MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gazpacho | 2026-01-01 16:14:25+00:00
Love this take!

Modern society is too narrow minded about what wealth means. To most people it means fancy watches, cars, homes, etc. To me wealth is about time and freedom. I can pick up the tab at dinner for a group of 12. I can afford to keep my 1972 Schwinn bicycle in tip top shape or my grandfather's jacket mended when it breaks. I can afford to rent forever if I want. I'll never work a job I don't like, I can just quit. I feel more wealthy this way than if I owned 3 lambos and had to work to make ends meet.
by anttiharju | 2026-01-01 16:14:35+00:00
re: forks for one person

I've recently started to contribute to open source, mostly just to add some tiny feature or such

I did not realise before this that getting your changes upstreamed can take a long time. Now I have even more respect for the likes of Asahi Linux. The code reviews usually improve the change a lot but it's not like coding at a company where best case you are able to get multiple changes deployed a day on repos your team does not even own.

But I feel it's worth the effort. For as long as my changes are not upstreamed I can keep using the forked version or just tolerate not being able to do something.

But the major issue I keep running into is how the build setup is painful. This is where Nix really comes to the rescue though. I can import the nixpkgs setup for the given project, point it to my forl/branch, and rebuild the software into my cachix for use in dev shells and containers.

I wish more people used nix. I would love to see it getting adopted as a backend for other package managers. Just maintaing a binary cache for your distro and it would be more or less the same.

But I suppose there are arguments against a monoculture as well.
Show HN: mac-cleanup-go – an interactive macOS cleanup tool
by immutable000 | 2026-01-01 16:15:07+00:00
Instead of a traditional command-style CLI, it runs as a TUI in the terminal,
allowing users to inspect cleanup targets before proceeding.

On my macOS machines, caches and app data often take up more than 40% of disk usage.
Manually cleaning them each time felt tedious, so I built this tool to make the process easier.

While similar tools exist, I found it hard to quickly understand how items were categorized
or how important each cleanup target was, so I built my own.

Repository:
https://github.com/2ykwang/mac-cleanup-go

Feedback is welcome.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-01-01 16:15:18+00:00
That's what I sometimes do when a consent banner/popup/whatever seems disingenious/dishonest/illegal. I use uBlock Origin element zapper, and I hope that the element doesn't have bullshit random id/class or that its position in the document doesn't change every time I load the page. However, if a website is so broken, that those things happen, maybe it is not worth for me to visit it, and if I am breaking something by trying to block their sleazy non-conforming "consent" dialog, then that's on them and I consider their site garbage and broken.
by throw4847285 | 2026-01-01 16:15:19+00:00
This is the most jaundiced, obviously false, and self-pitying statement I have maybe ever encountered. Have you seen a group of people paint Warhammer figurines together? Or do Gunpla? Or play a roleplaying game? Are they cool and attractive? No! Are they having fun and bonding? Yes! The only incentive one would ever have to deny this is self-loathing covering up a fear of rejection. Go out there and do something dorky with people.
by simonw | 2026-01-01 16:15:55+00:00
The problem with sandboxing solutions is that they have to provide very solid guarantees that code can't escape the sandbox, which is really difficult to do.

Any time I'm evaluating a sandbox that's what I want to see: evidence that it's been robustly tested against all manner of potential attacks, accompanied by detailed documentation to help me understand how it protects against them.

This level of documentation is rare! I'm not sure I can point to an example that feels good to me.

So the next thing I look for is evidence that the solution is being used in production by a company large enough to have a dedicated security team maintaining it, and with real money on the line for if the system breaks.
by saghm | 2026-01-01 16:16:21+00:00
When visiting my parents a couple weeks ago who live closer to where I grew up, my dad mentioned he recently visited one of the Sears stores that we used to go to sometimes when I was at kid. He said the store seemed to be only half full of inventory, with entire display shelves empty, and he couldn't understand why it was even being keep open at all.
by machomaster | 2026-01-01 16:16:27+00:00
Muscle memory is a real thing.

