MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jgon | 2026-01-05 18:33:46+00:00
Of course there's a heavy dose of childhood nostalgia driving this, but I do love everything about this design style and outlook. It ties into the "early" days of the internet and web, when the vibe was around having a "Library of Alexandria" in your family home, the computer as a bicycle for your mind and just a general feeling of "abundance" that permeated the environment. I would come home from school and watch Star Trek TNG and get a utopian view of the future, flip over to PBS and watch Carmen Sandiego or Square 1, have dinner, then crack open Microsoft Encarta on the family PC and browse through random topics. The world of technology felt like it held infinite promise.
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-05 18:33:54+00:00
A 40% profit drop on 10% revenue decline reflects the nasty operating leverage built into Nike's model: high fixed costs in marketing, athlete deals, and retail commitments that don't scale down when sales slow. That's part of why brand decay is so expensive for these businesses. My angle was more like once the music stops, you're still paying for the orchestra.
by josephg | 2026-01-05 18:34:18+00:00
Exactly. More expensive than a high end desktop or laptop while having less useful software than an iPad. No thanks.

If it were around the $500 point I’d pick one up in a heartbeat. Maybe even $1000. But $3500 is nuts for how little they’re offering. It seems like a toy for the ultra rich.

I assumed the price would eventually come down. But it seems like they’ll just cancel the project entirely. Pity.
by antonymoose | 2026-01-05 18:34:24+00:00
You’re cherry-picking examples. Manufacturers can and do relocate the entire chain (or a super majority of it). I live outside of Greenville, SC also (previously Charleston) and when Boeing or BMW or Mercedes or Volvo bring a product out here they also bring hundreds of small time suppliers with them. Maybe the cotton for the cloth seats still come from Egypt but this is immaterial to the overall operation and the jobs it brings to a community.
Show HN: Readingnotes.ai to Read More
by thirdmod | 2026-01-05 18:34:27+00:00
Hello, today im sharing readingnotes.ai with our community to get some feedback.

I built readingnotes.ai to solve my own problem of saving too many articles and research papers to read later but never getting back to it. So, now i have 1000s of bookmarks in X (twitter), Linkedin, Bookmarks, Whatsapp and Apple Notes.

What i built -

> dead simple way to save url, text or files via web or whatsapp or email
> create 3 levels of depth summary
> ai assistant to maintain memory of saved material and my questions & answers around saved content, mental models etc
> content studio to generate social media posts and podcasts based on my content library
> mcp connector, slack & telegram integration
> custom email for your to let readingnotes read the newsletters you subscribe to

Would love to onboard 10-20 folks who read a lot or struggle with going through bookmarked lnks to give it try and share their feedback.

thank you. link to the site: readingnotes.ai
by gruez | 2026-01-05 18:34:42+00:00
>Those remediations would pretty clearly negatively impact revenue

That might make sense if openai was getting paid per token for these chats, but people who are using chatgpt as their therapist probably aren't using their consumption based API. They might have a premium account but how many % of premium users do you think are using chatgpt as their therapist and getting into long winded chats?
by dubbie99 | 2026-01-05 18:34:54+00:00
I don’t agree with your music synthesizer analogy. I own a synthesizer, however I don’t possess any musical talent whatsoever. I cannot for the life of me produce anything remotely listenable from the thing. I know how to use it, but cannot make good music. You just need to look at some street performer banging on a plastic bucket and entertaining a circle of people to realise that the ability to make music is orthogonal to having the right tools.

AI art is more like me pressing the demo button on the synth, looking you in the eye as it plays the preset tune and saying “I made this”
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-05 18:35:02+00:00
You're right, fashion cycles deserve more attention. I deliberately focused on Nike's structural problems, but you can't ignore that Adidas caught a wave with the Samba revival. The difference is Nike used to be good at riding those cycles too. Air Force 1s, Dunks, Jordans. What's changed is their ability to manufacture and sustain cultural relevance alongside performance credibility. Adidas found a moment; Nike lost the machinery that used to generate those moments reliably.
by RankingMember | 2026-01-05 18:35:05+00:00
Oh man I hope some of the people putting stuff in the joke-but-real "personal information" box within the burger menu know that clicking the "download" provides the input from everyone. I'm seeing some seemingly real addresses and social security numbers in there.

Additional thought: It's always interesting to see a website linked from HN with a method for user input and a means to see what other users have posted. Just a funny juxtaposition between the buttoned-up ego (not in the pejorative sense) of the HN poster vs the screaming id of that same user on a different platform.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-05 18:35:46+00:00
> https://stackoverflow.com/tour

From your link:

> This site is all about getting answers. It's not a discussion forum. There's no chit-chat.

