MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by canadiantim | 2026-01-07 16:04:19+00:00
I would very strongly recommend you get her tested for mycotoxins. Vascular dementia / Alzheimer’s symptoms can come from mold exposure alone (type 3 Alzheimer’s). If you find signs of mold exposure, consider the shoemaker protocol or something like Cellcore to bind the mycotoxins or other similar endotoxins out of the gut using things like Cholestyramine, or other binders.

You can use the Mosaic mycotox test, order it directly to your home and then ship the sample to the lab.
by lostphilosopher | 2026-01-07 16:04:37+00:00
Food pyramid was taught when I was in school, but that was before 2011 (as mentioned by another commenter) my own children are in school now and their school lunches align with more modern ideas (veggies and proteins). Certainly could still be improved but I recognize the cost, scale, delivery constraints, plus allergy considerations makes this non-trivial.
by munificent | 2026-01-07 16:05:05+00:00
> For some reason generating a valid wire format seems to be no problem for people when it comes to json.

The "some reason" is that JSON is most often produced by code, written by programmers.

That's not the case for HTML which is often hand-authored directly by non-programmer users. Most people on Earth literally don't know what the word "syntax" means, much less feel comfortable dealing with syntax errors in text files.
by konsalexee | 2026-01-07 16:05:21+00:00
I’ve been working on Hopp (a low-latency screen sharing app) using Tauri, which means relying on WebKit on macOS. While I loved the idea of a lighter binary compared to Electron, the journey has been full of headaches.

From SVG shadow bugs and weird audio glitching to WebKitGTK lacking WebRTC support on Linux, I wrote up a retrospective on the specific technical hurdles we faced. We are now looking at moving our heavy-duty windows to a native Rust implementation to bypass browser limitations entirely.
by closewith | 2026-01-07 16:05:33+00:00
> StackOverflow was successful explicitly because of the people/question it excluded. The "toxicity" was the point.

This is a very charitable read of the situation. Much more likely is, as another commenter posted, a set of people experiencing a small amount of power for the first time immediately used it for status and took their "first opportunity to be the bully". Question quality and curation was always secondary to this.

> > The point of StackOverflow was explicitly not to help the question-askers, but to prioritize the people who would reach the question via Google.

It obviously was only tolerated because of that, as evidenced by the exodus the moment a viable alternative became available.
by eth0up | 2026-01-07 16:05:36+00:00
As a teen I was fooled for a short time, confused about fats, types, etc. But I was a feral child and as ignorant as any animal. It didn't take long to figure things out after I learned to read.

I expect more of government though, and while I see the vague rationale behind hamfisted soda regulations, I remain deeply irked by the Fat Tax that Denmark once imposed. I offer no benefit of doubt and view that thankfully now bygone usurpation of the family table as unforgivable and implemented in full awareness of its flaws.

If one chooses to blame this on corporate influence and ignorance, then either way it exemplifies how easily fundamental aspects of our personal lives can be controlled based on deception.

Ain't sure about anyone else, but I certainly wonder how many other similar delusions we're subject to under such influence and "research'. I know of more than a few.

For me it begs the question of how and why we've allowed such centralized frameworks to persevere. Independent groups do exist, but then there's SEO, mainstream-media and all the other factors that make them practically invisible. And with abandonment of the Internet in favor of corporate friendly LLMs, I expect it to get worse.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-07 16:05:39+00:00
> it was much easier to complete the fix starting from something 90% working than 0%.

As an expert now though, it is genuinely easier and faster to complete the work starting from 0 than to modify something junky. The realplayer example above I could do much faster, correctly, than I could figure out what the AI code was trying to do with all the effects and refactor it correctly. This is why I don't use AI for programming.

And for the cases where I'm not skilled, I would prefer to just gain skill, even though it takes longer than using the AI.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-07 16:05:39+00:00
I was just telling someone the other day how all the talk of civil wars and unrest were overblown, Americans will never resort to that with the economy the way it is. Even in the '08 recession (and even worse scenarios), recovery was a possibility. There would be no jobs at the time, but you can reasonably expect them to be created in a few years. You could go to school and switch careers.

