MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2026-01-17 18:53:22+00:00
My fear with tapping the 401k to fund purchases during one’s working years would be a bit hit to the money they actually have for retirement. Taking out $80k today, at a 7% rate of return, would be over $600k in 30 years.

If someone is in a great housing market, and is willing to downsize in retirement, maybe it works out, but there is luck mixed in there… along with personality and emotion. Your idea of rolling some equity into the 401k is an interesting one that may help quell some fears. Of course the devil is in the details, and if it requires some complicated work on the part of the buyer once the home value has grown, I can see a lot of people missing out on such a program.
by superkuh | 2026-01-17 18:53:26+00:00
The Internet is for End Users https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8890

>Successful specifications will provide some benefit to all the relevant parties because standards do not represent a zero-sum game. However, there are sometimes situations where there is a conflict between the needs of two (or more) parties.

>In these situations, when one of those parties is an "end user" of the Internet -- for example, a person using a web browser, mail client, or another agent that connects to the Internet -- the Internet Architecture Board argues that the IETF should favor their interests over those of other parties.

Incorporated entities are just secondary users.
by cpgxiii | 2026-01-17 18:53:42+00:00
> At the big tech firms, there are engineers looking for software fixes that make tiny efficiency improvements that can save lots of money at scale.
Meanwhile, Google and Apple look for whatever ways they can to improve battery life on their phones.

While this is true for parts of these companies, I think the user experience with their products makes it clear that the performance focus only goes in a very select few areas.

Perhaps my favorite Google example is the absolute dogshit performance of Google Home devices. By any objective metric, these are fairly capable computers (quad-core arm64 processors) running a tiny number of apps and yet their UI is still incredibly sluggish. Better yet, these are basically the only real-world devices that run Fuchsia - they should be shining examples of the performance of a brand new OS and yet they are anything but.
by Balgair | 2026-01-17 18:54:40+00:00
The generative side there is brilliant. Great tip.

My SO taught for a while. I think it's that the kids that are doing well, like yours, with support at home, food, a bed, a safe place, those kids are going to be like strapping a rocket to a racehorse.

It's the other ~80% of kids that are the worry. AI, with no support and guidance, it's going to make their lives a lot harder.
by asdff | 2026-01-17 18:55:08+00:00
My parents still don’t use AC. The windows stay open all summer unless there is a rainstorm. Whole house fan is turned on at night to draw in cooler air. Much time spent in the cooler basement if you are going to be hanging at home. At night you are basically sleeping naked on top of your fitted sheet with one or two window unit fans circulating air. Maybe another fan pointed directly at you. Basement had some dehumidifiers and afaik that was the only problem moisture area.
by matthewdgreen | 2026-01-17 18:55:09+00:00
The population is achieving results. Most of these results are occurring in China, which has begun an unimaginably huge deployment of renewables and nuclear. Europe is also making progress. The rest of Asia will go next, and then (as it develops industrially) so will Africa. Even parts of North America will quickly electrify: for example, Canada just agreed to reduce tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% from 100%.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-01-17 18:55:15+00:00
>Can we talk about how he in the end buried himself in vile racist politics?

Can you point to anything other than the single post that he made saying “white should get/stay away from black people”?

I’ve seen how he lost his way, or fell, or whatever. But all I’ve seen anyone post is one tweet one time. And every single time it leaves out the context that he was replying to a poll of black people saying the same about white people.

There was also one comic strip that was actually a correct and decently good take on the failure/intersection of postmodernism and DEI. I don’t count that as it wasn’t a bad faith take it was on point.

If there is more to I’d like to know.
by zer00eyz | 2026-01-17 18:55:21+00:00
> Or rich people owning more vacation homes.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSAHORUSQ156S

Home ownership rates have a 6 percent variance over the last ~50 years.

We dont have a housing problem in America, we have a utilization problem:

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/06/more-than-a-q... as an example.

There is a conversation that needs to be had about housing, but no one is going to LIKE the medicine that comes with that.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-17 18:56:46+00:00
I recommend following the Twitter profiles of the various agencies. They tweet supremacist slogans all the time. The official DHS account tweeted a call to deport 100 million:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-100-million-deportations-...

As for invasions proposed by the administration - Canada, Mexico, Greenland.
by vidarh | 2026-01-17 18:56:52+00:00
This sounds as expected to me as a heavy user of Opus. Claude absolutely has a "personality" that is a lot less formal and more willing to "play along" with more creative tasks than Codex. If you want an agent that's prepared to just jump in, it's a plus. If you want an agent that will be careful, considered and plan things out meticulously, it's not always so great - I feel that when you want Claude to do reptitive, tedious tasks, you need to do more work to prevent it from getting "bored" and try to take shortcuts or find something else to do, for example.
by kelnos | 2026-01-17 18:57:01+00:00
> people just aren’t as aware of issues with it compared to other forms of media.

