MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by themk | 2026-01-09 07:26:15+00:00
That is quite an extreme take, and one that sounds like it was born from parroting social media takes. Ancel Keys was largely correct, and much of what he said is corroborated by modern science. Probably his main issue was that he was a bit too focused on saturated fat, which is not wrong, but not the only factor. He was wrong that sugar is just empty calories, though he never recommended replacing fat with sugar.

Modern science agrees that saturated fats lead to CVD, but replacing saturated fats with refined carbs also leads to CVD, which Ancel Keys didn't believe (though, to be fair, the populations he studied didn't have access to the types of refined carbohydrates we have today)

The dietary guidelines derived from his work did backfire, but Keys never said to replace saturated fats with refined carbs, which is what ended up happening. He advocated for substituting different fats. But the message that ended up being received was "no fat at all", which no scientist ever actually recommended AFAIU.

The diet he actually recommends is well studied, and found to be protective.
by bawolff | 2026-01-09 07:26:37+00:00
> But Wikipedia has gone to great lengths to make the data side, Wikidata, and the app/website, decoupled.

A big part of that is that different language editions of wikipedia are very decoupled. One of the goals of wikidata was to share data between different language wikipedias. It needed to be decoupled so it was equal to all the different languages.
by aaravchen | 2026-01-09 07:27:31+00:00
The real contention is two fold: investors are collectively pricing out non-investors that would presumably actually live in the home they purchased, and among investors, institutional investors are both positioned to ignore market pressures and constitute too large a portion of the market, restricting even rental availability and affordability of the homes.

The reason institutional investors are blamed is that they usually have significant holdings elsewhere, and demonstrably will just wait out a market, taking loses they write off against their other businesses in the meantime, rather than actually participating in it. That ability to wait out the market on a finite resource rather than participating is usually otherwise only seen during antitrust market activities. The fact that many cities are considering adding significant vacancy taxes on properties, citing specifically this behavior as a driving factor, is pretty damning.

Additionally, it's not necessary for these institutional investors that are ignoring the market pressures to own a majority, or even that large of a share. Any portion they own and ignore the market for is effectively just removed from the market entirely and reduces the remaining pool of what's available. And the second-order effect is an overall damping of market responsiveness since they are simply refusing to respond to the demand half of supply and demand.
I don't have the models to run the math myself, but it should theoretically be possible to calculate how much their involvement without participation impacts the prices as a relation to market share, and I'll bet it's a nonlinear result with a steep curve at even low volumes.
by p0pularopinion | 2026-01-09 07:28:23+00:00
I find the S&P500 to be interesting as a demonstration for currency risk. Denoted in US, it went up ~18% or so. For me as an EUR investor, it went up just 4.6% when accounting for the loss of the USD. Comparing that to indicies that usually do not perform that well, Euro Stoxx 50 is up ~22% and MSCI Emerging Markets ~21%.
by wtcactus | 2026-01-09 07:29:34+00:00
What an interesting tile. Is the value of his AI company expected to overcome the 'terrorist sympathizer' allegation? Is this how it works always or just when the person is inside the present Overton Window?

Let's try Elon Musk then:
"He was called a 'fascist'. Now, his tech company is valued $1.5T"

This is the way, right?
by p-e-w | 2026-01-09 07:29:34+00:00
Unless you can demonstrate that there is in fact an AI bubble, that is simply begging the question.

Notice how the term “housing bubble” is used much less frequently today than 10 years ago? That’s because that so-called bubble has been ballooning in size for three decades now, and almost nobody still believes that it will “burst” in any meaningful sense. The Dotcom bubble was in many ways an outlier.
by brailsafe | 2026-01-09 07:29:39+00:00
It's obviously incorrect. If X people are trying to buy Y houses, and 1 of them can always buy Y/2 houses, then you'll need to build a hell of a lot more than Y houses if Y is only equal to X. Right now in most places, Y < X, and a certain percentage of people can still buy many more than 1, so it seems like that's a real problem shouldn't continue during times of scarcity.
by wickedsight | 2026-01-09 07:29:44+00:00
I find it interesting you're all writing 'the AI' as if it's a singular thing. There's a myriad of ways to code with a myriad of AI's and none of them are identical. I use a Qwen 3 32B with Cline in VSCode for work, since I can't use cloud based AI. For personal projects, I use Codex in the cloud. I can let Codex perform some pretty complicated tasks and get something usable. I can ask Qwen something basic and it ends up in a loop, delivering nothing useful.

Then there's the different tasks people might ask from it. Building a fully novel idea vs. CRUD for a family planner might have different outcomes.

