MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thecupisblue | 2026-01-09 10:25:58+00:00
As someone who worked actively with webassembly for the last few years, and is about to drop a WASM based framework, here's what happened:

- The ecosystem evolved fast, then slow. This caused adoption problems, especially for things such as WASI and Component model, as a lot of folks did it their own way/using 3rd party, which now meant they had to rewrite to this new thing that still isn't fully properly supported everywhere.

- The way it's "developed" means a lot of things are distributed, unsynced and have different support levels based on the engine you're using. This causes confusion among developers, especially since you have to go from reading an article, to reading a spec, to reading a github issue, then you're 3 repositories deep reading random rust code at 2 AM trying to figure out if you can rely on this stranger's fork just to try something out that should have been dead simple.

- Both of these combined can lead to even greater confusion for our LLM's, as they are trained on varied data which is by now stale, so they can often misunderstand things or look for things that aren't there anymore, just like us humans would.

- And now let's focus on the biggest and most important one IMO:
Javascript/Typescript support. That is the holy grail for any technology that wants to be a widely adopted intermediary. While it is possible, you are layering hacks on hacks and begging that the next user won't break it all. Until my users can bring whatever they're using with them, the transition isn't really worth it, and writing my own wiring for every possible combination/need is quite unnecessary. We got a step closer with Web Containers, but by that time a lot of folks already moved onto Bun.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-09 10:27:13+00:00
> There's a bit of nuance hiding in the "etc". Openai and anthropic are still in a race for the top results.

That's not what is usually meant by "race to the bottom", is it?

To clarify, in this context I mean that they are all in a race to be the lowest margin provider.

They re at the bottom of the value chain - they sell tokens.

It's like being an electricity provider: if you buy $100 or electricity and produce 100 widgets, which you sell for $1k each, that margin isn't captured by the provider.

That's what being at the bottom of the value chain means.
by bogdanbuzadzic | 2026-01-09 10:27:31+00:00
Hey everyone,
I built something and I'd love your honest take on it.
A platform that will push people to watch less pro and play more amateur sports.
Let's be real - running a 1:59 marathon is impressive, but less so when you realize the guy doesn't have a job, doesn't go to school, doesn't take kids to practice, and has a full support team optimizing his every meal and nap. Same goes for that KOM on a Tour de France climb - those riders aren't juggling university exams, 9-to-5s, or family dinners.
That's not to say competing is useless - it's just important to know with whom you're competing. This platform should enable you to compete locally, with friends, or with yourself. As much or as little as you want - as long as you just go out and do some sport, any sport.
I have a background in finance and this is just a side project, so sorry in advance if the tech is not sophisticated enough - I just vibe coded it over the last couple of days. If you like this, please join the waitlist and share it with a friend. The number of signups will help me decide if this is worth building further.
Feedback, ideas, brutal honesty - all welcome. Reach out anytime.
P.S. Contrary to Strava, I will aim to make the vast majority (if not all) of features not hidden behind a paywall.
by croon | 2026-01-09 10:28:09+00:00
Huh, interesting. My experience has always been that computer monitors have been more expensive than TVs, even when panels are ostensibly the same. I've attributed it to comparative volume in TV consumers and desktop computer consumers.

At this point (as opposed to a decade ago) there's arguably no difference between a TV and a monitor anymore outside of packaging and the bundling of a remote and input defaults.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-09 10:29:27+00:00
> Still - I hope EU will just have a decent program financing or contributing in any shape or form to development of OSS.

