MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PurpleRamen | 2026-01-19 17:31:46+00:00
> One of the main reasons we end up with populist leaders who make decisions not in the interest of their population, but in service of their own pursuit of power, is social media and the attention economy.

We had the same problems before social media. It's not the cause, just a symptom.

> If people stopped spending hours each day scrolling through Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook feeds, media incentives would change.

Many people willingly choose the distraction, they just don't want to bother with politics and stuff. Social Media is just today's most popular distraction at the moment. And Social Media is also useful for those who seek education. It's really more about motivation and presentation than the medium itself.
by dundarious | 2026-01-19 17:31:48+00:00
The Tel Aviv police did see fit to call off a Maccabi game about 2 weeks after this furore. Admittedly, because of violence on the morning of the game, not because of concerns well in advance, but I think it's quite reasonable to say that such a prohibition is not some kind of outrageous outlier.

My general point is, if you think the surface level details of this case are indication of some outrageous singling out of Maccabi fans, then I think that's mostly due to ignorance (in the non-derogatory sense of lack of familiarity).

If you want to debate the details, that's a fine thing to do, and I'm aware of lots of those details too and would still generally find it quite plausible to desire an away fans ban for Maccabi in that case, but that's not the point I'm trying to make on HN right now.
by citrin_ru | 2026-01-19 17:31:53+00:00
> Foreign exporters absorb only about 4% of the tariff burden—the remaining 96% is passed through to US buyers.

Unfortunately (for sellers) tariff decrease trade volume so even if only 4% absorbed by a seller they have much bigger losses from sell volume decline.

Economy is not a zero sum game - almost everyone looses from tariffs - consumers no longer can afford the same some things they did buy in the past because tariffs increased prices. Sellers cannot decrease prices because in many cases it will make their business unprofitable but they still loose on the volume.
by pm | 2026-01-19 17:32:08+00:00
Quality is 2nd best to what? And people haven't switched to what? Android? The situation is no better on Google OS.

Apple's App Store ad initiatives have always been woeful, and doubt it makes enough revenue to warrant a separate line item on their public accounting reports. Some executive has seen yet another overfunded company potentially making bank with an ad-based business model (OpenAI, et al.), and has thought they could extract Google-level ad revenue due to the App Store's exclusivity. It could also be a response to potentially competing App Stores given their rocky relationship with the EU.

It will have little effect, on revenue or user experience. The greater tragedy is the organisational decay that led to this being greenlit in the first place.
by fallinditch | 2026-01-19 17:32:08+00:00
Nice job! Added to my home screen.

Firefox on Android - seems to work perfectly.

Any plans to develop this further? I'm not sure how doable this is but I'd love to be able to program African polyrhythms on my phone.

I think the main dev challenges would be:

- add swing and humanization

- layering the polyrhythms on separate tracks

- adding different time signatures, e.g. 12/8 is common for African polyrhythms.

- allow independent cycle lengths per track

A good resource for further reading - https://djemberhythms.com/books/
by amiga386 | 2026-01-19 17:32:09+00:00
The Dutch police were a lot more fair-handed in giving intelligence to the WMP than you've been here.

They made clear that there were indiscriminate antisemitic attacks, and that WMP had made up claims that were not backed by what the Dutch police told them.

https://news.sky.com/story/ai-evidence-a-fake-match-and-misl...

> a section of the Maccabi fan base was filmed engaging in violence in Amsterdam in 2024 and chanting anti-Palestinian racist abuse. That required WMP to contact their Dutch counterparts, who also informed them of the antisemitic violence by locals in Amsterdam, hunting down and kicking Maccabi supporters, leading to the only five convictions.

> Dutch police disputed the accuracy of how their Birmingham counterparts used information about the 2024 unrest in Amsterdam, with clear contradictions only able to be highlighted due to leaked WMP documents.

> WMP's intelligence assessment claimed that Maccabi fans apparently intentionally targeted Muslim communities in Amsterdam, but the Dutch force told me: "We did not see large groups of Maccabi's (fans) going into Muslim populated areas to target Muslims."

