MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jordanf | 2026-01-08 09:31:05+00:00
Uptiv Health | Remote US with occasional travel| Lead/Senior Engineer | Full-time | competitive comp + equity, flexible PTO, health benefits, 401K

We are a specialty infusion provider treating chronic conditions (MS, RA, IBD, Alzheimer's) across Michigan and expanding into more states. We differentiate through human centered design and whole-person care. Our operations are fragmented across multiple disconnected systems.

We're building the Uptiv Platform: a unified system that consolidates everything into one intelligent engine. You'll architect the solution - data foundation, workflow orchestration, integrations. Own this end-to-end, work directly with leadership, and shape how we serve patients.

Stack: Open for discussion. You'll drive the vision. Must be built with AI-first mindset in engineering tooling and product design.

We've got funding, customers who need this desperately, and a team that knows the problem deeply. You'll influence product direction from day one. Experience and understanding of the healthcare space is a strong preference.

email: marina@uptivhealth.com | Mention HN when you apply

Full job post for reference: https://uptivhealth.applytojob.com/apply/84DORVHJ05/Lead-Eng...
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-08 09:31:05+00:00
There are two kinds of woodworkers/carpenters. Let's assume both need a table.

The other grabs some wood, runs it through electric planers, chops it with a circular saw and screws it together. Nice, sturdy fast, problem solved over a weekend because the glue had to dry, next time they might use biscuit joins to make it faster. This is the AI programmer.

The other enjoys working with wood, they pick the perfect pieces of a specific wood where the grain matches in a pleasing pattern. Each one is hand-planed to perfection. After that an intricate joinery method is carved into the relevant places and carefully glued together with a natural glue so that the woodgrain matches and the join is practically invisible. A work of art. It also took a month to complete. This is the non-AI programmer.

Both solve the same problem, there is now a table in the world where people can sit and eat.

But. If you were to sell the table and still get compensated fairly, the latter table will be VERY expensive. Same with code. How many projects are there were you can use "this code is hand-crafted and every line beautifully thought of" as a selling point when the competition is using AI and just churning out solutions, even though the code might be basic and not too maintainable - but passes all the relevant tests.
by themk | 2026-01-08 09:31:46+00:00
This sounds like they didn't think about it at all. Of course they did, and sure, their techniques were not as sophisticated as today. But there have been plenty of follow-up studies that have controlled more rigorously for those things, and it turns out they were probably right?

Also, the 7 countries study didn't just compare the regions, they also did intra-regional comparisons. Not that I think this particular study is what you should base all your evidence on, but, most others back it up.

The people who run these studies actually know what they are doing. They know the limitations of their methods, and, they have thought about confounding variables. This _always_ comes up in internet debate, like, "ahh, but there are confounding variables so the study must be trash!". It's literally their job to take those confounding variables into account. They don't just grab random people of the street to run these things. And I assure you, they know about the details.
by NeuroTicks | 2026-01-08 09:31:56+00:00
Hello,

it's basically Blender for brains.

I built a node-based 3D IDE to generate biologically plausible Neural Networks (NEST Simulator), a visual 'No-Code' interface for the NEST Simulator.

Usually, creating complex biological networks requires writing hundreds of lines of Python code. I wanted to make it intuitive.

Features:

Tech Stack: Python, PyQt6 (GUI), PyVista/VTK (3D Visualization).

Algorithms: Uses Wave Function Collapse & Flow Fields to grow neurons procedurally.

Simulation: Real-time spiking neural networks via NEST backend.

It’s open source and aims to bridge the gap between creative coding and computational neuroscience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYMDaO1GlLc&list=PLHasLjNHvV...
by jimkleiber | 2026-01-08 09:32:46+00:00
I was surprised how impressed I was by the website. The layout, design, focus on simple foods.

I think the person above may just feel skeptical of the scientific and medical opinion of most of the people running the US government. I know I do. When I read "gold-standard science and common sense," I rolled my eyes. Because the previous news cycle said they don't think meningitis vaccines are important for kids, yet say they follow gold-standard science. It's hard for me to reconcile the two.

EDIT: "rooted in...personal responsibility."

