MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by philwyshbone | 2026-01-16 20:53:51+00:00
I primarily stay up-to-date through a mix of curated newsletters and industry blogs, supplemented by a daily dive into relevant research papers. This combination helps me balance practical insights with the latest academic developments.

We ran into this ourselves while trying to keep pace with advancements in AI. It became clear that having a structured approach to information intake was essential for staying informed and making sound decisions in our projects.

We ended up building Wyshbone to handle sales lead generation and enablement by integrating insights from various sources, allowing for timely outreach and efficient CRM management.
by ofalkaed | 2026-01-16 20:54:23+00:00
Your zoom issue is probably browser based behavior, with Vivaldi, keyboard zoom does the entire webpage including images. But you can always setup your own bindings for this stuff to get the behavior you want, at least you can do it on linux.

I havn't had any issue with palm rejection on linux in a long time, it is just something that happens on occasion and almost perfect is exactly how I would describe it. The point of that was just that trackpads error more frequently than trackpoint scrolling, which I can't recall ever being confused for a simple middle click; paste happens on release and once you move the trackpoint while middle button is down, it is no longer a middle click so will not paste on release.
by proc0 | 2026-01-16 20:54:35+00:00
The main problem that I'm seeing is that software design is underappreciated and underestimated. To the extent there is AI hype it is driven by this blind spot. Software isn't just a bunch of text. Software is logical structures that form moving parts that interlock and function based on a ton of requirements and specs of the target hardware.

So far AI has shown it cannot understand this layer of software. There are studies of how LLMs derive their answers to technical questions and it is not based on the first principals or logical reasoning, but rather sparse representations derived from training data. As a result it could answer extremely difficult questions that are well represented in the training data but fail miserably on the simplest kinds of questions, i.e. some simple addition of ten digits.

This is what the article is talking about with small teams with new projects being more productive. Chances are these small teams have small enough problems and also have a lot more flexibility to produce software that is experimental and doesn't work that well.

I am also not surprised the hype exists. The software industry does not value software design, and instead optimize their codebases so they can scale by adding an army of coders that produce a ton of duplicate logic and unnecessary complexity. This goes hand-in-hand with how LLMs work, so the transition is seamless.
by philwyshbone | 2026-01-16 20:54:43+00:00
We've seen some tangible benefits from integrating LLMs into our workflow, particularly in automating customer support and content generation. By leveraging language models, we’ve been able to free up our team’s time and focus on more strategic tasks, which has led to improved efficiency.

We ran into this ourselves when we needed to manage a growing volume of inquiries without scaling our support staff. By using LLMs to generate responses and categorize requests, we not only enhanced our response times but also maintained a level of quality that our users appreciated.

We ended up building Wyshbone to handle sales lead generation and outreach timing, integrating seamlessly with our CRM. This has helped us identify potential leads more effectively and optimize our follow-up strategies.
by FreakLegion | 2026-01-16 20:54:43+00:00
The tragedy of the commons is in fact modeled as a game in the game-theoretic sense. It's called the CC–PP Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC%E2%80%93PP_game.

bob1029 wrote that "You can have 100% of participants operating in a locally-ideal way while still creating problems in aggregate", and the tragedy of the commons is exactly an instance of this. SaltyBackendGuy is right.
by gulugawa | 2026-01-16 20:55:34+00:00
I've had luck blocking scrapers by overwriting JavaScript methods

" a.getElementsByTagName = function (...args) {//Clear page content}"

One can also hide components inside Shadow DOM to make it harder to scrape.

However, these methods will interfere with automated testing tools such as Playwright and Selenium. Also, search engine indexing is likely to be affected.
by ericmay | 2026-01-16 20:55:36+00:00
> Well, you're arguing this in the wrong country. You might check your priors. I regret to inform you that only about 5% of Americans use public transit [1] [2] [3], and that is unlikely to change unless there is a sea change of migration towards urban areas from the suburbs and rural areas.

