MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aerbil313 | 2026-01-22 11:15:14+00:00
I agree that there is no 4d chess here but I disagree that Trump actually does or decides anything.

At this point I'm suspicious of any viewpoint that posits Trump as a president/person with an agenda. I'm pretty baffled by the serious policy "experts" analyzing his actions and trying to determine cause and effect.

It's pretty clear to me he's a demented old man reading off the teleprompter. I'm sure he finds all these duties of presidency pretty hard and tiring on his body and mind. I feel that all he really thinks about is golfing, his estate business, increasing his wealth through other means like crypto scams and the like, and always getting more attention which he desperately craves.

The White House administration, intelligence services and the Pentagon collectively decide what to do, be that invading Greenland, Venezuela or the like. Trump has occasional stupid demands as well, like the FIFA Peace Prize which I'm sure the admin staff find very hilarious but comply regardless to make his little boy wishes happen to preserve the status quo.

Even more spicy takes: The only reason the societal divide exists in the US today is Meta. Facebook and Instagram. When people are exposed to entirely separate spheres of content for hours a day every day their opinion changes slowly but surely and there's pretty much no escaping it.

I don't use any social media besides HN (which no doubt also does this covert influencing). I can spot a person's social media app of choice is in 5 minutes. They literally change a person's character and the way they speak.
by chainbuilder | 2026-01-22 11:17:08+00:00
Wallets on a blockchain are often treated as static addresses, but they tell stories over time.

A wallet can behave like a long-term holder, a trader, a DeFi user, an NFT flipper, or something more suspicious — but that context is usually buried across thousands of transactions and contract calls.

Kettaro tries to surface that story by analyzing wallet behavior over time and explaining activity in plain English: how funds arrive, how they move, what protocols are involved, and what patterns emerge.

I built it to make on-chain activity easier to reason about for developers, investigators, and curious users who don’t want to decode raw transaction data by hand.

Happy to answer questions or hear where this falls short.
by bux93 | 2026-01-22 11:17:17+00:00
An SE is incorporated under EU law, and it has a headoffice registered in a member state - and that registration can be moved to another member state. Like GDPR, the relevant law is an EU "regulation" and not a directive. Directives need to be implemented in local laws, regulations apply directly (local laws may fill in details as long as they don't contradict or restrict the regulation, except of course where the regulation explicitely allows derogation).
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

What do you mean by "sponsored by the member state"? Can you point to the exact regulation, treaty or directive that imposes this requirement?
by darkwater | 2026-01-22 11:17:23+00:00
What the hell have I just read (or at least skimmed)?? I cannot understand if the author is:

a) serious, but we live on different planets

b) serious with the idea, tongue-in-check in the style and using a lot of self-irony

c) an ironic piece with some real idea

d) he is mocking AI maximalists
by jahsome | 2026-01-22 11:18:43+00:00
Reading between the lines a bit, but I think the point is that public ridicule and personal attacks as well a general lack professionalism is a page out of his book.

So I think OP is trying to insinuate POTUS' behavior inspires a general lack of decorum, a la trickle-down dickonomics. Which is a sentiment I can't in good faith disagree with entirely, but it seems like a stretch in this case.
by Dilettante_ | 2026-01-22 11:18:55+00:00
People absolutely "torture" babies for their own enjoyment. It's just "in good fun", so you don't think about it as "torture", you think of it as "teasing". Cognitive blind spot. People do tons of things that are displeasant or emotionally painful to their children to see the child's funny or interesting reaction. It serves an evolutionary purpose even, challenging the child. "Mothers stroke and fathers poke" and all that.
by zith | 2026-01-22 11:19:26+00:00
It's interesting, because a few years ago I would have put this strictly under the "not invented here" fallacy, where we'd now be stuck maintaining another project for the foreseeable future. I used to press pretty hard to avoid it.

