MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rincebrain | 2026-01-14 17:02:04+00:00
I don't have a bone in this race, but if someone has deliberately hidden their identity online, knowingly disclosing that is malicious, regardless of any other morality involved.

Consider people who have their public persona very deliberately obfuscated, like Banksy, or Chuck Tingle - it's very intentional that both of them do not disclose that, and if you found out either of their legal names, and disclosed it publicly, it would be with deliberate intent to subvert them.

Or consider if someone posted online they had a beer, and they lived somewhere that considered that an egregious crime even if they did it somewhere that it was legal. If you deliberately released proof that the person posting "I had a beer" was this person, it would have malicious intent, regardless of how you feel about the morality of beer.
by loeg | 2026-01-14 17:02:12+00:00
Your home grow prices are high (even setting aside that you can just buy flower instead of the disposable vape). The right range is hundreds of dollars. And I'm sure making good oil costs somewhat more, but you can make crappy dab sludge (wax?) with some scissors, $10 of isopropyl alcohol, and a baking dish ("QWISO"), and that sludge can be loaded in some kinds of reusable vape.
by danans | 2026-01-14 17:02:23+00:00
For me, the more exciting phenomenon is the electric 3 wheeler, AKA the electric auto-rikshaw/tuk-tuk.

Hired 3 wheelers are the primary affordable last-mile option in cities big and small in Asia when you don't have or can't drive a car or 2-wheeler (school children, the elderly, or anyone who doesn't want to deal with the insane traffic). They tend to have 2-stroke engines, a huge source of local air pollution.

But there are increasingly electric versions these days. I asked one e-rickshaw driver whether he saves money by driving it, and he said yes, but also it's a lot more comfortable for both him and his customers vs the vibrations of the 2 stroke petrol engine.

His only concern was the depreciation and it's effect on resale value.
by toast0 | 2026-01-14 17:02:28+00:00
A protest movement can't be very subtle. A clear and short message like "No ICE" or "ICE Out" is much preferable to "We would like an immigrations and and custom enforcement agency that respects people and the law, efficiently inspects imports, checks in on visa overstayers, pursues charges against business owners that have a business practice of not checking work eligibility of new hires, and works with competent, trained agencies to perform traffic stops and home/office raids or trains their own officers for such"
by sph | 2026-01-14 17:02:42+00:00
There is a difference between Richard D. James hand-training an LLM on foley sounds he recorded himself to put in his latest IDM track, and the script kiddie spamming out 50 AI-generated mixes per day to get that sweet ad revenue on Youtube.

No one is complaining about the first case, because they are outnumbered by the second 100,000 to 1. RDJ isn't gonna use suno.ai no matter how pro-LLM he is.

Note: this is for sake of argument, I am not aware of RDJ using LLMs in any shape or form.
by fennecfoxy | 2026-01-14 17:02:46+00:00
Well realistically just ban imports. But then people will import them criminally anyway. And to your point; what if Chinese companies assist in evading import bans or customs, as they do now and have done for decades.

Even in the UK, they've added restrictions to it but...surprise, surprise the Turkish/Kurdish corner shops all have a steady supply, with nothing being done about it. As a foreigner living here it's honestly pathetic how disengaged the public here are with things like that. People drive like absolute wankers, too.
by olalonde | 2026-01-14 17:03:02+00:00
> Those funds would then be distributed by usage - every mention in a package.json or requirements.txt gets you a piece of the pie.

Usage is not a good proxy for value or ongoing effort. I have a npm package with tens of millions of weekly downloads. It's only a few lines long and it's basically done - no maintenance required.

I'm skeptical that there exists an algorithmic way to distribute funds that's both efficient and resistant to gaming.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-14 17:03:03+00:00
Sadly I think this is true. There is already a problem with people making useless dependencies and pushing them into projects with PRs to increase their download numbers.

