MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by snackdex | 2026-01-01 18:29:56+00:00
i think what i'm getting at is fundamentally different...watching tv and scrolling through social media are distinct experiences.

When you scroll, the content is directly in front of you and you're actively controlling the flow (you decide whether to keep scrolling or stop).

With tv, the input is removed from you (you'd have to reach for the remote to change the channel) also channel flipping during ads isn't really a thing anymore.

So while the "dog in the ad" principle might work for tv where people are more passive and less likely to change the channel...i'm not sure it directly translates to phone scrolling, where you have more immediate control and are actively making micro-decisions about whether to keep scrolling or engage.
by robocat | 2026-01-01 18:30:16+00:00
> dancing

A "screwing club for men" was the scene at the Salsa dancing which I joined (with female friends). I really loved the salsa and really enjoyed everything with the rest of the learners, and with my friends. Unfortunately it took me too long to realize that the "top" men were more interested in fucking beginner women than in real socializing. Too predator vibe for me so we quit - I probably should have looked for a better group. That group was an outlier - later I've seen dancing groups with fantastic dynamics.

Dancing is amazing, and I'd recommend anyone to try it, but try to join a social group.

It looks like it would be great to travel with: I met a truly wonderful bunch of people at a LGBT friendly Tango (my AirBnB hosts took me in Argentina).
by bri3d | 2026-01-01 18:30:24+00:00
I have seen some manufacturers enroll multiple manufacturer keys, probably with this notion, but this isn’t useful against almost any threat model.

If keys are recovered using some form of low level hardware attack, as was almost surely the case here, the attacker can usually recover the unused key sets too.

If the chip manufacturing provisioning supply chain is leaky the new keys will probably be disclosed anyway, and if the key custody chain is broken (ie, keys are shared with OEMs or third parties) they will definitely be disclosed anyway.
by metadope | 2026-01-01 18:30:24+00:00
It's a pretty picture.

Nice car, a V8 from the Sixties, no doubt.

Blue skies. Nothing but blue skies.

I wonder if those berries nearby are poisonous.

Is that Hawaii, Clearwater Florida, or Galveston Texas?

Wait, is that a tsunami?!

This is a secret subtle subliminal message (global warming is real) from a subversive Antifa agent fighting for America from within DHS.
by sbarre | 2026-01-01 18:30:27+00:00
About 15 years ago I got rid of almost all of my physical media. I was moving a lot at the time (I've moved 13 times over the last 20 years, several times to different cities) and I had hundreds of CDs, DVDs and books.. It was literally a quarter of my boxes every time I moved..

So I sold and donated all of it, kept what had special value, and re-acquired a lot of it digitally.

I still think I made the right decision, although every now and then I miss something specific and regret it, but I get over it pretty fast.
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-01 18:30:54+00:00
Yeah, don't do that. Instagram ads are no different to the WURGLBIXY and HUYTVING and XORMLINAP and other smashed up syllable "brands" on Amazon, except they'll mostly deliver something to you, even if it is shit.

Take any of the images from an Instagram ad. Someone, somewhere, did (probably) build or design the product being sold (a lot come from Kickstarter and may have never launched), but if you search you'll find hundreds or more scams riding on that coattails who will hope to collect and fuck off with your money before IG shuts them down (if they ever do).
by guessmyname | 2026-01-01 18:30:59+00:00
For many Hacker News readers who check the website every day, this is not news:

• (4 years ago) Japan forces Apple to slightly loosen restrictions on ‘reader’ apps — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28387094

• (3 years ago) Japan pushes for Apple and Google to allow sideloading — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36393809

• (3 years ago) Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competition — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36368735

• (3 years ago) Japan to open up Apple- and Google-dominated phone apps to competition — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36370398

• (3 years ago) Apple Japan hit with $98M in back taxes for missing duty-free abuses — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34156235

• (2 years ago) Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38773429

• (2 years ago) Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40666651

• (2 years ago) Japan enacts law to curb Apple, Google's app dominance — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40671162

• (5 months ago) Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44810061

• (5 months ago) Japan Law Will Require Apple to Allow Non-WebKit Browsers on iPhone — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826077

• (15 days ago) Apple Announces Changes to iOS in Japan — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307858

• (14 days ago) Apple and Google respond to new Japan smartphone law, including reduced app fees — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310074

… and more here: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=japan+apple
by upofadown | 2026-01-01 18:31:52+00:00
Regular Bluetooth security is not that great. A lot of it is poor usability where the user can't easily know that they don't have a secure connection. Setting up a secure connection might involve entering a PIN on each end of the connection which might be challenging for something like a pair of earbuds. This contains a nice discussion of the issues and talks about active attacks:

* https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.07190
by swat535 | 2026-01-01 18:32:06+00:00
Genetics play a factor, but you can still look pretty good, feel great if you consistently go to the gym, lift heavy weights and eat your calories.

