MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CobrastanJorji | 2026-01-29 05:53:28+00:00
Wasn't it obvious? One of Amazon's founding focuses was "make it stupidly easy to pay us." They went overboard to make it easy to buy things. The most obvious is their infamously patented "one click" purchasing, but there were lots of other things. For example, in the early days, they would let you create as many accounts with the same email address as you wanted because "sorry, an account with that email already exists" was an error that might keep you from purchasing.

The Amazon stores were the ultimate physical expression of this ideal. Walk into a store, pick up what you want, wave your hand vaguely at a scanner, leave. If they could have reliably gotten your ID without your involvement at all, they would've done that instead, but the hand scanner was the closest they could come.

There's nothing malicious about it. They just want you to be able to consume as easily as possible with as little friction or opportunities for second thoughts as possible.
by genewitch | 2026-01-29 05:54:14+00:00
i know 2021 feels like a lifetime ago, but AWS had linux (Amazon Linux?) a decade before that (maybe even 18 years ago?) When i think "azure" i think AD, winserver DCE, and so on. Obviously if they want complete vendor lock in they have to have first party linux, too, rather than people doing hypervisors on VMs on hypervisors.
by syntaxing | 2026-01-29 05:55:43+00:00
It’s actually really easy to use mitmproxy as a…proxy. You set it up as a SOCKS proxy (or whatever) and point your network or browser to the proxy. I did this recently when a python tool was too aggressive on crawling the web and the server would reject me. Forced my session to limit 5 requests per second and it worked rather than finding the exact file to change in the library. Just do the same to your browser and then turn on the capture mode and you’ll see the requests
by Alacart | 2026-01-29 05:55:44+00:00
We can also invert that by asking: does a student become smarter by writing their essay on their own?

I would argue that the answer to questions is no. It depends on how you define “smarter”, though. You would likely gain knowledge writing the essay yourself, but is gaining knowledge equivalent to getting smarter?

If so, you could also just read the essay afterwards and gain the same knowledge. Is _that_ smarter? You’ve now reached the same benefit for much less work.

I think fundamentally I at least partially agree with your stance. That we should think carefully before taking a seemingly easier path. Weighing what we gain and lose. Sometimes the juice is, in fact, the squeeze. But it’s far from cut and dry.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-29 05:56:00+00:00
Your plan, whatever it is is still predicated on the world as it is today being more or less as it is today. The problem with anything truly disruptive is that it may very well cause your plan to become infeasible for a variety of reasons. For your sake I hope that you were aware of that little detail and made your plan bullet proof or flexible enough that that is not going to cause you any headaches.
by hakfoo | 2026-01-29 05:56:07+00:00
Humanoid robots are a lot of sizzle-- they promise all sorts of flexibility, at the cost of hugely higher cost/complexity/unreliability.

If you can scope your problem to some degree, you can probably make some purpose-built automation that won't look like a human, but will do the job competently and cheaply.

I see the demos with the robots carrying boxes and think "okay, why not just use a conveyer belt?"
by wmf | 2026-01-29 05:56:27+00:00
I've read a decent amount about this topic and I still don't understand why a law is needed or what it would do. If you have no presence in the UK they can fine you, you can simply not pay the fine, and you have to remember to never travel to the UK so they don't arrest you. It's not clear that a US law could somehow prevent the UK from fining you.
by spacechild1 | 2026-01-29 05:56:30+00:00
For task queues we would use a lockfree queue, wake up the threads once at the beginning of the audio callback and then spin while waiting for tasks, just as you described.

My example above was rather about the DSP graphs themselves that are computed in parallel. These require to access to shared resources like audio buffers, but under no circumstance should they give up their timeslice and yield back to the scheduler. That's why we're using reader-writer spinlocks to synchronize access to these resources. I really don't see any other practical alternative... Any ideas?
by Sverigevader | 2026-01-29 05:56:36+00:00
About hitting the print screen button by accident. I have the same issue and like you I can sometimes get out of it by hitting ESC. I think this sometimes fails because the snipping app isn't in focus (even though it's covering the entire screen).

