MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by greggoB | 2026-01-16 19:16:50+00:00
I'm not going to take up the mantle of trying to dissuade you from your beliefs, but needless to say if you think that equating CNNs sensationalism-for-views model with the likes of Musk actively trying to dismantle Wikipedia [0] because he wants to rewrite reality (nevermind what Grok is currently doing [1]), then you need to have a hard look in the mirror.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-launches-grokipedia-wi...
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8gz8g2qnlo

P.S. feel free to "do your own research" if the above are included in your supposed propaganda operation conspiracy.
by logicx24 | 2026-01-16 19:18:22+00:00
Robert Caro, in the LBJ series, wrote about how LBJ would use the discomfort of being the bathroom as a negotiating technique and a show of dominance. He would drag senators into the bathroom and force them to listen to him talk as he used the urinal, or force his staffers to take dictation as he took a shit.
by tristor | 2026-01-16 19:18:47+00:00
A public park and a trail have very different meanings in my mind. When I say that I have encountered this on a trail, I'm specifically referring to trails in places which are designated wilderness areas, which are not subject to any ordinance. The US has a lot of national parks, national wilderness, and BLM land that is completely open to the public. That's a wonderful thing, but it also does not make sense to call for a park ranger to get involved in what is fundamentally a discontent at someone else's anti-social behavior, when I can simply have a conversation with them.

Behavior, and the response to behavior, exist on a spectrum. The fact you responded to me pointing out that "you do you" has philosophical limits, but that those limits should not involve criminalizing behavior, by suggesting I should campaign to enact an ordinance seems extremely obtuse. There is no need to change the law to criminalize making noise in a natural area, but similarly it's perfectly appropriate to tell someone to stop doing it.
by sublinear | 2026-01-16 19:18:49+00:00
HR is not merely about punitive measures.

This would be escalated to upper management to find out why people are under so much time pressure that they need to take calls in the bathroom, and at the very least doing so would be made some kind of violation of new policy.

These are the kinds of reports the organization needs as ammunition in order to fix what sound like bigger problems with the organization and work culture. There's very little chance this hasn't been noticed and isn't a symptom of something more going on.
by achairapart | 2026-01-16 19:18:50+00:00
When iPhones still had the headphone port, a friend of mine soldered a IR led on top of a minijack, something like this:

https://www.rtfms.com/wp-content/rtfms-com/LED-pinout.png

Then, with some special app, or even just playing some audiofiles — I don't remember — he'd do the same thing as the device above.
by abalashov | 2026-01-16 19:18:50+00:00
I understand the overwhelming opposition to this, and I wouldn't do it myself. However, I lead a life of very few meetings (I'd actually appreciate more--this stance puts me in a very small company, to be sure), so it's easy for me to say that one should be more judicious with one's timing.

I can emphathise with someone stuck in meetings all day in a predominantly listening role, that they consider perfunctory or mostly pointless, or maybe in a very active role that has them stressfully bouncing from meeting to meeting.

I can easily envision how this would lead to a kind of nihilistic resignation and a determination to just do normal life stuff with a headset on one's head.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-16 19:19:06+00:00
As I said in a comment elsewhere, arctic mining is doable with nation-state level resources. There's just no reason to do so that isn't better accomplished by other means. It would be stupid, expensive, and devastate a beautiful country.

As for "amenable", my experience is that people in the arctic are relatively unhappy about that sort of industrial development. They like the places they live.
by jorvi | 2026-01-16 19:19:48+00:00
Which is the right choice because our eyes cannot resolve that kind of DPI at that distance.

Past 2880p on most desk monitor viewing distances or past 1080p on most TV viewing distances, you hit steeply diminishing returns. Please, please let's use our processing power and signal bandwidth for color and refresh rate, not resolution.

This is also why I think every console game should have a 720p handheld 'performance' and 1080p living room 'performance' mode. We don't need 1080p on handhelds or 2160p in the living room. Unless you're using relatively enormous screens for either purpose.
by jbm | 2026-01-16 19:20:05+00:00
I live in a bubble in Calgary, and am from Montreal originally. Despite that, I saw lines of people waiting to sign petitions for separation in smaller cities. People who were happy to have their photos taken while they are signing petitions for separation from Canada.

