MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tasty_freeze | 2026-01-07 23:56:47+00:00
> Are people really eating less than ~1/2 cup of meat over all their meals combined?

Your mind is going to be blown when you learn about vegetarians!

I'm in the US and was raised on a pretty standard diet. As a young adult, I stopped eating beef for environmental reasons. As an older adult (50s) I mostly stopped eating most meat for environmental and ethical reasons. I don't call myself a vegetarian and don't make a fuss when vegetarian options aren't available (eg, eating at a friend's house).

That is all to say: I haven't noticed any difference in my health either way, but that isn't why I (95%) stopped eating meat.
by hansvm | 2026-01-07 23:57:04+00:00
To be fair, those macronutrient guidelines were established not because of any special properties of those macros (give or take the nitrogen load from protein) but because when applied as a population-level intervention they encourage sufficient fiber, magnesium, potassium, etc. You can have 50% of your calories be from fats and still live a long, healthy life, and you can do so as a population (see, e.g. Crete and some other Mediterranean sub-regions in the early/mid-1900s). You can have a much higher protein intake and have beneficial outcomes too.

Your point about the sources mattering isn't tangential; it's the entire point. The reason the AMDR exists is to encourage good sources. A diet of 65% white sugar and 25% butter isn't exactly what it had in mind though, and it's those sources you want to scrutinize more heavily.

Even for red meat though, when you control for cohort effects, income, and whatnot, and examine just plain red meat without added nitrites or anything, the effect size and study power diminishes to almost nothing. It's probably real, but it's not something I'm especially concerned about (I still don't eat much red meat, but that's for unrelated reasons).

To put the issue to scale, if you take the 18% increased risk in colorectal cancer from red meats as gospel (ignoring my assertions that it's more important to avoid hot dogs than lean steaks), or, hell, let's double that to 36%, your increased risk of death from the intervention of adding a significant portion of red meat to your diet is only half as impactful as the intervention of adding driving to your daily activities.

The new guidelines seem to be better than just recommending more steaks anyway. They're not perfect, but I've seen worse health advice.
by toyetic | 2026-01-07 23:57:09+00:00
Agreed. I’m all for the government trying to help by setting/updating guidlines and I actually agree with the guidelines but ultimately any general advice boils down to - eat a balanced diet of whole grains fruits vegetables and meat, and don’t eat so much of it, just enough to feel full. IMO any specifics on what specifically to/to not eat isn’t helpful unless it’s tailored specifically to someone’s lifestyle.

Basically like you said, telling someone to not drink sugary drinks, stop eating out as much as possible and be more active is the only general advice really needed
by thesz | 2026-01-07 23:57:14+00:00
I use intermittent fasting, 18+ hours fasting between meals. It is convenient, it is affordable, it gives me ketones to squat 140kg for twenty (20) reps being 54 years old without, literally, breaking a sweat, and, before all, raises blood concentration of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).

Fat's thermal food effect is 3% of fat's energy, while sugar and amino acids have 8 to 10 times more of their energy converted to heat (25% and 30%). That thermal effect raises the body temperature and makes body to sweat.

Ketogenic diet also allow for fat burn through the year, not at the cut stage only. I once managed to burn fat and bulk at the same time, burning 2 kg of fat and adding 4.5 kg of lean mass in three months, just by switching to intermittent fasting and hypertrophy-specific training. Without PEDs - they interfere with thinking.
Show HN: I built a simple "Gemini" watermark remover extension, "Peel Banana"
by davepoon | 2026-01-07 23:57:27+00:00
So I made a thing
Got tired of that Gemini watermark in the corner of Nano Banana images, so I built a little Chrome extension to remove it.

It's called "Peel Banana" and I just put it up on the Chrome Web Store.
Completely free.

- The whole thing runs locally in your browser using a reverse-blending algorithm(based on allenk's GeminiWatermarkTool).
- No uploads, no servers, no external API.
- Just drag in your images and it spits out clean versions in about a second. Keeps the original quality too.
- You can do a whole batch at once if you've got a bunch of images to process.

Anyway, figured I'd share in case anyone else finds it useful. Let me know what you think!

