MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazygringo | 2026-01-17 18:13:34+00:00
How does this work on laptop screens? E.g. running Chrome on my MBA with a notch, the Chrome menus take up 3/4 of the screen width, and then the remaining ~6 icons there is space for are utilities I need. There are even a couple more icons I regularly use and have to switch to Finder to access them, just because it has less menus. The idea is interesting, but it's not clear at all from the homepage how/if this works on laptops as opposed to large monitors, when you're using an application with lots of menus.

I'm also curious how this compares to other similar solutions -- QuickCMD, Raycast, Keyboard Maestro, Command Keeper, etc. It seems clear that its featureset is different, but it's hard to figure out which ones do which things. If you included a comparison features chart it might be helpful so potential customers can see what makes this one unique -- i.e. it's the only one that does X and Y and Z, because every other app only does 2 but not all 3.
by ainthusiast | 2026-01-17 18:14:02+00:00
Hi all

A year ago or so I made my personal database public of peptides, nootropics, supplements, etc. and provide summaries of research studies and user sentiment for each - with the goal to have easy one pager view on each compound. It has grown and thousands of people use it :)

For bday I noted more compounds(and will keep adding as alwys) and added few more features (they are all free, no monetization, no ads - only AI tools are required to be registered to prevent abuse but still free):

- DopAI which is AI wrapper on the data
- DopMatch it asks you what is your goal (e.g. interrupted sleep) and suggest best compounds from the database
- Leaderboard - best scored compounds per category (e.g. attention)

These are still in preview, so will keep improving. As always, happy to hear feedback and I hope it helps peeps. <3
by vlovich123 | 2026-01-17 18:14:45+00:00
I’m amused that the argument is that we are in a Mr Burns position where different kinds of pollution we were emitting was balancing out and somehow fighting pollution is the reason global warming is worse? While I’m sure it has some effect, the amount of co2 we pump out every year as a species is insane. The effect of ship pollution mitigating that is marginal at best
by sham1 | 2026-01-17 18:14:56+00:00
Ironically enough, as climate change becomes worse, we here in Europe might ironically end up with a way colder climate due to the melting ice caps especially in the Arctic disrupting the Gulf Stream among other things.

Also, this kind of "how can climate change be real since it's winter, snowy, and cold" is a climate change denier take. I'd refrain from it if I were you.
by marcosdumay | 2026-01-17 18:15:01+00:00
> Why should they if those things don’t affect their bottom line?

Their entire ecosystem is built on top of Windows. It will only "not affect the bottom line" until it becomes bad enough that people has to abandon it with all the other MS products that depend on it.

Also, no LLM product is profitable right now. "The market is AI-everything" is complete and absolute bullshit.
by ilinx | 2026-01-17 18:15:09+00:00
The former. I didn’t realize how few of my projects have even had an intentional architecture. So often they go from feature designs to mockups to tickets to code without any real discussion about how the pieces fit together. There’s certainly never been an attempt to create a common “language” that is shared across the org. On a project half the company might refer to a catalog item as a “product”, and their definition may or may not align with what another team refers to as an “item”. I’m starting to understand that situations like that are why everything gets so complicated.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-17 18:15:25+00:00
I've seen proudly uneducated people with no understanding take sledgehammers to history and real knowledge, and so I have no illusions about how Wikipedia is horrible, unfair, unprofessional, mercurial, and vulnerable to manipulation.

I would've gladly paid more in taxes to make Encyclopædia Britannica an international non-profit public service delivered in web form to all so long as each area were managed and curated with subject matter expert input.
by solidsnack9000 | 2026-01-17 18:16:15+00:00
Ford actually makes vehicles in Europe. Does BYD?

If push comes to shove and Europe needs to part ways with the USA, to greater or lesser degree, there will still be machinists, mechanics, and actual facilities in place to keep making Fords. That is a positive from the standpoint of European sovereignty.

