MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gruez | 2026-01-17 00:52:31+00:00
>It is coming from mainly workers and renters and the sums are concentrated into a single parasitic entity.

If you're trying to imply that absent landlords, every renter in Manhattan is going have $3000 (or whatever) more in their bank accounts per month and can buy so many iPhones and steaks, it quickly breaks down when you think of second order effects:

1. There are only so many apartment units in Manhattan. How do you dole them out? First come first served? How's that any different than the current situation where boomers are set for life, and young people are locked out of the housing market unless they're rich or they inherit? Everyone giving up $3000/month for a place to live in might not be ideal, but it's better than the alternative. In areas without a rental market, but where supply exceeds demand, a black market eventually develops where it basically turns into rent.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58317555

2. If there's no cost for continuing to live in an apartment, what incentive is there to vacate a unit? Manhattan is expensive to live in because that's where the jobs are, but if lived there and then retired, why bother moving? It's not costing your anything, why bother uprooting your life, or even downsizing? Note that even owners have incentive to vacate their unit, because it means they can either rent it out for $$$, or sell it to someone else. Absent that you'll have to pry them from their cold dead hands.

3. How would new housing get built? Skyscrapers are expensive, so you need some of capital to build. It might be hard to picture, but not buying an iPhone means that the global economy has slightly more resources that can be put towards building a new apartment tower. So capital will still be needed. Who will provide it?
by stubish | 2026-01-17 00:52:32+00:00
Maybe it is more successful elsewhere, but over here the type of ads and repetition make me think more money is spent on ad infrastructure than is gained in revenue (eg. three ads in a show, all identical, all advertising the platform you are watching). I'm left with the impression that the actual reason is not to sell ads, but to annoy customers into paying for higher tiers. It is not that we have gotten used to ads, but our dislike is being weaponized.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-17 00:52:34+00:00
No regular residential building is set up to host a datacenter off the bat. Even racking more than half a dozen boxes in a given room requires an upgrade.

Most rooms in North America won't be wired for anything over 2.5 kW by default (kitchens and laundry rooms being obvious exceptions).

An electric dryer might pull 5 kW. An electric range ballpark 10 kW. Versus 15 kW per full rack for a fairly tame setup.

And then you've got the problem of dissipating all that heat.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-17 00:53:09+00:00
Ok, that's a little better. The first link was just referring to him starting his own. I still think "dismantle" is not an accurate description for asking people not to fund it, but it's within margin of error. I'm paywalled, though, so can't read the whole thing.

"Charitable" is irrelevant to my reference because "competitor" is a term completely devoid of any indication of the quality of the product.
by Grimblewald | 2026-01-17 00:53:52+00:00
Don't comply, maybe live to see freedom. Comply, live to die a captive another day.

Complying is like moving from the kitchen to the living room because the kitchen is on fire, then sitting down and pretending life is BAU.

You need to either fight the fire or GTFO, but pretending there is no fire will kill you all the same.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-17 00:54:40+00:00
I don't think America ever said that Greenland would be a state, that it would be an overseas territory of the US instead, which still sucks, but I don't think Trump wants 2 senators and 1 house member from a territory that is bound to be much more liberal than the average American state. Inuits vote Democrat even in Alaska.
by greiskul | 2026-01-17 00:55:13+00:00
Just brainstorming. Human beings have trouble writing json, cause it is too annoying. Too strict. In my experience, for humans writing typescript is a lot better than writing json directly, even when the file is just a json object. It allows comments, it allows things like trailing commas which are better for readability.

