MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lm28469 | 2026-01-12 14:31:07+00:00
I have access to the same food as everyone else, I also have craving as everyone else, but as hairless monkeys we evolved a brain able to bypass instant rewards for future goals.

My step dad was obese and blamed everything and everyone but himself. We installed an app to count calories on his ipad, he lost 1/3rd of his bodyweight in less than a year and he's now cruising at an healthy weight, it really isn't rocket science

People who look for excuse will always find something, it's genetics, today is a cheat day, today was a bad day, I'm not feeling good, I crave chocolate, #healthyatallsizes, &c. people who stop making excuses get out of the hole surprisingly fast
by ca98am79 | 2026-01-12 14:31:14+00:00
My father died on Friday and for some reason I found myself in tears while reading this.

I wasn't sure why, at first, but I think I was sad because, after my father died, my world felt smaller. It seemed that someone who loved and cared for me my whole life was gone, and the world was filled with strangers.

But reading this helped me to realize that strangers care and love me for no reason - just because I am another human being - and they want to help. And it makes me realize the world is bigger than I initially thought.
by Mattwmaster58 | 2026-01-12 14:31:25+00:00
As far as I know, the HFCS vs Sucrose is unlikely to be the reason for the difference in taste. I'm basing that off this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo

TLDR: carbonic acid breaks down sucrose to glucose/fructose anyway
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-12 14:31:29+00:00
I'm slowly building my own XMPP client, one key thing I'm running into trouble with is there seems to be no standard library for End to End Encryption other than Signal's own, I don't want to have to relicense my entire project for one dependency, I would rather keep my project Apache licensed. The other problem is voice and video options seem to be married to some Java specific library (Jingle) which is fine if you're using Java, but I'm not, seems nobody has implemented a solution to this in other languages that I'm interested in as well.

For the End to End I could try my best to implement it using existing libraries as pieces I can use, but I'm not comfortable doing that.
by qubex | 2026-01-12 14:31:46+00:00
I am absolutely arguing in good faith, and you should abstain from downplaying the atrocities that have befallen others and who still scar their descendants to this day. An off-colour joke was made and nobody here is calling it out for what it is, everybody is piling on to defend who made it. The joke was crass and insensitive and, if absolutely I must point this out, insofar as the original post was regarding the Armenian language it is highly likely that the original poster is Armenian themselves, making this Armenian-centric dialogue a kind of “Armenian space”.
by monegator | 2026-01-12 14:31:52+00:00
Disagree. The main reason we use chinese fabs is because we can actually get the goods in less than three weeks, so if we have a surge in sales we are covered pretty quickly.

The other reason is that we do some low complexity boards all specified with chinese parts, JLCPCB for the win, and our contractor agrees with us. They are not interested in those jobs because they can't possibly compete.

However, for our batch size/complexity our local contractor beats the chinese, by a good margin, and they keep growing the business. In Italy. The only problem we have with them is lead time, because there is always some hiccup, some missing part, some email that gets answered a day too late. I've been asking them for years to just provide their catalog with their partnumbers so i can just specify them in the BOM, and we won't waste all that time back and forth, but it's never been a true priority, but they do need to streamline the process. All european manufacturers need to streamline their process.

Another comment here lamented that the issue is that the fabs may try to treat every board as unique, whereas is should be us designers that adapt to them. I agree. That's a general issue in our attitude to designing a product, in many areas.
by knorker | 2026-01-12 14:32:22+00:00
What do you mean by "move or copy constructor is used when constructing the parameter of foo"?

Nothing is constructed at call time. Check out this example, which compiles just fine, even though Foo is neither copy nor move constructible/assignable: https://godbolt.org/z/Wj57o773d

"&&" is just a type system feature, resolving function polymorphism matching rvalue reference and not lvalue reference. It's not a thing that causes a move.
Show HN: Verdic Guard – deterministic guardrails for production AI
by kundan_s__r | 2026-01-12 14:32:54+00:00
I’m building Verdic Guard to explore a problem I kept seeing with LLMs in production.