> Claims that Maccabi fans threw "innocent members of the public into the river" were also not endorsed by the Dutch.
by cdrnsf | 2026-01-19 17:32:42+00:00
The heritage society has worked for decades to tilt the ideological balance of the judiciary and the Supreme Court specifically. The GOP base’s cult-like devotion to Trump and his power to target the reelection prospects of individual representatives and senators has lead to them sidelining themselves.

Unlike Trump’s first term, his cabinet and agency heads are little more than loyalists and yes men. Checks and balances are gone. Independent thinking is gone. The president has long been an incompetent racist and malignant narcissist and the country (and world — for now) are suffering as he unleashes whatever cruel, imbecilic impulses that cross his mind. Add to that the fact that he’s quite clearly unwell.
by notahacker | 2026-01-19 17:33:06+00:00
Imports seeing large tariff changes aren't a particularly large part of the CPI basket, and domestic substitutes exist. Expected responses from US manufacturers putting their own prices up are lagged, and tempered by some of the consumer response being simply buying less stuff.

The Fed predicted it added 0.5 points to what inflation could have fallen to with the expected effects only partially visible.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/oct/how-tarif...
by ryandrake | 2026-01-19 17:33:23+00:00
A lot of these complex tools exists for the sake of their own complexity--to allow engineers to keep building their resumes by continually increasing the depth of their development stacks. Regular programming CAN often use one CPU and fit into one machine's RAM, but we've all collectively decided to add 12 layers of abstraction, virtualization, and orchestration on top of them so they can be run on clusters full of machines instead. We're making our own profession less approachable for the sake of our resumes and careers.
by Someone1234 | 2026-01-19 17:33:42+00:00
I actually created a review to warn people that most of the reviews were for a different product (even provided photos, showing the old/new; showing the huge downgrade), and Amazon nuked my review because:

> After carefully reviewing your submission, your review could not be posted to the website. It appears your review had feedback on the seller.

Yeah, so Amazon won't let you post reviews warning others about this either.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-19 17:33:46+00:00
Some of it is pure backlash against AI, but there's still solid reasoning for not allowing it.

A lot of the little vibe coded self hosted utilities were made by folks with zero software development experience, over a weekend. These are apps where people need to be able to trust them to be exposed to the internet, and trust them with their data. Allowing zero-experience, purely vibe coded software in this environment is a recipe for disaster.

I've no problem with folks vibing their own little tools for use at home, but that doesn't mean it needs to be shared, and it a lot of cases, it probably shouldn't unless you really know what you are doing.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-19 17:33:51+00:00
Maybe many subreddits suffer from the same, also happening in r/homeassistant but the community seems to not mind it as much as r/selfhosted for whatever reason.

> In order to determine the difference (as going by code & commits alone can be a great indicator but by itself does not make a great case for what constitutes a vibe-coded or AI-assisted project) we've set the following guidelines: [...] With obvious signs of vibe-coding*

Gonna be interesting to see how deep those accusation-threads will go, people trying to determine the "obvious signs".
by jacquesm | 2026-01-19 17:34:11+00:00
Ah ok! Thanks for that bit of clarification, it makes a world of a difference, yes, you can use the breadboard for that, but - based on my own experience - if you want to actually use an ADC on a breadboard you're going to be in for a world of hurt as soon as you exceed some very low threshold frequency of updating and you're going to be fighting all kinds of weird bias effects. The parasitic capacitance of those breadboards is just terrible.
by nine_k | 2026-01-19 17:34:22+00:00
It seemed like the D. did not want to win. They wanted to make a point. The R seemingly also wanted to make a point. The current administration also strives to make an point here and there, against anyone's best interest (including themselves): the silly tariffs, the insane ICE, the irrational play around Greenland, etc.

Both parties are quite disconnected from the interests of the "ordinary people", and the "ordinary people" voting from them are often quite disconnected from the reality; instead they want someone who would approve their preconceptions, and would stick it to "them" in the endless political sports match.