But I think right now there is a dreadful perfect storm of sorts.

- It's not just LLMs, the social/political environment just doesn't favor risk taking, which means less opportunities.

- The US will be alienated from all its good trade partners for a decade plus at best. They'll still do trade, but the era of relying on US companies, or relying on a stable US consumer base is over.

- The dollar will decline, by how much I don't know but it will. Less buying power for American companies.

- Education is in shambles, and skilled & educated immigrants who can leave the US are doing so in droves. Brain drain will be real, the pipeline to replace them will take a generation, and that is if it was fixed today.

- Historically, there is a natural re-balancing of powers that happens as a result of people getting upset and organizing change or some sort. But the ability of the population to organize meaningfully is curtailed because tech, moderation and surveillance capitalism.

- I won't say too much about the current admin, but things are really scary. Not as in "i'm upset about this" or "so much for democracy" but more like "i'm scared for my life" levels of scary.

- Erosion of trust is huge, you don't take risks if you don't have some trust. consumer spending, loans, business spending,etc... and the erosion of trust is fundamental and hard to repair. Trust is also heavily asymmetric, it costs a lot to obtain, but it takes little to lose it. Once lost, gaining it again is usually orders of magnitude more costly.

let me stop there for brevity, but my point was how the US has never truly been in a situation where the economy is doing bad, and the politics is untenable. You have people who are in power and well incentivized to make things even worse, you can cancel elections and deploy troops better if things are really and truly "bad". When people stop having their basic needs met (and I don't mean health care and affordable houses - but food and shelter), I'm concerned there will not be many ways left where the rule of law and peace can be sustained.

It's one of those things, like "you can't unspill the milk". If things get as bad as I fear, right now, today is as good as it will ever get in the US. What scares me is that Americans aren't terrified enough, those that know better are in catatonic state of "what can i possibly do about it?" - and I mean all Americans regardless of politics.
by vee-kay | 2026-01-07 16:06:04+00:00
Agreed. Using one file management version-control system within another, is a surefire recipe for trouble and disaster.

But it isn't the students' fault, I guess they are still learning how to use computers.

This is purely an IT Administration fiasco. The IT admin should simply exclude the repository folders/paths from OneDrive. Or make everyone to save non-code documents to a separate shared network path, which is a storage drive that gets automatically backed up daily.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-remove-a-folder-from-o...
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-07 16:06:30+00:00
I suppose he may have a list of feature requests and bug reports to work on, but it does seem a bit odd from a human perspective to want to work on 5 or more things literally in parallel, unless they are all so simple that there is no cognitive load and context switching required to mentally juggle them.

Washing dishes in parallel with laundry and cleaning is of course easily possible, but precisely because there is no cognitive load involved. When the washing machine stops you can interrupt what you are doing to load clothes into the drier, then go back to cleaning/whatever. Software development for anything non-trivial obviously has a much higher task-switching overhead. Optimal flow for a purely human developer is to "load context" at the beginning of the day, then remain in flow-state without interruptions.

The cynical part of me can't also help but wonder if Cherny/Anthopic aren't just advocating token-maxxing!
by garciasn | 2026-01-07 16:06:37+00:00
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S
Federal Receipts as a Percent of GDP measures total government revenue relative to the size of the economy, serving as a standardized way to track the federal tax burden over time.

Although the top marginal tax rate in the 1950s indeed exceeded 90%, federal receipts hovered around 17% of GDP; this was nearly identical to current levels, because loopholes and high income thresholds (roughly equivalent to $2MM for single/$4MM for couples) meant almost no one actually paid that top rate.

The effective tax rate for the top 1% was closer to 42% rather than 90%, demonstrating that extremely high statutory rates on paper do not necessarily generate proportionally higher government revenue.
by bwestergard | 2026-01-07 16:06:52+00:00
This is a neat idea. The "core motivations" description makes intuitive sense to me.

https://github.com/deepclause/deepclause-desktop?tab=readme-...

