MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-31 03:36:34+00:00
I doubt this is the reason. The fertility crisis is generally true of all developed, consumerist societies, including those you could call sloppy.

It is consumerism that is a culture killer and a fertility destroyer, and Japan is very consumerist. Consumerism reshapes a culture in its own image. Careerism and delayed pregnancy? Motivated by desire for money to consume. Limiting children? Motivated by the desire to restrict expenses on children so they can be diverted toward consumption. The habits consumerism instills makes the long game unattractive, because it takes away from your consumption now. Nothing is greater than consumption. Consumption is "status". Consumption is our god, but a nihilistic one that leads us toward death: personal, physical, familial, social, spiritual, and cultural.

If I were a satanic figure bent on destroying the human species, I would reach for consumerism without batting an eye. I would watch with satisfaction, relish, and verve as the human race liquidates and defiles itself.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-12-31 03:36:44+00:00
I like the idea of it, but Linux hardware support is still crap, and will get worse as ARM becomes more entrenched.

What boggles my mind is why Google hasn't gotten more serious about making Android a desktop OS. Pay the money needed to get good hardware support, control the OS, and now you're a Microsoft/Apple competitor for devices. Yes there is the Chromebook, but ChromeOS is not a real desktop OS, it's a toy. Google could control both the browser market and the desktop computing market if they seriously tried. (But then again that would require listening to customers and providing support, so nevermind)
by 7thaccount | 2025-12-31 03:37:04+00:00
I'm sure they're correct about a lot of airline water being nasty - no argument there, but the organization/website sounds like it has a mission that is probably at least partly pseudoscience adjacent:

"Mission
Center For Food As Medicine & Longevity is a nonprofit organization working to bridge the gap between traditional medicine and the use of food as medicine in the prevention, treatment, and management of disease while also increasing access to these treatments, thereby creating a more equitable food system that will improve health outcomes."

It might not be, but I'm skeptical of most articles coming from organizations sounding like that. Eating healthy and nutritious food is incredibly important and a good diet can prevent certain diseases. Maybe that is all they're trying to say. However, I come across a lot of people who just think you can avoid medicine all together and just eat certain foods and herbs.
by njstraub608 | 2025-12-31 03:37:31+00:00
> if companies like Apple really wanted to fund this work, I'm pretty sure they could figure something out.

Having spent the last ~6 years in big tech consistently frustrated by the rigidity of the processes and finding clever ways to navigate (see: wade through the bullshit), this isn’t as easy as you’d hope. The problem is that someone has to spend a non-trivial amount of time advocating internally for something like this (a “non-standard process”) which generally means asking pinging random people across finance, procurement, and legal how to deal with it and 99% of people will just throw up their hands (especially in this case because they don’t understand the importance of it). If things don’t fit a mold in these big companies, they fall into the event horizon and are stretched out to infinity.
by lioeters | 2025-12-31 03:40:25+00:00
I enjoyed this explanation of how the philosophy of Shugyo-style training applies to software engineering. There are some choice phrases that describe the process of mastering an art.

> understand the nature of the steel .. the tool disappears .. to remove the "lag" between thought and action

Brilliantly said. Same with a musician practicing thousands of notes, scales, famous compositions - the repetition, accumulation of physical effort, trying things from all angles, thinking about it deeply, getting to know all the detail and nuance of sound, instrument, materials and conditions. As one trains there are breakthroughs in understanding and skill, building a kind of embodied knowledge and intuition beyond words.
by Abh1Works | 2025-12-31 03:41:08+00:00
I think I super important aspect that people are overlooking, is that every VC wants to invest in the next "big" AI company, and the probability is in your favor to only give funding to AI companies, bc any one of them could be the next big thing. I think, with a downturn of VC investment, we will see some more investment in companies that arent AI native, but use AI as a tool in the toolbox to deliver insights.
by inkyoto | 2025-12-31 03:41:50+00:00
I am well aware of and understand that.

However,

> […] which artefacts were linked against that bad version of libc.

There is one libc for the entire system (a physical server, a virtual one, etc.), including the application(s) that have/have been deployed into an operating environment.

