MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ks2048 | 2026-01-13 07:23:20+00:00
There's a tool called lsregister on macOS to show claimed schemes for different apps. Mine shows for iTerm2,

claimed schemes: ftp:, gemini:, gopher:, http:, https:, iterm2:, mailto:, news:, nntp:, ssh:, telnet:, titan:, wais:, whois:, x-man-page:
by itake | 2026-01-13 07:24:55+00:00
"Move fast and break things"

I could spend an extra 5 minutes doing it "right" or I can get what I need done and have a 0.001% chance of there ever being a problem (since there are other security measure in place, like firewalls, api key rotation, etc.)

Even when security gaps are exploited, the fallout tends to be minimal. Companies that had their entire database of very sensitive information leaked are still growing users and at worst paid a tiny fine.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-13 07:25:06+00:00
>Just improving spec sheets is a race to 0 profits.

If and only if people chase the low-margin markets. Some people want the best value they can afford, and the ones that don't usually are not worth the sales effort.

Note, most current Apple products are just information-appliances tied to their media service businesses.

>Im not knowledgeable enough to know what this magical innovation will be

Whatever a unique imagination comes up with will probably be just as good or better. Don't worry about it... =3
by geokon | 2026-01-13 07:26:04+00:00
i dont see what the problem is. AI is mostly irrelevant. okay they scrape your data.. but then what? If the data isn't offically published and doesnt have a DOI, anything built on that wont be accepted

Some people scrape charts in publications to extract data. This has been done for a while. Maybe AI could automate this step. Thatd be useful
by pedropaulovc | 2026-01-13 07:26:15+00:00
This is amazing! I have no CAD experience and so I tried creating my own bespoke version of LAD a while ago by crawling the SolidWorks docs into a very LLM-optimized format [1] and then asking Claude Code to write C# code using the SolidWorks SDK. Even with docs, it still struggled: functions that fail quietly, extremely verbose code and with no easy way to run tests to ensure that the results are accurate. As an example, here's the 400 lines of code it produced for an eccentric cam [2]. Attempts to close the loop by feeding CC png renders in multiple views had absolutely horrible results. Claude could not differentiate up from down, features etc. I'll try LAD tomorrow, fingers crossed it work better.

[1] https://github.com/pedropaulovc/offline-solidworks-api-docs

[2] https://github.com/pedropaulovc/harmonic-analyzer/blob/main/...
by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 07:26:31+00:00
Genetic differences can exist and not be meaningful if the situation doesn't allow for them to be meaningfully expressed.

We know that people just have different metabolisms, different levels of hunger response, different levels of "food noise," etc.

We see obesity rates raising in nearly every country across the world as economic power and access to ultra-palatable hyper-calorie dense food increases. This is universal across the developed world with very few exemptions - Japan seems to largely be immune, but Korea and other portions of Asia aren't.

The growth curves look very similar, despite many of these cultures across the world putting even more emphasis on discipline and responsibility than America, things that in theory directly align with being more responsible about diet. If genetics weren't involved and it was all willpower (and where does the capacity for willpower come from? Is there no genetic component to it?) we wouldn't see these growth trends be so similar to America and each other.
by apparent | 2026-01-13 07:27:37+00:00
Very interesting, it's like the Steve Jobs black turtleneck approach to eating: don't spend any time shopping/preparing/cleaning up, just go to a restaurant once a day. I can see how this would yield a favorable calculation when time and money are taken into account.

Restaurant food is generally much less healthy than food one cooks at home, but perhaps if it's just one meal that's outweighed by the disciplined calorie control.
by friendzis | 2026-01-13 07:27:46+00:00
I understand where you are coming from, but not every field is hard science. In many fields we deal with some amount of randomness and attribute causality to correlations even if we do not have as much as a speculative hypothesis for a mechanism of action behind the supposed causality.

LLMs trained on data up to a strictly constrained point are our best vehicle to have a view (however biased) on something, detached from its origins and escape a local minima. The speculation is that such LLMs could help us look at correlational links accepted as truths and help us devise an alternative experimental path or craft arguments for such experiments.