If this helped you out, would love it if you dropped a rating. Five stars would make my day

Big thanks to anyone who leaves a review
by cjlooi | 2026-01-07 23:57:37+00:00
PDF-based pipelines are fundamentally lossy and compute-heavy—whether they rely on OCR, GROBID, or LLM-based parsing. They're simply not good enough for accurate, scientific agents at scale.

To fix this, I'm launching ScienceStack API: a lossless, node-based API for scientific papers with LaTeX source, starting with arXiv.

It currently covers 150k+ arXiv papers, mainly in CS, Math, and Physics.

Every paper also ships with a WYSIWYG interactive reader at sciencestack.ai/paper/{arxivId}.
Example: https://www.sciencestack.ai/paper/2512.24601v1

I’m giving away 5× 3-month Pro keys to early commenters who are building in this space (scientific tooling, agents, copilots, RAG etc). I’d love to hear what you’re working on
by NickC25 | 2026-01-07 23:58:15+00:00
Sounds like you like pretty close to or in an urban/metro area.

Food deserts still exist all over the US. And likely in Canada, too - you're less likely to have the same options in Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal as opposed to say, Nunavut or Yukon.

The issue here is that you specified in-season. The problem with food at scale is that humans are impatient, and want what they want regardless of season. We don't have seasonality in this day and age in the US outside of small things like pumpkins or gourds. Fruits are expected to be available year round.

Your food standards are WAY higher than ours (I say this jealously). Your government gives a fuck about its population. Ours does not.
by hopelite | 2026-01-07 23:58:20+00:00
Something this does not actually seem to address is that even our “real food” is also polluted with massive glyphosate. And no, it is also something that is a massive problem in Europe, including meat, which does not get as regulated as vegetables and fruits, so levels can often be even higher.

This young woman did an excellent explanation of the overall state of things in a YouTube video, for anyone that wants an intro.
https://youtu.be/s64PNMAK92c
by cronos | 2026-01-07 23:58:31+00:00
Not even that. An attacker with local root can just extract the wireguard keys from process memory, or use the TPM to decrypt the state file like Tailscale would.

The only scenario where it helps is a local attacker who can read the state file on disk, but is not full root. Kinda unlikely on Linux, but could happen on Windows.
by jordwest | 2026-01-07 23:58:59+00:00
> it’d be wasteful for evolution to only use the brain for computation

Even what we consciously experience as the brain is really only a tiny part of the brain.

The little language centre and the capacity to imagine are only a tiny subset of a multitude of brain functions and yet we believe that those two functions make up “me”. Actually it’s just those two functions telling a story that they are me.
by observationist | 2026-01-07 23:59:07+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9ronique_Le_Guen

Tragic - I'd hesitate to tie the cave experiments to the death, but it sure looks bad. It doesn't seem like humans are designed to cope well with long isolation and detachment from reality, but deprivation tanks and other practices show significantly positive results.
by SanjayMehta | 2026-01-07 23:59:47+00:00
iCloud is trivial to set up for a family account. We're all on macs.

My company uses Dropbox which is windows and mac.

For some reason Microsoft gave me 40Gb of free storage on skydrive in their early days, and it was always a little off to use, mostly due to search. So it ended up being used to store misc files like software installers which I can always find elsewhere if OneDrive misbehaves.
by mothballed | 2026-01-08 00:00:13+00:00
He's deploying the national guard because anyone with half a brain understands riots are likely. His reasoning has to not betray that though; even if he legitimately intends to use the NG to block ICE that's not the primary reason why he's sending them out right after the exact conditions are met that caused utter chaos in Minneapolis before.

It's just better politically to say "to stop ICE" rather than say "I'm afraid shit's about to pop off and I need some plausible other explanation so I don't make it sound like I think my constituents are going to do something I find improper."
by twoodfin | 2026-01-08 00:00:22+00:00
As far as I can tell, LVT only achieves what it sets out to do if it’s equivalent to market rent.

As in, you never really “own” your land, you’re just renting it from the sovereign. If you can’t make good enough use out of it to afford that rent, you should move on. You can find comments on this thread that make this argument explicitly in terms of “maximizing land use efficiency”.

