MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palmotea | 2026-01-27 15:33:59+00:00
> Case-in-point of why we shouldn't have approached China like we did over the last few decades. It normalized totalitarianism in some segments of Western society.

An interesting thought I read a couple days ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/trump-carney-chin...:

> Finally, and most controversially, I suspect the same “if not America, then China” logic applies to political ordering as well. The United States under Trumpian conditions has allowed populism to come to power, bringing chaos and authoritarian behavior in its train. Recoil from that by all means — but recognize that it happened through democratic mechanisms, under freewheeling political conditions.

> Meanwhile, the modes through which Europe and Canada have sought to suppress populism involve harsh restrictions on speech, elite collusion and other expression of managerial illiberalism. And what is China’s dictatorship if not managerial illiberalism in full flower? When European elites talk about China as a potentially more stable partner than the whipsawing United States, when they talk admiringly about its environmental goals and technocratic capacity, they aren’t defending a liberal alternative to Trumpian populism. They are letting the magnet of Chinese power draw them away from their own democratic traditions.
by Cyph0n | 2026-01-27 15:34:14+00:00
It’s January. My bad for not being as infallible as you are.

That’s not what Romney said. His - and the wider establishment’s - concern is that unsanctioned content is allowed to be treated the same as any other content.

Anyone knows that TikTok simply tailors your feed to your interests & interactions. But even this is not acceptable when it comes to topics the establishment doesn’t want disseminated.

And if they had undeniable proof that TikTok was boosting/manipulating such content, why haven’t they revealed it now that TikTok US is under US control?

But it’s okay to not be concerned. Just don’t come crying when the book burning starts.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-27 15:34:19+00:00
I've only transited through Heathrow, I haven't tried the driving experience there. I have tried it in various other airports in Europe and China. None of them charged money to drive up to the terminal either and they were all fine too.

Sometimes the American experience isn't different from the rest of the world and it's your experience that's unusual, you know.
by jandrese | 2026-01-27 15:34:28+00:00
When I was kid long before TSA was even a thing my family flew up to visit the grandparents. My mom had us pack our own bags with some of our favorite toys. My brother decided to bring his Megatron, but sadly left it out of Robot mode. It was quite a scene at the X-Ray when every single agent in the area came running with guns drawn at once.
by bronco21016 | 2026-01-27 15:34:36+00:00
I’ve been working on adapting Claude Code to do some repetitive “personal assistant” type tasks so I was really excited to try this tool.

One of my tasks is a skill that fetches my calendar via MCP and slots events into a JSON to be used for an OR-Tools constraint optimizer that finds a workable schedule for something. It then uploads those events to the calendar using MCP when I choose my favorite candidate solution.

I checked token usage for this task last time I ran it. It would’ve cost $29 in API usage with Opus 4.5.

So yea, you’re absolutely right that this stuff isn’t going to go mainstream at these rates.
by ltbarcly3 | 2026-01-27 15:34:48+00:00
It's interesting because presumably you were too ashamed to tell the doctor "we pasted stuff into chatgpt and it said it means she is sick", because if you had said that he would have looked at the bloodwork and you could have avoided going to a specialist.

It's an interesting cognitive dissonance that you both trusted it enough to go to a specialist but not enough to admit using it.
by asveikau | 2026-01-27 15:35:18+00:00
I'm not citing Chomsky with a claim that he's unassailable, just that it's a very old complaint. I also think he was right about a bunch of stuff, and wrong on others.

As for what he suggested, this is reminding me that I never read his work On anarchism. I heard him speak favorably about the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. I also found that topic very interesting when I was getting a Spanish minor many years ago at college. I am sure many HN commenters will disagree that it's something to emulate.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-27 15:35:49+00:00
I predict a future showdown over Section 230 because "algorithms" are used to cheat on the safe harbor protections. Let me explain.

The general principle of Section 230 is that a platform provider isn't generally liable for user generated content. This was a key piece of legislation that enabled forums, Reddit and ultimately social media. The platform provider does have responsibilities like moderating illegal content and responding to legal takedowns, etc.

