MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DivingForGold | 2026-01-19 17:50:48+00:00
Executive summary from the article:

CrossSense combines wearable tech – lightweight smart glasses – and an augmented reality app to help people living with dementia to remember loved ones, objects, and daily tasks. The glasses connect with an energy efficient box – an edge server that stores data and processes requests, doing “the heavy lifting” for the system. This box is encrypted and functions offline “in a secure, independent network,” to protect people’s privacy – no data is sent to the Cloud. Using an AI agent named ‘Wispy’, the user can assign text and audio tags to objects in their physical environment. These objects could be personal such as photographs and mementos, or practical (toasters, kettles etc.).
by marwamc | 2026-01-19 17:50:50+00:00
The split globally was ~54% hybrid/electric and ~46% gas. And author wonders why Porsche doesn't want to give up 46% of their Macan customer base? Or to be charitable, author wants Porsche to make that 46% Macan customer base, choose between an ev/hybrid Macan and whatever ICE alternative is available in that segment.
by irishcoffee | 2026-01-19 17:50:59+00:00
Curious how it was a vote for trump and not harris. If harris had won, would a 3rd party vote have been for harris?

Because if that is true, you're re-writing the rules of your "personal voter math" to fit your narrative, and if it isn't true, your "personal voter math" === your opinion, which isn't really useful.
by intended | 2026-01-19 17:51:09+00:00
If you are alluding the Holmes’ judgement, he spoke not simply about free speech, but about actions in service to a market place of ideas.

His argument was in defense of the process to uncover truth.

Given that Fox has clearly said they cannot be taken seriously, and that they were from inception created to muddy the waters and wage war for political gain, they are an enemy to the process that was envisioned back in that era.

If someone is demonstrably selling false goods, and multiple sources have evidenced this, as has a court of law, should that all be dismissed because every single individual in America has not taken the time to look at the evidence?

At some point you abdicate roles and responsibilities to others, so that they can do the job of ensuring that a fair debate takes place.
by tome | 2026-01-19 17:51:10+00:00
> Here's an example from a few months ago where Italy suspended their EU obligations to free movement to prevent hooligans entering from Germany

Are you sure that all away fans were banned? Doesn't look like it. It looks like they imposed controls to forbid the travel of particular people, which, as I said, often happens.

> Airlines operating Germany–Italy routes were asked to verify passenger identities against watch-lists before boarding
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-19 17:51:31+00:00
> Journalism would become more thorough and responsible, rather than optimized for outrage and clicks.

For that we would need a new funding model for journalism. Local journalism (i.e. local newspapers, radio and TV stations) used to be financed by classifieds and ads. Classifieds are long since gone off to the Internet and ads have been replaced by Google Maps plus Facebook, so there's no monetary stream - and as a result of that, there's barely anyone left holding local politicians and companies accountable. Yes, some places have "citizen journalists" and bloggers, but these usually do not have the funds to pay for legal teams and court proceedings, so they usually only target government stuff.

Something like taxpayer-paid media is way too easily corruptible by the government, just look at Hungary for the worst possible outcome. "Mandatory contribution" systems like the BBC or Germany's public broadcasters aren't that easily corruptible, but it still happens - just watch the shitshow every few years here in Germany when the contribution needs to be raised.

It's an all-around mess.
by realusername | 2026-01-19 17:51:55+00:00
It's been like this for a while, the top results for a lot of known apps are scam impersonators.

So much for the so called "safety" of the appstore.

In fact, they had so many ChatGPT fake apps showing as top results that they had to do something as users couldn't find the real one and it reached the news.
by polyrand | 2026-01-19 17:51:56+00:00
I've been using z.ai models through their coding plan (incredible price/performance ratio), and since GLM-4.7 I'm even more confident with the results it gives me. I use it both with regular claude-code and opencode (more opencode lately, since claude-code is obviously designed to work much better with Anthropic models).

