MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jiggawatts | 2026-01-13 02:29:45+00:00
“The system” includes the voting public. If a sufficient fraction of the population decides to override all common sense and vote a selfish conman into ultimate executive power then they can’t make the shocked Pikachu face when the rest of the political establishment fails to curtail his abuses.

There was an interview with an otherwise “intelligent” person in 2024 who admitted he knew Trump is corrupt and would mercilessly abuse the position of President but decided to vote for him anyway because he thought that checks and balances would be sufficient.

This is like putting a fox in charge of the chicken coop and hoping the neighbour’s dog will stop it eating your chickens!

Maybe… just… don’t do that?

Don’t knowingly vote for evil?
by stevefolta | 2026-01-13 02:30:23+00:00
Oh, it _does_ have string interpolation, my bad. Sadly, not by default -- you still have to go back and add an "f" before the string once you've started typing it and then realize that you want an interpolated string. Also, it doesn't always work -- if I define two interpolated string variables in one function, GCC chokes in a way I'm not understanding. And every interpolated string variable consumes 4K of global memory.
by jaggederest | 2026-01-13 02:30:31+00:00
It's more than just the engineering. Standard American diet damages your endocrine system, primarily the pancreas, but there are lots of downstream issues that result too, and as a consequence you'll crave more food that's bad for you, in your body's attempt to get some nutrition.

Basically, it causes such blood glucose shocks that the beta cells in your pancreas burn out, preventing you from getting enough insulin, which means your body has sugar but can't utilize it, creating sugar cravings.
by ChadNauseam | 2026-01-13 02:30:43+00:00
Wow, it's hard to think of a better example of a correlational study measuring something that would obviously be confounded by the thing being studied. Don't forget that most GLP-1 users are obese and many will continue to be after treatment (as it only causes a reduction in 10%-20% of body weight). And they're rich. So the headline is "rich obese people spend more in restaurants than average".

No shade on people taking the drug btw. I'm on tirzepatide myself.
by SirIsaacGluten | 2026-01-13 02:31:21+00:00
Inmos not imos, if my memory cells serve ne correctly. I lived overseas at the time, so I did not hear about the Cray till like 1980/81. My friend (we were like 12) had an idea to write a simulator for digital circuits, and I was puzzled as to why you would want to simulate a circuit when you can build it and test it. He was way ahead of his time.
by firecall | 2026-01-13 02:32:05+00:00
I wonder how many times faster my iPhone 17 Pro Max is?

Sometimes I like to remind myself we are living in the future. A future that seemed like SciFi when I was a kid in the 70s!

Sadly I don’t think we will ever see Warp Drives, Time Travel or World Peace. But we might get Jet Packs!
by hgs3 | 2026-01-13 02:33:08+00:00
> like nearly all other datetime APIs, has 0 support for querying leap-second information

That's probably because you only need leap second accuracy in niche use cases, like astronomy or GPS. In JavaScript specifically, that kind of accuracy isn't needed for 99% of client-side use cases. Most date-time libraries work with POSIX time which assumes 86,400 seconds each day.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-13 02:34:43+00:00
That's the case with all scientific discoveries - pieces of prior work get accumulated, until it eventually becomes obvious[0] how they connect, at which point someone[1] connects the dots, making a discovery... and putting it on the table, for the cycle to repeat anew. This is, in a nutshell, the history of all scientific and technological progress. Accumulation of tiny increments.

--

[0] - To people who happen to have the right background and skill set, and are in the right place.

[1] - Almost always multiple someones, independently, within short time of each other. People usually remember only one or two because, for better or worse, history is much like patent law: first to file wins.
by technofiend | 2026-01-13 02:34:43+00:00
I've been beefing about this for decades; X Window didn't do this by default and you could adjust window manager behavior however you liked to prevent windows stealing focus in X, even for newly realized windows. Microsoft Windows decided for some reason the newest window gets focus, which is annoying as heck. I really don't want my attention involuntarily switched because my window manager things it knows better than I do where I should be looking.
by catlikesshrimp | 2026-01-13 02:35:20+00:00
I agree with your point.

