MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jhallenworld | 2026-01-01 17:46:03+00:00
Imagine a world where you can click on references in your paper and have them immediately come up, like the rest of the web. This can be done today:

Always provide a DOI-style link, for example: https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/30/2/001

These can be easily changed to actual working links with a simple browser substitution rule: replace the "doi.org" with "sci-hub.se" or whatever.
by MontyCarloHall | 2026-01-01 17:46:14+00:00
>But at a more fundamental level, our material quality of life is that of literal kings.

This cannot be overstated. To wit, a Honda Accord (or equivalent mid-range car of today) is objectively superior to a Rolls Royce from the 90s in terms of amenities, engine power/efficiency, quietness, build quality, safety, etc. The same is true for quality-of-life improvements across a vast swath of consumer goods, and therefore consumer lifestyles.

Without growth, it's unlikely we'd see those improvements manifest. Carefully consider the lifestyle of someone living several decades ago. Would you honestly want to live such a lifestyle yourself? That's where degrowth likely leads. As the article says, "I feel it’s impossible to convince Europeans to act in their self interest. You can’t even convince them to adopt air conditioning in the summer."
by skeeter2020 | 2026-01-01 17:47:19+00:00
I have no interest in starting a club, but what I do (and you can too) is open your activity to others, (a) for easy access, and (b) with no strings. Typically all this means is reaching out to a small group to say "hey I'm planning to do <x>; want to come?". Encourage them to pass on your invite, don't take it personally if nobody comes (or even responds) and when they do bond over you shared love of <x>. Maybe this grows into a club, or just a shared message group, but regardless you still get to do what you wanted to in the first place.
by boerseth | 2026-01-01 17:47:30+00:00
That's a long list of numbers that seem oddly specific. Apart from learning that f-strings are way faster than the alternatives, and certain other comparisons, I'm not sure what I would use this for day-to-day.

After skimming over all of them, it seems like most "simple" operations take on the order of 20ns. I will leave with that rule of thumb in mind.
by sethammons | 2026-01-01 17:48:10+00:00
Oh my. Paste your stuff into ai and have an impartial conversation. You are not grounded in reality and I believe your views are dangerous because they rewrite truths into a package that has been and will continue to be used as a cudgel against others.

I challenge you to provide one thing that jesus introduced. It turns out, EVERYTHING he taught already existed. I can paste a table of data, but ai is cleaner and faster.

And democracy is _famously_ Greek. Over half a century before Jesus lived.

His historical impact comes less from novelty and more from narrative power, charismatic delivery, and, later, institutional amplification. And it is largely Paul who should be credited for amplification.
by Groxx | 2026-01-01 17:50:19+00:00
If there's going to be an LLM in my browser whether or not I ask for it, this is probably what it should be handling for me.

"Find the main content, and write an adblock rule hide anything covering it up" is the sort of thing they're actually kinda decent at, and in a flexible enough way that it might be hard to block.
by freespirt | 2026-01-01 17:50:38+00:00
*Interesting take, but I’d respectfully challenge the framing.*

Caring about human potential isn’t “right wing swagger” - it’s fundamental humanism that transcends political tribalism. When we reduce everything to left/right binaries, we lose the ability to have meaningful conversations about what actually matters.

Human potential, flourishing, achievement, agency - these aren’t owned by any political camp. They’re core to what it means to be human. The left has championed human development through education, healthcare, and social mobility. The right has emphasized individual capability and merit. Both perspectives contain truth.

What is a distraction is the endless culture war that forces us to pick teams on issues that should unite us. We can simultaneously recognize that:

- Systems and structures profoundly shape outcomes
- Individual agency and capability genuinely matter
- Excellence and equity aren’t mutually exclusive
- Human beings deserve conditions that let them thrive

Dismissing concern for human potential as politically coded says more about how polarized our discourse has become than about the substance of the issue itself.

We’re allowed to care about both structural justice and individual flourishing. That’s not swagger - it’s intellectual honesty.
by hermitcrab | 2026-01-01 17:50:42+00:00
Interesting. For a while I have wanted to write about a book about starting and running a small software company. Markets, marketing, sales, support, versions, promotions, websites, pricing, documentation etc. Possibly as a retirement project. Probably self-published. I have plenty of experience and material to draw on:

-have been running my own small software business for >20 years

-have written ~400 on blog posts on this and related subjects at https://www.successfulsoftware.net

-have consulted to other small software businesses

-know plenty of other people running small software companies

-have given a face-to-face course on starting a software product business

But...

