MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzs | 2026-01-30 13:09:29+00:00
Note: this is in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823760 which is from the same commenter but got killed before there was time to post any links refuting its claims.

> The "salute" in particular is simply a politically-expedient freeze-frame from a Musk speech, where he said "my heart goes out to you all" and happened to raise his arm. I could provide freeze-frame images of Obama and Hilary Clinton doing similar "salutes" and claim this makes them "far right fascists" but I would never insult the reader's intelligence by doing so.

For Obama and Clinton you can find freeze frames showing their arm in a similar position, but when you look at the full video it was in the middle of something that does not match a Nazi salute. Here are several examples: https://x.com/ExposingNV/status/1881647306724049116?t=CGKtg0...

If you had a camera in my kitchen you could find similar freeze frames of me whenever I make a sausge/egg/cheese on an English muffin breakfast sandwich because the ramekin I use to shape the egg patty is on the top shelf.

With Musk the full video shows it matches from when his arm starts moving to the end of the gesture. See https://x.com/BartoSitek/status/1882081868423860315?t=8F0hL-...
by graynk | 2026-01-30 13:10:04+00:00
That's also one thing Galaxy gets right. You can turn off auto-updates and that won't stop you from playing the game (unlike with Steam, which will just replace your "play" button with "update"). They also support rolling back updates, but I never tried that and I'm not entirely sure if this works for every game, or if this is something a game developer has to actively support.
by baud147258 | 2026-01-30 13:10:17+00:00
As a cyclist, I'm not a big fan of roundabouts, because I'm always worried I'll get hit on the side by a car entering/leaving the roundabout whenever I don't take the first exit, mostly because I feel like I have less visibility in the direction from which the car might come from, compared to a standard crossing.

Though I've never been in an accident either on a crossing or roundabout, so I can't really judge how true my impression is.
by RealBurst | 2026-01-30 13:11:02+00:00
After months of work, I'm releasing unrar5j — a pure Java library for extracting RAR5 archives. Supports AES-256 encryption, solid archives, filters (DELTA, E8/E8E9, ARM), and more.
GitHub: https://github.com/SteF44444/unrar5j
Feedback welcome!
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-30 13:12:11+00:00
"Car won't start when picking daughter up from swimming" was a good one told to me by a colleague. In the late 90s some high-up C-level at BMW had a lovely new 7-series as his company car, and it was great.

Unfortunately he hadn't even had it a week when he found he couldn't unlock it, and once he had it wouldn't start. And wouldn't you know it, it was bucketing with rain at 8pm and there he was, stuck outside the swimming pool trying to take his daughter home from her swimming club. Off it went back to the garage on a breakdown truck, while he got a rather lower-spec loaner.

Next morning it was fine. All week it was fine. Until it was time to pick his daughter up from swimming, of course.

This went on for a few weeks until eventually they tracked it down to interference with the remote fob.

Because the swimming pool was at the local community centre, in another room in the community centre was a local radio station, and they started broadcasting at 6pm every week night.

What was the first thing anyone did on coming into the studio? Turn on the UHF link from the studio to the transmitter site, on 428MHz, sufficiently close to the 433MHz receiver for the remote central locking fob to desense it and prevent it sending the immobiliser key to car's ECU.

No, no-one back in Munich believed it either.
by s0a | 2026-01-30 13:13:01+00:00
I did not criticize your app. I offered that your blanket statement that "The browser is an extremely poor medium to deliver applications" does not comport with my experience. And it looks like I nailed it, too. It is the nature of your application. Had you said "the browser does not offer a real time API which I need for my application", there would have been nothing to say. This is obviously true. Even native desktop apps provide an inadequate environment for "hard RT". So I suspect that is also not a true requirement, either.
by ssenssei | 2026-01-30 13:13:28+00:00
I'm happy for you building this app, it's tremendous effort to build a flutter application, and this should feel like an achievement for you.

