MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sophira | 2026-01-08 05:44:22+00:00
There's another cool thing here that's pretty amazing to me if I'm understanding correctly: Rather than being part of the OS, the filesystem handler code is located on the disk itself within the RDB partition.

Honestly, that seems like a surprisingly forward-thinking way to do things; preservation and archival become a lot easier if you can run the code. I've honestly not heard about this approach before, but it makes so much sense.

Can we pretty-please do this for all filesystems?
by unkownnomad110 | 2026-01-08 05:45:02+00:00
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by nobody9999 | 2026-01-08 05:45:34+00:00
>This is their purpose, they're used to build cases over time, instead of single instances of petty theft, until shoplifters can be charged with felonies when the cumulative amount that they stole reaches felony levels.

I've heard the idea of combining multiple misdemeanor thefts to make a felony. Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

Wouldn't that require an ongoing criminal conspiracy/enterprise to "combine" such disparate acts into a single, chargeable crime?

Some state laws do "upgrade" crimes, both misdemeanor --> felony and felony --> more serious felony based on prior convictions, but not (AFAIK) with multiple separate acts whose aggregate value is greater than the cutoff between petty theft and grand theft.

What's more, it's the local prosecutor who decides what charges to bring against someone accused of shoplifting, not the "Loss Prevention" team at a store or its corporate parent.

The idea just seems unlike how local/state laws and justice systems work in the US.

I could be (and likely am) wrong about this, but I've been unable to find state laws[0] which specify that multiple, separate acts of shoplifting can be combined into a single grand theft felony.

Would you share which states have such laws? It would be much appreciated!

[0] https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federa... [1]

[1] See the bottom of the page for links to most US state laws.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-01-08 05:46:08+00:00
I guess not most, all of mine were fine, mostly individuals with one or two investment properties who were friendly neighbors I happened to pay rent to.

Point is, in choosing to be a landlord and buying property, an ideal world would respond to this demand pressure by building housing, didn't mean to suggest the landlords themselves put on their hard hats and frame a new building. Just that they're also part of the marketplace.
by com2kid | 2026-01-08 05:46:35+00:00
That question is, honestly, kind of stupid. It is akin to asking why eat healthy or why go outside in the sun.

But hey, here we go.

1. Intense physical exercise is the only known way to increase IQ. (Admittedly pure strength training is not the best for this, HIIT workouts are better)

2. Muscle mass is a huge factor in the early death in seniors. Basically people who lack muscle mass are more likely to fall over and fracture something, at which point they are much more likely to die.

3. Lean muscle mass, up to a certain point (e.g. extreme body builders have worse mortality numbers), decreases mortality across the board.

4. I like living w/o pain, and you can choose to either have your joints take the load or your muscles take the load.

5. I enjoy being able to move my body and be active in the world.

6. I'm vain and I like to look good.

> most people don't.

Most people in America die of a heart attack. Most people in America are obese and have troubles moving around. Most people in America don't read books. Most people in America don't enjoy mathematics. Most people in America don't go to art museums.

People should have aspirations to do more than average.
by solatic | 2026-01-08 05:47:01+00:00
People should look at the actual guidelines, not the flashy website: https://cdn.realfood.gov/Daily%20Serving%20Sizes.pdf

In a 2000 calorie diet, 7-9 servings summed over fruits, vegetables, and grains vs. 6-7 servings summed over protein and dairy. 3-4 servings of protein where a serving is 1 egg or 3 ounces of meat means eating a meatless 2-egg breakfast and maybe a single hamburger patty at lunch and that's pretty much your daily protein.

Hardly some carnivorous revolution.
by almosthere | 2026-01-08 05:47:57+00:00
The typical consumer doesn't care about any checkbox feature. They just care if they can play the games they care about and word/email/netflix.

That being said, netflix would be an impossible app without gfx acceleration APIs that are enabled by specific CPU and/or GPU instruction sets. The typical consumer doesn't care about those CPU/GPU instruction sets. At least they don't care to know about them. However they would care if they didn't exist and Netflix took 1 second per frame to render.

Similar to AI - they don't care about AI until some killer app that they DO care about needs local AI.

There is no such killer app. But they're coming. However as we turn the corner into 2026 it's becoming extremely clear that local AI is never going to be enough for the coming wave of AI requirements. AI is going to require 10-15 simultaneous LLM calls or GenAI requests. These are things that won't do well on local AI ever.
by TMWNN | 2026-01-08 05:48:01+00:00
>Now I guess I get to do business with Chase again, which is neat. I’m happy to be part of an economy where I can vote with my dollar like this.

You were unusually unlucky. The US has a very decentralized banking system, with thousands of institutions. The Big Four (JPM, BAC, C, WFC) have under 50% of total deposits; the comparable figure for Canada's Big Five is ~85%,
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-08 05:48:43+00:00
This seems to depend an awful lot on your conception of a "rich person".

