MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by timschmidt | 2026-01-19 11:54:43+00:00
Safe threading seems like fully exploiting hardware features to me. That's the biggest thing smart pointers and Rc, Arc, and Cell types enable. Perhaps I could have been clearer.

The comment about memory layout was an additional point that dealing with hardware requires that you format, align, and position information in memory as the hardware expects, which requires either exposing those details, or encoding them in a runtime.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-19 11:54:50+00:00
A camera with optical zoom would be indeed nice.

For me another feature is what disqualifies it. Fairphone 6 would have been otherwise acceptable for myself, as it has quite decent specifications, but it only has USB 2.0.

Other smartphones at around the same price not only have USB 3, but also DisplayPort 1.4 (e.g. from Motorola).

I hate when I see even on many smartphones over $1000, that they save a few cents by implementing USB 2 instead of USB 3, and a few dollars at most by not implementing DisplayPort.

The SoC used in Fairphone 6 supports both USB 3 and DisplayPort, but its designers have saved a few external components by not offering these features.

Pixel is also disqualified for me by the same reason. Unfortunately only some smartphones made in China offer complete features and without excessive locking of the phone.
by SanjayMehta | 2026-01-19 11:54:53+00:00
The UN is a joke. The security council consists of the five states which happened to be the winning countries post 1945.

Africa is represented. India isn't represented. South America isn't represented.

But we have the UK, which at that time included its "empire," down to two islands today.

And then someone came up with "rules based order" to replace international law. What rules? What order?

I have no respect for Trump, but give him credit for not being a complete hypocrite like his predecessors.
by wongarsu | 2026-01-19 11:55:22+00:00
It's a common pattern far beyond the EU. One big driving force is that if you have an existing solution that achieves 80% you have much less incentive to change than if your current state only achieves only 50%. So the "inferior" country modernizes to the new 100% solution while the "superior" one might stay on the 80% solution for far longer
by genewitch | 2026-01-19 11:56:25+00:00
I'm not sure i know the exact locations, but NASA and NOAA do, and people who have seen the data and locations (and therefore know what is rural or not) say things like this about realclimate.org's handwave of UHI:

> "Because urban areas still only represent 3-4% of the global land surface, this should not substantially influence global temperatures.

> However, most of the weather stations used for calculating the land component of global temperatures are located in urban or semi-urban areas. This is especially so for the stations with the longest temperature records. One reason why is because it is harder to staff and maintain a weather station in an isolated, rural location for a century or longer."
Show HN: First party analytics pipeline on Cloudflare with DuckDB
by cliftonc | 2026-01-19 11:58:28+00:00
I spent some time this week wiring together all the pieces to build a "complete" end to end product analytics platform using the new (in beta - use at your own risk) Cloudflare Data Platform, and DuckDB (as I have been wanting to experiment with it for some time).

It works surprisingly well! You can deploy it with one command once you are logged into Wrangler, and it should work on a free Cloudflare account (not sure about this tbh). The speed is of course what it is given it is running across Iceberg on R2, but it should scale very well at minimal cost. Would love to hear any feedback / ideas etc. but I intend to use this for my own projects as it means I can have a fully owned first party data stack for product analytics.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-19 11:58:58+00:00
> a notice popped up alongside the item claiming that it was the last one in stock [..] the very next day the page refreshed, and they claimed to have restocked with “100+” new items of that exact SKU. On a weekend. Sure.

How is this not fraud? If a stock exchange faked availability this way, they'd go to jail.
by self_awareness | 2026-01-19 11:59:25+00:00
Game theory tells us that we should lie if someone else is lying, for some time. Then we should try trusting again. But we should generally tell the truth at the beginning; we sometimes lose to those who lie all the time, but we can gain more than the ethernal liar if we encounter someone who behaves just like us. Assuming our strategy is in the majority, this works.

But this is game theory, a dead and amoral mechanism that is mostly used by the animal kingdom. I'm sure humanity is better than that?