Similarly, I have had some success using Gemini to extract facts from plain text in the format of Souffle Datalog[1] facts. The resulting dataset can then be conveniently and efficiently queried with Datalog. In this way, LLMs allow for a partial return of the software development strategies of the semantic web[2]. I wrote up some thoughts along those lines earlier this year[3].

1: https://souffle-lang.github.io/
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
3: https://bjornwestergard.com/llm-extractors/
by pkreg01 | 2026-01-07 16:06:55+00:00
I agree with this completely. I forsee an era of enterprise level 'template' saas products that are expected to be tinkered with and highly customized. I think products like Notion that have an incredibly robust customizability and integration layer are going to thrive, where every single company can use a template engine to build extremely customized applications - and the barrier to building on top of these will essentially become the rate of human speech.
by uniqueuid | 2026-01-07 16:06:58+00:00
It's really good to ask these questions.

I'm not a medial researcher, but my impression is that many fields find it difficult to produce the robust high-level risk comparisons that you ask about. I.e. if you're looking at blood fats, even there you'll find many complicated contextual factors (age, sex, ethnicity, type of lipids i.e. LDL or lp(a) or ...?). The same might be the case for sugar. So it's not really easy/cheap to combine detailed state-of-the-art measurements of different causes into one randomized controlled trial.

As for the effects of sugar, I think there's some evidence that's not too hard to find, e.g. some meta analyses showing something around 10% increase in dose-dependent risk (RR ~ 1.10) [1,2]. A lot of the literature seems to be focused on beverages, e.g. this comparative cross-national study [3].

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08999...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03345-4
by triceratops | 2026-01-07 16:07:05+00:00
> None of that will bulk you like weight lifting nor is similar to weight lifting

Even weight lifting won't bulk you unless you actively try to bulk. Seriously, appearing muscular or bulky when you're fully dressed is actually quite hard to accomplish for most people (practically all females and maybe half the males). It takes years and years of gym work and diet that most people won't ever put in.
by ourmandave | 2026-01-07 16:07:12+00:00
That's what's odd to me. When you're composing a question it will dynamically show links to related answers. So the author has already seen possible duplicates, right? Yet them seem quick to play the Closed for Duplicate card.

The other thing is it will say, "New Contributor, be nice." and their question will have -5 or more downvotes. I think that's because the auto closer needed -5 to trigger or something. I could be wrong. Either way, to a newbie it just looks like they're piling on hate for no reason.
by hombre_fatal | 2026-01-07 16:07:25+00:00
The writing is on the wall for AI. It is coming fast and it is transformative. That your company is still trying to ramp up AI adoption and processes for 2026 supports my point.

But we've been blaming AI for a couple years now, yet I suspect it's still too early in the adoption curve to have a meaningful impact on hiring compared to more boring explanations.
by TZubiri | 2026-01-07 16:07:36+00:00
>What's that supposed to mean?

The misconception is that if a bank has a capital X, the law gives them power to create loans up to 10X.

What I'm saying is that without the law, the bank could create loans without a constraint, so say 20X, 100X 1000X.

The fractional reserve policy is actually a limit, not the source of lending in excess of capital.

Loans are money creation, and this creation is organic, it doesn't need a charter from the government.

Another misconception is that this money creation is monetary emission or that it somehow causes inflation. It doesn't, because it is gross money creation, not net money creation.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-01-07 16:07:47+00:00
You're moving the goalposts; building the product never equaled writing some code, it's always involved all of the efforts you reference. The expectation is that you optimized the code generation and shifted the bottleneck, but are overall more productive (i.e. the cycle is shorter). If you're not iterating faster then there's be no productivity gain.
by alistairSH | 2026-01-07 16:07:57+00:00
And nobody in the world knows how to keep communities from becoming toxic.

Mostly true, but there are exceptions... HN is about as good as I've seen for a publicly accessible forum, but has very active moderation (both from Dang and team and a pretty good vote & flag mechanism).

