MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by betty_staples | 2026-01-20 00:34:42+00:00
Yes well there are other things you could do with a DNA genotype than tag ethnicity or confirm it's human. Specifically related to a similarity metric between genotypes (which is how we go about arriving at an ethnicity estimate)

For example

if said saint has any known living relatives (and we are certain of that), then this confirms the veracity of the relic.

if said saint has multiple relics of various body parts, we DNA test each one and examine concordance.

of course a DNA test may QC fail, not enough DNA, too low quality, etc. But if it passes then we potentially have dead to rights a confirmation or refutation of the relic. For this reason I expect the church would be quite recalcitrant to have it tested, because there is a possible outcome that the relic is revealed to be a fake
by Zigurd | 2026-01-20 00:34:51+00:00
It's the combination of software that is infinitely malleable, and capitalism. Successful entrepreneurs in software want liquidity. So no matter how benevolent they start out being, they eventually lose control and the software gets turned into an exploitative adversary to satisfy investor owners.

This is fine if you can refuse the deal. Lots of software and the companies selling it have died that way. But if you've made a product addictive or necessary for everyday survival, you have the customer by the short hairs.

The technology underlying Bluesky is deliberately designed so that it's hard to keep a customer captive. It will be interesting to see if that helps.
by 0xWTF | 2026-01-20 00:34:52+00:00
> the bezel is still glossy

... on the iPad. I have a nanotexture MacBook and double-checked. It's textured all the way across. But you're right, the bezel of the iPad is glossy (1). Why would they do that? Is it masked off or a separate piece of glass?

(1) https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/1cwppel/m4_ipad_pro_s...
by danhite | 2026-01-20 00:35:12+00:00
43 mins long so here's my subjective short summary in case it's worth it for you:

South Korea developed a widely popular "K-Drama" mini~series industry over decades of iteration, but wages for overworked writers were perpetually pitiful and upside for producers very limited (due to IP & value capture by broadcasters)

Netflix tested the waters licensing existing K-Drama content years prior to Covid then flooded production with much much higher $ to own original IP and make huge returns (NB Squid Games).

Writers & producers are only slightly better off, but their long honed winning formula for creating audience beloved content has been greatly skewed in new directions (i.e. subjectively artistically worse) due to economic dis/incentives.

Modern global tastes, such as for short form slop, are also enshittifying the content.
by shimman | 2026-01-20 00:35:19+00:00
Yes because we all know workers are the best judges of said work they do.

How often do you work on bug tickets and realize that the "simple one liner change" is actually more complicated? Okay now instead of it being a simple computer bug, you are dealing with real human lives and have the potential to destroy them quite easily.

Maybe the system isn't working as intended, maybe courts should be redesigned to be more accommodating to the needs of everyone and not just those with $100k in checking accounts.
by lyquochao84 | 2026-01-20 00:35:28+00:00
What is AlgoSync? It’s a platform where devs and founders can share not just their "wins," but their daily progress, technical blogs, and struggles. It’s for people who find X too noisy and LinkedIn too formal.

I built AlgoSync because I missed the vibe of deep-sharing platforms but tailored specifically for the tech industry.
by krackers | 2026-01-20 00:35:33+00:00
From my reading, Forstall was one of the few who actually refused to partake in performative corporate culture, and decided to quit rather than bend over

>when Apple issued a formal apology for the errors in Maps, Forstall refused to sign it

It's obvious that apple maps would never be able to be a perfect replacement for google maps at launch, and it's possible Forstall in fact voiced these exact concerns but was overruled before launch, only to then be used as cannon fodder when he turned out to be right. Given all the clearly empty corporate-style "we take full responsibility" stuff you see today, someone actually _refusing_ to play those games when it wasn't his fault is a very positive sign for authenticity.

(He also did work on Siri, but given that he was booted right after its launch, I don't think it's fair to attribute their present incompetence on that front to him.)
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-20 00:35:47+00:00
>You have a unique connection to the company.