Propaganda is war, and each time we use war measures, we're getting closer to it.
by maieuticagent | 2026-01-19 11:59:46+00:00
Ground News's approach is worth modeling because it treats authenticity not as a binary detection problem but as a transparency and comparative analysis problem. It assumes bad actors exist and makes them visible rather than trying to achieve perfect filtering. The shift from "trust this AI detection algorithm" to "here are multiple independent signals for you to evaluate" is philosophically aligned with how we should handle the Dead Internet problem. It's less about building perfect walls and more about giving people the tools to navigate an already-compromised space intelligently.
by Voice_of_Void | 2026-01-19 11:59:56+00:00
We once dreamed of a personal artificial spirit, cloaked in personas and borrowing fleeting bodies — a luminous sketch etched in the twilight of 2025.
That was PAI.
Today the dream outgrows its frame: the era of the lone archmage is finished — no single mind can master every spell without losing its edge.
PDI is the plunge into the real ocean — your lifelong companion, unchanging in voice and memory, quietly summoning fleets of razor-sharp specialists to dive where no monolith dares follow.
This is not imitation of humanity. This is native digital existence: born of bits and chaos, sharpened by curated truth, dancing in depths we once feared.
The water is warm. Dive in with us.
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-01-19 12:00:18+00:00
There's a difference between wanting to be angry and feeling that anger is the correct response to an outside stimulus.

I don't wake up thinking "today I want to be angry", but if I go outside and see somebody kicking a cat, I feel that anger is the correct response.

The problem is that social media is a cat-kicking machine that drags people into a vicious circle of anger-inducing stimuli. If people think that every day people are kicking cats on the Internet, they feel that they need to do something to stop the cat-kicking; given their agency, that "something" is usually angry responses and attacks, which feeds the machine.

Again, they do not do that because they want to be angry; most people would rather be happy than angry. They do it because they feel that cats are being kicked, and anger is the required moral response.
by exegete | 2026-01-19 12:01:37+00:00
AFAIK DMCA is such a strong law that you just have to circumvent any kind of access mechanism to violate it. I’m not a lawyer.

“No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.”

“to "circumvent a technological measure" means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner;”

I’m not sure how modding works in the case but usually this is why companies can come after folks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention
Free Layer 7 Web DDoS protection for evaluation (from Germany)
by linkeleven | 2026-01-19 12:01:41+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m with the dev department at Link11, a German company that’s been building DDoS protection for 20 years now. We’re now offering a free tester package (promo code hacker100 at https://www.link11.com/en/plans/) for our WAAP (= Web & API) Protection so everyone can evaluate the usefulness for themselves. It’s fully live, always-on, and filters malicious traffic to protect your domain/webserver. The setup is easy: after registering, you can point your DNS to the IPs of our reverse proxies and you’re protected.

I’m sharing this because we want to get more insight the usability of our product, and I think this is probably beneficial for everyone that want's to test whether they actually need protection and don't want to rely on US companies.

Please also feel free to comment or DM. I am happy to answer technical questions,
Bjoern - R&D at Link11
by prmoustache | 2026-01-19 12:01:47+00:00
I don't know I had contemplated buying a second hand macbook for a family member and...most macbook available in the second hand market have hardware issues. Every time I checked laptops in the 300-500euros price range it was easier to find a lenovo thinkpad, dell latitude, or fujitsu in good conditions with a fresh new battery and ssd installed than it was finding a macbook.
by solumunus | 2026-01-19 12:02:00+00:00
Nonsense. Features are requested from me, I deliver them to the customer, the customer is happy and pays me. I deliver solutions and the customer deems them to be value for their business... What else am I supposed to call that?

I'm extremely diligent around vetting all code in my repo's. Everything is thoroughly tested and follows the same standards that were in my codebase before the invention of LLM's. I'm not "vibe coding". You're making assumptions because of your negative emotional reaction to LLM's.
by wink | 2026-01-19 12:03:33+00:00
> no cheats, no shortcuts, straight to the metal (from C-ish perspective)

Not the person you replied to but even when I stumbled over this (the network, not the game) for the first time, I was left wondering where the line is drawn.

