MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-07 21:15:18+00:00
LLMs themselves are the coffin for most apps, because by its very nature, AI subsumes products.

UX is not going to be a prime motivator, because the product itself is the very thing that stands between user and the thing they want. UX-wise, for most software, it's better for users to have all these products to be reduced to tool calls for AI agents, accessible via a single interface.

The very concept of product itself is limiting users to interactions allowed by the product vendor[0] - meanwhile, used as tools for AI agents allows them to be combined in ways user need[1].

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[0] - Something that, thanks to move to the web and switching data exchange model from "saving files" to "sharing documents", became the way for SaaS businesses to make money by taking user data hostage - a raison d'être for many products. AI integration threatens that.

[1] - And vendors would very much like users to not be able to. There's going to be some interesting fights here, as general-purpose AI tools are an existential threat to most of the software industry itself.
by bpt3 | 2026-01-07 21:15:23+00:00
I'm not worked up about anything, just pointing out that a contrived metric isn't all that meaningful but feeds into the preconceived notions of people like the parent poster who seem to love to submit drive-by comments about how terrible everything is.

The economy is not doing great. That doesn't mean the "economy is completely fucked and we are in a race to steal and horde all the data before people catch on", which is an absurd statement on numerous levels.

And don't tell me to grow up, especially when you've completely missed the point.
by hunterpayne | 2026-01-07 21:16:01+00:00
"it already has been transformative.."

Yea, at being a search interface. But what else? Not that it can't be, but the failure rate for AI is absurd right now. What happens if it collapses and all its used for is answering questions on your phone and maybe better search of your emails? That seems to be a real and probably likely outcome. What then? Ironically, I think it will improve the economy because there are a lot of decisions that are on hold until we know what LLMs will be used for. Probably isn't going to be good for SEs either way.
Show HN: Anyware – Remote Control for Claude Code
by igorzij | 2026-01-07 21:16:10+00:00
Hi HN - we’d love your feedback on anyware.run - a Remote Control for Claude Code that you can use from your phone or browser while it runs on your machine.

- Approve requests without being at your desk

- Works with any model - Opus, Sonnet, 5.2 codex, GLM 4.7 - 1M free tokens to try!

- $25/mo flat rate, after, during early access, we’re super hungry for feedback (with fair usage limits to prevent abuse)

We originally built this for managed cloud VMs, but quickly realized - as Karpathy put it - “while agent swarms running in the cloud feels like the "AGI endgame", we live in an intermediate and slow enough takeoff world of jagged capabilities that it makes more sense to run the agents directly on the developer's computer”, So we shipped anyware that attaches to a CC session running on your laptop (or any other place you start it)

Demo below: https://www.loom.com/share/11fe3459d7aa401888b22d44f102d281
by lxgr | 2026-01-07 21:16:14+00:00
> pay out to neither side and pocket all funds at stake

That's also not possible, as far as I understand. If the smart contracts are worth their salt, the only possible outcomes per binary option is to pay out in full to either "yes" or to "no" holders, not to any other unrelated party, including Polymarket.

The real risk is somebody subverting a sufficiently large proportion of (anonymous, stake-based) arbiters on UMA, which is the on-chain entity that actually arbitrates outcomes and as such releases funds to one side or the other. Then, somebody could buy the "wrong" outcome tokens for cheap and flip the payout their way.

No idea how feasible that is and which game-theoretic protections UMA/Polymarket have against that possibility, but I don't think we've seen a smoking gun for that yet.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-07 21:16:59+00:00
> But that was then. In recent years, especially around 2024, he has pivoted to something of a ‘grievance peddler’, whose angle is to rant and rave about whatever problems he sees with society for his aggrieved and conspiratorial-leaning audience, whether it’s about the gambling industry, consumer debt, and even the Epstein Files. He hardly even investigates crypto scams anymore. In fact, to milk this new formula to the fullest extent, he created a second channel, Voidzilla, which contains shorter and more frequent videos of the same theme

Coffezilla is by definition a journalist and he is donated by his patreon members to do journalistic tasks not specifically just to crypto.