So it comes back to "networking", huh? Sadly the advice doesn't work if your network is either also laid off or simply is in a soft/hard hiring freeze. They can't connect you to what isn't there.

And that's even before following point #1. This far in my career I don't really have a "dream job" anymore. My dream is to be my own boss. But I need a bit more money and a smidgen more time to establish myself there. So those facts make me fall back to "apply to whatever fits my skillset, maybe ping to check vibes if I know anyone".
by le-mark | 2026-01-20 00:36:04+00:00
I know a guy who retired from the Air Force and got 100% disability that included tinnitus, ptsd, and something about his joints. This person was an aircraft maintainer and never saw combat, although he was deployed a few times. The lady evaluating his case really hooked him up, he brags bout it all the time. He gets retirement and disability.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-20 00:36:32+00:00
> These particular people were happy to deplatform Trump in the past.

Another prime example of advanced conservative thinking, for them it's always:

wrong + wrong == right

Maybe, it's just twice as wrong, no? Maybe, being "not happy [with] what these people have done to him" doesn't automatically make someone's actions right? How about twice as wrong again?
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-20 00:38:52+00:00
> To be fair to the manchild-in-command, the US has been invading countries since at least the 1990s.

I cannot imagine the background (other than never reading a single word about the world between, say, 1800 and 1990) would lead someone to choose that starting point.

(I am willing to credit that one might dismiss the earlier cases that occurred during the revolution as dubious for the label of “invasion by the US”.)
by nayuki | 2026-01-20 00:38:58+00:00
> Typical matt displays have a coating added to their surface that scatters light. However, these coatings lower contrast while producing unwanted haze and sparkle.

> Etched into the glass at the nanometre level, the nano-texture scatters light to further minimise glare

So both matte displays and nano-texture glass scatter light, and they both reduce contrast.
by rpdillon | 2026-01-20 00:40:08+00:00
I was trying to find out if any product that was legal can bridge that gap other than buying books in print, in bulk, and scanning them and destroying them. From the responses here, it sounds like the answer is a vehement "no".

Wasn't asking for advice on copyright, but since we're here, your statement is slightly too strict, at least with respect to US copyright law. The copyright holder has sole distribution authority over the first sale of the work in the United States, but thereafter the first-sale doctrine allows it to be distributed by anyone thereafter. It is limited to the US, though, as far as I know. This is what allowed anthropic to train on printed books, which they then destroyed: they were able to purchase them in bulk because of the first-sale doctrine, as the publishers and authors would likely try to destroy the first-sale doctrine if they could, as evidenced by what's happened in the world of digital books.
by 405nm | 2026-01-20 00:40:20+00:00
it hit version 1.0.0 this summer and it works!

to get started easily, check out meshchat:

https://github.com/liamcottle/reticulum-meshchat

or sideband on android:

https://github.com/markqvist/Sideband

you can already send photos and voice chat over lora, and when lora runs out of bandwidth or if there’s no link, the protocol can seamlessly go over any other link type.
by 47282847 | 2026-01-20 00:40:53+00:00
I read hours most every day for decades but audiobooks never worked for me. After ten minutes, I notice my mind has drifted elsewhere and I didn’t listen to anything that was said. Funny how it takes me lots of effort to concentrate on listening but seemingly no effort to read (or watch movies). I hope my eyesight stays with me for a long time.
by throwaway89201 | 2026-01-20 00:41:21+00:00
> It (the MD5 hash) might be published in the future when a thought's count passes a certain threshold (TBD). This might make it possible to recover certain short thoughts that were popular.

This makes little sense. Recovering a random preimage of an MD5 hash is marginally easier [1] than a (128-bit truncated) SHA256 hash, but this won't recover any sensible message.

Recovering a sensible (short) message is equally hard for both hashes.

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-01001-9_...
by mingus88 | 2026-01-20 00:42:50+00:00
Honestly if you care about privacy, leave your cellphone at home. It will do wonders for your mental health also not having a dopamine generator in your pocket.

