MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hirvi74 | 2026-01-16 18:04:41+00:00
I applaud the effort put into this product, and the willingness to help others in our situation. As someone with ADHD et al, I'll give my feedback.

I think Indy has a lot of good intentions, but I am highly suspicious of its efficacy. Personally, I have always been somewhat opposed of using applications on distracting and addicting devices in order to help with executive function issues. It's all too easy to open my phone to use one application and then seemingly end up on a completely different application mere minutes later.

Do you all have any analytics to share? I am curious how many people download Indy vs. how many people actually use it on a consistent basis. I can absolutely seem myself downloading such an application, attempting to set it up, and either stopping halfway through or never opening the app again.

> what other AI tools you’ve tried for ADHD

None. I do not believe LLMs in their current state can meaningfully help any neurodevelopmental nor mental health disorders. Until LLMs acquire the ability to force me to do a particular task or provide enough consequences for not doing a particular task, then I see them as no different than overcomplicated Todo lists for ADHD. Though, I do believe LLMs remove a lot of friction in getting started on certain types of work. Most importantly, I already have to be motivated in the first place in order to use LLMs to remove friction on whatever task I am attempting to complete.

I personally believe a lot of productivity apps, especially for ADHD, are just distraction traps that provide the user with an illusory sense of productivity, when in reality, the user is actually just procrastinating further.

Perhaps this is merely a projection on my part, but I think a lot of people have convinced themselves that various apps will yield better organization and that better organization will yield better habits. But why do people want better habits? My first inclination is that people believe if something becomes a habit, then it will become effortless and one will not have to rely on motivation or willpower anymore.

However, the irony is that it takes consistent and direct effort to even build a habit. Once a habit is built, the consistent effort never stops, but rather, one just adapts to the amount of effort required. The older I become, the more I convinced that there really are no shortcuts in life.
by prox | 2026-01-16 18:05:06+00:00
Just to engage with your “12 year old to produce by yourself” , here are some examples of art made by Picasso in his early teens to mid teens.

It’s absolutely possible to be that good. Especially in the middle ages / early renaissance with the work you did for guilds and working for masters as an apprentice.

At eleven years old:
https://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/work-3939.php

At fourteen at his sisters wedding:
https://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/work-9.php

At fifteen
https://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/work-11.php
by adrian_b | 2026-01-16 18:05:08+00:00
While Americans very frequently complain that the Chinese state subsidizes various industries, I am astonished that they do not see any similarity with the fact that I never heard of any really big investment project in USA, e.g. the building of any new big factory or new company headquarters, that was done otherwise than after receiving very substantial tax reductions of various kinds from the local government of the place chosen for the project. In many parts of Europe those kinds of tax reductions would be illegal, being considered a form of state aid for a private company.
Show HN: GraphOS Router, designed specifically for federated GraphQL workloads
by JTech2three | 2026-01-16 18:05:16+00:00
We just shipped response caching in GraphOS Router, designed specifically for federated GraphQL workloads.

The problem we were solving: traditional HTTP caching doesn't work well with GraphQL. A single response often mixes data with different freshness requirements—long-lived product info, fast-changing inventory, user-specific context. Full-response caches force the shortest TTL across everything, killing hit rates.

Our approach caches at two levels: root query fields and individual entity representations. Each entity can have its own TTL (derived from Cache-Control headers or @cacheControl directives), and entities are shared across queries and users where appropriate.

A few things that might be interesting:

Tag-based invalidation: Mark entities with @cacheTag, then invalidate by tag when data changes—similar to CDN surrogate keys but at the GraphQL entity level
Partial cache hits: A single query might hit cache for some subgraphs and miss for others; we built a debugger in Apollo Sandbox to inspect exactly what's cached
Redis-backed with cluster support

Early results from Dow Jones: 20-25% latency reduction, 8-10x decrease in traffic to some subgraphs.