The trick I found to get out of it is to hit ALT+TAB. It ironically puts another app into focus and when that happens, the snipping tool exits. Snipping tool is pretty great though. I wish macOS had the same.
by YZF | 2026-01-29 05:58:22+00:00
The cognitive dissonance is supporting Ukraine but not supporting Israel. Both were attacked. The anti-Israel argument is like saying Ukraine can't fight back because it's not Russia that attacked Ukraine, it's Putin, and therefore Ukraine has no justification to defend itself against Russia. That's the odd logic that the anti-Israelis bring to bear when Israel defends its population. Granted the power balance is different but the moral position is not. Israel is much stronger than the attacking Palestinian entity but if Ukraine was much stronger and it could inflict a lot more damage on Russia and Russians that would be justified given Russia invaded Ukraine and does not yield.
Show HN: Quantum Vulnerability Database for 3,700 Japanese Public Companies
by yoshi_dev | 2026-01-29 05:58:43+00:00
I built a database that scans SSL/TLS configurations of all 3,700+ publicly listed companies in Japan and identifies quantum-vulnerable cryptography.

With NIST finalizing PQC standards last year, I wanted to see how prepared Japanese enterprises actually are. Spoiler: not very.

The data shows which companies are still using RSA/ECDSA without any quantum-resistant alternatives, making them vulnerable to "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks.

Target users: security researchers, investment funds (for risk assessment), and auditors.

Would love feedback from anyone working in post-quantum cryptography or enterprise security.
by bulbar | 2026-01-29 05:59:02+00:00
Having more information doesn't necessarily means that one is better informed.

I also read/watch as much original sources as time and energy allows, that often (not always) gives a very different image than what media represents. For example, what I have read in the documents produces by UN representative for signs of genocide showed very thin/constructed arguments. Haven't read all of it so maybe there are better arguments as well.
by subjectsigma | 2026-01-29 05:59:34+00:00
> even though his characters are quite robotic and video-gamey

This is what made early Sanderson so great for me though. I’m constantly inundated by media through which the author demands a soapbox. This can be anything from politics to just the author’s personal preferences.

Mistborn 1-3 was a fairly simple and satisfying plot with likeable (if somewhat predictable) characters and fun world building. Perfect set of books to just pick up and enjoy. Not Shakespeare, but it didn’t have to be.

By the time I got through all the Stormlight books I felt like I had been locked in a room and forced to listen to Sanderson drone on and on in a self-serving tone about his personal power fantasies. The story was more complex, but it also had 100+ pages of fluff nobody except Sanderson cared about. I truly believe that once he got really famous his editors stopped saying “no” to anything, no matter how small.

His short stories are the same way. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is good because it’s short and sweet. It sticks to a classic formula and focuses on imaginative settings, which is what Sanderson is good at. Tress was boring because it tried to be smart and kind of flopped.
by yoshi_dev | 2026-01-29 06:00:31+00:00
With NIST finalizing PQC standards last year, I wanted to see how prepared Japanese enterprises actually are for the quantum threat.

The database tracks which companies are still using RSA/ECDSA without quantum-resistant alternatives - making them vulnerable to "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks.

Target users: security researchers, investment funds (for risk assessment), and auditors.

Happy to answer questions about the methodology or PQC migration trends in Japan.
by hubber | 2026-01-29 06:01:09+00:00
Yes.

If someone was robbing a bank, and a lunatic started interfering with law enforcement attempting to apprehend the suspect, wouldn't you expect the lunatic to be dealt with? What do you want to happen?

There are tens of millions of foreigners in the country illegally. They are actively committing a crime against the citizens of the US. I expect law enforcement to apprehend and remove them (it's nice that this is finally starting to happen!) and I expect any lunatics abetting the criminals to be reasonably dealt with.

