MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-10 16:16:47+00:00
You’re welcome to your own opinions but some of your arguments here are trivial to debunk.

Literally the first article on the BBC News homepage is an about Iran with accounts from doctors and others critical of the regime.

This is the exact opposite of what you claimed we’d find.

My recommendation here is: if your research is this sloppy for your most trivial to check argument, then maybe you should spend a little time reviewing your other assumptions and whether you believe them out of faith or through research.
by hn8726 | 2026-01-10 16:16:51+00:00
> The Ford Ranger actually sells better in Europe than it does in the US. And the larger F series trucks sell more than an order of magnitude more.

Do you have any sources for this? I looked online and found a couple of charts, none of them support this claim. The Ford Ranger sales in Europe vs US are similar (who buys more varies by year) but the F series seems to be mostly bought in US
by dahart | 2026-01-10 16:17:42+00:00
Okay, but only if this is balanced by accounting for the cost of IC engineers’ solo time too. Sometimes it does feel like meetings waste a lot of time/money quickly, but I’ve also watched people burn money by not having meetings and going the wrong direction for weeks, watched teams over-engineer the crap out of features nobody asked for, watched people tear out huge swaths of working code they just didn’t like and waste years re-implementing it, only to have it be buggier for a few years and then end up with basic design flaws, sometimes the same ones as before, and sometimes new ones…

A blanket force to reduce meetings isn’t quite the right incentive; we need incentives to have the right amount of meetings and to make them more effective. The right amount of meetings is probably always going to be more than ICs want, and less than managers want. But if you have any reliable ways to make that happen, to keep meetings effective, that’s gold. Charge money for that knowledge and consult, or become a CEO, either way you’ll get rich!
by graemep | 2026-01-10 16:18:12+00:00
> to become some sort of Venezuela of the north

if it becomes US territory would it not be more like be more like Alaska than Venezuela?

> full rights as EU citizens and local autonomy to decide who gets the mining concessions

There is no such thing as an EU citizen - people are citizens of EU states. Would an independent Greenland join the EU? Would it join NATO? I can see advantages for a small (in population) country with rich national resources playing the big powers against each other.

Indigenous Greenlanders have also been treated pretty badly by Denmark, even very recently, not just a long time ago when it was a colony:

https://www.arctictoday.com/a-view-from-greenland-about-forc...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yelp5466no
by layer8 | 2026-01-10 16:18:54+00:00
These PDFs apparently used the “incremental update” feature of PDF, where edits to the document are merely appended to the original file.

It’s easy to extract the earlier versions, for example with a plain text editor. Just search for lines starting with “%%EOF”, and truncate the file after that line. Voila, the resulting file is the respective earlier PDF version.

(One exception is the first %%EOF in a so-called linearized PDF, which marks a pseudo-revision that is only there for technical reasons and isn’t a valid PDF file by itself.)
Show HN: 100000 backlinks in under 7 days to accelerate early growth
by HansP958 | 2026-01-10 16:19:29+00:00
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by dasil003 | 2026-01-10 16:19:41+00:00
No that’s not really how it works in tech at all. There’s a deep recognition that individual engineers (and other functional practitioners) have important knowledge and expertise that is essential. Of course you do need some overlap and redundancy so that people can take sick days and avoid the wheels falling off through attrition, but competent shops aren’t ever treating people as numbers. To the contrary good ICs are widely recognized as being much less full-of-shit then management.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-10 16:19:50+00:00
For context, The Guardian reports[1]:

Inuit people are understood to have lived in Greenland since as early as 2,500BC and it was reached by Norse seafarers in the first millennium AD, who established settlements lasting several centuries. Modern colonisation began after the arrival of Hans Egede in 1721, acting with the support of what was then Denmark-Norway. During the second world war, when Denmark was occupied by Germany, Greenland was occupied by the US and was returned to Denmark in 1945.

It became part of the kingdom of Denmark in 1953, and in 1979 home rule was introduced. But Denmark still controls Greenland’s foreign and security policy. It has its own parliament, Inatsisartut, and two MPs in the Danish parliament, Folketing. But calls for independence have been growing.