Docs: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/graphos/routing/performan...
Blog: https://www.apollographql.com/blog/introducing-response-cach...
by denysvitali | 2026-01-16 18:05:42+00:00
The idea is nice, but the pricing is odd. 20$/month (the cost of Claude Pro) just for a web interface and a sandbox seems very expensive.

I hope the business model works out for you, but I doubt the price is justified.

Also a better link is:
https://1code.dev/

The repo doesn't have screenshots, so you might loose traffic just because of that.

Nevertheless, I'll try it out - looks nice!
by emp17344 | 2026-01-16 18:05:47+00:00
I certainly don’t think Simon is a shill. He’s obviously a highly talented person, who in my opinion just doesn’t exercise appropriate discernment in some cases.

Edit: Of course, this isn’t a trait unique to Simon either. Everybody has blind spots, and it’s reasonable to be excited when new tech is released. On an unrelated note, my intent is to push back against some of the people here who try to shut down skepticism. Obviously, this doesn’t describe Simon, but I’ve seen others here who try to silence skeptical voices. This comes across as highly controlling and insecure.
by Waterluvian | 2026-01-16 18:05:48+00:00
It was. Then the U.S. turned into whatever the hell you call all that.

Now we have U.S. automakers who are derefential to the current regime's leader and are pulling out. The Federal and Ontario government both tried to somehow make them happy, but you can't make that kind of monster happy. So it's time to move on.
by roryirvine | 2026-01-16 18:05:48+00:00
Yeah, I used to have a hot corner set up so that I could fling my mouse towards the upper left and then type the first letter or two of the app name, just like in Gnome.

Now that causes the screen to freeze for half a second (possibly my fault - I have 'reduce animations' switched on, but it seems to freeze the screen for the duration of the animation that would previously have played), and then the colour wheel spins for a couple of seconds, and then it might finally respond to my keyboard input... but even then, it fails to find the app maybe 20% of the time. This is on a ~1yo M4 Macbook Pro w/ 36 GB RAM.

So for the past month I've been training myself to alt+tab round to the finder window and navigate to the apps folder from there.

I've never been much of a Macos fan, but this is shockingly poor - less of a papercut, more a wedge of smouldering bamboo shoved under my fingernails.
by senordevnyc | 2026-01-16 18:05:49+00:00
I would argue you're just not zooming out far enough. Those things were definitely a society-wide collapse, and horrible for the people who lived through them, but humanity as a whole has just continued to grow, develop, and thrive, at least from my perspective.

Let me put it this way: is there a time anywhere in the past 300,000 years where you'd prefer to jump back to if you were going to be born as a random person anywhere on earth?

In spite of everything we face today, I struggle to think I'd want to be born anytime in the past.
by wiether | 2026-01-16 18:05:51+00:00
How to measure the popularity of FOSS projects though?

Number of downloads? Number of stars on GH? Number of content on social medias?

The absolute value is meaningless in itself, but there's a big difference between a library that is downloaded a thousand or millions of times each week.
That's the idea.

Meanwhile for-profit projects have actual customers or revenues to demonstrate popularity.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-16 18:06:02+00:00
Canadians are incredibly pissed at Trump and his criminal TechBros. This change here is largely due to that.

Trump threatening invasion of Greenland is also aimed against Canada; the USA would have more and more military bases threatening Canada, so Trump's anti-Greenland policy is heavily aimed at threatening Canada rather than China or Russia. One can see how he helps Putin versus Ukraine - one can not trust Trump.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-16 18:06:04+00:00
They certainly have a responsibility towards their passengers that goes beyond their relationship with Boeing. Passengers trust airlines with their lives, with Boeing they have 'just' a business relationship.

Airlines have every reason to be skeptical of their supplier even if they do not have the engineering competence to second guess them. They could for instance look through their past communications with the manufacturer and see for themselves which advisories they agree with because for instance they are obviously not safety critical, this would then allow them hire specialists to evaluate the remainder for a second opinion.
by sebastiennight | 2026-01-16 18:06:16+00:00
If the average car on the road is 10.5 years old, and you assume a flat demand, it is consistent with the lifespan of all cars being exactly 21 years.

