MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by colechristensen | 2026-01-20 20:04:53+00:00
He's sent his personal police force to my city to rip people out of their cars and arrest them for being brown, not to mention murdering a lady who seconds before was smiling and waving officers to go around. In no way is this an exaggeration.

He's trying to use economic warfare to annex Greenland.

The most powerful man in the world is a delusional dementia patient and egomaniac being allowed to do literally anything he wants.
by teach | 2026-01-20 20:05:11+00:00
I LOVE the style, but it's currently unplayably buggy!

* I type "hit" to serve (note: for consistency you should require ENTER on this word, too)

* Ball slowly travels, CPU returns it

* Return word appears

* I type the return word and press ENTER

* No matter what I do, once the ball gets close to my side, the "HINT" pops up and won't go away until I start typing the return word again

* Whether I type the word correctly or not, my guy fails to return the ball

Latest Firefox on MacOS.

Hope you get this sorted out -- it looks fun
by nkmnz | 2026-01-20 20:05:20+00:00
If China is the hostile competitor, then why is Trump threatening or imposing 200% tariffs on France[1], 25% tariffs on countries such as Germany and Denmark[2], and random numbers on their friendly neighbors from the north[3]? These are the kind of tariffs the study is about: the trade wars Trump has started with friendly nations. The study is not about China. And so is my question why Denmark is treated like a hostile nation.

P.S.: If you seriously think I didn't know you were referring to China, you need to do some more thinking while reading.

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/trump-threatens-200-tariff-frenc...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g5345ylk0o

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_trade_war_w...
by dunb | 2026-01-20 20:05:28+00:00
I'm not sure if it's working right for me on Orion Version 1.0.3 (142), WebKit 624.1.2.19.2. I type my word, hit "Enter," and I still get the hint to press "Enter."

It would also probably be more effective to not change the mechanics between the starting hit and subsequent ones. Instead of automatically starting after typing "hit," the user should have to hit "Enter" as well.
by microflash | 2026-01-20 20:05:56+00:00
What an undeserving fate. A beloved app now being passed from vulture to vulture who rip off every possible morsel they can.

When Branch bought Nova, I moved on to use Lawnchair [1], which is open source. Although it has been in beta like forever, with occasional glitches, it works well enough and has enough features to satisfy my customization cravings.

[1]: https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair
Show HN: Founders can now chat with their Git history
by inferno22 | 2026-01-20 20:06:00+00:00
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by alphazard | 2026-01-20 20:06:31+00:00
CS degree is starting to become a bimodal distribution. There are enough people who thought they could buy a high-salary job by getting a CS degree, and universities advertising to that effect, that the market is now flooded with candidates who have degrees on paper, but don't have the mojo.

Their brain doesn't work like a hacker's, and they would have to work very hard to compensate, but they got into this for the easy high paying job, they don't want to work hard.

Somehow other degrees seem to be better predictors of competency. A lot of physics/math folks, and various non-software engineers realized that they have a hacker's brain, and programming pays more than what they were doing, so they got into software.
by johnea | 2026-01-20 20:06:43+00:00
We're not "water bankrupt", we're massively over human populated!

Every natural resource is under strain. Every animal and plant not serving as a revenue center for some rich prick is be pushed into extinction.

But for some reason we need to grow the idiot herd, because elon needs more...

Maybe if we didn't have 1 person with more wealth than 1/2 of the US population, we wouldn't have a problem paying for old people to age in relative comfort...
by evklein | 2026-01-20 20:06:56+00:00
I would imagine U.S. foreign policy, particularly the prolific use of sanctions contributes to this wane as well. There was some discussion about this a while ago - effectively as the U.S. continues to rely on a strategy of imposing sanctions against foreign adversaries, those adversaries increasingly reorient their economy towards non-U.S. economies such as Russia or China. The more the U.S. utilizes sanctions, the less effective they become.
by krisoft | 2026-01-20 20:06:59+00:00
But is the star map there? This article seems to imply that it got demolished in 2022: https://www.oskarjwhansen.org/news/save-the-star-map

If so that is somewhat ironic. A message intended to communicate a date to thousands of years into the future got demolished a mere 86 years after its creation due to a drainage issue and a contract dispute.
by anvuong | 2026-01-20 20:07:43+00:00
Where? I have tried Bluesky a couple of times last year and it's minuscule compared to X. I just need to create a new account on X, then follow some popular account like ICML, ICLR, arXiv.stats, arXiv.ML and I'll get more research news than I could ever consume from the feed, the recommendation from related accounts often provide all the big releases from big labs, no following needed.
by samename | 2026-01-20 20:07:48+00:00
Exactly. The more data they can collect, the better.