Models often behave well in demos and short interactions, but once they’re embedded into long, agentic, or real-world workflows, outputs can drift in subtle ways. Prompt tuning, retries, and monitoring help, but they don’t clearly define or enforce what the system is actually allowed to do.

Verdic Guard treats AI reliability as a validation and enforcement problem, not just a prompting problem. The idea is to define intent, boundaries, and constraints upfront, then validate outputs against those constraints before they reach users or downstream systems.

This is early and opinionated. I’m sharing to get feedback from people who’ve dealt with:

LLMs in long-running or agentic workflows

Production reliability vs demo behavior

Guardrails beyond prompt engineering

Project: https://www.verdic.dev

Happy to answer questions or hear critiques.

— Kundan
by gwbas1c | 2026-01-12 14:33:05+00:00
It's a combination of a few things:

There's a massive amount of junk food and ultra-processed food in grocery stores, even though (rough estimate) 50% of floorspace is "raw" food. (Fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, fish.)

Processed food tends to have more sugar (high fructose corn syrup) than other countries. The same brand in the US vs another country will have more sugar.

Cultural momentum: Everywhere you go there's unhealthy food.

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Speaking from personal experience, junk food is just plan addictive and satisfying. It's not like alcohol or other drugs where you can just abstain; you gotta eat and we all get hungry.
by jmclnx | 2026-01-12 14:33:20+00:00
I am a fvwm person, but if I had to use a desktop environment, xfce would be my first choice. I find it works great for me. Once it ends up on Wayland and I am forced to use Wayland, right now xfce will be my choice.

Only one thing I wish I could set, allow windows to cover the 'bar'. Yes, I can make the bar auto-hide, but I cannot have a portion of it covered by a window.

The same is true for GNOME, but KDE it is allowed. I expect this is a gtk thing.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-12 14:33:36+00:00
That may be, but I still think

> if you are a large business and you pay xxxxx-xxxxxx per year per developer, but are only willing to pay xxx per year in AI tooling, something's out of proportion.

Is way off base. Even if you replace multiple workers with one worker but better tool, businesses still won't want to pay the "multiple worker salary" to the single worker just because they use a more effective tool.
by ambicapter | 2026-01-12 14:33:52+00:00
As counter-anecdata, I have a family members that are growing businesses from scratch and they constantly talk to me about problems they want to solve with software. Administrative problems, product problems, market research problems, you name it. I'm sure they have other problems they don't talk to me about where they're not looking for software solutions, but the list of places they want software to automate things is never-ending.
by philipwhiuk | 2026-01-12 14:33:56+00:00
> Would you trade code-level analytics for ~~better security~~ reduced privacy

Some probably would. I think many likely write commits that are insufficiently detailed to really capture the scope of the change.

> Stack: - Token encryption: Fernet (HMAC-SHA256 + AES-128-CBC) - Webhook verification: Timing-safe HMAC-SHA256 - 2FA: TOTP + backup codes

This isn't really your stack but sure.
by dizhn | 2026-01-12 14:34:30+00:00
Of course it is. You get to maintain all the server architecture yourself.

I don't have a need to give people public access but if I did I would set up Authentik and proxy everything through it and hand out usernames to people I want for the whole thing (or per app). You would open only :443 and not worry about a thing.

As a bonus use caddy as forward auth, create a wildcard subdomain (cloudflare dns supports it), configure caddy for wildcard domains for sub-sub domains and dns cert verification via cloudflare token. This way nobody even knows your real domain names. Nothing they can see in DNS or certificate transparency logs. (This is my working theory. I haven't actually researched it too deep but I am doing it.) You add a new app/site in caddy's config and everything else is completely automatic. You can even use dynamic dns with a client or a script that uses the same cloudflare token to update your IP.

