MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by etothepii | 2026-01-29 11:48:57+00:00
Perhaps this is a feature not a bug.

High rents encourages startups to be founded by those who haven't coupled up and who choose to live together.

A company of 3 single founders in their mid twenties that rent a two bed flat and then live and breath nothing but their startup collapsing on the couch each night can make two $50k angel cheques go a long way.

Edit: SEIS allows a friends and family seed round if up to £250k in London that the government will rebate 78% of in taxes (50% immediately and 28% if the company eventually goes bust).
by zelphirkalt | 2026-01-29 11:49:04+00:00
> But also here is something to think about: your body will produce more D3 than that by being in the sun for just several minutes. So if you consider such a low dose of D3 an overdose then you better steer clear of the sun!

This is another superficial statement, that displays shallow-at-best understanding. Staying in the sun and producing via the skin, and intake via food are 2 separate pathways. You cannot just make wild assumptions about one of those pathways from stuff you know about the other pathway.

And actually: Yes, you shouldn't stay in the sun for too long without proper protection. Having the sun shine on your skin is not some inherently healthy thing. It too comes with acceptable dosage and overdose. Symptoms of overdose are commonly known as getting a sunburn.
by curt15 | 2026-01-29 11:49:16+00:00
>To many users, an app seems to be perceived as the blessed way to access the web. While on a mobile, they are mostly a way to organize symlinks or bookmarks. Except, off course a web browser does its best to protect the user while most apps don't.

That is an education problem. What do computer courses teach in schools these days? Do schools still have computer literacy courses? Do they still teach students about the internet?
by kenhwang | 2026-01-29 11:49:36+00:00
Ford was with Mazda in China with a joint venture with a Chinese company (as required): Changan, and they were building those shared Ford/Mazda platform vehicles there.

Ford wanted to also build trucks for the Chinese market, with a different joint venture. However, the rules limited companies to two joint ventures, which was a problem because Mazda also had a joint venture with FAW. Which meant it counted as part of Ford's 2 joint ventures.

So Ford sold Mazda. Changan Ford/Mazda got split in their respective halves. FAW was no longer associated with Ford and left with Mazda. Ford could then pick up a new joint venture for trucks, which they did and I don't believe they're doing well.

Ford just really wanted to double down on trucks, in more than one market.
by anon373839 | 2026-01-29 11:49:41+00:00
Much of these gains can be attributed to better tooling and harnesses around the models. Yes, the models also had to be retrained to work with the new tooling, but that doesn’t mean there was a step change in their general “intelligence” or capabilities. And sure enough, I’m seeing the same old flaws as always: frontier models fabricating info not present in the context, having blindness to what is present, getting into loops, failing to follow simple instructions…
by tpxl | 2026-01-29 11:51:44+00:00
> I noticed that often the people who switch to Linux, are more likely to send more time into finetuning their OS, tinkering around, etc... aka people with more time on their hands. But when you get a bit older, you simply want something that works and gives you no trouble.

> Yes, it has no adds but that is like 5 min work on a fresh install, a 2 min job of copy/past a cleanup script to remove the spyware and other crap and your good for year. So again, killer features?

First thing you do after you install windows is fine tune it lol. For what it's worth, I just installed the latest debian on a Minisforum mini PC and it was clean and easy. Everything works out of the box, including bluetooth and gaming (surprisingly well given only has an integrated GPU). Same experience with two of my wifes laptops.

Now I did have issues with my desktop due to running bleeding edge hardware, but those all got resolved within months on its own and a clean install is now no hassle at all.

In short, I'm now older and don't have time to tinker with my PCs. That includes reverting whatever bullshit Microsoft decided to foist upon me, so now I run base debian and won't be buying bleeding edge hardware anymore.
Show HN: SonicCaption – Real-time bilingual captions and translation for videos
by DanielHu87 | 2026-01-29 11:52:33+00:00
Hi HN — I’m Ethan, a solo developer and a language learner. I built SonicCaption because I often watch courses/videos and join meetings in languages I’m not fluent in, and I wanted something that works across sites, not just on one platform.