The EU probably has rules in place to strongly encourage US manufacturers of automobiles to put facilities in the EU. The US has similar rules and many Toyotas, Hondas, &c, are made in the US, using US suppliers for parts.

It's not hard to imagine an approach to digital services that trends in a similar direction. In the EU or Canada, the US parent company would supply technical data, software, specifications, &c, to a domestic company with its own facilities and operations. It probably requires a combination of regulations and regular stress tests; but nothing prevents the domestic company's operations from being as de facto severable as a car factory.
by Jazamat | 2026-01-17 18:16:44+00:00
This seems a tad ambiguous and fails to touch upon some key issues. What does it mean for software to "respond fluidly". What does "technology that adapts itself" mean?. This manifesto paints a negative picture of the current "software environment" or "technological landscape", clearly with social media in mind, but then attempts to solve the situation with "ai will solve it bro, dont worry about it, just as long as theres rainbows and we all care for each other maaaan" :)
by antisthenes | 2026-01-17 18:17:07+00:00
This just reads like out-of-touch elitism, sorry.

Most people don't even have the reading level for full comprehension of a wiki article, let alone being able to discern the nuance of some aspects of the topic.

> Yeah perfect is the enemy of the good but imperfect is still imperfect.

This assumes perfection is attainable. I'd like to see your idea of a "perfect" book or article on some topic.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-17 18:17:12+00:00
It's still a YC property, at the end of the day. HN is more open than a lot of sites, but it has to be. HN's lifeblood is advertising for YC jobs and YC-affiliated startups, without free admission the site would be a self-defeating meritocracy.

Once you land the YC startup job and lurk around here for a few years, it starts to feel like the same links and comments regurgitated over-and-over. It's a valuable resource for brand-new tech workers that want to sharpen their mind a bit, but also a tarpit of backwards thinking once you reach a certain level of seniority.
by mcbetz | 2026-01-17 18:17:13+00:00
You might benefit from LMArena's Leaderboard. It does not have Danish (yet), but German and English evaluation might help: https://lmarena.ai/de/leaderboard/text/german

Openrouter.ai shows the location of providers, you can find just a few European services, but also Singaporean and Canadian. Unfortunately, I could not find a way to filter easily.
by duskwuff | 2026-01-17 18:17:32+00:00
I'm reminded of the story of Graphing Calculator:

"His contract in another division at Apple had just ended, so he told his manager that he would start reporting to me. She didn't ask who I was and let him keep his office and badge. In turn, I told people that I was reporting to him. Since that left no managers in the loop, we had no meetings and could be extremely productive."

- https://www.pacifict.com/story/
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-17 18:18:52+00:00
My gas stove has spark ignitors for the burners and the oven has an incandescent ignitor. The oven has safety interlocks so the gas valve won't open if the ignitor is not hot. The oven cannot be lit manually, but the stovetop burners can. So in a power outage, I can cook in pots and pans but not bake.
by romanhn | 2026-01-17 18:19:35+00:00
I wonder how many non-English speaking countries adopted hello as the default phone greeting. In Russian "allo" is used, which is pretty clearly traced to Edison's hello.

On the other hand, my US-born teenage kids don't seem to be continuing this grand tradition, presumably due to most peer communication happening over text. When called, they just pick up the phone and wait for the caller to speak first. If I stay silent as well, I get an annoyed "yes?" eventually. My lessons in phone etiquette have gone unheeded.
by imiric | 2026-01-17 18:19:36+00:00
Did you actually learn C? Be thankful nothing like this existed in 1997.

A machine generating code you don't understand is not the way to learn a programming language. It's a way to create software without programming.

These tools can be used as learning assistants, but the vast majority of people don't use them as such. This will lead to a collective degradation of knowledge and skills, and the proliferation of shoddily built software with more issues than anyone relying on these tools will know how to fix. At least people who can actually program will be in demand to fix this mess for years to come.
by Hamuko | 2026-01-17 18:19:39+00:00
Yes, the tar command claims another victim. Tested while inside /var/www/html/vastaamo and then stuffed it in the crontab.