It's his channel and I actually welcome that he talks about these issues. In fact his 3 part series on CS skins is really such a good video and it actually pre-dated the CS skins price falling which got caught by mainstream media.

One of the reasons I can presume he also went into talking against gambling/raising awareness is the fact that if you watch his videos, we realize just how much predictions markets literally are gambling.

Prediction markets started using crypto/still use crypto to skirt around some laws and they have now gone into literally degenerate gambling and thus linked to crypto.

Coffeezilla/Voidzilla is one of the best journalistic channels on youtube if you are interested in this type of content.

Mrbeast is overrated, not coffeezilla. Anything which raises attention to these dark patterns should be shown in public/ they are still "underrated"

What are some good quality resources like coffeezilla on youtube? I think atrioc talks about general news affairs but I'd be interested to see other good journalistic channels as well.

What would've made a far more insightful post was if you talked about under-rated youtube channels that you know
Show HN: PostureGuard – Free posture monitoring using webcam
by fanel | 2026-01-07 21:17:02+00:00
Hi HN,

I built PostureGuard after my back pain from remote work got unbearable.

It uses your webcam + TensorFlow.js to detect bad posture in real-time and alert you (tab flashing, sounds, overlays).

Everything runs locally in your browser - no data sent anywhere.

Try it: https://posture-guard-theta.vercel.app/

Tech stack: Next.js, TensorFlow.js, MoveNet pose detection

Would love feedback from the community!
by dap | 2026-01-07 21:17:14+00:00
> How long did humanity survive without vaccines for _everything_? Oh that's right.

Is this a trick question? Humanity survived by having enough people with enough other useful traits (like thinking, including the ability to reason about disease and how to prevent it) to overcome the numbers lost to disease. Humans died to disease in enormous numbers.

> nor that they're all good for _me_ as an individual.

Herd immunity presents a real challenge to idea that people should generally be allowed to make their own choices. One's choice here affects everyone else, in a minuscule way that nonetheless adds up to many thousands of lives saved. I'm not sure what the answer is for this, but generally I come down on the side of: if a democratic process creates rules requiring us all to be immunized for the common good, that's okay with me.
by sunshine-o | 2026-01-07 21:17:31+00:00
Nushell is a fantastic project.

Something I came to appreciate is that the 50MB binary is really battery included. You will be able to deal with JSON, XML, SQLite DBs, HTTP requests and more. I personally do not need anything else.

Now, no matter how much you get excited about it, do not write too much production code with it as it still change and break often between releases.
by greggoB | 2026-01-07 21:17:37+00:00
> I have suspected Putin is being played by Trump

That's a nice counter-narrative to pretty much everything I've seen - one of my favourite examples [0]:

> She tells the story of Putin “trolling” Mr Trump by saying that he was such a great supporter of Israel that “maybe they should just name the country after you” – to which the US president, oblivious to the sarcasm, said, “Oh no, that would be a bit too much.”

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/donald-trump...
by lazyasciiart | 2026-01-07 21:17:54+00:00
Perhaps if you’d simply read the thread you would have also seen these comments, which don’t name Adam but are addressed to him:

> We can't make it easier to use our product because then fewer people will visit our website" is certainly a business strategy.

> You are telling your customers that getting money from them, is more important than providing a service to help them.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 21:18:11+00:00
> the US's per capita consumption of meat

That number seemed unreal to me, so I looked it up. I think it represents the total pre-processing weight, not the actual meat meat consumption. From Wikipedia:

> As an example of the difference, for 2002, when the FAO figure for US per capita meat consumption was 124.48 kg (274 lb 7 oz), the USDA estimate of US per capita loss-adjusted meat consumption was 62.6 kg (138 lb)

Processing, cutting into sellable pieces, drying, and spoilage/loss mean the amount of meat consumed is about half of that number.
by DebtDeflation | 2026-01-07 21:18:17+00:00
Eating real foods (e.g., whole foods rather than highly processed foods) is good advice overall. But replacing mono and poly unsaturated fats with saturated fats is total nonsense. We have thousands of studies spanning decades showing that increased saturated fat consumption leads to elevated LDL-C and elevated LDL-C is causitively associated with higher rates of CVD. There's no reason to replace olive oil with butter and beef tallow.
by Izikiel43 | 2026-01-07 21:18:31+00:00
How many millions died or were crippled by diseases which are now preventable?

