MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-27 10:02:42+00:00
>I’ve seen lots of European press refer to this as the mother of all trade deals. What makes it so special?

EU MSM press is mostly a mouthpiece of Brussels that not always reflects the views and opinions of EU citizens, so take such grandiose claims with a piece of salt.

> Is it just the Europe took away a country once thought to be a future ally of America?

India isn't being taken away, they'll still keep trading with the US. India trades with everyone, if it benefits them. That's why they busy russian oil and then the EU buys it from them as laundered Indian oil. India does what's best for them regardless if the EU or US don't like it.

> Or that it’s bailing out Europe by giving them easy access to Indian consumers?

I doubt it's that. My Indian friends said this won't benefits the EU economy very much since the Indian consumer market is still much poorer compared to western countries so they still won't have money to splurge on European cars, cheese and wine.

I think the EU is just desperate at his point and grasping at any opportunity to increase trade even by fractions of a percent due to its stagnating economy and massive expenditure with the war in Ukraine that it will sign any trade deals.
Show HN: I built a local macOS dictation app using Nvidia Parakeet and MLX
by martin_makes | 2026-01-27 10:03:02+00:00
I built a voice dictation app for macOS mostly because I was tired of how awful Siri is and I didn't want to pay a subscription for cloud tools.

The app uses NVIDIA's Parakeet v3 (TDT) as the primary engine. Inference is handled by the FluidAudio library. It's insanely fast on M-series chips. For Intel users, I added local Whisper support ranging from Tiny up to Large v3 Turbo (quantized to save space).

The interesting part was the AI integration. I originally tried to pipeline the ASR output into Apple's Intelligence Foundation Model. It was a nightmare, because the content moderation filter blocked nearly every useful request.

So I scrapped that and moved to SwiftMLX. Now it runs Qwen 3.0 (0.6B to 8B) locally. You just set a hotkey, speak, and the local LLM handles formatting/rewriting/translation with very low latency. Zero data leaves your Mac.

It's a one-time purchase (no monthly fee). I'd love to hear what you think about the latency compared to standard Whisper implementations.
by Manfred | 2026-01-27 10:03:35+00:00
Fuzzy automated reviews should always run in an interactive loop with a developer on their workstation and contain enough context to quickly assess if they are valid or not.

When developers create a PR, they already feel they are "done", and they have likely already shifted their focus on another task. False positive are horrible at this point, especially when they keep changing with each push of commits.
by wobfan | 2026-01-27 10:03:40+00:00
> honestly I might start using Kimi K2.5 if its open source & just +/- Gemini Pro/Chatgpt/Claude because at that point I feel like the results are negligible and we are getting SOTA open source models again.

Me too!

> I like Gemini Pro's UI over Claude so much

This I don't understand. I mean, I don't see a lot of difference in both UIs. Quite the opposite, apart from some animations, round corners and color gradings, they seem to look very alike, no?
by michh | 2026-01-27 10:03:41+00:00
I flew out of the UK twice in relatively short succession in ~2018 and the first time was out of London City: did not have to take off my shoes. I was pleasantly surprised by this and concluded common sense had prevailed and it was no longer necessary. The second time was Gatwick, and based on my prior experience I did not take off my shoes. I got yelled at because "everybody knows you have to take off your shoes at the airport!". Then got subjected to an extra search of my luggage as punishment. Of course there was a razor in my bag of toiletries (one of those Gilette cartridge ones with a million blades - not an oldschool safety razor) and promptly 'got got' for that as it could have potentially injured the person searching my belongings. 0/10 would not recommend.
by pavlov | 2026-01-27 10:03:56+00:00
Ellison’s Murdoch killer flexing its muscles for a mild warmup.

They got Paramount and CBS and TikTok, are allied with Twitter, and still have a chance of grabbing Warner.

I don’t think American billionaires ever particularly liked Murdoch, an Australian, controlling so much of the media environment in their country. Maybe they’ll make an offer for Fox News that the Murdoch heirs can’t refuse.
by Shorel | 2026-01-27 10:04:23+00:00
In principle, I totally agree with you.

As someone who has used it and preferred WX over QT for Windows based programs, the issue is not in the look and feel of the final product itself.