>

> Just questions...

>

> ...and answers.

And that's specifically what you said the site was not; people were going there for answers to their questions. They weren't getting them.
by collingreen | 2026-01-05 18:35:51+00:00
I sometimes wonder if anyone in charge at Apple uses Apple devices the way I do. I expect they have one, consistently-apple, high-end setup and it probably works very well for their style. Some things are great but others are insane and it seems like that happens most when using things like non-apple monitors or not typing a certain way on the phone or if you don't drive the same car.

Switching windows between two non apple monitors after waking from sleep is wildly unpredictable and has insane ux like resizing itself after a drag.

My carplay always starts something playing on my car speakers even when I wasn't listening to anything before connecting. It's so off it's comical.

The iPhone alarm will go off like normal, loudly from the speaker, even if you're currently on the phone and have it up to your ear. This has been a problem since my very first iPhone.

There has been a bug about plugged in physical headphones being unrecognized sometimes after waking from sleep even if it worked fine when going into sleep. I checked once in probably 2014 and Apples' official response was that it literally wasn't physically possible despite all of us people experiencing it. The bug was ancient even at that time and >ten years later my m4 macbook pro STILL DOES IT.

Apple and apple fanboys seem to take the stance that these are all user error on my part (remember the "you just aren't a Mac person" era?). I bet some of these are configurable with settings deep in some menu somewhere so from a certain perspective that's right but also underscores my point about the limitations of myopic dogfooding.

As a fun aside, the ux for turning on the "Voice Over" tutorial is the worse thing I've ever experienced on an Apple device. I was laughing out loud trying to figure out how to get out of it instead of finishing the unknown remaining steps. I feel bad for folks who need that accessibility in order to be effective.
ResearchPod – Turn ArXiv papers into 20-min podcast episodes (iOS)
by noahmagel | 2026-01-05 18:35:53+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Noah and I built ResearchPod because I was drowning in arXiv PDFs but had a 45 minute commute where my brain was free but my eyes were busy.

ResearchPod transforms any research paper (via PDF upload or arXiv browse) into a podcast episode that's about 20 minutes long and features two hosts.

How it works:

1. Extraction: It parses the PDF and cleans the text.
2. Analysis/Scripting: It uses OpenAI and Grok to extract key insights and reformat them into a natural dialogue between two hosts, Alex and Sam. They don't just read the text. Instead, they discuss the methodology and implications like peers.
3. Synthesis: The script is sent to a dedicated TTS service running Gemini 2.5-flash-preview. I'm using the multi-speaker features to give each host a distinct and natural voice.

Why I built this:
I found that triage is the hardest part of research. I don't always have time to sit and read 30 pages just to find out if a paper is relevant to my interests. Listening to a high-fidelity summary while I’m at the gym or commuting helps me decide which papers deserve a deep dive later.

Tech Stack:

App: Swift (iOS 16+)
Backend: Node.js on Vercel
Database: Supabase
TTS: Railway (handling the long-duration audio generation)
The app is currently free to use. You can generate up to 3 episodes per day for free and you can listen to as many as you want.

I'm really looking for feedback from the research community here. Does this bridge the gap for you or is the conversational format too "lite" for your workflow?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/researchpod/id6751007088?l=en-GB

Web Share (to hear an example): https://researchpod-share.vercel.app/episode/84435c8e-b691-4f58-82bd-f09a6e281d11

Would love to hear your thoughts!
Show HN: I built kling26.online – an AI video tool powered by Kling 2.6
by chenliang001 | 2026-01-05 18:36:13+00:00
After playing around with the Kling 2.6 model for a while, I finally launched my first SaaS tool: https://kling26.online
It’s a straightforward AI video generator focused on text-to-video and image-to-video. The core runs on the Kling 2.6 model, which I’ve found delivers solid quality for everyday use cases – no over-the-top claims, just a tool that works as advertised.
I’ve added basic but useful features: free starting credits for new users, login support, and a simple paid plan for those who need more generations. It’s designed for creators, marketers, or anyone who wants to turn ideas into short videos without hassle.
Would love to hear your thoughts – especially on the generation quality and user flow. Feel free to test it out with the free credits and share any feedback or feature requests!
by lm28469 | 2026-01-05 18:36:30+00:00
And it still mostly doesn't so it's not really a good argument. Meanwhile the share of women in the workforce more than doubled but households' purchasing power isn't even as high as back then when it comes to the basics like cars/energy/housing, if anything it's down quite a bit.