This was the economic structure of feudalism. It … wasn’t great. Private ownership of land has its own tradeoffs but a few centuries of historical experimentation in both directions has been fairly decisive.
by hug | 2026-01-08 00:00:42+00:00
Jumping from "the author uses language I dislike" straight to "also, he has no theory of mind" is a bit of a leap. Like world record winning long jump kinda stuff.

Also, what big words? 'Proliferation'? 'Incoherent'? The whole article is written at a high school reading level. There's some embedded clauses in longer sentences, but we're not exactly slogging our way through Proust, here.
by mrktf | 2026-01-08 00:00:43+00:00
With today requirements for accounting, somebody with economics background could tell what would be wrong with following solution?:

If you house owned by commercial entity - taxes are payed from full value, but the valuation to any collateral/derivative goes by something like (0.75x)^l, where l how many levels deep (counting ownership levels). For example it house is in some sort collateral/derivate/indirect ownership mix with 4 levels deep, it can only valuated as 0.31x value (you can only account as it is worth 1/3). In my mind it should reduce attractiveness for speculative buying.
by grog454 | 2026-01-08 00:00:45+00:00
Not OP and not an accountant.

I see the reasoning for accountants keeping future liabilities off of the balance sheet. I do this myself in multiple contexts.

Still, making decisions about whether to take out or grant a loan (personal or business) I need to consider future "value" and cash flows. To someone running a business this is probably more important than the balance sheet. So I think the interest recording criticism is valid but relatively minor in the context of the whole article.
by mrtksn | 2026-01-08 00:00:53+00:00
Sorry, I should have written it more clearly. What I ment by a "shitty European country" was in the context of pre-democracy, something like fast developing country that sees lots of advancement in science and technology but the population suffers greatly due to inequalities and lack of rights or regulations against unfair labor practices. This used to be the case of UK for example. It's also the case for many developing countries today.
by ibejoeb | 2026-01-08 00:01:09+00:00
Presumably the MCP could also be aware of the commercial products, which ought to coax the agent to apply those patterns. That'd be more useful than actually have the library.

This isn't novel either. Expo offers an MCP with its paid subscription, for instance. It's helpful. In fact, I wish the tamagui crew would get on that...
by xp84 | 2026-01-08 00:01:29+00:00
This may be the most practical go-forward plan. The Euro's .20 coins are also attractive too. But you're correct that quarters, as the smallest common currency that you can plausibly buy something with just a couple of them, are just everywhere, from laundry to car washes, so the pain in retiring them would be widely felt.

What I've learned from the penny retirement is that people are deeply distrustful of simple high school level statistics! Millions of people have angrily seethed that somehow stores are or will be using the penny retirement to rob them, despite knowing that most transactions have an unknowable amount of different items, and sales tax, so attempting to manipulate prices to gain a statistical advantage out of rounding would be incredibly difficult and would yield a pitiful return. Let alone how the cash transaction share is declining every year.
by mlmonkey | 2026-01-08 00:01:30+00:00
My uncle had an issue with his balance and slurred speech. Doctors claimed dementia and sent him home. It kept becoming worse and worse. Then one day I entered the symptoms in ChatGPT (or was it Gemini?) and asked it for the top 3 hypotheses. The first one was related to dementia. The second was something else (I forget the long name). I took all 3 to his primary care doc who had kept ignoring the problem, and asked her to try the other 2 hypotheses. She hesitantly agreed to explore the second one, and referred him to a specialist in that area. And guess what? It was the second one! They did some surgery and now he's fine as a fiddle.
by dcreater | 2026-01-08 00:01:31+00:00
One more reason not to use Notion.

I wonder when there will be awakening to not use SaaS for everything you do. And the sad thing is that this is the behavior of supposedly tech-savvy people in places like the bay area.

I think the next wave is going to be native apps, with a single purchase model - the way things used to be. AI is going to enable devs, even indie devs, to make such products.
by digitcatphd | 2026-01-08 00:01:50+00:00
At first I was reading this like 'oh boy here we go, a marketing ploy by ChatGPT when Gemini 3 does the same thing better', but the integration with data streams and specialized memory is interesting.