The other good forums I've seen are all private and/or extremely niche and really only findable via word of mouth. And have very active moderation.

But, yeah, I think you're probably right for any sufficiently large forum. It'll trend to enshittification without very active management.
Show HN: Feedstack – SerpAPI/OpenAI extract feature requests from Reddit/forums
by jamesjezusek | 2026-01-07 16:07:57+00:00
Hi HN — I built Feedstack, a small tool for product teams who keep hearing “listen to your users”, but struggle with two problems:

- the loudest users dominate inboxes / DMs

- real sentiment is scattered across places like Reddit, forums, comments, reviews, etc.

Feedstack tries to create a “zero point of truth” for prioritization by combining:

Discovery: automatically find relevant conversations about your product across the web

Distillation: use AI to turn messy threads into clean, review-ready feedback items (title, summary, evidence, suggested feature)

Validation: publish the best items to a public voting board so you can see what has real demand (not just what one person asked for)

How it works (quick)

You enter your product name + site

Feedstack uses SerpAPI to find discussions (e.g. Reddit + forums etc.)

OpenAI extracts the actual requests, groups duplicates, and produces a prioritised list

You can approve items and push them to a public board for voting

What’s different vs “classic” feedback tools

Most tools start with “collect feedback from your users”. Feedstack starts earlier: what are people already saying when they’re not in your app, not on your forms, and not trying to be polite? Then it adds a second layer (voting) to validate.

Current state

Working MVP, used on my own projects + a few early testers

Still rough in parts — especially clustering/duplication and source quality filtering

Link

feedstack.app (happy to share a demo board if anyone wants)

What I’d love feedback on

Does “discovery → distil → vote” match how you’d actually prioritise?

Which sources would you want first (Reddit, GitHub issues, app reviews, Twitter/X, etc.)?

Any obvious privacy/ethics footguns I should address up front?

Thanks — I’ll be around in the comments.
by calebralphs | 2026-01-07 16:08:04+00:00
Valis Insights (VALIS) | Full-time | Software Engineer | remote-first hybrid Massachusetts (US)
Hi, I'm Caleb (co-founder/CTO) from Valis Insights. We're a small climate-tech B2B SaaS/HaaS startup, based out of MA. We build material sampling, sorting analytics, and material monitoring web-based and hardware/computer-vision enabled solutions for metals recycling companies.

We're looking for a passionate SWE with some linux/networking/firmware experience to drive forward some greenfield product development and help scale & deliver existing hardware-enabled offerings. We've got some scale-integrated cameras deployed in the field which enables a web-app for analytics for material sampling. We've got a few units deployed at metal recycling facilities, and we're ramping up sales. We're also building a camera-over-conveyor-belt solution for process monitoring (greenfield dev/R&D).

Desired Competencies: linux, networking, basic electronics, firmware, cloud infra (AWS), web products, databases

Nice-to-Have Experience: edge-to-cloud CV system deployment/design, .NET ecosystem (C#, EF), networking (Wireguard, ssh), firmware dev/mgmt, observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus), IaC (Pulumi), stats/math/ML/signal-processing fundamentals, basic soldering, web products (TypeScript, React)

Role is remote-first hybrid. For some hardware/firmware/R&D, you'll need to be in-person in Worcester MA, but majority of role is remote. Infrequent travel to recycling facilities (continental US) for deployment/maintenance will be required.

Apply here - https://apply.workable.com/valis-insights-1/j/A937EAA712/ We read and review every application. Please mention "HN" in one of the written responses.

We're also hiring an ML/SWE intern for the Spring & Summer; apply here - https://apply.workable.com/valis-insights-1/j/98C0E1509B/

Contact: caleb.ralphs@valisinsights.com
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 16:08:09+00:00
If you think there is a mold problem you could look for any sources of moisture or leaks and remediate those. The CDC has some guidance on where to start https://www.cdc.gov/mold-health/about/index.html

If moisture is a problem in areas like the bathroom you can install an automatic humidity controlled switch for the fan. It will regulate humidity automatically after showers.