Going offtopic: The "health benefits of circumcision" bogus has existed for decades. The search engines are returning the results of bogus information, because the topic is mostly relevant for its social and religious implications.

I am related with the topic, and discussion is similar to topics on politics: Most people don't care and will stay quiet while a very aggresive group will sell it as a panacea.
by schmuhblaster | 2026-01-13 02:36:11+00:00
Is there any reasonably fast and portable sandboxing approach that does not require a full blown VM or containers? For coding agents containers are probably the right way to go, but for something like Cowork that is targeted at non-technical users who want or have to stay local, what's the right way?

container2wasm seems interesting, but it runs a full blown x86 or ARM emulator in WASM which boots an image derived from a docker container [0].

[0] https://github.com/container2wasm/container2wasm
by monster_truck | 2026-01-13 02:36:12+00:00
that tracks, it's not staying loaded and is buzzsawing back and forth between power states. They'll likely fix it with some power management tweaks. Had a pair of modded Vega 64s that sounded like a tiny CNC mill when they did this, but that's what ~900W will do if you let it.

I haven't used a mac in a while but there's probably some values you can fuck with if you disable sip to stop it from ramping back down so aggressively, or keep it in the higher power states.
by ipnon | 2026-01-13 02:36:32+00:00
I feel like I am still doing it the hard way, I just have to type 10x less into my keyboard to get the same amount of code out. But as soon as my understanding of the system diverges from its reality, I still do the old fashioned work of figuring out the difference and how to resolve it. It feels like a printing press replacing scribes to me.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-13 02:36:39+00:00
Nothing can beat the 600 Mercedes for cachet though. Look at the list of owners: Idi Amin, Ceauşescu, Saddam Hussein, F.W.de Klerk, Papa Doc, Mugabe, Brezhnev, Tito, Mao, Kim Il-Sung, Ferdinand Marcos, Deng Xiaoping, Mobutu, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Mubarak, Berlusconi, Pablo Escobar, Jeremy Clarkson, nothing will ever come close to that.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-01-13 02:36:52+00:00
I back of the enveloped it wrong is what :(.

It's -log2(0.75) for getting a 75% chance right and -log2(0.25) for getting it wrong. I should have stated .4 bits and 2bits respectively not 0.5 and 2.4. Sorry! Good catch.

It's 3.2 vs 4bits. Now that may not seem huge but the probabilities tend to be at the more extreme ends if the predictor is any good. Once you start going towards the 99% range you get extreme efficiency.
by nunez | 2026-01-13 02:37:56+00:00
It might be a placeholder product to hold the ASIN.

Some (many?) vendors on Amazon will recycle pages this way. Sell some item, change the item and description to dummy values when it stops selling, change to another item that will be sold, repeat.

This is usually done to keep the reviews, though I've also heard about this being used for money laundering.
by ebiederm | 2026-01-13 02:38:12+00:00
I don't know if this is realistic but as a general rule if I was contracting with someone so that my business would have higher reliability, I would ask for a service level agreement with a agreed upon amount the vendor will pay you for every unit of time there service is not up.

At least then your pain is their pain, and they are incentivesed to prevent problems and fix them quickly.
by taneq | 2026-01-13 02:39:08+00:00
I think there's a bit of rose tinted glasses going on with our memories of SD TV, too. A decade or so ago I plugged an old PS2 into my 50" plasma TV (which I bought just after plasma TVs got suddenly cheap :D ) and then spent a good 10-15 minutes trying to find a setting to increase the resolution before realising that, no, that's just how things looked back then, except now it's magnified so it's really blurry.
by defrost | 2026-01-13 02:39:37+00:00
> America so far has been incredibly lucky - we have the oldest constitution in the world.

Not even remotely.

* the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1922 - present) carried forward the Constitution of

* the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1801 - 1922) which itself carried forward the Constitution of

* the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707 - 1801), which carried forward the Constitution of

* the Kingdom of England (and Wales) (1536 - 1707), which carried forward the Constitution of

* the Kingdom of England* (927 - 1707)

The phrase you likely wanted was "the oldest and shortest written constitution still in force."

> Yet nearly every government that has tried to copy it has failed.

