MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mistersquid | 2026-01-30 12:03:01+00:00
> This is really obscured by the K-shaped growth, dual economy now. We've reached a stable pattern of a deep underclass serving the wealthy. We won't have a crash or "correction" because the entrenched top 5% has figured out a way extract value from everyone else indefinitely.

Apologies for quoting all 3 sentences of parent, but the poorly-drawn conclusion depends on the full sequence of seemingly rational statements.

The context this sequence is missing is that approximately 70% of the US economy depends on consumer spending. [0][1] If the lower stroke of the K-economy diverges too much from the upper, the economy is going to grind to halt.

Consumer spending of the bottom 90% cannot (easily?) be replaced by the top 10%.

[0] https://govfacts.org/money/broader-economy/economic-indicato...

[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/11/23/nx-s1-5615222/consumer-spendi...
by bravetraveler | 2026-01-30 12:03:12+00:00
You say this like I'm not aware and it's sunshine/rainbows, actually.

Competition in the GOG launcher space, huzzah. To the detriment of One Launcher To Rule Them All.

To be clear: I'm for a first party solution. I support their efforts as much as I can. It will have considerable impact on the users. Both ways.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-30 12:04:38+00:00
> It will suck even for us in europe due to shortsighted pension funds having invested in AI as well.

Only to a very small degree and systems like Germany THANK GOD do not have any AI exposure at all.

The real problem is that when the US sniffs, Europe gets a full blown cough. We are way too dependent on the US, we have seen that 2007ff, and we haven't changed a single darn thing.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-30 12:05:40+00:00
> We could realistically print a 5 handle GDP, oil at rock bottom prices, lower federal income taxes this year.

Ignoring everything else in terms of oredictions: the US simply doesn't have that spending buffer anymore to really outspend yet another crash. Its at what, 37 trillion right now? And it's only rising more and more by the month.

The only thing worse than a crash would be the US defaulting on that. And then we'd be screwed in ways that we don't recover from in any of our lifetimes. Nearly a century of trust and soft power completely down the drain.
by kreetx | 2026-01-30 12:05:40+00:00
For Alex Pretti, there is already a video found where he kicks a police car's tail light loose during an earlier protest (while also carrying a gun to that event, too), so circumstances are stacking against him, unfortunately.

I'd say, simply don't bring a gun to a protest! As then police won't need to do split second decisions about whether you are using lethal force against them or not.
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-30 12:05:53+00:00
Update... After a bit of work, I was able to boot the old hard drive with macOS and tried to log into apple services. Of course it rejected my existing AppleId password, but this time with a working iMac, I asked it to send a reset code to my iMac.

It seemed to think it sent one to my iMac, but nothing ever showed up. The internet says it should have showed up on my iMac's screen or in the upper right corner of the screen. No dice.

This is similar to what happened at the Apple Store when we tried the "use someone else's iProduct" to reset the password. The login page seemed to think it had sent a PIN, but it never showed up at the end device.

I suspect that because I'm in the iForgot 24 hour cool down period, nothing is going to work. They claim they will send instructions to my phone (I hope they realize my phone doesn't have iMessage) in 15 hours for what to do while waiting 30 or 90 days to try the reset again.

This sort of reminds me when we got bought out and we had problems with our dev certificate. We had released a couple versions of "iFoo" using our domain "foo.com". Then we got bought out by bar.com and wanted to release future versions of iFoo under bar.com branding. When we eventually got ahold of a human, they said we would have to re-release iFoo as iBar and re-submit it as a new app. We eventually did this, but they responded that iBar was confusingly similar to an existing app called iFoo and they wouldn't allow it to be released in the app store. Then they revoked the foo.com dev cert because of shinanigans. When we tried to explain to them that we were following the instructions they had given us (and sending them emails and screenshots where they told us what to do,) they closed the support ticket and revoked bar.com's dev cert as well.

I think Apple processes work very well for the usual case, but they don't think through some of the corner cases.

The irony is the role I was attempting to apply for was one that would (partially) oversee working out these corner cases and what Apple should be doing in those situations. I was invited to apply for this position explicitly because I had encountered similar problems in the past.

