MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maciejzj | 2026-01-28 09:58:51+00:00
Yeah, irony put asisde, I believe that the reality is that people who already have power will consolidate it even more. Regardless if you were an average engineer, mid-level manager, consultant, whatever, you will be thrown under the bus any day. People can make up any identity and philosophy of entrepreneur/vibe engineer/manager/hardcore engineer/guy who run away to trades/anything but it doesn't change the fact that the average Joe is economically not viable in the current setup and he can't do anything particular to turn the tides.
by zahlman | 2026-01-28 09:59:15+00:00
> First was literally woman dropping her kid to school.

This was an early rumour that turned out false.

> ICE stopped her car

Video confirms that the SUV was parked perpendicular to the street for several minutes before any ICE agents approached her.

> told her to both get out of the car and drive away

She was initially told by Ross to drive away. She refused, and he then began to circle the vehicle and film everything, during which process he was accosted and antagonized by Good's partner. Then, many seconds later, a different officer ordered her out of the car, presumably to arrest her for refusing the previous order (and generally for obstruction).

> ICE pig deliberately stepped in front of her car

This is refuted by noticing that Good was making a two-point turn; as she reversed, the angle of the SUV substantially changed, putting Ross in front of the car. He simply could not have covered that much ground by "stepping in front".

But even if he had "deliberately stepped in front", he had every right to do so, and Good had no right to flee the scene. It comes across that you are alleging some 5d-chess plan to deliberately endanger his own life in order to create an excuse for lethal force, based on a simple desire to execute a citizen.

This narrative can only possibly make sense if one completely disregards Occam's razor and also fundamentally disregards the legitimacy of immigration law. Of course ICE agents don't actually want to kill US citizens. As demonstrated by the fact that the only such deaths have been in this one specific sanctuary city in a sanctuary state — where protestors routinely physically obstruct the agents, state officials encourage the protest, local police won't even protect ICE from crimes committed against them, and a literal "anti-ICE autonomous zone" has been set up.

> let’s start from them illegally wearing masks

The illegality of this has not been established, and nobody complaining about it here has provided a concrete reason as to why it should be prohibited.

If you're thinking of the VISIBLE act (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/221...), it has not gone anywhere in the House or Senate.

> not wearing their badges which is also illegal

I haven't seen any evidence of that happening; but if the law you're referring to is https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/723 , note that an exception is specifically provided in the relevant law:

> (b) EXCEPTION.—The requirement under subsection (a) shall not apply to individuals referred to in such subsection who — (1) do not wear a uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official duties; or (2) are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties.

> and not identifying themselves

Again, I have no idea what you're referring to. They're out there in very recognizable uniforms.
by roryirvine | 2026-01-28 10:00:05+00:00
It's pretty common to treat unauthorised entry attempts as a security incident.

The minimum follow-up acrtions I'd expect would be filing a police report, sending all-staff emails reminding people to be on the lookout for tailgaters, and reviewing security at reception.

It's perfectly reasonable for staff to want to ensure that those sort of measures have been taken.
by Foobar8568 | 2026-01-28 10:00:58+00:00
Just in the last few years https://www.blick.ch/fr/suisse/proces-pour-viol-dans-les-gri...

https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/14523420-polemique-autour-dun...

And when you take the train, have a baby, and land on this fucked up article https://www.20min.ch/fr/story/sodomie-infantile-un-film-choc... you know the country is fucked up.

https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/vaud/2025/article/comedien-v... 4years for a teacher raping his teens students.

Should I start talking about the different train stations and all the drug dealers or drug users ?
by bamboozled | 2026-01-28 10:01:07+00:00
I would recommend the book.

Sharing more: It shattered my prior beliefs about who "I" thought I was. When I read certain passages from the book, I knew it was true. It hurt my ego because it was undeniable. My old belief system was floored. My ideas about myself and others was insufficient. That shattered "me".

