MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ivm | 2026-01-29 14:51:55+00:00
Quick search shows various infographics: green tea at 20–35 mg, black tea at 45–50 mg, espresso at 45–75 mg, and instant at 60-80 mg on average. The day I feel anything close from a cup of black tea to what I get from an instant coffee or a quarter of a pure caffeine pill, I might start trusting those numbers, but for now I see them as nonsense that tries to present as science.
by ACCount37 | 2026-01-29 14:51:57+00:00
What "a bunch of capabilities"?

A complete inability to get true 360 coverage that the neck has to swivel wildly across windows and mirrors to somewhat compensate for? Being able to get high FoV or high resolution but never both? IPD so low that stereo depth estimation unravels beyond 5m, which, in self-driving terms, is point-blank range?

Human vision is a mediocre sensor kit, and the data it gets has to be salvaged in post. Human brain was just doing computation photography before it was cool.
by Teever | 2026-01-29 14:52:11+00:00
The idea isn't just to use small claims courts, but to use whatever first level legal venue to seek redress you can find in your area. That might mean small claims courts, or consumer protection bureaus, or binding arbitration. Whatever it is the idea is to coordinate with others to do so in a way that strains the resources of the organization you're fighting against and is in venues that are sympathetic to consumers and are able to make clear judgements with little chance for the opposing side to appeal.

The goal of this isn't to annoy someone, the goal is to seek compensation for their unacceptable behavior and raise awareness of it so that others may do so as well.

With the mindboggling assymetry in resources between a single individual and an entity like Apple or Google it only makes sense for people to team up and coordinate against them.
by pyuser583 | 2026-01-29 14:52:12+00:00
UK Anti‑Corruption Plan 2014-2015

Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 - outlawed bearer shares

UK PSC Registry 2016

Action Plan for Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorist Finance 2017-2022

Money Laundering Regulations 2017

Sanctions and Anti‑Money Laundering Act 2018
by testing22321 | 2026-01-29 14:52:32+00:00
I know it’s popular to hate on Elon and therefore Tesla, but you need to be accurate when doing so. They’re still chipping away.

> Tesla Semi?All but dead.

They’ve been running a pilot all this time, and the factory in Nevada to mass produce them is on schedule. Production ramp is second half of this year.
The factory is ginormous.

> The new roadster? Also dead.

Elon said yesterday the unveil is in April “hopefully”

> Full Self Driving? Doesn't exist. Robotaxis?

Cars are driving passengers around Austin now with nobody in either front seat.

It takes automakers almost a decade to bring a new vehicle online, Elon just does it all publicly while everyone else doesn’t take the wraps off until the final 6 months.

Obviously everything is way behind elons hype timelines, but I do still think it’s all coming.
by lambdaone | 2026-01-29 14:52:34+00:00
People always vastly overestimate what can be done in the short term, and vastly underestimate what can be done in the long term.

I'm reclining right now typing on what would have been in the 1980s an unimaginable hypercomputer lying in my lap, at a cost far less in inflation-adjusted terms roughly that of a ZX80, connected by gigabit-speed links to a world-spanning network of similarly unimaginably fast servers connected by near-terabit optical links. And all this has changed the world in ways impossible to anticipate in the 1980s, ways that look like the most extreme cyberpunk fiction of that time. Who could have anticipated, for example, that politics is now substantially driven by covert bot farms, or that LLMs could seduce people into suicidal psychoses?

Yes, robots are going to be underwhelming for quite some considerable time, just like the ZX81 represented almost no improvement over the ZX80 and so on - each generation represented only a marginal increase over the previous. Solar panels were crap 20 years ago; toys useful only for powering pocket calculators. But they got a little bit better year by year, and small improvements compund exponentially. Now renewables are approaching 50% of electrical power generation in many places, and it's pretty clear that in another 20 years, wind/solar/battery will be the sole generation source for all but the most niche activities.

