MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teleforce | 2026-01-28 04:02:11+00:00
>But a doctor who sees a person come in who isn't complaining about anything in particular, moves around fine, doesn't have risk factors like age or family history, and has good metrics on a blood test is probably going to say they're in fine cardio health regardless of what their wearable says.

The standard risk model for CVD based on SCORE-2 and PREVENT like parameters are very poor as reported in the recently published paper on the their accuracy performance by the Swedish team [1]. As all CVD risk stratification with cardiologist review, the most important accuracy is sensivity (avoiding false negative that will escape review) of SCORE-2 and PREVENT, 48% and 26%, respectively.

The paper alternative proposal increased the sensitivity to 58% by performing clustering instead of conventional regression models as practiced in the standard SCORE-2 (Europe) and PREVENT (US).

These type of models including the latest proposal performed very poorly as indicated by their otherwise excellent and intuitive display of graphical abstract results [1].

[1] Risk stratification for cardiovascular disease: a comparative analysis of cluster analysis and traditional prediction models:

https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/...
by doodlesdev | 2026-01-28 04:02:12+00:00
Honestly, hallucinated references should simply get the submitter banned from ever applying again. Anyone submitting papers or anything with hallucinated references shall be publicly shamed. The problem isn't only the LLMs hallucinating, it's lazy and immoral humans who don't bother to check the output either, wasting everyone's time and corroding public trust in science and research.
by CMay | 2026-01-28 04:03:48+00:00
I've seen enough of these kinds of situations to know it's easy to trick people into seeing what you guide them to see. It's like lying with statistical charts, but more insidious.

Why is it so important to you that other people see what you see before any investigation is complete? Look at how courts handle video evidence to gain some perspective on why your thinking which seems to rely so heavily on video evidence alone is simply flawed.
by David1115 | 2026-01-28 04:03:56+00:00
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by ilaksh | 2026-01-28 04:06:57+00:00
It's fascinating to me how dramatically software engineering has changed over the last couple of years due to advanced LLMs and programming tools.

For whatever high percentage of engineers, having AI generate and edit code is now a large part of their day. That and reviewing code and testing take up more time.

Whether you want to call them engineers or not, producing custom software is much more accessible now.

There are a lot of consequences. For one thing, I think that this is going to reduce the market share of products like Salesforce and some other relatively high priced software that is often highly customized. There will be lots more open source competitors and many companies or departments generating custom software to replace it or parts of it.
by bandrami | 2026-01-28 04:07:50+00:00
Well, multiple types of software. The avionics simulation software we make isn't really a candidate for AI both because of procurement requirements and the fact that as of this month (we do check periodically) no LLM really gets how to do realtime Linux processes (this may be downstream of the fact that most writing about this topic on the Web is catastrophically wrong). The stuff we can use AI on is just generic customer-facing web schlock and it sure looks like we're trading dev time for integration time for what ends up being a wash.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-28 04:08:14+00:00
Earlier & related:

TikTok disallows DMs with the word "Epstein"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46773561

TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779809
by Perceval | 2026-01-28 04:08:35+00:00
The people voted for mass deportation of the tens of millions of illegals that were let into the country and lawlessly given "sanctuary." The federal government is attempting to enforce the laws on the books, laws that were voted into statute by the democratically elected representatives of the people. No one is going to be murdered in cold blood on the street simply for leaving the house, but they could be if they brandish a weapon while seeking out officers and attempting to prevent them from enforcing the law.
by vivzkestrel | 2026-01-28 04:10:47+00:00
now that is absolutely terrible isnt it, if a person wants to start a cloud kitchen even at home, they should be able to do so unless it causes a disturbance to neighbors. as long as regular inspections can be arranged, this should be a non issue for starters. i have a feeling the BIG FOOD industry has rigged this section of the law so that their authority on ultra processed food is not challenged
by ggm | 2026-01-28 04:12:13+00:00
This story, of senior respected scientists departing from the scientific consensus and holding fast, it's got amazing qualities. It seems to keep happening and the legs of the story seem to be the same: Conviction, partial evidence reading, anger, consequences out of the expected (like science policy consequences in social governance)

Of course, there's the other side of the coin: When the outsider, who maintains that yes, continents do drift, and no, it's not just fantasy to say so, winds up getting the scientific consensus to move over their side of the table.

