MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by delaminator | 2026-01-16 14:19:06+00:00
$1 illegally taken by foreign national is $1 taken from an American.

It might be in exchange for labor but that opportunity is removed from the opportunity pool, by an illegal alien.

They are a net drain on the economy.

The US loses over $200 billion annually in the form of remittances sent by both legal immigrants and illegal aliens.

The top five recipient countries from US remittances in 2021 were:

Mexico ($52.6 billion), India ($15.8 billion), Guatemala ($14.7 billion), the Philippines ($12.8 billion), and China ($12.7 billion).

More recent data shows the numbers have continued growing — in just 2024, $62.5 billion were remitted from the US to Mexico alone, up from $52.6 billion in 2021.

To put that $200+ billion in perspective, that sum would be more than enough to operate the Department of Homeland Security ($140.6 billion) and the State Department ($57.6 billion) combined, and is almost four times the Department of Justice budget ($52 billion).

It is impossible to separate legal and illegals in those figures, of course.

We haven't even scratched other drains such as healthcare and crime.

The majority of US citizens want the illegals gone. Something it sounds like you haven't come to terms with yet.
by gary_0 | 2026-01-16 14:19:19+00:00
I highly doubt there's a steering input device so superior to the current wheel shape that it's worth throwing out the existing standard. Yes, at one point how steering should work (or how you should navigate the Web) was uncertain, but eventually everyone settled on something that worked well enough that it was no longer worthwhile to mess with it.

Although, one thought I had is that there's nothing wrong with experimenting with non-standard interfaces as long as you still have the option to still just buy, say, a Toyota with a standard steering wheel instead of 3D Moebius Steering or whatever. The problem is when the biggest manufacturers keep forcing changes by top-down worldwide fiat, forcing customers to either grin and bear it or quit driving (or using the Web) entirely.
by noodlesUK | 2026-01-16 14:19:20+00:00
There are very few which are suitable for integration into other products - I currently build a scientific instrument that needs a fairly powerful SBC to run. Intel NUCs were well supported and documented: all of their firmware was updatable on linux without any issues, they had data sheets with power specs so you could run them off DC predictably, and you could buy boards without a case. There are plenty of small NUC shaped mini-PCs but few that are suitable for integration (at the price point intel was at).

Cheap Chinese mini PCs just aren't well documented and don't have predictable supply.
by stego-tech | 2026-01-16 14:19:28+00:00
I live in a major metro renowned for its green space, but we absolutely still have a space issue.

* Outdoor spaces close at dusk for the most part, restricting sociability in the winter months when it’s darker, sooner, and longer.

* Winters are cold, making outdoor spaces less usable during those months

* Indoor spaces are exclusively fee-oriented. Coffee shops evict customers after an hour or so, movie theaters can run upwards of $30 a person for a ticket and a snack, malls eject loiterers, gallerias harass anyone clearly not there to do business.

* The few places NOT fee-oriented - like public libraries - are either saturated with use and lack capacity for more folks, or are under-used due to requiring a car to access them.

* Youth in particular lack third-spaces to explore within, fee or no-fee. One roller rink serves the entire north portion of the city and isn’t accessible except by car. Ice rinks are co-opted by hockey teams year-round. Bowling alleys can run $15/person/game, at times, and dwindle in number. Schools are closed except to those involved in extracurriculars after-hours. Arcades are non-existent, the sole skate park closes at dusk, and cops or security harass any group of teenagers they find, especially in parks or public spaces. It’s bad enough as an adult with a car, it’s downright hostile to anyone young or unable to drive.

* The few genuine community centers that do exist, generally operate solely in rich towns that restrict access to citizens, or in impoverished areas and tied to specific special interest agendas for access - many of which may be good, but many more attempt to convert visitors to religions or political groups.

* Even if someone has space in their apartment to host, landlords have gotten so sleazy that parking for visitors is either non-existent or costs money to utilize, thus reducing the ability to host at all without spending more money.