$ tar cvf /var/www/html/vastaamo/vastaamo.tar . -C /var/www/html/vastaamo --exclude vastaamo.tar

For reference:

-C, --directory=DIR
Change to DIR before performing any operations. This
option is order-sensitive, i.e. it affects all options
that follow.
Automation Isn't Innovation
by geroge_kyaw | 2026-01-17 18:19:55+00:00
I have an IQ in the range of 130 to 135, tested while having ADHD and without medication. I do not believe that CEOs have low IQ. However, lately, things no longer seem to make sense to me.

Business is all about marketing and yelping their products. But technology works differently.

Innovation in technology has historically grown at a superlinear rate. Web technology, for example, is not new, yet it never stagnated after its creation. Instead, it continuously evolved. On the frontend, we saw the emergence of increasingly powerful libraries and frameworks, from Angular to React to Next.js. The same pattern applies to backend systems, tooling, and infrastructure.

In artificial intelligence, the current state of the art models are Transformers. At their core, they predict the next token based on previous tokens. The pipeline is simple in principle: data is collected, a model is trained, and the result is a system that predicts patterns extremely well.

AI, however, does not create innovation. What it excels at is automation. Current architectures are nowhere near AGI. In fact, no one even agrees on what AGI truly is, and these architectures will never reach it. What the industry is doing instead is scaling model size aggressively, which is an inefficient and unsustainable approach rather than a fundamentally new idea.

If you are a software engineer at a company rewriting the same CRUD code repeatedly, then yes, you are at risk of being replaced by AI. I have seen many excellent developers who can truly build systems and write real software, not just solve Leetcode problems.

Big tech companies have massive funding and have produced tremendous innovation over the years. I do not understand why the narrative has shifted to saying that developers are no longer needed or that AI can replace them. AI combined with software engineers should open more doors for innovation, not fewer.

Instead of growth, companies are focused on shrinking. Ironically, software engineers should be the last group to be replaced, because they are the ones who build and integrate automation. Replacing them first is a fundamental mistake.

I am writing this because almost no one talks about these issues openly, but everyone yelping about Claude Code. If Claude is really that good, why did they choose to acquire Bun for one billion dollars instead of hiring senior developers to build it themselves?
by jasonjmcghee | 2026-01-17 18:20:14+00:00
Many companies aren't selling anything special or are just selling an "idea".

Like liquid death sells water for a strangely high amount of money - entirely sales / marketing.

International Star Registry gives you a piece of paper and a row in a database that says you own a star.

Many luxury things are just because it's sold by that luxury brand. They are "worth" that amount of money for the status of other people knowing you paid that much for it.
by 9rx | 2026-01-17 18:20:19+00:00
What would you explain? Alarmism needs exaggerated alarm, which isn't found in the earlier comment. One could project their own worries about a warming globe onto the comment, perhaps, but that alarm would stem from within oneself, not the comment. Another might see a warming globe as the best thing that could ever happen and there is nothing in said comment that would dismiss that.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-01-17 18:20:40+00:00
The problem that US generals have right now is that Trump has gotten the idea that the US (viz., he himself, in his mind) ought to literally own Greenland and he does know how real estate works. Treaties, mineral deals, guarantees for additional military bases that would mean de facto control over Greenland would work with a rational person. However, they won't work with someone who insists on buying or annexing a country to own its territory.
by saltcured | 2026-01-17 18:21:04+00:00
Since well before the pandemic, I've have dual 28" 4K screens on my desk. When ordering them, I liked the fact that they had the same pixel pitch as my 14" 2K laptop screen. One monitor was like a borderless 2x2 grid of those laptop screens.

I found myself repositioning things so that one is in front of the keyboard as a primary screen and the other is further off to the side as a secondary dumping ground. I found myself neglecting the second display most of the time so it was just a blank background. Eventually, I noticed I wasn't even using the entire primary screen. I favored a sector of it and pushed some windows off to the edges.

