MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-28 10:53:57+00:00
> You're in the minority now in EU if you can afford to have those things now.

A quick search tells me that home ownership in the EU is Approximately 70%, ranging from around 95% in countries such as Romania and Slovakia, to around 50% in Germany. Non-EU citizens disproportionately owns less houses.

So, no. I am not at all in the minority.

Youth unemployment is an issue, being 15% in the EU as a whole, with some countries hovering on 30%. The US has 10% of youth unemployment (considering their labor laws are appallingly bad for workers, I am not sure if this is much of an improvement).

> Since you already have a house and everything, then yeah it makes no sense for you. But I would do it in a heartbeat if I could.

Good for you, may you achieve your goals.

I didn't own a house until a year ago. Refusing offers from the US and moving to EU was likely the best decision I ever made.

I had a life threatening illness not long ago. In the US I would likely be either bankrupt of dead. I appreciate the safety net and labor protections here, even with the higher taxes.
by dminik | 2026-01-28 10:54:09+00:00
If you compile from source, but your distro is shipping library version that is incompatible with the app, you're still screwed.

This is why flatpaks/snaps/app images have been taking off. Devs don't have time for bugs caused by incompatible libraries. Distro packagers don't have time to properly test the thousands of packages they have to change to satisfy their 1 shared library version policy.
by tomhow | 2026-01-28 10:54:45+00:00
The guidelines apply regardless of the topic or side, and our role is to uphold the guidelines, nothing more. We don't care (and often don't even know) what side or position you're arguing for. It's irrelevant, and we just don't even have time to get into it.

The paragraph ”You can repeat that all you like. Wikipedia is bullshit on that and you know it.” is plainly not consistent with curious conversation.
Show HN: LiquidFetch – a graphical system fetch for macOS
by m_krzywonos | 2026-01-28 10:54:58+00:00
LiquidFetch gives you a clean, visual overview of your Mac.

Unlike tools like neofetch or fastfetch, LiquidFetch presents your setup info in a graphical interface. It's a 100% native macOS app.

Cost: Free.
Download: https://www.apptorium.com/liquidfetch or on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/liquidfetch/id6757637185?mt=12
by kreetx | 2026-01-28 10:55:54+00:00
Signal's messages are encrypted at rest though? Because Android and iOS are both full disk encrypted.

I do agree with that when you can't hide from the company, you can't hide from the US government either.

Regarding attacks, even if your current app is e2ee then this could be subverted by simply updating it to a newer version that isn't. Yet another is that when somebody gets full control over your phone, then no system will protect you as the device is functioning as intended (showing you the messages), it just doesn't know that it's no longer the owner of the phone reading them.
by Daub | 2026-01-28 10:55:59+00:00
Certainly some art critics and artists over-apply and over-think so-called 'golden' geometry. What I think is happening is very simple... that artists avoid regularity (e.g. two lights of the same color and intensity, exact center placement, exact placement at thirds, corner placement, two regions at the same angle, two hue spreads of equal sides on opposite sides of the RYB hue wheel etc etc). These loose 'rules' of avoidance can be confused with 'rules' of prescription such as color harmony, golden section etc.
by solumunus | 2026-01-28 10:56:34+00:00
What? Of course it makes a difference when I direct it away from a bad solution towards a good solution. I know as soon as I review the output and it has done what I asked, or it hasn't and I make a correction. Why would I need to wait 5 years? That makes no sense, I can see the output.

If you're using LLM's and you don't know what good/bad output looks like then of course you're going to have problems, but such a person would have the same problems without the LLM...
by kakacik | 2026-01-28 10:56:35+00:00
Lol thats so untrue, are we already at the phase of rewriting this recent history?

US and coalition held Kabul (mostly) and their bases, and that was about it. Rest of the country was lets say contested territory, never really conquered, never yielding to Kabul government or coalition.

Ambushes, attacks, suicide bombers were daily grind. Not really conquered territory, is it.

Whether it was or wasnt defeat - when you see soldiers desperately running away from the country in a very similar fashion that happened in Vietnam, I struggle to not describe it as a full military defeat. The fact that it was orchestrated by politicians doesn't change much.
by drw85 | 2026-01-28 10:56:42+00:00
This is the problem with the LLM fallacy.

