MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by onukura | 2026-01-07 22:31:20+00:00
Thank you for this thoughtful critique—you're absolutely right about metadata manipulation risks.

To be clear: OSS Sustain Guard is not a security tool. I have deep respect for OpenSSF Scorecard, SLSA, and supply chain security work. That's the critical path forward.

We're solving a different problem: maintainer well-being and sustainability. Not "Is this code secure?" but "Are the humans behind it okay?" I want to surface which projects might need community support.

You're right about the limitations:

- Metadata can be gamed

- Private work is invisible

- These are proxies, not truth

Where we're complementary:

- SLSA/Scorecard: "Is this artifact secure?"

- OSS Sustain Guard: "Does the maintainer need support?"

A solo maintainer with perfect security practices can still burn out without funding. That's the conversation I want to start--not to criticize, but to encourage support.

I'd genuinely value your input: Given your expertise in supply chain security, what would you want to see from a sustainability-focused tool that would make it more useful alongside provenance technologies? Are there signals that would be harder to manipulate?

Thank you for taking the time to engage with this project. These conversations help me stay grounded and improve.
by firesteelrain | 2026-01-07 22:31:24+00:00
I can only provide anecdotal information. In my HOA community we had to make a rule that you need to live in your home for two years before you can rent it. This effectively stopped the companies like Innovation Homes from buying up properties in our neighborhood. Post housing crisis-2015 it was getting pretty bad with the investors purchasing the single family homes. I don’t know if places like Innovation Homes qualifies as “Wall Street” or not.
by RodgerTheGreat | 2026-01-07 22:32:02+00:00
To be more precise: America could easily afford healthcare, but American elites regularly accept pathetically tiny bribes to pretend that universal healthcare is impossible. They also accept pathetically tiny bribes to allow companies like OpenAI to do whatever they please without meaningful legal consequence, so OpenAI is able to keep getting away with shipping products that cannot work as advertised and will kill people.
by Yizahi | 2026-01-07 22:32:12+00:00
Thankfully Firefox helped me with tab hoarding dependency, by silently losing saves session without any visible crash or issue, just on the normal open. Now I have to treat tabs as if they won't be saved ever again and don't leave anything important open. Thanks Mozilla, great use of your time and money, spending them on useless LLM integration and lining CEOs pockets instead of fixing damn basic functionality.
by klik99 | 2026-01-07 22:32:13+00:00
Is there any effort to make real food more affordable for most Americans?

Is there any proof that "much of chronic disease is linked to diet and lifestyle"?

Is our bar so low that we give RFK credit for saying "eat real food" which everyone knows, while cutting vaccination recommendations, defunding public health and making our health care worse? The implication that chronic illness is a "lifestyle" problem is victim blaming, sure you can point to a lot of individual cases where this is the case, but the main issue is access to good, affordable food. I'm convinced the one thing that ties the varied MAGA coalition together is a belief that the problems of modern America are moral failings of the masses. Many of the coalition truly believe it, and the people rigging the system are more than happy to fund them to distract from their looting, just as the sugar industry funded blaming fat for obesity.

I don't like to be this righteous on HN, but RFK wagging his finger about how "diet and lifestyle" causes most chronic disease, which is where 90% healthcare costs go to, just upsets me. If you truly believe that, then who cares if people suffer from chronic disease. Go ahead and gut public health and the CDC, most people with chronic diseases brought it upon themselves! Doctor says "Eat Real Food".

The only hope I have is that he's committed enough to battle lobbyists and introduce more food regulations, like he did with food dye. That's the tough work, against entrenched power structures and real risk. Until then, it's all just talk.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-07 22:32:51+00:00
> There is plenty of pseudoscience, snake oil and magical thinking in the west

This is it exaclty. These folks always forget that it's not the only idea we've heard today. It's basic cost/benefit. This takes 45 minutes to an hour to try out. If it works you "feel better" where "better" is hard to define. Cost = 45 minutes. Benefit = Meh.

