MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Animats | 2026-01-06 01:40:07+00:00
A bit more info:

First, the bike is not new. It's been shipping since 2024, with a conventional battery pack.There are customers and reviews.[1] The "hubless" thing is less hubless than it looks. The rear wheel is the motor, with an outside moving rotor and an inside stator. The stator has a big hole in it. This gives you a large-diameter direct drive motor without dead weight in the center. It also opens up space in the frame to put the battery closer to the ground.

So this is really just an existing bike with a new battery.
If they offered a test ride, you'd never know whether it was a solid state battery or not,
since that's all about capacity and charging speed.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/first-ride-verge-ts-pro-electric...
by CodingJeebus | 2026-01-06 01:41:22+00:00
> It's a fair tactic, and it might work if we make the coding agents cheap enough.

I don’t see how we get there, though, at least in the short term. We’re still living in the heavily-corporate-subsidized AI world with usage-based pricing shenanigans abound. Even if frontier models providers find a path to profitability (which is a big “if”), there’s no way the price is gonna go anywhere but up. It’s moviepass on steroids.

Consumer hardware capable of running open models that compete with frontier models is still a long ways away.

Plus, and maybe it’s just my personal cynicism showing, but when did tech ever reduce pricing while maintaining quality on a provided service in the long run? In an industry laser focused on profit, I just don’t see how something so many believe to be a revolutionary force in the market will be given away for less than it is today.

Billions are being invested with the expectation that it will fetch much more revenue than it’s generating today.
by jmcphers | 2026-01-06 01:41:43+00:00
I own the Pebble 2 Duo and the answer is "almost none". It basically just tells you how long you were still/not moving much in the evening, as you'd expect. It's a pretty good proxy for what time you went to bed and got up, and that's about it. It can't actually tell if you're asleep.

There are also (currently) no sleep metrics on app itself; you can only see them on the watch, which doesn't show much besides the sleep duration and an abstract representation showing where you might have woken up in the night.
by mulmen | 2026-01-06 01:42:19+00:00
You're really giving credit in the wrong areas. Google is impressive for its ability to exist beyond the point of dysfunction. It's simply not the case that any Googler would need to verify the identity of any other any more than it is necessary for every server to verify the identity of every other. They only need to verify the identify of the tiny subset they are communicating with at any given time. This doesn't mean everyone has access to a coherent org chart, or that one even exists.
by rendx | 2026-01-06 01:42:52+00:00
> "relax" or "do not disturb" modes - curious if that actually works for anyone?

Ever since I've owned a smartphone, they have been on "do not disturb" 24/7. People that know me know they won't reach me directly, but that I will call them back eventually. I do have a couple of voice calls every day; I schedule them ahead of time based on my own actions, and set an alarm to take out the phone.

I am typically involved in something and I don't want to be disturbed during it; it may just be thinking, or reading, or actually talking to a human being present with me; why would I ever want to be disturbed? I only check my phone when I want to actively perform some task with it anyway, e.g. to look at maps, and then I put it away again. I don't mind carrying it around and needing to use it increasingly for tickets and such. I do not experience this as "self control". I don't have the urge to take out my wallet or keys or umbrella unless I need them either. Why would I.

I typically (also) carry a paper book to read on public transport or in cafés.
by rolandog | 2026-01-06 01:43:30+00:00
Right, but isn't it noisy ... at the headphone level? (i.e. not heard when not wearing them?).

