MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aa-jv | 2026-01-27 12:10:07+00:00
Trump is not the reason for the current disdain for the American state - he is merely the latest excuse that Americans make for the disastrous state of their country.

The rest of the world started being disaffected by America's actions in 2003, when it launched an illegal war based on utter lies, which murdered 5% of Iraqs' population.

This act and the following acts of war and funding of terrorist groups that the American empire decided was 'necessary' for its survival, have been noticed by the rest of the world, even while Americans' themselves do not have the temerity to confront the issue.

Blaming Trump is just another excuse Americans make for the mess that has been being made by their state for decades before he walked down some elevator somewhere.
by accounting2026 | 2026-01-27 12:10:12+00:00
Yes - and x-rays too! Both from the main TV tube itself (though often shielded) but historically the main problem was actually the vacuum rectifiers used to generate the high voltages required. Those vacuum tubes essentially became x-ray bulbs and had to be shielded. This problem appeared as the first color TV's appeared in the late 60s. Color required higher voltages for the same brightness, due to the introduction of a mask that absorbed a lot of the energy. As a famous example, certain GE TV's would emit a strong beam of x-rays, but it was downwards so it would mostly expose someone beneath the TV. Reportedly a few models could emit 50,000 mR/hr at 9 inches distance https://www.nytimes.com/1967/07/22/archives/owners-of-9000-c... which is actually quite a lot (enough for radiation sickness after a few hours). All were recalled of course!
by pghqdev | 2026-01-27 12:10:42+00:00
Valid concerns. Text notes are small so quota limits rarely hit in practice,
but silent data loss is indeed the critical failure mode for a notes app.

Also the main use-case for the app is to be used as a quick notepad rather than to archive data.

Current temporary mitigation: export to MD/PDF/TXT from the note menu.
For users who need real durability guarantees, the planned E2EE sync would provide redundancy across devices and our servers

What I'm adding in upcoming updates:

- Request navigator.storage.persist() on first use to prevent automatic eviction

- Monitor quota via navigator.storage.estimate() and warn when approaching limits

- Catch QuotaExceededError explicitly and prompt immediate export

- Periodic "backup reminder" for users who haven't exported recently

Really appreciate the specific pushback.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2026-01-27 12:11:08+00:00
> Europe was leaning on US defense. This enabled resources to be diverted to social spending instead

While each of these statements seems true, there is an imprecise implication that the USA was sponsoring Europe's social security. There are several problems with this implication, starting from the fact that the USA wanted to be present in Europe and benefited from it. Sure, increasing military budgets means less money is available for other things, including social spending, but increasing it from 2% to 5% like they're doing now or even 9% doesn't mean that Europe stops offering free healthcare and education to its citizens. So while I understand why Trump is promoting this narrative, it is his typical lie.
by vidarh | 2026-01-27 12:11:13+00:00
It doesn't help when doctors are often unaware of outliers affecting the test results. E.g. I've had a number of doctors freak out over my eGFR (kidney function) test results because the default test they use is affected by body mass and diet, and made even worse by e.g. preworkout supplements with creatine. None of my doctors have been aware of this, and I've had to explain it to them.
by oscargrouch | 2026-01-27 12:11:40+00:00
> Together with the author's distaste for Rust

As someone who understand the sentiment, I wouldn't call it distaste for Rust. It feels more as Rust not being the right tool for the job and to be honest I have the same feeling here. Rust is great for a bunch of problem domains, but it doesn't feel to be the best tool for this specific problem domain.
It's always about the choices a programming language makes, it make it good for some use-cases and bad for others and there's nothing wrong with it.
Also as a cautionary tale about panacea programming languages, Java once tried it with great success to be "the one" language to rule them all and we can see that even though it was a popular choice in many domains, slowly other fitting solutions to specific problem domains took over. Proving that there is no such a thing, unfortunately for us, but some languages gets closer than others (Rust being one of them).
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-27 12:12:38+00:00
οὕτω γε λεπτὸν ὥσθ᾽ ὅλης τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἐν ταῖς γυναιξίν ἐστιν ἡ σωτηρία. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=aristoph.+lys.... ?
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-27 12:12:42+00:00
When it comes to value for money/size, Qatar alone has a lot more influence than the US. Recently it forced the EU to relax its ESG standards in exchange for gas imports.