Yes… I’m aware. I’m arguing for change in that figure. Part of the reason American cars are so expensive is because as an industry manufacturers can raise prices because there are no alternatives to car ownership.

The US won’t require EVs for any purpose anytime in our lives. We don’t have the processing and manufacturing capacity to build them here, and we won’t allow our auto industry to go defunct either. It’ll be gasoline for the foreseeable future. Not necessarily a future I like as an EV owner but that’s how things look today. Winning a war is more important than the climate, unfortunately.
by inetknght | 2026-01-16 20:55:55+00:00
> > At Google, for example, 16% of tests exhibited flakiness

> This really surprised me.

It doesn't surprise me. Close to 80% of Google code is actually quite terrible.

> In my experience, usually a flaky test indicates some kind of race condition, and often a difficult-to-reproduce bug.

Yup, that's my experience too. I flip shit when I start seeing flaky tests because it means a lot of actual work. Luckily there's generally a lot of tools available (sanitizers are a godsend) to fix it, and a lot of experience I rely on to look for smells when those tools come up empty.

It makes me really sad when I work on a project with few (or, gasp, zero) tests. I've spent the last 5 months just adding tests to my current project at $employer and... those tests have revealed all kinds of problems in dependencies created by other teams at $employer. Ugh.
by ohare93 | 2026-01-16 20:55:55+00:00
TUI + CLI for running AI agent loops.
- Edit tasks while the loop runs
- Organize tasks with priorities and sessions
- Run parallel agents on git worktrees
- Refine your tasks with the agent too
- Supports Claude and OpenCode

Really it's just a fancy way of running "claude -p" headlessly. But that's the Ralph Loop!

Built with itself - 265 commits in 7 days using multiple agents in parallel.

GitHub: https://github.com/ohare93/juggle

Install:
- macOS: brew tap ohare93/tap && brew install juggle
- Windows: scoop bucket add ohare93 https://github.com/ohare93/scoop && scoop install juggle

MIT licensed, PRs welcome.
by RichardCA | 2026-01-16 20:55:56+00:00
Emacs user. And the fonts I use have to work with anti-aliasing turned off.

Right now I'm using a Dell/Alienware AW3225DM and it's perfect for my needs. Best Buy was discounting these during the Xmas season.

I do not want anything higher than 2560x1440 because it makes my fonts look tiny, or I have to turn anti-aliasing on. Neither option is OK with me.
by alturp | 2026-01-16 20:55:58+00:00
I am using Classic iPod using Rockbox, it is basically drag and drop without Apple's gatekeeping. I also changed battery and increase storage capacity using iFlash adapters. Although I am very happy with this setup, I recommend you check some cheap mp3 players that can be used with Rockbox. It was pain in the ass to open it, and second hand market is way too expensive.

I am using Bandcamp and Youtube to discover music. I also would like to check Musicbrainz.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-16 20:56:08+00:00
"Justice Sensitivity" isn't a condition or a binary trait that you either have or you don't. It's a measurement in some psychological studies where they ask subjects to rate subjective injustices. The study that page links actually shows the ADHD kids having lower perpetrator justice sensitivity so it's not really that simple either, which I'll expand on below.

That Edge Foundation website isn't a good resource. It's SEO filler content for them to feed their coaching sales funnel.

The actual study it linked is more informative. They surveyed a group of kids about their reaction to different scenarios of injustice and also ADHD traits. They found a positive correlation between ADHD and sensitivity to injustice from the victim perspective, but substantially lower sensitivity to injustice from the perpetrator perspective.

Given that this study was purely in 10-19 year olds (mostly children) and the opposite results for victim and perpetrator injustice, I suspect it's just measuring emotional maturity among the kids. The study also noticed a high correlation with angry and anxious responses, which further supports the correlation to emotional and interpersonal maturity.
by owenversteeg | 2026-01-16 20:56:29+00:00
Comments here are interesting. Of course it’s a copy, he was 12. For pretty much of all of human history, to make art you would first consume large amounts of it to develop taste and then make many copies to develop skill and style. The average modern-day artist (writer, painter, poet, etc) does this far less than ever before, to the point where we have forgotten that’s how learning works.
by martin-t | 2026-01-16 20:56:36+00:00
> After all, demand has a hard ceiling at 24 hours per day.