Tensions have escalated significantly between Greenland and Denmark in recent years. There is intense anger in Greenland over investigations into the forced contraceptive (IUD) scandal of the 1960s and 70s, prompting the former Greenlandic prime minister to accuse Denmark of genocide. There have also been protests in Copenhagen and Nuuk over the separation of Greenlandic children from their parents.
Denmark has banned the use of highly controversial “parenting competency” tests on Greenlandic people that have resulted in Greenlandic mothers being separated from their children. In September, after years of failing to acknowledge the violations, Denmark officially apologised to the victims of the IUD scandal, in which thousands of Greenlandic women and girls were forcibly fitted with contraceptive coils without their knowledge or consent. And in December, victims won a legal fight with the Danish government to receive compensation.

In recent years there has been growing support for Greenlandic independence. But amid the spectre of Trump’s threat, Greenland in March formed a new four-party coalition government in a show of national unity, with the first page of the coalition agreement stating: “Greenland belongs to us.” The pro-independence party, Naleraq, which is the most US- and Trump-friendly party, came second in the election and is now in opposition.
According to a 2009 agreement with Denmark, Greenland must hold a successful referendum before declaring independence.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/06/why-is-donald-...
by LarsKrimi | 2026-01-10 16:19:56+00:00
- The only way minerals there will be mined profitably is by someone strongarming and displacing any local population, disregarding all environmental protection rules and destroying large swathes of land

- They either mine the minerals responsibly or ask their king to take over the country so they can mine irresponsibly

- Bribery to vote for independence and subsequent joining with the US is the only legal way that Greenland will become part of the US. It would have to be accepted by the Kingdom of Denmark

- Depends on whether it is done legally or with force. If done with force NATO would go under pretty fast. If done with bribery NATO is probably done anyway just way further out.
by arter45 | 2026-01-10 16:20:24+00:00
Continents are messy, because landmass on Earth is messy, it's contiguous where it looks like it isn't and so on.

A more surprising thing (at least IMHO) is that different countries have different definitions of... mountains.

I'm not a geologist but if we can trust Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain):

- in the UK mountains are at least 2,000 feet high

- according to a UN program, mountain environments include places with "Elevation between 300 and 1,000 m (984 and 3,281 ft), with a 300 m (984 ft) elevation range within 7 km (4.3 mi)"

- according to the US Geographical Survey (USGS), there is no official definition of mountain
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-10 16:20:30+00:00
Yeah, I think what Workaccount2 is not realizing is that there's no bottom to "you have higher risk factors, why should I pay for you?", and so once you start down that way you may not like where it ends up. Some hobbies have higher injury rates, why should I pay for your health care if you choose to play those? Some parts of the country have lower life expectancies, why should I pay for your health care if you choose to live there?
Show HN: The OASI 6 Engineering Structural Abundance via SMR and Modular
by umbertopenna | 2026-01-10 16:20:49+00:00
The current global economic model is a "bug," not a feature. It relies on planned obsolescence, energy dependency, and the monetization of basic survival. We are announcing Project OASI 6, a decentralized hardware-software stack designed to make the current consumerist system obsolete.

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We are not looking for donors. We are looking for Architects of the Singularity. The hardware exists. The logic is closed. The future is modular.

Join the secession from scarcity.
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by arboles | 2026-01-10 16:21:10+00:00
So you can type *word* without it becoming bold? So an article can contain: "The logs come to about ~300 lines once you start the server with ~systemctl start fnord~"

The `code` equivalent in Org is ~code~. How do you type that without the Org highlighting removing the ~ from "~300 lines", thinking that the code snippet begins there? This is an example I got from grepping my org files for U+200B.
by ghusbands | 2026-01-10 16:22:31+00:00
I would probably see text quality issues on that setup. It depends on how far away the monitor is. PPI on phone screens tends to be much higher than PPI on laptops which tends to be higher than PPI on monitors, because each is typically used at a different distance.

If you're not using text around 9 pixels tall, as in the article, you're probably going to be okay. On a 27 inch screen at a typical office screen distance, I'd probably want 6k, but 4k is pretty good and 1080p is terrible.
by palata | 2026-01-10 16:22:35+00:00
> you end up with people who think you are simply attacking the EU

That's not what I think. But you obviously lack the level of empathy you would need to accept that I may think differently. I accept that you think the way you think: you benefit from it as a business owner.

> Instead of using this opportunity to ask the questions

Yeah, because you are so superior to everybody else that people should ask you question, and their opinions are not worth your time.

"I am the best, I am so frustrated that so many people don't recognise it".
by therobots927 | 2026-01-10 16:22:45+00:00
That’s why slavery “no longer exists in the US” (up for debate). That’s not what makes it morally unacceptable. Force doesn’t determine morality. It determines what happens. Your statement amounts to a tautology: “whatever happens is what happens”

And by the way, that’s not even the whole story. The civil rights movement succeeded without force or violence for the most part. So your whole framework is pretty flimsy I think.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-10 16:22:55+00:00
One of the advantages of "going with the flow" when you can is that you benefit from numbers. You're a market of one, but by "going with the flow" the total market is huge.