Sure. It's flawed. That's why, for example, some countries just picked the servicable parts and went hybrid with (say) "Washminster" systems.
by rafabulsing | 2026-01-13 02:40:06+00:00
Yeah, I feel ya. I don't mind it, but I'm far from loving it. What particularly stresses me out is how I can be screwed even doing everything correctly, if someone else screws up.

All reasons why I think public transit is the better solution over self driving cars. They're generally much safer, and also you get to do something while you're on the go. Pretty nifty, I think.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-01-13 02:41:57+00:00
I've been an early employee at two separate small-scale US manufacturing facilities, each making only a few hundred products annually ($x,xxx, each). Their PCBs contain several hundred components, mostly surface-mounted.

Making PCBs outside of SE Asia is not economical. You cannot afford to train labor on such a small scale, and would be foolish to manufacture more than a few of your own prototype boards.

>2. Squeegee: an old debit card

This works really well

>3. Pick and place

Even with a cheaper optical pick-&-place, you still need to examine every board thoroughly (the placements aren't optimal).

>4. Reflow: a toaster oven w/ mods

The problem with this approach is that the low thermal mass of a toaster oven results in inconsistent temperature profiles (e.g. sporadically burnt / un-soldered). I have used this setup and much prefer a larger reflow oven (with conveyer).

----

A repeated problem with this in-house PCB manufacturing dream is that the EE designer the circuit board cannot work more profitably when he has to make all the PCBs himself — which he'll have to, because he also cannot afford most American training/labor to make reliable boards.

¢¢
by bryanmdavis25 | 2026-01-13 02:42:19+00:00
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by rafabulsing | 2026-01-13 02:43:47+00:00
Yeah, it tastes like medicine to me.

Although to be fair, the last time I had a diet coke, I was, dunno, maybe 10? So like 20 years ago at this point. So maybe if I had some now, I'd have a different opinion. But I don't think diet coke is even sold here in Brazil anymore, It's been years since I last saw one. I was actually not aware that it was still sold in the US!
by neltnerb | 2026-01-13 02:43:48+00:00
This is what I do, I'm a little confused by the issue. If you have a device that outputs HDMI just never connect the TV to your wifi. It's not like you need or want firmware updates if there's no internet connection.

A much more fair retort is that an extra device to output video costs more, though I might argue that if you don't use the TV's built in system the manufacturer is losing ad revenue. So if you only use it as a normal TV you kinda are buying it subsidized by everyone else watching ads on theirs.
by astrange | 2026-01-13 02:43:55+00:00
All the side effects I've seen of GLP-1s are positive, and we've had diabetes patients taking them for much longer than that.

Anyway, it's fairly obvious that discipline is not a solution to weight loss, because weight gains a) happened in lab and pet animals on the same timescales they happened to humans and b) are reversed by moving to higher altitudes.

So to be productive, you should be telling people to move to Colorado.
by zahlman | 2026-01-13 02:44:06+00:00
Here's some of the video, as part of a wider analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDda-L_ZOE8&t=5m56s

At 6:55 (in slow motion) we see the officer in front of the car, recording with his own phone.

7:01, the car moves forward and the wheel can clearly be seen to spin as the car struggles to gain traction. There is a clear attempt to accelerate sharply.

7:23, some explanation: "As you can see, the officer has his gun out, the tires are still pointed directly at the officer, and the car is moving forward.... the officer is struck by the vehicle, which you cannot see from this angle." (But if you take the full speed video frame by frame, around 6:38 you can clearly see for multiple frames that the officer is taken off balance and takes a while to recover.

Then there's more footage from in front of the car. At 7:53 you can see the impact plain as day. That's a CNN analyst saying: "Well, the slowed-down version is showing me that when the SUV pulls forward, they make contact with the agent in the street, and then immediately following that contact, you hear three gunshots follow." (Sound sync is an issue with video like this and it makes far more sense to me that the shots are concurrent with, or immediately before impact. They cannot feasibly be any kind of revenge for being hit because it would be utterly impossible to aim.) "Contact" is an understatement given the video; you can clearly see that the officer is leaning considerably forward over the hood of the SUV as a direct consequence of the impact.