-my experience is in desktop software, not SaaS or mobile software, which feel increasingly niche

-everything seems to be changing so fast with the emergence of LLMs, I am beginning to feel like a dinosaur

I could cooperate with others or work with a co-author to include more on SaaS. And human nature doesn't change that much, despite AI. But it is unclear to me whether enough people would be interested - for me to invest months of work into it.
Show HN: Tiny Diffusion – Minimal diffusion LM in 364 lines
by nathan-barry | 2026-01-01 17:51:00+00:00
I previously posted this a month and a half ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876742

I have rewritten it to be much more simple, from 951 lines of code to just 364, with no loss in core functionality or generation quality.

I also added a tiny GPT implementation as a comparison (inspired by Andrej Karpathy's code). The two model implementations are ~80% identical, with the core differences being the generate and get_batch functions. The model architecture, training loop, etc, differ in only 19 lines of code.

Trained weights are included, so you can just clone and run it locally. The GPT model is slightly more coherent, but the diffusion model quality is solid for its size.
by shimman | 2026-01-01 17:51:19+00:00
I'm not really seeing the issue with this. Capitalists will tell you this is a good thing because consumers will benefit, or is that only capitalism if it benefits the American elites?

Why should I care that the CEO of Ford is struggling when he pays his workers so terrible? If they want another government bail it, we should just nationalize the industry and implement workplace democracy for the staff so they can be accountable to the workers + people in some fashion.

But yeah, it's sad seeing the demise of US liberalism but what do you expect when the last 50 years was naked imperialism for corporations while denying any social responsibility for the country?
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-01 17:51:40+00:00
It’s still got popularity within tech-inclined Mac/iOS circles too because it’s easier on the battery than Chrome (+derivatives) and Firefox. Some would like to switch but because neither Google nor Mozilla has much to lose for their browsers being battery hogs, relatively little engineering effort gets dedicated to improving efficiency compared to WebKit (which is similarly efficient under Linux in e.g. GNOME Web, proving it’s not purely first-party advantage).
by skeeter2020 | 2026-01-01 17:52:00+00:00
This is generally known to be true for men. We have a much harder time connecting socially without some sort of shared activity or action. The OP isn't trying to project on to you.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051382...

https://psychcentral.com/health/didactic-memory?utm_source=c...

>> I have no data that it has to do with gender or sex, and why would it matter? The needs aren't predictable based on gender/sex

not sure what you're trying to say here, but you seem to have taken a very mild, very general statement incredbly personal.
by mrjay42 | 2026-01-01 17:52:19+00:00
The website is
https://marginalrevolution.com/about

Whose founders are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Tabarrok and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cowen

Tabarrok
"
In 2012, journalist David Brooks called Tabarrok one of the most influential bloggers on the political right, writing that he is among those who "start from broadly libertarian premises but do not apply them in a doctrinaire way."[6]
"

Cowen
"
Cowen’s work spans economics, philosophy, and cultural commentary. He is known for advocating a pragmatic form of libertarianism that emphasizes strong governance, economic dynamism, and technological progress—an approach he terms state capacity libertarianism.[3] In 2011, he was included in Foreign Policy’s list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers,” and Prospect magazine ranked him among the world’s most influential economists in 2023.[4][5]
"

Those people and this blog is not at all a scientific institution, editor, publisher.

And as mentioned in another comment, the person we're invited to read from Crémieux ("Earlier Cremieux showed exactly the same thing based on data from Sweden and earlier CDC data.").
"
He was a speaker at the 2024 Manifest conference. Eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly was also a speaker.[2] Lasker has spoken out in favor of natalism.[2][14] Early in 2025, Lasker was a speaker at the Natal Conference, which has been criticized for including speakers promoting far-right ideologies such as Raw Egg Nationalist.[2][15]
"

---

Those people are not scientists, they cosplay knowledge and scientific process and will use data to serve their narratives.

Yet another example that the info shared here in HN are vastly influenced by some angry teenagers with some kind of libertarian edgelord imperialist agenda. I mean, I'm assuming that's what they imagine they think between two games of League of Legends or wanking to deepfakes
by Aurornis | 2026-01-01 17:52:23+00:00
For those who don’t know, Cremieux is a prolific Twitter poster. He posts a lot of graphs and charts and presents himself as purely objective and data driven, but follow him for a while and you’ll start to see he’s highly politically motivated and will pretend to be completely blind to any data that disagrees with his agenda.

He has become a popular figure in the “rationalist” community which this blog (Marginal Revolution) belongs to, so you won’t find criticisms within this sphere.

Cremieux is the type of poster who posts 90% accurate information to build trust and then slips in 10% agenda-pushing material. If you’re not paying close attention or following people who will debunk him, it all looks equally scientific. He was highly active during the last election with political claims and data that were easily debunked or shown to be taken out of context.

