MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DannyBee | 2026-01-08 12:11:16+00:00
This is wrong.

It was a helicopter evac. I guarantee you 100% at some point they intended to, and did control, the roof of a building or an area of land for some length of time in order to perform the helicopter evac. I bet they even said so, over the radio. I bet if it's not classified (unclear), you could get the operators to testify to this.

Even if it had been a boat evac they would do the same for the boat landing/evac area.

There is a 0% chance the planned military operation did not involve deliberately controlling some area, for some length of time, inside venezuela, for exfil.

The terms do not require they establish permanent control, or control for any significant length of time. Just that they intend to control, and did control, some area.
by Rebuff5007 | 2026-01-08 12:12:00+00:00
I've heard a lot of such anecdotes. I'm not saying its ill-intentioned, but the skeptic in me is cautious that this is the type of reasoning which propels the anti-vax movement.

I wish / hope the medical community will address stories like this before people lose trust in them entirely. How frequent are mis-diagnosis like this? How often is "user research" helping or hurting the process of getting good health outcomes? Are there medical boards that are sending PSAs to help doctors improve common mis-diagnosis? Whats the role of LLMs in all of this?
by jsheard | 2026-01-08 12:12:08+00:00
Wacoms key patents did expire which is why there's such strong competition in the tablet space now, and why prices have fallen through the floor.

I wonder why Apple still uses active pens on the iPad when passive EMR has become such a commodity. Maybe it's just rent-seeking, a passive pen would probably be much easier to clone without paying Apples MFi fees.
by exDM69 | 2026-01-08 12:13:13+00:00
Maybe this would be a suitable application for "Fibonacci hashing" [0][1], which is a trick to assign a hash table bucket from a hash value. Instead of just taking the modulo with the hash table size, it first multiplies the hash with a constant value 2^64/phi where phi is the golden ratio, and then takes the modulo.

There may be better constants than 2^64/phi, perhaps some large prime number with roughly equal number of one and zero bits could also work.

This will prevent bucket collisions on hash table resizing that may lead to "accidentally quadratic" behavior [2], while not requiring rehashing with a different salt.

I didn't do detailed analysis on whether it helps on hash table merging too, but I think it would.

[0] https://probablydance.com/2018/06/16/fibonacci-hashing-the-o...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677122
[2] https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/post/153545455987/r...
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-08 12:13:40+00:00
maybe the openai moat is the data we shared along the way.

no seriously, openai seemingly lost interest in being the 'best' model - instead optimizing for other traits such as speech and general human likeness? there's obviously codex but from my experience it's slower and worse than the other big 2 in every single way: cost, speed and accuracy. codex does seem to be loved by vibe coders the most that don't really know how to code at all so maybe it is also what they're optimizing for and why it doesn't personally suit me.

others might have better models, but openai has the users emotionally attached to the models at this point even if they know it or don't. there were several times I recommended switching and the response I got is that "chatgpt knows me better".
by yomismoaqui | 2026-01-08 12:14:36+00:00
No, vibe coding is about not reading the generated code but you have to check that it works, be it manually or using tests.

If you do not, why are you vibe coding?

Also there are ways to use a coding agent that are different from this and produce great results, like this:

https://friendlybit.com/python/writing-justhtml-with-coding-...
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-08 12:14:53+00:00
One of my frustrations with a lot of writing is a misuse of resources. For example, this article cites 3 resources to show remote work doesn’t hurt productivity.

Of the 3, the oldest, which is the only one that shows some correlation between industries with more remote work having higher productivity, only covers the period until 2022. We now know that much of the rise in productivity was a mirage that was a result of eliminating jobs that couldn’t be done remotely in the pandemic (think coffee shop barista) which while important, tends to be lower on average on measures of productivity.

The 2nd article that says there was no increase or decrease in productivity supports this idea and adds to it.