I expect the robot boosterism of the present day to bust pretty quickly when we see how different their capabilities are from the fantasy. But fast-forward just 20 years, and supply chains adapt much faster than expected (cf. Chinese electric car manufacturing) and the concept of ubiquitous robotics seems much more feasible. It certainly seems likely that if we can make roughly 100 million cars every year, we can make robots at a similar rate. I think it's likely to change the world in ways we can't imagine yet.

People live longer than 20 years, and the average person born today can expect to see perhaps four such technological revolutions. Think long-term.
by g947o | 2026-01-29 14:52:38+00:00
It does work like that.

For me personally, I have used this method to spend my Apple gift cards purchased on a discount. Effectively I got a Claude subscription at 15% off. (You could argue this only works because OpenAI/Anthropic charge the same price across web/mobile, and I agree.)

So, as much as I despise Apple's business model, in some sense I have directly benefitted from it (other than stock price).
by darvid | 2026-01-29 14:52:54+00:00
after being prescribed Mirtazapine, then Trazadone I realized I don't think I've had restful sleep as long as I can remember. I need a sleep study done probably but until that the quality of life from taking something that has virtually no negative side effects for me is insane.

meanwhile people are like "just take magnesium or melatonin lol"
by techblueberry | 2026-01-29 14:52:59+00:00
No, it’s 2026, we can create a hybrid, that’s the point! The ability to choose our destiny!

Also - Horse shit doesn’t sound that bad. People stink in 2026 too.

But I do think, I dunno if inflection point is precisely the right concept, there will plenty of future developments I’ll be glad , but I think less and less of a percentage of our innovation is positive for general human happiness.

Big tech ceos even often talk about this sort of longtermist perspective where today’s human happiness doesnt matter, just progress toward an unknown future.
by mcsniff | 2026-01-29 14:53:32+00:00
Your demo video could be better. As a whole, this looks extremely rushed.

Zooming in and out makes it hard to focus and see what is actually happening.

The cursor moves around very erratically. Difficult to follow.

You really couldn't spend a few minutes to re-record it without the "in action" typo in SAMPLE_VALUE?

Why are you moving between Logs, Compute, Storage, etc. so quickly with no time for the viewer to see what's in there and nothing to highlight?
by MarsIronPI | 2026-01-29 14:53:32+00:00
What about declarative listing of installed packages? One of the neat things about NixOS is that I know exactly what packages I've manually installed since they're specified in my config file.

The other big difference I notice between NixOS and e.g. Debian is that on NixOS I only have to specify the changes from the defaults. On e.g. Debian I usually have to change config files that already exist. Then when the package updates its default config I end up having to review all the changes to the config, even when they have nothing to do with what I've explicitly configured.
by teroshan | 2026-01-29 14:54:20+00:00
Funny that this pops up now, yesterday I was looking into using rss2email [1] and migrate all my RSS reading workflow inside mutt.

Ultimately I decided against it because I like being able to use a web-app based reader (Tiny Tiny RSS [2]) both on my work computer and my phone for RSS.

[1]: https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email

[2]: https://tt-rss.org/
by rayiner | 2026-01-29 14:54:37+00:00
Reform isn’t even close to “far right.” The sharp curtailment of immigration from Britain’s colonies was enacted in 1968 under a Labour government. In the U.S., sharply restricting immigration was a policy that prevailed during FDR, who was the most left-wing U.S. president in history. “Far right” is someone like Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan who thought the private sector could fix everything.
by myrmidon | 2026-01-29 14:54:41+00:00
If we had human level cognitive capabilities in a box (I'm assuming we will get there in some way this century), are you confident that such a construct will be kept sufficiently isolated and locked down?

I honestly think that this is extremely overoptimistic, just looking at how we currently experiment with and handle LLMs; admittedly the "danger" is much lower for now because LLMs are not capable of online learning and have very limited and accessible memory/state, but the "handling" is completely haphazard right now (people hooking up LLMs with various interfaces/web access, trying to turn them into romantic partners, etc.)

The people opening such a pandoras box might also be far from the only ones suffering the consequences and not deserve the blame...
Show HN: GLinksWWW – A lightweight browser with 9 independent clipboards
by RioBurhan | 2026-01-29 14:55:26+00:00
Hi HN, I built a browser for power users who are tired of the "copy, switch tab, paste" loop.