However, task management apps are so unbelievably common nowadays. Nothing that can't be solved by notepad on PC, or the clock/calendar app on my phone / and if I really need a task app, I'll use google's or build my own.

Your next step should be to take what you have learned from building this app, and focus on fixing a real problem that people around you face.
by haunter | 2026-01-30 13:14:02+00:00
>I think especially since the UI overhaul in Blender 2.8 the project has been on a steep upwards trajectory.

100% agreed. I know a lot of people don't like that but sometimes I feel that FOSS projects are intentionally sabotaging themselves by ignoring industry standard options/conventions and instead they are following open source ideas just to be different. UI/UX is the main symptom of that. Blender could move forward and wish others could too.

Krita is another example of a good project

CAD is the next frontier where we need a "Blender moment"
by senko | 2026-01-30 13:14:42+00:00
Ignoring the "A high-level athlete doesn’t need to see a sports doctor" faux-pas, the article's biggest sin is equating "running" with long distance (marathon or ultra).

To recreational runners, the more interesting question is for light jogs 5K-10K, where the goal is to maintain or slowly improve your cardio fitness, not push everything to the max.

The article doesn't address that even in passing.
by VorpalWay | 2026-01-30 13:15:14+00:00
I have a personal one with my car: if from a cold start during spring/autumn temperatures (or early mornings in summer), I drive about a km and shut it off, then come back to the car after a few minutes it will not manage to stay idling once I turn it on. What happens instead is that the RPM goes too low, and the engine shuts off, then the start/stop feature kicks in and restarts the engine. This happens every few seconds repeatedly. If I press the accelerator it can keep running. And if I just drive a meter or two it will work fine again when I go back to idling.

I tried both with neutral or in gear but with the clutch pressed (yes, it is a manual, fairly common in Sweden still) and that doesn't make a difference.

I haven't managed to figure out the cause, but since it is a modern car I would assume it is something with the ECU that goes wrong. (It is a Dacia Duster in case anyone else recognise this issue. The mechanic I asked hadn't heard about anyone else having this issue though.)
by madcaptenor | 2026-01-30 13:16:43+00:00
People have mentioned "can't print on Tuesdays", which reminds me of an error that occurred with a Linux PDF viewer at the math department at Berkeley:

"Oct 2: Warning: Due to a known bug, the default Linux document viewer evince prints N*N copies of a PDF file when N copies requested. As a workaround, use Adobe Reader acroread for printing multiple copies of PDF documents, or use the fact that every natural number is a sum of at most four squares."

I've seen other references to this bug, but the workaround is the sort of thing mathematicians would come up with.

sources: https://mathoverflow.net/a/3601/143, https://math.berkeley.edu/computing/wiki/index.php?title=Sup...
by whizzter | 2026-01-30 13:16:58+00:00
Is AssemblyScript good for games though? last I checked it lacks too much features for game-code coming directly from TS but might be better now? No idea how well static hermes behaves today (but probably far better due to RN heritage).

I've been down the TS->C++ road a few times myself and the big issue often comes up with how "strict" you can keep your TS code for real-life games as well as how slow/messy the official TS compiler has been (and real-life taking time from efforts).

It's better now, but I think one should probably directly target the GO port of the TS compiler (both for performance and go being a slightly stricter language probably better suited for compilers).

I guess, the point is that the TS->C++ compilation thing is potentially a rabbit-hole, theoretically not too bad, but TS has moved quickly and been hard to keep up with without using the official compiler, and even then a "game-oriented" typescript mode wants to have a slightly different semantic model from the official one so you need either a mapping over the regular type-inference engine, a separate on or a parallell one.