I don't think Duesberg got there. I'd be interested if there are reasons to say that things like the antivirals (which are demonstrated to work) or PREP can be interpreted as aligning to his view, without breaking your back bending over to do it, or if he's just .. in the rough.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-01-28 04:12:21+00:00
Lmao I called it the day of the tragedy. These flying deathtraps should have been chopped up into beer cans 15 years ago. There is a reason they have not flown people commercially—at all—for over a decade. Most airlines dumped them in the 90s. The safety record for this aircraft is insane, with a nasty habit of flipping over onto its back if you botched the landing ever so slightly. They tried to push every cent out of these birds, like your neighbor who still drives a Pontiac Fiero to work because it's a "perfectly good car".
by mattmaroon | 2026-01-28 04:12:21+00:00
It’s crazy to me how people on the left react hysterically to what people on the right dealt with for years.

Remember when the story about Hunter Biden’s Laptop got banned from all major media? A story that could have been confirmed true by just emailing the subjects and asking them if the emails were real?

Remember when Google admitted to being pressured (and caving into said pressure) to censor conservative voices?

When we learned that Twitter allowed the US Military to run influence campaigns at people in the Middle East?

This isn’t new, we just don’t like when our weapon gets turned on us.

Free speech absolutism is the only sensible option.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-28 04:12:43+00:00
> As for why to be independent, i hope it should be self-evident that being able to do what you want

To be honest, not really.

I have a million limitations in my life. Trying to achieve some kind of "independence" is not something I understand. I prefer to accept a kind of interdependence, to be part of an ecosystem. To work together, in sync, for mutual benefit.

I rely on third parties for my food, my housing, my health, my education, my technology, all of it. Using an LLM hosted elsewhere feels no different from using electricity generated elsewhere, or food grown elsewhere, or a computer manufactured elsewhere. So why the difference for you?
by pibaker | 2026-01-28 04:14:36+00:00
I don't know why it being potentially vibe coded or vibe written exonerates the author. "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work [1]." It is your duty to ensure your work works, no matter what tools you used. You don't get to pass the blame on an AI agent any more than you get to blame intellij autocomplete for your buggy code.

Furthermore, I don't see why we are extending the principle of charity to cloudflare, a billion dollar enterprise controlling a significant part of internet traffic self identifying as a "utility." If cloudflare deserves more of something from us, it is scrutiny and accountability, not charity and deference.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/
by inetknght | 2026-01-28 04:16:31+00:00
> it's not really relevant

It's relevant because you said you didn't know. The review provides information that helps you to know.

> These activists appear to have followed the federal law enforcement.

Nothing illegal about that at all.

> That highly suggests they knew exactly who they were. ... No reasonable court is likely to determine that they were unaware who they were dealing with.

That's not relevant.

What's your point? No reasonable court would find that the activists did anything wrong, while they certainly would find two federal employees ("officers") are culpable in the murder of one of those activists.

> The officers didn't show up unannounced to the front door of someone who happened to be an activist.

So?
by philipwhiuk | 2026-01-28 04:16:48+00:00
Because someone tried and it vaguely worked.

And browsers are one of those products where if it was simple to alter everyone would like different setups and features. Like the Notes app of before.

Naturally they are all incomplete implementations because the AI agent is mostly reusing open source components and for the stuff it decides to write itself, doesn't have the training data to implement a full rendering engine in a one-shot.
by _delirium | 2026-01-28 04:16:56+00:00
> those new self-checkout shopping carts

I'm going to miss those. Two nice things about them compared to a normal self-checkout: 1) you see things ring up as you shop instead of at the end, which is nice in case of errors or unexpected prices, 2) you can shop directly into a reusable bag or backpack instead of repacking everything at the end.
by spease | 2026-01-28 04:17:02+00:00
> Surely everyone would want such a key piece of technology to be air tight and easy to debug

1. Tragedy of the Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons) / Bystander Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect)

2. In practice, the risk of introducing a breakage probably makes upstream averse to refactoring for aesthetics alone; you’d need to prove that there’s a functional bug. But of course, you’re less likely to notice a functional bug if the aesthetic is so bad you can’t follow the code. And when people need a new feature, that will get shoehorned in while changing as little code as possible, because nobody fully understands why everything is there. Especially when execution speed is a potential attack vector.

So maybe shades of the trolley problem too - people would rather passively let multiple bugs exist, than be actively responsible for introducing one.
by lazide | 2026-01-28 04:18:27+00:00
Secrecy enables several things, including:

- abuse

- incompetence

- getting away with breaking rules and laws

Sometimes, those are desirable or necessary for national security/pragmatic reasons.

For instance, good luck running an effective covert operation without being abusive to someone or breaking rules and laws somewhere!

Usually (80/20 rule) it’s just used to be shitty and make a mess, or be incompetent while pretending to be hot shit.

In a real war, these things usually get sorted out quickly because the results matter (existentially).

Less so when no one can figure out who the actual enemy is, or what we’re even fighting (if anything).
by cosmicgadget | 2026-01-28 04:20:00+00:00
I mean you just have to look at all of the things that have been blocked by the courts in the last year. Deportations without access to counsel, federalized national guards, a variety of interim appointments...

