MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 23:45:03+00:00
> Controversial, but for affordability reasons, there even should be a cap on how many homes an individual can own for rentals

Price controls and limits like this rarely work out in history.

Around here, many landlords renovate or build new high density construction. Put a cap on how many properties they can own and they'll switch from building/renting as many units as possible to maximizing the rent on the limited number of properties they can own.

Restricting the market in one dimension rarely has the desire effect.
by gnabgib | 2026-01-07 23:45:03+00:00
Popular in 2024:

(241 points, 48 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40504212

Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P (829 points, 242 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40010819
by lelandfe | 2026-01-07 23:46:07+00:00
Originally from 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20201101013903/http://legacy.han...

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=hanno-rein.de and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39316193

This also reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30024165
Show HN: New Pricing Model] – Pay What You Want for Software Experiment
by johnboygiz | 2026-01-07 23:46:43+00:00
Decided to try a PWYW pricing model on a new site to see if it can genuinely work.Feels like it goes entirely against the grain of all common sense and logic, knowing how human nature will usually resort to suspicion over something that seems odd, or to how thi scan be exploited to ones gain for the littlest amount possible (aka zero).Its early days but I am interested to know what others think about such a crazy pricing model.I have read it has worked before for some (though not sure about for sofware).
by gck1 | 2026-01-07 23:47:26+00:00
It depends on where you live and what the issue is.

Where I live, doctors are only good for life threatening stuff - the things you probably wouldn't be asking ChatGPT anyway. But for general health, you either:

1. Have to book in advance, wait, and during the visit doctor just says that it's not a big deal, because they really don't have time or capacity for this.

2. You go private, doctor goes on a wild hunt with you, you spend a ton of time and money, and then 3 months later you get the answer ChatGPT could have told you in a few minuites for $20/mo (and probably with better backed, more recent research).

If anything, the only time ChatGPT answers wrong on health related matters is when it tries to be careful and omits details because "be advised, I'm not a doctor, I can't give you this information" bullshit.
by zahlman | 2026-01-07 23:48:06+00:00
Have you tried https://devops.stackexchange.com?

The question as written is still opinion-based (try instead something like "what negative consequences could occur from..."; the point is that the site should not be trying to weigh pros and cons for you, but just stating what they are, so that people can make their own decisions).

This sort of thing gets marked off topic because it pertains to the matter of hosting the program, rather than creating it. See also https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/425628, https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/276579, https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/271279 etc.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 23:48:08+00:00
> alternatively, Adam executed the superior pricing strategy.

I'm not saying it wasn't a good choice at the time.

The problem with lifetime licensing only appears down the road if a company doesn't find a way to expand their offerings.

If you opened a local gym with reasonably priced lifetime memberships you'd probably have an explosion of new customers. You'd then hit a wall where you've saturated the market, can't sell any more memberships, but you have to keep paying employees and rent.
by presentation | 2026-01-07 23:48:14+00:00
Could homeowners be convinced with truckloads of money? As in, yes if you increase density beyond demand the value of each individual home decreases, but the value of the land dramatically increases if suddenly your single family home with a lawn could be converted to a 9 story tower renting out units to 20+ households with infrastructure spending diverted to your area to improve it. Are landowners unaware or just do not care about the profit potential?
by woodruffw | 2026-01-07 23:48:32+00:00
That might have something more to do with almost one in four people in India being a tobacco user. CDC suggests that one in four CVD deaths (in the US) is caused by tobacco use[2].

[1]: https://globalactiontoendsmoking.org/research/tobacco-around...

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/about/cigarettes-and-cardiovascu...
by triceratops | 2026-01-07 23:49:04+00:00
> people who own homes and collect rent from the people who live in the homes). That is very much not the same as any other job.

Why are you thinking of it as a job? Is putting money into the stock market a job? Owning property to rent out isn't a job, and that's perfectly fine. People make money off non-jobs all the time.
by zamalek | 2026-01-07 23:49:25+00:00
If the old wisdom is correct then there is no issue in regurgitating it in a format suitable for a modern audience. We departed from it for a very long time, especially in regards to fat and processed foods. America has been been on a sharp decline in diet-related health.