Ironically, with work from home, I've started roaming around the house with the laptop instead of staying at my desk. So I'm mostly back to working in a 14" screen with virtual desktops, like I was 20 years ago. I am glad that laptops are starting to have 16:10 again after the long drought of HDTV-derived screens.
by echelon | 2026-01-17 18:21:58+00:00
You do you. I find this exceedingly cool and I think it's a fun new thing to do.

It's kind of like how people started watching Let's Plays and that turned into Twitch.

One of the coolest things recently is VTubers in mocap suits using AI performers to do single person improv performances with. It's wild and cool as hell. A single performer creating a vast fantasy world full of characters.

LLMs and agents playing Pokemon and StarCraft? Also a ton of fun.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2026-01-17 18:22:27+00:00
>if you’re an executive [...] you get the big bucks for a reason

In Finland? Notably wage-compressed Finland?

No comment on the specifics of this case, I agree with you that the executive should be where the buck stops. But you would be surprised how many various execs I have met here over the years who admit behind closed doors they really do treat it as a fancy job title that barely pays above their last position, but comes with 3x the stress, and they do it simply because, well, someone has to. You can't really be surprised that most of the folks here who you might want to be in the C-suite decide it's just not worth it, that remaining a middle manager or even an IC is simply a far better value proposition.
by fainpul | 2026-01-17 18:22:49+00:00
In game purchases are a dumb thing in itself and need to go away. You can sell add-ons for your game as additional packages, like DLC. Users go to the store (e.g. Steam) and buy an add-on to the game. It's priced like a normal article and you can offer discounts if you want.

If you offer something that cannot be handled like that and absolutely has to be "in game", it's probably because you're trying to extort the players by frustrating them or try to exploit psychological weaknesses to make users pay more than they want to and you should stop that.
by vouwfietsman | 2026-01-17 18:23:19+00:00
> someone has to make a native cross-platform desktop UI framework that doesn't suck

That's the browser, native ui development failed because it didn't want to lose money on cross platform compatibility, security, or user onboarding experience.

The web is fast enough for 99% of UIs, the story is not about using web, the story is about using the web poorly. old.reddit is not qt.
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-17 18:24:11+00:00
In the central USA my power is out up to 3 or 4 times a year for an hour or more, and momentarily maybe once every month or two. It's due to our power distribution being mostly overhead lines which are vulnerable to falling trees, squirrels, ice accumulation, storm and wind damage, etc. Even though my neighborhood has buried lines, that's just the last mile. The incoming power is all overhead lines.
by komali2 | 2026-01-17 18:24:23+00:00
We're talking about the male pronoun used in the context of a discussion of a trans woman, not some kind of men's rights thing. Did you think I was arguing that saying "he" is bad because all men are evil or something? That's how faithless your interpretation of the arguments of non transphobic people has become?

Can you define "woke?"
Show HN: Upseated – Swap airplane seats with other passengers
by ndshrubs | 2026-01-17 18:24:27+00:00
Hey HN,
We built Upseated to solve a problem every traveler knows: you check in and discover you're stuck in a middle seat, or you're rows away from your kids, or you're right next to the lavatory in a non-reclining seat.
Airlines let you pick seats during booking, but once you're assigned, you're basically stuck. We created a P2P marketplace where passengers can swap seats with each other—either upgrade to a better spot by paying another passenger, or monetize your own seat if someone wants it more than you do.
How it works:

Enter your flight info and seat assignment
Browse swap opportunities from other passengers on your flight
Negotiate directly through the app
Complete payment via Stripe
Board with your original ticket, swap seats once on the plane

Technical details:

Native iOS and Android apps + web platform (upseated.com)
Real-time matching algorithms to connect compatible swap partners
Stripe Connect for secure P2P payments
All swaps backed by contract law for user protection
Works with all airlines (no partnerships needed)

