MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tjr | 2026-01-07 17:40:23+00:00
Just off the top of my head of some "consumer" areas that I personally encounter...

I don't want AI involved in my laundry machines. The only possible exception I could see would be some sort of emergency-off system, but I don't think that even needs to be "AI". But I don't want AI determining when my laundry is adequately washed or dried; I know what I'm doing, and I neither need nor want help from AI.

I don't want AI involved in my cooking. Admittedly, I have asked ChatGPT for some cooking information (sometimes easier than finding it on slop-and-ad-ridden Google), but I don't want AI in the oven or in the refrigerator or in the stove.

I don't want AI controlling my thermostat. I don't want AI controlling my water heater. I don't want AI controlling my garage door. I don't want AI balancing my checkbook.

I am totally fine with involving computers and technology in these things, but I don't want it to be "AI". I have way less trust in nondeterministic neural network systems than I do in basic well-tested sensors, microcontrollers, and tiny low-level C programs.
by observationist | 2026-01-07 17:40:28+00:00
The disparity between prices in blue states and red states is bonkers - a 10-15% difference in costs. Under $2.00 per dozen eggs (on sale, ~$3.00 normally, seems to be trending down too?) where I'm at contrasted to $4.00 or higher in big cities. The closer you live to ranches and farms, the cheaper the meat, as well.

If you go to farmers and ranchers directly, source your protein well, make a monthly trip out to the boonies, cross state lines, etc, you can get some serious savings. Hopefully things trend down this year, things have been rough over the last several years.
by overgard | 2026-01-07 17:40:33+00:00
High protein, nutrient dense. Definitely want to get grass-fed or pasture raised though. Shouldn't eat it all the time because it has a high calorie content, but steak isn't bad. They're probably showing a steak to indicate that eating meat is good, not just steak in general. Keto and carnivore diets have been shown to be pretty good for people with inflammatory conditions.
by andai | 2026-01-07 17:40:37+00:00
I have a vanilla JS project. I find that very small llms are able to work on it with no issue. (Including complete rewrites.) But I asked even large LLMs to port it to React and they all consistently fail. Basic functionality broken, rapid memory leaks.

So I just stuck with vanilla JS.

n = 1 but React might not be a great thing to test this stuff with. For the man and the machine! I tried and failed to learn React properly like 8 times but I've shipped multiple full stack things in like 5 other languages no problem.
by deater | 2026-01-07 17:40:50+00:00
I don't know how many of you have seen a 1541 floppy drive in person either but it is massive, it's heavier and possibly bigger that an actual Commodore 64 and pretty expensive at the time too.

it's fun seeing c64 people on the defensive about it, a nice change from getting lectures from them about how their graphics were the pinnacle of 8-bit computing
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-07 17:40:56+00:00
That’s not even remotely what I was saying.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

———

My point is that shop lifting is small scale compared to legal sales. So for a supermarket to make a loss from shoplifting, they’d either have to see a significant jump in items stolen.

This doesn’t mean that I condone theft; it just means I’ve ran the operating costs and margins for running retail stores and thought I’d share that insight.
by weitendorf | 2026-01-07 17:40:58+00:00
These exist. Just now I triedfinding such a video for a medium-sized contemporary AI devtools product (Mastra) and it took me only a few seconds to arrive at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWmSWSg848Q

There could be a million of these videos and it wouldn't matter, the problem is incuriosity/resistance/change-aversion. It's why so many people write comments complaining about these videos not existing without spending even a single minute looking for them: they wouldn't watch these videos even if they existed. In fact, they assume/assert they don't exist without even looking for them because they don't want them to exist: it's their excuse for not doing something they don't want to do.
by throwaway132448 | 2026-01-07 17:40:59+00:00
That’s just a way for sulking conspiracy theorists to say “I told you so” after they’ve moved their own goalposts 50 times and have broken-clocked their way into validating their own genius.