> the study finds a slight increase in output per worker in the economy. This growth did not result from employees in more remote-intensive jobs working more productively. Instead, people were better able to sort into roles that were better suited for them, and employment shifted toward sectors with higher output per worker.

So the gains that offset the losses in productivity were not due to improved productivity per worker, but because workers were sorting into jobs better.

Finally, the 3rd article, explicitly says that the research shows WFH hurts productivity and provides several citations to research indicating this. What the 3rd article does highlight is that hybrid work is potentially as productive as full time office, and by implication more productive than fully WFH, therefore justifying RTO from a purely productivity perspective, and not requiring explanations such as upper management desire for control.
by TechRemarker | 2026-01-08 12:15:02+00:00
Have to disagree there. While the iOS wallet apple is all apple and thats what you will use for checking your statements and making payments which is great. But anytime I have to actually interact with for support that is 100% with Goldman. When you do you support through the iMessage chat feature it's all Goldman on the other end, not Apple at all. And I've had to deal with them far too many times, and each time was absolutely terrible. Because of Goldman but also because of the platform Apple gives them for support, since you send a message have to wait for a text response. So feels like a chat but unlike a chat responses can take a while more like email, but then if they respond and you dont respond very fast then it closes it out and your response triggers a how can we help and you start all over, which is unlike email. So it's the worst of Chat and the worst of Email. Hopefully that is revamped with the new relationship. And if you have to call you get Sachs not Apple. Chase isn't great but expect much better than Sachs.
by TechniKris | 2026-01-08 12:15:19+00:00
This seems very similar to another open-source tablet effort, which went a step further and designed a Hall effect sensor-based tablet: https://github.com/pompyboard/pompyboard

The creator of it has showcased the prototype at an osu!* streamer's channel (since low-latency absolute positioning devices are highly desired for playing osu!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1afJ7OpacU

* that is osu! (sic) rhythm game, not to be confused with OSU universities
by mekod | 2026-01-08 12:15:20+00:00
The paradox here isn't just about 'health data.' It’s about the total erosion of the 'private self.' As a sociology student and dev, I see OpenAI Health as the final stage of what Shoshana Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism. We are transitioning from tracking what we buy to tracking how we breathe.

When the giants launch these all-encompassing tools, they don't just provide a service; they silence the smaller, minimalist alternatives that prioritize actual privacy and noise-free existence. Today, I’m seeing this firsthand with a project I launched on PH: the noise created by Big Tech announcements literally pushes independent, local-first experiments into the 40th-50th ranks within hours.

Trust shouldn't be about a 'Privacy Policy' checkbox. It should be about architectural impossibility—building systems that cannot see the data by design. The more we centralize health and social interactions into these 'AI black boxes,' the more we lose our digital autonomy..
by hhdave | 2026-01-08 12:15:51+00:00
We have one in our church, as all churches in the UK are legally required to have I think (many other venues too). As another commenter said you can get separate receivers, so I got one at one time to help with audio quality for live streaming. The loop signal comes straight out of the church PA, so from all the microphones and so the audio quality was very good, but there was a lot of hiss. I don't know if that's always the case with induction loops. At one time it stopped working - someone cut one of the connections back to the loop amp - so I was able to test it, which is handy.

We have several people who depend on it, including the church organist, so we soon hear if it's not working. He says it's working really well.

My Grandmother says the one in her church (which is nearby) doesn't work well at all and she usually doesn't hear much. I'm not sure why. She also finds the one in our church good, so I think they must have some problem.

I would think it could be worth contacting someone in charge of the venue(s) if it's somewhere you go regularly. I would imagine it heavily depends on how the whole thing is set up though - quality of microphones etc. We have lectern mics, singer mic, lapel mics for priest and a wide field mic. on the altar, so pretty good coverage, and they all go into an auto switcher thingy. I think it would need to be set up by someone who at least half knows what they're doing.
by WackyFighter | 2026-01-08 12:16:11+00:00
I agree that most people would use the term invasion to describe it. But this story is related to how a betting market decided to pay out.

