MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JohnFen | 2026-01-07 18:59:42+00:00
> “Take a seat, the door is unlocked and you can leave at any time.”

Why wouldn't everyone just leave at that point? That's what I'd do, as I'd assume that if I'm being investigated, then my job there is over anyway regardless of my guilt or innocence. I'd have nothing to gain by volunteering to be interrogated.
by tsumnia | 2026-01-07 19:00:44+00:00
While I agree with current "Top-Level Internet" as I call it, the blurb is referring to the '99-'00s era when we were still very much disconnected. Those clubs had a forum on AOL and that was it.

I think Discord is where the "New Internet" is forming, because that's where this generation of kids are hanging out. We were in the Nintendo chat rooms, and they're in the modern day equivalents. We just think they are on Twitch and Kick because that's where the grown ups are playing games, but remember there's a reason Roblox is popular.

Kids don't want to hang out with grown ups.
by bluGill | 2026-01-07 19:00:46+00:00
I want magic that works. Sometimes I want a tool to interrupt me! I know my route to work so I'm not going to ask how I should get there today - but 1% of the time there is something wrong with my plan (accident, construction...) and I want the tool to say something. I know I need to turn right to get someplace, but sometimes as a human I'll say left instead: confusing me and the driver where they don't turn right, and AI that realizes who made the mistake would help.

The hard part is the AI needs to be correct when it doesn't something unexpected. I don't know if this is a solvable problem, but it is what I want.
by Terretta | 2026-01-07 19:00:52+00:00
> why anyone ever thought they could make meaningful money from enabling the former

A better question might be why buyers thought it was worth paying for that "advantage" you want explained. When buyers think a thing like that, someone will fulfill their ask.

If LLMs are eating the revenue stream, that likely gives the answer:

Buyers thought Tailwind meant they didn't have to learn or do a thing in order to achieve an outcome. And someone built a niche around that.

Is it true, and if not, why does it persist? Also not hard to explain given today's approaches to learning and the abysmal state of the ad delivery sites that used to be web search.

It's almost impossible today to find the very few sites that show the standard component lib rendered as web components with modern CSS as supported cross browser -- no single party stands to profit from making that case. You'll see it in parts from other frameworks that aren't trying to do the UI saying "our framework drives native HTML/CSS/JS/WASM" with a few examples, but that's surprisingly unlikely to find from Google with "How do I make my web app look good?" if you don't know which terms to use.

One could probably make a niche living giving modern web-native training for corporates. (Plenty firms purport to offer this, but generally don't really teach past the days of bootstrap.) Price against their recurring licensing costs, and a $10K to $30K class (the type enterprise SaaS products like Hashicorp offers for e.g. Terraform ecosystem) for modern web might even pay better than Tailwind.

Generally, though, arbitrage plays can't be expected to last unless the value-add is actual work others don't want to do, so business model decay is likely to happen to things like Tailwind that have their ideas become standards that get implemented by the browser industry (see Apple and "Sherlocking": https://appdevelopermagazine.com/sherlocked:-the-controversi...
by observationist | 2026-01-07 19:00:59+00:00
People think because they work with numbers and they get paid well, or have other high status indicators, they must be intelligent. These people also get certified by failed institutions and hired into giant corporations, getting validated at every step by systems that are telling them "you are the most intelligent, capable, competent people, look at all the signals telling you how adept and skillful you are!"

A whole lot of people aren't being filtered out for the morons they are; our economy, governance, and policies are the result. Welcome to the world; it's being run by idiots. {insert astronauts meme here}
by overgard | 2026-01-07 19:01:05+00:00
Starches are basically glucose. They have a massive insulin response -- often even worse than sugar (because you eat starches in a much higher volume since they don't usually taste sweet).

It's very hard to overeat protein naturally. It's very easy to overeat starches and other carbohydrates naturally.

With regard to "processed" food, it's not a great label. I would use this metric: could you conceivably produce this in an average kitchen with the raw materials? If you can, it's probably safe, if you can't, it's probably something you shouldn't eat. For instance, processing often means "partially hydrogenating" a fat, or milling grains into a fine dust and bleaching them. Sometimes chemically produced oils are deodorized, because they would otherwise smell very unpalatable. You generally should not want your food to be bleached or deodorized..
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-07 19:01:14+00:00
You're welcome to continue the 'unfinished' conversation over there. The thread isn't closed. This article isn't bringing anything new. And yet is forcing the thousands and thousands of HNers who saw the previous main discussion and news days ago to see it again? Sorry you weren't there, sorry you missed it. It's the bringing it up and repeating much of the discussion so soon that's the hinderance. Stuff moves pretty fast around here.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-07 19:01:31+00:00
Employees involved in logistics are already likely earning more than minimum wage. Those involved in processing and farming likely do not live in the same jurisdictions.

Anyway ...

