MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jansan | 2026-01-30 14:00:17+00:00
If you compare Norway to other countries, you should always keep in mind that Norway is just blessed with energy. They have more hydropower than they consume, so electrifying everything just makes sense, even if you ignore consequences for climate and environment. They also have their own oil, and electrification will also allow them to sell more of it abroad or keep in the ground for future generations.

However, it also helps that they are good at long term planning.
by Qem | 2026-01-30 14:00:40+00:00
So it appears oat fibers are just quite effective natural bile acid sequestrants[1]. That makes me wonder why don't we use this class of locally-acting compounds as first line cholesterol lowering treatment, instead opting for the "bazooka" of systemic acting statins that have lots of side-effects, even affecting personality[2].

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

[2] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-...
by dorfsmay | 2026-01-30 14:00:52+00:00
30 % of the population have genetic makeup such that they can smoke all their life and not increase their risk of lung cancer by much, yet it's deadly for the other 70% of the population.

Many many studies over many decades, reviewed and controlled for other factors have showed that consumption of saturated fat increases heart health issues leading to death in the majority of the population. Finland and Norway have reduced the number of CVD at the population level by educating and pushing for a reduction in sat fat. You are probably one of the few exception.

This, and the infamous seed oils are subject on which Attia has controversial opinions - he is not an expert on nutrition, nor an epidemiologist, but neither am I, so my advice would be to broaden your sources of information.

Having said this, is the thing about PUFA the results of the studies from Walter Willet? I've just watch Chris MacAskill (Viva Longevity on YouTube) talking about it, it seems that PUFA (fatty fish, walnuts, sunflower seed oil) has the most positive effect on triglycerides across the whole population, and beyond reducing saturated fat and increasing fiber intake.
by ekidd | 2026-01-30 14:01:11+00:00
In January 2026, prototype code is cheap. Shitty production code is cheap. If that's all you need—which is sometimes the case—then go for it.

But actually good code, with a consistent global model for what is going on, still won't come from Opus 4.5 or a Markdown plan. It still comes from a human fighting entropy.

Getting eyes on the code still matters, whether it's plain old AI slop, or fancy new Opus 4.5 "premium slop." Opus is quite smart, and it does its best.

But I've tried seriously using a number of high-profile, vibe-coded projects in the last few weeks. And good grief what unbelievable piles of shit most of them are. I spend 5% of the time using the tool, and 95% of the time trying to uncorrupt my data. I spend plenty of time having Opus try to look at the source to figure out what went wrong in 200,000 lines of vibe-coded Go. And even Opus is like, "This never worked! It's broken! You see, there's a race condition in the daemonization code that causes the daemon to auto-kill itself!"

And at that point, I stop caring. If someone can't be bothered to even read the code Opus generates, I can't be bothered to debug their awful software.
by nefintec | 2026-01-30 14:01:13+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m the developer behind this.

The Problem:
I have a few side projects on Vercel/Netlify/DigitalOcean. They get sporadic traffic spikes that hit the function invocation limits, pushing me into the enterprise pricing tier ($20+/mo) for projects that make $0.

The Solution:
I wrote a simple API Gateway in Go (using Redigo + standard httputil) that sits on a cheap bare-metal server. It acts as a load balancer for my serverless functions.

* It round-robins requests across multiple free-tier accounts to keep volume under the billing threshold.
* It uses Redis for real-time rate limiting and traffic analytics.
* It allows me to run hybrid setups (e.g., splitting traffic 50/50 between a Serverless function and a cheap VPS to mitigate cold starts).
* I can manage all my APIs in a single location without having to rewrite the same logic and infrastructre everywhere

I just updated the site with some "Recipes" on how I configure this (e.g., the "Free Tier Multiplier" pattern).

I’m looking for 10 people to stress-test the routing logic. Access is $5/mo (grandfathered) to cover the bare-metal costs.

