MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by willis936 | 2026-01-07 19:11:16+00:00
It comes from the love of the drive. Driving automatics and CVTs is simply a chore, but driving a manual is an activity. It's fun and engaging. It's an activity that requires coordination and gives control.

And, importantly, it's going away. Nearly no vehicles sold in the US are manual because it would be such a small market that it wouldn't be profitable to support it. I don't understand why Corvettes and BMWs don't offer manuals. Are they trying to offer engaging driver's cars or not?
by epistasis | 2026-01-07 19:11:27+00:00
Where is the evidence that corporate America prefers immigrants over existing workforce? I've never heard such a claim before.

> if they can’t plug and play, they will just scrap the whole thing

This isn't just corporate America, it's all of America and all of humanity. Anything that's not plug and play has higher costs, higher risk, higher delays, and less chance of success.

Sudden and unexpected changes that increase uncertainty make it harder to invest in retraining, rather than easier. Increased uncertainty always decreases investment, because there's higher risk.

These are very very basic management considerations to anybody that runs a group, a lab, a small firm, or a large firm.
Show HN: YAML to JSON converter focused on Kubernetes configs
by jsonviewertool | 2026-01-07 19:11:43+00:00
Hi HN

I built a small browser-based tool to convert YAML to JSON.

Why:
- I often work with Kubernetes manifests and APIs that require JSON
- Most online tools upload data to servers, which isn’t ideal for configs

What it does:
- Converts YAML → JSON entirely client-side
- Handles nested objects, arrays, and common YAML edge cases
- No sign-up, no uploads

Link:
https://jsonviewertool.com/yaml-to-json

Would love feedback from folks working with DevOps, APIs, or infra tooling.
by bluGill | 2026-01-07 19:11:47+00:00
> Why make a CPU for a laptop when you can spend the same research dollars

You might be right, but I suspect not. While the hardware company are willing to do without laptop sales, data centers need the power efficiency as well.

Facebook has (well had - this was ~10 years ago when I heard it) a team of engineers making their core code faster because in some places a 0.1% speed improvement across all their servers results in saving hundreds of thousands of dollars per month (sources won't give real numbers but reading between the lines this seems about right) on the power bill. Hardware that can do more with less power thus pays for itself very fast in the data center.

Also cooling chips internally is often a limit of speed, so if you can make your chip just a little more efficient it can do more. Many CPUs will disable parts of the CPU not in use just to save that heat, if you can use more of the CPU that translates to more work done and in turn makes you better than the competition.

Of course the work must be done, so data centers will sometimes have to settle for whatever they can get. Still they are always looking for faster chips that use less power because that will show up on the bottom line very fast.
by ipv6ipv4 | 2026-01-07 19:11:55+00:00
> And the research was out there! Does everybody only read this single Harvard literature review? Does nobody read journals, or other meta studies, or anything? Did the researchers from other institutions whose research was criticized not make any fuss?

They did. But Ancel Keys, one of the bribed researchers, author of the infamous seven countries study that laid the groundwork against fat made it his life’s mission to tarnish the reputation of anyone who looked at sugar. He effectively made the topic academic suicide. His primary target, that served as a warning example for others was his contemporary in the U.K. John Yudkin.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-07 19:12:03+00:00
It's quite easy to understand. The tech industry has gone through 4-5 generations of obsolete NPU hardware that was dead-on-arrival. Meanwhile, there are still GPUs from 2014-2016 that run CUDA and are more power efficient than the NPUs.

The industry has to copy CUDA, or give up and focus on raster. ASIC solutions are a snipe chase, not to mention small and slow.
by tacker2000 | 2026-01-07 19:12:18+00:00
Tabs on mobile arent really the same.

I never close tabs or re-use old open tabs on mobile, since the UI just buries them and I just open a new tab if i want to check something, so I will just accumulate useless tabs.

On my Laptop i try to only hoard a handful of tabs.
I just noticed I have some open since months, but never gotten to reading them.