In many ways, it probably just helped me to be more compassionate and accepting of my situation and that of others. You cannot really put a price on wisdom like that.
by skrebbel | 2026-01-28 10:01:23+00:00
Yeah I knew plenty people at ASML at the time. I wrote my comment a bit too condensed there, the interview wasn't my only exposure to the place. At the time it was very chaotic (for good and bad), the codebase was awful, there was plenty armwrestling but it was always armwrestling about the tech, not about island building and the likes.

Like just as an example, they made sure that everywhere there was a coffee machine, there was also a whiteboard right next to it for general use. The idea was that if you ran into someone at the coffee machine and got talking and suddenly got an idea together, you could immediately jot it down and geek out about it together and work it out in more detail, right there by the coffee machine. No meeting to plan, no project manager to involve, just work out your idea together. That's not what you'd expect in a company with lots of managers protecting their little islands.
by uxcolumbo | 2026-01-28 10:01:26+00:00
ASML is a net positive for the world. Scientists pushing technology forward. Read about how they achieved EUV lithography, what an amazing feat.

META is a net negative for the world. Its leadership prioritizes profit over user safety (e.g. not protecting children), it allowed democracies to be undermined by boosting misinformation and social division.
by appplication | 2026-01-28 10:01:27+00:00
I’ve been kicking around an idea for a while now that’s basically a no-headlines, curated (generally long-form) media aggregation site. No algorithm, no personalization, no AI. Just topics you can choose to follow.

The basic idea is you get one article at a time fed to you (no headline scrolling like Reddit or HN), and doesn’t let you proceed to the next article until you’ve scrolled through at least x% of the current article or spent a minimum time threshold reading it. Maybe allow a limited number of “skips” per day if the content really isn’t for you. Basically the idea is to force you to slow down and actually engage with the content by removing mechanisms that promote mindless scrolling and dopamine rush.
by timschmidt | 2026-01-28 10:01:52+00:00
Using OpenSSL's malloc may bypass protections of hardened libc mallocs like OpenBSD's.

If memory crosses the boundary between OpenSSL and your app, or some other library, freeing it with a different allocator than the one it was allocated with is undefined behavior.

OpenSSL's allocator doesn't free in in the same ways other mallocs do, which prevents memory sanitization tools like valgrind from finding memory bugs.

OpenSSL has a completely separate idea of a secure heap, with it's own additional malloc implementation, which can lead to state leakage or other issues if not used perfectly at the (non-existent because the entire library surface is exposed) security boundary and is accidentally intermingled with calls to the (insecure?) malloc.

It's just a big can of security worms which may have been useful on odd platforms like VMS, though that's questionable, and only serves to add additional layers of inscrutability and obfuscation to an already messy codebase today. It's not enough to know what malloc does, one must familiarize themselves with all the quirks of both(!) of OpenSSL's custom implementations, which are used precisely nowhere else, to judge the security or code correctness implications of virtually anything in the codebase. There's no good reason for it.
by throwaway315314 | 2026-01-28 10:02:06+00:00
I don't think mainstream news is news anymore, its just become pseudo high brow reality tv with various organizations panhandling for your attention with whatever outrageous thing they can. There is that exercise of looking at the headlines from a month ago and realizing that most of them didn't matter at all or had very little effect on ones daily life. Its no wonder things are getting more extreme when every news outlet is falling over each other to farm that engagement.
by zwaps | 2026-01-28 10:02:32+00:00
While you are not wrong, many of the cases I observed had managers from all over the world.

I think it's just a symptom. As a manager, you contribute nothing by yourself. You are useful if you have a useful team (ICs) with a good project. To have that, you need to defend yourself against other managers who will take this from you.
If you then also want to get prompted, your task is also to vacuum in all sorts of soft power, visibility, decision rights and being-in-the-roomness. It's even efficient, in that case, to destroy efficiency with processes (under your involvement)

As an IC, you are always valuable as you can always create value.

Hence, by having enough managers, you ensure that their competition will destroy the company.
by zahlman | 2026-01-28 10:03:02+00:00
How do you reconcile, for example, the search results for https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Acnn.com+fascist with a claim that it's "risible" that CNN is "left-leaning"?

