MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjc50 | 2026-01-08 14:02:47+00:00
The EU in general does have a bit more of a track record of doing domestic spying, but that's balanced out by Germany being very conservative about putting it under legal framework due to remembering the Stasi. The EU and ECHR in general are postwar experiments in constraining the powers of the state for good.

In practice .. for a lot of people, including a lot of Americans, the Chinese surveillance threat is a lot less immediate and a lot less likely to result in negative consequences for them personally than the US one. (Important exception: overseas Chinese! The extraterritorial police stations are really quite alarming)

If the war with Denmark goes hot, then the US companies become an extreme national security threat very quickly.
by snarf21 | 2026-01-08 14:02:48+00:00
I thought one of the big problem with Wall Street buying housing inventory is that they were turning them into AirBnbs because that is more profitable (generally) than renting. This pressure takes a lot of units off of the market for normal people to rent or buy and makes holding on to your last house a lot more profitable as a rental. I think if we get rid of these (basically) unregulated hotel exception and forced people who who AirBnb to live in that property as a primary residence 180 days a year, then the inventory could correct.

Obviously, the other factor in home prices is zoning and people who own wanting to keep supply down so their house is guaranteed to appreciate. Affordable housing (just like homelessness) in the US is only a problem because we lack the political will to solve it.
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-01-08 14:04:12+00:00
Generally the medical system is in a bad place. Doctors are often frustrated with patients who demand more attention to their problems. You can even see it for yourself on doctor subreddits when things like Fibromyalgia is brought up. They ridicule these patients for trying to figure out why their quality of life has dropped like a rock.

I think similar to tech, Doctors are attracted to the money, not the work. The AMA(I think, possibly another org) artificially restricts the number of slots for new doctors restricting doctor supply while private equity squeezes hospitals and buys up private practices. The failure doctors sit on the side of insurance trying to prevent care from being performed and it's up to the doctor who has the time/energy to fight insurance and the hospital to figure out what's wrong.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-08 14:04:23+00:00
> How many lines of code are they allowed to use for it, and why have we put you in charge of deciding how much code they're allowed to use?

That's an awfully presumptious tone to take :-)

I'm not deciding "This is how many lines they are allowed", I'm trying to get an idea of exactly what sort of functionality that CC provides requires that sort of volume.

I mean, it's a high-level language being used, it's pulling in a lot of dependencies, etc. It literally is glue code.

Bearing in mind that it appears to be (at this point anyway) purely vibe-coded, I am wondering just how much of the code is dead weight - generated by the LLM and never removed.
by monokai_nl | 2026-01-08 14:04:27+00:00
I program with syntax highlighting.

I'm not convinced by the arguments of the article:

- actively clicking on matching parentheses has the benefit of selecting that part

- being more sensitive to the "beauty" of the code

I think syntax highlighting doesn't get in the way of these two points.

The only valid point:

- No syntax highlighting automatically supports all languages

True I guess. In the sense that no shoes support all feet.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-08 14:04:31+00:00
While George Floyd was neither white nor rich, he had the "advantage" of being murdered not 1 km / ½ mile away by a white MPD (city) officer and so his family was able to bring successful civil claims for tens of millions and the perpetrators were federally and locally investigated, the socio-political landscape changed, and they were prosecuted by the state criminally.

Unfortunately, Renee Nicole Good, a poet and mother of 3 has children who will now grow up without a mother and without justice or recompense because her murderer was a federal official who has nearly unqualified immunity to state and federal criminal prosecution and no civil Bivens nor 1983 actions can be brought. These officials are creating an image of lawless paramilitary with a monopoly on violence unrestrained from any meaningful accountability. Governor Walz and Mayor Frey are telling white lies as to what can be done because they have essentially zero power to investigate or prosecute federal officials. ICE & CBP has only paid out $1 million in damages total for every wrongful death claims in years... it just doesn't happen. ICE & CBP are a "samurai" mafia without a code who can and do kill almost anyone with almost total impunity. Only COTUS can fix this by allowing 1983-like claims and limiting QI/SI, but this is a pipe-dream because the team completely in-charge is deferential to law enforcement over unimportant, non-rich people.

