MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by michalsustr | 2026-01-13 07:53:57+00:00
What I think the author is hoping to get is some inspectable graph of the whys that can be a basis for further automation/analysis. That’s interesting, but the line to actual code then becomes blurry. For instance, what about self-consistency across time? If this would be just text, it would come out of sync (like all doc text does). If it's code, then maybe you just had wrong abstractions the whole time?

The way we solve the why/what separation (at minfx.ai) is by having a top-level PLAN.md document for why the commit was built, as well as regenerating README.md files on the paths to every touched file in the commit.
Admittedly, this still leans more into the "what" rather than "why".
I will need to think about this more, hmm.

This helps us to keep it well-documented and LLM-token efficient at the same time. What also helps is Rust forces you into a reasonable code structure with its pub/private modules, so things are naturally more encapsulated, which helps the documentation as well.
by spockz | 2026-01-13 07:54:49+00:00
I’m not in the US but in the Netherlands. Bananas are indeed pretty cheap kilo wise, currently about €2,50. Apples and pears are next at about €3,50. Strawberries in season are about €10/kg. Green kiwi is €5/kg, gold kiwi is €10/kg. Mangos are extremely cheap now at €1,39/piece.

Having enough fruit for a family for a week, indeed as a sibling posted, accounting for spoilage or just bad items in the delivery, takes a substantial amount. In volume and in cost.

On the other hand, crappy snacks are typically <€1 or <€2 per kg.

We make the choice to buy fruit. But also we are well off enough to be able to do so consistently. There are also other costs of having to spend more time getting the fruit, preparing it for the kids to take to school. Not everyone has the time or sees the opportunity to do so. I’m very reluctant to just blame those people and say it is their choice to eat crappy food.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 07:55:00+00:00
But prior to GLP-1s, obesity rates were growing rapidly in Germany. Doubled over 3 decades - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15706...

Most of the industrialized west is following very similar growth curves here to the US. America just got their first. Even Asia isn't immune - Korea has been following similar trends, as have parts of southeast asia, etc.

I suspect the prevalence of GLP-1 class drugs will halt this trend before the rest of the world catches up, but without them or similar drugs, I would have bet that 50 years form now much of the rest of the world would look just like America
by Moldoteck | 2026-01-13 07:56:28+00:00
No, fla3 interest rates weren't that subsidized. It would require EC approval like the EPR2 project.

I didn't make stuff up. Profitability limit would be 6-10ct, the cfds would be above that

You don't need to force anyone to buy nuclear. People will pay for electricity. In some cases price will be more influenced by the source like nuclear if it's expensive. In other cases it'll be influenced by transmission, grid forming inverters and firming costs

SA is one of the leaders in ren deployment. Just like CA. Just like Germany. All are dwarfed by france for cheap household prices. That's because even if lcoe for ren is cheap, full system cost grows
by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 07:57:16+00:00
The morbidly obese people I know fall into two camps:

Those that still want to reduce their weight: All of them are on GLP-1s now (and losing weight!)

Those that had totally given up: They had long since stopped attempting anything to reduce their weight

I suspect that the larger you are, the more likely you are to fall into that second category - getting to 300+ lb involves a certain level of accepting defeat to begin with.
by watwut | 2026-01-13 07:57:32+00:00
> You have the agency to let the person in front of you have a more enjoyable flight without judging them for it.

No, being doormat that never judges assholes is not necessary in order to be a decent person.

In fact, there is special category of decent person heroes who do the uncomfortable thing, judge assholes and even protect and help others when assholery becomes too much. Both when talking about recliners and like, terrorizing thugs in streets.

> Are you talking about agency and not being an asshole, or are you just being selfish about your space?

It is not being selfish to not want to give your space to an asshole who decided to take it. That person is still an asshole. And again, both when we are talking about recliner and when certain government sends violent thugs.
by willtemperley | 2026-01-13 07:57:57+00:00
I understand that publications are the currency of academics but they're largely irrelevant in business. Geological data are valuable and if an oil exploration company finds a nice dataset they can scrape, they're not going to publish it.

From a pure business perspective, AI is largely about copyright circumvention. The laws are lagging and people are making serious money from data theft.
by derbOac | 2026-01-13 07:58:21+00:00
Apparently we should hire the Guardian to evaluate LLM output accuracy?

