MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sharlin | 2026-01-08 09:50:10+00:00
People have varying sensitivies to flicker, but the refresh rate of even basic cheap CRT monitors was something like 75 or 85 Hz, which most people found essentially flickerless. Higher-end monitors would go up to 100 or 120 Hz, one of the several ways that for some use cases they were superior to LCD displays for quite a long time. Televisions, at 50 or 60 Hz, were pretty bad of course.
by damnitbuilds | 2026-01-08 09:50:32+00:00
If people don't like something, I think the motivation to act is more than if they do like something or are neutral. Human nature.

People will downvote a headline with positive comments on something they don't like.

But what do they do with a negative headline about something they don't like ? I guess they will upvote it to show they also don't like it.

So negative wins.

"ran GPT-4 sentiment analysis on full article text."
I think most people vote based on headlines, not on article text.
by rvba | 2026-01-08 09:50:36+00:00
I know a manager who was master of this technique - he did not read any email, nor do anything.

Would not make a single decision.

All his projects failed and those around hated him, there was a lot of joy after he was fired. This lack of decisions costed the company a ton of money.

This guife is maybe made for the rare few who end up with a clean inbox every day.
by NPC82 | 2026-01-08 09:50:43+00:00
Traditionally, the US Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) is actually a policy guidance document and not a marketing or handout document.

Nine pages is laughable and sad. There are entire missing sections on different life stages and transition foods. (edit: I see it now, I scrolled by it because it's way shorter than it usually is) That kind of sensitive guidance on nutrition is supposed to come from this document - which is usually 150+ pages and includes input from committees of registered dietitians.

I'm glad some people are enthusiastic to find nutritional clarity in their lives but I can't imagine this is going to be helpful for the institutions or people that usually rely on it.

Also, please remember this secretary is actively ignoring a measles outbreak, has an obsession with instagram health fads, and is a disgrace to the global scientific community.
by thatoleg | 2026-01-08 09:50:46+00:00
I can echo this experience as well.

Running Odoo in a fully isolated environment within a factory, in some less popular locations - is a very frequent request. And the Community edition does check the boxes.

Pair Community edition with some in-house/custom-built Replenishment solution, and you have a very decent solution for a Distributor or Retailer.

Enterprise modules are a good value too, as long as business processes and geography do match the regions it is developed for.
by pwagland | 2026-01-08 09:51:20+00:00
In my experience, Gemini is great for "one-shot" work, and is my goto for "web" AI usage. Claude Code beats gemini-cli though. Gemini-cli isn't bad, but it's also not good.

I would love to try antigravity out some more, but last I don't think it is out of playground stage yet, and can't be used for anything remotely serious AFAIK.
by businessmate | 2026-01-08 09:51:23+00:00
Recent advances in consumer AI have led to the introduction of domain-specific systems designed to improve safety, privacy, and contextual relevance in sensitive areas such as healthcare.

The launch of ChatGPT Health in January 2026 represents a significant and responsible step in this direction, introducing isolation, enhanced protections, and physician-informed evaluation for health-related AI interactions.

This article argues that while such measures reduce the probability of harm, they do not resolve the governance challenge that emerges after reliance on AI-generated representations occurs. In regulatory, legal, and board-level scrutiny, the decisive question is not whether an AI output was accurate or well-intentioned, but whether organizations can reconstruct exactly what was shown, under what conditions, and on what basis at the moment decisions were shaped.
by flir | 2026-01-08 09:51:37+00:00
There was a study that found that, in radiology, human-first assessment resulted in worse outcomes that human-alone. Possibly the human's letting borderline cases through, on the assumption that the machine will catch them.

There's a roundup of such findings here, but they're a mixed bag: https://www.uxtigers.com/post/humans-negative-value I suspect you need careful process design to get better outcomes, and it's not one-size-fits-all.
by jotaen | 2026-01-08 09:51:59+00:00
This limitation comes with more interesting implications: e.g., I noticed that some bike trips are noticeably slower than average. For those I’d assume that the rider either took a detour or made a stop in between. The animation, however, makes it appear as if it was a very slow ride. Maybe worth considering to filter out all rides that are essentially walking speed or slower.

It also would be interesting to learn how many rides had been excluded altogether, just to put things into perspective.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-08 09:52:13+00:00
The UK is very similar to the US, very neoliberal.

They have a little more consumer protection but not a lot.

Here in Spain cards don't tend to provide any cashback, also they hurt your credit rating (in contrast with the US where they improve it and people end up shuffling cards). They're pretty unpopular here, most people just use debit cards. I prefer it too, if I don't need credit to buy something I don't want to use it. I currently don't have any loan or credit active which is the best situation in case I'd want to get a mortgage.