It's the heavy use of C style macros instead of C++ templates, mostly.

The WX C++ code looks like Microsoft Foundation Classes. I am fine with it, but for a long term project, this could discourage new people joining the project.
by libertine | 2026-01-27 10:04:39+00:00
You're missing the point, celebrities just happen to have a huge reach and noticed the reach being cut.

This probably means everyone else is also getting their reach crippled.

Remember that even with clear video evidence, the administration lies about the events and tries to spin it as domestic terrorism.

So imagine what they are doing, and will do, without video evidence.

This is probably one of the darkest times in America... You have an administration that normalizes lying and violence, and a tens of millions of Americans that are choosing to close their eyes and suspend their morals because they're scared and confused.
by holowoodman | 2026-01-27 10:05:00+00:00
> All this "Americans must realize you are now PARIAHS and will NEVER BE TRUSTED AGAIN" business will seem novel to people today, but this was true when I was younger and America had just invaded Iraq right after Afghanistan.

Nobody really cared about Iraq or Afghanistan. Sure, it was fashionable to pretend to care, to get on a high horse and tell the USian rabble how immoral they were. But at the same time, people on their high horses also were glad that there was no Saddam Hussein anymore and that the Taliban were beaten (seemingly, back then).

It's different now because the US threatened to invade the Kingdom of Denmark, a supposedly very close ally. Even the threat of doing that is a red line that will be very very hard to uncross after Trump.
by ryuzaburo | 2026-01-27 10:05:19+00:00
I’ve spent the last few months performing forensic audits on compromised mobile devices, and I’ve encountered a recurring, chilling pattern I call "Structural Destruction."

When an attacker obtains a device passcode, they don't need to "hack" the OS anymore. Instead, they use the system's own integrity mechanisms—like Secure Enclave and administrative reset functions—to erase evidence of their intrusion. The more we "harden" the OS, the better it protects a criminal acting as an "authorized" user.

In this article, I’m proposing a framework called the "Biological Audit Trail" (BAT). The core idea is to anchor high-stakes digital events (like factory resets or eKYC overrides) to physical reality using sensor telemetry (IMU, barometer, heart rate).

If the logs say "authorized reset" but the pedometer reports zero steps and the barometer shows the device was static in a lab environment, we have a logical disconnect.

I'm curious to hear from the community: As we move toward a world of "invincible" hardening, how do we solve the authorization paradox when the "Master Key" remains a fragile 6-digit number? Is it time to expand our trust boundaries to include physical/biological consistency?
by perching_aix | 2026-01-27 10:05:29+00:00
I wonder what would be a better flow.

One big reason I can think of that would make one want a permanent data purge feature, is that the data is not on their premises but on the service provider's. I think GDPR might even require such a feature under a similar rationale.

So maybe a better formulation would be to force the user to transfer out a copy of their data before allowing deletion? That way, the service provider could well and truly wash their hands of this issue.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-27 10:05:40+00:00
This works in a country like India but even in Indian history, the movement can die down (it died down in chauri chaura as it became violent and Gandhi didn't like it being violent iirc) though my history about this can be a bit off and I can be wrong tho

Regarding Iran, most of their money is from Oil. As throwawayheui57 says. So I don't really think that they would care much for civil disobedience

I have heard that Iranian shops are either closed or running in the least minimum operational way (barely open/working)

Tough times. I hope for a better future for people of Iran.
by mikewarot | 2026-01-27 10:06:24+00:00
Please note that we had two independent working low code systems, back in the 1990s.

Back then, a domain expert could fire up either Delphi or Visual Basic 6, and build a program that was useful for them. If they needed more performance, they would hire a professional programmer who used their work as a specification, and sanded off the rough edges.

These days, Lazarus is the open source follow on to Delphi. It'll work almost anywhere. I've run it on a Raspberry Pi Zero W! The only downside is the horrible documentation.

Microsoft went off the rails with their push towards .NET, sadly.
by Zren | 2026-01-27 10:06:48+00:00
> less intuitive than I’d like it to be giant translucent strawberry in the middle of my screen at all times

You can disable the background image that in the options under Appearance. It's a holdover from Clementine's branding which I also find annoying. I also dislike the glow animation on currently playing track in the playlist which can also be disabled.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-01-27 10:06:54+00:00
The comments here insinuating that airplane terrorism is a non-issue would make for a good chapter in Carl Sagan's Demon-Haunted World.

