MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by miroljub | 2026-01-02 15:08:03+00:00
Here's another enlightenment for you:

Tracking expenses doesn't take more than 5-10 minutes per day, if you do it daily. With the correct workflow, it shouldn't take more than 30 minutes per month. There are even apps that would do that for you without any effort, though not so perfectly as fine tuned apps.

And now, the enlightenment part: how is expense tracking preventing you from making more money than visiting hecker news, reddit, social media, listening to the radio, watching TV, reading the news, or a million other things? Do you really spend all your waking hours earning more money so tracking expenses for a few minutes would make you make less?
by Aurornis | 2026-01-02 15:09:02+00:00
I agree. As a parent it feels hard to sympathize with someone who outsourced their child’s app usage selection to another company and didn’t even bother to check what apps were allowed first. I visited the Gabb site they linked to and “Communication with strangers” is clearly listed as one of the tags they put on apps allowed on the phone. You’re supposed to review them as a parent, not just assume that 100% of the nearly 1000 apps they allow are exactly to your preferences.
by Edman274 | 2026-01-02 15:09:24+00:00
Okay, people say this. Could you please, and this is not a rhetorical device, it's a sincere question: how do you keep the browser updated without updating the operating system? Or if you are updating the os, doesn't that change the user interface? And if the user interface is changing, doesn't that confuse your grandmother? I installed Ubuntu for my mom and after four years Firefox was out of date, and the website for banking she'd use would have checks where logging in was only possible if the one if the user agent was recent enough. One can fake that, but I didn't want to. But updating Firefox meant updating Ubuntu, which means that every single icon and every single menu position changes, and I didn't want to have to teach her where everything was again. How do you avoid this?
by nerdjon | 2026-01-02 15:09:56+00:00
Are there insurance plans that won't cover it? I know that a lot of plans love not paying for things but vaccines seem to be the one thing that they all at least seem fairly good at (at least in my experience).

I am currently getting the HPV series and I only had to pay my copay for the first appointment have nothing for the second one (I am assuming it will be the same for the third)
by einpoklum | 2026-01-02 15:10:04+00:00
But is that really a roadblock?

First, let's ask ourselves how many PCs have users play games with anti-cheat frameworks. I'm absolutely no expert, but if it's more than, what? 10%? let's even say 20% - I'd be surprised.

> and unfortunately a good majority of the gaming industry by revenue relies on it.

Well, it used to be the case that game makers relied on copy protection in floppy discs, and movie distributors on DVD/BluRay copy protection. Conditions changed and they adapted.
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-02 15:10:36+00:00
16 is too late. You can’t teach your kids good maturity with communication devices through abstinence. You just have to watch what they do online. Which means reading their WhatsApp et al messages after they’ve gone to bed.

Yes there will be some problems created from them having devices, but parenting isn’t supposed to be easy, it’s supposed to be educational and supportive for the children. Which forced abstinence is not.
by kalenvale | 2026-01-02 15:10:48+00:00
Thanks for the critique! Here’s a breakdown of the points raised:

-Who wants to drive across town to inspect a €50 item?
The focus is on mid to high-value, preferably niche items. Lower-value goods often don’t justify the costs involved in driving and the time spent on validation.

-Can a random broker validate a luxury watch?
Not all brokers have the necessary expertise to validate every item, especially luxury goods. The proposal is to enhance the current system by assigning brokers based on item categories. This specialization will be particularly effective when there are enough brokers for specific categories, such as watches.

- Physical validation adds days to trades.
While physical validation can slow things down, brokers who fail to validate effectively will phase out over time, ensuring that only those with the right expertise remain. It should be economically infeasible to accept assignment, where you have no expertise. This approach aims to streamline the validation process.

-Fees might price out low-value items.
Focusing on mid to high-value items helps avoid the issue of fees pricing out lower-value goods.

