MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmix | 2026-01-27 20:02:35+00:00
The mechanism to do it properly is the feds working with local and state officials where there's a full breadth of accountability and judicial coverage. Some states and cities have explicitly rejected doing this, some opting to purposefully make it harder. Trump instead of being diplomatic and trying to work with them has aggressively sent goons in to do flashy operations and pushed federal enforcement to the limits of the law.

ICE and border patrol wasn't really designed either legally or in training for these sorts of large operations, so it's created lots of dangerous situations like how to do crowd control broadly under laws like "interfering with a federal investigation", while commanders are pushing them hard for results.
by mmooss | 2026-01-27 20:02:36+00:00
> In social media, general consensus is owned by those that control the best and most bots to direct the conversation.

Isn't it owned by the owner of the social media platform? Do you think Zuckerberg, Musk, etc are neutral? There is an enormous amount of evidence otherwise.

If some bots proliferate, it's because the owners allow those bots to do so.
by devsda | 2026-01-27 20:02:45+00:00
Thanks Daan for your contributions to systemd.

If you were not a systemd maintainer and have started this project/company independently targeting systemd, you would have to go through the same process as everyone and I would have expected the systemd maintainers to, look at it objectively and review with healthy skepticism before accepting it. But we cannot rely on that basic checks and balances anymore and that's the most worrying part.

> that might be disruptive optional in systemd

> we don't always succeed and there will always be differences in opinion.

You (including other maintainers) are still the final arbitrator of what's disruptive. The differences of opinion in the past have mostly been settled as "deal with it" and that's the basis of current skepticism.
by thegreatpeter | 2026-01-27 20:02:47+00:00
That exodus was only 3% of the 335,192 federal workers who exited last year but represents 14% of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or health fields employed at the end of 2024 as then-President Joe Biden prepared to leave office.

Would be interesting to see the age of these STEM or health fields employees. What if they were all over the age of 70? Would that still bother everyone?

Do you think this article was framed to cause outrage and frustration?
by RiverCrochet | 2026-01-27 20:02:50+00:00
> And is it absolutely necessary to learn BASIC before Assembly

If you don't have experience programming, learning BASIC before Assembly will be super helpful before you learn 6502.

If you only have experience programming in modern languages (Javascript, etc.), learning the Applesoft BASIC will also be super helpful before you learn 6502, as you'll learn how to get by without ...

A) the following language conveniences:

- function names (it's all line numbers),

- variables with more than 2 letters,

and

B) the following modern concepts:

- function calls (no stack other than for GOSUB, use subroutines with dedicated variables for passing parameters instead),

- scoped variables (everything is global),

- dynamic allocation (you have to DIM arrays with the max size upfront),

- anything object-like like structs or classes (hack it with multi-dimensional arrays)

- other fancy stuff like callbacks, promises, hashtables and any other data structure beyond arrays.

and that will nicely prepare you for 6502 assembly (or any kind of assembly really). The advantage in 6502 assembly is you can implement most of B) yourself if you do need it.
by storystarling | 2026-01-27 20:03:03+00:00
I built a similar gateway for my own stack and thought it would be a quick project, but the complexity is hidden in the details. A basic proxy is simple enough, but getting accurate token counts for streaming responses turned out to be a huge pain since every provider handles chunks differently. You also end up spending a lot of time writing adapters to unify the schemas so your application logic stays clean. If you care about precise billing or logging, it is definitely not a two day build.
by retired | 2026-01-27 20:03:11+00:00
That is the current system. In the new system it will be 36% on all capital gains, no more assumed gains. And an €1800 a year tax-free threshold.

Also it's a bit more, right now you are looking at 36% on 6% or 2.16% per year with a €59k threshold. So a bit over €20k a year on that €1M.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-27 20:03:22+00:00
That'd be nice. Except...

I only speak for myself here, but: While it would almost certainly be very easy for a sufficiently-motivated person to track me down and knock on my front door, I don't like broadcasting the details of where I am.