The deeper problem is that you can feed a family with a few bucks at a fast food joint. Eating correctly costs money, money that Americans don't have.
by serf | 2026-01-07 23:49:51+00:00
absolutely agreed.

warning to those just trying them out now though : a lot of MUDs have gone the unfortunate route of having premium shops and other MMO pitfalls.

I don't think Aardwolf does -- not positive. I think Achaea and some of the other big ones do though.

I recommend Discworld. https://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/
Show HN: SonicJS – Open-Source Headless CMS for Cloudflare Workers
by ldc0618 | 2026-01-07 23:50:22+00:00
Hi HN! I'm Lane, and I've been building SonicJS for 7+ years (3,900+ commits).

SonicJS is a headless CMS built specifically for Cloudflare Workers. It runs on the edge in 300+ data centers with sub-100ms response times globally.

Why I built this:
- Traditional CMS platforms are slow and centralized
- Edge computing is the future but there wasn't a good CMS for it
- Wanted TypeScript-first with real type safety

Technical highlights:
- 6x faster than Node/Express in benchmarks
- Zero cold starts (V8 isolates)
- SQLite at the edge via Cloudflare D1
- Built on Hono.js framework
- Advanced plugin system
- Full admin UI included

Get started: `npx create-sonicjs my-app`

It's MIT licensed and 100% open source. Would love feedback from the HN community - especially on performance, architecture decisions, or features you'd want to see.

GitHub: https://github.com/lane711/sonicjs
Docs: https://sonicjs.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/8bMy6bv3sZ
by tombert | 2026-01-07 23:51:20+00:00
I have never really used the web thing personally. I always use the command line version, and it works perfectly fine and it's FOSS.

I find the syntax to Typst to be generally better than LaTeX. I don't like its equations as much, but Typst has one huge advantage that makes it easier to forgive its faults: it compiles several orders of magnitude faster than LaTeX. This might not sound like much but it honestly sort of changes how you even think about problems. I keep Neovim open on the left, run `typst watch` in the background, and Evince on the right, and my updates show up immediately upon saving.

Also, adding plugins and libraries is trivial. All you have to do is declare it at the top of the file and it will automatically fetch it, which is considerably easier than LaTeX.

I don't like the default font it ships with, but it's easy enough to add a Latin Modern font and get something that looks like LaTeX.

Before Typst, I had typically been using Pandoc with Markdown to write my documents, and that served me well for quite awhile, but it had the disadvantage of being extremely slow to compile. A slide deck that I gave last year [1] would take a bit more than a minute to compile. This became an issue because I had to make a few small last-minute changes and having to wait an entire minute to view them actually made it so I was really pushing against the wire.

If I had done my slides in Typst, they would have compiled in about 40 milliseconds, they wouldn't have looked any worse, and I'd have a syntax not dissimilar to Markdown. I'm pretty much a convert at this point.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~tombert/lambda_days_2025
by mothballed | 2026-01-07 23:51:24+00:00
It's de facto legal if you'll get away with it. Lon Horiuchi executed (sniped from a distance) an innocent woman holding a child at Ruby Ridge over what was ultimately a missed court date for a crime her husband was acquitted of. He was then promoted and went on to take part in Waco.

When he was prosecuted, the feds played jurisdiction games fucking with the case until the case was so cold it was difficult to prosecute.

The U.S. Attorney filed a notice of removal of the case to federal court, which automatically took effect under the statute for removal jurisdiction[11] where the case was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge on May 14, 1998, who cited the supremacy clause of the Constitution which grants immunity to federal officers acting in the scope of their employment.[6]

The decision to dismiss the charges was reversed by an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit, which held that enough uncertainty about the facts of the case existed for Horiuchi to stand trial on state manslaughter charges.[6] Ultimately, the then-sitting Boundary County prosecutor, Brett Benson, who had defeated Woodbury in the 2000 election, decided to drop the charges, because he felt it was unlikely the state could prove the case and too much time had passed.
by gck1 | 2026-01-07 23:51:25+00:00
You've clearly touched the problem with healthcare in general though. If it's not life threatening, it's not taken seriously.

