MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrtksn | 2026-01-27 08:32:27+00:00
At this point regulating it will require to dictate how it operates, I don't know how doable it is.

Which part do you regulate exactly? Do you ban endless feeds to stop doomscrolling? Do you ban algorithmic feeds? Do you ban ads? Do you ban certain words or narratives? How do you stop bullying? How do you stop the race to induce rage? How do you stop vanity take over the minds of the young?

For some reason people are expected to withstand abuse and provocations online, should kids also be subjected to that? In real life when someone tries to annoy us constantly we throw them out, don't allow them around us or kicks their ass but online you are just supposed to ignore it(blocking is not analogous, works differently). Maybe that's not a good environment for kids to start with.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2026-01-27 08:33:19+00:00
Ever heard of backup?
Multiple copies?
Offline?

How can you loose "important work" of multiple years? -- can't be important and how can somebody _expected to become management_ be so incompetent?

"...two years of carefully structured academic work disappeared. No warning appeared. There was no undo option. Just a blank page. Fortunately, I had saved partial copies of some conversations and materials, but large parts of my work were lost forever."
-- stupid: that drive could have died, the building could have burned down, the machine could have been stolen, the data could have been accidentally deleted...
and all there was: "a partial" backup.

I mean, that isn't even a scenario where he didn't know about the data ("carefully structured") and discovered it wasn't covered by the backup schema (that would be a _real_ problem)
Another problem would be of your churn is so high that backing up becomes a real issue (bandwidth, latency, money, ...). None of that applies.

And yet they reserve a spot in "nature" for such whining and incompetence?
by mungoman2 | 2026-01-27 08:34:16+00:00
Surely you understand what I mean though? I would be also very uncomfortable if forums were all connected and if the forum managers tried to bait my son with body building pictures, when he was otherwise reading about Lego sets. But that didn't happen because the forums were not connected like that.

What we're seeing now is fundamentally different that the age of forums.
by traceroute66 | 2026-01-27 08:34:46+00:00
I see you are carefully skipping around the point ....

Where is Obscura's independent audit ? When has Obscura been tested to the same extent that Mullvad was during its court batttle ?

Answer it wasn't.

Therefore Mulvad Multi-Hop mode. Or Mullvad + Tor, if you insist. Is the safer choice.

And the US juristiction of Obscura is not something you can brush under the carpet like it somehow doesn't matter.

With Obscura you are just throwing your first-hop traffic against an unknown. And an unknown that is under US jurisdiction, and hence PATRIOT Act etc.
by PetitPrince | 2026-01-27 08:34:53+00:00
> the social media of today don't seem all that much different from the internet forums of back in the day

The message boards I participated when I was a young teenager were mostly focused on a specific topic (a specific videogame or series of videogame, or a specific genre), with some off-topics board on the side. They were contained communities; village-like if you will. If you don't like one you could hop on another website that had another set of members, customs, and rules.

(yes, you can sort-of see that small village feel with some Discord group or subreddit; but back then the media were controlled by an admin, not a centralized for-profit group)

Contrast this with today's infinite feed were everyone could potentially reach anyone, all curated by The Algorithm(tm) with a vague notion of "friend" or "subscriber".
by ben_w | 2026-01-27 08:35:00+00:00
> arrest parents if they are found allowing their children to use a computer with an internet connection at home. Remove the internet from schools.

Schools, yes 100%. Likewise mobile data plans.

Home internet? Could work, but I don't know how much time would be needed to transition any "do this on your computer" homework tasks. (Are there any?)

As one extra twist, the UK age-gates a lot of stuff at 16 rather than 18 in a way that is relevant here: back when I was at school myself, an era when writing letters to the editor of a newspaper was the closest most people had to a comments section, I noted the oddity that I was allowed to perform sexual acts at age 16 but wasn't allowed to photograph myself doing those things and couldn't buy videos of those things.