My wife and I have owned (at separate times) a couple of rental properties over the years due to various life circumstances (we no longer do). Both properties were valued in the mid $200k range. While being even in that situation certainly makes us unusually fortunate, it gave us no access to cheaper credit.

Now, I appreciate that there is a version of a "rich person" who does. But the GP's example wasn't specifically restricted in that way.
by novoreorx | 2026-01-08 05:49:46+00:00
> And every second I spend trying to do fun free things for the community like this is a second I'm not spending trying to turn the business around and make sure the people who are still here are getting their paychecks every month.

Man, you can really feel the anxiety and desperation in Adam's reply.

Part of me wants to say "look what evil VC money does to devs", but that's only a harsh critism of a bystander.

Monetization is a normal path that the successful OSS projects would take. Tailwind went big on the startup route, took a bunch of VC cash a couple of years back, but despite the massive impact on the dev world, they clearly didn't hit the revenue numbers investors expected. Now the valuation bubble popped, and they're forced into massive layoffs. Though to be fair, maintaining a CSS library probably doesn't require that many people anyway.

I really feel for Adam here. He didn't really do anything wrong. Eagering to build a startup after your project blows up is a totally natural ambition. But funding brings risks. Taking other people's money makes you go from being the owner to just another employee real quick. And once you hop on that VC train, you don't really call the shots anymore. Sometimes you can't stop raising or scaling as your own will.

If you find a solid business model, that's great. But if not, well, honestly, a 75% layoff is getting off lightly. At least they still have a chance to keep on.

But he obviously didn't foresee this coming. He’s getting torn between being an OSS maintainer and a CEO who have to be responsible for stackholders and employees. That internal conflict must be brutal. It’s pretty obvious he didn't reject the PR for technical reasons. It's just because the reality hit him hard, and he has to respond to it, even if it goes against his mind as a developer.

Really hope Tailwind pulls through this. Also, this is a lesson worth noting for the rest of us. As indie devs, if you ever get the chance to take VC money, you really gotta think hard about whether you're truly ready for the strings that come attached.
by nomilk | 2026-01-08 05:49:53+00:00
Hadn't even heard of Apple Card until now: https://www.apple.com/apple-card/ A credit card with

> No fees. Not even hidden ones

and

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and

> 3% cash back at Apple (and Uber, Uber Eats, Booking.com and a few others) when you use Apple Pay

This seems... really good. As in, it's essentially free money. Am I missing a catch here?
by cthalupa | 2026-01-08 05:50:01+00:00
Holding a random person to the same standards for judgment as the people we are entrusting the enforcement of law, sometimes with deadly force, is an insane thing to do.

It doesn't matter if she was impeding an ICE smash and grab. It doesn't matter if she might have clipped the ICE officer at 4-5 mph when she freaked out - because the officer shot her after all the ICE agents were already out of danger of death or significant bodily harm. And it's not clear that she even clipped him.

Most police departments have policies around this. The DOJ does. I can't find if DHS does. You are explicitly not supposed to shoot at people fleeing in cars outside of it being an immediate necessity to save lives or significant bodily harm. That clearly is not met here. It's also not even a smart way to handle it - dead people can't control the accelerator or the steering wheel. Point proven when right after that the car accelerates.

The expectations for someone given the power to enforce the law, detain people, and use lethal force when required to are, and should be, many times higher than that of an everyday citizen. Should she have tried to flee? No. She would have hit him for sure if he didn't step out of the way. But it doesn't matter relative to the greater issue at hand here, which is that we should be able to trust our LEOs to not needlessly use lethal force - but we can't.
by theturtletalks | 2026-01-08 05:50:45+00:00
All of this seems like manufactured hype for Gemini. I use GPT-5.2, Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 flash and pro with Droid CLI and Gemini is consistently the worst. It gets stuck in loops, wants to wipe projects when it can’t figure out the problem, and still fails to call tools consistently (sometimes the whole thread is corrupted and you can’t rewind and use another model).

Terminal Bench supports my findings, GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 are consistently ahead. Only Junie CLI (Jetbrains exclusive) with Gemini 3 Flash scores somewhat close to the others.

It’s also why Ampcode made Gemini the default model and quickly back tracked when all of these issues came to light.
by throw234234234 | 2026-01-08 05:52:25+00:00
I think AI has come as the industry was somewhat maturing and most frameworks/software had previous incarnations that mostly did the same thing or could be done adhoc anyway. The need for libraries as the models get better probably declines as well.

