MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JohnFen | 2026-01-29 14:42:40+00:00
> If execution is the real attack surface, why do we still allow it to exist on user devices at all?

A device that relies on external services to operate (outside of specialized devices such as communications) is one that is not suitable for any use case I have. There's far too much exposure to risk involved. Privacy and security risks, outage risks, risks of the service being discontinued, risks of having the provider get mad at and shutting you out, etc. You'd be at the mercy of the provider in terms of them changing things up on a whim or according to the current fad. It would require internet service, which is problematic in a lot of use cases. Also, presumably, the service would require regular ongoing payments.

For me, this idea is a complete nonstarter.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-29 14:42:48+00:00
> Big fan! Was like magic at first but now I have a big bunch of Aptfiles to deal with instead... Currently working on solving that with the next-generation tool apt-bundle-bunch, which has a simple declarative format to manage your apt-bundle projects in an Aptbundlefile. It's already great for agents and Im working with Claude on a curl|sh install for the v1.

Good luck share the progress and let us know how it goes. Is it similar to nix? but from what I can feel, is intending to be simpler?
by vladms | 2026-01-29 14:43:32+00:00
Quoting from the article "But here’s a question about Papua New Guinea: how many people live there? The answer should be pretty simple."

That sounds a very strange expectation. Most of my life post university I realized most of questions have complex answers, it is never as simple as you expect.

If the author would check how things biology and medicine work currently, I think he will have even more surprises than the fact that counting populations is an approximate endeavor.
by ctrlmeta | 2026-01-29 14:43:33+00:00
I don't know what >1M subscribers have got to do anything. It is the case that many YouTubers pushing a specific propaganda have >1M subscribers. YouTube may be a little better than Twitter or Facebook but if you land upon any propaganda, the algorithm will loop you in and keep supplying more and more propaganda videos. 1M subscribers or 1000 subscribers doesn't matter once you are stuck in the loop.

I see you have not been around in London for over 10 years. How was it back when you were in London? I've been in London for 10 years, so I probably came when you left. Never once I have been in any part of London where English was not the lingua franca. Yes, people speak their native languages too among themselves but I haven't met anyone anywhere in my 10 years who couldn't speak English. I don't think this is any different from any other megacity of the world.
by al_borland | 2026-01-29 14:43:53+00:00
I thought one of the things the pomodoro timer was for was to help people start; “it’s only 25 minutes”.

Once starting, if you’re in flow, just keep going.

Starting is usually the hardest part for me, so the pomodoro method is a nightmare, because it greats more start times. Not forcing the break if things are going well helps.

Having the window go black would drive me insane. If I’m on a train of thought and my screen blacks out, I would need a notebook to frantically write down where my head was at and what I was doing when it went black. Then I’d spend the first 10 minutes of the next block trying to get back to where I was mentally.

I thought the idea of an hourglass would be better, to try and work for at least X minutes. If things are going well, the hourglass silently ends and I could keep going. If I’m having trouble, I could see the hourglass is finished and take a break, then try again. I tried this briefly, but the sand kept getting stuck, which I found problematic. I supposed pomodoro software without an alarm would do the same thing.
by BoppreH | 2026-01-29 14:44:45+00:00
Random drafting is only part of the problem. My biggest gripe was the lack of in-run saving. When a run can take an hour, that's just disrespectful in a single player offline game.

And another (smaller) issue is the step limit. End game has you running to pretty far away areas. The walking itself quickly gets old, but you sometimes waste the entire run because you didn't have enough steps for the required back-and-forth.
by wafflemaker | 2026-01-29 14:45:21+00:00
I'm guessing you can afford spending $300 on light therapy glasses.

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, but saw 4 seasons of dr. House. Moreover, few hours of Huberman Lab on sleep and light and most importantly, this episode of Additude Mag Podcast on curing SAD and ADHD day-rhytm shifting with light glasses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu4mLgkNc6I

What happens in the seasonal affective disorder season is the sunlight pattern diverges from 6-18 that we evolved with. Without daily reminder of getting enough sun (or sun-like) light at the 6 o'clock⁰, your body clock will drift.