The US forces left immediately after the target (Maduro and his wife) were extracted. So according to the definition I gave (which is more precise) then it isn't an invasion.

Whenever I envision an military invasion, I think of troops storming Normandy Beaches to invade Europe, When the Falklands invaded Argentina or When Hitler invaded France. All of these actions were with the intent to hold seize and hold territory.

An operation where people fly in, knocking out critical defences, capture someone and then leave clearly isn't the same thing.
by jjav | 2026-01-08 12:16:11+00:00
I am responding to the comment I quoted, namely: "parking lots, and self storage facilities would be penalized because they wouldn't generate enough income to cover taxes on land".

So if a LVT has the explicit goal of eliminating things like parking lots and self storage units because those don't generate enough income to pay for the taxes, then what hope do things like playgrounds and parks have to continue existing.. they generate far less income than a self storage facility.
by sylware | 2026-01-08 12:16:57+00:00
It is a complex matter. But it narrows down to one thing: the number of real-life alternative compilers, which is in direct relation to this benchmark: can a small team of average devs, or an individual average dev, develop with reasonable effort and time and near 0 technical dependence, a real-life alternative of a compiler. It is a protection of developer/vendor lock-in, in the SDK realm.

Most honnest software developers know the answer: for any computer language with an ultra-complex syntax(c++,etc) or which requires an intrusive and tricky runtime (java,etc), the answer is obvsiously "nope". But we all know, for plain and simple C, the answer is "yes" (have a look at cproc and QBE, or scc, tinycc, etc). The new C I am talking about should reduce the effort related to such compiler developement and "fix" all C implicit stuff hiding too much things, kind of error prone.

There is a huge pitfall though: linux is not coded in plain and simple C, but in GCC C... which is VERY different, a GCC C alternative, is clancg/llvm, those are not to be called reasonable in any capacity.

If linux code would care about having clean assembly source files on top of plain and simple C code, unfortunately it would be slower. BUT, you guess what, for the ability to compile linux with an _REAL ALTERNATIVE_ C compiler (and a small assembler), I will happily accept to have a "slower" kernel.
by llm_nerd | 2026-01-08 12:18:17+00:00
>High fructose corn syrup is 55% fructose.

HFCS is from 42% - 55% fructose (the glucose obviously filling the remainder). Many uses are on the lower end.

A lot of people think the "high fructose" part of the name is relative to sucrose's 50:50. In reality it's relative to corn syrup which is almost entirely glucose, but some of the glucose can be processed to fructose to more closely match the sucrose that people are accustomed to. They go a little higher on the fructose because it is perceived as sweeter, so with a 55% ratio they can use less for the same sweetness.
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-08 12:18:20+00:00
I really hope this doesn't get lost in the sea of comments and don't feel pressured to answer any of them but:

what would you recommend if one is against the idea of medication in general for neurological issues that aren't deterental to ones life?

do you feel the difference between being medicated and (strong?) coffee?

have you felt the effects weaken over time?

if you did drink coffee, have you noticed a difference between the medication effects weakening on the same scale as caffeine?

is making life easier with medication worth the cost over just dealing with it by naturally by adapting to it over time (if even possible in your case)?

this is a personal pet-project of observing how different people deal with ADHD.
by vidarh | 2026-01-08 12:18:53+00:00
There is no way to stop this at this point. Local and/or open models are capable enough that there is just a short window before attempts at restricting this kind of thing will just lead to a proliferation of services outside the reach of whichever jurisdiction decides to regulate this.

If you want working regulation for this, it will need to focus on warnings and damage mitigation, not denying access.
by monkeydust | 2026-01-08 12:19:42+00:00
I do this at work and now I can put a name to it :)

Its something I deploy to low-stakes instant messaging communications. So you might get a:

'Hey quick one can you help with <request>'.

