MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aw1621107 | 2026-01-13 14:42:25+00:00
> That one reads more like "all questions about their activities must be asked in the House and no where else",

Read literally, perhaps, but US courts have interpreted that clause more broadly to give general immunity to legislators for their legislative activities. For example, from Gravel v. US [0]:

> Rather, [Gravel's] insistence is that the Speech or Debate Clause, at the very least, protects him from criminal or civil liability and from questioning elsewhere than in the Senate, with respect to the events occurring at the subcommittee hearing at which the Pentagon Papers were introduced into the public record. To us this claim is incontrovertible.

> The Speech or Debate Clause was designed to assure a co-equal branch of the government wide freedom of speech, debate, and deliberation without intimidation or threats from the Executive Branch. It thus protects Members against prosecutions that directly impinge upon or threaten the legislative process. We have no doubt that Senator Gravel may not be made to answer either in terms of questions or in terms of defending himself from prosecution -- for the events that occurred at the subcommittee meeting.

Or from Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund [1] (citations omitted; there are a lot of them!):

> The question to be resolved is whether the actions of the petitioners fall within the "sphere of legitimate legislative activity." If they do, the petitioners "shall not be questioned in any other Place" about those activities, since the prohibitions of the Speech or Debate Clause are absolute[].

> Without exception, our cases have read the Speech or Debate Clause broadly to effectuate its purposes []. The purpose of the Clause is to insure that the legislative function the Constitution allocates to Congress may be performed independently.

> "The immunities of the Speech or Debate Clause were not written into the Constitution simply for the personal or private benefit of Members of Congress, but to protect the integrity of the legislative process by insuring the independence of individual legislators." []. In our system "the clause serves the additional function of reinforcing the separation of powers so deliberately established by the Founders." [].

> The Clause is a product of the English experience. []. Due to that heritage, our cases make it clear that the "central role" of the Clause is to "prevent intimidation of legislators by the Executive and accountability before a possibly hostile judiciary []," []. That role is not the sole function of the Clause, however, and English history does not totally define the reach of the Clause. Rather, it "must be interpreted in light of the American experience, and in the context of the American constitutional scheme of government...." []. Thus, we have long held that, when it applies, the Clause provides protection against civil as well as criminal actions, and against actions brought by private individuals as well as those initiated by the Executive Branch.

[0]: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/408/606/

[1]: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/421/491/
by joshkel | 2026-01-13 14:42:54+00:00
The main selling point for me is that it has proper data times for dates, times, etc.

Most date/time libraries that I've seen have a only single "date/time" or "timestamp" type, then they have to do things like representing "January 13 2026" as "January 13 2026 at midnight local time" or "January 13 2026 at midnight UTC."

Temporal has full-fledged data types representing the different concepts: an Instant is a point in time. A PlainDate is just a date. A PlainTime is just a time. ("We eat lunch at 11am each day.") A ZonedDateTime is an Instant in a known time zone. Etc.

Temporal draws a lot of inspiration from Java's Joda-Time (which also went on to inspire .NET's Noda Time, Java's official java.time API, and JavaScript's js-joda). This is helpful; it means that some concepts can transfer if you're working in other languages. And, more importantly, it means that it benefits from a lot of careful thought on how to ergonomically and effectively represent date/time complexities.
by buellerbueller | 2026-01-13 14:43:00+00:00
Punish Musk; charge him with one count of producing CSAM per generated CSAM image. Charge him with one count of sexual harassment per nonconsensually generated and shared image.

Do this in state court, so it is not pardonable.

He is hosting a rape room.

He has the power to stop it, but does not.
by Noaidi | 2026-01-13 14:43:09+00:00
Taking one fatty acid out of a complex fat like tallow and therefore extrapolating that "tallow is good for you and everyone" is a huge mistake.

Does Brad Marshall mention that Palmitic acid is the dominant fatty acid in tallow? And since Palmitic acid is the most abundant SFA in the U.S. diet, can we draw a conclusion that it may partially play a role in poor health outcomes?