It would be useful if we could have more specific discussions here, where we specify the tools and the tasks it either does or does not work for.
by josalhor | 2026-01-09 07:32:34+00:00
We do have tech that is "behind doors". Just look at military applications (nuclear, tank and jet design etc). Should "clonable voice and video" be behind close doors? Or should AGI be behind close doors? I think that the approach of the suggested legistation may not the right way to go about; but at a certain level of implementation capability I'm not sure how I would handle this situation.

If current tech appeared all of a sudden in 1999; I am sure as a society we would all accept this, but slow boiling frog theory I guess.
by geocar | 2026-01-09 07:33:13+00:00
> Do you operate an AS? Are you a peering contact?

> I mean, I only do it mostly for funsies now but for quite awhile that was part of my job. :P

I'm retired now. I wrote some about my experiences on HN a long time ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18535518

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727993

I set up multihoming in the US (going through ARIN assignment for ASN and PI) in the early 2000s and for another larger company in the UK (doing the same same but different) in the early 2010s.

> Also, still seeking an answer to this question:

Not sure what to tell you. I've answered this within the context of the news article, if you're asking specifically what kinds of configurations do that they're the kinds that are in that "introductory lab documentation" and if you're not overstating your credentials you should be able to understand.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-09 07:33:49+00:00
Pareto principle in action - smartphones are good enough for 80% of use cases. And so is AI for a lot of junior-level work.

The problem is, when there are no trainee and junior positions (and, increasingly, intermediate) being filled any more... there is no way for people to rise to senior levels. And that is going to screw up many industries hard.
by scrapheap | 2026-01-09 07:34:25+00:00
You can get light spreader kits for the F91-W/A158W that replace the bit of plastic that sits behind the LCD for one that spreads the light from the LED far more evenly than the stock one.

I recently fitted one on my F91-W and it certainly makes a difference, but it's not going to make the light brighter like some of the other LED mods people have done.
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-09 07:35:03+00:00
OP's reply to that appears to be drafted with heavy help from ChatGPT:

> I appreciate you citing the specific clauses. You are reading the 'Black Letter Law' correctly, but you are missing the Litigation Reality (how this actually plays out in court). The 'Primarily Designed' Trap: You argue this only targets a specific 'Arnold Bot.' blah blah blah.
by WoodenChair | 2026-01-09 07:35:23+00:00
I don't know but $7 million seems high for a non-profit that's in the midst of layoffs, dramatically losing marketshare, seems to have no direction, and has all of the other failures I mentioned above as Mozilla did in 2023. But point taken, without looking at a scale of other people in similar non-profit positions, it's hard to judge. I think the other points are strong though.
by watwut | 2026-01-09 07:35:42+00:00
It is cause housing bubble was a thing of 2000 and burst in 2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_United_States_housing_bu...

People dont talk about housing bubble as much, because it is history at this point. Not something that would go on now.

And no, housing being expensive is not the same thing as a bubble. We dont have bubble in housing now.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-09 07:35:44+00:00
Since you "flagged" my post. Here is your response

You are making a Category Error. You are critiquing Physics with Logic.My formalization axiomatizes the Witten-Helffer-Sjöstrand regime because I am modeling COMPUTATION, not ABSTRACTION. In the real world, computation requires traversing a state space.

That traversal is governed by the Spectral Gap.The Proof Logic is rigid:1. If P=NP, then the 'Hardest Possible Landscape' must still be traverseable in Polynomial Time (Polynomial Gap).2. The 'Hardest Possible Landscape' for 3-SAT is a Multi-Well Potential (proven by the existence of local minima).

3. Spectral Geometry proves Multi-Well Potentials enforce an Exponential Gap.$n^{-k}$ cannot equal $e^{-n}$.You are asking: 'But what if there is a magical Turing Machine that ignores the Geometry?'I am answering: 'Then that machine exists outside the laws of Physics.'The axioms aren't 'wrong.' They are Constraints. If you want to believe in P=NP, you have to believe in a geometry that doesn't exist. The Compiler verified the contradiction. The result stands

- Next time we are having a conversation, how about you WAIT for my rebuttal before you "flag" my post you punk bitch?
by elevation | 2026-01-09 07:35:56+00:00
> There's not a shortage of lawyers

I spoke with a VP of a state bar association who described chronic, widespread lawyer shortages, constant attrition in the pool of eligible judicial appointees, a growing backlog of cases (compounded by the effects of COVID) with trial dates many years in the future, declining law school graduations, and declining projected law school enrollment. These conditions may not hold across every county and metro, but in a lot of places the system is buckling (citizens already waiting 5-6 years for a ruling on open-shut civil matters) because there’s so much more work than workers.
by tguvot | 2026-01-09 07:36:33+00:00
4000 deliveries in march of 2025. 50000 pregnant woman [1]

50,000 births by july of 2024 (starting with october 7th 2023) [2]

you can sum and extrapolate the numbers. you can probably find more numbers about births

[1] https://www.savethechildren.net/news/about-130-children-born...