Which may not be that endless: if the political climate of the US deteriorates enough, some authoritarian populist could just get elected and never leave. The current administration likes to hint at that, but they seem to inane to actually pull this off. Somebody less theatrical and more cold-blooded could, though :(
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-19 17:34:46+00:00
Let's keep in mind that a tariff is, by definition, a tax that is paid by an importer to their own government for importing some good.

> the educated economists who also support the position

> the tariffs are something other countries are paying the US

I'm quite sure the provided definition of a tariff is accurate. Given that, who are these economists and what are the reasons they give for supporting this belief that the exporters (other countries) pay the tariff?
by kouru225 | 2026-01-19 17:35:31+00:00
I’m in favor of the dead internet because the alternative was even worse.

About 10 years ago we had a scenario where bots probably were only 2-5% of the conversation and they absolutely dominated all discussion. Having a tiny coordinated minority in a vast sea of uncoordinated people is 100x more manipulative than having a dead internet. If you ever pointed out that we were being botted, everyone would ignore you or pretend you were crazy. It didn’t even matter that the Head of the FBI came out and said we were being manipulated by bots. Everyone laughed at him the same way.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-19 17:35:31+00:00
There are multiple research papers that indicate that this result (in terms of what you think the paper says) is not obvious. Indeed, to think this is the case, you need an extremely superficial understanding of economics based around "rules" that only exist in theory.

And, if you read the paper, you will find that evidence. How these work depends on initial conditions that vary and exporters will not react in a consistent way.

As a specific example, theoretical research in this area tends to make assumptions around the stationarity of margins that are obviously ludicrous in the context of reality in the US. It is quite easy to justify almost any policy with theoretical research in economics so people who have no understanding of economics will find evidence for whatever position they choose. Reality is quite different.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-19 17:35:36+00:00
I was intrigued by what you have said, because I have also bought an ASUS NUC mini-PC today, in Europe.

I paid EUR 510, which means $593. This is with all taxes included, so the price without tax would be about $490.

I have searched now the ASUS mini-PC on Newegg, and its cost is $679, around +38.5% more expensive.

This is wild, because indeed, until recently the price of electronics devices was significantly lower in USA in comparison with Europe, while now it is the reverse.

This is not a "Made in China" mini-PC, which might have been affected by worse tariffs.

Moreover, I have equipped the mini-PC with 32 GB DDR5 & 1 TB SSD, while cursing the more than triple price of DDR5 compared with last summer, so that now the DRAM has been more than a third of the price of the complete computer.

This configuration has cost me the equivalent of slightly less than $900, without taxes. The same configuration has a price on Newegg of almost $1200.
by cheschire | 2026-01-19 17:35:47+00:00
It's so exhausting having the same conversation every time. A friend reads something on reddit, flips out about it. Asks in our signal chat "can anyone explain this" as bait. Occasionally I take the bait and explain the extreme thing through a centrist lens. Now I'm instantly on the side of whoever did the bad thing and spend the next 90 minutes explaining rationality until we arrive at the center. Things calm down. 3 days go by, and my friend visits reddit again...
by aaronblohowiak | 2026-01-19 17:36:35+00:00
>Compare that to someone writing embedded firmware for device microcontrollers, who would understandably be underwhelmed by the same.

One datum for you: I recently asked Claude to make a jerk-limited and jerk-derivative-limited motion planner and to use the existing trapezoidal planner as reference for fuzzy-testing various moves (to ensure total pulses sent was correct) and it totally worked. Only a few rounds of guidance to get it to where I wanted to commit it.
by kcolford | 2026-01-19 17:36:48+00:00
inflation is low because people are buying less; remember that inflation is calculated based on actual expenses (a "basket of goods" but that basket is adjusted based on how much people are actually spending); demand for the newest tv or plastic phone case is down; people are still buying the same amount of food and using the same amount of gas, neither of which are tariffed because of exceptions to the tariff rules

prices are up so people are buying less, it's just that simple; only a handful of companies have reported their Q4 christmas earnings but retailers' are already forecasted to be way below previous years'
by bininunez | 2026-01-19 17:36:58+00:00
Hello! I'm Ben Nunez, CEO at Evercoast. Our software was used to capture and reconstruct the 4D Gaussian splats in this A$AP Rocky video.

