MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nickjj | 2026-01-29 22:00:37+00:00
The good news is a few lines of shell scripting, grim, slurp and satty can be combined to create a decent alternative.

Hit a hotkey, capture a region, get presented with a way to annotate it and easily copy it to your clipboard or write it to disk. I use it on a multi-monitor system and it works no problem with Wayland.

Here's an example from my dotfiles: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/master/.local/bin/do...

It supports capturing a region, a specific window or the focused monitor.
by chrisjharris | 2026-01-29 22:01:17+00:00
He's writing from a certain time, place, and culture, in reference to the teas that were available to him at that time. I'm not sure what you're arguing - that black tea didn't subjectively make him feel wiser, braver or more optimistic? And his tips for making black tea are perfectly sound.

If I remember correctly, he actually wrote that essay because there was a world event that his compatriots were getting outraged about, and this was his way of being provocative by not covering it. But I may have that wrong.
by amluto | 2026-01-29 22:01:51+00:00
Even some much simpler things are extremely half baked. For example, here’s one I encountered recently:

alignas(16) char buf[128];

What type is buf? What alignment does that type have? What alignment does buf have? Does the standard even say that alignof(buf) is a valid expression? The answers barely make sense.

Given that this is the recommended replacement for aligned_storage, it’s kind of embarrassing that it works so poorly. My solution is to wrap it in a struct so that at least one aligned type is involved and so that static_assert can query it.
by dang | 2026-01-29 22:02:08+00:00
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. They include: "Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine." and "Assume good faith."

HN is just a big internet watercooler type place where people exchange experiences, views, and whatnot. Such a context can't really work unless people assume good faith with each other.
by adisingh13 | 2026-01-29 22:02:18+00:00
Cloudflare/SES works if you want raw email sending and receiving. If you want threading, parsing, storage, retrieval, logic, filtering, labeling, search -- you'll need to build it out yourself.

We're devs ourselves so ik the first thought is usually "how hard can it be?" in our validation, we thought it was hard enough to build a startup around :) these things are easier said than done, and no one in 2026 should be stitching together email workflows. especially not agents
by sundarurfriend | 2026-01-29 22:02:39+00:00
ChatGPT 5.2 has been a good motivator for me to try out other LLMs because of how bad it is. Both 5.1 and 5.2 have been downgrades in terms of instruction following and accuracy, but 5.2 especially so. The upside is that that's had me using Claude much more, and I like a lot of things about it, both in terms of UI and the answers. It's also gotten me more serious about running local models. So, thank you OpenAI, for forcing me to broaden my horizons!
by leumon | 2026-01-29 22:02:41+00:00
> We’re continuing to make progress toward a version of ChatGPT designed for adults over 18, grounded in the principle of treating adults like adults, and expanding user choice and freedom within appropriate safeguards. To support this, we’ve rolled out age prediction for users under 18 in most markets.
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12652064-age-prediction-...

interesting
by kyle-rb | 2026-01-29 22:03:04+00:00
I think they could get pretty far with a PWA, but there are legitimate arguments to go native. For use cases like podcasts, where users can download them ahead of time, it seems like Safari limits storage to 1GB [0]. Plus playing background audio might not be as good an experience.

[0] https://web.dev/articles/storage-for-the-web
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-29 22:03:14+00:00
This has the same issue as most screenshot software, it's out of date relative to modern devices. Every Mac laptop for the last ~4 years has an HDR display. Many windows devices are also HDR. But this app doesn't capture HDR.

I tried putting up an HDR image and then capturing the screen. All HDR brightness was gone from the image.

I get it's not easy per-se. It wasn't until MacOS Tahoe that Apple's own screen capture on Mac started supporting HDR. Windows 10/11, AFAIK, only supports HDR through the XBox Game Bar's capture. Apps like ShareX still only capture SDR.