(if you look at a random sampling of 100 cars, 5 will be from this year, 5 from 2025, and so on until you've counted the 5 cars from 2005 ; the average age will be 10.5 years)

If you assume that there are more cars sold every year (due to demographics: way more humans are alive today than in 2005), then this is consistent with a useful lifespan of 25 years or more per car since the "10.5" average is skewed younger because of the age pyramid bias.
by rnhmjoj | 2026-01-16 18:06:24+00:00
6to4 solves a different problem: it's a way to provide IPv6 internet access to some host with only IPv4 internet access. It's basically a VPN you need to configure on the client.

NAT64 and SIIT (what Jool and af-to are implementing) instead are a way to let (potentially) any IPv4-only client to connect to some IPv6-only machine you control. The client need to be aware its actually talking to an IPv6 machine, because there is a translator (typicall a router between them) that transparently translate the packet so they understand each other.
by hyperman1 | 2026-01-16 18:06:31+00:00
In my country, there are little parks where dogs do their business. If you walk with a dog in public places, you are expected to have means for cleanup with you. If your dog soils the road, you're expected to pick it up in a tiny plastic bags and throw it in a garbage can. Violating either rule carries a fine. There is markedly less dog poo than there used to on the roads.

Which demonstrates grandparent's point. There are solutions to the problem. Nobody got rid of the dog, and dogs still pee and poo. There just are technical and legal means to keep the problem managed, even if not perfect.
by throw0101d | 2026-01-16 18:06:37+00:00
> In a country with 42 million inhabitants this doesn't seem like a big change even for canada, let alone for the global economy.

The premier ("governor") of Ontario, where GM, Ford, Toyota, etc, have manufacturing plants feels otherwise:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-canadian-el...
by Pinus | 2026-01-16 18:06:53+00:00
I haven’t studied the project that this is a comment on, but: The article notices that something that compiles, runs, and renders a trivial HTML page might be a good starting point, and I would certainly agree with that when it’s humans writing the code. But is it the only way? Instead of maintaining “builds and runs” as a constant and varying what it does, can it make sense to have “a decent-sized subset of browser functionality” as a constant and varying the “builds and runs” bit? (Admittedly, that bit does not seem to be converging here, but I’m curious in more general terms.)
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-16 18:07:07+00:00
Geopolitical / economic activity doesn't happen on the basis of friendship.

The US has exploited Canada for decades. Sometimes it's been somewhat beneficial for some part of the Canadian working class. Other times not.

China will do the same. Just from a further distance.

Americans who like to convince themselves that the US has been doing charity work for us are delusional. They've benefited from discounted resources and cheap labour.

Now China will benefit from that instead, and the US will look internally for cheap labour of its own. American workers who think they'll get a good deal out of cutting Canada out of the equation... again, delusional. Their necks are first on the chopping block. First through paying more at the cash register because of tariffs, and next because the Trump admin will be coming after their salaries next.
Ask HN: Analogy of AI IDEs for code vs. "AI IDEs" for personal health data
by nemath | 2026-01-16 18:07:13+00:00
I’ve been thinking about a parallel between cursor like IDEs and what health data unification might look like.

Today, my health “signal” is fragmented across:
1. Clinical records (EHR, labs, diagnoses, meds, doctor notes)
2. Wearables (sleep, HR, HRV, activity — high-frequency streams)
3. Life context (work schedule, stress proxies, travel, finances, routines)

What I want is something like an IDE for my body: all these sources show up as files, and when I ask a question, an agent retrieves the minimal relevant pieces and responds with citations + uncertainty.

“My resting HR is up this week — is it sleep, travel, training load, illness, or medication timing?”
“After I started X medication, did my sleep/HRV trend change?”

This could also be proactive - obviously there are hard issues I'm sure - permissions, privacy, clinical safety, etc.

