MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vladms | 2026-01-18 11:35:39+00:00
> We raised a decent amount of money from YC and other VCs, and despite that, the thing that helped us most for distribution

When one does not raise money you get questions like "how do we know you will be here in 6 months, how are you funded?". I doubt people will tell you directly "oh, we have seen you are funded we decided to give you a chance".

> raising money is sign that your business is not doing well

You can raise money to execute (a part of) a larger plans. There are various fields that have barriers to entry in terms of regulation and/or compliance. This can still be couple of FTE + costs before you can sign any deal.

> work on your startup as side project until it's already generating 1.5-2x your annual salary, in a stable way

This highly depends on the type of business. If you are for example in B2B you can't tell your customer "sorry I can meet only after 19:00 because of my other job" not to mention how you can be perceived.

I would add to reasons why you should raise money: make sure the startup has external feedback that you listen to. All founders are quite stubborn - which is good and necessary - and is hard to convince them they need to adjust/pivot/rethink things. Investors can do that, but best is to have some previous experience with the field, otherwise they can be just noise.
by AdrianB1 | 2026-01-18 11:35:40+00:00
I used jQuery for the past ~ 10 years on smaller apps and I had no problems with it. Then I slowly replaced it with modern JS wherever possible and I found that today I am using jQuery only because Datatables.js depends on it.

It was a nice ride, many thanks to the people that worked and still work on it. Not sure we'll ever see a jQuery 5, but that's life.
by aoplo | 2026-01-18 11:35:43+00:00
Elon Musk is an interesting case study in that he exposes how submissive and docile most men are around other men that they consider their superiors. He has an obsessive fan base of males who hang on to his every word, no matter he says. Even those who aren't obsessed with him tend to treat him with an odd sort of reverence. This site itself contains many of them. They consider him like a king.

Is he - or any other man - deserving of this? No. But men just can't help worshipping other men. Christianity is another good example. As is the military, showing that most men are naturally drawn to placing themselves within a hierarchy of other men, with one at the top, even if it ends in their demise.
Show HN: I built a real estate deal analyzer that handles hard money loan math
by AdityaPatwa07 | 2026-01-18 11:36:13+00:00
Hello HN,

I’m the developer behind RunTheNumbers. It’s a free suite of tools to analyze real estate deals (BRRRR, Fix & Flip, and Rentals).

I noticed that most new investors rely on complex Excel sheets that are brittle and prone to breaking—especially when you try to factor in "Hard Money" loans, bridge financing, or variable holding costs. The existing web calculators were often too simple or behind a paywall.

I built a dedicated engine that handles the messy logic of hard money loans (points, interest-only periods, etc.) and allows you to export "Lender-Ready" PDF reports directly from the browser.

I’d love to get your feedback on the UX and whether the "Cash on Cash" calculations feel intuitive to you.

Thanks!
by iagooar | 2026-01-18 11:36:14+00:00
This is a bad deal for many European countries that still have a strong farming industry, and for Europeans in general too.

Once again, Germany has pushed through its interests at the expense of other European nations like Poland. This time even France was against it.

What is Germany going to get? A new market for their decaying automobile industry.

What is the rest of Europe going to get? Cheap, low quality food shipped thousands of kilometers. Food produced with lower standards than food produced in the EU - so farmers in Europe now have to face unfair competition.
Show HN: Create a Beautiful Interactive Map
by apolkingg8 | 2026-01-18 11:37:01+00:00
Hi there,

I just saw a cool city map project (https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter) gaining some attention on Hacker News. I'm building a similar product so I want to share it with you.

If you're interested in beautiful maps, maybe give Tasmap a try. It's not just a static, beautiful map; it's dynamic and interactive, and connected with articles. There are 20+ well designed themes, and if you're not good at design, you can even have AI design it for you. You can embed it in your site or install it as an app on your phone. You can create a beautiful and useful map.

Give it a try and share your thoughts with me!
by accidentallfact | 2026-01-18 11:37:11+00:00
Mood and evidentuality are two somewhat distinct concepts.