Sure some people love to live in the past, but it is not the past anymore, of course.

Trump chickening out of every world confrontation is a nice example of the diminishing capability of the US to bend the rest of the world to its will. US can probably keep its influence in Latin America, but in the Old World, the balance of power has shifted.

Is Trump de facto more powerful than Mohammad bin Salman? IDK.
by onli | 2026-01-27 12:14:02+00:00
You mean toggling the data setting? It's on the program to make implications visible. That's a big part of design for usability. It's possible ChatGPT did that and the user was unexpectably dense, it's more likely the implications were not properly explained/shown. That's why you add undo functionality, which the user even tried to find. Here, given the legal component, an undo available for a short time frame seems like a good fit.

But your comment could equally be about the fact of using chatGPT in the first place for the job, that I wouldn't justify at all.
by verbify | 2026-01-27 12:14:05+00:00
In Babi Yar, over two days, 33,771 Jews were killed, and this was prior to the 'peak' in Operation Reinhard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar

The Nazis were still killing people in other places at the same time, so the deadliest day is probably much much higher.

The scale of the Holocaust is hard to imagine. Even just looking at very specific suranmes, there are 23,000 killed with the surname Rosenberg, 12,000 with the surname Adler...

https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/search-results-na...
by lesuorac | 2026-01-27 12:14:23+00:00
There's 200 other people on the flight that think this plane is going to crash instead of thinking this plane is going to land safely and a ransom is going to occur.

Prior to 9/11 hijackings were rare but still occurred with everybody living [1]. There is a notable truncation in the list after 9/11 of incidents per decade (across the world; so nothing special about TSA).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings#19...
by Deklomalo | 2026-01-27 12:15:32+00:00
You state a lot of things without testing it first?

A LLM has structures in its latent space which allows it to do basic math, it has also seen enough data that it has probably structures in it to detect basic trends.

A LLM doesn't just generate a stream of tokens. It generates an embedding and searches/does something in its latent space, then returns tokens.

And you don't even know at all what LLM Interfaces do in the background. Gemini creates sub-agents. There can easily be already a 'trend detector'.

I even did a test and generated random data with a trend and fet it to chatgpt. The output was very coherent and right.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-27 12:15:49+00:00
I'll preface this with I generally trust doctors. I think on the whole they are well positioned to provide massive benefit to their patients.

I will also preface this with saying I do not think any LLM is better than the average doctor and that you are far better served going to your doctor than asking ChatGPT what your health is like on any factor.

But I'll also say that the quality of doctors varies massively, and that a good amount of doctors learn what they learn in school and do not keep up with the latest advances in research, particularly those that have broad spectrums such as GPs. LLMs that search scientific literature, etc., might point you in the direction of this research that the doctors are not aware of. Or hallucinate you into having some random disease that impacts 3 out of every million people and send you down a rabbithole for months.

Unfortunately, it's difficult to resolve this without extremely good insurance or money to burn. The depth you get and the level of information that a good preventative care cardiologist has is just miles ahead of where your average family medicine practitioner is at. Statins are an excellent example - new prescriptions are for atorvastatin are still insanely high despite it being a fairly poor choice in comparison to rosuvastatin or pitavastatin for a good chunk of the people on it. They often are behind on the latest recommendations from the NLA and AHA, etc.

There's a world where LLMs or similar can empower everyday people to talk to their doctor about their options and where they stand on health, where they don't have to hope their doc is familiar with where the science has shifted over the past 5-10 years, or cough up the money for someone who specializes in it. But that's not the world of today.

