MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vogelke | 2026-01-08 07:01:32+00:00
If I treated reading like a chore, it would start to feel like a chore.

I'm not being graded. If I start a book and I don't care about the subject or the characters after 50-100 pages or so, it goes in my Goodwill pile. The only decent exception to that for me is Stieg Larsson -- his "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" books take their time getting started without being boring.
by tzs | 2026-01-08 07:01:45+00:00
The negative reactions to the new SNAP restrictions are because much of it make no sense. In the states that have implemented there has been mass confusion at many stores as people can't figure out what is eligible and what is not.

For example at one store there was confusion as to why a ready to eat cup of cut fruit packaged with a plastic spoon from the store's deli department was ineligible, but a slice of cake packaged with a plastic fork from the store's bakery was eligible. Apparently the cake being made with flour makes it OK, regardless of how much sugar is in the cake and the icing.
by mythz | 2026-01-08 07:02:17+00:00
Yeah except Gemini CLI is still bad after such a long time, every now and then I'll fire it up when I need a complex CLI command only to find that it hadn't improved and that I would've been better off asking an LLM instead. I don't quite understand its positioning, it's clearly a product of a lot of dev effort which I thought was for a re-imagined CLI experience, but I can't imagine anyone uses it as a daily driver for that.

I retried Antigravity a few weeks after launch after Augment Code's new pricing kicked in, and was pleasantly surprised at how reliable it became and how far I got with just the free quota, was happy to upgrade to Pro to keep using it and haven't hit a quota since. I consider it a low tier sub in cost, but enables a high/max tier sub workflow.
by ggm | 2026-01-08 07:02:50+00:00
Ideally all of it, but album is the primary case. Sidecar files would be fine, or an sqlite3 schema, or even a CSV if it meant scripting recreation of e.g. a link farm from photos as sharded images to directories of albums.

Tags, that's just icing on the cake for me. That said, exif compatible metadata for date helps a LOT.
by kazinator | 2026-01-08 07:05:11+00:00
> The NCNED brings together a critical mass of talented researchers and clinicians committed to improving the lives of the patients.

Of course, improving the lives of patients for $$$!

First you have to convince people that they have a problem, and their insurers that it's covered.

It's the perfect disease. Scare people into suspecting they have it. All the hypochondriacs will believe it. It's difficult to measure and impossible to confirm recovery; you can milk that cow to kingdom come.
by silisili | 2026-01-08 07:06:09+00:00
It is, but I typically only carry two - the 3% back and the grocery 6% back as the others are mainly online or automated.

> I carry exactly one debet card in my wallet (.eu) and use it for everything

Not sure about eu but in the US that's generally not advised, due to the semantics of how the cards work and legal fraud liabilities.
Basically, if someone skims your debit card, they take your money and you have to sometimes fight to get it back - but still, you are without the money for a time. If someone skims your credit card, they're stealing from the bank, and for obvious reasons they seem much more eager to investigate - but you still have your money.

I only ever use debit cards these days when I need cash from the ATM.
by levocardia | 2026-01-08 07:06:28+00:00
The original study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11547-025-02161-1

It was retrospective-only, i.e. a case series on women who were known to have breast cancer, so there were zero false negatives and zero true negatives, because all patients in the study truly had cancer.

The AI system used was a ConvNet used commercially circa 2021, which is when the data for this case series were collected.
by Fiveplus | 2026-01-08 07:07:05+00:00
I'm half sleepy but I liked the post. The analysis regarding path prepending really drives the accident theory home. If a state actor were trying to intercept traffic (MITM), the last thing they would do is pad the AS path multiple times because that tells the global routing table, "Don't come this way, I am the long scenic route" lol

This could be a classic fat finger config error, most likely a route map intended to manipulate traffic engineering for their own upstream links that inadvertently leaked widely because of a missing deny-all clause. Neverthless, a good reminder that BGP is still fundamentally a trust based system where a single typo in a config file can cascade globally. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by a missing export filter.
by csomar | 2026-01-08 07:07:31+00:00
> Traffic to our docs is down about 40% from early 2023 despite Tailwind being more popular than ever.