Since there are about 1 billion things in the world that claim to make me "feel better" at a cost of 45 minutes each I have to really narrow my focus. I can't spend 45 billion minutes for "Meh."

In my case this made enough sense that I tried it when I was young and liked it. A lot of folks spent those 45 minutes on something else that seemed more likely to succeed. It's perfectly rational.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-01-07 22:32:59+00:00
>The hardest to catch are the slight of hand employees that can take money from the safe while it looking like they put all the money in. This is even with cameras watching the safe.

I've read about this in Vegas, where there are people who can palm the the chips so quickly that they weren't able to discern it on 30fps cameras (they had upgraded to 120fps, I think). Didn't know if it was the sort of bullshit people like that like to tell stories about without any evidence or not.
by inopinatus | 2026-01-07 22:33:32+00:00
Microsoft Excel is the #1 tool at the top of that rather narrowly envisioned slippery slope, since you ask. Followed by any web browser.

As for data access; the vast majority of firms, worldwide, in every country, have abysmal internal controls, and in many cases, none at all. The filing cabinet is unlocked all day, everything from payroll to posters is in a share that every network login can R/W, and nobody cares.
by AmanPorwal | 2026-01-07 22:33:34+00:00
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by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-07 22:33:41+00:00
> which is mostly because it's really expensive to build houses,

Assuming you're referring to the typical high CoL areas, the shortage has very little to do with the expense of building. The zoning laws don't permit sufficient supply in those areas. And that's quite unlikely to change (at least quickly) because anyone pushing such reform would be obliterating the average Joe's net worth.
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-07 22:34:11+00:00
I do a lot of human evaluations. Lots of Bayesian / statistical models that can infer rater quality without ground truth labels. The other thing about preference data you have to worry about (which this article gets at) is: preferences of _who_? Human raters are a significantly biased population of people, different ages, genders, religions, cultures, etc all inform preferences. Lots of work being done to leverage and model this.

Then for LMArena there is the host of other biases / construct validity: people are easily fooled, even PhD experts; in many cases it’s easier for a model to learn how to persuade than actually learn the right answers.

But a lot of dismissive comments as if frontier labs don’t know this, they have some of the best talent in the world. They aren’t perfect but they in a large sene know what they’re doing and what the tradeoffs of various approaches are.

Human annotations are an absolute nightmare for quality which is why coding agents are so nice: they’re verifiable and so you can train them in a way closer to e.g. alphago without the ceiling of human performance
by grishka | 2026-01-07 22:34:53+00:00
It's for much longer distances.

There are flights between St Petersburg and Moscow. About 10 daily. It's about 1 hour. Together with everything you described, it's more like 4 hours. A high-speed train is also 4 hours. So the only people who choose to fly are those who have a connection or those who couldn't get a train ticket because those are always in high demand.
by Someone1234 | 2026-01-07 22:35:00+00:00
The problem with "increase supply" is that existing property owners rarely want that.

In almost all cities land has run out, so the only way to actually increase supply is to increase density. That means fewer single-family-homes, and more townhomes, multi-family, condos, and apartments.

The "American Dream" is a single-family-home, surrounded by other single-family homes, but even with urban sprawl we simply run into the limits of a commute and prices skyrocket.

Ironically we actually solved this problem: Indefinite Telecommuting. But then decided to take our solution that reduces property prices, reduces air pollution, and improves quality of life and then just threw it away because commercial property owners were losing money.
by fn-mote | 2026-01-07 22:35:01+00:00
> If I were to try and buy the condo I rent, due to interest rates, taxes, and HOA's I would be paying $1000 more per mo

... and you would be building equity.

So you pay less and get less, right?

You're thinking this is a sign that you are being cheated. It seems to me that it's a sign you're getting a better deal by renting so that's beneficial to you.

You lumped a bunch of factors together (interest rates, HOA, taxes) that don't do much for your argument. You would pay less taxes than the landlord in most jurisdictions, because the unit would be owner-occupied. Do you think the landlord isn't paying HOA assessments? Sure they are. The landlord has a loan at 3% because they bought in 2021. You're offered 6.5% because you're buying in 2026. I'm not convinced it's worth my pity.
by kibitzor | 2026-01-07 22:35:22+00:00
Agreed, this protein target is high for likely many people.

