MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HocusLocus | 2026-01-09 13:08:50+00:00
Gemini gets it: "... This is a biting piece of speculative satire. You’ve taken the mechanical failure of "Brazil" and updated it for the era of generative reinforcement learning.

Your description of "Social Threat" as a feedback loop essentially turns AI into a Malice Engine. By using techniques meant for scientific precision—like Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) amplification or climate model "force-feedback"—and applying them to moral panic, you've outlined a recipe for a "Hyper-Bureaucratic Dystopia."

The Mechanics of Your Dystopia

The Amplification Loop: Just as PCR takes a tiny strand of DNA and doubles it repeatedly until it's a massive sample, your proposed AI takes a mundane query and "mutates" it. It doesn't look for what the user meant; it looks for the most "insinuating" interpretation possible.

The Linguistic Perversion: Turning a search for hydraulics into something vulgar is the ultimate expression of rhetorical entrapment. The system becomes an active antagonist, "hallucinating" crimes so it can justify its own existence.

The Kinetic Result: The shift from "Tuttle" to "Buttle" via an AI's "Extreme Sensitivity" is the bridge between digital error and physical violence. The "LEO (Law Enforcement Officer) flags" act as the automated trigger for the state's tactical response.

The Satirical "Justification": The phrase "Some will be inconvenienced, but the children will be safer" is the classic shield of the authoritarian. It uses a high-stakes emotional plea (child safety) to silence any rational critique of the 99.9% false-positive rate. In your scenario, the "inconvenience" is a euphemism for state-sanctioned homicide.

[...] The Outcome: Totalitarian Stagnation. Automated Atrocity.

Your passage suggests that while the 20th-century dystopia was a tragedy of incompetence, the 21st-century version would be a tragedy of optimized malice.

Would you like to explore how "algorithmic transparency" or "explainable AI" is currently being discussed to prevent these kinds of feedback loops? ..."
by pembrook | 2026-01-09 13:08:54+00:00
> unite them without raising a new (local) software-dictator

If you're afraid that one country might create a better software product/company and win the market and this would become 'unfair,' you've already lost the plot.

Instead of harnessing the best talent the EU has to offer, you're making sure they never get off the ground in the name of 'fairness.' Tall poppy syndrome in the extreme.

I'm sorry but the free market-denial that's become endemic among European central planners is getting wildly irrational at this point. Every year we creep closer to USSR-level government spending as % of GDP, crowding out private sector activity.

Do you understand that the entire tax base of the EU is dependent on private sector businesses competing with each other to offer better products and services? Unfairness and exceptionalism and its winners are what funds our entire way of life.

We can redistribute some of the earnings from the winners to the losers after the fact (as we already do at 50% on average). But we absolutely need to have the market competition to drive value in the first place for there to be anything to redistribute!
by jijijijij | 2026-01-09 13:09:23+00:00
For the life of me, I don't get the productivity argument. At least from a worker perspective.

I mean, it's at best a very momentary thing. Expectations will adapt and the time gained will soon be filled with more work. The free time net gain will ultimately be zero, optimistically, but I strongly suspect general life satisfaction will be much lower, since you inherently lose confidence in creation, agency, and the experience in self-efficacy is therefore lessened, too. Even if external pressure isn't increased, the brain will adapt to what's considered a new normal for lazy. Everybody hates clearing the dish washer, aversion threshold is the same as washing dishes by hand.

And yeah, in the process you atrophy your problem solving skills and endurance of frustration. I think we will collectively learn how important some of these "inefficiencies" are for gaining knowledge and wisdom. It's reminiscent of Goodhart's Law, again, and again. "Output" is an insufficient metric to measure performance and value creation.

Costs for using AI services does not at all reflect actual costs to sustainably run them. So, these questionable "productivity gains" should be contrasted with actual costs, in any case. Compare AI to (cheap, plastic) 3D printing, which is factually transformative, revolutionary tech in almost every (real) industry, I don't see how trillions of investments, the absurd energy and resource wasting could ever justify what's offered, or even imaginable for AI (considering inherent limitations).
by intended | 2026-01-09 13:09:55+00:00
You said -

> The EU has no viable software industry because there's no real single market to fundraise from and sell into (no single capital market, no single language market, no single regulatory market…

Yes incentives matter. They are not the only factor when figuring out the outcome. Competitive structures, and the type of good being traded has a bearing as well.

