MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thesz | 2026-01-26 22:25:50+00:00
If you do a single set of half of exercises you need to train each day of the week, rotating these halves, you get 3 and a half sets of each exercise per week.

Training volume of Bulgarian Method is not much bigger than that of regular training splits like Sheiko or something like that, if bigger at all. What is more frequent is the stimulation of muscles and nervous system paths and BM adapts to that - one does high percentage of one's current max, essentially, one is training with what is available to one's body at the time.

Also, ultra long distance runners regenerate cartilages: https://ryortho.com/2015/12/what-ultra-long-distance-runners...

Our bodies are amazing.
by zenolijo | 2026-01-26 22:26:39+00:00
Naming comments can be very useful in code that gets read by a lot of people. It can make the process of understanding the code much quicker.

On the other hand, if it's less important code or the renaming is not clearly an improvement it can be quite useless. But I've met some developers who has the opinion of reviews as pointless and just say "this works, just approve it already" which can be very frustrating when it's a codebase with a lot of collaboration.
by elliotec | 2026-01-26 22:27:02+00:00
I am not really sure what you mean by "have television" - I, as I assume many here, have a TV "screen" as you put it, but it's used for Apple TV apps, home media server viewing, Netflix, and video games. I actually do have a digital antenna with it but never use it. I think the only time I have in the last 10 years or so was to watch one olympic event last summer.
by ggm | 2026-01-26 22:27:19+00:00
One of his electro-mechanical units was on display in Victoria, Australia. Most amazing assemblage, you can sort-of get the idea from things.

I read online that at his end, Baird was proposing a TV scan-rate we'd class as HD quality, which lost out to a 405 line standard (which proceeded 625/colour)

There is also a quality of persistence in his approach to things, he was the kind of inventor who doesn't stop inventing.
by simonw | 2026-01-26 22:27:24+00:00
On my free ChatGPT account I ran a prompt telling it to write and execute hello world in a bunch of languages: https://chatgpt.com/share/6977aa7c-7bd8-8006-8129-8c9e25126f...

It did what I asked - proving that the container feature works even for free accounts - but then displayed a message saying that I was as out of free prompts and would need to upgrade or wait before I could run more.
by zackliscio | 2026-01-26 22:27:32+00:00
Sorry to hear about the customer churn, but the MCP-first strategy makes sense to me and seems like it could be really powerful. I also suspect that the bring your own agent future will be really exciting, and I've been surprised we haven't seen more of it play out already.

Agree there will be a place for no-code and low-code interfaces, but I do think it's an open question where the value capture will be--as SaaS vendors, or by the LLM providers themselves.
Show HN: Use Claude Code to find engineering jobs
by jshchnz | 2026-01-26 22:27:50+00:00
Hiring sites and jobs pages usually kinda suck so I thought it'd be cool if devs could use Claude Code to sort through potential jobs.

To install the skill:
git clone https://github.com/jshchnz/claude-jobs.git ~/.claude/skills/claude-jobs

Some examples:
what's the highest paying job at sentry?
jobs in san francisco at airbnb
engineering jobs at cloudflare

Right now it only supports a few companies that Claude was able to find publicly accessible job listings for: Airbnb, Anthropic, Cloudflare, Coinbase, Datadog, Discord, Dropbox, Figma, GitLab, Instacart, Linear, Lyft, Netlify, Notion, Sentry, Stripe, Vercel

but it's really easy to add your company if you want to be included in the skill: https://github.com/jshchnz/claude-jobs/blob/main/CONTRIBUTIN...
by rexpop | 2026-01-26 22:28:01+00:00
Mass media even moreso isolates individuals who DO have access to it.

Their "shared experience" is, actually, a debilitating addiction to flat, untouchable, and anti-democratic spectacle.

The least hundred years have seen our society drained of social capital, inescapably enthralled by corporate mediators. Mass media encourages a shift from "doing" to "watching." As we consume hand-tailored entertainment in private, we retreat from the public square.