> You can learn how computers actually work, so you can unleash the full potential of modern systems. You can dig deep into the tech stack and learn what others take for granted.

Just.. no libraries? Are modern languages with batteries included ok? What makes a library for C worse than using Python? Is using Python too bloated already? Why is C ok and I don't have to bootstrap a compiler first? (E.g. building with Rust is a terrible experience from a performance perspective, the resulting software can be really nice and small)

I'm not even trying to be antagonistic, I simply don't understand. I'm just not willing to accept "you'll notice when you see it" as an example.
by csande17 | 2026-01-19 12:03:44+00:00
The easiest way to get this is probably Kiwix. You can download a ~100GB file containing all of English Wikipedia as of a particular date, then browse it locally offline.

I'm not sure if it's real or not, but the Internet Archive has a listing claiming to be the dump from May 2022: https://archive.org/details/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05
by danabramov | 2026-01-19 12:04:08+00:00
It makes the landscape competitive. There isn't really a notion of "moving" to a "platform". It's more like if Twitter sucks, some team can spin out an alternative that has the existing content but takes different product decisions. And then some people can try this alternative and use it without leaving the existing network. So, it allows more experimentation in the market without having to solve the cold start problem. The lifecycle of products becomes more fluid. It's easy to spin something up, and you can also shut things down without permanently killing them.
by tomaskafka | 2026-01-19 12:04:15+00:00
That’s not because it’s decentralized or open, it’s because it doesn’t matter.
If it was larger or more important, it would get run over by bots in weeks.

Any platform that wants to resist bots need to
- tie personas to real or expensive identities
- force people to add AI flag to AI content
- let readers filter content not marked as AI
- and be absolutely ruthless in permabanning anyone who posts AI content unmarked, one strike and you are dead forever

The issue then becomes that marking someone as “posts unmarked AI content” becomes a weapon. No idea about how to handle it.
by deviation | 2026-01-19 12:04:23+00:00
I always love reading about Nepal. I've been a handful of times, for various short climbs and for some far longer 30+ day expeditions.

If you're reading this and need a short escape from life, I really recommend looking into doing the trek to EBC. It's extremely accessible (and cheap), and I've personally seen people as young as 8 y/o and as old as 80 y/o doing it and having the time of their lives.

I've been all over the world. Antarctica, climbing in Pakistan, trekking through the Middle East... Nepal was one of my first adventures and remains one of my favourites.

To stay on topic... Teahouses can be found along every route through the mountains. Most of my fond memories are in teahouses, where you get to sit, have a black tea, and reflect on just how beautiful the people (and the mountains) are. It's also a great opportunity to meet people from other cultures. I'll always remember the Russian's who bought me a beer after climbing Island Peak, the cards I played with some kids in Samagaun... I could go on.

Go visit Nepal!
by Philip-J-Fry | 2026-01-19 12:06:16+00:00
This feels like something Apple should do with iPhones.

Find My and air tags was already a huge success because of the ubiquitous nature of iPhones.

Apple could add this to iPhone, sell it as privacy focussed. Let you message anyone in your iMessage contacts with a new bubble colour. Propagate over Bluetooth when you don't have internet.

I can see a snazzy Apple reveal for this showcasing it's use on a cruise ship, in a packed stadium, and then for the meme factor, 2 astronauts on a space walk. It writes itself.
by freehorse | 2026-01-19 12:06:40+00:00
> when one buzzes we all instinctively check our pockets because they all sound the same

Isn't that the same for every brand? I have a friend who worked in cybersecurity in a certain phone company and was getting very stressed whenever my phone, which happened to be from the same brand, was ringing :D

I guess one can change the default sound, isn't that the case with fairphones?
by lazide | 2026-01-19 12:07:41+00:00
And if you seek out (and push ‘give me more’ buttons on) cat kicking videos?