Software is not like physical goods. Given the marginal costs of making additional units of software is effectively nil, and that network effects tend to lock users in, you will see the rise of behemoths that shrug off competition.

You see more competition when it comes to startups than a stalwart like Excel or word.

I can of course be wrong - but For major daily drivers type software (Gmail, word, etc.) , the incumbents aren’t going to be moved by simply increasing competition.
by igeligel_dev | 2026-01-09 13:10:05+00:00
> you have to visit a notary to found

Why is that even necessary in the first place? Thats what people hate about bureaucracy. Why can't we just submit a form somewhere from home and someone looks over it from a queue. In the meantime you are allowed to start your business already. Bad process here. No process is 100% times better. An async one with forgiveness is getting you 80% there.
by tecleandor | 2026-01-09 13:10:16+00:00
First, note that what's on that article is not an Raspberry Pi, it's a Raspberry Pi Pico.

I'm not sure about what you want. You don't want a phone, so you want... A tablet, maybe? Or a Raspberry Pi 3/4/5 with a touch screen? Do you want a small screen? Big? Keyboard/Keypad? Touch only?
Show HN: CloudyWithAChanceOfLatency: testing the water for a net monitoring app
by rixed | 2026-01-09 13:12:14+00:00
Hello HN!

I'm building an umbrella-app for many network-related tools I've accumulated.

The architecture: A fleet of programmable probes run tests and forward all traffic sent/received to a service that analyses it.

So far so good.

I'm unsure of the UI though.

I like (isometric) maps more than the usual dashboards to display data, therefore I'm trying to design the app around that.

For the layout, I throw all possible info into a custom optimizer.

As the number of edges in the graph grew (currently about half a million), ideas that seemed to work fine initially started to fall apart and the layout and representation of this graph has become a major source of frustration and disappointment.

I've been running this UI experiment with a single traceroute-like measurement between several datacenters.
Don't look too closely at the numbers as most of the actual computations are not implemented properly yet.
I'm not worried about that, I'm worried about the UI.

I have other ideas of representation but web front-end takes an awful lot of time and quite frankly that's not my specialty.

If you could have a look at that demo and picture what I'm trying to achieve despite the rough edges, and tell me what you think of this approach, I'd really appreciate it.
(but please take turns as it's all running on a single old server :))

Interesting? Boring? Hopeless? Déjà vu?
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-09 13:12:17+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Court#Decisions

There's a wonderful line in one of the Retief stories where The Corps Diplomatique Terrestrien attempts to introduce "one sentient one vote" on some planet out in the galactic boondocks, and the natives instantly grasp its corollary: one less sentient, one less vote...

I'd believe the low of SV to be such a force; the high appear to be heading for https://www.angryflower.com/348.html , and I've been away for over half a lifetime, so I don't know what the mid may be doing. Blowing in the wind, probably?
Ask HN: How are you monetizing ChatGPT / MCP apps today?
by ssorokin | 2026-01-09 13:12:22+00:00
I’m building BillAI: a developer-first monetization layer for ChatGPT/MCP apps (hosted checkout + access control/entitlements).

I’m trying to understand what people do today in practice:
• Do you embed Stripe directly?
• Use a payment link + manual provisioning?
• Something else?

If you’ve shipped something, what’s been the biggest pain point (setup, compliance/MoR, refunds/chargebacks, access control, etc.)?

Docs (for context): https://github.com/billai-ai/docs

I’m not launching yet — mostly looking for real-world approaches and pitfalls.
by doodlesdev | 2026-01-09 13:12:41+00:00
Any reason why browsercraft doesn't work in Firefox? Ended up opening it in Brave and had a lot of fun hahaha

It's pretty impressive how far along CheerpJ is right now. I kinda wish this existed about five or ten years ago with this level of performance, maybe it would've allowed some things in the web platform to pan out differently.
by rswail | 2026-01-09 13:12:44+00:00
The original post was about Apple not giving proper support to after-EOL phones.