You're sympathizing with the wrong people. You're championing criminals. You're advocating evil.

You might have more sway if the government's actions were immoral - if the lunatics were "the good guys" - but it's the first time in a while they're actually doing something right. Get out of their way.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-29 06:02:27+00:00
You can be poor and creative at the same time. Creativity is not a luxury. For many, including myself, it's a means of survival. Creating gives me purpose and connection to the world around me.

I grew up very poor and was homeless as a teenager and in my early 20s. I still studied and practiced engineering and machine learning then, I still made art, and I do it now. The fact that Big Tech is the new Big Oil is besides the point. Plenty of companies are using open training sets and producing open, permissively licensed models.
by rramadass | 2026-01-29 06:03:29+00:00
> were not written as historical treatise but also as entertainment.

I would call it "poetic license" (within bounds) rather than entertainment. The Indian Epics are Itihasas which literally means "so it was" and thus it was history mythologized via poetry.

> When Sanskrit texts get translated into a modern language, it tends to be in Hindi or Thai as a result.

Any links/data you can share on this?

> In English, NYU had the Clay Library but Gombrich passed away, and at Harvard, Narayana Murty (Infosys founder and Rishi Sunak's father in law) is funding the Murty Library, but both are barely scraping the top of the barrel.

There are lots more publishers of Sanskrit texts translated into English; Eg. Motilal Banarasidass, Mushiram Manoharlal, Gita Press, Chaukhamba Sanskrit Series, Kaivalyadhama (Hatha Yoga), Lonavla Yoga Institute, Harvard, Princeton, Oxford etc.

Penguin and Oxford popular series also have some good translations for the "common man".
by arw0n | 2026-01-29 06:05:08+00:00
It is like me at the climbing gym: "This problem is too hard for me, let's work on a harder one instead, then I at least look cool while failing."

"Since we failed on self-driving since 2016, robotaxis since 2020 (1 million on the road), and ASI since 2023, we might as well start on failing on robots now".
by rconti | 2026-01-29 06:05:31+00:00
Wait, an S? Why? I've got a 3 LR too and.... I just can't say anything about the extraordinarily long-in-the-tooth S excites me. Usually something is desirable when it's new, then the desirability fades as the product ages and other new, hot things come onto the market.

Don't get me wrong, I don't generally lust after EVs, but I am looking forward to the R3X....
by uhfraid | 2026-01-29 06:07:04+00:00
> This is the internet. Real offenders will just submit the next PR with a new alt account.

Than it escalates to a platform issue so you just report them in that case. GitHub enforcement staff handles it

“- Creating alternative accounts specifically to evade moderation action taken by GitHub staff or users”

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-polici...
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-29 06:07:08+00:00
We were going to have to reckon with these problems eventually as science and technology inevitably progressed. The problem is the world is plunged in chaos at the moment and being faced with a technology that has the potential to completely and rapidly transform society really isn't helping.

Hatred of the technology itself is misplaced, and it is difficult sometimes debating these topics because anti-AI folk conflate many issues at once and expect you to have answers for all of them as if everyone working in the field is on the same agenda. We can defend and highlight the positives of the technology without condoning the negatives.
by evolighting | 2026-01-29 06:07:41+00:00
Windows keeps getting worse, but it's still not as bad as Android. It's like how an iPad with macOS would be great, but a MacBook with iOS would be terrible.

I've been using Fedora part-time and I'm quite happy with it. Although I access the Android ecosystem via Waydroid—which, I know, isn't a true 'Android desktop'—the reality is that few Android apps are actually designed for a desktop experience.

Android makes me feel like it wants to convince me that rooting is considered too dangerous even for advanced users—you have to be a developer to handle it, or you will kill yourself.