P.S. There are way too many variables for you to draw that kind of causation from the correlation, and you’re very naive to think you could.
by siliconc0w | 2026-01-07 17:41:08+00:00
"In over 24,000 participants from the NHANES study, high saturated fatty acid intake was associated with an 8% increase in all cause mortality risk. A meta-analysis with over 1,100,000 total participants showed that high intake of saturated fats was also correlated to a 10% increase in coronary heart disease mortality risk"
(https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.31403...)

(there is an argument for why this shouldn't apply to grass-fed meat but that is an extremely small minority of meat sold)
by eloisius | 2026-01-07 17:41:17+00:00
Yeah, I was expecting read something that made me mad, but this is basically how I’ve eaten my whole life. I’ve never subscribed to any special diet, but I like whole milk, I like eating meat and veggies, I don’t enjoy sliced bread, and I avoid sugary things. I walk a lot every day. Probably thanks to genetics, but I’ve been thin my whole life and the only chronic issues I’ve had tend to be muscle-tendon things from bad posture while sitting at the computer, or overdoing it when I get into a hobby like bouldering. Near 40 and I hope I can keep my health and be active well into my 70s at least.
by FumblingBear | 2026-01-07 17:41:21+00:00
Moderately amused at the quote "We are ending the war on protein." In my experience, every single brand in recent years has been coalescing around the idea of making protein bars, drinks, prominently labeling the amount of grams of protein are in items, etc.

I'm not opposed, as protein seems to be a good target to prioritize, but claiming there's a war on protein just seems so out of touch to the point of absurdity. It's practically the only thing that people care about right now.
Show HN: Episteme – Aggregating and critiquing retail investor theses with NLP
by amstrdm | 2026-01-07 17:41:42+00:00
Hi HN,

When researching stocks, I found myself spending a lot of time reading Reddit and Seeking Alpha posts to understand the main bullish and bearish theses around a company. The problem was less about lack of information and more about filtering and connecting opposing viewpoints.

I built Episteme to scratch that itch.

Given a ticker, it scrapes Reddit and Seeking Alpha discussions and attempts to:
- extract investor theses
- assign sentiment
- surface common bullish and bearish arguments
- link criticisms directly to specific theses so counterpoints are easier to evaluate in context

The project is fully open source:
https://github.com/amstrdm/episteme

There’s also a small hosted demo here:
https://episteme.cloud

This is very much an experiment and still rough around the edges. It started as a personal research tool, not a trading system. NLP quality varies by ticker, sources are limited, and there are plenty of edge cases. I’m mainly interested in feedback on:
- whether this framing of “thesis ↔ criticism” is useful
- obvious methodological flaws or bias
- sources or analysis approaches you’d add or remove
- If Episteme (or a slightly altered version of it) would be useful to you

Happy to answer questions or explain how anything works.
by sudobash1 | 2026-01-07 17:41:47+00:00
> Protein target: 1.2–1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight per day.

I was amused to see (kilo)grams used for the weights. I'll admit that as an American, I have no idea what my weight is in kilograms. Body weight is something that I always think of in pounds. I do use grams sometimes in food prep, but I think even that makes me a bit of an abnormality around here.

Not that I am complaining about their unit choice. I think American's would do well to be a bit more "bilingual" in our measurement systems. Also, the measurements they give are a lot easier to parse than 3/128 oz per 1lb bodyweight.
by kaydub | 2026-01-07 17:42:20+00:00
I'm at the point where I say fuck it, let them sleep.

The tech industry just went through an insane hiring craze and is now thinning out. This will help to separate the chaff from the wheat.

I don't know why any company would want to hire "tech" people who are terrified of tech and completely obstinate when it comes to utilizing it. All the people I see downplaying it take a half-assed approach at using it then disparage it when it's not completely perfect.

I started tinkering with LLMs in 2022. First use case, speak in natural english to the llm, give it a json structure, have it decipher the natural language and fill in that json structure (vacation planning app, so you talk to it about where/how you want to vacation and it creates the structured data in the app). Sometimes I'd use it for minor coding fixes (copy and paste a block into chatgpt, fix errors or maybe just ideation). This was all personal project stuff.

