MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ecshafer | 2026-01-07 18:15:54+00:00
One of the best litmus tests for Democrat or Republican I have found is "Should people on food stamps be able to buy mountain dew / candy / etc with them?", very low false positive rate in either direction.

But regardless I have it on very good authority that with the BBB some within the Republican party wanted to limit EBT to only be able to purchase healthy food. No soda, no canda, no chips, etc. A couple calls from Coke, Pepsi, etc lobbyists shot that down.
by Aloisius | 2026-01-07 18:16:27+00:00
Sigh.

The paper couldn't make it through peer review because of methodology errors.

Specifically, the sample groups had vastly different demographics and sizes which make meaningful comparisons between them impossible due to confounding factors.

This wasn't some secret CDC plot to bury research. The CDC wasn't even involved. This was just poor research.

https://www.henryford.com/news/2025/09/vaccine-study-henry-f...
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-07 18:16:31+00:00
65% of H1B jobs are in one industry, “computer-related” jobs as of 2023.
There are over 700,000 H1Bs in the USA, so almost half a million tech industry specific H1B jobs. Considering there are roughly 6-10 million tech jobs in total in the USA, that's 5-9% of tech jobs.
by dgroshev | 2026-01-07 18:16:36+00:00
Another, arguably even more powerful, alternative is Rhino + Grasshopper. Grasshopper is often used for generative designs, but can include arbitrary Python nodes and can even be used for "parametrically" designed functional parts.

Grasshopper can also output gcode directly [1], enabling pretty wild things like [2].

[1]: https://interactivetextbooks.tudelft.nl/rhino-grasshopper/Gr...

[2]: https://www.instagram.com/medium_things/
by codingdave | 2026-01-07 18:16:37+00:00
I see two problems here:

1) Facial age checks seem hackable. I can easily put a filter in front of my camera output and make myself look however I want.

2) Even if the age checks work, a 15 year old can talk to a 9 year old. That is better than adults talking to 9 year olds, but not by much.

This looks like one of those things that have a good intent, but aren't really solving the problem.
by z3ugma | 2026-01-07 18:16:49+00:00
It's exciting seeing open-source sleep models catch up with the industry. In case you're interested in a deep-dive, a lot of commercial software like this falls under the FDA medical device product code "MNR" and "OLZ"

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfTPLC/tp...

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfTPLC/tp...
by elfly | 2026-01-07 18:17:22+00:00
At this point I believe the anecdotes more than benchmarks, cause I know the LLM devs train the damn things on the benchmarks.

A benchmark? probably was gamed. A guy made an app to right click and convert an image? prolly true, have to assume it may have a lot of issues but prima facie I just make a mental note that this is possible now.
by youarentrightjr | 2026-01-07 18:17:46+00:00
> He's an absolute goddamn nutjob

> He is a vaccine-denier

> Anything he says has no validity

Huh?

Yeah, he's wrong about many things. But hurling epithets and constructing an argument via ad hominem isn't necessary. You can defeat his claims directly.

And FWIW, the claim that eating unprocessed "whole" foods is healthy is almost certainly true.
by JohnTHaller | 2026-01-07 18:17:47+00:00
Considering I've had multiple family members and friends tricked into syncing to OneDrive without meaning to, I'd say that's a big reason. My Dad's old neighbor lost the ability to send and receive email after a Windows update did that to her, since it filled up her free Microsoft account and then Hotmail stopped working so she couldn't use email anymore and she had no idea why.
by katdork | 2026-01-07 18:18:02+00:00
I think the part you're missing here is that the author here is under no requirement to accept changes to their project and everyone else is welcome to fork it if they disagree with choices made by the author.

The author did not in fact, make the project worse, all they did was not accept a change, and that is entirely different than making it worse.

Even those who stood to benefit from the change have not received a degraded experience in comparison to the current state of affairs, but the same experience as the current state of affairs, since no change occurred. It is truly within the author's rights to do this, in any case.

