MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DeathArrow | 2026-01-26 12:28:04+00:00
In EU, the ROHS directive forbids even more types of lightbulbs, beside incandescent:

Ban on all fluorescent tubes (T5 and T8 lamps) from August 24, 2023

Ban on all CFL lamps from February 24, 2023

Extension of the exemption granted to HPD lamps from 3 to 5 years

Extension of the exemption for special purpose lamps from 3 to 5 years
by AnonC | 2026-01-26 12:29:43+00:00
> They need to fire Craig Federighi first, but of course that is Tim Cook's job, and he showed poor judgment in firing spiky but effective Scott Forstall to keep that hack Jony Ive. Ive is the one who appointed Alan Dye, an advertising designer with no clue about UX and too arrogant to listen to those who did, leading to iOS 7 and now Liquid Ass.

These have been exactly my thoughts for years. Craig Federighi does not have any taste or interest in software quality. And Jony Ive (after Steve Jobs) has been a disaster for UI/UX and industrial hardware design. Tim Cook has been an extraordinary bean counter and hasn’t been hiring useful people (from users’ perspective) under him.

Craig Federighi needs to go when Tim Cook also moves out of his current role this year. Maybe, maybe, there are some old school folks at Apple who can take over and do things better.
by siffin | 2026-01-26 12:29:52+00:00
They are saying that, and most real world LED lighting uses very cheap diodes, like, 99.9999% of them, which create very poor colour compared with incandescent bulbs, which create perfect colour representation.

It's a big thing and you can buy LEDs which produce a better colour range, but they're much more expensive and not as energy efficient, because creating bold reds costs hard energy that no diode trick will ever get around that.
Show HN: MCP server that surfaces human experts inside ChatGPT
by bogdanmp | 2026-01-26 12:31:11+00:00
Built an MCP server that connects ChatGPT to async expert Q&A. When someone asks a professional question needing human judgment, it surfaces relevant experts with pricing and response times.

Working in dev mode, submitted to ChatGPT marketplace.

What we learned building it:

1. ChatGPT requires `search` + `fetch` tools - could not find in MCP spec, undocumented until you hit the error

2. Tool descriptions = discovery. ChatGPT matches user intent to your descriptions. No algorithm docs. Treat it like SEO.

3. Dev Mode is buried: Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Developer Mode

4. Docs are split: Anthropic owns MCP spec, OpenAI owns ChatGPT-specific requirements. You need both.

5. Cold start problem applies: if you return no results, ChatGPT learns not to call you

Stack: TypeScript, Vercel, Xano

Happy to share more on the build if useful.
by xfactorial | 2026-01-26 12:31:19+00:00
It depends: having it notarized is a way to show someone with a certain reputation of "Hey! This is my code, this is me, if something happens, you can kill the switch".

If notarisation requires you some kind of payment, I would be okay with you charging me some money, if I obviously find your code has a good value for me.

I read comments around here about "Well: you can compile it yourself" or "it's open source! You can check the code by yourself".

And, while all of those arguments are accurate and valid, the point is "I do not feel like it" or, a little reminder, "The Great Suspender" was an example of a beautiful open source little app to suspend tabs on Google Chrome that, one glorious day, switched hands and, suddenly, after some time, someone noticed the repository and the code from the add-in were different, and those changes were made with nefarious intent.

Luckily, somehow found out, but some people do not have the time or the will to be playing that game.

A piece of code that requires access to my camera, regardless of size (<1000 lines of code) or build, it's something I just don't put on my computer without thinking it twice.

Thank you for the tone: I hope I responded to your question :)
by willtemperley | 2026-01-26 12:31:30+00:00
I would happily pay for Linux if it came pre-installed on a machine it's guaranteed to work with. I mean flawlessly - I really don't want to configure a driver ever again.