In the case of the entire operating environment (the OS + applications) being statically linked against a libc, the entire operating environment has to be re-linked and redeployed as a single concerted effort.

In dynamically linked operating environments, only the libc needs to be updated.

The former is a substantially more laborious and inherently more risky effort unless the organisation has achieved a sufficiently large scale where such deployment artefacts are fully disposable and the deployment process is fully automated. Not many organisations practically operate at that level of maturity and scale, with FAANG or similar scale being a notable exception. It is often cited as an aspiration, yet the road to that level of maturity is windy and is fraught with many shortcuts in real life which result in the binary provenance being ignored or rendering it irrelevant. The expected aftermath is, of course, a security incident.
by zenhuifer | 2025-12-31 03:42:12+00:00
Hi HN,
I built Claude-Ally-Health, a personal health information system (PHIS) that runs entirely on your local file system using Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI tool).
Why I built this:
I wanted a way to manage scattered medical records (lab reports, imaging, prescriptions) without uploading sensitive data to a third-party cloud. I also wanted to leverage LLMs to help interpret these complex records.
Key Features:
Local-First: No database required. Data is stored in structured JSON/Markdown files on your disk.
* AI Analysis: Uses Claude to OCR and analyze medical images (lab tests, CT scans).
Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT): Implements sub-agents for 9 medical specialties (cardiology, neurology, etc.) to simulate a consultation board.
* Drug Safety: Built-in drug interaction checker with severity grading (A/B/C/D/X).
CLI Workflow: Operated via slash commands (e.g., /save-report, /consult, /radiation).
It's an experiment in using AI agents for privacy-preserving health management. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the architecture or feature ideas!
Repo: https://github.com/huifer/Claude-Ally-Health
by dtagames | 2025-12-31 03:42:17+00:00
That isn't what cookies are for. A proper explanation is too long to post here but there are two basic kinds. The first kind identifies you as a repeat visitor to the same site. This is used to log you back in without entering your password and other such uses. These are called first party cookies.

The second type is called third party cookies and these are placed by advertisements to track you across multiple sites (though there are other ways to do that which don't require a cookie). Presumably, the site owner could recieve some share of ads placed on their site, but in practice these third party cookies are placed by login tools (Google login) and other "drop-in" content which the site owner finds valuable but might not be advertising.

In this case, neither the money from the data collected about the user, which can be sold, nor the money from the ads which are delivered on later sites that were chosen because of the user's collected are shared with the owner of the site who passes out the cookie.
by kyboren | 2025-12-31 03:43:07+00:00
A deer was walking through the forest when she suddenly noticed a hungry-looking bear stalking her. Quickening her pace, she ran headlong into her old friend the wolf devouring a rabbit. "How dare you!" Ms. Deer bellowed, "That poor rabbit! I'll have you put in prison for that!" The wolf growled. She continued, "You'd better be careful, Mr. Wolf; there's a bear chasing me. If you try to bite me I'll just team up with him and then you'll be fucked!"
by like_any_other | 2025-12-31 03:43:29+00:00
> I don't know why this article doesn't mention that, but a web search ("fake lease squatter") will show this is routine.

Same reason the article put "empty" in the title to imply they were just sitting around for speculative investing, when there's every indication the houses were intended to be immediately rented out, and are only "empty" because squatters moved in first.
by OGEnthusiast | 2025-12-31 03:43:52+00:00
> Microsoft shareholders aren't quite that dumb.

If they aren't dumb, why are they investing in MSFT now then if it's a bubble that's doomed to fail? And even in the worst case scenario, a 10-15% decline in the S&P 500 won't trigger the next Great Depression. (Keep in mind that we already had a ~20% drawdown in public equities during the interest rate hikes of 2022/2023 and the economy remained pretty robust throughout.)
by hnburnsy | 2025-12-31 03:44:17+00:00
Totally misleading, S&P with dividends reinvested blows away gold since 1950 or 1971.

S&P 500 Investment (with Dividends Reinvested)
Historical data shows that $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 at the start of 1950, with all dividends reinvested, would grow to approximately $3,836,763 by the end of 2025.