The music video is a mix of creative and technical genius from several different teams, and it's ultimately a byproduct of building tooling to capture reality once and reuse it downstream.

There’s a lot more to explore here. Once you have grounded 4D human motion and appearance tied to a stable world coordinate system, it becomes a missing primitive for things like world models, simulation, and embodied AI, where synthetic or purely parametric humans tend to break down.
by colin_jack | 2026-01-19 17:37:11+00:00
He does cover this later:

"I implemented a formula for Jeffrey Emanuel’s “Rule of Five”, which is the observation that if you make an LLM review something five times, with different focus areas each time though, it generates superior outcomes and artifacts. So you can take any workflow, cook it with the Rule of Five, and it will make each step get reviewed 4 times (the implementation counts as the first review)."

And I guess more generally, there is a level of non-determinism in there anyway.
by ghaff | 2026-01-19 17:37:58+00:00
Haven't been up Mera, but back in the day, did do Island Peak which I understand is more difficult these days because of some glacial fissures.

That altitude was about my limit even at the time. I had done a couple of previous Nepal treks to fairly high altitude but not actual climbs and had done a lower altitude glacier climbing school in the US northwest.
by aj7 | 2026-01-19 17:38:17+00:00
In Israel, virtually every Christian relic is fake. Some are hundreds of years old, but nevertheless fake. This is not a comment on Christianity as a religion. Religions need relics, and if they can’t find them, they are created. This is operating in modern times. I was working as a contractor for Intel Israel. They took everybody on a day trip. To an LDS temple to “see the organ” (what else?). An American LDS church. Needed a place in Israel to “represent.” Now wait 100 years. You wait. I have things to do.
by haritha-j | 2026-01-19 17:38:18+00:00
Perhaps because authors don't want their content to be used for this purpose? Because Microsoft refuses to give me a copy of the source code to Windows to 'inspire' my vibe-coded OS, Windowpanes 12, of which I will not give microsoft a single cent of revenue, its acceptable for me to pirate it? Someone doesn't want to sell me their work, so I'm justified in stealing it?
by mrweasel | 2026-01-19 17:38:51+00:00
The lines where pretty blurred already. If you search for the exact name of an app, I think that needs to go first in the results, the ads can be the third or forth. Having ads show up before the "correct" app is incredibly dangerous in a world where so much of our digital life is in various apps. Often the people see is actively trying to trick people into installing the wrong thing, making the ad less visible is going to get a lot of people scammed.

How the hell Apple does not see this is beyond me. All of their fancy security in iOS is worthless if they allow people to be tricked into installing scam-ware.
by enaaem | 2026-01-19 17:39:05+00:00
I found Vlad Vexler’s take interesting. Trump has a narcissistic personality disorder. Not a narcissistic trait that many elites have, but an actual disorder. He looks up to Putin and wants to bask in Putin’s glory to elevate himself.

[1] https://open.substack.com/pub/vladvexler/p/we-need-to-talk-a...
by nikitaga | 2026-01-19 17:39:28+00:00
How is MacOS as enshittified as Windows? It doesn't have ads, doesn't push AI on you, their online services are trivial to ignore once and never think about again, etc. I haven't tried Tahoe, and sure, its new glass UI is shit, but merely incompetent UI design is not "enshittification" and is not in any way equivalent to what Microsoft does in Windows.
by verytrivial | 2026-01-19 17:39:34+00:00
If sabotage it will be plain as day to a trained eye. I await the report. That break could also be explained by the rail heading away in that photo snapping at that point because the train pushed it out, noting the rail has rotated 90 degrees clockwise -- something did that work, and it was probably the train going out and over. I'm not a rail tie expert (nor is anyone likely to be on HN) so I don't know if this is an unusual failure mode. But there was a line change point intersection immediately south of the crash. My money is there was a fault (accidental or deliberate) there, not at this snapping point.
by Cornbilly | 2026-01-19 17:39:51+00:00
The Libertarian Party does not put all of those caveats on their stance and you sure as hell didn't in your polemic post.

