MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fleeting900 | 2026-01-07 23:14:02+00:00
Something that is not yet known to be an indicator that you’re at risk of a condition.

Perhaps you were given some medication that is later proven harmful. Maybe there’s a sign in your blood test results that in future will strongly correlate with a condition that emerges in your 50s. Maybe a study will show that having no appendix correlates with later issues.

How confident are you that the data will never be used against you by future insurance, work screening, dating apps, immigration processes, etc
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-07 23:14:28+00:00
> including other predators like bears

Bears are a terrible example to pick, as they aren't real “predators” in the first place. They are omnivorous, eating more fruits, roots and insects than meat, by far. Depending on their species and where they live they may eat fishes as well, but not that much meat at all.

And of course as omnivorous ourselves, we eat far less meat than actual predators like wolves and felines.
by Komieter | 2026-01-07 23:15:03+00:00
A few weeks ago, I realized I had no idea how many online accounts I'd created over the years.

So I scanned my email for confirmations and receipts. Found 257 accounts.

One was Wreio - a site I bought a hoodie from in 2023. Turns out it was a scam operation that got exposed for selling customer credit card info. I'd completely forgotten the account existed.

By the time I found out, they'd had my card info for over a year.

Built GhostSweep to help others find these forgotten accounts. Scans Gmail metadata (not content), surfaces forgotten accounts, and provides deletion guides.

Free to scan. Most people find 50-100+ accounts they completely forgot about.

Technical details:
- Next.js + Supabase
- Gmail OAuth (read-only, metadata only, Google Verified)
- Pattern matching on subjects/senders
- No AI, just regex and heuristics

Open to feedback, especially around privacy concerns - that's the #1 question I get.

Link: ghostsweep.com
by elbci | 2026-01-07 23:15:07+00:00
So my cube-key will look to anybody else as a regular scrambled cube. If my kid finds it and solves it, I'm kind of doomed, right? So what's the plan, I'm supposed to remember the state of the cube?

A admit I'm dumb and lazy - I didn't read the paper, maybe it's covered there - but this sounds quite vulnerable to dictionary attacks, like those phone unlock paass where everybody puts a Z, the cube-keys will mostly be "Solved with red/yellow middles swapped"
by araes | 2026-01-07 23:15:14+00:00
Cool project, and at least with the New Yorker images there's such an enormous amount of diversity that there's actually quite a bit to compare against.

Also, just really cool to see quite how much diversity there has been in New Yorker front page images. Not actually that many archives that provide such a clear, easily viewable format just for browsing through all the art and looking at how the New Yorker has changed it's art style over time. Quite a few would probably qualify as "art" in and of themselves.

Also, some kind of neat discoveries while browsing through the archive. "Crazy, that looks like a Far Side ... wait, that's cause Gary Larson drew the cover." No idea Gary Larson did any magazine covers. [1]

[1] 2003-11-17, Gary Larson, https://shoplurker.com/labs/newyorker-covers/covers/2003/590...

Did something kind of similar a while back with Magic the Gathering cards, except it was using the Perceptual Hash from https://www.phash.org/ The visual clustering display (such as this example from 5th Edition [2]) I think is what some people are suggesting would be valuable. Provide an idea about "why" they're related.

[2] https://araesmojo-eng.github.io/araesmojo-html/images/Projec...

Been a long time (2018), yet pretty sure it was two dimensional "Image Feature Extraction" kinda of like this other example [3] with card colors collapsed to a single average color to give an idea of color pattern distribution.

[3] https://digitalsloan.com/project-blog/cbri
by qgin | 2026-01-07 23:15:23+00:00
I help take care of my 80-ish year old mother. ChatGPT figured out in 5 minutes the reason behind a pretty serious chronic problem that her very good doctors hadn't been able to figure out in 3 years. Her doctors came around to the possibility, tested out the hypothesis, and it was 100% right. She's doing great now (at least with that one thing).