"America is sick.
The data is clear.
50% of Americans have prediabetes or diabetes
75% of adults report having at least one chronic condition
90% of U.S. healthcare spending goes to treating chronic disease—much of which is linked to diet and lifestyle."

It also has this moralizing tone, and seems to make some pretty bold claims about why Americans have prediabetes or diabetes. For example, with the introduction of GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic, people (including some I know well) have significantly reduced their diabetic risk. And they're still eating the same processed foods.

Also, "linked to diet and lifestyle" is a pretty broad claim. Maybe the undersleeping and overcaffeinating actually matters more for increased appetite and desire to eat less healthy foods.

In short, I just don't trust many people when they say health is so inextricably and exclusively tied to food source, especially when they tend to think most vaccines are net negatives for individuals and society.
by Vegenoid | 2026-01-08 09:32:50+00:00
This isn't a criticism of you, I don't know your full story. But I think many people have a misconception of the role of an ER. I know an ER doctor well, and the role of an ER is to, in approximate order of priority:

1. Prevent someone from dying

2. Treat severe injuries

3. Identify if what someone is experiencing is life-threatening or requires immediate treatment to prevent their condition worsening

4. Provide basic treatment and relief for a condition which is determined not to be an imminent threat

In particular, they are not for diagnosing chronic conditions. If an ER determines that someone's stomach pain is not an imminent, severe threat to their health, then they are sending them out of the ER with medication for short-term relief in order to make room for people who are having an emergency. The ER doc I know gets very annoyed at recurring patients who expect the ER to help them diagnose and treat their illness. If you go the ER, they send you home, and the thing happens again, make an appointment with a physician (and also go to the ER if you think it's serious).

Unfortunately, the medical system is very confusing and difficult to navigate. This is a big part of why so many people end up at ERs who should be making appointments with non-emergency doctors - finding a doctor and making appointments is often hard and stressful, while an ER will look at anyone who walks through the doors.
by flohofwoe | 2026-01-08 09:33:10+00:00
Yet still the 'raw' pixel data of old games rendered on modern displays without any filtering also doesn't look anything like they looked on CRT monitors (and even on CRT monitors there's a huge range between "game console connected to a dirt cheap tv via coax cable" and "desktop publishing workstation connected to professional monitor via VGA cable").

All the CRT shaders are just compromises on the 'correctness' vs 'aesthetics' vs 'performance' triangle (and everybody has a different sweet spot in this triangle, that's why there are so many CRT shaders to choose from).
by anthk | 2026-01-08 09:34:47+00:00
- Vulcano from Canary Island erupting

- Another one from Italy too

- Weird space event

- Odd geometry based discovery on Cosmologics

- Also, DNA's codons' layout will have something to say too

- Rust on Linux takes over Intel iGPU drivers (sadly). Tons of Linux distros either get OpenBSD's Xenocara or NetBSD's base X.org to get stuff working.

- Trump is impeached and declared mentally challenged due to an age related dementia in order to avoid prison time (and to avoid a global economy crash).
by sureglymop | 2026-01-08 09:34:51+00:00
Only tangentially related but maybe someone here can help me.

I have a server which has many peripherals and multiple GPUs. Now, I can use vfio and vfio-pcio to memory map and access their registers in user space. My question is, how could I start with kernel driver development? And I specifically mean the dev setup.

Would it be a good idea to use vfio with or without a vm to write and test drivers? How to best debug, reload and test changing some code of an existing driver?
by internet_points | 2026-01-08 09:35:27+00:00
For me, just writing down the books I read into a list seems to have made me read more. (Well, I can't be sure, since I don't have a log from before I started logging, but I certainly feel like I'm spending more evenings reading!)