We do have some cards like revolut which provide some benefits but you have to pay a monthly sub. It's more promotional stuff like 'free' Uber one, perplexity, tinder etc. I don't find those terribly useful except for perplexity but they give that away free with a lot of things. Uber one in particular really sucks because it's way more expensive than local alternatives (cabify for rides, glovo for meals) even with the discount.
by danpalmer | 2026-01-08 09:52:14+00:00
I was using "more regulated" as a lazy catch all, but I'm actually British and now live in Australia. The Apple Card would be pretty amazing in either market in my experience. The UK seemed to max out at 0.5-1% back at scale (not including sign up incentives). Australia is similar, although here credit cards are disincentivised even more.
by democat | 2026-01-08 09:52:50+00:00
Great question! I love Pandoc and use it often, but as a "universal" converter, it sometimes misses the nuances of specific pairs.
Tylax is designed specifically for the LaTeX $\leftrightarrow$ Typst workflow. By focusing on just this 1-on-1 pair, we can offer:
Better Math & Macros: A built-in macro expander handles custom commands (\newcommand) and complex nested math that general parsers often struggle with.
Cleaner Code: The output is designed to be idiomatic and human-readable (e.g., using native Typst functions), not just "compilable."
WASM Support: Being written in Rust means it runs instantly in the browser, making it easy to embed in web apps without a backend.
Pandoc is the Swiss Army knife; we're trying to be a specialized tool just for this specific transition.
by Timwi | 2026-01-08 09:55:17+00:00
My only experience with dependabot has been that GitHub spammed me with notifications from it. Now don't get me wrong, if I have a project with an outdated version of jQuery that has security vulnerabilities, it's useful to know about it. But it kept notifying me even after I committed a change to delete that jQuery file because the project no longer needed it. I couldn't find an easy way to get it to shut up about it.
Ask HN: What is the new "reading" feature in DeepSeek?
by DenisDolya | 2026-01-08 09:55:54+00:00
I recently used Deepseek and when sending another request in "Thinking" mode initially showed activation of "reading" mode, I sent a regular text request without documents so I don't know what that means. Well, I suspect that this is a deeper understanding of the user prompt.
by robertjpayne | 2026-01-08 09:56:25+00:00
shadcn/ui I'd argue is probably the single biggest factor in the declining Tailwind revenue more so than just LLMs in general.

As said is it is to say shadcn is what Tailwind should've created and maintained for a fee rather than some html/css templates that are easily replicated.

I say this as someone who bought Tailwind+ to support the project many years ago and still use Tailwind every single day.
by crashabr | 2026-01-08 09:56:26+00:00
I've been waiting for Logseq DB to come out to replace Google docs for my team. So your offering is interesting, but

1) is it possible to use Obsidian like Logseq, with a primary block based system (the block based system, which allows building documents like Lego bricks, and easily cross referencing sections of other documents is key to me) and

2) Don't you expect to be sherlocked by the obsidian team?
by pbmonster | 2026-01-08 09:57:12+00:00
> Something that will change in the next century. I'm curious how that will affect shipping. I'm imagining it won't have much impact on container shipping

No, on the contrary! The effect on container shipping will be absolutely massive with the Northeast Passage opening up. It's going to cut thousands of miles off shipping routes, since its the much shorter route from American East Coast ports and the Euros to Asia.
by eru | 2026-01-08 09:57:29+00:00
> Per capita, so far. But it used to be a third-world country and it's now the industrial superpower.

They moved from dirt poor to middle income largely by strangling their economy quite as hard as the did under Mao. If they liberalised further, they could become richer.

> “FDR didn't exist”.

Huh?
by oniony | 2026-01-08 09:57:29+00:00
I doubt anyone would associate 'sen' with seven: 'sev' would be much more obvious. Whereas 'sept' is already used as a prefix within English to mean seven such as September (Roman seventh month), septuplets (seven children in a single birth) and septuagenarian (a 70 year old).

Anyhow, this discussion is moot as nobody is going to follow any proposal.
by casualrandomcom | 2026-01-08 09:57:50+00:00
To be true to Taubes, my memory was too approximate. The actual claim was that in 1976 Fred Stare, the director and founder (in 1942) of the Department of Nutrition of the Harvard School of Public Health was exposed by Michael Jacobson having received around 200.000 dollars in the course of the preceding 3 years from Kellogg's, Nabisco e and their foundations, after he had testified before the Congress about the virtues of cereal as a breakfast food. Apparently this discredited Stare as a scientist.

Wikipedia also states that "Kellogg's funded $2 million to set up the Nutrition Foundation at Harvard. The foundation was independent of the university and published a journal Nutrition Reviews that Stare edited for 25 years." But I cannot find this is Taubes's book.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-08 09:58:39+00:00
> the Latin side of classics

Tiberius <-> Epstein?

> The site may be triggering.

Indeed. It's a much older generation, but we have our share of immigrants from DZ as well.