Is it not in OpenAI's best interested for them to accidentally flag adults as teens so they have to "verify" their age by handing over their biometric data (Persona face scan) or their government ID? Certainly that level of granularity will enhance the product they offer for their advertisers.
by seneca | 2026-01-20 20:08:02+00:00
It feels like OpenAI is moving into the extraction phase far too soon. They are making their product less appealing to end users with ads and aggressive user-data gathering (which is what this really is). Usually you have to be very secure in your position as a market segment owner before you start with the anti-consumer moves, but they are rapidly losing market share, and they have essentially no moat. Is the goal just to speed-run an IPO before they lose their position?
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-20 20:08:55+00:00
> garbage in garbage out, because their processes are so broken

That's, I'd argue, the majority of companies though, which still spells a problem for the AI bubble.

I've been a part of enough failed ERP implementation projects to know that there's actually very few enterprises out there that collectively have their shit together and are good at implementing technology.

If AI also can't solve that problem for them, it'll just join the long list of already existing boring enterprise tech that some successful companies use to great effect, and others ignore or fail to adopt, which isn't exactly a multi-trillion dollar industry to live up to the current hype.
by colechristensen | 2026-01-20 20:09:43+00:00
Do you think the newly minted American Balkans are going to be peaceful and well governed? And won't, say, try to annex parts of canada, mexico, greenland, central american or island nations, etc? Do you think they will be lead by well reasoned and insightful peoples that won't escalate to a nuclear civil war and that no foreign power will try to intervene, take sides, or try to grab some real estate as well?

You think the most well funded and capable military in the world would sit idle and please itself with keeping conflict contained?
by yunohn | 2026-01-20 20:09:45+00:00
This is 100% for advertising, not user safety.

It’s absolutely crucial for effective ad monetization to know the users age - significant avenues are closed down due to various legislation like COPPA and similar around the world. It severely limits which users can even be subject to ads, the kind of ads, and whether data can be collected for profiling and targeting for ads.
by lsklsklsk | 2026-01-20 20:10:38+00:00
I recently vibe-coded a very small open-source Chrome extension called Direct GO (GitHub: https://github.com/LuoShenKui/DirectGO).
The idea is intentionally simple: a custom New Tab page focused on fast access and navigation. It is inspired by command palettes and AI-assisted suggestions, aiming to take users directly to relevant pages instead of always starting from the search engine homepage.
In practice, it does not fully bypass Google or Bing. In many cases it still opens their result pages directly, and in others it only skips the initial homepage (and its ads). Any more complex routing depends on large language models.
During Chrome Web Store review, the extension was rejected under the Single Purpose policy (Red Argon).
The feedback was:
* Please modify your extension to provide a single, clear purpose.
* If your New Tab page contains a search experience, it must use the Chrome Search API to respect the user’s selected search provider.
* If you want to modify both the New Tab page and the default search provider, they must be split into separate extensions.
What surprised me is that:
* the extension does not explicitly change the default search engine,
* it does not inject ads or monetize search,
* and it does not attempt to replicate Google Search.
I do acknowledge that the project explores ways to reduce reliance on the traditional search results list. However, it does not actually replace search engines. In most cases, it still opens Google or Bing result pages directly.
Yet it seems that any search-like interaction on the New Tab page is treated as crossing a hard boundary.
My takeaway so far is that the real policy line is not “changing search settings”, but “introducing any alternative search-adjacent path on the New Tab page that could divert usage from Google Search”.
At this point, I’m trying to decide what to do next.
The options seem to be:
* remove anything resembling search and reduce it to a pure navigation / command-style tool,
* split functionality into multiple extensions,
* or abandon this idea on Chrome entirely.
For people who have built Chrome extensions or dealt with similar reviews:
Is there a realistic path to iterate on a search-adjacent New Tab tool within Chrome’s rules, or is this simply a dead end by design?
by wahern | 2026-01-20 20:11:25+00:00
There's some pretty compelling evidence that Ray's inception of the idea may have come from hearing about a bounty on MLK's head. See https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/martin-luther-ki...

If true I wouldn't consider Ray to have been acting on behalf of a conspiracy (even if the bounty itself was a conspiracy), but it's not quite acting alone, either. It's sort of like if someone got the idea for doing something from gossip on 4Chan. They may have already been primed to do something horrendous, but there's an element of but-for causation regarding the particulars and follow-through.
by sonofhans | 2026-01-20 20:11:39+00:00
This is a thoughtful response and deserves discussion. Yes, certainly, OpenAI might get your age wrong. Yes, certainly, they’re signaling to advertisers.