I might occasionally mention something like "some small city in Ohio [of many hundreds]" when that seems pertinent to the context, but that's about the extent of what anyone will ever get out of me on a public forum.

Y'all generally seem to be rather swell here, but this is a very public place that gets crawled approximately-instantly by search engines, and the world doesn't need to know what block I live on or the name of the bodega on the corner that I might feel like writing about.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-27 20:03:27+00:00
Immigration is not part of the EU-India Trade Deal [0] nor the EU-India Defense Pact [1].

The only mention of mobility (not even immigration) is a vaguely worded MoU with no commitment of execution [2].

Instead, Europeans should be thankful that India has now reduced tariffs on European engineering and chemical goods to below what Chinese transshippers paid via the India-ASEAN FTA thus giving European manufacturers a much needed export market defended against Chinese overproduction, and that India will now join South Korea and Japan in arming Ukraine and the entire EU as part of ReArm Europe/Readiness2030 [3]. Heck, India has already begun defending Greece [4] and Cyprus [5] against Turkish aggression in the Aegean and investing in European infrastructure development [6].

The only people who would be opposed to the EU-India Trade and Defense Deals are those who want the EU to remain a perpetual junior partner to the US or China. In fact, China has a history of leveraging disinformation [7] to undermine EU-India relations.

Given the pattern of accounts on this thread and how it was derailed by the boogeyman of immigration, there are hallmarks of a spamoflauge operation similar to what the EU-Mercosur deal faced.

Also, individual EU states have always had the final say on immigration policy within their borders.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/details-eu-india-trade-d...

[1] - https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/security-and-defence-eu-and-...

[2] - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...

[3] - https://theprint.in/diplomacy/india-eu-sign-security-defence...

[4] - https://geetha.mil.gr/kyklos-synomilion-staff-talks-kai-ypog...

[5] - https://www.gov.cy/proedros-proedria/koini-diakiryxi-gia-tin...

[6] - https://www.lagazzettamarittima.it/2025/10/30/rixi-in-india-...

[7] - https://www.defense.gouv.fr/desinformation/nos-analyses-froi...
by jsnell | 2026-01-27 20:03:37+00:00
I agree, but it's probably not just about being "able to" do it, but about what the incentives and pressures are in that organization.

Cloudflare apparently considers blog posts to be a key deliverable for many roles. Not just marketing or devrel but engineering too. That sets up a lot of incentives for slop. And then all you need for a disaster is a high trust environment with insufficient controls, which they probably have since the process had worked for a decade without an insufficiently reviewed article blowing up in their face.

Going forward there will be just a little bit less trust, more controls, and more friction that will make it harder to get a post out in a timely manner. It's just the way all organizations evolve. You can see from the scar tissue where problems existed in the past.

What I can't believe is that they haven't retracted the whole post by now, but are allowing the author to make an even bigger mess trying to fix the initial problems.
by nightpool | 2026-01-27 20:03:45+00:00
It's literally highlighted on the map you sent: https://postimg.cc/Cn8BGP4S

There's no walkable grocery store in that area. My friend lives in the area and uses a wheelchair, and Amazon Fresh was the only actual grocery store she could go to.

As much as I'm hoping they do, I would be very surprised if they open a Whole Foods in that area.
by Herring | 2026-01-27 20:03:47+00:00
The problem with these threads is everyone wants to complain but support drops drastically when you talk about policies that actually help buffer against the far-right. Eg implementing robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance. How many of you software engineers want to sign up for high taxes? It's basically tragedy of the commons.

Economics on its own is probably not sufficient either. You probably also need widespread unionization, a Cordon Sanitaire, and probably German-style intelligence surveillance of the far-right too.
by geminigemino | 2026-01-27 20:03:56+00:00
Yeah, I definitely vibe coded parts of it, especially some of the graphs, but a lot of time went into the actual mechanics and how the systems interact. I also got a lot of pushback from my girlfriend (PhD in virology, teaches evolution), so she kept asking hard questions and forcing me to rethink things. And my kids do a check their worlds every morning, collect organisms and use the narrate feature to see what happened overnight, and their honest feedback helped a lot :D
by Scoundreller | 2026-01-27 20:04:37+00:00
That was one of my jokes going between terminals (always by bus): has this country thought about discovering trains?