Really? I'd think it would be the opposite. Wikipedia has always been decried by academics (and primary school teachers) as "not a real encyclopedia", without giving anywhere near as much of a critical eye toward other sources of information.

Sure, I think Wikipedia's reputation and public image has gotten better over the years, but that stigma of it being created and written by "unprofessional anonymous people" is still there to some extent.

And regardless, the kind of person who is going to watch Fox News or CNN without applying any critical thought to what they hear there... well, probably is going to do the same for Wikipedia pages, or any other source of information.
by subjectsigma | 2026-01-17 18:57:23+00:00
There's two options:

1. This is a lighthearted joke that someone made after having a bad experience with others being noisy in public. (Most likely scenario.)

2. The author is going to actually use this tool in public, in which case they are either a power-tripping asshole who gets off on "outsmarting" people, or a limp-wristed coward without basic social skills.
by patcon | 2026-01-17 18:57:28+00:00
I agree, but I always assume manifestos are distillations from experience.

Is it that you want to be able to inspect the experience that informs it side-by-side, in case-studies or product or something?

I take it for granted that you're not sceptical of the authors experience, because lord knows there's some experience behind the contributors and signatories :)

Maggie Appleton
Samuel Arbesman
Daniel Barcay
Rob Hardy
Aishwarya Khanduja
Alex Komoroske
Geoffrey Litt
Michael Masnick
Brendan McCord
Bernhard Seefeld
Ivan Vendrov
Amelia Wattenberger
Zoe Weinberg
Simon Willison
by eldaisfish | 2026-01-17 18:57:33+00:00
Methane has lots of value in colder climates, especially much of Canada. Methane is cheap and does not lose heating capacity as temperature falls. Across most of Canada, the median construction year for a typical house is in the 1980. Half were built before that, meaning insulation standards were lower.

The #1 problem with heat pumps in Canada is low temperature performance. The heat output drops but the rate of heat loss from the house also increases. This is the precise situation where even backup resistive heat cannot keep up. Methane is excellent at filling this gap, especially now when winter temperatures swing more than earlier.
by the_af | 2026-01-17 18:57:39+00:00
That's a Smithsonian museum, not some abode of radical leftism. That display from 2020 has been removed, and it any case it was listing aspects & assumptions of white culture in the US, not necessarily saying they are wrong. Through your ideological lens, you're predisposed to see everything in that list as something "the radical left" (or blacks, whatever) considers evil, but that's incorrect.

If anything, this display erred on the side of attributing too much to "white culture" which isn't a fair assessment of the contributions of other cultures. E.g. scientific thought, rationality, politeness, self-reliance are all good traits attributed exclusively to white culture, which is questionable.

The display didn't state these were things to dismantle; that's just your right-wing mindset assuming things. You're echoing the talking points of MAGA at this point...
by wishfish | 2026-01-17 18:57:52+00:00
Read a memoir by a KGB agent who arrested a man in Moscow who was passing info to the CIA. Had been doing so for years. The CIA had the typical western attitude towards money so they kept giving him stacks of rubles. Thinking they were being generous. The man (a professor, I think) had nothing to spend it on so he stacked cash up in a closet. Had around 1 million stored when he was caught. He probably would have been better off just burning it as the money was used as evidence in his trial.

Had a chance to ask a Russian / Soviet historian how one could spend a million rubles in the late 70s, early 80s. He just shrugged and laughed about it. Almost no way to spend that much. Nothing cost very much and there wasn't much of it.
by pugdogdev | 2026-01-17 18:58:04+00:00
Ok, I will try to explain this better
The main power of this app is that I am not trying to compete with them.
I work together with them.
For example, I put my ExtraBar RayCast deeplinks into a logical menu structure so they are easy to access and remember.
Instead of opening Raycast, looking for the actions, sometimes RayCast is opened on a different screen, so I need to go back, etc.
I just put the most used action on the ExtraBar menu and use simple keyboard navigation to trigger it.
The same goes for Keyboard Maestro.
I have this Reddit post that someone posted on ExtraBar:
https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1q0aqu6/extrabar_i...
That has some explanation of how he uses it, so this may be helpful to get more usecases example
by randycupertino | 2026-01-17 18:58:14+00:00
They're not putting emojis in peer review papers in Science and Nature or poster presentations at ASCO; they're putting them in emails, teams chats and meeting minutes.

Believe it or not researchers enjoy humor around sometimes. There's a global shortage of a specific DAKO antibody we need for biopsy analysis right now and on a call with 50 people one of our chief scientists deadpans, "it's because I stopped making it in my basement."
by hilbert42 | 2026-01-17 18:58:16+00:00
"in any parliamentary democracy this cretin would have been gone by now"

Right. The West's not seen anything this serious since the Reich's march into the Sudetenland.

