MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dingdongditchme | 2026-01-27 12:21:46+00:00
Interesting. I can only speak for FRAports Terminal A where the Lufthansa flights go and they use the new bag scanners where I just need to get rid of my coat and belt to be scanned by the infamous "Nacktscanner". The first time I went through I thought liquids were allowed from all airports in the EU until I found out it was bag scanner dependent. Smaller airports are usually OK because queues are short and then I have the time to walk TSA through each individual item personally. FRAport has started adopting the "snake-through-duty-free" before the gate (pioneered by Stansted as far as I can tell) which is criminal in my opinion (it's not as bad as Stansted yet). Commercial workflows are thus not always better when the optimize time customer has to spend "not buying" overpriced meals and consumer garbage.
by gambiting | 2026-01-27 12:22:26+00:00
I have literally never met anyone as delusional as you on HN. Your comments are just on the absolute edge of sanity, and the only hope I have is that you are an actual russian troll trying to sow discontent and not an actual real human that holds these beliefs earnestly.

It just leaves me wondering - how do you look yourself in the mirror each day? I guess it must be super easy if you just look at what happened there and think shooting a guy 11 times from close distance is an "accident".
by antonreshetov | 2026-01-27 12:22:38+00:00
Hello HN!

I’m the author of Bumpy, a zero-config CLI tool for automating versioning and changelogs in monorepos.

The Problem: Monorepo tooling often feels too heavy. While tools like Changesets are excellent, they rely on a file-based workflow (creating "intent" markdown files), which adds extra steps. Nx Release is powerful but feels heavy if you aren't already fully bought into the Nx ecosystem.

The Solution: I wanted something that treats Git history as the source of truth without extra metadata files. Bumpy is designed for small to medium monorepos that already use Conventional Commits.

How it works:

- Auto-discovery: Finds packages (pnpm/npm workspaces, apps/*, etc.).
Analysis: Detects the last tag (e.g., project@version) and reads commits since then.
- Suggestion: Proposes the next version based on commit messages (Conventional Commits).
- Generation: Updates package.json and writes a clean, per-package CHANGELOG.md.

Key Features:

- Zero-config default (but configurable via bumpy.json).
- Supports independent versioning with per-project tags.
- Interactive mode + Dry-run support.

It’s meant to stay out of your way and just automate the release step.

I’d love to get your feedback:

- Does the "Git history as source of truth" flow feel robust enough for your workflows compared to the "intent file" model of Changesets?
- Are there edge cases in per-project tagging you've encountered with other tools?
by francisofascii | 2026-01-27 12:22:54+00:00
> There were big swings in my resting heart rate whenever I got a new Apple Watch, suggesting the devices may not have been tracking the same way.

First of all, wrist based HR measurements are not reliable. If you feed ChatGPT a ton of HR data that is just plain wrong, expect a bad result. Everyone who wants to track HR reliably should invest in a chest strap. The VO2 Max calculation is heavily based on your pace at a given heart rate. It makes some generalizations on on your running biomechanics. For example, if your "real" lab tested VO2 max stays constant, but you improve your biomechanics / running efficiency, you can run faster at the same effort, and your Apple watch will increase your VO2 Max number.
by XCSme | 2026-01-27 12:23:26+00:00
But in the end, isn't this the same idea with the MoE?

Where we have more specialized "jobs", which the model is actually trained for.

I think the main difference with agents swarm is the ability to run them in parallel. I don't see how this adds much compared to simply sending multiple API calls in parallel with your desired tasks. I guess the only difference is that you let the AI decide how to split those requests and what each task should be.
by pards | 2026-01-27 12:24:26+00:00
My first introduction to the internet was through the telnet-based EW-too talkers like Foothills (Boston U) and Forest (UTS). I have very fond memories of staying up late talking to people from all over the globe. It was truly amazing to me.

The best part was how the users moderated behaviour - bad actors were ejected swiftly but rarely permanently.
by basilikum | 2026-01-27 12:24:28+00:00
> Which means that either there is no such an internal pressure or the regimes are extraordinarily good at selecting and incentivizing people to maintain the status quo.

