MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nlawalker | 2026-01-27 06:15:17+00:00
You’re right. I am genuinely curious though, so I shouldn’t have been so snarky about it. I’ll try again:

I’ve always been under the impression that large containers of liquids were forbidden because they were potentially dangerous. If that hasn’t changed, and if the new technology is only about being able to better detect the presence of liquids in packed luggage, why have the limits on container size changed?

EDIT: So I see that the article says that it’s about being able to keep the liquids in your bag when going through security. But I thought liquids in large containers were forbidden from going through security entirely unless you had some kind of medical justification for them?
by keiferski | 2026-01-27 06:15:42+00:00
I don’t really think it’s as simple as BR1982 influencing everything else. Other movies that came out before it also had more interesting visual styles than movies being made today. For example: Escape from New York.

The more recent movie looks more minimal because Villenueve makes minimal looking movies. Personally I find it devoid of visual interest compared to the 80s films, especially the original BR. Even the “inspired” scenes like the market/food stalls are so lifeless in comparison.

Here are two clips to compare. The more recent film is typical of movies today: too digital, too clean, not enough movement or energy.

Original Blade Runner: https://youtu.be/vbRRL7S2Tg0?si=gwMJvEr8fj11vUkU
2049:

2049: https://youtu.be/g6u33j_T5VQ?si=wvGDtUIH6LryvRKq
by abustamam | 2026-01-27 06:15:56+00:00
I think this goes for many different kinds of projects. Take React, for example, or jQuery, or a multitude of other frameworks and libraries. They abstract out a lot of stuff and make it easier to build stuff! But we've also seen that with ease of building also comes ease of slop (I've seen many sloppily coded React code even before LLMs). Then react introduced hooks to hopefully reduce the slop and then somehow it got sloppy in other ways.

That's kinda how I see vibe coding. It's extremely easy to get stuff done but also extremely easy to write slop. Except now 10x more code is being generated thus 10x more slop.

Learning how to get quality robust code is part of the learning curve of AI. It really is an emergent field, changing every day.
by marksugar | 2026-01-27 06:16:36+00:00
I believe I have some right to speak on this, because I am inside the wall.
The top channel and the top general were originally old allies, but the events surrounding Nicolás Maduro Moros caused the top channel to reassess its risk management.

If you know that your Linux system also has the same bug, even though that bug has always existed in your system, the situation is no longer the same.
At this point, you have no choice but to replace it with a more reliable right-hand partner.
Show HN: Engroles.com – Verified, Active SWE Listings from Recruiters
by partypete | 2026-01-27 06:17:34+00:00
I created engroles because, as I was looking for a job as a software engineer, I realized that most of the listings out there are black holes where my application likely went to die. However, I noticed that I got an interview with almost every recruiter that reached out to my personal email advertising an actual listing. It taught me that recruiter email outreach almost always represents a real job.

And so I thought to myself, how can I help other job-seeking software engineers get access to an aggregated list of real recruiter outreach? And I came up with engroles. The idea is that as a job seeker, you forward one verified recruiter outreach that you've received to your email in the last 30 days to forward@engroles.com. Once engroles verifies that the recruiter outreach represents a real job listing, it will give you access to apply to any of the listings in the entire job board. Every listing represents a job from another user who has received verified recruiter outreach and sent it to engroles. Each one of the listings in engroles is also linked to a recruiter. When job seekers apply to a job listing, the recruiter is notified, and recruiters will reach out to the job seeker's profile.

This is an initial release. You can see a truncated view of the currently existing job listings without creating an account. Please give me any feedback that you have. Thanks for checking this out!
by consp | 2026-01-27 06:17:41+00:00
Standby is broken since the push from S3 to s2idle, this was a wintel move. On windows my laptop would die after a day until I finally forced standard S3 behaviour. After the switch back to S3 it lasts a week again and the resume time difference is negligible.

My Lenovo dock ethernet has gone from not working on Linux and being fine on windows to the other way around.

