MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tshaddox | 2026-01-16 18:29:27+00:00
> It’s more socially acceptable to be angry back at someone who is confronting you directly than someone who may or may not be making an example of you but in a passive way.

I actually agree with this. And similarly, I'd argue that it's more socially acceptable to use this audio repeater than to "nicely" confront someone who is so brazenly violating social norms.
by invokestatic | 2026-01-16 18:30:00+00:00
I’ve been paying for Google Workspace for my custom domain for years basically just so I can use Gmail. For just $7 more dollars a month, I upgraded my plan to access Gemini Pro, which has guaranteed enterprise-grade privacy controls. I think this is currently the best value platform for anyone who values their privacy for LLMs. If Apple and the DoD trust Google’s internal controls, I do too.
by SleepyMyroslav | 2026-01-16 18:30:04+00:00
The only officially (at least partially) supported way from Microsoft is to add into Visual Studio the toolchain named "C++ Windows XP Support for VS 2017 (v141) tools". It is still there in the "individual components" of Visual Studio Installer for the latest VS but it is marked as [Deprecated]. It is a safe bet that MS will never fix any existing bugs in it or update it so at this point your best bet might be with the open source tools.

All other currently supported toolchains rely on runtimes that are explicitly not compatible with Win XP.
by pepperball | 2026-01-16 18:30:32+00:00
I haven’t cancelled Spotify etc but I axed HBO max after what seemed to be the third email about another price increase in a short period.

Funny thing is, if they just had offered me larger one-shot price increase, I’d have paid it no mind likely. Something about the drip-feed of price increases in such a short time pissed me off enough to cancel though.
by kentm | 2026-01-16 18:30:55+00:00
Do you happen to know if ES was the only storage? Its been almost 8 years, but if I was building a log storage and analysis system, then I'd push the logs to S3 or some other object store and build an ES index off of that S3 data. From the consumer's perspective, it may look like we're using ES to store the data, but we have a durable backup to regenerate ES if necessary.
by jama211 | 2026-01-16 18:31:26+00:00
You’re very entitled to your opinion, but it should be fairly obvious why this isn’t reasonable from their perspective. Put another way, let’s just say I think apple is glad you’re not making decisions about how their operating system should work. It’s an OS built for users, not those who wish to have iron control over everything. Allowing that would be disastrous for most users just to appease the very small percentage who’d want that.
by usgroup | 2026-01-16 18:31:27+00:00
SWI Prolog is just fine, and you'll find it to be batteries included unlike many other choices. The first thing to learn is the "Prolog state of mind", or how to express your intentions in Prolog without trying to turn it into a functional or imperative programming language.

Prolog will show you another way of thinking. If it does not then you are doing it wrong.
by choppypoofart | 2026-01-16 18:31:58+00:00
As an American I'm rooting for everyone else these days. Good for Canada. I hope the EU builds stronger trade with China too and America gets left in the cold to whither and die. Trump, Vance, Miller, Noem, Musk, Bezos all of them just forgotten about and completely irrelevant to the rest of the world.
Show HN: Flag AI Slop in PRs
by yatvij | 2026-01-16 18:32:10+00:00
Hi HN,

Lately Github PRs have been drowning in a flood of AI slop. I’ve been seeing it myself, and I’m not the only one: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2011819428061855915

I think it’s great that folks are using AI tools to code faster and better, but too many folks are abusing them to make low-quality contributions to public repos. This takes a lot of reviewers’ mindshare.

IMO there needs to be a mechanism to flag low-effort PRs with AI slop, so you can just skip reading them. So I built one:
https://haystackeditor.com/slop-detector

It’s a simple AI slop detector, and I also included some AI slop examples and a “Is it Slop or Not?” game for fun.

It detects AI messups like:
- changes totally unrelated to PR purpose
- hallucinated functions
- duplicate code (specifically, when the AI re-implements a functionality that already exists elsewhere)
- terrible comments

Would you use a tool like this?
by DustinEchoes | 2026-01-16 18:32:14+00:00
https://archive.ph/IxMD0

https://www.nsicop-cpsnr.ca/reports/rp-2024-06-03/special-re...