But consider OPs point — ChatGPT has become a safety-critical system. It is a tool capable of pushing a human towards terrible actions, and there are documented cases of it doing this.

In that context, what is the responsibility of OpenAI to keep their product away from the most vulnerable, and the most easily influenced? More than zero, I believe.
by thuruv | 2026-01-20 20:12:11+00:00
> We’re learning from the initial rollout and continuing to improve the accuracy of age prediction over time

> While this is an important milestone, our work to support teen safety is ongoing.

agreed, I guess we'll be seeing some pushbacks similar to Apple's CSAM but overall it's about getting a better demographics on their consumers for better advertising especially when you have a one-click actions combined with it. We'll be seeing handful of middleware plugins (like Honey) popping up, which I think the intended usecase for something like chat based apps
by throwaway132448 | 2026-01-20 20:12:35+00:00
Maybe we don’t all need saving from ourselves. Maybe we need to grow up and have some personal responsibility. As someone who is happy to do that, seeing personal freedom endlessly slashed in the name of safety is tiresome.

My feelings have absolutely nothing to do with censorship. That’s just an easy straw man for you to try and dismiss my point of view, because you’re scared of not feeling safe.
by pfannkuchen | 2026-01-20 20:12:41+00:00
It’s a tiny country with very few people, it’s obviously not “sovereign” under the classical definition of sovereign. I no longer subscribe to the modern definition because I believe it is a twisting of language to make it appear that many nations are not in fact vassals of the American empire (Germany, for example).

To illustrate, if Greenland wanted to leave Denmark but Denmark didn’t want it to, could it? No, therefore it isn’t sovereign.
by MaKey | 2026-01-20 20:13:13+00:00
I doubt that most consumer routers expose this functionality. IPv6 NAT is rarely needed and should be avoided. Interestingly enough I stumbled upon a use case today. No IPv6 connectivity at my office but at my dad's house. Since a WireGuard tunnel is layer 3 I can't use router advertisements and the prefix is dynamic, so private IPv6 addresses and NAT66 it is. It was an exercise out of curiosity though, route64.org works much better for IPv6 connectivity.
by scoofy | 2026-01-20 20:13:13+00:00
Look, I'm a descriptivist, but my point is that there is nothing about the word "Republic" than implies representative democracy more than "Democracy." This distinction boils down to Federalist No. 10, when Madison uses the two terms differently... but he specifically says he's using these terms in a technical way to make a point:

>A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure, and the efficacy which it must derive from the union.

>The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic, are first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended.

He's using affected meanings, and he's going out of his way to say "varies from pure democracy" before referring to "pure democracy" as "democracy." Why is he doing this? Because the words mean the same damn thing!
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-20 20:13:41+00:00
well I hope it's better than Spotify's age prediction which came to the conclusion that I'm 87 years old.

Seriously though this is the most easily game-able thing imaginable, pretty sure teens are clever enough to figure out how to pretend to be an adult. If you've come to the conclusion that your product is unsuited for kids implement actual age verification instead of these shoddy stochastic surveillance systems. There's a reason "his voice sounded deep" isn't going to work for the cashier who sold kids booze
by throwaway5752 | 2026-01-20 20:14:18+00:00
natural consequence of the post-truth world we live in

We "currently" live in. Truth and trust is older than computers. It will outlive computers, too. Computers and the system we have built will eventually yield to truth, not the other way around.

One can get a credit card and say they are living in a post-scarcity world until they hit the limit, but that doesn't make it true.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-20 20:14:20+00:00
I am not so sure that modern cars are more reliable.

My father has used a traditional (European) car (which had no electronics except the rectifier diode bridge for the alternator) for 35 years (1973-2008), during which the car has been used every day for commuting to his job (an almost 2-hour round trip in a city with very crowded traffic) and during vacations it was used mainly on difficult mountain roads. He stopped using the car when he was too old, not because the car became unusable.

The car has been repaired from time to time, but almost all the repairs were done by my father himself, alone and in a short time (he had the service manuals for that car, but he was not any kind of mechanic by profession, he was a physicist). In the very few cases when the car was taken to a repair shop, that was for replacing some rusted parts of the car body, and once for machining the cylinder block, after several hundred thousand miles.

And this was not some unusually good car, many others were like this, if their owners took good care of them.

I doubt that a Tesla would live that long, in similar conditions, though it would have the advantage that the owner would not have to be skilled in using his hands in order to avoid to waste time and money for minor repairs, like with that "analog" car.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-20 20:15:30+00:00
It's not much for the regulators as much as its for the advertisers.

