MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JohnFen | 2026-01-07 21:42:58+00:00
> Even under Democracy women weren't allowed to open a bank account until 1978 (3 years after Franco's death).

It wasn't many years earlier than that when the same thing was generally true in the US as well. My mother had a few horror stories about that.

That is one of many travesties that were part of the time that MAGA wants to roll the US back to.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-07 21:43:25+00:00
> Yes, you don't make that 4 percent bigger unless you get people who don't use Linux to use Linux.

And you get people to use Linux by removing features that make Linux attractive in the first place? The mess that is Windows clipboard and cut/paste is what drove me to Linux when I started with it, and I've heard the same from other people too.

"Users of W don't know X" leads to "Let make our system like W" which is a ruse of an argument, that was pointed out already.

I encourage you to read the grandparent of your comment and specifically this quote (from ndiddy):

"I don't know why they're using familiarity as an argument when GNOME has intentionally behaved completely differently from the Windows/Mac desktop for the past 15 years."
by llm_nerd | 2026-01-07 21:43:27+00:00
Not really a counterpoint, but interestingly there used to be a fairly widespread practice of corporations buying life insurance for low level employees. It was often called "Dead Peasant Insurance", and when the employee died the corporation benefited.

It never made an iota of economic sense -- if insurance underwriters are on the wrong end of that deal, they aren't doing their jobs very well -- but a number of large corporations would do it, and gleefully pocket the payouts when rank and file employees died.
by dang | 2026-01-07 21:43:32+00:00
Related. Others?

Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42651275 - Jan 2025 (185 comments)

Rodney Brooks Predictions Scorecard - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34477124 - Jan 2023 (41 comments)

Predictions Scorecard, 2021 January 01 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706436 - Jan 2021 (12 comments)

Predictions Scorecard - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18889719 - Jan 2019 (4 comments)

My Dated Predictions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16078431 - Jan 2018 (50 comments)
by bs7280 | 2026-01-07 21:43:38+00:00
That is a good point, and this tax would need to be well thought out. I specifically would increase the tax rate the more properties an entity owns (Not a lawyer so IDK how to treat one guy owning 10 companies as 1 entity the right way). That way smaller local landlord's can still exist (and keep rental prices competitive), but massive orgs will be forced to sell properties. The idea is to create a disincentive for hoarding properties in supply constraint markets.
Show HN: AgentOS – Self-hosted web UI for managing multiple Claude Code sessions
by saadn92 | 2026-01-07 21:44:01+00:00
Hi all,

I just open-sourced AgentOS, a tool I built for myself when I got tired of juggling a bunch of terminal windows while working with Claude Code. You can run it yourself and it's completely free.

It's a web UI that lets you:

- Run multiple Claude sessions side-by-side (up to 4 panes) and each pane can have multiple tabs for those power users out there
- Fork conversations when you want to try different approaches
- Organize sessions into folders
- Have an embedded terminal right there
- Sessions persist via tmux so you can close your browser and come back

Stack is Next.js 16 + React 19, SQLite for local persistence, xterm.js for the terminal.

GitHub: https://github.com/saadnvd1/agent-os

Would love to hear any feedback or feature ideas. I'm still planning on adding more to it!
by rayiner | 2026-01-07 21:44:42+00:00
Your first link recommends limiting fish for children to 2 servings per week, even from the “best choices” list. By contrast it recommends kids 1-5 have two servings a day of other meat and poultry: https://www.parkchildcare.ie/food-pyramid-for-1-5-year-old-c...

Thats tantamount to a recommendation that fish should comprise a minority of your protein, which is backwards. It’s almost certainly healthier overall for fish to be your primary protein source and to eat red meat, chicken, and pork sparingly. How many servings a week of fish do you think Japanese kids eat?
by NewJazz | 2026-01-07 21:44:45+00:00
Yeah I think one could easily argue that the special military operation in Venezuela was intended to gain control over the country. Trump literally stated that his team, in particular lil Marco, would be running the country. Of course Rubio walked that back a little, explaining that we only have "leverage" (via Maduro's trial/pardoning), but that still is within the terms of the bet.
by gervwyk | 2026-01-07 21:44:46+00:00
Great point here, the only thing that feels greedy to me is that these larger companies do not contribute back to the foundational libraries that they are building on, even to a minor extent for ecosystem improvements. Perhaps greedy is a strong word.

i’ve always felt that oss licenses needs to include responsible use terms or something. some orgs dont mind paying for value contributed but you need to provide a structure to do so, even if that is on a voluntary basis.