As I said above. Don't even need to have a public IP on this machine. Better if you don't in case something like docker or an AI agent accidentally opens a port. (Your router already protects you but I am talking about if this was on a cloud host or an ISP that gives you real IPs for each of your machines)
by vladvasiliu | 2026-01-12 14:34:37+00:00
I think it's somewhat related. The French social security site has a page asking phamacists to make sure the prescriptions are correct, in order to guarantee availability to people who actually need this [0].

This sounds pretty much like the supply is somewhat limited for whatever reason.

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[0] https://www.ameli.fr/pharmacien/actualites/antidiabetiques-a...
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-12 14:34:40+00:00
"In the last five years, more anti-trans legislation has been proposed in the United States than in the previous 200 years combined." [0]

You have to look at the real world, not the world that (presumably) we both wish we lived in. In real life, activism just leads to counter-activism.

I'm not saying that trans folks aren't better off now than they were a decade ago, but I am saying that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you have a medical condition that needs treatment you probably don't need a line of dummies lining up to block you as you walk in because you've turned your condition into "Activism."

Some things are made worse by turning it into politics.

[0] https://gender.stanford.edu/news/continuities-and-developmen...
by Ismach | 2026-01-12 14:34:51+00:00
Author here.
I built this tool to solve a specific problem in reconnaissance: distinguishing between a real physical machine (bare metal) and a virtualized honeypot.
The core idea:
Physical computers use quartz crystals for their clock, which have microscopic imperfections and drift (clock skew) unique to the hardware. Virtual machines and honeypots typically sync their clocks via the hypervisor, creating a different "too perfect" or chaotic timing signature.
How Chronos-Track works:
It creates an active connection using raw TCP SYN packets with TSopt headers.
It measures the reply timestamps with nanosecond precision using SO_TIMESTAMPING.
It applies a Convex Hull regression algorithm to filter out network jitter and isolate the linear drift of the crystal.
It’s written in Rust and includes a TUI (using Ratatui) to visualize the drift in real-time.
I'd love to hear your feedback on the methodology or the Rust implementation!
by 453yuh46 | 2026-01-12 14:35:24+00:00
I think, that the people that are criticizing Erich von Däniken are doing so from modern viewpoint. People in his time had very limited POV, mostly because there was not much data, compared to how it is now, but modern people also forget that science is not a religion and it can't be based on beliefs only - it requires evidence and without any such evidence all the ideas has to be thrown out. Also, if there are better explanations - old ones are thrown out as well, because that is how it is in science. Unfortunately, no matter how good and exiting his ideas were as a read, but as a science theory they simply did not pass test of time, however IMO he has earned his place as someone as an example to have wider horizons to look around.
by dgacmu | 2026-01-12 14:35:41+00:00
The title snippet here is potentially misleading. From the paper:

> Households with at least one GLP-1 user reduce grocery spending by 5.3% within six months of adoption,

The reduction is only within those households using GLP-1 drugs, NOT across the US as a whole. Same for the other claims in the paper.

(That still suggests that these drugs are responsible for a 0.8% drop in total grocery spending in the US, which is remarkable.)
by wtcactus | 2026-01-12 14:35:46+00:00
I experienced the same, and no it isn’t.

In Europe you don’t expect your bread to have added sugar, for instance. That tasted disgustingly.

You also don’t normally expect sweeteners in your meat. Those sauces are also disgusting. Good beef meat (and in the USA there’s very good meat), needs only salt and maybe a bit of pepper. Not those weird sugary sauces they put in the USA.

Seriously, for someone from Europe, some food in the USA is just disgusting (and it’s not due the quality of the ingredients, as those are usually very good) but due to the stuff they add on top.
by jamietex | 2026-01-12 14:35:50+00:00
Would you mind checking again? I haven't found any new comments that note the spliced video and old ones I have replied to as well got removed.
If someone knows a way to unremove comments, this is the link to one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDhbZ8-BZI&lc=UgzCu8FPM4CtR...
by nemomarx | 2026-01-12 14:36:04+00:00
I think durable habits there are just hard honestly. I was losing weight when I was very strict about calorie counting and lived with a roommate who was on the same diet, but when I moved out and stayed with family my habits and intuition about safe foods didn't last long and temptation got me again.