One should avoid a sense of entitlement to additional and ever-increasing quantities of free work when free work has already been done.
by linguae | 2026-01-07 18:18:14+00:00
I see a lot of references to a “K-shaped” economy where there happens to be enough well-off people who are continuing to spend to push prices further upward, even though more people are forced to cut back since they can’t afford higher prices. There’s still enough people ordering $14 burritos and having them delivered in order to sustain both $14 burritos and the delivery companies.

It’s the same with the RAM situation. Prices will continue to skyrocket as long as there are enough buyers paying whatever prices the sellers set.
by burningChrome | 2026-01-07 18:18:33+00:00
>> We are social creatures and need to be needed by each other.

I think this was illustrated well in the movie I Am Legend with Will Smith. He creates artificial situations where he is interacting with mannequins in order to fulfill this very basic need.

Its interesting that this part of the movie was missed by a lot of friends and family until I pointed it out to them.
by ishtanbul | 2026-01-07 18:19:00+00:00
I have the precision 5690 (the 16inch model) with a ultra 7 processor and 4k touchscreen (2025 model). It is very heavy, but its very powerful. My main gripe is that the battery life is very bad, and it has a 165 watt charger, which wont work on most planes. So if you fly a lot for work, this laptop will die on you unless you bring a lower wattage charger. It also doesn't sleep properly. I often find it in my bag hours after closing it and the fans are going at full blast. It should have a 4th usb port (like the smaller version!). Otherwise I have no complaints (other than about windows 11!).
by reissbaker | 2026-01-07 18:19:04+00:00
Broccoli has 2.8g of protein per 100g. Beef has 26g per 100g, and chicken has 27g. If you're trying to get protein, broccoli isn't going to do much, and I think it's good that the government is being honest about that. A chart that listed broccoli as a major source of protein would be misleading. Broccoli is a good source of many nutrients, and the chart calls it out as such, but it is not an effective source of protein.
by overgard | 2026-01-07 18:19:08+00:00
I think you're worried too much about specific tribes and groups, and less about what information is good or bad. End of the day almost any source is going to tell you some things that are useful, some things that are useless, and some things that are actively harmful. I'm not trying to say all sources are equal, but mainstream medicine has a lot to answer for in terms of giving bad advice for decades (both now and historically). For a long time mainstream medicine also thought smoking was healthy and bloodletting was a way to treat infections. I don't say that to mean "don't see doctors" or "get your nutritional advice from chiropractors", I just think it's worth pointing out that with ANY source you need to wary. Autodidactism is a very good thing IF you use critical thinking when evaluating your sources.
by jhanschoo | 2026-01-07 18:19:10+00:00
As a flexitarian, I've had to think quite a lot about how to get enough bioavailable protein while moderating my carb consumption and digestive upset due to beans, and to do so in a sustainable manner factoring in convenience and lack of leisure. I certainly won't recommend anything but lean meat and dairy as protein staples to people who aren't used to watching what they eat.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-07 18:19:12+00:00
My advice in the various keto-carnivore and diabetic groups I'm in is to concentrate on getting used to the diet first and only start counting calories after a prolonged (months long) stall or gaining weight for multiple weeks.

It's too easy to obsess, and I've experienced times where I'll stall when not eating enough more than eating too much when I'm eating clean. I have digestive issues from Trulicity/Ozempic and have a hard time eating enough, and my metabolism is highly dysfunctional... If I eat 1500 calories a day, about my natural hunger level at this point, I won't lose anything, but if I eat closer to 3000-3400/day, I will lose weight. It seems counter-intuitive but it's true.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-07 18:19:17+00:00
I don't think it's that helpful to try to gatekeep the "engineering" term or try to separate it into "pure" and "impure" buckets, implying that one is lesser than the other. It should be enough to just say that AI assisted development is much better at non-novel tasks than it is at novel tasks. Which makes sense: LLMs are trained on existing work, and can't do anything novel because if it was trained on a task, that task is by definition not novel.
by legitster | 2026-01-07 18:19:36+00:00
It's insane how much AIs use Tailwind and yet the companies aren't contributing anything. It would be trivial for Anthropic or Cursor to pay something.