Additionally, this idea is designed to integrate into existing niches where validation matters significantly, like trading cards, electronics, watches, and sneakers. Numerous businesses already specialize in validating these items and have the necessary expertise to navigate legal requirements.
by OfflineSergio | 2026-01-02 15:11:07+00:00
As its obvious in my profile, WithAudio is my personal project that started in 2025. Starting Q3 I decided to plan it quarterly and write a summary every month.

This was for Q3: https://blog.with.audio/posts/summer-2025-withaudio-updates

Looking at an empty screen is difficult for me, so I just did `git log --pretty=oneline --since="3 months ago" and gave the result to Claud and a reference to the other blog post to get a starting point. Then I read the whole thing 3 times and edited that. So AI is used in writing this but this is not written by AI.
by epiccoleman | 2026-01-02 15:11:38+00:00
Do you have kids? I'm guessing you don't, because the answer is pretty obvious to those of us who do - the vast majority of parents seem to give not one single fuck about what their kids do with technology. I've known families who have a cell phone - a dedicated device - for their four year old.

My armchair diagnosis is that parents who are just a little bit older than me (I'm 34) and especially parents who didn't grow up as nerds just don't see the problem. Among the class of people who spend their time on Substack or Hacker News the horror of the modern net and its affect on childhood are well understood at this point. Among "normal people" you will definitely get weird looks if you suggest that this stuff is terrible for your kids.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-02 15:11:42+00:00
> I assume this means the reviews under "Trusted by Listing Agents" are AI generated as well?

There's a question mark here, but this is not a question, it's an uncharitable statement. You know what happens when you assume.

Try something like "if you have no paying customers, how do you have reviews?" Even asking the question helps you think about the perceived conundrum, because your next thought might be "are paying customers necessary for reviews?" (no), which would probably lead you to solve your mystery yourself.
by perrygeo | 2026-01-02 15:12:26+00:00
For a show that takes ample time to over-explain every detail of the plot through repetition and analogy, I can't see how anyone would be confused by it. It's all there in the script a dozen times over.

I thought is was a good ending to a good show. It wasn't great, but it didn't need to be. They stuck the landing.
by kayhantolga | 2026-01-02 15:12:47+00:00
These JSON files are actually readable, congrats.
I’m wondering whether this could be handled via an additional attached file instead. For example, I could have mycomplexdata.json and an accompanying mycomplexdata.jsonfranc. When the file is opened in the IDE, the IDE would merge the two automatically.

That way, the original JSON file stays clean and isn’t polluted with extra data.
by daneel_w | 2026-01-02 15:12:58+00:00
About a decade ago I spent a lot of time sailing with a friend. I have a delicate sense of balance and easily suffer motion sickness. The common over-the-counter drugs have never had more than a 50% success rate with me. Older sailors kept recommending pickled ginger as the best solution - and it completely, flawlessly, solved my motion sickness problem.

Advice for anyone who may want to give it a try: a slice or two won't do, go for a mouthful, cold right out of the jar, and chew thoroughly, preferrably on a mostly empty stomach. You'll need to have it some 30-45 minutes before you go out on sea. Right before you go out won't do, and if you have it once you're already out and feel the motion sickness coming on it won't help either.
by tantalor | 2026-01-02 15:13:11+00:00
You don't need accounting or double-entry bookkeeping to compute net worth.

Net worth is easy: assets - liabilities

You get the figures from your financial institutions and counting up your cash on hand.

The purpose of double-entry bookkeeping is to track the flow of money and to make sure nothing was missed.

But for net worth, you only need the end result, which you don't need any computation for.

The only thing that this solves is tracking money in flight, because during a transfer it disappears from your view of the accounts. There are simpler solutions to this problem than tracking absolutely everything.
by Zigurd | 2026-01-02 15:13:13+00:00
Does anyone pay for Grok? Despite claims of profitability, SpaceX still needs huge investments despite having spent all the lunar lander money without producing anything more than a render. Tesla is valued at more than the rest of the car industry put together, even after two years of stagnation and collapsing margins. Though it overlaps the AI bubble, Elon accounts for more of a general tech bubble than anyone else. Oracle might crash and burn first, but the Elonverse is the really big bubble.
by f1shy | 2026-01-02 15:13:16+00:00
I frankly would prefer just not gaming at all, than being ashamed in front of all my friends.