I think at this point we're beyond that, we already have these programs and they seem to be expanding. EU-STF is one such example, then there are other organizations supported by the EU in various ways, that also helps fund OSS, like NLnet Foundation.
by HappyPanacea | 2026-01-09 10:29:54+00:00
> from their prior genocidal campaign

Not only there is not a good argument for considering 1948 war a genocide on Palestinians but there is a much stronger argument Arabs have tried to genocide Jews (especially to those who think who think there was a genocide in Gaza because of starvation as a weapon of war + intent):

1. In 1948 Arab forces besieged Jerusalem and they were starting to run out of food.

2. Azzam Pasha, General Secretary of the Arab League, famously threatened "a war of extermination and a momentous massacre", Fawzi al-Qawuqji, commander of the Arab Liberation Army said that "we will have to initiate total war. We will murder, wreck and ruin everything standing in our way, be it English, American or Jewish.". Hell, several have even extended the threats to not just the Jews of Mandatory Palestine, but to Jews of the Arab world as a whole, such as Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Said("if a satisfactory solution of the Palestine case was not reached, severe measures should be taken against all Jews in Arab countries.") or the head of the Egyptian delegation to the General Assembly, Muhammad Hussein Heykal("the lives of 1,000,000 Jews in Muslim countries would be jeopardized by the establishment of a Jewish state." ). As Matiel Mughannam, head of the Arab Women's Organization in Palestine put it in an interview with Nadia Lourie in January 1948, "The UN decision has united all Arabs, as they have never been united before, not even against the Crusaders.... [A Jewish state] has no chance to survive now that the `holy war' has been declared. All the Jews will eventually be massacred. " (See Benny Morris' 1948 for sources on all of these)
by epolanski | 2026-01-09 10:30:06+00:00
The Eurozone isn't a failure at all, and as a Polish person it annoys me that we have zloty and not Euro, it's very inconvenient when trying to do business beyond polish borders. It impacts me every month and creates quite some bureaucracy.

In any case where the European union keeps failing is that it keeps not focusing on creating as many common rules and regulations across the EU, so, yet again, scaling your french business beyond your borders, or bulgarian one, is always very difficult.

Most countries in Europe are ridden by pointless nationalism on so many matters when our biggest issue is creating a strong internal market in Europe, but our biggest economies are still manufacturing and exporting ones, with little focus on the strengthening of our internal markets.
by 4ggr0 | 2026-01-09 10:30:11+00:00
my younger brother called me once, which was unusual, so i immediately answered. he was crying, which was new to me as well, and told me that our mom's laptop he had been using to game on was hacked, and that he was now being extorted live in a discord call.

asked him to shutdown the laptop immediately and add me to the call, to which he replied, "they sent me our postal code and told me if i told anyone or turned the laptop off, they're going to send someone to hurt me."

that's when i realized why he was panicking so much, to me who was 10 years older that was an obvious scare-tactic, he was a young, naive teenager so he was legitimately scared for his life.

was able to calm him down, he added me to the call, and turned the laptop off. i was surprised that the hackers in question were 3-4 french teenagers, incredibly rude and aggressive. they didn't care that they weren't able to ruffle my feathers, they just constantly asked for bitcoins, said they'd hurt our mom etc.

when i refused and just didn't engage they started posting our mom's tax returns and other files from her laptop, that's when i realized that they did indeed exfiltrate data.

immediately packed my bags and took the next train to meet mom and brother. we spent the afternoon rotating e-banking passwords etc.

while doing this, the hackers did try to login to her paypal and they actually got into my netflix account.

turned the wifi off at home to boot the laptop back up, wanted to try to retrace their steps. i did find out what kind of stealer they used and was able to sleaze my way into a secret discord server they used to organize, but it was temporary and they had already left. so i just wiped the laptop and reinstalled windows.

apparently these guys had promised my brother to optimize his PC so that Fortnite would run better, he let them connect via AnyConnect or TeamViewer, don't exactly remember. they did some legit debloating stuff etc., but also let a stealer run in the background. apparently these guys had spent some weeks in the discord server my brother was in to establish trust.

to this day i haven't felt as much rage again. seeing my young brother in such a distressed state, realizing that all of my mom's data, childhood pictures etc. were stolen made me angry to a point i've never felt, i legitimately wanted to find out who these guys were and hurt them as much as i could. of course we all calmed down again and realized there's nothing we could do other than rotate PWs and observe logins.

police said there's nothing they could do (didn't expect it anyways, but worth a try), discord ignored me when i reported the hacker's accounts. typing this out again makes me angry again, interestingly enough. it's been two years, almost forgot that this ever happened.
by palata | 2026-01-09 10:30:11+00:00
Not the OP, but IMO as soon as a company becomes successful, the leadership becomes focused on making money and not making a good product.