But you’re right, it’s not necessarily a space issue.

It’s a money issue, in that we’ve built a society where you’re barred from enjoyment, self-discovery, or group fulfillment unless you’re spending $20 an hour or white and old enough to be invisible to cops and Karens.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-16 14:19:46+00:00
> I disagree. You are acting like this is a cut and dry situation wherein the Boeing advice that this was not safety critical is just wrong on it's face. That assessment was made 15yr ago (perhaps by "old good boeing" engineers) and on a part already under a lot of scrutiny from the other MD11 that lost an engine. Sure they could be wrong, but I wouldn't bet on it so confidently.

Well, those good old Boeing engineers and their management have misled the world more than once and no longer deserve the benefit of the doubt. That advisory is black-and-white, there is no arguing with what it says or does not say, you can read it for yourself. If your conclusion is the same as Boeing's then that's fine, you can have a different opinion. My conclusion is that if a load bearing component has these kind of potential issues that you need to act with an abundance of caution because of the price in case you get it wrong.

Yes, that bearing only moves a few degrees. But this is not about how much it moves, this is about what happens when it can not move and given the forces involved the outcome of that is fairly predictable, in spite of your previous statements. There is absolutely no way in which if that bearing is seized or otherwise constrained that this is safe.

> I would be very surprised if there weren't also maintenance failing of some sort here.

I explicitly left the door open for that. But regardless, this bearing should have never failed.

There are a couple of HN members whose pension depends on Boeing stock so I can see how this might ruffle some feathers but this is not a company that has behaved in a morally responsible way when it came to issues such as these om the past and you are effectively already blaming the maintenance people with your 'I would be very surprised if there weren't also maintenance failing of some sort here.'.

That is jumping to conclusions.

I would not be surprised if it were the case, but I also would not be surprised if it wasn't the case. That's the degree to which Boeing has squandered its erstwhile stellar reputation.

But, since you feel comfortable attacking my reputation from behind your shield of anonymity I suggest you flesh out your profile and Bio and tell us a bit about yourself and why you feel so emotionally involved in this.
by rjtavares | 2026-01-16 14:20:09+00:00
Skills may have have code attached to them, so in this case the formatting and converting is all code.

The value of skills is that they are attached to the context of an LLM for few tokens, and the LLM activates one when it feels that it relevant (and brings it into context). It's a chepear alternative to having a huge CLAUDE.md (or equivalent) file.
by QuantumNomad_ | 2026-01-16 14:20:20+00:00
Might’ve been because of this type of thing:

> Target fixation is an attentional phenomenon observed in humans in which an individual becomes so focused on an observed object (be it a target or hazard) that they inadvertently increase their risk of colliding with the object.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation
by dist-epoch | 2026-01-16 14:20:34+00:00
> That response has not impressed the IFPI Sweden music industry organisation, which has blocked the song from appearing in the country's official national charts. ... amid concerns that AI could cut revenues to the country's music creators by up to a quarter within the next two years.

The music industry has a stellar record of fighting against generational trends - mp3s, youtube videos, streaming, now AI songs
by II2II | 2026-01-16 14:21:25+00:00
If I recall correctly, QWERTY was designed to minimize jamming. The myth is that it was designed to slow people down.

Whether it does slow people down, as a side effect, is not as well established since, as another person pointed out, typing speed isn't the bottleneck for most people. Learning the layout and figuring out what to write is. On top of that, most of the claims for faster layouts come from marketing materials. It doesn't mean they are wrong, but there is a vested interest.

If there was a demonstrably much faster input method for most users, I suspect it would have been adopted long ago.
by bluGill | 2026-01-16 14:21:34+00:00
That depends on too many factors. Moving all production to the US would greatly reduce prices, since it costs a lot of money to setup a factory, but you amortize that over everything it produces. I don't know how the iphone is produced in China, but I have to believe it is highly automated as well. However moving a factory takes months (at best, China may not allow exporting it at all), and in those months Apply wouldn't be making any iphones, so to do production in the US requires building an all new factory which is going to be expensive.

