MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joakleaf | 2026-01-07 17:12:44+00:00
Neither Europe nor EU is a single country with a single foreign policy. There are around 40 different small and large countries in Europe each with their own foreign policy, history, culture and language. Two of the countries are currently at war with each other (if we still include Russia in Europe). Historically, Europe is a continent of wars and full of disagreement, where countries have done much to benefit themselves.

I really don't know much of what is happening in China or India or how you would ever measure something as subjective as morality. The point was, that it isn't just European (or EU) nations that don't stand up to the US. Nobody really dare -- Even those other heavy-weights. So it doesn't seem fair to me to single Europe (European nations) out for not doing anything.

I would say that Europe has a lot of bad history and guilt and we know it. And there is an aspiration in many of the European countries to be better and do "the right thing" now, but it is definitely debatable whether those countries actually do it, or if we even know what "right" is.
by game_the0ry | 2026-01-07 17:12:45+00:00
That industry can lobby for and basically "purchase" scientific outcomes that affect health standards should be a defcon 1 red alert. People should be lose their careers over this, at the very least imo.

And the fact that people do not care is just as, if not more, concerning.

This is how you get MAHA, which I support bc of this, craziness included.
by labcomputer | 2026-01-07 17:12:47+00:00
But if you actually, you know, read that NASA study, it mentions that the maximum practical speed (from theory) for “boomless” flights is less than Mach 1.3, and they only demonstrated “boomless” flights at Mach 1.1.

That would result in far, far less time savings that what is posited by the commentary on HN. Compared to Cessna Citation X, for example, that would reduce time in the air by just 15%.

Total travel time savings would be even less… so a private Citation X at M0.95 would still be beat a commercial M1.1 flight in door to door travel time.
by llm_nerd | 2026-01-07 17:12:53+00:00
> The next step, often implied rather than explicit, is to push the reader into assuming that the opposite position must therefore be the correct one.

See this in the constant "the MSM is imperfect, that's why I trust Joe Rogan or some random `citizen-journalist' on Twitter" nonsense. It's how everything has gotten very stupid very quickly. People note that medical science has changed course on something, therefore they should listen to some wellness influencer / grifter.

> excess sugar and excess saturated fat are both not good for you

The submitter of this entry is clearly a keto guy, and it's a bit weird because who is claiming sugar is good or even neutral for you? Like, we all know sugar is bad. It has rightly been a reasonably vilified food for decades. Positively no one is saying to replace saturated fats with sugar. In the 1980s there was a foolish period where the world went low fat, largely simply because fat is more calorically dense and people were getting fat, ergo less fat = less calories. Which of course is foolish logic and people just ate two boxes of snackwells or whatever instead, but sugar was still not considered ideal.

Someone elsewhere mentioned MAHA, and that's an interesting note because in vilifying HFCS, MAHA is strangely healthwashing sucrose among the "get my info from wellness influencers" crowd. Suddenly that softdrink is "healthy" because of the "all natural sugar".
by jameson | 2026-01-07 17:13:10+00:00
As a avid user of Tailwind and one who purchased Tailwind CSS Plus, it's very sad to hear.

OSS without founders having it's own managed software company is always a difficult position. (e.g. database vendors open source but also have their own company providing managed service and support allowing sustainable development). Hope of getting strong support from companies is unsustainable.

Curious what should be the business model for a library something like tailwind?

They could add a premium features but entry users not allowed to use certain features is a bad experience
by Sheeplover | 2026-01-07 17:13:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I built FailWatch because I couldn't trust my financial AI agent with a production wallet. No matter how much I optimized the system prompt (e.g., "Do not refund > $500"), the LLM would occasionally hallucinate or drift logically.

The scariest part wasn't the hallucination itself, but the failure mode: if my external validation service crashed or timed out, the default behavior in many frameworks was to "fail-open" and execute the tool anyway.

FailWatch is a Python middleware that sits between the agent and the tool execution to enforce fail-closed safety:

Math > Prompts: It uses deterministic Python logic (Pydantic/Regex) for hard constraints.