And between 16 and 18, the education choices in the UK are either A-levels, apprenticeships, or volunteering; I think mobile internet could reasonably be considered mandatory by that point in life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England#Post-16_e...
by smcl | 2026-01-27 08:35:18+00:00
Heathrow is a fucking miserable place with spiteful staff and it would not surprise me one bit if someone decided to fuck with a traveller this way. I saw a girl running to catch a bus to another terminal for a connecting flight, and the guy controller her made an enormous stink about her "breathing on me". She was polite and apologetic but she got pulled aside and made to wait for everyone else to get through, got sternly chastised before being allowed to continue (whereupon she missed the connecting bus and presumably her flight). Same trip I saw them them shouting and swearing at disabled travellers who needed wheelchairs. Every other member of staff in the airport was stood around fucking with their phones and seemed furious whenever they had to do their job.

Horrible airport, avoid at all costs.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-27 08:35:55+00:00
I tried using Strawberry a couple years ago. It suffered from a bug where every so often, playback just stops.

(Another bug was that the album art Strawberry displays is a severely downscaled, and then enlarged-with-obvious-pixelation, version of the art embedded in the file. It would be easier, and look better, to just display the embedded art.)

Shortly after I reported this, they decided they wanted to turn into a paid service.

https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/1848/pay-for-t...

I was not left with a very positive impression.
by preisschild | 2026-01-27 08:36:27+00:00
Currently in my country (Austria) there is a court process against an official who made register look-ups of critical journalists who live here and handed the address to FSB-Agents who later broke into this journalists apartment. The ruzzians are completely unscrupulous.

https://www.reuters.com/world/austrian-ex-intelligence-accus...
by Nursie | 2026-01-27 08:37:09+00:00
> It’s like if children were forbidden to drink a soda at a bar because they also sell alcohol.

Errr... there are quite a few places where children aren't allowed to enter a bar, or can only go to them with parents if the establishment also serves food.

> Enforcing platform’s safety and educating users (young and old) would be much better to help everyone

It's not 100% clear to me this is true, it may be that the way social media operates is just bad for developing brains. Maybe all brains....

It would be nice to have good evidence one way or another though.
by nicbou | 2026-01-27 08:38:20+00:00
My experience with LLMs is that you can’t get them to clarify things by asking questions. They just assume facts and run with it.

My experience with software development is that a lot of things are learned by asking probing questions informed by your experience. How would an LLM understand the subtle political context behind a requirement or navigate unwritten rules discussed in meetings a year ago?
by hnthrow31 | 2026-01-27 08:38:28+00:00
Switching from winslop to linux last year (thanks Satya) I did expect some teething issues. The reality was a bit different than what I imagined: fedora kde the OS is rock solid, but the software choices are a bit lacking. Just finding a good audio player can be a pain, and eventually I settled on some foobar clone fooyin, which while lacking built-in audio conversion mostly does what I want it to.

MacOS however truly takes the cake. An OS that’s great for creative softwate, working with images, video, audio and so on, and every single music player is something designed by aliens and/or buggy and/or missing some basic features. I went through ~five different players just to find one that has a waveform seekbar, eventually finding it in quodlibet, which while somewhat functional fits in the designed by aliens part. Baffling.
by d--b | 2026-01-27 08:39:33+00:00
The man's a legend. Whoever does not know him should listen to Richard D James, Drukqs, and Syro.

It's incredible how the experimental stuff he was doing in the 90s has pervaded mainstream music so profoundly.

Also, people should listen to Bogdan Raczinski who influenced Aphex Twin quite a bit and doesn't have much recognition beyond the rave scene.
Show HN: My attempt to visualize 'Market Timing' risk (Python/Chart.js)
by codeandcapital | 2026-01-27 08:39:38+00:00
I built a simple dashboard to visualize the "Decapitation Effect" (the cost of missing the market's best N days).

The Logic: It compares a "Manual" strategy (sitting in cash during volatility) vs an "Automated" strategy (DCA). The visualization shows that missing the 10 best days (which usually happen during crashes) cuts returns by ~54%.

Request for Feedback: I'm trying to improve the visualization of the "Risk" metric. Right now, it feels a bit binary.

Does anyone have suggestions for a better way to visualize "Opportunity Cost" vs "Downside Protection" in the same chart?