The thing is i want to read the content, but never find time, so they just stay there.
by miladyincontrol | 2026-01-07 19:12:19+00:00
Self hosted karakeep has been the only thing that got me out of tab hoarding.

Bookmarks, locally archives the page, OCRs text off images, auto tags using and summarizes it using whatever AI model I want, in my case one off a local ollama instance. ios? just a share away to have any link processed.

Now I just stash and move on, when I need to find things again it's never been easier.
by youarentrightjr | 2026-01-07 19:12:29+00:00
> If it died due to disease

We're discussing roadkill bear. Meaning a bear that was killed on the road (by a vehicle).

It's technically true that it still could have any of the scary afflictions you mention, but that's no different than any hunted game, or any industrially farmed animal.

Barring prions or poisoning (incredibly and quite rare, respectively), all of those issues can and would be evaluated by someone who intended to consume the animal.

I'm curious if you consume meat, and if you've ever been involved in the slaughter or processing of animals.
by jandrese | 2026-01-07 19:12:45+00:00
I agree that it stretches credulity but one scenario is that they were promised the Venezuelan military would stand down and let the US conduct its operation with minimal resistance. If that was not the case then the minimal troops for the beachhead may have decided that the token landing for PR purposes was not necessary and bugged out.

One of the strangest things about the entire operation is how the US left absolutely nobody behind to administer the country. Not even a consultant. The Venezuelan VP is now in charge and the government is largely intact. It's hard to see how this affects any meaningful change in the country. I did find it amusing that the opposition leader released a statement with her lips firmly planted on Trumps ass and even talked about "sharing" the Nobel Peace Prize just to see if he's enough of an idiot that such obvious flattery would work.
by staticman2 | 2026-01-07 19:12:47+00:00
You ask why this would be satire?

Well let's take a look at this:

>The best thing about a good deep conversation is when the other person gets you: you explain a complicated situation you find yourself in, and find some resonance in their replies.

>That, at least, is what happens when chatting with the recent large models.

The first sentence says a good conversation is between two people. The author then pulls the rug out and says "Psych. A good conversation is when I use LLMs."

The author points out humans have decades of memories but is surprised that when they tell someone they are wrong they don't immediately agree and sycophantically mirror the author's point of view.

The author thinks it's weird they don't know when the next eclipse is. They should know this info intuitively.

The author claims humans have a habit of being wrong even in issues of religion but models have no such flaw. If only humans embraced evidence based religious opinions like LLMs.

The author wonders why they bothered writing this article instead of asking ChatGPT to write it.

Did you ask an LLM if this is satire?

I did and Opus said it wasn't satire.

This was clearly a hallucination so I informed it it was incorrect and it changed it's opinion to agree with me so clearly I known what I'm talking about.

I'll spare you the entire output but among other things after I corrected it it said:

The "repeating the same mistakes" section is even better once you see it. The complaint is essentially: "I told someone they were wrong, and they didn't immediately capitulate. Surely pointing out their error should rewire their brain instantly?" The author presents this as a human deficiency rather than recognizing that disagreement isn't a bug.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-01-07 19:12:59+00:00
on the one hand, github has to make money

on the other, the feature creep is is interfering with their ability to gather all the world's code

if you got this far thinking, what does this have to do trusted publishing? everything has to do with, the trade-offs between getting more of the world's code and making money.

there's this other project - i think you know a lot about it haha - which is going through exactly this issue! uv gets all this valuable telemetry about the world's code, but it also has to make money.

unless someone is going and reading all of the code that gets pushed, trusted publishing is something that prevents an attack but does not prevent all or even most attacks. if you want to fix the problem that trusted publishing is fixing, you have to figure out how to make money from having all the world's code or telemetry about the world's code, rather than from features. Valve and Google have figured this out for their respective media. it's a matter of figuring it out for code.
by dizzant | 2026-01-07 19:13:06+00:00
The scientific report is much more detailed: https://cdn.realfood.gov/Scientific%20Report.pdf

I agree with siblings that nothing jumps out (to my non-expert eye) as "very extreme". On the other hand, I can't help but notice this contradiction:

From the introduction:

> First, guidance is
centered on the principle of
encouraging the consumption of minimally processed, naturally nutrient-dense foods
and discouraging the consumption of highly processed foods across all food groups.