He’s also a big proponent of buying GLP-1 peptides from questionable sources and mixing your own injections, which he advertises broadly but then puts his “guides” behind a paywall as a source of income. Because he profits from subscriptions to his guides, he has a huge conflict of interest when explaining the safety of buying these underground peptides and mixing your own injections, but he’s held up as a source of scientific truth for how completely safe it is by people who don’t recognize his conflict of interest.
by oldmanhorton | 2026-01-01 17:52:32+00:00
I didn’t know this, but there are also security downsides to being ahead of chrome — namely, all chrome releases take dependencies on “known good” v8 release versions which have at least passed normal tests and minimal fuzzing, but also v8 releases go through much more public review and fuzzing by the time they reach chrome stable channel. I expect if you want to be as secure as possible, you’d want to stay aligned with “whatever v8 is in chrome stable.”
by coldtea | 2026-01-01 17:52:42+00:00
That's an "all or nothing" fallacy. Just because you use Python and are OK with some slowdown, doesn't mean you're OK with each and every slowdown when you can do better.

To use a trivial example, using a set instead of a list to check membership is a very basic replacement, and can dramatically improve your running time in Python. Just because you use Python doesn't mean anything goes regarding performance.
by nativeit | 2026-01-01 17:52:45+00:00
I do subscribe to Nebula, where most (albeit not “all”) of the YouTube creators I follow can be found. I donate to Patreon for folks like Benn Jordan, whom I feel does work that’s important and beneficial for society. For all the rest, including streaming/broadcast/cable stations owned by Paramount, Disney, and precious few others at this point? To hell with them. I take the money I saved from unsubscribing to their flawed and exploitative platforms, and I donate it to a handful of organizations like Wikipedia, EFF, and Archive.org. During the Hollywood writer’s strike, I donated $5/month to charitable orgs recommended by their union. I see live music several times a year. I purchase music from Bandcamp. There are lots of ways to support artists and creative professionals that don’t involve funding their exploitation, it’s just not as tidy or simple.
by recroad | 2026-01-01 17:52:57+00:00
Country A is resisting a 75 year violent occupation and apartheid (see stats posted earlier) and currently suffering genocide. Anyone denying that is no different than anyone denying the holocaust - equally vile and reprehensible. But everyone somehow seems to conveniently forget that part. Don't take my word for it, list of apartheid and genocide reports below.

The reason this doesn't make the discourse, even on communities like Hacker News which are supposed to be "smart", is because of decades of the West being brainwashed to the point where Islamophobia is normalized and ubiquitous.

Genocide accusations:

- Amnesty International - https://zeteo.com/p/amnesty-concludes-israel-genocide-gaza

- Human Rights Watch - https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-exterminat...

- Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) - https://msf.org.uk/issues/gaza-genocide

- University Network for Human Rights - https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/projects/genocide-in-gaza

- B'Tselem - https://zeteo.com/p/israeli-human-rights-group-says-israel

- Al-Haq - https://www.alhaq.org/publications/25781.html

- Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - https://pchrgaza.org/category/genocide-against-gaza/

- Physicians for Human Rights - Israel

- United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied - Palestinian Territory - https://zeteo.com/p/united-nations-un-gaza-genocide-israel

- The International Association of Genocide Scholars - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/israel-committ...

Apartheid accusations:

- Amnesty International - https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/03/israel-opt-is...

- Human Rights Watch - https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/isra...

- B'Tselem - https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is...

- Al-Haq - https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/16183.html

- Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) - https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/16183.html

- Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights - https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/19761.html

- Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association - https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/20931.html

- UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk - https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/03/israels-55-y...

- UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) - https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/16324.html

- Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa - https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/7207.html

- International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) - Referenced in multiple coalition statements

- BADIL Resource Center - https://badil.org/press-releases/592.html

- Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) - https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/17012.html

- Palestinian Coalition of 8 Organizations - https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/20931.html
by tptacek | 2026-01-01 17:53:17+00:00
Marginal Revolution is a watering hole for all sorts of oddballs, some of them benign, some of them not so much. Lasker and Sailer are examples of the latter kind. In Lasker's case, you kind of have to be "read in" to know what their deal is, so it's not surprising to see them quoted without any context. That context is probably not relevant to what Tabarrok is talking about anyways.
by dijit | 2026-01-01 17:53:43+00:00
not 100x.

10% is the number I ordinarily see, counting for members of staff and adequate DR systems.

If we had paid our IT teams half of what we pay a cloud provider, we would have had better internal processes.