Showing high download numbers on your resume is more valuable than anything a fund like this could provide. There will always be a company who views high NPM download numbers as a signal of top 1% talent, even if it has become a game in itself.
by jsheard | 2026-01-14 17:03:04+00:00
Speaking of evil dark-patterned business practices, Epic just recently U-turned on lootboxes again. Fortnite did have them originally, but pivoted to the less egregious FOMO sales funnel around when it got really popular, except now they've backtracked by allowing pay-to-win and lootbox mechanics in user-created game modes.

https://www.ign.com/articles/as-fortnite-enables-third-party...

Fortnite's user-created modes are essentially an attempt to compete with Roblox, and like Roblox their age demographics skew very young, so this reads as a deliberate attempt to exploit children specifically.
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-14 17:03:10+00:00
<humour> sounds like socialism amirite?</humour>

In principle it sounds like a grand idea, although there are a bunch of corner cases like how it works cross country borders, and de-anonymising maintainers.

If it was opt in for opensource projects, and there are strong guards against people forking/hard takover-ing then yes, it seems like a good idea in principle.

I will leave the AI enthusiasts to chime in about the future, and how we don't need OS anymore.
Show HN: A tool to capture my every ADHD thought
by chriswright1664 | 2026-01-14 17:03:14+00:00
I struggle with (self diagnosed ADHD) so I built a tool to easily capture my every thought, stick everything in a big pile that later I can search, sort, and do something with.

Related and really interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610156
by basketbla | 2026-01-14 17:04:19+00:00
Weirdly I agree. After seeing the truly god-awful pay to win gambling-filled landscape of Roblox, Fortnite feels pretty tame and respectful. V bucks aren't shoved down your throat, the battle passes are pretty transparent about what you get, and the whole cosmetics store feels less lootbox-heavy than a lot of games.

Edit: ope literally just saw this in another comment, whoops: https://www.ign.com/articles/as-fortnite-enables-third-party...
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-14 17:04:23+00:00
>It is crazy, absolutely crazy to depend on open source to be free (as beer).

Why? It's not crazy at all. It's the status quo with no sign of things changing. It is both possible right now and likely continue. Its not crazy.

If it's not worth maintaining people will stop. If people need it they will develop it. The current incentive structure has produced lots of open source code that is being maintained.

>It is not okay - it is not okay to consider that this labor fell from the sky and is a gift, and that the people/person behind are just doing it for their own enjoyments.

It is if there is no cost. You can always charge for it. But you can't make it free then pretend its not.
by noodlesUK | 2026-01-14 17:04:36+00:00
It sounds like they've dropped the digital ID part being mandatory, but not the digital right-to-work checks being mandatory. I suspect that the UK will end up building something like the US's E-Verify programme, which allows a number of documents to be checked against authoritative sources. It really wouldn't be that hard to build a service that in the first instance allowed you to generate a share code with a GBR passport much the same way people can generate share codes with their drivers licenses or UKVI accounts.

What I have a problem with is just how fragmented and broken the UK immigration system is when you have the misfortune of coming into contact with it. It's (like many such large systems worldwide) a set of policies and rules that have accumulated over time into something that is pathologically poorly thought out. I'm going through the process of renewing my spouse's visa (I'm British), and it's fractally awful -- we've just had a snarky email from our landlord who is worried that the right-to-rent permission is expiring, but it's not possible to apply for a renewal for the visa prior to 28 days before expiry of her current visa. I meet all the criteria to sponsor my spouse for renewal, but the evidentiary burden is insane (I've collected 400+ pages of documents so far). Nobody wants this. It is very expensive and difficult (probably >£10k per person until permanent residency in fees, not including legal expenses) to be compliant even if you meet the criteria, which just leads people falling out of status (to borrow an American term). The government (of all stripes) tries to be "tough" but the only lever it knows how to pull is to make the rules stricter, not making them better enforced or align with some meaningful policy agenda.