> Second, these guidelines raise the bar by requiring high-quality, causal evidence to stray from
this principle of encouraging the consumption of minimally processed foods over highly
processed foods or ingredients.

One would expect there is "high-quality, causal evidence" that highly processed foods are harmful. Au contraire (from Chapter 3):

> Existing RCTs testing the effects of processed foods are of
relatively short duration, include small to moderate sample sizes, and are limited to
effects on metabolic markers, body weight, and adiposity (reviewed in Appendix 4.1).
The majority of evidence linking highly processed foods to adverse health
consequences is therefore derived from non-randomized, uncontrolled studies, which
can be subject to confounding due to healthy adherer bias, reverse causation, and other
factors (see Chapter 2).

To its credit, the report discloses that most authors are affiliated with institutions that would benefit from greater adoption of whole-food dieting, e.g. the American Cattlemen Association and the American Dairy Council.
by ofrzeta | 2026-01-07 19:13:09+00:00
Let the king decide what to read in his universities and you are good. It's also hard to stomach how the professor said he doesn't teach "ideology" but the administration doesn't even bother to refute this or anything. They just stubbornly repeat their allegations and confront him with an ultimatum.

It's almost like the bullying is trickling down, right?
by sieep | 2026-01-07 19:13:13+00:00
I can actually comment on this a bit as I ran an eBay business during college selling second-hand clothes. A lot of it is about volume and brand. For example, women made up a majority of our sales even if it was men's clothing. Certain brands like Nike, Polo sold better & having hundreds of items up vs. just one and having 5 stars. All of that combined allowed us to sell items daily.
by microtonal | 2026-01-07 19:13:19+00:00
Jolla's Sailfish OS, GrapheneOS (I know, uses AOSP). It's going to be more touch than running stock Android or iOS, but the more users and funding these get, the more resources for development.

I think there will be a lot of chaos in the coming years. But chaos also creates opportunities. There is a lot of local talk about moving away from US Tech and for new tech, you already see this happening. E.g. our local university has forbidden the use of most US LLM services (because of privacy and data protection issues) and are doing trials with Mistral. Most likely they'll roll out Mistral university-wide. Two years ago, they would have certainly gone Gemini.
by waynesonfire | 2026-01-07 19:13:28+00:00
Maybe you don't need a massive engineer team developing Tailwind and "monetizing it" You, Tailwind, don't get to collect ALL the rent. You were made "successful" because you created something that was OPEN SOURCE and the community chose to adopt your technology because of that. You wouldn't even exist had you not had the foundation, made the implicit statement that, I am willing to share rent by open-sourcing. You wouldn't even have ONE engineer!! You're now crying because you over-sold your success and improperly scaled your business. Your fault. IF all you need is two engineers that's fine. That's your piece of the rent. Other business are hiring far more than the 75% you laid off and building and creating value on top this open source technology. No jobs lost, just your ego and the empty promises you made to investors.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-07 19:13:49+00:00
> But chin up, peasant, each and every one of us can dream of one day being a billionaire as well if only we act as wise and as kind as they do.

(I know this was written satirically) but this is a nice example of doublespeak and I immediately got reminded of it.

I wouldn't say that we have reached 1984 level, there is still some decentralization where you can get hosting and then self host from small vps providers as well etc.

Not that most people do such things tho. Internet is still heavily centralized but overall, there are still outlets of escape legally and you are able to sometimes even talk to vps provider owners themselves directly in some cases if they are small enough.

