MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-06 00:20:24+00:00
It’s certainly due for an update, but it isn’t doing nothing at all. The friction it creates for unlicensed use at scale is enough to keep all the streaming services etc. afloat, which in turn are still funding the production of content. Maybe the anarchy that would follow its abolition would be superior to the old system creaking along, but that remains to be seen (and would be silly to accept on faith).
by spelk | 2026-01-06 00:20:24+00:00
Thank you for sharing.

This actually scratches an itch I've had on and off over the years. Over a decade ago, I remember reading a Quora post along the lines of 'How does ISIS still have internet? Who maintains the infrastructure?', and the only response was from an alleged ISIS propagandist (or an internet troll) with vagueries about the reach of ISIS, and that they couldn't answer for "security reasons".

That question lived in my head on and off throughout college, and I'm glad to have gotten a bit closer to understanding the reality of what was happening on the ground.
by mrinterweb | 2026-01-06 00:20:30+00:00
I had two pebble watches, and I used them daily for years. I rarely use my pixel watch 3, mainly because of charging. I only have one proprietary charger for the watch and sometime it is on my desk, sometimes near my bed, sometimes somewhere I can't find. I don't need my watch, but I do need my phone, so I charge the phone, and forget that my watch exists for a few months at a time. I think the biggest hurdle for me and watches is daily charging. I will not buy another smartwatch unless the battery is at least a week. Pebble round 2 having two week battery is great!
by array_key_first | 2026-01-06 00:21:00+00:00
I don't know, how did the world manage to work before the internet?

You call someone, you send a letter, something. It's not rocket science.

It's not automated, sure, but somethings will never be automated, just by their nature. That doesn't mean it doesn't scale. Well, sure it does. You just hire more staff.

For Christ's sake, it used to be that phone calls required physical action from an operator to get connected. And now we can't do shit if there isn't an API for it or some bullshit.
by stevage | 2026-01-06 00:21:12+00:00
We just bought a new fridge yesterday. We lugged our old one around between 5 different properties - 20 years old, still going strong.

The big problem is that fridges are not a standard size, and hence the spaces in kitchens are not a standard size. So there's a good chance when you move it won't fit (ours only worked because it's so small - which also made moving it not too onerous). It's a much better result for everyone if the apartment/house has a fridge that perfectly fits the space.

Also:

>Why would you want to use somebody else’s fridge?

This is a weird question. You're ok with using "someone else's" apartment, someone else's toilet even. But you draw the line at a fridge?
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-06 00:21:36+00:00
> To be truly effective you need a triad of land-based ICBMs, nuclear-armed submarines, and aircraft-based delivery systems

The core parts for MAD land-based missile silos (to soak up the enemy's missiles) and submarines (to ensure a second strike). Planes are largely a diplomatic deterrent inasmuch as they're easy to send out and easy to recall.

But Pyongyang isn't playing MAD. It's playing credible threat. And for a credible threat, you just need missiles. (On land or on subs.) The point is that you raise the stakes of e.g. a Maduro operation to risking Los Angeles.
by tsoukase | 2026-01-06 00:21:49+00:00
This ship has sailed. Economy will not revert back to what it was with wishful thinking. Especially offshoring jobs is the utmost goal of every CEO, even if the wage is one dollar less. This benefits himself and his customers giving no f... for the unemployed.

China is living its 1990's this decade: the boom is starting to wear off. Next comes India which is living its 50's. Next will come Nigeria which is in it's 20's. Offshoring jobs will continue until the end of modern civilisation.
by ValentineC | 2026-01-06 00:24:17+00:00
> For the sake of fair comparison, my wife had an Apple watch, which looked better and had way more features, but the 1 day battery life became such a frustration it sat in a dresser drawer.

To each their own, but it sounds like your wife just couldn't get into the "happy path" routine of an Apple Watch user.

I've been using an Apple Watch since Series 5 introduced the always-on display. I wear it for roughly 23 hours a day, and charge it whenever I'm in the bathroom. I'm fine with this routine 99% of the time, but I'm also not someone who'd camp or stay outdoors for more than a night.