There are some cultural factors in Alberta which draw it closer to the US than to Ontario and Quebec. Libertarianism, pro-fossil fuels, differences wrt firearms, differences in attitudes to crime and punishment, etc... The perception is that previous compromises around these items are slowly frayed to appease voting blocks in other provinces (mostly Quebec).

Then, the dirty reality; the Canadian economy has never been "great", at least in my lifetime. Nearly my whole class at university wound up going to the US, because one couldn't get a decent paying job in Canada in a lot of fields. Even our current prime minister did a ton of his work abroad. If separating (IE: joining the US) was only an economic question, only a tiny elite would support remaining a part of Canada.

The question Alberta separatists wish to ask is much less dishonest than the Quebec separation question in 95, which leads me to believe they are much more confident about their success. I wouldn't rule it out.
by cormorant | 2026-01-16 19:20:08+00:00
> mediaanalysisd

Incredibly, the current mitigation is a cronjob to SIGSTOP it once per minute. https://github.com/jac-jim/stop-mediaanalysisd

Yearslong history of this issue, with it getting harder and harder. https://gist.github.com/huksley/564be2c903312bcee7dffe415d12...
by simonw | 2026-01-16 19:20:11+00:00
As usual, I was careful with my words:

> This project from Cursor is the second attempt I've seen at this now!

I used the word "attempt" very deliberately, to avoid suggesting that either of these two projects had achieved the goal.

I don't see how you can get to "baseless hype without a hint of skepticism" there unless you've already decided to take anything I say in bad faith.
by JimsonYang | 2026-01-16 19:20:50+00:00
That’s an awesome point. I think it's an aversion on my end to charge a higher price. Partly because it's still a pretty green field so there’s a lot that hasn’t been built yet- features that companies would like to use and we would charge for.

Will we charge a premium in the future? Yeah, but only where we’re confident there’s real ROI and have a great product to back that. For instance, AI attribution in this space is incredibly difficult right now. And in my opinion, without hard numbers (revenue, sign-ups, conversions, etc.), I can’t justify asking for premium pricing.

Maybe I'm thinking about it wrong tho and making excuses for myself, I think you have a good point
by mpeg | 2026-01-16 19:20:55+00:00
Islands is just a catchy name I guess. I always thought the markojs terms for it made sense, but are more technical / less catchy: they called it “full page hydration” -> everything needs to be delivered as js and “component level hydration” -> islands, only specific component sub-trees need to be hydrated.

Then “sub-component level hydration” would be resumability like in qwik where only events and their dependencies get serialised as client js.
by steveBK123 | 2026-01-16 19:21:14+00:00
Right - the best QA people need only be as technical as your user base. Owning QA environment, doing deploys, automated testing, etc are all the sort of things that can live with a developer.

They are there to protect dev teams from implementing misunderstandings of tickets. In a way a good Product Manager should wear a QA hat themselves, but I've seen fewer good PMs than good QAs....
by oxag3n | 2026-01-16 19:21:31+00:00
Soft close toilet seat.

For example "Bath Royale Slow Close Toilet Seat" is between $60 and $70.

I stayed in AirBnB in 2021 with soft close seats and I don't know why, but for everyone in my family it felt like a luxury/comfort item. Knowing that there won't be bang, especially at night, especially with small kids, makes a difference. I'd never thought it would unless I stayed at that AirBnB.
by Bunas | 2026-01-16 19:21:33+00:00
We started building this after trying existing tools like Claude Code desktop. We realized we couldn't fully transition to them — my co-founder went back to Cursor and burned tons of money on tokens.

So we decided to build a tool that WE would actually use, and once we succeeded with that, we open-sourced it.
Since then we've received a lot of feedback on where to take this product - some use cases Anthropic will probably never do, like integrating Codex or adding other z.ai GLM subscription.

