MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DesiLurker | 2026-01-11 19:37:20+00:00
I have a less charitable and more direct answer. Right now there is a notion in Left that Israeli are the oppressor. In Iran large majority of population is Persian but MINO (Muslim in name only due to dictatorship). They are struggling to get freedom from the Islamic regime and getting some help from Israel. This flips the narrative in Left's mind (if they accept it) that Muslims can be oppressors too and that is untenable for them. especially because Left in Western nations has basically aligned themselves with muslims so its easier for them to just ignore it.

BTW its not just left here, I originally hail from India and you can feel the pin-drop silence from left on Iran there too. They just hope the rebellion gets crushed by regime like other ones and they'll pretend status quo.

My TLDR takeaway: Muslims only care about when they are oppressed & Left is completely aligned with them right now.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-11 19:37:24+00:00
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/01/02/1444317...

You’re wrong, and the “historical record” you’re citing is actually the same record the NPR piece is summarizing.

What that NPR piece is pointing at is the Lee Robins follow up result that became famous precisely because it violated the folk story of heroin addiction being inevitably chronic. A later review of Robins’ findings summarizes it bluntly:

In Vietnam, high heroin use and dependence. After return, only about 10% tried heroin, and only about 1% became re addicted in the first year.

Now compare that to the VA history page you linked as a “gotcha.” It says the same thing in slightly different numbers:

One year after return, 10% reported opiate use, and 7% reported re addiction.

So no, “not entirely” and “7%” are not a refutation. They are the punchline.

You can argue about whether it is 1% or 7%, depending on definitions and measurement, but the qualitative point survives trivially: it was nowhere near the relapse pattern people expected for heroin addiction, which is why NPR is telling the story in the first place.

Your OUP line about some vets shifting to other drugs is also not the contradiction you think it is. “Some people continued using substances” does not falsify “heroin dependence largely remitted when the environment changed.” Those are different claims. If anything, substitution strengthens the “context and cues matter” thesis, because it implies the Vietnam setting was uniquely good at sustaining heroin use, not that heroin had permanently rewired everyone’s brain.

Also, “VA was unprepared” is about bureaucracy, not epidemiology. The VA being behind the curve tells you the system wasn’t ready for the volume of cases showing up at the door, not that “everyone stayed addicted forever.”

If you want to be precise, the correct statement is:

Most soldiers who were using heroin in Vietnam did not remain heroin addicted after returning home, and relapse was low relative to expectations, which is exactly why this became a canonical example in the first place.
by tptacek | 2026-01-11 19:37:26+00:00
I'm not saying you can't use provolone or Swiss on a burger or that American is somehow categorically better, I'm just saying that deli cheeses do not all melt as well as American does. Cheddar melts even worse than provolone! It's simply not emulsified the way American is. You are spreading cheese misfeasance. Mischeesance! I will not have it.

I'm a Chicagoan and like, the only thing I really care about, other than a more accurate sandwich taxonomy that doesn't place an Italian beef on a line of sandwich development with cheese steaks, is that (1) Chicago pizza as understood by Chicagoans is cut into squares, and (2) it's better than the deep dish stuff, which is a novelty. Is a NY slice better? Sure, whatever, IDGAF. We have the superior tacos, that's all that matters.

The meat in a beef is not only not cut the same way or cooked the same way, it's also not the same meat! The only "components" in a beef are braised beef (braise a ribeye roast and they will put you in jail) and giardiniera, maybe simmered bell pepper if you're a weirdo. There aren't onions on a beef. Definitely no cheese. Was there cheese on the beef you got? That wasn't a beef, they were trying to steal your kidneys. We have signs about this all over town, did you not notice? And there isn't giardiniera on a cheese steak.
by evenil | 2026-01-11 19:38:18+00:00
> Many ME sufferers were told their disease was solely treatable with CBT, and lacked aetiology.