Gold provided pure price appreciation (no yield or dividends). The multiplier is about 124.7× ($4,360 ÷ $35), or an annualized return of roughly 6.8% over 75 years.

Ounces purchased in 1950: $10,000 ÷ $35/oz ≈ 285.71 ounces

Current value: 285.71 oz × $4,360/oz ≈ $1,246,700
by MangoToupe | 2025-12-31 03:44:25+00:00
> From there, it's pretty easy to filter out the soil and clean it up.

"Cleaning" soil is an interesting concept. At what point does it just become dirt? Presumably some of the nutrients will remain, but it seems like this would sterilize it.

Dirt still has use, of course, but soil is expensive to produce for a reason.
by danabramov | 2025-12-31 03:45:18+00:00
>React’s approach is very inefficient - the entire view tree is rerendered when any change happens.

That's not true. React only re-renders down from where the update happens. And it skips over stuff that is provably unchanged -- which, fair, involves manual memoization hints. Although with React Compiler it's actually pretty good at automatically adding those so in practice it mostly re-renders along the actually changed path.

>And the code to do diffing and reconciliation is insanely complicated.

It's really not, the "diffing" is relatively simple and is maybe ~2kloc of repetitive functions (one per component kind) in the React source code. Most of complexity of React is elsewhere.

>The solidjs / react model uses the compiler to figure out how variables changing results in changes to the rendered view tree.

I actually count those as "React-like" because it's still declarative componentized top-down model unlike say VB6.
by jdgoesmarching | 2025-12-31 03:46:03+00:00
> I promise there is no shortage at all of articles about Swift concurrency aimed at junior devs for whom their iOS app is the very first real programming project they've ever done.

You’d be surprised. Modern Swift concurrency is relatively new and the market for Swift devs is small. Finding good explainers on basic Swift concepts isn’t always easy.

I’m extremely grateful to the handful of Swift bloggers who regularly share quality content.
by sva_ | 2025-12-31 03:48:00+00:00
Oracle Cloud gives you 4 oCPU (ARM), 24GB ram, 4Gb/s (10TB), 200GB NVMe SSD for free.

Although some people say it is difficult to get an instance nowadays. But it worked for me and I've been using it for more than 2 years now. Some say that free tier users sometimes get booted, that's why one should upgrade to a paid account.
by ryukoposting | 2025-12-31 03:48:28+00:00
I suppose there's no accounting for taste.

I don't find the idea all that audacious. Several EV trucks were already in the works. The Cybertruck is unique in form, but certainly not in function. There's precedent for sloppily-made stainless steel wedge-shaped American cars [2] thought up by executives on too many drugs [1].

The execution? Whoever figured out how to get a stainless steel wedge on stilts through NHTSA testing deserves a raise. That's sorcery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeLorean

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMC_DeLorean
by camillomiller | 2025-12-31 03:48:38+00:00
I know that the US is allergic to psychiatric diagnosis, but I would strongly invite everyone to learn about what dark triad traits are, and how Sam Altman fits that in a scary way. We have all collectively fell pray of the machinations of one of the most disturbing individuals who ever worked in tech. It’s quite clear to anyone who knows him, and even to anyone who cared to ever read anything about him.
He won’t be responsible for AGI and its consequences, because that’s a lie, but he will have absolutely no issue to be responsible for the financial crisis that his doings will bring about.
It’s like watching a train wreck waiting to happen, while everyone praise the madman conduct or who’s operating the locomotor at full steam.
by 578_Observer | 2025-12-31 03:48:52+00:00
That is a sharp question. You are right about the opportunity cost.
As a banker, I look at the "Depreciation Period" (Lifespan) of the project.

If you are building a "Pop-up Store" (a prototype or script), use libraries. Don't waste time on craft.
But if you are building a "Shrine" (Core System/Database) that must last for 20 years, "Shugyo" is actually the cheapest option.

Efficiency is cheap now, but expensive later (Technical Debt).
Craftsmanship is expensive now, but cheap later (Stability).