This is from Adam but I also suspect the same. LLMs has a bias toward tailwind css. I had Claude/GLM multiple times try to add tailwind css classes even though the project doesn't have any tailwind packages/setup.

This is a business model issue rather than tailwind becoming irrelevant.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-08 07:08:55+00:00
Nearing August 1934.

The paramilitary secret police are already executing citizens arbitrarily with no recourse. Neither Bivens, 1983, nor civil actions state or federally can touch federal agents; they are absolutely immune. The mayor and governor are misleading and blustering to calm people down because they know there is no recourse, unlike George Floyd who was slaughtered less than a mile away, whose not federal agent killer was prosecuted, and whose family received tens of millions. https://youtu.be/DU99VkNkvmE
by docdeek | 2026-01-08 07:09:28+00:00
In the human follow-up, there was an improvement but there was still a gap:

> Their findings offered reassurance: DWI alone identified the majority of cancers the AI had overlooked, detecting 83.5% of missed lesions for one radiologist and 79.5% for the other.

The combination of AI and this DWI methodology seems to identify most of the cancer, but there’s still about 20% of 1/3 that gets missed. I assume that as these were confirmed diagnoses, they were caught with another method beyond DWI.
by apaprocki | 2026-01-08 07:09:49+00:00
I had thousands of dollars of charges I didn’t make (but billed electronically via Apple as if my card was attached to someone else’s iCloud account) appear, exceeding my limit and locking my entire family out of the shared Apple subscriptions (e.g. no music on their devices but strangely music on mine). GS could remotely lock your Apple account at will it seemed.

Called, charges reversed, 1 month later they were all reinstated, no reason. Called, charges reversed again, 1 month later they were all reinstated and my Apple Card was cancelled by GS. Since I still had it linked as my payment method w Apple this again locked my whole family out of subscriptions. GS gave no explanation for why the account was closed, but it was after they reversed the charges a second time. Balance was $0, account closed, no recourse. Then 1 month later all the reversed charges were reinstated and on the now locked account and I had no recourse but to pay GS’s ransom because it was a closed account that would be reported if I didn’t pay.

I have CCs from a number of banks and it was by far the most ridiculous consumer experience. No wonder GS wants to exit the consumer market because they are terrible at it. Chase is better, but it’s no AmEx. Sad that it’s not AmEx.

Now I’m wondering if I can get a new account under Chase because I’m definitely never calling GS again.
by mmcnl | 2026-01-08 07:10:15+00:00
Laws are not intellectual property of individuals or companies, they belong to the public. That's a fundamentally different type of content to "learn" from. I totally agree that AI can save a lot of time, but I don't agree that the creators of Tailwind don't see any form of compensation.

It does not feel not right to me that revenue is being taken from Tailwind and redirected to Google, OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic without 0 compensation.

I'm not sure how this should codified in law or what the correct words are to describe it properly yet.
by jahaman | 2026-01-08 07:10:26+00:00
When planning my iOS app, I chose native SwiftUI over cross-platform frameworks because I wanted...

Speed
Cross-platform frameworks hit the lowest common denominator. Native SwiftUI uses your iPhone's full hardware—animations are smoother, gestures are faster, responsiveness feels instant. When you pick up your phone to use, you want it now, not waiting for a framework to render.

Design users already know
I didn't want users to learn custom UI. Native apps can use Apple's design patterns—the same buttons, gestures, transitions they see in Mail, Notes, Safari. The interface is gone. Zero learning curve.

Hardware-specific features work naturally.
Dark mode, dynamic type, accessibility, widgets, orientation control—these integrate seamlessly in native apps because they're built on the same foundation as the OS itself.