You think it'll rapidly get smarter, but it just recreates things from all the terrible code it was fed.
Code and how it is written also rapidly changes these days and LLMs have some trouble drawing lines between versions of things and the changes within them.

Sure, they can compile and test things now, which might make the code work and able to run. The quality of it will be hard to increase without manually controlling and limiting the type of code it 'learns' from.
by bko | 2026-01-28 10:56:46+00:00
Worshiping Woz is cool, but like the article says, there's only one Woz. And chances are you're nothing like Woz or Jobs. But Ballmer? That's someone I can look to emulate.

https://medium.com/packt-hub/how-to-be-like-steve-ballmer-cf...
by stavros | 2026-01-28 10:56:59+00:00
If their premise was "lack of empathy is the defining characteristic of fascism", that makes their post a tautology. How I read it was:

> Fascism is a lack of emotional intelligence, which is basic intelligence. Empathy and compassion are a form of basic intelligence. (_AND THEREFORE, fascism lacks empathy and compassion_)

This doesn't follow. Fascism can be a lack of emotional intelligence, emotional intelligence can be a form of basic intelligence, empathy and compassion can be a form of basic intelligence, and it can still be the case that you lack emotional intelligence but have empathy and compassion (you might simply lack in other aspects of emotional intelligence).
by WillAdams | 2026-01-28 10:57:05+00:00
Notably the library was used (at least for a while) in the development of Dune 3D:

https://dune3d.org/

but then the author used the source directly as noted in the Github footnote:

>I ended up directly using solvespace's solver instead of the suggested wrapper code since it didn't expose all of the features I needed. I also had to patch the solver to make it sufficiently fast for the kinds of equations I was generating by symbolically solving equations where applicable.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-28 10:58:12+00:00
> "QA user X mentioned that the text overflows when text zoom is at 300%. Fix it."

We've adopted a stance that functionality trumps design at larger text scaling. Second, overflowing is preferable to truncating (also as per the WCAG, which says you shouldn't truncate / no information should be lost on larger text scales)
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-28 10:58:49+00:00
Yeah skilled blue collar labor is insanely stupidly expensive. I do want a flood of them so that the current scammers in most of the skilled blue collars get devalued.

No, you do not get to charge 500 USD to change an anode rod on a water heater if I have the damn rod. That's a 20 min job MAX and the only reason I'm calling you is that putting on the stupid plumbing tape at the end is annoying for me

I understand guild warfare and the hatred of labor unions the moment that I have to deal yet another actually-should-be-in-jail levels of scamming from yet another dentist.

Y'all think that AI researchers should go to jail for hallucinated citations? Dental surgeons should go to jail for selling homeopathic remedies (ask me how I know!)
by foldr | 2026-01-28 10:59:12+00:00
>the meaning of multi-words isn't the result of structure or word order

Surely the 'word order' part must be a mistake here? Clearly word order influences the interpretation of sequences of English words. As for structure, the paper presents no evidence whatever that structure is not involved in the interpretation.

>many idioms for example aren't interpreted literally

This is just the definition of what an idiom is, not any kind of insight.
by airbreather | 2026-01-28 10:59:13+00:00
check out this guy, doing something similar sending Lora packets without a radio - https://youtu.be/eIdHBDSQHyw?si=MGteEp72Mz52qNqu

"This video explores LoRaWAN communication using a microcontroller without a dedicated radio chip. CNLohr demonstrates techniques to transmit LoRa packets over surprisingly long distances, pushing the limits of inexpensive hardware. The project involves creative software and hardware interaction to generate signals at unexpected frequencies."
Show HN: Once Analytics – self-hosted, buy-once analytics on serverless
by michaloo | 2026-01-28 10:59:15+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm a data analytics and tracking consultant by day. Built this for my own projects and decided to productize it.