PUFA suppress lipogenic gene expression so I do not know where anyone is getting that polyunsaturated fats have and obesogenic effect. [1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65613-2
by gghhzzgghhzz | 2026-01-13 14:43:10+00:00
The problem with this argument is that it is very simplistic.

And a very simple way of de-legitimising any anti-establishment position, and protecting the status quo.

We can look at independence movements in Europe, Brexit, Trump, republicanism in the UK, any sort of heterodox economic or foreign policy.

Even if you disagree with these positions, it is helpful to you to steelman your position and your arguments. And just dismissing them as Putin's work drops you into a trap. It's arguably one reason why Trump got re-elected. People spent his entire first term assuming he'd be exposed in some complicated Russian plot and put in jail; rather than thinking hard about why he got elected in the first place.
Same thing happened to some degree with the Brexit vote.
Show HN: StatefulSet Backup Operator v0.0.3–Configurable snapshots, Redis tested
by lep_qq | 2026-01-13 14:43:17+00:00
Update on the StatefulSet Backup Operator - a lightweight Kubernetes operator for automated backups using native VolumeSnapshot APIs.
What's new in v0.0.3:

VolumeSnapshotClass is now configurable (was hardcoded before)
Improved PVC deletion stability with proper wait logic
Enhanced test coverage for edge cases
Redis StatefulSet backup/restore fully tested end-to-end
Code quality improvements: clean linting, better error handling

Why this exists:
Velero is great for full-cluster DR, but sometimes you just need fast, snapshot-based backups for StatefulSets without the overhead of external object storage or complex setup.
This operator focuses on:

Scheduled snapshots with cron expressions
Pre/post backup hooks (e.g., database flush before snapshot)
Per-replica retention policies
Point-in-time recovery via CRDs
100% declarative, GitOps-friendly

Current limitations:
Still alpha (v0.0.3). No cross-cluster restore yet, no webhook validation, container selection for hooks needs work. Velero is still the production choice for serious DR needs.
What I'm curious about:
Is there actual demand for this kind of focused tool, or does Velero's flexibility already cover these use cases well enough that alternatives don't make sense?
Tested successfully on Minikube, Kind, and now Redis workloads. Planning to test on GKE/EKS next.
Feedback welcome!
by rickydroll | 2026-01-13 14:43:22+00:00
I don't have the full data on hand, but there are three companies in the UK working on this problem. Feel free to go down that rabbit hole.

from google AI, YSRMV (Your Search Results May Vary).

Heata: Attaches servers to your hot water tank, providing free hot water during trials, saving users money on bills.

Thermify (SHIELD Project): Installs "HeatHubs" (often with Raspberry Pis) in sheds or homes, running remote data centers and using the heat for homes, aiming for low-cost heating for tenants.

Carno: Offers devices like the QB1 (digital boiler) and QH1 (computer heater) that integrate microprocessors into heating systems, reimbursing electricity costs.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-13 14:43:39+00:00
Yeah, works for normal "lets try out what happens when I do this" but it can get messy, depending on what you're trying out. That's why I always recommended beginners to literally "cp -r" the entire directory instead, together with the git repository, so they can feel freer to completely experiment and not be afraid of loosing anything.

I guess it's actually more of a mental "divider" than anything, it tends to relax people more when they can literally see that their old stuff is still there, and I think git branches can "scare" people in that way.

Granted, this is about people very new to git, not people who understands what is/isn't destructive, and just because a file isn't on disk doesn't mean git doesn't know exactly what it is.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-13 14:43:50+00:00
I would say "so diesel uses should be encouraged to transition to electric where feasible", except the government has also dropped the ball on electricity prices and is now looking at increasing taxes on EVs.

> The UK government isn't trying much policy for tackling the causes or the symptoms, largely because the government is disproportionately drawn from a class of people who don't want those policies. The media of the upper middle class of the UK has sincere column after sincere column of hating the rest of the population and calling for better controls over the cattle.