Gaining it is hard and slow, but once you do it, you can easily maintain it with very low volume (1 time a week with very reduced volume/weights). And even if you don't train for years/decades, you still rapidly get it back once you start again.

That's why one of the best investments in people health should be weight training during the teenage years/20s. Getting muscles and strength is the easiest at that point of life, and you will reap the benefits for the rest of one's life.
by cfn | 2026-01-01 16:16:45+00:00
I had no idea that would be the cost of a ferry albeit old. We have a massive problem with transportation between islands due to lack of ships/investment. For example, out of the 9 islands only three have daily voyages and right now even that isn't happening as one boat broke down and another is away on maintenance. We could do we a couple even old ones.

The main issue I saw here with the electric ferry was that 90% of the installed generation in the islands uses HFO so we would be charging the ferry with a fuel that pollutes more than the diesel used to run it.
by pavel_lishin | 2026-01-01 16:17:21+00:00
> - if you don't have a club or org for something that you're into, go start one

This is how I met most of my local friends; I went out and started a D&D game.

D&D is slightly tricky, because most people want to play a character, instead of be the DM - so, you either need to find a DM, or be the DM. I'm lucky - I love DMing.

Another problem is maybe similar to what OP was facing; I see many people joining our local Discord, looking for a game, but none of them or the people welcoming them seem to take the actual next step of picking a time and a place to meet and start discussing where and when to actually play.
by maxandersen | 2026-01-01 16:17:49+00:00
There is already a lot of Java in agentic systems and IDE integrations — but that alone won’t break the stereotype.

The real blocker isn’t capability, it’s perception: many people stop before even trying Java in the terminal. All while Python/JS are seeing a surge in terminal tooling, despite similar (or worse) startup cost, dependency sprawl, and multi-GB installs — and the reaction there is often “this is fine, let’s ship and use.”

Until Java is visibly normal in the terminal, agentic features in IDEs won’t change that mental model.
Ask HN: A self populating task list
by Vishal19111999 | 2026-01-01 16:18:06+00:00
I've this idea to build a self-populating task list.

It will connect to Gmail, Slack, Jira, Meetings and populate and maintain itself.

It will also prioritize tasks, gather context, and provide assistance in finishing them.

Need views on this, and would you like to have/pay for something like this?

All opinions would be helpful at this stage, thanks.
by jodrellblank | 2026-01-01 16:18:21+00:00
> "I forgot to mention in my original post. I'd also rate limit purchases. Maybe only allow purchasing one per visit."

I assume these scratch cards would be available everywhere Lotto scratchcards are - supermarkets, gas stations, convenience stores, tobacconists, newsagents - because it needs to be available and convenient for everyone to agree to it.

Since the ID is not recorded anywhere during purchase, some bored person can drive around and buy dozens of them on the same day for non-valid use cases.

But rate-limiting one per site means a valid use cases are blocked - adult kid wants their parents and grandparents to sign up to a new social network (Signal-style) and mom says she will get everyone a token while doing the shopping. She can't. Adult carer tries to buy a token for themselves and the person they care for in one visit. They can't. Small business employer wants employees to use a new WhatsApp style chat app and buy tokens for their employees. They can't.

None of the design stops mom-who-doesn't-care from buying a token and giving it to whiny-kid-who-wont-shut-up for their "FortnighTik thingy", or kid from asking grandma for a "scratch off token" for Christmas, or whatever.
by gregors | 2026-01-01 16:18:28+00:00
While it is true you can get extended support, their website states the following

>>>> Extended Security Updates for organizations and businesses on Windows 10 can be purchased today through the Microsoft Volume Licensing Program, at $61 USD per device for Year One. For more information, see When to use Windows 10 Extended Security Updates. The price doubles every consecutive year, for a maximum of three years. ESU is available at no additional cost for Windows 10 virtual machines in the following services

Maybe if you log in they just give it to you? It certainly seems like it's pay to play from the documentation quoted (I'm located in the US). Also, while I'm completely open to debate the exact definition of "official support", Microsoft's own marketing states that Win10 is no longer supported and they advise you to move to a supported version, or enroll in extended support as a temporary bridge to Win11.

