MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-25 01:56:18+00:00
Signal offers a chat app that works fine and is not owned by Meta. That's enough for a significant amount of people to switch already. I'd love some quality of life updates to some of the niche features, like the desktop app, but the mobile app does everything it needs to do.

Community chats aren't what keep people on WhatsApp, the network effect does.
by JustinGarrison | 2026-01-25 01:56:42+00:00
I was early container adopter at a large RHEL shop and they absolutely required us to use their forked version of docker for the daemon and RHEL based images with systemd.

This was mostly so containers could register with systems manager and count against our allowed systems.

We ignored them because it was so bad and buggy. This is when I switched to CoreOS for containerized workloads.
by blacktis | 2026-01-25 01:57:15+00:00
Hello, HN. I created L3Binance because I couldn't find any open-source engine that combined the high performance of Rust with real-time ML inference.

Key features:

Latency-free AI: uses HuggingFace's Candle framework for inference within the Rust process (no Python overhead).
Memory-optimized: uses Slab allocators for high-frequency agent management.

Detects spoofing, layering, and wash trading in real time.
by LexiMax | 2026-01-25 01:57:30+00:00
> Being conservative with features and deliberately not implementing them are two different thing.

There is no version of the C++ standard that lacks features like exceptions, RTTI, and fully functional templates.

If the compiler isn't implementing all of a particular standard then it's not standard C++. If an implementation has no interest in standard C++, why give those implementations a seat at the table in the first place?
by nullocator | 2026-01-25 01:58:58+00:00
I don't think the phrasing of "confront law enforcement" is right here, in a period of about 20 seconds he went from helping a woman who had been pushed, to maced in the face, to dead. This is not confrontation, you can literally see him clutching the woman he had previously been helping up in a panic after they were sprayed with chemicals.

But setting all of that aside (which is a big aside), even if he was confronting them with his camera while armed, the whole bullshit shtick of the second amendment is that being armed should not be a crime much less a death sentence. He did not brandish his weapon or threaten law enforcement in any of the half dozen videos that have been released so far.
by justinc8687 | 2026-01-25 01:59:17+00:00
Stolen laptops would be my one idea here to always encrypt, even if MS / Apple has your key and can easily give it to the government? This way you have to know a user's password / login info to steal their information if you steal their computer (for the average theif). You still get their laptop, but you don't get their personal information without their login information.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-25 02:00:28+00:00
We didn't have universal health care before CU either. It wasn't included in the ACA, before CU. It failed when Clinton tried in the 90s, and it failed every other time anyone tried before that too. You are just using Citizens United as a bogey man for a policy you don't like. You can complain about Trump all you like, but Harris didn't have much less dark money than he did. And Clinton / Biden had double what Trump did in 2016 and 2020. https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race
by davidee | 2026-01-25 02:01:08+00:00
I worked in ed tech.

It's easy to tout big learning gains when you have to build a tool that administrators will buy (substitute the non-educator buyer persona for your school/board/system here.) And for administrators to pay for something, you must design a tool with, you guessed it, numbers that go up.

Learning often doesn't work like that when what you want to teach, ultimately, is how to learn (assessment for learning / developing cross-curricular competencies / visible learning etc. etc.)

I left the industry, disenchanted—no, despondent. No one really cared about providing educators a great tools and great content designed around them and their learners.

Hey, you know what, instead of providing the best learning experiences possible, let's just teach our students how to use Google or Microsoft's Office Suite so little Jenny can get a head start on those TPS reports.

Yeah, I'm salty. AMA.
by princevegeta89 | 2026-01-25 02:01:43+00:00
No surprises.

No matter how we look at it, EVs are much friendlier and safer to the environment. Some people argue the source of electricty can be contested against because that involves fossil fuel burning again, but in today's world we are rapidly moving away from it and towards nuclear/hydel/wind methods for generating power.

I hope ICE cars completely become a thing of the past in the next couple of decades to come.
by rlayton2 | 2026-01-25 02:03:57+00:00
My understanding is that the main reason splitting up work is effective is context management.

For instance, if an agent only has to be concerned with one task, its context can be massively reduced. Further, the next agent can just be told the outcome, it also has reduced context load, because it doesn't need to do the inner workings, just know what the result is.

For instance, a security testing agent just needs to review code against a set of security rules, and then list the problems. The next agent then just gets a list of problems to fix, without needing a full history of working it out.
by ivm | 2026-01-25 02:04:02+00:00
Yeah, and to overcome the network effect, you need something compelling enough to justify the effort in the first place. I have hundreds of local contacts on WhatsApp, many of whom have joined Telegram on their own because of its benefits (for example, a local firefighter feed is shared through a channel there). But I only have about 20 contacts on Signal, even IT guys aren’t there. It simply doesn’t offer anything appealing to at least 95% of the people around me.
by __patchbit__ | 2026-01-25 02:04:27+00:00
One reading I came across claimed the author of `art of war' had his foot amputated in a form of punishment. You had to be careful with your language at court in those times.