This is spot on, though. I joke that instead of state controlled media we have a media controlled state.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2026-01-13 14:44:06+00:00
> Now, everyone trying to fix the medical establishment is immediately called an anti vaxxer, science denier, etc.

Well they keep showing up with shitty unverified claims...are we supposed to treat their shitty claims as valid just because they're against the grain?

It's also good to keep an eye on the graft. It's funny how pretty much every big personality in the alt-med space has totally awesome products to sell you that Big Science won't let you know about.
by mothballed | 2026-01-13 14:44:26+00:00
I wonder if it's about 1/3 as easy to find an under 35 year old handyman as it was in the year 2000.

Since 2020 the price of maintaining anything in your house has exploded, coupled with dwindling value of fixed incomes, which has got to be getting a lot more old people up on ladders.
by apercu | 2026-01-13 14:44:47+00:00
I bought Logic maybe 8-9 years ago, and get free upgrades.... If I had paid $5/mo it would already have cost me ~$280.00 more than I paid.

Even if I had to purchase an occasional update (assuming they were reasonably priced), I'd still be coming out ahead.

I hate "renting" software.
by everdrive | 2026-01-13 14:44:54+00:00
Actual stoicism is kind of darkly funny. Here's a word-for-word (translated, of course) excerpt from Epictetus:

"It's possible to understand what nature wants from situations where we're no different from other people. For example, when a slave breaks someone else's cup we're instantly ready to say 'These things happen.' So when it's a cup of yours that gets broken, appreciate that you have the same attitude as when it's someone else's cup. Transfer the principle to things of greater importance. Has someone else's child or wife died? There's no one who wouldn't say 'So it goes.' But when it's one's own child or wife who's died, the automatic response is 'Oh, no!' and 'Poor me!' It's essential to remember how we feel when we hear of this happening to others."

There are a few (darkly) funny claims in here:

- _ANYONE_ would be pretty indifferent to hear that someone's wife or child has died.

- You should feel the same about your wife or child as someone else's.

- Potentially, you should feel the same way about your wife as you do a cup.

I'm being cheeky with the last one, and I don't think there's _nothing_ to the quote above, however I cannot imagine most people being able to adopt this view, or seeing it as a view which _should_ be adopted.
by foldr | 2026-01-13 14:44:55+00:00
Yes, it’s correct. Violent crime in London and the UK more generally has been on a long term downward trend. This is not incompatible with there being spikes in some specific categories of crime. But it’s consistent with the trends for homicide, for which the statistics are pretty hard to dispute, and where London has fewer per capita than Berlin, Brussels and Paris (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/london-homic...).
by skywhopper | 2026-01-13 14:45:27+00:00
Food products are so complex that it’s unlikely there’s anything we eat that could be called strictly “good” or “bad”. I would say that fixation on some vague and nonspecific issue like “inflammation” is probably a red flag for the quality of the information at hand. What inflammation exactly? In what people? Under what conditions? It surely varies widely by individual and interacts with other elements of diet, genetics, activity, and environment.
Ask HN: Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?
by Saurabh_Kumar_ | 2026-01-13 14:45:39+00:00
Many founders and engineers complain about Salesforce (bloated, expensive CRM), SAP (complex, costly ERP), and ServiceNow (overpriced ITSM). X discussions and reviews show strong demand for modern alternatives, yet no clear dominant replacer has emerged by 2026.
Which of these three feels most vulnerable to a startup-built, AI-native replacement? Where is the biggest opportunity for YC/mid-size focused disruptors?
Show HN: FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support
by michielme | 2026-01-13 14:45:44+00:00
Hi! I've built this because I kept reaching for Celery for simple scheduled tasks and it felt like overkill. I just needed "run this function every hour" or "daily at 9am", not distributed workers.

So it's decorators for scheduling (@scheduler.every(5).minutes, @scheduler.daily.at("09:00")), state saves to JSON so jobs survive restarts, and there's an optional FastAPI dashboard if you want to see what's running.