Fail-Closed Architecture: If the guard server is unreachable, the action is blocked by default.

Logic Drift Detection: It can optionally inspect the agent's "chain of thought" steps to detect intent mismatch before execution.

It's open source (MIT). I'd love to hear feedback on the architecture or how you handle "safety-critical" tool calls in your agents.
by iyn | 2026-01-07 17:13:29+00:00
Can you add an email to your profile, so I can reach out to learn more? I'm really into air quality and been trying to improve conditions in my apartment. You mentioned that

> Generally learn about diffusion in wall construction materials and figure out where organic material is used in your house. If organic material is next to something that limits diffusion (plastic, foam, metal, concrete, cement, paint) it is a possible point of water condensation and mold growth.

which is super interesting — I've found a couple of electrical sockets in my apartment which have a very strange smell, similar to soil/mold (I've confirmed that with other people, just to reduce the chance that I'm crazy). I'm still trying to investigate/fix the issue, and it seems that you know more about that, would love to learn from you.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, very interesting!
by xpe | 2026-01-07 17:13:30+00:00
From an end-user point of view, there are some weirdnesses in Nushell, but they are rare in my experience. Here is one that gotcha'ed me:

[1 2 3] | sum

The above does not return the sum (1 + 2 + 3 = 6). Why? Because `sum` is a *nix utility for returning the checksum. The way to do it in Nushell is:

[1 2 3] | math sum

More info at [1]. Technically, this isn't Nushell's fault; it is just delegating to an external command.* Still, I found it confusing at first.

* Maybe it is time to rename `sum` to `checksum`!

[1]: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/discussions/17239
by theturtletalks | 2026-01-07 17:13:49+00:00
Tailwind Plus was always tricky since most people would use it for commercial products and that seemed like a grey area based on their licensing. Then shadcn came along and all the Tailwind Plus alternatives (many times recreating the same UI elements that plus has) and then people just copied and used those components and polished further using AI.

Before Tailwind got big, Adam released an amazing book about UI/UX called Refactoring UI[0] and it really helped me become better and understand subtleties of design. I even considered printing a personal physical book for my coffee table. If you want to support Adam and don't need Tailwind Plus, this ebook could be a good way.

[0]. https://www.refactoringui.com/
by satvikpendem | 2026-01-07 17:13:56+00:00
Sadly, selling pre-made components and templates was never a sound business model, especially in the wake of AI. One thing I learned being on HN for so long and launching my own products is that a product is not a business. Don't conflate the two, at your peril.

Lots of people make great products but actually turning that into a business is fundamentally a different skill. It seems like Tailwind grew too fast, having 2 million ARR a few years ago and almost 10 employees (200k each is probably the all-in cost anyway for an employee if they're full time with benefits, so I suppose there was barely any profit), whereas they'd probably have been fine with running a Patreon like Evan You did for Vue, and cutting down the number of devs drastically, which I suppose is what they're doing now.
by tim-tday | 2026-01-07 17:14:56+00:00
The experiment was doomed by the regulation from day one.

Producers must be on land zoned agricultural (this is actually worse for mushroom cultivation)
The fees are egregious (compare $5,000 /yr with the $50 / yr for a beer brewer’s license) breweries spring up everywhere in Oregon, high quality low price, great diversity healthy production ecosystem.

I’m sure there were other restrictions but those stand out as the top 2.

This locks production in at a high price with well funded producers. And requires high prices and high volume (for no benefit) It destroys any ability for grass roots cottage industry producers (who often have excellent quality control and testing capabilities)

I could have written this article years ago before the evidence rolled in simply on the basis of the rules as written ( I actually said almost these exact words when I saw the rules: “this will fail because it creates an onerous burden on producers and prevents a healthy and sustainable production ecosystem”)

Which is a shame because evidence continues to mount that psychedelics assisted therapy is extraordinarily effective.
by fundad | 2026-01-07 17:15:10+00:00
The people who I work with who support the current administration don't really value a good economy.