If you are a developer for iOS reading this...
1. are you using SwiftUI or something cross-platform... and why?
2. are you trying to have your app with similar feel to Apple apps, or are you creating your custom graphical UI... and why?
by elbci | 2026-01-08 07:10:44+00:00
Ha ha, funny. In all fairness it would be just as funny about PyPi or crates or whatever. The collapse of bazaar/dependency/abstractions development model is already a running joke. I don't have numbers but I bet more and more ppl are going embedded style: 0 dependency, one single architecture - portability is for masochists.
by fainpul | 2026-01-08 07:11:08+00:00
I get the point of "either Bash or straight to a real programming language". That's what I do too, for automation. I like how PowerShell makes one-off tasks easier which would otherwise be the typical pipe of cat, grep, sed, awk etc.

About objects vs. text: I'm convinced that objects are vastly superior. There was a comment about this here with good arguments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45907248
by Tanoc | 2026-01-08 07:11:27+00:00
I think it does make sense if you're at a certain level of user hardware. If you make local computing infeasible because of the computational or hardware cost it makes it much easier to sell compute as a service. Since about 2014 almost every single change to paid software has been to make it a recurring fee rather than a single payment, and now they can do that with hardware as well. To the financially illiterate paying a $15 a month subscription to two LLMs from their phone they have a $40 monthly payment on for two years seems like a better deal than paying $1,200 for a desktop computer with free software that they'll use a tenth as much as the phone. This is why Nvidia is offering GForce Now the same way in one hundred hour increments, as they can get $20 a month that goes directly to them, with the chance of getting up to an additional $42 maximum if the person buys additional extensions of equal amount (another one hundred hours). That ends up with $744 a year directly to Nvidia without any board partners getting a cut, while a mid grade GPU with better performance and no network latency would cost that much and last the user five entire years. Most people won't realize that long before they reach the end of the useful lifetime of the service they'll have paid three to four times as much as if they had just bought the hardware outright.

With more of the compute being pushed off of local hardware they can cheapen out on said hardware with smaller batteries, fewer ports and features, and weaker CPUs. This lessens the pressure they feel from consumers who were taught by corporations in the 20th century that improvements will always come year over year. They can sell less complex hardware and make up for it with software.

For the hardware companies it's all rent seeking from the top down. And the push to put "AI" into everything is a blitz offensive to make this impossible to escape. They just need to normalize non-local computing and have it succeed this time, unlike when they tried it with the "cloud" craze a few years ago. But the companies didn't learn the intended lesson last time when users straight up said that they don't like others gatekeeping the devices they're holding right in their hands. Instead the companies learned they have to deny all other options so users are forced to acquiesce to the gatekeeping.
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2026-01-08 07:12:09+00:00
This is why I run claude inside a thin jail. If I need it to work on some code, I make a nullfs mount to it in there.

Because indeed, one of the first times i played around with claude, I asked it to make a change to my emacs config, which is in a non-standard location. It then wanted to search my entire home directory for it(it did ask permission though).
by gardnr | 2026-01-08 07:12:12+00:00
I'm not zdc1, but they may be referring to the previous advice that included more grains than fruit and veg combined. From a design perspective, it is an interesting choice to mix food groups on the same level of the pyramid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_pyramid_(nutrition)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPlate
by thereisnospork | 2026-01-08 07:13:12+00:00
Depending how the costs of AI detection vs doctor, that genuinely might be enough to shift the math and be a net positive. If it is cheap enough to test 10x the current tested population, which would have lower, but non-zero rates of breast cancer, then[0] AI would result in more cancer detected and therefore more aggregate lives saved.

[0]presumptively
by satvikpendem | 2026-01-08 07:13:36+00:00
Your first paragraph are features I already have slated to work on, as I also ran into the same things, ie if I have 500 calories left for the day, what can I eat within that limit? But not sure why I need to ditch the UI entirely, my app would show the foods as a scrollable list and click on one to get more info. I suppose that is sort of replicating the LLM UI in a way, since it also produces lists of items, but apps with interactive UX over just typing still feels natural to most.

