MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by uyzstvqs | 2026-01-05 18:27:26+00:00
So "drug advice" refers to drug abuse, not medicine. ChatGPT gave several bad replies, but this was in between constant warnings about the dangers, which were ignored. The guy even told ChatGPT to "[not] get into the medical stuff about the dangers".

Why did ChatGPT give the bad replies? It appears that it fell for the false "harm reduction" narrative. This should obviously be improved.

Saying that he "trusted ChatGPT for drug advice" or attributing the overdose to ChatGPT is straight up misleading. This is ragebait, and clearly not from a reliable source.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-05 18:27:57+00:00
I got the $10k a year employee from chatgpt with "Assume I have a company with 100 employees in New York, how much on average does it cost to provide health insurance" and it gave me poor, moderate and good ppo plan prices. I figure this seemed reasonable for ballpark figures from employer friends, so the numbers may be very well off.
by dpc_01234 | 2026-01-05 18:28:05+00:00
Totalitarians on one side convince their side, that it's totally fine and desirable to ignore the law and let millions of illegal immigrants in. Then then totalitarians on the other side convince their side it is necessary to ignore the law and introduce wide sweeping surveillance to undo it. Congratulations, both sides cooperated while hating each other because they are easy to play dummies.
by tavavex | 2026-01-05 18:28:21+00:00
> the very notion of IP ownership needs to die a horrible death, something that AI may very well make happen in short order, yay

I agree with the disdain for IP, especially with what it had grown to become nowadays. But while I was also initially optimistic that AI companies may find a way to make IP go away as a byproduct of their activities, now it seems more like the big businesses will cut deals with one another and leave us commoners with nothing. Entertainment megacorps and AI companies rule the world, and I have no doubts that they'd find a way to become close allies. The AI companies get their near-endless stream of training data, the entertainment industry gets a cut of that juicy AI money and gives away their data willingly, while the IP remains locked away from ordinary people for eons more, just the way they like it. No one but us wants IP reform, or at least no one with real power, so it will probably never happen.
by pydry | 2026-01-05 18:28:25+00:00
>tax reform needs to be progressive, meaning it hits rich people more, and it hits them when they spend not when they earn.

This misses the point. It needs to hit them when they own not when they spend.

>A progressive tax will tax them more when they buy luxury items

Which still wont be progressive it's the yield bearing assets Jeff Bezos buys which are the main problem not the fancy candlesticks he decorates his house with.
by avidiax | 2026-01-05 18:28:56+00:00
I worked at Uber. The UX designers were pretty obsessed with the iPhone app, making sure it was pixel perfect and the little cars in the city view moved smoothly and every transition was crisp and so on. The vast majority of new users at the time were on the comparatively ugly Android app.

Things got pretty bad. More than 95% of all employees (and I'm guessing 99% of designers) were using iPhones at the time. There would be rough edges all over the Android app, but as one of our designers said "people with taste don't use Android".

Imagine knowing that most of your new users were getting a subpar experience, and that not being enough motivation to expense a flagship Android and drive it daily.

But the new users kept coming, and despite mostly being Android users, they still used the product. Turns out that legacy taxis are themselves an ugly interface, and ugliness is relative.
by ecb_penguin | 2026-01-05 18:29:01+00:00
> Not if I disagree with it and certainly not because it contains — gasp - a word for a technology I would prefer not to see discussed!

I'll stop you right there. You were downvoted because you were wrong, not because, - gasp - you used a certain word.

I'm a cryptographer. I'm not afraid of cryptocurrencies. I'm afraid of snake oil salesmen that sell things they don't understand.

> And I also refuse to be bullied into silence by some downvotes

K, well, I have no idea what this means. It's not bullying to downvote a wrong opinion.

I've been wrong lots of times. It's not a big deal...
by don-code | 2026-01-05 18:29:02+00:00
One of the neater aspects of HP-UX is that, given the breadth of pre-2000s HP, HP-UX ran on a number of different devices. You can almost (_almost_ - it's a stretch) think of it as a precursor to how Linux proliferated on routers and smartphones.

While you'd _expect_ to find HP-UX racked in a datacenter, you can also find it on workstations, where its proprietary VUE desktop environment eventually morphed into CDE (which, ironically, I've only ever used on Solaris).