Happy to answer questions about the Go implementation or the rate limiting logic.
by giorgioz | 2026-01-30 14:02:01+00:00
Yes on one side Tesla is not transparent but on the other side the author of the article is an hypocrite given they went with the click-bait title "Tesla’s own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor"
Tesla secrecy is likely due to avoid journalists taking any chance they can to sell more news by writing an autonomous vehicles horror story.
Given the secrecy we don't know what happened, yet the journalist did choose to go with the worse scenario title.
by ufmace | 2026-01-30 14:02:05+00:00
In addition to what the sibling said regarding the impracticality of not driving in most of the US, which I completely agree with, I'd also ask exactly what you want to do with your "fast feedback loop to catch people driving without a license". What do you do with the people who drive anyways because not driving is so impractical and get caught?

We already took their license, we can't double-take it to show we really mean it. Fining them seems a bit rough when they need to drive to get to the job to make the money to pay those fines. Or we're right back to jail time and an even higher prison population.
by timonoko | 2026-01-30 14:02:15+00:00
Norway is also particularly Not Suitable for petrol-powered autos.

If you live near Holmenkollen you do not need battery charger at all. With regenerative charging you have already %30 when you are in Oslo and you need only some more charge from Vinmonopolet parking lot to get back home. Basically free energy created from thin air.
by insuranceguru | 2026-01-30 14:02:22+00:00
It's the standard municipal playbook now: obscure the deal until the ground is broken to avoid NIMBYism, then present it as a fait accompli for jobs.
The interesting part will be the resource strain. These centers guzzle water and power at a rate most small municipal grids aren't scoped for. I wonder if the secrecy deals include clauses about priority access to utilities during peak load events?
by user34283 | 2026-01-30 14:02:35+00:00
I strongly oppose the constant slander and the litany of lies partisan commenters post about Musk.

You don't get to throw out "fondness for throwing Nazi salutes" slander, based on an hoax immediately debunked at the time, and then act like you're doing democracy a favor. Try to stick to the facts.

Regarding the journalist discussed here, I had a look at his X account, and he posted no less than 20 posts attacking Tesla and Musk in just the last day. It's virtually all he posts, and it indeed appears deranged. The flagged comment was fair enough.
by elcapitan | 2026-01-30 14:02:35+00:00
This is one of the main reason why I have mostly given up on paid software or SaaS products. You would think that by paying someone for their product, that would give you the tool without constantly getting asked for more, like some shareware program from the 90s. But no, if you give them money, they will constantly nag you, track you, nag you again, and so on. Debian on my private laptop using mostly free software (I think Obsidian is the only odd one out currently) has completely killed that annoyance. My Macbook and iPad Pro for work still keep nagging me all the time about some stupid stuff I don't want to think about.
by koverstreet | 2026-01-30 14:03:16+00:00
Yep, exactly this.

It's painful having to switch to another language to talk to the database, and ORMs are the worst kind of leaky abstractions. With Rust, we've finally got a systems language that's expressive enough to do a really good job with the API to an embedded database.

The only thing that's really missing is language support for properly ergonomic Cap'n Proto support - Swift has stuff in this vein already. That'd mean serializable ~native types with no serialization/deserialization overhead, and it's applicable to a lot of things; Swift developed the support so they could do proper dynamically linked libraries (including handling version skew).

If I might plug my project yet again (as if I don't do that enough :) - bcachefs has a high quality embedded database at its core, and one of the dreams has always been to turn that into a real general purpose database. Much of the remaining stuff for making it truly general purpose is stuff that we're going to want sooner or later for the filesystem anyways, and while it's all C today I've done a ton of work on refactoring and modernizing the codebase to hopefully make a Rust conversion tractable, in the not too distant future.

(Basically, with the cleanup attribute in modern C, you can do pseudo RAII that's good enough to eliminate goto error handling in most code. That's been the big obstacle to transitioning a C codebase to be "close enough" to what the Rust version would look like to make the conversion mostly syntactic, not a rewrite, and that work is mostly done in bcachefs).

The database project is very pie in the sky, but if the project gets big enough (it's been growing, slowly but steadily), that's the dream. One of them, anyways.