There are a lot of health related issues humans can experience that affect their lives negatively that are not life threatening.

I'm gonna give you a good example: I suffer from mild skin related issues for as long as I can remember. It's not a big deal, but I want my skin to be in better condition. I went through tens of doctors and they all did essentially some variation of tylenol equivalent for skin treatment. With AI, I've been able to identify the core problems that every licensed professional overlooked.
by sudobash1 | 2026-01-07 23:51:26+00:00
Not at all related to the article, but I think this is the first time I have seen a page modify its contents based on the referrer site. If you click the link (and your browser uses the "Referer" header), it will have a blurb at the top welcoming hacker news readers. If you copy the URL manually, it does not.

You can also see this using curl:

curl -H "Referer: https://news.ycombinator.com/" https://cendyne.dev/posts/2025-08-15-single-sign-on-for-furries.html | grep hacker

If you remove the -H "Referer: ..." part, it will no longer contain the word "hacker".

Honestly, I am a little surprised that Firefox is sending the "Referer" header. It feels like a relic from the days when we (mostly) weren't concerned with being tracked. I suppose that it must have practical uses that would break without it.
by baubino | 2026-01-07 23:51:57+00:00
I’m not seeing this discussed very much but Minnesota governor Tim Walz has issued an order to prepare the state’s National Guard:

> “To Minnesotans, on the National Guard, they’re there to protect you and protect your constitutional rights,” Walz said. “These are our neighbors. They don’t wear masks. They don’t bust in from somewhere else. They’re not here to cause hassles to you or what we saw today, the tragedy.”

It sounds like he is calling on the National Guard to protect against ICE? Is this the first time a state has done this? I personally think it’s the right move but this is a serious matter to have one law enforcement agency called out to protect against another law enforcement agency. If true, this is a very big deal.

edit: More about Walz’s statement:

> In addition to readying the state’s National Guard, the governor said the State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the incident, where masked agents were recorded approaching a vehicle in the middle of a Minneapolis street and an agent then fired shots into the car after it accelerated. Walz also said he activated the State Emergency Operation Center and members of the State Patrol’s Mobile Response Team.

> “From here on, I have a very simple message: We do not need any further help from the federal government,” Walz said. “To Donald Trump and [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem, you’ve done enough.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5677541-walz-minnes...
by buu700 | 2026-01-07 23:52:36+00:00
Depends. If you're talking about a free online test I can take to prove I have basic critical thinking skills, maybe, but that's still a slippery slope. As a legal adult with the right to consent to all sorts of things, I shouldn't have to prove my competence to someone else's satisfaction before I'm allowed autonomy to make my own personal decisions.

If what you're suggesting is a license that would cost money and/or a non-trivial amount of time to obtain, it's a nonstarter. That's how you create an unregulated black market and cause more harm than leaving the situation alone would have. See: the wars on drugs, prostitutes, and alcohol.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 23:53:09+00:00
> According to Dukhovny, a Model A prototype has been flying for years. However, there are no videos of the vehicle making the transition from a car to an aircraft. It will need to prove that capability, as well as its adherence to the rules of both the road and the sky.

> Dukhovny said the Model A will initially be certified as a “low-speed vehicle” on the ground, limiting it to about 25 mph on public roadways.

Sounds like they're just barely doing enough to meet the definition of "car" there, if it works at all. You'd think a video would at least exist if these are in production.

This sounds more like a personal aircraft where you can fold the wings in and propel it with a motor, not what people think of as "flying cars"
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-07 23:53:21+00:00
This is absurd and I can't think of anything remotely like this happening in practice. The opposite is true

I have to ask: Is there any self-awareness on your part that starts to kick in when you find yourself posting a variant of this reply a half-dozen times a day?