> In its 2019 review of the Government Response to Foreign Interference, the Committee
noted that the most significant perpetrators of foreign interference in Canada were the People’s
Republic of China (PRC) and the Russian Federation, with the PRC representing the greatest
foreign interference threat

> Between September 1, 2018 and November 7, 2023, foreign interference targeting
democratic institutions and processes remained largely consistent with the broader trends the
Committee identified in its previous review. Most notably, the PRC remained the largest foreign
interference threat to Canada, including to its democratic institutions and processes

Edit: flagged. Enjoy your cheap EVs I guess, while you still have a nation.
by newusertoday | 2026-01-16 18:32:15+00:00
its 32 mb uncompressed and around 6MB compressed, its not that small https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@duckdb/duckdb-wasm/dist/

it is also difficult to customize as compared to sqlite so for example if you want to use your own parser for csv than it becomes hard.

But yes it provides lot of convenience out of the box as you have already listed.
by walterbell | 2026-01-16 18:32:44+00:00
Apple Configurator MDM profiles can control Siri behavior, e.g.

https://github.com/jankais3r/Siri-NoLoggingPLS

Disable server-side logging of Siri requests for your Mac, iPhone and iPad

You can disable Siri (and Apple Intelligence) entirely via Apple Configurator or asking the nearest LLM for .mobileconfig file with:

<key>allowAssistant</key><false/>
by gwbas1c | 2026-01-16 18:33:08+00:00
> At Google, for example, 16% of tests exhibited flakiness

This really surprised me. In my experience, usually a flaky test indicates some kind of race condition, and often a difficult-to-reproduce bug.

In the past year, we had a flaky unit test that caused about 1-2% of builds to fail. Upon fixing it, we learned it was what caused a deadlock in a production service every 5-6 months. As a result of fixing this one "flaky" test, we eliminated our biggest cause of manual intervention in our production environments.
by mixmastamyk | 2026-01-16 18:33:10+00:00
And? So carve out a wider area. The defeatism is palpable in here. Some hackers—why even get out of bed in the morning, right?

They extract oil from tar sands in Alberta, are you aware? Difficult things are done all the time.

To be clear my post above is not supportive of the administration, but rather the feasibility of mining at high latitudes.
by css_apologist | 2026-01-16 18:33:23+00:00
i'm interpreting this in the reverse

if dev tools can only be "monetized" by being bought out, it does not feel sustainable on any level

we will see companies attempt to do things like close source these projects, go subscription based, or just straight up drop support

there is no incentives for cloudflare to make astro better, or even keep it around

same goes with bun, svelte, and i'm sure countless others
by phainopepla2 | 2026-01-16 18:33:34+00:00
Doesn't the right to make sound in public places extend to the hypothetical users of this app?

I don't think a rights-based framing is the best way to look at this. It's about courtesy and respect for social norms.

I don't see how society is becoming too intolerant, if anything I think we are more tolerant of anti-social behavior than ever before.
by echelon | 2026-01-16 18:33:37+00:00
I'm really into geopolitics, and it's clear to see what's happening from the US side.

America still wants to play hegemon, but since Bretton Woods 2.0 didn't happen, they're going to lock up the entire North and South American continents from Chinese and Russian influence. And it'll be fierce.

The next salvo is going to be US statehood for Alberta and Saskatchewan. There is already partisan support within those provinces, and Trump is going to offer money to push it. If that happens, Yukon and the Northwest Territories are next.

(Side note: these are Republican voters, which gives Republicans the Senate for years to come.)

Venezuela wasn't about drugs or oil, it was about China. And it wasn't Trump's thing, it was the career DoD folks.

Greenland too. And Cuba...

Also note: Venezuela is within medium-range missile range of 50% of US oil refineries. The US doesn't want foreign basing there or in Cuba.

You can see the plays happening if you watch. The Chinese-owned Panama Ports Company being forcibly sold to BlackRock.

My bet is that a Democratic president would continue this policy, just with less rudeness and more "cooperation". The Department of Defense apolitically doesn't want China to have the US within arms reach.