Before that, I was using a Amazfit Bip and was really proud of its 30+ day battery life. I very much prefer the features the Apple Watch has.
by subjectsigma | 2026-01-06 00:24:22+00:00
True, up to a certain point.

Until recently I used all three major OS almost every day for work, school, games, servers, etc. I’ve seen really bad bugs in all of them. Just spend some time looking around the Internet, Linux and KDE crash constantly. There’s also people regularly slobbering over Linux for a variety of reasons.

What’s more likely, this guy won the equivalent of the computer lottery and never experienced a single bug, or that he’s one of the many Linux fanboys infesting this site?

I’m willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, but no I don’t believe your shoes are made of gold just because you said so.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-06 00:24:59+00:00
> the country that designed and built those ICBMs, and had one of the highest per capita counts of nuclear physicists could handle at least a few decades of upkeep on those nukes?

They don't even need that. They just needed ambiguity.

Ukraine absolutely fucked up giving up its nukes, that's abundantly clear with the benefit of hindsight.
by monocasa | 2026-01-06 00:25:49+00:00
> Your computer is designed and built in China therefore your computer belongs to Chinese and China. Right?

The previous owner was the USSR, who ceased to exist, and who Ukraine was a part of.

> Maybe you should see how good the Ukraine was at keeping their naval assets after they used the totally legal methods to obtain them. Maybe then you would have a clue on how good they could had maintained them.

Are you talking about the ships that weren't originally that Russia mostly scuttled on their way out of Sevastopal, in addition to stuff like a 70% completed nuclear powered carrier that even Russia couldn't maintain the sister to, and didn't fit in any naval doctrine that made sense for Ukraine?
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-06 00:26:16+00:00
> You don't leave room to escalate beyond use if nukes anymore. Russia's response to a tactical nuke would be to turn Ukraine into glass

Tactical nukes are in ambiguous territory. Russia launching a blizzard of nukes at Ukraine is difficult to distinguish from Russia nuking NATO. To turn Ukraine into glass, Russia would need to gamble that Washington and France trust it.
by belorn | 2026-01-06 00:26:24+00:00
This duality occurs identically when people discuss legal required child support. "If you didn't want a child, don't have sex" is very commonly initial argument, but then it get changed into "well being of the child" approach, as it leads to the same conclusion. It not a punishment, its a childs's right to support by their biological parents.

Most nations still have social support and government responsibility as last resort, which equally can do the job of supporting children without willing parents, but then people return to the punishment/moral angle that if men don't want to pay for children then they should not have sex.

Look to how quickly people reaches for the morality position and we see how little friction anti-abortion policies has to overcome.
by pamcake | 2026-01-06 00:26:39+00:00
Heads up that even if you block local forwarding in the router, it won't always be enough to prevent devices talking to each other over, say, an unmanaged switch or a wifi link.

Some (even cheap) unmanaged switches have a "vlan" or "isolation" switch that does exactly that, where only one or two "uplink" or "wan" ports can talk to the rest. If you have a managed switch, vlans is what most people would use for isolation.

On the software side you could also assign /32 IPv4 addresses only and add explicit ip route for the router only.
Show HN: I built a *fully free* AI resume maker
by rbitsoft | 2026-01-06 00:27:18+00:00
Hi HN,
I’m launching my first end-to-end web project, Resume Razor, this week.

The most time-consuming and frustrating part of the job search is that you have to edit and target your resume for every single application. You need to highlight the right skills and show your experience from the specific perspective that a potential employer is looking for.

Doing this manually slows applicants down. I believe that optimizing this process isn't "cheating", it's just efficiency. As long as the resume is honest to your actual knowledge and experience, using AI is simply a matter of reducing friction and saving time.

I noticed something with existing AI resume generators: even when they claim to be free, they usually aren't. They are either severely limited, hide downloads behind paywalls, or ask for a credit card shortly after onboarding.

My challenge was to build an app that solves both the time drain and the cost barrier.