It powered at least one early, pre-laptop-form-factor portable PC, the HP Integral. And you can also find it running on oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other test equipment from the 80s and 90s.
by losvedir | 2026-01-05 18:29:12+00:00
I'm not sure what you're arguing against, isn't that the point of the GP? That we can bring all that stuff back? Tesla makes things predominantly in-house and didn't use a supply chain all over the world. There are still garments grown and made entirely in the US, eg Duckworth. They're just expensive because there's not a lot of it left.
by Shog9 | 2026-01-05 18:29:19+00:00
It has been ... Borderline creepy... Watching how folks - including some professional writers - have adapted their workflows to the capabilities of LLMs, treating them as a copywriter whose input is a spec and for whose output they are the editor.

Because it seems natural to me; that's how I've always written... Except, I'm also the bot. Just turn off part of my brain and an endless stream of verbiage emerges, vaguely centered around a theme... Then the real work begins: editing for relevance and imposing a coherent structure.

So, I don't really fault anyone who adopts these new tools for the task. But I have some strong feelings about the lazy editing.
by CameronBanga | 2026-01-05 18:29:49+00:00
Eh, I would disagree as there's nothing in it where you go "Oh wow, that's why they did it" in the context of Vision Pro or wearables.

It seems much more likely that the driver here was to produce a UI that was resource intensive and hard to replicate unless you control the processors that go into your devices as well as the entire graphics processing stack that sits above that as well. It seems created to flaunt the concept of "go ahead and try to copy this" to Google and Microsoft.
by raudette | 2026-01-05 18:30:04+00:00
I have been buying Brooks Adrenaline GTS shoes for 20 years.

My first pair, they were just on sale, so I bought them. When they wore out, I bought a different brand/design. And I noticed that I was wearing the completely worn out old pair of Adrenalines more than my new ones - they were just better.

And it makes it easy to buy a replacement - I've just buy another GTS shoe of the same size when the previous one wears out.
by mbeacom | 2026-01-05 18:30:29+00:00
I built an open labeling standard for tracking mushroom specimens through their lifecycle (from spore/culture to harvest).

v1.1 adds clonal generation tracking (distinct from filial/strain generations) and conforms to JSON-LD for interoperability with agricultural/scientific data systems.

Spec (CC 4.0): https://wemush.com/open-standard/specification
Client libraries (Apache 2.0):
Python + CLI: pip install wols (also on GHCR)
TypeScript/JS: npm install @wemush/wols

Background: Mycology has fragmented data practices (misidentified species, inconsistent cultivation logs, no shared vocabulary for tracking genetics across generations). This is an attempt to fix that.

Looking for feedback from anyone working with biological specimen tracking, agricultural data systems, or mycology.
by wahnfrieden | 2026-01-05 18:30:30+00:00
Those remediations would pretty clearly negatively impact revenue. And the team gets paid a lot to do their current work as-is.

The way to get the team organized against something is to threaten their stock valuation (like when the workers organized against Altman's ousting). I don't see how cutting off users is going to do anything but drive the opposite reaction from the workers from what you want.
by poshlistings | 2026-01-05 18:30:33+00:00
Hey HN! I built Posh Listings to solve a problem I kept running into - needing multiple subscriptions just to build and optimize websites.

The interesting part is the AI routing: instead of using one model for everything, it automatically routes tasks between Cursor, OpenAI, and Claude based on what each is best at. This gives better results while keeping costs down.

Also includes:
- Real-time SEO scanner (just paste any URL)
- Photopea image editor built in
- All free to use

Would love feedback from the HN community - what would make this more useful? What am I missing?

Desktop and iOS apps coming soon.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-05 18:30:33+00:00
Microsoft totally screwed up the windows interface with windows 8 to suit tablets which they viewed as the future of computing. Not only were they wrong, they also really broke the UX for the users they did have for a new product that hardly sold and still doesn't (windows tablets). Eventually they had to cave in but Apple is more stubborn than Microsoft.

Even if Apple is right, why shoehorn the future into the present on devices unsuitable for its new paradigms? The iOSification also only worsened the macOS UX. It's one of the reasons I moved to Linux with KDE which I can configure as I like.

If they want make the AR OS of the future then make it on the vision pro where it belongs.
by chiefofgxbxl | 2026-01-05 18:30:35+00:00
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I've also built side projects, including: Vision Zero Reporting (https://visionzeroreporting.com) which earned 3rd place on Show HN and served as a panelist at the Vision Zero Cities conference; and Trash Panda (https://trashpandaextension.com/), a browser extension that removes social metrics from the web, including like counts, number of subscribers, views, followers, etc.
by mikepurvis | 2026-01-05 18:30:40+00:00
So this is a configuration linter; what I was hoping it might be is something that provides live auditd notices for when a tailscale user connects by SSH to a common "admin" account.