You can buy modern CPUs made in Iowa - at about $60,000 each. You can buy one from an intel fab (I'm not sure where they are) for under $1000 that is likely better. the Iowa made CPU would be a one-off made under license from Intel. The companies that do this made just enough to prove they can in case Intel fabs are bombed. (I assume this means that you can't actually buy such a CPU if you tried, but they do make them and that is about the cost they would have to charge to break even)
by david-gpu | 2026-01-16 14:21:44+00:00
I hope we can at least avoid the sanewashing.

> President Donald Trump has renewed his efforts to take over Greenland, and tapping into the Danish territory’s natural resources is a key part of the strategy.

It is not "taking over" or "annexing". It is invading. A military ally, at that.

And it is not "tapping into [...] natural resources". It is plundering their natural resources.

None of these hypotheticals are consensual. There is no plan for a freely agreed-upon bilateral agreement. This is about invading and pillaging a foreign land. Whether it is Greenland, Canada, or any other country.
by VikingCoder | 2026-01-16 14:21:52+00:00
Please, sell me a USB-C device that gives me mesh networking on my phone.

I'd like a Small, Medium, and Large option. Ideally, each would have a passthrough charger, so I can charge my phone even with the device plugged in to my phone.

The Small is just the device, and I guess it would drain my phone's battery. The Large would have a 25,000mAh and be just small enough to legally take on an airplane in the United Stated. The Medium has a smallish battery, maybe?

Give me what you can. Wifi. FRS. CB. LoRa. The ability to switch between those? The ability to broadcast across all of those in some spread-spectrum broadcast?

Make me use your special App that I have to install on my phone.

Make the device also act like a storage device. The Small has usb storage big enough to store the APK for the app for me to side-load.

The Large has enough usb storage for, I dunno, all of Wikipedia and medical texts, and open maps, and a few other things, and the Kiwix app to side-load.

Make the Medium and the Large also be able to be a hotspot, for other people nearby to be able to connect to, so they can download the app and browse Kiwix, and send messages through my phone? Or just let my phone be that hotspot, I guess?

And most importantly, give me messaging. Secure point-to-point, exchanging keys by touching our phones together, or using QR codes, or something.

Or broadcast messaging. With configurable repeating.

And then make the Base Station version of this, which has solar panels, and a battery, and it's just a repeater. You install and forget.

If you're only going to build one thing, build the Small version I described. Next, I guess, would be the Base Station. Next would be the Large.

Where is the Kickstarter? I'll back it right now. I'll buy 2 Large, 6 Small, and 4 Base Stations. Right now.
Ask HN: Where do you find single day software gigs?
by publicdebates | 2026-01-16 14:22:25+00:00
I'm a retired software engineer who's been doing this since the days of MS-DOS 6. I've since transitioned to being a best selling author, but I still have a love for writing software. And being an author means I'm on a fixed royalty income, so short software gigs are my only way of getting a little extra cash. But none of my former clients ever need small jobs done, and literally nobody with single-day gigs on upwork ever gets back to me. Is there a website where someone like me can find 1-10 hour gigs, such as fiverr used to be?
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-01-16 14:22:38+00:00
A nice piece that outlines all the challenges, the opportunities, and the cultural and social adjustments that need to be made within organizations to maximize the chance of left-shifted testing being successful.

IMPO, as a developer, I see QA's role as being "auditors" with a mandate to set the guidelines, understand the process, and assess the outcomes. I'm wary of the foxes being completely responsible for guarding the hen-house unless the processes are structured and audited in a fundamentally different way. That takes fundamental organizational change.
by gnosis67 | 2026-01-16 14:22:53+00:00
See it from her perspective. Trump is the only one listening to her, the only one doing anything about her struggle. The only world leader openly supporting her.

Sure Trump the opportunist and Maria with her selfless gratitude is not thinking about America’s internal turmoil. Everyone is having their problems.