So maybe an interesting file to have the LLM generate is instead of the final file, a program that creates the final file?
Now there is the problem of security of course, the program the LLM generates would need to be sandboxed properly, and time constrained to prevent DOS attacks or explosive output sizes, not to mention the cpu usage of the final result, but quality wise, would it be better?
by hagbard_c | 2026-01-17 00:55:54+00:00
While I'm not going to build this thing I will have a go at making a new base for one of the broken-down Kenwood blenders we have here. All of them - different types - break down more or less in the same location and way: some flimsy plastic bit somewhere on the plastic base which connects the glass jug to the motor base. Once broken I got them for free, fixed them by glueing parts, having them break again, glueing reinforced parts only to see some other flimsy piece of plastic break, etc. They seem to be designed to break in this way, I can see no other reason why they use such small flimsy (ABS) plastic bits to keep this essential component in place. Now that I've got a 3D printer on its way here - an older Ender 3 V2, these can be had for next to nothing - it seems like a good project to tackle.
Polymarket historical prices and resolution labels API (5-min snapshots)
by misprice | 2026-01-17 00:56:36+00:00
What it does: “Collects Polymarket price snapshots every 5 minutes + resolution outcomes”

Who it’s for: “bot builders / researchers who don’t want scrapers”

Links:

sample CSV: https://data.misprice.app/samples/sample_prices_7day.csv
docs: https://data.misprice.app/docs
pricing page: https://data.misprice.app/data.html

Ask: “What endpoints/data formats would make this most useful?”
by leiaru13 | 2026-01-17 00:57:10+00:00
Interesting if true. This painting seems like it's largely in the style of Northern Renaissance painters and has been considered to be the work of Martin Schongauer. Allegedly, he was initially trained as an engraver and made 100+ prints, so it is possible that the painting got misattributed due to the original print: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Sc...
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-17 00:57:20+00:00
I'm just so tired. This post is so true. Sure.

And engineers are, these days, so so aware. We are so averse to complexity & systems! We keep falling for Hofstadter's law's second clause but for complexity.

> Hofstadter's law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.

Except here,

> People always make things more complex than they ought to be, even when you take into account jauntywunderkind's Hofstradter's corollary.

We're here! It's true! I admit I relent.

But make the flagellation stop. There is such endless disdain for code for coders for systems for complexity.

And there's no anchor points. No one is (publicly) saying, make complex things! No one is advocating any reciprocal advise. This discussion thread never has any positive notes, and discussion about going for big and bold, about maybe tradeoffs or downsides to over valorizing this ridiculously massively popular rabidly spreading incontestable irrefutable Good Advice.

I'm just so tired of this hammer. I feel like we're been living under the hammer of people impressing the tale of too much complexity for a decade now. That the engineering cultures have this message loud and clear (while still jauntywundrkind's corollary'ing).

And that in many ways we have browbeat ourselves into being sad cowards. For so many good reasons!! I respect the cause of anti-complexity greatly!. Because there are so many signs of bad unnecessary evil & spreading unmanaged complexity. Everywhere. Because the world is too complex.

But man I am just so sad how polarly aligned most people are against complexity, I am so sad that it has crushed so many courages that maybe aren't the most wise but that might have been glorious. I'm so tired of these posts advocating such a strongly felt widely held taboo, when there's just no other side, when there's no other visible rallying points anywhere. There has to be more than huddling together in the dark afraid.
by HowardStark | 2026-01-17 01:01:03+00:00
Been playing around with Clickhouse a lot recently and have had a great experience particularly because it hits many of these same points. In my case the "local files" hasn't been a huge fixture but the Parquet and JSON ingestion have been very convenient and I think CH intends for `clickhouse-local` to be some sort of analog to the "add duckdb" point.

One of my favorite features is `SELECT ... FROM s3Cluster('<ch cluster>', 'https://...<s3 url>.../data//.json', ..., 'JSON')`[0] which lets you wildcard ingest from an S3 bucket and distributes the processing across nodes in your configured cluster. Also, I think it works with `schema_inference_mode` (mentioned below) though I haven't tried it. Very cool time for databases / DB tooling.

(I actually wasn't familiar with `union_by_name` but it looks to be like Clickhouse has implemented that as well [1,2] Neat feature in either case!)