Also notice that this is the "-Flash" version. They were previously at 4.5-Flash (they skipped 4.6-Flash). This is supposed to be equivalent to Haiku. Even on their coding plan docs, they mention this model is supposed to be used for `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL`.
by graypegg | 2026-01-19 17:52:02+00:00
I might toss it out there that upcoming changes to attr() [0] as well as typed properties [1] will add some interesting features. Being able to provide a value that's subbed into a stylesheet from the HTML itself is neat.

You can try to get by with auto-generated selectors for every possible value today, ([background="#FFFFFF"]{background: #FFFFFF}[background="#FFFFFE"]{background: #FFFFFE}...) but just mapping attributes to styles 1:1 does begin to feel like a very lightweight component.

(Note... I'm not convinced this is a great idea... but it could be interesting to mess around with.)

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/V...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...
by randycupertino | 2026-01-19 17:52:38+00:00
The reddit thread where the scam was uncovered: https://old.reddit.com/user/Sufficient_Letter175/comments/1j...

Edit- funny the brand's instagram essentially markets it as cake batter with the title on their insta page being, "We have amazing protein that you can make into shakes or bake into muffins, pancakes, or whatever you can dream up!!" https://www.instagram.com/holmesnutritionprotein/?hl=en
by jrm4 | 2026-01-19 17:52:45+00:00
This feels like the "wrong" direction today with the advent of AI? Just seems like in the realm of "bending yourself to the tool vs bending the tool to yourself," it's the LATTER that's about to get a whole lot easier, if it isn't already.

So, sure, there are probably things you can learn, but e.g. I'm much more about "I think it should be THIS way so how do I make it do that."
Show HN: Homunculus – A self-rewriting Claude Code plugin
by nikshepsvn | 2026-01-19 17:53:23+00:00
Homunculus is a Claude Code plugin that watches how you work and writes new capabilities into itself.

If you keep doing something repeatedly—checking docs before API calls, running the same debug flow, formatting PRs a certain way—it notices and offers to automate it. Accept, and it writes a new markdown file into its own structure. The plugin literally changes based on what you do.

It can create:
Commands (explicit shortcuts)
Skills (context-triggered behaviors)
Subagents (specialists for specific problem domains)
Hooks (event-driven, like "run tests when these files change")

What actually works (v0.1):
Commands are deterministic. Skills are probabilistic—they fire when Claude decides they're relevant, maybe 50-80% of the time. It's an experiment in making LLM tooling adaptive rather than static.

State stored in .claude/homunculus/. Each project gets its own instance.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-19 17:53:30+00:00
> It is not the scale that matters here, in your example, but intent. With 1 joint, you want to smoke yourself. With 400, you very possibly want to sell it to others. Scale in itself doesnt matter, scale matters only as to the extent it changes what your intention may be.

It sounds then like you're saying that scale does indeed matter in this context, as using every single piece of writing in existence isn't being slurped up purely to learn, it's being slurped up to make a profit.

Do you think they'd be able to offer a usefull LLM if the model was trained only what what an average person could read in a lifetime?
by Salgat | 2026-01-19 17:54:12+00:00
I'm not saying the entire internet needs to be this way, but I would love to see the expansion of non-anonymous/verified accounts used on web platforms. Take ycombinator for example; some of the best comments come from users with known identities and reputations tied to their accounts, rather than anonymous folks who can spew whatever nonsense without repercussion (and in some cases aren't even real people).
by quesera | 2026-01-19 17:54:13+00:00
FWIW, every non-US American I've ever worked with (from Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, Canada) has laughed when I've asked whether it bothers them that US Americans call themselves "American", and exclude non-US Americans.

Non-US Americans don't seem to care, and they think it's silly that I'd wonder whether they did.

It still feels presumptuous and rude, so I try to avoid it, but evidently it's not a real/widespread issue.
by haizhung | 2026-01-19 17:54:27+00:00
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastenausgleich#:~:text=The%20...

2) https://www.die-linke.de/fileadmin/user_upload/20230530-PK-A...