This is true? CBT and related treatments were pretty much the only thing that had been shown to be effective at reducing the severity of symptoms (no one should be making claims about whether it is changing an underlying disease process, but improving symptoms is a huge deal), and the etiology was unknown. Any responsible clinician or scientist should have been telling patients exactly that.
by krypd0h | 2026-01-11 19:38:30+00:00
TCKR - Scrolling Stock LED Ticker for Windows https://github.com/krypdoh/TCKR

I've been working on this for several weeks/months and I'm happy with the result!

Vibe coded it as my programming skills have eroded with time (or they never existed).

I would really appreciate some feedback.
by theandrewbailey | 2026-01-11 19:38:34+00:00
> This may have been true for Vista once it stabilized, but I had a very poor experience with Vista around the time it first came out (particularly with BSODs relating to Nvidia drivers), and ended up skipping over it.

I remember buying one of the first AMD Turion X2 laptops with an ATI GPU (Acer Ferrari 5000?). Initially came with XP, but I installed Vista 64-bit on it (courtesy of my college's MSDN subscriptions) several months after release. XP BSODed about once per month under normal use, but with Vista, it never did. Everything I tried to use it with worked, it was fast enough and looked great! (The start menu's search bar was a killer feature for me! back when Windows search worked...) My college issued everyone Thinkpads, and when they had a Vista-based image, I got it, and my experience with Vista on that was likewise.

I built a gaming desktop a while later and put Vista on it, and it had occasional BSODs. I also suspect the Nvidia drivers, but I recall that stability improved with Windows 7.

For those reasons, I seem to be 1 of about 3 people on earth that had a mildly positive opinion about Windows Vista.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-01-11 19:38:45+00:00
Dear mods. I know it isn’t you - but it’s a shame to see this flagged. Seems some people wish they only needed to think about complexity in space and time but not complexity in society.

Flagging as silent protest won’t progress the debate because the issues and reasons don’t get discussed, people just object. If people dislike the direction HN is going they should be encouraged to speak up so everyone can talk through it.

Perhaps we need to reset community norms around flagging?
by Izkata | 2026-01-11 19:38:58+00:00
No, they're right. Your description is what you get from outsiders who don't understand what they're seeing.

In a creative process, when you really know your tools, you start being able to go from thought to result without really having to think about the tools. The most common example when it comes to computers would be touch-typing - when your muscle memory gets so good you don't think about the keyboard at all anymore, your hands "know" what to do to get your thoughts down. But for those of us with enough experience in the programming languages and editor/IDE we use, the same thing can happen - going from thought to code is nearly effortless, as is reading code, because we don't need to think about the layers in between anymore.

But this only works when those tools are reliable, when we know they'll do exactly what we expect. AI tooling isn't reliable: It introduces two lossy translation layers (thought -> English and English -> code) and a bunch of waiting in the middle that breaks any flow. With faster computers maybe we can eliminate the waiting, but the reliability just isn't there.

This applies to music, painting, all sorts of creative things. Sure there's prep time beforehand with physical creation like painting, but when someone really gets into the flow it's the same: they're not having to think about the tools so much as getting their thoughts into the end result. The tools "disappear".

> Other times, I make music because I like the feeling of turning a knob, and striking keys at just the right moment, and it gives me a feeling of satisfaction.

But I'll bet you're not thinking about "I like turning this knob" at the moment you're doing it, I'll bet you're thinking "Increase the foo" and the knob's immediate visceral feedback is where the satisfaction comes from because you're increasing the foo without having to think about how to do it - in part because of how reliable it is.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-11 19:38:58+00:00
> It writes tests more consistently than most engineers (in my experience)

I'm going to nit on this specifically. I firmly believe anyone that genuinely believes this either never writes tests that actually matter, or doesn't review the tests that an LLM throws out there. I've seen so many cases of people saying 'look at all these valid tests our LLM of choice wrote' only for half of them to do nothing and half of them misleading as to what it actually tests.
by haasiy | 2026-01-11 19:39:02+00:00
なるほど、そこを引き合いに出すということはオレの反論に返す言葉が無いってことか？
Aiの言葉がトークンがコードが、どうこう言うからあえて母語で伝えてやるよ。
しょうもないクレームにAIを使うのは今や世界標準だぜ？皮肉にもｗ
by cranium | 2026-01-11 19:39:05+00:00
I've linked it multiple times on HN already but winapps (https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps) can be a game-changer for people relying on some Windows-only software.