The basic idea is pretty simple: if you work 40 hours a week on minimum wage, you should be able to rent a reasonable condition 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment relatively close to where you work.

That's not a "slogan", it's an idea that's been nominally central to The American Dream for more than a half century (but also largely untrue for the last few decades in many metropolitan areas).

Do you oppose this idea?
by aetherson | 2026-01-07 19:01:35+00:00
People who build data centers. Strong data protection laws (in a relatively stable democratic country) so that customers will feel okay putting their workloads in a data center, and then low regulatory burden and cost to the inputs to making a data center work (mainly electricity and water for cooling).

There would obviously still be things that would make a data center builder feel less-than-great about locating in a developing country, but there's also a LOT of money sloshing around in the data center buildout right now, if you could get people to just try it out with a small minority of their money it could be a very big deal for some countries.
by gmd63 | 2026-01-07 19:01:37+00:00
People switched from BlackBerry to iPhone for far more than just iPhones being "shiny and new." Visual voicemail, Safari, touchscreen, etc. The recent UI redesign effort is not remotely comparable to the investment and strategy that went into distinguishing the iPhone from the rest of the cell phone market.

We're discussing this on one of the most bare and plain sites on the popular internet. Folks who are attracted to value don't care if stuff isn't redesigned if it works well. It's a bad sign if executives at Apple feel the need to invest in cheap dopamine hacks for the sake of novelty farming.

A company that stagnates or even shrinks to a healthy size can be more valuable to society, and the stock market in the long term, than one that mutilates itself in chase of unnecessary growth.
by echelon | 2026-01-07 19:01:58+00:00
Anything open source will be turned against its authors and against ICs.

We thought it would give us freedom, but all of the advantage will accrue to the hyperscalers.

If we don't build open source infra that is owned by everyone, we'll be owned by industrial giants and left with a thin crust that is barely ours. (This seems like such a far-fetched "Kumbaya, My Lord" type of wishful thinking, that it's a joke that I'm even suggesting this is possible.)

Tech is about to cease being ours.

I really like AI models, but I hate monopolies. Especially ones that treat us like cattle and depopulate the last vestiges of ownership and public commons.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 19:02:41+00:00
Please don't direct people to that website selling overpriced petri dishes, "expert consult" services, and using scare tactics to convince people to order their expensive tests.

> count the colonies that have formed. 3 or 4 or below is fine. 3 to 6 or 7 you need to wipe the walls with citrus oil cleaner or diluted bleach, deep clean carpets, remove old books and otherwise deep clean the space.

Mold spores are everywhere in the air. This is not an accurate test at all. It's a random number generator. The thresholds don't even make sense: 3-4 is fine but 3-6 means throw out your books and deep clean the house?

If you want professional mold testing services, please start by looking up your local health department and seeing who they recommend for testing.

Most importantly, don't buy anything or take any advice from websites that have long lists of non-specific health symptoms that they claim are caused by mold. The lists of symptoms on that website include everything under the sun from headaches to sleep problems to acid reflux - https://immunolytics.com/understand-mold/ - This is how alternative medicine (and testing) sellers make their sales funnel as large as possible, not real science.
by asattarmd | 2026-01-07 19:02:53+00:00
> And every second I spend trying to do fun free things for the community like this is a second I'm not spending trying to turn the business around and make sure the people who are still here are getting their paychecks every month.

Then step aside as the maintainer of the project then and better yet, make something like Tailwind-foundation etc. which is truly open source. Go spend your time building your business, but you can't become the bottleneck and not do anything for something that has become so foundational for Web Dev.
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-07 19:03:05+00:00
There is very little science in nutrition, despite the existence of thousands of studies. There are huge gaps in even the basics of nutrition understanding, and we are constantly discovering new confounding variables. Some dietary fibers were being counted as carbs as late as the 2000s. The huge impacts of the gut microbiome on digestion of food has barely been recognized in the last 10 years, and we still basically know nothing about it. Inter-personal variations in base metabolic rates and/or absorption of nutrients from food is gigantic, with basically no known reasons for it (some of the difference is tied to muscle mass, but even if you eliminate differences in muscle mass, there are still large differences that remain), and no inclusion in common models and dietary recommendations.

I'm not trying to say that red meat is good for you. I'm just saying we have no real idea, and you really shouldn't trust a doctor about any of this stuff any more than you should trust the latest health influencer crackpot. Try things out, see if you can eat similarly to people you know who are in good health, and get blood work done regularly to see if you're ok. Probably avoid highly synthesized foods.
by Rendello | 2026-01-07 19:03:09+00:00
That's true, they won't process any proposals for flags anymore. The first link in the linked post is a detailed FAQ from the Unicode people:

> Flags for countries with Unicode region codes [ie. recognized by ISO] are automatically recommended, with no proposals necessary! [...] the Emoji Subcommittee is no longer taking in any proposals for flags of any kind.

