MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bell-cot | 2026-01-21 13:05:15+00:00
Barrier 1: If ClickCo provides housing for workers - even just sub-leased apartments - then it takes on both a management burden and considerable legal liability. And every problem, ever, with that housing now has some of ClickCo's name and reputation glued to it.

Barrier 2: That I'm familiar with, tax codes are not friendly to employer-provided housing. ClickCo paying >$X/month to housing Wanda Worker-Bee, when $X/month more pay would let her pick her own as-good housing, is a losing move.

Barrier 3: If you're thinking of ClickCo building housing - talk to an MBA. At scale, housing developments are mammoth capital investments, for something unrelated to ClickCo's business, with (at best) multi-year lead times and very long asset life expectancies.

Barrier 4: If ClickCo wants to scale up, or down, or shift parts of its workforce to or from a location - any housing it has built is immovable, and very slow and difficult to scale.

(In general, "migrant labor housing" implies that the workers are paid very poorly. And willing to live in something more like a refugee camp.)
Show HN: EmbodIOS – AI Operating System with Kernel-Level Inference
by dddimcha | 2026-01-21 13:05:21+00:00
I've been working on an experimental operating system that runs AI inference directly at the kernel level, eliminating the traditional OS overhead between hardware and AI workloads.
The idea: why run an LLM on top of Linux on top of hardware when the AI is the application? EmbodIOS treats inference as a first-class kernel primitive.
Early results:

~10x faster cold boot to inference-ready state
~8x memory reduction vs. Linux + PyTorch stack
Direct hardware access for accelerators without userspace context switches

The OS is minimal by design – no scheduler optimized for multi-user timesharing, no filesystem abstractions you don't need, no legacy compatibility layers. Just what's required to feed tensors to silicon.
Open sourced at: https://github.com/dddimcha/embodiOS
Interested in feedback from anyone working on AI infrastructure, embedded ML, or alternative OS designs. What workloads would benefit most from this approach? What's missing?
by sjw987 | 2026-01-21 13:05:25+00:00
I have never understood social media.

For me, talking face-to-face is the only real means of socialising. I can barely even see the appeal of having a proper conversation on a chat application (they're much more more ideal for arranging meetups, sharing information quickly and keeping up with people far away).

It's incredibly annoying that we're expected to shift real world social interaction into these apps and platforms. It annoys me when somebody I meet begins talking to me more on chat apps than they do in real life.

However much more than that, I cannot understand the concept of posting personal details, media, worldviews and opinions underneath your own name on some platform, in which anywhere from dozens of friends and family, to the whole world, can see it. Even large group chats seem unappealing. What is the appeal of this for anybody besides the people that run such platforms for engagement and advertising?

Why do people want to see others they do or don't know doing this? What's the point of it?

Why does anybody want or engage in systems of digital reputation (likes, kudos, karma)? Moreso why are these values, or the number of followers/digital friends in anyway important? We all know that these things can be openly bought. It pains me to imagine all the one line comments, and upvote/downvote with timestamps being stored on a server somewhere.

The wildest part is that the companies that provide these platforms are worth more than companies that actually produce meaningful products and services. These are platforms that could only succeed by being free* and then abusing existing users.

Hacker News is the only place online I post, and I only do so in a non-social discourse. I don't know anybody I've replied to or been replied to by on here, and nor do they know me.
by ryanjshaw | 2026-01-21 13:05:58+00:00
Best way I can describe it is as a different sense.

I have a sense of how things relate, like a graph I can follow. So in my room I know the couch is in the corner of the room by the window and there is a desk taking up the space on the other side, with a gap between.

I can’t “see” it, like a drawing or picture, I can just sense the spatial relationships.

I recently did a little fun series of photos with my daughter at a Halloween event and came up with the idea as a series of frames and what I was trying to convey.

The end result was a complete surprise to me, because I only imagined the story and spatial relationships. The photographer said it was the most creative sequence anyone did that night.