Curious for raw/critical feedback: Where does this analogy break, and what’s the hardest missing piece to make this real?
by esbranson | 2026-01-16 18:07:16+00:00
Looking at Tech Dirt's related articles from 2007, I cannot find any articles about "Bush's FCC" implementing the open platform regulations in question.[1]

The problem is that Obama's FCC did nothing (also not discussed by Tech Dirt, aka lying by omission) so that only one nationwide carrier, Verizon, remained bound by mandatory unlocking.

> US journalism is a clown show

Tech Dirt is little better than propaganda, defined more by what they omit than what they do not. Chatbot summaries, including of the reports and orders in question, are immensely more informative. I suspect even Deep Seek would give a clearer picture of reality.

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/document/service-rules-698-746-747-762-a...
Show HN: Readspeed – RSVP-style reading for your own text, PDFs, and links
by adrmonlj | 2026-01-16 18:07:59+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small web tool called Readspeed that lets you try RSVP-style reading (one word at a time) using your own text or PDFs.

There’s no signup and it runs entirely in the browser — minimal client-side processing, no backend required. I originally built it for myself after seeing a few viral RSVP demos and wanting to test the idea on real reading material (long documents, books, articles).

It’s intentionally early and minimalist:
• Paste text, upload documents (PDF, EPUB), or read from a link
• Adjust speed
• Read in RSVP mode
• Works offline in the browser

I’m curious to hear:
• Does this actually help you read longer material faster?
• Where does it break down (comprehension, regressions, fatigue)?
• Do experienced readers find it useful or just a novelty?

Link: https://readspeed.app

Happy to answer questions or hear feedback.
by paulbakaus | 2026-01-16 18:08:02+00:00
Author here. Fair. Mentioned this in another reply, but yes, the case study examples were poor, and I shouldn't have shipped those. Ironically I've used these design commands on a production project very effectively, and hence decided to open source, but couldn't screenshot the real examples as the project has not launched. I've removed the lackluster examples for now.
by cryptonector | 2026-01-16 18:08:24+00:00
One reason is that the client certificate with id-kp-clientAuth EKU and a dNSName SAN doesn't actually authenticate the client's FQDN. To do that you'd have to do something of a return routability check at the app layer where the server connects to the client by resolving its FQDN to check that it's the same client as on the other connection. I'm not sure how seriously to take that complaint, but it's something.
by guywithahat | 2026-01-16 18:08:29+00:00
Isn't X still growing? Certainly it's a lot more popular than reddit in terms of users https://seo.ai/blog/how-many-users-on-x

The X doomer posters have the same energy as Facebook doomer posters 15 years ago. I remember watching ycombinator videos talk about how, back in the day, entrepreneurs wanted to create facebook clones because "everybody hates facebook", and the X hate has the same energy in my opinion. There are still too many things like investing or journalism where you just need an X if you want to stay relevant.
by roadside_picnic | 2026-01-16 18:09:33+00:00
Many of the comments here are expressing disbelief that this could have been created by a 12 year old, but people fail to recognize that, not only did Michelangelo have tremendous natural talent, but grow up in a world where, as a child, he was allowed to spend enormous amounts of his time and energy studying with professional artists.

He wasn't being dropped off a school at 7am, squirming in a chair until 3pm, playing video games before dinner and then doing homework until bed all while squeezing in a bit of time for sketching.

The vast majority of people probably benefit more from our current structure, but it does make it much less likely to have "genius" of the type we see in Michelangelo, Mozart, etc.
by vsreed | 2026-01-16 18:09:43+00:00
Ah the shimmer.care/indy site is a subpath for our main site (shimmer.care) which uses all of those scripts, but you're right that some of them aren't necessary for indy's site. We'll look into how to separate the two so cookie management is more straightforward for indy's site as this is a separate app still.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-01-16 18:09:46+00:00
I used to use a 40" 4k TV.

Now I use a 38" ultrawide, which is roughly the same width (in pixels and in inches) but doesn't require my head to move up/down as much.