Demo/Code Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/wGqOWfkMgEE Stack: Python (Pandas) for data, HTML5/Canvas for the frontend.
by KevinMS | 2026-01-27 08:41:15+00:00
Do any of these people righteously quitting xtwitter not know you can avoid the algorithms and just follow who you want?

I follow a few game development companies, quite a few language developers (go, rescript, etc), a few news reporters (left and right), an account that posts old maps, Dionne Warwick (no idea why). That's it. What's with all the drama???
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-27 08:41:22+00:00
Measuring metrics is easy, it's the algorithm on the backend that matters.

There's a reason why Oura rings are expensive and it's not the hardware - you can get similar stuff for 50€ on Aliexpress.

But none of them predicted my Covid infection days in advance. Oura did.

A device like the Apple Watch that's on you 24/7 is good with TRENDS, not absolute measurements. It can tell you if your heart rate, blood oxygen or something else is more or less than before, statistically. For absolute measurements it's OK, but not exact.

And from that we can make educated guesses on whether a visit to a doctor is necessary.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-01-27 08:41:41+00:00
> They know if their fence went from offering them $20/phone to offering $5/phone, it's not worth their time to steal phones any more.

Except that phones are worth significantly more than both of those numbers or nobody would be stealing them to begin with, and they have a value floor in what they're worth if disassembled for parts which is above what many people would be willing to steal in order to get. And then we're back to, if you need X amount of money to buy drugs, and the amount of phones you have to steal to get X amount of money doubles, how many phones are they going to steal now?

> This seems like something that the average HNer is going to get equally riled up about as a surveillance and user freedom issue.

The only thing on the list is stolen phones. The phone carrier consulting the list would have your IMEI regardless. The only information anyone would get from the list is that the owner of a phone with a particular IMEI has reported it as stolen.

The main thing you need to make sure and do is to have a good way to prevent someone from reporting someone else's phone as stolen, and "make that a crime and make people who want to file a theft report show a valid ID so they can be prosecuted if they're committing that crime" is probably a pretty good way to do that.
by onli | 2026-01-27 08:41:48+00:00
My guess is not everyone is annoyed by that, or knows about the option. It was a nice surprise of qmmp, it switches to the next song without an extra pause.

I use it with a winamp skin from https://archive.org/details/winampskins, to add to the options. Not sure about streaming support, I use it with local files.
by slow_typist | 2026-01-27 08:42:31+00:00
From my perspective as an employee of a German academic institution, administrations are still figuring out if and how to regulate the use of AI, while some professors rely pretty heavily on AI tools, so the story is completely believable. However the double naïveté demonstrated here is strange.

Generation of boilerplate prose for grant applications was the beginning around 2023, which is absolutely understandable. The DFG recently allowed the use of AI for reviewers, too, to read an summarise the AI generated applications.

Researchers using qualitative methods seem (in general) to be more sceptical.

I wish we had an open debate about the implications instead of half assed institutional rules that will and must be widely ignored by researchers.
by topspin | 2026-01-27 08:42:31+00:00
I've grown to dislike the smell of 3-in-1. It's not awful, but once it gets on the skin you smell it for hours, even after washing.

I've started using M-Pro 7 gun oil for the same tasks. Not that it solves world hunger or anything, by I always have some around, I don't end up smelling volatile organics for the rest of the day.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-27 08:43:33+00:00
> The ruzzians are completely unscrupulous.

Wait a sec, isn't the Austrian intelligence officer to blame here for doing the spying on Russia's behalf?

And Austrian politics in general have historically been very pro-Russia since the cold war, with Putin visiting the wedding of Austrian officials, and Austrian politicians getting jobs at Russian oil and gas companies after the end of their mandates. Also, Austrian Raiffeisen bank still has operations in Russia.