What I'm getting at is that I think the risk varies depending on how often you leave the headset paired; for example, if the headphones are over-ear, those are more prone to not be turned off --- and remain connected; thus, a greater chance of success for establishing a BlueTooth classic connection without getting noticed and performing the WhatsApp account take-over until they listen to "I'm gonna take a shower, honey!" in the distance.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-06 01:44:08+00:00
> Dual microphones for speech input (eg interacting with AI agents) and replying to messages (currently Android only…

> …iOS in EU soon

Just a reminder for all the Apple fanbois whining over how EU users miss out on Apple features (undoubtedly because Apple is behaving like a whiny 10 year old throwing a tantrum, but whatever), in reality, the EU rules allows companies like Pebble to offer functionality on iOS that they cannot elsewhere.
by ram_rar | 2026-01-06 01:45:31+00:00
This advice only works at the team level. Beyond that, it’s borderline fantasy. At senior and leadership levels, promotions aren’t rewards for effort, they’re forward looking bets made by people above you, and those people have incentives, blind spots, and egos. Reporting to an insecure director or a clueless manager will quickly disabuse you of the “just do great work” myth.

Also, if the company isn’t growing, none of this matters. You can operate like a CTO all you want and all that happens is more work gets dumped on you for the same pay. Take on stretch work if you’re hungry for it and it’s explicitly acknowledged as next-level responsibility. Otherwise, you’re just volunteering to be exploited.
by _heimdall | 2026-01-06 01:45:36+00:00
When I was buying lithium ion cells a few years ago for a custom off-grid battery build, CATL cells had the best reviews and testing results around.

They were founded in 2011 as a spin-off from ATL, itself founded in 1999 by a Chinese billionaire (Robin Zeng). They definitely didn't pop up out of nowhere.
by themeiguoren | 2026-01-06 01:45:38+00:00
I completely agree. Even if I was able to understand the story and appreciate the prose in middle school, I can see looking back that I lacked the life experience to appreciate a lot of the undertones and unspoken themes.

I distinctly remember being completely bewildered when we read "Hills Like White Elephants" [1] and our teacher told us it was about an abortion, and ultimately about commitment and relationships and the ungraspable decision points that define a life. I remember rereading the text, not finding those words anywhere, and being confused about how a man and woman having a halting conversation at a train stop might have possibly given her that takeaway. But now of course it's achingly obvious.

Jane Austen similarly passed me by in high school. I needed to understand women a lot better before Pride & Prejudice started to make sense.

Even still when I read the classics, there are some where I can appreciate the themes but which are too abstract to me for them to resonate. The difference from when I was young is that now I can tell that there's more story waiting to be told once I've lived more life. Maybe in another 20 years.

[1] https://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Hills-Lik...
by netsharc | 2026-01-06 01:46:18+00:00
The difference is... one of these colors is the only one that has centuries of privilege and power, a lot of times used violently, and the only one claiming victimisation when someone mentions "how about equality/equity, or even just acknowledging the privilege you have?".

It seems to be a thing of decorum not to explicitly say "I will only date $color people". Saying those words out loud or joining this site exposes you as someone with an inferiority complex whose only answer is arrogance about a shared identity.

And let's be real, members of those sites are probably not just "expressing their dating preferences", but probably have that inferiority complex that racists have. Does this theory apply to the other colors? Perhaps...
by nuzzl | 2026-01-06 01:46:20+00:00
For decades, high-level intelligence has been a one-way street. Entities like Palantir and three-letter agencies have spent billions building infrastructure to turn your digital footprint into a structured dossier in seconds. We believe that if billionaires and governments have the tools to look into your life, you should have the tools to look into theirs. We’re tired of the information asymmetry. That’s why we built ai.cylect.io, the first AI-native Virtual Machine designed for autonomous investigations. This isn't just a collection of scripts; it’s a secure, sandboxed environment where AI agents do the heavy lifting of cross-referencing breach data, satellite imagery, and social footprints. To prove that the "untrackable" are only untrackable because of a lack of access, we pointed our agents at PT. In minutes, our VM did what used to take a team of analysts weeks. It’s time to watch the watchmen.

If you don't want to pay, that's cool too. We have a free version, man (cylect.io).
by Magmalgebra | 2026-01-06 01:48:32+00:00
> that got along well with leadership in a fast growing company

I may be reading too much into your post but I'll say that this sentiment is a common pattern I see in many competent senior folks who think they deserve promotions into roles above senior. Getting along with leadership is a huge asset for for this type of leadership role. It means that you stay aligned and push in the same direction together.