Mood denotes the informations factuality, if something is, could be, would be, certainly is so, or there may be moods for direct or indirect commands (tell him to come) and so on.

Evidentiality denotes how the speaker knows - you use different evidentiality if you have directly seen something, if somebody told you, or if you deduced it.

Then there is mirativity, which denotes how expected or unexpecred the information was.

I believe that turkish has all tree.
by tannhaeuser | 2026-01-18 11:37:17+00:00
FIY the Wikipedia article rightfully says SGML CONCUR usage is uncommon, but compared to the stated alternatives for overlapping markup, it's basically the only one that is tolerable to use as actual markup language for use with a text editor. This is what it looks like:

<!doctype d -- element decls for a, b ... -->
<!doctype e -- element decls for a, x ... -->
<(d|e)a>
<(d)b>bla bla <(e)x>bla </(d)b> bla</(e)x>
</(d|e)a>

where the third "bla" span is marked up with overlap.

Basically, in case you've ever wondered, SGML CONCUR is the only reason that the element name in end-element tags needs to be specified. In strictly nested markup (XML) it always must refer to the most recently opened start-element tag hence it's redundant. SGML actually has "</>" but it didn't make it into XML.
by crote | 2026-01-18 11:38:00+00:00
On the other hand, it was only a couple of months ago when the Navy did a double tap to kill the survivors of their attack on an alleged "drug boat". Clearly the military isn't strictly following the whole "don't follow unlawful orders" any more.

But hey, perhaps things will be different when they are face-to-face with regular Americans who could've been their neighbors, instead of some anonymous pixels of foreigners on a computer screen.
by autoexec | 2026-01-18 11:38:10+00:00
> Therefore the proper military can indeed be an attempt to de-escalate the situation.

Considering that our military swore an oath to the constitution and to defend the country against domestic threats the correct thing for them to do might actually be an escalation against that alternative force of losers operating in American cities instead. I wouldn't bet on the military occupiers marching into Minnesota upholding their oaths though.
by dtech | 2026-01-18 11:39:27+00:00
This is an incredibly mid take.

This is a boon for any European manufacturing and tech company. Not "just" German car manufacturers but especially machining and pharmaceutical companies.

Farming is already incredibly subsidized in the EU, and has an outsized political capital for their importance based on historical momentum. This is also primarily bad for the beef industry, which is produced in the EU using very intensive and polluting (ammonia) methods which are also bad for animal welfare. They deserve no sympathy.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-18 11:40:45+00:00
Judging from the outside, many (most?) still believe in change through elections. It seems like Senate and House elections are happening in 2026, and seemingly people are waiting for those and hoping that this will trigger change, otherwise hold out to 2028 I suppose.

It seems like the administration been toying with the idea of cancelling both the upcoming 2026 elections, and the 2028, but how feasible that is, I don't know, as far as I know the US always have elections, even when at war, but then also lots of things that has happened had requirements and precedents that were never broken but still were, so not sure what will actually happen. I'm personally not super optimistic the administration won't at least try to stop them from happening.
by thefirstname | 2026-01-18 11:41:17+00:00
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by torginus | 2026-01-18 11:41:27+00:00
When I worked as a data engineer, I rewrote some Bash and Python scripts into C# that were previously processing gigabytes of JSON at 10s of MB/s - creating a huge bottleneck.

By applying some trivial optimizations, like streaming the parsing, I essentially managed to get it to run at almost disk speed (1GB/s on an SSD back then).

Just how much data do you need when these sort of clustered approaches really start to make sense?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-18 11:41:48+00:00
Nations (even left wing) need the ability of sovereignty to apply their ideas/iterate on them.

Make the existence of their sovereignty a threat and all factions will stand united setting their differences aside (usually).