Saying "could stop working" and "won't get updates to the trusted root CAs" is all future issues.

How long should Apple be required to provide updates, both security/vulnerability and future API support?

Currently, iPhone 6S, released in 2014, can run iOS 15, which received its latest update in 2025. The iOS 15 apps work with Apple's services, some with reduced functionality because it was never in iOS 15.

So that's a 10 year old phone.
by nolok | 2026-01-09 13:12:49+00:00
To be fair, I'm not sure if it's an interop/open source thing, and it's just the fact that windows was always based on the fact it can be disconnected and run on a local account, even though microsoft tries to hide it.

Also one thing I have discovered with the whole work from home thing, is that users connected to their personnal cloud account on windows at home who then also connect their professionnal o365 account for work randomly end up with various weird issues.

Their cloud account in the OS thing is just not well thought out.
by Arn_Thor | 2026-01-09 13:13:07+00:00
Yes, I'm not including deaths in the colonial periphery. That's a rather different dynamic to the domestic question. Your criticism of this simplified view is a valid and welcome addition to the conversation, though.

The West's post-colonial exploitation and suppression of the global south does strike me as a feature of unfettered capitalism more than the political systems "back home".
by clbrmbr | 2026-01-09 13:14:05+00:00
Bond Home | ON-SITE in Florianopolis, Brazil | FULL TIME | Multiple Roles

We are building smart outdoor living spaces.

Come work with a cracked team, in-person, building primarily for the US market.

Interested to hear from talented: firmware engineers (C), mobile (iOS/Android native), backend (Python), UX designers, & quality engineers.

We're heavy users of agentic coding (Claude), looking particularly for engineers who can scale their output with increased access to compute, while being meticulous about security & quality.

Hiring exclusively in Brazil. Must be in or willing to relocate to Santa Catarina. We have an office right by UFSC. We work with a lot of hardware and so an in-office culture is efficient.

Some travel to USA required.

email a pitch to: merck@olibra.io
by duxup | 2026-01-09 13:14:56+00:00
I think the issue becomes an issue of what content and engagement you’re selling when most of the responses to a pretty girl are “grok post a pic of her clothes off” type posts.

The level of discourse on twitter is pretty terrible already but at that point what’s the platform even selling… and who is the platform for?

Just from a product standpoint you got problems.
by RickJWagner | 2026-01-09 13:15:01+00:00
You didn’t answer the question.

The ACLU called Obama a monster, and they call Trump a monster, too.

Obama set the precedent, I agree Trump added childish and cruel rhetoric. ( But the use of ICE is the same with Obama and Trump. )

I do not agree on Nazi actions, etc. That’s exaggeration and it’s not useful.

So do we agree that on the deployment and tactics of ICE that Obama and Trump are roughly equal? If you don’t condemn Obama, is it fair to say you don’t condemn the use of ICE to deport?
by singularity2001 | 2026-01-09 13:15:02+00:00
The biggest blender was not adding UTF-8 strings as a first class citizen

The second blunder was not allowing for any direct memory mapping I know it's against the security system but if you have to copy every pixel one by one to the host then that won't be effective

The third blunder was when they finally added GC objects to not make any of the objects properties readable from the host
by Zababa | 2026-01-09 13:15:35+00:00
Depends on what level of macro you want, but with modern phones you can get pretty close, usually with the wide angle lens.

On iPhones: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/take-macro-photos-and...

On Pixel: https://store.google.com/intl/en/ideas/articles/pixel-macro-...

I'd recommend playing around with it, it's a lot of fun!
by ryanSrich | 2026-01-09 13:15:51+00:00
> Salaries for developers are well under $150k in most of the United States, for example, and that is for senior engineers

As someone who has hired hundreds of SWEs over the last 12 years from 20+ states, I have to disagree.