Please someone create a linux laptop that:

1. Just works out of the box.

2. Has really good keychain management.

3. Comes with no bundled AI.

4. Good clipboard managment (like Handoff).

5. Excellent graphics APIs and an good UI framework.

Apple and Microsoft have lost the plot and there's a gaping wide space to fill here.
by gf000 | 2026-01-26 12:31:54+00:00
It's not "super slow" and most languages do something very similar within concurrent data structures.

Also, copy by value in itself is just a semantic requirement, it doesn't say how it's implemented.

And shared mutable memory is pretty damn slow (given you are not fine with data race garbage), because atomic operations destroy caches. So it's the usual space-time tradeoff at the end of the day.
by wongarsu | 2026-01-26 12:32:51+00:00
In the EU this was indeed done for energy efficiency/emissions. Incandescent bulbs were gradually banned from normal sale, starting with the most energy hungry (diffused 100W) and gradually expanding until only low-wattage and special-purpose bulbs were left. Special-purpose bulbs cover a large variety for everything where switching didn't make sense, like machine shops or historic buildings. LEDs aren't mandated per se, but they are the most attractive alternative. And because this all happened before brexit the UK has the same rules, unless they revised any of them post-brexit

For the most part this was a very positive step. Prices for LED bulbs plunged when they went from the "premium" energy-efficient alternative to the default option. But you also get a lot of crap on the market, and stuffing LEDs in form factors designed for incandescent bulbs makes good electrical and thermal design challenging. Even for those brands that actually try
by flohofwoe | 2026-01-26 12:32:57+00:00
The thing with static linking is that it enables aggressive dead code elimination (e.g. DLL are a hard optimization barrier).

Even with multiple processes sharing the same DLL I would be surprised if the alternative of those processes only containing the code they actually need would increase RAM usage dramatically, especially since most processes that run in the background on a typical Linux system wouldn't event even need to go through glibc but could talk directly to the syscall interface.

DLLs are fine as operating system interface as long as they are stable (e.g. Windows does it right, glibc doesn't). But apart from operating system interfaces and plugins, overusing dynamic linking just doesn't make a lot of sense (like on most Linux systems with their package managers).
by AnonC | 2026-01-26 12:34:52+00:00
I feel like this is leaking into macOS Sequoia updates as well. Disk space just keeps getting eaten up quickly and I’m scrambling to clear up some space on a MacBook Pro with a large disk and lots of RAM. I know I should reduce user data (like the documents, photos and videos I’ve stored), but something doesn’t seem right in how more and more disk space keeps getting used.
by al_borland | 2026-01-26 12:35:03+00:00
I can only assume his popularity will fall off a cliff as they try to milk his audience for money and burn people out on seeing his AI avatar non-stop.

It says 36 months are exclusive with this company, but it isn’t clear if he has an out to be free again if things go poorly. It says he’s the largest shareholder, but I assume he can’t just take his $900m are retire.
Show HN: Folding paper once by hand and mailing it once a month
by cloudmanager | 2026-01-26 12:35:22+00:00
I fold sheets of paper once by hand, number them, and mail them.

Every fold is unique. You get the next one in sequence.

$11.11, shipping included. Limited to 11,111 folds.

First fold ships March 1, 2026.

https://folded.one
by trueno | 2026-01-26 12:35:35+00:00
i have been screaming that this is possibly the #1 information systems problem/failure that has led us to where we are and i have seen no thought leaders or solutions emerge. it's imo the top impact vector and the most critical thing that must be addressed to take the foot off the gas. it's the other side of the double edged blade of open and free internet and we are so far beyond trusting that open and free on its own is going to naturally sort itself out. nothing is being done to combat this, everyone that has the wits and intelligence to problem solve in this arena is head down reading about the next claude code update.
i'm terrified/hopeless tbh, this fucking sucks. i've always seen this as the number one thing that is destabilizing countries around the world. this shit is not contained to the US and other countries will follow our course in the coming years without efforts to solve for russia/iran/china and their damn ass bots. these things are way more sophisticated than people think and most people cannot discern the difference. they can and do simulate arguments in comment sections to play up a winning side in a believable way.
by koffiezet | 2026-01-26 12:36:50+00:00
It however shifts a lot of the complexity of building the application to the distro maintainer, or a software maintainer has to prioritize for which distribution they choose to build and maintain a package, because supporting them all is a nightmare and an ever shifting moving target. And it's not just a distribution problem, it's even a distribution version/release problem.