Although it’s on my fridge that I open multiple times per day, I can’t tell you what it looks like exactly, only logically. For example I have to remember the costumes we wore, I can’t see them in my head, to remember what we looked like. So visualization ability is not necessary for creativity, I believe.
by t-3 | 2026-01-21 13:06:00+00:00
Honestly, I don't think anyone would raise much of a fuss over changing distance measurements to metric. Both centimeters and inches are easy enough to eyeball or rule-of-thumb, meters and yards are basically the same, and larger units are only relevant for speed limits and travel planning. Metric lacks a good "foot", but I guess people would get used to eyeballing things in ~50cm increments instead.

Weights are even easier as pretty much everyone uses grams as the smallest daily unit and most people can convert to and from metric on the fly for ounces, lbs, kgs. Liters aren't uncommon, and ml<->gram equivalence for water is well-known. Traditional kitchen volumes probably wouldn't be displaced because metric has no answer for those in first place.

Temperature is where metric will fail to gain adoption because Celsius totally sucks unless your daily life consists only of boiling or freezing water at sea level. No advantages over Fahrenheit except maybe arguably for science, because it's Kelvin with an offset.
by SaltNHash | 2026-01-21 13:06:12+00:00
Tide team here. Our dev Sasha built this PoC in a few weekends, using our SDK.
Her core idea: Remove the risk of compromised keys, and the overhead of managing them at scale, by never having a key to steal. Instead the SSH signing operation is distributed across nodes using novel MPC-based threshold EdDSA – the key literally never exists in whole, not even momentarily in a TEE.

KeyleSSH is:
- Browser-based SSH console
- Auth via OIDC, signing via distributed novel MPC-based threshold EdDSA
- appx 30 lines of core signing logic (the SDK does the heavy lifting)

It isn't (yet):
- Production-ready. It's a PoC.
- Fully decentralized. The nodes currently run on our testnet – we're working toward a proper decentralized mainnet. If you run infrastructure and are curious about operating nodes, happy to chat.
- A silver bullet. Browser-based means endpoint compromise is still a threat vector.

Live demo: demo.keylessh.com
Source: github.com/sashyo/keylessh

AMA about the protocol, the SDK, or the threat model.
by threemux | 2026-01-21 13:06:25+00:00
I'd part with cups and teaspoons/tablespoons and the like, but you'll pry inches/feet/yards and fahrenheit from my cold, dead hands. They're both more convenient for daily use. I think I'd prefer to keep miles as well but I don't have a good reason for that one.

Fahrenheit has more precision without using decimals for the thing 99% of people are using temperature measurements for: air temp. Where I live, we generally experience 5 degrees F - 100 degrees F at different points of the year. That's 95 degrees of precision with no decimal. In C, that's -15 to 37.8, a mere 52.8 degrees. The difference between 75 (usually a beautiful day) and 85 (hot) is 23.8C to 29.4C. Everything packed into this tight range.

Inches/feet being base 12 divides better into thirds and fourths, which is very useful in construction.

For science, sure, I'll use metric.
by YmiYugy | 2026-01-21 13:06:31+00:00
ASML doesn't quite do overnight orders for lithography machines.
There is limited construction capacity to build new data centers.
Expanding power generation and grid capacity is also a whole can of worms.
My point is just that tech CEOs keep saying "build more fabs" and TSMC saying "we worry about long term demand" and the CEOs replying along the lines of "AI is so big you couldn't possibly have too much capacity" rather than going "here is a contract to guarantee we'll buy your capacity".
by matesz | 2026-01-21 13:06:47+00:00
My Dear German friends, please accept that EU-inc is a massive boost for EU competitiveness. Continuing to block progress here only proves that the EU is good at making promises on paper but fails to deliver real change.

The reason this "28th regime" actually works—and bypasses the previous vetos — is that it’s optional. It doesn’t try to force Germany to change its local GmbH laws or kill the notary system overnight. Instead, it creates a parallel, voluntary path. Berlin doesn't have to give up its red tape for local shops, but they have to let a "Unified European Company" exist alongside them.