But still, each year although we get away from 1984 the year, we get near to 1984 the book.
by 93po | 2026-01-07 19:13:59+00:00
its not that they're putting people who are immigrants over US workers, they are putting corporate profits before US workers.

the US is terrible at protecting american jobs for americans. i am not overly educated on this but it seems like a lot of countries, europe specifically, are extremely protective of their jobs.

i don't think americans are somehow inherently more worthy of employment and opportunity than people from other countries, but it does seem like it may be a playing field that isn't very level if a lot of other countries are protecting jobs but the US isn't. in addition to our cost of living being tremendously high compared to the countries we outsource our work to, it isn't even an option for an american to go get a job in (for example) india and send home paycheck to support family in the US.
by samiv | 2026-01-07 19:14:30+00:00
The fat is an excellent source of energy though and it's very hard to get fat by eating fat because it's essentially hormonally inert. I.e. eating fat doesn't precipitate insulin which is the hormone that enables body fat accumulation.

So the problem with steak isn't the steak itself it's the "steak dinner" where the meat comes with sides such as french fries and drinks such as beer.
by smcin | 2026-01-07 19:14:44+00:00
Don't distort my words. If SO Jobs was one of the key engagement features bringing thousands of experienced developers to SO to contribute free content (and the site was valued at $1.8bn in the acquisition), then any reasonable accounting would find those features were cash-positive.

(That seems comparable to arguing that Facebook shouldn't subsidize posting baby photos).

But if it was the case that SO mgmt decided (2017-2020) that they didn't care to keep experienced users engaged, and just let the site degenerate into new users posting bigger volumes of duplicates, questions without code, etc., then that would be on them. You don't have to assume their actions were rational; look how badly they mismanaged moderation in that period and how many experienced users that lost them.
by quilombodigital | 2026-01-07 19:14:59+00:00
The best private operating system for journalists is the "Olivetti Lettera 22" [1].

* Cross-Platform

* Multi-Language

* Offline

* Room Protection

For extra security, you can use an external data disposal tool [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22

[2] https://geekyget.com/products/hand-shredder/
by pnt12 | 2026-01-07 19:15:07+00:00
And even if it's "small stuff", I do believe acts of kindness are contagious, and lead to other people doing good deeds.

If we want to rationalize this EA style, we could say these small acts to have an exponential effect: 1 person can inspire 2 to be more selfless. So it's better to start propagating this as soon as possible, to reach maximum selflessness ASAP :)
by tptacek | 2026-01-07 19:15:54+00:00
Wait, I don't understand why Heartbleed is at all hard for an agent loop to uncover. There's a pattern for these attacks (we found one in nginx in the ordinary course of a web app pentest at Matasano --- and we didn't find it based on code, though I don't concede that an LLM would have a hard time uncovering these kinds of issues in code either).

I think people are coming to this with the idea that a pentesting agent is pulling all its knowledge of vulnerabilities and testing patterns out of its model weights. No. The whole idea of a pentesting agent is that the agent code --- human-mediated code that governs the LLM --- encodes a large amount of knowledge about how attacks work.
by josu | 2026-01-07 19:15:54+00:00
> The above is a software engineering problem. Reimplementing a JSON parser using Opus is not fun nor useful, so that should not be used as a metric.

I've also built a bitorrent implementation from the specs in rust where I'm keeping the binary under 1MB. It supports all active and accepted BEPs: https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html

Again, I literally don't know how to write a hello world in rust.

I also vibe coded a trading system that is connected to 6 trading venues. This was a fun weekend project but it ended up making +20k of pure arbitrage with just 10k of working capital. I'm not sure this proves my point, because while I don't consider myself a programmer, I did use Python, a language that I'm somewhat familiar with.

So yeah, I get what you are saying, but I don't agree. I used highload as an example, because it is an objective way of showing that a combination of LLM/agents with some guidance (from someone with no prior experience in this type of high performing architecture) was able to beat all human software developers that have taken these challenges.
Show HN: Vid2ascii – real-time video to ASCII with WebGPU
by luthiraabeykoon | 2026-01-07 19:18:12+00:00
I built vid2ascii - a browser app that turns video into ASCII art in real time using WebGPU.