I agree consumption is capped. I constantly struggle with whether to watch a given video or read a given article. I have an ever increasing to-watch and to-read list and unfortunately human life is too short to learn all the things I would want to.

That being said, on the production side, it's a complex interplay between quality, quantity and discoverability. If it takes 10x the effort to increase quality 2x, then it might economical to produce 10x the number of videos with 1x the quality. I say might because those videos will be shared less, rated worse and will therefore have lower discoverability. But by how much?

And you can't judge quality until after you've consumed the "content"[0]. So if the goal is to serve as many ads as possible, it's more economical to just make more "content". That's why I much prefer individual "creators" who clearly do what they do because they enjoy it.

[0]: https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/#:~:text...
by cptskippy | 2026-01-16 20:56:59+00:00
> I don’t know if anyone has claimed Wales should not be considered a cofounder. I think the general question is specifically whether he is the only founder. In this interview, he introduced himself as “the” founder.

I don't think that he was claiming to be sole-founder and I don't think claiming to be founder implies you're the sole founder. The choice of "the" over "a" though does have some implication, and his intentional choice to use "the" might have been to avoid broaching the subject of Sanger. It's clearly a touchy subject for him.

And at the same time if Steve Jobs or Bill Gates were introduced as the founders of their respective companies I personally wouldn't think much of it.

At the end of the day, the Wikipeida pages on Wikipedia and Sanger credit Sanger appropriately so the it's not as if Wales is exerting his will to erase Sanger or his contribution. He just gets pissy when you bring it up.
by pokot0 | 2026-01-16 20:57:06+00:00
fyi: it does not build for me from the source code.

Rebuild Failed

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node-gyp failed to rebuild '[...]/1code/node_modules/node-pty'

Error: node-gyp failed to rebuild '[...]/1code/node_modules/node-pty'
at ChildProcess.<anonymous> ([...]/1code/node_modules/@electron/rebuild/lib/module-type/node-gyp/node-gyp.js:121:24)
at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:508:28)
at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:294:12)
node:child_process:1000
throw err;
^
by n8cpdx | 2026-01-16 20:57:07+00:00
This seems insightful. I was going to comment elsewhere that some people seem to find structured systems really bothersome, whereas I personally just do not. But I am an INTJ, if anything. The idea of not taking a systems approach feels incredibly foreign, to the extent I can’t even really imagine where one would start.

How do you approach improving your personal outcomes related to ADHD without developing a system?
by etyhhgfff | 2026-01-16 20:57:15+00:00
A Casio Watch. I no longer have to pull out my smartphone just to get the current time. It also shows current date and weekday. It has a button to activate light so I can easily read the time when it is dark without getting flashed by my smartphone screen. I also use the countdown timer frequently for cooking or as short term reminder. The battery lasts for years. No "smart" functions like getting the news, messages from friends or email notifications. You can put it underwater, swim or shower with it and it still works.
by kxb4032 | 2026-01-16 20:57:23+00:00
That matches what we’ve seen too. Reliability seems to come from tightening the scope of each step, not from making the agent itself more sophisticated.

The intent boundary is the key thing for us. Rather than reasoning about an agent end to end, Keypost evaluates policy at a single tool call or pipeline step. If that step is narrow, enforcement stays simple and failures are easier to understand.

Putting those constraints in the pipeline instead of inside each agent has held up better for us as agents change over time. How are you scoping intent in GTWY today?
by avensec | 2026-01-16 20:57:31+00:00
Thanks for asking! Until I learned to be alone without feeling abandoned by myself, no amount of connection could make me feel less lonely. Here is a rough outline of topics and how I feel they relate.

