MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fischgericht | 2026-01-10 21:01:39+00:00
Citroën were the first to make diesel filters standard. And my C15 had the HDi engine with diesel filters. And unlike others, they did not cheat and were not part of the Diesel scandal.

Also, I survived.

And when it comes to security features, more important than not having side airbags would have been not to combine smoking weed and fellatio while doing 160.

I am not saying that any of this would be a good idea if keeping your life is a priority.

But even with maniacs like myself on the road, Germany has deaths from fatal car crashes of 3-4 per 100,000, while the US has 12-13.

But again, I am not a lawyer, not a doctor, and this is not health advise, just a true story of what I did 25 years ago that may or may not entertain readers.
by tconfrey | 2026-01-10 21:01:42+00:00
Hi @cyrialize , Hopefully this is an acceptable level of self-promotion. It sounds like my browser extension, BrainTool might be useful in your workflow. It's kindof a bookmark/tab management tool. It syncs to a .org file and allows you to do things like mark tabs as a TODO, which you can then track in org-agenda etc. There's some brief descriptions and videos here:
https://braintool.org/2025/09/16/Browser-Workflows-with-Brai...
by rafterydj | 2026-01-10 21:01:51+00:00
I believe existing laws carve out exceptions for medical fitness for certain positions for this very reason. If I may, stepping back for a second: the reason privacy laws exist, is to protect people from bad behavior from employers, health insurance, etc.

If we circumvent those privacy laws, through user licenses, or new technology - we are removing the protections of normal citizens. Therefore, the bad behavior which we already decided as a society to ban can now be perpetrated again, with perhaps a fresh new word for it to dodge said old laws.

If I understand your comment, you are essentially wondering why those old laws existed in the first place. I would suggest racism or other systemic issues, and differences in insurance premiums, are more than enough to justify the existence of privacy laws. Take a normal office job as an example over a manual labor intensive job. No reason at all that health conditions should impact that. The idea of not being hired because I have a young child, or a health condition, that would raise the group rate from the insurer passing the cost to my employer (which would be in their best interest to do) is a terrible thought. And it happened before, and we banned that practice (or did our best to do so).

All this to say, I believe HIPAA helps people, and if ChatGPT is being used to partially or fully facilitate medical decision making, they should be bound under strict laws preventing the release of that data regardless of their existing user agreements.
by drivebyhooting | 2026-01-10 21:03:15+00:00
Excuse me, but even if in principle of “information wants to be free”, the actual outcome of LLMs is the opposite of democratizing information and access. It completely centralizes accesses, censorship, and profits in the hands of a few mega corporations.

It is completely against the spirit of information wants to be free. Using that catch phrase in protection of mega corps is a travesty.
by christophilus | 2026-01-10 21:03:15+00:00
CSS requires discipline, or you end up accidentally styling something completely unrelated because you were overly general, or overly specific, or accidentally reused a class name. CSS disallows local reasoning. If you’re writing markup for a component, you have to jump between two files.

There are plenty of other problems Tailwind solves, but these two alone make me never want to go back.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-10 21:03:18+00:00
Oh snap, you are right! My bad, I prematurely got overly excited for comedic release and then forgot to read the rest.

But yeah, what's the point of an F150, if you don't even flex some heavy weaponry at Walmart? Timber and concrete fits the C15 just fine, it's artillery and air defense extensibility where it's lacking. Tho, fingers crossed, we may see F150 technicals by the end of the year.
Show HN: Tooliz – An offline-first mobile toolkit built with Flutter (Radial UI)
by quentinrgdev | 2026-01-10 21:04:17+00:00
Hello HN,

I’m the developer behind Tooliz. I built this because I was frustrated with the current state of utility apps on the Play Store—most are either 100MB+ bloatware, require unnecessary permissions (like contacts/location for a flashlight), or force full-screen video ads just to use a simple ruler.

I wanted to build a single, lightweight app that respects the user and focuses on UI/UX efficiency.