All of this is also corroborated by the officer's own cell phone footage, wherein he completely loses control of the camera as a consequence.
by saltypal | 2026-01-13 02:44:21+00:00
Check out https://github.com/anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime, which tackles this problem using the built-in userspace sandboxing on macOS and Linux.

I run Claude from a mounted volume (but no reason you couldn't make a user for it instead) since the Deny(~) makes it impossible to run from the normal locations.

export CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=/Volumes/Claude/.claude

Minimal .claude/settings.local.json:

{
"permissions": {
"allow": [
"Read(/)",
"Read(~/.claude/shell-snapshots/\*)",
"WebSearch",
"WebFetch(domain:example.com)"
],
"deny": [
"Read(~)",
"Write(/.claude/settings.local.json)",
"Write(/method_filter.py)"
]
},
"sandbox": {
"enabled": true,
"autoAllowBashIfSandboxed": true,
"allowUnsandboxedCommands": false,
"network": {
"allowLocalBinding": true,
"httpProxyPort": 9655
}
}
}
by nolimits4web | 2026-01-13 02:45:43+00:00
Managing multiple projects with different contexts is my biggest pain point. I run several side projects and consulting work simultaneously, and the constant context-switching kills productivity.

The specific problems:
- Scattered tasks across tools - Some things live in GitHub issues, others in notes, others in my head
- No clear "what should I work on right now" - When I sit down to work, I waste 10-15 minutes figuring out where I left off
- Losing track of the big picture - Easy to get lost in details and forget project goals

I got frustrated enough that I built my own tool (t0ggles.com) to solve this - basically a kanban + multi-project dashboard that lets me see everything in one place and quickly switch contexts. Still iterating on it based on my own daily use.

What's your situation - are you building something or just researching pain points?
by shadowpho | 2026-01-13 02:46:01+00:00
>If the goal is consistency, then wall-clock isn't the simple way to do it.

It’s simpler than doing a limit on number of states, and for some applications consistency isn’t super important.

Doing a time limit also enforces bot moving in a reasonable time. It puts a nice limit to set up a compromise between speed and difficulty.

Doing state limit with a time limit might be better way to do it, but is harder.
by calvinmorrison | 2026-01-13 02:46:28+00:00
At my work we pay a boring, regional VPS host that is not fancy. In fact its maybe a few levels above "your 2000's web host, with a LAMP stack, a FTP login and a bad admin panel". Just a bit above that.

However, they ALWAYS pick up the phone on the 3rd ring with a capable, on call linux sysadmin with good general DB, services, networking, DNS, email knowledge.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-13 02:46:29+00:00
Hegseth is a literal christian supremacist. His tattoos show it along with his rhetoric, and you can read more at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Pete_He.... He also doesn’t think women should be able to vote.

The fact that he’s teaming up with Musk, who tweets daily about white culture and posts AI images of white women regularly in some weird appeal to white supremacists, should alarm everyone. Musk and his companies are part of the regime, in that they prop up such extremist talking points and cooperate closely with the administration.

When Hegseth talks about “defense innovation”, he’s talking about contracts given away to these friends of the administration who prop it up. Musk, Alex Karp of Palantir, Joe Lonsdale of 8VC, etc.
by quesomaster9000 | 2026-01-13 02:46:52+00:00
Not GLP-1, but moved onto an OMAD diet which is essentially a 23hr daily fast with nothing but neat espresso, cigarettes and water in between - although occasionally I have a small treat or sugary drink.

But now I eat almost exclusively at restaurants and enjoy it, and overall it's cheaper than cooking at home given wastage with many ingredients and desire for variety.