This started as a super rough v0 I hacked together on my commute, literally on my phone, just from a simple prompt. It worked, but it was janky and CPU-bound like most video-to-ASCII demos. I kept thinking about it, came back later, and polished it properly.

The big change was moving the core work onto the GPU. Instead of slow canvas pixel loops or WebGL hacks, vid2ascii uses WebGPU compute to process each frame at full resolution. That’s what makes smooth playback and high-fidelity ASCII actually possible in the browser.

Live demo: https://wspr-zeta.vercel.app/

Code: https://github.com/Luthiraa/vid2ascii

I’m mostly curious what people would build with this (creative tools, retro livestreams, OBS effects), and if anyone has ideas for better exporting or performance tuning

Source is open and easy to hack on
by zahlman | 2026-01-07 19:18:22+00:00
> Where SO started failing in my opinion is when the "no duplicate questions" rule started to be interpreted as "it's a duplicate if the same or very similar question has ever been answered on the site".

What else could it mean? The entire point is that if you search for the question, you should always find the best version of that question. That only works by identifying it and routing all the others there.

> That caused too many questions to have outdated answers as the tech changes

You are, generally, supposed to put the new answer on the old question. (And make sure the question isn't written in a way that excludes new approaches. Limitations to use a specific library are generally not useful in the long term.)

Of course, working with some libraries and frameworks is practically like working in a different language; those get their own tags, and a question about doing it without that framework is considered distinct as long as everyone is doing their jobs properly. The meta site exists so that that kind of thing can be hashed out and agreed upon.

> C# questions have answers that were current for .NET Core 1.0 and should be modified.

No; they should be supplemented. The old answers didn't become wrong as long as the system is backwards-compatible.

The problem is mainly technical: Stack Overflow lacked a system to deprecate old answers, and for far too long the preferred sort was purely based on score. But this also roped in a social problem: high scores attract more upvotes naturally, and most users are heavily biased against downvoting anything. In short, Reddit effects.
by QueensGambit | 2026-01-07 19:18:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I asked GPT-5 to count the characters in this essay [1]. Here's what happened:

- JavaScript: correct in 1ms

- GPT-5 with Python tool: correct in 26 seconds

- GPT-5 pure reasoning: wrong after 3.2 minutes

So why can't we let AI reason in Python or JavaScript instead of English? In this essay, I explore this question through graph transformers that preserve code structure rather than flattening it into token sequences. Thoughts?

[1] https://github.com/ManiDoraisamy/devforever/blob/c41f69283a8...
by tracker1 | 2026-01-07 19:18:40+00:00
I am allergic to legumes... as are a lot of other people... so when vegans talk about outlawing meat, you're literally talking about killing me.

I'm fine if YOU or anyone else wants to live without meat... I'm even fine with improving quality of life for farmed animals... but I draw a hard, firm line at outlawing meat.
by rkeene2 | 2026-01-07 19:18:45+00:00
If you open a file with LibreOffice will read the whole thing regardless of whether or not the file is on NFS or not.

The parent comment was stating that if you use the open(2) system call on a WebDAV mounted filesystem, which doesn't perform any read operation, the entire file will be downloaded locally before that system call completes. This is not true for NFS which has more granular access patterns using the READ operation (e.g., READ3) and file locking operations.

It may be the case that you're using an application that isn't LibreOffice on files that aren't as small as documents -- for example if you wanted to watch a video via a remote filesystem. If that filesystem is WebDAV (davfs2) then before the first piece of metadata can be displayed the entire file would be downloaded locally, versus if it was NFS each 4KiB (or whatever your block size is) chunk would be fetched independently.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 19:19:22+00:00
> as more people rely on ChatGPT and Claude for discovery

In my limited web dev experience with these tools, they suggest and push Tailwind CSS very often when asked for advice.

The Tailwind company wasn't selling that, though. They were selling premium packages of components, templates, and themes. The demand for that type of material has dropped off significantly now that you can get an LLM to do a moderately good job of making common layouts and components. Then you can adjust them yourself until they're exactly what you want.