[0] https://clickhouse.com/docs/sql-reference/table-functions/s3...
[1] https://clickhouse.com/docs/interfaces/schema-inference
[2] https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55892
by thrance | 2026-01-17 01:02:00+00:00
Eeeeh your definition is as good as mine. To me, slop is used to convey the fact that whatever it is applied to was made with quantity/efficiency in mind rather than quality/purpose, like what is fed to pigs. Indeed, ultimately slop could be good by that definition. Lots of people like McDonald's, but I think most people also realize it is slop.
Show HN: Designing State Machines
by bytefish | 2026-01-17 01:02:22+00:00
I often want to quickly draw a state machine diagram to visualize my application state transitions. Full-blown solutions like draw.io make it hard to get all arrows and labels aligned nicely, so I wrote a very stripped down application to do it.

You can save, load and export your diagrams. Nothing is stored on a server, and localstorage is used to persist the state between page refreshes.
Show HN: React hook for Gemini Live API – real-time voice and screen sharing
by loffloff | 2026-01-17 01:02:26+00:00
I built a React hook that makes it easy to add real-time AI conversations with screen sharing to any app.

GitHub: https://github.com/loffloff/gemini-live-react

What it does:
- Stream mic audio to Gemini, get voice responses back
- Share your screen so AI can see what you're doing
- Real-time transcripts for both sides
- Tool calling support

Just added: useCapturedSurfaceControl hook for Chrome 124+ that lets you programmatically scroll/zoom a captured tab without injecting scripts.

Built this for deflectionrate.com (AI support that resolves issues before they become tickets), extracted the core into this package.

npm install gemini-live-react

Happy to answer questions.

Want me to tweak anything?
by tehjoker | 2026-01-17 01:02:28+00:00
I don't think that will be strictly true that everyone will be able to consume $3000 worth of goods at today's prices, but I do think that people will be less precarious in their lives and able to not be evicted for the crime of not having enough money (which when a foreign army does similar things it's regarded as creating refugees).

It's true that the housing economy would become less dynamic. The metagame would have to shift from forcing people to vacate existing properties to the government led construction of attractive new units and some kind of planning to ensure that new areas are not starved of jobs. Kind of like China.
Ask HN: Has Claude Code changed its usage limits for you?
by laurex | 2026-01-17 01:03:03+00:00
I hadn't used Claude Code for a couple of weeks, but today when I used it (on Pro Plan) it did a few tasks full of errors and then claimed to hit a rate limit. Normally it will work for at least a feature's amount of work in one day, but in this case it mostly caused problems (with very basic tasks) and then ran out of juice before it could fix them. I know they are suffering from demand-supply problems but I don't recall comms from them saying you're going to get less for your money now?
by gruez | 2026-01-17 01:05:15+00:00
>"The market made car makers do fuel efficiency all by itself!". Yeah, no.

A "market" includes consumers, almost by definition, so the statement is true. Otherwise it just becomes a meaningless statement where companies can't be said to do anything.

For a slightly less contentious example, consider gaming chairs. I think most people would assume it's something "the market" came up with, considering that there wasn't some government regulation mandating gaming chairs. Consumers demanded gaming chairs, and chair companies filled the gap. A market success story, right? Nope, according to the above definition, chair companies can't do anything. They only made gaming chairs because consumers demanded them. It's actually consumers that made (?) gaming chairs!
by schmichael | 2026-01-17 01:05:55+00:00
Sometimes when I see my parents or other non-tech people using their phones I'm just aghast at what they put up with. We truly never left the Bonzi Buddy era of the 90s. Simple candy crush clones with banner ads on the top and bottom + interstitial ads every few minutes. Maybe throw in some gambling...
...or visit any given US newspaper or local TV station site without an ad blocker. Fans will spin, scrolling will stutter, and what little content there is will barely be visible through the videos about how chugging olive oil like jesus will give you abs like judas.