That's not to say that it's better than doctors or even that it's a good way to address every condition. But there are definitely situations where these models can take in more information than any one doctor has the time to absorb in a 12-minute appointment and consider possibilities across silos and specialties in a way that is difficult to find otherwise.
by order-matters | 2026-01-07 23:15:57+00:00
i think its supposed to be fun and if you get rules lawyered then you get to complain about it and have people agree with you at parties that you should have won the bet

i dont think it is intended to be used as a meaningful investment platform, or even a serious gambling establishment like an actual casino.

its whole angle is "wouldnt it be funny if you could bet on ____" and then you can
by throwaway314155 | 2026-01-07 23:16:16+00:00
> Most doctors are just people who had a strong ability to pass tests and finish medical school.

This is a tautology. “Most doctors are just (doing lots of work there) people who had the ability to meet the prerequisites for…becoming a doctor.”

Are doctors fallible? Of course. Is there room for improvement with regard to LLM’s? Hopefully. Does that mean there’s reason to spread general distrust in doctors? Fuck no. Until now they were the only chance you had at getting health care.
by hopelite | 2026-01-07 23:16:53+00:00
I agree, but besides the fact that people overlook that the “C” in LLC is “Corporate” and most private rental investors will have put their real estate in an LLC; is that the real problem at the core is cheap, i.e., devalued money and low lending standards, that has made inefficient and reckless lending and investing possible, essentially the inverse of the BNPL ticking time bomb and the cousin of the housing bubble, i.e., fraud.

With house prices being driven up by reckless lending through a debased currency, you enter a feedback loop where every inflating currencies drive prices higher, which only fuels a further frenzy of lending (including through FOMO) to driver prices higher once again.
by anamax | 2026-01-07 23:17:11+00:00
The National Guard is NOT a state militia. Its funding and equipment come from the Feds, and any state-level authority can be removed at the president's whim.

This was settled when Reagan sent NG units from some states NG members overseas over the objection of said states' governors.

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1990/rt9...
by com2kid | 2026-01-07 23:18:05+00:00
Because American men average around five nine and given the average lean muscle mass needs on that frame size, something within 60-90g (which is a huge range!) will work for most American men.

Like if someone is a 6 foot 10 body builder, they know their needs.

Also the suggested range of g/kg ranges from .8g/kg to 1.2g/kg, which is also a huge range, but that is primarily for building strength, not maintaining.

Given the goals here are "rough guidelines on eating healthy", I'm fine saying most men should aim for 60-90g of lean protein a day. That isn't exactly a hot take.
by cyberax | 2026-01-07 23:18:13+00:00
Not quite. But there ARE examples where the price growth was stopped by providing alternative options to the cycle of ever-densification.

A really good example is Copenhagen, the world's most liveable city. Its current population is still _less_ than during the 1970's peak: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20894/cope... The driver for the decrease was suburban migration, as cars became more accessible.

The US _itself_ is a great example. The suburban development created cheap housing for the rapidly growing population in 60-s.
by foster_nyman | 2026-01-07 23:18:21+00:00
You’re right, and I agree wholeheartedly: academics absolutely do have fruitful arguments about religion and politics.

I read Graham’s point as narrower than “there’s nothing to learn.” He explicitly says: “There are certainly some political questions that have definite answers.”

The warning label is about identity capture. Once a view becomes part of who you are, the odds of real updating drop: “people can never have a fruitful argument about something that’s part of their identity.” Or, put positively: “you can have a fruitful discussion … so long as you exclude people who respond from identity.”

So the issue isn’t the topic. It’s what happens when belief turns into a kind of badge.
by another_twist | 2026-01-07 23:18:31+00:00
The issue seems to be that LLMs already consumed large parts of the templatized code somewhere. Not directly from TW but from some other project. Codex / Claude are also exceptionally good at whipping out a UI quickly even when given flimsy requirements. Its hard running this business and competing against a several billion dollar machine. Wonder how Material UI is doing as they have a similar business model.
by smeej | 2026-01-07 23:18:47+00:00
To all the people saying this doesn't go far enough to change things: Of course it doesn't. This is a symbolic beginning, not the whole project.