Once leaving a terminal the staff said we’d take an internal bus and I asked if that meant we wouldn’t have to go through security again, but they just meant the same one as the rest.

All of our trips were non-UK-entry but possibly some terminals do have heightened security to meet one-stop-security requirements. Didn’t seem like it but can’t be sure.
by credit_guy | 2026-01-27 20:04:42+00:00
Yes, Sweden had a nuclear weapons program and they stopped short of building a bomb. But things are very different today.

There are 2 main differences. Sweden has signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) and Sweden is now a member of NATO. Both of these things result in Sweden being extremely unlikely to be able to pursue a nuclear weapons program in a clandestine way. And the article doesn't even imply that it would try that, given that it talks about a Nordic compact to pursue the bomb.

Announcing to everyone that you are trying to get the bomb implies that you first withdraw from the NPT. Legally, all the nuclear suppliers (such as Urenco) are obligated to immediately stop shipments to you. All your nuclear power plants will run on fumes. Once you run out of whatever inventories you have (most importantly nuclear fuel), you need to find way to supply yourself with what you need. Sweden gets 30% of its electricity from nuclear power plants [1].
If the population really, really wants to pursue a bomb, they can probably tough it out and find ways to overcome a 30% drop in electricity generation. But it's a tall ask.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Sweden
by WarmWash | 2026-01-27 20:04:46+00:00
A large percentage of Americans are convinced that police will just shoot them if they happen to feel like it.

Even including ICE in this statistic, you will never even meet someone who knows someone who was murdered by a cop. Police encounters that turn deadly, not even blatant murder, are on the order of 1 in 50 million.

However, that stream of police murder videos are definitely real.

Propaganda is often stoking tiny sparks into large raging forest fires.
by culi | 2026-01-27 20:04:56+00:00
All economically transformative technologies have done similar. If it's privatized, it's not gonna be transformative across the industry. The GPS, the internet, touchscreens, AI voice assistants, microchips, LCDs, etc were all publicly funded (or made by Bell Labs which had a state-mandated monopoly that forced them to open up their patents).

The economist Mariana Mazzucato wrote a great book about this called The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
by nlawalker | 2026-01-27 20:05:56+00:00
>During the college football playoffs, ESPN’s family of networks will sometimes show the same game on multiple channels, with one channel broadcasting the whole affair from the Skycam camera. This is a remote camera hovering above and behind the line of scrimmage, replicating the perspective one sees in a video game. Coaches call this the “All‑22” view, because all 22 players on the field are simultaneously observable.

I remember there being discussion here about coverage of when the NFL first made all-22 available for public viewing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4549832
by augusteo | 2026-01-27 20:06:02+00:00
I used to think this. Then I noticed how often "preparation" became its own infinite loop.

At work we built something from a 2-page spec in 4 months. The competing team spent 8 months on architecture docs before writing code. We shipped. They pivoted three times and eventually disbanded.

Planning has diminishing returns. The first 20% of planning catches 80% of the problems. Everything after that is usually anxiety dressed up as rigor.

The article's right about one thing: doing it badly still counts. Most of what I know came from shipping something embarrassing, then fixing it.
by daxfohl | 2026-01-27 20:06:03+00:00
I still find in these instances there's at least a 50% chance it has taken a shortcut somewhere: created a new, bigger bug in something that just happened not to have a unit test covering it, or broke an "implicit" requirement that was so obvious to any reasonable human that nobody thought to document it. These can be subtle because you're not looking for them, because no human would ever think to do such a thing.

Then even if you do catch it, AI: "ah, now I see exactly the problem. just insert a few more coins and I'll fix it for real this time, I promise!"
by elashri | 2026-01-27 20:06:36+00:00
That's is probably one good usage of LLMs. LaTeX was a relief to deal with after using LLM. I have been using LaTeX for years before but it was not any easy. Aside of making LLM write the text, it is very good grammar and typo checker.