Now I wonder if the maintenance cost for this type of internal system has gone down to a level where that is no longer an issue.
by kasey_junk | 2026-01-22 11:19:52+00:00
What % of farms in your area are small family farms (either by count or economic %)?

In the country it’s like 40% of the farms and 20% of the value. That stat alone shows the real problem, big agricultural is wildly more efficient (without wading into the externalities). And big agricultural gets the lions share of the benefit of the subsidies.

I’m not even sure that’s a bad thing but half the reason these conversations are so circular is that small family farms are not what most agriculture in the US is yet we vote like it is.
by notahacker | 2026-01-22 11:20:32+00:00
> The major reason to lower these orbits is likely the risk of a terrorist state turning these constellations into a weapon, by willingly causing the Kessler syndrome.

Hard to see how the repositioning appreciably alters this risk, since there are still thousands of satellites in the original plane to get hit by shrapnel from intentionally caused collisions, and the satellites in the lower orbit aren't invulnerable to it either

Suspect there's a rather more practical calculation that the extra thruster firings needed to main position in a lower orbit with more atmospheric drag are offset by the smaller number of conjunction avoidance manoeuvres they need to undertake in less congested space (the cost of lowering the orbit is simply deducted from their original delta-v budget for end of life deorbiting). In simple terms they get lower accidental collision risk without operations in the lower orbit shortening satellite lifetime.
by M2Ys4U | 2026-01-22 11:20:59+00:00
The last time pan-European private companies (SPEs) were seriously proposed (2008) opposition from the German government blocked the proposals, the idea limped along until finally being ditched in 2014 after disputes in the European Parliament about worker representation on boards.

SPEs were supposed to follow on from SEs (public companies, introduced in 2004) and SCEs (cooperative societies, introduced in 2006).
by 3D30497420 | 2026-01-22 11:21:06+00:00
> It will be interesting to see if Apple/Android provide a platform for vibe-apps.

It would be interesting, particularly for Apple, as this would cannibalize fees charged on the App Store. I imagine they could charge for use of the vibe-coding platform, but Apple hasn't been great at figuring out LLMs.

It would be cool if 3rd partly app platform could provide this functionality, but as I noted in another comment, I cannot even install my own vibe-coded apps to my own iPhone. (Without the 100 USD a year developer tax.) So I'm not sure how the architecture would work on iOS.
by ChildOfChaos | 2026-01-22 11:21:35+00:00
"Then a month or so ago it turned back into being garbage. I waited for it to be fixed but it has remained bad."

You have not provided any evidence for that or explained what you mean. Are you using a specific version of Gemini via a service, api, Gemini app? AI studio? etc? I have noticed zero issues.

But in the last month Gemini 3 flash was released, are you getting confused between models? (Although in my experience Gemini 3 flash is excellent)
by yorwba | 2026-01-22 11:21:47+00:00
Competition reduces profits, which is good for consumers, but bad for investors. China has a bit of a problem with hype-driven investment, where something becomes a new trend (solar energy, bike sharing, electric cars...), lots of new companies get started, followed by oversupply, followed by price wars, followed by bankruptcies. Of course every company hopes that it will be the others that go bankrupt, so during the price-war phase, they take on a lot of debt to keep operating just a bit longer. In the worst case, there could be a wave of bankruptcies developing into a full-blown economic crisis.
by tizzy | 2026-01-22 11:22:02+00:00
I didn't take the parent comment to be dismissive or false advertising or that the parent commenter is even that upset about anything. It's just constructive criticism. The original comment says they will "probably read it"! I think we should all be more generous of each others comments.

Of course the book can't talk about everything but it claims to be maintenance of everything, and in general, there is a tendency to overlook the role and impact of marginalised communities in the histories. It's fine that the author hasn't done it, it's their book, but it's important to mention here because it could help the author go deeper into their point. Do you not think exploring those topics would be interesting in this book given the blurb? I certainly think it's an interesting point.