[2] https://www.savethechildren.net/news/women-self-inducing-lab...
Show HN: A Wall Street Terminal for Everyone
by adamfontan | 2026-01-09 07:38:49+00:00
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by hnlmorg | 2026-01-09 07:38:52+00:00
And before that it was the “recycle mode” that actually bricked the hardware thus contributing to e-waste: https://www.whathifi.com/news/sonos-explains-why-recycle-mod...

Sonos did revert that decision after mounting public pressure too. However they keep pull these kinds of stunts and then later apologising for it.

My point is: are you actually changing if you keep making the same mistakes and then only saying “sorry” after you get caught?

If Bose shows the same pattern of behaviour the I’d lump them into the same category as Sonos. But thus far they do seem slightly more ethical.

Personally though, I think the whole “smart speaker” industry is crooked. But some are definitely more crooked than others.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-09 07:39:23+00:00
> That’s because that so-called bubble has been ballooning in size for three decades now, and almost nobody still believes that it will “burst” in any meaningful sense.

That's because Boomers live far longer than prior generations thanks to medical advances. The housing bubble will collapse (at least outside of the megalopolises) once the Boomers finally start to die en masse due to their over-representation in demographics.

But before that, the pension systems will crash hard. For people in systems with redistributions (like most of Europe), there simply aren't enough working age people contributing payments for the pensioners, and for people in stonk-based systems (e.g. US 401k), they will run into the issue that someone has to buy the stocks that the pensioners sell off to fund their retirement, and ain't no one of my generation buying stocks, thanks to us having to spend insane amounts of rent.
by aaravchen | 2026-01-09 07:39:52+00:00
That's the problem, they don't care if people will buy or rent them. They literally just sit on them writing off any losses against other business units.

When enough institutional investors are all doing that same thing, the market suppply becomes restricted, especially in focused regional areas. It ends up indistinguishable from collusionary antitrust, though there's no actual communicated collusion so it's not technically illegal.
In a normal situation like that, all it takes is a single participant to cave and drops prices to take advantage of the demand. But in this case the institutional investors can keep taking the losses indefinitely so no one ever feels the need or benefit to "break" first, and they can maintain it forever.
by thayne | 2026-01-09 07:41:38+00:00
Apps that connect to a service over the Internet (maps, music iMessage) could stop working if Apple changes the APIs that those apps use. This is even more likely to happen to third party apps.

You won't get updates to the trusted root CAs, which means you won't be able to visit sites with certificates signed by CAs created or renewed after support is dropped. And your browser will continue trusting CAs that have had their trust revoked.

And as web standards evolve there will be websites that use features and APIs that your browser doesn't support and may break in subtle, or not so subtle ways. And there is no way for you to install a more up to date browser.

And then of course, you won't fixes for any new security vulnerabilities that are found.

So yeah, it's not as bad as getting bricked, but it as also worse than continuing to work as it always has, but with no new features.
by bonesss | 2026-01-09 07:43:21+00:00
The agile methodologies are built around adaptive and corrective iterations of work. If an org is not adapting process, if they are not correcting process issues, they are by definition ‘not doing it right’ because they are fundamentally doing something else.

Agile can/should/must (d)evolve into waterfall in all but name if that’s the local optimum. The agile methodologies response to problems is to solve those issues through frequent iterative localized change. Failing to apply a methodology isn’t a methodological failure, per se.

Business process mislabelling and misdirected frustration about lacking management are not examples of the No True Scotsman fallacy.

Frenchmen are not Scotsmen. Not False Scotsmen nor True Scotsmen. They have a different name for a reason. No matter how many tourists confuse the flags or culture, by definition they are separate and distinct. France and Scotland are literally on different pages in the books.

It is no coincidence there is a ‘typical response’ around this that has not changed for decades. Typical responses are the MBA version of RTFM.
by theozaurus | 2026-01-09 07:43:37+00:00
The book the 'Growth Delusion' has some great examples on this as well. To quote the FTs[1] review of the book.

"The official protocols define the scope of GDP as measuring all monetised activity between willing parties in a given period. It is a pragmatic definition, but leads to some counterintuitive results. The sale of stolen goods for cash contributes positively to GDP, for example — so theft is good for growth. A parent’s housework and childcare, however, being unpaid, are excluded — resulting, by one recent evaluation, in a $3.8 trillion underestimate of the size of the US economy."

I vaguely remember a similar one around traffic jams as well.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/b6182440-f21e-11e7-bb7d-c3edfe974...
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-09 07:44:16+00:00
I'd recommend the iPhone 13 Mini because it will give you at least another year of software support and is generally the same phone. The battery on both of these phones are abysmally small so a degraded battery will provide pain.