Would it work to have a new free-use license that explicitly excludes LLMs? Make them pay royalties - you'd have to use something like public license keys. But if Spotify pays a trivial license payment for every stream - Claude could contribute something when it recommends a project.
by cyberpunk | 2026-01-07 18:19:40+00:00
Things that don’t get concrete results for people tend not to survive 2000+ years, like meditation, taichi/qigong/whatever; so i don’t think some things really need scientific proof. Even then, how do you scientifically prove if something makes you feel better who really cares if it’s x or y receptor or brainwave pattern or whatever?
by andrewl-hn | 2026-01-07 18:19:47+00:00
I routinely have several thousands of tabs opened on my devices, and I never considered myself a hoarder.

At some point you adopt a workflow where every browser activity starts with opening a new tab. Plus, so many websites have broken browser history management that it’s easier to open all links in new tabs, too.

I do close tabs on occasion, usually when I see that the device starts to struggle. Closing all tabs helps make things fast again.

Browsers tend to take open tabs into account when I search for stuff, and it’s nice to be able to enter a few keywords and get redirected to an existing tab. Saves me time for page reloads.

Sometimes entering the same keywords into a search engine does not land you on that article, though, so closing tabs as rarely as possible pays out for me a few times a year. But it’s ultimately not that important and I don’t keep tabs around for the sake of it.
by tstrimple | 2026-01-07 18:20:06+00:00
I've had a lot of luck with this approach as well. So much so that I struggle to relate at all with the paranoid posts I see constantly on HN. My children aren't tiktok zombies despite them being allowed to use tiktok as long as they want during the day. It turns out they have lots of other things they would rather be doing including reading and playing instruments and hanging out with their friends online and in person.
by MBCook | 2026-01-07 18:20:22+00:00
I’m not sure I hear people call MacOS X 10.10 “ten ten ten”. I think I remember them calling it “ten ten” verbally.

So you’d say “MacOS ten ten”.

At least that’s what I’m used to, it is entirely possible that’s what other people said and you would write it that way. No one wrote “MacOS X.10” or “MacOS X .10” but they would write “MacOS X 10.10”.

So yeah it’s all a bit of a mess. There’s a reason people often use the name of the release, like Snow Leopard or Tahoe, instead of the number numbers.
by theIntuitionist | 2026-01-07 18:20:39+00:00
There is an easy and cheap test that is actually accurate. You place Petri dishes with a specific medium in them in the room, open, for an hour. Then you close them and put them in a dark spot for a week. When you next look at them, count the colonies that have formed. 3 or 4 or below is fine. 3 to 6 or 7 you need to wipe the walls with citrus oil cleaner or diluted bleach, deep clean carpets, remove old books and otherwise deep clean the space. More than that, you likely have mold issues in the walls or ceiling or floors. All mold issues come from water sources- small leaks in plumbing, old seals around the edges of bathtubs, ingress from clogged gutters backing up, etc. here’s where you can get the petri dishes- https://immunolytics.com/store/
Don’t bother with the kit or with paying them to interpret results, just count colonies like I outlined above.

We are going through this now. It’s no fun at all. We have the house ripped down to the studs. A couple times the plates saved us, showing there was more mold then we’d thought. We’d rip out some stuff we’d found, run the test, find too many colonies on the plate then dig some more only to find more issues. Finally, we are getting clear plates, and I feel much better.

If it does turn out to be mold and fatigue caused by the mold feel free to contact me as I have been through it and am now on the mend. It’s a long difficult process with only the vague signals you mentioned to guide you.
by slg | 2026-01-07 18:20:46+00:00
I don't know, I just searched "Grok" on HN and the 3 most popular stories of the last week have all been flagged killed while having 75+ points and 30+ comments. I can't imagine there are many single world searches that would return that result.