And look at the rest of you.

Snakes in the grass.

You don’t like him (I’m not a fan yet refuse to be a hypocrite.)

Hypocrites. That is what you haters all are. Not for knowing there is something wrong with the world, for taking it out on the most obvious symbol of your displeasure.

Your problems are far deeper than Trump or these games played out on a global scale.

Your problems begin with your self deceptions and cascade into the mob appetites.

“Conga-line”? Where you intending to sound like a racist libtard, just like the MAGA have you down?

True selves indeed.
by kfreds | 2026-01-16 14:23:18+00:00
It’s exciting to hear that Moxie and colleagues are working on something like this. They definitely have the skills to pull it off.

Few in this world have done as much for privacy as the people who built Signal. Yes, it’s not perfect, but building security systems with good UX is hard. There are all sorts of tradeoffs and sacrifices one needs to make.

For those interested in the underlying technology, they’re basically combining reproducible builds, remote attestation, and transparency logs. They’re doing the same thing that Apple Private Cloud Compute is doing, and a few others. I call it system transparency, or runtime transparency. Here’s a lighting talk I did last year: https://youtu.be/Lo0gxBWwwQE
by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-16 14:24:04+00:00
I think what you're seeing is the criticism from those in the older generartions who are well-published and media savvy with decades more experience than average in that regard. Some of the old-timers can be expected to be better connected when it comes to available incentives too.

Not unlike anybody else who gets more attention from pointing out any possible controversy rather than more mundane non-critical analysis.

But not so much in the prevailing common sense of the actual baby boomers who for the most part are older and more ambivalent about these energy technology milestones and take them in stride pretty easily along with all the other progress over the decades they have seen.

I am with far more people over 70 all the time who wish they could afford a Tesla or some extensive solar panels than those who have negative feelings about it.

But you've also got negative "influencers" in older generations trying to appeal specifically to those who lived through similar (outdated or nearly forgotten) experiences, especially when the target demographic is known to be one that votes more often than average.

Looks to me like it's even more selected younger voices among those who stand to gain so much more over an upcoming lifetime without any upset from alternative energy that are doing more actual complaining. Like the incentive coming from somewhere is overwhelming, I can't deny.
by siddkgn | 2026-01-16 14:24:31+00:00
Currently, 'impactful' is defined by category filtering and the removal of deal/opinion content within each 2-hour cycle. Because it runs frequently, it prioritizes the most news in that moment based on confidence score. I recognize that 'impact' is subjective, and it will mostly cover all stories at the end of the day. so I’d love to get your feedback on the stories it picked today, which felt useful to you?
by dijit | 2026-01-16 14:24:43+00:00
I sympathise with the frustration, but I think the issue isn't innovation itself: it's that we've lost the ability to distinguish between solving actual problems and just making things different.

Take mobile interfaces. When touchscreens arrived, we genuinely needed new patterns. A mouse pointer paradigm on a 3.5" screen with fat fingers simply doesn't work. Swipe gestures, pull-down menus, bottom navigation—these emerged because the constraints demanded it, not because someone thought "wouldn't it be novel if..."

The problem now is that innovation has become cargo-culted. Companies innovate because they think they should, not because they've identified a genuine problem. Every app wants its own navigation paradigm, its own gesture language, its own idea of where the back button lives. That's not innovation, that's just noise.

However, I'd have to push back on the car analogy: steering wheels were an innovation over tillers, and a crucial one. Tillers gave you poor mechanical advantage and required constant two-handed attention. The steering wheel solved real problems: better control, one-handed operation, more space for passengers. It succeeded because it was genuinely better, and then it standardised because there was no reason to keep experimenting.

The web needs more of that approach: innovate when there's a genuine problem, then standardise when you've found something that works. The issue isn't innovation, it's the perverse incentive to differentiate for its own sake.
by Rick76 | 2026-01-16 14:24:51+00:00
You hit it on the money, third places won’t matter if it’s not accessible.