In attachment terms, loneliness can be a signal that we haven't yet internalized a stable sense of safety and worth. I wasn't missing others, I was missing an internal relationship with myself.

I was anxious even with others, because safety, worth, and regulation were outsourced to my relationships. I needed others to constantly help me feel those things. That was me externalizing my self worth.

I was avoidant with myself, because the connection with myself felt unsafe or unfamiliar. I leaned on things, status, money, in order to avoid looking deep within my heart. In the end, I had to do a lot of internal work. I had to learn that I matter even when no one is affirming me. Leaning on those <things> was self-abandonment in disguise. I would think, "If only I just had a little more knowledge I could solve this." We generally don't solve heart problems with our head.

Loneliness eased when I stopped trying to get my sense of self from the external world. I had to become someone that I could be with. Someone I didn't need to escape from.

How I accomplished it was not a short journey, but in summary it looked like:

1) Knowing my past, tolerating the discomfort, and sitting in it without judgement. I did this with a therapist.

2) Having a safe individual who always nurtured me, and taught me how to be OK with my big feelings. This was with an emotional intelligence coach. I felt the loneliness ease greatly once I could affirm myself.

3) Now that I had the knowledge to know my heart and my worth, I could then create connections outside of myself. I see this like, having the book knowledge, but now being able to learn how true it was experientially. This led to meeting my best friend and partner in this life. Having someone close to co-regulate, when I need support, and providing that in return, has been the final piece of the puzzle.

I firmly believe that most people need someone to co-regulate with. We can't white-knuckle our way to knowing ourselves better, but boy did I try!

Thanks again, and best of luck on your journey if you are on it :).
by stungeye | 2026-01-16 20:57:38+00:00
So cool. Thanks for sharing the source! A few years back I made a p5.js ASCII Cloud sketch using the extended ASCII block chars.

For those curious what a stripped-down version of noise-based clouds would look like, it's only 50 lines of js: https://editor.p5js.org/stungeye/sketches/LPdeHgz9B
by sebmellen | 2026-01-16 20:57:44+00:00
I've seen this painting a couple of times a week for the past few years, since I live within walking distance of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, where it's held. It's super tiny in person, but it's very cool to see it.

“Fort Worth” probably doesn't conjure to mind a very lively art scene, but in the museum district here we have the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, all within walking distance of each other. Each one is worth a visit.
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-16 20:57:46+00:00
Its going to be interesting to see what shenanigans one can do by paying to advertise on OpenAI

Of course they are going to "anonymise" the chats, and only extract keywords summaries.

But, as some people are generally more candid with chatbots, de-anonymisation through keyword selection is trivially possible.

It won't just stay at ultra precise demographic selection (ie all males 35-40, living in london, worried about hair loss). They will offer scenarios that facebook/instagram could only infer/dream of

"middle aged woman with disposable income unhappy with spouse."

Where it gets interesting is how they will provide proof that the advert has landed/reached eyeballs.
by bayindirh | 2026-01-16 20:57:51+00:00
Actually, I can reliably say that hobbies have some ROI, regardless of the hobby even, because you're getting experienced in what you do and subjects around your hobby. On the other hand if you do a hobby for its ROI, it's not a hobby anymore. It's just training. I prefer to have fun, not to train like a robot for some stats.

Recently I have watched a couple of Venus Theory's [0] videos. In one of them he asked the question why you're doing the thing you're doing, questioning the intention of creation. Is it self-satisfaction, or validation, he asks. I'm personally on the former camp. I used to share what I do for just putting it out, and adding a couple of pointers to it. If anyone commented on it, it's great (hint: nobody ever did). Otherwise I don't care. Having no feedback doesn't stop me, because I do what I do, enjoy the process and just put it out there (now less so because of the AI crawlers, alas).

While I like working/playing with computers, I have other hobbies, too, and I find them equally rewarding, and I don't care about their costs.