I mostly bring that up because I have apps the draw HDR and spent some time trying to find ways to add tests that we're actually getting HDR on the screen using screen captures. I hit a wall and gave up (2021).
by rulelet | 2026-01-29 22:03:45+00:00
This depends on what kind of SaaS

I guarantee you that the "moat" is very much intact for the SaaS we are building (more developer / gaming tool but then again so is this) because it requires specialized skills, synthesis and most importantly AI would have no idea how to build it without very specific prompting from our architect

CRUD wrappers never had a moat. Even the most basic viable SaaS that wasnt a micro SaaS had some secret sauce or differentiation. And AI doesnt help you get that unless you already know what it is.

Not to mention network effects. Users are a moat and if you can sell and grow fast enough and create a community, no amount of "there's a clone" can beat it. Never underestimate the power of brand recognition.
by Calavar | 2026-01-29 22:04:39+00:00
As a physician, I can give further insight. The blood pressure medication the commenter is referring to is almost certainly a beta blocker. The effect on blood sugar levels is generally modest [1]. (It is rare to advise someone with diabetes to stop taking beta blockers, as opposed to say emphysema, where it is common)

They can be used for isolated, treatment of high blood pressure, but they are also used for dual treatment of blood pressure and various heart issues (heart failure, stable angina, arrhythmias). If you have heart failure, beta blockers can reduce your relative annual mortality risk by about 25%.

I would not trust an LLM to weigh the pros and cons appropriately knowing their syncophantic tendencies. I suspect they are going to be biased toward agreeing with whatever concerns the user initially expresses to them.

[1]
by MillionOClock | 2026-01-29 22:05:10+00:00
My theory, based on what I would see with non-thinking models, is that as soon as you start detailing something too much (ie: not just "speak in the style of X" but more like "speak in the style of X with [a list of adjectives detailing the style of X]" they would loose creativity, would not fit the style very well anymore etc.
I don't know how things have evolved with new training techniques etc. but I suspected that overthinking their tasks by detailing too much what they have to do can lower quality in some models for creative tasks.
by rayiner | 2026-01-29 22:05:48+00:00
Tulsi Gabbard, who was a House member and vice chair of the DNC, and RFK Jr., who is a Kennedy. In the other direction you have Michael Steele, who was chairman of the RNC, and Dick Cheney, who was the Vice President.

What you’re describing is just a party realignment. It’s a much bigger realignment than what you’ve seen in the U.S. for awhile, but every now and then when coalitions will break apart and reform. Many of the original GOP members were former Whig Party members (which was one of the two major parties that existed after the Federalist Party collapsed). Ir would’ve been weird to call the GOP “Temu Whigs” because they had a different coalition with different priorities, despite the overlap.

In the UK, it seems like Reform is prepared to moderate on the economic libertarianism of the Thatcherite Tory Party in order to bring culturally conservative anti-immigration voters into the coalition.
by noitpmeder | 2026-01-29 22:05:49+00:00
I hate that it's true, but things like this make outputs night-and-day for me. This is the difference e.g. of a model writing appropriate test harnesses, or pushing back on requirements, vs writing the most absolute horrible code and test/dependency injection I've ever seen in pursuit of the listed goals.

Similar to adjacent commentors I've tried to be better at enumerating what I consider to be best practice, but I couldn't argue in good faith that instructions like these produce no noticible improvment.

(As with all things AI, it could all be percepion on my end, so YMMV, wish there was a better way to concretely evaluate effects on outcomes of different rule sets / instructions / ...)
by BoingBoomTschak | 2026-01-29 22:06:13+00:00
Trust is an entirely separate question, the point is that if taken at face value, the text doesn't warrant that outrage.

Said separate question isn't unwarranted though, but you should phrase it differently: do you trust them less than the very nebulous powers behind insidious "AI model alignment" or not? I think the answer isn't clear cut for anyone sensible.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-29 22:06:34+00:00
xD

that /s is carrying the whole message haha

but yeah I guess, sometimes I wonder if suppose a bot was accused of being AI, I mean if trained with right prompt and everything, it can also learn to flip out and we would be able to genuinely not trust things.