>>>> Windows 10 support has ended on October 14, 2025

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-suppo...
Atoqu – A Zero‑Dependency, GPU‑Accelerated Search Engine Core
by JavadInteger | 2026-01-01 16:18:28+00:00
Atoqu is a new open‑source Search Engine Core written in pure C++17 with zero external dependencies.

It implements:
- Atomic modular architecture
- Multi‑mode ranking (Literal, Vector, Hybrid, BM25, Recency, TagBoost)
- GPU‑accelerated vector search (CUDA + OpenCL)
- Embedding providers (LLM‑ready)
- Forward‑compatibility engine (OLFCE)
- Full documentation (Doxygen + Sphinx)
- CI/CD, sanitizers, static analysis

No Lucene, no JVM, no Python, no FAISS.

We’re preparing the v1.2 release and would like community input on:

1. *License choice:* Apache v2.0, MPL 2.0, GPLv3, AGPLv3
2. *Performance expectations:* How fast do you think it is vs Google’s core?
3. *Feature priorities for v2.0:* distributed indexing, crawler, query planner, etc.

When v1.2 is released, we welcome code review, benchmarks, issues, and contributions.

Link to repo will be posted at release.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-01 16:18:38+00:00
Sure, and 400 deadlift is decent intermediate for the average man, but let me suggest a counterpoint. Strength is the greatest indication of health among the elderly. A strong old man doesn't break his hip when he falls, he doesn't fall at all actually because strength is balance, and he doesn't have trouble getting off the toilet, and he doesn't need a cane. These are serious QOL issues.

It's a mindset issue. If you're 25 and have already declined from 425 to 225 deadlift, that doesn't bode well for your decline into old age. Strength slowly tapers off once you stop lifting, as most eventually do. You want to be as strong as possible while entering middle age so that you can be a strong old man. Strength is like a retirement account in this sense, and in this sense you are advocating for working minimum wage throughout life because it's easier. For a young man, whose training is most efficacious of all age groups, I recommend getting as strong as possible, at least 400 deadlift and symmetrical equivalent in other lifts (but most can achieve 500), and then maintaining that strength as long as possible, not cutting it in half immediately. If you can lift 350 at age 55 you're pretty much guaranteed to never break your hip or have a bad fall; that entire class of osteo related issues vanishes.
by jprokay13 | 2026-01-01 16:18:53+00:00
I’m in a similar boat. Many artists I listen to on Bandcamp offer cassettes(!) at a fair price and will charge a comparable price for the digital. However, I’ve seen some artists charge thousands for digital only but $10 for a tape that includes the digital version.

I don’t know why they do this, but I do know I have an ever growing stack of tapes I can’t listen to…
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2026-01-01 16:19:03+00:00
I miss that about dorm life in college. For 4 years I lived in an arcology with people who were the same age and economic class as me. Since the commute to anyone's place was 1-5 minutes on foot, you could get food, watch a movie, and drop out whenever without worrying about the sunk cost of fucking driving 15 minutes in a car-centric city from one detached SFH to another detached SFH.

I miss the arco. I miss the arco a lot.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-01 16:19:59+00:00
> Surely if that were the case, numerical implementations would first convert a radian input to cycles before doing whatever polynomial/rational approximation they like, but I've never seen one like that.

Then you have not examined the complete implementation of the function.

The polynomial/rational approximation mentioned by you is valid only for a small range of the possible input arguments.

Because of this, the implementation of any exponential/logarithmic/trigonometric function starts by an argument range reduction, which produces a value inside the range of validity of the approximating expression, by exploiting some properties of the function that must be computed.

In the case of trigonometric functions, the argument must be reduced first to a value smaller than a cycle, which is equivalent to a conversion from radians to cycles and then back to radians. This reduction, and the rounding errors associated with it, is avoided when the function uses arguments already expressed in cycles, so that the reduction is done exactly by just taking the fractional part of the argument.