At this point, just use gemini (yes its google and has its issues if you need SOTA) or I have recently been trying out more and more chat.z.ai for simple text issues (like hey can you fix this docker issue etc.) and I feel like chat.z.ai is pretty good plus open source models (honestly chat.z.ai feels pretty SOTA to me)
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-20 20:15:52+00:00
I think this is the bare minimum needed to change the current environment, if approval polls are staying where they are. If Dems support secure borders, protecting women’s sports, and sentencing repeat offenders, they would take away many of the “common sense” things that the GOP can use to hold onto independents. Otherwise, it lets people be outraged at the Dems enough that they would tolerate the extremism we see normalized now.
by chaitanyya | 2026-01-20 20:16:55+00:00
What you are about to read took us less than 3 hours to put together. Built using Claude Code, and uses Claude Code as a backend (lol, I know).

I have been experimenting with multiple GTM and CRM setups to book more demos with potential customers. They were all super painful to use; most felt very restrictive and basically pushed you to leave your creativity at the door.

So I vibe-coded the sales GTM tool I wanted, it's basically a clean interface for Claude Code running very specific tasks:
1. Enriching leads with very high-quality information - Use Chrome to browse LinkedIn, construct an org chart, see what people are interacting with, etc.
2. Score each enriched lead based on our internal criteria, a lot of which is based on the Founding Sales book.
3. Find the decision maker at each org and reach out to them.

Once we remove 90% of the noise and have a list we should spend our time on, we decided to send out cold emails.

A week later - 10 booked demos! This is insane. Feel free to try it yourself, it's local first, MIT license - https://github.com/chaitanyya/sales - Open an issue, the entire app is heavily vibe-coded and may be a little rough.
by cess11 | 2026-01-20 20:17:17+00:00
I don't want cops at all. These institutions typically grew out of violent strike-breaking, slave catching, headsmen and the like. They're shaped like a mafia but often better armed, having little to no democratic oversight.

Do you seriously think that cops spend more time being affected by their feelings regarding stereotypes than the structures and ideology of the institution? They're trained to not care what regular people think about them, because they have to learn this to able to execute violence against vulnerable and ill people.

I'd say there isn't enough anger. Contemporary states, like the US, UK and Germany, engage openly in genocide, neo-colonial endeavours and hybrid warfare against their own populations. This should reasonably cause a deep rage in any sane person.
by pegasus | 2026-01-20 20:17:22+00:00
Sure the contexts are different, and you can also look at the federalization of German states as yet another example with a different context, but not all of the factors are unfavorable. For example, the countries of the EU are already more integrated than the colonies were. Plus it's a very different time now, we've had the UN for a long time already, etc.

Also, I was surprised to learn how heterogenous the different regions of the US were from the very beginning, in origin, character and motivations. The Puritans, Quakers, Cavaliers, French nobles and traders etc.

This video explains why it's very likely to happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yHJehbWiNo
by StephenHerlihyy | 2026-01-20 20:18:37+00:00
The lack of public awareness is honestly the biggest issue. I’ve got nothing personally against Canada or the Canadian people. And I certainly don’t think Trump’s approach has benefitted the situation. But I also recognize that his grievance have a level of merit. I can critique a government without blaming a people, right? I disagree with how the Canadian government has been handling itself. I think there is a way to resolve these issues, but I think first Canada has to at least acknowledge they exist. Whenever there is discussion like this people love to flood in, eager to defend our neighbor to the north and stick it to Trump. These issues have persisted through many administrations. You ask why Congress doesn’t stop Trump from his actions? It’s because the political consensus in Washington is that they are needed. I have no doubt whoever comes next will blame Trump and declare a new era of friendship and peace. But these issues will be at the core of any new agreement between the countries. People disagree, countries argue. It’s temporary. America wants Canada to succeed and Canada benefits from America’s success. They are just renorming the relationship a bit, which team dynamics tells us takes us back to the storming phase. Give it time and we’ll be rolling along again.
by ubertaco | 2026-01-20 20:18:43+00:00
As an American, a sizable number of Americans are lining up to join ICE under the promise of money.

And also, our whole military recruitment strategy here outside of drafts has been "the GI bill" – paid tuition in exchange for lining up to go to war.

I don't know that the gap in morals is as wide as you think.
by krisoft | 2026-01-20 20:18:46+00:00
I have once created a pendant to my friends’ wedding following a similar idea. A silver disk engraved one one side with the position of the planets and major moons at the moment of the ceremony. Fun thing is that the Galilean moons orbit fast enough that you can even read the intended minute. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIpFTPOIP60/