MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DrPimienta | 2026-01-02 16:58:21+00:00
My mother, father, dogs, and grandparents were all dead by the time I turned 19 years old. I was homeless on and off before then, and I stopped living with my parents at the age of 14. My father was a hoarder and my mother was an alcoholic, and I experienced pretty severe childhood neglect. At 19 I worked bullshit jobs for about a decade before lucking into a programming gig after years of searching, and it's honestly not that great.

Believe me when I say that I spent way too much time on the internet asking for advice on what to do. I had a lot of people try to give me advice, but none of it ever really worked. Most people have not had similar issues, and so don't know what advice to give. I'm 30 now and that's still the case. You can imagine I never fit in anywhere and don't have special connections either. So I will try to give you advice on what worked for me.

Reading is very important. Philosophy from Aristotle and Dostoyevsky helped me. It's important to be honest and recognize the fact that life can be awful and lots of people die alone and unfulfilled. That could be any of us. Exercise is important, get cardio and weight lifting in every day. Eat a good diet. Don't try to make friends at work. Those are coworkers, and many of them will use whatever you tell them as ammunition in a game of politics. Always be looking for a better job, even if you're already employed. Money is one of the most important things to have because it gives you freedom. You aren't guaranteed friends or family but you can always try to make your own life better.

Here's a quote from Hideo Kojima that sums it all up: "If you spend your time chasing butterflies, they'll fly away. If you spend your time making a beautiful garden, the butterflies will come to you. And if they don't come, you still have your beautiful garden."

Probably the most fulfilling thing you can do in life is raise a happy, productive child in a safe community that you belong to. If you're an American this is all but impossible these days, because getting married is Russian roulette.

I'm sorry if you were hoping for a different answer, but this is what I've got. Godspeed to you.
Do you know why your users are churning?
by j_mao | 2026-01-02 16:58:50+00:00
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by cosuno | 2026-01-02 16:59:05+00:00
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by icegreentea2 | 2026-01-02 16:59:10+00:00
It was a misleading post.

For the HPV section specifically, there were at least two major omissions.

First, in his table showing autoimmune adverse effects, he has chosen to crop out the next column in the table containing the control conditions - which show very similar rates of adverse effects to the vaccine condition.

Secondly, when discussing negative efficacy in the case of existing persistent infection, he only quotes the data from one of three studies that the linked report covers. The linked report indeed covers the negative efficacy in study 013 as an area of concern. However, study 015 (which had roughly twice the number of total participants as study 013) showed no real evidence of negative efficacy. When all 3 studies are pooled together, the point estimate still says negative efficacy, (at ~-12%), however the error bars are quite wide.

Why this is tragic, is because these two omissions do actually point to failures in public communication about the vaccine. For example, the control condition in the Merck trials were a mix of saline injections (this is the traditional placebo), as well as injections with just the adjuvant (AAHS). This is less standard, and raises legitimate questions about why Merck used an adjuvant as the control, instead of just saline. There a cynical/conspiratorial angle to this question, which I think would be directionally correct.

The second omission is because I think there is a reasonable question of "are there extra risks associated with getting the HPV vaccine while having an active persistence infection", even when taking into account the different and larger study populations within the original trial data. Once again, I think the idea that both companies and public health agencies don't want to deal with a vaccine that requires testing before hand is true. I also believe that on a population level, even if there was a modest increase in risk in that specific subgroup, it makes sense to implement broad vaccination campaigns.

That said, I think the unwillingness of public health agencies to engage with this tricky area of communication and education creates these types of opening for anti-vaccine messaging. If you want a sense of "conspiracy" - here's a random review study - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8706722/

Notice that when reporting results, the groupings for HPV status at enrollment time are "naive" and "irrespective" - the "test positive" grouping isn't broken out.
by esrauch | 2026-01-02 16:59:20+00:00
This is very interesting, though the limitations for 'security' reasons seem somewhat surprising to me compared to the claim "Anything JSON can do, it can do. Anything JSON can't do, it can't do.".

Simplest example, "a\u0000b" is a perfectly valid and in-bounds JSON string that valid JSON data sets may have in it. Doesn't it end up falling short of 'Anything JSON can do, it can do" to refuse to serialize that string?
by subless | 2026-01-02 16:59:22+00:00
This entirely depends on your perspective/interpretation of “text-only”.