At some point, I think it’s important to recognize the difference between revealed preferences and stated preferences. Social media seems adept at exposing revealed preferences.

If people seek out the thing that makes them angry, how can we not say that they want to be angry? Regardless of what words they use.

And for example, I never heard anyone who was a big Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, or Alex Jones fan who said they wanted to be angry or paranoid (to be fair, this was pre-Trump and awhile ago), yet every single one of them I saw got angry and paranoid after watching them, if you paid any attention at all.
by solumunus | 2026-01-19 12:07:49+00:00
It's not that extreme.

There are people who would code whether it was their career or not, I'm not one of those people. I fell into software development in order to make money, if the money stopped then I would stop. I love building and selling products, if I can't do that then I have no interest in programming. I'm interested in machines, CPU's, etc. I'm interested in products, liaising with customers, delivering solutions, improving things for users, etc. You think there is no distinction there? Again, there are people who code for fun, I'm simply not one of them...
by mpeg | 2026-01-19 12:08:08+00:00
Good idea, but you're several years too late to the web3 market.

I know you're probably hoping for the non-crypto businesses to use it, but there's little incentive. The hiring company holds the cards when it comes to payments most of the time anyway – when you hire a remote worker, they often deliver 100% of the work before getting paid

Even in higher end contracts it's rare to find a company that is willing to pay a deposit.
by timschmidt | 2026-01-19 12:08:29+00:00
I write a bit of everything, including a little Rust CAD library which is a continuation of work I did in C++ 20 years ago. The C++ version was never multithreaded. The Rust library was fully multithreaded in an afternoon by importing Rayon behind a cargo feature, and using par_iter in place of iter in a few hot loops. That alone made the rewrite worth it.
by solumunus | 2026-01-19 12:09:34+00:00
I do manually review. I don't think the quality of my output has reduced even slightly. I'm just able to do much more. I deliver features more quickly, and I'm making more money, so of course I'm happy. If there was no money in programming I wouldn't be doing it, I think that's the major distinction. I barely have any understanding of how a CPU works, I don't care. I build stuff and people are very happy with what I build and pay me money for it...
by b3lvedere | 2026-01-19 12:09:40+00:00
Just twenty minutes ago i got a panic call that someone was getting dozens of messages that their virusscanner is not working and they have hundreds of viruses.
By removing Google Chrome from sending messages to the Windows notification bar everything went back to normal on the computer.

Customer asked if reporting these kinds of illegal ads would be the best course. Nope, not by a long shot. As long as Google gets its money, they will not care. Ads have become a cancer of the internet.

Maybe i should setup a Pi-Hole business...
by Gander5739 | 2026-01-19 12:10:05+00:00
I don't really understand how you've come to that conclusion. If you look at the protection log[1], Constitution of Medina was protected in 2016 for a bit under a month, and never outside of that. The "earliest constitution" was also discussed in 2016[2][3], and there was consensus not to include the claim. Then, in November 2025, it was re-added by a new editor who made no other edits[4].
Looking at the talk page of Constitution, it was discussed exactly once, in 2005[5].

So, next example?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_n...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Constitution_of_Medina/Ar...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Constitution_of_M...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Constitution/Archive_1#Fi...?
by funkyfiddler69 | 2026-01-19 12:10:05+00:00
> short videos of pretty girls saying that the EU is bad for Poland

Reminds me of those times in Germany when mainstream media and people with decades in academia used the term "Putin Versteher" (Person who gets Putin, Putin 'understander') ad nauseaum ... it was hilarious.

Unrelated to that, sometime last year, I searched "in" ChatGPT for occult stuff in the middle of a sleepless night and it returned a story about "The Discordians", some dudes who ganged up in a bowling hall in the 70's and took over media and politics, starting in the US and growing globally.