Even if for me personally 185V mains power would be better, I can't buy gear for 185V, none of the electricians around here know how to work with it, the cables and sockets and everything else are defined around the prevailing systems at 220-250V here.

Maybe in my kitchen a 520mm dishwasher would be great, but alas dishwashers you can buy here are 600mm or 450mm ("slimeline") models, so 520mm isn't available.

With my poor hearing 14-bit PCM would be absolutely fine, but Sony's "Compact Disc" used 16-bit so that's what everybody uses and records by default.

If you work with Markdown, there are a lot of existing tools which are ready to use. There are tools for Org Mode, but maybe not as many.

There's definitely a sliding scale here. Refusing to use Twitter because it's full of Nazis is very different from refusing to conform to society's expectation that you wear clothes outside for example. There are people willing to spend most of their lives in jail because they refuse to wear clothes but almost all of us don't think that's a principle we care about enough to prioritise (also some of us get cold).
by wernsey | 2026-01-10 16:22:58+00:00
I've taken to using Markdeep [1] for this.

You write your markdown file, but add the code snippet at the bottom of yor document and save it with a .md.html extension. Then when you double-click it it opens and renders in your browser.

I save my notes in a Google Drive, and it's now replaced all the note taking apps I've tried over the years

[1] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
by tanjtanjtanj | 2026-01-10 16:23:12+00:00
Just as an anecdote - When I was buying my last car I went in and asked for just the base model with nothing added onto it, ie not even the "eXtra Special" designations, and the dealership said they probably won't have any for a long time and if I'd like to pay 50% more for one with some features added on.

I declined and kept looking at the inventory of the 4-5 dealerships nearest to me. For six months they never had a single base model.

I started looking at another maker and they seemed to have base models that just wouldn't sell, stuck on lots for that same time period.
by siltcakes | 2026-01-10 16:24:32+00:00
Yeah, Germans have no business in Palestine. As you know, that quote was from a traitorous radical:

> As a member of the As-Sa'iqa faction, Mohsen followed the line of Ba'athist ideology, which interpreted the question of Palestine through a pan-nationalist sense which contradicted the PLO's official stance and charter that affirmed the independent existence of Palestinian Arabs as a nation which belongs to a single democratic state that consists of all of former Mandatory Palestine.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-10 16:25:15+00:00
>ICs tend to stick around and over run meetings, while managers tend to leave meetings on time.

That makes 200% sense. A couple or more ICs tend to want to stick around to go off topic or drill down on some thing if they don't have a conflict. People who aren't expressly relevant to that or have a conflict drop at that time.

You're basically seeing the post-meeting hall conversation of the ICs in your data.
by beckford | 2026-01-10 16:25:32+00:00
If you were looking at the parse link in the author's comment, you were looking at a spec (called a module interface in OCaml/OxCaml, similar to an interface in Java). The parse implementation is at https://github.com/avsm/httpz/blob/240051dd5f00281b09984a14a...

That said, I would be happy if all I needed to type in was a spec.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-10 16:25:38+00:00
I said this in jest as a reaction to what post-tax SWE salaries in Europe top out at, all while the same companies have no problem burning insane money on vendors. There is zero incentive to do good work as an employee as it won't be compensated anywhere near what even a shoddy vendor gets paid.

But given the rise of many SaaSes selling exactly the same thing every full-stack web framework used to provide for free - think Auth0, Okta, etc, it may very well be happening.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-10 16:26:59+00:00
My experience tells me it is an expectation problem coupled against missing standards/baselines.

Most employers need a person in the seat doing the work and will lower their preferences to find enough candidates for a selection. Government does not do that. If candidates fail to meet the requirements for a government contract the seat just remains empty.

Consider how engineering works. An engineers resume will just list employment history, education, and awards. There is no need to fluff things up because engineers are required to have a license(s) and that demonstrates qualification. Software does not have that, so people have to explain their capabilities over and over.
by therobots927 | 2026-01-10 16:27:48+00:00
One first step, is to ask the PD if they have the “national search” functionality enabled. As far as I can tell it’s a binary switch that allows data to be shared with other PDs in cooperation with ICE. I think it’s turned on by default and many PDs simply aren’t aware of exactly what it is.