Trump is going to try to speed run it, though.

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edit: downvotes rate limit my account, so I can't respond.

> I would love to hear how you think Trump will manage to get Alberta and Saskatchewan to become US states within this century.

It's going to come from within Alberta and Saskatchewan.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11615147/alberta-separatists-prai...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_separatism

Look at how much the conversation is starting to come back up recently:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/alberta-primetime/article/al...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-separation-po...

If Trump adds fuel to this fire, it's going to be intense. The DoD is definitely whispering it into his ear.
by xiphias2 | 2026-01-16 18:33:38+00:00
You changed what I wrote: it's not about non-citizens voting or not, it's about requiring identification by law at polling, which is required in every other democratic country.

As an example in in late 2024 in California Governor Newsom signed SB 1174, which explicitly prohibits local governments (like cities or counties) from passing their own laws to require voter ID.
by adamiscool8 | 2026-01-16 18:33:47+00:00
Two years ago the same party that currently holds Canadian government and just made these concessions to China completed a report [0] that found

>[China’s actions] collectively "undermine our democratic institutions, our fundamental rights and freedoms, our social cohesion and our long-term prosperity.”[343] [and] the need to consider the threats in the context of an increasingly assertive PRC. Accordingly, Minister Garneau stated that various countries, including Canada, are reassessing their relationship with the PRC in light of its authoritarian and coercive actions.

But yeah a little chirping about Canada’s own unfair trade practices must be DEFCON 3 for US-Canada relations.

[0] https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/CACN/report...
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-16 18:33:49+00:00
For personal interest stuff I use my YOShInOn RSS reader which uses k-Means clustering and a BERT + SVM classifier to select articles for me -- and if you look at what I post from HN you will get a good idea of what it shows me.

These are fields where I am an interested outsider: I think biotechnology will be to the 21st century what electronics was to the 20th, I'm just as concerned about growing food in the global south and in Iowa or on Mars, think political science + politics outside the us is better than #uspol, like custom cars and 3-d printing, making the carbon cycle go backwards and think we have solutions for the very hard problems that we face.

Now I do a lot of learning in the areas of my work, but other than reading HN and occasional stuff that turns up on YOShInOn I do not look for "news" on these topics. For instance I have no fear that if I'm not following the most fashionable accounts on AI research on X I will fall behind, in fact, I know that if I did I would have a terrible fear of falling behind.

Instead my learning is focused primarily around projects that I do and I do projects that challenge my abilities. Right now I am working on biofeedback technology, heart-rate variability and stuff and I've rapidly learned about the web Bluetooth API and physiology and all of that. I can go to a lab where people do HRV research and demo something with my tablet and one or more Polar H10s that is light years ahead of what they've got in terms of convenience and clarity -- it's amazing to be able to talk to people about your physiology or their physiology or both in real time and see the phenomena with your own eyes.

I'm reading about research from the 1970s that has been forgotten and that's how you become the kind of person who sees "inevitable" where others see "impossible". Trying to keep up with the pack means you'll always be afraid of getting left behind. I've learned about so many other things the same way.
by jofla_net | 2026-01-16 18:33:54+00:00
Rule by the few, us little people don't matter.

Thing is, NOTHING, is stopping anyone from already getting short lived certs and being 'proactive' and rotating through. What it is saying is, well, we own the process so we'll make Chrome not play ball with your site anymore unless you do as we say...

The CA system has cracks, that short lived certs don't fix, so meanwhile we'll make everyone as uncomfortable as possible while we rearrange deck chairs.

awaiting downvotes in earnest.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-16 18:34:01+00:00
I disagree with your sentiment though.

Yes, addictive consumption is bad, and apps shouldn't be designed for that. And as long as they are, we should try to find ways to undo the damage and help people heal and recover from content addiction, and find alternatives to it.

But that's not to say that consuming is inherently bad.

Consider that a conversation is genuinely an interactive, dynamic, mutual event where you both are both consuming and creating content. One person creates a topic out of recent memories or recites a joke, the other person hears it, and enjoys it. This is an act of consumption. It's not wrong or bad or harmful or blameworthy. It's the other end of creation, a necessary part of it.

