MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phil-martin | 2026-01-09 21:06:18+00:00
One of the things I miss most about the Amiga workbench is variable size icons.

I love them, and miss them

That giant battletech icon before you play that fantastic turn based hexagonal game, or the Amos basic icon, there was just so much opportunity for fun.

Ever since then I occasionally try and make it happen on vanilla OS’s, without success.

Them I just realised I’ve been a dev forever, and various desktop environments on Linux have been open forever, it might be time for me to try one last time. It may never take off, but I would love to see it :D

https://www.sarna.net/news/mechcombat-from-ralph-h-reed/amp/
by deeg | 2026-01-09 21:06:31+00:00
First, people should be allowed to prove their eligibility and they are not being given that chance.

Second, ICE is going way beyond arresting/deporting illegal aliens. In Boston they stopped a swearing-in ceremony literally minutes before immigrants were about to become citizens.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/12/08/unspeakabl...
by llm_nerd | 2026-01-09 21:07:04+00:00
I suspect the "we're an American company and we're going to get the government protection racket to threaten you" gambit isn't going to achieve the results he's hoping for.

I was reading through this and at first I saw Italy as the bad guys, demanding ridiculous asks. The moment the "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." nonsense appeared, followed right after by callouts to Vance and Musk, and threats that he's going to stomp his little feet to the administration...good god, this is pathetic. He looks like a clown. A snivelling, whiny, entitled clown.

lol, ban Cloudflare from Europe. Honestly, at this point all American companies should be banned everywhere but the US, as every American oligarch like this guy does this "We're American gosh darnit!" bit while this administration talks about annexing allies. Disgusting, deplorable behaviour.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-09 21:07:11+00:00
> Uploaded by someone using the alias "xterm", this high resolution (1536x964) Workbench is notable for several reasons. First of all, the desktop is very big for 1993, but the actual viewable area would have been something like 768x482.

A nitpick: I had a Picasso II graphics card, which was release in '93, and it natively supported 1600x1280 resolution. I didn't post that screenshot but it's completely possible that the uploader viewed it directly at that size.
by soiltype | 2026-01-09 21:07:12+00:00
You think I was lying? About a good metal album existing? It's "The Splintered Oar", and I learned about it through Bandcamp's human curation. I hope this helps you get off Mr GPT's Wild Ride and engage with the art.

https://bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-splintered...
by mjg2 | 2026-01-09 21:07:47+00:00
Clean project, well done.

As a classically trained pianist, I'll say the following commentary regarding this thread: there are many ways to learn to "play the piano" and no one is going to agree on "the right way" because there's no true way.

This project is a good way to practice basic sheet music reading as well as to aurally recognize notes and phrases; teaching would require some cultivation of understanding the context and nomenclature. Thanks for sharing!
by metaphysicalyes | 2026-01-09 21:08:28+00:00
I have been curious about this as well. So far what I have discovered, for a significant section, it is schadenfreude borne out of their past injustice. It roughly translates to: nobody was on my side when I was kicked down and this is my moment to rejoice where others like the victim do not have privilege to human dignity either and therefore assuaging the previous resentful assumptions to the contrary.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-01-09 21:08:40+00:00
Or rig screens such that the buttons do not appear to be what they are. I've seen many a install-this-app ads where cancel isn't cancel.

The average user simply does not have the skill to determine real from fake and any heuristics to do so will be defeated by the scammers. You have to be able to understand what could be done with access, not what's "intended" with the access.
by 0xy | 2026-01-09 21:08:51+00:00
Brush up on Brosseau v. Haugen, which ruled that an officer opening fire on a car which accelerated in the direction of another officer was justified and used reasonable force to disable the threat.

This video unambiguously shows the car accelerating towards the officer, which is a deadly threat after being caught in felony obstruction and refusing to exit the vehicle when given a lawful command.