The Tech Stack: It’s built with Flutter. I chose it to handle the custom painting required for the tools smoothly at 60fps+ on both Android and iOS.

Interesting Technical Challenges:

The Radial Menu: I didn't want a standard grid or drawer. I implemented a custom Radial Menu using CustomPainter and heavy trigonometry to handle the touch hit-testing and animations. It feels much faster for thumb navigation than reaching for a top-left hamburger menu.

Sensor Fusion & Hardware:

Metal Detector: Accesses the raw magnetometer stream (sensors_plus package). I had to implement a calibration step to filter out the background magnetic field and isolate local anomalies (metals).

Sound Meter: Uses the microphone stream to calculate decibels. Mapping the raw PCM data to accurate dB SPL values across different device microphones was... painful. I used a calibration offset system to mitigate hardware variance.

Offline-First Architecture: Except for a minimal ad banner (to keep the project alive), everything works offline. For the Unit Converter, I hardcoded the conversion logic instead of relying on an API, so it works instantly in airplane mode.

Monetization: It’s free. There is a small banner ad (AdMob) at the bottom.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the Radial UI implementation or the sensor accuracy on your specific device!
by Animats | 2026-01-10 21:04:29+00:00
Education can be viewed as intellectual property theft. There have been periods in history when it was. "How to take an elevation from a plan" was a trade secret of medieval builders and only revealed to guild members. How a power loom works was export-controlled information in the 1800s, and people who knew how a loom works were not allowed to emigrate from England.

The problem is that LLMs are better than people at this stuff. They can read a huge quantity of publicly available information and organize it into a form where the LLM can do things with it. That's what education does, more slowly and at greater expense.
by fipar | 2026-01-10 21:05:20+00:00
Thanks! I had actually seen that, but didn't realize that org does remove the leading comma when you extract a block to paste it somewhere else, which is great, because it means I need one less function.

Now I just need to keep my paste function, but have it add a leading comma instead of a space, and I need to use example instead of src (not a problem for this use case since, even though I normally paste them into sql src blocks, the syntax highlighting isn't that useful.

You gave me a nice little task for a rainy day, thanks :)
by gck1 | 2026-01-10 21:05:25+00:00
I'm working on a project now and what you're saying is already true. I have agents that are able to handle other things apart from code.

But these are MY agents. They are given access to MY domain knowledge in the way that I configured. They have rules as defined by ME over the course of multi-week research and decision making. And the interaction between my agents is also defined and enforced by me.

Can someone come up with a god-agent that will do all of this? Probably. Is it going to work in practice? Highly unlikely.
by quantummagic | 2026-01-10 21:06:01+00:00
This is great news! Well done to everyone who helped sort it out. It was a problem noted by users in a thread here just last week, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460319

While Claude Code might have been the reason this bug became triggered by more people, there are some of us who were hitting it without ever having used Claude Code at all. Maybe the assumption about what makes a page non-standard, isn't as black-and-white as presumed. And I wonder if the leak would have been triggered more often for people who use scrollback-limit = 0, or something very small.

Probably not a huge deal, but it does seem the fix will needlessly delete and recreate non-standard pages in the case where the new page needs to be non-standard, and the oldest one (that needs to be pruned) already is non-standard and could be reused.
by 0xy | 2026-01-10 21:06:45+00:00
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/experts-analyze-new-v...

>Johnson said his biggest takeaway from the video was a crunching sound he heard immediately before the gunshots, which he believes is the sound of the SUV hitting the ICE agent.

>"That data point for me shows that there was contact made with the agent, who is now in reasonable fear, who could clearly articulate being hit with an SUV as reasonable fear of great bodily harm or death. And then the shots were fired," said Johnson.
by rmunn | 2026-01-10 21:07:02+00:00
Emojis mixed with ASCII-era characters are hard to get right. Some terminal emulators get it right nearly all the time (e.g. Ghostty, which has had a lot of thought and effort put into getting it right) and yet there are still open issues in the Ghostty repo about inconsistent character width. There are just so many corner cases that it's hard.

