MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2026-01-14 19:08:04+00:00
Why is that your suspicion?

The context on this one is that we've gone from an environment in which kids were mocked for having curiosity and passion about nerdy things like systems, and it didn't pay that well as an adult, and those people would go home at the end of the day and also write open source code...

To one in which it's now a high-paying career, and a bunch of interview prep manuals coach on faking that, doing open source to promote your career, etc.

So if OG nerds look around at the environment and see the dynamics, of people who just want well-paying jobs (nothing wrong with that) seeming to do a performative dance with interviewers who also just want well-paying jobs (nothing wrong with that), and everyone is being told to project passion and curiosity (when they really just want well-paying jobs) and to look for it in others...

You think the problem is that OG nerds, for example, feel that they do not naturally signal that?

They may signal that just fine, but merely be questioning all the performative theater by people who aren't here for that, but some management fashion told them they should pretend to be.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-14 19:08:24+00:00
It’s interesting to me that Apple and Google have not taken action on X. They have rules for the App Store. If anyone else violated them in the same way, they would have been banned with no recourse. But because X is tied to the US government, I assume Apple and Google fear getting into trouble for antitrust or having M&A blocked or some other issue. Otherwise why wouldn’t they act?

Also can anyone explain why X is calling itself a “news app” and is categorized as “news” instead of social media? This false classification in the app stores is leading it to be labeled as the top news app and getting more visibility than it deserves, and it feels like a deceptive categorization.
by omikun | 2026-01-14 19:08:29+00:00
Pardon me if I’m misreading it but this sounds like disinformation. No examples in your example, a lot of abstract reasoning unmoored from facts.

>uncontrolled migration is well-understood (and rather obviously!) as something damaging to any society and any culture.

The US was built on unrestricted immigration for a long time. Was that destructive? I guess so if you count native Americans but not to the nation of USA.

Capitalism wants closed borders to labor and open borders to capital. Thats how they can squeeze labor costs while maximizing profits. The US is highly individualistic but wants closed borders so how does your reasoning align with the news?
by gjsman-1000 | 2026-01-14 19:08:30+00:00
How about that 38% of young women in the UK have experienced asphyxiation; combined with studies showing there is zero safe threshold without brain damage markers in the blood?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62zwy0nex0o

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/sexually-act...

https://wecantconsenttothis.uk/blog/2020/12/21/the-horrifyin...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/opinion/choking-teen-sex-...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/consciously-creating...

https://www.itleftnomarks.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/...

Before the widespread adoption of pornography, this rate was near 0%. Now we have literally a significant minority of women with permanent brain damage, induced from widespread pornography, unknown harms long-term, and studies already suggesting increased risk of random stroke decades afterwards.
by quotemstr | 2026-01-14 19:08:45+00:00
You're correct. It's absolutely security theater. Either you trust the repository contents or you don't. There's no, none, zilch trust improvement arising from the outer orchestration being done in a YAML file checked into the repo and executed by CI instead of a Makefile also executed by CI.

What's the threat model Wilder is using exactly? Look, I'm ordinarily all for nuance and saying reasonable people can disagree when it comes to technical opinions, but here I can't see any merit whatsoever to the claim that orchestrating CI actions with Make is somehow a security risk when the implementations of these actions at some level live in the repo anyway.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-14 19:08:50+00:00
> But the truth is very few truck owners are towing huge loads long distances.

This pattern also applies more broadly. Most people don't actually need to drive 400 miles without stopping, don't actually need an SUV, and in some cases don't actually need a truck. For a huge swath of the population some variation on a hybrid/electric hatchback/wagon or minivan is actually the best match for their needs, but practicality is rarely the prevailing factor in vehicle purchase decisions.
by eszed | 2026-01-14 19:08:54+00:00
Watch it. Best TV show I can think of, ever. By that I mean that the writing and acting and production values are top notch; it's entertaining throughout - some of the other greats are not (The Wire falls down here, sometimes; Keislowski's Dekalog, likewise - though its best moments are better than anything else); and Andor nails its cultural moment, by being directly about, well, all of the Important Stuff we're talking about in this thread. Also, it's a tragedy; it's about sacrifice and loss, and the human consequences of following your convictions - regardless of the side you choose. (That last note's a personal taste, but I'd stand by the former points as being reasonably objective.)

I sat through it going, "how the hell did they manage to make a work of art out of a Star Wars series?", which even makes it better. You don't have to care about Star Wars AT ALL to appreciate Andor, but if you do, watching Andor -> Rogue One -> Originals back to back makes the earlier stuff better.

You'll think I'm over-selling it. Please watch it, then come back and tell me I'm wrong.
by nitrotechgames | 2026-01-14 19:08:54+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a Chrome extension that adds a set of lightweight “power user” features on top of ChatGPT.