Or do you dispute that CNN is a "major news outlet in the US"?

And surely you'd agree that MSNBC is to CNN's left?
by p00dles | 2026-01-28 10:03:39+00:00
They were both brilliant, but from everything that I've read, Jobs was an ass****, and Woz was the opposite, and that is a huge, huge difference.

The mythologizing of Jobs is the canonical example of people condoning terrible behavior because they think that a person is smart/valuable/talented/etc.

To me this is completely backwards and sets a terrible precedent - that you can act however you want if you get results - especially given how many people idolize and look up to Jobs.
by ben_w | 2026-01-28 10:03:57+00:00
The Russian attacks on Ukrainian reactors show they are not easy to defend.

Renewables' diffuse nature means that attacking them directly, while easier to score a hit, does much less damage. Knock down one wind turbine, you cut something like 15 MW peak output, you need to hit 60-120 turbines to have the impact of hitting a single nuclear plant (or more depending on capacity factor). If a bomb hits the PV in my garden, the loss of the PV itself is by far the least of my problems.

Fission is great when you want the spicy radioisotopes though. MAD worked last time, will it continue to deter in the future?
by arw0n | 2026-01-28 10:05:01+00:00
That's a bit reductive I think, there's at least deductive reasoning (mathematics, logics, analytics), hermeneutics (understanding meaning in human communication), and phenomenology (understanding human experience through first person accounts). If we want to do a study on the impact of compliments by strangers on self-worth, a combination of all of these techniques of knowledge generation would be needed.
by davidst | 2026-01-28 10:05:44+00:00
The first iteration of the tech reached the accuracy needed to support just-walk-out for a small-format store. It did achieve that goal. I left the project before it went further.

I imagined, at the time, future goals would be to scale store size and product variety while reducing the cost of the technology, but I have no insight into how that progressed. I am sorry to learn it's been shut down.
by appplication | 2026-01-28 10:06:10+00:00
I was behind Woz in Heathrow security a few years back. I was taken aback he’d just be in the regular airport security line given he’s probably worth 1B+. I asked him if he was who I thought he was (he was wearing a face mask, but it was printed with a picture of his own face on it so I wasn’t sure). He said yes and asked if I wanted to take a selfie. Very humble dude.
Show HN: Cai – CLI tool for AI tasks (Rust)
by adius | 2026-01-28 10:06:43+00:00
I wanted to make LLMs easier and faster to use by not having to give the same verbose instructions over and over again.

Therefore, cai provides many high level commands for great usability:

- cai value capital of Australia
- cai image photo of a banana
- cai ocr page.png
- pbpaste | cai rewrite 'more professional'
by trhway | 2026-01-28 10:07:22+00:00
allow to birth? Only God does that. US does entice tourists by granting citizenship to anybody born on US territory. If you don't like it - change the Constitution. If you aren't changing it, then you want it for some reason.

Edit: to the commenter below - what "moral" has to do with the Constitution provision? I mean beside the general understanding that Constitution is a law and following law is in general a moral thing, and that US Constitution was generally an attempt to write a good moral thing.
by motbus3 | 2026-01-28 10:07:26+00:00
I guess no one questions about illegal immigrants being deported, but actually being physically attacked, abused and havr authorities blatantly denying wrongdoing even when they are caught (besides using AI for editing images to create certain narratives and supporting such actions when they are found doing that)

But anyway. That's not my problem. I hope all ends well for everyone
by teotimepacreau | 2026-01-28 10:08:05+00:00
https://www.teotimepacreau.fr - mostly writing about web dev, design, consultancy work for managing informatic projects, using open data to serve your own needs
My feed : https://www.teotimepacreau.fr/feed/feed.xml
Also the blogroll containing all the indie blogs I regularly read : https://www.teotimepacreau.fr/colophon
by koiueo | 2026-01-28 10:08:43+00:00
The little experience I have with LLM confidently shows that LLMs are much better at navigating and modifying a well structured code base. And they struggle, sometimes to a point where they can't progress at all, if tasked to work on bad code. I mean, the kind of bad you always get after multiple rounds of unsupervised vibe coding.
by Buttons840 | 2026-01-28 10:08:51+00:00
I hear you, but spending an hour to research every name on the ballot come election time will make you better informed than most people.