Lucky for mathematics that the Avignon policiers were not accustomed to "self defence make me a sandwich"!

Someday I'll have to learn enough about sheaves to see if they can handle your cut from no-cut, where an initial commonality bifurcates into 有人理想 and 有人富翁.

I guess a classical explanation might be:

人之初，性本善。
性相近，習相遠。

but maybe Linebarger can have the last word:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#:~...

> ...if the door is left open to voluntary conversion, so that anyone who wants to can come over to the winning side, the winning side will sooner or later convert almost everyone who is capable of making trouble. (In the language of Vilfredo Pareto, this would probably be termed "capture of the rising elite"; in the language of present-day Marxists, this would be described as "utilization of potential leadership cadres from historically superseded classes"; in the language of practical politics, it means "cut in the smart boys from the opposition, so that they can't set up a racket of their own.")

(also https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#:~... )
by alexwang24 | 2026-01-08 09:58:40+00:00
While practicing LeetCode, I kept running into the same problem:

I’d read the problem in one tab, think through an approach, then switch to another tab
(ChatGPT, notes, docs) to sanity-check my thinking. By the time I came back, I’d already
lost the context of the problem.

I tried a few things:
- Writing notes in Notion
- Copy-pasting problem text into ChatGPT
- Keeping explanations in separate markdown files

None of them worked well. The friction of switching tabs was small, but constant — and it
added up.

So I built a small side-panel tool that lives next to the LeetCode editor. It can:
- See the problem context directly
- Give hints instead of full solutions
- Help me write structured study notes while I’m solving

I originally built this just for myself, but a few friends asked to try it, so I cleaned
it up and released it as a browser extension.

I’m still unsure about a few things:
- Whether this actually helps learning, or just feels more convenient
- How people balance “getting unstuck” vs. not overusing hints
- Whether interview prep tools should optimize for speed or understanding

Would love to hear how others here deal with context switching or learning while practicing.
Show HN: File-base agent memory framework, like Claude's skills
by k_kiki | 2026-01-08 09:58:51+00:00
AI memory systems often become a black box. When an LLM produces a wrong answer, it’s unclear whether the issue comes from storage, retrieval, or the memory itself.

Most systems rely on RAG and vector storage, which makes memory opaque and hard to inspect, especially for temporal or multi-step reasoning.

An alternative is to make memory readable and structured: store it as files, preserve raw inputs, and allow the LLM to read memory directly instead of relying only on vector search.
by cjs_ac | 2026-01-08 09:59:11+00:00
Housemasters and housemistresses have a better idea of whether pupils are being bullied than parents, because they are physically present and receive reports from classroom teachers, tutors, games coaches, and so on. The 1970s are over and boarding schools are no longer run by rum, sodomy and the lash.

The refusal of many twenty-first century parents to acknowledge that schoolteachers have at least two university degrees and consequently have expertise in their profession is the cause of the issue. If you’re not willing to trust the professional educators and administrative processes at a school, why are you spending the median income on sending your child there?
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-08 09:59:29+00:00
I saw a nice presentation by Michael Cruickshank with an intelligence background that was using public geospatial data like what this is based on to model how climate change would affect power outages in an African city. In that case he was trying to figure out where all the power infrastructure was that would be affected in a flooding and then model network effects to figure out which parts of the city would end up being affected. Really interesting work.

Michael presented at the Berlin Geomob. His website has a more general overview of what he does: https://www.michaelcruickshank.me/recentwork. That does not seem to include a lot of detail on what he presented. Possibly because he is trying to be responsible here.

The security angle did come during the presentation. This is not the type of information that a lot of governments would want to make public but also something that could help them. You can mine a lot of intelligence from public data. And his approach of doing some kind of scenario modelling on top of the open data actually is interesting. That's something that can be used for good and for evil. And obviously something that a lot of intelligence agencies are probably already doing.
by JoseOSAF | 2026-01-08 10:00:00+00:00
You're right that most voting is headline-driven - that's definitely a limitation worth calling out.

I went with full article text because I wanted to capture what the content actually delivers, not just what the headline promises. A clickbait negative headline with a balanced article would skew results if I only looked at titles.

That said, you've got me thinking. It would be interesting to run sentiment on headlines separately and compare. If headline sentiment correlates strongly with article sentiment, your point stands. If they diverge, there might be something interesting about the gap between promise and delivery.

Might be a good follow-up analysis. Thanks for pushing on this.
by Bengalilol | 2026-01-08 10:00:13+00:00
That’s a very new feeling for me. I read the entire post (with no prior knowledge of BGP at all) and I got chills from thinking how deeply intertwined US companies and the US government are.

I know this has always been the case, of course, but now I have lost trust. Whatever the reasons of this "leak" were, I am not accepting any information written in this message (search for the link to another coverage of the incident in the comments).