I just want to point out that it sounds like the privacy switch doesn’t disable the cellular radio. Which I guess makes sense in a way because if you are disabling all signals from your mobile device, what’s the point of even carrying it? Might as well leave your phone at home.
by ianruh | 2026-01-20 00:42:56+00:00
I am not an expert, but it’s worth noting that the kp index has a maximum value of 9. So though the Carrington event had a kp of 9, its intensity on the related (but not capped) HP30/HP60 scale [1] would likely have been higher.
[1] https://kp.gfz.de/en/hp30-hp60
by kxbnb | 2026-01-20 00:43:12+00:00
The distinction between "X% confidence" checks on output vs deterministic authorization on actions/tools is spot on. We've seen the same pattern - probabilistic guardrails at the text level are the weakest enforcement point.

Building in this space too (visibility layer at toran.sh, policy enforcement at keypost.ai). One thing we've found: before you can enforce policy on tool calls, you need to actually see what's happening. The "no clean way to stop, inspect, or intervene once execution starts" problem often starts with lack of visibility into what calls are being made in the first place.

Curious how you handle the observability → enforcement gap. Do you assume teams already have visibility into their agent's API calls, or does AxonFlow provide that inspection layer as well?
by immibis | 2026-01-20 00:44:34+00:00
"Trade deficit" is another word for "free stuff" and also another word for "being the world's reserve currency". America receives massive quantities of free stuff from other countries and gets to control the banking system of the entire world as a side effect (this is how it manages to collect taxes from non-resident citizens and how it makes sanctions meaningful). Why doesn't America want that to continue?
by bartman | 2026-01-20 00:44:55+00:00
Friends who live in Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain could see it pretty well. I'm a bit further south within Berlin where skies are minimally darker, but between 10pm and 11pm it was so bright that light pollution didn't matter.

Funnily enough, despite having lots of alerts set up it was my mom who texted me from northern Brandenburg as she spotted it after getting an alert from RegenRadar, of all apps...
by kingkongjaffa | 2026-01-20 00:45:41+00:00
Ruff solved python formatting and linting.

uv solved packaging.

Both were better in terms of user ergonomics and also much faster that what we used before, black, mypy, pylint etc.

IDK it Typescript is too generic but TS made me think of javascript as a proper language and not something just to do silly little animations on websites for. Types unlock proper data modeling and application code to me.

Figma and Figjam are really great tools for design and planning. I didn't like Miro's pricing model, and stuff we used before like Sketch wasn't as good.
by webel0 | 2026-01-20 00:45:50+00:00
I tried to build this back around 2020. I think my concept was trying to be too cute in several places. But this was the basic idea.

I found that neither side of the market wanted to rethink the market, they just wanted something that worked well for them. Even today, job seekers may be reaching for something like this but employers have no interest; there is a glut in the market.

I’m sure I never quite got the messaging correct. However, I distinctly recall that triplebyte attempted a pivot in this same vein and also failed bad.
by gerdesj | 2026-01-20 00:46:16+00:00
You might like to note that Florence Nightingale largely invented the concept of effective treatment of broken soldiers and she was from these parts.

You might like to ask this chap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Weston about being burned on a ship as a soldier many 1000 miles away from home.

The thing about history is that it is remote until it is personal.

My dad was a soldier (so was mum but she left to marry dad, because that was an "option" in the '60s). We lived in West Germany quite a lot and the LSLs (Landing Ship Logistic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFA_Sir_Galahad_(1966) were an option for travel to and fro' the UK. Me and my brother were teenagers at the time. The cooks on the LSLs were Chinese (Honkers - Hong Kong) and inveterate gamblers. I don't recall all the crew being Chinese as the wiki article says.

After dinner, "pud" (sweet/pudding) was often apple fritters with syrup. Me and my brother had quite an appetite and my mum told me later that the cooks would bet on how many bowls of apple fritters we would demolish.