Imagine you have an LLM trained on papers up to some threshold, feed your manuscript with correlational evidence and have an LLM point out uncontrolled confounders or something like that.
by rented_mule | 2026-01-13 07:28:14+00:00
Late one evening, about 15 years ago, we were wondering why we were seeing several hits per second from a single IP address on our company's search page. It didn't follow any of the patterns of the (admittedly simple) bot detection we had in place. It wasn't bad enough to be a problem, but we were trying to watch some real-time metrics and it was a distraction.

We had a monitor on the wall showing the most popular search terms over the past hour. A few minutes into the event, we saw a search term steadily move to the top of the list. It was something like `'[]`. After thinking about it for a few minutes, we concluded a user left their browser on our search page, a cat stepped on their keyboard in just the right pattern, and then sat down on the F5-key (i.e., refresh key).

No way to know if we got it right, but it was the best we came up with in the 20-ish minutes before it stopped. Oh the things you'll diagnose...
by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 07:28:33+00:00
> Ozempic reduces your bone density

We should be clear here - bone density loss is not something intrinsic to ozempic, it has to do with your rate of weight loss, exercise and dietary habits, etc.

It is entirely possible for someone to modify their diet, lift weights, etc., while on ozempic and gain bone mineral density.

But if you don't do those things and just lose a bunch of weight really fast, you're going to lose density (and lean muscle mass)
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-13 07:29:32+00:00
> But my only real question is how many more Americans need to be killed before you admit that maybe us critics have a point?

Unfortunately, they will never admit this, because either they believe every action by ICE is justified or they're straight up an agent of the government. It doesn't matter if you show them videos of ICE agents hitting protesters with their car and doing the exact thing they demonize [1], or if they walk up and assault people for using their first amendment rights [2], or if they spray people point blank with pepper spray [3] or if they ram people through red lights [4] or if they knee people in the face repeatedly when they're complying [5] or if they shove someone onto oncoming traffic and almost get them killed by a bus [6] or walking up to people and asking 'papers, please' [7]. They will conveniently disengage or shift the argument away.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Watch/comments/1pjye82/ice_agen...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qb564f/minnea...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qb88n3/ice_ag...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qaw2e9/ice_in...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1q9p1dp/man_kn...

[6] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1q9xczh/ice_pu...

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhB7g7LU0Wc
by fnky | 2026-01-13 07:29:43+00:00
Direct quote from their joint statement: "Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year."

Source: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-annou...
by noduerme | 2026-01-13 07:30:23+00:00
In my area of Portland, all other Walgreens shut down and all the CVS and Rite Aids shut down in the past few years - post Covid - because the shoplifting and almost weekly armed robberies were so rampant. It's frankly amazing that there's still one Walgreens open, but going there is kind of like walking into an insane asylum. Not that it's dangerous, just incredibly dystopian. The workers are traumatized and miserable. Every single item worth more than $5 is locked up, and even so, there are thieves with backpacks strapped to their chests roaming the aisles, literally every time I go in there, grabbing anything, while the employees just ignore them. Recently I went in to buy Mucinex. I found it in a locked plexiglass cabinet, in front of which was a junkie who was sitting on the floor with no shoes, his nose pressed to the glass, studying the boxes of Mucinex. I had to spend 10 minutes finding a worker to open the cabinet while gently moving the junkie out of the way.

This quarter of the city (inner Southeast) is down to basically 5 pharmacies serving a very densely populated 10 square miles, four of which are in supermarkets (Safeway or Fred Meyer... both terrible). Only one Walgreens is left.

There is a locally owned, independent pharmacy that's owner-operated, about 3 miles away from me, and I've started driving to it. It's the only one in Southeast. The Walgreens is only 5 blocks away from my house, easy to walk to, but I've decided it's worth getting in my car and sitting in traffic to get to the independent one.
by galkk | 2026-01-13 07:30:28+00:00
> I booted Halo and was literally mesmerized when I came out of a tunnel onto the Halo and saw the sky and the landmass.