You won't look like Arnold as there are genetic factors at play but people shouldn't be discouraged in thinking they won't be able to achieve a good body.

Another factor, that I think many men forget (I can't speak for women), is their testosterone levels. If you are following everything and have no results I recommend that you have your levels tested. Many men are suffering from Hypogonadism without realizing it. I had this issue for years and when I did my tests, I was at 7.6 nmol/L !

My doctor put me on HCG and it was like night and day.
by concinds | 2026-01-01 18:32:06+00:00
The "monoculture" has never been less of a threat. WPT.FYI is driving towards asymptotically perfect compatibility and behavior. And the real web, the long-tail of websites, is too chaotic to be controlled by any entity regardless of browser market share. Chrome can cook up whatever API they want, no website can be forced to adopt it. And if someone can't use some WebMIDI site on Safari, well, they can't complain, they didn't want that site to exist in the first place.

It's simply not a good excuse to defend the iOS browser ban.
by eduction | 2026-01-01 18:32:26+00:00
tonsky seems to be chugging along with his humbleui project

https://github.com/humbleui/humbleui

Most of the work (and the recent updates) seem to be in the two main subcomponents

https://github.com/HumbleUI/JWM

https://github.com/HumbleUI/Skija
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-01 18:32:31+00:00
Most ADCs in consumer products were crap anyway (with the exception of Apple, who for a long time used the widely beloved Wolfson DACs).

If you want actual quality... be ready to shell out a bit of money [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.de/Qudelix-Bluetooth-Adaptive-unsymmetris...
by mvdtnz | 2026-01-01 18:32:33+00:00
> Other people (at least in this country) are generally emotionally messy, unwilling to tolerate people with radically different views/values, and either intellectually lacking or overly predictable in their interests.

Does every person need to be unpredicatable and intellectually stimulating in order to spend time with them? If a friend who lives in Rotorua is interested in mountain biking (how predictable, how shallow) does that make spending time on a bike in the forest with them somehow lesser?
by oarfish | 2026-01-01 18:32:41+00:00
Perfect form isnt a thing, its all a matter of what joint positions you are adapted to produce or reduce force in. So the problem with form breakdown isnt that the position you end up in is dangerous (no, rounding your back some is not bad), but that you are not prepared for the stress in that position.

Its unfortunate that people say deadlifting "wrong" causes injury, while the evidence does not support it. People should not be turned off from lifting heavy by such statements.
by ok1984 | 2026-01-01 18:32:47+00:00
The obvious answer would be use oauth and base it on one of the main providers such as Google, Microsoft or Meta.

However starting from last year, due to the fact that these companies are becoming too dominant and I don’t trust them anymore I started applying a philosophy of avoiding to depend on them as much as possible unless customers explicitly require to use their services, for this reason we opted to always have our own solution and if needed integrate it with 3rd party solutions, this way we are not slave to FAMGE companies and we have full control over our product, it’s a small drop in an ocean but at least I sleep with more inner peace knowing that I am still contributing to the distributed architecture of internet.

Sounds crazy, potentially less secure, and time consuming but still, I prefer this approach.

Microsoft already F** Us by buying GitHub, others by stealing accumulated knowledge of stackoverflow, and forcing everybody to be AI dependent because they poured billions in it… I am not letting it happen again.
by th0ma5 | 2026-01-01 18:32:48+00:00
I think when a moderator keeps intervening like this it really does mean that there's something wrong here. I think people would be less mad if you just went ahead and said that you have some kind of special arrangement here with this influencer and post publicly that you like them constantly spamming the site and letting their fans flood the place with deflection and appeals for donations to them. Even YouTube had to add a sponsored post disclaimer.
by shimman | 2026-01-01 18:32:49+00:00
House prices are only "out of wack" in areas with poor social housing programs.

Housing in Vienna is still affordable, only due to their very successful public housing programs. Public housing can be both beautiful and highly affordable if you want it to be, it's not like we don't know how to make good quality homes with lovely public amenities. It's mostly developers that want to skim on everything while selling it at the highest cost possible.

Poor system if this is the outcome: unaffordability.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-01 18:33:20+00:00
amazing quote. Adding it to my about page, do you want credit or shall I credit it to archimedes xD

On a serious note, its so brilliant that something like this is now possible when we think about it. It's maddeningly crazy to think about all the process but in the end that you can end up with a system / linux iso whose hash you can trust/independently verify and then you use it and spread around the world. Definitely makes me feel as sky's the only limit or just its very pleasant to think about it.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-01 18:33:47+00:00
“Almost everyone will use it at free or effectively subsidized prices” and “It delivers utility which justifies its variable costs + fixed costs amortized over useful lifetime” are not the same thing, and its not clear how much of the use is tied to novelty such that if new and progressively more expensive to train releases at a regular cadence dropped off, usage, even at subsidized prices, would, too.
by Demiurge | 2026-01-01 18:33:48+00:00
I agree. I've been living off Python for 20 years and have never needed to know any of these numbers, nor do I need them now, for my work, contrary to the title. I also regularly use profiling for performance optimization and opt for Cython, SWIG, JIT libraries, or other tools as needed. None of these numbers would ever factor into my decision-making.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-01 18:34:01+00:00
I can look at a politician or a CEO or just someone I encounter in life and see autism (or not), narcissism, sociopathy or any number of other conditions. Is this a diagnosis? No. But it's part of my mental model for dealing with such people. I'm not sure why you played the faux offense card at people making casual observations.