To me, having only text as the output with no ads, videos, or images is “text-only”. It doesn’t matter how it’s presented as long as it’s just text.

But I also see your perspective. You want plain defaults with white background color, black foreground color, and no formatting.
by gethly | 2026-01-02 16:59:45+00:00
Haha, good catch. I do not think that typing should fall under ageing though. And that period which I mentioned was in my early 20s, maybe even late teens. So it's not like it got worse when I hit 50(which is still far far away). I attribute it to faster typing. More speed but also more mistakes. And it is predominantly the out-of-order hit of right finder before left finger.
by schlauerfox | 2026-01-02 16:59:52+00:00
This apparently is something that came about after the Atari days where games were social activities in bars and home console advertising features boys and girls. When the NES came out, it was marketed in the US as a toy so had to mold itself to the retail store layouts and pick a toy aisle and they picked boys.
In the mobile era and perhaps as early as The Sims beating MYST as the bestselling game, started to develop a more balanced marketing approach.
by toss1 | 2026-01-02 16:59:57+00:00
Building 29 separate settings with confusing and overlapping effects is less work than making a single setting of: [Local Only]?

Seems to be a much larger amount of work to design, implement, and support a more-or-less dozen-step customer journey that does NOT work than just implementing a few switches. And that goes even if the switch must be designed-in from the beginning by designing operation for local-only operation.

Surely, implementing a simple block-all-strangers to send-to-bitbucket all communications attempts by accounts not already on the whitelist is easier than all these overlapping settings described?

Unless it is explained how building a much more complex system is easier and lower-cost than a simpler system with fewer controls, the default conclusion is it is intentional.

>>It is not a dark pattern, it is just "what is the minimum we can do to sell this without doing the curation work?"

Even if for the sake of discussion we treat it as laziness, a dark pattern created by accident is still a dark pattern. The customer is no less screwed into doing something they do not want and the company does want.
by noo_u | 2026-01-02 17:00:04+00:00
"You should remain in charge, and best way to do that is to either not use agentic workflows at all (just talk to Gemini 2.5/3 Pro in AI Studio) or use OpenCode, which is like Claude Code, but it shows you all the code changes in git diff format, and I honestly can't understand how anyone would settle for anything else."

I 100% agree with the author here. Most of the "LLMs are slowing me down/are trash/etc" discussions I've had at work usually come from people who are not great developers to begin with, and end up tangled into a net of barely vetted code that was generated for them.
by mellowagain | 2026-01-02 17:00:35+00:00
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Remote: Yes
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Hello! I’m Mari. I’ve spent 10+ years hacking on side-projects and open source, and the last 3.5+ years building production back-ends in Rust, Go and Typescript.

My latest project is GitArena (https://github.com/mellowagain/gitarena), a self-hostable Git + issue-tracker written in async Rust (Actix-Web, Tokio, PostgreSQL, htmx). I also grew Fiberplane's Rust REST API and CLI, wrote an OpenAPI -> Rust codegen tool, and automated its Terraform infra.

Feel free to get in touch to learn more about me and my previous experiences.
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2026-01-02 17:00:52+00:00
I really like this, I think I'd find it useful fairly often and I like the idea of just making something that I use irregularly but not that rarely a bit better.

But then I found it's in C#. And apparently the CLI app isn't even published any more (apparently nobody wanted it? Surprises me but ok). Anyway, I don't think I want this enough to install .NET to get it, so that's that. But I'd have liked a version in Go or Rust or whatever.
by octember | 2026-01-02 17:01:02+00:00
Bevyl | Founding Engineer / AI Engineer | NYC / open to remote | https://bevyl.ai/
Bevyl is a seed-funded startup building AI-powered content creation tools for consumer brands. We're making it possible for brands to produce high-quality social media content at scale without agencies or massive creative teams. The other competitors in the market are laughably bad, and we have a chance to build something really powerful on the cutting edge of what's possible.

You'll work with me (CTO, ex-Airbnb/Loom/Hightouch) to build key parts of our video + AI tooling. Video is hard, and we need to move fast to win. We have real customers, a lot to build, and strong conviction in our space. This is genuinely a very fun project and I'm looking to build my core team.