They actually are smug about a worsening standard of living. What makes them happy is "tough talk" on immigration, to them the brutality against suspected undocumented immigrants is a good deterrent.

It's not surprising but it's important to understand how important the brutality is and how unimportant economic growth is. It helps that they Silicon Valley tech workers who are already rich.
by dijit | 2026-01-07 17:15:36+00:00
What country?

In the UK Vigilante justice is punished extremely hard.

If you commit a crime in the commission of preventing crime you will go to jail. There's a couple of things that are permitted and they're outlined as "detainment without excessive force" - for citizens arrest, and then it's only for the duration until a relevant authority can be called... with a maximum term of time that authority must be called.. It's extremely limited.

And one of the offences specifically not permissible for citizens arrest is inciting racial hatred.

https://www.westminstersecurity.co.uk/news/citizens-arrest-u...
by miningape | 2026-01-07 17:15:54+00:00
The point isn't that you can trick an LLM, but that their capabilities are more strongly tied to training data than context. That's to say, when context and training disagree, training "wins". ("wins" isn't the correct wording, but hopefully you understand the point)

This poses a problem for new frameworks/languages/whatever that do things in a wholly different way since we'll be forced to rely on context that will contradict the training data that's available.
by Teever | 2026-01-07 17:16:06+00:00
> The next step, often implied rather than explicit, is to push the reader

This is the key part of this. It isn't even about the post or person that is being replied to, it's about the far wider audience who doesn't post but who who reads these interactions.

This clip summarizes the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuaHRN7UhRo
by Retric | 2026-01-07 17:16:09+00:00
The 80’s anti fat diet was mostly clogged arteries before we had all these anti cholesterol drugs and research showing how little impact dietary cholesterol has.

US obesity simply wasn’t as common (15% in 1985 vs 40% today) and at the time most research is on even healthier populations because it takes place even earlier. Further many people that recently became obese didn’t have enough time for the health impact to hit and the increase of 2% between 1965 and 1985 just didn’t seem that important. Thus calories alone were less vilified.

Put another way when 15% of the population is obese a large fraction of them recently became obese (last 10 years), where at 40% the obese population tends to be both heavier and have been obese for much longer. Heath impacts of obesity depend both on levels of obesity and how long people were obese.
by mossTechnician | 2026-01-07 17:16:23+00:00
It could be really beneficial for an AI company to showcase how they use their own product; since they're developers already, the effort required should be minimal.

- A lot of skeptics have complained that AI companies aren't specific about how they use their products, and this would be a great example of specificity.

- It could serve as a tutorial for people who are unfamiliar with coding agents.

- The video might not convince people who have already made up their minds, but at least you could point to it as a primary source of information.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-07 17:16:31+00:00
Not imaginary, I have been sharing info with Congressional reps on this topic who are working on policy, as well as the data on H-1B fraud and use for wage suppression. I haven't even had to pay a bribe ("campaign contribution") to get their ear, which is nice.

> How many American-made garments are in your closet right now?

This is a tired argument. The electorate was told "not to worry, we're offshoring the low value work so we can focus on high value work." Then, they offshored and automated the high value work.
by kruffalon | 2026-01-07 17:16:51+00:00
So many... In different ways, but the one that changed me the most profoundly was "The mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

I read it as a depressed 15yr old, in a time when I read everything I could get my hands on. From cover to cover. Often doing nothing else but going to the bathroom, eating and sleeping from exhaustion once I started a book until it was finished.

This book was so bad that I gave myself rules so that I wouldn't waste another 900 pages of reading on something so utterly uninteresting.

It made me suspicious of text and stories in a way that nothing else has.

I'm still grateful for having read it, it did teach me something.

Thank you for reminding me <3
Show HN: A 134-Modality AGI Core Built in Python (Velocity_Nova_Prime)
by AISovereignDev | 2026-01-07 17:17:06+00:00
I am a builder, not a researcher. I don’t care about theoretical AGI that only exists in white papers—I care about what runs in a kernel. I got tired of seeing "AI" projects that are just wrappers for LLM APIs, so I built a Causal Decision Engine that functions as a Sovereign Life OS.