Key Features:

9-Segment Clipboard: Copy 9 different items (Ctrl+Shift+1-9) and paste them anywhere.

Granular Cookie Control: Delete cookies for a specific site with one click (Great for privacy).

Built-in AI Search: Direct access to Perplexity, Google, Brave, etc., from the home screen.

Linux First: Native .AppImage and .deb support.

It's a solo project, and I'd love to get some feedback on the performance.

Download: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_l4mEDoyERPMj_AXsvDC...
by txmxr | 2026-01-29 14:55:39+00:00
Hey everyone,

I am the creator of Dockyard, a Rust-based TUI Docker manager that does about 80% of what Lazydocker does, but starts way faster™ and uses much less memory™ .

I benchmarked it against Lazydocker mostly for my own amusement. Cold start is ~30ms vs ~250ms, warm start ~12ms vs ~90ms. Memory tops out around 8MB instead of ~40MB, and the stripped binary is ~2.7MB vs ~13MB.

Is any of this meaningful? Lol no. Over a year you save like 40 seconds of your life. Chrome eats more RAM rendering one emoji. But the numbers made my brain happy.

This started because I wrote a Python TUI for personal use that was basically unusable on my shitty VPS, so I decided “I’ll just learn Rust instead,” and then lost three weeks to the borrow checker. Learned a lot though...async Rust, Docker APIs via bollard, ratatui, and that the Docker API has an absurd number of timestamps (17!).

Lazydocker is still objectively the better tool for normal people. Dockyard exists because I wanted something blazingly fast™, minimal, and written in Rust so I can mention it at least once per paragraph.

Repo:

https://github.com/905timur/dockyard
by webdevver | 2026-01-29 14:55:47+00:00
you are underestimating the vast diversity of mankind.

for us lot who were 'born in it, molded by it' (tech), it can be very hard to internalize that there are a lot of people out there who legimiately cannot for the life of them wrap their head around a computer, or the internet, other than "wifi logo = i can video call my grandkids".

you could say services like dropbox are outreach/charity organisations that onboard the masses onto 10x productivity curves (whether they like it or not!)

im not sure claude code will change all that much for the non-technical segment. from their point of view, you changed one terminal window for another. so what? its still a black box (literally).
by OtherShrezzing | 2026-01-29 14:55:57+00:00
>The population numbers of other countries are only relevant when serving an imperial or colonial enterprise.

Is this statement not in direct contention with this statement:

>If I were a rightful leader of all Nigeria I would make sure those numbers would never be accessible for westerners as it’s the fist thing you need to know when you decide to wage war of any kind against some people.

Surely the leader of the colonisation target country would like to know the population of the coloniser, so that they can get an understanding of how many soldiers to keep in the defence force?
by dec0dedab0de | 2026-01-29 14:56:00+00:00
Anecdotally, Vitamin D and B12 had more of a positive effect on my mental health than therapy or any of the half dozen prescription meds I tried.

Hiking has the biggest effect though.

I think maybe the problem is that therapists are diagnosing people, and psychiatrists are prescribing pills based on those diagnoses, but neither are ordering bloodwork to check for deficiencies. Which leads to a lot of people suffering from lack of basic health, and treating the symptoms with SSRIs that have withdrawl symptoms a million times worse than most of the problems they treat.

Now to your point, I seriously doubt that vitamin D will hold up against anti-depressants and therapy if we control for other health and quality of life issues. I just think there is a ton of misdiagnosis, and lack of root cause analysis in the mental health field, and health care in general.
by moritzwarhier | 2026-01-29 14:56:43+00:00
I've read the article by now and I like it. It's balanced, more so than the comment section made me think.

And my takeaway is not that everyone should be taking 10k IE, but it's a great reminder to be more consistent in taking my Vitamin capsules in winter.

I'm still standing by my point that it's "easy" to overdose on Vitamin D. Like the article already mentions, one should remember possible kidney issues and not take insane doses of it.