And before you go there, yes, I am aware the administration has ignored court orders and played dumb afterward. That doesn't mean they've successfully ignored most judicial decisions.
by mmooss | 2026-01-28 04:21:50+00:00
> I've heard from people who have worked with the Signal foundation that it was close to being endorsed for private communication by one branch of government, but that endorsement was rescinded because another branch didn't want people knowing how to stay private.

The US government recommended Signal to for personal communication. See this article, in the section "Signal in the Biden administration and beyond":

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/27/biden-authorized-sign...

And here is the government publication:

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mo...
by doodlesdev | 2026-01-28 04:22:02+00:00
Honestly, this is absurdly funny, but it makes me wonder whether we'll ever see Computer Science and Computer Engineering as seriously as other branches of STEM. I've been debating recently whether I should keep working in this field, after years of repeatedly seeing incompetence and complacency create disastrous effects in the real world.

Oftentimes, I wonder if the world wouldn't be a bit better without the last 10 or 15 years of computer technology.
by solidsnack9000 | 2026-01-28 04:22:34+00:00
I mean, you offered a basically similar, implausible counterfactual. I think we can agree that it is at least parties that the EU would have opposed purchases of Chinese, Russian or Iranian weapons by the USA and vice versa -- but Russia and Iran have been sanctioned for long periods of time (Iran, basically continuously) by both the EU and the USA, and Russia is the main territorial threat to the EU, so maybe only China is really an interesting possibility here.

Arms trading with China is probably not a good idea at all.
by mh2266 | 2026-01-28 04:22:52+00:00
the scrollbar change happened in 10.7 Lion. it was released in 2011. on mobile it was there since iPhone OS 1. it is not a recent change, macOS/OS X/Mac OS X has had these scrollbars for longer than it did not have them.

you can disable them in the settings app, and have been able to since Lion...
by rhcom2 | 2026-01-28 04:23:15+00:00
It doesn't have to be the original trigger, you asked "what is the outrage about?" and those deaths are part of it.

> And 'different tactics' doesn’t explain the reaction gap, as i said, under Obama there were 3.1M+ deportations and at least 56 documented deaths in ICE custody

You continuously ask this same question, get an answer, and ignore it. ICE enforcement was not the same under Obama and Trump even if Obama had high deportation numbers. The deaths in that report were from medical issues or neglect. Horrible, absolutely, but not shootings, not American citizens, and not protesters.

Maybe instead of assuming everyone is a stooge that can only do what the media tells them, consider they may actually have some legitimate grievances?
by zzrrt | 2026-01-28 04:24:01+00:00
> why people in some cities are defending violent illegal immigrants

Most are not violent.[1] Many of them are “here for decades and that had properly integrated into our society” just like you said, or are attempting to integrate and be here legally, so people are defending them. If the government can trample one group over the worst crimes of a few of its members, it can trample any group for any reason, so we must stand together to protect our freedom.

[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/5-ice-detainees-have-violent-convi...
Show HN: ModifyWithAI v2 – Add chat-based agents to your app
by destroyerxyz | 2026-01-28 04:24:57+00:00
Hey HN,

I've been working on ModifyWithAI, a framework that lets you embed an AI agent into your app so users can complete multi-step tasks through chat.

The idea: instead of users clicking through multiple screens, they describe what they want and the agent handles the workflow—while still giving them control to approve/modify actions.

v2 focuses on latency (targeting sub-500ms responses) and better user control over what the agent can do.

Would love feedback on the approach, especially from anyone who's tried adding agentic features to existing products.
by cosmicgadget | 2026-01-28 04:25:38+00:00
Good question. I suppose Trump doesn't much care, he already attempted to pardon that lady who gave balloting material to Mike Pillow. He'll just go issue the pardons and let the courts sort it out.

Or he could have the DOJ charge all of ICE, get the cases removed to federal court, then do an Eric Adams job on them. That'd be a sight to behold.
by CMay | 2026-01-28 04:25:47+00:00
Being on the ground doesn't remove any potential that he could be dangerous.

I don't know why he was being beaten on the ground, that seemed a little excessive. Not sure how many times he was shot, but generally if law enforcement ever makes the determination to shoot they do it to shoot to kill.

They knew he had 1 gun, so he could have 2 guns. The officers don't see the angle most of the camera angles see. They see the perspective they see, from themselves. That is the perspective that will matter by law. What situation were they in and what did they see when they made their decision?

You have the luxury of seeing a perspective the officer did not see, and the officer has the luxury of seeing a perspective you did not see.