Why are these products being put out there for these kinds of things with no attempt to quantify accuracy?

In many areas AI has become this toy that we use because it looks real enough.

It sometimes works for some things in math and science because we test its output, but overall you don't go to Gemini and it says "there's a 80% chance this is correct". At least then you could evaluate that claim.

There's a kind of task LLMs aren't well suited to because there's no intrinsic empirical verifiability, for lack of a better way of putting it.
by abenga | 2026-01-13 07:58:32+00:00
For me, it's the knees. When everyone is leaned back you can't even comfortably use a tablet to read, while I can comfortably sit upright for a few hours (of course taking a walk from time to time). The person in front reclining their seat forces me to either manspread into the seat on the left or right (if I'm not on the aisle) or stick my feet in the aisle and getting in the cabin crew's way as they move back and forth.
by noduerme | 2026-01-13 07:59:04+00:00
Sadly and disgustingly, I fired up lynx last night and found out that Google will not allow you to search with it anymore. I guess this change happened a few months ago and there was an HN thread about it[0], but I hadn't noticed until now.

Going to altavista still works great though (even though it just redirects you to yahoo ;)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45201692
by blue_0206 | 2026-01-13 07:59:49+00:00
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by Quothling | 2026-01-13 08:00:01+00:00
Was it though? I don't see anything particularily different with how the aristocracy is behaving today compared to what they've done for the previous thousands of years. The enlightenment brought us a value of knowledge and rule of law because that was the best sort of society to live in when you're an aristocrat. A place where the king, pope, emperor or similar couldn't just take your stuff when they wanted to. What came after "American exceptionalism" and the two world wars, was similarily brought about by the aristocracy building a hegemony through soft power and individual rights because they wanted something new.

That was brought to an end with the new public management movement in the 80ies, and with that came an erosion of public education and a commoditizing of everything most noticeably public opinion. This doesn't lead to an idiocracy though, not everyone is stupid and the average IQ hasn't gone down. If anything it's way up since the days of lead pollution everywhere. I would argue that modern aristocracy isn't stupid either. I think it's fair to say that a lot of the tech billionaires probably shouldn't have taken their history lessons from a LLM (or on their own), but people like Peter Thiel seem to know exactly what they are doing.

I imagine what the west is doing is a rather bad idea, considering how closely it models after an oligarchy and powerful people tend to fall out of windows in those, but I also think it's hard to argue that western philosophy is the only way for people to prosper. China is doing rather well, and their rotation of power between competing factions seem to keep corruption better in check than a lot of other systems.

I do think we're coming to an end of world dominated by the respect for individual and human rights, but I very much doubt we're heading toward any form of idiocracy.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-13 08:00:54+00:00
I think you're doing Apple products a big disservice. This is a company that produces a lot of very polished products that don't directly tie into the services, for example the AirPods and the Apple Watch and even their computers continue to drag the industry kicking and screaming into some sort of minimum expectation of performance and efficiency. If you look at just their phone or their Apple TV products, fine that makes sense.

But even if you do just look at their phone,tablet and TV sales, it's not entirely a great argument because Apple is not actually prioritizing services as much as their hardware and although those services constitute a decent percentage of their sales, they are still way below the hardware sales. So you could argue that their service business is a complement to their excellent hardware.

>Whatever a unique imagination comes up with will probably be just as good or better. Don't worry about it... =3

You seem to have a similar very consistent style of speaking in all your comments. I don't know if I am conversing with an AI or not. If not I apologize for the accusation. Take care for now... =3
Show HN: Omni Animated Tiling WM for macOS (Niri and Hyprland)
by Barut1 | 2026-01-13 08:01:22+00:00
- real quake-style terminal using ghostty framework
- window finder/jumper
- searchable and usable command pallet for any app
- App menu anywhere
- Niri tabs
- Niri and Dwindle layout
- Hide/unhide status bar icons
- Interactive workspace bar
- Animations

A lot more features to list or remember them all...
Show HN: IT Word Search Labs – A Word Search Game for Tech Learners
by svendson | 2026-01-13 08:01:57+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm the creator of IT Word Search Labs.