If you feel like you must do something more, a HEPA air purifier would remove mold spores from the air. A carbon filter would remove odors and other compounds. A building-level solution is a heat recovery ventilator which brings in fresh air but captures most of the heat from the exhaust air.

I know you want to find a source of the health problem and identify something you can fix, but mold is probably not it. Mold is a popular topic in complementary and alternative medicine as an explanation for everything. If you ask the internet if any health condition could be caused by mold, someone will show up and tell you yes. I need to caution you that there are forums and subreddits where this is taken to extremes and anyone who disagrees has their comments deleted, creating an illusion of consensus. Some of these forums will tell you that the only solution is to move to a dry climate and only sleep outside. There are mold testing companies where your results will always come back positive followed by a recommendation that you buy their expensive consulting services. Please take some caution and a healthy dose of skepticism before getting involved with this subject.
by Bender | 2026-01-07 16:08:17+00:00
How would you prepare for a blackout?

Power blackout or information blackout?

For power: inverters, batteries, solar, propane generators.

For information: phone modems to get around BGP route injections though truth be told I would just treat that as a vacation from the internet, HF/VHF/UHF radios for local chatter is all I would really care about.
by tonyarkles | 2026-01-07 16:09:04+00:00
Was going to mention that too. 100% agree. If I mess up and end up needing to make matching cuts later on, I'll often set the fence using one of the existing pieces too instead of trying to re-measure. The story stick works great but lining up the teeth on the blade with the cut edge of an existing piece works fabulously well.

A similar strategy I've used when I've known that there was going to be cuts that I couldn't sequence like that is to cut "as built" story sticks with scrap dimensional lumber and write what they are right on the board.
by cyberax | 2026-01-07 16:09:12+00:00
The major unsolved problem is real-time high-quality text rendering on GPU. Skia just renders fonts on the CPU with all kinds of hacks ( https://skia.org/docs/dev/design/raster_tragedy/ ). It then renders them as textures.

Ideally, we want to have as much stuff rendered on the GPU as possible. Ideally with support for glyph layout. This is not at all trivial, especially for complex languages like Devanagari.

In the perfect world, we want to be able to create a 3D cube and just have the renderer put the text on one of its facets. And have it rendered perfectly as you rotate the cube.
by tveyben | 2026-01-07 16:09:25+00:00
Ha - I have made so many measurements using an A4 with great accuracy that this monitor-story might as well have been me :-)

I never understood the US paper size system while living there (or since...!), don't get me started with feet and inches and 16'ths etc - ISO, metric and base10 is just so much more logical and easy to use...
by munificent | 2026-01-07 16:09:38+00:00
There is an evolutionary counter-argument here.

Imagine two file formats competing to be "the web":

* In file format A, the syntax is narrowly specified and any irregularity causes it to be not rendered at all.

* In file format B, there are many ways to express the same thing and many syntactic forms are optional and can be omitted while leaving a page that still renders.

Now imagine millions of non-technical users are trying to make websites. They randomly pick A or B. Which ones do you think are more likely to get to a point where they have a page that renders that they can put online? It's B.

Even though the file format of B offends our software engineer sensibilities, in an evolutionary sense it is much more robust and able to thrive because more fallible users are able to successfully write working files using it. It will completely dominate once network effects get involved.
by zahlman | 2026-01-07 16:10:04+00:00
I don't consider myself qualified to comment on cryptography, and I didn't read the code too closely, but I love seeing projects like this and appreciate that it's clearly human-written.

A couple things I didn't get:

* This is P2P, so it's arbitrary which side is "client" or "server", right? Users aren't connecting to a common "hub"?

* How are users meant to discover each other, or know what the password is? Is this something where those arrangements are made separately (perhaps in meatspace), and the authentication just cares that both sides use the same password?

Also: I get that the program isn't doing its own persistence, but I don't think "ram only — nothing touches disk" can be guaranteed these days with modern OS attitudes towards virtual memory.