Mapping regular TS to "game-variants", the biggest issue is how to handle numbers efficiently, even if you go full-double there is a need to have conversion-point checking everywhere doubles go into unions with any other type (meaning you need boxing or a "fatter" union struct). And that's not even accounting for any vector-type accelerations.
by bartholemew1 | 2026-01-30 13:17:31+00:00
Where was all the resistance when Obama was using ICE to deport more than Trump? Tom Homan was appointed by Obama. Where were all the rioters who felt emboldened to obstruct lawful operations that the majority of people voted for - operations who purpose is to enforce laws that have been present for decades but rarely or at least not uniformly enforced? This is an honest question. I truly struggle to understand.
by throwaw12 | 2026-01-30 13:17:45+00:00
I think Pump should happen in any new industry.

Pump == experimentation/innovation, different people look at it differently, so you get variety of interesting ideas.

Dump == natural consequence of over-supply, in this case whatever is not useful, we will drop.

But to invent/discover new things, new paradigms, we need that Pump.

1. Look at age of computers, we had so many different architectures and computer brands with own hardware, now mostly converged to a couple of architectures

2. Operating systems, at some point everyone was writing operating systems, now converged to primarily 3

3. Programming languages, not converged to small number of languages, but there were bunch of languages, same with Databases

4. Frontend frameworks, converged around React & Vue.

5. Search engines

6. Social networks

We need that Pump
by bluGill | 2026-01-30 13:17:46+00:00
The only people who write code like that have plenty of time to understand those questions - and why the correct answer is what it is is critically important to that line of code working correctly. The vast majority of us would never write a line like that - we let the compiler care about those details. the vast majority of the time 'just use vector' is the right answer that has zero real world exceptions.

but in the rare case you need code like that be glad C++ has you covered
by luma | 2026-01-30 13:18:19+00:00
The Blender project is the model I hope FreeCAD can eventually follow. Like digital animation, the 3D digital design field has a pretty rough selection of tools and the UI on all of them leaves a lot to be desired. FreeCAD has been on an upward trajectory in the past couple years as more people lean into the project out of frustration over increasingly hostile pricing from the commercial solutions. KiCAD has seen incredible advances since CERN started pouring resources into it, I'm sure Netflix money is going to help Blender. Now to get some large engineering shop to consider FreeCAD as their exit path to Siemens/et al...
by ezst | 2026-01-30 13:18:21+00:00
> intelligence. Human or LLM doesn't matter.

Being enthusiastic about a technology isn't incompatible with objective scrutiny. Throwing-up an ill-defined "intelligence" in the air certainly doesn't help with that.

Where I stand is where measured and fact-driven (aka. scientists) people do, operating with the knowledge (derived from practical evidence¹) that LLMs have no inherent ability to reason, while making a convincing illusion of it as long as the training data contains the answer.

> Sorry, but I just get the picture that you have no clue of what you're talking about- though most probably you're just in denial.

This isn't a rebuttal. So, what is it? An insult? Surely that won't help make your case stronger.

You call me clueless, but at least I don't have to live with the same cognitive dissonances as you, just to cite a few:

- "LLMs are intelligent, but when given a trivially impossible task, they happily make stuff up instead of using their `intelligence` to tell you it's impossible"

- "LLMs are intelligent because they can solve complex highly-specific tasks from their training data alone, but when provided with the algorithm extending their reach to generic answers, they are incapable of using their `intelligence` and the supplemented knowledge to generate new answers"

¹: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/new-apple-study-challenge...
by rizzo94 | 2026-01-30 13:18:30+00:00
I felt this firsthand while experimenting with Moltbot (Clawdbot). The power is impressive, but the configuration and security hardening took a huge amount of time, and I constantly felt like I was building on fragile assumptions.

During that process, I came across PAIO, and the contrast was interesting—especially the one-click integration and the BYOK architecture. Having privacy and credential control baked in from the start felt like a more practical approach for everyday users, not just engineers willing to maintain their own security stack.

It really highlights the broader point here: AI agents are powerful, but the foundations (security, trust, and architecture) matter just as much as the “new toys.”
by spacechild1 | 2026-01-30 13:18:40+00:00
> I presented it initially because this has been what people think:

Maybe in some MAGA podcast circles. This has never been more than pure speculation. Again, why did you present it as a fact?