While this is a tragedy, it is a self-inflicted one. You can't obstruct federal law enforcement, refuse lawful commands, then hit the gas towards a federal agent. Just another example that parallels Kenneth Haugen.
by ddhuynh | 2026-01-09 21:09:04+00:00
Location: Greenville, SC

Remote: Yes (open to hybrid and on-site as well)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C#, .NET, Python, JavaScript, Git, SQL, React, Angular, (Open to diving into new tech as well!)

Résumé/CV: (Reach out for PDF file), https://www.linkedin.com/in/ddhuynh123/

Email: dennishuynh0119@gmail.com
by PeterStuer | 2026-01-09 21:09:19+00:00
It feels very different. Depressed people lack the motivation/energy to start exercise, fat people seem more in line with addiction in not being inclined to overcome short term craving for more feed.

While at a certain level of abstraction you can reduce both to A -> !B -> C, that generalization seems to obfuscate specific important differences that impact pathways to treatment. Craving is not the same as lacking energy. Craving, while subversive, energizes, depression does not.
by rvz | 2026-01-09 21:09:29+00:00
Just one note, a very small disclosure that this is not financial advice.

Otherwise, this is a great article. Snap's price is very low enough for anyone to buy and just forget it. (Not financial advice)

AR/XR is Snap's very last chance (Unless they have something else very secret) to turn around the company and they have lots of time to plan for when AR/XR glasses gets a killer app.

They cannot afford to miscalculate this one otherwise it is all over for Snap.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-09 21:09:29+00:00
>Initial postulate: you have a perfect tool that anybody can use and is completely magic.

>Someone says: it does not work well.

Why do we argue with two people that are both building strawmen. It doesn't accomplish much. We keep calling AI 'unintelligent' but peoples eagar willingness to make incorrect arguments does put some doubts on humanity itself.
by caetris24 | 2026-01-09 21:09:54+00:00
A cool feature would be a piano key color fading transition when you hit the key, which will adapt someone's memory more quickly to being able to complete the sequence with multiple retries.

Should be as simple as adjusting the color interpolation in an animation on a piano key to its gain (not sure how low the sound API is for this, but you should be able to track the key's moving average on amplitude over 10 frames and bound it to get a fade effect that takes the key press strength into consideration).

Perhaps you can even use a Simon Says color theme suited to the app's theme to work in a nice easter egg. Lots of cool things with this!
by keeda | 2026-01-09 21:10:23+00:00
As the Wikipedia page calls out, predatory pricing is generally in the context of a dominant firm throwing their weight around to dominate the market. You could make this case against large incumbents like Microsoft and Google, but Anthropic is actually the upstart here.

In any case, all this depends on how you define the "market", and the entire market for AI-assisted coding is very nascent and fast-moving to make any reliable calls about dominance at this point.
by bbatsell | 2026-01-09 21:10:35+00:00
Absolutely fascinating that this report is very detailed about _certain_ things... but edits the source video to fade out right at the relevant instant and then completely omits the fact that the agent called her a "fucking bitch" immediately after executing her. (The released source material is several seconds longer.)

Edit at 21:29 UTC: BBC has edited the article to include the following line: "In the final part of the video the car is seen veering down the road. The ICE agent swears." Again, that "final part" has been edited out entirely. It shows that the agent was not affected by the SUV, and maintains his iPhone in his offhand recording the incident without issue. "The ICE agent swears." is used euphemistically to obfuscate what he actually did and said, which was to angrily call the victim a "fucking bitch".
by yibg | 2026-01-09 21:10:54+00:00
> Reminder that border patrol and ice have shot 3 people in the last 48 hours, one of them resulting in a death while they refused to allow medical treatment.

Not trying to downplay that, but I think that's also on people's minds because of the new cycle. There are regularly "questionable" police shootings, causing deaths and have been going back as far as... well, ever. So in an unfortunately way, this isn't really "new".
by hu3 | 2026-01-09 21:11:26+00:00
Yup!

Same thing for ADHD.

Medication helps having willpower/focus to develop better habits and realize you are not a useless dumb human. It's just that your brain is a little finicky to get going sometimes.