It does make me think we're applying bandaids over some other issue with the available foods - it's hard to imagine that everyone 50 years ago was just much better about dieting and counting calories?
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-12 14:36:15+00:00
I am 47, Czech, slightly overweight (183 cm / 87 kg at the beginning), but with a lot of this fat concentrating on my belly. I don't eat horrible processed food and I exercise quite a lot, but I still wasn't satisfied, so I decided to try Mounjaro on the lowest dose (2,5 mg).

I don't think that I told anyone in my friend circle, so if you were my friend, you would not know.

4 kg down in 2 months, effortlessly, plus many metabolic parameters improved. My blood results are now similar to what I had when I was half that age.

What is more interesting is the general feeling of being better. Something subtle shifted in my overall bodily feeling, in a positive direction. I am more optimistic, sleep better, I like to go to the gym more. They opened a brand new gym right next to where I live and I didn't omit a single day since January 2, because I enjoy it.
by soco | 2026-01-12 14:36:19+00:00
I can't imagine my working life without a touchscreen. Drag to scroll, touch to focus, pinch to zoom, just the usual stuff. I also use business style light laptops, so touch is always there and more usable/precise than the touchpad. People always get confused when they ask me for help on their machines and I reach to the screen for... nothing, usually.
by kili1 | 2026-01-12 14:36:26+00:00
I’ve been vibe coding a multimodal detection tool for AI media (image, video, and audio). It’s a rough prototype right now, but the core functionality is live.

Please give it a test run! I'm looking for constructive criticism on how to improve the detection thresholds and user experience.

http://isitaiornotnow.com/
by digitalsushi | 2026-01-12 14:36:42+00:00
i am positive there's a bug in tahoe where the login screen passsword text input is waiting for something to settle in the background, either with my weird unicomp keyboard, a remap i do, or even the external monitors.

my password is always incorrect unless i count to about 20 or 30 seconds. once i have 'redocked' for the day, unlocking it subsequently doesnt have the requirement. but every dock insertion, it comes back.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-12 14:37:02+00:00
I have been around for “the past few decades”. Then you saw the rapid growth of the internet, mobile and BigTech. Just from the law of large numbers, BigTech isn’t going to grow exponentially like it did post 2010.

It’s copium to think that with the combination of AI and oversupply of “good enough” developers, that it won’t be harder for developers to get jobs. We are seeing it now.

It wasn’t this bad after the dot com bust. Then if you were just an ordinary enterprise developer working “in the enterprise” in a 2nd tier city (raises hand), jobs were plentiful.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-01-12 14:37:35+00:00
> I am only aware of an order given to move along, which was questionably unlawful if issued in retaliation for Constitutionally-protected observation and protest.

She was ordered to exit her vehicle. She then accelerated into a law enforcement officer after her wife told her to “drive baby, drive”.

I suggest you find the unedited videos, that have not been cut or misleadingly had their audio replaced with reporter voice overs.

It’s cut and dry. Then I suggest you look into why you only received a curated and biased representation of the facts.
by yyaakkqq | 2026-01-12 14:38:05+00:00
The only thing worth saving from windows8-10 is the windows border. it is a huge usability win. Clear borders. square (so it's also fast). clear colors showing which window has focus. It's also funny this show up now a day after the top post was the osx windows border radius fiasco.

yet no linux WM has a decent windows8-10 window border clone.

KDE used to but since the rewrite of the theme from kde5+ they not only killed it, but also removed the option to have sane window border color to show focus. Now it's "accent color" which should be non contrast because they will force that same color on toolbars and such, just like all the bad ideas from office-ribbon era.
by tmerc | 2026-01-12 14:38:50+00:00
I thought 2010 was 9th Gen as well but by Wikipedia, it's not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Civic_(eighth_generation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Civic_(ninth_generation)
But the 9th Gen is roughly the same weight, though the hatch is significantly heavier so the best case does lose about 230lb if op was talking 9th Gen.