We don't need a Jiro to run a fast-food franchise. But we need him to build the Kernel.
Ask HN: Technical co-founder wanted for modern baseball simulation game
by bwheat | 2025-12-31 03:49:14+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building DiamondDesk, a modern baseball simulation inspired by Scoresheet / Strat-O-Matic — deep strategy, text-driven play-by-play, minimal graphics, maximum immersion.

Scoresheet-style sims are brilliant, but the UX and game flow feel stuck in the late 90s. My goal is to modernize the experience without dumbing it down: smarter managerial decisions, cleaner live gamecasts, better lineup/bullpen logic, and a product that feels like actually managing a game.

I’m not a developer, but I bring:
• Deep domain knowledge from years in sim leagues
• A clear product vision and written one-page pitch
• UX and game-flow concepts already thought through
• Realistic expectations (very early stage, iterative, equity-first)

I’m looking for a technical co-founder who:
• Loves baseball or baseball sims
• Enjoys systems, probabilities, and game logic
• Is excited by text-based / systems-heavy products
• Is open to equity-first, no upfront salary at this stage

Tech stack is flexible — ownership mentality and shared obsession matter far more.

If this resonates, reply here or email me at bartwheat@gmail.com

— Steven
by riknos314 | 2025-12-31 03:49:21+00:00
From the comments on the link:

> I think in general you give smart people powerful tools and good things always happen. That’s why I’m so hesitant to ban a TOOL when the problem to me is inadequate people.

This resonates strongly with me. I've seen AI weilded mindlessly, effectively offloading the burden of critical thought from the submitter to the reviewers. This inevitably annoys the reviewers. I've also seen mindless changes where AI wasn't used at all that are equally annoying.

In contrast, I've seen AI weilded by contributors who still put in the effort of thinking critically about the change, and these changes are usually no more onerous to review than a fully-human generated change.

The differtiator between a good submission and an annoying one is typically the behaviors of the human, not whether or not AI was used. The way forward is to define the behaviors we want to encourage and avoid, and figure out the incentive structures to push contributors to using the proper behaviors.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-31 03:49:39+00:00
I thought that soap did something more than just wash the nasties off - something about it interfering with cell walls of viruses/bacteria and therefore killing them

Looked it up

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3037063/

Handwashing is thought to be effective for the prevention of transmission of diarrhoea pathogens. However it is not conclusive that handwashing with soap is more effective at reducing contamination with bacteria associated with diarrhoea than using water only. In this study 20 volunteers contaminated their hands deliberately by touching door handles and railings in public spaces. They were then allocated at random to (1) handwashing with water, (2) handwashing with non-antibacterial soap and (3) no handwashing. Each volunteer underwent this procedure 24 times, yielding 480 samples overall. Bacteria of potential faecal origin (mostly Enterococcus and Enterobacter spp.) were found after no handwashing in 44% of samples. Handwashing with water alone reduced the presence of bacteria to 23% (p < 0.001). Handwashing with plain soap and water reduced the presence of bacteria to 8% (comparison of both handwashing arms: p < 0.001). The effect did not appear to depend on the bacteria species. Handwashing with non-antibacterial soap and water is more effective for the removal of bacteria of potential faecal origin from hands than handwashing with water alone and should therefore be more useful for the prevention of transmission of diarrhoeal diseases.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-31 03:49:42+00:00
> Could you please expand on this: "after Congress raided the Social Security account..."?

I'd ask you, and others reading my previous comment, to scratch this off as a bad choice of words on my part and replace it with:

"by moving to a pay-as-you-go policy for the SSTF, Congress made the point that Social Security is just another tax."

Previously I used "raiding" as a far-fetched metaphor for several different processes which are too complex to discuss here and it would distract from the main point: instead of complex itemization, SSFT & MCFT would be better off as parts of general taxation.

> AFAIK, Social Security contributions stay within the Social Security Fund - they cannot be used by US government to pay its bills.

True in theory, but if we look at how surpluses are handled and how they depend on a manually controlled interest rate we'll see a different reality.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-31 03:52:57+00:00
Like I said, they aren't "that" dumb. They are playing a risky game, but when they see the number go down rapidly they will pull. Which will make the line go down even faster.