So maybe Austria could have some introspection and drain the swamp of Russian assets instead of throwing all the blame on Russia as it has no agency in its internal politics and business tie with Russia.
by kgeist | 2026-01-27 08:43:52+00:00
Not denying that Russia abuses Interpol, but I have doubts about this particular narrative that he was some kind of "government critic." From what I can find, he privatized a state corporation in the 90s for pennies (lots of very shady deals back then, usually facilitated by organized crime). From 2010-2020, I can find media reports about his legal problems with tax evasion. In 2021, there was a case where he threatened people with murder while holding a rifle. He was perfectly fine living in Putin's Russia until 2022, when he took 250 mln from the company's budget without consulting the board of directors and left Russia (and prosecutors also found that the privatization in the 90s was illegal). I suspect he's part of the 90s mafia who's now on the Interpol list, which makes his life abroad questionable, so now he has to spin the narrative that it's a political case.
by mrandish | 2026-01-27 08:43:58+00:00
I think the visual differences broadly break into technical aspects (film grain, contrast) and aesthetic (composition, lighting, density, motion). A lot of modern viewers don't like film grain so any director not named Christopher Nolan, will get studio push back.

Personally, I'd prefer more grain texture in cinematic images but it's the era we live in, so I don't hate on BR 2049 for being an artifact of its era. It's nowhere near as bad as the visual sterile wipe that Wicked is. I do agree the compositional energy is a stylistic choice by Denis for this film. While Dune strikes a similar note visually, Sicario does get pretty kinetic at moments - so it's not his only note.

My main point was 2049 couldn't be the innovative, style-setting, visual sledghammer to that BR was - simply because there can only be one first and 2049 still had to be related to BR. Also, it's worth noting that the back story has much of Earth's population moving off-world in the 30 years since the original - as constant ads in BR were urging. So the urban overcrowding was reduced by 2049. In fact, it's one reason replicants are openly doing work-a-day jobs on Earth. Most of the humans have left.

Ultimately, I have so much reverence for the original as a visual tectonic impact still influencing films decades later, I went into 2049 with low expectations - which Villenueve managed to exceed. 2049 is nowhere near as great as the original, but I don't think there was any way it could have been - and very few films ever are. So it was enough that it didn't insult the original or stain its legacy. And to me, by simply being good, 2049 manages to be a success on its own terms.

- and thanks for the call back to Escape From New York, a film I saw on opening night at the Pantages in Hollywood.
by sksksk | 2026-01-27 08:44:19+00:00
>This article gave an LLM a bunch of health metrics and then asked it to reduce it to a single score, didn't tell us any of the actual metric values, and then compared that to a doctor's opinion. Why anyone would expect these to align is beyond my understanding.

This gets to one of LLMs' core weaknesses, they blindly respond to your requests and rarely push back against the premise of it.
by Someone | 2026-01-27 08:45:07+00:00
Or LLMs weren’t good enough yet years ago, but the growth curve looked so promising that an investment seemed a good idea.

Also: do you have a reference for “a couple years ago Microsoft [made] LLM-assisted coding a big part of their production”?

I know they started investing, mentioning future benefits, but don’t remember them saying their Windows development team (heavily) relying on it.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-27 08:45:10+00:00
I know people who make their living doing those niche things. So what if they're niche? Enterprise Software Architect is niche. Aerospace Engineer is niche. Hell, finding somebody under the age of 40 who can write Assembly is niche.

Everything gets worse overtime. Even before AI, I was constantly complaining about how technology is enshittifying. I'm sure my parents complained about things getting worse, and their parents. Yet here we are, the peak achievement of living beings on this planet, making do. I think we will be OK without typing in by hand a thing that didn't even exist 70 years ago.
by kensai | 2026-01-27 08:45:30+00:00
"Finnish saunas, which are typically heated to between 70°C and 110°C (158°F to 230°F) and have low humidity, are the most well-studied. Regular use has been linked with many physical benefits – a lower risk of hypertension, muscular problems and respiratory conditions, for instance. But now researchers are starting to unveil cognitive benefits, too. These improvements include fewer headaches, increased mental well-being, better sleep and a lower risk of dementia."