It's also clear to anyone who pays attention that there is a genetic link with autism and it doesn't take much to see it.

More deeply, you rcomment reads as a typical neurotypical response (or possibly internalized ableism from someone who isn't diagnozed but probably should be). There is a real safety issue here because autistic people can spot the neurotypical vs neurodivergent difference pretty darn quickly and have come to realize that neurotypical people are a real threat, particularly in the job market.

And if you still don't think neurodivergent people can spot neurotypical people, what about the reaction autistic people get from allistic people? Allistic people tend to instinctively dislike, distrust or even bully autistic people from the moment they meet them. They create conditions where autistic people have a harder time in the workplace, are less likely to get promoted and more likely to be fired or forced to quit.

And you still think it isn't obvious?
by LorenPechtel | 2026-01-01 18:34:58+00:00
Gobbels.

Repeating it a hundred times doesn't make it true.

And the brainwashing is about normalizing antisemitism. The term "islamophobia" is the equivalent of playing the race card. We aren't afraid of Muslims, we are afraid of the radicals that will use their money to cause great trouble as a route to power.

Fundamentally, you are allowing them to use dead Palestinians as weapons against Israel. That which works is rewarded--by believing the propaganda you are encouraging the killing of Palestinians.

And if you actually care about genocide why blame Israel when the real genocides are going on in Africa? Is it perhaps because the initiators of all of the ongoing genocides are Iranian-backed Islamist forces?
by BurningFrog | 2026-01-01 18:35:08+00:00
There are 3 or 4 laws of thermodynamics, and I can't figure out which one you might possibly be referring to.

I agree that current carbon capture tech is very inadequate, because very little effort has been put into it. How many orders of magnitude better it can get, we don't know until we try, but I don't see any fundamental reason it can't get good enough.

Once you have a solar powered capture machine park pumping CO₂ underground, it can keep working indefinitely at little cost.

> I wonder what were the other important CO₂ producing activities you intend to do less of.

All of them. This is well under way. I don't know how many decades it will take. But that's a separate problem.

The crucial thing to understand is that even if/when all CO₂ production has ended, the produced CO₂ won't disappear by itself for thousands of years!!

So you really need to actively remove it to get back to natural levels. Which is why I think carbon capture tech must be developed.
by jeffbee | 2026-01-01 18:35:14+00:00
I find this site interesting because of its mixture of good topic choice and inaccurate details. I think it's generated by LLMs.

Specifically catching my eye in this collection of articles is the highly misleading one about huge pages. All recent Linux distributions have THP set to "madvise" by default. Many programs exploit THP automatically, including any Go program and any JVM program with a flag set. The tcmalloc shared library that comes with Ubuntu is probably the single worst way to experience huge pages. Mi-malloc is the better choice if you must preload a library, but there are even better choices. Explicit huge pages are little-used because managing them is annoying. Finally, latest Linux kernels have a feature called "folios" that makes THP even smoother.
by ben_w | 2026-01-01 18:35:41+00:00
From the outside, it appears that "upset the regime" includes "cheating your way into profits".

That said, it's very difficult to be sure if what I see from the outside is propaganda. Or rather, it is always propaganda even when it's true, and I can't tell how much of it is China's own self-promotion vs. other people giving negative propaganda.
by grinich | 2026-01-01 18:35:42+00:00
WorkOS powers auth for OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Vercel, Perplexity, Clay, Webflow, Granola, and a bunch of others. Free up to 1m users, you pay for enterprise features.

I'm the founder and happy to help. We've differentiated by focusing on "b2b auth" via SAML/SCIM, but today we do everything else. We also have products for feature flags, encryption, bot blocking, MCP auth, etc.

Fun fact, we actually launched on HN in 2020 :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607402
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-01 18:35:49+00:00
In the context of personal computers, is it possible to attain "privacy and security" without control

For example, can a "Big Tech" company attain "privacy and security" if it does not have control over its computers. What if it delegates control to someone else such as an individual home internet subscriber

For another example, can an individual home internet subscriber attain "privacy and security" if he does not have control over his computers. What if the subscriber delegates control to a "Big Tech" company
by UniverseHacker | 2026-01-01 18:35:53+00:00
Why would this be unlikely as a prior? High CO2 changes your blood chemistry and breathing rates. Different breathing rates have a well understood effects on lots of systems including sympathetic/parasympathetic activation. There is no reason to expect humans to be evolutionary adapted to CO2 levels that we couldn't have experienced historically.