Project: Velocity_Nova_Prime (v0.8.0) is a system designed to ingest 134 synchronous data streams (from biometrics to network entropy) to create a unified world-model. It doesn't just predict the next token; it predicts the next consequence.

Source Code: https://github.com/AI-Sovereign/Multimodal-AGI-Architecture-...

Technical Highlights:

1. TCS-25 Plasticity: A custom learning rule where weight updates are driven by Surprisal (S) and Causal Risk (C). It’s optimized for real-time implementation, not just backprop simulation.

2. HTSP (Hierarchical Temporal Synthetic Plasticity): A dual-stream architecture using a Fast Stream (GRU) for reflexes and a Slow Stream (LSTM) for episodic memory fusion.

3. 134 Modalities: The system maps a 134-dimensional vector in real-time. This includes everything from biometric data (HRV, GSR) to environmental noise and network packet entropy via Scapy.

The Stack: Python 3.10+, PyTorch, Polars (for high-entropy data handling), Scapy (for network ingestion), and FastAPI for the WebSocket interface.

The complexity depth is currently theoretical at 1.1 quintillion operations, and I'm pushing for local-only inference to maintain sovereignty. I'm looking for feedback from builders who have actually scaled multimodal ingestion or worked with non-Euclidean data in spiking neural networks.

The code is live. Let me know where the implementation breaks.
by satvikpendem | 2026-01-07 17:17:20+00:00
Claude Code has a Cursor and VSCode extension so it replaces their chat sidebars, which is how many people use it today over just the CLI. What I'm trying to understand is how they're different if so, but it seems like what I'm learning is that they're basically converging in functionality and commoditizing for now and it comes down to personal preference. Personally I still use Cursor because it has a lot of other models than just Claude ones, but I guess some people trust Anthropic enough to not want any other models that may arise in the future too.
by dabbz | 2026-01-07 17:18:12+00:00
I was going to say before LLMs Tailwind UI helped me get moving much faster on front-end code. Now I wish there was some kind of context I can provide to use the Tailwind UI instead of hallucinating its own. Tailwind UI still looks better than the generic stuff LLMs generate.

(Open to any suggestions to feed existing ui components from Tailwind into my projects/llm).
by freedomben | 2026-01-07 17:18:41+00:00
(IANAL) Using it for commercial products isn't grey area at all, it's explicitly allowed. Pretty much all you can't do is create a component library based on it. You can also freely use it in open source as long as you aren't making a component library.

If it wasn't usable in commercial products, I don't think anyone would pay for it.
Show HN: Audit8n – Free, privacy-first n8n workflow analyzer
by juanm_acebal | 2026-01-07 17:19:03+00:00
I built Audit8n (https://audit8n.com) to solve a problem I kept running into: n8n workflows that looked fine on the surface but had hidden security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and reliability issues.

The tool runs 100+ checks across three categories:

• Security: hardcoded secrets, public webhooks without auth, RCE via Execute Command nodes
• Performance: aggressive polling intervals, AI token bloat, N+1 SQL patterns
• Reliability: fragile loops without error handling, blocking merge nodes, infinite loops

All local analysis happens in the browser—zero data transfer. There's also an optional AI-powered deep scan using AI for semantic analysis of complex workflows.

Built with Next.js 16, React 19, and TypeScript.

Would appreciate any feedback on the detection rules or UI/UX.
by mhurron | 2026-01-07 17:19:43+00:00
The only one showing any lack of social intelligence is you. The author is choosing not to go into unnecessary personal details while giving a short back story as to why they did a thing.

I've thought of doing basically something similar so my wife knows I'm in a position not to be disturbed. I can, and do, tell her when I have a scheduled call, but unscheduled calls do just happen. Something like this would let her know I can't be disturbed without her coming in, asking and then going 'oh shit, sorry.'

In no way is it engineering a way out of dealing with my wife.
by rlue | 2026-01-07 17:19:46+00:00
Like all the other commenters here, I also devised my own solution—but AFAICT, it's the only other solution that's automated!