I built this because I enjoy word puzzles but found that generic ones (fruits, animals, etc.) were a bit boring. I wanted something that felt relevant to my day-to-day work as a developer.

It’s a simple web app that generates word search puzzles based on IT terminologies, covering topics like Python, Web Development, Cyber Security, and more.

How it works:
It uses React for the UI. The grid generation algorithm places words randomly with collision detection to ensure a valid board every time.

Features:
Tech-specific dictionaries.
Clean, distraction-free interface (no ads).
Printable mode (for offline use or classrooms).

It's a fun little side project to kill time while waiting for builds to complete.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the UI or suggestions for new word categories.

Thanks!
by omarfluid | 2026-01-13 08:03:12+00:00
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by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 08:03:34+00:00
I'm quite open about my usage in real life because I want to be honest about how I achieved my weight loss - I'll also show some pride in all of the lifestyle changes I made, but I don't hesitate to mention the GLP-1 use and impact it has had. I'm not ashamed of it and if me being open helps normalize it, all the better.

But most people on the internet that I speak to that are on them have had specifically negative encounters from people learning - lots of moralizing, lots of denigration. A whole lot of them now specifically don't bring it up unless explicitly asked.
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by theshrike79 | 2026-01-13 08:03:55+00:00
There's a tiny 2-line text ad above the prompt. I might have accidentally read it a few times, but meh. It's not like I look at the amp console that much anyway.

It seems to be about on par with Claude as a pair coder and I think it's a lot less verbose and concise on what it says, just sticking to the facts without any purple prose. It also seems to directly hook into ~/.claude/ just today it used a claude-only skill to analyse my codebase (using the scripts provided by the skill).
by akimbostrawman | 2026-01-13 08:05:50+00:00
>The BND would be permitted to copy and retain not only metadata but also entire online conversations, including emails, chats, and other content, for up to six months.

I don't really understand how this is supposed to work since almost everything now is https encrypted and i doubt they will/can brute force or MITM all traffic. Is this just an excuse towards "collect now, decrypt later" like the NSA does?
by Moldoteck | 2026-01-13 08:07:15+00:00
It's not about being lucky. The dose was too low to make a measurable impact. And the effects can't happen this past as we have data about impact of heavy radiation after JP bombing.

So what we have is an industry with extremely low death rate impact that some countries put a stop on, like jp in the past or banned, like Germany, all while industries that caused more deaths like coal generation or even hydro are still used. And other branhces that do vastly more damage like smoking and alcohol are legalized. To me this is sad
What's the difference between instructor-led training and self-paced learning?
by datacouch | 2026-01-13 08:07:36+00:00
Instructor-led training is scheduled, interactive, and you can ask questions live. Self-paced learning is flexible and you move at your own speed. Instructor-led works well when topics are complex or you need guidance. Self-paced works well for revision, busy schedules, and building consistency over time.
by mahaekoh | 2026-01-13 08:07:40+00:00
I’m in the same boat. I’ve been working with a more junior engineer that’s ecstatic about AI coding and I’m slowly settling into the position that, for those of us that have developed tons of opinions about how things should be done, trying to transfer all that experience to an AI through prompting is just not efficient, and I’ve grown comfortable with saying it’s easier for me to do it myself than repeated prompting and adjusting prompts. For a more junior engineer, though, it’s a lot easier to accept what the AI did, and as long as it’s functional, their opinions aren’t strong enough to spark the urge to keep adjusting. Theres just a different utility curve for different people.

Does that mean we’ll get worse (or less opinionated) code over time? Maybe. I used to tell my team that code should be written to be easily understood by maintainers, but if all the maintainers are AI and they don’t care, does it matter?

FWIW, I still reach for Claude once in a while, and I find its response useful maybe one out of ten times, particularly when dealing with code I don’t feel the need to learn or maintain in the long run. But if reviewing Claude’s code requires me to learn the code base properly, often might as well write it myself.
by raxxorraxor | 2026-01-13 08:08:08+00:00
True. Also Gemini is the boring model, heavily sanitised for corporate applications. At least it admits this if you press it. It fits Apple here very well.