A solution could be, can the AI generate the UI then on the fly? That's the premise of generative UI, which has been floating around even on HN. Of course the issue with it is every user will get different UIs, maybe even in the same session. Imagine the placement of a button changing every time you use an app. And thus we are back to the original concept, a UX driven app that uses AI and LLMs as informational tools that can access other resources.
by piker | 2026-01-08 07:14:26+00:00
My friends and I all cut our teeth on https://last-outpost.com 30 years ago now. It’s crazy how reliable such an old game is. I was an absolute slacker in school, but had an inexplicably high reading level which I attribute to “LO” and Magic: the Gathering. My 7-year old son really got a kick out of playing it, and it’s a great way to teach reading comprehension to young ones.
by goatlover | 2026-01-08 07:15:14+00:00
The ex-FBI agent and police officer I've seen online said you don't stand in front of vehicle, and you don't execute someone for trying to leave the scene. When she backed up she was already turning to get parallel with the road when she went forward. The onlookers who were interviewed thought it was unjustified.

The administration told several lies. First that an officer was in the hospital because they were run over and fired in self defense. Then they said ICE was stuck in the snow and the woman was an agitator who weaponized her vehicle to go after them. Neither of these are true. This has often been the case with ICE incidents.
by arjvik | 2026-01-08 07:15:40+00:00
When I lived in Texas, we had a massive storm in winter of 2021 leaving many without power for a week.

I was told that Texas maintained its own energy grid independent from the rest of the nation’s eastern and western grids, and supposedly only had a handful of high-voltage DC lines running between Texas’s and the rest of the nation’s. Supposedly this was why we couldn’t rely on excess capacity from anywhere else in the nation while our power generation capability was down.

But this map doesn’t seem to show Texas as isolated - there appear to be many lines in and out and no clear separation?
by zarzavat | 2026-01-08 07:16:14+00:00
I use and love Apple Pay, but it's not ideal for every situation. The biggest flaw is that it requires waving your expensive phone in the vicinity of the reader.

Apple Pay is more risky than contactless cards. There is a risk of dropping your phone or it being stolen out of your hand. I only use it in controlled indoor environments, like at a retail store, where I have enough personal space to feel comfortable getting out my phone. If I want to pay at e.g. a stall in a crowded market, I'm using my card.
by Frieren | 2026-01-08 07:16:20+00:00
> Our study identified altered signal intensity, abnormal tissue microstructure, and imbalanced neurochemicals in long COVID and COVID-19 recovered healthy controls.

So, it seems that it has long lasting effects on everybody. The main difference is how severe are that effects.

> Structural MRI studies have also identified alterations in brain morphology among COVID-RHC, including reductions in grey matter volume, thickness and global brain volume when compared with healthy controls

That is scary.

> Furthermore, long-term follow-up studies are crucial to determine whether the identified brain changes are progressive, stable or dynamic over time.

This is interesting, thou. Is it permanent, it gets worse or better? That makes a big difference and it may also justify further studies and actions.
by mherrmann | 2026-01-08 07:17:08+00:00
I strained my groin/abs a few weeks ago and asked ChatGPT to adjust my training plan to work around the problem. One of its recommendations was planks, which is exactly the exercise that injured me.

My cleaning lady's daughter had trouble with her ear. ChatGPT suggested injecting some oil into it. She did and it became a huge problem, so that she had to go to the hospital.

I'm sure ChatGPT can be great, but take it with a huge grain of salt.
by distances | 2026-01-08 07:17:14+00:00
I used to play Aardwolf too, great memories. I think I got to 6x remort before going on hiatus. I'd be tempted to return, except I decided a couple of decades ago that no more games that don't have an end.