That said, the edge alignment is, I believe, caused by the fact that LLMs are involved in the process. Because the LLMs never "see" the final visual representation that humans see. Their "view" of the world is text-based, and in the text file, those columns line up because they have the same number of UTF-8 codepoints in the row. So the LLMs do not realize that the right edges are misaligned visually. (And since the workflow described is for an LLM to take that text file as input and produce an output in React/Vue/Svelte/whatever, the visual alignment of the text file needs to stay LLM-oriented for it to work properly. I assume, of course, since I haven't tried this myself).
by throw-qqqqq | 2026-01-10 21:07:22+00:00
> made around the time when French cars had the worst reputation

A reputation well earned IMO…

> There was no part on this which didn't get replaced during the scant few years he owned it, and it left him stranded like half a dozen times

French cars have a philosophy of more maintenance than German cars. On the other hand, Frenchy spare parts are often cheaper and easier to replace.

E.g. a timing belt replacement on PSA HDI takes just a few hours and costs €2-300. On a VAG TDI, the same procedure is almost a full day at a (competent) workshop and costs ~5-10x as much.

Horses for courses I think.

My daily driver is a 10yo VAG, for the record.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-10 21:07:24+00:00
I am still having trouble understand how that pertains to the post to which it replied. Here are those 2 points again:

1. In the US, enrolling in health insurance is currently a choice (I'm can't tell whether your hypothesis about healthy people is agreeing or disagreeing with this point).

2. We don't want Billy to be screwed for life just because he was born to a suboptimal combination of parents.

Would you mind clarifying the connection here, please?
by kentonv | 2026-01-10 21:07:43+00:00
Err... well... I live in Austin currently.

I'm describing the red line which goes from downtown to Leander. (The one I linked to.) If you're describing some other line then sorry for the confusion, I didn't actually know there was another rail line. There are plans to build a green line to Elgin but AFAIK that's still under construction.

The red line is mostly single-track, but there are several specific segments of dual-track allowing trains to pass each other, which is why they're able to support multiple trains in both directions.

It's still a crappy schedule -- even during rush hour it's still no more than two trains an hour. Supposedly they intend to start running it every 15 minutes once they add some more dual-track segments.

Maybe it was worse when you lived here?
by westurner | 2026-01-10 21:07:54+00:00
From https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/01/pretty-soon-heat-pu... :

> Salt hydrates thus open up completely new possibilities for smart and more balanced heating systems because heating can be moved to times with low energy demand.

> “Salt hydrates aren’t toxic, they’re not flammable and they are also relatively inexpensive. This makes them a safe and good choice for use in private homes. Heat storage with salt hydrates also takes up less space than a traditional hot water tank, often up to four times less,” says Simonsen

[...]

> To solve this [oxidation in aluminum heat sinks] problem, the researchers have employed a type of coating called plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO), which forms a thin, ceramic layer on the surface of the aluminium
by sequin | 2026-01-10 21:07:58+00:00
Very, very few people care about privacy to a meaningful degree, even if they (loudly) profess that they do. For communication apps specifically, there's also the network effect problem and having to deal with the increasing proliferation of government speech laws (Online Safety Act and what have you).

If you just want to make a buck, build a ChatGPT wrapper where people will pay you for the privilege of uploading their deepest secrets and intellectual property to your servers.

If you're ideologically motivated, forget about the profit motive and go FOSS.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-10 21:08:18+00:00
>much happier to skip a meeting if they'll still hear about what happens afterwards.

If you're just a 'follower' of what's going on, that's fine. The problem shows up when you have some stakeholder or steering ability.