The tailscale daemon definitely knows which user it is making the connection, as it publishes that info into the journal and I've seen people scrape it out of there, but I'd much rather it go through a structured reporting pipeline. AFAICT, tailscale itself provides several things that look like they're this, but aren't quite the right thing, for example https://tailscale.com/kb/1203/audit-logging is about logging changes to the tailnet itself (eg adding nodes), and https://tailscale.com/kb/1246/tailscale-ssh-session-recordin... is recording the ssh sessions rather than simple events for XYZ logged in / XYZ session idle / XYZ disconnected.

(And yes, I know people have opinions about common admin accounts, but tailscale is another route into what FB described as far as everyone accessing the same root account but doing so with their own credentials [good!] rather than a shared key [very bad!]: https://engineering.fb.com/2016/09/12/security/scalable-and-...)
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-05 18:30:45+00:00
(n=1, imho, ymmv, etc)

No, not only should Tailscale offer a point in time report (click button in GUI, scan queued and report created, report link is preserved in GUI, any user with sufficient access can retrieve the report), they should expose whatever is needed via API to make these attestations available to automated GRC evidence collection systems (Vanta and Anecdotes, for example). Think continuous compliance monitoring of the software defined network tenant/control plane, similar to what you would get out of a CNAPP but scoped for this use case and more geared towards audit and compliance.

I would be somewhat surprised if their enterprise users haven't or are not asking for this to be honest.
by grymoire1 | 2026-01-05 18:31:03+00:00
One complication caused by shared libraries was the security threat. An executable using a shared library allowed the user to execute with a different (updated) library without recompilation.

This is a security threat, especially with SETUID programs. If you could change the library, you could install new code and gain privileged access.

This was why /usr/sbin was created - all of the programs there were compiled with static libraries.
by mullingitover | 2026-01-05 18:31:19+00:00
> Would you even call HN a liberal forum?

I just look at the patterns of things that are downvoted to death. Comments that would come out of Peter Thiel or Elon Musk's mouth any day of the week are regularly downvoted to hell here.

It's not a matter of 'liberal' vs whatever anymore, it's a matter of expertise and basic ethics versus corruption riding upon anti-intellectualism, cloaked in naked bigotry. Say what you will about the prevailing value system among HN commenters, this place isn't that bad.
by rhelz | 2026-01-05 18:31:41+00:00
Plucking a head of state and his wife out of a military compound and whisking them away to NY, without losing a single vehicle or soldier's life, is the opposite of incompetence.

I am no fan of the current administration, but we just have to stop thinking about them as incompetent. They are incredibly competent, they just don't have any particular interest in helping out 99% of the population.
Show HN: HackTheNews – iOS 26 Liquid Glass Hacker News Client with AI Summaries
by redwheelbarr0w | 2026-01-05 18:31:43+00:00
Hey HN!

I've been maintaining HackTheNews (a native iOS client for Hacker News) for a while now, and with iOS 26 dropping its new "Liquid Glass" design language, I couldn't resist doing a full visual overhaul.

What's new:
- Complete redesign using iOS 26's Liquid Glass materials
- Translucent, layered UI that adapts to your wallpaper
- New glass-style navigation and tab bars
- Refined typography and spacing for the new aesthetic

Implementation notes for fellow iOS devs:
- Used the new `.glassEffect()` modifiers throughout
- Had to rethink some hierarchy decisions – Liquid Glass works best with
fewer nested containers

The before/after difference is pretty striking. Happy to share more technical details if anyone's curious about adopting Liquid Glass in their own apps.

Would love to hear your feedback – especially from fellow HN readers on what features you'd like to see next. Always open to suggestions!
Ask HN: How do I convince my CTO to try AI again?
by throwaway12345t | 2026-01-05 18:31:44+00:00
He is very talented but is maybe the least interested person in AI generating/reviewing code and borderline dismissive. I agreed a year ago but things have changed.

He is not championing the effort on the team and as a result the rest of the team is either mostly not using it or just not disclosing it.

He is more senior and in general the senior engineers seem the most existentially stressed or indifferent.

It feels like we’re moving very slowly compared to the competition now and I’m unsure how to convince him to reevaluate LLM’s use in our development work.
by alwa | 2026-01-05 18:31:53+00:00
I agree with you on pretty much all that you’ve said here. Thank you especially for the recommended viewing!

I wonder what happens, though, as the economics shift? It’ll be great, creatively speaking, for people who have a project inside them itching to get out into the world. Those were always the people who made the most interesting art anyway.