If anyone from Lovable etc sees these comments, great opportunity for sponsorship where it can make a difference upstream.

Some companies have done this well, at a stage Retool use to sponsor a number of open source libs which greatly helped them with exposure to devs. Surely a better way to spend ad revenue imo.
by Y_Y | 2026-01-07 21:45:07+00:00
Unfortunately doctors are fallible humans, but also the infallible gatekeepers of pharmaceuticals and surgeries. Unfortunately I've become relatively knowledgeable about a condition I have myself, to the extent where I'll ofyen have much more subject knowledge than a given nonspecialist doctor. All the same they have to make on-the-spot decisions about me that will have serious consequences for both of us, in between twenty similar cases on either side.

As an aside, I'm very sorry for what you're going through. Empathy is easy when you've had something similar! I'll say that in my case removing a tooth that was impinging on a nerve did have substantial benfits that only became clear months down the line. I'm not saying that will happen for you, but a bit of irrational optimism seems to be an empirically useful policy.
by tootie | 2026-01-07 21:45:15+00:00
Well, there's no explanation for how this will affect any currently owned properties. So maybe it won't do much of anything. And something important to understand about private equity owning homes, is that they tend to descend on specific geos where the supply allows buying in scale. If they are forced to divest, it very well could crash a few cities or towns. And given that the aforementioned supply was heavily bent towards distressed areas, the crash could be brutal.

It will likely have close to zero impact on high-demand areas.
by snailmailman | 2026-01-07 21:45:16+00:00
It’s also very frequently easier to just open a new tab, compared to finding the already existing one.

I never really need more than one YouTube tab. I can’t watch more than one video at once, and if I want to watch something later, I use YouTube’s own “watch later”. But in my 300+ tabs there’s likely several copies of my subscription box. Because rather than scroll through the tabs I can just press ctrl+t and type YouTube in. This not only happens with YouTube, but with every bookmarked page I have, from the HN front page to the site I use to check the weather.
by orochimaaru | 2026-01-07 21:45:31+00:00
My kids are all vaccinated according to schedule. Calling me an anti vaxxer is cheap trolling.

And yes - if kids have had serious impacts to vaccines parents should be told and providers should encourage reporting into vaers

I put autism there because it’s the most commonly used anecdote when discussing this. I’m not saying take the vax away. Eg if mmrv is the big bad vax for autism - change its schedule to be given after 2 yrs after autism tests.
by evanjrowley | 2026-01-07 21:45:39+00:00
My eyes have opened up to the pitfalls of TPM recently while upgrading CPUs and BIOS/UEFI versions on various hardware in my home.

VMs typically do not use TPMs, so it is not surprising that this was not being used there. One exception is VMware, which can provide the host's TPM to the VM for a better Windows 11 experience. One caveat is this doesn't work on most Ryzen systems because they implement a CPU-based fTPM that VMware does not accept.
by observationist | 2026-01-07 21:45:44+00:00
It's not that simple - the problem is that those institutions are market makers. They are a tiny portion of the market, but a huge driving force in setting and manipulating prices, because their properties get leveraged, instrumentalized, and securitized, with derivative products, speculation, and all sorts of incentives that you don't normally want operating in the arena of housing.

The things that they do have massively outsized downstream impact contrasted against their relatively tiny overall participation in the market, and they can afford to behave in ways that manipulate the behavior of the majority.

If you can decouple them from the housing markets, you also decouple the interests of the donor class, and you allow for policy that doesn't maximize the cost of real estate over the interests of the majority of the population.
by motbus3 | 2026-01-07 21:45:50+00:00
I would add that openai is doing such a poor job at every aspect.

Before this gpt nonsense they were such an aspiration for a better world. They quickly turned around, slayer core people from its structure and solely focus on capitalising that they seem to be stuck on dead waters.