I had the same feeling when I exited starship in Unreal. Right now it is nothing, but then it was oh my god, this is beautiful. The bird in sky, the colors, the palm…

https://youtu.be/J4fJWvckmFQ?si=re-O4hVP-Jfm4Cj_&t=315
by dieggsy | 2026-01-13 07:31:39+00:00
The top comment in the article mentions it, but chawan[1] is really quite neat. Many sites are still have their quirks (or may be broken), but I think it's the closest I've seen a text browser approximate a "real" browser. The support for CSS, JS, and images (depends on your terminal) is already quite impressive even if imperfect. To my knowledge it's an actual browser implementation rather than "cheating" by using an existing browser like browsh (which is still quite cool).

[1] https://chawan.net/
by genuser | 2026-01-13 07:32:41+00:00
The smart ring category, once a frontier of wearable tech, has rapidly matured into a landscape dominated by health-centric devices from Oura, Samsung, and others. Their value proposition is clear: passive, 24/7 biometric tracking in an unobtrusive form factor. However, this focus has led to a certain uniformity in function. Enter the Aivela Ring Pro, launched at CES 2026, which seeks to redefine the category’s purpose by introducing a compelling new dimension: active, stealth gesture control. While maintaining comprehensive health monitoring, the Ring Pro’s primary ambition is to reduce our constant reach for the phone by turning simple finger motions into commands, offering a novel spin that could make smart rings interesting again as tools for interaction, not just observation.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-13 07:33:34+00:00
Priced out tacos on Amazon they add up to ~$1.25 per taco. You can go to a taco tuesday deal and get the same price or cheaper, plus free chips and salsa, as just one example.

I don't know if it's true but a friend from Kaohshing told me almost no one cooks at home anymore as the food outside is cheap, convenient, and abundant.

You also have to consider what you're eating. You can buy caviar for home ($$$) and have hot dogs out ($)

And, you have to take into account your time. If it takes you an hour to prepare food vs 10 minutes to get food made for you then there is some value to getting those 50 mins back. Some people enjoy cooking. I do. But if my choices was to hang out with a friend for ~2hrs or say nah I can only meet for ~1hr because I gotta make dinner, I'd value that extra time with my friend more than zero.
by anthk | 2026-01-13 07:34:09+00:00
I used to use that to fetch odd Japanese translated ROMs from CD Romance. Inb4 some Copyright holder says "buy them legally"... these games won't be released in the West ever.

In Europe most people played Earthbound (and USA only releases for SNES/MD) under emulators. That's how Nintendo put it in the Super Smash Bros roster. They say the hate emulation; but these tools cemented themselves into retroemulation like no other system, and helped to bring new sagas to the West. For free. You say you lost money because of retro-piracy? You got free marketing for physical scraps technically resting in a warehouse.

Altough nowadays I'm 100% pro libre gaming; tons of indie/FOSS philosophy overlap: FreedroidRPG, Battle for Wesnoth, Nethack/Slashem, ReTux, SuperTux2...

Back to edbrowse, it's a mail, irc and SQL client too; and you can script it, a la ed/vi, so you can do magic here.
by general1465 | 2026-01-13 07:34:35+00:00
The problem (and reason why Greenland as 51st state will be thrown out) is that it would upset balance in Congress and Senate. Greenland is used on European social democracy, it is going to be blue stronghold. The islands will be likely blue as well. Republicans would be diluting their power by accepting these entities as states.

Same problem with Canada. Except Alberta, most of Canada would be voting blue as well.
by d--b | 2026-01-13 07:34:50+00:00
I found it quite insightful.

Looking at individual line changes produced by AI is definitely difficult. And going one step higher to version control makes sense.

We're not really there yet though, as the generated code currently still needs a lot of human checks.

Side thoughts: this requires the code to be modularized really well. It makes me think that when designing a system, you could imagine a world where multiple agents discuss changes. Each agent would be responsible for a sub system (component, service, module, function), and they would chat about the format of the api that works best for all agents, etc. It would be like SmallTalk at the agent level.
by sysguest | 2026-01-13 07:35:27+00:00
hmm maybe this can be easily solved?

