MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gregbot | 2026-01-14 20:09:20+00:00
There are two objectives that western regimes have for pushing these draconian measures: the first is to end the historically unprecedented era of free and anonymous political speech by ordinary people. The second is to prevent anti-imperialist arguments and perspectives from reaching the eyes and ears of young western people. Young people will only hear the perspectives taught in government school and on corporate media. No choosing a different perspective early in life.

On the idea that this is needed to “protect children” it is the job of parents not the state to decide what media their children consume. If you want to make that easier for parents then regulate and mandate parental controls and make sure parents always have the choice.
by dang | 2026-01-14 20:09:27+00:00
Please don't post like this—especially not when responding to someone's work. It poisons the site and destroys the thoughtful/curious interactions that we're going for here. I'm sure that's not what you intended!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
by Jblx2 | 2026-01-14 20:09:32+00:00
>I don't want to google it because I don't want to be put on a list

You might think about using something like the Tor Browser for anonymous web surfing:

https://www.torproject.org/download/

...If you are worried about getting on a list by downloading the Tor browser, then take a trip to the next-town-over public library and download it from there. I guess your ISP could still guess that you were using Tor, and you might end up on a list of people using Tor. Also: If everyone is on the list, then no one is on the list.
by thrance | 2026-01-14 20:09:49+00:00
> That’s why I keep throwing this out there. The truth must be acknowledged. You can’t call Trump a monster without calling Obama a monster, too.

Except no one is disputing this "truth". You're making up a strawman. Clearly, no one on the Left cares to defend Obama over his use of ICE, you must have realized this by now. But you keep bringing him up whenever ICE does anything illegal or abhorrent (which is daily now). Why is that? And I am yet to hear you condemn anything.

> Can you imagine how this galled people on the other side of the political aisle?

Not really, when the current President was Epstein's best friend, a known pedophile, and is embroiled in several rape affairs. Clearly the Right does not care about women, they even ran on an anti-feminism agenda. When Trump said "grab her by the pussy" during the campaign it did not make any waves in right-wing circles.

On the other hand, outside of the most dickless liberal circles, people on the Left are extremely quick to criticize/condemn democratic leaders: Biden, Obama, Clinton... Even Harris, people were extremely mad over her awful campaign.

Meanwhile, I am yet to see a single republican criticize Trump over literally anything. The guy did multiple crypto-scams, received obvious bribes (one of them an entire plane) from islamic dictatorships, is knee-deep in a major international pedophilia scandal, etc. Dead silence from the right.

Like right now, you keep deflecting whenever ICE does something bad. I have not seen you even acknowledge that ICE stealing from citizens is bad. You keep doing whataboutisms for some reason.
by nephihaha | 2026-01-14 20:10:00+00:00
It is a loyal state broadcaster. If it had been up to the BBC, then the Prince Andrew story would have been buried. They tried to bury it several times but the Americans don't take orders from Buckingham Palace.

Their coverage of the Scottish independence referendum was laughably biased and often clueless.

They do seem to have an odd attitude towards Nigel Farage (UKIP & Reform) though, and kept putting him on Questiontime and the radio. It seems unclear why they would promote him so much given much of their other content.
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-14 20:10:03+00:00
The ICE agent decided to use his gun 10 seconds before the shooting, when the car was stationary and he was in a safe location, to the right of it, and well behind the front. We know this because his own cellphone video shows him switching his cellphone into his left hand from his right. After a brief verbal interaction with the departing partner of Renee Good, and seeing her about to get into the vehicle, he chose to walk in front of it (a violation of procedure), with his hand on his service weapon.

She doesn't 'drive into him.' He engineered the situation by deciding to ready his service weapon and then leaving a place of safety to step in front of a vehicle whose occupants were visibly preparing to depart. Perhaps he learned this tactic in Border Patrol, where he used to work:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/us-border-agents-i...
by mosiuerbarso | 2026-01-14 20:10:10+00:00
http://djkippax.com/

I'm a turntablist and scratch DJ, been running my site since 2006.
I mix and dj mainly old rave stuff and old hip hop. I'm oldskool in that i like to provide free mp3 and even flac versions of my mixes, and I don't just rely on another walled garden type service.

I don't update that site as frequently as i should.

But i'm planning to add a lot more music to it later this year and maybe some video/visual mixes which I've been working on.
by tastyfreeze | 2026-01-14 20:10:17+00:00
The goal is to have comms even if the government turns off their networks. Mesh networks or private cell networks do that. Some desire to get information out of Iran. Others just want to check in on loved ones. Anything is better than nothing.