The goal is to reduce friction for people who use ChatGPT daily for work, learning, or writing, without turning it into a heavy workflow tool.

Current features include:
- Prompt and response utilities (copying, reuse, organization)
- UI shortcuts for faster interaction
- Small productivity enhancements that stay out of the way

The extension runs entirely in the browser and doesn’t require an account.
No analytics or tracking beyond what ChatGPT itself uses.

Chrome Web Store link:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chatgpt-power-super...
Firefox Web Store Link
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/chatgpt-power...

I’m the creator and would really appreciate feedback from people who use ChatGPT heavily:
- What feels useful vs unnecessary?
- What power features are you missing today?
- Any UX or performance concerns?

Happy to answer questions.
by ReallyOldLurker | 2026-01-14 19:09:19+00:00
My scrollbar changes in Debian:

1. as root, edit /etc/environment and add:
GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0

2. in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css add:
.scrollbar.vertical slider, scrollbar.vertical slider {min-width: 10px;}
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-01-14 19:09:23+00:00
>… when people say “culture,” what does that really mean?

I think of an organization's or a team's culture as the undocumented practices that the org or team all follow. Just to name a few…

1. Interpersonal interaction styles

2. Communication styles

3. What's incentivized

4. What behaviors are acceptable/unacceptable

…

You could have a "blame culture". Teams like that are incentivized to point the finger and look for convenient scapegoats.

You could have a culture that incentivizes "Psychological safety". Meaning people are allowed to speak up and disagree with stuff without fear of being fired.

You could have a "dysfunctional" culture. One example being where the norm is for individual members to convince other members that they are the smartest person in the room.

> What actually makes people hate their jobs over time? Is it pay/people/culture?

That's bound to be unique for each person. But it's not unreasonable to guess that _in general_ what ultimately makes people hate their job is…

• A person and their team value different things

An employee might place a high value on respectfulness. But a coworker can't even spell the word.

Another employee might consider software development as a "craft" and take pride in what they deliver. But the organization/team values "move fast and break things…tech debt be damned!" above everything else.
by seec | 2026-01-14 19:09:28+00:00
Yeh, Linux desktops are pretty good nowadays; the problem is just software support. If commercial software were easier to make/sell for Linux, that would be great.

There are not a lot of technologists left, and they are dominated by the crowd anyway. Apple used to cater more to people who really liked computers, but now they try to sell to everyone, so the objectives have changed a lot, sadly.
by xiphias2 | 2026-01-14 19:09:28+00:00
It's not only US, it's global.

I drive quite a lot throught southern Europe with my EV, and it's super frustrating that gas stations have the infrastructure on the highway while for my EV I have to go just outside the highway to a fast charger (wasting time), then I need to pay again (and waste a lot of time to go through the gate) to get back on the highway for example in Italy.
by alexjplant | 2026-01-14 19:09:32+00:00
> A pickup truck should just be max utility, especially if you're a manufacturer making your first one

The modern US pickup truck isn't built for utility. It's a $60,000 four-door lifted luxobarge with leather interior and a short bed. It signals (perceived) wealth while preserving working-class alignment via aesthetic. It can also be justified by way of having to pick up used furniture for TikTok refinish and flip projects or bimonthly runs to Home Depot to buy caulk and lightbulbs. Independent tradesman can also write them off as work vehicles or, allegedly, use COVID-era PPP loans to buy them.

It's the suburban equivalent of a yuppie's Rolex Submariner. Investment bankers generally don't go scuba diving and if they did a dive computer would be vastly preferable.

I say all of that to say that making a pickup truck for that market segment isn't a bad idea from a numbers perspective. You just can't market it as a luxury vehicle because the whole point is that it is but it isn't.
by noodlesUK | 2026-01-14 19:09:36+00:00
It’s possible to have been born with multiple forms of British nationality such as being BOTC (e.g. bermudians) and a British citizen at the same time.

It’s also possible for e.g. a BNO to register for British citizenship after a period of residence in the UK. This does not extinguish the original nationality. Most hong kongers with British citizenship are in this bucket.
by darth_avocado | 2026-01-14 19:10:05+00:00
Absolutely. You need both. The point I’m trying to make is that we only have CPI which drives most policy decisions. However when you need about $40k to just survive and 1/3 of the households make less than $50k before taxes, you also need something like this to make effective policy decisions. Social security payments are a great example. If you adjust them only based on CPI, and essentials get more expensive at a higher rate than non essentials, you create a system where over a period of time, social security payments would barely cover the essentials.
by Spooky23 | 2026-01-14 19:10:18+00:00
My brother has one, it is an amazing vehicle with better range performance than Tesla. It's dramatically better in the snow. Towing of large loads is a valid downside, but reality is that most people don't tow, and people who do are probably fine with 80% of the use cases (construction trailers, lawn trailers, etc).