Not all open source but a lot of it is fundamentally for humans to consume. If AI can, at its extreme (still remains to be seen), just magic up the software then the value of libraries and a lot of open source software will decline. In some ways its a fundamentally different paradigm of computing, and we don't yet understand what that looks like.

As AI gets better OSS contributes to it; but in its source code feeding the training data not as a direct framework dependency. If the LLM's continue to get better I can see the whole concept of frameworks being less and less necessary.
by Groxx | 2026-01-08 05:52:35+00:00
The private repo mention in the comments there is kinda a good one, unfortunately. If someone runs a private gosum/goproxy (relatively common) and amends a tag (hopefully very uncommon but I have personally seen it happen at least three times) then the cache could be wrong because go.mod didn't have to change. Which is Bad™ but it depends on what edge cases they want to handle automatically, vs optimization for the majority case.

For well-behaving/stable/consistent setups I fully agree though, go.mod is both sufficient and better, and those other cases can probably just key off both instead. I think I've seen go.mod to change without go.sum changes (change an unused transitive dependency into a direct dependency), which can lead to your build needing something that wasn't cached because it was pruned in the previous version.
by AlexCoventry | 2026-01-08 05:52:41+00:00
Doesn't involve Gaussians, but:

The Free Transformer: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17558

Abstract: We propose an extension of the decoder Transformer that conditions its generative process on random latent variables which are learned without supervision thanks to a variational procedure. Experimental evaluations show that allowing such a conditioning translates into substantial improvements on downstream tasks.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-08 05:53:03+00:00
As others have noted, I don't understand how anyone can view that video and believe that any ICE agent was at risk of losing their life, but shooting at someone behind the wheel of a car that is heading towards you is not the correct way to resolve that situation even from a purely selfish and pragmatic perspective. We even see the "why" in this video. Dead people can't control the accelerator or the wheel. A severely injured person might just mash down on the pedal harder as a reaction. The car's most violent acceleration comes after she's been repeatedly shot.
by gorgoiler | 2026-01-08 05:53:34+00:00
My advice would be to not worry too much about it. I found this thread through the search tool and was glad to find it at around about the 200/200 point/comment mark. Despite not being on the front page it is still starting to get polluted with flagged comments.

I’d liken it to going to a hacker conference and wanting to talk to like minded people about 3D printing something controversial, like a gun barrel or a knife. It’s interesting as a topic and worthy of technical and moral exploration but putting it on stage as a keynote talk would risk attracting all the wrong attention.
by nis0s | 2026-01-08 05:54:26+00:00
The article says firms are spinning normal head count reductions, following a period of over-hiring, as efficiency thru AI adoption. This was obvious to everyone who wasn’t high on their own supply. Now the mistake is comparing AI adoption to the dotcom bubble, which is again an extreme take on reality. There’s still lot of promise to AI, and there are very real capabilities being enabled by existing technologies, so nothing is quite dotcom-like (except a few non-AI companies getting a push in profile by spinning themselves as AI), but jobs aren’t exactly being replaced by anything automated. If anything, AI flaws are creating more work, but hiring is stalled due to other reasons.
by Ianjit | 2026-01-08 05:54:38+00:00
I think an OpenAI paper showed 25% of GPT usage is “seeking information”. In that case Google also has a an advantage from being the default search provider on iOS and Android. I do find myself using the address bar in a browser like a chat box.

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/a253471f-8260-40c6-a2cc-aa93fe9f1...
by D-Machine | 2026-01-08 05:54:52+00:00
Nutrition science is not science in almost any of the ways a real science needs to be, and there is almost zero "real, good science" to be found in it. The reasons this statement is true (as well as the precise qualifications of the exceptions to this) are well laid out by tsimionescu in response to your post.

The measurement, control, confounds, and even basic concepts are atrocious here, this is possibly the only field as bad as or even worse than e.g. social psychology. And this is all ignoring the massive economic interests involved.

It is in fact only science illiteracy that would lead one to think nutrition science is a serious science. At the most absolute charitable, it is a protoscience like alchemy (which did have some replicable findings that eventually led to real chemistry, but which was still mostly nonsense at core).
by techcode | 2026-01-08 05:55:34+00:00
I've had quite the opposite experience with Microsoft.

One time their support just give me a licence for a newer version of Windows - I've replaced the HDD/SSD, cloned/copied it and it was not activated. I contacted their chat support from that laptop and when they asked me for licence on the sticker I mentioned I'll have to come back in 5 minutes since I'll have to turn off laptop, and take out battery to see the MS sticker/hologram.

Support said "No worries, here's a new activation key".

Can't recall if it was from XP to Win 7, or Win 7 to 10.

--

And after buying 2 or 3 licences from another website just like G2A (Win 10 was ~€10 on Instant-Gaming) - a bunch of new computers (even brand new assembled desktops) were automatically activated.
by startupsfail | 2026-01-08 05:56:03+00:00
The default could be that a background upgrade should not be a foreground stress test.