If you miss meeting about X and don't bring up discussion about Y then other person A may not talk about Z that affects X. But I agree that every meeting should have a point and total number of meetings should be minimized.
by 20after4 | 2026-01-10 21:09:00+00:00
I was going to make this exact comment. The RX-8 had excellent stability control. Saved my ass at least once going too fast around a 90 degree corner. It also behaved really well on icy roads. It was pretty incredible for a rear wheel drive sports car, especially impressive at the time compared to every other car on the road back then.
by yorwba | 2026-01-10 21:09:23+00:00
I don't know about Canada Post, but Wikipedia has a handy table listing the duration of parental leave. 3 years is a common option across various European countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#Europe_and_Cent... Yes, parents with a lot of children could potentially spend a very long time out of work while still keeping their jobs, but it's rather rare to have so many children that it would become an issue.
by tolerance | 2026-01-10 21:10:27+00:00
First thanks for taking my question seriously and not as just a rib and asking a lot of questions in return that I want to consider myself.

By "hands-on" I'm asking whether the provided insight is the product of human intellection. Experienced, capable and qualified. Or at least an earnest attempt at thinking about something and explaining the discoveries in the ways that thinking was done before ChatGPT. For some reason I find myself using phrases involving the hands (etc. hands-on, handmade, hand-spun) as a metaphor for work done without the use of LLMs.

I emphasize insight because I feel like the series of work on the Snowden documents by libroot is wanting in that. I expressed as much the last time their writing hit the front page: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236672>.

These are summaries. I don't think that it yields information that can't otherwise be pointed out and made mention of by others; presumably known and reputable. With as high-profile of an event that this is I'd expect someone covering it almost 16 years later to tell us beyond what when judged on the merit of its import amounts to a motivated section of the ‘Snowden disclosures’ Wikipedia entry.

The discussion that this series invites typically is centered around people's thoughts about the story of the Snowden documents in general, and in this case exchanges about technical aspects like how PDF documents work and can be manipulated in general. The one comment that I feel addresses the actual tension embedded in the article—"Who edited the documents?"—leads to accusations that the documents were tampered with by the media: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566372>. I don't think that that's an implausible claim but I find issue with it being made with such confidence by the anonymous source behind the investigations (I'm withholding ironically putting "investigations" in...nevermind).

If the author actually provided something that advanced to the reader why this information is significant, what to do with or think about it and how they came about discovering the answers to the aforementioned 'why' and ‘what’ and additionally why they’re word ought to matter to us at all, I'd be less inclined to speculate that this is just someone vibe sleuthing their way through documents that on the surface are only significant to the public as the claim "the government is spying on you" is.

This particular post uncovers some nice information. It's a great find. I'm in no position to investigate whether it was already known. But what are we supposed to learn from it aside from "one of the documents were changed before it was made public". What's significant about the redaction? Is Ryan Gallagher responsible? Or does he know who is. Is he at all obliged to explain this to a presumably anonymous inquirer? Or is it now the duty of the public to expect an explanation as affected by said anonymous inquirer?

Remember when believing that the government was rife with pedophiles automatically associated you with horn-helmet-wearing insurrectionists?
by bulletsvshumans | 2026-01-10 21:10:28+00:00
I think this a good technique to be familiar with, although in a lot of situations I've achieved similar value by simply feeding the underlying JSON data objects corresponding to the intended UI state back into the coding agent. It doesn't render quite as nicely, but it is often still human-readable, and more importantly both LLM and procedurally interpretable, meaning you can fold the results back into your agentic (and/or conventional testing) development loop. It's not quite as cool, but I think a bit more practical, especially for earlier stage development.
Show HN: Tag driven changelog generator (MDX) with optional LLM summaries
by dustfinger | 2026-01-10 21:10:51+00:00
I built a tag-driven changelog generator for an OSS project I maintain and used it to backfill our 2025 docs changelog.

It walks git tags, finds merged PRs between releases, buckets them into categories, and renders MDX (Docusaurus in our case) organized by year -> month -> category -> version. There is an optional LLM mode that produces structured JSON via a Pydantic schema for PR entry and monthly summaries.

Example:

python .scripts/changelog/generate.py --year 2025 --github --ai --ai-model gpt-5.2
(or --help)

Gotcha: if you use --github, set GITHUB_TOKEN or you will most likely hit GitHub rate limits.

Repo script: https://github.com/confident-ai/deepeval/blob/main/.scripts/...