Then the symmetry properties of the specific trigonometric function are used to further reduce the range of the argument to one fourth or one eighth of a cycle. When the argument had been expressed in cycles this is also an exact operation, otherwise it can also introduce rounding errors, because adding or subtracting Pi or its submultiples cannot be done exactly.
by Semaphor | 2026-01-01 16:20:04+00:00
> (which a lot of artists do)

And those who don’t almost always only set a minimum price, so you can still pay more if you want. And if you buy on BC Friday [0] (next is February 6th), Bandcamp doesn’t even take a cut of the revenue.

[0]: https://isitbandcampfriday.com/
by iamnothere | 2026-01-01 16:20:29+00:00
As someone who used to have a highly active social life and now finds IRL socializing to be mostly a dull chore, I always find it confusing to see so many people commenting to the contrary. My partner is slightly more social than me and gets out slightly more than I do, but generally we are homebodies and we like it that way.

Other people (at least in this country) are generally emotionally messy, unwilling to tolerate people with radically different views/values, and either intellectually lacking or overly predictable in their interests. The few times I find a candidate who isn’t like this, they usually have some kind of personality disorder that makes them too unstable for long-term friendship. When I was younger I often looked past this, but there’s only so many times you are willing to let a human wrecking ball into your life.

A good book is almost always better. The life of a deep reader and casual hobbyist is rich and fulfilling if your romantic needs are satisfied at home. I do not miss my former social life at all.

Just leaving this out there for any other wayward souls who may be annoyed by the conversation.
by all_factz | 2026-01-01 16:21:15+00:00
“I reject demonisation of the wealthy” is quite an odd thing for someone identifying as “far left” to say. But then you go on to identify as a “left liberal” - canonically not considered far left - so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.

Whether it’s worth demonizing anyone or not, we can condemn actions that hurt innocent people and we can maintain skepticism of the ultra-wealthy and their motives without “bullying”. It does sound like your principle of compassion extends a little too much towards capital and not enough towards labor.
by ddevid | 2026-01-01 16:21:30+00:00
Musly is a new open-source music streaming client for Subsonic/Navidrome servers, featuring a clean Apple Music-inspired interface. Currently in beta with Android support (APK available), it includes offline mode, playlist management, Android Auto integration, and smart search. iOS, Windows, Linux, and macOS support available through manual builds. The roadmap includes CarPlay support, Last.fm scrobbling, and a dedicated desktop UI. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 with a focus on providing a frictionless, beautiful alternative to more complex clients like Symfonium.
by ihaveone | 2026-01-01 16:21:34+00:00
It looks like they could have mounted at least 100 solar modules on top, if not 200. That's 600-1200kwDC, given its flat, at 800kwp/kWh, that means for an hour of peak production, after losses, would do at least 300kwh for the smaller size and 600kwh for the larger size. If each trip is around 1150kwh and takes longer than an hour, more than half of the power required could be generated. As solar modules are solid-state devices, seems short sighted to not slam a system on the roof. PV modules are literally just glass sandwiches with wires and DC to DC battery chargers are very efficient. The weight would also be partly counter-acted by using the modules as the skin for the roof.
by hypeatei | 2026-01-01 16:21:42+00:00
So you'd be fine with say, Kamala, running on a campaign of crushing dissent because the courts will say "lol no"? Is that what I'm reading?

I certainly don't think any camp would be okay with that, let alone MAGAs (and for obvious reasons)

It's a common trope of centrists and republicans to say that it's okay for Trump to explore the outer limits of legal theory and executive power, but at the same time freak out at what a Democrat might do with the government.
Show HN: Bass Tab Maker
by jareklupinski | 2026-01-01 16:22:02+00:00
I picked up a bass guitar for a new hobby, and wanted to learn how to play along to my favorite songs. I don't know how to read sheet music yet, and every 'tablature' interface out there either doesn't let you input your own songs, or has something missing from its total feature set that doesn't make it worth.

I set out to build a script that takes songs, splits out their bass stem, then analyzes the stem using pitch detection to find the notes being played. While it's not possible to know exactly which strings are being played for each note, a good guess can be made and played along to while I get better at playing and figure it out myself :)

The output scrolls along to the time of the song inside a normal browser window, with a crossfade slider to let you hear more of the original mix or more of the bass while you play along (i almost always have it set to 90% bass since im playing a fretless bass and i really need to hear the stem mix with my bass to make sure im playing the right note).

