MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cdavies7 | 2026-01-01 11:49:36+00:00
I am not a software developer. But i have been progressively learning and building with help of AI - initially chatgpt, then cursor, now claude code and codex. I've been building https://thecrux.is/

I think it meets the brief - has a supabase backend, fairly complex workflows (inngest) etc. Too early to say "successful" but in production! I welcome questions & feedback
by UniverseHacker | 2026-01-01 11:50:38+00:00
Even if you are right and there is no objectively measurable impaired abilities, the things I can detect directly are themselves extremely undesirable.

I feel irritable, and fatigued/sleepy when CO2 is high. Increased breathing rate by itself activates an undesirable sympathetic nervous system response, that anyone can notice immediately with deliberate breathwork.

Also, it seems likely to me that the same poor air exchange that leads to high co2 causes respiratory disease to spread more rapidly, and with a higher initial viral titer.
by hunter-gatherer | 2026-01-01 11:50:39+00:00
I think what OP is specifically refering to is the intensity level that varies among individuals. I suspect that oft times when people train with a low weight/high rep scheme, they accidenrly let their intensity levels slip. I suspect that for most people, especially newer lifters, doing a high weight/low rep scheme makes keeping the workout for intense because it is easier to focus on being intense for a short time. Just a thought....
Show HN: Remove your data from 100 platforms without signing up
by rahulkandoriya | 2026-01-01 11:51:02+00:00
Hi HN,

I run a cold email agency. Over the years, I’ve received a lot of replies like “Where did you get my data?”

That made me look deeper into how personal data is scraped, bundled, and resold across dozens of platforms. What surprised me most was the irony: most privacy tools require you to create an account, submit ID, or start a subscription just to remove your data.

So I built Offlist.me, generate opt-out emails in one click to remove your data from 100+ sites. Emails are drafted directly in your email client(website or app).

NO SIGN UP, NO DASHBOARD, NO EXPENSIVE SUBSCRIPTION

I’m mainly looking for feedback from the HN crowd:
Is this something people would pay for?

I really appreciate any honest feedback (positive or negative).
by xlii | 2026-01-01 11:51:36+00:00
> In addition to meeting the Open Source Definition, the following standards apply to new licenses:
> (...) The license does not have terms that structurally put the licensor in a more favored position than any licensee.
https://opensource.org/licenses/review-process

That's a funfact I learned from IP lawyer when discussing possibility of open-source but otherwise LLVM-extempt license. If there is extemption (even in LLM) such license is most likely OSI-incompatible.
by theturtletalks | 2026-01-01 11:52:13+00:00
Those who tell stories, rule society. Amazon's story of starting in a garage selling books to selling millions of things was just more interesting than Sears, which had been around for so much longer.

Amazon also wasn't like Sears, they depended heavily on 3rd party sellers to built their initial catalog. Sears didn't have 3rd party sellers until much later on. Amazon just leveraged those 3rd party sellers to figure out what they should carry and sell as Amazon down the line.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-01 11:52:20+00:00
No, you did not try to understand what I have written.

The use of ln 2 for argument range reduction has nothing to do with half lives. It is needed in any computation of e^x or ln x, because the numbers are represented as binary numbers in computers and the functions are evaluated with approximation formulae that are valid only for a small range of input arguments.

The argument range reduction can be avoided only if you know before evaluation that the argument is close enough to 0 for an exponential or to 1 for a logarithm, so that an approximation formula can be applied directly. For a general-purpose library function you cannot know this.

Also the use of 2^x instead of e^x for radioactive decay, population growth or financial interest is not at all limited to the narrow cases of doublings or halvings. Those happen when x in an integer in 2^x, but 2^x accepts any real value as argument. There is no difference in the definition set between 2^x and e^x.

The only difference between using 2^x and e^x in those 3 applications is in a different constant in the exponent, which has the easier to understand meaning of being the doubling or halving time, when using 2^x and a less obvious meaning when using e^x. In fact, only doubling or halving times are directly measured for radioactive decay or population growth. When you want to use e^x, you must divide the measured values by ln 2, an extra step that brings no advantage whatsoever, because it must be implicitly reversed during every subsequent exponential evaluation when the argument range reduction is computed.
by nostrademons | 2026-01-01 11:52:23+00:00
That is largely true across a variety of sports. eSports like Starcraft typically peak between 18-22, and it's possible the real age is younger but minors are usually excluded from pro leagues because they can't sign contracts. Gymnastics seems to peak between age 13-16; it was enough of a problem that the FIG set an age limit of 16 so the sport wasn't dominated by prepubescent girls age 13-14 (18 for men because the events tend to be more strength-based than coordination-based). Top table tennis players usually tend to start between 4-6 [1] and win their championships around their early 20s. [2]

There's some lag between starting and being world-class simply because continued practice makes you better. Plus, you get much better at sustained focus and being able to connect disparate training experiences together as your consciousness develops in the teens.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tabletennis/comments/1i085sr/a_coll...