Smallpox, polio, measles, etc

Sure, 50% to 70% of people who got smallpox survived, which also means that without vaccines you are condemning 30% to 50% of the population to die.

Same with the millions of people, specially in poorer countries, who died or were paralyzed by polio.

Vaccines have make those horrors a thing of the past, yet people today are concerned about "hat doesn't mean I think it's a good idea to take _all_ of them without scrutiny, nor that they're all good for _me_ as an individual."

Time has diminished the horrors of something that was fairly common a 100 years ago.
Show HN: NewsMap – local news on a map (like Zillow but for news)
by ajones05 | 2026-01-07 21:18:39+00:00
I built NewsMap, a mobile app that aggregates SF/Bay Area news and displays stories on an interactive map at precise locations.

I always wanted this to exist and finally used AI to build it.

I'm using an LLM to extract locations from article text, then verify and geocode them with Google Places. The app currently processes over a thousand articles/day from 40+ sources and is focused on the Bay Area for testing, although expanding to other metro areas would be relatively straightforward now.

A few screenshots are on the site: https://newsmap.me/

Short demo video here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1ndlc5g/i_got_...

Have you seen any similar examples of using LLMs for geospatial extraction and visualization? I've only seen extremely broad mapping like to specific cities before, which never felt specific/relevant enough to me. I would hope to see more applications like this in the near future, though.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-07 21:19:16+00:00
I'm just not sure how to connect this rhetoric to the facts of the source link, where a hobbyist attempted to extend some source-available code to support a new technology, and the CEO of the for-profit company who owns the license said he's not allowed to for business reasons.

You can be and I am sympathetic towards the CEO! I wouldn't accept a PR for cannibalize_my_revenue.txt either. But if we insist on analyzing the issue according to the categories you're describing, it seems undeniable that the CEO is a corporatist, and that he put an unfree license on his repository to stop people from freely modifying or redistributing it.
by dang | 2026-01-07 21:19:50+00:00
Would you please stop posting cynical, dismissive comments? From a brief scroll through https://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=zwnow, it seems like your account has been doing nothing else, regardless of the topic that it's commenting on. This is not what HN is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you keep this up, we're going to have to ban you, not because of your views on any particular topic but because you're going entirely against the intended spirit of the site by posting this way. There's plenty of room to express your views substantively and thoughtfully, but we don't want cynical flamebait and denunciation. HN needs a good deal less of this.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Show HN: An offline first, with state-in-URL, workout planning and tracking app
by mzitelli | 2026-01-07 21:19:57+00:00
After getting frustrated with existing workout planning and tracking apps, I decided to build my own with the following requirements:

- allow tracking weight, reps, difficulty per series
- being flexible, so I have my plan, but can adapt without having to change my original plan
- it surfaces the relevant context when needed
- it adapts to my trains
- i can access it anywhere
- don't let me get distracted
- low maintenance

I decided to solve that with an app with the following user flow:

- you plan workout days with exercises in order, no weights, supersets, or anything, that will be detected and defined as you train
- when working out, you select an exercise, put the desired weight, reps, rest time, and start one set
- when done with the set, mark its difficulty
- a sound will ring when your rest time ends
- as you go, and have a history of exercises, the app automatically suggests the next exercise, weights, reps, and resting time based on a few heuristics
- you can always select another exercise from the day, from another day, or even search for a completely different exercise

The app includes the entire state in the URL, so no server is required. We use the amazing https://github.com/yuhonas/free-exercise-db. Big kudos to the creators! In the end, the entire site and DB are hosted by GitHub.