In your ideal world, where we have people endlessly creating, who would consume what they create? We need both. We need platforms to share our creations, and to consume the creations of others. Real life has been a neglected platform for this, especially for countless lonely people who have no one to interact with.
by dkhenry | 2026-01-16 18:34:13+00:00
D1 is fine when it fits the use case, but most of the time I just want Postgres that I will use for absolutely everything. It has happened often enough that I have tried to make systems work with other storage systems, and eventually just give up and revert to Postgres. Every time I just start with Postgres I don't have issues until it turns out my laziness has caused a performance problem, and those I can fix.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-16 18:34:19+00:00
Agree. I know some people want that. Me though, I'm 85% done filling in some format, I scroll up to reference something that's off the screen, the effing 'pull-down to refresh' triggers and I have to re-enter everything I just frustratingly spent time entering with mobile input being so shit.

IMO this should never have existed. if X or whatsapp or some site wanted pull-down to refresh they can implement it. 99.99% of sites do not need it.
by byproxy | 2026-01-16 18:35:16+00:00
Oh, yea, for sure. One thing that keeps me consistent is that I know what happens when I take > 1 week off (which is sometimes unavoidable) and attempt to get back into it. DOMS⁰ for days.

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0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness
by efromvt | 2026-01-16 18:35:18+00:00
DuckDB can't get enough love! Beyond being a really performant database, being so friendly [sql and devx] is really underrated and hard to pull off well and is key to it being so fun - you get a compounding ecosystem because it's so easy to get started. Hoping that they can manage to keep it vibrant without it slowing down the pace of innovation at all.

The web/WASM integration is also fabulous. Looking forward to more "small engines" getting into that space to provide some competition and keep pushing it forward.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-16 18:35:34+00:00
Oh my decisions were objectively bad - marrying the wrong person the first time around, letting my career stagnate for almost a decade until 2008 and becoming an “expert beginner” and investing in real estate before the crash.

I preach not doing the first two all of the time in real life and on the appropriate threads on HN.

My purposeful life decisions from 2012-2020 was getting married (still married) and gladly taking on the responsibility of my two stepsons (both grown and fully launched now). That tied me to Atlanta for 8 years. I landed a job in BigTech one month after my youngest graduated. My wife said she was willing to move anywhere the money took us after my youngest graduated. It just never came to my having to move.

While no one would ever call us “frugal”, with the money we spend every on travel and experiences, we do keep our fixed expenses low and I max out my 401K + catch up contributions (over 50) + Roth + HSA. All of my projections are that we will be fine at retirement age and worse case we can nice to small town south GA where I’m from and where my family still lives
by cbeach | 2026-01-16 18:35:41+00:00
When you're trying to sell wind power to the public as a "cheaper" source of energy than fossil fuels, you've got to be honest with them if you want to win both hearts and minds.

Gas is cheaper, like-for-like.

We impose special taxes on gas, making it artificially more expensive, in order to manipulate the market into reducing use of fossil fuel.

There. That's all that needs to be said. If you're honest with people they're more likely to trust you, and join you in your endeavours.

The high cost of gas is entirely politically-driven, as Reform UK will prove when they take office in 2029.
by zahlman | 2026-01-16 18:36:57+00:00
> She waited for the pedestrian to cross.

This does not in any way contradict "she was clearly deliberately obstructing traffic". There was a very long period in the video where there was clearly no obstruction to her driving down an empty street and multiple officers were repeatedly telling her to do so, and cars behind her were obstructed for no reason.

> Also, obstructing traffic is not valid reason to be violent against someone.

This is a complete strawman.

> ICE or cops being violent in that situation is them abusing their power big time.

ICE are cops. "She then is removed from the car by force and refuses to move, requiring her to be carried" is normal; if you are under arrest and you do not comply with the arrest, LEO are legally entitled to use the force required to enact the arrest. In this case, she had to be removed from the car because she tried to lock herself in the car, and she had to be carried because she refused to move along. That's just how arrests work.