It sets up a Windows machine in Docker where you can install your apps, then you'll get .desktop applications that starts the program in the VM and use RDP to only show the app window – it feels nearly native. I've even bought an Office 2024 license to improve some VBA Excel macros for a client.
by usefulcat | 2026-01-11 19:39:12+00:00
Agreed that c++03 was much simpler, but that doesn't change the fact that there are useful things that are possible in modern c++ that simply were not possible before.

Like if I have a vector<std::string>, in c++03 when it resizes it must copy every string from the old storage to the new storage. For a vector of size N, that's up to N+1 allocations (allowing for the possibility that std::string uses the small string optimization).

Granted, std::string doesn't have to allocate when copied if it's a "copy on write" implementation. IIRC, there were some implementations that used that technique when c++03 was the latest, but I don't think there are any that still do, due to other problems with COW.

In modern c++, that same vector resizing operation requires exactly one allocation (for the new vector storage), because all the strings can be moved from the old storage to the new.

Yes, you could have a vector of pointers to std::string, but now you've got yet another allocation (and indirection on access) for every string. In practice that tradeoff almost never makes sense, unless perhaps the strings have shared ownership (e.g. vector<shared_ptr<string>>).

Ultimately, I think there's really no question that the vector resizing optimization described above is useful in certain scenarios. Having said that, I do agree that the associated complexity is annoying. Therefore, the real question is whether it's possible to have these benefits with less complexity, and I personally don't know the answer to that.
by LocalPCGuy | 2026-01-11 19:39:16+00:00
Sometimes it is nice to have a separate application for notes compared to the editor being used for code. It means they can be customized for their individual purposes. Sometimes there are minor inconveniences (I miss multi-select/change in Obsidian sometimes), but even when I used an editor for my MD notes, I found myself using SublimeText for that while I used VSCode or IntelliJ for coding. Just a 1 of 1 experience, but as mentioned elsewhere, there is a large adoption of note taking apps separate from code editors, and a few of them use markdown as the underlying file type which I require for anything I use for portability.
by fikrigha | 2026-01-11 19:39:20+00:00
Thanks so much for planning to check :)

To be upfront: I don't have automatic query history yet.

What we do have is saved queries with folder organization and search, so you can keep your frequently-used queries organized and findable.

The editor also auto-saves as you type.

But I hear you on the history piece (being able to scroll back through everything you've executed.)

I would love to hear how it goes when you try it out!
by conartist6 | 2026-01-11 19:39:52+00:00
I don't see how you can stop the LLMs ingesting any poison either, because they're filling up the internet with low-value crap as fast as they possibly can. All that junk is poisonous to training new models. The wellspring of value once provided by sites like StackoverFlow is now all but dried up. AI culture is devaluing at an incredible rate as it churns out copied and copies and copies and more copies of the same worthless junk.
by haideralshamma | 2026-01-11 19:40:28+00:00
I am building an open-source, cross-platform desktop app for building and providing code-related context to chat based large language models. [1].

I found that sometimes I would rather interact with a chat interface to debug an issue or brainstorm architecture solutions in my repos. Agents are great for giving the model access to everything and letting it figure it out.

By manually prompting, it forces me to keep my metal model of the codebase up to date, and it allows me to provide just the context I want to the LLM.

[1]: https://github.com/haideralsh/prompt-lab
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-11 19:40:51+00:00
Are you surprised that HN users are fine with their big tech overlords?

I just clicked here to certify this would have been flagged. HN does not disappoint.