Sometimes making a decent product is part of making money, but that's never a motivation in itself. We have enough examples showing that if it makes more money to enshittify (and usually it does), then they will gladly enshittify.

I wouldn't say it's just the smart speaker industry.
by menaerus | 2026-01-09 10:30:13+00:00
From https://nlnet.nl/fediversity

> We are seeking project proposals between 5.000 and 50.000 euro's — which should get you on your way.

Am I the only one to think this is completely ridiculous amount of money?

So, you want me to leave my very well paid job to innovate for the sake of EU competitiveness but you don't to invest more than 50k EUR (max grant). And as an individual you don't even stand a chance so this 50k EUR has to be distributed across several people. Did I get this right?

Ah, and I almost forgot about the double standards ... the same EU commission is on a spending spree when it comes to the development of a fkn EU website which you use to apply for these funds. Each Brussels-based developer doing that very innovative work is paid ~100k EUR. What a blasphemy.
Ask HN: What's it like working at early-stage YC startups?
by jennalk | 2026-01-09 10:30:48+00:00
Considering an offer from a YC startup that's raised seed, 6 months post-pivot, and actively looking for PMF before Series A.
What should I know about this stage? What's different from pre-seed or post-Series A companies? Any questions I should definitely ask them?
by harperhuang | 2026-01-09 10:31:15+00:00
Thanks a lot — that really means a lot to me! I’m glad it works well on mobile too.
I’m actively working on improving SEO (cleaner landing pages, better descriptions, and more use-case pages). If you have any SEO suggestions or things you think I should prioritize, I’d genuinely love to hear them. Thanks again for the kind words!
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-09 10:31:40+00:00
People in the US need to know that federal agents cannot currently be held accountable for criminal actions committed during official duties and that neither Bivens nor 1983 civil claims can be brought against federal agencies. They can and do kill people and violate their civil rights with complete impunity until Congress is compelled to legislate that federal officers are held to the same standard as local ones.

tl;dr: Federal officers can do anything they want and there's zero recourse.
by jdasdf | 2026-01-09 10:31:41+00:00
As per the UK government for 2026-2027 9.2 Chart D.2: Public sector spending 2026-27:

Social protection - 400 b

personal social services - 54b

health - 294b

Education - 145b

industry agriculture and employment - 51b

housing and environment - 51 billion

That accounts for roughly 70% of public sector spending, not 33%.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2025-docum...
by redbluered | 2026-01-09 10:31:49+00:00
I think they are.

The key question is about why they want to you to use the CLI. If you're not the customer, you're the product.

There's also a monopolistic aspect to this. Having the best model isn't something over can legally exploit to gain advantage in adjacent markets.

It reeks of "Windows isn't done until Lotus won't run," Windows showing spurious error messages for DR-DOS, and Borland C++ losing to the then-inferior Visual C++ due to late support of new Windows features. And Internet Explorer bundling versus Netscape.

Yes, Microsoft badly wanted you to use Office, Visual C++, MS-DOS, and IE, but using Windows to get that was illegal.