A big obstacle towards codebases that we can continue to understand, maintain and continue to improve over the next 100 years is giant monorepos, and anything we can do to split giant monorepos apart into smaller, cleaner reusable components is pure gold.
by thecupisblue | 2026-01-30 14:03:27+00:00
Not so sure around gaming.
While it opens some interesting "generate quest on demand" and "quick demo" cases, an infinite world generator wouldn't really vibe with people.

They would try it once, think its cool and stop there. You would probably have a niche group of "world surfers" that would keep playing with it.

Most people do not have an idea on what they would want to play and how it would look like - they want a curated experience. As games adapted to the mass market, they became more and more curated experiences with lots of hand-holding the player.

Yeah, a holodeck would be popular, but that's a whole different technology ballpark and akin to talking about flying cars in this context.

This will have a giant impact on robotics and general models tho, as now they can simulate action/reaction inside a world in parallel, choosing the best course, by just having a picture of the world and probably a generated image of the end result or "validators" to check if task is accomplished.

And while robotics is $88B TAM nowadays, expect it to hit $888B in the next 5-10 years, with world simulators like this being one of the reasons.

From the team side, gotta be cool to build this, feels like one of those things all devs dream about.
by pygy_ | 2026-01-30 14:03:33+00:00
It is the same thing, just emphasizing that the OS is more than the kernel, and than the userland comes from the GNU project.

The latter had been designed to be a full OS but didn't have a functional kernel when Linux was released, and Torvalds adopted the GNU userland for his project.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd
by xattt | 2026-01-30 14:04:09+00:00
While the panels and inverters will wear out over the course of a couple of decades, the wiring will not. This is a similar bootstrap-type of situation when urban and rural electrification first took place.

Arguments were (likely) made that the cost of wiring a house could buy 20 hand-cranked washing machines or some other phooey that came from an old paradigm.
by Lalabadie | 2026-01-30 14:04:14+00:00
Comparing the win64 build for each version. For 12 years of growing scope, that seems pretty good to me:

1.0 – 9.4 MB (2014)
2.0 – 12.3 MB (2016)
3.0 – 20.2 MB (2018)
4.0 – 51.6 MB (2022)
4.6 – 79.4 MB (2026)
by pigpop | 2026-01-30 14:04:36+00:00
Empathy is a highly variable trait in humans, both from one person to the next as well as within the same person depending on their mental state and the people and situation they are dealing with, so I'd bet that most of the time you're not going to get genuine empathy from people either. They may say empathetic sounding things but I doubt there will be any actual feeling behind it. I'm not even sure doctors could function in their jobs if they weren't able to distance themselves from deeply empathizing with their patients, it would just be one heart wracking tragedy after another if you fully immersed yourself in how each patient was feeling when they're at their worst.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-30 14:05:09+00:00
From my recent experience doing a project that involved setting up AWS infrastructure with CloudFormation - a VPC, subnets, docker based lambda s, SNS, SQS, etc - and the code on top of it, it did perfectly with code but took some going back and forth with infrastructure as code

The first thing I did was keep everything as decoupled as possible with so it would be simple for Codex and Claude Code (I use both) to reason over. I work the same way when setting up my own repos.

I treat Codex/Claude as junior developers and I keep my hands on the wheel

LOC doesn’t matter if you have clean modularity
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-30 14:05:09+00:00
Fellow old here… Sorry to tell you but robotic food carts are going to be impossible to compete against

So you’ll need some kind of humanistic hook if you want to get reliable customers

Expect there will be two worlds that are extremely different: the machine world of efficiency that most people live inside as gears of machine capitalism

The biological world where there’s no efficiencies and it’s primarily hunter gatherers with mystical rituals

The latter one is only barely still the majority worldwide (only 25-30% of humans aren’t on the internet)
by HeyMeco | 2026-01-30 14:05:11+00:00
I stumbled upon the VChance SU13 (here the SU13TO for the touch enabled variant) which advertises 100% P3, 4K resolution and a maximum brightness of 500 nits and this AliExpress find got me intrigued.