I guess it can be wild stuff but currently I just really flip out while literally just being below the swear level to maintain decency (also personally I don't like to swear ig) to then find that okay I am a human after all.

But I guess I am gonna start pasting this youtube video when somebody accuses me of being AI

I am only human after all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wKzyIN1yk

It would be super funny and better than flipping out haha xD

"Got no way of prove it so maybe I am lying but I am only human after all, don't put the blame on me, Don't put the blame one me" with some :fire: emoji or something or not lmaoo. It would be dope, I am now waiting (anticipating out of fun) for the next time when I comment something written by me (literally human lmaoo) and someone calls me AI.

The song is a banger too btw so definitely worth a listen as well haha
by sally_glance | 2026-01-29 22:07:25+00:00
I also thought this is how skills work, but in practice I experienced similar issues. The agents I'm using (Gemini CLI, Opencode, Claude) all seem to have trouble activating skills on their own unless explicitly prompted. Yeah, probably this will be fixed over the next couple of generations but right now dumping the documentation index right into the agent prompt or AGENTS.md works much better for me. Maybe it's similar to structured output or tool calls which also only started working well after providers specifically trained their models for them.
by jgbuddy | 2026-01-29 22:07:59+00:00
Am I missing something here?

Obviously directly including context in something like a system prompt will put it in context 100% of the time. You could just as easily take all of an agent's skills, feed it to the agent (in a system prompt, or similar) and it will follow the instructions more reliably.

However, at a certain point you have to use skills, because including it in the context every time is wasteful, or not possible. this is the same reason anthropic is doing advanced tool use ref: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use, because there's not enough context to straight up include everything.

It's all a context / price trade off, obviously if you have the context budget just include what you can directly (in this case, compressing into a AGENTS.md)
by zeagle | 2026-01-29 22:08:01+00:00
It was ServaRICA as someone else suggested. It was a Black Friday hybrid VPS deal from a few years ago, looks like they still have comparable stuff on their site. For the cost I would generally assume anything important needs to be duplicated in case the company folds or a fire unless you pay them for such a service. (I don't have any vested interest in suggesting them.)
by dang | 2026-01-29 22:08:04+00:00
Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

(Submitted title was "OTelBench: AI struggles with simple SRE tasks (Opus 4.5 scores only 29%)")
by directevolve | 2026-01-29 22:08:20+00:00
I will say that my LMHNP ordered a blood test for me during my ADHD evaluation. I live in the Pacific Northwest and had a serious vitamin D deficiency, apparently like everyone else who doesn’t supplement. also got me started monitoring my blood pressure.

I can definitely tell that the Adderall I was prescribed had an immediate, huge benefit. Not sure about the vitamin D.

But I really appreciated that he took a wide angle look at my health.
by europeanNyan | 2026-01-29 22:08:41+00:00
After they pushed the limits on the Thinking models to 3000 per week, I haven't touched anything else. I am really satisfied with their performance and the 200k context windows is quite nice.

I've been using Gemini exclusively for the 1 million token context window, but went back to ChatGPT after the raise of the limits and created a Project system for myself which allows me to have much better organization with Projects + only Thinking chats (big context) + project-only memory.

Also, it seems like Gemini is really averse to googling (which is ironic by itself) and ChatGPT, at least in the Thinking modes loves to look up current and correct info. If I ask something a bit more involved in Extended Thinking mode, it will think for several minutes and look up more than 100 sources. It's really good, practically a Deep Research inside of a normal chat.
by aggeeinn | 2026-01-29 22:08:41+00:00
Hello HN,

I built a dashboard to track Nipah Virus (NiV) spillover events in India and Bangladesh because official data is often buried in PDFs or local vernacular news.

The Architecture (Running for $0/mo):

Frontend: Static HTML/Tailwind hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

Backend: A Cloudflare Worker triggered by a Cron job (every 4 hours).

Ingestion: Scrapes RSS feeds for keywords related to encephalitis and NiV.