If you want to do more, you can find some protests to participate in. Or do something other than protest like clean a local park or feed hungry people.

If I spend 3 hours on a random Tuesday consuming the news, that doesn't help anyone. It does the opposite; it makes me less able to focus, and makes me have less personal power and discipline to affect change in the world.
by gigatexal | 2026-01-28 10:09:15+00:00
Lots of true things about do-nothing managers in this thread. There are, however, managers that help teams achieve more than they would without them. People leadership and stewardship is a soft skill that’s still important so long as we have people doing the engineering.

I’ve had some amazing managers that were engaged and did more than go to and from meetings. And I’ve had some that improved things vastly just by leaving the room.
by idle_zealot | 2026-01-28 10:09:21+00:00
It's a majority of Democrat voters.

> Democrats overwhelmingly support eliminating ICE (76% vs. 15%), as do nearly half of Independents (47% vs. 35%). Most Republicans (73%) continue to oppose abolishing ICE. Only 19% of Republicans support eliminating the agency

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53939-more-americ...
by tripledry | 2026-01-28 10:09:32+00:00
> In other words, if you want 10% of your savings to be in X, and they do a dividend, then you have to take the cash and buy shares of X.

Wouldn't the inverse of this be true in buybacks though? If it's economically equivalent then buyback should increase the price and similarly increase the proportion of X in your portfolio - which would force you to rebalance (might have tax implications).

Generally agree with the main point.
by fransje26 | 2026-01-28 10:09:46+00:00
> I completely understand why, but on the other hand democracy relies on citizens being informed about what's happening.

The point being made by the author is that "following the news" nowadays has nothing to do with being informed. Instead, it became about being constantly bombarded by a barrage of noise and nonsense to constantly grab your attention.

So instead, by finding a monthly publication giving him an overview of the local, European and world news, the author is looking for a filter removing all the unnecessary noise. And the month granularity should be more than enough to allow him to be informed about important changes.
by 317070 | 2026-01-28 10:09:46+00:00
Fellow European. They are not death camps, but what information does come out of them does sound a lot like concentration camps, already prior to Trump coming to office.

These are all stories about the facility the 5 year old toddler from last week is kept, a facility known as "baby jail".

https://www.proskauerforgood.com/2018/06/pro-bono-for-immigr...
https://www.aila.org/blog/volunteering-in-family-detention-s...
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/stories-reve...
by Otterly99 | 2026-01-28 10:09:54+00:00
Thank you for bringing this nuanced view.

I also am not sure why so many people are vehemently against this. I would bet that at least 90% of researchers would agree that the writing up is definitely not the part of the work they prefer (to stay polite). As you mentioned, work is usually relegated to students, and those students already had access to LLMs if they wanted to generate the work.

In my opinion, most of those tools become problematic when people use them without caution. Unfortunately, even in sciences, people are not as careful and pragmatic as we would like to imagine they are and a lot of people are cutting corners, especially in those "lesser" areas like writing and presenting your work.

Overall, I think this has the potential to reshape the publication system, which is long overdue.
by philipallstar | 2026-01-28 10:09:56+00:00
> much over a century ago, women were expected to marry and be wives with a handful of exceptions like religious service. They did not have many opportunities for education and there were limited opportunities for independent employment with entire professions off-limits

This was the case for most men as well, except they sometimes had to go and die weeping and in pain in a foreign field rather than stay at home and do what for most people is the most rewarding thing in life.
by KronisLV | 2026-01-28 10:10:07+00:00
> catching when things go sideways

Curiously, this is where automated checks, that people have known are useful for years but haven't been implementing widely enough, come in really handy!