[2] https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/what-is-the-pe...
by rendx | 2026-01-01 11:52:30+00:00
"The basic stratum of the personality and the associated underlying belief systems that hold it in place derive from a number of factors: the shadow aspects of parents; the same unresolved elements in the lives of grandparents (the ovum from which the mother sprang was already formed at eleven weeks gestation in the maternal grandmother); a commensurate and immeasurable twine of psychogenetic ancestral memories; the prenate’s own “baggage” from pre-conception; the experience of the conception itself; the phenomenology of implantation; and the whole duration of the gestation period; all together form layers of affect in this self-forging process."

William R. Emerson, Ph.D. https://emersonbirthrx.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Journa...
by oxalorg | 2026-01-01 11:53:36+00:00
This sounds very close to my dream IDE, I've always wanted to build a smalltalk + emacs like editor/ide in Clojure but never got around to it.

I wanted to try Easel but there were no instructions how. This is how I got it running:

git clone git@github.com:phronmophobic/easel.git
clj -X:deps prep
clj
# now in repl
=> ((requiring-resolve 'com.phronemophobic.easel/run))
by michaellarabel | 2026-01-01 11:53:55+00:00
Unfortunately, I don't have any added insight/hypothesis besides maybe something power managemen beyond what was detailed in the article... Lenovo and Intel believe it's inline with expectations and they used various internal tools and what not but hadn't provided me with any detailed data on everything they checked or any own internal numbers. SO I don't really have anything else to add there.

But it doesn't align with the last 12~20 laptops I've tested between Ubuntu Linux and Windows out-of-the-box where if loading up say V-RAY, IndigoBench, Blender, etc, and using the official binaries on each platform, Linux has typically always dominated in said workloads for both AMD and Intel laptops. So something isn't aligning quite right there with this ThinkPad versus all the other hardware I have tested with Windows vs. Linux.
by cherryteastain | 2026-01-01 11:54:02+00:00
> To my knowledge Linux isn’t that capable on BIG.little

Android uses Linux as it kernel and runs on billions of devices with heterogeneous cores. Linux had this capability for way longer than Windows did; Windows for the most part did not run on devices with heterogeneous cores until the Intel Alder Lake (12th gen) CPUs.

Win11 outperformed Linux at Alder Lake release too [1] but eventually this changed and Linux was better on Meteor Lake [2]. Probably Arrow Lake has some microarchitectural changes which do not mesh well with Linux's core scheduling logic which Intel will need to fix, at which point Linux will probably close the gap again.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/review/alderlake-windows-linux/9
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-meteorlake-windows-lin...
by s_trumpet | 2026-01-01 11:54:21+00:00
Great article but I’d say you’re optimizing for the wrong metric here. For in game playthroughs, offense > defense and especially speedy offense beats anything else.

I’d state it as, Given any type, we should be able to hit it for super-effective damage with at least 1 move. And instead of taking raw BST, I’d take Max(SPD+ATK, SPD+SPA) to favour speedy offense.

Of course this does not take into question the thorny question of availability. Metagross is a top tier but only available post game in its debut. On the other hand Crobat and Gyarados are readily available in many of the games early on and evolve fairly quickly.

Please look into the competitive Nuzlocke community, there are a lot of damage calculations and viability spreadsheets all around, you’ll find it interesting.
by iammjm | 2026-01-01 11:54:42+00:00
A typical person in the western world spends like 4 hours on their phone each day. They also spend 8 hours at work, doing mostly the same-ish thing over and over again. Then there's commute along the same routes, and our habits and ways of life we calcify into. The brief moments of mental freedom are often terrorized by the anxiety induced by what we consumed during our phone binges. Let's add some degree of sleep deprivation into the mix. Might all of that have something to do with how we perceive life and how fast and meaninglessly it goes by?
by zelphirkalt | 2026-01-01 11:55:33+00:00
There are other approaches than ads.

(1) Be a business that makes an actual product that people want sufficiently to buy it and cover the costs, because your website is in itself the ad for your company and product.

(2) Have your small blog as a private person and shoulder the minimal cost of running a blog, if any.

(3) Have valuable content and ask people for donations, if you are not willing to shoulder it yourself.

(4) Have a community of people, who are interested in keeping things running and chipping in.

We would be better off following those approaches, than infesting everything with silly ads, which don't work anyway and are blocked by 60% or more, depending on viewership.
by rvz | 2026-01-01 11:57:09+00:00
Except that the "content" that reaches the top is always about AI / LLMs and nothing else and it is "all the time". Any opportunity to comment, he will link back to his own blog.