Also you have to consider the ramifications of such behavior if that gets public, I mean could possibly be the source of bullying and what not.

As a child we were de incentivized to playing games with the computer. The schema was:

A) computer you can have, because is useful beyond playing, consoles, no way. Forget it “that is stupidizing BS”

B) No money for games. Other SW would be bought, but rarely games.

That moved us to start spending time with other things in the computer, like programming our own games.

Of course today that is all difficult to impossible, by design, without ostracizing the kids.
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-01-02 15:13:57+00:00
I don't want to cause a scene, but if you're not running your own business, why would you do this? There are commercial services out there that take next to no time every month.

Anathema?

Yes, I know the data live in a data-center/cloud. But, don't the content of all those statements, payments and bills live there too. Yes, I know the service might go away tomorrow. But, couldn't one find the new-new service and import it all again from the banks, cc companies, utility companies etc.?

I like text accounting. It's useful. It has a niche. But, is this the best use of your time every month?

Tastes differ, but 30-45 minutes a month to hand-key data (or write the scripts that avoid that) isn't my taste.
by bombcar | 2026-01-02 15:14:05+00:00
Opinionated in this context usually means “doing their own thing” or “trying again from basics” instead of following the herd and being like everyone else.

The standard new house isn’t opinionated - a custom build with features not normally seen could be.

Opinionated usually results in love it or hate it style design - unless they happen on something that just becomes standard.

The original Jobs iPhone was opinionated - an all touchscreen design went against the common “knowledge” that a physical keyboard was the way to go.
by vitaelabitur | 2026-01-02 15:14:06+00:00
I tokenized these and they seem to use around 20% less tokens than the original JSONs. Which makes me think a schema like this might optimize latency and costs in constrained LLM decoding.

I know that LLMs are very familiar with JSON, and choosing uncommon schemas just to reduce tokens hurts semantic performance. But a schema that is sufficiently JSON-like probably won't disrupt model path/patterns that much and prevent unintended bias.
by GaryBluto | 2026-01-02 15:14:25+00:00
Although it's a lot more effort, if you care a lot about specific things being shown to your children, you could set up your own media server.

You could digitize an existing BluRay or DVD collection and allow your kids to view films and TV using a streaming service-like interface. These days most of the solutions don't even require you to transcode the films, you just RIP them to an ISO and put them on an accessible Samba share and as long as you rename the files to something approximate to the title of the film it'll fetch the metadata for you.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-01-02 15:15:09+00:00
A lot of people in this thread comingling "plain text" with "double entry".

Beancount is both, but you can do either one or the other or both. In particular, you DONT need to learn double entry to do plain text accounting. Of course, you SHOULD learn double entry accounting because it's a great tool for organizing knowledge.

Whether plain text is beneficial for accounting is less clear cut in my mind. I think plain text is backlash against the over-reliance on "services", "clouds", and "lock in", but I think it's misguided. If you're concerned with someone locking you in, it's perfectly concievable to do double entry accounting which lives only on your computer and manipulated with software that is under your control (read: free software).

So in summary, my opinon is:

- accounting: important

- double entry: important

- avoid clouds and ventor lock in: important

- avoid proprietary file formats: important

- plain text: unimportant

(I use GnuCash. It's not without its flaws, but it's great if you agree with the above views)
by andyjohnson0 | 2026-01-02 15:15:26+00:00
> Unless the company is a FAANG company or hedge fund, the UK tech scene is dead.

Try to look beyond startups and pure software companies. There are many businesses in eg manufacturing or in less fashionable locations that struggle to hire decent devs and will often pay pretty good† money.