Running comms during war is dangerous but it has to be done. I think the people I have seen asking how to communicate when the government turns of networks understand the risks.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-14 20:10:21+00:00
Even though I like JS/TS, I agree... not to mention that at even 10x the suggested amount for paid accounts, or even $1 per private repo per month, it still wouldn't be significant to any individual developer... More along the lines of thanks for the cup of coffee money as opposed to income money.

As suggested, I do think there should be room for grant funding, especially in the case of govts switching to open-source (LibreOffice, Linux, whatever) and open-source individuals and orgs can apply and granted each year dependent on actual use. Though, even then, govts should probably do more for funding, but I don't want a situation where the org just spends more money than they actually distribute for dev (looking at you Mozilla).
by masterpos | 2026-01-14 20:10:41+00:00
Thank you. The app has two sections: curated and trending. Curated repositories are prefetched and stored in the database. Trending repositories are fetched daily via the GitHub Search API and subsequently stored. This process enriches the repository pool and allows the backend to index each repo. Whenever a user interacts with a repository (star or pass), the action is saved; this ensures the same repository is not displayed twice.
by xdennis | 2026-01-14 20:10:49+00:00
> cheering on the government's authoritarian actions

Enforcing the law is not an authoritarian action.

Take for example the case of ICE agents arresting American citizens. Many complain that it's authoritarian. But it's just the law. 8 U.S.C. § 1357(a)(5)(A) grants them the power to arrest anyone (including citizens) for any offense (not just crimes) committed in their presence.

If Democrats disagree with this they can just repeal it. They've had the majority several times since the law was passed in 1990. But instead of repealing it, they advise their constituents that it's "illegal for ICE to arrest Americans" or it's "illegal for Border Patrol to operate outside the border". Complete misinformation!

It's more authoritarian not to enforce the law. Instead of protesting to have the law changed, Democrats protest to harass ICE agents. A nation of laws seeks change in the legislature, not by vigilantism (what Renee Good was doing) in the streets.
by foobarian | 2026-01-14 20:10:55+00:00
Yes, with room to spare. I assume the grandparent was referring to a stud, i.e. the nominal "2x4" that is 1.5x3.5inches in cross section and 8 feet long :-) Sadly I cannot fit 4x8 sheet goods though I haven't tried very hard. I can definitely fit them if I ask nicely for a lengthwise cut, so I end up with 2' wide 8' strips. Those I can fit and close the hatch.
by c0brac0bra | 2026-01-14 20:11:01+00:00
Have we completely forgotten about how Tesla dealerships were shot up, firebombed? Video after video showing cybertrucks vandalized with scratches and spray paint?

It may be a terrible car from a terrible program, but these events at least bear mentioning. If you saw it happening in 2025, would it have a cooling effect on your decision to purchase? Who would want the trouble?
by 0x457 | 2026-01-14 20:11:07+00:00
Nix is so nice that you can put almost your entire workflow into a check or package. Like your code-coverage report step(s) become a package that you build (I'm not brave enough to do this)

I run my own jenkins for personal stuff on top of nixos, all jobs run inside devenv shell, devenv handles whatever background services required (i.e. database), /nix/store is shared between workers + attic cache in local network.

Oh, and there is also nixosModule that is tested in the VM that also smoke tests the service.

First build might take some time, but all future jobs run fast. The same can be done on GHA, but on github-hosted runners you can't get shared /nix/store.
Show HN: I made a search engine for prediction markets
by Nortca | 2026-01-14 20:11:21+00:00
Prediction markets are having a moment, but searching them is painful:
- Markets are spread across 9+ platforms
- Each platform has different UX and search capabilities
- No way to compare similar markets across platforms
- Finding new markets on topics you care about requires manual checking

I built UPMI to solve this. One search queries all platforms, AI scores relevance, and you get a unified table of results sorted by match quality.

The architecture is fairly straightforward:
- Firecrawl maps platform URLs in parallel
- Gemini Flash fetches + analyzes actual market pages
- Streaming SSE for progressive UI updates
- Chat interface for deeper analysis on selected markets

What I learned:
- URL context in Gemini is powerful but rate-limited (throttling required)
- Structured outputs need careful schema design or you get hallucinations
- Real-time streaming UX is hard but worth it for perceived speed

Tech: Next.js 16, React 19, Gemini API, Firecrawl, Neon Postgres

Try it: [URL]

Looking for feedback on relevance scoring and whether this is useful to actual traders vs. just a fun project.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-14 20:11:29+00:00
>Apart from the countries which live off of foreign direct investment, taxes are generally pretty high.

I have no idea about this. Can you explain what you mean and give some examples of such countries ?

>Also, in many EU states, companies contribute to social security. In some this is indexed to profits, but on others this is indexed into wages, so if you count that bit, taxes directly attributable to your income can easily exceed 60% of what a company pays out.