If we let national pride or local bureaucracy stop this again, we are essentially telling our best founders to leave for the US. Let’s stop protecting red tape and start protecting our future.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-21 13:07:11+00:00
I really like this idea but I have a few questions.

Suppose I am an indian developer interested to work with European Data sovereignity because imo I value privacy personally just as much as the EU population and it would be great to be more connected and wishing to connect with them more.

So I have thought of using EU options in my servers/services if I use them for the most part and I can even swap out to completely European if need be.

So let's say to be a part of this? should I be an European company? If so, I even looked at it on how to establish a company in Europe rather easily (preferably a lean company) and It seems that Estonia seems the best way for me to create an EU company from my country without too much hassle but the costs of operation does feel like a lot for just starting out let's say.

I am also not sure about the fact that given I live in India, Some data sharing arrangement can be generated or would I have to actually migrate to say EU (which although I love EU, I currently appreciate my country as well and migration is a hassle right now)

I wish if such a manifesto could work for India and EU and a deeper integration could be made between the two countries about such tech related software or other as I have been a vocal supporter of European tech providers like hetzner,ovh etc. and they are even cheaper than american hyperscalers in many/most cases.
by tomhow | 2026-01-21 13:07:12+00:00
When we say we're looking for "substance" or "depth", we mean we're looking for projects that have had some significant thought and effort put into them. We're looking for a backstory, a real world problem that was causing real costs or difficulties for people, which set the developer on a journey of discovery and led them to an "a-ha" moment, where they figured out how the software should or could work, then built it in a way that's impressive (it needn't be polished just proven to work). That's the ideal.

At the other (low-substance) end of the spectrum is "lead generation tool" or "resume generator" that was built in 3 hours (and not much works other than a signup page and a link to Product Hunt). Not much of that kind of stuff makes the front page, but we see plenty of it submitted.

You can look down the list of most highly-ever upvoted Show HNs here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Most things getting 1000+ upvotes and hundreds of comments are high-substance, in that they have a back-story, some kind of deep work and/or ingenuity, and they make a great platform for curious conversation, which is, after all, what HN is for.
by vidarh | 2026-01-21 13:07:25+00:00
I consider myself to have aphantasia, but I have one singular experience of having seen things in my minds eye in a waking state, during meditation. I wish there was research into what might trigger this, and how, as I've not been able to repeat it.

(I'm sure I wasn't asleep as I both never remember my dreams, but have distinct memories of how "fuzzy" and ethereal the imagery in my dreams feel, while this imagery during meditation was crystal clear and I was fully lucid)
by anileated | 2026-01-21 13:07:46+00:00
Something can be illegal and it can be technically legal but at the same time pretty damn bad. There is the spirit and the letter of the law. They can never be in perfect agreement because as time goes bad guys tend to find new workarounds.

So either the community behaves, or the letter becomes more and more complicated trying to be more specific about what should be illegal. Now that GPL is trivially washed by asking a black box trained on GPLed code to reproduce the same thing it might be inevitable, I suppose.

> They're still tools ~anyone can use

Of course, technology itself is not evil, just like crypto or nuclear fission. In this case when we are discussing harm we are almost always talking about commercial LLM operators. However, when the technology is mostly represented by that, it doesn't seem required to add a caveat every time LLMs are mentioned.

There's hardly a good, truly fully open LLM that one can actually run on own hardware. Part of the reason is that hardly anyone, in the grand scheme of things, even has the hardware required.

(Even if someone is a techie and has the money and knows how to set up a rig, which is almost nobody on grand scale of the things, now big LLM operators make sure there are no chips left for them.)

So you can buy and own (and sell) a car, but ~anyone cannot buy and run an independent LLM (and obviously not train one). ~everyone ends up using a commercial LLM powered by some megacorp's infinite compute and scraping resources and paying that megacorp one way or another, ultimately helping them do more of the stuff that they do, like harming OSS.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-21 13:07:56+00:00
I get that. And if an LLM story disappears from the front page—oh well.