We're just trying to ship something we use ourselves, and maybe it could be useful to others, and see where it goes.
by n8cpdx | 2026-01-16 19:21:36+00:00
Here is my template from obsidian that I use for my weekly reflection - customize reflection based on your values and priorities. I have goals to improve work-life balance, social connections (social isolation was a factor driving poor outcomes, and through deliberate consistent effort I have solved this problem).

Hyper scheduling: https://dev.to/maxpatiiuk/series/32301 (I stumbled upon this and implemented a form of it, although mostly I just like the colors in my calendar)

Yearly reflection: https://yearcompass.com/

Weekly reflection:

```md
## Preparation

- [ ] Review year compass
- [ ] Review journal entries from the week
- [ ] Review last week's reflection

## Quick summary

> *Headline for the week*:

## Basic planning

- [ ] Set up outline of the week in Outlook
- [ ] Plan a fun weekend activity:
- [ ] Plan to visit one new restaurant:
- [ ] Plan one meet up or social activity:

## Values-based reflection

1. Health:
-
2. Resilience:
-
3. Social connection:
-
4. Mindfulness:
-
5. Adventure:
-

## Retrospective

1. Went Well
-
2. To improve
-
3. Plan to improve/action items
-

## Other notes

-
```

Daily reflection/journal:

```md

_Created: {{date}} {{time}}_
({{date:DDD}}/365)

Gratitude (I am for three items):

Healthy Living Plan:

- Diet:
- Exercise:
- Work+Learning:

Daily reflection:

- Overall wellbeing (1-10):
- Career:
- Lifestyle hygiene:
- Rose and thorn:

Journal:

```

I use TickTick because of the habit-tracking feature. Used to be todoist loyalist but it sucks for habits. https://help.ticktick.com/articles/7055781878401335296

Key habits I track:

- meditation (I combine with a fancy LED face mask to help reinforce the habit via my desire to combat wrinkles and acne - the cryoglow is better at acne than wrinkles so far)
- exercise (you can add notes)
- evening leisure time (if I don’t have dedicated leisure time, I end up revenge bedtime procrastinating/doomscrolling)
- stretching (there are two simple band stretching exercises that solved what I thought would be life-long neck and shoulder pain)

When I really struggle with productivity, I find the pomodoro system is a good bootstrap, and TickTick makes it easy to start. I like seeing the pomos on the built-in calendar.
by bikenaga | 2026-01-16 19:21:47+00:00
Abstract: "The near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 -- a ∼60 m rocky object that was once considered a potential Earth impactor -- has since been ruled out for Earth but retained a ∼4.3% probability of striking the Moon in 2032. Such an impact, with equivalent kinetic energy of ∼6.5 Mt TNT, is expected to produce a ∼1 km crater on the Moon, and will be the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history. Despite the associated risk, this scenario offers a rare and valuable scientific opportunity. Using a hybrid framework combining Monte Carlo orbital propagation, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) impact modeling, and N-body ejecta dynamics, we evaluate the physical outcomes and propose the observation timelines of this rare event. Our results suggest an optical flash of visual magnitude from -2.5 to -3 lasting several minutes directly after the impact, followed by hours of infrared afterglow from ∼2000 K molten rock cooling to a few hundred K. The associated seismic energy release would lead to a global-scale lunar reverberation (magnitude ∼5.0) that can be detectable by modern seismometers. Furthermore, the impact would eject ∼108 kg of debris that escapes the lunar gravity, with a small fraction reaching Earth to produce a lunar meteor outburst within 100 years. Finally, we integrate these results into a coordinated observation timeline, identifying the best detection windows for ground-based telescopes, lunar orbiters, and surface stations.
by barbazoo | 2026-01-16 19:21:50+00:00
Interesting, looking at it from that side. How does it work with traditional real world ads, billboards for example. I'd expect them to have a similar challenge. Not whether the ad was put in front of people, but the high level impact of the whole campaign.