The fact is that SO didn't work well for many users who could have been, or who could have become, positive contributors. As a result, usage fell off a cliff the instant an alternative, even a deeply-flawed one, appeared. Yet here you are, every time the subject comes up, adamantly insisting that it's everyone else who's Got It All Wrong.

Suggestion: read more, type less.
by astrange | 2026-01-07 23:53:29+00:00
I've tried that (with Sonnet 4.5 at least, not Opus) and Claude isn't good at code analysis because it's too lazy. It just grepped for a few things and then made the rest of it up.

I think the issue is mostly that it desperately tries to avoid filling its context window, and Anthropic writes system prompts that are so long it's practically already full from the start.

A good harness to read code for you and write a report on it would certainly be interesting.
by ropable | 2026-01-07 23:53:30+00:00
On the face of it, this initiative seems like solid nutritional advice. On the other hand, I'm a little dismayed to see animal protein sources given equal billing to vegetable and fruit on their new pyramid, and whole grains placed right at the bottom (below butter!) It's my understanding that people in the developed world already over-consume animal proteins to a large degree.

On the other hand: it's not like anyone ever followed the old food pyramid either. I'm now over here waiting with baited breath for the US federal govt to introduce some kind of regulation around the amount of additional sugar, salt and fats in processed food sold in the US (which makes up a large proportion of what people are eating right now).

The food landscape is complex and multi-factorial. I hope that they follow up with other initiatives to improve nutrition at a population level, like regulation and nutrition programs.
by lanfeust6 | 2026-01-07 23:53:31+00:00
We can do away with "pyramids". Canada's food guide for instance is pretty good https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/. Aside from lots of veg, you can balance the rest.

The Americanised diet had a heavy emphasis on refined carbs, added sugar, added fat, and no fibre. Thats a far cry from whole grains and pulses, which have been researched extensively and are thought to be healthy.
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-07 23:53:45+00:00
Professors being told they can't teach some parts of Plato in philosophy class because the ideas are too dangerous is indeed an interesting new phenomenon.

We have always discussed politics here. I agree with your point that HN shouldn't just be a forum for political content, I regularly flag posts about 'President posts insane thing on Truth Social' or 'Congressperson votes in ways people don't like,' but the intersection of economic, technological, intellectual, and political power is always going to throw up challenging ethical issues.
by schmuhblaster | 2026-01-07 23:53:54+00:00
Thank you! I went with a Prolog base, because I was interested in what might be possible when combining its execution model with LLM-defined predicates. For anything related to modelling and querying data, a Datalog dialect might indeed be a better choice. I've also used Logica [0] as an intermediate layer in a text2sql system, but as models get better and better, I believe there is less need for these kinds of abstractions.

[0] https://logica.dev/
by devnavigator | 2026-01-07 23:53:58+00:00
Agentic Drug Discovery is emerging as a practical framework for structuring complex pharmaceutical work using coordinated AI agents rather than isolated models. PharmAgents, a multi-agent system built around large language models and domain-specific tools, demonstrates how early-stage drug discovery can be organized, explained, and iterated in a way that mirrors how real pharmaceutical teams operate. Instead of replacing scientists, the system decomposes discovery into clear roles, workflows, and decision points, enabling faster iteration, stronger interpretability, and learning from past outcomes. This article explains how Agentic Drug Discovery works in practice, what PharmAgents actually delivers, and why this approach matters for the future of AI-driven pharma research.
by phs318u | 2026-01-07 23:54:01+00:00
I agree with your points about how the USA used to be viewed globally, and that the predominant feeling is disappointment (or in my case, sadness).

However, your characterisation of European countries as “shitty” is unfair IMO. I’m reminded of the saying “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other ones). Europe is FAR from perfect, but the long arc of history factors large in their politics and humanistic predilections (relative to other countries that is). They have living memory to just how devastating divisions on the continent can be. So yes, the EU may be the shittiest form of government... except for all those other ones (acknowledging that this paraphrase only makes sense if your values are similar).
by AceJohnny2 | 2026-01-07 23:54:15+00:00
Thanks! In your change https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/pull/18336 you mention:

> There's also tailscaled-on-macOS, but it won't have a TPM or Keychain bindings anyway.