He even reposted the same link (which is about AI) with one of his posts when the upvotes fell off and until the second one reached the top, with the intention of promoting his own blog.

Let me simply prove my point to you on how predictable this spam is.

He will do a blog post this month about this paper [0] with an expert analysis by either someone else (or even an LLM) with the primary intention of the blog being used for self promotion with at least one link back to his own blog.

> ...which is then upvoted by the Hacker News community

You don't know that. But what we do know is that even the moderators now have "favourites". Anyone else would be shot down for promotional spam.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24880
by canpan | 2026-01-01 11:58:04+00:00
Regarding the perception of time, I have a complete opposite perception of the author. He mentions 20 as a middle point. I was only in the second half of the 20s when I first took real full control.
I can remember the times before that. But I did so many "firsts" after that! My childhood years feel very short to me while the time after that feels gigantic and exciting.

There is so much in the world and so little time, I cannot really imagine running out of new "firsts" to do.
Just I think many people never take control.
The article itself seems to be more about raising children, being dad and fulfillment than the comments and title suggest.
by ImPrajyoth | 2026-01-01 11:58:47+00:00
Great point. In a real kernel, non determinism is a bug. Here, it's a feature (or at least, a known hazard).
To answer your question: There is no Ctrl+Z for SIGKILL. Once the LLM decides to kill a process, it's gone.
My reasoning for 'rollback' is actually latency. I built in a 'Roasting Phase' where the agent mocks the process for a few seconds before executing the kill. That delay acts as an optimistic lock it gives me a window to veto the decision if I see it targeting something critical.

If I'm AFK and it kills my IDE? I treat that as the system telling me to touch grass.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-01 11:58:52+00:00
One thing that Amazon absolutely mastered was fast logistics. Sears thrived in a time where TV ads would sell things with an asterisk saying “allow 4-6 weeks for delivery”. They had 100+ years to bring their timelines down, yet Sears Prime with free rush delivery wasn’t a thing. I don’t know what it would have taken to revamp their supply lines to make that possible. And neither, I suspect, did they.
by UniverseHacker | 2026-01-01 11:59:06+00:00
A well designed car and proper driving technique make a backup camera unnecessary.

Many old cars have excellent rewards visibility without needing any camera- no camera will compare to a first generation Porsche Boxster with the top down for example, where you can directly see behind you by looking back. Volvo wagons are great like that also.

I also, as a rule never back anywhere that I haven’t seen directly just a few seconds before. I always back into parking places, and if I do need to back up when starting out I walk behind the car and look around first and then immediately get in and back up.
by nchagnet | 2026-01-01 11:59:15+00:00
Thank you for your suggestion, I agree with you (and another commenter) that base stat is not that useful, and availability is actually what I would prioritise on in a next iteration. I tried to keep it simple here, mostly because it was interesting enough as an analysis. But if I were to redo this to get _the best_ team in a generation, I'd definitely go with what you suggested!
by copirate | 2026-01-01 11:59:22+00:00
What advantage does it provide vs not withholding? If you don't keep your first block secret and find a 2nd block, you get the same rewards.

On the other hand, if someone finds a block while you're keeping yours secret, it's very likely you'll lose the reward of your block.

So, you get a chance to discard the block of another miner, but you have to put your own block at risk of being discarded. Maybe there's a gain here, but it's not clear.
by carlmr | 2026-01-01 11:59:49+00:00
>I find that the years that I spent on art (playing around, learning new things, not taking other peoples' orders) lasted longer than the ones I spent doing software development for money.

>I personally don't find the logarithmic experience theory convincing.

I think this tracks though. When you do art or other things you can explore different things. Doing the same thing for 40-60h per week is just not such a varied experience.
by spectralista | 2026-01-01 12:00:58+00:00
I was pretty much told this in the 90s that I would have no real stability in life like my parents did and my life would be constant reinvention. That has been spot on.

It is the younger people who started their career after the financial crisis that got the wrong signaling. As if 2010-2021 was normal instead of the far from equilibrium state it was.

This current state of anxiety about the future is the normal state. That wonderful decade was the once in a lifetime event.
by ReflectedImage | 2026-01-01 12:02:09+00:00
Well I don't think anyone would pay for the COBOL to Java conversion software.

Since it's no longer New Years Eve, I'm a bit more sober :p

Programming language to programming language conversions seems to be one of the things LLMs are actually good at. Whether they can actually do it or not is an open question.