We need to promote density, walkability and time.

In America there is an idea that anyone who wants more that 4 hours to live outside of work is lazy or in some form selfish.

We do need to model university a little bit imo. Give me stuff to do that I can get to with fair ease, give people the time and energy to do it and everyone will be a lot more social
Do developers lose most of their time to tech debt and broken tooling?
by Saurabh_Kumar_ | 2026-01-16 14:25:12+00:00
Hey everyone
I'm a non-technical founder trying to understand a problem before building anything
I keep hearing developers say they spend more time dealing with tech debt, flaky tests, broken onboarding, and tooling issues than actually shipping features - which leads to burnout and slow delivery.
I want to sanity-check this with real developers:
What wastes most of vour time day-to-day ?
Is tech debt / tooling friction really a big problem, or is something else worse?
If you could magically fix one thing in your dev workflow, what would it be?
I'm not selling anything or promoting a product - just trying ta understand the problem honestly
Thanks for your time.
Saurabh.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-16 14:27:18+00:00
I don't see ast-grep as being very useful to an agent.

What a coding agent needs is to be able to locate portions of source code relevant to what it has been tasked with, and preferably in more context-efficient fashion than just grepping and loading entire source files into context. One way to do this is something like Cursor's vector index of code chunks, and another would be something like TreeSitter (or other identifier-based tools) that knows where identifiers (variables, functions) are defined and used.

LSP (language servers) are not useful for this task since they can't tell the agent "where is function foo() defined" (but TreeSitter can), since as someone else noted language servers are based on location (line number) not content (symbols). Language servers are designed to help editors.

It's possible that ast-grep might be some some use to a coding agent, but looking for syntax/AST patterns rather than just identifier definitions and usages seems a much more niche facility.
Ask HN: Why don't developers share their debugging/diagnostic tool results?
by lpetronika | 2026-01-16 14:28:12+00:00
I've noticed something odd about developer tools: the ones that help you show off success get shared everywhere, but the ones that help you find problems tend to get used quietly.

People love posting screenshots of new UI components, performance benchmarks, or "before/after" improvements.

But almost no one shares debug output, architecture warnings, or the list of bugs a tool just caught.

A couple reasons seem obvious:

- Privacy: Hard to share findings without exposing internal code

- Professional image: Posting bugs feels like admitting mistakes, even when the tool is doing exactly what it should

- Negativity bias: "Look what's broken" vs "Look what I built"

I've seen this firsthand while building a diagnostic tool: people use it, contribute fixes, star it—but public discussion is almost nonexistent. The bugs it catches are real, but nobody wants to post anything in public.

This makes me wonder: are bug-finding tools structurally disadvantaged for discoverability compared to generative/productive tools?

If you've worked on or maintained a diagnostic/linting/debugging tool, I'd love to hear what's worked for you:

- Demo strategies that don't expose user code?

- Health scores or badges that make findings shareable?

- Benchmark formats that feel positive rather than critical?

- Something else entirely?
by fasterik | 2026-01-16 14:28:30+00:00
Most people don't care about Google knowing whether they're using a particular app. If they do, they have the option not to use it. The main concern is that the chats themselves are E2E encrypted, which we have every reason to believe.

This is a perfect example of purism vs. pragmatism. Moxie is a pragmatist who builds things that the average person can actually use. If it means that millions of people who would otherwise have used ChatGPT will migrate because of the reduced friction and get better privacy as a result, that's a win even if at the margin they're still leaking one insignificant piece of metadata to Google.
by Mashimo | 2026-01-16 14:28:35+00:00
My mistake, it was indeed 20% percent, aka 10 bucks.

rPi3 40 EUR form 2016 is now ~52 EUR adjusted for inflation.

Compared to 62 EUR for the current model rPi 2Gb.

Cheapest tablet with larger then 1gb ram locally is around ~85 EUR. All prices including 25% VAT.