Do you mean that on macOS, tailscaled does not and has never leveraged equivalent hardware-attestation functionality from the SEP? (Assuming such functionality is available)
by zamadatix | 2026-01-07 23:54:26+00:00
To say the same thing with actual numbers for 25k in the 1960s (which was just a random number someone here picked, not one relating to the story):

25k in mid 60s dollars is equivalent to ~193k in 2016 dollars. In 1960, ~25k would get you a median house but in 2016 ~300k would get you a median house. I.e. housing went up slightly faster than the rest of the CPI-U basket in that time frame.
by twodave | 2026-01-07 23:54:26+00:00
GP didn’t say processed foods, but I can see why you went there because it’s a good point. That said, there are also those of us who can’t function without carbs (e.g. if I don’t eat them I will be too weak to work out or run, get light-headed, etc.).

That doesn’t mean they have to be processed, though, or that it requires gaining weight along with them. I personally survive primarily off of clean meats and homemade sourdough bread (which has literally 4 ingredients). If I cut out the bread I get hypoglycemic after runs and pass out. And with it, my weight stays around the same (though I’ve lost maybe 30lb in the last year or so due to just running more and lifting less).
by blibble | 2026-01-07 23:54:41+00:00
> It was a good intention, but the ramifications of it I don't think are great.

as always, the road to hell is paved with good intentions

the term "Trusted Publishing" implies everyone else is untrusted

quite why anyone would think Microsoft is considered trustworthy, or competent at operating critical systems, I don't know

https://firewalltimes.com/microsoft-data-breach-timeline/
by contrapunctus | 2026-01-07 23:54:42+00:00
Could you tell me more about what you mean by WordPress holding code for ransom? I tried searching but couldn't find much.

I'm not sure why you consider applying this model to be "grandstanding for attention or money", and (re: bus factor) I'm not sure why a team of developers couldn't work this way too.

As for cost...someone who wants to work - and continue working - for the community will obviously want to price their time in a manner satisfactory to the community. Could you give any examples of people charging exorbitant sums using this model?

PS: The "XMPP author" was not actually on XMPP. Also, that author was (as I mentioned) advocating for disallowing commercial use, which - forget about being "congruent" - goes against every definition of "open source" or freedom-respecting software...in contrast, I'm pretty sure the Free Software Definition doesn't say anything about your development or monetization model, as long as the four freedoms of users are respected.
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-07 23:55:12+00:00
How do I distinguish the world where institutional investors are meaningfully contributing to high housing prices and the world where they aren’t? Is there some metric you’ve seen that substantiates the mechanism? For example, are they only 1% of holders but 50% of trading volume or something?

Because if I saw a house 15% below market where I live, I would buy it (to live in). I don’t imagine I’m the only one. Institutional investors can’t stop me from doing that if it’s offered - can they stop the seller from offering that?
by mcherm | 2026-01-07 23:55:36+00:00
> if it's democratic like that I'm mostly OK with it

One thing to keep in mind. It might be that it's "democratic" in that all the homeowners are allowed to vote for or against the zoning policy (or for or against the local leaders who set zoning policy) but ONLY the local homeowners are allowed to vote. Those who rent (or who can't even afford to rent) live in a different district and aren't allowed to participate in the election.

If that's the case, then voting doesn't represent "the will of the people", just the will of those people permitted to participate.
by dugidugout | 2026-01-07 23:55:42+00:00
I’m speaking from my own informal reading of the Cooper edition, which I genuinely enjoyed for its prose. Even so, it took me years to work through the whole thing, and I trace my difficulty quite easily to gaps in my earlier education and reading habits.

I’m not convinced that better translations are doing much to fix the deeper issue in most readers: the lack of broad exposure to the Western canon which seems to cultivate a real preference for rigor over comfort.