Things like the composition of school lunches were determined for years by the recommendations that formed the shape of the food pyramid. What gets subsidized with SNAP and WIC was determined for years by the recommendations that formed the shape of the food pyramid.

The depiction of the recommendations does get fixed in people's minds. And then when actual guidelines come out for things that actually matter, like food programs, people expect them to correspond to what they know of the guidelines.

It's not that different from any corporate rebranding announcement. They show you the new direction they want to take the company with new imagery. You don't laugh and roll your eyes and say, "Suuuuure. Show us some new pictures. That'll fix it." You evaluate the direction the imagery says they're trying to go to decide if you think it's an improvement.

So, is eating "real food" like meat, vegetables, and fruit an improvement over a diet based on (especially processed) grains for people's health? Of course it is.

I'm not a fan of this government (or anyone else's, really), but I also think the people who are most likely to take this administration's word for it on something like dietary change are statistically among the people who would most benefit from this kind of dietary change, so I sincerely hope this works, and I'm glad to see they're trying to steer it this way. Even if the damn pyramid is upside down and looks like a funnel.
by themafia | 2026-01-07 23:19:02+00:00
It destroys your liver. Which one of those actions prevents that? Where is drinking to excess prevented? Why do people still die in vehicle accidents caused by alcohol?

Really. We should just stop selling it. It's insane that you think you can write a set of rules that somehow prevents harm. It merely manages the consequences of the harms. Your court cases cannot bring back the dead.

Why do we tolerate this yet take a hard line stance on far less important issues?
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-07 23:19:26+00:00
> ignore (effectively: drop)

Well, no. They do ignore them, but that's not effectively a drop. It's an ignore. It just means that they don't edit the packet. Whether it gets dropped or not depends completely on the routing and firewalling parts of the router.

People do generally expect a NATing router to firewall inbound connections, but it's important to realize that you won't get that behavior from NAT. You must have a firewall, which is a separate thing.
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-07 23:19:53+00:00
while accelerating the vehicle quickly with an officer standing in front of her vehicle

This is false. He started drawing his gun while she was still in verse (to turn and drive away) and was not 'in front of the vehicle' but approaching the front left of the vehicle. Nor was she 'accelerating the vehicle quickly.' You are simply being untruthful.

Frankly, with multiple masked goons pulling weapons approaching, any evasive/defensive maneuvers would have been fully justified.
by BanAntiVaxxers | 2026-01-07 23:19:53+00:00
I could really use a USB "flash drive" that has two connectors on it. You would plug each of the connectors into two different devices. They could both see the same file system. You could implement this in a number of ways. Trying to edit the same file at the same time would not really work well, but otherwise it would work great. And it does not depend on any network and it is cross platform.
by ch4s3 | 2026-01-07 23:20:03+00:00
I guess it would be more correct to say it was heavily influenced by the ag industry[1].

> attempt to improve heart disease rates

The diet basedheart disease science of the early 1990s was totally junk.[2]

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8375951/

[2] https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/09/404081/sugar-papers-reveal...
by hopelite | 2026-01-07 23:20:30+00:00
That would not be useful. A far better solution would be to drive up rates to make/force landlords unload properties they could only afford at lower rates and also deport the roughly 30 million foreign nationals that are currently in the USA driving up costs of everything. It’s basic supply and demand, but ironically the immigrant supporters are allied with the billionaires and generally wealthy who profit from piling in ever more people into the same supply of housing and amenities and resources.
by ajross | 2026-01-07 23:21:05+00:00
I try to make this point when the subject comes up, but IMHO this is a lipstick-on-a-pig solution. The problem with npm security isn't stability or attestation, it's the impossibility of auditing all that garbage.

The software is too fine-grained. Too many (way too many) packages from small projects or obscure single authors doing way too many things that are being picked up for one trivial feature. That's just never going to work. If you don't know who's writing your software the answer will always end up being "Your Enemies" at some point.