I don't want to "gamify" reading, that would make me choose short/easy reads. I love those challenging reads that stay with you, change you, give you new perspectives. (And I also love obsessive fun reads.) But I think often I don't read because I don't feel like I'm being "productive". So it's not lack of motivation, but this nagging feeling of "wasting time" (and so I'd open my laptop and click around aimlessly online as if that was more productive). However, simply being able to change an item in my org-mode file from "TODO" to "DONE" has mostly taken away that feeling, now I both read from enjoyment and don't feel like I should be doing something on the computer.
by theiz | 2026-01-08 09:36:32+00:00
It can be combined with rules as a pre-condition. For example: I have a CC box where mail is moved to where I am in CC. As I am mentioned in CC, I do not expect immediate action is required, and I will postpone the activity of reading or other action for that mail and 999 out of 1000 times it will resolve itself.
Now this is a very easy and clear example of a rule, but there are many like this to manage the workload to manageable levels. It allows me to work part-time for multiple customers, while often being more productive then full time employees.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-08 09:36:42+00:00
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539021 for the pragmatics.

As far as the logistics go: in 1982 the UK managed to land several regiments on the Mal^W Falkland Islands (13'000 km); surely it'd be easier to do similar, over much shorter distances?

Note: if AR (a client state* of the US at the time) had been hoping the Monroe Doctrine would be put into practice for them, that hope was in vain.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War
by cik | 2026-01-08 09:36:45+00:00
This is meaningless, even with "Wall Street", as you've said. Several companies raise funds, to buy these homes. Institutions the like of Blackrock and REITs invest in these funds, all the time. This isn't new at all, and has been happening for years. It's just been accelerating. Add to that startups like Arrived, and there's simply more pressure on this market then ever before, sadly.
by utf_8x | 2026-01-08 09:37:00+00:00
It would appear that they pay their employees fairly well, as seen in this old job posting [1] (not all levels will make this much of course but it gives you a general idea, almost 300k a year is a lot even for a staff engineer).

$275,000 is almost $23,000 a month. Take that times N amount of employees, and other business overhead, and suddenly $80k a month is literally peanuts.

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/blog/hiring-a-design-engineer-and-st...
by empiricus | 2026-01-08 09:39:29+00:00
Not sure how helpful it is, but:
Words or concepts are represented as high-dim vectors. At high level, we could say each dimension is another concept like "dog"-ness or "complexity" or "color"-ness. The "a word looks up to how relevant it is to another word" is basically just relevance=distance=vector dot product. and the dot product can be distorted="some directions are more important" for one purpose or another(q/k/v matrixes distort the dot product). softmax is just a form of normalization (all sums to 1 = proper probability). The whole shebang works only because all pieces can be learned by gradient descent, otherwise it would be impossible to implement.
by fainpul | 2026-01-08 09:39:46+00:00
> awk or jq, which are arguably more generally- and widely-applicable than nushell

That is backwards. I know I said "complete programming languages", but to be fair, awk only shines when it comes to "records processing", jq only shines for JSON processing. nushell is more like a general scripting language — much more flexible.
by WJW | 2026-01-08 09:39:55+00:00
What a weird dichotomy. It's not between "sitting in your old employers' parking lot" and "lying in bed all day", it's between "sitting in your old employers' parking lot" and "learning new skills", "finding a new job", "discovering new hobbies", "spending more time with your loved ones" or almost anything else.

Instead he chose to sit alone in a parking lot so he could feel "normal". Feeling compelled to do a specific action (excluding things like breathing) just to feel normal has a name, and that name is "addiction". It is not usually considered a good thing.
by veddox | 2026-01-08 09:41:03+00:00
I spent many fun hours there! It blew my mind to discover a game world that was so deeply player-driven and offered so many possibilities - my main character became a professional author...

I earned my first money in-world by writing poetry. At first I hand-wrote it and sold it on the street to other players (probably because they had compassion on a poor first-level wizard who didn't know anything about the game). Later on I had a book of my poems printed and sold in the local bookshops, and went on to write for one of the player-run newspapers. Good fun :-)
by democat | 2026-01-08 09:41:47+00:00
Thanks for the stress test! You are absolutely right, and I really appreciate you catching this edge case.

I've traced the issue in the codebase:
1. The recursion depth limit *is* triggering correctly (preventing an infinite loop).
2. However, when it bails out, it returns the partially expanded macro call (e.g., `\foo{x}`).
3. Since the macro definition was removed during the preprocessing step, the parser then sees `\foo` as an unknown command and converts it into an error comment, accidentally discarding the argument `{x}` in the process.