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by ddxv | 2026-01-02 17:01:07+00:00
Location: US/TW
Remote: Open to Remote, In-person, or Hybrid
Technologies: Linux, PostgreSQL, Python, mobile advertising
Résumé/CV: jamesoclaire.com/portfolio
Email: jamesoclaire@gmail.com

15 years experience in mobile advertising, mobile ad buying and running teams. Excellent at hacking together new prototypes and building proof of concept software.

My main skills are around databases, data pipelines and mobile ad system such as creative automation, ad buying algorithms and mobile ad attribution. I (actually) really enjoy mobile advertising, and have built companies and projects in the space. I'm also passionate about offgrid solar, self hosting, forestry and mobile security.
by jesalg | 2026-01-02 17:01:09+00:00
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by weslleyskah | 2026-01-02 17:01:21+00:00
Location: Brazil, Araranguá, SC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not now

Technologies: Python, C++, SQL

Résumé/CV: https://weslleyskah.github.io/resume/resume_weslley_batista....

Email: weslleyskah@gmail.com

Looking for just about anything on the horizon. Opportunities or career advice. Pursuing a bachelors in computer engineering at the moment.
by StrLght | 2026-01-02 17:01:23+00:00
Here's what GrapheneOS said about AphyOS: https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1893469596973220188

> They have a fork of an old version of GrapheneOS merged with LineageOS. They heavily marketed it as being based on GrapheneOS, but it's a very outdated version. Their devices don't have remotely comparable privacy, security, usability or app compatibility to official GrapheneOS.
by kerblang | 2026-01-02 17:01:38+00:00
I made a silly groovy script called "mommyjson" that doesn't try to preserve JSON formatting but just focuses on giving you the parentage (thus the name) including array indexes, object names, etc., all on the same line, so that when you find something, you know exactly where it is semantically. Not gonna claim that everybody should use it or that it cures insomnia cancer & hangnails, but feel free to borrow it:

https://github.com/zaboople/bin/blob/master/mommyjson.groovy

(btw I would happily upvote a python port, since groovy is not so popular)
by DrPimienta | 2026-01-02 17:01:48+00:00
The part about being needy is so true. Here is a quote I read recently that I've been trying to spread everywhere. It's from Hideo Kojima (insane video game man): "If you spend your time chasing butterflies, they'll fly away. If you spend your time making a beautiful garden, the butterflies will come to you. And if they don't come, you still have your beautiful garden"
by miroljub | 2026-01-02 17:02:04+00:00
> I'd invite you to look up the prevalence of STDs during the most puritanical eras and places,

Even during the worst of times with the highest prevalence, not being a slut would reduce risk from STDs to a level that a vaccine would bring only a marginal benefit. A very high percentage of those infected indulged in promiscuous behavior, despite living in a puritan era and place.

> maybe you'd change that stupid take.

Only a stupid man without any arguments would resort to calling someone else's argument "a stupid take".
by Austin_Conlon | 2026-01-02 17:02:13+00:00
SwingVision is the AI tennis & pickleball app that provides automated stats, highlights, and line calling using just your phone. Our mission is to democratize the pro sports experience for all athletes.

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by myvoiceismypass | 2026-01-02 17:02:23+00:00
It corrupts all the time - does not seem to handle network changes/disconnects very well when Time Machine is doing its thing. I am currently facing (XYZ time machine folder is on the synology):

'Time Machine detected that your backups on “xyz Time Machine Folder” can not be reliably restored. Time Machine must erase your existing backup history and start a new backup to correct this.'
by rafram | 2026-01-02 17:02:42+00:00
An “aural” deaf school? This seems like a fairly harmful approach. I know that approaches to deaf education are quite fraught, but pushing students to communicate orally and not allowing sign language in the classroom seems like it’ll set a lot of students back educationally. It essentially turns deafness into a learning disability, which it doesn’t need to be if you just allow sign language. (It also shuts the students out of mainstream Deaf culture, which I imagine a lot of them will resent later in life.) I am surprised that a school with this philosophy still exists, frankly.
by davydm | 2026-01-02 17:02:49+00:00
To find out why, go read or listen to "everything is fucked" - optimism is the root of hope, and hope is what makes people buy into faith - religious, financial, social - all the "isms".