I do not share your enthusiasm. And since dumped windows entirely after the latest update. Last time I installed windows it took me longer to disable all adds and spyware than to actually install it, another reason for switching.
by bruce511 | 2026-01-27 06:17:46+00:00
To answer the parent question, no not even close.

TSA direct costs, passenger time wasted, flights missed, items confiscated.

All so no bombs on planes. But somehow also no bombs at sports events or music concerts, or on trains or subways, or courthouses or....

So the TSA is either stunningly successful or a complete waste. I'd argue a complete waste, but hey, everyone in a TSA uniform drawing a paycheck us entitled to a different opinion.
by WalterBright | 2026-01-27 06:19:33+00:00
People who do not have a technical education tend to have a less precise definition of things. There's not a great deal of point to arguing semantics.

There were precursors to Edison's light bulb, and people use that to denigrate Edison's achievement. But the technical reality of the Edison bulb is his bulb was practical, and the precursors were just curiosities.
by coffe2mug | 2026-01-27 06:19:42+00:00
I really think we (as NRI) should move on from using Jallianwala or whatever. This doesn't help. Don't use BS to justify.

Every damn guy that get visa refused uses this and in a way insults those sacrifices.

Come to reality. Present or at least last 10 years.

Who did what? You need to fix your own country. Even if British didn't invade - the princely states of India were feuding. Fighting. If it was not one country then TN and Karnataka would have gone to war.

UK were open minded to elect a non- white as PM in UK. Though he was very bad for for UK.

Do some creative things instead of using colonial things. Nobody cares. If some from that family hate UK or west then why come and live a happy life here (being UK/EU citizens). As an OCI holder, I get better treatment at immigration than I was an Indian citizen.

While lots of things exist like ISRO etc there is still abject poverty, pollution, health care issues.

Yes, India sends talents. Myself living about 10 years here.

But note. TCS etc employees gain more coming here than they contribute. Yes, skill shortage etc. at the end while using the fantastic TGV here in France - I am benefiting more than contribute despite working in a high tech scientific industry.

Eventually Bihari in TN will say I did so much work in Coimabatore mills but you guys are treating me shit; and for the non-hindi speaking Tamil in Pune they treat like shit.

If all these are better the internal economy will be great. On path to some self sufficiency. No. Instead you come here to insult current EU UK citizens. It is of no use.

The point is even if Sundar Pichai was in India he would not have built a Google.

You can be cautious but at the end people like Bhavish Aggarwal or biju or l&t CEO etc are the ones you get there. They don't give a shit about people. Until then people will try to move here. Fix that.

Otherwise people will come here to work. Just 9-5. No sat/sunday work. No fking Manager would call you after office hours.

(Again, there will be YouTube videos of NRI telling - it is better life in India than USA/EU. Yes, true. If you are 10%top earner in India or at the
by feifan | 2026-01-27 06:20:06+00:00
> Feedback helps, right. But if you've got a problem where a simple, contained feedback loop isn't that easy to build, the only source of feedback is yourself. And that's when you are exposed to the stupidity of current AI models.

That's exactly the point. Modern coding agents aren't smart software engineers per se; they're very very good goal-seekers whose unit of work is code. They need automatable feedback loops.
by kstenerud | 2026-01-27 06:20:41+00:00
It's about making people feel safe.

We're not rational beings, so what do you do about an irrational fear? You invent a magical thing that protects from that irrational fear.

You're orders of magnitude more likely to die in a road accident, but people don't fear that. They fear terrorist attacks far more.

You can't protect against an opponent who's motivated to learn the inherent vulnerabilities of our systems, many of which can't be protected against due to the laws of physics and practicality - short of forcing everyone to travel naked and strapped in like cattle, with no luggage. And even then, what about the extremist who works for the airline?

So you invent some theater to stop people from panicking (a far more real danger). And that's a perfectly acceptable solution.
by stoneforger | 2026-01-27 06:21:13+00:00
How will this pressure add up and bubble to the sociopaths which we collectively allow to control most of the world's resources? It would need for all these billions to collectively understand the problem and align towards a common goal. I don't think this was a design feature, but globalising the economy created hard dependencies and the internet global village created a common mind share. It's now harder than ever to effect a revolution because it needs to happen everywhere at the same time with billions of people.
Show HN: LinkLens – Document and link tracking in one dashboard
by donghyunkim_bld | 2026-01-27 06:21:26+00:00
I built LinkLens because I was paying $80/month for DocSend + Bitly separately.