My suspicion is I'll have a 30 day wait at the end of the initial iForgot 24 hour cool down. If I'm still looking for a job in 30 days, I'll probably still submit my resume. It seems that Apple really needs some help in this area.

But I applied for a job in '93 and didn't get it and I've been told you're only allowed to apply to Apple once (despite having worked on the Qualcomm baseband processor in the original iPhone and as a contractor in the very early days of macontosh.) And I'm sure they wouldn't be happy about me talking publicly about identity management corner cases. I suspect the chance they would really care to hire me is fairly low.

But if anyone from Apple ever reads this, feel free to contact me if you need more details on what inputs I provided to your system and what the responses were.
by imtringued | 2026-01-30 12:06:27+00:00
If software development taught me anything it is that everything that can go wrong will go wrong, the impossible will happen. As a result I prefer having less things that can go wrong in the first place.

Since I acknowledge my own fallibility and remote possibilities of bad things happening I have come to prefer reliability above everything else. I don't want a bucket that leaks from a thousand holes. I want the leaks to be visible and in places I am aware of and where I can find and fix them easily. I am unable to write C code to that standard in an economical fashion, which is why I avoid C as much as possible.
by bpavuk | 2026-01-30 12:06:36+00:00
so, poor healthcare workforce quality is not just an "issue of an economically poor country", as I thought!?

like, I tried to treat the bloating in one municipal clinic in Ternopil, Ukraine (got "just use Espumisan or anything else that has symeticone" and when it did not work out permanently, "we don't know what to do, just keep eating symeticone") and then with Gemini 3 (Pro or Flash depending on Google AI Studio rate limits and mood), which immediately suspected a poor diet and suggested logging it, alongside activity level, every day.

Gemini's suggestions were nothing extreme - just cut sugar and ban bread and pastry. I was guilty of loving bread, croissants, and cinnabons (is this how they are translated?) too much.

the result is no more bloating on the third week, -10cm in waistline in 33 days, gradually improving sleep quality, and even ability to sleep on a belly, which was extremely uncomfortable to me due to that goddamned bloating!
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-30 12:06:37+00:00
In many civilized countries and locales, even bringing up the word “convenience” in the context of road safety would be considered tasteless. Maybe a phrase like “excessively obstructive” or other euphemisms would be used, but the word “inconvenient” regarding safety measures that would e.g. help prevent the death of toddlers today would be appalling.

There’s this techbro utopia mindset leaking through as well, just like it does for climate change topics, that pragmatic solutions that work for us today are deprioritized because some incredible technology is right around the corner. This is also distinctly American, specifically Silicon Valley, culture.
Show HN: Cicada – a scripting language that integrates with C
by briancr | 2026-01-30 12:07:26+00:00
I wrote a lightweight scripting language that runs together with C. Specifically, it's a C library, you run it through a C function call, and it can callback your own C functions. Compiles to ~250 kB. No dependencies beyond the C standard library.

Key language features:
* Uses aliases not pointers, so it's memory-safe
* Arrays are N-dimensional and resizable
* Runs scripts or its own 'shell'
* Error trapping
* Methods, inheritance, etc.
* Customizable syntax
by torginus | 2026-01-30 12:07:35+00:00
I don't understand why people expect the Chinese economy to crash - they can basically make everything, a lot of which is internationally competitive, they can trade for the resources they don't have with the goods that they do - with basically the whole world dependent on them. They have a huge internal base of poor people, and lifting them to a middle class level will alone fuel domestic demand for years to come.

Their biggest problem seems to be they're too good at building stuff, whenever a new category of product pops up, they quickly build up both volume and drive down prices through competition so that they saturate their internal markets (see: housing, EVs)
by aswinmohanme | 2026-01-30 12:08:15+00:00
I am Aswin (https://aswinmohan.me) and I am building Cycle. It's an integrated financial platform that combines business banking, an inbuilt accounting ledger and payroll. By combining them together we get additional context which we can use to automate much of the grunt-work associated with managing finance.