The business problem Tesla solved at Ford cannot is the dealer network. He pre-ordered his, and the dealer he was stuck with tried to rip him off like 4 different ways.

The other issue is that car guys are afraid of electric, as the entire supporting industry is essentially obsolete. It's hard to get excited about something that will take away your ability to pay your mortgage. Every car dealer employee and mechanic knows that.
by graemep | 2026-01-14 19:10:18+00:00
There are lots of possible reasons. Some good, some bad.

A possible good reason might be that there is a higher level of fraud (e.g. faked financial statements), or a higher level of public charge in applications from some countries - especially if it is a pause while procedures are changed. On the other hand the true motive might be something else.

That said, I have no idea why its this particular list of countries. Why Thailand or Jamaica or Nepal?
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-01-14 19:10:22+00:00
> Correct, maintainers can say that and get shamed.

And then they can shrug and move on with their respective days. If I open source something it's a gift to the commons, not a promise to work on it for free in perpetuity. I don't really care if someone tries to shame me for that, as there's nothing to be ashamed of.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-14 19:10:33+00:00
Interesting that consular officers can use their own personal discretion to block someone’s visa due to their age or conditions like obesity. I am betting more of America is obese and a net drain on taxpayer funds than immigrants are. So this just strikes me as discriminatory. The fact that it relies on individuals in these jobs deciding what they’re okay with, opens the door wide open to all kinds of abuse.
by tacon | 2026-01-14 19:10:37+00:00
Founding of World Logic Day

Why creating a World Logic Day? Human beings are classically considered as "Logical Animals" (Latinized as "Rational Animals"). Logic, as reasoning, is a central feature of human beings. It is not very difficult to see what can be promoted on January 14, considered as the World Logic Day: rationality, understanding and intelligence.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-14 19:10:46+00:00
> are you suggesting to use a mop when it rains to clean the water before it freezes

Wyoming here. We don't generally salt our roads. Instead, a combination of ploughs (to clear it) and gravel (to increase traction) are used.

More broadly: if you're "astonished with some people not having a grasp," consider that astonishment signals encountering something new.
by christoff12 | 2026-01-14 19:10:46+00:00
a) I'm not sure it logically follows that the hikikomori would be a particularly artistic group, thus don't understand the assertion; b) how do we know they aren't? By definition, they wouldn't be out promoting their works or gaining recognition.

Also, there is at least one example of UBI contributing to an increase in activity:

"According to the research, 31% of BIA recipients reported an increased ability to sustain themselves through arts work alone, and the number of people who reported low pay as a career barrier went down from one third to 17%. These changes were identified after the first six months of the scheme and remained stable as the scheme continued." [1]

[1] https://musiciansunion.org.uk/news/ireland-s-basic-income-fo...
by wtallis | 2026-01-14 19:10:47+00:00
> evidence that critical open source infrastructure doesn't bother to run static analysis before merging code from randos is actually useful information that the public deserves to have.

It's totally possible to obtain evidence of that without being an asshole to kernel maintainers. Which is the kind of thing that an ethics review conducted before the experiment could have pointed out. If the goal of the experiment was merely to demonstrate the lack of routine static analysis capable of catching such vulnerabilities, then the experiment's design was not justified and the experiment was needlessly harmful to non-consenting participants.
by zackmorris | 2026-01-14 19:10:52+00:00
Funny, I'm the opposite. Since information wants to be free, and storage/compute get more affordable every year, then really everything ever posted on the web should be mirrored somewhere, like Neocities.

I grew up in the 80s when office software and desktop publishing were popular. Arguably MS Access, FileMaker and HyperCard were more advanced in some ways than anything today. There was a feeling of self-reliance before the internet that seems to have been lost. To me, there appears to be very little actual logic in most websites, apps and even games. They're all about surveillance capitalism now.

Now that AI is here, I hope that hobbyists begin openly copying websites and apps. All of them. Use them as templates and to automate building integration tests. Whatever ranking algorithm that HN uses, or at least the part(s) they haven't disclosed, should be straightforward to reverse engineer from the data.

That plants a little seed in the back of every oligopoly's psyche that ensh@ttification is no longer an option.
by anishgupta | 2026-01-14 19:11:03+00:00
This is great and I have seen some apps similar to it. One of the things I believe would be a hard problem to solve is, how does a mere picture depict the exact calories?
For example, a pasta or a soup can be loaded with butter versus made without it. This is usually not visible with the pictures.

Maybe one of the ways is to identify with the shine and the image differences since fat floats on top. But then how do we add a quantitative metric to it as in how many tbsp of butter were used?
by iscoelho | 2026-01-14 19:11:11+00:00
CE (Customer Edge) is what you are referring to. ISPs would be the PE (Provider Edge). I am aware it can be popular for SMB CE devices, however that is simply not the case for PE devices.