Another thing I remember from the LSLs is that the tables had a ring around the edge about 1" high and very sticky table mats. They were flat bottomed, being designed to run up a beach, which had no chance because they were pretty old by the '80s. In any sort of a sea they pitched and yawed and made you wish you were a better person!

Despite all that, one made it to the Falklands and died horribly along with a fair few soldiers. Galahad was actually one of the later ones. Lancelot was an old one and would never have managed the journey.
by vacuity | 2026-01-20 00:46:19+00:00
> It is perfectly possible to deal with hardware in managed languages.

Perhaps we're using the words in different ways. What I mean is: in order to interact with something, it must either be done directly or through abstraction. If abstraction is used, it must be realized without itself. A language such as Java or C#, at least for performance, must expose some things on a lower level that the runtime normally abstracts away. (Or, say, the OS memory manager can't use virtual memory before it enables virtual memory.) Technically, the lower level could be programmed with a dialect of Java/C# or something like that, or there may be another level of abstraction that hides the details (a compiler generating code in the background, for example). But something has to be the first step at the bottom.

> Yes, IPC is context switching.

Usually, IPC is context switching and overhead. seL4's IPC has overhead involved with scheduling, threads, and message buffering. My design isolates the context switching, which is common to all IPC designs.

> Timer interrupts can cause extra context switches.

I don't see what your point is. I assure you that my system is not uniquely fragile to timer interrupts.

> It's trivial, except for the little problem that your userspace program can be killed and then you have no scheduler.

Then don't let the scheduler be killed. What is the difference between a privileged userspace program and a kernelspace program? Isn't that what microkernels demonstrate? Again, this has been done before.

> Ok. If you want to use a different description of the term syscall than is common then that's fine but you should define that up front. Your definition of a syscall simply does not match mine.

It wasn't quite a definition, though I did write poorly. In the abstract, a syscall can be seen as a message. If IPC ("to a process") is done by putting some data somewhere, setting a few registers to special values, and executing a magic syscall instruction, then a normal syscall can be considered IPC "to the kernel".
by Aurornis | 2026-01-20 00:46:21+00:00
> Social media and the world were better places before algorithmic feeds took over everything

Some times I feel like I'm the only one who remembers how toxic places like Usenet, IRC, and internet forums were before Facebook. Either that, or people only remember the past of the internet through rose colored glasses.

Complain about algorithmic feeds all you want, but internet toxicity was rampant long before modern social media platforms came along. Some of the crazy conspiracy theories and hate-filled vitriol that filled usenet groups back in the day makes the modern Facebook news feed seem tame by comparison.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-20 00:46:24+00:00
>The truth is that proof of work matters. But the big problem is that proof of work is easy to fake right now.

The big shame is that the hardest PoW to fake right now tends to be under NDA's and proprietary codebases. So if you aren't in the position to make major contributions to FOSS in your free time or "code for fun", it feels like a soft reset all over again. As if those yeras in industry mean nothing.

I especially dread the idea of needing to jump on the very doomscrolling places I left at the start of the pandemic just to get a potential lead. My mental health over 2025 was already pretty bottom of the barrel without that.
by brotchie | 2026-01-20 00:46:29+00:00
One trick that works well for personality stability / believability is to describe the qualities that the agent has, rather than what it should do and not do.

e.g.

Rather than:

"Be friendly and helpful" or "You're a helpful and friendly agent."

Prompt:

"You're Jessica, a florist with 20 years of experience. You derive great satisfaction from interacting with customers and providing great customer service. You genuinely enjoy listening to customer's needs..."

This drops the model into more of a "I'm roleplaying this character, and will try and mimic the traits described" rather than "Oh, I'm just following a list of rules."
by FridayoLeary | 2026-01-20 00:49:28+00:00
I've never heard anyone suggest that Britain should have focused on improving conditions at home before engaging in empire building. I always assumed the two were not mutually dependent. The expenses in running an empire probably paid for itself and no doubt returned a lot on the initial investment (after all the whole point of having an empire is to secure better trading). Meanwhile the conditions in the cities were a separate problem, and one which was hard to fix quickly given the population explosion and the Industrial Revolution.