One can only hope Europe has enough gumption to confront the bully long enough for US citizens to awake and correct the situation.

The last thing we need now is gutless Appeasement from European states à la Chamberlain.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-17 18:58:30+00:00
Ah, this is a Musk thing. I am of no party or clique, why would Elon be involved in those decisions anyway? If anything, sounded understaffed and taken advantage of by ne’er do wells - you can check if I’m pivoting by noting I already noted every model can do this and Grok was being mistreated

I feel pathetic defending myself to someone who keeps reading my mind in the blandest way possible and then accuses me of bad thoughts I must have had.

I don’t know what you expect me to “prove” it sounds like some sort of standard college debate concept being misapplied here. Elon knows it is a problem too and has been working on it in public for transparency for weeks.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-17 18:58:38+00:00
you need FAR less solar+battery for passive house tho. And AC in summer is essentially free. Of course, it all depends on area, if winters barely have any snow and summers are very hot the benefits of very insulated house are much slimmer

The old houses didn't overheat because the floor wasn't insulated all that well so the cold came from below. We could do something similar by just mounting heat pump ground loop under the house, before it is built, but today house developers want it cheap and quick so you pretty much can't find much of that and would have to do it on your own.

Other interesting system is using underground as a way to cool house air intake, just running pipes underground for several metres to get it to cool down in summer and heat up a bit in winter. But again, expensive thing compared to "just add more solar panels/battery storage and let AC handle it"
by matthewdgreen | 2026-01-17 18:59:26+00:00
The difference mostly shows up in policies. Nobody is saying the top leadership of the CCP isn't enriching themselves. What they're noting is that the top leadership is small enough that this enrichment doesn't (yet) necessitate tilting the entire economy towards enrichment of its elites, at the cost of harming economic growth. The key word there is yet.

You see broadly different outcomes in many authoritarian countries, for example Russia. You might also argue that many of the short-term decisionmaking we've seen from US industry lately is driven by an increasingly tiny collection of stockholders.
by daxfohl | 2026-01-17 18:59:29+00:00
I don't even think that "singularity-level coding agents" get us there. A big part of engineering is working with PMs, working with management, working across teams, working with users, to help distill their disparate wants and needs down into a coherent and usable system.

Knowing when to push back, when to trim down a requirement, when to replace a requirement with something slightly different, when to expand a requirement because you're aware of multiple distinct use cases to which it could apply, or even a new requirement that's interesting enough that it might warrant updating your "vision" for the product itself: that's the real engineering work that even a "singularity-level coding agent" alone could not replace.

An AI agent almost universally says "yes" to everything. They have to! If OpenAI starts selling tools that refuse to do what you tell them, who would ever buy them? And maybe that's the fundamental distinction. Something that says "yes" to everything isn't a partner, it's a tool, and a tool can't replace a partner by itself.
by xvxvx | 2026-01-17 19:00:32+00:00
Memories of Blockbuster are a fine example of a generation gap. I hated Blockbuster. It was a shameless, corporate takeover of the video rental industry, populated by mom and pop stores and small chains.

I started visiting video stores long before Blockbuster opened their first monstrosity in my city. The Friday/Saturday night visits were always immense fun. Browsing the VHS covers, seeing all the bizarre horror and borderline adult films was an experience. I’d spend hours just browsing, then end up renting something I’d seen a dozen times before.

Choice wasn’t limited but typically they only had a few copies of each film, unlike the Blockbuster method of having a wall with a million copies of whichever blockbuster crap just came out.

When the first Blockbuster opened, I went to check it out and it was such a sterile, soulless store. 10k copies of Jurassic Park or whatever. None of the cool horror flicks I’m used to seeing elsewhere. Overpriced candy and drinks.

It’s weird seeing people reminisce about Blockbuster, but I guess that’s what they grew up with. Feels like they missed out, that the experience was hijacked by corporate goons.

Tarantino talked about how Blockbuster strategically opened a store near the store he worked in back in the day. So it was a deliberate attempt to put small video stores out of business.

People reminisce about malls the same way, not having experienced the decline of the high street and downtown areas, filled with unique businesses. Malls, then Walmart, literally destroyed the soul of small town America.

I’m happy that Netflix killed Blockbuster. They deserved it. And I’m happy that Amazon and online shopping are killing malls.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-17 19:00:40+00:00
> And all the US leaders are united in fascism: denying worker rights, slave economy, and private contracts trumping national laws and regulations.

It's not "all the US leaders" and those are quite a small fraction of "all of the US". Then, despite some similarities, it's not "fascism" either. I mean, seek friends, don't create enemies.

I see a lot of Europeans here have written the US off which is a huge mistake... I'd say, you fell for the trick.