Microsoft lost in court, paid a nominal fine, and executives were crying all the way to the bank.
by journal | 2026-01-09 10:34:19+00:00
I'm taking it the wrong way. You are misunderstanding and misrepresenting the situation involving geopolitics in this. There's absolutely nothing you can do to any significant degree unless you can get enough people you communicate with to agree to communicate differently. All we need is text, images, and video. No one cares if you use Helvetica or Times New Roman. No significant progress will happen until those high speed undersea cables are sabotaged to blind us from what will happen next. That's when s will start happening and you'll have better options because everyone will be inventing the next best thing like mesh networks and ways to transport large amounts data physically. We're about to go from gigabytes to megabytes of usage, rapidly. Add some power outages and you will have some nice and creative options of communication, storage, and compute. Latency will suck but you'll be able to send a message from Kansas City to North Korea in less than 50 years and there is nothing any can do to stop that. Countries will begin to use nukes to control their population. By the time you "decouple" US won't even look the way it does now. We're about to shift borders north through give some lose some diplomacy. Everyone is waiting because no one wants to invest in the south if it's gonna break off anyway and now you have complicated logistics. US itself will begin to be strip mined in under 100 years as intelligent populations depart the continent to make money rebuilding Europe and Russia.
by ben_w | 2026-01-09 10:34:35+00:00
> Okay. I'm wrong, he was a cog in the chain to report an attack in order to facilitate a response to a nuclear attack. It's not the same though, Greenland is litterally saying don't wait for confirmation of invasion.

Your description of the forces in Greenland matches Petrov's orders: don't wait for confirmation. His orders were to immediately raise it with superiors, which he chose not to do.

Your description of Petrov matches the forces in Greenland: cogs in a machine.

> The stakes are completely different and not comparable. A hot war in Greenland is extremely obvious

Not to soldiers on the receiving end. That's the problem.

I was recently linked to this story, same category problem with different details and impact: https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-mistakenly-shoot-soldier...

> What's more troubling, that is being ignored by this debate, is the fact that we are even considering this with an ally.

Troubling, yes. Ignored? Ah, no, not in Europe it isn't? Are you American or Danish?
by bpavuk | 2026-01-09 10:36:05+00:00
this map misses that Palantir tech is being used in Ukraine. [0][1]

is there a way to contribute to the map?

[0]: https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/palantir-the-secret...

[1]: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/entities?entity=palantir

EDIT: ah, I found the "Submit" button! nice.
by rockatanescu | 2026-01-09 10:36:29+00:00
The Claude plans allow you to send a number of messages to Anthropic models in a specific interval without incurring any extra costs. From Anthropic's "About Claude's Max Plan Usage" page:

> The number of messages you can send per session will vary based on the length of your messages, including the size of files you attach, the length of current conversation, and the model or feature you use. Your session-based usage limit will reset every five hours. If your conversations are relatively short and use a less compute-intensive model, with the Max plan at 5x more usage, you can expect to send at least 225 messages every five hours, and with the Max plan at 20x more usage, at least 900 messages every five hours, often more depending on message length, conversation length, and Claude's current capacity.

So it's not a "Claude Code" subscription, it's a "Claude" subscription.

The only piece of information that might suggest that there are any restrictions to using your subscription to access the models is the part of the Pro plan description that says "Access Claude Code on the web and in your terminal" and the Max plan description that says "Everything in Pro".
by coldtea | 2026-01-09 10:37:05+00:00
>How strange it is that we so easily forgive bad behavior from people we love.

That's part of what loving someone means. It's easy to love someone convenient who never does anything to bother you.

Besides, he was trolling. It's not like it's a big deal. If you were on a mailing list or usenet group or forum in the 80s and 90s everybody did that, and few if any had an issue with it, we could take it!

We not only forgive but tolerate 100000x worse stuff everyday that directly fucks our lives that we could prioritize not tolerating.
by codingdave | 2026-01-09 10:37:31+00:00
Pre-PMF running off a seed round? There is a very real timer counting down. They need PMF and customers before the money runs out in order to convince the next round of investors. Assume it will be a 3-6 month gig, with a mild chance of actually turning into a real job if everyone gets lucky.

You should ask them how long their runway actually is, what goals need to be hit in order to get to the next round and extend the runway, and how this role is going to contribute to those goals. Be wary of anyone who won't answer those questions or who doesn't know the answer to those questions.
by rdos | 2026-01-09 10:38:49+00:00
This is very interesting. Especially the last part where it shows gpt-5.2 and gpt-oss and their very similar and unique outcome of being 90%+ Serious.