It can start by feeling groggy instead of refreshed in the morning, even if you've slept enough. And can escalate into loosing the will to do anything or even live.

No wonder. You're still an animal. You need to be fed, put to bed, etc. at a specific time. If you try to make your body sleep during the day, and eat and work during what body expects to be night, you won't really sleep and won't really live/work. Enough of not really sleeping and not really living - you mess up your body, your gut biome, your hormonal balance and your brain chemistry. You kind of should get depressed when you do it.

You can steer your body clock with light. Most of us do it, by exposing ourselves to strong (strong enough it won't matter if it includes blue wavelength or not).

But you can do it consciously (and in a way good for you) by putting on light therapy glasses (I'm using Lumiere 3¹, and they are not the only ones, find your own) at 6⁰ everyday, or right after you wake up if you're trying to readjust your rhythm. Or if you have time and want to save $200, use a stationary lamp and just sit in front of it doing nothing. I don't have the time. When readjusting, small doses of melatonin (0.5mg) 1h before sleep will accelerate body clock shift.

But don't listen to me, if you have SAD, you should really listen to that ADHD experts episode.

I feel for you, struggling with that stuff for a long time. Vit D, fish oil (lot of). All lights at home set to reduce intensity after 18. Strict going to bed routine. Still sleep poorly once in a while, but can do things in winter again. Hope it will help :)

0: choose whatever suits you. With small doses of melatonin and discipline in using light glasses you can even flip day and night. Just stay consistent, good farmer always feeds his cows at the same time.

1: at the time of buying ( fall '25 ) they were cheapest and best overall in norway. Solid build, ok battery, can have them on during yoga using attached rubbers and kind of can have them over glasses. Mine are very large and have blue light filter, but I manage 20min without eyeglasses. Medical certificate. Few leds, holo strip, battery and some plastic - my inner Scrooge says it's not worth $285, but everything else was worse and more expensive.
by warmwaffles | 2026-01-29 14:45:22+00:00
I use it for personal projects and I find it substantially easier to mess around with compiling shaders to SPIRV, processing assets, etc... But some of my gripes are, although it _is_ lua, there is some magic fuckery going on. When you specify targets, things for that target need to be close to the definition, and it feels very odd in a lua language to not have `target("name", function (ctx) ... end)`.

Anyways, not going to die on that hill and I'll keep using it because it's simple and works well for my needs. One thing I do like is that I am not having to constantly keep a skeleton CMake project around to copy paste and setup.
by not_ai | 2026-01-29 14:45:29+00:00
I did not know this and explains why I see so many teslas with their blinkers on and not maneuvering despite having ample room and time. Ultimately this behavior makes them unsafe for their occupants as well as others around them.

Cars only work because we can predict driver behavior, if they break that prediction that’s when bad things are likely to happen…

Lately I’ve started to ignore Tesla blinker.
by seba_dos1 | 2026-01-29 14:45:47+00:00
> No, that’s literally what I was doing when I reached the excessive range:

That doesn't make it easy for most people. In my case it was barely enough to move the needle, but that's not how it will be for most people either.

> you can’t overdose on 5000 IU/day is wrong

Of course you can (though it would usually have to be really prolonged to actually cause you troubles). Most people won't, but you don't know whether you're in that group or not until you test yourself.

> Literally what I did.

That's good, but my post obviously used plural "you" as a general advice.

(BTW. There's no evidence of toxicity below blood level of 150 ng/ml, but there are many guidelines that consider levels way below that, such as 50 ng/ml, as "too high" already)
by WalterBright | 2026-01-29 14:45:49+00:00
I've been running 3x a week for over 40 years now.