True. Some EU countries also tax the gross salary the employer has to give you before it gets to you, which is in bad faith not included in payslips. So when you negotiate your 60k gross wage, it's actually costing your employer something like 72k Euros. I hate this shady practice.
by nobody9999 | 2026-01-14 20:11:48+00:00
>It saddens me that your rather innocuous comment has been down-voted so aggressively.

Despite the ridiculous narrative that Obama and Biden were "bringing in illegals en masse to vote for Democrats," if you look at the actual numbers, it's not surprising that folks are down-voting that comment.

Mostly because those previous administrations (Obama and Biden) managed to deport many more undocumented folks than either this or the previous Trump administration, without the thuggery, violence and murder we're seeing now.

I'd note that even without the gratuitous violence and intimidation, folks were also protesting Obama's and Biden's ICE activities.

Because the real issue around immigration in the US is that our system is broken and we haven't constructively addressed those problems for nearly 40 years.

So no. I'm not surprised by the down-votes because there's nuance that's being glossed over and, while doing so, giving violent thugs a pass by claiming that they're "enforcing the law," even though they're doing a crap job while harming our citizens, legal residents and helping to destroy what's left of our civil society.

I'm not pushing any "broader political narrative" either. Just pointing out a few things not mentioned in your or GP's comments.
by skinnymuch | 2026-01-14 20:11:49+00:00
No that wouldn’t. If the zeitgeist, culture, society at large are antagonizing toward you, if you are meant to feel like a useless negative part of society, why would we expect amazing output from them?

This reinforces others talking about the flaws of hustle and grind culture. The status quo create the conditions for the negatives and then point to that and say “see”.
by watwut | 2026-01-14 20:12:06+00:00
The courts decided exactly like I said when cops shot. That the cops shown more restraint in BLM case is good.

The political roles being different is key factor - ICE wants to kill and this administration wants them to kill. It makes them feel manly.

Frankly, the theory that armed forces would step back is absurd. They are cowards, but they are not afraid to kill. They are so afraid of everything that they are more likely to kill

And other side are people with moral limits. People who are not afraid and are showimg courage every day, but not murderers. And ICE knows that.

No one in ICE fears life ... they fear being emasculated.
by jkingsman | 2026-01-14 20:12:25+00:00
It took me a bit to get my head around this one; https://healthapiguy.substack.com/p/epic-v-health-gorilla-a-... has a great alternative breakdown. This is my understanding of the situation; if someone has any corrections, I would love to be enlightened!

Essentially, Epic, a massive healthcare company running the majority of electronic healthcare/medical record systems for hospitals/etc. makes data available to various data brokers, who then subcontract to other healthcare providers. The goal of this subcontracting is that if you e.g. come into an emergency department unconscious, but with identification, doctors can pull data from the broker, solemnly swear that they're treating you, and gain access to your whole medical record. Generally, good actors in this space will seek signed consent paperwork, or have policies in place with narrow carve-outs for emergency access, but there is (to my understanding) not a centralized, standardized system of access request, patient approval, and auditing.

There have been many issues in the past with shady providers who are, indeed, treating the patients, also turning around to sell the data they have to legal firms looking for plantiffs for lawsuits under the guise of "we're helping the patient by potentially giving them access to lawsuits that will advocate for them."

This current lawsuit alleges that the data brokers this time were simply turning a blind eye to completely fraudulent actors who never had the patient under their care, and that their access was knowingly used to bulk-mine patient data for lawsuit opportunities.
by dangus | 2026-01-14 20:12:37+00:00
His take is stupid even if you give him the benefit of the doubt and believe his claim at face value. You shouldn’t avoid people that dislike you in this manner because it perpetuates the problem to eternity. It is essentially the same concept as segregation: well, we can’t ever get along so we’ll just exist in separate spaces!

We literally tried that already and it didn’t work out so well.

I hate to say this but you control your destiny when it comes to your reputation. If you want people to celebrate your life instead of celebrating your death, spend your life being nice to people lifting them up.

Scott Adams didn’t do that. We are all free to feel however we want to feel about him. Don’t worry, his feelings won’t be hurt, he’s dead.
by happytoexplain | 2026-01-14 20:12:44+00:00
This is unrealistic and seems to be biased by some kind of broad un-focused hostility. Yes, maybe they were overstaffed. But it's reasonable to suspect that leadership overcut, given the current climate and the number being 15,000. Your characterization of Twitter predictions relies on cherry-picking and ignores the actual impacts, and there's no evidence that the system goes down without "constant" intervention from "thousands". Your tone also implies that large, complex systems, even if designed well, don't normally require a lot of maintenance from many people.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-14 20:12:49+00:00
> The fundamental question that needs answering is: should we actually prevent minors below the age of X from accessing social media site Y?