I'll defend the political stories though. For me, all the other places out there that vend politics are truly awful. While a political post lingers briefly on the HN front page, I find I actually learn something from the comments. If there are shit-posts in the discussion, they are quickly "dead". More often though there are (seemingly) reasoned debates about the issues in the comments.

I appreciate (what I am embarrassed to call) a more intellectual discussion on politics than I have been able to find anywhere else. (Embarrassed because I'm walking a fine line trying not to appear to cast the discussions as "elitist". Or maybe I am an elitist, who knows.)
Show HN: Receiptly – keep receipts so you don't miss warranties
by NabilChiheb | 2026-01-21 13:08:08+00:00
Hi HN,

I kept missing warranty deadlines because receipts were scattered. Some on paper, some in email, some as random photos. When something broke, I either couldn’t find the receipt or realized the warranty expired last month.

I built Receiptly Pro to fix that. You snap or upload a receipt, keep it stored in one place, and actually have it when a warranty or return matters. The goal isn’t accounting, it’s not losing money because of forgotten paperwork.

I mainly use it to keep proof of purchase handy and avoid “too late” moments with warranties.

Link: https://receiptlypro.com/

Curious how others handle warranty tracking today, and what’s broken in your current setup.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-21 13:08:18+00:00
> I'm unsure about how to react to them.

I don't get friends or family sharing slop with me often, but when I do, I simply don't react at all. I don't see the point in peeing in their pool, but I also don't want to give the impression that this is the sort of thing I enjoy.

> I'd be curious to hear from people how they feel and how they handle their loved ones enjoying and sharing those kind of videos, not knowing they were generated.

I don't really consider this something that I need to handle. People enjoy what they enjoy. I don't have to share their enjoyment, I can just let them do them. I'll share my opinion if they ask, but outside of that, it's kinda none of my business.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-01-21 13:08:42+00:00
I'd also like to see the details, it seems to be a difficult undertaking but something the EU really needs. As an example, when I incorporate a company outside of Portugal then the tax authority can classify it as a CFC (controlled foreign company) and tax it very high, and it can lead to double taxation. AFAIK, the rules are quite complex. A EU-wide registry should prevent that, but that might require a EU-wide harmonization of 27 tax systems (plus potential associated countries like Switzerland and the UK).
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-21 13:08:45+00:00
The query complexity is the bit that catches teams off guard. You tell yourself "just add WHERE deleted_at IS NULL everywhere" but then you're six months in and someone's debugging why a report is showing ghost data because one query in a chain of 12 missed the filter.

Views help, but then you're maintaining parallel access patterns. And the moment you need to actually query deleted records (audit, support tickets, undo) you're back to bypassing your own abstractions.

Event sourcing solves this more cleanly but the operational overhead is real - most teams I've seen try it end up with a hybrid where core entities are event-sourced and everything else is just soft deleted with fingers crossed.
by MontyCarloHall | 2026-01-21 13:08:57+00:00
>Even humanity’s (weak) radio emissions would be detectable from tens of light years away, and stronger emissions from much further.

That's not true. Non-directional radio transmissions (e.g. TV, broadcast radio) would not be distinguishable from cosmic background radiation at more than a light year or two away [0]. Highly directional radio emissions (e.g. Arecibo message) an order of magnitude more powerful than the strongest transmitters on Earth would only be visible at approximately 1000 light years away [1], and would only be perceptible if the detector were perfectly aligned with the transmission at the exact time it arrived.

[0] https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/245562

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0610377.pdf
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-21 13:09:07+00:00
> This seems like a tautology - the VCs you've worked with in Europe invest in Europe.

But the claim was that early stage VCs in Europe invest in US instead, contrary to my experience. If they were instead investing in US companies, I'd see that instead, I don't know if I used the wrong word here, where exactly is the tautology?

I don't understand the assumption that I wouldn't know what my peers are up to, unless you're assuming I only know these people because they specifically invest in European companies, is that what you're trying to imply?
by vidarh | 2026-01-21 13:09:14+00:00
I certainly think that is what I've done.