Personally I wouldn't use it, it still belongs to an advertiser specialised on extracting user information. Not that I expect that other AI companies value privacy much higher. But clean smell also means bland smell.
by brabel | 2026-01-13 08:08:37+00:00
> Europe created the Russia-Ukraine problem by giving their energy security to Russia.

> This warning has been completely vindicated.

That's funny. The US warned Europe of dependence on Russia all the while promoting policies that antagonized Russia in Europe (e.g. NATO expansion). It's almost like the US wanted to push Europe and Russia against each other, so that it could sell its way more expensive natural gas in Europe!? Perhaps they did not anticipate the Russians would be bold enough to go to war on that, but they were certainly willing to accept the risk.

> It's the same 1930s economic conditions that gave rise to fascism last time.

Please. Europe may have some issues , but it's not nearly as bleak as you try to make it... I live here, I go around a lot. Europe is as affluent as ever. People are having a good time, in general. In the 1930's some countries had hyperinflation... you're comparing that to 5% yearly inflation these days?

> Europe has also outsourced their security to the US via NATO.

On that we agree. It was a really bad decision, but understandable given how much the US soft power after WWII was absorbed by Europeans. Some Europeans act like European countries are US states. They take to the streets to join movements that are 100% American, like BLM. It's bizarre.

> What happens to Europe with an expansionist Russia and no US security guarantee?

It shocks me that people like you think Russia is a serious threat to all of Europe, rather than just Ukraine (and maybe Moldova and Georgia if you push it).
How can you justify that view? Russia has not drawn any red lines about anything related to the rest of Europe like it had with Ukraine and Georgia (which was thoroughly ignored by Europe, with the strong support and should I say it, advice of the USA), it has not said anything as threatening as Trump saying Greenland will be part of America the nice way or the hard way, yet you believe the US is not a threat, but Russia is. There's some serious dissonance in this line of thought.

> Oh and speaking of worker protections, what happens when the price of bailing out European energy or security issues is the privatizing of your otherwise universal healthcare?

Americans have been saying this for 50 years... they just can't accept that the system has been working well in Europe for workers for all this time (though not as much for companies, as you can clearly notice it's much harder to make behemoths like FAANG in Europe, no doubt because without exploiting workers you can't really do that).
by Terr_ | 2026-01-13 08:09:27+00:00
> What is not a free market is

A bit of a tangent, but price transparency is another factor.

At least when economists publish their "it's the bestest and most efficient option" analyses their definition involves perfect information: No secret prices, no non-disclosure agreements, everybody knows what was paid for inputs and labor, etc.

I bring this up because there is an unavoidable conflict between "the market that moves freely as a whole" version versus "the market where I'm free to keep secrets."
Show HN: Bugbop – a smaller bug bounty platform
by ponny | 2026-01-13 08:09:50+00:00
Hi HN!

I created Bugbop over the last year now I'm officially releasing it! It’s a platform for teams that want to run their first bug bounty without expensive contracts. I come from a SaaS technical founder background where I ran our program for years. Now I've decided to make something better suited to that niche.

The model is simple: only pay when valid vulnerabilities are found. No ongoing subscriptions. Set budgets to avoid going over. The app's still in the early days but it's working: security bugs are getting paid and bug hunters are getting bounties.

It's using AI to review check if it's in scope, detect duplicates, and set severity (the app doesn't ask reporters because everyone just says "Critical").

I’m interested in feedback from people who’ve run bug bounties, stopped running them, or considered them and decided against it.
by sdenton4 | 2026-01-13 08:11:02+00:00
Yeah, this is by far the biggest value I've gotten from LLMs - just pointing me to the area of literature neither me nor any of my friends have heard of, but which have spent a decade running about the problems we're running into.

In this case, all that matters is that the outputs aren't complete hallucination. Once you know the magic jargon, everything opens up easily with traditional search.
by ploum | 2026-01-13 08:11:06+00:00
This is exactly what Offpunk is doing: displaying the html page after it passed throught Readability.

https://offpunk.net

The whole page is still available with "view full" (or "v full")

In the current trunk, if configured, it uses ftr-site-config rules to extract content for specific websites ( https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config )

I do 90% of my browsing using Offpunk (reading blogs and articles) and, suprizingly, it often works better than a graphical browser (no ads, no popup, no paywall). Of course, it doesn’t work when you really needs JS.