Not just linters and code tests, but also various checks in regards to the architecture - like how the code is organized, how certain abstractions are used (e.g. if you want to enforce Pinia Setup instead of Option stores, and Vue Composition instead of Options API; or a particular ASP.NET or Spring Boot way of structuring filters and API endpoints and access controls) and so on.

Previously we just expected a bunch of devs to do a lot of heavy lifting along the lines of: "Oh yeah, this doesn't match our ADR described there, please follow the existing structure" which obviously doesn't work when the LLM produces code at 10x the rate.

I think the projects that will truly work well with increased use of agentic LLM use will be those that will have hundreds of various checks and actually ENFORCE standards instead of just expecting them to be followed (which people don't do anyways).
by SilverBirch | 2026-01-28 10:10:10+00:00
A CDN, a static HTML5 player and a very good lawyer for when the DOJ comes knocking, like they did with Hannah Natanson, Jacob Frey and Tim Walz.

You'd do that I guess, right, if you saw something happening you thought was bad - you'd run straight into a legal fight that could bankrupt you? Nah, you're a tough guy on the internet! Nothing scares you!
by jwarden | 2026-01-28 10:10:15+00:00
Reading the news and being informed are two separate things. Being an informed citizen, the kind that democracies need to survive, also requires 1) being informed of history and 2) understanding issues in depth.

People who consume a lot of news tend to have very shallow understanding of a broad range of current events. Worse they tend to be passive receivers of news instead of active seekers of information with intent to understand the world.

As a result, they are very susceptible to manipulation through selection of what makes the news they tend to consume. They become passive pawns in political power struggles.
by causalscience | 2026-01-28 10:10:20+00:00
I dislike people like you more than I dislike regular dumb people, because I'm sure you're convinced that was a really smart reply.

To be explicit: The person you're responding to didn't say it but they have as a premise that when it comes to political systems, lack of empathy is the defining characteristic of fascism (I'm not saying I agree with the premise, I'm saying they had this premise). If you accept this, then their argument is not logically wrong. In contrast, your example is logically wrong. In the "two feet" example you're point at one attribute of something, not a defining characteristic. The correct example would be "All bipeds have two feet (by definition). Bob has two feet, therefore Bob is a biped". The gibberish you produced is logically wrong, while that of the person you're talking to is not, but you're too stupid to understand that.
by keyringlight | 2026-01-28 10:10:58+00:00
I think it's worth keeping something like the serenity prayer in mind, there's a wide range in how relevant different types of news are to each of us, and how it affects us or we affect it. Between the various types 24 hour news they seem to encourage a mindset that you need to stay on the firehose and be informed, which stepping back a bit any profession will try to highlight what they offer is of utmost importance. What underlies that and makes me uncomfortable is news as entertainment, even if it's in the background as opposed to something like music, the constant drip feed of negativity or hazard.
by Klaster_1 | 2026-01-28 10:11:26+00:00
Different people have different levels of what matters. If I didn't read the news, I wouldn't know that my country would search my phone at airport and prosecute for acts it didn't like. Or which countries are safe for get together with family. Or that I may lose the chance to renew my passport in third country and have to urgently renew it, otherwise risking a trip to hostile homeland and potential residency permit issues.
by zahlman | 2026-01-28 10:11:35+00:00
> The Pretti shooting has been ruled a homicide, by the way.

I don't see anything in e.g. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/27/alex-p... to substantiate that; and as far as I can tell there have not yet been any other investigations, and thus no other opportunity for such a ruling.
by mkirsten | 2026-01-28 10:11:36+00:00
I tried the same. 2 weeks after I started I attended a party where people mentioned that it was sad that Michael Jackson had died. I thought they were joking, but turned out they didn’t. It was in late June 2009. I started reading the news again.

But today I read them differently. I read news site, with some curation (e.g., settings for threshold for articles that comes up in various fields) together with a few favorite sites (e.g., HN)