MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: The one-stop-place for gen-alpha events
by claude_sh_1959 | 2026-01-23 21:35:54+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Jagger.

Like a lot of developers, I was frustrated by the discovery problem in the Roblox ecosystem. Finding an active, quality event is a fragmented nightmare that involves checking:

Discord Announcements

YouTube streams/guides

Reddit threads

Endless in-game scrolling

It's an anti-pattern that wastes player time.

We built a centralized tool to solve this: a unified event aggregator that allows users to find the perfect event instantly.

Key Features:

Advanced Filtering: Sort by Age, Vibe, and Prizes to cut through noise.

Live Data Integration: See real-time player counts and time remaining on rewards before you commit to joining a server.

Vision: To be the single, reliable API for event-related metadata in the Roblox metaverse.

We want players spending their time in-game, not searching external platforms.

I'd appreciate any feedback on the technical implementation, data accuracy, and user experience.

Also any votes on PH would be appreciated:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/bloxrn?launch=bloxrn
Ask HN: Why don't winter gloves have mechanical fingers?
by amichail | 2026-01-23 21:36:00+00:00
Idea: A winter glove where your real hand stays in a warm fist and controls mechanical fingers.

In very cold weather, even good gloves often fail and you end up clenching your fist inside them to keep your fingers warm. Mittens work better for warmth, but you lose dexterity.

What if a glove was designed around the fact that your hand wants to stay mostly closed in the cold?

The idea is a heavily insulated mitten where your real hand stays in a relaxed fist for warmth. Instead of your own fingers doing the work, there are mechanical fingers on the outside of the glove that you control using small movements, pressure, or muscle signals from your clenched hand.

Even in a fist, your hand is still very functional. You can vary finger pressure, tendon tension, thumb movement, and forearm muscle activation. Those small signals could be used to control external mechanical fingers through pressure sensors, cables, or EMG sensors.

The benefits:

* Fingers stay together and warm like a mitten

* No need to expose real fingers to cold

* Mechanical fingers handle interaction with the environment

* Control happens inside the warm zone

This would not need full human level dexterity. Even 2 to 3 mechanical fingers or a simple articulated claw could handle common tasks like opening doors, holding objects, using tools, or pressing buttons.

Similar tech exists in prosthetics and rehab gloves, but I have not seen it applied specifically to cold weather where warmth is the main constraint.

What do you think of this idea? Would you wear such gloves?
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-23 21:36:01+00:00
> Even as Trump started getting aggressive, I kept trying to tell myself: "Well, these other countries surly know that most of the population doesn't support this. Surely they know we are fans of liberalism, democracy, and human rights

A huge proportion of your electorate is actually not only fine with the current direction, but actively cheer on this.

> One bad election, everyone knows it was influenced by Russia, no big deal. They know a sane person will be elected in a few years."

This sounds a lot worse than you imagine. We will be always one election away of anothe asshole that will want to leveraged the US relative strength to cause harm. Better to not keep strengthening it.

> 100+ years of debatably good behavior, why shouldn't we be selfish?

I almost choked at this.

The US has a long history of fucking over other countries.

The only thing that changed is that it just decided to be more direct about it, even with former allies.

I actually prefer it this way.
by b112 | 2026-01-23 21:36:49+00:00
Maoboro cigarettes uaed to be for women, including red tipped filters to hide lipstick marks. Sales waned, so they actually rebranded the cigarette for men, and even succeeded in making it a definition of manliness.

Advertising stories like that, make sure M$ execs could care less about damage to their image.

Especially when profit leers its head.

(at least, I presume?!?)
by consumer451 | 2026-01-23 21:36:51+00:00
I have been thinking about this speech and your comment for a couple days now.

He should be pissed. Not as a Canadian, but as someone who understands the benefits of a global system of rules that has made everyone who cooperates rich, which has included himself.

What we have witnessed under 47 is that a small group of the world's rich ideologues were so maniacal and myopic that they screwed it up for everyone.