Look at the hoops you sometimes have to jump through or hacks you have to apply to make something work on Nix, just because there is no standardization or build processes assume library locations etc. And if you then raise an issue with the software maintainer - the response is often "but we don't support Nix". And if they're not Nix/Nixos users, can you blame them?

If you've ever had to compile a modern/recent software package for an old distro (I've had to do this for old RH distro's on servers which due to regulations could not be upgraded) - you're in a world of pain. And both distro and software maintainers will say "not my problem, we don't support this" - and I fully understand their stance on that, because it is far from straight forward, and only serves a limited audience.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-26 12:37:15+00:00
"I don’t think I’ve noticed the flicker…"

Well… (Sorry, let me put my tinfoil hat on.) Yeah, well that noticed part is what is worrisome to me. I do worry that there is some effect on our brains even though we might not perceive the flicker.

As an analogy, I got into those supposedly audiophile "Class D" (or "Class T") amplifiers over a decade ago. Every day I turned on the music in my office and coded with the T-amp playing. I would have told you at the time that, indeed, it sounded amazing.

Some time later I built a tube amplifier (The Darling [2], in case anyone cares—I've since built perhaps a dozen more).

When I brought it into the office and swapped it out for the T-amp, the change was sublime but immediately noticeable. I hate to fall back on audiophile terminology but it's the best I have for the experience: I was suddenly aware of "listening fatigue" that had been a component of the T-amp. I hadn't even known it had been fatiguing until I heard the tube amp in its place for days on end.

With the loss of color fidelity and the flickering issue, I'm embarrassed to say that incandescent is starting to look good to me again.

I might, as an experiment, replace only those lights that we turn on in the evening when we are relaxing, reading.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class-T_amplifier

[2] https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/darling-1626-amp.... and https://imgur.com/gallery/oh-darling-tube-amplifier-Lq2Sx
by c0balt | 2026-01-26 12:37:31+00:00
Selling a voice profile for procedural/generated voice acting (similar to elevenlabs "voices") of a well-known person or pleasant sounding voice could be a legitimate use-case. But only iif actual consent is acquired first.

Given that rights about ones likeness (Personality rights) are somewhat defined there might be a legitimate usecase here. For example, a user might prefer a TTS with the voice of a familiar presenter from TV over a generic voice.

But it sounds exceedingly easy to abuse (similar to other generative AI applications) in order to exploit end-users (social engineering) and voice "providers" (exploitation of personality rights).
by torginus | 2026-01-26 12:37:31+00:00
I think you can. If you have a neuron whose input weights are 100,-1,2, with threshold 0, you can know the output of the neuron if the first input is enabled, as the other 2 dont matter, so you can skip evaluating those.

I'm not enough of an expert to see if there's any actualy merit to this idea, and if you can skip evaluating huge parts of the network and keeping track of such evaluations, is actually worth it, but it intuitively makes sense to me that making an omelette has nothing to do with the Battle of Hastings, so when making a query about the former, the neurons encoding the latter might not affect the output.

Afaik, there's already research into finding which network weight encode which concepts.

MOE is a somewhat cruder version of this technique.
by footy | 2026-01-26 12:37:33+00:00
There's a subreddit for software people with adhd and it's terrible, every second post is about a New and Exciting Tool to manage adhd. Most of them are vibe coded, all of them come from randos I wouldn't trust with what I had for breakfast, let alone a whole life management system.