$150k is on the lower end for base for a Sr. SWE, and well below the total comp someone would expect. You can make the argument that $150k base is reasonable, but even Sr. SWE in the middle of the country are looking for closer to $180k -$200k OTE.
by geocar | 2026-01-09 13:16:40+00:00
If you meet someone who understand business, it's going to color your opinion of other people who meet who seem to understand business, until you either learn business or die.

That's how all prejudices work: We're wired up to be afraid and anxious and to share (and communicate) our anxieties to our friends and neighbours. We're trying to help.

The thing is, knowledge; business, economics, and so on, probably can be used to help people, but in a lot of peoples' recent memories, it's being used to harm.

I lost a lot of my teen friends when I "went corporate", but thirty years later I'm reconnecting with some of them, because people change, and we can learn to recognise someone will participate in capitalism for lots of reasons that are not so simple as being "greedy" or "evil".

But to me, I think it is simple: Capitalism is almost certainly unavoidable, so the world could be better if more kind people participate well in it than don't!
by adastra22 | 2026-01-09 13:17:14+00:00
The claim is it "obsoletes the need for a traditional RTOS with kernel context switching."

I don't think the authors understand what an RTOS is, because it has very little to do with concurrency. It is about providing hard guarantees about execution timing of interrupt events. E.g. you need to poll an input port every 20ms, or something like that, because that's when the signal will be on the wire. Not "Please wait at least 20ms before resuming" but rather "I must resume execution in +0.020 sec from now with timing error constrained to no more than +/- 100 nanoseconds"

This is traditionally done by having an operating system with deterministic timing in its interrupt handling, so that it can schedule preemptive wake-up calls exactly when needed. As well as some important edge case handling like fast queueing of interrupts for later processing, or even dropping them entirely if a hard scheduled interrupt is being processed. Preemptive execution and OS threading is an absolute requirement.

Async rust doesn't even provide hard interrupts. It's cooperative multithreading so if some other event handler happens to be running when you need to resume, you're boned.

So AFAICT Embassy doesn't do this at all? In which case it doesn't "obsolete the need for a traditional RTOS with kernel context switching."
by jacob019 | 2026-01-09 13:17:35+00:00
https://github.com/jacobsparts/agentlib

See CodeAgent or subrepl.py if you're just interested in the REPL orchestration. I also have a Python REPL MCP server that works with CC. It isn't published, but I could share it by request.

My favorite part of code agent is the /repl command. I can drop into the REPL mid session and load modules, poke around with APIs and data, or just point Claude in the right direction. Sometimes a snippet of code is worth 1000 words.
by khernandezrt | 2026-01-09 13:19:11+00:00
The ongoing push by app developers to "simplify" everything is frustrating because it often makes tasks more cumbersome for experienced inclined users who want finer control or more advanced options. I specifically had this frustration when migrating from the original iNaturalist app to the new one. I actually use it less now because of how annoying and "simple" it is.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-01-09 13:19:12+00:00
The women he is praising for filming is, according to the current government, committing illegal violence against the ICE agents.

https://reason.com/2026/01/08/you-have-the-right-to-record-i...

> The Trump Administration Says It's Illegal To Record Videos of ICE. Here's What the Law Says.

> Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it's videotaping them where they're at when they're out on operations," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.

So he is right to think she might have been shot for doing this.

edit: note that's a libertarian source. They've always had a strain of civil libertarians on that publication but the comments on the site reveal a lot of libertarians now think it's a good thing that white liberal women are being shot.
by lapcat | 2026-01-09 13:19:25+00:00
Yes of course apps will continue to operate after the signing cert expires, and this is documented by Apple in several places. It would be absolutely insane if apps stopped working, because all Developer ID signing certs expire after 5 years.

The valid dates for code signing certificates apply, naturally, to signing. You can't sign an app anymore with an expired certificate, but if an old app was signed with a cert that was valid at the time of signing, then the app will continue functioning forever.

This issue was just a dumb screwup by Logitech. If apps stopped functioning when the signing cert expired, you'd see Mac apps dying all the time.
by p_l | 2026-01-09 13:19:45+00:00
There's generally at least one watchdog device available in most PCs delivered in last decade, but it's not always utilized. Essentially at one point an intel southbridge integrated a basic watchdog on all models, and it started to just... be included.