It is quite weird and quite logical at the same time: this is the end of an era.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-08 10:00:17+00:00
If can still edit, may want to add "Show HN:" at title's start.

>prompt memory tool

We used to call this a snippet manager. For Firefox will recommend Clippings. Simple design, folders/search. But if you're on Linux (or even Windows), just make snippets/ directory and drop 'em in there, then fd/rg to find what you're looking for. (Or use a comprehensive tool like @mattn/memo.)

But your tool nice too. Is like more organization-oriented (+folders, +categories) Keep (only has tags). Though imo only really need folders and tags. Folders for hierarchical structure, tags for flexible labeling. Categories (taxonomy) is redundant.
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-08 10:04:05+00:00
ChatGPT used the name on my credit card, a name which isn't uncommon, and started talking about my business, XYZ, that I don't have and never claimed to.

Did some digging and there was an obscure reference to a company that folded a long time ago associated with someone who has my name.

What makes it creepier is that they have the same middle name, which isn't in my profile or on my credit card.

When I signed up for ChatGPT, not only did I turn off personalization and training on my data, I even filled out the privacy request opt-out[1] that they're required to adhere to by law in several places.

Also, given that my name isn't rare, there are unfortunately some people with unsavory histories documented online with the name. I can't wait to be confused for one of them.

[1] https://privacy.openai.com/policies/en/
by afandian | 2026-01-08 10:04:40+00:00
I recently, with great reluctance, had to put a personal site behind Cloudflare free option. It gets lots of use, but brings no revenue (costs me to run) and I have little spare time.

Found out that I was blocked from it in my default setup. Firefox with default settings, and no VPN.

I'm working hard to turn Cloudflare off.

Cloudflare is not remotely awsome. It's also a solution to a problem (aggressive scrapers that produce DOS) which is worse.
by Yizahi | 2026-01-08 10:04:59+00:00
It looks almost like a PE hit. A company worth less than an offer takes on a ton a of debt to buy a competitor, then Ellisons will plunder and restructure new company multiple times, until one part has all the nice parts and another has all the debt, and then through some clever legal hacks and corruption will cut off that debt an bankrupting it.
by prmoustache | 2026-01-08 10:06:49+00:00
> It's insane how much AIs use Tailwind and yet the companies aren't contributing anything. It would be trivial for Anthropic or Cursor to pay something.

Paying someone fairly for its contribution to society? This won't pass here in the free world as it sounds like a dangerous communist idea. How are we supposed to become richer than our neighbor that way?
by vidarh | 2026-01-08 10:06:50+00:00
There's a lot of Amiga software that doesn't rely on direct hardware access.

Couple that with AROS providing implementations of all the important parts of AmigaOS, it'd be possible create something that supported the GUI as well. It's a decade+ since I did any work on the AROS source, so I don't remember how much work it might be to retarget the window rendering to open and update actual windows of the OS it runs on, instead of compositing to a window representing the full screen.

The caveat is that a lot of AmigaOS apps open their own "screens" (virtual desktops) and expect to be able to open windows on them, in which case you might end up with a bunch of full-screen sized windows anyway. Then you might as well run full AROS.

For that reason I think the limitation of this is probably fine: Use this for command line programs you want to run in your regular terminal, and just spin up AROS or FS-UAE to run programs with a gui. I can spawn AROS with a custom StartupSequence to "boot" right into FrexxEd (an editor co-written by the guy behind Curl) and have it spin up the entire OS and the editor faster than a typical Emacs session...
by snickerer | 2026-01-08 10:08:19+00:00
You can hide the position of the cables from fishermen and the public. But if someone knows where they are, it is the KGB, I mean, FSB.

We should make information about infrastructure public.
There was a power outtage in Berlin, due to to an attack aginst a 'secret' cable bridge. If the map of cables would have been public, then the public may have had a chance to realize that having no backup cable is a bad idea for critical infrastructure.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-08 10:10:02+00:00
> 1) is it possible to use Obsidian like Logseq, with a primary block based system (the block based system, which allows building documents like Lego bricks, and easily cross referencing sections of other documents is key to me) and

More or less yes, embeddable templates basically gives you that out of the box, Obsidian "Bases" let you query them.

> 2) Don't you expect to be sherlocked by the obsidian team?

I seem to remember that someone from the team once said they have no interest in building "real-time" collaboration features, but I might misremember and I cannot find it now.

And after all, Obsidian is a for-profit company who can change their mind, so as long as you don't try to build your own for-profit business on top of a use case that could be sherlocked, I think they're fine.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-08 10:10:18+00:00
Here it's about the same. Even with a skimmed credit card you're on the hook for the bill, there's no chargeback. But skimming is really rare because we no longer have the old insecure systems of card imprinting, signature, magstripes etc. It's all chip&pin or contactless.

I don't think anyone I know uses a credit card for daily purchases here in Spain.