The URL is from my current usage. You can view my daily plans and previous sessions there. In the plans, you can click on exercises to see suggestions based on previous sessions.

All edits you make will alter the URL and be saved in local storage. When you return to https://mateuszitelli.github.io/trainlink/, the page restores its previous state.

It has been very pleasant to use it in the last few days. Please, try it and let me know what you think. You can find the source code here: https://github.com/MateusZitelli/trainlink
by weslleyskah | 2026-01-07 21:19:58+00:00
Worth noting there seems to be no upper limit for the anabolic response to protein ingestion, according to this study:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38118410/

What happens is that the excess of protein stays in your system, but, if you don't use the nutrient by exercising, the caloric excess will obviously make you fat.

"These findings demonstrate that the magnitude and duration of the anabolic response to protein ingestion is not restricted and has previously been underestimated in vivo in humans."
by margalabargala | 2026-01-07 21:20:20+00:00
Basically none of this is true.

Grains are way too high in carbohydrates and even whole grains tend not to be complete proteins. Eating little but bread, whether it's wheat or spelt or something else, will malnourish you.

The impacts of health of processed grains is large. The impacts on health of GM'd grains is zero.
by latexr | 2026-01-07 21:20:39+00:00
> I’ve written down some of the GH handles, because if I’m ever hiring again, I wanna make sure I’d never hire some of these folks.

You can block accounts on GitHub and add a note as to why. Might be simpler and more accessible later on than a random TXT (plus, it probably updates if they change their username).

Note that blocking also means they can’t contribute to your repos. Which you may not care about anyway.
by hn_acc1 | 2026-01-07 21:20:54+00:00
How long did INDIVIDUAL humans survive without vaccines and modern medicine? It was very uneven - crazy high infant mortality, suffering for many through multiple preventable diseases, etc.

My mom had measles as a kid in the 40s and as a result, had frequent ear infections for a few years afterwards. That's a bunch of real pain and suffering that could have been prevented. It wouldn't have affected the "will humans survive" question at all - she's still alive in her 80s. But her life could have had less misery and pain. I have a friend who has a twisted leg and a limp because polio vaccines were not available in Czechoslovakia when he was a kid in the 70s.

In the end, the general outcome of vaccines is to raise the quality of life of ALMOST the entire group significantly. And yes, the odd one has a bad reaction - but even then, it's most likely LESS than if they actually got the real disease.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-07 21:20:59+00:00
I will note we effectively have that law already for political text spam. No robo-texting it has to come from a “real” person. Doesn’t seem to have changed the amount of text spam I get, they just all start with “This is Bob from People Against Things …”

You could probably hire a lot of “town criers” on fiver for the cost of a 30 second TV spot.
by Melatonic | 2026-01-07 21:21:08+00:00
They could go anywhere though - why not go to a coffee shop at 9 with a laptop or on a morning hike? I agree sitting in bed depressed would be bad but it seems like avoiding the issue to specifically sit in the parking lot of an old employer.

At minimum I think it would be healthier to tie part of your identify to an aspect of your career you enjoy rather than a specific employer itself.
by magicalist | 2026-01-07 21:21:22+00:00
> The first that comes to mind was the Keystone XL Pipeline.

> Biden cancelled it with EO 13990 when it was pretty much done.

I'll admit to not being an expert on the Keystone XL Pipeline, but at least according to the timeline on wikipedia[1], the reason Biden was able to cancel it with an executive order was because Trump had approved it with an executive order, after people had tried and failed for years to get it approved the proper way (through the legislative and executive branches).