Service Provider ISPs cannot use Mikrotik - It is impossible. RouterOS supports none of the features required for a service provider. VRFs are even still unsupported in HW [1]. I am confused why this is even a discussion as anyone with experience working at an ISP/SP would come to the same conclusion.

[1] https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/ROS/pages/62390319/L3+...
by laurencerowe | 2026-01-14 19:11:20+00:00
The UK has had internet filing for self-assessment taxes since July 2000 [1]. I started doing freelance web consulting around them while at university and filed online. It was considerably easier than filing my taxes in the US is now! (Most people in the UK don't have to file taxes at all since the right amount of tax is withheld by their employer.)

While the UK might not have been the first, there was a big push to move government services online over the 2000s. I think this may have been easier than in other countries since so many services were run by post rather than requiring you to go to a particular government office.

Opening a bank account became much more difficult in the early 2000s because of the money laundering/terrorism financing legislation. It became a real pain for international students when I worked in a student union back then.

The liberal resistance to ID cards in Britain was more reasonable before it became required to prove your identity so often. Not having an ID card has become a bit of a pain now, especially for elderly people who may not have a driving licence or current passport.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fascinating-facts-about-s...
by stephendause | 2026-01-14 19:11:55+00:00
There is an example of [dis]allowing certain bash commands here: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings

As for queries, you might be able to achieve the same thing with usage of command-line tools if it's a `sqlite` database (I am not sure about other SQL DBs). If you want even more control than the settings.json allows, you can use the claude code SDK.
by nobody9999 | 2026-01-14 19:12:06+00:00
>It feels like all of the "patriots" joined ICE.

That's certainly possible. Maybe even likely. Fortunately, we now have more information[0] to correlate whether or not that's true.

Perhaps soon we'll see a "Show HN" with a searchable database of those folks with links to known "patriot" groups. That would be interesting.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/whistleblower-leaks-person...
by mindslight | 2026-01-14 19:12:08+00:00
The gall to complain about "not having a grasp on reality" while writing hypersimplistic reactionary comments. The evidence for Dead Internet Theory grows by the day.

With properly graded streets and sidewalks, liquid water runs off. When the bulk of snow is cleared, the small bits that remain melt, flow off, and/or evaporate during melting days. I can't comment on the specific climate of Berlin, but it certainly doesn't seem poised to be an arctic encampment.
by JyrkiAlakuijala | 2026-01-14 19:12:09+00:00
I designed the lossless format and its initial encoder. Zoltán Szabadka wrote the initial lossless decoder.

On2 Technologies had designed the lossy format and its initial encoder/decoder. Skal improved on the encoder (rewriting it for better quality, inventing workarounds for the YUV420 sampling quality issues), but did not change the format's image-related aspects that On2 Technologies had come up with for VP8 video use.

In the end stage of lossless productization (around February 2012) Skal had minor impact on the lossless format:

1. He asked it to have the same size limitations (16383x16383 pixels) like lossy.

2. He wanted to remove some expressivity for easier time for hardware implementations, perhaps a 0.5 % hit on density.

Skal also took care of integrating the lossless format into the lossy as an alpha layer.
by pan69 | 2026-01-14 19:12:10+00:00
I am starting to believe that this might actually be the objective. There is no other logical reason for the US to act this way (not that anything under Trump is logical anyway). They already have full access to Greenland for defence purposes (or pretty much any other purpose) under NATO. It's no secret that Trump is Russian aligned and that he has a intolerance (hatred?) for Europe.
by HNisCIS | 2026-01-14 19:12:17+00:00
The American military is designed to operate away from its shores. One hunting rifle round into the transformer outside of the bases and they're trucking in fuel for generators, a few rounds into the fuel trucks and they have no power. They would have to mobilize massive resources to secure Lockheed and Raytheon facilities from sabotage...

Keep thinking along these lines and you realize the situation for them is actually quite dire.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-14 19:12:30+00:00
The big problem here is we need a hybrid stage in between.

I have a hybrid now, it's still a conventional powertrain, and it's not chargeable. That's not exactly what I want, but it's what I could get.

I want a fully electric drive train hybrid with around 100 miles capacity on the battery, then a generator that's big enough to keep it running if the battery is drained.

100 miles gets you through the average day without having to use gas.

An electric drive train turns your engine to a generator that runs at a fixed speed and is more efficient. It also massively reduces the complexity turning into a system more like an EV.

And, if I go on a long trip, the car still gets me to where I'm going without charges (unless I choose to so I can save gas).
by systemtest | 2026-01-14 19:12:38+00:00
What I meant to say is that even if you have a very high income you will never pay more than 60% in total tax and social premiums.

On €100,000 a year you pay €57,512 in tax (58% tax). On €60,000 a year it's only €32,405 (54%).

See:

https://be.talent.com/tax-calculator?salary=100000&from=year...

https://be.talent.com/tax-calculator?salary=60000&from=year&...