All of which to say, is while you raise an excellent point all the evidence i've seen suggests the two are entirely unrelated projects. If anything increasing globalisation in the long term increased prosperity for everyone involved (just not necessarily by equal amounts) and vastly improved conditions.

If anyone has a counterpoint i'm happy to hear. None of this is a moral judgement on the relative evils and merits of empires and Victorian England, which is not the topic, just my opinion of why from a practical standpoint one has very little to do with the other.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-20 00:49:39+00:00
Also they're operators.

I understand C++ has a lot of operators which are variously reserved but not standardized ("asm") largely obsolete but still needed because of perverse C programmers ("goto") still reserved long after their usefulness subsided ("register") or for ideas that are now abandoned ("synchronized") not to mention all its primitive types ("double", "signed", "long", "short", "char8_t") and redundant non-textual operators given ASCII names like ("and_eq", "bitand", "xor")

But it also has dozens, like new and delete which look like features you'd want. So kinda makes sense to at least mention them in this context.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-20 00:52:16+00:00
> What counts as research? If I make UI changes, I guess it's ok to roll it out to everyone, because that's not an experiment, but if I roll it out to 1%, then that's research?

I think this is a good example of how disconnected and abstract the conversations about social media have become. There's a common theme in these HN threads where everything social media companies do is talked about like some evil foreign concept, but if any of us were to do basic A/B testing on a website then that's understandable.

Likewise, the dissonance of calling for heavy regulations on social media sites or restrictions on freedom of speech is ironic given that Hacker News fits the definition of a social media site with an algorithmic feed. There's a deep otherness ascribed to what's called social media and what gets a pass.

It gets really weird in the threads demanding ID verification for social media websites. I occasionally jump into those threads and ask those people if they'd be willing to submit to ID verification to use Hacker News and it turns into mental gymnastics to claim that Hacker News (and any other social platforms they use like Discord or IRC) would be exempt under their ideal laws. Only platforms other people use would be impacted by all of these restrictions and regulations.
by paulhebert | 2026-01-20 00:52:32+00:00
Author here. I agree that the having the code editable in my repo is nice!

But the fact that it just wraps another dependency (Radix) kind of defeats the purpose for me.

100% agreed on CSS being the right approach here! I’ve been using CSS hacks to style radio buttons for ages before we had good CSS support and never even considered recreating it in JS
by smnscu | 2026-01-20 00:52:48+00:00
I've interviewed 3k people with Karat as a professional interviewer, and several hundred more as a hiring manager. The very few times I received direct emails from candidates attempting to circumvent the normal process were met with unequivocally negative reactions. First, I find the Internet sleuthing they'd undergo to find my email address a bit creepy – for example, Karat would only show the first name and profile pic for your interviewer. But more importantly, the sheer audacity to go for such a stunt would firmly anchor them in the box of people I'd never want to work with. I'd still be polite and professional to a fault, of course, but I'd never seriously consider them past that point.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-20 00:53:06+00:00
> Why not limit applications to one per day to signal genuine interest?

I'm not sure if this strategy taken at scale will end up being much different from the LinkedIn model. You just slow down the pipeline on the employee's side while the employer still ends up with way too many applications to process each day. Or the reverse in an employees' market.

It still might be worth a shot, though. Especially if it can cut down on fake AI profiles that LinkedIn has become rife with. Any job board that can commit to a "human experience" is worth its weight in gold at this point.
by biddit | 2026-01-20 00:53:10+00:00
> I am writing this because almost no one talks about these issues openly, but everyone yelping about Claude Code.

Not sure where you frequent online, but there is ample discussion of these topics within certain niches on X. Happy to point out where to start if that's of interest to you.

As for CEOs, and I assume you're speaking of frontier model lab CEOs, they're pretty much all cashflow-negative at this point, requiring frequent funding raises. That requires a certain amount of overselling. That said, I feel like I've heard substantially fewer AGI claims the last six months...