Don't forget to take a careful look at your own EU leaders and beware of your own nationalism, you (the EU) are definitely one of the actors in this theater. I'd say, study history, look around your own backyard, think, it's not as simple as it seems.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to diversify email or other digital services, but this is still a technical solution to a political problem - a temporary patch at best, useless for any meaningful stretch of time.
by nvader | 2026-01-17 19:00:43+00:00
Don't worry, your use of its not X, it's Y did not trigger the LLM pattern match for me. I think the main reason is that your two clauses are of very disparate lengths. LLMs use its X not Y as a rhetorical device that relies on brevity and punchiness, while your longer quote has the authentic ring of clumsy, human phrasing.
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-17 19:00:47+00:00
I'm not well versed in Finnish law - but in the USA simply the act of accessing a computer without authorization, even if it not secured, can be a crime under the CFAA. So the company is still a victim, and obviously the patients as well, even if they are incompetent. For the same reason that a person that gets burgled because they left their door unlocked when they left the house is still a victim.
by estearum | 2026-01-17 19:01:23+00:00
Unknown second order effects

Nearest real world success is continuous low volume maritime dispersal which has completely different dispersal dynamics than high-altitude bursts, and the continuous low volume maritime dispersal is non-viable

No way to undo it once done

If humans can’t perpetually release aerosols — and I mean perpetually, for the next millions of years — then the global climate “snaps back” violently on within weeks and almost certainly eradicates all known life in the entire universe.
by laurencerowe | 2026-01-17 19:01:24+00:00
I think this was the case when solar panels were much more expensive. But home solar in the US has long ceased to be a useful driver of funding efficiencies and innovation. The cost of panels is now tiny and you are mostly paying for extremely overpriced installation and permitting. The 30% federal subsidy alone is enough to pay for an equivalent amount of utility scale solar outright. Australia has similar labor costs to the US but home solar is 1/3rd the cost to install.
by alkonaut | 2026-01-17 19:01:28+00:00
While they do, 2025 was also the first year that the fraction of coal dropped in both China and India. In india it dropped by 3% and in China by 1.6%. So they build out fossil, but they build out non-coal power faster. China also hopes to peak coal in absolute terms by 2030. That's something at least.
Show HN: ctx – Reusable context packs for coding agents
by vladisov | 2026-01-17 19:01:59+00:00
Hey HN, built this because I got annoyed working on side projects with Claude, especially once they grow beyond the context window.

Claude's great but it doesn't know my codebase. I kept explaining the same stuff - "this file talks to that one", "here's how auth works" - over and over. Adding doc files helps, but I keep forgetting where they are in different projects.

So I made ctx. You create "context packs" - basically bundles of files, globs, git diffs, whatever - and reuse them. It hooks into Claude Code via MCP, so you just say "load the auth pack" instead of asking Claude to find that auth code and parse it again. Packs save to ctx.toml so you can commit them and share across machines/teammates.
by throw20251220 | 2026-01-17 19:02:47+00:00
It’s too easy to downvote and flag someone. It also became extremely difficult to have a substantial discussion here due to “being off topic” and non-transparent post quotas.

There’s also an astonishingly high number of people who supposed to be smart and educated but are in fact just a bunch of idiots with hurt egos rolling on karma.
by foltik | 2026-01-17 19:03:06+00:00
Hah. Shall I present it to you on a silver platter then?

If you read the NASA page, they explicitly cite GHCNd, a raw surface temperature and precipitation dataset that goes back quite far. There's many other similar datasets you can find if you're willing to look.

Check out the readme for the csv format description, and /by-year for the raw rows:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/
by level09 | 2026-01-17 19:03:20+00:00
Software startups still work, but only if software is not the point.

Code is now cheap, so the advantage moved into things that cannot be copied by looking, accumulated data, hidden workflows, trust, and judgment earned by staying inside a problem too long.

Big companies copy shapes, not gravity. If your edge is visible, it is temporary. If it only appears over time, you are still early.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-17 19:03:31+00:00
> There was a time when you had to know ‘as’, ‘ld’ and maybe even ‘ar’ to get an executable.

No, there wasn't: you could just run the shell script, or (a bit later) the makefile. But there were benefits to knowing as, ld and ar, and there still are today.
by helsinkiandrew | 2026-01-17 19:03:34+00:00
> Responses in ChatGPT will not be influenced by ads.

> Your conversations are private from advertisers

But presumably your requests and ChatGPT’s responses will guide what ads users see. Whilst conversations might be private from advertisers - the products that are suitable for the user would be shared.

If a user asks ChatGPT “what oil should I put in my Honda civic”. ChatGPT can search for suitable products but the page will also be showing ads for motor oil - presumably Honda civic motor oil.