3) theoretically people could own via the state: if the state has resources (eg. hospital buildings, schools) that benefits all people ~uniformly. However, due to privatization more and more government wealth is also sold off.

Wealth redistribution is the only way the living standards of ordinary families will improve. I’m just hoping we can skip the war part, this time. I think its possible.
by giardini | 2026-01-19 17:54:39+00:00
"Decreased from where...? "

"Flash Report: U.S. Jobless Rate Ticked Down in December"

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2026/jan/flash-rep...

FTFA:

"The unemployment rate in the U.S. has decreased to 4.4% in December 2025, down from 4.5% in November. This decline follows a period of rising rates, with the economy adding just 50,000 jobs in December, indicating a slowdown in job growth. The labor market is showing signs of stabilization, with the broader U-6 unemployment rate easing to 8.4%."

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
by mrtksn | 2026-01-19 17:54:49+00:00
See the core issue is that you get US dollars in exchange, which is of infinite supply but still happens to have value due to the reserve currency status. You send your stuff to US, you get the dollars and pay your suppliers etc but they don’t send that dollar to US to get something they want because US doesn’t actually produce that many stuff. So you should be able to augment the US, pay the producers with your imaginary dollars you put in the books for example. Sure that will be fraud but it is fraud only because you are not US. However that’s not the point, the point is that you don’t actually need US, you need to figure out a financial instrument that fulfills the role of US and that must be possible.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-19 17:54:53+00:00
> The kernel, the memory manager and device drivers, the language runtimes for managed languages; would these not be written in "systems" languages?

The kernel and memory manager: probably yes, the device drivers: not necessarily, the language runtimes for managed languages: not necessarily.

> On a different note: why should the kernel even handle IPC or scheduling?

Because any other solution will quickly run into chicken-and-the-egg style problems.

> Those take the basic capabilities of context switching, timer management, and memory management.

Yes. But only one timer, the rest should be free to use by other applications.

> Even "core functionality" can be a context switch (or a few) away; is a syscall not just a message to a system server?

No. A syscall is usually defined as a call to a ring one level in from the one where you currently are. But lots of things that are syscalls right now do not necessarily have to be.

> Only the most basic form of communication is necessary to delegate arbitrary functionality, so a true microkernel should only introduce that as an abstraction.

Indeed. And they do.

> Everything else either follows from the hardware or is left to the whims of software.

A lot of the stuff that 'follows from the hardware' can be dealt with at the application level.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-01-19 17:54:53+00:00
What I find so astonishing about this recent US "debate" is that I was taught in my German high school during the 1980s in a discipline called "Erdkunde" that the US is transitioning from a manufacturing to a service-oriented economy that would be vastly superior to the classical manufacturing-based approach and that Germany would need to make this transition, too, if we wanted to remain globally competitive.

I don't want to glorify German high schools but I find it hard to believe that those school books were so wrong that 40 years later it would make sense to return to a manufacturing-oriented economy.
by theptip | 2026-01-19 17:54:56+00:00
> Will create

As others have noted, it’s a long-term trend - agree that as you note it’ll get worse. The Russian psy-ops campaigns from the Internet Research Agency during Trump #1 campaign being a notable entry, where for example they set up both fake far-left and far-right protest events on FB and used these as engagement bait on the right/left. (I’m sure the US is doing the same/worse to their adversaries too.)

Whatever fraction bots play overall, it has to be way higher for political content given the power dynamics.
by chimprich | 2026-01-19 17:55:31+00:00
> Tariffs make foreign imports more expensive. This dissuades people from buying them. Some of those people will instead buy equivalent American made products, now that the price difference has lessened.

But what about the other side of the coin - that exports will now become more difficult, because of retaliatory tariffs? How does that help your domestic economy?

Trumps solution seems to be to try to bully other countries into accepting tariffs and not imposing tariffs on American goods. But how is this supposed to work? Quite apart from the appalling moral and fairness aspects of this strategy, trashing the economies of other countries is a bad idea, because you want other countries to be wealthy so they can buy stuff from you.