Alternatively if you produce and publish your own content you are legally liable. You can be sued for defamation, etc in a way that you can't if you simply host user generated content (unless you fail to adequately moderate).

REcommendation algorithms (including news feeds) effectively allow a platform provider to select what content gets distributed and what doesn't. All algorithms express biases and goals of humans who create those algorithms. It's not a black box. It is a reflection of the company's goals.

So if you wanted to produce content that's, for example, only flattering to the administration even if you outright lie, you can be sued. But what if your users produce any content you want but you only distribute content that is favorable to the administration? At the same time, you suppress anti-administration content and content creators. It's the same end result but the latter has Section 230 protections. And it really shouldn't.

This isn't hypothetical. The Biden administration revived the dead Trump 1 Tiktok ban to suppress anti-Israel content [1][2][3].

What I find most funny about all this is that the American administration--both parties--are doing the exact thing they accuse China is possibly doing in the future.

[1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/10/tiktok-faces-renew...

[2]: https://www.internetgovernance.org/2024/03/18/yes-its-a-ban-...

[3]: https://x.com/snarwani/status/1725138601996853424
by hurricanepootis | 2026-01-27 15:35:53+00:00
Wayland supports HDR, it's very easy to configure VRR, and it's fractional scaling (if implemented properly) is far superior to anything X11 can offer.

Furthermore, all of these options can be enabled individually on multiple screens on the same system and still offer a good mix-used environment. As someone who has been using HiDPI displays on Linux for the past 7 years, wayland was such a game changer for how my system works.
by vishaal_007 | 2026-01-27 15:35:58+00:00
In practice, event-driven starts to feel like overkill when requests are short-lived and failures are cheap. If a call is fast, idempotent, and the user isn’t waiting on partial output, a simple sync request is usually the clearest solution.

Queue-based async still works well for batch jobs, offline processing, or anything where latency and ordering aren’t user-visible. The event-driven approach mainly pays off once you have long-lived or interactive requests where failures can happen mid-response and you care about what the user actually sees.
by mekdoonggi | 2026-01-27 15:36:25+00:00
"Why would anyone be opposed to deporting criminals" is verbatim what I've read from conservative commenters.

That isn't the issue being discussed. This is illustrating that armed, masked goons as a political weapon is a pandora's box that will get turned against everyone, regardless of status. Some people just don't care about the violence in Minnesota because it isn't happening to them.
by akarshc | 2026-01-27 15:36:30+00:00
This is one of the harder problems, and there isn’t a perfect answer.

The main thing we try to avoid is pretending mid-stream retries are the same as pre-request retries. Once a stream has started, we treat it as a sequence of events with checkpoints rather than a single opaque response. Retries are scoped to known safe boundaries, and anything ambiguous is surfaced explicitly instead of silently re-emitting tokens.

In other words, correctness is prioritized over pretending the stream is seamless. If we can’t guarantee no duplication, we make that visible rather than hide it.
by CMay | 2026-01-27 15:36:37+00:00
The CIA is definitely operating in Iran. Nobody reasonable will deny that. Mossad is too, guaranteed. How inflated their numbers are, I don't know, but even just the confirmed numbers of dead both officially and unofficially are too high.

At this point they need to split the country so people who want to live differently can do so. Maybe that would prevent needing to bomb the Iranian government into oblivion.
by RationPhantoms | 2026-01-27 15:36:41+00:00
That has been a thing prior to the rise of LLMs. Tech-bros with their "astonished" faces look with the sub-title of "You need to learn kubernetes, docker, swarm!" etc.

It's just par for the course in our attention economy. Like another poster had said, quite a bit of this is just simple experimentation that occurs.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-27 15:37:11+00:00
> Can the compositor replicate the input-to-pixel latency of uncomposited x11 on low-end devices or is that a class of performance we just have to sacrifice for the frame-perfect rendering of wayland?

well, the answer is just no, wayland has been consistently slower than X11 and nothing running on top can't really go around that
by xracy | 2026-01-27 15:38:59+00:00
> why bring up any other industry when this is the vc playbook

Because my point is how messed up the VC incentive structure for tech is. This is proved by comparing it to every other industry.