It is possible to associate passages from the Tao Te Ching to memes that just pop up in your social media feeds. A native speaker and writer will have rich associations in the language you can get a sense of in the language used to cover Chinese philosophy at the SEP entries.
by supertimor | 2026-01-25 02:05:32+00:00
It’s pretty clear that the person assaulting the woman in the orange backpack was the ICE agent. The ICE agent forcefully pushes the woman to the ground and Alex Pretti gets in between them to protect her as the ICE agent pepper sprays both of them. Orange backpack tries to stand up but is continually pepper sprayed and Alex Pretti uses his body to block the spray and is pushed/slips back onto orange backpack. It then seems like he grabs hold of her to block the spray and tries to lift her from the ground before the agents grab hold of him and pulls her away. At that point, he’s still holding onto her so she gets dragged as well.
by lovich | 2026-01-25 02:06:22+00:00
How the fuck do you watch that video and think the guy who was shot is the one assaulting the woman with a red backpack?

The ICE agent does an almost comical shove to that woman, then the shot guy and her are pepper sprayed, and he tries to help them up.

You are actively lying or schizophrenic. If anyone disagrees with that assesment watch the video he linked.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-25 02:07:03+00:00
Mastodon has more users than HN. It's a success. It's also unlikely to go away. Well, OK, it may go away if BlueSky ever becomes decentralized in practice. If that doesn't happen, the only "threat" to Mastodon is some other federated, decentralized service.

It's been around long enough that it has reached steady state. Existing (active) users are happy with its architecture, and are not concerned with discoverability, etc. Why would they leave?
by ChristopherA | 2026-01-25 02:07:36+00:00
You can create a decentralized identifier for any repo with a properly formatted inception commit (a signed commit 0), that is the same for any git platform.

See https://github.com/OpenIntegrityProject/core/blob/main/docs/...

```zsh
eval "$(
cat <<'EOF'
zsh_git_inception() {
[ -d "$(pwd)/new_open_integrity_repo/.git" ] && echo " Repo already exists." && return 1
mkdir -p "$(pwd)/new_open_integrity_repo" && git -C "$(pwd)/new_open_integrity_repo" init > /dev/null
SIGNING_KEY="$(git config user.signingkey)"
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$(git config user.name)"; GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$(git config user.email)"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$(ssh-keygen -E sha256 -lf "$SIGNING_KEY" | awk '{print $2}')"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"; GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")"; GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$GIT_AUTHOR_DATE"
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" \
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_COMMITTER_NAME" GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" \
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="$GIT_AUTHOR_DATE" GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$GIT_COMMITTER_DATE" \
git -C "$(pwd)/new_open_integrity_repo" -c gpg.format=ssh -c user.signingkey="$SIGNING_KEY" \
commit --allow-empty --no-edit --gpg-sign \
-m "Initialize repository and establish a SHA-1 root of trust" \
-m "Signed-off-by: $GIT_AUTHOR_NAME <$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL>" \
-m "This key also certifies future commits' integrity and origin. Other keys can be authorized to add additional commits via the creation of a ./.repo/config/verification/allowed_commit_signers file. This file must initially be signed by this repo's inception key, granting these keys the authority to add future commits to this repo including the potential to remove the authority of this inception key for future commits. Once established, any changes to ./.repo/config/verification/allowed_commit_signers must be authorized by one of the previously approved signers."
[ $? -eq 0 ] && echo " Repo initialized!" || echo " Commit failed. Check Git settings."
}
zsh_git_inception
EOF
)"
```
by kccqzy | 2026-01-25 02:07:49+00:00
It’s a cultural thing. If a Chinese person steeped in that culture of “low, quiet, unseen” strength came to America as an immigrant, that person would likely not do very well. If the person immigrated as a child, schooling in America will quickly change that.

I don’t doubt that the aspect had immediate impact on your thinking, but I would be very surprised if it also had lasting impact on your behavior.
by nvahalik | 2026-01-25 02:07:55+00:00
This genuinely feels like a situation in which I, as an observer from the "opposite side" of the country have genuinely no idea idea what is going on or who to trust here.

Instagram is filled with people who are absolutely 100% sure of some particular "understanding" of this situation. Then a few hours go by and reels "debunking" those views are flooding my feed.

Even the Associated Press seems to report things that official statements from the government agencies themselves say isn't true. The AP should be a trusted source of information as should the federal government.