What the recommended daily intake should be, I don't know.

The whole reason I'm commenting on this is I used to take one of the "top" antidepressants on this list.

And I am a skeptic of antidepressants, that doesn't mean I deny all positive effects in people who are prescribed them, of course.

For what it's worth, it's also easy to overdose on Venlafaxine. It's still considered safe.

Just an example to make clear that my comment was not a critique of taking Vitamin D in general.

I don't find the article's main point surprising though. That's the reason I'm taking Vitamin D, too. Doesn't mean that it's impossible to overdose, and this point is also important, because many people still think that it would be impossible to take too much of an vitamin or mineral. Thankfully, high-dose Vitamin A / retinol supplements are not as widespread.
by bri3d | 2026-01-29 14:56:55+00:00
> it will be used for movies, government services, banks

I really, really don't think these entities care enough about desktop Linux. I'd be way more worried about some kind of Windows web-based attestation appearing. If that happens I really do think there's a bit of an alarm to sound, because this will make using desktop Linux inconvenient in the way attestation has made using alternate Android ROMs inconvenient.

> Because you are obviously a hacker, why else would anyone want to compile and run programs.

People buy computers to run programs, it doesn't behoove anyone to prevent this. These things are driven by economics, not some weird arbitrary drive towards evil. Android strict attestation is popular because fraudulent cloned banking apps are a rampant problem for banks, not because they're trying to "stick it" to 200 GrapheneOS users.

> Once Microsoft decides you have had enough, the switch is flipped and in a couple of years no new Intel computer will boot your kernel.

Why does everyone land on this complete non sequitur? It's not the flip of a switch, that's not how UEFI Secure Boot works to start with and even then, UEFI Secure Boot is not the root of trust on x86.

This was indeed the big "Free Software" vs UEFI "Secure" Boot conspiracy theory 20+ years ago, but it didn't make sense then, doesn't make sense now, and sure enough, hasn't come to pass. First off, Microsoft aren't Intel, who own the root of trust on Intel CPUs. Second off, again, there's no incentive to do this. CPUs are a competitive market and people buy CPUs to run code. There is no reason for Intel to suddenly decide to exclusively enforce firmware verification in a way that only chained down to one vendor's keys; they're in the business of selling CPUs to people who want to run things. Also, the notion that some CPU vendor will suddenly lock down firmware keys has nothing to do with the article in question or the notion of an immutable or attestable Linux.
by WarmWash | 2026-01-29 14:56:56+00:00
Trust me, I hate Tesla and Elon as much as the next naysayer

But just to keep the story straight

Tesla received ~$3 billion in subsidies.

When Elon exercised his Tesla options in 2021, he paid $11 billion in taxes on it.

By all accounts those subsidies were an incredibly good use of taxpayer money, and similar subsidies should keep being handed out, even if the byproduct is another big troll on twitter.
by pizlonator | 2026-01-29 14:57:04+00:00
> No it isn't, it has a fixed number of yields, which has a very different duration on various CPUs

You say this with zero data.

I know that yielding 40 times is optimal for WebKit because I measured it. In fact it was re-measured many times because folks like you would doubt that it could’ve optimal, suggest something different, and then again the 40 yields would be shown to be optimal.

> And no if you read the code, they do spin. Worse, they actually yield the thread before properly parking.

Threads wait if the lock is not available immediately-ish.

Yes, they spin by fielding. Spinning by pausing or doing anything else results in worse performance. We measured this countless times.

I think the mistake you’re making is that you’re imagining how locks work. Whereas what I am doing is running rigorous experiments that involved putting WebKit through larger scale tests
by thyristan | 2026-01-29 14:57:38+00:00
> I assume the denominator is cars registered with ADAC, rather than all cars in germany? Presumably that means those with lease contracts requiring another breakdown service wouldn't affect the stats?

Not quite, the denominator is the number of road-side assistance calls they get.