>And even in the worst case scenario, a 10-15% decline in the S&P 500 won't trigger the next Great Depression

Only if you believe the 10% decline won't domino and that the S&P500 is secluded from the rest of the global economy. I wish I shared your optimism.

> and the economy remained pretty robust throughout.

Yeah and we voted the person who orchestrated that out. We don't have the money to pump trillions back in a 2nd time in such a short time. Something's gonna give, and soon.
Show HN: A Simple CLI Utility Around Git Worktree for Running Parallel Agents
by golbin | 2025-12-31 03:53:23+00:00
I built gw, a small CLI utility that wraps git worktree to make running parallel coding agents less painful.

When you run multiple agents against the same repo, git worktree is usually the right tool — but the workflow is a bit clunky.

gw provides simple commands like gw add, gw cd, gw del, and gw ls, plus a gw status command to quickly see the state of all worktrees at once.

It works on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and installation is straightforward via brew, scoop, or a simple install.sh.

If you regularly run multiple worktrees (especially with agents), this might save you some friction.

(Stars are always appreciated )
by alsetmusic | 2025-12-31 03:53:43+00:00
> There's no legitimate purpose in bringing crayons and a coloring book, or a box of paperclips, either.

Do you genuinely think that a parent with a small child does not have a legitimate reason to bring crayons and a coloring book to an event for adults or are you being hyperbolic? Cause this suggests either bad-faith or a profound lack of clarity about the issue and neither is good for your argument.
by scrubs | 2025-12-31 03:53:57+00:00
Here again I agree. Housing, health insurance, and education costs have risen far exceeding inflation elsewhere. Post-covid food prices are higher and may not return anytime soon. These are serious head winds for the bottom 70%.

Now the return of the 1960s seems nieve when the middle class was more secure. The return of clothing manufacturers, umbrella, USB cords, and a lot of the misc stuff made in China we get at Kmart is not and should not come back to the US.

We could do better by getting more of our supply chain in medicine, manufacturing into NA or Europe. We could also help by a 10 year plan to get debt down with consequent reduction on interest payments in DC. Interest payments on debt are among the top 3 largest federal spends.

Bush junior tried to increase housing ownership which indirectly lead to the 2008 crisis since lenders and brokers passed risk to the fed among other things. Perhaps the fed ought to work with states to simplify and make zoning uniform. From what I understand zoning complications are a major contributor to housing shortage on the supply side.

This is an incomplete list ... but you're right: Washington is a 100 light years away from a technocratic industrial policy that is hybrid capitalism through state strategy.
by Anuranjan_Vikas | 2025-12-31 03:54:02+00:00
You're right that the quality question is nuanced. But Realwork isn't really about whether AI output is good or bad—it's about what happens to creators in the meantime.

The problem I'm trying to solve: a student writes an essay, gets flagged by a detector, and now has to prove a negative. An artist posts work, gets accused in the comments, and has no way to show their process. The burden of proof has shifted to creators, and there's no good tool for that.
You could argue "good work speaks for itself" and historically that was true. But we're in a transition period where the default assumption is shifting. Even if AI detection eventually improves or people learn to distinguish quality, right now creators are getting caught in the crossfire.
Realwork is less about "AI bad" and more about giving creators receipts when they need them. Whether that need persists long-term, I'm genuinely not sure. But the pain is real today.

Curious, do you think the accusation climate is temporary, or does it become a permanent feature of how we evaluate work?
by tombert | 2025-12-31 03:55:01+00:00
I also never really liked Calibri for professional stuff. Maybe I'm just a victim of conditionig, but Calibri always had a bit of a "web page" vibe, not official document vibe.

I personally think that Computer Modern/Latin Modern from LaTeX looks a lot better than Times New Roman. I wish they'd standardize on that but it might not be included in Microsoft Office, so I guess Times New Roman it is.
by jaredhallen | 2025-12-31 03:55:01+00:00
Nice, I worked at one of those mom and pop computer shops in the late 90's. I built the computers, and I even went with my boss (the shop owner) to those shows a couple times. From what I remember, the show scene was pretty well declining at that point, at least in our area. I still remember the TV ads, though. "SUPER VGA! CD-ROM!!"