This is only an interesting question if we can prevent it. We couldn't prevent minors from smoking, and that was in a world where you had to physically walk into a store to buy cigarettes. The internet is even more anonymous, remote-controlled, and wild-west. What makes us think we can actually effectively age gate the Internet, where even Nobody Knows You're A Dog (1993)[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
by bityard | 2026-01-14 20:12:56+00:00
Sorry, I misunderstood Adafruit's position and therefore your question. It's weird that they would stop supporting anything they sold, even if they now want nothing to do with it. (They still have five forums for x0xb0x for pete's sake.) I guess they are trying to make a clean break and want to pour all resources into Freensy.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-01-14 20:13:03+00:00
Seems to be a newly emerging pattern, with now at least two examples. Here's the other one I'm aware of (from the Gleam programming language homepage):

Friendly
As a community, we want to be friendly too. People from around the world, of all backgrounds, genders, and experience levels are welcome and respected equally. See our community code of conduct for more.

Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. No nazi bullsh*t.

[1] https://gleam.run/
by smelendez | 2026-01-14 20:13:06+00:00
It's not specified how long the apprenticeships last or what qualifications you need.

But even the full-time job doesn't pay that well: $60K/year, after bonuses. And the company recently had layoffs and moved the plant an hour west, from North Adams, Mass., to Albany, New York. And you have to stand eight hours a day, and half of people drop out of the apprenticeship for whatever reason.

The fact is that an artistically skilled person in the Northeast could find better-paying, less physically taxing, and probably more stable work.
by kN0Xygn | 2026-01-14 20:13:08+00:00
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by Centigonal | 2026-01-14 20:13:21+00:00
I don't think that social media has had that effect in practice.

We're all scrolling through algorithmic feeds on walled gardens owned by some of the greatest capitalists in history. Domestic and foreign disinformation campaigns are not uncommon, and have affected election results and fomented atrocities (as in Myanmar). The US, which birthed most of these technologies, has grown more imperialistic and conservative since their adoption.

EDIT: I saw your edit. I agree that enforcing an industry-wide standard for parental controls, preferable one that can be set per-device and must be respected by all social media services, is the right way to do this. Internet ID laws are dystopian insanity.
by binarylogic | 2026-01-14 20:13:30+00:00
I agree with the framing. The goal isn't less data for its own sake. The goal is understanding your systems and being able to debug when things break.

But here's the thing: most teams aren't drowning in data because they're being thorough. They're drowning because no one knows what's valuable and what's not. Health checks firing every second aren't helping anyone debug anything. Debug logs left in production aren't insurance, they're noise.

The question isn't "can you do with less?" It's "do you even know what you have?" Most teams don't. They keep everything just in case, not because they made a deliberate choice, but because they can't answer the question.

Once you can answer it, you can make real tradeoffs. Keep the stuff that matters for debugging. Cut the stuff that doesn't.
by RickS | 2026-01-14 20:13:54+00:00
We're really sorely missing something like "semver for food".

I don't have deep food industry knowledge, IIRC there are some rules around SKUs needing to rotate in response to certain changes, but these are completely opaque to customers. People should know they're eating snickers 12.2.2, and while a sub-1% change to one ingredient's amount might be a patch bump, a 10% total weight reduction should absolutely trigger a major version bump. SKU and nutrition labels should be tied to a public changelog, and inaccuracies in that changelog should proportionally imperil manufacturer solvency.
by mindslight | 2026-01-14 20:13:56+00:00
Consider a trailer if you have even a mildly acceptable tow vehicle that can take a 2 inch receiver. Use what UHaul will rent you as a rough limit for what your vehicle can handle, and then if you want to save some weight get your own because it will be lighter than UHaul's brick shithouses.

Having said that, I'm still in the market for a larger vehicle with a better tow weight rating as I use the trailer more than a handful of times per year, and my current tow vehicle is getting a bit long in the tooth.
by Vrondi | 2026-01-14 20:14:04+00:00
Along these lines, watch these two videos from Bernadette Banner to learn how to identify fabric types and learn how to identify quality features in clothing:

https://youtu.be/qtJ5ukWundY?si=xzOyiwrrt8oTgpii

https://youtu.be/fuVU64m1sbw?si=5reXwGwVu2j5pTL1
by twnaing | 2026-01-14 20:14:07+00:00
> Lehtimaki even serves as a board member at Nordic Nano, but says that’s not the source of this product. “It’s not from them,” he says.

- [Is this the world’s first solid-state battery? - The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/transportation/858514/is-this-the-w...)
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-14 20:14:10+00:00
There's been some pretty clear information from countries enacting online ID laws that they want it precisely so that they can control discourse, not for any kind of protection. This isn't a hypothetical, it's the actual stated goals.

https://bsky.app/profile/tupped.bsky.social/post/3lwgcmswmy2...

> The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”