Heavy television consumption is associated with lethargy and passivity, reinforcing an intolerance for unstructured time. This creates a "pseudoworld" where viewers feel a false sense of companionship—a parasocial connection with television personalities—that creates a feeling of intimacy while requiring (and offering) no actual reciprocity or effort.

Television, the "800-pound gorilla of leisure time," has privatized our existence. This privatization of leisure acts as a lethal competitor for scarce time, stealing hours that were once devoted to social interaction—the picnics, club meetings, and informal visiting that constitute the mētis or practical social knowledge of community life.
by pzo | 2026-01-26 22:28:22+00:00
for me this latest macOS is buggy as well. AirDrop stopped working and I cannot airdrop from my phone to my macbook that is 20cm away, connected to same fast WiFi and sometimes even wired to my macbook via usb-c.

I tried then to workaround and use apple Image Capture app to copy some files - always the latest picture is not available in the app. So now I have to do like cavemen to share some stuff to my email and download file in the email. And share button sometime fails as well...
by AJ007 | 2026-01-26 22:28:25+00:00
The YT transcripts are linked to on the YT page itself. If they remove that, it is trivial to use a local STT model to transcribe the video. If they make it impossible to download a video, you could just have a microphone record all of the sound, and so on. Once you have the transcription of anything, summarizing is trivial. I have a local script that does this and I use it all of the time. Also produce diagrams for YT summaries. Hours saved, per day.
by bradlys | 2026-01-26 22:28:32+00:00
> SF residents are sympathetic to the renegade artistic expression argument.

SF residents are incredibly snobby when it comes to street art. The typical tagging, 2 minute stencil sprays, and so forth are not up to posh standards of SF residents. I don't think most SFers think those are "renegade artistic expression". Maybe some of folks in Berkeley would but not SF.

There's a huge disconnect from the city residents and a lot of what happens by the government. SFPD is a prime example of this. Almost none of the cops live in SF. A lot of the people committing crime also don't live in SF. It's a weird city.
by Schmerika | 2026-01-26 22:28:43+00:00
It was since unflagged, and people can comment on it again, but look at the stamps. There's a good two hours there after the first few comments where no one could say anything.

And during that time it was removed from the submitter's page, the new page, and my favorites (it's back now).

Would have to have been a pretty weird and consistent glitch for a site that hasn't changed much in like 20 years.

Half tempted to email HN and ask what was going on there, only I wouldn't expect honesty.
by bityard | 2026-01-26 22:28:43+00:00
> Recommendations are hugely influenced by what you watched very recently.

Ah, well, I don't know that I fully agree.

I watch channels that are people building things, repairing tools, or goofing around in an easy-going way without a lot of product placement or sponsored content.

And yet, all of the recommendations I get are either sponsored unboxing videos with AI voiceovers or click-baity channels with ugly reaction faces in the video thumbnails. I guess those probably make more money for Google.
by written-beyond | 2026-01-26 22:29:36+00:00
I'm fine with opinionated people who have lived in broadly along the socio economic ladder. Atleast their opinions are grounded across a richer experience of life. Rather than just growing up upper middle to wealthy and saying you dropped out of college to make YC funded startup.

No disrespect to founders who do get there, it's certainly an accomplishment. But I'd rather listen to loud erratic Netflix engineer Dr disrespect.
by fragmede | 2026-01-26 22:29:39+00:00
It's those who are shipping easily who are stupid. And what I mean by that is you can just ask the LLM to use the browser to get API keys and then use them to deploy. That's how the cost of shipping is zero. A hefty amount of YOLO code on top of YOLO deploy. I mean, you could also have the LLM build you a CI CD pipeline, but that's not YOLO.
by Telaneo | 2026-01-26 22:29:46+00:00
The monkey's paw curls, and the old control panels disappear. However, more than 70% of what you needed to do when you did dig down into the old control panel is still not available in the new settings menu.