The only thing I like more than this confirmation are those posts you see sometimes of people smelling their own farts talking about how HN is oh so special because someone posted a reply that happens to be well thought out because they are competent in some narrow technical subject.
by potomushto | 2026-01-11 19:41:04+00:00
https://tinyserve.org

Recently, I've been very motivated to make one niche crafted service after another. For myself, family and friends. But struggled to find a compelling hosting solution for projects that only has and will have only a single user for years.
I bought the cheapest mac mini M4 on sale, put it in basement and started working on some cli+daemon to help me automate all things around it.
The biggest risk is security, so probably gonna rely a lot on Cloudflare at start.
by redleader55 | 2026-01-11 19:41:15+00:00
Yet, globally, the world is moving towards renewables regardless of big-oil interests. I don't think even the most hard core activists are expecting to close everything coal, gas and oil related overnight, so we need to wait until the energy transformation is finished. It won't be led by the US, Russia and the Middle-East, that's for sure, but it will happen.
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-11 19:41:53+00:00
> Pension funds, private investors, public companies

As someone who was at a large company that was dabbling in NFTs, there was no value apart from pure gambling. At the time that we were doing it, it was also too late, so it was just a jinormous

My issue with GenAI is the rampant copyright violation, and the effect it will have on the economy. Its also replacing all of the fun bits of the world that I inhabit.

At least with web3 it was mostly contained with in the BO infested basement that crypto bros inhabit. AI bollocks has infected half the world.
by Ingon | 2026-01-11 19:41:57+00:00
Continue to work on my project for remote private access: https://github.com/connet-dev/connet

Just released v0.12.0 which has a lot of package cleanup and some important bugfixes. Next, is making the relay infrastructure much more lighter, requiring less synchronization.

Personally, I'm using the hosted version[0] (which is just a repackage of the open source version with dynamic with tokens) to expose my NAS and syncthing web UIs to manage them while I'm away. Sometimes even through my phone (with termux)

[1] https://connet.dev
by seymore_12 | 2026-01-11 19:42:32+00:00
I’m interested in ocean container shipping, so I built a Google Sheets add-on to automate the process of tracking shipping containers. It’s called Container Tracker and I just got it live on the Google Marketplace. https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/container_track...

Main workload is done by the backend (serverless functions).

I am currently working on a HubSpot extension (that uses same backend) with the goal to target few other platforms where users work, and integrate the functionality into their daily workload, as opposed to having it as standalone website or mobile app. I have fun doing it.
by boringg | 2026-01-11 19:42:45+00:00
Depends if they start seeding clouds and doing geo engineering.

Nuclear and solar are different energy products that are complementary. This solar vs nuclear narrative is basic and anti progress.

For example china invested in solar so they can transition their energy system and get it paid by selling globally via subsidized cell manufacturing.

I don't think they will be able to sell export their nuclear tech globally since it is essentially repackaged US tech.

But yeah Im all for solar - more solar the better but it cant do firm power well.
by morshu9001 | 2026-01-11 19:42:47+00:00
I tried Linux again recently. Microsoft needs to be deleted, but this plan is still delusional. Linux is way too confusing for preventable reasons, not even talking about compatibility with Windows stuff.

I'm no Linux expert, but if a SWE has a hard time with it, can't imagine how an average person is supposed to use this. Yeah it's learnable, but nobody wants to. Come back when I can install Linux on a PC, not a "distro" but just Linux, no choices for random stuff like DEs unless you're an expert. And that's necessary, not sufficient.
by azdle | 2026-01-11 19:43:09+00:00
It doesn't say because there's no special support for any auth protocols. Long-term I want to have out-of-the-box support for things like OAuth (for user-facing auth) or mutual TLS (for device/service auth). _Technically_ there's currently support for the cryptographic primitives required to do JWT (I added that because I wanted to support WebPush w/ payloads for myself), but those aren't documented because I intend to remove the current slightly-hacky custom APIs and replace them with some off the shelf libraries, but I'm still figuring out user-added libraries (and on top of that I'll also need to figure out support for native libraries).

Are there any auth protocols / flows you think would be important to support?
by Terretta | 2026-01-11 19:43:23+00:00
>> Do we want our fundamental computing environment to be ultimately under our control, or controlled by private interests with their own incentives?