And the solution is to stop the madness. Conglomerate the development. No more tiny things. Use big packages[1] from projects with recognized governance. Audit their releases and inclusion in the repository from a separate project with its own validation and testing. No more letting the bad guys push a button to publish.

Which is to say: this needs to be Debian. Or some other Linux distro. But really the best thing is for the JS community (PyPI and Cargo are dancing on the edge of madness too) to abandon its mistake and move everything into a bunch of Debian packages. Won't happen, but it's the solution nonetheless.

[1] c.f. the stuff done under the Apache banner, or C++ Boost, etc...
by brainwad | 2026-01-07 23:21:06+00:00
If they want total freedom, they don't have to spend food stamps. They can always provide for themselves.

You are right, a single box of cake mix once a year is fine. But between banning processed foods, or allowing everything, the former is far closer to the "just cake once a year" scenario. Allowing unlimited spend on junk food will in most cases lead to worse outcomes.
by pico303 | 2026-01-07 23:21:08+00:00
When I started working on one of my side projects a year or so ago, I realized I didn't have time to figure out how to style each and every component, so I paid for Tailwind Plus. It was pricey, and I definitely had to think about it for a few days, but I'm so glad I did. It saved me way more time than the dollar value of the product, and it has continued to get better.

If you are using Tailwind, I highly recommend Tailwind Plus. You'll learn so much about what Tailwind can do using that library, and it is so easy to adapt into your own offerings. It is 100% worth it.

Hearing that they're struggling, I may have to also bite the bullet and pick up Refactoring UI.

Note: I am in no way connected to the Tailwind folks other than through my credit card.
by burningChrome | 2026-01-07 23:21:54+00:00
>> The real question is, have your actual qualified leads decreased?

Yes.

>> So much traffic is bogus or looking for something adjacent to what they land on that I'm not entirely convinced AI is at fault here.

When I was reviewing our analytics, I noticed a huge uptick in traffic from IP addresses in Sigapore and Beijing. This coincided with spikes from Linux OS traffic that was higher than desktop and iOS traffic which has always been the two highest OS's for our traffic. Add in a huge spike in direct traffic all pointed in one direction - AI bots and crawlers.
by ljsprague | 2026-01-07 23:22:54+00:00
I am flabbergasted that you can say Germany is 72% German and not see that you're being replaced. Are you not able to extrapolate a trend?

>Being an open and multicultural country

This is begging the question.

>Nationalism is the last thing my country needs.

Whatever genes made you say that are maladaptive.
by davidw | 2026-01-07 23:23:06+00:00
Eh, reforms are starting to happen, like here in Oregon.

https://bendbulletin.com/2025/12/13/middle-housing-slowly-de...

Or this:

https://bendyimby.com/2025/06/12/detached-townhomes-come-to-...

And it continues:

https://www.sightline.org/2025/06/04/oregons-zoning-reforms-...

It generally does not drop values, just allows for cheaper options.
by 6510 | 2026-01-07 23:23:24+00:00
I have this idea where we pick a desert road as long as possible (maybe road 50 Nevada) then build a 50 000 metric ton machine that makes large rammed earth houses. Perhaps make a mold the shape of a Ferris wheel. Have it stamp out 200 homes per week (2 miles) Road 50 is 400 miles so 200 weeks.

Rammed earth is a very decent building material but if you make the walls thick and compress it hard enough (maybe add steam?) it will last hundreds of years. Other building methods should be considered ofc domed roofs are perhaps not cool enough.

Disassemble the machine, ship the containers and deploy it some place else.

Add some killer features to the homes so that people cant wait to live there. For the first 400 miles at least $30 billion comes out (over 30 years) or $15 bl per year for each year of construction. Should be good enough for investors.

If it works, build additional improved versions. Aim for a factory that makes these machines.

Something like a sane version of the line.

Something like this only 20 times larger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKi8VWRDA_c

Something like this but moving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn0g68XE3Ds
by midldei | 2026-01-07 23:24:06+00:00
It's a novelty. Something more tuned for a scene in a movie than providing security for an individual.