We should unite, not fight about who's whitest, XYZ gender or a minority, you'll always find someone who has it better or worse than you, what matter is the average is going down, while back then it was going up, the rest is mostly noise.
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-05 18:36:31+00:00
Efficiency gains can look like pure wins on the balance sheet while quietly eroding customer relationships that took decades to build. The people who ran the numbers on ATM rollouts probably weren't wrong about transaction costs, they just weren't measuring what mattered most.

Imo Nike's D2C push had the same logic. Higher margins per sale, more control over the brand experience, direct customer data. All true. But it turns out that being on the shelf next to Hoka and On, where a customer can try both, was doing more work than anyone gave it credit for..
by iammjm | 2026-01-05 18:36:41+00:00
How do you imagine the free world stopped Hitler and the Nazi Germany?

“Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.” ― George Orwell
by glenstein | 2026-01-05 18:36:44+00:00
I know it's sometimes considered not very nice to suggest this but I felt the exactly same thing, about exactly those phrases.

I wonder if we're going to get to a different singularity, where, regardless of whether it prose was AI assisted it (1) leaks into people's way of speaking, (2) is out there frequently enough that people are skeptical even of normal prose.

At the very least, we're long past due for a word to describe the "it isn't just X, it's Y" formulation. In my opinion it's worse and more rampant than the em dash (and I like the em dash when used responsibly).
by LorenPechtel | 2026-01-05 18:37:43+00:00
No, you have an obligation to do the best job you reasonably can with raising children. We generally do not permit parents to do things which pose an undue risk to their children, and most of the exceptions to this involve religion being given a weight it shouldn't get.

Trying to make sex more dangerous to me falls squarely in the realm of child abuse.
by robinhood | 2026-01-05 18:37:45+00:00
I've used Mint for a long time. Extremely solid, stable and simple. In the last three months I've been on Arch (through Omarchy) and it's also very stable and so powerful. Everything just works. I have a pretty beefy computer and even my favorite game of all times (Path of Exile 1) runs fantastically on it.
by mamcx | 2026-01-05 18:37:57+00:00
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by thomashdang | 2026-01-05 18:38:02+00:00
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by flipped | 2026-01-05 18:38:08+00:00
They don't own the network. The people who run the relays do. v2 wasn't shutdown in an instant. It was necessary and you could have just redirected your users to v3 and tell them to use it instead but you had to whine about your short-commings on Tor?

It's not only for high-security. It's for the state-of-the-art anonymity.
by silisili | 2026-01-05 18:38:14+00:00
Used to work for a registry. Registries do not just arbitrarily serverHold things they don't like. Even in blatant abuse cases, they'll reach out to the registrar to clientHold it or delete it instead.

I suspect this came from a court order. The only time I remember serverHolding things were from court orders or other legal requests(FBI/DHS/etc). Though the latter would often just ask for the nameservers to be changed instead.
by throwawayffffas | 2026-01-05 18:38:18+00:00
While that's true. They could have gone another way without breaking the dependency rules.

Padding top and bottom could be relative to parent height and padding left and right could be relative to parent width. They would not be the same. But it would still make sense. It would arguably be more logical than the selected behavior.

But the specific example does not even invalidate my point there is a whole website about css quirky behaviors and how to use them to your advantage, https://css-tricks.com/.
by sanderjd | 2026-01-05 18:38:23+00:00
Yes! We're definitely talking about the same thing here! Definitely not thinking of consistent writes to both views.

Now that you said this about watermarks, I realize that this is definitely the same idea as streaming systems like flink (which is where I'm familiar with watermarks from), but my use cases are smaller data and I'm looking for lower latency than distributed systems like that. I'm interested in delays that are on the order of double to triple digit milliseconds, rather than 15 minutes. (But also not microseconds.)

I definitely agree that it's difficult to justify building this, which is why I keep looking for a system that already exists :)
by larkost | 2026-01-05 18:38:24+00:00
This is true, but frontline healthcare staff wages are only one part of the problem. For specifics you can see details here (e.g.: US average front-line healthcare worker salary: €74.450, Germany: €40.522):

https://www.qunomedical.com/en/research/healthcare-salary-in...

But even absent any movement there you have a lot of savings to be had away from that:
1. The U.S. medical administration costs have ballooned, in large part because of the highly adversarial billing system between insurers and practitioners. Medicare/Medicaid is much less (but not completely) unpredictable. Doctors complain bitterly about the prices at times, but the system is much more efficient.
2. U.S. insurance companies are woefully inefficient. To the point that companies complained bitterly when the ACA required them to pay out 80% of premiums as medical payments. Before that there were companies making more than 20% profits. The most efficient insurance companies today use about 12% of their revenues for non-medical care. In comparison Medicaid uses about 3.9%.