One thing I've noticed in healthcare is for the rich it is preventative but for everyone else it is reactive. For the rich everything is an option, for everyone else it is straight to generic pharma drugs.

AI has the potential to bring these to the masses and I think for those who care, it will bring concierge style medicine to the masses.
by tombert | 2026-01-08 00:02:48+00:00
Very tangential, but Amiga has been a recent fascination of mine. I've been playing with a few AROS distributions in QEMU; a part of me wants to take the plunge and run it full time as my primary operating system, but the lack of a decent web browser is a pretty hard limiter in 2026. I guess my brain has sort of fetishized the platform; I didn't grow up with an Amiga, but I did get to play with one when I was a kid and I always thought it seemed cool, and as a grown-up who roughly understands how operating systems work I do think it was somewhat ahead of its time. Yes, I realize that there was a lot wrong with the design as well (e.g. no protected memory and programs being able to modify each others pointers), but even still I think it was pretty neat.

It's fun to think of the alternate universe where Commodore had been competently managed, and we wouldn't have the codified mediocrity of POSIX driving everything today.

It would be hard for me to justify the time sink, but I would like to port over the most recent Firefox/IceWeasel and bring Amiga into the 21st century.
by deepsun | 2026-01-08 00:03:12+00:00
> landlords are rent seeking and nothing else

Noone says it's nothing else. But rent seeking is a big component of it, you just focus on other minor parts.

In general, locking down some limited but critical commodity (e.g. land) is bad for any economic system. It doesn't really matter whether it's "Wall Street" or "your neighbor". A healthy economy is geared towards creating an added value.
by imiric | 2026-01-08 00:03:23+00:00
Yeah, I've read similar complaints, but I haven't had any issues.

The only data I need—my bookmarks and tags—are already backed up in a JSON file. You can get this via the API. It would be good to have the crawled archives as well, but I don't really need it. A large number of my bookmarks are probably dead anyway, and could use pruning, so an archive of these is not that valuable.
by tptacek | 2026-01-08 00:03:55+00:00
I'm not talking about whether it's intentional. I'm talking about whether it's possible. If corporate investors could control the price of housing, I believe they would.

I can buy a house tomorrow and hold it vacant off the market at a listing price 3x its value. I will have zero impact on the housing market. You may be conflating the listing price of an asset with the clearing price of that same asset. You can, obviously, build up inventory to manipulate prices. To do that, you have to be able to generate scarcity, which is exactly what corporate investors aren't doing.

You've just given me 6 more paragraphs about the control you think they have, and you still haven't told a simple 1-2-3 story about how they're using a microscopic footprint in the total housing market to distort prices.

You have to do better than "supply and demand normally influence pricing feedback at much more granular levels". In the context of your original claim, of them being "a huge driving force in setting and manipulating prices", you need to explain how that would actually work, and not rely on handwaving.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-08 00:04:40+00:00
I am curious how this intersects with a land value tax. Many LVT proponents try to draw in urbanists by noting its effect on density (LVT should economically increase density). But looking into it a little bit it sounds like that effect may be stronger in dense urban areas, with lower density areas less affected. I was curious because an LVT would likely also help undo distortion in the property market. Perhaps the two ideas are comparable after all; policies to encourage lower density wouldn’t necessarily be undone by an LVT.

In the real world, though, a Georgist style LVT probably has about as much chance to be enacted as any of these other policies. Unfortunately I think we’re going to run the current system into the ground.
by xp84 | 2026-01-08 00:05:32+00:00
> activity that those pennies facilitated

Do you mean in the zinc mining and Coinstar? Pennies have been a bizarre ritual for years, wherein the government made zinc worth less than its pre-minted value, distributed them to banks nationwide, banks in turn to stores, stores using them once to give meaningless amounts of money to customers, customers in turn immediately throwing them on the ground or at best eventually dumping them into a coinstar, and coinstar returned those to banks.