I'm testing two things at the same time:

- Business model: one-time payment in an industry that's naturally subscription-based
- Technical architecture: automated DevOps on your infrastructure (think ServerPilot or Laravel Forge, but for serverless setup, so on ongoing maintenance)

Tech details:
- Minimal tracking script, cookieless by default
- First-party tracking from your subdomain out of the box
- Web installer provisions everything using a one-time API token, I don't need ongoing access. Once this is installed it becomes part of the user's infra

Happy to hear feedback or answer questions about the architecture or the business model.
by dxdm | 2026-01-28 10:59:51+00:00
You can ask Django to show you what exact SQL will run for a migration using `manage.py sqlmigrate`.

You can run raw SQL in a Django migration. You can even substitute your SQL for otherwise autogenerated operations using `SeparateDatabaseAndState`.

You have a ton of control while not having to deal with boilerplate. Things usually can just happen automatically, and it's easy to find out and intervene when they can't.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/ref/django-admin/#djan...

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/ref/migration-operatio...
by vintagedave | 2026-01-28 11:00:00+00:00
While I have the natural questions like 'why not Python?':

> 'Thadus' — a digital learning tool that teaches coding to beginners.
> ...purposely built to run offline in areas with patchy internet connection...
> ...split into three courses aimed at giving users a basic understanding of coding concepts and how they relate to real world industries.

does sound intriguing and well targeted. The article is _very_ light though on what this actually means.

https://www.thaduscodelabs.com/Course-Covers/ (looks like their website) has material on general pgramming concepts it covers, but again no reason it has its own environment or language.

Does anyone know more?
by WillAdams | 2026-01-28 11:01:14+00:00
OpenSCAD is quite polished (for a programmatic mesh modeler).

There is a soft-fork which adds Python:

https://pythonscad.org/

which I've found quite useful: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview in particular, working up a facility to write out DXFs w/ arcs
by saidinesh5 | 2026-01-28 11:01:42+00:00
Wow. That reflects my experience with another mid sized German company in a similar industry.

Their original roadmap for their next gen products was not good and the product was getting delayed by a few months.

They brought in a new manager to fix the timeline. Instead she increased the bureaucracy. OKR tracking every other week. Hired a scrum master. Brought in external "certified code reviewers", delayed the project a little more and ended up cancelling the project within a couple of months. "Hardware products are not as profitable as proprietary cloud software as a service company anyway".
by SyneRyder | 2026-01-28 11:01:46+00:00
It's probably still a bit too close. "Claw'd" might actually be a trademark of Anthropic now. The character and name originates from this Claude Sonnet 3.5 advertisement in June 2024, promoting the launch of the Artifacts feature by building an 8-bit game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHqk0ZGb6qo

"Have the crab jump up and over oncoming seashells... I think I want to name this crab... Claw'd."

Also, if you haven't found it hidden in Claude Code yet, there's a secret way to buy Clawd merch from Anthropic. Still waiting on them to make a Clawd plushie, though.
by chronid | 2026-01-28 11:02:39+00:00
I work for a very big US company. My team (10 people) has something like 4 PMs and every task is essentially priority 0. They're coming up with a new way to split tasks that seems inspired to a gatcha to prioritize between priority 0 tasks, this is their contribution and solution to the issue, any attempt to make them see how crazy that is has failed.

There are daily syncs for things that take weeks to do due to compliance, endless war rooms to solve things that would be done offline in half the time, and random bullshit process and committees introduced by management which generate even more meetings...

It's common all over the world, motion instead of progress. It's incredible to me how all those companies don't realize where their money is spent. But alas you cannot make people see a problem if their salary depends on it, and I may be no different.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-28 11:02:48+00:00
In hindsight, maybe I should've tried to use Django for my previous project instead of build a lot of custom stuff in Go and React. It was basically an admin interface, but with dozens of models and hundreds if not thousands of individual fields, each with their own validation / constraints. But it was for internal users, so visually it mainly needed to be clear.
by nandomrumber | 2026-01-28 11:04:00+00:00
This was worth reading, thank you.

The line between good and evil runs straight down the centre of every human heart.

And dogs / wolves too, and definitely many / all cetaceans, because they are also cursed with the ability to be deeply affected by the presence, and absence / loss, of those they form bonds with. And that drives us all to be prepared to kill, or at least encourage others to, not out or physical necessity (nutrition) but retribution.