As a relative "poor", this pisses me off as well, as peace and prosperity will likely, at least temporarily, devolve for us all as Pax/Oeconomia Americana unwinds. Utter insanity.
by MPSimmons | 2026-01-23 21:36:55+00:00
>The whole premise of IPv6 is that every device should have a globally routable IP

I would agree with the small adjustment of, 'every device should be able to have a globally routable IP'.

There are a lot of devices, like the ones we're talking about, that should not be accessible to the internet at large. You're not preventing them from getting a public IP because you don't have enough, you're preventing them from having a public IP as part of the belt-and-suspenders approach because there's no need to have one.
by AstroBen | 2026-01-23 21:36:56+00:00
We have many layers to prevent them:

1. Competent humans architecting and leading the system who understand the specs, business needs, have critical thinking skills and are good at their job

2. Automated tests

3. Competent human reviewers

4. QA

5. Angry users

Cutting out 1 and 3 in favor of more tests isn't gunna work
by jajuuka | 2026-01-23 21:37:13+00:00
Similar case with Apple devices. They default to backing up to Apple servers where they are unencrypted. So they can provide data to police if requested. But for anyone concerned about privacy they can use Advanced Data Protection which encrypts all their data and prevents Apple from reading it or recovering it.

Definitely agree that choices like these are the most sane for the default user experience and that having these advanced options for power users to do with it what they want is a fair compromise. Wish more people were open to designing software for the average person and compromising on a middle ground the benefits both kinds of users.
by ratelimitsteve | 2026-01-23 21:37:21+00:00
>can compel Microsoft to provide the keys

can they compel testimony? keys, passcodes and the like are usually considered testimony. did they try? the usual story here is that they don't have to, that the big corporations will turn over any info they have on request because they can and the government makes a better friend than a single user. the article mentions 20 "requests" per year on average but doesn't say anything about the government using force.

I agree with your conclusion though: data you share with anyone is data you've shared with everyone and that includes your encryption keys. if that matters to you, then you need to take active steps to ensure your own security because compelled or not, the cloud providers aren't here to help keep you safe.
by mlitwiniuk | 2026-01-23 21:37:22+00:00
Speaking of missing categories — there's no "Compliance Tools" or "GRC" category yet. I'm building humadroid.io (SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance platform, based in Poland) and as far as I can tell, there aren't many European alternatives in this space. Most of the established players (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe) are US-based. Would be great to see this category added.
by written-beyond | 2026-01-23 21:38:12+00:00
Has anyone seriously used codex cli? I was using LLMs for code gen usually through the vscode codex extension, Gemini cli and Claude Code cli. The performance of all 3 of them is utter dog shit, Gemini cli just randomly breaks and starts spamming content trying to reorient itself after a while.

However, I decided to try codex cli after hearing they rebuilt it from the ground up and used rust(instead of JS, not implying Rust==better). It's performance is quite literally insane, its UX is completely seamless. They even added small nice to haves like ctrl+left/right to skip your cursor to word boundaries.

If you haven't I genuinely think you should give it a try you'll be very surprised. Saw Theo(yc ping labs) talk about how open ai shouldn't have wasted their time optimizing the cli and made a better model or something. I highly disagree after using it.
by phil21 | 2026-01-23 21:38:19+00:00
> There seem to be a lot of people in this thread who have never actually been through this and are just apeing what other people say online.

I've been through it personally and with friends.

My experience was basically yours. I am a relatively highly paid professional with a large amount of assets with my bank. I get pretty good service, even at my giant national retail bank. I call, make a demand, they tend to just do it without too many questions.

My more low income friends have also gone through it, and I've assisted with them since they were panic'ing. Their experience is absolutely nothing like mine. Every single one spent days to weeks being sandbagged by sometimes the same bank I dealt with on my issue.

Your experience will very greatly depending on how "valuable" of a customer your bank feels you are to them.

> U.S. banks largely give debit cards the same protections as credit cards for at least the last 15 years.