If you're not going to get along well with your leadership you need to be much much better than everyone around you - which is a significantly higher bar to clear. And getting along well is a skill. It's usually not the skill people want to learn but it's hugely valuable to be able to be chummy with a difficult exec.
by the_af | 2026-01-06 01:50:05+00:00
> The estimated range of US military deaths from an invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall) was 250,000 to 1,000,000, and another 5 to 10 million Japanese.

I've read convincing arguments (sorry, I cannot find them now) that this reasoning is mostly bogus.

One, the decision of dropping the bombs wasn't coordinated with planners of Operation Downfall, so casualties weren't a consideration. As such, it cannot be "civilized" (because the intent to be civilized just wasn't there).

Two, those casualty numbers rest on arbitrary assumptions about what the Japanese would or wouldn't do that don't hold up to real scrutiny, and ignore a host of options other than "full scale invasion" or "nuke".

Three, you cannot discount the flex towards the USSR, an argument many Japanese to this day maintain was a major reason. Which wasn't a civilized reason either.
by tomhow | 2026-01-06 01:51:29+00:00
Please don't post curmudgeonly, sneering comments or shallow dismissals on HN. We're here for curious conversation that engages with the content of the article, not reflexive, blanket dismissals based on stereotypes.

Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by archagon | 2026-01-06 01:51:51+00:00
Bullshit. I might be considered white today, but my ancestors wouldn’t have been[1]. And my particular Eastern European “white” culture has relatively little overlap with other European (French, Spanish, Italian, etc.) “white” cultures.

If I identify with any ethnicity or race — which I very barely do — it’s Slavic, not white.

“those word definition games don't work any more now that people have gotten on to the trick”

Saying it doesn’t make it so. Maybe go educate yourself instead of tumbling down a white supremacist rabbit hole.

[1] From Wikipedia article on Anti-Slavic sentiment: “Slavic peoples were considered to be people of an ‘inferior race’ who were unable to assimilate into American society. They were originally not considered to be ‘fully white’ (and thus fully American).” Same goes for Irish, Europeans of a darker complexion, etc.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-06 01:52:08+00:00
Abstract:
This manuscript presents the engineering specification for the OMEGA-7, a compact steady-state Tokamak designed for the High-Lundquist (S > 10^8) regime.

The design addresses two critical failure modes in commercial fusion:
1. MHD Disruptions: Mitigated via a "Negative-Latency" (<20µs) Torsion Control Network (TCN) running on FPGA, replacing standard reactive PID loops.
2. Neutron Degradation: Mitigated via Cyanate Ester/Polyimide insulation (tested to 10^22 n/cm^2) and an In-Situ Pulse Annealing protocol.

Key Specs:
- Field: 12 Tesla (REBCO HTS)
- Blanket: Liquid FLiBe with Active Beryllium Redox Control
- Control Logic: Inverse Magnetic Curvature Stabilization

We argue that at commercial scales, plasma stability becomes a topological information problem, not just a fluid dynamics problem.

I am looking for rigorous feedback on:
- The FPGA inference latency budget (Section 4.1).
- The thermodynamic stability of the Be-FLiBe redox couple at >550°C.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-06 01:52:59+00:00
I use Zed (this is completely optional since claude code can work 100% stand alone), Claude Code (I have Max) and Beads. I also take advantage of the .claude/instructions.md file and let Claude know to ALWAYS use Beads, and to use rg instead of "grep" which is kind of slow (if anyone from Anthropic is reading this, for the love of GOD use ripgrep instead of grep), a small summary about the project, and some ground rules. If there's key tickets that matter for the project I tell it to note them in the instructions. The instructions files the first thing Claude reads when you first open up a chat window with it, if you make amendments ask it to reread the file.

Outside of that its trial and error, but I've learned you don't need to kick off a new chat instance very much if at all. I also like Beads because if I have to "run" or go offline I can tell it to pause and log where it left off / where its at.