There are lots of other parts you could address as well:
1. Fraud drawn to the huge payouts for medical bills. If people's accidents were just covered as a normal part of life those payouts, and most of that fraud just goes away.
2. Malpractice insurance. This is like the first, but would mostly be solved by a combination of single payer and a working medical review system (seriously, what we have now is the definition of regulatory capture).
by nishilpatel | 2026-01-05 18:38:24+00:00
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by NateEag | 2026-01-05 18:38:29+00:00
As a longtime musician, I fervently believe in doing the best you can with the tools you have.

As a programmer with a philosophical bent, I have thought a lot about the implications and ethics of toolmaking.

I concluded long before genAI was available that it is absolutely possible to build tools that dehumanize the users and damage the world around them.

It seems to me that LLMs do that to an unprecedented degree.

Is it possible to use them to help you make worthwhile, human-focused output?

Sure, I'd accept that's possible.

Are the tools inherently inclined in the opposite direction?

It sure looks that way to me.

Should every tool be embraced and accepted?

I don't think so. In the limit, I'm relieved governments keep a monopoly on nuclear weapons.

The people saying "All AI is bad" may not be nuanced or careful in what they say, but in my experience, they've understood rightly that you can't get any of genAI's upsides without the overwhelming flood of horrific downsides, and they think that's a very bad tradeoff.

I agree with them.
by 1718627440 | 2026-01-05 18:39:00+00:00
> Rewrite as:

Could do that I just don't like the look. :-)

> Have you ever discovered this bug:

Actually no, because the coding style I use either puts it on a single line or with braces. I never indent just a single line.

So:

if (condition) doThis ();

or:

if (condition)
{
doThis ();
}

> Weird that your compiler would support long long, but with a broken Standard library.

Yeah, for your information it was GCC combined with newlib for arm-none-eabi shipped with Debian/MS Windows.
by erelong | 2026-01-05 18:39:17+00:00
> I don't like these curmudgeonly takes

me neither. I think there's a real sense of concern, but that people are also just being contrarian or are maybe acting out of a concern for their job or something. Seems like a lot of people have had the opposite experience, that a lot of AI vids are not harmful but have in a lot of cases been funny or helpful. People need time to experiment with the tech and see what impact it has on society before they adjust their expectations to its real impact.
by measurablefunc | 2026-01-05 18:39:18+00:00
OpenAI is a synthetic media production company, they literally produce images, text, & video + audio to engage their users. The fact that people think OpenAI is an intelligence company is a testament to how good their marketing is at convincing people they are more than a synthetic media production company. This is also true for xAI & Grok. Most consumer AI companies are in the business of generating engaging synthetic media to keep their users glued to their interfaces for as long as possible.
by orbital-decay | 2026-01-05 18:39:22+00:00
Yes, 99% of people are uncreative and use the creative freedom this way. Besides, many truly creative people won't even touch it, some because of the ethics and others because it's not up to their standard yet. Does it really look surprising to you?

>AI video isn't "enabling people to be more creative," it is quite literally removing creativity from the process all together.

That's quite a leap of thought and doesn't follow from the first part at all.
by fsflover | 2026-01-05 18:40:03+00:00
> That's like saying a bank vault is secure after being rebuilt from being broken into. Meaningless.

Did you even read my reply? All data are safe unlike in your (unrelated) example. Give me your actual threat model. 100% security never existed and never will. Security through correctness never worked and never will. Compartmentalization is the only viable approach.
by robinhood | 2026-01-05 18:40:20+00:00
It looks like an old comment from 5 years ago. I bet you haven't tried Linux lately. Yes there are many flavors of this OS, and that's alright. Everyone will find what it needs. As for the other crap that doesn't work: again, install and use any popular distro. You'll see for yourself. Most recent hardware is perfectly supported and things just work™.
by publicompute | 2026-01-05 18:40:34+00:00
Every country, or coalition of countries, need to have public manufacturing run by their respective governments where their main purpose is to raise the bar on product quality, r&d, and employee care.

Let the private sector battle it out in their race to the bottom on everything, but ensure there is an ethical and trustworthy alternative to create the necessary competition in the marketplace to secure progress, both technological and social, over stagnation and eventual necrosis.

This is part of that "national security" we hear so many go on about when defending their policies of hate.