I dont see any reasons to use gpt5 at all.
by hypeatei | 2026-01-07 21:45:55+00:00
DHS secretary is calling this "domestic terrorism"... unbelievable. Everyone in the administration needs to be put on trial just like the Nazis in Nuremburg.

Also remember the rights reaction to Babbit (an insurrectionist) being shot at the J6 riot. She was a patriot hero for delaying election certification but people resisting ICE goons are domestic terrorists.
by jncfhnb | 2026-01-07 21:46:26+00:00
I feel like this article is littered with suspicious statements

Like this one:

> In fact, institutional homebuyers (those who bought 100+ homes in a 12-month period) didn’t even reach 2.5% market share at the peak level in this data line, which goes back to the start of the century.

I don’t know how to evaluate this. I doubt this analysis rolls up subsidiaries. So what does it really mean for an entity to own 100+ units? Is that actually something we care about?

Imo only thing people need to give a shit about is whether a house is being bought to be lived in.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-01-07 21:46:34+00:00
Many small business.

The first job I had where I did anything technical (basic JS and HTML) also had me cold calling, answering phones, designing brochures, fiberglass repair, and some other stuff I’m forgetting. Small businesses frequently have more niche jobs than people and are more than happy to have people help where they are interested.

My first full software job was a direct to consumer company, and during the Christmas rush the entire front office was on the packing line.

Larger companies tend to appreciate people staying in their lane.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2026-01-07 21:47:01+00:00
You can imagine a person who thinks McDonalds' only cost for making a hamburger is the labor and they get the beef and bread for free. But hopefully there aren't many of those people.

And it's a distraction from the main point. Without needing to look at any specific math, higher labor costs will be generally passed onto the customer because profit is not allowed to go down. That's not a defense of low wages, it's just an illustration of where the power lies.
by NickC25 | 2026-01-07 21:47:08+00:00
I founded a company partially because I spent 2 years on the job hunt and got absolutely nothing. So yeah, here's one example of someone who isn't doing well - me.

I was doing terribly. Honestly, I still am. I've just been fortunate enough to have conceived a product some people in my city want. Will the business scale and succeed? I hope so, because I'm fucked if it goes south.

And yes, anecdotal data sucks. But I'd take that over whatever bullshit the Trump administration says. Especially after they fired the BLS statisticians.
by rssoconnor | 2026-01-07 21:47:29+00:00
I don't actually know anything, but I've been wondering lately: is higher house prices simply a consequence of Baumol's cost disease? If so, then there is kinda nothing we can do about it, right?. Higher house prices is simply a consequence of improved productivity elsewhere, and thus it is necessary to spend a larger fraction of one's income on housing.
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-07 21:47:36+00:00
But that doesn't really matter and it shows how confused people really are about how a coding agent like Claude or OSS models are actually created -- the system can learn on its own without simply mimicking existing codebases even though scraped/licensed/commissioned code traces are part of the training cycle.

Training looks like:

- Pretraining (all data, non-code, etc, include everything including garbage)

- Specialized pre-training (high quality curated codebases, long context -- synthetic etc)

- Supervised Fine Tuning (SFT) -- these are things like curated prompt + patch pairs, curated Q/A (like stack overflow, people are often cynical that this is done unethically but all of the major players are in fact very risk adverse and will simply license and ensure they have legal rights),

- Then more SFT for tool use -- actual curated agentic and human traces that are verified to be correct or at least produce the correct output.

- Then synthetic generation / improvement loops -- where you generate a bunch of data and filter the generations that pass unit tests and other spec requirements, followed by RL using verifiable rewards + possibly preference data to shape the vibes

- Then additional steps for e.g. safety, etc

So synthetic data is not a problem and is actually what explains the success coding models are having and why people are so focused on them and why "we're running out of data" is just a misunderstanding of how things work. It's why you don't see the same amount of focus on other areas (e.g. creative writing, art etc) that don't have verifiable rewards.