Hope is hollow but generally drives a lot of people forward. The trick is to either remain blissfully unaware of the mirage called hope, or find some way to live with full, honest, hopelessness.
by cyberax | 2026-01-02 17:02:49+00:00
Duranta | Staff Backend Engineer | Full-Time | On-site | Seattle or NYC

We're building business-in-a-box software for landscaping companies, with mobile applications and an offline-capable web app. We're also doing custom AI (_not_ LLMs) to produce measurements from satellite imagery.

Our frontend is in React and React.Native, backend is in Go and Python. We're looking for someone who can lead the backend development and help us manage the data processing pipelines for AI training.

Job posting: https://jobs.lever.co/getduranta/50af551a-9a5c-498c-9729-6f2...

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by apparent | 2026-01-02 17:02:50+00:00
I thought about it but didn't because the battery life difference is pretty big (10-14 vs 30), and according to his comment below, apparently the battery is not replaceable.

I assume it would actually be replaceable if one were sufficiently motivated, but the fact that it's not meant to be replaceable is not so great.

Honestly if the PT2 weren't replaceable I wouldn't mind so much, since starting of with 30 days of battery means it can degrade a lot before it hits a threshold I care about (1 week, roughly). But if the PR2 starts off around 10 days, it doesn't have far to fall before it hits that threshold.

Perhaps the biggest reason I didn't swap my order, though, is that I don't want to wait several more months to get my Pebble!
by horsawlarway | 2026-01-02 17:03:04+00:00
Which is shockingly bad in its own way. For having a tightly integrated hardware stack, Apple sure has managed to trash their desktop OS. Reminds me a lot of Windows in the xp => vista stage.

My read is they don't really give a shit about it anymore because the revenue comes from mobile/tablets. Same reason Microsoft is comfortable trashing windows... the revenue is coming from O365 & Azure now. The OS is a loss leader to sell those, and it definitely feels like it these days.

Once a company eats from the fruit of the "ads" tree... they tend to degrade into "awful" from the user side, because the user stops being the primary customer - the conflict of interest there is unavoidable.

Apple is tucking in... https://ads.apple.com/
by g-mork | 2026-01-02 17:03:05+00:00
Just for sheer geekery's sake probably the ISDN talk.

For OMG eye opening factor the FreeBSD jails talk (how the hell is this thing still so buggy?) and the talk on unencrypted satellite links

For excellent follow-along value and dedication to ridiculously pointless cause the Freebox talk. "Technically I don't own this box so instead of risking damaging it I'm going to take the extremely long and entertaining route around, somehow involving Doom WAD files"

For showmanship probably the Tegra talk
by MangoToupe | 2026-01-02 17:03:05+00:00
I guess I don't subscribe to the same hysteria about russia you do. I'm far more worried about how my own country behaves, i'm extremely cynical about european leadership including this exact attitude you profess, and I don't trust the people who run this place. All of these things I fear far more than i fear russia

Look if russia wants to conquer the world, let them. They can't make things worse than the indolent ivy-league rot that has destroyed western culture. If people braying about the threat of the east want to be taken seriously, they need to make a much more concerted effort to convince us that the western model makes sense and we're not just working our asses off to suck off rich retards
by Charlieholtz | 2026-01-02 17:03:15+00:00
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Conductor lets you run a team of coding agents on your Mac. We launched in July through Show HN, and are used by engineers at companies like Linear, Vercel, Notion, Stripe, and YC.

We’re on a mission to build the human interface to AI organizations. We’re a team of four looking for one or two more exceptional engineers or designers.
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https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/conductor/jobs/MYjJzBV...
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-01-02 17:03:21+00:00
Do you handle JSON numbers safely by default or do you require that people make their own deserializers for numbers that would lose precision when coerced into Python's float type? The most common mistake that I see JSON libraries make is using fixed precision floating point types somewhere in the process when handling numbers while JSON's number type specifies no such limitation, which then causes precision loss unless people catch the problem and do their own pre-serialization.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-02 17:03:28+00:00
I was one of those kids. I got a 300 baud modem the year after Wargames came out. It was a whole different world.

My wife and I disagreed about letting my son have my old desktop replacement laptop at a young age. Of course I said yes, based on my own experience, but my wife turned out to be right in the end. He got into some pretty dark places and the toxic relationships he developed with other people his age were bad enough and the trouble he got into was real and not hypothetical.

He's turned it around and is getting the support to do well relative to his Gen Z peers, but it took some harrowing experiences to get there.