* about 4 miles

* I don't run for time, just a trot

* not training for anything

* drink a full glass of water beforehand. If sweaty outside, two glasses

* had some pain in my hips and knees. Switched to a ball-strike rather than a heel-strike. Pain went away. (you can feel the difference in the impact on the knees and hips)

* don't run downhill

* the big toe joint hurts and has gotten large making it hard to find shoes that fit

* don't run when not feeling well, or there's ice

* I feel weird when I can't run for some reason

* It feels good to run, and I like the results
by dfxm12 | 2026-01-29 14:46:13+00:00
growing number of Americans who extend their working days well past the typical retirement age as the cost of living in the US has soared, wages have stagnated and many therefore have been unable to save.

Calling this a blessing in the larger context is unconscionable. The USA is the richest country in the world. If someone needs to work into their 100s, it is a sign of failure from our political leaders.

Additionally, "working" and "having a purpose" should not be conflated like this. These are separate things.
by rayiner | 2026-01-29 14:46:23+00:00
“The next census, in 1991, was by far the most credible, and it shocked many people by finding that the population was about 30 percent smaller than estimated. But even that one was riddled with fraud. Many states reported that every single household had exactly nine people.”

If I worked in the government of a country like this I’d just throw in the towel.
by jf22 | 2026-01-29 14:46:55+00:00
The current AI tools extremely good at telling you about how an existing system works. You don't need that one super knowledgeable person anymore.

With the right MCPs or additional context you can have the tools go read PRs or the last 10 tickets that impacted the system and even go out and read cloud configuration or log files to tell you about problems.

The concept of a "bus factor" is a relic of the past.
by jefftk | 2026-01-29 14:46:55+00:00
> people tend to drive their electric cars/trucks more gently too

Really? I tend to see much more aggressive acceleration from people in electric cars (including myself when I'm driving, though I try not to). I've been putting it down to people being used to how gas cars seem to be working harder when you ask them to accelerate heavily, while electric just goes with no complaints.
Ask HN: Exhaused by AI looking for some advice on how to keep moving forward
by aaveragedev | 2026-01-29 14:47:15+00:00
Hello HN, this is my first post. I am an average developer from a developing country, from a second-tier city. I made a switch from accountancy to the world of tech and writing code. I have always been a bit enthusiastic about learning how software works.

I got selected as a backend .NET developer intern at a service-based company, where I started learning and writing code. It has been around two years since I joined the tech industry, and I have contributed to around three projects for different clients.

I was doing well, then news about AI started hitting everywhere. I was optimistic at first, but recently I don’t feel like I can keep up with AI anymore. I am an average developer—not very smart, but not too shallow either—which is why it takes me some time to learn and understand new things. With the current state of AI, I am feeling helpless and questioning why I should even bother learning new stuff.

I don’t have any motivation to learn new things, and looking at the job market, I feel very hopeless. The top brass of coders are getting fired left, right, and center, and when average developers like me feel we are ready to switch, we won’t be competing only with other average or above-average developers. We will also be competing with laid-off smart people who can use AI and outpace average developers like us very easily.
by palmotea | 2026-01-29 14:47:26+00:00
> A genuine question, what are the use cases for Tesla's Optimus robots? Are they consumer products that help with household chores, industrial robots for warehouses or manufacturing, a play toy, something else?

Convincing investors to buy and hold Tesla, because of the vague promise of some great technological innovation being just around the corner. Electric cars and partially automated driving don't serve that purpose anymore.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-29 14:47:33+00:00
You can build the correct product. The bigger issue is convincing people to take a chance on some unknown vendor. Besides no company or any size wants to or should depend on a lot of unsupported vibe coded internal slop. It’s no different than the old VB apps or Access apps

Anyone who thinks Salesforce is easy to replace hasn’t been part of large sales and consulting organizations - or hasn’t been close to sales side. Heck, even AWS’s internal consulting department depends on Salesforce.
by davydm | 2026-01-29 14:47:53+00:00
The us constitution literally allows the people to vote out any government structure or process which they deem unfit. US citizens should launch a class-action lawsuit, since litigation is how they do everything, and demand changes as totally permitted in their constitution.

I don't know if most people there just don't know about it, or just don't care. But there literally is a solution baked into their constitution.
by plagiarist | 2026-01-29 14:48:14+00:00
I was looking into what local inference software to use and also found this behavior with models to be onerous.