Let's assume the gun went off. I'm sure the person holding that gun would have noticed that. Why wasn't this reported, especially as it would support their case? This just doesn't make any sense at all.

> The first shot is not "clearly seen" as far as I can tell.

It very much is. Did you even watch the video I've linked? It shows the very moment the first shot is being fired. Are seriously claiming it is not the agent who is firing that shot? Again, not even the DHS is disputing that the agent fired the first shot.

Stop making a fool out of yourself.
by alkonaut | 2026-01-30 13:18:53+00:00
> but in order for it to get to the latter, it requires much validation and training in an intermediate state, with appropriate safeguards.

I expect self-driving cars to be launched unsupervised on public roads in only an order-of-magnitude safer than human drivers shape. Or not launch at all.

One can pay thousands of people to babysit these cars with their hands on the wheel for many years until that threshold is reached, and if no one is ready to pay for that effort then we'll just drive ourselves until the end of time.
by johnfloyd2k9 | 2026-01-30 13:19:25+00:00
Most people overlook the 52 cm height, but after testing these, it’s clear they hit the ergonomic sweet spot for most UK frames. A quality bed side table shouldn't just look good; it needs that 40 cm depth to stay stable when you're reaching for an alarm at 6 AM. These Skova units use engineered wood that feels remarkably solid, avoiding that annoying wobble found in cheaper alternatives.
Show HN: A tiny React lib for avatar fallbacks
by frenchriera | 2026-01-30 13:19:37+00:00
Small open-source React component I made after getting tired of empty avatar placeholders in my apps / SaaS.

It generates a consistent avatar from a name and works well as a fallback when users don’t upload photos. No API calls.

It comes with a NextJS helper to generate the same avatar as PNG and use them in your emails / mobile apps.
by macshome | 2026-01-30 13:19:39+00:00
Back when I had cable internet we had a bizarre problem where the service would often stop working if it was very cold and raining. It had to be that specific combo as well.

- Just rain == good internet

- Just cold == good internet

- Cold + rain == bad internet

After a lot of head scratching the provider finally sent someone with a ladder to climb the poll. What they found was that the protective boot on the coax connection was bad. When it rained for a while water would seep into the coax connector. By itself this wasn’t too bad, but if it was also cold outside it would freeze. This would then force a gap between the threads of the socket and the cable, breaking the ground connection.

Previously, the connector had been replaced, but nobody had noticed the torn boot. This tech replaced both the connector and the boot and the problem was solved! It honestly was the best interaction with the cable company I have ever had. Only returning their hardware when switching to fiber felt almost as good.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-30 13:19:49+00:00
I'm gonna blow your mind a bit here, but this isn't just the fault of the people making the software, it's also the fault of the vast majority of the people here and on the internet in general. Quality doesn't get your attention.

The truth is building a project is like a lottery ticket, and there's hard diminishing returns on time invested in quality in terms of payoff. If I told you you could spend 10x more time for a 2x increase in probability of success, if you were trying to make a living from your creativity, you would be stupid to spend the extra time, it's a horrible investment.

The people spamming half baked projects that they quickly abandon if they don't get traction are being rational. People like me that grind on unsexy process bottlenecks and try to keep refining into something really nice are the irrational ones.
by rpozarickij | 2026-01-30 13:20:17+00:00
I've been doing this for a very long time but I use rolled oats and plain water (I drain the water completely before eating).
I eat soaked oats every day and always have a fresh bowl or two soaking in the fridge. They are still fine to eat even if they've been soaking for more than 24h.

I like the fact that they are more concentrated in terms of calories/nutrients per 100g than cooked oats and also provide steadier energy. I often pair them with a protein drink (pea protein + rice protein), a drizzle of avocado/olive oil, and berries. Takes just a few minutes to prepare.
by Ntrails | 2026-01-30 13:20:26+00:00
> cacophony of notifications, emails, texts and phone calls

This is not true for me at least. All group chats are default muted. I rarely get phone calls and maybe a handful people text me on a given day. My email is actively curated, almost no business has perms to email me and standard outlook spam filters seem to work well enough.