Results from this meta-analysis [1] says

> protein intakes at amounts greater than ~1.6 g/kg/day do not further contribute RET [resistance exercise training]-induced gains in FFM [fat-free mass].

Said more plainly: if you're working out to gain muscle, anything more than 1.6g/kg/day won't help your muscle gains.

For those curious about why, see Figure 5. Americans also get too much protein already, ~20% more than recommended [2]. There are negative effects from too much protein (~>2g/kg/day) like kidney stones, heart disease, colon cancer [3]. Going back to the 1.2-1.6 g/kg/day range, this can be a good range if you're already working out, so get out there and walk/run/weight lift/swim/bike!

[1]: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/52/6/376.full.pdf

[2]: https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/protein-is-important-but-were-...

[3]: https://www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/when-it-comes-to-pr...
by justinai6 | 2026-01-07 22:35:24+00:00
Protein is way underated for overall health
that 1.2-1.6g per kg of body weight (0.54-0.73g per pound) seems about right
but its mostly directly related to lean mass. Most people don't realize how much they actually need.

There's a lot of misinformation and stereotypes surrounding protein consumption—often portrayed as something only for bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts.

But for people aging, people looking for strength, folks looking for reducing fat and feeling more full. Protein is extremely helpful
by Tadpole9181 | 2026-01-07 22:35:42+00:00
Yeah, fucking die for your misdemeanor against non-law enforcement ICE agents, peasant trash!

We, who are not law enforcement officers and cannot detain citizens, surrounded your vehicle and gave you conflicting orders and one of us got in front of your car against department policy and drew his lethal firearm for a traffic infraction they cannot legally enforce, while you were distracted by the other attempting to rip you from your car, then blew your fucking brains out point blank after he was already out of danger.

You should have known better and reacted to this totally normal situation with perfect clarity, like all citizens are clearly trained for years to do.

Us, the masked and untrained and extrajudicial Gestapo who don't identify themselves while disappearing members of your community have no obligations to deescalation or proportional response, total immunity to all crimes, and can make you do anything we want while we whisk you to whatever prison we want while denying any official papers we want, and you aren't allowed to fear us!

Oh, and sorry we actually made you commit that traffic infraction by driving recklessly around you. We own the fucking roads and you should know that, dumb piece of shit civilian.
by legerdemain | 2026-01-07 22:36:02+00:00
The author shows a tendency to give colorful, but opaque names like "gutterballing" to things that can themselves be explained in a short phrase ("working on something that is similar to, but not exactly what you actually want, and getting predictably frustrated").

Where does this tendency come from? My first guess is self-help literature. Or maybe this is a personality trait to write this way? Or a kind of marketing, becasue only your writing has these colorful fun terms?
by brongondwana | 2026-01-07 22:36:05+00:00
Did you use the 'litmus' test suite? I found it very useful when building Fastmail's (perl) WebDAV file server implementation.

There were also a bunch of fun things with quirks around unicode filename handling which made me sad (that was just a matter of testing against a ton of clients).

As for CalDAV and CardDAV - as others have said, JMAP Calendars/Contacts will make building clients a lot easier eventually... but yeah. My implementation of syncing as a client now is to look for sync-collection and fall back to collecting etags to know which URLs to fetch. Either way, sync-collection ALSO gives a set of URLs and then I multi-get those in batches; meaning both the primary and fallback codepath revert to the multi-get (or even individual GETs).
by al_borland | 2026-01-07 22:36:20+00:00
> Vegetarians and vegans have lower T2D incidence on average FWIW.

Anecdotally, my dad tried vegetarianism for quite a while to address his T2D, but it had no effect. My mom cut out sugar and processed carbohydrates and her T2D was gone in ~3 months or so.