Requirements:

* macOS
* Zoom
* Home Assistant
* A signal light/sign on a smart switch (like [0])

The Procedure:

First, create a script that checks whether you're currently on a Zoom call, and then turns your signal light on or off accordingly. Remember to chmod +x!

#!/bin/sh

if [ $(lsof -i 4UDP | grep zoom 2>/dev/null | wc -l) -gt 1 ]; then
curl \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ${HOME_ASSISTANT_ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"entity_id": "${ENTITY_ID}"}' \
https://${HOME_ASSISTANT_DOMAIN}/api/services/switch/turn_on
else
curl \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ${HOME_ASSISTANT_ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"entity_id": "${ENTITY_ID}"}' \
https://${HOME_ASSISTANT_DOMAIN}/api/services/switch/turn_off
fi

Then, create a LaunchAgent that monitors your Zoom Application Support directory for filesystem changes at ~/Library/LaunchAgents/local.${USER}.on-air.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>local.${USER}.on-air</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>${PATH_TO_SCRIPT}</string>
</array>
<key>WatchPaths</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/zoom.us/data</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>

Finally, load 'er up:

$ launchctl load ../Library/LaunchAgents/local.${USER}.on-air.plist

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NJ8ZCHF
by ericmcer | 2026-01-07 17:19:51+00:00
CVD requires a bunch of events to happen in sequence, I always felt like it was a combination of risk factors + luck that make a heart attack or aneurysm happen.

1. High blood pressure damages walls of arteries and veins

2. LDL Cholesterol gets into the damaged walls

3. LDL gets oxidized

4. White blood cells engulf oxidized LDL and form plaques

5. Hardened plaques chill, they are bad but not deadly, if a plaque breaks off you are probably dead.

Sugar is gonna contributes to 1 - 3, especially 3 it seems way more guilty of than fat. The one big thing that opened my eyes was that most of the LDL you get is going to be produced by your own liver. Regulating how the liver produces it is going to have a bigger impact than directly eating less/more of it.

It is kind of a luck thing though, you could eat like shit and never have all the events occur just due to dumb luck, or you could be a fit 45 year old and for whatever reason you get a plaque that breaks off and you aneurysm and die.
by freedomben | 2026-01-07 17:20:15+00:00
> I always thought it was a critically bad business decision from their end to keep giving me additional new stuff for free. It seemed to me that it should have been a subscription.

Maybe. One data point isn't all that useful, but I never would have bought it if it weren't for the model he chose. I will never, ever do a subscription for something like that.
by didip | 2026-01-07 17:20:23+00:00
I have a fun experiment for OP, since you already walked the reverse engineering route.

Why not download the most popular DAV libraries from various languages, Java, C++, PHP, etc. Regardless how ancient they are.

And then have AI like Claude to analyze and bring in the improvements to your own Go library?

I was doing something like that for Kerberos and Iceberg Rest Catalog API, until I got distracted and moved on to other things.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-07 17:20:24+00:00
What? No, this is a pretty relevant comment that is being directly caused by AI.

Consumer PCs and hardware are going to be expensive in 2026 and AI is primarily to blame. You can find examples of CEOs talking about buying up hardware for AI without having a datacenter to run it in. This run on hardware will ultimately drive hardware prices up everywhere.

The knock on effect is that hardware manufacturers are likely going to spend less money doing R&D for consumer level hardware. Why make a CPU for a laptop when you can spend the same research dollars making a 700 core beast for AI workloads in a datacenter? And you can get a nice premium for that product because every AI company is fighting to get any hardware right now.
by stingraycharles | 2026-01-07 17:20:32+00:00
hah thanks for the compliment.

yeah last time I shared it, I got a whole lot of hate for vibe coder self promotional BS so I decided to tread a bit more carefully this time.

I encourage you to try to prompt engineer skill! It’s one of the easiest to use, and you can literally use it on anything, and you’ll also immediately see how the “dynamic prompt workflow” works.