After I started playing with it for a while I realized I accidentally created a DDR / Guitar Hero clone to trick myself into practicing. Hope you have fun with it too!
by corpoposter | 2026-01-01 16:22:34+00:00
You are clearly describing "villainizing" people or groups. This is actually the opposite of moralism, which would be criticizing specific violations of morals.

Moralism can make people see things without nuance (i.e. saying "stealing is bad" with no regard for the context). This must be tempered. But this is not a good reason to throw out the pursuit of shared moral values within society.
by thechao | 2026-01-01 16:23:15+00:00
My dad grew up in the 50s & 60s. During COVID he purchased my daughters' the, I quote, "shittiest briefcase record players" he could find. Both girls listen to their music on their devices, but also buy vinyl. The other day, my eldest came down from her room complaining that her vinyl "sounded awful". I told her to bring it up with their Grampy. His response: "you can't appreciate good playback until you've heard awful playback on shitty record players like I had to.". My eldest is now plotting a complete hifi system, and is learning all about how to transfer "vinyl" to "digital" without losing the parts of the vinyl she likes.

This was a 5 year play by my dad. Shout out.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-01-01 16:23:48+00:00
Selling that many cars despite intense competition at home and trade barriers abroad seems the more natural way to express that story.

They instead focused on how in evil communist China you need to continue to make better cars than rivals in order for your business to succeed and grow.

What a strange system they have over there. If only they were capitalist like the US and being an incumbent connected to the regime was all you needed to keep extracting money from the population despite product stagnation.
by alecco | 2026-01-01 16:24:07+00:00
> Source: company statements

Meanwhile they are dumping thousands of cars in public parking lots: https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/byd-australia-accused-...

And BYD sits on a pile of debt they use to pay suppliers expecting ever-increasing sales (Evergrande business model). https://medium.com/@davidsehyeonbaek/a-deep-dive-into-byds-s...
by LorenPechtel | 2026-01-01 16:24:33+00:00
We throw around terms like this because we see a very real effect even though we do not know all the details.

Worst is probably the feedback system. The social media is optimized to show you things it thinks you will look at. More of what you're interested in on the surface sounds like a good thing, but it ends up very able to lead people down rabbit holes.

Do not take this as supporting what Texas is trying to do, though--this isn't about harm, this is about exposing opposition.
by dagmx | 2026-01-01 16:25:01+00:00
His involvement in both those films was as member of the brain trust. The brain trust consists of all their prior directors.

Go back through their many Oscar wins and they don’t thank the brain trust members individually. They don’t thank their department heads either who are more involved than any members of the brain trust are.

I think you are the one who is perhaps overplaying his involvement in those specific films without a concrete understanding of what his contributions were.
by daoboy | 2026-01-01 16:26:47+00:00
This is different than the glps, directly targeting subcutaneous fat.

Link to an earlier paper on the treatment:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9384315/
"At a dose of 2.0 mg/cm2, CBL-514 safely and significantly reduced abdominal fat volume by 24.96%, making it a promising new treatment for routine, nonsurgical abdominal fat reduction in dermatologic clinics."
by michae2 | 2026-01-01 16:27:17+00:00
Here are a few of my favorite creations so far:

https://michae2.github.io/c-turtl/?dna=pfrbpplfpfpppcfppcfpc...

https://michae2.github.io/c-turtl/?dna=ffffffpffffffffpfffff...

https://michae2.github.io/c-turtl/?dna=pfrblffffffffffffplll...
by lapcat | 2026-01-01 16:27:27+00:00
The original article is paywalled: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec7388

> The study also found that relatively subtle changes to the content of users’ feeds can significantly reduce political animosity among Republicans and Democrats, suggesting X had the power to increase political harmony if Musk chose to use it in that way.

Musk’s choice regarding political harmony and polarization seems pretty clear from his own X feed.