And even when Trump personally tried to make it happen, there were still years of court battles stopping construction, so when Biden came into office and ended it, it was in fact not "pretty much done" but apparently 8% done[2]

Seems like it again comes back to Trump just doing what he wants, and it was in fact him trying to unilaterally make it happen that caused that last four years or so of disruptions?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline#History

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-keystonepipelinexl...
Show HN: PAlignPrims – C++ library for sequence alignment beyond bioinformatics
by offbynull | 2026-01-07 21:21:25+00:00
PAlignPrims, short for Pairwise Alignment Primitives, is a C++23 header-only library that provides the building blocks for assembling pairwise sequence aligners. I created PAlignPrims because I fell in love with the idea of sequence alignments after learning about them from a bioinformatics textbook. PAlignPrims is my attempt at generalizing alignments beyond bioinformatics, providing a framework for experimenting with and building aligners for other domains.

I've done my best to make PAlignPrims flexible and configurable. Sequences can hold arbitrary element types, scoring is defined by user logic instead of fixed substitution matrices, and alignment behavior is controlled by swappable graphs and backtracking algorithms. The library exposes low-level control over algorithm choice, memory allocation, data layout, and safety checks, letting users trade safety for performance or vice versa.

If anyone seeing this is playing around with alignments or using them in some non-traditional way, I'd be curious to hear about what you're working on. There are features I wanted to add to PAlignPrims but haven't been able to because of life events. Extending to support multithreaded and GPU-assisted alignments were two big features. Fingers crossed I'll be able to look at these in the next few years.

Full disclosure: I'm neither a bioinformatician, nor an expert in sequence alignment, nor an expert in C++23. 0% vibe coded.
by nancyminusone | 2026-01-07 21:21:29+00:00
Doesn't make sense to me, and I've been diagnosed with the same.

I consider tabs to be inherently volatile and disposable. I rarely have more than 10 open at once. There is no hope of finding anything with more than that many. If you need to save something, doesn't it make more sense to actually save it?

Apart from that, I usually have the browser history open.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-07 21:21:52+00:00
I once implemented JavaScript's new async-for in plain Objective-C for a WebDAV app that I wrote for a client, about 15 years ago. I was so much smarter back then than I am now. Does this happen to everyone? You just go downhill? Anyway I'm sure there were complex edge cases of WebDAV that I missed, but it worked really well in all my tests, and my client never complained about it.
by 9x39 | 2026-01-07 21:21:58+00:00
Health data could also be used now to spot trends and problems that an assembly-line health system doesn't optimize for.

I think in the US, you get out of the system what you put into it - specific queries and concerns with as much background as you can muster for your doctor. You have to own the initiative to get your reactive medical provider to help.

Using your own AI subscription to analyze your own data seems like immense ROI versus a distant theoretical risk.
by Izikiel43 | 2026-01-07 21:22:18+00:00
They are based on denmark's guidelines, which as you know is a very cold country.

One of the vaccines made strictly optional was for dengue, which is not really a thing in denmark since I think they don't have that many mosquitos due to weather.

However, in the US, mosquitos and tropical weather are common for a large part of the population.

Point being, a huge country with a huge variety of climates and diseases shouldn't follow the lead of a small country with a fairly homogenous weather and disease pattern.
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-07 21:22:23+00:00
> Recently I snapped a photo of an obscure instrument screen after taking a test and was able to get more useful information than what my doctor eventually provided (“nothing to worry about”, etc.) ChatGPT was able to reference papers and do data analysis which was pretty amazing, right from my phone (e.g fitting my data to a model from a paper and spitting out a plot).

If you don't mind sharing, what kind of useful information is ChatGPT giving you based off of a photo that your doctor didn't give you? Could you have asked the doctor about the data on the instrument and gotten the same info?

I'm mildly interested in this kind of thing, but I have a severe health anxiety and do not need a walking hypochondria-sycophant in my pocket. My system prompts tell the LLMs not to give me medical advice or indulge in diagnosis roulette.
by didgetmaster | 2026-01-07 21:22:26+00:00
Although almost every company issues a 'we care about your privacy' statement, but there is often very little 'money where your mouth is' resources to back that up.

This is why I am almost always very reluctant to give out any information that is not absolutely necessary to provide me the service that I need. If they don't know it, they can't leak it.

Every company wants you to fill out their standard form that tries to get you to volunteer way more info than they really need.