Imagine you are driving a car and from time ro time, without any warning, it suddenly starts accelerating and decelerating aggressively. Your powertrain, engine, breaks are getting tear and wear, oh and at random that car also spins out and rolls, killing everyone inside (data loss).

This is roughly how current unattended upgrades work.
by p1esk | 2026-01-08 05:56:28+00:00
1. The two papers you linked are about importance of attention weights, not QKV projections. This is orthogonal to our discussion.

2. I don't see how the transformations done in one attention block can be reversed in the next block (or in the FFN network immediately after the first block): can you please explain?

3. All state of the art open source LLMs (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, etc) still use all three QKV projections, and largely the same original attention algorithm with some efficiency tweaks (grouped query, MLA, etc) which are done strictly to make the models faster/lighter, not smarter.

4. When GPT2 came out, I myself tried to remove various ops from attention blocks, and evaluated the impact. Among other things I tried removing individual projections (using unmodified input vectors instead), and in all three cases I observed quality degradation (when training from scratch).

5. The terms "sensitivity", "visibility", and "important" all attempt to describe feature importance when performing pattern matching. I use these terms in the same sense as importance of features matched by convolutional layer kernels, which scan the input image and match patterns.
by jerlam | 2026-01-08 05:56:29+00:00
It's not tremendously better than existing cards.

2% cash back is practically the floor for rewards cards. I've had a 2% rewards card for over a decade (Citi Double Cash).

People are able to get around 5% rewards if they're willing to be stuck with miles, locked into a specific retailer/company, or deal with rotating categories.
by d--b | 2026-01-08 05:57:23+00:00
Well it takes some politics to get this kind of culture shift. As long as highly processed food is cheap and working class people are paid what they are paid, there is no chance of anything changing.

Additionnally, it is generally cheaper to eat at a fast food place than to actually cook at home. And since people don’t have time to go back home and cook something for lunch, they just eat at subway’s, domino’s or mc donald’s.

And since this has been going on for more than a generation, today’s grandparents don’t even know how to cook from raw ingredients anymore.

The US is sick, but change doesn’t start with food, it starts with fixing the economic inequality.
Show HN: ADHD Focus Light
by zonghao | 2026-01-08 05:57:26+00:00
Two years ago, someone on HN shared an interesting ADHD hack: a tiny LED that blinks at 120 bpm and gradually slows to 60 bpm, supposedly helping your brain sync and calm down into focus mode.

I found Qiaogun's implementation (ADHD_Blink) for M5StickC Plus, and adapted it for the newer M5StickC Plus2 with some tweaks - simpler 50% duty cycle flash, configurable ramp-down, auto sleep, etc.

Honestly, I'm not sure if it actually works. I'll be trying it out myself to see. But the building process itself was quite fascinating.

I used Claude Code for the entire implementation - from reading the original codebase, to modifying the firmware, to flashing the device. There's something surreal about an AI having full control over a physical piece of hardware.

It made me wonder: in the future, could AI-connected devices dynamically rewrite their own firmware based on user needs? Imagine telling your device "make this button do X instead" and it just... does.

Original HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38274782 Based on: https://github.com/Qiaogun/ADHD_Blink Hardware: M5StickC Plus2 (~$20)

Happy to hear thoughts, or if anyone has actually tried this LED trick.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-01-08 05:57:45+00:00
<< They approached from the front, and stepped into the path of a turning "fleeing" vehicleto get a better shot at the driver and then jumping to the side.

Friend. Just from pure logic if the path was blocked by ICE agent then her pressing a gas means attempt to run that ICE agent over. And if you look at the vid in slow motion, he does jump to the side to avoid a swipe.

<< That officer had the option to step either way

And I guess this is where the lawyers will have a field day. Best I can say is that he is lucky to have protection that comes from being LEO, where the standard is just different.

<< I realise it's more common in the US which has a reputation for LEO's shooing unarmed people in the back.

To be fair, here it was literally face to face.

<< She reversed, turned wheels to arc into the exiting lane and was shot by an officer who was already drawn prepared to fire.

As I am rewatching the video in slow motion, it does seem like he was preparing for the eventuality, but the entire interaction and change in stance takes mere seconds.

<< this would have zero bearing on the "right" of a LEO to use lethal force.

To me it is not the question of whether they are right, but whether she had a good reason to be there. If she was following them around and ended up in that situation as a result, I might be more inclined to give ICE a pass. If she is an actual random individual that simply did not know what to do and panicked, then it is an actual problem.

That said, it does not appear atm that that was the case. FWIW, I am not happy about it as I believe it further undermines existing system, but what I think does not really matter.