But viewership economics aren’t expanding in the same way. Same number of viewers, less patience for feature-length work, less willingness to pay.

If the status quo only generated enough money for an already-small universe of Hollywood professionals to feed their families through their creative work, what happens when even that withers?

Film school, it seems to me, is partly about the access to equipment and talent, but mostly about the time and community expectation to dedicate every waking hour to your creative project.

Art and commerce have always been awkward bedmates, but it makes me a little sad that the price for anyone being able to create is that ~none of them will be able to make money from their creative labor.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-05 18:32:02+00:00
Some people are using it that way sure. And some people are using it to automate things that "should" (or at least that someone would want to) be automated. For example, here's a video from the Corridor Crew channel[1] that uses AI to automate the creation of animatable 3d, near photorealistic characters from pictures of real objects. And then they use that to make an actual piece of art, with an actual story. Yes, they could have taken those images, build 3d models in blender or whatever and hand animated them. They have those skills and their previous work attests to their ability to do it. And they clearly enjoy doing that sometimes too. But that sort of work can also be tedious and time consuming. It can get in the way of being able to do what you actually want to do (tell your story) and that's especially true if you don't have the skill sets that they do.

We've been down this road before. We're in the phase of new technology where it's good enough, and available enough for anyone to do anything with it. And like most things when we hit that phase, most of what people do with it is going to be pretty awful. CGI in general, drum machines, and electronic music generation are examples. And just like eventually people found new ways to use these things to create new forms of art that people enjoyed, people will find ways to use AI in the same way.

If you're into 3d modeling and blender, the suck of painstakingly crafting reality from digital star dust is why you're here, and you don't understand why someone would want to automate that away. But likewise, if someone else is into physical modeling, the suck of creating life and reality out of sometimes literal garbage is why they're there, and they don't understand why you would want to automate that away.

Yes AI allows trash makers and grifters to dump out more trash and grift, but it also allows more people who were previously prevented from expressing themselves in a way they enjoyed by a lack of time, money or skills to express themselves anew.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSRrSO7QhXY
by thomastodon | 2026-01-05 18:32:23+00:00
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by mmh0000 | 2026-01-05 18:32:28+00:00
Hiding from SELinux is clever, but SELinux (for most users not running MLS) is a final level of defense. If you get to the point where SELinux is saving your butt, you've got problems higher up in the stack.

For me, the real scary part is the hiding "Audit Evasion" (for those not in the know, here's a link https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/configure-linux-auditing-audi...);

Audit is supposed to be able to track anything and everything that happens on a Linux box. Every login, application, socket, syscall, all of it. The fact that they can bypass it is HUGE. You're not supposed to be able to disable auditd without rebooting the system (when correctly configured). And rebooting the system should* trigger other alarms for the security team.
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-05 18:33:03+00:00
Fair point, I should have been clearer there. Federer's move wasn't really about On making better tennis shoes. He got a 3% equity stake in On and a seat on the board, which is a very different value proposition than an endorsement deal. The broader argument I was trying to make is that Nike's athlete relationships have become more transactional than aspirational, and that's opened the door for competitors who can offer ownership or tighter creative control. But yes, that specific sentence overstates it.
by gn4d | 2026-01-05 18:33:36+00:00
I am fully aware that it's split off. My entire point of mentioning it was that even a bit of extra fun got excised from the site.

>The issue is that code golf didn't fit well into the intended design

Exactly! The intended design of SO was to be a hellhole, even though it was able to stave off this fate in its infancy by virtue of having too many optimistic new users.
by stanleykm | 2026-01-05 18:33:37+00:00
I undestand what you are saying but retirees are not what people mean when they talk about Capital. They are talking about executives, fund managers, billionaires, and so on. People who actually control much of our society. Yes many of the funds are managing the retirements of working people but that does not necessarily need to be the case, nor do those retirees have any active ownership of the companies those funds invest in.
by franga2000 | 2026-01-05 18:33:42+00:00
I have a similar, but in one way even more insane story, although I was paid more of an employee than a consultant hourly rate. I worked at a big critical infrastructure type company for a good two months and I was supposed to work on-site on intranet-only software. The thing was, the rest of the people in the department were working from home three days a week, I couldn't be "unsupervised" in the building, and it took them almost a whole months to set me up with a VPN. Since my app had to integrate with half a dozen different internal systems, none of which had API specs let alone mock servers, the only thing I could really do from home was was write CSS on mock HTML files. That, combined with waiting like two weeks to get a Visual Studio license approved, meant I spent more than half of my time there at home, doing absolutely no work. The manager fully knew that and I still got paid tho.