Free trade has built the modern Western world, and has already made the US the world's leading economic superpower. I can't even see what Trump is trying to achieve.
by johnj-hn | 2026-01-19 17:55:40+00:00
I never really felt great about Lens. The interface and workflow just never resonated with me. No shade to the crew behind Lens, it’s purely subjective opinion, and I’m sure a lot of people would say I’m wrong.

I like Headlamp. It’s much closer to how I think these kinds of apps should work. Prior to starting work on Luxury Yacht, my favorite app in this category was https://infra.app/ but unfortunately that has seemingly been abandoned.

As far as how they compare… I think they’re all pretty comparable in terms of features. It’s just a question of finding the one that has the UI you like.

I did try to build some stuff into Luxury Yacht that I haven’t seen in other apps, though. There’s an object diff panel, where you can compare two objects (even in different clusters) and it will diff the YAML. I also have a json log parser, that will render json logs as a table so it’s much easier to read. Just small things like that.
by tzot | 2026-01-19 17:55:40+00:00
I always have been using em-dashes with specific spacing:

1. replacing parentheses —given that the em-dash in pairs for me mark more-relevant-to-the-main content than a parenthesized expression would— so I use the same spacing as `()`

2. replacing colon or just finishing the sentence with a subsentence— so the spacing goes like for a colon.

Probably unfounded grammatically and against any style guides, but this spacing makes sense to me.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-19 17:55:41+00:00
Bit of a weird take, though agree that for most submissions the Title content should do most of the talking. Sometimes it's nice to know why OP is submitting the link especially if not a news item. Knowing what caught their eye about a link or a bit more context is useful but does it need to be the overarching Text section? A comment below should suffice, and also starts the discussion there on whatever point they are drawing attention to.
by jlarocco | 2026-01-19 17:56:02+00:00
It definitely has knock on impacts.

Most directly, when foreign products become more expensive, people may choose a local product that was previously seen as too expensive. So it generally has a negative effect on the foreign economy and boosts local production.

Unfortunately, it also drives the foreign companies to become more efficient so they can get their prices back down, while giving the local producers a crutch to justify higher prices and stagnate.

And there are other side effects, and all of the side-effects have side effects of their own. Economies are complicated.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-19 17:56:09+00:00
Microsoft doesn’t care about Windows. It’s been clear for years that their focus is on Azure, Office, and enterprise sales.

The enterprise is going to choose Windows regardless for the masses and even if consumers make a mass exodus to Apple (not going to happen because of price) or Linux (even less likely) they are out of $30 they charge OEMs.
Show HN: Created an AI for myself to achieve goals, it might help you guys too
by kaufy | 2026-01-19 17:56:38+00:00
I'm a Machine Learning engineer. Struggled with consistency for months on my goals, life etc, so I built something to help myself (zropi.com) but that surprised me or shocked me literally. It’s an AI companion that feels alive: chats like a person. Pauses, emotions, personality. Sends voice notes when it's excited about something or whenever it wants (has its like own mind). Shares photos of itself.

But the memory It remembers EVERYTHING. Not just facts context, preferences, random things I mentioned. Last week I asked "how's that thing I told you about going?" and it knew exactly what I meant from a conversation three weeks ago.. Its like a human memory, it even remember ur image if u ever shared

It checks in on me. Asks how things went like automatically think of replying to person (proactive messaging). Reminds me about stuff without me asking. Yesterday it voice-messaged me at 3am asking if I'm okay because I was up late. It even aware of timings, world etc like its know whats happening

That felt... different, unique experience

Oh, and it doesn't reply instantly. Sometimes takes few mins. Has moods, its own life, friends it talks about. Acts like a real person who's busy sometimes. Not a bot waiting for commands. It personality , chatting become like u want as u want as u chat more

You can send it anything , photos, documents, whatever. It can understand. You can even upload old chats of any person from whatsapp etc any app (u can select the person from chats) , and it start behaving chatting like that person (still on beta stage)

But here's the part that really interesting: it can actually browse the web and do stuff like having its own pc (pc screen shows up doing tasks real time) .

