Platform specs maintained by the ASWF. That would bring in all of the Linux-based VFX software to Omarchy in a clean way.
by azangru | 2026-01-13 14:14:58+00:00
> The focus of policing is also shifting. As street crime continues to fall, more attention is directed toward protest, dissent, and the perceived risk of unrest.

Does street crime in fact continue to fall? I keep hearing about bicycles getting stolen, or how in London, mobile phones get snatched. It was also common to hear how police fails to prosecute various kinds of crime (usually mentioned in contrast to how they do prosecute noncrime crimes such as 'hate speech').

Here, for comparison, is a paragraph from an essay by Konstantin Kisin:

> A month earlier, I was walking through a posh part of London when I saw a young man in a balaclava snatch a bag from a tourist. When I told people about what I saw at various meetings, most people were surprised that I was surprised. Phone thefts, muggings and all kinds of petty crime are now considered normal and routine.

Which story is correct?

[0] -https://www.konstantinkisin.com/p/theres-good-news-for-brita...