1. make a starlink+wireless mesh-network (eg. using BLE)
that can handle multiple connects/disconnects seamlessly

2. mount those starlinks on cars/trucks/motorcycles/etc.
hide those on ditches, buildings, etc.

Elon should work on that "starlink <-> wireless mesh-network" part (eg. app or device)
by tavavex | 2026-01-13 07:35:36+00:00
> What happens to Europe with an expansionist Russia and no US security guarantee?

While European military strength isn't in its prime right now, their capabilities without the US are often way underestimated. Not that most of the other issues aren't applicable - everyone appears to be more or less fucked in multiple ways - but losing a conventional war to Russia isn't on the table, barring unthinkable mismanagement or a world-changing event (preemptive use of nukes, etc). Russia has stalemated a war against a singular country that has a fraction of Russia's wealth, loads of antiquated equipment and a small sample of Western tech. The Russian economy has a massive hole in it largely thanks to said war, and is only propped up by existing savings - they're not in danger right now, they're rapidly approaching that point with no way of stopping. Even if the war never happened, they'd still be far weaker than the whole of Europe and likely some individual European countries.
by johnvanommen | 2026-01-13 07:36:04+00:00
If it wasn't for the T-Mobile Sidekick, Microsoft probably wouldn't have had to buy Nokia.

Here's the story:

I worked on the infrastructre for the predecessor to Android, the Danger Hiptop, AKA "The T-Mobile Sidekick." (This is my real name, you can see when I worked on it on LinkedIn.)

The "Danger Device" as everyone called it, had cloud storage and a full web browser before Android and before iPhone.

In fact, the first Android basically looks like the successor to the T-Mobile sidekick, because many of the people that worked on Android, including the founder, were from Danger.

*Here's the funny part:*

This is hearsay, so please do not sue me Microsoft. I once saw an article online that confirmed the following story, but the article is long gone (this was more than 20 years ago.)

Again: Don't sue me Microsoft. I am telling a story here, that I heard through the grapevine:

*Microsoft blew up the entire "Sidekick" project.*

But they didn't blow it up intentionally. Basically, Danger ran on Sun Solaris, and when Microsoft bought them, a great deal of the infrastructure was trucked over to Microsoft. As I understand it, nothing was ported, they basically just plugged the gear in.

At some point, the backups failed.

Keep in mind: ALL THE USERS DATA WAS IN THE CLOUD. Nobody was doing this at the time, not Android, not Apple. Just Danger - and then Microsoft.

While restoring from backups, someone was feeling the heat for the mobile devices being down for so long. It takes a long time to do a restore.

One thing led to another, a decision was made... and they lost all the data.

*poof*

Gone forever.

The death of the Sidekick has been documented in various articles, but there was only ONE that got the story correct, and it was nuked over a decade ago. Here's one of the (partially correct) details: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/sidekick-disaster-shows-data...

I've got a story about the first big celebrity hack too, that was the Sidekick also. (And likely was possible because of the Sidekick's cloud storage.)
by Leftium | 2026-01-13 07:36:17+00:00
One advantage I've noticed for Tailwind:

- If you just paste an outerHTML from the dev tools, AI coding agents can immediately figure out what it will look like; debug styles; etc.

I personally preferred PicoCSS for a long time. Pico was nice, but it injected a lot of CSS var noise into the dev tools and I started fighting with the breakpoints.

More recently, I've been just doing handcrafted CSS with a bit of OpenProps.
by lukan | 2026-01-13 07:36:29+00:00
Yes, by using the microphone loudspeakers in inaudible frequencies. Or worse, by abusing components to act as a antenna. Or simply to wait till people get careless with USB sticks.

If you assume the air gapped computer is already compromised, there are lots of ways to get data out. But realistically, this is rather a NSA level threat.
by ok1984 | 2026-01-13 07:36:29+00:00
For me automating release notes is like recording an audio an play it each time you introduce your kid somebody, you worked hard you added all those new features and fixed several bugs and hopefully introduced no new ones, take the time and write the release notes yourself or with the team, make it a moment of celebration, read them and refine them (even with LLMs) but be proud of what you just accomplished.