*The intended behavior* should definitely be to preserve the content (the `x`) even if the macro logic fails. I will fix the fallback logic to ensure it fails gracefully without eating the arguments.

Thanks again for the sharp eye! These kinds of checks are super helpful.
by kshri24 | 2026-01-08 09:42:54+00:00
There is no one in this World who will do things purely for altruistic purposes. Even if not for money, it would be for something intangible that ingratiates the Self (fame for example).

I can't find a single example of a software developer who has put out software purely for some altruistic purpose without any returns on that investment (direct or indirect).

Building a sustainable business model was a great way to justify open source. Not anymore.
by otikik | 2026-01-08 09:42:56+00:00
Yes, batch cooking!

One extra thing to consider is preparing something that can transform easily into many dishes.

We cook a "big meal" every weekend (now in winter time is chickpea+meat stew - "cocido madrileño"). It takes around 1 hour to make, but the time is not proportional to the quantity. So we make enough for 3-4 meals for my family of 3 on a big pot.

The nice thing about this stew in particular is that you can reserve the liquid, meat and chickpeas in separate containers in the fridge. The liquid is a very good base broth for soups (heat up, add some noodles, done in minutes).

The meat can be consumed cold, or can be the meaty base of other things (croquettes). We can also rebuild the dish by adding broth, chickpeas and meat into a plate and microwaving it (again, minutes). Or we can add some rice and have a "paella de cocido" (that takes a bit longer, around 25 minutes).

You have to adapt this idea to whatever is available to you in your area and your personal tastes. Perhaps you can prepare a big batch of mexican food, to eat in tacos/wraps/with salad. Or some curry base that can double up as a soup.
by JoseOSAF | 2026-01-08 09:42:59+00:00
Here's the raw dataset: https://asof.app/static/hn_viral_dataset.json

159 stories that hit score 100 in my tracking, with HN points, comments, and first-seen timestamp.

Methodology:
- Snapshots every 30 minutes (1,576 total)
- Filtered to score=100 (my tracking cap)
- Deduped by URL, kept first occurrence
- Date range: Dec 2025 - Jan 2026

For sentiment, I ran GPT-4 on the full article text with a simple positive/negative/neutral classification. Not perfect but consistent enough to see the 2:1 pattern.
by dresrs | 2026-01-08 09:43:12+00:00
> Secondly, it doesn't fix stupidity.

Agreed, and would add that it doesn’t fix other things like lack of skill, focus, time, etc.

An example is the output of the Amazon Turk “Sheep Market” experiment:

https://docubase.mit.edu/project/the-sheep-market/

Some of those sheep were really ba-aaa-ad.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-08 09:43:36+00:00
That's not really what we're talking about here though. An apple isn't the same as an apple juice which isn't the same as an apple flavored candy, even you can appreciate the difference of processing in these simple examples.

A slab of beef isn't the same as a "burger patty*" where the meat is coming from 54 different pigs, including cartilages, tendons, skin &co and contains 12 additives coming from the petrochemical industry.

The same applies to vegetarians/vegan stuff, you can make a patty from beans at home with like 3 ingredients, or buy ready made patties containing hydrogenated trans fats, bad additives, food coloring, &c.
by PetitPrince | 2026-01-08 09:44:20+00:00
My significant other uses her touchscreen laptop as a consumption device (for video and prose; a lot of fanfictions!) in the bed (a beefy tablet with a built-in stand resting on her belly, if you will). In that context she's very happy with a touchscreen and is a factor when buying a new laptop (fortunately that Thinkpad X1 Yoga from 2017 is still going strong).
by globular-toast | 2026-01-08 09:45:11+00:00
Yeah, this pattern happens all the time:

1. Plant new trees,

2. Eat fruit from trees, get used to delicious fruit,

3. Planting trees hard, easier to wring out more juice from existing fruit,

4. Forget how to maintain trees, trees die, go to 1.

We are entering stage 3.
by f1shy | 2026-01-08 09:46:17+00:00
Depends on what you call better or worse. In real life positives (TN) are far less common than negatives (TN), if this system does not have lots of FP (which is very possible), the accuracy will be much better than you may expect.