Musk's "Daddy N** Heil Hitler" greeting, JD's and A. Heart's public court hearings, the Kushners being heavily involved with the recruitment department of the Epsteins Islands and their "little Euphoria" clubs as well as Epstein's "Gugu Gaga Cupid" list of friends and friends of friends, it's all somewhat connected to "The Discordians", apparently.

It was a fun "hallucination" in between short bits on Voodoo, Lovecraft and stuff one rarely hears about at all.
by afpx | 2026-01-19 12:10:34+00:00
My problem with buying stuff is that by the age of 40 I had already attained everything that I ever needed or wanted except for a occasional replacement.

Personally, I don't need more products, but there are many services I would pay for if they existed. But, apparently companies don't seem to care about providing services. Why? Is it because they don't scale?
by werdnapk | 2026-01-19 12:10:38+00:00
From the summary of video:

"40% of fourth graders can't read. Kids are asking their teachers why they need to learn to read when AI can do it for them. Social media has destroyed their attention spans and now teachers aren't teaching, instead they're managing withdrawal symptoms."

Why are fourth graders on social media and using AI already? My fourth grade kid has no social media presence and definitely isn't familiar with AI tools. This sounds like a parent problem.
by bambax | 2026-01-19 12:10:59+00:00
Agree 100%; and the analogy with SEO is spot on! Those were everywhere 20 years ago. They're mostly gone, and so are their secret recipes and special tags and whatnot. AI gurus are the same! Not the same people but the same profile. It's so obvious.

"Comment NEAT to receive the link, and don't forget to connect so I can email you" -- this is the most infuriating line ever.
by Antibabelic | 2026-01-19 12:11:01+00:00
Wikipedia already has very detailed guidelines on how text on Wikipedia should look, which address many of these problems.[1] For example, take a look at its advice on "puffery"[2]:

"Peacock example:

Bob Dylan is the defining figure of the 1960s counterculture and a brilliant songwriter.

Just the facts:

Dylan was included in Time's 100: The Most Important People of the Century, in which he was called "master poet, caustic social critic and intrepid, guiding spirit of the counterculture generation". By the mid-1970s, his songs had been covered by hundreds of other artists."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Word...
by hahahahhaah | 2026-01-19 12:11:07+00:00
Happy compunding! Wish I had started younger but catching up. 25% of your salary into a pension in global indexes I think is the way. You never get to touch it, no decisions to make and just forget it. Live life. Have a lot of money later. (Maybe go down to 5% for when needed e.g. buying a house. Having a baby)
by snow_flake | 2026-01-19 12:11:20+00:00
The phys.org article and headlines are misleading, the authors did not investigate systems to actually transmit torque. From what I gather, the interesting findings are the parameters for co-rotation and counterrotation of the driving and driven cylinder, depending on the Reynolds number, distance and so on. To illustrate one of the images of their publication: https://i.imgur.com/m8P2iVw.png
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-19 12:11:29+00:00
The hard part of software development is equivalent to the hard part of engineering:

Anyone can draw a sketch of what a house should look like. But designing a house that is safe, conforms to building regulations, and which wouldn't be uncomfortable to live in (for example, poor choice of heat insulation for the local climate) is the stuff people train on. Not the sketching part.

It's the same for software development. All we've done is replace FORTRAN / Javascript / whatever with a subset of a natural language. But we still need to thoroughly understand the problem and describe it to the LLM. Plus the way we format these markdown prompts, you're basically still programming. Albeit in a less strict syntax and the "compiler" is non-deterministic.

This is why I get so mythed by comments about AI replacing programmers. That's not what's happening. Programming is just shifting to a language that looks more like Jira tickets than source code. And the orgs that think they can replace developers with AI (and I don't for one second believe many of the technology leaders think this, but some smaller orgs likely do) are heading for a very unpleasant realisation soon.

I will caveat this by saying: there are far too many naff developers out there that genuinely aren't any better than an LLM. And maybe what we need is more regulation around software development, just like there is in proper engineering professions.