Yes, after 9/11 airports did introduce 'security theater' methods. That is a fair.

No, worrying about airplane terrorism is not pearl-clutching. The most likely explanation for its decline is that the changes the establishment made were effective.

The establishment successfully dealt with the difficult problem of airplane terrorism, thereby leaving the public free to take it for granted and complain about the establishment.
Show HN: Blink-Edit – Cursor-style next-edit predictions for Neovim (local LLMs)
by atemyipod | 2026-01-27 10:07:25+00:00
Hey HN, we built a pure-Lua Neovim plugin that brings Cursor-style next-edit predictions to Neovim, running entirely on local models. Tab to accept, Esc to reject.
GitHub: https://github.com/BlinkResearchLabs/blink-edit.nvim

We're Blink Research Labs (https://github.com/BlinkResearchLabs) - an open research collective building AI coding tools in the open. Our philosophy is simple: if it's not open, it's not research; if it's not fast, it's not usable. We think the best AI coding tools shouldn't be locked behind $20/month subscriptions or closed-source walls.

We saw the Sweep model release a few days ago and realized the Neovim ecosystem deserved a complete, local-first, AI coding solution. So we built one.

What makes this different:

- Pure Lua, no external dependencies — No servers, no Node, no Python. Just Lua talking directly to your model backend. This matters when you're waiting for predictions on every keystroke.
- Multiple providers — Built-in support for Sweep (1.5B, optimized for next-edit) and Zeta (7B, from Zed Industries). Adding a new provider is ~50 lines of Lua.
- LSP-aware context — We fetch definitions and references for the symbol under your cursor and include them in the prompt. The model knows what foo() does before suggesting changes to it.
- Backend-agnostic — Works with llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, or any OpenAI-compatible server. Bring your own inference.

The plugin sends context-aware prompts based on your cursor position, recent edits, and (optionally) LSP symbols. Predictions render as ghost text inline. We handle all the edge cases: blink.cmp/nvim-cmp menu conflicts, debouncing, streaming, health checks.

Getting started takes 30 seconds:

llama-server -hf sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5b-GGUF --port 8000

require("blink-edit").setup({ llm = { provider = "sweep", backend = "openai", url = "http://localhost:8000" } })

The Sweep 1.5B model runs at 200+ tok/s on M-series Macs and fits comfortably on a 4GB GPU. For those with more VRAM, Zeta (7B) gives noticeably better predictions.

This is alpha software - we're iterating fast and want feedback. If you're a Neovim user who's been jealous of Cursor's tab-completion, give this a shot and tell us what breaks.
by wartywhoa23 | 2026-01-27 10:07:32+00:00
Being Russian and hearing about the horrors of war since my childhood, I always wondered how fascism, Nazis and WWII managed to become reality in 20th century.

Then, I witnessed the answers unfolding before my eyes in real time - torrential TV and Web propaganda, warmongering, nationalism and worse of all - total acceptance of the unacceptable in a critically large portion of the country's population. Among the grandchildren of those who fought against the same things at the price of tens of millions of lives. Immediately after the Crimean takeover it was clear to me that there will be war. Many denied this, mocking and calling me a tinfoil hat.

Well, I also always used to wonder who are those morons who allowed the things go south in Terminator, 1984, Matrix, Cat's Cradle and other well-known dystopias, what kind of people they were and what did they think?

It doesn't really matter that these concerns are on the opposite sides of the imaginary axis.

What really matters is this universal drive for digging their own and the next guy's graves in too many people, always finding excuse in saying "if not us, then someone else will do it". And: "The times are different now". And: "So you're comparing AI and fascism?".
by ai_lookout | 2026-01-27 10:07:32+00:00
For clarification, these results mean the problems are difficult when some aspect of the problem size grows (e.g. dictionary size, alphabet size, ...). For example for letter boxed, the size of the square can vary, so can the alphabet size and dictionary of words. See Table 1.