It depends a lot on how much power the people have. The more advanced and diverse an economy and the more qualified and educated the population are the more power they have. On one extreme you have countries like Angola with an economy consisting virtually only out of exporting oil. These countries only need a few qualified engineers for their resource extraction which they pay well and everyone else is entirely replaceable. That leads to extreme inequality between the leading political class that absorbs all the money and pays the military with it. As long as they pay and treat the military well enough they can just suppress the rest of the country. If people act up they can literally just kill everyone part of the rebellion. The political class, the military and the rest are just entirely disjunct classes of people with different incentives. The family of the militaries profit enough from the system to not excert pressure on their family member working for the military. It's the hand that feeds them.

On the other end you have countries with highly developed, specialized economies and a population that is educated enough to understand at least a few things about politics. There ordinary people have extensive training and work experience. You cannot just replace them. They can protest and go on strike and if you start killing everyone the economy will quickly start crashing down. Just pulling a few cogs out of the massively complex machine will stop it from working. And at that point it's not just a problem for the working population but also for the owning class and the pressure will propagate all the way up through the hierarchy. Also people can just leave. They have the economic means to and their qualifications mean that other countries have an interest in attracting already qualified people without having to pay for their education and traning first. That's what happened to east Germany and why they built the wall.

There are some methods of social control that can help to control a population beyond that. The key ingredient is surveillance, mutual control and seeding distrust. One person alone can never challenge the system. People need to organize. You can try to find the organizers via surveillance quick enough and get rid of them before they get dangerous. Also if a significant portion of the population is secretly informing the government people might be to afraid to organize as they distrust each other. That's how the Stasi worked in East Germany. For an extreme case of that see the Inminban[1] system in North Korea where people are bundled into groups where all surveil each other and report any dissident behavior. Failing to do so will lead to collective punishment for the whole group. It's a really perverse system that plays people against each other and their own interest aligning the incentives for the individual with the government rather than their class.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inminban
by gambiting | 2026-01-27 12:24:29+00:00
>>There's etiquette when dealing with police that people seem to have forgotten.

You are literally insane if you think this is a matter of "etiquette" or that it was an accident.

Essex police haven't fired a single bullet in the last 10 years, and they are able to provide effective policing anyway. But in US a bunch of gestapo officers have a man pinned to the ground, with his gun taken away, and then they shoot him?

At least the real gestapo had the decency to ask you to stand against the wall looking away before they executed you.

As I asked you in another comment - do you want to live in a Judge Dredd universe where officers can just execute someone like this? And I repeat, it's not an accident. If it was, they would have shot him once.
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-27 12:24:30+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_generation_warfare

It's the Russian doctrine

Keep the population of hostile countries uneasy at all times, destabilise a bit here and there, help them argue about stupid identity politics instead of focusing on things that actually matter.

When people become complacent about Russians poking around here and there, breaking in and not doing anything etc - then when they actually need to act, the defence will be lukewarm.
by sluongng | 2026-01-27 12:24:33+00:00
Zstd dictionary compression is essentially how Meta's Mercurial fork (Sapling VCS) stores blobs https://sapling-scm.com/docs/dev/internals/zstdelta. The source code is available in GitHub if folks want to study the tradeoffs vs git delta-compressed packfiles.

I think theoratically, Git delta-compression is still a lot more optimized for smaller repos. But for bigger repos where sharding storaged is required, path-based delta dictionary compression does much better. Git recently (in the last 1 year) got something called "path-walk" which is fairly similar though.
by gambiting | 2026-01-27 12:24:48+00:00
I mean, there is a victim of false propaganda here, but I think that's you, especially given your other comments.

"Stenvik said another adult living in the home was outside during the encounter and had pleaded to take care of Liam so the boy could avoid detention, but was denied. Liam’s older brother, a middle schooler, came home 20 minutes later to find his father and brother missing, Stenvik said. Two school principals from the district also arrived at the home to offer support."

" An agent had taken Liam out of the car, led the boy to his front door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in, “in order to see if anyone else was home – essentially using a five-year-old as bait”, the superintendent said in a statement."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/ice-arrests-...

Again, how do you look yourself in the mirror every morning?
by adrian_b | 2026-01-27 12:25:46+00:00
I have not been recently to Israel, so I do not know if there have been any changes in their system.

However, some time ago, for a few years I had been a frequent flyer into Israel.

In my opinion their system of airport security seemed far more efficient than what is now typical in Europe and immensely better than the circus that seems typical for USA.

The disadvantage is as you said, that their system requires numerous well trained personnel.

At least at that time, their system had very little emphasis on physical searching and luggage scanning, but it was based mainly on interviewing the traveler, normally by 2 different agents.