I’ve always considered the criminal justice system to be a euphemism for the codified retribution system.

We live in an unjust realm. All we can ever hope for is something approximating an appropriate level of retribution.

And it is a would appear as fact that that not infrequently rises to the level of not just genocide as we are familiar with it most recently, but proper extermination.
Show HN: GlitchWard – Active defense and CIS hardening for neglected SMB servers
by eyeskiller | 2026-01-28 11:04:15+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m Lubos, a solo founder based in Slovakia. I’m building GlitchWard because I got tired of seeing SMBs and agencies running "naked" servers.

Most small teams ignore server security not because they don't care, but because enterprise tools (Wiz, Datadog Security) are too expensive, and manual hardening (fail2ban, OS updates) eventually gets forgotten.

I wanted a tool that creates a "self-defending" server, capable of stopping attacks even when I'm asleep.

CURRENT STATUS: We officially launched yesterday. During our beta, we onboarded 20+ clients and the beacon is currently protecting 100+ servers. You can also check out our demo video and launch details on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/glitchward

We are currently supporting only Linux based operating systems (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL...)

WHAT IT DOES: You install a lightweight beacon agent (Rust binary), and it provides:

Active Defense: It doesn't just watch; it acts. We recently caught and killed a reverse shell attack in under 10 seconds. Read the analysis here: https://glitchward.com/blog/anatomy-of-an-attack-how-we-caug...

Important: All automated interventions are strictly regulated. The agent relies on multi-stage heuristic analysis and only executes active countermeasures when there is 100% certainty, ensuring it never interferes with legitimate workloads.

AI-Assisted Triage: Instead of cryptic logs, you get an instant analysis of what happened, why it matters, and how to fix it.

CIS Benchmarks & CVE Scanning: Automated hardening checks against industry standards and vulnerability monitoring for OS/NPM/Composer packages.

THE TECH STACK & "WHO BUILT THIS": I have 15+ years of experience architecting massive e-commerce projects from scratch (My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eyeskiller/).

The Core: The Rust beacon and backend logic are 100% human-written by me, prioritizing stability and resource efficiency.

The UI: Full disclosure—I'm a tragic web designer, so the frontend (Vue.js + Tailwind) was built with heavy AI assistance.

Compliance: We are fully GDPR compliant and our security architecture is aligned with NIST CSF 2.0.

The platform is live at https://glitchward.com

LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK: I’m curious about your stance on Automated Response. Are you comfortable letting an agent kill processes automatically (given our strict confidence thresholds), or do you strictly prefer "alert-only" for production servers? (Note: GlitchWard supports both modes, so you can choose what fits your risk appetite).

If you want to try it out, I’ve created a coupon code HACKERNEWS for an 7-day trial - no credit card required (or just ping me at lubos@glitchward.com).

Thanks!
by Fokamul | 2026-01-28 11:05:04+00:00
Using any mobile phone connected to mobile network is breach of OPSEC, period. Even more in countries, where you cannot get anonymous SIM card.

Not using phone numbers in chat app doesn't protect you against someone locating you.

When phone is turned on, even without SIM, your location is saved, in inches. Thanks to 5G.

And some phone turns itself on automatically, lol.

Using laptop (without any wifi card) -> Wifi card (rotating fake MAC) -> wifi network/LTE modem with IMEI spoofing
by NekkoDroid | 2026-01-28 11:05:17+00:00
On arch it isn't particularly difficult to create UKIs other than changing like 2 lines in `mkinitcpio`'s config.

Then there is also `ukify` by systemd which also can create UKIs, which then can be installed with `kernel-install`, but that is a bit more work to set up than for `mkinitcpio`.

The main part is the signing, which I usually have `sbctl` handle.
by lonelyasacloud | 2026-01-28 11:05:24+00:00
> There's something with the management from these massive German conglomerates that just lacks any sort of vision.

It's a universally hard tendency to resist as enterprises grow into big organisations.