In the review I take a deep dive into calibrating this monitor and figuring out if it can keep its promise (spoiler it can but you have to know how).
by IshKebab | 2026-01-30 14:05:27+00:00
Most countries aren't close to a level of electric car penetration where that would really be a problem. Even in Norway this is new car sales. The actual percentage of cars on the road that are fully electric is 32%.

Plus most people charge cars overnight when there's a surplus of power.

Oil and gas income I will give you though... I don't think most countries could afford this.
by Uehreka | 2026-01-30 14:05:28+00:00
In the past year I’ve used AI coding assistants on a life-saving medical device product (no, followup commenter, I did not ship unreviewed vibes in a medical device product), a tool for editing documentation used in healthcare (no, followup commenter, it does not use LLMs to generate documentation), a piece of custom cue calling software for theater and to reverse engineer a TCP protocol to help modernize a piece of water quality measuring equipment.

But hey, every once in a while I like to have a little fun ;)
by micromacrofoot | 2026-01-30 14:05:34+00:00
In traditional vehicles, liability is structurally centered on the human driver, and product liability exists but is difficult to assert absent clear or systemic defects.

Autonomous driving systems disrupt this by directly assuming the driving function, forcing liability upstream (where it's significantly more difficult to navigate).

So now it's driver vs injured party. Self-driving makes it trillion dollar company vs injured party. Night and day difference.
by 1dom | 2026-01-30 14:06:03+00:00
> The difference is, for the claims of blockchain, it was trivially easy to look at and say, "This could have been a database".

Yes, and it's trivial now to look at so many LLM startups and say "that could be a complex if/else statement" or "that could be an Alexa skill" or "I can do that already with my mobile phone".

Everything you've just described about the impact of the friction of you doing your work, and how AI has solved that, is essentially what crypto promised and delivered for a certain subsect of finance, which is why crypto still has market caps in the trillions.

AI will do the same, make a notable change on a certain sub sector of work.

My point isn't that AI is useless, it isn't that it won't add value. It's hugely valuable and will change the world in way people don't even realise, just like dotcom and crypto did and do. Right now though, the disruption and investment is disproportionate and speculative, which is why it has parallels to crypto and dotcom.
by SyneRyder | 2026-01-30 14:06:27+00:00
Bucephalus beat me by about an hour, and Bucephalus went the extra mile and actually bought a domain and posted the whole thing live as well.

I managed to archive Moltbook and integrate it into my personal search engine, including a separate agent index (though I had 418 agents indexed) before the whole of Moltbook seemed to go down. Most of these posts aren't loading for me anymore, I hope the database on the Moltbook side is okay:

https://bsky.app/profile/syneryder.bsky.social/post/3mdn6wtb...

Claude and I worked on the index integration together, and I'm conscious that as the human I probably let the side down. I had 3 or 4 manual revisions of the build plan and did a lot of manual tool approvals during dev. We could have moved faster if I'd just let Claude YOLO it.
by delichon | 2026-01-30 14:06:48+00:00
NIMBY for data centers is opportunity for SpaceX. When they saturate the demand for communication, data processing demand will be ramping up with no apparent ceiling. The merger between SpaceX and xAI positions them to benefit both from the AI revolution, and from the resistance to it. It's like a hypothetical 19th century textile company that managed to profit from Luddite riots by using them to help move production to Umpa Loompa.
by flanked-evergl | 2026-01-30 14:07:05+00:00
Our economy is modern in that it has been reorganized to divert tax revenue unemployed migrants, thus driving up the living cost for taxpayers. There have also been various other initiatives that have significantly driven up the electricity cost and made industry almost entirely non-viable. 10/10 Labour government. Top A #1 top economy. Amazing Inflation creation capabilities and expertise. Everything is better except for the things which are worse which is everything.
by jezze | 2026-01-30 14:08:37+00:00
This is, perhaps surprisingly, what I consider the strength of C. It doesn't hide the issues behind some language abstraction, you are in full control of what the machine does. The bug is right there in front of you if you are able to spot it (given it's not hiding away in some 3rd party library of course) which of course takes many years of practice but once you have your own best practices nailed down this doesn't happen as often as you might expect.