At my job we got LLM access in mid/late 2023. Not crazy useful, but still was helpful. We got claude code in 2024. These days I only have an IDE open so I can make quick changes (like bumping up a config parameter, changing a config bool, etc.). I almost write ZERO code now. I usually have 3+ claude code sessions open.

On my personal projects I'm using Gemini + codex primarily (since I have a google account and chatgpt $20/month account). When I get throttled on those I go to claude and pay per token. I'll often rip through new features, projects, ideas with one agent, then I have another agent come through and clean things up, look for code smells, etc. I don't allow the agents to have full unfettered control, but I'd say 70%+ of the time I just blindly accept their changes. If there are problems I can catch them on the MR/PR.

I agree about the low hanging fruit and I'm constantly shocked at the sheer amount of FUD around LLMs. I want to generalize, like I feel like it's just the mid/jr level devs that speak poorly about it, but there's definitely senior/staff level people I see (rarely, mind you) that also don't like LLMs.

I do feel like the online sentiment is slowly starting to change though. One thing I've noticed a lot of is that when it's an anonymous post it's more likely to downplay LLMs. But if I go on linkedin and look at actual good engineers I see them praising LLMs. Someone speaking about how powerful the LLMs are - working on sophisticated projects at startups or FAANG. Someone with FUD when it comes to LLM - web dev out of Alabama.

I could go on and on but I'm just ranting/venting a little. I guess I can end this by saying that in my professional/personal life 9/10 of the top level best engineers I know are jumping on LLMs any chance they get. Only 1/10 talks about AI slop or bullshit like that.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-07 17:42:28+00:00
s/1.2 to 1.4g of protein per kg of body weight/... lean body weight/

If you're overweight, your protein target should be based on your lean mass, not your excess mass. While you can have more, you're likely better off conserving the calories.

Also, personally, I tend to recommend at least 0.5g fat to 1g protein. This seems to be pretty close to what you get from a lot of healthy protein sources and given that you actually need a certain amount of essential fatty acids for your body to function, I find this helps from digestion, glucose control, satiety and even weight loss.
by the_sleaze_ | 2026-01-07 17:42:50+00:00
You're being silly. Target is a publicly traded company you can just look their margin up...

Gross margin this year roughly 28%, rough net 4%.

Shrink reduced operating margin by a cumulative 1.2 percentage points

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TGT/target/profit-...
by scotty79 | 2026-01-07 17:42:53+00:00
I'm not quite sure what official inflation index measures but you can get rough estimate of how much value dollar lost if you compare prices of bitcoin in dollars and euro at the beginning and the end of the year.

More concretely, if you converted 1btc to euro or dollar at the beginning of the year and back to btc at the end, how much fewer btc you'd end up with if you went through dollar as oppossed to euro.
by yearolinuxdsktp | 2026-01-07 17:43:06+00:00
They likely were running data on EBS volumes instead of bare metal SSDs, due to ease of recovery (a failed instance does not lose data on the attached EBS volumes). You can only run your DBs on bare metal SSDs if you are prepared to lose a node’s data completely.

In fact, many instance types no longer have any ephemeral storage attached and it’s a default practice to use EBS for root and data volumes.

There are some instance types that have extremely fast EBS performance (EBS io2 Block Express), which has hardware acceleration and an optimized network protocol for EBS network I/O and offers sub-millisecond latency. However, these are expensive and get even more so if you go up in IOPS.
by harrall | 2026-01-07 17:43:09+00:00
I think the real problem is that a food pyramid is an oversimplification.

No matter what you do, “fruits” isn’t really a goal — it’s macronutrients and micronutrients like vitamins, fiber, etc.