I can see the request but defer acknowledgement.

If its low-stakes then I sometimes leave it for 15 minutes and then acknowledge it up and its amazing how many times I do that I get a:

'Ahh no prob, sorted it out'
by pron | 2026-01-08 12:20:16+00:00
> means it's literally impossible for all the big players to achieve this

Only because they've achieved that 10% in their first decade or so, but what I said is the case for all languages, big and small alike (and Rust doesn't have this problem because it needs a 10x boost to approach C++'s current market share, which is already well below its peak). But the precise numbers don't matter. You can use 5x and it would still be true for most languages. The point is that languages - indeed, all technologies, especially in a competitive market - reach or approach their peak market share relatively quickly.

You make it sound like a novel or strange theory, but it's rather obvious when you look at the history. And the reason is that if a technology offers a big competitive advantage, it's adopted relatively quickly as people don't want to fall behind the competition. And while a small competitive advantage could hypothetically translate to steady, slow growth, what happens is that over that time, new alternatives show up and the language loses the novelty advantage without ever having gained a big-player advantage.

That's why, as much as I like, say, Clojure (and I like it a lot), I don't expect to see much future growth.

> Clearly you're confident, unlike Fortran's programmers

Yes, because I have the benefit of hindsight. Also, note that I'm not saying anything about decline (which happens both quickly and slowly), only that technologies in a competitive market reach or approach their peak share quickly. Fortran clearly became the dominant language for its domain in under a decade.

But anyway, if you think that steady slow growth is a likelier or more common scenario than fast growth - fine. I just think that thesis is very hard to support.
by dhx | 2026-01-08 12:20:30+00:00
If you want more up-to-date/accurate data on NZ transmission infrastructure there is also the following "Point" geometry tagged per OSM conventions:

[1] Transpower pylons: https://alltheplaces-data.openaddresses.io/map.html?show=htt...

[2] Transpower substations: https://alltheplaces-data.openaddresses.io/map.html?show=htt...

The public source of this data (ArcGIS Feature Server account of Transpower) shows data last modified by Transpower in October 2025 for pylons and February 2025 for substations. At the rate of development of NZ, you wouldn't expect major changes to any of this data unless it's a major transmission upgrade project identified years in advance in hundreds of public announcements and documents.

For distribution, the largest distributor in NZ (Vector) provides "Line" geometry at https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?url=https:/... (note: not included in AllThePlaces due to ATP not currently collecting geometry other than points)
by vessenes | 2026-01-08 12:21:14+00:00
I'm not a medical researcher, but I am a computer guy; I was struck by something very different in the papers - the abstracts at least refer to "AI CAD" as what they're testing - no software information, no versioning - on the CS side, this stuff is of paramount importance to make sure we know how the software performs.

On the medical side, we need statistically significant tests that physicians can know and rely on - this paper was likely obsolete when it was published, depending on what "AI CAD" means in practice.

I think this impedance mismatch between disciplines is pretty interesting; any thoughts from someone who understands the med side better?
by damnitbuilds | 2026-01-08 12:21:32+00:00
Not buying it.

- How many of the people saying "6,7" know (or believe when told) that it comes from a comment on someone's height ?

- How many of the people saying "6,7" think that it still applies to someone's height ?

- It comes from a comment on basketball, where 6'7" might indeed be a good height to be, but how many people extrapolate that to a comment on career progression, as the author does ?

- How many of the people saying "6,7" have even left school, let alone encountered a career progression they are unhappy with ?

TL;DR: Nonsense.
by Reazonay | 2026-01-08 12:21:38+00:00
I wanted to understand how network-wide ad blocking works under the hood, so I decided to build my own DNS sinkhole from scratch using Python instead of just installing Pi-hole.

It's called GhostShield.

The Stack:

Hardware: Optimized for Raspberry Pi Zero W.

Backend: Python 3 using dnslib for handling DNS requests and Flask for the web server.