I do eat very simply though, usually south & east asian food.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-13 02:46:57+00:00
If anything, I feel that current breed of multimodal LLMs demonstrate that language is not fundamental - tokens are, or rather their mutual association in high-dimensional latent space. Language as we recognize it, sequences of characters and words, are just a special case. Multimodal models manage to turn audio, video and text into tokens in the same space - they do not route through text when consuming or generating images.
by intelec1 | 2026-01-13 02:47:14+00:00
Apple and Google announced a multi-year partnership where Gemini models will become the foundation for Apple Intelligence and the redesigned personalized Siri. The deal, reportedly worth up to $1 billion annually, marks a significant shift from Apple's traditional vertical integration approac.The updated Siri is expected to roll out with iOS 26.4 in March-April 2026. Apple will leverage Google's Gemini models and cloud infrastructure for their base AI models while continuing to develop proprietary AI technologies. According to the joint statement, "after careful evaluation, we determined that Google's technology provides the most powerful foundation for Apple Foundation Models".Elon Musk criticized the partnership as an "unreasonable concentration of power," noting that Google already controls Android and Chrome, and now extends influence into Apple's ecosystem. This comes as xAI is actively suing Apple and OpenAI over their exclusive partnership, which Musk claims prevents fair competition for Grok in the App Store. A court recently denied Apple and OpenAI's attempts to dismiss the case.The deal is non-exclusive, and Apple emphasized that all Apple Intelligence features will operate under their privacy standards . This represents one of the most significant tech partnerships between longtime rivals, fundamentally changing how AI will be delivered across Apple's ecosystem
by refactor_master | 2026-01-13 02:47:46+00:00
I think this is a classic old-vs-new tale. I started my PhD in biochemical research where analyzing data by hand was definitely a "craft" in some aspects. Later I forewent going to the lab entirely and instead spent all my time on developing machine learning for automated data analysis. But just like field work, you still need people in labs who can continue the craft.

The article should perhaps introspect a bit more instead of setting up a false dichotomy between "rainforest field work or computers".
by netruk44 | 2026-01-13 02:48:30+00:00
Did SSDs get more expensive? The article says so, but doesn't provide any supporting evidence. It has the text "with RAM and SSDs becoming noticeably more expensive" with a link to another article, but that article doesn't even mention SSDs. Only that hotels in Korea are seeing a boom due to Apple (and others) visiting daily because of RAM prices.

I've been casually browsing NewEgg's daily deals and NVMEs have been roughly $100/TB since basically 12 months ago. (With more and less expensive models available)

Obviously I can't argue against the RAM prices. I saw Amazon selling 96 GB for over $1,000 yesterday.
Show HN: Create Postcards from Museum Artworks
by thebigship | 2026-01-13 02:49:19+00:00
I am working on a platform for creating and sending postcards from open access museum collections.

I've integrated the Met, Cleveland Museum of Art and AIC, with an experimental feature for Wikimedia Commons.

If you want to send a postcard you can use the promo: 2SWEET to send a postcard to whoever for 2 dollars off. Before discount the price is $3 for US and $5 for international.

Any feedback or questions are welcome.
by kshacker | 2026-01-13 02:49:56+00:00
I do not usually comment on politics but just this one time, and hopefully I can wordsmith it without taking a political stance.

When Trump started his campaign, circa 2011 with the birth certificate, he did not know he will win or not, but he made it his life's mission.

Countering him will take the same zeal. I know we have a precedence of presidents retiring, but unless Obama (and Hillary and Biden and Kamala) hits the streets as the leader of resistance, the resistance will be quelled easily by constant distracting. Yeah maybe AOC, maybe Bernie, maybe someone else, but no ... Trump is smart and dedicated (despite the useful idiot role he plays), he can not be countered by mid-term and full-term campaigns. We are not in Kansas any more. Been a while. The opposition needs a named resistance leader whose full time job is to engage Trump.
by gavmor | 2026-01-13 02:50:11+00:00
I just gotta say, the coil noise on my open-case 3090 has been a fascinating and joyful complement to my generative experiments.

Alongside `nvtop`, coil noise has given me a visceral sense of the texture for different workloads. Sorry I haven't done a more rigorous analysis, but I'm certain it helps me debug.
by charcircuit | 2026-01-13 02:50:36+00:00
It doesn't make sense at all to persist by default. If I send a message to my rendering thread's message queue that the window is fully occluded I never want that message to be persisted. If the process crashes the fact that the window was occluded back then has no relevance to the current insurance of the process.

Trying to persist things has a performance cost that you don't want to pay everytime you want a thread to communicate with another.

Do you think ArrayList or std::vector should be persisted by default?