So with or without lobbying, any food pyramid will always be wrong. A food pyramid exists because it is far more relatable than comparing nutrient labels and tabulating.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-07 17:43:33+00:00
> HN is about as good as I've seen for a publicly accessible forum, but has very active moderation

I wonder how much of it is because of good moderation versus having a site that deliberately doesn't appeal to the masses. The layout is purely text (Aside from the small "Y" logo in the top). No embedded images or videos. Comment scores (aside from your own) are hidden, usernames aren't emphasized with bold, and there are no profile pictures, so karma farming is even more pointless (no pun intended) than on reddit. There's no visible score to give the dopamine from the knowledge of others seeing your high score.

In other words, a smaller community is easier to keep clean, and HN's design naturally keeps the community small.
by gkoberger | 2026-01-07 17:43:49+00:00
I love Tailwind, and I am really sorry Adam and co are going through this. They've built a great product, and it's brought joy back building again for me.

It's really hard to run a company, especially when your product is mostly OSS... Tailwind has helped thousands of companies save (or make) millions of dollars, and AI almost by default uses it to generate beautiful websites. This is such a hard position to be in... to watch your product take off, but your financials plummet. It really sucks how affected the team is after all the good work they've done.
by mcswell | 2026-01-07 17:43:53+00:00
Obviously this was whimsical when it came out. However...we were creating synthetic data for training and testing OCR in multiple scripts. We would take a web page in some language with a non-Roman script, and reproduce it as multiple PDFs using different fonts. We also added various kinds of blurring, using ImageMagick and---of course---this very coffee stains program!
by jjkaczor | 2026-01-07 17:43:57+00:00
Actually - I believe - within Windows 11 - the "WebClient" service is now deprecated (which is what - IIRC, actually implements the WebDAV client protocol so that it works with Windows File Explorer, drive mappings, etc.)...

Played around with WebDAV alot... a long time ago... (Exchange Webstore/Webstorage System, STS/SharePoint early editions)...
by EricRiese | 2026-01-07 17:44:01+00:00
Lambdas weren't simple to shoehorn into Java. But most of the recent changes have been implemented as well or better, or as well as you could imagine while maintaining backwards compatibility and Java-ness.

Records/sealed interfaces (ADTs) are quite clean.

Text Blocks are better in Java IMO. The margin junk in Scala is silly.
by nihakue | 2026-01-07 17:44:02+00:00
How is it possible that beef, dairy, and chicken are front and center while Lentils, Tofu (or even just soy), Chickpeas, Nutritional Yeast, Broccoli, etc are all left off? Why do they arbitrarily split "protein" and "fruit/veg" given that most/all of the most protein dense foods are vegetables/legumes? Steak is a terrible source of protein (in terms of nutrient density). Immediately pretty suspicious.
by criddell | 2026-01-07 17:44:11+00:00
I think the zeitgeist is starting to turn on the high-protein diet recommendations:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/11/looking-to-bu...

There was a story about this in the NYT recently (can't find it) and IIRC, it basically said protein is out and fiber is in. It wasn't that simple, but that was my takeaway.
by cmurf | 2026-01-07 17:44:26+00:00
Corporate charters require companies follow the law and make profit. Beyond following the law, what are citizen duties?

Public benefit corporations seem to go nowhere far enough. And I wonder if the language is intentionally vague at the outset.

For example:

https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/business/FAQs/pbc.html
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-07 17:44:46+00:00
This is false. When making a prediction like "X goes up and thus Y goes down", it matters what the relative changes are. The naysayers of increases in minimum wage say things like "if minimum wage goes up by $2.50, the cost of a fast food burger will become out of reach". In fact, the labor cost component of a fast food burger is minimal, and its price need only go up by a couple of cents in response (if, indeed, given the parent corporation's profits, it needs to go up at all).

Most serious studies of minumum wage effects conclude that while it does create upward price pressure, the results are small changes. It is essentially a redistributive, rather than inflationary, mechanism.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-07 17:44:53+00:00
I think we just need better platforms for enterprise procurement.