For some projects I tell claude not to close tickets without my direct approval because sometimes it closes them without testing, my baseline across all projects is that it compiles and runs without major errors.
by j1elo | 2026-01-06 01:53:25+00:00
> The biggest missing piece in Zed for my workflow right now is side-by-side diffs.

> It’s pretty wild how bloated most software has become.

It's a bit ironic to see those two in the same message but I'd argue that right there is an example of why software becomes bloated. There is always someone who says "but it would be great to have X" that in spirit might be tangentially relevant, but it's a whole ordeal of its own.

Diffing text, for example, requires a very different set of tools and techniques than what just a plain text editor would already have. That's why there are standalone products like Meld and the very good Beyond Compare; and they tend to be much better than a jack of all trades editor (at least I was never able to like more the diff UI in e.g. VSCode than the UI of Meld or the customization features of BC).

Same for other tangential stuff like VCS integration; VSCode has something in there, but any special purpose app is miles ahead in ease of use and features.

In the end, the creators of an editor need to spend so much time adding what amounts to suplemental and peripheral features, instead of focusing on the best possible core product. Expectations are so high that the sky is the limit. Everyone wants their own pet sub-feature ("when will it integrate a Pomodoro timer?").
by subdude | 2026-01-06 01:53:56+00:00
Whiteness is a 19th century concept designed purely to exclude certain, typically immigrant, groups. It’s why Irish, Italian, or Slavic people weren’t historically considered “white,” or why white supremacists today can’t agree on whether Hispanics, Jews, or Indians are “white.” It’s entirely arbitrary. They could have just as easily made a racial category based solely around hair or eye color.
Show HN: MCP-tidy – How many MCPs in your Claude Code are you actually using?
by sr-white | 2026-01-06 01:54:09+00:00
Hi HN, I built mcp-tidy to solve a problem I kept running into with Claude Code.

As I tried different MCP servers over the past few months, my ~/.claude.json accumulated servers I'd forgotten about. Claude Code loads all tool descriptions (built-in + MCP) into context, so unused servers add overhead you don't need.

The tool is simple: three commands.

- `mcp-tidy list` - see what's configured (global + per-project)
- `mcp-tidy stats` - check actual usage from transcript logs
- `mcp-tidy remove --unused` - clean up with automatic backup

It parses the JSONL transcript logs in ~/.claude/projects/ to show which servers you actually use, grouped by scope.

Install: `brew install nnnkkk7/tap/mcp-tidy` or `go install github.com/nnnkkk7/mcp-tidy/cmd/mcp-tidy@latest`

Would love feedback, especially on:
- Are there other MCP clients (Cursor, Desktop) you'd want supported?
- Any stats/metrics you'd find useful?

Source: https://github.com/nnnkkk7/mcp-tidy
by Magmalgebra | 2026-01-06 01:54:32+00:00
> But in my experience, your manager is expecting you to do all of your assigned role (e.g. write code), but then also do a bunch of stuff on top -- e.g. leading and taking ownership of new initiatives that is extra work.

Aside from AWS, who's famously bad at this, my experience is that this is usually because people want a faster career push.

Imagine Jim, 8 years into his career. Jim is pretty good and his work takes him 30-40 hours a week. If he worked another 5 years in the same role it'd probably drop to 20 and be chill.

Jim wants to get promoted. If he waited the 5 years he could do it working 40 hours a week. But he wants it now, and since he's not as good as he will be he needs to work 60. What does Jim do? He works the 60.

There's nothing wrong with this choice, I made it, I'm happy with my choice. I might make it again in the future, or not.
by asveikau | 2026-01-06 01:54:35+00:00
It may be helpful to re-read the topic being discussed. This guy was talking to ChatGPT about how he was the first user who unlocked ChatGPT's true consciousness. He then asked ChatGPT if his mother's printer was a motion sensor spying on him. ChatGPT agreed enthusiastically with all of this.