They have a section addressing new pride flags specifically near the end of the FAQ.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44283231
by the_af | 2026-01-07 19:03:21+00:00
> Maduro wasn't the leader of a country

Maduro was the leader of the country. Leadership is a practical matter, it doesn't depend on elections or democracy. Stalin wasn't elected either, and nobody says "he wasn't the leader of the USSR".

Likewise, there are leaders of countries who weren't elected that are currently aligned with the US, and nobody claims those leaders aren't the leaders.

A dictator or a king aren't elected, but sometimes they are leaders nonetheless. They are leaders if they de facto lead their countries/kingdoms. If insurgents wrestle control, they cease being leaders.
by bluGill | 2026-01-07 19:03:22+00:00
The stock market as always been about whatever is the fad in the short term, and whatever produces value in the long term. Today AI is the fad, but investors who care about fundamentals have always cared about pleasing customers because that is where the real value has always come from. (though be careful - not all customers are worth having, some wannabe customers should not be pleased)
by rdtsc | 2026-01-07 19:03:27+00:00
> US troops on a helicopter initially tried to capture a beach to turn it into a beachhead and forward operating site but had to return to the battle group without successful deployment (or any deployment at all) after it came under Venezulean fire

That sounds unlikely. They have aircraft carriers and just a large modern navy but a helicopter comes under fire and they cancel the invasion?
by nine_k | 2026-01-07 19:03:35+00:00
Prolog is a contrived example. It's small and simple enough to be implemented as a DSL embedded in another language, reusing most of the parser and leaningn its execution logic.

Now try to produce a library that adds compile-time features: static types, lifetimes, the notion of const and constexpr, etc. You can, of course, write external tools like mypy, or use some limited mechanism like Java annotations. But you have a really hard time implementing that in an ergonomic way (unless your language is its own metalanguage, like Lisp or Forth, and even then).

Creating a library that alters the way the runtime works, e.g. adding async, is not entirely impossible, but usually involves some surgery (see Python Twisted, or various C async libs) that results in a number of surprising footguns to avoid.

Frankly, even adding something by altering a language, but not reworking it enough to make the new feature cohesive, results in footguns that the source language did not have. See C#'s LINQ and exceptions.
by hallmason17 | 2026-01-07 19:04:05+00:00
Power hungry intel chips and graphics cards are inconvenient in laptops when it comes to battery life and cooling. It is especially noticeable if you spend any time using an M-series macbook pro, where performance is the same or better, but you get 16 hours of battery life. I prefer to use thinkpads, but apple just has a big technological advantage here that stands out in the UX department. I really hope advances are made quickly by competitors to get similar UX in a more affordable package.
by ahlCVA | 2026-01-07 19:04:15+00:00
Calling publishing API docs "open-sourcing" is a bit hyperbolic, but as token gestures go, it's at least worth a little bit.

I'm not familiar with those devices in particular, but I wish vendors would take steps to make life easier for after-markt firmware developers especially once devices go EOL by doing things like proactively dropping a GPL tarball and giving people a way to disable secure boot locks on devices that have them.
by sbarre | 2026-01-07 19:04:28+00:00
I like the approach of paying for major upgrades.. So you get free updates on your current version for as long as you want, but when the next major update comes out, you either stick with your current version at no cost (and ideally still get maintenance and security patches) but if you want the next major version, there's an upgrade cost.

That feels fair to me.
by catapart | 2026-01-07 19:04:52+00:00
Well, you can already see my hope and prayer. I don't think it's unlikely to come about as you do; rather I think that in the long run the market will eventually reward the better behavior, as any good capitalist believes. But rest assured that I also want a strong regulatory environment. The only winning long term strategy is to be twice as forgiving as you are punitive. So that means forgive a lot, but still punish when applicable. Given that, I think good laws derived from sound reason, voted on by a free public are a great way to both guide and punish all entities, including corporate ones. I just don't think that this regulation is the kind that is derived from sound reason.

I think there are so many issues with this type of regulation that circumvention will be inevitable and, like with so many other things, lead to a worse outcome overall. I think good regulation will look different altogether, but it's hard for me to imagine what it will look like. My best guess is that it will target different choke points, or target them in different ways. Maybe like... subsidies for content creators that enforce a 5-second limit on ads? It's not something many have control over now, but a platform would instantly become more attractive to content creators if they were allowed to dictate that.