People who are in favor of throwing the officer's life away without knowing all of the details are doing basically doing exactly what they're accusing the officer of in suggesting that he threw away this person's life without knowing all the information.

I don't know what Kristi Noem is on about, but she's a political appointee and not an investigator.
by al_borland | 2026-01-28 04:26:06+00:00
GTA Vice City and San Andreas were released on iOS more than a decade ago. I tried installing the mobile version on my Mac with Apple Silicon. It launches fine (if I remember right), it just needs an update for the controls to work, since it was made for touch. I haven’t tried hooking a gamepad to the Mac, maybe that would solve it.

It seems like Rockstar could make a relatively minor update to officially support macOS and sell a lot of additional copies. At this point, they could simply not support Intel Macs and I don’t think anyone would mind.
by AngryData | 2026-01-28 04:26:27+00:00
I certainly agree that it isn't a cure-all, I just don't see how any other program could ever end the cycle without those things included, and that despite the current prevalence of such ideas and projects it probably still isn't enough. Machine technology is what separates total poverty in the modern era from atleast some semblance of prosperity.

One part of the problem could be sending them super cheap/crappy tools because it seems like a better value per dollar and also the constraints of total funding. Sometimes maybe getting ripped off by foreign suppliers because there is a LOT of really crappy steel out there disguised as tools and engines that are all but useless. But tractors and tools that break down that easily are a complete waste of money and time to people who will barely get to use them before they stop working and they likely are right that it is junk. We have the technology to make a tractor that is robust enough that you wouldn't expect any maintenance for years if not a decade and minimal even at that point. I definitely don't see many decent manual CNC machines and lathes or other machine tools getting sent over in numbers enough.

Of course a lot of this still ultimately comes down to cost which is not an easy issue to deal with.
by mmooss | 2026-01-28 04:26:31+00:00
What do you disagree with?

> Personal VPNs simply shift residual risks from your internet service provider (ISP) to the VPN provider, often increasing the attack surface.

That's true. A VPN service replaces the ISP as the Internet gateway with the VPN's systems. By adding a component, you increase the attack surface.

> Many free and commercial VPN providers have questionable security and privacy policies.

Certainly true.

> if your organization requires a VPN client to access its data, that is a different use case.

Also true: That's not a VPN service; you are (probably) connecting to your organization's systems.

There may be better VPN services - Mullvad has a good reputation around here - but we really don't know. Successful VPN services would be a magnet for state-level and other attackers, which is what the document may be concerned with.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-28 04:26:52+00:00
> kids don't know their own allergies and limits, because they're kids. That's the point

Counterpoint: Halloween.

Most kids are competent enough to manage their survival in such circumstances. Some are not. And sometimes it’s not the parents’ fault. But if a community is raising a generation too imbecilic to choose if they can eat chocolate, their life path is sort of already written.
by rolph | 2026-01-28 04:28:56+00:00
personal/private manufactured firearms, are not required to be serialized, unless they are transferred to someone else, and that needs an FFL for the transfer and the stamping of the number [part of the FFLs license number is L holder to attempt to make a valid serial number, however "identifying" markings are highly encouraged [not reqd].

and of course there must be no legal disqualification for ownership/possesion of a firearm, and the reqd paerwork for short barrel rifle or automatic weapon must be possessed if you intend to build one , [note "new" automatics are banned from production unless you are FFL6 or FFL10 and likely a special operator/armorer under govt contract]
by starwisher | 2026-01-28 04:29:00+00:00
I build SaaS with Spring Boot + Next.js and kept losing a few days wiring the same plumbing every new project: OAuth, RBAC, Stripe Checkout + webhooks, admin routes, and Docker DB setup.

So I packaged it into a starter that wires these end-to-end:

Google/GitHub OAuth (no passwords)

Spring Security + RBAC (USER/ADMIN)

Stripe Checkout + webhooks → subscription status sync

User app + separate admin app

Docker Compose (MySQL + Redis) + setup/deploy docs

I’d love feedback on webhook idempotency/retry patterns in Spring, and JWT vs session tradeoffs.
by solidsnack9000 | 2026-01-28 04:29:05+00:00
They certainly wouldn't allow EU tech companies access to the US defense market, while of course insisting that the EU and other NATO members buy US built weaponry.

This is really ridiculous. There are many successful EU vendors of defense technology to the US military. Safran, Schmidt & Bender, Heckler & Koch, Saab, Glock, Fabrique National -- there is a long list. The USA has built real partnerships in these areas.

One amusing example is the C7 and C8. These are AR-15 (M16) variants made by Colt Canada and adopted by the militaries of the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway; and used by special forces in the UK.

Where are you getting your information from, that the US wouldn't allow wouldn't allow EU tech companies access to the US defense market?