What it is: a Chrome/Edge extension that adds live captions + translation on top of the page you’re already using (videos, meetings, livestreams, etc.). You can show bilingual captions or translation-only.

How to try it:
1) Install the extension
2) Google sign-in (required to link usage quota and prevent abuse)
3) Open a tab with audio → click Start in the extension → you’ll see live captions/translation

Trial: everyone gets 20 minutes free to test it.

Note on sign-in/privacy: I know sign-in adds friction. I use Google login only to associate usage quota with an account and to prevent abuse. The extension does not access your inbox/contacts. If an anonymous trial mode would significantly increase willingness to try, I’d love to hear that.

If you try it and it fails or behaves oddly on a site, telling me the url + browser would help a lot.

I’ll be here to answer questions and iterate quickly.
by arethuza | 2026-01-29 11:52:42+00:00
From NHS Scotland:

"In Scotland, we only get enough of the right kind of sunlight for our bodies to make vitamin D between April and September, mostly between 11am and 3pm."

https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-living/food-and-nutrition...

Personally I found that taking Vitamin D supplements made quite a bit of difference - and I spend a fair amount of time outside (~3 hours each day).
by amitdawar | 2026-01-29 11:53:16+00:00
Hi there!

You’re right, thanks for pointing it out.

Gen-Wal itself always runs locally (no accounts, no telemetry), but by default it uses Pollinations for text/image generation to keep setup friction low.

Local providers (llama.cpp / Ollama) are supported and can be enabled explicitly.

I’ve updated the site copy and documented this more clearly here:
https://gen-wal.laptopserver.dev/documentation.html#customiz...
by mvcosta91 | 2026-01-29 11:53:22+00:00
“God, I see what you’re doing for others, and I want that for me.”

I had a very similar experience, except it killed my libido, so I chose to endure the suffering of Winter rather than live with emotional numbness.

Still, I strongly recommend it for people flirting with the abyss. It was life-changing for me while I was raising an autistic 2yo during the pandemic.
by SecretDreams | 2026-01-29 11:53:32+00:00
> This is not only my opinion but the market's - S and X sold like 2 orders of magnitude less cars than the 3 and Y.

They sold less because they're far more expensive and have to compete against much more well put together products. Meanwhile, their platforms are 10 years old and there are now other offerings in an overall niche field.

You're right about aero to an extent, but aero is only felt on long highway drives and it can be mitigated somewhat with a couple more cells. Some consumers will choose style for a cost premium. Others will choose something more expensive simply because they don't want to support Musk.
by duckmysick | 2026-01-29 11:53:47+00:00
It's there in the The Model Services Contract, under Core Terms:

> Quality Plans

> 6.1 The Supplier shall develop, within [insert number] Working Days of the Effective Date, quality plans that ensure that all aspects of the Services are the subject of quality management systems and are consistent with BS EN ISO 9001 or any equivalent standard which is generally recognised as having replaced it ("Quality Plans").

The Short Form Contract also have optional ISO 27001 or Cyber Essentials (which is, uh, an adventure on its own). But there's also an option for no certification required. It depends on the contract.

But yes, you're right. Dealing with requirements takes time and experience and you likely need a dedicated person (or team) to deal with it.
by dakial1 | 2026-01-29 11:53:53+00:00
This makes more sense. I hate when people talk about taxing the “net worth” of some rich guy when a good part of that net worth is locked into invested companies who are (hopefully) being taxed already.
The borrow scheme should be the thing being taxed really, because is a shadow realization of profit (they are borrowing against the current value of their assets)
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-29 11:53:59+00:00
I don't need to "prove it", because all I have to do is link this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01491

https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-short.47/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06166

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/wzveh_v1

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.987/

https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.426/

https://aclanthology.org/2025.iwsds-1.37/

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.14.24307373v...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/21522715251379...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21817

Either they used an LLM to write part of it, or the linguistic mind virus infected them and now they speak a little bit like an LLM.
by shoaibmerchant | 2026-01-29 11:54:11+00:00
Creator here, thanks for highlighting this.