Why this works legally:
Airlines prohibit transferring tickets/boarding passes, but there's no regulation against seat swaps once you're boarded. The ticket gets you on the plane—where you sit is negotiable.
Use cases we're seeing:

Parents separated from kids during booking
Business travelers who need aisle seats for laptop work
Budget flyers monetizing exit row seats they don't value
Anyone who booked late and got stuck with terrible seats

We're live on iOS, Android, and web. Would love feedback from the HN community—especially around UX, security considerations, and potential edge cases we should handle.
Happy to answer any questions!
by evolve2k | 2026-01-17 18:24:31+00:00
In the very fun board game ‘Evolution : Climate’ you “breed” animals designed to survive the climate conditions on the board. One strategy is to switch to breeding ‘carnivores’ that then can feast on the creations of other players. They downside tho is that once other players evolve their animals to have carnivore protections (fight back, scales, protective shells etc) the carnivores start to quickly starve and that player must quickly change out of this eat everything strategy back to a more sustainable strategy.

In a similar way I think what works is to push back against growth only and growth at all costs approaches and back practises and models and communities that are working in other ways.
by IncreasePosts | 2026-01-17 18:25:06+00:00
> while using large windows to capture sunlight and heat works great in the winter

That's what awnings (or solar overhangs, or light shelves) are for. You block the high/hot summer sun but let in the low/cool winter sun.

> the idea that it has something to teach modern architects and builders is pure fantasy

Isn't the idea of mcmansions that they co opt smart classic design ideas, but use them in a manner which doesn't let them fulfill their function purpose(skeuomorphism)? So someone certainly has some things to learn
by ryanlol | 2026-01-17 18:25:35+00:00
The big problem with this video is that it's basically entirely based on google translated tabloid articles.

The results are what you might expect if you decided to just use dailymail.co.uk as a source, similar to the creator of malicious trojan virus Python being arrested https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124114/Computer-ha...

>Pearson coded trojan viruses, called Zeus, SpyEye and Python, to automatically scour the internet in search of personal details.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-17 18:25:48+00:00
> Ironically, the root of "salutation" in latin is "salutare," to wish good health.

This is an incomplete description. There is a Latin verb salvere, meaning "to be in good health".

The Latin word "hello" is salve, the direct imperative form of salvere. It is a command, not strictly a wish, to be well. It's essentially the exact equivalent of the English expression "farewell". (Except that it means "hello" rather than "goodbye".) And like "farewell", it is understood in the derived meaning, "hello", not in the literal meaning.

You could understand salvtare as meaning "to health someone" (it is technically derived from salvs "health", and not from salvere "to be healthy"), but you could also understand it as meaning "to say 'salve(te)'". It's relevant here that valere also means "to be healthy", and its imperative form vale means "goodbye", but salvtare is never going to refer to saying vale.

Lewis and Short doesn't distinguish the senses "wish health" and "greet"; salvtare does have a more direct health-related sense, but it is "to keep something safe" rather than "to wish something safety".

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...

That entry also notes that the sense "keep safe" of salvtare derives from sense I.A. of salvs, '"being safe and sound, health, welfare, safety" in general', while the sense "wish health, greet, salute" derives from sense I.B., '"a wish for one's welfare, a greeting, salutation" in particular'.

(Tangentially, I was charmed by the second citation for salvs I.B.: Non ego svm salvtis dignvs? "Am I not worthy of a hello?")
by Tade0 | 2026-01-17 18:25:54+00:00
> The reality is that costs are being reduced by replacing US teams with offshore teams.

Hailing from an outsourcing destination I need to ask: to where specifically? We've been laid off all the same. Me and my team spent the second half of 2025 working half time because that's the proposition we were given.

What is this fabled place with an apparent abundance of highly skilled developers? India? They don't make on average much less than we do here - the good ones make more.

My belief is that spending on staff just went down across the board because every company noticed that all the others were doing layoffs, so pressure to compete in the software space is lower. Also all the investor money was spent on datacentres so in a way AI is taking jobs.