Following any diet is probably better than nothing at all, which could explain the lower incidence of T2D in that group vs the general public. I’d be more curious about the rates in vegetarians/vegans vs people who eat paleo or even carnivore.
by tshaddox | 2026-01-07 22:36:27+00:00
Adam presented his case for the lifetime pricing model in this podcast episode in 2023:

https://hackersincorporated.com/episodes/lifetime-pricing-is...

I believe he succeeding in convincing Sam and Ryan to adopt lifetime pricing for their UI course at https://buildui.com/pricing. I've purchased Build UI, and it was an excellent product, but unfortunately it appears to be completely dead for at least a full year now.

Neither the unannounced death of Build UI nor this apparently financial catastrophe for Tailwind bode well for the prospects of lifetime pricing! Although the problem might be more related to the entire market segment (frontend programming and design courses) than to the particular pricing model.
by tencentshill | 2026-01-07 22:36:34+00:00
They're also buying risk. It's just during the last 10 years buying a home has happened to be a fantastic investment, an easy way for an individual with the ability to get a 200k loan to turn that into 400k+ with 0 effort, especially during COVID. The market could crash and purchasing would become a risk for everyone but the wealthiest once again.
Show HN: AI Swarm v3 – Self-host your own headless AI agents
by plurb-unus | 2026-01-07 22:37:03+00:00
Website: https://ai-swarm.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/ai-swarm-dev/ai-swarm

Hey everyone, I just released v3 of AI Swarm.

It is basically a way to host your own Claude Code or Gemini agents on your own infrastructure. I built it because I wanted to be able to build and deploy features for my apps from my phone or IDE, without having to watch it create the code and being unable to use it while it's deploying and fixing bugs for 30 minutes. I took inspiration from Kilo Code's Cloud Agents and decided to build it myself. It runs in Docker and uses Temporal for workflow orchestration.

Main Features:
- Self-Hosted: Deploy to your own Linux box running your apps or dev environment. It can deploy to remote servers via SSH.
- Claude Code and Gemini CLI: Built-in support for both, including Z.ai API keys for Claude. Looking for feedback on other tools and subscriptions.
- Pro/Max Support: You can use your Claude Pro/Max or Gemini AI subscription with it (just have to sign in manually to each worker after deployment).
- IDE or Web Chat: Pass tasks from your IDE or chat directly in the portal to have agents code, test, and deploy.
- Sovereign Auth: Uses Passkeys and CLI magic links instead of external providers.
- Safety and Verification: Separate dev container for build tests before deployment, and a Playwright sidecar for screenshot verification after deployment, with support for web apps gated behind authentication (Basic Auth support).
- Multi-Project Workspace Support: Just select which project you want to chat about on the portal from the dropdown menu.

It supports Caddy, Nginx, and Traefik for setup, and has a local-only mode for web access.

I am really looking for some feedback from the community. If you are interested in self-hosting your AI development workflows, please check it out and let me know what you think.

Thanks.
-plurb-unus
by elicash | 2026-01-07 22:37:12+00:00
This is basically the same as the previous version, the "food plate" that Michelle Obama rolled out in 2011:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/business/03plate.html

It's amusing how outraged people were when Michelle Obama did her Let's Move campaign focused on eating healthy and exercise and now people are pretending it's all new.

(There was also a version before that, in 2005. The "MyPyramid." That one emphasized exercise by having a person walking up a revised version of the pyramid. Though it had a whole giant category for "milk," admittedly as a knock against it. I'll grant today's did a good job in de-emphasizing dairy compared to 2005 and 2011.)
by margalabargala | 2026-01-07 22:37:18+00:00
Obviously.

The things the POTUS says, are intended to further the US Government's goals. The actual statements made may be true or false.

If POTUS says "We did X because Y", that's no guarantee that Y is the reason that X was done, or even that X was done at all. That just means that POTUS would like people to think that Y was the reason X was done.

That Trump is also a serial liar is not actually relevant here, this is true for every President. They make statements in service of their agenda, not in service of the truth.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-01-07 22:37:37+00:00
I just set this up for the project I'm working on last week, and felt dirty because it took me a couple of months to get to it. There are like 5 or 6 users.