My first MUD was Phoenix. At some point they did a big update that forced all players to restart from level 1, and subsequently lost their player base and died. I'm sure I learned something from that debacle.
by Towaway69 | 2026-01-08 07:17:29+00:00
So what?

Have I said that it's bad or good? I was just pointing out that yes, apparently data like this does get used in for bad things. I am not judging, as you seem to assume, I'm pointing out.

It's a pity that others aren't as broad minded to consider both or all sides of technology. Technology isn't always automatically an improvement of the current situation. Yes it might solve the obvious problem but there are also side effects. Social media, for example, is a good demonstration of a bunch of side effects that weren't intended.

And so it is with open infrastructure, it can have unwanted side effects and we should be aware of those instead of hand waving them away. Mitigation here is difficult: open access and meshing up of data is important and should be encouraged. Hiding this data away won't help.
by homamg | 2026-01-08 07:19:07+00:00
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by ggm | 2026-01-08 07:19:12+00:00
If you can list albums, and then foreach $album fetch, you can (at a cost of probably re fetching images) do what I want and then post fact reduce the duplicates to hard links.

So if the tool includes a list, not fetch function and includes list albums in a format which matches a get album name or ID, you can do what I want crudely.
by spaethnl | 2026-01-08 07:19:57+00:00
How is that LVT "rent" different from any other traditional property tax being "rent"?

As near as I can tell, it is just a different way of deciding how the property tax burden is levied.

Downtown property gets taxed much more. Un-developed speculation property that doesn't contribute to the community (and derives value from other people's contributions) get taxed at the same rate as nearby developed property.
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-08 07:20:02+00:00
> China is poorer than the EU.

Per capita, so far. But it used to be a third-world country and it's now the industrial superpower.

> The US had inane financial regulations right from the start.

“FDR didn't exist”.

> And I'm not sure what you are smoking: have you heard of the Great Moderation? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moderation

Dude, the “great moderation” is about inflation, business cycles and macro trends more generally, not about financial markets stability.
by eru | 2026-01-08 07:20:25+00:00
When you say 'random' you probably mean that market prices are a Martingale? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(probability_theory...

That's very, very related to being efficient.

> Assimilating the two just Fama's motte-and-bailey fallacy.

No, not at all.
by thesz | 2026-01-08 07:20:34+00:00
Lions can subsist on a diet of poultry, but suboptimally.

If we assume that lions' best diet is beef [1], then chicken [2] would be less optimal for them.

[1] https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/171797/100g/...

[2] https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/171140/wt9/1

Look at the amino acid ratios. Leucine to valine ratio is about 0.66 for chicken and 0.8 for beef. This means that protein synthesis will be bound by valine in case of chicken and what is not used in the protein synthesis will be converted to glucose and then stored as fat. Chicken will be about 80% (0.66/0.8) as nutritious as beef, judging just by two essential amino acids ratio.
by greggman65 | 2026-01-08 07:20:44+00:00
There's several of these on shadertoy

https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=crt

I made a Pico-8 post processing script using a few

https://greggman.github.io/pico-8-post-processing/nano-villa...

also an article on starting one on WebGPU here

https://webgpufundamentals.org/webgpu/lessons/webgpu-post-pr...
by JimDabell | 2026-01-08 07:21:11+00:00
Is Dependabot actively maintained? I thought they announced a freeze on new features a while back, and their uv support never worked properly and has serious known security problems:

> There's an issue where security alerts for uv projects are not working correctly. Specifically, the uv.lock file is not being updated when security alerts are triggered.

— https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/10478#i...
by modeless | 2026-01-08 07:22:14+00:00
I really miss Google Inbox, for the tasks feature (that was never brought over to GMail as promised when it was discontinued). It had a great implementation of a postponing feature. I liked having tasks as inbox items just like emails, as emails usually also represent tasks, so having them in the same place was perfect. I'm likely to ignore any other task app, but I always check my email, so I'd always see the postponed tasks when they came back around.