They've been 'transitioning' away from the old control panel since Windows 8, and they're still nowhere near done. On the contrary, when I do find myself on a Windows machine, I just jump straight to the old settings rather than jump through the hoops of the new settings, since I don't have any confidence in the new settings to do anything when I need them to (honourable mention to Windows update. That's worked mostly fine for me, other than the two times it broke and just refused to update anything until I did some manual fix. All it needs now is an 'Never update automatically. Only update manually' button, but I don't expect Microslop to understand what consent is quite yet).
by opan | 2026-01-26 22:29:55+00:00
I used JuiceSSH many years ago, had the Pro version when it was briefly free once. I've used Termux for years now and it seems better to me. You can set up ssh keys and aliases like usual, multihop works. I think I used to use Hacker's Keyboard but now I use AnySoftKeyboard since it had better alt layout support (e.g. Dvorak, Workman). I've got a row at the top with ctrl, tab, arrows, esc... It even works to do C-a, C-c, C-v in other apps. I'd recommend the combo. All available from F-Droid.
by owaislone | 2026-01-26 22:30:11+00:00
I mostly agree with you but I AM super productive with AI. I'm working on a side-project and have built in 2-3 months what my quite productive team of 3-4 people would take 4-6 months to build in 2016. And I'm not talking to generative slop but real production grade code that I have reviewed+approved or manually refactored before merging. Like you I'm not impressed by these toy projects but the productivity gain is very real. At least has been for me.
by Animats | 2026-01-26 22:30:57+00:00
Here's the one-minute version from the FAA.[1]

Runway overrun areas marked with diagonal stripes have an Engineered Materials Arresting System. There are several different materials used. One is pumice embedded in styrofoam, with a thin concrete layer on top. Large aircraft weigh enough to break through, and the pumice is crushed to powder, absorbing energy. This yields a surprisingly short stopping distance. The aircraft landing gear will be damaged, but the rest of the aircraft is usually intact. The overrun material comes in prebuilt blocks, and after an overrun, only the ones damaged need to be replaced.

It gets a lot of use. The FAA has logged 25 overruns stopped by EMAS, out of 161 runway ends so equipped. That's surprisingly high.

It's a simple, clever system.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVSvU06_NGE
by anonzzzies | 2026-01-26 22:31:09+00:00
A mate just gave me a laptop; it is the first Windows device I have touched in 20 years. It runs Windows 11. I am assuming it's all as bad as it was 20 years ago, but going from all the Windows 11 talk I am guessing it will be far worse?

I am trying it out today first and then reinstalling it with Linux. It seems its fully supported out of the box except the cam and fingerprint scanner: cam I never use, fingerprint scanner would be nice but I hear it is basically impossible to get working if not supported (and it is not).
by legitster | 2026-01-26 22:31:27+00:00
If it wasn't eminently obvious, most of these "secrecy" programs are marketing fluff.

The actual ingredients are literally on the safety data sheet: https://files.wd40.com/pdf/sds/mup/wd-40-multi-use-product-a...

The company can brag that their formulation has a special blend of herbs and spices, but someone who wants to can obviously make their own special formulation and say that theirs is secret too.

More importantly, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. And there is nothing particularly special about WD-40's formulation anymore. WD-40 consistently performs worse than nearly any other available penetrating oil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUEob2oAKVs It's a terrible long term lubricant (because it's designed to evaporate, it actually concentrates gunk and grime).

WD-40 themselves have come out with improved "Specialist" formulations that mostly just copy other, superior products.
by rvz | 2026-01-26 22:31:28+00:00
Going to see a lot of career switches in SWE, because the majority of them were bootcamping in frontend frameworks which that quickly evaporated thanks to LLMs.

All the industry is just asking for is expert-level full stack software engineering experience (not anything niche, specific or narrow) which you just need an elite focus on systems design and architecture.

If you can't demonstrate to a company that you can make them a lot of money with your skills, they will just see you as another cost and a massive risk.

Generalists are the winners in this and CAD will just as automateable as SWE.
by bdz | 2026-01-26 22:31:56+00:00
I follow a lot of japanese accounts on Twitter. Idols, vtubers, actors, sport teams, sumo news, pro mahjong scene, artists, mangaka, streamers, goverment agencies etc. They don't use anything else but Twitter, maybe Facebook. I can move away but what I _want to_ follow is still there.