Several other posters in here have posted peer reviewed studies replicating these effects, but personally I find individual direct experience with my own body to be massively more generally useful when making health decisions than studies in other people, or some known mechanism.
by zorgmonkey | 2026-01-01 18:36:06+00:00
It isn't that wild; the typical name for it is anti-rollback, and you probably have at least one device that implements it. Most Android devices have anti-rollback efuses to prevent installing older versions of the bootchain\bootloader; they might still allow you to downgrade the OS (depends on the vendor, if memory serves). Instead of using efuse counters, anti-rollback counters can also be implemented by Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB), which is implemented by many flash storage (eMMC often supports RPMB, but other storage types can as well). It is possible to implement anti-rollback mechanisms on x86_64 by utilizing a TPM [0], but as far as I know, only Chrome OS does this.

[0]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/tpm-usa...
by Aurornis | 2026-01-01 18:36:22+00:00
That's fair. He's a prominent figure on Twitter who posts a lot of charts and graphs on different and often benign subjects which get shared around a lot. It's not until you follow him that you realize his core obsession is promoting ideas about race and IQ in broad strokes and singling out ethnic groups as inferior or more likely to commit crime. He has a history of posting misleading or falsified charts or data if their convenient to his agenda.

If you go deeper, his old Reddit account under a pseudonym was discovered to be a little more mask-off than his Twitter personality. From Wikipedia:

> between 2014 and 2016 Lasker had made many anti-Semitic and racist posts on Reddit under the pseudonym Faliceer.[7] In 2016, the account Faliceer self-identified as a "Jewish White Supremacist Nazi". He also wished Adolf Hitler a happy birthday, promoted eugenics and attacked interracial relationships.
by siavosh | 2026-01-01 18:36:38+00:00
I read the whole post. Really revealing - so much analysis but not a single mention of a global system that is reaching a singularity in wealth concentration, and maybe how that might be an important dimension to reflect on. Its like using so many words to deeply analyze the speed differentials in a car race, but not looking up to see that all the drivers are racing towards a brick wall.
Show HN: Vect AI – An execution-first AI system for marketing workflows
by afrafgf | 2026-01-01 18:37:20+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building Vect AI, an execution-focused AI system designed to reduce the gap between “ideas” and “things actually shipped.”

While experimenting with AI tools, I noticed a pattern: most tools are good at suggesting actions, but weak at helping users finish real work. Context switching, manual steps, and fragmented workflows slow everything down.

Vect AI is an attempt to solve this by focusing on:

Execution-first workflows instead of prompt demos

Automating repeatable marketing and growth tasks

Treating AI as a system that does work, not just advice

I’m building this in public and iterating based on real usage and content feedback.
For transparency, here’s what Google has currently indexed from the project:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:vect.pro

Project: https://vect.pro

I’d appreciate honest feedback from the community:

Where does execution break down most in your workflow?

What would make an AI system genuinely useful day-to-day?

What feels unnecessary or unclear?

Thanks for reading. Happy to answer questions.
by dang | 2026-01-01 18:37:26+00:00
There's no special arrangement. The only issue is clarifying what content is welcome vs. unwelcome on HN. simonw's content is obviously welcome, and this ought to be obvious.

> I think people would be less mad

People aren't mad about this. The vast majority of this community values simonw's contributions, which are well within the sweet spot for material on HN. That's why his material gets upvoted, as minimaxir (no friend of astroturfers) has pointed out elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451969.
by buremba | 2026-01-01 18:37:36+00:00
Maybe it's better now but I wouldn't call this first-class support, as you rely on the JS runtime to initialize WASM.

The last time I tried it, the cold start was over 10 seconds, making it unusable for any practical use case. Maybe the tech is not there but given that WASM guarantees the sandboxing already and supports multiple languages, I was hoping we would have providers investing in it.
by dzonga | 2026-01-01 18:38:14+00:00
American car manufacturers don't play to their strengths e.g affordable sports cars - Chevy Corvette Stingray | Mustang GT how many are sold in foreign markets

the Bronco could make a killing in Africa but is it sold there NO. I understand here in the states the 4runner has no competition - yet ford wants to kill it using the Bronco. Why not use the Bronco to kill the land cruiser in markets where people default to a Land Cruiser / Fortuner and force Toyota to play defense.

E.g in Africa certain markets Ford started selling the Ford Ranger Raptor and they're making a killing - and actually starting to cause Toyota to compete and not bring their usual stale cars.

However Chinese have brought their A-game too - Tank 300, BYD Shark etc