In the mean time, I do think people should be comfortable being their own advocates with their doctors. I'm lucky enough that my primary care doc is open to reading the studies I send over to him on things and work with me. Or at least patient enough to humor me. But it's let me get on medications that treat my symptoms without side effects and improved my quality of life (and hopefully life/healthspan). There's also been things I've misinterpreted - I don't pick a fight with him if we come to opposite conclusions. He's shown good faith in agreeing with me where it makes sense to me, and pushed back where it hasn't, and I acknowledge he's the expert.
by ACCount37 | 2026-01-27 12:16:03+00:00
In the AI scene, everyone knows everyone.

It used to be a small group of people who mostly just believed that AI is a very important technology overlooked by most. Now, they're vindicated, the importance of AI is widely understood, and the headcount in the industry is up x100. But those people who were on the ground floor are still there, they all know each other, and many keep in touch. And many who entered the field during the boom were those already on the periphery of the same core group.

Which is how you get various researchers and executives who don't see eye to eye anymore but still agree on many of the fundamentals - or even things that appear to an outsider as extreme views. They may have agreed on them back in year 2010.

"AGI is possible, powerful, dangerous" is a fringe view in the public opinion - but in the AI scene, it's the mainstream view. They argue the specifics, not the premise.
by kavalg | 2026-01-27 12:16:18+00:00
Same story in Bulgaria. A backpack with an iPhone and an iPad was stolen from a car. Had to go to the police department to file a written complaint. Weeks after that the devices were still visible in FindMy but police could not identify and catch the thieves.

So, airtags/findmy are good, but then it is up to the police to get their job done. I guess Switzerland and Bulgaria are different :)
Show HN: Beyond Open Source: Why AI-Assisted Projects Need 'Open Method'
by OlaProis | 2026-01-27 12:16:33+00:00
Disclosure: Ferrite is built using AI-assisted development (Claude). I'm sharing this openly because I think transparency is exactly what this post is about.

Someone on Hacker News called my project "open weights", arguing that without sharing the prompts and process that created the code, I was essentially doing the AI equivalent of releasing model weights without the training data. The code was visible, but the inputs weren't.

That comment led me down a rabbit hole about what "open source" actually means in an AI-assisted world.
The problem: Open source was designed assuming humans wrote code.
If you could read the code, you could understand how it was made. AI breaks that assumption. When Claude writes a function based on my prompt, the code tells you what it does, but not why it exists in that form.

My proposal: "Open Method", sharing not just the code, but the process. The prompts, the workflow, the PRDs, the decisions. Enough that someone else could understand not just what you built, but how you built it.

I wrote about this in more depth here: https://dev.to/olaproeis/beyond-open-source-why-ai-assisted-...

Some context on Ferrite:

900+ GitHub stars

Approved for Flatpak (Flathub) release

Just got code signing approved

All development methodology is documented in docs/ai-workflow/

I'm not saying everyone must share their prompts. But I think the open source community should discuss what transparency looks like when AI is writing our code.

Questions for discussion:

If you were reviewing an AI-assisted PR, what would you want to see?

Should repos have an AI_METHOD.md alongside README.md?

Does "open source" need to evolve for the AI era?
by phtrivier | 2026-01-27 12:17:39+00:00
The EU commission would be in an interesting position to mandate American platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, etc...) to support interoperability in order to avoid "market distortion".

Meaning the US based companies would bear _some_ of the burden of making it easier to ditch them, and switch to "sovereign" solutions.

The rest of the world would have a vested interest in letting this happen, since it would also reduce _their_ dependence on the US.

The question then becomes "what happens first":

1 - European commission pressuring the Irish government to send its police to seize AWS servers in Dublin (when fines are not enough any more)

2 - US administration pressuring the tech companies to shut down service in Europe (when threats are not enough any more)
by xpe | 2026-01-27 12:17:46+00:00
> I'm not fully onboard with the logic that we just have to live with a certain type of criminal behavior because the technology that could prevent it can be misused to enable another type of criminal behavior. We should aim to stop any kind of criminal behavior.