On paper, sure. In practice, no. Funds frozen during an "investigation" matter a whole lot more when it's your money vs. a made up credit limit number that wasn't real to begin with.
by KK7NIL | 2026-01-23 21:38:41+00:00
Online high stakes heads up cash games is by far the most competitive field in all of poker, for several reasons (global competition, more hands per hour, very few fish, etc).

An online $100/$50 heads up match is probably equivalent to a $10k/$5k live game, in terms of the quality of pros you'll find grinding them.

What do you think represents the highest level of poker instead?
by vlovich123 | 2026-01-23 21:38:50+00:00
I’m a huge fan of flapping when it’s really hard to do progressive rollouts. What this would mean here is you switch advertising the old and new routes back and forth automatically and this happens let’s say for 1 minute max before the old config is restored. Then a human looks at various metrics before they push a button to really make the new config permanent. It gives you a cheap way to preflight what will happen when you make a globally impacting config change.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-23 21:39:05+00:00
It was a little annoying getting old qt5 tools installed but I really enjoyed using dsnote / Speech Note. Huge model selection for my amd gpu. Good tool. I haven't done enough specific studying yet to give you suggestions for which model to go with. WhisperFlow is very popular.

Kyutai some very interesting work always. Their delayed streams work is bleeding edge & sounds very promising especially for low latency. Not sure why I have not yet tried it tbh. https://github.com/kyutai-labs/delayed-streams-modeling

There's also a really nice elegant simple app Handy. Only supports Whisper and Parakeet V3 but nice app & those are amazing models. https://github.com/cjpais/Handy
by stronglikedan | 2026-01-23 21:39:23+00:00
> You cannot buy a dedicated MP3 player today with the software polish and quality of life that an iPod had in the early 2000s (or even a Zune).

What the what?!? There's tons of DAPs on the market, and more than a few that would put "an iPod had in the early 2000s (or even a Zune)" to shame.
by oug-t | 2026-01-23 21:40:07+00:00
That makes a lot of sense, I will try to find alternative for clearing as well!

Now I mainly use `space` key for both chording and flagging. It's the old muscle memory I inherited from playing the classic minesweeper game. One good thing about using the space is that, thumb is always available in vim motions, where other fingers are on the home row.

Thanks for the advise!!
by mmmlinux | 2026-01-23 21:41:06+00:00
I couldn't make an account on the website Digikey outsourced all their 3d models to with my work email. signed up with my personal gmail account in less than 30 seconds.

This is not some Apple specific problem.

Also this was yesterday. Never did I get any of the 3 confirmation emails they claim they sent to my work mail.
by tehjoker | 2026-01-23 21:42:13+00:00
I am an American citizen and a socialist and am quite real thank you. I don't know what you are talking about with billionaires trying to collapse the USG, it works for them. You do not have class consciousness.

What I am saying does not compute to you because you are tribalistic in your thinking. As the old quote goes: "The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."
Show HN: Skill Generator – Turn terminal workflows into AI agent skills
by ezulabs | 2026-01-23 21:42:17+00:00
Vibe-coded a CLI tool that lets you select commands from your console history using a TUI, auto-recognizes parameters, and generates AI skills for Claude/Cursor.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ezulabs/skillgen-cli

https://github.com/ezulabs/skillgenerator/
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-23 21:42:41+00:00
Wow, this video was eye opening in how well it told the story and analyzed all its pieces.

It’s shocking to see “border” patrol operating in the middle of cities FAR from the border. And the abuse and violence targeting Americans is unprecedented. This is what they’re willing to do to US Citizens. Hearing about the 6 year old child screaming in fear as they raided their home is heartbreaking. I don’t see how any ethical person can support this. The parallels are too real at this point:

”Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes… Families are torn apart: men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find their parents have disappeared.”

– Anne Frank
by janalsncm | 2026-01-23 21:43:48+00:00
I’d argue that a lot of the scrape-and-train is just the newest and most blatant exploitation of the relationship that always existed, not a renegotiation of it. Stack overflow monetized millions of hours of people’s work. Same thing with Reddit and Twitter and plenty of other websites.