It tracks:
- Documents: who viewed, which pages, how long
- Links: clicks, location, device, UTM params

Tech stack: Next.js, Supabase, Cloudflare R2

Free tier available. Would love feedback on the product and landing page.
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-27 06:23:08+00:00
> They clearly do not sidestep "any" obligations.

I worked in EMS. United battled a bunch of civil suits years ago where they had denied HEMS transports (helicopter transport) from accident scenes due to "lacking pre-authorization". For a car accident.

What would that even look like?

"This is John, I'm a paramedic working on one of your patients who was hit by a truck. We would like to fly him to the trauma center due to extensive multisystem trauma but we need your authorization. His name? Hang on, let me find his wallet. No, that's Smythe, S-M-Y-T-H-E, sorry, I know, it's a bit loud with the jaws of life in the background... Uhh, sure, I guess I can hold for a nurse consult..."
by tjwebbnorfolk | 2026-01-27 06:23:21+00:00
US perspective: EU looks like a great place to expand into once I've reached some critical size threshold. But I can't imagine starting a business there. In the US we have effectively limitless capital, tons of tech talent, and many fewer regulations.

Just about everything I'd want to do in a startup appears illegal or otherwise infeasible in the EU because of the morass of data and AI and energy regulations.
by politelemon | 2026-01-27 06:24:55+00:00
Only in the Apple reality distortion field would I see the hubris of boot times being equated to saving lives. I see value in saving time, but without the celebrity worship, it's nowhere near the same in terms of importance, application, or utility. Besides, the same time saving desire has been a driving force in software by nameless developers since the beginning of software. Attempting to frame and attribute the concept to a single individual is dismissive and disrespectful to the work of others.
Show HN: Walk and drive through OpenStreetMap in 3D
by bilalba | 2026-01-27 06:25:21+00:00
Standing on the shoulders of OpenStreetMap, three.js, and other open-source projects, I made an open-source, game-like 3D explorer for OSM.

It’s barebones right now (currently loads one scene), renderings need work, and it’s buggy in places. But you can get driving on most roads around the world.

Contributions welcome!
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-27 06:26:59+00:00
Of course there are people who are professional activists. I'm well aware that at a large protest with a stage and sound equipment it had tp be organized and paid for. I've done that sort of work myself.

I was specifically referring to the idea of 'paid protestors'. The extremely online right (which includes many people in the administration) sees a crowd of 10 or 20 or 50,000 people and immediately starts dismissing them all as 'paid protesters', denying the possibility that those thousands of people might have given up their free time to come together and express a political opinion. I think you understand the difference very well.
by lmm | 2026-01-27 06:27:03+00:00
> If the median UK salary is >£35,000 I really wonder how arrive at the conclusion that missing a flight will set you back "years or decades"...

Ok, now take that figure and deduct tax, housing, food, utilities and so on - how much do you think is disposable/saveable? And then take the typical cost of a last-minute replacement flight and compare those two numbers.
by echelon | 2026-01-27 06:27:29+00:00
The author didn't say "whole".

The models do occasionally understand complicated features within complex codebases.

If there's a good "human in the loop" pilot, that's all you need to get incredible productivity boosts. Seasoned engineers are discerning, have taste, and can be pragmatic about what the models can do. It's as if they get to play eng manager for a team of juniors, yet still have time to be a full-time IC.
by solid_fuel | 2026-01-27 06:27:54+00:00
If I was going to nitpick it I would point out that `itemsCount` could easily be confused with `items.Count`, or vice versa, depending on syntax highlighting. That kind of bug can have a negative impact if one or the other is mutated while the function is running.