But it might be good news for the ARM platform. Given how fragmented ARM is, Windows on ARM has turned out to be an even bigger disaster, making a Linux-based approach a much more promising alternative.
by phreack | 2026-01-29 06:07:44+00:00
I took something away from this article. While I enjoyed Blue Prince very much even though I played it alone, the surprisingly most enjoyable aspect of the game came externally - it was (and is) following my friends' journey through the game and being there to give them custom made consensual spoiler-free, hints when they needed. Some times simply being told you're barking up a very wrong tree or that you don't have enough information yet is exactly what you need to not get burnt out. I keep wondering if there's a way to have that baked into the game. Something to brainstorm.
by rconti | 2026-01-29 06:08:44+00:00
I think of the i4 as being more of a Model 3 / BMW 3 series size car, isn't it?

The S is more in line with with 5er.

I love the way the Taycan CrossTurismo thing looks, but holy hell getting in and out of it is like getting in and out of a sports car. I expect it to be slightly compromised compared to the competition, not.. extremely compromised.
by mlyle | 2026-01-29 06:08:54+00:00
87 ng/mL.

Baby eats 30mL per hour. That's 2.6 micrograms of morphine.

Elimination half life in neonates of ~8 hours means 30 micrograms in system at equilibrium if constantly fed this and the baby absorbs all of it (takes 4-5 half lives to get to that) and pharmacokinetics are linear. In reality a neonate likely absorbs well under 1/3rd, so you'd expect under 10 micrograms in equilibrium.

25-50 micrograms/kilogram is normal dosing of morphine in a neonate when it is necessary, every 6 hours (resulting in a peak systemic concentration of ~60-120 ug/kg after repeated dosing).

Compare -- 60-120 ug/kg therapeutic dosing to 10 micrograms in the neonate's body (3-4 kilos, so 3 ug/kg??)

And then, you end up with acetaminophen and codeine in the neonate's stomach, with no morphine... Even though these do not end up in breast milk in significant quantities.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-01-29 06:09:33+00:00
I miss Motif. This is a portal to a time when men were men and UNIX(R)—or in this case, VMS—desktops were utilitarian and did exactly what you needed and nothing more.

Now we live in a time where we allocate GBs of RAM to eye candy that functionally accomplishes nothing. Then we make the case to rewrite the eye candy in increasingly "safe" languages, requiring even more RAM.
by linkregister | 2026-01-29 06:10:40+00:00
Multiple things can be true:

1. SpaceX was an exceptionally well-executed good idea, and continues to be a leader in innovation.

2. Tesla brought EVs to the mass consumer market and proved the profitability of EVs.

3. Elon Musk was essential to the success of SpaceX and Tesla.

4. Tesla now has fierce competition in the category it defined: EVs.

5. Tesla has undergone revenue and profit reduction.

6. While it experiences promise in alternate product lines, Tesla is not a market leader in robotics (Unitree, Boston Dynamics) or self-driving cars (Baidu, Waymo). Tesla reported profit growth in residential solar and residential power storage, but the revenues from these verticals are dwarfed by other segments.

7. The trend over the past decades is Elon Musk being successful at innovating in underserved parts of the market.

8. Elon Musk is not currently pursuing any underserved parts of the market.
by tomkarho | 2026-01-29 06:11:20+00:00
Risky business, creating TV shows out of incomplete book series and Cosmere has several. Granted, technically each of those series are standalone and some like Mistborn are timejumped in such a way that each trilogy can be seen as it's own entity so unlike GOT Sanderson and Apple has more wiggle room.

Also, Sanderson is pretty much the exact opposite of GRRM in terms of quantity of writing so odds are good even Stormlight is finished by the time Apple even gets to the first book.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-29 06:12:07+00:00
> I'm not really a fan of the "you criticize society yet you participate in it" argument.

Me neither, and I didn't make such an argument.

> You seem to forget the blood shed over the history that allowed that tech to benefit the people over just the robber barons. Unimaginable amounts of people died just so we could get a 5 day workweek and minimum wage.

What does that have to do with my argument? What about my argument suggested ignorance of this fact? This is just another straw man.