Smart Tailoring: I built a product that understands your full history (work, education, skills) and tailors it to specific job descriptions in seconds.

To make this 100% free and purely ad-supported while ensuring high quality outputs, I had to get creative. I optimized everything from how our AI backend works to how we generate the resume PDFs.

The result is a clutter-free, straightforward platform where you can generate tailored resumes without paying a cent. We also keep ads to a minimum to ensure a great user experience.

We currently only support English and don't provide cover letter creation, but those are in our roadmap for the future.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
by stephen_g | 2026-01-06 00:27:20+00:00
Maybe there are surveys or something? But it's just the vibe I get from family, friends, colleagues from here in Australia, as well as people online (like on Mastodon which has a lot of Europe based users). Feels like a big shift since the start of 2024. People around the office I work in have cancelled holidays planned to Hawaii and the States too, especially just recently with the social media requirement on the ESTA which tipped a few people over the edge.
by smj-edison | 2026-01-06 00:27:23+00:00
Huh, that's interesting, does that mean you can use Go's garbage collection? I can imagine that makes it a lot simpler to track objects that way (and probably gets you some performance to boot).

Wrt step 2, that's really interesting, are you thinking of it as almost a modern bash in that way? It reminds me a little bit of Jimtcl, though I think Jim only has simple autocomplete.

Also, what was the rationale for a pound before an upvar amount?
by digitalresearch | 2026-01-06 00:28:09+00:00
I've been trying to figure out why some businesses get recommended by ChatGPT/Perplexity and others don't. It turns out, traditional SEO isn't enough anymore. You need AIO (AI Optimization).

I organized everything I learned into a structured guide called "The AIO Playbook."

It covers everything from fixing your robots.txt to let AI crawlers in, to building a "Consensus of Facts" across platforms like Wikidata and Crunchbase so the AI trusts your brand.

It’s pretty technical but broken down into simple steps. Hope this helps anyone trying to market their small business in 2026.
by techblueberry | 2026-01-06 00:28:18+00:00
Tell me how you really feel! I think I would make a different argument, that folks on the left or center-left are now conservative, and folks on the right are now sort of reactionary or maybe even anarchic(David Brooks said “Nohilistic” in this piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/rufo-yarvin-trump...).

Which gets to a weird point because you can’t create new institutions with nihilism (Christopher Rufo has said has much)

Also “rotted out” is an interesting verb. They seem stronger than ever! Wasn’t that the problem? If they were rotted out you wouldn’t need to destroy them.

Also, I think I would absolutely say they do more than attack conservative ideals, partially because - what are conservatives ideals? I don’t think anyone on the right is aligned as to what those might be, if even a significant number of people on the right define themselves as conservatice - and again to use the word conservative here is interesting when many on the right aren’t seeking to conserve, do you mean right leaning ideals, Christian ideals? I describe myself as culturally conservative and I think there may be less of left in the right these days than the left(not saying there are a ton there either)
by singleshot_ | 2026-01-06 00:28:48+00:00
The answer is probaly embedded within the concept of codification of acts. Legislatures pass acts, which are kind of like diffs for statutory law. But there is no base document, just a series of diffs from the beginning. Somewhere along the way, someone did a lot of work to “codify” the law, and when you go look up 18 USC 1001, and then click “next,” you are taking advantage of the codification process.

But the person who did the codification has some rights thereto, meaning that while NV can post every act that passed the legislature, they can’t publish someone else’s codification of the statutes.

This matters very little because everyone just has Westlaw and no one uses the state legislature’s website to cite statutes.
by nomel | 2026-01-06 00:29:14+00:00
if you look at the history of the lithium ion battery [1], this is exactly what happened, except from a single man. none of the existing manufacturers could stomach the shift to something new, except for sony, which needed a better battery for their camcorder, eventually resulting in a nobel prize.

[1] https://youtu.be/AGglJehON5g
by Cyph0n | 2026-01-06 00:30:05+00:00
Advocates of the C approach often gloss over the increased maintenance burden, especially when it comes to security issues. In essence, you’re signing up to maintain a limited fork & watch for CVEs separately from upstream.