This feels like a lose-lose situation for those of us who want to know what's actually going on apart from sensationalized reporting.
by laurencerowe | 2026-01-25 02:08:20+00:00
A single country's tax policies don't exist in a vacuum. Let's take as an example a new car that costs £36,000 including 20% VAT. If the UK removed VAT and put the cost on employer NICS then British built cars would still cost roughly £36,000 but foreign built cars would now cost £30,000 and what little of the British car industry is left after Brexit quickly ceases to exist as the multinational companies that run them shift production elsewhere to remain price competitive.

Trump's broad based tariffs are dumb because much of what is being tariffed is not really manufactured in the US anyway. But used in a more targeted manner they can help ensure a level playing field for your country's products in the countries you have trade agreements with. Otherwise what incentive is there for another country to negotiate a trade agreement that gives equal access to says cars manufactured in either country?
by justvugg | 2026-01-25 02:08:21+00:00
Hi thanks for the comment,
I’m not trying to replace FastMCP (or anything else), and I’m not really comparing on the “basic MCP server” use case.

PolyMCP, beyond creating MCP servers over HTTP and stdio, WASM (Pyodide) bundle to run tools in the browser/edge with an “MCP-style” tool interface,provides unified agent/orchestration across multiple MCP servers, plus an Inspector UI and production guardrails (budgets, logging, redaction, allowlists, retries).

The goal is to be a single, end-to-end toolkit for developers: tool exposure + debugging + governance + orchestration.
by andrekandre | 2026-01-25 02:08:26+00:00
> The second problem is that, the less human touch is there, the less consistent the mental model conveyed to the user is going to be, because a specification and collection of prompts does not constitute a mental model. This can create subconscious confusion and cognitive friction when interacting with the work.

tbf, this is a trend i see more and more across the industry; llm or not so many process get automated that teams just implement x cause pdm y said so and its because they need to meet goal z for the quarter... and everyone is on scrum autopilot they cant see the forest for the trees anymore.

i feel like the massive automation afforded by these coding agents may make this worse
by zzo38computer | 2026-01-25 02:08:50+00:00
I don't like AI images or stock images. If a picture is not needed (or helpful; sometimes it is not needed but can be helpful) to describe it which is specific to that article, add it, but stock images and AI images are not helpful, and can sometimes be deceptive in some contexts (although so can pictures specific for the article, if the pictures are badly made).

Often, the text will be good enough, or better (since then you do not need to download the picture, it does not take up space on the screen (or on a paper if printed out),e tc.)
by sleight42 | 2026-01-25 02:10:06+00:00
Regardless of judicial rulings of any sort, who will enforce them? Seemingly all of the enforcement apparatus in the US has been co-opted.

The individual state governments aren't meaningfully resisting. Their law enforcement isn't arresting "federal agents" to put them through state legal system. These perps should be jailed and forced to appeal before a judge for a bail hearing, possibly held without bail as they are clearly threats, and then put on trial in a state court.

Without this, where is the enforcement?

The classic question: who watches the watchmen? Right now, no one.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-25 02:10:49+00:00
I do something similar but with Mastodon.

I haven't implemented moderation, but in principle it's "easy". On a given post, store as an attribute the IDs of messages you don't want to appear (or even its descendants). The JS will have access to the info and can just filter it/them out.

Everything is done client side.
by OsrsNeedsf2P | 2026-01-25 02:11:56+00:00
Alex Pretti might have been "in the right", but he's now in the morgue. If you don't want to be shot, don't conceal carry, and if you're not a citizen, keep your I-94/Green Card on you[0] when you go out.

[0] See section e) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1304
by mjevans | 2026-01-25 02:11:57+00:00
I got it backwards because I expected the counterfeit part to use a newer process IC (less silicon area) than a possibly more reliable and perfectly suitable for serial connection speeds 'vintage' process on some long stable spin of silicon.

Why allow for newer processes on the counterfeit? They'd implement it using the least expensive, most mass produced chips possible, which are more likely to be cut from wafers hitting the sweet spot of size / feature and price crossover.
by evolve2k | 2026-01-25 02:12:44+00:00
yep exactly my point. Grab the domain first, and then get the relevant socials 'usernames' (Less relevant these days with people using so many diff socials services).

My usual steps are:

1. Register domain

2. Setup email, including some account for social media

3. Register accounts with main social media services using the social media email address.

Resolve the corporate entity after this first step.
by prophesi | 2026-01-25 02:12:57+00:00
The friends I know with concealed carry tend to keep it on them to feel safe, and partly just out of habit / feeling fulfilled in exercising their 2A right.

Not related to this situation, but in the city I live in, it's better to keep it on your person than in your car because kids are breaking into cars precisely because they know people from the suburbs visiting downtown might have one in their glove box.
by pjjpo | 2026-01-25 02:13:07+00:00
One big reason I tend to build on GCP instead of AWS is it's much easier to use with Terraform. GCP's APIs are generally defined as a semantic unit while AWS has ad-hoc resources that get strung together by the console or CLIs, not the APIs. An example is a k8s cluster in AWS takes a dozen resources while in GCP it's just one.