In fact the few diagnosed ADHD people I know are wicked smart. It's just that their brain overclocks to unproductive levels without medication.
by bananabiscuit | 2026-01-09 21:11:52+00:00
I hope you are not claiming perception of intent is enough to claim a life. It is the actual intent that counts.

No, I am not claiming that. I explained previously why it looked to me that Renee intended to hit the officer with her car, very hard, and the only reason it was a slight hit was because she lost traction on the ice. [1] And also she did hit the officer, this was even acknowledged in the NYT analysis of the event. Again, he got lucky that he was able to jump out of the way, only because the icy road caused her wheels to lose grip.

At that point, I would think there is an argument to be made that the officer’s life was threatened, and he is allowed to use lethal force, he does not have the time to second guess if Renee is going to change her mind and not hit anyone with her car. I am NOT saying that the officer is definitively absolved, just that based on what I’m seeing, it is not as clear a case of murder as a lot of people claim.

Also interesting that you do not address the 2nd and 3rd shot at all.

This is confusing to me and I don’t really know what to say about that, the lethal intent is there with the 1st shot. Is it that we expect the officer to go from deciding that she is enough of a threat to be shot, to deciding that she is a non-threat in the split second after his first shot?

[1] but just for posterity: a) when she accelerated, she still had her wheels pointing just left of center while the officer was directly in front of her. b) she was looking directly at the officer when she accelerated.
by baincs | 2026-01-09 21:12:27+00:00
Very cool!

However, I have a dumb question (as someone who doesn't know about electronics): how is it different from a YouTube lecture where the same content is demonstrated with real objects or with animation?

I'm not sure if the interactivity in these examples add much value to learning, as the buttons only serve as 'show me the next animation'.

If the eventual goal is to build a virtual sandbox that models the real world more closely, then I think this is a great first step and a great idea!
by ajross | 2026-01-09 21:12:51+00:00
> That’s up to the agents to articulate and the investigators, prosecutors, judges, and juries to evaluate.

Which will never happen, because the suspect is a faceless (literally) body in a morgue. You're just dodging. Because, and be honest with yourself: you want this to have happened. You want your enemies to be afraid of the (again, literal) secret police wandering the streets in pursuit of your personal political goals. And if the price for that is a few unconstitutional executions, you're willing to pay it and excuse it on the internet.

But you don't really believe this was legitimate law enforcement behavior. No one does. Real civil societies don't accept summary executions of probably-asshole probably-protesters who probably-obstruct visa check operations.
by danielmarkbruce | 2026-01-09 21:13:02+00:00
Yes, they do apply market pressure. They can change who they buy from and there are different deals - like fixed rate, or different charges for different time periods.

The intermediate players "electricity retailers" then participate in a day ahead and real time market to fulfill their obligations to their customers. This is a good summary (https://chatgpt.com/share/696170d5-5d08-8002-a0ff-e2f45e42c4...) - if you had ai links, so be it, this is a good description of an esoteric topic.

You'll find most markets actually work this way. When I go to the supermarket to buy sugar, the price isn't jumping around real time with the underlying price of sugar. Same for coffee etc. But it changes with a lag, and consumers respond and the effects flow through even if not in real time. Similar things occur in most markets where there is a wholesale market for something and then several players between that market and the consumer, each player doing some combination of logistics, risk eating, aggregation/disaggregation etc.
by jayofdoom | 2026-01-09 21:13:18+00:00
This is called "digital sovereignty", and it has been a major topic for OpenInfra foundation and other open source cloud foundations. Open source, and open cloud software, is the way to ensure your data can stay inside your own borders and be governed by your local laws. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvz2PcHq0yY is one example of folks talking about this, but realistically you can find talks from OpenStack/OpenInfra going back 4/5 years on this topic.
by mjashanks | 2026-01-09 21:13:33+00:00
I feel like now, more than ever, the time is right for the EU's move to open-source to succeed.

Linux Desktop is now simply better than Windows, by far. Open office is good. There are many high-quality, commercially supported open-source products available now, developed by full-time, highly talented engineers.