Legally it is different with books (as Anthropic found out) but I would argue morally it is more similar: forum users and most authors write not for money, but because they enjoy it.
by scoofy | 2026-01-23 21:43:49+00:00
"But I forgot my password! You need to fix this!"

The technology exists to trivially encrypt your data if you want to. That's not a product most people want, because the vast majority of people (1) will forget their password and don't want to lose their data, and (2) aren't particularly worried about the feds barging in and taking their laptop during a criminal investigation.

That's not what the idealists want, but that's the way the market works. When the state has a warrant, and you've got a backdoor, you're going to need to give the state the keys to the backdoor.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-23 21:44:32+00:00
Are you in a contractual relationship with the federal government that involves handling federal data?

Alternatively, do you deal with HIPAA PHI (FIPS is—unless an update since the last time I checked has changed this—part of the HITECH Act guidance specification of whether PHI is secured or unsecured, and so is a factor in whether, legally, a breach has occurred.)
by TapamN | 2026-01-23 21:44:33+00:00
As a kid, I remember the Windows version from being included on the disk that came with the book, "Windows Magic Tricks," published by Sybex.

Years later, I was surprised to see the exact same cat on a "port" to the Sega Dreamcast VMU (a memory card that can function as a stand-alone device, with a 48x32 pixel screen,) where pressing a button would play one of the animations. It makes a little more sense now, finding out that the cat images were released into the public domain.
by josephg | 2026-01-23 21:44:54+00:00
> why a division operator, or an array access, doesn't return a `Result` type in nice languages such as Rust?

Rust has standard library functions to do this, if you want. arr.get(index) returns an Option. Integer types have .checked_div for panic-free divide. Float already doesn’t panic on an invalid division - it just returns NaN or Infinity.
by bodge5000 | 2026-01-23 21:45:31+00:00
This is where you get to this weird juxtaposition of "AI can now replace humans" existing simultaneously with "Its unfair to compare human work to AI work".

Like if a human said they started a farm, but it turns out someone else did all the leg work and they were just asked for an opinion occasionally, they'd be called out for lying about starting a farm. Meanwhile, that flies for an AI, which would be fine if we acknowledged that theres a lot of behind the scenes work that a human needs to do for it.
by tombert | 2026-01-23 21:46:08+00:00
I've been trying to get my parents to move, but until Microsoft Office desktop is able to be run natively on there my parents won't entertain the subject.

I've tried to get them to use the web version of office, I've tried to get them to use OnlyOffice and LibreOffice, I've even tried showing them LaTeX as a last ditch effort, but no, if it isn't true Microsoft Branded Office 2024, the topic isn't even worth discussing [1].

I'm sure there are technical reasons why Wine can't run Office 2024, and I am certainly not trying to criticize the wine developers at all, but until I can show Wine running full-fat MS Office, my parents will always "miss" Windows.

To be clear, I hate MS Office. I do not miss it on Linux. I'm pretty sure my parents could get by just fine with LibreOffice or OnlyOffice or Google Docs, but they won't hear it.

I've also tried to get them to use macOS, since that does have a full-fat MS Office, I've even offered to buy them Macbooks so they can't claim it's "too expensive", and they still won't hear it. I love my parents but they can be stubborn.

[1] Before you accuse me of pushing for "developer UI", LaTeX was not something I led with. I tried the more "normy-friendly" options first.
by vel0city | 2026-01-23 21:46:20+00:00
Not all debit transactions require PIN inputs here in the US. Many can also just go through the credit card networks. For example, all my debit cards in my wallet right now have a VISA logo on them and can run through as if charging a VISA card. I've had other accounts and banks in the past which went through the Mastercard network. However, I do not get any of the extra protections, the money comes straight out of my checking accounts.

On top of that, I can use the card online using the same kind of credit card numbers. This does not require a PIN.
by wawayanda | 2026-01-23 21:46:23+00:00
Does anyone else find the AI writing excruciating? It's not that hard to prompt the AI to not write in AI-ese. And it's a million times better if a human writes it. It's low effort just to paste the slop....