What I mean with “score” is having a relatively high accuracy.

Come let’s do the math: incidence of BC is 1 every 12, lets say. Now let’s say we have 12000 patients:

Acuracy = (TP + TN) / (TP + TN + FP + FN) = (1000 + 11000) / (1000 + 11000 + 300 + 0) = 12000 / 12300 =0.976 the test is 97.6% accurate… pretty impressive huh?

Tell me if I’m wrong. Is a know fact that you have to be careful when doctor speak of % accuracy.
by CrimsonRain | 2026-01-08 09:46:45+00:00
That's addiction. You'll need time to get out of it.

Cutting off sugar will help you have more focus, not just during coding but the whole day. However, if you were on high amount of sugar before, at initial stage, your body will scream.

For me, it takes a few weeks to get settled in. After that, I don't miss sugar at all. Can focus just fine.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-08 09:46:49+00:00
More than once I've seen dogs eat their own shit or shits from other dogs/cats

Anyways, if you pay close attention to how people live in advanced countries you'll notice we do almost everything we can to fuck up our health: bad sleeping schedule, way too much time spend siting, bad eating habits, &c. People half starving in the 1700s on a mediterranean diet were doing better than the average modern american when it comes to health.
by pregnenolone | 2026-01-08 09:46:58+00:00
> Bitlocker encryption key in plaintext

Actually, this is not the case. BitLocker wraps the key, meaning even if the TPM were compromised, one would still have to brute-force the PIN for the actual key. It’s cryptsetup on Linux that stores the key on the TPM in plaintext. This vulnerability has been known for quite a while and nothing has been done about it so far.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14717

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/37386

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/27502
by OskarS | 2026-01-08 09:47:05+00:00
> HashMap implements Extend, so just h0.extend(h1) and you're done, the people who made your HashMap type are much better equipped to optimize this common operation.

Are you sure? I'm not very used to reading Rust stdlib, but this seems to be the implementation of the default HashMap extend [1]. It just calls self.base.extend. self.base seems to be hashbrown::hash_map, and this is the source for it's extend [2]. In other words, does exactly the same thing, just iterates through hash map and inserts it.

Maybe I'm misreading something going through the online docs, or Rust does the "random seed" thing that abseil does, but just blinding assuming something doesn't happen "because Rust" is a bit silly.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/std/collections/hash/map.rs.ht...

[2]: https://docs.rs/hashbrown/latest/src/hashbrown/map.rs.html#4...
by bialpio | 2026-01-08 09:48:53+00:00
> In what way do you think it worked as intended?

If I recall correctly, just my base was 20-30% higher than the prevailing wage that the government publishes (big tech bubble people forget how wages look like outside of big tech). In exchange, my employer hired someone with a graduate degree that knew C/C++ well enough to contribute immediately (I also did an internship with them a year prior).

> 13 years ago you should have been ineligible by both base salary and scarcity

I disagree. I don't believe my wage was lower than what a US candidate would get (from what I've seen at big tech, HR dictates wage brackets so same position translates to roughly same wage) and it is more expensive for a company to hire internationally. To me this means that they were unable to fill the position domestically. Later in my career I was involved in interviewing and the candidates were barely able to code (small sample size though) so either I was unlucky (after all, a lot of people apply even when they maybe shouldn't; some may have had a bad day), or the talent pool is indeed pretty small. I guess systems programming is a specific enough niche?

> I’m not saying you aren’t supposed to be here, I’m saying fix that program. The US shouldn’t be training talent and kicking them out. We should be training and keeping talent.

H1B was the only option available to me that allowed me to kick off the naturalization process so no issues there for me as well.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-08 09:49:49+00:00
> You can engineer healthy food.

Sure, but these companies mostly want to engineer the cheapest shit they can legally sell. It's also valid from regular food, it's a race to the bottom, and that's why veggies/fruit are less and less nutritious over the years

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10969708/

> It matters because a lot of people can't afford the diet suggested here.

#1 economy in the world baby!!! 75% of your country is overweight or obese but somehow they can't "afford" good food