Analysis: Passes headlines to Google Gemini 1.5 Flash (via free API) to extract location data and filter out noise.

Database: Google Sheets (fetched as CSV). The AI drafts rows as "Pending," and I manually flip them to "Active" to update the map.

Why I built it: Existing global maps often lag by days. By using LLMs to parse local news, I can often detect "Active Clusters" 24-48 hours before they appear on global health aggregate sites.

Link: https://nipahwatch.com

Feedback on the "Sheet-as-Database" approach or the visualization is welcome.
by russellbeattie | 2026-01-29 22:08:54+00:00
That "bloatware" is just alternatives to Google's software and systems, and much of it isn't bad, if not better.

I prefer the Gallery app over Google Photos, the Samsung My Files app is cleaner than Google Files, Studio is a decent video editor, Samsung Notes is a capable rich text editor with pen support, Dex is a usable desktop shell, and more. Anything I don't like - like Bixby, Store, Keyboard, Wallet, Pass and Internet - I can easily replace and even hide them in the Settings. Combined they take up minimal storage.

I'm not sure what people expect Samsung to do, just use whatever Google says to use and not try to innovate?
by ndriscoll | 2026-01-29 22:09:14+00:00
I find that generally it does alright picking up the style of what exists on its own, so this is more important if it's writing something completely from scratch.

I think also "how to write code" is a matter of taste. e.g. in many ways I think I and a Laravel or Rails developer would each think that the other person's code is bad. e.g. as a small-ish thing, I think test-driven development sounds like a massive waste of time, but type-driven development is a huge productivity multiplier and makes the code a lot clearer. I'm sure that I have massive disagreements with e.g. the Go maintainers about what is straightforward.
by defrost | 2026-01-29 22:09:15+00:00
Thanks for the response, I'm happy to engage, although I almost missed this as you're well over the fold in my comment history and I have no mechanism for alerting me to replies (nor, I might add, am I looking for one).

With the preamble that I'm not a US citizen, have never thought to apply to be one, have been in and out of the US and many other countries a number of times, and don't play favourites with POTUS(n) on the basis of their asserted party ticket; ...

The upstream question and context here concerns differences between administrations wrt home soil immigration policy, to which I've been focused.

As points of note:

* Allegations of POTUS(X) boasting behind doors are a difference of behaviour from that of POTUS(Y) coming right out and stating they can freely kill in Times Square and get away with while glorifying the deaths of citizens in public and promising perpertrators they'll get away with it and have immunity.

* I'm no fan of remote double tap kills. Full stop. That said;

* POTUS(X) authorising kills in an "inherited" known and ongoing "war zone" known to all is distinct from POTUS(Y) authorising double tap kills from unmarked airframes of civilians in international waters prior to any declaration of war (via Congress or not).

* Regardless, the offshore behaviour of any POTUS is distinct from their behaviour toward their own citizens within their country.

In the arc of all the shitty behaviour by post WW POTUS(n) candidates, the current incumbent has significantly levelled up to achieve Kissinger level disregard for human life on home soil for purely political gain .. and played that hand badly.

That aside, I'm not a Communist - but I do admire Ash Sarkar's shut down of idiotic Obama / Trump faux dichotomy posings by a pompous right wing media pundit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD7Ol0gz11k

I equally admire our PM's "off the cuff" (approximately 15 mins rough note prep time) strip down of an opposition one time PM attempting to pin a third parties bad behaviour on the sitting government on the basis of them making no comment until after a Court case had completed (as per the law here) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNuPcf8L00

It's not relevant to immigration policy, but it is a good example of off the cuff professional level political debate in sitting government.
by grokx | 2026-01-29 22:09:22+00:00
A few years ago, I started again to attend regularly to concerts, and often in small / mid size local rooms, with an audience from perhaps 50 to a few hundred people.