† obviously not London/SV/NY/FAANG money
by immibis | 2026-01-02 15:15:29+00:00
What else do you foresee? A country like Chile just decides it doesn't want to be in the global internet and more, and separates? No, I think that's completely unrealistic.

If it can't upgrade in time, it might remain connected using some kind of translator or proxy. Even if not official, someone would surely run one - it's too useful and we're not talking about a censorship scenario where it would be illegal. Experience shows this is very annoying and will quickly be upgraded to native level. Note that tunneling is native.

Most end-user ISPs today use some kind of tunneling to separate the architecture of their network from the architecture of the services they deliver to customers. If you use DSL, your connection is (usually) a PPPoAoE tunnel with one endpoint at your house and another endpoint at one of your ISP's POPs - the entire access network feels transparent to you. If you use a cellular network, it does something similar with GTP.

And considering that fact, it's not as hard to upgrade a network to IPv6 as you might think. Some core routers and edge routers must be upgraded, but the majority of the network is tunneled over. Perhaps during a transitionary period, your CPE (home router) will encapsulate your IPv6 packets in IPv4. This doesn't require a new router because most of them do routing in software and can just get a firmware update.
by krosaen | 2026-01-02 15:15:37+00:00
Assuming you go down the path of allowing online anything, seems like, after doing your best with parental controls, the most effective thing is time boxing screen usage. Only so much can happen in, say, 2-3 30 minute sessions throughout the day, and the chances of a kid deciding to blow their precious minutes responding to some random person seems much lower than if bored and checking messages idly. Being nearby during a healthy sample of sessions to have a pulse on what's going on helps too - usually pretty obvious what they are doing.

But I share the frustration of the author with how unreliable the controls are. Apple screen time controls routinely stop working - especially the one that only allows access to a finite list of websites. I need to check the browser history every week or so to confirm it is still working, and do some dance where I turn off controls, reboot, then turn back on every once in a while. The reason this particular control is important to me is that, even starting with something as pure as neil.fun, ads on that site have proven to be a few clicks away from semi-pornographic sites - it's terrible! And yet, turning off all internet access is such a coarse decision that limits access to things that are generally informational / fun / good (like neil.fun, or sports facts sites).
by jonathaneunice | 2026-01-02 15:15:51+00:00
The complexity and frustration are in no way accidental. A carefully designed, obfuscated, and Byzantined process designed for exactly this effect.

> You're supposed to be so beaten down, so utterly depleted of will, that you just cave. [...] You disable a bunch of parental controls you don't really understand. You let your kid play his damn game. You become the ideal customer.

Exactly so. Parental controls, privacy settings, permission to show ads and collect infinite tracking data… The machine is working exactly as intended. Maybe there are sentiments that "the parents should have some control" and maybe there are some laws about protecting children or protecting consumer privacy. But hey, what if actually using any of those mechanisms was mind-bendingly difficult and annoying? What if your control were only available downstairs, in the unlighted cellar, at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard." We'd still be in compliance, right? Heh heh. Yeah. That's the ticket!
by atoav | 2026-01-02 15:15:52+00:00
When I grew up my parents literally had no understanding of what the internet was, nor what I was doing on it. That wasn't a problem because all the rest of the upbringing they did prepared me well to handle every situation I encountered there. There approach was to let me and my brothers learn early how to judge situations and risk ourselves and trusted us to set those boundaries ourselves.

This meant while other kids were constantly insecure how to handle a specific situation, we knew quite well (in comparison) what was totally harmless and where you had to get careful. Thus we were the only kids who jumped into water from bridges, but also the only kids in my village who never broke any bone during our entire childhood.

If you want your kid to be safe, isn't the best way to do it to teach your kid how to make the decision what is safe themselves? Otherwise they have to always rely on a parents (or other figures of authority) to make that judgment for them. But the parents aren't always around and if they call everything unsafe, potentially nothing is.
by toyg | 2026-01-02 15:16:11+00:00
Is zfs really worth the hassle, for someone who does not have time to play "home sysadmin" more than once or twice a year?