Define "our".

Because having general compute under developer/engineering control does not mean end-users want, need, or should, tinker inside appliances.

So there are two definitions of our: our end-users, and ourselves the engineers.

Worldwide, in aggregate, far more harms come to users from malware, destroying work at the office and life memories at home, than benefits from non-tech-savvy users being able to agree to a dialog box (INSTALL THIS OR YOUR VOTING REGISTRATION WILL BE SWITCHED IN 30 MINUTES!!!) and have rootkits happen.

Our (hackers) tinkering being extra-steps guardrailed by hardware that we can work within, to help us help general computing become as "don't make me think, and don't do me harm" as a nightstand radio clock, seems a good thing.

Not hard to see through the false "only two cases" premise of the quote.
by halfofaglazier | 2026-01-11 19:44:12+00:00
Location: Israel
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Bash, Linux, SQL
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YYTJGg2J1foEpBKbdUQobq7lO2ZtJDZq/view?usp=sharing
Email: mtglejser+hn [at] gmail [dot] com

I'm a generalist with 10 years' technical troubleshooting exp. The last 6 years worked as a software engineer; now pivoting to support engineer so I can focus on my core strengths:
- Pinpointing & resolving issues
- Explaining technical stuff to non-technical people
- Improving tooling & workflows
by conartist6 | 2026-01-11 19:44:41+00:00
Well, they seem to have 0 agency. They left child pornography in the training sets. The people gathering the data committed enormous crimes, wantonly. Science is disintegrating along with public trust in science as fake papers peer reviewed by fake peer reviewers slop along. And from what I hear there has been no more training on the open internet anymore in recent years as it's simply too toxic.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-01-11 19:44:51+00:00
> But no sorry, "summary executions of American citizens in the street" comes from my own analysis of the events of the past few days. If you do not see the situation as an American citizen exercising her first amendment natural right to heckle government agents and then being retaliated at with a high-stakes escalation that led to her being needlessly killed, then you really have no comprehension or appreciation of our country's foundational ideas of individual liberty and limited government.

I saw the situation as (1) an American citizen moving far beyond her first amendment rights and into active violence towards and obstruction of law enforcement, (2) refusing a lawful and reasonable order, after an incredible degree of patience and grace extended to her by law enforcement despite her unlawful behavior over days and weeks, and (3) her ill-considered decision to use her vehicle in the manner she did, accelerating towards and hitting a law enforcement officer -- a provocation to which he responded with reasonable force, given the circumstances.

Planting your car perpendicular to the road isn't protected speech, and accelerating into a human while refusing a lawful order especially isn't.

I don't think she intended to hit him, but she accelerated towards him to evade a lawful order, and she did hit him. An SUV is absolutely a deadly weapon, and once acceleration occurs toward an officer:

- The threat becomes imminent

- The decision window collapses to seconds

- De-escalation is no longer a viable option

> I am open to referring to your movement by another name, especially if it facilitates having productive discussions where we can flesh out you actual values and their implications. But first you have to come up with an honest label and stop trying to hide behind "conservative" to mask a wildly radical agenda

I don't have a name for it other than conservative, all of my "political compass" tests place me pretty firmly in the center, and I don't see how actually enforcing immigration law is a "wildly radical" agenda.

I have, however, spent a great deal of time researching Weimar and Nazi Germany, and the fascist label seems so ill-fitting to the point that I might call it a category error entirely. It's convenient to think our modern politics and parties perfectly parallel such an obvious good vs evil morality tale, or that fascism as an ideology explains all excesses of the modern right (and likewise, marxism all excesses of the modern left), but they do not.
by patcon | 2026-01-11 19:44:54+00:00
They are very litigious.

They are also strangely generous. They fund a lot of good, as they know how to conceive of "good". They are more like mostly-benevolent-but-controlling royalty of sorts. Including the "everyone has an opinion" part of royalty. Whether they are good or bad for the region, there are polarizing views.

I understand the general vibe as a learned helplessness of sorts.