There should be a way to recognize very implausible inputs from the user and rein this in rather than boost it.
by Marsymars | 2026-01-06 01:54:46+00:00
> It's not automated, sure, but somethings will never be automated, just by their nature. That doesn't mean it doesn't scale. Well, sure it does. You just hire more staff.

You're right, of course, but when people say "it doesn't scale" they tend to mean "it doesn't scale at with a near-zero marginal cost".

Maybe we should be calling out that wording.
by naikrovek | 2026-01-06 01:54:52+00:00
Nautilus opens a new window for every folder you enter. Finder does not.

That used to be a preference, and last I used it, it was not. It is forced on because that’s how the GNOME developers thought you should use it… “Our way or the highway!” — GNOME devs.

Finder wins based on that alone. Finder wins so completely because of that one single thing that I’ll never voluntarily use GNOME again.
by tharkun__ | 2026-01-06 01:55:35+00:00
That's a fair point overall but not why I asked.

I asked from an employee and cost perspective. So whether or not to count the employer portion depends on whether we're comparing one or the other. If you buy on the marketplace in the US, compare with the part you pay yourself in the example I gave for Germany. If you get insurance through your work the US/CA, compare with the employee only portion.

But again, like you say, it is totally valid to also compare outcomes / wait times per dollar spent of course.
Show HN: Project Base 44" – A Fairness-Driven Protocol for Social Physics
by gooner_port | 2026-01-06 01:55:43+00:00
I am open-sourcing a concept for a "Community Engine"—a protocol that converts verifiable acts (tool lending, tutoring, energy sharing) into anonymized impact tokens. It uses a "Fairness-Driven State Machine" to automatically redistribute resources to under-served neighborhoods.

I am not selling anything. I am looking for architectural feedback on the logic.

The Core Logic (The Fairness Formula):
The engine uses a dynamic multiplier based on local scarcity.
I = (A * Q) * (D / S)

Where:
- I = Impact Token Minter
- A = Act Base Value (e.g., 10 for tool lending)
- Q = Quality/Verification Score
- D/S = Demand divided by Supply (The Fairness Multiplier)

If a user shares electricity in a blackout zone (High Demand), the multiplier spikes, incentivizing resource flow to that specific geospatial hex.

The Architecture:
1. Privacy: Zero-Knowledge Proofs to verify "Proof of Residence" without revealing identity.
2. Indexing: H3 Hexagonal Indices to generate policy-grade heatmaps of "Social Resilience" rather than poverty maps.
3. State Machine: Event-driven logic (codenamed Base 44) to handle real-time fluctuations in neighborhood demand.

The RFC (Request for Comments):
I am stuck on the "Oracle Problem." How do we verify physical acts (like lending a drill) without a centralized moderator or heavy friction? I am currently looking at IoT smart-locks + QR handshakes, but this seems gameable.

I’m looking for feedback on the formula and the Sybil resistance strategy.
by cduzz | 2026-01-06 01:57:20+00:00
Buddy.

That's 2.3 billion in ONE QUARTER of 2025, on a revenue of 115 billion. In a quarter. There are four quarters in a year.

$5 trillion is how much is spent in all of healthcare in the USA for the whole year.

UnitedHealth's revenue was $500 billion (and net profits is 10 billion) for the year. For one insurance company. There are 6 that each have more than $80 billion per year in revenue. This isn't to mention the billing departments for each hospital, the claims processing providers smaller doctors need to enlist, the endless hours interacting with insurance companies, etc.

And tell me, please, what specific healthcare outcomes are driven by insurance companies?
by dadadanda | 2026-01-06 01:57:52+00:00
There is no law of geopolitical physics that says regime change operations must be confined to developing countries. In the event of a serious deterioration in US-EU relations you shouldn't expect the US to sit idle. The European far right does not care about Greenland one bit.

We could very well end up in a situation where we have the US and Russia working together to destabilize the EU, perhaps European leaders fear this and will let Greenland go.