The

Agent --> Synthetic data --> filtering --> new agent --> better synthetic data --> filtering --> even better agent

flywheel is what you're seeing today so we definitely don't have any reason to suspect there is some sort of limit to this because there is in principle infinite data
by parl_match | 2026-01-07 21:48:02+00:00
lentils carb/protein ratio isn't great. you still need to supplement it with protein (whey or pea). i eat a fair amount of lentils, but mostly as a carb source (like white rice). even tofu's ratio isn't good enough. i do eat a lot of tofu though, because i like it

back of the hand math suggests id have to eat a kg of dry lentils a day to reach my protein requirements. that's gotta be what, 2800 cal? edit: 800g of lentils for 200g of protein, 2500 cal.

im just thinking out loud here, but lentils alone wouldn't be adequate for me.
by porker | 2026-01-07 21:48:04+00:00
> The truth is, business opportunities are rarely eternal, usually they are just an opportunity to make money within a short window of time, such as a decade or two. Sometimes even shorter than that, perhaps even only a year or two.

Agreed, and Adam and Steve made a life-changing amount of money from Refactoring UI and then Tailwind UI. That's a great outcome on its own.
by Asm2D | 2026-01-07 21:48:05+00:00
Adding a power draw into the mix is pretty interesting. Just because a GPU can render something 2x faster in a particular test doesn't mean you have consumed 50% less power, especially when we talk about dedicated GPUs that can have power draw in hundreds of watts.

Historically 2D rendering on CPU was pretty much single-threaded. Skia is single-threaded, Cairo too, Qt mostly (they offload gradient rendering to threads, but it's painfully slow for small gradients, worse than single-threaded), AGG is single-threaded, etc...

In the end only Blend2D, Blaze, and now Vello can use multiple threads on CPU, so finally CPU vs GPU comparisons can be made more fairy - and power draw is definitely a nice property of a benchmark. BTW Blend2D was probably the first library to offer multi-threaded rendering on CPU (just an option to pass to the rendering context, same API).

As far as I know - nobody did a good benchmarking between CPU and GPU 2D renderers - it's very hard to do completely unbiased comparison, and you would be surprised how good the CPU is in this mix. Modern CPU cores consume maybe few watts and you can render to a 4K framebuffer with that single CPU core. Put rendering text to the mix and the numbers would start to be very interesting. Also GPU memory allocation should be included, because rendering fonts on GPU means to pre-process them as well, etc...

2D is just very hard, on both CPU and GPU you would be solving a little bit different problems, but doing it right is insane amount of work, research, and experimentation.
by trillic | 2026-01-07 21:48:12+00:00
There's currently a 100-ft foiling trimaran in the southern ocean that is racing the clock around the world attempting the around the world record.

They've averaged about 34 mph (30 kn) for 22 days now. Crazy stuff.

https://sodebo-ultim3.sodebo.com/

The red boat on the tracker is the world record track from 2017.
by shimman | 2026-01-07 21:48:29+00:00
I've been cooking more with lentils as well, so many cheap tasty recipes. I've been following this chickpea hack (cooking in microwave for like 5ish) to great success. Microwaving the chickpeas splits them into a crispy texture, then after that it's very flexible to create all kinds of dishes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EU76q3Vf3Q

My favorite is pan frying them in a hot sauce + aromatics for a quick chickpea rice bowl, I even gotten into the habit of using chickpeas as a chicken replacement for many of my Mexican dishes.

If you're use to the typical American diet, please try cooking more lentils! Very tasty, filling dishes, low on costs and high on nutrients.

chicken 100g/27g of protein

chickpeas 100g/19g of protein

That's a good ratio for something that costs less than a dollar a can compared to chicken.
by iknowSFR | 2026-01-07 21:48:30+00:00
I worked with these firms for several years when the business concept was in its earlier stages. The money coming in to buy these homes quickly went from family offices (2013-2019) to state pension funds (2019-present) to sovereign funds (2020-present).

Things like the largest pension fund in Sweden is invested in buying SFR. Or the sovereign fund of the UAE.

I’m not sure if that changed your opinion on this not having practical benefit for the average American.
by kccqzy | 2026-01-07 21:48:52+00:00
These qualitative standards are subjective. Everyone has something that they deem essential and others not so much. A lot of zoning regulations is the amalgamation of preferences by different people, because they try to satisfy the aesthetic preferences of too many people.