> No mention that for millenia we were mending our clothes, cleaning our houses, maintaining our food systems.

The omissions that the parent comment mentioned aren't arbitrary by the definition that we have been doing them for thousands of year.
by normie3000 | 2026-01-22 11:22:30+00:00
I've seen this - it's tiring even at low volume. Goes something like:

Someone creates a garbage issue. Someone else asks to be assigned. Someone from the project may say "we don't assign issues" (this step has zero effect over later steps).
Someone else submits a PR. Maybe someone else will submit another PR. Maintainers then agonise how they can close issues and PR(s) without being rude or discouraging to genuine efforts.
by compounding_it | 2026-01-22 11:22:39+00:00
>Indian students

Resume glorification and LinkedIn / GitHub profile attention do that.

I am seeing a lot of people coming up with perceived knowledge that's just LLM echo chambers. Code they contribute comes straight out of LLMs. This is generally fine as long as they know what it does. But when you ask them to make some changes, some are as lost as ever.

Torvalds was right, code maintenance is going to be a headache thanks to LLMs.
by rednafi | 2026-01-22 11:22:45+00:00
Creating crap vuln reports or PRs on popular OSS projects has been an issue long before LLMs. Remember Hacktoberfest?

Students would often abuse it since there’s no adult in the room to teach them how to behave. I guess this is one hard way to f around and find out. But this is by no means condoning this sort of behavior.

Point is, LLMs made the situation more dire: it’s cheap to generate code, whereas reviewing still scales sublinearly. The only way to prevent this is by being rude to people who are rude to you.
by phyzix5761 | 2026-01-22 11:23:14+00:00
Has anyone tried, on a large scale, designing the architecture of an application or writing behavioral tests (which effectively is designing the app through testing) and given the LLM the task of writing the implementation details?

Does that work better for maintainability than letting it decide on its own what the architecture should look like?

If so, what is your setup/workflow?
by thephyber | 2026-01-22 11:23:31+00:00
I am friends with a solo maintainer of a major open source project.

He repeatedly complains that at the beginning of some semester, he sees a huge spike of false/unproveable security weakness reports / GutHub issues in the project. He thinks that there is a Chinese university which encourages their students to find and report software vulns as part of their coursework. They don’t seem to verify what they describe is an actual security vuln or that the issue exists in his GitHub repo. He is very diligent and patient and tries to verify the issue is not reproducible, but this costs him valuable time and very scarce attention.

He also struggles because the upstream branch has diverged from what the major Linux distribution systems have forked/pulled. Sometimes the security vulns are the Linux distro package default configurations of his app, not the upstream default configurations.

And also, I’m part of the Kryptos K4 SubReddit. In the past ~6 months, the majority of posts saying “I SOLVED IT!!!1!” Are LLM copypasta (using LLM to try to solve it soup-to-nuts, not to do research, ideate, etc). It got so bad that the SubReddit will ban users on first LLM slop post.

I worry that the fears teachers had of students using AI to submit homework has bled over into all aspects of work.
by rcxdude | 2026-01-22 11:24:04+00:00
Curl did already tend to get a decent number of junk reports from people who just didn't know what they were doing, but this was limited to the number of productive idiots who focused their productivity on curl specifically. AI allows significantly less motivated idiots to create substantially more workload, and therefore upgrades this phenomenon from a minor annoyance to a big problem, one that may just render publicly submitted bug reports not worth the project's time.

(And no, curl does not have a huge pool of potential maintainers to pull from on this. Open-source software in general suffers from a big lack of manpower, especially relative to the popularity of the tool)
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-22 11:24:25+00:00
This hits close to home. I've been building tools for bookkeepers and accountants as a side project, and the calculus you're describing - where a subscription becomes a weekend obligation - is exactly why I've tried to keep things genuinely useful rather than sticky.

The cynical approach would be to make the product hard to leave. But that just means you've built a trap, not something people actually want. Eventually they escape and hate you for it.