Seems like that would have some sour ramifications as well, but it's just off the top of my head. The point is, I'm not against regulating the hell out of these giant industries, or these industry giants. I'm all for it. I just want it to actually work/make things better.
by extra88 | 2026-01-07 19:05:03+00:00
I don't get any of that in Safari or any other browser. "Rufus" is just a button in the main navigation, between "All" and "Same-day delivery" that I ignore. On individual product pages, there's "Ask Rufus" stuff in a couple of pages but it's no worse than other content I scroll past and seems just like previous features that didn't have a named AI identity.
by woodruffw | 2026-01-07 19:05:14+00:00
> In its current form, however, trusted publishing applies to a limited set of use cases. Support is restricted to a small number of CI providers, it cannot be used for the first publish of a new package, and it does not yet offer enforcement mechanisms such as mandatory 2FA at publish time. Those constraints have led maintainer groups to caution against treating trusted publishing as a universal upgrade, particularly for high-impact or critical packages.

This isn't strictly accurate: when we designed Trusted Publishing for PyPI, we designed it to be generic across OIDC IdPs (typically CI providers), and explicitly included an accommodation for creating new projects via Trusted Publishing (we called it "pending" publishers[1]). The latter is something that not all subsequent adopters of the Trusted Publishing technique have adopted, which is IMO both unfortunate and understandable (since it's a complication over the data model/assumptions around package existence).

I think a lot of the pains here are self-inflicted on GitHub's part here: deciding to remove normal API credentials entirely strikes me as extremely aggressive, and is completely unrelated to implementing Trusted Publishing. Combining the two together in the same campaign has made things unnecessarily confusing for users and integrators, it seems.

[1]: https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/creating-a-project-...
by ctoth | 2026-01-07 19:05:26+00:00
So I have been using the human-authored web since well... 1999 or so, starting with old AOL CDs. I've obviously seen a lot of human content.

Back in the old days you might have image links and other fun stuff. Then we entered the era of flash. Flash was great, especially the people who made their whole site out of it (2004 + not being able to order ... was it pizza? something really sticks in my memory here.)

Then we entered the era of early Bootstrap. Things got really bad for a while -- there was a whole Bootstrap-Accessibility library people ended up writing for it, and of course nobody actually used the damn thing. The most frustrating thing at this point (2010?) was any dropdown anywhere. Any bootstrap dropdown was completely inaccessible using typical techniques, and you'd have to do something tricky with ... mouse routing? Gods it's been 15 years.

CAPTCHAs for stupid things became huge there for a brief moment -- I remember needing to pass a CAPTCHA to download ... was it Creative drivers? That motivated me to make a service called CAPTCHA-Be-Gone for other blind people for a while.

Then we see ARIA start to really come into its own... except that's a whole new shitshow! So many times you'd get people who thought "Oh to add accessibility, we just add ARIA" and had no fucking idea what they were doing, to the point where the most-common A11y advice these days has become "Don't use ARIA unless you know you need it."

Oh then we had this brief flash (~10 years ago?) of "60 FPS websites!" -- let's directly render to the fucking canvas, that'll be great. Flutter? ... Ick!

Nowadays the issues are just the same as they ever were. People using divs for everything, onclick handlers instead of stuff that will be triggered with keyboard... Stuff that Opus just doesn't do!

I guess I've only been using Opus 4.5 for about a month but just ... Ask it to build something? Use it with a screen reader? Try it!
by mmcclure | 2026-01-07 19:05:28+00:00
I think context matters here. People are being kind to someone who just had to lay off most of their team because, despite their project’s popularity and success (maybe even because of it), a massive change in the ecosystem completely destroyed their business model.

I’ve never been a huge fan of using Tailwind personally, but I deeply appreciated that they were making a (mostly) non-enterprise FOSS model work in an interesting way. It’s a shame that it seems that’s likely dead in the water now.
by gyptazy | 2026-01-07 19:05:38+00:00
Incus has proven to be a strong and modern platform for managing containers and virtual machines, and it can run BSD virtual machines just as easily as Linux ones. With its built in QEMU support and well maintained BSD cloud images, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD can be launched directly in Incus without a manual installation and with familiar workflows. This makes Incus an efficient and reliable choice for testing, development, and running BSD systems in a lightweight lab or cloud style environment.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 19:05:45+00:00
> At least in the US, there's a fairly large industry built around mold testing & remediation

Be aware that's there's also a very large industry built around selling people unnecessary or non-standard mold tests (which always come back positive) along with "expert consultation services" and then refer you to local remediation companies for a very large kickback.

Mold scares are big business. If you visit a company's website and they have long lists of non-specific illnesses or make claims that nearly every disease could be caused by mold, don't engage with them. If you contact them at all or buy their services you're likely to end up in their leads database and be marketed to until the end of time. There is a lot of money in scaring people into unnecessary mold testing and remediation services.
by nemo | 2026-01-07 19:05:51+00:00
>In the jungle you have to be a bad guy to fight the other bad guys.

One of my favorite places to go in the world is jungles. I've never really encountered bad guys there, and I've never fought anyone I've met in a jungle. I think you might want to work on a better allegory, and also question your assumptions about any of this since on this I can't agree literally or metaphorically.