I don't think any other apps have perms to make notifications. None of it is important.

> I've spent hours and hours unsubscribing, deleting, uninstalling, toggling settings, but then I find myself reinstalling, resubscribing

why do you find yourself re-connecting to the notification spam? The real root of your problem is there, not anywhere else.
by incomingpain | 2026-01-30 13:20:45+00:00
Last 2 reported quarters have 3.8% and 4.4% gdp growth.

Next report is end of february. So it's minimum 4 months away at earliest.

Stock markets are at 10 year peaks.

Unemployment is a little bit high at 4.5%.

Inflation is a little bit high at 2.7%

US government debt is very high at 125%

PMIs are strong across the board.

Also in context, trillions in declared new investments in the usa. Probably trillions more in undeclared new investment trying to avoid tariffs.

No competitor possible on reserve currency status, Euro in about 2013 was looking like hot stuff but they regulated themselves out of it.

So I consider, the crash probability of the US economy is certainly not going to be happening.
by piva00 | 2026-01-30 13:20:49+00:00
> In Europe, people hold cash at negative interest rates because they have so few new ideas and so little innovation to invest in. Where exactly do you think the money will go?

That's a bit reductive, in Europe there's a much bigger culture of saving, most people I know here are very averse on taking debt if unnecessary, only going into debt for large purchases like a house or a car. Even for cars I see many outright purchasing a used one in cash instead of going into financing/leasing.

People hold cash but also invest, it's savings in general that are high, varying between 10-25% of yearly income saved (compared to the US's ~5%).

I think this narrative of "so little innovation" is peddled very much in the software-adjacent circles but it forgets that innovation is not only from software, if you really think Europe has no innovation you are either ignorant or purposefully fostering a bad narrative. No, Europe doesn't have the VC industry, and the software companies' culture of the USA, it does innovate with a different model.

> If you insist on believing the US economy will crash without a well thought out thesis, I think that’s a beautiful thing. When you sell your positions on US companies, I’ll gladly be on the BUY side of that order.

Please do, as I've been cashing out throughout this year anything that has any direct exposure to the USA stock market I need people like you on the other side, thank you very much.
by suralind | 2026-01-30 13:20:52+00:00
I think you are correct in your assessment. Both are important. If you're gonna have garbage code tests, you're gonna have garbage quality.

I find tests easier to write. Your function(s) may be hundred lines long, but the test is usually setup, run, assert.

I don't have much experience beyond writing unit/integration tests, but individual test cases seem to be simpler than the code they test (linear, no branches).
by throw0101c | 2026-01-30 13:21:16+00:00
Bio (he's worked in government before):

> During and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Warsh acted as the central bank's primary liaison to Wall Street[5] and served as the Federal Reserve's representative to the Group of Twenty (G20) and as the Board's emissary to the emerging and advanced economies in Asia. Prior, he served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Executive Secretary of the White House National Economic Council.

[…]

> Warsh has been reported as a leading candidate for high-ranking economic positions in the U.S. government, including Secretary of the Treasury.[9] In June 2025 Warsh was reported as a leading candidate, along with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, to be nominated to succeed Jerome Powell as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.[10] President Trump, when asked directly about Warsh's prospective nomination, said "He's very highly thought of."[11] CNBC analysed that Warsh nomination would be welcomed by markets because of his past Fed experience and Wall Street’s view that he wouldn’t always do Trump’s bidding.[4]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Warsh
by db48x | 2026-01-30 13:21:37+00:00
Makes sense to me. County Sheriffs are elected by the residents of the county that they will serve. If you get a bad one then it’s your own fault for choosing poorly.

Anyway, not all states elect their sheriffs, or even have sheriffs at all. States that appoint their sheriffs don’t appear to have a noticeably lower level of incompetents.