Disclosure: I maintain DeepEval. Happy to answer questions and take feedback.
by constantcrying | 2026-01-10 21:11:37+00:00
>Citroën were the first to make diesel filters standard. And my C15 had the HDi engine with diesel filters.

Modern Diesel Engines have gotten so much better in every single area.

>And unlike others, they did not cheat and were not part of the Diesel scandal.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/dutch-court-says-dies...

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py37TT6PxW4 to see just how common cheating was. Also have a look at the graph at 17:47 .
by addaon | 2026-01-10 21:11:41+00:00
> This seems backwards to me. Colleges should be prioritizing strong students for admission and nothing else. Our country needs the best engineers and doctors. Colleges are a scarce, valuable resource and should be reserved for the best students, regardless of why they are the best students.

It seems unlikely that Americans would be so massively overrepresented in American colleges under this policy...
by cultofmetatron | 2026-01-10 21:11:57+00:00
assumign this is arguing in good faith..

the issue is not about it being american as it is america being in control of it. you don't get access to windows or mac os source code. You can however take the linux source code, fork it and make it yours. that "dictator for life" in portland can't stop you. nor can anyone else in the us government for that matter.
by IgorPartola | 2026-01-10 21:12:00+00:00
Have you ever loaded drywall into a van? It is not fun. A truck bed is sized to load it perfectly. Strapping down lumber is also simpler. Lastly with nothing above the truck bed you can carry much taller things than in a van.

It isn’t the only way but yes a truck is very practical. That’s why they are used so much in the US. The difference between the US and the EU isn’t just arbitrary either. In the US gas (sorry, petrol) is a lot cheaper, roads are bigger, wider, longer, and sometimes you need to tow a large trailer. I tower a 3 ton excavator with my truck to build my home office.
by sea-gold | 2026-01-10 21:12:50+00:00
RustMailer (a separate project) has a commercial license: https://github.com/rustmailer/rustmailer/blob/main/LICENSE

> RustMailer is source-available. The code is open on GitHub, but requires a valid commercial license key for production use.

License Purchase: https://rustmailer.com/pricing

The mention of BSD/Apache is from here[1] and looks to be a listing of open-source licenses that this project uses.

[1] https://github.com/rustmailer/rustmailer/blob/main/license.h...
by oytis | 2026-01-10 21:13:03+00:00
As I understand, a lot of mathematics, at least the part about solving problems, is basically back and forth between exploration (which involves pattern matching) and formalising. We've basically solved formalising a while ago, and now LLMs are getting better and better at exploration.

If you think about it, it's also what a lot of other intellectual activity looks like, at least in STEM.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-10 21:13:11+00:00
What you are describing is late stage capitalism. A result of the current unchecked capitalism we have. The Bernie wing is really just proposing checked capitalism. We are just returning back to the roots of the country where asset owners were the elites and they owned everything. The last half century was more of an exception....so i'd argue the capitalists won big. Will we manage to pull things back to the mean? Ask me in 20 years.
by Herring | 2026-01-10 21:13:11+00:00
Psychological research (Carney et al 2008) suggests that liberals score higher on "Openness to Experience" (a Big Five personality trait). This trait correlates with a preference for novelty, ambiguity, and critical inquiry.

In a carpenter maybe that's not so important, yes. But if you're running a startup or you're in academia or if you're working with people from various countries, etc you might prefer someone who scores highly on openness.
by scorpioxy | 2026-01-10 21:13:29+00:00
I recently had to pay the "Microsoft tax" to Lenovo. Which felt more like an unfair punishment rather than a tax since your taxes are meant to fund public services. I kept on thinking that this feels like it should be illegal. I don't use Windows for my work. My servers all run Linux, my clients servers all run Linux and I have no need for it so why am I being forced to pay?

I keep a Windows virtual machine for software that doesn't run on Linux but my use of that over the years has declined dramatically.

To me, the earlier versions of Windows 10 were somewhat OK when they're stripped down. But Windows 11 is bloated beyond belief. And shoving AI functionality in it is going to make things worse.