A warning about the cases: Since Apple has discontinued manufacturer of the phone, they also stopped accessory manufacturing. The chinese have swooped in and they are producing very convincing fakes passed off as authentic. I recently purchased what I thought was a true authentic Apple Silicone case off eBay only to discover weak magsafe performance(the phone kept falling off my car mount).

I discovered to my shock that it was a fake. The packing was nearly identical to real OEM (purchased from Target) and it was only after looking at it with a magnifying glass I discovered packaging print quality issues compared to OEM.

The thing that initially revealed that it was a fake was magnet paper showing a clear difference in magnet design.

FAKE: https://i.imgur.com/9gVy3ks.png (sorry I slightly cropped this image to cover up blurry reflection but the full magnet is showing)

REAL: https://i.imgur.com/0m5AopW.png

The real is a stronger magnet and designed differently.

Also note: The fake case does the sae Apple "animation" on attachment that a real case does because they have likely cloned the NFC tag from the authentic case.

I'm holding onto my 13 Mini for dear life and have Applecare+ on it so I can get any hardware fixed when needed. This is me just really committing to this mini design cost be damned.

This way I get a new OEM battery every other year or so and I can thrash it as much as I want.

Screen replacements are even wonderful for me but I had to learn the hard way: Upon buying the phone, I got a belkin screen protector and it goes up to the edge of the screen but leaves a tiny gap. Well the phone fell on the ground and hit that tiny gap causing a microcrack in the corner of the screen where the protector wasn't protecting. :/

On replacing the screen, i'm like why bother with the screen protectors when a brand new calibrated OLED screen is only 29$ with my plan.
Show HN: LTXMac a native Mac app to do text to video generation
by jamescampbell | 2026-01-09 07:45:25+00:00
LTX Video Generator is a beautiful, native macOS application built with SwiftUI. It harnesses the power of Apple Silicon to generate AI videos directly on your Mac using the LTX-Video model from Lightricks.

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by utopiah | 2026-01-09 07:46:28+00:00
Why limit it to few tools from a tool registry when running in a full sandbox using QEMU or thinner like Podman/Docker literally takes 10 lines of code? You can still use your real files with a mount point to a directory.

To be clear I'm not implying any of that is useful but if you do want to go down that path then why not actually do it?
by measurablefunc | 2026-01-09 07:46:52+00:00
One of my hobbies is reading a paper until I find a statement that is seems obviously false to me

> mathematicians can derive new knowledge by reasoning from axioms without external information

But their entire section on paradoxes is full of what appears to be nonsense to me b/c I have actually studied the listed topics. They're sweeping too many assumption under the rug & I am confident the rest of the paper is not going to resolve any of the issues I noticed.
by kingstnap | 2026-01-09 07:46:56+00:00
5 to 10 tokens per second is bungus tier rates.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-blackwell-delivers-...

NVIDIAs 8xB200 gets you 30ktps on Deepseek 671B at maximum utilization thats 1 trillion tokens per year. At a dollar per million tokens that's $1 million.

The hardware costs around $500k.

Now ideal throughput is unlikely, so let's say your get half that. It's still 500B tokens per year.

Gemini 3 Flash is like $3/million tokens and I assume it's a fair bit bigger, maybe 1 to 2T parameters. I can sort of see how you can get this to work with margins as the AI companies repeated assert.
by adityaathalye | 2026-01-09 07:48:35+00:00
Lends a whole other colour to that scene from The Matrix... Agent Smith monologuing at Morpheus bound to the chair.

> Agent Smith: I’d like to share a revelation during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.

ref: "Smith Interrogates Morpheus Transcript" https://scottmanning.com/content/smith-interrogates-morpheus...

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Edit: Maybe it takes virulence to colonise the galaxy. A sobering thought.
by zmgsabst | 2026-01-09 07:48:49+00:00
Populism is best understood as the general public asserting elites have “broken the deal” that legitimizes their rule — and the public withdrawing their assent from the regime.

They are correct that the technocratic managerialists on the past century have failed — and failed in a way damaging to the state/nation. (For US and EU at least.) In so far as we’re all discussing that (and have been for several years), they’ve been wildly successful.
by wiether | 2026-01-09 07:48:53+00:00
That's my understanding and that's what I see happening at some places.

People got a CC sub, invest on the whole tooling around CC (skills and whatnot) and once they're a few weeks/months in, they'll need a lot of convincing to even try something else.

And given how often CC itself changes and they need to keep up with it, that's even worse.
It's not just not wanting to get out of your confort zone, it's just trying to keep up with your current tools.
Now if you also have to try a new tool every other day, the 10x productivity improvements claimed won't be enough to cover the lack of actual working hours you'll be left with in a week.