I check in every few weeks and I don't understand how anyone can use that subreddit more frequently.
by ninkendo | 2026-01-26 12:37:46+00:00
> No man. Open your eyes. You are doing the latter. Renee is dead, and you have 1 sentence condoning ICE, and multiple paragraphs explaining what SHE should have done differently

I am simply at a loss for words.

This comment thread is probably the least worst in the entire comment section of this post, and it’s still fucking awful. I’m being called someone who’s condoning ice because of my expression that I don’t want to see people die.

Others are being called literal nazis for expressing similar thoughts.

The nuance between “I don’t want people to die” and “I condone ICE” is the exact thing I was saying is getting thrown out.

This is precisely what I predicted would happen from the start, and the exact reason I flagged it. I don’t regret flagging at all, and this is just further proof that I will continue to flag similar threads where people like you lose their empathy and hurl accusations like these around.

If you have loved ones that are victims of ICE and are begging for people to share their story, I don’t think the HN comment section is what they have in mind. Please send it to a proper news outlet.
by TuxSH | 2026-01-26 12:37:52+00:00
Not the person you are replying to but, even if the technical skills of AI increase (and stuff like Codex and Claude Code is indeed insanely good), you still need someone to make risky decisions that could take down prod.

Not sure management is eager to give permission to software owned by other companies (inference providers) the permission to delete prod DBs.

Also these roles usually involve talking to other teams and stakeholder more often than with a traditional SWE role.

Though

> There are no hiding places for any of us.

I agree with this statement. While the timeline is unclear (LLM use is heavily subsidized), I think this will translate into less demand for engineers, overall.
by strogonoff | 2026-01-26 12:37:52+00:00
My pet hypothesis about why shower is often praised to be such a mindful place is that it has not so much to do with water and more to do with the fact that for many people life alternates between 1) constant social interaction and interruptions from other people and 2) bathroom time.

How many people these days have a dedicated home office, off limits to anyone else? How many partners sleep in different rooms?

Sure, perhaps the sensory experience plays some role, but if your bathroom is reliably the most interruption-free place for you, naturally you’d form a habit of catching up on all the “slow thinking”, most negatively impacted by interruptions, during shower.

I’ve seen people with interruption-free solo hobbies (be that hiking in the woods, motorcycling, rock climbing, etc.) describing similarly mindful experiences, but unlike those shower is the lowest common denominator and perhaps one that happens most routinely.
by TomOwens | 2026-01-26 12:38:23+00:00
> You absolutely can; the model is quite capable of reproducing works it was trained on, if not perfectly then at least close enough to infringe copyright. The only thing stopping it from doing so is filters put in place by services to attempt to dodge the question.

The model doesn't reproduce anything. It's a mathematical representation of the training data. Software that uses the model generates the output. The same model can be used across multiple software applications for different purposes. If I were to go to https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2/tree/main (for example) and download those files, I wouldn't be able to reverse-engineer the training data without building more software.

Compare that to a search database, which needs the full text in an indexable format, directly associated with the document it came from. Although you can encrypt the database, at some point, it needs to have the text mapped to documents, which would make it much easier to reconstruct the complete original documents.

> That's not something you can handle via guardrails. If you read a piece of code, and then produce something substantially similar in expression (not just in algorithm and comparable functional details), you've still created a derivative work. There is no well-defined threshold for "how similar", the fundamental question is whether you derived from the other code or not.

The threshold of originality defines whether something can be protected by copyright. There are plenty of small snippets of code that can't be protected. But there are still questions about these small snippets that were consumed in the context of a larger, protected work, especially when there are only so many ways to express the same concept in a given language. It's definitely easier in written text than code to reason about.
by Dragos-Aln | 2026-01-26 12:38:53+00:00
Hi, I’m the maker of About Last Night. It’s a QR-based guest photo sharing page for weddings/events: guests scan, upload photos, and everything lands in one shared gallery (no app download).
What I’m trying to validate: does “QR + web upload” feel trustworthy enough for guests, or do you expect an app/login to feel legitimate?
by hubber | 2026-01-26 12:39:32+00:00
The premise was more that we can say with near-certainty that there are non-visible genetic differences between the races without even knowing specifically what these traits are or the extent to which they have diverged. We know this based on our understanding of genetics, natural selection, migration patterns, randomness, and the passage of time.