It is not really meaningful to talk about the computational complexity of most problems exactly as they are published in NYT, or they end up trivially in P, since the problem description length is bounded by finite English letters, fixed board size, finite English dictionary etc.
by vidarh | 2026-01-27 10:07:40+00:00
Make it write a plan or todo list, and then make it spawn sub agents to execute. If you have the main agent do the work it will soon go off plan and stop, but when it's just spawning agents, it will be willing to run for a very long time.

Also take care to tell it what it should solve itself rather than stop and ask you for help with, and run it contained so you can turn on yolo mode.
by mmis1000 | 2026-01-27 10:08:00+00:00
Valve actually don't forbid you to apply DLC distributed outside of their platform to apply to game you bought on steam though. There are tons of visual novel game distributed this way. Main game on valve and adult DLC on dlsite...etc only.

Besides that, almost all online game except for a few provide item though the in game store. I don't think they even need to pay for a cent to valve unless they want to use steam checkout service.

I wonder who ever used Steam would even buy this argument. It looks totally non-sense to me.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-27 10:08:04+00:00
pretty impressive how quickly Ellisons managed to make this whole situation suck and reek badly. they'll turn down the heat & stuff the frog back in the pot, then crank the heat up a bit slower this time, but there is just going to be such endless utterly preposterous censorship and algorithmic biasing for the right wing & ultra capitalist agenda, on and on now.

incredible beyond words that this was a unanimous decision by the supreme court. letting the us government set up whatever arraigned marriage it felt like for buying a social network is some wild meddling with businesses. and here we are, with the ultra capitalists doing exactly what they want to with one of the most popular social networks.

excellent write up for this absolute madness of a court decision, TikTok v. Garland and the First Amendment Anticanon by Evelyn Douek, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6118706
by n4r9 | 2026-01-27 10:08:05+00:00
Yes but Heathrow has around twice as many departures per day (edit after your edit:) than Gatwick.

This is on BBC news. Heathrow is twice as busy as any other airport in the UK. It's the easiest major airport to reach from London (other than LCY which is not that "major"). I literally know people who are leaving from Heathrow this week and are affected by this. C'mon, it's newsworthy.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-27 10:08:31+00:00
> There is a reason why the Iranian government cannot activate internet and phones anymore. Once people can communicate again, they will count and document the true scale of events. Right now, it seems the Iranian government would rather give up on internet and telephones altogether than having anyone find out, which tells you just about how bad the situation is.

I had talked to an iranian person who had misconfigured internet provider so I was able to talk to them on a forum. They mentioned that phone calls are still there in the daytime tho (they are cut at night), Sim,internet,starlink all are blocked

If someone's from Iran/related to it feel free to correct me but has there been any recent development where phone calls are completely shut off?
by timpera | 2026-01-27 10:09:36+00:00
The Conseil d'Etat seems to think that there is a contradiction between the original draft and the DSA: https://www.conseil-etat.fr/avis-consultatifs/derniers-avis-... (starting at number 12)

> "By imposing a ban on access to social media on online platforms, the wording of the proposed law could be seen as raising difficulties with regard to the Digital Services Act."
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-27 10:10:18+00:00
That seems like a downside to me, but as a Linux user, I tend to shun Microsoft products.

I do have to use Teams occasionally for work and bizarrely the web client in Firefox works far better than the native Linux Teams client. Not particularly difficult as the Linux Teams client wouldn't do anything except display a blank box (this was on Ubuntu).
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-27 10:10:55+00:00
My favourite anecdote of Japan is a gaming company (Sony, Playstation era?)

A Big Boss comes in and tells his vision for the future of the company and what they should do. Middle Bosses nod and agree.

Right after BB leaves, all Middle Bosses have a meeting where they try to figure out WHAT THE FUCK the Big Boss just said and what did he actually mean =)
by fatherwavelet | 2026-01-27 10:12:06+00:00
Do you think people were more optimistic about the future during World War 2? Or after WW2 when everyone was worried about nuclear annihilation?

How about before that when your new baby had a 30% chance of death before age 5?

Before that, starvation, plague and war were always real things to worry about for the entirety of human history.