Like its one of the most effective ways to unite a complete nation against a cause, in this case its against America and its calling the wrath of not just the danish people but the whole EU as it feels not just a threat on Greeland but EU itself.
by anal_reactor | 2026-01-18 11:42:13+00:00
No I didn't. Nuclear missles are only relevant when the existence of the country itself is at stake. But when the war is at the edges of the country, then losing territory is preferable over nuclear war.

Think about it - in case shit hits the fan, would you rather cede some territory like Alaska or Guam, or would you start nuclear war which results in complete annihilation of all major US cities?
by literalAardvark | 2026-01-18 11:43:11+00:00
Well yeah, but that's a _very_ different engineering decision with different constraints, it's not fully apples to apples.

Having materialised views increases insert load for every view, so if you want to slice your data in a way that wasn't predicted, or that would have increased ingress load beyond what you've got to spare, say, find all devices with a specific model and year+month because there's a dodgy lot, you'll really wish you were on a DB that can actually run that query instead of only being able to return your _precalculated_ results.
by primaprashant | 2026-01-18 11:44:08+00:00
They also have an API which you can use to get the icon SVG.

I love making (architecture) diagrams in D2 [1], and love using the vast library of icons from Iconify in my diagrams where it makes sense. A sample diagram with SVG from Iconfiy would look like this:

docker: Docker {
icon: https://api.iconify.design/logos/docker-icon.svg
}

kubernetes: Kubernetes {
icon: https://api.iconify.design/logos/kubernetes.svg
}

docker -> kubernetes: deploy

[1]: https://d2lang.com/
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-18 11:44:52+00:00
I don’t know what could possess someone to say Biden was just as bad as trump. It’s self evidently false

They mention that its self evidence but there is genuine evidence for this as well (which report do you want?) and its a fact and not deeply personal swipes.

Your comment on the other hand feels like not addressing the main points of what the GP said and much more like a smokescreen to this.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-01-18 11:45:00+00:00
Wait and see how it goes. This deal might have real political consequences countries opposed to it, especially in France because of the opposition to the deal and by demonstrating that the country no longer has control: so this is a vindication for eurosceptic parties and embarrassing for the most pro-EU ones. This may just be short-term anger, and the whole establishment will push for it to be forgotten asap as the Presidential elections are in just a bit more than a year away.
by brabel | 2026-01-18 11:46:20+00:00
That the impression I had! The mention of the US government pressing Olivetti to sell its electronics division to GE before the mysterious deaths of the main people managing that division does make it look seriously suspicious what happened. The success of US corporations today does not seem to have been only a result of America’s aptitude for business as we tend to think, but also of plain government intervention.
by bildung | 2026-01-18 11:47:16+00:00
But is that really true, i.e. were you able to find actual facts supporting this? I'm asking because in Germany there are similar talking points driven by the farmer's associations (actually just the big agro corps, actual small-scale farmers don't have much of a voice in these) and everytime I tried to dig into a particular topic, it didn't seem to be supported by actual facts.
by oytis | 2026-01-18 11:47:16+00:00
Most importantly, Europe needs more trading partners after having lost Russia and now losing the United States. Second, I am happy about German (I suspect it's similar in other EU countries) farmers largely supporting the far-right getting a taste of a world without protectionism and regulations. Finally, I hope for lower grocery prices, not only for myself, but also because it makes the whole social situation less explosive.
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2026-01-18 11:47:22+00:00
> The most commonly cited etymology is the Old High German "halâ" – a cry historically used to hail a ferryman.

To this day there's a ferry and company called Hal över ("take me across" in the local dialect, "Hol rüber" in standard German) https://www.hal-oever.de/de/home/ in Bremen, Northern Germany
by lm28469 | 2026-01-18 11:47:54+00:00
Amazing, we sell them our gadgets and in return we get growth hormone beef and other agricultural products which don't even meet 1980s EU regulations, big win indeed

God forbid we subsidize food too, it's only like the #1 priority when it comes to sovereignty after all, we should definitely not produce locally and rely on foreign countries for our food autonomy
by makerofthings | 2026-01-18 11:48:19+00:00
I like the older icons so much more. I'm not in so much of a rush that I care about icons making it 2ms faster to differentiate and click the right thing. I want some character and some love in my GUI. I want different components clearly laid out, I want scroll bars. Favourite GUI, Windows 95 and Snow Leopard.