Your argument is nothing but pedantry anyway. The libertarian stance is that most immigration laws should be abolished. Whether or not the books on the laws reflect their stance doesn't change that is their stance. They advocate for open boarders and migration free from government interference.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-19 17:39:53+00:00
I think the problem with LLMs is they fail to adhere to implicit or explicit constraints. Parts finding functionality of DigiKey is pretty darn good, but it would be awesome to find if there are cheaper equivalent circuits that are functionally equivalent to a particular block, yet again under aforementioned constraints. Multi-component simplification would be awesome so as long as it's safe. AI, so far, is not yet a substitute for review by an expert human.
by infocollector | 2026-01-19 17:40:02+00:00
Maybe someone here has tackled this before. I’m trying to connect Antigravity or Cursor with GLM/Qwen coding models, but haven’t had any luck so far. I can easily run Open-WebUI + LLaMA on my 5090 Ubuntu box without issues. However, when I try to point Antigravity or Cursor to those models, they don’t seem to recognize or access them. Has anyone successfully set this up?
by echelon | 2026-01-19 17:40:09+00:00
It ought to be illegal to host ads for registered trademarks (+/- some edit distance).

Especially if you have a marketplace monopoly.

Especially if you used overwhelming force to turn the "URL Bar" into a search product and then bought up 90% market share where you can tax every single brand on the planet.

Google is the most egregious with this with respect to Google Search. It ought to be illegal, frankly.

Google Android is a runner up. Half the time I try to install an app, I get bamboozled into installing an ad placement app (and immediately undo it). Seems like Apple is following in the same footsteps.

Amazon isn't blameless here, either.

So much of our economy is being taxed by gatekeepers that installed themselves into a place that is impossible to dislodge. And the systems they built were not how the web originally worked. They dismantled the user-friendly behavior brick by brick, decade by decade.

Google "Pokemon" -> Ad.

Google "AWS" -> Amazon competitively bidding for their own trademark

Google "Thinkpad" -> Lots of ads.

Google "Anthropic" or "ChatGPT" -> I bet Google is happy to bleed its direct competitors like this.

What the fuck is this, and why did we let it happen?

Companies own these trademarks. Google turned the URL bar into a 100% Google search shakedown.

I'm thinking about a grassroots movement to stop these shenanigans.
by whodidntante | 2026-01-19 17:40:10+00:00
While consumers are paying for pretty much the entire tariff (according to the article), the volume what they are buying has "collapsed" (according to the article).

Consumers are just buying from other sources (domestically or otherwise) or not buying because it is no longer worth it.

There are a lot of reasons why these tariff's are bad, but economically, it is not a bad thing for people not to buy things they do not need, or to buy them from a domestic producer. Consumer spending actually increased last year, and inflation is low.
by intended | 2026-01-19 17:40:18+00:00
Its an interesting point you end up raising - does it still count as a strategy even if you are doing something patently impossible given the knowledge and intelligence at your disposal?

If someone decided to come up with a strategy to do something fanciful, like find the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow to solve their debt problems, would it really be worthy enough to be called a strategy?
by vacuity | 2026-01-19 17:40:19+00:00
The kernel, the memory manager and device drivers, the language runtimes for managed languages; would these not be written in "systems" languages? Essential complexity can only be rearranged, not removed. Nothing changes the fact that every interface between hardware and software needs to be bridged.

On a different note: why should the kernel even handle IPC or scheduling? Those take the basic capabilities of context switching, timer management, and memory management. Even "core functionality" can be a context switch (or a few) away; is a syscall not just a message to a system server? Only the most basic form of communication is necessary to delegate arbitrary functionality, so a true microkernel should only introduce that as an abstraction. Everything else either follows from the hardware or is left to the whims of software.