tl;dr: ICE agents can legally get away with killing almost anyone far more easily than 90's LAPD.
by mopsi | 2026-01-08 14:04:48+00:00
Every time I see this site posted, I can't help but think this is what Wikipedia and other online sources could be. I loved Encarta for all the interactive things I could play with. Instead, for most things, we are stuck with Markdown and minimal formatting that is frustratingly neutered, even clickable image maps have become a rarity; can't remember when I last saw one in the wild. Really sad.
by ghm2199 | 2026-01-08 14:04:51+00:00
I think you can take a bit more directed approach too.

You can build a micro-controller with a circuit that controls a stepper motor. Let the motor do something simple/fun. Connect the fun doohikie to give feedback to the microcontroller — e.g. using some kind of an encoder chip that converts motor's rotation amount to numbers that will tell the microcontroller how much to move, initialize the doohikie's start state.

But you can understand a lot more if you don't use the HBridge chip for the motor. Build the bridge circuit yourself. Build your own power supply for the microcontroller too(if you want to).

You can pick a path to go down on and focus on specific parts:

1. For the h bridge there is lots to learn. Designing the operational amp for D2A conversion as well as amplification/signal modeling — which you will need for the motor for current limiting in the h bridge per motor spec for the doohickie you want to power — That will teach you quite a bit about analog electronics and design. What kind of currents you need to protect and how e.g. using opto electronics. Limiting noise from power supply and parasitic noise so that your circuit does not misfire. You will likely need a set up of an oscilloscope, soldering irons and breadboards to prototype. Learn some basics from a book about design then go back to the circuit and build.

2. If you build your own PCB for this. It is a multi month project. You can learn a out CAD and chip layout. But I think you can do this in parts for example you can design the initial PCB only for the digital components and then connect it to a breadboard where you can prototype the H bridge you want.

3. If you choose to learn digital design and embedded system programming then maybe you can build the tougher analog parts for motor control using store-bought components and chips and focus mostly on the programming the microcontroller. That is a totally legitimate part too. You could use an old MCS-51 microcontroller and learn about data and program memory addressing and interrupt handling from scratch.
by dizzant | 2026-01-08 14:04:58+00:00
This is... hard to follow. You seem to be implying that Cloudflare is covering for USG's failed military op-sec surrounding a malicious BGP leak, and judging that this is such a bad action (on the part of Cloudflare) to undermine your trust, not only in Cloudflare, but in all companies and the US government entirely. I don't think the situation is so dire.

Cloudflare's post boils down to Hanlon's razor: a plausible benign interpretation of the facts is available, so we should give some scrutiny to accusations of malice.

Are there specific relevant facts being omitted in the article, or other factors that diminish Cloudflare's credibility? They're clearly a qualified expert in this space.

Let's assume for the sake of argument that the BGP leaks (all of them from the month of December, in fact) were the result of secret US military intelligence operations. The fact that militaries generally use cyber vulnerabilities to achieve their objectives is not news, and the US military is no exception. Keeping specific exploits secret preserves a valuable advantage over competitor states.

One could argue that Cloudflare's post helps to preserve USG's secrecy. We can't know publicly whether USG solicited the article. But even if we assume so (again assuming malice): Is Cloudflare wrong to oblige? I don't think so, but reasonable people could disagree.

Merely pointing out Hanlon's razor doesn't fundamentally change the facts of the situation. In Cloudflare's expert opinion, the facts don't necessarily implicate USG in the BGP leaks without an assumption of malice. Assuming Cloudflare is malicious without justification is just deeper belief in the conspiracy that they're arguing against.

If Cloudflare is distorting the facts, we should believe (rightly) that they're malicious. But I don't see any evidence of it.