CEOs will mandate security so the CSOs will mandate Rust over C/C++ and so Rust will slowly take over C++ in next 20 years. Can't see anything in C++'s defense other than it's legacy. The drawback of sticking every feature from every language into your language is that it becomes a massive security hazard.

huh? I'm currently at $1500 Monthly Recurring Revenue, so I'm currently between seeing if I can increase that or if need to get a job. I'll find out in a couple of months.
by arichard123 | 2026-01-01 12:02:42+00:00
We were discussing this last night. The solution seems to be we need to do very boring things each day, like stare at paint, watch grapes grow, etc, but then do that with different people in different places. In this way, each day seems very long, and retrospectively the changing of place and boring thing means there's a lot to remember.

I think it does mean though that optimising for this is probably not the thing to do.
by vladgur | 2026-01-01 12:04:25+00:00
What doesn’t fly?

Can you refute anything the article about thousands of rockets launched by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad says?

As another poster said the name of the terrorist group (that you call palestinian resistance) is Palestinian Islamic Jihad. You can take it up with them why they decided to associate Jihad with Islam and Palestine.

Hamas - an organization designated as terrorist by my country - another entity that you refer to as Palestinian resistance - is an offshoot of Muslim Brotherhood and is a fundamentalist Islamist organization that has documented history of targeting civilians since its inception, including killing hundreds of dancing kids/young adults at the Nova festival on October 7

Please dispute the facts with something more solid that this doesn’t fly
by pvtmert | 2026-01-01 12:04:26+00:00
Clarifications:

They still can-send and receive letters but sending letters now requiring going to a shop and handing them over. Previously, you could buy a set of stamps and envelopes (possibly prepaid ones) put your letter into an envelope and drop it to a nearby postage box. (the red mailboxes article is mentioning)

Meanwhile for the receiving end it is the same, the letters will get dropped to your mailbox. If those require signature or receipt validation, you probably need to go to a nearby postal office to collect them if you were not at home at the time of delivery.

Only bummer is that a private company is handling all these mailing operations. Hence, prices are going to substantially increase in order to keep the profits high enough.
Show HN: I built a Python wrapper to query Uniswap v3 directly
by SamTinnerholm | 2026-01-01 12:05:26+00:00
I'm a university student and needed DeFi data for my project. CoinGecko's API pricing was way out of my budget (like, not even close). $35+/month just for high-granularity data – and that's not even minute-by-minute! So I did what any broke student would do – I started querying the blockchain directly instead.

Turns out, going straight to the source is not only cheaper, but I could offer the same data for more than 50% less than traditional providers. So I built Qoery, a Python SDK that makes DeFi data actually affordable for students, indie devs, and anyone building side projects.

What you get: Real-time and historical data from major DEXs, token prices, pool analytics – all accessible through clean Python code.

My Product Hunt launch: https://www.producthunt.com/products/qoery-python-sdk

I'm hanging out there all day answering questions and would genuinely appreciate any feedback or support if you've ever been in the same boat (aka needing data but being priced out).
Show HN: Gradient – A 1-click mood journal for 2026, running locally
by ashahab28 | 2026-01-01 12:05:43+00:00
Hi HN, just launched this last night before NYE. Wanted to make something super simple for tracking how my day goes on 2026. My sister has been using this to help her with her DBT therapy, so I hope this will be helpful for people who looks to understand how their year goes.

Feedbacks or feature requests are most welcome :)
by goku12 | 2026-01-01 12:06:05+00:00
You're not very off the the mark. To add in that extra detail, xAI is using portable gas turbines that are meant for providing emergency backup power in case of a catastrophic loss of power, like in the event of a natural disaster. Being portable, they lack the systems necessary to avoid polluting the surrounding air with oxides of nitrogen and formaldehyde - really nasty stuff. That shouldn't normally cause a serious issue, since the turbines are meant for temporary backup alone. But at Memphis, xAI is stretching the meaning of 'temporary'.
by dataflow | 2026-01-01 12:07:04+00:00
I don't follow your publications so sorry if this is a dumb question, but do you modify/normalize or at least inspect the hidden power settings at all before running benchmarks? Like "processor performance autonomous mode" or the various efficiency-class-related settings, say? Or the various firmware settings, like cool-and-quiet or whatever they are?

Also, have you tried Windows 10?
by yunusabd | 2026-01-01 12:07:50+00:00
If you find the base game too easy, I can recommend the IronMON challenge: You can only use one mon, permadeath, stats are randomized, all trainer levels are buffed by 1.5x and you can't level up on wilds. Along with numerous other rules to make it harder. There are variants that are borderline impossible to beat, like Super Kaizo IronMON. Out of hundreds of thousands of attempts, it has only been beaten once. Would make for an interesting optimization problem.

https://github.com/PyroMikeGit/SuperKaizoIronMON
by aiyetanm | 2026-01-01 12:08:01+00:00
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