The tells:

"EquipmentShare’s founders grew up in a commune where rules were strict, and self-reliance wasn’t a slogan — it was a necessity."

"The EquipmentShare founders didn’t start by trying to “disrupt” an industry. They started by solving their own problem."

"Over time, they didn’t just build a marketplace. They built an operating system for the jobsite."
by ls-a | 2026-01-23 21:46:26+00:00
> YC often also mentors founders on pivots

Interesting. I once talked to an investor (not YC) and they asked me what I would do if the product failed. I said one thing I can do is pivot. And they literally responded with "we don't invest in founders who think about pivoting"

> YC also needs to pivot it's marketing to compete with a16z Speedrun and PeakXV Surge

Maybe. A write up about the new design would be cool I think

> YC has always been founder first.

Internally yes there is a "founder community". But publicly I would argue it was product-first.
by ajross | 2026-01-23 21:47:05+00:00
Clearly I needed to be more precise: Tesla's vehicle autonomy features have no meaningful competition in the consumer auto space, period. Anyone who tries to claim otherwise is flogging some kind of angle, generally a political one. And I say this as someone who despises Musk's politics. But the cars his company makes are way, way, way ahead on this particular feature.
by lateforwork | 2026-01-23 21:47:13+00:00
We don't have to look at TCM or Ayurveda. Let's consider a simple, well-known, natural molecule: magnesium. Go to Amazon and search for product reviews for magnesium and magnesium l-threonate supplements. You'll see tons of people using magnesium effectively for muscle tightness, and insomnia. Yet doctors never recommend it, and are confused when told that it works for you. Why is this? It is because big pharma is not pushing it. There are no major clinical trials going on for it in order to prove that it is safe and effective for these purposes. Why? Because it is not patentable.
by phil21 | 2026-01-23 21:47:14+00:00
> the CC lobbyist were able to make it illegal to pass that charge onto the customer.

This is no longer a thing, there was a settlement with Visa/MC that removed this provision from their merchant contracts. You are now allowed to pass on transaction fees if you feel like it as a merchant.

It was also never illegal. It simply was part of the contract to do accept Visa/MC/Amex and they'd close your merchant account if you got caught doing it.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-23 21:47:45+00:00
The problem is that there is nothing done to protect privacy.

There is already plenty of entities that not only have reliable way of proving it's you that have access to account, but also enough info to return user's age without disclosing anything else, like banks or govt sites, they could (or better, be forced to) provide interface to that data.

Basically "pick your identity provider" -> "auth on their site" -> "step showing that only age will be shared" -> response with user's age and the query's unique ID that's not related to the user account id
by autoexec | 2026-01-23 21:48:09+00:00
The spam was advertising AI, the point of the article was how aggressively AI is being shoved down our throats, and it seems very likely that when he went to complain about the AI spam it was an an AI chatbot which gave him the useless answers until it finally "checked with the team" (presumably a human) who lied to him about counted as AI spam.

It seems like this is very much about AI even though it's ultimately humans pushing AI and disregarding people's spam preferences. Right now, everything "AI" is ultimately humans (like the way humans are using/abusing the AI tools, or the human intellect behind all of the data that was used to train them and all of the knowledge they output, or the humans deciding what they'll allow their AI to be used for, or the humans failing to safeguard the users of their AI products, etc) so this is as much about AI as anything is.
by SCdF | 2026-01-23 21:48:14+00:00
Remember, I am responding to this:

> With AI, if well done, it would be *useful nearly everywhere.*

I'm not saying it doesn't have uses.

Having said that, there are two things I never want AI to do: a) degrade or remove the need for me to express myself as a human being, b) do work I'd have to redo to prove it did it correctly.

On translation, sycophancy is a problem. I can't find it now, but there was an article I read about an LLM mistranslating papers to exclude data it thought the user wasn't interested in. So no, I wouldn't trust it for anything I cared about.

I do use AI: I'm literally reviewing some Claude generated code at the moment. But I can read that and know that it's done it right (or not, as the case often is). This is different from translation or summarisation, where I'd have to do the whole task again to prove correctness.