I demand Whimsy.
by imiric | 2026-01-18 11:49:28+00:00
> You cannot appeal to trendlines while arbitrarily discarding the very history that defines them without committing selection bias.

> When large numbers of analogous past events point in contradictory directions, individual anecdotes lose predictive power. Trendlines are not an oracle, but once the noise overwhelms the signal, they are the best approximation we have.

I'm confused. So you're agreeing with me, up until the very last part of the last sentence...? If the "noise overwhelms the signal", why are "trendlines the best approximation we have"? We have reliable data of past outcomes in similar scenarios, yet the most recent noisy data is the most valuable? Huh?

(Honestly, your comments read suspiciously like they were LLM-generated, as others have mentioned. It's like you're jumping on specific keywords and producing the most probable tokens without any thought about what you're saying. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for one more reply, though.)

To be fair, I think this new technology is fundamentally different from all previous attempts at abstracting software development. And I agree with you that past failures are not necessarily indicative that this one will fail as well. But it would be foolish to conclude anything about the value of this technology from the current state of the industry, when it should be obvious to anyone that we're in a bull market fueled by hype and speculation.

What you're doing is similar to speculative takes during the early days of the internet and WWW. How it would transform politics, end authoritarianism and disinformation, and bring the world together. When the dust settled after the dot-com crash, actual value of the technology became evident, and it turns out that none of the promises of social media became true. Quite the opposite, in fact. That early optimism vanished along the way.

The same thing happened with skepticism about the internet being a fad, that e-commerce would never work, and so on. Both groups were wrong.

> What skeptics keep doing is reciting known flaws while refusing to reason about what is no longer a limitation. At that point, the disagreement stops being about evidence and starts looking like bias.

Skepticism and belief are not binary states, but a spectrum. At extreme ends there are people who dismiss the technology altogether, and there are people who claim that the technology will cure diseases, end poverty, and bring world prosperity[1].

I think neither of these viewpoints are worth paying attention to. As usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle. I'm leaning towards the skeptic side simply because the believers are far louder, more obnoxious, and have more to gain from pushing their agenda. The only sane position at this point is to evaluate the technology based on personal use, discuss your experience with other rational individuals, and wait for the hype to die down.

[1]: https://ai-2027.com/
by Havoc | 2026-01-18 11:49:57+00:00
You’ve not been in London’s deep underground lines I take it? Some of the tunnels are so ancient and cramped that tall people can’t stand straight in most of the carriages. As the article says there just isn’t space to add equipment. Same reason they’re struggling to add air conditioning to older lines - no clearance

The recently built lines had 5G etc from the start. It’s not difficult when the environment isn’t constraining you. Even malls add indoor 5g these days
by thevinchi | 2026-01-18 11:50:11+00:00
Until this moment, I did the same thing… but right now I realize, this behavior incentivizes a domain owner to intentionally break their site, to trick the visitor to disable their blocker.

Then the browser: refreshes the page, downloadz all the thingz… presents cookie banner.

I’ve been using uBlock (or Brave) for years now, and when “something doesn’t work right” the first thing I often do is lower my shields… :facepalm:

From now on, I’ll just bounce. Keep your cookies, I’m not hungry.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-18 11:50:59+00:00
EU is also this close to making a deal with India and both India and EU are enthusiastic about this deal or EU is very optimistic to create a deal with India

A deal which was being on hold for atleast a decade.

It's just not the EU which is more willing to make deals but the rest of world (India got hit with 50% tarrifs) as well.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-01-18 11:51:10+00:00
Restricting the analysis purely to economics is a big mistake, imho, like it was during the Brexit referendum in the UK.