But, the way I see it, you have the traditionally "solved" state cube on your desk(all faces complete), and when you want to use it as a key you "solve" the cube to the state that represents your key.

With a rubiks cube this means you only need to remember the steps of the algorithm that leads you to your key state.
by fleeting900 | 2026-01-07 23:24:10+00:00
I’m not going to comment on whether I think you’re right or wrong, your opinion is legitimate.

But just to note that this and similar opinions in the thread confirm what I’ve experienced, both as a SINK/DINK and as a parent.

More often than not it’s the SINKs/DINKs that disappear off the face of the earth and lose interest in participating in the suddenly very different lives of their new parent friends, and not the other way around.
by Marsymars | 2026-01-07 23:24:11+00:00
This jumped out to me because I had a TPM problem on an FM2 Gigabyte mobo in ~2015. (Back when a TPM on desktop mobos required a plug-in module.)

It took me months of hassling Gigabyte to get them to issue me a beta BIOS that fixed the bug, and the fix never did make it to a non-beta BIOS.
by themafia | 2026-01-07 23:24:33+00:00
> was already starting to cool down.

You seem to want it both ways. It was a misconception, but it apparently did happen, and apparently "cooled down?" I don't think all these things can be true.

It's highly possible they were heavily investing and were planning on continuing but people noticing and the social pushback it created caused them to change their minds about the strategy.

> Black rock isn't buying up all the housing, your neighbors are.

People may or may not be. They may or may not be my neighbors. You seem to be pushing a set of ideals rather than a set of facts.
by dzaima | 2026-01-07 23:24:47+00:00
And, even if not that, the 0x0000_0000_FFFF_FFFF constant could be generated via 2 instrs of

li a0, -1
srli a0, a0, 32

That said, codegen of constants in RISC-V is a whole insane crazy art-form to do well (especially for a JIT where "try a hundred different strategies" means slow compilation), all to have the hardware rediscover what was already perfectly-known in the first place. (granted, there's a size benefit in cases where there is a good compact form)
by bhelkey | 2026-01-07 23:25:04+00:00
Of the predictions I read, I found that the author engages in pretty heavy handed rules lawyering in order to make their predictions accurate.

For example, the author takes the stance that current self driving cars (Waymo, Zoox) do not count as self driving. The justification being that a human operator is involved some small fraction of the time.

By law, Waymo must report disengagements in California. In 2024, Waymo had ~10 thousand miles driven per disengagement, Zoox had ~28 thousand miles driven per disengagement [1]. I would say that this rate of human intervention qualifies as self driving.

[1] https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2025/02/03/2024-disen...
by llmslave2 | 2026-01-07 23:25:40+00:00
> When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

Fascinating that their perceptions basically matched their predictions, and were totally off. Take any claims of "Opus makes me 10x more productive!" with a massive grain of salt, considering they probably read that on X or HN and then their predictions influence their perception.
by 00N8 | 2026-01-07 23:25:53+00:00
There was a similar situation last summer over a prediction market on whether Iran's Fordow nuclear facility would be destroyed by a certain date. That one was resolved as "yes it got destroyed" after the air strike on the facility. A lot of people on the other side of that bet were complaining because it seemed like an arbitrary guess: All we can really tell from publicly available info is that it was hit. The actual effect may have been anywhere from superficial light damage to comprehensive destruction, with no way to be sure without access to the underground facility.

I didn't bet on that one, but I'd seen something about it on Twitter & gotten curious how they could come to a firm conclusion one way or the other. AFAICT the market didn't have a solid way to be sure & were just taking a White House press briefing that said it was probably destroyed at face value.
by subpixel | 2026-01-07 23:26:14+00:00
> Black rock isn't buying up all the housing, your neighbors are

To a degree, but there's a whole tranche of investment vehicles that accredited investors use to invest in single-family homes that is not securitized at all, and not on Wall Street. The whole fix-and-flip industry feeds into this now, loaning out money to turn houses into rentals that some LLC holds.