For example in New York City go take a walk on the street next to hundred-year-old skyscrapers in downtown. It’s miserable to me. Now go walk alongside midcentury skyscrapers in midtown. It’s much better. The difference is entirely because of shadows cast by the skyscrapers. The visceral reaction from shadows is so strong to me that I am wholeheartedly supporting restrictions on casting shadows.

Now on two-acre lots. That’s not something I care about. Even 0.1 acres of land is too much maintenance for me. But it will be non-negotiable for someone else.
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-07 21:48:52+00:00
In Japan buildings (apartments) aren't built to last forever. They are built with a specific age in mind. They acknowledge the fact that houses are depreciating assets which have a value lim->0.

The only reason we don't do that with code (or didn't use to do it) was because rewriting from scratch NEVER worked[0]. And large scale refactors take massive amounts of time and resources, so much so that there are whole books written about how to do it.

But today trivial to simple applications can be rewritten from spec or scratch in an afternoon with an LLM. And even pretty complex parsers can be ported provided that the tests are robust enough[1]. It's just a metter of time someone rewrites a small to medium size application from one language to another using the previous app as the "spec".

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/
by notatoad | 2026-01-07 21:48:57+00:00
from what i can tell, most of this is existing stuff that advocates have been trying to push for a while now.

i think it's a perfect example of why advocates for any policy should have specific, achievable, and well-documented goals - you never know who might be an ally. politicians don't want to do this sort of detailed work, they're looking for preexisting policy they can champion, and if you're standing there ready to hand it to them when they're looking for it you get get good stuff done.
by WalterBright | 2026-01-07 21:49:27+00:00
> Rich investors and companies effectively get to buy homes at a discount vs average joes.

Suppose you had $100,000 in cash, and buy a house for $100,000. You'll not be paying 5% interest on a mortgage. But if you did not buy the house, you would be investing that $100,000 for a 5% return.

So, you're either paying 5% on the mortgage, or foregoing 5% return for investing that money.

The rich person is not getting a discount.
by kkaske | 2026-01-07 21:49:35+00:00
I love the Commodore 64. I still have a working "portable" C64 that I turn on from time to time and play around with.

So what’s remarkable isn’t that a 1541 can run BASIC or process data internally, but that constraints and packaging decisions (cost-cut bit-banging, slow serial link) shaped a design that was, in practice, more distributed than a lot of modern “smart peripherals.” That’s both a lesson and a reminder: simple external interfaces often mask surprisingly rich internal behavior.
by Capricorn2481 | 2026-01-07 21:49:43+00:00
> I'm working mostly in a web framework that's used by me and almost nobody else (the weird little ASGI wrapper buried in Datasette) and I find the coding agents pick it up pretty fast

Potentially because there is no baggage with similar frameworks. I'm sure it would have an easier time with this if it was not spun off from other frameworks.

> If your framework is missing documentation tell Claude Code to write itself some documentation based on what it learns from reading the code!

If Claude cannot read the code well enough to begin with, and needs supplemental documentation, I certainly don't want it generating the docs from the code. That's just compounding hallucinations on top of each other.
by skissane | 2026-01-07 21:50:10+00:00
> I specifically would increase the tax rate the more properties an entity owns (Not a lawyer so IDK how to treat one guy owning 10 companies as 1 entity the right way).

Very hard to make this work, people find complex ways around it; e.g. “I don’t own that property, it is owned by an LLC which is owned by a trust whose beneficiary is an LLC owned by another trust of which I’m one of the dozen individual beneficiaries”. Close that loophole, someone will cook up an even more obscure one.
by tootie | 2026-01-07 21:50:21+00:00
Headline is very misleading. Reuters prefaces this with "Trump says" which is weaselly enough.

Quote from the article: "In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he was immediately taking steps to implement the ban which he would also call on Congress to codify in law."

The president can't do this. His EO will likely be some kind of statement of intent or request to the FTC to see what can be done. Really, this is an exhortation for Congress to do something. A bill has yet to be written.