EDIT: Clarity tweaks.
by falcor84 | 2026-01-08 14:05:05+00:00
Some interesting ideas there, but it would have been much better if he actually started by presenting and giving evidence for there being a problem other than "I want a space for my truth".

In particular, he mentions "Allow multiple, competing articles per topic", but I think that would go against the whole idea of an encyclopedia. As I see it, if we can't arrive at a single synthesized truth about a topic, then we don't have an encyclopedic article.
by mrtksn | 2026-01-08 14:05:08+00:00
If you pay attention to what they are saying, people with pronouns are destroying America, immigrants are destroying America, women without kids are Destroying America, divorced women with kids are destroying America, All kind of people are destroying America.

At this very moment the MAGA types are explaining why it was the right move to execute this woman. Weren't they also relentlessly explaining why it was OK for a police to step on the neck of this black dude that end up dying some years ago? Weren't they relentlessly explaining why it was OK to shoot and kill looters?

Maybe in a year or two shooting people who destroying America will be the norm. Maybe soon someone will ask why just shoot looters and women with pronouns who run away from the law enforcement? why not kill everyone who destroys America? Are fat kids destroying America less than women with pronouns? Then wouldn't be patriotic to exterminate people with bad genes and improve nations genes?

BTW this is happening everywhere with persecuted people. Assailants feel trigger happy, they trust the system that will protect them from actual consequences. Most of the time there's some benefit of doubt that can be attached to the action and even when everything is clear and well documented they end up getting special treatment, they become heroes and they are looked after in prison or after the prison.
by lesuorac | 2026-01-08 14:05:44+00:00
Maturity is when the other party pays back the initial principal back which in this case is the $1.

So for an example contract "Trump invokes War Powers against Venezuela by...?" - https://polymarket.com/event/trump-invokes-war-powers-agains...

It's maturity is ideally the date listed in the contract (i.e. by Jan 9th) but may extend for 10 days in case a report's publication was delayed.

That said, you can sell contracts to other users (which is typically what happens ...) so when people buy a Yes contract for 5c they're not buying from Polymarket; they're buying it from somebody else. This allows you to make money before maturity.
by bluGill | 2026-01-08 14:06:04+00:00
There is a reason most in the US are going to using a translation wireless system. Channel one is English, channel eight is Spanish (8-64 channels are available depending on the system you buy). Unlicensed FM transmitters also work well for this. You need to make sure you don't conflict with other nearby users, but that generally is easy (and if there is a possibility you should have an agreement to have your "Christmas pageant" on different days so you can borrow each others receivers for the busy time thus saving both of you money).

Auracast looks like the future of this, so make sure anything new you get supports that. Those so few systems support it don't expect much of it - you should demand this to ensure the manufactures know there is demand, long term it is better for everyone to use one standard.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-08 14:06:14+00:00
You can see from bits and pieces of their post history that they're likely all three [1], considering how far they've been willing to bend to try and defend increasingly absurd claims. I normally don't like making accusations like these sort of things, but given how quickly people have fallen into lockstep with the exact same argument which is easily debunked by watching the video I start to question their actual intention.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45549846
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-08 14:06:32+00:00
How is going to medical school a measurement of problem solving ability? You need to cite a metric involving ACTUAL problem solving. For example, a misdiagnosis is a FAILURE at solving a problem.

Instead you say “medical school” and cite the Harvard handbook as if everyone went to Harvard and that the medical book was a quantitative metric on problem solving success or failure. Come on man. Numbers. Not manuals.

> The human body isn't a 737

Are you joking? You know a 737 is responsible for ensuring the survival of human bodies hurdling through the air at hundreds of miles per hour at altitudes higher than Mount Everest? The fact that your risk of dying is lower going through that then getting a correct diagnosis from a doctor is quite pathetic.

This statement you made here is manipulative. You know what I mean by that comparison. Don’t try to spin it like I'm not talking about human lives.

> Ignorant.