I understand why you gave the general answer you gave rather than addressing this specific example, but I'll just say this story would be a good place to look for those potential "agenda-motivated" flaggers.
by zahlman | 2026-01-07 18:21:04+00:00
Yes, sometimes you search and find someone else's attempt to ask something that looks very much like your question, but it's duped to a different question. There are a few common failure modes:

* The originally asked question was very low quality; for example, it might have basically been a code dump and a "what's wrong?" where many things were wrong, one of which is what you were both asking about. Someone else may have decided that something else was the more proximate issue.

* The OP was confused, and didn't really have your question. Or the question title was misleading or clickbaity. These should get deleted, but they tend to get forgotten about for a variety of reasons.

* Sometimes two very different problems are described with all the same keywords, and it takes special effort to disentangle them. Even when the questions are properly separated, and even if every dupe is sent to the correct one of the two options, search engines can get confused. On the flip side, sometimes there are very different valid ways to phrase fundamentally the same question.

My favourite example of the latter: "How can I sort a list, according to where its elements appear in another list?" (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18016827) is a very different question from "Given parallel lists, how can I sort one while permuting (rearranging) the other in the same way?" (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9764298). But the latter is fundamentally the same problem as in "Sorting list according to corresponding values from a parallel list" (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6618515). It's very easy to imagine how someone with one of these problems could find the wrong Q&A with a search engine. And there were a lot of other duplicate questions I found that were directed to the wrong one, and if the site were as active as it was in 2020, I'm sure it would still be happening.

And that's after the effort I (and others) put in to improve the prose and especially the titles, and add reference sections. The original titles for these questions were, respectively: "python sort list based on key sorted list"; "Is it possible to sort two lists(which reference each other) in the exact same way?"; "Sorting list based on values from another list?". No wonder people didn't get what they wanted.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-01-07 18:21:33+00:00
I hope I’m not committing a faux pas by saying this—and please feel free to tell me that I’m wrong—but I imagine a human who has been blind since birth would also struggle to build 3D graphics code.

The Claude models are technically multi-modal, but IME the vision side of the equation is really lacking. As a result, Claude is quite good at reasoning about logic, and it can build e.g. simpler web pages where the underlying html structure is enough to work with, but it’s much worse at tasks that inherently require seeing.
by yndoendo | 2026-01-07 18:21:40+00:00
I have a friend that does this for Home Depot. He describes his job as being a detective. Watching video to collect enough evidence so he can question employees shorting the company. Non-employees has their evidence given to the local police department once there is enough.

Often employees with talk about the other crimes they committed while being interrogated. He just plays along, ".. yes we had that too ... and that too". Give them enough evidence and they will hang themselves.

The hardest to catch are the slight of hand employees that can take money from the safe while it looking like they put all the money in. This is even with cameras watching the safe.
by apercu | 2026-01-07 18:21:41+00:00
> Restrict data collection? It would kill all startups and firmly entrance a terrible provider monopoly who can comply.

That's a terrible argument for allowing our data to be sprayed everywhere. How about regulations with teeth that prohibit "dragons" from hoarding data about us? I do not care what the impact is on the "economy". That ship sailed with the current government in the US.

Or, both more and less likely, cut us in on the revenue. That will at least help some of the time we have to waste doing a bunch of work every time some company "loses" our data.

I'm tired of subsidizing the wealth and capital class. Pay us for holding our data or make our data toxic.

Obviously my health provider and my bank need my data. But no one else does. And if my bank or health provider need to share my data with a third party it should be anonymized and tokenized.