See Denver for example: https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/08/06/immigration-denver-f...

This is low hanging fruit and if you can get them to shut that off it’s a quick win. Mine had already shut it off. Denver turned it off after above news story got traction.
by vegavis | 2026-01-10 16:28:09+00:00
With all due respect, you're trusting LLMs to a delusional level... they love talking about "smoking guns", that part made me laugh. Like another user said, sounds like its admitting the issue is in the shell anyways. They dont have intimate documentation knowledge of everything, use it more as a launch pad to test ideas and better shape your understanding of a subject knowing that it gets things wrong alot.

Watching the zombifying effects of AI "think" for others in real time is depressing.
by ls612 | 2026-01-10 16:28:22+00:00
“Better at preventing” \neq “can’t”. The hoopla you are seeing here is textbook selective enforcement. There’s also the kafkatrap of showing that a model can do this makes you technically criminally liable for possession of CSAM, which I’m sure will be enforced against the journalists who demonstrated it as rigorously as they want it to be enforced against Twitter.
by hearsathought | 2026-01-10 16:28:23+00:00
> It seems the issue boils down to what the Greenlanders want

It's never been about what greenlanders want. It's why greenland was a colony for hundreds of years. It's why the argument over Greenland is between the US and Denmark/EU without much involvement from greenlanders. The US has been trying to buy Greenland from Denmark since we bought Alaska from the russians ( not the native alaskans ).

> local autonomy to decide who gets the mining concessions, under competitive terms open to all countries that maximize their profits, which stay in their hands.

In an ideal world sure. But we don't live in an ideal world. The US is not going allow the EU, Russia and most importantly China or anybody else to set up a significance presence in greenland.

Greenland is US territory in everything but name. Trump is just formalizing it and letting the international community come to terms with it.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-10 16:29:08+00:00
But that's the point. The map is based on the Dark Sky algorithm and only goes out an hour or so. And that's where the next-hour precipitation graph comes from -- and I've never seen them not match. Everything else is standard weather forecasts. Dark Sky itself worked the same way. It wasn't making 6-hour forecasts using its 1-hour algorithm. The results would have been terrible.

This is why I don't understand the complaints that iOS precipitation accuracy is worse than Dark Sky's. The map works the same way. The chart works the same way. Complaints about UX I get. But not the complaints about a supposed fall in precipitation accuracy.

I get that it's a common trope that products always supposedly get worse once they're bought. But in this case, in terms of accuracy, I just don't think it's true. And remember, Apple would have zero reason to worsen the quality. The whole point of buying it was to improve iOS weather. Which it did.
by vvsvish | 2026-01-10 16:29:41+00:00
Last time you tried to get rid of a sofa, wardrobe, or bed on Facebook Marketplace or classifieds like Craigslist: how many messages, how many “I’m on my way”, how many no-shows?
I am researching to understand why second-hand bulky furniture is chaotic - both for sellers and buyers. I am only looking for real experiences from the last 24 months:

Seller (giving away / selling / donating):

A large furniture item (e.g., sofa, bed, wardrobe, table, dresser)
ideally under a deadline (move-out, clearance, renovation, new tenant)
used: Facebook Marketplace / classifieds / neighborhood groups / flea market / second-hand shop
(or paid for removal/pickup)

Buyer (buying / picking up for free):

bought or picked up a large furniture item second-hand (or for free)
used: Facebook Marketplace / classifieds / second-hand channels

I would love to have conversations and understand things, but if you prefer a more formal anonymous survey, I have included a link as well.

Thank you in advance for the responses.
by drob518 | 2026-01-10 16:29:49+00:00
I don’t like using “-“ for bullets and “*” for headings. I do love underlines for underlined text, slash for italics, and asterisks for bold. Other than that, po-tay-to, po-tah-to. Let’s all just pick one and use it consistently. I do agree with the argument that says “Markdown” is meaningless and you’re always forced to ask “What do you mean by that? Which flavor, exactly?” But that happens with anything “lightweight” as it is inevitably extended to deal with more complex demands and becomes more heavyweight in the process.
by ttoinou | 2026-01-10 16:29:51+00:00
Right now french people are obsessed with ecology and egalitarianism. Those who don't are not well seen in society, or left the country already.

So the best thing I'd see them excelling at in this century, if they can drive their ideology in the right direction, would be producing low-tech solutions solving 90% of problems with 20% of the costs, with open-source like tools / materials / methods everyone can replicate easily. A bit like this article about this old car.