So clearly distinguishing the local `numberOfItems` from `items.Count` _could_ be helpful. But I wouldn't ping it in a review.
by naruhodo | 2026-01-27 06:27:54+00:00
Mechahitler[1] now has a job at the Pentagon.[2]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c628d9mre3go
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-27 06:28:15+00:00
This illustrates a point though. TATP you could synthesize on a plane is entirely inadequate to bring down a plane. It also requires a bit more than acetone and hydrogen peroxide. Pan Am 103 required around half a kilo of RDX and TATP is very, very far from RDX.

The idea of synthesizing a proper high-explosive in an airplane lavatory is generally comical. The chemistry isn’t too complex but you won’t be doing it in an airplane lavatory.
by pk455 | 2026-01-27 06:30:31+00:00
> Having described what I am worried about, let’s move on to who. I am worried about entities who have the most access to AI, who are starting from a position of the most political power, or who have an existing history of repression. In order of severity, I am worried about:

For how much this essay is being celebrated on Twitter, it's astounding how explicitly this section (The odious apparatus) decries China yet glosses over the US

> A coalition of the US and its democratic allies, if it achieved predominance in powerful AI, would be in a position to not only defend itself against autocracies, but contain them and limit their AI totalitarian abuses.

Sure, how about a thought on repressing its own populace with AI? I know the very next paragraph tries to cover this, but it all feels stuck in 2016 political discourse ignorant of the stench of rot and absence of integrity in American politics. This is especially ironic considering he calls this out as a risk later on: "if there is such a huge concentration of wealth that a small group of people effectively controls government policy with their influence, and ordinary citizens have no influence because they lack economic leverage"

----

The proactive thoughts in the Player Piano section are quite refreshing though. Hopefully other frontier companies follow suit
by eslaught | 2026-01-27 06:31:14+00:00
But this is what I don't get. Writing code is not that hard. If the act of physically typing my code out is a bottleneck to my process, I am doing something wrong. Either I've under-abstracted, or over-abstracted, or flat out have the wrong abstractions. It's time to sit back and figure out why there's a mismatch with the problem domain and come back at it from another direction.

To me this reads like people have learned to put up with poor abstractions for so long that having the LLM take care of it feels like an improvement? It's the classic C++ vs Lisp discussion all over again, but people forgot the old lessons.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-27 06:31:42+00:00
Too many people dismissed Kurzweil as a crank. He was mostly and sort of correct, but couldn't possibly anticipate the scale, scope, (or hype), or timeline that is still unfolding.

Furthermore, people involved in tech often reflexively dismissed this nearing iteration/revolution because their lifestyles, finances, and identities often revolved around a form of employment that would gradually and eventually be replaced (on a long enough time horizon) with significant automation, leaving far fewer involved with it. And also shrinking/disappearing incomes of millions of people who had previously attained a middle- or middle-upper-income lifestyle that would be captured by billionaires. AI is the computer equivalent of the cotton gin or cigarette rolling machine.
by komali2 | 2026-01-27 06:32:22+00:00
Your unshaking confidence in your subjective experience as being representative of something factual about the universe made me peek at your history to see just how far it went. I found this comment:

> It's the Christian version of the Dao.

So far as I can tell, this isn't a thing that actually exists, but you refer to it as "the," meaning that to you, it's an objectively existing thing that we should all recognize.

Alongside that:

> The type of art you like or dislike is a reflection of your mental state

No, this is not objectively true in the way you seem to be implying.

> some of those mental states are good and some are evil, which is objective

No, practically by definition, "good" and "evil" are subjective.

> Even if every last human on the earth fell for this demonic art, I wouldn't budge.

Yes, this is clear.

Out of good faith and frank honesty I tell you this: There is no purpose in conversing with you, as apparently you're only capable of lecturing people of the Verified-by-Jehovah Revealed Truth of your personal ideology.
by rsanheim | 2026-01-27 06:34:06+00:00
> But on the nuclear issue, it's not a good sign that he's explicitly saying that this AGI future is a threat to nuclear deterrence and the triad. Like, where do you go up from there? That's the highest level of alarm that any government can have. This isn't a boy crying wolf, it's the loudest klaxon you can possibly make.