I don’t think anyone is making a claim that we should live with this according to first principles. I think people are saying this trade-off currently exists because it doesn’t seem to be economically or technologically feasible to solve both well.

How do you propose making an improvement to tracking technology that reduces theft while at the same time not assisting stalking?

One idea: if you report your AirTag as stolen, then it can continue to track the item, but you lose the ability to see where it is. In so doing you hand off tracking capability to some authority. This could be an improvement to the extent that the authority is trustworthy and well behaved. Unfortunately, such properties are not guaranteed across the globe. This would create more incentives for bribery for example.
by tux3 | 2026-01-27 12:18:24+00:00
It supports SSH. Since that's already in place, not much point in telnet, especially since NAO wants a password. And you prettu much have to go out of your way to install a telnet client these days.

That's a bit like connecting to IRC with netcat. It's easy to do, there's some kind of a retro hacker feel to it, but it's just not very practical.
by sgjohnson | 2026-01-27 12:18:48+00:00
> Windows Vista was so legendarily broken on release, that even after it became stable

Vista is different. Vista was _not_ bad. In fact, it was pretty good. The design decisions Microsoft made with Vista were the right thing to do.

Most of the brokenness that happened on Vista's release was broken/unsigned drivers (Vista required WHQL driver signing), and UAC issues. Vista also significantly changed the behavior of Session 0 (no interaction allowed), which broke a lot of older apps.

Vista SP2 and the launch version of 7 were nearly identical, except 7 got a facelift too.

Of course, the "Vista Capable" stickers on hardware that couldn't really run it didn't help either.

But all things considered - Vista was not bad. We remember it as bad for all the wrong reasons. But that was (mostly) not Microsoft's fault. Vista _did_ break a lot of software and drivers - but for very good reasons.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-27 12:18:50+00:00
I've not seen evidence that creatine actually has significant impact on eGFR. Anecdotally, mine does not budge even on 5g a day. Meta-analysis show minimal impact, e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12590749/

Muscle mass obviously does, though. cystatin c is a better market if your body composition differs from the "average"
by anal_reactor | 2026-01-27 12:19:14+00:00
I have lots of music in exotic formats and an installation of foobar2000 that plays all of them. I keep using foobar2000 even though I switched to Fedora KDE because I don't see any alternative that will allow me to play music without forcing me to convert everything. Also, I have an Android app to control foobar2000 from my phone.

Big downsides are that scaling is broken on Wine so the UI is tiny. Moreover, whenever I manually change tracks using the mouse, it lets out a massive fart before continuing normally. But I can live with that.

Hmmm, now that I think of it - I've never made any GUI app. Suppose I want to write my own music player, what's the best way to approach this?
by tasuki | 2026-01-27 12:19:43+00:00
The thing I don't understand is alphabetic ordering of albums, which is the default most everywhere. Albums of a particular artist should obviously be ordered by when they were released (I don't care whether from newest or from oldest).

It appears I'm an alien: almost none of the music players' authors care about this - they happily show albums from A to Z.

I use Clementine which can be set up to order albums by year. Any other options?
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-27 12:20:12+00:00
But your comparison is a bit off; you mention CNC machines and the like to build guitars, but those are tools that are still exactly programmed by humans. LLMs on the other hand are probabilistic - you prompt "write me a set of gcode instructions for a CNC to build a guitar body" and wait / hope.

Sure, LLMs as a tool probably have a place in software development, but the danger lies in high volume, low oversight.

But there's people using it large scale to build large applications, time will tell how they work out in the end. Software engineering is programming over time, and the "over time" for LLM based software engineering hasn't been long enough yet.
by ksherlock | 2026-01-27 12:20:26+00:00
For Apple-II specific info, consider

The Assembly Lines book -- https://archive.org/details/AssemblyLinesCompleteWagner

Understanding the Apple IIe -- https://archive.org/details/understandingapp0000sath

Understanding the Apple II -- https://archive.org/details/understanding_the_apple_ii
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-27 12:20:28+00:00
It's the openness needed in western societies.