There's every chance that this will work & breaking up oligopolies is great for everyone, not just Europe.

I wrote about this recently if you're interested: https://budibase.com/blog/updates/eu-digital-sovereignty-and...
by yomismoaqui | 2026-01-09 21:13:36+00:00
Motivation is fleeting but routine persists.

When there is something that you want to do regularly (exercise, doing the final boring part of some sideproject, cleaning the house...) you remove willpower from the equation and set a day and a time.

For example, everyday from 18 to 19 I work on my sideprojects, or saturdays from 16 to 18 is house cleaning time. There is no question if I want to do it, it is set at that time and I have to do it, period.

The nice thing about routine is that the first times it is hard, but after some repetitions your mind (and body) begin to get used and it transforms into a routine and then it's like it's written in stone. That time period of that day X is for Y and it is what it is.

Routine can be used for bad things but also for good things.
by antonymoose | 2026-01-09 21:13:47+00:00
I know exactly where this it going to take me karma-wise, but…

I’ve seen quite a few of my social circling calling this officer “trigger happy” and the reality is this officer was able to draw, aim, and fire one (two?) rounds hitting the target in approximately one second. He did not mag dump the vehicle, he hit nothing but the driver. That is not “trigger happy,” that is incredible marksmanship and discipline.

Further, having today seen the footage released from the deceased’s partner’s cellphone - the officer was quite clearly not standing in front of the vehicle until the driver ignored commands to exit the then stationary vehicle, rejected that command, reversed, then accelerated. With seconds in the clock, the officer had to make that calculation and decision.

Lastly, if you want a shooting we should all be infuriated by, go look up the Ben Darby shooting out of Alabama and his final outcome. That’s something we should all be mad about.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-09 21:13:54+00:00
It's also worth noting that willpower in general is constantly being whittled down by how stressful and, for lack of better term, fucking annoying modern life is. I'm reminded of a quote from my favorite article from Ed Zitron:

> In plain terms, everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing.

And I think one of those psycho-social consequences we're not discussing is everyone is just... fucking annoyed now, constantly, about shit that it doesn't feel right to really complain about. Like, you plus or minus live on your phone, and I'm very much including myself in that statement. Every time you get logged out of an app you use every day to, for example, board your morning train, or park your car, or have to reset a password to pay your power bill, just like, all of that? Every time your day is interrupted with stupid bullshit from Modern Life takes a tiny bit of that energy, and I dunno about everyone reading this, I have a quite well managed and streamlined life, and I still have just... dozens of these. Every single day. I can't fathom being one of the folks who ISN'T as well versed in tech as I am, existing for them must be utter HELL.

And that's the essentials, that's not even going into how most tech products now are constantly begging for your attention, for your engagement, trying to pluck the strings of your psyche into making you angry, or horny, or whatever. Engage with platforms, buy these products, watch 9 TV shows so you're not out of the loop, you've been added to an SMS spam group, and everyone is replying to it saying they're not interested, on and on and on.

Sorry this turned into more of a rant than I really envisioned but yeah. I can easily comprehend a day where I try and go to my gym, and the fucking app doesn't work right and I can't get in, and I just quit because I've already solved 20 fucking captchas today and I simply lack the energy to do another, to help train some goddamned AI, for a company I don't know, you know?
by andy99 | 2026-01-09 21:14:52+00:00
My (Canadian) bank extorted me into installing their app, literally blocking me from doing transfers of my own money without it - I had to install it and take a picture of myself and my ID. After this I was able to switch to sms authentication and delete it, but they’re obviously trying to force people onto the app, and eventually they will do so more aggressively.

Of course in Canada we have a banking oligopoly that is effectively there just to rob people, but ironically any of the “challenger” startup banks are 100% app based afaik
by vntok | 2026-01-09 21:14:54+00:00
If the rook has not ever moved yet, it gets the king's positional value. As both pieces can't overlap, assume the king's positional value is correct and the rook is at starting position.