Performance: It uses an in-memory SQLite database to minimize SD card write cycles (a common issue with Raspi logs).

Frontend: A custom "Cyberpunk"-styled dashboard to visualize live traffic and blocked domains in real-time.

It pulls blocklists from the StevenBlack hosts list (approx 150k domains).

This is a passion project to learn more about DNS protocols and socket programming. I know it's not as feature-rich as Pi-hole or AdGuard Home yet, but I'd love to hear your feedback on the code and architecture!

Repo is here: https://github.com/Reazonay/GhostShield
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-08 12:21:46+00:00
There was another post a few days ago that suggested a connection between the American invasion of Venezuela and the BGP anomaly: https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/

Combine that with the news of Trump publicly admitting that the US is willing to take military action to bring other countries in line, even against their own allies: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/06/politics/us-options-green...

Personally, I don't think the Americans would bother hide their attack and make it look like an accident under the current regime. Trump would announce the CIA/NSA/FBI/whatever did the Greatest Attack, and Amazing Attack, to Completely Control and break the Weak Government of Venezuela to Rescue Their Oil. I'll believe the "it was just a misconfiguration" explanation for now.

I think it only makes sense that people start fearing the influence of American companies given the current developments. When America is in the news, it's either threatening someone, pulling out of cooperative efforts, or delivering on a previous threat. That's bound to derail discussions whenever American companies are involved and it'll only get worse with the way things are developing.
by myk9001 | 2026-01-08 12:21:57+00:00
> From the start, two bedroom at 80k salary for living alone is already an interesting choice for 2026.

Fair point. That example comes from my research, but trying to anonymize it somewhat I ended up messing it up completely. I ack it doesn't make sense as is. And saying that a job in tech won't be enough to rent a place on your own was stupid too.

> Why US companies in EU have to pay premium -- because they try to behave like in US and pay premium to their delusions of grandeur.

From my perspective they pay more because they actually value skilled employees. (Shocking, isn't it? US companies valuing their people more than European companies do). And hiring the best, in turn, lets them outcompete European business, make more money and compensate their people better -- on and on it goes.

> they try to behave like in US

In reality, save for a rare exception, they treat their employees nicely in both US and EU.

Or at least they used to before we entered the current layoffs era -- but people say big Berlin tech companies have become just as toxic (DeliveryHero, Zalando...). So it doesn't look like European companies are stopped from being toxic by labor law or better ethics.

> Why it's lower in general -- because the cost of living is lower

That's not the whole story though. Obviously comparing absolute numbers is a fool's errand. But the purchasing power is significantly lower too. And, like, OK, maybe matching US salaries purchasing power isn't realistic -- but my feeling is current EU comps are below a fair level. Companies pay that simply because they can get away with it.

> Grind some in US (if you are of acceptable skin color for them), then go and chill here once you are done with the grind.

That's not a bad idea at all. I'm good though. Found my way and am doing fine for now and, hopefully, long-term too.

It just pains me to watch so much wasted potential. Yeah, it's none of my business and it's dumb that a non-EU citizen even has strong opinions about this stuff. But EU could do so much better if only it got its shit together instead of this pathetic "but we got public transport" style coping.
by mubesher | 2026-01-08 12:22:30+00:00
Althouth it is a great effort, but this is just the replacement of a Arabic typing software like InPage, MS Office etc. and it can't be used for a complex Arabic Calligraphic design. You should add some more options in the app like: spacing of words, moving words manually and add some more fonts to make it more creative and reliable.
Thanks
by gehsty | 2026-01-08 12:22:35+00:00
Would you feel comfortable making a decision on putting an anchor down on a cable if you knew it would only take out a few hundred houses worth of power.

I would imagine that any body that issues you a license should inform you to not anchor in proximity to cables, regardless of size / spec etc. if you put an anchor down on a charted cable, and the cable is where it should be, I think you’d be responsible for the cost of damage.