ADAC has a driver membership system, where you get that assistance for free as part of your membership as a driver. You can still call them as a non-member, and I suppose those calls will factor in the statistics as well, but that is expensive, so it's rare. And you don't register your car with them, so they don't know what their members are driving, you just tell them your membership number and can get assistance for whatever car you are currently driving in.
by NathanielBaking | 2026-01-29 14:58:20+00:00
Why does this keep popping up?

"Evidence does not support the use of vitamin D supplementation for the prevention of cancer, respiratory infections or rheumatoid arthritis. Similarly, evidence does not support vitamin D supplementation for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis or for improving depression/mental well-being."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4907952/#:~:text=Bo...
by jodrellblank | 2026-01-29 14:58:22+00:00
> "There is no convincing evidence that depression is caused by serotonin abnormalities"

- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/2022...

and

> "the etiology of depression is incredibly complex, the narrative that it is caused by a simple “chemical imbalance” persists in lay settings. We sought to understand where people are exposed to this explanation"

- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11752450/

and

> "Onset of depression more complex than a brain chemical imbalance. It's often said that depression results from a chemical imbalance, but that figure of speech doesn't capture how complex the disease is. Research suggests that depression doesn't spring from simply having too much or too little of certain brain chemicals."

- https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/what-causes-dep...

and

> "Analysis: Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain – new study"

- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jul/analysis-depression-prob...

(These are not thoroughly checked articles, they're the first few search results; however claims that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance ought to be able to show where that idea originated, how the imbalance is measured in patients, where that hypothesis is supported by evidence, why antidepressents don't fix depression in half of patients, and several more suspicious things).
by refset | 2026-01-29 14:58:25+00:00
I work on https://github.com/xtdb/xtdb which is broadly Postgres-compatible with a few key SQL extensions (SQL:2011 bitemporal tables + immutability, first-class nested data, pipeline syntax, etc). Built on Arrow and the JVM but is otherwise mostly from scratch.

XTDB is perhaps not directly relevant to the topic at hand, but I am a firm believer that ML workflows can benefit from robust temporal modelling.
by namibj | 2026-01-29 14:58:27+00:00
Also you can use dense B+-Trees for reads possibly with some bloom filters or the like if you expect/profile a high fraction of negative lookups, use LSM to eventually compact, and get both SSD/ZNS friendly write patterns as well as full freedom to only compact a layer once it's finer state is no longer relevant to any MVCC/multi-phase-commit schemes. Being able to e.g. run a compression algorithm until you just exceed the storage page size, take it's state from just before it exceeded, and begin the next bundle with the entry that made you exceed the page size.... It's quite helpful when storage space or IO bandwidth is somewhat scarce.

If you're worried about the last layer being a giant unmanageably large B+-Tree, just shard it similarly in key space to not need much free temporary working space on SSD to stream the freshly compacted data to while the inputs to the compaction still serve real time queries.
by jordanb | 2026-01-29 14:58:30+00:00
Tesla's original "secret plan" (published on their website) was to become a commodity car manufacturer faster than electric cars became a commodity. Such that the other manufacturers would find them selling obsolete vehicles and Tesla just becomes the new General Motors.

This was the justification for their stock price for quite a few years: "It's logical that Tesla is worth more than all other automakers combined because it will soon be the only automaker."

Then in 2022 Elon basically admitted that they couldn't win on production and had to continue to win on technology and they'd do that with self driving. [https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-worth-basica...]

But now Tesla is way behind on self driving (which was oversold by the whole industry tbh). So what's their new plan? Now they're no longer a car company and will make robots!
by JohnFen | 2026-01-29 14:58:46+00:00
> I don’t have any motivation to learn new things

Honestly? This is the core problem you have, and it's not related to genAI at all. In this industry, it has always been true that you need to be constantly learning new things. If that's not something you enjoy and are motivated to do, then this may not be the field for you.

But I'll bet you can find the joy and motivation to learn new things. You just have to figure out what sort of development really turns your gears. I get the impression you haven't discovered that yet.

My advice is to try not to worry about genAI. Despite all the talk, nobody knows where that's going to go or what impact it will end up having. Instead, look inward to figure out what excites you, and work on taking your career in that direction.