I've meditated, and experimented with self hypnosis (still on the fence on whether hypnosis works), and I simply always interpreted such "visualize" instructions as metaphorical, as I had no idea until a few years back that people meant them literally, so pretending was the only option I thought possible.
by veltas | 2026-01-21 13:09:24+00:00
It's worth pointing out the convenient imperial units are the ones that are hardest to get rid of. The "pints" in pubs is because a pint is about how much a drink should be, in fact I've often found drinking 500ml to be just slightly too little to drink, probably because I'm used to the pint, but "1 unit" is also just a lot easier to keep than "500 units" or "50 units".
Show HN: Claude Code prompts to turn voice AI exports to a personal knowledge
by joozio | 2026-01-21 13:09:47+00:00
After my Limitless Pendant got banned in the EU, I had 30 days to export 6 months of voice data before deletion. The irony: the device promised "AI
memory" but couldn't actually use most of it—LLM context windows cap out around 200k tokens, and my transcripts were millions.

So I built a local workflow with Claude Code to extract actual value: structured knowledge base, meeting summaries, and a CLAUDE.md file (portable
context for any AI assistant).

Sharing the prompts so others can do this with their own voice AI exports. Works with Omi, Plaud, or any transcript dump.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-21 13:09:53+00:00
More like even if they looked at the logs they aren't about to replace an expensive box on the critical path when it's working well enough for 99% of their customers.

I once had my ISP respond to a technical problem on their end by sending out a tech. The service rep wasn't capable of diagnosing and refused to escalate to a network person. The tech that came out blamed the on premise equipment (without bothering to diagnose) and started blindly swapping it out. Only after that didn't fix the issue did he finally look into the network side of things. The entire thing was fairly absurd but I guess it must work out for them on average.
by joozio | 2026-01-21 13:10:02+00:00
I wore a Limitless Pendant for 6 months, recording ~10GB of conversations. Then it got banned in the EU and I had 30 days to export before deletion.

The irony: the device promised "AI that remembers everything" but couldn't actually use most of my data. LLM context windows max out around 200k tokens.
6 months of transcripts = millions of tokens. The "AI memory" was just summarization of recent conversations.

So I built a local workflow with Claude Code to actually make use of the data:

1. Parse and structure transcripts by date/topic
2. Extract decisions, action items, and key insights
3. Build a searchable knowledge base with cross-references
4. Generate a CLAUDE.md file - portable context I can give any AI assistant

The CLAUDE.md concept is the most useful part. It's a structured file describing who I am, how I work, my preferences, ongoing projects. Now any AI I use
can read it and have context about me without needing my entire conversation history.

I wrote up the full prompts so others can do this with their own voice data (works with Omi, Plaud, or any export). The bigger realization: these devices
are architecturally limited until we get either infinite context or good local-first AI.

Happy to answer questions about the workflow or the technical limitations I hit.
by lnsru | 2026-01-21 13:10:06+00:00
I visited many lectures about business at the university, participated at Munich business plan competitions and all the time holding structure GmbH owning other GmbH was the best solution. The reality is that this is best solution for medium enterprises, for the bootstrapped start it does not matter. If I can’t take off as crappy Gewerbe the expensive holding will not help me either. Learning was not free.

My feeling about tax consultants in Germany is that most of them are scammers helping lazy people to enter mandatory things in corresponding Elster fields. The ones with knowledge are super rare. Better ask AI and then verify the information, that’s cheaper and makes more sense.
by ghaff | 2026-01-21 13:10:24+00:00
A big part of it is certainly what you're used to.

The other part, which I'm sympathetic to, is that for human scale everyday things, Fahrenheit 0 degrees lines up with really darned cold, 100 degrees with really hot outside of an oven, and the degree size is about twice as granular as Celsius.

And while Celsius degree size is indeed widely used in engineering calculations, you're often using Kelvin as the absolute temperature scale. (Which does use Celsius degree increments of course.)