I've just rebuilt my little home server (mostly for samba, plus a little bit of docker for kids to play with). It has a hardware raid1 enclosure, with 2TB formatted as ext4, and the really important stuff is sent to the cloud every night. Should I honestly bother learning zfs...? I see it popping up more and more but I just can't see the benefits for occasional use.
by Light7Soul | 2026-01-02 15:16:19+00:00
Over the past 17 months, I’ve been building an interconnected ecosystem as a solo developer:
an experimental OS (LightOS), a cognitive/entropic simulation core (ATOMIA),
and multiple simulation and tooling frameworks built on top of it.

This started as a curiosity about atomic-scale simulation and slowly escalated into
owning the full stack: low-level constraints, simulation engines, custom DSLs,
IDE tooling, launchers, and AI systems designed as internal organs of the world,
not external tools.

The projects are not “plug-and-play” assets.
They are systems meant to be explored, modified, and sometimes broken.
Instability, entropy, and partial knowledge are intentional design constraints.

I’m sharing this to show the process, architecture, and tradeoffs of going too far
as a solo dev — including friction with hardware, bootloaders, engines, and time.

Some parts are open source.
Some tooling is commercial to sustain the work.
Links and details are in the repository/readme.

Happy to answer technical or architectural questions.
by jamesnorden | 2026-01-02 15:16:36+00:00
I don't believe it's the case anymore, but it was very common for VLC to cause video corruption (see [1] for example of what it looked like) in the past, the hate just stuck around and I don't think it's ever going away.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/144vjl/vlc_star...
by Retric | 2026-01-02 15:16:49+00:00
> Harsher chemicals, more mining, more processing, lesser life of a car and battery, less mature tech so more wastage, etc.

Extracting, manufacturing, and transporting gas more than offsets those differences. Oil refineries are nasty not to mention mid to large scale oil spills.

> EV is the way to go but is it going to scale sustainably to say 25% or more of all cars?

EV’s are already 20% of global sales, will it scale isn’t some deep question 5x current production would be completely replacing ICE cars.
by timr | 2026-01-02 15:16:57+00:00
Parent is overstating the case. Neither infection nor vaccination provides sterilizing immunity [1], but the general reasons to prefer vaccination are (in order of descending quality of evidence & reasoning):

1) you probably haven't had all N strains yet.

2a) you likely haven't been infected with the ones that cause cancer, because they're relatively rare.

2b) ...that is especially true if you're young and not sexually active.

2) being infected with one strain does not provide sterilizing cross-immunity against the other strains.

3) even if you've been infected with a strain, some of the vaccines have been shown to prevent reinfection and reactivation better than natural infection alone.

4) in general, the vaccination-mediated immunity might last longer or be "stronger" than the natural version, since the vaccines are pretty immunogenic, and the viruses are not.

But for point 4, it's well-known that vaccine efficacy is lower for people who have already seroconverted (cf [1]), so there's clearly some amount of practical immunity provided by infection.

[1] The vaccines are roughly 90% effective for the major cancer-causing strains, but it's not a simple answer, and varies a lot by how you frame the question. See table 2 here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8706722/

Also be sure to see table 4 if you're a man. The data for biological men and women are surprisingly different!
by anotheryou | 2026-01-02 15:17:02+00:00
Well that discussion talk is not an open discourse about the situation...

He quoted what he believed was scientific evidence in a private conversation that became public, has comments on fashism being efficient are clearly anti-facist and believed to observe a gender stereotype. No matter if the facts were true, it should be possible to discuss such things (especially those you think are facts) in private without getting canceled. Even if they would play in to the hand of racism or sexism if made as public statements.

I found his appology a bit weak, but I also don't see his offense, despite the messages in public being offensive and possibly harmful.