We are currently following the NXP IMX downstream kernel, that is why you can check the 'imx-' prefix on our branch, their releases follow 6 months after the LTS release. NXP IMX 6.18 will release roughly by end of March, when it does you will see us updating to 6.18 as well. By the time we ship, we mostly likely will be shipping 6.18.

Now we do intend to upstream, we've even got mainline u-boot to start working with the device albeit the display. We were waiting for the hardware configuration to be stabilized before we submit the device trees and start actively working on mainline support. It won't happen overnight but you will see our documentation clearly defining how far we are from the mainline. Also to add here, compared to other SOCs, NXP already has very good mainline support.
by cyphar | 2026-01-29 11:54:40+00:00
> but the way this will be used is by corporations to lock us out into approved Linux distributions. Linux will be effectively owned by RedHat and Microsoft, the signing authority.

This is basically true today with Secure Boot on modern hardware (at least in the default configuration -- Microsoft's soft-power policies for device manufacturers actually requires that you can change this on modern machines). This is bad, but it is bad because platform vendors decide which default keys are trusted for secure boot by default and there is no clean automated mechanism to enroll your own keys programmatically (at least, without depending on the Microsoft key -- shim does let you do this programmatically with the MOK).

The set of default keys ended up being only Microsoft (some argue this is because of direct pressure from Microsoft, but this would've happened for almost all hardware regardless and is a far more complicated story), but in order to permit people to run other operating systems on modern machines Microsoft signed up to being a CA for every EFI binary in the universe. Red Hat then controls which distro keys are trusted by the shim binary Microsoft signs[1].

This system ended up centralised because the platform vendor (not the device owner) fundamentally controls the default trusted key set and is what caused the whole nightmare of the Microsoft Secure Boot keys and rh-boot signing of shim. Getting into the business of being a CA for every binary in the world is a very bad idea, even if you are purely selfish and don't care about user freedoms (and it even makes Secure Boot less useful of a protection mechanism because it means that machines where users only want to trust Microsoft also necessarily trust Linux and every other EFI binary they sign -- there is no user-controlled segmentation of trust, which is the classic CA/PKI problem). I don't personally know how the Secure Boot / UEFI people at Microsoft feel about this, but I wouldn't be surprised if they also dislike the situation we are all in today.

Basically none of these issues actually apply to TPMs, which are more akin to limited HSMs where the keys and policies are all fundamentally user-controlled in a programmatic way. It also doesn't apply to what we are building either, but we need to finish building it before I can prove that to you.

[1]: https://github.com/rhboot/shim-review
by nis0s | 2026-01-29 11:54:46+00:00
Realistically, the rate at which both MCP, and Claude products have developed competitors should be concerning for anyone at the helm at Anthropic.

MCP was introduced in Nov 2024, and there are already at least 3 competing standards. The same could not be said for something like Tensorflow when it came out, for example, because it took other frameworks/tools a while to “get it” and become something competitive.

Yes, I know these are all open source frameworks and not a “real” example of a product Anthropic should be concerned about, but I am making a point about the rate of competition developing.

There is real danger here of big players becoming irrelevant quickly, which is why they bloviate like they do.
by ctrlmeta | 2026-01-29 11:55:23+00:00
Where are you pulling this random 15% number from? And a ridiculous number too. It's more like 1% to 3% unless you spend your entire day traveling.

I just checked how much I pay for travel. My monthly travel expenses is £150 total. That's like between 1% to 3% of someone's net income (depends on how much net income you make).

Do you know it is impossible to 15% of your net income in travel because there is a weekly fare cap: https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/find-fares/capping

Worst case scenario, you are traveling too much every week to max out the fare cap across all travel zones. Your monthly total would be £244. That's like 3% to 6% of your net income. But this is the worst case scenario. If you are spending 6% of your net income on travel, maybe you should reconsider which zone you live in.