To the extent that any of that can be called "violent", it is not a consequence of obstructing traffic. It is a consequence of resisting arrest.
by altairprime | 2026-01-16 18:37:08+00:00
The legal setting is designed to take this much effort to shake things out. Jagex is a corporate person and thus has no inherent moral compulsion or necessity to avoid hypocrisy in their desires. I agree with your view that it’s sketchy in human morality, but they are inhuman, so our human moral judgement of them is inapplicable. Only their incorporating principles and the law bind their actions to be prosocial at all. Thankfully the law panned out to be prosocial here, and with such intense rigor that the judgement will likely be referred to in other countries as well going forward.
by alecco | 2026-01-16 18:37:09+00:00
I can only speak for myself. If the news article has anything to do with tech and things "interesting to hackers", I upvote. For example, the article about Palantir and ICE yesterday [1]. But articles like this one have nothing interesting to me. There are plenty of other places to discuss this like BlueSky, X, reddit, Facebook, etc. I beg you to please spare this last interesting forum.

Also it pisses me off how nobody talks about certain very relevant elephants in the room on these discussions. And it's more like venting and coping. Nobody will change their minds. Nothing will be done. Nothing is learned.

Note: I am not American.

[1] "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633378 622 points and 886 comments
by dismalaf | 2026-01-16 18:37:11+00:00
Dude, there's a million regulations for food trucks. Not only do zoning laws typically still apply to them (of course it varies a lot by municipality) there's usually extra regulations on top of that (can't park within X metres of a restaurant for example) and cities often have extortionate fees for permits. It's often tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in permits...
by Ao7bei3s | 2026-01-16 18:37:14+00:00
Radars have the same problem: the (very strong) transmitter output should not drown out the (very weak) radar return signal at the receiver.

A common solution to this problem is the circulator: a component with three ports. RF energy can flow from port 1 to port 2 (transmitter->antenna), port 2 to port 3 (antenna->receiver), and port 3 to port 1 (receiver->transmitter, irrelevant), but not the other way around.

Now the cool thing is that this can be built entirely passively, just by making metal pieces with the exact right shape. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulator for some nice pictures.
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-16 18:37:18+00:00
In a regular political cycle, where there is sanity, normally Im actually for people not voting when they don't know much about politics.

In this case, given how public all of Trumps things were prior to 2024, with him being a felon, him trying to coupe the government (even if you are completely unaware of that, you should at least know that the coupe happened under him), and all the other disgusting things he have done, non voting carries a different meaning. You either don't care if US falls into decline, or you are just as deluded as any MAGA in thinking that Kamala would have been worse - in both cases, you deserve no respect.
by mrexroad | 2026-01-16 18:37:31+00:00
These two concerns do not need to be mutually exclusive. Either one can be recognized as a threat to our liberties without diminishing the severity of the other.

The more relevant discussion is the lack of policy/legislation to prohibit government agencies from sidestepping the 4th amendment and purchasing access from private corps, like Flock, to surveil individuals without a warrant. It’s ICE today, maybe DEA tomorrow, and the FDA in some broken future. In a decade or two, when nearly all vehicles are inherently advanced optical sensors with wheels, what stops auto manufactures becoming real-time surveillance companies, like Flock?
by lejalv | 2026-01-16 18:37:41+00:00
This has pixels the size of my hand, and it fully covers my field of view. Not my cup of tea.

What I do recommend (having bought one) is the Kuycon G32p, 32 inches @ 6K. Incredible quality and unbelievable value for money (https://clickclack.io/products/in-stock-kuycon-g32p-6k-32-in...).
by mmooss | 2026-01-16 18:37:44+00:00
Agreed. Among multiple organizations that large and complex, the buck can be passed infinitely. There's the lowly worker who installed the flawed part - the safest target, of course - who can pass it to the worker who made it, who can pass it to engineer, to their manager, back to the engineer who the manager relied on after all, the CAD software developer, to the materials supplier, to the machine tool manufacturer, the HVAC contractor who made the manufacturing facility too humid ...

For almost any act, we rely on other people. That doesn't absolve us of our personal responsibility.