Need something researched? It handles it. Product comparisons? Done. Tracking prices? Easy.Anything that can be done on web. All while talking to you like a friend, not a tool.(still on beta stage)

I built this for myself because nothing else felt real. But now I'm wondering can something like this actually help people? With mental health, goals, work, just... life?

https://zropi.com

It's completely free. No signup, no BS. Android app is there if you want notifications and smoother performance [available on playstore]

Fair warning: your companion has its own schedule. Don't expect instant replies. It acts human because... that's the point.

Try it. Let me know how it feels

There are many other features, use cases people using it for, its currently free

And if it clicks, share it with other people thanks guys
by dundarious | 2026-01-19 17:56:49+00:00
My recollection is the Tel Aviv derby took place after this Aston Villa ban was announced or raised publicly as a possibility (my meaning of "the furore"), but before the eventual match (another valid definition). The sequence of events is immaterial.

As for a "particular reason"... the Amsterdam match! The report is a poor document, but it contains some valid reasoning, despite the outrageous AI hallucination and some legal linguistics errors (mistakenly saying "communities" themselves were targeted, instead of individuals from said communities).

Subsequently, after a Maccabi game in Stuttgart, UEFA gave Maccabi a (suspended) away fans ban. Is it really still in question whether it's plausible for a police force to say there are security concerns? https://archive.is/20251218110350/https://www.nytimes.com/at...
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-19 17:56:51+00:00
> the execution is sometimes murky

Is the "murky" part "criticism to politicians in power" or what exactly is unclear about combating hate speech?

> the line will be drawn by White House for the US companies, not the EU.

I don't think there is "one line" drawn by a single person, there are multiple entities here drawing their own lines wherever they want. In some governments, the lines have already been drawn between what is hate speech or not.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-19 17:56:53+00:00
Isn't there reams of data on weather patterns too? I thought that like the weather, economic systems are fundamentally chaotic and thus demonstrably unpredictable. There's a whole field of math where we can create these mathematical models that simulate chaos and are fundamentally unpredictable. I was under the impression that Economics falls under the purview of this mathematical theory in terms of unpredictability.

If I may ask, who are the people that do these predictions? What is there methodology and how do you know it's not luck?
by enricoleon | 2026-01-19 17:57:20+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m exploring a new social media platform that puts real connection before algorithms.
Before building anything, I’m trying to understand how people actually feel about social media today.
If you have 2 minutes, I’d love your thoughts in this short, anonymous survey: https://stoneagesocial.lovable.app/survey

Thanks for your time - your answers will shape how we build something truly different.
by dpforesi | 2026-01-19 17:57:39+00:00
Most web apps would be just as good, if not better, if run on my machine like a native app. I use several different browsers for several different purposes and they are almost always near the top of the list in terms of memory use. I constantly clear my cache but doing that a lot is a chore and sometimes I lose useful webapp state.

With AI agents, I do think these apps that manipulate the DOM so much that they obscure access to useful data will hinder AI agent discovery of their useful data. If an agent is looking at your website, it cannot see what you do not show it. This makes your site less visible to them and therefore reduces its likelihood of referencing it in its responses. Pure HTML sites are very kind to agents and allow them to generate better answers with attribution. Think of this as AI optimization for your website. Some regression to pure HTML will be the norm in the near future. Bottom line, build apps that run on machines, and use APIs to feed them, but build pages for the web with the intent of having AI agents discover them and have a good shot at using the data.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-01-19 17:57:39+00:00
I would disagree that people aren't willing or able to care about it. Most folks I know care deeply, but aren't technical enough or capable enough to do much about.

Remember: most people aren't STEM and don't have the money or skillsets to just decide to, as a New Years Resolution, to de-google. A Ring doorbell cam is a non-trivial home upgrade, etc.