It would actually be quite the story if the races were somehow identical in all of these traits.

Both of these positions are untestable. One, however, is extremely likely while the other would be a miracle even in the wildest fantasies of the wokest progressive.
by assimpleaspossi | 2026-01-26 12:39:48+00:00
I don't understand. She claims he raped her while she was taking a shower which implies they were sharing a room. Then she claims that, two years later, he raped her while she was sleeping which, again, implies they were sharing a room and that she trusted him enough over the course of two years to associate with him. If things were so bad the first time, why did she still hang out with him over the course of two years (at least)?
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-26 12:40:23+00:00
Ultimately, no. But when we get to this point - once we have AI deciding on its own what needs to be done in the world in general - then the bottom falls out, and we'll all be watching a new global economy, in which humans won't partake anymore. At best, we'll become pets to our new AI overlords; more likely, resources to exploit.
by account42 | 2026-01-26 12:42:03+00:00
But the design hole is treating (IMO unfortunately) transient identities (the web's domain name system) as something that should persistently identify something. Adding hacks like this doesn't fix the underlying mismatch but creates new issues as seen in the article.

Or to put it another way: Domain names changing hands is how the web works. If you design your system to support web identities in a way that domains can't change hands then you are not supporting web identities but rather something different.
by luplex | 2026-01-26 12:42:28+00:00
In my view, the distinction between art and slop is about their intent: Art is a medium of communication, where slop is merely entertainment. So: Video games are art if they have something to say. They capture you, they make you think, they let you try out new personalities for yourself.

On the other hand, video games that are meant to entertain, addict, and extract funds from you might contain lots of genuine art, but overall amount to mere slop.

The distiction is just as true for other media, like movies or images: images are art if they were created to communicate something that can't be directly expressed. They are slop if they are just background noise intended to keep you scrolling. Most media is somewhere in the middle, because artists need to corrupt their vision in order to feed themselves.
by randallsquared | 2026-01-26 12:42:40+00:00
> > The massive Somali fraud had no evidence

> It's weird, then, that most of them (and it's, like, 60 Somalis out of 80k) were already on trial[0] a good month before ..

Those trials are for a completely separate fraud!

In spite of some overlap between the supposed food distribution sites for Feeding Our Future and the recent childcare center fraud, they're actually not the same fraud, uh, "event".
by simion314 | 2026-01-26 12:43:00+00:00
>This makes the tech companies the decision makers over what is suitable content for children.

No, the big tech just needs to
1 ensure that at the OS setup birthday is read, then if OS is queried about the user age range to answer

2 apps and websites will not decide anything, they will follow the local laws and on top of those they can addf their own moral or PR filters.

Then if you have a blog or big webiste and you care about the laws or users or the PR you then setup your server to ject say under 13 from your blog.

I am not a big tam of obscenely paid developers and managers so I bet they can improve on this idea or they can milk the ads until the government will pass retarded laws
by rcxdude | 2026-01-26 12:43:57+00:00
That's not obviously true. It might be, but LLMs are complex and different styles can have quite different results. Verbosity can also matter: sheer volume in the context window does tend to bias LLMs to follow along with it, as opposed to following trained-in behaviours. It can of course come with it's own problems, but everything is a tradeoff.
by Schmerika | 2026-01-26 12:44:09+00:00
Does anyone believe this capability wasn't known before the tech was pushed out? Puhlease.

Why though? The BBC can't say this, but I can: Anyone with the slightest idea of what's been leaking from the Epstein files shouldn't be surprised to see the people in power trying to normalize creepy shit (yet again).

Don't expect much from EU regulators. The fear of pushing back against the US runs extremely deep; the only limit so far is when an EU country is directly threatened with annexation.