This farcical situation extends into the UK's broken citizenship model where there are 6 different types of nationality, none of which give any rights you can't build through a hodgepodge of other different statuses. As far as I know the UK is the only country in the world that permits dual nationality with itself!

A government online account which can generate verifiable credentials would probably be helpful in a broad sense but it wouldn't cure bad policy which is rampant in the UK immigration sector. I'd much rather have some kind of digital ID that's clear and authoritative rather than just hoping that Experian has my details right with no recourse if they're wrong.
by wiether | 2026-01-14 17:05:05+00:00
> Those funds would then be distributed by usage - every mention in a package.json or requirements.txt gets you a piece of the pie.

Could have worked before LLMs.

Also, funding by popularity would mean alternatives would have a harder time to emerge and get the funding they need to compete against the established popular projects.

Being an Open Source project doesn't mean that it provides the best solution to the problem it's supposed to solve.
Diversity is important.
by thrance | 2026-01-14 17:05:10+00:00
You've used this Obama deflection half a dozen time already, and everytime you do people will answer that they were never fans of ICE, even under Obama. Yet you continue to use it, again and again and again... The real question is why, among all these blatantly illegal actions and violent acts perpetrated against the US population that we keep hearing of, you still feel the urge to jump in and defend ICE and Trump?
by d3rockk | 2026-01-14 17:05:11+00:00
The Netherlands typically accounts for roughly 1.5% to 2% of the global video game market. After applying this share to Epic’s global estimated revenue of $5.7 billion, we can estimate roughly $100 million to $115 million for 2024.

1) Total Estimated Epic Revenue: $5.7 billion
https://sacra.com/c/epic-games/
2) Global Gaming Market: $187.7 billion
https://best-of-gaming.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024_Ne...
3) The Netherlands Gaming Market Size: $2.5 billion
https://www.imarcgroup.com/netherlands-gaming-market
by lars_francke | 2026-01-14 17:05:14+00:00
This is a terrible idea in my opinion and it's been tried/is being tried by services like thanks.dev. Yes, we need something here but this is not it. The reality is more complex.

It doesn't work well in practice. Because then people like https://github.com/sindresorhus?tab=repositories&type=source would get a shit ton of money because of the pure number of dependencies. And yes our stack also contains his code somewhere in a debug UI but our main product is entirely written in a different programming language with way fewer dependencies but if one of them goes away we'd be in trouble. In other words: Dependency count is not a good metric for this.

GitHub actually offers something in that direction: https://github.com/sponsors/explore

My "idea":
Lots of companies will have to create SBOMs anyway. Take all of those but also scan your machines and take all the open source software running on there (your package.lock does not contain VLC etc.) and throw it in a big company wide BOM, then somehow prioritise those using algorithms, data and just manual voting and then upload that to some distributor who then distributes this to all the relevant organisations and people and then (crucially) sends me (as a company) an invoice.

We've tried doing the right thing but sponsoring is hard - it works differently for every project/foundation and the administrative overhead is huge.

The reality is that "we" as an open-source community suck at taking money and I believe this is partially on us.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-14 17:05:46+00:00
> I love the term “high power” even though we are talking maybe a watt or two when that bad boy’s element is doing its thing!

Your estimate is 1-2 orders of magnitude too low. Small vapes pull a couple amps, as I understand it. Larger vapes can pull over 50-100W. The modded ones into the 200W range. These things can use more power than most CPUs for the brief moment they're on.

The power draw is so high that vape fans compare and review batteries to show which ones can sustain the most power output.

It's an unexpected boon for those of us who use batteries for other things: The vape craze has made more high current batteries available with a lot of user contributed test data.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-01-14 17:05:54+00:00
>That's the funniest thing I've read in weeks. Leftists cannot get the nerve to band together politically on any kind of consistent basis. T

That could be counter-productive. The left wants "lone wolves" doing this stuff. Banding together and coordinate action would go too far, it would implicate everyone. But if a lone wolf goes too far, they can plead ignorance and pretend that they didn't want that!