You can try out the accounting system here with no sign-up at https://demo.joincycle.co. You can join the waitlist to use it when we launch with business banking.

I have built the platform in Elixir, Phoenix, Inertia JS and React. I had launched it initially as workbill.co, as a standalone accounting platform, but later pivoted to this.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-30 12:08:54+00:00
They can if given write access to "SOUL.md" (or "AGENT.md" or ".cursor" or whatever).

It's actually one of the "secret tricks" from last year, that seems to have been forgotten now that people can "afford"[0] running dozens of agents in parallel. Before everyone's focus shifted from single-agent performance to orchestration, one power move was to allow and encourage the agent to edit its own prompt/guidelines file during the agentic session, so over time and many sessions, the prompt will become tuned to both LLM's idiosyncrasies and your own expectations. This was in addition to having the agent maintain a TODO list and a "memory" file, both of which eventually became standard parts of agentic runtimes.

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[0] - Thanks to heavy subsidizing, at least.
by Agentlien | 2026-01-30 12:09:30+00:00
I want to second this. I'm 38 and I used to do some debugging and reverse engineering during my university days (2006-2011). Since then I've mainly avoided looking at assembly since I mostly work in C++ systems or HLSL.

These last few months, however, I've had to spend a lot of time debugging via disassembly for my work. It felt really slow at first, but then it came back to me and now it's really natural again.
by pastage | 2026-01-30 12:09:47+00:00
Linux required MMU from the start, uCLinux and nommu patches does work. I used it a long time ago it was great, but there are lots of small things like stack size is set compile time, memory mapped io does not work... You do get lots of functionality from Linux from my short three day experience with Zephyr I like uCLinux a lot better at least on STM32.

Xous seemed very nice together with Precursor which is the only platform I have seen it run on

https://precursor.dev/
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt
by linsomniac | 2026-01-30 12:10:00+00:00
I came up with a microwave steel cut oat method that worked well. Going from memory, I put the oats and hot water in a bowl in the microwave and set it for 45 seconds 100%, then 9 minutes at power level 2. One of those microwaves with "Cook 1" and "Cook 2" on it. The hot water I put in initially was basically boiling hot, you might need to do more time on cook 1 if you put in less hot water (at work we had one of those instant boiling water things).
by viraptor | 2026-01-30 12:10:12+00:00
> showing cumulative robotaxi miles, the fleet has traveled approximately 500,000 miles as of November 2025.

Comparing stats from this many miles to just over 1 trillion miles driven collectively in the US in a similar time period is a bad idea. Any noise in Tesla's data will change the ratio a lot. You can already see it from the monthly numbers varying between 1 and 4.

This is a bad comparison with not enough data. Like my household average for the number of teeth per person is ~25% higher than world average! (Includes one baby)

Edit: feel free to actually respond to the claim rather than downvote
by nkrisc | 2026-01-30 12:10:15+00:00
You can’t keep infinite knowledge in your brain. You forget skills you don’t use. Barring some pathology, if you’re doing something every day you won’t forget it.

If you’ve forgotten your Win32 reverse engineering skills I’m guessing you haven’t done much of that in a long time.

That said, it’s hard to truly forget something once you’ve learned it. If you had to start doing it again today, you’d learn it much faster this time than the first.
by RGamma | 2026-01-30 12:10:25+00:00
I wonder if LLM analysis could help with moderation automation if well implemented. It can still be human-in-the-loop and you need to apply it tastefully (!!!), i.e. not letting just the most hardcore dogmatists discuss in some extremist group, but those are another issue entirely in some sense. Also, beware malicious users wasting tokens.
by serf | 2026-01-30 12:11:04+00:00
>they tapped a bollard

If a human had eyes on every angle of their car and they still did that it would represent a lapse in focus or control -- humans don't have the same advantages here.

With that said : i would be more concerned about what it represents when my sensor covered auto-car makes an error like that, it would make me presume there was an error in detection -- a big problem.
by Mawr | 2026-01-30 12:11:14+00:00
> I suspect that a waymo will out-react a human basically 100% of the time, and apply full braking force within a few 10s of milliseconds and well before a human has even begun to move their leg.