During a great number of security checks, my luggage has been searched only once, and it was definitely my fault. That flight was at the end of an extremely busy day and I was very tired, so I just wished for the security check to end as quickly as possible, to be able to finally rest in the plane. My impatience was transparent, which made me suspicious, leading to this singular case of physical searching, instead of just psychological assessment.
by elena2223 | 2026-01-27 12:25:53+00:00
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by KAMSPioneer | 2026-01-27 12:26:04+00:00
Tuna-Fish said that instead of backing up the keys from your devices, you should create a specific backup key that is only ever used in case you lose access to all your devices.

This is indeed best practice because it allows you to alert based on key: if you receive a login on a machine with your backup key, but you haven't lost your devices, then you know your backup was compromised. If you take backups of your regular key then it would be much more difficult to notice a problem.
by fyredge | 2026-01-27 12:26:13+00:00
The social media of today is very very much different from internet forums of old.

The old forums were populated by people with specific interests who sought out community. This is opposed to modern social media where everyone is on a single (or several) platforms where the community is recommended to you. This bypasses the first mental defense of actively sifting through content.

The second difference is the commodification of attention. Old forums have no intention of keeping you on them. You are free to join and leave as you please, so are others there. In contrast, modern social media have become a place where people need to be to network online (see Facebook and LinkedIn). In addition, the incentive of advertisements encourage social media to keep your attention as a source of revenue than to serve your interests as a user.

So if governments want to regulate social media, I'm all up for it. They regulated gambling and drugs for addiction, why not social media.
by iberator | 2026-01-27 12:26:17+00:00
On Android you have stock Digital Wellbeing app.

You can limit many things such us:

Number of notifications per day,
Notifications on given hours, nighttime, work time etc,
Notifications by application(!),
Number of minutes/hours allowed per application before it goes into blocked state till the next day, break or end of work,
Priority of notifications,
Daily summary of notifications etc etc.

It helped me to cut down mobile screen time from like to 40m.

PS2 : Install Brave browser - it blocks all ads, popups and cookie questions forever. AND it let's you play youtube in the background
by cthalupa | 2026-01-27 12:26:18+00:00
> I live in a place where getting a blood test requires a referral from a doctor,

To me, this is horrific. I am the advocate for my own health. I trust my doctor - he's a great guy. I have spoken to him extensively around a variety of health matters and I greatly trust his opinion.

But I also recognize that he has many other patients and by necessity has to work within the general lines of probability. There is no way for him to know every confounding and contributing factor of my health, no matter how diligent I am in filling out my chart.

I get my own bloodwork done regularly. This has let me make significant changes in my life to improve health markers. I can also get a much broader spectrum of tests done than the standard panel. This has directly lead to productive conversations with my doctor!

And from a more philosophical standpoint, this is about understanding my own body. The source of the data is me. Why should this be gatekept behind a physician referral? I find it insane to think that I could be in a position where I am not allowed to find out the cholesterol serum levels in my blood unless a doctor OKs it! What the fuck?
by billygoat | 2026-01-27 12:26:27+00:00
Machine Language for Beginners, Charles Mansfield
https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-machine-language-for-...

This book specifically targets beginners that are new to 6502 assembly. The examples cover all of the 1980s-era computers including the Apple II. It's free on archive.org and the introductory chapters are worth reading.
by 4ggr0 | 2026-01-27 12:27:08+00:00
a bit ironic to recommend a "socially responsible" ETF, managed by the one and only UBS.

but you're right, i forgot that my socially responsible bank claims to have socially responsible ETFs. i just hope that they are actually socially responsible, and not "socially responsible".

lots of things claim to be socially, ecologically or otherwise responsible, but that's exactly my issue. they're claims, most of the time just [insert color]washing.
by maybewhenthesun | 2026-01-27 12:27:12+00:00
My parents, and my wife's parents, have been doing just that without any trouble whatsoever.

Just browse to netflix.com and log in. Not any different than in windows.

My parents use mail, firefox and libreoffice writer. That's about all they need and it works fine and is way more stable and hasslefree on linux than when it was when they were still using windows (admittedly quite long ago).

And if you are talking about seeing people install the OS, people can't do that for windows either.
by thot_experiment | 2026-01-27 12:27:16+00:00
Just checking into this thread for the record, I commented in one of these "update bricks windows" threads maybe a year ago about how I don't let my Windows 10 update, still haven't updated and everything is still working great!