Maybe we need regional microblogging services so people would be incentivized to use them, maybe China was right all along
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-26 22:31:56+00:00
You're being downvoted because you haven't contributed anything to the conversation. You're just complaining.

This was not an intelligent comment. You haven't even identified any real problem or conditions. You've made up a hypothetical to get mad about and called yourself intelligent for whining about your irrelevant complaint in the comments.

An intelligent comment would have some sources, even anecdotal. It would identify a problem and suggest how it might be solved. You've assumed that a problem exists, can never be solved, therefore the whole situation is stupid along with all the people involved.

Not one single word of your comment had any kind of positive or charitable intent. Just pissing and moaning over a problem you imagined.
by AngryData | 2026-01-26 22:32:14+00:00
Are there places people can legally grafitti there? In a number of small towns there are unofficial grafitti rocks or walls in public view that redirects a lot of peoples mischief and desire to display public art. Nobody is in any actual trouble if they are caught painting it although you will lose your paint.

It might not be a total solution, but it could have a significant impact on grafitti other places.
by mdtusz | 2026-01-26 22:32:30+00:00
Frameworks aren't just human-serving abstractions - they're structural abstractions that allow for performant code, or even being able to achieve certain behaviours.

Sure, you could write a frontend without something like react, and create a backend without something like django, but the code generated by an LLM will become similarly convoluted and hard to maintain as if a human had written it.

LLM's are still _quite_ bad at writing maintainable code - even for themselves.
by boelboel | 2026-01-26 22:32:45+00:00
Chinese employees get less time off and many of them got less workplace protection.

The availability to good healthcare for many conditions in China is quite subpar compared to the US. They don't have many physicians. Their healthcare outcomes in most things are worse than those for Americans. Good example is their lung cancer morality rates.

Of course both these things are expected for a much poorer country.
by ineedasername | 2026-01-26 22:32:53+00:00
>entrenched in your worldview and lacking in self awareness of the fact

That’s a heavy accusation given that my comment was a statement about two examples of censorship, and, by implication, how they reflect in very different ways upon their respective societies. I’m not sure if you’re mistaking me for someone else’s comments up-thread of if you’re referring more broadly to other comments I’ve made…? Or if you’ve simply read entirely too much into something that was making a categorical distinction between the types and purposes of information suppression. If peak back here in a while in case you want to elaborate.
by m463 | 2026-01-26 22:33:08+00:00
Well, you could just look at things from an interoperability and standards viewpoint.

Lots of tech companies and organizations have created artificial barriers to entry.

For example, most people own a computer (their phone) that they cannot control. It will play media under the control of other organizations.

The whole top-to-bottom infrastructure of DRM was put into place by hollywood, and then is used by every other program to control/restrict what people do.
by timlod | 2026-01-26 22:33:53+00:00
FWIW, the performance considerations section is a little simplistic, and probably assumes that exact dataset/problem.

For GIN for example, perfomance depends a lot on the size of the search input (the fewer characters, the more rows to compare) as well as the number of rows/size of the index.

It also mentions GiST (another type of index which isn't mentioned anywhere else in the article)..
by cauch | 2026-01-26 22:33:58+00:00
Ok. First, the people who oppose don't justify everything with "apply the law". They in large majority are consistent and honest and explain that cracking down without respecting basic right is disproportionate and that you need to have a good balance. The large majority agree with the existence of law and agree that just ignoring illegals does not make any sense (they may propose better process to avoid that they end up being illegal in the first place, but also better process to treat illegals, in which case, they are literally proposing solution in which breaking the law is punished, just not by using violence and recklessness).

But again, this is a false dichotomy. You are pretending that the only way to stop breaking the law is by accepting an incompetent organisation (ICE) to act as bullies without having to answer for their actions (while I'm not sure if the people involved in the recent killing will be punished or not, plenty of unjustified violence happened without any consequences for the perpetrators). They are incompetent: they keep making stupid mistake, saying things that appear to be obviously wrong as soon as we see the footage, ...