Even if France agriculture is a very small percentage of the GDP and jobs. But what has happened is a demonstration of the loss of sovereignty with the EU effectively imposing something against the wish of the country. So the significance is political, and we'll see if that has tangible political effects or not.
by DetroitThrow | 2026-01-18 11:51:56+00:00
>Datasets never become big enough…

Not only is this a contrived non-comparison, but the statement itself is readily disproven by the limitations basically _everyone_ using single instance ClickHouse often run into if they actually have a large dataset.

Spark and Hadoop have their place, maybe not in rinky dink startup land, but definitely in the world of petabyte and exabyte data processing.
by toyg | 2026-01-18 11:52:30+00:00
Most of Europe has long reached a population density that makes it effectively impossible to achieve self-sufficiency, so this argument is pointless.

This is going to be a good agreement if it is policed well enough that Mercosur countries are effectively forced to raise their food-production standards (because accepting imports doesn't automatically mean they can ignore regulations on suitability). Europe gets cheaper basic staples and sells LATAM more services and value-added products.

I'd rather help our Latin "cousins" get out of poverty, than having to deal with the insanity of US culture wars.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-18 11:52:39+00:00
> I rewrote some Bash and Python scripts into C# that were previously processing gigabytes of JSON

Hah, incredibly funny, I remember doing the complete opposite about 15 years ago, some beginner developer had setup a whole interconnected system with multiple processes and what not in order to process a bunch of JSON and it took forever. Got replaced with a bash script + Python!

> Just how much data do you need when these sort of clustered approaches really start to make sense?

I dunno exactly what thresholds others use, but I usually say if it'd take longer than a day to process (efficiently), then you probably want to figure out a better way than just running a program on a single machine to do it.
by Amezarak | 2026-01-18 11:52:55+00:00
> shouldn't have issued conflicting orders

There were no conflicting orders, unless you mean ICE telling her to get out of the car while Good's partner yells "drive, baby drive!"

> shouldn't have gotten in front of her car,

It certainly would have been smarter for the ICE agent on a personal welfare level, but the idea that the cops have to leave you an escape route is silly.

> Any resistance to tyranny will involve disobedience of varying levels of severity. This administration is fascist in the true meaning of the word.

Right, well, I think it's pretty clear that anyone who is out protesting and resisting the incompetent, hateful, and violent thugs of a fascist regime should absolutely, 100% expect to be killed. I mean, that's what fascist thugs do. Instead, Good and her partner appear to have been caught totally off guard, with her partner demanding to know why they had real bullets. There's a disconnect somewhere.

Anyway, I guess one of my overarching points is that this is not actually unusual police behavior, even by international standards. It's getting so much attention because of its political salience. I don't know (and doubt) there is any coordination going on, but in these situations I think people should always ask themselves why: a) this event, like many others, is incorrectly being treated as unprecedented or beyond the norm and b) why it is so emotionally charged when similar past events were not, c) whether the emotionality is productive at all personally and d) whether the outrage is likely to lead to desirable political consequences. For a closely related example in the lattermost question, I am no lover of cops, but it appears the actual political results of the BLM protests were highly mixed, at best, and in some cases made things worse. So, for example, returning to a situation where we have immigration laws and minimal enforcement is clearly not a desirable end for anyone except maybe some classes of businessmen.
by axiologist | 2026-01-18 11:53:16+00:00
Since this is paywalled and archive.today doesn't provide any useable copy, here are some other sources:

https://www.andrewerickson.com/2026/01/honored-to-be-quoted-...

https://commstrader.com/news/thousands-of-chinese-fishing-ve...

https://min.news/en/military/5d824b7037942f3c9757f2079697308...
by fauigerzigerk | 2026-01-18 11:53:29+00:00
You shouldn't expect a database system to release memory back to the OS just because it's no longer needed for some specific purpose.

DuckDB has a memory_limit setting with a default of 80% of RAM. If you want to set a lower limit you can do something like

SET memory_limit = '1GB';

https://duckdb.org/2024/07/09/memory-management