> Yes, they do actually. I'm not sure why you think those links are talking about investments when they very clearly are about revenue.

They are using the word "revenue", but can you be certain that the word means "revenue from product sales"? Or does it just mean "revenue from investment".

A couple of the articles specifically mentioned the series A rounds as part of "revenue generation". And my whole point was that investors celebrating how much faster they're investing in AI startups is a classic "begging the question" type fallacy. They are measuring themselves on how much money they are investing in startups, and then saying that is proof that the startups are valuable.
by akshivb | 2026-01-27 15:39:03+00:00
I had a "below average" VO2 max score based on my Apple Watch measurements. It was ~40 mL/kg/min, in the span of about a month it jumped up to 53 mL/kg/min, which is "high" for my age group. So what happened? I started running instead of cycling as my primary form of cardio.

My hypothesis is that the apple watch estimates higher if you are running rather than pedaling. I definitely don't think my cardio vascular went from poor to great over a month. It seems more likely that it was maybe underestimating, and perhaps now is overestimating.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-27 15:39:07+00:00
>internal "purity purges"

"Hey France, I know all of a sudden Germany is suddenly running around with black white and red flag, but it's completely cool if we have them manage all of our critical infrastructure". --carlosjobim 1937

I'm in the US. I'm watching what's going on here. If you want to talk about any group doing purity purges, they have ICE printed in big letters on their jackets.

Of course feel free to pull an IBM in the 40's and stick with the regime, it evidently has no long term business repercussions.
by pembrook | 2026-01-27 15:39:17+00:00
I really wish this existed so that HN could go back to being a tech community of nerds and builders. Somehow HN has become overrun with more and more urban monoculture euro-fetishists and actual Europeans in the last few years. I haven't seen a headline mentioning Rust or Lisp in days! That's how you know things have really gone downhill.

European HN could focus on its favorite topics of privacy paranoia, "what regulation can we make next?" and tech safetyism, while maybe real HN could go back to Bay Area tech esotericism and fun historical anecdotes.
by ghaff | 2026-01-27 15:40:08+00:00
A lot of people (here and elsewhere) don't get how many people are just terrified of flying. I was on a flight many years ago (on admittedly a pretty rough transatlantic flight) when the woman next to me was basically in tears and grabbing my arm.

Personally, I don't love being bounced around in a plane but I'm reasonably confident that wings aren't coming off the Boeing jet--whatever the company's other faults.

I'm certainly a lot more nervous driving in a snowstorm or on a twisty mountain road.
Show HN: Ad-Preflight – A CLI to Validate HTML5 Ads (Google/DV360 Compliance)
by volkina | 2026-01-27 15:40:10+00:00
Hey HN, I built a CLI tool that automates compliance checks locally before you ship.

What it does:

- Validates ClickTag syntax and structure.
- Enforces file size limits and asset checks (magic numbers).
- AI-Native: Includes a built-in MCP server, allowing AI agents like Cursor to run validations directly in your workflow.

The core CLI is free on NPM: npm i -g @ad-preflight/cli

Feedback on the MCP integration is welcome.
by pvab3 | 2026-01-27 15:40:11+00:00
I've had Bose 700s, Sennheisers, Anker Soundcore, and probably other bluetooth earbuds and none of them come close to the simplicity of the Airpods. The Bluetooth handoff and pairing is insanely easy and works within a second or two. I've never once had to go to Bluetooth settings to force it to pair.
by simonw | 2026-01-27 15:40:19+00:00
I got that from the https://chatgpt.com/ web app - I just tried the same prompt in the ChatGPT iPhone app and got the gmail. and gcal. ones too: https://chatgpt.com/share/6978dc20-8a70-8006-9b42-6c0a8080be...