The issue is that currently you either publish as free & open-source and get tons of traction and usage but little funding, or you publish as paid and get no traction.

The blocker for paid software isn't actually the money itself (this is solvable by just pricing it reasonably), it's all the red tape that someone has to go through to get their company to purchase a license to begin with.

Maybe a marketplace that preemptively does audits, provides insurance, code escrow, licensing, etc ahead of time, that vendors can put their software on it proactively and companies can have accounts where their employees can just open an "app store" and just buy/license software directly? Similar to the AWS marketplace but for libraries.
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-07 17:45:07+00:00
You'll find many people claiming almost the exact opposite, just as confidently. Plant fats are generally seen as much healthier, especially olive oil and similar fats. This idea that the combination of macronutrients that a food contains also seems highly suspect - generally people tend to think that macronutrients work independently of each other.

The reality is, of course, that we just don't know. Nutrition "science" is almost entirely bogus (the only real part of it is the discovery of the nature and functioning of the various vitamins, and thus the elimination of scurvy and similar diseases - plus a few other extremes). Even the existence and importance of dietary fiber in many foods was a very recent discovery (resistant starch and oligosaccharides were only identified as dietary fiber in the 2000s, for example) - meaning that even the base caloric contents of many foods were wrongly measured as late as the 2000s (and who knows what else we're missing here).
by overgard | 2026-01-07 17:45:12+00:00
You want more inflammation?

Inflammation is a real thing you can measure in the body, you know. (C Reactive Protein for instance). It's behind a lot of diseases.

The reason WHY it's "always" inflammation is because the standard american diet CREATES a lot of inflammation. You'll probably have to worry about hearing that buzzword a lot less if people ate better..
by tracker1 | 2026-01-07 17:45:25+00:00
It's more of a "war on meat" imo... I think that veganism and the Seventh Day Adventist church has done a lot of harm to health and nutrition over the years. There is a lot of unsubstantiated rhetoric that is through to be "common knowledge" that is not backed by scientific evidence.

On the flip side, I firmly believe a lot of the issues that we are having societally with regards to hormone imbalance, mental health and fertility issues really comes down to insufficient intake of essential fatty acids which include some saturated fats.
by breuleux | 2026-01-07 17:45:28+00:00
I think so, yes. We rely a lot on eloquence and general knowledge as signals of competence, and LLMs beat most people at these. That's the "usually" -- I don't think good human bullshitters are more obvious than LLMs.

This may not apply to you if you regard LLMs, including their established rhetorical patterns, with greater suspicion or scrutiny (and you should!) It also does not apply when talking about subjects in which you are knowledgeable. But if you're chatting about things you are not knowledgeable about, and you treat the LLM just like any human, I think it applies. There's a reason LLM psychosis is a thing, rhetorically these things can simulate the ability of a cult leader.
Show HN: I made a small AI chat app that lets you chat with 4 models at once
by devhe4d | 2026-01-07 17:45:42+00:00
Hey all,

During Christmas and new year I was building this app day and night, I basically built it for my own use, I've got so much headache switching between tabs of different LLMs and chatbots, and other ai chat apps were missing some features that I really really wanted:

- be able to chat with multiple models at once

- be able to do debate with multiple models

so thats why I built it, I launched it 2 days ago, 0 users so far, I really appreciate any feedbacks.

I offer free plan with 20 message / day in some cheap models (I'm indie dev with no budget) and 2 plans that gives you higher limits.

for those who want to upgrade, they can use code WELCOME20 to get %20 discount.

any feedback is appreciated!

Thanks
by alephnerd | 2026-01-07 17:45:50+00:00
If you shop at tech bro places you will get tech bro prices. For example, Taqueria Cancun on 19th as mentioned versus other options a couple blocks east or south, or in the parts of SF that have remained Latiné.

Furthermore, a lot of these places continue to give an ethnic discount - especially when paying in cash - because someone of the same ethnic group will most likely remain a repeat customer and can induce negative WoM in tightly knit ethnic communities.