If your device is working, after an update there are only two options, either it keeps working or it doesn't. Why roll the dice?
by tim333 | 2026-01-27 12:27:27+00:00
I guess you need gear which is adequate for the enemies you face which in Europe is basically Russia. It's sort of ok - the UK and France have nukes and we seem to be getting by without the 5th gen fighters. We could probably do with a local substitute for Patriot missiles.

I think the EU should effectively form a military alliance with Ukraine who are the main force against Russia at the moment and crank things up to actually win.
by darkryder | 2026-01-27 12:27:29+00:00
Great writeup! It's always fun to learn the details of the tools we use daily.

For others, I highly recommend Git from the Bottom Up[1]. It is a very well-written piece on internal data structures and does a great job of demystifying the opaque git commands that most beginners blindly follow. Best thing you'll learn in 20ish minutes.

1. https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
by Signez | 2026-01-27 12:28:29+00:00
Nah, it's just a basic case of a pivot from a company that previously offered a great open source (MIT licensed) product written in Go that offer WebRTC-based backbone to build audio and video sharing products upon: https://github.com/livekit/livekit

The AI stuff that the original LiveKit company put on top of it (to pivot to more investor-friendly endeavours) is not that relevant in this case, in my humble opinion.
Show HN: MWP – Open spec for making web content AI-readable
by digitalegoai | 2026-01-27 12:29:03+00:00
AI agents now represent a third of brand search traffic (CNET). But most web content is invisible to them — blocked by robots.txt, hidden behind JavaScript, or buried in HTML noise.

MWP (Machine Web Protocol) is an open specification for serving clean, machine-readable versions of your content. Simple text format with metadata headers. Host on your own domain at /machine/.

Spec (Apache 2.0): https://github.com/mbumpus/mwp-spec
Registry: https://machinewebprotocol.com/
Landing: https://mwp.foundation/

Would love feedback on the spec. What's missing? What would make this useful for your use case?
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-27 12:29:08+00:00
Canada taxes on residency, and not citizenship. The number of days in the country directly affects your tax obligations.

If you are a dual US/Canadian citizen, than you may still be expected to file a US return or face fines. Similarly, if your business sells products or services to US customers there are transactional and fiscal state-specific grace levels than can trip tax obligations.

Best of luck =3
by whizzter | 2026-01-27 12:29:25+00:00
Chinese state that maybe sees open collaboration as the way to nullify any US lead in the field, concurrently if the next "search-winner" is built upon their model the Chinese worldview that Taiwan belongs to China and Tiamen Square massacre never happened.

Also their license says that if you have a big product you need to promote them, remember how Google "gave away" site searche widgets and that was perhaps one of the major ways they gained recognition for being the search leader.

OpenAI/NVidia is the Pets.com/Sun of our generation, insane valuations, stupid spend, expensive options, expensive hardware and so on.

Sun hardware bought for 50k USD to run websites in 2000 are less capable than perhaps 5 dollar/month VPS's today?

"Scaling to AGI/ASI" was always a fools errand, best case OpenAI should've squirreled away money to have a solid engineering department that could focus on algorithmic innovations but considering that Antrophic, Google and Chinese firms have caught up or surpassed them it seems they didn't.

Once things blows up, those closed options that had somewhat sane/solid model research that handles things better will be left and a ton of new competitors running modern/cheaper hardware and just using models are building blocks.
by jfengel | 2026-01-27 12:29:29+00:00
Why are they rare?

There used to be suicide bombings in the news all the time. Hijackings were the reason they instituted the metal detectors at airports.

Improved security seems unlikely as a reason, given how many tests they fail. Was it just a fad? Did they decide it wasn't getting them what they wanted at a high personal cost? Did they find something more effective?
by smartmic | 2026-01-27 12:30:18+00:00
I use Fossil extensively, but only for personal projects. There are specific design conditions, such as no rebasing [0], and overall, it is simpler yet more useful to me. However, I think Fossil is better suited for projects governed under the cathedral model than the bazaar model. It's great for self-hosting, and the web UI is excellent not only for version control, but also for managing a software development project. However, if you want a low barrier to integrating contributions, Fossil is not as good as the various Git forges out there. You have to either receive patches or Fossil bundles via email or forum, or onboard/register contributors as developers with quite wide repo permissions.

[0]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md