Looks like it's for this feature: https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-5-openai-gmail-calendar

Presumably you have to opt-in to turning this on somewhere.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-27 15:40:26+00:00
And Donald Trump and republicans in general already want to murderfuck Iran and always have, and don't need or want my support to justify such an act, and already bombed Iran once this admin.

I don't support all that 100% but it's not like I have any advice on the matter. I certainly don't have better ideas of where to bomb Iran or how to help a populace 8000 miles away rise against their oppressors.
by bee_rider | 2026-01-27 15:40:30+00:00
Probably the RAG AIs of the future will use it to help generate their users’ software. The AIs themselves might as well use the simple conventionally posix-y stack that we’re all familiar with, because they won’t have any trouble remembering complex invocations. But I bet they also won’t need as deep a stack (why have framework on framework on frameworks if you are an AI and don’t mind boilerplate and tedium?), so they’ll need a source for what over-complicated code looks like.
by CivBase | 2026-01-27 15:40:54+00:00
I wonder if the Unix philosophy of small apps will eventually further the capabilities of AI in regards to app development. If these AI could be used contribute to a shared library of small apps, then maybe that library could be used to iteratively build more and more capable apps. Shoulders of giants and all that.

That would certainly be preferable to the flood of AI-fueled monoliths predicted by this author. But maybe I'm being too optimistic.
by marcosdumay | 2026-01-27 15:40:57+00:00
There's still no evidence that peroxide-based explosives are stable enough to be practical. And nobody every explained why the few liquid ones are so dangerous, but the solid ones get a pass when they are more stable.

It's a good thing that airport brought some machinery to apply the rule in a sane way. But it's still an insane rule, and if it wasn't the US insisting on it, the entire world would just laugh it off.
by ako | 2026-01-27 15:41:04+00:00
Looks like we just have different expectations: i don't want to micromanage my coding agents any more than i micromanage the developers i work with as a product manager. If the output does what it is supposed to do, and the software is maintainable and extendable by following certain best practices, i'm happy. And i expect that goes for most business people.

And in practice i have more control with a coding agent than with developers as i can iterate over ideas quickly: "build this idea", "no change this", "remove this and replace it with this". Within an hour you can quickly iterate an idea into something that works well. With developers this would have taken days if not more. And they would've complained i need to better prepare my requirements.
by ahmedgmurtaza | 2026-01-27 15:41:43+00:00
I kept losing time remembering and sharing long, messy URLs (GitHub, resumes, docs, dashboards, internal tools).

So I built linkin.one, a single short link where you can keep and share everything in one place.
No tracking tricks, no paywalls, 100% Free to use.

It’s early and intentionally minimal.

Would love honest feedback from HN folks: what’s useful, what’s missing, and what’s unnecessary.

https://linkin.one
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-27 15:42:07+00:00
There's nothing wrong with catching tax cheats as long as due process is followed and the person's rights are not infringed. However, selective enforcement can be used as a weapon - never investigate people "on your side" and always investigate "enemies" even if there's no evidence of fraud. Another way to weaponise enforcement is to have a law that is almost never prosecuted and rarely followed (e.g. only using bare hands to eat chicken in Gainesville, Georgia), so then a law enforcement officer can threaten to prosecute for it unless the victim complies.
by DaedalusII | 2026-01-27 15:42:28+00:00
i understand it from a neutral perspective.

building a simple business in south east asia is drastically easier. there are effectively no privacy laws, no class action lawsuits (a big US problem not EU), no gdpr, energy is cheaper, no punitive labour courts, much looser zoning laws. almost no restrictions on international trade, no withholding taxes, no major issues with transfer pricing, no capital gains taxes, relaxed packaging laws. of course, there are different challenges.