Nothing of value was going on there. I'd rather pay any zinc miners and coinstar drivers who have been displaced to play video games all day while still saving all those resources, fuel, and most of all, time.
by kiba | 2026-01-08 00:05:43+00:00
You overly complicate the situation by targeting one type of actors. If you look at comment around this story, people propose complicated mechanism to hack at the problem instead of looking at the root causes.

It's just land ownership isn't being taxed properly, no matter who owns the land. We homeowners get a free lunch from economic growth and price appreciation of real estate while penalizing capital investment.

The solution is simple if not necessarily easy to implement. Tax land and at a high enough rate, and exclude building and improvements. We'll reap bigger benefits if we reduce taxes on income and capital and eventually phase it out.
by throwmeaway820 | 2026-01-08 00:06:19+00:00
> A recent study shows that on any given day, just 12% of people in the US account for half of all beef consumed in the US

By itself, this figure doesn't really mean much. On any given day, less than 1% of people have birthdays, but that doesn't mean there's a small percentage of people who are having most of the birthdays

The following paragraph is more valid, but the 12% figure still seems dubious.
by FarmerPotato | 2026-01-08 00:06:30+00:00
I have taught sex ed over the past ten years. The curriculum (which we are forbidden to alter) embraces ideas of many dimensions to sex, but I found that there is not one empirical scientist in their list of authors, reviewers, or source material. The definition of “evidence-based” is that a lesson. has been tested in a classroom. (In other words, kids learned it.)

Intersex is a concept that bears looking into. We’re taught that it is as much as 0.4% of population, which is arrived at through removing context multiple times. Nowadays it is used to argue that there is a spectrum, not a sex binary, but this was not its meaning empirically. (Same thing with “sex assigned at birth”). You’re getting down to some very rare “differences of sexual development” (example: Y chromosome not getting expressed) whereas intersex individuals empirically belong to one or the other genotype. And the majority do not identify as “non binary” and don’t want to be used as examples.

I’m sure I’ll be debated, one comment can’t carry all the proof, but read some sports medicine papers on sex differences, that area has the facts.
by octoberfranklin | 2026-01-08 00:07:59+00:00
This is a thread about flag emojis, hardly tangential!

And it isn't flamebait to point out the f*cked up power dynamics in highly-government-influenced standards orgs. Especially the Unicode Consortium, since you can fit the alphabets of the official language of every country but one into a 16-bit space (no I'm not advocating Han Unification -- in fact precisely the opposite). The whole rest of the world has to deal with variable-length encodings and "grapheme cluster" nonsense just to keep one country happy.

dang, you have impugned my honor. I demand satisfaction in the form of a duel! Nerf guns at twenty paces.
by baubino | 2026-01-08 00:08:44+00:00
Yeah, I get the riot threat and I’m not suggesting that the National Guard is being called to stop ICE. But instead questioning what it means to have the guard come in to “protect” areas that are likely going to be where people are protesting against ICE. That pits the National Guard in opposition to ICE. Washington, DC just went through a version of this but different because it wasn’t the local National Guard and it wasn’t the local politicians calling them in. In either case, having one law enforcement agency occupying the same space as another without explicit coordination between them (and in this case where one is being called because of the actions of the other) is dicey and strikes me as meaningful and potentially dangerous escalation of the situation.
by db48x | 2026-01-08 00:09:25+00:00
The TPM devices themselves are reliable, but using them comes with a lot of caveats. 99% of users have never heard of the TPM, and 99% of the ones who have won’t have realized that upgrading the BIOS clears¹ the TPM. Add in the fact that Tailscale users didn’t _know_ that tailscale was using the TPM and you have a recipe for users breaking things without realizing it. In an enterprise environment where you can afford to hire people specifically to care about these thing, using TPMs for additional security is a great idea.

¹: and very few of those can explain that it doesn’t actually clear the TPM. Instead it causes a different state to be measured by the TPM, and in that new state the TPM cannot unlock the keys that were previously stored in it. This is a great way to protect the computer against someone who can pull the hard drive out of the computer and try to read the data off of it, or who can substitute a different BIOS chip to get around a BIOS password, but not so great for ordinary users who want the occasional upgrade to go smoothly.