So seriously where are you pulling out this ridiculous 15% number from?
by Scarblac | 2026-01-29 11:55:28+00:00
Yes, I have no idea what the expectation of a manager in de engineering department of ASML is.

Personally, my "manager" has about 35 reports and also other duties. Basically as long as everything is going OK I don't have much to do with him. This is a company of 75 people, there are no managers except for two of the four directors. Not quite like ASML :-)
by nickjj | 2026-01-29 11:56:19+00:00
> What's next - 30% of my pizza price goes to Apple because I ordered it on my phone?

You joke but this already happens with places like DoorDash. They take 30% of the order from the store owner after adding their own additional fees to the order that customers pay.

Someone I know owns a pizza store and his prices are 30% higher on DoorDash but some people still pay. The big difference is it's not a monopoly. He offers regular delivery at normal store prices and 95% of his deliveries go through that.
by comrade1234 | 2026-01-29 11:57:02+00:00
Before you start taking crazy amounts (or any amount) of vitamin D just get a blood test. It's simple. As part of my insurance I can get a bunch of different blood tests, but I did have to pay about $50 extra to add the vitamin D test.

Based on the test I was just a tad under where I should be and so now I am taking 800 IU per day. I may stop in the summer when I get more sun.

I read somewhere that too much vitamin D has similar effects as too little (permanent hair loss, anemia, etc) but that may have just been on a blog similar to the linked blog on this submission.
by harperlee | 2026-01-29 11:57:10+00:00
Whether the company targets or not that goal is a major distinction.

For example if I open a restaurant I'm 100% guaranteed not to be valued 100M in 5 years.

If I target to be the next social network and compete with TikTok, then it's a startup.

Goal, ability to scale, global business from the onset, etc. are things you can perceive today without being able to read the future.
by lisdexan | 2026-01-29 11:58:43+00:00
> Are you really telling me you wouldn't pay any amount of money to do menial housework? If not, why not?

This is called having a live-in maid or a cleaning service. Even in the first-world, where there isn't a disfranchised rural population to provide cheap labor to the middle class (e.g. Philippines, most of LATAM 20 years ago) the service will be cheaper than the price of a vaporware bot [0]. Now, you might say the droid is cheaper if you want a live-in maid in HCOL area, but have in mind that this thing barely can fold clothes and fill a dishwasher (an actual domestic bot). Also it sometimes is actually a dude controlling it remotely.

We would need bots of the level of that awful I Robot movie with Will Smith.

[0] https://www.1x.tech/order
by citrin_ru | 2026-01-29 11:59:01+00:00
> You might be depressed because you life objectively sucks

The problem with this that to a bad situation different people react differently - some trying to do what they can to improve the situation or at least don't make it worse and some give up and let situation to slip and become worse and worse (becoming a self fulfilling prophesy). It's not a choose one makes I think (it's likely a biological predisposition) but the difference is still exists.

People prone to depression genuinely believe the main (only) reason for a depression that the life sucks and as a result they avoid medical help and don't do anything which could help them.
by ryanackley | 2026-01-29 11:59:37+00:00
You're on HN so I assume you're in a technical or technical-adjacent role. Of course, you could be an accountant at a restaurant supply company or something.

Here's another data point for you. A few weeks ago, I had to do a screenshare with a product manager just to help them install Claude Code. There is a wide spectrum of technical literacy out there.
by SecretDreams | 2026-01-29 11:59:51+00:00
> Sort of like how every brand of battery-powered drill you find at the store is very similar, despite being head and shoulders better than the best drill from 25 years ago.

They all get made in China, mostly all in the same facilities. Designs tend to converge under such conditions. Especially since design is not open loop - you talk to the supplier that will make your drill and the supplier might communicate how they already make drills for others.
by RandomTeaParty | 2026-01-29 12:00:09+00:00
My general experience with decompilation has been very negative (rough and not ready for use)

It feels like tool devs target byte editting more than refactoring decompiled code into something readable - you can't move lines of code, can't flip statement checked in if() for early return

Author of this article mentioned "byte euivalence", and while I'd be fine with functional sameness, I imagine provably-reversible refactor steps would be of great help for everyone
by londons_explore | 2026-01-29 12:00:16+00:00
> camera only navigation without sensor fusion with LIDAR will fail

I'm not so sure on this one. I think we'll see it this year. It will have embarrassing bugs (ie. running over cats which are hiding under the car) and we'll see lots of issues to begin with (ie. the car stops in the middle of a freeway because a camera got splattered with mud).