How would advertisers know whether OpenAI even applied the ad to the paid for number of people's conversations, I don't know.
by xeraa | 2026-01-16 19:21:53+00:00
Funny argument on the query languages in hindsight, since the latest release (https://www.paradedb.com/blog/paradedb-0-20-0 but that was after this blog) just completely changed the API. To be seen how many different API versions you get if you make it to 15 years ;)

PS: I've worked at Elastic for a long time, so it is fun to see the arguments for a young product.
by anarticle | 2026-01-16 19:22:09+00:00
Here's the thing: this is like 0days, the bar gets higher and higher on served models from OpenAI/Microsoft/Google. Sure, some have api access and you can allow spicier content but a better answer is: "tl;dr: not reading that."

I'm tired of having to step around megacorp's opinions on how I should be running my software, what questions to ask. gpt5.2 is HELLA paternalistic when you ask for deep dives on technical questions. Try asking something near to state of the art and see how far you get, most decisions come with huge warnings about how "this idea won't work" etc.

This deviates from my expectation, which is a fun word calculator to help me with back of the napkin calculations quickly so I can do other things. If that's not the core use case, fine. But that is a flag to me that says this will continue to be a moving target, which is the OPPOSITE of what a tool is.

There are some projects to reverse alignment and other things, and those people are doing god's work for sure. For me, I want to be sure I have the ability to run these things on my own because I don't trust that this won't mutate into something not useful in my way on the long term.
by SuboptimalEng | 2026-01-16 19:22:23+00:00
Indian-American here. Thank you for this!

I have hearing sensitivity and have repeatedly asked my parents to lower the volume on TVs, whatsapp videos, insta reels 100s of times. They always lower it for 5 minutes before raising it back. Likely because they are losing their hearing, but unable to admit that.

I tend to be very mindful of others (maybe because I grew up in America), but my parents are not even mindful of my requests. Maybe it's a cultural thing? I expect those who have grown-up (or spent their whole lives) in India would do the same.

Definitely need to test this out app out when I go home.
by phony-account | 2026-01-16 19:22:30+00:00
> I believe it's like that in Germany and Scanda as well, from what I hear.

In Sweden I have seen Swedes telling-off immigrants or people who don’t look Scandinavian for all sorts of ‘social infringements’ (parking wrongly, wearing shoes in the wrong place, pretty much any other minor infraction you can imagine).

But I can honestly say that in the past 25 years I have never, ever seen them saying anything remotely like this to another Swede.
by kccqzy | 2026-01-16 19:22:57+00:00
If you just want 32 inches @ 6K there are cheaper options around, such as the ASUS ProArt PA32QCV: https://www.asus.com/us/displays-desktops/monitors/proart/pr... ASUS is a more well known brand. It doesn’t imitate the Apple aesthetic.

(It does seem like the resolution differs: 6016×3384 vs 6144×3456.)
by jfengel | 2026-01-16 19:23:07+00:00
Does anything really need to be built for that? From the first moment, you were only interested in a fraction of the Web. There has been a constant arms race between the search engines and the optimizers. We have always relied on suggestions from friends to sort out the "good" content (for whatever definition of "good").

There's much more total stuff now, and probably the fraction of "good" stuff is much smaller. But the total amount of it as at least as high.
by marcosdumay | 2026-01-16 19:23:19+00:00
> I suspect that if Rust continues forward with this approach it will basically end up as the code where someone goes to read the actual semantics to determine what the C code should do.

That will also put it on the unfortunate position of being the place that breaks every time somebody adds a bug to the C code.

Anyway, given the cultures involved, it's probably inevitable.
Show HN: Tiny Toy Debugger
by mitjafelicijan | 2026-01-16 19:23:35+00:00
I was messing around with LLVM and LLDB over the week and made this little toy debugger. It's messy, but I actually got something working. I have been testing my stuff and found it kind of pleasant to use.

This is not intended to be some competitor with other debuggers, but it could become a nice, quick to use thing.

There is a video on github where you can see how it works.

Would love to hear what you guys think.
by techblueberry | 2026-01-16 19:23:51+00:00
Philosophically, as a, I dunno "liberal". I find it interesting that there seems to be a distinction between like maybe is it pluralism vs singularism?