> We don't get a benficial future by just laying down and letting the people with the most perverse incentives decide the terms. The very least you can do is not impede those trying to fight for those futures if you can't/don't want to fight yourself.

What an incredible characterization. Nothing about my argument is "laying down", perhaps it seems that way because you do not share my ideals, but I fight for my ideals, I debate them in public as I do now, and that is the furthest thing from "laying down" and "not fighting myself". You seem to be projecting several assumptions about my politics and historical knowledge. Did you have a point to make or was this just a bunch of wanking?
by mraniki | 2026-01-29 06:13:07+00:00
Interview in Davos. The “right” has the same touch than the “just” here:

> MUSK: Yeah. But I think self-driving cars is essentially a solved problem at this point, right? And Tesla’s rolled out a sort of robo-taxi service in a few cities, and will be very, very widespread by the end of this year within the U.S. And then we hope to get supervised full self-driving approval in Europe, hopefully next month.

Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IgifEgm1-e0
by jcgrillo | 2026-01-29 06:13:35+00:00
We "just" need to figure out the terraforming problem then we can all move to Mars and be interplanetary explorers. Imagine how cool it would be to have corporate leaders who had vision--environmentally friendly automobiles, cheap space travel, etc.--without the clammy snake oil grifter bullshit. Reality is cool AF. The things that are actually achievable are amazing. We don't need to spout nonsense to do great things. We don't need "AGI" (whatever that might be) to do neat things with machine learning. The Jetsons is a cartoon. Trying to make it real is dumb.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-01-29 06:13:36+00:00
His attempt to “de-arrest” someone occurred immediately before he was fatally shot. That stands on its own as the proximate cause of the outcome. The video from a week earlier merely establishes a consistent pattern of behavior.

He was not peacefully protesting. Repeatedly showing up to protests, engaging in violence, and doing so while carrying a loaded firearm fundamentally undermines that claim. Carrying a weapon imposes an elevated duty of restraint: when you are armed, you have an inherent responsibility to avoid escalating conflict, precisely because your presence introduces a far greater risk of serious injury or death -- including to yourself.

Literally fighting with federal agents is the opposite of restraint and satisfies the elements of criminal conduct irrespective of political motive. Anyone lionizing him is engaging in vapid propaganda. He was not a peaceful protester, he was not a responsible gun owner, and he consistently engaged in criminal behavior that ultimately led to his death.
by thefounder | 2026-01-29 06:14:57+00:00
Well, check Hyundai as well. They do more than cars as well including robots(Boston Dynamics). Tesla is not doing anything special. It was the only EV someone could use but it’s no longer the case. Now it tries to go the robots way but it’s not the same as the EV was. There are tones of humanoid robot companies, some more advanced than whatever Tesla is cooking
Show HN: Relnotes.app – Turn GitHub PRs into your Friday's report automatically
by hubertusputu | 2026-01-29 06:15:00+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the solo builder behind relnotes.app. I built this because I realized I was spending far too much time every Friday manually formatting technical changelogs into "human-readable" emails for stakeholders and clients.

As a dev, it felt like the least productive part of my week.

The Workflow:

You connect your GitHub repo.

When a Pull Request is closed, the app generates a release update.

It formats these updates into a branded, professional email template.

It sends/schedules them for your stakeholders automatically.

I launched this on Product Hunt last week and it was a total ghost town (1 upvote!), so I’m trying to figure out if I’m solving a problem people don't actually care about, or if I’m just bad at explaining the value.

I’d love your feedback on:

The "Stakeholder" Angle: Does your team actually send manual status emails, or do you just give them access to Jira/GitHub and hope for the best?

Technical friction: Would you trust an automated tool to draft these, or is manual oversight a "must-have"?

Pricing/Features: It’s currently in a very early stage. What’s the one feature that would make this a "must-buy" for your workflow?

I’ll be around to answer any technical questions about the stack or the integration. Thanks for taking a look!