No Redis, no message broker, runs in-process with your app. Trade-off is it's single process only — if you need distributed workers, stick with Celery.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-13 14:45:45+00:00
Well before the internet, in 1948, Linebarger's textbook on Psychological Warfare notes, in the section on propaganda analysis, that:

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

> The [STASM] formula works best in the treatment of monitored materials of which the source is known. First point to note is the character of the source. There are several choices on this: the true source (who really got it out?) and the ostensible source (whose name is signed to it?); also, the first-use source (who used it the first time?) and the second-use source (who claims merely to be using it as a quotation?). Take the statement: "Harry said to me, he said, 'I never told anybody that Al's wife was a retired strip-teaser.' Mind you, I don't pretend to believe Harry, but that's what he said, all right." What are the possible true sources for the statement of fact or libel concerning Al's unnamed wife? What are the alternatives on ostensible sources? First use? Second use? The common sense needed to analyze this statement is of the same order as the process involved in analyzing the statement: "Reliable sources in Paris state that the visit of the American labor delegation has produced sensational repercussions in Moscow, and that Moscow, upon the basis of the American attitude, is determined to press for unification of the entire German labor movement."

> It is soon evident that the mere attribution of source is a job of high magnitude.

I'm not sure what we were using 2 watts worth of cerebellum for before sophisticated language, but afterwards source attribution sounds like it'd sure soak up the cycles...

(he also has terms for what we now call a "sock puppet")
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-13 14:45:54+00:00
I expanded on it more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46601600

TDLR is: people feel safer when they can see that their original work is safe, while just making a new branch and playing around there is safe in 99% of the cases, people are more willing to experiment when you isolate what they want to keep.
by dec0dedab0de | 2026-01-13 14:45:58+00:00
The hypotheses in the article are much stronger. To me, the increasing use of mind altering drugs in geriatric care is an obvious contributor... so much so that these drugs list that risk on the label.

I would hope the article is better than the gut feeling of some random programmer commenting on hn before his standup.

The increase was greatest in the groups least likely to engage in that behavior.

I must point out that the elders in my life are the most tech addicted people I know. They barely know how to use it, but they never put it down. Which means they are constantly struggling to get their fix. I saw this behavior 25 years ago doing tech support for a dial-up ISP, and it has become way more common since. To the point that the senior citizen posting nonsense on facebook, and forwarding email chains is a common trope.

Again, I'm sure the article is doing better research than my personal experience, I was just surprised it wasn't mentioned.
by dizlexic | 2026-01-13 14:46:42+00:00
While you're correct. I truly believe the velocity offered outweighs this consideration for 90% of the application teams and startups. I've personally never worked in a clean codebase, and I've been convinced long ago that they're mythical. I don't see an issue with an LLM spitting out bad / barely maintainable code because that's basically every codebase I've ever seen in production.
Show HN: AionUi – Open-Source Cowork for Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex and More
by waili | 2026-01-13 14:47:03+00:00
Anthropic just dropped Cowork today – a nicer way to let Claude act as your agent on files without wrestling the CLI.

I've been building something in the same spirit but open-source, cross-platform, and multi-model: AionUi. It's a free desktop GUI (Electron-based) that turns popular command-line AI tools into a unified "Cowork" workspace: Supports Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Qwen Code, Goose CLI, Auggie, etc. (auto-detects installed CLIs)

- Custom LLMs – Full support for customizable third-party LLMs.
- Multi-session chats with independent contexts, stored locally in SQLite (data never leaves your device)
- Real-time preview & editing panel for 9+ formats: PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, code diffs, Markdown, images, HTML...
- AI image generation/editing (Gemini-powered, with recognition)
- Smart file management: batch rename, auto-organize, classify, merge
- Parallel multi-tasking (sessions don't interfere)
- WebUI mode: remote access from phone/browser, still local data
- Cross-platform: macOS, Windows, Linux
- Fully customizable UI via CSS

Just like Claude Cowork simplifies Claude Code for non-devs, AionUi aims to do the same for all your CLI AI agents.