While there are then third party (I think) Terraform modules to try to abstract the AWS world into an easier to use interface, they can't really solve the problem that in the end Terraform manages resources and orchestrating changes including deletion across a dozen of resources is much harder than a single one.

GCP is huge so I wouldn't be surprised if there are also problematic units there with less good definition. But I would still argue that there are cloud providers that provide a reasonable view into their infra fo IAC.
by zmmmmm | 2026-01-25 02:13:16+00:00
It definitely seems like the value of losing of transactional integrity is massively under appreciated. I think there has been a progression of thinking over the last couple of decades that went from laying everything at the god of transactional integrity, to "planet scale" services proving that such designs cannot scale and hence promulgating distributed solutions, to everyone else cargo culting the idea that transactions never mattered in the first place and now even a simple app that never needed to scale in the first place is being carved up into 5 microservices and half the design complexity is dealing with regaining the lost transactional integrity that we had in the first place.
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2026-01-25 02:13:34+00:00
The definition of story points like the one I have mentioned has been provided by a certified scrum master and in a different context,by a certified scrum coach.

I appreciate your effort, but I don't believe there is any formal definition.
It's redefined per team, it's redefined by the team too if needed.

So people want an estimate (uncertain) based on a number that's also nebulous. It kills me.

Use time ranges, you get a sense for risk AND have an estimated delivery date.

The adjustment people make with numbers can still be made on a per team basis using time ranges, I don't see why we have to use a proxy
by topherhaddad | 2026-01-25 02:14:20+00:00
1. The proximity improves performance:
- Range^2: imaging, other sensing, closing link budgets (data you're sending or signals you're sensing)
- Range^3: SAR
- Range^4: Active sensing (lidar, radar, etc)
- Speed: Comms latency, time to intercept
- If you can build systems fast/cheap, this physics unlock creates a new paradigm for system architectures (compared to traditional cost/schedule/performance tradeoffs)

2. Diversification is important for resilience/deterrence
- Drag self cleans debris
- It's below the belts where radiation gets trapped after a nuclear detonation. Makes for not only a survivable orbit, but one with assured reconstitution
by sleight42 | 2026-01-25 02:15:35+00:00
Our own "founding fathers" knew that no system could stop someone determined enough to destroy it from inside.

"The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both..."

— John Adams

And our government doesn't have that necessary firebreak. Justice is part of the Executive.

Source: https://www.mass.gov/guides/john-adams-architect-of-american...
by amarant | 2026-01-25 02:16:01+00:00
I mean, I didn't really expect it to work, I just wanted to see what would happen. I'd had pretty good results thus far and wondered how far I could push it. Jira-epic-style prompts was, not surprisingly, pushing it too far.

It did manage to get the application working though, with only a couple of "this thing broke, plz fix" style prompts, and it did better than I had thought it would to fulfill my intention, give how vague I was.

My point was that if you're going to build an actual product, you should probably not use Claude in that way. Break down the epics to smaller more manageable chunks however, and Claude can do an amazing job! I'll definitely keep experimenting with it this way, it's way better than full-manual coding, or at least that's my initial impression of about a week of experimentation!
by culi | 2026-01-25 02:16:22+00:00
It's better to think of tesla as an MIC company than a typical auto manufacturer (indeed the auto industry has always held a tight, symbiotic, and often mandatory link with the military).

Tesla's domestic EV manufacturing, Starlink's satellite network, and ofc SpaceX are all critical pieces of American foreign policy. It should be obvious why Tesla is one of the most heavily subsidized companies of all time[0]

[0] https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc
by oenton | 2026-01-25 02:16:22+00:00
> No one seems to want to answer these questions.

Have you considered why? It's telling that you haven't answered my question: How exactly did the victim confront law enforcement?

I can't speak for everyone here but frankly, I find these "Would you do X?" questions irrelevant and I struggle to see a good faith reason for asking them. I can think of many bad faith reasons, for example shifting blame to the victim to remove focus from the border patrol agents' actions. Or a more charitable interpretation is you view this as a simple matter of cause and effect: if he didn't bring a gun he'd still be alive; or perhaps, if he stayed home altogether he'd still be alive. Is that your motivation for asking these questions?

Setting aside the fact that no, we don't know those things to be true, I don't think that interpretation of your intent is much better. But you also haven't been forthcoming with why you're placing so much importance on these questions.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-01-25 02:16:31+00:00
Silver has far out-performed gold, going recently from 100:1+ ($gold:silver$) to 49:1

This is a big acceleration, perhaps even a return to normal (pre-1933, typically 22:1 — 1930s-1960s it was 50:1 — 1971 Nixon took us off gold-standard).