And it's unneeded. They just need to goad some of their true believers into "connecting the dots" and taking this burden on themselves. Leave little bread crumbs lying around so they have everything they need. "Look at them they wear masks!" is followed a week later by "here's the list of all their names, photos, and home addresses". Plausibly deniable. "We didn't want them murdered sleeping in their beds, just wanted to protest in front of their homes".

>You don't have to take my word for it.

No need to worry about that. It's not your statements of facts that bother me, but your conclusions and interpretations.

>you can try a Unitarian church service.

It might shock you to learn that I was in one, recently. It was enlightening. If by enlightening I can mean disgusting.
by hamburglar | 2026-01-14 17:06:22+00:00
> the termination letter was addressed broadly to “adafruit leadership,” not to any specific operational contact. that alone tells you this was not a routine business dispute

That really doesn’t tell me anything. I would like to humbly suggest you’re very close to this issue, in an already stressful personal situation, and you’re reading things between the lines kind of aggressively and overreacting.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, and I’m not saying whatever others did is ok, but I am saying that you aren’t improving anything by being here trying to litigate your case. I don’t think anyone who puts any thought into this can legitimately accuse you of anything except getting a little too worked up about it.

Respectfully, go take care of your family.
by munificent | 2026-01-14 17:06:36+00:00
> If someone invests the time to consume all of my published work and learn from it, I feel good about that.

Agreed. My goal, my moral compass, is to live in a world populated by thriving happy people. I love teaching people new things and am happy to work hard to that end and sacrifice some amount of financial compensation. (For example, both of my books can be read online for free.)

I couldn't possibly care less about some giant matrix of floats sitting in a GPU somewhere getting tuned to better emulate some desired behavior. I simply have no moral imperative to enrich machines or their billionaire owners.
by Storment33 | 2026-01-14 17:06:57+00:00
I use to have my Makefile call out and do `docker build ...` and `docker run ...` etc with a volume mount of the source code to manage and maintain tooling versions etc.

It works okay, better than a lot of other workflows I have seen. But it is a bit slow, a bit cumbersome(for langs like Go or Node.js that want to write to HOME) and I had some issues on my ARM Macbook about no ARM images etc.

I would recommend taking a look at Nix, it is what I switched to.

* It is faster.
* Has access to more tools.
* Works on ARM, X86 etc.
by leptons | 2026-01-14 17:07:14+00:00
Same here. I lead a team and I really don't care about keeping the git history "clean". It is what it is. Squashing commits wouldn't help me at all since the history rarely ever factors into our workflow.

Rebase and other fancy Git things have caused problems in the past so I avoid getting too complex with Git. I'm not a Git engineer, I'm a software engineer.

Merging has always just worked, and I know exactly what to expect. If there's a big hairy branch that I need to merge, and I know there will be conflicts, I create a branch from Main, merge the hairy branch into it, and see what happens. Fix the issues there, and then merge that branch to Main when everything is working. Merge is simple, and I don't have to be master of Git to get things done.
by WhitneyLand | 2026-01-14 17:07:20+00:00
1. I tried a couple OpenAI models under a paid account with no issue:

“In U.S. presidential elections, you’re eligible to vote if you meet all of these…” goes on to list all criteria.

2. No issue found with Gemini or Claude either.

3. I tried to search for this issue online as you suggested and haven’t been able to find anything.

Not seeing any evidence this is currently a real issue.
by dabluecaboose | 2026-01-14 17:07:22+00:00
> I would imagine your idea of "attacking" the second amendment is just common sense laws.

I would imagine your idea of "Common Sense laws" is actually just petty attacks on law-abiding citizens that do nothing to stop crime, so I guess we're even.