If you really want "applying the law", why are you not contesting ICE for not being able to arrest illegals while not breaking the law themselves in situation where breaking the law is totally useless (and don't tell me it is not useless: cops and local authorities managed to do the same without creating the mess that ICE has created).
by jonpurdy | 2026-01-26 22:34:14+00:00
I use Mr Chilly to demonstrate to non-SF folks how many microclimates SF (and the Bay Area has).

Only suggestion: separate Inner and Outer Sunset since there can be a massive difference between near Ocean Beach and near Irving/9th Ave in autumn (ie. SF's hottest season).

Edit: nevermind, just saw both inner_sunset and outer_sunset in /neighborhoods. I'd assumed it was merged based on the human readable list on the landing page. Thanks for the fun API!
by marcosdumay | 2026-01-26 22:34:31+00:00
> Dumb question: whats the difference between "low-code" and "libraries+frameworks"?

There's not much technical difference.

The way those names are used, "low-code" is focused on inexperienced developers and prefers features like graphical code generators and ignoring errors. On the other hand, "frameworks" are focused on technical users and prefer features like api documentation and strict languages.

But again, there's nothing on the definition of those names that requires that focus. They are technically the same thing.
by hackyhacky | 2026-01-26 22:34:35+00:00
It's not an emergency at Microsoft for two reasons:

1. Microsoft doesn't make their money from Windows anymore. They make their money from services, like Azure and whatever they are calling their web-based Office this week. Windows is now mostly a telemetry-collection system for them, not a product.

2. People who hate Windows don't have a choice. Regular people are issued a PC and its OS from their employer, and can't change it. Consumers who buy low-end laptops for school or hobbies aren't going to pay twice as much for a Mac. And outside of HN, a vanishingly small number of people are even aware of Linux or other FOSS alternatives, much less have the ability to install and use it.
by krackers | 2026-01-26 22:34:44+00:00
The components are on the MSDS (albeit only the CAS codes not the specific chemical), only the percentages seem to be a trade secret? Basically a light carrier oil mixed with kerosene-esque solvent. I almost feel the secrecy is part of the marketing ploy, since w-40 in particular isn't the "best" tool for any job (there are better standalone degreasers and penetrating lubricants). No one who cares enough about the exact composition would bother using wd-40 in the first place.
by Telaneo | 2026-01-26 22:34:45+00:00
The amount of research that went into making Windows 95 a user friendly OS is actually quite impressive. They didn't have all the kinks ironed out, and they couldn't foresee everything, but it's was a pretty solid effort.

I wonder how much research went into Windows 11, or 10 or 8 for that matter, and to what ends that research was made.
by epolanski | 2026-01-26 22:35:02+00:00
OT but I'll include my usual rant.

I hate these socials. While some posts here and there are interesting, I'll still have to read people's thoughts on politics, what they ate for lunch or how was their vacation in Vietnam. I wish you could only read the authors you follow on the topics you care, but the algorithms don't work like that, and they post about anything.

On the other hand, more in-topic focused boards like HN and Reddit, value short-term visibility over depth. Sure, at least you're only discussing one topic at a time, but how much insights or reflections can you have when discussions die in 24 hours?

Say what you want, but good old vBulletin-like forums are peak internet discussions.

Like how in the world can you compete for insightful-deep topic discussions with something like a plain old forum?

Where in the world can you find so much information, e.g. about the Mercedes W211 E class?

https://mbworld.org/forums/e-class-w211-20/

I with there were places to discuss, e.g., a specific technology (sometimes github issues are a surrogate), or software design philosophy in general (the mail group of Jon Ousterhout is again, just a surrogate).

But these places just don't exist.

Even more at work, companies would benefit from having long term discussions and threads about product, technologies, etc. Instead we spreading (and forgetting) the same information over and over with teams, slack, jira, issues, conflunce, sync-calls. ugh