Being a car mechanic is a respectable profession. They get the typical respect of any other occupation and nothing beyond that. I’m saying doctors deserve EXACTLY the same thing. The problem is doctors sometimes get more than that and that is not deserved at all. Respect is earned and the profession itself doesn’t earn enough of that respect.

Are you yourself a doctor? If so your response speaks volumes about the treatment your patients will get.
by azalemeth | 2026-01-08 14:06:41+00:00
In en-us education "101" is often used to refer to an introductory course in a particular topic. My inference from the fact that this _educational_ slide is called "101" is that this is a basic example of core knowledge that people in this area of work are expected to have. It therefore stands to reason that there exists a "102" or "103" course that expands upon it, as well as material going far beyond "the syllabus".

The NSA and thirteen eyes generally have detailed traffic logging capability at core internet exchanges around the world. It is reasonable to think that a good way of exfiltrating data would be by having something like an ICMP or maybe even TTL based covert channel, such that there is no chance that the sent data is ever received by the recipient. I am just speculating – but that's why I thought this was interesting.
by rldjbpin | 2026-01-08 14:06:47+00:00
> Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games but charging per hour. Imagine how that impact Call of Duty or GTA.

Don't you worry! R* is already selling one (albeit optional) [1]. it is expected to be there from day 1 in their next title. perhaps this could become closer to reality once the current subscription becomes commonplace.

[1] https://www.rockstargames.com/gta-plus/benefits
Show HN: GPT Packer conversational container packing with 3D load plans
by reverseblade2 | 2026-01-08 14:07:49+00:00
GPT Packer is a container and pallet packing tool that works through a conversation instead of rigid forms.

In real logistics scenarios, users often start with incomplete information (for example, pallet footprint is known but height isn’t). Most tools either fail or force full data entry before producing anything.

This tool detects missing variables, suggests common industry defaults when appropriate, and then generates a full 3D load plan with utilization feedback.

It’s designed for incremental, constraint-driven packing rather than one-shot “perfect input” optimization.
by orwin | 2026-01-08 14:08:01+00:00
I don't know about salaries in Mexico, but ~8 years ago the salaries in coastal cities industries for unqualified workers were above 600€/month if I did the conversion correctly at the time, which is 2 to 10 time higher than agricultural jobs.

That was an issue where I was visiting because basically 90% the non-retired adults were working on the coast, 2 days away, and let children with their grandparents all year round except for their vacations. Apparently that created a kind of 'lord of the fly' situation in some villages, but don't quote me on that, I didn't saw it myself. What I saw was the young there feeling abandoned and let down by the central and provincial government, and their parents.
by andai | 2026-01-08 14:08:49+00:00
Sure, so my experience is... It feels like something solid is dissolving. That's the most common experience. It goes from the sharp heavy sensation into a diffuse watery pleasant sensation.

There could be many other effects as well. There can be sharp pain. There could be dull throbbing. It can feel like stuff is moving around (especially in the gut area, which seems to respond to such a process with actual physical movement).

Basically it's pretty weird if you're not used to it.

But in my experience, the fear of what we might experience is almost always greater than what we actually do experience. Which I think applies to life in general as well.
by sh4rkb0y | 2026-01-08 14:08:49+00:00
At the same time, those that have hearing aids often complain that T-coils aren't properly set up or turned on, even in public building where they are required to (at least in Norway).

"Yes, we have T-coils, but the person responsible for it isn't here right now, and no one here knows how to use it."

So, still quite a few limited factors to their actual usefulness in society unfortunately.
Show HN: An Interactive playground to practice Low-Level Design (LLD) interviews
by vdsanku | 2026-01-08 14:09:29+00:00
Hi HN,

I struggled with low-level design interviews even after reading a lot of blogs and books.
The problem wasn’t lack of theory, but lack of real practice.

So I built a visual-first LLD practice platform that mimics how interviews actually happen:
- clarify requirements
- identify entities
- draw class diagrams
- apply design patterns
- write code
- and get structured AI feedback

It includes an interactive playground with real-world problems (parking lot, ATM, JSON parser, etc.),
visual explanations, and multi-language solutions.