When you go from an open market to EU mode it is insanely stressful having to suddenly deal with these enormous regulatory regimes that simply dont exist anywhere else, and to figure out how to deal with them. this stress is an energy cost, which becomes a capital cost, which makes it much more difficult for small businesses to be created. I also find supranational regulatory regimes difficult to understand, unlike other parts of the world where each country has its own law and thats it. I think its generally a good thing for the people who live there though!

when i am driving around in ASEAN i don't look at my speed. in EU i am anxiously making sure i am 1km/h below the limit to avoid a fine in the mail.
Ask HN: Design partners wanted for a durable event log
by Aydarbek | 2026-01-27 15:42:37+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the author of a recent Show HN about a low-latency durable event log built directly on HTTP.

I’m looking for 2–3 design partners to validate real-world needs around durability, correctness, and operational simplicity. This is not a sales post, just early feedback on a working prototype and open-source code.

If this is relevant to your stack, I’d love to hear your perspective.

Thanks!
by threetonesun | 2026-01-27 15:42:45+00:00
Frequency isn't really an issue here. I don't care that much if someone steals my luggage. I'd be a little mad if someone took my bike, but I have redundant protection for it, along with other things of more importance, or I keep them on me.

But I'd really, really not like to find out someone was following me around.
by td2375671 | 2026-01-27 15:42:46+00:00
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by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-27 15:42:59+00:00
> I am pointing to a pattern that has become common online where disagreement quickly turns into coordinated pile-ons, identity assignment, and social signaling rather than substantive engagement with the argument itself.

It's easy to fall prey to the fallacy that disagreement with you means the disagreers are failing to engage substantively to the topic, and are simply "social signaling".

It's easy to dismiss many people disagreeing with you as a "coordinated pile on".

In my experience, thess accusations are usually a result of the "piled on"'s failure to understand and consider the others' perspective, and their unwillingness to change their mind.

Not to say that they must understand and consider others' perspectives, or that they must be willing to change their mind either! But engaging with a society means facing social pressure to conform with social norms. There's always not engaging with society in any meaningful way, as an option.
by 0134340 | 2026-01-27 15:43:19+00:00
>The data seem haphazardly distributed, and yet neighboring lines repel one another, lending a degree of regularity to their spacing

Wow, that kind of reminds me of the process of evolution in that it seems so random and chaotic at the most microscopic scales but at the macroscopic, you have what seems some semblance of order. The related graph also sprung to mind just how very like organisms repel (less tolerance to inbreeding) but at the same time species breed with like species and only sometimes stray from that directive. What is the pattern that underlies how organisms determine production or conflict with other organisms and can we find universality in it?

I guess it's called "universality" for a reason. I suppose if we look hard enough, we'll see it in more things. I read the article and I'm hoping some brilliant minds out there can dissect musical tastes in the same way. I'd love to see if it could relate to what we find harmonious in music and what we find desynchronous via different phase, frequency and amplitude properties.
by ykushch | 2026-01-27 15:43:22+00:00
I made a small CLI called ask that turns plain-English requests into shell commands using Ollama models running locally. It supports:

- One-shot mode: ask show disk usage sorted by size → du -sh * | sort -h
- Config via ASK_MODEL and OLLAMA_HOST

Install/uninstall are one-liners; install also pulls the default model (qwen2.5-coder:7b) and installs to ~/.local/bin. macOS/Linux.

Repo: https://github.com/ykushch/ask

Would love feedback on prompt quality, safety defaults, and UX.
by simonw | 2026-01-27 15:43:30+00:00
I used ffmpeg and yt-dlp to make an animated GIF of a kākāpō in her nest from a livestream on YouTube the other day. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/25/kakapo-cam/

Much as I love kākāpō there is no way I was going to invest more than a few minutes in figuring out how to do that.

I love this new world where I can "delegate my thinking" to a computer and get a GIF of a dumpy New Zealand flightless parrot where I would otherwise be unable to do so because I didn't have the time to figure it out.

(I published it as a looping MP4 because that was smaller than the GIF, another thing I didn't have to figure out how to do myself.)
by misiti3780 | 2026-01-27 15:43:43+00:00
Yes, OUR government does fund Iran. Read about the Iran Nuclear deal under Obama, we gave them billions, more than we have given Israel.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-united-states-iran-an...

https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-...