Even on overleaf and browser default spell checker, my Thesis feedback contained a few typos from my Advisor each time I sent him for review.

BTW: Overleaf added LLM integration which help solving LaTeX errors but you pay for it separately. But I feel like overleaf with their good docs on LaTeX something positive for science and hope they manage to adapt with this nee competition.
by dijksterhuis | 2026-01-27 20:06:57+00:00
> I think the Apollo program for example was a massive waste of money that didn't improve anything for the average person

i mean, sure, that makes sense if you've never gotten on a plane, eaten food, used a space blanket when camping or in an emergency, been in an earthquake prone area or had hearing aids (non-exhaustive list)

https://www.nasa.gov/technology/tech-transfer-spinoffs/going...

> It was mostly just a dick-swinging contest with the USSR to see who had the biggest rocket and could get people to the moon first.

just because this was the primary political goal, and i'm 100% in agreement with you there, it does not mean that there were no other benefits to humanity. sometimes, humanity can accidentally do a good thing for everyone because we're trying to beat the other guy in a race. it does happen, sometimes.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-27 20:07:05+00:00
This is not a good thing.

> Is it not a good thing that these folks could do something more productive in the private sector?

That's assuming that they could do something more productive in the private sector. I don't think that's true in a whole lot of cases. The private sector is about maximizing profit, but there's a whole universe of productive and necessary things that don't lead directly to profit. The private sector is terrible at doing those things.

And, depending on what exactly we're talking about, it's very often the case that the private sector is much less efficient in terms of bang for the buck.

> Wouldn't it be better if companies like these had a larger pool of PhDs to pull from?

The pool they're pulling from isn't getting larger. It's getting smaller.
by viraptor | 2026-01-27 20:07:08+00:00
Dang's response a while ago when I reported a dead 404media link:

> The site 404media.co is banned on HN because it has been the source of too many low-quality posts and because many (most?) of their articles are behind a signup wall. So that's why that one was killed. I've unkilled it now.

(I'd extremely disagree with the low-quality part)
by snorbleck | 2026-01-27 20:07:12+00:00
Thanks! "Observe" (if used from the toolbar at the top), just means you're watching Blinkys (the player is observing). They might follow your cursor around and just get curious. If you observe too long, it results in neglect, which can reduce their overall health. Generally, it's better to be interacting with them. It's just a default player state when you're not Feeding, Petting, Teaching or Punishing.

When you enable the "Enable Observation", they observe your motion (through your webcam) and will react accordingly. There's a little more detail about the Webcam Observation in the manual :)

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Webcam Observation

Enabling webcam allows the Blinkys to "see" you through motion detection. They respond to your real-world movement:

Motion is detected by comparing video frames every 100ms

Significant motion (> 30%) triggers awareness in random Blinkys

If collective trust is low (< 0.4), your movement increases their fear

If trust is high, your presence may comfort them

The "THEY ARE WATCHING YOU" indicator appears when Blinkys are aware of your cursor.

The "CAMERA ACCESS GRANTED" warning appears when webcam is active

Privacy Note: Webcam data is processed entirely locally in your browser. No video is transmitted, stored, or sent anywhere. The Blinkys only receive a single motion intensity value (0-1), not actual images. You can disable the camera at any time.
by tasuki | 2026-01-27 20:08:06+00:00
No, that's not ok.

Many years ago, a friend of mine in the Netherlands had the same job as another guy, earning the same money, my friend being extremely thrifty, the other guy splurging. When they both found themselves out of a job at the same time, my friend got no support from the government as he had savings, while the other guy started getting a very generous allowance.

This goes directly against all that is reasonable. This is directly discouraging financial responsibility. My friend is thrifty just for the sake of it, he knows it's not in his interest. But he gets the short end.
by knowaveragejoe | 2026-01-27 20:08:18+00:00
I don't think this is necessarily a good thing. I'm in favor of the private sector, but these public sector research and scientific institutions also do very important work.