Company starts small and lean; people involved in making product also do most of everything else. Over time specialist HR, Finance, Legal, Marketing etc functions are added. All try to do their best but all with their own non-product agenda. All usually hired and sitting at or close to the same top table decision making process, all diluting and distracting from the vision/mission of what was important to the organisation in the first place. Eventually, the company's top-level decisions becomes more about that than the product.
Show HN: SuperPlane - open source DevOps control plane
by markoa | 2026-01-28 11:06:13+00:00
Hey HN! We're Marko and Darko, building SuperPlane with a small team. SuperPlane is an open source DevOps control plane for running event-driven workflows. It works across the tools teams already use like Git, CI/CD, incident response, observability, infra, notifications, etc.

You can think of SuperPlane as 'n8n/Zapier for DevOps'.

How do we do DevOps today? For many teams it's a mix of brittle scripts, one-off CI jobs, bespoke GitOps, and manual approvals scattered across channels.

Pipelines are often the only workflow engine available, but they’re not a great fit when a workflow needs to span multiple repos/tools, wait for humans, or run over hours and days. Previously we built a CI/CD company Semaphore so we've seen it first-hand.

SuperPlane gives you a place to model these workflows as a system: connect your tools, define how events flow, and get a complete, queryable execution history for debugging, audit, and shared understanding.

Examples of what you can do with SuperPlane today:

- Cross-tool automation with guardrails: coordinate releases with approvals, time windows, checks, and rollback paths.

- Human-in-the-loop operations: pause for sign-off, collect decisions, and resume where you left off.

- Incident and on-call workflows: pull context from multiple systems, fan out notifications, and keep a work log.

- Glue work you don't want to re-build: webhooks, retries, routing, payload transforms, and a unified run history.

See pre-built examples in the docs: https://docs.superplane.com/get-started/example-use-cases/

Project status:

- Self-hosted only right now, alpha release. Apache 2.

- Integrates with GitHub, OpenAI, Dash0, PagerDuty, Slack, Cloudflare, Semaphore, AWS Lambda, SMTP, webhooks. Much more planned.

Links:

- GitHub repo: https://github.com/superplanehq/superplane

- Docs: https://docs.superplane.com

Curious to hear your take, especially:

1. What's the first DevOps workflow you’d want to encode?

2. Which missing integrations matter most to you (eg GitLab, Rootly, Kubernetes, Datadog, Terraform, etc)?

We’ll be in the comments. Thanks for reading!
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-01-28 11:06:13+00:00
>What is not something that should be gone casually – or really at all – is an attempt to engage in insurrection with black bloc or globalized intifada insurgency tactics to prevent the enforcement of law.

I disagree. If the feds, or any law enforcement, wants to enforce law that is so unpopular that people feel compelled to make it hard in this way then, IDK, sucks for them. Go beg for more budget.

And I feel this way about a whole ton of categories of law, not just The Current Thing (TM).

A huge reason that law and government in this country is so f-ed up is that people, states, municipalities and big corporations in particular, just roll over and take it because that keeps the $$ flowing. A solid majority of the stuff the feds force upon the nation in the form of "do X, get a big enough tax break you can't compete without it" or "enforce Y if you want your government to qualify for fed $$" would not be support and could not be enforced if it had to be done so overtly, with enforcers paid to enforce it, rather than backhandedly by quasi deputizing other entities in exchange for $$.
Show HN: Quantarded, extracting WSB stock signals using OpenAI
by alejandromav | 2026-01-28 11:06:14+00:00
I built Quantarded, a side project that turns two noisy public data sources into conservative weekly stock signals.

For Reddit (r/wallstreetbets), it uses OpenAI strictly as a semantic parser to extract tickers and buy/sell/neutral intent from text, then applies a mechanical weekly scoring model (recency decay, attention share, buy/sell imbalance). No fundamentals, no price features, no user weighting.

For U.S. House trade disclosures, it uses a separate, slower model focused on credibility and position building rather than timing.

It’s intentionally not a trading bot or a prediction engine. I publish weekly snapshots and performance publicly, including weeks where signals are weak or inconclusive.

Would love feedback, especially on failure modes or things you’d want to see to trust (or falsify) a system like this.