I just sort of fundamentally believe that there is mostly no objective morality, at least not on edge issues like the salience of this question about the difference between sex and gender and the idea that the solution is for everyone everywhere to have the same definition on sex and gender and more importantly, to think that through discourse you can convince say people to the left and right of you to share that same perspective--

In summary it's that -- I do think it's strange that, while clearly she has a very nuanced perspective on the difference between sex and gender what feminism should be, she seems to share a value with the conservatives she is arguing against that it is very important for us to determine what the objective morality on this issue is.

And, when you're advocating for the freedom for people to be who they want to be, it's quite odd - verging on bizarre to me to advocate for a singular definition, and not have some flexibility with other definitions.

This is a hard needle to thread; I both try to empathize with say trans and non-binary folks, and men and women who do see a lot of salience in their identity as a woman. But maybe this is why I'm a philosopher and not a politician. In my own life, it only benefits me to be able to hold onto multiple competing ideas. It's a core belief of mine on how to live a moral life. But I can acknowledge it becomes an issue when you try and create policy around it.
Ask HN: LLM Poisoning Resources
by totallygeeky | 2026-01-16 19:24:35+00:00
I'm sure this will get some pushback, but I was wondering if anyone had resources on how to integrate traps/tar pits into websites, llm prompting via hidden text, pushing bad data to llms and the like.

I have found a few different types of recommended approaches, such as:

- https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/

- tHe SpONgeBoB MetHOd

- https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/

I'm looking for more or some guidance on how to combine methods to really create something noxious.
by avaer | 2026-01-16 19:24:49+00:00
To be fair, even if "from scratch" means "download and build Chromium", that's still nontrivial to accomplish. And with how complicated a modern browser is, you can get into Ship of Theseus philosophy pretty fast.

I wouldn't particularly care what code the agents copied, the bigger indictment is the code doesn't work.

So really, they failed to meet the bar of "download and build Chromium" and there's no point to talk about the code at all.
by zahlman | 2026-01-16 19:25:11+00:00
> Why are Americans so passive? You're literally transitioning into straight up authoritarianism, yet where are the riots?

In the same place. You just aren't seeing footage of them on HN.

> Is there more stuff actually happening on the ground

There is, and there is lots of video of it. You only need search elsewhere.

I have seen such footage. It's all over the place. I've cited examples of what I've seen in other comments. You can infer keyword search terms from the descriptions and should be able to find them readily with any search engine.

> Are you not witnessing your government carrying out extra-judicial murders and then being protected by that same government?

They are not "extra-judicial murders". The only people who have died so far have been those whose actions presented a serious threat to the life or safety of federal officers.

Anyone who disagrees with my claim is welcome to provide contradictory evidence.
by woodruffw | 2026-01-16 19:25:15+00:00
One of the ideas behind short-lived certificates is to put certificate lifetimes within the envelope of CRL efficacy, since CRLs themselves don’t scale well and are a significant source of operational challenges for CAs.

This makes sense from a security perspective, insofar as you agree with the baseline position that revocations should always be honored in a timely manner.
by Flockster | 2026-01-16 19:25:18+00:00
Yes, I will never buy 16:9 again. On laptops 16:10 is already quite often and sometimes even 3:2 (Framework, Surfacebook).

For my desktop I am looking forward to getting a 3:2 monitor like the Benq RD280U

https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u.html
by mindslight | 2026-01-16 19:25:43+00:00
Is that the extent of your requirements (for now, at least) ?

As an American I keep trying to surmise what we're going to need to do to start repairing the damage from this massive self-own. It's kind of hard because we don't know where the bottom will be, but we at least need to start having these discussions on what constructive approaches might even look like - we can't have our milquetoast opposition party phoning it in yet again with entitlement as the less-bad option.

External context is key - one of the main goals of this hybrid warfare attack on the western world has been to disrupt our relationships with our allies, and also because other countries have developed Democracies that function way better than ours. So please know that at least some of us are listening.
by fsckboy | 2026-01-16 19:25:52+00:00
>Maybe they don't know of or don't have access to...

Maybe they don't know of or don't have any access to any sense of boundaries, as if they skipped the infant stage of development where they should have learned that "mom" is another person with her own coequal set of needs. And anybody with the urge to push back on this notion, please cover the case where it might apply to you to.