None of this is hard, we simply lack will (and most consumers, like voters are pretty ignorant).
by gabrielhidasy | 2026-01-07 18:21:55+00:00
They are still not great for high refresh rate, but I have a boox note air4C that can do fast-enough for video. It gets some ghosting (although it should be minimal for typing as you are fully changing from white to $color, backspaces might be a problem though). You will need a full refresh when scrolling but that is fast enough.
by mort96 | 2026-01-07 18:21:57+00:00
I think it's an excellent example to be honest. Most of the time whenever someone proposes some use case for a large language model that's not just being a chat bot, it's either a bad idea, or a decent idea that you'd do much better with something much less fancy (like this, where you'd obviously prefer some length threshold) than with a large language model. It's wild how often I've heard people say "we should have an AI do X" when X is something that's very obviously either a terrible idea or best suited for traditional algorithms.

Sort of like how most of the time when people proposed a non-cryptocurrency use for "blockchain", they had either re-invented Git or re-invented the database. The similarity to how people treat "AI" is uncanny.
by Alcor | 2026-01-07 18:21:58+00:00
I've heard this claim repeated a lot, in the case of soy "very poor" just doesn't seem supported by the data and more importantly in a real world setting one particular protein source lacking a specific amino acid doesn't matter as much because it is mostly not consumed in isolation.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11171741/
by cyberpunk | 2026-01-07 18:22:00+00:00
It’s very subtle and to be honest if you need to be sold on it it’s probably not going to help you much. It can be as simple as having half an hour where you can put everything (including yourself) down and stop poking at it, compounded over time there are some benefits, but yeah i don’t think it’s something that needs to be sold or gamified etc.
by jsheard | 2026-01-07 18:22:04+00:00
> The paid products Adam mentions are the pre-made components and templates, right? It seems like the bigger issue isn't reduced traffic but just that AI largely eliminates the need for such things.

Or more cynically that it eliminates the need to pay for such things. Claude and friends were no doubt trained on the commercial Tailwind components, so the question becomes whether those models could have done the job of Tailwind UI without piggybacking on the unpaid labour of the Tailwind UI developers. If not then we clearly have a sustainability problem here - someone still has to do the work to push things forward, but with the knowledge that any attempt to profit from that work will be instantly undercut by the copyright laundering Borg.
by pksebben | 2026-01-07 18:22:06+00:00
caveat up front: I see that the point here is to talk about a nice, good thing for people to use that is useful, and I don't think that's a bad thing. I am also always looking for ways to upgrade, and I also agree that in a modern context with modern knowledge, we can do better.

However, regarding the posix skepticism - I think OP has missed (or just not mentioned) the actual thing that keeps bash/zsh from being unseated.

Industrial standards are a good thing just because they’re standards. They’re right that a redesign would be superior in terms of raw design, but this is only useful if it’s adopted widely enough so that you don’t have to context switch between two fundamental systems. I spin up a new VM somewhere and it's going to have bash. I use a tool and I expect it to follow a particular convention - having to figure out which I'm reaching for adds an amount of friction that would make most work untenable.

I like zsh but I also want something better. Type safety and robust completions would make me very happy, but if we're going to make the switch we have to do it as an industry - with a set of agreed upon interfaces and standards that are carefully thought out and built on consensus. I don't know if that's possible given the massive complexity of the state of affairs but that's what it would take.
by jonny_eh | 2026-01-07 18:22:06+00:00
It's the cost. The high cost of labor, due to the high cost of real estate, due to the limited availability. This is ultimately the cause of booth what you've pointed out (the average high salaries in the area) AND the high cost of local goods and services. If we had more affordable real estate, the average income of residents wouldn't be so high, and the costs of other things also wouldn't be so high.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-07 18:22:10+00:00
Aligning with the linked post, I've found that tab hoarding is directly connected to exceedingly poor bookmark UX/UI in browsers. Despite being a core browser feature, it's barely improved in decades, with the most radical change having been Arc's decision to cut out bookmarks altogether (which I don't think is right either). Bookmark management sucks and is too high friction for my brain to willingly engage in it.

Third party managers don't hit the spot either. They all spread out over too large of a surface area, trying to do read it later or moodboards or canvases and whatever else, without offering much in the way of material improvements over built in bookmarks (aside from being cross-browser).