https://archive.is/t0tUH
by typ | 2026-01-27 08:45:32+00:00
The label 'open source' has become a reputation reaping and marketing vehicle rather than an informative term since the Hugging Face benchmark race started. With the weights only, we cannot actually audit that if a model is a) contaminated by benchmarks, b) built with deliberate biases, or c) trained on copyrighted/privacy data, let alone allowing other vendors to replicate the results. Anyways, people still love free stuff.
by maeln | 2026-01-27 08:45:42+00:00
Honestly, the best (if you don't mind a TUI) is MPD + a TUI client like ncmpcpp or rmpc. Lightweight, fast and since it is a server, you can control it from outside. You can even output the stream in various format to give be able to play it from anywhere, although if it is having your own self-hosted spotify that you want, just use navimdrome.
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-27 08:45:54+00:00
ChatGPT will actually look at your whole medical history, listen to you, think and check multiple different options before making a decision. You can spend hours chatting with it back and forth.

An average human doctor has maybe 15 minutes allotted to getting to know you, analyse and determine a course of action. Which is usually "take some ibuprofen and let's see if it goes away". Then you go again in two weeks with the same thing, it's a different doctor and the context has been reset unless you do an info dump from the previous visits and try not to forget anything.

And if you infodump too much or use actual medical diagnosis terms, the Dr gets defensive because you're stepping on THEIR area of expertise and will start pushing back even from the obvious just because they can.
by hdjrudni | 2026-01-27 08:47:51+00:00
I've been copy-pasting small modules directly into my projects. That way I can look them over and see if they're OK and it saves me an install and possible future npm-jacking. There's a whole ton of small things that rarely need any maintenance, and if they do, they're small enough that I can fix myself. Worst case I paste in the new version (I press 'y' on github and paste the link at the top of the file so I can find it again)
by smcl | 2026-01-27 08:48:11+00:00
Apple Watch is pretty poor at estimating VO2 max and it seems to be more correlated with how often you record exercises with said watch than with your actual health. For example I watched mine climb slowly as I prepared for my football season (beyond 50), then after the season started I I ended up playing and training just as frequently but without wearing the watch. After a few weeks (of me training and playing hard) during my next run it recorded me having a sharp decline in VO2 max (43-44ish iirc). When I started wearing it during training - you're not permitted during matches - it recorded me having a slow return to condition, without any changes to my routine.

That said if it's showing someone as having 30 I don't imagine they're going to be in spectacular condition
by gizajob | 2026-01-27 08:50:01+00:00
Yeah it’s got out and out criminal at this point. Not sure why we should accept a £6.40 charge to drop someone or collect someone from an airport when that’s the actual function and necessity of using an airport. I got charged £100 at COUNCIL OWNED Manchester airport for picking up a friend who accidentally had put themselves in the drop off zone rather than the collect zone. Just completely vile and disgusting corporatism at every single level.
by kakacik | 2026-01-27 08:50:04+00:00
Price of water from water fountain (to be found on basically any western airport and most non-western I've ever been to) - 0.

I get your approach, but say where we live (Switzerland) if you have something not tightly around your body like a fleece jacket, you have to take it off and put it through scanner, this is default. Sometimes they still ask me to go down to t-shirt even if its obvious I don't have anything in pockets.

Not worth the hassle for something that is mostly free and probably healthier compared to plastic bottles stored god knows where and how long. I'd imagine if they catch you, you are going for more detailed inspection since its obvious you didn't forget 1kg bottle in clothing you wear by accident.
by pcthrowaway | 2026-01-27 08:50:29+00:00
I fear it won't be possible to detect any potential "commercial interests" in the output, unless the LLM companies are required to disclose them.

If I ask an LLM to write some basic application for me and it uses Next.js with settings that only work with deployment to Vercel, another LLM can't determine if this is sponsored or if Next.js is just the most popular tool du jour, and Vercel is the most popular way Next.js apps are deployed. If another LLM determines this is sponsored and blocks it, I may reasonably be upset about this. I mean I would personally would want Vercel blocked (and would ask LLMs not to use Vercel or any of their products), but many other users don't have an opinion about Vercel yet, and blocking this if it's not due to sponsorship violates users' expectations regarding how LLMs work.