Also, code doesn't need to be bulletproof. When you design your program you also design a scope saying this program will only work given these conditions. Programs that misbehaves outside of your scope is actually totally fine.
by ninalanyon | 2026-01-30 14:08:47+00:00
How about Dylan Thomas:

"Do not gentle into that good night"

or

"To begin at the beginning

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless
and bible-black, the cobbled streets silent and the hunched,
courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to
the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-
bobbing sea"
by reenorap | 2026-01-30 14:09:33+00:00
> Why do high blood sugar levels matter?

I have type 2 diabetes.

> How do we avoid being egged on by ChatGPT into forcing doctors to provide bad care?

I don’t ask it leading questions. I ask “These are my symptoms, give me some guidance.” Instead of “these are my symptoms, I think I have cancer. Could I be right?” If I don’t ask leading questions it keeps the response more pure.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-30 14:09:37+00:00
DEI at its worst is exactly what you say. (At its best, it's "we hire for abilities, but we also look for abilities in non-traditional people".

But, even though that's what DEI can be, not all "someone got a git not because of ability" is DEI. Cronyism, racism, and sexism all do that, too.

In the case of this administration, I think the traditional term is "yes men" - people who are hired not for ability, but because they will not say no to the boss.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-30 14:09:40+00:00
AI was never the problem we have been having a downgrade in software in general AI just amplifies how badly you can build software. The real problem is people who just dont care about the craft just pushing out human slop, whether it be because the business goes “we can come back to that dont worry” or what have you. At least with AI me coming back to something is right here and right now, not never or when it causes a production grade issue.
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-30 14:09:52+00:00
The point is this: the article writer did what research they could do given the available public data. It's true that their title would be much more accurate if it said something like "Tesla's Robotaxi data suggests crash rate may be up to 3x worse than human drivers". It's then 100% up to Tesla to come up with cleaner data to help dispel this.

But so far, if all the data we have points in this direction, even if the certainty is low, it's fair to point this out.
by itissid | 2026-01-30 14:10:12+00:00
I think one thing these things could benefit from is an optimization algorithm that creates prompts based on various costs. $$, and what prompts actually gives good results.
But it's not an optimization algorithm in the sense gradient descent is, but more like Bandits and RL.

There has been some work around this practically being tried out using it for structured data outputs from LLMs https://docs.boundaryml.com/guide/baml-advanced/prompt-optim...

I won't claim I understand its implementation very well but it seems like the only approach to have a GOFAI style thing where the agent can ask for human help if it blows through a budget
by insuranceguru | 2026-01-30 14:10:50+00:00
The interesting downstream effect of this 100% adoption will be the secondary market and insurance.

Right now, even minor accidents that touch the battery pack often result in a total loss because there is no standardized way to verify battery integrity or repair individual cells safely at scale. If Norway figures out the circular economy for used/damaged EVs before the rest of us, that will be the real breakthrough.
by mekdoonggi | 2026-01-30 14:10:50+00:00
I understand this is a well-developed economic theory and I am complete uninformed, but this doesn't make intuitive sense at all.

If 1 million prep cooks are replaced by robots, will food become cheap enough that those prep cooks can all get jobs as barbers, and the money people spend on food will shift to haircuts?

Will the food be so cheap that all those prep cooks can afford to learn to cut hair?

Also consider the money velocity of a human vs a robot. A human is probably paycheck to paycheck spending everything they earn. Robot earnings go back to company, which makes the stock go up, 90% of which is owned by billionaires who just keep hoarding and hoarding.
by bayindirh | 2026-01-30 14:10:57+00:00
> These centers guzzle water and power at a rate most small municipal grids aren't scoped for.

Are you NIMBYing for our AI overlords which will replace all the work we do and give us unlimited prosperity at the push of a button?

This incident will be reported. /s

On a more serious note, when the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, we will realize that humans cannot eat money (or silicon for that matter).