GitHub: https://github.com/iOfficeAI/AionUi
(3.5k stars, Star if it looks useful – no pressure!)
Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?
by Saurabh_Kumar_ | 2026-01-13 14:47:57+00:00
Many founders and engineers complain about Salesforce (bloated, expensive CRM), SAP (complex, costly ERP), and ServiceNow (overpriced ITSM). X discussions and reviews show strong demand for modern alternatives, yet no clear dominant replacer has emerged by 2026. Which of these three feels most vulnerable to a startup-built, AI-native replacement? Where is the biggest opportunity for YC/mid-size focused disruptors?
by everdrive | 2026-01-13 14:48:17+00:00
One thing that's worth noting is that Epictetus himself was a slave, and I think it's informed a lot of his thoughts. For him, true freedom is being able to overcome the events of the world. You may not be able to control whether or not you're a slave, but (to Epictetus) you can control how you feel about being a slave, and that is true freedom.

ie, he saw the world as full of misery and difficulty, and saw modifying your internal experience as the only possible path forward.
by PurpleRamen | 2026-01-13 14:48:35+00:00
It's not popular in your bubble. Protest-music still exists, it sometimes even gains some attention, but they can't compete with all the big professional feelgood-products and the social-slop. And I assume, the platforms have now more political filters, making it even harder to spread. Political content seems to have significantly dried up on certain platforms, since the orange king reigns.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-13 14:49:05+00:00
>Violation of the principle of least privilege

I completely agree with this, programs are too open most of the time.

But, this also brings up a conundrum...

Programs that are wide open and insecure typically are very forgiving of user misconfigurations and misunderstandings, so they are the ones that end up widely adopted. Whereas a secure by default application takes much more knowledge to use in most cases, even though they protect the end user better, see less distribution unless forced by some other mechanism such as compliance.
by PedroBatista | 2026-01-13 14:49:22+00:00
Stoicism is like recommending having a couple drinks ( literally ) to a "normal" person with mild social anxiety with a need to go out in the World and live life.

It works and it's good advice.

Unfortunately it gets recommended to everybody at every point in their lives, which include alcoholics and people in crisis.

In a more direct way: Stop with this "no emotion" "I'm a fortress" bullshit. It only helps a narrow group of people in specific circumstances of their lives but wreaks havoc on everybody else because it's misplaced and mostly a lie or at least a very incomplete picture.
by fellowniusmonk | 2026-01-13 14:49:35+00:00
People rollerblade less.

I read that fall injuries in the elderly are a significant contributor to both death and drops in quality of life.

When it comes to proprioception and balance one group of people over 60 seem to have equivalent balance to younger people and that is certain kinds of rollerbladers.

So as a person who was relatively active (40mi+ per week biking and other things) I started rollerblading and it's been unbelievable, I'm older and certain types of movements that take 8yr olds a couple weeks to learn took me nearly a year, it's absolutely amazing though, pain and soreness in parts of my leg and feet all related to stabilization, significantly strengthened stabilization muscles and improved reaction times at speed. I figure if I can rollerblade on one foot at 15 miles an hour, walking with both feet at 3 should be no problem.

I put rollerblading and bouldering as my top two 'puzzle' based activities.
by 1a527dd5 | 2026-01-13 14:49:39+00:00
Yeah I remember going through those pages as a kid; my local "chronicle" had loads in.

I love Rightmove as a shopper, but it's 2nd-4th order effects have been disastrous.

There have been attempts to unseat Rightmove (e.g. boomin) but it's such a behemoth in it's industry that is tantamount to wanting to unseat Google.
by zpeti | 2026-01-13 14:49:46+00:00
You know how the NHS reduced waiting lists a few years back? If you had waiting lists of say 100 for a surgery, they basically said - the list is maximum 15 people, after that it's whoever books first who gets the surgery. So basically you had to be lucky and be the number 15 on the list once a spot was open.

But! Magically NHS waiting lists got shorter! The government could say this on Question Time on the BBC, woohoo!

I imagine this is the kind of thing that's happening now with petty crime reports.