The test I use: would people recommend this to colleagues even if there's no referral incentive? If the answer is no, I'm probably building something people tolerate rather than something they value.
by 3D30497420 | 2026-01-22 11:25:07+00:00
With the current tech, I agree this will still be pretty niche. I'm vibe-coding my own iOS apps, and it still needs a decent understanding of the tech and a willingness to put up with a lot of rough edges.

However, with a proper framework (e.g., a very opinionated design system, the ability to choose from some pre-designed structures/flows, etc.) I could very much see ad hoc creation of software becoming more widespread.
by iso1631 | 2026-01-22 11:25:15+00:00
> If you went in to your router admin and allowed all ports on v4 it would be exactly the same as allowing all on v6. The router will happily forward all connections to v4 devices the same.

Forward to where?

You have to actively say "forward port 80 to 192.168.0.2". Port 80 can't be forwarded to 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3.

Where allowing all traffic means you can talk to 2100:xxx::192.168.0.2 and 2100:xxx::192.168.0.3
by jraph | 2026-01-22 11:25:29+00:00
I've read this idea that we could make people pay for security reports a few times here on HN (and you get back the money if the report is deemed good). That feels very wrong.

If I find a security issue, I'm willing to responsibly disclose it, but if you make me pay, I don't think I will bother.

Punishing bad behavior to disincentivize it seems more sensible.
by raincole | 2026-01-22 11:25:46+00:00
Yes. My father never uses GPS at all. He memorized all the main roads in our city.

It's amazing to see how he navigates the city. But however amazing it is, he's only correct perhaps 95 times out of 100. And the number will only go down as he gets older. Meanwhile he has the 99.99% correct answer right in the front panel.
by d--b | 2026-01-22 11:26:03+00:00
> overall operating expenses remain well above pre-2021 levels. Rising costs since 2020 have been driven primarily by sharp increases in interest expenses (+71%), fertilizer (+37%), fuel and oil (+32%), labor (+47%), chemicals (+25%) and maintenance (+27%), alongside notable gains in seed (+18%) and marketing costs (+18%)

These numbers are huge though. I think it is fair to say that this time it may be different.
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by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-22 11:28:36+00:00
Valid. From the FAQ:

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

It also says this too, but I think indeed there is no workaround, and that these submissions go against HN's policy & the first guidelines remains:

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.
by cornholio | 2026-01-22 11:28:36+00:00
An alternative to ever extending the deadline is a Dutch auction model, where a bid consists of the maximum price you are willing to pay. It's a bit like integrating the snipping bot in eBay and allowing everyone to use it on fair terms.

For example, suppose the current price is $1 and the current winner is someone who bid $2 as their maximum bid ceiling. If I bid a $3 maximum, then I become the winner at a price of $2.

In this model, there is no need for snipping and those who honestly declare their maximum ceiling from the start are in no disadvantage compared to those who frequently update their bid, nor do they overpay.
by skissane | 2026-01-22 11:28:40+00:00
To clarify my principle: "It is gravely wrong to inflict significant physical pain or injury on babies, when your sole or primary reason for doing so is your own personal enjoyment/amusement/pleasure/fun"

So, in your scenario – the person's initial reason for harming babies isn't their own personal enjoyment, it is because they've been coerced into doing so by an evil dictator, because they view the harm to one baby as a lesser evil than the death of their whole village, etc. And even if the act of harming babies corrupts them to the point they start to enjoy it, that enjoyment is at best a secondary reason, not their primary reason. So what they are doing isn't contravening my principle.
by thephyber | 2026-01-22 11:28:46+00:00
Regard to code maintenance:

I’m actually of the mind it will be easier IF you follow a few rules.

Code maintenance is already a hassle. The solution is to maintain the intent or the original requirements in the code or documentation. With LLMs, that means carrying through any prompts and to ensure there are tests generated which prove that the generated code matches the intent of the tests.