This is not new. Anthropic has raised these concerns in their system cards for previous versions of Opus/Sonnet. Maybe in slightly more dryer terms, and buried in a 100+ page PDF, but they have raised the risk of either

a) a small group of bad actors w/ access to frontier models, technical know-how (both 'llm/ai how to bypass restrictions' and making and sourcing weapons) to turn that into dirty bombs / small nuclear devices and where to deploy them.
b) the bigger, more scifi threat, of a fleet of agents going rogue, maybe on orders of a nation state, to do the same

I think option a is much more frightening and likely. option b makes for better scifi thrillers, and still could happen in 5-30ish(??) years.
by coffe2mug | 2026-01-27 06:34:09+00:00
Both may benefit. Some will lose. If benefits overweigh losses then ok.

Well Rapido bike means Auto-wallas are angry. That is reality.

The highest tariffs are holding India back. A decent original nike shoe is about €50 here but why it is Rs5000 there (with lower Purchasing power). Local businesses have too long bribed Indian politicians. Recently I replaced the gate of my house here in EU. It was 20 years old. No rust despite old. I remember the steel supplied by our companies is crap - we repaired our gate every few years. Or it was not properly painted.

Costs of computer etc are too high for any startup etc. and with our talent more cheaper imports from china would be great to build a local giant.

On the other hand our people do

- exploit Digital Ocean T-shirt give away to create stupid pull requests and burden maintainers in GitHub open source project

- curl dev stopped bug bounty due to many sending AI reports

- clone AOSP and IIT Chennai said it have created a independent OS.

Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmai founder) recently said we have become users not creators.

Even Ambani with all his money can't do a good tech company.
by aunty_helen | 2026-01-27 06:34:21+00:00
> You want initiative, and you also don't want initiative. I presume you want it when it's good and don't want it when it's bad, and if possible the people should be clairvoyant and see the future so they can tell which is which.

The word you’re looking for is skill. He wants devs to be skilled. I wouldn’t thought that to be controversial but hn never ceases to amaze
by lesser-shadow | 2026-01-27 06:35:39+00:00
The insults were justified given that you ignored my emails until I resorted to spamming your inbox twelve hours in.

Here's my email because I have nothing to hide:

>Hey,
Could you clarify why did you shadow ban my account, or am I just breaking your circlejerk by posting opinions your mods disagree with?
Also how are my posts related to IC design flagged as dead?Literally every other comment that is slightly political being removed I'd understand but apparently your moderators are just mentally insane.
Can you also explain why you harbor AI-made garbage on site? Doesn't help the website's "Quality".
by boredtofears | 2026-01-27 06:36:29+00:00
To be honest, I didn't really think about the goals of the projects at all. I'm not even sure if a CONTRIBUTING.md existed. I just needed a particular feature for something I was working and it felt like "being a good OSS citizen" to at least offer it back to the maintainer, but I think I just ended up putting them in a position where they felt like they had to make it work.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-27 06:37:03+00:00
It goes far beyond hungry people stealing bread. Look at one of those academic fraud discussions had here on HN over the past week and you'll find people saying that using AI to hallucinate an academic paper isn't a good thing but instead of judging the people who do this we should blame society itself while being understanding of the frauds. The mentality spoken above is pervasive and insidious.
by alexpls | 2026-01-27 06:38:26+00:00
Neat! Generating PDFs from RSS feeds is a great idea. Some thoughts:

I have a Kindle - something I'd find valuable would be having a digest of "Today's top stories" sent to my kindle's email address as an epub so I can check it out each day. But on Kindle, I think the 3 column layout would be too narrow to read - it makes sense on A4, but not smaller. How do you do your daily sync to ReMarkable?

btw, it looks like if I enter a direct link to an RSS feed it doesn't work (e.g. when testing it for my site, https://alexplescan.com/index.xml results in a blank page, but https://alexplescan.com works well)

> curious how others handle the "too many newsletters" problem

I like to have everything funnelled into my RSS reader, pick a few things that sound interesting each day, and archive the rest. For the getting everything into RSS part, I'm building https://mailgrip.io to help (it gets email newsletters into RSS feeds).