But I think they'll achieve the goal of something that can be deployed fairly widespread without public outrage causing it to be banned without lidar.
by ctrlmeta | 2026-01-29 12:00:29+00:00
I have done a lot of social work with Bangladeshi community. What many people don't know that the Bangladeshi wives who come as dependants speak better English than their husbands and sometimes as good as the natives.

I was surprised the first time I got into volunteer work. Figured that these wives have never spoken English in their home country. So when they moved to London, they learnt English from scratch and picked up the local accent and speaking style. Their grammar may not be perfect sometimes but whose is?
by senko | 2026-01-29 12:00:36+00:00
As a heavy Claude Code user, I would like to have that option.

But if it's just 33% as good, I wouldn't bother.

Top LLMs have passed a usability threshold in the past few months. I haven't had the feeling the open models (from any country) have passed it as well.

When they do, we'll have a realistic option of using the best and the most expensive vs the good and cheap. That will be great.

Maybe in 2026.
by asyncadventure | 2026-01-29 12:01:08+00:00
The discussion about Chinese vs US models misses a key enterprise reality: switching costs are enormous once you've built production systems around a specific API. Companies aren't just buying the model - they're buying reliability, compliance guarantees, and the ecosystem that reduces integration risk. Price matters, but in enterprise AI the "last mile" of trust and operational certainty often justifies significant premiums.
by Deklomalo | 2026-01-29 12:01:14+00:00
Tesla is already valued 9x higher than uber.

Uber makes money on every ride.

Teslas Robotaxi has to be cheaper than a taxi with a human and i don't think they will be able to have a lot higher revenue per ride than uber. Not 9x

And if Tesla starts to deliver a robotaxi, all of this revenue has to be shared between taxis, uber, Tesla, Waimo, Zoox, Rimac, Cruise, Baidu, WeRide, ...

So how huge is the market for Tesla to be valuated 9x higher than Uber?

We can even combine a big car company, a robotics company, a solar roof company, battery storage company, ETruck and a robotaxi company and STILL don't get to the same valuation than Tesla currently has.

Teslas share price is math for stupid people.
by Retr0id | 2026-01-29 12:01:16+00:00
There are a bunch of factors that affect whether Netflix will give you the highest resolution available for your hardware. Some of them are "soft" constraints, like the user agent, the pixel resolution of your screen, and what profiles the client requests from the server. Then there's hard constraints like the DRM version, HDCP level, and what codecs your hardware actually supports.

This extension tries to spoof HDCP status and codec support which is stupid and will not provide any benefit, since it is ultimately enforced by hardware.

But it also patches Cadmium to request a custom set of profiles which is useful and can improve compatibility: https://github.com/Pickle-Pixel/netflix-force-4k/blob/72e179...

For example, here's a set of profiles that makes 1080p work on Linux, as opposed to a mere 720p: https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/Turbo-Recadmiumator/blob... (or at least it used to, I haven't tested it in ages)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-29 12:01:25+00:00
> I wonder what would be cutoff age for readers to read it correctly, I guess under 30 read it correctly, and over 40 will many read it as Winamp

I am 17 and I wasn't wearing my glasses and I was really speaking winamp until I read your comment then scrolled back again to realize it was winapp

My bet is that I spend time on HN so I knew what winamp is in more detail but if say friends my age read it & say they use tiktok more, I would say that they wouldn't call it winamp but winapp

So I guess I might be one of the few exceptions but I feel like people on HN are much more likely to read it as winamp than not & age might not be thaaat big of an impact (atleast on HN)