Yes, I get that a million monkeys on typewriters won’t write maintainable code. But the tool they are using makes it remarkably easy to do, if only they learn to use it.
by darkwater | 2026-01-22 11:28:47+00:00
I think your take is almost irrefutable, unless you frame human history as the only possible way to achieve current humanity status and (unevenly distributed) quality of life.

I also find exhausting the Socrates reference that's ALWAYS brought up in these discussions. It is not the same. Losing the collective ability to recite a 10000 words poem by heart because of books it's not the same thing as stopping to think because an AI is doing the thinking for you.

We keep adding automation layers on top of the previous ones. The end goal would be _thinking_ of something and have it materialized in computer and physical form. That would be the extreme. Would people keep comparing it to Socrates?
by gond | 2026-01-22 11:28:53+00:00
You are falling for the zero-sum fallacy and mixing categories on top of it.

Globally, wealth gets created, which leads to a positive-sum game, not a zero sum game.

On the other hand, if one quadrillionaire in a city owns all the money available in that said system except 100 currency units, the remaining 100 humans are in possession of exactly 1 currency unit. The suffering for the 100 humans is significantly higher for the 100 than for the one, even though it fulfils your premise of a balanced global suffering index.

Before the trade, the value for the seller and the buyer was zero. Whatever the trade involved, the moment the minimum of the seller gets hit, it becomes a positive-sum game.

If this would not be the case long-term rise of stocks would be impossible. That would mean a stock rise is a redistribution and you take it away from someone else . So, if the stock market were truly zero-sum, every currency unit earned would require someone else to have lost one.
by ChildOfChaos | 2026-01-22 11:29:09+00:00
This is the same for me and I've not written code for years since I was a kid in school.

I vibe coded a webapp that I was paying yearly for and the version I made does everything I wish the app I paid for did as it's 100% personalised to me.

I've been thinking for awhile that this is going to be the future and I'm already starting to think of more things I will create.
by skruger | 2026-01-22 11:29:22+00:00
Yes, it's either an array (if A, B and C are arrays), a function derived via the dyadic operator B, with operands A and C being either arrays or functions, a dyadic function call of the dyadic function B (A and C are arrays), or the sequential monadic application of functions A and B to array C, or a derived function as the tacit fork (A, B and C are functions). Did I miss anything?
by ViewTrick1002 | 2026-01-22 11:30:05+00:00
Not really. That’s more science fiction than reality. You should try some Kerbal Space Program and explore how orbits are affected by thrust = collisions, in different directions.

As soon as a satellite is hit the rest of the fleet can start thrusting and raise their orbits to create a clear separation to the debris field.

Following such an attack the rest of the fleet would of course spread out across orbital heights and planes to minimize the potential damage done by each hit, leading to maximum cost for the adversary to do any damage. Rather than like today where the orbits are optimized for ease of management and highest possible bandwidth.
by causalscience | 2026-01-22 11:30:10+00:00
> Indian students

Is this cultural? I ran a small business some years ago (later failed) and was paying for contract work to various people. At the I perceived the pattern that Indian contractors would never ever ask for clarifications, would never say they didn't know something, would never say they didn't understand something, etc. Instead they just ran with whatever they happened to have in their mind, until I called them out. And if they did something poorly and I didn't call them out they'd never do back as far as I can tell and wonder "did I get it right? Could I have done better?". I don't get this attitude - at my day job I sometimes "run with it" but I periodically check with my manager to make sure "hey this is what you wanted right?". There's little downside to this.

Your comment reminded me of my experience, in the sense that they're both a sort of "fake it till you make it".
by mlrtime | 2026-01-22 11:30:22+00:00
I live in a a rural farm land area, the only time I hear racist remarks of any kind is online, usually towards white cis men.

Just an anecdote, but IMO progressive liberals are some of the most racist people I've encountered.

I have family members who didn't like Obama at all, not one of them would ever comment on color, it was his policies.