There's something so unnerving about the people pushing the AI frontier being sloppy about testing. I know, it's just a CLI wrapped around the AI itself, but it suggests to me that the culture around testing there isn't as tight and thorough as I'd like it to be.
by dust42 | 2026-01-07 22:38:03+00:00
This is just marketing nonsense. You don't have to train models to not retain personal information. They simply have no memory. In order to have a chat with an LLM, every time the whole conversation history gets reprocessed - it is not just the last answer / question gets send to the LLM but all preceding back and forth.

But what they do is exfiltrate facts and emotions from your chats to create a profile of you and feed it back into future conversations to make it more engaging and give it a personal feeling. This is intentionally programmed.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-07 22:38:09+00:00
> the internal monologue [...] This is what it thought

IMO this embeds a flawed assumption.

My go-to framing: LLMs are being used to auto-complete a document, and we humans are trying to get stuff done by setting up documents that mostly resemble theatrical stories, parsed by other programs to trigger effects.

So these "reasoning" models are really a shift in document style, to film noir where the character we humans perceive has monologue, and the performance-rules (frameworks we code to read the text) typically conceal that portion of the text from any end-user.

But why should we consider it qualitatively different?

* Hardboiled Detective v1.0: "Hello ma'am... I bet you're trouble, walking onto my office."

* Hardboiled Detective v1.1: I knew the dame was trouble the moment she walked into my office.

Why is the first one not reasoning/thinking, but suddenly the second one is? Isn't the difference mostly in our human perceptions and assumptions, rather than in the algorithm?

> Chain-of-Thought meant that instead of AI getting smarter by getting larger, it could get smarter by thinking longer.

Alternate framing: When we unleash the iterative text-predictor on stories, styles that have monologues lead to end-results which humans perceive as more cohesive and better.
by aatd86 | 2026-01-07 22:38:28+00:00
That would be short-termist though. So, quite unlikely.
In my usage (code) they are still better than everything else I have tried.
Point being that I am looking predominantly for the one llm that gives me the best code output.
If they risk losing that advantage for immediate profit, guess I will cancel like I did for claude... (I still got a gemini subscription, for some reason it has a good UI, fast for common non technical requests).

Seems to have been my pattern of behavior with all these tools.
by zug_zug | 2026-01-07 22:38:41+00:00
@dang I don’t know if this is a bug… but how is this not on the front pages? (I checked 2. 74 upvotes / 34 comments 2h old)

This is the type of thing that I sort of rely on HN to inform me about. Then other articles are seemingly killed as dupe which I guess would make sense if the original was visible.
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-07 22:39:17+00:00
The activation reliability issue kingkongjaffa mentions is the real challenge here. It's the same problem you hit building any pattern-based system - getting it to recognise when a pattern applies vs when it should improvise.

I've been building transaction categorisation tools and the parallel is striking. You can have perfect pattern logic, but the model still needs to correctly identify "this situation matches pattern X" first. Sometimes it just... doesn't, even when it clearly should.

The router skill idea is interesting. Feels like pushing the meta-matching problem up a level though - now you need the router to activate reliably. Turtles all the way down.
by brw | 2026-01-07 22:39:25+00:00
I've asked dang about this before and he answered that it gets killed automatically because of the sign-up wall on some of their articles and that their articles weren't considered suitable for HN in the past:

> does that mean every 404media.co article submission gets killed immediately by software and has to be vouched for before people can vote/comment on it?

Yes.

> Is that the case for every site with a signup wall as a sort of penalty

It depends on whether there are workarounds. Last I checked, 404media.co didn't have those. Your counterexample proves that it does, at least sometimes. Or maybe they changed something?

I'm open to unbanning that site but I'd like to be more sure than I am that this will continue to be the case in the future; and I guess I'd also like to see a few more good (for HN) articles from there before unbanning it. For a long while, all the articles I saw were pretty shallow and fluffy.

That was in 2024 so perhaps it's time for a re-evaluation. I'll shoot him another message.