I think everyone reading this has the same problem of needing to figure out hedonics in order to appreciate what you do have instead of focusing on minuscule bullshit that you don't have.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-27 10:13:18+00:00
Given that a sizeable percentage of U.S. people seem to still support Trump, I don't think trust is going to be rebuilt. There's also the massive issue of the U.S. political system that has been shown to have a fatal flaw - that would have to be fixed along with the broken two party system.

I liken it to Germany rebuilding trust after WWII.
by drob518 | 2026-01-27 10:13:25+00:00
It’s not even doing that. It’s just an algorithm for predicting the next word. It doesn’t have emotions or actually think. So, I had to chuckle when it said it was arrogant. Basically, it’s training data contains a bunch of postmortem write ups and it’s using those as a template for what text to generate and telling us what we want to hear.
by holowoodman | 2026-01-27 10:14:10+00:00
> I'm not sure if they still can do it, but the English made nuclear submarines.

Not really. The Polaris and Trident SLBM systems as well as the nukes they carry are US designs that the UK is allowed to use. And while their current PWR2 reactor is a British design, it is lacking. Therefore the next PWR3 design will be based on US S9G reactors.
by Barathkanna | 2026-01-27 10:14:13+00:00
That won’t realistically work for this model. Even with only ~32B active params, a 1T-scale MoE still needs the full expert set available for fast routing, which means hundreds of GB to TBs of weights resident. Mac Studios don’t share unified memory across machines, Thunderbolt isn’t remotely comparable to NVLink for expert exchange, and bandwidth becomes the bottleneck immediately. You could maybe load fragments experimentally, but inference would be impractically slow and brittle. It’s a very different class of workload than private coding models.
by dgxyz | 2026-01-27 10:14:13+00:00
If Apple watch said anything about that it's probably wrong. It can't accurately measure VO2 max.

Incidentally I got rid of mine recently. It is bliss not having one.

Also VO2 max is a crappy measure of fitness. I apparently had "average" VO2 max after a treadmill test. I can hike 50km with a 2km elevation gain in one go and not die. People with higher VO2 max I know, dropped out.
by sudoaptinstall | 2026-01-27 10:14:20+00:00
I popped in to see if it made it.

I've been using it for ages. It's awesome. I think the only issue I've ever had with it is some Bluetooth weirdness. Honestly, the reason I keep using it is the ability to use custom genres from the metadata as search windows. I have a bunch of custom genres (like performer which removes all the ft. xyz nonsense in artist listings) that I always find hard to access easily on most other players.
by Rebuff5007 | 2026-01-27 10:14:50+00:00
I've also been quite skeptical, and I became even more skeptical after hearing a tech talk from a startup in this space [1].

I think the best way to think about it is that its an engineering hack to deal with a shortcoming of LLMs: for complex queries LLMs are unable to directly compute a SOLUTION given a PROMPT, but are instead able to break down the prompt to intermediate solutions and eventually solve the original prompt. These "orchestrator" / "swarm" agents add some formalism to this and allow you to distribute compute, and then also use specialized models for some of the sub problems.

[1] https://www.deepflow.com/
by komali2 | 2026-01-27 10:15:34+00:00
I scrobble from navidrome to listenbrainz.

Then, logged in, I look here https://listenbrainz.org/explore/fresh-releases/ "for you" tab. Or here https://listenbrainz.org/explore/similar-users/

Then, when downloading in nicotine, you can click a user to see all their shares, so I just scroll through what other kind of stuff they have, and download anything that strikes my fancy.
by rajnathani | 2026-01-27 10:16:03+00:00
Also, not on the list: iCloud having a hard limit of 50,000 total calendar events and silently not syncing beyond it (and similar to the first iCloud Photos issue mentioned on the website: no indication of syncing state to know what's going on). For perspective, as someone using the Apple ecosystem for 10+ years now, that this comes to 13 events a day for 10 years.
by elzbardico | 2026-01-27 10:16:16+00:00
Then you’re fucking comically unlucky, there’s a shooting and some old enemy offs someone at the same address and flee, minutes before the police gets there.

Some pissed off riff-raff family member decides that you look like the killer.

You’d better have a top notch lawyer in your family or prepare to spend lots of money hiring one.