Early 2000s is 7th gen.

I own a 9th Gen si so the weight (about 2800lb for the sedan) is just a figure I remember.
by afandian | 2026-01-12 14:39:22+00:00
> is not a TS innovation, nor only available in TS

> since I avoid TS, I cannot use ES6 and ES7, and my vanilla JavaScript doesn't run in all browsers

Where was that claim made? I don't see it in any Typescript docs, or in the book.

You seem to be saying that the TS docs say that these features are unique. They obviously aren't, the documentation is clearly not saying they are, and no reasonable person would say they were.

Transpiling to another platform is a multiplying benefit when combined with other benefits though.

For example: Clojure and Kotlin both target the JVM. The language design of each brings certain benefits. These benefits are clearly more useful if they have a wide deployment base in the form of the JVM.
by user3939382 | 2026-01-12 14:40:11+00:00
I’ve been an Apple user since before there was such thing as Mac, OS X or macOS has been my daily driver for over 20 years. The SIP bullshit, buried dark pattern allow buttons to download programs. The totally out of control background processes and snooping and remote online checks for every program execution nanny state bullshit. I’m 100% done with iOS macOS all of it.

New Desktop is FreeBSD+MATE. Config is a pain initially but idc.
by jrsj | 2026-01-12 14:40:52+00:00
If you’ve only got a CLAUDE.md and sub agent definitions in markdown it is pretty easy to do at the moment, although more of their feature set is moving in a direction that doesn’t have 1:1 equivalents in other tools.

The client is closed source for a reason and they issued DMCA takedowns against people who published sourcemaps for a reason.
by KaugaKauga | 2026-01-12 14:40:57+00:00
For the last months we have been working on a new Talent Intelligence / ATS tool.

The goal is to build an instant, feature rich but simple system.

We’re taking a local-first approach with electric as a sync engine. All interactions against our own apis are instant with optimistic updates. Making the app feel more like a native app rather than the typical web app.

Taking this approach has lead to some interesting challenges, both in technical and product areas. Some features requires third party roundtrips (summaries, labelling, embedding etc..) which breaks the "instant" system. We’re experimenting with ways to design those flows so the system still feels fast. Currently we only have one "loading" request in the entire system.

Having all data available on the client has also lead to some neat benefits. No need to compose or build your typical GET endpoints in the API. You just query the client DB directly!

If you have experience with any of: go, ts, react, local-first or early stage companies and want to be a part of the team building this, feel free to reach out (info in bio)
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-12 14:41:36+00:00
>I don't believe europeans are unable to turn around this situation in as many years as a matter of fact, it's my core beliefs

I DO believe we are unable to turn it around. I've done EE work both in Europe and in China, and what sets China apart from Europe that enabled them to overtake us is the mindset, both at government support level AND at individual level. Until those change, we have no chance.

>the industry is hostile to newcomers, self-taught people, women, and more.

Pretty much this, minus the hostility towards women part. There's no gender hostility or discrimination, just that young girls looking for a career, aren't really into sitting hunched down over a table and soldering and probing PCB's in a lab somewhere in a techo-park in the outskirts of town, when stuff like HR or web design in the city center, is way more hip and appealing to young urbanites. You can't force people to be attracted to a specific industry or line of work. Similarly how there's not much women in construction, welding, oil industry, fire fighters, etc and it's also not due to hostility.

> They are unemployed because no one would respect them, and give them a meaningful mission like we would

I hope you realize, you're not really selling the European electronics industry optimism here with this example.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-12 14:41:56+00:00
It doesn’t change the argument. Most people who have BMI in the overweight range do not have healthy weights.

I say this as someone who did enough weightlifting to be in the overweight BMI range with a low percent of body fat (no steroids involved). Trust me when I say it’s a lot of work to get there. It’s not a category that includes a lot of people or invalidates the measure.