> it just illustrates the right never actually cared about standing up to oppressive governments,

My comment was not trying to argue that the Right did or does care. My comment was saying "This is the reason there are comparatively so few gun owners on the (American) Left". Because the American Left (speaking broadly) discouraged it for almost a century.
by kotaKat | 2026-01-14 17:07:27+00:00
> Now, third-party games can offer premium in-game items and effects, with developers pocketing 37% of the proceeds — temporarily doubled to 74% for 12 months.

37%? Developers get a 37% cut? Holy fucking hypocrisy from Tim Sweeney and the camp at Epic Games with their predation here.
Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by susam | 2026-01-14 17:07:42+00:00
Hello HN! I am putting together a community-maintained directory of personal websites at <https://hnpwd.github.io/>. More details about the project can be found in the README at <https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd.github.io#readme>.

As you can see, the directory currently has only a handful of entries. I need your help to grow it. If you have a personal website, I would be glad if you shared it here. If your website is hosted on a web space where you have full control over its design and content, and if it has been well received in past HN discussions, I might add it to the directory. Just drop a link in the comments. Please let me know if you do not want your website to be included in the directory.

Also, I intend this to be a community maintained resource, so if you would like to join the GitHub project as a maintainer, please let me know either here or via the IRC link in the README.

By the way, see also 'Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 - July 2023 - (1014 points, 1940 comments). In this post, the scope is not restricted to blogs though. Any personal website is welcome, whether it is a blog, digital garden, personal wiki or something else entirely.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-14 17:07:53+00:00
>Good luck fighting offshoring.

I always wondered why they don't try tariffs on this? American companies that produce overseas get tariffed regardless of origin. It changes incentives and forces production closer to areas of consumption. I suspect we are going to get there eventually, leadership needs to become more left progressive like Mamdani.

>That means nothing. I'd be surprised if he can implement 10% of what he promised in his campaign or if he's just gonna be another plant of the capital class that promises impossible things but then ends up doing nothing when the finances hit the road.

His ideas were not that radical. The fast and free busses came on the heel of a successful pilot they did with one line in each borough so its not like they are starting from scratch. They have an existing model and data from that trial to build on top of.

The grocery stores consist of one store in each borough. That is not an impossible task and it does not risk really affecting bodegas since the majority of income from most bodegas are lotto tickets and cigarettes/vapes.

Universal child care...well that have already passed this in his first week.
by johnisgood | 2026-01-14 17:08:09+00:00
I mean, at 03:05 she does drive into him, and I have a feeling she would have ended up dead anyway were it police officers instead of ICE. I have watched LOTS of bodycam footages and it is crazy to me that people get shot in scenarios that does not require lethal force, but people seem to side with the cops. I think neither cops nor ICE should be doing this shit.
by whacked_new | 2026-01-14 17:08:38+00:00
The tradeoffs are very shallow, mainly I just wanted the maximum chance of seeing something working ASAP.

Staying vanilla reduces dependencies, which also makes testing easier during iteration. I forgot which agent (CC or codex) I used for the bulk of the code generation, but some times I manually do some one-off dialog and those get unbalanced parens.

In the agent I ask it to do `emacs -q -nw -l ...` to iterate, so it starts a bare emacs instance. This seems to have worked well when adding [Submit and Close] and [Cancel] buttons, as well as "move the cursor into the first text input widget when inserting a new array item" (the default action is to keep the cursor on the [INS] widget after inserting the list item).

The next consideration is just that I am less confident in the agent's ability to just ingest a .el library and use it correctly vs something more popular like python. Maybe it can, I just wanted results fast and not have to dig too deep myself. I had to go in and do some (setq debug-on-error t) toggles a few times while it was figuring out the json schema load into alist/hashmap differences and I didn't want to spend more time doing plumbing.

But as you probably can imagine, dynamic inline forms immediate gives us state issues, so I asked the agent to create a buffer-local alist (or hashmap?) to track the states of the form input, so it can be cleaned up on close. It's a bit unreliable now. If vui.el already has a solution I'll switch over next.