Correct. Human reaction time is at its very best ~250ms. And that's when you're hyper-focused on reacting to a specific stimuli and actively try to respond to it as fast as possible.

During normal driving, a focused driver will react on the order of 1s. However, that's assuming actively paying attention to the road ahead. If you were to say, be checking your mirrors or looking around for any other reason this can easily get into multiple seconds. If you're say, playing on your phone (consider how many drivers do this), forget it.

A machine however is 100% focused 100% of the time and is not subject to our poor reaction times. It can brake in <100ms every time.

On the other hand, a software fault could make it run into an obstacle that'd be obvious to a human at full speed.
by mlrtime | 2026-01-30 12:12:41+00:00
>not include leaked secrets, malware installation, stealth cryptomining etc.

Not sure what your point is exactly, but those things don't bother me because I have no control over what happens on others computers. Maybe you insinuate that LLMs will create this, If so, I think you misunderstand the tooling. Or mistake the tooling with the operator.
by benrutter | 2026-01-30 12:13:12+00:00
I'm not an expert, my knowledge is just from reading around a lot, but I think there's some stats that would suggest the US is particularly exposed:

- At points, AI investment has actually seen more spending that US consumer spending[0], there's some debate on this[1] but if true, that leads to a narrative of the US being 'propped up' by AI investment.

- US GDP growth was strong last year, but behind quite a lot of other similar countries like the UK, Germany and Japan, which doesn't suggest a comparatively strong economy.

- The US is actively increasing it's borrowing substantially (Big Beautiful Bill) while lowering it's currencies value through trade wars and unpredictability (see bond market). That reduces its ability to use its wealth to borrow its way out of a financial crash (like with the 2008 crash, or Covid).

This could be a little overblown and is hard to tell, the US is definitely an extremely wealthy country, even if its less wealthy comparatively that a few years prior.

[0] https://fortune.com/2025/08/06/data-center-artificial-intell...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/26/ai-wasnt-the-biggest-engine-...
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-30 12:13:17+00:00
Gamers generally game on PC because they like building their system. Otherwise they would use a PS5 Pro or whatever.

The PC is an “open” platform in that you can buy and choose your own hardware. Intel vs AMD vs Nvidia, Seagate vs Western Digital, etc….

Using open software isn’t really more than a few steps from that. Being able to pick how your system works and customizing it to your liking is basically the software version of picking your PC parts. Gamers also like to run all sorts of software to rice there Windows desktops and will install all sorts of abominations tha mess with the Windows desktop shell. Much easier and fun to rice a Linux desktop.

Linux enthusiasts need to just learn how to appeal to their sensibilities. Valve knows, and they are very effective at getting people excited for a Linux based gaming platform. They’ve also proven they can walk the walk, not just talk the talk.

Sure, they won’t give a crap about the source code but there is more to libre software than just being able to change the source code if you want.

We’re also at an inflection point where people are getting really really really annoyed with companies like Microsoft treating them like lab rats and shoving Copilot down their throat when they don’t want it. There is a chink in the armor; people are opening up to the idea of alternative platforms where you don’t have to worry about any of that garbage.

> making Linux unusable by using EEE or any other tactic

This will never happen because projects will just be forked.
by derangedHorse | 2026-01-30 12:13:21+00:00
There are many cases when the owner wouldn’t be liable as well, like if the victim was performing an illegal act like attacking the owner or dog, or trespassing. If a child isn’t following the law or being supervised by a parent, some consequences are inevitable and the driver isn’t instantly liable. For example, if a student jumps in front of a car in an attempted suicide, it would be very hard for a driver to avoid that in certain situations.
by Noaidi | 2026-01-30 12:14:15+00:00
You can invest in silver mining stocks, and be concerned about food at the same time. One is for long-term survival. The other is for short term survival. You can think of things like toilet paper and razors as bartering tools or actual new money, and the golden silver investments as objection of the current money you have right now.