Instead we starved them and the cloud providers successfully weaponised extremely short term thinking against us, now barely anyone has the competence to actually manifest those cost benefits without serious instability.
by j1elo | 2026-01-01 17:54:38+00:00
To the author: The ASCII-art Architecture diagram is very broken, at least on my Pixel phone with Firefox.

These kinds of text-based diagrams are appealing for us techies, but in the end I learned that they are less practical. My suggestion is to use an image, and think of the text-based version as the "source code" which you keep, meanwile what gets published is the output of "compiling" it into something that is for sure always viewable without mistake (that one is where we tend to miss it with ascii-art).
by ninkendo | 2026-01-01 17:54:43+00:00
The fact we still can't get this in the US is atrocious. They have already paid the cost to implement this for the EU and Japan, but simply don't allow it for US users because... spite, I guess? Horrible.

It reminds me of when I asked for my account to be deleted from some online learning site (Udacity maybe?) And they're response was: "Nope, we only do that for European users." Like they went through all the effort of implementing a proper way to delete your data, but they just... don't do it if you're not in the right geographic area.
by cjbenedikt | 2026-01-01 17:54:49+00:00
It is actually amazingly energy efficient as the electrolysis produces H2 at one electrode and consumes it at the other. Hence, very little additional energy is needed. As offshore wind produces a lot of surplus energy at night - this could be used. So far it was possible to capture approx. 92% of the CO2 in the amount of seawater handled. Could likely be increased to 94% - 96%.
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-01 17:55:06+00:00
Are people still using Facebook in 2026? I sometimes go back to my Facebook account, it is a complete wasteland, my feed is just generic doomscroll material, nothing new from actual people I know. Communities I follow mostly moved to Discord, it is also no longer where events like festivals post their latest news. Facebook looks like it is #1 on paper, but my experience is completely different, it is nothing like it was 10 years ago, in fact, a significant portion of my Facebook feed is "remember 5-10 years ago".
by whatshisface | 2026-01-01 17:55:07+00:00
The millions being starved purposely are for all practical purposes (and by the territorial recognition of several countries if that means anything...) also living in Israel. More to the point, I am not sure what that means for the discussion: I am sure I'd have evacuated my own citizens too before doing this.

The least important point is technical, which is that I said Palestine lost many homes to Israel over the years, not that every (just many) Palestinian lost their home. For what it's worth to the symmetry argument there were Jews happily living in Palestine before 1900.
by nodesocket | 2026-01-01 17:55:25+00:00
The All-In pod was talking about this on their latest episode. In 2018 Minnesota had $3M in Medicaid Autism claims. In 2023 that number rose to $400M! That’s a 13233% increase in 5 years. Nothing suspicious about that at all.

Source: https://youtu.be/bhpd4NeTbCI
Timestamp @25m : 20s
by quesera | 2026-01-01 17:55:48+00:00
How about "user-hostile"?

A thing that an ordinary user does not want, but is presented on top of content that they do want, is not serving user desires.

Of course, it's serving the needs of the project, theoretically. (Organizational capture of organizational perpetuation at the expense of organizational goals are a common problem, but I don't have any knowledge or opinion of this case.)

Adopting the user-hostile behaviours of advertising and perpetual fundraising are not a great way to make users happy. But they work, I guess. At some cost.

Don't ask me, I voted by disabling JavaScript and running Firefox. I don't have these problems.
by capyba | 2026-01-01 17:55:52+00:00
I’ve been a longtime competitive athlete and my best deadlift was 545 lb. I’ve been in many gyms in my life and I’ve only met maybe a dozen men lifting more than say 350 or so.

Expecting the “average” man to get to a 400 or even 300 lb deadlift is absurd. Sure, most people could be in better shape but a 4 plate deadlift is much more strength than most people need… and more than most people’s bodies can safely handle regularly. The risk of serious injury rises exponentially when you put on weight like that.

Building and maintaining strength, especially into the older ages, is certainly important but not to the levels you describe here. I suspect your comments here are based on neither personal experience nor proper education and training.
by dpark | 2026-01-01 17:56:02+00:00
> USA has been in decline all that time and decent accelerated after Cold War with Russia ended.

Exactly when do you believe this decline started? I have some major concerns about the current trajectory of the USA, but it seems like nonsense to say that the US has been in decline since well before the Cold War ended.

> I can't speak freely in Canada

I wonder what it is that you want to say but can’t.

Comparing China positively against western nations and then griping about limits on freedom of speech in western nations seems suspect regardless.

> Elected officials aim to earn as much as they can in their short stay in power.

That’s true. Unelected officials can stay in power and accrue wealth for much longer than elected officials.