Those are much more meaningful to me than those giant stadiums where you watch the band on giant screens. These thoughts will seem obvious, but smaller spaces with a limited audience are really warmer. You feel much closer to the artists, you are sharing emotions, sometimes the artist comes playing or singing in the middle of the audience. Things happen! A guitar string breaks, a drum falls, the singer goes out of tune. This is real live music!
by nobody9999 | 2026-01-29 22:09:50+00:00
>I am not talking about your rights: this is a strawman argument.

Whose rights should I be talking/concerned about? Are my rights unimportant? Shall we just go ahead and strip me of my citizenship because I'm not talking about what you want me to talk about?

It's literally the question I asked and your position on that specific question I wanted to understand. I did not misrepresent your belief/argument, rather I asked you to elucidate your thoughts on a specific question.[1]

That's not a strawman argument, that's being curious about your beliefs and understanding of the laws of the United States.

In fact, your initial reply to my comment was, in fact, a straw man as you argued against a claim that I never made -- that somehow asking about the rights of the children, their age is irrelevant, as everyone is someone's child, of immigrants only related to the minor children of undocumented immigrants -- I made no such claim, except in the straw man you set up.

If you didn't want to answer that question, you were under no obligation to reply to me at all. Yet you chose to do so and argue against a claim I never made.

So it was you, not me who engaged in "refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

[1] I suppose that my question could (as you apparently did) be considered a non-sequitur. Definitely not a straw man, as I didn't argue for or against anything. Rather,I asked for your beliefs/understanding of US law and the US Constitution.

Edit: Clarified the difference between a straw man and a non-sequitur -- in case GP's first language isn't English.
by WinstonSmith84 | 2026-01-29 22:09:55+00:00
Maybe try Spectacle. I use the OOTB Spectacle app on Fedora KDE. It has the same features as Flameshot and is .. well, native.

But on my Mac, I use indeed Flameshot, it's not ideal (the window is "shrinking" when a screenshot is captured), but it's better than any alternative I tried.
by snapplebobapple | 2026-01-29 22:10:22+00:00
It's weird to see people discussing this from a "we're richer so we live alone because roommates are risky" angle instead of the actual angle of this being an indicator of the slow death of society because it indicates the increasing number of people that never grew up, formed a pair bond and had kids (and also the failure of many of those pair bonds ending in divorce and one or both sides of the pair living alone depending on if they had kids or not.
by thorum | 2026-01-29 22:10:46+00:00
The article presents AGENTS.md as something distinct from Skills, but it is actually a simplified instance of the same concept. Their AGENTS.md approach tells the AI where to find instructions for performing a task. That’s a Skill.

I expect the benefit is from better Skill design, specifically, minimizing the number of steps and decisions between the AI’s starting state and the correct information. Fewer transitions -> fewer chances for error to compound.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-29 22:10:53+00:00
I imagine it's already happening, but not at price points most of us would ever afford.

I.e. I'm not really going to pay lots of money to, say, 1) find a doctor that does not use AI as part of their work, and 2) legally/contractually enforce this is the case. However, I can imagine a government agency or a large company contracting out to some think tank or research organization, and paying through the nose to get a legally binding guarantee that no AI will be used as part of that work.
Ask HN: How do solid products get noticed once the launch hype is gone?
by skicoachapp | 2026-01-29 22:10:58+00:00
I’m asking this as a builder, not looking to promote anything.

I’ve built a product that actually works. It’s live, people use it, and a few even pay. Nothing viral, nothing explosive — just something solid that solves a real problem.

What I didn’t expect is how quiet everything gets after that.

No launch spike.
No obvious moment where things “take off”.
Just slow progress and very little external signal.

I’m deliberately not doing growth hacks, paid ads, or aggressive self-promotion. I’m also not chasing VC or hype cycles. I’m trying to understand something more basic:

For those of you who’ve been here before — what actually helped your product get noticed by the right people once it was already live but quiet?

Not “how to get more users fast”, but:

how did it start getting mentioned?

reviewed?

talked about outside your own bubble?

Was it writing?
Direct outreach?
Time and consistency?
Something unexpected?

I’m genuinely curious about real experiences, not theory.

Thanks.