Then, as soon as the rook is moved, it gets its actual positional value. If it moves back later, the positional value will be that of the rook's starting position (guaranteed different from the king's current positional value as the two pieces can't overlap).
by bruceb | 2026-01-09 21:15:17+00:00
I think you are not understanding me. My contention is adjustments of status snafus isn't going to be much different than K1 approval rates in terms of how people are treated. It seems by the numbers, people are treated the same as it relates K1 whether they come from a "right skin color" country or not. Why is that going to be wildly different when it comes to minor issues?
by nopurpose | 2026-01-09 21:15:17+00:00
Just bought a digital piano as New Year present to myself. So far I am doing single-note-a-time melodies from my child's practice book and so far enjoying my slow progress, but I am really struggling. Spent 3 evenings on a single simplest song and still can't play it end to end reliably.

I have to sign every note with a letter in a music book because only other way to "read" music sheet for me is count lines for each note, which is unbearably slow.

I wonder if there is any modern (AI, bluetooth midi app, etc) way to get over initial hurdles easier?
by pixl97 | 2026-01-09 21:15:26+00:00
>LLM/ML pipeline to detect phishing emails.

I think you're about 20 years behind the times if you think they don't.

There are a whole lot of problems with it when you start pressing the finer details like you list. For example, just look at the legit emails banks send out. They will tell you not to click links claiming to be your bank, then include links (claiming to be your bank) for more information.

Simply put the rules block too much corporate email because people that write corporate email do lots of dumb things with the email system.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-09 21:15:27+00:00
> The people "finding value in them" are other people with money to throw at businesses: investors, capital firms, boards & c suites. I'm not sure anybody who has been laid off because their job got automated away is "finding value" in an LLM.

And the millions with ChatGPT (and other LLM) subscriptions, using it for anything from for-profit and non-profit work to hobby projects and all kinds of matters of personal life.

Contrary to a very popular belief in tech circles, AI is not only about investors. It's a real technology affecting real people in the real world.

In fact, I personally don't give a damn about inverstors here, and I laugh at the "AI bubble" complaints. Yes, it's a bubble, but that's totally irrelevant to the technology being useful. Investors may go bankrupt, but the technology will stay. See e.g. history of rail in the United States - everyone who fronted capital to lay down rail lines lost their shirt, but the hardware remained, and people (including subsequent generations of businesses) put it to good use.
by citizenpaul | 2026-01-09 21:15:39+00:00
>closed my SendGrid account ....continued to send me monthly invoices

I used to run IT for a medium company. The amount of times I saw this with various SaaS companies was troubling. We had hundreds of services some as small as a single manager that demanded X and company wide tools. It was frequently a several months long hassle to get them to stop billing us when we cut ties with them. I wish I kept personal records now it was a minority but definitely in the 15%'ish range.
by j-krieger | 2026-01-09 21:15:41+00:00
No I can't, since I lack the monetary funds. My claim stands correct, going to the federal constitutional court is expensive enough that many people are barred from that option. My claim stands correct - no judicial verdict is needed for the CUII to censor websites. Don't believe me. Believe the activists [1].

[1]: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-cuii-wie-konzerne-heimlich-webse...
by bigyabai | 2026-01-09 21:16:24+00:00
Opinions like this are why the smart and wealthy people succeed in politics, while others are encouraged to lay asphalt if they want healthcare.

Red tape and regulation has second-order effects, many of which keep you employed. By all means, you should leave America if you have any hope for a nation that eschews regulation in it's entirety. You should stay if you want to get paid to build roads, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization
by lxgr | 2026-01-09 21:16:33+00:00
> Because when you don't do this, people get scammed out of money.

No, only when you don't do this and nothing else to improve security. You're presenting a false dichotomy.

> If there is a series of buttons you can press to circumvent the anti-scam measures, then the scammers simply walk you through pressing those buttons.

If the scammers can walk somebody through doing all that, why would they stop at just asking them to send money over to them "to safekeep it because of a compromised account" or whatever the social engineering scheme of the week is?