This is a bootstrapped side project and I already have a small set of paying users.
Would love feedback from the HN community.

Website: https://lowleveldesignmastery.com/

Happy to answer any questions.
by kibwen | 2026-01-08 14:09:43+00:00
> its stored forever in the proxy cache

This is mistaken. The Go module proxy doesn't make any guarantee that it will permanently store the checksum for any given module. From the outside, we would expect that their policy is to only ever delete checksums for modules that haven't been fetched in a long time. But in general, you should not base your security model on the notion that these checksums are stored permanently.
by hmokiguess | 2026-01-08 14:10:16+00:00
While this article is just about optics, I would say the comments here about how the coding agents fare fail to realize we’re just a niche when compared to the actual consumer product that is the Chatbots for the average user.

My mom is not gonna use Claude Code, it doesn’t matter to her. We, on Hacker News, don’t represent the general population.
by lrvick | 2026-01-08 14:10:28+00:00
It causes a major difference. It forces all uses of screens in common spaces with others present, to be inclusive to said others. You do not open anything on shared screens you do not mean for others to participate in, so they function more as collaborative tools instead of private escapes.

Anyone can grab a remote and access to summon shared entertainment, order food, do shared research, fact check something, etc... but said screens are just linux machines with no proprietary software or magic addictive algorithms. Just tools.

Also when we walk away from them they do not follow us, and they cannot notify us.

It has completely changed the way my family and I interact with, and separate ourselves from, the internet.

If my phone battery died, I used to panic. Now with no phone, when I leave home, I am just... present, and can get lost in my own thoughts again. A skill I lost for decades with distractions always in my pocket.

Really just moving the screens further away, tethering them to walls, and ditching all proprietary addictive software is easier. Also a couple TVs and mini pcs cost less than one modern smartphone and covers the whole family.
by nsteel | 2026-01-08 14:10:35+00:00
Tidal seems less obsessed with breaking everything all the time. They have a decent API and while they want you to use their playback SDKs, they're relatively less hostile to the various 3rd-party playback libraries (they don't actually encrypt their media, so once you have a valid bearer token you've got everything). I've not tried their Tidal Connect solution but I have heard it's a bit rubbish.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-08 14:10:47+00:00
>I really have no idea how long the average consumer holds onto a TV, but if we guess 3-5 years

3-5 years is smartphone life. New TVs should easily last 10 years. My $600 1080p TV from 2016 is still in the living room. A subsequent $600 4K TV bought in 2020 is also fine. I don’t see what could prompt me to replace them until they break. The quality difference is negligible, especially with the garbage bitrate most streaming services provide.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-01-08 14:10:51+00:00
Most smart TVs have advertisements and spyware that yields additional profits. Same with some electronic devices: Apple devices and Windows laptops sold directly by Microsoft have less advertising and spyware, but at a higher price.

Years ago I got so fed up with the smart TV experience that I bought a $200 dumb TV at Walmart, only had one HDMI input and terminals for a local antenna - hooked an Apple TV into it and had such a good experience.

It is easy to lose sight of how much money is made by collecting data on people and advertising.
by bluGill | 2026-01-08 14:11:08+00:00
That depends on what I'm reading.

I sometimes read math papers - these are hard to read and I don't understand much, but I'm willing to deal with the chore because it expands my thinking long term to do so. People should read works like this that are at the edge of what they can understand. Even if there isn't a test, it will sometimes help with life (there is some evidence this delays mental decline and thus results in a longer life span - I'm not sure if it is true but an additional point)

When I'm reading "dragons vs rouges" or some such fiction I'm looking for fun so if the book isn't fun I drop it fast. I probably wouldn't get far with "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" if what you say is true - there are more fun books I would enjoy than I have time to read as it is, so if fun is the goal I'm going to drop anything that isn't proven fun quick.