Some of the most brightest and accomplished scientists out of academia elect to forgo a higher paying private sector job in order to go into the civil service and work on even higher impact, lower paying jobs that don't necessarily chase an obvious profit motive. Ask yourself why.
Show HN: We ship Flutter app updates without resubmitting on AppStore
by divyanshub024 | 2026-01-27 20:08:26+00:00
Hi HN,

We built Stac a server driven UI framework for Flutter.

The idea is simple: instead of shipping a new app release for every UI change, the app renders UI from JSON delivered by the backend. This allows teams to update layouts, experiment with flows, and roll out changes instantly while keeping Flutter’s performance and type safety.

Stac is open source and already used in production by startups and enterprise teams for things like:

Feature flags and experiments

Faster iteration on UI without app store delays

Sharing UI logic across multiple Flutter apps

We are currently working on better tooling, validation, and a hosted solution for managing and deploying UI schemas.

Would love feedback from people who have built or evaluated server driven UI systems. What tradeoffs or pitfalls should we be thinking more about?

Repo: https://github.com/StacDev/stac
by accounting2026 | 2026-01-27 20:08:43+00:00
Yes knew what you meant, and fully agree. It is fascinating TV is even possible just out of all these rather simple and bulky analog components. Even the first color TV's were with vacuum tubes and no transitors.

As I recall there's all kinds of hacks in the design to keep them cheap. For instance, letting the fly-back transformer for producing the high voltages needed operate at the same frequency as the horizontal scan rate (~15 kHz) so that mechanism essentially serves double duty. The same was even seen in microcomputers where the same crystal needed for TV was also used for the microprocessor - meaning that e.g. a "European" Commodore 64 with PAL was actually a few percent slower than an American C64 with NTSC. And other crazy things like that.
by guywithahat | 2026-01-27 20:09:06+00:00
> It's harder to recruit PhD students and it's harder to fund them

If it’s harder to fund them then it should be easier to recruit them. I don’t think both can be true at the same time, unless you’re saying it’s harder to fund foreign PhD’s with US tax dollars in which case I think you’ll find limited sympathy for your cause.
by decimalenough | 2026-01-27 20:09:42+00:00
The demonstrations and crackdowns happened in the largest public squares of China's largest cities, in front of thousands of eyewitnesses, and the dead had friends and families who lived to tell about it. So while we don't have exact numbers, we do have reasonably accurate ballpark estimates. For Tiananmen, the best guess is on the order of a thousand dead, with high end 2x that and the official government figures 200-300.
Show HN: A 4.8MB native iOS voice notes app built with SwiftUI
by karamalaskar | 2026-01-27 20:09:44+00:00
Hey HN,

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called Convoxa. It’s a native iOS transcriber/summarizer. I had two main goals: keep it efficient and keep it private.

THE TECH STACK

100% Swift & SwiftUI: No heavy cross-platform wrappers or bloated dependencies.

Binary Size: The final build is only 4.8 MB.

Transcription: Uses Apple's latest speech APIs for maximum privacy and efficiency.

THE CHALLENGE: BYPASSING THE 4K CONTEXT LIMIT

The biggest technical hurdle was working with Apple’s foundation models. The default context window is capped at 4096 tokens, which is practically useless for anything over a 10-minute meeting transcript.

I ended up building a recursive chunking method to "feed" the model long-form data without losing the global context of the conversation. I use a sliding window approach where each chunk's summary informs the next, ensuring the final output doesn't "hallucinate" at the seams where the chunks meet. It’s now stable enough for long-form audio while remaining entirely on-device for supported hardware.

PRIVACY & AI MODES

On-Device: (Apple Intelligence required) - Total local processing.

Cloud: With reasoning for intelligent insights (Zero Data Retention).

I’m currently in the pre-order phase (out on Feb 3rd) and would love to get some feedback from this community on the performance and the chunking logic.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/convoxa-ai-meeting-minutes/id6...