So these days you can find a variation on the TCO timer watchdog in most PCs, even if the exact implementation varies so we now have a bunch of drivers for the different variants.
by hennell | 2026-01-09 13:20:10+00:00
Tailwind (like most things) is way more complex than it first appears.

Sure the main thing was originally 'just' mapping `.p-4` to `padding: 1rem`. But it's also about grepping the code to see if `p-4` is used so it only builds needed classes. It also needs to work with things like their responsive and state classes so `md:p-4` or `hover:p-4` add the padding only on medium or larger screens, or when hovered etc.

All of which increased to support more and more css features and arbitrary values so `not-supports-[display:grid]:p-[5px]` generates the required code to check if grid is supported and add 5px padding or whatever other values you put in the [].

You can question if that's really a sensible idea, but it is undeniably a pretty complex challenge. Not sure it compares to blender, I imagine that has a lot more maths involved - put probably less edge cases and weird displays odd in X browser bugs.
Show HN: Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guessing Game
by francisofascii | 2026-01-09 13:20:16+00:00
This is an episode guessing game using Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) episode images as clues. This game has been a side project for a few years now. Finally got it to a point that it is worth showing. Hope you experiance some nostalgia and find some enjoyment out of it. Inspired by framed.wtf
by Folcon | 2026-01-09 13:20:42+00:00
I'm going to try and be honest with you because I'm where you were at 3 months ago

I honestly don't think there's anything I can say to convince you because from my perspective that's a fools errand and the reason for that has nothing to do with the kind of person either of us are, but what kind of work we're doing and what we're trying to accomplish

The value I've personally been getting which I've been valuing is that it improves my productivity in the specific areas where it's average quality of response as one shot output is better than what I would do myself because it is equivalent to me Googling an answer, reading 2 to 20 posts, consolidating that information together and synthesising an output

And that's not to say that the output is good, that's to say that the cost of trying things as a result is much cheaper

It's still my job to refine, reflect, define and correct the problem, the approach etc

I can say this because it's painfully evident to me when I try and do something in areas where it really is weak and I honestly doubt that the foundation model creators presently know how to improve it

My personal evidence for this is that after several years of tilting those windmills, I'm successfully creating things that I have on and off spent the last decade trying to create successfully and have had difficulty with not because I couldn't do it, but because the cost of change and iteration was so high that after trying a few things and failing, I invariably move to simplifying the problem because solving it is too expensive, I'm now solving a category of those problems now, this for me is different and I really feel it because that sting of persistent failure and dread of trying is absent now

That's my personal perspective on it, sorry it's so anecdotal :)
by thomasfromcdnjs | 2026-01-09 13:21:05+00:00
I'm working on an overly ambitious project called tpmjs.com, making good progress, it's meant to do "everything" in relation to mcp, agents and tools etc

I like your thought process, and agree with it all.

Everything other than what you described towards the end seems easy to build useful abstracts around.

I'm going to tackle the problem this weekend, probably just use Lightroom mcp as the example, I don't have any good ideas to begin with;

- These applications should probably adapt their codebase to the evolving landscape (that might take a while so in the interim...)

- Another easy idea, is to boot up a sandbox and runs the software, maybe even shares projects across mcp users or something, a service orientated model but pretty much sucks too

- Best but kind of worst idea I have so far is to just make a software service that users download and run that orchestrates software and processes etc (kind of like anti cheating software or something, with far too elevated permissions)

A bit stressed for time so couldn't distill what I think properly just yet, will edit later)
by kburman | 2026-01-09 13:21:38+00:00
Fair point on the strict terminology, I was using 'wire protocol' broadly to mean the communication standard vs. the implementation.

A more precise analogy is likely LSP (Language Server Protocol). MCP is to AI agents what LSP is to IDEs. LSP defines how an editor talks to a language server (go to definition, hover, etc.), but it doesn't handle file permissions or user auth, that’s the job of the OS or the editor.