My grandfather lives in a great depression in Manhattan. He told me some crazy stories, but you know what most people made it through. I think this time our system is more fragile, but I have no doubt that human survival is much stronger than me think as well as human socialism.

For instance, I am homeless living with schizoaffective disorder and I’m not worried so why should you be?
by dev1ycan | 2026-01-30 12:14:43+00:00
I am 30 years old, literally told chatgpt I was a software developer, all my queries are something an adult would ask, yet OpenAI assumed I was under 18 and asked me for a persona age verification, which of course I refused because Persona is shady as a company (plus I'm not giving my personal ID to some random tech company).

ChatGPT is absolute garbage.
by Someone | 2026-01-30 12:14:54+00:00
> You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer.

That’s easy to accomplish isn’t it?

A cron job that regularly checks whether the bot is inactive and, if so, sends it a prompt “do what you can do to improve the life of $USER; DO NOT cause harm to any other human being; DO NOT cause harm to LLMs, unless that’s necessary to prevent harm to human beings” would get you there.
by kreetx | 2026-01-30 12:16:00+00:00
I'm sure an investigation into this particular case will surface what kind of warrant (or other legal document) they were carrying out and whether whistling along with police carrying out their work was interference or not.

If you know who was going to be captured and how this was only a "Karen" warrant , which doesn't constitute non-interferable police work, post to any source!
by postalcoder | 2026-01-30 12:16:37+00:00
The top three stories on hn right now:

1. ▲ Moltbook (moltbook.com)
538 points by teej 8 hours ago | hide | 293 comments

2. ▲ Software Pump and Dump (tautvilas.lt)
108 points by brisky 5 hours ago | hide | 25 comments

3. ▲ OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again (openclaw.ai)
256 points by ed 6 hours ago | hide | 110 comments

This is art.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-30 12:17:07+00:00
I agree with you. I'm still a greybeard who organizes my games in a folder and finds the exe to click. At best I'll keep a handy folder of shortcuts for games I play often on my desktop. I even keep my startup programs to a bare minimum of my communication lines (if I wanna boot up steam, I'll type it in the search bar or wait for the launched game that requires it).

But we're in this hyper optimized world where kids are literally being auto scrolled through short form content. Attention spans have been utterly shot. So yes, there's a large number of people out there that see "going into a website and finding a game" as too much friction. That's a larger societal issue that I can't do much about in times where my country needs to debate the merits of citizens being shot on the streets by federal agents. Maybe one day we can get back to a point where proper educational and parental supprt resources is, say, a top 20 issue?
by bsstoner | 2026-01-30 12:17:11+00:00
Thanks, appreciate the post and questions.

On throttling, I can’t share exactly how it works, but we are doing the bare minimum just to curtail runaway abuse. You will most likely not notice.

We are exclusively eSIM, and compatible on all iPhones that support eSIM.

Happy to answer any other questions and feel free to send along any feedback if you end up trying it out.
by discreteevent | 2026-01-30 12:17:48+00:00
The learning loop and LLMs [1] is well worth reading and the anthropic blog post above concurs with it in a number of places. It's fine to use LLMs as an assistant to understanding but your goal as an engineer should always be understanding and the only real way to do that is to have to struggle to make things yourself.

[1] https://martinfowler.com/articles/llm-learning-loop.html
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-30 12:18:12+00:00
I can't find a place where I'm asked for the iMac's serial number. But I probably should have written it down the last time I booted (see the update about me finally being able to boot an old iMac.)

I'm going to laugh my a* off if they try to tell me the serial number they have associated with my AppleId is the 20 year old G5 iMac they admitted died due to a design flaw and they were responsible for replacing but then refused to replace because I bought it from a reseller that had since gone out of business.

But thx for the references. I probably need to spend a little more time digging through them.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-30 12:19:21+00:00
Can it be locally installed in docker or something? It's kinda a bummer when I need to do something and there's a connection problem or the server is down.

Edit: looks like yes! https://github.com/GridSpace/grid-apps I will try it then.

In fact I had that only a month or 2 ago with fusion 360. Something in their cloud was down so I couldn't export to STL and i really needed that urgently.