I could imagine using a 52" ultrawide if it were placed further away from me (i.e. deeper desk). The extra pixels would make it effectively a retina display.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-16 18:09:48+00:00
It's not for mining, but the US built Camp Century and Camp TUTO in the ice to determine how feasible Project Iceworm would be. A construction film about the former was declassified some decades ago [0]. Icefield construction wasn't feasible even in the context of cold-war era MAD spending.

Actual subglacial mining has only been attempted a few times. Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan is in the middle of a couple glaciers and reshaped the landscape to redirect the glaciers a bit. Svea Nord in Svalbard ran tunnels under a glacier for coal. Canada's Granduc mine wasn't technically on or under a glacier, but it was just below one.

[0] https://archive.org/details/TheU.S.ArmysTopSecretArcticCityU...
by gofreddygo | 2026-01-16 18:10:30+00:00
> follow the “no politics, no religion” rule

These two are a strict no go for me too.

Another thing that worked well for me is to keep discussions very low and quick on topics like personal relationships, work, career and hot button topics like AI, weather, traffic, climate change, house prices, etc. Basically avoid anything that a newspaper would think is worthwhile for frontpage or editorial column.

I go heavy on food, travel, culture, rumors, art, movies, music, design, festivals, holidays, games. You could talk hours on stuff here, just pick an artsy cultural magazine or subreddit and keep up.

Side note, inviting views from both sexes makes for some very interesting short conversations. Both have very very different takes on the same things and therefore won't talk too long. Both being interested in very different things (think dress belts, hair supplements, birth control vs fishing, bourbon and soccer) brings some newness into the conversation.
by ofalkaed | 2026-01-16 18:10:48+00:00
Middle click is held when you scroll, only pastes if normal quick click. Never have had an issue with accidental pastes, unlike the trackpad which I do palm on occasion and cause various accidental events. You can zoom with ctrl-middle click, I used to have that rebound to just ctrl-trackpoint but in the situations where I am using the trackpoint I tend to prefer zooming with the keyboard so that binding got lost along the way. No idea if there is a binding for scrolling through the history, I never interact with my history that way, you can always do a custom binding.

>Trackpoint seems much less ergonomic and less useful than a trackpad to me.

You still have a trackpad, it is not either or. For more mouse heavy tasks I prefer the trackpad or trackball if it is handy. For things which require lots of back and forth between keyboard and mouse, I prefer the trackpoint. Everywhere else is a mix, scrolling a long website I tend to use the trackpoint but for general browsing tend towards the trackpad, editing this post I will use the trackpoint but will almost certainly use the trackpad to click "reply" since my fingers will be going back to general browsing mode. I just use which ever is most suited to the task.
by bflesch | 2026-01-16 18:10:54+00:00
The former German president has/had a consulting contract with Gazprom, and refused to stop it after the invasion. There are large groups in government who received payments from russian sources. A state minister actively worked to circumvent US sanctions.

So unless someone from German intelligence goes on the record I'd be very reluctant to believe any of these anti-Ukraine claims leaked to the press.

There's an interesting book called "BND: Bedingt Dienstbereit" which talks about German intelligence headquarters in Munich. The eastern German spies from the Stasi had their offices right across the street and they used that location to train new spies.

At some point BND learned that the Stasi was actively monitoring their offices, but they could never figure out where the Stasi was located in Munich. The BND always suspected a Turkish national who rant he vegetable shop at the ground floor of their building to be a foreign spy, but never noticed the Stasi offices used for training purposes right across the street.

So while I'm confident German intelligence has improved from those days it shows that the variance in skill level is quite high.
by calepayson | 2026-01-16 18:11:15+00:00
> In the coming weeks, we’re also planning to start testing ads in the U.S. for the free and Go tiers, so more people can benefit from our tools with fewer usage limits or without having to pay.

This single sentence probably took so many man-hours. I completely understand why they’re trying to integrate ads but this feels like a generational run for a company founded with the purpose of safely researching superintelligence.