It’s ultimately a trade off rather than a strictly superior solution.

Also, nothing in Rust prevents you from doing the same thing. In fact, I would argue that Cargo makes this process easier.
by Electricniko | 2026-01-06 00:30:18+00:00
I don't know about a scam, but the EV skateboard they're using has been available for other companies to use for a few years, while the other two companies share the same leadership as Donut/Verge and appear to be founded within the last few months. The battery may be great, but the multiple company launch seems a bit of a marketing gimmick.
by paodealho | 2026-01-06 00:31:06+00:00
Heh.. I remember when they announced this thing like 6 months ago. It was fully white and people mocked it a lot for resembling a drop of male bodily fluids.

Now it seems they fixed it in the most lazy way (changing the color) but managed to give it an awful name. "Mico" is a group of various monkey species.
by spartanatreyu | 2026-01-06 00:31:29+00:00
> Why not change the setting simply?

My default settings are stored in a 11922 line json file.

Am I expected to read that entire file to find the setting I'm after?

Am I expected to do so when I don't know what the setting is called?

The reason you can't simply change the setting is because the setting isn't simple.

It's essentially a hidden setting, cloaked behind an ambiguous name in a user-hostile manner.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-06 00:31:32+00:00
That's not what this is about.

HTTPS is the name of a protocol, which is mostly used to make the World Wide Web work, but we do lots of other things with it, such as DNS-over-HTTPS aka DoH.

However HTTPS is also the name of a type of DNS record, this record contains everything you need to best reach the named HTTPS (protocol) server, and this is the type of record your parent didn't previously know about

In the boring case, say, 20 years ago, when you type https://some.name/stuff/hats.html into a web browser your browser goes "Huh, HTTPS to some.name. OK, I will find out the IPv4 address of some.name, and it makes a DNS query asking A? some.name. The DNS server answers with an IPv4 address, and then as the browser connects securely to that IP address, it asks to talk to some.name, and if the remote host can prove it is some.name, the browser says it wants /stuff/hats.html

Notice we have to tell the remote server who we hope they are - and it so happens eavesdroppers can listen in on this. This means Bad Guys can see that you wanted to visit some.name. They can't see that you wanted to read the document about hats, but they might be able to guess that from context, and wouldn't you rather they didn't know more than they need to?

With the HTTPS record, your web browser asks (over secure DNS if you have it) HTTPS? some.name and, maybe it gets a positive answer. If it does, the answer tells it not only where to try to connect, but also it can choose to provide instructions for a cover name to always use, and how to encrypt the real name, this is part of Encrypted Client Hello (or ECH)

Then the web server tells the server that it wants to talk to the cover name and it provides an encrypted version of some.name. Eavesdroppers can't decrypt that, so if many people share the same endpoints then eavesdropper can't tell which site you were visiting.

Now, if the server only contains documents about hats, this doesn't stop the Secret Hat Police from concluding that everybody connecting to that server is a Hat Pervert and needs to go to Hat Jail. But if you're a bulk host then you force such organisations to choose, they can enforce their rules equally for everything (You wanted to read News about Chickens? Too bad, Hat Jail for you) or they can accept that actually they don't know what people are reading (if this seems crazy, keep in mind that's how US Post worked for many years after Comstock failed, if you get a brown paper package posted to you, well, it's your business what is in there, and your state wasn't allowed to insist on ripping open the packaging to see whether it is pornography or communist propaganda)
by array_key_first | 2026-01-06 00:32:05+00:00
They took up 10x more space than they need to. And we had the information thing way, way before.

I can see the weather on my taskbar right now in KDE, no app launch required. Except it's not a giant 1 inch by 1 inch square plastered on my start menu. It's a little text showing me a cloud and temperature.