The lack of political will to create and fund covert offensive operations over the internet.

Russia has had this down for _years_, it's not illegal to hack non-Russian targets, so people do it. They have command and control systems where they can give out tasks like "find me vulnerabilities for Siemens XYZ hardware" and then a team will pick that up and do it.

They also practice infiltration, exfiltration and coordination with their attacks. Every kiddie can get in with maximum noise, the truly skilled ones get OUT without leaving any definite traces.

And I'm not talking out of my ass: https://youtu.be/jbIR7YVAYnc - I'm talking out of Marina Krotofil's ass, she's been investigating and dissecting this for a long time.
by dlbcode | 2026-01-27 12:20:38+00:00
I'm building Liqo because I think the standard "list of buttons" in a bio is boring and static. I decided to turn the link into a vertical story format where users tap through media to reach a CTA.

Demo: https://liqo.app/daniel

I'm in the very early stages of validating this, and I'm genuinely worried about the UX. While everyone is used to this format on Instagram/TikTok, I’m not sure if people actually want to "consume" a bio link.

Is this too high-effort for someone who just wants a quick link?

Does it feel like a natural extension of social media, or is it just annoying?

If you clicked a bio and saw this, would you tap through or bounce?

Please roast the concept. I need to know if I should double down on this "dynamic" approach or if it's a UX dead-end.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-27 12:21:00+00:00
The biggest difference between L and a Kennedy, is that a K in her position is free to act unilaterally== without consulting the other IPs? (which echelon are the Kennedys, how aligned are they to the dicta)

Phyker: in what way are emo-x and confrontationality same-same but also different, but still the same? How to rotate in such a 2D space? Asking for a democracy.

https://youtube.com/shorts/pN9l-_EuAdM

Imker question?

(Okok I will get back to loA but I realized it was PH I was more interested in hooking after all XD

I could swear I've seen that style in a manga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Pillars_of_Wisdom#/media...)

E: https://www.amazon.co.jp/T%E3%83%BB-%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83...

Seems like it was aimed at the shoujo XD
by steveBK123 | 2026-01-27 12:21:09+00:00
One challenge that may sound obvious.. is that super rare stuff gets seen super rarely, even by specalists.

In practice it means you often have to escalate from GP to local specialist to even more narrow specialist all the way to one of the regional big city specialist that almost exclusively get the weird cases.

This is because every hop is an increasingly narrow area of speciality.

Instead of just “cancer doctor” its the “GI cancer doctor” then its “GI cancer doctor of this particular organ” then its “an entire department of cancer doctors who work exclusively on this organ who will review the case together”, etc.
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-27 12:21:16+00:00
According to this right-leaning source (Revealed: The CIA-Backed NGOs Fueling the Iran Protests - https://ronpaulinstitute.org/revealed-the-cia-backed-ngos-fu...):

Most of the human rights organisation in Iran, cited heavily by western media, are backed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which some countries (and some right-wing political organisations) believe is used by the CIA (if not funded and a front for it). Human Rights Activists in Iran is based in Fairfax, Virginia (where the CIA HQ is). (Apparently, they've received up to a million dollars in funding from the NED). The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran (ABCHRI) has also been associated with the NED. The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) is also based in New York City and Washington, D.C, and also funded by the NED (according to the Chinese).
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-27 12:21:41+00:00
I think you'd have to drill down into certain periods in their corporate history to make that argument.

IBM is now notorious for having over invested in services in the 90s/00s and thus ceded their previous technical/product expertise.

Similarly, HP bifurcated itself into product and not-product divisions.

DEC is a weird case. Both Olsen and Palmer were arguably product people, but also missed major shift in the market (personal computing and x86 ISA consolidation, respectively).