The combination of technical prowess and relative wealth of the average HN commenter means I bet we see 1/100th the ads of the average consumer. It's wild out there.
by CapsAdmin | 2026-01-17 01:06:28+00:00
I moved from a very quiet culture to a very noisy one.

Here people watch tik tok on full blast, people let their kids run amok in concrete cafes, constantly honk at each other, blast karaoke for all neighbors to hear, etc.

These people have some ability to sift through noise. For example being able to talk to someone on the phone with a loudspeaker in a loud environment while both seem to understand each other well.

But for some reason, the majority of people don't care, and so in some weird way, the concept of sound pollution don't exist.

When sound pollution don't exist as a concept, there is nothing to get annoyed about.
by JavierFlores09 | 2026-01-17 01:06:56+00:00
Who's to say there's no incentive. Anthropic using Bun internally is plenty incentive to make it better even if for their own use-case. I think it is a bit of a doomer perspective to think anything being bought out means the end of the line for that project. Sure, some things might change depending on the interests of the new owners but that's not to say it'll automatically become bad. Microsoft bought Github and Mojang, they're both doing better than ever for example
by dpc050505 | 2026-01-17 01:07:11+00:00
The FLQ killing two politicians (one being accidental*) is very far removed from the scope of the IRA's terrorism. They were infiltrated to the bone by the RCMP that was trying to get them to escalate to put the war measure act in place and engage in a massive intimidation campaign on the massive peaceful and liberal part of the independence movement, something that is quite reminiscent of what is currently happening in Minneapolis.

*They did kidnap him but didn't intend to kill him, they were dumb revolted teenagers who fucked up.
Show HN: Earworm.lol – fast universal music links
by deklesen | 2026-01-17 01:08:11+00:00
Something I built out of personal necessity.
Now that more and more people are rightfully leaving Spotify, I was searching for a simple way to prepend a url to any Spotify/Deezer/Tidal/AppleMusic link and get a universal link which allows visitors to navigate to that track/album/artist on their platform of choice.
I found song.link, but it takes >5 seconds to load, even on popular songs.
So instead, I built earworm.lol - its blazing fast (<1s, even for new links).
I also wrote a blog post about it if you want to learn more about how its built (spoiler, Cloudflare): https://blog.jonas-klesen.de/earworm
by codezero | 2026-01-17 01:09:41+00:00
I am pretty sure anyone building a lock picking robot is at least aware of some lock picking basics, and that's clearly not the point of a project like this. They could get a Lishi, a rake, a comb, almost anything, and we could also argue that this won't work with pin-in-pin dimple locks, tubular locks, and disc detainers, but again, obviously not the point.
by rpdillon | 2026-01-17 01:10:25+00:00
I think the word doesn't have a good analogue, so I support it. I wish it sounded a bit less sophomoric, but the concept is sound, because it's the intentional worsening of a product to extract more revenue, not just by charging more, but by being worse for the intended purpose.

I don't think degradation or decay capture this...those are more associated with a process in nature, or due to the laws of physics, but especially something unintentional (like "bit rot").

I like Cory Doctorow, so I might be a bit biased here. Would be interested in alternatives that capture the intentional aspect.
by dworks | 2026-01-17 01:10:31+00:00
I've recently gone from 60hz to 240hz to 480hz. Refresh rate in games is not just about what it looks like. It completely changes game mechanics, like movement, recoil etc. It is such a big difference between 60hz and 240hz that you're not really playing the same game. There are things you can do at 240hz that are impossible at 60hz. At 480hz, there's also so much more time to react, so you really don't need fast reflexes to take advantage of it.
by dzaima | 2026-01-17 01:10:50+00:00
Old scrapes can't have data about new things though; have to continously re-scan to not be stuck with ancient info.

some scrapers might skip out on already-scraped sources, but easy to imagine that some/many just would not bother (you don't know if it's updated until you've checked, after all). And to some extend you do have to re-scrape, if just to find links to the new stuff.
by lesuorac | 2026-01-17 01:11:34+00:00
> Otherwise researches at that facility where janitor had worked will have to do janitor's work instead of doing their own.