What I want is to have a directory with models and bind mount that readonly into inference containers. But Ollama would force me to either prime the pump by importing with Modelfiles (where do I even get these?) every time I start the container, or store their specific version of files?

I had trying out vLLM and llama.cpp as my next step in this, I'm glad to hear you are able to share a directory between them.
by vegancap | 2026-01-29 14:48:43+00:00
My cholesterol improved massively, but over time, a few, such as Omega 3 suffered. But those were ultimately my own fault, wasn't managing it properly. So, I'm absolutely not suggesting there's an issue with veganism, this isn't really why I fell out of it. So I do want to stress I wasn't suggesting people should steer clear of Veganism, just something to be mindful of. Oh, and my cholesterol immediately shot back up again when I stopped being a vegan. So, swings and roundabouts with every diet/lifestyle, I guess!
by Zigurd | 2026-01-29 14:48:46+00:00
Waymo is different. Waymo evolved over a period of 15 years into a mature and deployable robotaxi service. Waymo has a hardware strategy, enormous data infrastructure, real time data from 2 billion Maps and Navigation users, a support infrastructure that makes opex sense, which makes an ambitious expansion program possible. In other words it's got what it takes to be a real product and it is a real product. Possibly uniquely since the three Chinese Robo taxi services operates smaller fleets. Probably due to support requirements and a large number of interventions.
by nicbou | 2026-01-29 14:49:05+00:00
The goal is to attract search traffic to your page, so that you can promote your product or your brand. AI is making this a lot cheaper than before because you don't even need to create the content, but it's also killing the overall amount of traffic to all websites.

If you actually take pride in your work, it's a double whammy of competing with AI slop and losing over half of your traffic to AI summaries.

Useful independent websites are so cooked.
by thyristan | 2026-01-29 14:49:23+00:00
Car insurance in Germany exists in 3 categories.

The mandatory one, liability insurance, which pays out others' damages in case your car is in an accident and the driver of your car is found to be at fault. Base rates for those are by law based on the rate of payouts per car model and per owner's county at that insurance company. A multiplier makes the base rate more expensive or cheaper respectively for new drivers, accident-prone drivers or long-time accident-free drivers. No other external statistics are allowed to play a role.

The two non-mandatory ones are "Vollkasko" and "Teilkasko", which pay for damages your own car suffered from various factors like animals, weather, accidents, road conditions and stuff like that. Vollkasko even pays for accidents you caused yourself, Teilkasko only for some of the aforementioned things. In both, insurers are still required to do some classification by county, but they are allowed to factor in statistics about your car's repair cost.

But none of those will pay for your car just randomly breaking down and needing repairs, that is something you get a manufacturer's warranty for. And none of those is directly related to the mandatory inspections. I think I've read some statistics that driver behaviour and skill is also a large factor in why there are less accidents in Germany, at least compared to some regions of the world... But make of those what you will, that might as well be jingoism and often also comparing apples and oranges...
by merelysounds | 2026-01-29 14:49:26+00:00
In case anyone else is curious, I just entered the following in chatgpt: "Without searching the internet, do you know how to get to weldborough hot springs?"

> Yeah—roughly, from general local knowledge (no web searching, promise ). I’ll flag where my memory might be fuzzy.

> Weldborough Hot Springs are in northeast Tasmania, near Weldborough Pass on the Tasman Highway (A3) between Scottsdale and St Helens.

Screenshot with more: https://postimg.cc/14TqgfN4
by vladms | 2026-01-29 14:49:35+00:00
> If Tesla was valued fairly

I think it's a wrong mental model to think of stock market value as "fair" or "unfair" (or maybe it's just me thinking of "unfair" when I see the word "fair").

My impression is that if Tesla would be valued based on quantifiable things it would be much much lower (production costs, competition, revenues, potential, etc.). Of course, you shouldn't value something only based on quantifiable things, but in Tesla the "wishful thinking" part seems to be much larger than for others.
by AlexandrB | 2026-01-29 14:49:43+00:00
I don't know if it's genius or madness, but all of Tesla's cars look the same. When I see a Tesla, I can't tell if it's a 3, S, X, or Y unless I get close. The most distinct one is the X with its fancy doors.