Also, live tiles just did not work a lot of the time. Most of the time, when you looked at them, it would just show the icon surrounded by a sea of color, like a little island. I'm assuming because the daemon is either not running or has ridiculously slow start up time, whereas the start menu might only be open for fractions of a second.
by indymike | 2026-01-06 00:32:54+00:00
Takedown notices need to have a refundable processing fee. The fee should be refunded if the targeted publisher agrees the content shouldn't be online. If the takedown notice gets a counter notice, then the hosting provider/platform should split the fee with the targeted publisher.

The problem with DMCA notices is that the party trying to takedown content has zero incentive to behave in good faith. A $10-$30 fee would provide an incredible disincentive for the worst sort of trolling and over-broad shotgun takedown notices while protecting legitimate IP holders (who would see their fee refunded almost every time)
by infotainment | 2026-01-06 00:33:01+00:00
I get OP's point though -- yes, all smartphones do tend to end up as e-waste in the end, but would you buy a smartphone if it couldn't ever be charged?

If, every time you powered on the phone, you knew you were draining from its finite battery life? I would probably think twice before doing any kind of software updates at least!
by Rebelgecko | 2026-01-06 00:33:01+00:00
I think Apple lets third party watches show notifications but they're not allowed to take any action in response (eg having a snooze button when your alarm goes off or whatever). Next version of iOS will allow interaction for a single smart watch at a time in the EU. I think it's still unclear if Apple will enable that feature outside of where it's legally required.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-06 00:33:32+00:00
> What does action (i.e. not-strongly-worded-letters, i.e. not words) look like?

Europe withdraws from the non-proliferation treaty, publicly resolves to building and maintaining a European nuclear deterrent and greenlights members who have been militarily threatened (the Baltics, Poland and Denmark) to start clandestine programmes.

The last part doesn't even have to happen. Hell, none of it has to happen. But that would be playing from strength.

Unfortunately, Europe is not politically unified enough to do this. (Same for Asia.)
by s1artibartfast | 2026-01-06 00:33:47+00:00
It is mixed. It can be a cure for some people. Last time I looked my impression it seemed like about half the people has only moderate rebound or less.

You have a lot of results that look like this, with an average bounce rebound of 2/3s of the loss.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35441470/

However, detailed analysis usually shows a bimodal distribution, with people who maintain or even lose more, and those that go back or even gain relative to baseline.
by znhll | 2026-01-06 00:34:40+00:00
> It would take 2 seconds for anyone at Google to confirm this.

Not really... Google is literally too big, and the fact that they've offshored and/or automated support away and compartmentalized it all where no single IC employee could possibly do much.

I had a billing/tax issue come up with my small biz Google Workspace, and I was getting nowhere via the normal support channels... So I asked my brother in-law who literally works at Google (but not in that team) for help. He could not help me as he had no idea who or what department could handle that and neither did his team members, and it would take weeks apparently to find the right person. I'm not the only paying Google customer with that experience. Google products are great, until you run into an issue you need to talk to a human.
by strbean | 2026-01-06 00:35:01+00:00
Is this specific to mobile?

Feels like this could be a riff on Android's 'Share' functionality, which is actually the user-friendly name for "send an Intent". And that means that any inter-app handling ends up stuffed into a "Share" menu that pretends only social media apps exist. So you do "Share -> Edit with Photoshop" or similar.
by pingananth | 2026-01-06 00:35:45+00:00
Update ( 6 AM IST )

I couldn't sleep peacefully as this checkout was frustrating.

I have now moved to polar.sh for checkout and as a gratitude for the community I have auto-applied a 20% discount for the community.

To the folks who have provided your email ids in waitlist, mailing you in 5 mins.

Back to bed for real now.
by sgnelson | 2026-01-06 00:36:23+00:00
I'm not an international trade lawyer/expert by any means, but this seems like an unfair government subsidy. I guess the WTO won't care though.

But since this does seem like a government subsidy, I predict over the longer term this will only hamper US companies, not help them. And when this exemption inevitably disappears, US companies will end up further behind because they did not have to compete to the same level as other international corporations.

America has always bent the international order for it's own ends, but it seems like the real innovation and competitiveness that we did have is slipping away and we're left with nothing but trade barriers and monopolies. It's not going to work out well long term I predict.