Or facilities optimize to produce less trash so they can handle the newer trash load with less staff instead of paying extra.

> The price of food and of housing everybody would be dirt cheap ... then it will be very very cheap in an ideal free market.

We don't live in an ideal free market.

Food is extremely cheap to the point that the USG (effectively) sets price floors which prevents it from falling further. People do live on $3/day.

SROs not in say NYC are cheap as well. Everybody trying to live in the same major cities will never be cheap.

> Why would we need UBI then?

Activation Energy - Many people have no choice to work a dead-end or low-paying job because they cannot afford to take a break to find higher paying work more suited to their skills.

Opportunity Cost - The geologist example from above where you need to hide information from others so you don't suffer.

Societal unrest - Literally right now there's a president in the US whose base is upset about how the technological progress was not shared with them to the point they want to throw away any current advantages to go backwards in time.
by pvr90 | 2026-01-17 01:12:04+00:00
Gemini File Search Manager
The missing web-based GUI for managing Google's Gemini File Search (RAG) API. Upload documents, configure chunking, add metadata, and test retrieval via an integrated chat playground.

Features
Store Management - Create, list, and delete File Search stores

Document Uploads - Drag-and-drop with custom chunking and metadata

Async Processing - Real-time status polling for document ingestion

RAG Playground - Chat interface with model selection and citation display

Metadata Filtering - Filter searches by custom document metadata
by 8fingerlouie | 2026-01-17 01:12:33+00:00
Same principle as I use everywhere else, if I pay for it, I'm not seeing any ads, and if I do, I'm no longer paying.

Cancelled Netflix for the same reason, as well as their draconian attitude towards "account sharing" meaning I have to authenticate every. god. damned. time. I login from my summerhouse. So yeah, i cancelled and dug out the old eye patch.

I did the exact same thing when CDs began to have sadistic levels of "anti piracy". The fact that I could download a DRM free copy of just about any CD, but the one I just bought would only play in my car kinda settled the deal. I pay for a product, fail to deliver that, and there's no benefit to me buying said product any more.

I doubt my quitting made any difference, but the government deciding that the "state tax on blank media" was going away (was going straight to the record companies pockets) as CDs had sufficient protection anyway, made copy protection completely go away.

Said blank media tax is still there. It's on everything containing storage, even smartphones, where a new iPhone 17 base model includes ~$10 in "blank media tax".
by gruez | 2026-01-17 01:12:53+00:00
Where's all the equity coming from? Keep in mind when you're buying the house in the first place, you're competing with other people who are also potential renters. They're incentivized to bid up to whatever their rents are, which also happens to equal how much you can hope to earn by renting it out. If anything they're willing to bid even higher, given how people are irrationally attracted to housing, and how much you can hope to earn is even lower because you have costs they don't. Banks won't give you preferential rates either, because some lending to some DINK household is going to be much less risky than lending to some landlord that's levered to the hilt. Your equity accumulation will be glacial, barring change in the macroeconomic, which is by no way assured. Or mortgage fraud.
by Grimblewald | 2026-01-17 01:13:43+00:00
Legalize betting on a sport that is insanely popular and refuse to pay athletes, who then are rife for accepting bribes to get a cut of that deal. As if that isn't the obvious outcome of that system?

so what, everyone gets to fuck the athletes but the moment they fuck back that's not fair anymore?

What next? we act surprised that polymarket / uma is a scam and doesnt actually help with predicting truth?
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-17 01:14:06+00:00
It's quite common for utilities like water and gas to be shared, where the renter is billed proportionally to the usage of the entire block/rental complex.

Plus, people generally aren't doing chores or using appliances unnecessarily. That means it's difficult to find ways to save meaningful amounts of energy other than adjusting the thermostat. Most household energy use outside heating /cooling comes from the appliances they can't upgrade, so the alternatives are quality of life issues like fewer showers and less laundry.