For me writing release notes is a joy moment why should automate it?
by ckastner | 2026-01-13 07:37:12+00:00
somewhat related:

"Seymour said he thought it was odd that Apple bought a Cray to design Macs because he was using Macs to design Crays. He sent me his designs for the Cray 3 in MacDraw on a floppy.” reports KentK.

https://cray-history.net/2021/07/16/apple-computer-and-cray-...
by qingcharles | 2026-01-13 07:37:27+00:00
I did this on a mass scale. There are auction items that close at 1 cent with free shipping, so I signed up for the eBay API and wrote a bot to scrape all the auctions and bid one cent on them a minute before they closed.

I ended up with an enormous overflowing mountain of packages every day for weeks. I might have gone crazier, but there was a serious bug in eBay's checkout. Try checking out with 400 items in your cart. It really gets upset.

99% of the packages were Chinese sellers but the packages all came from Mongolia, so there must be some sort of postal arbitrage going on there.

It was all random stuff. Hairclips, 500 bicycle lamps. Dozens of tubes of ICs of every flavor. Crazy times.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-01-13 07:37:34+00:00
At the time of writing, the cheapest item in the list is a $0.25 lime.

When I add that to my basket and go to checkout, the only available delivery option 'Fast - Tomorrow' costs $2.99.

There is a non-food item in the list, which costs $0.51+tax, i.e. $0.54 including free shipping.
by BWStearns | 2026-01-13 07:37:39+00:00
> when to know it’s time to replace my synchronous inter service http requests with a queue

I've found that once it's inconveniently long for a synchronous client side request, it's less about the performance or metrics and more about reasoning. Some things are queue shaped, or async job shaped. The worker -> main app communication pattern can even remain sync http calls or not (like callback based or something), but if you have something that has high variance in timing or is a background thing then just kick it off to workers.

I'd also say start simple and only go to Kafka or some other high dev-time overhead solution when you start seeing Redis/Rabbit stop being sufficient. Odds are you can make the simple solution work.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-13 07:38:04+00:00
The article is strange. And, also not convincing.

There is still field work that happens. AI can not replace that. You'd need to literally simulate the whole world before AI can even get close to gather all data obtainable here. For instance, on a given ant hill: which plant species will be more prevalent there? (For those not knowing a lot about ants: some ant species carry specific plants or defend plants against invaders. The most usual example is for leaf-cutting ants, but there are many additional examples, and for various reasons you will also find different plant species to be more prevalent close to an ant hill in a forest area, than other plant species.) AI can steal existing data, but there is no way it can gather real data UNLESS you are able to monitor this. This is possible via machines, e. g. drones, but AI does not understand what it is doing and even with instructions you still may be able to just hallucinate data. So perhaps one day this may all be fully automated (sensor systems can do all humans can do too, of course), but right now this is simply not the case. And this is just one example for many more.
by slau | 2026-01-13 07:38:39+00:00
The thing is that you can’t actually trust it did run the rm command.

As soon as you ask “give me a list of all the commands that led to the deletion”, isn’t it extremely likely to just invent an rm in there?

Furthermore—and granted, I didn’t watch the video in detail—what data was actually deleted? Maybe the hallucination was that some data was there when it wasn’t, and then Claude convinced itself it deleted something in the move process. Notice that it never says “I accidentally ran rm instead of mv”. That only happens when the user asks to backfill the commands.

Does coworker give Claude access to historical commands, or does Claude just generate based on its “memories”?

I’ve been using Claude quite a bit over the past few weeks, and this is a pattern I’ve noticed a few times.
by recursivecaveat | 2026-01-13 07:39:00+00:00
Ummmmmmmmm, for starters killing millions of civilians? Then filling the atmosphere with the soot of nuclear war resulting in global famines? Consider also that 1 singular missile reaching NYC kills 1.5 million Americans in the 1st 24h, and injures 3 million more. You can't 'win' a two sided nuclear war lmao. Only someone completely microwave-brained by ideology and with a deep hatred for human life would consider an offensive first strike.