I tested this locally and got the same result with gpt-oss 120b. But only on the default 'medium' reasoning effort. When I used 'low' I kept getting more playful responses with emojis and when I used 'high' I kept getting more guessing responses.

I had a lot of fun with this and it provided me with more insight than I would have thought.
by mlrtime | 2026-01-09 10:39:38+00:00
Because the SP500 is a better indicator of the market than USD. Also if you look at the global dollar index, it is right at par historically.

The companies in the 500 are mostly global companies, if the USD shrunk so much they would either be losing money, or it doesn't matter because the US market is so strong it dwarfs the others.
by tomhow | 2026-01-09 10:40:15+00:00
OK :)

Posts like that - i.e., meta discussion, or posting on HN to ask or state something about HN - are best avoided.

These things are easy enough to find out via HN Search or Google or minimaxir’s unofficial documentation, and failing that, anyone can email us and we usually reply quickly.

It’s important that posts on HN have some combination of thought, effort and substance to them.
by stingtao | 2026-01-09 10:40:39+00:00
I am not a programmer. I used Cursor / Codex / Claude CLI / AI Studio / Antigravity and made many websites.

For me, I get 1000x AI dev since my initial comparison point is very very low.

I created:

https://live.stingtao.info for me to do interactive live quiz (like Kahoot)
https://presentation.stingtao,.info for me to make presentations by AI (like gamma)
https://catsbook.stingtao.info for cats to register their own 'facebook' social network.

All will be improved along the way with AI.

I do feel that AI code assistants are helping people like me to become 1000x superman.
by epolanski | 2026-01-09 10:40:40+00:00
> People wonder where all the money is going and there's no particularly good answer.

That's because people don't want to open their eyes, it's mostly going in pensions and public services and is increasingly more paid with debt.

As for decades and decades politicians have avoided to become unpopular by raising pension ages (or did it way too slowly), those are the results.

Look at what happened in France under Macron when he raised pension age or tried to stop the bleeding in public financing: raise in national populism yet again, as if the far right in France (or the far left) had some magic wand (same for reform UK) to stop the bleeding.

Actually, if you look at the rightist populist across Europe (Poland, Hungary, Italy) they made the problems worse by actually jumping into very (historically) leftist measures such as throwing even more money at the public (benefits, pensions) at the expense of public debt.

Poland feels it slightly less because it has more growth (largely attributed to the nearly 2 millions of Ukrainians that settled there bringing with them their skills and tons of money).
Show HN: On-device natural language search for your iPhone photos
by felixde | 2026-01-09 10:40:49+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Momento, an iOS app that lets you search your photo library using natural language.

I started working on this because I was frustrated with Apple Photos search (especially when I did not remember when or where I made the photo) and it often took a lot of time to find a specific old photo.

Momento performs a one-time local index of your photo library and then lets you search using queries like “woman with red hair and a dog by the river”. It returns matching photos from your library.

All processing happens on-device using Core ML. Photos aren’t uploaded anywhere, and search works offline. It's Apple-only for now.

I initially built this for myself, showed it to a few friends, and after getting feedback decided to polish it and release it publicly.

The app is freemium, free to use for the most recent year of photos with the fastest model and a paid unlock for the whole library and more accurate models.

As this is the first public version I'd love to have feedback on UI/UX as well as search quality and your overall opinion on this.

Thank you,
Felix
by orwin | 2026-01-09 10:41:15+00:00
Protesting theocracies is a sacred duty for any self-respecting leftist. I rather have a monarchy than a theocracy, a dictatorship rather than a monarchy, an oligarchy rather than a dictatorship, and a democracy rather than an oligarchy.

That said: please also protest any inference from foreign power, whether they are an oligarchy, a dictatorship or another theocracy/ethno-state. If the current Syrian situation is believable, a revolution/coup from the base show better results than one supported by the US/Russia or local powers.