I also do not belittle the people who buy racks of hardware for their home. If I was not at the point I am currently, I'd probably do it, too. I'm just lucky to have access to it already, not needing these screeching hot banshees at home. Trying to scale down into a pragmatic minimalism also is both a result and reason of swimming in cables and big equipment in a small space when I was a teenager.

So, I got enough of these things at home, and I prefer to use them at their natural habitat. That's all.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@VenusTheory/videos
by tzs | 2026-01-16 20:57:58+00:00
Kind of OT, but I heard an interesting thing on a radio program talking about childcare: the US almost got free universal child care in the early 1970s via the Comprehensive Child Development Act.

At first Nixon was for it and there was enough support in Congress to pass it.

There was a fair bit of opposition from the rightmost fraction of the Republican party for the expected reasons (too Communist; it would make it too easy for women to get jobs instead of staying home where the belonged; government funded daycare centers would turn into leftist indoctrination centers) but Nixon and others felt that there would be enough political good passing it to outweigh pissing off rightmost members of their own party. The far right back then was a minority within the party.

But at the same time Nixon wanted to open trade with China, which also was something the far right end of the party was very much against.

Nixon decided that he could not afford politically to anger the far right on two big issues so close together and so had to drop one. Childcare was the one he dropped, and with Nixon's support gone the bill died.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-16 20:58:57+00:00
Related:

90M people. 193+ hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603910

Among a number of other posts previously getting into it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591974

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542683
by tavavex | 2026-01-16 20:59:13+00:00
Are you an American? Because this feels like a very US-centric view. I know you're not advocating for this, but it feels like the predictions you've set out for Canada are hitting this intrinsic bias that people who are really into geopolitics always have - they always think about the world as a fully-informed chess game where everyone always makes optimal moves, and they're biased towards predicting sweeping world-changing events that rarely happen due to a multitude of issues. The few major events that do happen often end up unraveling in completely different ways than the internet had predicted.

The Albertan separatism thing is largely drummed-up due to American aggression towards Canada, it slots right into the news cycle alongside threats of annexation that Canada was getting not that long ago. That being said, even in a province as conservative as Alberta, it remains a fringe view, even though some politicians are now willing to say the quiet part out loud. Consider how hard Quebec had tried to secede on multiple occasions, and yet despite having a far stronger case and far more supporters, still failed every time. Talking about Saskatchewan is just trying to lump them in with the Albertans, where in reality that group is even more niche.

But then talking about Yukon and the Northwest Territories just outs this as enthusiastic map-painting. The reality is, both of these places are overwhelmingly indigenous, and they'd have no reason to ever want to not be part of Canada. Also, they're both territories, which in many ways means they're ruled directly by the federal government, a.k.a. you won't be getting those short of a military invasion or completely ruining the rest of the country to the point where they can just cut it all up.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-16 20:59:20+00:00
Umm... what data? That's a very old newsletter-like site. Everything that's public on it has been long scraped and parsed by whoever needed it. There's 0 valuable data there for "parasites" to parasite off of.

I also don't get the comments on the linked social site. IIUC the users posting there are somehow involved with kernel work, right? So they should know a thing or two about technical stuff? How / why are they so convinced that the big bad AI baddies are scraping them, and not some miss-configured thing that someone or another built? Is this their first time? Again, there's nothing there that hasn't been indexed dozens of times already. And... sorry to say it, but newsletters aren't exactly "prime data" for any kind of training.

These people have gone full tinfoil hat and spewing hate isn't doing them any favours.
by derbOac | 2026-01-16 21:00:04+00:00
In the article they state "We found that emojis were sent in portal messages to patients aged 70 to 79 years at the second highest rate, after those aged 10 to 19 years" which implies some of this at least is in messages to patients.

I can see sending emojis as a way of trying to be friendly and informal in communications with patients, especially if the patients have already used them.

Patients are all different so I can see some of them hating their use, but I can also see some patients appreciating a more lighthearted tone.

Pediatrics in particular is full of this kind of stuff in general.