So when I hear they're cancelling the S and X I can't even picture which cars we're talking about.
by VMG | 2026-01-29 14:49:50+00:00
have you read the linked page?

> However, since immunizations are given to about 90 percent of children less than 1 year of age, and about 1,600 cases of SIDS occur every year, it would be expected, statistically, that every year about 50 cases of SIDS will occur within 24 hours of receipt of a vaccine. However, because the incidence of SIDS is the same in children who do or do not receive vaccines, we know that SIDS is not caused by vaccines.
Show HN: AdminCore – Secure Admin Dashboard Starter Kit (Node.js and React)
by aymrick | 2026-01-29 14:50:00+00:00
Hi HN,

I built AdminCore, a secure admin dashboard starter kit for Node.js + React.

It includes:
- Cookie-based authentication with HttpOnly cookies
- Role-based access (admin / user)
- Protected routes via middleware
- Full CRUD system
- Clean SPA admin UI (modals, tabs)

I built this after re-implementing the same auth + admin logic on multiple projects.
The goal is to save 3–5 days of setup time for devs building SaaS back offices or internal tools.

Happy to answer questions or get feedback.
by adamos486 | 2026-01-29 14:50:04+00:00
I built Skulto because I was copy-pasting skills between Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Every agent has its own directory, no way to sync.

The security scanner is the part I'm most proud of. 35+ patterns detect prompt injection, jailbreaks, system prompt spoofing, shell injection (rm -rf, curl | sh), and Unicode obfuscation.

Also: symlink-based installs (one source of truth), offline-first, pure-Go binary, and an MCP server so Claude Code can search and install without leaving the terminal.

brew install asteroid-belt/tap/skulto

Happy to talk architecture or security patterns.
by gdmka | 2026-01-29 14:50:07+00:00
I'd add that companies write off their equipment investment over a 3-5 year depreciation period. After that, when the laptops reach EOL, employees can often buy them through the company's EPP (employee purchase program) usually for just the fair market value, which might be a couple hundred € or sometimes even less.

So, eventually they recoup the equipment costs, wouldn't get surprised if they even make a profit out of it sometimes.

First thing they do, they write off VAT (20-23% of laptop price). Then at the EOL, they just set the EPP price to the higher market value. And return the cost.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-29 14:50:37+00:00
I have bemoaned the sameness of car design these days. To the Cybertruck I say, thank you for trying something different!

But not like that.

(Also, the problem is "Americans love trucks"—the Cybertruck doesn't solve that. It's still just a lethal grocery-getter in suburbia where the Cybertruck was only going to sell anyway. I'd sooner get behind the new golf-cart craze in suburbia—let them drive their golf carts to Costco.)
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-29 14:51:19+00:00
This is better presentation than README, which currently is marketing-heavy and technically weak. Project as an experiment is acceptable and interesting but certainly isn't "next-generation" when has (assuming benchmarks are valid) <0.2% ratio improvement to an outdated algorithm, at expense (assuming description is valid) of much worse compression/decompression speed. Note such slowdown isn't implementation detail but expected by design; neighbor graph, Levenshtein distance, edit scripts, etc, kill speed. In the end compression is trade-off between ratio and speed, and methods benchmark to both rather one.

As overall note, AIs when you prompt "apply concept X in Y" (or anything really) will tell you what a great idea and then output something that without domain knowledge you've no idea if it's correct or if even makes sense at all. If don't want to do a literature research/study, recommend at least throwing the design back to the machine and asking for critique.
by davydm | 2026-01-29 14:51:30+00:00
Most companies cannot be both authentic and constantly providing new monocles for their richest members.

In other words - companies actively choose not to be authentic in the name of profit, and I don't see that changing significantly now, or ever.

On top of which, most consumers are just interested in price. It's how Temu continues to survive with all the ridiculous rugpulls they do on customers.